skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we just put some AI via electrodes into the monkeys. If we can also add some blockchain, I think we'll have a winner. Let's circle back Monday on this idea, I'd like to pick your brain some more.
As reasonable as your argument is, let's apply Occam's Razor. Which is more likely?

1. Jack Ma knows things you don't, and those things made mouthing off seem worthwhile to him. Still, he miscalculated, but not out of sheer cluelessness.

2. You, HN commenter, understand Chinese politics and power better than Jack Ma, a prominent Chinese billionaire. He is clueless.

Doesn't 2 seem a little arrogant to you?
> JEHS: It just doesn’t sound like Justin E. H. Smith. At all. It sounds like a middling undergraduate trying to sound like a capable essay writer, but who only knows how to follow rules, rehash clichés, etc., without really having any feeling for the art of writing.

So, six months ago we had machines that struggled with "set a timer for 5 minutes", and now we're disappointed that they can only write essays at a college undergraduate level?
That's Stable Diffusion.
Great to hear it's a FF fork. Mention of Tor made me think Brave / Chromium.
Think of anything ever written, your personal library, the tax code, every up to date doc for your project and it's dependencies, your code base, your university texts...

Index them, store them in LLM format.

Then ask a question, you first semantically search all the relevant sources you've indexed, and get back a tight set of under the token limit results that you then pass on to your favorite LLM. Chat4all, ChatGPT etc then read those parts of your library and answer your question.
Applying something like ChatGPT to stock prices together with quarterly reports, industry research, and daily (minutely) news articles seems like a no-brainer -- I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen something like this mentioned.

And so I can't help but wonder if this would outperform the market significantly due to seeing more patterns and holding more information than any individual trader or even whole desk ever could... OR if its total lack of any actual reasoning/deductive capabilities makes this just a total non-starter here. Or maybe it might be useful for day trading but not any kind of longer-term investment?
Given that hiring is a costly process, and laying off employees is not free either, what does a company like Apple get by doing this to retail employees. Is saving a few million even worth it if it ends up in articles like this. Regardless of the financial and business soundness, this seems like penny pinching with bad PR. A small dip in the advertising budget might have been a better option if the few millions were so important.
I heard somewhere that if a headline has a question in it, the answer is basically always no.
You are right, there’s no concrete reason why an Internet comment should be taken to heart, yet somehow we still do react emotionally to online content all day long.

I get excited, happy, sad, jealous, proud and a bunch of other stuff just seeing stuff on a screen.

Anyway, what is life’s concrete reason to be? Does everything need one to be considered valid?
I would expect withdrawal from almost any medication for any chronic medical condition to be worse than baseline.

I’ve been allergic to milk for at least 15 years. I didn’t know it until 3 years ago. Now that I’m not ingesting a toxic substance every day, any accidental consumption has an extremely bad reaction.

It’s similar with my bipolar medication. Now that I don’t spend half of every day trying to not kill myself, I don’t have the tolerance I used to for paranoia, psychosis, and compulsive thoughts.
A random number generator would outperform Cramer (and every other such investment personality). His job isn't to be talented but to get clicks and views. The benchmark for comparison should be the top hedge fund managers.
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There are many ways of sending messages to the future.

I'd be far more interested in ways of sending messages to the past.
Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman among many other things explores the answers to "Given the same information presented to hedge fund managers, why does one buy and another sell" and concludes relying on extensive research the answer is: their performance can't be distinguished from rolling a dice. The book is very strongly recommended.
Looks like the same general idea:

https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack
How would you send a message on ethereum that would be encrypted before hitting the chain, and could be decrypted after some amount of time, without being decryptable before that? Any straightforward approach seems like it'd just rely on an off-chain decryption key, which doesn't really make it any better than putting letters in envelopes with the dates at which they should be opened.

Sarcophagus looks like the closest thing available right now, but it's still unproven enough that I wouldn't really count on it working 20 years from now: https://sarcophagus.io/

Time-locked wallets solve the potential issue of transferring value at some point after death, but can't be used to transfer messages.. not ones which aren't readable at the time you send them anyway
Renaissance Technologies: "Renaissance's flagship Medallion fund, which is run mostly for fund employees,[10] is famed for the best track record on Wall Street, returning more than 66 percent annualized before fees and 39 percent after fees over a 30-year span from 1988 to 2018"[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Which one of those has more influence in the world?
Exactly. Anyone who thinks AI is unimpressive is somehow, weirdly, ignoring the trajectory it's on.
Wouldn’t it have to be continuously trained on new info moment by moment as economic news unfolds? Isn’t training the most computationally expensive part of the whole process?

Also, my understanding of LLMs (tiny) means they will only give you the most probable next sequence of words to your prompt based on the words in the training set. Has an LLM ever produced output that wasn’t buried in the training set somewhere? I.e. a novel answer to a novel question?
On a vacation, got thorns in tires a couple of years back, my wife and I grounded until the local bike shop could get around to it.

So these tennis tires, vs what's on that bike now, perform

- worse now when good

- worse than now four weeks out (noted elsewhere, tennis balls decay fast, but

- better than now with punctures today.

Now, this is a 'clever' way to solve that. The long term solution might be 'thorn-resistant tires' (wish we'd known up front -- but they say 'resistant' not 'proof' for a reason), but if you can live with the performance hit in favour of the failure tolerance ('oops, gotta replace six balls today, not like two yesterday), I can see use cases where that's a go.

Yup, should have had a full set of spare tubes. Know that, got spares, but I don't expect three of four tires to go flat on the same day.

I guess the takeaway is, tire innovation still has some fruit to pick.
No, my question is if there is an alternative service to Signal that supports it.
full disclosure: ocis lead dev here

I would be happy to hear what you think of ownCloud Infinite Scale, a go microservice implementation of the ownCloud WebDAV and sharing APIs. We are limiting ourselves to file sync and share, but integrations with collabora and OnlyOffice are there. Just don't expect server side encryption. It was only added to the oc10 codebase to prevent storage admins to read the data. It does not protect against evil sysadmins in the least. Imo an encrypted filesystem or overlay filesystem can be used to solve that use case.

If you need E2EE cryptomator works just fine.

That being said, oCIS does add other things to the table: for an out of box experience we bundle a small OpenID Connect Identity provider that should suffice for a small home lab.

And we now support parts of the libre graph API, which is an effort to build a federated graph API closely following Microsoft Graph. Obviously, our team focuses on file sync and share, but e.g. the Kopano guys are working on the PIM parts.

The team is busy preparing the next release and customer projects based on the new stack, but we are happy with what we have achieved so far.

Just drop by in our https://talk.owncloud.com/channel/infinitescale rocket chat and let us know on GitHub what you think.

I'll go back to my vacation
Lol. It’s gonna confidently pick stocks that are just as likely to be good as bad. Same as a hedge fund manager.
It's already being trained on centuries of mining data, decades of geophysical data, terrabytes of geochemical data, and a century of mineral lease acquisition data.

Rio Tinto et al have been warehousing data from the get go (circa Roman Empire with the oginal mine in Spain).
I believe there's a lot of machine learning already done in finance. not sure how a llm would help?
I'd love to see the what the Torah says on copyright infringement.
It was an odd comment.

"When will we admit that these social trends that started years before covid prove that the reaction to covid was all wrong?"
You can always host your own instance: https://www.icann.org/root-server-system-en
And yet most stdio implementations on systems capable of multithreading add locking around every operation (with the notable exception of Microsoft’s single-threaded C runtime when it still existed, as well as a handful of distinct *_unlocked functions on Unix that were added specifically to mitigate this problem).

There are probably multiple reasons for this, including historical precedent and the need for misuse resistance in a language’s standard library, but I’d guess that in part this is simply because locks used to be much cheaper, especially before systems with multiple hardware threads became ubiquitous.
It is extremely rare even in ancient C code. The only reason why it exists in C at all is because rewriting a[i] as *(a+i) was inherited by C from B; the latter only has a single machine word type for everything, so there was no way to define it such that a[i] would be legal but i[a] would be illegal in B.
The ghost of Ancient Rome haunts America
> From what I understand, they have had kind of a history of hiring PR / communications experts and later realizing those people don't really have the same goals or perspectives as the scientists.

If these are the doomsday clock people then that level of bending over backwards to be kind is unwarranted. If you consistently err in one direction it’s because you want to. If your organisation is consistently alarmist it’s a policy decision not an accident.
They should have no business overriding prescriptions.
That is my exact point. I don't think it is reasonable to assume he wasn't aware that it was a risk.

It takes a special kind of arrogance to conclude that people are idiots simply because you don't understand their actions after a moment of thought and with no information.

Doubly so when you have someone who grew up through the cultural revolution, lived in China for 60 years, and is a Communist Party member.
That is what I'm asking.
There's a bunch of loosely connected points here, but the author seems to take umbrage with the inability of GPT4 to break its alignment training of referring to itself as an AI language model.

If anything, the author is demonstrating that alignment is going better than the doomsdayers are admitting. The LLM is prevented from offering an opinion on the best episode of Love Boat, despite (presumably) losing the author as a future customer.

Alignment training does come at the cost of performance- the author was not able to achieve their goals of talking to an AI pretending to be a human- but as an AI language model, it also won't teach that person how to build a bomb.
"yeah doctors have no idea what they are doing" isn't really that far off the mark for a lot of things.

The health of the average person in the west (And globally) is in decline. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer are all massively massively increased from where they were 100 years ago.

If the standard advice given isn't working for people (And it most obviously is not) then looking for alternatives really is the only thing people feel they can do.

In todays age being average in health is a poor decision.
ISKRA [1] in Ukraine still makes incandescent lights and there are places in EU that import them, but they have to be labeled as for non-home use only (factories, manufacturing etc.), but you can still buy them. 100w E27 light is around 50c. EU banned incandescent lights like a decade ago, but I still have some spot halogens in the kitchen and corridor and remember my small desk lamp with a 40w bulb that I've read so many books with. Something really feels off with LEDs and I can't put my finger on it, maybe it's the CRI, maybe the shadows, maybe the lack of heat that is cozy in the winter. Philips Hue are passable and convenient but very expensive in comparison and I still miss the feeling of making some tea and flicking on my incandescent desk lamp to read a book after school.

1. http://iskra.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=ar...
Building a Classic Mac OS App in Rust
You’re conflating personal morality with group morality.

As an individual, you should strive to always follow your moral code.

As a member of a group, you should accept that everyone is fallible — including and especially yourself and your ability to even define what constitutes fallibility.

There is much to lose and little to gain by ostracizing others for their immaterial human failings.
I currently have to drive 45-60 minutes one way to get to a pharmacy in a small town to get my adderall filled. I’m in downtown Seattle and it’s the closest option. I assume my pharmacy only has it because it’s mostly an older retirement community and they likely don’t have many adderall users.

It’s massively fucking annoying to take nearly three hours out of my day to pick up my meds. And it’s massively fucking annoying to have to worry about losing a critical medication every month and sometimes also having to spend literally half a day calling around to find a place that has it in stock.

Fuck the DEA
Thanks a lot for your kind words and advice!
Haha, well, maybe! At least I scored higher on the SAT! But I'm dumber now, I'm sure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0is6GkB64
+1 on the trackball.

When I travel I wind up working in all sorts of odd setups. No need to find a flat place to move a mouse. It works in tight places and uneven surfaces such as a couch.
I mean, JEHS sounds like a middling undergraduate trying to sound like a capable essay writer, so actually the ML model was spot on?
You're mocking the parent but isn't this what most BCIs do? Electrodes + signal processing to estimate some output.
Oh yeah I think it's pretty useful!
I love the idea of this. Reminds me of Yahoo Pipes, which was years ahead of its time.

But I'm not so sure they're going to get the adoption they're after.

Even the developers I know who are enthusiastic about Postman for its core offering haven't really responded to Postman's push to move more of the development cycle into the application, and I can't imagine this will be the thing to pull them in.
This is as old as the guy from Rich Dad Poor Dad, who got rich by selling the book about how to become rich.

And it’s what happens when the system doesn’t make sense.

People are doing this because the system tells them the main goal of the game is to make money.

Would people still work on these things if they couldn’t make money off of them? Or better yet, if they didn’t need any money at all in the first place?
I added a “usually” qualifier to my statement.
Exactly! Maybe my lack of eloquence and ability to remember quotes is a sign of my vast intellect? Haha, I wish!
> Everybody is different. Some people are in touch with their bodies and can detect if something is going wrong, and others are not.

Piggybacking off the parent, this is a major issue that medicine doesn't seem to have figured out how to deal with. Some people are so in touch with themselves they can tell they are getting sick before they have any measurable symptoms. Other people go months or years without knowing something is seriously wrong. Because modern medicine is about systematizing decisions (everything is a code), the patient's own internal sensations are given little weight compared to the measurements of an external instrument. The result is that if the particular set of tests which were ordered show nothing abormal then it can be hard or impossible to get treatment.
This could end up being a much bigger deal than it looks like at the moment. Relations are much worse than even during the Pelosi visit not too long ago so this could lead to serious fireworks.
MM, yes!
holy poop. getting off of benzos is not a fun experience and for some they're really needed to make day to day life... even barely bearable

the fuck is wrong with these people
my theory is that it's not the existence of the names or printing them that matters, but humanities awareness of them, that is a human mind reading and processing them. just like the apple always existed in paradise, but only biting into it caused adam and eve to be expelled.
I’m bootstrapping a startup and in parallel also released a course 6 months ago (unrelated to startups or making money, FYI).

After 4 months, the course had made more profits than the startup in 3 years. It has also taken less time to build (5months total to plan, record and edit)

I was both happy and sad when that happened, because as much as making money by teaching others is gratifying, my dream is to build and grow product startups.

However it taught me two valuable lessons about why people buy things:

- contrary to an online SaaS tool, a course is something you can buy anytime and then consume whenever you want in the future, with no expiration date. so if you see a good offer or love the product at first sight, there is no need to wait and postpone the purchase decision. This increases conversions + makes limited promotional offers more effective

- Seems weird but simply owning a course is enough to bring people significant value, that’s why most of them don’t even bother to watch it. It gives them an “insurance” that they have the knowledge handy whenever they need it. It’s perceived as an investment that will come in handy someday. This also drives purchases.

I considered becoming a full-time course creator, because it’s easier than building a startup, but my heart isn’t in it.

So instead I’m trying to apply the lessons learned to my startup:

- how can I offer a product people can purchase anytime and use whenever they want?

- can I make my product valuable to own, and not just valuable to use?

I think doing both could significantly improve conversions.
Well not to mention, looking at their patches. They are military (active/retired), speculation would be military aviators. Reading the article a little, some are former fighter pilots, so it makes sense they look like they came off a movie set. Military aviators tend to be quiet fit. Niel Armstrong and many early astronauts were fighter pilots, Hollywood makes their actors look like the fighter pilots who went on the early missions. Sort of a self fulfilling prophecy?

But yes, congrats to them all! Look forward to seeing this mission happen!
This struck me as well. Is the entire model being loaded before the deltas are applied? Would it be possible to apply the delta blockwise?
It's not really outperforming the market. It's mirroring the market, and the market has been down since it started, so it's up. But it looks like if the market keeps going generally up, it will go generally down.

It's really still too early to tell.
The four freedoms[1] of free software specifically state that:

> The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Emphasis in "give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes".

1. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
Kioxia Researchers Demo Hepta-Level Cell NAND Flash
Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His new book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, is now out from Encounter.
As an Aussie I'm impressed that username g'day is used by some from the Netherlands and not here. Unless you're an Aussie living in the Netherlands...
Yeah, because then harder things become easier, and eventually the thing that was once an "impossibly hard thing" is now a "challengingly hard but possible thing".
Czechia and Romania do not, however, have US-style insurance market.

There is state provided insurance and none of the US horror stories ever happen here.
It's motivated lying.
I see a lot of solar+storage quotes that don't bother saying how much storage. Usually it's four hours of storage at most. That's enough to smooth out the duck curve and get your daytime demand covered, but not enough to get through a windless night.

Building enough nuclear for baseload demand, and enough solar+storage for the extra daytime demand, seems ideal to me until we get much cheaper scalable storage.
> Unfortunately there's a mismatch between the model generated by the delta patcher and the tokenizer (32001 vs 32000 tokens). There's a tool to fix this at llama-tools (https://github.com/Ronsor/llama-tools). Add 1 token like (C controltoken), and then run the conversion script.
Oh, my God, I was wrong,
It was Earth all along.
You finally made a monkey...
Yeah this is the big one for me. I'm pretty convinced Secure Boot with a bring-your-own-key setup is the way. I understand Pop_OS doesn't want to invest the resources for this relatively niche market, but I'd love to switch if it allowed me to.
Over the past decades we have had both bull and bear markets. So unless the LLM is trained very fast on the latest news and programmed to give more recent news higher value, I suspect that it would produce approximately equal numbers of buy and sell recommendations.
The fire people also don't tell you that if you retire early you're existing standard of living will dip and then stay that way. So as long as you like hustling forever to get cheap deals you'll be fine, otherwise you'll be retired and poor and considering becoming unretired.
> Applying something like ChatGPT (...) seems like a no-brainer

Why? It's famously bad at math after all. It can spit out quarterly reports and industry research back (so if analyst says "buy", ChagGPT will parrot that), but other than that it would - I think - work as a glorified sentiment analyser. Of course I may be wrong.

And we also need to remember that AI is used heavily in finances (and the best cutting edge methods are probably not published by the companies using them, since this is a zero sum game).
Interview with Reid Hoffman about AI, new nation-states, friendship, and more
Having used GPT4 for some time now, I found it quite useful for many things. However, I think the context window size is the big bottleneck currently. Right now GPT4 is an exceptional tool. But for it to be revolutionary AI, it will need higher and higher context sizes.

e.g For it to be impactful in finance, being trained is not enough. It will need to take tons of new data in.
'Fake Work' Was 'Exposed' by Layoffs, Says Former PayPal Executive