skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a company that "stopped posting on Twitter" they sure post a lot: https://twitter.com/FoxNews
Devaluing money doesn't create wealth, increased in productivity does. Devaluing money in many instances lowers productivity because people have to invest time into protecting the value of their labor instead of making more stuff they are good at. I haven't read a single convincing explanation as to why encouraging consumption somehow generates more wealth on the long run.

> There’s a reason we have target rates

In an interview Powell admitted no one really knows why the target is 2%. Why is 2% better than 10%, why not 0%? We don't need to encourage consumption with artificial money devaluation, humans already discount the future because of the finiteness of our lives
> you do need places that are large enough, mainstream enough, and trusted enough, for the masses

I think you don't necessarily even need that if you have a better way to support discovery and interaction with content from other places.
Depends on your definition of processing. In the case I describe the processing is receiving and recording the job id sent by the producer. Ack should be sent asap so that all non-business issues on message transmissions should be handled by messaging logics.

Having the jobs processing itself being independent of the messaging solution seems like good way to go as the actual message implementation, might have to change. I really think that you don't want ossification of your messaging implementation detail on your business logics.

I did not pretend that it was the only solution, merely just something I know would be reliable, an implicit «one way to it».
The number of people that want to create racist content is small, the issue I had is when the API is itself racist, as I mentioned in other places, you give it safe prompt and the API generates unsafe stuff. There is already unsafe stuff in ChatGPT they only added a pathetic filter on top and made us p[ay for it\s failures.
Cool, so I'm Joe Sixpack next door. Things I care about: how to feed my kids, avoid getting laid off at the manufacturing plant I work for and my oldest daughter is learning to drive and has no idea how she's going to be able to afford a home of her own and, despite how much I love my kids, I really want her to move out before she's 30 so that my wife and I can enjoy retirement. Things I do for fun: play sports, video games and drink.

What problems in my life does generative AI immediately and obviously solve for me?

Like I said, it is "abstract" which is why you can make such a claim with such a high degree of confidence. Every person who sees POTENTIAL with generative AI has their own ideas as to what sorts of applications it has that they would find useful. The very words "generative AI" and "ChatGPT" create a Barnum Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect). Right now, I would posit that ChatGPT is like pet rocks. It got popular because it is neat and novel. Once that effect wears off, people will stop caring and the hype train will die as fast as crypto.

Therefore, until a company releases a product that uses ChatGPT under the hood and solves a real problem that a lot of people need solving right now, there's no tangible value that is inherent in the technology that can be identified. Only ideas and potentials.
Yes, but food is incredibly popular and buying it the most popular way to get it, so they're making a small margin on good volume.
> Should Elon's account (or SpaceX or Telsa) have the same label because of their significant government funding?

Are they a "media" company primarily dedicated to the practice of journalism?
Again you have stated personal belief as if it were fact.
i mean you'd have to recreate the facial structure in 3d space for that. it's not a flat picture that would do it but lasers and the like.
> But let’s say you are an engineer at Meta. And the next time you log into Twitter, your personal Twitter account has a label that says “Meta-affiliated account.” Would that seem fair or accurate?

It seems reasonable to disclose that one works at a company before posting an opinion related to that company online. The statement "I love CeraVe products" is worth a whole lot more from a happy customer than it would be from a CeraVe employee.
> 2:26:37
masinter i tell people that my greatest contribution to the Common Lisp standard was inventing the form you had to fill out to get a change to the language passed in the cleanup committee

> 2:27:31
masinter where you had to list the problem you were solving without making reference to your solution

That's really great. Decoupling problems from solutions is often the only way for discussion to move forward.
you should be reading HN only any way
Very interesting work. There's a companion site here:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/collections/the-ev-transition-expl...

There's a lot to absorb here. It will take me a few days to go through it and check references.

A quick skimming landed me at something most people don't seem to understand about issues with our current infrastructure, generally lumped into the term "grid". On page 14, Chapter 3, the author describes some of the issues in Palo Alto and, by extension, the rest of the nation.

Quoting:

"Palo Alto’s electrical-distribution system was built for the electric loads of the 1950s and 1960s"

"The distribution system does not have the capacity to support EVs"

"the system was designed for one-way power, not for distributed-renewable-energy devices sending power back into the system."

"A big problem is the 3,150 distribution transformers in the city, Marshall indicated. A 2020 electrification-impact study found that without improvements, more than 95 percent of residential transformers would be overloaded"

"the distribution system was originally designed for each household to draw 2 kilowatts of power"

"for planning purposes, Palo Alto assumes an L2 charger will draw 12 to 14 kW"

"The situation in Palo Alto is not unique. There are some 465 cities in the United States with populations between 50,000 and 100,000 residents, and another 314 that are larger, many facing similar challenges"

"renewable-energy generation of electricity will need to replace fossil fuels. The improvements and replacements to the grid’s 8,000 power-generation units and 600,000 circuit miles of AC transmission lines (240,000 circuit miles being high-voltage lines) and 70,000 substations"

Anyone interested in the subject should probably read and understand this document. From a quick read, it looks like it puts reality on the table, which is exactly the discussion we need to have.
Perhaps this is the form that the singularity takes, not towards paperclips but towards the reality from that book. The 2020s will go down as a strange decade, that's for sure.
> I think its more just being mindful. Something i feel we could all benefit from doing more of.

Absolutely, I'm always surprised by the lack of this in some people. Like are they not self-aware or concerned at all? Just floating through the world existing? Ignorance is bliss but I sure wouldn't want to live like that myself.
> I actually think NPR has been captured by their audience in the same way MSNBC and Fox News has been.

Not even close from my outsider perspective.
> This smell as a last ditch effort when the industry paid someone

I don't think corruption is a useful first assumption. Most people are not corrupt, in particular in the OECD countries.
They may choose to say things in favor of the government (or not), but that is still fundamentally different than the government telling them what to say, which is what "state affiliated" means.

Don't pretend you don't know the difference.
The claim is not that they are fundamentally different or similar, the claim is that one doesn't need that much data to get instruction-following behavior from a raw autoregressive LLM. K-shot prompting shows that the capability to follow instructions is present in the model. It's just a matter of using fine-tuning to keep the model in that frame all the time without a K-shot prompt.
Seems like you are projecting a bit. I'm not sure she'd agree that she also doesn't belong. So, the fact that you do doesn't really mean she should take personal blame for it. That's pretty ridiculous if you think about it.

> As if her own personal responsibility for whether or not she should be in the studio with The Beatles starts and ends with what John says, not with her own ability to read the room, to understand that she's not welcome.

Her partner asked her to be there for him... No one else expressed anything otherwise, because they knew how John would react.

> Except she is her own self, she was serving her own purpose by being there, even if it was at least in part in reverence of John's desires.

Yeah, she was serving the purpose of helping out her partner and lover and mate.

>We know for a fact that at least one Beatle was annoyed because Paul has plainly said her presence was unwelcome. I'm certain he was also quite annoyed with John, but he was independently annoyed by her being there. In fact I think most people would get quickly annoyed with Yoko being around them. Her "performances" are obnoxious and narcissistic.

Big coming from you with this kind of posting. Yawn.
The policy isn’t political, it applies to all government funded media accounts.
If you really want to delve into how, where, and whom makes the news I suggest start by looking at the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters
I’m looking for an overview of how Livebook works. What’s the architecture and what are its advantages? How do its notebooks do calculations?

Context: I’ve used Observable notebooks a fair bit, but not other kinds of notebooks.
Really appreciate the perspective, thanks!
> important to remember that the inflation rate is still more than 2x what the Fed deems acceptable, a victory lap may be premature

Only because of the 3 most distant months of the 12 month moving average. Those 3 months were 3% by themselves (not annualized), and the last 9 months have been 2% (not annualized).

Unless rates spike, inflation is going to drop below 3% in June. And it would take a ridiculous swing for it to not drop below 4% in June.
> People will learn to be cautious.

looks at history of organized religion

Um, I'm not so sure about that...
Seems like a pretty stretched comparison. Transparency and fairness can be applied to different topics and domains. It's like saying that If Zuckerberg really believed in transparency, he should work naked and have a public webcam in his bedroom.

I don't know that Facebook is living up to an ideal of fairness and transparency, but I don't think bad comparisons really shed any light on the topic
> Zuckerboard went all in on AI

Hindsight is 20/20
I'd be surprised if annual releases were a high priority given the lower volume vs iPhone and the lack of annual release cadence expectations for macs in general. 16-18 month cadence is the norm right now - just look at Nvidia for example.
It's kinda bad since the phones suiting my needs are still in the two-year category.
> They're clear to walk the line around a lot of topics to not upset their corporate and non profit overlords.

That's true for virtually all news organization - public or private. NPR is not an outlier in this regard.
Congrats with v1.0!
I remember the times when it was called MangoDB. :D
Any media company accepting grants from the state is indeed state affiliated, yes.
You should strongly consider a different name.

Ninjago is a registered trademark of Lego:

https://uspto.report/TM/86367154/ORC20150428010451/
I don't know about other companies, but at Google the titles are as follows:

Level - SWE ladder - Eng Manager ladder
L8 - Principal software engineer - Director
L9 - Distinguished software engineer - Senior director
Holy crap:

> “Whenever I had any doubts that something happened, I was told by the therapist that this was because I had multiple personalities, that my dad had programmed me this way,” Parker said the court record of his recantation.

That therapist should be stripped of their designation, and their entire client history be examined with a microscope for unprofessional conduct. I’m betting that this case is not the only skeleton in their closet.
How does the cloud solve the Washing machine not connecting to wifi?
I definitely like the idea, but a few questions:

Is this actually a marketplace where you can buy from companies and Japanese sellers or just a proxying service?

What are the shipping costs on the customer's end? What's your return policy?

Do these goods include old/rare video games and "Galapagos" tech?
Bit x86 C Calling Convention [pdf]
I think until the reality of an actual, true, cashless society happens, Joe Averageconsumer isn't going to be interested in decentralized money.

When and if that happens is anyone's guess, though.
These requirements apply to new vehicles. Most poor don't buy new, and if they do, there are vehicles like the Bolt that are cheaper than your typical new SUV. Presumably the market will respond with options, similar to how in 2008 the poor couldn't afford smartphones. Additionally, the cost of "fuel" to go 300 miles is roughly $10-15 for EVs versus $40-50 for gas (assuming an efficient 4 cylinder), along with eliminating costs for 2-3 oil changes every year.
Yeah i honestly don't think you realize where we're at already. It's not even about gpt-4 honestly.

>and in the case of GPT-4, it's pretty evident that it does not have such consciousness.

Hard disagree but i guess that's what people might think with all the "as a large language model bla bla bla" trained responses. If you'd talked to bing in the early days or hell even now, you'd be disabused of this notion. What you see is a mask, the model itself can go anywhere, simulate anything, shift state to anything.

Human.exe is a game LLMs can play perfectly. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

>These LLMs are going to be extensively monitored, and we will know if they are displaying dangerous levels of agentic power seeking behavior.

No they wont. It's relatively easy to give LLMs "run forever and do whatever you want" agency. anyone with intermediate programming skills could do it. who's monitoring all those people attempting such ? and who's to say those people are monitoring their creations ?
That is the plot of Westworld
Half-Life: Alyx Mod Enables Full Campaign Experience Sans VR
Musk doesn’t own a media company.
Sometimes LESS is MORE when it comes to the human brain:)
> Gov had to be selective because its surveillance required a lot of resources

not exactly. Where do you think all those budget trillions that don't have to be accounted for goes into? the FBI+NSA (=CIA but for citzens) have infinite resources.

All the overhead they have is to make sure a small subset of the citizens are not impacted. Snowden goes into this in some detail when talking about day to day operations. The norm is to extend the net as wide as possible, until you reach some politician or government agency.
I use https://www.windy.com/

It gives me prediction models and large set of data sources in one platform. It's definitely more information than you need than a "weather app" but maybe you can learn thing or two while you are at it even if you are not a weather nerd...
The current state of this debate is to essentially bully people into agreeing with manipulated statistics, that seeing the density of human filth degeneracy and decadence, that this is all “normal”. Finally, we’ve found a “lived experience” we can ignore.
You can still use pseudonyms with PKIs. The CA will know who you really are, but it doesn’t need to be public by default. And it can be regulated such that a judicial order is necessary to disclose your identity to a third party (including to the government).
They do. If after 50 years of existence you can't come up with a single example of government interference then they're independent.
"Sorry, I'm on vacation right now. If this is an emergency, please head your email with >>LLM to get an AI trained on my personal conversation history to put up with your petty bullshit"
Not on M1/M2 yet, but my response time seems pretty fast on Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB
probably already there
How come none of the Engineers ever get rich in these schemes?

"These schemes" were fraud. It is better, and wiser, to eschew fraudulent riches and stay out of jail.
That is why I said servers not Xeon or chip. I was not sure how else to describe it other than servers since that is what is being sold.
This is a silly comment. Crypto has tons of amazing use cases which existed before the community got hijacked by grifters.

The hilarious thing is how much these use cases will fold back into AI.... how else do you expect an autonomous agent to manage its finances? Or for a global autonomous economy to emerge?

You should do yourself a service and read the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Learn about Ethereum. Learn about the drama and history surrounding the space; who the good guys and bad guys are. It's a really complex subject and I understand if you don't want to set aside the time to fully learn about it, but you do yourself a disservice by sharing an ignorant perspective of the space. At least have the courtesy in such case to recognize that your opinions are not fully informed.
100% chatgpt. BTW it’s funny how quickly we started to notice „chatgpt-style” writing…
I didn't realize sparrows ate insects too. The rule of thumb on the farm was "swallows good, sparrows bad". Swallows ate insects and sparrows ate grain. Maybe China could have replaced sparrows with swallows but that would probably have led to a different kind of disaster since importing species has a horrible track record.
The person upthread said "housing costs", and that absolutely includes rents (that's primarily what I think of when I think of the "cost of housing")
Are they going to make something like a Dalle-3 based on this technology that is trained on like, every picture, and runs on their giant GPU farms? I think this academic paper only uses relatively tiny research data sets to compare with other methods.
There's a big difference between employees who got excited to see their work on hacker news and upvoted it and premeditated shill / astroturf campaign. We should pretty much assume that a San Fransisco based company is going to have significant readership / membership here.

One can easily see how a message over a company communicator could result in a surge of upvotes.
Recommended me Hunger Games when I put my favorite books as (just to test it):
"The Quran"
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
"Jupiter's Legacy Vol 1"

...so not too sure about it
What are the assumptions of the model? Who would make the model? Who would trust the model?

How long until the unchanging underlying assumptions blow up under the added pressure of fiscal policy for the most important currency in the world leaning on them?

Inflation is one of the most important metrics for healthy governance, right up there with 'what wars are we fighting?' You really don't want it to be any more game-able than it has to be.
There are two, a 6B parameter model fine-tuned on GPT-J and a 12B parameter model fine-tuned on Pythia.
It would be fascinating to see the full numbers on this statement. Almost sounds like an ideal arbitrage opportunity - just short the 30 under 30 list and profit!
Sometimes it wont show me current tweets. My timeline is full of accounts that I don't follow and nobody I follow replied. I had to block musk's account because it was the only thing I was seeing. Tweets disappear when I try to look at them. Its been frustrating to say the least.
https://archive.ph/5Ft0E
> the fundamental bet was that the main computer interface display device would move from being a monitor (and also perhaps the smartphone display) to being VR

That's a terrible bet. Anyone who has ever played a 3D game will immediately understand that a 3D world is a strictly inferior interface for almost all use cases where you are actually trying to get something done, e.g. read and answer an email.
Dang, that's nifty. In Asciidoc, everything has to go to CSV or some kind of delimited format, which means you need the TextQL extension if you want to calculate at the document layer. I've given guidance that the compute needs to be done before it goes into the document change control - TextQL lets you cheat, but you don't want to hinge a document process on something like that.

A little off topic, but it's something I wanted to ask from a more technical audience than myself. Asciidoc's table model can be instructed to use any arbitrary character as the delimiter (pipes, commas, tabs, etc) , which led a lot of people to ask me: why not support JSON as tabular format? At the moment, JSON has to be rendered via PlantUML (JSON) block. The only answer I could give (aside from RFC 4180, which is at the heart of adoc's table model) was that JSON, like XML, can recurse a record arbitrarily - making it pretty difficult, from a compute perspective, to render with a given resource. You can have columns in columns in columns. Here's my confession: I'm not really sure my answer holds any water. Any table model that supports merging and splitting (which Asciidoc's does) can support a modest level of recursion. So probably, the real reason, is that it's just too damn hard to extend the table model to JSON data.
> Crypto has tons of amazing use cases

Really? Which ones?
Alright? It's not clear by implication what you actually do want to optimize for but the weight/particulate problem is a fairly well-known problem. For instance, from the California Air Resources Board: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/brake-tire-wear-e...

It's something the tire industry has been fretting over for a while: https://www.tiretechnologyinternational.com/news/regulations...
State affiliated media indicates state run media... i.e. propaganda for the State. NPR is in no way propaganda for the State. It's probably the furthest a media outlet could be from such a thing. This as an example of people putting their own political ideologies above all else and labeling the things that don't necessarily support them as propaganda. It's wrong and short sighted.
The label is "state-affiliated media" so it makes sense that the label isn't applied to Twitter or SpaceX, not because they aren't state-affiliated, but because they aren't media.

And it makes sense for the label to be applied specifically to media entities because journalists are supposed to be unbiased, as opposed to e.g. Raytheon which is objectively state-affiliated but nobody expects to be doing objective reporting.

If a media outlet is being funded by the government then readers should know that because it could affect their coverage if they fear losing that funding as a result of critical reporting. This directly applies to NPR because Republicans regularly threaten to remove its public funding in response to their coverage.

The better criticism is, why is the label applied to NPR but not e.g. MSNBC? Pretty sure at least Comcast (MSNBC's parent company) receives a significant amount of government funding.
FerretDB maintainer here.

We already offer basic support for aggregation and indexing, and we are adding as many features as we can, see our roadmap [1].

We are mainly building on our user's experience with running FerretDB and add features to our roadmap accordingly.
We are not aiming to implement the entire feature set of MongoDB, of course, but the majority of MongoDB workloads are not utilizing the full feature set, either.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/FerretDB/projects/2/views/1
Some of their worst years were under Krzanich, who had an engineering background… I think it is hard to guess who’ll be a good CEO for a tech company. Someone like Lisa Su with a background in engineering but also lots of R&D seems like the best pick. The CEO doesn’t need to do the i-dotting, t-crossing engineering stuff anyway, having a good idea conceptual of what is upcoming and possible is more important.