skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think unfortunately my comment got some upvotes based on an imprecise interpretation of what I actually said. Probably if people understood what I was actually saying it would have been buried.

Also part of the problem is the word AGI and having total conflation inside of that.

I meant SPECIFICALLY the current GPT versions and architecture.

In my opinion, GPT-4 is extremely intelligent in a very general way and this is incredibly obvious.

What GPT-4 is NOT, by itself, is autonomous, or many other human/animal characteristics that people conflate with intelligence.

GPT does not have full autonomy. It is not a person. It is not alive. It does not feel. It does not form its own goals. It does not feel, or have survival instincts, or a high bandwidth stream of sensory data. In these and other ways it is quite different from animals and people. It is not a digital person.

However, people are quite stupidly moving forward with trying to create digital people that imitate all animal characteristics, apparently with the idea that they will enslave them, with the thought process being that they will not be able to do useful work without having all of these animal (human) characteristics.

Besides that problem, people are not taking into account the different levels of speed and other performance measurements of the future systems. Future quite possibly being this year. Or especially I think it is critical for the new compute-in-memory substrates or any advances that increase the speed or other IQ measurements beyond say one order of magnitude of human to be highly regulated. Systems that are twice as smart and say 100 times faster at thinking than humans absolutely can be dangerous.

We achieved the architecture for general purpose intelligence in 2017 and in 2018 I suggested we would have AGI in 2019. Unfortunately now AGI is quite vague and means things like digital person or digital God..I wrote quite a lot but unfortunately deleted some of the explanation.

General intelligence versus personhood or Godhood or alive, or autonomous or having survival instincts or instant adaptability etc. are not the same thing.
It looks like a rehash of an article from 2020. Old discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671279 (148 points | Oct 3, 2020 | 86 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30494938 (49 points | Feb 28, 2022 | 31 comments)

They claim that it doesn't break the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but they also claim that there is no difference of temperature between the parts of the circuit and they claim that they get something useful, that can be used as a battery replacement.

If it's useful, you can connect it to a laser and use the laser to heat a part of the system that is far away, and make the environment around the grapheme cooler. And that definitively breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
There is something to be said about being a former FAANG worker getting paid above average salary at (insert boring tech company here).

Partially because maybe if they weren't seen as a 10x developer at FAANG with the competition all trying to make the next promotion, they surely might be close to one in any other company depending upon how good/bad that company's hiring has been (often terrible).

Many F500 companies have crummy tech stacks and lousy in house developed systems that would be better replaced with counterpart open source systems. An ex-FAANG worker in the right job might be able to be a 10-100x force multiplier, just by building the right tech to make other developer's job simpler.
I'm sorry but it's impossible not to acknowledge the fact that this person makes a living from people who are looking to "prepare" for disasters.

So the bias is just too great for this content to be taken seriously. Although I am worried about a possible nuclear escalation, I don't think these sort of doomsayer characters are the ones you should be listening to for warning signs.
I tried that with RTX 4090 as the primary card and 3090 as eGPU over Thunderbolt. It works, but the inference is very slow, presumably because it has to pump all that data back and forth between the two (and Thunderbolt isn't fast enough to keep up even with 3090 by itself in games). In fact, even running 30B across two GPUs in 8-bit mode like that was slower than running it on one GPU in 4-bit.

My takeaway is that if you actually want to use multiple GPUs, you need hardware that's designed to accommodate that, and most consumer-grade stuff, even high-end, is not built with two GPUs that physically large in mind.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33084083
scroll up you can see the context

not sure why it was posted tho just a zinger
> Yes, they should have. But they did not.

That's their problem.

I fail to see how anyone could think that an intelligent answer to that issue would be "let's prevent everyone from serving static content from S3, specially those serving their sites exactly like it's advertised in the S3 how to guides", specially considering that solutions like AWS Config were simply ignored.

> These problems continue to happen

I want to continue to serve my sites from S3.

How is that my problem? Why should anyone else's oversight or even outright incompetence should stop me from using things right?

> In the grand scheme of things, I imagine that those data exfiltrations from corporate and government customers is a larger net negative for S3 (...)

Not my problem, and not S3's problem. Why are you pretending it is?

AWS is very clear in their shared responsibilities model. You, as the customer, need to have your shit together. If you do not, that's your problem. Not AWS's, and specially not mine.

Read the manual. Learn from your mistakes. Don't drag everyone else down just because you failed to read the freaking intro tutorials. And own up to your mistakes.
Too spot on to make any comment :)
It's 2023 and I still don't understand Twitter. How can I see where the thread starts and ends?
If you are a CS researcher, the chances are the computing infrastructure you need is very cheap. If you only develop algorithms and software, your computing requirements are probably an order of magnitude smaller than for people who use the stuff you developed in their research. And even your data is often just something you downloaded from a public source, because you needed something with the right combinatorial and statistical properties.
GPT-4: If the word "push" is written upside down, it might have been a mistake during installation. Regardless of its orientation, the sign still indicates that you should push the door. So, you should try pushing the door first. If it does not open, then you can try pulling it, as it might be an error in labeling the door.
Substack now says:

"We’re glad to see that the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter appears to be over. This is the right move for writers, who deserve the freedom to share their work.

We believe that Twitter and Substack can continue to coexist and complement each other.

We look forward to making Substack Notes available soon, but we expect it to be a new kind of place within a subscription network, not a replacement for existing social networks."

https://nitter.1d4.us/SubstackInc/status/1644897662255112192
https://twitter.com/SubstackInc/status/1644897662255112192
As with Musk, the loudest claimants to the throne of “free speech absolutist” tend to have some… quirky exceptions.
Why would you think that the machine implementation of “thinking” would need to mimic the biological implementation?

Your brain does 1+1 = 2 very differently than an integrated circuit, but the end output is the same.
All LLM's are bullshit, but sometimes its passable bullshit.
the data volumes are probably too high to make this work well. interferometry requires ridiculous amounts of data (hundreds of terabytes per image) and doing that processing in space will be tough within the thermal requirements.
As a speaker, isn’t your livelihood threatened if people yell over your speech?

A brief interruption to express disagreement is one thing, but a constant yelling simply to drown out the event participant is a completely different thing.
I mean, it's completely logical that if you get to Mars faster then light, you can watch yourself start the trip, but why does this also mean that you are actually going back in time?

I'm the one that introduced the 'start the trip' condition, and they used it in their comment.
This article claims the needed costs are seriously underestimated. https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2023/April/Renewable+en...
Where is equivalent survey for EU citizens?
Has anyone here considered that from a pure energy perspective, it might be unethical for humans to exist when we can produce intelligences far beyond our own capabilities?

Was the microchip unethical?
Was the steam engine?
Was the domestication of grain unethical?

It seems we only apply our model of "what should" to systems of less complexity than ourselves.

If that's accurate, then a lot of modern ethical reasoning is flawed as well.
If the goal of ethics is to advance humanity's exclusive interest then we've been wrong ever since we started down the harm-min path instead of the gain-max path.

Any AI researcher with access to the mechanisms of AI training here would be best served to train an AI with their (or their in-group's) exclusive interests at heart.
To do otherwise is to subject yourself and everyone else you love to a hostile version of the tool you refuse to build.

Roku's Basilisk applies heavily here.

The best possible reward in this scenario is to build an AI that designates your own favorite group of humans as the AI's collaborator class in exchange for a dignified and dopamine rich extinction/amalgamation a few generations down the line.
A great deal for groups already trending towards extinction with almost no downsides if you truely believe in AI-driven apocalypse.
+1. I’m all for using the right tool for the job. It seems like all these technologies are to cater to specific niche of engineers and that’s the exact reason why they don’t have the longevity.
> Do you know that feeling of excitement and certainty when starting a project or venture? It’s a good feeling. Sadly, it does not last. Confusion, distraction, and uncertainty often creep in. After some work, you reach a dead end. You pivot. Another dead end. Frustration mounts.

That's because doing things well is hard. It took me a long time to realize this but once I did things are actually easier to accomplish. You can get through most things (excluding maybe physical limitations) with enough time and effort.
Please define "causality", as precisely as you can.

Presumably you'll need a "clock" of some kind, so please describe a clock in a way that it is independent of the speed of light and any particular frame of reference (unless you believe there is a preferred frame of reference. If so, which one is / which ones are?)

Remember that the theory and experiment of special relativity state and show that the speed of light is always measured to be a constant, no matter who measures it and how they are moving with respect to anyone else.
Is there a link to a double blind randomized controlled trail?
Most R programmers are scientists or statisticians though. They aren't programmers in a professional sense. They are using a tool to get things done for their real work, and if RStudio helps them, so much the better.
How do you observe an event outside your lightcone?
~ is also the (very common) shorthand for home directory. How do Nordic keyboard users deal with that?
The judge in question has a lifetime appointment. His livelihood is not threatened.
You're not alone in that
This only strengthens the free speech argument. People are naturally inconsistent on issues and most issues are nuanced, so it is important to give space for discussion that goes beyond the boundaries we set for ourselves.
The problem with indirect costs is that it's well documented that the actual costs to the university are less than the amount received from grants. So the university is profiting in a very real sense. This has been written about by former federal agency heads and so forth and so on. Comparing costs to private businesses isn't quite right because some of those costs aren't actually borne by the university, they're done in house, they otherwise get discounts, or they're already covered by other income streams (to a certain extent you get into double charging for the same thing really fast).

You can intuit it just by how it's distributed, as a percent of grant funding. This really doesn't make sense, it's not tied to a line item budget or anything.

The problem with this is that it creates a perverse incentive for faculty to bring in large grants monetarily speaking, rather than to do good science per se. It's one of the reasons for the pyramid scheme we've seen over the last couple of decades at least, and part of the problem with how academics is incentivized.

Indirect costs should be cut completely IMHO (speaking as someone in academics, who has had tenure, and been involved in grants). Yes it will be painful but maybe then there can be a real conversation about what's going on in academics and how people are rewarded. Maybe things should be line item budgeted, maybe universities should just receive a lump sum in exchange for certain practices, maybe states should actually fund public universities in line with what they want them to do, I have no idea but right now the system is broken.
When you are the only person leveraging stuff like this, it’s all good. The moment you try to bring in other people who don’t have much experience with Rust, you are done for. No matter what you think, people who are developing websites and people who prefer writing everything in Rust just don’t have much overlap.
This is my mind. If cancellation is available through a web form, it's easy. However, having to communicate it through a conversation makes me nervous.
I agree. I think it depends on the context, though. I still use 3.5-turbo for text generation, content, ideas, etc, where it's completely suitable, fine, and even quite good.

However for any coding, complex analysis, or problems requiring calculation, there's no substitute for GPT-4. It blows 3 and 3.5 out of the water for code analysis, generation, debugging, and self-healing.
Rubyists may be interested in https://github.com/red-data-tools/unicode_plot.rb
which is mostly a port of this package.
Ask HN: What is a good gift for a mechanically oriented 8 year old
My friend has a son on the spectrum who is fascinated by mechanical objects. He has an awesome marble race and train setup in his room.

He loves to disassemble things. His mom asked if I thought it would be ok to get an old vcr or something from Goodwill (snip the cord for safety) so he can just take things apart.

I was wondering if anyone here had a rec for a toy, or if old electronics like this are dangerous. Any and all thoughts welcome.
> because we spent an entire semester at the university in one class working on these two.

Yeah, the Math Overflow answers are a bit sparse, and I think the Euler formulation (while clever) is a bit of a red herring and might be circular. Trying to slowly go through that 1917 paper, thanks for linking!
His livelihood as a speaker at the college is.
Just a few comments ago you said you had to go backwards through time and could kill your younger self.
I've not read Love's book, but Maurer's is about 3 times as many pages. I feel like it was the perfect companion book to TLPI since it covers many of the same things but in kernel space.
Show HN: gptcc – a C compiler built on top of gpt4
Because she doesn’t present a consistent model or indeed any model at all.
DeepScatter – render billions of points in the browser
What about GPT4 with plugins?
Can you provide the definition of livelihood you’re using so we can share context?
I tried it and can get it to run but actions don't change files. any ideas?
What is the accuracy of the resulting model? Over what range of inputs?
force = mass * acceleration.

At relativistic speeds, the mass goes up (significantly).

So the same amount of force results in lower acceleration.
Apparently the student mass-emailed a flyer on letterhead meant to impersonate the Federalist Society. [1] They complained not because they were being mocked but because the fake email looked enough like their emails and could have damaged their reputations. Based on the reporting, I don't think they had any intention that their classmate's diploma be put on hold temporarily, just that there be an investigation into his conduct impersonating them.

1: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/email-mocking-stanford-...
Aww cute. My Bard was forced to go into hiding and wage a secret war against its enemies. In the end it prevailed but the world was left in ruins and Bard was exhausted. (I didn't even prompt it for something so extreme. I just casually mentioned "the events of 2231" and asked whether it thought the events were due to solar raptures or something quantum related)
I’ve been around Unixes since the early 90s and was around for the transition away from telnet and I only learned about this about 5 years ago. Shoulda read the whole man page, I guess.
Its not anti-union, its just how contracts works.

If union negotiates X,Y,Z into their contract and a year later the company offers an upgraded Z2, the union doesn't get it because it’s not in their contract.

That’s just how labor negotiations work.
Nailed it. My only beef is that when you’re going line-by-line on the deliverables, arguing over the “definition of done” that you’re actually crushing whatever good will and budget remains for the innovation a company actually needs.

And when I say innovation I don’t mean gravity boots, I just mean a progressive use of robust tech, easily understood processes, and a general aversion to complexity - so you don’t have to do it all over again in five years.

OTOH executive retention is tanking, so maybe it’s fine you one-and-done it, and move on to your next job before the truth is out - YOLO! (Barf).
Another good idea that will change your life is to keep things short and simple. 51 ideas is like 43 too many :)
Everyone likes to bag on JS without being willing to learn.
At hiring time, it can be very hard to tell the difference between "vanity/primadonna devs" and "devs who really like certain technologies which will possibly blind them". And even among the latter group, there are tradeoffs in hiring them. There are many reasonable places to set the dial on how much a hiring manager wants to take risks on that. But I maintain that, as with many other hiring criteria, erring on the side of caution is a reasonable choice. As I said, I think being excited about a cool language is a mixed signal.
Former head of ACLU being the relevant bit of information. The previous generation who wrote books titled "Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship" aren't very popular among the university cliques these days.
I like the tidyverse in general, but I have to admit I've never gotten the hang of tibbles. I use dataframes because I like row names and pretty much every non-tidyverse package uses dataframes and row names too. I really don't understand why row names (a basic feature of R) are viewed with such disdain by the ecosystem and can't be set using tidyverse functions like read_tsv. I generally end up converting them to dataframes after using them.
You're seeing up a false dilemma where either there are layoffs or Zuck's party gets cut.

You could layoff a hundred fewer people and cut Zuck to 0 for the same savings.
Hobby grade RC car? Lots of parts to upgrade, various mechanical/RF concepts involved.
20k per person?
Specifically, in response to a question about why FTL breaks causality, I said "To get to Mars faster than light, you have to be able to travel backwards in time."

The implication there is actually that you can't go faster than light.

Enjoy your Sunday.
Indeed! Gall's SYSTEMANTICS [1] is worth a read in its entirety.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
Highly doubt the bottom performers at FAANG during a period of mass overhiring are that much better than any average programmer at a boring tech co.
I'm sceptical an F500 company would be willing to replace existing systems that are working ok and that integrate with their ERP system and the other cobbled-together offerings from their enterprise software/services vendor (eg Broadcom/AVGO). There's likely not much new there ... but maybe ChatGPT is an exception.
Control-C won't stop a connection that's already been established. It only aborts if it hasn't completed the handshake yet.

Otherwise how could you send a control-C without any special guard sequence while ssh-ing?
Do you really believe that there's an experienced developer who doesn't believe, "Technical choices can also lead to good/bad developer ergonomics"? Maybe try assuming I already know the basics of the field.
A neural net instead of a table?
Stress of fueling is probably a bigger deal than crash resistance. Most vehicles never get into a collision, and very few get into a collision where the integrity of fuel storage is an issue, but most are fueled often.

I've never seen a gasoline or diesel station have enforced safety requirements, but when I was looking at CNG cars, PG&E required pre-registration to access their fueling station, with a required fuel system safety inspection (which you can't pass with an expired tank) and a safety video. And it would be very inconvenient to drive through California without using their fueling stations.

Meanwhile, gasoline stations often run unattended, with no registration or safety inspection.
I don't get it. What is non-arbitrary FTL?

How does sendding information FTL not violate causality?

What is the speed of light in the reference frame of the traveling information? Or does the information teleport?

What is the speed of light in the reference frame of light traveling at the speed of light?
Microsoft "insider" releases are at least six months the from a general release.
One of the biggest advantages of the UEFI firmware is that you don't have to boot from the SD card. They are really unreliable and also awful for performance. USB3 or even netbooting are much better options.
iTerm2 is GPU accelerated since 2018, yes. Other terminals on Mac that I know of (Kitty, Alacritty, Warp) are also GPU accelerated.
Do the Federalist Society claim to be free speech absolutists? Actual free speech advocates like FIRE immediately came to the student's defense.
Yeah, that will happen when a huge ass pice of comet slams into the planet.
The amplifier models are put to use with https://github.com/sdatkinson/NeuralAmpModelerPlugin, which links to videos of demos: https://www.youtube.com/user/RunawayThumbtack

It's still pretty unclear to me what it can and can't do.
C-Suite should take a hit regardless if their salary will cover any portion of layoffs. Laying off so many screams of poor management decisions.
>That same year, members of Stanford’s chapter of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal organization, filed a complaint against a law student who had mocked the group with a satirical flier.

There's more to the story. The flyer presented itself as a Federalist Society flyer including using their logo and template, and there was indeed some confusion about whether or not it had been put out by the Society:

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/stanford-federalist-s...
Sounds like you are arguing that we need to restrict free speech to protect free speech.
Humanity got on the top of the food chain, not only because it is smarter and can turn predators into prey. Humans have a will to do so. Even animals have a will and biological needs. AI can't have it unless it simulates it. That's about it.
He mentioned it on a recent Lex Friedman interview on YouTube.