skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Telegram management were knowingly letting terrorists plot attacks on their platform, they should definitely be held accountable.

Similarly, if Amazon management were knowingly letting scammers scam innocent people on their platform, they should definitely be held accountable.

We're at a point where you can use free automation to tell if an Amazon listing has fake reviews, yet Amazon sits there with their thumbs up their asses as millions of people are harmed by blatant scams on their platform. You can even report obvious scams and Amazon does nothing about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/world/asia/projections-du...
> How long before TikTok makes AI generated videos without creator?

I can tell you don't use TikTok and don't understand how quickly the trends adapt and depend on human understanding of hyper niche cultural trends.

Nothing about GPT indicates it can engage in this without heavy human interference.

At most it'd at least depend on being able to replicate human generated videos on prompt (which it's far from doing without horror show uncanny valley but sure... one day eventually in the indefinite future, which is the least interesting problem) let alone all the niche cultural stuff... and critically reputation signals already strongly required. Humans are deeply intwined in all of these, with automation playing a marginal optimisation role not anything near replacement.

Cheap imitations will remain a novelty for a long time. Just like how deepfakes and GPT news articles were oversold as a serious problem in the near term but haven't borne out beyond niche failures and journalist FUD posting.
https://lwn.net/Articles/823738/
FreeBSD 13.2-Release Announcement
If only Meta had nailed VR in time, this disaster could have been avoided.
It's a pretty obvious idea executed well. I definely think symbolic AI agents written in the programming language english and interpreted using LLMs is the way forward.
So it looks like the idea is it goes through your GitHub dependencies, and splits your donation up among them.

That’s a pretty neat idea.

I wonder if it would be possible or even desirable to try and get some automatic measure of “how much” you depend on a given project, to weigh the split. Probably that would be really difficult to capture. Anyway the current idea is already pretty cool.
> I surmise the reason we see it moreso on minivans is because 1) it is particularly difficult to work up enough energy to properly latch a sliding door, due to losses from the 90-degree change in direction at the end, and 2) violently slamming the sliding doors on a minivan is very dangerous to children's fingers.

There is also a third, dumber reason, at least for cargo van slide-doors. The surface area of sliding doors are large. When the door takes that 90 degree turn and moves very fast towards the vehicle, it is pushing a lot of air into the vehicle. The air in the vehicle has nowhere to go, so it acts as an air-spring, slowing down the door. To properly latch the door, you have to really slam it hard. If the windows are down or an other door is open, the sliding doors latches very easily. I thought I was going crazy when my door was closing easily ... sometimes. Some cargo vans even have vents that allow air to escape, but people tend to cover them because they don't know what it's for. But electric sliding doors also solve this problem, by moving slowly and letting the air escape.

TLDR: if you car door doesn't close, open the window :)
> Is RDMA mature (robust/reliable) enough to use in distributed transactions?

At least on Linux systems, RDMA has been pretty robust/reliable for probably a decade, maybe more.

> What are the handicaps?

It works differently to TCP/IP, which everyone in IT has at least passing familiarity with. So, it tends to be automatically passed over unless people hit a situation where they're open to "exotic" solutions.

That being said, there's a TCP/IP shim layer (IPoIB) available which can be used by existing software to run on an IB network.

That shim layer though used to have a reputation for flakiness, and it was (or at least used to be) measurably slower than using native IB.

> What are the reasons for slow uptake on this?

Repeated self-inflicted foot-guns by Mellanox leadership or perhaps their sales and marketing leadership is my best guess.

Mellanox adapters when brand new are priced fairly high for network adapters, or at least they used to be. However, when a network using them is upgraded to the next generation gear, a substantial number of the old ones would commonly end up for ~cheap resale on places like Ebay.

So, *nix DevOps staff ("Sysadmins" back in the day) and anyone else that needed fast networking for their home labs and similar would pick them up and figure out how use them.

Which of course meant over time an increasing group of people familiar with IB, that when figuring out solutions for their work places would then have enough confidence and knowledge to order them.

Sounds like typical organic growth right?

<rant>

Except Mellanox leadership - or at least their Sales & Marketing people - seemed to be fucking horrified that people were buying their expensive adapters cheaply on Ebay.

So, while the Mellanox technical people were receptive to this ground swell growth in usage by "unofficial" people, and tried to help out, their leadership time and time again did their level best to stamp it out.

Including killing off one of their decent "Community" growth initiatives -> just turned it into a fucking marketing channel for press releases and other crap <- Ugh.

But also doing things like instructing their support staff to not answer anyone on their forums who seemed to have purchased their gear through unofficial channels, etc. Nor let anyone else do so.

There were many, many examples of this bullshit over the years. And they were always like "Why don't we have huge adoption?"

Gee, I wonder? :( :( :(

</rant>

Anyway, I gave up on them and moved on a few years afterwards, prior to Nvidia buying them. I still buy older Mellanox ConnectX-3 (VPI) adapters off Ebay occasionally for home gear use (with Linux), and they're still solid. 10/40GbE. :)
It's already multimodal, as entropy is... entropy. In sound, vision, touch and more, the essence of universal symmetry and laws get through such that the AI can generalize across information patterns, not specifically text -- think of it as input instead.

Try prompts like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510705

Encode sounds, images, etc in low resolution, and the LLM will be able to describe directions, points in time in the song, etc.

These LLM can spit out an ASCII image of text, or a different language, or code, etc. They understand representation versus an object.
Not mentioned in the article, but it’s not uncommon that companies bribe Amazon employees to look the other way or help committing these frauds. Some people told me that they even protect you from being downranked.

They created variations of their best selling products so their new selling products get on the same page as the old ones. You have to look twice at the review for which product it is at the bottom.

It is still fraud and should be punished, but fining this is like a police officer fining you for parking on a disability spot, while a murder is happening 20 feet away.
Wikipedia vs Brittanica
I used to think that too but it turned out Linux really is the only kernel with this property. I have written about this subject in more detail here:

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/linux/system-calls
My brother in christ, it's called a driverless metro. It has existed for decades and isn't even slightly like a google owned surveillance drone "accidentally" causing delays for ts competition.

Excommunicating humans from all public space and drawing a moat of monopoly owned robo taxis around every block and every destination isn't a utopia, it's a complete nightmare.
old.reddit is just more efficient on the screen. You can scan hundreds of articles in a fraction of time from the new.reddit.
> The fact that Germany decarbonised so much, so fast and so cheaply and without nuclear power appears to have made a lot of people very angry.

Decarbonised? They still have the worst CO2/KWh in Western Europe, and among the worst in Europe:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...

After literally decades of massive renewables investments and subsidies.
It’s an international terminal, so the plane jet bridges exit out to immigration, customs. I’m not sure if they can edit out into the airport, though I suppose it is probably possible since that’s how they are loaded. If used for international flights, there are simply not many narrow body planes to consider…Canada would be the only place close by, but they mostly do US immigration/customs in Canada via special arrangement.
It seems like a huge leap to use a violation of bilocal (not even local in general) causality as confirmation of even theoretical possibility of human FTL travel
Most of Poland's neighbors are situated around the same pond (the Baltic sea) with similar conditions. Winters are dark, and occasionally with little to no wind over the entire region.

Unless you somehow solved storage at a low enough price for it to be viable, we need nuclear or fossil fuels up here - biofuels won't be enough.
Those policepersons randomly waving hands and emitting incomprehensible shouts on Manhattan crossroads ... AI will replace openai CEO before it can handle that.
They are not unfalsifiable, just unprovable. Unfalsifiable means they can not be proven wrong even with additional data, whereas these we just can't prove nor denie with current data, but we could if we found more data.
My question is if old.reddit.com sunsets, will Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension look the same.
if it's being loaded at hypervisor layer via vfio-pci, then within the KVM VM it loads the nvidia binary blob, even if at the KVM layer it has kernel space privs, at the hypervisor layer it does not.
>Chatgpt is a stochastic word correlation machine

it seems humans might be too...?

my son is 4. when he was 2, I told him I love him. he clearly did not understand the concept or reciprocate.

I reinforced the word with actions that felt good: hugs, warmth, removing negative experience/emotion etc. Isn't that just associating words which align with certain "good inputs".

my son is 4 now and he gets it more, but still doesn't have a fully fleshed out understanding of the concept of "love" yet. He'll need to layer more language linked with experience to get a better "understanding".

LLMs have the language part, it seems that we'll link that with physical input/output + a reward system and ..... ? Intelligence/consciousness will emerge, maybe?

"but they don't _really_ feel" - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what does that even mean? if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
I was very disappointed that none of the agents I observed for a whole day got to do the most important "human behaviour"— sex, that is. Tragic
There was a great article on this last year: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
> The amount of events in such system isn't going to be too crazy, unless it's some massive enterprise with thousands of principals, I would imagine...

Right, but it's like... why take that liability in the first place when you have a rock solid and extensible DB like Postgres under the hood.

Why not take the CQRS (good idea), but not go as far as full-on Event Sourcing, and just make sure you keep an audit table log or even executed operation log?

IMO in practice almost on one actually goes back in time with Event Sourcing. Also there are so many things can bite you it just seems unnecessary.

I did some digging through the code, and I really wish they'd made a big DB interface and then made the event store an implementation of that. It looks like they did it the other way -- the default interface being the event store, and PG/CockroachDB being the underlying. It's a subtle difference but means a huge deal for actual swappability of backends.

https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/blob/main/internal/events...

I have to say, the code is also REALLY confusingly laid out. I just want to find the grpc/http handler that does like "create a user". I've been searching and clicking around for 10s of minutes -- maybe I don't read enough go.

> It also seems cockroachdb first, but I'm glad i can use postgres. One fewer database to deploy and manage, and for my use case (basically myself and occasional friends and family) that's perfectly fine.

I think of cockroachdb as basically postgres-with-stuff-bolted-on (albeit very good stuff, cockroach seems awesome), so I still consider it postgres-first! :)
Discussion link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649
Well then. You haven’t read the REAL version ;)

(The above has been light-hearted gesturing to a story about naming things, and does not constitute actual theology.

Please consult your local serious person for further commentary; suggestion not valid in all nation-states)
When my girlfriend at the time told me she doesn't like soup (any soup, of any kind) I knew it wouldn't work out.
Not automatic, but it already supports a measure of "how much" you depend on a project: boosting. You can boost dependencies up or down by up to a factor of 20 (e^3).

The formula is explained in https://thanks.dev/static/how.
Roll to disbelieve. There are only a handful of mentions of this string indexed by google, and all of them trace back to this imgur screenshot. This imgur screenshot is basically a pastebin: it has no attribution or metadata. It also misspells HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, by replacing underscores with spaces.

I'm sure nvidia collects telemetry, and I would not be surprised at all if that telemetry identified who's running language models and which ones they're running. But this isn't what a real notice of that fact would look like.
The image is quite bitcrushed, so the underscores are probably missing due to sampling error. Notice how on the same baseline there’s a missing period.

But it’s a fishy image regardless.
Espresso machines are the same way. I worked for years at my steaming on a cheap machine, never quite getting it right. Then I get a La Marzocco and steaming is easy, barely any technique to it. Kind of demoralizing. Guitar tone is the same, at least for overdriven guitar, and still to some extent for clean.
Careful here. STEM definitely requires critical thinking, but crtical thinking is not just 'formal proofs', which is only useful when you're dealing with problems that are already obviously formalizable. This is not the case with the majority of problems in the humanities, e.g. history, literature, and large swathes of philosophy where data is qualitative.

Humanities majors are equipped with their own toolbox of concepts the same way STEM majors are equipped with theirs. For example, a philosophy major would learn important distinctions such as analytic/synthetic, extension/intension, descriptive/prescriptive, a priori/a posteriori, ontological/epistemological, type/token and so on. These are not concepts that you read once and remember and you've 'learned' them. It takes a lot of reading and writing and thinking and arguing over the course of years to grok. When done well, it can greatly illuminate a problem. Expressing the argument formally or in symbolic logic is usually a trivial exercise afterwards, the nature of philosophical inquiry puts the 'critical thinking' prior to the formal parts.

For example, consider the SEP article on Two-Dimensional Semantics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/two-dimensional-semantics...

The article is riddled with formal sections containing matrices and symbolic logic. But these are not the argument itself, and the people who came up with this framework did not arrive at this analytically through formal proofs. Rather, the formal aspects are only used to aid the intuition and remove ambiguity for readers. The bulk of the thinking requires creative and precise conceptual analysis that borrows and reinterprets a variety of well-trodden ideas in other areas of philosophy.

The more sociological and cultural departments of humanities probably have their own set of skills that are considered their versions of critical thinking. I imagine in cultural theory, one probably needs to know several interpretations of history to analyze their problems, since that fields literally deals with how historical baggage muddies the way we even define said problems to begin with. A STEM education, in a vacuum, is not going to be equipped with those tools. Why would they be? To think critically about cultural theory requires understanding facts that are embedded in its subject specific concepts. My ability to work through proofs in discrete mathematics is not going to be helpful here. But my ability to analyze history through say, systems of power is probably going to be necessary. That kind of thinking is missing from STEM, and trivially so -- it literally has nothing to do with STEM.

That is not a failure or criticism of STEM. That would be akin to criticizing English Lit departments for not engaging with math. But (and this is often the context "critical thinking" as a boon that the humanities offers is brought up) being able to recognize a politician's actions as bullshit is going to require more than just 'formal proof' -- it's going to require an ability to sort through social, historical, qualitative, ethical, and philosophical landmines. That ability is critical thinking.
This is why IQ tests switched to Raven’s progressive matrices [1] a long time ago. RPM avoids these issues of cultural bias.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven's_Progressive_Matrices?w...
> Much admiration for your stance on giving back.

Thanks for the kind words -- I do have to make it real, and make sustainable profit first before my aims mean anything, but at least I think I'm pointing in the right direction.

> Much confusion that this domain isn't for the Nimbus weather station.
> Ah, the cloud! Is there anything it can't do?

Well looks like there might be a name change in the future... That might be a legitimate confusion point.

TIL of the nimbus weather station: https://www.rainbird.com/golf/nimbusii

It's like a Bloomberg Terminal for weather...?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
The pipeline doesn't really have to be task/domain specific.
How is that different? In the first case call the 1% cohort of users in that experiment treatment "Foo". In second, call them "admins". In either case, if the user is in some group, grant them access?
My thoughts exactly. As we move in this direction, it's worth building the moral framework to answer the question -- if we can create consciousness, or something quite like it -- is it ethical to do so?

And on the flip side -- when we live in a world where instantiating a consciousness is cheap-or-free -- does that change how we value sentient beings generally?
Electrical issues on cars are the absolute most maddening things to diagnose and fix. I’ve restored several cars and worked on every car I own and the one thing I loathe to do is figure out an electrical failure. Even in older cars, it’s a pain in the ass.

I have an 89 e30 and one time the dash cluster started acting up. Essentially the tach and speedo weren’t responding (they’re not cable driven). Took out the cluster, checked all the connections, checked the wiring diagram to see if there were any potential grounding points I might want to consider. Nothing.

Finally called a local bimmer indie shop and asked them what they thought and they directed me to the small reverse light switch wire that feeds down through the shifter hole into the transmission tunnel. Apparently it often rubs against the body and becomes shorted. I looked and sure enough it was bare. Patched it and all was well.

This wire, mind you, is not at all on the dash cluster circuit. There’s no reverse indicator light on the cluster or anything like that. I would have never had any reason to suspect it was the problem. This is the nature of automobile electrical issues.
> These agents don't eat because they need to, they eat because literary tradition suggests they ought to.

Exactly, you're always going to get weird deviations from authentic human behavior if you don't also simulate the human body and everything that comes with it. I'd argue that "qualia" fall into this bucket as well.
I am no academic of any kind, but it strikes me as arrogant to quote that text and claim it to be drivel, while nodding in agreement to

“Word embeddings utilize neural networks to create high-dimensional vector representations of words [..]”

I had to look up ontological choreography and it‘s just a concept, not unlike the weird jargon in CS. Is there at least a tiny speck of a sliver of possibility that we lack actual perspective and competency in these fields?
But it can’t NOT be infinite! If space were three dimensionally finite, then there must be a boundary. But if there were a boundary, then there must be something beyond that boundary. And now we have a paradox that infinitely regresses. Same goes for time. Same goes for distance. How can there be both a finite distance, as well as an infinite number of points between two distinct points? To me, infinity seems to be everywhere I look
> Even OJ managed to figure it out: verdict, then books.

As a thought experiment, let's begin with the assumption that OJ didn't kill Nicole Brown or Ron Goldman. If he really didn't do it, if he was innocent of the murders, how much would it fuck with him to have that prosecution against him? How much would it fuck with anyone to have that level of national vitriol?

_If_ he hadn't committed the murders but folks generally assumed he was guilty, it seems likely that it would mess him up. He could blame the prosecutors, blame the news media, blame the victims (that he didn't kill), blame society at large.

_If_ he hadn't committed the murders but folks generally assumed he was guilty, does it follow that he might make dark jokes about the murders, try to capitalize whatever he could financially from the murders, and generally engage in behaviors that seem reprehensible to the general society?

I'm not arguing that he's innocent -- but a false accusation can destroy anyone's life, so I'm arguing we shouldn't assume later behavior is evidence of guilt.
Open-source AI is having a moment – and a red-hot debate
This isn't a new idea. It's been kicking around for some time (at least two decades), rather hard to prove/disprove since there's no currently known mechanism, even theoretical, for observing what might have happened befoee the big bang.
This finally feels like a solution to a problem we all knew we had.
Heh Heh Heh

A bulk purchase of ~60 FDR IB cards, cabling, and network switches to support them sounds pretty expensive.

That being said, IB FDR gear is "older tech" now so the cards and switches can commonly be found reasonably cheaply on Ebay. The switches tend to be bloody loud though, so they're not something you'd want nearby if you can help it.
Yes I saw some youtube interviews or presentations from two who separately had access to the full raw GPT-4 and both said that in their opinion it had essentially human level emergent intelligence, smarter than humans in some ways but maybe less capable in other ways when it's not run in a loop. One was the Microsoft employee who integrated it into Bing, and the other was the head of some company partnered with OpenAI to make applications and who they brought onto their Red Team. Both seemed like reasonable guys. It would be hard to call them weirdos like some called Blake Lemoine.
I find the type of person that is into Sun Tzu is a fairly narrow demographic. I don't know why that it is.
Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?
We are looking various ways to reduce the delay, I am confident we can reduce the latency.