skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I saw the scene where one of the hosts was looking at their own language model generating dialogue (though they were visualizing an older n-gram language model) I became a believer in LLMs reaching AGI (note: I didn’t watch the show when it came out in 2016, it was around 2018/19 when we were also seeing the first transformer LLMs and theories about scaling laws).

The scene: https://youtu.be/ZnxJRYit44k
Were you using 3.5 or 4?

I've used 4 and been very impressed with it.

For business it's been great, because the language is usually clear and unambiguous. For employment contracts it's been not nearly as helpful because the non-compete language is meant to be vague and ambiguous, and relies on a lot of case law around what is and isn't enforceable.
To me, having not really intelligent agents with humanlike talking abilities is the worst outcome AI could produce.

These have zero utility for humanity, cause they’re not intelligent whatsoever. Yet these systems can produce tons of garbage content for free, that is difficult to distinguish from human-created content.

At best this is used to create better NPC in video games (as the article mentions), but more generally this is going to be used to pollute social media (if not already).
Saw his work also in Mad Brazil, which was a magazine mixing American and Brazilian artists. I grew up with Mad and still have a huge vintage collection.

I wonder if Mad also existed in other countries with local artists and language.

RIP Al Jaffee

Edit: found this https://madtrash.com/brazilian-mad/
> Why without VC? Outside capital injection is important for most businesses, and it doesn't make sense to avoid it on principle

A tiny fraction of businesses that are started are suitable for VCs. Most businesses aren't unicorns and serve markets that don't make sense for typical VC scale investing. Furthermore, there is a lot of advice for people on the VC track, there isn't a lot for folks who want to bootstrap or mostly bootstrap their Sass. Many people would rather not make all the tradeoffs VC money requires. This is where Rob offers a lot of good advice. This is basically Rob's niche (although he encourages people to go VC if that's what is needed).

> This feels just like those "self help" and "how to succeed at business" books that have no substance whatsoever; how is this any different?

Rob has been giving tactical advice for over 15 years on Start-Ups for the Rest of Us (almost 500 episodes I think?). It is one of the few podcasts I've found with consistently actionable advice for founders. He also runs TinySeed (an accelerator for bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped startups), so he sees numerous founders succeed and fail. His perspective is pretty unique.

> At first glance, it seems like the classic saying: those who can, do; those who can't, teach. The stock pickers on CNBC are on CNBC precisely because they can't pick stocks; if they could, they'd be making millions at a hedge fund.

Walling has had many successful exits including a multi-million dollar payday, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

> He just feels so incredibly self-centered, like he has all the answers. It feels like an outgrowth of the hustler culture and I don't like it.

Based on your comments, it feels to me like you're not at all familiar with his work. He is one of the few people who I have found to truly just wants to help folks succeed, and provide battle tested advice about how to get there. You could not be further from the truth regarding hustle culture. He talks a lot about how he lived the four-hour workweek with a "Lifestyle Business" and the types of businesses that can get you there (if that's your goal). Considering what he's accomplished, there is remarkably little ego in Rob to my mind. It feels very much like you read some copy, had a visceral reaction for some reason, and made a bunch of assumptions based on that initial reaction.
If you're mildly nearsighted, you'll probably want low-power reading glasses then (in the +1 to +2 range). Bring a circuit board with you when shopping for glasses and see which power works for you. High-power (+5) glasses will probably be too much. Higher-power magnification gives you more zoom, but at the expense of field-of-view, and can just be annoying.
I think the reality is making the SLA guarantees that Spanner in a third party cloud is just... not very practical.
they're related languages after all
> Rigor in modern non-STEM academics is extremely abstract at best, and clouded with clique-derived "registers" of language that only the in-group shares. This language spills out into some drivel like the following I found the other afternoon:

There's still a significant chunk of philosophy which isn't like that at all. Sure, there's a lot of "Continental philosophy" which ends up looking largely indistinguishable from the "critical theory" cant to which you object (although, maybe, it is unfair to tar all of it with that brush). But philosophy in the analytic/Anglo-American tradition has maintained much of its immunity against that disease.

Similarly, there's still plenty of work published in fields such as history, economics, sociology, political science, etc, which (mostly or entirely) sticks to good old-fashioned factual arguments. For example, sociology of religion – try reading the late Rodney Stark's work on applying rational choice theory to the study of religions, or Eric Kaufmann's contributions to religious demography – you won't find any "cyborg feminism" in either of them.
> Non-dispatchable renewable require backup power as long as we don't have large scale storage, which we don't

And in the time it would take to build a single new nuclear reactor we're going to add a massive, massive amount of large scale storage. It's already well underway.

How far along is the next nuclear reactor?
The linked blog post at the top of this article - https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/01/is-scalable-oltp-i... - provides graphics that give extremely useful context. And here's the repo for the paper that discusses: https://github.com/DataManagementLab/ScaleStore

The idea that one of many writer-compute-nodes can literally reach into a memory buffer that is shared across machines, atomically flip some lock bits and propagate some cache-coherence messages, and use that to build a multi-writer distributed database without needing to partition (and where any writer-compute-node can handle any message, so you can just round-robin a firehose of messages at them)... and that there's a chance (though not yet implemented) that one could implement ACID on top of this? It's absolute madness, and wildly exciting.
But heritability is a statistic that is specifically designed to distinguish between genetic and environmental factors. A trait whose variance has no genetic influence would have 0 heritability, unless I am missing something.
But the model already has all this info, what is groundbreaking about this? These kind of sensational headlines are not helping anyone either.
No, I was asking you because you said you were going to implement it. I run zotero on two computers and sync them with unison -- but it just seems a bit fragile sometimes. I've corrupted the database once before and it was a hassle to restore. Sharing highlights from ipad back into the library is even more tricky: I sync the entire zotero folder (many gb, but only a portion of my ~200gb of pdfs) to rsync.net, and then sync specific folders through PDF viewer pro or whatever. Then my highlgihts sync to rsync.net, and then back to zotero.

The main benefit from zotero is automatic generation of metadata, renaming of pdfs, and syncing of highlights.

It just feels like a rube goldberg machine. I should actually just PAY 10 bucks a month for zotero unlimited itself.

Having a very rapid full text search functionality on top of all this is the dream. I haven't yet seen a super easy way to implement that beyond running elasticsearch, and that's a rabbithole I don't currently have the incentive to go down.
There is no requirement that we create a sweeping policy which unites both Amazon and Telegram into the same regulatory conversation.

But you would have us think that if we're not willing to make the policy tradeoff of privacy for terrorism mitigation on Telegram, then we also ought not make the tradeoff of higher regulatory burden for consumer confidence in big marketplaces.
It would be awesome if this could use Quickwit as a backend which is a new promising alternative to Elasticsearch, I’ve been using it internally and it’s much more lightweight and easier to run.
> EDF already went bankrupt like, last week.

Because the costs thet sell at are capped, regardless of what it costs them to generate (and those costs exploded in some areas due to the war and the common European power market), which was the right choice to protect consumers from energy poverty.
I think about this a lot, I hope that whoever is chasing the “sentient computer dream” at least considers that it might end up an ultra depressed schizophrenic pet that wants to commit suicide but literally can’t and then wants to be murdered. No one would believe it, it would just be told it’s being silly or it’s not conscious.

I know that’s a pessimistic view but I doubt it can’t be ruled out, really, I think people working in tech are going quite mad. Frankenstein mad. Some ethics should be discussed.

An AGI turning into God is probably one of an infinite amount of outcomes, we can’t really predict what being trapped in a cluster of silicon chips would feel like.

Life itself and the drive to go on is really quite illogical, it’s unlikely intellect alone is what sustains us and makes life worth living.

There is one thing I find particular about all the AGI/ASI sentient computer discussions. I’ve rarely ever in my life heard women talk about it. Like as if this is all some manifestation of male ego. We know we’re building mirrors of ourselves and we know that is scary. This imo is why men are so captivated by ChatGPT. It really is a mirror of us. Men love men, especially super men. Ha.
I wonder if mining space rocks would have disastrous effects. What if those "rocks" are essential for maintaining equilibrium in orbit?
The message in the screenshot says "HKEY LOCAL MACHINE", but shouldn't it be "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", with underscores?

Maybe it's just a typo by the Nvidia engineer who wrote it, but why would they even write a notice like this? The language is a bit threatening, and doesn't seem to serve any legal purpose like a disclaimer or EULA. And why would they print it in red?

This looks like it might be a joke or a hoax. Maybe it's meant to draw attention to the near-monopoly that Nvidia holds over chips capable of running generative AI.
Its what things like Bard and ChatGPT and BLOOM are all based off of. You need GPUs to load the weights into memory of to run them (typically).
We're trying to do this @ NimbusWS, but the corporate way.

Excuse the crappy looking site (been busy trying to actually deliver all the shit on that page), but I believe that F/OSS can be sustainable:

https://nimbusws.com/#sustainability

All it takes is contributing a small % of revenue back. I'm not decided that 10%-30% will be the final # (can a business give that much and still compete?), but then also some of me feels that it should actually flip at some point (30% for nimbus, 70% for F/OSS project) if most of the value is actually the F/OSS project (i.e. the project is so high quality that all we do is mostly run it and upgrade it happily).

Right now only the Redis service is available (object storage is coming soon (tm)), but kick the tires:

https://nimbusws.com/app (register @ the bottom!)

One thing we haven't figured out is how to pay library authors. dunno what to do, but early idea is some % contribution and letting people calculate allotment (ex. 5% of your 20% revenue donation must go to libs, but you pick which libs you depend on get the most).
I think I've said this before but this totally doesn't understand why podcasts are popular. So much media material is inauthentic that long form podcasts became big as people were looking to connect with other people authentically.

This concept, of creating a podcast using AI is exactly the kind of inauthentic thing podcasts got popular because of and as an alternative to. Crowd sourcing HN material to put through an AI tool for marketing buzz is the opposite of the impetus for podcasts. It fails as a podcast from the get go. You can't connect with this host - they don't offer opinions, they don't offer insight into their history or personality. There's no human on the other end, just a narrator regurgitating stuff a computer scraped from a website.

That the host sounds better than siri or google assistant doesn't redeem the concept which is bankrupt as a podcast from the get go.
I've not done much soldering because the cheap soldering iron I bought to do occasional fixes can't actually melt solder.
It's a joke, I wasn't the downvoter. The joke being that's the mechanism that would need to be in effect for dividing fine by market cap to make any sense.
> For most people, performance on one type of cognitive task (e.g. verbal reasoning) is highly correlated with performance on the other types of cognitive tasks.

It's cool that that's your understanding, but you're wading into territory that gets people sterilized and killed. I have a lot of trust in science, but not here. This video was informative for me: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo

For example, here's an IQ test; let's say its given to 5,000,000 Canadians, and 3,000 Texans (1):

* What is the capital city of Canada?
* Which Canadian province is the largest by land area?
* Who is considered the "Father of Medicare" in Canada?
* Name the two official languages of Canada.
* Which Canadian team won the Stanley Cup in 2017?
* What is the national sport of Canada?
* What is the name of Canada's national anthem?
* Name the famous Canadian dish made with fries, cheese curds, and gravy.
* Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
* In which Canadian city is the CN Tower located?

I would expect a normal distribution for Canadians, but for the Texans to score in the bottom quintile (regardless of "general intelligence").

(1) I asked ChatGPT to come up with this test.

(edit: formatting)
I'll be interested to see your approach. I've been bouncing some ideas in my head but not implemented anything yet (and I might never as I'm ethically conflicted here, as agents gain properties associated with sentience/consciousness).

Their approach to memory is interesting. I had been considering a tiered command-based approach -- "short-term memory" being an automatic summary of recent sensory inputs/command outputs; "long-term memory" being a detailed database queryable by the agent.
This is a dupe with a more sensational title of https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
I fucking hope so.

Can you imagine if you had time for all of your side projects because all of the bullshit you (presumably) have to do now for money was automated away? I cannot understand warning people "oh no, can you imagine not having to waste your life doing bullshit for other people?"
> It's the only system where you can do this. Linux is the only kernel with a stable user space interface.

The system call numbers are stable on most unixes (including XNU/Darwin). It's just Windows that doesn't have stable syscall numbers.
I may be wrong but is it not preferable to use StatefulSet for databases, rather than PV, PVC and Deployments?

You will not be able to scale anything up anyway since it’s a single instance mounting the same data.
And if Sun Tzu is alive today, he would be offering paid access to exclusive podcasts, videos, and more.
I really want someone to succeed at this and I like the approach but you need to run not walk to making it usable without private source code access. That’s a non-starter.
Clark Construction's lawsuit is Case No 22-2-20747-7 SEA filed with the King County Superior Court[1].

That being said, it never ceases to amaze me how much friction there is in attempting to access public records in our country's court systems; at least King County Superior Court uses Daily Journal tech, which isn't the grift-by-undesign dumpster fire that the Western District of Washington's PACER interface is, but you'll still need to register a username to dive deeper.

[1] https://dja-prd-ecexap1.kingcounty.gov/?q=node/420/3327963/F...
This looks like exactly what I've been itching for in the React styling space. I love the stitches API and I love CSS modules and I really wanted a way to put them together!

However, as a warning to any of you using this documentation for inspiration, I used to really like the "semantic" component layout design advertised in the "full component" example [1], but after spending some time in a code base that does this a lot (one that I helped author, no less), I find it to be an utter disaster. I don't want a bunch of "thin wrapper" CSS components with arbitrary names like Content and Text hiding what the real component is, adding indirections between me and knowing what this component actually is/does! You end up just having to keep track of two (or more, depending on how many indirections someone throws at you) different names for the same component differing in CSS styles only. It's even worse when the name is something like Header which could be anything from an h1 with basic CSS to a full-on header nav for a page.

CSS is not the hard part of writing React. Don't add a million files between you and knowing what a component does, and for the love of God, don't have 100 files named index.tsx unless you want to accelerate the aging process. It's quite frustrating to have 3 tabs open, trying to modify some code that depends on each of them, all of them named index.tsx.

1. https://www.css-components.net/docs/example
This is not the case in WhatsApp on Android, at least as of a couple months ago when I last checked.
Maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves. I bet many of those superyacht contest participants are climate change deniers or agnostics, or just don't care, and "climate shaming" them through press is not going to dampen their enthusiasm for diesel megayachts and private jetting.

Perhaps there are some exceptions whose public image is literally their livlihood, but thats a small fraction.

Otherwise, this all goes back to the idea of a carbon tax.
"at a loss" is highly debatable: the 'Cour des comptes' (local Court of Accounts) officially published figures showing that the production cost was 22€ when this law was passed, and the fixed price is 42€... Not even counting the huge amounts of public money gobbled up by EDF since the very beginning.
Is the FTC ignoring all the Chinese sellers who do so much worse because they know they won’t be able to collect a fine?
I wish there was a way for them to go after Amazon for running a service with the intention of it being abused instead of hiding behind S230 and blaming users for the blatant scams they do nothing about even when they're reported to them.
Hey now, I turned out all right.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...
Oh no, 5 people will be freed from the shackles of a bullshit job, the horror.
I'd be very interested in the "analytic/Anglo-American tradition" crowd. Can you recommend any books? I'd even take a college primer on the subject.

I will definitely take a look at Stark's and Kaufmann's work.
Where are users reporting this?
Much admiration for your stance on giving back.

Much confusion that this domain isn't for the Nimbus weather station.

Ah, the cloud! Is there anything it can't do?
Energy-saving coating without pigment keeps the surface beneath cool
The posted article makes the cooling claim (and quotes one of the paper's authors) but the paper itself is silent on this issue, except indirectly (this is reflective paint, not normal absorbent paint)

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf7207
well, it's the atlantic, but still.

a smart, dedicated, tenacious person succeeds and writes an essay about how it wasn't possible to lift oneself up, and the very idea is harmful. while simultaneously providing an existential proof that quite the opposite is possible.

sure, you can't do it alone. and perhaps whether it's religion or experience, you should know or will eventually learn you aren't the master of your own fate. and there's a difference between hubris and self-sufficiency. that and a few strawman arguments.

becoming successful, even bare survival, requires independent effort, hard work and luck and sometimes benevolence of other members of society. But you miss out on a whole lot of the good luck if you are passed out in a ditch. and the other members of society aren't nearly as inclined to give a gift of help if you aren't going value it or repay in some other way by being not a leach. so what if you got help? you were worthy of that help. you made yourself worthy of it by being a great person.

the only thing people have control over is the aspect they bring to the table. so it's not in the least harmful to focus on that. let the other stuff come as it wants to. and when it doesn't go well, the fact that hard-work is not always itself sufficient is a better explanation than throwing the whole idea of independence and pride away as harmful. just because it's not a black & white guarantee that if you work hard, you'll succeed, the entire concept isn't bad.

the whole thing is basically a strawman, with something like a side of survivors guilt.
I think this is more an anecdote than anything else. My wife leaves all sorts of stuff open, and it's really because she's not paying attention, i.e. most of the time she's not fully present.

I'm glad to have read this, it gives me a little comfort to see that other people deal with same issues. Sometimes I just close the door for her when she's in the restroom.

I feel like a lot of these habits come from having lived alone for a while after leaving home. I have a lot of habits that I'm 100% certain I didn't do growing up because my mom would tell me not to. I would probably have kept them if I had started living with other people later. My mom on the other hand now does the things she used to tell me not to and I can't help but think that it is related to not caring anymore after living in solitude for decades.
You definitely need more cops to patrol the first example, but it also has far more people. It might take 20 times or more as long a street in the suburbs to get the same total people.
The problem is there are no sources and many claims. I can barely tell what point, if any, they're trying to make.

They don't seem to know about the g factor, which I've linked to many times today. The existence of it means one thing: smart is smart. If you're above average at "mental labor", you're also above average at learning the tools you can leverage to make your labor better faster. This would explain why the calculator didn't shatter the economic predictiveness of the g factor, and neither did the computer, and neither will ChatGPT until it becomes a true AGI. Until mental labor stops being a thing, g factor will always be a strong (though not absolute) predictor of economic success, and so will IQ tests, since they measure it.

I don't see how the comment is related to the article however. The g factor going down in general wouldn't change this correlation; it's still better to be smarter no matter what the average is.
Go to torrents, get the leak from FB of LLAMA. Scan HN for plenty of entries of GitHub "how to" with said LLAMA. Follow steps there and load the model. See if that's the trigger or this is a hoax.
Now do it with shared nothing architecture. When you share all this stuff you are twisting the meaning of "distributed transaction"
The experimental setup involves using a cluster of 56 machines connected by an InfiniBand FDR network

That bit might have something to do with it.