skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large shareholders were moved to equity upon purchase.

In other words..the Saudi you are referencing was a large shareholder of the “Old Twitter”.

That’s along the lines of “how much did Russia fund Facebook”

VTB (sanctioned bank) funded Facebook in the tune of $1bn. It also funded Twitter in 2011 for $191m.
The answer is as large as you can afford, really. Future more unoptimized models are only going to be more hungry for RAM.
It is not generally available though?
yes, it's planned. I believe the only blocker we saw last time we looked was a 1-hour downtime-window every week (not that always went offline, but that they could use that time for maintenance). Do you know if that's still the case?
fair question. i haven't looked at the picture to closely.

how about if someone recognized the phto as coming from playboy and making a remark about that and some men laugh about it. a women knowing why they are laughing could feel uncomfortable about that.
If you could find a way to run your functionality on Azure, it would open a lot of doors to well-paying potential customers. Microsoft is now offering OpenAI models on Azure, with the value proposition being "we offer SLA" and "complies with your data protection policies", which alone turns it into something you can actually use in a large company, as opposed to OpenAI's offering.
How do you even block one organization from accessing your RSS feeds or your homepage HTML while allowing others to access it? How do you tell apart my requests and Twitter's requests if they both come from a residential IP or a common VPN?
In a way you do. Your ISP and your cell phone company know who you are and you aren't getting online without using one of them or finding a public wi-fi.
Plenty of crazies at Battle Mountain [0]. Not been, but it's on the bucket list.

[0] http://www.ihpva.org/whpsc/#:~:text=The%20World%20Human%20Po....
After meeting with and supporting someone who has committed crimes against humanity, this should come at no surprise to anyone, as reflected in the pole.

Still, we need to work with China to have amicable as possible relations, i.e. Managed Strategic Competition. This is how Cold War 1 was one by the West and hopefully how the second one will be as well.
The point is it is irrelevant for this discussion.
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and using only the most current one. Policies get updated over time and that's okay. It's a good thing for organizations to change their mind, update and improve policies.

The thing is here it's dumb no matter what version of the policy you look at lmao
I disagree. Humans are still human, full of problems of our own making. While the singularity promises to make more and more labor irrelevant (especially most forms of knowledge work), we are still responsible for our own future. Those who understand how things work will be at an advantage over those who give up their agency because AI is so smart that they deem human thought irrelevant.
Back in the 1980s I was utterly inspired by Steve Roberts and his bicycle and machines. I so wanted to find a way to buy a Radio Shack Model 100 in the UK. Seeing the BEHEMOTH in the Computer History Museum was an incredibly moving moment for me.

Oh, and I kept the copy of Mondo 2000 where there was an article about him because the combination of him riding that crazy computer-laded bike and the whole Mondo 2000 aesthetic made me think something special was happening. The particular issue had this plus Richard Stallman, Brian Eno, Timothy Leary and William Burroughs. And Joichi Ito.
I'd just like for someone to tell me where the next "reckuhd sale" will be.
The assistant would have gone through the documents manually and that’s very much a $50k/yr task
I said it was fair as someone coming blind, but you came to a show hn and didn't read the post, had a problem with something you didn't understand and then complained about it. You may find some benefit in reading docs when having problems with tools.

I have nothing to do with phind by the way.

> gray-on-cream text on a page I may not see until after I've tried it.

I'm on board with complaints about hns terrible accessibility.
Social media purposely targets kids knowing that the vast majority of parents are technically incapable of cutting their kids off.
"Note that JSON pointers can contain the NUL (Unicode U+0000)
character. Care is needed not to misinterpret this character in
programming languages that use NUL to mark the end of a string."

What could possibly go wrong?
It is unfortunate that the news would have been too close to the election, so I have some understanding why some news organizations handled the story they did.

I liken this to the Google, and other tech companies, interviewing process. It is better to miss out on a good hire, than hire (or elect) someone that was a false positive for good. So based on reasonable doubt or suspicion, a story like this should cause anyone connected to be considered not a good choice for government employment anywhere since it could cause the US to be taken advantage of by any relevant other countries.
I wonder if the visible white patch around Zuckerberg's eyes in the main photo are genuinely because he's been wearing a VR headset for 12 hours a day testing the metaverse or if they added it in Photoshop to make it look like he had.
It looks like you are using the bing api to search the web and then somehow integrate the result into the answer. Will do more digging ;)

Cool project and it seems like you and your team have working on it long before the hype began.
if its a mathematical formula, a comment would do it, too
> The A.C.L.U.’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology project sent me a statement that said the Utah bill and many like it around the country would “restrict the ability of teenagers to explore and make up their own minds about everything..."

Does the ACLU realize they are walking right into a trap? Is their position really going to be that parents don't have the right to parent their kids? This is not a position you will ever convince mom's to agree to. And I think we all know who has been swinging elections lately.

There has been a very strange desire by some to get direct access to kids and to influence them without parental approval or supervision. And here the ACLU is putting into broad daylight this idea that kids have complete agency. They do not.

For the entire history of parenting, parents have tried to control what their kids are exposed to and most importantly, who they are exposed to. You know, the whole "bad influences" thing? And although I personally believe overprotecting kids is ultimately bad for them and that reality is something they need to understand, I respect that other parents may have different limits.
This is fantastic, congratulations!
I tried it on some AWS related issues I was googling at work and it gave me the correct answers right away.
I hope you can find a reasonable way to monetise. Kagi search was not enough of a value add to me to be worth 9$ per month. But I'd happily pay for usage based pricing for a specialised tool like this.
Yeah, this sounds like a great business opportunity.

1. Allow creating customized chat bots by uploading some conversations. Hope people find this fun and you go viral.

2. Sell the data to highest bidder.

3. Sell product placements.
"AGI risk from codegen"?? I think it is as ridiculously overblown as the prophecy that the Y2K bug would cause social collapse. GPT-4 simply recycles web search results and is trained with language models to format the results more helpfully, saving you time having to wade through 1000's of answers.

For codegen, the results will always be only superficially useful. If AI could write code for us going forwards, it would imply there is a sufficient corpus of existing code from which to write remaining software. This is an astronomical miscalculation that fails to comprehend the vast complexity of program variations.

How sufficient is the existing body of code, compared to the code we might possibly choose to write? We can enumerate programs as tuples of sets of input,output pairs. So one program might produce 1 when you feed it 0, ie ((0,1)). Another might be represented as ((0,1),(123,456)) and so on. How many possible programs are there that transform trivial datatypes like single ASCII characters? It's the powerset 2**128. How many possible programs involve character pairs? 2**16384. These are numbers that make all the programs written to date look infinitesimal.

AI writing our code for us? AI a system that recycles our existing ridiculously tiny body of software to extrapolate what we might want to write, is not at all in the realm of possibility for what we are calling AI. GPT-4, as great as it is, is Google 2.0. That's it. The claims of 'AI writing my app' are just click bait.
With the peak load being about 10x the still load, the dedicated servers should cost 10% of the cloud version.

We'd likely have to have some reserve just in case our marketing and product do so well that the next peak of the load rises higher in absolute terms.
The error message implies that the compiled default libraries on the M1 don't support the model format, even though it works fine in Paperspace.

The argument `trust_remote_code` is to be used with Auto classes. It has no effect here and is ignored.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/fragmede/projects/llm/dolly/foo.py", line 5, in <module>
instruct_pipeline = pipeline(
^^^^^^^^^
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py", line 776, in pipeline
framework, model = infer_framework_load_model(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/base.py", line 271, in infer_framework_load_model
raise ValueError(f"Could not load model {model} with any of the following classes: {class_tuple}.")
ValueError: Could not load model databricks/dolly-v2-12b with any of the following classes: (<class 'transformers.models.auto.modeling_auto.AutoModelForCausalLM'>, <class 'transformers.models.gpt_neox.modeling_gpt_neox.GPTNeoXForCausalLM'>).
I'm sorry but what are you referring as better than google?
That's a bit simplistic. Fiat currency "works" by being backed by a state, implying that the state will work to protect the fiat currency's value, be that through fiscally responsible governing and/or the use of force to protect its interests. For states which can not guarantee that, the currency tends to rapidly lose its purchase power.

When I mentioned the societal nature of crypto, I meant something different. People who hold crypto have a vested interest in the wider adoption of crypto, and they often tend to become vocal proponents of crypto projects. I don't even claim bad intentions – I believe there is some psychological effect at play here that causes people to hold opinions that serve their interests, and becoming a crypto holder means that from that moment on, the spread of crypto is in one's interests.

Now, my point was, that perhaps I overlooked this sociopsychological aspect of crypto. If enough people in power are personally invested in crypto, and they use their power to advance crypto adoption because it personally benefits them, then at some point it doesn't matter whether there's any intrinsic value in crypto or not – it becomes a self-reinforcing system.
Why do you think Sheryl left?
> Cool. How about brain surgery? Clarification: how about brain lobotomies?

Many of the indications for open heart surgery are no longer valid or standard of care today, replaced with either vascular access or medical management... and brain surgery is a more fair comparison then a specific procedure (open heart surgery is not a single procedure either), for which plenty of lives have been improved.

Which by the way, lobotomies (temporal lobectomies, but a rose by any other name) are still an accepted treatment for epilepsy. Sidebar: Frontal lobotomies were not without controversy over their well known effects even when they were contemporary.

Neither is "clearly" good nor harmful. I never sought to engage in this black and white thinking.

And to my original point it is completely obvious to me and many in my field why it is beneficial that we should be researching alternative treatments to epilepsy other than lobectomies (which doesn't feel like the final word on epilepsy, as helpful as they have been for some), and this goes for a whole host of neurological and psychiatric treatments in general. Unfortunately the technology hasn't gotten us there yet - that doesn't mean it isn't obvious to me why work in these areas would be net beneficial. And some of those ideas are not going to pan out in the long run, no shit.
This is the limitations of technological progress, not some issue of vision.

I don't think the metaverse is comparable as no one has ever explained to me how, let alone Meta, how it is not Second Life with more bells and whistles.

> The fact is, everyone only obviously knows an idea was crap or obvious in hindsight.

Well I have plenty of hindsight for all that shit.
Where are self driving cars in your mind?

Save for tax cheats (even though the laws are clear) and speculators, crypto just doesn't provide that much value. There are some neat use cases but they are just that.

The "metaverse" stuff... I don't think it was a bad bet to buy up Occulus, they still haven't found a great nail for that hammer but pivoting the entire company seems questionable. There is so much toxicity on the internet, why would you want to be "immersed" in it?

I'm not anti-generative AI, I don't want to sound that way but Zuck and company have some interesting data on large scale systems with giant amounts of data and information, they certainly have invested in it too. Maybe it's wasn't "luck" so much as they might have some intuitions about the negatives uses of the technology. It's seriously cool stuff but I think we're still collectively in the honey-moon period. I do forecast a world where we will need to exponentially strengthen our BS meters.
Counterpoint: for some years we had clients who happily lived on cheap as fuck plans but requested more at the anticipated calendar events (NY and the like).

Most of the time we just removed GHz limits, sometimes adding vCPUs in advance, they fared well.

NB: IaaS provider with a guarenteered resources
Breakthrough may well be among the recent reformulations into supervised, offline RL and related techniques.
Of special interest, the decision transformer and the very emerging litterature on diffusion planning.
That seems like moving goalposts.

An org that primarily sells media (PBS or Twitter) should live by what its primary revenue source is for that media, because it colors the media that goes out the door.

Further, are the bulk of twitter's profits derived from concessions on a lease ? I don't think so, but I'm open minded.

An org that does not sell media, but physical goods (i.e. Tesla) is arguably selling cars, not media.
>This is only true if you believe that the purpose of punishment is rehabilitation

I'm not sure what you mean by this - the purpose of all functions for dealing with crime (which may be called punishment) in civilized society is, in no particular order: 1. To protect people, e.g. by physical separation, 2. To rehabilitate, and 3. To deter (and, unfortunately in many cases, 4. To provide the basic human need to see the wicked punished).

>Depending on how severe the punishments it absolutely can affect crime rates.

That's an understatement! I only said it was true that some studies show punishment is ineffective, and that punishment "might not have an appreciable effect on certain crimes in certain contexts."

>This is a very simple problem to solve. Remove the people from the streets.

I think we should be able to agree that justice is complex in practice, and "remove the people from the streets" is leaving quite a lot unsaid. Maybe you meant that the problem statement is simple, which it is: "SF laws and/or enforcement are failing to keep people safe".

>Do you think if we rounded up all the criminals and put them in jail, the crime wouldn't decline?

This is unrealistic even in cities where enforcement is healthy, but even going along with the hypothetical: The topic was punishment as a deterrent. I.e. how well does the punishment of those people prevent them from doing it again once released, or prevent new people from doing it. Obviously regardless of the answer to that question, we need to separate from the rest of society those people committing violence, menacing, public drug-use, public defecation, etc (how best to keep them separated and rehabilitate/help them if possible is another obvious topic, but not one in the scope of my comments).

My original post was not a defense of SF - it was a criticism of another post that I think was written in a way that damages the conversation. Most of what I've written here is an attempt to clarify my post in light of your interpretation, rather than providing new information. Maybe this is my fault - but I also think you might be making assumptions about the specifics and degrees of my opinion, which is frankly the common thread of dysfunctional conversations everywhere, especially on topics poisoned by politics.
Seconded. Start here, and pause whenever you realize there is something that you need to learn in order to follow. Learn that and keep going.
Agreed that LLMs, etc., will game development _cheaper_ by requiring less labor. It seems like software development in particular is will be getting a lot of powerful new tools over the next few years.

> Video game NPCs will very quickly be replaced by LLms. No more boring scripted dialogue.

I'm skeptical that this is what the users want. Sure, it would be nice to have, say, less repetitive background chatter in Skyrim. But, human-scripted dialog is intentional, which is at the core of a lot of gaming. Take that away and you end up with the early versions of No Man's Sky, where yes, there's an infinity of different variations to explore. But it wasn't what users actually wanted; they wanted a designed experience.
> any engineer worth their salt

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Rule #0:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
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The comments in this thread baffles me, because I thought the Metaverse was doomed from the start, and I think the disconnect is many people believe in the "great man theory."

Mark Zuckerberg didn't create social media: he rode the social media wave. He was the best-positioned competitor, which counts for a lot, but the other conditions had to be there first.

Some seem to think he willed social media into existence -- including himself -- which suggests he'd be able to will the Metaverse into existence too.

But no amount of investment or strategy will make a large fraction of the population want something.
That comparison makes very little sense. Meta Quest is the best selling VR unit, maybe you should compare it with the best selling console? Nintendo Switch has sold more than a 100 million units. Not to mention that Xbox games also run on Windows - and that has a market reach way above 20 million decices.

The same internal presentation that discusses this 20+ million number also mentions huge problems in retention. People don't use their Quest very much nor very long.

Overall usage numbers are abysmal, and it is a flop. One of the major reasons why it is a flop is that even the people who really want it and actually buy it don't really have anything interesting to use it for.

Legless Second Life is a very good representative of the flop that the metaverse is.

If the Meta pivot was going as fantastic as you say it is, Mark wouldn't be going ballistic on his own employees.
If you are going in this direction, please consider working on AI safety and alignment problems. Things like interpretability and corrigibility are keys to creating systems we can understand and "steer". Both are necessary if we hope to be able to use AI successfully. Success means safely and effectively (actually does what you expect/want).

Some resources:

- https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/chris-olah-interpret...

- https://www.fast.ai/ (haven't used it, but heard good things)

- https://www.agisafetyfundamentals.com/ai-alignment-curriculu...
I've seen lots of examples of interpreting sign language, but not general/customizable gestures. Should be very doable though!
are you really telling me, that after humanity somewhat x100 times productivity improvement over the last 10,000 years, in one of the "richest" countries in the world, the richest 1-4% within that rich country (top 0.1-0.4% in the world, very roughly) can't take a couple years off from work because they can't afford it?

What's wrong with this picture?
> Interestingly AI will paint a new world for humans to learn and experience new situations more often, more easily on a broader spectrum.

This is ignoring the instinct built over generations that humans don't want to "experience a new world", they want to explore it with other humans.

We are social animals. Facebook is so successful because it started out as a way to connect more with people you already knew or were acquainted with.

The "metaverse" and all its AI-generated worlds add little to no value in that direction. Wake me up when the metaverse makes it trivial to host a garden party and cook for the 5-10 attendees.
You're damn right children can't consent to anything! That is exactly the point! Which is why the parents are the ones in charge, and why it's alarming that for irreversible sterilizing and life-altering procedures they're trying to remove the parents.

It's insane, as you very well put it. They can't get a tattoo, too permanent, but they can get their tits chopped off. Makes total sense, yeah.
On a great interview question
Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question. Moreover, this question happened to be on the banned list at Google, because it was publicly available on Glassdoor and other interview websites, but I continued to use it because I got good signal from the candidates.
In software we call this a “micro-optimization”… Something that programmers waste a lot of time fussing with while ignoring the factors that dominate the overall performance. Fiddle with LinkedIn if you want, but understand that it probably won’t make a significant difference either way.
This article has the causality inverted.

The sparrows were just a sideshow to distract from the famines cause.

Most famines were caused by the culture of face and the nature of the party. The party dictated a plan, and as failing the plan and making the great leader loose face, ment the local governments loosing face would get them Maos wrath, all the members of the party reported success when it came to harvests.

So Mao collected the surplus and sold it to the soviet union, who he with his inferiority complex wanted to impress. After that, starvation raged, and he knew. They all know, but feign to not know, to keep face. Instead, superficial measures are taken.

Like hunting scapegoats, spreading crude conspiracy theories inside the country, or hunting harmless sparrows. Busy work to detract from the actual cause.
And nothing was learned from this, cultural change was avoided and now its time to go full circle.
> bullshit fractal

New one to me, love it. Synonymous with ideology, IMO — keep zooming in, the answers are there, we promise! Those who zoom out are lost!
I mean struggle sessions were a real thing. [1] Suppose it's hard to say that any particular person was forced into a struggle session for saying that killing sparrows was wrong, but they were absolutely a thing and mostly used to quell dissent and spread Maoism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session