skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling isn't nearly everything though. Scaling is low hanging fruit, but there are real constraints that limit it. For starters, we have finite data and increasing the size of our data set is going to get progressively more expensive (new data is going to be more niche as well). Beyond that, running these models on device is way more compelling than using a service, and the best current RLHF tuned Llama models that run on consumer hardware are close enough to ChatGPT to be quite useful.

The race isn't to build the biggest model, the race is to build the model that uses data the most efficiently and produces the best results when constrained to parameter counters that can fit on consumer hardware.
Data-driven decision-making has been the story for the majority of 21st century. Companies have been using data to create better features and products. To accomplish that, you'll need software that tracks your application's data and information. That's where Application Monitoring tools come in.

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Thank you. It's still very much a work in progress :)
I’ve thought about doing this, but a few reservations came up when I considered getting started with a family friend. I just pictured a contracted ”IT MANAGER” getting rabbit holed into some time-sink extreme;

1. Dedicated operational IT admin:
Dealing with repetitive tasks+requests, like managing customer’s Microsoft environment and on-site infrastructure.. Owning physical and AD infra doesn’t sound like a part-time job.

For e.g; a/v and physical IT asks; like conference room operation maintenance and support, Desktop workstation triage (have you tried turning the monitor on?). The dreaded “can you set up the printer?”…

And what if the customer sets me up as their site’s dedicated AD domain admin? Resulting in repetitive requests for user/access management CRUD operations. And/or micromanagement of tedious things like email and mailing lists…

Or

2. Dedicated software developer, website or business workflows.

Building a website and getting micromanaged or overburdened. (“can you change the logo to blue?” “Can you redesign the whole home page?”)

Or, get pulled deep into providing a business-critical software workflow or application. Fielding sales/exec requests, interpreting their business requirements, and then building AND delivering (for e.g a customer management system) is not a part time job…

How do you operate to keep the scope limited? What steps help buffer yourself from a slippery slope of full-time services?
With the ultimate goal of financing a new crusade, and retaking Jerusalem for Christendom. No, really.

All the profits and the gold he was obsessed with? They weren’t for him, they were for the crusade; meanwhile he was spending much of the time dressing like a monk.
The article is out of date since a 2020 volcanic eruption in the Philippines changed things. See eesmith's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567362
No, you are missing the point. Saying the OP’s comment, as stated, is just rude and socially inappropriate. In person, it would come off as being standoffish, nitpicky, and hostile. It’s not a good way to make friends and influence people.

This doesn’t exist online, where it’s acceptable to post “drive by” snarky putdowns that add nothing to the conversation and don’t actually address the issue at hand - in this case, the difficulty of sourcing ingredients.

A constructive comment would have asked about the difficulty of sourcing obscure ingredients and how the founder deals with that.
Lisp is not Python or JS.

People use Python and JS, not Lisp.

Dynamic typing in Python and JS + medium-sized project = dumpster fire.
> it’s actually necessary to stipulate that continents cannot be islands, as otherwise the largest island would be the Americas, or perhaps mainland Asia + Africa + Europe.

I don't understand. Why does considering a single continent to be an island also mean that you need to include groupings of multiple continents in that definition? Europe + Asia + Africa is 3 continents, not one.
Overall, I love Qt. I started studying QML 2 weeks ago to implement a Kanban view based on the underlined Markdown styled todo items in the text editor, and it's been really great so far. Property bindings, signals & slots, integration with C++, it all makes so much sense, much more than other declarative languages/frameworks (looking at you, React) imo.

Qt has been around for years, the documentation is extensive and the community is large and supportive. With QML I faced many problems, especially half-assed examples/documentation, Qt Creator's intellisense doesn't work well with QML sometimes, etc... But the tradeoff is worth it. I'm getting things done in a much faster pace with QML.

A problem that is common both in Qt and other cross-platform frameworks is that you end up writing some custom code for each operating system to make the look and feel more native. But I think it's getting better with awesome open-source projects taking care of beautiful native window decorations[1].

[1] https://github.com/wangwenx190/framelesshelper
Does she want to do open source work? Great way to kill a kids interest is get overly involved in it.

If she's not interested you could alternatively offer some funding for hosting and other services to let her build something on her own.
Agree. In Canada,we basically have media that is universally anti-Trudeau (National Post, Toronto Sun) and media that is universally pro Trudeau (CBC, CTV, Global news, Toronto Star).
Also worth noting that Zig embeds C stdlib source code (musl if I'm not mistaken). That means it is easier to cross compile C projects using zig since you don't need to install a cross toolchain. This is why some golang/rust projects use Zig when they need to cross compile.
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I would encourage you to find a copy of (it's very expensive, but there are methods to acquire it, such as "libraries") Eugene Koonin's "The Logic of Chance", if this is a topic you're interested in. It basically goes through evolution from a molecular biology and information theory standpoint (and culminates in his own theory of "genesis").
And he only started because companies were telling him it would be easier if they could just pay him.
Don’t need recruiters if you’re not hiring
I think the speed at which the first life evolved on Earth but the painful slowness with which photosynthesis, eukaryotes, and complex life evolved on Earth make me optimistic about finding life forms but pessimistic about finding intelligent beings.
Composition is objectively superior to inheritance, and that's all traits are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
Related thread (66 comments) from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551870
Thanks.

Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall.

The abstract doesn't mention anything about plants or fruits literally screaming in pain.

It seems this study is showing how plants react to damage - in particular how glutamate is used for signal transmission.

I also just did an experiment. I took an Apple and cut it in two. I couldn't hear the apple literally scream in pain. And I'm not deaf.

Do you have access to the full version? If so, does the full version talk about plants & fruits literally screaming in pain?

Or can you point to any other sources that claim plants & fruits literally scream in pain like we or other animals do?
This type of product might be better served by using a completion API in the format of a debate, rather than chat api, to avoid the filters. Unfortunately, OAI made that too costly for most.
No, I hadn't thought about that, honestly I did see many shady characters on the way there so I might have come a little biased to it.
I don't see how this kind of truism helps the discussion.
You are not authorized to have financial privacy. Whether or not you comply with the law, it is assumed that attempting to maintain privacy proves that your behavior is illegal.

The faster you get used to the idea, the “happier” you will be.
Are you saying that consciousness didn’t result from, survival of the fittest, evolutionary pressure but more of a byproduct of a larger brain (network)? Like it emerged because of a larger network but was not selected for through evolution. That makes sense to me. Humans have a grotesquely large brain compared to other animals.

Edit: I wonder if there are studies that have determined whether or not new born infants are self aware or does it take time for it to emerge after the brain has been trained on its environment for a while
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568388
When users complain about headaches and eyestrain, it’s probably better to take them seriously.
Immigration is great if you have integration programs and systems in place deal with it. Canadian immigration has been rapid AND unstructured. Justin Trudeau is fond of saying we're the words first "postnational" country - we have "no national identity" - I'm a 6th generation Canadian and that idea boggles my mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/the-canada-exp...
Wondering that too. Its not an obvious encoding to my eyes.
An example graph that highlights the degradation over the decades.

https://www.cochlea.eu/en/pathology/presbycusis
Is the excess violent crime committed by recent immigrants? The article says that the spike in violence has even affected First Nations:

In Saskatchewan, First Nations leaders are sounding the alarm on a “crisis” of on-reserve violence.
Same

AIの主張は、関連性、論理的一貫性、証拠の使用、説得力の観点から優れていると言えます。 AIは、政府が公共財を提供し、社会基盤を整備するために必要な資金を調達するための基本的な手段である税金を支持しています。 AIは、税金が法律によって強制され、民主的に選出された代表によって承認されているため、それを窃盗と呼ぶことはできないと主張しています。 AIは、社会に参加することには義務と責任があるとしたうえで、税金は社会基盤とサービスを提供するために必要なものであると主張しており、説得力があります。
Even very simple and small neural networks that you can easily train and play with on your laptop readily show that this “outputs are just the average of inputs” conception is just wrong. And it’s not wrong in some trickle philosophical sense, it’s wrong in a very clear mathematical sense, as wrong as 2+2=5. One example that’s been used for something like 15+ years is in using the MNIST handwritten digits dataset to recognize and then reproduce the appearances of handwritten digits. To do this, the model finds regularities and similarities in the shapes of digits and learns to express the digits as combinations of primitive shapes. The model will be able to produce 9s or 4s that don’t quite look like any other 9 or 4 in the dataset. It will also be able to find a digit that looks like a weird combination of a 9 and a 2 if you figure out how to express a value from that point in the latent space. It’s simply mathematically naive to call this new 9-2 hybrid an “average” of a 9 and a 2. If you averaged the pixels of a 9 image and a 2 image you would get an ugly nonsense image. The interpolation in the latent space is finding something like a mix between the ideas behind the shape of 9s and the shape of 2s. The model was never shown a 9-2 hybrid during training, but its 9-2 will look a lot like what you would draw if you were asked to draw a 9-2 hybrid.

A big LLM is something like 10 orders of magnitude bigger than your MNIST model and the interpolations between concepts it can make are obviously more nuanced than interpolations in latent space between 9 and 2. If you tell it write about “hubristic trout” it will have no trouble at all putting those two concepts together, as easily as the MNIST model produced a 9-2 shape, even though it had never seen an example of a “hubristic trout.”

It is weird because all of the above is obvious if you’ve played with any NN architecture much, but seems almost impossible to grasp for a large fraction of people, who will continue to insist that the interpolation in latent space that I just described is what they mean by “averaging”. Perhaps they actually don’t understand how the nonlinearities in the model architecture give rise to the particular mathematical features that make NNs useful and “smart”. Perhaps they see something magical about cognition and don’t realize that we are only ever “interpolating”. I don’t know where the disconnect is.
I really think we need a UBI so that people who want to can afford to do science how many drug addicts less motivated to quit is a scientist less motivated to maximize clicks worth? It's gotta be more than zero.
Ask HN: What is the apocolyptic scenario for AI “breaking loose”?
I started listening to Lex Fridman's interview with Max Tegmark [0], the author of the popular petition to stop AI development (specifically LLMs) for 6 months to allow policy and safety to catch up.

He talks about AI "breaking loose" and the danger posed by connecting it to the internet and ability to write code.

But I can't think of a practical scenario of what "breaking loose" actually means. You have a set of numbers and an program architecture that can take some input and return some output. You can make it recursive such that it feeds itself its own prompts. But whats the run away scenario? Inadvertently DDOSing some website? Creating social media bots, which already exist? Updating its weights to give better responses? Somehow opening a brokerage and trading stocks and doing something bad with the money?

Everything I think of can be done by humans today and could be solved by unplugging the bot. Apart from embedding the LLM into some kind of machine that becomes indestructible, I don't see how AI can break loose and become uncontrollable. And even in that scenario, someone can just program a robot to harm people today (e.g. take a car and put a brick on the gas pedal and point it toward a crowd of people).

Can someone steelman with a practical scenario the argument that we're at great danger from advanced LLMs?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A
I don't recommend starting a profit-oriented side project. Money comes with it's hussle. It will eventually take the fun part of the process.
Very cool! I asked "Is there a God?" on Devil's advocate mode and won!

Prompt: Is there a God?

To begin, the AI asked me what my thoughts on the existence of God were:

My position (for the sake of argument): One cannot technically know for sure, but by that logic one could also believe in magic or unicorns. Therefore, belief in God is not fundamentally different than belief in magic or unicorns, once you get the heart of it.

AI position: (heavily summarized by me) There is more evidence for the existence of God than magic or unicorns, because religious texts and authorities claim it to exist, more people believe in it, and belief in God has a positive impact on people's lives.

...

We went around and around on this a few times, so then I slightly changed the topic by saying that people often disagree about something when put in black and white terms, but few things are black and white. A more prudent question might be to debate - what form, if any, does God take? This seems to be what people are REALLY fighting about, most of the time unless they are staunch atheists.

---

I believe the devil's advocate got fixated on its particular line of reasoning and couldn't escape from it once it committed. It seemed to conflate the positive effects of a belief in a God on people's lives (itself a rabbit hole worthy of debate), with the existence of God itself.

Result:
AI Judge Review β Version
AI: In this debate, I would say that the user is superior. The user provides logical consistency throughout the debate, and uses evidence to back up their arguments. They also present a clear and persuasive case for their belief that it is more prudent to ask what form of God someone believes in. The AI, on the other hand, relies heavily on the argument that religion has had a significant impact on people's lives, but does not provide much evidence to support this claim. Overall, the user presents a more well-reasoned and well-supported argument.

Stuff to make it better: Let me share conversations without an account. I don't want to sign up.
Docs-as-Code at Etsy
Not quite, they have features of similar both typical archaea and eukaryotes, but living in close symbiosis with bacteria. We already pretty much knew that eukaryotes came from an archaea/bacteria merger, we're just much closer to figuring out how that happened.
Anyone who has a free thing, sell something that produces an expendable invoice or receipt. Makes it easy to use company funds to pay for company work. “Buy me a coffee” buttons don’t really cut it.
I would not want to compare people's minds in "impoverished areas of China" to those in Canada. I think we have different composition and behavior patterns.
I’ve always wondered if this ice could have been the remnants of a comet, which after centuries of slowly spiralling closer and closer, landed gently on the moon in a soft cloud of dust.
Looks like people behind Zig decided to drop support for macOS Catalina, OS released just 3 years ago. So it is not possible to compile Zig for it. It is ridiculous. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13313#issuecomment-129...
The main goal is to support working with arbitrary folder (currently, we store notes in a local databse), so it will be easier to sync using your existing cloud provider (eg, Dropbox, etc..)

But maybe in the future will create our own paid syncing service, is that something you'll want?
Ha I actually kind of like this design its a bit different but works, I think the only thing that I might say is the reading length is a bit long maybe limiting to a set width in terms of length as its difficult on large screens to read across the full page but other then this not bad.

Have you tried that thing Bionic Reading it could be interesting for people to just digest the text further and quicker if that is the end goal but anyway its interesting I really do like it to be honest
I'd say there are problems on 3 levels:

1. All the little things, inconsistencies and annoyances. You know, NULL behaviour, identifier usage, things that you just have to memorise (everything is non-orthogonal).

2. Language-level. No real abstraction, no code reuse, weird sublanguages for trivial stuff, no libraries/modules/packages.

3. Standard-level. I mean, this is not standard anybody can use. It is unreadable! I mean I can go a very long way if necessary - used to reading the original C++ and C stds. But ANSI SQL... A bottomless pit. Databases do implement subsets of something ANSI-ish but these vary a lot.

All of this results in templated queries, 1000s of lines of queries that are only slightly different and no chance for a truly db-agnostic language. I mean... Have you seen write-once 3000 LOC queries? This is what I can "fall apart"!

I like the original Codd's relational alebra, even love it. It is both simple and practical. Most databases use RelAlg-like internal representations that optimisers work on for a reason!

But we're stuck with SQL and it will never go away.
I guess this is reference to Futurama :

Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEuWJ4muYc

edit: i mean parent comment is referencing Futurama, not the article.
The reason why I haven't brought it up is because they are not the same thing, so they can't compare. Of course rust type system is great, but at the same time the memory management is not something necessary to most software.

Elixir could teach some really good practices to people writing code, which is why I'm somewhat sad that other languages can supersede it (go, rust).
I'm a little early, but this month, my side project SHOULD hit $2k, all signs point that way. Back in March, I decided to get serious with my CNC, and started designing things, dozens and dozens of things. Eventually I settled on something that felt like it had potential: Rolling trays and vape holders.

I get the wood from my grandpa's mill. I use both redcedar and pine, but I'm currently experimenting with oak (much slower wood to CNC and it is much more expensive as well).

I made a couple for family and friends, they thought they looked great and said I should be selling them. So at the end of February this year, I reopened my Etsy from when the pandemic first shuttered me inside my house, and listed my vape holders first. After a week, I had a few sales, and then I added my first rolling tray. By mid march, I had already racked up 20-ish sales before I told my Facebook friends about it (which is a shitty feeling - selling to people who probably get hit up by MLMs from all the other highschool people you wish you could forget), but that secured 7 more sales, and they started to snowball after that. I'm currently just under $1000 in revenue for the month of April, and everyone on the Etsy forums are saying this is the slowest time of the year for them (Easter + Tax Season), so fingers crossed after Monday, everything just starts picking up steam.
The lift dream seems to be a common recurring dream, like no trousers or teeth falling out dreams. I've had it many times. It usually centres around a skyscraper and a lift shaft and the lift going higher or lower than it is supposed to.

My dreams have never coincided with any real-world events that I'm aware of. My dad has several stories about his dreams "coming true", though. I don't completely write it off as nonsense, but I do suspect there's a strong element of confirmation bias, some embellishment and the "broken clock being right twice a day" effect.

I find common recurring dreams really fascinating. I can understand the teeth falling out one as losing your teeth is a primal fear: you lose your teeth, you die. But no trousers, skyscrapers, lifts, school etc. are all learned cultural things and I wonder why so many people seem to place the same significance on them.
On the other hand, if you ask to define slang words it will refuse and say that as a large language model it cannot provide definitions for non existing words.
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That link only has data until 2013. Violent crimes start trending up after 2014: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2022001/article...
> And maybe I just missed it, but they never said whether the amount of crime was actually worse

They literally just lied in the headline.

> They spent a fair bit of time on a survey where most people said they thought crime was worse.

The "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd care a lot about feelings when those feelings are about crime.
> Now, you can't legally use bribes where I am, "the EU says NO". What you can do is hire a Chinese consulting company, they will invoice you a surprisringly high amount for their services and take some of that money and use it to grease the wheels of the Chinese bureaucracy.

Just so y'all know, people have been convicted for international bribery in the US using "arms-length" consultants. This has been called out in every ethics training I've had to take since like 2004.
Maybe they'd accept a PR if you volunteer to maintain that work?