skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read about edgedb in the past https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql where they mainly changed the query language, underlying it still uses postgres. Though not sure how successful they've been.
It didn't help that no one could agree on what constituted 'tracking', and what activities should be skipped on receiving that header. This was supposed to be part of the DNT standardization process, but was too contentious.
I'm pretty sure there's more than mood going on here. Why is there not a "soda effect"?
Check the Forbes 30 under 30 list. They do a good job of identifying psychopaths.
The Tornado Cash situation is interesting to me because being treated as a money laundering facility seems like the most foreseeable risk here.

Did the people working on this really think they wouldn’t be smacked down hard for it (unjustifiably so, imo) by governments that want to keep money laundering the province of bankers in their favor, high powered corporate donors, and government agents?

It’s a big club, and we aren’t in it.
Here's a somewhat more convoluted example:

https://imgur.com/a/yhIGvho

The first image is what came out of the initial prompt. Then I tried to get it to improve things and to add animations; the second image is the end result (and yes, the sun is animated as described). Here's the complete chat log:

https://gist.github.com/int19h/18bb9d96b4d8418da2531513970d8...

It's obviously far from perfect, but the fact that it can do this much already - meaning that it understands broadly how the objects would relate to each other spatially for something like this - is already extremely impressive IMO, given that its training and inputs are entirely textual.
> I believe the only reason for Commercial Orgs are looking at ChatGPT is to eventually replace all support people with some kind of AI.

Support work is far from the only kind of human labor commercial orgs would like to automate if possible, and far from the only kind that AI could automate.
> Best you can get is “I promise you I deleted my copy and thus wont distribute it further”.

"Promise" as in committed somehow or wishful?
He always rebuked the "existentialist" moniker for that reason. Most would call him an absurdist for his insistence towards finding happiness amidst the absurd indifference of life towards ones aspirations.
It’s something regular people can see and touch and it does things, it’s probably first time most people have played with new technology.

But yea, I’m seriously concerned about the hype and the stupid things people immediately try to do with it. About others safety and intentions.

“I’ll just hook it up to my credit card and put it on the Internet…”
I’ve gone back and forth over the years on whether tests are a good enough replacement for types. A few thoughts:

- Types and tests find different bugs. I’ve found new bugs by converting a project from javascript to typescript. The project in question had a 2:1 test:code ratio but as soon as the typescript compiler could read it, it spotted a couple obvious errors.

- Large test suites often make refactoring harder, not easier. If you have a clear, fixed API boundary and your tests test that boundary, then testing helps. But most refactoring also involves changing up those APIs as well - since bad APIs are often the reason you want to refactor in the first place. When you do that, you have to also rewrite all your tests. Good type systems help refactoring. Writing rust in Intellij, I can globally rename functions and types in my project, promote tuples to structs, reorder function arguments, and all sorts of other handy refactorings. My tests get updated too. And the compiler tells me immediately if I missed anything, without needing to rerun my tests.

- Reading the types is my favourite way to get up to speed on a project, or get back up to speed on something I wrote myself that I’ve forgotten. "Show me your flowchart (code) and conceal your tables (type definitions), and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)

- I find I need far fewer tests to write reliable software when I’m using a language with a good type system. Most rust code I write works correctly once it compiles. Javascript is easier to write than typescript, but it’s harder to test and debug.

So with all that, I’m personally in camp type these days for most software. I think it’s usually the right choice.
One of the things I look at when doing tech DD on companies is whether or not there is exfiltration detection in place. The typical answer is 'what?'. Rarely does the counterparty know what it even is and even more rare that they have it set up.
I’m a touch typist and don’t find that argument valid either for vi or emacs. And I’ve used emacs for over 30 years now and still do use vi occasionally on production servers where I’m not going to load my full emacs config just for sys admin work.
> Also, don't take what I wrote to be "No one could have predicted this" but rather someone teleported in time would be just amazed about these aspects of ubiquitous information retrieval.

The interesting thing is if you move that window just a couple of years forward to about 1995 and just after I'd seen Windows 95 and AOL and multimedia CD ROMs, I don't think nine year old me would have been amazed by the 28 years of difference at all. Bigger, faster, everyone uses the internet instead of brochures and often instead of TV... all of this seems obvious and this "social media" thing everyone in the future is obsessed with sounds a lot like the description of Usenet in the 1995 how to use the internet book. People use it for work, but why wouldn't they? (nine year old me didn't have a particularly sophisticated idea of work, but he was used to Dad having a home office and knew that was why he bought the new computer). The basic form was nailed early on, it just took time for the user base and infrastructure to catch up.

Smartphones are cooler, I guess. The tech's less cool without understanding the innovations in capacitive touchscreens and just seeing it as a neat hybrid of phone/console/PDA, but even with cellphones already being a thing, there are a lot of nineties plots revolving around the assumption that person A and person B wouldn't communicate whilst on the move, never mind look up information to solve their problems.
Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics
You aren't selling it to your neighbor. You are selling it to the power company who is then selling it to your neighbor.

If the power company had the option, their strong preference would be to buy from a generator 500 miles away for 5-10% the cost.

Your neighborhood needs to be connected to the grid because of weather and winter, So the infrastructure needs are fixed. Rooftop solar doesn't help reduce this need for infrastructure.

Once they are built, PGE would rather use them to buy from the cheapest generator possible than let transmission sit idle and pay 20x more for a local rooftop generator. Sourcing expensive power locally when available doesnt save PGE or the neighbor anything. It is purely a financial waste for both of them.
recently put effort into improving my emacs environment and i love it more than ever. great things that were new to me: wgrep, native compilation, rg-mode, dir-locals, straight.el. Not new to me, but lsp and magit are still fast and intuitive. After the initial push, i haven’t had to give it much thought. To be fair, yaml-mode is still the pits.
The other month I was on a 3-4 day train trip from Brisbane to Adelaide. I wouldn't describe the track sounds as soothing - struggled to sleep the first night, and wasn't much better the next. It's not overly quiet and you get jolted around a fair bit when travelling at speed. Maybe if the extreme parts of the soundscape were moderated a bit though.

The other night my wife was using a soundscape to get to sleep - ocean noises and a creaking hull of a timber ship. The ocean noises were fine, but the periodic cracking timber had me wide-eyed and annoyed until I figured she was asleep and turned it off. Sounded like someone's bones being broken.
I recently priced up new drives for a server at work. SSDs made more sense. Mirroring is essential for us as data loss is a big problem.

The price difference was not that great so it was hard to justify buying slower spinning disks. We were looking at high speed spinning disks vs SSDs. If you are looking at slower speed drives maybe the math works out a little differently.
Why can't companies innovate within a standard, and indeed innovate the standard itself, like usb, ethernet, etc?
I prefer cats over dogs because they kinda live alongside me, instead of having their human as some kind of object of worship/pack leader.
Can you stop moving the goalposts. You said 'blocking countries equals xenophobia'. It doesn't.
That's funny, but what if you look at the past 20 or 30 years so you have a larger sample?
Highly recommend the creami. It lets you make healthier ice cream you can’t get from a typical ice cream maker. It’s basically a disruptive innovation (in the Christensen sense) for ice cream.

https://allscreamforicecream.com/ninja-creami-an-ice-cream-r...

I’m a big fan and happy to answer any questions.
I think it's unfair to say those didn't consider security. Security was one of the big features of the Windows NT familiy in its early days, and Linux also obviously has a lot of security in its design. Their problem is that the threat model completely changed since their design.

Windows and Linux were written with the assumption that a computer has multiple users, most of them without admin privileges. The threat model includes things like account security, processes from one user influencing processes of other users, (at least on Windows) users viewing files of other users, non-admins modifying the computer configuration, one user taking all resources, etc. They mostly solve these problems well, but some of these problems are now much less relevant, some of the core assumptions have become less valid over time (the admin/non-admin split), and many new considerations are now part of the threat model, such as protecting against rouge applications run by the same user, untrustworthy peripherals, etc.

This is one of the issues with security-by-design: your definition of security will change over time, in ways your design can't easily accomodate
The article is about SQL, the language, not Microsoft SQL Server.
> it could automatically remediate the issue and you'd be on your way with no repairman involved or at least tell the repairman exactly what to fix

Nah it would figure out what is the best time and place to break, order you an uber, and Uber would psy you manufacturer for the order flow.

It would also show you ads while you wait
now we don't need research if AGI exists, how it escape.
you can't protect, you can only prepare
Mine is without subsidies. And the break even may be 'pretty long' but it still has a higher ROI than any other thing I could have possibly done with my money.

My 7% figure includes TCO / total expected power generated over the lifetime of the system. Note that this isn't the first system I put together but it is by far the largest.
> You can have strong cryptography even with mutability/overwritability. You can simply issue soft deletes by issuing a tombstone write.

It sounds like you are describing a UI for simuating mutablity (like declarativd photo edits in Google Photos) , not actual data mutability.
Is hurling a uniquely Irish thing? I had an Irishman describe it to me recently. I consider myself a decently well traveled gent and I had never heard of it before.
Energy production/consumption started plateauing because people were afraid of nuclear.
>only works after lots of tweaking, and even just intermittently, as long as it time-averages to replacement level.

That sounds like an unending series of demographic shocks and may well be worse than the original problem.
Ah, yeah, my behavior is the opposite. If we had solar we would probably close the windows more and use the heat pump/AC more, for starters. Or defer new windows / insulation for longer... "I have more, so I can use more."
Looks like the actual threat is that it's hard to get currently known chemical weapons synthesized because labs will refuse to do so, while it could be much easier to have some novel AI-generated molecule synthesized because the labs don't know what it does.

Seems easily countered by using the same toxicity prediction software when evaluating synthesis requests (but I'm not sure whether this actually matters, or whether skilled chemists can easily synthesize anything themselves anyway).
the middle age definitely stings a lot more than AGI
It seems like the experience problem could largely be solved by just having a demonstration room, but that's so obvious there must be a reason it doesn't work that way.
That being said, as you've pointed out the concentration of wealth can (and does) move location over time.

So, clearly there is some way of competing with any "currently established" location. :)
Totally agree. The samples in the OpenAI paper didn't seem that impressive and there were so few of them, I assumed it must not be very good. But even the one-shot version of the scenery you linked is great. Very efficient use of SVG features.
Don't worry, they're ahead of you. When DeepMind made the protein folding AI they were given specific instructions by natsec people to prevent it from outputting genetic code for new or existing prions, and afaik the prevention was at the training stage so "jailbreaking" shouldn't be possible. Current tools shouldn't be possible to e.g. modify a COVID variant so that it causes your cells to start producing lethal prions and thus gain a near-100% fatality rate. At least, not without the sort of expertise and research that would have been required for such a project anyway.
Compliant with GDPR doesn't seem to mean much. The comment I'm leaving now is compliant with GDPR. The question is, does it fulfill a cookie-using website's requirements under GDPR without additional UI? Wikipedia at least says it does not ("DNT is not widely adopted by the industry, with companies citing the lack of legal mandates for its use")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Sorry, but I really don't care about the difference here: Polestar doesn't produce a single vehicle in Europe and you are 100% aware of what that means. It means that there is a boat from China with a vehicle on it that gets sold here. That a couple of people in Sweden design it doesn't matter much to me, the whole thing is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Chinese. There is nothing wrong with that so why do you keep denying it?
> Among the list of hate words in the lexicon ... is 'antiwhite'. Why?

Because the context it's most often used in is racists claiming that someone is against white people when other races behaviour is mentioned or when other races are defended. Just search for it on Twitter for lots of examples. (Not linking specific examples, they don't deserve the traffic) You'll commonly find it used together with whitegenocide, antisemitism and other stupidity.
> But when things aren’t exactly the same, do it three times before trying to infer an abstraction.
This is shocking and saddening, and should also be a lesson to this community: previous threads on this tragedy immediately jumped to blaming the homeless, when the overwhelming majority of violent crimes are committed by individuals known to the victim.

Edit: Added "violent," to preempt diversions about non-violent crimes.
They did not mandate consent banners. Websites are completely free to either A) not collect private information or B) Only track users on an opt-in basis.
I think it’s confusing because as an end user I don’t yet know what a pod is or why they’re needed. I’m guessing this is related to space partitioning?

It would probably be helpful to link to some docs on pods (are pods a leaky abstraction?) and first list the max size in number of floats or bytes and then say how many embeddings that would be with different models.

Edit: Thanks for the response btw!
Because they're good enough. Also they're potential keyloggers and have access to all your passwords, conversations, and searches. You already trust the OS with those; much harder for some random third party startup to do.
Are there consumer (<$2k) network switches that can do Wireguard in a very fast path?
VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers
One distinction that can make an individual DRY decision easier is when the 2+ instances must always agree.

Having only one instance to change seems usually easier than other ways of trying to guarantee that every instance will always agree, now, and in maintenance/evolution.

DRY decisions for things that don't have to always agree can be harder.
It's not "kernel is slow", kernel when left to its own devices is plenty fast, the reason is that when you want to make decision about packet in userspace (vs telling kernel what to do with it via various interfaces) that kernel logic would just be overhead.

It's similar for applications; if you can, say, decode whole DNS packet in one go, you don't really want kernel to spend time decoding UDP packet, then you decoding the rest of the packet; doing it in one step is much faster.
A single IPv6 /32 contains 4 billion /64s. Most CAPTCHA delivery domains support IPv6.
I was happy to see the "Pics or it didn't happen" section, but was disappointed when the link was broken. It looks like it links to a .PNG in the repository, but when I found the mis-linked .PNG it wasn't animated.

Would love to see a video of the results...
This is demonstrating the Everyday Robotics (EDR) robot. EDR was the division/spinoff from Google X that was shut down this February [1]. In fact, this trash sorting was the full-stack regression test!

I find it incredibly bizarre that the Google Brain folks are just now publishing EDR work.

I mean, I understand that writing and editing a paper for publishing is work, but this had been going on for a while at EDR, so: wow, does this not inspire confidence in Google's AI project pipeline.

Perhaps it's just One Last Hurrah from the people involved.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613214/everyday-robots-...
Although this is a letter to the editor rather than an op-ed, I seem to recall Stanford's newspaper inadvertently publishing an AI-generated op-ed submission at one point. The problem is likely to get worse.
Who Is Nima Momeni–Suspect Arrested in Killing of Cash App Founder Bob Lee
"I wish to dedicate this flight to the people of the new communist society, which we are already entering, to our great Motherland, and to our science"

And make sure the secret police have no reason to suspect you
for some reason people are able to use huge undocumented common lisp monolithic projects from the 90s without much effort and without setting their computer on fire. why do you think that is? i mean, given your world view, why would people even think about doing this for a codebase that doesnt have static types?
You can easily experience this yourself by doing grounding exercises in a lucid dream. “more real than real” is always the first thing that comes to mind.
Vimscript is a pain but these days you can use Neovim which supports Lua as a replacement. I’d recommend checking out what Neovim has to offer. ThePrimeagen has a great video on setting up Neovim as an IDE from scratch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i4amO_zaE
OK i can see everybody is bothered that I said the paper was "bad". A more productive way to say it: "Many great papers still omit information that implementors would like to see spelled out".

0.15 seconds (150ms) would be almost good enough for me (I aim for 25 FPS on my microscope, and achieve that with full high quality object detection), but it's 2 seconds on my 2080 (and 2 seconds on my 3080).

These sorts of things are important (even the 0.15seconds would have been useful to include in the paper) for implementors because we can read the paper, and reject it as a solution without having to download any code or run any experiments. It even took a while to get a good answer to why inference is so slow (I was using the python scripts not the notebook, which mentions that image embedding is super slow).

Note they report 55ms inference, I guess that's also an A100, my 2080 and 3080 both take over a second to do inference after the embedding. Looking at inference performance of A100 vs. 3080, it doesn't seem to make sense that the A100 is that much faster (I wonder if they are running many batches and then dividing by the batch size?)

As an ex-scientist, I've come across many well regarded papers that omitted stating something explicitly, and it's only once the first or second reimplementor finishes that we know something important was left out. I don't think the authors were being intentionally misleading, and I'm sure this product is nice, but so far, in my hands, it has not been that great and it would have been nice if they prominently stated the image embedding time, since it's absolutely necessary to do before prompt and mask decoding.
Insulation is a good ROI, new windows too if you have really crappy ones but we already have fairly good ones but bad frames so that will come after the insulation and the heat pump are in place. Altogether it's a 75K project and it will cut the power bill from $1500 / month or so to $100 to $200. That's at present day power prices, which are still very high here, the changes so far have cut that 1500 to 750 so there is still a ways to go to the goal.

I really hope to be able to get rid of the gas, that's the biggest dependency that I would like to remove.
In the context of everyday personal computing, I would argue computing power improvements have plateaued since around 2011~2012.

Think about it: Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Bulldozer CPUs are still perfectly practical to use today for all everyday tasks if we put aside arbitrary software limitations (read: Windows 11). Go and install Windows 10 on a Sandy Bridge, it'll be just as practically-performant as the latest Raptor Lake for all your everyday computing needs.

It's kind of interesting to look back when you're one of the guys who also witnessed the mindblowing advances in computing we had in the 90s and 00s (like you and me). The steep climb, followed by the leveling off.
I'll keep that in mind. I'm also touched that you went out of your way to create a green account to make fun of my user name. Quality.
There are too many plugins that need access to all my data on all websites. Doesn't matter that it's open source, I'm not going to review every update of every plugin. Why can't I sandbox a plugin to a whitelist of domains?
If your condition is removing the influence of the WEF and other unelected, supranational organizations, I certainly won't argue against that. Just note that their hypocrisy is irrelevant - it won't diminish the problems the rest of us will suffer from continued damage to the environment.
Age is not what matters here.
I think you may enjoy this classic text on the topic, it explores these questions in quite some detail: https://janiceraymond.com/the-transsexual-empire

(That page has a link to download the PDF if you're interested, but also here's a taster in the form of a book review at the time it was published: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/male-and-female-....)
> I'd bet that very good Go and Rust programmers could probably converge to almost identical performance.

I'd imagine probably not purely because Rust uses LLVM which is VERY good at optimizing, while Go compiler is simpler and made for speed of compilation first. If Go got LLVM frontend yeah, maybe

> What I wouldn't be on is that Go could equal Rust in the area of small memory footprint or on small devices.

Well, Go is GCed, that automatically makes it use at least a bit more, and also carrying code for GC with each program.