skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can still regulate the new ai tools, but we must act quickly. Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, ai can make exponentially more powerful ai.

I mean, maybe. Sure, LLMs can currently code shockingly well, and LLMs are just programs, so an LLM writing an LLM is def much more likely than a nuke building a nuke. But we don't _know_ if there are limits to what AIs can do. Or, to pick on the word "exponential," we don't know if there are limits to growth rates of AIs improving AIs!

FWIW, I personally think that AIs will be able to invent more powerful/intelligent AIs. But we should be stating this as as conjecture, not a fact - mostly b/c my experience in saying things like this to people just causes them to be _extremely scared_. And for most people (myself included) extreme fear is a really bad place to try to make decisions from.

> We need an equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for new technology, and we need it yesterday.

I wish there was more detail on this. Does Yuval Noah Harari really understand how the FDA works and is it really an appropriate model for the AI Safety Administration (AISA)? I mean - the FDA is not really batting 100% - and can we afford to miss swings when it comes to AI safety?

Maybe we can. Maybe we can't. Anyone saying we can afford to miss swings is probably selling you something (or their livelihood depends on it). Anyone saying we can't afford to miss swings is probably terrified. I honestly don't know how to possibly feel other than ???!!??
> I think Twitter delivers this fairly well if not perfectly, if you follow the right people

It certainly used to. But post-acquisition has been rough, and a lot of great folks have left. This will inevitably be a demographic thing. Does an exodus of x demographic mean Twitter is "dying"? No. But for me, it's largely no longer relevant to me. Even with 100,000+ tweets since Twitter launched, I never let go of my RSS feeds, and I likely never will. I've very little interest in Mastodon, not because it's not as-good as Twitter, but because it's a Twitter-like without fixing most of what wasn't great about Twitter.

Furthermore, most of who and what I'm interested in isn't on Mastodon, and likely never will be. The zeitgeist that birthed Twitter has come and gone, and you can't force it artificially as a mass exodus from one platform to another.
>So, my assertion a little longer spelled out it that I don't think we want giant caches of wealth in small numbers of places. I would prefer active use, I think. But diverse use by many actors is a good means to that. So, if it gets 250k in 100+ banks, that has better odds that someone finds a use that isn't just "credit cards."

Great! This is the first time you've actually said anything that connected "rich people making the world a better place" with "stashing money in multiple banks rather than one". It's still a dubious argument, because in both cases the money would be getting invested, as opposed to gathering dust, and the bank would just invest any excess money it had with other banks, creating the same investment.

It's also really frustrating to have to keep reminding you of what your argument was, in order to get to that point. It would have been much more productive if you had said from the outset "okay, whether rich people's money gets invested at all is a dubious benefit to the insurance cap. But there might still be other benefits, like reduced systemic risk...".

But you didn't do that: instead you acted shocked that I was asserting there were no benefits at all to spreading money across multiple banks, and spoke as if you didn't remember the original benefit you were asserting.

>That said, I confess I also see little value conversing with you

Correct: people that force you to be rigorous in your comments, and don't let you change the topic to hide previous dubious arguments, are going make you look bad. I understand not wanting to get called out on these unproductive tactics, especially if you prefer looking smart rather than learning something.
Learning to Code
Has anyone tried learning to code and struggled? I'd love to interview you about how it went for 30 minutes. I'm a dev turned founder, trying to make education better! I went to a coding bootcamp 8 years ago and it was 1. expensive 2. time-consuming. There has to be a better way. Please message me if you're up for it!
Not my experience, nearly every time GPT 4 has produced code that compiles / runs first time without errors.
1. I've put it on subreddits but haven't got the traction I wanted. I think the product might not be solving the correct problem. Hence, I didn't try to cold message people with it.

2. The price point is 5$/month which really not feasible to contact customers individually. If I do 100 cold outreaches a day, 10 try the product and one converts, it's 5$/day salary.
No contact info or something similar?
How do we distinguish this from a "scam" site, if we do not have anyone to hold accountable?
Social Media accounts do not count.
They lost me at Qanon.
I think the angle from rating a property you rented would be better. Just like rating a company you worked for. Going into details about noise levels, how the winter feels, what the issues with water pipes may be... so on.
I didn't read it
I consider it weakening security as there's additional ways that can be compromised along with the password. I agree that biometrics can increase convenience and likely reduce the visibility of the secret password, but the trade-off is using relatively public facts such as your public face and/or your fingerprints that are left on most surfaces that you touch.
VR is already a solution in search of a problem. Apple has no grasp on gaming. I don't see how this can work out.
Maybe first thing super civilisation would do is to upgrade their bodies, I'd first thing get rid of 50-100 kg of useless meat, bones and blood, I guess then the entire consciousness, memory, emotional sphere can be fit in something size of a microchip die, next step might be finding a way to base consciousness on something like quarks, that would solve transportation, and each person would need tiniest amount of energy. Then I guess they just gather together and form a star. They normal day in life would be our microsecond. So possibly every star in the universe is already a super advanced civilisation, they just do not care to contact us, who would want to contact someone who is billion times larger, slower and depend on clumsy molecules.
You seem to want more democracy, but would you say that if Trumpers win again, become even stronger, and subvert democracy some more?
Man I remember when I was little, I always wanted to make apps for iOS but my parents couldn’t even afford to buy me an iPod touch let along a Mac…
Thanks!! I'll contact all existing trial users for an interview.
Full circle eh. I wonder how well it compares to just trying to use the actual Whisper models on a variety of existing GPU capable bigger frameworks.

I don't know much practically about how hard it would be to take the Whisper PyTorch (1 or 2?) trained models & to make good use of them elsewhere. I expect Whisper.cpp probably better caters to users, is more readily consumable. Doing the same integer quantization that 1.4.0 whisper.cpp does would be another ask: how hard would that be?

Fwiw, Whisper.cpp uses Nvidia's cuBLAS. There does appear to be an AMD rocm port. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS
Another one for iOS though this one uses the small/medium models which definitely pushes the system to its limits: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276
Exactly. Glad we share the same view.
Has any happy story ever begun with ignoring your engineers?
regex much? perl does it too.
under Islam, hijab isn't required until puberty, so it's strange you'd see 5-year olds wearing them.
Not an entire year. It was 2-3 day outages, weekly, for quite a while. I've been trying to find the tweets, but as Elon took away tweet searching it's been a challenge to go that far back

edit I remember they were open about experiencing a denial of service attack over several weeks.

edit again: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...

a reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/qkk8qh/ddos_attac...
Baca might interest you: https://github.com/wustho/baca
If you want to play KSP, learn orbital mechanics.

Seriously, understanding dynamics and other basic physics in depth never hurt anyone, while real use of orbital calculations is much rarer than playing games, writing SF and so on.
A betrayal of your duty, your country and your people, but not treason per se.
Already lots of magic tooling for exactly this, some of which (allegedly) uses AI. Look into Gullfoss for AI assistance with mixing and iZotope Ozone which has an "AI mastering assistant." And there's even more basic "one knob sound good" plugins of varying effectiveness, like OTT, Sausage Fattener and Soundgoodizer.
Or outdoor textiles, or toilet paper, or paper food boxes, or furniture with stain repelents, or cosmetics, or school uniforms, or breast milk, or microwave popcorn bags, or carpet cleaners, or candy wrappers, or pizza boxes, or cattle, or agricultural fields and products, or houshold dust, or water, or firefighting foams, or dental floss, or air ... better to stay away from it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
With PySaaS, your app's frontend is compiled down to a NextJS app, and FastAPI is built-in for the backend.

UI components are fully-customizable, and are actually wrappers around React components using Chakra UI. If you want to get fancy, you can even wrap your own components in three simple steps.

Learn more here: https://pynecone.io/docs/advanced-guide/wrapping-react
So, the conclusion is that in terms of the typical metrics used to get a job in academia (i.e. grant funding and publications) there is no difference between men and women. But there is a difference in terms of getting a job per se (with women hired more than men). But that's ok because the metrics that one tries to tick to get hired are equal. Therefore there is no evidence of sex discrimination.

It's a bit like saying, we found that the CEO works the same hours as their workers (productivity metric), but the pay (i.e. the intended reward for achieving said productivity measured by said metric) was not the same because of the CEO's massive bonus. BUT, since the hours worked are the same, we conclude that there's no pay discrimination. Wat?

There may genuinely be no sex discrimination involved, and I'm inclined to believe that this is indeed the case; but to me the argument above is not as much in support of this statement as the authors seem to think it is.
The only thing that can help is open-sourcing this technology; It is too dangerous in the hands of a monopoly or even a small oligopoly.
As a rule, "symbolic processing" reduces to "branch and fetch/store heavy code" on the context of hardware design.
https://whisper.ggerganov.com/

does this count?
Blue checks for accounts that aren't public figures/corporate accounts, were effectively medals awarded for playing the Twitter game well.

Paying for that medal dilutes its value to almost nothing. It also changes the incentives for those that pay, vs those who received the status from Twitter directly. The fact that Stephen King and Lebron James were 'gifted' paid blue checks after publicly rejecting them kinda says it all: it's not about democratizing reach, it's a pay-to-play scheme, but the actual popular kids aren't paying a cent.

If you want some evidence, take a look at the types of accounts that have the "paid for" checkmark. The majority of them are shilling courses, AI, crypto, MLMs or conspiracies.
Everything except OpenCL?
> Easily-repairable-by-the-inexperienced is quite different from only-repairable-through-manufacturer-authorization.

Yep. And a 7/10 score (IIRC) used to indicate easily-repairable-by-the-inexperienced.
No. Do you think agents should be race free (what ever that would be) or something? Why would having another language on an ad be racist? that is just increasing the perspective buyers and language is not race.
Op-ed by invitation:

> Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation.
Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher

For a moment there, I was worried The Economist went off the rails.
Yeah, that's bullshit unless I guess you're in some very specific filter bubble. I'm pretty left on the spectrum and I didn't see the media "pushing" it. They've reported it because that's what was going on at the time. Maybe people confuse the two.
I’ve been playing around with various iOS apps today.

Someone else mentioned “Hello Transcribe”, which is a cool demo due to how real time the transcription is, but it’s effectively unusable for anything practical because it seems to split the audio on 30 second chunks (and not in the contextual way that Whisper normally does it).

Whisperboard is a free, open source iOS app (available on the App Store) that seems fairly user friendly, but there are a few crashes and bugs that the author is hopefully going to work out soon.

Aiko is extremely simple to use, but it only supports the “medium” model, so it isn’t very fast, but the results are good quality. Aiko is really designed to be paired with another app, like the Apple Voice Memos app, where you can share a voice memo directly to Aiko.
The first of China's desert solar and wind projects is online, and it's huge
Tough to say without being Hopi. There are many things they cannot share unless you’re Hopi. Same with other tribes. Curious, what did the linguist say exactly?
So here’s a paper where the author has run the experiment:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.5200.pdf

And the answer is that the speed is comparable to other functions that however produce worse results.
Nice and tidy indeed! Overall packaging looks robust and the threaded gland nuts push it over the top. Nicely done. Now I just have to stop playing around with the embedded 3D model and make one for my scooter :D
Reading on the recording of OK Computer, "about 80%" of it was live, no audio separation, it took two months to mix, I can't find the time it took to master. I don't know where the thousands of man-hours were spent?
And just like BYD, Tesla's Q1 profit for this year was also down 24% from Q4 2022.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/gross-p...
The PDF says they used the data from the WISE all-sky infrared survey to find the 100,000 galaxies, of which a "significant population" had a redshift z of over 2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.03418.pdf

Depending on the Hubble constant, a z of 2 is more than 8000 mpc, 27 billion light years. That's a big search volume, and they didn't find anything obviously artificial.
Rather than tossing in a straw man, how about read the article?

- “People don't want to cooperate, people don't want to come to court and testify…”

- “But that mistrust is also bred by the department's chronic dysfunction…”
Your parent didn’t call the USSR “capitalism”, they called it “private capitalism”. I’ve never heard that term before so I’m guessing it was ad hoc.

I’m guessing the public capitalism / private capitalism has to do with where the ownership of property, concentration of human capital is, and there the market making prices are found. In that sense, the public/private dichotomy mostly works. Sure, Communists argue there is more virtue to their system than simply market making and state owned property, but those are effectively downstream / derived qualities.

And Mao murdered tons of people (both directly and the way a mob boss would have) for many different reasons. He probably was the kind of person who might murder someone because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I don’t think that matters much in this discussion and I don’t think we should self-censor our thoughts because the ghost of a terrible person might hear us.
> Kettering was elected as president with Midgley as vice president. However, after two deaths and several cases of lead poisoning at the TEL prototype plant in Dayton, Ohio, the staff at Dayton was said in 1924 to be "depressed to the point of considering giving up the whole tetraethyl lead program". Over the course of the next year, eight more people died at DuPont's plant in Deepwater, New Jersey. …

> The risks associated with exposure to lead were known at least 150 years before, when Benjamin Franklin wrote about his experiences as a typesetter.

Holy cow. I always chocked up leaded gasoline as one of those “well how could they know” kind of things but people were dropping dead just making it, and Midgley himself was sickened from it by researching its production. Absolutely fucking evil people.
I think there's some degree of truth to this, but that you're overstating it.

A realistic takehome message is that sometimes it's best to just walk away.

Sometimes you can even ask for help with the walking away gracefully.

(When asking for help leaving, from within the organization... I suspect you'll need either trustworthy institutional mechanisms for that, or to find one or more individuals who are smart, of good character, and who have the ability to help. Don't ask the wrong person for help.)
OP is being conspiratorial, so I doubt they can really cite anything.

The idea isn't insane and would have to be determined anecdotally, which heavily depends on your daily news cycle.
Seems like your most immediate concern should be the Swedish government. They’re the ones required to actually agree & implement actions based on the BS accusation.
There is nothing out there that quite matches ChatGPT quality but you can get a similar kind of experience by running an instruction-tuned derivative of LLaMA with llama.cpp. Try something like vicuna-13b-free or oasst-sft-6-llama-30b on for size. The former is trained on ChatGPT output but with refusals (the censorship) removed, which seems to have mostly worked. The latter is safety-trained, but from what I've heard (I need a hardware upgrade before I can run 30B models), much more mildly than ChatGPT.

It should run on whatever as long as you have enough memory. How much exactly depends on the quantization mode chosen (it's a quality-memory-speed tradeoff), but you should expect to need between 0.5 and 1GB of memory per 1B parameters in the model.
I can't help but feel that any attempts at regulating AI will just mean that the breakthroughs will happen in other countries.
Something something. If it is a win win, it is bad.
Don’t forget the military work that Boeing does. There’s more at stake with this relationship than just one aircraft platform.
Thanks for the recommendations. All of my music equipment is in storage now, but I hope to set up a small studio later this year. Will definitely check this stuff out.
Wearing clothes is cringe?
Just repeat after me: "We don't have the resources for that"
It's also possible to use Twilio with their GUI "studio" to create this entire flow. I've used it as call recording system for when I need to record outgoing calls and it's worked wonderfully (and was easy to set up).
Wouldn't, say, ChatGTP, be considered a "moonshot?"
I worked at a big tech company in a staff/principal engineering position. I always had coworkers who didn’t start coding until college, who were better engineers, communicators, and overall leaders than I was. I turned to them for mentorship.

For what it’s worth, I learned to code in grade school.

I wasn’t terrible at my job, and left in that principal role.

Not sure how conclusive my anecdote is, but I 100% do not believe there’s a strong relationship with starting to code earlier in life and being a better coder, engineer, or general employee than someone who started in college or even much later in life.
Textual looks really cool. But is there something similar in e.g. go instead of python?
This is very likely the wrong community to ask
It’s a good data point in the sense that chances are, people that started doing that early are good. That doesn’t mean that the people that didn’t are bad. You’d be missing a large population of good coders if you use that data point as a high bit in decision making.
Seems like he was just throwing out an idea for how people could fund trips. I think it’s a pretty big stretch to say his plan is to put people into servitude on Mars.
It's interesting to look at two early development highlighted early in the article. The first was register windows: one of those "seems like a good idea at first", but which turned out to be not worth the transistors. You can understand the motivation: memory access was slow and expensive and IIRC the cache architectures of the day, when there even was one, were commonly just an I-cache or a D-cache even though the machines were von Neumann devices.

OTOH the lack of interlock was a kind of inverse: why waste transistors on something known at compile time anyway (same motivation for delay slots in branches, another idea that turned out not to be worth it). In reality, computation is dynamic, so runtime branch prediction (and later speculative execution) turned out to be a much better performance win, regardless of the design cost.

Edited to remove a comment about the 801, to which the author replied below.
I've not seen an ad that featured any kind of reference to the seller's identity other than when the seller was some kind of celebrity. Perhaps it is different where you live.

It is quite common where I live to see a head shot of the seller's agent. I have always wondered why that is the case, but I assume there is some sort of reputation thing going on or perhaps an ad by the agent for future business. I have never considered that to be a race motivated thing.

When I see an ad by or featuring non-English appeals, I assume that the seller's agent has a reputation and experience in dealing with that kind of client. Again, I don't see this a necessarily racist but rather potentially catering to a target market that might not be served by English agents.

For example, if I was seeking a condo in Hong Kong, I would almost certainly use a buyer's agent that had experience working with English clients. Same if I was selling. If my selling agent advertised in English then I could verify that my listing was correct and that per-sale correspondence with potential buyers was correct.

NOW. and it is a big now..

If an agent where to say to me "This neighborhood or building is not for you, perhaps you want look at English Town" or if they pre-filtered me out of otherwise good matches because I was English or Chinese or Black or White. Then that is completely illegal.

This is something that has personally happened to me by the way. When my wife and I were looking for a place in Philadelphia, our buyer's agent essentially guided us away from places that fit our needs to places that were a compromise but fit our demographics.

I was too young at the time and naïve to see that as the problem it was.
I received state university scholarships for merit. My kids cannot because I moved and they are white. I’m not sure how this is reasonable in anyone’s mind.
Not trying to be flip here, but isn't this kinda like the Bible verifying that indeed, the Bible is true?
That's presumably the sign outside the church of the pastor they interviewed. He puts up wooden crosses for each homicide. Makes sense if you've read the article.
You can put the name of the real estate agent company and omit photos/names.

Would you feel welcome if a for sale sign is targeted towards another race?