skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Audio works is very different between headsets. The index has speakers that hover over your ears for excellent open room sound, but everyone around you also hears what's going on. The high end headsets all let you plug in another aux headphone though, so if I wanted I could use my own in ear headphones with them.
>scantily clad and squeezing autotune

The implication is that 220M is peanuts because pop artists who just sell sex and use autotune make that kind money. Describing Taylor swift as someone who "squeeze autotune" is ridiculous; Taylor Swift has arguable done more than Sundar.

Are pop stars who "dress sexy and abuse autotune" making sundar money? Does Taylor Swift fit that profile? How did we go from "scantily clad and squeezing autotune" to "actually I meant elite popstars"? You have a guy making 3-4x more than his peers (at Microsoft and Apple, who CEO, despite performing better than Sundar took a pay cut!), being compared to the highest grossing entertainer of all time.
It is all that. The problem is that there isn’t much of a moat. You can get GPT-3 level performance on a high end laptop and GPT-4 equivalent on high end hardware seems like it’s coming. A lot of advancement is happening in quantization and pruning and training can be done by anyone with access to enough compute.

This is going to just become a ubiquitous tool and part of the computing toolbox. I am increasingly thinking the winner take all dynamics of social media and search may not apply. There’s going to be many cloud hosted AIs and lots you can run yourself if you feel like spending a few thousand dollars on hardware. That cost will fall as more special purpose NPU hardware enters the market and acceleration even becomes a standard part of CPUs.
> And I would bet your word of mouth was also worth negative dollars to them since you're going to be telling people about the free tier.

The whole point of having a free tier is to onboard customers and then upsell them to a paid tier. If a referral is costing them money, they are missing the point of a free tier.
The single largest advantage of remote work is being able to live in a lower cost of living area with more land.

Even if you're in the office 2 days that opens up a commutable area that's far far larger than before.
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Could you explain in detail how that causes the singularity? I’m lost. I saw a cool tool used to make another cool tool. You saw the singularity. Where is this logic coming from? Why would terminal access which I’m fairly certain I’ve seen in autogpt, change much.
> I know the obvious answer is “well then figure out how are you going to become someone who is worth spending time with”-

That was not what occurred to me as I read your comment. I would have thought the next step would be to try again, and then again, until eventually you find the people that can tolerate you, and even like you for who you are. They exist!

The problem with adult friendships is that, much like dating, people think they can do much better than they actually can. We feel we should have friends that are funnier, more artistic, more educated. And then we go out and pursue these people, only to realize that we don't fit in with them -- our lifestyles and backgrounds are too different -- there's a reason we made the friends we did.

If you want to change that, then you'll have to change your personality to be "worth" those other people's time. But before that, perhaps you could pause for a moment to recognize the people who did appreciate you as you were.
This reminds me that the EU follows neoclassical economics much closer than the US.

https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-cruelty-of-eu-austerity/

Meanwhile when you read e.g. some of the extremist opinions like mises.org blog posts, apparently Europe is infested with socialism and anti-capitalism and isn't doing enough.

I mean geez. Greece did the hardest austerity program in history, with possibly the fastest collapse of a growing economy. It used to grow 5% a year during the corruption years, during which people accused Greece of excessive borrowing to pay pension funds and other non productive spending. Now that they did the responsible thing GDP dropped by 50% and GDP growth has stagnated and the debt level is even higher than before as a percentage of GDP. This obviously makes "proper capitalism" look bad to citizens and now you can simply accuse them of being "socialists" who ruined their own country. Great track record.

It kind of reminds me of horseshoe theory. Extreme communists and capitalists are more alike to each other than to the center. Communists that fail to achieve their dreams go and hunt the capitalists. Capitalists that fail to achieve their dreams hunt socialists.

I don't know if you can call it pragmatism. It would be economic pragmatism if you try to take the best ideas and combine them into something that actually works.
I realized at the young age of 35 that most socks are much more comfortable to wear inside-out, to avoid the seam from chafing against your toes. So I've been doing that ever since.

Now, in latter years I've found some socks that are properly designed, with the seam not at the toe tips but rather on the top of the socks.
That’s great for pre-teens and teens as long as the city is fairly safe for kids. I was talking about smaller children and babies.

It’s also important to note that not all cities are kid friendly. Some are places I’d never allow a kid to go, with open air psychiatric hospitals on the street and people passed out everywhere on drugs. Of course this is a different problem that has more to do with incompetence and corruption in government and non-profits.
My grandfather had Parkinson's and definitely had antibiotics many times after his diagnosis, didn't help at all. After one particularly nasty infection+strong antibiotics, he got much worse overall.

I am very likely to have Parkinson's too, had antibiotics many times. Didn't change a thing about my tremor.
yeah makes sense. That is least a few hundred meters!

Unless I were to start using halyards, I probably do not have more than 300' of line on my boat, which is really way more than I need for a smaller boat.
The mainstream media also doesn't care that the WMDs were an intentional lie.

The list goes on and on...

If you're expecting revelations and journalism from the MSM then you're drinking too much Kool Aid.
The era of remote work is not over. It’s just arrived. We overshot the equilibrium point by a lot during the pandemic height and that will regress back to something closer to long term trend.

No matter how much the HN crowd vociferously defends remote work, it’s simply an inferior mode of operation for many creative jobs.

People are not machines. We’re evolved to congregate and share space, to read body language, share meals, interact with zero latency.

Those things are valuable, and barring some huge leap in technology, we give them up when we go remote.

For some jobs and work cultures, those things don’t matter as much — those companies can self select into remote work and save on office costs.

But for American engineers especially, the more you encapsulate yourself into an interface of pull requests and slack messages, the more you’re handing power to corporations in the long run.

I can and have hired quality developers in EU, GB, and South America at heavily discounted rates because without an office, what’s the difference?

Even interviewing and managing people in Asia is much easier as a result of zoom, slack, figma, etc.

I find it so odd that American software engineers don’t see this. Time zone is not a moat, I promise you.
I mean, you could, but the point is that we're forgetting that ads as a monetization model are taking away our freedom to price our products as we choose.

It would be similarly ridiculous if all apps in the App Store were free and you were paid some small amount per app-invocation that you had no control over.
Sounds like Sam Altman might have some commercial real estate he needs to avoid collapsing. Frankly I couldn’t care less what he says, I’ll retire before I go to an office.
This is how I read this: America forgot about Betamax. Is Netflix next?
Makes no sense!!!!
The Suburbs are great, and what does it mean if the cities are only sustained by forcing individuals/parents to come into them 5 times a week for their livelihoods? Why aren't workers eager to live in densely packed urban environments if presented this alternative, that has been traditionally disparaged by so many?
So, it'd be preferable to move it to the US where it can have better oversight and there's a potential of regulatory-driven change.
You can comment “We must stop doing X and Y bad thing!” as many times as you like, but you’re either preaching to the choir, or pulling people into your “we” that don’t consider you part of theirs.

I see people use this “we” a lot. It’s the same kind of “we” that people use in the sense “why haven’t we gotten jet packs yet?” Well, because there is no we. Some people have jet packs, and it could be said that humanity “has” jetpacks, but that’s not really a useful assertion. Why not say “I wish there were jetpacks I could buy at reasonable prices”? Why bring all of humanity into it?
The photo worked great.

The video I tried couldn’t be played or downloaded.
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On the other hand I feel like non-tech people are underrated in their understanding of what what tech is doing, they just have a way more relaxed attitude towards it.

Like finding out your 55 year old Aunty has secretly been using LLMs to automate part of her job is real.

“High tech” people are like trekkies, they’re just more into it.
Yes. ChatGPT will be the Netscape Navigator of LLMs. The first one most people were exposed to at the time but quickly forgotten in a few years, but not because either the Web nor LLMs were a fad.
Finding all intersections of two Bezier curves
I was struck by how invested the author was in asserting that the “joke fails”. I thought that cartoon was the highlight of the piece.
Actually this might be sodium's biggest advantage.

Everyone knows that Uranium (or Plutonium) can sustain a chain reaction: when hit with a neutron, they split in 2 or 3 lighter atoms, and 2 or 3 new (and fast) neutrons. That can be used to produce a bomb, because the fission events grow exponentially. But it's not all that useful for a reactor, where you want the number of fission events per second to stay constant in time. Which means, on average, each out of the 2 or 3 neutrons produced in a fission event, exactly one will trigger another fission event, and the remaining 1 or 2 neutrons have to find some way to disappear. Roughly speaking they can be absorbed by: 1. by some heavy nucleus like uranium 2. some control rods 3. some neutron poison introduced in the reactor on purpose, such as boron, gadolinium or hafnium, 4. the moderator, like water, or sodium in this case, 5. the walls of the containment vessel.

If you think of it, it's such a waste. Many of these options result in radioactive elements. Some result in material embrittlement.

Given that, it may very well be that sodium could be the best option out there.
Will this be better than LoRA? 32k seems like a lot.
For me, that advantage is third or perhaps lower on the list, behind "saving time almost every day" (#1 for me) and "having much more control over my office environment [that I spend 35-50 hours per week in]" (a fairly close second).
Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
Not defending the idea of a db history but no db schema is going to beat plain text's 1 byte 0x0A per line delimiter.
Ah, a fellow packrat! I have every command I ever typed into a shell since around 2005, and my history weighs in at 1 CD or 650MB (as of a couple of years ago)

I'm probably being wasteful of space because I store each session in a separate file. I used to do a lot of data analysis at the shell back in the day, and found it useful to audit sequences of commands afterwards for mistakes, or to turn them into scripts.
I feel like this just killed a few small startups who were trying to offer more context.

Also, I pay for ChatGPT but I have none of the new features except for GPT4. Very frustrating.
Instead of de-orbiting it towards earth, why don't they de-orbit it in the other direction, away from earth. Wouldn't that be safer?
That's troubleshooting really, not mentoring.
The “moat” for Open AI is their relationship with Microsoft. The secret weapon for Microsoft is their association with ChatGPT. The two Will feed on each other.

The “Open Source” ecosystem will drive the innovation and keep the technology in the news cycle and public mindshare. Many businesses will not or cannot pull technology out of the chaos of that world and will look to Microsoft.

Google and Meta can incorporate this stuff into their other products but it is going to be harder for them to sell it directly.
Gmail already isn't free. Don't you see the advertising?
HistorianGPT is a personal history assistant that uses GPT-4 technology to answer any historical question.With its advanced technology and user-friendly interface, it is the ultimate personal History Assistant to let students ace in their boring History exam.
Is a GPT3-like model currently available for discussion type use and works on a laptop? How might I go about getting started with locally running a model of this quality?
Red Hat seems remarkably unscathed.
> a thick client provides opportunities to improve the experience for locations with slow and unreliable internet connections.

The word "slow" here is unclear. Thick clients work poorly on low bandwidth connections, as the first load takes too long to download the JS bundle. JS bundles can be crazy big and may get updated regularly. A user may give up waiting. Thin clients may load faster on low bandwidth connections as they can use less javascript (including zero javascript for sites that support progressive enhancement, my favorite as a NoScript user). Both thin and thick clients can use fairly minimal data transfer for follow-up actions. An HTMX patch can be pretty small, although I agree the equivalent JSON would be smaller.

If "slow" means high latency, then you're right, a thick client can let the user interact with local state and the latency is only a concern when state is being synchronized (possibly with a spinner, or in the background while the user does other things).

Unreliable internet is unclear to me. If the download of the JS bundle fails, then the thick client never loads. A long download time may increase the likelihood of that happening. Once both are loaded, the thick client wins as the user can work with local state. Both need to sync state sometimes. The thin client probably needs the user to initiate retry (a poor experience) and the thick client could support retry in the background (although many don't support this).
> Ya that dark blue on black is the worst

Nah, yellow on white is the worst. Authors, please stop assuming everyone uses a dark background (and consider looking up ‘astigmatic halation’).
Great explanation. Thank you!

Maybe we need to start training non-MD specialist to perform only specific surgeries.
Two adjacent gray pixels (the star is between two pixels) won't have the same total brightness as a single fully bright one (the star is at the center of a single pixel) if the interpolation is not correct with respect to gamma. So, as the star moves slowly, I would expect some twinkling.

This is probably the issue he is referring to.
I thought of that as a kind of dropout for memory, so that the network also learns to build resilience around what it stores. I was also unsure of how to manage the memory

- should I reset it every iteration? resulting in it behaving more like working memory maybe

- should I reset it every epoch? would that pollute the memory from previous iterations and what would happen if it got full?

- finally, why not maybe delete say 0.01% of the memory or maybe 1 cell per iteration randomly, this would imply the memory would not be that reliable as biological memory behaves and the neural net has to build resilience to use it effectively (by storing multiple copies of what is really useful (hyppocampal novelty detection type?)).
Some of them aren’t merely lacking access to resources. Mental illness is part of the picture too. Trains and busses are warm comfortable places for such, as well as the criminal element. People think of bus and subway stations as dirty and often dangerous places, not just in the USA.
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I set all of this up about 3 weeks ago. Wish I had come across this guide then! It's a great solution that has made my dev work and media consumption so much easier on the go.

One thing that tripped me up on arch linux with KDE Plasma was that importing the downloaded WireGuard configuration didn't work in NetworkManager using the gui. After a bit of tinkering, I finally discovered that you can download the conf file to your computer and then run the following command:

nmcli connection import type wireguard file [CONF_FILE]

That adds it to NetworkManager, making it easy to connect to from the gui.
It's more complicated:

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2022/04/15/scientists-reveal-good-...

And I guess the story around Parkinson's (and Alzheimer's) will come out more complicated, too.
This is completely separate from LoRA. This is how much stuff you can give it in the prompt. You can give it now whole chapters of books to summarize for example.

LoRA is for adapting the model to a certain model. It usually means you need to give it shorter prompts, but for book summarization, it wouldn't help.
It's pretty common to compare America and the UK more than America vs Europe, and there are good reasons for that.

For example:

> Researchers from Virginia Tech and Rutgers University compared the last 28 years of available transportation fatality data from the United States with data from the four countries with the most closely comparable national travel surveys and levels of affluence: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. All four peer nations had reduced per capita pedestrian fatalities by at least 61 percent over the course of the study period — and standout Denmark did so by a whopping 69 percent — but the U.S. reduced ours by just 36 percent.

- https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/10/exactly-how-far-u-s-s...

America had the safest roads in the world fifty years ago - so why not compare to the best, instead of an average that's brought down by some low-wealth countries with terrible historical road safety?

Cherry picking or not, it's worth talking about what's going on.
I don't understand it either. The James Webb telescope is a good argument. SpaceX wasn't around when it was being designed. SpaceX managed to flunk their latest launch with a crappy launchpad. They are the ones that are still behind so I don't know why anyone would bet on them for any long term mission.

The current "rocket mix" appears to be healthy. Like a stock portfolio that keeps 40% of its value in bonds and only 60% in risky assets.

You can't drop the bonds and expect to get a better portfolio performance.
What's especially nice about this, is that it can be explained as a more or less syntactic transformation. You don't even need a special keyword, just a rule that method bodies beginning with `in PATTERN` are wrapped in an implicit `case [*args, kwargs.any? ? kwargs : nil].compact ... end` expression.

Your example method is a bit tricky, because it rebinds an argument and then presumably uses it in the elided bit (the "..."). If the case statement was the entire method body, given proposed syntactic rule it could be written as:

def for_environment
in String => code unless code in UUID_RE
none # no support for filtering via environment codes
in UUID_RE => id
Environment.find_by(id:) || none
in Environment => env
env
in nil
nil
end

To me this "rhymes" nicely with the ability to write `rescue` blocks at the method level:

def foo(params)
send_request(params)
rescue => e
raise if critical_error?(e)
end

---

That is of course a pretty rough approximation, and the real rules would probably be a bit more complex[0], but it definitely seems achievable and possibly worth doing even without taking the type-annotation aspect into account.

[0]: for a start, patterns would need to be extended to allow binding the block argument in a manner equivalent to `def foo(&block)`
Watson had the unfortunate issue of being an IBM product and you couldn't pay me deal with IBM these days.
LoRA doesn’t change the context length. Also you can’t run LoRAs on GPT-4. So those are not relevant to each other.
How is this an instrument? It looks like a rock.
This is a pretty popular approach, and I use it sometimes, but "agree on an API spec for the project" does gloss over how challenging and time consuming this can be. How many people here have ever gotten their API wrong? (raises hand). There's still a lot of ongoing coordination and communication.
https://archive.md/3u6Pz
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I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding the choice of lead stock photo in this article.
"No effect" seems overly strong. From what I've read, pro/pre-biotics do help, but it's transitive and fades with time after a treatment. Troublesome, of course, as a company would much rather sell a transitive treatment than something once and done.
There's a list of upscaling models here, based on your content: https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database

The easiest one to get started with is probably Real-ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
> flexibility is the key here

I'm not sure about this.

Flexibility brings uncertainty, and if you are not sure about who's going to be there in the office, there's not much value proposition to go and check.

If you know for sure that all/most people are going to be there, this equation changes considerably.

That being said, I think it makes sense to reduce physical presence to ~2-3 days a week, unless having two work environments is cumbersome.
Does this purely affect the amount of tokens that can be fed in and retained in context during a session?

The output from that prompt seems spectacular, so I'm wondering if there are any other differences.

I just tried the same prompt with GPT-4 and the style was much more GPT-like, what I'm used to, not near the same quality as in the OP, although maybe it's just luck?
Unskilled labor is still labor. A living wage is needed to live regardless of the labor performed. If the job cannot pay a living wage, it need not exist.
Suburbs that people don’t leave are just small towns.
The video must of not had a object in the beginning? https://backgroundremoverai.com/results/205ef8ad6b0f4cfa8f66...
I'd say he realizes that a bit part of change is calibrating a message to a wide audience, to recruit them to your cause.
No. But I have a hope that the US engineers can do at least as well as the Russian ones. Russia has been running BN-600 for more than 4 decades now, and BN-800 for 8 years. There were incidents but not huge. Here's what wikipedia has to say [1]

In the first 15 years of operation, there have been 12 incidents involving sodium/water interactions from tube breaks in the steam generators, a sodium-air oxidation/"fire" from a leak in an auxiliary system, and a sodium "fire" from a leak in a secondary coolant loop while shut down. All these incidents were classified at the lowest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale, and none of the events prevented restarting operation of the facility after repairs. As of 1997, there had been 27 sodium leaks, 14 of which resulted in sodium-air oxidations/"fires". The steam generators are separated in modules so they can be repaired without shutting down the reactor. As of 2020, the cumulative "energy Availability factor" calculated up to year 2019 and recorded by the IAEA was 75.6%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600_reactor