skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can order laptops with 5G WWAN card built-in or just insert one later, every business laptop brand like Lenovo (Thinkpad), Dell or HP allow them.

From my own experience the problem with USB dongle (used ZTE USB) is that they are inconvenient in the move - dedicated SIM card, sticking out of the port, easy to get lost. Drivers are stability and security nightmare too.

Next problem is that 5G/4G need to meet some local frequency usage restrictions thus the devices need to differ between countries/regions. The market is too small to invest in separate certification, sales and distribution.
The same applies to smartphones but the market is bigger and the issue is handled well already.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Delhi, India, Global chip sales and wafer shipments drop again in Q1, March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million, Logistics robots market set to grow to almost $40 billion by 2033
You could of course search for yourself, but it's a python library[1] for interfacing with "Spark"[2], the Apache large scale data processing framework.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/pyspark/

[2] https://spark.apache.org/
From memory Bill Gates barely mentioned the internet in his first edition of road ahead in early 95. By late 95 the second edition entire book was revolving around the internet as if he had an epiphany.
We could use it here in South Africa.

The bulk of our power comes from coal fired plants but due to the low quality coal for cost reasons and thus high sulphur and lack of preventative maintenance it results in boiler tube leaks nearly every week.

Some of our plants are at the end of their lives and their replacements are no better off due to corruption and a malady of technically incompetent builders (looking at you Hitachi South Africa).

7000MW out of commission so we get daily power cuts for half the day.

Those like myself who have the ability just install home solar systems for some measure of sanity while most companies are using diesel standby generators for their infrastructure.

Walking into the office park and you can hear the chugg chugg and smell the fumes.
Your grandparents use ChatGPT? For what?
to my sibling comment, so what you're saying is, mob rule? this is probably defacto how it is, but it does not make it right. Nobody else has any rights to what I own, and I dont have rights to them. this kind of thinking that the "society" can just set rules that violates other people is a sick and disgusting development, this form of communist cancer has to be destroyed.
Imagine contracting a company and their programmer is a KGB hacker and nobody is ever allowed to see the source code.
No it won't and random search popup results are already a massive societal problem (and they're not even used like people are attempting to use AI - to make decisions over other peoples lives in insurance, banking, law enforcement and other areas where abuse is common when unchecked).
Did not age well
Surely pollution from indoor stoves are irrelvant in a discussion about nuclear?
A recipe for narcissism, loneliness, emptiness.
This seems like it will result in a much more costly on-boarding process new employees.

Currently, if you hire some freshly minted phd to work on ML stuff, chances are they have read most the specialty's relevant cutting-edge research. Moving forward these same phds may have to spend months learning your fancy model architectures just to be somewhat useful. Hopefully at the end of that extended on-boarding, google doesn't find out their new hire is a complete dud. I guess if you have money, burn it.

Plus, if I spend years working on research at Google only to be unable to take those skills with me to my next job... well I wouldn't say yes to that job in the first place. Why not put a big sign on the door that proudly reads "lifers only"?
I'm surrounded by people who produce lots of things, researchers, writers, developers, teachers, ... While money matters, I'm pretty sure it's secondary in their lives. So, not convinced about the "motivation" angle. Maybe it's a US thing?
Whether that "leak" is genuine is not clear, but what is clear is that building LLM / AI capability is no longer a major technical hurdle, definitely not for any entity of the size of Amazon or Apple.

The timescale for integrating such tools into existing business models or developing new business models is a different story. They don't need to impress the over-exited social media echo chambers, they need to project 1) legal (not subject to lawsuits), 2) stable (not a fad) and 3) defendable (the moat thingy) cash flows for multi-years forward.

Actually the hoopla of the past year where a lot of preliminary stuff is released/discussed/leaked does not fit at all the playbook of a "serious" corporate. Not clear what it really means, maybe big tech is feeling that the status quo is very fragile, so they take more risk than necessary or maybe they are so confident that they don't care about optics.
You're not aware of the existence of water fountains?
Concrete: A fully homomorphic encryption compiler
So the thing is that in one respect they actually do get caching, almost to a fault. One of the complaints I've seen among some Mastodon instance operators is that they end up storing some pretty hefty amounts of data locally as their instance caches remote posts, images and profiles from other instances that its members follow. One source of problems, which may have been resolved, was that even though there's a job that cleans out this cache the banner images from external profiles stick around. I saw this a while back and it seems like an easy fix so I imagine it's been addressed.

I don't think I am equipped to diagnose what the root cause was here. It's even possible that this instance wasn't intended to have viral posts (i.e. high profile posts that get would get shared to many external users) and they didn't want to invest in hardware/services to facilitate this.
Why teaching robots to blink is hard but important
I don't think you understand my argument - and I certainly don't understand yours.

My argument is wholly secular and realistic. It's summed up as 'exploration/play of mental states', which applies even to your flashing-lights-and-technicolor straw-man.

It doesn't rely on 'hypnotic movements' or 'rhythmic drumming'; or a monomyth, or cultural surroundings, or 'they did it thus it's natural'. Or flashing lights, or wastelands, or ancestral visions, etc.

Perhaps you could read my comment again, with a little more care and a lot less caricature.
you do not have to be happy with something to not want to personally be responsibility. and to everyone here who thinks otherwise.

there are millions of malnutritioned people, including children, in many parts of the world. And i put fourth that you are happy they starve and get sick and die. After all, you arent spending all your money and effort trying to fix it? is it not your problem?

I would prefer that nobody is homeless, nobody starves, but at the same time, it is not my responsibility to do anything about it. Stealing my money via taxes and doing something(which to make it even worse, is a BAD something), is an attack on me
You really underestimate scammers. If you create a popular social network and there is money to be made, they'll find a way. They'll visit a developing country and pay people $5 to hold a fake ID card for a photo or video. Paying $5,000 for 1,000 fake accounts isn't a problem for them, because they'll quickly make that money back selling likes, followers, or pushing advertisements.

This quickly changes the premise of your service from a verified social network with content written by real humans, to a social network with mostly real paying users, some fake paying users, and any content you see may or may not be written by a bot. Is it really that different from other social networks at that point?
That is an oddly specific analogy ...
Does anyone know the performance of this vs BLIP-2?
Also "Orwellian radon snag"
> [1] - they're doing an open beta and letting a little trickle of users on, who post about it on their Twitter/Mastodon/whatever. Feels a bit deliberate, like they're trying to build anticipation and frankly I detest little manipulative things like that so I'm out

Frankly this cynicism feels unwarranted. Bluesky is not a finished product — it is still being built and, even with the small number of invited users so far, there have been problems that have needed attention. The moderation story is still being developed, the feeds are still being tweaked, the app still has bugs, federation still doesn't work yet. Having some users makes for a valuable feedback loop but the team would rapidly become inundated and burnt out (and the platform would possibly turn into a wild-west hellscape with irreversible reputational damage) if they were to open the floodgates entirely at this stage.
In a similar sense EU has mandated that wastewater is to be treated in even very small villages. For those same second-order improvements, a sewer system may sound like a luxury but it does avoid a lot of shit.
Yes, price = quality because they require supercomputing resources to train. GPT-3 required hundreds of Tesla GPUs running for several weeks. That's millions of dollars just for hardware, not including power (the GPUs cost $15k each)
We always decommission boats, planes, buildings, and space stations are no different. They are even more prone to issues, external or internal, are very difficult to repair or upgrade.
They are behaving like relentless children.

Unfortunately, it's not a bad strategy. Ask most any parent tired at the end of a long week, month or year.
Blocking the screen is annoying, though. I prefer the banner-style ones which you can actually almost ignore if you're "just" trying to do something super quick on one page and couldn't care less about the domain's cookie settings.

Or don't even ask me about cookies until I've navigated to a second page. I'm not a GDPR expert but I assume that's an acceptable use of cookies without consent, to track whether more than one page has been visited yet. And I'm more likely to stay on your site without an immediate banner notice.
Such risks would likely not be allowed today.
Well that's the core (or one of the cores) of modern US society - everybody for themselves. Maybe its not written on dollar bill, but if you look closely enough you can see it in various aspects of society. Gun wielding (for protection from other folks but government too, very common mindset in gun culture), having right to shoot folks that enter your property, whole health insurance system, whole social system, and definitely higher education. Basically a class system based on wealth/income.

I just named basic pillars of any modern society. Yes economic approach is very effective in open markets and due to historical reasons gives US top spot in global economy, but society as a whole is much more selfish and less humane. Not something future generations will look and judge kindly, unless we reverse massively due to some catastrophes (and then nobody will care about the past anyway).

One of the reasons very few people from richer western Europe strive to move to US, its just a bad quality of life overall and more 'primitive' cruel society, which define actually important stuff in life much more than just raw paycheck amount. And yes its cruel, walk among homeless folks in LA that should be in professional psychiatric facilities, and not dying slowly on streets in front of everybody, without much care, for decades.
The infamous Bill Gates and David Letterman interview was in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgODUgHeT5Y Lots of people definitely didn't understand what a big deal it was going to be then.

In October 1994 a Wired journalist registered mcdonalds.com and then tried to give it to Mcdonalds, but couldn't reach anyone who understood the importance of domain name registration: https://archive.is/tHaea

In my recollection it really wasn't til 1998-2001 or so that people (where I lived in the southern U.S. anyway) really started to take notice.
I wonder what would have happened if refunds caused your balance to overflow? Would WotC send the Pinkertons round to get those billions of gems you owe as debt off you?
There's quite a few 3D scanning hardware products and phone apps of varying quality and price:

https://medium.com/@ilia.krotov/best-apps-for-3d-head-and-bo...
It is but the Node developers developers didn't roll their own JavaScript runtime.
Excuse me, I was being snarky. I agree that we are low on information, but I guess we disagree on how low. You imply we have so little information the outcome is basically random, which I think is a bit too extreme.

I don't find it far-fetched to imagine current AI research - not just LLMs - to get us to AGI-likeness in years (5-10). I deliberately use "likeness", because I also think we will never agree on what it means and if we ever reach it.

Digressing here because no one will read it anyway, but if my knowledge of humanity is anything to go by, we will be surrounded by robots and software systems of varying levels of intelligence doing just about anything a normal human could do and we would still be discussing if we ever reach mythical AGI.

Personally I think abstract, pure form AGI is impossible, even in biological systems. We don't scale infinitely and I don't even mean in the physical "too-much-data-to-handle" sense, I mean qualitatively. I think there is a very real ceiling to what kinds of mentation are possible by us and thus what results are achievable. Again, not just quantitatively, but qualitatively.

We have examples of this in the animal realm. Some of them show signs of for all intents and purposes "general" intelligence. But they will never scale to human levels of cognition. Even simple human concepts are out of reach, yet they outperform us on other problems (maze solving, memory, etc). You cannot teach a great ape what you can teach our children. People have tried. They are thus general, because you can teach them just about anything within their "bandwidth", but they are still constrained. I very strongly suspect the same holds for us. It's just that we have no superiors (or even peers) to compare to.

I think future AI systems will doubt we are AGI.
just like ios autocomplete is seeded with your addressbook, usually but not always to your detriment.
That is a very extreme view of property that is not shared by vast sections of global society. The German constitution has a very explicit article that states "Property obligates. Its use should simultaneously contribute to the wellbeing of the general public" (my translation) for example.

Similarly, EU jurisprudence has confirmed that laws and regulations can limit the absolute control over individual property, if that contributes to an overall more important social good. Many countries around the world actually do not have permanent private ownership of land/buildings or limit it in significant ways. Historically, basically all societies and legal systems have limited individual property rights in certain, sometimes very extreme ways. The Uber-liberal definition of property that you cite is something of an outlier.

Regarding your question on rent control in Germany: There are several layers:

- Some housing is government/municipality owned (unfortunately not a lot). The rent for those usually covers the cost of providing that housing but not more so it is quite cheap.

- Some private property has been built with government subsidies. This is bound for a certain time (I think 20 years or so) to a government-set rent and tenants usually profit from this even afterwards, because it is very hard in Germany to increase rent on existing tenants.

- Since 2015 there has been a national law on rent control. It covers municipalities which have been specifically designated by state governments. Landlords covered by the law can not increase the rent for a new tenant by more than 10% over the local average, but there are a lot of exceptions: buildings built or substantially improved after 1st October 2014, properties that already had a higher rent prior to the law, etc. It also relies on the tenants for enforcement and their willingness to engage in a protracted legal battle.

- Berlin tried to introduce much harsher rent controls. These were declared illegal by the courts, because state governments (in the view of the courts) do not have the competency to introduce certain types of rent control.

> if you own several places and the rent imposed by the authorities is too low for you to turn a profit, then it's not worth renting either.

This may be the case for new construction. But most existing properties are paid off, ongoing investment is limited (I can say this with some authority, as I own a couple of properties in two different German cities). The huge rent increases in German cities do not come from long-term tenants (because they are protected against steep increases by law). It comes from landlords taking advantage of huge demand by increasing the rent dramatically for new tenants. This is pure profit for the landlord, as the property has been profitable even before the rent increase. This is what most attempts at rent control in Germany are targeted at.
in French we have chien (dog) / niche (doghouse)
> Numerical differentiation is still important e.g. for differential equation solvers.

Is this a misunderstanding? You use differential equation solvers when all you know is how to calculate the derivative(s) of the function, and you want to get the function itself as the solution. Where would you need numerical differentiation in this?
That's just to run a model already trained by a multi-billion dollar company. And we are "lucky" a corporation gave it to the public. Training such a model requires tons of compute power and electricity.
Smaller Banks Are Scrambling as Share Prices Plunge
Anvil has been great. I'm a happy subscriber. As someone requested above for Pynecone, could Anvil also make a tutorial for creating ChatGPT clone (UI wrapper for ChatGPT/gpt-4) using Anvil?
I wait for the day someone fine-tunes an open model to always respond in JSON. I suspect it won't be long now.
Doesn't capitalism demand infinite growth? If you don't have >= 2% YoY, the market thinks you're dead

No, it doesn't. There are plenty of businesses, and even entire industries that have operated for centuries on less than 2% growth. And yet somehow the world kept turning.
Hacker News has 3.4 million users per month and 350,000 users per day, with 4 million pageviews a day. There are just under 1 million registered accounts, with several hundred added each day. Users post around 1,000 articles and 6,000 comments to the site per day. https://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter
It's an excellent movie
McCartney is still alive.
It's actually just below Critical Mass. (For obvious reasons).

You need sufficient fissile material to provide the increased neutron flow generating heat which you can use to power generators, but you have to then extract that heat efficiently to prevent your nuclear core from literally melting.
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Nothing has intrinsic recreational or attractive value, including the Grand Canyon, the Niagara Falls and Yosemite. Desire is often mimetic.

The counterparts to this are that a) many people would rather go somewhere slightly less attractive that isn't overcrowded and b) lots of people are attracted, at least in part, by going somewhere novel.

The fact that there is a certain challenge involved in getting as many people as possible (but no more) to the prettiest sites while finding less pretty but still enjoyable alternatives to those who can't make it is exactly why land management and tourism agencies exist.
Yeah, as a government buyer, IBM is indistinguishable from the other big integrator/consulting firms (BAH, Deloitte, Lockheed, Mitre to an extent). Literally, whatever we want, they will swear they can build. The challenge is getting the spec right.
> How do you determine what should be part of the lexing phase and what should be part of the parsing phase?

Recursion. If your thing can contain other things, it requires a full parser. Otherwise a lexer can handle it.

In other words, use a lexer when a regular language is sufficient to describe the input and a parser when it's not.

Lexer:

12345

Parser:

[123 [45]]
They're basically saying that Pandora's Box, assuming it exists, has already been open. Even if OpenAI, Facebook AI Research and Google DeepMind all shut down tomorrow, research capable of producing agents will continue worldwide.
His pal Richard Milhous Nixon = Nix Hanoi child rumors
This is the american way. What is surprising to me is that nobody is upset about this. United states presents itself as bastion of freedom and lean gov with minimum taxes. Yet the taxes are comparably pretty high and the gov money seems to go only up to rich companies and individuals who pretend like this money doesn't exist.
They should EARN the right to have their bullshit laws debated.
> They're not gleaming perfection like the Enterprise, it's more like trying to maintain a creaky thirty-year-old RV.

The ISS has a mould problem due to spores brought in by crew rotations. The crews have to spend significant amounts of time each day just cleaning walls and other surfaces.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/international-space-station-...