skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Taskpaper-style tags with values like `@done(2023-05-04)`.

Unfortunately the only good Taskpaper client is on Mac: no decent Windows/web/mobile clients.

Someday, I'll get my PIM built... it will be a cross between TaskPaper, nvAlt, SimpleNote, and Drafts app.

Right now, I mostly use SimpleNote (just for keeping notes across devices; not so much for tasks)
I figured that. I would love to contribute compute to such a thing. Is there any effort or development in progress? What are the hurdles?
What's the difference between not caring what other people think and sociopathy?

There are two error modes: Listening too much to people and not listening to them enough. Maybe it is some sort of mental or personality failing on my part that I cannot choose to completely disregard unjustified hate. It's still hate and it still hurts. And I'm not entirely convinced that that's bad.
https://archive.md/Qakjh
Is midjourneys model actually better?

I was under the impression that midjourney was just running a form of SD and it's real secret sauce are the peripheral prompts it injects on the backend along with your prompts.

I could be totally off the mark here.
We can worry about that next year. I fully expect GM to walk back some of it's recent announcements based on strongly negative feedback from customers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801392 (603 comments)
I'm not convinced it is really about something as simple as salaries. If it was people would be flocking to SV from here. They are not. The vast majority of those who could get jobs in SV stay here. And the vast majority of those who do take jobs in SV, eventually come back.

I have had that choice to move to SV several times. And no doubt make a pile of money. But I don't want to live in the US. I want to live here. And if you follow indices that measure quality of life, security, democracy, freedom etc. it is easy to see why. Norway is usually at the top of those indices -- the US very much isn't.

I think this is also the reason we have an anemic tech sector: if you have a lot to lose, you become risk averse. Why start a company and gamble money when you can find a mediocre, well paid job where you work 7.5 hours per day, 5 days per week, go home at the end of the day and focus on what you want to do?

I think part of our problem is a lack of fear of not making it. We don't have to make it to have a good life. And we know it.

(It is also a factor that the cost of living in SV is a lot higher than here. I did the numbers many years ago, and I'd have to make more than double what I make here to have the same amount of disposable income in SV)
But if you enable Advanced Protection then recovery/backup codes are disabled right? (Maybe I’m wrong)

So the only option to have recovery codes available is to not used advanced protection and then have this “Google Prompt” forced on you, which I’d like to disable as it is another physical attack vector which is undesirable especially when travelling.
Is midjourney still using discord as its primary user interface? That really turned me off.
[Privacy guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/) is also a great site for this. Prism-break updates fairly slow unlike privacy guides. However, PG leans heavily into usability and commercial software, recommanding questionable software including 1password. Also, PG prefers updating system (so mostly non-ubuntu based) but including opensuse and arch, which has questionable risk from rapid upstream update. Overall, both sites are great info.
Also they promote Brave way too much, stick to Firefox/Librewolf/Mull. That's a bad rec.
Why do you think they're "defending this technology" when their comment explicitly highlights how this doesn't go against the activist's core point, only a nitpick of a specific argument about "technical progress"?
I think the another great paper is RLHF article from Chip Huyen

https://huyenchip.com/2023/05/02/rlhf.html
You are sentient because you can choose to ignore many of your inputs. You can choose to ignore people’s words and you can choose to ignore signals in your own body. A machine cannot choose to ignore it’s inputs.

I disagree if you are taking your argument to the conclusion that we do not have free will.
> The reason they don’t want AI open to the internet (and public) is how easily one can identify money laundering and stock/real estate fraud.

What do you mean?
For me, the amenities of a Vte based terminal outweigh the slight negative of it being somewhat slow.

That said, not all Vte based terminals are equal, IIRC last time I had to hunt quite far to find one that handled some of the more esoteric key modifier combinations properly, and since then I've been settled on it (Sakura)
Peak humanity in this thread:) The trade-offs are driving a Mercedes at 250 km/h vs 295 km/h; or some Apple camera with three lenses vs one lens. I am so glad I live in a country where I have to make these choices.
Do you take any criticism with this attitude?

Everyone is stupid at times, question is if we are willing to learn from mistakes.

Like denying many years of research with good predictive qualities, which you could probably also see personally, should have made you suspect about your point of view.
It’s so bad they should be outlawed. The fact that YouTube doesn’t give you a way to disable them is so dirty. I wonder how their PMs sleep at night. The greed to monetize at the expense of user health has made me lose trust with them.
> Can you get better performance from your Mercedes EV through another provider? No?

No, but you can sell it and buy a Tesla. Having more features is just "selling a better product". By that standard any optional feature on a market-leading product is "rent-seeking", and that's silly. Is the App Store rent seeking? Is selling junk on Fortnite rent seeking?

No, that's just "selling products". Rent seeking is a specific form of market distortion, and the concept just doesn't apply to consumer products. It's about stuff like real estate control or regulatory capture. As always Wikipedia has a great page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I think from the perspective of a Google researcher/engineer, it must be alarming to see the crazy explosion going on w/ LLM development. We've gone from just one or two weirdos implementing papers (eg https://github.com/lucidrains?tab=repositories who's amazing) to now an explosion where basically every dev and PhD student is hacking on neat new things and having a field day and "lapping" (eg productizing) what Google Research was previously holding back.

And we're also seeing amazing fine-tunes/distillations of very useful/capable smaller models - there's no denying that things have gotten better and more importantly, cheaper way faster than anyone expected. That being said, most of these are being trained with the help of GPT-4, and so far nothing I've seen being done publicly (and I've been spending a lot of time tracking these https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kT4or6b0Fedd-W_jMwYp...) gets close in quality/capabilities to GPT-4.

I'm always rooting for the open source camp, but I think the flip-side is that there are still only a handful of organizations in the world that can train a >SoTA foundational model, and that having a mega-model is probably a huge force multiplier if you know how to take advantage of it (eg, I can't imagine that OpenAI has been able to release software at the pace they have been without leveraging GPT-4 for co-development; also can you distill or develop capable smaller models without a more capable foundational model to leverage?). Anthropic for example has recently taken the flip side of the "no moat" argument, arguing that there is a potential winner-take-all scenario where the lead may become insurmountable if one group gets too far ahead in the next couple years. I guess what we'll just have to see, but my suspicion, is that the crux to the "moat" question is going to be whether the open source approach can actually train a GPT-n++ system.
"Rent seeking" does not mean "seeking to charge rental fees" but that seems to be how it's being used by GP and others here.
TLDR
“We must regulate,” says regulator.
Naah, they use method of conveyance for that.

Expats are yacht refugees, not boat.
btw. macOS supports some Emacs(ish) keybindings by default https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
I forgot to add that not only did I see it in glossy form, but it was monochrome (so more or less exactly as it appeared on the computer screen). I wasn't even ware that a color version existed.
Well, OpenAI does exist. I'm not eager for some lunatic to commit me to damnatio memoriae.

Chances are quite good that there exist people who you would be unhappy with me ensuring are deleted from Wikipedia, for instance.

You have no right to make someone forget me.
What does "spin" mean?
Unfortunately the "business environment" is a bunch of things with a lot of path dependency and clustering, even in terms of regulation it's most helpful to have (even by coincidence) made what turned out to be important choices decades ago. I recommend "How Law Made Silicon Valley" https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... which contrasts with EU and Japan. Still, no time like the present to start getting to a better place.
Seeking Feedback on Earcake Sounds/Kitchen (health-based record label and blog)
Hello fellow languages users (robotic or not),

My name is Shehrose Mian -- though I've been spelling it more like Shehrose Mia(n) to capture the original name's phonetic intent (there are multiple 'n' sounds in the Urdu language, this one being the 'nun ghunna', a simple nasal aspiration (no directly vocalized tongue-palate contact)). So 'Mian' as 'Mia(n)' really sounds like 'Mia' as the character Squidward might articulate it (from the TV show Spongebob Squarepants).

In any case, I graduated from Brown University with a BA in philosophy, a period after which my philosophical rite of passage really began a la René Descartes -- trying to empty one's mind of preconceptions and coming to what is necessary even if new. Part of that journey included meditating on my family roots of Sufi Islam (a de-politicized Islam focused on loving self-criticism and devotion to an Abrahamic conception of God).

What I essentially realized was that the humanistic tradition of Islam (the Hadith, as it's called) and the more esoteric Word of God (the Qu'ran) together implied the concept of 'artistic nutrition'. Where the Hadith mentions a prophetic preference for beauty over obedience (the idea of aesthetic revolution as divinely permissible), the Qu'ran -- much like Zen Buddhism, broadly construed -- is adamant about avoiding intoxicants (those substances that cloud perceptual clarity, given the existence of objective Nature). Together, it looks as though disagreement with any Islamic authorities can be mediated by the concept of 'artistic nutrition'.

Encouraged by this line of reasoning, I recently founded a health-based record label focused on 'musical nutrition' (a sub-category of 'artistic nutrition'). The record label's blog, called Earcake Kitchen, can be found at this link I shared. The actual record label is called Earcake Sounds (found here: www.earcakesounds.bandcamp.com). The pacing of the blogging has been slowed down due to the development of a new website for the whole thing (I'm leaving, as Substack does not encrypt subscriber emails from the blogger in question). But perhaps I may post some private writings to help situate the idea more in secular terms.

That said, I am open and receptive to feedback about this all; I go in more detail on the blog. And speaking more frankly, I'm super excited to be able to do such work for its own sake. Even more, I'm motivated by doing what's logically healthful for all, because cognitive well-being seems to be one of those wholesome "combustions" whereby experiencing it for oneself inspires social fractals therein.

Gratefully,

Shehrose
Hi Sai, do you have an email address (or other preferred private message) I could contact you on? Feel free to send it to the relay email in my profile if you want to avoid putting it publicly (or reply here how to contact you).

I'll ask my first question here below, so that if you have an answer it can benefit other HNers, and I'll save the other line of thought for email.

Do you happen to have a list of other highest quality articles on AI/LLMs/etc that you've come across, and could share here?

It's not my field but something I want to learn more about, and I've found it hard to, without knowing much about the specific subjects within AI that would be good to learn about makes it hard picking what to read or not.
I did my own calculations based on plotting loss on benchmarks compared to models with known parameters and training data, as well as using a quote from Sam Altman that said that GPT-4 would not use very many more parameters than GPT-3. Based on this, I estimated that GPT-4 probably used about 250B parameters, and since I had an estimate for the total compute I was able to estimate that the training data was about 15T tokens. 250B parameters times 15T tokens times 6 (https://medium.com/@dzmitrybahdanau/the-flops-calculus-of-la...) means the compute was about 2.2510^25 FLOPs. I estimated that A100s cost about $1/hr and can process about 5.410^17 FLOPs at 50% efficiency per hour. Therefore, the compute cost would be (2.2510^25)/(5.410^17) or about $40 million.

Interestingly, my own calculations lined up pretty well with this calculation, although they approached the problem from a different direction (a leak by Morgan Stanley about how many GPUs OpenAI used to train GPT-4 as well as an estimate of how long it was trained):
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1O99z9b1I5O66bT78r9S...

Sam Altman has also stated that GPT-4 cost more than $100 million to train, and replication can cost 2-4x less compute.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of...

If you know of an organization that can replicate GPT-4 for $400k to $4m I would love to know so that I can invest in them.
I am not super motivated to promote cheating with boss'es mistress as a replacement for porn and sex work. Even then, people are only motivated to cheat with someone fairly hot in the first place, so it doesn't solve the problem. "Find someone of your own caliber and stick with him/her" does for everyone except outliers, but not going to happen.
> The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough.

This is like blaming Bitcoin for your exchange collapsing. :p

The point has been missed hardcore.
> In case you wonder why real estate prices haven't dropped significantly in Europe that's why.

For sure there is a slowdown and some markets are dropping (Sweden, Luxembourg).
For what it's worth, in my little corner of the world, all of the recursive descent parsers I've seen and worked with have separate lexers. I can't recall seeing a single recursive descent parser in industry that didn't separate lexing.

However, I do often see a little fudging the two together for funny corners of the language. Often that just means handling ">>" as right-shift in some contexts and nested generics in others.
I call bullshit on this one.

Apple allows a Parent / Guardian account to reset the password of a child account. I do not have to do anything. I can just go into my iCloud settings and just reset my child’s account right away. Also, Apple does not allow you to create a child account (below 13) without having a parent account attached to it.

My guess is that you lied during account creation and created an adult account for your child and then you handed that account password and the reset mechanism to your child and he /she lost BOTH of them. In which case, Apple should still help you but I would say - you are more at fault here than Apple
Yeah for sure, which is why I’m not fussed about not being able to use Advanced Protection because I don’t fit in with their target audience.

But I do wish that people on standard accounts could just disable their forced “Google Prompt” authentication method and just use their own 2FA security keys with fallback to backup codes.
Yeah, but fire is a manufactured problem. Animals live quite well without fire. Build out of mud and don't use thatch.
You are honestly arguing that if I create a better widget factory, I need to pay everyone else who owns the means of producing widgets in inferior ways some of my money?
What do those have to do with that? A processor has no need to know anything about constexpr, auto, or static_assert.

In fact I don't see anything that needs support anywhere but the actual compiler.
That's so far from my experiences in 3 countries.

In the UK Monzo and Revoult have quick access free bank accounts. I don't pay anything to have debit cards and saving accounts.

1 account in Germany, I pay 2€ per month for the account, includes a saving account, but no debit or credit card, only online access.

2 accounts in Poland where I also don't pay anything, unless I don't spent 300-350PLN (65e) per month using the debit cards. If I don't use debit card enough banks subtract 14PLN (3€). My saving accounts in PLN are 7%, 8% and 10%.

Maybe talk to your coworkers about better banks and deals, you're being taken advantage of.
Oh man, you just reminded me of Skyrim/Oblivion and Source glitches/exploits. Both such a trip, lol.

Here's a good "funny for the day" ;P : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6hVmn9FM7o
Not euro bonds, but bonds specific to a country.
In terms of data, OSM is so far ahead of Google maps in my experience. The rendering is much better too. What's not there is obvious and easy to use tooling that anyone can interact with. I mean, there might be, but I don't know about it.
Safeguarding Software: Embracing Security Design Principles in SW Development
May the Fork Be with You
Why I will never buy a Mercedes EV.
> "people who continue to use despite negative consequences ... continue to suffer negative consequences."

That's an inaccurate paraphrase. What they're saying is that people who continue to use despite negative consequences are more likely to suffer this particular negative consequence. Not as strong a statement as the headline, perhaps, but also not as weak as your misparaphrase.
> In response to an inquiry from Reuters, the USDA said it had found no conflicts of interest on Neuralink’s board when the department inspected its animal-research operations during 10 inspections since 2020. The company has passed all inspections with no citations, according to public records and a person with knowledge of the examinations.

If the regulator says everything is OK, we can't expect the company to think/act otherwise. They passed all inspections and are acting according to the law. If we want change at Neuralink, the law and the regulator need to change.
Also see vim-like-pile[1]

[1] https://vim.reversed.top/
1. Euro?

2. Which bank, which country?
How does the Google Analytics script work?
> So again, the mind that conceives of measuring the "mastery" of the human mind using a single scalar value is the mind of a fool

I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the concept. Mastery levels are a huge vector of how well you've demonstrated various skills. The main idea is that you don't move on to a later skill until you've shown high proficiency in the skills that it depends upon.

Of course, there's always room for judgment and to adjust things based on individual students.

> You cannot actually educate a child outside of a deep, sustained (20-30 years), one-to-one relationship between a caring adult who is sane mentally and emotionally and the child.

In the end, educators do depend upon the parental relationship to be successful. But I get an awful lot done with excited students in several weeks of 40 minutes per day (average).

> (I was educated in public school in San Francisco. Fair warning: you're not going to be able to change my mind about how much of a bad idea modern schooling is. I'm still feeling the effects three decades later.)

I didn't enjoy my school years much. That's part of why I'm here and teaching. Plugging my ears and going "la la la" about the evidence and just doing what I want is not how I will make anything better.

> there's the problem with the very idea that education can be researched.

You can definitely divide students into groups, and do different things, and measure outcomes. We have that for mastery, for tutorial methods, for some things like "flipped classrooms," etc.

You can also do case control studies, though you need to be very cautious because of confounds.
For SolarWinds hack, there also remains the question whether there was any insider job.
They're languages for descriptions of reactive dataflow. That they happen to specialize in dataflow which is synthesizable as hardware doesn't change that they're programming languages.

(Yes, it's easy to accidentally write unsynthesizable code in them -- but similar issues hold true for many declarative languages.)
For weaker and riskier currencies.

I can get 7% bonds for RON...
Thank you for posting the Kmart tape. I pressed play and I thought it wasn't working and hopped in the shower. Then it started playing and I was awash with Nostalgia and I was in Kmart at Christmas in 1990 again. Thank you.
A Kinesis Advantage keyboard with the foot pedal to activate keypad mode and the necessary settings gets you home row navigation, '0', '/', 'y' -- any single key operation that can be implemented as a sequence of keys. Limited, but that's truly every app, even for computers on which you don't have admin/sudo (or just don't want to bother customizing).
I’ve been using kindavim, this looks more powerful though, gonna try it out!

https://kindavim.app/
What are you talking about? You can fork the code and go nuts. There's an open source license attached to the code. It's the definition of free and open source code. Jesus we're getting into demented territory here.
I'm kind of with you.

I'm barely an expert with embedded/EE, more like an engineer with 5 years experience in the field. If there is anything that is extremely basic, its LEDs.

I was wondering if they were going to be able to figure out how to send bits through wifi to control the light without any auth.

Nope, they rewired the board to external LEDs.

I should feel like a genius after seeing someone put the time into this, and HN upvoted it. Instead I'm a bit disappointed.
Old ball of dirt never gets old to look at.
There's so much activity around SQLite nowadays - surely some of it must be applicable to dialing up the coolness of Fossil.
Sort of like sports recruiters.
Well, I decided that having saving accounts that have interest of 1.2%-8% (GBP, EUR, PLN) isn't really worth it with such inflation 11-18%, so decided to fuck up years of savings and put all money into mortgage overpayments.
You don't have to use bad words. But since you brought it up - here is a recent lesson. Consumers do not like touch screens and it seems car makers are listening: https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touch-screen...
It could, though there is some work I believe on certain receptors which THC also happens to increase the activation of activating latent schizophrenia.
The request is to delete from future training data. They don't remove it from outputs or address the fact that the model(s) has already been trained on the old data.
$500k/day for a large tech company is absolutely peanuts. Open.AI could probably even get away with justifying $5M/day right now.
Take a look at the profit margin (and market valuation) of automotive companies and compare them to tech companies. Now also make a comparison of average developer/engineer salaries at both.

Is it not OK for the automotive folks to get to the same level as their FAANG brethren?

Disclaimer: I work for an automotive OEM.