skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not my experience. There's lots of extremely good programmers here. Sure, they're hard to recruit, but so are they in the US.

Cities like Amsterdam and Berlin have a huge crowd of great tech people and most don't speak the local language.

Of course people exist who move to wherever the salaries are the highest, but way more people want to be able to visit mom and dad every once in a while.
I think he is talking about quantitative tightening.
Yes...

> "we will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome"

... has big "don't be evil" energy.

I believe the next step was "we can do little a evil, as a treat."
Reddit has links to plenty, base64 encoded, although most of them tend to be really shit and not much better quality than just perusing your usual... marketplace of torrential magnets, for NSPs.
Cars should be the exception rather than the rule. We have spent so long catering to them that we have ruined our downtowns and public transit systems. We have diverted funding that should have been spent on transportation for everyone to individual transportation. This has left North American elderly, disabled, and youth trapped and unable to move around our hostile and ugly cities.

A farm truck or tractor makes a lot of sense in the middle of a farming community to do work. The same truck or tractor in an urban downtown will kill children and crowd out transit.
That is the nature of the singularity. Progress moves faster than any one person or any one company can keep up with.
They can just use 64-bit slots for everything (it does leave unused 32bit for each 32bit local variable, but there are not many, and you get the benefit of the same logic no matter what you store there, plus it has the same performance on 64-bit systems)

Edit: mind explaining the downvote ?
Is there any evidence this is real? It reads like an article written not for google but for fans of open source in their competitors supposed voice.
Reminds me of the old Celeron days 25+ years ago. The premise of paying different amounts for the same hardware always gets us hackers riled up.
The DEC Alpha was a 64 bit CPU architecture that came out in 1992. Java support it from Java 1.0 to ~ Java 3

Interestingly, I can't find any information on Google about this, but ChatGPT does support this. Unfortunately all the primary sources it gave me are for docs that no longer exist on the web. The Wayback machine was no help. The old web is dead :(
Atheism isn't a belief system predicated on the existence of supernatural forces for whom we have no evidence. Wouldn't call it brainwashing.
I don't think that's obvious. That's the question I was alluding to. What is self-awareness?

I build robots as a hobby. My robots are aware of their their environment and their place in it. In that sense, they're "self-aware" but nobody would argue they're conscious.

The underlying problem is that we have all these words that imply a precision that doesn't exist. All we can say for certain is that consciousness and self-awareness are effects we experience. Beyond that, all bets are off. We can't even really say what these things actually are.
It’s always easier to use a prebuilt server which Google or OpenAI offers. Otherwise it’s built locally into the OS, maybe Apple. Most people is not gonna setup their own servers for these models because they have multiple devices and the costs is still high vs OpenAI.

Having ease of access is a big moat
How does AutoIt compare to AHK? I realize AutoIt is not open-source (free EXE), but besides that what are the key differences? The AutoIt VisualBasic-like language looks easier to learn for those of us who grew up on Microsoft. Can anyone confirm that?
The U.S. has more banks than anywhere on Earth, shaping the economy in many ways
Google is cracking down on this recently.
> [T]he classic hackers lost that linguistic battle or at least achieved stalemate decades ago.

The classic hackers weren't above breaking computer or even physical security where they felt it was in the way of their work or curiosity, either, so in relation to pre-extortionist hacking it's probably less like a battle Stallman and others branded it as and more like a messy civil war. Of course, once less-than-technical reporters get into it, everybody else might as well give up (witness "dark web").

I did have the same misunderstanding as you, to be fair :)
Twitter played a role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank – new research
None of this matters. Zuck changed the game by dropping a cannonball on a rolling deck and pseudo-releasing Llama. You can try to rein in the monster by filling AI companies with ethicists and all that shit but everyone has a god in a bottle now and no one has a need to hold back.
Yes, there is a group of you guys who believe so for whatever reason.

The matter of fact is that it is a metric of human intelligence and of all known metrics of human intelligence it is one of the best. Considering you still gauge people on intelligence with something you came up internally that you consider reasonable, and that whatever is that that you use internally is almost certainly worse than IQ, I'd say you're full of shit and/or lack logic :)
You (and I) lived through an era when media was tightly controlled by a few corporations and influenced by CIA propaganda operations. People think it was objective because there were no alternatives available to compare it to.

And now that there are, the examples of American media fabricating stories, getting stories wrong, blindly repeating corporate or government propaganda or failing to look critically (or even intelligently) at the narratives they spread are so numerous that to assume we live in an anomalous phase of media corruption seems far less likely than that media has always been like this and people are only now aware of just how utterly rotten it all is. That's all the evidence anyone needs.
It's curious that the market (almost?) always decides what is bad for the consumer and profitable for the companies. As a person who is a person not a company, I would rather we don't let the market decide so much about our lives.

Examples: Smart (spying ad-showing) TVs, non-compete agreements, water heater rentals, not-really-unlimited "unlimited data" cell plans, surveillance economy, only-rentable-not-buyable software and films and TV shows and audiobooks, etc.
That's what a lot of people think until they run Vicuna 13B or equivalent. We're just 5 months in this, there will be many leaps.
>Is it the "people" as a group of singular individuals, or the "people" as a group. I almost wish the founders had set up the same structure that Switzerland had, instead of making it so ambiguous.

Aye, it's pretty astounding how language can be so ambiguous that it can be an issue hundreds of years later.

>Because as is it seems any restriction may be unconstitutional. Why shouldn't felons or those declared to be non compos mentis be specially excepted?

Definitely a conflict point I have, I'm far from well educated enough to know the nuance there, but in many cases that felons for instance lose their voting rights as well (which I don't particularly agree with) so there is somewhat of a standard there of restricting some rights even after they've been released.

I don't think I quite go that far, but there are some people who truly believe that any restriction is unconstitutional vs "shall not be infringed".

Ultimately there's got to be a balance somewhere, but I'd prefer the government have to prove that it can justifiably take away someone's rights, rather than being based on mere suspicion that they may do something in the future based on possibly non-violent past behavior (drug possession charges are often felonies for instance for drugs that many states have decriminalized).

>I personally will probably never own a gun because historically I know I probably would have, at minimum, brandished it out of anger. I value my own freedom, and the safety of others, too much to own a gun. And from what I've read in news articles it seems a bunch of other people should do the same. But they don't. You can try to train morality, but you can't force others to use it.

Aye, there's certainly issues with a lot of people having guns and not everyone is going to morally prudent or safe. (or even if they were 99% of the time, that 1% can turn out quite bad)

Perhaps it is truly is a pipe dream, but often the prospective is that if society were to improve (whatever that truly means in the context of mental health, economic security, morality) violence in general (and relatedly gun violence) would reduce as well and that's truly the root cause of many issues. But that's being fairly optimistic on human behavior.

Personally, I think I'm plenty well suited to handle it, but I'm certain many who aren't feel the same and very much aren't.

>The government acting the way it does is an instance of power corrupting. And the powerful not caring about the imposition others must deal with. It, too, is a balancing act.

In theory it leads to somewhat of an equilibrium between both extremes, but of course nobody want's to find themself on the outer edge of that
Ted Chiang: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
As a socially awkward computer geek, yes, yes people do.

When your neighbor broke up with their boyfriend, did they notify everyone in the building to no longer let him follow them in like you seem to be ok with doing? Or did you just assume it was fine and let him in since you saw him come in with them before?
Being able to communicate empathetically with your coworkers is a core competency for technical workers too. There's a difference between an introvert and an asshole.
Microsoft will likely acquire OpenAI at some point and will dominate AI landscape due to its corporate reach, automating away most of the MBA BS.
AI is terrible at detecting misinformation. It doesn't have to be
>It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.

competition will drive profit margins and prices down to nothing because the number of companies that can spin up an UI is unlimited. Markets don't pay you what something is worth, they pay what the cheapest participant is willing to sell it for.
E-fuses are commonly used to prevent downgrade attacks, where a system that only boots signed content can be tricked in to booting older versions with known vulnerabilities that can then be chained in to a full exploit.

Many of us first encountered them on the Xbox 360, where their use is documented in detail here: https://free60.org/Hardware/Fusesets/

The short version is a signed firmware can be programmed to not boot if more than X amount of fuses are burned, so when a change occurs that the vendor wants to ensure can't be downgraded they just increase that number and burn fuses as part of the update process. Older versions fail the check and crash themselves. There is a hardware modification that can be done to prevent fuses from being burnt but that obviously has to be done before the update.
Archived: https://archive.ph/gnKpK
For anyone who thinks they might enjoy "speedrunner overcomes all the odds" narrative style videos, I've greatly enjoyed the content of "ThaRixer" on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThaRixer/videos

He gives a good sense of how unlikely it was for some of these glitches to be found, and how much luck and skill is involved in pulling off a successful world record.
For some women, sure. But there have also been rare societies where the women had their pick of men, and the men were responsible for taking care of their sister's offspring, not their own.

Historically, also, some of those harem women were having fun with men who weren't their husband. This is also common in other species, with at least one species of old-world primate that I can't recall the name of having a sexual structure where the females, who are technically part of a harem of an alpha male, will have sex with other males with the alpha male's tacit knowledge, as long as it isn't in his face.
Who honestly is the audience? Algo traders (not joking here)?
The Greek New Testament.
The COOL Online Act
They already do. And the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to have sociopathic, psychopathic, and narcissistic traits:

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-...

(Sure, call these pop sci if you want, but I'm not going to seek out primary sources for the sake of an internet comment.)

> just replace "rich people" with "I" to see if it makes sense

Would I become more of an asshole if I had orders of magnitude more money than the average person? It certainly wouldn't surprise me. At the very least, my ego would get quite inflated.
That's very unpleasant. I'd love a chatbot that will ask me what I want to do. A Copilot for Cloud.
Not really must-have, but I've built an ecosystem around these:

Alfred: Start point of every task.

Keyboard Maestro: Improve workflow withing apps

Rectangle: Window Management

Bartender: Cleaner menu bar

Things 3: Task Management and General Inbox for stuff

Bear: Personal Knowledge Management

Anybox: Bookmarks Management

Secrets: Password Manager

Reeder: RSS and Read-it Later

Calibre: E-Books Management

Cleanshot: Screen Capture
Part 3 of the series was published just an hour ago:

https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime-pt3
In practice (IIRC, I'd have to check again to be 100% sure) there's a little 'extra garbage' (my name, the real name is something else) pointer inside .NET object headers, and if your object has an identity hashcode or has been used with locking, the extra garbage pointer points to a separate heap allocation containing the hashcode and the locking info. That way you're not paying for it for every object. I think in some cases there are optimizations to be able to store the hashcode inline (tagging, etc). So it ends up being similar to these 'compact object headers' described here in terms of size but is done by making those optional features more expensive instead of by bitpacking stuff into the object header.

Caveat: There are multiple .NET implementations so what I've said may not apply to all of them
The theory is that the two factors are something you have (your phone) and something you are (your biometric).
He was absolutely authoritative, but: back in the early days of OOP. Both the meaning and fundamental aspects of OOP have changed (quite a bit) since then, and what Kay called OOP might be the historical forefather to, but not current type specimen of, OOP.

So yeah, we'll have to disagree.
Amazing, none of the payload was damaged and can go up again in a future launch.
> at sufficient scale

Well... yeah. Title seems misleading.
Your array of objects are just tightly packed pointers, so the data locality (or its lack) doesn’t come from that (especially that the order of objects in memory may be different than the order in the array).
If you look at a snippet of code in a language you don’t understand you wouldn’t call it intuitive. Once you learn the language you might see that what what was unintuitive before is intuitive and idiomatic now.

Once you learn how RxJS works examples like the one anbove anre intuitive.

Angular 2’s most egregious crime is that their tutorials try to make it (and RxJS) seem “simple”. They aren’t. They’re powerful.
Friend of mine here in the bay area is French Canadian and his teenagers (both full Americans born here) both watch and follow French Canadians on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

He explained to me that under Canadian law, absolutely none of that is Canadian Content or Culture. No subsidies, no quotas. Even a Denis Villeneuve movie isn't either.

He explained to me that to watch original content in French he has to VPN in Canada to be allowed to watch content that's only produced in Canada for French Canadians; they won't even make the smallest attempt at exporting it.

Honestly the whole concept, to me, is bizarre.
> because I’m not an EU citizen.

Are you a US citizen? American laws make US citizens costly to have as customers.
Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
Yes, those things cost too much due to low demand.
That's an extreme outlier within China, and it was for a limited period of time. People were not kept in cages: they lived in their apartments. It was difficult to order food at first, but people managed, and the initial supply problems were alleviated.
you'll have to understand the 'x' syntax and the "xyz" syntax as two different things. Different quotes.
Meh, I compile with -Werror :)
I have a trusted family member who maintains a copy of all of my recovery codes. In event of disaster, I call and provide a previously shared pass phrase, and recovery codes will be provided. Something to consider depending on your daily driver threat model and tail risk considerations.

(frequent international travel while having strong opsec)
Offer exchanges of residence. Exchange one US worker who wants to be here for one EU worker who wants to be there.
That's a good point. I think my original comment came out harsher than I meant it.

I think it's interesting the sorts of things where we assume we know how something's said or done and then it turns out that's not a universal thing. On the one hand, best not to assume if one can help it. On the other hand, it's impractical to for example look up every word for cultural context before using it/voicing something based on an assumption around it.
> A third will probably kick me out soon, because I’m not an EU citizen.

Give them a hard time about it.

"If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a basic payment account".

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
Oh come on. I don't know enough to have a real opinion on the overall situation, but surely you can see the difference between "no cost to the federal government" and "no up-front monetary cost to the federal government".
> Midjourney is more popular because it takes zero technical know-how compared to SD

Both take zero technical knowledge to use the base models via first-party online hosts, but Midjourney is superior there.

SD offers a lot more capacity beyond what is available from the first-party online host, though, while with Midjourney, that’s where it begins and ends, there is nothing more.

> and doesn’t require a high-end gaming PC to run it.

Neither does SD (I use a couple-year-old business laptop with a 4GB Nvidia card; no sane person would call it a “highend gaming PC” to run A1111 locally, and there are options besides running it locally.)
Yes, but when or if you need to update your list of available terminals, or extend the parser because of introduced ambiguity to the language, having the lexing and parsing be separate reduces the overhead significantly.
Well, my personal experience was in the opposite direction actually.

I used to use combinators-based approach without Lex/Syn separation (aka PEGs) for a long time. But then I came up to understanding that the separation approach is actually better in performance. And also that working and debugging of the Token sequences while writing parser manually is just more handy (at least for me).

But this is my personal experience of course. I do believe too that it all depends on the goal, and parsers micro-optimizations is not that much critical in many cases, and that combinators approach actually works quite well too.

As of Nom, I can say that it works quite well. But I think that the it's performance gains stem from the fact that Rust is a systems-based PL, and it optimizes function combinations just better than, let say, JavaScript or Python.

In my incremental parsers library Lady Deirdre I utilize Lex/Syn separation, and the LL(1) recursive-descend parsing, and it shows much better performance than in Tree-Sitter at least on relatively big files [1].

[1] https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/lady-deirdre/tree/master/wor...
Internet scammers may use this sort of thing to make fake stories to sell ad clicks; anti-vaxxers use knockoffs of Galactica to pursue a different agenda.

Gotta laugh at this whole trope of "there's gonna be lots of bad uses of this technology, like, cheaply at scale" ... and then basically the industry continues rushing to the edge of the cliff anyway... "oh well, what you gonna do, let's go make some money while we still can".

Then later it will be "regrets and fear and warnings": https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311/hinton-godfather-...

And then, of course "mistakes were made"... "by WHOM!" ... "well, it's over now, let's see how we can deal with the fallout."

I guess that's one way to explain the Fermi paradox after all
I guess you didn't read my other reply. You can balance the rights and interests of both parents and kids by narrowing the proposal.

There's plenty of precedent. I'm allowed to give my kids alcohol, but you're not. Something similar could make sense for social media below a certain age.
If you developed an ML framework in your free time and can't tell a compelling story about it in 45 minutes then I probably don't want to work with you either
i've never heard the term narrow banking, but after looking it up isn't that effectively what this company is attempting:

https://jiko.io/
easier to do when you have terrible ethics
It's quite fast if you use it at ~4 AM in the US. There's definitely a cycle in time. Putting things in a queue to run while you sleep is a good work around.
Finally something we agree on.
I remember I was at Microsoft more than a decade ago now and at the time there was a lot of concern about search and how far Bing lagged behind Google in geospatial (maps).

After some initial investment in the area I was at a presentation where one of the higher ups explained that they'd be abandoning their investment because Google Maps would inevitably fall behind crowdsourcing and OpenStreetMap.

Just like Encarta and Wikipedia we were told - once the open source community gets their hands on something there's just no moat from an engineering perspective and once it's crowdsourced there's no moat from a data perspective. You simply can't compete.

Of course it's more than a decade later now and I still use Google Maps, Bing Maps still suck, and the view times I've tried OpenStreetMaps I've found it far behind both.

What's more every company I've worked at since has paid Google for access to their Maps API.

I guess the experience made me skeptical of people proclaiming that someone does or does not have a moat because the community will just eat away at any commercial product.
Re: "Autoit feels dated"

Being old by itself isn't bad. What's an example practical downside of its old style?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OUZNicTGU&t=123s
how does him being one of the rapists excuse him bankrolling the entire operation?
That there are no better options than IQ doesn't mean that IQ is a reasonable measure.

It is a reasonable measure of intelligent-adjacent things, such as how good you are at taking tests. An IQ score does correlate pretty well with how well you'll do in college. But to say that it's measuring "intelligence" in any sort of strong way is misleading.
Oh, let me tell you something. If you want to extract the fields from an invoice, there is no service in this world with more than 90-95% accuracy. OCR itself make errors on each page. So you might send 1 thousand dollars instead of 1 dollar. Or a million. In the end you need a human to double check it, so the automation will only increase productivity by 50%, not 50x. But it sure it pleasant to have the AI pre-fill the fields.
Oh yeah, sure. I'm not sure I care much about that though. MSFT had the opportunity to think through all of this before they invested, OpenAI itself has incredible sums of money, and employees get to work on things they care about.

If MSFT doesn't make anything on this investment—which it still might, given that a big chunk of its investment will likely go into Azure—then…okay.