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Regulations are good when they're made by smart people who are experts in what they're regulating, with an eye toward creating an environment of fair competition, and perhaps protecting US interests for things like export controls, etc.

Regulations are bad when they are made from a position of emotion, partisan hackery, protectionism of either incumbents as we are likely to see here or specific industries/sectors, or written by out of touch, mentally declining octogenarians (I don't mean Biden, I mean half of Congress, of both parties).

Are there any executive agencies or legislative committees qualified to regulate development of AI? I just mean on basis of knowledge and education, not authority.
I never found a novel useful product after many hours of scouring web3 startups. Usually it was “X for web3”, predicated on something else useful existing to justify the web3 ecosystem

I’m cautiously more optimistic about AI (this time) since we’ve seen impressive functionality from OpenAI and such, and the availability of an impressive LLM as an API excites possibilities. In my head a large open question is how flexible / powerful fine tuning and context/prompt engineering can be; if it’s not powerful enough, then I predict a wave of snake oil failures, and the space fizzles out for a few more years.

On the other hand, if you can take an API, some fine tuning data, and some prompt engineers, and build an actually useful service from that, then the space is about to explode with new unicorns
I've noticed there are a lot of people on this site who favor nuclear energy.

Given that it's just a technology choice, and that there are much cheaper [1], faster, options available I wonder why?

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI_8xYSWYE
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Large language models can exhibit "hallucinatory behavior" and generate artificial content that does not correspond to facts.
This does not truly anthropomorphize the models by imbue them with consciousness, however. They are generating outputs based on the statistical patterns in their training data, not through any internal experience or self-awareness.

The response to "how much opportunity is still in front of us for adversarial LLM systems that try to detect/control for hallucinations." is by nature infinite or none (as in its futile). As "hallucinations" are whatever the developer deems to be a "hallucination". To hallucinate anthropomorphizes the model to be a human actor and leads "treatment" like a drug to be administered. A physician saying that "oh my patient is hallucinating" they have a mental disorder. This implies that there is a ground truth the developer knows to "not hallucinations". To make a model with such procedures would inherently contain any bias from the development team. Using techniques like Constitutional AI to align models with ethical values, relies on someone making that "ethical value".

Statistical artifacts or general incorrectness in responses are a more accurate to this research. Adopting a "bias mitigation" mindset, viewing bias reduction as an ongoing process of detection and correction, not a one-time fix produces its own errors or inconsistencies is a better solution, as the red tape is out of scope of the model itself. Treat every model as rouge, similar to zero trust of a computer system. If the solution is not also an AI model, then you avoid a sort of Inventors Paradox by dehumanizing people into agents.

Both of these are ideas at the current state of AI is a social dilemma, that people have been warning about for years. The nature of the words we use change our mental model and perception of the tools we create. While history shows it is something in human nature to anthropomorphize items and tools like cars and boats, they do not talk back in a human readable format. If my car started to "hallucinate" I would think I am driving inside a Herby or some other living car. The parallels made between silicon and carbon are similar but profoundly inaccurate to our current understanding, but to go down that path is off topic. As an engineer please do not anthropomorphize your creations it is unhealthy and may lead to superficial relationships. To control "Statistical artifacts" or "hallucinations" is to be the same contextually, and there is always middleware and interface management, but to "hallucinate" changes how one may perceive the ai's functions. Please do not anthropomorphize LLM.
Are you in the "academia"? Are you making conclusions about all the academia, based on one person's summary of a news article?
I've heard people bandy that trusim my whole life. And I find that for like 99% of us, it's just false.

Or, you do find your 'dream job', and pays $17/hr no benefits, cause it's a non-profit. (Aside: I've never dreamed of work. Not once. I like keeping the surplus of my labor.)

What I want to do is to build new stuff, and greenfield. Basically, it'd be a R&D variant, but most of those jobs don't even exist. It's a cost center, and the C levels equate it to corporate gambling.

There's working at a national lab, or NASA, or similar. And most of those are clearance jobs that nobody, save a few, will ever see come to light of day.

I'll just choose a mundane, paying well job, and on the sly automate. Ideally, I'll get good money and have 10-15h work a week, and regained time. Basically doubles my effective wage.
GPU memory is also useful to load large detailed scenes for rendering (.usd). It is a bit surprising that 80GB is the limit. It was obvious for years that GPU compute is ahead of GPU memory size by 10x-100x. And loading larger models and scenes into memory was always a struggle. This must be a hardware or yields issue.
I touch-type, but it is still handy having accurate printing on the key caps when entering key combinations.

It's also incredibly helpful for anyone learning a new keyboard layout.
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Nim and D both have this feature. Among more popular languages, C++20 constexpr comes close: if you see a constexpr function, you know it's a "pure" function. Although there are still some things that can't be done in constexpr functions, the list is getting smaller and smaller with every new version.
I think hyperpartisans overstates the case with the ACLU. Partisans might be fairer. The ACLU has historically defended everybody, including literal Nazis. They decided to exercise judgement in deciding who to support because someone died who might not have if not for their action[1].

[1]: The chain of causation is that Charlottesville wants to unconstitutionally limit the Unite the Right protest, ACLU threatens litigation, protest goes ahead, protest supporter kills protest opponent. Obviously the ACLU isn't the main one responsible, but I don't think it was crazy for this to prompt reevaluation.
That's only true if there's a fixed set of work to get done. But that's rarely the case. Often, management has N different things they could have done, and enough people and time to do M of them, for M < N. Which ones should they do? Well, whatever maximizes profits. So they (management) estimate income from each thing that could be done, and ask engineering (hopefully) to estimate how much it will cost to implement (or how long it will take, which equates to cost). Then they make a (hopefully) more informed decision than they otherwise could have made.

Look, there's lots of ways this gets done badly. I get that. But the idea itself is not nonsense.
yes, but the point they make is that it is getting worse due to the warming climate. Tropical fungi in England for instance.
Both, and it will positively cause humanity's extinction.
No, the people I care to talk to all use Telegram, or have been willing to join my XMPP instance.
One thing I've learned from running an M1 processor is how much memory bandwidth actually matters for my use case.

I don't see this listed anywhere. Anyone have any ideas how this compares to something like an M1?
How can I have a side hustle when I don't want to pay for anything?
It almost but not quite goes without saying, but if the import is (for example) the YouTube embed client script, you should not put an integrity check on it. Because you expect YouTube to put out a new client script from time to time. If there’s an integrity check based on an old version of the script, it will just break your page.
What are the legal implications of passkeys? Are there any case law examples yet?

My understanding is it's 100% impossible to 'prove' I know a password or not as it could be written on a piece of paper somewhere, and it's entirely possible for that paper to be shredded and therefore any proof of that password is gone, forever. I remember hearing you cannot be compelled to hand over a password.

Biometrics et al on the other hand? Could/would a judge compel those to be disclosed? I saw a video of a police officer forcing somebody to use their face to unlock their phone to delete a video. With a password, this would be 100% impossible.

So yeah, think about that BEFORE using.
> Intel has put a part of card's hardware into a CPU and uses some non-standard interface between the card and the CPU?

Correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi
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Amnesty International requested the freedom of a criminal who stole millions of dollars from poor people, originally meant for social housing. Milagros Sala, found guilty. That organization is a joke.
I mean yeah, but learning a new layout is a lot easier when the keycaps match. Also if someone who only knows qwerty has to use your computer for whatever reason they can still hunt and peck vs it being completely impossible.
When I was a sysadmin at the Naval Research Laboratory in the 80s, I was asked to install Icon, Ralph Griswold’s follow-on language to SNOBOL. I had a little trouble installing it on our Gould minicomputer and mailed in a support request. It was answered by Griswold himself! I felt special! (It was just a Makefile issue, as I recall. This was the era of tar source file distribution. No rpms, no snaps, no debs.)
I don’t think it’s an “industry term” in astronomy. I suspect it’s pretty much a given when discussing a planet that, unless the planet is referred to as Earth, it’s not Earth. And I suspect in the context of the JWST it’s pretty clear that it’s not Earth (does JWST ever look at Earth?).
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> which is a really bad idea on many keyboards, with cap angle differing by row

Even when keycaps have uniform profile, the 'F' and 'J' keycaps will often have bumps on them. These are the 'homing keys', so that it's easier for the fingers to return to home row.
Pressuring employees to party is putting it lightly. This sounds like I vert sexual harassment followed up by retaliation. An employee received unwanted physical touches, and a proposition for physical intimacy and was fired less than 3 months later.
Probably not the answer you would like but I think your approach to download them and figure out how to run them on your machine is a good one. You don't need to understand everything to get something working. It can be overwhelming and unproductive to know everything before getting started.

To learn more deeply though, get started with getting it to work and when you are curious or something doesn't work, try to understand why and recursively go back to fill in the foundational details.

Example, download the code try to get it to work. Why is it not working? Oh it's trying to look for the model. Search for how to get the model and set it up. Then key step, recursively look up every single thing in the guide or set up. Don't try to set something up or fix some thing without truly understanding what it is you are doing (e.g. copy and paste). This gives you a structured why to fill in the foundations of what it is you are trying to get to work in a more focused and productive manner. At the end you might realize that their approach or yours is not optimal "oh it was telling me to download the 65k model when I can only run 7k on my machine bc ..."
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Didn't PE guys or some one buy Unity. With high interest rates you get reality into business models and squeezing efficiency. I do not know but the next decade does not look like workers' paradise like some have envisioned.
Yes. Intel has this interface called CNVi that puts only the RF stuff on the card and the rest of it in the SoC. This decouples things so you can swap in a newer radio protocol without having to throw away the rest of the implementation. Intel also markets a parallel line of wireless cards where everything is on a stick, for non-Intel or older Intel platforms.
Software is not speech.
To avoid being a propagandized lemming you have to have a basic understanding of what is happening...

passkeys aren't tied to Google or to any other specific provider. Note that this announcement is just about Google supporting logging to with passkeys to their platform. But you don't have to have anything to do with Google to use passkeys with other sites/apps that support them.
> because that would imply opening their economy to outside investors and run deficits.

And investors ultimately choose what the priorities of the organization are…

So that means this is probably “what happened in 1971” that decoupled labor from productivity — the US ceded labor sovereignty to the “market” that is global capitalism and “the market” started treating labor as a global market but with proceeds only going to capital owners.

Wow!!
Why are all Google search results “Untitled”?
Screenshot from my machine: https://i.imgur.com/EH3Q2sX.png
> If I walk up to a regular someone on the street and say “please write me an outline for a short story about tuna fish and bunny rabbits,” you’re going to get a blank stare.

Probably they'd be trying to assess if you're sane and not a danger to them. This is a task a 6 year-old could accomplish with style and vigor.
I'm not worried that GPT-4 is going to "escape its jail, become self aware, and start building a robot army to conquer the world." Or whatever.

I wasn't worried that the future of financial markets and payment systems were going to be replaced with crypto-currencies and the IMF replaced with the Ethereum developers. I didn't believe for a second that they would successfully supplant the financial institutions and state governments and escape regulation. We were also supposed to see the modern Internet replaced with web3. It was inevitable! These were all hyperbolic claims made by crypto enthusiasts for years. They were preposterous from day one but it didn't stop many smart, intelligent people from being taken in and converted to believers.

There are real dangers! However I think those dangers come from other humans and human institutions. Just as the dangers of crypto came from real humans pulling off huge scams and fraud. Whether it's corporations hyping their AI products to health care professionals and causing thousands of misdiagnoses that lead to chronic health problems or death; to scammers using them to trick family members of their targets to divulge useful information... that's all humans being humans and leveraging a tool that makes it easier for them to cause harm (intentionally or otherwise).

What we need are people cutting through the hype so that regular people don't mistake negligence or intentional malice with the "sentience" of "AGI."
So it's more of a CUDA alternative for building desktop apps that are GPU powered?
This is precisely what login scripts and GPO is designed for. Most people don't realize Windows is actually primarily designed as a corporate OS, home users are an afterthought. BYOD is a different story, but there are scenarios with thousands of desktops (i.e. VDI) where these kinds of changes are trivial.
C is useful but its more brain damaged than BASIC and terrible for pedagogy. The compiler confuses lexical analysis and parsing, strings are confused with arrays, arrays are confused with pointers, etc. Beginners who screw around with C are just going to get more confused.

It was a "minimum viable language" that bridged minicomputers and microcomputers in the 1980s but it is a disaster that we're still using it today.

Unfortunately people are using worse assemblers than they did back in the day. Gas is just awful, it is just meant to work closely with gcc, not enjoy writing assembly like we did with MASM and Turbo Assembler back in the day, never famous Macro Assembler for System/360.
There are lots of other chat programs that work with zero training as well. All that is really needed is auto-start and auto-login when the user logs into the OS. If your chat program has those two: someone will figure out how to use it and everyone else will see the pop-up when a message is sent and start using it. Slowly everyone will learn features as they need them.

There are many options that have those two.
There's a "Ryzen AI" on these AMD cores that is really a modest sized fpga, supposedly.
Linux has been landing some support for interfacing with this- calling it XDNA (on a new "CDX" bus) - but no signs yet that users can program it.

Would be a fun thing to get exposed to users. Fingers crossed that actually happens; I could definitely see this being very vendored up, that it ends up only really running a couple predefined ML workloads.
There is a legal advantage that passwords have that passkeys and FIDO and so on do not have. In civilized countries, no one can force you to hand over a password (as you have a right to not incriminate yourself). That does not hold for property which can be confiscated or even biometric attributes which can be taken against your will legally.

Theoretically, passkeys could still offer this advantage if they are stored exclusively on my phone which is encrypted and secured with a password.
There weren't polls showing Trump winning the popular vote. And he didn't.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...

The last poll there from Nov 8 showed Clinton winning the popular vote by...wait for it...3.9 percent. She won the popular vote by...2.9 percent. National polls weren't far off at all.

The electoral college was decided by less than 50,000 votes overall. No one predicted the margins in those key states would be so small. It was a razor-thin win.

Statistics always have a margin of error and give probabilities. Polls didn't have to predict Trump winning. Instead, they give a probability of winning. FiveThirtyEight predicted a 28% chance of winning[2]. That's based on Monte Carlo simulations (that's where they run, e.g. 100 random elections and count how many times each outcome occurred). It actually doesn't matter if that estimate was low; it was high enough (1 in 4 chance) that the outcome wasn't insane. Even three days after the election, they already had an analysis of what they went wrong with polling[1]. I mean, you could read that or continue to trot out tired polarized arguments.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
[2] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Ask HN: What are your must-have apps/software?
Curious to hear what some of you keep as your personal 'suite of {things}' that has become a must-have for your devices.

I've begun to accept that my own methods of avoiding apps/software in favor of self-reliance has gotten incredibly convoluted at this point. As in, just last week is when I finally downloaded SysinternalsSuite and some other misc. manufacturer-software programs - they've actually been really convenient. A bad experience with a fake software in undergrad really turned me off but I'd like to join the 'real world' again.
Been hearing "unsustainable" for a long time. I believed it wholeheartedly for a while. Sure, we will have recessions again, perhaps we're in one presently, but do you think the USA is going to somehow collapse? It will likely see a gradual decline in living standards, I agree, but you are overlooking how bad the 70s were economically, when the Baby Boomers were in their 20s and 30s.
In that case of course everyone will vote for Kingsly McKingface.

The incumbents may also be clowns, but they are at least a bridge to the old world, dictatorships, etc, where they still have some clout, and can help peddle the national interest.
There's a lot of money to be made out there using doing nothing but vanilla CRUD to make people's lives easier. Very, very few problems solvable by a webapp need special tools.
interesting that lexical order falls back to a sensible pattern.. very interesting
It's the whole previous conversation prior to the top level headline containing the block.

Makes sense, I won't be changing it from the current way. I think chatgpt-shell works more idiomatically in the org way in that context so that can be an alternative for people who prefer the former variant.
In my humble opinion, LLM astroturfing is only a productivity increase over what is currently already a very automated process (social media bot farms, etc).

While this seems like it would exacerbate an already existing problem, it may not have so profound an effect. You see, while LLMs may be able to increase the amount and quality of fake information, fake information isn't currently in short supply, so increasing the amount and quality of it may not have that strong an effect.

In short, we already have 24-hour fake news cable channels and infinite doom scrolls. The bottleneck is there, not in the quality or quantity of fake news.

Now, if they invented a LLM that doomscrolled Twitter and voted based on generated summaries, we would have much greater grounds for concern.

[edit: I hope this doesn't sound too snarky. What I mean to say is that we should fight it by creating less gullible consumers of information, a project in which AI may be uniquely qualified to assist us.]
If you hash before sending anything over the wire then the hash of your password is now your password, meaning that if it leaks it amounts to basically the same as your password leaking. Granted, applications may choose different hashing algorithms, provide their own clientside salts, etc. which would be really nice. To be fair, I believe more systems should be doing this nowadays, it's really weird to have to send your actual password to the website if a hash would suffice. Then the website could store the salted hash of the salted hash of your password in their database.

Programs such as Bitwarden already do this, where you send the hash of your password to the server instead of the password itself, because from the password you derive the decryption key and you never want that reaching the server. You then use that hashed password as the authorization password, but the client uses the actual password to decrypt the delivered password vault.
> raped and insulted women

Not sure why you're intentionally clipping the full context.
There is some irony in wanting hardware built "for hackers." Hackers use things in spite of their intended purposes.
Some Intel cards offload work onto the CPU (or mobo?)
> That redefines consumer to a 3090

Or a beefy MacBook Pro. I recently bought one with 64gb of memory and Llama 65B infers very promptly as long as I'm using quantized weights (and the Mac's GPU).
Work puts food on the table though, Instagram does not