skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met a environmental biologist (it was some similar sounding job) who does environmental impact studies for solar farms in the desert. He said lots of stuff gets displaced or killed when they install the panels. There’s no way to avoid it. It definitely stresses the environment.
That's quite different. It's not the same gym for 50 years, what they do in the gym changes over time etc. I'm personally in the gym 2-3 times a week. Very different from running the same route for 2-3 hours every day for 50 years.
Nah, I think you take it too far. In that world everybody will need to take a too cynical view and vet everything and everybody. That's dog eat dog. Ultimately Holmes cheated faking test results. That's not faking it it. It is fake. Put another way: how many times N can you BS people until you conclude for some N>0 that the person is BS? That N isn't high.
You cannot donate to Firefox. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, which is owned by the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Corporation shares profits with the Foundation, so that the Foundation can advance its goals.
A zero-raise policy, if its reasonably long-term, is likely to leave you stuck with the type of employees at IBM and the others. Maybe not the CEO but the rest.
Somewhere south of the environment effects of building tens of thousands of warehouses.
Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates.

Thank you content writers for your service training LLMs. Here's 10 amazing ways to find a new career in a LLM world.
I like that you're solving precisely a problem I face on a daily basis! (Still don't understand how ACC doesn't have a built in calculator for this).
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Do you have any sources for this claim?

As far as I am aware Google doesn't publish any statistics about the size of its index, which no doubt varies.
But there's another consideration: albedo (reflectance of the earth's surface). If the warehouse roofs already tend to be dark-colored, solar panels wouldn't reduce the area's albedo as much as covering light-colored ground (like sand).

I saw an assertion somewhere that if we put enough solar panels in the desert to meet all of our energy needs, the net decrease in the earth's albedo would cause as much warming as the burning of equivalent fossil fuels.

A search brings up this article (not necessarily the one I'm remembering, but interesting): https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-in-sahara-could-boo...
The high margin makes sense if their account is mostly ordering low-volume. The margins on cut-tape, for example, are nuts. As a distributor they order in bulk at low per-unit pricing, and then when hobbyists buy onsies twosies they can charge low-volume pricing for a huge markup.

Doesn't mean they're making a lot of money on those types of orders.

(That isn't an argument against the author's complaints, just providing hopefully interesting info).

Off-topic: I clicked through to the author's Sir Box-a-Lot project (https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/sir-box-a-lot/) and immediately fell in love with the micro rocker switch they used for the power switch. A 7mmx3mm rocker power switch. https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/295/GW-1663576.pdf What an absolute beaut.
The issue is getting people to click on your website, why would any one do that if the entire content is already extracted by the ai, which directly gave it to the user?
Appeal to authority as a logical fallacy or rhetorical weakness refers to saying something is true by virtue of an authority figure saying it.

Saying the king is wearing a crown is a statement of fact, not an appeal to authority. Saying Google paid a fine is a fact, not an appeal to authority.
I meant to say the additional x4 is usually a second cpu x4 [NVMe] slot. Not a pci-e x4 slot.
After watching virtually every long-form interview of AI experts I noticed they each have some glaring holes in their mental models of reality. If even the experts are suffering from severe limitations on their bounded-rationality, then lay people pretty much don't stand a chance at trying to reason about this. But let's all play with the shiny new tech, right?
It’s not obvious what terms like Evergreen mean?
Very off-topic, but ...

> I've got a wacky project that is a crazy platform ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ),

I don't think you realise just how many of your posts link to this project. It doesn't seem like you are able to respond to a HN comment/post without linking your project.

IOW, you aren't able to hold a conversation without reference to your project. This is probably not healthy - I mean, surely you have opinions that aren't colored by your project, and you have interests that aren't linked to your project?
Btw, the title means that: this past winter, more people died due to "expensive energy" than due to Covid-19.

It's not the case that more people died last winter due to "expensive energy" than due to Covid-19 in total (see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105).
I live in Korea, have been on Bard's waitlist, and have been using it since last week with no problems.
So what happens for maintenance? Does the local electric concern have an easement and keys to every warehouse in the state, so they can access it whenever they need to?
People try stuff like this because it's precisely the kind of problem that AI would be useful for. If one of these models turned out to be really good at it, it would signify that they're now useful for a whole class of problems.
How can you trust that a closed source OpenBSD fork is secure when there's no way to audit the quality (or lack thereof) in the firmware the vendor gives you?

If it's GPL you can at least interrogate the code release and make an informed decision
What is the page number you're referring to? If its 9, then I believe its talking about optimal numbers per token, not the real numbers that the model is trained on.
Modern warehouse roofs like a home depot or something are mostly all white or light colored to reduce air conditioning costs.
Clickbait headline. Some guy wrote a script, it has no more to do with chatgpt than python.
But that's the thing, it's _not astonishing_. It _would_ be astonishing if we were abandoning typing Svelte. We're not. We're not even abandoning TypeScript -- the whole project will still run `tsc` and enforce complete type-safety, it just won't use the compiled output. This is _abandoning one syntax for another_ because one syntax doesn't require a build step and a huge toolchain to run and debug.
Did you miss the parts where I mentioned that private individuals and corporations can also fund their own software, as we do today? My point is that as long as code, models, and data are open source, we will be free to mix and match and improve upon them, instead of only having rich corporations hold them. One way to do so is to have the government fund projects and open source them, as an alternative to corporate closed source control.
With the exception of a Postgres offering (they went with SQLite) and what sounds like some sort of built in CMS, Cloudflare has all of this. I don't mean in a glue together your own Dropbox way but in a nicely integrated verify your GitHub profile, pick a repo, get automatic deployment and serverless functions that just work way. The same way Vercel is being described.

My understanding is that Vercel is built on top of Cloudflare and charges a significant premium.

Presumably people are paying that premium for the unspecified "nifty performance optimizations" for Nextjs and not for the CMS and Postgres. Has anyone gone from Cloudflare to Vercel that can speak to the differences they found?
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Were you planning to build solar panels for the wildlife?
Isn’t this an issue as is? Theres a lot of content summarized at the top which answers the question I have more often than not.
Non-USA version is a bit cheaper: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.

> I mean governments are going to track you one way or another, so Apple's tight software policies are good enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
Yeah sorry, I didn't mean to come across as being snarky. It's just a great idea, but to do it justice, I believe (rightly or wrongly) that you need to make it brain dead simple for users who hate marketing. It's the same way that I would demand that a no-code app maker be brain dead. I don't want to get my hands dirty, and neither should a marketing averse user.

So give them template buttons for different marketing tasks. 1. Create messaging. 2. Create branding. 3. Create market positioning. etc.

The user presses a button, enters in product, target market, budget, competitors, or whatever, and a GPT works out the rest for you. AutoGPT and AgentGPT show what can be done nowadays, and so this is a natural vertical extension of those tools.

In your demo, most people wouldn't really understand a persona, or how to craft features, benefits etc. Nor should they, that's what your tool is for surely?

Again, really like the idea, but not sure the implementation will deliver the kind of results you're looking for.
Cool! The DX is tricky to nail, when combined with LLM's tendency to hallucinate.

I asked it to extract some text from an image, which it dutifully tried to do. However the generated python kept throwing errors. There's no image -> text tool yet, so it was trying to use the image segmenter to generate a mask and somehow extract text from that.

It would be super helpful to:

1) Have a complete list of available tools (and / or a copy of the entire prompt given to the LLM responsible for generating python). I used prompt injection to get a partial list of tools and checked the Github agent PR for the rest, but couldn't find `<<all_tools>>` since it gets generated at runtime (I think?).

2) Tell the LLM it's okay to fail. E.g.: "Extract the text from image `image`. If you are unable to do this using the tools provided, say so." This prompt let me know there's no tool for text extraction.

Update: per https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/custom_tools you can output a full list of tools with `print(agent.toolbox)`
The trick is an actual genius. Why are people like that still using vb6 and making these awesome things? I'm not complaining, it makes me happy!
Love reading your posts too, fafalone. Imo you're up there with these other fellas! Keep at it.
Yes. I am using Ruby daily and I don't see it go away in the foreseeable future. Oh, forgot to mention, I am not a web developer. I am actually a hardware guy somehow has to deal with lots of Ruby scripts.
> Ethereum, which are designed to resist centralization

https://cryptoslate.com/research-ethereum-is-neither-decentr...

> permissionlessness

The existing internet is sufficiently permissionless for the vast majority of potential activities. Where it isn't, you start to reach into the boundaries past which there are often reasons for permissions to exist.

> HN wrongly thinks of crypto as a financial system... instead of a family of methods for making composable, decentralized protocols with built-in economics

A system with "built-in economics" is a financial system.
Digikey has been pretty active on Twitter lately, targeting hobbyists. They're also a platinum level KiCAD sponsor. And they bought the kicad.org domain from a malware squatter and donated it to the KiCAD project.
It should work on Librem 5 with Waydroid.
I had YouTube Family at $15/month until this month, when they raised the price to $23. I signed up back when Google Play Music was still a thing.

I was never able to get into YouTube Music, though, so I don't actually use it to stream my music. The fact that my playlists are shared between YouTube and YouTube Music is enough for me to drop it from serious consideration as a music streaming service on its own. That, plus the lack of lossless streaming, inconsistent, clunky UI, and lack of any positive features that distinguish it from Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music, is why I never used it for anything other than sharing songs with people who didn't use Tidal.

That they apparently also include ads in the albums I transferred from Google Play Music - albums that I paid for - is just added insult.

The main way I justified paying the subscription was that other people in my household got access to ad-free music streaming (and they actually used it, unlike me), Youtubers get comped more from me watching their videos, and I didn't have to worry about whole-home adblockers to remove ads from the app. But after a 50% price hike that takes it above the prices for Tidal Family ($15), Apple Music Family ($17), and Spotify Family ($16), it's not something I can justify anymore.

(Youtube Music Family is $15, FWIW, but it doesn't include Youtube itself.)
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I recall reports that the leak Think Secret published was planted by Apple, but that was long ago, and most of the original reporting has disappeared. I can personally confirm that Apple wanted employees to know that planting leaks was something that Apple sometimes did, so it wasn't a huge surprise at the time.
Can't possibly be secondary effects of Covid-19, right?

Because that would mean we would have to acknowledge long covid, and possible immune system damage of repeated infections.

That won't do at all, people might want not to die for the ecconomy.
Because humans aren't powerful enough to completely exterminate each other (even a nuclear war wouldn't kill literally everyone in the world), but an unaligned AI, in the worst case scenario, could just kill everybody (to eliminate humans as a threat, or to use the atoms we're made out of for something else, or just as a side effect of doing whatever it actually wants to do). It could be powerful enough to do that, and have no reason not to.
Exactly, just like info gets ripped off websites onto Wikipedia, with very few references, it’s hell getting them cuz they claim you want the link back, cahtgpt references hardly anything
Doesn't the answer to that question depend on your goals?
Startup is just another buzzword for a business. It's never been anything different than that. I wouldn't make any assumption about it based on the term, not the age, size, market, etc
We have to specifically mark a domain for sharding like that. I've done so for pages.dev now. Thanks!
Evergreen is the latest hardware revision: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Totally agree with making the AI do the hard work. The AI should be able to deliver the whole marketing process with one button press.
Increase MAX_MOVES to prevent buffer overflow and stack corruption
http://web.archive.org/web/20230510211713/https://www.nytime...
This. It's even true of cleaning tools - get a mop from a consumer store and it's made of thin plastic and will break in a year or so. Get a professional one from a cleaning supplier and it will be indestructible - even though it's made by the same company.
What’s interesting to me is that it sounds “radical” but on the other hand, it’s probably not much more radical than going to war with a country over weapons of mass destruction which don’t exist, or to take oil.

All things the USA has already done.
A very important detail! Deaths from covid are way way down mainly because of vaccines.
Yeah, I'll use that one sometimes, including with other software folks. I think it pretty much captures the whole thing.

"Software engineer" I reserve for certain contexts in which I suspect I might be penalized for using another term. I don't think it's very accurate for like 99.5% of all "software engineer" jobs. Feels like using "sandwich artist" for "dude who works at Subway".
They’ve shut down and/or changed prices on APIs so many times as long as it isn’t 100x lower performance than an alternative I can’t see myself investing building a stack that relies on it.
Thanks for the recommendations. I listen to Tigran Hamasyan and Animals as Leaders all the time, but I hadn't heard of Plini before. His Strandberg guitar sounds so much better than mine for some reason.
Depends on your goal, if it's to overtake OpenAI as having the best model overall it makes sense to optimize for training loss alone (assuming a fixed upfront compute budget).

Optimizing for inference to achieve the same loss would require more compute overall so you're either paying upfront with higher training costs or kicking the can down the road to inference.

News articles estimates of GPT4 cost seem to peg it at ~8 months of inference to achieve 1:1 cost with training. Life span of these models is TBD but it's a pretty safe bet we'll have new ones by then. Of course GPT3.5 is still getting used but probably won't cross 2:1ish in its lifetime.

Might as well roll the dice and kick the can down the road if you're Google, I imagine they would happily pay an extra 500k/day in inference compute to be market leaders, whats 183mill for them? But if they don't get any real market share or the model sucks they saved substantially on training.

> It makes me think they are Chinchilla-optimal,

They elaborate in the appendix but they empirically determine PaLM-optimal, which concurs with Chinchilla-optimal (more or less).
The argument that this is necessary isn't close to being convincing enough for governments to consider following through with such a drastic cause of action.

And, the "AI-might-end-up-killing-everyone" community doesn't seem to be able to see this through other people's eyes in order to make an argument for this without belittling the other perspective.

If other people change their minds, it probably won't be through persuasion but from catastrophe.
The modem asserts a wake pin when you receive an SMS or phone call, causing the SoC to wake up. Services that rely on data (IM, e-mail etc.) don't wake the phone up (they will rely on periodic wakeups in the future, but there's no infrastructure for it yet).

An update that makes communication with the modem after resuming from system suspend reliable has been deployed today (previously it would often fully reenumerate and cause various troubles in the process, now it's instant).
I agree, the few times I've used LCSC it's been a perfectly fine experience.

But LCSC parametric search is worse, and their product photos and data are often wrong. Mouser/etc have decent parametric search which, for me, makes them the best place to find parts. LCSC has so much garbage data, a bad UI, multiple languages, etc. When I need a cheap, china specific part I usually just have to resort to manually searching through the 1,000 or so parts by hand. About as much fun as one imagines. And then their website starts throttling you for opening too many PDFs. SMH.
I certainly can't talk for the wildlife, but I would guess they would want to not lose their habitat.
Yes, though I didn't know they existed.

The existing code was written with 0 or 1 as required (except where there were bugs), and frankly I think it's was better anyway to use 0 everywhere rather than LBound(x).
If nothing else, Mouser has one enormous usability flaw (which has been an issue for years): you can't sort by price.

Or rather, they will let you sort by the "pricing" column, but the effect is to sort parts by their unit price at whatever the minimum quantity for that part is. But some parts are orderable in single quantities, and others only in large trays or reels.

Even if you manually filter out those packaging types, it can often be the case that part A is cheaper than part B at qty 1, but significantly more expensive at (say) qty 20. So you can't actually do price comparisons without paging through the entire list, which may be many hundreds or thousands of pages depending on what you're searching for..

Digikey does the much more sensible thing, which is to let you enter the quantity you actually want, and sort items by what their unit price would be if you order that quantity. Mouser has a similar box to enter the quantity, but it only affects the display of each row, and not the actual sort order.
Nonetheless it’s an example you asked for of a dataset with over a trillion entries.
> Building a hydroelectric dam and flooding some habitat

There has been a large movement that has been working towards tearing these down due to their ecological impact. Additionally, Lake Mead has a risk of the water level falling too low and stopping power generation at Hoover Dam.

Some concerns that solar plants could have on wildlife are:

- Increased human presence in areas that previously were not frequented

- Maintenance roads will need to be built

- Migration corridors could be severed, leading to less genetic diversity in an area

- Unknown impact on wildlife. For example, maybe the solar panels make it difficult for local hawks to hunt. As of 2021, scientists have generally agreed that more studies are needed to determine this. [0]

[0]: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/Solar%20I...
Thank you for saying this.

Having a grid-tied building festooned with solar panels has always seemed absurd to me for this reason. It would be interesting to calculate the implied "show-off value" of the solar cells that building owners are paying relative to the utility-scale alternative--I bet it's shockingly high.
You know what would the make the situation better, write up a melodramatic full admission of guilt and linked himself to his sister.
GPT-4 with a calendar plugin can likely already do this.
I have and still use the 2013 version. Still works great, and the size is perfect, 1920x1200 screen resolution is still quite good (especially for media reading) and other than being a little slow it's still competent.

Make the same form factor device with a faster CPU and memory at a decent price and I'd easily upgrade, but nothing else seems to fit that market niche.

I'm also in the category of people who want smaller, easier to grip phones, so a "small" tablet is still a step up in screen space.
I get about 3-4 hours of active usage (like Web browsing), about 8-12 hours of idle time and about 20-22 hours of suspended time. More with modem off, but then it's not exactly a phone:)
>Do you have a counterexample of someone who's gotten their predictions right? Because if not, that should only terrify you even more. If there's anyone out there who predicted how LLMs would work in a way Eliezer failed to, and if that person is predicting "AGI will be cool and will naturally prioritize our well-being", I would love to know.

A recent interview with Paul Christiano is about the closest I've come to this. He does note some semi-accurate predictions at the linked timestamp, but the forecast for how things are likely to go is not exactly rosy, though he's quite a bit more optimistic than Eliezer.

https://youtu.be/GyFkWb903aU?t=1357

Also this whole interview was pretty interesting. Near the end he details how few people world-wide actually work on X-risk from AGI. He also outlines how the academic ML community in general just continually keeps getting predictions really wrong, and many aren't taking X-risk seriously.

Overall his is the most balanced take I've seen. A lot better than Eliezer.
I don't think you can do this, it will just make things up. Language models don't have this type of reflection. Google would need to indicate this out of band, like on the page itself, in order for you to be confident about what model you're using.
It's not that people don't want aligned model, or want models that can do harm, they just want an alternative to the insufferable censored models. Pretty much everyone agrees that AI that would end humanity is harmful, but what content is harmful is quite controversial. Not everyone agrees that a language model having the ability to spit out a story similar to an average Netflix TV show is harmful because it contains sex and violence. As long as models are censored to this extent, there will always be huge swaths of people who wants less censored models.