skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMO the argument is sound in one direction: the precision, structure, and unforgiving nature of programming languages is a feature rather than a bug.

If we have learned anything from the previous decade in terms of programming is that strong (and static?) types, strictness, and compiler feedback to the developers are features that nearly everyone appreciates. We see this in the popularity of Rust, and TS, static type inference tools and linters like eslint, mypy, ruff and on.
Extreme weakening of the dollar.

Possibly accelerated loss of the petro dollar.

Since we left the gold, then silver standard, no the US dollar does not represent actual assets.

Social Security, Medicare to no longer be trusted by the citizenry
As an entrepreneur you have to deal with finances, a great product and market competition. Why on earth would you additionally put legal insecurity on top, up until in a couple of years there might be enough jurisdictional rulings putting shallow definitions in EU regulations into context?

Fun fact: Why would UK miss the chance to attract tech companies and get rid of pre-Brexit laws after they went through all the unfortunate hassle Brexit was?
Ahhh the legs comment is very interesting. That makes sense
Industrial electrolysis is roughly 70% efficient. Generating electricity from it with a fuel cell is about 40%-60% efficient. There are (realistic) newer approaches to improve on this (up to 85% for fuel cells). And yes, it’s infinitely better than nothing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell
What a coincidence it will be a pain absorbed mostly by those working pay check to pay check and not the politicians and bankers with a legal moat of grifting off our agency.
How about we stop monetizing people’s misery and start treating them like humans? People get drunk on money and start trying to monetize every single interaction in life.

People make mistakes, go down the wrong path and go to jail if their wrongs are bad enough. That doesn’t mean they should have even more of a mine stripped road back to society.
The only angle I see is now you don't need to distribute the game data with your pirated software. let the user download the trial and apply a patch to that.
What kind of weird entitlement is this?
never mind than MANY people dont need generics, and that generics have a significant compilation and runtime cost, in terms of time and memory. who cares right?

and never mind that Go has had generics for over a year now right? sometimes having a small, stripped down language is better than having a huge bloated monster. I would point to examples, but you know what they are.
On the eve of being able to reverse extinction itself, the progressive/environmentalist/animal-rights-advocates crawled so far up their own asses that it became morally unacceptable to even try.

You can't make this shit up, it's absolutely hilarious.
I was looking at the A100 80gb cards. 14k a pop. We gonna see another GPU shortage when these models become less resource dependent. CRYPTO era
TerminusDB represents the data using succinct data structures which reduces the required memory substantially over many other representations. Each branch needs to be capable of being loaded into memory completely - but individual revisions are loaded separately.

Diffs can be constructed between two objects, or you can get sets of diffs of objects between commits automatically. You can manually construct diffs and use them to patch branches.

We don't have a conversion tool from SQL database tables, but it's something on my list.
I'll be honest: I intend on ignoring any rules these geriatrics and monopolists come up with regarding what software I can write or execute on my own hardware. I'm sure most here feel the same way. They couldn't stop me from torrenting Ubuntu distributions, or encrypting messages to my bank's web server, and they're damn sure not going to stand in the way of my paperclip collection.
Ridiculous, to be honest. If the congress really worries about AI, they should ask the best philosophers and sociologists about the affect of AI on society rather than asking the creator of the latest AI technology...
I don’t think you really disagree with GP? I think the argument is we peaked on “throw GPUs at it”?

We have all kinds of advancements to make training cheaper, models computationally cheaper, smaller, etc.

Once that happens/happened, it benefits OAI to throw up walls via legislation.
Your references are all about Chernobyl. But nobody is disputing what happened at Chernobyl. What we are disputing is your claim that any commercial fission reactor today is another possible Chernobyl. That claim is fearmongering with no basis in fact. And no amount of repetition of what happened at Chernobyl will change that.
Do we have a word for "pining over something you never got to experience?" The whole born in the wrong generation effect. FWIW, arcades were always alive and well in movie theaters. Maybe not the big, expansive arcades, but <30 year olds at least understand the concept (also Dave & Busters, GameWorks, other similar outfits)
> this one feels qualitatively more mainstream, and thus overall larger - it's not just tech bros getting into these tools, it's virtually everyone.

This may just mean the bubble is inflating faster than with the previous examples. Mainstream excitement often = it's about to pop.

The time to sell high and bail on crypto was when it became mainstreamed in the general public. I think the exact day was when Elon Musk hosted SNL and mentioned Dogecoin. The time to bail on Real Estate was when the receptionist in your office quit to become a Realtor. The time to bail on dotCom 1.0 was when your dad had a web site idea.
You seem to be making several points at once and I'm not sure they all join up?
> that's not how EU works

Today.

> People appear to be extracting drama

Makes sense considering that the drama influences subsequent reviews and changes.
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> We need to MAKE SURE that AI as a technology ISN'T controlled by a small number of powerful corporations with connections to governments.

This, absolutely this. I am really concerned about his motives in this case. AI has massive potential to improve the world. I find it highly suspicious that an exec at one of the lead companies in AI right now wants to lock it up. (Ever read the intro to Max Tegmarks book?)
Steam has a "It wasn't fun" option in the refunds page.

That message in the screenshot is semi common, I've got it myself. But I've never seen anyone actually have their refund permissions revoked ever.
The benefit actually comes from forcing companies to keep good track of the personal data. Now, the personal data is something they need to think about how to handle and store, the downloading part for me so far was about curiosity.
Isn't this just locality-sensitive hashing?

Why use the word "embedding" if there are already much more familiar words for it (isn't this the same as feature vector)?

I want to convince myself that this isn't similar to blockchain. In the sense that blockchain renamed an old and simple idea and advertised it as something complex and groundbreaking...

Also, relational databases or graph databases have a reach theory that results in many interesting sub-problems, each interesting in its own right, to contrast this with "document databases", which have no theory, and nothing interesting behind it. So, if I were to invest my time learning about one w/o a financial incentive to do so, I'd not want to concentrate on some accidental concept that just happened to solve an immediate problem, but isn't applicable / transferable to other problems.

For example, graph databases and relational databases create interesting storage problems wrt' optimal layout for various database components. If hash-table is all there is to the vector database, then it's not an interesting storage problem.

Similarly, with querying the database: if key lookup from a hash-table is all there is, then it's not an interesting problem.
The one difference is that Valve can choose to treat repeated refund requests from a user as abuse, and stop processing them. With a demo the intentions are clear, and there is no payment transaction at all.
If we're including tests that don't exist yet, then sure those are going to be difficult to pass. As far as actual ToM tests go though, such as the one being discussed in this thread, they can be easily passed by trivial hardcoding and say nothing of the program's internal reasoning.
That would be a "character" flaw...
I remember a podcast where I believe a lady could smell Alzheimers (or possibly Dementia) years before it showed any symptoms. I have no idea how real it is, but the ethical dilemma is similar. She decided never to tell anyone if my memory is correct

Found it! The ethical question isn't in the transcript as far as I can see, maybe my memory deceived me - https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820009335/invisibilia-an-unli...
I think this is super cool.

That said, calling it a "forever" or "heirloom" doesn't match the reality of the lifespans of electronics. Hopefully it will last longer if there are no defects in the components, and since the components aren't drawing full power most of the time. Still, I think the lifespan issue is worth keeping in mind, and out of marketing.

But that's just my 2¢.
The newly announced but not yet released 16" model has some also not yet released GPU modules that require a 16" chassis, but all iterations of the 13" chassis are interchangable and compatible and I believe the 13" parts work in the 16" too
Indeed, you’ve highlighted one of the potential problems with applying ML (a.k.a. a big pile of statistics/linear algebra/whathaveyou) in ways that threaten fundamental rights. In this case by creating a product that would discriminate people based on protected attributes like skin color. That’s illegal, even if your ML system picks up on that correlation. So you agree that we shouldn’t allow companies to ML-wash discrimination?
I believe the wealth is in the car wash itself, not the profit you keep. You have to sell when it’s time retire/exit.

I am also not claiming that this wealth building process is anything close to fast.
> the metric the EU itself used to describe itself as the world's largest economy

I'm sorry but they don't describe themselves that way. When they did it was GPD/capita: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-cou...

Anyway you completely evaded the topic. We're talking about "consumer markets".
I think that's what makes it a hype cycle. A period of massive short term growth/expansion/copy-cats followed by a selection process for the actually useful products, like the dot com bubble
>Maybe it'll turn out to be a distinction that doesn't matter but I personally still think we're a ways away from an actual AGI.

if you had described GPT to me 2 years ago I would have said no way, we're still a long way away from a machine that can fluidly and naturally converse in natural language and perform arbitrary logic and problem solving, and yet here we are.

I very much doubt that in 5 years time we'll be talking about how GPT peaked in 2023.
Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode Canceled: 'A Difficult Choice'
Let's worry about the imaginary future in the future.
Not necessarily “on” a mobile device. It would be data driven with the help of 10g. Mobile makers will not allow that kind of power on our hands. =p and ofc, it will be subscription driven like GPT plus haha
the HTTP/3 standard for servers is not backward compatible with HTTP/2 servers, it is backward compatible with HTTP/2 clients. And vice versa

And therefore, an HTTP/2 server calling itself compatible with HTTP/3 clients is OK
I believe that this is actually the norm in many countries now.
Dear Astronomers,

You need to stop.

145 moons? This is Pluto levels of disrupting my comprehension of the nearest spec of a spec of a spec of the cosmos. What’s next? Are you going to replace the cosmological constant with a complex series of equations? Are you going to change your minds on the entropic fate of the universe?

You identify that Pluto hasn’t cleared its orbit of asteroids and so you demote it. You know what engineers would do? Engineers would go help Pluto tidy up.

145 moons? Inelegant. It’s time for some refactoring.

Spatially yours,

Me
it's probably a wishful interpretation from the initial coverage,
https://slashdot.org/story/04/04/01/0038200/googles-gmail-to...
"hey want to offer their searching capabilities so that users can search through their entire set of e-mail, I guess forever. "

https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message...
"Storage: Google believes people should be able to hold onto their mail forever. That’s why Gmail comes with 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free storage – more than 100 times what most other free webmail services offer."

(at the time, I thought it meant forever, silly me)
> while their uptime could use some help, everyone is struggling right now with RIFs and fewer resources.

So? That's entirely self inflicted.
I'm also curious about this for the 13th gen one. My hope is that it shares the 12th gen's excellent Linux compatibility (the only thing that doesn't work with that one is that you need to turn off the light sensor for the brightness keys to function properly), and that the Windows battery life improvements carry over to Linux.

(The Ryzen one isn't out yet, so nobody will have battery life answers on that.)
Will 2023 be the year of desktop AI?
> All I know is that computer programming is qualitatively an entirely different thing than it was six months ago

Citation needed. My day to day has not changed one bit, even if I'm using Copilot and ChatGPT. I get marginally faster autocomplete and a buggy template engine. This type of comment is exactly what GP means when they say "grossly overestimated."
In a hype cycle people overestimate the short term impact and underestimate the long term impact. Developers won't be redundant, however, sites like Stack Overflow may struggle. There will be job losses, but not in the way people expect, however, there will also be job gains in other areas that were previously uneconomical.
Sure, but Apple's doing pretty well there. Think of the apple silicon as a chiplet. Said chiplet has a 400GB/sec memory bus, 8 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores, and 38 gpu cores (not to mention accel for video encoding, matrix multiplication, and AI.

Said chiplet is sold in 1 and 2 chiplet configurations today (max and ultra flavors of the chip) and have a very healthy chip<->chip connection 2.5TB/sec. No reason Apple couldn't add some glue to allow more than 2 chiplets in a package.
Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years
Fortunately I specced my laptop for vr so it should be able to quantized LLaMA 7b at least. ;)
> what is the incentive behind focusing deployment in districts with a majority of PoC ?

Um, because they vote Democrat, and that's whose in power.
This is already common for most business models. When you chuck your stuff in a storage locker and then vanish for 2 years without paying, you know what they do? They cut the lock off and sell your stuff to some stranger.
Sam is a snake. The goal is to fuck everyone else. He is scared that someone will beat his tech and the hype is gone. Which is going to happen. Matter of months.
Seriously. It's worth pausing for a minute to note that the Turing Test has been entirely solved.

In fact, it has been so thoroughly solved that anyone can download an open-source solution and run it on their computer.

And yet, the general reaction of most people seems to be, "That's kind of cool, but why can't it also order me a cheeseburger?"
Wrong. Use something like aio or io_uring to submit 4 asynchronous writes in a single system call and you'll get way better performance. The kernel has all kinds of infrastructure that tries to coalesce and batch things that the write()+fsync() syscalls make horribly inefficient, and in the modern world of really fast nvme drives, you want to make your calls into the device driver as efficient as possible. You'll burn far fewer CPU cycles by giving the kernel the whole set of i/os in one single go, burn less on synchronization. It really is better to avoid write() + fsync().
Based on the reviews, a motherboard swap to Intel 13th gen will significantly improve it.
While being selective about the problems we apply this reasoning to.
Capcom has been providing demos for most (all?) of their big releases for a while now. Seems to be working out fine for them.
(27.67% - 22.74%) / ~3 years = 1.6% per year, a little larger of a rate than 0.3%/quarter, though, also it appears to have accelerated.
There weren't many students who took two years of calculus and physics in my high school, and even though it was a good high school (in the Seattle area), many students still didn't bother.

Perhaps you are advocating the dual trade/university tracks that German (and Swiss) schools promote? The problem is putting students into either or bucket after middle school.
The Far-Reaching Effects of US Intelligence Officers Lies to the American Public
I'm strongly considering trialing and buying Dead Space through this, even though I don't care for the game (I'm not a horror game fan).

Customer friendly policies and programs are absolutely worth rewarding. I have a wallet, and I might as well vote with it!
Almost all of the cooling ice provides is due to melting: the heat capacity of the ice itself (energy release due to temperature change) is much less than the latent heat of fusion (energy release due to melting).

Look at the huge jump at 0 deg C in this diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Heat_cap...

It takes less heat to warm ice from -100 C to 0 than it does to melt ice at 0 C to water at 0 C.
That seems mechanically unlikely; they're probably attached in the middle.
> Why would UK miss the chance to attract tech companies and get rid of pre-Brexit laws after they went through all the unfortunate hassle Brexit was?

Because UK is not made of libertarians who were under the EU opression but all those EU laws were made with UK's contribution and input. The UK has not become the libertarian utopia and will not become the libertarian utopia inside or outside of EU because the British public at large doesn't want it. If anything, probably the Labour party will win the next elections, the libertarians are very unpopular. British are not Americans and most don't trust corporations and want government involvement in protecting them against wrongdoings.

Brexit's biggest con was that EU is some 3rd party and the British public wants something else. In reality, Brits made the EU.
Bill has has flaws, but he is right.
How do you reconcile that with the article's statement that renewable generation went from 22.7% in 2020 to 27.7% today? Five percent in 3 years seems quite significant.
When I write code it's usually not working the way I want it on the first try. There are errors and it also doesn't do exactly what I and users would want it to do. So I iterate. I compile and test and debug and modify.

But how could an LLM do that kind of thing if it can not actually run the code and inspect the results, and compare them to some criteria it has in its "head"? Does any LLM do such a thing? Of yes you say surely next year but let's focus on what we know to be possible now.
What's the point of keeping track of debt if you can keep raising it indefinitely? Why not just forget about it and use the available resources as needed.
This is one definition, OP has an other that many millions ascribe to. Numbers make right in the definition game.
Yeah I know it's tough when you're a sole dev.

I had a (freeware, no ads) app in the iOS app store in the past. People kept asking if I'd make an Android version. Makes sense. In the end I had to stop it altogether. It was mainly an academic project that got out of hand and I didn't have time to learn Android devving as well.
I would have struggled to match you, but easily doable as I did know Jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn 9 (this was in the 1970s, but the books I was reading were probably old). Having said that, Jupiter had 4 and Saturn 1 'real' mini-planet sized moons then as now. I definitely knew the names of all of those :-)
Many people don't need generics? Significant runtime cost? I would argue that everyone should be using type-safe collections like maps, lists, etc. (I know these are built into the language in Go, but they're basically special-cased generics). And, if anything, not having generics has more cost because you end up boxing your values to place into collections rather than letting the compiler monomorphize it. The compilation cost can be more expensive, yes, but it saves a lot of work you would be doing by hand.

While Go has had generics for a while now, the vast swath of existing Go code doesn't. The situation is definitely improving but there is still a lot of non-generic legacy cruft.
I have similar feelings on the .Net space as well. It's not the language (C#) or the platform so much as the "Enterprise" community.
>I often wonder if the filter, is more to hide its true capabilities.

right now we're all sharing a slice of GPT. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's some uber GPT (which requires a lot more processing per response) running in a lab somewhere that blows what's publicly available out of the water.
I think it will as the data backlogs become larger and the expense greater. Imagine how much Google is spending to store user data on accounts that will never log in again. All the people who have died and had gigabytes of content stored. Eventually it becomes unsustainable to keep everything.
this is a great opportunity to ask something I've been wondering about for awhile:

what are the best options out there for hosting websites built as HTTP-serving executables (either Windows or Linux)? is it possible to do this relatively cheaply?

I ask because I've been working on a framework[0] for building websites in a compiled language recently, and while it's been a ton of fun to build and test locally as a hobby project, I have absolutely no idea if it's even remotely financially viable to host a (small- to medium-sized) website made this way, compared to all of the managed hosting solutions out there for PHP/Node/etc.

I don't want/need to pay for a whole dedicated server—I just want to serve HTTP (eventually HTTPS) from a single executable, using one or more SQLite database files. ideally, it would cost as close to your typical shared PHP host as possible.

I have almost zero experience with "cloud" hosting—I made a small game with Node on Azure years ago, and accidentally racked up charges just playing around with it in development—so I don't know if this, or AWS, or whatever else is a viable solution for this. I've seen that it is indeed possible to host a single executable on Azure, but I haven't actually tried it myself, or determined what the pricing for this would end up being.

[0] https://github.com/rezich/Newf
We don't owe GitHub anything. They put themselves in this situation. They burned capital to become the defacto source code hosting site then rug-pulled on reliability. They deserve more criticism, not less.