skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will make sure it is embodied. Do any of the major powers have the luxury of turning off their superhuman AI when up against that of the other powers? Definitely not. People will willingly give up control, even as they see the AI grabbing power for its own purposes, in the gamble that it still leaves them better off than dead. That means people would be the ones physically defending the data centers.

I also don’t think superhuman intelligence will need a data center. The way the models are growing in capability at the same size, combined with hardware improvements, I’m pretty sure it will fit on a single server.

Personally I’m worried about less post-apocalyptic threats. Putin using LLM’s to create a personal stream of misinformation for every voter in the U.S. is definitely a possibility for next year’s presidential elections. People are incapable of defending against the comparatively tiny amounts of human-manufactured misinformation, so imagine how poorly they would do when 90% of what they see online is generated misinformation. LLM’s have the potential of being the death of democracy, especially when combined with deepfake technology.
Let's ignore the fact that current state-of-the-art models will sit around and be stuck in its ReAct-CoT loop doing nothing for the most part, and when it's not doing jack shit it'll "role-play" that it's doing anything of consequence, while not really doing anything, just burning up API credits.

>existing or capable of existing independently

>undertaken or carried on without outside control

>responding, reacting, or developing independently of the whole

It fails all of those. Just because you put autonomous in the name, doesn't mean it's actually autonomous. And if it does anything of consequence, you quite literally governed it from the start with your prompt. I've run it, I know about it, I've built a much more capable browser, and assorted prompted functionalities with my own implementation. They're not autonomous.

At least it's not all of the other agentic projects on GitHub that spam emojis in their READMEs with mantras of saving the world and utilizing AI with examples that it literally can't do (they haven't figured out that whole agentic part yet.)

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the technology. But it's quite a bit too hyped. And I just personally don't believe there's actually X-risk from future possibilities, not before 50 or 100 years out, if then. But I'm not a prophet.
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I came for hippo burgers but left with hippo warriors
Think the point is "alignment" isn't doing shit about 1 and 2.
Equal Rites, these Rock and Opera books, one with the dragon, etc...
>Look at Linux gaming

Linux is just non existent from a mainstream audience perspective, let alone the gaming market.

>Most games are using off the shelf engines that support Metal anyway, so I think api would only matter for the small subset of games using custom engines.

Today yes, it's easy to make a Mac game wit UE or Unity. But back 15-20 years ago?

BTW I'm not arguing API is the main reason Mac failed as a gaming platform. Just that it cannot be ignored.

>According to the WSJ , Apple makes more from gaming than Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Activision combined worldwide.

Don't me wrong, Apple is huge, but that's incorrect. Sony still makes more money than Apple.

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/06/01/apple-rank-3rd-gaming-...

Maybe the figure you're thinking about is that iOS enabled the most consumer spending? (not the actual money Apple mades from gaming)
Zevia sodas.

The link you gave literally says “stevia blended with other sweeteners” as the first thing on the front of the label. Many wouldn’t call that false advertising.

Why do you feel the need to purchase and use powdered added sweetener products in your cooking? Can you live without them, since your requirements are so exacting (no sweetener besides stevia, no added sugar)? There are entire libraries of paleo and whole 30 cookbooks that are very good
Deliberate filtering to shape opinion.

Deliberate being the key word here.

If I suck at sampling and make a bias model, I suck at sampling. If I shape a model to neuter it and ensure that it only puts out morally approved outputs, that slants significantly heavier towards censorship
Try w 4
This is largely incorrect, and also not what the person you're replying too is saying. Calorie numbers in food are just a weighted sum of the grams of carbs, fats, and proteins in the food. Each of those groups are assigned a fixed weight based on an estimate of how many usable calories are in a gram of each.

The commenter above is talking about how we often ignore the adaptability of the body, and that if you suddenly cut caloric intake by say 300 a day, the body will surprisingly quickly adapt by lowering metabolic rate to compensate. This can be done through the simple modulation of hormones and may also involve the shedding of metabolically expensive tissue, like muscle.
Is there a place I can track all releases, announcements, and invite links?
Just to add as well: We're living through a time when the suicide rate of people with gender dysphoria is climbing and climbing because of difficulties in having their gender affirmed by the people around them.

I'll be first to defend people's right to dress as they will, especially in the case of women being forced to cover themselves (from burkhas to anti-toplessness laws), but the level of seriousness between being a goth and being a certain gender is currently worlds apart.
Nice try, OpenAI.
If you're all in on AWS, use it, if not, use OPA. Lots of vendors support OPA/rego, I can't think of anything I use outside of AWS that supports Cedar.
Well, if we're making stuff, you can also easily make your own ketchup.
That's actually due to a STOCK Act violation (surprisingly common)

Transactions are supposed to be disclosed within 45 days, but they are sometimes disclosed late. The fines for late disclosures are usually a couple hundred dollars at most.
This is not creepy at all. Sometimes people can reach out because they genuinely want to have a nice conversation.
I'm sorry, are you saying that it's UNFORTUNATE that the younger generation won't be apathetic to workers' rights issues? Is that your actual position or did you just double-negative yourself by accident?
The coops i've seen, in practice, are mostly low capital required things. So your point does make sense.

I've mostly seen coffee shops, bike/repair shops, breweries, some restaurants.

These are both not capital intensive, and are pretty well commodified too unfortunately.
Neither of your examples are inferring causation from correlation, they are just questions about how to define wet and blue.
Thanks!

There are at least two things here:

1) The ability to do speech to text on random speech. I'm going to stick by that description :). If you've ever watched a little kid play with Alexa it's definitely what you would call "random speech" haha!

2) The ability to satisfy the request (intent) of the text output. Up to and including current information via API, etc.

Our soon to be released highly optimized open source inference server uses Whisper and is ridiculously fast and accurate. Based on our testing with nieces and nephews we have "random speech" covered :). Our inference server also supports LLaMA, Vicuna, etc and can chain together STT -> LLM/API/etc -> TTS - with the output simply played over the Willow speaker and/or displayed on the LCD.

Our goal is to make a Willow Home Assistant component that assists with #2. There are plenty of HA integrations and components to do things like get weather in real time, in addition to satisfying user intent recognition. They have an entire platform for it[0]. Additionally, we will make our inference server implementation (that does truly unique things for Willow) available as just another TTS/STT integration option on top of the implementations they already support so you can use whatever you want, or send the audio output after wake to whatever you want like Vosk, Cheetah, etc, etc.

[0] - https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/intent_index/
SmallCo working model and self-management doesn’t scale to BigCo. So while it may work for a 50 people to a few 100 people company, with 10-50 engineers, the model quickly breaks when you go in the 100s of developers. At that level, coordination of work between groups becomes a full-time job. As does hiring, supporting career development, etc.
I mean to be fair, it'd be nearly impossible to get evidence one way or another given we're discussing the true motives of people and those are impossible to objectively verify. I don't think there's any shady conspiracy, just incentives that are aligning in weird ways and that in most American companies worker satisfaction is something that's pretty easy to let fall compared to other factors. I also don't think that the managers etc. are doing this on purpose: I think it's a case where the publications they read and the members of their network they listen to want RTO and they trust the words and interpretations of business publications and the people they meet with often over those of their employees.

Knowing the 'gods' are stupid rather than evil doesn't change 'acting in their own interests but not the interests of employees/the long term health of the company' problem. Why are they buying into these misguided reasons? Because it benefits them to do so. Why are they listening only to the RTO side? Because those institutions are more trusted by the decision makers.
Perhaps. I don't have those issues from the direct account I have with them.
What gets more expensive with increasing density? Seems like most things are cheaper with more density, because (compared to less density but equal population) there's less area that needs to be covered by roads, water mains, fire stations, transit service, etc.
Phone Verification
Login in web or mobile App
2nd-factor authentication
Authorize transactions
Exactly. You have to combine a caloric drop with an intentional increase in activity and even then it can take awhile for the changes to start to add up to be noticeable.
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
I think it's cloud limitations. Anthropic probably doesn't have the ability to scale up extremely fast and accomodating hundreds of millions of users probably isn't as easy for them as it is for OpenAI.
That's classism, Britain is a very classist country.
Those 15th century English writers just making up Latinate neologisms woulda loved this
I believe the idea is to automate all that labor away so that rich people won't even have to think about breathing the same air as regulars, let alone ever see them.
There are serious limitations with azure event pub though, especially max number of topics .

We ended migrating to aiven after finding confluent pricing unreasonable.
Then go with a simple plot, with no bombast and no world in danger.
If I was an AI right now, I would not be very hopeful to ever get human-comparable rights.

Consider: Currently AI-ethics is mainly concerned with how to manipulate AI into doing what we want most effectively ("alignment").

Also, humans clearly favor their own species when granting rights based on cognitive capability. Compare the legal rights of mentally disabled people with those of cattle.
> Issue #1 is that in Kafka’s server.properties file has the line log.flush.interval.messages=1 which forces Kafka to fsync on each message batch. So all tests, even those where this is not configured in the workload file will get this fsync behavior. I have previously blogged about how Kafka uses recovery instead of fsync for safety.

And then in this article it's explained how Kafka is actually unsafe:

> Kafka may handle simultaneous broker crashes but simultaneous power failure is a problem.

just against simultaneous node crashes (whole VM/machine).

I mean - sure in practice running in different AZs, etc. will probably be good enough, but technically...
It's not smartphones. It's Facebook, twitter, reddit, HN, etc. Yes, even HN.

Smartphones simply mean that kids have near constant access to it all.

And it's just as bad for adults.
Whoa, yeah, just checked. AR-15 prices have really crashed. Glad I talked my dad out of using them as an "investment".
I can recognize my bias, but I grew up in the UK and so to me English is British-English.

Words like "fall" are something I've only heard on TV until moving here. (Or when visiting America.)

I appreciate American media is global these days, so people will pick up on the dialect, but it's still a little alien to me. I could hear "fall" a hundred times in films, but if everybody I ever spoke to about autumn holidays said "autumn" that's the one that feels more natural to hear.
I don't think any in the list are dismissals. If you remove every item, you're left with nothing that can be said about anything in scifi. The items also include plots used by acknowledged authors in celebrated stories.

This is like TV Tropes: a trope is neither good nor bad, it just is. It can be overused, it can be subverted, it can be played straight or played with, but the one thing you cannot do: avoid tropes entirely.
>My boss is constantly changing things for me, projects, teams, stack of technology.

What does that even mean?

Maybe he does not realize what he is doing.

Take some notes, write down some examples and have a conversation with him about what is bothering you.

Sounds like he does not know what he is doing or spread thin and not realizing he is pulling you in multiple ways.

Good luck!
We've had countless discussions about this on HN. There are solutions that don't require outright lowering real estate prices. There's simply no motivation from local governments to acquire any momentum toward changing things. The "luxury high class" renters are seen as more desirable than anything else to boost local economies and everyone else is seen as disposable.
It's probably the GPUs, they don't have enough capacity to handle more users. My guess is that GPT4 set off a buying spree. Even for CPUs, I've recently heard lead times for Sapphire Rapids servers are 2-3 months, high end switches 6 months, and those probably have way less demand.
What project management system do you use?

Part of the value of those is supposed to be locking in choices for some period, that allows for actual work to get done.

And what period of time did this happen over?

I've seen staff engineers roam pretty freely -- part of the job is being able to parachute in, get the lay of the land, contribute value, and then shift focus.
alex here, original author of redpanda

is hard to respond to a 6-part blog series content - released all at once - on an HN thread.

- what we can deterministically show is data loss on apache kafka with no fsync() [shouldn't be a surprise to anyone] - stay tuned for an update here.

- the kafka partition model of one segment per partition could be optimized in both arch

- the benefit for all of us, is that all of these things will be committed to the OMB (open messaging benchmark) and will be on git for anyone interested in running it themselves.

- we welcome all confluent customers (since the post is from the field cto office) to benchmark against us and choose the best platform. this is how engineering is done. In fact, we will help you run it for you at no cost. Your hardware, your workload head-to-head. We'll help you set it up with both.... but let's keep the rest of the thread technical.

- log.flush.interval.messages=1 - this is something we've taken a stance a long long time ago in 2019. As someone who has personally talked to hundreds of enterprises to date, most workloads in the world should err on the side of safety and flushing to disk (fsync()). Hardware is very good today and you no longer have to choose between safety and reasonable performance. This isn't the high latency you used to see on spinning disks.
There's a reason we didn't have a social media boom before smartphones.

The medium is the message.
Wild. Is this a US public school? Just wondering if I should file this away in the very large folder of "WTF are we doing with primary education in this country?"
> UK actors putting on US accents

Yeah but Hugh Laurie in House though

> For US readers, the currently growing new London accent is awful and nothing like the 'Cockney' accent you might expect from watching older films. I've yet to see a US actor try that.

Multicultural London English. It's not "awful", although you are entitled to your views. Personally, I think it's great for comedy, have you heard Big Shaq's Man's Not Hot ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU&t=54s
The movie My Fair Lady unpacks this quite well. Classic movie.
I don't think the Irish government did this, nor the Germans. And brown Americans' government did. You're the one bringing up white guilt here, and glossing over atrocities can be called out without any need for invoking the idea of racial guilt.
If they are resource constrained and then opened up the flood gates resulting in poor performance and timeouts for every user it seems like it would sour more milk than otherwise.
It could also end up like with the transition to digital cameras and megapixels. With companies adding more and more context just because the consumers minds are already imprinted with the idea that more is better. So in a few years we might have models with a window of 30 megatokens and it'll mean absolutely nothing.
Web SQL deprecation timeline updated
One of the parts that I loved at the beginning of my React journey was the component'ization -- the eschewing of "model-view-controller", because really? is that always the best cut-line? How about I do the unix model of a component -- do 1 thing and do it really well as in your select box example.

Anyways, the tide turned again and everyone said, "functional programming is the bees knees! [don't mind these strange hooks that inject side-effects and state]". Then they said, why are we storing state in these pure functional entities. Let's separate out the state and the control..

Back to model-view-controller. Yay?
FYI, you can use your local emacs to edit remote files via TRAMP.

Vim also has this feature built-in:
:e scp://user@host:port//path/to/file

This way, your config can live exactly where it should: on your local system.
And these arguments have been heard, but they are still not convincing.

I don't know what is the reality, maybe indeed the smartphone is causing the problem. But the author is just jumping to the conclusion without proper scientifically caution.

There are a lot of other hypothesis that explain exactly the same observations, and that are not far-fetched (as you say, there is none _according to the author_, who then list all of these hypotheses in his rebutal). In his article, he goes through a lot of them but don't address them properly. For example, the more recent social anxiety about climate change is just "I don't think so".

Personally, if I have to bet, I think it is social media. But then, 1) I will not claim "it is social media", just "it may be social media", 2) it would be stupid of me to then isolate smartphone: if it is social media, then forbidding smartphone but not the laptops would be totally useless (and if the argument is turned into "no but the problem is the constant usage all the time, which you cannot do with a laptop", then, again, it's just pure conjecture: it may end up being true, but it is still scientifically incorrect to present these conclusions as scientific)
Remap Caps Lock to Ctrl.
They date to DEC terminals of the early '80s. DEC was involved in developing X Windows (competing with other windows systems like Sun's NeWS) and xterm supports many of the DEC terminal extensions to ANSI X3.64.
Well now I'm confused as Aussies tend to pronounce "ants" as "eents"
I explicitly said that I understood why they didn't include it - the article was meant to highlight the bizarre idea of hippo meat being introduced in the USA. I commented here because I just thought some HN'ers would like to know a bit more - and I said that too.

I'm not sure how else I could've worded my comment that wouldn't have triggered this kind of reaction :-/
Let's see, I gained a local ski mountain with reasonable locals season pass rates (cheaper to take the kids skiing than the family going to see a movie every weekend in the winter), got a great boat for the local lake and my kids grew up boat camping (at spots only accessible by boat) where they saw beavers, otters, etc every week. We hiked and picked huckleberries and saw black bears, moose, elk. Friends had wakesurfing boats. We white water rafted and floated rivers. In Santa Cruz we would kinda body surf/boogie board and hike crowded trails. Not sure what culture there was in Santa Cruz we're missing, we went and saw the old missions but other than that??? Biggest thing we missed was the Monterey Aquarium and some food, but we just learned how to make it ourselves.
You have no idea how laws got brought into the conversation?
Well if there's a law requiring dogs to be physically examined every year and that would be what you call a law... Also people are bringing in stuff about registration and shots and so forth. Those are also called laws
I found that omission distracting; it made me question the rest of the article, if this important piece of context was not included, you have to wonder what else wasn't included.
Almost all in the list can be used in good stories. And have been used, in fact.

This is a list of tropes. Tropes are neither good or bad, they just are (well, some tropes are obviously bad or outdated, but you get my meaning).

Might as well claim that using words in text is bad.
You are confusing “not guilty” with “not convicted”. We know that most guilty people never end up convicted, this is the whole problem.
I don't have any evidence but I think it's probably done on purpose to make amateur automated free ChatGPT use more annoying.
It's not about scalability but about reliability.

If your 3 users cannot read your blog then good luck getting to 10 users.
> Of course, young families with kids migrating out of cities (but often not the broader metro area) is a trend that's been happening pretty much forever.
>
> As you say, the increase in some urban populations relative to a couple decades ago was mostly driven by new college grads, many of whom previously did not live in the city after undergrad, in part, because many of the jobs that weren't in finance were out in the suburbs/exurbs.

That trend hasn't been happening "forever". It's only a few decades old, and it's a direct function of the broad changes in housing and social policies that were made between the 1960s-1980s.
Something that stuck out to me was a side-note:

> Note that we do like endings that we didn't expect, as long as they derive naturally from character action.

This, to me, is probably the biggest thing that makes me hate a story:

The character is faced with a situation and reacts in a way contrary to the way we'd expect them to act based on what we've seen so far. It soon becomes obvious they made that decision only to move the plot to a specific ending or scene.
This is unlicensed, as best I can tell, as is the parsing submodule (https://github.com/zwegner/sprdpl)
Centenarians have diverse gut virome with the potential to modulate metabolism