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> "... thus makes massive AI scalability possible. This results in both increased ROI and much faster time to market."

also results in sentient artificial minds with superhuman cognition and implications for philosophy and our role in the future of life in the universe
I don't see this view as being an indicator of a bad attitude. Actions are louder than words, and that is acknowledged in their post.

(That said, I do view the implied motive as a negative. The intent of open communication may be honest, while the actions may not reflect it.)
Funny how making an informative title for a piece of text is on the curriculum but good-for-readers titles don't earn money... so writers have to learn good-for-ARR titles instead
" the question 'are these exact bits irrevocably committed to the media?' is pretty much impossible to answer"

Well, kind of. fsync()'s job is only to ensure caches are written to durable storage. Its job is not to ensure the integrity of durable storage. Your idea of fsync()'s "Right Thing" is not quite correct, because these types of durable storage failures can happen outside of the context of a write -- so it's a bit silly to point a finger at fsync().

For example, you can write bytes to disk today and the drive might experience corruption on that sector next week.

"(and even then, I would not bet my life on it)"

All hardware fails, so of course you shouldn't bet your life on it. That's why we have both onsite and offsite backups. The durable media itself can always fail and lose data -- even if there aren't any writes occurring. Data loss can even occur on a powered off system.

Again, fsync()'s job is only to ensure the data is moved to durable storage. Solving the problem of data loss is done in other ways -- for example raid5 addresses the problem of durable storage failing by using parity and extra copies.

The real takeaway from the blog is perhaps that Raft as a protocol is inadequate, in the same way a raid1 mirror system is inadequate in terms of protecting from data corruption on durable storage (which of the two mirrored drives has the correct version of the data?). I'm frankly surprised that this situation is undetectable. It's a solved problem in other storage layers.

"I'll probably stick to SQLite write-ahead logs, at least I can wrap my mind around those"

Well, keep in mind: those have the same problem in the event of durable storage failure.
I went to Vegas' Pinball Hall of Fame a few weeks ago and it's a great place to go. I had one free day in Vegas before a work-related conference, so I took the morning and spent around 4 hours there.

A lot of good, working machines, nice staff, no tricks to keep making you consuming unnecessary stuff or stay there more than you would want to. Just a fun place to be -- if you enjoy playing pinball of course. Cheap too.
The fact that Altman said many decisions were made based on the understanding that children will use the product was enlightening.
You're asking for ~2000 minutes to examine a class of 100. That means either having many more TAs than most classes have or making examination periods way longer than they are.

Then, even with all that you aren't really making any real improvement, as the skills involved in an oral exam are not necessarily relevant to those which need to be tested, thus making the exam at best similar in uselessness to a written exam and at worst, actively harmful in testing performance.
SoTA for open source models
Any functional react application would fit the criteria I imagine.
People like you scare me more than anyone who's in prison for something violent. You want to universally kill people by the millions for making mistakes. This is a perspective completely lacking any empathy and compassion. These are human beings with lives, families, experiences, and have the opportunity for growth and improvement to become a person who can peacefully integrate with society. Giving up on them and murdering them is ridiculous and I really hope you reevaluate your perspective and learn some compassion.
Why does anyone trust ChatGPT to correctly answer this question? It's a text prediction engine, not an all purpose correct answer generator. A yes or a no answer is the sort of text that would follow a question like this, certainly.
Incumbent love regulations they're very effective in locking out upstarts and saddling them with compliance costs and procedures
Wow awesome, thanks man. I'll keep this as a reference.
Thank you @certik for your encouragement!

I cherish the following comment from you:

> if SciPy accepts this modern Fortran codebase, then I think the tide for Fortran will change.

I believe that you and the LFortran project are truly turning the tide on Fortran. I wish to see the production release of LFortran as soon as possible.

If PRIMA can also contribute to “turning the tide on Fortran”, I will feel honored. All the pain, depression, and frustration that I have experienced in the past three years will then be partially compensated.

Let us the community work together to get PRIMA included in SciPy and see whether the tide on Fortran will improve.

Many thanks.
> We call that Capitalism. If you don't have a plan to stop it, assume it's going to happen.

Maybe that still holds true for Europe since the US doesn't want to piss of their strategic allies too much, but unless you're living under a rock, you've seen how that works for other less friendly countries.
10x compared to what though? FaceTime (and similar) is already full-duplex video and audio, which I have to imagine is at least another 10x on top of what you’re describing. Are we really budgeting our computer resources so strictly that this would even show up as more than a rounding error?
Perhaps a good idea in theory, it'd be horrible in practice.

Enough "horse-trading" goes on as it is (you go easy on client A, I'll offer client B up to you on this other case on a silver platter; that way we both make our numbers and look good).

A better idea would be the appointment of a special "evidence master" who holds and controls all evidence and determines who gets to see what evidence, with a bias toward everybody seeing everything. Right now police turn their evidence over to prosecutors and prosecutors determine what the defense (and public) see. If prosecutors don't want them to have something, they don't get it, and no one's ever going to know. I have real trouble believing any society where prosecutions rely on bluffing and brinksmanship to coerce plea bargains is a fair and just one.

There should be no plea bargains. There should also be no peremptory juror challenges. In all honesty, I think AI would be a great candidate to replace both prosecutors and defense attorneys. The playing field would finally be level for once. Judges too.
It doesn't have to be Skynet. If anything, that scenario seems to a strawman exclusively thrown out by the crowd insisting AI presents no danger to society. I work in ML, and I am not in any way concerned about end-of-world malicious AI dropping bombs on us all or harvesting our life-force. But I do worry about AI giving us the tools to tear ourselves to pieces. Probably one of the single biggest net-negative societal/technological advancements in recent decades has been social media. Whatever good it has enabled, I think its destructive effects on society are undeniable and outstrip the benefits by a comfortable margin. Social media itself is inert and harmless, but the way humans interact with it is not.

I don't think that trying to regulate every detail of every industry is stifling and counter-productive. But the current scenario is closer to the opposite end of the spectrum, with our society acting as a greedy algorithm in pursuit of short-term profits. I'm perfectly in favor of taking a measure-twice-cut-once approach to something that has as much potential for overhauling society as we know it as AI does. And I absolutely do not trust the free market to be capable of moderating itself in regards to these risks.
Packet Storm Security
You are right, to be honest I had just assumed most news articles will have an overly negative spin to get clicks.
The End of AM Radio?
I'm more impacted by the inverse: as someone who's done programming for decades, been hired many times, been promoted, survived multiple layoff rounds (and moved cities and states to stay loyal), started and ran my own computer game biz, had independent clients I've shipped for successfully, has technical writing artifacts online, and code in my public GitHub repos I should NOT have to be "tested" by now to check if I'm a real programmer or not, or whether I'm smart, or whether I solve and ship. I clearly have and do. Therefore its nauseating, insulting, seems insane and just plain gets old.

I sometimes wonder if experienced engineers should begin "testing" hiring companies by requiring them to send a typical paycheck deposit -- you know, just to be 100% sure they have the ability to do that, rather than blindly trusting them in good faith.

Perhaps we should start a guild?
They don't. That's the point being made.
This post really makes me appreciate the engineering that led to the completely usable and powerful DAWs that ran on the comparatively weak hardware of the late 90s, early 2000s like Cakewalk, Cubase, Logic.
The Turing Registry is coming, one way or another.
Frankly, I've grown to miss it too--especially when I'm doing breadboard development and need more space. I'm currently building one to be used with a standing desk (a regular desk is too low--your knees will hit the underside).
Pinball on computers is thriving too.

Visual Pinball X ("VPX", see https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=51) runs community authored recreated tables with ROMs dumped from the hardware. The physics engine has good performance and authenticity.

Another project, Visual Pinball Engine, ported the C++-based physics engine to Unity (https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine) through its DOTS & "HPC#" (C# with manual memory management extensions) approach. Unity adoption means you can play high fidelity tables right in your browser (https://appmana.com/watch/pinball).

Then there's commercial platforms like Pinball FX and people building VPX rendering in VR.

It's maybe the biggest simulation scene I know of. The community fills many niches. Rigs of Rods & Beam.ng for the idea, "Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for cars." XMage & Spellsource for "Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone but you write your own cards." Unreal Engine for Fortnite is a big entry for the open world community authored content dominated by Minecraft, with submarine stuff like Facepunch's S&box (think Garry's Mod 2.0) coming up.
I was wondering the same thing, and if there was some way that you needed to hand bits of the framework to other people to enable them to use it.
Do you have any suggestion for a good book on the math topics you mentioned, to get myself above the bar?
Who controls the internet? Diversity of authoritative NS records in gTLDs (2022)
It keeps telling me you're a Mongolian warlord from the 13th century [1].

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mr_Prosser
The same indicators they would use with teacher?
Studyig is about reading books, comparing sources. Not copying notes.

At university if you discover teacher is lying, you may get prosecuted, expelled, and loose $100k on student loans.

Edit: response to your other comment, I am being rationed by HN

As I said, ChatGPT is good at answering and explaining questions. It can replace teacher as "explainer", not as some sort of dogmatic source of truth. Text book does not answer questions, ChatGPT does! If some section of textbook is too vague to understand, you may ask questions to get better understanding!
> We know that most guilty people never end up convicted

Going to need a source for this, otherwise it sounds like "I just say it how it is" type of arguing.
everything's fine it's a gain of function update
Aren't regulations just laws that are enforced after they're broken like other after-the-fact crimes?
I have the same problem with ChatGPT (3/4). It was working nice before when I'd ask "output only code, not explanation, no other text" and now it's stopped. Need to try threatening it :)
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Tourists don't "feel entitled", they rent apartments because hotels and guesthouses are full, or the price is cheaper, or they think the price is cheaper. Tourists have no blame in this - they book what is on offer.
Does the verb 'fail' take 'from' as a preposition?
120-150k is a lot of money, though. It's not exactly "less than some fast food places." It's still more than almost anyone makes.
Not all that recent - I recall seeing a reddit (?) post a while back asking where section 2.8 disappeared to
It's unfortunate that these guys are, in all probability, being thoroughly railroad.

However it's extremely difficult to have sympathy for anyone who continues to support the Russian military establishment after Feb 24, 2022. Especially in such a high-level capacity.
This book got me into making my own bread, thank you hendricius!

Toughts I didn't take the time to put in an mr:

-The text is dense like a fruitcake. A bit of air would go a long way to make it
more digestible. Sometimes long explanations on progressions are mixed in with key information, and it makes it hard to follow.

-I forget if I compiled it or used the pdf but by memory it was the default latex font, which makes the text look like a paper.

-Starter care and setup was the hardest for me to parse. Having bullets for key concepts would really help. The diagram helps but still has some ambiguity.

Even my grandma, impressed by my beautiful bread, adopted your technique :)
I think more broadly, arcades have been coming back in US. Part of it is the nostalgia aspect but I think more so, they have finally figured out a sustainable business model: become a bar.

For example I live in Denver and here we have a chain of popular Arcade bars called '1up'. I always find it a great place to go with friends or on a date because there's always something for everyone, machines of all types, photo booths, and if you just don't like arcade games they have a full bar as well. And as a result they attract a varied crowd and always seem to be making money one way or the other.

I wish game bars all the best, as a 90's kid I never really got to experience arcades like they had them back in the 80's, so it's awesome to see arcade bars make a comeback now.

Also it is just me or do pinball games just never seem to get the physics of the ball right? Every pinball game I've ever played always seemed way easier than playing "real" pinball.
Sure, but everything I've seen in the 4 figures range is MUCH older than I'm looking for or needs MUCH more work than I would like to put in for my first table.

Every year, I go to an annual pinball convention in my area. The tables that are 4 figures are the old 70s and 80s tables. Hell, one I've had my eye on (Fish Tales [1] from 1992) is averaging about $5,700USD on Pinside.

[1] https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/fish-tales
There are a couple things i don’t like about this trend.

First, I have idle accounts for brand protection. I really dislike being forced to participate in the handle registration gold rush to begin with. Now I’ll have to set aside a day every few months to log in to all of them. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s annoying.

Second, if idle email accounts become available for re-registration it might expose some users to account takeovers if they own accounts with email addresses they’ve forgotten about. And, what about people forwarding from accounts they never log into directly? I wouldn’t consider those inactive. Does Google?
So you were aware, that the lyrics you cited were no direct threat to the sowjets?

Apart from that, of course they were natural enemies. Mein Kampf and many other sources spoke about the concept of conquering land in the east.

And the sowjets wanted the world revolution. Also documented.

So why pick that example then?

Because with that, you could also "proof" that the Nazis were mortal enemies to the conservative forces in germany. Were they? As far as I know, not really and surely not as long as the nazis were successfull.

So I really do suspect, that you were not aware, but cannot admit a misstake now, like you cannot admit any wrongdoing by the sowjets. Sorry, but this is not a base for me for serious debate.
Depends on what type of game. If the mouse is controlling the player's head in first person, then I expect non-inverted. If the mouse is controlling the cockpit of some flying type of vehicle in first person, then I expect inverted.
Sam Altman is basically saying, "Now that we've already done it, you need to make it so everyone else that tries to compete with us, including hobbyists or Torvalds-types must obtain a license to do it."

That's high-order monopolist BS.

Create safety standards, sure. License LLM training? No.
For years, we've had a strong trend to make even the basic workings of a computer appear like magic and users not bothering how it does what. Now it may be a bit too much to expect a teacher to understand how LLMs work and what the consequences are. (E.g., do they know how a file system works, what happens, when they move a document from one folder to another?) – We may have to revise how we present computers and how they should be perceived, from pseudo-magic ease of use to ease of understanding, what is done and how this is achieved.
You should because that's what these companies or "resources" are actually thinking. If you asked the CEO or shareholders who the company belongs to they'll claim it's theirs and that where it operates from is irrelevant. The US has the military it has because of capitalism, warfare costs tremendous amounts of money and resources and so a lucrative market was birthed.
Yes, I see in retrospect I was misinterpreting the comment I was replying to and have edited it slightly accordingly.
As someone who bakes bread and other doughy items weekly and has for over a decade, bread machines are more work than making by hand and make bread that sucks. If you use less yeast, and let it slow rise there's no kneeding involved and it tastes way better.
> regulation should focus on ensuring the safety of AIs once they are ready to be put into widespread use

What would you say to a simple registration requirement? You give a point of contact and a description of training data, model, and perhaps intended use (could be binary: civilian or dual use). One page, publicly visible.

This gives groundwork for future rulemaking and oversight if necessary.
Development notes from xkcd's “Gravity” and “Escape Speed”
Create two random 10 digit numbers and sit down and add them up on paper. Write down every bit of inner monologue that you have while doing this or just speak it out loud and record it.

ChatGPT needs to do the same process to solve the same problem. It hasn’t memorized the addition table up to 10 digits and neither have you.
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experimenting with this myself, after telling it off multiple times for not doing it, and it profusely apologising and even literally saying it’s not within its functionality, I tried one last time and it did do it

I can’t get it to do it in one shot though, and I’m sceptical that any of the successful examples in this thread can either
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Really? You think someone who spends all day building systems with software will have an easy time studying and gaining a CDL, learning about soil quality, drainage, fertilization, crop strategies, financing agreements (lease to own agreements, commodities futures, even forex), working with hired labor and managing contractors, engine repair and small scale fabrication? I think the farmer would undoubtedly get bored of being cooped up inside all day at a computer, but they wouldn't have a hard time understanding how to create a system from small moving pieces that they can direct.
Hello HN! I’m Sean, one of the makers of Olli. We’re looking forward to getting the HN community’s thoughts on what we’ve built.

Olli makes it really easy to build and share data apps. We provide AI-commands (similar to Notion) to generate tables, charts, data summaries, metrics, and more. Once you connect relational databases or warehouses, you can immediately start creating apps.

We’ve built this for teams that have both non-technical and technical team members who want to share data insights. The product is flexible, allowing you to manually edit SQL for any component.

Here’s a 3 min video demo of me spinning up a basic sales report: https://loom.com/share/51a7d7b4b9654218b3576c6655c0993d

If you want to try this with your own data, you can create a free account here and use our one-click deployment option on the homepage: https://app.olli.ai/signup

Thanks!

p.s. Here are instructions on exposing your local DB to Olli https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTUBjju66-EYZ-f2...
Reaper, let's not forget Reaper. Fully blown DAW with brilliant UI in like 15 MB. Cross-platform too.
Yep, it's actually more difficult to get the sour flavor than it is to not get it.
wow, my mistake. i even saw discourse and am so used to seeing everything move to discord that I think my brain just autocorrected it.
Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices. Worst case if I was in a hurry I'd get a B on an exam. I wasn't looking up the answers and skipping any work. I was just arriving at the prescribed optimal outcome (a good grade) without following the schools preferred method.

This is what AI feels like to me. It's a very useful, but very flawed tool. In its current state, if I try and make it do my work for me, I'm going to have a very bad time. It's a "hack", not a "cheat." It's a new way of doing work, not a replacement for work.
> It finds roots when you can only measure the derivative.

How is that even possible? The function f(x)=x-7 has a single root at x=7. Its derivative is f'(x)=1. How do you recover 7 from 1 ?
It's only a type of bread if you're a marketing guy for a pre-sliced going on a shelf in a supermarket.

Otherwise it's a (bad name IMO for a) leavening method. Basically just not using controlled/commercial/instant yeast, but from the environment.

Guarantee original baguettes were made with an environmental yeast starter/levain, probably some bakers continue to.
I don't trust Apple to make usable/working ML products, whereas I do trust Google to do those things.

I would never, for instance, rely on Apple's "Translate" when Google is available.
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I use documentation a lot but reading from cover to cover?

I usually look at the documentation while I'm writing the code, for the specific concepts and symbols I need to understand or am having issues with, and over time I learn more about the general framework. This also helps because the information is relevant so I remember it better.

For example the Coq manual: https://coq.inria.fr/refman/. The first time I looked at this it was extremely intimidating. It includes a lot of dense concepts (type theory) and forward references. There's no way I could read it through without forgetting 90% of it because I couldn't understand.

As I've used Coq and kept going back to the definitions, I now understand its docs a lot better. Now I can actually read something from them, and I understand the grammar notation and terminology and forward references; and Coq's detailed, technical documentation is invaluable and essential for debugging the language's many quirks and edge cases. But it took hands-on experimenting with Coq to get to that point.