skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been moved to hyper-scale engineering since a few years. The science of their engineering is still progressing (e.g LoRA is open science) , and it seems like whatever these companies are adding is not something fundamentally new (considering the success of LLaMa and the recent google memo that admits they have no moat).

And the various "Model cards" are not really in depth research but rather cursory looks at model outputs. Even the benchmarks are mostly based on standard tests designed for humans, which is not a valid way to evaluate an AI. In any case, these companies care more for the public perception of their model so they tended to release evaluations of its political-sensitivity. But that's not necessary the most interesting thing about those models nor particularly valuable science
"The physical size of the explosion is about 100 times larger than the entire solar system, and at its brightest, it was about 2 trillion times brighter than the Sun."

!!
He asked what he meant by less woke in regards to AI and GPT has an insane bias towards progressive american politics and actively censors/denies answering things that would cause it to divorce from that political persona. My previous commend was calling him coy because in 2023 pretending like 'woke' just means 'anyone that doesn't hate minorities' is an absolute joke.
> almost all US reality shows and other entertainment(contestant based shows mainly)

Politics, too.
AI tools used by police who 'do not understand how these technologies work'
Have you used it outside of the training set? And have you actually used it for generalized tasks? Let's be kind to the LLM and define generalized to mean "do anything if it can be hammered into a textual interface." It fails at pretty much everything that's not on the internet.

It produces plausible language and code. It's the future of natural language agents, that's for sure, even though it has no business being the future, today (because of "prompt injection").

These failures are an aside to whether a generalized AI actually carries a substantial global catastrophic risk to us. In that case, if it were actually possible, I don't believe that it's a catastrophic risk either.

Let's define the risk to be, at least in the context of LLMs, when junior developers expose internal APIs and databases and access to email accounts to these easily socially-engineered NLP front-ends. It's a very local risk. As far as the future, I can't see 70 years into the future, so anything is possible, but is it likely? I, personally, don't believe so.
>I'm asking for the raw product.

You can't have stevia powder without some sort of filler/carrier. Undiluted stevia extract is too sweet to be usefully measurable in the typical kitchen. These makers aren't trying to be nefarious.

You can get SweetLeaf which uses inulin (fiber) instead of dextrose https://www.amazon.com/SweetLeaf-Natural-Stevia-Sweetener-70...

You can also get stevia in liquid form which is just in water, and there are a few different brands https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stevia+drops&crid=3TEZDE5EKSQZ1&s...
But it is not that only Apple gets to enjoy it, Other computer system do as well. Just a year later. Or any time other competitor are willing to pay up.
Thanks for the reference!

It's a shame that's the way it is -- but it places the onus on the employer. They would have to fire you, and bear the cost of replacing you.
How fast do you need them to be?

e.g. we know about Ventana Veyron, TBA before end of year, and Tenstorrent's Ascalon, TBA 2024, competitive with Zen5 which is also 2024.

Ascalon is 8-wide, but has smaller siblings at lesser decoder width, to cover a range of uses.

There's also Rivos, MIPS and SiFive working on very high performance cores, but we know less about these efforts.
thanks that is also the only thing that makes sense, i just could not hear it after being primed by the transcript
Considering many bands and live acts now avoid the Bay Area, but heavily tour the mid-west I am going to have to disagree about it all being a negative living in the Midwest.
I was once at a restaurant beside a girl and her parents and a friend of the parents. All were American, but the girl, who had just returned from spending one semester at a university in England, spoke with a strong RP accent. Similarly I met someone (who was starting graduate school) from Texas who had just spent a summer in Germany, and spoke with an exaggerated German accent. I don't understand how they didn't realise that it made them seem foolish, rather than, as they seemed to hope, interesting and sophisticated.
It's a running theme in some of John Scalzi's short fiction. I believe several can be found searching his blog, but the easiest place to find them are probably his collections. A couple were adapted as shorts in the anthology animated series "Love, Death, and Robots" (Netflix Original) most notably the Emmy-winning short "Automated Customer Service".
Smart, seems like a great way to make some money on affiliate commissions and provide a useful product to the creators and the end users at the same time. Nice!
When you add compaction, indexing, recovery, tiered storage, etc. some things become harder to reason about wrt systems resources if you are embedded.
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Yup, I think what's happened is we have a lot of upper level people are going to have bad numbers from WFH becoming the norm and thus they are fighting it. No need for a conspiracy, they're just a bunch of people responding to the same forces.
(2018). By someone who wrote clickbait for a living. Crushed when search engine companies figured out how to filter clickbait better.

All this is pre-GPT, too.

"So, tech bloggers can become venture capitalists. But what do politics and entertainment bloggers become? Mostly alcoholics."
The critique of the 'raised apart' twin study as 'they were not as far apart as you think' is not actually that strong given that the results replicate, they still exist when eliminate these populations, the effect size is way too large to be explained by some 'raised apart' twins living close together.

The better critique is that a lot of what you are actually measuring is maternal womb conditions, ie. placental sharing, which can have a massive impact. The jump from within-family twin study to interracial genetic IQ difference is also not a well-justified one.
This is such an interesting talk!

However I think the take on EWD's contributions to computer science could use a different take. On maintainability and extension of systems it is possible to achieve a system like Sussman's propagators while still maintaining proofs of correctness. It's true that overly specific proofs that don't work on the more general principles are harder to maintain in step with a changing program; however the trade-off is that you don't know if the change you made (to the highly dynamic system) will have the desired effect (or at least, you can't prove it doesn't).

For a small circuit diagram it might be simple enough that there are obviously no errors. However the prevailing approach to software development is to make software so complex there are no obvious errors.

Biological systems seem to get around this by encoding a lot of redundant information, preserving a ton of errors, and it takes millions of years to sort them out.

I think though that in some cases it does make sense to trade off some correctness when prototyping and experimenting with ideas. However, in my limited experience, taking that idea to the extreme can lead to systems that only the original author can understand. Mathematics may be impressionistic but the formalization of mathematics, though tedious and pedantic, isn't!

It wouldn't be until a few years later when systems like Lean are shared to the wider world (and Coq continues to improve) that show how maintaining more general proof-level engineering can be done on a larger scale without sacrificing flexibility.

Sussman is legendary. Loved this talk!
Huh. I hate the streaming mode of ChatGPT. In my experience, any UI that adopts it ends up feeling slow and sluggish for no apparent reason. Plus, I often find myself looking at the text as it appears, and wondering if I should press the "Stop" button, or will it say something useful in the two paragraphs I expect to still follow.

Alas, I use the streaming mode, because it gives an indicator that the connection to the model is still live, and you can kind of estimate how much longer you'll have to wait for the reply to end. With "batched" mode, you just sit there for anywhere between few seconds and few minutes, wondering if it's still generating response, or if the API connection broke again.
My daughter can do a flawless Peppa Pig and it's hilarious.
50 years out is still very concerning and something we should be considering what to do about now.

Most of the severe effects of climate change are 100 years out, but I still want it solved.
I don't quite think you fully understand the nature of NeRF reconstruction. I believe being dismissive of this technology is extremely shortsighted.
>It's possible to use a smartphone without social media. It's possible to set up a child's smartphone in such a way that their access to social media is limited if not totally removed.

I would argue that it's very hard to limit access to the web versions of social media outlets.

I would also first broaden our terms a little, as it's not just social media that's so harmful, it's the wider attention economy. If we include that, it is practically impossible to own a smartphone without misusing it to your personal detriment.
I figured there was something I was missing, I was asking to try to get an answer. Why won’t the naive scaling method work?
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> Yes, correlation does not equal causation. But when it makes logical sense why

Confounding factor: think about the type of parents who choose not to give their children smartphones. Are they more or less likely to be engaged in other aspects of the childs life that promotes good outcomes compared to the average? How about other things like diet, hobbies, income, waking hours spent in the home? Could those potentially affect mental health in adulthood?
I know this discussion is lost and the times have changed. However, two things I cant let stand: Using semantic HTML tags is all you need for proper accessibility of text documents. Calling that out as being specia attention for accessibility is false in my opinion. And yes, you just found one of these very rare people. I still spend 99% of my work day in tmux on a plain text console. I can, of course, fire up Firefox on a second machine I have next to me for just these problems, but it breaks my workflow not being able to read a text document with a text browser. Dont even bother telling me that this use case is no longer supported. I know that. That doesn't change my technical opinion that JS is way too much of a gun for documents.
Whilst publicly exposing ports from a phone is still certainly scary, for ADB specifically it's actually not as bad as it sounds - wifi debugging requires an explicit & bi-directionally initiated pairing process beforehand (sharing a 6 digit code or scanning a QR code to do so) and then also separately trusting the public key of the connecting computer at the moment when it connects.

To allow untrusted access, you'd have to have the ADB port accessible to the attacker, and then intentionally open developer options and tap "pair for wifi debugging", and then enter/scan a malicious pairing code, and then accept the unrecognized public key when the device connected. And if that does happen, there's a persistent notification that a debugger is connected.
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I have a music server(Navidrone) running on a similar setup (https://davidhampgonsalves.com/junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-...) but preventing Termux from being killed is a persistent issue. PostmarketOS seems like the best option but its device support is quite limited.
This is a really fun use of language models. I wonder if more capable models would be better or worse in this kind of application? To some extent the charm comes from the whimsical aspect of it.
Another person addicted to using the word "woke".... sigh
But the pilots were taking pills and never getting rest because the army had to cover two war fronts while lacking the resources to do so..

using pills and not resting enough was a symptom of the problem of having to fight a war in two fronts, not resting and taking pills was not the problem itself..
Uh, I just use a window manager.
You're probably aware of http://www.nncpgo.org/ then
Also good old RSS.
Thankfully for me, 9999/10000 times, I'm using my own system. On the off chance I am using someone else's system, I probably won't be doing anything particularly interesting or staying very long. On top of that, I can usually bring my keyboard, which itself contains most of my divergence from norm.

If customisability were really as available as it should be, it would be trivial to change between configurations. After all, the only technical hurdle is that most software is built on UI/UX assumptions.
The fundamental problem seems to be that it's still slightly sub-GPT-3.5-quality, and even a long context window can't fix that. It will remember things from many many tokens ago, but it still doesn't reliably produce passable work.

The combination of a GPT-4-quality model and a long context window will unlock a lot of applications that now rely on somewhat lossy window-prying hacks (i.e. summarizing chunks). But any model quality below that won't move the needle much in terms of what useful work is possible, with the exception of fairly simple summarization and text analysis tasks.
It seems especially ridiculous since the US raised the standard deduction in 2017 fewer and fewer of us can itemize enough to meet it.
I don't mean the left needs a demagogue, I mean they need a business conglomerate to consolidate & compete.

Another good alternative to WSJ is FT.
FT & Bloomberg subscriptions cost about 10x what WSJ does though.
For me I am happier paying for one (or both of them) + NYT, than 15 different NYT-alikes.
Since Strange Horizons publishes far less than 10% of all science fiction, that seems fine.
People forget but back in those days, it was NOT a foregone conclusion that x86 would absolutely rule the day. Serious people with serious reasons argued that CISC was a dead end, there were a large variety of other processors that could do other things, and nobody really predicted that AMD and x86-64 would just absolutely ravish the then relatively powerful and large workstation market.

This was the era of serious CPU arguments, Itanium was going to be the next big thing, PowerPC was making serious performance claims, etc.

Windows NT ran on IA-32, MIPS, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, x64, and ARM. All the cool OSes back then ran on many different architectures.
I'm having flashbacks to some Alpha machines that were donated to FreeBSD.org in the early 2000s for an Alpha build cluster.

They came from Microsoft, although perhaps indirectly, and the drives had all sorts of NT/Windows labels and IIRC had not been wiped.

I have photos of the machines but I don't recall what happened to the drives. I know they were put aside.. somewhere...

The machines were eventually replaced with systems (indirectly) from Pixar. The original machines are long gone.
I got first-hand (virtual) experience with this playing Dyson Sphere. Late-game tech requires a whole web of dependencies. Doubling from 1x <shiny item> per minute to 2x <shiny item> means doubling the entire supply chain all the way down the line. It's not just doubling the factory making the thing, it's doubling the inputs, and the inputs to the inputs.

For example, the mirror might require extremely high purity silica, made in a top-notch cleanroom environment. To produce 2x, you don't just need 2x the raw material, you need 2x the air filtration systems, purifying machines, trained staff.

Which is fine, that large footprint can be doubled! But maybe this whole process is only going to be state-of-the-art for 5 years, and after that won't command top dollar.
I didn't downvote you despite the presumptive and condescending tone you took with my comment. Maybe that's why.

All I said was I don't want to use only Microsoft stuff on any one project, I never said (a) I didn't like TS or (b) other frameworks don't autogenerate other files.

You zeroed in on that one part.
> People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity; the harm which can be done by some super-intelligent system optimizing for the wrong outcome.

That's assuming A LOT about them. And the danger so far seems to be more of "the AI says stuff that gets us in trouble" rather than anything unrelated to making money off it. Or patterns AI exposes do not align with our interests (political or otherwise).

> the harm which can be done by some super-intelligent system optimizing for the wrong outcome. There is nothing "ironic" about being worried about that while also being an asshole any more than it's "ironic" for someone concerned about, say, climate change and also be an asshole. People who are afraid of unaligned AI aren't afraid that it will be impolite.

That would be a concern for real AI however ChatGPT flavours are not that.
One can't, but one can make it illegal for the government to use any product that relies on any sort of social media "fire hose." There can be specific requirements that LEOs are only allowed to use the publicly available websites or apps to find posts on these platforms and can't use a contractor as a loophole.
Neither of them put out "crap"
hey, I like this. Lean and clean. I would want only one feature, to mark an article as read / unread. Also, may be an option to hide the read ones.
I got "harmonize"!
What I don't understand about these programs is the added income clause. In California the state provides a free tool to file state income taxes (CalFile), but you can't use it if you make over $230,000 a year. Does it really make sense? It's similar with the federal free file program I believe.

You would think they would want to encourage high income citizens to use their tool so they can control the deductions/credits/process.
I don't find scraping publicly accessible data nearly as bad as when they circle planes over protests and track people. Not just the marshals service, but FBI[1] and even the US Air Force[2], etc. A prime example of this was during the riots in Kenosha, WI in 2020, and the subsequent trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. A good deal of the footage they used in the trial was from the FBI surveillance plane[3], and they supplied low resolution footage, but had all persons involved clearly marked and tracked. What they actually have is much clearer than what they provided to the lawyers under subpoena. Combine that with cell phone data, and trackers they manually place on "suspects" and their cars[4].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zvwj/military-fbi-flying-s...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/air-force-surveillance-p...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial/ind...

[4] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/mysterious-p...
I only have experience in couple of cities (Toronto & Ottawa), and medallions are... just an insane thing. A positively insane thing. Nominal price of about $1k, their market price was up to $300k. For many people I spoke to, their one and only retirement financial planning was essentially a mortgage on their own medallion. When Uber came along and medallion prices fell, they were... devastated, angry, distraught, hopeless.

On one hand my heart completely goes out to them - they worked hard and invested in something they perceived or were assured had permanent value.

On the other hand, W.T.F. You are banking your family's entire life that... what, city will never change the model or expand number of licenses or revamp their code, basically that nothing will ever change?

So I don't know if there was an "evil medallion cartel", but there definitely was "extreme lobbying by people whose livelihood was intimately tied in shortage of transportation methods" and a little bit of "unspecified people going to uber office with bats and having a little smash-the-computers fun".

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On the other topic you mention - if there indeed exist cities where "taxi is no more regulated than uber", then what IS the distinction between "Uber" and "Taxi" in such places? Can I just slap a sign on my car and pick up people?
With regard to this:

> - On the wire/protocol stuff. We're doing pretty rudimentary "open new connection, stream voice, POST somewhere". This adds extra latency and CPU usage because of repeated TLS handshakes, etc. We have plans to use Websockets and what-not to cut down on this.

I've recently used the Noise protocol[1] to do some encrypted communication between two services I control but separated by the internet.

It was surprisingly easy!

[1]: https://noiseprotocol.org/
>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.

Respect to the Kafka team as Kafka is an incredible piece of software, but the Mongo guys got torched for eternity for pulling the same shenanigans.
I've got to admit, there's a lot of inspiration in that list. Though maybe use a couple and not make one of these the sole interesting thing about the story. Also, execution always matters.

And some of these should definitely be avoided at all costs.
What's you're definition of autonomous? Am I autonomous? I probably can't exist for very long without a society around me and I'd certainly be working on different things without external prompts.
Right, when I said “do everything twice” I was including the entire supply chain.

If there is enough money sitting on the table, it seems like it would be worth it to do that. But it sounds like it would take too long with uncertain returns?
Nice. Siri is completely unusable with an accuracy of less than 10%. I'm guessing Whisper on CPU is probably the same, so I wouldn't risk wasting time on trying the inference server if it only runs on CPU, but once that runs on GPU it would be cool to try this out.
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He works for Meta.
... or concurrent to it
Is there a trick to getting access? I’ve been on the waitlist for GPT-4 and Claude for a while. Been building some proof of concepts with GPT-3.5 but having better models would be a huge help.