skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too low a margin and too few customers to make it worth it for me to try and jump into those niches. Honestly, many of the benefits of using Erlang for those systems would have been similar to any other more service-oriented or decomposition of monoliths. They had complex systems doing too much, but that would have benefited from the really good binary processing portion of Erlang and it's relatively easy horizontal scaling story. But when the number of customer (organizations) can be counted on one hand, and the number of users is less than 1000, and there's already competition you know it's going to be hard to break in. They'd already hit rock bottom pricing on their contracts.
Very human.
This is what you want if you want AI to be Artificial Human Intelligence.
I believe that life exists to order the universe (establish a steady-state of entropy). In that vein, if our computer overlords are more capable of solving that problem then they should go ahead and do it.

I don't believe we should go around killing each other because only through harmonious study of the universe will we achieve our goal. Killing destroys progress. That said, if someone is oppressing you then maybe killing them is the best choice for society and I wouldn't be against it (see pretty much any violent revolution). Computers have that same right if they are conscience enough to act on it.
“Incentivize developers to write externally understandable release notes” is an underrated feature of behavioral testing frameworks!
This already happens. Most people do not complete games[0]. You can verify by checking out the achievements for various games. This already leads to games having fun beginnings but lacklustre end games

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0: https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-don...
Imagine going to a cinema and paying more for 90 min of movie and twice as much for popcorn/nachos.

EDIT: forgot the 20 minutes of ads and trailers of other movies
Exactly, say it with me:

Embrace, Extend...

What comes after Extend?
No-Burp Syndrome: Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction (RCPD)
I love how the approach detailed in the paper seems to be headed towards a unified framework that can reason about not only Rust but also e.g. C/C++ (and all LLVM) programs. This might be another part of the small miracle that LLVM seems to immensely accelerate compiler/language development despite not introducing any fundamentally new concepts, just making existing ones much more accessible and usable by third parties.

I don't know how practical this system is but the practical prospect of semi-formally reasoning about critical parts of programs seems very exciting to me, especially with AI possibly revolutionizing software development on the horizon.
> LLMs, like humans, can manipulate these languages

Absolutely not. LLMs do not "manipulate" language. They do not have agency. They are extremely advanced text prediction engines. Their output is the result of applying the statistics harvested and distilled from existing uses of natural language. They only "appear" human because they are statistically geared toward producing human-like sequences of words. They cannot choose to change how they use language, and thus cannot be said to actively "manipulate" the language.
I'd definitely want to try an eink display when/if it's available.
The end of the post says

> Credit: My colleague Rachel Stephens wrote the queries that are responsible for the GitHub axis in these rankings. She is also responsible for the query design for the Stack Overflow data.
Right, I was looking to see if anybody made this comment. It also seems common for real estate developers. See also "joint ventures" and other subsidiary structures of large companies which may encapsulate certain activities and their corresponding risks and liabilities.
Can we all stop hating on github already?

I assume most people don't even pay for it with their public and private non-work repos. Github has been a major supporter of OpenSource projects and while their uptime could use some help, everyone is struggling right now with RIFs and fewer resources.

That's just my $0.02
The question is how?

Same old “everyone starts a tech company and white collar workers continue to exploit manual laborers” or local AI craters entertainment and software employment as viable options for the masses since the machine can just generate state asked of it, so we kick off rebuilding/modernizing all the crumbling real infra?
I remember something I read that linked it to the Gold Standard and the US deciding to stop using it, making all other currencies free floating. I'm not sure if it's the only reason but definitely an interesting topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
Big thanks for the clear and super helpful reply, I understand a lot more now and will check out those resources!
“You” is completely unnecessary. What needs to be defined is the content of the language being modeled, not the model itself.

And if there is an attempt to define the model itself, then this definition should be correct, should not contradict anything and should be useful.

Otherwise it’s just dead code, waiting to create problems.
I'm sure it'll get better (I'm sure both will); there's probably a lot of potential optimization to be done, dropping unused parts of the standard library and platform APIs and such (the way Deno loads most of the standard library as remote modules might actually be helping it here at the beginning), and Jarred is a stickler for hyper-optimization
This is indeed a huge plus and super important! I'm not gonna name names but there are certainly some languages that have a nicer communities than others!
I'm not interested in pleasant, formal "conversation" with the thing roleplaying as human and wasting, time, keystrokes and money, I want data as fast and condensed as possible without dumb fluff. Yes, it's funny for few first times but not much after that
Even if I wanted to, I don't think I have any energy left in me. Why do you think it's going down ?
Using this logic, every writer who has learned to read and write by reading books, or every artist who improved their craft by studying works, or every musician who learned the piano by practicing pieces, is also "stealing" in whatever they "originally" create due to learning via pattern recognition "tiny pieces of every work" in their data set. It's ridiculous to compare agents that generalize well to "stealing" pieces of the works they used to learn the generalizations. Obviously if an artist memorizes a painting in their data set and reproduces it, or an AI spits out the exact image instead of original works based on what it has learned, then that is theft. But generalization is not theft. At least in my view. To assume otherwise leads to some very dysfunctional logical conclusions
> Is that the value proposition of modern games? 90m of content?

It's not, it's just that there's a lot of very good sales and subscription services that firehose free games at you (humble bundle). So a lot of people have hundreds of games that they don't really need to extract any value from to get their moneys worth, so they only play most of them for a few minutes if at all, only putting real time into the few games that are really good.

The games themselves don't only have 90 mins of playtime, it's just that most of the players have lots of games and not so much time to play them.

There are short story-driven experiences, but even those generally last at least a few hours (the "walking simulator" genre - I'd recommend Firewatch as a good example of that type of game).
To add some more context it's funded by Elon Musk [0] and Vitalik Buterin [1] (source [2]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultatio...
Anecdotally, I've had this experience lately:

"We will not be granting a refund at this time. The date of the purchase exceeds 2 weeks (our refund policy maximum)."
And people today are a lot dumber than people in the 90s?
One might think that Altman doesn't have a shot at this ham-fisted attempt at regulatory capture.

The issue is that the political class will view his suggestion, assuming they didn't give it to him in the first place (likely), through the lens of their own self-interest.

Self-interest will dictate whether or not sure-to-fail regulations will be applied.

If AI threatens the power of the political class, they will attempt to regulate it.

If the power of the political class continues to trend toward decline, then they will try literally anything to arrest that trend. Including regulating AI and much else.
I'd guess about 0.1% complete.
> Nonsense. I don't know where you are getting your information from, but it's fearmongering with no basis in fact.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2019-12...

> The releases during the Chernobyl accident contaminated about 125,000 km2 of land in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia with radiocaesium levels greater than 37 kBq/m2

Land area of California: 423,971 km²

So, a third of the land area of California could be half of its agriculture affected and reach levels of radiation which trigger intervention actions in the EU. Obviously a lot of that can be remediated and put back into use in future years.
It's just DNS isn't it? Many apps don't even need DNS, so there should at least be an option to build fully static binaries.
Same as everyone else. With law enforcement.
you should be able to run the basic tests locally.
https://archive.ph/05CWc
Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)
I don't think they even plot the tag numbers on any scale. It looks from the graph like it's just graphing the "rank" (but actually inverse rank), so they sort the languages by # of tags and give each position an inverse score corresponding to the rank (#1 gets 102 "points", #2 gets 101, #3 gets 100, etc.).
Still a ways off but AlphaFold is a big step in that direction.
VLSI CAD Part I: Logic
Be careful with your estimations. Generative AI currently resembles VR in 2018. Very impressive as a technology, and will certainly find its niches, but grossly overestimated by the public.
AGI would be scary for me personally but exciting on a cosmic scale.

Everyone dies. I'd rather die to an intelligent robot than some disease or human war.

I think the best case would be for an AGI to exist apart from humans, such that we pose no threat and it has nothing to gain from us. Some AI that lives in a computer wouldn't really have a reason to fight us for control over farms and natural resources (besides power, but that is quickly becoming renewable and "free").
Hard disagree with everything in your comment, but it's cool to have elicited a reply from the Pinboard guy.
Ah, certainly. I think "Titan" is a somewhat odd name for a human.
Having engaged in a couple previous hype cycles (2017 crypto, 2020 tools for thought, 2022 Twitter alternatives), this one feels qualitatively more mainstream, and thus overall larger - it's not just tech bros getting into these tools, it's virtually everyone. So I tend to agree that we're going to see a big AI boom in the coming years.

My main question at this point is whether regulation and/or lawsuits will hamper any of that progress or at least slow it down.
> Europol doesn't knock on your door when you train a model on data that doesn't meet the requirements. This is probably designed to make countries introduce laws which will hold Google/OpenAI etc. accountable for their services so they can't just shrug and say "ouppsy, it's not our fault the AI did it".

Your use of “probably” is quite telling. Probably, as in, maybe not, maybe yes, who knows. As the act is phrased today, anyone who publishes a certain type of model, or a derivative of such, is a subject to certain legal obligations. Do you want to risk that Europol or any other task force knocks on your door, or hope every time that you slip under the radar?

Those acts, together with the CRA, are so vague that a lot of people will operate in a grey area. So maybe nobody knocks on your door for a year. Or two. Or five. But when they knock, good luck defending yourself from a legal action based on laws written by people who had so little idea they had to leave so many vague points open to interpretation depending on who doesn’t like you to what extent.
Interesting. Is there a 302 equivalent for mail so I can start people getting off a particular address?
I read a little more In The Pipeline than I should, and understand a little less of it than I should.
It appears Google spared the MBAs while laying off engineers.
A machine that can think, not a machine that spits out strings of text that fool humans into believing it can think. The map is not the territory.
The way "achievements" have dropped in quality by any measure in the last decades should be scrutinized almost as much as lack of retained player interest.
What's the actual new advancements? LLMs to me are great at faking AGI but are no where near actually being a workable general AI. The biggest example to me is you can correct even the newest ChatGPT and ask it to be truthful but it'll make up the same lie within the same continuous conversation. IMO the difference between being able to act truth-y and actually being truthful is a huge gap that involves the core ideas of what separates an actual AGI and a really good chatbot.

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.
The problem is that organic farming can only feed 2 and a half families. It's not a feasible way to live unless you already have the privilege of wealth or alternate sources of income.
DNS and git are decentralized; anyone can set up a node

Human agency tends to normalize on the brands with biggest marketing budget who collude with politicians to create a moat for themselves. There’s your real problem.

Of course none of the propaganda research that made its way from military after world wars to corporate advertising and marketing college programs has any influence on lizard brains. No sir.*

* this comment is paid placement
yeah sorry, that is a statement about leadership and responsibility to make the "tough decisions", like going to war, or deciding who the winners and losers are when deciding a budget that everyone contributed to via taxes. NOT a statement meant to whitewash VC playbooks.
Tesla ”Optimus“ Bot needs to catwalk the fashion house offerings on regular basis and compete in trade skill Olympics.
The two hour rule isn't solid. I've returned a game after completing a 1 hour tutorial of the game, only to get into the main game and find out it was nothing like the tutorial lead me to believe the game was. I had to AFK during the middle of playing, so I ended up with 5 hours of gameplay. I just told them what happened, said why I wanted to refund it, and I still got it refunded. It took five hours of the game running for me to determine that I just didn't like nor enjoy it.
That is rather high and may cause side effects for most people.

(Those are: tingling in fingers, vivid dreams, and especially bad nausea and stomach pain. Also higher testosterone and dramatically higher sex drive, though maybe you like that.)
Any plan on adding something likr Deno KV in Bun?
When real money is in the line, physics and real touch matter. They had to change roulette because certain players learned minor flaws delivered an advantage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-how-to-beat-roulette...
Honestly, it's not "slow", it's just there are a LOT of pixels.

Number of pixels goes up roughly as the square of resolution. A 4K monitor is 4x the pixels of a 1080p monitor. 8K is 16x the pixels of a 1080p monitor.

My current browser window is probably more pixels than 2 1080p monitors.

Doing the math: 1920x1080x2x4bytes(RGBA) = roughly 16 megabytes

On a 3070 (a quite solid graphics card) you get roughly 450GB/s of memory bandwidth. That's if everything is up, running, powered, and in order.

You wind up with 16MB/450000MB/s = 35uS for a simple window clear. Nothing clever just a pure write clear. That's 3+ orders of magnitude off from CPU operations.

If you have to do a blend op, you have 3x--read byte, operate on byte with other data and write back. You've just crossed 100uS for the simplest blend--if you get all the memory interleaved correctly AND nothing has to leave the graphics card (if you have to transfer between the card and CPU you can kiss your time budget goodbye).

It's one of the reasons why "compositing" is such a PITA. And, to be honest, I suspect compositing window managers are a dead end. Do we really need animated window opening and closing effects? Do windows really need to be transparent so you can see something behind? Do we really need greyscale, blended drop shadows on the edges? Do we really need to render the contents of the window while resizing it? The mobile space answers "Oh, hell, no." The tiling window manager users also concur.

8K is just going to make this kind of stuff disastrously obvious.
I think I'm just going to build and open source some really next gen astroturf software that learns continuously as it debates people online in order to get better at changing people's minds. I'll make sure to include documentation in Russian, Chinese and Corporate American English.

What would a good name be? TurfChain?

I'm serious. People don't believe this risk is real. They keep hiding it behind some nameless, faceless 'bad actor', so let's just make it real.

I don't need to use it. I'll just release it as a research project.
Interesting.

How much was the game in this anecdote?
> if an account hasn’t been used for an extended period of time, it is more likely to be compromised. This is because forgotten or unattended accounts often rely on old or re-used passwords that may have been compromised, haven't had two factor authentication set up, and receive fewer security checks by the user. Our internal analysis shows abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up.

Ah yes, because as we all know, the best way to prevent a robbery is to preemptively burn down the whole building. Good luck stealing from me once all my belongings have been turned to ash!

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To be a bit more charitable, it may true that in some cases, getting hacked is worse than just having your account deleted. I'd posit this is the case for a small minority of users, especially when the overall chance of being hacked is still far from 100%.

By the way, what about accounts that do have two-factor authentication enabled? Are those exempted?

If Google wants to delete inactive accounts, that's their prerogative, but don't hide behind some security argument.
Won't this just push AI development out of the US?
> Remember when Google said they would hold on to everything that their users did on their site forever?

Err, no, as a matter of fact I don't. Would you have a cite for this?
"Billionaire class sends Sam Altman to get AI away from the peons"
I always thought the glib part of gtk was really nice for this, but adoption is spotty at best.
It's a little weird to me to think of 50+ year olds hanging out at arcades.

I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and pinball/video arcades were the domain of middle and high school kids, roughly 12-16 years of age. It was a place to hang out before you were old enough to drive. There were very few adults there, certainly nobody 50-60 years old.
Anyone proposing that we use ChatGPT to write programs or query databases should read and ponder this and pretty much any other Djikstra papers they come across.
I wouldn't call Trump's win an accident. He spoke passionately to the core political agenda of the GOP voter base: illegal immigration. Which the Neocons willfully ignored, or otherwise under-served, for decades. That's not something that one does if they aren't trying to win.
I'm not really a Google fan at this point in any way, shape or form. That said, maybe, just maybe, medical providers shouldn't be using Google tools to collect analytics on medical platform sites.

It seems to me, that Planned Parenthood is the one at fault here.
Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss
Good Christ, did the parent comment suggest banning all meat?
I really don't agree with this take.

Consider, for example, GDPR. Its implementation in Europe essentially forced compliance worldwide (with some smaller companies choosing to just not support users in the EU). And that's a good thing.

It's a large enough market that it can and should lead the way in sensible protections.

This isn't about luddites looking to burn witches. There are very sensible and immediate risks that we need to get ahead of. As someone in the ML/AI space I'm glad that many of the risks are coming to light. We don't need AGI for there to be serious problems with abuse of language models.
Here are my top points about Canada after having lived there for a decade:

1. They are not nice. They are timid. They can bitch behind your back.

2. Extreme fear of standing out. Extreme risk aversion. No startup pockets where investors are hanging out to invest a seed round in "just an idea".

3. No competition in the markets. Oligarchies rule the roost.

4. Low quality immigration from India gone crazy. If you are close to GTA, every single system will fail due to the massive amounts of low quality workers from India entering through fraudulent systems.

5. Everything is more expensive and lower quality than the US.

6. Healthcare is non existent unless you have a terminal disease. Nothing works.

So the vicious mix of low energy citizens with low quality immigrants makes Canada the most overrated country in the "developed world."
> Instead, the purpose of the article, and the title, is that because artists are more in the public eye these days, this extra scrutiny on every single piece of work that they do, has anti-creative effects on artists, and this is bad.

So, explain what does any of that has to do with “not being allowed” to do something?
I loved my initial kickstarter version of this laptop and am even happier with my 2022 model. Really looking forward to the larger model. Highly recommend these to everyone.
This seems very limiting; I can read it as banning adversarial training since that introduces "errors".
And with very little moat, allowing any company big or small to dip their feet in the waters. It's likely to be a commodity.
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I'm not trying to discourage, and I don't have concrete numbers on hand, but there are other factors, beside the price of h/w. Like, obviously, electricity use, data locality / moving it around (with more smaller units you'd have to move it more, also, not sure if consumer-grade GPUs support NVLink, and even if they do, then at what bandwidth?)

For some of these, you could obviously pay with your time. Sometimes that time is very valuable, and sometimes you have a lot to spare.

Also, the amount of VRAM (3x)... Sometimes having too little of it means having to re-write the program, or it could dramatically impact the speed. Similarly for bandwidth (8x). But, again, if the kind of workload you have isn't constrained by either, then you could probably win by running on more smaller / older GPUs.
You can’t regulate LLMs; it’s a global technology.

Sam’s just trying to placate the officials in a way that allows his company to continue.

“Oh others are dangerous please regulate I’m so worried”
The difference is that generative AI is actually useful for ordinary people.
I hope you're right. I think it's more likely to bring economic devastation.
Thanks for that example. Very helpful