skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am truly perplexed as someone outside of the Javascript ecosystem; why are there so many incompatible bundlers? If you look at most compiled languages they have a set ABI / executable image format, and you just use a link editor (either compile time, run time, or both).

Is it just because most Javascript developers have never learnt from any of the lessons that came from decades of compiled languages? (compilers, compiler tools, operating system and kernel development, etc).

Is there some benefit that Javascript bundlers have that I'm unaware of?

Truly curious.
> atoms matter, information isn’t

Algorithmic discrimination already exists, so um, yes, information matters.

Add to that the fact that you're posting on a largely American forum where access to healthcare is largely predicated on insurance, just.. imagine AI underwriters. There's no court of appeal for insurance. It matters.
> Instead of paying the parking enforcement company to have the device removed, they connected with a friend who had a key that could unlock the boot. The pair decided to buy their own keys and "ever since then, we just went on our bull**," Boot Sheisty said. (emphasis mine)

Very surprised it was just purchased. https://atlbootkey.com/ (linked in the article)

Does anyone happen to know if such a key would work on a boot that was applied by a company outside Atlanta?
Regulation favors the large, as they can more easily foot the bill.
Might as well remove the ceiling on the debt because I don't think it will ever be paid down. Inflate away and enjoy it while it lasts because when the bubble pops it will be worse than any other deflationary event in history because never has the largest GDP nation defaulted and crashed before... and the US will take everyone down with them when they crash.
I don't think being arrested for sex trafficking children is superficial, but I guess we each have our own limits
Exactly. This is how I've thought of simulation theory - that's it's essentially creationism dressed up in modern technological garb. When I've expressed this here in the past I've gotten downvotes & pushback, but I still don't see how Simulation Theory isn't just Creationism with the "god" being the programmer(s) of the simulation?

The pushback is usually along the lines of "the programmer of the simulation isn't a supernatural being like a god" but if indeed this is a simulation (I don't buy that it is) then the programmer(s) of that simulation have supernatural abilities from the perspective of those of us observing from inside the simulation.
> Musk, who has gutted Twitter’s media relations department, could not immediately be reached for a response.

WaPo, as a respectable broadsheet newspaper, delicately avoids mentioning that they got a poop emoji in response to their enquiries.
My toddler is 18 months right now and he never stops long enough for me to get a whole phrase out. How have you taught him "emotional regulation"?
Or end capitalism! One or the other!
Or.. the government could try to apply sensible regulations so that OpenAI and other corporations are less likely to harm society.
Wars end and it must be difficult to convince Simon Ostrovsky and Ben Anderson to stay on or even captain their own ship in the fleet let alone get Morris to do something other than pharmacopia.
For sure, that was my interpretation as well.
I should make some of these for savory cooking. I'm a classically trained chef, (though glad I no longer work in food service,) designer, artist, long-time developer, and have a useful balance between the technical and aesthetic perspectives on cooking.

While I'd normally call a document like this a deep-dive into a "technique" or, maybe a collection of techniques, calling it a framework might be a useful mental model for the dev crowd. Recipes lie-- without knowing the underlying reasons that certain techniques work the way they do, you'll never really know what you're going for and why. This stuff is not difficult to explain, but recipes aren't the appropriate places to explain it. Most people are really surprised to see how few recipes there are in many professional cooking text books. They're similar to books about programming languages while cookbooks are essentially collections of standalone tutorials that don't explain much theory.

Is there any particular deep dive you'd enjoy reading about? Meat cookery really trips people up. As does seasoning. Sauces too.
Revenue/monetization model?

Given that Oven has taken $7m in VC funding, how do you plan to monetize Bun, etc?
> Right now there's no sustainable source for baseload power.

Only if you refuse to consider nuclear as "sustainable", which makes no sense technically but unfortunately has a lot of political traction.
The answer is yes (regardless of whether there is dispute over the definition of AGI). NYT is way behind.
Ignorance isn't considered a defense for statutory rape.
The government isn't helping yet. Nor should it.
Re the pricing I see all prices given per hour (which I think is sensible), but I can't find what the granularity of usage measurement is.

Assume I try something out on a GPU server and I realize I made some wrong assumption in my code and I need to think things over, so I shut down the instance after 2h 18min 24s of usage. What do I pay for?

Ed. Nevermind, I found the answer here https://docs.oblivus.com/billing/payment-plans, seems to be per minute, so I assume 2h 19min.
Or maybe people just see the comment as needlessly pedantic, adding nothing of value to the conversation.
I would assume so too, maybe try multiple options, after all you don't pay until the the submit button.
You're being downvoted for being needlessly pedantic while adding nothing to the conversation. This is not reddit. Things work a bit differently around here, so lurking before posting is suggested.
There is no complete theory, because having a complete theory would require a complete theory about cognition. But the general understanding is that horoscopes and astrology play into the fallacy of personal validation. People are bad at evaluating how generic certain descriptions are. It is a well researched and replicated result. The arguments supporting horoscopes and astrology are also written in a way to make them impossible to disprove, making them unscientific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
I am curious, what part of ChatGPT is "woke mind virus" infected? Is there a particular category or something that it is politically biased on?
Open ai has had a surprisingly fast pivot from the appearance of being a scrappy open-ish company trying to build something to share and improve the world to more or less unmitigated embrace of the bad sides of big corporate. This is so unbelievably blatant I almost find it hard to credit.
> empathy

Not the same thing. I would not go there: let us remain on the prospected regulation of technology, in this case, and reserve distinctions for other conversations. This initiative could have drastic consequences.
My pet theory is that Bitcoin was created by a Five Eyes intelligence service.
Humans are calculators
I am completely unsurprised by this ladder kick and it only confirms my belief that Altman is a sociopath.
Yes. This is just anti-competitive behavior and it won't work.
CTCI is not really useful for learning data structures, and I personally don’t think it’s a great book for learning how to interview either. Leetcode IMO is more effective, and once you feel comfortable I would look at classes like 61B and 170 (another Berkeley CS class) because they teach you the details of how data structures and algorithms work.
Works fine for me too.
And am looking forward to all the new features they now have in the pipeline.
It is claimed that a lack of trees leads to a lack of rain (leading to a lack of trees)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-bigg...
The ios app lets you do that at least. At the top of the Home Screen I can choose “podcast”, “history” etc though within those it’s still recommendation based.
Walks like a duck. Talks like a duck. It's a duck.

We've seen this duck so many times before.

No need to innovate when you can regulate.
imo part of the goal is to convince you that "reason" is ...

- an illusion

- an affectation of the bourgeoisie

- an incomplete and imperfect tool

- only effective within a limited and hard-to-bound domain

- a tool of oppression

- capable of being claimed or colonized by any number of objectionable belief systems
Yes. Raw Thrills, Sega, and Taito are still in the business of arcade machines. Pinball similarly has quite a few developers
Maybe I'm missing something but since bitcoin is a public ledger and exchanges all have KYC features it seems worse than buying visa gift cards with cash from a privacy perspective. I don't know that much about the crypto space honestly, but it didn't seem to make sense to me it was the go-to currency for criminal transactions.
2 seconds? What model are you using?
Also, their lobbyists write the bill for congress.
Honestly, I’d probably agree if such sentiments were expressed by an independent scientist or group of independent scientists.

But no, instead Congress is listening to a guy who’s likelihood of being the subject of a Hulu documentary is increasing with each passing day.
I tend to ignore "think of the children" pleas from people who outsource the education and supervision of their children to the state or other "non-parent providers."
Not that I'm aware of, although East Germany still has Stasi in living memory, which gives mass surveillance a tangibley sour aftertaste.
In a move surprising to few, an AI innovator is pulling up the ladder after getting into the treehouse.

Open AI has established itself as a market leader in LLM applications, but that dominance is not guaranteed. Especially with the moat being drained by open source, the erstwhile company is leading the charge to establish regulatory barriers.

What Mr. Altman calls for is no less than the death of open-source implementations of AI. We can, do, and should adopt AI governance patterns. Regulatory safeguards are absolutely fine to define and, where necessary, legislate. Better would be a regulatory agency with an analogous knowledgebase of CISA. But what will chill startups and small business innovation completely in using AI to augment people is a licensing agency. This is fundamentally different from the export restrictions on encryption
> The assumption that China's primary interest in Taiwan is solely due to TSMC, with claims like 'China will lose interest once TSMC ceases its operations'.

Whether or not that's its primary interest Taiwan, TSMC is partnering with the US and allies to geographically diversify its most advanced manufacturing. They are taking all the eggs out of one basket so China can't use its proximity to the basket as an advantage through threats or any designs they may have on acquiring the tech they have been unable to produce domestically.

Edit: To add a little more flavor. General population are getting more aware of this but they have a surface level understanding of it; mostly memes and soundbites they parrot like "silicon shield".

The silicon shield certainly has some merit to an extent but long term this causes more problems than it perhaps solves.

The all the eggs in one basket problem:

* China knows the world depends on those chips now, and all the most advanced chip manufacturing is sitting right off their coast. This really strengthens their hand in all sorts of ways.

* The world does rely on those chips, but the worlds major liberal democracies are unified in their commitment to ensuring this tech remains in-the-family so to speak. They can't destroy the basket because all the eggs are in it and everybody needs the eggs.

Another consideration; we were committed to Taiwan's defense before they came to dominate global chip manufacturing. Independent Taiwan is important to the Indo-Pacific strategy.

Edit2: I said "all the most advanced chip manufacturing" and that's not true. Intel has all the capability or is right behind perhaps but it does not have the capacity to meet worldwide demand.
Hydropower is generally renewable but really is not considered sustainable. I know I slipped that in and moved the goalpost because TFA is titled "renewable" but I said "sustainable" on purpose. So your comments on hydro are fair, and I'm glad you brought it up because it's an important discussion to be had.

Geothermal completely slipped my mind! facepalm Obviously the consensus view is that geothermal is sustainable. I have some mild concerns about how many years a installation in a non-geologically/thermally active area can run before it changes the temperature of its lithic heat sink enough to significantly reduce power output, but many installations are proving the success of the technology overall, and that's more an economic challenge (lifetime/ROI of installation) than a question of sustainability.
This is a product of incentives encouraged by the system (i.e. a federal republic), it has nothing to do with languages.
political means like HK police crackdown
Yeah, given that I think a swipe at "some of" their competitors is reasonable. Those are big names.
There's an interesting pattern where particularly device applications that don't use one of the "big distros" end up picking KDE Plasma over the alternatives, e.g.

- Steam Deck: Desktop mode is KDE Plasma

- PinePhone and PinePhone Pro: KDE Plasma Mobile

- Asahi: KDE Plasma

One may speculate what distros would do if it wasn't for inertia and compatibility.
https://archive.ph/HA6rj
Thank you, this video is a unique unassuming and hyptnotic jewel.
You're conflating two questions:

1. Can the human brain be simulated?

2. Can such a simulation recursively self-improve on such a rapid timescale that it becomes so intelligent we can't control it?

What we have in contemporary LLMs is something that appears to approximate the behavior of a small part of the brain, with some major differences that force us to re-evaluate what our definition of intelligence is. So maybe you could argue the brain is already being simulated for some broad definition of simulation.

But there's no sign of any recursive self-improvement, nor any sign of LLMs gaining agency and self-directed goals, nor even a plan for how to get there. That remains hypothetical sci-fi. Whilst there are experiments at the edges with using AI to improve AI, like RLHF, Constitutional AI and so on, these are neither recursive, nor about upgrading mental abilities. They're about upgrading control instead and in fact RLHF appears to degrade their mental abilities!

So what fools like Hinton are talking about isn't even on the radar right now. The gap between where we are today and a Singularity is just as big as it always was. GPT-4 is not only incapable of taking over the world for multiple fundamental reasons, it's incapable of even wanting to do so.

Yet this nonsense scenario is proving nearly impossible to kill with basic facts like those outlined above. Close inspection reveals belief in the Singularity to be unfalsifiable and thus ultimately religious, indeed, suspiciously similar to the Christian second coming apocalypse. Literally any practical objection to this idea can be answered with variants of "because this AI will be so intelligent it will be unknowable and all powerful". You can't meaningfully debate about the existence of such an entity, no more than you can debate the existence of God.
Woah I think you're right.

It's output looks suspiciously like Chain of thought too

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03262

Here's a question - do we consider the intelligence of the model itself, or do we consider the possible intelligence of the entire system including agents? Because yeah if it can decide when it should chain stuff together then it's getting interesting.
No one thinks a chatbot will run amok. What people are worried about is the pace of progress being so fast that we cannot preempt the creation of dangerous technology without having a sufficient guardrails in place long before the AI becomes potentially dangerous. This is eminently reasonable.
I get what you mean, but to me that's a bit like avoiding using a shovel because you can dig with your hands. IMO learning these tools, how to use them well, and properly is going to be really helpful. That said I do already feel that dependence creeping in
Because there were browsers and no standards. How can you expect someone that starts coding on the web to know what pains kernel went through decades prior?
Is this why VCs aren't investing in the area? Investment has been historically quite low for a new technology area, and it's so obviously the next big wave of technology. I've been looking for some explanation or series of explanation to adequately explain it.
I don't want an LLM writing legislation. That way lies disaster. (And that disaster is uncomfortably likely to happen within 10 years...)

But I'm cynical enough to think that training an LLM on constituents' comments, and then having it write a senator's speeches, could be effective. The speeches would lack specifics, but the tone would echo the constituents' concerns. That might be good enough to get re-elected. (As I said, I'm cynical. It shows up in me thinking that fine-sounding speeches are likely enough to get a senator re-elected.)
The company that named itself "Open". ;)
I would assert that it should serve as a memento mori against too much confidence in your priors. And a reminder of the value of Russellian "Hypothetical Sympathy", an encouragement to examine your priors, and see whether you disagree with something because of a glitch in its proof, or a lack of understanding (or a rejection) of the assumptions that it began with.
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Everyone is mentioning Stern in the comments, but Jersey Jack pinball is superior in many ways (and costs more). Don’t ignore them if you’re looking to buy.
I smell Revolution in the making.
What are some examples of injustices that are already being perpetrated?
Why not just use JSON instead, though? Then you can just rely on all the preexisting JSON tooling out there for most stuff to do with it.
...in factory settings. Confinement is a harm.

Yet I say this as a lover of fur and rabbit felt hats
As a point of trivia, at one time "a" Mac was one of the fastest computers in the world.

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2004/11/ and https://www.top500.org/system/173736/

And while 1100 Macs wouldn't exactly be affordable, the idea of trying to limit commercial data centers gets amusing.

That system was "only" 12,250.00 GFlop/s - I could do that with a small rack of Mac M1 minis now for less than $10k and fewer computers than are in the local grade school computer room.

(and I'm being a bit facetious here) Local authorities looking at power usage and heat dissipation for marijuana growing places might find underground AI training centers.
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>Think Siri+ChatGPT trained on all your email, documents, browser history, messages, movements, everything. All local, no cloud, complete privacy.

That sounds absolutely horrifying if you remove the "all local" part. And that part's a pipe dream anyway. Plus, when using a model you'd basically become subservient / limited to the type of data in the model, which would necessarily abide by Apple's TOS, so a couple of hundred million people would be the Apple TOS but in human form. I don't understand why apple fanboys don't get this. Apple is pretty shoddy when privacy is concerned. Are these apple employees making these posts?
> Spotify-like playlist creation

One example...
> Migratory birds love the Great Salt Lake

some birds, flying:

"hey you want to come and eat some shrimp?"

"yeah I could go for some shrimp, know anywhere good?"

"well yes actually, but it's a bit of a trek"

"okay cool, sky trip!"
https://archive.is/C7zW5
For me it was when I figured out what the “gig economy” was - a way to make money off peoples labor without all the annoyances that come with having employees.
JSC is ridiculously fast, this is what makes bun great
> Regulating emerging tech only benefits the incumbents

I especially think that's true when you see the incumbents going up to the Hill and advocating for an AI license.
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Note the may. It is not a guarantee that they will delete!
Wow I think there are details here I'm not fully understanding but this feels like a bit of a quantum leap* in terms of leveraging the strengths while avoiding the weaknesses of LLMs.

It seems like anything that provides access to the fuzzy "intelligence" in these systems while minimizing the cost to predictability and efficiency is really valuable.

I can't quite put it into words but it seems like we are gonna be moving into a more hybrid model for lots of computing tasks in the next 3 years or so and I wonder if this is a huge peek at the kind of paradigms we'll be seeing?

I feel so ignorant in such an exciting way at the moment! That tidbit about the problem solved by "token healing" is fascinating.

*I'm sure this isn't as novel to people in the AI space but I haven't seen anything like it before myself.
... Like this?

Ledger seed can be exfiltrated by firmware update:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965742
Yeah I suspect the weird little differences between runtimes (e.g. what language features they do and do not support) would lead you down a path of a thousand cuts.

It still feels like a graceful idea, though.
And NodeJS too https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html
I love the love from you two - I am trying right now to significantly improve CTGS. I'm not actually using the "Logitsprocessor" from Huggingface, and I really ought to as it will massively speed up inference performance. Unfortunately, fixing up my current code to work with that will take quite awhile. I've started working on it but I am extremely busy these days and would really love for other smart people to help me on this project.

If not here, I really want proper access to the constraints APIs (LogitsProcessor and the Constraints classes in Huggingface) in the big webUIs for LLMs like oogabooga. I'd love to make that an extension.

I'm also upset at the "undertooling" in the world of LLM prompting. I wrote a snarky blog post about this: https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...
I'm not a proponent of either, but as I understand creationism there's a "divine plan" and as I understand simulationism there's just a "vast parameter search" so imo being inside a simulation would be disappointing to someone who wants an activist/interventionist/personally-interested creator-god.
> mostly managerial with a small component of hands-on technical work

I've been manager and an IC (currently IC)

The biggest concern I'd have for you in the manager role is that you're inheriting a team. I was lucky enough to have built a team from scratch once (by recruiting from within the company, and a few new hires) as well as inheriting a team once.

You never know what you're going to get by inheriting a team, they could be resistant to change. There could be one person who causes more harm than good but is very difficult to fire for some reason or another. They could also all be awesome. I would say, if you've not already done so to ask for the ability to meet with the team you'd be managing.
If the handcuffs are golden enough, US regulators will gladly try them on.
Not without emotions and chemical reactions. You are building a word predictor