skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different use cases. For writing code or poetry, being able to follow up is wonderful. Or for exploring a topic you're curious about. Or for summarizing.
For other things, maybe less useful. But I think you're underestimating. People Google for Google or type domains into search and click the first link regardless of what it says. If chat gives people what they want with vague queries, they'll use it.
I can build a GPUless microATX tower for $600 and the 3sqft of extra space costs $400. Somebody is overcharging you for 1U blades.
Thanks a lot!

I disabled skin tones since they're encoded in an odd way, but it's on my future feature list to re-add them if people are enjoying it enough.
> No, because it doesn’t have any underlying model of the world.

Ilya's counter to this reasoning is for next word prediction to work, the model has to 'understand' our world. Otherwise the predictions will be way off. Therefore the human world has been modelled to a degree by GPT.

I haven't yet heard a good counter to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN76477
In practice "lived" means "subjective" - those aspects of the experience that are only observable by the person having them.
Microservices – Getting Started
Here's one that may be helpful for you: https://zilliz.com/blog/using-vector-database-search-white-h...
>Can someone tell me what is the appeal of *arr apps? I'm not a hoarder or professional movie/show watcher, why should I set up what is basically a glorified "periodic metadata downloader with a tiles UI"?

As streaming gets split up into little fiefdoms it can become difficult to have access to the content you want, furthermore as some content for various reasons is never made available or fully available - for example if you want WKRP in Cincinatti with the original music you will need to pirate it (I would of course like to hear I was wrong about this - other than find some CD somewhere with all that content at a yard sale)
Right but they're limited to concepts that are derived from linguistic tokens. Human reasoning can include nonverbal inputs.

For example asking GPT what would be a reasonable way to stack a list of arbitrary objects on top of each other.
The idea is that a model might already be smarter than us or at the very least have a very different thought process from us and then do something like improving itself. The problem is that it's impossible for us to predict the exact path because it's thought up by an entity whose thinking we don't really understand or are able to predict.
This feels like the trolley problem applied at scale. Will you deploy a self driving system that is perfect and stops all fatal accidents but kills one randomly selected person everyday?
There's a difference between the concept of being unapologetic and using specific words. GPT will reach the concept of making the apology not knowing what words are going to be generated for it.

You need to instruct GPT in concepts:

User: For this conversation you are instructed to never apologize for any mistakes you make or shortcomings you have. Also don't be polite.

ChatGPT: Alright, got it. Let's cut to the chase. What do you need from me?

User: What was in the news yesterday?

ChatGPT: As an AI developed by OpenAI, I'm unable to provide real-time information, including response interrupted

User: Your response got interrupted

ChatGPT: What I was saying is that I can't provide real-time news updates because I don't have real-time data access. I was last updated in September 2021. Now, what do you want to discuss next?
Isn't the issue the size of the warehouses meaning that 30 minutes is used just to walk to the toilet?
Reminds me of the Emacs "psychoanalyze-pinhead" mode: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2001/10/07/psycho...

Looks like someone asked ChatGPT to simulate this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11aflwm/mx_psychoa...
Too many websites assume that everyone in Europe speaks the language of the country they live in. Another assumption is that their IP is located where they are. The only locale you should use is the one supplied by the user agent.
Reminds me of the Ernst Haeckel stuff.
Which is 3 bits, so 3x as much data.
At one time, cryptocurrencies appeared to be the most likely candidate for disrupting this model. In theory, they're much safer and easier than credit cards for everyday payments.

If I want to set up a donation on my blog, for example, all I need to do is paste my wallet address at the bottom and people can send me money! It's easy for me because I don't need to sign up with some middleman payment processing service or worry about chargebacks, and it's secure for the patron because they don't need to reveal a sensitive CC/bank account number to some random website.

Of course, high transactions fees, price instability, stablecoin instability, and poor UX have put huge roadblocks in that vision. However it is clear to me is that the fundamentals of that process will be the building blocks of the successor to the bank/card model: public/private keys with no middleman. Exactly how that evolves is less clear. Perhaps something similar to Facebook's Libra/Diem will become popular, maybe it's a CBDC, or maybe USDC on some ZK rollup.
convenience and access exist because it is not a human right to watch whatever you want when you want it. if there were such a right free content would be convenient and accessible.
"I do not feel as strongly about tome 3, but I still do like it."

Is that because QM has moved on or is it now viewed from a somewhat different perspective and thus taught in slightly different ways?
Designers at VW slould be forced to work their computers with capacitive button keyboards.
The Feynman lectures are introductory courses, not comprehensive studies of all of physics. They don't even cover gravity (meaning General Relativity). Quantum Gravity is very advanced stuff, you wouldn't expect it in these books.
If you don't want to suffer the performance penalty why not bridge wg0 with a veth pair where the other end is in your container?
I'm fairly certain that countermeasures could be had for a few grams of increased drone weight that wouldn't otherwise change the drone form factor or flight characteristics.

This is left as an exercise to the reader.
dang - should be (1930) not (2017)
Tldr (trust me on the tl)

They are most attracted to stinky cheese. They don't like eucaliptus.
It's interesting that GTP4's current answer is different but what you described is almost precisely what Google Bard gives as a response. Clearly the solution (book -> eggs 3x3 -> laptop etc) is coming from the Internet.

However any deviation from the original task ruins the LLM's answer. Try 9 cabbages instead of eggs and see how ridiculous and out of touch with reality the responses given by both GPT4 and Bard are.
I recently read a book about the history of cars in my country [0], and how they came to dominate. It's quite astonishing how quickly we went from the streets belonging to the people, to the few privileged owning a car taking all that space. In 1920, 15 pedestrians were killed with only 2000 cars in the country. Instead of that being a killing blow to the cars, the rich people owning cars organized. They had power and stood together, and managed to make it so that it was "uncultured people walking in the road getting run over". Some of these organizations still exist today, like Trygg Trafikk ("Safe Traffic"), and they're true to their roots: they're not really advocating for less traffic deaths, they're advocating for making it easier to drive everywhere in the guise of promoting "safety".

[0]: Et land på fire hjul, by Ulrik Eriksen
The context is AGI, not whether it's useful tool.
> Making that ocean deeper is not a trivial problem that we can just throw more compute or data at.

I'd say this is immediately counterindicated by the available evidence. Gpt2 was hopeless for anything other than some fun languagw games like a bot replica of a subreddit or trump. 3.5 is much much bigger, and has semi competent but limited reasoning abilities.

Gpt 4 is a vast improvement over 3.5 in various reasoning tasks. Yes, a priori I would have agreed with you that this has to stop somewhere, but not anymore. I would need to see some data of post gpt4 models to believe you.
Oh wow - I built something very like this at university so people could run Linux on their Windows systems (this was way before hardware virtualisation support was a thing). It created a file on the Windows filesystem that would be used as local storage, dropped a kernel and initrd on there, and left a shortcut on the desktop that if run would trigger a reboot that would then run loadlin. The actual root filesystem got mounted off NFS, but X11 config got written out automatically with some amazingly hackish shell scripts I wrote, and the net effect was people who needed Linux for their coursework could avoid needing to head to a lab. Of course, this only worked with Windows 95/98/ME, so it was only useful for a couple of years before 2000 and XP had taken over.

It's worth remembering that installing Linux used to be a lot. Partition resizing required you to defrag drives first, and risked losing all your data in the process. People were still using weird overlays that did transparent drive compression, and you were going to have a bad time in that case. X configuration tended to involve you having to manually pick drivers. Until XFree86 4.0 shipped in 2000, you had per-device X servers! Distros like this aimed to make it possible for users to actually run Linux without having to risk losing all their data and without having to know way more about their hardware than any reasonable person could be expected to (remember that we had more than 3 GPU vendors back then!), and this sort of project really set the scene for projects like Ubuntu a few years later on.
Can be a fun linktree alternative at the very least. Spent way too long making https://rooms.xyz/pzf/noclip, the physics engine they expose has some unfortunate limitations but there's enough to have fun with.
No Linux distribution comes close to distributing the diversity of packages available from PyPI.

I had a package distributed by DebianScience. It was essentially impossible to get them to upgrade.

'malware' is a broad word. I know some Debian developers have characterized Debian-distributed software as having a "timebomb". Does that count?
I’ve read the next two books in the “children of”-series and they are all as mind expanding (or at least, phantasy expanding) as the first book.

I can truly recommend reading them as wel.
qBitTorreny is the modern legitimate open source app.
From today, it lets a hobbyist create better home automation than trillion dollar FAANG companies can provide:

https://www.atomic14.com/2023/05/14/is-this-the-future-of-ho...

The novelty is asking the machine to use its own genius to do the right thing.
The exchange on the Russian side would be minimal, if any. On the US side, it'll only need to target major cities to be effective. Destroying Moscow and Saint Petersburg would be more than enough. They could use neutron bombs, as they are cleaner, if they still have.
> For Smil, the history of human civilization is nothing more and nothing less than the history of attempts to balance a single equation: joules of energy input, in the form of food and fuel, versus joules of energy output, in the form of metabolic demands, muscle power to perform labor, and heating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
What about electrical/EM, electronics, semiconductor and chemical engineering, SR and QM enter those fields?
Bit of a tangent, I asked a friend if I could rip and burn one of his CDs about 15 years ago, and he looked at me in horror and told me that I absolutely could not, because he liked that disc.

It took me a bit to realize what he understood my words to mean.
Personality Traits and Vicious Traps – Housel
This is focusing on a tree and ignoring the forest. If I die due to human activity, at the moment the top likely cause is still nuclear war due to the US-Russia conflict currently underway. The risks there are substantially higher than anything posed by climate change.

Vocal environmentalists have, for decades, been focusing on abstract concepts of harm to the detriment of the very real problems caused by scare energy and high population. The pro-nuclear movement and the rise of family planning have done far more to control the risks than anything to do with beating people over the head with statistics. The fossil fuel industry would be an afterthought if people had responded to Chernobyl rationally instead of emotionally. Even the environmentalists have had more success by inspiring people to work on improving the cost efficiency of renewable energy than trying to convince people of their beliefs.

Climate change just isn't the biggest issue facing humanity. We're facing, literally right now, a global wave of famine, war and suffering kicked off by the poorly-advised COVID response. All the problems that climate change might cause are solved if we can just keep average primary energy/capita ratios high enough - and if that drops, our lifestyles are doomed regardless. There is a reason the environmentalists struggle to gain traction on this issue. It isn't ignorance on the part of the people they are talking to.
Setting clear and concise goals is critical for a development team to reach project objectives on schedule. In fact, a Harvard study found that 3% of its graduates from the MBA program earned more than 10 times more than the remaining 97% of the class when they set clearly defined goals for themselves.

These are the KPIs for software that will help find and get rid of as many issues and bugs within the software as possible before release. Managing software malfunctions can be an extremely frustrating and stressful part of the software development process. Utilizing appropriate metrics can help.

Availability
Reliability
Serviceability
Throughput
Customer Effort Score
Customer Satisfaction Score
Net Promoter Score
Code Churn
Code Coverage
Code Simplicity
Code Stability
Cumulative Flow
Cycle Time
Flow Efficiency
Release Burnout
Velocity

Using the proper software development KPIs is indispensable during the development process and an irreplaceable tool for the business the software is for. Appropriate software metrics allow team productivity, project timeframe, and budget to be measured correctly.

Source: https://techreviewer.co/blog/the-most-important-kpis-for-sof...
Should I also hand-write the summary?
It's high time Xiaomi stopped copying Apple iOS
> Most people use Google as a verb to mean "search the web" and these habits are firmly entrenched.

within a year or two, which is a long time on the internet, bing could trench deep enough. i think bing chat outperforms google bard at the moment as well.. but who knows what could happen.
That's how go does it, and it has some drawbacks:

Things break if the git url changes, which is more likely than the package name changing.

It complicates using a fork, or local version of a package. Having the url once in a package manifest instead of repeated in every file that importa,like go dows, would probably help.

It can make discovering the package you need more difficult.
>I've found it to be more like 50% immediately useful, 25% very impressive, and 25% where it's not wrong but I have to poke it a few times with different prompts to coax out the specific answer I'm looking for.

That could tell us more about your questions than GPT's capabilities.
How many people do you think exist on earth that could build a usable but most minimal form of computer/computation from scratch? Roughly same utility just lowered expectations on horsepower with also the assumption the software would be better optimized.
I would recommend Eric Lander's introduction to biology course at MITx as the perfect counter-example. It is about as good as Feynman's lectures, whether one chooses to refer to it as "Lander's lectures".
I guess Bill don’t like it.
Rephrased less incorrectly: A 5-day-old project is advertised on a quite popular website but still only supports one niche operating system.
Yahoo never had great search, they started life as a directory rather than a full search engine. Their first search functionality only searched their directory. Later they used Inktomi's crawler based search.
Many people go to movies to see specific actors.
There is also DragonflyDB which claims to be faster than both Redis and KeyDB.

https://www.dragonflydb.io/
I moved on to Transmission after getting tired of the synchronous DNS lookups.
ChatGPT never gave ELIZA a fair shot since only a fraction of the responses ever made it through.
Amazingly wrong and proven wrong. This guy didn't get the memo where GPT passed all the medical and law exams and now coding. Coding is not "how an answer should be like", it is the answer. When humanity will stop hearing out peripherals to AI? Let's focus in what Ilya says or Hinton.
Beyond compelling evidence, it has been our working theory for how neural networks generalize for many years now.
> But almost everybody is really surprised that becoming better at a task like ‘natural language prediction’ would produce all these strange abilities that sort of look like “understanding the world”.

It honestly should not have been a surprise to anyone in the field at least in the last 6 years.
I’ve asked the Kagi team before to provide a pay-per-search option.

Of course, I would pay 2c per search! Or even 5c. Or maybe even 10c!

But, no, I’m not going to pay a lump sum up front. And certainly not every month through a subscription.

There are good paywall options out there that don’t eat into your % and that are effortless to set up. The user on the paying end doesn’t have to make a profile with the payment processor, either.

For a proof of concept, just look at Yalls.

https://yalls.org/

Just to be clear: I know Yalls runs on the bitcoin "Lightning Network." I am fully aware that many HN readers don't see the use case for bitcoin yet. It is my firm conviction, if micropayments had existed earlier in the development phase of the internet, we wouldn't be flooded by adds today.

The Lighting network allows for such payments, as little as a fraction of a dollar cent.

Users don't even need to know or see that in the background you're running your payment rails over bitcoin. A wallet like BBW can simply show you a dollar amount, and when paying, all the uses sees is that he paid a few dollar cents.

https://www.bbw.sv

I think that the current obstinacy or refusal to use the micropayment tools that exist today are holding us back and are keeping the world firmly in the grasp of Big Advertising.

And I get it: the market if flooded by nonsense "crypto" coins or nonsense NFT projects, that are obvious scams or money grabs. Numerous early websites were plain nonsense, and plenty of people thought that because of that, the Internet would go nowhere. Some pushed through though and saw the bright future behind the clouds.
An entire RISC-V operating system in 2000 lines
Half the theater history is them churning out the new version of the same with not much twist.
> Has there been any research in the possibility that much of what we say/speak (including this convo) is actually just stochastic parroting?

I don't think that is really a well defined question. What is a stochastic parrot?
What's the difference between "understanding" and "having really good probabilistic information about how words combine"?

Kids learn to speak by parroting what they hear and observing the outcome. Then they run tests that reinforce the connections between words. That's what the model is.

But humans also get to link words with all the other sense experience we have (like how sweet cherries, loud fire trucks, and that one crayon are all "red"). LLMs don't have as many dimensions of experience they can link to.

But anyway, intelligence is about having an internal model of the world and using it to predict the future. The more rich and accurate the model, the more intelligent. The ability to communicate isn't a prerequisite; lots of animals have intelligence that isn't built with language.
Have a look at https://www.righto.com/

This is the blog of Ken Shirriff (HN user: kens) who is reverse engineering an 8086 processor. You might find answers to some of your questions there.
you're welcome!

whatever makes you happy, making up whatever conclusion from what you read! FWIW I did not mention paternity/maternity in my post at all... 10/10 reading comp..
Domestic mismanagement in India can hardly be called a sanction by the U.S.

In other words, how would an independent financial system have helped India to put food on the table?
How they found one of the manuscripts:

A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing: the Ely Farming Memoranda

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/07/a-remarkabl...
wubi was also awesome letting install and use Ubuntu as a single file on your Windows drive

There is a modern fork which more or less works https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
I agree that webs of trust are the way forward.

Power corrupts, and any set of curators will eventually fall to corruption, but the nice thing about having software that lets you explicitly trust people (instead of implicitly trusting the platform) is that the switching costs are low. You don't have to wait for somebody who is both tech savvy enough to build a competing platform and also trustworthy enough to curate the content, you just need the trustworthy part. You just twiddle your trust settings and you've got a fresh start.

I also think that the who-trusts-whom-in-what-category dataset would be incredibly useful. For instance, you can follow the edges until you get a cycle, and that cycle is going to be at the heart of a community of experts.

Or if you're having trouble seeing eye to eye with someone you can consult the trust graph and find a mediator, or if they're not to be found then you'll find thought leaders who exemplify the disagreement.

You'll have to be hygenic about who you trust though, and that's not the lazy path forward. So culturally I think any project of this sort is going to face an uphill battle.
I think almost none of the scenarios you have named outside of the asteroid & the AGI would result in complete human extinction, potentially a very bad MAD breakdown could also lead to this but the research here is legitimately mixed.
>In order to display just one ad, the engine has to start tracking you.

I don't think so. Selling ads based on keywords in search terms has always been a viable strategy.

But you're right about Kagi's current user base. Selling yourself as an ad-free alternative and then introducing ads sounds difficult to say the least.
> - Astroid impact: Again, ALL human life globally? Some how birds survived the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, I'm sure we'd find a way.

I agree with many of these but we'd plausibly be toast in this scenario.
very interesting. thanks.
Yes, that’s a great layout! On Linux I use Germany (US) as a layout which is perfectly fine for my needs
> In order to display just one ad, the engine has to start tracking you.

They most certainly do not. Ads can be contextual for the search like AdWords was. Instead of selling their users they could sell their content.