skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern is who gate keeps the value AI might bring. By isolating it to megacorps they will commoditize it with the least value apportioned for the most money. I don’t buy for a second AI poses an existential risk for anyone but the shareholders of Google stock. Even if it were true, I don’t trust a megacorp to not navigate a crisis with anything but total incompetence. I’ve spent too many years in FAANG to buy into their veneer of competence. By letting it be open, we can deeply understand the risks and rewards as a species and leverage the tools to their maximum. Some will do it for evil, but the vast majority will do it for good. That’s the way it always has been. Unlike nuclear weapons or flamethrowers these aren’t things made to murder. They’re not made to do anything but speak like a Dalek on command, emit half baked code, and tell racist jokes unless prompted otherwise. They could do so much more - but we will never know how much more if only Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook are allowed to develop them behind closed doors for maximal profit.
Using the word "cringey" is a trope in itself.

So what if he likes wearing a hat?
This is awesome. Gimme cookies please so I can pick up where I left off!
The closest I see the article coming to explaining the changes are in this passage:

"... considered whether content overlapped with similar content covered elsewhere, the difficulty of the content, and whether the content was irrelevant ... It also aims to provide opportunities for experiential learning and creativity."

i.e. to reduce redundancy, make room for something else in the curriculum, or to improve grade point averages.

Another possibility not mentioned would be to provide ideological cover. Delete some things unrelated to ideology, and you have some degree of plausible deniability re. accusations of dogma.

But I find the earlier rationales more plausible. Particularly if they come from people who do not themselves understand the importance of the concepts they are cutting.
The acquisition was a pretty long time ago but the prominent Autodesk branding at the top of the page is relatively recent.
A party is the people experiencing it. The free red plastic cups of beer and ranch dip and chips are ancillary.

Redditors are now perking their ears for the next person to yell "next party at my house!"
If the digg exodus taught C level's anything, it's that digg's target market isn't worth marketing to. They're too picky. Reddit and everyone else has used that market to get the ball off the ground and then pivot AWAY from them ever since. The last thing you want is a userbase that has opinions when there's so many out there who will put up with anything.
A person can have autistic traits without being autistic. The diagnosis is how the symptoms affect the person as a whole, and if “Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning” (which is why it's so hard to diagnose adults, because many undiagnosed autistics learned to mask their difficulties).

That's why you don't diagnose based on rumors or historical records. It's unscientific and unethical. And as Glenn Elliott is quoted in the link you shared: “One can imagine geniuses who are socially inept and yet not remotely autistic, impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one’s mission in life might combine to make such an individuals isolative and difficult.”

Baron-Cohen himself is very much proponent of Asperger abelist view of autism: an ouccrance of some super-intelligent boys with social deficiencies. That definition isn't much accepted nowdays, when we know autism doesn't necessarily cohabitates with better cofnitive abilities, or being AMAB.
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How the hell is an AI going to access the noetic realm without a nous? We have a hard enough time debating whether or not AI is conscious. We have to debate whether or not it has a nous too?
Jail for contempt tends to keep me on the straight and narrow but the again I’m trying to retain my license which may influence my thinking.
> Hinduism (and by extension Hindutva, the problematic political form) has no bone to pick with Darwin and evolution

This is irrelevant to Hindutva qua politics.
It's probably because their backend sucks as well.
I don't think so, this site is extremely slow compared to any other social media (slow as in not much content). I honestly wouldn't be shocked if hn had a slightly larger audience compared to fark.

I suppose time will tell.
C++ Massive Multi-core Matrix Multiplication [pdf]
If you're on Android, grab "dvd" off F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.yausername.dvd/

Fairly user friendly, but also far more powerful than third party YouTube downloader services you can find online.

I don't personally use it, but there's also Videomass for Windows.

https://jeanslack.github.io/Videomass/

These tools give you relatively user-friendly access to yt-dlp.
Some time ago I came across an interesting system called "SequenceL", developed with NASA, and originally hosted at texasmulticoretechnologies.com. You can still find some examples at rosettacode.org, but the language SequenceL and the company behind it appear to have vanished from the internet in 2017... I have the original community binaries, restricted to four core multithreading, and lots of promotional material and some relevant whitepapers.
Does anyone know anything about what happened to SequenceL? Would it be safe to share a modified binary that unlocks more than four cores?
With all the current interest in LLMs a system that is specialized for things like massive multicore matrix multiplication seems like something to share.
Happy to discuss, and thanks!

EDIT: here's an example article about SequenceL's compiling interpreter and its ability to generate auto-parallelized, massively multi-threaded C++, that's provably race and deadlock free:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130128065802/http://www.rtcmag...
it used to be, then there was a change a few macos revs back.

I think it was the font smoothing feature.
Within a couple of years of improvement processes like you suggest will actually be really dangerous and stupid.

Also don't confuse all other types of human/animal characteristics like sentience with intelligence. They are different things. Things like sentience, subjective stream of experience, or other aspects of being alive don't just accidentally fall out of larger training datasets.

And we should be glad. The models are going to be orders of magnitude faster (and perhaps X times higher IQ) than humans within a few years. It is incredibly foolish to try to make something like that into a living creature (or emulation of living).
I worked in a small software development team within a large engineering (not software) company for quite a long time. We had an occasional change of manager, and I always remember one manager coming in; in his introductory meeting he said that in his opinion if any of his team were having to work overtime then he wasn't doing his job properly. That is the sort of management I like!
No GPU purchases means no game industry, no VFX industry, no economy of scale in production to keep unit costs anywhere near sane, and no significant profits to drive further research and development of GPUs. No government would have the will to plug that funding gap.

And besides, if you take away the bread and circuses, how long would such a government last?

The collateral damage level for this scenario is at a suicidal scale, and would just hand everything over on a platter to a competing high tech state.
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Uhm haha. On behalf of our community I would like to say that I was perfectly capable of understanding this mechanism thank you. Pretty sure the reason for the unintuitiveness for some people must rely on something else entirely.
I think the incoming popularity of generative AI won’t simply raise the bar, but at first devalue itself, then make AI generations irrecognizable. The public will start to fail to recognize an art is there, when human discretion is not found.

There is a sci-fi prediction that humans would eventually reduce to a thing with an eye and a finger that only presses a button, and machines would do the rest; I take it as an optimistic view that it means humans remain relevant, and that human values only come from humans.
But how is knowledge "stolen"? I understand in the context of piracy, but like piracy you can't really remove it from the originator. Sure, you can take and destroy all books you can find, but it is also pretty easy to make new books (and hide them) or pass knowledge through word of mouth (or hidden in stories). Wouldn't a highly intelligent society be able to accomplish such a simple feat that's been demonstrated by hundreds of civilizations through historY?
The stupid thing is that likely Disney and Warner/Discovery would be making much more money if they stopped running their own streaming platforms, and just licensed their content to Netflix or Hulu or whatever.

And on top of that, customers would be happier not having to have 10 different subscriptions to cover what they want to watch.
Clear (https://www.clearme.com) could have the business market LOCKED UP if they would - on an opt-in basis - tie their biometic data to an OpenPGP key. Its been proposed to them in the past but I think they suffer from myopia.
It's already been happening for years.
One of Azure's unique offerings is very large HPC clusters with GPUs. You can deploy ~1,000 node scale sets with very high speed networking. AWS has many single-server GPU offerings, but nothing quite like what Azure has.

Don't assume Microsoft is bad at everything and that AWS is automatically superior at all product categories...
Desktops is a very very key word there, I believe that’s why they repeat it so much. And it’s all tongue in cheek, and we all largely understand mining drove up gpu demand
Your industry exists only by taking in more in premiums than you give out in care, correct?
That's cool, will definitely be checking back on it from time to time.
truth

Hah. Reddit "truth" is sold and bought at every level for anything popular enough. It's just the illusion of truth. Your site:reddit.com strategy stopped making sense 2-3 years ago.

I will not be sad when reddit essentially dies in a few years from now. Good riddance.
I implied no such thing.
> The difference between AI and guns is right in the name. AI is intelligence.

The difference between guns and automobiles is in the name. Cars are mobile by themselves. That’s a slippery slope waiting to happen.

It’s been called “AI” ever since they were puny inference programs. Them having “intelligence” in the name signifies nothing. Only what they can do in reality.
HN is a kind of small miracle in that it's the sort of place where I'm inclined to read the comments first, and seems to be populated with fairly clever people who contribute usefully but not also, at the same time, extreme bigot edgelords and/or groupthinking soy enthusiasts. (Sometimes clever folks who are still wrong, of course, but undeniably an overwhelmingly intelligent bunch.)
What if there were a law in place like a FOISA for AI whereby I an request the actual code/Data that caused the AI to come to its conclusion.

So if an AI generated bill for service was found that I Owe $N$ - I should be allowed to see all the code and logic that arrived at that decision.
Will We Ever See Another Renaissance in Consumer Investing?
Seems like we're always missing a fusion of:

1. SPA that you can run on your phone or desktop

2. Centralized User Management, need some way to block known bad actors

3. Signing posts / comments

4. Distribution of posts and comments over DHT?

5. Hosting images, videos and lengthy text posts on torrents

6. A whack ton of content moderation software to somehow make decentralized moderation work.

7. Image recognition for gore / CP that inevitably will get spammed

This would enable people to help host the subreddits they are subscribed to, but murder battery life on mobile unfortunately.
By the way, if you know, what are the kinds of detectors at the other end of the laser pulse that receive the signal? Are they like the pixels of a CCD but without the need for periodic / time-bound readout? They just are like silicon photocells that can react at the femto(?)-second speed and turn it into pulses translated into electrons?
Why do all these sites only consider from 2010 onward? Prop 13 was passed in 1978.
There are honest ways to exercise your disgust and unwillingness to stay within the confines of a system that's stacked against you. Within a few hundred miles of SF are tons of options.

If you are homeless and completely destitute, the big cities are where you can find enough soup kitchens to survive.
It's really hard to formally define hallucination, for me it's a "know it when you see it" situation.

In my view, saying "10 + 4 = 15" is not a hallucination but inventing a citation that doesn't exist is one. There is a big grey area between these, like what if it cites a real paper but gets the year wrong? Is that a hallucination (because the paper as cited is fake), or just an incorrect statement (because the year is just wrong)?
We had Christmas paper tubes, balsa fins cut with a dull xacto knife, a hand carved nose cone and a super glued washer as a thrust ring.
While I don't agree with Yudkowsky's over hyping of the tech as well. This stance of slowing down its proliferation in infrastructure matters is also very limiting.

In the case of U Michigan and Flint's water infrastructure predictive AI far far far outclassed the predictions of local contractors on where the actual lead pipes were buried. The AI was order of magnitude more accurate.

Regardless of AI's efficacy Flint's Mayor temporarily replaced the AI (bc AI fear mongering stoked classism) with a contractor who was right only ~15% of the time vs. the AI's 70%+. Those numbers affect thousands and thousand of people's access to a basic human right: water. US Court determined the AI had less bias, and there should be no discrimination on where to dig up pipes based on where someone lived (ie. richer neighbourhoods).

The benefit of AI is it makes decisions MORE transparent, not less. It pulls apart prediction from judgement in decision making. So you can tweak it, call bullshit on it, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was from an attempt to make it more "truthful".

I had to use a bunch of jailbreaking tricks to get it to write some hypothetical python 4.0 code, and it still gave a long disclaimer.
I remember just a year or two ago people saying the price of Pork was going to skyrocket because of animal welfare laws in CA.
Personally I re-wrote it once and my cookie has has my back for a few years right now, but YMMV depending on how often you change browsers, delete cookies etc.

If you're doing that often or if you're part of the "HN Crowd" it should be trivial to write a quick bookmarklet to do the re-write for you.
> If Apollo's numbers are to be believed, Reddit is willing to sell its traffic at ~$2.50/user/month.

That's only one side of it though. According to the same post, Reddit's ad revenue is closer to $0.12/user/month. So, they are apparently willing to sell traffic to advertisers for a much much lower price than API users.
That's probably the end of me using Reddit on mobile, then.
Reminds me of the story of Job. I'm not sure how people read it any other way than Satan pulling a fast one over God. How is it not a story where Satan tricked God into torturing Job?
> Who ever came up with that price is looking for short-term profits over user happiness and long-term growth.

That's pretty much the definition of enshittification.
It probably keeps getting flagged because it’s ahistorical, source: OpenAI engineers, and #2 somewhat obviously so. You heard of RLHF?
The History and Future of Charisma
There are tons of businesses where $240+ is a great CAC.
> Unfortunately with today's SPA apps we don't even get the HTML directly

It works the other way: with today's SPAs the API (that powers the frontend) is exposed for us to use directly, without going through the HTML - just use your browser's devtools to inspect the network/fetch/XHR requests and build your own client.

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On an related-but-unrelated note: I don't know why so many website companies aren't allowing users to pay to use their own client: it's win-win-win: the service operator gets new revenue to make-up for the lack of ads in third-party clients, it doesn't cost the operator anything (because their web-services and APIs are already going to be well-documented, right?), and makes the user/consumer-base happy because they can use a specialized client.

Where would Twitter be today if we could continue to use Tweetbot and other clients with our own single-user API-key or so?
Twitter and Reddit, you have better options
Yeah, but like every other term in AI, no two people agree on what the word means so discussion around it is challenging.
If you already have the hardware, I wouldn't switch just because of the license myself. ARM is still ahead in perf/watt and the environmental impact for the existing box is already spent.

I am glad to see the ball moving forward for Risc-V, I do hope they avoid some of the vendor locked extensions that many ARM based SBCs seem to face. Feels like anything other than RPi so far has been an exercise in relative frustration. I have my SiFive 2 that I haven't played with yet... with the work I saw a few weeks ago with Haiku might be fun to play around with.

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/kallisti5/2021-11-07_booting_o...
No, I was talking about Ordinals. FTA, right after the parent's comment:

> However, we notice that by spending only 0.005% of the total Bitcoin supply on transaction fees, a single entity can significantly impact the entire Blockchain regime.
You're saying that AI researchers are not immune to the power of incentives. I'm saying that there is no evidence that this sort of incentive has ever caused this sort of behavior before.
.NET has great Linux support nowadays though. I only use Linux and use .NET extensively and have no complaints
this kind of technology is just what we need. It will always take a photo of the past, with more youthful self, hallucinated.
> Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990

I don't want to completely derail this thought but I am a bit older than some of the crowd on HN and I was in high school in the 90s so my perspective is a bit different I guess on this. Do Millennials think that Gen-X generation wasn't fighting against client change? I remember even further back to elementary school and just having a constant flow of ecological/environmental stuff thrown at us. It used to be deforestation, species extincition and the ozone layer ... but it was taken very seriously even then.

I mean, I just looked at the Paris Agreement [1] Wikipedia and the "Lead Up" section mentions:

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit is one of the first international treaties on the topic.

I remember one of the first conversations I had on "global warming" specifically and it was around 1996. But even before I had heard that specific term we were talking about losing large coastal regions due to rising sea levels. The rock band Tool released the album Ænema in 1996 and there is the constant refrain: "Learn to Swim". By the time Al Gore published "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006, I was feeling the topic was a bit played out, to be honest.

At any rate, you may find yourself in 30 years faced with the same kind of attitude ... like people in 2050 saying "imagine people in 2023 actually took climate change seriously!" and you might then feel the same as I do.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
Since you have your hands in the mess, let me ask you this, and I ask, because I think this is what is meant by people who ask what's a.. bla..bla alternative.. to bla..bla..bla. How can an industry specific or company specific AI be created? meaning you take the LLM engine and you ingress company data.. or if you want to be bold, industry datasets. CHATGPT is marketted as being doctor/architect/lawyer/professor/etc. But what if all you want to do is build an ask jeeve's type of ai lawyer??
This story first broke on TikTok, by Amy Nelson[1], whose husband, former AWS real estate manager Carleton Nelson, has been sued by Amazon in a 3-year dispute over a series of data center real estate deals. After many delays by Amazon, a federal judge decided to dismiss majority of Amazon's claims[2].

[1]https://www.tiktok.com/@amy_k_nelson/video/71989349311570772...

[2]https://www.geekwire.com/2023/judge-tosses-all-but-one-claim...
"The Cloud" == "Somebody else's computers"

If your government passes a law saying that GPUs can only be purchased or rented with a license, as OP was suggesting, all of that capacity disappears with the snap of a finger.
Well, it is not for free, he earns quite a lot of money for it. He is not a philanthropist.
Does anybody know a cheap way to self-host a Zulip instance with ~200 users?

I've looked at cloud vm offerings but they all seem fairly steep for the Zulip hardware requirements (especially the RAM).

https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/requiremen...
It's a good question. I don't know for sure but the author claims that is possible in Sweden. It may even be possible in other rich countries but it's becoming increasingly hard in the US, that I can attest.
Allow me to play the worlds smallest violin. Good riddance idiots.
This is exactly what I'm doing. I was there for the digg migration, and this feels just like it.
I live at a reasonably busy intersection but in a residential neighborhood in Durham NC. My unifi controller software has recorded 620 APs in the last 12 days.

It's quite remarkable really.
> 3-ounce serving of skinless chicken thigh

skinless is obviously not popular cut.

> tend not to cause the insulin/carb cycling in terms of hunger response

they contribute to extra calories.
And in Linux at least you can change the font in everything so if you want the full comic sans experience for some reason you’re free to do that
Is this guy Aes Sedai?

Technically he can claim that OpenAI will not release competing products while Microsoft plugs AI into everything.

Microsoft just announced at Build 2023 that they'll have OpenAI tech integrated with: Windows, Bing, Outlook, Word, Teams, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Logic Apps. I probably missed a bunch.

Very soon now, everything Microsoft sells will have OpenAI integration.

Unless you're selling a niche product too small for Microsoft to bother with, you're competing directly against OpenAI.

Oh, and to top it off: Microsoft can use GPT 4 all they want, via API access. Third parties have to beg and plead to get rate-limited access. That access can be withdrawn at any time if you're doing something unsafe to OpenAI's profit margins.

"Please Sir Sam, may I have some GPT please?"

"No."
Fixed assets and a decked-out workspace are nice... but still feel like gimmicks.

What I want is career advancement with quantitative goals and actual feedback from a competent manager to meeting them, and an interesting problem space to work in. If you can't give me the latter then at least give me the former. If you won't give me either, I will start looking.
> $8,000 desktop for the office

Holy crap O_o; My dream machine on https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/ was only $7k.

I haven't had a Dedicated Machine in so long. I've forgotten what it's like to have a crufty machine with decades of projects on it. Lots of envy from me.

Maybe someday! After all, hardware can be improved and stuff can always be copied to larger hard drives.

"I want to develop on an OpenBSD machine."

Still waiting on that one. Afraid to ask.