skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me this was the most relevant passage:

>The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.

(my emphasis)

B was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, who was sent to a concentration camp in 43 and was hanged 2 years later as one of the last dissidents, by personal directive from Hitler.

For all other German speakers, here's the original: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von_der_Dummheit
Curious which services under GCP have been shut down? I get that Google killed Reader and that GCP users used Google Domains, but for the time-being GCP has felt safe.
I’ve been wanting to use LiveView so bad, it’s just incredibly hard to justify to a team when React is working just fine :(
> 1) in the form of code, 2) in a language everyone can learn 3) that runs on everything.

The hello world for cross-platform Egui also written in Rust is a 19MB binary and uses 89MB of RAM.
It's simplistic to say "choice!" or "no choice!" like we can boil the whole thing down to one or the other. Yes, you pretty much need to have a car. But plenty of people resisted any effort to, say, build transportation, or even build stuff like HOV lanes, tooth and nail, and that continues to be the case.
Mission is a perfectly valid word for describing an outing of a submarine, specially when most of the discussion is surrounding the technical aspects of it. Do you also get angry when a business describes something as mission critical?
I don't really write my stuff with the intention of getting people to agree with me. I write it to get people to challenge assumptions, like why is a submarine the biggest news in the world and now the WSJ's article about how American cities are doomed, which to me is a much more important story and will significantly impact people much more than.........a missing submarine.

I'm glad you enjoy my blunt style. Cheers.
pgvector is an easy bolt-on if you’re already using Postgres
What's the point of it being opensource when it depends on vercelkv service?
It honestly really depends on the project...

I wrote a police intake form site for an Indian reservation with multiple pages and local storage and reports in a couple of hours with GPT4. I think someone who is highly experienced with web dev could do the same in similar time but personally it would have taken me hours and hours to get the CSS right but GPT4 just spat out good CSS with minimal prompting (this is with February GPT4 - modern GPT4 does not give you nearly as good of output anymore because they lowered the amount it try-hards on what you ask)

I wrote a python TK app to quickly cut out portions of YouTube videos by time and turn them into GIFs in like 5-10 minutes using GPT4. Likewise with pulling audio from YouTube videos into mp3 files and using FFMPEG to convert. Just minutes for each.

I have an application for World of Warcraft that lets you compare cast timelines and timing and such between two players for a given fight and it lays out the timelines vertically next to each other like a Git Diff with color-coding and everything and it only took a few hours with careful prompting. Maybe again something a highly experienced web dev could do in an hour or two but not me personally.

I tried using it on doing some multiplayer game dev synchronization code and it was basically hopeless, even if I was very specific and detailed in what I was asking for.

I currently have an idea for a competitor to Synesthesia (the game) that has the sheet music scrolling right to left bar by bar as a different visualization and you would hold notes like in DDR where they have a glowing trail. GPT4 is utterly hopeless here even if I completely outline the steps. I personally don't have the expertise with musicXML to do this kind of thing but I feel as though it would be a marketable idea
Things are still in a rapid development phase, especially for the new boards in the last four months (VF2, Star64, LicheePi4A), figuring out what things are actually necessary. The aim is definitely to get a board-specific (but standard interface) uboot and SBI in SPI flash on each board, and then have a single kernel + root FS image (for each distro) that can run on anything.

One obstacle is that some people are resisting upstreaming support for the THead C906 and C910 cores "non standard" physical memory attributes and vector implementation into the toolchain and kernel. Both those things were 2 1/2 years away from standardisation in mid 2019 when THead designed their cores, and it takes 3 1/2 to 4 years to get a new core into cheap mass production SoCs and on to boards, so they really could not have done better (other than to simply not implement that kind of feature at all).
My exact thought as you. I actually have done robotics research in Academia and I find it ridiculous that an arm costs as much as a car when it's just servos in series. I guess economies of scale.

Now that I'm leaving Academia I was trying to figure out how to get a robot arm so that I can continue doing stuff at home. I think an approach like the one here would be good: https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha.aspx. A single robot would cost 5k. You could also just buy Dynamixel servos and build it on your own, shouldn't be too hard with 3D printing ~ closer to 3.5 or 4k with that.

You could try to go cheaper by building a dynamixel servo on your own. I would not recommend this, the main difficulty is the controller which requires a lot of tuning, which is what you're paying for when you buy Dynamixel. But the raw parts of a servo are only around 50-100$ I'd guess.

Lastly any arm you build this way is going to be position control which is very different from the human arm that is torque controlled. Trying to get torque control on your arm is all the rage on Youtube these days, perhaps because the motion seems so lifelike. To do that you need to build a Quasi Direct Drive Actuator which is a BLDC servo with a low gear ratio and then try to centralize all the motors to reduce inertia. There is no accepted solution to do this, but the best results come from cable driven mechanisms like AmbiDex. Basically building a human like robot arm is a huge research problem on its own, and if you want to focus on intelligence best avoid this.
I’m in a similar situation and I was surprised to learn that I’m within a few dollars of qualifying for food stamps.
I wanted to have apple notes on linux, so I used tauri and just redirected to the apple notes web app.

I could really feel the lag and the lack of snappiness when interacting with that UI.

Its webkit, safari also uses webkit? Why is it so slow?
I wonder how much of this has to do with investors giving them only 18 months of runway and "launch or die" mentality. That mentality is okay for software but this ecosystem is NOT okay when lives are in question. When investors are bickering about shitty terms and being stingy with their aerospace and nautical investments, people die.

There needs to be a system by which any company can ALWAYS be guaranteed some $X for 0% equity if it is going to be used and documented for life safety improvements and tests. That $X can even come from taxes, I'm okay with that.
Being able to pass allows me to create separation from other vehicles which means I can establish a good following distance. When selfish assholes block the passing lane, it creates a big moving traffic blockage that will turn into a multiple car pile up if anything goes wrong. The ideal highway traffic density is less dense, not more dense.
Yeah and climate change contributes to the severity and frequency of auch pandemics, so why not sue oil companies as well?
I would like to note in this code example:

class C(int):
def __add__(self, other):
return "no" # sigh

->

class C(int):
def __add__(self, other: int) -> str:
return "no" # sigh

Proper type annotations and using strict mypy type checking will throw an error.

test.py:2: error: Return type "str" of "__add__" incompatible with return type "int" in supertype "int" [override]

This is again brought up later in the article.

I also thought it was odd to diverge into attempts to compile (against?) non-typed code. That seems at odds with the premise of the article.

This is still a really good article. Just a little meandering.
weird title, note that the tweet said "so yes, GPT4 is *technically* 10x the size of GPT3, and all the small circle big circle memes from January were actually... in the ballpark?"

It's really 8 models that are 220B, which is not the same as one model that is 1.7T params. There have been 1T+ models via mixtures of experts for a while now.

Note also the follow up tweet: "since MoE is So Hot Right Now, GLaM might be the paper to pay attention to. Google already has a 1.2T model with 64 experts, while Microsoft Bing’s modes are different mixes accordingly"

There is also this linked tweet https://twitter.com/LiamFedus/status/1536791574612303872 -
"They are all related to Switch-Transformers and MoE. Of the 3 people on Twitter, 2 joined OpenAI. Could be related, could be unrelated"

Which links to this tweet:
"Today we're releasing all Switch Transformer models in T5X/JAX, including the 1.6T param Switch-C and the 395B param Switch-XXL models. Pleased to have these open-sourced!"

Anyway... remember not to just read the headlines, they can be misleading.
Because "stupid" and "intelligent" are just words, and they cannot hope to capture the rich and multi-dimensional gamut of the human intellect.
Is there a distinction between turnout and pullout?

An RV is 20-30+ feet long. Thirty feet isn't enough time to slow and stop at speed. Let alone build up speed and reenter the main route. Even the one in your picture (much longer than 30') is an example of one that is risky for an RVer to use. People would use that to stop and take a photo or take their kid to the toilet, but proper ones are closer to an actual lane as in, same surface as the road, and longer. And no one would stop on them other than for 10 seconds to let traffic pass. Here's one on the southern side of Flinders Ranges Way here in South Australia (where I assume @NL still lives):

https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/quorn/@-32.4561221,137...
A couple places near me have "little art galleries" where people display small art pieces, with some decoration like little action figures or easels. I think one is open so that anybody can put some art up, and another exclusively displays art chosen by the owner.
I have given up the unequal struggle to learn Bash.

For me it is "read only".

It is too arcane, even for me.

I use Perl now. I tried to reform last year as I was building a system from lots of executable pieces, the perfect job for Bash

After much pain and suffering I re-wrote it in Perl. What a (relative) breeze.

Just. Don't. Do. Bash.

Works for me!
After a short browsing through the research paper, I doubt that this is a valid physical model, because it would need a significant amount of work to reformulate it in a correct way.

Perhaps the model contains some valuable idea, but its conclusions are presented in a certainly wrong way, because in order to claim that the masses are varying in time it is first necessary to give a definition of a system of fundamental units of physical quantities where this is true.

For instance, if the mass of the electron is the unit of mass, then no masses can vary in time, even in this model.

In a correct formulation of this model, what could vary in time would be either the Newtonian constant of gravitation alone or some combination between the Newtonian constant of gravitation and other quantities that are considered fundamental constants, like the strength of the electromagnetic interaction (which is usually named "fine structure constant") or the Planck constant or the speed of light.

It may be useful to try to understand the paper by reformulating its equations in a rigorous way, compatible with the SI system of units. It should be noted that time is currently measured based on differences between atomic energy levels, which depend on the masses of the elementary particles. Therefore it is impossible to formulate correctly a physical model where the masses vary in time before giving other definitions for time and mass, to remove the dependency between the units of these quantities.

In conclusion, because this model is formulated starting from equations devoid of physical meaning (because it is not specified what physical quantities are the so-called "mass" and "time" in those equations), I believe that it is more likely that the results are garbage instead of being useful, though the paper may still merit to be studied.
The issue, as pointed above, is primarily bandwidth (at inference), not addressable memory. Put simply, the best bandwidth stack we currently have is on-package HBM -> NVLink, -> Mellanox InfiniBand, and for inference speed you really can't leave the NVLink bandwidth (read, 8x DGX pod) for >100b parameters. And stacking HBM dies is much harder (read, expensive) than GDDR dies which is harder than DDR etc.

Cost aside, HMB dies themselves aren't getting significantly denser anytime soon, and there just simply isn't enough package space with current manufacturing methods to pack a significantly increased number of dies on the gpu.

So I suspect the major hardware jumps will continue to be with NVLink/NVSwitch. Nvlink 4 + NVSwitch 3 actually already allows for up 256x GPUs https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-grace-cpu/nvidia-grace-ho... ; increased numbers of links will let ever increasing numbers of GPUs pool with sufficient bandwidth for inference on larger models.

As already mentioned, see this HN post about the GH200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133226, which has some further discussion about the cutting edge of bandwidth for Nvidia DGX and Google TPU pods.
In the podcast they talk about 20 Peta FLOPS as the human brain equivalent for measuring comparison.
You absolutely can, but then you a) have a TON of packages, which makes it really hard to structure in a codebase this size and b) you still can't ensure that the lower level package gets called only from the higher level package and not from somewhere else in the codebase. You could use modules, but modules have very strict versioning requirements and make large refactoring difficult. Not unsolvable problems, but difficult in a large codebase. (Go workspaces make it a little better, but not by much.)
The fast takeoff we’ve all been waiting for.
They already are, for the hyperhyperparameter choices.
Assumedly the sale of the service didn't also happen on international waters.
There is definitely sexism. There’s an entire program named “women, infants, and children”.

A completely competent person would have difficulty navigating the Byzantine and Kafkaesque world of government and social services help. I don’t see an easy path for someone with difficulties.
Nit: 'm' matches as well. I think it's those two only.
Do you know what happened to Apollo 1?
Presumably SquareSpace is going to want money at some point.
Dupe:

Reforming the free software message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391360

Write free software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389763
>We have laborious and very expensive approval processes for airplanes, ask the 737 MAX inspector from the FAA how well that guarded against bad engineering.

Those approval processes don't work when the government regulators allow the company being regulated to "self-regulate". There was no real FAA approval process for the 737MAX: FAA just let Boeing do it themselves. Of course that's going to lead to bad engineering when the sales team and executives make engineering decisions, and no one outside the company knows anything about it.
There are some areas (including this one) where pg’s stream of consciousness thoughts are just that, and shouldn’t be taken as much more. Raising kids in suburbia is no more lying to a kid then sending them to school instead of off to work in a mine. There are entire rural cultures that have no exposure to modern conveniences or vices and haven’t for hundreds of years. They are not living a lie.

That said, I’d recommend not lying to your children to the best of your ability. For us that means certain American traditions aren’t celebrated in our house (Santa, tooth fairy, etc.). That also means sometimes having tricky conversations regarding propaganda from “trustworthy” sources as they learn to understand more about the world.

Having age-appropriate conversations about subjects isn’t hard and doesn’t require lying. It does require having some idea of a child’s developmental level and reference to the subject at hand. You wouldn’t tell a 3-year old that smoking causes emphysema, but telling them that it could make you sick is true.

I also think this is especially true for religious families. Ultimately that is a decision for individuals to make. Parents can teach their kids to the best of their abilities, but kids will have to take that and choose their own way. (Comments about how religions are lies are unnecessary and unwelcome.)

Obviously, no one person can have a completely accurate view of the world and all subject areas, and that’s important to teach kids as well. “I don’t know” or “let’s learn more about that” or even “here’s what I think annd here’s what some other people think, what do you think?” are perfectly acceptable answers at any age. We’re all going to be biased in certain areas. As kids get older, I think letting them know the foundation of that bias (cultural, socio-economical, educational, etc.) may help reasoning from different perspectives.
i have found concrete uses for them in automating work that otherwise would be tedious. you just need to find problems where errors are acceptable and more than 1 second of thinking is needed. not all problems meet those standards but they exist.
I studied CS at ASU from 2005-2010, and my mom was a dean there, so I got view into the university as both a student and second hand through her experience as an administrator.

One thing I liked about going there is that it was easy for me to get exposure as a programmer by working for researchers at its public/private research ventures. The professors weren’t world famous but they were solid and always seemed to have some paid extracurricular coding for me to do for one of their research projects.

On the administration side, I agree with this article that Crow’s vision has been basically validated. Despite its increasing size, ASU’s academic stature via research output and reputation among academics has continued to improve in the last 15 years. For example, ASU was just added to the prestigious Association of American Universities.

Watching ASU transform over the years as Crow realized his vision has been very cool.
That's what bookshops are, no?
On ChatGPT you can give feedback. Also there is a sort of upvote checkmark thing that I think helps them gauge good response patterns to feed back into their updated versions.
But you can still pass in the right lane. So a slow driver in the left lane has someone riding their tail and are also getting passed in the right so they can’t even change to the slow lanes anymore. Add in left exits, moving over for vehicles on the shoulder, and speed limits that adjust based on road conditions and you have the perfect storm of it only being enforced in the worst cases.
> One of the steering motors was fitted backwards… the solution they used was to hold the gamepad at right angles to compensate.

Sounds like everything I’ve built in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom so far.
That wouldn't make sense. YouTube wants you to watch ads, not click around the UX.

Time spent scrolling is not time spent watching ads. So that is definitely not a metric YouTube is optimizing for.
Part of that diagram is about fine-tuning / retraining. Part is about managing canned prompts, since those matter enough to have their own development cycle. Part is about caching, since the fancier models are very expensive. Part is about filtering the output to not upset people, which is built in to the hosted versions (currently called "AI safety"). Etc.

Doing everything in that diagram is probably overkill for most uses. But using it as a starting point and trimming what you don't need will help a bit with triping over "oops I forgot to include that".
Less liquidity between the fiat and crypto ecosystem cuts both ways - it makes fiat less valuable since low liquidity creates a class of products and services that cannot be purchased with fiat. If people still want those services, they will barter for them instead using p2p platforms. Examples that already exist include - sending Amazon packages for crypto, providing free or discounted rent for crypto, food delivery services for crypto, etc. This creates a situation where more goods and services can be purchased with crypto than without it, meaning crypto is better money than fiat.

Liquidity between fiat and crypto privileges centralized insiders who have the connections to fit into regulators molds and thus leak compliance into the wider crypto ecosystem. Thankfully regulators are too dumb to understand this and are shutting down the main threat to crypto, which is coinbase and it’s kind.
I thought openjdk is the "official" version of Java now (besides Java EE)?
Were the customers aware of the risks?

There is a difference between somebody selling me poison and somebody selling me “lemonade” that’s actually poison.
Also kudos to the scene in Die Hard 4.0 showing off Linux/Maemo at the time.

The N900 was my dream device, and the prototype of the latest model still is on eBay for ridiculous price ranges.

I wish the pinephone would be exactly like the N900, but with better CPU specs.
Wouldn't that make it easier to maintain? Don't need to task specific headcount towards it for general maintenance.
I was referring to cars in general, not new cars. It’s absurd to say that something is malpractice when it was standard practice just a couple years ago. I’d prefer that we get rid of the advanced electronics in cars entirely, so I’m not exactly a fan of Tesla’s model, but I’m also not a fan of saying that every car must have radar to be a reasonable car.
that's nice but i'd rather not be executed or jailed for life for ingesting herbal medicines
Exactly (besides the “random” strangers part).
According to this article, the submersible had 7 safety features, 5 of which involves shedding weights: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65965665
Honestly, they should have spun off TI into its own company even before cloud! you could call it "ursco"
News is entertainment and so the most entertaining story of the hour wins.

All it needed was a kitten onboard to absolutely dominate.

Being a story that everyone can feel smug about in one way or another helps, too.

I was hoping your Embarcadero story had actual machine guns but apparently it’s just boring standard American semiautomatic fire as usual. Lame.

Note that all the depressing news is entertainment, too. Of a different sort.
I made a page that lets you see top videos of a channel with a date range

https://ytsort.netlify.app/

the free YT api is limited to 100 hits a day so it might not work sometimes

source (really bad): https://github.com/arye321/yt_sort
I’ve been using Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView exclusively for about 7-8 months now and it’s been so much fun. Can’t recommend it enough.