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yeah, maybe few space based edge nodes ? makes totally sense
Only for the investment purpose by thinking they will get rich quick. I have never seen anyone using crypto other than that. Author specifically said not for profit.
I love the idea of a visualization of overlapping language phonetics! something that showed both the hierarchical nesting of languages and the actual phonemes themselves.

Besides tsu and dzu, every phoneme in Japanese is accounted for in the Spanish language. I believe that the Spanish phonemes are a nearly perfect subset of English phonemes.
We're likely way too early to call this one. Based on current hardware trends, GPT-4 will run on your phone within 6-10 years. Right now, folks are feeling out the edges of what makes sense and what doesn't make sense at extreme R&D and opex expense. In 10 years, we'd expect the winners of today to still be winners and have great margins due to declining compute costs.

Granted, if you are spending 10x the future value of the product your are offering ... then even a 10x decline in compute costs won't get you where you need to be.
Atari games like it's 1980 with “faithful recreation” of Atari 2600 console
Nonsense, the Existifier [0] is always moral. :p

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/existence
>Of course it's monopolistic. What standard are you comparing to? You don't need to have 100% of the market to exert monopoly control

No, but control of your own platform is not considered a monopoly if you don't have a monopoly on the overall market.
> Hashicorp switching to a BSL isn't any more disruptive than if they went out of business.

Eh. Forking a still-OSS version is an actual fork, where taking over development if they got bus-factored wouldn't be.
At the very same time it is very surprising, and yet it was so very expected.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239087
If you're building in plain Go with pure SSR, sure, but OP is talking about building a React frontend that is pre-rendered server-side. TTI very well could be faster with that than with a React front end that talks to a Go backend.
It's a far cry from what some members of the tech community did when the government was trying to restrict code and cryptography in the 1990s. People were tattooing perl scripts onto their bodies in order to protest the restrictions. God forbid people break the law to protest bad laws.

"How to become an Arms Trafficker

Become an Arms-Trafficker in one easy step with this great way to register your protest of ITAR by Vince Cate. Just click to submit the form and join in the protest. Lots of excellent links. Have you exported RSA today? Includes an option to email a protest letter to US president." [0]

[0] http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/rsa/
And we thought enabling macros were a security risk. This opens a whole new can of worms. Depending on how/if they lockdown the python interpreter.
It's amazing to see the development of tiling ideas on X11. Ratpoison, sure. wmii, dwm, i3, scrotwm....

Now it seems like we mostly have settled on i3, I do sometimes miss autotiling, scrotwm specifically, but I do like that we sort of 'solved' tiling.
YOMM2 Is on Compiler Explorer
> Why would someone use this over much more maintainable and performant backends in Go or Rust?

They were already using NodeJs or would have. And that's a large part of the current ecosystem.
Why only a 'woke ai' and not any and all LLMs?
I think their hardware is comparable with nvidia. The problem is the software is awful by comparison. It’s hard to run any of the AI workloads with AMD, and even when you can the performance is poor. The software investment just hasn’t been made. Until then they are not even in the game.
This exists! https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman
They’re out of date now but John Siracusa’s toaster reviews on the ATP podcast were amazing content.
Potentially the opposite. It may become more difficult to use such images to harm someone's career or relationship. Perhaps nothing is believable in the future.
I tried rat-poison and similar, tiling WMs are my style, but I'm spoiled by the intuitiveness of i3WM... no doubt If I started earlier when it wasn't around, I'd probably be using ratpoison or similar now.

I do love how the "desktop" just completely dissolves away with these WMs, none of the visual facade, distraction and waste, it feels like they are the most minimal possible layer between you and laying out a bunch of terminals exactly how you want them... while also laying out things that are unfortunately not terminals :D

I think i3wm might be the reason why every time I interact with some other user interface I feel like saying "just get out of the frickin way and show me the stuff".
> Well, that's too generic to even be searchable

You might want to search what articles were discussed here on the subject.

> Whatever standard I use for logical or illogical decisions, wherever I put that line, humans and AI seem to be on the same side

You can make an illogical decision. No computer program can make an illogical decision, though the pathways followed through the code may give rise to something unusual, it still follows the logic written in the program, it cannot do otherwise. Even if you have random values occurring on inputs, the code itself will follow predictable paths. If you write self-modifying code, this too is done in accordance with specific rules.

Your example of neurotransmitters and comparing to neural networks is unfortunately flawed. We developed the idea of neural networks based on a very simplified understanding of what is happening in living neural systems. Our neural network are (whatever you might think of them) extremely simple and follow very specific logical paths. We may not be able to identify what those paths will be a priori but we can analyse what has happened after the event and it will still be based on the underlying logic we put into these systems.

> Just to check, you are aware that the weights and biases of an artificial neural network are basically never set by humans? That this process has to be automated?

Yes. The automatic processes still relies of specific logical rules.

If we use only goto's, we can write all sorts of "unpredictable" programs based on random inputs. Does this generate any intelligence? If we know the code and the inputs, we do have the ability to determine what has happened.

> AI are inhuman, certainly, but still learning

I would say it this way AS systems are simply artificial constructs and the data generated is simply generated and not learnt.
I have no solution to this, but I'd also like to know. These solutions really are heavyweight. All I personally want is a minimal syslog aggregator that can output in formats visualisation software like Grafana can understand.

It's pretty annoying how heavyweight these systems are (even Grafana by itself).
Ah the 70s - I remember laying horizontal as a kid in the back window area of our Gran Torino looking up at the sky on long road trips. More fun though was standing in the back of a pickup truck holding on to anything I could on the roof while it hauled down a country road and we ducked to avoid low branches.
You can go to most any cell provider and get a femtocell. Same thing, just a smaller power :)
Hi gwern, asking earnestly and without snark about this:

"And if you're wondering how it can look so good when 'everyone knows GANs don't work because they're too unstable', a widespread myth, repeated by many DL researchers who ought to know better, GANs can scale to high-quality realistic images on billion-image scale datasets, and become more, not less, stable with scale, like many things in deep reinforcement learning."

My interpretation from how this is written is that you are saying: "Researchers say that GANs are unstable at inference time." Is that the correct reading? If so, where have you seen this sentiment? More commonly I've heard that people criticize GANs at inference time for mode collapse and monotony (which comes from training), not instability.

Or are you saying that researchers say GANs are unstable during training, which is a common criticism. Don't you feel this is the case? A lot of different tricks are used for getting generators that are roughly balanced with more powerful discriminators so that the adversarial game is balanced, like TTUR and encodec's weight balancer etc. In this case, are you saying that GAN training is as straightforward as diffusion training?

In my experience, GAN training involves an unholy number of heuristics and best-practices are still quite murky.

I am eager to hear your response.

[edit: my experience with GANs and diffusion models isn't about taking image problems with existing working models and scaling or refining them, but about applying GANs and diffusion models to different domains (audio) and on novel problems with different kinds of conditioning. I would love to see more controlled experiments comparing weak and sophisticated generative backbones as the experimental control and varying the training regime across different GAN + diffusion flavors.]
You can just say, "I've been advised that it's in my interests to not share a number."

And it's true. You have been advised that way by threads and comments like these.

If you get any pushback, it'll be that they just want to ensure they're not wasting time, and you can always respond that if they'd share the compensation details of the position, you'll be happy to tell them if it's acceptable.
I worked as a lowly PC technician assembling machines from components for a little shop in a strip mall when Windows 95 was what everyone wanted.

The OS was indeed a hot mess, but one thing was abundantly clear after assembling and installing it on hundreds of new machines: driver quality varied wildly across hardware vendors, and installing them was often the change transforming a perfectly stable fresh installation into a crash-prone unstable disaster.

Linux may not have had much in the way of hardware support, but what hardware it did support tended to work pretty well. This was a huge difference vs. Win95, where all hardware ostensibly came with drivers for the OS, sort of a classic quality vs. quantity situation.
> PR review of a community effort to add Bun to the Techempower benchmark

Has this been added? That PR got closed right? Whilst valid, it was sad that Bun didn't make it. Would be good if someone from the community or Bun team can give it another go.
just don't write it in all-caps with a sans-serif font and bad kerning.
Through all that pain, humanity adapts.
Musk Plans to Kill Link Headlines on Twitter
> Based on current hardware trends, GPT-4 will run on your phone within 6-10 years

they quantized model from 16 bits to 4 bits which was low hanging fruit, and looks like they can't quantize it anymore to 2 bits..
> Now, some people get squeamish at the idea of two frameworks living on the same page

Yes, yes. Years of trying to cut off the long tail of a migration will make you a bit squeamish.
This step is what I was expecting you to talk about, and it has some tricky subtleties to get right, which is why I looked for it in the whitepaper.

A trivial problem with a naive implementation is being able to perform presence proofs using side channel information: send someone mail containing a terms you want to verify, and watch for the associated high level costs affecting operations that are likely to be incremental index change uploads.
thank you !
I'll see how it goes. Hope it won't be too wonky.

Ex: In Magit when committing it now first shows a "changes" buffer that you have to kill and then you can get to the buffer where you write the commit message. Not a biggie but prolly breaks the original UI design
I thought this was a forum for intelligent and well-informed people, not the posting of paedophilic propaganda. Sad.
The authors' substack is great. They're sort of like investigative journalists who pick a topic that's got a lot of hype and then dissect it to (often very quickly) find that the hyped up topic was just hot air. Some examples:

The claims of "liberal bias" being just a completely bunk study: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-chatgpt-have-a-liberal-bia...

No evidence of GPT-4 getting worse over time: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-gpt-4-getting-worse-over-tim...

The analyses are measured and well written. I always enjoy when a new one comes out.
Would you though? An F-14 could fire missiles from 40 miles out. I would only imagine Russians having something similar.
Digital Salon with Stephen Wolfram: Building a New Kind of Science (2020)
More specifically, sole-searching beachgoers.
What do you mean by no way to get to customer support? They have a form on their website, a support phone number, and an email address.

They are quite ban-happy though, and especially seem to hate VPNs.
Trading it on a centralized exchange to speculate on its future value doesn’t involve using it at all, it’s just a MySQL database at Coinbase tracking your bids and balances.

I’d wager the biggest non-speculative use case is pig butchering scams and ransomware.
> start hunting for high quality blogs
I like this site for that: https://ooh.directory/
it's very nice. In my city at a tram stop, the tram people had not put in a time board, so a local business put in a large street display with the tram arrival times.

Sometimes you have to do things yourself.

It looks like no traction here this time, but rail fans will loove it. Maybe you can roll up a script so such folks can deploy this real easy like?

Thanks!
I guess his song hits a lot of people's heart.
A Simple Proof of Sybil-Proof [pdf]
Bookmarking this for when time proves you wrong after a couple years. I’ll drop by to say hello.
I'd add to that and say shorting is typically selling a share that you don't own. Which means you need to borrow it from a broker for a fee. There's a securities lending market which revolves around borrowing and lending shares for these reasons.
> or do you want to open google, scroll past 50 ads, click through a bunch of blogspam that gives you the history of cocktails, the prohibition, the chemical formula for ethanol and their life story

I think in this aspect the difference between GPT vs Google not in level of tech, but because GPT took text from copyright owners and distributes it without their consent and without showing their ads, which is being challenged legally in my understanding.
> But it DOES help me actually THINK. Just like people say ‘writing is thinking’, drawing / sketching / and even note-taking is thinking for me as well.

A picture, as they say, it turns out, is worth a thousand words.
Chemists Develop Sustainable Method to Remove “Forever Chemicals” from Water
> The messaging in journalism has been so thoroughly hijacked that people trust gossip more

no it hasn't, and no they don't

this is an example of a common occurrence: a loud minority incorrectly thinking that their opinions represent those of "[the] people"

some other examples are American conservatives with their incorrect ideas of what "[the] people" want, and anti-science advocates with their incorrect views that "people" don't trust science

just say "I" instead.
Right. I was careful but it was also a friendly office,
Typically you're not asking for a price(salary) upfront. Ideally you've done a bit of homework to figure out what positions can pay in the ballpark of what you want. Then you get their offer at the end of the interview process and negotiate as appropriate.

Yeah you may go through hours of interviews and not end up with an offer in some cases but think of it this way: you could potentially earn tens of thousands to over one hundred thousand extra dollar per year off that time investment in interviewing.

Attempting to line up multiple interviews and balancing offer timelines is hard, but the payoff can be huge. Considering that people spend 4 years or more working in college to get into their career, making a time investment of a few weeks to get a potentially large raise is nothing.
Pretty damning if Google is farming personalized ad clicks from children and hiding granular placement information from ad buyers. There would appear to be a large financial incentive to do so.
Web components can be used without a front-end JS framework (Vue, React, etc.) which I think is one of its best features. There is a mild complexity to it since it encompasses the javascript and HTML including creating the HTML element type (or whatever it's called).

> This is about as close as you can get to the original vision for web components, which is that using <fancy-element> should be as easy as using built-in HTML elements.
Poor design is also design

And markdown isn't the only alternative to the ugliness of XML
I'll admit, I laughed :D
It seems pretty similar to Tesla’s valuation with a product that won’t be as sticky as electric cars
This is highly dependent on the role. I have been tasked with growing teams where my mandate is to hire X number of engineers at various levels. If I found X hires and then hire X + 1 shows up and was a great fit, the company would make an exception. No exploding offers necessary.

On the other hand, sometimes you are hiring to fill a specific position rather than to generally grow a team. You have two candidates you like and you can't afford to let candidate 1 sit on the offer for three weeks. People treat it like it's nefarious on the part of the company to ever have an exploding offer, but sometimes it's just not practical.
I looked at vercel.com and reddit.com - just React, no customElements.

Then at nytimes.com I found React and this:

Yp = function(a, b) {
var c = window;
var d = void 0 === d ? wb : d;
var e;
if (c.customElements && null != (e = c.Reflect) && e.construct && !c.customElements.get("google-product-ad")) {

Real elegant.

After that I checked ask.metafilter.com and saw it has neither.
Why not also take a police cruiser instead of Uber or a taxi?

"It's for your own safety."

If it's a ride shared by several strangers, everyone can be handcuffed, too, so everyone keeps their hands to themselves for an added safety boost.
Yeah, was a weird limbo after riserFS. But i'm sure if we knew all the MS devs names And crimes, there would be worse.
I mean if I had a couple why would I bother with the one that’s lowballing me?
I’m aware of web components, but I’ve never seen them in person (as a dev). Honestly I assumed they were dead.

I never see them discussed or suggested to solve problems. I see libraries of components/widgets offer versions for React and Vue and other things, never a web component version. No matter how good they may be they seem to have almost no mindshare.

All major browsers appear to have supported autonomous custom elements since ~2019.

That said based on this page this is a nonstarter at my company.

If it doesn’t work easily React, it’s dead. The fact you can’t pass objects or functions would be a huge pain. Of course you can’t pass objects to traditional HTML elements either (outside react) or functions (basically) so I’m not sure why I’m surprised at that. But being able to do that is what makes using React components so easy. Having to add listeners sounds like going back to the battle days of early jquery to me.

Additionally having poor accessibility support in 2023 is also a non-starter. We’re required to provide that in everything we do.

It’s not web components’ fault if React doesn’t fit their model, or browsers have poor accessibility support when web components are involved. But it’s still a blocker.

I can think of a at least one thing we do that being able to ship it as a web component would be very useful for. But we need to be able to pass objects in and out, which I guess would require marshaling and unmarshalling JSON. And that destroys ease of use.

Others have already mentioned the bundler problem.

Unfortunately the tone of this piece kind of reads as “come on, they’re not that bad, really“ instead of the cheerleading piece I was expecting. It had to mention a number of big caveats up front. I’m glad it did to provide an accurate picture. But unfortunately I think it actually reinforced to me the exact feeling they were trying to argue against.
> no it hasn't, and no they don't

wow, that's sure persuasive.

Trust in the media is at an all-time low. That isn't "a loud minority."
Kinda hard to answer as that depends on your definition of new. But most likely yes, https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/commits/main
Recent and related:

If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976670 - Aug 2023 (181 comments)
I do wonder though, why has moore's law stopped in its tracks? Using CS:GO benchmark, a 1070 got 218 FPS, while a 4090 is at 477 FPS. Only a ~2.2x increase in FPS in 6 years? :(
JavaScript to Machine Language (2021)
What country do you live in? For many highly developed democracies, this is normal and not scary.
I do remember meeting the Siri team before Apple bought them (I was writing for a tech blog at the time) and having them show me a bunch of really cool queries. I was pretty impressed. Shortly after, Apple bought them, and significantly after that, actually launched it as a product. I was not at all impressed by what launched.

Keeping in mind that the pre-sale demo I got was in pretty controlled conditions (i.e. I could have been duped):

After Apple's launch of Siri, someone else who had been working with Siri told me that he was really unhappy with what Apple had done; according to him, they gutted a bunch of capabilities, mainly because A) they couldn't be launched to all customers or B) just didn't fit with Apple's product vision. To give a specific example, the pre-Apple Siri could make reservations at a hotel in SF / NYC / Austin for you but not in Dubuque or Tokyo, so that had to go.

Of course, that original Siri was very different from ChatGPT: it was based on structured queries and the "cool stuff" it could do was basically a ton of API linkages to outside services. At that point, there'd already been a wave of "natural language" companies like Powerset and Semantic Web that had promised the world and then flamed out, so everyone was aware that unstructured queries were basically impossible. Funny how fast things change.
> just a single instance of a wide phenomenon

Another instance is the 'hey pi' chatbot. For some people it's a superior experience to BetterHelp, or even a lot of so-called professional therapists out there.

The lack of actual human presence is a bit deflating for me, but I still got a good session out of it once. It feels like it has the potential to be at least better than nothing for some of the lonely people out there. The option for different voices is a nice touch that adds to the illusion.

There are so many possibilities. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with everything from NPCs in video games to robotics (among other things, to actually explain what they're doing & why, and converse). Not to mention the applications in education and health care. Anyone who thinks this is a flash in the pan has not observed enough of what's going on.
You're a Nazi.

I think most of us will agree that was bad. If I wanted to make it worse, I could have used another n-word. However, neither of those was illegal. If I said that, other than to make a point, I might be socially ostracised, but I wouldn't pay a fine or go to jail.

In most of these cases:

- I'm very supportive of banning anything with a profit motive (e.g. the Hollywood directors example). I don't think corporations need the same rights as people.

- Public disclosure / distribution has a lot more nuance -- in this case, I'm supportive of banning it, but in each case, we need a deeper conversation.

- I am strongly opposed to banning anything resembling free speech in the privacy of one's home. If you're making porn of me on your computer, it stays on your computer, and I learn about it, it's not clear the government ought to have a right to help resolve our dispute. If it does, it should definitely be civil (not criminal), with damages set at e.g. $5000 and not $150,000.