skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on DDG for a while now. Do you think Kagi is considerable better? If so, how? Genunely interested as I'm on the fence.
A lattice is like a vector space, but with exclusively integer coefficients. It's not a coordinate pair. If you think of vectors as coordinate pairs, a vector space is a (possibly unbounded) set of coordinate pairs. If you haven't done any linear algebra, a decent intuition would be mathematical objects like "the even numbers" or "the odd numbers", but substituting vectors (fixed-sized tuples of numbers) for scalars.
The only people who say that are either well off, or have no chance at ever getting out of poverty (any one of the billions of people who aren't in 1st world or in major tech hubs in 3rd world, who we won't see except on documentaries about how f'd up situation is in xyz country).

Money means you can eat and have a roof over your head. More money means you can do more after those needs are met.
These look like the same article, without the paywall:

https://www.advantageben.com/whats-new/news/2023/09/these-em...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/these-employers-took...
There are special insurance companies that will insure anything legal if you pay the price which they will figure out. As you say it wouldn't be cost effective, but it still exists if you want it anyway.
Very nuanced take. Thank you so much! Out of curiosity, are you a professional investor?
Absolutely, but NIST ultimately choose the winners, giving them the option to pick (non-obviously) weak/weaker algorithms. Historically only the winners are adopted. Look at the AES competition - how often do you see Serpent being mentioned, despite it having a larger security margin than Rijndael by most accounts?
I thought the discussion was getting to the important points once hyperbole was resolved but Carmack ducks out

Carmack:

> To answer the question directly: there is no way, even with an infinitely smart (but not supernatural) oracle, that a teenager can destroy all of humanity in six months.

Even the most devastating disasters people imagine will not kill every human being even over the space of years. This is a common failure of imaginative scope, not understanding all the diverse situations that people are already in, and how they will respond to disasters.

You could walk it back to “kill a million people” and get into the realm of an actual discussion, but it isn’t one I am very interested in having.

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I do think that's a discussion very worth having, asymmetrical advantage that AI gives is the concern here. A virus is a special arrangement of a few thousand atoms that we can now control and design on a computer. The defence is global vaccination programs costing billions of dollars and many lives in the process

We will no doubt be able to use AI to develop vaccines, that isn't the bottleneck, the bottleneck is in testing and distribution. It's a fundamentally asymmetrical situation

To be clear this is a risk without AI, but AI brings down the threshold of effort to make this more likely. I would love to be convinced otherwise
Labor prices for skilled labor have increased so much that even when you do the “how much is my time worth” calculation as an overpaid engineer, DIY has become the only way to go. It’s nuts, but a fun learning experience.
They are - google is one of them. The same company that wants you to work onsite, pay for the privilege all while you are away from your family and friends. The very same company takes makes money from remote customers.
To a deontologist, murder is bad. To a consequentialist, it depends.
I feel like this is a real world analogy to false local minima magnified by a misguided implementation of gradient descent.
why doesn't your provider charge $200 a month then?

any other examples of local monopolies
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I've read this part three times now and still can't tell what the Excel spreadsheet was used for.
> 'We have kit which absorbs CO2 and generates oxygen in such a situation. It is probable that other nations do not have this kind of tech.'

Just for reference, we're talking about canisters of cheap, easy to make chemicals eat CO2, and a "candle" that releases O2 at a fixed rate as it burns.
The unit is months not years (as I also thought until I watched Shkreli's video.)
I'm not trying to be snarky but have you considered reading the code? Like I'll be honest I can't remember the last time I looked at docs at all instead of reading the code itself.
Widely rationalized as the government has finite resources, so there's a better deterrence effect of going after prominent entities and persons vs. randomly selecting bad actors.

IMO this is good. The biggest and most elite among us should be held to a higher standard than a random guy on the street or a small business, not a lower one.

Westley Snipes, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, Amazon, Tesla, ExxonMobile, Amgen. I sorta want everyone and anything in that class of society on their best behavior at all times, lest the reins of government fall to a Party with reasons to make an example out of them. Unlike most, they have the resources to make it a fair fight too.
I wonder, if I had a child, would it be possible to raise it to not outsource the thinking process to a program?
With the internet, I ask search engines (usually just the one) for answers other people might give to a problem I also have.
Pre ~y2k that yielded great results, because the internet was populated with sensible information but smart and educated people.

When the masses came, the results became gradually worse, but I still use the internet for answers instead of thinking on my own, but in many cases I'm forced to think on my own anyway.

With AI the source information is already polluted and the program is fantasizing its answers.
But there will be a point where it delivers accurate answers.

My child, should I ever have one, would then use AI like any other tool. Will it have more resources at its disposal or would it be better that it comes up with its own answers?

I am a single child. I spent a lot of time alone, thinking, making sense of the world, figuring things out on my own.
I played C64 games, with terrible graphics, which trained my imagination. I learned English by playing those computer games.
There came a time where I outgrew those simplistic computer games, turned to having a social life, going to parties, getting into music creation, DJing.

Would that also be something my child would do? Use AI, grow up with values the AI suggests to it, abandon it later, search for its own way in life?
Would it even learn another language, when the AI conveniently translates everything on the fly?

I think, before adding yet another thing on our plate most people, including me, don't fully understand, maybe we should focus on the energy problem and having a sustainable place to live.

Amy technological advance is based on having enough energy to fuel it, and in the state this planet, our habitat is right now because of years of uncontrolled energy use, energy must be a priority before anything else.

Unless you believe that AI can solve that riddle.
Recently in the news Microsoft wanted to build small nuclear reactors to power its AI construct, adding a long term health and waste problem.

It's October, it's been over 25°C the recent days, the sea is still 21-23°C. Usually it's much colder.
The amount of fires and floods this year is over the top.

Well sorry if that went all over the place.
It'd be interesting to see what the cost and power equivilence would be compared to a higher end method. I.e the time, cost (including all hardware required) and power taken to generate 100 images using 100 individual Pi Zero 2's (doesnt even need to be a W) vs something like an average mid-tier PC.

I'd assume the pc would still likely win.

Something like a Pi 4 or 5 may be a better benchmark than the Zero 2 as I get the impression its been used more for the challenge than practicality.
If your argument is: “assuming the US government wouldn’t be able to make someone act against their will and stay silent about it, the NIST recommendation is trustworthy”, I’m certainly more inclined to distrust this recommendation than I was before this conversation.

Note that the “forcing someone to comply” thing was just meant as one possibility among many, I don’t see why you completely dismiss the idea of someone who’s good at cryptography being in on the US’s mission to intercept people’s communications. I mean the NSA seems to be full of those kinds of people. You also dismiss the possibility that they just … picked the algorithm that they thought they could break after analysing it, with no participant being in on anything. But I get the feeling that you’re not really interested in engaging with this topic anymore, so I’ll leave it at that. It’s already late here.
Language models are not nukes and there is no real world evidence that they will become anywhere near this dangerous, or dangerous at all really. Meanwhile you can buy an AR-15 in many states if you can fog glass, or order the supplies to do CRISPR gene editing yourself.

We have people calling for bans on code and math based on nothing more than sci-fi.

I too agree with Carmack that AI doomerism has a definite subtext of concern for changes in power dynamics.
From what I've gathered from Catholic exorcists, demons adopt different personas, and shouldn't be trusted about anything they say. The only questions the exorcist asks are those pertaining to the case, all in the interest of breaking the claim of demons and expelling them, in the name of Christ, the stronger man from the parable. As the Lord says, Satan is a liar and a murderer from the start, and when he lies, he speaks his native tongue. What I'm saying, keeping a database of demons makes little sense.
Could the Cruise vehicle even "see" the pedestrian in this case before they'd already been struck by the other vehicle and thrown into the path of the Cruise?
Great insights on semiconductor company growth by looking at employee numbers! Thanks for sharing this data
This. Prestige is a thing that I don't value, either for myself or others, at all. Credibility, though, is everything.
Because Amazon is using AWS to literally carry every division they have. I don't think retail has ever been profitable for them, happy to be proven wrong; but some of their newer ventures in hardware: Alexa, Kindle, Fire TV, Ring, and Echo have all been losers. If each were normal companies they would all likely be going out of business, bankrupted, or chopped up for parts for PE.

It's no different than Google using ads to subsidize failing ventures in order to gain market share.
Not completely but for a good portion of it.
What happens if we find out some dismissed cures/methods actually have value? That could really upend things.
As someone who contributed to the site many years ago, I am more than happy for my experiences to be used in this fashion.
Another day…. Another X. Nothing to read here, move on folks. (Pro Tip: Try seeing what people not logged into X see when they visit your page.)

I guess blogs are like stonehenge or the pyramids now but if you have something to say worth saying you could try hackernoon, medium or LinkedIn for christ’s sake because they let you use more than 140 characters.
If I'm a farmer, doctor, teacher, soldier, construction laborer, nurse, miner, or other actual work worker, I should realize this ain't my kids he's talking about.
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> "Consequently, any application using poppler must also be licensed under the GPL."

This is not generally true. If your application e.g. just uses a command line tool like pdftotext it can well have another license than GPL, even a proprietary license.
I'm referring to credits for ISV solutions such-as DataDog, Splunk by being in the AWS Activate program.
I did fMRI research for 12 years. You are not recalling correctly.
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I think the difference is that those other companies don't have an "AWS card" to play to subsidize their excursions.
If you continue reading, you'll find that they aren't responding to requests for clarification on their hand-waving computations. Suspicion is definitely warranted.
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Not using a -plugin- probably
For a single package. And npm hosts a few more than that.

They shrinked a package size by almost 40%. No way this isn't significant improvement. Hell, at their scale 4% improvement is big.
I think this is the primary key to all the success I've ever had, both professionally and personally. I usually say it a bit differently, though: "You get what you give", which has the advantage of also capturing the flip side of that coin.
Climate change comes at you quick. We're well past the point of hypotheticals, and headed down the road of catastrophe.
We were thought to work three days a week because of all the productivity gains we made. The time we'd be down to three days? The 1970s. Wealth always demands more wealth and the rest of us need to be good labor-piggies and do that work. Yeah, they can get away with doing more with less because AI but they'll keep on with the skeleton crew they can and carry on. Rinse repeat capitalism.
Erowid is great, but the trip reports were universally fanciful, typically having no discernible connection to the drug (often drugs) being described. They became a literary form of their own, and something of an inside joke among psychedelics users.

The general idea of training LLMs on forum archives seems promising though!
"All information on Erowid.org is provided non-commercially for purposes of teaching, scholarship, research, and criticism."

The point of the website is to collect information about drugs for education and research purposes. It's a 501c3 nonprofit, which operates explicitly for public education. It's funded by donors, not by consumers of the info collected.
I'm far more afraid of artificial stupidity than of artificial intelligence
I haven't attempted latin translations, but anything from my native language to english and back has been 100% perfect, miles better than anything google translate can do
Or an end-run around good reasons. Impossible to tell based on the short piece. Let's hear more, perhaps from the news side of the house or peer-reviewed clinical findings.
>It's fun to declare it "things the state doesn't like", but I legitimately don't see anyone legalizing meth or heroin anytime soon.

Portugal did exactly this (or decriminalized them for personal use anyway).
I am a GPT luddite myself. My coworkers/friends keep using it as a base of thought. I ask them "how would you do it yourself", don't ask this program to make your program. I'm not arguing it's a fast way to learn but still... it's like will they be able to imagine on their own how to make something new.
There was an interesting thread that did the rounds on HN a couple years back about using Faker in a related (but different) product.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252066

Personally, I think your demo has a pretty neat / novel UX. I couldn't find a way to generate a large number of examples at once -- did I miss that somewhere?
I have kaiser and never had these problems.
Just purchased it in hardcover based on your quick summary.

Edit: I'm not the only one -- copies are going quickly it seems, and I've already found a new paperback going for $100
The fun experiment was the paper wheels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_car_wheel
We can count getting your things in order, gussying yourself up so no one sees you for the garbage that you are, and just kinda... not wanting to some of the time.

And framing it as 40 minutes saved is kind of missing part of the story, because it's every day. Forever! That in fact will amount to A LOT of time saved. Your employer would care about a 40 minute change in your hours one way or the other; why don't you?

Packed lunches or eating out. Shit coffee further tainted by the lingering smell of microwaved tuna. That feeling that you have to be seen looking busy even if you're not doing anything or just really need a break.

And there's Steve, who's always smacking on gum and humming while he works. You're awful, Steve.
> But geofence warrants are sweeping in nature and are often used to compile a suspect list to further investigate.

Yes, this is how investigations work.

The actual problem with this approach is that it's lazy and assumes everybody involved in the crime is on-the-grid. Criminals could subvert the whole process and fill the dragnet with false leads by refusing to carry a phone.
The CCTV recording would be direct conclusive evidence. In the absence of such evidence, testimony that can't be disproven in cross and casts reasonable doubt will work just fine.

Even with a CCTV recording, you can use testimony to cast the CCTV recording in a light favorable to either the prosecution or defense. The circumstances surrounding evidence are weighed in order to come to a verdict or judgement.

Court cases are not about "who has the most incontrovertible proof", they are about convincing a judge or jury of an idea in order to get a specific outcome. Do not underestimate testimony (or really, any evidence that you think is inferior)
Some people use meth and opioids responsibly, but they very much are not the same as alcohol. Alcohol is a much safer recreational drug. Some people become alcoholics, but a higher percentage of people who try opioids get addicted, and addiction happens after fewer exposures.

The whole reason addiction is a problem is that it alter decision making, once someone is addicted. So you incur much of the moral responsibility the first time you decide to take the drug for fun.

And also, opioids are a curious example for responsible drug use, given how many people who used prescribed painkillers became addicted to them.
Assumedly by scraping it into a raw text corpus format, and feeding it to a model like LLaMA-2.
>absolute, flawless, immutable,

...and always on their side in the culture wars
> Apparently they wrote their own rather than using something established like LLVM, and this is the result.

Go is self-hosted, and compilation is much faster than any LLVM-based compiler I know. Those are valuable properties. We can argue about how valuable, but it's not nearly as simple as a case of NIH as you're implying.
You speak as if execs are some depersonalized force of nature. But they are people and there aren't that many of them. JPMorgan CEO is one of them, and he seems to be saying he supports a shorter work week, but not a complete abolishment of work as some thinkers have proposed. If he says those are his views, do you have an argument for why we shouldn't take his word for it?
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> but if I leave too much space in front of me (for coasting), another driver moves in and we're back to playing accordion.

stop caring about this and just slowly back off a little more.

someone else will eventually leave your lane in front of you and make up for it.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. This exact thing happens in evolution, global warming, and more recently covid.
That's a valid approach. Another valid approach is to make sure that you're eminently hireable instead of worrying about corporate politics or job security. If you're that, then leaving a company (voluntarily or otherwise) is no big deal because you can always get job elsewhere.
Yeah. With the genie being as far out of the bottle as it is though, I opted for empathy for the unemployed guy in this case.

I can see your point, absolutely, and the new normal is unfortunate and probably unsustainable.

Careers boards are just another early battleground where we're at a bit of a wait and see moment as for how we're going to deal with all of this cheap, coherent noise.
So you decided to critique a three year old joke in a long technical twitter thread? Ok.
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typing signatures? that would probably result in an overall decrease of security in the landscape, considering things like passwords are ... typed!
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Interesting, thank you for explaining!
Well what is your definition of monopoly? Amazon, like other big tech, like to use their highly profitable BUs (Amazon AWS, Google ads, Meta ads) to prop up other failing BUs. This is extremely anti competitive.

We should not be shepherding a new tech baron era, but enforce competition in markets. Competition should be the highest thing we value in an economy. This experiment of consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions since the 80s has been disastrous. We're reaching the point where we should break up nearly every multinational conglomerate, they've abused too much and suffered too little.
Feel free to replace libc with a memory-safe implementation.
> As terrible as humans are we do have a very important trait. Being able to handle unexpected information efficiently.

At least half the people out there are terrible at this. We have expression like "deer in the headlights" to describe how they behave.
>on what basis? What makes a predictor LLM better at translating Latin than a system trained specifically for translation?

They just are. Sure it sounds a bit strange if you've never thought about it but they are.

>I'm sure they can do a decent job but it's weird to me that someone would leap to GPT-style tech despite its known tendency to hallucinate/make stuff up instead of translation-oriented tools like DeepL or Google Translate

1. They don't just potentially do a decent job. For a couple dozen languages, GPT-4 is by far the best translator you can get your hands on. Google, Deepl are not as good.

2. Tasks like summarization and translation have very low hallucination rates. Not something to be particularly worried about with languages that have sufficient presence in training.

>I can't imagine there are vast swaths of Latin in GPT's training set.

Doesn't matter. There is incredible generalization for predict the next token models as far as proficiency is concerned. a model trained on 500b tokens on English and 50b tokens of french will not speak french like a model trained on only 50b tokens of french but much much better.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13349

It also doesn't need to see translation pairs for every language in its corpus to learn how to translate that language pair(but this is the case for traditional models too)
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