skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet for millions of people and many years, it has worked out.

There are tradeoffs, sure. But there are a lot of jobs in a lot of fields in a lot of places.

The venn overlap is not tiny.
If he's a crank, it should be easy to explain specifically why he's wrong.

I don't agree with Eliezer on everything, and I often find him obnoxious personally, but being obnoxious isn't the same as being wrong. In general I think it's worth listening to people you disagree with and picking out the good parts of what they have to say.

In any case, the broader point is that there are a lot of people concerned with AI risk who don't have a financial stake in Big AI. The vast majority of people posting on https://www.alignmentforum.org/ are not Eliezer, and most of them don't work for Big AI either. Lots of them disagree with Eliezer too.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...
Wow. I actually always assumed that the "resort fee" was to cover a hotel-specific tax, but I see that you're right.[1] Seems like a textbook case of manipulative business practices to me. I already felt like the anti-junk-fee law(s) couldn't be passed soon enough, but even more so now.

> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good.

Sales taxes in general are a horrible can of worms, and IMO every area should migrate to income tax exclusively.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/travel/how-to-avoid-reso...
(not GP and I agree with you, and wanted to add some additional thoughts that may help others.) The comprehensions are great and have a functional flavor, sure. But when you hit the corner cases in Python you feel that the addition they provide to Python are not taking the language close to Haskell. Lambda functions within the Python comprehensions have limited power, reductions don’t work as nicely with comprehensions as map or filter; more generally, when you compose comprehensions things feel messy without the ability to pipe previous results to a next function, so you are using lots of intermediates and have to think of useful names which is hard. The end result can be good and closer to pseudo code, which is fantastic. However Python does not satisfy the need of many people used to lisp and often takes much longer to get right in those complex corner cases where Haskell or lisp would make validation and testing much easier.
The project is intended to rival Nvidia

Are Nvidia chips also produced in Taiwan by TSMC?

And would this new project be the same, using chips made by TSMC?

Or would this be a diversification away from TSMC?
Tourism if anything needs a way to point more people towards the long tail, not to crowd at the top.
I’d actually want the taxes to be enumerated for hotel rooms, since the rate can be much higher than regular sales tax, and varies greatly by location. I generally assume hotel taxes will add 20-25% if it’s not shown otherwise.
if their backend systems are such brownfield crap that they're unable to easily make these kinds of simple changes to their pricing structure, then they deserve to pay millions in incompetent leadership tax.

if prices are presented side by side or are otherwise compared by consumers, they should not have hidden post-comparison mandatory additions that distort that process. price comparison is pretty much the bedrock of a market economy, allowing market participants to distort that process for unfair advantage is clearly a problem.
> So yea, it really isn't that simple in the USA

It isn’t that simple in the USA. Yet it literally is that simple in every other country in the world.

I don’t understand why the average American has such main character syndrome that they genuinely believe their country is so unique that they are unable to solve problems every other country in the world has solved. Ridiculous.
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It wasn't working until I went to settings and cleared/updated the filter cache, now seems to work again
It does require going on dangerous trails in inclement weather and it's a full time job. That was more my point. Seems like things that should be paid.
The real question isn't whether the LLM can reason.

The question is whether an assembly of components, one of which is an LLM (others would include memory and whatever else is needed to make it a self-contained loop with a notion self-identity) can reason.
The idiom is with “but,” but I think the joke is it’s going to be so pervasive that it’ll definitely be included in sinks too. There are already smart sinks so it’s pretty much inevitable.
> You can see the same dynamic in how scandals unfold in small towns. Everybody knows that married person X is having an affair with married person Y, everybody knows that everybody knows that X is having an affair with Y, but nothing happens until a social consensus is reached that X and Y are going to be shamed for it.

See also: war on planet Earth, and the various just so narratives we all tell each other so no one has to take any serious responsibility for the debacle.
When traveling cross country years ago with 3 cats I booked a budget at a fleabag motel for like 70 bucks based on part on it being listed as accepting pets. They tried to charge 50 bucks a head non-refundable for the felines then disclaim responsibility for listing these costs because the third party ran the ad.
Sure, I went with it because it was amusing.

Insert basically every other dangerous event that for practical purposes will never happen. People worry too much.
> 15-year-old Hassan... region of Pakistan.

That is not underage work in Pakistan! "Respected" jurnalists should bother to do minimal research! I wish I had similar gig, instead of working for 50 cents/hour at building site!

> Article 11.3 of the Constitution of Pakistan says " No child below the age of fourteen years shall be engaged in any factory or mine or any other hazardous employment.

https://paycheck.pk/labour-laws/fair-treatment/minors-and-yo...
Sure, of course it does. How often do you look at it, and think through what portion is actually going to the business? Tax-not-included prices do that automatically.
One of the things I like about some tech companies is that they seem to care how employees feel about the company.

I haven't gotten that impression from IBM in a long time, however.
>> I thought he claims to have no stake in OpenAI.

That's good, then he probably won't mind not being there.
Whatever free will is, this can't be the definition of it. Consider two computers, build for one and only one purpose: to compute the first 10 digits of pi. They do this without any external input. But one computer is made of vacuum tubes, one made of transistors, both of which computed the first 10 digits of pi.

They both took the same action (computing the first 10 digits of pi) and it was independent of how they were constructed, and absent any external stimulus. Yet they don't have free will.

Its harder than it looks to define free will; I'd encourage you to try again.
'Free' software has problems with its name too. The ones muddying the waters are people and companies releasing source code with a proprietary licence while trying to latch onto the open source branding.
Sam Altman in talks to return to OpenAI amid rift over dangers of AI
It returns obviously. Making repair or replacement of damaged sections economical is one of the engineering challenges. This by itself suggests compartmentalizing along the same lines I suggested.

It would probably be ideal if you could factory make each section and ship it on a standard truck, but with the growth of additive manufacturing, other possibilities also open up, like 3D printing the large metal container onsite.
As a general rule, government websites tend to assume that if you're visiting them you understand that all information is directed at residents of the country the government is in charge of.

This is not limited to US entities: data.gov.uk purports to provide "data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies" without specifying which country it belongs to, yet I can't find my local information there!
> just to result in the exact same fees being rolled into the remaining SKUs

Yes, that’s the stated goal: if I’m looking for plane flights, I don’t want to think United is cheaper because I haven’t gotten to step seven of the checkout flow where they say that oxygen is billed separately and the bathroom takes all major credit cards.

Companies are adding these fees instead of raising prices precisely because it makes comparison shopping harder, and that’s never good for society as a whole. They’re keenly aware of the psychology here: once people start putting in the cost of filling out forms, etc. they’re less likely to abort halfway in even if the additional fees bring the total higher than they would have picked at the beginning. The companies have spent a lot of additional time and money redesigning their systems to exploit this, and you’re paying for all of that.
I think Altman hails from a kind of hustle culture that may not go great with AI safety:

>I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

> "We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944

The crypto WorldCoin thing is probably a bigger example.
>We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

Concentration of power, mostly. No power greater than a fab for that right now.
Offices are for (human) resources, where they are neatly herded and monitored and managers can look at the office every now and then and enjoy the sight of toiling crowds. It's not for the elites.
Just use Atlantis, it’s really great. My company switched from Terraform Cloud to maintaining an Atlantis instance and it made things so much smoother, and it’s OSS.

https://www.runatlantis.io/
Obfuscated Zip File Compressor in Python
A very minimal ZIP file compressor implemented with just the Python standard library (and formatted as ASCII art).
Of course it would. Capitalists scurry when sunlight is shined on them, much like cockroaches.

People are not businesses, we do not exist to generate money for shareholders. The logic does not apply. Quite the opposite: business serves customers, and an expectation of servant leadership should apply here.
I wonder if there's enough repetition to get wins by caching.

(Granted, it's probably still too much overhead, just a thought.)
I don’t see it.

If anything, it seems to me that unlocking OpenAI and the broader market from what’s been an effective monopoly through more chip competition would be inline with the charter.

> Technical leadership

> To be effective at addressing AGI’s impact on society, OpenAI must be on the cutting edge of AI capabilities—policy and safety advocacy alone would be insufficient.
What is with calling anyone who disagrees with you a “bootlicker”? Is being an antagonistic jerk needed or helpful to OP?

There are numerous posts from people with differing experiences than yours, none of which boil down to “authority good”.
Yes, terrible communication especially since they start all of the other sections with : In a 24-hour day

This primes you to think that everything is for a 24 hour period.
I'm no ChatGPT :-)

I'm the author of the linked post and I didn't use ChatGPT or other tools, not even a spell checker. But I'm not a native English speaker and my writing may come across quite differently.
Those last 2 are just business as usual for anybody who already lives in those area.
When my 2015 MacBook Pro's SSD died, I could still book off an external and replace the original.

All storage dies eventually. There's a huge difference between needing to replace a broken or obsolete part and needing to replace an entire bricked laptop.
Nice that it worked out well for you. The last friendly colleague relocated to the other town. Guess if we will meet again with 1,5 hours driving distance. It was nice relationship with 35 minutes driving, but now obviously it’s over. I will have new colleagues and he will be envy, that I left toxic place and he stayed.

The colleagues are not much more than robots. Wait for another promotion or layoff round. Nice for you if you’re not competing with others for more money or job security.
Why would you pick a proprietary solution for a small dev shop?
> Where do we (Sentry) ever call ourselves FOSS?

If you don't, it's pretty weird to want to do what you "think is good for the broader open source ecosystem".
> In principle, adding rationality should allow one to allow one to reduce the ritual content to a minimum (eg "we hold elections every 4 years whose results determine the leader of the executive branch"?)...

Surely you're not implying our current political systems are rational are you?
How Much Land Does a Man Need
The last 10 years of deep learning progress are all thanks to Open Source and Open Research. 95% of LLM progress in the past year is also thanks to open models, which allowed the field to work on things like QLoRa, long context lenghts, RAG and etc.

Big Cos benefit the most from this since they have the resources and data to scale up these methods and a large user base to deploy it to.
I was recently working with stock data from a Django shop, half of their Unix timestamps were correct timestamps, the other half had a local timezone offset baked right into the integer.

At least this time finding problematic code will be a grep away, so I'm ok with this change, even though I've used it a lot.

Edit: Wow. So Paul Ganssle writes in April "Previously, we have documented that utcnow and utcfromtimestamp should not be used , but we didn’t go so far as to actually deprecate them [...]"

The linked to issue where this was decided is from Jul-Sep 2019. And I've never heard about this. Obviously this is my fault, but: where do I need to inform myself to know about these decisions? I've been "happily" using them all the time (quoted because we're all aware of the challenges these conversions pose each and every time).

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/81669
> Without timezone, your clock would actually go off in the middle of the night when you are in a different country

Your clock would do what your clock is programmed to do. What a weird statement to make about a completely hypothetical tool.
OT pet peeve/PSA: don't put `.new`/function on a separate line after the type/variable name--at least until our editors/tools (e.g. Github) can all do multi-line/parser aware searches.
Really? Taxes in France are exactly the same as in Switzerland?

States in the US are analogous to countries in the rest of the world.
Lovely to see Zero-K on the HN front page.
FWIW, my dog and I do makeupless squats on my bed after work.

I appreciate a hard division between work hours and personal hours, and WFH (for me) makes an already tenuous line even more leaky.
I can hazzard a guess you weren't around back then. Computers weren't something everyone depended on... They were novelties
Both opinions are valid and fine.

What is not okay is that the work-from-office people seems to want to force everyone to work from office. (not directed at you. This is directed at the company execs)

Meanwhile, the work-from-home people advocates for everyone to be able to choose. Akin to being the pro-choice side.
All news is bad news: And the bad news is that it's your fault (2021)
So using your logic, in almost every other country in the world where sales tax is set at the federal level, states/counties/equivilant/cities don’t get tax money.

Do you genuinely believe this, have you done any research, and are you happy to stick with this argument?
>I don’t see it.

LOL!
> once it's successful, doing everything possible to make it closed and stifle competition (through regulatory capture).

Half of the current 4-member board is also involved with GovAI, which is dedicated to AI safety research and advocating regulation. Aren't they more likely to think that OpenAI has been extremely reckless in publicly releasing models and research like they have?
In French dietary supplements refers to these pills that you can buy over the counter in supermarkets (note that in France, unlike the US, you can't buy any kind of medicine in supermarkets) that contain vitamins, minerals, whatever.
Everyone takes the same photo there. the temples with the reflection in still water. all the tour guides take you the same place for the sun rise.

angkor wat isnt some off the beaten path temple though. its like the only thing to do in siem reap, its gotta be cambodias biggest tourist attraction besides misery tourism in phnom penh.
You could get a pointing stick to do that.

If you're in the OS, both of those solutions are easy. The machine can be in a suspended or powered off state. Presumably you could WoL it, remote in, then do whatever you wish.

A remote shutdown sounds like a return of Back Orifice.
Absolutely! But in a learning format, the student probably needs to be focusing on the task at hand.

Learning to paper over OS errata isn't as generally useful as, say, groking multithreaded coding models.

Yes, there are environment quirks. Yes, you'll have to deal with them. Yes, you can look up documentation when you run into those situations.
> Has anyone ever changed their mind as a result of reading a listicle of complaints?

Maybe they should have, because people were complaining about mandatory office work for no benefit for years, especially when open office plans, and most businesses ignored it entirely until a pandemic forced them to actually evaluate it.

Most people would rather have a choice. Being told that you will be fired unless you bring your company laptop into a loud office and do work uncomfortably that you'd do more effectively and efficiently at home was insulting. You knew there was no benefit for you, the pandemic proved that, and then forced RTO regardless of all evidence and data that your own company published showing no loss in efficiency just makes you lose all trust in management.
Does the proximity of a Hard Rock Cafe count?
"lose" doesn't mean "die', that was your addition. And that's fine, but it's a nonsense argument, not everybody that ever lost a fight died.
Wow, that's some Adam Neumann level self-dealing.
To clarify, ZK doesn't population caps like e.g. Starcraft. The actual limit is actually the CPU/GPU (and maybe your bandwidth too). ZK's 16vs16 host, the "lobster pot" as they call it, can barely be playable if your rig is too weak.
That's the biggest challenge - you can't capture all the value that you're providing your clients, otherwise there's 0 reason to use your product over either

1. Building it inhouse

2. Using someone who is capturing <100% of value provided.

Then the only "moat" you have is lock-in, but clients tend to not like that, and you're squandering your reputational capital.
* Gross margin: 80% (hey this one is pretty good)
* Operating margin: -62%
* Net margin: -57%
* Return on Equity: -22%
* Return on Invested Capital: -21%

Their sales and marketing is pretty bloated and is destroying all of their gross profit alone.

Their stock seems to be priced on the hopes and dreams that they'll grow revenue out of their current problems before they run out of cash. But the headline and the reactions here show how they're trying to do that.
I edited it from the original, and didn't use generative AI to do it (other than my own built in version). :)
How about some volunteering in the community? There are many opportunities for communication. Even more if you have kids. I have elder lady next door and we have random lunch conversations when I fix occasionally something in her old house.
Why name it Style<anything> if it isn't a StyleGAN? Looks like the first one wasn't either. Interesting to see moves away from flows, especially when none of the flows were modern.

Also, is no one clicking on the audio links? There are some... questionable ones... and I'm pretty sure lots of mistakes.
Though it's enabled by default, I consider the burden of proof to be to advocate for its utility. Would I opt into this if it was disabled by default?

It has some utility, and some costs: traffic noise, some privacy leak, system complexity, centralization.

On balance it's not for me so I disabled it.
Maybe something should be added to this post tile to indicate it is 6 months old for context?
It is, btw, why it was so easy for us to spin up a quick-and-dirty registry for our alpha release[0] that basically contains all providers and modules - almost everything is hosted on GitHub.

Right now we're working on the stable registry[1,2], and that's basically the main blocker left to a full stable release. You can track the progress in our weekly updates[3].

Note: Interim Tech Lead of the OpenTofu project

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/registry

[1]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/741

[2]: https://github.com/opentofu/registry-stable

[3]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/WEEKLY_UPDATE...
Running Hugging Face GGUF Models Locally with Ollama [video]
Quick 5 minute video on downloading and running Hugging Face language models in GGUF format (quantized by TheBloke) with Ollama on your local machine and checking GPU consumption with asitop (Apple Silicon Mac Top).
I'm going to suggest a new term here - "context dissonance". This occurs when you see something, and because it doesn't apply to your context, you can't imagine it applying to any context.

For example, you use Linux, and can't understand why anyone would use Windows. Or you're a work-from-home fan and can't understand why some people want to work in an office, or why management might need it.

Or, as in thus case, if you work primarily for money the idea of a job that pays in something other than money seems exploiting.

Whereas, of course, there are lots of people who have enough money to meet their needs, and are instead looking for something else. Solitude, Community, Experience and so on.

I don't say this to be disrespectful at all, but part of maturing is in understanding that others can have a different point of view of things. We don't all have to be the same, with the same goals.

These are unpaid positions, with specific requirements and benefits. Clearly they don't sppareal to you and thats fine, but perhaps, just perhaps, there's someone out there this is perfect for.
The LLMs do indeed deal with Plato's shadows, but so do we - what we "see", after all, is not the actual up or down, but a series of neural activations from our retinas (which aren't even 3D, so concepts like "behind" are only captured by proxy). Such activations can all be readily encoded into tokens, which is exactly what models specifically trained to describe images do.
So much this^

It's an extroverts world and we're all forced to conform to the "extroverts narrative".

When all the extroverts were losing their minds because of COVID induced forced WFH, I frankly had no sympathy (and even a little sadistically felt a little glee). Didn't like your work environment for just one or two years? Cry me a river little extrovert and try it for a whole life time.