skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not likely to work out well for the Mac version with how Apple has been steadily working towards removing support for third party kernel extensions in macOS. I wonder what they’ll resort to after that comes to pass.
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...
On Nov 16th at APEC, Sam said "4 times in the history of OpenAI––the most recent time was in the last couple of weeks––I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward."

That feels like a hint at something larger than what we've seen publicly announced so far. It doesn't seem to me like anyone should be discounting this theory.
>I can think before I speak, I can plan out my thought entirely before turning it into words.

In theory models can/could do the same thing. Think of the current text output of a model being those thoughts inside your head, you have an internal scratch space you work on ideas, then after you perform 'chain of thought' on them, you output to the world. What you're outputting to the world isn't your directly thoughts, but more of a calculation of what you wanted to achieve.

Really for LLMs you just need to have the model put it's output to an internal buffer, read that buffer and make sure it makes sense, then output that to the end user.

It's probably not fast or compute efficient to do that at this time, but at some point it likely will be.
X tries to... "survive, and he succeeds." seems to work consistently. Then GPT just makes up a story of how you did it lol
Windows NT...?
The Surprising Reason Sea Creatures Are Getting Hungrier
OpenAI also uses Google Forms -- here's what you get if you click the feedback form if your question gets flagged as violating openAI's content policies
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfml75SLjiCIAskEpzm...
These tools are dubious at best. Don’t trust it.
They only announce it days in advance as the road closures are announced. Also it is good to follow the developments around testing of a new rocket to know how close they are to flying. They go through the same stages of stacking and testing. It will likely take months until a third flight.
Perhaps you’re conflating BPA (plasticizer) which is a suspected endocrine disruptor, and PFAs (forever chemicals) which often show up in fire retardants and waterproofing.

Those two things are different.
Grab a coworkers laptop while they’re working and see the adult version of the same internal emotional response. It’s normally about unmet expectations. Set a new expectation with a: “hey you got 5 more minutes, then we need to put it away, understand?” And follow it up with a 5 minute timer. Timer goes off and maybe a disappointed pout, but not a tantrum. The child version of scheduled maintenance.
I get some "managed ansible executor" vibes from this. And having a hard time differentiating it form the ansible approach.
What advantage does this custum format vs industry standard tools?

Also not entirely sure how state/sync loop is archived from what I've read in the docs. Do I have to change my app to pull config?
I lived in SF for 5 years. I'll go ahead and stick with the punitive justice system, thanks.
Does this work with modern day MacOS?
Watch: Robots install solar project in Arizona desert
My gut reaction was the same, but then I realized that in order to burn anything more substantial than a match on a regular basis I’d have to go to the outdoor grills or something. There’s no way to do it in my apartment without setting off a fire alarm.
"Man pays billions of dollars for a personal bullhorn because he feels like he is not being worshipped enough".

That narcissistic void is getting so wide you can fly an Imperial cruiser through it.
> You can run Haiku today, so it's hardly unfalsifiable

Excellent, so let's falsify it: how come 20 years later the best thing people really have to say about BeOS/Haiku is that is has smooth window dragging?

> multi-user safe OSes abound in the 90s?

Windows NT.

Linux and at least two other free unixes.

Countless proprietary unixes.

VMS.

The widespread desktop OSs in the 90s were not considered serious OSs even then, more accidents of backward-compatibility needs.
Countries want (rather understandably) to produce some of the electricity they consume. I don't know how connected the Urugayan grid is to neighboors.

If anything, this makes the "Energy independent" part even more dubious :D (really, apart from China - or maybe USA, I don't know which country could be "independent", given that you need both fossil deposits and the right metal mines to build an energy system...)

We're almost all in the same boat, and we all have to do our best. Inter-dependence without over-concentration is a feature, not a bug :D
Yeah, all my crazy plans work if I write them as if they should work.

As Bob plummets through the air, They swiftly activates the Kaiju transmitter, hoping for a swift rescue. Miraculously, a colossal Kaiju emerges from the clouds and deftly catches them, cradling them in Its massive claws. With a gentle landing, Bob survives the fall, grateful for the unexpected assistance.
>but if the Greek word used to describe Telemachus means something like "presence of mind," to hint at the boy growing up to be a man worthy of such a father, and then the translated words chosen are things like "whined" and so forth, you tell me.

The word used for Telemachus could be translated as "prudent" and "judicious". In the way it was perceived for what a kid should be growing up in the times, we could also call it "well rounded".
GPT 4 can reason through any mental exercise as well as a human

Lol try giving it any of the puzzles from here: https://momath.org/home/varsity-math/complete-varsity-math/

Don’t just accept its confident tone, read through and actually parse the logic. It totally falls apart.
I worked my way through high school and early college as a graphic artist for a small studio working entirely in Photoshop, starting with version ~3.0, I think, and ending around the time of the "CS" changeover.

The basic operation of the toolset in Photoshop did not change under my hand basically that entire time, with additions to the tools increasing productivity only marginally. The major boost came from the speed of HDD's and CPU's allowing for larger images to load and be worked on quicker- NOT some wholesale improvement of the tools to manipulate the images.

It turns out, for a large amount of work when dealing with graphics, images, photos, etc... what you need is cropping, movining, selection with feathering and growing of selection pool, cut/copy/paste with layering and transparency, basic shifting of the color via hue and saturation, and tools to edit selective color ranges. That covers 95% of use in the 1990's and it actually still does today.

I still have a copy of CS4 for windows that I move from machine to machine and have done so for more than a decade. But for quick things on my M1 Mac where I no longer have Photoshop, I default to Photopea, which cloned the early Photoshop experience nearly 1:1.

I think this says a lot about how important is it to get right the user interface mapping to the toolset (and vice versa), and how the two go hand-in-hand in the creation of great power-user software.
Use custom instructions. I use "Answers should be very concise by default. Never provide disclosures. Answers should get to the point immediately." and get super concise answers. If I want more detail I just follow up with can you expand on X.
Do finance firms pay the awarded bonus in full or vest it over time like most other business? If latter, I imagine you'd get your previously awarded bonus, you'd just stop accumulating bonuses to be paid in the future, which makes sense since you are going to be working elsewhere at that time and the new place's sign up should make up for the bonus payment ramp up.
See the reply from Barbazoo
Weird, I get an error:

> Exception thrown: TypeError: params.args is undefined
I think it’s time for Walker the Texas Ranger
Exactly this. I'm as big a fan of "alternative tech timelines" as the next nerd, but I also can see in retrospect why we have the set of compromises we have today, and all along I watched the intense efforts people made to navigate the mindbogglingly complicated minefield of competing approaches and political players and technical innovations that were on the scene.

People have been working damned hard to build things like Gtk, Qt, etc. not to mention Wayland, etc. all the while maintaining compatibility etc and I personally am happy for their efforts.

BeOS/HaikuOS is a product of a mid-90s engineering scene that predates the proliferation of GPUs, the web, and the set of programming languages that we work with today. There's nothing wrong with it in that context, but it's also not "better." Just different compromises.

The other one I see nostalgia nerds reach for is the Amiga. A system highly coupled to a set of custom chips that only made sense when RAM was as fast (or faster) than the CPU, whose OS had no memory protection, and which was easily outstripped in technical abilities by the early 90s by PCs with commodity ISA cards, etc. because of the development of economics of scale in computer manufacturing, etc. It was ahead of its time for about 2-3 years in the mid 80s, but in a way that was a dead end.

Anyways, what we have right now is a messy set of compromises. It doesn't hurt to go looking for simplifications, but it does hurt to pretend that the compromises don't exist for a reason.

EDIT: I would add though that "multiuser" as part of a desktop (or especially mobile) OS has maybe proven to be a pointless thing. The vast majority of Linux machines out there in the world are run in a single user fashion, even if they are capable of multiuser. Android phones, Chromebooks, desktop machines, and even many servers -- mostly run with just one master user. And we've also seen how rather not-good the Unix account permissions model is in terms of security, and how weak its timesharing of resources etc is in context of today's needs -- hence the development of cgroups, containers, and virtual machine / hypervisor etc.
There still has to be some client side interface, an OS, a browser, thin client, I/O, some layer right?

Trying to thing of another example where a screen is just a dumb-as-can-be terminal
I've watched the making-of video I linked several times and I get anxious every time he rides the motorcycle off the ramp. In comparison, the final version in the movie where they used CGI to remove the ramp is way less exciting to me. I found the scene in the movie a bit of a let down.
OK, I contemplated it. They’re band-aids, tools of oppression, and the worst possible response to “the problems” they profess to address. We can fix poverty and homelessness as a society. We choose not to do so. That’s a shitty excuse for criminalizing a person’s right to exist and survive.
In order to make a paper straw waterproof we line it with a hydrophobic chemical mixture. It’s probably really bad for you but more research is required.
Hi Alex - Very curious about the Consumer Spending dashboard/foundation data. 1.) Are you able to share (high level) how you obtain the card data? 2.) Also - wanted to ask about the nominal value projections for market share. Do you some how normalize or weight/calibrate this data? Thanks
The Past and Future of Genomics
Daoist History
As a Lancashire lad, I can confirm that, sadly, they do indeed.

(for those unfamiliar with this side of the pond, Lancashire and Yorkshire are mortal enemies right up until a Southerner tries it on at which point Northern Solidarity kicks in and we take them out first -then- go back to bickering ;)
Martin Fowler has a lovely deep-dive blog post on this architecture:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

It includes lots of diagrams and citations.

One term I always loved re: LMAX is “mechanical sympathy.” Covered in this section:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html#QueuesAndTheirLa...
Its not really fair because the french government doesnt have to participate in the auction, increasing the price to keep it. They wait for private market to set price and then take it at that price. This deprives the private auction winner of price expression, as they may have been willing to pay more and it deprives the owner of price discovery. Its not really a good thing for anyone except the French government, who is abusing market power here to get a better price, which guarantees dead weight loss to society as a whole.
The 20 launches includes backup missions. The actual number of launches they need is in the teens.

Spacex has averaged a launch every 4 days this year. That heavy launches are infrequent is due to the limited demand. To meet this cadence, they'ed need to average one launch per launch pad every 12 days. If they fail to meet that cadence, it just means a little more propellant boils off, which can still be topped off with one of the backup launches.

I would not describe something currently going through flight tests as a fantasy rocket. At the time of this comment it has made it into space (even if just barely). Sure it's not ready to go yet, but it's not just an idea on paper either.
I might be off here, but I think the super heavy booster actually puts out more power than 3 Gorges. At stage separation, the booster and starship were moving at ~5500 kph, or about 1500 m/s. The nominal maximum thrust of the super heavy booster is given as 75,000 KN on Wikipedia. Possibly that level of thrust is only happening ar liftoff, I’m not sure, but if the engines were still burning that hot at stage sep, then that would give an instantaneous power output of 75,000,000 N * 1500 m/s = 112.5 GW.

Edit: misread your comment, we’re in agreement. But I’ll leave the arithmetic.
Hitler was pretty different from Putin, Stalin, Trump, Gaddafi or even the Xis, Husseins and FDRs of the world in terms of personality.

For Hitler the vision was so compelling that he bit off more than he could chew. Hitler was an idealist. The others are/were temperamentally focused enough on personal power that the vision is constrained relative to that personal power, and ultimately in favor of that personal power. They can still screw up (witness Putin and to a lesser extent Trump), but they're constantly adapting to what their power indicates is possible.
In an extreme case could Google use a mechanism like this to deny themselves direct access to the data they collect while still bidding in ad auctions based on that information?
Whaaaaaat! I attended CMU and didn't know this was a thing. I tried my best to turn all of my dorm-mates in Schlag on to the demoscene for months! I don't know how much or if any of it stuck, but I can feel assured that "Elysium" and "Odyssey" and "Second Reality" were exposed to a new generation, if only for a few minutes.

Well, anyway, rock on fellow Tartan(s). Thanks for keeping the demoscene hacker spirit alive!
May I suggest a refresher in basic set theory? "Groups that represent themselves as X" isn't equal to X.
if you're targeting enterprise clients, they may insist that your course fit in to their existing LMS (learning management system). A bunch of large corporations use these old and stodgy technologies and require learning materials to support the ancient SCORM API or the slightly less ancient xAPI API. You might find, if you go that route that you spend more time dealing with the complications of improperly implemented APIs, poor developer documentation for integration into those systems, organizations who don't really have people with the technical knowhow to help with the integration issues, Subject Matter Experts who aren't actually experts at anything, etc., and less time developing your own technology.
It doesn't work on macOS 12, which is strange because even Apple itself still supports macOS Monterey.
Musk is failing into the fallacy that free speech means freedom from judgement. He is so self obsessed that he doesn’t see that others are simply exercising their freedom of speech by way of disassociation from him and his businesses.

It’s actually a bit shocking that he doesn’t appear to get this as it seems incredibly basic. You act like an asshole at my house party I am going to kick you out of my house. You still have the freedom to be an asshole but you will have to do that someplace else.
the human brain is just a statistical machine.
It’s unfortunate that Adobe doesn’t sell a single purchase ESR version of CS that’s in terms of features roughly equivalent to CS2. If that’s too much of a financial burden they could charge a fifth of the purchase price every 4 years or so for continued updates (which you then don’t have to pay if you don’t need).

For a lot of people CS2 is more than adequate, with most features having been added since not being useful enough to justify losing access to their work if they don’t pay their subscription bill one month.
Nobody actually understands how humans actually understand something, just like nobody actually understands how LLMs do what they do.

Everybody opining about it is doing just that: offering an opinion. Geoff Hinton’s opinion is worth more than someone else’s, but it is still an opinion.
> a privacy preserving, truly distributed, cryptographic replacement to cash

I didn't realize this was known. Could you explain or provide an example?
What does the Louvre do with it? I actually like the fact that someone had it in their house. Now it'll likely be in a warehouse.
I think the most useful definition of understanding something is that you can explain it and use it in context.

ChatGPT routinely does both.
At Sea: On the defunct language of nautical flags (2016)
LLMs don't have a concept of "best". Only most likely in what they've been trained on.

I think LLMs ultimately just take imitation to a creative and sophisticated extreme. And imitation simply doesn't comprise the whole of human intelligence at all, no matter how much it is scaled up.

The sophistication of the imitation has some people confused and questioning whether everything can be reduced to imitation. It can't.

The ability to imitate seeking a goal isn't identical to the ability to seek a goal.

The ability to imitate solving a problem isn't identical to the ability to solve a problem.

Imitation is very useful, and the reduction of everything to imitation is an intriguing possibility to consider, but it's ultimately just wrong.
If there was a good motive to oust Altman, how would you kick him out?
GOFAI is still AI in my books.

*old man shouts at The Cloud*
That's why the top marginal tax rate for incomes is too low: Landlords (and other rentiers) have little disincentive to try to maximize their incomes at the expense of everyone else.
I am curious, what is this phenomenon called?

EDIT: I believe this is called "Eye Gazing".
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/making-eye-contact

Look for the section "How Eye Gaze Deepens Emotional Connection"
Behind the Scenes: Future Crew putting the finishing touches on Second Reality a week before release...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU
Is this a submarine article for the AI Pin?

That's what it reads like.
At this altitude, the vehicle is pretty much in the vacuum and grid fins have absolutely no control authority. It could have resulted in failure later on but not at that point where the booster blew up.
This might be good for Amazon. Bedrock hosts competitor models (Claude, Llama and a couple more).
Motorized Ox Carts
Oopsie I touched a nerve.
Anecdotally, I am having a much better time with Duolingo since the last time I tried around 2018 - the changes to be properly made courses in line with CEFR is actually resulting in better learning.
Dogs apparently see at a higher frequency. For those who want to torture animals...
That’s a terrible title
Increased friction -> uses more gas/energy. Complicated the mechanical design; more moving parts you have to maintain in a more crowded area.
David Chaum [1], a famous Cryptographer, founded International association of Cryptologic Research (IACR). He published so many articles on digital-cash, anonymous cash, etc. He had patents on them; he even founded a company on that concept. However, that company failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum
Don't underestimate a robot who can actually think.
In many cases physical labor is about having closed-visual-feedback-loop (hand-eye-coordination) robots that are extremely sample-efficient to train up to useful skill, and still (but not necessarily extremely so) sample efficient to train to near their maximum performance at that task.

They can even do multi-modal transfer learning: have deviations from a previously learned process explained in words it's diagrams, then start directly zero-shot-like at a performance level that won't waste ingredients, with all the normal learning speed aspects still remaining.
No I don't think he really is free to compete. I think three letter agencies pulled the plug after his disturbing performance in Congress and attempt to strong arm the US government. It made me physically sick to watch.
Just need a jet engine strapped to your horse for that
How could hot staging affect the engines of the booster? If it affected the tanks then the three engines still running through separation would also fail so no flip-around could be possible with no thrust to go with.
https://www.deeplearning.ai/

This is probably what you’re looking for.
Sutskever is simply much more interested in doing research like https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment than just earning money.
If I were writing such a system it would have very straightforward if-statements linked directly to FAA requirements. No faffy AI stuff is needed.
That one is autocomplete and sometimes it's brain fog. (Correct usage happens 50% of the time)
Yeah, I’ve done that before. Lousy management and their organizations are probably symbiotic.
>Really for LLMs you just need to have the model put it's output to an internal buffer, read that buffer and make sure it makes sense, then output that to the end user.

Makes sense to what. The LLM doesn't have a goal, other then to spew text that looks like it should be there.
> it needs to understand what it is talking about

"to understand" is a concept invented by the human brain to help it operate. It doesn't actually mean anything concrete in the physical world. See: the Chinese room argument (paradoxically it proves the converse of what Searle was arguing -- that there is no such thing as understanding, because you can emulate a system with identical outputs from the same set of inputs without caring or labeling what happens inside the room).
You're talking about appearance, when Calibre's issue is almost entirely UX design. It's actively user-hostile software that is on a fundamental level not designed to do the things most users want to do.

Step a new user through setting up Calibre to do something as simple as syncing to a e-reader with the functionality a user would normally expect, like displaying/syncing their reading progress.

Or just watch Goyal tell a new user "you can't do that, use the builtin reader if you want reading progress synced, fuck off" and then a bunch of other folks get into the weeds describing the mess of plugins and shit you need to do it.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296205

I managed to get my e-reader to sync reading position to Calibre but it required a lot of frustrating work trying to follow tutorials on mobiread...creating custom fields and code snippets and praying that the whole thing won't break some time in the future.

It's probably the single most commonly wanted feature for a user looking at an e-book library management tool. That and syncing to their e-reader's shelves.

God help you if you want to use Goodreads...
SpaceX has made launches so routine only the explosions get headlines.
Telemetry isn’t too hard to send down during launch, at least for the booster stage. It’s really only when you have hot plasma buildup in front of the vehicle that’s a problem for RF, which is mainly on reentry.