skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an interesting and thoughtful essay. I don’t agree with the author’s assertion that the uneven quality of Scott’s work demonstrates some kind of flaw (though TBF, this assertion serves as a great launching pad for an exploration of his background and career).

I see that “flaw” as evidence of a willingness to take risk, something shared by other greats of the “big canvas” films (Kurosawa and Kubrick): an unrepentantly uneven oeuvre. You also see it in another master, Hitchcock: his framing was typically smaller, his work mixed, but when good, very good. Compare that to, say, Spielberg: excellent workmanship but never quite the risk taker. As a result you get results that are quite good but never sublime. In that sense more Greene than Scott is, despite the author’s assertion.

I think this is true of all the greats: we only have seven of Sophocles’ 100+ plays, but I console myself that they are surely seven of the best. And IMHO Shakespeare had his clunkers.
> When representatives from 197 countries arrive in Dubai this month

> Is it too late to keep global warming below 1.5 °C?

Seems like it, yeah
Sure, and on the mac side you've got Infinite Mac dot org where you can run System 1 through MacOS 9.0 in the browser. It's crazy to see how fast System 7.5 (which is more or less peak classic mac IMO) boots up versus System 9.0, and just how much attention to detail there was back then.
> it is effectively controlled by Microsoft

I don't consider this confirmed. Microsoft brought an enormous amount of money and other power to the table, and their role was certainly big, but it is far from clear to me that they held all or most of the power that was wielded.
Yea its a bit much he obviously doesn't deserve the admiration that he is getting. That said he deserves respect for helping bring ChatGPT to market, he deserves support because the board have acted like clowns and justified it with their mission of public accountability, but have rejected the idea that the board itself should be publicly accountable.
Wow, I need to try it!
Recent results for code diffusion here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/codefus...

I'm not experienced enough to validate their claims, but I love the choice of languages to evaluate on:

> Python, Bash and Excel conditional formatting rules.
Duh - killer robots! Haven't you seen Terminator?

From a practical point of view the Putin types would love a robot army to invade all their neighbours and then you just need that to do in its leader and run amok.
Not true. Or it's true because of software bloat and resource waste these days.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to see what was the maximum resolution my monitor supported. It was a Samsung Syncmaster 14" entirely analog, no OSD, with analog adjustment knobs on the bottom. The video card was a Matrox Millennium II 8MB VRAM and the OS was Windows 3.10. The maximum resolution that I could get was 1600x1200 @ 41Hz interlaced. That's almost 2K (1.92K to be more precise). 41Hz interlaced hurt my eyes like hell but everything worked on the software side.
My guess is that the arguments are something along the lines of “OpenAIs current products are already causing harm or on the path to do so” or something similar damaging to the products. Something they are afraid of both having continue to move forward on and to having to communicate as it would damage the brand. Like “We already have reports of several hundred people killing themselves because of ChatGPT responses…” and everyone would say, “Oh that makes… wait what??”
I don't remember where I read, but someone said:

Technology has made our lives faster, but not better.
How can you without access to the information that actual employees had of the situation say "there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees"?
> "I’ve realized that I’m built to learn socially"

That sentence really resonated with me and sums up a bunch of ideas that have been swirling in my head recently. I've been "interviewing" ChatGPT about world history for a few months now and even turned it into an unsuccessful podcast! I really enjoy learning and creating much more than I would enjoy listening to my own podcast, though :)
I could go into some detail here why Git is the harder to use system of the two, but I think that would miss the bigger point.

IMO, the larger and longer-term problem is that (open source) version control systems seem to be mostly stuck in the early aughts. This may sound provocative, but in principle, Git and Mercurial don't offer much that wasn't already part of Monotone. Meta/Facebook has really been the only actor I am aware of who has been really pushing the envelope in terms of making open source version control more convenient.

If you think I'm being needlessly provocative, just consider this simple example: why don't version control systems (especially ones that can change history) have undo/redo functionality out of the box? I've only seen this as a Facebook extension for Mercurial that never made it into the Mercurial proper (and survived only as part of Sapling).

This is an essential feature of every basic editor nowadays and it is not easy to implement for a VCS, but it's still mind-boggling that after nearly two decades, it isn't considered core functionality of a VCS. Recovering from mistakes remains a pain point in pretty much any VCS, but shouldn't be.

Commit graph visualization is another problem that's just not handled very well by either Git or Mercurial and hasn't really improved much since their early incarnations, if at all. "git log --graph" or "hg log -G" don't really produce output fit for human consumption if you have even a moderately complex branch structure.

Version control systems are still generally very low-level, giving you a lot of primitives and very few high-level operations that aim at making complex workflows less complex.
When I was finishing my PhD thesis, the suggestion was to insert some low-hanging fruit for the reviewers who would be doing only a cursory review but would need to find their "duck". Didn't do it because my committee was excellent and didn't want to show any disrespect.
Treat it like the DSM: a single symptom is not enough to diagnose, you need X/7.
The website design is very cool, the images are fantastic.
I'd extend that leadership in the form of management needs leadership in the technical aspect as well. The two need to work in tandem to make things work. Imho the best technical leads are usually not the smartest ones, they are those that best utilize their resources - read, other people - and are force multipliers.

Of course you need the people who can deep dive and solve complex issues, none doubts that.
Many of my real life building hobbies died when I realized I could build digital things.
I'd imagine most folks are concerned with the other way that discretion cuts--it also allows tenuous interpretations that are not in the spirit of the law or are based on controversial interpretations, judicial activism, etc.

As a lay person, I also object to unclear laws and processes because it's my repsonsibility to understand and follow them. How am I supposed to do that correctly if they're intentionally ambiguous?
And after Windows XP becomes an option, we can run it from within the Windows 98 Browser, possibly creating a black hole!
It helps me immensely with scala and python code snippets. I still need to double check but so far they are pretty good.
No it shouldn't have any such obligation, because it explicitly stated minors were not to enter on its front page. Do you expect car manufacturers to make driving safe for children too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion ;)
Where do you want to start? The Internet collection and structuring the world's knowledge into a few key repositories? The focus on GPUs in gaming and then the crypto market creating a suite of libraries dedicated to hard scaling math. Or then the miniaturization and focus on energy efficiency due to phones making scaled training cost-effective. Finally the papers released by Google and co which didn't seem to recognise quite how easy it would be to build and replicate upon. Nothing was unlocked apart from a lot of people suddenly noticed how doable all this already was.
I kind of like Fossil nowadays, although I'm not entirely on par with their philosophy of not squashing branches. But the "all-in-one" aspect, together with "one binary" is pretty nice.
If it's running OpenWRT it's not coded my TP-Link. The software is usually the biggest problem.
Would such a burst travel through the body of a planet? If not, perhaps only half of the galaxy’s life would be wiped out.
You have to think about hypothetical scenarios, if you wait until they are no longer hypothetical, then it might be to late. That doesn't mean you should take every possible hypothetical scenario equally serious, you should of course find those that are realistic, likely, and of large consequences and then think about those. I did not do that, I just listed whatever I could spontaneously imagine, dramatic scenarios. Maybe the real danger is more like ChatGPT slowly manipulating opinions over the course of years and decades in order to control human behavior, who knows? My point is just that »Everything will be fine, at worst we will flip the power switch.« seems naive to me and quite a few others.
Add to that that Windows XP had no antivirus built in, heck it didn't eve ship with a bloody firewall to block incomign connections, so you got immediately pwned the moment you plugged into the internet or a USB drive from school. Then you installed a third party firewall and anti-virus solution and performance went to shit.

Yeah, it felt faster than today's equivalent at similar task, but at what cost.

If I strip out the catalyst, locks, interior and seats form my car, it will also go faster and give me better fuel economy but that doesn't really make it usable for me now.
Since actual AGI is nowhere near, everything about it is speculation.

So his point about there being no evidence is valid for the time being.
binding.irb is indeed a superpower of Ruby (and its equivalent in a few other enlightened languages).

binding.pry is even better, and worth the gem install.

irb : sh :: pry : zsh
That's how you know it's working.
I compiled a list of in browser VMs which includes this one https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b242...
Looks interesting, but again a dynamic specification language. Wonder how long it takes that others too start to switch to statically typed specification languages which from my point of view are an essential feature for any large system (see e.g. BUSY). And after scanning the documentation I still ask myself what the core benefit of Origami is supposed to be compared to e.g. Meson or Cmake.
Oh, I don't know about that. Working in feature film animation, studios have gargantuan model libraries from current and past projects, with a good number (over half) never used by a production but created as part of some production's world building. Plus, generative modeling has been very popular for quite a few years. I don't think getting more 3D models then they could use is a real issue for anyone serious.
Marine Vessel Traffic
Hadn't seen the tweet from Geoffrey Irving before:

https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427022402397...

> 1. He was always nice to me.

> 2. He lied to me on various occasions

> 3. He was deceptive, manipulative, and worse to others, including my close friends (again, only nice to me, for reasons)
Half? 90% of a what a good CEO does is tell the story of why the company is important to it's customers and the market it serves. This story drives sales, motivates people internally, and makes the company a place people want to work.
I spent half a day with a family (friend of a girlfriend) many years ago and was blown away by their home and parenting, which was very much what I'd want if I was ever a parent (which I won't be). No screens visible except a TV that I never saw turned on, no computers visible, no electronic toys, and very few toys in general. Their child, maybe age 9, was amazing - didn't ask for anything, wasn't pleading for sugar or TV time or toys or attention. She was having a lot of fun politely socializing with adults and amusing herself with drawing, crafts, and reading.

It's wild to see a lot of parenting in contrast. Kids come home from school, instantly sit down on phone or tablet, will complain incessantly or throw a tantrum if it's taken away for any amount of time, and eat whatever they want whenever they want and also tantrum if they can't. Usually involves a lot of yelling by parent with zero effect on child.
Have you ever seen a kid under 14 without parents in New York City—whose parents are in an economic class where they could afford to live in the suburbs if they wanted? I certainly haven’t.

It’s a class/culture issue rather than an urban planning issue. I grew up in a car-dependent suburb in the 1990s, and in the summer I used to spend all day roving around the neighborhood with the neighbor kids. Kids in the same suburb don’t do that today, because parents are more protective, kids are glued to screens, etc.
> "... and the ones that lost data are the cheap brands as one would expect."

What a sad world to live in, when one comes to expect cheap storage devices to not fulfill intended function.
> Using that definition even the local gokart renting place or the local jetski renting place competes with Facebook

Not exactly what I had in mind, but sure. Facebook would much rather you never touch grass, jetskis or gokarts.

> If you want to use that definition you might want to also add a criteria for minimum size of the company.

Your feedback is noted.

Do we disagree on whether or not the two FAANG companies in question are in competition with eachother?
Or frankly any industry that is covered by an industry press. Games, movies, cars, it's all the same.
It has lied to me about extremely basic things. It abssolutely is worth being paranoid about. You simply cannot blindly trust it.
Also see the "somatic marker hypothesis"[1][2] by neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio. It's about how various internal body "markers" deeply influence decision-making. I first read it in his 1991 book, Descarte's Error.

Quoting from here[1]:

"Somatic markers" are feelings in the body that are associated with emotions, such as the association of rapid heartbeat with anxiety or of nausea with disgust. According to the hypothesis, somatic markers strongly influence subsequent decision-making. Within the brain, somatic markers are thought to be processed in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the amygdala. [...]"

Although, experimental evidence is not as yet as robust as it needs to be. See the "Experimental evidence" and "Criticism" sections here[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_marker_hypothesis

[2] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3069187
> Why pretend OpenAI hasn’t just disrupted our way of life with GPTs in the last two years?

It hasn't disrupted mine in any way. It may do that in the future, but the future isn't here yet.
Kids are suffering from increased anxiety due to social media in less pill happy places than the US.
Just compile llama.cpp's server example, and you have a local HTTP API. It also has a simple UI (disclaimer: to which I've contributed).

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/...
RIP Intel users
Why is the PM the meddling one here, and not the artist who (presumably un-prompted) added a duck to the game? Seems clear to me that the artist was the one who wanted to leave their mark in this story. Are some people allowed to and others not?
yet ... -1.94 rounds to -1.9

Seems not so much a "typo" as a simplification/rounding
I wonder how much this is connected to the "effective altruism" movement which seems to project this idea that the "ends justify the means" in a very complex matter, where it suggests such badly formulated ideas like "If we invest in oil companies, we can use that investment to fight climate change".

I'd sayu the AI safety problem as a whole is similar to the safety problem of eugenics: Just because you know what the "goal" of some isolated system is, that does not mean you know what the outcome is of implementing that goal on a broad scale.

So OpenAI has the same problem: They definitely know what the goal is, but they're not prepared _in any meaningful sense_ for what the broadscale outcome is.

If you really care about AI safety, you'd be putting it under government control as utility, like everything else.

That's all. That's why government exists.
I learned of this from "New Programming Jargon" a decade ago on codinghorror: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

I still regularly refer to Smurf naming conventions, Stringly typed, Protoduction and others.
The more dire problem is the case where the drive runs out of physical capacity before logical capacity. If the host flushes data that is smaller than the physical write unit of the SSD, capacity is lost to padding (if the SSD honors every Flush). A "reasonable" amount of Flush would not make too much of a difference, but a pathological case like flush-after-every-4k would cause the SSD to run out of space prematurely. There should be a better interface to handle all this, but the IO stack would need to be modified to solve what amounts to a cost issue at the SSD level. It's a race to the bottom selling 1TB consumer SSDs for less than $100.
Sorry I haven’t used this product yet - Do the chat messages get uploaded to a server ?
Its not a private company it is a non profit working in the public interest this usually requires some sort of public accountability. The board want to be a public good when they make decisions but want to be a private entity when those decisions are criticised by the public.
Although I understand all these commands and can use them, it's a typical Linux tool.
Sure, if you understand the internals you can use the tools and the horrendous GUIs that are nothing more than a thin layer of paint.

But a truly user-centric tool would actually help you with something like

"I want to work on a new Feature A"
"I want to continue working on Feature B"
"I want my changes in the software/product"
"I want to review a pull request (haha!) locally, in order to have IDE support."
"I did an oopsie and need to go back."

Imagine navigating to a website by specifing its hash, or seeing changes to a PowerPoint file using "git status" and seeing "++slide1.pp". It would be terrible.
>groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either.

So the type of employee that would get hired at OpenAi isn't likely to be skilled at critical thinking? That's doubtful. It looks to me like you dislike how things played out, gathered together some mean adjectives and "groupthink", and ended with a pessimistic prediction for their trajectry as punishment. One is left to wonder what OAI's disruptor outlook would be if the outcome of the current situation had been more pleasing.
And thanks to the porn community on Civit.ai!
I've done this and, from what I can tell, it is reasonably accurate. However, I did have an instance where I was asking it a series of questions about the First Peloponnesian War, and partway through our discussion it switched topics to the first part of the Peloponnesian War, which are different conflicts. At least, I think they are. It was quite confusing.
I dont understand why you get down voted. Economics are ultimately about physical power and any new emerging model is a thread to the dominant power structure aka the current model.

The conflicting models were the origin of the cold war (capitalism vs communism) and today between china and the west.
Wow, we live in a time where I can run Windows 98 in my browser on my phone.

Technology has really come a long way since the olden days. (And I wasn't even there for the olden days!)
Non-profit is just a poorly thought out government-ish thing.

If it's really valuable to society, it needs to be a government entity, full stop.
Also ... "28.5F is minus -1.94C"

Isn't right - "minus -1.94C" would be 1.94º centigrade

And that is distinctly above the freezing point of fresh water :)
Same, from Romania. If you hike you can more or less do anything you want along the way. The only thing "booting you" would probably be fatigue :-)))
It may matter little to you that your understanding is not complete or entirely accurate, but some of my worst experiences have been discussing topics with people who think they have anything insightful to add because they read a wikipedia page or listened to a single podcast episode and then decided that gave them a worthwhile understanding of something that often instead takes years to fully appreciate. A little knowledge and all of that. For one, you don't know what you're missing by omission.
Sorry about that, thank you!
It is probably cultural or linguistic. I love audio books but I cringe when I find a book I want to listen to that has an English voice actor. I don't think it is just the accent but all the pacing and emphasis.

I also though don't like most the chatGPT voice models besides for Sky. Sky to me is really good. Robertson Dean reading an audio book is perfection but Sky is pretty awesome.

I should add that as an American there are a ton of American voice actors that ruin books for me too. Sometimes this can be fixed if played at 1.2X speed.
Shortened: Modeling how the brain works is not synonymous with how humans work.

We just need to maintain our awareness of that difference.

The good news is, it makes replacing humans - trait for trait - far more more complicated.
HN sentiment is pretty ambivalent regarding Altman. yes, almost everyone agrees he's important, but a big group things he's basically landed gentry exploiting ML researchers, an other thinks he's a genius for getting MS pay for GPT costs, etc.
Or just get some Kioxia CD8 or CD8R or similar from Samsung/ Solidigm/ Micron depending on what you need. It will be much faster than spinning rust in all situations I am quite sure.
Decent SSDs have a huge latency advantage compared to even the best HDDs just out of principle. Enterprise SSDs focused on read-write workloads can sustain decent performance even under continuous 100% load. For example: https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/data-center-ssd...
>It ran, but it was quite slow.

That's how minimum specifications work. They're the minimum to run the OS, but nothing else.

Win11 has minimum requirements of 4GB of RAM but I doubt it can run anything with that.
Official Orca-2 demo is available on huggingface Spaces now - https://huggingface.co/spaces/ari9dam/Orca-2-13B
My point is you can name-call adblock users as "freeloaders", "pirates", "entitled", but this idea has to be consistent and apply to adblock users on sites other than YouTube.

If you have adblock turned on, whether it's an extension or built into your browser, you are undoubtedly one of these freeloaders as well. The only "honest" users as you put it are those with ad and tracker blocking completely disabled when they browse the internet.
Larry effing Summers?!

Really?

Was Henry Kissinger unavailable?
Yes, that matches my experience as well, that's why I mentioned "individual contributors", maybe it wasn't clear.

It's different with engineering managers (or team leads, lead engineers, however you want to call it). When they leave, that's usually a bad sign.

Though also quite often when the engineering leaders leave, I think of it as a canary in the coal mine: they are closer to business, they deal more with business people, so they are the first to realize that "working with these people on these services is pointless, time to jump ship".