skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you mean by “not serious.” They have a road map. I’ve elsewhere read they plan on a 100 mile electric only Rav4 prime (with the usual gas range) by 2027.

Last I checked, the R4P still has the highest electric range of any phev suv. (I think audi now claims 52 miles, but I’ve gotten that much in my R4P so this is within the estimated range of both. It’s all about battery capacity and I imagine those are close.)

They have been slow to release BEVs and past executives have had contrary views on going fast to electric. But, they also target a larger scale than other automakers. They also over engineer for their vehicles to last longer. If you want a car that could last to 3 million miles you get a toyota. If you want speed or whizbang tech you go elsewhere and possibly replace the vehicle around 30,000 miles.

This feels a little like old school linux hackers complaining about windows in the early 2000s. The positioning of toyota makes more sense from their positioning in the market. Might need more, broader political will power to demand a fast transition.
They absolutely have not been meticulously designed to be as factually accurate as possible.
I don't mean voter approval, I mean party member approval. That's arguably not that far off from a CEO situation in a way in that it's the opinion of and support for the group's leadership by group members.

Voter approval is actually usually much less unanimous, as far as I can tell.
I came to these comments for a summary, but stayed for the crazy...
No one is sure what AGI means. I personally think the degree to which ‘inventing AGI’ will be a singular event horizon beyond which everything changes is overstated. It is perhaps more likely to be a more gradual process of taking over more and more human tasks until we’re left just checking and combining the results of some AI process. The LLMs we have now can already be considered AGI in a certain sense (they are extremely general) but clearly lack the reliability to completely change the world yet. So to speak of a ‘post-AGI economy’ is perhaps not very meaningful. We should think instead about the immediate impact of things like LLMs, their strengthenings, and their descendants.
> he interesting thing is you used economic values to show their importance, not what innovations or changes they achieved

Money is just a way to value things relative to other things. It's not interesting to value something using money.
If Apple isn't forced to allow other stores why would Sony be?
Billions of dollars can paper over some very serious personality traits.
I don't know how big offroading is in the UK but here in the US offroading is really big and the Tacoma (closest thing we have to the Hilux) is one of the most popular options.

While I concede that there should be questions about the environmental impact of all of it, I overall think it's a net positive to get people outdoors, and offroading is another avenue that people can use.

I think the agency is missing the forest for the trees here, you want to encourage people to get out and about. When you only consider the emissions it's a net negative, but when you extrapolate and start thinking about the benefits to society when you have more people going out, being active, etc, it becomes a net positive.

Also typically you do not do much driving (distance wise) when offroad. Average speeds are anywhere between 10-30MPH depending on what you're going over and it's typically over relatively short distances (10 miles offroad might take you an hour+ to traverse).
What teams do people think do great rapid prototyping work in computer hardware and software?
I am still rocking a 2012 MBP. I even have a PPC MacMini but it now runs Linux. I have no idea who is upgrading from a M1/M2 to M3 or why they would
But it's OK to assume he's a sleazebag?
Now try saving something from Firefox.

By default, it shoves it into some parallel file system within the snap.

Oh did you forget to actually explicitly save it into the downloads directory? Yeah, you have no idea where it is now.

Oh and of course when the download file explorer widget opens up, you can't get the mouse focus. Probably because there's some security boundary between Firefox and the file system.

Usability of firefoxes vastly decreased as a result of snaps

Finally, well this isn't a big deal to me. Apparently a lot of the open source people don't like it because the Firefox nap is basically just a call. The internet pull down binary command that pulls a huge binary blob and they don't like this.
Thank you! Now I checked the (i) tooltips. Just downloaded the bigger file (7GB) that says "Minimal loss of quality".
What do you mean? My first real world project after college was based on ASP.NET MVC, that was 12 years ago. I left the company a long time ago and the project is still healthy and growing they upgraded to ASP.NET Core but they keep using MVC.
> Humans are really very similar to LLMs...

So true. I was actually once accused on Reddit of using ChatGPT to write a comment that I genuinely wrote myself, by a person who (if I recall correctly) didn’t like the substance of what I was saying. It was a long detailed response with multiple paragraphs and proper usage of words like “However”. Yes, a LLM may write similarly to people who have lots of experience reading and writing formal written English, including academic and legal writing.

At least my example was purely a harmless Reddit accusation. I really feel bad for the people who write essays in school that the teacher incorrectly rejects and reports as AI-written because the teacher misunderstands the limitations of AI detectors and the meaning of their output. (Of course, this is a separate question from students who genuinely try to pass off AI-written work as their own.)
If you grew up in the 90s, you’ll understand:

Don’t hate the player, hate the game
Nobody benefits if the game consoles get commoditised like PCs. In the long run it would become an unattractive business like PC and people will just buy PCs if the prices become similar for the spec.
There's an upgrade path from WebForms to Blazor?

Edit: I guess there is supposed to be [0] I can't imagine it that would actually be any easier than moving to any other technology.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/blazor...
This is rather scary. I feel we are witnessing the evolution of language models and artificial intelligence, which seems intellectually laudable until you realize that the underlying evolutionary framework for this evolution is the global capitalistic system whose only criteria for selection in short-term monetary gain.

We are creating a monster.
Absolutely, assuming LLMs are still around in a similar form by that time.

I disagree on the particulars. Will it be for the reason that you mention? I really am not sure -- I do feel confident though that the argument will be just as ideological and incoherent as the ones people make about social media today.
Exactly; there are multitudes of reasons and very little information so why pick any one of them?
I would, now that Blazor is the flagship Web Framework for .NET which supports multiple render modes and hosting options, inc. in MVC and Razor Pages or as a general templating solution (e.g. for rendering Emails). It's going to be the framework with most of the focus that most .NET Developers will eventually move to.

Given the mindshare iron grip Microsoft has over .NET ecosystem, it's able to dictate the Web Framework that most of .NET will use - which is now Blazor.

But now that Blazor SSR with Enhanced Navigation offers an optimal UX out-of-the-box, Blazor's going to become the only real future option for Web Development in C#/.NET. I wouldn't have considered it (for Internet App's) before .NET 8, but now its basically the only real future choice for creating any kind of new Web App in .NET (excl. CDN Hostable, SSG Websites).
The $499 PS5 is not sold at a loss:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609150/sony-playstation-...

Consoles are often sold at a loss initially but quickly become profitable as hardware costs fall.

The razor-and-blades model isn't as ubiquitous as you might believe.
oh sht, this guy can persuade clients and close deals? Better keep him away from the company!
I want to know other people's opinion on this.

Because if it was me working at OpenAI, I would've signed it just out of peer pressure even if I disliked him. As the CEO, Altman undoubtedly shaped senior management that would've one way or another put pressure on everyone else under them.

When I was salaried, my main concern would've been to just get my pacheck and keep things going as smoothly as possible in my day-to-day with the least amount of drama. And I feel like a lot of people are like this.
> Scientists and engineers in national labs, universities, and elsewhere show what a real commitment to technological progress looks like.

And everywhere. You've only named public institutions for some reason, but a lot of progress happens in the private sector. And that demonstrates real commitment, because they're not spending other people's money.
It's going to be really ironic when the same people who think copyright law doesn't apply to their deep-learning models get all pissy over people violating their IP.
The CEO is the face of the company, rarely does the public care about the scientists or engineers. This isnt a new concept, its always happened.
I think this might be a fun opportunity to accept that things are complicated and to be excited to learn new things. But I always personally knew that gene expressions can change with circumstance: that’s why arctic foxes have winter and summer coats, and why point coated cats have dark fur on the extremities of the body.
Microsoft should invest in Proton, make Windows apps work seamless on linux, and then just make a "Windows" replacement for Wayland that runs on Kernel...

Then, and only then, will we have "The year of the linux desktop"
There's a safe and sane language subset struggling to get out of "modern C++". The essence is following the Rule of 3/5/0, adopting value semantics, explicit ownership via unique_ptr/shared_ptr, resources wrapped as RAII objects. The syntax and feature space is certainly crowded and abused, but playing with the borrow-checker is an entirely different game.
>Sony sells consoles at a loss and makes it money on game sales etc.

So you are saying that they are engaging in anti-competitive practices. Also at $500, it's unlikely a loss.
I upgraded from an M1 pro to an M3 max. it's a nice upgrade.
Isn't this how you gain power? You influence as many people as you can through suggestion that you can give them what they desire? Then grow that group to be large enough so that you're cemented within the org?

Manipulation doesn't even necessarily feel bad. Just promising something, or offering a place inside the "in-group" could do the trick for most. It's when you're up against someone whose job it is to safeguard something (like someone on the board dedicated to a mission) where you start needing to get a bit more gangster with your tactics.
Did an Enslaved Man Beat Magellan to Circling the World?
Right, that's embedded directly into the existing workflow. Looks like a very powerful feature indeed.
I believe such behaviour is harmful and that we shouldn't be rewarding those that engage in it.
The FTC, of course, being long and famously in the habit of going after people selling handmade weathervanes.

Law is not code. They don't work the same. The longer you confuse them, the more confused you'll be.
Interesting! The way I've often heard it is that "over half of neurotransmitters originate in the gut" — making it sound like it's talking about the neurotransmitters already at the brain. Do you have any citations that could clarify this?
If you give me the choice between making a lot of $$$ by working for a for-profit company or staying at a nonprofit with limited upside I'd also choose the former, even if I don't like the CEO much. Don't know where this myth of "people followed him" comes from. There is no evidence for it.
> mildly surly sloth

I had to read that twice, but it was well worth it.
> When representatives from 197 countries arrive in Dubai this month...

An emirate who's development wouldn't have been possible without the invention of air conditioning (and that's not a criticism).

It's kinda weird to picture representatives from the entire world discussing global warming in one of the warmest countries on earth, where basically the entire country runs on air conditioning.
This feels like a wild misreading of the situation based on a simplistic good/bad dichotomy. People were mostly stunned at how poorly the board handled things and that sama probably wasn't as bad as the board was trying to make him out to be which is wildly different from him being good.

Even the worst criminal in the world should be declared "not guilty" if they were caught for a crime they did not commit for which the prosecution did not make a convincing case. In law, there no "innocent", only "not guilty" and most people surmised that sama is not guilty in this context irrelevant of a larger backstory.
I find it interesting that the real problem we have in our world is technocrats (original definition: skill with power), yet we keep worrying about the made up redefinition of the term, rule made effective through technology (skill with knowledge). The people that are experts with power are far more dangerous, especially as we arm them with more and more technology.

Wikipedia
‘The term technocracy is derived from the Greek words τέχνη, tekhne meaning skill and κράτος, kratos meaning power, as in governance, or rule. William Henry Smyth, a California engineer, is usually credited with inventing the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", although the word had been used before on several occasions.’
The Best-Paying Cities for Plumbers
Viewers did care: the teeth got changed before the movie was released. And, I don't know if you missed it, but it wasn't just one niche of the internet commenting on his teeth. The "outrage" went mainstream; even dentists were making hit-pieces on Sonic's teeth. I'm not gonna lie, it was amazing marketing for the movie, intentional or not.
Surprise! Lack of regulation entices and encourages criminal behavior --- including market manipulation (a player with large volume (aka Binance) *is* the "market"), money laundering and fraud.
909 people followed Jim Jones to jonestown and died, so?

[edited]: sorry means to replied one comment replied to this comment
Fascinating, I see a lot of VC/Msfot has overthrown our NPO governing structure because of profit incentives narrative.

I don't think this is what really happened at all. The reason this decision was made was because 95% of employees sided with Sam on this issue, and the board didn't explain themselves in any way at all. So it was Sam + 95% of employees + All investors against the board. In which case the board should lose (since they are only governing for themselves here).

I think in the end a good and fair outcome. I still think their governing structure is decent to solve the AGI problem, this particular board was just really bad.
Chlorine disinfectant no more effective than water against hospital superbug
IMO, the best way to get comfortable with Linux is to get comfortable with the command line, because although every distribution is going to have different UI and built-in apps, the command line is going to stay pretty consistent. Also, a lot of troubleshooting you Google is going to involve interacting with the command line, and it's essential to understand what the commands you're executing are actually doing.

I'd recommend The Linux Command Line by William Schotts to get started.
Not even a news. News would have been if it did the other way around.
Presumably they're jumping ship with Sam, and I'd assume that they'd assume that Sam would uphold the same perceived integrity at MS
The author argues that if you decide that there is no such thing as free will, that that is a proof of you having free will. He does this with a long argument, possibly using a different definition of free will. I think that the longer you deliberately think about a decision, does not make that you have ('more of') a free will. Because thinking itself requires many small decisions. And all those decisions are not voluntary. I guess that not everyone has the mental capabilities to arrive at the conclusion of not having a free will and I get the impression that there are just a few people, or maybe no one, who can grasp what it means to not have a free will, I think, because the illusion of having a free will (and all the social constructs with respect to blame and guilt) is so strong that it is (very) hard to escape it (permantly).
Since the type is inferred, why can't the module name by convention be inferred from the data type in pipe operations?

So instead of:

["a", "b", "c"]
|> List.append "d"
|> List.append "e"
|> List.append "f"

You could have:

["a", "b", "c"]
|> append "d"
|> append "e"
|> append "f"

Since Roc knows that the type returned from each function is a List.
I was going to reply with this exact sentiment, so I’m glad you brought it up.

There’s also talk in this thread about how we’ve designed the outside to be kid-unfriendly. Let’s think for a second about how we design our home spaces inside to have screens all around. I’d wager that if you could walk into any house in suburbia, 90%+ will have a massive flat screen hanging in the main living space. Not only that, but all the chairs are aimed to face it! It’s the focal point and THE activity to be done in that space. Some houses will have screens in nearly every room. A screen in every pocket and maybe some portable screens too! With so much priority put on these screens and when parents, grandparents, friends, etc all spend a majority of their waking life on them, what is a kid going to mimic and learn is acceptable?

We definitely still struggle with screen time for our kids. They’re getting much better about turning it off without tantrums, but we only have one TV in our bedroom (rarely turned on), an iPad, and our phones. We try to watch TV or movies together rather than having a screen on in the background or relying on a screen to entertain our kids while we go off and do something else. All that said, our oldest (4 y/o) reads chapter books like there’s no tomorrow because she sees my wife and I read physical books. We also frequent the library often where she can have some independence to wander and find what interests her to bring home. Parent friends always make remarks about how smart she is and how they wish their kid would read more, but they can’t get them to stop wanting to watch TV or the tablet… but we’ve been to several friends’ houses and they always have a TV on nonstop and they themselves don’t read any books.
> What do you want?

I want to know which pages and posts people find the most interesting and which remain popular over time. Just because I’m curious, that’s all.

It leads to interesting surprises, for example I wrote a pretty small post on my blog weighing the pros and cons of merging vs squashing first and for some reason it’s one of the top Google results and I get consistent views for something I felt was only minor.
Llama 70B is at GPT-3.5's level! It's not a perfect comparison, but I built this site to compare the two and Llama 70B won (https://llmboxing.com/leaderboard).

It's not as smart as GPT-4, but you can fine-tune Llama to do things that aren't possible with larger models (https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-llama-2).
I would.

MS has had a storied past when it comes to frontend tech, but rather than diverging and dying, what we seem to see now is convergence of a coherent technical vision (and some pruning as a result). They look the same on the surface, but the result is totally different.

The latest version achieves exactly what every strung-together implementation of a moderately complex SPA architecture has aimed for in the past decade: fast initial render, low latency interactivity, low server load.

They did it in a way that still plays moderately well with the existing JS ecosystem.

They did in in a way where everything you do can be airlifted to the desktop or mobile via MAUI Blazor Hybrid.

And some of the underlying pieces that are coming along to make this possible are incredible. (Go check out some of the stuff they're doing in the wasm/WASI space.)
It's oh so weird the article does not mention any of these though...

- https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232... (SA's sister - also have a look at her recent posts)

- Also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman... (utterly distressing)

- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727096607752282485 (check the comment with snapshots of the letter - "strangely" that Gist was deleted)
> The most salient takeaway is that closed-source proprietary LLMs are a bad idea and that everyone with any long-term interest in the subject should switch over to the open-source model.

What is your reasoning for stating that closed-source proprietary LLMs are a bad idea and that anyone with long-term interest in the subject (AGI?) should switch to open-source models?

Open-source tends to foster monopoly and relies on free labor (see Google, Meta). AI also relies on free labor.
Analytics should just be one point to weigh across others when making a decision. I don't fully think it's a binary decision to use it or not.

Consider analytics. Consider user feedback. Consider your gut. Consider stakeholder requests. Consider historicals. Consider your team. Consider your debt. etc etc
When AI Hallucinates
You win either way, so long as you don't care which way the decision goes.
> The file's size could have been set by the application before copying data to it. This will result in a file which reads all zeroes.

Hm, is that a common approach? I thought applications mostly use fallocate(2) for that if it's for performance reasons, which does not change the nominal file size.

Actually allocating zeroes sounds like it could be quite inefficient and confusing, but then again, fallocate is not portable POSIX.

> Or if it were a hardware ordering fault

That's what I suspect might be going on here.
Email obfuscation: What still works in 2023?
As someone who tried variants of the wolf riddle with the Bing model and didn'tget too far, I'm super interested. Do you have a source on this?
I would not be surprised if this is the beginning of the end for the company.
I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus).

It's the first thing I disable whenever I want to do some serious disk I/O.

Also Windows still uses NTFS which dates back to 2000. For compatibility reasons, fair enough. But surely NTFS wasn't designed with SSDs in mind, let alone NVMEs.
yeah exactly. everyone is speculating on an event we know virtually nothing about, involving people virtually no one here knows or knows well, in a realm of business virtually no one here has experience with (serving on board of $90b company)
Hi. Sorry if my query offended you.

I basically executed literally what Clickhouse recommends at their guides for deduplication https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/guides/developer/deduplicatio....

Of course you can also materialize with aggregations or just use a group by, or even force optimize of the table. But my point is that you don't really get exactly once guarantees. Whoever is querying that table needs to be aware than a `SELECT * FROM tb` might contain duplicates and needs to adapt their queries accordingly.
Will this tempest in a teapot never end?
The real reason is that Agents of Eliezer stabbed him in the back (metaphorically), and they did it so smoothly that I can't even credit them with this - nobody will believe me.
AI that fully mimicked humans would need time off from work.