skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's legit. Nobody in my CS lab made money like that. Maybe they stopped paying terrible because when I left that lab I made double the salary at half the effort
Build an app in 2 hours, 2 days and 2 weeks
A curated list of sites to practice testing on
I also self hosted my own email server but to be honest, even if you setup the server correctly and even if DNS and anything else is configured properly, some big player will reject your mails and you will have struggle to get your mails out of the spam for bigger companies. That takes even harder in place when you rent a new server with a maybe abused IP address. I switched some years ago for all work related stuff to a hosted exchange from Microsoft and pay around 5$ per month for one tenant. I never had problems with my mails being rejected or forwarded to spam anymore.

For sure you can host your own mail server and you can make it run with the most providers out there but you will always have some mailboxes you will not able to get your mails out of spam when you are a small player with a single mailserver.
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What if you encoded the whole game state into a one-shot completion that fits into the context window every turn? It would likely not make those illegal moves. I suspect it's an artifact of the context window management that is designed to summarize lengthy chat conversations, rather than an actual limitation of GPT4's internal model of chess.
Yes it is a problem if a company is failing not just for the investors but the workers. Nobody wants to work for a sinking ship. Can't believe this even needs to be said.
Going to give this early EMDR a wee try later.
The "the screen is still zooming" effect I'm getting after watching 2 minutes of the second one is fun. I hope it stops soon, though. >smile<
Another vote for Bedjet here. I have chronic sleep problems and plus a condition that means I’m prone to overheating and the Bedjet has genuinely changed my quality of life for the better.

Great product. Their iPhone app UI could use some love, but it does what I need it to.

(You also get a nice hardware remote)
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I'm optimistic that the rise in geothermal will be astronomical once it gets off the ground. Both advanced and more simple conventional for district heating.

We're at most 10 years from the confidence in oil and gas investments being completely shattered. A lot of the investors and engineers will seek out opportunities where they can apply their competence. Geothermal is a good fit. Whoever captures the market first will have the most to gain, so once they see it's even remotely possible there will be a race.

I suspect politicians in countries with oil/gas-development in northern regions will start subsidizing this as well, both to attract voters from workers in that sector, and to help them establish a new competitive industry that they can replace their oil and gas exports with.
Windows has ALWAYS asked the user which processes to kill under memory stress, except in the most extreme of conditions (when it crashed).

Android and iPhones thought they'd look cooler if they didn't, resulting in a decade of endless frustration for many users.
Sounds like we need an AI complement to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
Thank you for sharing this. The Android app issues you are mentioning have been addressed in the new beta version, which you can download on Google Play Store. We plan to fully release it as soon as it's ready.
AI safety is first and foremost a grift. A way to take power and resources from the gullible and ignorant. To build regulatory barriers against competitors. To get grants for "researching" it. To sound smart and up-to-date and responsible.

AI safety is a legitimate concern when it comes to using AI to control actual things in the world. But that is a very niche area at the moment.
This is the classic trap that new developers step in all the time. It's not just associated with graphics programming.

Youtube is full of beginner programming videos that take the developer through a journey of learning a stack of technologies in stead of focusing on something interesting to build. You end up with a lot of cargo-culting, and these massively complex Ruby Goldberg contraptions to render some text on a web-page. All in the name of padding out that CV.

When I was in university I dabbled with some graphics programming for a semester, and I found it was sufficiently complex that the only reasonable answer to "what do I want to make" was "render a green triangle on a black background". Going from there to square, to cube, to sphere, to animated sphere, to bouncing ball, is a logical progression and it helps you stay focussed on the prize. So don't also make the mistake of answering the above question with "first person shooter with ray-traced lighting and subsurface scattering".

I can promise you the first iteration of a bouncing ball will be truly horrible code. But that's fine. Over time you'll figure out how to optimise and improve things. And let me tell you, there's nothing as invigorating as discovering a design pattern by yourself: reading a book on a new topic and going "hey I'm already doing that!"
While I don't think that lawyers possess some kind of superhuman "Paul Ekman / Lie To Me" style abilities, I do think that non-verbal communication, including facial expressions, could help to inform a lawyers line of questioning during a deposition.

Regarding appearing in person, someone appearing on video call could easily have cue cards off-screen or a team of lawyers giving them thumbs up/thumbs down etc.

Doing it this way removes at least some of those doubts surrounding fairness for the plaintiffs.
Not who you asked but you might find it interesting regardless.

I've had a development role with an AV company where I'd periodically go on site a couple times a year to assist with shows to test real world scenarios or lend a hand just to see things in action ("production deployments" in both senses of the phrase, as well as to see actual users and behaviors in the moment. Time management, stress, and risk in a live event is something you can't really grok without having experienced it). Assuming the role of a show producer for those trips I would have two redundant company laptops to run the show that I carried but weren't mine specifically, while I had my personally-assigned work laptop with me to work remotely with. And if it was a long enough trip to warrant it, my personal laptop also to keep those activities separated. If new OS updates were being tested and deployed, add in a tertiary show laptop for that. There are carry-on sized Pelican cases that handle it fine. You might be surprised at the sheer amount of stuff AV professionals tote around the world, on top of the ridiculous amount of cargo that gets shipped via freight directly to venues. Going through airport security with two to five laptops was an average Thursday for many of the people I interacted with at that job.
There is just no way, that's crazy. This reads like one of those stories that slowly devolves into a Kafka-esque story and finishes with some kind of bang, leading you to understand that, somewhere in there, the real story ended.

Sadly, with this one, no bang. Real use of tax money.
Yeah that's kind of what I was about (though probably not worded very well).
For the on-prem virtualization use cases they are interested in, they already have the necessary technology with Hyper-V.

I actually thought that vSphere offers some stuff in the hyperconverged area that Hyper-V doesn't, this is where I could see it competing with Azure. However it seems Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct seems to be pretty much on par, at least on paper.

So there's even less reasons why MS would be interested in VMware. Only maybe to get rid of a competitor.
Reminds me of Morelaw town in Interstate 60
i no longer follow the messianic complex of the people in openAI. They made great tech, indeed. Other people made great tech before them without instant religious level apocalypse proclamations. People in openAI are smart enough to know that post-AGI , their stock options are worthless anyway so they wouldn't stay walled in their secret garden if such a discovery had been made.
You can… save a file?
No, even apps displaying a constant notification get killed, just less often.
That doesn't sound right at all. Please report this to us at: https://proton.me/support/contact so we can look into it closely.
Googling it works pretty well
you literally have to put in every number for it to do mathematics correctly...

its as stupid as that. some try to get around it by indeed only having the 10 different digits and glue them together, but its a hallucination that that works.

an important point in generalization is for example that you teach it something. This is literally important

'ycombinator is a website' is a prompt that is almost impossible of ycombinator is not in your training set
Now that Reddit user has removed their post, what timing!
> I thought we are considering a worst case scenario

Well, I am not.

Unless someone can show me evidence of an AGI a) being possible, b) being within near future reach and c) being an existential threat.

Most humans are not leaving their house under the assumption that they will get hit by a meteorite either. And that is actually an occurrence that we know for a certainty is physically possible.
That kind of works. I guess I keep thinking about it from the perspective of the type itself instead of the function that uses it.
I like your comment.

The world is becoming information saturated and poorly structured by design, ever notice how these story blockers are such a big part of the propaganda machine, whereby you have to use elaborate workarounds to just read a simple news story thats pulled from another source?

Saturating culture with too much data is a great tool of breaking reality, breaking truth.

But they cant break truth for long, it always finds a way. And truth is a powerful vector, much more than propaganda without a base in truth, because human experience is powerful, unquantifiable, and can take someone from the gutter to a place of massive wealth or influence, in an instant. That is the power of human experience, the power of truth.

Doesnt make it easy though, to live in this world of so many lies, supercharged by bots. Nature outside of our technology is much simpler in its truth.
EMC already had their go at VMware ;)
I wish. I take some amount of pride in having pretty solid video and audio for meetings. I get stuck with people using their awful macbook microphones and webcams, and most don't bother with headphones.

Then they wonder why everyone hates meetings.
Ok, funny and quirky, but the "punch line" is lamentable. "Your tax dollars at work" suggests this is one of the reasons everything is terribly wrong in this country! It must be changed! This will not do! And, as usual, a suggestion for improvement doesn't follow. "I'm just asking questions."
This is a tangent, but I wonder if tragedy of the commons refers more to the general state consciousness at a time when people first get exposed to common property. My hypothesis is that in the beggining they have a diminished sense of shared ownership, value, and responsibility. For example, when we look at our changing attitude toward the environment, I think people have experienced a drastic increase in their sense of common responsibility.
IMO it's always been pure marketing. The wilder apocalypse proclamations, the more powerful and desirable their products seem. Exactly same store with Sam Altman's world tour earlier this year.
Sometimes it feels like Google could cure cancer and HN would still react negatively. Companies are not monolithic and it's silly to paint it that way. It's not simple about intent, but premature judgment.
headlines of google products being end of life and perception of being killed off generates a lot of clicks, and it is so tiring
This is really cool. I once made something close to this idea, but reusing youtube instead of curated samples.

youtubecore.sigil.network

Would be interesting to explore sampling loops from random videos.
They did build the most advanced LLM tool, though.
Modern post-2012 Fortran is excellent, and the compiler produces very fast code, GPU or otherwise. And it is very portable.
There is a general result in machine learning known as "the bitter lesson"[1], which is that methods which come from specialist knowledge tend to be beaten by methods which rely on brute force computation in the long run because of Moore's law and the ability to scale things by distributed computing. So the reason people don't use the "add instruction"[2] for example is that over the last 70 years of attempting to build out systems which do exactly what you are proposing, they have found that not to work very well whereas sacrificing what you are calling "efficiency" (which they would think of as special purpose domain-specific knowledge) turns out to give you a lot in terms of generality. And they can make up the lost efficiency by throwing more hardware at the problem.

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

[2] Which the people making these models are familiar with. The whole thing is a trillion+ parameter linear algebra crunching machine after all.
Addiction mechanics are key to structuring stratified societies. Alcohol, illegal drugs (which fuel abnormal profits, violence and corruption), gambling, dopamine traps in "social" media.

It's the oldest game in town. The only game in town. The ability to delay gratification in turn is the biggest single predictor of rising income.
> - Take a long break during the day

Your status goes yellow and you're fired.

>- If you code, try to cluster your meetings together to reduce context switching. Block focus time on your calendar to avoid drive-by meetings that break up these clusters.

If you code, you don't have enough authority to do this.
Any idea if they still grant requests like this? There are some pretty nice usernames taken by completely empty accounts.
Ok, rephrase the last part to "The vast majority of media is".

Even HBO is partially an ad company, I imagine their own shows include product placement.
He's talking about distance in two dimensions with real numbers on one axis and complex on the other.
Sure, but there's a huge difference between the targeted "hey I read your latest paper and I had a few questions about section 2.4" and "Dear Entire Physics Department: Einstein is Wrong! Here's my book". I honestly don't think I've ever received the former from a non-scientist (I'm not famous, so go figure) but we definitely got a lot of the later.

We also had some of the later case dropping into our seminars. For the most part people found them kind of entertaining.
But his homework is boring
> Design for Automation

Ever see a Macintosh IIci? That was when Apple tried design for automation. It's a rectangular box. Every part is installed with a straight move. There is no wiring harness. The power supply plugs directly into the motherboard. Made in USA, in Fremont.

But it wasn't cool-looking.

There have been phones designed for automation. Some Motorola and Nokia "brick" phones were a stack of boards, with cutouts for thick parts. The stack was compressed together into a rigid block. No wires inside. Very rugged.

Then everybody switched to hand assembly in countries with cheap labor.
If OpenAI has made a breakthrough in AGI, they can demonstrate it to the world without giving the breakthrough to the world.

They could, for example, use this new AGI to search through all the worlds information for discoveries that can me made by putting existing facts together.
The bigger issue imo is Google backed the wrong horse. PyTorch vs tensorflow

I gather PyTorch on Google hardware now works but it’s kinda stolen their thunder
It seems like it gives incentive to improve things though.
Similar to GPT4All. Arguably better UI.
Conversely it feels like Google could say "hey we've found a cure for cancer, we just transplant the brain into a healthy 'donor' body" and Google apologists would insist that there's no possible way that could ever be misused.
Nothing, and there are methods which allow these types of models to learn to use special purpose tools of this kind[1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761 Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Basically, this work like how we use <table> for layout before css was a thing.

Now with the semantic web dead, can't we just use table like the good old days?
I tried doing this and it made a bunch of mistakes with handing spaces and whatnot that makes shell scripts often brittle. Of course, a human would probably make the same mistakes, because who actually knows how to do that correctly? But it doesn’t really make me comfortable using it for anything but the smallest of automation tasks.
Capitalism is the rules, not business ethics classes.
No, there is just one definition, and it's his son's: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value#Complex_numbe...
there's evidence that some of the symptoms are connected to food. One example would be pseudo allergic reaction, where you're reacting to something, but it doesn't show up in a prick test.

Instead you've got a time-frame of like 5 days, where when you ingest something, that something does something in the gut and the whole nervous system then reacts with higher levels of anxiety.

You can trigger this with your dog and cats, feed something that they wouldn't eat normaly, like pea protein or seafood - wait four days, watch their behavior over time.

personal account: I used to think someone is in my room and that someone wants to hurt me, and I'd see shadows at the edges of my view - until I went on carnivore diet. I also used to be depressed with adhd, which has improved a lot after switching to keto.

Nowadays, I pay more attention to what I eat and how I feel the next few days. Some day I had waffles, few days later I thought my coworker was planning on killing my dog. The internal dialogue goes haywire and discards all logic at some point.

There are a few tests, including SIBO and Candida as well as nutrient deficiencies that can cause this. I've never found an official diagnosis with my doctors, so I've been reading up on these topics since 2018 and am currently preparing for an exam as a nutritionist. But even in the materials there's not much about the relationships between all the parts.

The latest thing that worked for me, was taking silicea, usually women take it for nails and hair - seems to help the body to repair tissues, which would match trying to repair the gut lining (if it was broken, which is hard to prove/disprove). I got there because I saw some guy on youtube (3 hrs video), he'd been poisoned with rat-poison, and some of what he said matched some of my symptoms. And he was told to take silicea to help the gut lining - next step would be diversifying the gut microbiome.

Good luck out there, hope it helps.
I've been collecting some pointers and articles on https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum
I would really like undo functionality.
Cognitive ability and voting behaviour in the 2016 UK Brexit referendum
I get that when it matters they will examine and x ray joints etc. But still, it really is humbling/scary to think how dependent each of us is on someone else doing their job just right. So many instances across our lifetime, one mistake and you would not be here anymore.
LLMs by themselves don’t learn from past past mistakes, but you could cycle inference steps and fine tuning/retraining steps.

Also, you can store failed attempts and lessons learned in context.
As I've pointed out before, robot manipulation in unstructured situations still sucks. Plus, for something like welding, workholding is a big part of the problem. You need to somehow grab onto the parts and hold them in position. In a production plant, you have special purpose jigs built to hold specific parts. Outside of that, it gets much messier.
This is going to sound like heresy but I never understood what is the big deal with Ghibli’s films. They have good production values … and that’s about it really. I never really connect with the stories - they aren’t bad stories but they never really made much of an impact on me.
Felt the same reading this post. These people are unable to see the bigger picture of what their work has been used to do to the world.
WSL2 supports systemd out of the box for some time now. By default it is turned off.

In WSL2 you can run GUI applications as well.
Poisoning the well for others, huh?
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Man it's so sad to see how far Lex has fallen. From a graduate level guest lecturer at MIT to a glorified Joe Rogan
A song from samples like this in the style of Aphex Twin would be cool.
GPT-4 correctly reconstructs the "complex modulus" token sequence already.
Just ask it the same questions as the parent.
Probably interesting to see what it will do, when it turns twelve.
Go spend a few years in the military in any country, I promise this won't be that surprising of a "tax dollars at work" story.

In the US military, if you want to keep your budget, you have to spend your budget. If you spend less than your budget, your budget will shrink because you don't need it. So, you have some very strong incentives to spend as much money as you possibly can without going over your budget, otherwise the next year you might actually need that money but not have the budget for it.

I'll let you use your imagination on what kinds of things were purchased (because they probably were if they were available to be purchased and the unit was under budget that year).
Perhaps Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company [1] is relevant here?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Employment is only necessary because goods do not exist without work. With AI able to work to satisfy any demand, there will be no point in human employment/work. There will be turmoils during the transition between the rule sets tho.
I have the horrible feeling that, if you start to become a graphics programmer now, by the time you're done, AI will be doing it.

If you want to make games, learn a game engine. The big 3D ones are Unity (not too hard), Unreal Engine (hard, used for AAA titles), and Bevy (in Rust, open source.)
There are a ton of 2D engines, mostly used to do retro stuff.
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I'm with you, the [ (and [[ bashism) introduces lots of confusions about what is really happening, I could never manage any real confidence.

That said, [[ being guaranteed to be built-in certainly had its purpose at ages where shell script performance had any kind of relevance, and that was no so long ago.
But then again, everyone says Google is evil to have made their own browser, but most of the world is using it - one would guess they must have done some good things with it (so taking humanity forward in some capacity etc.). Some are even criticizing Google from its own browser - I hate the fact that it made Firefox lose their market share, but I also understand it can't all be because the big corp brainwashed everyone (sure it would be a significant part though).
I would reword it another way. If the 4chan report, and these reports of "Q*" are true, the board would be reluctant to reveal its reasons for firing Altman because it doesn't want the world to know about the existence of what may well be AGI. The board members view this as more important than their own reputations.