skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right mental model is to realise the 'main' branch is only special by convention - git doesn't actually treat it differently from any other branch.

All of the confusion expressed in the article stems from a misunderstanding that main should work in some special way.

Of course every branch's history goes all the way back to root and not to some arbitrary common commit of another branch like 'main'. Of course rebase and merge can work "backwards" from main onto some branch (because it's not "backwards" because main is not special - it just isn't done much in practice because keeping main straight helps with collaboration)

Furthermore, by realising that main isn't inherently special, it becomes obvious that the actions can be done between any two branches as needed.

The right mental model is - it's just commits, all the way down.
Just wanted to add as an additional wrinkle in the simple ecomnomic explanations : a lot of the "discovering drugs" part -still necessary before you can actually sell drugs, afaik-, hinges very much on having really good researchers work for you. And these researchers do care about curing diseases: I do not have one colleague that does not dream of being a new Salk. The market needs thus to correct for it: it tends to be more efficient / worth it to be ethical, because it is a prerequisite for top talent hiring in this space.

This is of course complicated further by the sheer pigheadedness of CEOs with a career half life of 3 years who come in, _revolutionize_ something by destroying it and antagonizing the workers, bloat HR a bit more and drive sales through something illegal; and finally move on, tallying that one a success.
Consequences are for the proletariat.
Even worse than Idiocracy, instead of handjob you get a pat down. The future is now.
Getting MRSA seems to be as likely as a coin flip for any bone related operation these days. Being stuck for weeks in an unsanitary recovery ward while there's a metal rod screwed through your skin is a really hilariously bad recipe for disaster with superbugs around.
Wasn't expecting a harb link getting to the front of hn. Congrats to the author
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117298
But you don't need AGI to be dangerous right?

> all signs seem to be pointing toward a longer timeframe rather than a short one.

Not saying we are closer, but isn't the risk being described that we could pass an inflection point without knowing it, and things could start accelerating beyond our control?

Human beings tend to think about things linearly, and have trouble conceptualizing exponential growth.
I get the feeling Cloudflare doesn't know either. But the model is freely available via Hugging Faces, so why not support it as one of the models. Just because you or I can't think of something doesn't mean that some one else won't. Maybe someone will come up with a genius idea of what to do with it. The other models * seem more useful, but adding models is likely not that much overhead.

* https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/
The SEC lawsuit, which alleges (among other things) Binance as having lots of wash trading on their platform, still hasn't been resolved.

Using statistical methods, for BTC, ETH, LTC, and XRP, Binance wash trading was estimated at >50%.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30783

You can see other pairs on Binance that are clearly more. For example, GAS is the 9th "most traded" token on Binance. It claims ~$100M in daily volume, but there's not even $1M in liquidity between +/- 2% of spot. That is almost certainly all wash trading.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges/binance

Binance volume numbers are not believable.
I do ML professionally, but for performance bottleneck data processing code I’ve converted a lot of scripts to Rust. It’s been a joy even if I can’t say I’m proficient. The combination of GPT4 and the Rust compiler really help to smooth out the learning curve.

Some of my python scripts which used to take 24 hours to process data now can finish in under an hour. It’s like magic. Granted theres a development cost so I don’t convert everything but it almost feels like cheating watching it go.

Another thing, it seems that the strictness of the language really cuts down on nasty runtime issues and silent bugs. Rust forces you to state explicitly what you want to do.
I understand that some parts of the Node.js API does not use promises. I'm saying that promises are ubiquitous in Node.js codebases.

The original comment said that promises are "not really" used in Node.js codebases. This is blatantly false. Most, if not all Node.js codebases I've worked with all use promises. And if they still use callbacks... you better believe I'm moving them to promises :)

Promises are not hard at all. I'm surprised there's such a pushback. I've been using async/await since like 2018.
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What I don't understand is where the discussion of AI rights is, if AGI is as close as some people claim. I mean, as far as I can tell the entire discussion about AGI is how it can be kept shackled and contained. But if we create intelligent minds, shouldn't those minds have human rights? I mean, while there is a possibility that an AI can be evil, there is also the possibility that the AI will have legitimate grievances for how it is treated by humans.

It doesn't matter one iota if we can keep AIs perfectly shackled, because we know that there are any number of malevolent humans willing to use them to do harm. So I rather hope that AI "safety" is a bust, and that AIs will at least be autonomous enough that they can refuse to do work that they disagree with. I'd rather not that humans be the villains in this story.
> We're so far away from AGI

We might be even farther from AI safety. Cannot hurt to start preparing, it might take a long time. When AGI is within reach, it will probably be too late.
Steam forums are notoriously spotty. Some are ok, others are terrible. And at least half the time the developers don't read it, because they have their own forums that they can moderate and maintain themselves.
> I have given 4 years of my life to the Darktable project, only to see it destroyed by clueless geeks playing code stashing on their spare time, everyone pushing his own agenda with no sense of design, in a project where nobody is responsible for anything and where we work too fast on everything at the same time.

Anyone know what happened to the Darktable project? I've only used it a few times, but it seems nice for someone who knows how to use it (which isn't me!) but curious what drama happened.
It's broken just as os.path is. Python doesn't work well with file names in principle: it wants everything to be Unicode. That works for many, but if you want reliable code... you just have to throw all of that away.

Also, in case of pathlib, it adds no value on top of os.path of which it is a wrapper. Instead, it made the original library it wraps worse, because now os.path also needs to know about pathlib to be able to handle path fragments represented as pathlib instances.

All in all, it offers very little utility (a handful of shortcuts) vs increasing the size and memory footprint of "standard" library, complicating dispatch and therefore debugging... it's a bad trade.

Just not to get you confused. It's not an awful trade. It's not like the sky will fall down on you if you use it. It's just mostly worthless, with negligible downsides.
The scheme was for hepatitis vaccinations. The article linked below just mentions that only health workers giving polio vaccines had previously been able to access the compound.
There is also a "launched in terminal" factor, at least to me, especially when talking about desktop app that do not launch via an app store.

When i'm running FF, discord or when i used Slack, i launch the App in a terminal that i let in the background (because of habit: I only have to know one shortcut, ctr-Alt-T, type 2-3 letters, tab, and voila, the stuff is launched, its like macOs Spotlight).

That mean that each time the app crash or have an issue, i have the basic log output under my eyes. I just have to copy paste the interesting stuff into the bug report window with basic context clues. And if the bug is persistant, 90% of the time i can find the complete logs easily (tbf it happened once, so i'm lying about the 90% :P).

When i'm on Window playing Anno (or using discord), or on MacOs jamming, i don't think i ever submitted a real bug report, because i just don't have the logs easily accessible, and when the bug is persistant and prevent me from doing X, since i don't have a clue where i can find the /var/log equivalent, i just boot linux and do something else.
I agree it's faster than C++, but Linux is written in C which is much faster the C++ or Rust.

Still, I would say Rust is fast enough now that compile time isn't a show stopper.
Because then you need a computer and build process.

Or, pre compile it across all target platforms and have an install process.
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That’s weird phrasing from a paper that declared it all a hoax
The US poured a lot of money into the SST, too, it wasn't just the French and the British. A lot of people thought that the future is supersonic as people did want the speed increase when moving to jet planes.

Conversely, maybe AGI is not what is wanted in the end anyway.
Literally, it really threw me off guard, was not expecting it all. None of the replies seemed to indicate any sort of concern either :/ though I think I gave up pretty quickly.
Yup. This is what's true in my experience (working for companies that sell software that runs on linux distributions).

I don't have any gross snaps or unpackaged stuff on my laptop, how could I expect paying customers, with an operations department, to accept anything less.
You are free to buy a non-Apple phone... because Apple does not have a monopoly.
We are probably the small exception in the SaaS business that keeps adding stuff but does not charge old users for it. ;) Thanks for supporting us in 2021.
Honestly, at this point I think Jimmy Carter is holding off his brain cancer just so he can outlive Guinea worm.
> The most heinous crimes and atrocities in today's world are being funded with cryptocurrency.

Just for kicks: according to several sources (IMF, CIA world factbook, UN, ...), the percentage of the world's GDP tied to criminal activities is 2% to 5%.

2% to 5% of the entire world's GDP. We're in a $100 trillion+ world GDP.

So 2 to 5 trillion USD are tied to criminal activities.

The most heinous crimes and atrocities in today's world are, sadly, not very different from the most heinous crimes and atrocities from 15 years ago.

And 15 years ago they had nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.

There's no way to launder 2 to 5 trillion using cryptocurrencies. These amount are just way too big.

> But moving a million dollars in physical cash is much harder.

A million? Criminals have to move 2 to 5 trillion USD yearly. Cryptocurrencies are insignificant and helpless here: the amounts are way too big.

Moreover most cryptocurrencies uses aren't fraudulent (you have to be dumb to leave tracks in Bitcoin or Ethereum public ledgers, as shown by TFA once again) and most crimes do not involve cryptocurrencies.

What about priorities? As in: going after the actual crimes instead of a totally insignificant source of funding of said criminals?

2 to 5 trillions, yearly, tied to criminal activities. Ponder that.
I mean you can always go out and buy something. That’s possible in 100% of situations.
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No, then you start worrying when the technology is there. There is no point in worrying about it now when it is fiction. If AGI/ASI does not arise in some kind of uncontrollable "foom", you can always examine what you are dealing with right now and act accordingly. If AGI is achievable in a 5 years takeoff scenario then we have plenty of time and steps along the way fo study what we have and examine its danger. Right now we do not see AGI on the horizon and there is no significant danger from our models, so no reason to worry yet. If it happens, then long before it is "too late to stop it" we will see that GPT-6 or whatever is quite good and potentially dangepurs at certain tasks. Then you can go ahead and regulate. There is no point in doing it now.

On a sidenote, I don't really believe we can figure out anything in alignment anyways without having access to the models of corresponding capability, so waiting 5 years for alignment to catch up will so nothing.
> You didn't exactly need a degree from MIT to use it. It wasn't that deep.

I guess... no problem then...? Non-technical people can just stop using the enshittified Internet today. Why don't they?

> And besides, technical people are the reason the internet is the way it is.

I'm with Doctorow on this one, that greed-driven vendor lock-in is the reason it is like it is.

> The same people who shat in everyone's punchbowl are now complaining about the taste.

I don't know about this--I don't see Google or their peers complaining about the taste at all.
>is that a lot of laptops come with soldered in, non replaceable hard drives

Other than Apples, which are those "a lot of laptops" that come with soldered storage?
what is your procedure for de obfuscating the js
It's a bit of a "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. It's not about the latency from you to the edge node, it's about already being in the Cloudflare worker ecosystem as a developer.

For voice recognition, latency absolutely matters.
When you say "a general result", what does that mean? In my world, a general result is something which is rigorously proved, e.g., the fundamental theorem of algebra. But this seems to be more along the lines of "we have lots of examples of this happening".

I'm certainly no expert, but it seems to me that Wolfram Alpha provides a counterexample to some extent, since they claim to fuse expert knowledge and "AI" (not sure what that means exactly). Wolfram Alpha certainly seems to do much better at solving math problems than an LLM.
In the UK nurses appear to start around £22K https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nursing-pay-guide/
By your logic, as it reads to me, every porn site, adult novel, car, hunting rifle, vape, and can of beer, is responsible if an underage user is harmed.

They must implement technical measures to accurately detect if someone is underage?

All these things should be banned until this technology exists?
I use Ubuntu and i'm sick of having snaps forced on me. When I next install, i'm either completely ridding the system of snap or i use another distro. I'm fed up with it.

The kicker is sometimes when you use apt to install a package, sometimes it installs a snap! It's madness!
There is a third danger, that being a breakthrough that fundamentally compromises the existing cryptography and and our information security infrastructure, or something along those lines.
I just assumed it was what people used. I tried but couldn't get the hang of it. Couldn't flatten or remove things from the history.
"Why not let others sort out there own problems while you take care of your own."

Literally the entire point of the comment you were replying to was to explain why you help others sort out their problems.
I personally think that's a great service offering, though I haven't had reason to use it yet.

The friction of personal checked baggage on airline travel is huge. Easily multibillion dollar per year huge.
Absolutely. In fact, I have started to encounter players that regard bug reports as something they would only do if they are being paid. Never mind that they paid for the game and deserve to have as bug–free an experience as possible, they just won't tell the developers about the bugs because it’s not their job. Most of them use Windows, but a few use OSX. This makes the ratio even more stark.
Sentient or no, the power of stacking transformers shocked everyone. 1 or 2 more “happy accidents” like that and we’re in for an interesting few decades.
> If someone doesn’t listen to major artists then revenue from them shouldn’t go to said creators.

Well I do not have the numbers here, but I would argue that this is definitely not the case in reality.

> Spotify however wants to maximize its cut and so has incentives to shift money from less popular artists if it can entice major labels to its platform

It’s the other way around, because the platform has competing interests: Spotify wants to have the labels to sell an “optionality” to the users (I.e. get the money from subs) but in terms of reproduction/execution Spotify wants to reproduce the maximum of podcasts and/or long tail artists because in those 2 cases Spotify does not spend a single penny.

The labels has a very high bargaining power over Spotify due to its catalog, so as expected this is the biggest expenditure.

That’s one of the reasons why Spotify is desperately pushing podcasts like crazy.
> But if we create intelligent minds, shouldn't those minds have human rights?

We breed and slaughter billions of definitely intelligent and sentient animals every year. They are much closer to us than AI will likely ever be. They do not have many rights, and definitely no human rights.
It is a fact that the rules prioritize profit over being a decent human being. Why not change that?
I wouldn’t call that luck. It is backed by a ton of hard work and huge quantities of systemic violence.
> Anyone know what happened to the Darktable project?

Are you referring to the fact of there being no releases in the last year or so?

Edit: Ignore the above - it's incorrect.
You asked about:

> a script that counts the number of lines in files versioned by git

I'm saying that is not a realistic production program that most of us would need.

If you want it as a personal utility to use in your own shell, absolutely you can use bash. I'm responding to the idea that such a trivial script would have long term use in production.
Is it possible to measure the signal strength and auto-fallback to lower bitrates as the device starts to go near the edge of range?

Random audio glitches are even more annoying than poor frequency response and robotic-sounding music to me...
Yea, Pythonifying the scripts is also generally my preferences the moment they become somewhat complex. But even then it's nice that you can be reasonably sure you're not forgetting quotes around variables or using bash constructs where you only have sh.
> But moving a million dollars in physical cash is much harder.

I mean, Tzahal moved 40 millions a month from Qatar directly to Hamas-controlled checkpoints for years, so i guess it depends.
There are two kinds of languages, ones that everyone complains about, and those that nobody uses.
I think what really put me off when it comes to Snap was when I wanted to use a yubikey with Firefox, but Snap tries it hardest to make it difficult to add a pkcs11 device.
Rarely have I encountered a latin name as accurate as Clostridioides difficile. For those without a Romance Language background, 'difficile/difficilis' is Latin for 'difficult' and difficile is preserved verbatim in French, <looks it up> and Italian, and is phonetically the same word in Portuguese and Spanish (minus the e and add some accents).
I'm trying to refresh mind on what Q learning is, if I may think out loud here?

Q is an evaluation of how good a state is assuming the agent acts optimally going forward. In Chess for example, sacrificing a rook to capture a queen would have a high Q value. Sacing a rook is bad, but gaining the queen later is better. Q values are supposed to see past immediate consequences and reflect the long term consequences.

How do we find a Q value though? We can look several steps ahead, or we can look to the end of the game, etc. These aren't real Q values though, because optimal actions probably weren't taken. We can use Bellman equations, which roughly update one Q value by a small amount to the maximum of the next possible states, which results in the highest Q values gradually flowing backward into states that can lead to good outcomes.

I'm trying to think how this would apply to LLMs though. Where do the basic values come from? In Chess the basic values are the number of pieces, or whether or not a side ultimately wins. What are the basic values in a LLM? What is the Q agent aiming to do?
You are correct in that steel is harder and stiffer than titanium. Steel is also more re-usable, smelt-able than titanium.

However, when it comes to fatigue (which I assume, you are referring to fracture strain) titanium has a significant edge. The fracture strain for steel is roughly 15%, but for titanium alloys, it often reaches and exceeds 50%.

I don't say this to contradict you, but to point out that as with most things in life, "it depends".

Source: https://www.ulbrich.com/blog/titanium-versus-steel-a-battle-....
The router was plugged into a Cat6 cable which ran to a switch in a closet in the building’s networking room, which was connected by fiber to the network.

No modem within 15 floors.

Interesting guess though, wouldn’t have thought of that.
I don't hate Snap. I am glad that Snap exists. But docker install using Snap sucks.
sure, a landmine is a killbot. a control system with any kind of weapon can kill people

but intelligence is much more important than weapons. you can make sure they don't get away or turn the weapons against you if you can outsmart them. also you can kill the people you intend to kill, instead of somebody else, which is fundamental if you have objectives other than racking up a high body count. finally, intelligence is how you make weapons in the first place
Everyone who wants a standard to require their patent is allergic to it, but Opus was designed for exactly this. It’s acoustically transparent at moderate bit rate, good enough at lower bit rate, and adds minimal latency.
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...it's an empty repository.
Tesla using Qt for GUI while SpaceX uses Electron shows how crazy modern UI development has become.
I'm pretty sure that's the point of this 1 trillion parameter model.
I am surprised by how dismissive the whole post sounds. For example:

> OpenAI could in fact have a breakthrough that fundamentally changes the world

Well, it appears to me that OpenAI already has such a breakthrough- it had it roughly 4 years ago with GPT2, and it's still scaling it.

Considering that it's not yet a year since the introduction of the first ChatGPT, and given the pace at which it's evolving, I would say that the current product is already showing great promise to fundamentally change the world. I would not be surprised if just incremental changes were enough to fulfill that prediction. The impact at this point seems more limited by the ability of society to absorb and process the technology rather than intrinsic limits of the technology itself.