skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very early google was full of passion and people that wanted to build cool things for users. There was a passion where building things that would surprise and delight users.

The process when this changed was slow but I think started 2008-2010 where passion for building something was no longer what drove people but instead the promo-process, having impact and moving the needle became what drove people. Not passion but promo-process changed the culture dramatically over time.

Me and friends used to call it the LPA cycle. (L)aunch, get (P)romo, (A)bandon and switch team. And towards the second half of the 2010s it became a de-facto rule. Once something launches with a big fanfare, after next promo-cycle almost l5 and higher engineers leave to chase their next promo in a different team.

You can see this over and over after ~2015. High velocity and innovation until launch and shortly after it grinds to a stop. very sad to see this change from early google.
anyone can make a wheel.

only a handful of (effectively unaccountable) entities have SOTA AIs, and it's very unlikely for others to catch up.
Incidentally C++ is the only way to bootstrap rust without rust today.

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
We're at the point now where the harder problem is obtaining the high quality data you need for the initial training in sufficient quantities.
ECHR Article 10: "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises"

(yes, ECHR is still UK law at the quasi-constitutional level, despite the huge pressure against its application by non-nationals)

On the other hand: this isn't actually a free speech issue, it's an "access to classified information" issue. The MOD is simply refusing to say what it's doing. I'm sure the US DOD doesn't give out information on classified operations to random congressmen either.
Both just look at the first entry in argv. Whether you used a hard- or symlink isn't very important for that. Or at least, that's how FreeBSD crunchgen works. Maybe they changed that in OpenBSD?
It is a fantastic exploration of gen-AI's role in the Creative Professional domain. The piece resonates with my own thoughts on how the EXPERT approach aligns more suitably with knowledge and experience. Your insights on refining AI-generated content through accurate information, segmented processing, and refining drafts for effective communication are insightful. The article beautifully highlights the interplay between AI-generated and human-written content, but I prefer human write content like on https://www.grabmyessay.com/making-personal-statement. Great read! Your insights on leveraging expertise and guiding the AI's writing process are spot on.
Probably wouldn't make much difference. British freedom of speech is not actually that bad in general, RSF ranks the UK significantly higher than the US in this regard: https://rsf.org/en/index

This article goes into it in more detail, but in honesty, the first amendment does not actually always stop Congress from passing laws restricting speech under various circumstances.

https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
> 4) they (current LLMs) cannot backtrack when they find that what they already wrote turned out not to lead to a solution, and it is too expensive to give them the thousands of restarts they'd require to randomly guess their way through the problem if you did give them that facility

This sounds like a reward function? If correctly implemented couldn't it enable an LLM to self-learn?
I definitely "invested" a decent amount of time into Larn when I was younger. Managed to win, too. There was a lot that could be improved on, and it did have a few bugs (and it really slowed to a crawl on some of the volcano levels where there are hundreds of monsters) but I haven't found another roguelike yet that was as fun. Good times.
Sorry, my point on vaccines and antibiotics was meant to be historical on moving fast.

As AGI does not exist, it is moot do discuss how we might or might not convince it to do something.

And, yes, stacking hypotheses on top of each other is effectively pulling arguments out of thin air.
>"Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites."

Only in Germany for now
Do you use the BedJet sheet? I find it much nicer than the air blowing directly.
> Why read Huckleberry Finn when you can read the cliffs notes?

The difference should be self-evident.
Britain has "freedom of expression" with some very specific limitations (lese majesté for instance).
Humane AI pin using an old Apple Watch
https://github.com/Olivia-li/humane.watch
Seems to have been approved for inclusion in C++26.

Paper: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p16...

Personally I am sceptical about such a huge addition to the C++ stdlib being warranted but for better or worse it is a noteworthy addition that I have seen surprisingly little discussion about.
Haha true that. It's really limited in terms of how well it can be integrated, however I really wish Apple would make some socket version of this(in future )for general consumers or atleast OEMs , it would be hugely successful.

The chances are close to impossible since it's Apple, and the architecture will need lot's of changes or the OEMs will have to change their motherboard design drastically to support a socketed M series chip ( storage controller, memory controller are all on the SOC)
It's strange for an obituary to be two months late...
Writing things in a constitution doesn't save you from having to litigate them; the US constitution is constantly subject to litigation.

(Not sure how true that is of non-anglosphere countries, though. There's occasional German constitutional litigation, but it doesn't seem quite so critical to politics there)
All those things sound very boring to me.

I can offer no concrete solutions.

However, I have a friend who graduated from high school #1 of a big class and 2 years early. His mom explained that if he made at least a 1400(of 1600) on his SAT, she would buy him a new gaming computer. He then proceeded to make exactly a 1400. No more. No less.

I recommend if you haven't tried already, an iteration to this approach using a sliding scale reward system. Perhaps a gaming pc with nvidia 4060ti up to *insert parental budget* in event of a perfect SAT score.

Ofc this only works if he's a gamer. I feel this type of system can be applied in many areas though. In my view, the clever component his mother applied is that the computer he earned was not just a desirable reward... It was VERY desirable.

My parents also tried this system with me. It didn't work as well. The reward was not sizable enough. It just didn't seem worth it. Too low value. Also, I already had a job and bought my own. My parents were unwilling to budget a sufficient reward. It's gotta be something he more or less is unlikely to be able to get via other means.

Now my friend is a physician. He graduated top of his class from med school. I think he's pretty content with life.

The bored ones can be a little more trouble sometimes. Fun breed though. Best of luck.
Facing pressure in India, Netflix and Amazon back down on daring films
Italian politicians are not exactly known for their frugal lifestyle, but this story makes them pale in comparison. For example, a few days ago the minister of agriculture merely had a train (running late, besides) take an unscheduled stop so he could get out earlier and attend a public event. This made the headlines as an outrageous abuse of priviledges.
https://archive.is/siuGU
Okay. I’d rather give the credit to the nameless activists that forced the issue to the table and made segregation politically untenable. But I’m used to "leaders" getting credit for good things and the populace the stick for bad things.[1]

I'm doubtful that these leaders do these things because they are "listening" rather than because they are forced to. Or what, politicians are cynical power brokers (a common view, and correct) except on this issue? The leaders behind the State violently crack down on protests until they have a sudden epiphany and realize that demonstrating against segregation was good.

[1] Civil Rights was to Johnson’s credit, apparently, while the Trump Presidency was due to “stupid voters”
llvm backend for pdp-11: lldpd
Screensharing mistake gets Nvidia sued over alleged stolen trade secrets
Off-topic, but the title made me think of that scene from Cronenberg's Scanners [1], which has a pretty interesting backstory:

The head itself was made using a number of different materials. First, a plaster head was used, but it looked more like an exploding statue. Then, they tried making a head out of wax, but it wasn't pliable enough and did not provide the desired effect. Eventually, the team settled on an internal skull structure formed with plaster, with outside skin and facial features rendered using gelatin. From there, the team packed the skull with just about whatever they could find. They used wax and latex scraps, along with various stringy bits and anything they had lying around the studio that they thought would fly through the air a little better. They even used bits of leftover burgers from lunch that day.

From there, the plan was to blow the head up with explosives. The problem, the team found, was that any kind of explosive they used revealed sparks to the camera, which they didn't want. To portray a real sense of internal mental pressure resulting in the head exploding outward, they needed a different method. As the shoot wore on and nothing seemed to be working, special effects supervisor Gary Zeller told everyone to keep their cameras rolling, to get into their cars, and roll the windows up. He then lay down underneath the head with a shotgun, pointed it up beneath the back of it, and fired. The result is the exploding head scene in Scanners.

https://screenrant.com/david-cronenberg-scanners-movie-explo...

1. Probably don't watch this at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk
It’s in FreeBSD 14. But they disabled block cloning by default.
Find a British policeman and within earshot of them say "I think Hamas have a point". Then you'll see how free your expression is.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
You're the one who complained my examples files were too big.

This is about the general discussion around minification. I don't care the specifics of your particular usecase.

The point is that it reduces filesizes even after gzip. You having an arbitrary threshold around 200 bytes is not interesting.
I disagree.

Sydney like everything with LLMs, was a one trick pony. What makes Sydney stand out is we didn't get enough time to see how limited the trick was. The removal and censoring makes it seem like a bigger deal than it was in reality.

I have had this experience over and over with generative AI across modalities. The first 10-20 experiences are mind blowing because you don't know what it can't do but then after a 1000 iterations you can see the trick and how limited everything is.
"Neo: You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
Choi: All the time. It's called mescaline, it's the only way to fly"

-- The Matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdAMq5LdAvs

Isolated in 1896 and synthesized in 1919.
Havelock Ellis described the use of cactus Anhalonium lewinii, or mescal button by Kiowa Indians (New Mexico) in "Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise" (1898).
Aldous Huxley took mescaline for the first time on May 3, 1953 and subsequently wrote about it in Doors of Perception (1954) and Heaven and Hell (1956).
Jim Morrison co-founded The Doors, named after Huxley's book, in July 1965 in Los Angeles, California. He formed the band with Ray Manzarek, whom he met at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television when they were both students.

Carlos Castaneda, himself a kind of enigma and his books controversial wrote his first book shortly after, "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," published in 1968,
Why?

Or, given https://thegradient.pub/othello/, why wouldn't it have an internal model of chess? It probably saw more than enough example games and quite a few chess books during training.
it says in the september article from wired establishing the cause of death may take weeks, is it mentioned somewhere now?
Any `nil` error, like the famous `undefined method 'users' for nil` is a type error.

Every time that serialization gets the wrong value passed in but continues anyway, is a type error. Every time a database-record misses a value (NULL) but the app continues to run over that, is a type error. And so on.

When I look at my most stable apps' Rollbar or Sentry, the top 20 errors are nearly all errors that a type system (which does not allow |null, like Java's - ugh, useless) would've caught compile or dev-time. The very few non-typing errors that are then left are race-conditions and business-logic-bugs.

The latter are really the only bugs that I'm "fine" with, they come with the domain. Race-conditions are quite often deep down also typing issues - they surface as similar `Undefined method on nil` errors because some data is nil due to the racing threads. Something a typing system would partly fix - as we can see in Rust.
Yes! Behind all the hype, I was really surprised when Apple launched the M series. I was wondering how such a huge company can remove support for an architecture in such a small span of time(MS's legacy support has ruined us all?)
Language translation is due to the huge corpus of translations that it's trained on. Google translate has been doing this for years. People don't apply softmax to their arithmetic. Again, code generation is approximate retrieval, it can't generate anything outside of it's training distribution.
Sounds like Terminator 2
It's also fun to use your brain I guess, I think we've truly forgotten that life should be about fun.

Watching my kids grow up, they just have fun doing things like trying to crawl, walk or drink. It's not about being the best at it, or the most efficient, it's just about the experience.

Now maths is taught in a boring way, but knowing it can help us lead more enjoable lives. When math is taught in an enjoyable way AND people get results out of it. Well that's glorious.
One example, sorry for the bad translation from Bavarian, would be: "You can see it that way (as well)". Which can basically mean, a) you might actually have a point or b) you are dead wrong.
As someone who enjoys shell scripting I don't think I have ever used the "expr" command. this astonishes and baffles me because I used to read the man pages for fun, I even had a little script to pick a random page. So thanks a bunch for bringing it to my attention.

My only guess as to why I am unfamiliar with the command is that perhaps younger me failed to figure out "expression" means regular expression. It only clicked this time because of your comment and the see also: re_format link at the bottom.

http://man.openbsd.org/expr
I have a strong suspicion that this is a purposeful leak to hype up OpenAI's product. It wouldnt't be out of character for some of the people involved, and it's the kind of thing that rampant commercial (and valuation) focus can bring with it.
I had this for a long time, and increasingly frequently during one particularly stressful part of my life. Haven't had it for years now though.
I don't mind the terse messages, it's functional. It is rude for allowing applications to steal application focus. You can thankfully use a hack to disable this though.
aka "Catholic guilt for atheists"
This looks great! Are there any plans to include Ruby as a supported scripting language along with Python, Typescript, Go, Bash, and Sql?
I currently use my own crude workflow runner for processes that are mostly sql, but with some ruby code. I’ve stuck with it because it works and we currently use Ruby for almost everything, so it’s not worth it to add another language to the mix so we could use a better tool.
You mean compared to the great advances in the standard of living across the EU since 2016?

I'm on the other side of the channel, and the "standard of living" has been going spectacularly down before and after the Brexit, so there's that.

Not to mention some little less known facts: people can legitimately vote or go against the improvement of their "standard of living", if it's for greater causes and principles. Not everybody measures everything in monetary terms.
Hmm... 2006, huh. I wonder what happened then for it to change. Well tax evasion has always been the main game with these foundations. But it's a strange statement from earlier about the disbursement of funds through the Gates Foundation. There are claims here against Dynastic wealth yet similarly to the Emerson Collective these claims seem hard to substantiate or just tax write off donations to his children. Though it is important to note that Buffet has given $50 billion of his own wealth to charitable causes.

Personally, I don't like to think of this as some conspiracy or oligarchic cause. In many ways it could be the billions his children are inheriting seems like a lot because it is. Though, mind you, they are in their 70s. Some are obese, the likelihood of living past a certain age is also hard to factor, but not impossible. Most people like to see their children at least live a good life, it's hard to blame them for it. But at what amount does this become questionable? These are all questions people ask and have asked over the decades.

This generation of billionaires have not been born into extreme levels of wealth. Though many have asked what would happen if this were to continue. In Korea generational wealth has existed through various families known as the Chaebols the word itself is a loan word for Japanese known as Zaibatsu. Extreme levels of income inequality in Korea and an economy controlled by a few powerful mega-corporations whose families made connections to one another through marriage.

Well, it's impossible to tell what the future holds for these children. But for the average Korean citizen they have become indentured servants. A broken social structure and a ladder that for many is impossible to climb. I guess it's enough with the anecdotes. And even if it got better should a family or a handful of families control an entire countries economy? I don't think so.

I do wonder though, can a family spend even a billion dollars in their lifetime? It seems unrealistic to think of that way. And why should any family even have control of such level of wealth. In their lifespan have they done anything to deserve this amount? It seems impossible to think of, much less inheriting it.

It can seem appealing to people to be a billionaire or to have an immense amount of wealth, but it's not. It's an isolating life and an even smaller social circle. Most of no friends and it can be almost impossible to build relationships with others even in these circles. But who knows maybe they've never experienced this before. But I've met with aging billionaires before and their children. Their life stories are just kind of depressing. For a lot of them their money is the only tangible thing they have and that's not really a healthy thing.
I think GP's point was that `[` feels like syntax, but - importantly - isn't.

Yes, `[` is a command, and has a man page and everything, but in a script it doesn't look like a command. It looks like something "special" is going on.

Whereas using `test` emphasises the point that you're just running another program. That all `if` does is check the output status of whatever program is being run, whether that's `test`/`[`, or `grep`, or anything else at all.

(Personally, I don't think that emphasis is necessary. But I've been using shell scripts long enough that I understand these nuances fairly well without having to think about them much any more. So I think that GP's point is a reasonable perspective to have, and worth considering.)
here is my good deed for the day:

modern AI is just vector multipication. any AI chip is just 10,000s of very simple cores which can do vector float operations and little else. this also entails clever trade offs of shared cache and internal bandwidth.

(as a thought experiment, consider a naive million by million matrix multipication. this will take a single cpu about 1 year! how do we reduce this to 1s ?)

the end
Some of the queries you gave me weren't so bad!

I specifically searched just now something I searched recently, "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off".

I naturally blocked ads, but it shows "Cast", "People also ask", the official Netflix result (good), "Trailers and Clips", "Reviews", "Episodes", "Top Stories" with some gossip, and then Wikipedia and IMDB.

However this is also not so bad! I will make sure to document all my problematic Googling experiences.

You can argue that those things are "noise that my brain should block" or that "they're actually useful", and that's entirely true. But Google is no longer returning the results I used to expect from it, and that's a fact. Maybe I'm not the target audience anymore? Well, that's not a big deal, there are other products. But my point still stands. Sorry but not sorry: Apple's Spotlight is still better for this and needs zero scrolling to take me to Wikipedia.
> humans are within an order of magnitude of intelligence of one another.

Yes, and maybe that will be different with an AGI. Maybe AGI is physically possible. And maybe that advantage in intelligence will make AGI vastly more powerful than us.

Those are a lot of "maybes" however, and thus all of this remains highly speculative.

Just one example that puts a pretty big dent into many scenarios of all-powerful AGIs:

I think everyone agrees that even the dumbest human still outsmarts bacteria, protists and viruses by several orders of magnitude. And yet, we haven't been able to rid the world off things like Measles, Cholera, Malaria or HIV. Even the common cold and influenza are still around.

So, if we, with out big brains, that split the atom, went to the moon and developed calculus, cannot beat tiny infectious agents that don't even have a brain, then I remain kinda sceptic that being a very very very smart ML model means an Automatic Win over the human species.
How is the $ per inference, say 4k tokens, on a Hetzner box vs an A100?

Not all tasks require low latency.
Larry David is never wrong on these things, you can trust him.
The heroes we don't usually hear about. RIP.
I can understand region-locks for products that need to comply with region-specific regulations but for things like these it makes me scratch my head. What's the rationale? Is Mozilla worried goverments elsewhere might not like this? It seems so weird to me.
Another BedJet fan. My wife and I both agree it’s in the top 3-4 purchases since we’ve been together (10 years).

I think I would give up most other possessions before it. It is probably only beaten out by a few very sentimental items (like my wedding rings), Kindle Voyager (by far the best eReader Amazon ever made IMHO) and a couple of my newer Apple devices (Apple Pencil 2 and AirPods with iPhone are just magic).

Individualized climate control in bed is a luxury that has put a grateful smile on me for almost every day over the last 6 years.
To clarify, I'm really curious about this question. Is there some limit to autocomplete that falls short of continuing a prompt such as: "The following is a literate programming compendium on how to stimulate the human brain in software ..."
Seems too young, may he rest in peace
I’m pretty sure he’s been on her podcast, and she’s posted photos of them together