skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't work in university research for the pay, it's garbage, I assure you.

It's pretty good in the US. I just looked up a randomly chosen assistant professor at a public university and they make $200k. I only looked up one person's salary so this isn't cherry picked.

I'm not saying that they're in it for the money. I'm only disagreeing with the part where you said that the pay is garbage.

It's not an infinite amount of money and it's less than industry, but it seems not garbage considering job prestige, job benefits, etc.
That's not how salaries are defined. Exihibit A: Big tech coluding to keep SV salaries as low as possible.
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Spam is no longer significant. Back around year 2000 I was getting multiple thousands of spam messages per day (to the very same email address I still use today). Those were the dark and difficult days.

Today I basically don't get any spam. I don't keep precise stats on the spam that makes it to my inbox but it's something like 2 or 3 per month. Compared to a few thousand per day twenty+ years ago!

I want to highlight again that it is the exact same email address I use today.

I block misconfigured connections at the SMTP level in postfix (I run my own mail server), that takes care of pretty much all of it.

After that I run bayesian filtering (spamprobe) to score spam, but there isn't much to catch. Over the last 30 days spamprobe has caught 37 messages, all true positives.

Unlike gmail, I also don't get any false positives (zero so far this year).

I know how bad it was couple decades ago and a lot of people are still traumatized by those days and act like it's still 2001, but the reality in 2023 is that spam is a very minor issue.
Actual reasoning is made up of various biological feedback loops that happen in the body and brain, essentially your physical senses give you the ability to reason in the first place, without the eyes, ears etc there is no ability to learn basic reasoning, which is why kids who are blind or mute from birth have huge issues learning about object permanence, spatial awaraness etc. You cant expect human reasoning without human perception.

My question is how does the AI perceive. Basically how good is the simulation for its perception. If we know that, then we can probably assess its ability to reason because we can compare it to the closest benchmark we have (your average human being). How do AI's see, how did they learn concepts in strings of words and pixels? How does the concept it learnt in text carry through to images of colors, of shapes? Does it show a transfer of conceptual understanding across both two and three dimentional shapes?

I know these are more questions than answers, but its just things that I've been wondering about.
The point being?
Aero is pretty important. You're not hitting fuel efficiency standards without good aero.
Even if it were legal to sell, a car that uses 20% more fuel than its competition would be dead in the water in many markets no matter how easy it is to repair.
Because the developers are not skilled.
I know of at least one person making nearly 6 figures doing data entry.

It turns out some websites work hard enough to prevent scraping that it is more cost effective to just pay a contractor to go look at a page and type numbers in rather than hire a developer to constantly work around anti-scraping techniques (and risk getting banned).
I can't help but wonder how that "Ninety plus percent" would change in a convincingly anonymous voting process instead of a public social pressure with potential repercussions environment.
Ok, I messed up, we need compare LLM weight with synaps, not neuron, and wiki says there are 100-500T synapses in human brain
> Don't give me your explanations I just want the code
Selling egress bandwidth also seems to be very lucrative, at 50-100x cost price.
Yeah, that seems likely. I'm not sure how to express the concept aside from the name I've seen used in the community (and my many subsequent explanations), considering I was explicitly talking about typing.
Seems promising. Do they say anywhere how many tokens / second is achieved on the CPU?
That town is apparently Nothing But Trouble.
Probably best to say "simulate the appearance of reasoning": looks and feels 100% acceptable at a surface level, but the actual details and conclusions are completely wrong / do not follow.
Can you describe how you would reason about say a paragraph of code--something which is very language based?
For me it's pretty simple- LM Studio supports Apple Silicon GPU acceleration out of the box, and I like the interface better than Gradio Web UI. It saves me the headache and the tinkering of the alternatives. That said, free software that's hiring developers probably won't stay free for long, so I'm keeping my eye on other options.

Tl;DR It's for Mac users
> Shielding isn't some distant future technology. Many simple compounds work as great shields, including water

Wasn't it your own comment that there was a burst that killed 85% of marine species at the time. Water did not help did it?

> Unfortunately, Earth will literally never be safe from extinction. Nor will any planet. The first thing that should happen once we set foot on Mars is planning for the settlement of the next planet

Gamma bursts don't distinguish between planets or even entire solar systems. You'd need to go way further to be safe. So if you choose to colonize Mars, you are trading off the work that could allow that for a bunch of unrelated effort associated with colonizing Mars.
I really like my Gygabyte m27Q 27” 2k monitor. Supplies 15 W via usb-c which charges my MacBook Pro while also serving as display port.

It’s sells for less than half of your budget.
I think you are the one projecting. I am just presenting facts. There is also nobody black on the board, by the way. I don't think that is a problem, but it is what it is.

Now this "initial board", tasked with establishing the rest of the board, for a company that wants to create AGI for the benefit of humanity, consists of three white alpha-males. That's just a fact. Is it a coincidence? Of course not.
Honestly this is such a waste of time every time I have to argue with developers about installing up to date homebrew (or whatever) versions of the coreutils that I wish Apple would simply DELETE all these ancient versions of tools from MacOS.
As a bonus, homebrew does not offer --with-default-names any more and some tools (like make) are posted into different paths so you need to add your own symlinks or add multiple paths to your PATH.
Nothing stops it from writing a recipe for soup for every request, but it does tend to do what it's told. When asked to do mathsy things and told it's got a tool for doing those it tends to lean into that if it's a good llm.
Ah yes, Ford and Tesla, the champions of build quality.
It's a Chinese name. Specifically a name romanized using a system typically used in Taiwan, I think (you tend to see "hs" in Taiwanese names whereas in the PRC "Hsiao" would be "Xiao"). Taiwan has close ties to Japan so that's not too surprising really.
It’s likely that the grade school math that was referenced is GSM8K https://github.com/openai/grade-school-math which LLMs perform poorly on.
Which mid to large companies have made this decision so far? I know there's Facebook, but their use case is exceptional.
I don't think it's guaranteed, but I do think it's very plausible because we've seen these models gain emerging abilities at every iteration, just from sheer scaling. So extrapolation tells us that they may keep gaining more capabilities (we don't know how exactly it does it, though, so of course it's all speculation).

I don't think many people would describe GPT-4 as a stochastic parrot already... when the paper that coined (or at least popularized) the term came up in early 2021, the term made a lot of sense. In late 2023, with models that at the very least show clear signs of creativity (I'm sticking to that because "reasoning" or not is more controversial), it's relegated to reductionistic philosophical arguments, but not really a practical description anymore.
> You're implying

Well, this entire discussion is built on assumptions about what would happen in very speculative circumstances for which no precedent exists, so yeah, I am allowed to make as many assumptions of my own as I please ;-)

> A 2022 AI can already beat most humans in the game Diplomacy:

And a 1698 Savery Engine can pump water better than even the strongest human.

> in the near future when GPUs become abundant, many small groups of people can harbor a copy of an AGI in their basement

Interesting. On what data is the emergence of AGI "in the near future" based if I may ask, given that there is still no definition of the term "Intelligence" that doesn't involve pointing at ourselves? When is "near future"? Is it 1 year, 2, 10, 100? How does anyone measure how far away something is, if we have no metric to determine the distance between the existing and the assumed result?

Oh, and of course, that is before we even ask the question whether or not an AGI is possible at all, which would be another very interesting question to which there is currently no answer.
From the meat robot perspective the structure, operation and organisation of the neurons is also significantly different.
Sure... but that machine learning PhD has a vested interest in being optimistically biased in his observations.
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Some people get relevant information not only from little screens but interactions with other human beings or physical reality.
Nope you can totally do it. It also has a drag and drop app builder and support most frameworks as long as it is build in a certain way.

https://www.windmill.dev/docs/react_vue_svelte_apps/react
The corporate/government divide is not very useful analytically. Elites use wealth through large scale organizations to hide actors and intent. Government institutions and privately incorporated corporations are just two sets of kit with different uses.

The ebbs and flows of power in society operate on scales of decades and centuries. Individual decisions can't change that, and there's nothing special about our time. It's just some phase we have been through before.
It's a text generator that spits out tokens. It has absolutely no understanding of what it's saying. We as humans are attaching meaning to the generated text.

It's the humans that are hallucinating, not the text generator.
As an European who worked in both North Americans and European companies I can attest European business communication is much more direct and less averse to confrontations.

Having said that, I'm not sure we can assign this difference in mentality to author's decision to name the VP (which I personally find valiant, but probably short-sighted).
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>Cats cannot solve mathematical problems too, but unlike cats, neural network evolve.

cats evolve plenty, pressure towards mathematical reasoning has stymied as of late what with the cans of food and humans.
I don't think that aligns with the reality of the opinion formation. There was a strong subset of isolationist and protectionist views before 2015.
Intel's cable modems also had issues. I wonder if there's some patent they're trying to work around that technically has alternate solutions, but they're all inferior on power consumption?
This is cool! Could you share the bookmarklet that you mention in the reddit post?
Looks nice! My best friend had a restaurant in Budapest called Kafana but sadly it closed due mostly to a poor choice of location: it was close to the Serbian church but far from the bar scene.

Any idea what is “Orange Wine?”

https://kafananyc.com/Wine
Actually I got the date wrong, but it's because I quit my job at Google in late 2020 and my last day was in early 2021 :). I wanted to work somewhere where I'd get to do something interesting and have a meaningful impact in a reasonable time frame. Based on my experience, I felt that would be hard to find at Google.
How is Apple so Incompetent?
It's the biggest company in the world yet they can't hire engineering teams that don't make stuff worse. SwiftUI has got to be one of the worst frameworks I've ever seen and it breaks all the time. Who was the genius that thought of this completely unreadable way to build an interface? TTS completely stopped working in iOS17 and xCode 15. And that's after several bugs were reported in beta. Once we upgrade operating systems, we can't go back and download an XCode that works. Or downgrade operating systems. I guess I should be thanking them for making it so hard to be a developer cause if they made it easy, everyone would do it.
This is fantastic. Selection of sounds is very interesting. It sets your brain on the quest of transderivational search, traversing his own spaces to find (derive) meaning when hearing these snippets of speech. They are ambiguous enough to really f$Y^k it up a bit, so process unfolds a bit more than usually.

Maybe currently looped squares in one column could not overlap, but that would be needed if this was some mixing table and it is not (it is a bit). It's awesome!

I really would love to hear some back story on why (eg. sounds selection).
While this is a common attitude in western society, it does not make sense if you zoom out. Acting morally/ethically and being successful are not mutually exclusive. But it is more difficult, and it might require a more careful assessment.

You only exist because every ancestor of yours, up to your single celled ancestor, succeeded in 'life'. To denounce success for its own sake, is, for lack of a better term, stupid.
Robotisation predates electric motors : see Luddites vs automatic looms : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_loom
I know that by "dear leader" you mean to imply that Trump did something unfair/wrong/sinister/etc ("just like Hitler", amirite fellas?)., but a leader of a large group of people, by definition, is good at persuasion.

Franklin Roosevelt moved the Democratic Party in a direction very different from its first century. The party's two previous presidential nominees were a Wall Street corporate lawyer (John W. Davis) and Al Smith who, despite also being a New York City resident and state governor, so opposed FDR by the end of his first term that he founded an influential anti-New Deal organization. During the Roosevelt years the Democrats lost significant support from traditional backers, but more than made up for it with gains elsewhere in what became the New Deal coalition.

Similarly, under Trump the GOP lost support in wealthy suburbs but gained support elsewhere, such as Rust Belt states, Latinos (including places like South Florida and the Texas border region), blacks, and (according to current polls) young voters. We'll see whether one compensates for the other.
What was it like when the Higgs gave particles mass?
Cool,
I might give it a try considering that Moom is having issues with Sonoma on my MBP m3 :/

I think your pricing is great but I would personally do a different tier system. Smaller yearly cost for yearly subscriptions for future updates (6,99 maybe) plus lifetime for a higher price.

I think lifetime value at that price is unsustainable for you if you have to give support and updates with no extra income coming from it. If you consider lifetime as a 5x yearly you’re giving yourself a good time window to make the product grow sustainably.
Actually gpt4 gets this right 2/2 times i tried
Looking at humanity, persuasion seems to be an extremely low bar! Also for a superhuman trait is it that it’s capable of persuading anyone anything or rather that it’s able to persuade everyone about something. Power vs. Reach.
If you want to learn, here are a few tips that really helped me:

There are some basic fundamentals to start with @DesignCourse on YouTube has a few videos which cover them well.

Copy good designs. But in doing so, also dissect them and learn what makes them good. Take note of how they applied the fundamentals. This includes great apps/sites as well as UI libraries (don’t use these, learn from them).

Using UI libraries will not result in good designs unless you’re already a good designer. UI libraries exist so that good designers can make uniform designs faster, not so that bad designers can make good designs.
The nice way to write that isn't any kind of test command but:

while true; do ...; done

There is never any reason to use test, other than portability to some broken environment that is missing [ but not missing test.
I can't say any names but one very large shop is already jumping. But the jump is chaotic and poorly executed.

What are the alternatives?
This seems to refer to the GSM8K (grade school math) benchmark [1].
GPT-4 scores 0.92 on that one. A breakthrough could mean it gets all of them correct.

This would have major implications for long-term planning. For instance, if you have a sequence of 10 steps, each with a 90% success rate, the overall success rate after all 10 steps falls to just 34%. This is one of the reasons why agents like AutoGPT often fail in complex tasks.

[1] https://github.com/openai/grade-school-math
Altmanheimer
It might seem that there are cases where the ability to generate heaps of plausibly sounding text on demand is helpful, and there are cases where it is pretty much the worst possible capability to have.
youtube kids suggests weird videos in foreign languages. does not allow me to pick exact channels i want my kids to watch.

and also there is no option for me to watch the latest high rated videos by the creator's i like. screenshot: https://snipboard.io/acH8wg.jpg
Big "if" on massive change within in months. Most businesses have very little change capacity.
Interesting, I did not know about this law.

I guess the unbundling of basics is the way the airlines flaunt this law.

I just looked up flights from SFO to EWR on kayak. Cheapest one was $426.

But when I click through to the united site, the fine print says that even for a carryon bag there is a +$25 charge. So even if you don't check any bags (which of course is another extra fee), there is a $25 fee for the carryon. So the real price is $426+$25 at a bare minimum.

But let's be honest, that is a basic economy seat with no knee room for an adult and no checked bag. So unless you are a child traveling for two days, you need to pay extra for both legroom and the checked bag. The bag is another +$70. I don't care to spend the time to go through the whole process to get the final price but clearly it's way more than $426.

If you're comparison shopping, now repeat this hassle for every single flight on the search result. You will (and I do) spend many wasted hours on this infuriating nonsense.
You're building a strawman out of a red herring my friend. If you're gonna be pedantic at least get it right.
Not one mention of GDI+ ?
Started using startpage.com for google results without the ads and its pretty good.
Looks nice. A few pieces of feedback.

The AI voiceover is creepy and a bit naff. Either record yourself or pay someone to be enthusiastic. There's also no subtitles, which isn't very accessible.

On your self-published page, lots of the text appears scrambled? "Owh aynm tuefrsno erew adem?"

But, overall, looks like a very good GUI for people who aren't comfortable with things like PanDoc.
I wasn't trying to suggest they were similar.

It might be hard to imagine this, but it is possible that leading a company deploying billions of dollars might actually have a significantly larger potential impact on people's lives than a rogue cop.
> As an actual PhD student, I will find it very dangerous to endorse someone who I don't know very much personally and judge a hobbyist work in general.

How so? I mean, what danger is there in just endorsing somebody to submit to arXiv? It's not like you're endorsing their work as being correct or anything. An arXiv endorsement is saying nothing more than "this isn't pure bullshit / spam / pseudo-scientific nuttery".

As they say:

The endorsement process is not peer review. You should know the person that you endorse or you should see the paper that the person intends to submit. We don't expect you to read the paper in detail, or verify that the work is correct, but you should check that the paper is appropriate for the subject area. You should not endorse the author if the author is unfamiliar with the basic facts of the field, or if the work is entirely disconnected with current work in the area ...

> The consequences might be huge for any future academic career if this turned south.

How would it "turn south" though? What would that even mean in this context? If you read the paper and judged it to actually not be "pure bullshit / spam / pseudo-scientific nuttery" then unless you made one hell of an error in judgment, there shouldn't be any consequences. From what the arXiv page says, the worst thing that could possibly happen is you could lose your ability to endorse others in the future. Probably not exactly career ending? And note that your endorsement is not public information:

The fact that you have personally endorsed or not endorsed a person (as well as any optional comments) is private between you and the arXiv administrators – this information will not be shared with arXiv users or the person requesting endorsement,
Indic Scripts
Any Writers Using Draftback?
Curious if anyone has found it useful, or uses any similar app. Do you find it interesting/useful to revisit earlier drafts?
I found this fascinating. I never knew there was a relation between all these languages!
I don’t think we should throw out the stochastic parrot so easily. As you say there are “clear signs of creativity” but that could be it getting significantly better as a stochastic parrot. We have no real test to tell mimicry apart from reasoning and as you note we also can only speculate about how any of it works. I don’t think it’s reductionist in light of that, maybe cautious or pessimistic.
idk, man! Ask the guy who tweeted it! Haha :)
I thought what drove Serbs to war was the Bosniak's desire to create a Muslim state and treat everybody else (Serbs, Croats) as second class citizens; and the Kosovar Albanians desire to create Albanian ethnostate and treat everybody else as second class citizens, which they did.

You are placing blame on Serbian militias' greed and power hunger, which sounds as an underwhelming explanation to me.