skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealthy in what way? I’m sure the South had massively rich plantation owners and bankers, but like most resource extraction economies I suspect monetary velocity was lower and the general public was much poorer and less educated. Extraction economies usually amass a lot of static wealth but are poor in terms of dynamic wealth.

The relationship with Northern capitalists would have been similar to what you see today with petrostates, resource extraction states, and vendors of cheap labor.

Had the South survived I would suspect it would be much poorer today than the North as its economy would probably get stuck in extraction and labor exploitation. Chattel slavery would probably have ended when fossil fuels were discovered at large scale and it might be a petrostate now.
I don't think it has worked for years. I had used that same exact __annotations__ and my recollection was that recursive types still did not work.
There is no universal gamer, nor a universal gamer preference.
When has that ever stopped the march of technology beside fission reactors, human cloning and through the Nuremberg code for medical ethics in general?
Preserving Wasteful Practices (2011)
I didn't call you a westerner. I said that in my experience a lot of regular westerners still believe in that myth. And that this crowd is closer to Cafe crowd.

As for „serious intelectual position“ as a split between academia and regular crowd, I'd argue that many people in academia today are con artists at best. And boy do they have end-of-history-ish views. But yes, that's not „serious intelectual position“.
common sense?

You may find this interview interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTJR9vqWB4
Given the RLHF post training, I do believe it was intentional. And I suspect there have been iterations on this to make it more "robust". I vaguely remember there being announcements and such.
That's a very nice website. I like the exploration mode.
There's more variety to religion. Not all deities in mythologies are creators or exist outside space and time. Some are even destructible, which makes the worshippers' activities all the more important in preserving the deity's power.

If humans did manage to create an artificial being with seemingly magical powers, I don't see why it wouldn't develop a religion around it. Even if the being is not God in itself, it could be argued that mankind's existence has become explained by the divine imperative to bring this superior being into the universe.
LLMs are not AI
I was thinking recently that the thing I miss the most from the old internet is the personal feel it had, before it was ruined by big corporations.

Most people had a personal homepage of some type (complete with under construction gifs, naturally).

You'd think that 20 years on it would be trivially easy for someone to create their own place online, but the average person is likely to either start a Wordpress blog of some kind, with plugins, or just use social media. And social media is more or less a walled garden now.

Want to read someone's Twitter. Create an account. Want to view their Facebook page? Create an account. Want to look at their Instagram pics? Create an account. Oh, and if you try to do any of this incognito then expect a LOT of captchas.
What I suppose I'm saying is that there likely isn't a compelling vision that (a) they could get funding for, or (b) moves the needle enough to matter. I imagine their staff prefers getting paid to not getting paid, so this is the best the leader could do.

I don't like it either, it was my lived experience for several years. The issue wasn't a lack of ideas or people who knew about them, it was usually an inability to drop existing product lines + customers and no approval for the additional headcount needed to pursue bigger opportunities.
"there's a small trickle of users"

"take a holiday break to freshen my perspective"

Due to A do B now, as it will be easier than if you have lots of active users to support and is an opportunity.

The refresh might give you some distance to come to answers/direction etc.

Look after you first :)

Good luck!
I’m willing to bet that the average poor college student I knew in school was buying at least one album a month—albeit sometimes secondhand and I probably bought a lot more than that after graduation.
> Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month

How is that possible?

A new CD is around $14 and Spotify is like $12.
How to kill solid storage with one easy trick!

Please don't do this.
TDD with No More Tears (2019)
It's Andre so it's must see TV.

Highly recommend!
Well, first you've got to work out what you mean by "God" -- and, no matter how you do it, you're going to alienate 60% of your crowd.

Or you could use an AI to synthesize an entirely new religion, complete with its own distant god and its own completed metaphysics -- but that might be a hard sell. In this case, the AI itself is not the object of worship, but it takes upon itself the role of prophet and evangelist to some fiction it has concocted. It would be interesting, though, that's for sure.
Christian God isn't the only model[0], plenty worshipped Dionysus, Amaterasu, Ra, and Xōchiquetzal.

[0] heck, given the echoes of polytheism from earlier eras, I'd argue that the entity in the Bible (especially the earlier parts) isn't even really the Christian God as seen today by self-identified Christians.
No, this one was from a friend who was there, and AFAICT it wasn't a private conversation but a semi-public event. In any case, after courting a few EU countries he decided to set up OpenAI office in the UK.

I have nothing against him, it just seemed a bit off that most of the meeting was about this brand new coin, how it will be successful, and about the plans to scan biometric data of the entire world population. I mean, you don't have to be a genius to understand a few dozen ways these things can go wrong.
People are quietly just using crypto right now. I'm sorry if this conflicts with your worldview but trustless programmable currency divorced from the economic levers and dials of world governments is a useful thing.
Well, I would say that indoctrination would require some amount of metaphysics, so not really a secular concept.
This isn't the first person i've heard say something along these lines. usually something decrying the hype in AI. My own feeling is that its mental models: 'we have seen hype before, it was nothing, this is hype, so it must be nothing"

But, to me it reminds me of when the internet took off in the mid to late 90s - people (usually older than me) would decry it as 'the latest fad' and play down the affect that this would have on our everyday life. Before hilariously comparing the internet to 'space invaders' or a 'yo-yo' or something weird that at least gave insight into the fact that they really didn't know what it was they were talking about.

People comparing AI/AGI to NFT's or crypto, are IMHO, as weirdly off-base as those who compared 'the internet' to yo-yo's were back in the day.
Given that the primary input to many carbon capture methods is energy, as long as PV keeps scaling (not guaranteed!) it should be possible to scale carbon capture along with it.
It can also get confusing, because in some languages there is no general notion of being a tuple or n-tuple if you wish. Even if they are casually all called tuples.

For example in Haskell 2-tuple and 3-tuple are simply distinct types, as distinct as Int is from String. You can't speak to the type system about "all n-tuples".
The gbdev and emu dev discord communities were indispensable when writing my GB emulator. They’re helpful and social and many can basically look at your corrupt output and suggest what vblank or other bugs you might have.

My first interaction was asking why the Nintendo logo would appear and never disappear and they immediately knew it was a rookie pitfall: I had my button inputs set to low which actually means pressed, so my emulator was resetting itself infinitely.
Not just games. Movies, inventions, civilizations.

I'd say books but authorship only requires one boy, generally.

Oh, and all those boys come from just a few regions of the world too (Southern Europe, Eastern Asia) for some odd reason, I wonder why?
Are you kidding?

Snooping like this is EXACTLY why we still have unencrypted ServerNameIndication, even to this day in ECH (which still leaves the outer SNI in the clear).
I had a similar idea the other day after fighting with inkscape tracing!
The problem with auto tracing is lack of content awareness so it's just shapes and colors leading to strange objects that require lots of tinkering.

I'm going to try it:
Use segment anything to get object masks, Trace each object separately and combine from there!
> Who cares?

You seemed to as you commented to that effect.

> Why are you trying to tell me what my opinion on code preference is?

Did I?
> - Spotify gets a 30% cut

This is where you're wrong..
I actually don’t think they are an incredible bargain. At current prices, a single subscription is 8-10 albums a year. That is way above what I would have been buying had the world stayed on CDs.
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I could have given this lecture, and I think I could have made it much more entertaining, with fun examples.

Lex should stick to what he likes, though his interviews can be somewhat dull. On occasion I learn things from his guests I would have had no other chance of exposure to.
Maybe if I had better understanding of the Pixel capabilities I may have bought one.

I am not sure if you'd want one? I returned the Pixel 7a after a few days. Stock Android is great, the camera is top-notch and goes head-to-head with iPhone. But the fingerprint sensor is mediocre (they use an optical sensor) and charging is very slow. The issues make it not-great as a daily phone. People have reported similar issues with the 7.
John Conway’s lectures are quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSx63Uy-gn0
Yes, a part of that was the USSR actually did have a plan for intercepting it, it just required a whole lot of MiG-25s doing zoom climbs on stopwatch precision along the SR71's flight path to get a radar lock.
I'm gonna clone it three times!
Uh, no, the focus changed to don't encrypt the outer SNI but pretend we're encrypting something that will prevent filtering, even though it won't.
Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.1 with Software-Defined Network and Secure Boot
Separating debug symbols from executables
I do not think that is correct as the RL in RLHF already stands for reinforcement learning. :^)

However, I do think you are right that self play, and something like reinforcement learning will be involved more in the future of ML. Traditional "data-first" ml has limits. Tesla conceded to RL for parking lots, where the action and state space was too unknowable for hand designed heuristics to work well. In Deep Reinforcement Learning making a model just copy data is called "behavior cloning", and in every paper I have seen it results in considerably worse peak performance than letting the agent learn from its own efforts.

Given that wisdom alone, we are under the performance ceiling with pure language models.
As the value of reproduction falls towards zero, shouldn't the cost fall towards zero as well?
> WhatsApp

I don't use WhatsApp and wasn't looking for a WhatsApp alternative. It's also fine if these were features requested by the userbase. Fair enough. But I wouldn't know. I was speaking for myself. I just wanted an SMS replacement that did e2e encryption. Nothing more.
Can we please stop the lies about Spotify being the goodie two shoes of royalties? The information is false. Apple pays a LOT more to artists.
Hmmm. That doesn't make sense to me. If your threat model is someone swapping parts, surely someone will sell you a genuine or counterfeit part. The buses aren't actually encrypted, so you can still just hijack it.

Sorry, but Apple's stance on this is not security, just $$$ in disguise. The same can be said about all their "privacy" things, they just want the data themselves so they can sell you more stuff and their competitors can't.
Not surprised to see proud, unironic use of X.com from Adams.
Link to the documents: https://service.tesla.com/roadster

The documents released are for Tesla-specific items: Battery Monitoring Board, Diagnostic Software, HVAC Controller, Vehicle Display System.
Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse (Simon Peyton Jones) [video]
People use the term "stochastic parrot" in different ways ... some just as a put-down ("it's just autocomplete"), but others like Geoff Hinton acknowledging that there is of course some truth to it (an LLM is, at the end of the day, a system who's (only) goal is to predict "what would a human say"), while pointing out the depth of "understanding" needed to be a really good at this.

There are fundamental limitations to LLMs though - a limit to what can be learned by training a system to predict next word form a fixed training corpus. It can get REALLY good at that task, as we've seen, to extent that it's not just predicting next word but rather predicting an entire continuation/response that is statistically consistent with the training set. However, what is fundamentally missing is any grounding in anything other than the training set, which is the what causes hallucinations/bullshitting. In a biological intelligent system predicting reality is the goal, not just predicting what "sounds good".

LLMs are a good start in as much as they prove the power of prediction as a form of feedback, but to match biological systems we need a closed-loop cognitive architecture that can predict then self-correct based on mismatch between reality and prediction (which is what our cortex does).

For all of the glib prose that an LLM can generate, even if it seems to understand what you are asking (after all, it was trained with the goal of sounding good), it doesn't have the intelligence of even a simple animal like a rat that doesn't use language at all, but is grounded in reality.
Does anyone literally not care about this at all? I think 50% of my meeting time this week was dedicated to hearing people gush about this. The "OMG THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT NETFLIX SPECIAL", the hero worship of Altman, the rumors of a "singularity" like AI break-through, the genius of Satya/MSFT, the unity of the brave OpenAI employees ... I am so happy that my Thanksgiving guests barely know what a computer is.
More like 40% instead of 70%
"The problem was that the women who were making the cakes didn't feel emotionally invested enough just adding water, he said. Eggs would make it feel more like baking. In later years, many would portray this as a pivotal moment in the history of cake mixes, the inflection point of a dramatic upward curve."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171027-the-magic-cakes-...
They're slashing royalties to the very same long-tail artists you think you're supporting.

> A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-arti...
Five women got eye syphilis from the same man–raising questions
Heh I guess it's s matter of perspective. Your son's head is not made of silicon so in that sense it is a large neighborhood. But if you put them behind a screen and only see the output then the neighborhood looks smaller. Maybe it looks even smaller a couple of years in the future. It certainly looks smaller than it did a couple of years in the past.
A long, long time ago I started a YouTube series[0] on the internal workings of the Game Boy during a brief break from work. I eventually started working again and animating the episodes was taking way too long, so I had to stop, but I've kept orbiting the world of Game Boy reverse engineering.

The amount of dedication, skill, and passion that goes into it on a daily basis is mindblowing, and people keep discovering hardware quirks and bugs to this very day! I believe it wasn't that long ago that people discovered a glitch in the audio subsystem that gave you more control over note envelopes, and it was promptly added to LSDj (a tracker for the Game Boy that was first released in 2000) by the original author, who's still maintaining it to this day.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZUDEaLa5Nw

EDIT: oops, forgot the link!
> And I don't know these people. I can't talk to them at lunch about cool technologies/games/movies/music, I can't see whether they actually get excited or just politely listen because I'm senior to them. I just can't build a true friendship this way.

This part is very difficult, and requires very intentional work to build relationships. Honestly, teams should invest as much time into this aspect as they do in things like their CI pipeline or whatever they use to track work.

Regularly scheduled team lunches - at least once a week, during which no work is expected to be done, you just sit and chat about whatever while you eat (or don't, if you feel uncomfortable eating on camera.)

My employer used something called Donut to schedule random small groups of people for the equivalent of a coffee-walk (opt-in, of course.) This worked decently to get people together who you might otherwise not meet, and learn about their interests, which may overlap with yours.

Specialty interest channels - Dungeons & Dragons, video games, movie appreciation, beer club, pet pictures, etc. Onboarding should include that these things exist, and that new hires can join them if they're interested.

Having typed all that - none of this is a replacement for in-person interactions for the majority of people. Some people are fine with getting their socialization needs online, but the majority aren't.
It is, but in many parts of the UK BT's equipment is knackered. So you rely on support to poke BT with a big stick to get things fixed quickly.
Ultrawide monitors remind us there's still much to learn about OLED burn-in
It looks about 40% lower, not a few percent. I’m not denying that the recorded music industry has been totally overcome, and in some senses they’re lucky to have anything at all from Spotify, but almost everyone in society wants recorded music and the revenue side of it is dying, indeed, almost completely killed except for those at the very top of the pyramid. This hasn’t happened in the same way in other intellectual industries. It is how it is, but it’s a shame that something we all want has to be expensively done and then given away basically for free.
The genes that made us human may also make us ill
Binance’s crypto dominance under threat after loss of founder Changpeng Zhao
A new machine is able to keep the brain alive without a heart
YouTube 5-Second Video Load Delay Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox
Your "silly law" may be someone's else fair law.

I love when companies just behave better when countries enact fair laws.

Of course it may not be easy to define what is a "fair law" but if it weren't for them, there wouldn't be workers rights or abuse prevention in many forms.
Asking to take control of their screen via Zoom is something I would recommend, and leaving it on - that way, you can say "here, let me show you" and immediately start clicking and typing.

Obviously don't do this without asking and getting approval first, the same way you wouldn't just shove someone's hands off a keyboard and mouse, but this helps quite a bit with the "no, two lines up" nonsense.

Zoom also has a way to draw lines on screen - very helpful.

> Based on the previous interactions, I can tell he doesn't understand what he's actually doing, just blindly following instructions.

This part is, uh, not technologically solveable.
Slightly tangential, but I'd like to post a hyperbolic example against the "someone else would have done it anyway":

Yes, a Googler could drown a box full of kittens; but if we stop him, then someone else will just drown the kittens in his place.

I think you have to weigh the probability of it happening. It's unlikely someone else is going drown those kittens, as unlikely as it is someone else is going to stick their fingers into the web pot (considering, I can't think of any "FAAAAANGAMA" that has the same incentives).
Yep, the unfairness of streaming starts when the money has left Spotify.
I can corroborate this experience.

As a teenager in the 90s and a young man in the 00s, I barely bought a couple of original CDs in those decades. Most of the music I had was pirated (downloaded, or recorded from radio). I would fill my hard drive with 10s of GB of MP3s, then I'd cycle through it via Winamp. And I have no acquaintances with large music collections, unless that music was pirated.

Currently, I'm paying for a Spotify subscription AND a YouTube Premium subscription, which is way more than zero $.

Artists making money are those performing live, and filling auditoriums and stadiums with people. The kind of artists that have dedicated fans, and that make albums that become collectibles. That has always been the case.
Check the left hand side menu: https://www.arenaev.com/

The list of ICE car manufacturers making EVs is longer than my arm. All the European ones have staked their future on EVs. I think VW (the irony) was lobbying for a faster phaseout of ICEs in Europe, because they're well positioned to take over the EV market if ICEs are banned faster than 2035 :-)
All of them conveniently with 501(c) status.
Giant community batteries capture excess rooftop solar from Queensland's grid
They need to at least split it by stream time. It’s non-sensical to have a 2 minute pop song be paid the same as a 14 minute classical song. This has weird off effects like pop stars making shorter and shorter songs so they get played more often, which causes less ability to concentrate for extended periods of time in the young people that listen to it.
Is there a link missing here? I would like to see your YT series :)
I got called a paranoid a couple of years ago, because I said that my provider slows down long downloads, since every download starts fast, but after a few megabytes they become slower and slower.
As far as I understand, some inference is done on-device. LLMs and diffusion just changed the field in the last year and it takes time for hardware to catch up (+ work to reduce model sizes). So, it's just hard to run the latest models on-device. So you either end up doing it online (Google's preference) or having weaker models (Apple's preference).
So you get a vast amount more choice for the same price? That doesn’t factor into your assessment of value at all?
We tried doing this, in many different forms, but it never worked out. At first meeting, almost everyone is present, the second one a half of the team, the third one practically nobody. No matter what we do - eat food, drink tea, play games, tech talks... Nothing works.

Small groups worked only if the people already have a relationship (which is rare), I never successfully got people to consistently join small groups with people they didn't know.

During the office times, this just happened naturally as people felt like it. I don't think you can schedule fun.
The animations are so cool!!!

In general the phenomena is known as _metastable failure_ that could be triggered when there are more things to do during failure than normal run.

With retry, the client do more work within the same amount of time, compared to doing nothing or doing exponential backoff.
Yeah, complete bullshit that we tell ourselves.

https://www.space.com/4357-nobel-laureate-disses-nasa-manned...
I do the same for smaller projects, for larger ones that is not always appreciated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37672074
Oops! I just added it.