skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm convinced there is a certain class of people who gravitate to positions of power, like "moderators", (partisan) journalists,

And there is also a class of people that resist all moderation on principle even when it's ultimately for their benefit. See, Americans whenever the FDA brings up any questions of health:

* "Gas Stoves may increase Asthma." -> "Don't you tread on me, you can take my gas stove from my cold dead hands!"

Of course it's ridiculous - we've been through this before with Asbestos, Lead Paint, Seatbelts, even the very idea of the EPA cleaning up the environment. It's not a uniquely American problem, but America tends to attract and offer success to the folks that want to ignore these on principles.

For every Asbestos there is a Plastic Straw Ban which is essentially virtue signalling by the types of folks you mention - meaningless in the grand scheme of things for the stated goal, massive in terms of inconvenience.

But the existence of Plastic Straw Ban does not make Asbestos, CFCs, or Lead Paint any safer.

Likewise, the existence of people that gravitate to positions of power and middle management does not negate the need for actual moderation in dozens of societal scenarios. Online forums, Social Networks, and...well I'm not sure about AI. Because I'm not sure what AI is, it's changing daily. The point is that I don't think it's fair to assume that anyone that is interested in safety and moderation is doing it out of a misguided attempt to pursue power, and instead is actively trying to protect and improve humanity.

Lastly, your portrayal of journalists as power figures is actively dangerous to the free press. This was never stated this directly until the Trump years - even when FOX News was berating Obama daily for meaningless subjects. When the TRUTH becomes a partisan subject, then reporting on that truth becomes a dangerous activity. Journalists are MOSTLY in the pursuit of truth.
> Honestly, when it comes to "just working," desktop Linux is worse today than it was when I first installed it on my budget laptop in 2007.

I bought a new Alienware PC in summer 2022, installed Ubuntu immediately, wiping Windows. Everything worked. Still does. This happens on every new Dell (or Alienware), HP or Lenovo desktop or laptop I've bought the past 2 decades. I can't buy a new machine that has issues with Linux, what on Earth could I be doing wrong that they all work.

Honestly, do you work in Microsoft marketing.
> allocatable characters being used for internal writes
can you explain this ?
that's the magic of llama.cpp!

I include a universal binary of llama.cpp's server example to do inference. What's your machine? The lowest spec I've heard it running on is a 2017 iMac with 8GB RAM (~5.5 tokens/s). On my m1 with 64GB RAM I get ~30 tokens per second on the default 7B model.
Not only is it a nice effect.... but the Muhammad Ali landing page is downright insane. That hero image choice is pure gold. It is insanely brave to not put the product in the hero too. Utter envy.

Edit: OH MY GOD, THE PACKAGING.
Are you kidding me? Operation Blue Star was to liberate the Holy Temple of the Sikhs from the hands of a few Terroists who had seized it for 2 long years. All sorts of peaceful negotiations to get them out failed. They even shot and killed a Police man who had gone to the Temple for his daily prayers in the Temple itself. The liberation of the Golden Temple and handing it back to the Sikhs is not a "bad deed". It is a "good deed".

If you don't understand the issue better not to comment on it. It has nothing to do with Israel-Gaza War and is not at all like it. Khalistani Terrorism is a fringe extremist movement that never took off in India. All the Terrorists who supported it ran to Canada, UK and US and sought refuge there. Don't forget that there are 26 million Sikhs in the World, with 20 million living in India and that too in one State of Punjab alone. The Khalistanis who live in the West hardly account for even 100,000 in total. They cannot and will never speak on behalf of the entire Sikh community. They just don't have the numbers.

If the West wants to break relations with India by supporting this Terror group then it can do so. But we won't let our sovereignty and territorial integrity be threatened by a group we consider equivalent to Al Qaeda/Taliban. This group has been instrumental in bombing of Air India Flight 182 in which 268 Canadian Citizens were killed. India had asked for extradition of the Terrorist who carried out the bombing 40 years ago before the bombing even took place. The Prime Minister of Canada then (Trudeau's father) denied the extradition. And because he denied the extradition, the Terrorist was able to plot the attack and carry out the deadliest Terror attack in Canadian history.

Learn your history before it is too late!
I wouldn't really give OpenAI credit for lasting 3 years. OpenAI lasted until they moment they had a successful commercial product. Principles are cheap when there is no actual consequences to sticking to them.
I learned Fortran for a summer research job in college about 15 years ago. It was my first programming language and I used it to do some population modeling. I found an old Fortran book from when my dad went to school back in the early 70s and learned it from that which was a cool experience - I just had to skip over all the parts about entering your code into punch cards :D
If you rephrase this as fighting consolidation through open source software, I think it is rather clear that you cannot. Consolidation will always have benefits at the small. That there is a straw that breaks that camel's back is not an argument against carrying more straw.

I am personally of the mind that we need to somehow shift the care not from personal future but to collective future. I don't have any thoughts on how to actually do that, though. It is very hard to convince people that are legitimately working hard for their personal well being that they should also give thoughts to those that come next.
"Our mission at Inflection is to create a personal AI for everyone."

"By messaging Pi, you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy."

Yeah, no. Any AI that operates in your cloud where I have to agree to your Terms of Service and Privacy Policy is not "personal AI," no matter how much you want me to believe otherwise.

Modern LLMs can do inferencing on my own personal computer. Some of them can even do it on a Raspberry Pi (no pun intended). That's "personal AI."

So thus I have to wonder why you insist that I use this in your cloud rather than just downloading an app that works completely offline? Especially if you're gonna call it "personal AI."
On reddit there was post where a group of gastroenterologists answering questions. One comment from the doctors was, paraphrasing: "let your stomach growl it's needed for the health of your gut".
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There’s a long tail of highly optimized library code written in FORTRAN.

Many high performance numerical computing libraries are “using FORTRAN” in the sense that they’re linking binaries compiled from FORTRAN for numerical linear algebra functionality. Cf BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms).
Feel it is worth to note that democracy only concerns how a government is selected within a country. A country’s behavior at the international level is another dimension, not much related to its internal system of governance, at least in principle. Therefore it is not surprising that a democratic country behaves similarly to an autocratic or authoritarian one.
> The "Altruism" part is hypothetical and delegated to a future date

The only resources we as people have are our actions. So, if you want to do some good, do it today. There's no shortcut and no reason to think anyone in the future will act other than precisely as you do now.
Well, by definition, naked flash wouldn't be NVMe... so no.
What is weird is that everything to do with the meaning of that has been purged from the public Internet. Not by any conspiracy, I guess it just never made it into any indexer.

I think it got removed from last year's remake.. probably because the new guys didn't know what the hell it meant. Like the people that paint over Banksy art.
There's an element of "the ends justify the means" in EA that can lead to bad outcomes. An extreme example is SBF's hypothetical "coin flip"[1], but one could see how making the world worse in the short term could be justified with EA as long as those actions might make it better in the long term. Just as crucially, the meaning of "worse" and "better" is often not left up to the communities being affected but to each EA practitioner.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-coin-flip-...

> If you flip it and get heads, the entire world improves by more than double.

> If you get tails, the world is destroyed.

> Sam Bankman-Fried said he would flip the coin — and urged everyone else to do so, too, Caroline Ellison testified in court Tuesday.
His instinct was to walk away from his offer. He had to be forced to buy the company.

His second wife apparently asked him to buy Twitter and fix its, in her opinion, liberal bias.
Interesting, as a user of Ubuntu for over a decade, I had nearly forgotten that Windows exists. I diddnt know anyone besides gamers used Windows these days.
The first T is "The"
> I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus).

It would be nice if Windows Defender tone down their on-the-fly aggressive scanning for anything I/O related. For any I/O activity, it regularly consumes up to 30% of my CPU. Moving files to a different directory rev up Windows Defender even it scans the folder in the past.

I wish there is a granular control over Windows Defenders in a way that it would not be aggressive with every I/O activity. I would assume that Microsoft intentionally did this due to rise of randomware attacks and we unfortunately have inept people who mindlessly clicking anything. And they don't want to be liable for being lax.
This is quite sensible. By default, you don't want a hardware failure to make your data irretrievable. You need to explicitly opt-in.

https://superuser.com/questions/1299600/is-a-volume-with-bit...
Can you link the post for the matmul approximation?
> The title claims ad blockers will be disabled, and that is just not true.

Well, "crippled" is a no-no…
> Python not only has types but it's type system is superior to typeScript.

I strongly disagree. It might be better at some things, but it's much worse at others. Many functions can't be accurately typed (try, for example, to make a well-typed function that concatenates two arbitrary fixed-size tuples), and as far as I know generic type transformations can't be implemented (random example "this type takes a Dict[str, Any] and returns an object with each key turned into a function").
I had the original Surface Laptop at a previous job. If I remember correctly, I had to RMA it four times for different assorted catastrophic hardware failures. I lined my cubicle wall with their RMA receipts.
That's actually very much what I'm saying. It may have been accidental in the sense that it was not the deliberate plan of anyone, but happened during combat, due to a soldier's bad/unethical judgement call.
> Will the US send a naval fleet to Australia if the latter is attacked?

You’re kidding, right? Of course we would. (Unless it’s chickenshit business, like Indonesia and Oz getting into a coast guard squabble over migrant boats.)

When you co-produce weapons, you send high-ranking technical advisors and expensive kit that needs guarding. This is why e.g. deploying a ballistic missile radar isn’t just plopping down a radar. It involves deploying troops around it. We have defence treaties with countries whom we don’t trust enough to co-produce with. Co-production is a big deal.
Because the userspace, old and baroque it is, is the compatibility layer for the existing apps. Not the kernel.

The kernel is a very nice piece of work, but it come from slightly different assumptions, than the reality turned out to need.

Btw, the recent Dave Cutler interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE) is great. Worth the 3 hours it takes.
Disagreements with EA seem to come in four forms. (1) Disagreements about discount rates (how to weigh harm now against harm in the future). (2) Disagreements about the probabilities of various disasters and the effectiveness of various interventions. (3) Statements of the form "this person claimed to be EA and they were bad so EA is bad" -- which please. (4) Defining the greatest good, and therefore how to maximize it, is hard. This critique, unlike the others, is fundamental, but it doesn't nullify the value of the project. Just do your best and call it a day.

This article absurdly misconstrues both recent changes in the community and Talinn's comments in particular. For people o take issue with the culture that has evolved around a philosophy is not for it to reject that philosophy. And for Tallinn to say that we should not rely on [initially] EA-motivated corporate governance to be benevolent is not for him to have disavowed EA's principles.
Yup. I give to the extreme poverty and animal welfare funds, because they seem like a great way to give to well-vetted high-impact charities.

The longtermism stuff has always struck me oddly alongside those other obviously-beneficial causes. It's a bummer that's all some people think of when they hear EA.
> There are obvious conflicts of interest here.

There are almost always obvious conflicts of interest. In a normal startup, VCs have a legal responsibility to act in the interest of the common shares, but in practice, they overtly act in the interest of the preferred shares that their fund holds.
> Unless we find the zoonotic reservoir (which might no longer exist

Which would be shocking given that highly infectious viruses do not simply just disappear after a cross species spillover. Did covid stop spreading amongst humans when dogs/deer/cats got infected? Not only should an independent ancestor branch still be circulating but it should be circulating amongst intermediate species all throughout Asia. It's like a virus pre-adapted towards humans magically appeared and then vanished without a trace, I heard on virologist coin it as the "immaculate infection"
This is what I use on Windows 10.

I have an HP z440 with an E5-1630 v4 and 64GB DDR4 quad channel RAM.

I run LLMs on my CPU, and the 7 billion parameter models spit out text faster than I can read it.

I wish it supported LMMs (multi modal models.)
I have Xubuntu on a PC and a laptop. While I don't use it often, bluetooth seems to work just fine. Never had a problem.

Maybe you need to be more specific: what problems do you have?
I've noticed this as well, although empirically.

I don't sympathize with @sama, more so, my personal opinion of him is that he definitely shows off a lot of psychopathic traits, but that said ...

... I'm also ok with keeping those topics outside the scope of this community, which is mainly tech-related and that's what I enjoy about it. Personal affairs belong elsewhere, IMO.
On that subject, anyone know why shifting to HDR dims everything that way? My mental model of it is that SDR brightness goes from 0 to 100, and HDR brightness goes from -100 to 100, and that turning on HDR moves everything not HDR-aware down to the bottom of the brightness space.

I could look this up, but never think about it outside of conversations like this and figure it might be more fun to talk about it.
> I consider it a mistake to build a large system with them in 2023

A mistake in what sense? What are the risks that you see with using these languages for large scale systems, and how do those risks balance around all the other risks that come with not using one of these languages and using a different one?
My rule for Logic Pro is that it will expand to make any computer you run it on "just barely keep up".
Probably not a best practice.
I misread context window as training set and thought you were switching to SLMs. My mistake.
this is for investors. while some companies actually build useful models, some like inflection are still catching up with palm-2, an old, forgotten, measly model.
I think the big question everyone has in mind when they make comments about old OSes running fast on modern hardware is, "what is the juice that we are getting for the squeeze?"

It's not just that Win98 runs faster on modern hardware. It's that it does the same--or at least similar, as far as the user is concerned--tasks as Win11, but faster.

That leaves a gaping hole of "what was so important to add to the OS that it warrants slower interactions at every turn".

I opened the settings app on my work computer running Win10 the other day and it took a good 5 seconds before it showed up and painted. On Win-anything-less-than-or-equal-to-7, the settings window opened immediately and navigating to different settings was also immediate.

So what is Win10/11 doing?

And Linux isn't immune to the bloat. It is still smaller/faster than Windows, but it has managed to stay within a constant factor of Windows all this time. Modern Linux is significantly fatter than 20, even 10 year old Windows.

If the answer were "corpos gonna bloat", what's Linux's excuse? Operating systems across the board have gotten bigger and slower over time, for little visible benefit, and nobody has a coherent answer for why.
I buy consoles instead of gaming on PC because I know I can buy a console and it'll work with new games for the next 5+ years. When I started playing games a PC would need to be upgraded multiple times in the console lifespan to continue to play new games well.
It may have gotten pushed out of people's context window by subsequent OpenAI related events, but before Altman's unplanned sabbatical, they paused ChatGPT signups, citing capacity concerns:

https://aibusiness.com/nlp/openai-suspends-chatgpt-plus-sign...
No regex, you would use another copy of few-shot prompted GPT-4 as a filter for the first GPT-4!
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Thanks. Is Dedup supported on SQL COPY too?
It would just be flash
I stand by my position with respect to the necessity for character assassination to be confronted forcefully.

I also intend to better respect the sites rules going forward.

I never offered excuse for my behavior. Only context.
> country’s behavior at the international level is another dimension, not much related to its internal system of governance, at least in principle

I don’t believe this is true, diplomatically or in warfare. Democracies don’t tend to go to war against each other, for example [1]. They also fight harder, and with more technological sophistication, when they wage war.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick-Mello/publicati...
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI's Chief Executive
I have two identical Debian 11 on ZFS servers with ZFS encryption enabled. On one pool on one machine it will start reporting errors after about 1 week of uptime. The errors are caused by failure to decrypt within the Kernel Cryptography Framework. No read/write/cksum errors are reported for any of the zpool devices. Running a scrub finds no errors and clears the errors. The presence of the errors causes my snapshot replication to fail so I need to reboot the server weekly and run a scrub. One person has reported that updating to 2.1.13 fixed the issue, IIRC. That version hasn't been released to Debian 11 yet and that version also included a commit which removed the KCF kstat code so I wouldn't be able to monitor the KCF errors anymore.

Another issue I ran into is when SQLite is run in synchronous mode (the default) with WAL (not default but recommended) and the default locking mode (so it creates an -shm file) and the shm file is stored on a ZFS filesystem. SQLite frequently executes ftruncate on the shm file when different processes access the same SQLite database, and for some reason ZFS can cause the ftruncate call to block until the txg timeout which is usually 5 seconds [0]. If you were running a program which records every shell command you run to a SQLite database, for example, that would cause a 5 second hang before any shell command would execute [1]. The workaround is to disable synchronous in SQLite or the ZFS dataset, which is probably safe because of the ZFS atomicity guarantees.

Those are two examples I have run into recently. I'm sure people run into issues with e.g. ext4 as well but I think they are a bit more frequent with ZFS on Linux, especially if you use more fringe features like encryption.

[0]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14290

[1]: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/952
Whatcha mean? They closed signups to ChatGPT+ due to demand just when I was about to sign up and give it a go.
This very subjective, but I think python is good at syntax. If I had to teach non-programmers programming it would be easily my number one choice. The included libraries are also pretty good.
Tomek has created tons of great OSS projects in the past, and now he is at it again.

LetsGo gives you a set of core services you need for pretty much any SaaS startup.
This is missing the broad concern with hallucination: You are putting your trust in something that delivers all results confidently, even if they were predicted incorrectly. Your counter-argument is lack of trust in other sources (podcasts, the education system), however humans, when they don't know something, generally say they don't know something, whereas LLMs will confidently output incorrect information. Knowing nothing about a certain subject, and (for the sake of argument) lacking research access, I would much rather trust a podcast specializing in a certain area than asking a LLM.

Put more simply: I would rather have no information than incorrect information.

I work in a field of tech history that is under-represented on wikipedia, but represented well in other areas on the internet and the web. It is incredibly easy to get chatGPT to hallucinate information and give incorrect answers when asking very basic questions about this field, whereas this field is talked about and covered quite accurately from the early days of usenet all the way up to modern social media. Until the quality of training data can be improved, I can never use chatgpt for anything relating to this field, as I cannot trust its output.
I don't see why a laptop can't do this. This will just turn into extra e-waste.
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Apple prices in France are insane, partially because of how Apple adapt the dollar to euros, and the 20% VAT. Heck, at the time I got my 16Gb 14" M1 Pro plus an iPhone 11 mini for 50€ cheaper in Japan than just the laptop in France, in part thanks to a generous "back to school" offer.
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In my experience, people are better at rationalizing their feelings than actually being rational. There's a certain lack of humility to claiming that just because you used some numerical weights to arrive at a decision it was arrived at rationally.
Major corporate boards are rife with "on paper" conflicts on interest - that's what happens when you want people with real management experience to sit on your board and act like responsible adults. This happens in every single industry and has nothing to do with tech or with OpenAI specifically.

In practice, board bylaws and common sense mean that individuals recuse themselves as needed and don't do stupid shit.
You're right, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. The comparison is unfair to Windows 11 running on bare metal. You'd have to emulate 10 browser stacks recursively and then put Windows 98 on that to get a reasonable baseline.
I feel like the answer is somewhere in the middle. You can use it but you will have to double-check everthing to the extent that unless you feel confident you can do that responsibly and quickly, you should ask yourself if you're actually saving enough effort to justify pressing on with that in mind
What about them? Almost all of those are examples of the IDF targeting enemy militants who are actively involved in military operations against Israel, many of which have murders innocent civilians.