skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, that seems totally at odds with your earlier statement of "Back in the day we just used to say life isn't fair, play with what you have in the best way you could. And it worked."

Yes, I agree, anti-discrimination shouldn't stop at the border.
There's a third kind, which is when unscrupulous business managers or politicians use it to make decisions that they would not be capable of auditing for a rationale when otherwise required to know why such a decision was made.

It's more of an ethics and compliance issue with the cost of BS and plausible deniability going to zero. As usual, it's what humans do with technology that has good or bad consequences. The tech itself is fairly close to neutral as long as training data wasn't chosen specifically to contain illegal substance or by way of copyright infringement (which isn't even the tech, it's the product).
I had a friend that just got pretty severely pwned on his Mac.

They installed some kind of DNS redirector, so, when he thought he was contacting Apple, he was actually talking to a scammer.

Their customer service was great, which I told him, should have been a red flag.

In any case, he was able to extricate himself from the scammers, but not before they had grabbed a bunch of PiD, so he’s still dealing with the whole identity theft issue.

Not sure how he got owned. Likely, some drive-by malware on a Web site. He basically uses Safari as his operating system.
This is unlikely to succeed, because a)it is an image of their product taken with their own camera - so if Apple wins here the precedent is you can’t take photos OF an iPhone?? Like hell that’s ever going to happen, and Apple would be idiots to do that anyway, seeing your friends in photos with iPhones in clear view is just free advertising and plays into Apples thing for “Apple users are elite”.

And b)Apple’s copyright refers to hardware design. Dbrand didn’t make hardware - they made an image, or skin, or case. None of these are applicable competitors to Apple’s iPhone.
Can I really use cash for every medical emergency, like cancer or getting shot? Feels crazy but I guess I'll take your word for it.

Interested in how old you are? None of my friends even in the far suburbs get by with 1k rent, it's around 2k these days.

Anyways, my anecdote is that I've been overseas for extended periods and folks are far happier there than the USA. The food is better, the events are more plentiful, and folks are kinder.

America is really only great for the wealthy, which I'm guessing both you and I are. If you don't think you are, I'd be interested in your net worth at the moment.

It's interesting that you can see the system is rigged, but somehow also think folks can avoid it. America is setup this way, and I don't fault folks for struggling.

When the numbers look like this, you can't blame folks or offer pithy tips about avoiding healthcare traps ("remember this when daddy has a heart attack!"), you have to change the system.
Barely any apps get you to pay upfront any more, in my experience most are free to download and it's either a trial, or so ad-ridden that it's unusable without an in-app purchase. Either way, any account could leave a review without paying.
Yes. Merge commits have two parents.
No evidence? There are two examples of evidence in my post: the history of homo sapiens vs other intelligent mammals and AlphaGo vs humans in Go.

Alien invasion? What in the non sequitur are you going on about? And apparently you have a proof against the possibility of AI misalignment? Pack it up everyone, nradov has the entire field of AGI alignment nailed. And a proof of the non-existence of aliens, never-mind very smart people have put out a mathematical model which seems to fit the evidence quite well.*

Apologies for the snark, but your reply was rather abrasive.

* https://grabbyaliens.com/
Worldcoin. That’s all.
It was in Playboy (May 1983)

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/30/ansel-adamss-interview-with...

“There’s no end in sight. Electronic photography will soon be superior to anything we have now. The first advance will be the exploration of existing negatives. I believe the electronic process will enhance them. I could get superior prints from my negatives using electronics.

“Then the time will come when you will be able to make the entire photograph electronically. With the extremely high resolution and enormous control you can get from electronics, the results will be fantastic. I wish I were young again!”
There absolutely can be. Merge commits have multiple parent commits for example. It's definitely a graph not just a tree.
Shellcheck is a godsend

https://github.com/jamespwilliams/strictbash, I wrote this little wrapper a while back that you can use as a shebang for scripts. It runs shellcheck for you before the script executes, so it’s not possible to run the script at all if there are failures. It also sets all the bash “strict mode” [0] flags.

[0] http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
What they are trying to avoid is bad press - a couple of news articles about GPT4 having controversial takes on sensitive topics would probably damage OpenAIs reputation.
>Gary Marcus
Well the protocol would need support for "something happened, drop the buffer".

PulseAudio calls it "rewinding" for example:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documen...
I don't think we really disagree per se. Not sure why you seem so adversarial.

And Russia is probably not playing with the grain shortage. They had an agreement in place to let the country they are at war with sell grain because it's so critical.

It's probably more complicated than that and a tangent.
The problem is we don't know all the inputs, and there is much hidden state that we can't observe. So it isn't very useful to try and model a human after how a computer works.
I believe that the controversy is really about control. Control of the motivation for growth (capitalism vs. altruism) and control of the evolution of the technology (human control of the data to which GPT is exposed). The freak out by the board was the realization that once ChatGPT had 100 million or more users the algorithms would start learning from the queries in unpredictable ways. If you've used it you know that you can progressively tune your queries to home closer and closer to a usable result. If the algorithm can learn from that series of interactions then the genie is out of the bottle. I believe that when the board realized this and further knew that Sam had known all along that this would happen they fired him because they had lost control of the algorithms and Sam. Now what? Can Skynet become self-aware? A lot of my colleagues think that it's possible. From my 20+ years experience of working with neural nets I do not believe that Neural nets can behave like human geniuses because they cannot extrapolate outside of their experience. However, much of what we ascribe as intelligent behavior of human beings is definitely within the realm of neural nets. Humans learning from experience sometimes seems as uncommon as common sense.
Community Contribution at GitLab
Great collection of things happening at GitLab around community contributions.
There's a lot of market value wrapped up in the notion that LLMs are nascent existential threats rather than sophisticated search engines with very expensive indexing costs.
That's not the (only) problem, it's that no one can describe what AGI will really look like outside of vague and circular definitions

The basic description is "a computer system that can do all relevant things a human being can do". And sure, we don't have a very codified definition of what those things are but we, human beings, exist and so even if we can't define our own capacities, we have an strong idea they exist.

The implicit argument is that one can't engineer something one doesn't understand. I tend to agree in the case of full capacities but LLMs seem to have some capacities that their creator don't understand, so the claim doesn't seem a "slam dunk" anymore.
Looks good, I'll give it a whirl. I could never figure out a good darktable workflow. The UI seemed all over the place with some basic features missing and way too bloated in certain areas that I imagine 99% of users would never touch. Hopefully Ansel has figured out a better feature balance and UI.

My current Linux photo processing tool is Another RawTherapee [1], which is a wonderful blend of the power of RawTherapee with a UI that has a lot of similarities to Lightroom.

[1] https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/art/36
Whoever made the nuclear bombs so that we haven't started a third world war yet.
> Git was made by C people

This is why I think of branches as pointers. The file contents are literally just a pointer to a commit on the DAG.
Yes and no. This is my argument indeed that if the population growth stayed lower then a lot more people would have been able to rise above the poverty level (or even much higher).

UN prediction for Africa is that they fall close to the reproduction threshold for the end of century. Until that the poverty trap will continue. It also means that by that time now 4 billion people require their needs satisfied instead.

But the population growth has been huge and exponential. From 200 million to 4 billion in 150 years is an incredible amount of growth.
Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure
IIS makes me want to explode and then die
I've been using Gentoo Linux (which is also a rolling-release distro) since the early 2000s (maybe 2002?).

Even taking into account the libpng upgrade disaster in the early-to-mid 2000s, it's the most sane, most stable, least-trouble-free distro I've used.

I've wanted to find some other good distro, but all the ones I've tried either

a) Only ship ancient packages in their official repositories, requiring me to go to unofficial sources to get oh so many up-to-date versions of things.

b) Inevitably do something pants-on-head retarded as part of normal operation (nearly always during upgrades) and require me to bust out my Linux sysadmin skills to unwedge the system

or (sometimes) both "a)" and "b)".

You don't like rolling-release distros? That's fine, more power to you. They've been working fine for me for (oh dear god, I'm so old) ~20 years.
Based on my experience with large corporate transformations, I'd be amazed if it were done that way. Usually, (simple) math isn't really that important.
IIRC, Spotify applies a similar strategy also for deciding which music to already fetch from the servers when listening to a playlist to minimise the gap between pressing next song and actual playback. It seems like it should be exactly the same algorithm for sending it to the headset, with the exception of other sounds like notifications/calls.
I feel like this xkcd perfectly encapsulates Snaps: https://xkcd.com/927/
To mitigate that, recently there was something posted on HN that checks your shell script for those types of bugs.

However, let's not produce any software at all, in case someone introduces a bug in it later.
Why not just write something (or use a pre-existing tool) to update your docker containers? I know on Kubernetes there's plenty of tooling around Helm.
Only one way to find out: letting time pass.
In early 2000 a lot of photographers were saying that digital photography is not "real", it doesn't have a "soul", it should not be allowed in photo contests and it's just worthless in general.
> Pro tip: Don't let a populist gain control over your central bank.

USA was founded without a central bank and is on it's third central bank. The banksters learned a lot over the years, so this private central bank may hold on for another decade or so - until some States get fed up and divorce the USA.
> Do you take issue with ... the idea that these were a gigantic leap?

Yes, the gigantic leap was transformers. No one thought we peaked with 340M or 1.5B parameters, in fact expectations from early work was that massively scaling was going to achieve zero-shot capabilities rather the emergent capabilities you're alluding to which are essentially variations of in-context learning, a relative disappointment.

Subsequent improvements in GPT-4, which seem to be mostly just more RLHF and MoE, are similarly not surprising and are temporizing measures while hardware and datasets are limited. Jury is still out whether the billions spent are worth it in terms of actually getting us closer to AGI.

It seems to be worth it for OpenAI/MS who are trying to be first to market and establish vendor lock-in.
Couldn't the app store support a singular store interface that draws from a singular default source and user added sources?

People could pay Apple to vette sources to indicate that software therein isn't malware even if it doesn't follow other Apple standards.

Anyone maximally concerned would just only use Apple sources. If Apple was less onerous about trying to get a cut most major software would be in the official store. Say a 5% cut.

Remember at one time the manufacturer trying to get a cut of the action on a device was rightfully absurd.

Your oven doesn't refuse to bake a pie unless Betty Crocker cut in GE nor did Magnavox require a cut from blockbuster.

Both could be implimented for your protection and both would have been protection rackets. Apple's arrangement is as well it's just that the mob actually oversees permits too and charges on the way in.

If you could trivially use only official apps and most apps would be available as such how would you be harmed?
It's also more than just the service centers

From what I have read, it's really more of a Tesla boycott across the economy. From dock workers to postal service to actual Tesla employees in the country
And with libraries you can't make breaking changes?

The fact that I don't need to recompile everything whenever libcurl or libssl has a security fix proves otherwise.
How would all signs possibly be pointing to a longer timeline?

3-4 years ago everyone thought it was 50-100 years away. Now with GPT-4 that timeline has radically shifted.

The rate of improvement in this space right now is like nothing we’ve ever seen. All signs are quite literally pointing to us getting there by the end of the decade if not much sooner
Totally agree with your statement that gender issues are a factor in global economics, and that we should strive to use gender-neutral phrasing whenever practical.
I can't really agree with the testing part. I worked with many projects where I came across Issues which definitely could have been prevented by more automatic unit / E2E tests.

I imagine the engineers who wrote the code for the Boeing 737 MAX MCAS or the Tesla engineers who accidentally wrote log files to the internal flash thought the same. Maybe another team member could show the author why these tests are important...
The specs are sort of published. There is this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-interfa...

But none of those documents contain a complete specification. I followed various links, but couldn't find the actual schema for filing accounts. Some links look promising, but are dead.

Perhaps there could be open source solutions, but as far as i know, there aren't. Nothing on this list looks open source:

https://www.gov.uk/company-filing-software/filing-annual-acc...

Dormant companies are indeed going to need to do this:

https://companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2023/02/10/changes-to-acc...
I would bet that they got cancelled because of end user complaints directly to Apple and/or chargebacks from credit card companies.
> "That's not the (only) problem, it's that no one can describe what AGI will really look like outside of vague and circular definitions."

Not so much unlike the time travel and rayguns, isn't it?
Skeptic and completely reactionary. I had to unfollow him on Twitter because he always has to have a "take" on every AI headline, and he's often contradictory between "AI is useless" and "AI is a huge threat".
Massive IO performance over KVM due to the emulated NVME driver. Bhyve may be juvenile compared to KVM but it seems to have a better design and a better license.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/virtualization-showdown-fr...

edit: also bhyve runs on SmartOS too, and I think Bryan is going to be more comfortable with a Solaris OS under the hood
If inflation is 60% and interest is only 40 percent, wouldn’t everyone be running to the bank to get a loan and buy stuff, knowing the loan will be devalued significantly?
If your updates don't break every single time, your customers will be more likely to do them.
Years later, most are 'folding'.
You could use BLE to signal the incoming call or switching tracks or queuing up a new track. Likewise I’d love it if re-encoding the AAC from the player weren’t a necessary step when there isn’t additional audio. But then I suppose they would have to mix the audio on headphones which … actually sounds doable given that’s basically what noise cancelling and transparency mode requires already.

Of course, the cynic in me wonders why we can’t do AirPlay 2-style functionality with simple Bluetooth and BLE speakers, but Apple wants to preserve their margin and ecosystem. Literally lossless headphone audio was mostly a thing with cords, and we’re still playing catchup to the idea.

I do remember a brief period a period in the late 00’s when “MP3 headphones” were a thing, and you could add an SD card to your headphones and listen wirelessly. I’m not sure any of those supported FLAC though.

My suspicion is that in the future, we will skip Bluetooth and go straight to wifi and cellular, where these tiny AirPods end up connecting to audio sources directly and basically only use BLE to sync between themselves. That way you can “leave the phone at home,” etc. They would probably have built-in storage too, for offline support.
This is bad advice. OP has experience in a popular stack, no way that the language is their problem. They'll have an even more difficult time finding a job if they decide to switch stacks now.
I don't think your intuition about computer chess is going to help you here with transformer architecture.

Usually in transformer models[1], for each attention head there are 3 vectors of weights, known as q(uery), k(ey) and v(alue). I was assuming that the q in q* applied to the q vector, so q-learning is training this vector. In a transformer model you don't have an objective function for any sort of state evaluation so it can't be the Q you're thinking of.

If they've done something funky with the q vector that could indeed be a breakthrough since a lot of people feel that we are sort of running out of juice with scaling transformers as-is and need a new architecture to really have a step change in capability. That's pure speculation on my part though.

[1] Here's Vaswani et al, the paper that first set out the transformer architecture https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
I never heard of it. After looking it up, I don't get the appeal. Not sure why someone would want to take fancy screenshots of video games unless they're marketing a game.
Snaps move the packaging burden from the distribution to the software maker, which is how it should be. It's the only scalable way.

Imagine Microsoft having to package the millions of distinct Windows applications.
Does YouTube work without JS? This might be one way to avoid ads as well as a network wide Pi Hole.

I hate it when YouTube / Google needs to exploit everyone's data and privacy in order to make money.
You mean the American taxpayer?
snaps is starting to give me a headache. I installed chromium in my ubuntu and it installed it as a snap (even through apt, it just a transitional package that installs the snap.), and for some reason it has a dependency with cups (printing software). Every time i delete cups it is reinstalled..again and again, i couldn't find any solution.
So this is in the mask ROM on the chip...?

Can anyone comment on how many dollars it cost them to include this? Mask rom isn't particularly cheap, and historically companies have gone to great lengths to shave tens or hundreds of bytes from their first stage bootloaders that live in ROM...

Seems odd to find an apparent big dollar-waster in a mass market low cost device.
Do you mind sharing where you got the titanium keyrings and carabiners?

I've been searching forever for decent keyrings. There's a few carabiners (though the titanium ones are hard to find there too, and usually covered in obnoxious branding). But keyrings especially seem to be an under-served market. There's either (1) the usual mass-produced, flimsy, cheap garbage, or (2) something tougher and more expensive, but covered in branding.

I've settled with (2) for now (though it's not even titanium), but it'd be nice to not have to look at a giant billboard every time I pull out my keys.
I redid my docker stuff with podman and quadlet recently and it's been great. Quadlet turns the containers into behaving like regular systemd services (i.e. you can trigger them with timers), and "auto update" is just setting Pull=true when the container re-runs (there's a heck of a lot of good reasons to also not do this).
The thing I hate most about snaps is how they pollute the mount namespace with loop mounts. Install a few apps and 2/3rds of your `mount` output will be /dev/loopX devices. Especially annoying since I often do loop-mounts myself and picking them out from the flood of unrelated snaps is a pain.

If they could somehow hide the mounts (in a different mount namespace maybe?) that would be cool. I mean still, I would prefer more open formats such as flatpack and appimage (since with snaps you buy into the Canonical ecosystem with no way to provide alternative appstores) ......
I'd love for this to work, but in practise I feel the owner on the 999m will more likely stop investing in sed company when it reaches 999m and spin up a new company or some other loophole to get around it. (or if it's individual wealth, then they'll use trusts or some of the many other options available to them.)

If there are no options, you better believe they'll create them soon enough.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327017 same idea, but open sourced.
I got to say this arm race is interesting to watch.

I wonder if we'll reach a point where YT asks viewers to pass a captcha at the end of an ad to prove that they watched it before getting back to their video.
https://www.sciencealert.com/long-cold-a-hidden-form-of-chro...
It would be hard to find a single human who could handle nearly any/all economically valuable work. Getting good enough to get paid in one field is an achievement.
Hence my surprise that Ansel anticipated it with open arms 40 years ago.
For reasons, yes, perhaps even ideological reasons, but if you're going to call them stupid you should at least try to give a reason.
Unless those companies are stopping someone from visiting different domains, I would not describe that as the internet being siloed.

The most popular destinations on the internet may be “siloed”, or most business will occur in the silos, but the internet itself is as accessible as it ever was.
> i couldn't find any solution

Ditch Ubuntu.
That strategy works with quantitate easing in a near zero interest rate era with cheap money being thrown around.

Not this time I'm afraid as that ship has sailed.
We ported all shell scripts to Python at a company that I’ve worked for. Scripts just kept getting longer and more complex. As a language Python is great, super fast and easy to code in, very little inherent complexity. The reason I wouldn’t choose Python again is distribution. It’s easy enough in Docker, you can just bite the bullet and vendor the same Python in all Docker containers. Mac was a pain though, pyenv etc all had their own issues and collisions with homebrew and dependency management with pip is a hassle as big as npm. A real bummer given how well Python works as a language for scripting.
The Killing of a Berlin Power Broker
This was a very entertaining and frightening read, thank you. I loved the Wikipedia format.