skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine having an IQ of 999999 only to spend your entire existence trying to survive the heat death of the universe.

At some point I think we have to realise we’ve lost touch with what life and experience is about.

Survival is important but what good is it if that’s all there is to it ? Where’s the fun, the love, the laughs ? Just self-improvement forever ? Well you have to suck at something in order to improve.

I often wonder if some entity like an ASI might feel jealous of our vulnerability, ability to die and give rebirth to entities that need to relearn things, why ? Because seeing the world a new is fun. Losing a game and then winning is the point. Ever played chess against a five year old ?

Watching my Children experience the world for the first time is honestly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen, there is so much beauty in it for both of us. Alan Watts gives some fun talks on this. Forgetting (dying) is the universes way to keep things spicy. He isn’t preaching this as the gospel, but I actually understand what he means and I think there is a lot of wisdom in it.
Graham Hancock BTFO
It's a series of simple tasks interrupted by two week diversions.
There have been several announcements:

"Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD's flagship MI300X GPU" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38280974

Doubling down on ROCm:
https://www.theverge.com/23894647/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai-chips-n...

Putting resources into pytorch:
https://pytorch.org/blog/experience-power-pytorch-2.0/
Obligatory mention of "Consider the lobster" by David Foster Wallace

https://web.archive.org/web/20230325034108/https://www.colum...
You sound pretty antisocial. Be careful what you wish for, you might find yourself at the wrong end of the stick.
Somehow as easy as it is conceptually, I still find cutting 3 stringers that line up well to be surprisingly difficult. In part because I’ve only has to do it a handful of times in my life.
The 1974 First Rough Draft of Star Wars [pdf]
I started writing C over 20 years ago. That doesn't mean that I'd ever pick it for this.
Have you thought about offering downloadable versions of to the database through MMDB, CSV, or JSON formats? This would enable users to utilize the database offline, similar to the setup provided by IPinfo.io for their free IP database.
> But doing it on the scale of something like GPT-4 is only something OAI can do

It's shocking to me that people think Google and Meta don't have the scale to operate at this level.
> It seems to adjust octaves for you automatically, but that's not at all clear.

Thanks for mentioning it! I really struggled with this octaves decision, and wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410228

However, starting to also think that maybe I should just write a note on the page explaining what it's doing, lol.
The must be a certain pride in being an evolutionary local maximum
Yes, it didn't work today with Safari, but worked in Chrome.
I guess all of that can fit inside a prompt to an llm and still leave room for other input. Wonder if it would improve coding agents such as GPT Engineer?
Such an odd technical solution to a political problem.
The Mess of a Creative Space
You’re assuming your conclusion by saying AI is like a gun.

That’s not a rational argument for why we should be concerned — you merely asserted you were.

Why is catering to your feelings the default position?
As I understand it, automatic fallback/limitation to HDMI 2.0 speeds was desired by VESA in the event of using an 18gbps cable or other signal integrity issue, so ultimately they chose to require the host to be more aware of HDMI for the converter to enable HDMI 2.1 speeds rather than requiring the converter to be smart.
Best I could do, learn drawing with pencil, buy good tablet, and draw sketches, and write infinite todo with images connected.

But May be just enough, to buy pencil and draw at some quiet place (best if you have large river or sea coast nearby, or possible to use some quiet park), and than just attach photos.

Pencils and paper are very reliable, and even don't need recharge, just avoid wet.

You know, ideas are not worth too much, when you have not resources (mostly money), to just hire some freelancer and implement them.

What really matter, how you good on create OKRs (for example, Measure What Matters by John Doerr), and measure them, and make decisions on them.

Sure, to make good OKR, you also need to do few iterations "create idea for OKR -> try OKR from idea -> return to begin", but as you could see, this includes not easy part of TRY, on which you will spend much more time than on "create idea for OKR", believe me.
Looking through the specs on ark.intel.com, the Thunderbolt controllers that specify PCIe lane counts say at best they support one x4 or four x1 links, so any eGPU enclosure using those would need to connect the Thunderbolt controller to a large and expensive PCIe packet switch in order to provide more than four lanes of any speed to a GPU.
@aidos Did you try "hard" mode, out of curiosity? If that's still easy, maybe an "impossible" mode with 3 listens, 8 tiles, and no backspaces is something we can do...
It doesn't. It's just something that people who don't know how taxes work say.
The government is not your father
Last time I tried to set this up, I think I was unable to get it for the super low advertised price, because they require you use an ec2 instance in order to skirt their minimum monthly charge and you can no longer get free tier ec2 after the first 12 months. so the monthly amount I would have to pay was going to be a non-insignificant amount.
They don’t share your assumption a super intelligent AGI is a problem.
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
Right, INTERNAL economical crisis is what causes the collapse of currency. But just because the rest of the world doesn't recognize it, doesn't mean it is worthless, it simply converts.

Bitcoin has nothing in and of itself.

Also private currency like script was awful, please don't take the worst financial examples in history and claim that bitcoin is similar as an argument as to why it is valid.
It doesn't though. It's always more profitable to sell an asset for even just $1 than to take it as a total loss.
Nor to optimists.
I don't want my bank to be an ID provider. I don't trust any bank, the problem is I just can't do without them in this world. But I have no doubt their goals are opposite to my own. They datamine and exploit us.

In Holland the banks are trying to introduce their own id system too, called iDIN. But luckily the state system Digi-ID is still available too.
Reduction in human labor for building these types of structures. The world is getting old fast, but infrastructure is still required, both new and maintenance of what exists today. Also, job assistance that reduces the toll on humans in this industry. This prevents treating the human as a consumable when the automation can be human driven, increasing quality of life and potential career longevity (if desired).

Not replacing humans, to be clear, but helping them build better with less effort. Thank you for indulging me. I hope to eventually leave tech to build things that are needed that are built to last (I too am getting old fast).
I am on the verge of self-publishing my first release on Bandcamp and the timing on this couldn't be worse.
Not really - there are a few, but there's no guarantee that they won't be bought out and enshitificaton will ensue
Your second assembled board: what happened? Why the long leads??
>have fun figuring out where an identifier came from in the global scope!

grep?
Yeah I wish I could get one as a foreigner. I only get a shitty piece of green paper that doesn't last more than a few months in a wallet.

And I have to wait 10 years to change my citizenship over too. Now that the extreme-right party won the Dutch elections last week I'd really like to change it.

South Americans can change it over after only 5 years. But not EU citizens strangely.
I think this is great tech, but maybe not for those reasons. On any safe site, people are already very cautious and working well back from the excavator. Some teams have a protocol where you have to make eye contact with the digger driver before you can go anywhere within the sweep of its arm.
> There should be a hard mode where there are no pitches generated while choosing notes.

I challenge you to the "bird_tweet" instrument in "hard" mode, lol. The bird tweet notes are almost indistinguishable it might as well be silent. It's hard even for me!
Yeah, if you click on "bulk data" you'll see the two statically hosted CSVs for ASN and IP data. What else would you find useful in those datasets? It's quite easy to expand on them.
Hi, SFJailbird!

It’s about requiring a profile in addition to registration to be able to post.

No comments?

Not surprised.
Quite frankly the wild speculation is the part of this entire event that I have found most fascinating. When it comes to the business side of things I am far enough removed to not really have an opinion. I don't know the internal thoughts of any of the players and I know sufficiently little about them that I couldn't guess. So I'm not in a position to tell what should have happened. I'm naturally inclined to believe that everyone was doing what they thought was right.

In contrast to that have been these wild theories that are mutually exclusive claiming to know the beliefs, emotions, and plans of practically anybody involved.

In all I have found it to reveal far more about the speculators than it has about events themselves.
I don't like wars, but being able to build a wall out of some broken concrete blocks without it being man handled is a good feature I believe.

Also being able to build during a long period of time (during the night for example) make the job less exhausting.

Also one could think of it as an assistant: put some augmented reality display, and let the machine showing to the operator where to put the rock.

Or help for building records: you keep the operator part, but you record the scans and position and weights during construction phase, so you can eventually run simulation later to know how the wall will change over time etc.
On what is a day off in the middle of a long weekend for many in the US, there's something comforting about returning to familiar traditions like eating leftover turkey, spending time with relatives, shopping, and arguing about programming languages.
I don't understand what I'm looking at
Ah! Is Q* a play on the A* pathfinding algorithm, but with a Q presumably for the Query vector of attention mechanisms? Clever, and actually does reveal something about the project.
A1111 img2img inpaint works pretty well, if you get a checkpoint that matches the style you're inpainting. Civitai [0] can be a good resource here, and it's not just for perverts.. I swear! ;)

[0] https://civitai.com/articles/161/basic-inpainting-guide
People always, always want random human bullshit to be intentional, rational, or preplanned by people smarter than the pliable masses. So they claim there's a secret grand motive behind every piece of information that gets leaked.

It's to save face.

It's all a cover to hide a big R&D discovery they made but don't want to reveal, so they made it about personal dispute with Sam.

It's a marketing ploy to hype people up about a new OpenAI product.

etc etc
You can fill gabions that have been pre-made by using a mini excavator. Or you can do it by hand but that's pretty labor intensive, unless you like wheelbarrows and buckets I would advise against it. Personal experience and all that ;)

The important thing with gabion is to realize that they still need careful planning, anchoring, leveling and possibly a foundation to ensure that they aren't going to shift over time.
If she was a crab, she certainly would.
The video on the landing page shows an example output. You also get 1 free AI article draft if you signup so you can test it out yourself.
> And within the last two weeks, I destroyed many of my oldest snapshots.

The goal of this repost is to save some trouble to people who may also delete old snapshots if they don't understand how they can be impacted by this bug as the original title was very unclear
One thing that makes no sense about Sam Altman hiding the Q* progress from the board is that Ilya Sutskever was part of the board too. As he is the technical lead and Altman isn't technical at all, how would it be a secret from Sutskever?

NB: I know nothing about these people and don't track it, but my consistency check failed on this claim based on the flood of news over the past week.
"The first problem you’ll encounter is that cutting your 2x12s to the right angle is a bit complicated because there’s no obvious way to trace the correct angles."

Rubbish or as we say here: bollocks. Chippies have been doing first fit for centuries.

Its lovely that someone is discovering how wood and homes work. All power to you. Tomorrow - bricks?
No pitches at all would render it extremely difficult for those without perfect pitch, but supplying a reference tone or scale (like Earmaster) and highlighting the appropriate key rather than providing each tone on demand would be a good challenge, I think.
Feature request for any service like this: Let "me" know if it is a school, so I know that I am probably dealing with minors, a public environment and a firewall. Of course, you need to do the work (rDNS to start) to identify the schools.

I love the speed of the responses!
This is not absurd at all. People worship much worse things all the time and no one worries about it, e.g. scientology.
Thanks, I should have included it in the original comment.

https://github.com/garrettjoecox/anchor

This is a fork of the Ship of Harkinian PC port for ocarina of time. If you just want to play the normal game on PC, you can go to the original repo here: https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright
I'm in the same boat, lost my BankID and with it everything it unlocks. I live 20000km from Sweden and can't easily make that trip, especially during the covid travel restrictions. Letters with notarised copies of ID were quickly dismissed by the bank. Hopefully I'll get there next year...
Japan was miles ahead in the early 2000s but as some say, being ahead can also be a burden. And as a deeply traditional society they tend to cling to things that work. I heard that even faxes are still used there. In Austria too by the way but that's more because of an obscure legal status thing.
Ah -- can you share which browser you're on? I hadn't heard of any bugs with instrument selection so far (until your comment). Thanks!

> I think the easy mode could be easier - people without perfect pitch need to warm up a bit first

Will think about that, thanks! Maybe immediate visual feedback to give you a hint if you're close to the note, or the first two notes are given instead of just the first note? Otherwise I can't think of other ways to make it more easy, but am open to ideas!
In fact, I would say that Twitter/X increases the demand for news, since that's what's shared and discussed on the platform. And vice versa: Reading about the latest outrages in the NYT gives the people something to tweet about. So each increases demand for the other. They're the frenemies who need each other more than they know.
Either you use jigs or you tie them together temporarily and cut the stack.
Isn't agreeing to only run an AGI with whatever theoretical alignment controls we come up with, also a social agreement? Seems we will have to figure that out one way or another.
Agreed. Interested in giving this a go, but current pricing is quite the turn off.
I am not deep into mobile games but I doubt that gambling games are easy to churn out. Is that accurate?

The normal in app purchase trap is time saving bonuses as far as I can see
/even of a simple beattle./

So, more Ringo than Lenon?
Take it up with Patreon or Ko-Fi..
It's difficult for whole sites to get much traction here. Which is your favorite article?
IP Guide is also using MaxMind, I'm not familiar with many other data sources for that kind of data. Are you seeing discrepancies?

No rate limits or auth for requests, but as mentioned below the api starts to load shed at 2k concurrent requests.
Excellent point. I hadn't thought of that.
> hold a candle next to, programmingor, worlf, alook, has been

I dare say we’ve all been in some rooms we didn’t really deserve to be in, wouldn’t you?
Does Apple TV have Miracast support?
I think of Miracast as "open" and airplay as "closed".
The Romans could have used this to keep those pesky Germans out!
They have the scale in terms of hardware, but they likely don't have the infrastructure to experiment efficiently on this scale on LLMs specifically. OpenAI has been building LLM-specific infrastructure for years. Why do you think Google Bard sucks so much? It's not because there's some special magic secret that only OAI knows. It's because you need a huge amount of purpose-built infrastructure and trial-and-error iteration from experiments each of which take months. You can't easily catch up to that in a few months. Even if you throw 10x more staff at it, you are not going to make progress faster.

The only way you could catch up faster is by having orders of magnitude more hardware. But due the global shortage on hardware right now, nobody has that, not even Google.
This question has been discussed to death in multiple other threads, just search Q* on hn.
Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers
Not exactly HTTP, but dns.toys
This is so depressing. Bandcamp was the last bastion of what once made the Internet great. I could do without everything else, really. It's all greed now.
Aren't they still going to have the "here is announcement from our sponsor" kind of ads?
>Designing a PCB and sending it off to fab is surprisingly accessible and feels like a super power

Relatedly, reflow for assembly makes this feel like a super^2 power. I had always struggled with SMD components with an iron, but once I finally took the plunge and tried reflow I realized I could never go back. Not only is it considerably easier and cleaner (you place the parts, bake it, and do minor touchup with a braid and a hot plate--it just works!) but you can just build so much denser, more technologically advanced devices!
Well AMD marketing turned out to be a joke, remember Poor Volta? I still think AMD haven't even recovered from that. There marketing for GPUs have been terrible since.
Could it have been due to him breaking some kind of NDA? After all that would make sense then that they're so mysterious about it, after all they don't want to release more information.
I’m not sure what the globe is written but I’m pretty sure the comment is referring to the shopify core platform scaling to that many dollars of throughput, and while, yes, certainly there are peripheral bits in a variety of languages, the core is still very much a rails project.
Feel all depends how one looks at things. For example, the vacuum, supposedly there should be nothing there. However, uncertainty principle allows fluctuations of all kinds which are not physically directly observable. If one looks at things at the level of principle, it is simple. However, if one tries to look into the actual fluctuations, there is infinite and unknown amount of complexity.
You probably want the "Maple Edit" of the Hobbit (also known as "J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit"). It is 247 minutes and is setup as a single film with intermissions.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gVFD7Dqwk

Info:

http://www.maple-films.com/jrr-tolkiens-the-hobbit/the-final...
There is or was a British inventor who build an odd contraption with 2 vibrating plates with grinded garbage flowing between them suspended in ferrofluid. Along the track the paeticles sort themselves by density. Innitially a silly idea as ferrofluid is expensive but he wanted to see how well it worked and possibly try better fluids. It turned out to produce much more ferrofluid than was consumed. The story ends with: no one was interested enough to spend money on it.
Exactly as I do as a human when I build such walls (several of them in my life). It’s a very difficult spatial problem to fit the stones into a pretty, stable structure. No doubt something large memories and detailed spatial search on a computer could help with. That doesn’t seem to have happened in this example, though. That wall is horrendously ugly.
Not a Steam game, but an amazing programming puzzle game that I keep looking for a modern version of.

Year: 2001

Title: Colobot

Link: https://colobot.info/

My description: Use code to direct wheeled, hover and flying bots to construct, combat and explore.

Description: Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational, post apocalyptic real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics, created by Swiss developer Epsitec SA. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien life forms endangering the expedition. The game takes place on the Earth, Moon, and seven fictional planets. The main feature of the game, which makes it educational, is the possibility for players to program their robots using a programming language similar to C++ or Java.
> A proton moving at 99.5% the speed of light is not moving much faster than one moving at 99%, but the former has much more energy

If those were spaceships instead of protons one might wonder, given the large energy difference, if it would be worth spending the energy to go at 99.5% c instead of 99% c.

For a 4.3 lightyear trip, the 99% c ship would take 4.34 years. The 99.5% ship would take 4.32 years. That's only 8 days faster, which at first doesn't seem like it could be worth it. It only knocks about 0.5% off the trip.

But that's from the frame of reference of Earth. From the frame of reference of the ships the time will be shortened due to relativistic time dilation.

The 99% c ship makes the trip in 0.613 years (224 days), and the 99.5% c ship makes the trip in 0.432 years (156 days). That's 30% knocked off the trip--which would mean a substantial savings in supplies for the crew. That might be enough to make the extra energy to get that extra 0.5% speed worth it.

If anyone wants to play around with these kind of things I have a calculator designed to make these kind of special relativity calculations fairly easy. Source here [1], deployed here [2].

Here's how you would use it to get the numbers show above. Enter 299792458 in the "scale" field (which makes it so that the distances are in lightyears and time in years).

Enter the speed of the ship in the velocity field (0.99 or 0.995).

The fields in the calculation rows represent an x and a t in your frame (fields 1 and 2) and an x and a t in the ship's frame (fields 3 and 4).

At any given time two fields are input fields (labeled with ① and ②) and the other two fields are outputs. Enter values in the inputs and it sets the outputs such that the event at the x, t in your frame given by fields 1 and 2 is the same as the event at the x, t in the ship's frame given by fields 3 and 5. (It is assumed that at our x = 0, t = 0 and the ship's x = 0, t = 0 are the same).

You can change which fields are inputs by clicking on the symbol to the left of a field. That will make that field input ①, and the previous ① will become ②.

For finding out how long the 4.3 light year trip takes in the ship's frame, we are looking for when the point that is at x = 4.3 in our frame is at x = 0 in the ship's frame.

So make fields 1 and 3 (our x and ship's x) inputs, and put 4.3 in our x and 0 in the ship's x. Then field 2 (our t) shows when the ship arrives according to our clock, and field 4 (ship's t) shows what time is on the ship's clock.

[1] https://github.com/tzs/Physics-special-relativity-calculator

[2] https://tzs.github.io/Physics-special-relativity-calculator/
People worry about Scientology quite a bit (with good reason.)