skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kissinger wrote an interesting book "A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-1822", actually found it online:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012330695&se...

i think he had his moment here with the 1975 Helsinki accord. That one is often overlooked, but it gave dissidents in communist countries a basis to press their case, where their own government signed a document that on paper obliged them to respect human rights.
I do think the Fed's stunt with 2-3% interest rates in 2020-2022 was an effort to further concentrate wealth up the stack. Everyone who could buy/refinance did and will likely stop moving for the foreseeable future, as the same house would cost at least 33% more per month thanks to the higher interest rate alone.
I'm a Biden voter who (vocally) disliked TLJ. Would you mind explaining exactly what words you're putting in my mouth?
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/wU8GQ2QW

Here's the relevant part of the interview.
Hey! Some people in my lab work on that! I also did some work on analyzing floating point exceptions, so I learned a bit about this stuff. AMA, and I’ll do my best to answer. :)

(For clarification, I work at the University of Utah, so Pavel is the head honcho over Herbie here.)
To the stakeholders, which include employees, customers, partners and, by OpenAI own mission statement, all of humanity in general.
Oh, and it would also be good if the list of tags that you can filter by is sorted, preferably alphanumerically.
This is perpetually one of my last favorite patterns in humans. Declaring someone an idiot when they’ve never met them and they’re one of the most powerful and influential people on the planet. Not referring to Sam here.
> Good if you're NVidia, bad if you're OpenAI

Not necessarily good for Nvidia. If the new algorithm is branch heavy, don’t parallelize well, … etc. and operate better on CPUs rather than GPUs, it will be Intel, AMD, and ARM that enjoy the windfall.
AI generating crap comments to spruik sports betting links is a dick move.
And they would have given MS the 60 percent of their employees more interested in politics than anything else.
We call him SAlty.
Kissinger is way over hyped. What I find more interesting is the total deflection of the blame of everything that happened to his person. I believe that Kissinger is talented but far from being the person who orchestrated a world order. He was a tool. A very nice and charismatic persona who took the fall when events went south. He was paid for it and protected up until his death.
Your grandfather's obituary was written by his kin, right? But the beeb doesn't have to treat him like a relative. Seems like any controversies about them are very relevant to an article about their death.
@dang

^^ AI generating crap comments to spruik sports betting links.
> If you read Machiavelli's "the prince" you'll know everything you need to know about Kissenger. Never had an original idea in his whole life.

Have you actually read 'The Prince'? It's hopelessly naive, and doesn't have much to do with real politics (or real life in general). So I doubt you could learn everything there is to know about Henry Kissinger in there.

(To explain more: 'The Prince' is willing to say some things that shocked contemporaries, and might even shock some people today. But it's still rather naive in its reasoning, and believes in simple 'one weird tricks'.)
Because "rules based international order" can only really be enforced by a hegemon, and obviously the hegemon can't really "be it" and "be in it" simultaneously
To me the crux of it is it's not an advice or metaphor.

Telling people to stop feeling the way they feel is good for motivational posters, but not something to tell people expecting them to think long and deep about it.
> The only thing that seemed his own idea was personally planning and picking bombing targets to murder hell out of everybody in Cambodia.

That and being a total horn dog.
Check this diagram and tell me it's simpler than an engine and transmission.

https://automotorpad.com/toyota/83449-funcionamiento-sistema...

It's essentially an engine, a transmission, another transmission (power split device), a drive motor and a generator.
Exactly. But I’d say the ‘metaverse’ did happen, we just don’t call it (or think of it like) that. We already have virtual worlds, and they’re (for better or for worse) ubiquitous. There seems to be little benefit to making them 3D, having goofy avatars and having them loosely approximate everyday reality.
You are correct, the user interface of jq is not the same as the user interface of jless.
Why is this faster than running llama.cpp main directly? I’m getting 7 tokens/ sec with this. But 2 with llama.cpp by itself
Also, forgive my ignorance, it is my understanding that EVs have way less moving parts than gas, and that is the reason why there is less maintenance needed. How's the title true?
Not being consistently candid seems like the sort of thing you'd get fired for.
I have the 6 and it's a bit of a boat. Manual transmission would definitely make it more fun, but I got stuck with the 6-speed auto. Yeah it still has manual shifting but it's just not the same.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great ride and a great car. The only thing I don't like about it is that there's nothing to like.

It's the Brother laser printer of cars. It's fine, it's whatever. It does the thing, it'll do it for years and years and never bother you. But it's still a bland boring box with nothing to love except the fact that it works and only needs serviced every fifth year.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468326
Occam’s razor. It is a fight of egos and power masked around AI Safety and Q*. Equivalent of politician's "Think about the children".
And why would they want to "control" Elon Musk? If he was running for office or something, then that would be understandable. Since he's not, I don't think anyone thinks of this in terms of controlling Elon Musk, as there is nothing to gain from that. This is just hubris.
Yes, definitely. Some never stop!
Just the way the users here like it.
I work on Trainium (SoC design and firmware), the main thing you would lack is the Nitro management plane. The instance is not responsible for managing the Trainium chip at all. Additionally, the platform is most desirable when it's connected via side links to other Trainium chips (the 32xlarge instance type). Even more out of band management.

Of course this could all be redesigned to be a desktop PCIe card, but the design assumption that it lives in AWS is literally baked into the silicon.

Never mind the power and cooling requirements. You probably wouldn't appreciate it being next to you while you work.
Yes, though it does seem to be working for them. They have a special feature for lazy loading large assets but I opted for a simpler to me option (giving users a button to download a model if they don’t have one locally they want to use).
The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the posthuman era (1993)
If you're asking "Could another company make a much better version of their products?" then the answer is a fairly clear yes, it could happen to OpenAI. They have an unknown number of proprietary advancements that give their products the edge (IMO), but it's an incredibly fast moving space with more and more competitors, from fast moving startups and deep-pocketed megacorps.

The impression I get is that if they rested on their laurels for a fairly short time they would be eclipsed.
The best explanation I've read is https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXHMCH7wCxrvKsJyn/openai-fac... and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXHMCH7wCxrvKsJyn/openai-fac... along with Zvi's overview in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sGpBPAPq2QttY4M2H/openai-the...
> I cannot believe that my IPs are blessed or whatever. My mail systems are behind "business" IPs but nothing more fancy.

The biggest issue is mail volume to establish reputation. You need a fairly high number of emails before Google or Microsoft's email Postmasters tooling even registers you exist. This leaves new servers stuck in a chicken and egg conundrum. You need to send X number of good emails before the emails are excepted, BUT you can't get emails through without having X number of good emails go through. Old servers like yourself have the advantage of already being "trusted" to an extent.
Does the Red Cross have value? Does Wikipedia? Does the Linux Foundation?

I think you are confusing profits, valuations, market cap, and value.
It's interesting, because these heavy vehicles are really bad for the roads.
CR poll asks about any problems faced. Phone didn’t connect to the multimedia unit? That’s a problem.

Not saying MB quality hasn’t changed but given the large feature set the problem surface area is also very large. More opportunities for owners to find issues.

By comparison, Lexus uses tried and tested old technology to the point it’s boring to own. But it’s super reliable.

2nd thing not captured here: not all car models are equal. The lower end Mercs and other premium manufacturers models aren’t built to the same standards by my experience. There’s a difference in quality of a German car made in Germany and a German car made in Mexico. The higher end models used to be made in Germany (not sure if that’s still the case).

All of this affects this rating. You might be fine buying an E class but the experience of owning a CLA might be shit.
I'm sorry, but I'm not watching a 20 minute video on this topic.
I was riding an elevator to my hotel room when it stops on another floor and in gets Henry Kissinger in the company of beautiful young blonde.
So I say "Hey! Aren't you Kissinger?"
Henry replies "no I'm Fsckinger."

(The last time I can tell a 50 year old joke)
To me, deepL was really amazing back in 2020 and earlier. But ever since big AI releases like ChatGPT, I can't help and feel they're kinda stagnant.

Their model still has the same incorrect repetition issues it's had for years, and their lack of any kind of transparency behind the scenes really makes it feel like it still _is_ the exact same model they've served for years.

Quickly checking their twitter does not seem to reveal many improvements either.

Of course I get that model training can be rather expensive, but I'd really have thought that in the field of AI translations things would be evolving more, especially for a big-ish player like deepL.

If anyone has insights on what they've been up to I'd be really interested to know.
This already is the inflation adjusted number. Non-inflation adjusted was 8.9% growth.

https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/gdp3q23_2nd....
> "The idea of an unlimited travle, and/or allowing players to catch up on previous games is something I'd like to add"

Maybe that and also switch to "capitals" mode to use the capitals of the countries instead of the country names. I used to use another "popular map guessing site" almost daily to practice world capitals until one of their pop-up adverts hijacked the page's onload and redirected me to another site. Travle seems much more effective than rote memorization, as it's practical.
It seems hard to imagine a board member that is involved in another tech business not having a conceivable conflict of interests. LLMs are on a course to disrupt pretty much all forms of knowledge work after all. Also big implications for hardware manufacturing and supply chains.
I say some of A are good. You say B is bad to A. Those two statements can both be true.
> These assistants should be able to make predictions about program _traces_, not just program source text.

Are you sure 'traces' is the right word? Not something more like ASTs?

Btw, the predict-next-token approach has the benefit of also being able to deal with broken code.

You might also want to compare http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html and https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis with your idea of adding more domain specific knowledge.
All the best. No DNS changes tonight!
As a British person, I’m thankful to Churchill that I’m not typing this response in German.
There's hardly such thing as data on productivity. Even if they're using some metric like time spent AFK, the execs wouldn't want to give away their methods.
I could have gone that route but it would require the cable to go into the interior from the outside so that's why I hardwired it to the front. It also helps that I park it with its nose to the garage so the wire is very short and I just let it dangle down when it isn't in use.
As a person from the third world and more specifically Africa, I cannot find myself to mourn his death or say any good thing about Kissinger. Good riddance actually. I would have loved to see him get his day in court when he was still alive.

What he masterminded in Angola and several other African countries that ended up in civil wars because of him are some of the greatest atrocities to people of the third world.

I wish history would remember as such, but hey, we don't write the history, they did.
Deep State retains their board seat with Summers.
> Ffs why do we need arbiters of truth on the internet.

Because otherwise people might believe the wrong lies.
> The kind of switches described are rocker switches with a small led to indicate state.

Also, in most applications, a big LED to indicate state. Often installed on the ceiling in a central location where it's easy to see from any point in the room.
Sam said on a recent Joe Rogan episode that he can be a bit of a troll online and he felt some sort of discomfort with it. I do think Sam is probably sort of an asshole in certain situations (which means you’re an asshole but hide it well usually). But to be honest, most people are assholes when you push the right buttons.
Human Mobility Networks Reveal Increased Segregation in Large Cities
> You'd need something that actually understands the language. What is a lifetime, what is scope, what are types, functions, variables, etc.

Why is that more important for programming languages than for human natural languages?
Aren't Lexus and Toyota basically the same thing? Lexus is Toyota's luxury brand, and Lexus cars are built in Toyota factories [0]. Why are they considered two different brands for this? (and, more interesting, why do they have different reliability scores, apparently swapped from last year?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus
Is there some technicality here that we're missing (e.g., is there a difference between you and other customers?) or is he just lying?
"Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent."

As it stands, things are kind of going to the other direction.
From the obituary in the New York Times: "Michael T. Kaufman, a former correspondent and editor for The Times who died in 2010, contributed reporting."

So, Kissinger outlived the guy who wrote his obituary!
Definitely increase the total for most people is seemingly the outcome I expect. Or at least for my household. I'm not too thrilled.
OpenAI is non profit and a for-profit stakeholder in the board. could cause a conflict of interest
You may want to speak for just yourself.

I’m also a user here, with a differing opinion.

There’s no singular unified HN opinion.
>"Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal is dangerous, but public knowledge is also dangerous, given that it could lead to a Soviet-Arab nuclear guarantee. Thus, at a minimum, the U.S. should keep it secret."

explain what is nuts about that in the middle of the cold war. The US has intelligence that Israel has the bomb, and Kissinger thinks we shouldn't broadcast it?

>the role Henry Kissenger played in the development of the Israeli nuclear weapons program? It's not inconsequential

what role is that in the development of Israel's weapon? (If there is one weapon you aren't going to keep the Jewish state from developing, I'd think it would be one based on 20th century physics...)

Other than "oooh Kissinger bad", I don't get what you are saying.

(*fine-toothed comb)
They're trying to mimic Jobs' Apple by breaking open a gigantic new market, but if the market doesn't materialize around them ("pretty much the only competitor") their story ends up looking a lot more like Palm's. And Palm's devices sold much better than Quests have so far.
There have been several cases of the landing gear up/down lever getting wired backwards during maintenance. Not to worry, the gear has a 'squat switch' sensor that prevents the gear from being raised when the plane is on the ground. Unless you taxi over a bump and the switch decides it's now airborne. Crunch.
"She turned me into a newt" might become a more attractive prospect than it would appear at first glance.
You're just completely wrong.

"Sales of Toyota’s conventional hybrids rose 41% from a year ago, to about 888,000, and sales of its plug-in hybrids were up nearly 90% year-over-year to roughly 39,000."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/toyota-tm-q3-2023-earnings-g...
Ah interesting, thank you. I know about the missing fundamental because I run into that when tuning the low end of the piano and when trying to re-create the lowest notes on the piano from audio files. But I never made the connection to the canceled out bass notes but it is obviously the exact same thing.
if you think software dev wages would impress inmates, wait till you know how much they make from selling drugs
No, because we can't look into their skulls, to figure out whether they 'understand', whatever that means.
So did he try to feed in his notes?
What differentiates this from Raindrop and Pocket?
That's why I always download the original version and quantize myself. With enough swap, you can do it with a modest amount for ram. I never had to download a model twice.

But yes, unless there is a way to patch it, bundling the model with the executable like this is going to be more wasteful.
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
Think about it this way: if in the 1940's nuclear weapons were being developed in private hands don't you think the entity behind that would owe the public - or the government - some insight into what is going on?

I'd read the hell out of that alt-history novel, I can tell you that much. Not so much the "Manhattan Project" as the "Tuxedo Park Project."
100x is basically just a “they won’t literally take over the economy of the entire planet”
Shall I keep an eye out?

I repair DX-7's to keep them alive (usually three broken ones yield about two good ones and some spare bits), I can look for KX-88's while looking for DX-7s if you want.
Who exactly are you referring to?
How do you know? Is there a breakdown of the percentage of the deficit spending?
Given this where do you think $VTI will land in Q1 24?

Do you think we will see a 25% contraction (~annualized) like we saw Jan to Oct 2022? The huge November rally (this month) makes NO sense. I feel like the hammer is about to fall.
Perhaps that means you should implement that API.
I'm missing the part where the OP (and the rest of us) asked you.
It’s not about politics, it’s about stability and trust.

Same reason I’m hesitant to wire up my home with IoT devices (just a personal example). Nothing to do with politics, I’m just afraid companies will drop support and all the things I invested in will stop working.
I wish there was someone else interviewing Musk. It could have been much more colorful and even more emotional. Like him or not, but Musk is eccentric and it could have been a great show.
Indeed, I think it's the least open of them all?
for me it was the great late Christopher Hitchens and his crusade against Kissinger

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christopher+hit...
I've been using Linuxbrew for few months last year, it was always hit-or-miss whether some tool will work or if it will be macOS only recipe.

Then I started using aarch64 CPUs, and Linuxbrew still doesn't work on those. Bummer.

So while I'd love to see a package manager that spans all Linux distros, Homebrew is not it, at least for now. Nix may be it, but it has its own interesting issues at times.

I recently used distrobox to run Arch Linux container on Fedora host and it was a good experience. I did not try exposing the CLIs from there to the host OS but it sounds possible https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d... . I don't want to daily-drive Arch again, but it's a great project to install fresh versions of various CLI tools from.
"Electronic brain" or "electric brain". Stereotypical 1950s term for a computer.

The analogy between the telegraph and the nervous system goes back much further. In 1855, William F. Channing wrote:

> The electric telegraph is thus the nervous system of this nation and of modern society by no figure of speech, by no distant analogy. Its wires spread like nerves over the surface of the land, interlinking distant parts, and making possible a
perpetually higher co-operation among men, and higher social forms than have hitherto existed.

The fact that the nervous system involved electricity in some way, was understood by that time. He was probably not the first to think of the analogy, and it would become common by the late 19th century.

[1] William F Channing, "The American Fire-Alarm Telegraph" https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101620765...
> For subordinates who executed the illegal actions. Within the command structure. Being in the command structure was important.

For a fairly comparable role (foreign minister), Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted (among other things, for "crimes against peace" and "deliberately planning a war of aggression") and executed at Nuremberg. Plenty of ministers in the list there.

It's hard to argue Kissinger wasn't involved in "deliberately planning a war of aggression" against Cambodia.
Yea, but it doesn’t do much else. It’s a glorified camera that can navigate on its own.

I’m sure they can add a basic hand/hook/loop for grabbing or carrying something, but just moving one small thing at a time still leaves a lot to be desired.

That project still needs millions (billions?) in R&D to make it even mildly useful to a majority of households in any way.
React server component all the day.
"Same factory" is used with a lot of things as an argument that things are the same. Industrial processes have a lot more to do with decisions made for the specific product. A luxury product could involve a longer more in depth QA cycle, tighter tolerance for rejection, etc. A commodity product could have more reliable parts because they simply made more of them and had more experience with problems and fixes. The building a thing is made in or using the same machines does not result equivalent products.
It’s so hilariously slow and jumpy, it moves like a cautious chipmunk! I’m sure it’s gonna be awesome but it is so MVP right now. Also those “houses” in the demo videos are like a grid. Whose house is perfectly clean all the time? My roomba has to adapt to lots of novel situations just to transit the floor.
Why? And why allow autocomplete? Why not ban anything including compilers, especially optimizing compilers? How do you draw the line?
Because they're different brands. Volkswagen own Porsche and Audi, but they're listed separately and presumably they have different reliability levels. There are also different reliability levels across different models, but they drew the line at brands.
> But I’d say the ‘metaverse’ did happen, we just don’t call it (or think of it like) that.

If Internet := metaverse, then sure, I agree.
>“The sequence leaves behind residual DNA that could cause problems,” reads the Instagram post

The medium is the message.
Have you guys considered that maybe he's there because he's extremely qualified and extremely well-respected by his peers? It's not some kind of weird power play, he's just lending a hand while they figure out the long-term board composition.
Damn, he was cooking here
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