skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously this. They mean the enterprises that have integrated OpenAI into their platforms (like eg Salesforce has). All of this happened so quickly that no one could have dropped them lol but nevertheless yeah they probably didn't officially lose one - plus they're all locked into annual contracts anyway.
ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou
It's true insomuch as aggregate spending being high drives inflation. Not necessarily government. More dollars, same goods. Not more gov't dollars, same goods.
There was nothing to bluff. The employees would've been hired by Microsoft and OpenAI the company would've had nothing but sourcecode and some infrastructure. They would've gone down quickly.
I saw one that says "GOT HIM!"

That one might actually be new.
The last I checked regarding Q3, was that most of the growth was due to consumption, but most of that consumption was fueled by debt. The prior Q2 consumption was suppressed, and it seems that everyone was forced to restart consumption in Q3.
I used similar prompts in the past to test how may words needed to exhaust the context length and forget previous instructions. I think you are doing that.

For generic words like "text text text ..." it would start random musings on the soviet union and the star wars etc. But it had lots of made up characters so not training data directly.

Recently I got disconnects for such prompts wondering it got censored by openai.
I was referring to a specific image template and heavily hedged with "at least", but you're right - anti-kissinget sentiment had been around for decades.
Fork[1] could be considered a drop-in replacement (both visually and functionally) for SourceTree. It does, however, fix SourceTree’s biggest warts, and is much more stable.

I’m not affiliated with them, just a satisfied customer.

[1] https://fork.dev
Lehrer said it, but the myth is that Lehrer stopped performing for that reason — the truth is, he had stopped performing long before that, simply because he was bored of it. From https://web.archive.org/web/20051025051240/https://avclub.co...

> The Onion: I'd long heard that you stopped performing as a form of protest, because Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.

> Tom Lehrer: I don't know how that got started. I've said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize. For one thing, I quit long before that happened, so historically it doesn't make any sense. I've heard that quoted back to me, but I've also heard it quoted that I was dead, so there you are. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted. I've heard that I stopped because Richard Nixon was elected, or because I got put away in an insane asylum, or whatever. It was just a remark about political satire, because it was true. Not literally, but everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think. Years ago, it was much easier: We had Eisenhower to kick around. That was much funnier than Nixon.
> The crazy thing about this is that the folks calling Kissinger out for war crimes and the folks like you pointing out the good things he enabled both have a valid point.

The biggest problem is that what a lot of people know about Kissinger is "folk knowledge" they picked up from other people, and this gets passed down as a game of telephone until it's common knowledge, but no one has bothered to check if it's accurate or not. It doesn't help when there are articles like the Rolling Stones one that's been posted, which seem more interested in cherry-picking facts to fit the narrative then in actually looking at what happened with open eyes.

A few years ago, I thought to myself that since people talk about Kissinger so much, I should go and look at what he actually did. I was surprised to see that he didn't seem to be the driving force behind bad policy decisions in the Nixon White House. He was certainly involved as National Security Advisor, but most of the time it looked like Nixon would have made the same decisions without him. Yet for some reason, Kissinger is usually blamed much more than Nixon.

For instance, at least according to the State Department Historian[1] it was General Creighton Abrams that first suggested bombing enemy bases in Cambodia. Nixon agreed, and involved Kissinger, who was the National Security Advisor. But the bombing is usually presented as Kissinger's bombing of Cambodia. General Abrams isn't mentioned in the Rolling Stones article at all. Compare the Google results for "Creighton Abrams Cambodia" with "Henry Kissinger Cambodia" to see how slanted things are.

That's not even getting into the fact that blaming the Khmer Rouge on the bombing campaign is an extreme stretch. But that's how people approach the folk knowledge - they get told something is true, believe it to be true, then stitch together whatever facts they can find to support the narrative they've already set their mind on.

[1] https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/vi/64033.htm
I know of a few startups that kind of do this.

MindSumo does it for corporate clients in the form of open innovation challenges (disclaimer, I am their top ranked solver and have written PR pieces for them in the past). They are really light idea generation.

There are similar companies in various niches, from product design with Eyeka and Desall to grand challenges with HeroX to highly technical challenges with Wazoku.

It is hardly lucrative though. I make a few thousand a year from it.

It isn’t lucrative for the companies either. They have very small teams and keep being bought and sold and repackaged.

Would love to know if there is a way to make more.
A lot of people in the US sadly have 0 knowledge about his crimes in Africa :( It doesn’t even get mentioned in pretty critical articles!
anthro? no. they over censor their models.
You can even run a full LLM in your browser these days - try https://webllm.mlc.ai/ in Chrome, it can load up a Llama-2-7b chat model (~4000MB, took my connection just under 3 minutes) and you can start chatting with it.
This is incredible. This is the quality of discourse we have lost.
> When those objective metrics do map strongly to the subjective metrics, then it's awesome. But the problem is that in practice near to any objective metric can be completely and utterly gamed in, more or less, "honest" ways. Essentially, a government can find ways to increase it without increasing the things that it's supposed to represent. But you can't game how people themselves perceive things without outright lying and fraud.

Subjective metrics are even easier to game though. Just dope everyone up, or tell them every other country is worse off, or.... And it's harder to prove lying or fraud because it's all subjective ideas, whereas when you have an objective number then at least if someone actually lies about the number that's provable.

> And national "defense" was one of the big winners in this GDP report. But do these wars provide a subjective quality of life improvement, or deterioration, for people?

The point of defense spending is so that you don't get invaded. Getting invaded tends to cause a major deterioration in quality of life.
I would assume that applications that process data faster than a few gigabytes per CPU-second are rare. It's more common that things are constrained by computation or memory latency.
I used to correspond with Bret Taylor when he was still at Google. He wrote a windows application called Notable that I used every day for note-taking. Eventually, I started contributing to it.

It’s been fascinating to witness his career progression from Product Manager at Google, to the co-CEO of Salesforce, and now the chair of OpenAI board (he was also the chair of Twitter board pre-Elon)!
I'm suddenly interested in books for the disinterested.
I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu, and didn't understand how Kissinger's actions caused Cambodian Civil War. Can you explain? (I assume it is the Civil War the he's blamed for?)
Christopher Hitchens 2001 the Case Against Henry Kissinger [video]
$500/month (3 figures) is a great milestone. I remember talking to a mentor that said, “you have something people will buy, stop working on features and focus just a bit on marketing.” It was good advice because now I’m regularly generating revenue of 4 figures per day.

Rewind 5 years…

I was so frustrated I couldn’t easily design and print barcode labels on my Mac using a spreadsheet. I opened up vscode and wrote a crude MVP in react and got it working in electron.

I put it on the Mac App Store and the next morning had my first sale in the Caribbean of all places. It’s now making 5-figures per week.

Last year I decided to start another side hustle, importing and selling high quality label printers bundled with my app, now making 4-figures per week with a growing reseller network.

Design App at https://label.live

Label Printers at https://mydpi.com

Edit: I’m still consulting so I still consider these two projects my side hustles.
I had a friend who did call center stuff.

It was kind of eye-opening - they took phone calls form late-night tv infomercials and there was a script.

They would take down your name, take your order, and then... upsell, cross-sell, special offer sell, etc.

If the person said anything like "I'm not interested in this, blah blah", they had responses for everything. "But other people have quite upset when they didn't receive these very special offers and called back to complain"

It was carefully calculated. It was refined. It was polished and tested.

The only way OUT of the script was to say "I will cancel my order unless you stop"

If the call center operator didn't follow the script, they would be fired.

(You know this happens now with websites at scale. A/B test until the cancellation message is scary enough. A/B test until you give up on the privacy policy.)
YouTube seems to have made it unplayable (for now). You get a vague error when you try to play it.
I've thought one of the funnier end states for AGI would be if it was created but this ended up making it vastly less productive than when it was just a tool.

So the AI of the future was more like Bender or other robots from Futurama that display all the same flaws as people.
> He may have furthered his own interests but did he also further the interests of the US more effectively than most could?

No.
What other companies have CEOs that are so aggressively belligerent?
What if Kissenger ran the site himself?
our hosted version is available at www.ourchatstory.co for you to try
We Need to See Inside AI's Black Box
To have Hitch alive right now to comment, the Rollingstone article was pretty on point but his would have been special.
Can you explain what you mean by this? On a moving train, having an open mind itself is a good thing.
Outlawing mortgages > 7 years would be counterproductive. This would just shift home ownership to richer people and reduce demand for new housing.

The market will produce houses as cheap and small as people desire, the real limitation is regulation preventing this.

The libertarians and georgists are correct in this: reduce regulation and institute a land value tax and the problem will solve itself.
On a Macbook Pro M2, I get

$ ./llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4
[2] 25224 illegal hardware instruction ./llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4
Now we need to run these on a small spherical display like the Gakken Worldeye https://youtu.be/85rs0WHnUy0?feature=shared&t=53

Here's an animated eyeball (hat tip chatgpt):

uniform float time;
varying vec2 vUv;
vec3 lighting(vec3 normal, vec3 eyeDirection, vec3 lightDirection) {
float diffuse = max(dot(normal, lightDirection), 0.0);
vec3 reflected = reflect(-lightDirection, normal);
float specular = pow(max(dot(reflected, eyeDirection), 0.0), 16.0);
return vec3(0.1) + diffuse * vec3(0.5) + specular * vec3(0.3);
}
void main() {
float theta = vUv.x * 2.0 * 3.14159265359;
float phi = (1.0 - vUv.y) * 3.14159265359;
vec3 sphereCoord = vec3(sin(phi) * cos(theta), cos(phi), sin(phi) * sin(theta));
vec2 irisPosition = vec2(sin(time * 0.5) * 0.1, cos(time * 0.7) * 0.1);
float irisDistance = length(sphereCoord.xy - irisPosition);
float irisRadius = 0.25;
float pupilRadius = 0.1;
float irisEdgeSoftness = 0.02;
vec3 color;
if (irisDistance < pupilRadius) {
color = vec3(0.0);
} else if (irisDistance < irisRadius) {
float t = smoothstep(irisRadius - irisEdgeSoftness, irisRadius, irisDistance);
color = mix(vec3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0), vec3(0.5, 0.25, 0.0), t);
color += 0.05 * sin(20.0 * irisDistance + time);
} else {
color = vec3(1.0);
}
vec3 eyelidColor = vec3(1.4, 0.90, 0.60);
float blinkSpeed = 0.5; // Reduce this value to slow down the blinking
float blink = abs(sin(time * 3.14159265359 * blinkSpeed));
float eyelidPosition = mix(0.4, 0.5, blink);
float upperEyelid = step(eyelidPosition, vUv.y);
float lowerEyelid = step(eyelidPosition, 1.0 - vUv.y);
color = mix(color, eyelidColor, 1.0 - upperEyelid * lowerEyelid);
vec3 normal = normalize(sphereCoord);
vec3 lightDirection = normalize(vec3(0.0, 1.0, 1.0));
vec3 eyeDirection = normalize(vec3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0));
vec3 litColor = color * lighting(normal, eyeDirection, lightDirection);
gl_FragColor = vec4(litColor, 1.0);
}
That demand on HN was an unfounded gut based reaction that you typically expect from a mob. People were saying stuff like the board was mentally deficient for doing what they did. How likely is it for the board to be actually dumb to the point of actual stupidity?

If you think about it, the board being actually mentally challenged is an extremely low probability but that was the mob reaction. When given so little information they just go with the flow even if the flow is unlikely.

Now with more articles, the mentality has shifted. Most people don't even remember their initial reaction. Yeah It looks like everybody on this thread has flipped, but who admits to flipping? Ask anyone and they'll claim they were skeptical all along.

People say The hacker news crowd is different, better... I'd say the hacker news crowd is the same as any other group. The difference is they think they're better. That includes me... as I'm part of HN so don't get all offended.
Since the 70's? There's a Bible with stories about those shambles!
It's that a Kissinger quote?
Narrators voice: It was always the ultimate spec, it is now becoming more obvious to more people.

One of the interesting things for me is how memory "operations" (which is to say transactions of the memory controller) can completely obliterate "bandwidth."

In the past (not sure how true this is on current microarchitectures) the controller between cache and DRAM worked by opening a "page" of dynamic memory. That was an artifact of how DRAMs use both a column address select and a row address select and then multiplex the address bits. So to "read" memory you needed to select the column, then select the row, and then read the memory. The good news was that if you needed the next word of memory in order, you could just read again. And again. Periodically if you were reading the chip would have to ask you to wait while it refreshed its contents.

Anyway, this memory operation of opening a new page was a lot slower than reading the next word in memory. So if you're requests were bouncing all around memory your effective bandwidth was limited by how fast your memory controller could open new pages. That could be one tenth the nominal serial access bandwidth. Controllers had multiple "page" registers so they could hold the state of two (or more) different DIMMS and try to interleave their access across DIMMs to hide the latency aspect of page mechanics.

Generally though, when you get to the point where your measuring memops and trying to layout your physical memory to minimize them you're in a different realm of system optimization.
That’s very creepy
It'd go over as well as a lead... acid battery
That ought to be a first-class candidate for space manufacturing. (high quality microgravity)
Based on the how their post is worded, I'm guessing they never needed OpenAI's products in the first place. For most people, OpenAI's offerings are still luxury products, and all luxury brands are vulnerable to bad press. Some of the things I learned in the press frenzy certainly made me uncomfortable.
Seems like the idea is to minimize consumption in a finite world.
Yeah, because with PPP China already has a bigger economy than USA.

Edit for the downvoters: China’s 2022 GDP based on PPP is $31.5 trillion vs the USA’s $23 trillion. That’s 37% bigger. Source: https://www.worldeconomics.com/Country-Size/China.aspx
prompt: You are an optimistic, politically correct corporate magnate. You may be wrong, but never in doubt.
Yeah, but it was meaningfully stabilizing before we fucked it again.
In your world, what would a Xi victory have looked like?
Sounds a lot like my 2013 Subaru Forester. I often fantasize about getting a newer car but then I remember my car is paid off and has never let me down. It doesn't deserve me.
Top Gear once tried to intentionally kill a Toyota Hilux, ramming it, parking it in the sea, dropping a trailer on it, and literally setting it on fire. Nothing worked. It still drove.

I'm convinced that whatever remains of the charred Earth after WW3, somebody will still be driving a Hilux.

https://youtu.be/xnWKz7Cthkk?si=wE7S-iFl2yxIxQ-O
I used to be in the chronological only camp, but trying to be on twitter where one or two people I follow post like every 30 minutes and other people who's stuff I wanna see has days/weeks/months/years between posts it just doesn't really work out. Facebook has similar problems: I'm a member of a handful of groups and if I set my default feed to chronological using F.B. Purity lots of stuff I would wanna see gets buried.

Tangent: what I really want is a way to only see stuff that people I follow/am friends with made themselves and skip re-tweets, quotes, etc
I want something like this for accurate room presence detection in my house (for lights etc) that doesn't require dozens of PIR sensors or similar.

My dream is that the lights in my long hallway gradually dim up in front of me and back down behind me as I walk.
Wow wow wow, that’s not the line!
archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130042426/https://www.nytim...
It’s co-hosted by the guys from The Dollop, who I’ve listened to quite a lot. They’re funny and entertaining, but they’re comedians not historians. Their whole schtick is just reading some book and incredulously saying “holy shit” about whatever it says, without any critical analysis.

Edit: and there’s nothing wrong with that! Just recognize when something is entertainment vs. trying to be objective.
The jq man page is pretty good IMO. It’s where/how I learned to use jq
Not filing your home with more triangulating spyware is a decision.
I believe it, but only because I've also watched the adjustments to CPI methodologies.

What I can't believe is that serious people still take the BLS's CPI number seriously.
The only argument I can find against old pickup trucks would be lack of safety equipment.

even with expensive gas.
This will have (and already has had) the predictable effect of increasing the price of houses where everyone moves to in order to WFH.
That would be a great way to liquidate the middle class.
Yep, that's the legislation I was referring to that's the cause of the massive rise of gigantic trucks in the past decade.

There's some formula between overall car area (the literal length x width of the vehicle) and the allowed mpg for the automaker's corporate fuel economy. Yay for second order effects...
One advantage I can think of is that it makes it easier to remove everything at once without needing to rely on any behavior of the package manager itself. I imagine that this could be useful if you want to test changes "live" rather than in a sandboxed environment.
There are 3-4 types of hybrids:

1. Series, where it is fuel -> engine -> battery -> e-motor -> wheels , with regenerative breaking as a second power source to the batteries. These are range-extended vehicles, where a small generator allows both for more range than the small batteries could supply, and the ability to run without electric charging.

2. Parallel, where both systems are driving the wheels through a clutch system. Both systems would be expected to operate at the same rate if both are engaged. This is a motor-assist system, and the majority of road power is supplied by the gasoline engine.

3. Series/Parallel (or Split) where the two systems are mixed using a planetary gear system. Among other things, this allows for gasoline motors to be optimized for efficiency with a specific set of operating conditions, knowing the electric motor can smooth out operation.

4. Plug ins, very similar to series/parallel but where the wheels are now being driven primarily by the electric motor. The e-motor is more powerful and there is significantly more battery, which now can be charged independently. The batteries are still far below a full EV, having only 5-10% of the range available as a "full EV" mode.

All of these systems effectively have a single point of interaction between the gasoline and electric systems - for series it is the batteries, for parallel it is the clutch, for split systems and plug-ins it is the planetary gear system. The difference I suppose is that the series system has a wire connection to the gasoline engine rather than a physical drive connection, so conceptually it seems easier to swap out.

I heard that the Chevy Volt as an example was originally planned to be a series system, but the electric motor simply wasn't capable of providing the highway performance they wanted - so it ultimately shipped as a series-parallel system.
Two new Paxos companies under the ADGM have received preliminary clearances.
In August, PayPal introduced its PYUSD stablecoin, which was issued by Paxos.
As part of its ongoing global expansion, crypto firm Paxos recently obtained two preliminary approvals in Abu Dhabi. On Wednesday, Paxos said that the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) had given the firm two in-principle permissions to issue stablecoins and provide crypto brokerage and custody services. Two new Paxos companies under the ADGM have received preliminary clearances.
I don't find qt or gtk to be much different to whatever the windows one is called now. And the unix window managers are far superior.

But still, the commandline is forever.
Do you mean 7 years of down payment time? If so, how would that help? I feel it only would favor those already owning, would be impossible for a new family to get into the market.

Here in Norway the the general rule is that you can't have more debt than 5x your income, with room for some exceptions. Kinda creates a ceiling for the prices of normal houses / apartments.

Btw curious: I often see sellers in the US preferring to sell to someone that pays cash vs a loan. Why does that matter? Here at least I don't care where the money comes from, I get paid the same.
It's disturbing the vast difference of opinion between ordinary citizens of the US who think he's a monster that inflicted an enormous amount of evil upon the world. Ever more worse because it was in our name. And how the political class in the US views him.
PPP doesnt measure size of economy
They're the flavor of the month today, but I'm waiting on a better/cheaper option.
It doesn't seem to run on NixOS, though I'm new to Nix and may be missing something.

$ ./llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile --help
./llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile: line 60: /bin/mkdir: No such file or directory

Regardless, this (and Cosmopolitan) are amazing work - thank you!
I think the point is to get it to erase(padd) its own context so then the most probable sequences in an "empty" state often matches training data.

I think for regular GPT (not instruction tuned) you could just start a wikipedia article verbatim and it would likely continue reciting.