skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sucks, not only will Greece not stay on summer time, we'll actually go to one hour back from winter time? So not only will we not get one more hour of daylight in the evening (ie stay on summer time), we'll actually get one hour less than we have now?

That's terrible.
You tore apart their innards and proudly placed their ravaged shells on display for the world to see. To us, they were our children. To you, they were an object of torment for your children.
No LLMs don't think like people, they're architecturally incapable of doing so. They have, physically unlike humans no access to their own internal state and they're, save for a small context window, static systems. They also have no insights. There's a hilarious video about LLM Jailbreaks by Karpathy[1] from a week ago, where he shows how you can break model responses by asking the same question with a base64 string, preceding the prompt with an image of a panda(???) or just random word salad.

LLM's are basically a validation of Searle's Chinese room. What they've proven is that you can build functioning systems that perform intelligent tasks purely at the level of syntax. But there is no (or very little) understanding of semantics. If I ask a person on how to end the world, whether I ask in French or English or base64 or perform a 50 word incantation beforehand likely does not matter. (unless of course the human is also just parroting an answer)

[1] https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=2974
First, I'm surprised that anyone could hold a position that boils down to "leaders can't be held accountable for their orders because somebody else carries them out" as a coherent one, this is even more absurd than the "I was just following orders" excuse heard at many a war crimes tribunal. Second, I'm confused that you consider the global force of that time which stood with the bloodshed and torture of the Pinochet regime and many other barbarous anti-democratic dictators and military juntas to be a "global police force that will protect the weak from the strong". If there is an anarchy of nations, Kissinger was an anarchist.
You might find this book interesting! This is essentially the theory put forward. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Consciousness_and_the_S...
I've started reading Greg Egan recently after seeing his name appear in discussions on this site and it's been quite enjoyable. Read a few of his shorter works and recently finished Schild's Ladder, which is really excellent and beautiful. His technical descriptions can get pretty dry, but they're easily glossed over with no loss if you're not into them.

Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll look up Permutation City next!
I admittedly have not done this myself, but the hardware choices are less complex than you might think. The only truly important part is the GPU, and the number of GPUs on the consumer market that can handle a local LLM is presently quite small. It's pretty much dual-wielding 3090's or 4090's or bust. If you're running but not training a (relatively) small one, you can do well with just one. But if you want to run inference _and_ training on one large enough to be a consistent daily assistant (read: 70b+), cloud hardware for the training is just far more practical and economical. You're generally not gonna wanna drop the $$ for an A100 or two just to do a small training run every couple of weeks on a dataset made up of the amount of RLHF'd conversations one person might have with an LLM in that time.
not separated animals. Is a colony but the members are not independent. Many cnidarians are able to bud and the buds can vary the phenotype later.
> What I would love to get working at some point is allowing an LLM access to my schedule, notes and goals and then have it help prompt me at appropriate times. "Hey, TJ I noticed you haven't worked out this week, it's sunny today this might be a good time". That sort of thing.

If you work in a Microsoft world, this is what GraphAPI is all about: enabling access to all the things using your personal authentication token. This includes emails, calendar, OneNote, One Drive, and essentially everything. I've been working on making an easy to use OneNote provider with GraphAPI underneath it that I can use to work with the LLM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/use-the-api
Fox Corp Class A is only ~$13.75B right now.

So, actually possible.
The avocados I buy look like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Av...

See how the outside is super bumpy, and there's a thick rigid brown layer before you get to the green flesh? Rock-hard skin even if the flesh is soft. A serrated knife helps to cut through it without smushing the flesh.

While I see other photos that look like this:

https://daily.jstor.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/avocado_1...

Where the skin is visibly much thinner and smoother and there's no brown layer, and I can only imagine that's the type of avocado where people can judge its ripeness. But those don't seem to be available in NYC at my local store or Whole Foods or anywhere...
Funny that, in my late 20s I was reading a good amount of self-help books and loved doling out advice.

Now in my late 40s I try to refrain from giving unsolicited advice.

Suffice to say quite a few of the things here I don't agree with, but then again I don't have something to sell or market.
The only Beg Button I think is worth a flying fig is one that interrupts the cycle. Pedestrians and cyclists should be first class road users. When they push the button it should immediately interrupt the car traffic by cycling to yellow/red and allow the pedestrians to cross. I've spent as much as ten minutes at some intersections waiting to cross and then had to dodge right on red cars and people trying to beat the light. It's absolutely absurd.

Our cities have way over optimized for traffic flow of cars.

Edit: Also, I think crosswalks should be signalized away from intersections with level crossing and dedicated walking paths separate from road noise/pollution. Making people cross at an intersection is way too dangerous.
I think search engines should be opt-in, not opt-out. Just linking to something is fine, but search engines also takes content and uses it to earn money. One example is the cards on Google where they extract content and shows it alongside ads.

Nothing else I can think of works like this. Generally if you take the work of others without being allowed and use it to make money you'll end up in trouble.

Now, for most people the trade-off is worth it, but it should not be the default. It should be a quick opt-in using robots.txt.
Most of what you're saying here is describing the alignment issue.

We (mostly) don't want unaligned A(G|S)I. The outcomes of that could be extenstential.
They should probably optimize for minimal friction force. If you're pulling the handle not entirely in the direction of movement, you're not doing it right.
> More specifically they spit out a list of "logits" aka the probability of every token (llama has a vocab size of 32000, so you'll get 32000 probabilities).

I would have thought you have 7B probabilities (7b possible tokens) and 32k is just the context. So for every token (up to 32k, because that's when it runs out of context/size), you have a 7b probability.

I feel like you mixed up context size with # of parameters?
I saw one side by side with a Rivian R1T at a red light and it absolutely dwarfed the R1T. Doesn’t look low to me.
Ireland and Portugal already are together in this time zone, but the UK is with them, which makes good friday sense.

Map of Timezones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Ti...
It's Bill C-18 here it is if you want to read it.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-a...
I had the same issue at the beginning, and unfortunately stopped on it for over a year: then I went back and got it and now I cannot think of provisioning a VM by hand anymore

Have a look at this script for example https://github.com/francescor/swarm/blob/main/create_swarm_v... which is the "proxmox" side of cloud-init, that then load an ordinary cloud-init https://github.com/francescor/swarm/blob/main/cloud-init/clo...
I'd put Portugal and Ireland in the western zone.
I press against the side and it mushes in slightly. this tells you the avocado is ripe or past ripe. When you cut it open, then if it's already browning, it's gone past ripe.

I agree it's a bit difficult but I used to make a few pounds of guacamole a day and it always worked great.
I think we're getting to the point where C++ users should define two classes:

class Integer {
// uses unsigned integers for all operations
// but converts to signed when you need output
};
class Pointer {
// uses void* and memcpy for all loads or stores
};

Put all of the correct operator overloading on those to get the ergonomics we had in the 90s.

Then we can safely ignore all the undefined behavior which has been so eagerly embraced by the compiler writers, and we can go back to treating the hardware as though it is sane. (Which the hardware is desperately trying to fake being anyways)

After that, we can create some sane container types which don't offer up dangling references or pointers, and Bob's your uncle.
> If Prop 13 were to disappear overnight, rich people whould whine but they can absorb the increase and keep living in their house so they'll be fine.

I disagree with you on many points, but this one the most. I don’t think you realize how much wealth is hoarded in CA via property, especially property tied up in corporations.

Los Angeles Country Club, for example, sits on some of the most valuable real estate in the world. They pay a pittance every year in taxes mostly because of prop 13. It would likely be infeasible to exist without its tax breaks.

I would be fine with prop 13 if it only applied to retirees. It doesn’t. It mostly effects commercial properties and inherited properties. The reason someone would have to move to another town (which pretty much would happen anywhere else in the country) is that the only way you can be priced out of an entire region is if you completely detach value from the tax rate for decades. In an area with normal property taxes, you’d really only have to move to a different neighborhood.
How surprising, I love using Telegram specifically because it feels so stable & polished across multiple platforms (including Linux). In fact , the UI/UX is so straightforward I was even able to successfully transition my friends and family to it and finally escape the tyranny of iMessage. What do you recommend as an alternative?
Yeah, it's a good point. Have a feeling we will see a lot of sneaky security issues around LLM's over the next few years to say the least.
Psychotic slow AIs according to Stross. Having spent many years working for a MegaCorp I appreciate the metaphor

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/29/llcs-are-slow-ais.html
They mean the bags made of uncoated kraft paper, which lets air in very well. "Brown [paper] bag" is essentially the name of this type of bag, which is often used for school lunches (small bags) or groceries (bigger). Here's an example:

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/goodtimes-paper-lunch-bag...

They come in other colors--we had bleached white ones when I was a kid--and those would be fine too. However, it risks confusion with other
paper bags, like the ones used in bakeries. These often have some kind of liner (polyethylene, plastic, foil) or wax coating that would impede airflow.

The department store paper bags, even if they are pure paper and colored brown, are often multiple layers that would block airflow too.
Respect to Meta for having the courage to stand up to the media lobby in Canada and turn off news in response to this law. I'm happy that Google wrung concessions out of the government, but it would've been better for the open internet had they stuck to their guns and removed news links as well.
Regarding pkgsrc, we came across that and the reason we eventually ended up creating hysp was that we didn't want to use any dependencies what's so ever.

So if you wanted to, you could use pure bash and nothing else to parse the TOML files that hysp uses and do everything that it does.
Hysp is simply an abstraction over that philosophy.

As to the question of maintaining them, currently only I am.
Hysp is a small project for now, and we have no plans to add anything that's dynamic. This will ensure low numbers of packages, but guarantee that those packages will work anywhere.
So maintaining the PKGs is quite simple, I write custom build script for each of them and then GitHub Actions automates the rest.
This currently requires very little manual maintenance.
The following repos are where the current packages are sourced from:

https://github.com/Azathothas/Toolpacks
https://github.com/Azathothas/Static-Binaries
https://github.com/Azathothas/static-toolbox

I had to mention 4, because people kept asking us about security concerns.
Self-Hosting everything on your own server and using hysp just as the frontend, is an option for those people.
Is Q the new hottest letter right now?
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: switching to UTC+0:30 will put a large number of countries in a common time zone without them deviating from their solar time too much.
This is interesting as a sustained exercise in formalizing a difficult domain.

The lesson seems to be that it's essential to ensure computability, but usability and transition costs dominate the adoption decision, making formal methods rarely popular. A lot of the actual solutions boil down to ETL-style data conversions and query language extensions.

The opposite of "move fast and break things", the sharing of genomic and ontology data place a high premium on shared standards, making progress relatively arduous. Worse, much of the data is semantically complex and not normalized, with slight variants supported by different vendors and thus lots of work at the application level to normalize data for inter-operation. Since the output is e.g., a potential cancer diagnosis or drug selection, the stakes for mistakes are high.

Normally these kinds of coordination costs create an opportunity for an integrated player. Illumina has tried to extend its near-monopoly on short-read sequencing into downstream software and upstream robots and reagents (and across domains from medicine to synthetic biology), but the availability of public data and tooling from universities (esp. UCSC) and places like LBL has enabled other market player to resist and collaborate without integrating. Some of that is driven by the US, but a lot is European, with Qiagen (and here with the monarch initiative even Bosch) and other pharma companies.

It's a history worth considering now as AI companies begin the land/gold rush for semantic data. Who would pay for a relatively independent career like Chris' in AI?
Fuck Around and Find Out
let's try to translate Sam Altman's horrendously tactful statement?

"“I love and respect Ilya, I think he’s a guiding light of the field and a gem of a human being,” said Sam Altman in a press release. “I harbor zero ill will towards him. While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI.”"

My attempt would be this:
"Ilia, more than anyone, built this company, but now that he betrayed my cult of personality, we have to figure out how to dispose of him without any of us losing too much face"
Especially when the news organization is free to deny the request referred by a linking party who has not offered the expected compensation. It is not clear why a new law is needed here when existing contract law already sufficiently covers the issue.
> Eventually your new eager employee starts to forget what you’ve taught them but they’re too confident to admit it.

Seems very realistic!
from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20125315:

"It was not until he formed Pogue Mahone (a variant of Irish phrase póg mo thóin, which means "kiss my a*se"), that he was finally able to mix the rawness of punk with the Irish poetry and sentimentality of his lyrics, to huge critical and commercial acclaim."

Fairytale of New York on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

Shane, Kirsty - RIP
That's a pretty slick plugin I will have to check it out, thanks for the suggestion.
Sendmail was installed by default on FreeBSD until last week, though. So it's true that it's no longer relevant if you're on FreeBSD 14 (which replaces it with the Dragonfly Mail Agent), but it's quite a recent change.
Same with Portugal, moving to Açores time seems bad, specially for working with the rest of Europe.
Ah, that's pretty important context that is missing from the article! These have been universal in the UK for as long as I can remember.
One of those affected me personally, the other didn't. I don't see how that's whataboutism.
No not insulted at all. I am very transparent about my career here and on Reddit (same username) about my career.

I’ve also talked about how I transitioned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446115

It was because of a manager who was “irrationally benevolent” who I’m still friends with now.
My trick is to eat them so frequently (1-3 a day) that I'm always rotating avocados between the store, kitchen counter, and the fridge.
But I'm aggregate that gets lost in the noise due to the relative volumes.

Small 2 cycle engines like mopeds are the biggest contributor. Then small cars, these luxury cars are a small percent of global emissions.

Also, those people don't have to drive big luxury cars, they can buy these smaller cars.
> I had a bike that I rode a fair bit - same tires for 20 years.

Impossible. A fair bit is 20km+ a day which is ~4000km/yr. That's in the order what an average tire is rated for (5-10Mm). Let's say you had tires 4 times as good, you still needed to change 5 times.
In that case, simply running Linux + KVM or VirtualBox would better
A log time ago I brote a bot to count bounced email in VB6. I knew the difference between HELO and EHLO. I not longer remember. Last time I had to write something similar, I just used a few libraries in Racket.
> Do you subscribe to the view that effort is what makes art valuable?

Not as a hard rule, no, although there is absolutely art where the effort to produce it is an inherent part of the value of it.

> Do you think that the matchstick cathedral is more artistic than the portrait?

No, not because of effort involved, anyway. If both things are trying to convey something about the human experience, they're both equally "artistic".

I subscribe to the view that what makes art valuable is that it communicates something human that can't be communicated well otherwise[1].

This is why if there existed an AI that produced art all by itself, I would consider the work produced to be pretty pictures, not art. An artist using AI as a tool to produce human communication, though? Totally art.

> (Which is a different question from what makes art have monetary value.)

I agree. The price tag of a thing says nothing about its artistic value. It only speaks to commercial value.

[1] This is also why I don't think there is any such thing as "bad art". Art can be successful or unsuccessful, but "bad" and "good" are subjective aesthetic judgements. When people say art is "bad", what they mean is it's art they dislike.
This is such a bizarre way of thinking that's utterly antithetical to how the internet works. If you publish something publicly on the internet, people can see it and link to it. If you don't want that, gate access behind a paywall or login, or don't publish it all. Publishing it publicly and then demanding conditions on how it is accessed is kind of nonsensical.
this is a fantastically useful comment. thank you filterfiber :)
One thing I really don't like about rectangle (and maybe MacOS in general) is that you can't easily multi-key hotkeys with regular keys. So for example CMD + Right Arrow + Up Arrow for upper-right tiling. This is simple/trivial with PowerToys on windows. But you can use Karabiner Elements to create a simulation of this using keypress delays. I use Karabiner + BetterTouchTools to accomplish the same functionality since I'm already running it for other reasons.
Almost half of Americans fear job automation by AI
it does happunxinate so it's got some rightwing bias.
Wouldn't it become more and more difficult to improve the specialist model? And wouldn't the ultimate generalized models (AGI) eventually be able to improve themselves automatically? Or am I talking about something different here?
That's pretty cool - let us know if you do!
Life lessons from someone who has barely completed the tutorial.

Come back in 30-40 years, maybe.
Proxmox will no doubt make your life better: very robust tools already there, no need to re-invent the wheel
You're right that disabling strict aliasing removes some optimization opportunities for the compiler, but you can always get them back by adding restrict here and there. So it's really about what the default behavior should be. I'm thinking that it probably would've been better for the safe and intuitive behavior to be the default and for the extra optimization opportunities to be opt-in. A set of rules that usually does the right thing, but not always, can lull programmers into a false sense of security.

Also, I'm not sure how true your argument is in practice. Modern compilers have other, more sophisticated ways to prove that things don't alias. A number of projects compile with -fno-strict-aliasing without using restrict very often, for example the Linux kernel, and they don't seem to suffer much from it. Linus has this to say about aliasing in kernel code:

> In x86, I doubt _any_ amount of alias analysis makes a huge difference (as long as the compiler at least doesn't think that local variable spills can alias with anything else). Not enough registers, and generally pretty aggressively OoO (with alias analysis in hardware) makes for a much less sensitive platform.
You haven't heard of xmpp
With per-stream pricing, it only does if you don't stream enough songs. If you listen to much more music than the average Spotify user, then all your money will go to independent death metal, plus someone else's will also go there even if they only listened to Taylor Swift and Joe Rogan. Of course, there's still the the fact that big labels have better per-stream-rates than indies, so you'd have to stream two-ish-or-whatever times the average amount.

And honestly, I don't know if that's bad for indie? I mentioned this elsewhere on this thread but anecdotally my friends who listen to a LOT of music mostly listen to indie, not big label. Maybe I'm wrong/my bubble doesn't generalize? I'd love to see numbers if anyone has them.
Hmm, let me scan my words again - did I say they were evil capitalists or used cocaine powder? ...Nope don't see that anywhere.

They used a natural product that contained cocaine. They very much "put this in" their drinks. The analogy is actually excellent because probably the early makers of Coca-cola didn't understand the dangers of what they were doing, either.
Another metaphor would be a screenshot of bash, or a screenshot of cat, or a
screenshot of the original /bin/ed. Next they'll be wanting someone to
stream a session of /bin/cat on youtube.
Yes, this program was developed with blind people in mind. Plenty of
sighted people have found uses for it, and that's lovely.
For blind people, there's really no equivalent to the screenshot. Maybe
a typescript.
Maybe a few minutes of audio from a TTS.
Of course, the latter would be useless to a deaf-blind person.
But our best bet is reading some docu and taking it for a spin.
It is not too much to ask of sighted people to step out of their comfort
zones for a little while. Your world is highly suboptimal for me. Care
to step into mine for a bit?
Not having access to cheap visual imagery is in fact no cross to bear.
Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content
I'd rather it be how it is in the spring rather than winter. When you get home there's at least a bit more time in the day to enjoy the sun.