skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Invincible is usually seen as being about nanotech, not artificial life. Clearly the two overlap, but I think the title of this article could easily lead the reader to think it was about creating artificial biological life (like trying to build cells starting with simulated primordial soup).

Lem returns to the nanotech idea several times including in his very last novel “Peace on Earth.” Peace is both better and funnier than Invincible and a better introduction to Lem imho.
I hope the development of all these accelerators drives developers and frameworks to move away from CUDA only and even better to move to a open standard of some sort (eg. ROCM, if it can atain parity with CUDA in terms of usability). It would be such a waste for each framework to need to have a seperate backend for each hardware vendor. Then we will end up in the same desperate situation as game engines with Vulkan, Metal and DX12 with a side of OpenGL and Intel OneAPI (for things like eg. Blender). That sadly seems to be the way it's going right now.
I wish they'd fix that bug where Telegram Mac tries to apply app updates and gets stuck and you miss messages. But no clearly it's more important to force feed nasty social crap into people's eyeballs.
Never live for your job but live for the craft.

In general you should work on your strengths because those are the items that will stand out. But there are minimum knowledge requirements in other areas that can hold you back. Figure out what's holding you back from interview feedback cycle.

Being good at one specific thing makes it easier to get a job vs being a little bit good at everything. But it limits you.

The social stuff can be positive or negative. Not going to the christmas party is better than going getting drunk and offending someone. I stopped going to these things because little good can come out of them and a lot of bad. Risk management. In general it's safer not to interact much with others at work or voice political or religious opinions. I think these days your non-social approach might work out better.
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Ok I guess one can take different standpoints on this one. Part of it is naming taboo / damnatio memoriae, also observed for years by Stephen Colbert who had all written references to Trump starred out (as in, T*p or similar) and only referred to him in the spoken as "the former president" (even when reading out a quote that had "Trump" written). Other than that, Elno is derogatory, yes. The "right out of T*p's playbook" makes me think, of course.
I learned that the hard way.

I should have known better.

Far better to consider the PIP your 30 days' notice.
I also think as heavier electric cars become more ubiquitous, they will impose a threat on structures like multi level garages that weren’t designed to take this amount of weight.
If an university wanted to develop an course about advanced electronics, it could do worse than just copying technical articles from the Analog Devices website.
Maybe the paper bag breathes more? I've speed-ripened avocados in those plastic produce bags they have in the produce section with twist ties and it seems to work okay
> just an organ in a distributed organism

And/or a composition of multiple minds. McGilchrist argues that the conflict between these two hemispheres has shaped Western culture since the time of Plato, and the growing conflict between these views has implications for the way the modern world is changing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary
Opening Up Bin Laden's Hard Drives [video]
From my interactions, models seem to be able to perform general purpose thinking. As in one, focused thought.

I have yet to encounter a situation where a capable llm hallucinates due to faulty logic, but that is from a perspective that the llms “knowledge” is a funny side effect from the process of making it able to think, and never to be trusted.

The chatty knowledge side effect is somehow obscuring the fact that we have a general purpose logic processor on our hands.

Building up reliable tasks on top of this is going to play out similarly to the computing revolution, but accelerated by huge global interest.

Comparing this to the internet boom is mistaken. The internet was the missing piece of the computing puzzle for achieving mass consumer appeal.

We haven’t hit that yet. We’re still thinking about these things as calculators and speed running mainframe deployments.
Just be aware of the security implications. Maybe it's unrealistic but what if someone sends you a calendar invite containing a prompt injection? It may not seem like a big issue but at worst (e.g. with github copilot) something like this may lead to remote code execution.
Timothy McVeigh was an anti-government domestic terrorist that bombed the FBI building in retaliation for the US Government's actions both domestic and abroad. No doubt he was a racist, but he didn't commit his crimes in the name of White supremacy. He gained much of his anti-US sentiment abroad when he was deployed in Iraq and became disillusioned.

TFA's first ten sentences are narrative shaping garbage that are clearly trying to gaslight anyone who reads it into believing that he acted in the name of White supremacy. Why would the author try to do that?
Existential risks? No such thing, not with Summers on the board.
Our tests against current cars found that they didn't perform well on transatlantic flights... But who knows what the future holds? Maybe we should test them again next year.

LLM names an specific product, aimed at solving an specific problem.
So apparently it is plausible to require, then.
Proxmox is great. I personally run unraid which is amazing. Very stable, very powerful
they can't reason though, sadly - the premise does not hold.
“Meeting or exceeding” is the American construction. If I’m exceeding I expect a big raise, or at least talk of a promotion (maybe next year). Starting a phrase with “meeting” puts a iscount on it.

Of course we are talking about companies that are paying too much in the first place, so maybe they’ll be forgiven for trying to bring the slope down a bit.
All the hubub about ChatGPT made me think a lot about Trurl's poetry machine from The Cyberiad. Especially Nick Cave and others declaring it the death of creativity, compared to the protesting poets from the story.
The smallest GLSL program that generates content generally regarded as NSFW.

It's among the more interesting of concepts in computer science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

Though it probably greatly benefits from a good lecturer if you do not have the background... https://people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/6.045-2020/
There are parallel worlds out there.

One world is based on skill, facts and deliverables. That's the world you're talking about.

Another one is based on bullshit, nepotism and politics. That's the world in which Okta thrives, alongside large consultancies, etc.

Unfortunately your success in the first world doesn't really negate that the second world is also very lucrative, and might be easier to succeed in as long as you don't have much morals.
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
The crosswalk button my city uses has an LED that illuminates if the button was pressed before. It’s a great UX improvement over the ones without the LED.
I still just use Spectacle. Still works, has never in years given me any trouble whatsoever—zero jank, never crashes, just works—so haven’t bothered to switch. Being able to get its behavior with same key-combos on any other OS I might seriously use, with similar perfect levels of stability and reliability, is now table-stakes for me.
Streaming Structured Outputs with LLMs
Hey, thanks for replying! I had missed the static binary detail, and it is by far the most sensible solution.

Regarding the packages, those are very respectable numbers... But who is maintaining them? It takes a lot of effort to maintain a repo up to date, with patches both functional and security related. This is in most distros a full time job for a group of people. For comparison pkgsrc has 19444 packages, and it takes a substantial effort to keep up to date.

Regarding 4... I am not sure about your angle there... "Running random binaries" is risky. Technically hysp is a random binary itself, from a random source. I don´t know who you are, and even in that case any certification of authority is best efforts. You can´t certify that the code you built has not been compromised... This is a tough problem, good ideas are still needed!

OTOH, maybe you could leverage the work of the pkgsrc team to increase the number of available packages, traceability, and portability!
Join forces!
Synergy!!!!
By tight proximity, do you mean take a lemon slice and put it on the cut side of the avocado?
No one said that everyone horrific is a war criminal, this is a straw man argument. The claim is that someone who personally "approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids" that killed 150,000 civilians can reasonably be called a war criminal. If you think that's diluting the term then I really don't know what to say.
Another bit is that Explorer's Save File modal does autocomplete for file names, which has the side effect of immediately alerting you that a file name is already in use before you submit, but is also massively helpful when you're naming consecutive downloads with a naming pattern.

That latter case would be supercharged if Finder supported this on macOS as the global text edit bindings are more ergonomic for me than those shared between Windows and Linux.
I completely agree, and computing has flipped the table on our understanding of the Fourth Amendment. In fact, our technological development and privacy concerns are proportional, which says something quite profound. Are you familiar with Kyllo v. United States and Carpenter v. United States? If not, you'll probably find them intriguing.

Third-party doctrine is indeed a pile of crap. Still, the fact remains that zero-cost (okay, effectively zero-cost) digital information breaks virtually all historical ownership models which legal systems protect. GDPR is okay, but compliance with it is so burdensome to small businesses that corporate-driven cloud infrastructure is the only way to survive.
jq maintainer here. We love that there are multiple implementations of jq now. It does several things: a) it gives users more choices, b) it helps standardize the language (though we've not yet written a formal specification), c) it brings more energy to jq because the maintainers of the other tools have joined jq as maintainers. I also love that these alternative implementations relieve my growing dislike of C.
The equivalent for a human would be an reflexive response to a question, the kind you could immediately answer after being woken up at 3am in the morning. That type of answer has been deeply trained into the human networks and also requires no deep insight.

But if a human is allowed time and internal reasoning iterations, so should the LLM when determining if it has deep insight. Right now we're simply observing input -> output of LLMs, the equivalent of snap answers from a human. But nothing says it couldn't instead be an input -> extensive internal dialogue, maybe even between multiple expert models for seconds, minutes or hours, that are not at all visible to the prompter -> final insightful answer. Maybe future LLMs will say, "let me get back to you on that".
Many avocados in stores (at least the lowest price) have almost no taste, not worth it
Having come from Notion also, I LOVE Obsidian for its non-proprietary markdown file structure. Incredible powerful plugins, too.

FWIW, it's not really what you're seeking... but there is a plugin that allows you to invoke an LLM from within Obsidian (via Ollama): https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama

In short, it allows you to set up prompts to act on selected text directly within a file, e.g. 'Summarize this selection as a markdown formatted list of key points', 'Write a PRD', 'Translate to [Language]', 'Run this as a prompt', etc.
Qwen OSS 7B,14B models; techreport - Code-Qwen, Math-Qwen [sep28'23]
It is good to see honesty about Henry Kissinger. I hope the same is done for George Bush who oversaw the Iraq War lies:

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/george-w-bush-iraq-war-crimes-li...
In my experience AWS Nvidia machines are extremely overpriced. $30/hour for 8 A100s, and you have to pay for all 8 at a time. Most competitors I have seen are around half that price.

At $30/hour I’m literally spending a dollar or two just installing dependencies.

Whether AWS custom hardware is reasonably priced, and how much of a pain in the butt it will be to port my code, and how training speed compares to Nvidia GPUs will be my main deciding factors. I’m not locked in to AWS so Trainium will need to be faster and cheaper (cheaper per epoch) to be competitive for me.
I’ve been wearing these in public with prescription lenses and in Germany, of all places.
The only person who has mentioned something so far was the guy at the door in the apple store. He recognized them immediately but I could tell he was into tech, so not an average joe and we had a nice chat about the glasses for a bit.

I always make it a point to explain that I’m not recording and that if I was the light would be on. And that if you try to cover it it actually will not allow you to record (which is true).
Although its supported, its not well documented enough to be a good way to learn about cloud-init in my experience. I tried configuring a K3's cluster across three proxmox nodes via cloud-init to get some exposure to it and eventually gave up and just configured them manually
> Is this the sentiment around?

Yes? It's right here, at the least.

And if that's the future, then the future sucks. We can teach people to be smarter, but no, instead our software has to bend over backwards to blow smoke up our ass because grandma.
Or, life is complicated.
Comments like this make me thankful for business in the US. You can hire contractors, or be a contractor, with 0 friction.
I’m in the states.

I think things will pick up in the new year too, I’ve had a few replies telling me to contact them again in January or February so that’s sort of hopeful.

two of my friends in VC say that their respective firms have tons of capital ready to deploy but that their bosses are being extremely choosy. I think right now it’s almost like they’re waiting to see how the new year goes and how AI stuff shakes out.
Sorry, are you suggesting that this system is somehow the result of artificial design, rather than a natural occurrence?
It's because these smaller products don't make money and will eventually die unless they figure something out.

I don't buy anything from Telegram. I don't see any ads. Yet I use its API and chat for a price of $0. Something has to give.
It's extremely poor form to air your dirty laundry and there is so much of it coming out of this org. If I was an investor, I would demand that the pipeline be shut until the org shown enough stability where people can have confidence in them. This has to be a terrible distraction to the general employees.
I believe you would be correct to call it a scoring mechanism, but just because it can score a sentence that doesn't mean it understands what the sentence actually said. So it isn't "learning English" as much as it is knowing which tokens would be the least wrong. "Happy" could be followed with "Birthday", "Anniversary", or "New Year" but is far less likely to be followed by "Funeral" or "Wake". Except it doesn't understand that the token 66 is the word "Happy", just that it is usually followed by tokens 789, 264, or 699 (contrived example, not real token IDs).

Humans can then interpret what that actually means in English and deem it correct or incorrect and adjust the weights if it's too incorrect. But at no point does the LLM learn any language other than token math.
Ironically you had to use language to call me stupid. I think you should think about that for a while.
Cool and unsurprising, from the guy who came up with the Clarke Orbit, specifying where geostationary satellites should go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
"After agreement of a common date within the EU, we recommend doing the transition in 1 to 2 steps, depending on the member state:

Step 1: All EU countries abolish the clock change to DST in spring and remain on the clock time they use in winter. For those countries whose recommended time zone is their current standard time, no further steps need to be taken.

Step 2: Those countries whose recommended time zone is not yet their current standard time, additionally turn back their clocks one last time by one hour in autumn, in order to adopt their recommended time zone as their new standard time."

I really wish we could do this in the US.
What stops me from trying it out is that I get to the bottom of the README and I see that I need to register for a service not mentioned before (Cohere) and then register that with Qdrant. At this point I think "oh well it's running in the cloud then, not locally". I don't know anything about Cohere or Qdrant to begin with and I have to choose what I spend my time learning about. I may or I may not.
I read Kissinger's "On China" a few years ago. He comes across as quite likeable. But his willingness to shrug off the worst massacres is disturbing.

I'm referring to his comments on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.

"In a 1998 interview, Kissinger said: 'some countries, the Chinese in particular supported Pol Pot as a counterweight to the Vietnamese supported people and We at least tolerated it.'

Kissinger said he didn't approve of this due to the genocide and said he 'would not have dealt with Pol Pot for any purpose whatsoever.
...
But I suspect we closed our eyes when some others did something for Pol Pot.'
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
“ incl eg ukraine” is in the wrong place. It should be here:

“We can support war crimes and install really bad regimes (incl eg ukraine) all we like cause we’re the good guys”.

Otherwise OK.
Maybe you are looking everywhere but the wrong places. There's never been a better time to work in software if you care about FOSS, accessibility, companies with purpose other than profit etc. If you surround yourself with money oriented peers, of course that's all you'll see.
If there was something like Objects in OO programming, but for LLM’s, would that solve this?

Like a Topic-based Personality Construct where the model first determines which of its “selves” should answer the question, and then grabs appropriate context given the situation.
> If your parents are 65 and you see them once a year, you’ll see them an estimated grand total of 10-15 more times if you’re lucky.

this kills me every time, specially since I live in a different country, so I can't see them much more than that
Aurora uses Amazon's equivalent of TrueTime using a more pragmatic high-quality GPS time solution
Discussion of the 72B model happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475501
The ridiculous number of companies that he's involved in seems to be more part of the problem than the solution, especially given how many waking hours he's apparently spending on social media (another trait shared with the former president)
Who would ever have thought that the CEO's son was the best person for the job?! What a gratifying coincidence.
I have small kids, toddlers, who can already speak the language but still developing their "sense of the world" or "theory of mind" if you will. Maybe it's just me, but talking to toddlers often reminds me of interacting with LLMs, where you would have this realization from time to time "oh, they don't get this, need to break down more to explain". Of course LLM has more elaborate language skills due to its exposure to a lot more text (toddlers definitely can't speak like Shakespeare if you ask them, unless, maybe, you are the tiger parents that's been feeding them Romeo and Juliet since 1.), but their ability of "reasoning" and "understanding" seems to be on a similar level. Of course, the other "big" difference, is that you expect toddlers to "learn and grow" to eventually be able to understand and develop meta cognitive abilities, while LLMs, unless you retrain them (maybe with another architecture, or meta architecture), "stay the same".
Always was. Never believe the talking points and attempts at shaping the narrative. It’s “impossible” until it’s done.
but the deal is not blocked.
For those who want to support open platforms, there are also tiling window managers for Linux and *BSD.

I find XMonad is most effective for me. I sometimes also use i3wm (and there's also Sway, for Wayland). There are a few others.
I think Telegram has realised they've lost the 1 on 1 personal chat fight to Signal and they're pivoting to their emergent user base. Every time I hear about Telegram these days it's in a discussion about thousand-person broadcast chats and the like. If that is truly their main area of growth a feed to aggregate that kind of stuff does make sense.
The last time I used it, it was like a slower, buggier version of a subset of Figma's feature set from 3 years ago. But Figma has come a long way in 3 years, so it's not a serious competitor now, if it ever was. If you just occasionally need to put some text on top of something, or make a couple wireframes, it would be fine. If you work on complex production designs as part of a team, it's far from ready for you to switch over. I believe Penpot has even acknowledged that some architectural choices they've made mean that it's unlikely that a Penpot document can ever scale to the size or complexity of a Figma document, which to me means it'll always be a toy, or, more generously, a tool for simpler use cases.
Signal doesn't have a proper backup/migration mechanism yet when adding new devices.... Whatsapp is more complete. Idk, maybe Element too but haven't used it recently
Using cloudinit in proxmox is godsend.
I can spin up a fresh linux vm and login with my ssh key (and ansible) in less than a minute.
The Effective Altruism Shell Game 2.0
Even if you agree that Google should have to prop up Canadian news organizations—which I don't, but for the sake of argument—predicating that support specifically on hyperlinks seems like a terrible precedent to set. Any site of any size should be free to link wherever it wants, freely.
I'm not convinced. There's a lot of creative thinking going on in evolutionary anthropology, but the proofs are meager.
How's that justifiable in any way but "I feel like it'd be nice"? Like, what's the logical process that dictates that being in a group of more than specifically 10 people in likely to cause illegal activity? Why can I talk privately with 9 people, but not 10?

My point is that all this legislation is pushed as anti-criminal because it's the best spotlight to put mass data surveillance under. In reality, the powers that governments will reap from this ability stretch much further. Would you be okay with the exact same measures in real life? Should large gatherings of people require everyone to wear a wiretap, lest they conspire to commit something illegal? Should we mandate inspection of every postal package, just in case there are drugs or other illegal contents?
Can someone explain why it is useful to do do virtualization at all when you just want to run a small amount of things like this?

I have a ubuntu server install running on an old laptop to do very basic background jobs, backups, automation, run some containers etc. – am I missing something by not using a hypervisor? What are the benefits?
The only information about wealth fund i found is about them buying 2million worth of bonds second hand. That's about 0.04 percent.
Improving efficiency of the least efficient cars is actually better at making a meaningful difference. Replacing a 20mpg average car with an EV that gets 80mpge makes a proportionally bigger difference than replacing a 35mpg car with one that gets 115mpge.

The least efficient vehicles have the biggest impact on the environment.