skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithm is too simple, but yes - what does the system look like

I think the transformers architecture, or something very similar with eventually-on-policy time series forecasting in a markov decision process, is the right answer actually and was what I have been trying to make progress on for a long time[1].

[1]https://kemendo.com/research/streaminference.html
It’s great to hear of a YC Co-Founder success, I’m looking for a non-technical cofounder now so I’ll give this a shot
Better than sunset at 4:30pm.
Are there any models properly trained for avatar creation/charicature? The image-to-text-to-image approach is seriously lacking.
Would it be possible to make a "naive port" by replacing cisc instructions with essentially risc microcode (almost like how processors work now)?
For those who care - the PS5 version of the game is on sale right now.
>This is what I constantly tell my students: The hard part about doing a tech >product for the most part isn't the what beginners think makes tech hard — the >hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable >way.

I teach the same thing, seemingly every day to my teams. It doesn't work, until it works reliably, within reason.

High-5 from the doers to the teachers! (Both are needed)

For the record, my partner teaches at a major university, just not tech. ;)
It should be an option to opt out for any machine, even if they warn that Linux is not supported on that device.
The solution is RAG
Being called “a gem of a human being” by someone like Altman would be an insult to anyone. If it wasn’t just that one more flat out lie, spoken with zero conscience, that it is.
I pretty much never read the jacket copy until I’ve finished the book. It’s not so much about spoilers as it is about falling into a normative interpretation of the text.

If you keep a list on your phone of interesting-sounding authors and comb used book stores you’ll rarely run out of options.

The jacket copy for Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice is far and away the best I’ve ever read — not surprising that he wrote it himself.
> makes news content [...] available

That sounds like a simple link wouldn't count?
Node.js – v21.3.0
> Christians entered the chat

There’s about 2000 years of Christian theology that reject the idea that you and your body are strongly bound. In fact, there’s a great deal written about how your body is, in fact, in conflict with you (your “flesh” acts against the will of your “spirit”). Gnostics went as far as believing they were so separate that nothing done by the body had any affect on the self. No only that, but there is a higher abstraction that we no longer have direct access to.

Hinduism and Buddhism (and others) that teach reincarnation also see the self as separate from the body.

It reminds me of a Robert Jastrow quote: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Post-modern philosophy often seems a lot like Java developers. Reimplement good ideas because they were written in a different framework.
> I feel like you mixed up context size with # of parameters?

Respectfully I do not think I did :)

The 7B is the parameter count. 32k is the vocab size, or list of tokens.

I don't have access to the llama repo at the moment so I'll use this one - https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf/blob/...

The vocab list is here https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf/raw/m...

vocab_size is 32k. max_position_embeddings is 4096 for the context. Note that you can use a longer or shorter context length, but unless you use some tricks, longer context will result in rapidly decreasing performance.

You will get 32k logits as the end result.
These buttons should be supplemented with a camera that detects humans coming and changes the lights as they get close to the intersection.

Note that I said lights - plural. People should cross diagonally across the intersection if that is where their direction takes them.
Where are the promised cities on the Moon?

ChatGPT may be the Moon-landing event: highly inspirational, highly expensive, modest (relative to the hype) actual practical value long term.
Theres a tiny limit on the amount of off-the-tree ripening that will occur, and they are really difficult to "read" on the tree to know when they are ripe. Each variety is different. The key for good mango is to let them go further than you would think on the tree and hopefully the birds dont beat you to them.

Source: moved into a house with several mango trees and am now pretty good at harvesting.
History has shown them to be right.

There are many terrible products in this world that were successful only because of good sales and marketing. And vice versa.
Here's my theory:

Consider a typical LLM token vector used to train and interact with an LLM.

Now imagine that other aspects of being human (sensory input, emotional input, physical body sensation, gut feelings, etc.) could be added as metadata to the the token stream, along with some kind of attention function that amplified or diminished the importance of those at any given time period -- all still represented as a stream of tokens.

If an LLM could be trained on input that was enriched by all of the above kind of data, then quite likely the output would feel much more human than the responses we get from LLMs.

Humans are moody, we get headaches, we feel drawn to or repulsed by others, we brood and ruminate at times, we find ourselves wanting to impress some people, some topics make us feel alive while others make us feel bored.

Human intelligence is always colored by the human experience of obtaining it. Obviously we don't obtain it by getting trained on terabytes of data all at once disconnected from bodily experience.

Seemingly we could simulate a "body" and provide that as real time token metadata for an LLM to incorporate, and we might get more moodiness, nostalgia, ambition, etc.

Asking for a theory of mind is in fact committing the Cartesian error of making a mind/body distinction. What is missing with LLMs is a theory of mindbody... similarity to spacetime is not accidental as humans often fail to unify concepts at first.

LLMs are simply time series predictors that can handle massive numbers of parameters in a way that allows them to generate corresponding sequences of tokens that (when mapped back into words) we judge as humanlike or intelligence-like, but those are simply patterns of logic that come from word order, which is closely related in human languages to semantics.

It's silly to think that we humans are not abstractly representable as a probabilistic time series prediction of information. What isn't?
Thanks! Feel free to share what you think afterwards!
Untreated mental illness and substance abuse problems could cause someone to be not of sound mind to the extent they irrationally refuse help, but they’re not synonymous with it.
Gamers drove the hardware, not artists. 100% agreed.

I was in IT when we started the transition from 2D cards to 2D cards with a additional 3D card, to the final form of 1 graphics card.

These 3D cards were NOT marketed to professionals, they were marketed to gamers, because gamers drove the tech.
> Otherwise, crossing whenever there's a clearing is probably better, IMHO.

That's only safe if there are a reasonable number of lanes, namely no more than 2. Beyond that the width is higher, the possibility of a car far away blocking the view of another car slightly behind increases and the driving speed of the cars is increased because it feels safe enough for them. And from what I've seen in the West Coast, narrow human-sized roads are reserved exclusively for back alleys.
BigClive version (2016) https://youtu.be/NjA0aee07k
An EV problems report — with no mention or ranking of Tesla?

Worthless.
They would just set groups of 5 people creating rings with token connected to outside networks. Did it solve anything as you said? No.
On encryption, with base64 and rotations over text you get nonsense and still plain text.
I told it to make a user persona. I described myself, and told it about things I'm into (youtube channels, forums, blogs etc). It made a full profile.

Then I asked it questions like "where does this person spend time online?" or "what do they enjoy doing in their free time?".

I actually discovered a few new places like this, e.g. r/depthhub
I've tried Yabai multiple times but always bounced off. It's just a little too buggy, a little too opinionated. I've never found a window management system I've actually truly liked. On Linux, I've tried em all, and though in theory I love tiling window managers, but for me automatic tiling with the option to go floating on a per-window basis just ultimately ends up annoying me -- I prefer the reverse. On Windows, PowerToys/FancyZones is as close to my preferred method as possible, but then I'm, you know, using Windows.

This past week I've come up with what is I think my perfect, dream solution:

- Caps Lock is tapped for Escape, held for Cmd+Ctrl+Opt (i.e. "Hyper" or whatever). I'm a Neovim user, so Caps Lock has been mapped to Escape forever already.

- Tapping both Shift keys simultaneously engages Caps Lock for the rare times in which I actually need it.

- Window snapping is handled entirely with Hammerspoon. I have commands for absolute positions (e.g. half, one third, two thirds, quarters), but also can define grids and call them with key commands, and then use another command to snap all windows or just the focused window to the nearest grid box.

It's all defined with code, and thus lives with my dotfiles, and is just a `brew install` and symlink away from totally setting up on a brand new machine.

Also, I set my tmux prefix to Control+p, which I map to Command in my iTerm profile. So, opening up a new tmux "window" (i.e. tab) is Command+t. Navigating to the next "window"/tab is Control+Tab. And so on. Basically it just feels like a browser. This way, whether I switch terminals, or am ssh-ing into a machine, as long as I have my tmux config, those key commands are set.

It's an amazing setup, can't recommend it enough.
> what does this mean?

I don't know, take your own conclusions, I tried what I tried with the results I got. And the reason I created a Monte Carlo Engine to play the game was specifically because of this, I expected ChatGPT to be able to make moves but actually not being good with the game. You can try yourself, the code is available.

> Also in this game if I don't move the queen I force a draw, right?

I don't know as there is no time but I assume it is mandatory to move when, what happens in a chess game with no time if someone does not want to move? Same applies here.
How about 6 working hours for half the year and 7 working hours for the other half?
"No one person should be trusted here. I don’t have super voting shares. The board can fire me. I think that’s important."

Sam Altman, June 2023

(Haha)
Is there a realistic way to actually increase the context window?
Better advice ^^
> Spain in particular is almost 3 hours off of solar time.

I suppose if you squint right at the western edge in summer time you could get there.

But the prime meridian runs straight through the country. I think a sensible reckoning would say that it's 1 hour off as a baseline and 1 extra hour during summer.
Given that he apologized for the antisemitic content, it's not alleged behavior.

The original tweet did not mention any specific organization but the "Jewish community" writ large. The original tweet calls out this community for "dialectical hatred against whites" as a monolith, to which Musk commented that this is the "actual truth."

If <given racial group> is reduced to a monolithic stereotype and then accused of latent hate against another <given racial group>, the content is likely racist. If, in addition to the above, the comment then insinuates the monolithic group is guilty of an international conspiracy... then it's also a good bet that the racist comment is also anti-Semitic.

This episode makes Mr. Musk's bias crystal clear.
That's explainable, Dunning-Kruger effect. Whole custom development industry is based on it. Otherwise it will never exist as there are whole agencies with 20-30 year history that never seen a tiny bit of what they produced working in production: everything is a throwaway paid for by these would-be founders.

It's like clouds: AWS exists because enough stupid people don't understand available hosting options and can't make simple cost calculations.

This will never change simply because no one makes money if it does. If those people started looking for a tech-cofounder, then two options:

- they never find one, thus give up on the idea, the money they spend/waste on it will never be spent, thus GDP from this final consumption (which nearly all of custom development is: final consumption, a hobby), will not be created.

- they find someone who will pretend or will falsely believe to be technical. essentially same guy as the original one. and he will waste some time and money with freelancers, become convinced they are all fraud (because this is what happens when you ask for idiotic stuff to be built on impossible budgets - everyone except scammers, decline), then hire some agencies, and waste some money on them, aaaaand it's gone!

How do you explain to people who are not capable of starting a business, that they shouldn't start one?

Bigger question: WHY would you do it? Why not just benefit from them?
Algorithmic Information Theory for RL Controllers and RNN World Models
> The price discrepancies don’t necessarily indicate they Audi/Porsche are less reliable.

No but once you express reliability not as "chance of breakage" but "repair cost", which IMO is the key metric for someone considering a used car, then it does. Especially when you also factor in the behavior of the average Porsche driver on the road, which means more wear and tear.
This is generally true. I had a technical cofounder for the first 4 years or so, but once our tools were built it was less clear what his ongoing role would be.

This is because at that point, our focus turned to licensing our (patented) technology to businesses. We still have B2C customers who use the tools that he originally built (and which have been updated by contractors after he left), but now the vast majority of our revenue comes from our B2B licensing.

We are pretty unique in this regard, since most startups aren't able to generate much revenue from licensing in this way. Specifically, when we work with our licensees, we provide a JS library that they plug into their own platform. We don't need engineers to do integration work, or provide support.

My technical cofounder provided a lot of value in getting us to where we are, for sure. But needing a technical cofounder to launch doesn't necessarily mean you need one all the way along.
I'm confused what is harrowing (acutely distressing or painful as Merriam-Webster says) about stories where technical people are not marginalized.
Ha why “Azores time zone” including Ireland and Iceland when the Azores are miles away. “Atlantic time zone” seems to make more sense.
> It’s difficult for me to conceive of a world without pneumatic tires.

It may not be difficult to conceive for much longer:

https://michelinmedia.com/michelin-uptis/

Granted, they are still tires, but just not pneumatic.
In your first hot-sauce recipe example, that person IS the technical founder. Just technical in the field relevant to the business, which happens to not be tech.

The scenario in tech is more often comparable to some dude saying "I want to make a business selling the greatest hot sauce ever" and then having to go looking for someone who actually knows anything about hot sauce.
It's not going to happen. The solution is to not be poor.

Even the most die-hard bleeding heart charity obsessed liberal is still voting for their home to keep up it's appreciation rate.
I would guess the gif triggers a specific edge case that would crash, and grammarly is just a common enough addition to chrome with a lot of edge case triggers that it was identified. I’d guess this is on the Chrome team to fix soon, but yeah, at least post the spinner file for us!
Turbo Pascal Turns 40
Netflix €16/m (Until they stop tolerating my password sharing)

Gym €38/m

Boiler maintenance €13/m

Public library €5/m (Just to support them)
A(G)I models don't need higher order thinking or somesuch to be impactful. For that they just need to increase productivity with or without job loss (be Good Enough), which they are on a good track for.

The real impacts will come when they are properly integrated into the current computational fabric, which everyone is racing to do as we write this.
More people need to read https://grugbrain.dev/
>Note: if the result is someone reporting having made a decision before brain activity is seen, my next question is going to be "How does that work?"

This is not how we figure conscious explanations are often(always?) post-hoc rationalizations.

See -

Split brain experiments -
https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a

Experiments on Choice preferences -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/
I've thought about this a bit as well, and I think it's almost like this toxic concoction of incentive (how can "we" hype this until and make boatloads of money off of it, coupled with a genuine (if sub-conscious) desire to be seen as a visionary/great engineer who "created artificial life." I mean, at least on HN, I see lots of this aspirational attitude for living the sci-fi future circa. Star trek, ex-machina, etc, while couching their language in professions of expertise now that the firehose of cash has turned on.

Also there is the general hubris in all this to only look at the new and shiny, I remember when there was that pizza robot (some multi-dimension axis hand thing) that cost whatever in building and research, when the costco pizza "robot" is pretty darn good, but doesn't sell as "futuristic/cool" because its a spigot on a servo.
There's a huge portion of people here that really hate our government. I'm one of them. This whole law was a result of legacy media lobbying for that law, a lot of smaller Canadian media outlets and small content creators opposed it. Everything is like that here, the government is ruled by special interests.

Even this law, the government abused parliamentary process and the COVID situation to avoid having this law debated in parliament before it was passed. They don't care about democracy, they don't care about the rule of law, they don't care about anything, they just do what benefits them and their friends.

I hate Canada's politically connected elite, and honestly prefer facebook
Meta files suit to kneecap the FTC
For what it's worth, Spain and France were on GMT (as it was back then) before World War II.

(Technically French law referred to the time as "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds" - they had thought the Prime Meridian ought to run through Paris rather than London and were sore about losing that.)
And if somebody sends you the link in an IM? Or if the browser fakes a referral from the news sites landing page?
“The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming”

https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=RLmmOCX43l0nOq_q
I've also been using Divvy since as long as I can remember but it hasn't been updated in 4 years, looks like abandonware.
None of this is going to matter. In ~5 years everyone will be using AI summarizes and sharing this stuff with no chain of origination.

With the rise of rage and clickbait, that might be a really good thing to disincentivize many of the bad ways that media is produced and presented.
Economic History Review: https://ehs.org.uk
> I really wish we could do this in the US.

The US is about 4000 miles wider. That makes it hard.
Hi Ben,

It was mostly gamers. As a gamer from that time, the hardware was marketed to gamers, hard. I don't doubt that artists had an impact, but the world had many, many more gamers, than artists and gamers spend money for the best/mostest/etc.

I mainly know this from living through the CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA/3D add-on card/3D era.

Thank you for taking the time to delve into this. While I may not agree with your conclusions, I respect your work, and the effort put in. :)
The notion that an accessibility feature means it is automatically accessible for 100% of people is asinine.

In any case the buttons often vibrate specifically so that deaf people can feel it.
How many of those are from single-product startups? I know some are, but not most that I can think of.
Asch Reimagined: Navigating the Labyrinth of Conformity in the Contemporary Mind
The research demonstrates that monetary incentives reduce conformity errors in line-judging tasks, though social influence remains a factor.
The FCC did a lot to block zoning in cell phone tower placement and federal regulators should find a way to intervene here too. Meeting a primary basic need seems a bit more important than perfect 911 coverage to me.
I'll repeat what I wrote in another comment: the problem might just be that usually the "AI artist" isn't the one that built and trained the model. What the artist does in this case is spending some time in finding a good prompt. Which could be seen as a form of art itself, but if we're talking about time spent, this amounts to much less.

Edit: I decided to add my two cents about using time spent as a measure of effort. I think this can be misleading and I have a counterexample, although admittedly it isn't from art: think about an athlete running 100 meters. This doesn't require effort just in the training before, but also in the act itself. And the less time the athele takes to run 100 meters, the more is the effort required.

As for my own opinion about art, I think that anything could be art: what counts is the idea behind it. How this translates to this specific problem of AI generated images I'm unsure though, as it would, at least in part, depend on how much of your idea you can convey through a ML model.
And those numbers are themselves are de facto lies because they don't adequately represent the rises in costs of inelastic demand items such as food that harm individuals. "Macroeconomics" to the point of hiding harms to large swaths of C that aren't billionaires with C billionaires, G, I, and NX.
> We (NL) should stay on permanent summer time.

> Reasons

> ...

Why not just have time as close to solar as possible and move working hours as needed? I have always found arguments for permanent summer time very confusing. Just move working hours as needed, why do you need to deviate the entire clock from the solar time for that?
> Pay nearly-nothing to the artist, take money for themselves and charge the consumer.

No they don't, they pay out 70% of all their taking.

The problem is that almost all artists work through labels still. Spotify pays the label who then screws over the artist in the same way they always have.

You are misdirecting your anger, just like the RIAA wants you to.
I am glad you mentioned automobiles! They are among the most heavily engineered everyday product that we use every day, and this engineering and cost optimization has been going on for close to a hundred years now. So, I would read this same statement as "$20k and 100 years of engineering gets us a lot" rather than "$20k gets us a lot". I am hoping better engineering and the wonders of modern supply chains will get us a home robot at 1/10th of the current price when the time is right.
Those emoticons are like a hilarious and alarming comorbidity of the personality required to make the posts you're making. NB: I love the posts you're making.