skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be new on the topic :) Let me accelerate this conversation for you:

1) Someone says we need housing.

2) I say: great, let's build it!

3) Someone says: but cities are not building enough housing, we need to invest more.

4) I say: great, let's build it anywhere in the US, where it is cheaper too. Population density in the US is very low.

5) Someone says: not like that! Homeless want to live in places like San Francisco, you can't relocate them.

6) I say: nobody can choose to live where they want if they don't have the means for it. <- WE ARE HERE.
But is this what's actually happening? The IGN article [1] and the WSJ article [2] about this claim the layoffs will be done in 18-24 months.

Since this is like the 4th toplevel comment with this point and each one generates huge threads of people pretty much saying the same thing over and over again, I'm curious whether anyone has actually read any other information about this or if everyone is just reacting to the Polygon article by making the same comment.

[1]: https://www.ign.com/articles/dungeons-dragons-owner-hasbro-l...

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/hasbro-layoffs-toy-compa...
Yeah, biology does seem like a better comparison, especially with "strands" of AI performing differently than what they used to after patches.
Just need one side to surrender to end a war.
> AI doesn't scare you because you apparently have no sense of perspective or imagination

We can imagine both of the following: 1. space aliens from Betelgeuse coming down and enslaving humanity to work in the dilithium mines to produce the fuel for their hyperdrives, and 2. the end of civilization via global nuclear war. Both of these would be pretty bad, but only one is worth worrying about. I don't worry about Roko's Basilisk, I worry about AI becoming the ultimate tool of Big Brother, because the latter is realistic and the former is pure fantasy.

Don't be afraid of the AI. Be afraid of the powerful men who will use the AI to entrench their power and obliterate free society for the rest of human history.
My worries about AI are more about the societal impact it will have. Yes it's a fancy sentence generator, the problem is that you already have greedy bastards talking about replacing millions of people with that fancy sentence generator.

I truly think it's going to lead to a massive shift in economic equality, and not in favor of the masses but instead in favor of the psychopathic C-suite like Altman and his ilk.
> Israel, as a state, has the moral duty to fight back and make sure this never happens again. Otherwise, it breaks the most basic contract between citizen and state ("I give up on violence and in turn you protect me from violence").

If violent retribution alone could ensure "this never happens again," the conflict would have ended long ago. Instead, it is over a century old.

> Finally, an honest question, what would you do? How would you respond in this situation?

Israel has no good options, only terrible ones and even worse ones, but: invade Gaza on the ground, block by block, instead of indiscriminate airstrikes. Accept higher casualties among Israel's forces to protect civilians. Give civilians as much stability as possible, as long as they follow orders ("if you are peaceful, we'll ensure you have food, water, medical care, shelter; step out of line and you will never be seen again.") Meanwhile, end the settlements in the West Bank, stop sidelining Fatah, show that there is a path forward for Palestinians if they are peaceful.
I live in Iceland which has often topped the list of the happiest countries in earth, yet pople moan about everything over here.
The technical difficulties in digital porn distribution at least offer some points of on-topic discussion.
When moving from 5->4 the w sliders are [0,0,0.5,1,0,0].

When moving from 4->3 they become [0,0,1].

When moving from 3->4 they become [0,0,0,1,0,0].

Clicking 'reset' or manually changing the w slider to [0,0,0.5,1,0,0] results in the expected animation.
> Protests for genocide are allowed

What does this even mean? Protests against a genocide would obviously be allowed, but what is “protest for genocide”? Protest in support of genocide? If yes, then i don’t see how it makes any sense at all.
All of those countries have had terrorist attacks in the last 5 years. While their level of security is generally high, they do not experience total security. You cannot be completely secure without total control or elimination of anyone who might disagree with you.

Of course I accept that some actions are legitimate in some places to achieve a higher level of security for the people, but it always requires careful consideration and is not something for which just any sacrifice can be made without further thought.
Users should, of course, post on whatever threads they like. But I am implying that the OP's selection of publication serves one particular perspective, and readers should be aware of Al Jazeera's historical affiliation with that perspective.
Apollo 1 should have been production like it mattered. But instead the first prototype was pressed into service because the real one wasn't ready yet. The fire was proof.
Kind of surprised to see an article about TableGen hit #1 on HN. TableGen is pretty arcane. I had some dealings with it in about 2016 while creating a backend for compiler targeting a new processor architecture. It was very poorly documented then - mostly you looked at what other people had done with other architectures and tried to fit that into what was needed for your new architecture. Anyway, I guess I'd be surprised if even 1,000 people in the world needed to actually do much with TableGen.
Sure hope that intelligence doesn’t roughly mean “ability to find solutions to problems that less intelligent entities can’t discover.”

I have no idea what “our ascent to godhood” entails, and it’s hilarious that doomers get criticized for being religious about all this and then you’ll say something like that with a straight face. That’s neat that you “have doubts” sentience and sapience are on this path. You also don’t actually know.
Very good text that I recommend reading from cover to cover. Polanyi is also an excellent introduction to non-Marxist, yet socialist theory. I also recommend reading a bit about Karl Polanyi's brother, Michael Polanyi – a polymath and philosopher of science, known for inventing the concept of 'tacit knowledge' and for his anti-positivist views. The ideologies of the Polanyi brothers couldn't be more different. Interesting case.
Interestingly, progressive cities also have the most expensive housing.
Congrats (kind of), but we can't view "addiciton" in a microcosm of 1. And regardless, addiction isn't the term I'd use to describe the problem. maybe more like all-encompassing.

But the real problem is that Youtube makes all this money but it still took a decade+ to start looking profitable. It's extremely hard to compete with them even if you somehow got over the network effects because it's hard to make money while also paying content creators. Google could do it because they could commoditize youtube's early unprofitability to their ads revenue.

Ideally, something like Netflix spawns and lets "amateur" content creators host as well, which solves many problems. But netflix doesn't seem interested and the few competitors doing that are still in the discovery phase.
Or smaller contractor type trucks with tools in them.

Ever have to dodge an axe at 35MPH? Not fun.
An interview with Back to the Future special effects consultant
I thought this was a joke, but it really exists! https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ocr
Counter-dote: I started smoking when deployed. It took me a few years to quit and that was a smoking -> chew -> patch/gum -> nothing.

No restrictions on sale other than 18+ (I was 24 when I started), and inside public places were only restricted a few years after I came back so I smoked a fair bit in local bars.

Smoking and similar habits are such a wild spectrum you can't prescribe any one thing and restrictions might help some who are prone but aren't really a cure.
This isn’t what happens on PC And there’s no reason to think it will happen here.

You might have a few stores but they will largely compete with each other, reduce prices, and offer freebies.

Fuck the App Store. I want to use steam.
Okay so the server bills or thermodynamic bills mean we need not worry. Open to hearing the argument: tell me how!
Writing software and building rockets are unlike each other in many respects; the cost of small errors being high among them.
This feature is intended to protect against common or even organized criminals, not state actors.
It had an interesting characters at first, but then it quickly devolved into relationship show with all the character adjustments necessary to make it happen.

I enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it the same way I enjoy Seinfeld. It is an equivalent of chips and icecream. Filling, but ultimately bad for you.
BG3 was the first game I've paid full price for, since Doom 3. Almost any of the 'modern' game sales concepts - game passes, ridiculous DLC, loot boxes, etc - have me waiting years after release for the GOTY version at a heavy, heavy discount.

I would buy the heck out of another DnD game like BG. Shame anyone would look at that and say meh, more battlefield.
>I understand the concern but I also understand the general public reaction to Israel's actions. The occupation is one thing, but the genocidal rhetoric by Israeli officials and the desecration of muslim holy sites and harassment of Armenian Christians in Jerusalem is another.

I'm not sure if you do understand my concerns. The problem is the genocidal talk is going both ways.

I've seen some estimates that 25% of Tel Aviv is LGBT. If Palestine controlled the entire region (from the river to the sea) how many of those in Tel Aviv would be killed? Calling for a people to take over land who we know will specifically target a certain demographic to kill is genocidal rhetoric. Yet so many westerners are literally calling for it. It is hard to take people's criticism against genocide seriously when they are calling for an action that will lead to genocide.

Christians are persecuted in Palestine as well. (I've seen some numbers that indicate Christians in Palestine support Palestine more than Israel, but it isn't really clear). When looking at the percentage of Christians over time in Palestine, I'm guessing they aren't treated all that well in Palestine either. I haven't seen any numbers about Jews in Palestine, but if there are any, I doubt they are treated well.

I'm just complaining about the selective outrage. Ignoring well known terrible things in the same conflict you are protesting is so selective it feels deceptive. If you are focused enough on a conflict to know about the bad things on "their" side then call out "your" side as well. If you don't call out your side I will just assume you don't care about abuses. (Sorry, I'm just rambling and know you aren't justifying genocide/abuses)

> Israel needs to do more to change its behavior and protect its image if it doesn't want people to be repulsed by its actions

Sure, but I guess this goes back to my complaint about selectively being outraged. Why are so many people repulsed by Israel not also repulsed by Hamas?

> Turkey isn't innocent but Turkey is calculated and careful. They know Kurdish people represent a significant part of their population (20 million) and they can't carelessly stomp around like Israel is used to doing

You know something like 20% of Israelis are Muslims and a couple more percentage are non ethnic Jews? If Turkey can't oppress the Kurds (in the same way Israel does) because of the percentage of the population then how can Israel do it?

Regardless, I don't trust the Turkey (or Israel) numbers. We don't know what these governments are doing and that is my point. They are all crap. Selectively picking the bad guy and assuming the numbers are accurate and ignoring the other side is dumb.
As another Israeli on the left: why are you still there? Why is your family?

I'm genuinely curious.
British versus American English [1].

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/anonymi...
> What about people shouting about AGI from the halls of the most advanced research labs in the field?

The most practiced researchers of alchemy were convinced that they could turn lead into gold. By itself, this argument is unconvincing. When it comes to the potential for fabulous wealth and/or unimaginable power, incentives distort and people are inclined to abandon their scruples.
Less pessimistically, we now have content for a broader diversity of tastes - greater than ever before. As a result, people can choose to watch shows socially with friends, as well as have content just for themselves. And consuming that content can lead to finding new social groups based on shared interests, if they do desire.

I find the diatribe of "things got better, we got worse" so... boring and antisocial? You never magically made friends, you have always had to make them. There are now tools specifically to help you do this, and your pool has become unrestricted to the geographical region of your job. It's easier than ever, it's more likely you're just overwhelmed by the change.

But even that's fine - I made a new friend today while out and about. Just from talkin' like "the good ole days".
The feed forward layer is essentially a differentiable key-value store.
Similar to the attention layer, actually.
So it just uses an attention mechanism like pre-selector to attend to only some experts.
During inference, this cutoff is made a hard cutoff.
> TableGen tries to be similar to C++, but is different enough that it is annoying.

It seemed to me that TableGen was trying to be a pure functional language more like Haskell than C++.
And to whomever they've already likely sold it to, or in the case of gov'ts and police, given it to?
Not literally a singularity, just incomprehensible from the past. Arguably all points on a technological exponential have this property.
"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
A group like hamas cannot functionally surrender. Nor does it have any incentive to.
The average firing rate of a neocortex neuron (white or grey matter, non-specialized neurons), is only in the order of 1 Hz (for ease of remembering, in practice it is between 0.1 and 2 Hz, the further from the brainbridge a neuron is, generally speaking the slow it fires. With exceptions. Obviously, for example, this doesn't apply to the visual cortex).

https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/

The very high firing rate neurons seem to be fixed function generators that don't actually process information, and some appear to have a function similar to the positional encoding in transformers, others encode the current "chemical" state of for example hormones, but there's many we don't know the function of.
Please don't cross into posting battle comments in this thread. I've explained at the top of the thread, and in many other comments, why we're trying to avoid that and what we're going for here.

I gather that you don't agree—and that's ok—but I still need to treat your comments the same way that I'm treating everyone else's.
Sure, just some ideas at random, but the most important advice is just to try new things and see what feels good:

- dashboards or other reports that call you when something changes, so you don't have to log in to see what's changed

- extremely personalized settings that remember exactly who you are and what you like to do with the interface, to the point that it basically uses it for you

- rapid prototyping interfaces, doing things like "make it real" demo

- extremely simple apps that use AI in the backend to do amazing things. how about a camera app that just sends everything it sees to GPT4-v. think how much easier that would be than loading up a translator app, taking a picture of a menu, uploading the picture, etc. just figure out what I might want to do based on the fact that I took a photo

- artistic/musical/creative apps that require only your phone and that you can noodle on while you have 5m of idle time. maybe the AI works on it silently in the background and then the user gives notes or feedback whenever they have time. end product is a pro-level artistic work that reflects the user's taste level but the AI's mastery of technique
I would generally assume any happiness related metric probably isn't measuring what they hope to measure.

Lying about how happy you are is perhaps the most common lie. It's entirely normal to lie in response to people asking "How are you doing?" as a greeting.
Please don't cross into posting battle comments in this thread. I've explained at the top of the thread, and in many other comments, why we're trying to avoid that and what we're going for here.
The Asia pivot ended after Obama left. America doesn’t give a fk about what’s going on in Myanmar anymore (compare this to Obama pissing off his wife circa 2012 by kissing Aung San Suu Kyi and compelling the military junta to give up power for 12 years)
Would upgrading to 11.21 and then using blue/green have been easier? I'm asking as someone with RDS postgres-aurora running 11.9 right now, so I'm genuinely curious on your thoughts
Why wouldn't you want to use MacRumors?
My unsubscribe likes require a POST request, and have a form on the landing page, but specify the post requirements in the email header.
"Bit of a miss on Whitchurch"

Mr Big Bang ... Whitchurch has rather a lot of spellings. Also, relying on WP for all your references rarely works well.

My reference to Whitchurch was UK exclusive in context but there are quite a few in AUS, NZ, CA, US, SA and others.

I'm not sure why you conflate Sturmister Newton with a bog standard Newton. You'll be calling Newton Abbot a Newton next (I went to school there for a while). We have Newtons and Newhams and that pouring out all over the place here but they are largely unremarkable in this discussion because it is effectively a suffix or prefix associated with the real moniker. Sturminster -, - Abbot etc.

On the other hand a White Church generally is just that - a white church. However, some if not most are associated with wit as in wise and not the colour white. Also Church might be Kirk (Scotland) or Chapel (Welsh) and a lot of other spellings too.

I appreciate your research on WP but I think reality is a bit more complicated.
You are not arguing honestly by claiming it's 55 "commanders" vs [inflated number] civilians.

It's very likely the 2:1 ratio of civilian:Hamas is correct given the intense ground battle and that the 17-19K death toll clearly is includes thousands of Hamas fighters. The ratio of civilian deaths for similar urban wars is much worse.
> Plenty of Palestinians oppose Hamas and want.

Plenty Palestinians oppose the war and want peace. This is the equivalent.

In their eyes, to rid of kahanists like Netanyahu and his cronies, who have subjugated them for decades, subjected them to a death by a thousand paper-cuts, they don't demand Jordan and Turkey besiege and bomb Tel Aviv.

Given the population density in the Strip and lack of trust in Israel by Egypt on refugees, smaller-scale military solution followed by a political solution must have been pursued but instead the majority sentiment in Israel was all-out revenge (and collective punishment very much okay: https://archive.is/t9pmT). It has been downhill from there.
Women (on average) are much less likely to be combatants or pose a threat, are physically more vulnerable, and (as the only people who can bear children) are more important than men for preserving the future of humanity.
The owner retweeting Nazis.
One does simply call a LLM an AI, apparrotly
It should be possible to speed it up quite a lot if you render just edges and vertices. The latter could look like spheres with radius proportional to the distance to the camera. Also, to build intuitive understanding, I think it's necessary to give controls to zoom in, turn left or right and so on.
Do you have any sources of information about issues with the reporting on lead contamination? although if someone else found a negative result that’s not necessarily surprising. Lead contamination can change from year to year aa manufacturing processes are altered and Rhee can just be batches of contaminated material.
I looked at getting LSN numbers after an upgrade/cluster replacement, and IIRC restoring from a snapshot emits LSN information into the logs, but it's a bit of of a mixed bag as to whether or not you get the __right__ LSN out the other side. Because the LSN is more a measure of how many bytes have been written within a cluster, it's not something that meaningfully translates to other clusters, unfortunately.
What about the Jews who were ejected from neighboring Arab countries during these various wars? Do they get to go back home? Do you truly believe a compromise can be reached with an organization that committed a massacre on the scale of October 7th? Personally, I'm willing to compromise a lot for peace (divide Jerusalem, give up the west bank, whatever. Fighting over land/religion is absurd), but I honestly don't believe that's what Hamas is aiming for. Their actions at least indicate otherwise.
Someone whose sick of every kid on the site blogging every time they learn how to code a hello world in a new language. Like, this is the equivalent of half the shit that gets posted on HN now. I have to wonder how they are making it to the front page though? As none of it is novel, interesting, or news worthy. I can only conclude these people are maliciously gaming the system.

The reality is HN is filled with mediocre tech bros doing everything possible to hustle for more attention and leverage. Even though the vast majority of what they have to contribute is of little importance. There are so many people trying to get exposure to their work on HN now that anything interesting gets lost within the noise. It seems like the system now only 'works' for parties willing to cheat it. So that the people with the most friends end up with the most exposure rather than the parties whose work is the most valuable.

'Meritocracy' and other such bullshit terms that tech bros love. laughing my f-f-f-f[redacted] ass off. Guess you snowflakes can downvote this all to hell now.
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I'm confused about the timeline of jumping from Adept to Essential, and ignorant as to the implications. Adept still hasn't released a product and its $350m Series B was only in March, shortly after Vaswani and Parmar exited. Notably, Adept also used to employ Tri Dao who is now at Together and has credibly advanced transformers with Flash Attention and has laid groundwork for post-Transformers-only models with Together's recent StripedHyena[2].

Do they keep the equity from Adept while trying to build a competing company? I realize it would be speculation but anybody chiming in on a possible reason for the move [unless it's just as simple as a better deal and more control] would be appreciated!

[0] https://archive.ph/Ooyjz/

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/two-co-founders-of-...

[2] https://www.together.ai/blog/stripedhyena-7b
Many people who are actually making the things closest to what we currently call “AI” are concerned.

I don’t care to engage in these nitpicky hypotheticals. We all know what I’m saying.

If the scientists building these systems aren’t credible and the commentators not building these systems aren’t credible, then who is?

If the answer is “no one,” okay, cool, that inscrutability is another reason for, not against, caution.
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