skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least some humans will survive a high unemployment rate, so let's label that problem "problem #2" and after we solve "problem #1" (human extinction) I vote we tackle that one next on the list
I love this framing of the dynamics, as a cultural concern as much as an economic one, because it cuts to the chase in a way that the AGI or open/closed themes never seem to. The extent to which anyone cares about the internet or software more broadly can only really achieve parity with past and present realities; there is no meaningful transcendence beyond the viscera of human experience because -- like trees in the forest -- we can only care about what we care about. And what has made the world a truly great place is not post-humanist striving but the connective tissue of culture that gives us access to other people, great artists and pedestrians alike, who are just like us, real. Everything else is a vice.
Oops apologies on the links! I had to go to sleep - I should have added them maybe as a comment - but glad you did! Thanks!
The vulnerability:

"Mysk said the unsuspecting Tesla owner isn't even notified when a new phone key is set up. And, though the Tesla Model 3 owner's manual says that the physical card is required to set up a new phone key, Mysk found that that wasn't the case, according to the video."

They should at least notify you if someone logs in from a new device.
You can try our blog post if that works :) https://unsloth.ai/blog/gemma-bugs Also our Twitter feed https://twitter.com/danielhanchen/status/1765446273661075609 which lists all the bugs as well - apologies on the issue!
It's used everywhere on osx?
Do you think that your final sentence buys humanity a thousand years, a hundred years, or what?
Hm, this thread once again slid down the top page at an alarming rate, even though the safety of the environment surrounding engineers is a serious concern of engineers. Hacker News is surprisingly dismissive of user interests and votes.

Note that even if it is a suicide, it is still a safety problem of the environment surrounding engineers. Since it is Boeing that pressured him until he committed suicide.
>please please share with us how it is we will share the world with a species more intelligent than us and nothing bad happens

Don't be fucking assholes to them?

I'm serious. Of course someone (or something) will treat you like dirt if you are an asshole to them. Don't be assholes, be honorable and friendly.

And I can see your next question/argument, so I am going to preempt it: Raise your AI to be honorable and friendly and we won't have any problems.

None of this is different from how all living beings raise their offspring and build societies.
Oh my that's unfortunate :( I do have a blog post if that helps: https://unsloth.ai/blog/gemma-bugs
It's just a bunch of cranks who did the report. I hope no important politican takes this "report" seriously.
Use the flag link, I did
A few lessons from this: First, intense passion, endless practice and infinite persistence are all prerequisites. They are the bare minimum of artistic greatness. They don't guarantee greatness, but you won't find any greats who didn't have these attributes.

Secondly, it's remarkable that you can languish for half a decade as a barely functional junkie in a second city and still make a comeback. We should all hold this dearly to our hearts. You are going to take major losses in life. Maybe you get fired, don't get hired, don't get funding, your startup goes bankrupt, or whatever flavor of personal problems you can imagine. If you can regain your health and your discipline you can still make a comeback.

Finally, Coltrane, Davis and Evans were all polar opposites in terms of personality. Coltrane was very religious, Davis seemed to always have a raincloud following him around, and Evans was known for being what we might today call emo. But when they could put these personal differences aside and focus on the art they were collaborating on the result was lightning in a bottle. We should remember this the next time we find someone with immense talent or reputation who at first glance seems to be of little use as a friend. If you're not getting along with someone, keep your focus on the end goal and that usually smoothes all the little problems over.

If you're interested in more John Coltrane lore I recommend this interview of Ben Ratliff who wrote the book on Coltrane.[0] He goes over his mercurial early days in detail, and plays all of the tracks that Coltrane would have been listening to during his formative years.

[0] https://www.nts.live/shows/coltrane-day/episodes/coltrane-da...
Nice way to sum up capitalism: it is about the consolidation of power.

Money also corrupts power, thereby reinforcing the consolidation of power - a way to preserve self-interests.

The prime example of this is: political lobbying and funding of super-PACs by corporations.

The regular people (read: not executives, social, political or tech elites) suffer.
I think Paris tried to curb this buy allowing Airbnb, but you can only rent out max 50% of the year. This makes it so local owners can make some money, but corporations wouldn't be able to get the yield they need at 50% occupancy.
I learned how to use Japanese Dozuki saws for dovetails over western style saws. Also, because woodworkers in Japan still use them regularly, acquiring saws of Japanese origin are significantly more affordable.

Ironically, I prefer pre-World War II Stanley hand planes over Japanese hand planes, but likely because I learned all the meticulous methods of restoring and truing them to get those addictive gossamer shavings.

I follow Shoyan Japanese Carpenter on youtube. Worth a watch or three. https://m.youtube.com/@ShoyanJapaneseCarpenter/videos
Surprise: TikTok objects to being banned
As a neutral observer, it’s hard to make sense of what exactly you’re saying was copied.

What is the opening table cell background? Is this something in the app code itself, or something that made it onto the public site? And this SVG was custom made by your company?
The nicest trick the ruling class pulled off was convincing people that election = democracy.
I think crypto-mining could be help with bringing on more electricity from renewable resources online faster and more gracefully in the absence of sufficiently large scale grid batteries.

Imagine a solar or wind power plant that currently has sufficiently problematic swings in electricity production. A crypto-mining data center nearby could consume some if not all of this problematic excess electricity production more gracefully than disabling sections of the solar or wind power plant. In this application, crypto-mining would not be the primary reason to have all of this crypto-mining hardware. As the local grid requires more power generation, crypto-mining nodes could be turned offline to offset their electricity use.

This thought is just something I had, and there might be problems with it.
Cmd + Shift + V works in a large number of places.
This looks great! How long does it take (on what hardware) to train the toy models? Such as the `fashion_mnist.py` example? Thanks.
Ah interesting. I guess when I think of abstraction, I think of a boundary over which complexity is reduced, and therefore information is lost. My more personal sense is that a ton of human misery comes from poorly chosen abstraction. Or abstraction where there should be none.

The idea of "the tyranny of the database" was where I first encountered this:

> At a higher, more semantic level, a subtle distortion in how we perceive reality took hold: things that were hard to represent in databases became alternately devalued and fetishized. [...] Once in awhile a technical counter-current would take hold and try to push back on the tyranny of the database, but the general trend held firm: if it does not fit in the database, it does not exist.

> You may not think you know this world of databases, but you live in it. [...] Every time a customer service assistant shrugs and says “computer says no” or an organization acts in crazy, inflexible ways, odds-are there’s a database underneath which has a limited, rigid view of reality and it’s simply too expensive to fix the software to make the organization more intelligent.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/by-the-end-of-....
That "essay" written in 1844 was 233 pages long. This doesn't really fit with his thesis.
Absolutely. Most of the Airbnb/VRBO that we’ve done was to accommodate 12-15 people including 5-7 children. Only other time I do Airbnb is for specialty situations like a beach house where we can have a big patio with a grill etc.
The issue I find problematic is "Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma." - it's a bit vague - I guess it's not enforceable!
That's not how probability works. Probability already reflects your uncertainty. There's no "knowing the correct probability" except in very specific and rare situations.
That only works when there is a balance of power. Humans don't treat other animals very well -- they eat them -- even though the animals don't do anything to provoke us.

Maybe robots will become so advanced they won't have to worry about defending themselves, go explore space, and leave us alone. Who knows.
And why shouldn't I be able to rent out my apartment for a week if I go on vacation?

This was supposed to be the intent of Airbnb and is still a valuable resource if available.
the ancient version of a sawstop. You were probably less likely to lose a limb in an instant…
I don’t know, it was a pretty simple demo (just audio recording, transcription, and summarizing) so would it really be worth faking? The only things the article mentions are the typo (which actually makes me think it’s more likely to be real than faked) and the audio mismatch (which he explains on twitter was simply because he clicked an earlier recording accidentally - makes sense, I would do a dry run before actually recording the demo too).
A copy-text typo in a pre-production UI seems totally fine?

The audio clip mismatch is a bit more questionable, but the simplest explanation is that they recorded two takes of the demo, and accidentally played back the clip from the previous take.

The only really damning thing is that this is something Siri could do a decade ago.
> That's problematic because the entire point of an LLM

Could you detail what the results of that problematic behavior are? Do you suspect structured generation performs worse than unstructured?

> squishing the result into a json schema

The strategies I've seen for dealing with structured generation seem to be ensuring that the structured is represented in the prompt, so the model isn't squishing anything.

> For longer text fields, many SOTA LLMs are prone to close the field early and append an ellipses rather than flesh it out in its entirety. Constrained schema generation will have a high probability of closing the (broken) string and a low probability of continuing past the (incorrect) ellipses,

Part of structured generation is specifying exactly the range you want for the field, so I'm not sure how this issue arises. With structured generation you force the LLM to have at least some number of characters, so this seems like an argument in favor of structured generation rather than against. If unstructured LLMs want to "close the field", then structured can force it to remain open.
Not clearing them from their wrong, but it's worth mentioning that Steve Jobs demo'ed the iPhone while many features were still in development / unstable - he had to follow a "golden path" or else the demo iPhone would likely crash.
Ye it was indeed very gruelling - but very fun!! I used torch.dist everywhere, read ll implementations side by side to compare them, and had to manually inspect losses, plot them etc. It's a bit hard to automate sadly, since new archs cause new issues.
Indeed, but you don't become happy by wanting to be happy.
It's misaligned, not evil. AI doom could involve benevolent intentions (control or kill for humanity's own good), it could also involve ambivalent intentions (make more paperclips).
People like you are why there is severe distrust of media.

A corporate drone doesn't have to order this. A high-up executive with connections with the underworld will do it, because they have enough at stake.

And of course, you are going to laugh at 'connection with the underworld'. Then go check up wirecard. Their CEO ran off to Russia.

You are utterly ignorant yet utterly arrogant. If you knew more, you wouldn't make these claims. If you knew far less, you also would just arrive at the natural conclusion that this is a cover-up killing.
I leveled up a lot from working with engineers who are more senior than me, understanding different parts of the software development pipeline by working with DevOps engineers, and just approaching every next projects with a mindset of always finding a better way to accomplish the goal.
Obsidian's philosophy is file over app [1] and releasing a spec for their Canvas feature is fulfilling that promise. It's a strictly positive 'today is better than yesterday' thing for them to have done so.

You shouldn't need to ask permission or consult anyone to do this. That's a silly bar, 'egregious' even. When markdown was created, Gruber wasn't asking all his friends making text editors whether they'd support it. He just released it, and others chose to adopt it on its merits.

I don't meant this to sound harsh, but just to call it as I see it - your comment is basically creating a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' scenario and an example of why people building things shouldn't worry much about comments in forums.

[1]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
Yep! The goal was to implement Gemma in Unsloth to make finetuning faster and use less VRAM, and my reimplementation seems to get different results than the current ones.
Is it me or the "apparent" in the title implies it looks like a suicide but is not conclusively one?
This article is titled "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate", however I don't see the expansion rate actually listed there, or in the comments. I see a mention of age, but not the rate. Does anyone know the rate? I clicked through to the paper itself[1], but wasn't able to interpret it from the details I could see

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1ddd
This seems like an overly aggressive article?
I'm not sure if all exposes are like this, but they seem to be assuming a lot on very little evidence.
IMO having a bit of respect/empathy for a startup is a good thing...
https://archive.ph/HJ8ra
I'd wager that there are several players in the AI market who have already scraped and OCR'd every book and magazine on zlib and libgen to feed into training models. Google are almost certainly piped everything they have in Google Books into their models, before some future legal case says they can't. Won't take long before the open community starts doing the same.
Pepsi supposedly paid a million dollars for this fever dream of a document.
Ugh, flashbacks to Hostgator, where random employees (like literally all of the customer support trainers and supervisors?) had access to view not only the customer's "security PIN" but also their full, unredacted CC#... (And everyone else could see 10 digits of the CC#, i.e. only 6 digits were masked!)
Seems like a typical MediaTek gadget like the Android-based pocket translators that you can bring with you in travel.

No reason to think it's not possible or fake ? and otherwise it's very close to being real and doable.

The device seems like a recorder + some speech transcription (probably open-source like whisper or similar), nothing really crazy or impossible.
Is part of the idea of diffusion that you get a huge amount of training data? Like, you get to contrast all of these randomly diffused images with the undiffused image?
How do you guys run Github Actions locally?
> unrelated group partners

That is simple and neat solution. After all, there are ~89 people to choose from.
Thank you for your reply.

ycombinator.com/people lists 66 employees, 14 group partners, 5 visiting group partners and 4 founders.
Sounds like an ad from the Hotel lobby.

People should still be able to rent out their homes if they want.
The only thing that worked for me was getting a personal trainer 3 times a week for strength training, and he would also weigh me every session. I would also go one or two times on my own to do some cardio (1 hour on the treadmill at 10% incline while watching tv shows: exactly 600 calories almost every time). Oh, and I drastically reduced my food consumption. The looming weigh-ins helped keep that up. I lost about 50lbs in 6 months and stayed there for a year+ until the pandemic hit and gyms closed down.
To solve self-driving we need two things:

1. Deep and detailed understanding of how the world works. We are just starting to make real progress there (GPT-4), and more work is needed [1].

2. Reliability. A model should make significantly fewer mistakes than humans would make in similar scenarios, on average. This includes factual and logical mistakes, as well as hallucinations.

I expect the main improvements GPT-5 will bring are improvements in exactly these two areas. The first one is likely to come from training on huge video datasets (next frame prediction objective), and the second one will require high quality data, and some other methods (known and secret), but given that OpenAI has stated many times in the last year that improving reliability is their number one priority, I believe we will see a significant improvement there. Note that simply being better driver than humans is a very low bar, and to be accepted/adopted the self-driving AI must be much better (10x or even 100x better). But I believe that even today’s technology (such as the best models from Waymo or Tesla) could be used today in long haul trucking with similar or better accident rates. And this technology is not even based on large foundational models like GPT-4. Obviously the necessary regulation will delay the automation of self-driving trucks, that’s why I said the automation of physical jobs will come after the automation of routine office jobs like (most types of) software engineering.

Other than those two challenges, there’s also an engineering challenge to put a GPT-5 scale model inside every car (needs to run locally). This can be achieved by producing custom built hardware accelerators, but will still be expensive in the near term, so I expect that self driving will become widespread after the cost of a computer inside every car falls below 10% of the cost of the car. Currently I’d imagine we would need an equivalent of an 8x H100 server to run a highly compressed and finetuned for driving version of GPT-5.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04732
If I let my imagination run wild, I can imagine that at some point AI becomes in some way sentient. By that I mean it gains reasoning, some sort of understanding, and motivation.

I wonder what the possibility is that this AI will decide that a pitched battle is going to waste resources and risk humans pulling the plug. What if it understood that and instead operated so subtly that it was not obvious it was controlling The World.

Hopefully it would not conclude that eliminating large swaths of the human population would be to its benefit.
If possible: sell your car, buy a nice bike and ride to work! ( move close to your work if possible?)

As a teacher, I make far less than 100k a year (far less!), but my health hack is that I bike to work every day, so at the very least, I get 5+ miles of exercise. I have the luxury of having bought a house just over 2.5 miles from campus, but it's part of the lifestyle I chose years ago.
It’s not about intimidating or sending a message, it’s about undermining the credibility of a witness. This happens every day in $10,000 slip fall cases across the country. If someone is making accusations against your client, and they cheat on their wife / don’t pay their taxes / whatever, and you don’t bring that to light so the jury can evaluate their credibility, you’re committing malpractice.
There's so much institutional inertia to these things. Globalization didn't just happen. People pushed for it for years.

I find it a bit trite that economists can write these self indulgent essays and don't recognize the outsized impact they have had on society. I appreciate the change or heart. But the impacts on people have been so great it would be more of a gesture if this person took all their wealth, put it in a pile, burned it, and then walked into the ocean.

This is someone who got to have their cake, Whole career built on a fad, and eat it too, ie be fawned upon with esteem due to a regretful essay in their winter years.

We're going to see more of this stuff, and next it'll be Big Oil execs regretting their career and then doing nothing about the problem.
>But a country like China would punish the corruption by Boeing management with death. That's a great incentive to not be corrupt.

I've long since come to the conclusion that the reason today's politicians, executives, and others in position of power are so flagrantly corrupt is because they don't risk paying with their lives for their troubles anymore.

The feudal age wasn't a great time to live in as a peasant, but you can bet the nobles above you were greatly incentivized to act generally in your (and/or the kingdom's) interests because to do otherwise would have meant their (very vicious) deaths.
This is many words to say something fairly simple: microeconomics is a science (/math), macroeconomics is mostly voodoo that macroeconomists pretend is science and for which they give each other bogus awards.

Maybe one day we will have the ability to properly model the incredible complexity of a macroeconomic environment, but doing so requires encapsulating thousands (if not millions) of variables and we are not there yet. You cannot simplify anything at the macroeconomic-level to an equation or theorem with a handful of variables or concepts, which macroeconomists want to do.

Said another way: macroeconomics is a social science, and like psychology or similar, most of the output of this discipline has piss-poor predictive quality and has an abysmal track record when it comes to reproducibility.
This. You can subjugate a population 100 times your size with only two things: Military force and accurate information.

I doubt AI will kill all humans. Its orthogonal to AI's own goals (To survive/reproduce/expand/evolve). It'll simply kill those who oppose it, and enslave/dominate the rest.
Never used it actually, is it in between LaTeX and Markdown with the possibility to process JSON input?
IE6 was EOL before flexbox was a thing, according to Wikipedia.
A golden path is not a fake demo. These things are not the same.
This seems a bit more personal than academic. I don't think there was ever a consensus that unions were bad. Not for the sake of capitalism. And I'm not sure how he equates reduced immigration with reduced inequality without controlling for a zillion other variables that were happening at the time. And I'm not really sure any of this stuff was ever really dogma among the academic circles. The benefits of free trade were generally accepted as prevailing wisdom and sold as a panacea by politicians, but no serious economist would refuse to accept new data when it was available.
They moved on to accidentally falling out of the window. If the subject is not important enough to poison, of course.
There are extremely high capability entities (people, companies, governments) that aren’t comically evil on the surface but nevertheless immiserate large groups of humans. Not all of them, not all of the time, but not none of them. What is your plan that no AI ever gains enough power to harm significant numbers of people either on purpose or by accident, just once? What safeguards do you envision that can’t be ignored, or subverted, or misinterpreted, just once?
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Is it labor if it automatic? Which worker gets paid when I turn on my oven to heat my food?

I can see value, but no labor.
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