skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The battle is already lost if we can only feed the people Alice today through a global, centralized food industry.

Such a system is doomed to fail eventually, there's no way around it. Not to mention the fact that its just a big shell game with everyone trying to hide the true external costs of industrial agriculture. The larger we build that system the harder it will fall unfortunately, and if there are no local food producers left in business we're all screwed like the Soviets after they realized killing all the people who knew how to farm was a bad idea if you also like to eat.
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There is no version of animal farming that if you did the same with humans wouldn't constitute human rights violations. Why should we be special? "Hey, my slaves are well fed, happy and they are even allowed to sleep in the house, where's your problem man."

> That's a weird questions to ask, I don't see any relation whatsoever with what is being discussed.

I painted a false equivalence in a related field with the same tools you did. In both cases people are killed, but the details matter. And for our discussion, killing animals != killing animals.
Even if it never existed, it should exist. The false description is prescription. M"${foo}"GA!
For those of us who haven't recently used WordPress it would be really helpful if you define what a FSE theme is.

For others, it's "Full Site Editing" themes, which means... I guess you can edit anything in the theme customizer?
The debt to gdp ratio in Japan has been well over 100% for decades. In fact it is over 200%. What matters is the ability to service the debt. Those buying U.S. government securities are not as alarmed as you. Do you have reason to believe that they are lacking in knowledge/understanding of the situation and are wrong? They could be making huge mistakes with their willingness to lend but I don’t know enough about this stuff to decide if that is the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_Japan
Fascinating.

Serious question. Assuming I offend some Scott by writing something on my blog, putting an issue on Github, or editing Wikipedia – is it then safe for me to travel to Scotland as a tourist? I'd love to visit Scotland some day – I'm told that it's a beautiful country – but if there is any risk of that, I'd rather stay home or travel somewhere else.
An important perspective. I'd remind the author that it's never necessary to repeat abhorrent positions when you defend the liberty of others to take them.

Uncritically repeating the argument, even as a mere descriptor, shows a social acceptance that we do not wish in a context like this. Such individuals can be clearly described in ways that don't serve to normalize their arguments.
Not all CLAs are the same... for example, the CLA from the ASF is NOT a copyright assignment. Other CLAs _are_.
> the templating language that Angular came up with? ngIf, ngBlah

The new templating syntax is simply @if () @else () ... it makes it much clearer to read in many cases.

I never had a problem with *ngIf as long as you are controlling the visibility of one element. It became messy when you needed "else" statements in there.
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GPL allows relicensing with any later version of GPL.
If you like this, there is a book about the complexity of a single neuron of the brain "Information Processing in Single Neurons" [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Biophysics-Computation-Information-Co...
You build most buildings pretty close together. And then fields around them in all directions. Conceptually farm house in middle of fields was not really how it was done. Maybe for manors, but those were rich enough to drink at home. And their workers build close enough together or in walkable distance.
I would say both of what you said and what I said are recipes for disaster, but letting another team do things behind your back on things that you're responsible for, is not something you want to have. How would you feel if the cloud provider engineers suddenly downgraded your nodes to different specs, and causing downtime for your users? I think it's a false premise to assume that the application teams cannot observe their usage patterns and optimize themselves.
I'm thinking we shouldn't call these "GPUs" anymore. Would help me in filtering out uninteresting headlines if nothing else.
It was mostly always like this. You might go back further, but since 2008 I've been dealing with google snake-oil. They sold a customer I worked with a "search appliance" in 2007 that was more or less a paperweight. They packaged up "commodity hardware" in a fancy yellow google case and overcharged this military unit out the ass for what was a half-assed map-reduce algorithm with no security and no means of compartmentalizing the data that was stored on the appliance. This was years before the elk-stack. I can still distinctly remember the commander - an old special forces guy - telling the google-rep that he wanted to do a Roshambo game (Cartman nut kicking contest). A year or so later I cracked open their case and saw that they'd essentially packaged up an old dell poweredge 6K series with slow magnetic drives (and raid-5 lol). Maybe that fly's if you'd chained fifteen of these things into a cluster but that's not how they sold them to their customers. Google is a dishonest company filled with immoral lechers.
> Even if you re-directed all resources, all leisure, everything beyond bare minimum of survival into keeping as many people possible alive as long as possible, everyone will still die.

True; similarly, even if everyone will still die, the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow is still ~20.1 miles per hour. Mother Nature has a cruel side to her, I do not deny it.

> So who’s to decide what we should sacrifice to keep others alive?

How about everyone decides?
I use gomponents with go, which is very similar. The productivity increase is immense. https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents
What kind of symbol?
Look at the training materials, and look up every word in them. research until you can give an example of how everything is used.

There are probably old time finance people running the company ir advising it. Find out what they did back in the day and look at things from that point of view.
Sounds interesting and promising, I just hope it doesn't fall into the WP pricing trap that I have seen becoming the norm lately. The extreme case was this theme I downloaded for free, but later found out that in order to make all functionality work as I've seen in the demo, I would have to subscribe to an X number of paid plugins, something around a thousand dollars per year. This has nothing to do with the WP mentality from years ago.
And very importantly, a TRNG is often not cryptographically safe and should never be directly used for security related use cases. Basically only be used to (re)seed a good CSPRNG (DRBG in NIST parlance).

Another benefit of a CSPRNG is vastly higher performance than most TRNGs can achieve. A TRNG often provide kbps birate. A CSPRNG can easily deliver Many MBps, even GBps.
Not if he believed what he was saying, which is about intent, and impossible to prove. It is rather a lot easier to make unfounded claims about someone's intention than it is to engineer self-driving cars, reusable rockets, high resolution BCIs, world wide space internet, and faster lighter cheaper underground tunnel boring machines, let alone all of them at once.

Thank the stars someone is not judging you so harshly.
Is this the same "materially better" that the present version gives you when you tell it the auto-generated code it produced for you is a pile of shit, and it presents you with a new version that it promises "fixes the problems", but instead introduces more.

AI is and always will be supremely confident at being supremely wrong. Its the nature of the beast. Some things are just best left to real-life humans.
+1 rage against walled gardens
Capturing street-level headlights would add in more randomness at nighttime (so long as car and bus headlights remain a thing).
Well, that's a pretty solid endorsement.

I never tried World of Warcraft years ago until that South Park episode came out. Currently about the only games I still play on my phone are chess and Plants vs Zombies 2, which for some reason has had me hooked since the very first one came out. Luckily, my wife likes it too.
Just tried it and didn't notice any significant differences in PDF rendering myself. Do you have any concrete examples?
to nitpick your numbers, working a 40 hour week, 100 models is 24 minutes a model, which isn't enough. 3 hours per model working 40 hour weeks has them getting through 13(.3) models, and even 3 hours seems low.
Completely agree.

It’s also a fantastic way to get to know how the org is doing, many people will be happy to share what parts of the product they’re happy with and where the dumpster fires are.

I also think it’s useful for the people you’re talking to as they get an opportunity to reflect on what they’re doing and if it makes any sense. It’s like an external auditor or reviewer coming in. Just pronouncing what you’re doing in a way that’s understandable to an outsider can be very helpful in building your in understanding imo.
What do you mean by "not there yet"?

I regularly use GPT-4 for things like "write exhaustive unit tests for the following function" and it gives fantastic results. They usually need fleshed out a little, sure, but in a few seconds I get something that would have take about $45 in billable human hours.

I personally cannot wait to see the productivity gains that come from GPT-5.
> in ways that we never agreed to and had no input on.

You don't vote in local, congressional, and presidential elections?
Your final point feels poorly researched. I believe this administration has consistently focused on the student loan crisis outside of election years also.
here's where humanity destroys the ecosystems on the sea floor because it's what we always do whenever there's money to be made
>Fully elucidating these economic and cultural factors is a major future project of this blog

One rule of thumb seems to be that a new technology needs to be not merely better but ten times better than the alternative(s) for it to go viral. For instance, James Dyson built a washing machine with twin contrarotating drums. It was significantly better than conventional machines, but not ten times better when all costs were accounted for, e.g. the increased price and its unconventional larger size.
Simple argument for "security theatre": Even if Cloudflare happens to use this technology (chaotic pendulums) as an RNG, they'd still put the instance of it that is their on-line RNG somewhere out of sight and seriously secure. The instance that is publicly viewable - and probably has plenty of wanna-be hostiles thinking "how could I use that to..." - would only be connected to their intrusion-detection systems.
I hear most Angular projects being stuck at around version 15 due not being able to migrate away from Angular Material "Legacy".
Nope. Gnu regex tools also do not support lookahead or alternation. Lookahead is really useful.

It's a problem for Linux that it can't move on. The cold dead hand of gnu is firmly around the community's neck.
It is a bit funny. When I started with Python ~18 years ago, the team lead on that project liked this framework "Nevow". It wad plugged into Twisted. Completely async, IIRC JS could have been built in, too. Some ideas are really not new under the sun.

Thanks for the wave of nostalgia.
or VC's between fads and during fads
lol who cares about that? they can boycott like 95% of US big corporations cause all of them do business in Isreal
I realise they use the term "drop in replacement", but without Lua support it really isn't.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth exploring but lacking a major piece of functionality means it explicitly can't be "dropped in" to replace redis.
I have a simple method that worked well for me in my last job, where I switched industries completely and was definitely underwater. First I became friends with everyone I could. Then identified the most mature teammate with the most tenure, and the smartest teammate who clearly generated the most value for the company.

Anytime I got stuck on a problem for more than a few hours, I asked the greybeard for a quick chat. He was pretty always willing to hear me out, let me break down my understanding, then rebuild all my faulty assumptions. His time was relatively cheap but his knowledge base relatively valuable, so with him I did deep dives.

The smart hacker guy I watched from a distance. Any time I saw him merge some ludicrous Rube Goldberg type commit I’d send him a quick DM, knowing his time was precious. I’d fire off a few quick questions and try to glean as much insight into his critical work before he scurried off to the next apparently invaluable task.

I think approaching the problem this way, leveraging the “implicit theories” embedded in the teammates heads, is the surest and most efficient way to ramp up, besides the obvious advice like RTFM and gloss over the relevant textbooks. Always remember to make yourself useful first. No accomplished engineer will ever turn down a well intentioned and friendly favor! “Team work makes the dream work,” as they say.

Good luck!
Imagine a microscopic, fully autonomous and self-replicating Roomba that is also able to adapts at the individual and population levels.

We're still quite far from replicating this kind of tech.
Rest In Peace, old man.

I loved A Fire Upon the Deep. It gave me many hours of pleasure and many things to think about.
For the record I am not an Intel rep lol this is just based on my opinion & expedrience
To be fair, I think a lot of Canadians would vote for a different party if the election were held anytime in the last few years, but this in democratic coalition the NDP entered into has delayed an election. Now I think both the Liberals and the NDP will get burned in the next election.
> Just pronouncing what you’re doing in a way that’s understandable to an outsider can be very helpful in building your in understanding imo.

Totally. It's the same idea around rubber ducking!
That's an incredibly concise description of it, thank you.
Clickbait title and contradicted by the sama quote:

> We’ll release in the coming months many different things. I think that’d be very cool. I think before we talk about a GPT-5-like model called that, or not called that, or a little bit worse or a little bit better than what you’d expect from a GPT-5, I think we have a lot of other important things to release first.

In other words, the next OpenAI GPT update(s) WILL NOT be GPT-5. Yes, we can expect improvements (because of course) but we shouldn't expect a major leap forward in AI the next couple of months from OpenAI.

When a CEO says "before we can talk about" it means "no". The language about other cool updates suggests incremental improvements or platform improvements, but not a major leap forward in terms of intelligence.
IMO that's the key there. I think a lot of people who make comments like the GP have either just been using the chat interfaces or perhaps have not gone deep with implementation on some of these models.

If you could both speed up inference time and reduce cost of GPT to 3.5 levels, there are incredible amount of possibilities that open up that could actually help solve a lot of problems have had with trying to interface software to the real world (robotics).

4-Turbo is actually pretty amazing but its still a tad pricey for some tasks. Altman made a comment on Lex's podcast about compute and I think its true, essentially the world does not understand how much compute will be desired as the price of these things go down.
Myself I built an RSS reader using aiohttp and then forked the code to make an image sorter.

I had a lot of people tell me I was crazy to write aiohttp servers because of the problems the previous poster mentioned but I had a long run of it working pretty well. On the other hand I’ve frequently had the experience of writing something in Python that falls apart like a tower of Jenga blocks the moment somebody else touches it. (Quite different from my experience with Java, Javascript, C#, PHP, …)

Once I started serving images along with the text and using the app over a 2Mbps link it seemed to me the aiohttp server was getting a little unreliable.

Most basically, an aiohttp server can only use one CPU thread at a time with the consequences that if one request holds the CPU for 5 seconds the server stops processing requests completely.. Although the aiohttp server could be reliable if you are almost entirely waiting for data to get back from the database, the residual amount of CPU load is going to put an upper bound on what the server can handle in the best case. If a coder is not so careful you get burned. My RSS reader has an AI component which runs completely in batch jobs, I don’t do any inference during requests which limits my flexibility and makes the application less “real-time” than it could be.

You can imagine systems where one aio server hands tasks off the another aio server but the blocking situation doesn’t get any better and if you want to make the system scalable there has to be at least one multiprocess or multithreaded server somewhere. At some point I am like “I have a 16 core machine but I am only using 1 core like my laptop in the 1990s” It didn’t help that my aio database drivers aren’t in conda which is another build hassle.

So last week I tore up the image sorter and rewrote it in Flask (my aio framework looks like Flask so it’s not too hard) and I run it out of gunicorn, I put a reverse proxy in front to deal with some Tailscale problems so I have IIS serving the images.
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I think the best analogy for money is blood.

From the perspective of a household (a cell), or a company (an organ), money (blood) are a limited resource, which constraints what you can do. If you don't have that resource, you will die.

But from the perspective of the state (the organism) or the government (CNS), money (blood) is just an accounting and distribution mechanism for real resources, which are things like energy, raw materials and labor (oxygen, minerals and sugar). From this perspective, amount of money/blood can be adapted to conditions (for example in emergency, money/blood can be redirected to vital industries/organs), and it is created or destroyed internally, in any amount required. So the amount of money (blood) is not a constraint, resources (oxygen, food) are.
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"Part of the trick is realizing you don’t really need The Best People. Find somebody who you’ve got reasonable confidence can do the job well and make them an offer."

Right, the whole industry seems to focus on Hunger Games winners, when most of the jobs can be done by normal people, the the superstars are likely to leave at the drop of a hat anyway.
There was what? 5 years in the past 50 that there wasn't a deficit?

Those 5 years were when the internet went mainstream and lifetime welfare was ended.

The rest of the time is occupied by bipartisan wars that we couldn't afford and lost anyway.
If you want a book that directly faces the problem look at "Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization: Selected Case Studies".

Of course you'll want to balance that out with books that just talk about the general challenges and successes, in which I'd recommend just looking at books.google.com on writings by the US Army Corp of Engineers. They talk about practical mitigations for different types of erosion.

Most success stories are going to be based on things like using plants/growth to trap and build sand, which typically means lowering human access to the beach and ensuring tall things that interrupt wind flow are not near the beach. For example mangroves in climates that allow them to grow.

There are also plenty of examples poing out by the C of E on things that cannot be solved. If you built a city near a portion of the beach that was eroding long before humankind appeared in to the picture, all you can do is slow that erosion and at great expense. The ocean is far more powerful than you can imagine.
Something materially better in the sense of efficiency and short-term gain is not necessarily something better. Like the car: yes, it was faster than the horse, but now we have climate disaster. AI is another example: the upgrades are shiny but ultimately harmful.
>I don't know anybody not in the tech world who even knows about that

There's a headline about it right on the landing page of today's NYPost, so by now quite a few folks know about it.
Things can be more than one thing. Of course it is a PR piece.

But it is also a source of entropy that is hard to manipulate (if we ignore the cameras, image generation etc). And it is a good source, initiator for discussions about entropy, random numbers and why we need them to secure things. This thread on HN shows that it is so. And for 'normal' people probably even more.

I'm sure they have a lot of non-geeky visitors that look at the installation, read the sign and start asking questions. And if it was me, starting to jump in front of the installation, waving my arms - to provide my bit of entropy to the pool.
This looks really neat. One suggestion is that in your readme, show the webpage output with your examples. It’s hard to image exactly what the page will look like just looking at the hotmetal python code
Microsoft does a good job with KEDA, providing an open source autoscaling architecture that isn't tied to Azure.

https://keda.sh/ - project website

https://github.com/kedacore/ - code
Hi there,

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There's also Poincare and the Bakery [0], which is quite possibly apocryphal but often told - esentially a departure from the normal disibution showing something odd going on.

I vaguely recall reading that the technique was used in the second world war to catch black marketers; if the distribution of weights of rationed items had a discontinuity near the weight limit, it was evidence that the seller was keeping the heavier portions back for private sales.

[0] https://houstonstatisticians.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/poinca...
> A year ago GPT-4 was earth shattering

No it was not, and nor were its predecessors.

The only people who think GPT is "earth shattering" are rose-tinted-spectacle AI dreamers, and the world's media who love a good AI story.

Anyone sensible can see that GPT is merely the latest iteration in "AI will rule the world" nonsense. It comes round every 5–10 years, I remember most of the previous hyped up iterations, this one is no different, its just the hype is sadly sticker this time round. Its still hype though.