skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not working in solar and wind. Some of my colleagues are writing reports that recommend more nuclear in some cases, and less nuclear in other cases (I say "some of my colleagues" because I'm not personally working on generation, even if I sometimes peer-review their work).

It is very telling that your first thoughts was "if someone says that in the sector, it's not what they say, then, surely this person is wrong somehow". It shows the level of bias.

As for Jancovici, I find him very disappointing on solar. In one hand, he says very interesting things on economics and history. On the other hand, my colleagues and I are just looking each other with total surprise when he talk about solar: it looks like he never worked on the subject (but he did). In fact, few decades ago, he was saying that solar has no future, with predictions that are factually BS, proven by the fact that what he predicted never happened (and not because of a fluke, just because it was unrealistic). It feels like he chose a side and got emotionally invested in it, and now he just denies the reality. He may have been confronted to intellectually dishonest people, and now each time there is just neutral facts, he may be systematically concluding that it is impossible for it to not be something from intellectually dishonest people. It's a bit sad, I'm not sure if he is doing more good than bad: he is informing people on some aspect, but he is also spreading a lot of harmful stereotype (for example, in some places, solar is really an essential element for decarbonisation, there is just no other way that is not mathematically absurd, but these conclusions are labelled "ideological" by people having done zero study, "because Jancovici said that only ideological people promotes solar"). Just to be clear: my colleagues and I are paid the same (or even more if we have to be paid again for another study when they choose a bad option), but I just feel it's not good for society that there is so little rationality.
As a European it makes me sad to read this.

The US is exceptional in almost every way – morally, technologically, economically, politically.

While the US makes mistakes, and when it does its power means the consequences of those mistakes can be extreme, it's still overwhelmingly a force for good in a world that's becoming increasingly autocratic.

Don't let critics put you down. The world needs you, and I for one am glad America exists.
Replacing units is what causes units to get replaced. We can look upstream of that to see why landlords choose to replace units (probably the reason you cited), but we shouldn't miss the trees for the forest either.
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If the content detection is client-side, how are you preventing clients from just modifying/blocking the detection code and evading detection?
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Thanks, I appreciate seeing the code! For code with database access, you could use an environment variable from a .env file and gitignore that file, making it safe to share. (you're probably already aware of this practice and may have another reason not to want to push it)
Very cool! Nice job! Out of curiosity, how much CPU/GPU/RAM resources do you need to allocate to run something like this? Like you mention you're using small models. For example, could this run on a t2.micro on EC2? (1 vCPU + 1GB RAM)
Everything about building in the US is either forbidden or mandatory; "liking" doesn't come into it, there generally isn't a choice in the matter.

The main aesthetic reason new buildings don't look like old ones is Baumol's cost disease, i.e. nobody can hire that many laborers anymore. The second is fire codes and accessibility requirements.
Some graphs with lots of colors can be difficult for models to handle. In these cases, the model often chooses not to flip the graph to avoid making it hard to read, based on past problems with similar graphs. The model generally does a good job at deciding when to flip something. Although I haven't seen it flip photos, it's possible that there are examples out there.
I agree with this as well!

OpenAPI spec seems intended to be consumed, not written. Its a great way to convey what your API does, but is pretty awful to write from scratch.

I do wish there was a simpler language to write in... JSON-based as well that would allow this approach of writing the spec first. But alas, there is not, and I have looked a loooot. If anyone has suggestions for other spec languages I'd love to learn!
As far as I can tell, he did not commit any fraud. Seems like he’s just a good salesperson who landed a whale.
Curious about hearing more whenever you like
How do you orchestrate the stuff the orchestration tech depends on?

That service (Chubby) is a dependency of Borg in the same way that etcd is a dependency of Kubernetes. Except the development of etcd got to skip making all the same mistakes that were made when Chubby was developed a decade earlier.
The Internet Archive will likely take them. Happy to facilitate logistics and cover costs.
Yes, the typical corporate myth is that user control of devices is a security risk to those users. In actuality, it is the opposite. This is the most pervasive form of straightforward Orwellian doublespeak in the world today, and it is a claim often made precisely to make the exact phone use case I described unavailable. The only "custom phone" that matters to me is one that offers an alternative
The same thing but Really Big so everyone knows I'm the biggest monkey in the room and I can watch TikTok on it? Sign me up, this thing sounds like it's from the future!
Any alternatives that you would rather prefer? Eg some people to chime in or even take it over from you?
You're just using the wrong tool for the job.
We've given up on PWAs. I ran DY as a web-only shop but when I left at the end of 2019 the very first product I wanted to develop was a native app. There's just too many screens now that PWAs can't even hope to deploy to. (watch, tv, AR/VR) So when I came back I wanted to find a way that we could add native as a service offering but not dilute our expertise in Elixir. This is mostly where LiveView Native came from.
What a bizarre question. Me and many others are paying $20+ for these services. The electricity cost is already priced in and subscribers looks at the price and are fine with that price. If the price comes from dev costs, electricity, capital expenses etc. is irrelevant. There are really no alternatives either (well, I could go to 99Designs, pay $100 and wait days). People pay a lot for this and every day new use cases get discovered, so clearly more services like this get built.

Edit: " Shouldn’t we wait until the research has created an efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?"

Who is "we"? If I think I can offer a product that uses AI and after paying API requests to OpenAI I can turn a profit, I'll build it. API requests will only get cheaper, but why should I wait for that if I can turn a profit now?
I imagine intelligence agencies like the NSA also siphon off from the three same "talented but willing to work for the government" pool.

As mentioned further down:

> The persistent structural problems render CYBERCOM unable to provide for itself. It continues to rely on the military services and, in some circumstances, the NSA for personnel, funding, foundational intelligence support, procurement and acquisition activities for cyber-specific capabilities, research and development for tools, and infrastructure supporting cyber operations.
This is pure propaganda, one of the many reasons HF is really bad is because it doesn't hurt at all, at least in the beginning.

Environmental disasters are really bad by themselves, adding propaganda on top only weakens the cause and makes people in the know not care.
Yes this has been an up-and-coming theme in the data science world. Arrow for the data format, Ibis for the API, Acero/Velox/DataFusion/DuckDB/Polars for execution, Substrait for the query plan representation, etc.
Just don't do that on modern AMD processors, you'll lose performance.
Even this seems too grand a claim. I’d water it down thus: the LLM encodes that the token(s) for “Spot” are probabilistically plausible in the ensuing output.
I'm waiting for someone to start selling fake fingers and eyeballs that I can put on my keychain. I'll get one for each ignorant device, site, or service that requires biometrics. That way even though I can't reset my fingerprints or iris, I can easily throw away the compromised fake part and register the print/iris of a new one.

Then I'll just need a set of masks for facial recognition... maybe a couple gloves with palm prints. Man, passwords are looking more manageable all the time.
I used to party with him in NYC during the heyday of WeWork's early days.

I can confirm, he has no shame.
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Could you share a conversation link with GPT-4 with either about a "list" or a "dog", to determine whether it truly understands one of those things compared to a human?
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That's not plain wood like American houses are made of, it's a new kind of engineered material that's made out of wood called CLT.
Is there evidence that this is more legible? Because we don't read individual characters (but chunks) so making them individually distinguishable doesn't seem like it would have much of an effect.
If you want to be last, sure.
i misread your intent then, to me at least "gambling apps with game skins" and "fun games with predatory monetisation" are distinct :>
Walking? Easily?
Solipsism is truly the best fully-general counterargument
Yep, when I created my first website in the mid 90s, ads were definitely already a thing. It was pretty bad even, worse than nowadays because there weren't any adblockers and ads would abuse the living hell out of frames and popup windows.
Anything in monospace?
My general take is that while the idea of composability is good, the implementations of these things are just frankly not of high quality. Velox/Acero in particular are all plagued by what I've come to call "Java syndrome", where everything is written as idiomatic Java but with C++ syntax. Virtual methods, std::shared_ptr galore (in lieu of garbage collection), random heap allocations, etc. As a result these systems tend to be bloated and significantly slower than they need to be.

DuckDB is good though, and I predict its quality of implementation will keep "monolithic databases" relevant for a while longer.
Just did that. It seems to understand. Checkmate /fingerguns
Good question: In terms of video, you have a client-side moderator protecting you from NSFW content (you can override it if you want.). The main function of this is to protect your eyes from unseemly body parts.

In terms of the video chat, the LLM moderation happens on the server side after the conversation has ended, the conversation is analyzed by an LLM / conversational API and actions are applied if it determines the conversation broke the rules, e.g discussion of illegal activity, minors using the chat etc.

LLMs are very well-suited for context and sentiment analysis too, an LLM can determine the intent of a user, e.g, is the user trying to promote something and direct traffic away from us, etc.

Hope this helps.
Imagine the compensation for a job where the ceiling is "what would the electricity for AI cost to have AI do it?"
Yeah well.

Those things grow the quickest because they were cultivated to absorb the most water.

So there's little taste and advantages with those, compared to others.

So yeah, great. But numbers only say part of the story.
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I made this app to help myself learn Chinese. It's a classic n+1 language learning app were you learn more words each level building on the previously learned words. There is a pretty good stats system as well as a basic SRS review implementation. I don't know if you can actually learn Chinese from this app but I was able to improve my reading skills a lot from learning enough to make the app itself. It contains all words in hsk 1-3 as well as a good portion of hsk 4 totaling to more than 1000 words and 600 sentences with about 80 units. There is also a separate 'wuxia' course that contains 100 common xianxia terms which was the main goal for me in the first place (hence the name). Let me know what you think! If you have any suggestions or questions please let me know.
Are Hong Kong's days as a global business hub over?
Ironically, I believe that if the US ever does deschedule marijuana, it won't be because the people demand it, but rather because it makes it impossible to give security clearances to an enormous percentage of practicing software engineers.
I stand corrected.
Nov 2023.
This was so recent I had not realized.

2-3 years ago I though Ohio was one of the crazy right wing states. I guess things have shifted. (and not just reading about it, I was traveling there at the time of the miscarriages issue, and there were ton of Trump flags in yards, so guess I can assume some)

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-constitution/section-1.22

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/11/08/abortion-is-now-a-...
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Is it actually? Or is it a font designer, who doesn't know much about 'accessibility' give it a go?
LLMs do not study.

I’ll repeat an assertion I’ve made in this forum before: that the benchmark for AGI will be when two AIs play one another at an incomprehensible game of their own devising.

However, there is a hidden corollary in my earlier statement. By implying an upper bound on the correctness of their answers, we can assess that LLMs will not themselves achieve sentience and form a civilisational threat. That actually increases their potential utility in many applications. Much as you wouldn’t, for safety’s sake, put a jet engine in a conventional car (occasional mad-scientist projects notwithstanding).
Thank you! Very little resources are needed to run it, gwern is using the API and at first I was using a 6$ Droplet (exact same specs as the t2.micro) and it was running well.
> I wouldn't say peer review is useless, I think it did improve papers I wrote a little

Let's get back to basics here. What is the whole point of doing things scientifically in the first place? I.e. what is so special about the combination of 1) communicable descriptions of experiments, which can be re-run by anybody, and 2) the performing of said experiments and reporting the results, and 3) having others review and reproduce the results?

Why are those 3 practices soooo special? Its because they are designed to either a) persuade everybody to agreement with you that your results are valid, or b) persuade you that you are wrong.

I.e.. the scientific method is uniquely designed for the purpose of compelling agreement among peers. Its the 2nd best method we have of reaching consensus (the first best being the methods of proof used in mathematics. )

This is important because even if you make a new gee-whiz discovery, its useless unless other people agree that it is real. And unlike politics, or a beauty contest, or an aristocracy, it doesn't matter who you are, if your results are observable and reproducible, other scientists will agree with you, and your discovery has some chance of being generally useful. And that's why they are anonymous--its supposed to cut through the biases and prejudices which, alas, sometimes prevent us from coming to consensus.

The point of peer review is to get a read on whether or not the author of the paper has justified their claims in enough detail that the results are likely to compile agreement. Yeah, we see if 3 or 4 people can agree on it, before asking everybody to agree on it. Whoda thunk?

Point being, peer review isn't to help you improve your paper.

> reviewers do not put enough effort into to reliably catch validity problems.

Yes. This. Any why don't they? Because there's only so much work you can expect somebody to do for free. Lets pay them.
Missed that. That's part of IBM mainframe technology, where you can have "logical partitions", a cluster on a chip, and assign various resources to each. IBM POWER10 apparently allows up to 8-way hyperthreading if configured that way.
If your only complaint is the buildings are grey then try painting them.
Oh, boy, I had that 65-in-1 set too. It was transformative and is why I'm a dev now, in an indirect way. That kit made me interested in electronics, which got me to take a digital electronics class, which is where I was exposed to programming. As a kid in a very poor family, I couldn't afford to buy parts, but I had access to a mainframe computer for free -- so I shifted my focus to programming.

I still do hobbyist electronics to this day.
I had one of the radioshack models in the 1980's as well. It was really helpful for learning basic circuits, but while it had a number of more advanced circuits, including three of four AM radio receivers, and a transmitter or two, I never really learned anything from those circuits despite reading the book a half dozen times. Looking at the 150 in one manual, the first transistor circuit is a basic small signal amplifier with the base connected to a coil. And now with a formal EE/CpE education, I can understand how/why it works and the biasing resistors, but I'm just as convinced that the book is largely useless except as a toy beyond the first dozen or two circuits because it doesn't do anything to explain the hows and whys of the circuits.

The modern equivalent of course are Snap Circuits https://elenco.com/snapcircuits/ but having purchased one of the larger kits for my kids a couple years back I think they suffer from the same basic problem. Sure telling 10 year old me about BJT biasing might have been a bit much, but I really think it should have been included in some kind of side note even if it doesn't sink in the first time.

PS: Actually thinking back on it, these spring board ones are probably better from the perspective that a blown component was easy to replace simply by pulling out the cardboard flipping it over and disconnecting the component from the springs underside.
well if real estate investors are pumping the value of bare land, i will be stocking on popcorn to watch the bubble popping
A problem in the US but not in many other parts of the world is that 'Socialism' is conflated with 'Communism' and is therefore bad. Most countries in the world are mixed-economies, with both Socialism and Capitalism.

Pure Capitalism is as bad as pure Communism.

Maybe another way for Americans to consider Socialism is that Socialism is "Capitalism with Compassion".
Omegle failed because it was determined that it was a defective product that matched a predator to a child, with no reasonable deterrent / prevention mechanism.

This system we've implemented makes it impossible for children to use the app (they will become banned if they try) and ensures safety and quality of the chats in a way the old system never could, at scale too!
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This paper was published 154 days ago, probably a year since the authors did the experiment. Sooo much has happened since then! This showed already that GPT4 is pretty darn good analyst.

All this real-world complexity can be tamed by stuffing the prompt with a ton of relevant context and an amazing prompt engine. We'll have bots that autonomously query the database hundreds of times building a 5 page "deep-dive" analytics report in minutes.

At least that's what we're trying at patterns.app.
That was exactly my experience as well. I'm not really sure why that was, but I think that the breadboard scaled much farther and could be extended with more of them (mine were interlocking). I built some moderately complex circuits, but debugging them could be fairly tedious.
Interesting but... this applies to well known people. As an average joe, I'm more concerned about petty theft than about being targeted by super smart criminals.

As a matter of fact, my wallet was literally stolen 2 months ago, including bank cards. Interestingly, the thief didn't even try to use the bank cards at all (I blocked them right away, but always get a notification on my smartphone when a transaction is made or attempted to be made). The thief just cared about the cash...
But letting the recipient’s browser decide means they wouldn’t be able to show everyone else how inclusive that are.
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It might be able to, but it doesn't know the state of the system. It could try to determine that somehow, but that would complicate the watchdog a lot, and that is code that is almost never exercised, so the chance that there would be bugs in that code is much higher. If shutdowns were more frequent, a crash-only design might indeed have made more sense.
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Application code sets infra requirements, not vice versa. If infra shapes your application, it suggests tech limitations or significant mistakes.

And I'm sorry, but without some concrete drawings you can't just claim current IAC creates low cohesion and strong coupling without making people suspect you don't know what those terms mean.

What would be very useful is an article covering the points of how testing works with Nitric, exactly how it saves you time and why the cost/benefit analysis of adopting Nitric makes sense.
Yep, thanks Paramount Plus aka CBS All Access. I paid for ad-free, yet for some reason still see ads (previews/promotions for Paramount content). Fortunately I cancelled because their app would let me watch Star Trek Picard and Discovery, but it kept fluctuating colors from heavy green to purple. It only happened on the newer shows, not on the older Star Treks. My best guess is that the DRM thinks something weird might be going on, but it's just a plain Chromecast with Google TV. Making the user experience for paying customers suck is what leads to people going elsewhere...
If you read my comment, you would know the information is in the subheadline, above the paywall.
Yeah, that's kind of a different conception of understanding though. The lines do get a little blurry at a certain point, and a lot of what it does "feels" like understanding, especially given how it "communicates".

But I think it comes down to whether it can reason about things and whether it can draw new conclusions or create new information as a result.

Your snake site is probably a good example. ChatGPT has a bunch of words that it knows are associated with snakes. It's pretty straightforward pattern matching. It doesn't really "understand" what those words mean, except that they have relationships to other words.

But, if you were to ask it to reason and draw new conclusions about these things beyond its training corpus, it would be unable to reliably do so.

Similarly, it had no idea about the quality (and sometimes legality) of the chess moves it generated.
You're promoting a centrally planned economy. In quite a literal way.
Why not train the fish to train an AI to do it?
It is not a good sign that the first thing on that site is an eye-searing white-on-red banner.
If the AI is truly smart, very little
Not quite,

Nitric infers the necessary cloud runtime by building a spec based on the resources you've imported into your application code.

At deployment time Pulumi is used to provision the resources (because we think it is an awesome tool).

Note that we could have also opted for any other IaC like CDKTF, and that you could either modify our providers or implement your own providers using your IaC of choice.
Drama - but I’m making progress with radical accountability (which I used to think of as self gaslighting). It has helped me cut down my own bullsh*t and I’m happier for it!
Cory Doctorow has a theory that may be relevant to your question:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-k...

I'm not knowledgeble enough to judge, but am curious what people think.