skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'A PR is what is often called a “gift of work”'

It's like showing up unannounced at someone's place with a grocery bag of ingredients and asking them to cook for you.

"But I brought steak and brussel sprouts! Surely you like these things too. Why don't you just prepare the meal now?"

It might be a great meal and a generous offering, but clearly it's not exactly in the spirit of a gift to do this.
I feel he may be overthinking it.. people just want to understand the best options available for their use-case.

If you see a project with no new commits for 3 years (1), you would rather not invest time trying to get it working if there is a newer/maintained project.

1 And whilst you may argue the software is "finished", reality is very little software survives without maintenance. Unless you have zero dependencies and future exploits in no way apply.
> age old Operation Code and data packet paradigm

Can you provide more info what you mean by this? Something message-passing like, where the receiver ignores unknown opcodes?
I am just curious how it happened to Google? Like who were the product managers or others who didn't see an opportunity here exactly where the whole thing was invented and they had huge amounts of data already, whole web basically and the amount of video that no one else can ever hope to have?
Sorry, you are right of course! I somehow confused bit and byte, I have updated my comment. Thanks for pointing that out.
Because the EU never started a (criminal) lawsuit against a US company?
A super easy way to tell how efficient a tire is going to roll is weight. If you are comparing tires for the same diameter/width/tread pattern, in most cases, the lighter tire is going to roll better.

Tire rolling resistance comes from effectively the rebound damping on the tread. As the tire rolls, the tread on the backside of the contact patch takes some time to rebound, so the tire is effectively always rolling over a bump that is the uncompressed tread the front of the contact patch

The lighter the tire, the less sidewall and puncture material there is, which means that the rebound damping on the tire is going to be less.
It's in-depth because it is someone's instructions for setting up Arch, not Linux.

I don't need to do any of these things with Fedora or Suse.
This looks quite nice in the examples given :) But I'm not very fond of polymorphic return types in general. (You have this also with printf and various database read functions.) The error messages get difficult to read for beginners since everything is so abstract; experienced users end up adding type annotations to make the expressions more wieldy, at which point you might as well just have required arguments. If we're restricted to synchronous functions, what's the reason for not just letting Output be a Plain Old Product with fields for stdout/stderr/exitcode? (Then it's even theoretically possible to get autocompletion on fields (using record-dot) given a sufficiently smart language server, making it even more user-friendly.)
SD with UHS-II is relatively fast, if you need more performance, CFexpress (which is just NVMe) is even faster.
I am not a health professional.

I don't think BMI is a good basis for prosecuting an argument about obesity.

I do think there will be a lot of un- and under- diagnosed obese people. But this BBC piece isn't how I'd like to try and understand the story.

In my own economy (Australia) there's both an epidemic of weight related health problems and a massive rise in younger and older people's activity levels over the last 10 to 15 years. An explosion of gyms, far more women visibly exercising, doing significant cardiovascular and weight bearing exercise. And reductions in smoking.

It's a complicated story.
> We hypothesize that this convergence is driving toward a shared statistical model of reality, akin to Plato's concept of an ideal reality

Quite the opposite: it's a shallow shadow (no meanings, just chains) model of shadow reality captured (no translation to abstract) by language (only things for which we have names) etc. What they wish is a model of actual reality, not of that one from distorting mirrors.

The sanity is in what the one source of truth is - not like people could be a shadows of some ideal model being a reality (edit: statistical). However people actions are mostly results of using models (of situation, reality) and making them ad hoc.
Which are the pleasant hangover symptoms?
> maybe the term has changed again. AGI to me means truly understanding, maybe even some kind of consciousness, but not just probability... when I explain something, I have understood it.

The term, and indeed each initial, means different things to different people.

To me, even InstructGPT manages to be a "general" AI, so it counts as AGI — much to the confusion and upset of many like you who think the term requires consciousness, and others who want it to be superhuman in quality.

I would also absolutely agree LLMs are not at all human-like. I don't know if they do or don't need the various missing parts in order to be in order to change the world into a jobless (u/dis)topia.

I also don't have any reason to be for or against any claim about consciousness, given that word also has a broad range of definitions to choose between.

I expect at least one more breakthrough architecture on the scale of Transformers before we get all the missing bits from human cognition, even without "consciousness".

What do you mean by "truly understanding"?
Some. My exurban town outside of Boston has orchards and farms. Not big industrial farms obviously but farms. My neighbor literally right next door has 100 tree apple orchard and a horse pasture. There’s a farm stand a mile down the road where they grow vegetables. This is about an hour west of Boston. A bit beyond classic suburbs but not by that much.
The least we can do is give them a criminal record.
Group can walk to the site. Butchering and preserving something like horse, buffalo or elephant with stone tools, is hard work, and takes a lot of work from everyone. Hunting is just a first step!

It was not like today, when "rest of the groups" sits at home all day, and expects everything on silver platter!
> laser-induced plasma displays that ionize air molecules to create glowing points of light.

The New Scientist used to have a column inside the back page called Daedalus. It usually described some kind of weird or wonderful "invention" that probably wasn't practical. One of them was for street lighting: you'd have pairs of ultraviolet lasers on either side of the street, intersecting in mid-air. The pairs of lasers would have frequencies that were not exactly the same, so that at the point of intersection lower-frequency "beats" would occur. If the frequency of the beats were adjusted to match the excitation energy of (e.g.) O2, the oxygen would emit light.

Another Daedalus "invention" I remember was to use plant tropins to control the growth of wood. You could then grow e.g. an armchair, or a table, or even a house. No glue needed, no saw needed.

I don't know who used to write that column.
Even in Northern Scotland (further south than northern Sweden) this is the case.
The latest aurora showing was vividly colourful to the naked eye.
This might not be bad from the perspective of the remaining employees, it might be that the annoying people are leaving the room.
You can write programs in Coq and extract them in OCaml with the `Extraction' command: https://coq.inria.fr/doc/v8.19/refman/addendum/extraction.ht...

This is used by compcert: https://compcert.org/
> Which reminds me of a anecdote from a park ranger I was chatting with once. Apparently the challenge with designing a bear proof garbage can is the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.

If HN had a Quote of the Day feature, I would definitely nominate this.

(Yes, I realize there's a large motivation difference between a hungry bear which can smell the food in the garbage can, and a human whose alternative is "meh, just drop my trash next to the stupid trick garbage can".)
To me, an automat has to be one where you put your money in and get your food right away. Eatsa was more of a fast food restaurant, but you got your food in a cubby rather than at a counter.

The last true automat I've seen in the US is one in Manhattan that I visited around 2008 (I think it was called Bamn!). It was, truly, nothing more than a novelty. The food wasn't good at all.
Endurance cycling requires pretty advanced equipment. To run you just need your legs.

Much less training is needed to go from basement dweller to someone that can run, let's say, 5 km under 30 mins, than it is required to do even basic breakdance moves.

So the suggested symmetry crumbles down, as there is none.
It's very country dependent. In NL, NZ, and UK (as of several years ago when I last did that) for example, no ID checks are required. In AU they are.
There are definitely many good programmers all over the world, but there are more in the US, because that's where all the best companies are. So if you're trying to make a good company and you want good programmers, where do you go?
> RAID 5

Filesystem noob here. I have a question.

Wasn't RAID 5 considered less than ideal because in the event of one disk failing, you're likely to get a failure during resilver due to the amount of strain put on the remaining disks during the process?

Or am I mistaken/misremembering?
Perhaps the only industry which immediately benefits from this is the short ads and perhaps TikTok. But still it is very dubious, as people seem to actually enjoy being themselves the directors of their thing, not somebody else.

Maybe this works for ads for duner place or shisha bar in some developing country.
I’ve seen generated images used for menus in such places.

But I doubt a serious filmography can be done this way. And if it can - it’d be again thanks to some smart concept on behalf of humans.
I think the morality he's speaking to is the scalability of using that strategy. If everyone does it, then the system overloads and breaks. If only a few individuals do it, then those individuals willing to arrogate more resources to themselves "win". What makes those individuals so special to society?

I'm using the word "morality" to mean what is beneficial to society, within reasonable definitions. Please allow me to just hand-wave that away for now.

It's thinking about what are the ramifications of your actions on others? Why should you benefit and not others? Because you thought of it first? Because you're better at using this technique? Is this the kind of behavior that society wants to promote to achieve its goals?

We tend to use "morality" as a shortcut for meaning "not actively destructive to others." ... or something like that. I know we have to agree on which goals does society have, does society actually have goals, etc.

Or can we just let individuals pursue what they think are their own goals and hope for the best? And what best are we hoping for? Are we hoping that the system stays the same enough so that you personally will move toward your own goals? What if this pursuits prevents others from achieving theirs? What mechanisms do we have for changing things if we detect pathological behavior that will lead too far toward a place that everyone would consider to be "bad" (e.g., no food being produced).

Dog eat dog OK with everyone? What if this behavior ends up being so destructive that it affects even those who were initially excelling? What obligation do we have to others to keep the system working for them? Do we only think about that in terms of the eventual benefit to ourselves?

Morality's a big topic. I've probably mucked it up, but I'll leave it there.
Why would the military use ChatGPT or depend on any way on Openai 's policy? Wouldn't they just roll their own?
It's also perfectly fine to release source code out of the github/gitlab decorum: Just the source with the license and maybe an email. No git repo history, no comments, no PRs, no bug reports. That would probably filter a large number of self-entitled consumers.
It's fortunate for us that kangaroos and sled dogs don't hunt us.

We didn't need to be the best distance runners. It was enough to be the best distance running hunter of the local area.
Replacing my RPi with an ODROID with eMMC slot has been such a massive improvement to reliability for my SBC use - it's running much cooler, doesn't have bizarre power problems, is way more performant and seems much more stable. Price was about the same too.
> So the "quick bug sweeps" you see in the movies are more difficult.

Not if the sweepers are talkative (assuming that the device is sound-activated).
It is being used to pick military targets, with very little oversight.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Not Just Bikes is a convincing advocacy channel. But just because you agree doesn't mean you should ignore that he is trying to convince you of a certain viewpoint. Specifically, urbanization is good, cars are bad (and unfun to drive), bikes are great.

Rewatch the videos, you'll note you can only enjoy many of the changes if you're an advid year round cyclist who lives in a flatish city with nice weather (and who doesn't need anything too far away, most of the time). Buses need roads. Not everyone can cycle, not even with (very, very expensive, even on the low end) ebikes.
NL here, no ID check whatsoever
Since you contrast the two approaches you might be interested in learning that CompCert also uses translation validation in some part of the compiler (notably for register allocation), see Jean-Baptiste Tristan's papers with Xavier.
In NoSQL world, you often store multiple duplicates of the same data, each of which is optimized for a different use case.
Karpathy is still a mountain in the area of ML/AI, one of the few people worth following closely on Twitter/X.
It's the same for sensitive stuff.

ISIS/Nazis using an LLM to write their pathetic propaganda aren't bothering anybody.

ISIS/Nazis posting their pathetic propaganda on X are obnoxious cunts.

> you're blind.

NO U
No ID is required to buy a pay as you go SIM card in the UK. Just walk into any supermarket or pretty much any corner shop and they will sell you a Sim for a quid at most. (You can also get them for free from the networks directly on their websites, but now they know the address the sim was sent too)

Top up credit is the same, ask the counter staff for £x on network Y and once you have paid they will give you a printed receipt with a code on it for your desired amount.

It’s not really seen as a “national security issue” because most people don’t practice perfect opsec and leave enough details and fingerprints behind.

And an ID check ain’t going to prevent anyone from getting hold of a sim via other means (like you said, pay someone on the street as just 1 example)

Now, try and access porn on that SIM card? Well hold on there, now we need to know who you are!!! (Though you can often blag your way around this via social engineering the CS agent on the phone. Or just bypass the block by using a VPN/Change DNS settings.)

Same for the phones themselves.
> Boeing has violated a 2021 agreement that shielded it from criminal prosecution after two 737 Max disasters left 346 people dead overseas

Somehow I think this phrase would have been better without the word "overseas". After all (to quote the old Depeche Mode song), people are people, no matter if they're from the US, Ethiopia or Indonesia, so the fact that it happened overseas shouldn't make a plane crash less relevant. Although, if the first crash had happened in the US, maybe the increased scrutiny would have led to the second one being avoided...
The IDF explicitly deny a lot of things, which turn out to be true.
In the case of AI it absolutely does take billions and billions of dollars on an uncertain bet. They bet that throwing more data, more hardware, more GPU cycles at the problem would yield results and it has.
Are you really saying that this is literally not different from me posting MY PUSSY IN BIO 5 times?

For the most part yes. If you are a girl, almost everything you say is probably not even in your control and your only truth is probably that sentence. This ain’t gender specific stuff, people are roughly expressing one or two things over and over with a lot of fluff (spam, filler) filling in negative space.

I fully agree that I’ve gone off the deep end with this belief, but that’s where I’m at.

Are you single and looking for a guy or girl?
Awesome. Side note: now my living room lights are white because I listened to this on speakers lol. I have the same wakeword xD
Because market is unlikely to be efficient. Or cost will be higher. Such as people parking on sidewalks or any green space. And likely cost of housing won't be any lower effectively...

Then again, why should there be sidewalks. Lot of money to be saved if those were up to free market as well...
It reminds me of the time when gay people were not that visible. Once the term "heterosexual" got more common, many people were freaked out to be described that way. I guess similarly others are so afraid of the transgender topic, they are scared of even being described as the groups at all. We'll just have to wait until they get over that too.
This is counter to every interview ilya has ever given since gpt3--he believes scaling llms can get there that's why they scaled to gpt4 scales at all.
No. That would be "popularization", I believe, and that is not done by scientific papers.

The point of scientific papers is for experts to share observations with other experts. Given enough studies, a group of experts may reach a consensus. Believing that a single study "proves" anything at all is a big misunderstanding of how science works. A single study "suggests" something, but the goal is to reach a consensus.

In this particular case, a computer science professor who is (apparently) not at all an expert in epidemiology throws sarcasm against an emergency response to Covid-19 for no apparent reason (unless object-oriented was an emergency response to some virus, I don't know).

What this computer science professor could do (but doesn't), though, is bring insights related to their expertise (presumably "computer science"). I mean something other than "object oriented == baaaaad, believe me".
> Generally you have some group of people for whom a question is a matter of survival (in this case financially)

That very much isn't the case for the vast majority of people suckered into this, though. And they're not looking to survive, they're looking to become rulers in a new world order (the current theory is that if they directly register their shares, then it will become clear that hedge funds have made up a lot of shares(??) and that hedge funds/the federal reserve/the government(?????) will be forced to buy their shares for millions of dollars apiece, for some reason).

To be clear, the GameStop thing wasn't always like this; their 'MOAS' concept started as just them slightly misunderstanding what a naked short was. But it has really gone some weird places.
Interesting. Perhaps the first example of so called “social engineering” that we’re so familiar with in the Nordics?

Also plays nicely into a pet theory of mine, that “social engineering” typically has very different short term and long term effects. It seems in the short term you can change social roles radically by changing rewards and punishment (e.g. communist revolutions). But then people’s personalities start adjusting to the new environment. After 2-3 generations you have radically different personality structures and behaviors in the population.

Sadly politics is about the immediate results, and does not even attribute the long term consequences to the policies introduced 2-3 generations ago.
Indeed, but I don't know of any other PC manufacturers who were widely using it before Apple went down the soldered-RAM path?
With only some circumstantial evidence? Almost certainly not.
You may be over-engineering things. Since there's no specific cutoff or precise value you need before calling a break, you could probably work out what rate things would increase at per typical person given the volume of the room and then just have a timer. Something like "Calm - 120 people-minutes, Energetic - 60 people-minutes, so three people really going for it means we take a break every 20".

Maybe this isn't enough for you, but I know it's easy for me to get trapped in a rabbit hole of how to solve things in a specific way and at times I need to pull back and say "what am I actually trying to solve". I had this with co2 monitors, getting fairly into which one to get then I realised I can deal with this by just regularly opening the window. I don't need a specific number.

edit -

Air exchange may happen pretty quickly, depending on the room and surroundings, so it could be as easy as "every X minutes we take a moment to open the door and window".
MIT OpenCourseWare 6.034 Artificial Intelligence (2010)
Data volume isn't that important, that's becoming clearer now. What OpenAI did was paid for a bunch of good labelled data. I'm convinced that's basically the differentiator. It's not a academic or fundamental thing to do which is why google didn't do it, it's a pure practical product thing.
It's hard to invest millions in employees who are likely to leave to a competitor later. That's very risky, aka venture.
I am not saying they should take over the role of managing thousands of people. But you need highly visible technical roles higher up in the food
chain, to drive technical decisions, who don't make sense on a financial excel sheet.

Let me give some concrete examples:

- Decisions like having the 3 availability zones, at a minimum, and with no exceptions,
for every Region, come up of minds like James Hamilton. They are driven first from an
ambition of technical quality, then you just tell the MBA's how much it will cost...
If you run it via an MBA they will just see it as a nice to have. And that is why for GCP or Azure
those are not always there.

- Decisions like the development of the Nitro System are again comming from
a quality ambition. Then again...you just tell the MBA's how much it will cost.

Did you notice since 2023 Amazon made over 30,000 layoffs including this year
by the hundreds within AWS? Technical roles who can find jobs at Netflix, Google
or OpenAI or Microsoft or others look...And make their conclusions...And yes many
of those are also doing layoffs

Wall Street is currently full of praise for the stunning balance sheet performance of Amazon, but Wall Street MBA's never see more than
the next quarter.

Now go listen to the available recording of Amazon last Q1 earnings call,
and amaze yourself with the softball questions, almost like a
battle of flowers, that earnings calls transformed themselves
into nowadays.

For example you will not hear the following critical questions, and for which there are no answers in the earnings release document, from any of the analysts in the call:

- How much of the net income growth can be attributed to
cost-cutting measures versus new business growth?

- What are the primary factors contributing to the much lower profitability
of the International segment compared to North America?

- What is Amazon's strategy for addressing the increasing competition
in the cloud computing market, particularly from companies
like Microsoft and Google?
If you want to go with that analogy, it's more like opening a community cafe and hanging a sign on the wall saying "please bring a dish for our free communal meal - we'd be happy to add it (when we get around to it, if we like it, and if the cafe is still open - good luck, because you probably won't know if it has closed!)

I have a fairly popular free/open source project and I both agree and disagree with the author. Mostly users are polite and non-entitled, but it's exhausting answering all the (very polite) questions and requests for help.

I've had to turn down dishes that wouldn't have worked for the cafe, and it makes me feel bad. I've requested users contact me before writing a PR but of course people don't read the FAQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesbroughel/2023/12/09/openai...