skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we soon start talking about the largest elephant in the room - China and their global junk manufacturing industry - seeing how China commits approximately the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere as the United States, India, the EU and Russia combined?

Global top polluters:

China, more than 14 million tons of CO2

United States, 6 million tons of CO2

India, 3.5 million tons of CO2

European Union, 3.4 million tons of CO2

Russia, 2 million tons of CO2
Does anyone know if there's a Lua (not LuaJIT) library for the ffi functionality? I wonder if this library could work for both
I feel like the obvious answer is to let people vote on it, like an upvotes/downvotes system.
You can't pay for something that doesn't exist. You just can't store enough energy to turn renewables into a baseload energy source because it's orders of magnitude more than existing storage solutions.
Some quick reference anchors for you:

- Flare from this article: X8.7

- Carrington Event: X40-X45 (estimated)

- Last weekend: X5.8

- Strongest on record (Nov, 2003): ~X45 (originally classified X23).
Except we have regular posts related to Israel with hundreds of comments in each.
The safety stuff seems to be mostly trying to locate mechanisms (induction heads, etc) and isolating knowledge, in the pursuit of lobotomizing models to make them safe.

You could RLHF/whatever models on common factual questions to try to get them to answer those specific questions better, but I doubt there'd be much benefit outside of those specific questions.

There's a couple of fundamental problems related to factuality.

1) They don't know the sources, and source reliability, of their training data.

2) At inference time all they care about is word probabilities, with factuality only coming into it tangentially as a matter of context (e.g. factual continuations are more probable in a factual context, not in a fantasy context). They don't have any innate desire to generate factual responses, and don't introspect if what they are generating is factual (but that would be easy to fix).
Yes, but not as solar power.
Surgeons don’t need a text based LLM to make decisions. They have a job to do and a dozen years of training into how to do it. They have 8 years of schooling and 4-6 years internship and residency. The tech fantasy that everyone is using these for everything is a bubble thought. I agree with another comment, this is Doomerism.
What you call "AI" is generally named AGI. LLM's are alredy a kind of AI, not just generic enough to fully replace all humans.

We don't know if full AGI can be built using just current technology (like transformers) given enough scale, or if 1 or more fundamental breakthroughs are needed beyond just the scale.

My hypothesis has always been that AGI will arrive roughly when the compute power and model size matches the human brain. That means models of about 100 trillion params, which is not that far away now.
Is it really only up to him to come up with ideas? I’m sure he mostly sees what his workers have done or suggest then take those ideas to figure out what path to go down.

Apple Pay is a big money maker.
Lerna, if that's major enough for you.
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They both have extensive APIs though?
>they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor.

Which is ironic given that OEL is a direct rip-off of RHEL which IBM also now owns.
That is not the main prupose of Nvidia and will make microsoft, google, fb worried too much to go away from Nvidia.

Being both coach and player at the same time is not a good idea.
Part of my childhood was walking to the local Target and on the counter they had a Virtual Boy with Red Alarm that you could play.

I think every kid in the neighborhood / walking distance of that shop spent hours there playing that game. It was one of those systems that you could really enjoy, but not enough to buy one and take it home.
The benchmark you're linking in 2 is genuinely meaningless due to it being 1 specific task. I can easily make a benchmark for another task (that I'm personally working on) where e.g. Gemini is much better than GPT4-Vision and any Claude model (not sure about GPT-4o yet) and then post that as a benchmark. Does that mean Gemini is better at image reasoning? No.

These benchmarks are really missing the mark and I hope people here are smart enough to do their own testing or rely on tests with a much bigger variety of tasks if they want to measure overall performance. Because currently we're at a point where the big 3 (GPT, Claude, Gemini) each have tasks that they beat the other two at.
I don't think a drone attack is necessarily the ideal solution but a "civilian" that shuts down a hospital is a terrorist if they did it on their own and an enemy combatant if they got help from their state.
I remember hearing rumors that tobacco companies funded anti-smoking campaigns because they realized it just made smoking look that much cooler. It's certainly easy to imagine a dual purpose ad that will appear positive and affirming to adults but super lame to kids and make them want to do the opposite.
Will we be able to leave our shoes on once REAL ID is a requirement to fly?
The thing is, the previous version of Edge (before it became a re-badged Google Chrome) was quite notable for being easier on battery life, and that was marketed as an advantage for it, one which seemed to be the case in my experience.

I wish it would come back, or that there was some other web browser option for Windows (guess I should try Firefox again).
That depends on how desperate for money they are. It can lead to taking more risks than one would usually take.
When is it good, and when is it bad?

Good question. OOP seperates software into isolated units called "objects". But in order to function as a cohesive whole, these units have to communicate somehow. And this is usually where the fun begins.

OOP intentionally turns all software into a distributed system --- even if it is not distributed.

Whether there is any real advantage to this is a matter of opinion --- it can't be proven one way or the other. But in my experience with distributed systems, it is often less efficient and more difficult to see and reason about the logic flow and harder to debug and test. Your mileage may vary.
> - China and their global junk manufacturing industry

And who orders, buys and pays for all the junk? The western consumers. Who offshored their own dirty manufacturing industry to China due to their lack of workers/human rights and environmental protection? The west. Which companies profited the most from this offshoring to China? The western ones. Same for the textile/clothes industry.

So I think you're looking at the wrong elephant. Look at your elected leaders first for failing to regulate "free trade" for the sake of profiteering at the expense of the environment.

The hypocrisy of the rich western nations blaming the environmental damage on the poor countries to which they knowingly and willingly offshored their dirty industries to for profit, is mind boggling.

Also, the hypocrisy of western tech companies when dealing with China is equally grandiose:

-China's CCP: "So US big tech, you will have to host your data here and build backdoors to your services for us so we can read all your customer data and spy on your users here. Take it or leave it."
-US big-tech: "Yessir! Right away CCP! Which other way should we bend over to make money in China?"

-EU regulators: "So we're gonna need you to be upfront to your users here about your privacy invasive tracking and give users and opt-out option, and also not block your smaller competitors from accessing your gate-kept market places"
-US big-tech: "Noooo! That's tyranny! Uncle Sam help, your poor tech monopolies are being oppressed by the Europeans."
The title is misleading, the article does not claim the current rise is “natural”, they just compared it to prehistoric records which were natural
Yes, I had that one in mind, though I'm always a bit skeptic about the cinematics of BBC productions. Sprint or not, the point I should have made clearer is precisely that walking is compatible with the endurance method. Personally I don't believe we evolved to run much. Pretty much anyone even in our sedentary society can walk very long distances; the body seems much more strongly adapted to that type of locomotion.
This is an animal study (rats). Use on your own risk.
Should the conversation be production or consumption? Who's really to blame?
Didn't they buy one of these (Solaris)?
We have quite a few intelligence assets in the area.
I couldn’t disagree more. Everyone can understand some common tourist phrases without tones - and you will probably get a lot of positive feedback from Chinese people. It’s common to view a foreigner making an attempt at Mandarin (even a bad one) as a sign of respect.

But for conversation, you can’t speak Mandarin without using proper tones because you simply won’t be understood.
An AGI could replace human experts at tasks that doesn't require physical embodiment, like diagnosing patients, drafting contracts, doing your taxes etc. If you still do those manually and not just offload all of it to ChatGPT then you would greatly benefit from a real AGI that could do those tasks on their own.

And no, using ChatGPT like you use a search engine isn't ChatGPT solving your problem, that is you solving your problem. ChatGPT solving your problem would mean it drives you, not you driving it like it works today. When I hired people to help me do taxes they told me what papers they needed and then they did my taxes correctly without me having to look it through and correct them, an AGI would work like that for most tasks, it means you no longer need to think or learn to solve problems since the AGI solves them for you.
Not possible because they've got LeCun.
Why would you bet your product and customers on another company?

Oh so you never heard of “suppliers”?
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It could be that using prompt engineering/search techniques like CoT or ToT gives a bigger improvement than scaling up the model.
Per capita the US would be on top.
> Copyleft is not required

Yes it is. Because companies (like Oracle) will take as much as they can and give as little as they can.

> free software is a gift freely given

It's a gift to the public, not to individuals and companies (like Oracle).

> Even public domain is ok

Even worse because that expressly allows companies (like Oracle) to take everything and give nothing.
Did you miss the climate agreement they committed to in November?
Agencies utilize an SCMS:
https://www.its.dot.gov/resources/scms.htm
Cool! I'm amused that it's on the Steelseries website and it's not so clear how these two are related.
No I'm with you, the multinational corporations are a major culprit in this.
I'm not sure that's accurate. By sheer numbers, it's pretty much Poland taking the lead and that's because the rest of Europe killed/displaced their jews in previous events (turns out hating jews is basically an European tradition).

Statista agrees you with in that comparing the deaths by country to its initial population by country shows Germany around 32% while say Poland is 75% [1]. But the big problem with that is it omits emigration; I would suspect jews in Germany saw the writing on the wall and left. The Germany jewish population dropped from 525k to 37k [2] (with 165k dead [1]) which means 323k jews must've left Germany while Hungary dropped from 445k to 190k (with 270k dead) which means -25k jews emigrated (aka 25k jews immigrated).

So it just appears that Germany is less efficient because the local jews emigrated to other countries where they were then killed juicing those countries stats.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070564/jewish-populatio...

[2]: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/remaining-...
And also article is testing on a different task (Needle in a Needlestack which is kind of similar to Needle in a Haystack), compared to finding a difference between two documents. For sure it's useful to know that the model does ok in one and really bad in the other, does not mean that original test is flawed.
Rangefinder vs. SLR Cameras (2012)
Random Electrical Noise: A Literature Survey (1996)
I second that. City Nerd is my favourite though.
As per https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

> However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

> This is mathematically impossible in situations where you do not control the scheduler, which is true for the normal OS environment.

> For this reason, it is considered "safe" for Rust to get deadlocked or do something nonsensical with incorrect synchronization: this is known as a general race condition or resource race. Obviously such a program isn't very good, but Rust of course cannot prevent all logic errors.
> Yeah, I study* that way too

I’m not the only one?

So this is what it’s like when doves cry! - Milhouse
AGI will likely want low noise circuitry, so at least a rogue AI overlord would likely be aligned with the other two objectives.

Can't have high intensity radioactive and thermal noise messing with those world dominating algorithms.
That's a different test than needle-in-a needlestack, although telling in how brittle these models are - competent in one area, and crushingly bad in others.

Needle-in-a-needlestack contrasts with needle-in-a-haystack by being about finding a piece of data among similar ones (e.g. one specific limeric among thousands of others), rather than among disimilar ones.
Yes but we can distinguish between embedding provided to customers, and internal embeddings. One is optimized for usage in certain types of applications, but the internal embeddings need to be optimized to support long contexts and are not constrained by the customer facing embeddings.

For example, with Open AI I believe it’s known that the internal dimension for Gpt3 was 12,288.
I feel that any marketing strategy that relies on the niche of a niche formed of the people that would buy the cutting edge cycling gear just because it's presented as an improvement over the status quo, would hardly bring any benefits to any wheel maker.

I am 100% sure that in this age of "marginal gains", the pro tour teams would not go for anything that doesn't give them it unless severely hamstrung by sponsorship deals. And I doubt that the wheel sponsors don't have multiple sizes available.

And I think you're severely overestimating wheel life span for modern models, at least due to the fact that carbon is more brittle than more pedestrian materials. Just look for Pogacar's fall earlier last week in the Giro to see how a simple flat tire makes the whole wheel a risk.
That is unfair on China, since they manufacture lots of the dirty stuff the rest of the world outsourced on them.
It’s definitely part of the issue.

Boeing was trying to pretend scaling the aircraft again and again wasn’t significant due to regulations and physics eventually disagreed.
Thank god for the police out there
keeping everyone in line.

Only problem is who polices the police?

The url literally says

"apple-tim-cook-running-out-of-ideas"
Here's a free idea: sell more than 1 device to your users. Why sell people only 1 phone? Phones could be like shoes: you have different pairs for different occasions. Some people go all Imelda Marcos on that front (she was famous for her large shoe collection).

A lot of Apple devices are as much a fashion accessory as a useful tool. So, why not have lots of them that you can use interchangeably. They half went there with the iwatch, mac/ios integration. And now with the VR goggles. But they are still separate things. Apple has been focusing on selling people just 1 phone.

Changing that requires two things:

1) Multi modality of the end user experience: users should be able to access the same software and data on any (Apple) device they own. And possibly even temporarily on devices owned by others. (tv in your hotel, car integration in a rental car, etc.).

2) Diversifying the product range to have devices optimized for different use cases, usages, and environments such that users might want to own several of them.

A useful side effect of this is that losing or breaking a device becomes less of a disaster because you can just pick up any of your other devices and continue.
Or maybe AI will just nuke humans to fix climate change.
Did he ever had any?

If we want to dramatize a bit, Tim is basically the guy who made Steve Jobs dreams possible.

A new product, even as vertically integrated as Apple likes them to be, requires huge numbers of parts and suppliers and Tim basically made it possible for Apple to sell great products using mostly their suppliers money and risk.

I'm sure Steve knew all of this and Apple didn't needed another "Steve" with big ideas and all the attached risk, by 2011 Apple was already a huge and stable company with great products and solid business. Probably ego was a big part too but bringing a guy like Tim Cook was a logical move.

He is Apple's version of Sundar Pichai, he manages and makes numbers go up, sure he's not a robot but it's by design.

The constant nickel and dimming and "mistakes" like the Apple Silicon DTK where developers paid ~$500 to test their apps on Apple Silicon before the official M1 launch with the agreement of them sending back the hardware when Apple tells them to and then Apple only returned $200 out of the 500 to them.

Yes Apple backtracked after all the noise, but this "incident" is all you need to know about Tim Cook.
I agree, there's roughly three parties to blame, the large corps, the junk manufacturers and the idiots who buy cheap chinese junk en masse
What % of stock movements do you attribute to OAI, vs the cash-generation behemoth that is Windows/Office/Azure?
I feel AGI and nuclear conflict have zero relevance to this article.

I also personally think the risk of nuclear conflict is pretty much zero.
How many options are there? Intel, AMD, now Qualcomm ... I guess you could count whatever they put in their chromebooks (if they still make those) but those are sorta specific situations.

Is almost anything all of 2 other options?
'Mother' Gaia will wipe all complex life from this planet with 1 to 1.5 Billion years if her 'undisciplined' puppies don't find a way to leave this ball of dirt.

She's also got quite a lead with killing off 99.99999% of all species that ever lived, when compared to us.
This looks on-topic, but post that are not in English are usualy ignored or flagged. Do you have an official English tranlation? If not, I recomend to write one and post it in a few days.

Looking at the autotranlation, I still don't understand what the project does. It's some tool for business. Are you selling consulting or a not-AGPL version? Do you have a screenshot? Is it some backend tool that must be used from a unrelated UI? Also, add a link to the github repo somewhere.
Giving types names is sometimes useful, yes. To the extent that languages often have that as the only thing and maybe have somewhat second class anonymous types without names.

It's called "nominal typing", because the types have names. I don't know why it's called "branded" instead here. There's probably a reason for the [syntax choice].

Old idea but a good one.
I've done the same experiment with local laws and caught GPT hallucinating fines and fees! The problem is real.
Carbon tax, including as international tariff would sidestep that question, make the emitter pay and let the consumer choose.
I don't need to be convinced of their viewpoint, I live it. I live in another European country, in a city with over million people. I live midway between the middle of the city and the outskirts. Practially everything one needs is available within a 10 minute bike ride. The weather is atrocious sometimes but everyone deals with it by wearing a rain poncho. People who can't bike are on mobility scooters and e-wheelchairs (paid for by health insurance) who share the bike lane. Sometimes I'm too lazy and I take buses, trams, subways and trains which are ubiquitous. And I am not an avid cyclist, wish I was. My bike for me is a tool, a $150 second-hand tool.

Is that the same everywhere in the country or even the city? No. But it's common enough that you'll see parents carrying their kids around in cargo bikes practically anywhere in the country.

P.S. I was generalizing when I said everything's within a 10 minute bike ride to account for all people who live along the same radius as I do. For me personally, everything's available within a 5 minute *walk* - grocery stores, cafes, restaurants, bars, gym, park, playgrounds, kindergartens, schools, train station, doctor, dentist.
These numbers say more about the US than China, if you control for population.

And also, I keep seeing those numbers thrown around, but it's never clear if it's on the production side or the consumption side. If it's the production side CO2, then we have to remember that a huge fraction of carbon emitted by China is for the benefit of consumers in the western countries. Which makes you think, just wtf is the us doing that emits that much carbon per capita?
This is definitely an interesting way to look at it. My initial reaction is to consider that I can enhance the capabilities of a system without increasing its inteligence. For example, if I give a monkey a hammer, it can do more than it could do when it didn't have the hammer, but it is not more intelligent (though it could probably learn things by interacting with the world with the hammer). That leads me to think: can we enhance the capabilities of what we call "AI systems" to do these things, without increasing their intelligence? It seems like you can glue GPT-4o to some calendar APIs to do exactly this. This seems more like an issue of tooling rather than an issue of intelligence to me.

I guess the issue here is: can a system be "generally intelligent" if it doesn't have access to general tools to act on that intelligence? I think so, but I also can see how the line is very fuzzy between an AI system and the tools it can leverage, as really they both do information processing of some sort.

Thanks for the insight.
MongoDB offers a preconfigured Linux to run on?

Or did you just mean Atlas?
It's not because of any "conspiracy theory". It's just parasitic ideas that infect young minds and spreads like a religion. This collection of ideas have evolved to appeal to people's emotions and paints a cynical picture of history which is then used to justify extreme actions.

Like I said, a lot of people are blind to this and take these parasitic ideas on good faith, when in reality we can have equality, human rights, etc., without thinking there is another group of oppressors that have been keeping humanity back... as you have just illustrated with your own opinion there.

If you think there is such a group of "horrible" people, you might want to reflect to what extent you have been affected by these pseudo-religious ideas.
When it comes to regulations, production. Stricter laws in the US just lead to shipping production overseas to locations with less strict regulation.
Paper link https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319652121
Absolutely infuriating that university press releases don't include this. They should be embarrassed.
There's never any trace of typescript types at runtime.
I'm guessing it's going to be free only for a limited time. Probably until they have enough voice data to improve the model.

I can't really think of any other reason why they would make this free, especially when they already have a premium plan.
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Modi and the BJP turned WhatsApp into an election-winning machine
What is the purpose or context of this thinking? To infantilise and absolve China?
I can also see sales people.

I know from a friend who worked at Brex that said they offered Chromebooks for people who just needed a web browser. That was mostly sales and support staff like HR.