skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "repulsive attitude" I'm referring to is shouting "Just grow a thick skin!" to someone who is saying that they're suffering from abuse. In some cases, the suffering is so acute and so deep ("bullets") that it's not necessarily actionable on the part of the person suffering; rather, it's a call for help that others may respond to.
Sorry, Dr. Zimbardo.
That's a completely separate legal issue.

What you will find, is that indigent claimants have a hard time finding a lawyer for frivolous cases when the law is written clearly.

Lawyers don't take contingency cases that they know they are going to lose, and people that can afford to shove a frivolous case through the system by paying a lawyer hourly have enough money to pay a second lawyer.
The same thing is happening with Israel, but in the case of Israel - most media is too scared to even say this is happening.
Right? In twenty years, people are going to be comparing their imaginary conversations with Lincoln as if they're historical fact.
One factor reduces by 1/3 the probability of dying after a stroke: social class
"You get 711 alerts, you only see 18 of them, you are like “ehh 18 alerts is pretty much the normal number,” you override them all without reading."

I believe this is called an 'alert that cried wolf'.
The same data science stuff that data scientists have done before and integrating LLMs into their workflow. I guess. Databases are not being fed into LLMs. LLMs takes in a text input and gives a text output, they are not taking a text input and giving a bunch of data back. They might be able to refer to the data, but they do not replace data scientists, yet. (Token limit)
> Ilya says he thinks LLMs are capable of achieving AGI all by themselves, but there's no evidence of that and it's open for debate.

This debate is probably mostly just an argument over semantics. What exactly do we mean by "Large Language Model"? What exactly do we mean by "Artifical General Intelligence"?

On the strict end of things, if "LLM" the current state-of-the-art generative transformer architecture, and if we think that "general intelligence" requires something like sentience, or at least a certain capacity for flexible, iterative symbolic reasoning, then I think that most people would agree that LLMs clearly aren't any more capable of achieving artificial intelligence than a stock 1989 Buick LeSabre is of achieving sustained flight.

But the more flexible you're willing to be about how you define "large language model" and "artificial general intelligence", the more room there is for it to be possible. But also, the less practical value there is in making such a statement. Beyond some hand-waviness event horizon, you can probably just declare that any model capable of handling natural language inputs and outputs is a language model, take a nice slow toke, and begin pontificating about the Church-Turing thesis.
omg - I tried to sell a client into using mixpanel for about three months.

I could never explain (or honestly understand) events, and even though I had raw server data, g analytics data and cloudflare analytics data - I still don't understand what constitutes an event or number of events, or what it may cost.

So we just killed the google and cloudflare stats and never signed up for the free tier in the firs place.

Free stats are fine.
I am also selling myself for $1B
The reason why there is so much criticism of VFX is because it is often done without any sort of intent or passion. It seems like the director just give a vague description of what sort of effects they want to the VFX team and just hands it off to them. With practical effects, the director is forced to be more hands on, so this intent shows through with the final product.
Wait they’re attacking the aid drivers as traitors!?!
Sama: "Can I use your likeness in my new product?"

ScarJo: "No"

Sama: "LOL just kidding I'm going to do it anyway, suck it "

Every normal person: "sama overstepped."

Fanboys: "STOP BEING SUCCESS HATING ANTI-TECH LUDDITES!"
Sit by and let nothing happen while you’re out!
This same emulator was also given to the MAME project, and is included in versions of MAME 218 and later, should you wish to run this locally. It works great.
That makes height an easy topic to talk about, but it's still challenging to think through the implications. If you can increase your child's height by 20% and thereby increase their likely income by 25% - is it morally right not to? Does it matter whether others can afford that intervention? Is it morally right not to fund public access to such interventions? Does the answer change if relative height is all that matters?
> We know nuclear at sea works well. Over 700 reactors have operated at sea, enduring the harsh environments of the world's choppy oceans. But there are no nuclear-powered commercial ships in service today because the reactor technologies available are unsuited for civilian maritime transportation.

> The nuclear power system must be passively safe under all conditions and meet or exceed the highest standards set for security and safeguards by design.

[No mention of crew training requirements, nor staffing levels, nor domestic politics at major ports, nor the failures of critical engineering systems on the Dali which lead to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, nor ...]

Does this guy understand modern commercial shipping at anything above the "pretty plastic toys in my bathtub" level? Military nuclear propulsion plants are built and staffed at Pentagon Budget levels. Vs. the still-surviving companies in the commercial shipping business are obsessed with cost control. (The MV Dali had a total crew of 22 when it hit the bridge. Vs. nuclear subs, even if less than 5% of the Dali's weight, have crews of 100 or so.)

And exactly how does that "safe under all conditions" thing work, if the freighter SS Atom Balm is grabbed by Somali pirates, and they're crawling around inside the reactor compartment with cutting torches and demolition charges?
SMTP is that way because running the entire contents of a message through some escape character processing was expensive back then, in the era of 0.25 MIPS machines.
The way I see it:

A motor produces locomotion. It makes other things move.

An engine produces power. Locomotion can be derived from power but isn't required to.

A train locomotive might be referred to as a "locomotive engine".

A car with an internal combustion engine moves from power generated by that engine. But a car with electric motors does not have an engine because power is not produced there. Power is produced elsewhere and then stored in the battery. Locomotion is produced by consuming the stored power.

Of course, that's just my interpretation of the two words without referring to a dictionary.
See https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Waves_and_Acoustics/...

Touching the string at different points will excite different vibrational modes. Notably if you pluck in the exact center you activate none of the even-numbered nodes, if you pluck around the 1/3 point that's optimal for activating the second harmonic, etc. You can never not activate the fundamental mode touching it in one spot but you activate it less if you get close to the edge.
> It could just be cultural attitudes make European cities a more pleasant place to live.

Cultural attitudes certainly, particularly around work vs leisure. Also mass transit systems, and social supports for people working in the service industry.

The criticisms for europe are that it takes a lot of tax revenue to support those things, bureaucracy, strikes, etc.

Im not saying one system is better than the other--just that in the US, despite our massive economic might, our standard of living sucks.
The way I see it - as long as a healthy used car market exists there should really be no reason to have to pay the kinds of prices being asked for by dealers for new(er) vehicles.
Why can foundations make money and don't pay taxes? That's a big tax loop hole.
It some areas superhuman performance is sadly not that high of a bar...
the fundamental thing is that Sky doesn't actually sound that much like her voice....

e: and after writing this I just looked it up, apparently it doesn't use her voice at all? not shocking to me, as again they do not sound that similar to me

his primary mistake was writing 'her' which gave the lawyers an in
Self-reply: they have now uploaded the code. Please disregard my earlier whining until the next time.

http://files.serialport.org/archie/archie-3.5-beta/
I’m uncomfortable with HN selectively deciding where to use the Article’s headline vs where to editorialize tbh.

The implication here is that $moderator knows better than the journalistic organization publishing this article. Might not be the intention, but it is a fair view on the editing.
I remember using the IR port on the 5mx (I think the 5 had this but I'm not 100% sure) to talk to my phone at the time and use it as a modem while on the move. It was hardly convenient, but it worked. Not fast or cheap either, IIRC limited to 19k200 and paying by the minute at hideous mobile rates.
I already explained what I meant by damage. Being unable to see how the freedom of a tiny minority shouldn't trump the freedom of basic modes of being of the vast majority, that's damage.
Gamers say they hate 'smurfing,' but admit thewise
An unusual heist seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell
Overturned? Hmm...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...

Tom Waits Wins $2 1/2 Million in Voice-Theft Suit

In a novel case of voice theft, a Los Angeles federal court jury Tuesday awarded gravel-throated recording artist Tom Waits $2.475 million in damages from Frito-Lay Inc. and its advertising agency.

The U.S. District Court jury found that the corn chip giant unlawfully appropriated Waits’ distinctive voice, tarring his reputation by employing an impersonator to record a radio ad for a new brand of spicy Doritos corn chips.
> the missing buttons

I assume you mean the "colored text might be a button to perform an action" thing, not drawing button frames on things like dialog box choices anymore?

I sometimes wonder if that is nothing but a cargo cult started by the dark pattern of wanting to minimize number of people clicking the "Deny" button.

This era of UI as fashion sucks.
>Isn't this for lack of tutors, which AI solves?

I would argue there's a very human element to tutoring that AI does not provide.

Having been a tutor and also having been tutored myself, the personal relationship is very important. To know some other human is taking their very human time to help you is a powerful motivating factor that an AI can't simulate. To see another human performing some task that you can't activates some kind of primal desire to emulate them. AI can't simulate that.
Writing separate articles on all the reasons to be weary of OAI is not "pivoting". It's listing all the reasons.

To wit: weren't we 6 months from AGI over a year ago? Where's Q*? Where's ChatGPT5 for that matter?
Yes, but people are widely familiar with certain concepts. Hating "clever code" doesn't mean hating any abstraction or good elegant ideas (like function calls).

The thing is that this stuff has already been in circulation for so long, and many of the good ideas have been found. If you tried to come up with new solutions for function calls, people would understandably be skeptical.
> Drug abuse and mental illness are much more prevalent in those worst off economically. Poverty (in developed countries) is almost always a result of inequality

If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of people subsisting on a few dollars a day around the world do not have society-wide problems with drug abuse and mental illness? Or are you implying that this causation only happens in developed countries?

What can you do to refute the idea that instead of drug abuse and mental illness being caused poverty, the same factors that predispose one to drug abuse and mental illness also predispose one to poverty?

> culture is also determined by lack of access to economic opportunities

Similarly, it's rather the other way around; lack of access to economic opportunities is caused by a culture that values human capital less. Of course, the two compound over time; but history is empirically full of examples of minority cultural groups that were discriminated against (whether legally, socially, or otherwise) but nevertheless succeeded economically due to the culture placing a high value on human capital[0].

[0]: Sowell, T. Discrimination and Disparities.
> As somebody always having used Palm devices, has anybody here used both and can compare their relative advantages?

Psion devices have a physical keyboard. It sounds trivial but this was a huge advantage. Psion's software quality was very, very high. The "Agenda" organizer from the Psion 3 and 3a is still regarded today as one of the best calendar programs ever designed.

(Their hardware quality, while still good, was sometimes not quite as good. The hinge on the Psion 3 range is well known for breaking, and damaging the display ribbon cable which runs through it.)
Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta
So, this is a bit misleading. For whatever reason the models tend to be released in certain parameter sizes. 7B models are popular. The next highest is 13B. There are few in between (some 11B). Likewise the jump from 13 is straight to 33B. You can run finetunes of a 33B model that have been cut down a little and fit them in a 24GB card. Likewise those 13B models running on 16GB cards have a lot of head room. You don't need to run as cut down a model, and you can run it with more context (i.e. the amount of your chat it can hold in memory)

I hope that helps, it's not 1:1, and it's a bit confusing
Why not both? Just because we can make our code more efficient doesn't mean we should go back to Motorola 6800s. We should make our code more efficient and make hardware that can run that code more efficently.
This is potentially a very interesting/useful site. My only problem is with some of the questionable statistics it's showing, that might suggest their dataset is not strictly representative. The time zones in particular seem to be significantly skewed compared to their respective population distributions. There's also a suspiciously large number of UTC0 fingerprints, which suggests they might have a large number of crawlers/bots in their dataset.
So the damage is opportunity loss. What makes it a legitimate grievance opposed to a bogus one?

There are lots things that were once possible, but no longer are.

Of course, there is also the question of who "the people" are.
The other comment stating "Yann LeCun is the Paul Krugman of AI" does resonate with me. There is a lot to be criticized about his takes on AI in general, and the need for a "worldview" in particular.

The longer version at:
https://www.lokad.com/blog/2024/3/18/ai-interview-with-yann-...
One fascinating thing about attending a Tufte seminar is after 2 days of a rigorous run through of, so far as I know, the only really rigorous attempt to create a science of design, the Q&A session was 80% people asking something along the lines of "Yeah, but I should still keep doing what I've been doing, because of these reasons that I want you to say are good." Frankly I was impressed that the man didn't literally face-palm, although judging by his expression he was in his mind.

Sadly, so far as I know he's stopped doing live courses.
> Undisclosed (...) Vulnerability

RFC 7258 - Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack was published in 2014 [1]

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7258
> Are they able to run at a good speed?

Not on most consumer computers, which likely lack a dedicated GPU. My M2 struggles (only thing that makes it warm) with a 7B model, but token speed is unbearable. I switched to remote APIs for the speed.

If you are targeting gamers with a GPU, the answer may change, but as others have pointed out, there are numerous issues here.

> This would virtually make inference free right?

Yes-ish, if you are only counting your dollars, however it will slow their computer down and have slow response time, which will impact adoption of your game.

If you want to go this route, I'd start with a 2B sized model, and not worry about shipping it nicely. Get some early users to see if this is the way forward.

I suspect that remote LLM calls with sophisticated caching (cross user / convo / pre-gen'd) is something worth exploring as well. IIRC, people suspected gtp3-turbo was caching common queries and avoided the LLM when it could, for the speed
Any test checks how good are you at taking this test. I've not seen evidence that at some complexity level it stops correlating with success in university, have you?
> ChatGPT is currently king of the mountain.

This is completely false. Claude Opus is significantly better than GPT 4.

> Mistral/Mixtral (decent with no censoring/guard rails)

These models have been heavily censored, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Community efforts like Dolphin to fine-tune Mixtral have some success, but no, Karen is definitely still hard at work in France, ensuring that Mistral AI's models don't offend anyone's precious fee-fees.
> But I also see variations on that elitism around Stanford, Google, and some other Bay Area icons.

Absolutely! And no place is without it's elitism. It's just annoying that Boston's is based on a specific identity that cannot be absolved (where you went to school for elementary, high, then college) versus something that adults have some autonomy to define (Cambridge and Somerville was much more refreshing, but the same issues persisted underneath).

That said, everyone should cut people to size whenever any form of elitism arises. It's all bullshit, we make good money - what's the point about clinging to a specific identity.
Probably quantisation.

I own a 4090 and I can only run very heavily quantised 33B models. It's not really worth it.

My LLM server with 16gb gpu mainly runs llama3 with expanded context window which also costs much more memory.
I'll introduce this at my next soirée and report back on how it takes.

Denfensiveness from guests will only implore me further.
It's not esoteric to biologists but genetic engineering. Everything is written in assembly and the execution environment is non deterministic and 3 dimensional.
The way strings resonate means the tone you hear contains the fundamental tone and a number of higher harmonics of that tone. Depending on where (and how) you play the string you can emphasise the harmonics more or the fundamental tone more.

Here for example is a piece made up largely of the harmonics (Portrait of Tracy Jaco Pastorius) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk That's an electric bass and the bell-like sounds are harmonics. Basically he's just lightly touching the string in specific places to suppress the fundamental tone so you just hear the harmonics.

Whereas here (Stir it up - Bob Marley and the Wailers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwL3S3Gtzs when the bass comes in, the player is holding his hand near the bridge (back of the strings) with the side of the palm resting on the strings to suppress all the harmonics so you only get the fundamental tone and it has this sort of muffled quality (because a lot of the brightness comes from harmonics).
If only there was some kind of algorithm telling us how to deal with this exploration-exploitation dilemma...
A tractor was originally a "traction engine", to distinguish it from the steam engines you would haul around with horses to power equipment.
This is true. But for me, personally, the increased safety measures aren't worth the cost of having to put up with the data collection.
What compatibility is going to be broken?
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One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid
> Why have UIs gotten so sparse?

"Mobile first"

p.s. oops, sorry, not the first comment of this kind. well, it's just obvious
You write like why the lucky stiff the author of why's poignant guide.
In my language, everything is a motor and the "engine" root is only used in engineer.
My native language is German. We only have the word Motor. Thought engine is just the 1:1 translation of it, but apparently not.
The the kid who went 1940s viral for his week at the cinemas in San Francisco
Firstly, there's less conflation these days - go see recent banner wording for yourself. Secondly, if you're still just acknowledging Wikipedia hosting costs - and thus pretending there's (for example) no legal work necessary for it - I don't think people are getting through to you as they should.
(And no, I'm not saying all legal work we do is a strict necessity for Wikipedia. Some is a strict necessity, and some is strategic e.g. an amicus, or the NSA lawsuit - but the latter does help secure a healthy environment for it and future projects that might want to take its place.)
> 6 months from AGI over a year ago

where did they say this?

> Where's Q*

These are internal techniques. As you might have noticed, nobody is publishing.

I remember the articles Gary Marcus wrote early on, which is why I know how incorrect he is. His pessimism about capabilities was severely misplaced which is why he has pivoted to copyright. Now he's even reposting people saying that Sam Altman doesn't care enough about extinction risks? His critiques aren't even self-consistent or coherent.
this is really weird to me. its a fault of the director, if i understand your position on this
So it's a gpt-4 device with a camera? It's like siri plugged to gpt-4. I can see the attraction (though would still prefer my phone) but then then don't have the "AI" anymore than anyone else in this field.
Why does this require elevated privileges to run? Seems ridiculous for a top-like tool.