skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations on building something of value and successfully selling it. It's quite the achievement and most don't get to this level.

I do have to say, I was somewhat surprised by the low multiple on the valuation, but perhaps that's just what the range is for a business of this nature. We're spoiled in the world of software and recurring revenue.

What about the tax implications of the sale. Have you figured out how much of the sale you'll be able to put in your pocket?
Generally I dedicate a drive to Linux and a separate drive to Windows, using a full disk option for Linux install. So, you are right, I'm unlikely to see a lot of the issues you mention.

I rsync my home directory, at least the subdirectories that matter to me, to my NAS and have scripts to do the inverse on a new config. A lot of what is important to me is either in my Dropbox directory, or in git(hub|lab) repositories. I don't have much else that concerns me generally on my local system.

I appreciate what Pop has done above/beyond Gnome, and looking forward to Cosmos, even if it may be a while.
Microsoft drops AC-3 (Dolby Digital) Codec support in Windows 11 version 24H2
I'm honestly not sure on how to measure the amount of vRAM required for these models but I suspect this would run relatively fast, depending on your use case, on a mid to high end 20 or 30 series card. No idea about Apple unified RAM. I get a lot out of performance out of even older cards such as a 1080ti but haven't tested this model.
I addressed the issue of abortion wrt rights elsewhere in this thread.
You mean like in their example VS code integration shown here?:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjltGOJMJZA
The license for this [1] prohibits use of the model and its outputs for any commercial activity, or even any "live" (whatever that means) conditions, commercial or not.

There seems to be an exclusion for using the code outputs as part of "development". But wait! It also prohibits "any internal usage by employees in the context of the company's business activities". However you interpret these clauses, this puts their claims and comparisons on completely unequal ground. They only compare to other open-weight models, not GPT-4 or Opus, but a normal company or individual can do whatever they want with the Llama weights and outputs. LangChain? "Your favourite coding and building environment"? Who cares? It seems you're not allowed to integrate this with anything else and show it to anyone, even as an art project.

[1] https://mistral.ai/licenses/MNPL-0.1.md
The article says that the model is available in Tabnine, a direct competitor to Copilot.
Nice! I’d love to know if AI-Ad / tracking / telemetry / etc blocking could be improved for MITM network layer filtering not just the browser.
California did way more installation with higher labor costs and lower solar potential though.
and for reference see how it's done in wazero https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero/blob/c397a402ad17e495a...
When you drive through California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico it's surprising that not every house has solar plants and the deserts isn't full of large solar plants. If there ever has been an area that's perfect for solar, it's the southwest of the US.
Speaking purely philosophicaly if you cloned a person, fed them memories, asked them a question and then killed them right after, would they not be sentient?

It's really quite hard to come up with simple tests like these.
Ro GLP-1 Supply Tracker
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You're talking about a part of the country with chronic job shortages. Concretely, they have a low employment rate and a high number of unemployed people.
Ha. Classic techie parachuting in and incorrectly intuiting how something works. Show me earplugs that REDUCE equally across all frequencies and I’ll invest every dollar I have to my name.
Lombok uses the annotation processor to bootstrap itself. That particular part of Lombok is uncontroversial and is in fact well-documented and used by other tools.

The parts of Lombok you have an issue with are not impacted by this change.
Probably the Strand in NY qualifies. Although it's probably mostly small niche indies (and some a bit bigger) that are the most interesting other than the big outliers.
Apple lost is ability to inovate or see beyond $$$
Because of a lack of transmission lines and storage.
- labour still somewhat cheaper

- vastly easier land use situation, and impossibility of local protest

- the big one: synergy. Making batteries and electronics and steel parts all comparatively close to each other inside the same customs zone.

- less regulatory capture (they actually have to compete!)
Amazing work! Tutorial: <https://slipshow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html>
Are we supposed to believe that 5 eyes aren't doing it already?
I thought the best response from the article was the 426 Upgrade Required. That way you can throw in an Upgrade: https field in the response. It makes it immediately clear that something weird is going on. 403s are common, my first thought would be a badly-configured API key which lacks the expected permissions.
In Linux, everything is a file / a file descriptor. In Windows, everything is a handle (except sockets, which are copied from BSD).

In Linux, configuration is done via plain text files. In Windows, there is the registry.

In Linux, there is the root filesystem, where everything else is mounted beneath. In Windows, there is C: and more.

In Linux, the native string encoding is UTF-8 code units stored in char of one byte size. In Windows, the native string encoding is UTF-16, stored in wchar_t of two bytes size.

In Linux, there is fork. In Windows, there is no fork.

In Linux, there is no unified graphics API. There is GTK and Qt for UI, and OpenGL and Vulkan for games (roughly speaking). On Windows, there is Win32, WinForms, WPF, WinUI, DirectX and also OpenGL and Vulkan.
Shadow libraries did more to democratize anything than LLMs. And following a book like Elixir in Action (Manning) will get you there faster than chatting with LLMs or copilot generating code for you.
Rights is well developed subject in modern ethics, and it doesn't require God or morality in the sense of "Doing X is bad and therefore immoral". But any discussion of rights is discussion of moral theory.

Modern ethical philosophers have developed ethic theories that propose secular basis for universal rights, moral theory that doesn't rely on God (Rawls is a famous example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice)
Strikes included hospitals, places of worship, civilian homes, and so on. I had no idea at the time either.
> One of the essential characteristics of general intelligence is “sentience,” the ability to have subjective experiences... Sentience is a crucial step on the road to general intelligence.

This also... not substantiated.
"pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain" is the natural state of living things. It is an invaluable drive that has brought about the vast wealth of this society we live in. It has driven people to explore the secrets of the universe and to build amazing things. This drive has been unceasingly pushing us toward a world with less pain and unfairness, with more equity and kindness since the dawn of humanity. That is an admirable quality in my eyes.

Sadness and suffering too, are a natural part of being alive and isnt something we should avoid. If I lost the ability to hike I would be sad. Because thats the appropriate and healthy reaction to losing something you care about. This sadness and suffering is part of the natural process of grief. When I have lost loved ones I have deeply grieved them with my entire being. I have mourned with every ounce of my self and eventually come through the other side able to move on. I would have it no other way. This process does not preclude finding other sources of happiness later but it is important to go through.

That "deeper source of wellbeing" you talk about is the fantasy part. Can you touch it? can you tell it you love it? Can you share it around a table with people you care about?
Or, because it's much cheaper per watt to put PV in large utility-scale fields than on millions of fiddly roofs.
This fails the brain-in-vat test. Put mine in one, give it the exact same signals, and I’m still sentient and will experience hunger even without a stomach.

Or even without the science fiction: people with amputated limbs frequently report phantom itches on them.
VSCode is proprietary.

That's why the difference between Codium and VSCode matters. Actually, IIRC the code from the ms repo does not do telemetry, they add it to the binary they distribute.
I get that it’s usually seen as bad practice to write down all the points and read from the slides, but honestly, I like that style sometimes. My monkey brain gets distracted easily, and I often lose track. Having detailed agendas displayed on the screen helps me follow along better.
Just gets stuck at an enter password screen for me. No matter what password I enter, it gives an error.
Exactly, expecting one shot 100% working code with one prompt is ridiculous at this point. It's why libraries like Aider are so useful, because you can iteratively diff generated code until it's useable.
Not being able to produce the core technology we depend has hamstrung us.
Wait for a gguf release of this and it will fit neatly into a 3090 with a decent quant. I'm excited for this model and I'll be adding it to my collection.
I see your point but hand holding isn't really a good way to benchmark a models coding capabilities.
Off topic maybe, but would like recommendations for macOS too, especially C/C++ given that everything is Swift now while I suspect that even so major apps are not using Swift. Windows has much more available.[1], [2]

[1]:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/win...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Kernel-Programming-Pavel-Yosi...
I can't get the link to work at the moment so I was wondering: are the stats being covered here including or excluding EVs? I've read elsewhere that EV repair costs are artificially high due to various other factors surrounding the manufacture and distribution of their parts versus ICE vehicles, not only but especially the batteries being SO expensive that it borderline out-prices a new car.
I got 99 problems but Altman ain’t one
Prompts like yours (I ask them for a fluid dynamics simulator which also doesn't succeed) inform us of the level they have reached. A useful benchmark, given how many of the formal ones they breeze through.

I'm glad they can't quite manage this yet. Means I still have a job.
Yeah, we don't really have any reason to think it's essential. Probably very helpful though!
People don't use Plugin Hybrids that way, though. Studies have shown people don't plug them in. Which is exactly what you should expect because someone buys a hybrid because they want to continue driving an ICE car.
While not exactly the same, I came across an app called Tunity the other day. It allows you to use your phone camera to catch the live audio feed of the television that you are attempting to watch, whether the audio is muted or if it's in a loud, crowded location, like a sports bar or airport. I haven't used it, but it's an interesting concept.
Renters won’t pay for solar panels the landlord gets to keep and the landlords don’t pay the power bills so they don’t care.
> currently, there are 6 billion people on our plant, and 10 billion running cars. This is because most families own an average of two to three cars

False and false. According to more reputable sources, there are only ~ 1.5 billion cars in the world. And to the many families that own two or more cars in the US, there are many more families that own 0 cars elsewhere in the world...
HIKARU SULU: "You try to cross brains with Walter, he'll cut you to pieces every time." - from The Corbomite Maneuver
Over 100 Buddhist universities have been found across India Pakistan Bangladesh Afghanistan etc .. How many do you think they should cover? Also several Mahaviharas exist which are now serving as X-ishwara temples, where votive stupas are being worshipped as Shivas ling (phallus). The whole of India was a major buddhist educational hub. Nalanda was the most famous because several chinese travellers have studied in it, which makes it very important. As there notes is our source to determine Indias Buddhist past.
Powell's original location in Portland is nothing short of amazing. Its a multi story bookstore that is well organized and easy to browse, its really quite an experience for any who may describe themselves as a 'book lover' or 'book connoisseur'.

Its really an enjoyable experience.
How can you possibly know this? Has your brain been in a vat?
In my experience these tools amplify the quality of a programmer.

I have seen good programmers dramatically increase their productivity, but I've also seen others copy-pasting for loops inside other for loops where one loop would definitely suffice. We're not quite there yet.
I actually had this dilemma when I last voted.

I was deciding on who to vote for. I liked through all the political parties and picked one.

I liked the overall party platform. I liked the first and second candidate in my district, but the third candidate's description on the party website read like a caricature of an online radical feminist. (She seemed so out of place for the party because she had recently switched parties.)

I debated whether I should even vote for the party, because I did not want her to get elected. After looking at some previous results and electoral math I realized that it's very unlikely that she could get elected.
Today's AI isn't sentient. Here is how we know.

1. We pull out our precise definition of "sentient" that everyone agrees upon.

2. The definition gives us a precise, iron-clad test procedure which we can apply to an object to get a yes-or-no answer.

3. The answer is false for today's AI.

Any questions?
Why can't "dampen" be applied to oscillators? It means "To lessen; to dull; to make less intense" in this case.
I observe that current AIs are not embedded in time, and while we may not be able to agree exactly what "sentience" and "experience" is, "change over time" seems a basic requirement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727428

(Contrarians, or meta-contrarians, may jump up to claim otherwise, but I would say that while the question of what a non-temporal consciousness could hypothetically be may be fun to debate, it is also so far out of our experience that it is clearly not what we generally mean by the term and is therefore a completely different conversation.)

LLMs do not strike me as amenable to fixing this. But that only applies to LLMs, not to any future architectures.
Does Time have any in-depth analysis anymore? This seems like a rather shallow take on the subject.

""All sensations—hunger, feeling pain, seeing red, falling in love—are the result of physiological states that an LLM simply doesn’t have.""

Sensors?

Why call out LLMs specifically? Other AI technologies, combined with sensors and goals. That would lead to AI having these 'internal responses'
The primary HTML page which contains the integrity attributes is not served from a CDN as it is dynamic and not able to be cached.

Cloudflare isn't a CDN; It is a MITM.
Solar is being built quite quickly these days, and in areas that have much less expected solar influx. So labor isn't it.
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Nice that at least, the authors are trying to define a practical test for sentience, and do not remain in the subjective realm. There are 2 problems though:

1. If an actor says "I am hungry" during a theater play, he is not reporting his internal state, but merely playing along. The LLM might always be in a "play along" mode, and have its own thoughts (which it keeps to itself) about its situation. It might also not be able to articulate the feelings in natural language, just like normal people cannot communicate feelings in sign language (for all we know, LLM might even choose to communicate its feelings in a different way, e.g. hallucinate when annoyed).

2. LaMDA AI allegedly reported its own state of sadness and fear of death. So there are self-reported internal states that we cannot associate with any objective state of the system.

But I don't want to dismiss it entirely (though I think the article is pretty lazy); I think better tests of consciousness can be devised, along the lines of comparing objective circumstances and subjective experiences.
Those are great links -- thanks a lot for this
When it first launched it, I too didn't know they had changed the model from the original codex which came similar time as gpt-3.5
The problem, as usual, is that we don't have a solid understanding (or even definition) of what sentience actually is. The only thing that we can say with certainty is that we experience it.

This gives wide latitude for moving the goalposts by asserting a specific definition that is favorable to whatever it is you've built.

It gives an equally wide latitude for dismissing what's been built as not being actually sentient by defining "sentience" in a way that makes the dismissal true.
Not all livestock is so lucky to have been born a cow.
Wow, I figured this would have been the most basic level of common knowledge for LLM end-users by this point. I guess there is still a surprising amount of people out there who haven't jumped on the bandwagon.
It's horrible what we do to AI today.
I'm one of those annoying ADHD people who will hear everything you're saying, ask "What?," and then a second later I've finished processing the audio in my head and am ready to continue the conversation. Similarly, I can't readily differentiate voices from melody in songs. Far too many songs don't have strong enough vocal tracks and the songs might as well just be mud to me. I suppose it's why I gravitated towards rap and R&B growing up.
I totally agree, that's what I had to do with my patchbot that evaluates haproxy patches to be backported ( https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/tree/master/dev/patchbot/ ). Originally it would just provide a verdict and justify it and it worked extremely poorly, often with a justification that directly contradicted the verdict. I swapped that by asking the analysis and the final verdict and now the success rate is totally amazing (particularly with mistral that remains unbeatable at this task by obeying extremely well to instructions).
Powells is amazing! We love taking the kids there, browsing, picking up some new books, and all four of us reading in the cafe.
Yup thats basically what most AR glasses are capable of (or in the case of the linked aria glasses, research device that does have all the sensors.)

but you don't need eye tracking all the time, as most you can latch on to the location of the speaker without looking at them continuously.

The possibilities are rather good, but it needs someone willing to fund the research
EVs already drastically reduce our need for kWh by virtue of being so muck more efficient than ICE vehicles. Add on other much more efficient technologies and we will need far less energy per household in the future than we do today.

However, even if that were not true, we could still easily replace all our current consumption with renewables. The idea that we can't is another fossil fuel industry lie.
Not sure if the ARM Surfaces have WSL2 but if yes, that alone would be a very serious consideration for my next enterprise laptop requisition, because Apple very obviously doesn’t care.
How I interact with new model reports at this point: Open the page, ctrl + f, "gpt-4" and skip the rest.
Break your prompt up into smaller pieces and it can.
> As such, it makes no sense to repair a totaled vehicle. You should instead buy a comparable used vehicle.

I sometimes wonder how much the carbon footprint of the auto industry would change if people preferred to fix them instead of throwing the whole thing away just because of a fender bender or an expensive part broke
It's something I know how to do after figuring it out myself and discovering the potential sharp edges, so I've made it into a fun game to test the models. I'd argue that it's a great prompt (to keep using consistently over time) to see the evolution of this wildly accelerating field.
It always irked me when people called it the Second Iraq War. From my recollections, people always referred to the war in the 90's as the Persian Gulf War and it was instigated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The war in the 2000's struck me as the poorly justified invasion of another nation. While there were legitimate grievances against Iraq, they were not the types of grievances that should escalate into war.
I'm skeptical. I've run into people who used LLMs to code, then can't debug it without someone else's help. It may get you 80% there though.
Unamusingly, there have been instances of Seamless and similar setting up virtual storefronts online for small local restaurants, and then demanding a cut after a phone call order went routed via them. I have caught this a couple of times and have had to work a bit to find the actual restaurant's contact info to place an order.
What are your thoughts on the 80,000lb semi trucks, laden with (admittedly less) volatile and explosive fuel, driving through your community without needing to publicly report telemetry and routing details?
I am not deeply read on this subject, but the loss of President Diem profoundly impacted South Vietnam in an adverse manner for the U.S. efforts to maintain the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

There was also great turmoil in the U.S. at the time (as we remember with the approaching DNC convention in Chicago). Nixon implemented an effort to distance the U.S. from the situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization

Watergate closed the door on efforts to maintain South Vietnam.
There's also a pretty useful criminal application of listening in on people without them knowing.
I've been blogging on wordpress.com since 2006 and think writing for the Internet still underrated (a point Patrick Collison and many others have also made). At some point I got a custom domain, which I then thought I'd renewed but hadn't (ambiguous emails from Wordpress) and switched to a different custom domain.

I see a lot of complaints, often justified, about the dominance of the big social media companies, but not nearly as many people deciding to go their own, off those sites.
I like Etymotic (https://www.etymotic.com). The design lowers the decibels without affecting the sound too much. I used to play in a band with a drummer who always wore their high-end plugs which you have to have molded to your ear canals, but they also make cheaper standardized ones that do a good job.
Indeed, though I'm not clear on your deiknymi, it's quite hard to determine sentience.

IMHO the Turing test has not aged well, and is insufficient to really answer the question; It's now quite possible to make something that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, etc, but that is clearly, on close inspection, not actually a duck.
It's more like a demo version you can evaluate before you need to buy a commercial license.

On whose code is Mistral trained?
Change 19812 to 19748 (or 9874) to apply your suggestion, if you wonder. It's a simple bitmap encoding.