skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I just reproduced the GPT2 from scratch results in 8.75 hours on 4x 7900 XTX. The fork is here: https://github.com/anthonix/llm.c
> Will you pay the cost difference afterwards?

Are you asking if I would be willing to pay more money for goods that don't irreversibly destroy ocean ecosystems and that aren't made with slave labor?

I struggle to imagine the kind of person who would say no to such a question. Someone with no money in a country with no safety net on the verge of starvation? Someone with no moral comapass?

> I kinda don't like the taste of bugs.

I don't understand what bugs have to do with ocean trawling. Is this an unusual way of referring to lobster?
I agree with you. LLMs seem to be proof that general intelligence doesn't require sentience.

I do think that there is an important moral distinction between sentient beings and not.
> Natural rights do really require theism to be truly natural, ie, independent of morality and society. Theism avoids the is-ought problem by forgoing the ought, with theism natural law can simply be, and whether you decide you ought to abide them is no longer so important.

Hume's original text describing the is-ought problem is specifically targeting justification of ethics on god. Laws that no one is ought to abide by are no laws but nonsense.

Is murder immoral because god hate murder, or do god hate murder because it is immoral?

> At the end of the day, secular natural rights is an intuitive and appealing but ungrounded position that cannot be logically justified

Many will argue that no moral theory can be logically justified, and that the search for logical justification is category error
Ah good point. Thanks.
> but isn’t it pretty obvious to everyone who has done both that the biggest advantage of working in person is high-bandwidth communication?

High-bandwidth is some forms of communication. While the office environment harms severely other forms of communication.

Personally, I've noticed those make for a small share of my work needs. Overall, I communicate much better remotely.
I'll add to that and say that a very large portion of the best authors likely built an online audience long before they published any books. It was the existing fame that made their books sell rather than a book making them famous.
A Simple New Technique Could Make Your Eggs More Humane
https://archive.today/XbhBs

Org: https://www.innovateanimalag.org/

Related: https://press.asimov.com/articles/before-they-hatch

Discovered: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-may-2024
Okay, but it does seem that this hack is in the entirely opposite direction; a pure transformer is more towards "learning to learn" than any special preprocessing to explicitly encode a different representation of numbers.

We probably do have to move beyond transformers, but not in the direction of such hacks, but rather towards even more general representations that could encode the whole class of all such alternate representations and then learn from data which of them work best.
Depends if benchmarking is the aim, rather than decreasing the time it takes to build things.
Well said. Blink Shell is one of the few apps that justifies its price point and they have actively worked hard to bring more features to it over the years. Even so, since its release it’s been the best shell app on iOS bar none.
He hasn't needed them the last 10 years so he can probably hold out 10 more years.
Next month

https://www.pcmag.com/news/rip-ublock-origin-google-proceeds....
Seed? Use a TRNG. Every embedded processor (nearly) has a NIST qualified TRNG. Ring-oscillator for entropy, plus conditioning (whitening), there's your seed. Sometimes amplified thermal noise, but the ROSC is the easiest to manufacture.
We don't know, maybe it has.
It is occupied — the West Bank by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt

I think what you mean to say here is that these were the last modern states to hold recognized sovereignty over the respective territories. But of course they exercised any control over those places since 1967.

Historically, these areas were never considered Palestinian

Correct if, again, one is thinking in terms of a sovereign Palestine state. However there has been nonetheless distinct Palestinian identity in formation since the 19th century, or possibly further depending on whom you ask (even if it didn't align exactly with European models for such at the time).

Given this background, many Israelis believe that the Palestinian struggle against Israel has not primarily been about establishing an independent nation to coexist peacefully alongside Israel. Rather, they view the aim of the struggle as attempting to dismantle Israel as a Jewish state by systematically challenging its historical and political legitimacy.

This is pretty good summation of the mainstream position within Israel society. A corresponding view of the current mainstream Palestinian position might go like this:

Given this background, many Palestinians believe that current Israeli policy is not about establishing its own security (and certainly not within 1967 borders), but about the continuing removal from, and/or permanent subjugation of the Palestinian people within the Occupied Territories. In particular, they see absolutely no interest in a 2SS solution on the Israeli side. They therefore see the dismantling of the Israeli state not just as the only viable alternative to their own destruction, but as a historical inevitability.

That seems to be what it comes down to. The question is -- where to go from here.
A big factor is that battery storage wasn't there technologically until recently. You could cover Arizona in solar, but that just pushes the price of power down during daytime hours to $0. It doesn't help during the pinch times of late afternoon through sundown, when everything is still really hot, but solar produces significantly less. We need tons of batteries to store the excess solar from mid-day until the evening. Those batteries are being built very fast, but at the scale we need them, it will still take years.

This story is also a good illustration of why local government matters. National races get most of the media attention, but your personal day-to-day is more affected by your local government.
The Atlantic, Vox Media ink licensing, product deals with OpenAI
Attempts at compensating for the westernism of science generally have not gone well. A notable example is Lysenkoism. The USSR was generally pretty good at science -- it wouldn't have even been in the space race if it wasn't -- and it was worst precisely where it prioritized ideology over methodology. Let's please not repeat the same mistake, especially not in the actual west.

If new science genuinely corrects old science, fantastic, everyone benefits. That should be through the scientific method itself, not through ideological critique.
There's some irony in the fact that people will ignore this license in exactly the same way Mistral and all the other LLM guys ignore the copyright and licensing on the works they ingest.
Can you please quote in particular where unisuper mentions that the backups at Google were deleted?

Like I keep saying, nothing in the primary sources supports the claims either that backups or that the accounts were deleted. You've jumped to a particular conclusion, and seem unwilling adjust that conclusion in light of new evidence.
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy
This reminds me of the Computer Literacy Bookshops in Silicon Valley. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops
I've met people who believe that there are good guys and bad guys, that they are the good guys, and that there should be no protections for the bad guys.

You can't convince them that to others, or in the future, they might be seen as the bad guys. Because that just isn't true -- they're the good guys.
Ghidra uses Swing, which is almost the exact opposite of what Eclipse uses (SWT). Swing can be made to look very nice as shown by these demos:

https://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/demos/

Ghidra could use a Swing refresh, but its UI/UX has more to do with the lack of
a UI/UX designer than Swing itself.

Additionally, all of IntelliJ products use Swing and I consider their UI's to be beautiful. So, it's not the UI toolkit, but rather the implementation.
Rather than teasing it might be more productive to explain why it is you think unified memory isn't relevant in this case.
All the big providers seem to have this odd model of "We use E2E encryption, but we do unencrypted backups by default".

iMessage and Whatsapp are both this. Since you only need one participant in a conversation to not enable backup encryption, I would guess that law enforcement has cleartext access to over 99% of messages sent by americans.

The next question is do they only have access to certain messages on request, or do they get a near real time feed. Things like this[1] suggest they had a real time feed of all messages, and I doubt they would be allowed to lose that ability.

[1]: https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...
No, it's not. There's useful communication and there's spam. Those exist on every media.

Spoken spam is a really bad problem with offices.
Sentience is a distraction.

It matters not if it has an inner life, all that matters is if can mimic your intelligence enough to put you out of a job and make your masters think your life is no longer relevant.

I’ve built transformer tech myself and it’s pretty clear how attention technology mimics reasoning. And how with more realtime inputs plus reflection it will be able to mimic goal orientation and motivations.

It may not need to be alive to replace us.
I would not wake up at 4am. I am much more interested in making the bread, baking is the easiest part. I would hire a night owl to do the baking. Everything else can be baked for lunch.
Clearing the people out of Ottawa took far too long. The local police were cozy with the truckers and the entire downtown of a metro area with a million people was shut down for a month.

People complain about left-leaning protests taking over a public park - these guys took over multiple public spaces in multiple parts of the city. About a square mile in the middle of the city.
It's end-to-end audio, in the sense that you speak and it will reply audibly, all without visibly transcribing your words into a prompt and submitting (it may in fact be employing STT->LLM on the backend, I don't know).

Works great in the car on speaker with the kids -- endless Harry Potter trivia, science questions, etc. I was completely blown away by the voice. Truly conversational.
With reasoning, and logic. Phantom limb syndrome is a real thing. Extending that to a 'phantom stomach' that always reports that it is empty (missing) is not far fetched...

So 'know': no, no one knows what it's actually like to be a brain in the vat... but it's a reasonably good guess that you might experience something like this.
>New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice

I think part of it is that most of us speak more loudly to others when we can't hear them very well, e.g. when wearing headphones or on a mobile in a train
It's worth basically nothing because no normal human only sends 'value' without receiving something.

Bitcoin did not solve any real problem and you still need an additional mechanism to make sure that the thing you get back, actually happens.
No worries, I knew that, it was more a jab to those kind of remarks that don't help anyone. Sorry if you got annoyed with your reference.
You know what else is absolutely scarce? Litecoin. And Solana. And XRP. And Cardano. And Avalanche. And Chainlink. And Bitcoin Cash. And Tron. And Ethereum Classic. And Stellar. And VeChain. And AlgoRand. And an infinite amount of other coins that anyone can invent at a moments notice.

Bitcoin only has value because someone else is willing to pay for it. That can hold true until it suddenly doesn't. If Bitcoin disappeared today, the world would go on without blinking. Nothing would stop functioning. That is of how little use it actually is.

That said, I'm a great believer in the meme value of Bitcoin and the greater fools. I hold several, with the belief that someday enough other fools will pay me a lot more fiat money to allow me to retire in style.
New defense budget includes a large portion dedicated to orbs for pondering raw intelligence and data.
I think it is just a colloquial numbering for clarity. That is why I do it.

The 90's war was with Iraq, that is who we were fighting against, and sometimes it is just easier to number them to differentiate from the one in the 2000's.
The killer bees are OP for some reason. I tried to get in my car and drive away and they broke through the windows.
If Altman has achieved success through force, fraud, or theft, then I oppose him.

If it's through selfish behavior, or hard-nosed behavior, it's ok with me. Just like there's nothing wrong with a football team who plays hard to win, as long as they stay within the rules.

Microsoft eventually defeated me in the C++ business. I don't fault them for that. They are hard-nose players, and I knew what the game was when I got into it. I'm actually friends with a few of their players.

Taking credit for what other people do is immoral, but leaders always do that, all the way up to the President.
> The LLM might always be in a "play along" mode, and have its own thoughts (which it keeps to itself) about its situation.

The LLM doesn't exist if I remove the power cable / hit it with Ctrl+C in terminal?
No. Maybe proof that some intelligence is encoded into the algebraic relationships between all the words ever written, but “general intelligence” would be a misleading way to describe it.
> just seemed like every single parking shade and roof could be covered in solar

Climbing around putting panels on top of everything is a lot more work than just putting them in a big field on the ground.
I'll add: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarCareNut

SUVs and smaller trucks are now almost universally moving to 4cyl and 6cyl turbos with iffy CVTs. The channels run by folks with greasy overalls are pretty uniform in saying these vehicles won't last like their predecessors (even the Toyotas).
Also, this has been going on since 2015, with serious escalation in 2018-2019, spanning a total of 4 governments, one of which didn’t include Netanyahu, two (and a half) included Netanyahu’s main oppositions.

Spying, and using nefarious methods to undermine international law seems to be a consistent policy of Israel regardless of who is in power.

Democracies usually have a set of policies which the public has no influence over, so perhaps, if given the choice, the Israeli public would vote to abolish these kinds of policies.

That said, these kinds of actions are usually followed by international (and—in case of democracies—domestic) condemnation, and in the worst cases (which this is) sanctions. In the case of Israel, the response seems to be a relatively small demonstrations (think Argentina if you want to see demonstration against actions the public really dislikes) and a lackluster international response. I don’t think Israel is likely to change these policies any time soon, unless the international response really steps up their pressure.
I’ve no idea what I would really use this for, and yet it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. My eyes are forever improved from having seen this.
I have been using Ollama to run the Llama3 model and I chat with it via Obsidian using https://github.com/logancyang/obsidian-copilot and I hook VSCode into it with https://github.com/ex3ndr/llama-coder

Having the chats in Obsidian lets me save them to reference them later in my notes. When I first started using it in VSCode when programming in Python it felt like a lot of noise at first. It kept generating a lot of useless recommendations, but recently it has been super helpful.

I think my only gripe is I sometimes forget to turn off my ollama systemd unit and I get some noticeable video lag when playing games on my workstation. I think for my next video card upgrade, I am going to build a new home server that can fit my current NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti and use that as a dedicated server for running ollama.
Alan Turing himself didn't propose "the Turing Test" as an actually meaningful test. It was just a thought experiment he called "the imitation game".

"According to Turing, the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve discussion."

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
The internet is still plenty open, people just prefer the path of least resistance
Sorry is the hardest word
The issue is that solar is produced when energy is cheapest during the day, and during the night when everyone returns home energy surges.[1] This means that the grid has to include non-solar backup generation that can exceed the peak generation of all the solar on the grid.

The real breakthrough for solar will have to come from energy storage advancements, such as cheap neighborhood-scale batteries. This will allow the energy created during the day by solar to be used at night when demand peaks.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
you can download MS documentation via visual studio installer. Under "Individual Components", it's called "Help viewer"
We are quite clear in the abstract and the paper that the predictions are conditional on the continuation of the smooth progress seen to date. Contrary to the GP's interpretation, these predictions are holding up well.
To me a more important part of sentience is a continuous existence. Today's AI is still very discrete. It exists and then it does not, repeated. Even large window sizes are still just discrete calculations before the model goes back to sleep. A mostly always-on streaming style architecture where the model is continuously fed input and sensory data and always processing it, whether or not it is being asked a question, is necessary for true sentience.
We may learn that the great mistake of the enlightenment era was as defining our human worth by our ability to think.

This of course has always been cruel to disabled people and we’ve just ignored along with ignoring them.

But when the tables turn and humanity is out thought by machines we may reconsider the last 300 years of philosophy.
I opened an issue with this. Maybe someone here knows.

I see a Python script I can run on my computer, I haven't tried it yet, but I think I could connect a microphone and process real-time audio and output it in real time, but I don’t know how to detect the user looking at someone. Could you tell me how that works?
In summertime van-life heat, one needs only fans.
I think the truckers were idiots and that their protest made no sense and probably made life for the average Ottawa resident very annoying at the time. I also think that freezing their bank accounts was huge government overreach and I'm sad that the consequence to the government for doing it have been basically non-existent.

In both Canada and the US each "side" loves ratcheting up government power against what they perceive as their political enemies. It's going to end in tears.
Nope, I don't know how to do it at all- that's why I have to ask AI!
What a weird article. As I understand it, the writer wanted to combine satire with some creativity with an emphasis on how the hip youth perceive themselves.

But I can also see how this was meant as a serious piece.

The best that this article can offer as a HN submission is a discussion on “so is weed good or bad” …
Right, I know the theory of how this can work - I just don't know who is actually running that trick in production.
A couple random thoughts.

20 years is a long time makes me wonder what the next 20 years of blogging/websites will look like.

As beginner in web development I'm jealous of the simplicity of web development described at the beginning of the post.

Finally I've held off on putting comments/a guestbook on my website for the same reasons. I don't think I have even close to enough traffic for it to be a issue but if it ends up being one I don't want to deal with it.
So how would that help me to make sure I retrieve a product or service?

What happens when the product is faulty or not even arriving?
Seattle has a program to reimburse landlords for installing EV chargers. Used EVs are affordable now so I asked my landlord to take advantage of the program; it sounds like a win for everyone.

They couldn’t be bothered.
Philco Safari, the first portable television
Shouldn't rent increase proportionally to savings on electricity bill?
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LLM Leaderboard for Top StackOverflow Questions
Repo link from video description: https://github.com/kolbytn/mindcraft

Top-level JSON files seem to include all the prompts.

Cool concept! How was your process building and iterating on these prompts?
I think eventually there is nothing that can stop certain adds on Chrome once specific API's are removed, even using manifest 3. Maybe someone could chime in on this as its really confusing now since Google keeps pushing back the date to remove manifest 2. (This might be outdated info)
correct link: https://github.com/OpenNood/OpenNood
It's more about an unused product that requires a lot more than just hosting git

Everyone expects integrations, issues, PRs, CI systems that tightly integrate. I tried it as an alternative to GitHub, but it never got the love it needed to reach that point. Google does their code repositories & builds very differently internally than the rest of us on the outside do
I don't think you understand how boards operate, especially in this case. It was the board of the OpenAI __non-profit__, of which Microsoft was _not_ an investor. In this case, their fiduciary duty was not to their shareholders, but rather to the company charter.
I agree. I think many people confuse LLM abilities because LLMs are so similar to humans that users expect them to do everything humans can do. Remembering what was said is a basic human ability, so it might surprise some users that LLMs can’t do that (although ChatGPT has recently implemented a memory feature).
I think the biggest issue today is it's hard to find blogs and other tiny websites via search engine. You almost have to be on social media for people to find your website.
They'd massively alienate a large and motivated subset userbase with the ability to build viable alternatives to Google products or at least build more active means to cirvumvent their platform restrictions.
This is an interesting take, that I think might hold some water. With a budget of $59 million (according to wikipedia), they are definitely a small entity in the grand scheme of the US Government. Big enough to run their reports, but not big enough to stop them from being ignored if they are the only (or one of the few) going against the popular consensus.

Also, while I am not anywhere familiar with them enough to know their overall track record, even if they did correctly predict the topics listed in the article 'correct', that is three items in 60 years? I'd be curious to know how their intelligence has compared with the numerous things inbetween. That would be a huge lift though.

Still fun/interesting to learn about these agencies, even as someone who grew up in the US and took higher level classes on US Government, you never really get a complete view everything.
https://archive.is/wfXdy