skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps we’re on our way to the inevitable outcome of being much nicer to criminals by pure coincidence of determinism :)
Now reading Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker. Recommend
One quarter is noise, not a trend.
Loophole can be small, but when exploited properly, an elephant can walk right through it. And you also chose to ignore the part about unintended consequences..

All it really takes to even consider moving into this direction is to propose a solution to this. "Stop plastic" is not it due to practical reasons. I wouldn't know what a proper solution would be, nor would I have the expertice to recognize one when proposed, but is there even a realistic proposal?
I think that's why they mentioned Ukraine - to point out that it's always in Snowden's best interest to be critical of the US and US things, and remind us to bear that in mind when considering him and what he says.
Yes.... you wind up with business people who know a ton about business but nothing about software engineering.

No version control, no approval process, no source code repository, no unit or regression testing, no logging, no test vs production environment, no central place where all code/macros are saved, no documentation.
”They saw it differently, Harris said. The federal government was preparing to make a massive investment in cloud computing, and Microsoft wanted the business. Acknowledging this security flaw could jeopardize the company’s chances, Harris recalled one product leader telling him. The financial consequences were enormous. Not only could Microsoft lose a multibillion-dollar deal, but it could also lose the race to dominate the market for cloud computing.”

There is something fundamentally broken about an organization’s culture when this type of thinking is pervasive in the organization.
I mean Israel should withdraw, sign the peace deal to get the hostages free, send Netanyahu and Gallant to the ICJ, and pay reparations to rebuild Gaza.

That can take a 3% discount, for the October 7 attacks, given that they've taken at least 30 civilian lives for every one they lost.
Becauae every time they have a chance to oay for it but also hace a free option they choose the free option.
Imagine an autonomous robot programmed with this algorithm just walking around in the world learning about it. So excited about the future!
I assume that for some, the soul is an analogy for free will, which is why it’s so hard for them to separate the ideas
Is Russia still the global leader in titanium production?
You have a choice, and it is simple. Earn money. Buy GPUs. Download llama3 or comparable open models. Run them. After you do, to the maximum extent possible, stop using the OpenAI LLMs. Stop willingly feeding the surveillance industrial complex.
> I think sleeping is like weight loss, it's really simple but people don't want to do what's necessary.

What an excellent comparison
> Source: The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178079/openai-board-pau...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680962 - Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board
Why is it called a standstill? A lot of words in that article and not much information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_standstill#Origin_of_nam...
> They can't sit and think about an answer; they can "think out loud", but they have to start talking, and they can't go back and say, "No wait, that's wrong, let's start again."

I mean, technically, they could say that.
Ilaria Salis released after 15 months in prison following MEP election win
Whether an employee is exempt from the legal protections requiring payment for overtime is defined by labor laws and is based upon the nature of the work performed by the employee.

Ever since labor laws were enacted, employers have fought tooth and nail to deprive employees of their rights. You won't find many violations in union shops. But private non-union labor is rife with labor violations and one of the biggest is the scam of having hundreds of Vice Presidents - almost all of whom perform work that is legally protected under the labor laws as requiring overtime pay - but for whom employers cheat because there is no mechanism for enforcement (other than an employee filing a complaint with the Labor Department - when almost nobody understands the laws and never question why they are a VP and why they are being paid a salary).
Remember when Mike Pompeo, who would go on to be both a CIA Director and Secretary of State, publicly called for Snowden to be executed. I do.
Large-Scale Automatic Audiobook Creation
Most of what I do is working with pre-recorded video, but for projects where I'm doing recording I tend to use h.264 since I don't have a lot of devices that support h.265 anyway, and picking one format with broad compatibility is generally more important to me than the efficiency gains I'd get using h.265 when I could.
We got an encyclopedia on craigslist free, and it’s great.

You can order new ones direct from World Book, and they offer steep discounts on ones that are a year or two old.
how he ended up there has no impact on what influence Putin has over him now. Which is a lot. And incase you don’t follow the war in Ukraine, where dissidents and journalists are jailed for straying even slightly from the main narrative. He doesn’t get a free pass, hes very likely pressured to a large degree especially given the influencer like status he wields.
I lived in Tokyo before Google Maps, and the answer was: printed maps. Every business card had a map on the back, every ad for an event had a map, every personal invitation had a hand-drawn map. But yeah, if you were going somewhere as a group, you'd meet at a known point (outside train station etc) and then head over together.

If you were roughing it on your own and only had the address, things got more interesting. Train stations always had detailed maps of major landmarks, so finding those was not an issue. If you were looking for something too small to be covered (say, a restaurant), you'd head to the chōme and then start winnowing down. Police boxes (koban) always had detailed neighborhood maps bolted to a wall nearby listing every single business and family by name, albeit usually in handwritten Japanese only, and you could ask the cops for directions too.

The final boss was the non-linear numbering house scheme though. Some friends and I once spent a fruitless hour searching for the HR Giger bar in Tokyo, which we knew was at X-Y-Z, but only managed to find X-Y-(Z+1) and X-Y-(Z-1).
I think the branching factor for LLMs is around 50k for the number of next possible tokens.
Quite the opposite. He's saying that OpenAI is a tool of the American surveillance state. I don't even really disagree with that.

Edward Snowden saying it while under the protection of the Russian government makes me look for ulterior motives. That's how we're supposed to treat disinformation, isn't it?
Maybe a big part of why the Russians are having issues with logistics is due to those ATACMs and such.
funny that now some softwares are hardware dependent

OpenCL seems like it's just obsolete
OpenAI is very guilty of pushing for regulation of AI, leading to all these issues in the first place. They themselves created the poison of regulation for which they now purchased the antidote. They had a choice to not scaremonger or push for regulation, but to fight for freedom on constitutional grounds.

Also, they should focus on developing AGI, not on buying wortheless executives that the consumer or taxpayer has to pay for.
Lunar Lander was one of the early games I tried to make a copy of as I was learning programming in high school: (Java applet!) https://github.com/celwell/space-landing
You can structure code; do it the right way. There is no right way to make a big (Excel) spreadsheet; they're not meant for that.
His opinions on the Russian intelligence apparatus are also curiously missing.
Huh, I never really thought about where the name “Block 37” came from, that’s pretty interesting!
For anyone immediately going to UAF 232 as an example please realize that this is titanium used in the air frame not the engine. The engine is under dramatically higher loads and is far more material fault intolerant. I'm not saying this isn't serious issue but this is not as severe a concern, otherwise the planes would be grounded already.
Was just playing with some other NTSB statistics and noticed the graph range doesn't shrink to fit, here's the continued risk decline: https://i.imgur.com/gKomsVa.png
Gaming on Linux is pretty good now for games that don't demand ring0-spyware.
I was most surprised to discover that the Cuban government releases its own version. I’m curious about the differences/additions between the “official” release and the pirate one. I can only speculate, but I would assume that the sanctioned one is likely to be instrumented and censored, possibly even with malware. The pirate site is blocked by my adblocker also, so it may not be any safer in that regard. I wonder if anyone has studied it.
The term 'hallucinations' is by now a common expression when speaking about the shortcomings of LLMs and Generative AI. However, I propose that the expression is misdirected at LLMs and takes away rather than adds to our understanding of the underlying issue.

It is humans who hallucinate when they expect an answer from an LLM that is 'truthful' or 'right' or 'correct'. The LLMs (as of June 2024) have no concept or understanding of truth, falsehood, right, wrong, correct or incorrect. Rather, when people claim that LLMs hallucinate, the LLMs are in fact generating responses and performing exactly as they are programmed to do.

However, humans should be forgiven for their hallucinations, because the interaction with the LLMs and the generated results are often designed by their makers to precisely give this unfortunate impression. Indeed, it is the unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs in the natural language domain and their successful application to many diverse tasks, that 'hallucinations' are now seen as the most serious defect of LLMs.
> The O stands for Oracle as far as I can tell

It doesn't. Opower was founded, under that name, in 2007. Oracle acquired it in 2016. Any suggestions the O in its name stands for "Oracle" are a retcon founded on a coincidence
The surface level parking lots downtown are worth a lot more than their use indicates.
It literally doesn't though. The wiki page is for copying tmux copy-mode's internal selection. The selection and copying mechanisms of the terminal emulator still work just as well.
What about Briar

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/
> the telecommunications infrastructure has been severely damaged

Distal to the tech here but man, once you see the passive voice vs active voice stuff on this issue, you really can't un-see it. Astounding.

Edit: finished the article. The tech here really is stunning -- like, the ratio of ingenuity to resources is insane.
How did you manage to live before GPT? Was it that bad? I still haven't used it and I'm doing fine.
Heads up: The “article” page has a warning that they’re moving to x.com. Time to add an entry to your filter list.

(I clicked the link to see what fresh breakage they’d display instead of the current tweet. Oddly, the article link works. That hasn’t happened to me in ages.)
That's called moderation, dude! :P

I think some moderation is important so things don't get out of control.
Yes, 25% more RAM is significant. As you said, the M1 has significantly less performance, but it has enough memory. We can infer that RAM is the deciding factor from that.
That's really neat. With layering, brush types, brush techniques, the amount of water on paper and brushes there are so many variations to experiment with.

> using photographs as inputs for representational paintings.

That would be fun, going from a picture to a water color image of it in a few minutes.
It's only a very vague distance in many places in the US as well, but it's typically between 100 and 200 meters.

In Manhattan (a popular location for US mass media) a block running north-south is 80 meters, but an east-west block is variable and about 250 meters.

Chicago also uses a rectangular block, but with east-west blocks being shorter at 100 meters and north-south blocks being 200 meters.

Where I live, a block is 160 meters downtown (10 blocks to a mile).
"I presume." There is a famous saying about assumptions that applies to you.
This was a great performing CPU when it came out 16 years ago: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-920+%...

The one discussed in the article has a similar performance with 1/10th the power consumption: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+J4125...

As usual, I think CPUs got "fast enough" for the majority of applications long ago, and it's only software inefficiency that has driven the need for more powerful hardware.
Seems unlikely that a computer was involved in this.
Have a 3 month old and I recently embarrassed myself when a coworker asked "how'd you go with problem x yesterday afternoon" and the best I could do is "sorry, I can't remember".
if they want you gone you may be able to negotiate this to e.g. control the timing
Unless your job maybe mandates it why do you have to participate?
Uri, co-founder of Waze, mentioned this on the Lenny's Podcast last week. I wonder if this prompted the post:

https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-a-two-time-unicor...
I’m interested in big circuits closer to wire wrapping scale but larger.

I don’t expect a need for high megahertz but would be interested what to expect trade offs to expect as I scale up.
What a delightful followup.

I just found out about "7 minutes in Heaven", but as it's described on the WWW, I'd hazard a guess Ken Jennings could in principle find himself dethroned simply by current technologies with copious amounts of reinforcement feedback (and letting Honda iterate a bit on the implementation).

Conquering Calvinball seems like it's going to require at least 810 and probably quite a bit beyond that.
Other way around. OpenAI and others are the new Google search. The likely suggestion is that OpenAI chats will just be another XKEYSCORE input and OpenAI's algorithms will assist in parsing/forming conclusions on existing data on behalf of the government (a likely bet as there are plenty of rumors swirling about government agencies integrating AI into their processes).
I appreciate the feedback, I'll take that into consideration!
> what do you think happens when the team has been culled?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, I see this as a long term trend that doesn't really have an end point.

There are always people that some manager wants to get rid of, for performance or unrelated reasons.

Employers are scared of getting sued for wrongful termination. Often they do it anyway, but then they need to make up a reason. They're decent at it already, but my prediction is that wrongful termination will become far more widespread and harder to detect or fight in court.

It won't stop though.
> Can you not symmetrically say that it's quite the cultural statement that porn outperforms most women on how to be attractive to men?

The difference is that people who don't have sex without emotional connection aren't forgoing it because they don't know how; they're just choosing not to. No one goes on dates intending to be a draining person to interact with, so there's something lacking there in terms of their ability to provide what others are looking for.

To be clear, none of this is inherently tied to gender; it even applies just as well to non-heterosexual dating. That being said, I don't think it's particularly uncommon for most people's experience to be that they encounter far more heterosexual men than women who cite their central problem in dating to be not finding anyone who will have sex with them. Assuming that trend is accurate, there's not really any explanation more plausible than men generally just being less capable of providing women are looking for in a man than vice-versa.
Yes, it's somewhat clear that some type collaboration between OpenAI and government is in place. But why it can be so dramatically bad?
All well and good until he rolls into a room where they are doing a Terminator movies marathon
> It's exactly as controversial as I think because I think it's as controversial as we have measured.

I wouldn't consider 60% agreement to be that controversial frankly, especially when the next most popular contender at 18% is the incoherent mess that is libertarian free will.

> Lay people are incoherent and childishly naive. I don't really care what they think.

You should, because 1) many trying to dismiss free will use lay people's alleged incoherent definitions, but that's the wrong way to question lay people because they don't think in denotational terms, and if you question them properly they have nuanced and coherent approaches to moral reasoning, and 2) making sense of free will is all about how lay people talk and reason about these concepts, and the point of the philosophical debate over free will is whether there is a coherent definition that can make sense of these arguments.

Furthermore, the paper I linked is directly relevant to your post because you made the claim that it's not how most people understand the term, and that paper casts some serious doubt on that position.

> This is a controversial claim. There are many popular counterarguments.

"Popular" quantified how exactly? Frankly this is even less controversial than the acceptance of Compatibilism, so I won't lose any sleep over it.
I've struggled with getting good sleep for much of my adult life. I also feel that I have a terrible long term memory in comparison with some of my peers. It all makes sense now.
You're talking about applying tree search as a form of network architecture search (NAS), which is different from applying it to LLM output sampling.

Automated NAS has been tried for (highly constrained) image classifier design, before simpler designs like ResNets won the day. Doing this for billion parameter sized models would certainly seem to be prohibitively expensive.
What a load of malarkey. I'm convinced the US will never get free healthcare because healthcare is used as leverage to keep the middle and wealthy class in check while also oppressing the lower class.
You know what they say: If I take out a loan of $1'000'000, and the bank wants it back, I have a problem.
If I take out a loan of $100'000'000'000, and the bank wants it back, the bank has a problem.
That coincidence plot in the paper is amazing. I wonder what the criteria was to include a pandemic episode.

In the last link I don’t see any correlation at all, these are are completely different time scales? And even if there was, it’s meaningless as you can probably find a dozen random graphs (price of milk, number of eggs laid per chicken, left-handed births or whatever) that happen to be a near-perfect match to solar cycles.
> They replaced vertical integration with circular blame.

Not sure if you came up with that line but it's gold.
Haha, good one. Well, I'm not saying there's no difference between programmers in terms of how well they can do their job. All I'm saying is the difference isn't reflected in the paycheck.

If you are a good programmer (ok, a 10x one!), then, eventually, one of these will happen to you:

* Despair. You come to despise the peers, the tools you have to work with, the market that will never acknowledge nor learn how to utilize your skills... and you become a vertical farmer, or an Irish pub owner, or a part-time elementary school PA teacher. (All of those I've witnessed firsthand.)

* Like I mentioned before, you become a manager. Or maybe go back to academia and become a professor. You still program, sort of, but mostly on a whiteboard.

* The technology you dedicated your life efforts to dies. And then you find yourself in an unfamiliar although related field where your past successes and fame aren't acknowledged. You feel too tired to prove yourself once again and succumb to a boring and meaningless desk job. Perhaps you become a better home cook, or a better parent.

* Start your own company. Very few do this. Most of those who do fail, and then loop back to the of the first three. Otherwise, you are promoted into the owners class. I don't know what happens there, it's happening behind closed doors, at least I was never invited.
Is it wrong to be critical of the USA? I would judge his opinions based on merit, not where he lives and how free he is to talk. It’s telling that he hasn’t vocally supported Russia or really talked about certain related topics, he chooses to focus on what he can talk about rather than fall victim to becoming a Russian asset. Sure, it’s in Russias favor to talk bad about the USA, but if it’s warranted to do so that’s not morally wrong or anything.

In the USA we’re free to talk bad about our government, and suggesting doing so from another country is wrong is not correct. It’s okay to criticize power.
I’m probably going to be downvoted for this, but anyway: the single unix specification has always been the only place where i could find C headers documentation in by header file.

Meaning: i don’t want to know all the 6000 functions glibc support, i want to know what will (for example) net/inet.h will bring to my code (ideally with documentation).

For sonme reason that doesn’t seem to be a thing. Not for glibc for sure. But the SUS does that. And i like it.
There is things in my head that whoever is going to take over will need to know. Nothing crazy, but a LOT of stuff. I may look into this.
Do your municipal libraries carry journals? I can't imagine how that works.

In Canada, neighborhood libraries are a tiny fraction of the size of university research libraries, so they can't possibly carry anything remotely approximating the content of a university research library.

We do have a central public library, with perhaps a million odd books, but is not a replacement for research library in any sense, and isn't intended to be one. Compare that to the library in my alma mater university which contained about 2.5 million books.

For what it's worth, for most of my life, I've had the option of visiting my local university library so that I could crawl through the shelves looking for particular journal articles, or searching through the 3 feet of shelves on other side of a relevant book that I found in the card stacks. Sadly, that's no longer the case. The vast majority of content in modern university libraries is now available only in digital form, accessible through terminals that are not usable by members of the public, which provide access to otherwise-paywalled journals. And the last time I visited my local university library, they no longer allowed members of the general public to enter. For most of the my lifetime, one of the conditions of government funding for university libraries was that they had to provide at least limited access to the general public. I'm not sure what happened.

Thankfully, there are now other ways to access research material. Pre-prints are often available, and open-access journals are increasingly prevalent. And for those that are desperate, there are, of course, various dubiously legal sources.
Yeah...that stuff is probably all going in the trash. :/
Censorship is required if one wants to prevent libel and slander. There are some people who won't stop doing it unless an entity with more authority/power stops them from saying it.
The food pyramid is misunderstood

'those scientists' were from Sweden responding to protests over the increasing costs of food due to famine. When looked at from the lens of maximizing calories per dollar, it makes a lot more sense.
100%, GPT-3 <= x < GPT-4o, 100,064, x = GPT-4o, 199,996. (My EoW emergency was the const Map that stored them broke the build, so these #s happen to be top of mind)
You might want to mention which country you're in. In some countries reasons need to be given for dismissal. In some countries you can be dismissed without cause. In some countries when you are dismissed without cause you are eligible for more benefits than if you resign.