skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are investing an awful lot of money,

That was my impression, until the news came out that they had a massive round of layoffs. That looks like the opposite of investing, poisons the climate, causes people who can to seek greener pastures (potentially further disrupting those projects they allegedly invest into), ...

I'm sure there were other bad news that caused their stock drop from $30 to $20, and it's hard to separate the impact of the layoff from those, but I wouldn't be surprised if the layoff news (that generally tend to push stock values up for companies in a different situation) contributed to it (due to lowering confidence that the investments will happen and work out).
For anyone else wondering, TNP seems to mean "Topological naming problem":

https://wiki.freecad.org/Topological_naming_problem
I assume this is a generic LLM + RAG, so you can't prevent hallucinations and there's a chance (which gets better as the subject gets more complex) that the study materials will be wrong.

And anyway, creating flash cards is a huge study booster by itself. It doesn't make sense to automate that step away.
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! Let the ruling classes tremble..."

They brought it off. In an era when most of Europe was ruled by weak, aging monarchs.[1] In 1917, most of Europe except for France and Portugal still had a monarch, most with real power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_last_monarchs_in_E...
IIRC there are ways to give an authentic-looking fingerprint to browsers used for scraping. But as you said, it's a cat and mouse game
At 30 messages per week they could secretly hire a human to give the responses
> They have an army of absolutely stellar engineers.

How many of them are inclined to stay after the value of any stock-based comp was utterly destroyed and layoffs have presumably smashed morale?
That is an interesting thought. This was all done in an account that is opted out of training though.

I have tested the Python code o1 created to decode the timestamps and it works as expected.
> It is a little less administratively efficient to officially route it through the government but frankly I think that is a better idea.

It is massively more efficient at a macro level for the government to handle it, than to make every single employer manage it redundantly and often poorly. The SSA already handles payments to millions of Americans monthly with low operational overhead. Have them send out these and other safety net checks, and if you want to means test it, claw it back from high earners after the fact at tax return time.
> The 1% already pay nearly 50% of taxes,

No, they don't. There are enough mechanisms in the tax code that many of the ultra wealthy pay nothing close to this, or anything at all. Buffet has famously complained about this.
Author says that we need to figure out the human in the loop problem as we having a less need for a human here. One could argue this is a good thing about it.
Well then I should add: this is overall well written from a rhetorical standpoint, and thought provoking -- even if I disagreed. Thanks for posting, OP :). Hope to see more, at the least so I can disagree again!
How is reading a Wikipedia page or a chemistry textbook any harder than getting step by step instructions? Makes you wonder why people use LLMs at all when the info is just sitting there.
Given the chain of thought is sitting in the context, I'm sure someone enterprising will find a way to extract it via a jailbreak (despite it being better at preventing jailbreaks).
Science Perl Journal, Winter 2024 Issue (CFP)
I've now made improvements (to be released shortly) that will improve performance by

- Writer: 100 characters - 20 ops/sec, 1k characters - 11 op/sec
- Reader: 100 characters - 15 ops/sec, 1k characters - 6 ops/sec

That's a 233%-1,100% increase in write speed, and a 50%-100% increase in read speed.

I'm also adding support for export to both canvas and GIF, as well as an estimated package bundle decrease of more than 300%.
To me that's an interesting feature, not necessarily a bug.

How much would have to leak in to guide the LLM to the right conclusions? Is it a matter of quantity or quality? Can we successfully eliminate all leakage?
I would imagine that good IDE integration would summarise each module/file/function and feed high-level project overview (best case: with business project description provided by the user) and during CoT process model would be able to ask about more details (specific file/class/function).

Humans work on abstractions and I see no reason to believe that models cannot do the same
If you live in a reasonably large metro area that has a lot of good restaurants, there is going to be a small handful of cooking knife sharpeners. A large percentage of professional chefs can't afford/justify good quality sharpening equipment for something that they use a couple times per year.

They'll take their knives to these services and pay $5 or $6 per knife, and it will get done to perfection in just a few minutes while they wait. You can use these same services, there is no membership card needed to get in the door.
Gen-ai Production Unit
fish is a fine baseline but I want better shell scripting (murex, xonsh) and manipulation abilities (nushell). For the software world, shells are evolving unusually slowly.
NASA is broke. There is no funding.

No way can NASA get to the Moon, much less Mars.

The era when NASA could get guys to the Moon and back is gone. It will never come back.

Sad but true.
I'm surprised to see how much negativity is being posted here, but I do think a better way of thinking about this is "Make things people want AND things that alter thinking" rather than VS.

With Uber as the example, people wanted to be able to get around easier, AND their thinking was changed as to how they would do that.

Netflix, people wanted to easy access to movies, AND netflix changed how they thought about that. Not "oh a blockbuster is close by", but rather, I'll order by mail and always have something ready to go, and then I'll just stream it.

Tesla, people wanted high performance cars, AND Tesla changed how they think about electric cars. They're no longer elevated golf carts.

At our company AffectableSleep.com, people think they want more sleep time, but we're (trying to) change peoples thinking to ensuring they get optimal sleep recovery in the time they do have.
Was just going to comment on this. Sure it’s “the standard”, but it has so many downsides for home usage. Just stick with the standard 58mm portafilter but ditch the ancient e61.
Kind of?

>We're hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We'll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125157/https://www.opena...
Fabs. They're one of the few companies that actually owns/builds state-of-the-art fabs, in a critical field where the main competitor is at risk of having its main production sites destroyed in a war everyone is expecting to happen.
OpenAI Introduces O1: A New Model with "Reasoning" Capability
https://archive.ph/CZ7AE
Why do you not recommend?

Pretty much every night I attempt to fall asleep consciously and nothing bad has happened, as far as I can tell. Witnessing the transition from being awake, to light and deep sleep, and finally the emergence of dreams -- it's a fun experience, and it automatically rewards you with a lucid dream.
> Ctrl+S (which freezes your terminal and then you need to remember to press Ctrl+Q to unfreeze it

What is this? Sorry in advance if it’s some basic Linux thing. I do my development on macOS with iterm2.
Probably like 6 months, maybe. I agree with the premise of your point.
you need to be on their tier 5 level, which requires $1,000 total paid and [...]

Good opening for OpenAI's competitors to run a 'we're not snobs' promotion.
> I don’t know Go well, but this API would surely piss Alan Kay off.

> Why a function that takes an Actor instead of each Actor being a type that implements a receive function?

That function is a method with receiver type `Actor` - IE `Actor` implements this HandleMessage function.

Granted it is exactly equivalent to
```
func HandleMessage(a *Actor, from gen.PID, message any) error {
...
}
```

But I'm happy sticking with composition over inheritance
Yeah, it's quite funny that people think the corporations will just leave if you make them pay tax.

They still want access to our consumers, they still want access to the talent our universities produce, they still want the stability our economy provides, they still want to transact with the currency our military backs.

Tell them that if they want access to all that, they can pay their fair share of what it takes to provide all that.
I think that's why Fish's tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".
> Because of AI’s surprising history, it’s hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it’ll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.

> We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

I don't see much evidence that the OpenAI that exists now—after Altman's ousting, his return, and the ousting of those who ousted him—has any interest in mind besides its own.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
To flip your question around, why are you living right now?

I developed a severe intestinal disorder in my 20s. Some people can get it or ones like it in their teens, others their 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. and many won't ever develop such issues, although they're reasonably common to a less severe extreme than my case.

Knowing this, and that I could explain my disorder for years being debilitating and putting me in agonizing pain and suffering, why would you want to live any longer when it could happen to you too?

Not everyone is going to develop such cognitive disorders as you discuss, and often they're a result of complex genetic and lifestyle factors, as well as likely having to do with aspects of aging like reduced function of organs. So it's quite possible these diseases and disorders aren't inevitable simply as a consequence of living long enough, or could be treated and reversed as medical science advances.

If I sound bitter by the way, I am slightly, but do mean for this to still be conveyed productively.

To hear someone asking "why are people interested in living longer?" makes me genuinely want to know why you're interested in living longer. You could die right now and free up resources for the rest of us, or donate resources to younger people than you who are in need, or simply give it to me since I'm neither senile nor old (not even 30) nor have a family history of such disorders as you mentioned, nor would I put it to poor use.

I suspect you want to live. The simple fact is, it's that same desire to live and to continue enjoying life to the fullest that makes those of us with foresight interested in prolonging our healthy lives.
Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting
how do you guys compare to https://trypear.ai ? They're really good
I think the classic example is people taking out loans against their paper wealth. No taxes paid on the loan of course, and no capital gains as nothing was realized as a gain.
FWIW people were probably flagging because you're a new/temp accounting jumping to asserting anything other than your view on what's being done is "unearned hubris and a complete lack of second-order thinking", not because they don't like agree with your set of concerns.
> My absolute favourite thing about fish is that I type, it’ll automatically suggest (in light grey) a matching command that I ran recently. I can press the right arrow key to accept the completion, or keep typing to ignore it.

You can also accept the suggestion with ctrl+f (or just a part of the suggestion with alt+f).
> For the software world, shells are evolving unusually slowly.

Do they need to change much? I strongly think that they do not.
The best feature of fish is fish_update_completions which will parse all the man pages to provide automatic flag completion, so every binary doesn't have to ship a "--generate-completions-bash" function that you have to source. I can't live without zsh's "*(c-1)" though.
Honestly the whole Gaggiuino situation is so stupid it's unbelievable.

Let's use "Gagguino" to mean "the authors of the original Gagguino" and "Faceuino" to mean "the guy on facebook" just to make it easier to explain the situation:

Faceuino started selling his own kit based on the Gaggiuino designs with some modifications. Since the code and the designs (models and PCB) were permissively licensed, this was done at a profit. The kit came with instructions but unfortunately had some issues which caused weird integration problems which increased the support load for Gagguino.

Gagguino could have handled this incident normally: Reaching out to Faceuino to explain that his modifications caused integration issues which were causing a support load on Gagguino. And warning Faceuino that unless he handles support for his own commercial venture correctly that Gagguino will officially announce that Faceuino makes broken kits and that people wanting to mod their machine should follow Gagguino routes rather than go to Faceuino.

Instead, Gagguino relicensed everything CC-BY-NC, and started on some crusade against profit. Apparently some dude on facebook making a tiny profit selling in the order of tens if not (maybe) hundreds of kits was justification to relicense the entire project, stop development entirely, and start working on a locked down replacement for everything.

Now it's a completely proprietary project where you must buy the hardware from approved suppliers. The main control board can still just be normally flashed (meaning you could make a clone of it if you just make your own PCB). But the display unit (which now handles a bunch of the high level stuff) is a pre-flashed ESP-32 module which can only be OTA updated and you cannot flash from stock.

Now the website contains silly vague FUD like what you copied above. Meanwhile the discord has stuff like:

> *Pre-Activated Software and New LCD Units*

> The new software will come pre-activated on all the LCD units, which in are available exclusively through our official suppliers to prevent the scalpeing efforts some people are engaged into. We're launching with a 4.3" LCD version initially but a headless (no screen) version set to follow shortly after. Also considering a smaller LCD version for those who prefer a more compact setup while still keeping a always on system status in front.

What scalping? What is being scalped? What?

Why can't these people just be honest and state it outright: "We didn't realise what open meant and we think profit should be illegal so we're going to impose a bunch of silly restrictions to try to prevent anyone from making any profit on this mod."

I would respect that, instead you get crap like "This decision was made to maintain high standards for the hardware required for the project"

What???
> If we manage to remove the tariff protection and remove the tax incentives to buy trucks - we will save lives.

I do wonder if it's too late, though. Many people in the US are now used to large vehicles, and see the size itself as a safety feature. Sure, if SUVs and trucks got significantly more expensive to buy, some people might be priced out, but I'm not sure that's going to be enough.
Almost no one paid these predatory marginal rates. People respond to incentives.

> Data from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget show that federal income tax receipts as a percentage of GDP have fluctuated between 5.6 percent and 9.9 percent since 1950, despite dramatic changes in the top marginal income tax rate.

https://checkyourfact.com/2019/01/09/fact-check-90-percent-t...
It works if you ignore FICA completely (which is weird because it's like 30-40% of tax collected or something), and round 45% up to 50%.

If you include FICA, it's more like the top 1% of income people pay ~30% of total tax (somewhere around there).
On a slightly different topic, we now know that a surprisingly large number of people suffer daytime "hallucinations without delusion" meaning they see things but they know the things are not real. And I've often wondered if that is some kind of dysfunction of the sleep cycle. If we think of dreams as a kind of hallucination, then is daytime "hallucination without delusion" a kind of dreaming while awake? I'd like to see more research on that question.
> Also: we're not on the cusp of WW3.

>> How could you know that?

We're rather close. All it would take is a major blowup in the Ukraine war. The war has stepped up a notch in the last two days. Ukraine has been attacking Moscow with drones.[1] What if they stop hitting apartment buildings and level the Kremlin? Or Russia steps up attacks on Latvia, a member of NATO.[2]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/10/europe/ukraine-drone-strikes-...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-drone-crashes-i...
Sifting and particle size distribution are only one small part of what makes a grinder produce a certain flavour profile.
This is so cool Stephen. I'd love to hear more. This is definitely something I could use in one of my clients projects. You wanna schedule maybe a meeting next week?

https://martinbaun.com/book/
That's not a strong moat (arguably, not a moat at all, since as soon as any competitor has any business, they benefit from it with respect to their existing customers), it doesn't effect anyone who is not already invested in OpenAI's products, and because not every customer is like that with products they are currently using.

Now, having a large existing customer base and thus having an advantage in training data that feeds into an advantage in improving their products and acquiring new (and retaining existing customers) could, arguably, be a moat; that's a network effect, not merely inertia, and network effects can be a foundation of strong (though potentially unstable, if there is nothing else shoring them up) moats.
Out of curiosity - why not offer tool battery adapters, e.g. DeWalt/Makita/Milwaukee/Bosch (depending which color you bleed). Those are ubiquitous 18v - have fast charging, and drawing 100W is fine even for the 1P types, e.g 2Ah. As a bonus they have excellent mechanical properties (usually PA6 or PC/ABC bodies - so even dropping the soldering iron on them would be okay)

Of course, a pack of 6x MJ1 is relatively trial to built (except it'd require some decent plastic body)- esp for 2s/3p, still not very useful aside running that particular iron/tool (and most likely end up charging it w/ the power supply...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031626/https://blog.open...

> Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies.

From their very own website. Of course they deleted it as soon as Altman took over and turned it into a for profit, closed company.
A vibratory pump is very good at controlling pressure as demonstrated by the Decent espresso machine the Gaggiuino mod and whatever that Rancilio Silva mod is called.
Time to fire up System Shock 2:

> Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Agree - I get very sceptical when someone presents "just the facts". Facts can easily be presented in a way that distorts reality and paints a false narrative. Similar to the age-old issue of correlation vs causation, facts can be presented in a way that implies a narrative, without even needing to spell it out.

(disclaimer - I haven't watched Ballmer's video, I'm just commenting in general about "facts")
That's a great guess, partially because they're indeed involved in antitrust suits for all three of those at the moment! Plus the "attorney-client privelege" action as the metacherry on top. That said, I think they're talking about three monopolies within Display Ads: publisher network, ad exchange, and advertiser network. AKA "sellside", "the auction", and "buyside".

I see what you're saying with monetization, but this is slightly different than what you're thinking of: this is "Display Ads", which is indeed a product (or, again, 3+ products) that they sell to others. A name you might know is "AdSense". The whole search part of their business is completely separate, and you're absolutely correct that they're a natural+benign monopoly over Google Search ads, just like Microsoft has a monopoly on Bing Search ads. But, again, this lawsuit is more about the little images and videos you see on blogs, news sites, forums, etc.
Just because a crime is especially egregious doesn't mean that the accused is more guilty than any other crime. I fail to see why a rape-murder should give the accused less time to prove their innocence than just a regular murder or rape. The punishment should fit the crime obviously, a murder is more egregious than petty theft but how does society benefit from killing potentially innocent people other than revenge that politicians can boast about in their campaigns?
> If a household can keep on borrowing money basically indefinitely to pay for expenditures that exceed revenue

If a household had an undefined credit limit and could take out debt to pay for any other debt, arbitrarily, and indefinitely, they'd be dumb to ever work a day in their life. But consumer creditors understand that their customers have essentially zero global power and will die someday, so the world of consumer debt doesn't work that way.

> So what happens when that gravy train finally stops?

You tell me, when is everyone in the world going to stop buying treasuries? I don't think there is a date. As long as the US has a stable and powerful economy, people with money will want somewhere to put it.

> How we are going to pay all this debt off is a very real question that needs an answer eventually.

The literal answer is that it all gets paid off all the time, according to the payment schedule of each individual security, but we continually reissue debt because there is literally zero reason not to.
But if you took just one billion dollars from Jeff Bezos you could give a million dollars to every American. I've been told such things many times.
The fact that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary means nothing about his share of total tax revenue. A lot of people in the US who want Euro-style benefits don't realize that means extending our highest tax rates down to the actual middle class (which is what happens in Europe). Despite the loopholes, the lion's share of total tax revenue still comes from the top.
Writing my own, ah no :D just setting up my local env to serve static files. Flask, Node, Go, DJango supports it out of the box. Though, they're extremely slow in most cases. Then in production I just override the url with Caddyserver. Pretty neat :)