skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for responding in such detail, I appreciate it.

So because of the supernatural elements of acquiring the unattainable would you say that it is unusable as a real world metaphor or analogy?

Or is there a real life example that you believe would fall under the category of a Faustian Bargain?
really nice. Just one API you get access to 100+ models

If I want to change models I just change one line of code.

Pricing is pretty fair as well they just charge a % on top
If you visit the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, the audio tours mention him somewhat frequently as a collaborator with the Robber Barons in the design of their properties. Considering that much of the intent of their conspicuous consumption was to impress and then marry into the noble lines of Europe, Olmstead's connections to the notion of "gentrification" are, "humorously", at least two-fold.
Lets expand that definition a bit then. Lets say that I use a flash in a photo, does the result become a "photo" or "artwork based on photo" in your definition? I'm altering the light received by the camera.

What about a neutral-density filter? polarizing filter?

So if I use a lens with a higher rate of chromatic aberration then say a super expensive lens with less chromatic aberration, does the photo I take become "artwork based on the photo" as its altering the light received by the camera more.
Small Web is for you: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
An often-ignored/forgotten/unknown fact about utilizing LLMs is that you really need to develop your own benchmark for your specific application/use-case. It’s step 1.

“This model scores higher on MMLU” or some other off-the-shelf benchmark may (likely?) have essentially nothing to do with performance on a given specific use-case, especially when it’s highly specialized.

They can give you a general idea of the capabilities of a model but if you don’t have a benchmark for what you’re trying to do in the end you’re flying blind.
I wish they'd have nothing but their methodologies and results.
That depends on what you mean by "purely functional Lisp". You can write purely functional code in any Lisp, and you can compile any Lisp to machine language, and this has been true for decades. AFAIK there is no Lisp that enforces purely functional programming, but it's easy to build one if that's what you want.
You buried the lead there:

A required on-screen keyboard with RANDOM GENERATED LAYOUT.
>> You're in too deep of you seriously believe that this is possible currently.

I'm not a huge fan of AI, but even I've seen articles written about its limitations.

Here's a great example:

https://decrypt.co/126122/meet-chaos-gpt-ai-tool-destroy-hum...

Sooner than even the most pessimistic among us have expected, a new, evil artificial intelligence bent on destroying humankind has arrived.

Known as Chaos-GPT, the autonomous implementation of ChatGPT is being touted as "empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity."

So how will it do that?

Each of its objectives has a well-structured plan. To destroy humanity, Chaos-GPT decided to search Google for weapons of mass destruction in order to obtain one. The results showed that the 58-megaton “Tsar bomb”—3,333 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb—was the best option, so it saved the result for later consideration.

It should be noted that unless Chaos-GPT knows something we don’t know, the Tsar bomb was a once-and-done Russian experiment and was never productized (if that’s what we’d call the manufacture of atomic weapons.)

There's a LOT of things AI simply doesn't have the power to do and there is some humorous irony to the rest of the article about how knowing something is completely different than having the resources and ability to carry it out.
How do you know if it’s illegal?
sorry for another lisp question

if from a syntactic-flavor perspective, endless parentheses turn me off, but also cleanly map to significant indentation (where any new open paren is a new indentation level and a close paren maps to a backdent), has anyone tried a Lisp that uses indentation instead of parens?

I'm probably failing to consider edge cases but it seems like a potentially simple tweak that might make lisps more palatable to many

imagine that, a lisp without parens... (empty cons literals... crap, that's 1 edge case!)
Because Prolog is difficult, and expressing fuzzy real-world facts and nuances in it is harder.
WSL is where it's at today. It's not quite what you're asking for, as it is a separate virtual OS, but the integration is so tight that it feels like you're using your favorite shell natively in Windows.
> After doing some preliminary research I discovered that Go uses its own internal assembly language called Plan9.

Is the language actually called that?
It can't form plans because it has no idea what a plan is or how to implement it. The ONLY thing these LLMs know how to do is predict the probability that their next word will make a human satisfied. That is all they do. People get very impressed when they prompt these things to pretend like they are sentient or capable of planning, but that's literally the point, its guessing which string of meaningless (to it) characters will result in a user giving it a thumbs up on the chatgpt website.

You could teach me how to phonetically sound out some of China's greatest poetry in Chinese perfectly, and lots of people would be impressed, but I would be no more capable of understanding what I said than an LLM is capable of understanding "a plan".
I agree, "Minimal API" owes a lot to Nancy, specifically. There were a few others in that space, but Nancy was definitely the big one that pushed ASP.NET the most.
How is it more unprofessional than “Slack” lol
Lawrence Kohlberg's pyramid theory (stages of moral development) is flipped and chipped for these kids.

I would additionally posit the more "potential" the youth were given the perception of having, the dramatically worse the comparative results.

I can distinctly, acutely, remember sondering others' unobservable lives, long before I had any distinct sense of agency; comparing their actions against their words and little affects either had on outcomes.

So few times in my life that I have feared repercussions/punishment, it raises the question if its systematic to a group or just an individual anecdote.
>It's crazy to me that anybody thinks that these models will end up with AGI. AGI is such a different concept from what is happening right now which is pure probabilistic sampling of words that anybody with a half a brain who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid can easily identify.

Totally agree. And it's not just uninformed lay people who think this. Even by OpenAI's own definition of AGI, we're nowhere close.
Yeah I hope they'll learn from this next time and not let the ad industry back them into a corner that is bad for everyone.

The problem is that it's now an industry where billions revolve. They're constantly lobbying against real limitations. The best thing for society would have been if this adtech surveillance industry had never been created. This is why I'm so happy that they are trying to avoid the same thing happening with AI. "Just sit back and see where we end up" is something that really backfired before.
Again - you can blame Intel and AMD for not implementing it, but Apple was the primary designer. It's either Intel and AMD's duty to add support for a spec they never asked for, or Apple's responsibility to integrate COTS hardware with their aftermarket software. It's revisionist to dump the blame for Apple and Khronos' spec on the people who designed the hardware they wanted to target. You can't shake your fist and blame Ford when your F-150 isn't compatible with an aftermarket radio.

It would turn out to be a moot point because Apple would protest both Vulkan and OpenCL for petty political reasons anyways. But blaming Intel and AMD for not implementing a standard they didn't design is pretty rich. It feels to me that Apple and Microsoft are more to blame, since they were actually the ones with the incentive to improve on software and API integration - which (again) they both abandoned because neither of them treated CUDA as a serious threat.

And of course - it's not like Apple actually gained anything from all this. Protesting Khronos helps them raise their moat... and that's just about it. They aren't competing with Nvidia by striking out on their own, they aren't surpassing the featureset of OpenCL, and they aren't planning a suitable replacement. It seems pretty blatantly obvious that Apple changed their mind about the whole "working with the industry" plan they had, reflected in not just their abandonment of OpenCL but their rejection of all Khronos specs and potential alternatives, wholesale.
Do you think you'll switch to running local models at some point e.g. LambdaLabs/Runpod running Llama to reduce costs? Just thinking about as you scale and wanting to reduce cost per token. (I'm not in the GPU hosting biz - just curious because I think we're all thinking about this)
Requires a Google sign-in to chat, not ideal for such a sexualised service.
But they do, it's basically the last part of the abstract.
I find the idea of protesting AI in order to raise awareness of the possible concerns interesting, but not this black-or-white, us-or-them hot take of it. Nor do I feel like the organizers can be taken seriously when they are tying their efforts to one physical location. If AI were limited to one physical location, their fears would be unfounded to begin with, wouldn't they?

I'd be far more likely to support efforts targeted at raising awareness of the energy consumption of AI infrastructures, and efforts to balance that resource usage with positive impact that it brings. (Which implies we need to start evaluating whether or not AI usage is positive.)
It has to be easier to get a dead python into your truck than a live one, right?
This is a hilarious way to provide spoilers without spoiler tag support.
Exactly. EDSLs are underrated.
Your mum has undiagnosed asperberger autism and shows zero emotions towards you besides constantly threatening you with religous terror because thats how god forces ruled on everybody. And thats all you ever expect from mankind.
Why is the sensor the limit? Why not apply the definition to the lens?
Didn't Uber have something similar happen? Ran over a woman in Phoenix?
> It seems like computers are getting more capable, but developers are becoming less capable at roughly the same pace.

And that makes perfect sense. Why should humans inconvenience themselves to please the machine? If anyone’s at fault, it’s the database for not being smart enough to optimize the query on its own.
The multimodal models can do more than predict next words.
Why compare this to Dippy AI of all things? Looks like a platform/app targeting a different type of AI character consumer. Also I see nothing about Dippy being open source.
Right, no one is buying the digital scans. But tons of people buy physical replicas- I have been a volunteer at a different museum and our physical models of our most famous artifacts were very nice money makers for us, so I presume they would be for them as well. And using that digital scan you can make your own competing physical replica. Which is why the museum doesn't really want to make it easy for any 3D printer to compete with them.
Actually, I believe it was Australia that did it first.
I have another example - just a few people believed that you can apply 'a simple next token prediction algorithm' and achieve what we know as LLM. From my perspective, in the past few years, we've tried a lot of different approaches to improve LLM reasoning; some of them were good, others not so good. We need to keep trying and researching. 'Prolog + LLM' is not the answer to all questions, but it looks like a good step to move us forward.
Well proof and prove is the same word in adjective and noun form. If we change the definitions we lose the usage of nouns and verb.

- I proof the armor is solid
- That’s a mathematical prove.

Doesn’t sound right either imo.
The Carbon 14 dating process is not sensitive to pollution from, say, the sweat or sebum on the hands of people handling it. What's more, the sample was vigorously cleaned before analysis.

The article (the one that this thread is about, not the study) addresses exactly this. The author makes the point is C14 dating is widely misunderstood by non-experts who still decide it's within their expertise to find fault with the it.
Using ML to engineer cholesterol drugs and plastic-degrading enzymes
Can you explain more about how you settled at 'fine' when it comes to providing sexualised child characters for pedos to jerk off to?

Like, is there not some part of that which you feel less than 'fine' about?

I'm not saying that you're wrong or need to stop - just very curious about how/whether you approached the issue.
Unemployment insurance, free healthcare, and some form of guaranteed retirement income are nearly universal. To maintain these at the same levels, you need a certain proportion of people who work in relatively high-paid jobs and pay correspondingly high taxes. Which is precisely why immigration systems in most developed countries emphasize skilled immigration.
Make no mistake, in a private equity acquisition like this where the company is earning around $50mil profit on a billion dollars revenue, they will cut costs to make their money back.

This PE firm led acquisition of Zendesk for $10bil in 2022 and McAfee for $14bil in 2021

They've spent over $30billion dollars on just these 3 acquisitions in 3 years. Many of which would be part financed.

Culture after zendesk goes acquired (including 8% layoffs 2023)
https://www.teamblind.com/post/Zendesk-changes-after-going-p...

Squarespace financials
https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/sqsp/financials/

More info on this PE firm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permira
Not really. It happens a lot more than you might realize. This is a pretty big business in certain SEA communities and I cannot recall any issues with drugs.
Yep also works on MacOS!
The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
Are you a OneLogin customer? It was a rough week.
> I've spoken with/helped quite a few older folks who are terrified that ChatGPT in its current form is going to kill them.

The next generation of GPUs from NVIDIA is rumored to run on soylent green.
If no one from Boeing is going to jail, Musk certainly isn't either (at least not for anything related to vehicle unsafety).
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
Well this is opensource for one.
this has already been framed by some corporate consultant group -- in a whitepaper aimed at business management, the language asserted that "AGI is when the system can do better than the average person, more than half the time at tasks that require intelligence" .. that was it. Then the rest of the narrative used AGI over and over again as if it is a done deal.
Love this app, the GitHub is easy to clone and modify as well. Used it for a game once.
That isn't the Twitter approach. Twitter bans legal content all the time.
Learning Angular over React might get you Hired Faster in 2025
> During the interview with the CTO I proposed a way that could effectively 3X their MAU.

Never give free ideas away during an interview.
While at it, please also investigate why it is sometimes impossible to leave a damaged vehicle. This has resulted in people dying more than once:

https://apnews.com/article/car-crash-tesla-france-fire-be8ec...
However if the goal is to create conditions favorable to what they coldly refer to as "voluntary population transfer", i.e. ethnic cleansing very much in the classical definition -- they they're doing a masterful job indeed:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-in-talks-with-congo-and...
I like how your typo makes it sound like a medieval sage.
Yeah, as someone who had access to gpt-4 early in 2023, the endpoint used to take over a minute to respond and the quality of the responses was mindblowing. Simply too expensive to serve at scale, not to mention the silicon constraints that are even more prohibitive when the organization needs to lock up a lot of their compute for training The Next Big Model. Thats a lot of compute that cant be on standby for serving inference
I didn't mean it quite so insultingly, but yes, even a very modest server would handle that kind of load easily. You're not particularly high throughput (a few requests per second?) and I imagine the database is fairly efficient (you're not storing pages of text or binary blobs). I think you'd be pleasently surprised by what a little VPS can do.
What does it mean to predict the next token correctly though? Arguably (non instruction tuned) models already regurgitate their training data such that it'd complete "Mary had a" with "little lamb" 100% of the time.

On the other hand if you mean, give you the correct answer to your question 100% of the time, then I agree, though then what about things that are only in your mind (guess the number I'm thinking type problems)?
What I mean is Hillsboro is not some town in the middle of nowhere like Champaign-Urbana, Rochester, or Ames.

It's part of the larger Portland MSA, and Hillsboro-Beaverton has plenty of opportunities.

That said, Intel leadership kept concentrating on Analog Chips for too long (which was overwhelming at the Hillsboro and Kiryat Gan foundries), which made this layoff and buyout situation extremely painful.
Got hit with this one a few months ago.
I've been going down the VPS rabbit hole lately since I have some toy projects I want to host and really don't like the unpredictable pricing model of these "pay as you go" providers like Vercel. E.g. I really love Supabase but it's hard to justify jumping straight to the $25/month plan in combination with Vercel costs.

I was surprised how extremely easy it is to get set up with Coolify on a Hetzner VPS, which has preset install options for NextJS + Supabase + Posthog + many others. And I get the standard autodeploy on commit functionality. The open-source versions are missing some features, and I don't get the slick Vercel admin interface, but for a pet project it works great. I'm also by no means a sysadmin expert, but with ChatGPT it's pretty easy to figure things out now.
> Obviously, the public gets no benefit when you censor some guy from doing his business in private.
> But you're also in danger of providing sexualised child characters for people to jerk off to.

I would say that anything is fine in private, even that. Better than them looking for the real thing, right? I guess some people are afraid that such content will actually turn people into pedo's, but I don't think that's true any more than watching gay porn will turn you gay.
> without going that New Yorker style

What is that style, exactly?
It was a bit surprising to click this link on my VPN. Wish it had a NSFW tag. Uncensored is a bit of a crapshoot when it comes to GenAI, half of the time is just means "no instruction tuning."
also, excessive minimums. I once encountered a website with 20 minimum characters, which I think is longer than some sites' max length.
Sure, could say that the lens itself is altering the light and thus no longer an accurate representation of the light received by the camera. Particuarly evident with something like a fish-eye lens.
Materialistic.
Yes, this is a great leap forward in my opinion. I had to do a project at a previous job where I wrote an agent that ran on x86, MIPS and ARM, and doing it in Go was a no-brainer. The other teams who had a bunch of C code that was a nightmare to cross-compile were so jealous they eventually moved a lot of things to Go.

I've been doing this for 35 years and cross compiling anything nontrivial was always a toolchain nightmare. Discovering a world where all I had to do was set GOARCH=mips64 (and possibly GOOS=darwin if I wanted mac binaries) before invoking the compiler is so magical I was extremely skeptical when I first read about it.
I’m not an expert, but I don’t believe there are that many motors that spin at 600k RPM (= 10kHz), and definitely no large ones. That is absurdly fast. Modern turbochargers are some of the fastest-spinning off-the-shelf things your average person can buy, and they normally top out below 200k RPM (and only the smallest/lightest turbines can spin at 200k RPM). If there does exist a 500k+ RPM electric motor, I would be surprised if it was larger than a few mm.
I did something a bit like that recently to scrape tweets out of Twitter: https://til.simonwillison.net/twitter/collecting-replies
Back when I was primarily a C# dev, I used OSS lightweight ORMs which had LINQ interfaces. I also frequently used LINQ on in-memory structures. It's fantastic, and I never felt any need to use EF.

That said, C# / .NET shops did have a tendency to mindlessly buy into all sorts of terrible Microsoft enterprisey stuff. That drove me crazy and ultimately is what made me head out for greener pastures.
As I said, if you pull it off, you'll be celebrated by me all the more for the fact that it was hard. I just don't have time to verify whether it actually is.

(I feel the same way about quantum computing, for instance; I'm skeptical, but if someone builds one, I'm not going to insist it doesn't exist, I'm going to give them more credit for doing something hard.)
Wow, beyond delusional? What does that even mean? Illusional? Or maybe ... illusionist :))
Can't stop the webcam->LLM
Please do not attempt to find nuance in the argument "CSAM is bad".
The 14th century theorem has long been debunked, as the Pray-codex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray_Codex contains strong evidence that the shroud was already known in the 12th century.
It went through one, then it came back through the other playing catch with its own tail..
So the plan is to make AI not-evil by doing it with Microsoft and Oracle?
No mention in the article, but my understanding is that the #1 targets for corporate virtue-signaling are scarce&valuable-talent employees. Those signals need not be "left" nor "right" - at least in SE Michigan, plenty of corporations support food banks and literacy tutoring and symphony orchestras and such.

And, at least in the US, some business leaders could have utterly self-serving reasons to start disfavoring the Right. 'Cause if there's a civil war, then all those dollars & stock options they've been helping themselves to might just turn into worthless paper. );
I found those tools to resemble an intern: they can do some tasks pretty well, when explained just right, but others you'd spend more time guiding than it would have taken you to do it yourself.

And rarely can you or the model/intern can tell ahead of time which tasks are in each of those categories.

The difference is, interns grow and become useful in months: the current rate of improvements in those tools isn't even close to that of most interns.
Hetzner is of course not U.S. based, but has expanded to have 2 U.S. sites (Oregon i think, and Virginia)....so that could be an option maybe. Caveat: i have not leveraged Hetzner in the U.s.....so can not speak to their quality.
Character.ai does invent everything from scratch (for better and worse).
This is an easily solved problem through both software and hardware. If you are frequently typing complex passwords, consider some alternatives:

Software typing of password:

Linux - ydotool / xdotool. Win/Mac have similar tools:

$ sleep 5 ; xdotool type 'RC-A"c\EJe,0l@q'

>> physical device provided by the customer.

Hardware : Rubber Ducky - https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky
The UN is more of a forum for continued international dialogue despite international political status (and for supporting the agendas of the world super powers), and less of a world government. Its resolutions are more flexible than a Cirque du Soleil performer, and yet I think the world is a bit better with its existence.
All lens alter the light :) hence my question of the definition..