skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postgres is the most worked on database in the world right now. Its original release date doesnt mean work stopped. No-sql was a new thing a decade-ish ago but most companies probably dont need it. New data platforms focused on scaling like snowflake and cockroach have come too but again for most use cases postgres is better.
"Cwotch" and "Bloodwed"
> The site makes it seems as if I can install CockroachDB on Mac, Linux, or Windows and try it out for as long as I like.

Therare limitations in terms of licenses [0].

[0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v25.1/licensing-faqs
I wonder what the situation in Iraq is like now... reading the book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone" 1), I got the impression Rumsfeld and Cheney metaphorically drove the car of US power into a concrete wall at full speed in Iraq, by bungling about what happens after they take over the country. They expected a welcome with flowers (like Putin expected in Ukraine) and didn't have a plan for nation building. In the early stages there was even bickering about if the State Departmen or Pentagon was in charge.

Needless to say, Afghanistan was a mess too. This article (2) sort of summarizes the entire US occupation. People now think George W. Bush was an OK president (thanks Donnie), but he really did fuck things up big time. I suppose Bin Laden is grinning in his grave, someone's said that 9/11 cost Al Qaida about 500K to stage, if the goal is the destruction of America, what an ROI that's still returning.

1) https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/book_review/imperial-life-eme...

2) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afgh... / https://archive.is/VfRmL
Isn't that what angel investors essentially are? Extremely early stage investors before much of anything is built?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_inves...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_search_of_Mar-a-Lago

If we can pretend those are being done in good faith then we can pretend that the current Trump admin are being honest and reasonable too.
Honestly, the idea of upgradeable RAM was purely tied to it being low-speed, high-cost devices. This in turn drives the ridiculous markup some companies charge now, drives up system costs due to complexity, and harms performance.

Having a desktop CPU with integrated 64-128GB of RAM would probably justify the lack of "upgradability" with sheer performance and power improvements. There was never much upgradability there anyway - you could start by underspec'ing and then later fill it up to the (surprisingly not that high) limit, but what you saved by not buying all the RAM up front is probably less than the extra cost for supporting it at all. Paying more than the cost of RAM to have the flexibility of not buying RAM.

(Phones have 24GB of RAM nowadays, a PC should not have any less than 64GB of RAM as base tier.)
I'm not the same person. But a vaccine which doesn't actually provide lasting immunity is a really shit vaccine. And while I wouldn't say that means it doesn't deserve to be called a vaccine at all, certainly many people think that.
It'll be great for the remote places like the Himalayas or the eastern states.
I imagine they didn't optimize prematurely.
Glad you got to experience Waterton. Many Canadians will eventually go to Banff or Jasper (though it's surprising how many people here in Ontario where I live now have never been west of the province, but almost all have been to the US)... but almost nobody gets to Waterton and it's a jewel that most people don't even know about. Haven't been since I was 14. I lived in Alberta but it was still an 8 hour drive.
Enactivist philosophy. Karl Friston is testing this approach as CTO of an AI startup in LA.
Local hosting and community support I will always offer more freedom than the rather poor filtering that big tech loves to do. Like why not offer option to pay for copyright content? Seriously, if they can identify it is copyright then they can allow to pay for it, but nope they rather intentionally filter out all of it and end up with useless product that will eventually be phased out.
So what you're saying is we need to blast some barges into space and land them on the moon so we have a flat surface for starship to land on?
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/grounds-deportabilit...

Look up the line on nazis. On second look, The word advocacy is wrong. It is nazi persecution
"The only reason?" One reason for prematurely losing most of the investment is enough. The car analogy is inadequate but let's say my car skids gently into a position from which it won't start and I can't get out and I slowly die of starvation and/or hypothermia. Am I glad that I didn't "crash?"
To be fair most people don't give you that level of detail. But I agree
Mice can survive, forage, reproduce. Reproduce a mammal. There is a whole load of capability not available in an LLM.

An LLM is essentially a search over a compressed dataset with a tiny bit of reasoning as emergent behaviour. Because it is a parrot that is why you get "hallucinations". The search failed (like when you get a bad result in Google) or the lossy compression failed or it's reasoning failed.

Obviously there is a lot of stuff the LLM can find in its searches that are reminiscent of the great intelligence of the people writing for its training data.

The magic trick is impressive because when we judge a human what do we do... an exam? an interview? Someone with a perfect memory can fool many people because most people only acquire memory from tacit knowledge. Most people need to live in Paris to become fluent in French. So we see a robot that has a tiny bit of reasoning and a brilliant memory as a brilliant mind. But this is an illusion.

Here is an example:

User: what is the French Revolution?

Agent: The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799. Many of the revolution's ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy and its values remain central to modern French political discourse.

Can you spot the trick?
> Beyond financial services, What does "the entire world" rely on US for anymore?

Our market.
So one of the few profession that allows owning a home (not necessarily house) would be gone. I'm afraid I can't agree with that
It won't because I never invited one into my home because why the bloody hell would I want a listening device in my house in the first place?
In a way it's a story only notable because she's middle class and white. These kinds of things happened routinely to people with Arabic or "Muslim" names for a disturbing amount of time after 9/11. Maher Arar being the most famous case.
Unfortunately in the US it was discovered that you could do this and now everybody does it. They're called "arbitration clauses" even though their true purpose is to stop you from being able to sue or be part of a class action.
LLM are data and fixed. The Intelligence I see more like a process (..having knowledge .., ways to "think" ). There would be no "hype around AI technologies" and less misunderstanding if we call it according to what we get there instead of Intelligence : Artificial Knowledge and Artificially Generated/Generalized Knowledge (hallucinations and slope).

Regarding Artificial and General in AGI - aren't those.. contradictions (as a clue) ?
I've always wondered what kinds of things can happen within the specifics of privacy policies nowadays.

Like I think it would be possible to have text/voice/object recognition work on the photos you send in an end-to-end encrypted chat app, described out-of-band and used for ... purposes.

<encrypted data stream>
<"spoken keyword: starbucks">
<"picture: LG washing machine">
<"picture: donald trump">
<"text: prescription xanax">
I'd really love something that enabled me to use the hardware without Home Assistant. I know it's OSS (basically ESPhome), but I'd like a server I could point my Voice thing to and be able to receive a webhook with the text I just spoke, and have it read the text that my server returns out loud.

I'd implement the actual smarts myself, I just want the STT/TTS interface sorted.
The fact that we buy so much of everything.
I'm not saying I disagree, but please see how dangerous your thinking can be.

That basically takes away a major tool of journalists and allows you to paint whoever you disagree with as wrong simply because they don't wish to go public.

Very, very dangerous way of thinking. Allowing sourcesto stay anonymous is a major tool for journalists.
SheepIt Render Farm server code goes open source
No, it's pretty major. You're freezing funds to charities who are providing in some cases life-changing/saving services.

Locking them out of THEIR money because some petty fucking despot and his unelected sidekick decides that's the best way to claw back SOME money that was legally granted because fuck it, it'll hurt/anger/annoy some libs along the way, too.
D-Wave Claims 'Quantum Supremacy' Throne
Can we visit the EU for a weekend to install the forbidden apps?
What China is doing is basically usury, it’s not the same. Stop glorifying China.
In other words real slavery but without a clear boss or master that can be removed.

With no leader to target, you have to raze the associated systems to the ground, which would be almost everything to correct systemic issues, which is likely what happened during the bronze age collapse.

In anthropology these type of circumstances are often called a disadvantaged environments.

Anytime you have slavery, and the torture that naturally comes with it, people break, in one of two ways. They stop having children. They don't work to their fullest, they let it rot.

They disassociate, becoming indifferent, non-responsive, complacent, apathetic, or they become psychotic crazed and violent risking their own annihilation for a better life which in most cases is just their own annihilation and not the latter. This latter having occurred quite often in history as revolution.

The only problem today is, without secure communication you can't organize, and the strength of an individual is at its most when they are in a pack or group of like-minded goal oriented individuals.

Lone wolfs have no strength, they are weak, and communication is and has been being strategically denied to all people without their knowledge or recognition through the technology they have become dependent upon.

Most presume that communications today are reliable and secure, and that is categorically false. It is a felony for each incident of lawbreaking applied arbitrarily, but enforcement is always after-the-fact and there not good odds for any type of justice especially when it can be plausibly denied as a hardware or software issue. You generally don't see government employees being brought up on felony wiretap charges for failing to get a warrant. The evidence they collected is often just excluded, whereas anyone else outside that sector doing the same would definitely be charged assuming they aren't Google.

Stingray technology is quite old now and it has allowed arbitrary communicaiton interference (AitM), where the target may not be able to perceive its happening in real time. If you happen to be above average intelligence, often you find clusters of these people having issues with their communications on platforms, being intentionally isolated, and driven crazy through common torture practice.

Castaway's Wilson behavior is a real thing which few rarely fully recover from even afterwards.

There are very dark times ahead because when any system goes off its rails, its needs to be corrected to benefit those capable of rationality. Reason is the light that separates us from animals, and when psychological stress is imposed degrading us to nothing better than animals something has to give. Whether that ends up being annihilation from cascading failures, or razing the system to create a better one, is left for future generations to decide.

There's a very good chance that all the existential risk that's accumulated from kicking the can down the road will all land at once at the same time. You can't correct something that you cannot react to.
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
thanks for sharing - this is quite insightful
Yes thanks for the correction.
Nations are comprised of people who have values and elect representatives based on said values, was my point. Their own personal convictions don’t matter a WHOLE lot.
Thanks for checking in.
The question of facts are clear and admitted by their executive leadership. That the Bush admin gave them a bunch of scary stories isn't relevant - they knew the NSA was illegally spying on all Americans and, under pressure from an administration running for re-election, made the conscious decision to keep Americans uninformed of what power was doing to them.

That's the old grey lady, same as she ever was. Take a gander at the rest of that Wiki page, this isn't an isolated incident.
What if you're a green card holder and say "Palestine" in the privacy of your own home? We may not be there now but it's not far.
What exactly did the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago find?

It was believed that Trump had improperly stored classified documents there...

... and he had.

And was lying about it too.

So yeah, how was that not good faith?

"These documents are missing. They were last in the possession of the President. He's on video seen with staffers loading up similar documents to take to Florida. We apply for a search warrant when he denies what's on video, a judge grants it, and we go look, and find exactly those documents."

You: "Witch hunt! Bad faith witch hunt!"
What’s the prevailing criticism? High COG?
Seeking the truth and reporting it ALL are two different things.

Telling 90% of the truth means telling the least important 90%.

The love of money corrupts all but the noblest of people's hearts.
The key word you missed in my comment is “worked”.
Sometimes they do but it doesn't really make a difference
Alas, current LLM prompting has a lot of hacks. Half of them are useless, of course, while the other half are critical for success. The trick is: which one is which?
thanks to csis for bringing us this information, showing how much of a threat china is to the free world and how the free world needs to act to defend itself
Another act of bending the knee, just like when they axed Chris Hedges in the patriotic military invasions.
Don't think about defusion as denoising, but rather as learning a delta operator, or rather, the inverse of one. I don't know how diffusion language models work precisely, but if I were to haphazard a guess, I would say you may think of a sentence as a matrix of values, the operator as simply filling a line with zeros, and the inverse — what the model learns — as adding it back.

This is equivalent to cutting an image in blocks, and learning how to generate incrementally images by inpainting missing blocks. This in-painting mind you can be generated in multiple steps, where you incrementally add more into the block.
Distributed locks are a lie
> [The NY Times] knew the NSA was spying on us but never ran the story to protect GW's chances at reelection

This is a really strong claim -- the part about the 'why'. Strong claims generally require strong evidence. I'm perfectly willing to believe they spiked the story for other, more plausible reasons, but come on, their editorial endorsing John Kerry is right there for everyone to read:

> There is no denying that this race is mainly about Mr. Bush's disastrous tenure...When the nation fell into recession, the president remained fixated not on generating jobs but rather on fighting the right wing's war against taxing the wealthy. As a result, money that could have been used to strengthen Social Security evaporated, as did the chance to provide adequate funding for programs the president himself had backed...The Bush White House has always given us the worst aspects of the American right without any of the advantages. We get the radical goals but not the efficient management.

So what exactly is the theory here that they spiked an NSA story to help this guy win re-election??
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/opinion/john-kerry-for-pr...
Even as language models can partially solve a few problems, we remain with the problem of achieving Artificial General Intelligence, that the presence of LLMs has exacerbated because they so often reveal to be artificial morons.

Intelligence finds solutions - actual, solid solutions.

More than "fixing" hallucinations, the problem is going beyond them (arriving to "sobriety").
It is literally impossible to transcribe voice, especially if you whisper. There's no way to model the language, it's too large - amanzon has many computers. Your computer is like a tortoise, it can't do text-to-speech. There's no way you can get any of this to use the Web, Dav... er, Cal. Trying to do this would be like trying to torch a python with your bare metal hands.

so in conclusion: nope.
You got me I’m a spook.
> Explain to me then how an Apple TV device for $125 (Retail! not BOM!) can be staggeringly faster and generally better than any TV controller board I've seen?

This is the result of Apple being vertically integrated and reusing components from other product lines in products like Apple TV. The SoC used in the Apple TV are from lower-tier bins of chips produced for mobile applications.

With the Apple TV, you are getting a SoC that is effectively the same as a recent-year iPhone. With most other Smart TV devices you are getting a low computational power SoC, Raspberry Pi tier, with processing blocks that are optimized for the video playback and visual processing use cases.

Apple also does this with the iPhone where the non-flagship variants will reuse components or designs from prior years.

Television/Smart TV manufacturer margins are in the single-digit percentages and the Samsung and LG tv businesses are significantly threatened since their high-volume products have been commoditized from Chinese producer competition. Most potential customers are shopping based on screen size per dollar, versus specs like peak luminance and contrast ratios. Flagship TV products like "The Wall" are low-volume halo products. Lifestyle products like "The Frame" exist because they are able to differentiate to certain segments of customers that place enough value the packaging aesthetics to buy a higher priced product with better margins for the manufacturers.

Most other hardware device manufacturers are jealous of Apple's margins. Nvidia would probably be one of the few exceptions.

Thin margins on commodity tier products drive these manufacturers to cut their BOM costs as much as possible, even if it makes the product worse in other ways. This is also the big driver for why ads are appearing as part of the Smart TV experience at the device/screen level. Vizio for example shared that they made more money from their ACR business than they did from the device sales themselves. There are companies with business models based around giving you the screen for "free" in exchange for permanent ad-space. Even adjacent products and companies like Roku have business models where they are selling their hardware at near break-even cost points because their business model is built around 'services' from having a large user audience.
This has nothing to do with AI, this is us letting capital benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for while sending the jobs that generate them to India. It’s short sighted bullshit, but hey, stock go up
FBI search of Mar-a-Lago???? Seriously??? There was plenty of evidence of criminal behavior. Read the wikipedia article that you yourself linked.
> I'm being serious.

Both a troll and an actually-serious person would say the same thing.

> Have a nice weekend.

You too. I wish you the best (which means moving past the infantile desire to troll, edit: and calling other people assholes in other comment threads)
Ceaseless, decades-long propaganda that US is being taken advantage of and that America should come first certainly played a part in inflating that number in minds of a lot of people. When it comes to stuff like this I think that most people just go off the vibes and don't really have any reasonable idea how the budget is divided up.
And the NYT only published when Risen's book was going to come out, meaning the reporting that they paid for was going to get published in a book and embarrass the hell out of them
The OP doesn’t give any hints as to what users are doing, so as I said I just assumed “last 90 days of data” was the only query they’d make, but it’s a fair point that that caused me to leave out CPU power since it’s basically negligible for just shoveling data off of a disk.

Thanks for expanding on my comments about how important actually having detailed requirements is for doing performance calculations!
An anonymous source from a whistleblower: practical and understandable. Anonymous sources from gov officials that just tows an established useful line that benefits them: way, way too common.

I'm a daily reader of NYT and I can't count the number of times I see them use it each year. It's become standard practice enough to not be just some edge case to protect people.

It's like how the government classifies everything because it makes their job easier.

Not knowing the person, agency, level of access, etc behind a quote makes it extremely difficult to take seriously. A ton of trust is being put on NYT that it's not just purposefully fed information or gossip.
YouTube. I think in most cars it’s gonna be a discrete component that can just be unplugged. The big question is what functionality you lose, and whether you can live with that tradeoff.
You should write down your predictions and take a look at them 5 years from now.
After looking into this a bit more, it turns out that yes, there are in fact cryptocurrency-based DID methods already: did:sol, did:ion, did:ethr, and more. So I guess the idea does have some merit to it.
It's always been a very bad newspaper internationally, we could mention the Irak war cover or the constant attacks of EU countries.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)
Yes indeed, OP only asked “how much traffic is required,” which could be zero if his database is locked while trying to respond to some absurd query from one of his users :)
I found out about Biden's family money laundering from NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/arts/design/hunter-biden-...
When you talk to ~3 year old children they hallucinate quite a lot. Really almost nonstop when you ask them about almost anything.

I'm not convinced that what LLM's are doing is that far off the beaten path from our own cognition.
But then you introduce a subscription model and people decry how the good news is paywalled…
Generative AI Should Not Replace Thinking at My University (2023)
My gf has a small very sterile scarcely decorated living room. A mouse chose to live under the fake fireplace. The funny part is that she has 7 cats. When they aren't looking he steals their cat food and drinks their water.

I also see a cat hunt tiny mice on a tiny strip of grass in the middle of a busy intersection. Apparently this is a great spot for a nest, in the middle of large roaring vehicles that kill everything on their way.
The real reason is that Bluetooth is awful for data transmission and the bitrate absolutely plummets when there's crosstalk. I live in an older building with a ton of interference on the 2.4GHz band (WiFi, BT beacons, "smart" appliances) and updating any device over bluetooth is impossible.
petroleum wealth
It's just a lot of downside for almost no upside, cool idea though. Maybe it can be repurposed for some kind of rng app, like a dice app for dungeons and dragons or stuff like that.