skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one here is a scientist and no one treats any of this as science. Where's the criteria for the emprical adequecy of NLP systems as models of language? Specifying any, conducting actual hypothesis tests, and establishing a theory of how NLP systems model language -- this would immediately reveal the smoke-and-mirros.

What do you mean?

I'm not a scientist but I play one sometimes, and I managed a whole team of them working in this field.

The theory of language models is well established.

> Where's the criteria for the emprical adequecy of NLP systems as models of language?

There are lots(!?) I think the Winograd schema challenge[1] is an easy one to understand, and meets a lot of your objections because it is grounded in physical reality.

Statement:

The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they [feared/advocated] violence.

Question:

Does "they" refer to the councilmen or the demonstrators?

The human baseline for this challenge is 92%[1]. PaLM (this Google language model) scored 90% (4% higher than the previous best)[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema_challenge

[2] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1353/paper_30.pdf

[3] https://storage.googleapis.com/pathways-language-model/PaLM-... pg 12
I watch a lot of financial videos on YT and noticed the sophistication of the spam has increased lately. Previously you'd have either:

- someone stealing the logo of the video owner responding to your comments with whatsapp links

- some MLM-esque praise for a particular person's crypto trading scheme.

for the second case, you now have spam bots replying to the top comment with a vaguely realistic sounding dialog with comments alternating between people asking for more information, similarly praising the crypto scheme, or giving contact information.

The comments section has basically become useless at this point due to the level of spam. You still have content creators encouraging you to comment to trick the YT algorithm though.
Thank you. I have been trying to stay quiet about this topic because it's career suicide in my field (and most fields) but recent events in my own life have led me to less silence.

This sexualization, this coordinated and forced (yes, forced) effort to demand pre-sexual/pre-pubescent children to perform for mentally ill adults (LGBTQIAPP++, MAP) has reached a threshold where it is no longer "those crazy right wingers on the internet being *-phobic" into my own unassuming relatively rural life. I will not be silent any longer. This shit needs to stop, and any of you who think "empathy" is the key or "love is love" need to be treated as highly suspicious. There's something fantastically wrong with you and it's not normal, never will be, and your attempts to make it normal show your true intentions.
> the Victorians were maybe the first Western society - maybe anywhere - that devoted itself to relentless self-improvement as a moral imperative

I've been reading up on Metternich era recently, and this element of British society in the post-Napoleonic era--one of security for and peace on the British Isles, education and wealth for its population and a virtual monopoly on the high seas--has fascinated me. Both for its uniqueness, as well as for its elusiveness in modern historical dialect.
That's awesome! I'm a huge fan of remote work myself. But there are pros/cons to everything. Are there any elements of in-office work that you wish were possible in a remote setting?
Frustrating they keep releasing new models but no new model A
> "A single person shouldn't be able to block an airport that will serve millions."

So how many people should be able to block an airport extension? a hundred people, ten thousand people?

What you're arguing is the classic of the trolley dilemma [1], the individual vs the many. Should you harm 1 person to save 1 million. The difference here is that you're not killing the individual, you're demolishing their home, and you're not saving 1 million people, you're making travel a little more convenient.

[1] https://theconversation.com/the-trolley-dilemma-would-you-ki...
How does an article about lifting allowed working hours for teenagers in a fast food joint equate to children working in coal mines?
>Look at what happens every time someone gets banned from Platform X and tries to create "The Free Speech Version Of Platform X.

Ask yourself wether the audience drawn to the new platform has culture. I don’t think it has, they are usually the subset of platform Xs original users who are simply not able to get their point across without having the rest of Xs audience reacting emotionally negative (because the rest of the audience also has no culture). It’s a social problem, not a technical one. 80% of people seek identity and peer confirmation, _because they have no culture_.

In the case of US-audience, this effect gets accelerated because part of US-culture IS the “Wild West/I ignore anything that’s not my gut”-madness. If you view that as the default, sure, we wont get anywhere. I do not view this as the default.
The self censorship that you describe on HN in a way is, you probably guess what I’m about to write, culture. Culture includes to restrict yourself in order to fit your content and your expressions to the space you’re in. Whole heartedly: please don’t censor yourself. Please don’t care about downvotes. Cultivate your thought and formulate it adequately, and there should be no moderation-incentive. Just don’t shove strong opinions (which are categorically dull) down an audience that’s not interested in them. Instead be curious and get the point across as questions, etc. it’s all a matter of form. You can explain the problem of cancel culture even to the most stubborn filter bubble-stuck dim person, you just have to use wording that lets them see through your eyes. That’s hard, but culture HAS to be hard. The alternative will always converge on /b/, because the alternative always converges in the absence of culture.
> So you're saying that people should not be allowed to build log cabins because they don't contribute to your definition of acceptable housing stock? What if someone would prefer to live in a log cabin than commie block apartment? Is there any human freedom safe from such communistic arguments?

Huh? That isn't what I said. I said "there are benefits". You can totally build a log cabin in jurisdictions that require inspections you just need to do a little more than setup some logs... Additionally I bet the definition of "house" is more flexible than you imply from your offhand information.

> Regulations are not the primary reason for safety in vehicular design. I know you'll never believe that, however, it probably goes counter to your entire world view, so don't bother responding.

I mean I can point to regulation changes resulting in additional safety but you don't believe that at all. The reality is vehicle safety has trended very closely to regulations if you pay any attention. Some minimal amount of safety is provided but it isn't like consumers are asking what happens if you impact a another care at 55 MPH vs 35 MPH.

> Whether you like it or not, there is dollar number on the value of a human life, and liability insurance (and vehicle design and regulation) revolves around it.

That is an incorrect statement. California has a minimum liability for injury of $15,000. We do not as a society agree that a human life is worth that little.

> Safety has diminishing returns and there is a market clearing point. Brush guards are just as dangerous as spikes, for instance, would you like to ban them? Or would you make a government form to apply for an exception if the brush guard is for an approved acceptable use by you for someone who has a license for their proper use off-road by someone with an acceptable economic reason fitting the social and economic calculations for the current five year plan determined by your Ministry of Truth?

You are just making shit up now. Feel free to quote any sources rather than making up stuff.
Blade pitching first use is to reduce the aerodynamics power above the rater power point of the turbine and avoid overload.
I mean, he's... technically right? Netflix could start showing ads, and increase revenue (either from creating a lower price tier that encourages more adoption, or by adding ads to the lowest price tier to increase revenue).

Of course, that's also the same logic that hundreds of tech companies have already "figured out" about ads. And it always ignores the knock-on effects of ads seeping into other price tiers, of ads taking priority over other features, etc. etc... that eventually destroy entire platforms and pieces of software.
Some hotels does this with ID cards.
Except this perfectly encapsulated the culture that wanted to abandon Twitter and recognized that it all amounted to shit. It isn't birdsong, it's a fart
I find 60-90 minute timeboxes better for programming, need to get into flow
Yes. Avoid anything with displaylink.
What did you replace it with? Having the same problem with mine and looking for an alternative.
The problem with the US is not that it is too religious, but the flavour of religiousness in the US leads to those things.
Other than the Anglos most of Europe was pretty much pious some 50/6o years ago and it was never a problem as it is in the US.
That website made me feel sad; seems they’re embattled, and really have a fight on their hands to stop the parkland turning into suburban parking and retail
The author gets a few things wrong or mixed up (mostly covered in other comments).

None of the other comments also talk about galvanic isolation, you need transformers (therefore AC) for that.

But the article is trying to sell you on DC, like there are lot of marketing around hydrogen and such. I would say the right approach would use the right technology where it is the best option. HVDC to replace HV AC transmission, sure if it makes sense for your use case. DC-ify all homes and appliances just because? Definitely not. DC-ify parts of home lighting? Why not. Tho lighting is usually at 24VDC or 48VDC and then you are going to need either very thick cables (insane waste) or DCDC converters and where is the advantage there?

Besides transmission line level of DC, rest of the article is pretty much noise, generation is where we have big problems at the moment.

Also AC frequency is currently used as signaling mechanism to regulate grid power-balance and stability, spinning reserve and all that jazz. With DC you need some other signaling mechanism, first to mind is Voltage but with all the smart semiconductor devices my guess is that the signal gets lost as these devices tend to compensate. So you'd need a dedicated signaling mechanism like software...
> If you go in guns blazing to the school board, the school is going to go into full defensive mode. Once you've established yourself as the aggressive parent with an axe to grind, they're not going to be interested at all in working with you.

Too bad! They can be voted out, or face lawsuits if a heated attitude is too much for them that they feel the need to ignore valid feedback regardless of the emotions involved.

I've heard the same argument used for angry minority communities in the past, so this very much applies here as well. Heated rhetoric school boards are seeing today are reminiscent of a body that isn't listening.
I only made bad experience with displaylink. Now I use HDMI Dongle to connect directly to the GPU.
Well, let's get to it then
"We have patents required to implement AV1."
"Which patents?"
"We're not telling. But they're real, take our word for it."
Sounds like FUD to me.

Sure, they have a long history of involvement in the codec space ... which makes them even more desperate to stop AV1 by any means, to stop their patent licensing revenue model from going away.

Of course AOM isn't going to open themselves to unlimited liability in the case of some submarine patent. No-one ever does that. E.g. if you buy HEVC patent pool licenses you don't get any such indemnity.

But the nice feature of AOM of course is the Defensive Termination clause in their patent license: https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/ If one of the companies you listed launches a first-strike lawsuit against any AV1 user, they lose their ability to use AV1.

Until some company decides to put its neck on the block and launch such a lawsuit, or at least identify specific patents they think are necessary, their claims cannot be taken seriously.
You're conflating self-control with focus, which are two separate things.

The study focuses on the claims that self-control or exertions of willpower deplete the ego which doesn't address focus.
Palm: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways [pdf]
I have no idea why, but I love alternate number systems (p-adics, surreals, base -2, split-complex, etc.). This one is playful.

Anyone know where to find a rigorous maths treatment for it?
Ah, I'm sorry. You're right of course!
Minimal adoption? Don't YouTube and Netflix use AV1 for their highest-quality offerings?
the one problem is that when I look up the price of Caldigit and other brands that HN is vouching for they are $400~$500 range.

I would need to burn through 8~9 $50~60 range alternatives that allegedly "suck" before I see returns, and by that time we would have 3 to 4 iterations of macbook.

I guess if you like peace of mind then this makes sense but I hope nobody drops $500+ on a hub from reading HN comments, the "crappy" ones described work fine, it just that it won't last and creates waste but it would take quite a long time to do so.
Disagree. Not only can anyone program. But anyone can do surgery, become a fighter pilot and become a barrister.

It's the same thing as how anyone can learn mathematics, algebra, biology and any of the typical subjects you learn at school. You struggle with deep learning only because it's a paradigm shift. It's too different from traditional programming so the initial learning curve makes it seem like you're incapable. Given enough time anyone can surpass the hump and become good at deep learning.

That is not to say that these skills are trivial. There must be a lot of training time to achieve these skills. But make no mistake... anyone can do it.
My son came home with a Chromebook and I'm trying my hardest to make him hate it by talking as much shit about it every chance I get. I made sure to get him a desktop with games, dual boot windows and ubuntu and stress that if there's anything he wants to do, we can do it.
Israel? AFAIK Israel is increasingly radicalizing itself. Starting as an experimental European Socialists complete with communes and ending up rather jingoistic. Not an example I would use at all. I wouldn’t put all the blame on conscription as there are many other factors at play, but I also wouldn’t use Israel as an example less war mongering via conscription.
> Arabs did. The ottoman turks, muslim persians, etc benefited greatly.

They're all Muslims. Islam establishes that ethnicity does not matter.

Arabs did not wipe out local populations, you'd want to look at the Crusades and Zionists for that.
> Netflix has barely tapped its global potential (partially more and more users of countries come online world-wide)..

The problem with this argument is it is not thought through. Expanding to newer markets is not about simply enabling credit card payment from those countries.

The performance in India (not good) proved recently it is about localizing the content. Creating or buying new content for these new market costs money, and then managing those (staffing up local orgs, local production center, data center, etc.) also costs.

Netflix is in content business, unlike software it is not about making copies and distributing world wide at zero cost.
I built my last project in Flask. It was a joy to work with, but I quickly discovered that it's not really meant for single-page applications. I ended up mostly using it as an API while the bulk of the work was done with javascript. In retrospect it would have been easier to just use something like FastAPI.
Brick weed less than 3 years old was the "good stuff" in my neck of the woods ~20 years ago, and it was probably a tenth or less potent than the average thc content now.

One tiny puff these days is all it takes for me to hit that sweet spot, but I've seen heavy users consume more than a gram of dab in ten minutes. We're in novel territory, with cbd and other isolated extracts letting people tailor the composition of their weed to fit the high they're after.

Psychedelics next, and hopefully blanket legalization within the next 3 decades.
When I was a kid, I had this messed up idea in my head that if I used a game engine then the resulting game wouldn't be one that "I built". It's like I built this "Unity game" rather than I built this game. I don't really buy into that mindset anymore nowadays, but I guess there's something to be said about how the tools we use influence the products we produce.
There are non-pharmacological interventions for ADHD that might be worth a shot like CBT, developing executive function, and other behavioral/coaching interventions.

Compare minimal side effects to zero side effects and not having to pay for something indefinitely.

You can try other things before reaching for the pills if your doctor thinks it's appropriate.
Their P/E demands it.
I was trying to imagine a park that narrow that ringed a city, I get it now.
Well it is unfortunately an output that scales at O(n^2) its length, which is not super great once you get to sequences of 1000s of words
They still exist but you have to look for them specifically. Usually gaming laptops around 4 kg though :-)
The trouble is advertisers aren't very interested in people who can only afford the lowest tier. Somebody who can only afford that isn't going to be in the market for a Tesla or MacBook or any other product.

The people who can afford the tier without advertising are exactly the people advertisers want to target.
Exactly, it's so easy to try out thousands of examples and then just show the best one.
If we can make something equivalent to a human, that is AGI. It does not presuppose some notion of consciousness that we ourselves might not meet.
I'm saying that the Muslims did the world a favor by saving them from the Mongol destruction.

Niall Ferguoson sounds quite biased and exaggerative.
I just cancelled my subscription. It's all garbage anyways.
The Chicago Public Schools is an immense agency. Good luck getting anyone to pay attention, even at a school board meeting.

And referring for prosecution is really going to go nowhere.

Best bet, contact the public service operation for one of the TV stations, maybe a newspaper, and maybe your city council member, to wake up somebody, either at your school or at headquarters downtown.

Prepare to be disappointed.
Eh? Population growth is largley driven by psychoogy and sentiment of the population. You can see birth rate drop in the US now because of rising cost of living for example. The argument may still hold true but population growth is not exponential, it can drop as much as it can rise. Longer life span also means increased social burden and costs. Having to care for parents through their 80s and 90s means you can't afford as many kids as you could have afforded. And it also has to do with expected quality of life. Middle class in the west is has more expectations of what a good enough quality of life for Children should be as opposed to most if africa or parts of India.
They can't be voted out by you alone though. And what he wrote about the school is just as true for the majority of other parents.
It's trivial to make a long list of banned variations.

The point is not about the technological cat-and-mouse game, it's about Amazon being so afraid of their employees that they have to resort to measures akin to those used in China to prevent people from voicing their discontent while encouraging sanctioned behaviour (awarding stars like in kindergarten, really?).

It's pitiful. If anything, it's quite revealing of the lack of moral and ethical compass from those making these petty decisions, and those who knowingly implement them.
Sparse transformers are a thing. Dictionary lookup is a thing. The transformer can probably be trained to store long chains of information in a dedicated memory system, retrieving it using keywords.

These are the things that came to mind in ten seconds.
This is not going to be the problem that meaningfully delays AGI.
Does this intended move to cybersecurity have any overlap with your current role? How are you preparing for this transition?

I am looking to move into Cybersecurity too hence asking.
Don't use Google products. Google makes its money based on user surveillance.
Apparently Data (from Star Trek) was less capable of understanding jokes.
If I understand correctly, your argument is laptops are better because they can do everything a desktop can and can be mobile? I can't follow this at all.

Mobility is a negative: so now your company can ask you to carry your laptop with you when you're on holiday, or ask you to complete work at the airport when traveling to the Denver office. And I feel like you missed GPs point about ergonomics -- you won't get any of that when moving. If you feel like mobile is a benefit WRT ergonomics you simply don't care about ergonomics.

The laptop form factor takes up extra desk space, and laptops are sill significantly more expensive for similar desktop performance.
Chocolate preserves Doom's framerate cap (35fps). GZDoom makes it configurable (I think uncapped is the default)
Simplified History of the Electric Car
Interestingly the bulk of that printer didn't come from HP. Canon made the print engine and HP (alongside Apple and a few others) put their controller inside it.

It was probably the peak for reliability, I worked for a company that sold a lot of them and the failure rate increased quite noticeably when they introduced the LaserJet 4.
We're slowly moving our discussion from "How could you think AGI is possible?" to "Is this AGI yet?".
Maybe I would make a good game dev after all: I have no interest in making a language, would be happy knocking one up in JS
They're just going to create their own Grass Mud Horse Lexicon.

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/04/the-grass-mud-horse-dic...
If Netflix starts selling ads then only Netflix executives will watch the shows, everyone else will cancel their subscriptions.
> But make no mistake... anyone can do it.

We have all seen the professionals in action…

There may be more people who can do it than one would instinctively think, but it doesn’t take long on a helpdesk or in any public facing role to conclude that many humans are maxed out with tasks that really aren’t that hard.
Most of my decisions deal with investments, here bringing in a net-present-value measure as well as a metric for opportunity cost has been useful as well.
Quantitative people can be scared of attributing numbers to fuzzy ideas, and non-quantitative people can be afraid of these uncomfortable glyphs altogether.
Yet, it is a helpful exercise to establish a way to compare alternatives, and this seems to be the least ridiculous method.
Tell HN: Need a YouTube/Google employee to protect a Ukraine Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ALknZ57FJ4

This man is posting updates from the front line in Ukraine. He's having trouble defending his content from getting deleted.
Have you tried the instruct series of GPT3? It's much better at following instructions than the original.