skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very surprising to me and I don't completely understand it.

Let me ask; Does this crucially rely on deterministic behavior of the transformer?

The only way I can imagine what you say is that the transformer can see the past inputs, and if it is deterministic know what (internal) chain of thought it must have had and hence what its plan (factorization) would have been when it generated the output (first prime number).

In this case, I have the impression that any amount of non-determinicity, i.e. randomness, breaks this mechanism and hence transformers with noise
are weaker than RNNs with noise. Would you agree?

Furthermore, if I understand correctly it does seem like it would be strange for a model to learn to use its knowledge of its own deterministic behavior to predict what the only strategy it could have chosen must have been. I just can't imagine a transformer solving the prime product generation task with this method, even if generating large primes and muktiplying them was easy for it. (And I can easily imagine an RNN solving the task).

It reminds me of solutions to infinite prisoner hat problems where you agree on some abstract well-ordering of possibilities...
Some evidence to confirm this:

1. Twitter thread with examples: https://twitter.com/sjwhitmore/status/1601254826947784705

2. Tweet/screenshot + Colab notebook:https://twitter.com/aman_madaan/status/1599549721030246401, https://tinyurl.com/codex-chat-gpt

The second tweet is mine.
Actually in this case it's likely AWS is also responsible for having trash 2fa restrictions. AWS will only allow you to setup one single 2fa method.

If you register with a yubikey, you can't register a 2nd yubikey as backup, nor can you register an authenticatior(TOTP) as a backup.
This is not entirely true.

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/194279 explains it better than I could.
Because it's not "just a few minutes". It's the time to learn how to make it well; it's the cooking equipment to make it well, consistently; it's the navigation of an ever-shifting retail environment with way too much choice and featuring the kind of sensory input meant to overload your decision-making abilities, just to get the ingredients; it's the way that poor sleep (mattress) also affects those decisions; it's the way that financial precarity means juggling concerns of the now with concerns of the future (retirement), and how that kind of anxiety also short-circuits your decision-making; it's knowing that eating "chicken and frozen veggies and rice" for every meal is going to leave you malnourished in short order, too, but that because the internet rando who's more focused on balancing a silver spoon on his nose than the points of discussion at hand will ALWAYS find fault in what you do (if he cares at all), maybe throwing all of that stress out the window and ordering Subway is the right call after all. Your inability to "see" doesn't preclude what I talked about from being there and material and true. And they are.

And for the record, I cook, but I only have time to because I'm unemployed.
Kinda fascinating that the changes were too large to merge: "resulting in a monolithic patch exceeding 650 kb of code changes. WebKit demands small patches, with ChangeLogs, tests, etc. – no WebKit reviewer would sign off a patch replacing a core component of WebCore in one shot. Splitting up into small pieces is also not going to work, since SVG needs to be kept intact upstream all the time."
It doesn't have to be 16 bit software, many 32 bit programs used 16 bit installers.
Terrible analogy. If I buy a TV that has smart features or apps on it, I'm only marginally paying for the apps. It's even possible that Netflix is paying the TV manufacturer in order to be in the default install, so I'm not even paying for the apps; possibly I'm even paying slightly less for the TV than I otherwise would. (Even if that's not the case, that doesn't really change the calculus for me.)

So, no, if Netflix disappeared in this case, I would not ask for a partial refund. The TV still works as a TV, and that's what I really paid for in the first place. (If Netflix didn't disappear, but the TV app stopped working, I might be -- justifiably -- annoyed, though!)

This Twitterific thing is in no way comparable: the app only interacts with Twitter. That's its entire reason for being. If it can't do that, then it is worthless, and anyone who paid for it is perfectly in their rights to demand a refund. Hell, the Twitterific folks should be pro-actively refunding the unused portions of subscriptions; that's the only ethical thing to do here.
I'm not sure why it took so long, but I think that lawyers dragging their feet probably wasn't it. I'm guessing that they would have never announced the release, unless the lawyers had already signed off on it. I think instead, it took them 5 years to make the landing page (something like this would normally take two years, but the pandemic wasted three years of that time.)
Real estate businesses have a ridiculous amount of tax benefits. The terms to look up are:

Cost Segregation

Bonus Depreciation

(There's a third one I can't remember).

She basically utilized all three. The larger the value of the house (over $1M in her case), the greater the benefit.
shouln't it be anything but 42, since that answer came from a machine?
Would love to hear your story of your simple easy decentralised cryptoasset money sending as most people I know who do this end up telling me a story that is not exactly a user experience delight but more like a nightmare of key management, shady random exchanges, incomprehensible jargon, bizarre gas fees and so on.
Roger made sure it sounded 'right' but beyond that I had a lot of control over the specifics. I shot for a much higher degree of precision than other instruments (even lots of digital) and more or less hit the target I was going for. Low jitter, under 3ms in all cases I could push it into. Was quite proud of that

Oh tons and tons of design ideas... I plan on blogging about them at some point once I am more steadily designing my own instruments, right now it would just help the competition. Been writing out articles. I'll post some here when I do

It depends on the bpm and the intention. A swing for jazz is much different than for house or hip hop.
> It's unlikely that you had 200 metric tons of silver coins stashed away.

I think the grandparent was imagining they were silver certificate dollars[1], not actual silver dollar coins. That said, silver certificate dollars needed to be converted at some point in the past, in 2023 they can't be converted and only have collector value, and $8 million worth would dilute their collector value substantially.

[1]:https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090116...
> isn't that doing this is somehow illegal

Well, it may not be a felony, but I wouldn't bet my business on something like this if I was small. Likelihood of a lawsuit and all.

> Apple is willing to step in to remove apps that hurt fellow Big Tech companies

Not clear to me that they would be willing, are there any historical examples?
The frawk implementation (not quite POSIX, but extremely fast) and my GoAWK implementation both have an "-i csv" option that puts it in "input mode CSV". More here: https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-csv/

$ cat quoted.csv
"Smith, Bob",42
$ awk -F, '{ print $1 }' quoted.csv
"Smith # you want to print the first field: Smith, Bob
$ goawk -i csv '{ print $1 }' quoted.csv
Smith, Bob # that's better!
Do we ship natural gas via rail now? Are we replacing our turbines every year?

Plenty of economic activity that is not fake involves no freight.
Knot Portal to Narnia in VR, Inspired by Bill Thurston
Maybe we should or shouldn't, but the potential victims of this aren't just some greedy corporation. Leaking the no fly list could cause irreparable harm to individuals whose names are on it or even similar, causing discrimination by employers and other organizations.
Ironically, this kind of post is your own attempt to hide from your responsibility as a member of a community and society that is setting up the wrong structures and incentives for people to naturally make the right decisions.
If some users don't get angry then it isn't innovative enough. Innovation naturally leads to people forced to learn things out of their comfort zone and everybody responds to that differently. The best I can do is guide them through the process and hope they don't resent me on the other side ;)
> asdf is still better than having lies sprinkled in randomly.

I think this is the core of my argument, yeah. If a _reader_ needs better than they can run GPT themselves. But the _writer_ using it is worse than useless, it's actively harmful.
Look, this is super-mainstream "how the supreme court works" stuff. You can disagree but you're wrong. There's a ton of material on this, much of it's online, and a guide to the rest can be found in most any university US government course syllabus. Federalist 78's probably a decent starting point.

You're arguing with history and reality itself, not me. I dunno what to tell you.
> Metatext

I do like Metatext but development is paused (repo is archived) - and notifications appear to have stopped working. I'll probably end up back on Toot! at some point.

(Tried building my own version from the repo but it breaks for some reason and I'm not an iOS dev who can figure out why.)
but can you still get an original discwasher with a squeeze bottle of de-ionized water?
It's still kinda gross, IMO. Twitterific should be pro-actively refunding customers for the unused portion of their subscriptions, without users having to request one from Apple.

Twitterific made a bet that the Twitter API would remain available to them. They should be the ones assuming the risk and taking on the consequences of losing that bet. Not their customers.
You know - I do this too, but I've suggested it to so many people and they simply don't/won't do it. Usually it comes down to either of the following:

* They forget, and then retain a monthly subscription charge.
* They end up watching some small thing casually and it just remains forever.

The first point, especially, is a big part in why subscriptions work, I believe. Hell, it's definitely why Crunch Fitness is still in business (because they make it impossibly hard to cancel).

This is totally anecdotal, but I'm curious how many people actually set out to sign up, binge, and then immediately cancel.

Also - an aside. I'm pretty fed up w/ services that charge a monthly subscription, and make it totally unclear what happens when you cancel. Some completely shut you off immediately (which is just about the scummiest thing ever, since you... paid for the month already). Others let you finish out your month. This is super anti-consumer IMHO.
Who said I was scared? I'm just pointing out that the phrase you used it very vague and some interpretations can be scary. It pays to be specific, especially in tech and medicine, you know? Winkyface.
I knew holding on to my Pascal textbook since the 80s would come in handy one day. :)

In all seriousness though, I would like to understand this a bit better as I have not heard of this project before. Is Ultibo actually written in assembler, and then when you compile your Pascal program the assembler boot modules along with the compiled program code are merged together? To me, bare-metal means assembler, or if you're really hardcore, binary.
We wrote a long post on Passkeys, in particular how they are implemented by Apple[0] that might be interesting.

Technically a Passkey is just a multi-device FIDO credential that is compatible with WebAuthn (which is an official W3C and FIDO spec).

However, vendors implementations of Passkeys/FIDO credentials differ quite widely. The Apple implementation of Passkeys, as an example, doesn't provide attestation information which reduces the ability to do device verification. Similarly, even though it's not technically part of Passkeys, Apple removed the possibility to create device-bound WebAuthn keys which significantly weakens the security guarantees you'd normally get with WebAuthn.

[0]https://www.slashid.dev/blog/passkeys-deepdive/
Oh please - Twitter has never given a shit about third party clients and has been threatening to do this for a long time now. Devs couldn't even get API keys to authorize new users of their products for the longest time.

It's still shitty that Twitter still hasn't been up front and definitive about the status of the API, none of this is new just because of Elon.
If I was going to give people a trail of breadcrumbs I'd do it in a coded kazoo message
THe RWKV model seems really cool. If you could get transformer-like performance with an RNN, the “hard coded” context length problem might go away. (That said, RNNs famously have infinite context in theory and very short context in reality.)

Is there a primer for what RWKV does differently? According to the Github page it seems the key is multiple channels of state with different decaying rates, giving I assume, a combination of short and long term memory. But isn’t that what LSTMs were supposed to do too?
>Energy production is kit a self contained endeavor. Transformers, steel, copper, pipe, valves, digital equipment for monitoring and control systems are just some of the necessary inputs for construction and maintenance.

Freight is a very poor way to measure electricity output. Both turbines and balance of plant equipment usually last 40 years (so we replace c. 2.5% in a given year) and now a days, most fuel is piped.

>Beyond that, efficient use energy production requires some place for it to be used, Generally home and industry appliances.

Yes, all of which is economic activity unrelated to freight.
> You don’t have to use a dumb exchange.

where do you buy bitcoin that's not an exchange? hand cash to a guy in a park? (I suggest that because it was actually suggested to me)
Ex con here, lived in the halfway house. No one, and I mean NO ONE took Amazon warehouse jobs. And that is saying a lot. We took jobs with metrics requiring we pull 60 pieces of cardboard per minute out of garbage and trash from a 75mph conveyor belt over working Amazon. We had to wear kevlar glove 'sharps' protection so the needles in the trash didn't poke us and give us HIV. This was still preferred over Amazon warehouse jobs. Just saying....
Code: https://github.com/mosuem/knotportal
Yes, absolutely. But instead of Twitterific reaching out to their customers and pro-actively doing that, they're lamely asking their customers to give them free money because their assumptions about their business risk turned out to be incorrect.
>Florida land boom of the 1920's

any books you can suggest
Maybe I'm out of the loop but why not?
Both could have happened in parallel. The fact that it is a lab leak vs. something else wouldn't have any effect on pandemic containment. What it did is sow incredible distrust in our institutions. It lead to long lasting damage which was compounded by institutions going on full defensive mode, doubling down on their old premises instead of adopting humility and compassion, admitting to mistakes. Those that continue to justify this in the name of "containment" are chipping away what little is left.
> Because I paid them for something and I'm not receiving it?

But that's not a response to my comment. I'm asking why the developer, who has expenses of his own, should cover for the actions of Twitter. In the absence of an explicit promise related to this, the customer was taking a risk that Twitter would do something like this. There is no good argument that either party should have to cover for Twitter's actions.
Don't have instrument specific data on songs. Wish I did. Was thinking about classification algorithm on song spectrograms to do this. There's a music instrument dataset I could train on and run my songs through. Could possibly take weeks though. I'll investigate.
For me the point of this demo is that even a good commit message is often redundant information.

As programmers we learn that adding a comment like:

// The limit is 16

to

const SOME_LIMIT = 16

is bad because is redundant information that serves no purpose to the reader and can easily misalign in the future.

So what's a good commit message for changing this limit? Ideally we want to describe why we've changed it but this information isn't always available so even when we're avoiding redundant comments we often use redundant commit messages like "increased SOME_LIMIT" to make browsing through history easier for others.

As we do not need to provide this information (it is already in the code), it seems like a reasonable idea for an AI to help us provide it.
They said that in the opening paragraph: "We are sorry to say that the app's sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter". That sentence links to this post which explains in more detail what happened: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
Yes, but as with everyone else, you are not factoring in the empirical value of the costs and just asserting it would be better.
the point is everyone wants more govt spending, not necessarily handouts. Voters want larger government spending.
It's actually worse than that because of cost of mining. It's a negative-sum game. People who lost money paid those who made money plus they paid for a bunch of useless computations.
This is a good summary of events, and the finishing of the article with that last sentence makes it a worthy read.

"Saying that would have gotten her company destroyed even faster, but I think she would have been right."

If you are also a sucker for some fun internet drama, definitely follow the dev-security-policy@mozilla.org mailing list.
Only one was a president.
Mom! They spilled Reddit all over my hackernews!
"record actions" - most editors call these "macros". I would think most good programming editors support this. I've used vim and emacs and they both do.
I agree, but it is 2023 now, it’s not super important how Twitter was founded.
I didn't say "imperial gallon" I said "imperial system" which is both historically correct and what people colloquially call it.
Yes, since we adopted those units the measures have changed repeatedly on both sides of the Atlantic. I get it.
The societal structure under The Party was oligarchical; not socialist. The whole point was that it vilified the goals of socialism under the name of socialism.
Steele's The Cauchy-Schwarz Masterclass is actually quite good and seemingly designed for self study. (A lingering result of this book is I heavily use inequalities even outside of analysis.)

Artin's Algebra probably has had the most impact on my math thinking. The development of groups and rings while tightly linking them to linear algebra was rather brilliant.
If you’ve ever ran a Mongo cluster you know that yes, search/indexing is expensive
Most people will just update their keys, so I doubt anyone is going to burn botnet cycles on trying to use the keys.
> If the thing you did was less bad than the penalty for treason or revealing secrets (life in prison and/or death) then the blackmail argument falls apart.

I'm no expert on spycraft or anything like that, but this sounds overly reductionist. If they can threaten you to lose your career, then maybe doing one tiny little other thing that won't matter seems like it might be worth it. Now they can blackmail you further.

> they can just find an ex lover and blackmail that person to say you raped them or whatever

How do they find that person? How do they blackmail them? It becomes exponentially more complicated than just blackmailing one person. Additionally, someone finding themselves in the situation that they are being actively targeted with blatant lies is much more likely put up an indignant and active defense vs somebody who actually has a guilty conscience.
Why would he short a stock that he already owns all the shares of? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Kinda makes me wonder what happens if someone checks yes. How do they deal with that?
The FAQ says it runs on pretty much all RPI's.
So you can also use it on an old Raspberry Pi you might have laying around.
It doesn't have to be a RPi 4.
Population increase came after we unlocked unprecedented, crazy growth.

The industrial revolution demographics might be an interesting read.
> Why is it that so many companies' customer support fails to function until someone squawks loudly on a high-traffic public site or social media?

customer support is very expensive from the site's point of view, and filtering through squawking on social media is a way to reduce the number of support tickets. If particular social media channels become clogged with too many "what about my case" postings then those channels will lose eyeballs and no longer function as social media that "gets noticed"

A lot of things in life are stochastic in nature, and so are the responses.
It doesn't matter who is at fault, ultimately. If you pay for a service, you expect that service to be provided. If you pay to use an app for 30 days, and suddenly you can only use it for 15 days, through no fault of your own, the company should refund you half of what you paid.

Regarding fault: Twitterific absolutely shares responsibility here. They built an app and service that depended on the whims of a third-party service that they could not guarantee perpetual access to. They should have had a plan for what to do if they lost API access... and not a plan that begs their paying customers for charity.
Absolutely. The creators of third-party clients have not learned anything about the risks of building on top of someone else's business and APIs and exactly when that service is a completely free API.

As predicted here: [0] when a third-party Discord client had to shut down [1] because Discord Inc. controlled the platform, the same has happened to Twitter.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685294

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684953
Comment of the year, so far
Capital One lays off 1100 Agile Delivery Leads/SCRUM masters
> RNNs famously have infinite context in theory and very short context in reality.

any sources to read more about this please? its the first ive heard of it
Economics of Food Fraud [video]
The large model weights are 14B, so at 16 bits per weight, it won't quite fit on one 3090 or 4090.
Anyone have any tips for building a windows box that can only talk to steam? I want a copy of the OS that never phones home to Microsoft, never updates, and doesn't even access the network other than to download from steam or stream to my local network.

Maybe I can put it on an isolated vlan and only allow outbound connections to steam?
> So no transfinite ordinal analysis or large cardinals

You could insist on sticking with the Axiom of Countable Choice if you wanted to avoid some of that.

I'd say it's pretty hard to avoid thinking about 'infinity' though.
Small business who built their business on the whims of a third-party API platform, without any means to guarantee they'd have perpetual access to that platform. It's on them to ensure that their business model works, not by asking their customers for charity when it doesn't.
Do you have a source on your assumption of costs and benefits
This goes back a little, but IIRC one was GRUB somehow got messed up (yes, I know, technically not Linux... but it's part of the experience). I managed to fix that one by reinstalling GRUB which, to be completely honest, was kinda fun. That was my old Lenovo laptop. The next time is my new PC, with an AMD 5600x CPU, I have not the faintest idea what happened, Grub would boot into an error I couldn't find any clues on. I ended up just reformating the disk and turning it into extra space for Steam games.
CERN staff make “Collide” (Howie Day parody)
Eh, I thought the fact rich celebrities were held to the same standards as us normal people reflected pretty well on Australia.