skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May all your code be found in the I-cache, your branch predictions be correct, and your speculative executions succeed. And may your performance be blessed with bottlenecks, and your optimization effort devoted there. :)

"[A] large set of instructions" conflicts with the first and last of that. So perhaps start with a hot instruction or two, and try just 2 baked variants? Hmm, a random weird thought: if the stack top was in a wide SIMD, one might use SIMD masks to select operands without baking or branching? Another random: perhaps instructions could have internal branching to choose registers, and the not-a-jit compiler could optimize for temporally-locally consistent "monomorphic" register choice to keep the branch predictor mostly happy? It might juggle multiple copies of hot instructions with different predictor state?

Can anyone suggest sources of vm-ish optimization advice for cutting-edge CPUs? For instance, the years-ago FORTH advice, IIRC, that putting 1 top-of-stack slot in a register is worth it, 2 is borderline, and 3 isn't... CPUs have changed a lot since then. Especially with register renaming?
I wear one. One day when I was you, in the spring I slipped on some sand and went down. the helmet hit first basically saving my nose.

I've also been hit on the head by an acorn. Thats mild, but it could be startling enough to loose control, but it was just a noise for me.
This is mostly political posturing. Wyoming is one of the most conservative states in the country, with a tiny population, extremely low population density, very basic infrastructure, and massive oil/gas industry - perhaps one of the worst places for EVs in the lower 48, so it's not like they were going to be common in the first place.

Further, the WY state legislature is sending a copy of the bill to California and NY (either legislatures or governors, I forget which).
That’s an interesting take.

There might mixes of “quitting” and “wrapping up” when as a contributor to something, you feel you earnestly committed to it, and there’s not much more you can do to bring it further in the direction you wish it goes.

You might not be moving away on your terms, but you won’t have regrets either.
It's not phoning home. These vulnerabilities involve the coordination server, which is run by Tailscale, and therefore they have logs.
This is all true in a political science classroom, not so useful as a shorthand for real-world political tendencies that employ the same terms to mean increasingly different things. It's not that I disagree with you, rather that there is political capital to be made from debasement of the academic currency.
I think all of your points are valid. But I still think we should make an effort and strive to solve these problems. I don't think this is being done with ChatGPT, for example.

But also, note that an AI doesn't have to be in complete agreement with someone for that person to not feel "biased against".

As long as an AI does make some effort to not be prejudiced/biased, that could work.

For example, if someone asks: "is climate change real"?

An AI does not have to give a simple yes/no answer, or represent a single viewpoint. It could give an answer that is mostly representative of the major thought streams.

For example, it could answer something like:

"The vast majority of scientists/governments/people have reached the conclusion that climate change is real, bla bla bla.

[Here's some good, convincing evidence].

That said, there is a minor fraction of scientists/government/people who believe that climate change is not caused by human action.

[They criticize the above evidence in this way]. [Here's also some counter-evidence].

That said, many scientists believe these studies are flawed for this reason or another."

I mean, sure, there is still going to be a lot of people who don't agree with this answer. But I think, on a scale of 0-10 they would agree a lot more with this answer than one that completely ignores their viewpoints. And even for those of us who believe in climate change, we can still consider this answer somewhat reasonable.

Thus, increasing the total amount of points would probably be a somewhat effective way of eliminating a large deal of bias, I think.

Although, yes, you couldn't do this for every possible viewpoint. And it would be a challenge to figure out how to weigh these points in a way that makes the most amount of people happy.

But I still think we should make efforts in this direction.
Head injuries are a leading form of death for car occupants, so why don’t we wear helmets when driving?

“While car accidents contribute about 14% of the aggregate TBI cases in the US, they are the leading cause of TBI-related deaths among children and young adults”

https://treatnow.org/knowledgebase/car-accidents-and-brain-i...
The idea would be to keep China from landing in force (which they don't have the capability to do anyhow) and Japan is very close by.
The Renaissance lets its hair down
> The whole pitch of "your car makes money for you while you don't need it" robo-taxis

If you can print cash with your Robotaxi, why would Tesla ever sell you one? Just build your army of Robotaxis and make your billions that way.
Um, no actually
They don’t really take the risk away. The startup can easily fail, leading to having to find new employment, probably the founder was making less than in a corporate job. Also there’s the risk of being replaced if you do succeed
> there is a clear distinction between modern progressive politics (of the "woke" type) and the progressive politics from a few decades ago

Not to be glib, but this is the nature of "progress" - it changes things. ;)
What, like, all of them? Just across the board great outcomes for everyone in Asia?
This is officially my "I am old" moment in tech, because I had no idea there was a social app called Gas with millions of daily active users.
It wasn't just Dell, every manufacturer had bad caps in those years. MSI, ASUS, you name it. They all bought those cheap knock-off capacitors for their boards.

They lasted about 6000 hours - we could set it in a calendar and did so many RMAs. For the local 911 center, we'd replace the boards every 4 months, before the caps failed, because they just couldn't tolerate the downtime.
He's building the model from scratch, as the title suggests. He only trains a small model with 10M parameters on it, something that is feasible with a single GPU. In comparison, GPT-3 has 175B parameters.

> wondering like how hard is it to actually replicate what openAI has done if you had the money to pay for the training?

It would most certainly be possible for another company to build something very similar (models of similar size have even be released publicly). I'm honestly unsure why Microsoft would rather pay $10B to acquire less than half of OpenAI, as they have the hardware to do it (OpenAI uses MS cloud products.) Must be some business reasons I don't understand. OpenAI definitely has some very talented people working for it, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
You just described the reason a huge chunk of the enterprise security industry exists.
I do think there is a mood aspect to it. I didn’t watch 1899 right when it came out because I wasn’t ready for it mentally yet. A lot of things I watch around Christmas are lighthearted movies, including a bunch of Hallmark stuff. I don’t have the time or headspace to get to something like 1899, but when I finally did, I enjoyed it greatly.
It’s very hard to align venture building with investability.

The more equity the venture builder takes, the less attractive the business. If the venture builder may need to be washed out, it puts early investors at risk of being washed out with it.

The less the people signing as exec founders on the investment agreement did to actually found the company, the less attractive the team. Evidencing the hustle to start the company is part of what sets a good founder apart.

It’s not so much that 20% of something is worse than 80% of nothing. It’s that the vehicle is compromised from day one.

You can mitigate this with traction but the model is a bit like trying to do a startup with one hand tied behind your back.
I've only been in one bicycle accident. I was being a dumbass and attempted a sudden stop on a small iron bridge, when it had rained the previous night after a dry spell.

The wooden deck was thus very slippery, and about one second after touching the brakes the bike was horizontal and I smacked the side of my body and helmet against the wooden deck. Since it happened so quickly, my hands were still holding the handlebars when I hit the deck.

While not concrete, that wood wasn't exactly pliable and while I have no idea what would have happened without a helmet, I'm quite glad I didn't get to find out.
But when walking around you aren't cruising at 10+ miles and hour in an area with multi thousand pound vehicles going a multiple of your speed.
They got third party sellers listed for a few years now.
The goal was to prevent the emergence of a power center that could challenge Xi and the party.
> Seconds are close to heartbeats which has some psychological nicities

Ah yes, reminds me of the argument feet are better because it's a more human measure than meters (cf surely you're joking Mr Feynman)
> The US couldn't beat Vietnam or Afghanistan.

The US got distracted from Afghanistan for a war in Iraq.

But both of those demonstrate the limitations of outside military superiority in establishing stable rule against domestic resistance, especially (as in Vietnam) with strong outside military support.

Which, in a PRC-invasion of Taiwan, doesn't cut against the US.
All else being equal if I fall down my stairs I'm better off wearing a helmet and probably football pads too. Despite this truth I don't think many people walk around their house like this.
>Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills?

every artist, ever?

it's a pretty common idea that artists should embrace the passion for the art rather than 'mundane and earthly reason'. That isn't to say that represents practical reality, but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves.

we remember the stories of half-starved artists, stuck & starving on the streets and patroned by kings for one last hurrah ; we tend not to remember the artists stuck in corporate buildings that churn out cartoon cels in order to meet deadlines and quotas.
Software Development for Early-Stage Startups
Wrote an article about “Software Development for Early-Stage Startups” - an outgrowth of my work with early-stage non-tech founders, part of a series (DevOps coming next week).
>>Why on Earth would I want to use a security product that phones home..

that ship sailed a long time ago in enterprise networking. Almost all major vendors now have Cloud Control, and all of them phone home for various things

Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, etc. All of them
Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?
You may like or dislike Tiktok based on it's content and style of delivering that content but I think everyone has to admit that technically it is quite the achievement.

It's video based and delivers video really well. It rarely buffers or fails to load. Compare that to the Reddit video player or the Twitter video player or Vimeo. It's much better. Netflix loads poorly initially for me quite a bit (granted it's trying to load much higher quality).

How did they manage to get the engineering talent when seemingly FB, MS, Netflix, Amazon, Google are all fighting for that talent?
I have not quite stayed tuned in to all the chatGPT comings-and-goings. But examples like this are just stunning. This is just the most incredible cognition "act" ever. It's impressive not just because it's convincing but mainly because the answer is far superior to the answer I'd provide given the same prompt.

I am so impressed and so terrified of what will happen when the ne'er-do-wells start using this for whatever nefarious purpose they conjure.
Occam's razor says, no. The simpler explanation is, our reality is as it appears.

The deeper questions concern consciousness. At the core I personally don't believe actors in a simulation can have consciousness, therefore simulations have no bearing on our reality.
I've been riding bikes for over 50 years. I'm legally required to wear a helmet but I don't when I'm just poking along the local parks on the way to the shops. I could get fined :-(

There's a strong cycling culture around here. Some of them ride in packs on some major roads. I'd never do that, with or without a helmet. Recently there was a major incident. One death, a bunch injured. The dead one had their head severed. The helmet didn't help.

[edit: I usually do wear a helmet for any major ride]
It's so much worse than even what you say. This article is just a continuous slow flow stream of gas lighting.

Like, if the problem you notice is 7,500 pound vehicles designed to kill pedestrians, isn't the logical solution to anyone with a functioning brain to propose restricting those vehicles? What kind of lead paint eating logic does it take to conclude that the best solution is to get rid of bike helmets?
Not knowing anything about Pixel 2's USB functionality, but I have encountered cases where new cables have solved the problem I was encountering. One time was when I've tried to transfer files from my phone to the desktop and the speeds were ludicrously slow, like ~2Mbps where normally it would be 80-100 Mbps. The cable was rather old at that point and I bit the bullet and bought a new one and at that point I've realised that cables can worn out eventually.
Tesla owner here ( 2019 Model 3P, including paying for the "full self driving" ).

I wish Tesla hadn't gone whole-hog after full self driving, and had just concentrated on making a Better Car.
I don’t know about the nature paper’s assumptions, but supercharging provides far more power than could possibly be supplied to the grid via V2G — for instance, a 100A home service can draw at most 24kW (AC), while supercharging draws up to 250kW (DC). V2G would use the car’s onboard AC/DC converter, which usually tops out at 10-12kW, so it would be relatively slow discharge from the car’s perspective.

Edit: from the paper:

> We assume the home charging power as 1.92, 6.6, 22, and 1.92 kW for small, mid-size, large BEV, and PHEV, respectively

I don’t think the 22kW assumption is reasonable, but the others are comfortably within current L2 AC charging rates.
Billionaires who lord it over the bulk of humanity no longer fear a French revolution style ending to their greed. They're afraid of the machines they're building.

(And effective altruism is a scam designed to lend a thin veneer of credibility to naked greed)
If you only want faster than JSON then a 'binary json's like MessagePack or JSONB (is that the PostgreSQL one?) avoids dealing with schema. If you want schema it's not like JSON.
No, I wasn't being unfair or ranting. This is a classic case of "accusation in a mirror." When I push back on people for "shitting" on things, someone immediately tries to flip the script and accuse me of ranting. If you change your mind and still want to talk, please be honest with yourself and admit you were being unfair by dismissing my whole comment without even reading it.
Last time I was looking into this (Lemonade) any expensive electronics had to be covered separately by the $, at additional cost.
Interesting story out of Wyoming, but surely we can do better than Daily Fail GOTCHA reporting, with it's formulaic approach of capitalizing the most emotive word in the headline. Sorry, but I judge people negatively if they habitually submit content from low-quality news outlets.
Why don't they use the revenue from the helmet tickets of the privileged, white riders (who clearly have the money to buy a helmet) to provide free helmets to brown and black riders? That seems to me like the better solution and would drastically improve equality.
MSFT owns a pretty large chunk of equity (with caveats) of the entity which owns OpenAI.
https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy - Andy Hunt, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer among other endeavours. Also tends to boost interesting or funny stuff.

https://mastodon.social/@jonoxer - Jon is an awesome bloke in Melbourne, Australia who is really in to electronics and home automation.

https://theblower.au/@cathywilcox - Australian political cartoonist. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.

https://blackrock.city/@spolsky - Joel Spolsky. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix - Matrix, Element, etc.

https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal - Because he is a funny bugger.
You can contact the author on twitter @triprolife.
> Spaceships start to spread throughout the galaxy; they generally don’t contain any humans, or anything that humans had meaningful input into, and are instead launched by AIs to pursue aims of their own in space.

Humans don't like this idea, because we want to imagine ourselves playing the lead role in the future. But, what if this is the way for intelligent life to move forward and to spread among the stars? What if the next step in evolution, that which makes us look like apes in comparison, isn't biological at all? Is it right for us to try and prevent an evolutionary step, or to stand in the way of the needs of a greater conscious being?
Great result :)

Looks like the attention layers aren't as important as everyone thought because using a similarly sized feed-forward layer works almost as well (74% vs 77% top1 accuracy)
I'm not sure it was so obvious that it was a bad idea. I for one expected Russia to roll Ukraine; I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't happen that way.

But even if it did... did Putin think that there would be no sanctions? Did he think that Finland and Sweden would not see this as their cue to join NATO? Did he think that the rest of the world would just sit there and ignore it?
Supercapacitors aren't that useful for grid storage. The energy density is very low. They have a very high power density which allows them to produce or store enormous amounts of energy in a short time, but that's not really a problem that needs to be solved if you're already using some sort of lithium ion battery which already have a power density that's way beyond what you'd need in that application.

Cylindrical cells are fine as long as they can be made cheaply and the costs (economic and environmental) can be amortized over a long life.

We'll probably start seeing more LFP batteries in coming years, which are more ideal for grid storage. (They're cheap and have a long life.)

Battery recycling needs to improve, but we'll probably get there eventually. Right now the volume of batteries that need to be recycled is just not very big. The Nissan Leaf, for instance, was only just released in 2010. Most of the EVs that have ever been manufactured are only a few years old.
> You have an advanced computer system that seems almost oracular in its knowledge and abilities, except it lies confidently about things it doesn't know, is primed to say what people want to hear, and is easily convinced to give responses to questions its authors tried to prevent it from addressing.

I agree with your statement, yet I fail to understand how this is different from the majority of the Internet already.
The Pomodoro Technique is a life saver
It was a bit of one of those train wrecks that's impossible to tear one's eyes away from. It had me thinking "wait, Emacs could be better?" (I've only been using it for a few years). The Emacs is Not Enough post[1] certainly drew more onlookers with its title than this post though many complained about the length and the focus. Admittedly I think I wouldn't have been intrigued if my first interaction with this project was just the root of the site as linked here. The author has certainly done a good job providing multiple avenues to explain this concept.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34375137
In this case it just meant I was being paid by someone else and convinced them to let me do stuff on their campus. But glad it made your smile ;-)
This is a problem all across engineering. Professors and textbook authors are so concerned about reserving problems to grade you on that they forget to teach the material in the first place.

Imagine trying to learn a spoken language with very little input or speaking practice.
Backup cameras have been mandated in the US by NHTSA since 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera#Mandates
No pain, no gain.

Now something masochistic for starters ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Serres

Edit: Thinking about it, what I wanted to say with those links is, these all clash with our common western mindset.

Which is dualistic.

And goes like:

Off or on, in between is gone.

Zero or one, between them is NONE!

Some grey between black or white? Strike! It leads astray from the one true hike!

Good or bad, thinking between would be mad!

Now for something even more masochistic ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-valued_logic
> The only part worth arguing over is if someone could interpret Elon's tweet as meaning I could jump in a Tesla and have it do all of those things without me needing to do anything.

Or Tesla's video that says "the driver is only in the seat for legal reasons - the car is driving itself"?
All else is not equal, though. The focus on individual responsibility for biking safety in fact reduces biking safety. It's important to recognize that at a societal level, it's more useful to focus on improving infrastructure than on increasing rates of helmet wearing.

Of course, individual bikers can also still wear a helmet, but they should also demand proper biking infrastructure.
There's ending something; then, there's turning it over to a new team, and walking away.

I've done the latter. It's not easy, but can really work out well.
I have my doubts. Alcohol requires fermentation. Many of the traditional hallucinogenics just require munching the right leaf, fungus, etc.
> We have to protect the integrity of short video apps that are built for advertisers to push products and services through ads and influencers.

That's a strawman argument, they didn't say any of that
I find that trackpoints tend to have low default sensitivities, which require a lot of force to use.

At least for me, maxing out the trackpoint sensitivity on my X1 Yoga results a noticeable decrease in the amount of force required & didn't have an impact on accuracy.
I've no interest in doing video 1-on-1s but would be interested in a text-based conversation.
All of those are inputs and you can restrict them the same way you restrict a text dataset for training to achieve the results you desire - a model that leans right or left, one that wins a game using a certain strategy, or generates code using specific patterns.
I do remember dumping on Java back in those days, not so much on static typing itself. Seems like those were mostly language wars: Python vs PHP, Python vs Java, Ruby vs PHP, etc.

It might be just anecdotal, but I noticed people often say that writing in Ruby makes them feel happy.

Static typing (or functional programming, or TDD) doesn't seem to make people happy. It makes them feel superior.

Whether it truly makes them superior, or just taps into their insecurities is an open question.
Does the time to train the model increase linearly with the number of parameters, or exponentially?

In other words, GPT-3 is 17,500X the number of parameters but does that mean you can train it in 17,500X the amount of time it takes to train the 10M param model?
The lost air through the hole was not sustainable. The entire ring had fallen into disrepair. That was a major plot point.

The terrible failure mode was typical for the extreme arrogance of the ringworld engineers.