skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But there will be many scenarios where you can't use boxxy.
Of course, today's LLMs only appear to have theory of mind at first glance and fall apart under closer scrutiny. But if they can continue to become more and more accurate replicas of the real thing, I don't think it matters at all.

There's no way to know for sure that anyone other than yourself experiences consciousness. All you can do is judge for yourself that what they're describing matches closely enough with your own experiences that they're probably experiencing the same thing you are.
> the extra training or training data must be the reason for the improvement

People are blinded by the model size and often forget about the data. I think somehow intelligence is encoded in language, including theory of mind.
It seems obvious that LLMs don’t understand a bag the way we do. It’s never seen a bag. Or held one. But if you equip it with the same IO as humans, how different would it be? Probably still pretty different, but light years closer than what we had 20 years ago.

Also humans are good at next word guessing their own next word. Each person has been trained on a different set of data, so it’s no surprise that they wouldn’t be able to guess other people’s next words.
There are probably cases where, for better or for worse, one Very Special Customer _can_ dictate to a company. However, and this is important, unless you are actually in the kitty litter industry, that customer should not have the words "cat" and "turd" in their name.
I wonder every time I see this take what it would mean under this definition of knowing things for a machine learning algorithm to ever know something. I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm. I don’t know how different the sort of knowing this algorithm has to the sort of knowing a human has, but you’re far more confident than I am that it’s a difference of kind rather than degree.

Some interesting facts that point to it being a difference of degree. LLM are actually are more accurate when asked to explain their thinking. They make similar mistakes to humans intuitive reasoning.

It might help to define what we even mean by knowing things. To me being able to make novel predictions that require the knowledge is the only definition one could use that doesn’t run into the possibility of deciding humans don’t actually know anything
Great resignation now great regret: 80% wish they hadn’t quit their old roles
I'm not sure why they don't explicitly write in the report that the driver may have been trapped in the back seat, and was unable to locate or use the mechanical release to escape. While that wouldn't be a contributing factor to the wreck, it would be a contributing factor the the driver's death, and important for Tesla and their passengers to know about.

The report states:

The frontal impact with the tree resulted in a power loss of the car’s 12-volt system, which runs the non-traction power systems. During normal operation, the front door latches operate electronically with the pull of the interior lever. In the event of a 12-volt system power loss, the interior front doors open as usual using the interior door handles. The rear doors also have both electronic and mechanical latches; however, mechanically opening the rear door during a power loss requires additional steps. According to the owner’s manual, during a loss of 12-volt system power, a rear-seated occupant must locate a small cutout in the carpet beneath the seat cushions and pull the mechanical release cable tab toward the center of the vehicle to manually open the rear door. Inspection of the door latches and locking hardware was limited by postcrash fire damage.

Edit: Must add that this assumes the front door was jammed and couldn't be opened mechanically.
Love exploding apps. That's what they get for eating my filesystem.
Ugh that capitalization
Autodidax: JAX core from scratch
i don't know if i agree, stocks usually increase after layoffs.
> Right, so not fit for the massive constituency with no access to home charging then

There's another massive constituency that has access to home charging, but can't afford the EV itself.

E.g. I can afford to pay the mortgage on my home, but not a $50,000 EV car, because I don't want to pad the pockets of dealerships and greedy manufacturers.

I want my $200/kWh car or I'll keep using the car I already have.
Care to cite an actual example of a COVID vaccine study that didn't have a caveat about what risks might still be unknown?
I am glad to hear things are going well, though still disappointed there is no decentralized Discord.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788339
SpaceX should choose between Ukraine and Russia: Ukrainian official
Can I, in the usa, order my insulin to be delivered from Europe? If not then it's a fabulous opportunity for an enterprising smuggler.
The only reason for a manufacturer to want to produce a cheap car is to sell a ton of them at a low margin. If not enough people are buying them, then there's no reason to continue selling them. At sub-$20,000, you're going to be better off buying a used car than a new, bare bones car. This wasn't the case decades ago when cars were a lot less reliable and generational improvements were much larger.

>when they have a $7000 sales incentive on that monster vehicle that is not a sign that people want to buy a monster vehicle

What cars are you talking about? It's generally the "monster vehicles" that have the greatest markup (e.g. Bronco Raptor)
Bonds are a promise, because they are a contractual obligation to satisfy "the promise". That's what a promise is. That the fulfillment of the promise is predicated upon the efforts of another, is what makes a promise a security.
You say that like it's a bad thing. International corporations don't have a duty to subsidize poor Californian urbanism policies.
What would you possibly want a bunch of ports on your phone for?
FL Officials Had Repeated Contact W College Board over African American Studies
> Is it not also possible that the study suggests that the human mind actually operates as a statistical regression over billions of data points rather than through some kind of Baysian logic?

No. Human minds have semantic relationships to the rest of the world that LLMs do not have. The comparisons being made between the two, not just in this paper but in all of the hype surrounding LLMs, are simply invalid. But they sure help in collecting more funding.
> It might help to define what we even mean by knowing things

This is it, I think. It's interesting that we now have a practical example to point at when asking formerly-abstruse philosophical questions.
I'm out of the loop. Does this affect ETH's new proof-of-stake model? Is the SEC effectively saying, "this is close enough to a pyramid scheme for us to ban"?
Interesting! I never ran across this problem before despite doing a lot of i18n, but it seems like its because we're properly setting everything up with http headers.

Definitely useful knowledge for the game we're working on though.
I'm definitely seeing a pattern in the posts here.

Referrals and recruiters = success.

Apply to a position = failure.

I've had in the past a few recruiters on the lazier side ask me to "please apply directly at the company portal" and that had a perfectly round 0% success rate.
Layoffs seems more Like jettisoning the fuel or engines to save weight in that scenario.
Four immediate difficulties:

It will often silently log you out. Then, you're sending messages going into the ether, assuming you are communicating. Except you are not. You have a silent morning w/o any firedrills, until at 11am, you discover you're silently logged out and there was a small popup screen that is hidden asking you to log in again.

You are on a Teams video call, and you cant seem to create another window on your phone to look at chats. Makes no sense.

The real estate required for Teams is so huge. Slack is incredibly space-efficient but Teams is not. Much like MSN Messenger, a lot of the space seems like deadspace.

Cant keep a great group chat by turning it into a channel.
Well, attaching 10 PCIe devices is going to give a very hard time to your CPU if all of them should be used. The speed of copying from memory or between devices will become a bottleneck. Another problem is that on such a machine you will also need huge amount of memory to allow for copying to work. And, if you want this to work well, you'd need some high-end hardware to be actually able to pull that off. In such a system, your CPU will prevent you from exploiting the possible benefits of parallelization. It seems beefy, but it's entirely possible that a distributed solution you could build with a fraction of the cost would perform just as well.

This situation may not be reflected in Azure pricing (the calculator gives 7.68 $/h for L80as_v3) since if MS has such hardware, it would be a waste for it to stand idle. They'd be incentivized to rent it out event at a discount (their main profit is from traffic anyways). So, you may not be getting an adequate reading of the situation, if you are trying to judge it by the price (rather than cost). But, this is only the price of the VM, I'm scared to think about how much you'd pay if you actually utilize it to its full potential.

Also, since it claims to have 80 vCPUs, well... it's either a very expensive server, or it's, again, a distributed system, where you simply don't see the distributed part. I haven't dealt with such hardware firsthand, but we have in our DC a Gigaio PCIe TOR switch which would allow you to have that much memory (in principle, we don't use it like that) in a single VM. That thing with the rest of the hardware setup costs some six-digit number of dollars. I imagine something similar must exist for CPU sharing / aggregation.
FOSDEM 2023 - Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)
I believe they end up reducing the federal deficit in a roundabout way. The SEC has a budget of about $2.2 billion from Congress. But the money it collects from registration fees and enforcement activities is normally more than what it received, so it pays back with extra at the end of the fiscal year.
I just downloaded and run the geekbench 5 on my s22 ultra and it showed 1215, instead of 926 listed in the article. Probably other numbers are of similar quality.
SNORT
Salaries will be slightly higher in London. A mid-level engineer at a non-tech company will earn 50-55k.
OP here. I don't do any cloud computing to deliver the service. It is essentially a pure JavaScript-application running on the client.
One engine was shut down before the static fire by their engineers and another failed to start. 31 engines is enough to make it to orbit. This now sets Starship as the most powerful booster in history to fire successfully and even beats out the Soviet N1 at 30 engines. And the Starship booster didn't explode.
Hey, I'm Volodymyr (vovin).

Looking for engineering management position. 20+ years in industry, 10+ years in managerial positions in the technical teams, 20+ years vast hands-on experience.

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Skills: Platform engineering, implementing DevOps and SRE practices, people management and influential leadership (lead by example), define engineering principles, effectively dive into organisation issues, define the technical strategy of the company, build teams of professionals to achieve company strategic goals.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QYFeOh8T7YkQUjSDXRHiJF29Yfp_pNKu/view
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Depends where he is. £90K for a remote gig is a pretty damn good dev salary by national standards. If you live somewhere cheap (outside of London and the London commuter belt, the South East, and perhaps away from a few other major city centers), you can live well on that salary.

In London? You probably won't be buying a property anytime soon, unless you have a partner with a similar salary. Single and renting? You're leading a pretty comfy bachelor life

For perspective though, £90K is almost 3x the national median full-time wage . Total taxation at this level is 32%.
Ok, but whilst you wear your clothes out in front of people (a literal fashion show), few people parade their MUA's UI in front of their friends, do they? Like, get check the chrome in my mail program guys...??
Yeah, subscription for the big players (and raise your subscription price), then $1 a pop for a one-off.
Fun fact, you can also do it with various flavors of tensor decomposition[1].

1. http://tensorly.org/stable/auto_examples/decomposition/plot_...
Anything less than 6 months won't be long enough to recover from the burnout. A full year gives time to work on a significant project or goal.
You need to work with some Gen. A or whatever comes after gen z.

They have a level of computer literacy that is shockingly bad. They use computers everyday, but only within the walled gardens of google classroom/iOs/Android.

I taught an after school HTML/CSS for grade school age kids, and the majority of them didn't know about the concept of a directory structure. Even just saving a text file (instead of having a file autosave to their google drive) was a foreign concept.

Kids these days very much are NOT digital natives in the way that millenials and Gen x were.
> Charles Schwab is a middleman to the company (say Exxon)

Charles Schwab is a middleman to the market. Exxon separately puts out disclosures. Charles Schwab and Exxon never need interact for this to work.

> Kraken is a middleman to the Blockchain

Agreed. Which is why it should be regulated like Charles Schwab.

The SEC isn't going that far. It's just saying if you want to take peoples' money and pay a return on it, you need to do the things others who do the same must.

> the code, the law of the Blockchain, is certainly more publicly available and less prone to change or failure than shareholder documents

This is a valid hypothesis. To the extent it's been tested, the opposite has been (inconclusively) true.
If you're going that route, SQLite seems like the most appropriate candidate.
> Grew up in a deprived area to single parent who worked menial jobs

This has nothing to do with (and is antithetical to) DEI initiatives.
This person does not represent HN. They can have their opinion.
Nitpicky and probably universalist or whatever but the fact that we can't build a logically consistent model was always the case, Gödel just discovered it.
When I first started working in this area I was surprised to not see an increase around holidays - the numbers stay mostly flat throughout the year.

Time of day, however, has a larger correlation (early hours of the morning).
In a sense that's true - it's more natural to consider in the same way that MPG is less obvious compared to gallons per hundred miles. But they're representing the same quality, U-Factor is just the reciprocal of R-Value.

So R-Value represents the thermal resistance and U-Value the transmittance but you can easily take the reciprocal of one to get the other (e.g. my R-2 window is just a U-0.5).
Haskell Tiny Game Jam for 2023
I mostly read HN on my iPhone using the website with the zoom cranked up a little bit and I find it works better than the variety of native clients available.
I wonder why noone is talking about the 'bufferbloat' issue, is-it a solved issue now?
Can I pick any router to plug into my ISP router?
What most people actually want is better attention from the public, not better reporting from the media.
> Making the sqlite db the primary would mean that unless there was constant synchronisation I would be missing emails in the other clients.

This is a perfect example of complicating what should be a simple thing to support a very, very niche use case. Thunderbird should just use sqlite so all normal operations including search are fast across all platforms, and if you have a use case like wanting to synchronize with other mail clients using maildir, then write a plugin that will duplicate the sqlite db to a user-specified maildir.
> but we genuinely have gotten a lot more reasonable pointers in these comments than we were able to rack our brains about

So the ends justifies the means?
Wolfram's "grid cell" concept is based on cellular automata (similar to Game of Life), where each cell has simple rules that, when taken together, add up to complex overall behavior (emergent phenomena).

Following it further:

The speed of light is due to the refresh rate of these cells. The passage of time (and relationship b/t it and velocity), is because of computational limits on those cells. A cell has limited processing power that can either be spent on updates (the passage of time) or I/O (velocity). Objects also appear to shrink when moving at relativistic speeds, right? Another computational optimization, smaller means less cells are used.

It's a pretty neat mapping. A spaceship is moving at relativistic speeds, which has a large I/O cost on the cells it exists in. That cost is made up in different ways, depending if you're inside or outside the spaceship.

On the inside:

time moves slower, saving time cycles for I/O cycles

On the outside:

the spaceship physically shrinks, using less cells total

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Not too sure about entanglement, but I believe it's tied to eventual consistency. You have the direction backwards though, yeah? The point of Schoedingers cat is that while it's in the box, it may as well not exist. Everything being entangled is just the regular universe.
Based on the GIF, I thought it created an animated video.

Even when the .PNG downloaded I thought for sure it’d be an animated PNG.

If I’m doing some content creation, I probably already have an image editor, in which case I can create this effect myself or would prefer an integrated plugin to do it.

Motion graphics is much harder, and there’s more demand there to add some sparkle to a static image. OP, have you considered that angle?
I thought about making something like this, but one important part - which seems to be missing here - is speaker diarization (identify who says what.)

In a world of increasing automated content generation, the "who" might become just as important as the "what" of information.
> But if they can continue to become more and more accurate replicas of the real thing, I don't think it matters at all.

So, I suppose I'd ask: what does "matter" mean here? If you knew that everyone you loved had been destroyed and been replaced by exact replicas, would that matter?
Also since everyone is “laying off their bottom 10%” and then rehiring from that pool thinking they’re hiring the top 10%. Sounds like musical chairs. There’s a old Joel Spolsky article on how everyone thinks they’re always hiring the global maximum
Ahh walled garden effects. Ya that's annoying.
> If you can’t agree with the hyperbole then you’re in the wrong making grand blanket statements about the way things work and saying nothing can convince you otherwise

You don't get to magically negate my argument with a strawman you invented, sorry.

If you don't want the described case to be your own case, then make the necessary arrangements where the doctor isn't making such decisions.
I fail to believe in this. They probably are going to need at least a small office or two. 99% remote - perhaps. 100% remote - highly unlikely.
Similarly, I think it's usually a good idea to share this information with coworkers, as ignorance only benefits the employer in negotiations. But friends? That's different.

My coworkers are all in roughly the same socio-economic bracket, give or take, but I have friends and family who very much are not, and there's no need to ruffle feathers, no upside at all.

If you're young and nerdy and making not too much more than the average American household, it's probably fine! Once you're quite a bit more than six years out of school and making multiple times the average family, it's a bit more dicey.
> There's no way to know for sure that anyone other than yourself experiences consciousness. All you can do is judge for yourself that what they're describing matches closely enough with your own experiences that they're probably experiencing the same thing you are.

That judgment is not just based on the words other people use. It is based on knowing that other people's brains and minds have the same sort of semantic relationships to the rest of the world that yours do. And those relationships can be tested by checking to see if, for example, the other person uses the same words to refer to particular objects in the real world that you do, or if they react to particular real-world events in the same way that you do.

You can't even test any of this with an LLM because the LLM simply does not have the same kind of semantic relationships with the rest of the world that you do. It has no such relationships at all.
Thanks for opening the issue on GitHun, we'll take it from there!
Related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
My take is that the word "just" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm not super interested in debating alternate constitutions; personally, I for the most part like the one we have. I might not be your best discussion partner on this.
> There are many causes of lackluster public education, and funding is definitely one of them

Explain why some of the worst school systems are some of the best funded. https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/more-than-75...

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-ci...
Bitcoin, FWIW, currently (it will slow down and eventually supposedly stop) prints money every block to pay for mining. It does this to fund a public good, which is network security, under the assumption that people who store large amounts of money would be willing to pay more to protect that money than people who store small amounts of money, and in the early years (which we apparently are still a part of) it is considered that fees for transfers aren't where most of the payment could be derived. (Personally, it isn't clear to me that the network makes sense to be paid for entirely by fees. Ironically, AFAIK on Ethereum the percentage of the block reward paid for by fees is much higher than Bitcoin and their minted block reward will continue on forever.)

This, to me, seems definitely like "inflation", caused by an increase in the money supply by a shared governance structure. It certainly isn't "deflation". Bitcoin does describe it not as printing money but as unlocking money that was already set aside, but what matters today (as opposed to whenever the rewards stop in the future... I don't remember off-hand when that will be) is the circulating money supply, not the theoretically existing / allocated supply (which is why if you lose money forever it is the same as destroying it; and which can also be seen because, if the US Fed merely had pre-printed giant fat stacks of cash that they've been dipping into for all these years, you wouldn't know the difference between that and it printing bills).
Yup, nobody discusses their salary. I made the mistake of complaining about giving 50% of a bonus to the taxman and now people think I'm rich. I'm far from it.
I wonder can ImageMagick give you the "progressive linear blur" (or whatever you want to call it) that emulates depth of field?

Might as well ray trace it....
Yes, it's published:

https://github.com/orgs/FOSDEM/repositories

The videos from FOSDEM, and most conferences, mix slides and filmed presenter into one stream. I would be great if they'd be combined as two streams in one file, so viewers could switch between fullscreen slides and fullscreen presenter.
Glad I got out of there before they got sold to PE
Maybe discipline [0] is another way to look at it.

[0] "Screw motivation, what you need is discipline." https://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need...
That's because the article is wrong, as the sibling comment shows.