skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “danger to the ground” thing is weird. Either they didn’t know about it until civilians reported it (and it was over populated areas afterwards but I find that hard to believe) or they didn’t care about it.

Because if they really wanted to they’d have issued a “everyone get the fuck indoors we gonna shoot some shit” order and done their best. Montana and those places aren’t heavily populated at all.
IBM Research's Vela is an AI supercomputer in the cloud
Which ones? Are we talking 90%, an the entire year, without creative accounting?

Disregarding electric dams because, while wonderful, those depend heavily on the country geography and I assume a lot of countries cannot build enough of them. (but we should build as much as we can of those, just don't expect 50% hydroelectricity everywhere)
Exactly my reasons as well. I just kept running into walls on medium. I recall commenting on articles that I did end up reading wasn't smooth either.
Anyone know what internal mobility is like at Apple? At Meta it's pretty easy to move teams once you hit the 1 year mark.
They pay for member reading time. In other words, when a paying member reads your piece, a part of their $5 goes to you based on the number of minutes they read. Outside views give nothing. So even if your article goes viral on HN or somewhere else, if the readers aren’t subscribers you make nothing. (It ends up being something like 1-3¢/min)
Wonder how they picked who the lucky pilot is to get the first F-22 air to air kill. Draw straws?
Yes whitespace sensitivity, magic characters (WITH whitespace sensitivity), no standard library, no unicode, horrible math expressions, awful string, mishmash of acceptable good practices and outmoded stuff, printlns to debug, subpar error messages, no particularly good IDE, dynamic typing but really none of the convenience.

I honestly have no idea how anyone got anything done before Stackoverflow with bash. It's all copy paste and half the things you need to do in modern scripting isn't in typical UNIX command set (curl, etc) and there's no dependency resolution mechanism.

But yeah, read the manpage to fix everything. Sure dude.

The article is right though. Command line and pipes is a flow type model, but programming is a different ordered thing in the natural sense:

Command flow: cat file | grep values | sort values

Programming flow: sort(grep(cat(file))
Can these be fed as training data to ChatGPT so it can generate imagery or representations in CAD-formatter output of described 3D models, scenes, and physics simulations?

Clearly generalized diverse content ingest indexing is the next step on the road to improvement.

Reference: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fRUAJVKlUZQ
No propulsion, wind-controlled, motor vehicle-equivalents... Yeah it's a balloon.
How has the iPhone 10 been obsoleted? It just got iOS 16.
> They're evil and disturbed.

I wouldn't say evil, but reading through the comments makes it clear a lot of these people need therapy.

Surprisingly, it reminded me a lot of right wingers dressed up in body armor with a rifle that couldn't run a mile to save their life (or the life of the man next to them). Theres a performative element to both; They're LARPing, trying to regain a sense of control and meaning.
Presumably for the same reason you can't call the police if an illegal drug deal goes bad. [1]

[1] Which, yes, actually happens. E.g.: https://www.wect.com/story/22122424/man-calls-911-to-report-...
Check out the replication crisis… a lot of published research can’t even be reproduced
"From Russia with Love"

Hell, don't even tell airline about it and send it at cargo, it is only checked at departure port (AFAIK).

Same really with cargo containers by ship.
Very cool! I wonder how this could be used to search for violations of personal privacy on Twitter.
8 was also released that year.
Is there a coherent theory of ML I could read somewhere? Something higher level than "here is how we use tanh", yet not hand wavy.

All these "we've attached this random piece to our model and it makes things better for reasons we don't understand" leaves a poor impression. To an outsider, the GPT model looks a lot like a IIR / FIR filter made of linear operators (matrix multiplications) and convolutions (matrix multiplications in the Fourier space) that processes a sequence of vectors, instead of numbers (like a normal FIR filter would). Perhaps the extensive theory of filters apply here, and perhaps we can even apply the Z transform on the GPT filter to analyze its convergence?
Weather balloons are disposable, they rise and expand in the process until they burst - the maximum size is somewhere between 5 and 10 meters, between a large car and a white van. The payload tends to have a parachute and a phone number (the ones from the Weather Service do).

There was something about fear being the mind-killer. Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam to the Red Telephone please - paging the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam!
The main difference is it’s well known where Clark is, and he’s not been served with anything.
At what altitude does something stop being geographic territory and start being a plane in the atmosphere?
I don't know the system at all, but aren't the DMs between regular users (or at least also)? Like, you and me are on mastodon.example.org and I'm sending you a message. I can read it (in my sent messages), you can read it (in your inbox) and the admin of that server can read it. But we both agreed to that by signing up to that service.

If I now move to mastodon.example.com and somehow migrate my messages, that server's admin would be able to read them, but you never consented to them having access to (part of) your private messages.

It's similar to email, but we tend to put high requirements on running an email server (concerning data / privacy). I have no idea how that works out on Mastodon, whether it's closer to email or closer to Twitter DMs. E2E messages would probably be best, but then you make it harder for yourself to combat spam and harassment, I assume.
Sure, I'll agree with that. Imperative code is simply more natural for people.
High power DC fast chargers are not meant for residential installation.
I feel like there's some bigger mistake I missed regarding that controversy. People are aware of chatbots making things up. Microsoft had that poor AI Tay where users' adversarial prompts effectively courrupted its working dataset and it became racist. I know AI doesn't have feelings, and yet I still feel some sadness for how much it was attacked. Maybe because I liked the idea and wanted it to be successful.

Regardless of the validity, I think it's still fair to call it a mistake because of the ambiguity. Most people would misunderstand the answer to mean something it doesn't. But there was such a strong reaction in media about it, when I would have assumed most people wouldn't care. Google never promised an AI chatbot never got anything wrong, and no one I knew expected differently. It makes me think about how many other news stories, for things out of my field, are like the Bard situation. I'll just never know because I won't gain expertise in it.
GDPR has data portability rights that include the right to ask the data controller to transmit your data to another, if "technically feasible".
> No. The game is accused of being antisemitic because it portrays goblins with antisemitic stereotypes - greedy, gold-hoarding, hook-nosed bankers and money-lenders.

I don't believe anyone actually thinks this. I do believe that people are reaching for any reason to try to disparage the game because they don't like JKR.

Maybe, just maybe, the people complaining about the game are unhinged.
> Isn’t it better to let people underestimate us? Especially any potential adversary.

Depends on the domain. Underestimation could lead to perceptions of weakness and opportunity for attack. Even if you are prepared for attack, not getting attacked in the first place is better than getting attacked at all.

Same goes for positioning in negotiation.
Wait, so:

1. Some HP video game is release;

2. Users who bought it mentioned it in mastodon.lol;

3. Other users want to ban them because...JK Rowling is...a Nazi(?);

4. Other users posted spoilers because...JK Rowling bad and anyone who does not know that deserves getting their day ruined(?);

5. Mastodon.lol owner chide these other users and gets harassed as a result;

6. Mastodon.lol owner decides to shut down site;

Is mastodon.lol really just a toddlers’ playground rather than a town hall?
What do you mean by “broad terms about the general culture”?

Are you saying that the average user of any Mastodon server is “evil and disturbed?”
No, because of data portability rights. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
Here is the article defining the material scope of the GDPR:
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/

It does not seem to make any difference whether the service is engaged in commercial or professional services.
The letter of the law not explicitly saying "search their ID paperwork" does not mean it's not an imposition created by government. The "written" text seldom is a good indication of what is actually imposed. For instance, for a period of time a shoe lace was considered a machine gun [0]. You would never realize it unless you looked at the documented directives/interpretation of regulators.

If the practical imposition placed on you by regulators is that you in practice are needing to search paperwork to satisfy KYC, that's a government imposed requirement no matter what the actual law says.

[0] https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/01/25/shoestring-mach...
Is there a way to collapse HN comments on lynx? I tried it but could not tell which comments were replies to others vs stand-alone comments.
More than 500 Americans and more than 2000 Japanese died fighting in the Aleutian islands during WW2.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/battle-of-attu-60-years.htm
/s

If that unit causes you any pain, @throwaway4good, here is a translator perhaps to more native units:

https://www.converttobananas.com/

1 car == about 26 bananas.

Improvement?
Which is why you should immediately answer "thanks, we'll look into it!", then at least they got something even if you forget later. I learned this as a the triage guy in one of my first jobs, as I have a very shit memory.

Worst case you thank someone for something useless.
But then the GMO company patents the result, and it's not legal for a farmer to do what farmers have been doing for ten thousand years: save some of the seeds from the crop and plant them the next year, or give some to a neighboring farmer. Getting out of that trap is a prime motivation for "open source seeds" projects.
“Put an end to it” seems to carry a bit more finality then “we are going to encourage to not use it, or introduce sanctions to not use it”. Especially in light of the damn thing actually being destroyed…and an end being put to it.

The action that was taken, even though it’s not acknowledged, has brought weight to the statement.
This is just one of many Mastodon instances which are undergoing an extinction event which involves: turning against themselves and destroying each other. This time, it is over a children's video game.

It is really amusing to watch this when the world just ignores them and continues to play the Harry Potter wizard video game as usual and are talking about it on Twitter.

At the end of the day, there is only a few people that are winning and JK Rowling is one of them, despite not even being directly involved with the game and will earn millions out of it regardless with the complainers wasting their time and winning nothing.

This Mastodon instance lives up to it's domain really well: mastodon.lol
Well if you want to consider motives, what I said makes a clear motive IF Russia did it, for them to leave one of the NS2 pipes untouched doesn't it. Because the history was of Russia trying to blackmail Germany and get Germany to turn on NS2.

But I didn't claim Russia did it. You know you can suspect the US did it but that doesn't mean you need to promote fake made up stories that defy scrutiny to believe it. You can still search for the actual truth and want to see actual facts presented rather than fiction.
No. Another telescope had previously photographed this specific exoplanet. This information is in the linked article.

No interpretation of Bard's output here is accurate. It is wrong.
Zero underwriting? You obviously do not know what you are talking about.

I got a "no-doc" non-conforming FHA loan back then. They fucking strip searched me. It was not easy--I still have PTSD from it. That same loan is still available on the market.

You also need a citation on your reason for the financial crisis of 2008.

I had to walk away from my home BECAUSE of the financial crisis (after having paid down 90% of the principle). Was it triggered by defaults or the credit default swaps themselves? Sure, maybe some bad loans were floated,but the sophisticated, hot off of the regulation preventing it, people in New York started gambling on the plebs losing their homes. Well, a few plebs (really, over-leveraged affluent people) lost their homes, and a cascading effect of credit default swaps came due and spun out of control. The crisis was directly caused by Bill Clinton signing a bill that removed key regulation that would prevent the very thing that happened: Gambling on Wall Street.

So STFU.
Agreed, I think this deserves recognition. This is not the fake self promotion disguised as “brutal honesty” you see in the corporate word, there are actual admissions here that go beyond that, which leads even a cynic like me to take this seriously.

It’s also important to understand that a lot of people will never pay for or be happy with the paywall content model, especially for articles. So even a success in this domain would be hated by a lot of people.

Those of us who personally wouldn’t pay for articles aren’t the target audience anyway, and that’s ok. I think throwing rocks at paywalls is a stupid thing to do, especially when the only alternative is ad-tech. I’d rather have competing business models than not.

What doesn’t make sense to me, is that opaque clickbait recommendation engines AND paywall made itself to the same platform. This seems odd, because usually the former is a plague of ad-tech. Perhaps this is the result of cargo-culting from employees who came from ad-tech mindlessly replicating these patterns even where they don’t make sense.
You don't need a hammer to hit a nail, but if you hand me a screwdriver I'm going back to Node.
Which customers are getting screwed? Posters or viewers on 'free' hosting sites are the products not the customers. Online ad buyers everywhere get cheated, but that is another story.

Many of these giant sites are really in the business of talking money out of investors, so their main business is not really selling a service at all (its "investor storytime").

I don't think that arbitrage model is useful because one side is paying cash and the other is not. Its like calling dating a marketplace, a bad metaphor.
Can we have a [podcast] and a (2019) in the submission title please?
There's a bit more to it, but you can partly view (self-)attention as a trick that makes optimization easier, that is, it improves gradient flow similar to skip connections to make learning easier. That was more obvious to see when we used to use attention with RNNs, where attention can be viewed as being equivalent to "dynamic skip connections"

While fully connected layers can in theory learn anything, that's a very hard optimization problem in terms of gradient flow. Attention adds inductive biases (prior/domain knowledge) about what you want the network to learn, which makes the optimization of that specific aspect easier for the optimization algorithm.

In general, you can view almost anything in ML/DL as improving either optimization or generalization, and while it's a spectrum, attention falls more into the optimization category.
Yeah - people have been saying the mac software has been in decline for as long as there's been mac software. If you have enough users some fraction of them are going to get hit by some rare bug and declare the software is crap, even if it is 0.001% of the users.

My m1 mbp is the best laptop I've ever owned, and I've owned a lot. I don't really use any mac software though - just a terminal, emacs, and a web browser. Macos just stays out of the way and causes no problems. I routinely get 1 or 2 months of uptime - only ever needing to reboot to apply system updates. Maybe if I used more mac software I would see this supposed decline.
Check the torrents?
I am a dev with the need to virtualize ALOT. My main driver is also a Linux based system. I had to use a ThinkPad T14 2021 (maxed out AMD version) before I switch employees. It was a horrible experience:

* virtualization issues left and right. Everything was working but weird behavior from time to time. Like random performance degradation, rare crashes and mostly compatibility issues with experimental stuff (e.g. Integrated gpu pass through was not possible with AMDs at the time)

* battery life sucked (ironically this should be an Intel Issue)

* standby was not working as expected

* no support for Display Link

* Thunderbolt 4 (huge issue for me)

Now I am on the Framework i7 11 Gen and all the issues are gone. Yes Battery life could be better but it was way worse with the AMD.
Its this sort of arrogance that gets us into trouble in the first place.

Nobody has a monopoly on the truth.
Until people can learn to live peacefully in a world where others oppose or are even just indifferent to things they feel strongly about, there is no real point in getting too attached to online communities. All eventually spiral into self destructive toxicity and we are left looking for alternatives.
This was just discussed in the Elm Discourse as well: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/request-elm-0-19-2-any-upda...

This thread (mostly) by current Elm users mostly tracks emotions here on HN
> I did call out GDAL

I see that now, sorry!

Excellent article, by the way, it's very useful to have this kind of writeup.

I suspect it's something to do with the distributed installation, and the amount of the required behaviour that is sitting behind completed specifications. Eventually, it will be cheaper for a user to just pay for development of any remaining features they need than pay for licensing. And, the functionality addition is cumulative - pay once, keep forever.
Something I like about boring Java: I hardly ever think about the dependencies management tool.
I think you might be misreading alienicecream's tone. Maybe I'm naive, but I'd like to think that he wasn't accusing you of being a shill. I think he was genuinely wondering about your reasoning. At the least, I am. I appreciated (and upvoted) your answer higher in the thread.

I find it interesting that different people have very different reactions to this. I don't think it's just national politics, although that often plays a role. For me, I was bothered by the way the news coverage immediately after the event converged to "Russia did it". It wasn't that I was in any way sure that they were wrong, but I was sure that they were absurdly overconfident.

I'd like to know what caused them to take this stance so universally and so strongly. My would guess would be tribalism and fear of offending the US government. Since then, I've been pleased to see that some recent articles that are moving more to the "we don't really know yet" stance. The New York Times had such an article in late December (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/world/europe/nordstream-p...), and the London Times had a similar one about a week ago (https://archive.is/A35Ce).

Hersh's article doesn't bother me in the way that it seems to bother you. It's not at all that I'm sure it's right. It seems possible, maybe even likely, that Hersh is being fooled by a bullshitter or even a foreign agent. He presumably published it on a brand new Substack because every more reputable outlet refused. But despite this, I think it's good to discuss its strengths and weaknesses. Many people (possibly including you) think it's better that we ignore it, but I think this is more likely to cause problems in the long term. I think it's interesting and useful to look at why our reactions are so different.
Oh yes the useful and oh so important lesson that F-22 is indeed capable of disposing of not only maneuverable airborne crafts but also non-maneuverable ones!

Clearly a baloon is so hard to dispose target that making sure the aircraft indeed can be up to this task is worth any money!
A multimodal LLM using tools definitely feels like the closest we’ve ever been to AGI.
There is no agreed upon height
where territory boundaries end.

Legal Eagle actually covers that detail a bit in their coverage of the prior balloon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P43wVDiZs8k
<Actually ChatGPT>
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. I appreciate your perspective and years of experience in the industry. ... I apologize if the articles did not meet your expectations. Thank you for your comment, and I hope you will continue to engage with the content in the future.
</Actually ChatGPT>
People like that have caused words like nazi and genocide to completely lose their meanings. When you hear someone being called nazi these days you just assume they just mean someone they don't like, same goes with genocide. Not surprised that so many people are now desensitized to real genocide and actual nazi-like regimes/dictators/countries/groups because of terminally online folk.
Humans learn math through natural language and symbols.

Is there any indication that it is a blocker for models to learn math.

I don't necessarily think pumping more data into ChatGPT will make it understand. But I think it's possible to teach a model to do math through natural language.
I think it's appropriate you open with Star Wars, as this is mainly fantasy.

> burdening 8 billion law-abiding Citizens with impossibly complex and arduous KYC/AML requirements

Not sure if you read the article, but they just aren't a significant burden for most people. They could be better, sure.

And I think the "driven to use Cryptocurrency" example does not pair at all well with FTX. The massive wave of cryptocurrency failures from Mt Gox to FTX demonstrate beautifully why an unregulated financial system is a terrible idea.
Social media apps : MMOS :: Reality TV : Fiction television shows
I don't think you should be able to patent life in any form. Nature should be inviolable when it comes to man profiting from holding its reins.
> Who will pay for LLMs (user or the advertiser) and will Google and Microsoft stuff ads into LLM responses?

Capex: $20B

Driving Google's margin to zero and feasting on their remains: priceless

https://www.ft.com/content/2d48d982-80b2-49f3-8a83-f5afef98e...

> “From now on, the [gross margin] of search is going to drop forever,” Nadella said in an interview with the Financial Times.

> “There is such margin in search, which for us is incremental. For Google it’s not, they have to defend it all,” he added, referring to the competition against Google as “asymmetric”.
This is literally it.

Especially hijacking copy/paste, or text highlighting. It just brings the entire feeling of the place down.

Imagine walking into a nice high end restaurant, and the server tries to sell you a credit card before taking your order. Would you continue going to that restaurant?

That's what this sort of garbage does to my sentiment around websites that do it.
Clearly, Musk has still not discovered the covert red team(s) in his base.
Yes, because some people apparently think there is a lesson here. The "it can be spy, shoot it down" is sound reasoning but "we need to test whether F-22 can shoot down balloons" does sound like clown speak.
Working hypothese 1: High school achieved the impossible. Not a single student taking a selfie while doing <big cool thing that will ignite my instagram>

Working hypothese 2: The Chinese shaped the balloon as a d*ck so it appears blurred in all videos and nobody can figure out what is that, or describe its shape. Invisible ninja genius move.