skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s kinda what’s going on here, but this is a very narrow version of “teach themselves”. In this case they’re bootstrapping a smarter language model from a dumb language model.

We already know how to train a dumb model (one that can’t use tools) like GPT on a wholly unsupervised dataset. Surprisingly, these dumb language models can be used to re-annotate the training dataset to identify sites that would benefit from using external tools—without retraining the dumb model. Instead you just tell the dumb model with natural language instructions what you want it to do and then feed process each training example. Importantly, the dumb model doesn’t understand the tools, and it can’t actually use them itself.

Next, you use the re-annotated dataset to train a new, smaller language model. Since the updated dataset is now annotated with examples of how to call the external tools, the new model learns how to call external tools—and it does so correctly for new tasks that were never part of the training data.

The big win is that an existing model can be used to annotate the training data, and a smaller output model can outperform the huge dumb model because it knows how to use tools.

But it isn’t generating new data, and it’s not fetching updated data to learn from, and it’s not defining its own tools.

And the model itself is still a pure function: given the same inputs (including random values during sampling), it will always produce the same outputs. So this is kinda saying that a large language model can learn to use domain specific languages as part of its natural language to incorporate knowledge from external tools.
The optimal is whatever it median value was before industrialization. Not that Earth hasn't had life at a wide range of CO2 levels, but current life had a million+ years to get used to mid-200s PPM, whereas we've gone from that to over 400 in a few decades. Ecologically, that's like hitting a brick wall. The rate of change is too fast.
Is this the same as "Myst" thats available on the App Store? Theres way too many versions now.
That's why they split the micro version into Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. The original version had all three.
shows how weak the usa is perceived, that our allies feel comfortable implying that they ordered our military to do something. not really amusing.
Now that does seem surprising. The insurance system is entirely internal to Liechtenstein ?
NORAD is a thing, and not just an American one. Mostly, but not only.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-obje...

> It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said.

https://news.sky.com/story/us-shoots-down-unknown-object-fly...

> The object, shot down on the order of President Joe Biden, was flying at a high altitude of about 40,000ft and was the size of a small car, the White House said.
Couldn't the US force use a laser, like the one they used during their demo for intercepting missiles?
Also later episodes from 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines...

and 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
Wait until you get to paragraph 2, it's a real banger
> as China seems really advanced in AI

And yet... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744234

> The tool's surging popularity is rapidly raising awareness in China about how advanced U.S. AI is and, according to analysts, just how far behind tech firms in the world's second-largest economy are as they scramble to catch up.
Conveniences like this library and other threading libraries make it easy for people to trivialize something (concurrent programming) that ought not be.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-baidu-finish-testi...
> What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

What does this mean? I don’t see a reference to tea in the comment you are replying to.
I checked out the profile by their main software architect Guido Steinacker [1], their job offerings on otto.de [2], their github (they have repos for classic Java EE patterns, like their Wicket component tester and HAL stuff, which is a default in spring data) [3], and their stepstone, which mostly shows spring and java jobs [4]. There is no single asp.net job listed and they also don’t have anything asp.net related on their github. I don’t think that builtwith is an accurate data source.

[1] https://www.xing.com/profile/Guido_Steinacker

[2] https://www.otto.de/jobs/de/jobsuche/-java/index.php

[3] https://github.com/orgs/otto-de/repositories

[4] https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/Otto-GmbH-Co-KG-28607/jobs.h...
Yes, the state is stored in memory, with async tasks and everything.

There is a mechanism so that before a server shuts down, the state for each client will be serialized, compressed, encrypted and sent to the client, so they can send the state to the next server when they reconnect and resume the session.
This is a topic of interest to me so I'm about halfway thru this video, where Mr Winkelman tries to pin down an accurate definition of shamans. He distinguises between Shamans, Clairvoyants, Mediums, Magicians, etc... I don't know if he's going off the deep end in the second half, but so far very interesting

Psychedelics and Culture, MOD3, What is Shamanism? - Interview with anthropologist Michael Winkelman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK4EMF2LtBI
where do you get this stuff?
> And Bernie is a great example because identity politics was specifically used against him; his supporters were derided as mostly white male "Bernie Bros".

And the abiding irony of that was that most of the people who did that supported Elizabeth Warren, who had vanishingly little support from actual minorities. She finished behind Tom Steyer in South Carolina and behind Mayor Pete in Nevada (states where the democratic base is heavily black and hispanic, respectively).

Even the New York Times acknowledged that Warren's campaign was a "demographic cul-de-sac" dominated by "college-educated white people." And those people had the gall to paint Bernie--who has invested enormous time and energy in reaching out to Hispanics and did well among that group--as racist.
or NORAD
I think it's more "part of the game" than a declaration of war.
I think I know where the bug is: there needs to be 26 unique characters. The first letter is capitalized and there's a space.... so technically, 26 ASCII chars - but not all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Discovery happens before a trial. The plaintiff gets to ask the defendant for relevant documents. This can be clearly weaponized—the plaintiff can request everything and make the defendant spend a lot of time and money on it. A common recourse is for the defense to argue the initial discovery request is overbroad and burdensome. Often there’s some negotiation but of course the judge makes the ultimate call. I won’t opine on the merits of this particular claim, but it’s a common claim.

It also works both ways. The defendant can dump all sorts of papers on the plaintiff and say, “be careful what you ask for, good luck wading through this!”
Shooting down something over a foreign country generally requires permission of that country. Even flying an armed aircraft across a border requires permission. But the lines between order, instruction and permission are blurry when dealing with coalition forces.
Love that game, addicted too!
ps. there’s a fourth pangram today you missed :)
can you provide some more detail? i tried reproducing and got very different results.

both chatgpt and the gpt playground return:

w2: creative
w4: unordered

when fed the prompt:

r(man,young,age,old) r(man,rich, wealth, poor) now find w2 and w4 for r(_, creative,_, unordered)

this is very interesting to me because i am building a mind-mapping tool that is powered by GPT and im currently working on optimizing the prompts to get it to return quality relationships.
Any reason this is linked from a personal dropbox instead of the House Judiciary Committee website or the Republican caucus?
Is there a reason why this has happened? Was it always like this just not left-leaning and has been switched in recent history? I think it’s important to note the FBI has been used as a political weapon previously.
> The underlying LLM is still the same in all these scenarios. Where is the boundary?

No, it's not the same LLM; you'd have to change the LLM in all of those cases. How does it receive input from the GAN? The typical LLM is constructed to literally receive a sequence of encoded tokens. There are vision transformers, and they do chunk images into tokens, and there are multimodal transformers, but none of these are fairly described as an LLM, and they're structurally different than something like ChatGPT. And after the structural changes, it would need to be trained on some new data that associates text sequences and image sequences, and after being optimized in that context you have a _different model_.

Does being able to identify images of cats mean the model knows what a cat is? No, and we could have said that a decade ago when deep learning for image classification was making its early first advances. Does being able to describe a cat from video mean you know what the cat is? Probably not, but maybe we're getting closer. Does knowing how to pet a cat mean you know what a cat is? Perhaps not if you need to be instructed to try to pet the cat.

But suppose 10 years from now, I have a domestic robot that has a vision system, and a motor control system, and an ability to plan actions and interact with a rich environment. I would say the following would be strong evidence of knowing what a cat is:

- it can not only identify or locate the cat, but can label parts of the cat, despite the cat having inconsistent shape. It can consistently pick up the cat in a way which is sensitive and considerate of the cat's anatomy (e.g. not by the head, by one paw, etc)

- it can entertain the cat, e.g. with a laser pointer, and can infer whether the cat is engaged, playful, stressed, angry etc

- it avoids placing fragile object near high edges, because it can anticipate that the cat is likely to knock them down, even if the cat is not currently near

- it can anticipate the cat's behavior and adjust plans around it; e.g. avoid vacuuming the sunny spot by the window in the afternoon when the cat is likely to be napping there

- it can anticipate the cat's reactions to stimuli, such as loud noises, a can of food opening, etc, and can incorporate these considerations into plans

Note, _none_ of the above have anything to do with language. If I add to the robot a bunch of NLP systems to hear and understand commands or describe its actions or perceptions, it may now know that a cat is called "cat", and how to talk about a cat, but these are distinct from knowing what a cat is.

Similarly,

- a human with some serious aphasia may be unable to describe the cat, but they can clearly still know what a cat is

- a dog can know what a cat is, in many important ways, despite having no language abilities
> they aren't agents

I think for security purposes they should be treated as agents. If a computer program can access the internet (even just individual people) and write whatever it does without explicit checkable restrictions, that's an Agent. Perhaps a dumb one, but who knows for how long. In today's society, text completion can do a lot if it's good enough. I'm looking forward to
"rationalist" AI cults. Going into a loop sometimes doesn't matter. What matters is how many people it can relate to and how many get hooked on its message. You better expect it to be the message that's most likely to work.
The novels based on the game by Rand Miller were really good. Shame they seem to be out of print.
Same phenomenon happened with Zoroastrianism in the US in the 2000s (?), growing from around 6,000 adherents to 15,000.
I had just started working at a large financial services company shortly before the financial meltdown in '07-08.

Leadership held an all-hands meeting letting people know that layoffs were coming, and the VP of each person's respective area would walk over to their desk to inform them personally.

On the day of the layoffs, you could feel the stress in the air. Not much smiling, except the forced kind after someone tries to break the tension with a joke.

And then, a door at the end of a row of cubes opens and your VP walks into the area. Everyone wonders if they're the one (they've been wondering since they learned of the layoff, but something changes when the agent of termination literally walks through the door). She walks down your row, nearing your desk, and your heart starts pounding. She keeps walking, and you breathe a sigh of relief. You peek over the edge of your cube to see her talking to Joe, and a few minutes later he is escorted from the premises.

A few minutes later, she walks into the area again, and the cycle of stress repeats.

I survived the cut, but the experience still sits with me. I don't remember much about any specific day during my next half-decade there, but I remember that day like it was yesterday.

I know some of the recent layoffs have been handled terribly, but I never again want to be sitting in my cube, wondering if I'm next every time the door down the hallway opens.
There's a famous statistic from 2008 in the US that said something along the lines of, for every 1% of unemployment there were 40,000 suicides. That makes unemployment almost as deadly as coronavirus. I don't believe that statistic has changed.
Did it drive a Trans Am, blasting Too Short while mag dumping an Uzi into some trash bins?
Doesn't the replication have a direction though? I.e. start and end.
Half the article is the author laughing at a form of currency he/him clearly doesn't know anything about.

And what's the use case for needing BTC at a truck stop? Are the gloreeholes finally accepting crypto?
"open-source software" isn't good enough when Microsoft has already embraced and extended it.
I haven’t seen “freeware” used to describe Free software. Or, shareware seems like a pretty close idea to what you are describing?
It’s called prompting ;)
When cells try to "get above their station," it's called cancer, and there are classes of cells and other mechanisms in the body constantly fighting against it.
https://archive.is/oORem
Because they need to get over the border wall somehow?
Sounds like they’re just hamming it up after that “spy” balloon.
Not even just from the public, but imagine if making a payment to someone for $whatever, and that allowed that recipient to see whomever else you paid money to, and who paid you.

Lots of people would say "no thanks" to that.
>I ordered the take down.... U.S. aircraft were scrambled
Ok. To be fair, all of that could still describe a balloon. Per the ABC news article:

"It did not appear to have maneuverability capability, he said. "It was virtually at the whim of the wind."
Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults
Yes, the first astronomical gamma ray bursts showed up as events on Vela nuclear explosion detection satellites in the late 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gamma-ray_burst_res...
To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
I had never read about Blazor Server until now.

Wikipedia says:
> Remote clients act as thin clients, meaning that the bulk of the processing load is on the server. The client's web browser downloads a small page and updates its UI over a SignalR connection.

This would be a good description of my framework as well, except that it doesn't use SignalR.
And maybe the rest of Georgia after that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_i...
Again, only if you go down the exact path we did instead of using way less energy for completely different reasons and building from there. E.g. discovering solar power strictly for agricultural reasons and discovering electrical storage then other uses of electricity from there.

People who can’t envision the above or the multitude of other ways to get to electricity without it being transpiration focused lack imagination.
> They always dance around hallucinogenic plants. Just admit people have basically been dropping acid for centuries

Because its medical use was for asthma. You could buy solanaceous cigarettes in the US until the 70s or so.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844275/
It's a basic understanding of politics and power dynamics
> Apple routinely files hundreds of patents (any major company does that). It doesn't mean those patents will end up as a shippable product.

Analysts have a good track record of predicting what Apple is about to release including specs. Stop pretending that it hasn’t happened on a regular basis over the years.

> Of course they are not

No. We have AR and VR devices that have shipped and sold in the millions. Those are facts whether or you decide to accept them.

> Of course they haven't. There's literally no battery + cpu + gpu tech that you can put in an AR device lightweight enough for extended use.

It already has existed in the form of 3rd party magnetically switchable batteries. It’s been selling on Amazon for at least two years now. As for the headset capable of doing this, 10-20 million have already been sold. Just because you’re not aware of it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

> The rest are bulky and heavy. Because you cannot bullshit your way out of physics and biology by pretending "this has been solved".

Waiting for incremental improvements to happen is very different from being impossible to do. This is not a hard concept to understand. Again, these are shipped devices and not vaporware. You keep claiming that some law of physics or biology makes this impossible to accomplish yet you still can’t name a specific law that prohibits progress ie you’re full of it

> There's objective reality and there's wishful thinking

Yeah there’s wishful thinking on your part pretending that you’re not ignorant of the subject, but the facts are in my side.
This is a problem markets can fix. The only way you get into an elite school is you donate a lot of money, you were admitted for color, or you know how to play the game. None of these abilities are things businesses should value, and I'd rather take a top student from a top state school because they're competent at the right things.
Maybe afraid it will get taken down or edited. The original link is https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/judiciary.hou...
It was an F-22 that could obviously tell whether or not it was shooting down a commercial airliner.
It's a common expression https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_that_got_to_do_with...
Ranking members of the previous administration have publicly denied that there were any previous balloons and no evidence has been presented that there were previous similar incidents.
>We know that the universe's expansion is accelerating

Correction. We don't know this for fact. It's the prevailing theory fitting the phenomena we observe.
It’s mostly a Justin Trudeau issue. He constantly puts foot in mouth.
Not the same thing. This "silurian hypothesis" is not so much asking the question about the existence of a pre-human industrial civilization but rather to what degree we could rule it out.

It's a rather implausible proposition, after all, so it would take extraordinary evidence. And that evidence might not survive that long? But this doesn't make the proposition more likely.
NORAD is a binational agreement where both militaries share power and command. The U.S. military is the stronger partner but the relationship isn’t one-way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD
The next step is to get the model to evaluate its own failure modes, decide on a fix, write the code for it itself (calculator, datetime operations, external APIs that it knows of, or any other code for returning or transforming text) and then have the tool evaluate and learn to use the tools it's written for itself.

A language model that could successfully bootstrap itself into using a web browser would be a dangerous thing.
Yeah, I've started to notice this in a lot of the internet, from articles to videos to podcasts. It feels like they are all selling me something I don't want, ideology, outrage, consumerism.

It's getting harder to find information or entertainment that's not embued with any of these negative attributes.
Is this better than the Real Myst version in the store?

New https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/myst-mobile/id6444813759

Real Myst https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/realmyst/id524988885

Real is $10 (CAD, probably $7.99 usd) and the new one is "free" with in app purchases. Not sure what that means in practice.

Edit: unlocking new is $13.99 CAD which is probably $10 USD
If you use grep you'll be doing the same expensive operation every time, following files naively will fail after rotation, etc... And if you use something like Loki it's easier to integrate with other tools to react to the logs
Ultimately, it's the Canadian Geese at risk so you've got to let them make the final call.
I wonder if they are being labeled as 'unknown flying objects' to avoid more political drama with China.
There's a movie that precedes this about a widow who travels from Scotland to Lands End via local buses.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/alaska-myste...
> The FBI is clearing the Bureau of employees who dissent from its woke, leftist
agenda.

Chortle.
> embarrass

I don't even disagree with this, but I'm not sympathetic towards the schools, either.
It isn't really from scratch, since it knows what git is.
It’s true that searching for something will return the lines as they’re formatted. I’m certainly curious to hear how whitespace changes over time in git grep causes problems, what the problems are, and what the alternatives are. I can imagine reasons that might happen, but that particular example isn’t something I’ve experienced myself or heard of before, so I don’t know if I’m discounting it unfairly. Like I said in defense of your comment higher up, I see why people like you react to certain formatting tools this way, but it turns out that tools that insert and delete line breaks are far more serious when it comes to workflow implications than tools that only insert spaces or tabs to get vertical alignment, so it’s worth making that distinction right from the start.

I don’t think vertical alignment is going away, I think it will become far more common, and that our tools will catch up. My prediction is that git and other source control systems become more tolerant of formatting changes, and that developers in general will learn more workflow techniques for allowing whitespace churn.

For me, having the alignment and making the code more readable to me is more valuable than the minor inconveniences with source control that it might cause, and on top of that I’ve learned that there are ways to mitigate most of the issues. I’m not arguing that it doesn’t cause any problems, I’m only saying that it’s worth prioritizing for me, that there are things you can learn to do about it, that the tools give you options and will probably improve, and that vertical alignment in particular does far less damage that line-breaking reflows like clang-format impose… and use of clang-format is pretty widespread and standard in my experience.

Code does change over time. Refactoring happens. Variables are renamed. Comments change over time. We don’t ask people to avoid writing code or adding comments because the changes appear in git diff or grep, or even because they might cause merge conflicts… those things are considered an acceptable cost of doing business in software. I don’t see any reason to treat good formatting differently, within reason.
I guess I'll be the first to disagree with your disagreement :)

I think the value of standardization is much higher than the value of "break[ing] established styles to improve readability in corner cases". I just find the marginal value of these little stylistic improvements to be extremely low, and the value of code looking quite similar everywhere to be quite high.