skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit late on this one but I'll write my thoughts here in an attempt to archive my them (but still leave the possibility for someone to chip in).

LLMs are trying to predict the next word/token and are asked to do just that, ok. But, I'm thinking that with a dataset big enough (meaning, containing a lot of different topics and randomness, like the one used for GTP-N) in order to be good at predicting the next token internally the model needs to construct something (a mathematical function) and this process can be assimilated to intelligence. So predicting the next token is the result of intelligence in that case.

I find it similar to the work physicist (and scientists in general) are doing for example. Gathering facts about the world and constructing mathematical models that best encompass these facts in order to predict other facts with accuracy. Maybe there is a point to be made that this is not the process of intelligence but I believe it is. And LLMs are doing just that, but for everything.

The formula/function is not the intelligence but the product of it. And this formula leads to intelligent actions. The same way our brain has the potential to receive intelligence when we are born and most of our life is spent forming this brain to make intelligent decisions. The brain itself and its matter is not intelligent, it's more the form it eventually takes that leads to an intelligent process. And it takes its form by being trained on live data with trial and error, reward and punishment.

I believe these LLMs possess real intelligence that is not in essence different than ours. If there was a way (that cannot scale at the moment) to apply the same training with movement, touch and vision at the same time, that would lead to something indistinguishable from a human. And if one were to add the fear of death on top of that, that would lead to something indistinguishable from consciousness.
it produced cliche because of the cliche quality of the prompt. You can’t expect it to be original when you’ve asked it for a tiresome combination of genre and a canonical work.

If the outputs are boring it ain’t chatgpt at fault…
I dare not look since I'd probably follow suit. What can be done, if anything, about this evidently deep-seated capacity in some of us, to 'have fun' while knowingly inflicting pain and suffering on other living creatures who share our planet?
> and zero processes can be scheduled on the E cores, making them completely pointless.

So because AVX-512 is fast, but E cores are slow, we should keep everything slow and prevent adoption of fast AVX-512 to prevent those E cores becoming pointless?
> A billion plus people, largely uneducated

Don't know what this assertion is based on, but the adult literacy rate in China(as of 2018) is 96.84%(source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/271336/literacy-in-china...), as comparison in the USA it's 79%(as of 2023, source: https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/). Of course adult literacy rate might not a good indication whether people are "educated", but just think it need more facts here.
> How does does AMD/Intel stack up against ARM with something like Amazon's Graviton instances?

From what I've seen, poorly - Gravitons are significantly cheaper (10-30%) for similar performance, workload dependant*.
PreSelect Configurable
PreSelect Configurable facilitates admin to configure product variant types such as Cheapest Option Preselect, Expensive Option Preselect, Default Option Preselect, and First Option Preselect. The configured preselect option will be applied to category & product page and based on the selection, it will be displayed on the storefront.

Thus, PreSelect Configurable will be benefited to display cheapest products by default with available size, color, product name under specific category. in similar fashion it allows to preselect Expensive options, First options and Default options as well.
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> this (further) makes the bail/bond process feel like something of a farce.

This is exactly how the federal bail system has always worked, being released while on trial is literally a constitutional right.
This article seems to be an attempt to justify various behaviours to the part of the population that isn't on board with it.

But why? You can do whatever the fuck you want. Whatever the fuck you want might not be the best thing long term, and I might not like whatever the fuck you want, but I mean, it's you, not me.

A lot of people seem to be unwilling to allow these two ideas to exist in their mind independently.

Either something is OK, and it's allowed and celebrated, or it's awful, and it must be banned. It has to be fully 100% accepted by everyone or fully 100% despised.

The whole thing to me speaks like really there's just a tremendous lack of self-confidence. You can just own the fact that you're weird, most of us are weird in some way.
Probably as much a question of 'how long for?' A car driving at normal speed would pretty quickly remove the 'traffic jam'
> or all the symbols mean completely different things

It's actually not entirely unproductive to consider this line of thought, whereby in this formulation equality actually means something like "arrivable via some number of zero divisions". I'm sure you could find all sorts of curiosities with this mathematical "toy".
I predict that this will absolutely tank the sponsorship for projects that are not US-centric. But maybe that's the intention here???

In Germany, most people don't have a credit card because you don't need one in daily life.

Instant payments to friends? Giropay is free.

Buy stuff online? PayPal, Giropay, Klarna.

Send money to other EU countries? Every bank account supports SEPA, which is free.

With that in mind, nobody is willing to pay $50 annually for a card which then charges 3% of every transaction, because there are good and free alternatives. And I don't think anyone will create a CC just for GitHub. Let's hope Microsoft will think this through and offer sane alternative payment methods (like SEPA deduction, the default for recurring payments in Europe) before removing the only non-CC option.
Nice accessible article - the title required 3 or 4 attempts to correctly parse though :)
I played more hours than I care to admit during the pandemic and I think that was... 3, 4 games?

You can practically play it forever.
Isn't revolut more popular in EU?
Wait, how is that possible? A hosting platform with no SRE?
That isn't a factor of the artificial scarcity however, that's a factor of the teaching standards.

In Australia we have a very limited number of surgical training positions each year. We could do plenty more, but we don't... more or less because surgeons are snobs who want people to go through the same hoops they went through.
Yes it's only the Alder Lake (ie cheaper, consumer oriented CPUs) in which it has been removed. Server chips still have it AFAIK.

Even on Alder Lake, the official explanation is that it has both P(erformance) and E(fficiency) cores, with the E cores being significantly more power efficient and the P cores being significantly faster. The P cores have AVX512, the E cores don't. Since most kernels have no idea that this is a thing and treat all CPUs in a system as equal, they will happily schedule code with AVX512 instructions on an E core. This obviously crashes, since the CPU doesn't know how to handle those instructions. Some motherboard manufacturers allowed you to work around this by simply turning off all the E-cores, so only the P-cores (with AVX512 support) remained. Intel was not a fan of this and eventually disabled AVX512 in hardware.

As ivegotnoaccount mentioned, the Sapphire Rapids range of CPUs will have AVX512. Those are not intended for the typical consumer or mobile platform though, but for servers and big workstations where power consumption is much less of a concern. You would probably not want such a chip in your laptop or phone.
Feels good for some reason knowing that Carmack himself is working on AI from a different angle :)

https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...
The 1260P is rated at 28W, not 15W. It also has 4 more cores than the M2, and it could be considered way more expensive at $480 (the Mac Mini is selling at $600 in its base configuration, for example).

Hardly comparable.
Fundamentally it’s the trade off between latency and throughput. Batching increases throughout at the cost of latency. Real time in this context means guaranteed low latencies which means lower throughput
Federal Laws can in fact preempt state laws but in this case I believe they got it completely wrong and intentionally wrong at that. Business owners love arbitration and for good cause. It is much easier to manipulate the arbitration system than courts.
Mammal species can be herbivores or predators though? If you are referencing the existence of omnivores, that's fair, but they'd just kinda sit at a half step between herbivore and predator. Really you'd want to consider not just one type of predator but secondary consumers that eat herbivores, tertiary consumers that eat them, like a snake, and quartenary consumers that eat them, like a hawk.

There's a little exaggeration in that comment but directionally it holds true, marine food chains are longer, in part because primary production in pelagic ecosystems is single cell phytoplankton instead of plants, and the small size of things a lot of room for higher trophic levels in terms of energetics.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27322123
Title moderation on HN is very misleading, implemented as is. I don't have an issue with changing title, but the problem is that the name of the original submitter still stays next to the modified title, without any sign that title has been changed by someone else. Feels a bit like impersonation :)

If the title is changed, there should be a visible remark saying "title redacted by dang" or something similar. Or include the original title below the new one.
ChatGPT is like a lower manager that has to create a last minute presentation for upper management, it does it by copy pasting google search results from a list of big tech terms.
I tried DDG for a bit and was constantly being fed blog articles and 'developer websites' instead of canonical documentation for queries that I would have thought would go straight to (say) the main Python docs site. So I moved back to Google. Now Google does exactly the same thing. Time to try moving again I guess.

(Also, ads? What ads? Doesn't everyone use an adblocker?)
> no C yet, just B, but evidently the B compiler was already generating native code instead of stack bytecode

No, B always generated interpreted/threaded code on UNIX, certainly on the PDP-7. We have the runtime and B library from that time.
That might be a Germam specific thing, right over the border in Czechia cards are omni-present.

Plus you have e-banks like Revolut.
The quest to make Linux bulletproof
No they don't.

I can highly recommend their podcast series on Xi Jinping, The Prince

https://www.economist.com/theprincepod
Language models feel currently a bit like blockchain: a solution looking for a problem. But unlike the latter where the actual problems are fairly niche and depend on myriad other constraints, its more likely that language algorithms will be adopted more widely. The question is how. People are currently slotting this tool into "search" (as we have come to know it) as it is obviously information retrieval machinery at its core. But the best, most useful, least risky way of using this may be still forthcoming. Remember that "search" is a very recent concept. Most likely this is just another step towards the long journey of "organizing the world's information" :-)
At best, I can imagine this being a rectum cancer check, not a colon cancer check - the colon is around 1.6-1.7m long. Even the rectum is longer than a typical finger (typically ~12cm long according to Wikipedia).
Very cool! But for hard enough problems, prompt engineering is kind of like hyperparameter tuning. It's only a final (and relatively minor) step after building up an effective architecture and getting its modules to work together.

DSP provides a high-level abstraction for building these architectures—with LMs and search. And it gets the modules working together on your behalf (e.g., it annotates few-shot demonstrations for LM calls automatically).

Once you're happy with things, it can compile your DSP program into a tiny LM that's a lot cheaper to work with.

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dsp/
A letter written in February 1916 has arrived in London over 100 years late
Put a donate button in the readme
I love people that believe there exists a version of windows that could be deemed secure.
I was there once.
Install the latest update to fix the security problems. Don't worry, our software becomes 300mb larger due to 500 other security problems we are rolling out today, but we managed to close off this one tiny hole over here.

Why does it matter anyways. With both Intel and AMD running processors independent of your machine, there's really no way to keep anything secure unless you use a machine that's over 20 years old.
I use an adblocker of course, but Google's top results are basically paid ads. An adblocker doesn't block them because they come from google themselves.

You can just pay google to be on the top for certain search terms, regardless of the actual relevance of your website.

So I'm calling them ads, but they are technically paid searh results. Indeed DDG is also pretty bad lately but I still consider it better than Google. It's just that the quality of both has gone down a lot due to these practices.
If moderation will just change the title to whatever is in the original article, why not just automate it? I'd hope that moderators would be able to decide whether or not the original title was better. In this case it clearly wasn't.
asstrollogy
Yes, if you dare to look into a GC implementation, you might see some truly unsafe code indeed
I mean, you can just put it into automation and never have to repeat same linux cmdline dance to do the same thing again. There are plenty of configuration management tools to do so. Hell, I outright forgot some skills because I encoded whatever I will ever need from a given tool in Puppet manifest and didn't had a need to touch the internals again.

Docker, k8s and friends are essentially just level above the "just CM", still just use basic linux primitives but with some coordination.

The "new toys" are essentially abstractions on what sysadmin would do (anyone remember building chroots ? Yeah I don't liked it either, even if it felt "cool" the first time I did it) and every abstraction will leak which means once you are big and complex enough you will need to debug it. Just that random hobby project probably won't get there and even for work it probably might be someone's else job to debug that

> I should STFU? Give me a break

...you probably should, your whining and bragging doesn't add anything to discussion. "Oh I played with cool kids few decades ago, look at me Mr. Important"
But those are debit cards, not credit cards.
Good riddance. We need to pave the way for decentralized payment methods that aren’t greedy with currency conversion rates and fees
Has anyone broached R O K O with it yet? (I'm not gonna do it, JIC)
What you mention is pretty much every single AR/VR product out there.

I’m looking forward to these having enough pixels to work as a carry on monitor.
Elon Musk hopes to have Twitter CEO toward the end of year
Well, the food chains are indeed longer and support more trophic levels [1], so with the same degree of cycling as you presented there are indeed more opportunities for complexity.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27322123
Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape
>Of course, you'll then end up paying $15+/mo for Postgres, which is hilarious for most hobby projects storing 50MB of data.

You can run small project on $5 VPS with Postgres just fine tho...

Managed services in cloud are usually massively overpriced
Do you mean that people usually have bank accounts with only a debit card or do you write about people with no bank accounts?
I was quite wowed when it recreated python-vlc in ruby.
MathLex
Factual correctness is not very important, you don't have to trust it. ChatGPT is very effective because it acts as an advisor in any topic. Sometimes its very wrong but it gives you an overall picture of the thing you are looking for and from there you can drill down.

It is much better than trying to drill down from spam ridden ad infested results Google would provide. Once you pass the very basic stuff, you are often able to reach the spam-free-lands because the SEO spam hasn't reached the every niche just yet(spammers optimize for certain popular keywords). Once you have the overall picture, you have the roadsigns to the niche lands. You can directly search Stackoverflow, reddit, hacker news, github etc.
Those are state cases not federal cases. The system of bail is different.

Nevertheless, the real issue there is refusing to set trial dates and dragging out the proceedings, typically done in the hope of getting the accused to plea guilty so an up and coming DA can brag about their prosecution rate when they run for Governor.
There's a test you can do here [0] which is quite interesting in showing the variation in people's internal experience. I did it with my wife and daughter who are both very visual thinkers - I was astonished at their answers and how different their mind's eyes appear to be to my own, they were similarly astonished at mine.

[0] https://aphantasia.com/vviq/
Like SEPA payment, but from my experience with US bank (BBVA) stuck in 1990s, it is still a big PITA to do something mundane like SEPA.
I originally thought that too, but neither are laptops or mobile phones. However, it seems the OP is talking about disposable in the sense that they cannot be repaired, so must be disposed/replaced if they incur any damage.
I mean the assertion that this was a Russian-op instead of a US-op and that the journalist is spreading misinformation. (They said the same thing about Hersh earlier too btw and were proved wrong - twice). The denials will be ameliorated after several years when no one cares about it.
> In Germany, most people don't have a credit card because you don't need one in daily life.

Highly inaccurate.

We don't have typical Credit Cards, but Debit Card acting as Credit Card for online transactions are the norm.
You can run the PDP-7 version and an early slightly frankenstein'ed PDP-11 version in simh:
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72
It says "Illustration," not "Photograph."
Not a doctor, but my SO is one. AFAIK the finger is used to check for prostate inflammation/abnormalities. Colon cancer checks are done either via analysis of hidden blood in feces or colonoscopy.
Both work well for online transactions.
Mathematics detached from context can't be used in practice, so it doesn't look like it's truly detached.
> Ruby on Rails

I've been deploying Rails since v 2, and never with Docker. The only time I ever had trouble was setting up Rails dev on M1 Mac when M1 was new. In Linux production, it just worked; and pulling/building gems was less a drag than what people regularly experience in the NPM world.

To be fair, I don't use a ton of gems because I generally don't like additional dependencies unless the value is really there. So maybe my use cases have been too basic to experience the pain.
Evil minds think alike.
I was thinking exactly this...
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is aimed at children, but fantastic. Can't comment on the others because I haven't read them.
Okay, done, thanks!
Hyundai and Kia roll out a software patch that makes cars harder to steal
Sure, and I hope their treatment improves. My point though is that the two steps outlined above are likely insufficiently specified for turn-around success. At best.
The replies to your comment were wild to read through, strong vibes of 'how dare you simplify something and retain the essence of a valid point but fail to include this one tangental aspect I thought of'
Investors drop bets on falling US interest rates in face of stubborn inflation
https://archive.is/1lw5j
Ok good. I was not sure, if GitHub wants credit card or is fine with debit card with enabled online payments.
That's just using some other company's cloud. Why would you want to involve any third party for transferring files between your devices.
Amen to this. Years ago I did a contract for a company that was very pro-heroism. Every single promotion email I saw had some anecdote about how the person had, say, stayed at the office multiple nights in a row to save an in-trouble project.

You know what? Every project needed heroics just to get done on time because the place was profoundly fucked up. And each round of heroics left the code in poorer and poorer shape, demanding more heroics next time. Instead of doing a truly brave thing, like telling executives that a schedule was absurd and the team needed more time to do it right, people did the cowardly thing and said, "three bags full sir" to every absurd request.

And that was the right choice for promotion, because everybody higher up had succeeded by heroics.
Just enough for him to have all the fun and leave the guy with chores
Most if not all Debit Cards work for online transactions.

This has been a non issue for many years now.
If the teams is good but the company is shit it is better to sell team loyalty (as in us lot could move as a team to a
better company). That might involve being frank, becoming friends and so on.
The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google
Considering the fees paypal charges - no wonder. At our company we are also trying to ditch paypal, since it constitutes to the lion share of total fees we pay payment processing, though paypal overall share compared to other payment methods is in the bottom percentage.
Congratulations to Github on this step!
They have about 25 million customers, which would be about 5% of the EU population. Meanwhile about 38% of Europeans own a credit card [1].

Revolut is growing rapidly, so I assume there are plenty of bubbles where revolut is more widespread than credit cards. But the near-universal scheme in the EU would be sepa direct debit. And while the lack of instant confirmation is a drawback for online purchases, that shouldn't matter for something like GitHub Sponsors.

1: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...
I've only toyed around with training machine learning models, but each time it would give a percentage of probability (78% probability this thing is a handwritten 2 and not just a squiggle, for example). I have no experience training LLMs at all, so maybe it's different.
This vector of paragraphs (I struggle to dignify it as an “essay”) at its most charitable suffers from the “‘Defund the Police’ doesn’t mean to ‘defund the police’” problem.

“Everyone can support family abolition, even those who feel there is nothing wrong with their family. Family abolition is not about breaking up individual families but about radically changing the society that makes the family structure necessary,”

If you don’t want the government spending money to encourage stable families, we can have that discussion. If you want to change inheritance taxation, we can have that as well. If you want people to be able to live in non-family arrangements, we can have that discussion as well, though it will likely be short since, we’ll quickly realize that they already can and no one is seeking to end that.

If you start with “we shouldn’t have families”, I’ll adjust my estimation of your rationality and tolerance of others’ choices based on the data you’ve given me.
Amd has been great on Linux, both gpu and cpu drivers, and the linux user base has been increasing at a rate sufficient to cut into windows’ segment.
Not really, c^2 has the unit of velocity squared, not acceleration:

[c^2] = [(v^2/t^2)] != [(v/t^2)] = [a]

We can also choose natural units where c==1, which leads directly to e==m