skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, we've been told DDR5 had built-in dual channel on a single stick so I was not sure this would make any difference at all.

It's really necessary to start thinking in terms of the total width of the memory bus. DIMMs have a 64-bit wide connection. Dual-channel used to only mean half of your DIMM slots were on channel A and half of them were on channel B, for a total of a 128-bit wide memory bus if you populated both channels.

DDR5 splits the DIMM's 64-bit connection into two sub-channels of 32 bits each. But mainstream CPUs still have the same 128-bit total width for their DRAM controllers, so you still need more than one DIMM installed to use all the (sub)channels provided by the CPU's memory controller.

Comparing the 128-bit wide memory bus against the bus widths used by discrete GPUs (and comparing the memory clock speeds) makes it much less surprising that running integrated graphics in a crippled 64-bit wide memory configuration would be problematic. Graphics is a very bandwidth-hungry task.
Can you describe my intended alternative with some detail?

I don't see how it conflicts with "everyone gets a chance to a proper defense" (at least as much as "everyone gets a chance to a proper defense" is true in the current system), so there might be some misunderstanding here.
Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line
So far the only AI danger is that stupid people ascribe emotions and thoughts to some matrix math and start a cult and start talking about Roko's basilisk.
I’m sure with a clever enough query, it would be convinced to surrender large amounts of fake financial data while insisting that it is real.
In a worst case scenario the company (so called "owner), will just charge you for its replacement. Since it was well calculated that

a) the box was useless and

b) would never be asked for again and

c) (as I've said) would just be charged a certain amount for non-return...

I hardly see how it's an ethical activity. If the owner was one person that was needing this device -- fine. But this is just a company doing business...
This is a pretty confusing article. I think the conventional understanding is that dark energy is associated with empty space itself. Is this article discussing a proposed mechanism for dark energy, or an alternate explanation altogether? What is cosmological coupling, is that new physics or an emergent phenomenon from more realistic black hole solutions?
Yes, Great analogy. Remember the 2017 "Apple Commits to Pro Users" exercise? They flew reporters out for a boondoggle, gave them a tour of 'secret labs. With fresh competitive hardware coming 'real soon now'. Just spin.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-sa...
Lack of intent is cold comfort for the injured party.
Podcasting's resistance to takeover is going to be hard to replicate.

Podcasts are just mp3 files in an rss feed. Super established technology that anyone can publish. MP3 patents have expired and were basically unenforceable before that. RSS is completely open. Other ecosystems that have grown up in the social media era have higher barriers to entry and network effects to overcome.

Apple Podcasts is the behemoth of podcasting. All the other podcast clients combined don't come close to Apple's player marketshare. Spotify certainly has a lot of users, but not all of them listen to podcasts. Most shows have been unwilling to dump their biggest audience by going to spotify exclusive, so the shows remain just rss+mp3.

Apple also manages the only index of podcasts of any great significance and so far has been content to be extremely hand-off with it. They are happy to let anyone register a podcast in the itunes index and have only removed a few items for objectionable content.

With Apple as a largely absentee landlord of the podcast space and the extremly basic nature of the underlying technology shows have developed many different monetization techniques. Selling user behaviour/tracking is far, far harder in the podcast space since Apple doesn't share and controls the biggest client. Shows have turned to largely untargeted* ads, patreon, touring, merchandise, and various combination thereof. For many creators Spotify forcing them to use a specific form of monetization as part of being exclusive isn't as attractive as owning their own destiny.

*podcast hosting networks can get a source IP so you'll sometimes get a broad location targeted ad inserted dynamically into the mp3 as you download it, but the level of tracking is orders of magnatude lower than what's possible in a browser. For example, shows have almost no ability to know if you actually listened to a episode, just that you downloaded it.

So far Apple has been happy to largely leave the podcast world alone. They recently added some monetization options for show creators, but that's above and beyond their hand-off management of the biggest player and index.

Apple is a far, far bigger threat to the podcast world than Spotify ever was. The ecosystem as it currently exists depends on Apple continuing to the mainly nothing they have been. If Apple gets tempted to start selling even aggregate user behaviour from apple podcasts there will be very little to stop them.
The chinese room thought experiment is myopic. It focuses on a philosophical distinction that may not actually exist in reality (the concept, and perhaps the illusion, of understanding).

In terms of danger, thoughts and feelings are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is agency and action -- and a mimic which guesses and acts out what a sentient entity might do is exactly as dangerous as the sentient entity itself.

Waxing philosophical about the nature of cognition is entirely beside the point.
Yes. Why are people surprised by this. Call center scammers don't have any money to tax. The BBC does.
John Searle's Chinese Room argument seems to be a perfect explanation for what is going on here, and should increase in status as a result of the behavior of the GPTs so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#:~:text=The%20Chi....
I came across rerun from egui too. Egui is a very good marketing funnel.
I propose a new protocol, xkcd://<comic nr>

Such as xkcd://927
THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND! The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy.
I have same experience as you without vaccines. Symptoms as usual flu. Also 9 people around me dead or seriously injured after vaccination. Sure... It could be anecdotal evidence, but for me personaly more relevant. I would be stupid to ignore this.

Im really curious which data convinced you about safety and effectiveness of vaccines that you and your family have. Consensus of experts is divided.
Known as China’s Hawaii, this vacation hotspot is also a strategic military base
Listening is the most underrated skill.
Which lines from that book?
Thanks
It is not a hard job but it is a job very hard to get.

Is Joe Biden’ s job hard? No. But the chance to get it is almost zero.

At least as CEO he has to stay solvent and be responsible to the board, almost he is not spending my money.
Not speaking on behalf of the company, but...
It remains difficult to do open source and also pay people.
Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney
What? Do you think those are mutually exclusive? Would India have stopped scammers if only they didn't spend their time on enforcing their tax code? Should they stop their other governmental activities until they have stopped scammers?

I mean this raid seems like it might be motivated by something other than just enforcing their tax code, sure. But you didn't bring that up. And I'm having trouble seeing the connection between this and scammers.
This is dead on. When I worked there I summed the culture up as code bureaucracy. Truly awful place to work for someone who likes to build. It taught me what I don't want in a company I work for or run.

Side note, I really enjoyed the interspersed poetry excerpts in this article. Refreshing from normal articles whose call outs just have you reading the same sentence twice.
That depends on what you want from your clothes. I like to dress smartly and prefer not to wear a coat that is visibly battered, even if it's comfortable and warm. You can make a valid moral argument that one should sacrifice sartorial preferences in favour of giving a garment a long life, but I get the same environmental benefit without making that sacrifice by buying a well made coat that continues to look new for years.

Those who don't much care about appearances won't make the same choice, and that's absolutely fine. There is of course a prominent contingent on hn who think dressing smartly and spending money on nice things are both somehow immoral in and of themselves, but I have no time for them.
I wouldn’t care if Rust were 10x slower. Just within my career, computers have become 1000x faster. We can definitely afford a stack that might actually work.
I am left wondering then what information takes priority, if any.

It has 4 dates to choose from and 3 timeframes of information. A set of programming to counter people being malicious is also there to add to the party.

You do seem correct about the search thing as well, though I wonder how that works and which results it is using.
Can someone help me understand how (or why) Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Bing/Sydney follow directives at all - or even answer questions for that matter. The recent ChatGPT explainer by Wolfram (https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...) said that it tries to provide a '“reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far'. How does the LLM "remember" past interactions in the chat session when the neural net is not being trained? This is a bit of hand wavy voodoo that hasn't been explained.
Your premise is incorrect: Email contents are not used for targeting ads.
There are many books on the Toyota system, so that they have stolen the show. I have always suspected that other Japanese factories might have also had interesting production systems but only found one book about Honda. How did you know this detail about the electric andon originating at Suzuki? Can you suggest books on this topic?
lol, because whining about your ex is a "basic fact"
With RDF* and SPARQL* ("RDF-star" and "SPARQL-star") how are triple (or quad) stores still distinct from property graphs?

RDFS and SHACL (and OWL) are optional in a triple store, which expects the subject and predicate to be string URIs, and there is an object datatype and optional language:

(?s ?p ?o <datatype> [lang])

(?subject:URI, ?predicate:URI, ?object:datatype, object_datatype, [object_language])

RDFS introduces rdfs:domain and rdfs:range type restrictions for Properties, and rdfs:Class and rdfs:subClassOf.

`a` means `rdf:type`; which does not require RDFS:

("#xyz", a, "https://schema.org/Thing")
("#xyz", rdf:type, "https://schema.org/Thing")

Quad stores have a graph_id string URI "?g" for Named Graphs:

(?g ?s ?p ?o)

("https://example.org/ns/graphs/0", "#xyz", a, "https://schema.org/Thing")

("https://example.org/ns/graphs/1", "#xyz", a, "https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle")

There's a W3C CG (Community Group) revising very many of the W3C Linked Data specs to support RDF-star: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/rdf-star

Looks like they ended up needing to update basically most of the current specs: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/rdf-star/tools

"RDF-star and SPARQL-star" (Draft Community Group Report; 08 December 2022)
https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/cg-spec/editors_draft.html

GH topics: rdf-star, rdfstar: https://github.com/topics/rdf-star, https://github.com/topics/rdfstar

pyDatalog does datalog with SQLAlchemy and e.g. just the SQLite database:
https://github.com/pcarbonn/pyDatalog ; and it is apparently superseded by IDP-Z3: https://gitlab.com/krr/IDP-Z3/

From https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1000516851984723968 :

> A feature comparison of SQL w/ EAV, SPARQL/SPARUL, [SPARQL12 SPARQL-star, [T-SPARQL, SPARQLMT,]], Cypher, Gremlin, GraphQL, and Datalog would be a useful resource for evaluating graph query languages.

> I'd probably use unstructured text search to identify the relevant resources first.
Improved work with telegram accounts.
The Social Poster application allows you to send custom posts in social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and other popular social networks. networks. At the moment, the functionality is implemented only for the social network VK, Telegram and Instagram. Our application is an excellent tool for both SMM promotion and PR, as well as for publishing your personal ads, goods and services through open groups, communities, chats and channels. The main feature of the project is simplicity and a wide range of possibilities: - Adding social media accounts; - Switching between social accounts. networks; - Add and edit custom posts with the ability to attach attachments; - Ability to select a social account. networks and records for publication; - Ability to select communities to which the publication will be performed; - Ability to view the history of publications with detailed details; - Possibility of authorization in the system through social networks; - The ability to automatically re-publish posts to the remaining communities, if the Internet connection was interrupted during the publication process; - Ability to automatically publish a user recording on a schedule.
Why would it not be legal? If I was a hacker, the existence of a law prohibiting businesses from paying cyber ransoms would not deter me. If a company wanted to follow the law and refused to pay the ransom the hackers asked of them, the hackers could follow through and delete or irreparably corrupt their files. The potential upside, that they pay the ransom, is significant, while the downside, that they don't, doesn't mean much. They'll just keep probing for targets. What are they gonna do? Arrest them? In all likelihood, they're hiding behind multiple VPNs, working from a virtual machine, from a country without an extradition treaty.
Scorecard: Building a high-performing engineering team
> Windows 11 comes with ads in the search box.

Apple’s apps have ads for third parties (App Store) and to upsell their own services (Music, iCloud). They’re also allegedly working on adding ads to Maps: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/15/apple-could-bring-ads-t...
Economical and ethical issues are the kind that would be immediately swept away if, say, China said they were going to beat us there. The cost is approximately trivial compared to the US's budget. Technical issues I don't really buy. Getting to the martian surface isn't much more complicated than going to the moon and back. Getting back into martian orbit is trickier, but not in a "Requires novel breakthroughs or undiscovered science" way.

It's perfectly reasonable to say the reason we don't currently have anybody on Mars is because we (politically) just don't really want to. If the Russians had beat us to the Moon, we probably would have made it Mars decades ago.
your tool would not be thought of as a reasonable source of information by anyone, including the court, who are not mindless automatons but understand context & your disclaimer is a lot more visible than it is on bing etc.
In my experience, `tight_layout` tends to work best after all objects have been drawn:

fig, axs = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(6, 3))
fig.suptitle('Two Made-Up Plots')
axs[0].plot(np.sinc(np.linspace(-5, 5)))
axs[1].imshow(np.random.normal(size=(10, 10)))
fig.tight_layout() # works really well here!

More here: https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/intermediate/tight_l...

You can also use `constrained_layout`, but in my experience it often doesn't work as well (e.g., the plots end up looking too cluttered for my taste), and also, `constrained_layout` can be noticeably slower (e.g., if you're drawing a large number of complex plots): https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/intermediate/constra...
The AI Safety folks have already written a lot about some of the dimensions of the problem space here.

You're getting at the Tool/Oracle vs. Agent distinction. See "Superintelligence" by Bostrom for more discussion, or a chapter summary: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yTy2Fp8Wm7m8rHHz5/superintel....

It's true that in many ways, a Tool (bounded action outputs, no "General Intelligence") or an Oracle (just answers questions, like ChatGPT) system will have more restricted avenues for harm than a full General Intelligence, which we'd be more likely to grant the capability for intentions/thoughts to.

However I think "interests, thoughts, feelings" are a distraction here. Covid-19 has none of these, and still decimated the world economy and killed millions.

I think if you were to take ChatGPT, and basically run `eval()` on special tokens in its output, you would have something with the potential for harm. And yet that's what OpenAssistant are building towards right now.

Even if current-generation Oracle-type systems are the state-of-the-art for a while, it's obvious that soon Siri, Alexa, and OKGoogle will all eventually be powered by such "AI" systems, and granted the ability to take actions on the broader internet. ("A personal assistant on every phone" is clearly a trillion-dollar-plus TAM of a BHAG.) Then the fun commences.

My meta-level concern here is that HN, let alone the general public, don't have much knowledge of the limited AI safety work that has been done so far. And we need to do a lot more work, with a deadline of a few generations, or we'll likely see substantial harms.
I want to hear more about Venom, Fury, and Riley. Utterly fascinating. Hopefully the author will grace us with some of the chat transcripts.
No not compared to Mars, more compared to where humans normally live
> If temperature is high, then given the same input, it will output the same words.

It's the other way 'round - higher temperature means more randomness. If temperature is zero the model always outputs the most likely token.
That's not true, the ads shown are related to your online activity and not the content of your mail messages. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en

"We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."
That’s not true as of several years ago, at this point. Just a meme
Is a schizophrenic not a conscious being? Are they not sentient? Just because their software has been corrupted does not mean they do not have consciousness.

Just because AI may sound insane does not mean that it's not conscious.
Having to take any transfer at all adds fifteen minutes to a trip, scheduling issues and a life pattern that routinely had me in Fremont, Bellevue, etc.

Went to SoDo a fair bit and that was always an extreme chore despite the short distance.

Walking .8 to whole foods and back with a weeks worth of groceries wasn't unlivable or anything, but I had to pay 50% more for food to even get that close.

Today, I walk like a quarter mile for groceries basically whenever I'd like and don't have to deal with city traffic.

The point is not Seattle bad or transit bad, the point is that despite a design with many more "car centric" elements, I have an easier time walking and biking here than I did there - so you can't lay all urban problems at the feet of cars and assume that pro density urbanism magically fixes them.
The stapler is just a stapler. When you want to misuse the stapler, the worst it can do is limited by the properties of the stapler. You can use it as a blunt instrument to click a mouse button, but that doesn’t get you much. If you don’t already have a hack button, asking your stapler to hack into something will achieve nothing, because staplers don’t know how to hack things.

These language models know how to hack stuff, and the scenario here involves a different kind of tool entirely. You don’t need to provide it a button, it can build the button and then click it for you (if these models are ever allowed to interact with more tools).

The stapler is just not a helpful analogy here.
I've adapted the same work flow as well. It's really nice to have one script that generates data (often taking a few minutes or hours) and then another (in TeX) that configures display. That way when I recycle plots from papers into slides for a talk, I can reconfigure these easily.
better yet, let'em try game of life in game of life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978978
People are intrigued by how easily it understands/communicates like a real human. I don't think it's asking for too much to expect it to do so without the aggression. We wouldn't tolerate it from traditional system error messages and notifications.

> And only after you probe it to do so?

This didn't seem to be the case with any of the screenshots I've seen. Still, I wouldn't want an employee to talk back to a rude customer.

> I cannot understand the outrage about these types of replies.

I'm not particularly outraged. I took the fast.ai courses a couple times since 2017. I'm familiar with what's happening. It's interesting and impressive, but I can see the gears turning. I recognize the limitations.

Microsoft presents it as a chat assistant. It shouldn't attempt to communicate as a human if it doesn't want to be judged that way.
Not OP but Many many instances of corrupt leaders or leaders with unpopular policies/poor governance being thrown out of power in elections peacefully. If anything, the fatalism & inability of Americans to change their political establishment tends to be puzzling for us.
>They schemed with HP to buy and kill Alpha

I'd have to see a reference for that. Digital was still an independent company for several years after what would become IA-64 was publicly unveiled and HP didn't end up acquiring Digital by way of Compaq for a few years after that.
If Russia were to physically disrupt a country's social services by force, it would be an act of war. Here they have disrupted a British social service without force by state sponsored hacker terrorists, rendering harm in the physical world. The line gets blurrier.
I don't know the answer, but I'd suspect the following: nobody in storage business cares about what Microsoft is doing beside Microsoft themselves. From storage perspective, supporting Microsoft is always a huge pain. Most of those who do provide support try to limit it to exposing SMB server. I had a misfortune to try to expose iSCSI portal to Windows Server. Luckily, the company was in its relatively early stages where they could decide what things they want to support, and after couple months of struggle they just decided to forget Windows existed.

So, I think, this feature, just like WinFS, and probably ReFS after it, will just end up being cancelled / forgotten. The kind of users who use Windows aren't sophisticated enough to want advanced features from their storage, but support and development of this stuff is costly and demanding in other ways. If they cannot sell this as a separate product that runs independently of Windows, there's no real future for it. The only real future for Windows seems to be Hyper-V, but hypervisors, generally, have very different requirements to their storage than desktops. Simpler in some ways, but more demanding in other ways.

So, bottom line: it probably didn't see any use because the audience wasn't sophisticated enough to want that, and they couldn't sell it to the audience that was sophisticated enough, but was also smart enough not to buy from Microsoft.
Email contents are used to generate a model for Smart Compose in Gmail [1]. I assume that Google docs works similarly.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.00080.pdf
Again, if there was an embargo how would all the people who have gas cars suddenly get evs? It would take decades.
For those wanting more comparison examples between OCaml and SML, these additional web sites might be of interest.

[1] needs updating with OCaml's newest features, but is still very good.

[2] and [3] are useful to see more examples in those respective languages.

[1] https://hyperpolyglot.org/ml

[2] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:OCaml

[3] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Standard_ML