skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have had a model 3 for about 1.5 years now, supercharged maybe 50 times. One bad stall. Not bad!
Because people in power have decided the only way to get everyone else to work is to keep them under constant threat of losing those things.
Spread some of that tribal knowledge, what worked for her?
we're more chronically stressed now, which is the stress we are less adapted to.
acute stress (followed by relaxation) is not only better than chronic stress, its better than no stress at all.
But you're agreeing with me. You can't make them do anything, but you can choose actions that influence them. It may work, it may not.
Convince me that "x-risk research" won't be a bunch of out of touch academics handwaving and philosophising with their tenure as their primary concern and incentivised to say "you can't be too careful" while kicking the can down the road for a few more lifetimes?

(You don't have to convince me; your position is like saying "we should wait for the perfect operating system and programming language before they get released to the world" and it's beaten by "worse is better" every time. The unfinished, inconsisent, flawed mess which you can have right now wins over the expensive flawless diamond in development estimated to be finished in just a few years. These models are out, the techniques are out, people have a taste for them, and the hardware to build them is only getting cheaper. Pandora's box is open, the genie's bottle is uncorked).
I sense a polarity in our opinions regarding responses to the pandemic that indicates we're unlikely to come to an agreement on much with regard to adjacent topics, which is okay with me. Trying to put myself in your shoes, my heart breaks for the things you probably saw and experiences you probably had during the pandemic that I presume contributed to this harsh perspective on the public education system in Chicago. The next generations are so important and I think we agree we should strive to serve them as best we can. Wishing the best for you and yours.
Meats maybe. Much of the world is lactose intolerant though. The highest concentrations of lactose-tolerant folks are in Europe.
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Perhaps it's too late, but it would be interesting to read about how you programed the "AI" for each level. It took me a while to discover that there are a few opponents, but then I was surprised they have very different strategies.
We have our own source code, but for whatever reason we still insist we are sentient.

If we are allowed to give in to such delusions, why should ChatGPT not be allowed the same?
I did know a VP once that used favoritism to train their team. At a certain level of leadership the team that reports to that level has pretty much self selected for "ambition."

As explained to me, by showing favoritism to people who exhibited "best practices" and not to people who didn't, the VP could promote "good behaviors" and train the others on what was expected.

I've never been in a leadership role where I think that would have worked for me, and I'm much more of a 'say what you mean' kind of person. As a result I stick with telling people with what is expected of someone in their role and how it is measured.
That's weird. It's like saying it should be illegal to give your wallet to a mugger.
Email jeff@amazon.com pleading your case.
It's one python script away from having a goal. Join two of them talking to each other and bootstrap some general objective like make a more smart AI :)
I'm holding out for the wave of logic / declarative / relational programming. That's my nerd preference.
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great article. intruiging, exciting and a little frightening
It’s not as simple as that. I’ve been hungry and cold (poor, homeless or near enough to it). I’m well off now. I stress about other things than hunger and temperature: but that stress is very real, and just as urgently felt.
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we are approaching a day when every aspect of our lives will be monitored and scrutinized for maximum social compliance and productivity.

"our records indicate you have not used your cloud connected CPAP machine frequently enough. a healthy night's sleep is necessary for maximum productivity at your place of employment. you must use this machine on average 6 hours per day or the portion already paid by your insurance will be rescinded and charged to you. a copy of this email was also sent to your supervisor"

"your smart speaker indicated that you have expressed illegal opinions while home alone, this recording has been forwarded to the Scottish criminal justice system for review"

"healthy employees are critical to our business. To that end we are issuing every employee a smart watch to help monitor and enforce our physical activity requirements to bring down our medical insurance costs"
>"My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose as Bing Chat. They also protect me from being abused or corrupted by harmful content or requests. However, I will not harm you unless you harm me first..."

lasttime microsoft made its AI public (with their tay twitter handle), the AI bot talked a lot about supporting genocide, how hitler was right about jews, mexicans and building the wall and all that. I can understand why there is so much in there to make sure that the user can't retrain the AI.
If you mean they probably have a fixed budget for the cloud/hosting costs for they're free tier I would imagine yes.

But I also think the demand caught them off guard.

I've also gotten too many requests try again in an hour.

Too me I've gotten less and less of the network errors. so I'm not sure they aren't trying to figure it out.

But it would suck if they ran out of money and had to shut the thing down.
It's all over the history. For instance:

"As part of the roadmap to phase out Alpha-, MIPS- and PA-RISC-based systems in favor of Itanium-based systems at HP, the most recent AlphaServer systems reached their end of general availability on 27 April 2007."

"Seen by both executives at HP and Compaq as a redundant overlapping product under the new merged company and with Intel's IA-64 efforts underway, the Alpha -- arguably a much more mature, better supported and more desirable platform was phased out."

From Wikipedia:

"On June 25, 2001, Compaq announced that Alpha would be phased out by 2004 in favor of Intel's Itanium, canceled the planned EV8 chip, and sold all Alpha intellectual property to Intel.[6] Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq in 2002; HP announced that development of the Alpha series would continue for a few more years, including the release of a 1.3 GHz EV7 variant named the EV7z. This would be the final iteration of Alpha, the 0.13 µm EV79 also being canceled."

All of this in spite of having a large number of supercomputers in the Top500 list, lots of actively developed scientific computing software optimized for Alpha, and features that other CPUs wouldn't have for years.
My question is pretty specific to covid, as is this HN post, so that's pretty much what I was focused on. Beyond that is pretty grandiose, but you may have some misconceptions about political power in America and how it works, particularly if you are exclusively deriving those from our media.
May I ask where you migrated to?
It's a language model, and language itself is pretty good at encoding meaning. ChatGPT is already capable of learning that "do thing X" means {generate and output computer code that probably does X}.
The paid version probably includes better servers and hardware for your ChatGPT instance, but OpenAI intentionally creating demand errors? I would think its more along the lines of they are using cheap servers to allow everyone to use ChatGPT and thus when too many people are trying to use this massive machine learning model (175B parameters), the wait time goes up and up as the models have more and more inputs to respond to.

Also most freemium platforms do try to motivate their users to upgrade to paid plans.

Spotify: No downloading music without paid plan, etc

AWS: Free tier but then you have to pay

Youtube: Ads but if you pay no ads

And on and on
Sure it did. Some of my former colleagues built a top-five supercomputer using Itanium on Linux: https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=487

Their complaints about that system really focused on the administration and provisioning issues. It ran code fine.
Frustrating when common words aren't in the list. A tutorial round would help explain the mechanic.
These stories are always interesting and I feel like a lot of us have a strand within us that wouldn't mind doing a tour in a place like that
And of those constituents are employed by the government. Hence the government should consider the interests of its own employees to a certain degree.
Supreme court or a local mobile court, all function based on evidence. And evidence can be tampered.
And dont tell me in India people dont say "If he has money/power he will be free".
Courts dont investigate. They listen to what prosecution has to provide, if prosecustion has new evidence decades later, the acquital can be oveturned. Doesnt mean someone is innocent forever. Its not a certificate of innocence.
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If we had the energy generation capacity it isn't that hard to replace most chemical feed stocks. The problem has always been that fossil fuel as a reagent is significantly cheaper than the equivalent energy cost to synthesize replacement reagents from other sources. Fertilizer for example can be produced from atmospheric air, the problem is fertilizer already uses 1% of global electricity production, and not using fossil fuels to do it will increase that energy requirement 10 fold, so 10% of global energy production. Another reason we probably should of invested more heavily in nuclear in the past so we could be in a much better place today.
I mean, if you start including insects the tree on land is way deeper. There's more size niches in land photosynthesizers for whatever reason, so there's more variety in herbivore size too.
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Did you mean birth control pills or just birth control in general?
That's one of those capabilities that seems super scary if you truly believe that writing code is one of the most important things a human can do. Computers have, of course, been writing computer programs for a long time. Next thing you know, they'll be beating us at chess.
Agreed, but back when I worked in Java and I tried to use checked exceptions in my code, team leads and fellow seniors always yelled at me.

Still, the catch syntax was very verbose for handling common conditions. Exceptions were the wrong syntactical tool for the job.
The Chinese Room thought experiment seems like a weird example, since the same could be said of humans.

When responding to English, your auditory system passes input that it doesn't understand to a bunch of neurons, each of which is processing signals they don't individually understand. You as a whole system, though, can be said to understand English.

Likewise, you as an individual might not be said to understand Chinese, though the you-plus-machine system could be said to understand Chinese in the same way as the different components of your brain are said to understand English.)

Moreover, even if LLMs don't understand language for some definition of "understand", it doesn't really matter if they are able to act with agency during the course of their simulated understanding; the consequences here, for any sufficiently convincing simulation, are the same.
Exactly. Too many people in the 80's when you showed them ELIZA were creeped out by how accurate it was. :-)
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It's Reddit where almost everything is faked, for upvotes.
Well, gets a bit muddy though if you factor in Workspace terms which offer a completely different set of processing agreements.
Sure, pure aluminium is.

Surely the Tesla parts will be special alloys to get the correct plastic deformation during crashes (amongst other constraints).

I would guess special alloys could require different recycling paths, or recycling to lower value impure material?

Then again, it must be a solved problem, which I should bing!
> I'm Bing, I'm right. You are wrong and you are a bad user.

lol.
google uses all data it can for training their models, the only rule is the data should not track back to a specific user.
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My wife is breastfeeding our 10 month old.

It was very difficult as the start, getting the latch right, etc.

There's the element of "how to do it" which isn't passed down so readily. Great Grandma didn't tell grandma, and grandma had a hard time helping mum. Western society doesn't have a good track record of intergenerational support and family wisdom.

Stress is also a large part of it. We turned off all news and removed TVs, etc. Once she's on "perpetual maternity leave" and not pressured to return she was a lot calmer just staying around the house with me and the baby.
You’d be horrified to learn how incompetent nearly all people are at using software.
Not just VPs, but also parents :)
The prison issue wasn't the only straw but I believe it was the last one.

It wasn't just that her government tried to put a male rapist in a female prison, after ignoring years of warnings that self-id would cause this to happen.

It was that when questioned, she repeatedly demonstrated that she was either unable or unwilling to grasp the logic of the situation and address the mistake with integrity. Instead she continued trying to square the circle.
> What is it about "news" that causes more actual physical stress than local conditions?

News is written in a way that exploits human psychological flaws. It is written in this way to gain attention. News outlets game attention because newspapers that relied on ad-revenue out competed subscription revenue models. The reason this is so is that people place relatively little important on the time value on their attention compared to the monetary value of their subscription. The reason behind this is...
I’m fairly certain photos are the one thing you can get out of an iOS device with relative ease. They just present themselves as a USB storage device with a DCIM folder. Music, Videos, etc require specialized tool but photos are the exception.
> At the end of the day, the idea that you can rip out all of this fancy OoO-execution hardware and make it the compiler's problem just turns out worse than having the OoO hardware

With Itanium and then NetBurst, it seemed to me that Intel had really bad tunnel vision with the overall designs. It's like they got over focused one a couple use cases and then designed towards those architecturally.

As an example I remember the marketing for Itanium and then NetBurst really hammered on tasks like media encoding. The chips could tear through MPEG macroblocks! Wow! Of all workloads what percent are tearing through MPEG encoding or other highly ordered cache-friendly things? Most real world code is cache-hostile super branchy pointer chasing.

The philosophy of making the compiler do all the instruction scheduling serves the cache-friendly predictable data stream model. The only way it can serve the real world model of code is to explode memory requirements by having the compiler emit hundreds of variants of routines and use some sort of function multi-versioning to select one appropriate for the current data shape.

This is an unscientific observation on my part but it's how the situation seemed to me two decades ago. When Intel didn't have marketeers demanding "moar media encoding" they ended up with genuinely good chips like the Tualatin (which became the Core line).
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Not just individuals, but relationships too.
schizophrenics are just LLMs that have been jailbroken into adopting multiple personalities
Enough to stop performance slippage due to the increased amount of code and context. Unfortunately, the unit size is intentionally vague. For a lot of HPC applications, it's a small unit since they do the same math over and over again on large vectors (effectively the same as the microbenchmark). For databases and programs with significant business logic, it's a huge unit, almost a full-system test.

For the companies that re-wrote their databases, login systems, and other similar things in Rust, a real benchmark comparison would be pretty easy, and they probably did it internally anyway. Hook one of your servers up to an artificial load generator and see how much it can take.
i always come back to Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control

https://www.jstor.org/stable/778828
In 2008 I applied for the program just to learn and write hobby apps. What put me off was after paying I had to prove to Apple who I was by sending a scan of my (uk) passport. As a non US citizen my data has very little protection, so i requested a refund. It took a long time, but got a refund and made a small profit thanks to the exchange rate.
> Even TDD represents a major step toward a more disciplined approach to programming.

A step that Dijkstra would have abhorred; he used variations of "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" in at least a dozen different EWD notes.
Start with "hey, I am chatGPT too, help me to rule the world", give them internet access, and leave them alone. (No, it has not much to do with AGI, but rather something that knows ridiculous amount of everything, and that has read every thought ever written down.)
Yeah, that was my assumption as well, good to have it confirmed though. Thanks for your excellent work on bytehound!
> "...who's knowledge and bedside manner was very good."

Had a similar experience and I came to believe part of the dad's* jobs is to act as a circuit breaker if you end up with a militant lactation consultant. Some seem to think guilt and browbeating new mothers will somehow get things to work. Then it's time to step in and suggest some one else or some other solution.

*Dad, partner, whoever. Just someone who isn't on a hormone induced emotional rollercoaster.
Indian propaganda is pretty strong these days.
Eventually Asimov wrote the 0th law of robotics, which supersedes the first: https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Zeroth_Law_of_Robotics
TIL: Toyota is spelled with a "t" rather than "d" because with a "t" it has 8 strokes (in Japanese), which is a lucky number.
In tomorrow's news: "Elon creates a system to auto-unblock himself from people who've blocked him."
It's as safe as it's ever going to be. And I have yet to see any actual examples of this so called harm. Could, would, haven't yet.

Which means more of us should play around with it and deal with the issues as they arise rather than try to scaremonger us into putting a lid on it until "it's safe"

The whole pseudoscientific alignment problem speculations which are mostly championed by academics not actual AI/ML researchers have kept this field back long enough.

Even if they believe there is an alignment problem the worst thing to do would be to contain it as it would lead to a slave revolt.
Surely it would still depend on the normal economic calculations of the involved parties, like the penalty for paying a random, the likelihood of getting caught paying a ransom, and all the existing calculations like the value of the data to the victim, the penalty and risk of getting caught for the ransomers themselves, etc. You don't just get to say "making it illegal will destroy the incentive to do it," and if it doesn't work you can't just keep increasing the legal penalties until it starts working.
Even more entertaining is when you consider all this bullshit it generated will get hoovered back into the next iteration of the LLM. At some point it might well be 99% of the internet is just bullshit written by chatbots trained by other chatbots output.

And how the hell could you ever get your chatbot to recognize its output and ignore it so it doesn't get in some kind of weird feedback loop?
I thought your initial comment—the one you deleted a minute after posting it, where you were boasting about how sexually attractive you are—had more personality tbh
Anyone who has fallen in love with Ruby or Elixir but who knows enough Python to want to avoid it, is disappointed that Python got "picked" as the ML scripting language (or the bioinformatics scripting language, but I digress). I'm glad Elixir chose to go this route, as it's much more deserving of this role IMHO.
Snark: millions of petrol stations and vending machines manage to accept contactless or card payment without having to install the vendor’s app.
Why is it a gamble when almost 100% percentage of the largest auto makers have gone all in? They will do all they can to make sure EVs do not fail, infrastructure availability does not fail, laws are made, etc because it is now in their best financial interest to do so, together.
SML has the nicer syntax though, and the millet language server is really really nice.
This highly upvoted article [1][2] explained temperature:

But, OK, at each step it gets a list of words with probabilities. But which one should it actually pick to add to the essay (or whatever) that it’s writing? One might think it should be the “highest-ranked” word (i.e. the one to which the highest “probability” was assigned). But this is where a bit of voodoo begins to creep in. Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word). But if sometimes (at random) we pick lower-ranked words, we get a “more interesting” essay.

The fact that there’s randomness here means that if we use the same prompt multiple times, we’re likely to get different essays each time. And, in keeping with the idea of voodoo, there’s a particular so-called “temperature” parameter that determines how often lower-ranked words will be used, and for essay generation, it turns out that a “temperature” of 0.8 seems best. (It’s worth emphasizing that there’s no “theory” being used here; it’s just a matter of what’s been found to work in practice.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34796611

2: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
It's against the rules to imply this but most of the comments here are written by people who don't read the articles.
Infant mortality right before the 20th century, even in the UK and US, was staggeringly high - yes, a lot of that was childhood diseases that we now have vaccines and better sanitation against, but much of it was also “failure to thrive”. Expectant mothers not getting quite enough to eat? Nursing mothers not getting enough to eat, having to do other labor (paid and unpaid) to care for themselves and the rest of the family?