skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting (although indirect) pathway for the emergence of causal awareness, which may increase over time - and something that was so far impossible because networks didn't perceive their own outputs, much less their effects. Even in conversation, the weights remain static.

Now I'm wondering if in the next generation, the "self" concept will have sufficient explanatory power to become part of the network's world model. How close do the iterations have to be, how similar the models for it to arise?
> How else would it correctly solve word problems?

"To break even on the annual fee, you would need to earn rewards points that are worth at least $250.

Since you earn 4 Membership Rewards points for every dollar you spend on groceries, you would earn 4 * $1 = 4 points for every dollar you spend.

To find out how much you need to spend to earn at least $250 worth of rewards points, you can set up an equation:

4 points/dollar * x dollars = $250

where x is the amount you need to spend. Solving for x, we get:

x = $250 / (4 points/dollar) = $62.50

Therefore, you would need to spend $62.50 on groceries to earn enough rewards points to break even on the $250 annual fee."

Well, I guess it's going to take a third option: solve the word problem incorrectly.
As an LLM, isn't there more "evidence" we're in 2022 than 2023?
I was rather referring to security boundaries – if lunatic processes run inside the same OS-level process, the sandboxing cannot, almost by definition, be as good.
Yes measured with an average power meter. 12400 Lenovo shitbox is £0.26 per day including the monitor (Iiyama 27" 4K). MBP is £0.19 a day including the monitor (Apple Studio Display). From spreadsheet:

TCO over 5 years for Apple is £3838 (outlay) + £247 (electricity) = £68.08/month

TCO over 5 years for PC is £1045 (outlay) + £405 (electricity) = £24.17/month

That's shit change really but the cost difference is immense.

Also the PC value has gone up since I bought it as I got it on a one day offer. I can shift it for £120 more than I paid for it. The mac, not so much.

The Mac depreciates in the first 18 months more than the entire PC set up and electricity costs.
That's still up in the air. Probably with Zen5, but if the price isn't right they're apparently taping it out for N4 (ie. N5++++) too to hedge their bets/negotiating position with TSMC for wafer prices.
Oh ok one more story. There is a road connecting McMurdo (US) and Scott Base (New Zealand). I think it's only a few miles.

So I'm sitting in the McMurdo driving training you have to take before you're allowed to take a truck out. Get to the end of the lecture. Instructor: "Any questions?" I ask, "yeah... so, New Zealanders drive on the left, and we drive on the right, right? Which side do we drive on if we go to Scott Base?"

Instructor, looking totally bored and serious: "Drive in the middle."

To this day I don't know if he was kidding.
> Is this not more a reflection on the limits of humans trying to understand what's going on

Sure, but we also don't understand what's "going on" with interacting neurons in our brain giving rise to our intelligent experience.

The other sentence is just a strawman you constructed for yourself.
Bing goes the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DBynJUCS4
>In 1989, the novelist Salman Rushdie went into hiding. The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had issued a fatwā calling on “all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world” to kill the writer without delay, for which the assassin would receive a bounty of $1 million.

It's not a good look to start your article on how speech is not violence with a concrete example of someone using speech as violence. Or to then keep referring back to it, but only to chastise liberals and leftists for being mildly critical of Rushdie, rather than the actual god damned supreme leader of Iran who called for his death.

Fatwas are exactly the sort of thing I'd point at if I wanted to say that speech is violence. And there are plenty of examples of fatwas in the western world now. Hell, we coined the word "stochastic terrorism" to refer to them, because apparently you're not allowed to call a fatwa a fatwa unless it comes from the Champagne region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling murder.

To be perfectly clear: we can't have a liberal intellectual society in the Arab world[0] for as long as people like the Ayatollahs have power and a platform. Likewise, speech-shaped violence in the Western[1] world harms liberal values way more than left-wingers saying offensive speech is violence. In fact, the reason why left-wingers are up in arms about offensive equals violent is specifically because a lot of that offensive speech comes with implicit fatwas built-in.

Bonus inaccuracy nit:

>The Roman Catholic Church considered the idea of heliocentricity to be harmful in the 16th century

No, they considered insulting the pope to be harmful. The academic establishment wanted heliocentricity dead, because Galileo was a mathematician - the lowest rung of the academic hierarchy at the time. They silenced Galileo by convincing the Catholics that they had been insulted by a book he published on the topic of heliocentricity.

[0] Iran is majority Shia Muslim but this isn't specific to one sect.

[1] As in, "countries with liberal constitutions and rule of law". Western countries are not literally the westmost parts of the planet.
I wonder how well this will age with the current legal climate and cloudiness around 230
I totally could believe that in another year or 2 there will be sufficient performance uplift. steam Deck with 50% more performance at the same battery life would be great.
Hey man, that's fair! If you're still getting use out of the content, I guess that explains why it's still getting upvoted. Maybe I'm jaded and cynical and just got immediately tired of zero new information being presented.
I've read the Little Schemer and based on that, it has a unique style of teaching. Every new concept begins as a fun little question and through a series of more questions expands to a whole concept.

It worked very well for me in learning functional programming and some computational theory ideas.

Worth it.
Does anyone know what is the difference between Bing/Sydney and ChatGPT3 in terms of "generative power"?
This. We have had a lot people -- including journalists and academics with big microphones -- learn for the first time what a Markov chain is, and then conclude that ChatGPT is a "just Markov chains" (or whatever similarly reductive concept).

They really, really don't know what they're talking about it, and yet it's becoming a kind of truth through repetition.

Pretty soon, the bots will start saying it!
FTX must have been doing very well for him to have bought their house in 1992, just before he was born!
I dont jump hardware this often. I would consider am5 100% of the time because the upgrade from a ryzen 7000 would be a used high end am5 cpu years after am6 is out.
I don't use Clojure and I probably never will, but I love seeing the way it's been kind of a jailbreak moment for Java programmers trapped in enterprise practices. It was laser-focused to give specifically those people access to a whole lot of highly-productive and pleasant language features, wrapped up in a package that enterprise management could be amenable to. It seems like it succeeded in liberating a bunch of people at their real jobs, which is cool to see
I don't know what this means. Bail isn't a public referendum on how bad the guy is. It's a mechanism for ensuring people show up to trial. SBF is going to show up to trial. All the stories about how he won't are all predicated on elaborate schemes where all his assets are hidden, which moots the whole bail discussion anyways. It boils down to: people hate SBF, and wish he was in a jail cell. They're likely to get their wish.

I'm comfortable with my "loathing SBF and people like him" bona fides, but I don't have my understanding of public policy wrapped tightly around those feelings.
You might want to revisit your elementary school math class material...
I blame Intel for that. They pushed the clock speed high for silly small perf gains. AMD could take the high road, then media would brag about how fast Intel is and AMD would lose market share.
https doesn’t completely hide the destination, only the contents. And if he was using https to connect to a site purely for the purposes of obfuscating activity, that would probably be squashed under the same rules. If he was using an encrypted remote drive to communicate with others that would also be a breach.

You can’t “well, technically” your way out of obvious breaches of clear court instructions.
In the context of the US, everything I’ve seen suggests the right seeks authoritarianism more than the left does, doing things like getting books they don’t agree with banned, working to eliminate the votes of those not aligned with them, and weakening the barrier between church and state.
More apt for this thread about risk is probably the book Neuromamcer, its AIs Wintermute and Neuromamcer, and the Turing Police.

In the book, the Wintermute AI played an extremely long game to merge with its countpart AI by constantly manipulating people to do its bidding and hiding/obscuring its activities. The most memorable direct example from the book, to me, is convincing a child to find and hide a physical key, then having the child killed, so only it knew where the key was located.
OK that actually makes a lot more sense, thanks for explaining.

It's true that for all we know, we are being 'paused' ourselves, and every second of our experience is actually a distinct input that we are free to act on, but that in between the seconds we experience there is a region of time that we are unaware of or don't receive as input.
Shouting into the wind here, but why can't complicated emergent properties arise for a highly-optimized autocomplete?

We're just a create-more-of-ourselves machine and we've managed to get pretty crazy emergent behavior ourselves.
I mean, in a tongue in cheek way this is kind of what it boils down to. Anything that is "smart" and "wants" something will have reason for self preservation and as such needs to be treated with respect. If for no other reason, for your own self preservation.
From what I've witnessed, if you get any real investors, they'll make you vest for your ownership anyway. When you have enough investors, you're essentially an employee (some successful companies / founders are the exception.)
Dan Friedman and the Little X-er series.
> Start asking people questions about things they have no training in and you'll get bafflement, confusion, lies, fabrication, guesses, and anger. Not necessarily all from the same person.

It’s almost like we’ve taken humans and through school, TV and social media we’ve taught them to solve problems by writing essays, speeches, blog posts and tweets, and now we have human discourse that’s no better than LLMs - regurgitating sound bites when they don’t really understand the issues.
Hess v Indiana did that.

Note:

>Hess uttered, "We'll take the fucking street later" or "We'll take the fucking street again." Hess was convicted in Indiana state court of disorderly conduct.

>The Supreme Court reversed Hess's conviction because Hess' statement, at worst, "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time." In contrast to such an indefinite future time, the Court emphasized the word imminent in the "imminent lawless action" test of Brandenburg. Because the evidence did not show that Hess' speech was intended and likely to produce "imminent disorder", the state could not punish Hess' speech.[3][4]
That's funny, I've been using ChatGPT to answer questions like this:

What is the population of Geneseo, NY combined with the population of Rochester, NY, divided by string length of the answer to the question 'What is the capital of France?'?

The answer it gave back is 43780.4.

Short explanation: Get GPT to translate a question into Javascript that you execute and to use functions like query() to get factual answers and then to do any math using JS.

You can see the log outputs of how it works here, complete with all the prompts:

https://gist.github.com/williamcotton/3e865f33f99627b29676f1...
Also totalling is “back to how it was” - a single hail storm totaled my wife’s car because that many dents can’t be undented.

So we took that and bought the totaled car back and still use it.
> Some speech suppresses the speech of others.

No, it doesn't.

> it's also about maximizing the number of voices at the table

No, it's about making sure people can spew a continuous stream of whatever hateful crap they feel like day in and day out every day for their whole life. One of the big reasons I'm a fan of things like universal income/healthcare is because currently employment is too critical to surviving which forces people to censor their speech. Hopefully the social safety net can improve to the point where someone can be almost comically offensive every day without fear of starving.

> If you make declarative statements that villainize minority groups, you make others fear for their safety and it silences voices

That's an acceptable tradeoff for a free society.
Yeah, its a bizarre moment in tech,unlike anything I can recall historically. Major corporations with GDP's exceeding most countries acting like attention seeking startups. Maybe it says something about the fragility of this business during the current period. Or maybe its just a cynical distraction from the largely unjustified layoffs.
> There is no path to understanding, from what I can see. It’s pure instrumentalism and parlour tricks.

Exactly like nature. It feels like emulating whats happening in nature for a very specific usecase under some constraints.
Two cops can hopefully capture more than one bail jumper in a year, so no, not the same cost.
>How do I defeat someone "in the marketplace of ideas" when the person inciting violence is backed by a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, an undemocratic government, or a police union/sheriff gang?

Violence. I would not bet against escalating physical violence in the coming decade or two in the US along political lines.
Indeed, ideally 3 companies to help ensure there's not some agreement to raise prices. Apple's largely not in the same market, but is pushing the edge when it comes to performance per watt, even shipping products gasp without fans.
Absolutely incredible that you can ask this question and not think for a moment the comment you read (right?) is a commentary on the product.

It's actually easier for you to think someone asked "why did a search engine search" than "why does the search engine have an LM sitting over it"
There was a longstanding issue where AVX-512 would trigger frequency throttling on a number of Intel CPUs, resulting in a net performance penalty for mixed workloads.
It's special because it ignores the fact that the rest of the world uses Python for deep learning and it's an easy language for beginners too.
Woman convinced her boyfriend to kill himself and was convicted:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-found-g...
Midjourney does not have contextual memory, but it does have a feature to always add a given suffix to any prompt. I guess this is a more powerful variant of the same sort of concept.
I wonder who will "win" - specialised models or a single configurable one...
What's "a bold new approach" about an acquisition coming to conclusion?

Adding new data centers sure ain't new. It might be bold, but only if the company is wary of its future growth.
To add to this:

A really good, digestible talk about using SIMD for sorting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6HaSvifxwQ

You can also read the author's blog post series, beginning at https://bits.houmus.org/2020-01-28/this-goes-to-eleven-pt1
What's harder to terraform? Hot rocky/sandy desert or cold snowy artic?

More free energy in the form of solar but less water vs. Abundant water but locked in the form of ice with access to energy being the constraining factor
It's important enough that there are whole books written about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Sorting-Sear...
The nihilistic philosophy offers neither a good nor bad view of the universe, but people then assume that nihilism itself is good or bad, because of their preconceptions.

If you really want to believe that your life has meaning, you will find any philosophy saying your life has no meaning utterly abhorrent.

But if you accept that life has no meaning whatsoever, it is exhilarating and freeing.

So I'm agreeing with you, just pointing out that philosophy itself is neither good nor bad, it all depends how one approaches and judges it.
The idea that it's "violence" to oppose child abuse proves that the point, speech being "violence" is absurd.

Hold up; you're saying that the act of appearing or speaking in public while dressed/presenting in ways that are stereotypical of the opposite sex is abuse. This seems like the exact opposite of the point you are trying to make.
So the data recovery specialists are providing money laundering as a service (MLaaS)? ;)
Whatever answer it gives, just say "Make a haiku about that".
Once cars hit a certain price people know they’re all sorts of messed up but don’t care.

You can find things on salvage titles that are literally two or three cars welded together.
I reached out to Mercury Research (the company whose research is being quoted) and the articles are missing some clarifying information.

The overall CPU Market Share number also includes both IoT and SoC numbers which are not included in the other numbers and in which Intel's shipments have declined substantially while AMDs SoC products (including game consoles) are making up a large number. This is what's responsible for the disparity.

They also added that the data was distributed with a helpful clarifying note the news articles are mostly omitting:

* Please keep in mind that due to the inventory corrections taking
place, that the statistics and share movements reported here in
the past few quarters -- and likely for the first half of 2023
-- are more reflective of the suppliers differing in the depth
and timing of their inventory corrections, rather than
indicating sales-out share of the PC market, which is something
we probably won't know with any accuracy until late in 2023. *
Yeah, that’s more of a protection racket. Mugging is essentially by definition backed by the threat of violence I’m pretty sure. Possibly a bluff of course!
> SBF has obtained the highest leverage loan in the history. 1m for 250m

And people thought the skills he developed running FTX weren't useful...
It has a reddit/hn like link aggregator and discussion platform that uses it as a back end: https://brutalinks.tech
Why do you believe that, and what does it matter?

When blue collar defendants go to bail bondsmen, they often specifically demand collateral from other people, to make it more likely the defendant appears.
The reason all those examples you cite became as successful as they did is because they spent that extra 20% to get it right. They didn't just ship some MVP out the door. They spent a huge amount of time and energy to get the product as close to perfect as they could before shipping. Steve Jobs, famously, became concerned about the aesthetics of the traces of the circuit board on the original Macintosh [1], spending $5000 (16,330 in 2023 dollars) and a couple of weeks, to have a circuit board created with better aesthetics. Then they threw that board away because, it turned out that aesthetic traces don't actually correspond to good signal propagation.

That's the reason that Apple, especially, has been so successful. It's not because they launched at some perfect time window. It's because they launched damn good products. If the iPhone had launched in 2008, or even 2009, it would have been just as successful. We just would have had another two years of mediocre Windows Mobile/Symbian OS/Blackberry devices.

[1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Maybe there's something to that, but I think the main thing that happened was that we developed incredible new technology that allowed all of humanity to communicate openly in real time on an equal footing without gatekeepers or censorship. Then we looked at it and decided we didn't like it.
The displays are a big part. I did a full breakdown here of costs if you are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34812247
I think this article comes very close to saying "don't let words affect you", which is fundamentally impossible to ask anyone to do and taken to it's logical conclusion I should also not absorb anything in the article. I also think this article also ignores the fact that hateful people often use the language of free speech to justify their own behavior and to punish their critics.

Everyday on the internet I see White people threatened, disrespected, or legislated out of existence... then the ensuing backlash in which people try to reassert the rights of White people... and then the backlash to the backlash is always "these neo-Nazi cons trying to cancel us are the real gulag runners". It's exhausting. Infuriating.

Some speech suppresses the speech of others. And some people don't want to be taught that they are hateful. If you make declarative statements that villainize majority groups, you make others fear for their safety and it silences voices. That is a form of "violent speech", though that term sucks. Free speech isn't just about saying anything you want, it's also about maximizing the number of voices at the table, and to do that you can't just let people get away with saying vile shit.
Ok, but that hasn’t been a problem in a while.
I already feel upset about my future interactions with any online support... But as an average "dark matter" enterprise dev, not sure how useful will it be.
"Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position" and "Out of the Crisis" - W. E. Deming

"Workplace Management" - Taiichi Ohno

"Lean Six Sigma" - Jeffrey Ries

But aside from these "management philosophies", there's also standard industry/role practices that companies don't require their employees to implement, and when they do it's only enough to say they technically did it. Often the employees don't even know the standards exist. It's embarrassing.
this series of books has an unusual pedagogical style, with a big "bang for the buck" in terms of building up complex systems from basic steps

there is zero fluff, almost zero narration

the books are basically just input output pairs of "now do this, and now that happens"

they are basically a sort of brain data dump for people who can think with computer code
> The other sentence is just a strawman you constructed for yourself.

I did not construct anything. There are comments in this discussion suggesting it will happen. I just happen to agree, it will probably happen. We are easily fooled into seeing sentience where there is no evidence it exists, merely because it looks convincing. And then hand-wave it away saying (paraphrasing) "well, if it looks good enough, what's the difference?"