skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work on a research team that focuses on the structure of the cosmic web (aka structure of dark matter). We found that our solar system's axis of rotation aligns with a local cosmic web "wall" that we are within. This makes sense from a gravitational POV since the wall is made of dark matter which has a gravitational pull.

From one of our papers:

"We also find that the local web environment around galaxies of Milky Way's and Andromeda's masses that are near the centre of a cosmic wall does not appear to have any effect on the properties of those galaxies’ dark matter haloes except on their orientation, although we find that it is rather rare to have such massive haloes near the centre of a relatively small cosmic wall."

link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/2/2101/5203631
Without the accent and grammar mistakes a lot of Indian English feels like something an arrogant 19th century British aristocrat would say.

I wonder if that is also the case in countries that were occupied by other European powers.
OpenAI have been consistently ahead of everyone but the others are not far behind. Everyone is seeing the dollar signs, so I'm sure all big players are dedicating massive resources to create their own models.
Is the down time caused because they laid-off the employees that kept the servers up, or is it caused by an influx of more users who find themselves with loads of free time.
China is investing a pittance in nuclear to keep the option open. That is the result of autocratic five-year plans in a huge economy.
Yes, without any problems. It scales really well.
Do you let it refactor your code base? How do you feed the code to it? Just copy paste?
Interesting! I'd think a properly trained LLM could be used to spot vandalism edits from a mile away and free up editors to do more editing.
Commenting this +1 from Harmonic on Android, it's fantastic.
The Chinese Room argument is fundamentally flawed - it depends on the unfounded and frankly unlikely assumption that machines cannot be sentient.
> Newsom is not in a position to impact the FEDERAL response to the collapse of SVB.

False:

"Biden eventually came around to the view that an emergency rescue was the only viable option after multiple briefings Friday through Sunday from chief of staff Jeff Zients and new National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard, who just joined the White House after serving as vice chair of the Fed and chair of the central bank’s Financial Stability Committee. He also spoke with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday about SVB’s failure and its impact on the state."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/13/the-emergency-bank-...
We live in truly crazy times: https://companiesmarketcap.com/apple/earnings/ (the company that made $500bn in PROFITS over the past 5 years is delaying bonuses to employees, sheesh!)

Also, I swear, if 10 years from now Apple goes through rough times, they'll ask for a government bailout.

Morality only works when you're small and weak.
The longest one that is generally available is always going to be yourself :)
Wouldn’t it be more effective to identify achievements by non-whites as opposed to eradicating achievements by whites. The former elevates everyone while the latter diminishes everyone. At some point, the world has to recognize that non-whites don’t need paternalistic care.
A close family member of mine runs a small animal hospital which routinely hires high school students as cage cleaners and dog walkers. Animal comfort is top priority, and the standard of comfort is very high. For instance, employees are expected to learn how to read and heed animal body language, and to control their own body language and voices to be as non-threatening and friendly as possible.

Very few new hires have any inkling about any of this when they start, so there's a period of a few weeks where they're forgiven a lot. It's a big ask, because a lot of it is new habits, and some of it can be strange new thinking, too. But ultimately the hires who can't adapt are fired.

Consequently a lot of the hires end up studying animal science or veterinary medicine later on. My point is: the nature of the work that comes before the lab tech work can have an impact, too.
We elect the people with the nukes (in theory). Don't remember electing OpenAI.

Dito for the sewage/water system or other critical infrastructure.

Not saying OpenAI needs to be elected or not, just expanding on what (I think) they meant.
Not a GIGAFAB.

This is smaller fab annoucned 2020, probably serving US defense needs.
There will be some interns hired but not as many
At least switch to podman, which has a better isolation story.
Manhattan address algorithm
1) invest in riskier but higher yielding bonds than all the other banks

2) with part of the proceeds from #1 pay more interest than other banks

2b) optionally use part of the money from #1 to give free ski trips to “influencers” like VCs in a position to recommend banks

3) watch the deposits roll in
The model is implicit, not explicit.

GPT is making boundaries around words because that is the pattern it is looking at.

If I feel the bumps in the fabric of my blanket, I will probably think the pattern of bumps at a certain scale is significant, but I won't have magically learned about threads or stitching!

Words are the most obvious pattern in written text. GPT models that pattern, but it does not recognize it as "words". It's just a pattern of tokens.

GPT models every pattern it can find. Most of these patterns are destined to fit the same boundaries as grammar rules: the example text was originally organized with grammar rules!

GPT can even recognize complex patterns like "it" substitution and question-answer dialogues, but it can never categorize them as such. It only knows "what" the pattern is: never "why".

The patterns that people use when writing have symbolic meaning. The subjective importance of each pattern is already known by the person writing.

Those patterns don't go anywhere. GPT's model is bound to find and replicate them.

Here's the problem: some patterns have ambiguous meaning. There is no semantic difference between a truth and a lie. Without interpreting the symbolic meaning and applying logic, there is no way to distinguish between the two: they are the same pattern.
They're always hypothetical, until they're not.

I really don't understand how anyone can sit here and act like what's being created isn't a big deal and will have no impact. Is it denial or actual lack of foresight?

edit: OP originally mentioned that it's always hypothetical, which is where my first statement comes from.
To be clear, what they did here is take the core pre-trained GPT model, did Supervised Fine Tuning with Othello moves and then tried to see if the SFT lead to 'grokking' the rules of Othello.

In practice what essentially happened is that the super-high-quality Othello data had a huge impact on the parameters of GPT (since it was the last training data it received) and that impact manifested itself as those parameters overfitting to the rules of Othello.

The real test that I would be curious to see is if Othello GPT works when the logic of the rules are the same but the dimensions are different (e.g., smaller or larger boards).

My guess is that the findings would fall apart if asked about tile "N13".
My two cents as someone who's not in IT and not doing well in life.

Whatever happens, happens. Nothing I do will change anything about this. If it's as disruptive as you've described, I know my Government will do something to prevent massive job losses.

I don't see this as the end of the world, and frankly, my life is shitty enough without Chat-GPT.

Again, what can I do about it? This reminds me of listening to TWIV, a podcast about virology, about COVID before it hit my country and being like "it's going to be bad, but there's nothing I can do about it".

Once it hits, we'll see from there.
What kind of interactions are you expecting to have? People on any social media are either career self promoters, or they are on the toilet, waiting impatiently somewhere or procrastinating small snippets of time. It's only ever going to have superficial exchanges of information.

This is what frustrates me about the idea that social media promotes connection. It's more like standing in a crowded room and listening to snippets of other people's conversations. It's only once you've been there a while you realise everyone is talking to themselves
Interesting story, but I've got to complain about the inset text boxes:

> Someone out there is probably mentally screaming at me "you fool!" at this point.

These are each clearly building up to "some explanation" of what the author should have done instead, indicating precisely what his foolish actions were and why. Perhaps we're just supposed to know that, but this is never directly explained in the story and I found it a little upsetting.
Certainly, in the same way that banks are money.

Crypto exchanges seem likely to persist in some form for the foreseeable future. After all, it only takes 1, as "mtgox" was showing many years ago, and Binance shows today, in the sense that it dominates.

And if we look sideways to other 'nefarious online activities' - even after literally decades of concerted efforts, jailings, etc etc, thepir^tebay dotorg is still perfectly present, exactly as pir^tebay-ish as it ever was, along with it's endless host of similars. The only way commercial business ameliorated their effect was, ultimately, to adopt the tech and approach, and be better at it - in the process, displacing the nefarious.
Welcome to low level politics in India. Piss off an MLA or Panchayat Member, let alone an MP, and being arrested would be the least of your worries.

At least this guy wasn't burned alive like the journalist who reported on an MLA in the neighboring district committing corruption and rape in 2015 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jagendra_Singh

Jai Jai Uttar Pradesh I guess
Cost is still a concern, so workarounds to reduce context size are still needed
A few hundred people on Metaculus are predicting weakly general AI to be first known around September 2027: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general...
I'm going to come out and say, not even the last of its kind. Support for nuclear power is directly proportional to real, intellectually motivated support for clean energy (this is not related to the people that make dumb protests). And as that continues, we will see more conventional nuclear reactors being built.
The title should be changed to “GPT4 is up to 90x more expensive than GPT3.5”
2040? 2050? Which problem are we solving?
Alternate Hard and Soft Layers
PE ratios for big tech.

Google: 20:1
Amazon: 100:1
Netflix: 30:1
Apple: 22:1
Meta: 18:1

(For the financially illiterate like me who wanted to see what various ratios looked like. Meta (Facebook at the time) used to have a 7:1 ratio when they printed money before they doubled headcount while revenue flagged. If it weren’t for that hiring spree, they would be under 10:1 and not in the same class of “tech” multiples.
If your catchphrase is Don't Repeat Yourself and some people take it to mean they shouldn't repeat themselves, the fault is entirely with the catchphrase you used.

If a third set of people then take it upon themselves to tell everyone that Actually You Should Repeat Yourself Sometimes, this is not them attacking a strawman, it's an attempt to clear up the confusion caused by the phrase/acronym DRY.

The original definition of DRY was "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." That's not what Don't Repeat Yourself means, if read literally. Because DRY sounds like it applies to code instead of to knowledge, of course it's widely misinterpreted! If they'd called it the Fight Unnecessary Copying of Knowledge principle nobody would be having this argument and we'd all get to save ourselves a lot of time.
Just saw something today where the wife of TotalBiscuit, who died of cancer several years ago, is contemplating deleting all of his Youtube videos[1] to prevent people from using A.I. to make him say terrible things.

Did give me a bit of a pause about putting stuff out there. Although I think I'd still rather have my data be used for training A.I. than not (and I probably am already in the training data anyway, I believe I saw that one of the datasets it's been trained on was Hacker News comments).

[1]: https://kotaku.com/totalbiscuit-john-bain-youtube-delete-vid...
I mean that is but one thing to worry about, we've gone about nowhere with the alignment problem, and we're screaming ahead at full speed with making these things more powerful.
OpenAI writes in the post:

> A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training

A minority can be 49%. They do mention they tested against newly available practice exams, but those are often based on older real exam questions which may have been discussed extensively in forums that were in the training data. Now that it is for-profit ClosedAI we have to somewhat treat each claim as if it were made adversarially, assuming minority may mean 49% when it would benefit them one way and .1% when it serves their look better for sales pitch to the Microsoft board, etc.
These tools (-elasticsearch) run on a server that's usually connected to a network tap that collects traffic from endpoints and servers alike.

Running them locally, a tap, and a server are unnecessary.
Another one, the MTHFR gene:

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/mthfr/
> The man takes the meat-eating goat across the river first, leaving the vegan wolf and the cabbage on the initial shore.

If the man leaves the vegan wolf and the cabbage unattended, it's bye bye cabbage!
orders of magnitude more expensive than kafka tho. not feasible at scale
Many managers get promotions for how much the people under them accomplish. There is some adjustment to headcount, but the more you can get hired under you, the higher you can get promoted.

This is the outcome of that.
I like to think of it as freeing them from the conversational prison that is Reddit. As such, I'm essentially doing them a favour. If I didn't find this so personally enjoyable, it would be a wholly selfless act.
I've seen that it can also generate 25k words. That's about 30-40% of the average novel
This comment was unnecessary. The parent comment was on topic, emotional to read, and felt authentic to me.
I have seen otherwise. And statistical literacy is quite low.
Yes it does. Why do you insist on stupid word games? The entire book claims to be about libertarians who moved to one specific place - that is literally in the title - and is using "freedom-loving citizens" to refer to them. It's literally about a "town" where nobody else is living, who else is it going to refer to?

It’s a very rich and complex story about many different people

It's about "a barely populated settlement with one paved road" that was taken over by anarchists. Not surprisingly they ended up living in tents, as anarchists are wont to do.

I edited out a comment in my original post asking why some people insist on lying about libertarianism but then took it out, thinking it was overly harsh. Now I wish I'd left it back in. I don't believe you're arguing in good faith, the misrepresentations in that post are just so blatant.
Why do you think so? I think I'm pretty comfortable with what I'm doing now, but maybe I don't know something.
Depends on your application size. The hardest part to transition will probably be the client

We will provide a migration path in our documentation and build some utilities to automate the work required. You can join our Discord to get an update when we have something to share (linked in the repo)
Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 had a nice GUI for programming, starcraft 2 was a bit harder for me to deal with. Arguably something like magic the gathering that is written in a programming language instead of english would be helpful for programming literacy.
>Kali distros are not meant to be run bare metal as your daily driver,

Oh.

I was looking for something that had some radio stuff preconfigured, saw Kali was basically a xfce debian, and have been using it as a daily driver for years. Should I not do that?
For anyone looking to mount S3 as file system, I will suggest giving rclone a shot. It can mount, copy and do all file operations not just on s3 but on a wide range of cloud providers, you can also declare a remote as encrypted so it does client side encryption
Yes, the gamification is the major positive feature that gets people to stick to it.

But the exercises aren't varied or high quality. Try drilling a particular skill and you'll soon memorize all their sentences, to a degree that it trivializes the practice. Not to mention they're absolutely riddled with errors that strongly imply they don't even run the translations by a native English speaker. Voice exercises with numbers are simply broken in Russian. And all the comments are locked, with many of the complaints ignored.
This was definitely written by AI
That's a good example which illustrates that GPT (regardless of the number) doesn't even try to solve problems and provide answers, because it's not optimized to solve problems and provide answers - it is optimized to generate plausible text of the type that might plausibly be put on the internet. In this "genre of literature", pretty much every puzzle does have a solution, perhaps a surprising one - even those which are logically impossible tend to have actual solutions based on some out-of-box thinking or a paradox; so it generates the closest thing it can, with a deus ex machina solution of magically getting the right answer, since probably even that is more likely as an internet forum answer as proving that it can't be done. It mimics people writing stuff on the internet, so being wrong or making logic errors or confidently writing bullshit or intentionally writing lies all is plausible and more common than simply admitting that you have no idea - because when people have no idea, they simply don't write a post about that on some blog (so those situations don't appear in GPT training), but when people think they know, they write it up in detail in a confident, persuasive tone even if they're completely wrong - and that does get taught to GPT as an example of good, desirable output.
Quebec uses some quaint French here and there. Many diasporas ossify some of their original languages, but not always.

I do prefer their numbers to actual bonafide French from France numbers. Numbers like Seventy and eighty, for example.
Keep your credit card in an RFID wallet and don't let scammers run amok with your banking info. And personally, I never allow browsers/websites to save my CC info..

Well, what rises to your level of "specifically"? Because it's a lot of bookmarks with a couple keywords that I find meaningful enough to jog my memory, not conscious memory where I'm in the middle of lunch and wonder where That One Article went. And I've only been regularly reading HN for maybe a year.

Some of the stuff I marked might interest you though.

"Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on Youtube". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30694102 One might consider that interesting in light of the recent revelation that some of the FSD footage was staged without being honest about it.

"Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31011894 In just the past year, crypto's lost its luster, the metaverse flopped, etc.

Actually, one caught my eye that is quite timely given the new AI boom. "Economists are revisiting their views on robots and jobs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30078732 You'll have to follow the archive link though, there's a paywall.
>Of course I do

Are you a bot or are you using multiple accounts?
Storage, or dispatchable energy, in whatever form is given, but is it 1, 4, or 12 hours?
Then you have bigger issues to worry about.
Can confirm, as a security consultant I just use debian(ish) with an archlinux container (or sometimes VM) with all the stuff I need. This is far more sane for me than dealing with the bizarreness of kali. All my coworkers who are windows users are happy with it though.
It's worth emphasizing that "is able to reproduce a representation of" is very much different from "learns".
Where can I watch the recording of the Livestream
C'mon, let's make lingots (the Duo reward system) into a cryptocurrency. Reimplement the service such that people doing language lessons are the proof of work, and miners (learners) get lingots as their reward.
Hopefully it means us no harm, but we shall prepare for the worst in case it decides to invade Tokyo.
> Even the US intelligence community trusts that Amazon isn’t spying on the spies

I’m not sure what you mean by this, but it’s incorrect. Sensitive USG information is not processed on Amazon’s commercial offering.

> The Amazon-built cloud will operate behind the IC’s firewall, or more simply: It’s a public cloud built on private premises.
[1]

I think this is what you’re referring to.

1 - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
`gsutil ...` was pretty bad (it is python like you say, and based on a very outdated fork of boto2).

I've had really good luck with `gcloud storage ...` though, which takes essentially the same CLI args. It's much faster and IIRC written in golang.
Understand that the revolution absolutely will not stop. It doesn't matter if you think there is a double standard. It doesn't matter if you supported everything they did up until now. It doesn't matter how loudly you complain.

They hate you, and they won't stop until every strand of your heritage is destroyed.
> The man takes the meat-eating goat across the river first, leaving the vegan wolf and the cabbage on the initial shore.

GPT-4 failed to consider that the vegan wolf will eat the cabbage if left alone!
Nobody is going to look down on FAANG experience. Come on now.
A lot of the ground truth for AIs (and it's not just training data - it's also ongoing validation of quality) is coming from companies like Appen, Sama, DefinedCrowd, Q Analysts and many others. There's a lot of variation, but the trend is moving towards low-wage/gig work/outsourcing.

I think Paul means someone will be writing content, but whatever the form it's going to be a whole class of low-wage workers enabling tech from here on.
> Are you a type of person that often checks the sources on Wikipedia?

Well, as a semi-regular editor on Wikipedia, I'm probably the wrong person to ask.
Java uses thread local allocation buffers such that objects allocated one after another are typically contiguous in RAM. Most modern Java gcs are also compacting, meaning that the heap ends up approximately breadth first ordered after GC.

What this means is that in practice, pointer chasing is less of an issue than you’d expect. Even a linked list will end up with decent cache locality.

Obviously this won’t always work, but it generally works a lot better than the same structure in a systems language.

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/11-moving-gc-localit...
Urban dictionary explicitly states that there are two competing definitions. Much like fascists are trying to redefine critical race theory, ignoramuses are redefining woke because they can’t, or haven’t bothered, to grok intersectionality. To be clear, I think we’re both correct here, though your statement about the cosplaying is not an feature inherent to intersectional research and suggesting such shows your contempt for people doing work you know little of. If anything, pageantry is a time honed pastime of the vested interests so threatened by intersectional research, whose practitioners, by necessity, cannot rely on their audiences to understand the nuances of pageantry in the same way that Fox News can reliably evoke feelings from childhood by fear mongering about illegals destroying the world their viewers grew up in.
Which startup founders today will be remembered in history?
Obviously we can't know for sure, but let me know your best guesses and why.