skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree it is worth noting that this was already tested in some kind of sandbox environment that only ‘simulated’ replication.
50yr?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberian_polit...
That's not a spoon, that's a knife.
Hard pass. It's one thing to use this as supplemental education, but I would not want to use this exclusively to teach my children critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, citizenship, and character. Rather, it is developing those Six Cs in which tools like these AIs can be skillfully used.

Years ago, when I first read Neal Stephenson's _Diamond Age_, I was enamored with the Primer described in it, despite the warning at the end of the book. For those that are not familiar, that Primer was an attempt by a parent to instill values along with skills. It was capable of forming narratives (teaching stories), while also constructing all sorts of content and knowledge. It was meant to be a one-of-a-kind artifact, whose design would self-erase once it was constructed, but the engineer who put it together added a backdoor to give him a copy. He wanted it for his child too. He got mugged on the way home, and so the second copy fell randomly to an orphan.

Three copies, three different girls, three very different experiences. In this story, only one of them (the orphan) had someone signed up for a long-term contract to voice the narration generated by the Primer's AI. She was also the only one who was able to see and grow beyond the cultural matrix of values and virtues, while also appreciating those same values and virtues. That was what the original designers hoped for. So when the sponsor and the engineer got together late in the book and reflected, they came to the insight: the Primer was no substitute for a parent.

Parenting and education is not something we automate away. A parent, and/or a teacher has to have some kind of presence of mind, somewhere. It's not scalable, and it is deeply involved, even if you end up with a parenting style like free-range parenting, or something like the Montessori method, or even Unschooled.
They do add some charming soundtrack to the place.
I also like peacocks a lot, lived near the Lisbon Zoo many years ago and peacocks were lovely. The only noisy animal there that I never got used to were the howler monkeys (a whole chorus every sunrise on the dot was too much for me).
I see what you mean, I'm not so sure if there's a genetic connection to allergies (specific to allergies, not intolerances, which are a different thing) and/or how strong it is relating to different elements
Same holds true for most infectious diseases.
Sadly, this is old news - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_it_bleeds,_it_leads - predating "online".
US Air Force MQ-9 camera footage: Russian Su-27 Black Sea intercept
Very good, but AFAIK there's no such thing as a "20 yard penalty."
write a layoff announcement for a high-tech firm in the style of a bonjovi song

Verse 1:
Our high-tech firm is a place where we've called home,
With teams of skilled employees, we've never been alone,
But today, it's time to face a tough decision,
We must say goodbye, it's not our intention.

Chorus:
We're living on a prayer,
As we announce the layoff that we'll share,
It's not easy, we know,
But we've got to let some employees go.

Verse 2:
We've faced tough times before, and we've pulled through,
But this time, we need to make some changes, it's true,
The industry is shifting, and we must adapt,
To stay ahead of the game and keep our market share intact.

Chorus:
We're living on a prayer,
As we announce the layoff that we'll share,
It's not easy, we know,
But we've got to let some employees go.

Bridge:
To our impacted employees, we want to say,
We appreciate all that you've done, day after day,
You've been an integral part of our team,
And we wish you well in all your future dreams.

Chorus:
We're living on a prayer,
As we announce the layoff that we'll share,
It's not easy, we know,
But we've got to let some employees go.

Outro:
We're committed to our mission and our goals,
And we'll continue to innovate, as we've always known,
We thank you for your hard work, passion, and drive,
And we'll keep on rocking, as we all strive.
That's still lazy loading, he hasn't looked into it yet.
Ask HN: I just saw ChatGPT working in parallel on a bulleted list?
I ask it if there's easy way to represent a graph as in easy to understand text and it said a bulleted list. Which I'm not sure if that's the best answer.

But what was interesting was each of the bullets had cursors blinking like it was working on each of them in the lists in parallel.

Has anyone heard of that before?
In other words: My definition of X which I interpret as Y, and is not what is usually grnerslly understood by X, is bad. Therefore, I propose alternative practice Z which is better than my Y (and also happens to be what people generally understand to be defined as X in the first place).
this is absolutely not a fundamental limit but simply a hard challenge. Approaches exist and it is an active field of research where we do make progress.
My friend always says (roughly): AI replacing a job is not proof that the AI is sentient, it's proof that that job didn't require sentience. This seems like an example of that.
> Well it looks that weakening profitability in 2022 as the tech world made SVB do something really dumb. In the first quarter, it unwound $5bn of AFS hedges to book a $204mn gain, and in the second quarter it dumped another $6bn of hedges to lock in a $313mn gain.

I am not a business person, but "making the quarter look good at long term expense" seems to be where bad things happen, almost like it totally breaks the incentive system.
Good question, I mean how many people were actually feeding Cheeto puffs to their 6 month old before it became a health trend
Determinations of Asteroid Distances Using Only Backyard Observations [pdf]
It’s not journalism, it’s a tweet. From a Mario fan account.

Maybe take the rest of the day off? Work through the anger?
> That's one of the first principles of UX.

And yet, in the world of GUIs, discoverability is getting increasingly rare. I don't think it's prioritized at all anymore.
I knew something was up. Goofy problems with wireless abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution.
I would be interested in a breakdown of your savings vs. your expenses and labor time on chicken raising.

I just ran a very generous estimate and I would shocked if your savings at peak egg price are more than $4 per labor hour. To get to that number I assumed $5 per dozen at the grocery store, five chickens at your house, an enormous production and consumption of eggs, very cheap overhead, and only thirty minutes a day of chicken care and harvesting.

Few households can benefit from a $4 an hour second job. Great hobby if you're doing well, of course, but a really bad use of finite time for anybody else. Let alone how few people have the land.
Probably ok to eat a little to avoid peanut allergy, but be careful about eating too much poly-unsaturated fatty acids. They do a lot of long-term damage.
I think a big part of TypeScript's success is because it's just "JavaScript with types".
Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's <Similar Name to Other Product>"
Considering the massive amount of resource expenditure that it has taken to develop LLMs, is this really cheaper than just giving kids a tutor?

I work in adult education, at a company that services government contracts. We keep hearing about how our clients are dreaming about AI making the "perfect" learning experience for their employees, customized to their every need.

Or at least, that's what they say. They say they want customized experiences for students, but what they really mean is they want to cut costs. Because if it was just about making good training, they could just keep paying us, stop trying to nickel-and-dime us on everything, and have customized, personalized training experiences because that's what human teachers already do.

So they don't want to pay anymore and are hoping AI is going to do it for them. They ask us about it and we talk about what it would take to even make a pilot program that may or may not get anywhere close to their goals (honestly, probably not. I've done some tests and it makes for a good sales demo, but actually making a good quality, consistent product out of it is a whole research project on its own). And the cost is... tech project costs. And they don't want to pay.

In other words, human teachers aren't actually that expensive.
Yes, I understand. In highly procedural code the unprincipled combination of functions results in layers of indirection which do not make the code any easier to understand.

It requires discipline to achieve what I call here, principled combination: that the combination of functions follow certain laws like they do in mathematics. In many programming languages it requires discipline because the type systems and the programming languages are not constructed in such a way as to uphold these laws for you. You, the programmer, have to enforce these laws on your code.

That is why, when I'm writing something in C, I will some times prototype my design in a higher-level language first and translate that into C code. The higher level language is more principled and helps me catch errors in the design and development stage before I've made a mess of things.

I don't always do it that way but it tends to work the best when I can get it to.
In HNball, the field is 1,000 yards long (at least until SVB finds out about the stadium).
Given that people can hallucinate/make up false memories, you sure you ate a grapefruit for breakfast?

So sure that regardless of what evidence you are presented, you'd be certain that you ate a grapefruit. Even if:

- I showed you videoproof that you were eating a sandwich for breakfast

- we had all of your family say they were having breakfast with you and saw you eating a sandwich

- a doctor came and said "I analyzed your stool and found no evidence of grapefruit"

- we had a message, cryptographically signed by a key you generated/controlled, that said "man this sandwich is delicious"

Even with any amount of evidence to the contrary, you'd still believe that you ate a grapefruit?

If not, then are you sure that it's fact that you ate a grapefruit, or it's just that all current evidence points to you eating a grapefruit?
Ok so we want to be careful about not offending the ultra-nationalist expansionist guy...because the next guy might be an ultra-nationalist expansionist?

IMO, that still means you reduced the world by one ultra-nationalist expansionist who had sufficient connections and charisma to get into power. And that's still a win, even if there's still more of them out there.
Of course. But the computer is a controlled environment designed to imitate the rigor of formal mathematics. It is usually not expected for such behavior to occur in computing.

Of course in the real world it happens all the time. YOU are emergent behavior. Humans and the rest of biology come from natural selection and evolution, which is basically by definition, emergent behavior of atoms.
I like this concept. Is there any sci-fi based on this premise?
That adds nothing to the discussion and reduces the SNR. You might as well have wikipedia'd something and posted what wikipedia says. Nobody cares about gpt output.
The main problem with palm oil isn’t health afaik, it’s the orangutan habitat destruction since most palm oil still comes from wild forests instead of farming.

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
3b isn't a real option though if you're trying to head off a potential coup. You need to go with 3a in order to placate the oligarchs who want to go back to doing business as usual and placate the military who wants to go back to not being generally hated by the populace in order to reduce potential support for the coup you're scared of.
To-Day – Simple daily todo checklist for Mac
I guess times have changed. About 10 years ago I was getting hundreds per day.
Yes, and we were explicitly taught how to maximise our test results.

Alignment failure is still a problem when it's organic brains doing it, regard of what anyone tries to hand-wave with the cliché "common sense". :)
GPT engineers should stop adding some kinds of SciFi into the learning corpus. :-)
This is a classic precautionary vs proactionary principle situation. Is there danger in AI? Yes. But there is danger in everything we do. Is there so much danger that there ought to be a government-enforced moratorium on AI research and GPUs treated as armaments? Some people believe so but I don’t think that case has been adequately made.
I'd heard of Spack, but it was never presented to me this way! I'm excited to take a closer look. Thanks for the link to the paper :)
Wave function collapse in effect?
Everything in a cyberpunk movie/story is now on the table. This includes random acts of violence/political terrorism against AI professionals
That is better in just about every way than the corporate crap I’ve been reading the last six months or so.
Sort of exists already, but not open source. The real benefit to stuff like TurboTax and HR Block is that they provide professional audit representation as well as answer questions when filing, which a FOSS solution would be hard pressed to do.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
>> infinite durability relative to an SSD

Until the FPGA dies. Consumer-grade arrays are not eternal. Many have lifespans (>5% failure rate) as low as 2-5 years under regular use.
Snake Invaders
The Irish version of Space Invaders. Happy St Patrick’s Day
Deep Dive: Stock and Options Trade Activity in Wake of Regional Bank Failures
Nitpick: it's the gut flora, not the immune system. Adults can ingest botulinum safely because in our guts it gets out-competed by the existing microbes that have been living there for years. Infants haven't developed that gut ecosystem yet, so the bad bacteria can find a home and start making toxins.
Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US
Love this advice. Thank you for your blog.
i did. It is really old so the writing is very cringe... search cherokee cave tour and my username to find it.
Could you do it by lighting a clay model with some colored lights?
Show HN: Glicol CLI 0.2 - music live coding in terminal with tui-rs visuals
Doing a table lookup for common cases and computing for the less common ones is perfectly valid!
it is entirely about feeding it all the code in the world

it doesn't understand anything, it doesn't make deductions

it's a probability model, and I understand how it's implemented perfectly well, thank you
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2023/03/plasma-lighter-xr.html
> Ok so we want to be careful about not offending the ultra-nationalist expansionist guy...because the next guy might be an ultra-nationalist expansionist?

That's not what I said. We shouldn't do any appeasement whatsoever.

Just pointing out to the fact that if someone overthrows Putin, it's not necessarily going to be a guy who thinks that the war in Ukraine is stupid.
That makes me think this is more than just an LLM.

Like the system knows it's working on a list and some how breaks the task down.
Are hallucination is a systemic for-ever problem that will not be solved, mitigated or in akne other way rendered inconsequential?

Also, having conversations about things you don't understand with a machine, where you don't have to keep up social decorum and can ask the dumbest questions should help a lot with improving the decision making of non-technical personel
I think it wasn't there when I posted (ctrl+f didn't find hair)
My personal site – [0] – has been an incredible source of the emotional stability for more than 20 years. I publish my art there in the form of desktop wallpapers, and the positive feedback just never stops (knocking on wood).

Whenever I have a problem at work, or feel insecure, I say to myself – hey, at least people like my pictures!

[0] https://vlad.studio
Carbonomy raises $16M from Hedonova: the story of a fake deal with wide coverage
Bah. I took community college courses in highschool and the basic bitch introduction C++ course at that community college had the students using linux in the lab. The second-rate university I ended up going to after highschool required CS students to learn either Vim or Emacs to pass one of the required introduction courses, and all assignments had to compile and run on linux otherwise the TAs would reject them.

As far as I've seen, basic linux skills are taught if not required in the CS programs of colleges of any reputation or stature.
> ChatGPT doesn't program, it copy-pastes from public sources like Github and StackOverflow.

Sounds familiar
Let's make it more fair: what about one of today's Python programmers vs an IBM assembler programmer using Erlang/Elixir to develop a telephone switch?
I watched a farewell video of a very far right person dying of Covid. He didn't get vaccinated but I don't know if it was because he was anti-vax, didn't think Covid was real or didn't get a chance as this was early in the pandemic. It was a recording made from a hospital bed and uploaded to Facebook. As he was saying his goodbyes he said something like "...and tell Brandon (son) I love him, not to trust anyone, and no one will ever help you in life"

I realized that certain people indoctrinate their children, and this is the correct usage of the word, with a negative outlook on life. They ignore the altruistic nature of humanity for a distance based trust system. Assuming the son takes this message to heart he'll likely experience more problems because of his mistrust and when he examines his situation in life confirmation bias will prevent any self reflection. I don't understand why you reduce us to "scared and vigilant" and I wonder if that is a self fulfilling state.
It has helped many junior developers in teams I have run perform better, become happier and enjoy their job more. Which as a tech lead makes my job easier. I tend to write on more junior related topics ever since I ran a team of junior developers. I noticed they constantly had the same questions and feelings that I did when I was a junior. So I began writing on topics with more of a junior/entry level focus. This lead to all my team members reading them, reaching out to tell me just how much it helped to know that their struggle with x,y,z is normal. Ultimately it lead to a fantastic development team, a great supportive environment and most importantly it made them feel that their tech lead was just another developer with the same struggles at one point.

A blog has also made interviews substantially easier, which is great.

https://errolhassall.com/
Woo! This sounds like it will make it easier to run in normal mode (ie, not interactive) and manage the chat history yourself if there's less penalty for a full program reload. Currently my perl irc bot wrapper for llama.cpp just open2's the program in interactive mode (-i) and reads/writes to stdout/stdin of llama.cpp to get the loading time savings of having it manage history and keep state. In one-shot there'd still be the "extra" inference time of processing the full history each time instead of saving state like interactive does but the memory load time matters just as much.

For me personally this matters most because right now when llama.cpp runs out of the 2048 tokens it segfaults and this causes difficulties. In interactive mode if it goes off rails and generates 1000 tokens of nonsense then that nonsense is taking up tokens for the next line from chat. In normal mode where it just runs once and all history has to be manually supplied this can be avoided.
"Oh, you're a programmer, Can't you do $THING"?

This is the one for me. Yes, yes I could.

If I spent a year learning how to do $THING.

So after that exchange, I'm either stupid, or more likely "Well, if you didn't want to help, you could have just said so".
Leeches are still used in some medical situations, usually various types of tissue grafting.
I like the idea of using multiple FPGAs to ["fanout"/"cascade"/"distribute"/"one-to-many proxy" -- choose the terminology you like best] the SM2262EN to multiple sticks of DDR3 RAM...

I'd be curious though, if the SM2262EN itself couldn't be replaced by yet another FPGA, and, if so, if the FPGA used for that purpose could be the exact same type as the other four...

If so -- then one could sort of think of that arrangement as sort of like a Tree Data Structure -- that is 2 levels deep...

But what would happen if we could make it 3 or more levels deep?

?

In other words, if we had 4 such boards and we wanted to chain them -- then we'd need another central memory controller (another FPGA ideally) -- to act as the central hub in that hierarchy...

It would be interesting, I think, to think of a future hardware architecture which allows theoretically infinite upscaling via adding more nested sub-levels/sub-components/"sub-trees" (subject to space and power and max signal path lengths and other physical constraints, of course...)

I also like the idea of an FPGA proxy between a memory controller and RAM... (what other possibilities could emerge from this?)

Anyway, an interesting device!
Only 3 huh?
No wonder the current generation is incapable.
Maybe you should have paid more attention?
Definitely got me my current job (sysadmin).
Not really. The Duamond Age" is referenced as a template, but it is not required reading.The main components of the course are 1) writing a Ractive, 2) designing a Paper Theater for the Ractive, and 3) designing the set for the Paper Theater. The object is to continue the existing workflow for media with apropriate extensions for the Metaverse. The work is done in teams of 3 people with continuous reviews by team members. An underlying goal is to teach a collaborative media design process. Our view is that collaboration is the main leverage component of the Metaverse.
I don't have strong opinions about who did it, but I wouldn't dismiss Russia that quickly. Russia has a long history of utilizing false-flag operations. They were pumping them out almost hourly leading up to the invasion. If they had been able to successfully pin it on the US the wedge that would drive in NATO has obvious benefits for Moscow. Their reasons for doing it seem as plausible as for any other state actor. It's also less risky for them. They've already gotten near maximum blowback from the west. Whereas it's a really risky thing for the US to do given the massive blowback that would result if they got caught.
After Obama Care, insurance companies profits are now capped at 8% (think that is the number) of revenue (ie premiums) in the US. So one way to grow revenue is to have higher costs per policy, pay out more, and charge higher premiums. If you are at 8% profit and you reduce your payouts as you are describing with preventative care, then you don't get to keep that money. You have to pay it back to the insurance buyers. Very perverse incentive.
Using Super Glue
I didn't flag your posts, friend. Even if I dislike the tone I get the impression you're being sincere, and I think they add to the conversation.
Yes, that's exactly the attitude I'm referring to. Apple used to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Yes! Give your kids bamba! Israeli friends told me about how they basically have no peanut allergies and the science backs it. Made sure my kid ate it, and so far so good. I think it’s a gross snack but he loves it.