skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oops...did I do that?" is a comedic phrase uttered by someone who makes a mistake which harms others but benefits them. Call it whatever you want, i.e. "Conspiracy theory", but you cannot deny who is harmed & who benefits.
For me it happens in cycles. I get inspiration to jazz-up/re-write my blog and that gives me a nudge to write something, anything really, just to get to see something new and that gets the rock rolling and I end up writing half a dozen posts in few weeks. Then I get distracted by some other project or a game or whatever and I forget writing for months and when I remember I have a blog I feel like I don't have anything "worthy" of writing. Until I again get inspiration to start working on the code side of the blog again and the cycle beings a new.
I don't think they are talking about the microcontroller (Cortex-M) business, this is about ARMv8/9 in smartphones, tablets, computers. What the two have in common is the name "ARM".
Google Docs is still doable for these kind of collaborative notes.

I've learned not to worry about anything that isn't content during the process. It can be copied, pasted, formatted, fixed, proof read, and put somewhere more permanent later, just not while I am hard at it.
Hi! I'm the author of the repo.

The insight is that we don't need to modify a lot of parameters to get a generally competent model to do well on specific tasks. When you have a linear layer with a weight matrix of dimension d_in x d_out, the change you undergo during full finetuning is also a matrix of d_in x d_out, which can be huge. We represent the latter using two matrices of shape d_in x r and r x d_out. You save a lot of parameters when r is small. So when you use it, the input goes through two streams 1) the orignal frozen weight turning a vector of size d_in to d_out and 2) the low-rank weights turning a vector of size d_in to r and r to d_out. The two streams are then summed together. (There's a figure in the paper.)

This way of doing thing is nice for a few reasons. It's easy to parallelize. You can change r to control how many parameters to train. You can also merge the low-rank weights with the original one to avoid latency.

Note that we don't select a subset of the original parameters. We train extra ones.
I think AI will change education because of chat tutoring.

For parents who care about getting the best education for their kids, they should know that mastery education is far superior to classrooms for learning any curriculum. Kahn Academy has adopted GPT assist already. In short, AI replaces teachers and tutors.

Core curriculum doesn’t necessarily need to change, but parents can add in whatever thry think is best for their kids: custom curricula.

In short, school will be for social time; AI will be for learning and tracking progress.

For those students without responsible, pro-active parents, I‘m afraid that things will only get worse unless public education takes a very different course.
I don't think writing a function called `float` that apparently accepts arrays as an argument is very elegant at all
> guess what, in 2002 pretty much everyone was enthusiastically on board (as instructed!)

mmm, no. In 2002 "everyone" pretty much agreed that invading Iraq was a bad idea. People only went along with it after it happened to "show support for the troops." Or have you forgotten the "Hate Bush, love the troops" bumper stickers?
The overly pious seem to forget that all people have genitals.
> Answer is simple: according to people who would be suffering from bad code.

The users?

> But the proper code review is done by your peers working on the same part of code.

Of course. However, that's tangential to the issue of code vetoes.

> Of course people may disagree what "good" is, so there should be some way to resolve conflicts. I've seen teams with very strong technical leader who had the final word.

That's fine, but many conflicts can be avoided by not having vetoes in the first place. If the coder refuses to fix code that the reviewer considers not shippable, then they can go to the manager to resolve the conflict. The manager always has a veto, but otherwise there's no reason for coworkers to have a veto over each other.

> if you have problems with other people reviewing your code

I don't.
Has anyone tested GPT-4 on APPS? And if it can get 90% (which it probably can) does that mean people will admit it's an AGI? Or more likely they just keep moving the goalposts.
Investors more likely.

It's good news for RV, even more reasons to ditch ARM
> “voluntarily resigned.”

Huh. what I read was it was the choice between resigning or be fired. Doesn't seem very voluntary, but it does give everyone a fig leaf to cover the questionable bits with.
> The government can also buy things (like infrastructure) and employ people to provide public services, which directly injects money into the economy by paying it to the people who do that work

We did that in comunism with the known results.
Show HN: Her – An AI assistant powered by ChatGPT
At the same time as we are told any wage increases will drive inflation when all it would do is follow inflation that has already happened.
There'd be a lot less anti-florida propaganda if it didn't write itself, given that the state's governor's whole political shtick is loudly waging a culture war against the libs.

It's not his administrative or speech-writing, or coalition-building skills that are expected to carry him to the republican nomination.
My mileage varies, I feel independent cinema is practically non-existent while Marvel, Fast and Furious, Star Wars and other franchise properties are sucking the oxygen out out theaters and streamers.
two issues w/ AI chatbot that I can think of

1. Speed, google give me a sub-second result for my query, chatbot requires a few second.

2. Content restriction. As shown with chatgpt, chatbot (or other new platform) restricts contents like NSFW, violence, etc. Even TikTok forbids words like suicide, kills to the point they use substitute words like unalive .
We did that in comunism with the known results.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

They say that video games should not be covered under the exemption for backup copies and that they are not "software only".
Will Shortz’s Life in Crosswords
> We never seem to get the whole story when it comes to sensationalized articles like this one.

So what is it? We don't have the whole story, or the article is sensationalized? You can't have both at once, you need to first show some shred of evidence that there's anything more to the story than, "teacher is fired for showing art that had a penis to schoolchildren."
Maybe Ascii art simplified things :-). I think what tends to trip people up are things like - Where do the pedals actually live in relation to the rest of the frame? How/where does the seat attach? The front wheel? Most people know there is kind of an angled bar on the frame, but where does it go exactly?
I want a stand-alone qmk ultra flat chicklet keyboard!

Does anyone know what the protocol they use is? I'd assume for the keyboard it might be usb. So maybe all I'd need is to solder a flex-adapter to a usb plug and 3D print a case.
To be fair, they accidently made a game-changing breakthrough that gained millions of users overnight, and I don't think they were ready for it.

Before chatgpt, most normal people had never heard of OpenAI. Their flagship product was basically an API that only programmers could make useful.

Team leaders at OpenAI have stated that they were not expecting the success, let alone the highest adoption rate for any product in history. In their minds, it was just a cleaned-up version of a 2-year old product. It was billed as a research preview.

So, all of a sudden you go from hiring mostly researchers because you only have to maintain an API and some mid-traffic web infra, to suddenly having the fastest growing web product in history and having to scale up as fast as you can. Keep in mind that they didn't get backing from Microsoft until January 23, 2023-- that was only 2 months ago.

I'd say we should cut them some slack.
I’ve anecdotally observed the opposite. I have noticed SRE jobs remain posted, even by companies laying off or announcing some kind of hiring slowdown over the last quarter or so. More generally, businesses that have decided that they need SRE are often building out from some kind of devops baseline that has become unsustainable for the dev team. When you hit that limit and need to split out a dedicated team, there aren’t a ton of alternatives to getting a SRE or two in and shuffling some prod-oriented devs to the new SRE team (or building a full team from scratch which is what the $$ was estimating above). Among other things, the SRE baliwick includes capacity planning and resource efficiency; SRE will save you money in the long term.

On a personal note, I am sorry to hear that your job search has not yet been fruitful. Presumably I am interested in different criteria from you —- I have found several postings that are quite appealing to the point where I am updating my CV and applying, despite being weakly motivated at the moment.
This is silly. You could extrapolate the same argument to use against Libraries.
> Yesterday, I watched someone upload a video file to a chat app, ask a language model “Can you extract the first 5 s of the video?”, and then wait as the language model wrote a few lines of code and then actually executed that code, resulting in a downloadable video file.

What chat app? Is this gpt-4? I haven't seen anything executing the code that is generated. So is the above quote a hypothetical or what?
I am pretty sure another mod has addressed this, as I have read about this issue before... but I have no citation.

The history of Minecraft mods is so long and vast, and sometimes obscure, that its impossible to know for sure if what you are trying to change hasn't already been done. It might be buried in some other mods code, or implemented in a random jar posted on a forum or in a discord.

But you will find out if users start using it, and it breaks some other large mod that does something similar.
Going straight to the knockout stages means half the sides in the competition only play one game though, which isn't great for eager anticipation in those countries or travelling fans. Also increases the probability of big sides being amongst the sides going out early due to freak results when they're a bit rusty.

The actual solution - playing the final games in a four game group simultaneously - removes most of the incentives for playing out draws (and means that a side that might be knocked out if the two sides in the other game draw is busy trying to win their game rather than watching powerlessly from the sidelines)
You are very confident in your knowledge about a lot of things.
I think there was a Doomwatch episode that addressed this sort of thing, it didn't go well.
Related experiment: https://ash-k.itch.io/textreme-2
Sketchfab Response to Objaverse AI
> what I read was it was the choice between resigning or be fired

That's what "voluntarily resigned" typically means.
s/1990s/2020s/g

s/Java/WebAssembly/g

There! All up-to-date!
I still cant believe google thought they could ruin the internet like that and continue to dominate search
> Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I'm sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of "big company that lost its way

Former Googler, opinions are my own. They haven't lost their way technologically - as you mentioned they invented the Transformer - and internally Google has long had language models that rival ChatGPT in sheer size and coherence of responses (hallucinations and all). Bard is an intentionally toned down version of LamDa.

The reason they didn't release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing/ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the "There's no such thing as bad publicity" logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it's not a long term product strategy.

So the real institutional problem at Google isn't lack of technological innovation, it's the inability to take major product risks, especially in anything adjacent to Search.
There is nothing natural about any system.
The system is organised as it is entirely by choice - though only a small minority get to choose how it is.

The system benefits those who get choose how it operates.
I have been using Neeva for few weeks and have been able to stick with it without needing Google too often. Still need to Google when I am searching for things like a restaurant but other than that Neeva has been fairly good.

Their AI summaries are helpful most of the times, and SEO spam seems less.
McCarthy simplified his style dramatically with "No Country For Old Men". That novel, and the ones following, are of course still tremendous but lack the almost mythological force of language of his earlier stuff.

My personal early-style favourites: "Child Of God", "Blood Meridian" (of course), "The Crossing"

Later style: "The Road"
ChatGPT will destroy GitHub and NPM long before it destroys programming.

What do I need them for if I can get equivalent code written for me on-demand?
I’m not sure if your ton is supposed to be ironic or not. I am talking about the shift from the current system (clearly ad based), towards a world where that’s not sustainable anymore. I did not say all creative output require economic incentives, that’s not something I believe to be true. I myself currently work more or less full time on my own creative projects because I like it, without consideration for economic values.
Utilizing GPT-4 to generate Midjourney v5 prompts for amazing results
That is not right at all. Parental rights are above other people’s but not the children’s. In fact, they are subordinate to the children’s right to education. This is nuanced but for instance, a parent not educating his child is not above anything.
I don't know what press releases you've been reading, but the model is closed so they can make money off it, that's pretty obvious.
Insight into the Mind of GPT-4: Playing Go Together
The principle was supposed to send a letter to the parents which didn't happen. I believe the law in florida is about notify parents so, there might be some potential legal problems for the school.

I wish democrats would engage in this issue. I believe parents do have rights regarding what types of things they're children are exposed to and/or not exposed to based on age. (don't get me started on the hap hazard parental controls for the internet)

Even just knowing what was cover so you can help your kid with their homework. usually, I can figure stuff out if I have access to it, but once sentence usually isn't enough.
National security vs. free speech.

National security wins. Game over.
It turns out that collision among egg farmers is likely the actual cause of rising egg prices -- not avian flu or CA's new cage law. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/record-breaking-egg-profits...
Web Cache Deception issue has led OpenAI's ChatGPT to suffer an account takeover vulnerability, although they don't run an official Bug Bounty program - they were quick to response and fix the matter.
Just this particular one is sufficient to me. But I'll support you!
That is exactly the point "the landlords game" - the original monopoly was made to demonstrate.
> Merged means you are modifying the model weights, which means you are stuck with that one model on that device (though, this usually applies for most implementations for the unmerged versions too).

If one is careful with floating point issues, it's straightforward to unmerge the weights.

W_0 = W_1 - BA

Yes, prompt-based methods don't involve swapping weights.
That's kind of a reductive definition of success. I have one biological child. Am I less successful than a sperm donor who has "fathered" multiple children? Is this the lifehack childless millennials have been waiting for?
Isn't that exactly what's happening with energy right now? I live next to a hydro plant that isn't even maxed at capacity and my electricity bill is like 8x what it used to be, simply because they "have to" sell energy at the whole EU market because someone somewhere desperately needs it.
The rumour I keep hearing is that it's like the Hunger Games inside Google at the moment. Total chaos and infighting at all levels, investors are freaking out over AI and Bard's middling performance compared to OpenAI and blood is in the water. Sundar may be forced to resign and Larry/Sergei deployed to rescue the company.
I just finished the Passenger - I would definitely not recommend it as an earlier book to read of his. When reading it, I remember thinking during certain sections that if I wasn't already a McCarthy fan, I might just abandon it. Suttree is my favorite of his, and I recommend it to everyone, but I think All The Pretty Horses is part of a Trilogy of books that might be a good place to start.
You’re hiding behind it being a memoir as if that’s a meaningful distinction or somehow the interest in discovering identity outweighs the harm in having sexually explicit material in schools.

If Riley Reid put out a graphic memoir about tearing down taboos in sex and confronting “slut shaming” you wouldn’t advocate for it to be in schools.

If you’re trying to claim I’m making some sort of false analogy or moral equivalency then you should try to answer my original question: what is the limiting principle? Because if it’s as weak as “it’s a memoir that’s about discovering identity” it’s not only a weak argument that few would agree with but it opens the door to a lot of other stuff that you’re already trying to rule out.

What if Playboy helps some boys discover their straight identity? Is that not worth discovering? Some young girls might find Playboy helpful in discovering their lesbian identity. Wrap a story around it and it’s apparently good to go for schools.
Musk says a lot of things...
Yes this was a very surprising result... that the relatively small uptraining was able to unlock so much latent knowledge in the model.
Blood Meridian! Surprised I haven't seen this recommendation yet, since it's considered his masterwork and one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
Always worth noting - the self-reported mission of the school is:

“to train the minds and improve the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.”

Though, I get the feeling that some of those words are dog whistles. Don't read the following if you think this is a spurious accusation.

I feel that "classical education" is code for "rich white kids", while "principles of moral character and civic virtue" is shorthand for a Christian nationalist curriculum.
i've never heard 2.5D used to refer to that, i've only heard that used to refer to games that are rendered in 3D but are played in two dimensions, (where that wouldn't be assumed, so excluding, say, a tennis game.)
What the rate for you? Because for me its 15k points for 10 USD.
> If it could go on Amazon and sort through the results, read the reviews and do some queries to find the best product based on my stated preferences, and then buy it for me, that could potentially save me time.

If it could do that, it would be immediately gamed to prefer over-priced knockoff garbage, to the extent that all online shopping would become a shitshow to everyone within a few years. Think about how badly SEO has ruined the internet; ChatBot Optimization will be much worse.
Two of the most well-known toothpaste brands in the UK are still selling their most 'basic' toothpastes for 100ml for £1, which I don't think is much of a rise on what it's been for the last few years (I think I used to get 125ml for that price).

People on modest salaries either don't spot the cheaper, just-as-good toothpaste that's not as prominent, they think that it's not as good as the ones with lists of all the great things they're supposed to do, or they aren't feeling the squeeze enough to seek it out.

If you drop into an independent chemist you might notice that sometimes the only toothpaste they stock is the 'basic' one, because their customers are price-sensitive, so that's all they'll buy.

Going rate for pizza is around 60p/100g, with a larger than average Aldi 'Meat Feast' pizza coming in at £2.19, which is 39p/100g.

Again, if you're on a 'modest salary', you pick the cheaper products or pick the supermarkets which only really sell the cheaper products.

I'm not saying that prices aren't going up, just that closer to the 'survival' line, there is much less room to increase prices, because people aren't at the point of choosing based on preference, so you can't rely on them switching to a slightly cheaper option from your artificially differentiated product line (yes, you, Colgate-Palmolive). They'll just be forced to stop buying your products altogether.
The issue with "Parental rights are supreme" is that there are tons of parents whose demands will make it impossible for your kid to learn much of anything.

In our district, we had to put AP CS on hold because apparently RNGs are too close to gambling and gambling is sinful. You can't even get through the Java standard library without angering the religious right these days.

They threw a huge fit about Common Core Math as well (as a working mathematician -- and one with some amount of passing experience in teaching mathematics at that -- I could never get those parents to articulate what the actual problem was... AFAICT some TV pundit told them to be angry about math).

I wonder if these parents realize that about half of the middle schoolers in Florida not only have seen a penis, but have one of their very own!

BTW, the possibility that this was about inter-personal feuds rather than David just strengthens the point. Giving every parent potential veto power over anything that happens in school is a good way of making sure that nothing will happen in school.

Some teacher makes a valid criticism of your child's classmate during a parent-teacher conference, the parent takes it personally, the spat escalates, the course is derailed. By the time you find out WTF is even happening, your kid is already half a grade level behind in every subject. Rinse and repeat the next school year.
Right? I'd have been entirely unsurprised if Bing saw a 100% increase, given how buzzy all this has been. (Finally, an actual reason to use Bing!) 15% seems like a failure.
which makes me feel it is even more likely to be necessary for their children and enabling them to have the chance to escape from the developmental and educational favors foisted upon them by their parents.
2 of the 3 parents were upset they weren't informed.
“X Derangement syndrome” aka X doing crazy stuff isn’t the problem, it’s everyone complaining about X.
I've found that if you push through the trust issue with the expectation that it's not a final answer, it's just getting you closer to it a lot more quickly, then that ends up being very helpful in a lot of cases.
AGI – Are we close? Does it even make sense?
The Brexit slogan was "Taking back control of our borders".
Please explain how can you do that without increasing "bureaucracy"?
> We tried that. It all went into real estate and stocks and gave birth to a massive scam industry involving crypto and other get rich quick schemes as the world is full of stupid people and opportunists.

You tried the wrong thing. You shouldn't hand money without conditions. Instead of letting speculative assets grow, you should only let productive bussineses borrow money with low interests. Businesses which produce tangible goods and are creating jobs.