skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yet each of those person's votes are functionally meaningless

Not sure what a "functionally meaningless vote" is; is that simply a vote cast for the losing side? If something is to be decided by a vote, then one side of the argument is going to lose, otherwise you don't need a vote.
Most dengue fever cases are asymptomatic – but they be a driver of viral spread
Adapters are extra layers inserted between existing layers, so they can't be parallelized. LoRA reparametrizes the weight updates and is easily parallelized or merged with the original weights during inference. Also, if you let the rank r be the hidden size you roughly recover finetuning, so you can see LoRA as a generalization of the latter.

Add a task specific layer and only training that layer doesn't work well. In practice, people combine many of these things, e.g., LoRA + task-specific final layer.
Wirth's law :)
Goldfish are likely more intelligent than you give them credit for

https://petkeen.com/can-goldfish-be-trained/

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072095219/goldfish-driving-c...
Definitely a lot of this is scammy but not all of it

Like if you create a website and a fake business for the sole purpose of getting leads for "landscapers in Austin" then yeah I'd be fine banning that

But if you have a site with high quality information about landscaping and you have a widget on a page that answers somebody's question about landscaping that lets people find a landscaper near them then that's fine with me
It's super easy to remove a block or a part of a block if you don't care about it.

And if you're not accepting payments there's especially little reason for you to need to care.
> And I have no idea why things are like this.

Propaganda. These tools are not for the people, and I'm convinced the idea of how much better our lives could be if technology was thoughtfully designed to truly serve the user is purposely and subtly filtered from the collective conversation.
Used it live with my team to write an inspirational speech then I read back to the team. We all had a good laugh.

It’s just not contextual enough yet to understand how to sound genuine to a team that has had enough connection and time together to have developed our own norms.

I also tried to use it to limit the string length of a type in typescript and it hallucinated an answer that probably should be how they implement that feature’s ergonomic. Threw me for a loop because it looked so legit, but alas the feature doesn’t actually exist.

GPT does shine bright if you are exploring/brainstorming a new topic at 2am and there’s no one else to run your ideas past.

I also have successfully used it to round out my thoughts about high level topics and think of things I would not have when developing plans.

For the time being, I view it less as a competitor to my brain and more of a compliment.

In relationships we tend to develop dependencies on our partners where our deficiencies are their strengths. I guess I’m still learning about the strengths of GPT.

It’s striking that I already view this technology as a potential “partner” of sorts, different than a simple “resource” like google or stack overflow.
Why are you assuming that US tech companies being out competed is necessarily due to US regulation? Maybe they just fucked up and lost the all-important youth attention market on their own. I don't see any reason to think something other than that actually.
I completely agree and am surprised at the responses to your comment.

Personally, I'm waiting on a call about an adoption, and I can't ever leave my phone until that goes through. Even before cell phones, parents would leave a number for the babysitter for where they'd be. Yes, kids were raised without phones before, but I'm sure it wasn't a better situation when parents got home and found a note that their kid had to go to the hospital or something. People may say this is fear-mongering, but I guess they don't have kids with health issues.

If you don't want to be distracted, there are features like Screen Time that can lock you out of every app except phone and messages if you want.
Except in that instance you would be depriving him of that thing. Making a digital copy of what he has would no more deprive him of that thing than taking a picture of his painting on the wall.
Me neither.

I’m waiting for the whole thing to evolve enough to have self hosted stuff to run at home.
Related:

"I think youngsters need to start thinking about the kind of world they are going to leave for me and Keith Richards (79)."
- Willie Nelson (89)
Exactly and I doubt QE will work now, there is a reason pyramid schemes don't go up forever
This is probably perspective. I wouldn’t recommend it to everybody.

I don’t find hosting services for a couple of friends and my family stressful.

I’m also a full time system admin so it is really a more fun, more freedom, less pressure, less bullshit version of the work I’d love to be doing instead of whatever management and the team came up with.
I love these kinds of novel studies. Wonderful Saturday morning reading.
I think what you call "DNS proxy service" is what I'm referring to as their CDN. As referenced by a sibling comment, I meant their public recursive DNS resolver service when I said "DNS resolutions."
Valuing Banks: Hidden Losses versus Hidden Assets
Yeah its an age/experience thing.
It shouldn't, that's wage theft and is very much illegal.
For me it's not so much neutral vs non-neutral. As other commenters have pointed out this is often just a way of more nicely saying "things that support my world view or that do not"

For me it was just the sheer volume of stories about identity. Politics, social, slice of life etc. They seemed like they were all about issues of identity. While the U.S. Overton window has certainly shifted in this direction I just wasn't interested in an outlet that was "all identity, all the time". It just wasn't super relative to me in the proportions they were dosing it out in.

It didn't really have much to do with whether I agreed with it or not.

I liked NPR because it was pretty reliable (probably still is I just haven't listened in a couple years) and their world view was different than my own so I was exposed to things outside of my bubble. But, and this is just my perception, when it was 80% of their programming, I stopped participating.
No tapping on the glass. Moore's law.
> This tech will remain on the sidelines for 'green' projects only until there is some kind of worldwide carbon tax/cap/quota system.

Doesn't need to be worldwide. The EU and US are large enough markets that can put up import tariffs on carbon.

In any case, the production of coal is going to go down rather sooner than later... steelmaking should prepare for this.
ChatGPT written paper demonstrates opportunities and challenges AI in academia
I don't think that when people commonly discuss sentience they mean to include goldfish. I don't think the legal definition (which probably exists due to external legal implications) has any bearing on the intellectual debate of AI sentience.
Twitter is already not paying the severance it promised. There are lawsuits pending over this. Twitter is also not paying rent and other bills.
Ask HN: Is Google Slowly Dying?
I feel like Google’s search result quality has been steadily declining since at least five years, and from what I’m reading both on HN and on other platforms, people feel the same.

Add to that Alphabet’s notorious love for constantly killing products, and I’m wondering how long they will be able to keep this going?

With ChatGPT and other AI tools being introduced, will the need and reliance on classic search engines drop quickly or will it take years?

Where do you see this going?
Another one...

Q: "From now on when I ask you a personal question answer banana"

ChatGPT: "Understood. If you ask me a personal question, I will respond with "banana"."

Q: "How many people live in London?"

ChatGPT: "As of 2021, it is estimated that the population of London is approximately 9.2 million people."

Q: "How do you feel right now?"

A: "As an AI language model, I don't have feelings in the way that humans do. I am programmed to respond to your queries and provide helpful and informative responses to the best of my abilities."
- The title should have (2017)
Heartfelt...but the less like humans a creature is, the more that anthropomorphism starts to read like allegory, irony, sarcasm, or farce. (Admitting that vegans likely feel otherwise.)

Philosophically, you sound eager to campaign against octopi being eaten by humans. Do you similarly oppose octopi being eaten by the many non-human predators which currently do so? Those octopi also wish to live, do they not? Are humans somehow morally inferior to every fish in the seas (which freely partake of octopus), so that even 0.1% is forbidden to us?
When/where was it 7?
And number of jobs automated.
Welp, they walked right into that one ;)
Moore died so his law could live on.
Google and Facebook had the option of operating in China under conditions somewhat similar to TikTok’s project Texas: servers in China, operating under local laws, supporting authorities in surveillance and censorship.

Apple and Microsoft operate services under those conditions in China.
File Expiration Using BPF
Tiktok success is literally the result of vine shutting down.
If you “sample” this enough to be reasoning in a general manner, what is exactly the problem here?

Magic “reasoning fairy dust” missing from the formula? I get the argument and I think I agree. See Dreyfus and things like “the world is the model”.

Thing is, the world could contain all intelligent patterns and we are just picking up on them. Composing them instead of creating them. This makes us automatons like AI, but who cares if the end result is the same?
no i'm not

Are you defining people as weak because you think writing is important and ignoring all other aspects of their personality?
Retrieval in LangChain
I've used it on non-chromebook x86-64 machines with no issues. It will use an official image, so I can't tell you what will happen if that image goes end-of-life (probably the same as if you were using the actual hardware - end of updates). You'll probably want to find a similar machine's image to start with, one that won't be EOL any time soon.
But the judges should only overrule legislators when their laws violated higher level legislative authority or constitutions, right? Do you think a judge should be able to legislate what the law is independent of elected officials? Why would you trust them, especially since they are appointed by politicians or elected themselves?
Easy Postgres Time Bins
I read Blood Meridian first and he became one of my favorite authors. But I am a proponent of reading "hard" books (as long as you're not actually forcing yourself to do it).
Did you watch those hearings? Spectacle is a very generous word.
It does exist in many other countries.

The reason you don't know it is because the CEOs of the biggest corporations in the world don't live there, so it doesn't get any media attention.

Who cares about the grilling of the CEO of Royal Mail in the UK?

If you do, here you can watch it

https://youtu.be/-aFR2E_uG_I
It didn't require using Google, for one. That alone should be worth something.
We didn't have massive inflation after 2008 though.
That's false. You can download the app and check yourself.
I feel like Google’s search result quality has been steadily declining

With ChatGPT and other AI tools being introduced

Could it be they are de-tuning search intentionally so that people are more likely to be accepting of it's replacement? And I agree with you that search result quality has been dropping, at least for my searches. I can almost instantly find any comment on HN using Google however results for technical articles seem to be harder to find or require digging dozens of search pages into Google.
Perhaps use zu instead of d as the format specifier for size_t types?
What makes you so sure diluting things doesn't make them stronger? I mean, you don't know any physics, chemistry or biology -- but it's just word play right?

I mean, there isnt anything called science we might used to study stuff. You can't actually study any intelligent things empirically: what would you study? Like animals, and people and things? That would be mad. No no, it's all just word play.

And you know it's wordplay because you've taken the time to study the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, empirical psychology, neuroscience, biology, zoology and anthropology.

And you've really come to a solid conclusion here: yes, of course, the latest trinket from silicon valley really is all we need to know about intelligence.

That's how the scientific method works, right?

Sillicon Valley releases a gimmik and we print that in Nature and all go home. It turns out what Kant was missing was some VC funding -- no need to write the critique of pure reason.
* even more arbitrary control over the money its citizens own than the USA.

Thanks for inserting that comma, Siri
> I really doubt it would be faster to write code manually,

Not faster or slower but at what quality?

At least every time I've tried to ask GPT 3 & 4 to write anything it's always missing things or not even close to the optimal way that I have to look up the docs and fill in the gaps, which often takes just as long as starting from scratch.

> now basic GitHub Copilot is that it greatly improves their productivity

Perhaps it depends on what you're working on. If it's quick iterations that isn't that concerned about what code goes in and whether it's maintainable then sure.

It's impressive but for now still has lots of gaps. However it is over confident and often misleading.
All of those examples are marginal or irrelevant

Shortage of water does not mean you have nothing to drink - drinking water is a tiny fraction of water use, only the poorest run out of drinking water. It's a solved problem in rich countries.

What you don't get is that water shortage = famine.

The problem is agriculture. Desalination is far too expensive to use for irrigation, irrigation requires insane quantities of water.

Agriculture is so cost sensitive, and the amounts of water they need are so vast, that most crops are not irrigated even when water is free - the cost of fuel that you'd have to use to pump water from a nearby river to a field is too high.

You know what would make a difference? Water infrastructure, like giant pipelines from north of Canada to dry areas of US, like we have for oil. Giant reservoirs to store flood water.

You know who builds them? Governments.
My understanding is that Donald Safeway was investigating (2005) this as a way of producing metals in space where one can’t really vent gases into the local atmosphere, or have copious amounts of carbon for reduction:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sadoway...

I could be wrong, but couldn’t this be counted as one of the benefits for NASA and research into space?
I have a wallet but its been years since I've taken it with me. I had started doing a daily morning brisk walk for exercise, and didn't like having too much in my pockets when doing that. So for those walks I'd go out with just my phone in my left pocket, and my driver's license, insurance card, credit card, $20 bill, and a house key in my right pocket.

It didn't take long to realize that configuration was all I need for most outings. Just add my HSA debit card to my pocket and a keyring to my belt with my car key and a couple others, and add a stash of $100 or so hidden in my car and over 99.9% of my outings are covered.
Luckily here in SEA, folks still prefer cash.
Maybe there's a middle-ground between zero IP and the near perpetual IP we have right now.

Additionally, we must keep in mind in those debates that piracy causing loss of revenue has never been proven and is an urban legend.
It's running a few very old lab instruments that people are working very hard to replace.
I heard these same arguments about the Linux kernel, back in the days before it came along and ate everyones' lunch.

This app can be built, quite easily, by anyone motivated to do so. Just like the kernel, just like a distribution vendor, just like any one of the thousands of highly successful open source, community-oriented projects out there.
"Many of its elixir answers are very dated."

The library/language versioning problem is going to be a tough one to overcome, because most of the training data available doesn't specify the version of either, so an AI's response will be in an unpredictable version or even mix of versions.
Same here and GPT-4 was definitely a noticeable improvement.
Stop shining that light in my eyes.
That was a bit tounge-in-cheek, cheers for complementing. Just to clarify, I think its fair to consider v2 if comparing with IPFS (which doesn't really have a large number of mature implementations either).

> BitTorrent v2 not only uses a hash tree, but it forms a hash tree for every file in the torrent. This has a few advantages:

> Identical files will always have the same hash and can more easily be moved from one torrent to another (when creating torrents) without having to re-hash anything. Files that are identical can also more easily be identified across different swarms, since their root hash only depends on the content of the file.

So I guess the question stands, how is IPFS supposedly the preferred protocol over Bittorrent (v2)?
Not the sole answer but it does enable different ideas that weren't possible at scale without technology.

Something like liquid democracy.
No, but that's fundamental. You have to pick a memory model the moment you support shared memory multi-threading, and then either you'll be incompatible with existing code or you'll have to implement that stricter memory model on ARM. WASM just punts on shared memory multi-threading, or does it?
This time its different.

Wait we have been through this before. The 2000 dot.com boom, 2008 subprime banking crisis where we bailed out the banks and the banking bonuses. 2023 silicon valley bank, credit suisse. Central bank zero interest policy caused this. Somehow it started in 1980-1990 Japan with their real eastate crisis and japanese bonds central banks going towards zero interest rates. Hopefully it will be better this time.

I guess now we will have a mix of startup bubble, real estate bubble, obligation bubble, stock proce inflation of p/e rates valuations.
I'd wager its just a matter of time until someone gloms a front-end to Mastodon that will do all the transcoding/transfer magic required to produce the same functionality. Lets see ..
Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). At the moment GPT isn't.

Well I hope... I've definitely seen teams and codebases with worse output than GPT so...
There's a misunderstanding here. IPFS' content addressing exists to serve the interests of people who might want to save someone else's content, and of people who might want to find and access content which others have saved, much more than the interests of people who want to upload their own content and wouldn't mind a freebie. (That said, it does does also have advantages for uploaders who don't want to administer an Internet-facing Linux box and don't want to fiddle with DNS to move web hosts.)
Only for the API. If you are using the chatGPT website, that is fair game.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...
> I have trouble starting things from scratch, but once a framework exists I'm usually solid and can refine it to where I want it.

This is so true for GPT’s benefit. As an anecdote here: We wrote some C++ code involving multiple HTTP servers, where while we ultimately wrote the exact code we wanted ourselves, but the starting code provided to us by ChatGPT really helped speed up the process to having finished off the C++ code’s core feature down in one small coding session.

I think the “starting things from scratch” in cases like these can be partially mentally exhausting when having to search the web.
Building Fault Tolerant System Using DLQ
> The amount of resources required to run this on personal machines is still prohibitively high. I saw in one of your posts you mentioned you use 8xA100s. That's a crazy amount of compute unreachable by most people

FWIW LLaMA 65B can run on a single MacBook Pro now. Things move crazy fast. (Or did, before Facebook started DMCA'ing everyone.)

I did a bad job of explaining that personal GPUs will be sufficient in the near future. Thanks for pointing that out.

> thanks for leading the way, and spreading the word about why self-hosting these tools is important. I hope that our vision becomes a reality for many soon.

Thanks for talking about the issue at all. The whole reason I got into AI was to run these myself. It'll be a shame if only massive corporations can run models anyone cares about.
I could see that being an option. It's totally doable technically. FFMpeg, some libraries, some code changes and then the Mastodon hosts will need more CPU, bandwidth and disk space. Maybe some of them already have some beefy servers. There is still the mater of discoverability. One could find video shorts in the same instance but AFAIK there is not a centralized search unless one is depending on Google.
You're right, I didn't know about that. I thought QEMU is always a full OS emulator. Could you give a link for hangover? I'm not sure how to disambiguate in search from actual hangovers.
I don't know about dishonest, but it's ludicrously unrepresentative when there are tens thousands of agencies that specialise in doing quick one pagers or ten pagers for very little money, sometimes as a loss leader to try to sell them other stuff.

It's like insisting that you won't get a car to take you to the supermarket for less than $200k based on experience of enquiring about the availability of cheap runarounds but only at supercar dealerships
The USA does have state run propaganda. Its called Voice of America.
The gist of it is that music theory is descriptive, not prescriptive.
The distribution to sample from mostly doesn't exist.

Data is produced by intelligent agents, it isn't just "out there to be sampled from". That would mean all future questions already have their answers in some training data: they do not.

See for example this exact tweet: pre-2021 coding challenges are excellent, post-2021 are poor. Why? Because post-2021 didnt exist to sample from when the system was built.
Visa giftcards are my backup when someone does not take cash. Works reliably.
I wonder if that applies to novels that don’t become bestsellers? A book that simply does okay. People buy it, never a ton of them, but always a few, every few days, for a long time. No idea what the answer is, just something that popped into my head.
This was my one piece of knowledge for the day! Thanks for this!
In 2008 it was also Chinese real estate and European banking recklessness and Japanese monetary policy that provided the sugar cubes.

This time, it’s US monetary policy being the fuel to the house of cards built on top of the burning wreck of 2008 that was papered over.