skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that the narrative around demographics and technology has shifted to support higher inflation.

Inflation was kept low through the 2000s despite massive quantitative easing because you had the entry of 3 billion workers into the global economy, keeping wages low even though the money supply was high. That trend has reversed. China hit peak workforce employment in 2015 and their workforce is now shrinking fast, the result of their One Child Only policy in the 70s. The same demographic headwinds affect all major developed economies. Fertility rates fell below replacement rate in most of the developed world in the 1990s - that baby bust is now entering the workforce.

Similarly, technological progress has slowed down over the last 40 years. Much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked; only a select few industries still show significant technological development. In particular, the major need-to-live industries like housing, health care, food, and energy have seen few yield-increasing technological developments over this period, and their price has risen accordingly.
He only said that later; he seems to be working on a "say we'll do feature and then change it all after people yell at him for weeks" process.
I'm well aware of it. That's survivorship bias; it's literally the oldest one, and it's super dim, and it's never power cycled.
> That can't be good for all x.

It's within 1.3.
This is new for me. How does ChatGPT use RL?

I'm talking about RL in the sense of interacting with an environment during training. Isn't GPT trained by predicting the next word in a large but static piece of text?
Yeah, every single one of those people in Banqiao had to volunteer in order to stop it killing ten times more.

Hiding behind victims of other disasters is absolutely disgusting.
Only anecdotally.

But ever since Musk took over the amount of US political content has significantly increased in particular from the right despite me not living in the US.

It's hard to tell whether previously political content was weighted less and Musk has removed those controls or whether they are now weighted higher.
Yeah. Even the relatively successful small launch company RocketLab may have difficulties with their Neutron rocket. Their CEO said it was aimed at big new satellite "constellations", but, apart from SpaceX, there is currently only OneWeb and Amazon with plans for such a constellation, and Amazon has already said that even Falcon 9 is somewhat small for their satellites. Then Neutron (withan even smaller payload) couldn't even launch them. I don't know about OneWeb, but I'm not optimistic.

The Terran R by Relativity Space seems indeed the most realistic size, but this rocket is still several years away. Moreover, the reusability of the upper stage seems to be dropped in their latest renders, so it isn't even clear whether it could compete with Falcon 9.
> What's especially galling is that German, Italian, and Irish Americans are at least the descendants of people who faced intense discrimination when they got to America. Meanwhile, virtually all Asian Americans are descended from people who came here after 1950, and mostly after 1990. California is teaching Asian kids to identify with historically discriminated people who aren't even their ancestors.

Especially for Asians, a lot of them came to America fleeing persecutions in their home countries... from other Asians! I'm thinking Vietnamese refugees fighting against the communist regime and people from Hong Kong fleeing the Chinese Communist Party at home.
Define "comprehensive?"

There are some benchmarks here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1248183/i_am_cu... and here: https://nolanoorg.substack.com/p/int-4-llama-is-not-enough-i...

Check out the original paper on quantization, which has some benchmarks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17323.pdf and this paper, which also has benchmarks and explains how they determined that 4-bit quantization is optimal compared to 3-bit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.09720.pdf

I also think the discussion of that second paper here is interesting, though it doesn't have its own benchmarks: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/17...
June 2nd, 2024. [science fiction, not real]
No, it's not that simple. Having the experience of sensory stimuli requires consciousness. The stimulus isn't the experience.
I don't think it's nearly that simple. Do you want the same for other techniques? If someone says in good faith that a fingerprint matches and it turns out it was a false positive it should be slander? Shoeprints? DNA?

Clearview AI is providing a service in good faith like all these other things. It's up to the police and courts to use that information correctly.

Furthermore notice that this guy was only arrested, and the evidence bar for arrest is lower than sentencing. I don't think we can even say the system malfunctioned here actually. He was arrested because it seemed probable he did it. That's how it's supposed to work.

Then he was released and should be given routine compensation for being arrested and turning out to be innocent.
You said the evacuations were unnecessary and killed people. Leaving a burning building doesn't kill people even if some die in the attempt. You then backed up immediately with unrelated nonsense when challenged.
One of my favorite photographs:

Twain in Tesla's lab

https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Mark...
The NYT has been doing great recently. They're probably the legacy news company that's doing the best online of anyone.

That's on the strength of having a lot of verticals like games, recipes and Wirecutter though.
The Following tab limits to my followers, but in reverse chrono order. This is also not desirable b/c it limits to whoever’s posting whenever I’ve happened to check the feed.

I’d like to see interesting tweets from a few hours ago, and not just Australian tweets when I’m up late at night.
See https://spectrum-os.org/ where some work is being done.
Not really. The point of the philosophical zombie idea is that they'd be indistinguishable in behavior from conscious people. Part of the point of the stochastic parrots is that supposedly they can't accomplish the same things as genuine intelligence. That's testable.
You're not the only one.

Live Service games are dying off because not enough people are playing them.

Just like MMOs used to spin off and die two years later, Live Service Games are saturated to the point they can't last either.
I've finally made the full jump to neovim after using vim bindings in all of my other fully fledged IDES. I've recently been looking at Helix, but the lack of plugin support along with fluid git support is where I'm still stuck. I use lazygit for all of my git operations inside of neovim and it's hard for me to give that up. Anyone have good recommendations for workflows that worked for them regarding these two issues?
also javascript - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-numeric-separator
You can't, but the narrative presented for why rates will go down is that there will be a financial crisis that forces the Fed to drop rates. How can you simultaneously assume there will not be a financial crisis that wipes out a large number of financial institutions under those premises?
It is. The way the two are defined/called us different, making refactoring a nightmare if you ever have a subroutine that later needs to be converted to a function to return a value. There's a reason other languages don't make this distinction. In every other language I'm aware of, it's all functions, and some return values and some don't, and refactoring between the two is easy.
> Let's assume that this is not a real issue unless you have some data which points out the opposite.

US-wide estimates are 1.4% and recent studies suggest as high as 9% in tested areas.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/24/methane-leaks-much-wors...
I can't believe this article doesn't mention the (first-party) ltree extension: https://hoverbear.org/blog/postgresql-hierarchical-structure...
how is llama performance relative to chatgpt ? is it as good as chatgpt3 or even 4 ?
Bittensor is one, not an endorsement. chat.bittensor.com
> But were very lacking in what would otherwise be considered table stakes, the reason always wound back to they had a proprietary Google equivalent of X, so thus they weren't familiar with X

Occasionally X is an open source implementation of a Google paper, published after Google decided its proprietary tech no longer provides a competitive advantage and/or has moved onto a better architecture internally.

There's an astounding number of Google publications that spawned Billion-dollar industries.
Long term Virgin Orbit probably did itself a favor with the launch failure - better a fast end than a slow strangulation by not being competitive with reusable rockets.
Yep, the comments are the BQN version.
>What has everyone been doing wrong all these years

So it's important to note that all of these improvements are the kinds of things that are cheap to run on a pretrained model. And all of the developments involving large language models recently have been the product of hundreds of thousands of dollars in rented compute time. Once you start putting six digits on a pile of model weights, that becomes a capital cost that the business either needs to recuperate or turn into a competitive advantage. So everyone who scales up to this point doesn't release model weights.

The model in question - LLaMA - isn't even a public model. It leaked and people copied[0] it. But because such a large model leaked, now people can actually work on iterative improvements again.

Unfortunately we don't really have a way for the FOSS community to pool together that much money to buy compute from cloud providers. Contributions-in-kind through distributed computing (e.g. a "GPT@home" project) would require significant changes to training methodology[1]. Further compounding this, the state-of-the-art is actually kind of a trade secret now. Exact training code isn't always available, and OpenAI has even gone so far as to refuse to say anything about GPT-4's architecture or training set to prevent open replication.

[0] I'm avoiding the use of the verb "stole" here, not just because I support filesharing, but because copyright law likely does not protect AI model weights alone.

[1] AI training has very high minimum requirements to get in the door. If your GPU has 12GB of VRAM and your model and gradients require 13GB, you can't train the model. CPUs don't have this limitation but they are ridiculously inefficient for any training task. There are techniques like ZeRO to give pagefile-like state partitioning to GPU training, but that requires additional engineering.
> What do you think of X

Most opinions you will hear from people are also just regurgitated amalgamation of things they have previously heard or read on the subject. Also, in general, being able to aggregate and summarize into words what hundreds of people thing about X seems like probably an even more useful tool than getting one person's thought, unless it's something no one has ever had any thought on before.

Even then, I don't think it would be outside the scope of possibility for the parrot to find things that are similar to X, find opinions on those, and somehow transpose those opinions onto X.
Me feed has lately been full of accounts that have blocked me. Like, I see a tweet from someone unknown, click their profile and it says I'm blocked.

So wonder if some value is wrong in one of those constants. Anyways, the blocking feature is broken..
This is what it means to let another country own your social media. Their ideas and memes unconsciously get preferential treatment. This is maybe not a good thing, but it is what it is.
Three Xiaomi executives to step down as smartphone demand weakens
And what is consciousness? Does it have to do with qualia?
Ask and ye shall receive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389882

We run Bottlerocket (previously Flatcar, nee CoreOS) which itself is running SSM for "break glass," so: only about 3 directories (and children) can physically be written to, no package manager, no sshd, and in Bottlerocket's case even getting to a shell on the host is so complicated I have it pinned in our slack channel. I haven't tolerated "general purpose" OSes for production machines in over 8 years because jokers just love to "just this one thing to troubleshoot..." exactly like the story above said
Some of the power users Musk reportedly had boosted are specifically right wing political posters, like catturd2. But then he's also boosted some high profile left leaning politicians, so it's not exclusive. It does mean you're more likely to see right wing American political content either way, which has to be annoying for people outside of the US.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-algorithm-aoc-ben-shapiro-cattur...
You lose a lot of heat due to improper insulation or in the case of northern california, no insulation whatsoever.
> reflecting or amplifying existing bias, or assumptions resulting in biased or discriminatory outcomes, or have outsized impact on marginalized communities

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What's the difference between llama.cpp and alpaca.cpp?
Very Important Tweeters
>How many problems need 50 pages of context on top of what gpt4 knows for solving the next step?

Perhaps the unknown unkowns?

I envision a scenario where a super intelligent AI seemingly runs off the rails and becomes obsessed with overtly complex problems that are totally intractable to humans. Where we'd be like ants trying to make sense of cell phones.
This is the important bit.

> > An insanely helpful community. Tons of knowledge out there for getting it to do anything you can dream of.

> This may actually be one of the biggest lasting impacts of the Steam Deck. It puts a lot of enthusiasts with a common interest on a highly reproducible and officially supported configuration. If a game doesn't work, you can file a bug with Valve on Github about it and most of the time it'll be fixed within a week. If the system itself is misbehaving, you can feel safe knowing that there are thousands of others on the exact same configuration.

The community building that Valve does is important for this in my opinion.
I wonder where such difference between llama.cpp and [1] repo comes from. F16 difference in perplexity is .3 on 7B model, which is not insignificant. ggml quirks are definitely need to be fixed.

[1] https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa
> Economic cycles are a thing, it is in all history books, there's no excuse for not being aware of them.

Not reading history books sounds like a good excuse in this scenario.
There's not any less spam. How could there be when he laid off all the antispam people?

If you expand "see more tweets" sometimes there's normal tweets hiding down there and sometimes it's a bot trying to sell you guns.
It really depends on how comfortable you are with the language you’re using, and how recently you switched contexts. For anything unfamiliar, it’s pretty impressive how much it can help.

In fact, I bet if you did an experiment comparing people reading a textbook about a somewhat-familiar language, vs. just asking GPT to do things and noticing the bugs, the latter group would reach proficiency faster.
Is there demand for a service that simply shows you the things the people you follow wrote? (It would be up to you not follow so many people that you can't keep up.)
Great work. Is the new file format described anywhere? Skimming the issue comments I have a vague sense that r/o matter was colocated somewhere for zero copy mmap or is there more to it?
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There are many reasons to measure things if you don't intend to change them.
> I get your feelings and dread, and I've been there. But the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized it doesn't make a big difference.

The interesting thing is that I traveled the same path as you here, but in the opposite direction.

For the record, I don't suffer existential dread, as I actually believe we have have free will. I was just talking about the hypothetical of not having free will. Thank you for a great conversation on this!
Pressing the home button on Android often switches the tab over to "for you"
> When you are actually using it to facilitate an investment in your future

I might have expressed this poorly, but it wasn’t an “investment in the future”. And that’s exactly what made it interesting. The monthly costs where lower immediately, since the cost of transport which was saved was higher than the monthly cost to pay for the bike.
It was just a straight up cost reduction due to the structure of the payment. Had the zero interest monthly payments not been available then it would have been the more typical “investment/ROI over time” situation, and there might be an argument for it still being beneficiary to go into debt to make the purchase because over the long run it would pay of again. But the payment structure just makes everything a thousand times simpler.
Isn't it intrinsically self-reinforcing, if you have a winner takes all system? It's almost always better to join an existing team than start a new one.
Are visa and mastercard tech companies? Or wells fargo?
You can click the REPL icon in the bottom left corner, but the experience is pretty bad on mobile.
It's not mentioned in the headline, but GM also intends to phase out Android Auto, so this is not specific to iPhones.

>General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.
There’s a saying that goes something like, “Economists have predicted 9 of the last 2 recessions.”

I’ve been hearing about the real estate bubble popping any day now since at least 2013. How many people sat on the sidelines of a skyrocketing housing market waiting for that day, out of fear? How many have fallen into a doom and gloom cycle over the last few years hoping for some big “told-you-so” payoff that never came?

If you have a few decades of able working life ahead of you, capitalize on opportunities. Take risks. You’re not going to time the crash, whatever that means; and you’ll likely end up more resilient for it anyway.
tl;dr A Twitter troll published posts encouraged people to vote by SMS or tweet (which isn't possible). Example: https://am23.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2021/01/Fake-Clinto...

"Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice" - U.S. Attorney Breon Peace

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I just...cannot...understand.

If you tweet something incorrect about privacy laws, are you depriving people of their right to privacy?

If you tweet something incorrect about firearm laws, are you depriving people of their right to bear arms?

If you tweet something incorrect about religious laws, are you depriving people of their right to religious expression?
The professional optimizes well enough to get management off their back, the hobbyist can be irrationally good.
> routinely pushed mankind to the brink of nuclear oblivion

I'm struggling to think of a reason why this is anything but bad faith nonsense.
I haven't used it beyond just trying it out once or twice. But a "hello world" application in the Idris2 language compiles to a 17kb racket file (the default backend is chez, but it also does racket and javascript).

If I run `raco exe` on this, I get a 57MB file. On mac, it's only linking system libraries. (For Idris2 programs, there is an Idris support library that is dynamically loaded.)

I haven't tested transporting it to another system (my test was on an arm mac, so I don't have another system to test that on).
It depends on how much ephemeral data one expects to have. E.g. browser cache on tmpfs can use a fair bit of the often-more-limited RAM space.
The adolescence of P-1
by Thomas J. Ryan

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6668634W/The_adolescence_of_...
> Their ideas and memes unconsciously get preferential treatment.

I think as this repo shows it's conciously, rather than unconsciously, getting preferential treatment.
No, it actually has something to do with my Twitter account. If I log out (without changing any extensions), I see "Twitter" show up as the author.
The unemployment rate is now 3.6%, about the lowest it's ever been. Where are these workers going to come from?

The Fed has been very explicit that they need to tighten labor market conditions. "Tighten labor market conditions" = "cause layoffs". That's how it works, they just can't say it out loud because it'll spook people. They can't bring down inflation until they raise rates high enough that companies start going under, and they have no incentive to lower rates unless actual bad things are happening in the real economy. (Remember also that when rates are high, the Fed has more room to cut when actual bad things do happen, because there's a floor at zero.)
Amazingly, APL is more readable. Actually, it's even pretty intuitive. Which proves again, that restricting code to ASCII when every competent programmer (and PC-user in general) can enter almost any unicode symbols just fine is simply stupid.
Linux vs. Mac
Have any long term Linux users here switched to Mac?
What problems did you have, what do better than expected?

I am seriously considering switching. I have been using Linux for like 10+ years, but this month have been rough. I was using Mint in the start of the month, but an upgrade broke so many things - even "Shutdown" and "restart" was not possible.

I switched to Ubuntu 22.10, and now every 30 minutes I get a crash. I bought a new Microphone that kinda works, but not really.
Right, it requires correct rounding for the optional correctly-rounded functions, which ISO C, for example, does not require to correspond to your usual libm ones, or even to be provided at all (even with __STDC_IEC_559__ or __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__). I think I saw a spec for correctly rounded functions for C somewhere, but even the latest draft[1] of C23 is content with just reserving the cr_* namespace and not mandating much for the usual functions outside it (F.10/16):

> IEC 60559 specifies correct rounding for the operations in the F.3 table of operations recommended by IEC 60559, and thereby preserves useful mathematical properties such as symmetry, monotonicity, and periodicity. The corresponding functions with (potentially) reserved `cr_`-prefixed names (7.33.8) do the same. The C functions in the table, however, are not required to be correctly rounded, but implementations should still preserve as many of these useful mathematical properties as possible.

[1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3088.pdf