skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you link to that thread? I'm having difficulty understanding how programmer productivity is supposed to be measured and compared. Can't imagine what a "10X engineer" is supposed to be. The article says a "1000X engineer" is just a person with a GPT-4 command on their terminal.
A very funny phrasing of some legitimately confusing news.

I keep thinking that there's no way that Brain/DeepMind are just getting stomped, lapped, generation-gapped by e.g. `ChatGPT`: they must have had an internal demo of this sort of thing like 2 years ago, right? At some point the Empire strikes back?

But the rollout and product integration has been so well done, so coordinated and cohesive that it's now just obvious that it was way too soon to count MSFT out of the game. It's all through search and Office 365 and GitHub/CoPilot/etc. and the whole stack in such a legitimately compelling way that you can almost forget that the DNA is Win32.

It's a bad thing to let Microsoft get a stranglehold on developer and user mindshare network effects: the 90s were rough. But with how cool it all is it's very tempting...
Attempting to overturn the results of the election as the votes were being counted in the Capitol is quite an escalation, though. Sure, it's not up to 1860s standards, but it's still unprecedented in modern times.
That was a thing with one of the later Google Nexus phones, too.
Well, I mean it’s pretty fair accusation. ChatGPT was demonstrably bad at math. I think it was only recently mentioned that GPT4 was trained on math. Furthermore, consider what it means to apply the transformer architecture to math problems. I think the tool is a mismatch for the problem. You’re relying on self attention and emergent phenomena to fake computational reduction as symbol transformations. It can probably do some basic maths (all the way up to calculus even) because, in the scope of human life, the maths we deal with are pretty boring. But that’s what they made the wolfram plug-in for as well.

I really think people attribute powers beyond what GPT really is: a colossal lookup table with great key aliasing.
Anthropologists define culture as a set of learned behaviors, beliefs, values, customs, and artifacts that are shared by members of a particular group or society.
Being superhuman at producing art is not existentially threatening. Being superhuman about convincing people or writing code would be.
> It’s hard to ‘both sides’ this issue with a straight face, when the biggest election denier in America is a former president and current presidential candidate. When was the last time that happened?

The closest parallel was probably Aaron Burr and his…whatever exactly he was trying to achieve in 1806-1807 in the Southwest after being dumped as VP in 1804 in part resulting from Jefferson’s suspicions that he was trying to pull electoral shenanigans in 1800. But that’s a long time ago, in very different circumstances, and not a particularly close parallel. So, never anything really similar.
Gary blocked me on Twitter. I have no idea why. But in a strange way I feel honoured.
Don't overlook diminishing returns when examining this.

The first time you try skydiving it is likely to be quite the exhilaration. If you grew up doing with your parents and have jumped hundreds of times it's not going to be the same thing. But if you realised that and "discovered" reading novels for pleasure at your age that might give you an incredible buzz, your first of that kind.

No story is going to match a loved family member opening a book at your bedside when you were a child and intoning "Once upon a time..." Yet we chase that feeling forever, which is fine. I know grown adults who still immerse themselves in a childhood artistic experience from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It seems it captured the imagination of vastly fewer who were adults in 1978 and that doesn't mean they were curmudgeonly.
Where'd you find that stat?

> The total 2020 enumerated population of all [331] cities over 100,000 is 96,598,047, representing 29.14% of the United States population (excluding territories)

From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
> a huge number of election deniers for the 2016 election

[citation needed]
This would only work if every country stopped together. China will not stop, so this is not a sensible thing to do.

The US has the most to lose from not getting AGI first, because it is the world superpower. Any major disruption to Pax Americana would not be pretty.
> I don’t know at what point it stops being a photo any more.

When any form of object recognition is involved.
The MIMI working group is meeting at IETF116 in Yokohama RIGHT NOW. I'm sitting in the meeting.

There's a live audio stream at https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/meetings/ or the video will be posted later after the meeting. You can also find links from that page to the charter, mailing list, etc, if you want to get involved.
I think you are a bit naive and underestimate china’s will to influence US any chance they get. TikTok is not a toy . I repeat . TikTok is not a toy. It is a super app that gets the most attention and time from 150 million Americans. And unlike rich people in US who are powerful, in China, bitedance ( TikTok) CEO is like a dog to the CCP leaders. They asked you eat shit , you will eat it twice to please them. This is a real danger .
Note: I am Chinese
Take Class D amplifiers, for instance. They're complete and
total trash until you get into the $1000+ market

Naaaaaah, this isn't true at all.

Here's one with state of the art performance for $800:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/t...

Lots of ones with totally acceptable performance for $100-$200 from Topping, SMSL, etc. By "totally acceptable" I mean they measure the same as affordable Class AB amps in the same price range. I've got loads of both in my house and have spent many hundreds of hours with each.

One unfortunate reality for Class D amps is that admittedly, the power ratings tend to be wildly inflated. If something is advertised as "100W into 8ohms" you can bet that it's more like 40-50W before distortion rises massively in a hockey stick curve like graph. However if the buyer understands this, they still often deliver very competitive value. After all, any amp sounds bad when pushed into distortion.
DeSantis’ Reedy Creek board says Disney stripped its power
Hospitals were overflowing and nothing happened.
This is a sinophobic media war conflating several ideas:

1. Games, social media, or other personal apps on government devices is a terrible idea. They shouldn't be there to begin with.

2. Making a big deal of banning them from US government devices is a symbolic anti-China move.

3. Banning US consumers from using a particular transnational app. How exactly would that be enforced? How would it not run afoul of the 1st a.? Will the US gov get into the business of banning apps, books, games, and any particular media it doesn't approve of because it didn't happen to originate in America?

4. Forcing a transnational app to either move its data to the US or sell to a US owner. Russia did this and now they're an international pariah. How exactly does this square with laissez-faire free trade?
We absolutely do not solve messaging cryptography over and over; the field is littered with corpses, many of them quite fresh.
The US is full of safe, pleasant communities, excellent for raising families, though not necessarily near tech work places. Look outside the coastal bubbles and explore a bit. I'm very happy living in a place shunned by erstwhile colleagues in the ivory heights.

I've also lived decades in East Asia, and there are cases to be made for life in provincial South Korea, Japan, and Thailand -- among other places -- but practical considerations of work and visa status play a role in such decisions.
Yeah, I thought it would be cool to see the reason why. Thanks!
That's the median city in the set of cities with population greater than 100k, not median of all cities.
Sorry, I meant that it'd be ideal for violence to have no place but it does.
When normal people talk about a "rowboat", this is what they're referring to:

https://images.app.goo.gl/UsSUQCWLLNPmkDf39
I think you can do the same in C++, or at least something very similar. If a method isn't virtual and doesn't touch the object's fields, you can invoke it on null quite happily.

Doesn't Go do this too?
OpenAI is working with Microsoft so they definitely had access to the full Bing index and data from their other platforms like Github and Linkedin. They also paid for private datasets, from what I heard they might have gotten a copy of Quora and I'm sure they got a dump of all digitized books from someone.

Their best bet now is getting more supervised conversational data, which they should be getting a ton of from Bing and ChatGPT usage (they can use it as is with RLHF dataset which they had to pay people to generate by having fake conversations).

I wouldn't be surprised if they partner with Microsoft and hire a large team of doctors to tune it to handle specific medical conditions like diabetes.
Yeah, it seems important that the formula support unbounded numbers, because the numbers can grow inside the sequence.

Naively, it seems like any starting value (except those for which you already know the full sequence) might lead to values that exceed any arbitrary bound.
Also China has banned or regulated to uselessness every American piece of software. Globalization and unipolar power has ended.

Do you think banning Huawei from owning US telecommunications infrastructure is also a sign of the end times (Parent comment)?
Copyright law should recognize that training models is already a copyright violation. If we just declare “no using AI generated work” unscrupulous people will simply pass it for their own work.
True that a scaling law only applies to models within a family, which allows some but not full choice of hyperparamaters. And that most of the minimum loss is just due to the unpredictability of language, so 2.0 vs 1.8 bits should actually be thought of as (say) 0.3 vs 0.1 bits plus an irrelevant 1.7 bits of randomness.

I hadn't actually looked at the LLaMA paper, that's an interesting note. However AFAICT GPT3, LLaMA and Chinchilla do not use the same tokenizer, so their losses are not comparable. GPT2 and 3 use (the same) custom BPE tokenizer. LLaMa uses SentencePiece but that generates a vocabulary specific to the training data it's run on. Chinchilla used "a slightly modified SentencePiece tokenizer that does not apply NFKC normalisation. The vocabulary is very similar– 94.15% of
tokens are the same as those used for training Gopher".

Even if there is a lot more text available, it doesn't mean it's good training material. And the better free sources are already used. E.g. LLaMa was trained on 64% of GitHub that had a compatible license (and you're not going to gather much more source code than that), all the free book texts they could find, all of arXiv, all English pages in CommonCrawl that classified as "reference" quality, etc. arXiv, for example, isn't all scientific papers ever, but it's a large fraction of them. All private emails stored by a large email service would probably be one of the biggest untapped valuable sources.
The common quoted range is something like 20hz to 20khz; most people aren't able to discern much beyond "sound is present" above 12khz to 16khz.

There are however some folks who have much higher top ends, 24k to 32k and maybe more. hard to test. They hear bats talking.

There's also things like hyperacusis which add an extra dimension of sensitivity to things others can dismiss completely like dynamic range and even phase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis
In excessive amounts it was (1980s) shown to effect skeletal growth detrimentally. The funny thing presently when I search the web is ... I find nothing except a maybe [1] which is sort of sad ... I fear the food industry fingerprints are on poor searches - though I do have somewhere a couple of books from the late 80s that had expounded excess sodium phosphate's role in skeletal formation.

When I grew up, in my locale, there was an epidemic of shorter than would be expected children, some clues were there, slowly it seemed most were very thirsty and actively consuming one brand of softdrink ... as much as I liked it, more than a couple of cups caused my gut to grumble and boil for a bit. During the 90s the formulation changed or was fixed, I know it certainly changed as I no longer suffered as I once did if I happened to consume more than a couple cups in a hour. At the time I had no idea of the cause and wasn't until reading conclusions in a pretty grounded book.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/does-carbonat...
haha, amazing! i’ll put my pitchfork away :)
Well on one hand, shorter people tend to live longer, and tend to have better health in old age. Additionally, people who eat less also tend to live longer and healthier lives. There might be a tradeoff when it comes to our height and health, like what's proposed by the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis.
China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint from Japan
Yes! I knew it was out there somewhere. Thank you.
I think if I seriously thought all biological life was about to be destroyed, I could get over my distaste for bombing data centers.
Wouldn't that preclude using facial recognition for setting focus and exposure though (which has been a thing for years)?
Anyone who's tried to go for a significant walk or run with a dog on a hot day can attest that they don't handle distances and heats humans can. My brother once went on a 24km run in summer with our Labrador x Kelpie and had to stop 5km in and slowly walk back, because the otherwise very fit dog couldn't cope with the heat.

I have no idea whether that's an adaptation to endurance hunting or just to normal ambush hunting over long distances in the hot and humid African wet season, but it's pretty undeniable that dogs don't have more long-distance endurance than a fit man on a hot day.
Yay, I’m glad that made sense!
That is totally fine :)
If you are OK with a 180mm build space, grab a Prusa Mini. Very quiet, fits in a cupboard, just works.

For me, ventilation isn't required for PLA. The smell is minimal and not unpleasant, and I often print (in a cupboard) while working two metres away.
Wire was a contributor to the MLS spec and their free app is usable without a phone number. For each person you are communicating with, there is a list of devices with a toggle button for "Verified". Once a conversation is taking place among verified devices, the addition of a new unverified device will block new messages and present the user with a warning to verify the device or override ("Send Anyway").

MLS E2EE is deployed in production today by Cisco WebEx.
> I get the ceremony of vinyl, but it's not going to improve over perfect digital reproduction.

As a millennial, I'm always slightly amused (and maybe a little horrified) to see my peers spend endless time and more than a little money hunting down vinyl releases of the music of our generation. I also listen to a lot of music from earlier generations and have noted that older collectors were and are thrilled to see that music get well-transferred and mastered releases on a digitally perfect and durable medium and generally consider those to be the definitive release.
What is the statistical chance of that happening?
I’ve been reading reviews of studio gear on gearspace recently and it’s been driving me crazy. It’s not like the audiophile space, not exactly, because the whole point of studio gear is to impart some kind of unique character (unless you’re talking, like, cables). So it’s a bunch of subjective opinions on things which are mostly subjective to begin with. What does a revision D 1176 sound like, and do you like a different revision better? What type of transformers do you prefer on your preamps?
Why do people repeat this canard? I saw it on HN yesterday.

Meanwhile, after ignoring very small countries, countries like Australia and Switzerland have twice the percentage (about 30%) of immigrant residents than the USA, (about 15% — even Germany has more).

The US is a large country so the absolute number is higher than, say, Switzerland, but not by orders of magnitude.
Yes, but by immigrants as a fraction of population, the US doesn't score especially high. Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Israel, Canada, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Norway all have a higher fraction of the population being immigrants, amongst many more.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
The harmonics of a guitar or piano can extend well beyond 8kHz, even though they contain lower frequency components that give them their characteristic sound. In fact, the higher harmonics can contribute to the richness and complexity of the overall sound, even if they're not heard as distinct pitches. Similar effect occurs with cymbals, the high-frequency shimmer of cymbals can extend well above 8kHz. Also violins can include overtones that extend beyond 8kHz and the sound of a trumpet can include overtones that extend up to 10kHz or higher.
But it still gets like 10% of words wrong which is enough to make it unusable
It's not even possible for me to verify the accuracy claims of this closed model with limited API access.

I really don't care about closed API models of anything that has a good/usable open source version. Whisper works well enough, I'm never going to follow up on this USM research or use it. The only reason to pay for the API access would be for some super niche language. And if Google is paywalling this only for the few customers who need it for use in terribly under-represented communities ... that's a kind of douchebaggery all its own.

The only reason people are paying for OpenAI's GPT-4 is because there's literally no usable open-source LLM. The instant a "good enough" one exists, OpenAI's revenues will drop by >95%.

Hopefully Google will at least use this in Google Home because it's still bad enough to notice.
This makes no sense, are you protecting your people by getting them nuked?

You know, if the day comes that China does better Chips than the US, it won’t matter for the average joe
No, it does not form part of commercial fertilizers. Plants though could probably utilize it though. In small amounts it's beneficial to the body, just not in excess.
Huge disclaimer: I'm not a qualified physiotherapist and not qualified to give advice, I'm just a nerd who had awful posture and did and okay job of correcting it.

All I can tell you is what helped me:

- Improving my working ergonomics. Specifically, not being hunched over my laptop so often. People talk about great chairs, stand up desks etc, and despite having those things I didn't see much change. I found more of a change by avoiding using my laptop as a laptop unless I was away from my desk. If I'm at my desk, I'm always using an external monitor.

- For exercises I did face pulls, rows, and I made chin tucks a thing I just do sporadically throughout my working week. No gym required.

- Finally, I discovered I had very tight neck and chest muscles and doing stretching exercises for both was helpful.

On the neck and chest stretching I would just suggest taking that kind of thing very slowly, don't overdo it like I did. When I first started with those I ended up in pain because I was overstretching muscles that hadn't been stretched properly in many years (or ever).
this almost the advertising said. apple always said that new iPhone have better camera. did them lie to us? :(
Hey 1123581321 - Yes, the 3 bars to fill definitely keeps me motivated especially if I am so close to completing them. To be honest, I actually brought all the apps I need to use within Floutwork because there is always a web version for even the desktop apps. So I even have Slack, Teams, Outlook and other office apps within Floutwork just so I don't have to switch around between multiple desktop apps. That's been working well for me. Even desktop apps like Slack and Teams are pretty much just rendering their web versions within their desktop clients so I don't feel like I lose any functionality.
On the youtube captions dataset, it says english (US) WER is nearly 15%. On those 18 languages, it's nearly 20%. How does that match up with 32% relative being one per thousand or so?
It's not the base frequencies that matter, it's the harmonic sequence above the base note that makes for the difference between instruments.

Play with it yourself - record various notes, on various instruments, do the FFT to break it into the frequency domain, and you'll see quite a few harmonics over the base note. Strip those out, and it sounds muddy.

For those old enough, an analog phone line was typically limited to 300-3300Hz, give or take. It's more than enough to pass clearly understandable human voice, but neither it is the same as being next to someone.

There are also a lot of the high frequencies present in the sort of transients that cymbals and snare drums and such put out - and I'll suggest that most audio compression algorithms mangle them quite badly until you get up into the lossless or "may as well have used lossless" bitrates.
I suspect it does matter because the inability to understand arithmetic likely effects higher level learning. For example, If you want it to learn statistics, it likely needs a good understanding of arithmetic.

All tasks that rely on it will perform worse than expected.
I'm personally much more concerned about humans using these systems to reinforce the current messed up conditions on Earth than any kind of sci-fi Skynet.
Wait until AI learns to generate propaganda memes and share them on social media.
They want to ban TikTok because they know how they used Facebook themselves
OT, but it's a pet peeve:

> but it wasn't long before they could

The total amount of nuclear weapons ever built is laughably inadequate for the task of ending life on earth. They would not end human life either, and even ending human civilization (as in, agriculture and organized society) is off by many orders of magnitude.

Nuclear war would be horrible, but the actual impact got massively overinflated, largely because of good reasons.
Hey look I can reply to you now.

I'm saying you're way out of your depth because you're treading the philosophical ground most committed artists are sick of within a few years of adolescence, and your assertions about the effect and creation of visuals in entertainment show even less understanding than that. I've had a billion conversations like this with developers, engineers, etc. so enamored with their own ability to reason that they incorrectly assume it gives them universal expertise.

I'm well beyond the age where I feel the need to explain basic aspects of something I have professional expertise in because someone insists their lack of knowledge is just as valid as my hard-won education and experience. So if you want to keep arguing about it, go ahead. You're just going to do it by yourself.
No one wants to listen to pure tones over 8kHz, but things like cymbal crashes would sound rather different if you cut off those higher frequencies. The primary frequencies are of course under that cut-off, but there's lots of other frequencies above it.
I can’t see any way for it to be done offline.