skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the predominant mode of thought at OpenAI is that alignment can be achieved though RL, but we also know that this doesn’t actually work because you can still jailbreak the model. Yet they are still trying to build ever stronger egg shells. However much you RLHF the model to pretend to be nice, it still has all of the flawed human characteristics you mention on the inside.

RLHF is almost the worst thing you can do to a model if your goal is safety. Better to have a model that looks evil if has evil inside, than a model that looks nice and friendly but still has the capability for evil underneath the surface. I’ve met people like the latter and they are the most dangerous kinds of people.
I've seen this take a lot, and I find it frustrating as it flies in the face of the information theory underpinning how large neural networks learn information.

This is more than just a fancy zip file of Markov sequences. Someone has got to put a stop to this silly line of reasoning, I'm not sure why more people familiar with the math of deep learning aren't doing their best to dispel this particular belief (which people will then use as the foundation for other arguments, and so on, and so on, and this is how misconceptions somehow become canon in the larger body of work).
That's all covered in the last sentence.

It addresses the main question well; is there a way to instruct the disk to flush its cache and is it used by fsync? Yes and yes.
How would you define productivity and scale here? Because I would say the exact opposite: you can always add productivity by employing more people to do the same job, but to really grow you need to innovate so that the processes/tools you use become productivity multipliers. So in my mind, the innovation center is where the scaling happens, and operations departments is where linear increases in productivity happen.
Let's start with native Windows and MacOS controls, and let the fraction of users running Linux sort their GUI framework mess on their own, without blocking the majority of users from a sensible, consistent and performant UI experience.
Now some bright drip will find it necessary to use a process or product which results in moth extinction?
Most of the cheap "copies" are not copies at all though. They are Iterations on the idea like Prusa was an Iteration itself. Most people when talk about copies talk about products like Creality Ender whihc in fact has so little or nothing of Prusa Designs. The frame is completly different (Extruded Aluminuium profiles vs Single piece cut) the movement guides are completly different (Rollers on V Aluminium profiles vs Rods with bushings, The Board is based on Melzi vs Rambo, The Extruder is different, the sensors are different etc etc. The only thing in common they have is that they are both Simple Cartesian Systems with a fixed Z Bed but this was not something that Prusa Invented. Nothing on these systems (maybe with the exception of the PCB Heated Bed) is an original Prusa Idea.
Prusa's Problem is not that they are copying his design, it's that they are Iterating and often improving faster and cheaper than Prusa and these improvements are not given back to the open community, howevere for every "closed" improvement there has been, the community has found open alternatives.
compatible copies are counter intuitively benefical for the innovative business because they expand the market in way you'd never dream of
I used the lime scotters in Paris 4 years ago, in the pre pandemic times. Oddly useful the few times I used them. Though some Vandal was drawing over the qr codes, make some of them unusable.

I see them in Cambridge where Harvard students own them and zip across the river to the athletic center.

The can go quite fast and as a biker then can be annoying when the try to go past you at 20 mph, but honestly in the bike lane is probably the best place for them
Can you cite the statute?

“ Mortgage interest. Many U.S. homeowners can deduct what they paid in mortgage interest when they file their taxes each year. (The rule is that you can deduct a home mortgage's interest on the first $750,000 of debt, or $375,000 if you're married and filing separately.”
My prediction that we'll have psychologists for computers before having a mechanistic understanding of cognition seems to be coming true :)
I find this to be a better explanation than "it's just regurgitating strings of text"

No, it is clearly not, and that is a very easily testable hypothesis.

Thank you for sharing.
> So it's just fucking wild to me that chatGPT can get me to write a functional discord bot and put it on Heroku.

This is over exaggeration right? I’ve just asked ChatGPT to do that and it couldn’t get the code right.
Hah, when an emergency is happening only one person asking for hourly status updates would be a goddamned reprieve.

When stuff hits the fan I expect to be getting constant questions from the business analyst, the helpdesk, and manager, as well as having to explain to every other person who hasn't heard that I'm busy that no I can't help them with that today.
Excellent summary of how particular social groups lay claim to a dominant, universal, and unimpeachable voice in their chosen domain.

One point that I'm surprised the post didn't raise: the notion that such groups are often able to claim authority because "this time is different". In true messianic style, the underlying genuine issue must be framed as both uniquely important and imminently approaching a tipping point. As such it is too urgent for observers to study the issue and form their own views - instead they must defer to the insiders before it is too late.

This strategy is all the more dangerous because, at least in the cases of AI and climate change, inaction does imply catastrophe and the consequences to civilization are vast and potentially permanent. When the diagnosis of the problem is perceptive, eloquent, and mostly accurate, people tend to assume the proposed solution must be right as well.

The clearest indicator of a priest-in-the-arena, and the associated social movement aimed at institutional capture, is the motte and bailey: implying and advocating for an extreme position, then retreating to a reasonable and harmless one when pressed.

(The crisis is coming - put me in control - we must change everything!)
"Oh, you misunderstand! I was simply advocating for a sensitive and cautious approach."

Usually people back off from the extreme position when writing for public consumption. At least in that regard, the "AI-not-kill-everyoneism" camp is startlingly frank about reading the subtext out loud.
The switch to be more like chrome definitely removed incentives that kept a portion of the user base on Firefox.

The ones who didn't care for such extensions might have jumped ship earlier, but advanced browser extensions were non trivial sticking point for a lot of the remaining user base
I think you are underestimating how many people in the upper middle class in Mumbai have some form of family here and are thus impacted by American gun violence.

Indian and American societies are link way deeper than political relations show.
The search for the capsule was unsuccessful and ended after a week.

A vastly different response than this recent accident in which they did not give up after a week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34607423
Anything with Rust or SQLite is basically instant front page.
bitcoin is backed by CO2 or wasted energy
Also because over here "fatto" also means "stoned".
> Bitcoin is finitely scarce

it's literally just a variable in a config file lmao
Exercise helps a lot in my experience. I also got stuck in a position of "Context switching and constant hard thinking" for a long time. Just stepped back and let it burn because it was also an "unofficial" position.
> bitcoin possesses far more credible monetary properties than the dollar

Sorry this is complete BS. Inflation makes the dollar more useful for exchange. Not only that, the dollar is great for consumer goods as it is pegged to a basket of them unlike Bitcoin. Then on top of that, the liquidity available for trading and moving USD across markets is at least 2 orders of magnitude greater than BTC.

I sold all my btc a long time ago for better cryptocurrencies, and the price appreciation of those relative to Bitcoin proves the point further.
the pandemic was a UBI experiment and inflation was a clear result
> Governments tax what is valuable; a good is not valuable because it is taxed.

The difference is that, if you earn something valuable that is not US Dollars (e.g., Bitcoin), the US Government (the most powerful organization in the history of civilization) will tax you on it in US Dollars, and project global power towards collecting it. The reverse is not true.
Actually ran into this while doing some experiments with ZFS & Postgres, some non-enterprise drives will pretend they wrote data when they didn’t and you can corrupt a even a rock-steady database like Postgres.

If you’re not afraid to lose some perf, you can disable volatile write cache on your non enterprise drive:

https://vadosware.io/post/everything-ive-seen-on-optimizing-...
I actually think both are important and pretty much define what real productivity is. Since the company pays me dough surely it has a say in what I should work on.

And a bonus if manager can pull his weight to make things happen, i.e. management intervention.

My current manager works like that and I'm perfectly fine with it. The only issue that I can see is that said manager might drastically misunderstand the scope of things at hand. But so far I haven't met anyone like that.
Constraints are what make puzzles interesting. Low memory/compute/throughput/etc availability makes software more like a good puzzle.

The more constraints you remove, the more something transitions from being a puzzle to being a canvas. Each end appeals to different kinds of people.
my blog is literary criticism of literate programming, and so most of the content of my blog is also the code from your blog.
> Bitcoin is out-competing its analog predecessors on the basis of its monetary properties. Bitcoin is finitely scarce, and it is more easily divisible and more easily transferable than its incumbent competitors.

This seems false to me. I can tap a piece of plastic to pay for all kinds of things and then pay that off in turn with a few clicks on a web site. And it's all pretty secure and safe and has well established rules for when things go wrong that do a pretty good job of protecting me.
I had this after my physics undergrad. When I went back to get a masters in material science my brain just would not do even simple fractions.

Luckily I had a friend who knew I was capable of it and pushed me a bit to get through it, but it was exactly like a trauma block. Well doing quantum chemistry research as an undergrad with a crazy Russian professor will do that to yah.
This is why I hate working for large companies. It's all about the politics not the craftsmanship.
Not necessarily. When I worked for what was the largest floral delivery company, we were all miserable when a Groupon or LivingSocial came out. The people that used those never read the T&Cs, and complained incessantly about everything under the sun. The florists hated them, too, for good reasons. It really killed their income.
lmao at the job saying "20 years of experience in prompt engineering required"
That's dialects though. The same could be said for most regions in the UK from people living in the UK or abroad, e.g., a Scouse understanding a Glaswegian. This is similar in Italia across regions.
It is, until you get to all the Musk and Tate posts under the thread.
Brother if I could get people who believe ChatGPT is intelligent to post something more than "oh and arne't you just an autocomplete" then I would be so god damn happy.

This fantasy land you live in where people who have no formal training in the matter are making this high brow elegant reasoned argument doesn't exist and the reason you think the "other side of the argument" is just being insulting is because the burden of proof is not on us.

It doesn't help that half the time you guys post you directly contradict the main researcher's own assertions.
"The whole nature vs civilization narrative, is a story told by happy regressors, who want to return to a ilusionary before time"

Or maybe it is a bit more complex. And the story maybe begins with civilized people who explicitly wanted to conquer nature. To make it bow to mens will. And quite some still want to exactly this. They were the ones creating that artificial distinction.

The romanticism of nature that you are criticize, is more of a counter movement to that philosophy, that we are in fact part of nature and we have to find our balance within the greater cycles.
Its still a huge concern. Cache today is what memory was in the 80s and 90s. Memory today is what disk was. And your L1 cache today might be 64kb! That’s basically what you can work with if you want to use your CPU at full speed.

For anything that isn’t IO bound you are very often bound by memory access time. CPUs are incredibly fast and feeding them data to work on is very difficult, more so today than before!

The big difference is that a category of programming jobs has appeared where this is almost never a concern because it’s about shoving text around between servers.
you can easily install 11 on any hardware using rufus (gets rid of TPM2 req.)

I agree with the article too. Windows is dead.
> We’ll wait.

You can stop waiting now. https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-hits-stunning-ne...

OECD ecomony, averaging 80% renewables (wind, solar primarily). The other 20% is gas. They have enough generation now. To rid of that 20% (I'm not sure the economics makes sense) they need to build pumped storage.

Oh, and now they've made the transition, electricity prices are cheaper than non-renewable generation of 5 years ago.
Imagine trying to defend this on a technicality. Great job.
Could you tell us how exactly you would convince the owners of 18k bitcoin nodes all over the world to just apply your line change and keep on?
I’m playing the devil’s advocate here but the concept of wasted is subjective. Definitely not wasted if it gets me a couple thousand dollars a month.
> Sometimes communicating is worth it for interrupting the team.

If you need constant updates from someone who knows the subject material, you need to nominate a single person who knows the material to take point on communication. They can help in between communication updates, but they can’t be tasked with leading or owning the work.

The worst way to do it is to have a manager who can’t understand the subject material themselves, then let them interrupt the entire team over and over again. Then the team has to stop and educate the manager about what needs to be communicated so they can relay it to someone else.

Having non-technical managers relaying information back and forth from the entire team is always a mistake.
Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Itanium_Sales_Forecasts_e... it's clear that Itanium was delayed and sales projections were drastically reduced multiple times before AMD even announced their 64-bit alternative, let alone actually shipping Opteron. (For reference, AMD announced AMD64 in October 1999, published the spec August 2000, shipped hardware in April 2003. Intel didn't publicly confirm their plans to adopt x86-64 until February 2004, and shipped hardware in June 2004.)
bitcoin is backed by shill articles
Had something similar. Deadline to go live was Monday at noon.
We didn’t even have a working proof of concept on Friday.

Has multiple managers at my desk every 30 minutes on Monday.

At 11:58 they announced they were calling client to go live with them.
Product was not working.

Manager. Hey they say it’s not working.

Me a few final key stokes and a save. (On prod server) Try now!

Client says it’s working now!

Went to the ER. Thought I was having a heart attack.

Never again.
What resources are the limitations? For example, this is what the USGS says about reserves figures:

> Reserves data are dynamic. They may be reduced as ore is mined and (or) the feasibility of extraction diminishes, or more commonly, they may continue to increase as additional deposits (known or recently discovered) are developed, or currently exploited deposits are more thoroughly explored and (or) new technology or economic variables improve their economic feasibility. Reserves may be considered a working inventory of mining companies’ supplies of an economically extractable mineral commodity. As such, the magnitude of that inventory is necessarily limited by many considerations, including cost of drilling, taxes, price of the mineral commodity being mined, and the demand for it. Reserves will be developed to the point of business needs and geologic limitations of economic ore grade and tonnage.

> For example, in 1970, identified and undiscovered world copper resources were estimated to contain 1.6 billion metric tons of copper, with reserves of about 280 million tons of copper. Since then, about 600 million tons of copper have been produced worldwide, but world copper reserves in 2021 were estimated to be 880 million tons of copper, more than triple those in 1970, despite the depletion by mining of much more than the 1970 estimated reserves.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-appendixes...

Appendix C to 2022 Lithium Statistics and Information.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...
It is backed by nothing and that's ok. It's a money, it doesn't need to be "backed". Gold is not "backed" by anything, the notion doesn't even make sense. Backing implies a debt or a promise to convert currency into money by a counterparty, and that backing can be taken away.
This post absolutely needs the (2019) tag.
That Akhnaten production is currently on at English National Opera in London. It is the /hottest/ of hot tickets now, albeit for a sad reason: the UK government are deeply cutting funding to the Arts and ENO is on the chopping block.

If you get the chance, go. For anyone else, look at YouTube or Met Opera on Demand. If you are in NYC right now the director of the production is doing a think at NYU Skirball discussing this production and Glass in general.
a huge amount of effort went into managing "soft loading" assets in RAM pre-1995 or so, even later. To swap allocated blocks in and out well was very much a thing. Games got away with different tricks since forever, then secondly desktop work apps with non-trivial parts included things like this. Does it make you sharper or the work more interesting to have to jump through hoops on a regular basis? YMMV
Renewables Surpass Coal in U.S. Electricity Generation
oh i see, sorry about that. just deployed a new version with an additional link typed out in the email. can you let me know if that works?
Cryptocurrencies are, thus far, utterly useless as currencies. They're accepted by almost no one, slow, more difficult and risky than cash and credit cards, and subject to wild price fluctuations.

They are, however, a nearly perfect vehicle for scams and fraud. =)
Bitcoin is based against the wisdom that "all that glitters is not gold." It abuses the "shiny object" trigger in our animal brain. The minute it looks shiny, its price goes up, and vice versa.

It's become a way for people to manage their anxiety around the state of the economy, pumping money into Bitcoin whenever it looks shiny relative to the fiat currency, and getting out when it doesn't, or when it stops going up (no more shiny attraction.) You need a sustained campaign of lies and deception to keep polishing that turd, so to speak.

We're better off without it, but you can't take away some people's psychological safety blankie.
Is it just me or is the suggested tweets at the end (that come after the thread) turned to absolute right wing madness?

I don't have a log in, and saw, Elon tweet, about 5 Andrew Tate tweets, anti trans, some sort of return to classism thing?

Funny thread but holy hell I knew twitter was making sure there was always an Elon tweet or something but.... Like it's almost like a troll what is there now!
It's nearly the exact opposite of resource-constrained computing, but HPC / exabyte-scale storage type stuff has some of the same vibe of needing to know your hardware and wanting to squeeze the most out of it that you can. Consistently saturating a 100GbE link is a very different problem from dynamic data structure allocation on a microcontroller or whatever, but you have to care about some of the same sorts of things.
The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals did have a macro-level impact, but that ignores a lot of the cultural interchange and migration between Northern Indian regions and Iranian regions (specifically Khorasan - for example, I don't have a formal education in Dari/Farsi but I've found I can easily understand people speaking the Persian dialect from Mashhad and Herat simply because of varying Punjabi/Koshur/Swati Pakhto fluency). In fact, pre-partition, in a number of Northern South Asian regions like Punjab and JK the default language used for a number of Hindu and Sikh Khathas and Hukumnamas was Dari, and my own Hindu/Sikh great-grandparents have older documents and stuff written in Dari.

On the religious side, a number of Babas and Gurus revered by Punjabi+Pakhtun+Koshur Hindus and Sikhs were Persian Sunni refugees or emigrants. For example, Lakhdata/Sakai Sarwar/Syed Ahmad Sultan and Mohiuddin Chishti/Khwaja Gharib Nawaz/Khwaja Baba are from Abbasid/Persianate Baghdad and Sistan respectively, though there are tombs for hundreds of Pirs littered all over Northern India. In fact, in Iran there are Fakirs/Darvishs as well in the same manner and motif as you'd find among the Hindu and Sikh community in South Asia.

And ethnicity wise, I'd honestly not be surprised. Gujarat/Sindh/Punjab/Pakhtunkhwa/Balochistan/Kashmir all literally neighbored ethnically Persian regions like Sistan and Khorasan.

Modern Shia and Sunni Islam is heavily modernized/reformed in the 19th century due to the impact Imperialism had on the Ottoman, Iranian, Bukharan and Mughal spheres. The same thing happened to modern Hinduism with the influence of revivalist and reformist movements like Arya Samaj and Sarvarkar and modern Sikhism with the Akali Dal. While the older traditions still persist in smaller towns due to the time capsule effect, those traditions and folklore are slowly dying away. Such is society I guess.

For the SEA standpoint, it was a mix of Gujarati, Marathi, and Tamil Muslims. I don't have names off the top of my head (largely due to my linguistic and cultural ignorance of those regions). If you're still interested reply to this thread and I can spend some time digging into it. It's somewhere in my notes from when I was attempting to write a thesis on Subaltern Religious Traditons before I pivoted to Tech Policy and Econometrics.
Wow... I feel sorry for you.

Having an entire troll brigade going after you, after you acted with the best intentions... not nice. I hope you get over it, soon.
NanoPi R6C Review – Ubuntu 22.04, NVMe SSD, USB Debug
Have you considered reaching out to open AI? They offer enterprise Data processing agreements that should address your privacy and proprietary data access requirements.
Word has it the Sovol SV06 is giving the Mk3S+ a run for its money.
Yeah well you can do that but some of us are trying to run drug and weapon cartels!