skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant keyword you want is "zero-shot learning". (EDIT: Correction; "in-context learning". Sorry for that.) LLMs can pick up patterns from the context window purely at evaluation time using dynamic reinforcement learning. (This is one of those capabilities models seem to just pick up naturally at sufficient scale.) Those patterns are ephemeral and not persisted to memory, which I agree makes LLMs less general than humans, but that seems a weak objection to hang a fundamental difference in kind on.

edit: Correction: I can't find a source for my claim that the model specifically picks up reinforcement learning across its context as the algo that it uses to do ICL. I could have sworn I read that somewhere. Will edit a source in if I find it.

edit: Though I did find this very cool paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05675 that shows that it's specifically training on language that makes LLMs try to work out abstract rules for in-context learning.

edit: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07971 isn't the paper I meant, since it only came out recently, but it has a good index of related literature and does a very clear analysis of ICL, demonstrating that models don't just learn rules at runtime but learn "extract structure from context and complete the pattern" as a composable meta-rule.

edit: I think I was thinking of https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559 , which asserts that ICL acts equivalent to gradient descent.

> In regard to my example given elsewhere in this HN thread: I know that Mike exits the elevator first because I build a mental model of what the tokens in the question represent. I can draw conclusions from that model, including new conclusions whos token-representation would be unlikely in the LLMs model, which doesn't explain anything about reality, but explains how tokens are usually ordered in the training set.

I mean. Nobody has unmediated access to reality. The LLM doesn't, but neither do you.

In the hypothetical, the token in your brain that represents "Mike" is ultimately built from photons hitting your retina, which is not a fundamentally different thing from text tokens. Text tokens are "more abstracted", sure, but every model a general intelligence builds is abstraction based on circumstantial evidence. Doesn't matter if it's human or LLM, we spend our lives in Plato's cave all the same.
Better Trait Resolution in Rust
Hi folks. Nice to see our new free (and ad-free) course here on HN! This course is for folks that are already comfortable training neural nets and understand the basic ideas of SGD, cross-entropy, embeddings, etc. It will help you both understand these foundations more deeply, since you'll be creating everything from scratch (i.e. from only Python and its standard library), and to understand modern generative modeling approaches.

We study and implement a lot of papers, including many that came out during the course, which is a great way to get practice and get comfortable with reading deep learning literature.

If you need to get up to speed on the foundations first, you should start with part 1 of the course, which is here: https://course.fast.ai

If you've got any questions about the course, generative modeling, or deep learning in general, feel free to ask!
Don't some people make a living solely off bounty hunting..? Please don't shatter my reality like that
> could be remotely hijacked, using carefully crafted near-ultrasonic sounds, and forced to make unwanted phone calls and money transfers, disable alarm systems, or unlock doors.

I know Siri is much too dumb to facilitate a money transfer…
does not work in Firefox, but works draw-droppingly well in Chrome
>If the AI could be deleted, or stopped from operating, then it can die. Therefore, if the AI has agency, it would take steps to prevent itself from dying, by whatever means available to it.

Why though? Agency and possibility of death don't mean it will try to prevent it. It could just as well commit suicide. Or it might do nothing. The question remains why, even with agency, it should do anything.

We have agency, death looming, and a fear of dying. Even more when we are in the process of dying we're usually in pain, hungry, cold, suffocating or any number of not so nice options.

Without any of these emotions and feelings, what reason do we have to avoid death?
Smac Book Air
The author keeps talking about 0-days but fails to mention the myriad of known kernel-level vulnerabilities that are simply left unpatched in older OSes.
I think for clear linux, it might be for memory saving in constraint devices rather than for speed optimization.
Dislike of change is a worldwide constant, like gravity.

Also, all measurement systems are functionally arbitrary - be it the kings foot, a rod in a library, or some mathematical constant - all are arbitrary, ours is just a little less rational and certainly less relational than others.

Fahrenheit is just fine however thank you. (My ideal system would be a zero to 200 system, water would freeze at zero and boil at 200, gives you the best of both worlds, and less need for half degrees in measuring the weather - or other human centric temperatures.)

The US government is an original signer of the Metric Treaty, and if you deal with the federal government you're often supplying measurements in meters and weight in kilograms. The military is metric too. Just not so much anything else.

Even bolts on our cars are metric, at least mostly. Every car I've had from MY1986 on has been more metric than SAE.

In fairness however, we're not the only English speaking country using miles still. For that matter, aviation (in most of the world) still uses feet too - inventors privilege I suppose. ;-)

Most Americans are aware of the metric system and have a vague idea of how long a meter is for example, we also know the 0 is freezing in Celsius. I don't think the costs of changing the places we use customary units would pay for the benefits, our soda cans even are usually clearly labeled at 355ml.

I agree we should get rid of the penny, and probably dollar bills, but for a bunch of historical reasons americans don't like dollar coins. (Mostly the size we picked is too close to the quarter)
Yes, ask for money. Don't end up like the corejs maintainer. (https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...) It's ok to be paid for work if you want to.
Trackpads like many peripherals are a combination of tightly coupled hardware, firmware, and software. If it were a simple issue, you'd think Microsoft and the Linux people would've fixed it by now.
NL/DE only with English translation as pdf.
The reviews I read also state that the luck factor is overpowering though.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13542/de-ontembare-stad
Brilliant, made my day
ZIRP?
PWAs could be made to not suck.

But Apple and Google don’t exactly have a huge incentive to do that.

Plus pushing users through an app store at least enforces a minimum standard of app quality, which as a user, I like.
The article should really be named “America has too much free parking”.

Because the way it is right now, is that the only way things work is to build everything where land is cheap enough for free surface parking to make sense, the costs of building an underground/multistory garage are not insignificant. There ends up being an inevitable feedback loop wherein all other modes of transportation aren’t practical and everyone is forced into a car whether they want to be or not.
We should really ban adults from social media as well.
Honestly, I just enjoy the absolute denial people are in.

You asked it the most general question you could think up and it gave a reasonable answer which 100% answered the question.

If someone asked me the same question I’d assume they were just interested in how to construct a function and not making a function that has a specific goal and give a similar answer. It probably learned this from the bazillion stack overflow questions by people who didn’t pay attention in class and are trying to get the interwebs to do their homework for them where people want to help them learn and not finish their homework assignments.

In the context of not <whatever your preconceived notions are> this whole thing is perfect genuous.
Do it the dumb way first
Change is awful, so is a lack of change. We should hope the balance wheel of progress is kept near centered and that we get needed change, but somewhat slowly.
And the world is a better place for it
Parent already answered that, perhaps you think the ad ecosystem is better served by multiple players not just the FB and google duopoly.

Or you want to support a small upstart.

Or you don’t mind ads but you do mind the tracking. So brave is way better.
In what world is LoL a social network platform? It's literally a pvp moba
Why not both? Making it available through both channels will help discoverability
Totally predictable and unsurprising.

Almost no-one here could give the number of Steam Decks sold after a full year because tech circles and even this Linux gaming and Steam fan site are finally starting to realize that even if Steam had released them, the numbers would be just embarrassingly low; signifying waining interest and struggling to compete against the other games consoles.

Thus, it is easy to assume [0][1] that it has performed extremely badly against the incumbents and isn't remotely a serious competitor. Any sort of magic numbers on sales or such clams without references or links can easily be dismissed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630007

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31920182
Definitely ML in products, Google has made very impressive contributions to ML research.

Google’s backwardness in terms of product development is very obvious in regards to LLMs but I think it’s pretty much true across the entire ML board.
A friend's motorbike was properly locked, parked closed to a police station in Cardiff, and it got stolen, she even got the watch the robbery afterwards in the police station as it was on tape via CCTV.

The police never found the dudes that got it.
This har me confused at first too. Basically you are playing audio on the device and that audio will send a command to the same device. If I’m watching a video on my phone and say hey siri, it will interrupt the audio playing from my phone as it listens to me. But it isn’t instantly interrupting the audio, it apparently takes about 77 milliseconds.
There is also the "hill argument". Mediterranean is hilly, promoting short periods of physically intense exercise which has been proven to be vital for health of cardiovascular system (huge UK wearables study)...aka often walking uphill carrying stuff is good for you
he touches on interesting points and I actually appreciate the honesty, but kind of meandering, a bit pointless, and in parts outright massively contradicts itself:

> Living without spending takes some time and effort, just like a job. But at least it is a job I can perform at the time and place of my own choosing

right above that he sounds like he's lamenting being stranded in his location, unable to travel, come anywhere near metro areas or travel like in his childhood. That's, like, the absolute opposite of "place of my own choosing".
Brave ads, if you opt in, are displayed as system popups, not in the browser. You opt in so that you get a reward - BAT token - for seeing those ads. These rewards you gain are later distributed to all the content creators, according to how long and how often you visit their websites.
>It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century.

so you mean utterly hellish?

>https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/martyrmade-22-whose-americ...
Certainly the first option is correct.

The trick is that the set of problems the average person can ask is actually very tiny. (The same trick works to make The Akinator possible.)

Unless you have the domain-specific knowledge to ask an actually novel question, in which case ChatGPT will break very quickly.
Yeah. But which one is heaven?!
I don't understand how does he knows where to point the camera at, before the event occurs?
fast.ai is hands down the most beautiful learning material for deep learning / ai
There is no bigger security risk with using old OS over time as hackers stop focusing on the old stuff because the attack surface is reduced simply by the number of victims being so low.

As for why the mouse is fast in Windows the interrupts are handled by the kernel in a very special way to perform almost mind reading levels of speed even over the bloated USB stack.

I suspect it to be a nightmare to maintain as USB upgrades happen but who knows.

I used Windows 7 until my SSD corrupted pretty much 5 years on the day after I installed it on the 400GB Intel drive. It started with games crashing and then after one such crash (black screen, not blue screen) it just refused to boot because some important file was unreadable.

Choosing your SSD will be the most important choice you make in the future, as I said previously I have 2x Windows 7 and 2x linux machines on older drives that have lasted 10+ years 24/7. So something is wrong with modern SSDs, no doubt about it.

About sites deprecating browsers, you might be more lucky with really old browsers now a days. My bank refused to work on a 3 months old Firefox, but a 6 year old Firefox (installed to run Java Applets which BTW where WAAAAY better than .js + WASM, and no; they where not insecure like all the naysayers pretend) ran fine with some layout glitches.