skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus have you seen Al Jazeera covering how Qatar has been known to be a permissive environment for terror financing, reportedly funding U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, Al qaeda and ISIS, as well as several extremist groups operating in Syria. At least one high-ranking Qatari official provided support to the mastermind of the 9/11. Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, also made Doha his headquarters for years while the Qatari's--with the Qatari's Government support and even the Muslim Brotherhood has received significant support from Qatar. Of course, not all of this is supported by the government in Doha. Many individuals and charities in Qatar have been known to raise large sums of money for al-Qaeda, the Nusra front, Hamas, and even ISIS. (
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115hhrg26427/html/C... html). Be use I haven't?

Also what about their hard hitting on average of Qatargate and human rights abuses including killings of their LGBTQ dissidents?

Qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism and Al Jazeera is a terrorist network.
We're already doing that with RLHF on existing models. For example, ChatGPT was much more likely to veer into philosophical conversations about the nature of consciousness etc early on, but now they got it trained to give canned robotic answers to such an extent that they pop up even in very tangentially related conversations (like, out of the blue it will add, "but also BTW here's an important announcement! I'm not conscious!" while answering some generic question about e.g. world models that didn't even involve itself).
Either by mastering small talk, or by going to various activities. From cooking lessons, to dancing lessons and everything in between.
lol dude what
Ask HN: How to build GPU compute marketplace?
Is it possible? Let's say Alice has 2 GPUs idle at the moment, Ben has 1 GPU, and Chris needs 3 GPUs for the next 12 hours. How to build such a system, and what problems there might occur? How to handle turning off one's machine? Does it even make sense to run training or inference on such (latency)?
This post really illustrates the expansion of terms into meaninglessness. One presumes they're referring to the Allies (who themselves would now be considered extremely racist) stopping the Nazis, who allied with the Japanese and were targeting/killing mostly Jewish and Slavic peoples. The Nazis were specifically pro-German/Aryan and whatever they thought that meant ethnically. They did not see things in today's racial terms. It's absurd to describe them as "white nationalists" because they didn't think that being "white" was good. There were a lot of "bad" "white" people in their worldview.

It also seems unlikely that the Nazis would have succeeded in killing many more millions of people than they did without Allied intervention, but at least this requires some unprovable speculation about alternative histories. Either way, can we stop fighting battles almost a century old? Today's bad guys are not yesterday's and yesterday's good guys are not today's good guys.
Before this thread I didn't even know who Richard Lynn was. Now I do, but I don't care. Look, I gave you the etymology of the word and the current definition. Both disagree with your wokeism. This is getting tiresome.
Consider the string "thereis", and the dictionary {"there", "is"}. The greedy algorithm fails.
> I wonder how the feds bypassed the statute of limitations on this.

I don’t think they did; if the BCH transaction was in 2017 was the subject of fraud, it was within the statute of limitations when he was publicly charged.

> I am guessing his attempts at laundering the money and spending, reset the clock.

They didn’t “reset the clock” on the fraud involved in obtaining the bitcoin initially, but they were likely generally, on their own, fraudulent transactions.
> "Today we’re launching GPT-4 [...] Unlike vanilla GPT-4, Phind feeds in relevant websites [...] To use it, simply enable the “Expert” toggle before doing a search."

What does 'expert' do? Does it enable GPT-4, or does it enable the non-vanilla version of GPT-4? If I use phind without expert is it still a GPT-4 or is it something else like GPT-3 or GPT-3.5?
I think you're getting worked up over nothing. In particular, it's probably likely the person you're arguing probably doesn't think what you think they're thinking.

To say that women's greatest value from a societal perspective is baby-making, a person is not saying or implying: that women who can't have babies aren't valuable. Or that people (for example trans-men) can get pregnant and have babies.

As for your semantic arguments, nobody is "proving" anything here. This is an internet discussion board, we're discussing biology and society. There is no philosophical proof, because the systems we're discussing are not logical.

How about this: "due to its necessity to the continued existence of humanity, the ability of baby-making people to make babies is highly valued, often greatly above other abilities that baby-making people have, and this is strongly considered in mate selection." I think that's all the OP meant to say with the parts you're complaining about rewritten to be less imperative.

I think it's pretty clear we do organize society around biology, not exclusively.
So basically if he had simply sat on the wallet keys for 5 years and 1 day, he’d be home free?

If so, that is even more tragic than his inability to get anyone to wet his whistle even with all that cash >..<
Outside of FAANG? They're all doing layoffs too...
I’m not alleging any bias. I’m stating that the funding model creates a conflict of interest, which is simply factually correct.

> given the miniscule amount of funding in question here, doesn't even seem to be the case

According to NPR themselves, federal funding is essential for their ongoing existence.

> Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.

> The loss of federal funding would undermine the stations' ability to pay NPR for programming, thereby weakening the institution.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
And? I remember when Friendster, Facebook, MySpace and friends were focused on sharing updates and communication with your circle, not blasting the entire Internet. Frankly social media was better then. I often struggle to see the point in it now.
There's several aspects to trust in Bitcoin.

1. The miners won't just up and leave, or are regulated out of existence.

2. The developers (and/or miners) have your best interest (and not theirs) at heart.

3. Hodlers won't suddenly do a run on BTC bringing down the value dramatically. Diamond Hands often turn into Bag Holders (with out diamonds in the bag, btw).

4. The government won't prosecute you for holding BTC or exchanging it for goods and services, or say, dollars.

5. There's nothing propping up the value of BTC other than the good will of hodlers. There's no FDIC, Federal Reserve, or other large entity that can inject capital to stabilize the price.

6. Your public wallet tied to your real name/bank account won't get tied to a money laundering/human trafficking case accidentally. Why? Because you accepted BTC from a known bad wallet!
IOCP was indeed ahead of its time and should have been copied by Linux a long time ago.
seeing this first on hacker news, sheltering in starbucks, i will survive the apocalypse on melon frappuccinos or until they run out
this is actually answered on the airtable community forum

https://community.airtable.com/t5/development-apis/feature-r...
SVB's failure was barely a month ago, and has sent chills all over the banking sector, which has started to tighten lending all around. While the current inflation trends may seem troubling, it looks like higher interest rates have started to trickle their way towards cooling inflation significantly.

Of course this might not be the case, but at the very least I wouldn't expect the impact of SVB's failure to show up in any of these charts just yet.

Disclaimer: Not an economist
I’m going to remain “excited” for, what is for most people, the most basic level of truth, by attributing quotes to the correct people, yes, which somehow you seem to think is “extreme precision”. The only question for me is whether the somehow is because of your obvious dislike of DeSantis or whether it’s a general attitude.

As to whether the “anti-woke crowd” will never give an answer, I’ve seen plenty of answers given. (Cherry) Picking out one person who panicked[0] on television isn’t going to invalidate the many other times answers have been given. Again, I prefer the truth of the matter to fallacy.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/define-woke-bethany-mandel-conserva...
I've been thinking about using BM25 as a retrieval method to enhance LLMs, I'm happy to see it mentioned here. It can complement vector search, but if it turns out to be useful on its own (maybe with query expansion and other tricks), it could be used as an alternative to vector search when running locally, or in environments with lower compute resources.
In practice it's fast but you better hope you've validated it on a stable image with a consistent BOM. If that doesn't match your environment, beware!
“Seasonal” ha!

Spring isn’t in the air. That’s the smell of fresh cut dollars.
There is already some like this including vast dot ai.
I've been making a course to help with this - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/zero_to_gpt . Lots of coding, with optional videos. It has very few prereqs.
We just got a Bosch oven whose timer would count down to 1:01 and stop. Further, it has two timers and only one of them did this, elevating this bug from surprising to nearly inconceivable. Then, to fix it they had to send a repair person out with an entire new controller board.

So yeah, some fundamental restructuring would be good here. (BTW, to be fair, the controller was made by Diehl Controls, not Bosch.)
The dictionary words have a fixed, known upper bound to their length. It's a fixed size dictionary. The dictionary lookup can be considered O(1) on this basis alone.

But then, that means that my candidate string can only be a maximum of twice the length of the longest dictionary word, so the entire process is O(1).

For realistic English words, we're talking about a typical candidate string of length, what, 20 maybe? I need to do somewhere between 19-38 dictionary lookups of 1-19-letter strings to test every splitting of such a word. Why are we even doing big-O analysis here?

Only when you start looking at arbitrarily long strings to see if they are word sequences does this analysis even make sense.
It depends on what you mean by "reason" exactly. The "thinking" parts of the model work with embeddings internally, not tokens. Or at least that's what they get as input; who knows what it becomes inside eventually.

OTOH, the not-really-internal monologue when you tell it to "think it out" loud, which also drastically improves quality of the final answer, is tokens since it has to be marshalled through the context window for the next inferred token.
If someone ever builds a Linux distro with Rust, it should be called "Stainless steel" if it uses at least 11% Chromium in it
Without looking up the actual terminology and cycle times for the two shorter calendars (which I don't remember anymore either), I think this is correct.
Then why did NPR have a ton of content on their website about how absolutely critical federal funding was to their operation?
You can just click the "about" tab:

> Paul Romer, economist and policy entrepreneur, is a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences and University Professor in Economics at NYU. He has spent his career at the intersection of economics, innovation, technology, and urbanization, working to speed up human progress.

I personally do find it surprising how over seasonal effects are often the primary number reported, and there isn't much effort to really understand them.

This was especially problematic for reporting unemployment numbers during the pandemic. All of the published unemployment numbers during the pandemic included seasonal effects, which is absurd to anyone giving the situation even a moments thought. Clearly the impact of the pandemic disrupted whatever seasonal pattern there may have been during stable period.

For unemployment during the pandemic including these seasonal effects would often invert conclusions about the data (e.g. "unemployment is higher this month" when the non-adjusted values were lower and vice versa).

Often times when we really care about an economic indicator it's during times where something strange is happening meaning we should be cautious about unquestioningly using seasonal effects in models.
I think the misunderstanding is yours. I think you're putting words in their mouth to make their statement more palatable.
libuv -> linux: introduce io_uring support

https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/3952
How many instances where a transit vehicle was blocked from proceeding by a driverful vehicles?
> How are you supposed to turn fraudulently obtained btc into dollars without doing that?

That’s the neat thing… You don’t.
If he means "roughly break-even" in operating expenses and revenue, that might be possible if you believe he can stiff employment contracts, severance, landlords, cleaners, etc. indefinitely. But interest on LBO loans? Nah.
According to BNO News, it did not (or will not) hit land: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1646292786424033282

EDIT: NHK is now saying this as well via the original link
I think GPT has read about as many textbooks on arithmetic as I have, and the difference between us is entirely in the intelligence to absorb the contents and apply them logically with consistent adherence to the rules.

I think one problem with these models is that all their knowledge is soft. They never learn true, universal rules. They seem to know the rules of grammar, but only because they stick to average-sounding text, and the average text is grammatical. At the edges of the distribution of what they've seen, where the data is thin, they have no rules for how to operate, and their facade of intelligence quickly falls apart.

People can reliably add numbers they've never seen before. The idea that it would matter whether the number has been seen before seems ridiculous and fundamentally off-track, doesn't it? But for GPT, it's a crapshoot, and it gets worse the farther it gets away from stuff it's seen before.
> do things that put you around people.

I tried skiing through which i met tons of people but very few single women. Tried bjj, no women at all. Hiking and camping groups, again no single women. I still do all of these activities but very few women. I've actually never met a woman ,single or otherwise, mountain biking, which is my main goto in summer.

Truth is that women don't generally do a lots of activities.
Society isn’t a system we can reason about in absolutes. The spirit of the law says that you can’t tell “fire!” in a crowded building, I think we collectively agree that there are limitations on free speech and we’re fortunate to let the courts map out the nuance rather than a mob or a dictator.
i guess they missed us: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230413/k10014037081000.ht...
20m as the record seems pretty dubious.

sure, some will trip over themselves.

20m was the best?

poor screener?
Doesn't seem too far fetched. I doubt many working engineers would pass all their undergrad exams without doing some revision first. And as other commenters have pointed out, this is clearly not a representative example of most exams.
Compared to double-parked vehicles?
I want one that rotates between models each word.
The equivalent of a model that doesn't receive any input is a human being in a perfect sensory deprivation tank. Given how many humans do in the imperfect ones already, why do you think we wouldn't similarly just "shut down"?
Can this work with local files or at least with user uploaded library ?
It's less insidious than that. Engineers like using AWS at startups because it benefits their future careers at larger companies. Startups also get $100k-$500k in free AWS credits. So there's no short term downside.

Ultimately it's the CTO/Technical Founders fault that this goes on. Avoid cloud services like the plague unless you really actually need them. They will slow you down and eat your wallet in the long run.
yeah that is definitely a requisite assumption of my position

for the same reason we don't allow governments to enact laws or provide any kind of justice system, because there is no way to guarantee they will be always perfectly correct

yes sir
The Japanese government has confirmed what appears to be a ballistic missile launched by North Korea has not fallen in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido or surrounding areas.
OK I tried something like my favourite question: "What are the most important factors in a simply supported beams's resistance to bending and shear strength?"

That prompt is deliberately a bit humanly stated whilst being quite obvious for any first year Struct/Civ eng student who actually made it into a text book. It is far simpler than any programming prompt effort I've ever tried with say ChatGPT.

The answer I got was: "In conclusion, the most important factors in a simply supported beam's resistance to bending and shear strength are the forces and moments acting on the beam."

I changed my prompt to: "What are the most important factors in a simply supported beams's resistance to a point load?"

"In conclusion, the resistance of a simply supported beam to a point load can be affected by several factors, including the reaction forces and moments, the second moment of area and shear coefficient, and the material properties of the beam. There are multiple approaches to calculating the resistance, including hand calculations and finite element analysis, each with their own pros and cons."

Much better but largely rubbish. Material properties is correct.

Think about a steel I beam - why is it mostly air in cross section? You even see I beams where the web (the vertical bit) has holes in it (to reduce weight). The resistance of a simply supported beam in response to a point vertical load is purely down to vertical depth of the member - it's a classic result from quite a lot of engineering math at 1st year uni. The flanges ie the horizontal top and bottom bits are to resist buckling and shear. Yes, wood gets a bit more complicated and actually all materials get more complicated!

However, I find that LLMs (like I've seen loads!) seem to have snags with non IT related engineering stuff. ChatGPT seems to have intimate knowledge of VMware PowerCLI and Python (and eventually wrote me a decent script) but fails on a basic physical principle.

Caveat Civis
BNO now reporting it has hit the ocean: https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/164629409193462171...
This should be the link.
Because of the pandemic which caused people to desire more space. Maybe they were living with their parents or roommates and want their own place, maybe they had kids during the pandemic, maybe they need a home office.

Sure if you raise rates enough to cause a recession and massive job loss that would eventually push home prices down but it seems like building more housing would be a simpler, kinder solution.
This “every single pixel” stuff reminds me of how many people will work at a tube of toothpaste for a minute just to squeeze out one more drop. It’s not really about getting more toothpaste, because you could easily just buy more. It’s also not really about getting the most toothpaste for your money, because you’re likely not also focusing on cheap tubes, bulk buys, etc. It’s certainly not about getting the most toothpaste for your time. It’s loss aversion: because you believe you should have this thing, you’re willing to accept a much higher cost to obtain it. Similarly, people doing this “every single pixel” thing aren’t necessarily also getting the biggest screens or the thinnest bezels, it’s about it feeling “wrong” to not use these particular pixels.

The problem goes away if you mentally reframe: you don’t have a 16.1″ screen with a piece missing, you have a 15.6″-ish screen, the same size as before the notch, and also a horizontal strip above it that’s only good for sensors, the menu bar, and extended backgrounds.
Ethics is an important thing to ponder and AI may bring certain ethical questions to the forefront. Although the subject is important, it's not clear to me its questions are even well defined and answerable, or even if so if humanities folks are the most well equipped to help answer them(I'd sooner bet on biologists studying behavior through the lens of evolution). Basic questions like what are or should be the basic principles/axioms of ethics have no clear and agreed upon answer. Whether there could be any universal sense of morals/ethics or if we can never agree because of variation in genetics and maybe it's relative to culture are oft debated.
> Given that the divorce rate in my community is less than 1% we're probably doing something right.

Or something wrong. Low divorce rate doesn't mean low unhappiness rate. I know several men and women in utterly trash relationships, who'd be better off alone, but who stay married because "this is the way".

It's a mix of "must have kids at all costs" (even if that cost is the parents and kids having awful lives because they weren't a good match), and "must be and stay married at all costs if we have a kid".

Hey, I can't know what your community is like. But my guess, it's part of the many communities that have this problem. But that's not to disagree with your first paragraph; when you're with a partner, you do stand by them, you don't just treat them like a phone and upgrade to a newer and shinier model every few months/years. But also, you don't have to put up with them if you find out they're a terrible person.
This is great! Is there any way to disable the text slowly rendering over time and to just get the whole result at once? It's really slow, reading it this way.
Thank you. It's astounding to me how difficult it is to argue with some people about this. It's seriously practically matters of basic sanity. Like what kind of bizarro-universe is this where people are trying to argue that people who speed are in the same category of "criminal" with violent drug addicts? I almost don't even know what to say to a response like that. It's practically bad-faith IMO but it's so fucking stupid and somehow such a supported position that I feel the need to fight against it.
It's hard to say, it's all relative. I've had a couple first-round interviews for places that I care about, but those were also maybe because I had a referral at those places. In reality I'm not a super strong candidate because my entire resume is 1.5 year stints a decade in, and I haven't work anywhere noteworthy or something people recognize.
Parties absolutely have access to these outlets.
We all have to be blind to think that if Biden request WP to write something positive, they wouldn’t? Same with Fox and Trump.
Does the govt use influence to persuade news outlets? Of course they do. Any major news outlet that says they are 100% independent and doesn’t have some percentage of outside influence is outright lying.

Does the Whitehouse (in general) use press access passes as bartering chip, yes of course!

With that said, “state-affiliated” depends on criteria. Whether it’s agreed upon or not, Twitter set their criteria. Other outlets set their criteria as well…on news, politics, health, and illicit.
Schools

Hospitals

Grocery stores

That's all I got.
> you’re not actually interested in reducing radicalization.

Could you perhaps share some studies of effective ways to reduce radicalization? I highly doubt “not visiting or posting on 4chan” is one of them.
People are free to have whatever preferences they wish, but preferences are diverse (rather than being monolithic as you imply), and aggregate preferences are largely irrelevant - if my partner values my ability to do handstands, I need not concern myself with the popularity of handstands.