skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes it kinda equivalent to a cop pulling you over and giving you a warning - which wastes probably a nickel in gas.
People keep repeating that LLMs are "just generating text based on probabilities". That statement doesn't mean anything.

I think people who say this are imagining LLMs work something like a statistical model. Maybe it's doing a linear regression or works like a Markov chain. It's not.

A single artificial neuron sort of works like that. But that's sort of like saying a single transistor is just an electronically controlled switch, so the only thing computers can do is switching. It's true in some sense that computers are just doing a lot of switching, but it turns out all this switching is Turing-complete. That means computers can theoretically compute anything that's possible to compute given enough time and memory, which includes anything a human could figure out.

Similar principle applies to LLMs. Using probabilities is part of what they do, but that doesn't preclude them from using logic and rules of inference.
>infinity seems impossible to me

"Me," in this case, is a microcontroller that evolved to move muscles on a primate body effectively.

Do we have any reason to believe such a system should be capable of grasping the true nature of the universe? After all, it's far outside the design spec!
According to the featured article, the Julia programming language is going to be used for a new and better climate model.
Kinda more like War Games. Ender was more hacked _by_ the Formics in what he assumed was a game … not that it did them any good.
Visual Attention in Virtual Reality (2018)
I guess we just have different meanings of hand holding then.
I am not very familiar with Nvidia. What does telemetry mean in this context/what are the implications?
Here's a youtube link for the same video, if you'd rather not visit a FOX affiliate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5L4DpXheg
i shouldn't have called out a specific country. So sweden has a population of 10 million to USAs 330.

I'm just getting at the idea that by design, USA seems to want to deal with all of these people. There's 2x order of magnitude difference of chaos.

I'm not waiving the US flag btw, im just saying it seems reasonable that's it a 2x magnitude more complicated problem no?
Most scams seem to be chinese, indian these days. If there is a precedent that we can stop such out of country scammers, then vast swaths of the "scamming market" go away overnight.
The people I know in the Bay no longer even bother to report crime - it does nothing and wastes their day.
Uber sells $400M stake in Careem super app business
What's wrong with Chrysler?
They had to, we hired them. But it's more interesting that the leadership was really upset at having to tell them to change plans. After the changes to the construction project they heavily limited what information I have access to.

Fundamentally I didn't have any authority to change these things on my own, so what caused the leadership to change course was basically an email in the following format:

"Here's the current state we have ...

Here's what will what happen if you move forward with it ...

I would heavily recommend against proceeding with the current course.

Ultimately it is your own decision and you will have to bear the consequences of that decision"
Well they call a LOT of things Defender now anything from email and azure specific alerting to EDR and DLP. It's all "Windows Defender ______". But I meant the consumer license AV.

But also even with the most basic win10, cloud submission (if privacy is no biggie) gets you EDR detections to a point but without the edr console and logs.

When I simulate attacks with defender on, I would spend a lot of time bypassing it but then as soon as I break opsec (e.g.: run whoami.exe) if cloud submission is on I basically burn that technique because the edr in their cloud blacklisted it but with that off I can last as long as I want so long as I don't execute things flagged as malware by the defender on the host (and even then, usually that thing gets blocked not my original technique which I can still reuse).
Aside from heavily downvoted and dead comments, where is the contrast ratio poor?
Strong concur with the problem of being cold all the time.
It's an assumption that someone is happy with mathematical structures being infinite.

There are mathematicians unhappy with the notion even while being well versed in the Cantor (and other) arguments.

You can wander down that rabbit hole via (say) [1] as a starting point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...
How exactly do you create power when it's dark and there's no wind?

An "international market" doesn't help with electricity: you can't transport electricity feasibly across oceans.
I have so many questions. How would one determine whether I were a non-believer? What is an appropriate punishment? Why are Abrahamic religions whe ones which are allowable but all others are not? What benefit would this provide? Do the benefits outweigh the harm?

Is it ok to be a non-practicing Jew, or is it required to be orthodox? Are Mormons acceptable? 7th Day Adventists? Jehovah Witnesses? Why or why not?

How does one believe something when they simply and sincerely do not? Is it possible to force someone to believe something?

Can you cite examples of blasphemy laws which have proven to be a net positive in society? How do we deal with people having similar beliefs but exercising them wildly differently? Is that ok? Why or why not

I'm all for thought experiments and playing what-if, but if you're going to make the statement that my sheer existence should be illegal, I need quite a bit of clarity!
> STEM was heavily burdened by test prep

That's the wrong way to learn STEM, and is the fault of your high school.

Sadly, I know some highly educated STEM professionals who rigorously use the scientific method to separate truth from crap in their field. Outside their field, the scientific method goes right out the window and they rely on emotional arguments and wishful thinking.
It's really the water consumption. If your urine isn't clear, you don't drink enough water. Additional salt means higher water requirements if you aren't losing it to sweat.
I feel this is distinction without a difference. All belief systems are approaches to knowledge and information at the end of the day.

The institutional science belief system really has a lot in common with religion. In fact the instutions we now trust to train scientists and dispense scientific information largely grew out of instutions with a major focus to train clergy and dispense religious information.

Empiricism is not really in that same subcategory, but it also rests on some set of ultimately unverifiable assumptions. In fact, I'd argue that one of the central assumptions of classical empiricism, that all systems are locally deterministic, is demonstrably false. The early quantum pioneers had a hard time coming to grips with this and there are still several competing interpretations of QM. This huge shift still hasn't fully percolated to many other fields of science, which often still assume local determinism and pretend QM doesn't exist.
Noticed that today. I see to be getting different layouts depending on if I'm clicking a search result or just browsing
Yep. I didn't mention it but with magnesium testing, blood tests may not catch an issue; you can be deficient in a particular organ (e.g. brain) and fine in others.

But realistically, very little of the $100 billion+ supplement industry is built on anything medically necessary. Yes, I have a waste basket diagnosis with an unclear cause that's helped by a specific supplement, but there are quite literally dozens (perhaps even hundreds) of other supplements that the snake oil merchants swear up and down are essential for the same condition, and they'd happily claim that whatever deficiency exists is undetectable. That's why I "don't believe" in supplements in general.
Normal Americans don't have a market cap (which implies a valuation of multiples of future earnings and trading of ownership of those earnings) so it's unclear how you're scaling this comparison.
Should this fine Amazon instead as the marketplace which allows this behaviour?
royal bengal Tigers are the SAME as Indian Tigers. The British first saw them in bengal and hence their name. They are spread all over India
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger
I don't understand the appeal of trying to strip the Linux kernel down, then introducing additional specialized code like nolibc, in order to obtain a hyper-minimal binary that can run a single program on bare metal.

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a simpler POSIX-like OS to begin with? Or better yet, a so-called "library kernel" that effectively turns a userspace program into its own OS?

What's the upside of using the (relatively large and complex) Linux kernel for this? I doubt it's reliability, since the kernel in this particular configuration is essentially untested.
>Could it not instead be more akin to knowledge passing across human generations, where one understanding is passed on and refined to better fit/explain the current reality (or thrown away wholesale for a better model)?

I think it is only knowledge passing when the AGI makes its own simulation.

>Instead of a crutch, it might be a stepping stone.

I think it is a way to gain computational leverage over the universe instead of a stepping stone. Whatever grows inside the simulator will never have an understanding that exceeds that of the simulator's maker. But that is perfectly fine if you are only looking to leverage your understanding of the universe, for example to train robots to carry out physical tasks. A robot carrying out basic physical tasks probably doesn't need a simulator that goes down to the atomic level. One day though, the whole loop will be closed, and AGI will pass on a "dream" to create a simulation for other AGI. Maybe we could even call this "language".
I was told my bones were like that of an 80 year old when I was 32, I have severe Osteoporosis and since I already have Achondroplasia doctors here(India) don't even try to find what's causing my bone weakness; "Learn to live with what you've been dealt with" is a literal statement made by a doctor in an expensive hospital.

My spine broke, I've undergone various bone related surgeries all my life.

I decided to take matter into my own hands and built "Bone Health Tracker"[1] a FOSS bone density results tracker, I went to the front page of r/InternetIsBeautiful subreddit and through which I came across others like me who have suggested various rare diseases which I could be facing. Since then I've been working with NGOs helping those with rare diseases to help me find a doctor who can diagnose my disease and for the first time in my life I'm hopeful that I will be able to find what my disease is soon.

[1] https://bonehealthtracker.com/
I'm not sure if that national average is a good benchmark or not (maybe there is some sort of argument for how urbanized society has become) but my guess would be that there is some density factor. SF is something like 850k people pre-pandemic on 49 square miles. While it's not one of the biggest in absolute amount of people, it is the second(?) densest. I would suspect that a city of same population but 1/4 density would not need the same amount of cops.

update: I am guessing this is what your non-linear part is about; I missed that on first read.
I'm curious to how you ended the interview
When you get caught committing fraud to help sell something, the fine should be 100% of the revenue earned from selling that thing for the whole time you were committing the fraud.
It tends to spoil or already be spoiled. Even the pink phenolic young coconut travels a long way to its final consumption. It's overall just not really meant to be consumed so far from the source. Sourness means bacteria, and sinuses are infamous for falling prey to weaker or sparse bacteria in the orifices.
Again, we seem to be talking past each other, sorry. I'm really, really, really not talking about the search engine itself. I'm talking about the hunk of tech that makes up the interface layer between the human and the search engine, and the fact that that hunk of tech can be hooked up to a search engine is interesting but not entirely germane.

If using the analogy of human memory works for you - that's great! To me, it's not as good a fit, but that's ok.

> The mental model of understanding what works with LLMs and doesn't is drastically different from a search engine

Agreed! But again, that's not what I'm talking about. :)
I've never heard of solder with mercury in it. I'm surprised anyone would sell something like that.
oh man :( "temperature limiting" means there is a triac light dimmer in there to control power output. I havent even considered soldering irons that arent a proper temperature controlled station.
In my experience, while "continue" can work, "続けて" doesn't. At least not when making it rewrite large texts, which is when I hit the limit. With "continue", it continues rewriting. With "続けて", it tends to make up new text, that yes, is the continuation of what it was writing, but with no connection to the original text it was in the middle of rewriting.
Probably it was made for web 1 and maybe we are at like web 4 or 5 by now. Also the one who made it paul graham was last seen on twitter flexing on elon musk and showing human mortality actuary curves so idk if he's thinking to upgrade his news site. Maybe bringing any attention to the website's implementation wouldn't be a good look because I think it was supposed to be the flagship or demo for arc his boutique programming language which is having a ... slow takeoff or at least not a fast takeoff.
Personal vehicles are getting way too complicated now. Too many electronic components that can be points of failure.

Recently viewed a video on “steer by wire yoke”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow

It’s very interesting but there are so many additional motors, sensors, and actuators to simulate the same experience as mechanical based steering.

If you lose electronic assistance in traditional mechanical based steering, you have to apply more force as a driver and makes the experience difficult.

What happens if I lose one or more components in this “steer by wire yoke”? Seems like as a driver you are shit out of luck. If you are a pedestrian, bye bye.

All I want is a walkable city with public and alternative forms of transportation. All of these “car innovations” are mostly useless.
I think I understand your point of view just fine. I have friends, family, and exes in AA and NA. I just disagree that the best way to treat addiction is a settled matter.

What I think is still up for debate is whether AA's framings are a net benefit, due to the lack of good research.

Your comment brings up standard AA doctrine, and I'm glad it's worked for you. But by your own admission, a lot of people fall off the wagon. You blame it on being court-mandated, but it doesn't seem to occur to you that another program may have worked better, court-ordered or not.

There's no consideration in your comment for survivorship bias in who remains in AA. Perhaps AA works great for a small subset of people, who stick with it, but is worse for a larger majority, who would be better served in a different program.

> Fundamentally though, the evidence is pretty clear that there's a neurological basis to most addictions

Uh, I'm not disagreeing. Not sure why you think I was? I used to chat about this stuff with Dr. Carl Hart, who studied meth addiction, when I was in grad school. He was also of the opinion that AA's efficacy was a black box, and said that he'd recommend Scandinavian outpatient facilities over AA, based on the research he'd seen.
How do you know that the scammers are chinese or indian? Most stuff on amazon are just drop ship straight from aliexpress, but what information do you have that tells you who is doing the dropshipping?
In a rapidly overcomplicated world where people are forced into hyper-specialization, everyone compartmentalizes.
> Will the results be correlated? Of course, some people are more athletic than others. Does that mean there's a quantity called 'athleticism' that we can objectively measure with a number? No

Admittedly I haven't really studied statistics, but can't you do something like measure those abilities for a population, do a PCA, and define athleticism to be the first principal component?
jesus christ, similar experience.

this kid wanted me to sort an array without using array.sort method in js.

that was the most stupid thing i was asked to do in my life, i had to end the interview.

i went as far as telling the founders they made bad hires. other red flags was overengineered web app, too buggy, no seo, no ogp, shit in mobile responsiveness.

their startup was defunct within 6 months, no wonder.
Mac shipments fell over 40% YoY
De_Fuse, the One True Pwn
They had a good detailed simulation. Any competent construction project does, and most of the time, agencies are federally mandated to require BIM both for the construction phase and the maintenance phase.

No amount of detailed simulation can help if your contractor thinks you wanted 16 widebody bays and 4 narrowbody bays. There was nothing wrong with the execution; the disagreement is about what was to be built.
Got some coming in at 26!
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I would like to see the entirety of HN's codebase posted as-is, no redactions, cleanup, etc.

The entire site is officially moderated by ~2 people, and autonomously by the community. Whatever secret sauce they're using, that should be proof positive that it works. Keeping it a secret deprives countless communities of best-in-class tools and knowledge.

Would it be detrimental to HN? In the short term, possibly (gaming the voting ring detector comes to mind), but it's hard to say what kind of impact there would be without knowing what goes on under the surface.
I can understand pay for supermemo, but it is not in list.
In dark mode. Don't see it. Windows 11, Edge and Firefox.
That really doesn't mean shit since it anecdotally works to all the folks that have had UTIs. Whether the causal effect is indirect is really asides the point. It works.
And aren't much cheaper either...
I've met a lot of women who do stuff like this... I asked one why and she told me it's because they don't want to be a bother. Fully closing the door makes noise, screwing on lids can make it hard for people to open them later. So they don't. They close it just enough and leave the object in that almost there state.
my interest in your research is now piqued, trying to find papers now. :)

re your comment on chatgpt and citations, my sincere belief is that one of the more enduring benefits of LLMs, once researchers can eliminate/reduce hallucinations, will be to expose baseless claims and flimsy logic.

this won't eliminate all misinformation and misleading arguments, of course, but it will increase friction for bad actors and help good actors identify specious reasoning.

an automated BS detector if you will -- not unlike a noisy car alarm that deters theft.
I hope you didn’t mean it this way, but this is an insanely callous response to a video of a women giving birth on a sidewalk.
Hey, I tried signing up but the "Magic Link" never sent me an email.
Ironically city of Seatac was one of the first with $15/hr min wage and now has $19 - highest in the US.
Show HN: Easy Peasy Search for Gmail Using GPT
Use OpenAI GPT to convert natural language search to gmail search syntax

Ex: It converts a query like
`from john in august 2020 about taxes` to
`from:john after:2020/07/31 before:2020/09/01 taxes`

* Only your search queries are sent to OpenAI.
* You need an OpenAI API key. Your API key is stored locally in your browser.

Source: https://github.com/j-manu/easy-peasy-gmail-search
IQ is a construct representing intelligence. The aim is to refine this construct so that it is a) externally consistent with what constitutes our understanding of human intelligence and b) internally consistent so that various things we deem high or low IQ are consistent with other things we deem high or low IQ. The things here are items, which are question:answer pairs.

IQ is an example of factor analysis [0] where an unobserved "general intelligence factor" g is derived from observed items. The items are chosen so that responses correlate with each other and with g (basically, if the same person took two IQ tests with different questions then the score should be about the same). There may be some intermediate factors like verbal ability or spatial ability. The items here will be chosen so that they correlate only with items of the same factor--e.g. verbal items correlate with verbal items but do not correlate with spatial items.

A raw score on the test is not meaningful; individuals are compared against the population of test takers to determine their rank in the population. First, raw scores of the population are normalized so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15 (this is arbitrary; it's just the scale they use). Then an individual test taker can be compared with the population on this scale. The percentile rank can be obtained directly from the IQ score and vice versa.

You have some questions about the shifting mean of 100. In practice the normed distribution is computed from a norming group rather than recomputing the norm after ever test. A particular population can shift from the norming group (either over time or because it's a group with different characteristics) which is where things like the Flynn Effect come from. So a lot depends on the norming group.

I hope that answered some of your questions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis
Ahh, I see what you're saying. My bad.
LLMs don't have an inner monologue.

By their very nature they only "know" what they have written down and must infer the final answer from that token by token.

They fundamentally can't do certain things such as complex iteration or track back.

When you ask for chain of thought thinking, you allow the LLM to create a "buffer space" and break down the task into more manageable substeps thereby improving the quality of the results.
In VAG cars, the ECU and dashboard are often paired to each other for anti-theft purposes, since the immobilizer is part of the ECU itself. To stop people from simply pulling the ECU and replacing it with one keyed to the immobilizer key chip they have - the ECU is paired to the dashboard, which often requires a lot more time and effort to remove.

For other modules they're often used across many different cars/engine/transmission/body type and regulatory markets. "Coding" a module tells it what accessories/options it's connected to, what else is in the car, what regulatory market it is in, and so on.

There's also "coding" for how the module behaves with certain features. For example, body control modules on US cars won't allow you to use the remote to roll up the windows, but by flipping one of the coding bits, you can enable it. There's also silly stuff like enabling / disabling gauge sweep on the dash.

(Explaining this mostly for others, you seem aware of at least some of this)
All the water in the ocean is contaminated and is radioactive: it has naturally-occurring uranium in it.
> What would you expect to see instead of a bunch of configuration files and cryptic commands?

The fact that you even need to ask ..

Like, it's so _obvious_ that any computer system can't possible be made to work properly without a bunch of cryptic configuration files and cryptic commands.