skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it's less useful as a "this person will excel" test and more useful as a "this person won't fail miserably" test. Which for most hiring decisions is the more important factor. I would under no circumstances hire someone who couldn't at least get the brute-force level solutions and talk intelligently about performance concerns.

IMO, the disdain from LeetCode from developers vs. its continued use disconnect stems from the fact that we developers tend to assume that the goal of the hiring process is to find the very best possible candidate, whereas the goal in reality is to find somebody "good enough" as efficiently as possible.
Yeah, I actually really liked G+... it was a nicer experience for technical follows, etc. Twitter is a firehose and you can only effectively sample a little of it. Facebook is just a mess, I think the groups feature is somewhat nice, but other than that, it's chaotic. They're all trying to compete in wierd ways and making them all less useful.

Mastadon seems interresting, but frankly I'd rather go back to IRC, and see some useful extensions to /whois details for better interconnectivity and profiles, but not so closed and walled garden as slack. Aside, I do still use irc for programming and bbs related stuff.
And when it is done there should be some sort of visual indication anyway. I was taught to squiggle the bottom of the axis line to show it's non-linear/skipping a bit. You could also rule e.g. every 50, so here starting at 40 you'd notice the uneven rules. (Much like how nobody uses a log scale and then rules only the decades.)
I think the GPU performance for inference is probably limited currently by immaturity of PyTorch MPS (Metal) backend

before I found the repo above I had a naive attempt to get llama running with mps and it didn't "just work" - bunch of ops not supported etc
More seriously I assume there’s a team at a US National Laboratory working out the parameters for building such a sensor, and (if they’re even remotely practical) another team figuring out how many false sources would be needed to hopelessly confuse it.
Yes they do, and even morality can be independent of free will. It just becomes impossible to assert that a Christian God judges some super-natural “You” without Free Will. That’s about all your lose.
I have it blocked all the time. Now I understand why some websites don’t work until I put it on.

This is nefarious.
He'd have lost a toenail or two and might have a bit of callusing.
"A great interview question" for what? The author sings their praises, but never actually explains what this question is good at testing or what makes it worth an interviewer and candidate's time. Results might favor younger or earlier-in-career folks -- okay, why is that a good thing?
You likely already have something like this through your local library, that you already chip in to pay for.
Because if there’s no free will, the person you’re punishing merely behaved according to the state in their brain and couldn’t have acted differently in the moment. Punishment is still useful as a deterrent, but there’s no “they deserved it” component.

I’m not quite sure what to make of it all. I read Sam Harris’s book on the subject, and can’t fault the logic. On the other hand I find the conclusion unsettling and prefer not to dwell on it. Usually I follow the logic fearlessly whatever it takes me, regardless of my feelings. But on this one, I do not.

I think free will aside, I’d rather the legal system focused on rehabilitation than on punishment where possible. It just screws up enough that the punishment might be applied to an innocent person. Also you want people that are able to rejoin society to do so from a position where they have hope and opportunity, and don’t fall back on old habits.
The definition I've offered you is the same one Richard Lynn uses.
Isn’t DW state-owned by Germany?
Yes, however there are times when you are enough of an expert in the domain to know why Y is the solution you need and you just want someone to help you with that part. You might know X better than anyone else, and explaining X won't get you far. You just want help with Y.

It is also true that there are many people who ask for help with Y and are wrong in thinking it is the correct way to solve X. I am describing the former situation and not the latter.
As a software developer, this article has been able to give me a glimmer of hope that my skills won’t be fully obsolete once LLMs mature. The high level instructions (author calls them „programs“ even) will require highly structured thinking, translating business goals into actionable slices.

I’ve played with AutoGPT today, and, while the results were underwhelming (once it crashed, and once it got stuck in an infinite loop because it wrongly requested a website critical for the task) - it was an experience very similar to my first attempts at learning C. I tried to tell the system what I want it to do, and it mostly really followed my instructions. If (when?) all the components have improved in reliability and speed, this will become an insanely powerful way of working. A la „Make a website from this PDF with nextjs and deploy it to netlify“. Not very unlike „Read this file from disk and parse CSV rows from it“ as we are doing now, as devs working with high level programming languages.
Assuming the goal of this hypothetical superintelligence is to maximize its current utility function, rather than the expected future value, would it ever modify itself in a way that it can with 100% certainty predict will prevent it from achieving any of its current goals in the future?

That seems extremely stupid.
> the field of NLP is full of these kinds of tasks

Isn't part of the issue that everyone is looking at these task results for signs of AGI, but there's a fundamental difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence in that:

With human intelligence we expect that it generalizes across just about any task -- if I create a new type of puzzle, the expectation is that if a human can think it up, a human can solve it. Cases where the puzzle fools otherwise-intelligent people are interesting because the people are fooled (unexpectedly).

With artificial intelligence the exact opposite is generally true: we by default don't expect that competence at one task generalizes to competence at others, and cases are interesting where competence unexpectedly generalizes.

As a result of that second part, we come up with more and more benchmarks to try models on, but we're still only looking at a small subset of all the weird, random tasks that a human is by default capable of either handling immediately, or picking up with some reasonable effort.
An enterprise subscription would be welcomed.
There is always the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Struggling with autism, I not infrequently get on the wrong literal non-metaphorical train, stand on the wrong platform for an hour, pass the station I'm meant to disembark. It's rough. But you can extrapolate that idea to working on yourself too—sometimes we forget to get off the metaphorical train, don't know which train we're meant to be getting, not even sure how to get somewhere, but as long as someone is trying to get somewhere rather than just being content with where they are, I think that's beneficial in most scenarios.

I've also struggled with depression, hence the "sitting on your ass", wallowed for many years and just tread water. Execute on intent—do something—carpe diem—make a change—you can always make another—just don't accept your life as-is if you're unhappy with it.
I think the word that Rosenstock was searching for, was "Introvert"[1]. I'm an introvert who had the good fortune to marry another introvert, and live contentedly with her for 40+ years. Following her death a few years ago I reflected on the differences between being part of a couple, and being solitary. There were many.

Health maintenance was one; somebody else in this thread has already commented on married men living longer. It works both ways, too. Each partner keeps tabs on the other, notices problems, encourages them to stick to health resolutions, etc. Plus you both are much less likely to forget things or miss appointments, because the other one is there to say, "Didn't you say..." or "Weren't you going to...?" and so on.

There were other, more subtle but still powerful effects. In general, I and my wife, as a couple, were a bolder, smarter, more adventurous "person" than either of us was alone.

So my advice to Rosenstock would be to seek another dedicated introvert. Of course it's hard to get their attention...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion

"Introversion is the state of primarily obtaining gratification from one's own mental life". There is a considerable popular literature on the benefits and drawbacks of being introverted.
Don't worry. Most Midwestern states didn't fall victim to the scandi menace. We generally corralled them your way.
Chiming in to say I do quite enjoy this language. So flexible & fun. Fun to hear, thanks.
You don't have the opportunity to change their mind that's an illusion that works in their favor:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

When you do stuff like this all you are doing is giving them a platform, letting them do PR for their hideous causes. They can calmly discuss the very existence of a group of people and then exit when it suits them. A member of that group is, rightfully, unlikely to have that sort of calm intellectual distance from a conversation about their right to exist.
Yes and custom network software for routers, switches, firewalls, and custom OSes etc.
Needs a "toast level" setting, like the original - but great job!
Hard disagree. My last "n" relationships over more than a decade came from dating apps. It's also a high-percentage source of relationships these days.

Dating apps can be where people go shopping, but it can also just be a way to filter for people you wouldn't ordinarily encounter doing the things you do day to day. In that respect, they're great.
After a few times, you could ask it to reduce its purpose to a couple of lines of code. Test the code, verify it. Maybe even deploy it.

That’s more expensive than writing a couple of lines of code, more than deploying it,

Sufficiently standardized, it will be significantly less expensive than paying someone to write a couple of lines of code, test it, deploy it, etc.

Is this better than just writing a couple of lines of code? That’s a different question. At scale, this can absolutely be cheaper. Eventually.
That appears to be one single case.
NYT is in the class of elite professional level bias and they certainly are not without their issues. This isn't to say they are more biased than other notable publications, but that they all have this quality and use professional language to sound authoritative on subject matters all while they still have the effect of changing opinion or manipulation of information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-times

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...

All of the "trusted" sources have led us into wars and condoned the actions of bombings across the globe.
Why is there any concept of "some users worldwide" with respect to default cookie settings in a browser application?
Substack has been broken for me Firefox on iOS for a little while now.
> By definition critical studies starts where legal studies ends.

By what definition? AFAIK, critical studies can evaluate anything critically.
Philosophically, I think there is a "you deserved it", maybe even more so, if there is no free will. After all, it is then unavoidable. How could it be any more deserved than that? :)
Google has the same data-slurping business model, they just aren't quite as big dicks about it as Facebook.
It couldn't find the answer to my question but the response contained enough supplementary information to show that I wasn't going to find it easily by googling either. That in-itself is a massive timesaver.

Q: What is the token window size of the Alpaca model?

It understood the question and knew what Alpaca was. So it passes the recent information test.
Pandoc tables remind me of the reStructuredText tables, which I used back in the day: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#...

Very powerful, but I found it challenging to remember the syntax since I was only using them intermittently. Still, it could indeed form the basis of a more advanced spreadsheet markup syntax, supporting things like merged cells (which Sheet Markup does not, and probably never will, support).
Touche, I am not a /pol/ regular. Glimpses of /b/ is about as far as I got, and the Nazism seemed more like trolling and baiting on the surface.
to avoid breaking changes for every single user?
How seriously has prohibition enforced & punished so far?
Well we don't treat people equally, and those affected are right to confront it.
I'm pretty sure that even an actual Nazi would realize that they do not have the option to just straight up murder you right then and there at the restaurant table. A person also does not need to be uncontrollably angry at <minority group> to qualify as a Nazi. As one example, cynical and dispassionate severe dehumanization of <minority group> would also qualify you as a Nazi in my book. A Nazi who is cynical and dispassionate, rather than uncontrollably angry, might be able to sit at a restaurant table and maintain civil discourse with a member of <minority group>, either because the Nazi sees it as some kind of mental exercise, a display of his superior temper, logic and virtue, or whatever.

The point is, it is not physically impossible for a member of <minority group> to participate in civil discourse with actual Nazis. It just depends on the specific Nazi in question.
I actually have had to solve a version of this problem on the job. There was a database of tagged photos; for some reason all the tag strings had had their spaces stripped. So you had to efficiently find a probable chunking into words. (Of course the original text wasn't always all dictionary words.)

OTOH re the concern for O(n^2) time when n is bounded by word lengths, and when the inner loop was in already-optimized string comparisons in your language's hashtable library -- I think that part is very artificial.
not sure what 'mixing LLM models' entails but these are maybe some good starting points

- karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

- https://towardsdatascience.com/beautifully-illustrated-nlp-m...

- https://dzone.com/articles/a-deep-dive-into-the-transformer-...

- https://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

- http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html

- https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transforme...

- https://blog.quickchat.ai/post/tokens-entropy-question/

- https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html

- https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

- https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/l...

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17564.pdf
Imagine that in five years from now, ChatGPT or one of its competitors will reach 98% factual accuracy in responses. Would you not like to rely on it for answering your questions?
Both the author's and your run-times pretty plainly illustrate everything wrong with BigO.
While it's important to remember than no group is a monolith, there seem to be a great number more people of color who disagree with this take than who agree with it.
30B EUR fine seems to be excessive even in Germany.
Ask HN: What Is Going on in Tennessee?
I am European. I have a hard time understanding what is going on in Tennessee. It seems relevant to understanding US politics.

What did the GOP want to accomplish with the exclusion?

Were they not aware that this would have to be upheld in local courts?

Were they aware of the impression they were making on the public?

( Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have both been reinstated to their seats by local county commissions. https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/10/23677366/tennessee-republicans-expelled-justin-jones-justin-pearson )
What got deleted, and what am I supposedly?

Your comment also says a lot about you.

I don't feel ashamed for worrying about the unwarranted mutilation of children.

What is your excuse?
Apropos this, was tempted to submit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWVdXyPvWQ [1] after watching it last night, but maybe it's better to just leave it here, instead..

1: How A.I Will Self Destruct The Human Race (Camera Conspiracies channel)
Yep BAT is a pretty cool idea. I have yet to see anyone actually use it though :/
Show HN: GPTCache – Redis for LLMs
Hey folks,

As much as we love GPT-4, it's expensive and can be slow at times. That's why we built GPTCache - a semantic cache for autoregressive LMs - atop the vector database Milvus and SQLite.

GPTCache provides several benefits:
1) reduced expenses due to minimizing the number of requests and tokens sent to the LLM service
2) enhanced performance by fetching cached query results directly
3) improved scalability and availability by avoiding rate limits, and
4) a flexible development environment that allows developers to verify their application's features without connecting to LLM APIs or network.

Come check it out! https://github.com/zilliztech/gptcache
Deadspin saw one of these and made with a step-by-step summary:
https://deadspin.com/how-espn-manufactures-a-story-colin-kae...
Yeah, Musk's definition of supporting free speech wasn't much to speak of... better than the old guard, but really weird in ways too. For me, short of threats or calls for violence I'm pretty open to whatever... As long as you're able to as an individual block/filter. Though the NSFW content on Twitter can be pretty bad and wouldn't mind being able to selectively filter that as a user too.
Reading about the latest racist is sort of boring. It's like reading about how MLK was a philanderer and a plagiarist or how Michael Jackson may or may not have been a pedophile. It's beside the point. I'd rather focus on people's useful contributions. Well, except for Elizabeth Holmes. I make an exception there.

I actually appreciate your candor. I believe strongly in equality of opportunity. I do not believe accepting falsehoods as fact or drowning those seeking truth in frivolous arguments is likely to get us there.

I do actually think it is possible to have a world where we accept that IQ is genetically heritable and yet people treat each other kindly.

I am convinced that a refusal to accept IQ as a genetic trait is the cornerstone of the belief system underlying claims of systemic racism and the like. In fact, if I believed IQ were largely environmental, I would immediately join in that chorus. The problem is, IQ is genetic, and what society is actually doing is demonizing large groups of people in a fashion that resembles the Salem Witch Trials for being "racists" when in fact most situations can be explained in a far more pedestrian way by simply acknowledging that some people just aren't all that smart.

None of this is to say that zero racists exist in the world. Of course they do, and they should be vigorously combatted. But to suggest that racism is a founding principle of western culture or that it is the basic reason for differential outcomes between groups just isn't true. Not in 2023.
So... how does one actually meet women?
Oh dupe from 7hrs ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540418
I didn't feel like the parent comment was worth downvoting, and I share most of your perspectives. I agree that AI safety is ripe for contributions, but I'd personally argue AI safety is a very wide and encompassing topic that requires a good foundational understanding of AI. In the context of ML, AI safety is applicable to the entire process; from dataset creation, training, utilization, etc.

In regards to your comment on AI safety being "underutilized", my thoughts are that it's just simply difficult to do. Let's put aside all the difficulties of training, verification, etc and just look at the data problem.

If you wish to make certain that your system meets some given AI safety standard, then you must somehow prove two things: the data the model ingests when deployed will always return the correct response and that the dataset composes/generalizes the data the model will ingest when deployed. For simple problems, this may be doable. For complex, multidimensional problems wherein the dataset must only hope to generalize the complex input it will encounter during deployment, this may be next to infeasible.

I'm definitely getting off topic here, but bias of all kinds exists even human operated systems eg car. I can't say I've ever seen a firetruck stopped on the highway before, but perhaps I'd know what it is and how to avoid it. If a dataset does not contain that event, how can we be certain an AI system would understand? I'm not sure if it's possible to create a dataset that will be without bias in the case of complex problems, but I'm certain we can create one that's performant at driving than I. So the questions of "how safe is enough?", then proving/demonstrating that safety, and more are particularly open topics. I enjoy making the point that there is the lack of rigorous standards for humans, as we hold computers to far higher standards, but ML models probabilistically navigate decisions similar to us.

I'm sure this reply could extend further, but this and more are my defense of why I believe AI safety is a wide topic. None of the above should dissuade beginners from exploring the subtopic, but it's certainly not something you'd be able to learn first without strong, foundational context.
A gastroenterologist should treat GERD (to the extent possible) then we should be checking sleep. As soon as GERD is under treatment a consultation with a sleep laboratory could be considered since some reflux may still happen during the night and may result in (mostly central apneas).
There is a Black Mirror episode on this. They've covered this kinda thing a few times.
The obvious answer is because some people have different starting points than others. Thus, even if all rules were changed equally, there wouldn't be equal outcomes.
> sell your chat history

I bet people would give it away for free for a small set of functionality in return. Just like we do with social media ad data etc.
Cool, didn't know they exist.