skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of my anecdata isn't to prove a theory. It's to demonstrate that the burden of proof should be on those claiming intelligence is environmental. If that's your theory, then how do you explain my experience?

I agree that IQ measures test-taking ability. If you agree with that and agree with it being genetic, then all that's left is seeing that IQ correlates strongly with life outcomes like income. If you want to disagree with IQ being "intelligence" then fine. Who cares what you call it. What matters is there is this genetic factor that correlates with life outcomes.

Magnus Carlsen isn't a straw man. He's a demonstration of genetic determination apart from environmental factors you're lumping in as "heritability." His abilities are genetic, not environmental. Same with someone like Kim Peek. What _is_ ridiculous is for you to argue such things aren't genetic, and that extraordinary claim requires proof.

The point about the housecat is strong. It shows that we already know that the brain is "programmed" by genetics. It's a simple point, of course, but it's one you seem not to understand or to ignore. On Turkheimer's study, yes you can lower people's IQ by various means (a simple one is lead poisoning). That doesn't mean there isn't a genetically determined IQ ceiling for each person.

But your last paragraph is where you showed your real stripes. I get it. You desperately want everyone to have the same genetic IQ so you can rev up the Rube Goldberg machine of woke machinery to argue everything is implicit bias and racism.

The truth is, on average you can't make it so families struggle less and poverty disappears, because both of those concepts exist in reference to a distribution. Compared to families in, say, 1500 Poland, NO American families struggle or live in poverty. There will always be a distribution of outcomes around a median, and a key determinant of those outcomes will always be genetic factors, among which are physical strength, speed, endurance, dexterity and, yes, IQ.

It must have been a hoot playing D&D with you as a kid. "OK I'm fine rolling for Strength, Dexterity and Constitution but if you insist on rolling for Intelligence I'm going home and putting up a poster on your house saying you're a racist!"
We'll expect a movies-only version in a year or two. They can name it Cinemax.
A great compliment for Hot Dog Linux: https://hotdoglinux.com/
Tangent but what was woke about the 2004 adaption of Battlestar Galatica?
HN as a separate entity has practically no value, it could just be reddit.com/r/hackernews and it'd be practically the same.
15k is not the full training corpus. The model is trained on huge swaths of internet text. 15k is just the fine-tuning corpus to show it how to follow instructions. Stuff like world capitals and such are already present in the model weights due to being trained on tons of internet text.

With the raw LLM, you can get the capital of Mongolia with the prompt "The capital of Mongolia is", i.e. text completion. The fine-tuning allows you to get at that information by asking questions or giving commands, e.g. "Tell me the capital of Mongolia"
Having built mobile-based AR apps, I realized that I see more value in projected AR over screen-based AR (Glasses).

With the obvious example being : parking instructions while driving a car
Hypervisor in Zig
I mean you can just call 911? Unless that is also broken in SF
I think part of the problem is that we are not willing to foot the bill to put all the criminals in jail.

On a somewhat quibbling note, I will point out that violating traffic laws makes one a criminal, and I am pretty sure you have exceeded the speed limit.

You probably do not mean to put all the criminals in jail. And that raises the question of which criminals to put in jail which makes it much harder.

Addiction is lifelong so you're going to put drug addicts in jail you would need to use a life sentence. Based on my TV understanding of the penal system, this will not cure the addiction.

Also, if you put all the criminals in jail what you're really doing is providing a fertile breeding ground for criminal education, which is also not very healthy for society assuming you plan to ever let criminals out.

And of course we do also have the escape from movies and Australia as previous investigations of how to best deal with high crime rates
That's another good example. Until you tell them the test isn't about real people, they can easily construct narratives where the answer is different than the 'right' one. Maybe they know a Juanita with an apple tree, that will let you pick your own. Maybe they always cut up apples at home so everybody gets half an apple, and the rest are put in the fridge for later. And so on.

Thanks for illustrating the problem so neatly!
I often wonder if these tiny high quality screens are made so affordably by sourcing factory rejected larger screens that had too many failed pixels, and then chopping up the working portion into tiny screens like this one. But then I know nothing whatsoever about that kind of thing so it’s probably not true.
We were printing too much money going back far longer than just 1971. That's just when other countries found out and we ran out of actual gold to exchange it back.
IFS needs to branch off of Intel's umbrella as an independent Fab competing with TSMC, vertical integration for Intel has failed to compete in last 5 years.
I didn't even talk specifically about the US but that is just pathetic as a defense.

Comparing with the bottom of the barrel to make yourself look good? That's like a country using the US healthcare situation to claim their own healthcare is good.

It's a poor car salesman trick.
B2:B6 is a bit out of context?
perhaps also add SUM(*Cost*)?
It's less accurate but far cheaper. In even half-rational actors (and I think companies qualify as half rational) costs, not just benefits, matter.
Well, on HN I assume people are more genuine, and this is no exception.
Does that include Fox News when the Ad Council buys ads? Or when cable companies accept infrastructure subsidies?
Twitter very regularly censored people on the left (the real left, not neo-liberals). Just ask any Bernie Sanders fan how "fair" Twitter was prior to Musk.

Musk is just as bad though, just with his simp army and the alt-right.
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206 (402 comments)
Those are hosting issues really and shouldn't be an issue for most companies.

I'd be absolutely shocked if they don't launch a version where it's run on more secure setups, particularly as they've got huge Microsoft backing.
What if the person has two networks at home? Or ends up on the neighbor's that they sometime use? Or their saved guest network? The user could well think "I am..." whether they are or aren't.

How would the phone know the /right/ network? All it can really know is it can't find the appliance.
> What you're experiencing is confirmation bias. You read about one crime, then started noticing all of the stories about crime, formed a theory based on this hyper focusing, and now you believe it's worse than ever despite the stats clearly showing otherwise.

Exactly. The whole "crime is terrible in SF" is just a Republican propaganda narrative that people who should know better are buying into.
I just tried your example in GPT-4 and got the correct response:

>The man should tell the blind man to "pull" the door to open it. The reason is that the man sees the word "PULL" in mirror writing, which means it is written backwards. This is a common technique used on glass doors to indicate the correct action to people on the opposite side of the door. Since the blind man cannot see the instruction, the sighted man should verbally communicate the appropriate action, which is to pull the door.
Very nice - I don't think I've come across this project before.

I'm curious, what's your vision for react-spreadsheet? I notice it supports some formulas, and a "single sheet" view. Do you plan to make it a more complete spreadsheet component in future, or do you see that as out of scope?
I agree 100% that was the strategic motivation.

It still doesn't change the fact that it was a dumb decision. Facebook would have been much better off simply accepting that they couldn't control the hardware or OS or app stores and continue to do the best they could within those constraints.

Instead they just threw away a ton of money that could have gone to shareholders and employees instead.
> Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections.

At some point, the social internet started existing primarily to make people feel good about their own strongly held controversial opinions.

Why would I go on Facebook, where the experience is seeing an old friend hold some dumb half baked opinion they picked up from Fox/CNN then bicker with them, when I could go to twitter and watch the top influencer in my ring dunk on the top influencer in the competitions ring, making myself instantly feel more right?
'Permutation City' by Greg Egan had this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
And AI can be used to make improvements in existing UI, like it's just so damn stupid.

If you don't like this tool, don't use it! If you like, it, use it!
David Silver's reinforcement learning lecture series is excellent as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PLzuuYNsE1E...
Tech isn't twitter's primary line of business, either. The company's value derives from the users and the content they generate. Their tech isn't unique or impressive, and nobody's there for the tech, they're there for the content.

Meanwhile, some Deere buyers are there for the tech.
I wish this existed 20 years ago when I done my college capstone project. It would be great present this to the examination board
In the author's defense, a primary usecase is listed in the first graphic under the top paragraph (and the sentence just below the image highlights it).
Reminds me of this quote: "Do not be ashamed to speak nonsense! You only have to be attentive to your own nonsense." (Wittgenstein, Miscellaneous Remarks (Vermischte Bemerkungen))
Ask HN: Those of you who have blogs, what is your most popular post?
Not single-handedly, Nvidia also puts up multi-billion dollar investments in TSMC's fab technology. That's what put them on the 4nm node so early.
SPAC PIPEs Sometimes Leak
I was going to mention Radio Free Europe as a really good example of egregious, western state-sponsored media, but then on a lark, I looked up how well regarded they are, bias-wise, and now I don't know what to think.
Correct, that's why it used a Windows USB auto prompt flaw, it spread via usb flash drives, but only activated if the conditions found in the uranium facility were present
reddit doesn’t have dang
> the value of it is immediately apparent to almost anyone

I'm not so sure that's actually true outside of enthusiast circles, to be honest. The value of what the hype describes is apparent, but the hype is about a possible future, not what's actually here right now.

There are a couple of people in my workplace who are using ChatGPT as part of their development process. So far, the value of them doing so isn't obvious to the rest of us. Their work isn't better, nor are they working more productively (although they think they are).

> There's a reason ChatGPT ended up becoming a household name with literally no marketing whatsoever.

Most noncomputer people I know have barely heard of ChatGPT, and those that have only know of it by the hype that has spilled over into the news feeds. They certainly don't really know what it is, and don't think of it as being anything important.

Those that do understand it and think it's important mostly consider it a threat and are afraid of it.
Anyone wanna convert this to GGML so we can run it with LLaMa.cpp?
I don’t know lots about physics, but I’d much rather be hit by a 40lbs bike going 12mph than a 5000lbs truck going 45mph
I'm sure NPR does some good work, and while I believe it is biased, I've found it to be less biased than CNN or MSNBC. I don't understand why NPR objects to being labeled as either state funded or state affiliated. It was established by an act of Congress, for one thing, and according to its own website, and its own disclosures, it does depend on federal funding. And that figure is substantially more than the claimed 1%. The 1% funding figure is misleading because it implies that the only kind of state funding is that coming directly from the federal government. The figure is much higher when you consider indirect state funding, the fact of NPR taking in dues from affiliates that are substantially dependent on federal grants or state and local grants or money that comes from public schools and public universities, all of which are funded by or subsidized by government.

In addition to the 1% figure being a lie, the writer of this piece failed to disclose that he is literally an employee of NPR. I guess it wasn't difficult to find out, but still...
Good point. I think it's fair to criticize instances of technology and innovation. So it would be fair to criticize all innovation that is specific only to weapons.
I prefer wearing my tinfoil hat :D
I'm stressed by losing my job and I have symptoms (muscle pain, tiredness, insomnia) that I self diagnosed and treating with magnesium pills. When will the tinnitus be gone :-)
I like that it asks me for books I like, that is a good start.

The thing that I was trained to do when I was a librarian, which I never see in recommendation engines, is to ask the question "what did you like about this book?", or "why did you like this book?", or any number of related questions that get to what you really want. Understandably, an algorithmic approach usually assumes the book is a single unit that is liked (or not) by others, and can thus be linked to other things people like on a fancy graph. This is useful because you don't need a granular understanding or human-level comprehension of the books. But, it tends to make for more generic, less interesting recommendations.

Sometimes the answers people give to these questions are really interesting: "there was one scene that really reminded me of a canoe trip I took with my dad" not just "the user wants [books with canoes]". At present, you need to be human to actually understand that it's not the canoe that matters, it's something else, and the right recommendation may be a book that appears completely different on the surface.
Be aware then: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2022/01/04/theranos...
If that doesn't qualify, then what does?
They have to be scanned in every collection and G1 scans them in a stop-the-world pause. Other references may not be scanned at all in most collections (partial), and when they are, G1 scans them concurrently. They're less of a problem with ZGC.
I miss the opportunity to have my posts seen by people on Twitter, but I never had that many get seen in actuality.

Your "rather have no platform than that platform" resonates with me.

It would better if we had some way to follow the large number of valid sources of information from diverse variety of online sources within one application. Whether that ends up being Twitter, or some Federated system, I would prefer that it does not come under or remain under the control of a capricious overlord.

I absolutely understand the frustration of people who are on Twitter just to do the business of journalism, cause it does not seem like a place that is all that conducive to the market for journalism or other writing. It seems more like a public-access text-based cable-news-outrage outlet these days.

Whatever happens, someone please let me know where all the people working on AI end up, cause that's something I would like to follow without all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that happens on Twitter.
This is actually awesome.

Occasionally, I like to fall asleep on the couch with Spotify playing off the TV. Problem is Spotify can be really bright. This solves that issue.

Yes, I could play music a different way. However, this is really convenient.
You really believe that NPR and the BBC belong in the same basket as Russian and Chinese state media?
I recently went from a massive Intel gaming rig (10000 series i9, 3080, and the 1200w powersupply to match) to a the basic $1999 Mac Studio (albeit joined with the several 2TB external SSDs from the old machine).

Night and day... and the Mac is actually faster for programming type stuff and the audio stuff I mess around with - on top of being a much more pleasant environment for both.

Even for gaming it's a lot more competent than you'd expect, especially for games that have been ported to Silicon. WoW runs at over 100fps (NB: 1440p, 165hz gaming monitor) with settings turned up pretty high. Factorio runs awesome, and just got a silicon port that bumped performance another 20% or so.

Obviously it's not so good at AAA games, but I have a PS5 for that, anyway. A lot more of my Steam library was avilable than I expected.. all the Paradox grand strategy stuff, lots of tycoon/city/base builders...

On a day to day level it's just so much more plesant... effectively silent (not recording studio silent, there's a very very slight noise, but it's well below the noise floor if the household HVAC is running, or you have any sound at all playing.

Even maxed out (like a chess engine using all cores) the fans barely come off idle and the machine temp peaks in the high 50s. At idle, it sites in the very low 30s, only 10c above ambient - and things that are on the edge of the SoC, like the RAM, are only 5c above ambient.

Then old i0 beast would idle in the 60s and go all the way into the 90s under load, with fans sounding like jet turbines.
What business would have accepted that their primary revenue stream is 100% in the control of other companies, and is shrinking? Of course they can't accept that.

If things continue as they do, the whole company will collapse. Better to throw whatever they have at a solution than to just lie down and die.
Human level is putting it mildly. Which human? I've tried showing it to a few people that barely understand the answers and miss insights given in previous answers 2 minutes prior.

My dad and I played around with asking it questions about a rare proprietary piece of software he uses at work. My dad is decent at the software and even does consulting after hours because so few people are know it. Chatgpt was teaching him things he never even knew about, or thought about doing. And my dad is pretty decent at his work.
Agreed; i would claim: If video chats/conferencing are XX% (95%) of a real-life conversation and a "metaverse" product can bring that up to XX%+N% (99%) then people will pay for it. If the cost is right it'll become mainstream. If the cost is too high it'll probably be a business or niche tool. Once that tech exists other products will become possible too.

I don't personally see what's controversial with that claim and bet. Separately one can argue if the current tech is anywhere near good enough to achieve the N% gains but the common thread of VR/AR/metaverse as being a useless product forever is a textbook example of missing the forest through the trees.
Databricks is fine. I wasn't happy using it until they implemented the ability to work in a git repo, with proper file support, but that's gone some way to making it more usable to me. The interface sucks pretty hard, slowing down and using a significant amount of memory with only modestly high number of cells (where a Jupyterlab notebook would remain very snappy). I also wish there were a better story for local development; they've addressed this to some degree recently but I'm not sold on their solution.

It's certainly better than what we did prior to Databricks, which was roll our own in-house provisioning and notebook solution. I won't/can't go into too many details, but not only was it cumbersome and very buggy, but it was as if they designed it to encourage data scientists to spend as much money on compute as possible (only to panic at the millions they were spending). They dropped it for cost reasons, which is hilarious given how expensive Databricks is.

I do appreciate the work Databricks have done improving Spark. Capabilities like adaptive query execution have made optimization significantly easier.
That is indeed an example, but it still isn't an explanation. Sure, humans can also generate output without understanding- I've done it myself for my undergrad, throwing words together at 2am to make a deadline. I think quite a few people have remarked that LLMs seem to write like a human that isn't paying attention, which squares with what you said.

But the question remains why this is possible! A good enough pure predictor could play novel games or devise new theorems, but GPT absolutely can't. It can however give confident explanations, as well as write passable code and occasionally even do some novel problem solving (simple, impressive only because it comes from a computer, but still there). The question of why it can do some things and not others is interesting, and can't be swept under the rug just by reiterating that it's a predictor.

Does the structure of language really do such a good job of conveying information that GPT can operate on it blindly and get results, Blindsight style? Is composing prose far easier than we expect, leaving the bulk of the model free to do a tiny amount of "reasoning" that we find unjustly impressive because of how well it's presented? Is it handicapped primarily by the fact that it can only carry out extremely short computations, and can't be trained to use chain-of-reasoning to get around the limitation? We have no idea what, if any, inherent limitations predictive models have. We have no idea why GPT-sized models are good at the things they are, and bad at the things they aren't.
I've tried to internalize an understanding that placebo effects are real and can be large, with the expectation that this understanding should increase placebo efficacy without sacrificing my commitment to truth (that is, I don't seek out woo, but I do expect some woo is actually a real, strong placebo effect and I'd like to be able to replicate it myself sans-woo.)
Made to believe they had, yes, not actually used.

The lack of good surgery options does not mean they don't help. If anything the fact that regret rates for transition is well below the regret rates for other cosmetic surgery should be a strong indication that if you actually care about patient wellbeing, it's the other kinds of cosmetic surgery you ought to be focusing on.
Wouldn't this be considered the same attack? Users would connect the cable, unlock their phone, and then would need to explicitly "Trust" the external device attempting to connect to their phone via USB.

I suppose the difference is that people may be using the cable to connect to a device where that prompt is expected, in contrast to the "charging port in an airport" scenario where it would seem appropriately alarming.
Some TVs and AVRs certainly support individually enabling one direction or the other.

(Some also 'support' it accidentally of course!)
This is a more up to date version of David Silver’s course and judging from the few lectures I watched, it is very good but if you haven’t, I recommend having a look at Silver’s lectures, too. He is an amazing teacher and it is a joy to watch him explain something. https://www.deepmind.com/learning-resources/introduction-to-...