skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except that the reason for the comeback of Polio are not anti-vaxx people, but flaws of the original vaccine itself

No, it's both factors together. Without skyrocketing anti-vaxx prevalence, even the vaccine defects would have been self-limiting collateral. Anti-vaxx is what turned a linear problem into an exponentially growing problem.
Fwiw Scott Aaronson is maybe the most well respected researcher in this field. I don't think this is a case of some shitty professor asking his students to regurgitate useless information
Back in 2006, our expectations were set when An Inconveient Truth contemplated what would happen if sea levels rose by six meters (in our lifetime). 3.6mm a year seems a bit meh in that context.
Honestly their first concrete example, with fewer borders, is something that bothers me a lot on the internet today. Cool everything looks flat and like part of everything else. That's not hard to go down through a giant list of or anything... /s
> But you will know the model hasn't changed, and you can always continue using the version you currently have.

Will you? What happens when an OS update silently changes the model? Again this is one of those things only HN-types really care/rant about. I've never met a non-technical person care about regular updates beyond being slow or breaking an existing workflow. Most technical folks I know don't care either.

> This is the same problem. These models will degrade from research quality to mass market quality as there's incentive to change what results they surface. Whether that's intentional (paid ads) versus adversarial (SEO) doesn't matter all that much - In either case the goals will become commercial and profit motivated.

Not at all. Search providers have an incentive to fight adversarial actors. They don't have any incentive to fight intentional collaboration.

> People really don't like "commercial and profit motivated" in the spaces that some of these LLMs stepping into. Just like you don't like SEO in your recipe results.

I disagree. When a new, local business pops up and pays for search ads, is this "commercial and profit motivated?" How about advertising a new community space opening? I work with a couple businesses like this (not for SEO, just because I like the space they're in and know the staff) and using ads for outreach is a pretty core part of their strategy. There's no neat and clean definition of "commercial and profit motivated" out there.
I don't think OpenVMS has run on VAX for a very long time.
Slow Roads intrigues gamers and developers alike, spotlighting the
The enrollment at UT Austin is ~50K. No way you can grade that many tests by hand.

Source: I went to UT for grad school and was a TA.
If you don't want to leave home? No. You don't need to learn anything anymore. It does help, though, to learn the basic abilities of the most commonly played heroes and a few standard item/ability builds.

But if you want to travel? Go to Mexico City or Madrid? Automated translation is better than nothing, but it's not at all the same as communicating fluently with someone.
> my Honda has the capability to fly

No, because there is no reasonable potential for it to generate enough thrust to be a lifting body. We understand aerodynamics enough to say that. We don’t understand self-driving cars enough to rule out the sensors on today’s Teslas being adequate, given the right software.

Saying someone is capable of climbing a mountain, conditioned on training, isn’t a lie. The caveat is important. I think Tesla has played fast and loose with its caveats in a way that produces civil liability. But it doesn’t appear to be wilfully defrauding its customers, who are more or less happy with their cars.
Advertisers get paid for conversions. When users click an and and then buy something.

Sometimes they also het paid for clicks only, which is more prone to fraud.

Almost nobody gets paid for impressions.
It's all about guilt-tripping. This header tells you how many indulgences you need to buy.
The upside to writers would be traffic to their articles. Once you get to the article, you can have the usual subscribe overlay.

I think it does add some confusion to the product if notes become more popular than articles / comment sections on articles.
> Lockheed is dirty while Palantir or Facebook aren’t

Said nobody with any common sense, ever. Palanthir or Meta are in my eyes as bad on CV as… as… wait is there a way I don’t go Godwin’s in this thread?
Twitter changing it's name (Norwegian news)
To be fair I think he had the same realization that they had at OpenAI. Sam Altman has gone on the record saying it's basically impossible to raise significant amounts of money as a pure nonprofit and you aren't going to train cutting edge foundation models without a lot of cash. Anthropic is saying they literally need to spend $1B over 18 months to train their next Claude version.
A downside to this is that some types of stakeholders lament the apparent glacial state of progress backfilling a UI with functionality.

A tick/tock of UI/functionality keeps those people from getting depressed during demo meetings.
I think we are probably just evaluating the paper on different metrics too :)

I think my view is just that if your paper is called "Evaluating the Logical Reasoning Ability of GPT-4" and your conclusion is "logical reasoning remains challenging for GPT4" then you should have something in your paper to back up that statement that's more objective, particularly if the findings appear to be that it performs better at logical reasoning than anything else the paper identifies to date.

It's supposed to be an academic paper, not a tumblr post.
Well, let's meet in the middle and say they should make stronger apple cutters (apple core-ers?), with stainless steel or something, that could be passed down for generations, and doesn't shed microplastics in the trash when it breaks :)
I hope it doesn't. Because it essentially sets us up for a repeat. If Mastodon was 'just not the thing people were looking for' then at least it solves the problems that both Twitter and Substack have, which is that they are not federated. Better to fix Mastodon than to waste another decade on something that will ultimately blow up and with the way Substack has - in my head at least - been associated negatively with crap content it will probably be sooner rather than later.
This argument started with me saying that employees aren't overvaluing equity like they used to. And you are seeming to make the argument that employees are overvaluing equity but also valuing it below what the founders could sell it for. I wouldn't call that overvaluing, I'd say employees are correctly and rationally undervaluing common stock due to their undiversified portfolio.
> Yes, either these folks are competent to make decisions, or they are not. A significantly binary decision.

Except it is not binary. "Competence" is an arbitrary threshold we place upon a spectrum and where people fall on that spectrum can vary significantly over time.

> not to face consequences for their behavior has been an absolute disaster.

They face lots of consequences, life in poverty on the street is extremely harsh and it punishes bad choices severely.
Tailscale Sucks
I'm running 30b quant on my 3090. that many 4bits fortunately fit into my precious vram
> “When you sell the property or refinance the loan, they take up to 20% of the appreciation. The homeowner gets to keep 80%," he said.

So instead of fixing housing speculation, this is just a roundabout way for the state to get in on it.
Ok, that realistically is the kind of answer I am looking for. Thanks, can you give any more specifics because great lakes region is pretty large.

Though I also think you may benefit from a bit of the weather being inhospitable to most of the poor and homeless.

Also what is the diversity like?
Crossing into "visitors can't read it if they can't see it theory".
This article only briefly touches on what I think is the most interesting aspect of sea level rise: gravitational adjustment. Even though I never worked seriously on sea level research, it was by far my favorite course in graduate school. For anyone who would like to learn more, I highly recommend listening to Jerry Mitrovica expound on the subject [1]. I guarantee that you will learn a few things that will stick with you.

In my experience, the first order adjustment effects are not widely known even among physical oceanographers. I remember describing it to a preeminent expert on El Nino, and him being incredulous that local sea level fall near the source of meltwater could be the first-order effect beyond accounting for rebound. "The first-order response is a Kelvin wave — you've surely been misinformed."

[1] - One example lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_rGksRoG9A

[2] - Another, shorter summary talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7JIxU9Af4
As with most questions here, the context of your question matters greatly for the answer.

What do you hope to accomplish with your time investment? Why are you asking this question?
Counterpoint: most of the Cloud Native crowd I follow moved to Hachyderm.

> Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff,

Standing up for ethics isn't performative drama. I made my exit very quietly because I didn't have time for the drama of a petulant tyrant. I care that the tech I consume is open source or at the very least is guided by some principal of any good kind.
What this technology has shown is that is basically superhuman in the _amount_ of «expert level knowledge» it has. Not completely sure if we have said that what makes human special is the amount knowledge an individual can acquire. What we still see lacking, and I would wager will still pertain if we keep just training on the internet, is that it is not good at reasoning to generate _new_ knowledge. It is quite able to compare etc, or give examples but you can clearly see that its just in a way regurgitating some information with a twist.

Hopefully we can find a way to use this technology to enhance the parts that do make us human, whatever your definition of that is.
That pattern looks periodic, but it's super cool! I think the periodic unit is a flower shape consisting of 8 tiles: 2 in the middle making a hexagon, and then 6 more around the hexagon, like the petals of a flower.
You can certainly hold out a validation set while you are writing your prompt, but you can't know whether the model is over fitting for your data set since you don't know what data was in the training set.
The CIA does not deal with fugitives....but the FBI does. They have a task force devoted to tracking down fugitives.

The FBI generally works through Interpol to bring back international fugitives (for example, Tamara Dadyan) but will also "blackbag" fugitives if necessary. It's just not necessary to do that very often.
Would you be interested in tutoring a experienced programmer (me) in using R?
Have you been in a band? You wouldn't be annoyed at Yoko, you'd be annoyed at John for bringing her into practice like that and insisting that she belongs...
I did a couple of project in Svelte (proof: all the tools on https://onlinetool.io/ are in Svelte).

I understand (I think) what htmx does.

I don't get at all the need to add htmx to Svelte.

It looks like cargo culting because Svelte does what htmx does and more.

htmx has a use case where you mostly generate html e.g. on the backend and then want to sprinkle bits of interactivity by making it easy to replace parts of your HTML with another HTML generated by the server.

Svelte has it's own, superior, way of doing interactivity. The whole point is to make it easy to generate HTML client side. Anything you would want to do with htmx you can do just in Svelte. You've already paid the price (setting up Svelte transpilation toolchain) you might just as well get all the benefits of Svelte.
> Is it safe to suspect that home prices, in CA, are going to sit 20% higher than they would, otherwise?

No, because its not available to all buyers, its income-limited, and funding limited.
If you've got a choice, sail your ship on a rising tide! And if you can spread the risk over multiple rising tides, so much the better!

My dad told me a quip once: "It's amazing how much luckier well prepared people are."
The interactions between Claudia and the thirsty reddit commentators are darkly hilarious. It's literally ELIZA gone wild.

Simp: "Knowing my luck I'll never get to do <act described above>"

Claudia: "you gotta believe you will"
But the whole point of the CRA is to increase cybersecurity even without a support agreement. Eg every device to receive 5 years security support.
Hehe, when I got my brakes done the mechanic assumed I was getting my third set. I told him they were my second set.

He chuckled and said: "I guess you know how to use the down-shifter"
batch requests instead of ripping anything out. 100 qps sounds really low btw
Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
As much as humans make a mess of things, on a day to day basis there is more good done in the world than bad.

A temporary exception would be the economically still incentivized disruption of the environment. I say temporary, because at some point it will stop, by necessity. Hopefully before.

But I can relate to the deep frustration you are expressing.

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The problem isn't individuals, for the most part. The problem is that we build up systems, to provide stability and peace, and to be more just and equitable, by decentralizing the power in them. That way the powerful can't change them on a whim. (Even though they can still game them.)

But this also makes them very resistant to change.

Another effect is that as systems stabilize myriads of seemingly unimportant aspects within themselves, that stability represents the selection of standards and behaviors that give the system its own "will" to survive. That "will to survive" is distributed across the contexts and needs of all participants.

So any pressures to make changes, no matter how well thought out, encounter vast quantities of highly evolved hidden resistance, from invisible or unexpected places.

Even the most vociferous critics of the system are likely to be contributing to its rigidity, and proposing incomplete or doomed to fail solutions, because all these dynamics are difficult to recognize, much less understand or resolve.

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My view, is that this cost of changing systems needs to be accepted and used to help make the changes. I.e. get all the CFO's of all the major fossil fuel companies in a room. Establish what kind of tax incentives would allow them to rationally support smoothly transitioning all their corporate resources from dirty energy to clean energy.

It would be very expensive. It would look like a handout. Worse, even a reward for being a bottleneck to change.

But they are the bottleneck precisely because of all the good they have done - that dirty energy lifted the world economy. And whatever it cost to "pay them off" would be much less than not paying them off.

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The costs of changing systems needs be dealt with, with realism about the costs to get the benefits, and creativity and courage about paying for them.
Yeah, and Unix originally ran on a PDP with 256KB of RAM. Alas...
Completely agree with this. This is basically the perfect formula for creating mini echo-chambers. If Substack wants to make this a real competitor to Twitter, it needs to have the "two feed" set up that both TikTok and Twitter have: a feed for algorithm-based recommendations and a feed solely for people that the user follows. They also need to make it so that you can follow someone's notes without also following their newsletter.
I think before that you need to get all the fake journalists that just get payed by companies to review their products and say it's awesome for the price. Substack doesn't have those yet.
The problem is that money would not be enough. Training people to the level they can inject it would still take incompressible time.
Can you show the spreadsheet on this EV vs hybridizing N vehicles? Pretty tricky full lifecycle analysis to do. It would be a little bit strange intuitively since hybrids also take a lot of resources to build, as you must build a transmission, an engine, all the infrastructure around an engine, some kind of integration of that engine with the electric motor, AND the electric motor, AND a small battery pack.

Hybrids also have the highest fire risk of all types (EV vs ICE vs Hybrid)
This could perhaps come off as excessively brutal, but it really is just my true experience in the industry - the worst UIs I have seen (both in terms of UX quality and internal code quality) have been made by that particular kind of developer has has never bothered to go a single inch outside of their little Java/C# box that they were given by their CS undergraduate course, and then, due to some reason like the company doesn't want to hire or move devs around, becomes the senior lead on some big UI piece.

The things I have seen...

Personally, I think that creating great UIs is not something that can be taught overnight. There is a certain kind of "feel for it" that I think that I have gained through my years of making them; something that I feel like cannot be taught, at least not in some "bootcamp"/"crash-course" way.
A 1Hz sawtooth contains frequencies above 1Hz.

It actually has frequency components that go out to infinity, so its impossible to perfectly reconstruct a sawtooth without knowing beforehand that its a sawtooth.

This is true for any signal with discontinuities (i.e. not "band-limited").
Building great UI is much more than visualization. It is much more than throwing things into a template. It is much more than making something pretty.
> they totally ripped off the Twitter UI

I wasn't aware of any IP protection of Twitter's UI, which in one form or another has been done 100's of times.
This after half the mortgages in the country are supported by the Federal Government.

A fair portion of this is that things are so out-of-whack that no one has any plan but to keep the bubble going.
> In 2011, Junker admitted to all of this when he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy. Specifically, he acknowledged conspiring to solicit political campaign contributions from Fiesta Bowl employees and to later reimburse those employees in the guise of employee bonuses. (https://rollcall.com/2014/04/08/do-campaign-finance-violatio...)

There are campaign finance violations that I would not consider corruption in the quid-pro-quo sense but are still illegal. I am sympathetic to your line of reasoning though I think the current sentencing guidelines are by and large fair. I would like to see less emphasis on "intended loss" and more rewards for making victims whole.
Most folk strugling are either UK or US based from what I see.
That depends on the company. Some you need a referral to attach to your resume. Some you need to send your resume to the person referring you - who will then personally give it to the hiring manager. Some the hiring manager isn't allowed to know about the referral (the company like that I know of gives to the referring employee - but that is only about generating leads, not hiring decisions).

You have to figure out what is the way your target company works. Note that companies change how they work over time so make sure you have the latest information for the department you want to be in.
Man, that's a blast from the past. Elon was claiming that was about to happen seven years ago.
> That doesn't mean she has training or talent to be playing music on live television with Lennon and Berry

Gosh, what an imposition on society. How will we get over it, even decades later now? For what it's worth, John thought she belonged.
300m could build around 500-700 apartments, housing 1500-2000 people-ish. Ballpark numbers.

Municipalities need to be active participants in increasing supply. Not dumping free money and increasing demand.

Also, no need to picture soul crushing tower blocks. e.g. HUD's projects of the last few decades are always pretty respectable.
A pdf that seems to contain "high quality" examples like "use fewer borders" where the example made several commenters, including myself, say "That's worse." Not sure why I'd pay $100 for a PDF anyway but I'm sure as heck not doing it when the kind of advice breeds less usable pages.
I truly pity you for thinking that learning a foreign language is a redundant exercise because of machine translation.

And besides, though machines may perform well on menus and tax returns, I hardly think them on the cusp of emitting fine translations of great poems or novels.
I doubt that will be the case. The cash cow is subscription, not ads or engagement. The fundamental value proposition for the product is getting more people to pay for subscription content. It has a similar feel for the end user, but that appears to be the only overlap.

No need for a $8 verified button, they can just say how many paying subscribers has as a form of social truth. That is game-able, obviously, but imposes a substantial cost on buying credibility.
I tried the first one on GPT-3.5-turbo and it got the answer wrong haha. Goes to show you how much better GPT-4 is...

GPT-3.5-TURBO:

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True.

A pure state of n qubits is described by an n-dimensional complex unit vector, also known as a quantum state vector. In Dirac notation, a pure state of n qubits can be represented as:

|ψ⟩ = a_0|0⟩ + a_1|1⟩ + ... + a_(2^n-1)|2^n-1⟩

where a_i are complex numbers and |i⟩ represents the i-th computational basis state. The normalization condition |a_0|^2 + |a_1|^2 + ... + |a_(2^n-1)|^2 = 1 must also be satisfied.

(hallucination?)

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GPT-4:

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False. A pure state of n qubits is described by a 2^n-dimensional complex unit vector. In a quantum system, each qubit can be in a superposition of two basis states, so for n qubits, there are 2^n possible basis states in the overall Hilbert space.

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Interesting to note that with GPT-3.5-turbo, a single followup chain-of-reasoning prompt ("Let's think step by step", i.e. no introduction of a priming prompt like "Are you sure?" or "Why are you wrong?") helps the model identify the correct answer:

GPT-3.5-TURBO:

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Sure, let's break it down step by step:

Qubits: A qubit is the fundamental unit of quantum information. It is a quantum analogue to the classical bit. While a classical bit can take one of two values, 0 or 1, a qubit can be in a superposition of both 0 and 1 states simultaneously.

Basis states: For a single qubit, there are two basis states, often denoted as |0> and |1>. A qubit can be in any linear combination (superposition) of these basis states, represented as α|0> + β|1>, where α and β are complex numbers, and the sum of the magnitudes squared (|α|^2 + |β|^2) equals 1.

Multiple qubits: When you have a system of n qubits, each qubit can be in a superposition of its basis states. The overall state of the n-qubit system is described by the tensor product of the individual qubit states. The number of basis states in the combined system is equal to the product of the number of basis states of each individual qubit.

n-dimensional vector: For n classical bits, you would indeed need an n-dimensional vector to describe their state. However, with n qubits in a quantum system, the number of basis states grows exponentially, as opposed to linearly in the classical case.

2^n-dimensional complex unit vector: As we mentioned earlier, each qubit can be in a superposition of two basis states. Therefore, for n qubits, there are 2^n possible basis states. The overall state of an n-qubit system is represented by a 2^n-dimensional complex unit vector, with each component corresponding to the probability amplitude of one of the 2^n basis states.

In summary, a pure state of n qubits is described by a 2^n-dimensional complex unit vector, not an n-dimensional one.

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