skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't watch the entire video, so SH may have mentioned, but there has long been a theoretical particle called a tachyon which can (could!) move faster than light because it is created already moving at that speed (if it existed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
Was apple ever first to market anything?
I really like this dichotomy.

Over time I'm becoming more and more aware of non-skill factors that affect my impact.

I'm definitely more a street fighter, and I feel limited when I'm given martial artist work and there is very little opportunity for street fighter work.

I think it can be very difficult to be a 10x engineer because you have to be in an org that has the right type of work, be on a team that's involved in that work, and be in a role in which you're given that work.

Working at a big company as a SWE (As opposed to e.g. SRE) I've found that the street fighter work is very limited and generally only specific teams and people get to work on it.
She also seems to really enjoy taking contrarian views, which resonates with a lot of people who distrust "the scientific establishment" or who "want to believe".
Pretty sure the answer is no, cause I've been searching for a way to do this for a while, but is there any way to trigger these escapes from script?

Use case is bouncing through to an RDS that only allows access from specific EC2 instances. The RDS endpoint in question is highly specific to the EC2 - not a big deal to hit ~L and create the forward manually, but doing this automatically would be great.
Loved your article, thank you for writing it !
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The mathematical modeling of most NLP tasks is Markovian. (More specifically, they tend to be HMMs, Hidden Markov Models). One of the popular "solutions" for Markovian processes is the Metropolis algorithm which you might find relevant. Note in statistical learning the mathematical formulation generally operates as part of the loss function, the actual "model" is usually a neural network (in the context of deep or variational learning).
Well, heat is caused by particles moving around, and they can only go the speed of light max, so there is a limit. It's still extremely hot though, anything physical would be blown apart by the surrounding near light speed particles in an imperceptibly short time.
The F-91W is a cult classic but lacks a lot of nice features (for example, a backlight that stays on for a couple seconds after you release the button, alarm snooze, and dual time display).

I love my W-800H though. Still has a 10 year battery, nearly as compact size, and similar aesthetics.

I’ve gone through a couple over the years (the biggest flaw is the band), but my current one is incredibly accurate. Using a high speed camera, I measured 1.43 seconds loss over 6 months. Pretty sure I won the Quartz lottery since that’s much more accurate than spec, but either way I’m happy.
> As per terms, if you receive money from a govt you are state-affiliated.

Receiving money from a government is neither necessary nor sufficient to qualify as state-affiliated according to Twitter's own definition [0] (emphasis added):

> State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.

So for media to count as state-affiliated the state must have control over editorial content. Receiving funds can be one method by which control could be exerted, but it is insufficient in and of itself to cross the threshold of state control.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230409213539/https://help.twit...
Vector clocks are pretty neat. I didn't invent them but I used a crude approximation when I was designing what was to become NIS+ at Sun Microsystems.

Given the problem that you want to accept updates to a database at multiple servers but cannot guarantee that all of those servers have the same notion of time and thus creating an accurate mutation vector that leaves the state of the database consistent, NIS+ used a tuple of (update, secondary-server-time) which the primary could query the secondary and compute a time delta (positive or negative) that would allow it to sort updates to the same database entry from multiple secondaries into a primary relative time order. It could then apply the updates and produce deltas for all secondaries which would apply any necessary changes to their database.

As a systems problem I really enjoyed the challenge.
Clean room implementation is not a defense against patents, it is a defense against copyright infringement.
From the headline I thought this was going to be about software engineers who do Martial Arts as an hobby. I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and there are a lot of software engineers in that sport.
Counter argument: this may be a matter of incremental improvement. The breakthroughs may all be behind us.

It’s like saying you haven’t yet seen a 1000 mile range EV for under $100k. No you can’t buy such a thing now but it’s clearly possible and we know how to get there by just continuing to grind on battery technology and scale manufacturing.

AGI may be at the place a moon landing was in 1950, not where it was in 1900 or 1850.
I think one reason indirect costs get a bad rap is there are supplies that can only be paid for through overhead for example ... pens. Depending on the institute, getting anything back in terms of support can be tricky or down right impossible. It was so bad in one place, that we would all go out of pocket for notebooks and pens because the indirect portion was a black hole of nonsupport.
Talking about this topic without providing some actual salaries, factory locations and working conditions is just worthless.
The classic cause for inflation is too much money chasing too few goods.

We've just had a period of extraordinarily low interest rates, government checks going directly to citizens, and constrained supply chains.

Why blame inflation on anything but the obvious?
> To be clear, there is no waiting list, or at least not the type that is counted down with wall clock time.

What waiting list counts down time?

I’ve been on waiting lists for non-luxury goods (soccer season tickets) and it’s a function of limited supply, the number of people “ahead” of you, and how many holders of the good decide to keep it.

You can’t look at a clock and say, “My tickets will be ready in 11 minutes.” You can get an estimate based on previous year turnover (which is why the Cubs list is estimated to be like 35 years long) however.
same here, it's a forever top of mind but never to be practically used. The thought of having one language but can dish out frontend in JS, backend in python, jobs in C has been a dream of mine.
Some mammals are warm and cuddly but far from all of them are. Wolverines are mammals but I wouldn't want to have one as a pet. Chimps will quite literally rip your arms out of their sockets if you get on their wrong side. Lions, tigers, bears, hippos, orcas... all mammals, but none of them are good pet material.
While epsilon transitions often, but not always, cause this issue of not being able to complement the language by just flipping final/non-final states, it isn't always the case. For example, you can make an ambiguous NFA with no epsilon transitions by just doing epsilon removal, and then you still have the same problem but no non-trivial epsilon-reachable states!

On the other hand, you can have an unambiguous [1] NFA (for example, a DFA, but you insert some dummy epsilon transitions between a split up state) where you can just flip the final/non-final states and complement the language.

So, in the end, complementing languages described by NFAs without determinizing them first is a bit of a tricky problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unambiguous_finite_automaton --- a superset of DFAs, but they can have epsilon transitions
Yes, there is still plenty to explore in the near-medium term.

I’m also very excited about the proposal to use the sun’s gravitational lensing as a method of imaging distant planets. Might even see that one in my lifetime.
“The street fighters mostly have scars and reputation in closed groups. To find them you have to talk to folks in that closed group.”

What closed group would that be, since by definition they are not part of a particular group? A martial artist sounds like the guy that got a product of the ground and would likely be part of the founder group; not likely looking to do it again.
Thank you for illustrating just how much the myth of the "10x engineer" has as much to do with the individual as it does the system that individual works in.
so many says that, but does any tesla owner actually think so?
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Instruction Tuning with GPT-4 (From Microsoft)
Or that other guy.. Murdock?
Funny article. It talks about time to build nuclear reactors but never mentions Russia.
I'm kind of reminded of my counter to Didier Verna's "Lisp, Jazz, Aikido" meme: Visual Basic, Punk Rock, MMA.
There is zero reason to believe that tachyons exist. It's just a name we gave to a concept. Dark matter doesn't have to exist either purely because we decided to give an idea this name. (But there are other reasons to believe that dark matter exists, namely observations.)
I can't speak for OP's situation obviously, but in most union contexts a person on the bargaining committee is answerable to other members, subject to removal, and reliant on re-election. Some organizations have practices of job rotation or term limits to ensure no single individual is irreplaceable.
My guess as to why the archetype isn't as well known is because you can absorb most of the chaos with a very small number of people.

Unless these people make their role known, most other people don't see all the firefighting that they do.
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Nice! Yeah really our first go at it so I’m sure we have room to improve.

PgBouncer was on the same instance I’m assuming?
python2 is easier to embed.
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“The iPhone maker rejected proposals on having weekly instead of biweekly pay, a third-party arbitrator for resolving grievances to replace existing procedures, a respect and dignity clause, basing promotions and layoffs on tenure, and scheduling policies.”

I can’t blame them — especially for tenure-based promotion/layoffs, which cripple an organization’s ability to promote the best qualified and remove under-performers.
Because they want to undercut all their competition. Their profit margins are insane compared to every other car maker especially in the EV space. It puts more downward pressure on Ford, VW, Kia, etc to cut into their already razor thin margins.

Tesla could sell the model 3 at 30K and still make a profit but they have zero reason to do that.
I think we're asking the wrong questions. We're assuming that a. what we're developing (an associative propability machine) is in any way related to the pursuit of real artificial intelligence. We're assuming that b. motive, desire, passion, some motive force is inhered into the thing.

I, personally, don't think we've seen anything that can be dangerous independent of its wielding by a badly acting human. That is to say, human agency and acting force is required on the other side of the LLM to do bad actions, like any other tool.

I don't know what real AI that threatens humans with an extinction level event looks like. It's not large language models. I don't know if humans are capable of generating it. I think anthropomorphization is really this massive veil that hangs over all of us. We can't get outside of it (our essential fallacy) so we're cursed to see it everywhere.
Is Elon the only CEO to have laborers, engineers?
Evolution is frequently driven by competition between members of the same species, independent of resources available. Witness the elaborate feathers of many birds of paradise which evolved to secure mating partners, or the antlers of deer which serve during ruts to compete for harems of does.

See also lek mating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek_mating
I would suspect, that this is one of the manual fine tuned questions.

Meaning in before versions people used this question to show flaws and now this specific flaw is fixed.

Otherwise it would be indeed reasoning in my understanding.
He has an interesting mix of good ideas and bad ideas.

Which is good and bad, in a society in which he can do almost anything he wants, and almost no one will tell him no.
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It has the ability to reason. It may not be conscious, but it is intelligent.
Bringing users to visit a website can be an easy task compared to converting them to be returning visitors..
Those were always intended as complementary systems. NGAD will have to act as a control node for advanced UCAVs because satellite links may be unavailable. Current AI technology is far from being sufficient for autonomous operations on most missions. The XQ-58 Valkyrie shows some promise, but like most other current tactical aircraft it lacks the range and speed to be effective in the Pacific theater. A larger next generation model is likely to have a very high unit cost.
That’s a bit unfair toward her. She’s not just a professional YouTuber. She is also a bonafide[1] physicist, who has spent years acting as a contrarian to the mainstream ideas.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AuOlHBbUkX4
Certainly, but many employers discourage this practice. I'm characterizing the employer's basis for offering less than the default to union members.
> I think it can be very difficult to be a 10x engineer because you have to be in an org that has the right type of work, be on a team that's involved in that work, and be in a role in which you're given that work.

Agreed. I noticed that 10x engineers are a product of 10x workplaces. Orgs have insane ability to take the most skilled engineers and make them unproductive.
Interesting critters, here they are at sea;

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Neuston_...
Couple of great blog posts on this topic:

- https://erikbern.com/2016/01/08/i-believe-in-the-10x-enginee...

- https://erikbern.com/2019/02/21/headcount-targets-feature-fa...
Those high paying positions that came with all the perks need to be unlearned. Many of those folk will have trouble adjusting to lower pay and lesser perks. Such companies might not be willing to risk hiring them.
Because they have inanely high profit margins since their cars have something like 1/10th the number of moving parts, making them remarkably cheap to manufacture.

Lower prices = more market share.
The source of the bit about VMS only using 2 rings on x86 from the Wikipedia article is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8kcfvJ1Iec , which I did skim to check that source for what the differences were (it seems to be around page protection between rings[1], circa 14 minutes in). I assume it gives more information, but I don't have time to watch more of it.

[1] Before I checked I was under the misunderstanding that AMD64 had just got rid of the extra rings alongside stuff like BCD instructions, so was trying to find a source for that.
I can’t find the link to the paper right now, but after reading about how LLMs perform better with task breakdowns, I vastly improved my integrations by having ChatGPT generate prompts that decompose a general task into a series of tasks based on a sample input and output. I haven’t needed to make a self-refining system (one or two rounds of task decomposition and refinement resulted in the expected result for all inputs), but I would assume this is fairly trivial and that AIs can do it better than humans.

This is also an area where I expect OpenAI will continue to demolish the competition. The ability to recursively generate and process large prompts is truly nuts. I tried swapping in some of the “high-performing” LLama models and they all choked on anything more than a paragraph.
That's not an answer.

The given question is one which requires some spatial reasoning to understand. By default, GPT can only understand spatial questions as described by text tokens which is a pretty noisy channel. So it's not obvious how GPT-4 could answer a spatial reasoning question (aside from memorizing it).
RE "South Australia’s last coal-fired power plant had closed, leaving the province of 1.8 million heavily reliant on wind farms and power imports from a neighboring region. " So - now they import power from places that use coal fired power stations and they have grid stability problems. NOT quitting coal at all. Id ask what is the price of their power KWh?
It's interesting that there's a lot of people that will not buy a Tesla because of Elon Musk's politics/twitter/whatever, but at the same time they have no problem buying a VW, after Dieselgate (not saying that's your case).
> Instead of her two spaceships going two directions, how about a single one going in a circle faster than light?

I'm not sure where you're going with that?

That's constant acceleration, which doesn't add anything to the situation besides more things to keep track of and thus be confused by.
As my comment mentions, I'm aware of those costs; that the €1,500 isn't all from the "artisan". The article still leaves the question of how close these folks are to the minimum wage. Is "well above" €20 an hour? €30? €50? €100?
Why is that? In this case why not opt for Lua which is basically made to embed in C?
Sorry, but what exactly are you arguing for? Of course you can view the climate at different time scales, and of course you can refer to those time scales by colloquial terms. Climate shows cyclic behavior at the time scales I was referring to: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/education/climate-primer/natura...

You could have asked for what I was referring to, but instead you chose to jump in with your definitions. Have you had conversational success with this approach?
At Stanford law school, the dean takes a stand for free speech. will it work?
Ask it for a racist joke.
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> American business practice is to keep employees feeling as if they're in competition to each other for the affections of management

… they literally are in competition with each other, though.

If I provide more value to my employer than other employees, I’m worth more, and can negotiate for more.
I have seen the opposite. I’m a martial arts style programmer, who is put into environments where street fighting is considered more ethical than what I had to put up with.

Being able to craft quick and dirty solutions which are diluted versions of my normal code solved tons of problems. Since I see programming as a craft, I had an intuition about where I can cut corners without affecting the quality most of the time, and I can add the corner back if the opportunity arises.

A martial arts practitioner with a flexible mind is a formidable force.
BuT eLOn SAiD mEan ThINgs oN tWittEr!!!!!!!

I really do wonder how much of the animosity towards him these days is just driven by Tall-Poppy Syndrome within the tech industry.
this is true for every gov't grant! And it's always 20%+ at EVERY university
this was reeeaaallly f good. Thanks
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do you have any sources for that? Considering that in germany, the "Mittelstand" is the major economic engine powering the economy compared to major corporations.
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Am I naive about the ability of an AI to do anything other than respond to commands? At what point does an AI start functioning completely on its own, autonomously, out of control or beyond interaction with another system that can then shut that AI down?

Are we concerned that an AI would begin to spread like a digital virus? That seems unlikely to me, but maybe it could find ways to create a self-prepreservation duplicate of itself... Maybe. So what would keep us from just turning the switch off if we find that an AI is doing more than what we're asking it to do? Again, I feel like I'm either being naive about this or I don't really understand the threat of an AI beyond the control that humans still have on the systems that govern it.
I don't see a reason why. RFC level approach was fine to get internet going.
The evolution of answers from version to version makes it clear there are insane amounts of manual fine tunings happening. I think this is largely overlooked by the "its learning" crowd.
Chicken and egg thing. If you listen to the DOE Loan Program head, he says it takes so long and costs so much because each plant is a bespoke hand-crafted special construction project. They can be made much cheaper and much faster if you standardize the design and copy-paste them to where it's a good fit.

This isn't an issue inherent to nuclear power at all, but instead in how we approach it.

This isn't speculation either, China is building 150 new plants by 2035. [1]

> Much like World War I strategies, a solution that nobody has the political will to implement isn't a solution.

That's just a tautology.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2022/09/powering-chinas-nuclear-ambi...
In practice, this is hard. The problem is that you need to either have all the functionality you use written in Haxe - which is rarely if ever possible - or you have externs to equivalent libraries on all platforms. The libraries produced will also need to be interfaced from outside somehow, and for some of the targets you'll have to write additional wrappers for your lib. It's really hard to pull off when targeting more than 2-3 targets.

Another commenter linked to Ammer[1], a universal FFI framework (apparently, it's my first time seeing it) - it might be just the thing needed to make multiplatform Haxe libraries way easier to write and distribute. I'd welcome that :)

[1] https://aurel300.github.io/ammer/
Really fast. I didn't bother timing, but they're faster than ChatGPT by a long shot. I didn't spend very long with them because the quality is so much worse than the 65B.

I should probably go back and try again to see if it's worth it for the extra speed, now that I've played with 65B for a while.
I don’t know of a consensus for it to be “considered” one way or another. I think explicitly asking for COT is temporary, and it will move to a layer that’s encapsulated from most users. It will persist there as long as long as the language layer is doing the “thinking”. If the language layer is completely offloading that and just translating, it won’t be needed.

I’ve been explaining it to people as “if ChatGPT can think, it can only think out loud”. Because of the way LLMs were trained, nudging it to do this will continue to be valuable.

Most writing about anything difficult is product, not process. Articles get drafts before being published. People think about answers before writing them down. How to Solve It does a great job explaining this about math problems. The steps to the proof are not the steps to creating the proof.

So when you go to solve a problem by mimicking the solutions to problems, something is missing. People will either need to train LLMs to do it, or continue to ask for it in prompts.
Even better, if you search for "substacc" or other mispellings of substack, the search actually autocorrects it to "substack" and works correctly.