skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is convinced that it is always factually accurate, even though it is not.

I don't think that's true. ChatGPT (or any LLM) isn't convinced much of anything. It might present something confidently (which is what most people want) but that's a side-effect of it's programming, not an indication of how good it feels on the answer. If you reply to anything ChatGPT says with "No, you're wrong." it will try to write a new, confident and satisfying answer that responds to your assertion.

LLMs will always be "wrong" because they have no distinction between fiction and fact. Everything it reads is mapped into language, not concept space or an attitude or a worldview.
That's AR (augmented reality), not VR (virtual reality). :)
I think most contemporary decades have a "defining technology".

- 1980s: Personal computer

- 1990s: Portable computing

- 2000s: Internet

- 2010s: Smartphones

- 2020s: AI

- 2030s: Quantum dynamic molecular re-atomizers
From that article:

> Church policy is that people baptize only their own dead relatives

but indeed, some adherents apparently do proxy-baptise unrelated people.
How many autogpt scripts can trivialize taking down the power grid?

At that point why are you imagining we have something like the current power grid? We'd have a tool that's drive massive advancements that trivialize decentralized power generation, reduce scarcity, find cures for mental illness, improve equality.

People need to really expand their understanding of how this will disrupt human existence if it can actually reach that point.

It's like imagining what would happen if you gave the roman nuclear warheads instead of what would happen if you gave them all of modern technology
I have zero interest in those garbage coins. What I do have an interest in is:

- BTC which is energy converted into an asset which stores value extremely well and securely

- ETH being used as a utility base layer, such as replacing traditional stock exchanges and tokenizing the stocks so there's real transparency and self custody

Garbage meme coins need to die, the sooner the better
Meta is actively trying to take down publicly available copies of LLaMA: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-2...
This is America. Law enforcement officers do not remove their firearms.

The law requires some minimal amount of adult supervision in childcare settings that was already violated when none of the supervisors were being interrogated. Sending one person to remove one child supervisor would have exacerbated that problem.
James Mays' "Toy Stories" are my only exposure to Meccano. Favorite episode is the Meccano motorcyle on the Isle of Man.
Only for atomics. Single-threaded RC counts are fine and WebKit uses hybrid RC where you use an atomic shared ptr to share across threads and then you downgrade it to a non atomic version in-thread (and can hand out another atomic copy at any time).

Atomics are rarely needed as you should really try to avoid sharing ownership across threads and instead change your design to avoid that if you can.
Thank you for sharing this.

This particular headline cracks me up: "Javascript: the Secret Language of Dolphins?"
A decision should be fast when it is needed urgently or if the person making the decision is confident about all possible outcomes. And if not it's best to take one's time(slow)
And Ruby is about to drop off Top 20. There are a lot of Rails developers, DHH included are ( or were ) still in denial.

It may not be dying, but it is definitely shrinking.
Chase Bank ATM victim goes undercover to prove he was scammed glue and tap thief
No not quite. You can even add new systemd units at boottime - there’s a special ignition config for that
The counter-argument I've heard from someone who lived there is that--relative to northern continental US--you basically have the same amount of non-work light in the winters (i.e. zero). But you have as much light as you could ever want (and maybe more) between the equinoxes.
I am so excited for such a TV, here are some name ideas for you: plainum-TV, gramseye, you-control-it(still comes with a remote), BarelySmart, SmartEnuff, MindYouTech, AllPane, SimplePaneVision, Plainorama, Plainoramic Vision.

HDMI such an abomination thrust upon the world. Why do we accept a TV going blank for seconds for any reason in 2023. Lawrd help us all. Can you optimize HDMI resync in any way? That would be a major selling point. Maybe blend the output between what was shown and what is about to be shownn (apply a gentle blur filter to the last seen frame for a few moments and fade to black after 3-4 seconds.. float a gentle explainer message “HDMI sync lost….” After 3 seconds)
Sadly I've procrastinated to do that, then suddenly the internal storage of my Chromebook died, and now it's stuck in endless "ChromeOS missing" without any way to flash it with something else.
Well the least they can do is force band auditing companies from offering consulting services because that is a clear conflict of interest..
Well, you’re basically taking something (cost of capital) that could be priced (via interest rates and collateral requirements) and turning it into a regulatory barrier. Personally I doubt that that is better, and I think the general consensus is that it is quite a bit harder to do business in those places with these regulations.
>far away country would subject its citizens here to their laws

...

>word of this did not reach the authorities for many years

The entire PRC "overseas Chinese service stations" are AKTUALLY ILLEGAL POLICE STATIONS VIOLATING TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY/SOVEREIGNTY is new propaganda framing to sell United Front threat. State intelligence in the west has known about United Front activities, from their actual (predominant) legitimate diaspora services to their grayscale tactics to "coerce" Chinese diaspora - some dissidents, most financial criminals - to return to PRC on their own accord for 10+ years. Dissidents have been whining about UF for even longer. Like no one's being illegally renditioned, they're being told of personal and extended consequences in PRC if they don't return and face justice. That kind of conversation is legal statecraft, and TBH a workable arrangement between PRC and the west who has no extradition treaty with (due to politics/optics) while actually shelters a fuckton of PRC criminals who should have the book thrown at them in PRC.

It makes perfect sense that ex/PRC nationals who committed crimes in PRC should be subject to PRC laws. That's why countries have extradition treatises, because it's bad form to shelter criminals across borders and expect smooth diplomatic relations. The funny side effect of PRC capital controls is that virtually every PRC ex-national with a decent amount of assets abroad didn't get it there legally. The West wants PRC diaspora wealth, knows it's misbegotten, and can't survive politics of formal extraditing to PRC, so we have this informal shenanigans.
I was objecting to "you don't pay them" specifically.
"Free speech absolutist", indeed.
This! I did the same, listened to all episodes, and SQLite is also one of my favs
It's not close enough to just put a sensor out in front, but it's definitely useful. Lots of multi-mirror telescopes use several conic sections; if you needed maximum light you could probably build a telescope with a monstrous 10km ellipsoidal primary, and let that bring the light down to a <1km secondary, and then bring the light back to an aspheric or hyperbolic tertiary optical system built with conventional mechanisms to actually focus the light.

However, I don't think you need to cook your optics with that many square kilometers of background radiation if you don't mind a longer exposure. Instead, you'd be better off installing a few small subsets of that hypothetical single mirror 10s of km away from each other, tracking the distance of each satellite through interferometry, and then putting it back together in software.
The American culture based on greed and violence started to rot the western civilization from inside. Massive out-of-control monopolies continued to balloon to unbelivable scales. It was the beginning of the end for both the USA and the Putin dictatorship in Russia.

The pace of innovation kept growing exponentially as predicted. In the 20's humanity has reached a crossroads with technology, and will have to choose the path. Four choices. Two forwards: either a utopian or a dystopian type II civilization. Two backwards: technological degress or extinction.

edit: probably shouldn't say something like this in a mostly American forum. :) but this is essentially the world view in my local information bubble.
I found to very difficult to set goals with gpt-turbo, maybe gpt4 will be a good test when I get access.

Also I'm thinking would be interesting to train a LoRa, using synthetic prompts.
We're not talking about old Boy's Life magazines, we're talking about works on local history or niche scientific or technical subjects that were never widely published, where a few public libraries hold what may be the last remaining copies.

There is no reason to destroy these away to make room for Biden or Trump's latest ghostwritten memoir or the latest Grishau novel. At any rate, I do not see any reason to publicly fund the sort of institution you seem to envision. The public can entertain themselves on their own dime.
I’ve been googling trying to figure out what “ghost light” is in this context .. did you get an autocorrect for gas light?
Cool project. Also see https://getfedora.org/coreos?stream=stable for Fedora-based CoreOS successor
Actually they are ideal for touch devices.
Obligatory mention of another open source RTS engine (lineage tracing back to the original Total Annihilation): https://springrts.com/
FIRE is definitely attainable, easily moreso without children. Also lucky enough to have an even higher earning fiance. Hope our futures can work out before OpenAI destroys half the economy.
Granted[1], but that doesn't really suggest that we evolved intelligence in order to compete as either individuals as tribes, or address what I'm saying about how intelligence is more useful for cooperation than competition.

[1] I think my wording was confusing, reading my comment I do seem to imply that such competition doesn't exist rather than that I thought it was being overstated, but that was sloppy writing on my part.
At the same time of all program language indexes, I always thought of it as the most lagging or most established.

For example

11. Delphi/Object Pascal
12. Assembly language
13. Classic Visual Basic (not even sure, 'regular' VB at #6)

The top modern, non-ubiquitous language on the list is 19. Rust.

For Zig to make #46 counts for some kind of exposure and momentum.
Is AMD gpu support on the roadmap?

I'm interested in this stuff but I won't be buying Nvidia cards.
Makes sense!

Ik there was always a military presence in Kohat Agency since the British era (Battle of Saranghai for example) but was there a significant increase in presence in the leadup to Zarb-e-Azb, or were levels maintained?
Cool. Can one build a game using this but by only using Python?
or the openSUSE MicroOS https://microos.opensuse.org/
I'm a bit worried the LLaMA leak will make the labs much more cautious about who they distribute models to for future projects, closing down things even more.

I've had tons of fun implementing LLaMA, learning and playing around with variations like Vicuna. I learned a lot and probably wouldn't have got so interested in this space if the leak didn't happen.
My understanding is that there can be both. That the execution pipes themselves on some implementations have a 'nanocode' for stuff like cordics and maybe division who's execution streams are kicked off from the one or two high level uOps that the instruction decoder emits.
The best UX would be to have a personal shopper. That's the point of using human language. I can be explicit about the properties I care about and vague about the properties I don't care about. I'm not going to pay someone $100 to do my grocery shopping or have my father-in-law do it every week, though. An algorithm that can robustly interpret human language can also optimize a shopping cart significantly faster than a human can, based on massively indexed databases.

Not to be rude but to highlight my point, why are you trying to infer my ramen flavor preferences from my purchase history? I already explicitly said that I am allergic to beef. That's the whole point. It takes practically no effort for a literate human to speak or write down the criteria that are important to them. It is significantly harder for a computer to correctly interpret it, but that's why it seems like an LLM could help.
Should add (2021)
As much as I agree how important it is to design software with a type 2 mindset, I believe that there is also the trap of not taking any risks because you constantly fear it would not serve your users well enough, they would never use it, it would be too complicated for them, etc.

We have to know our target audience well and always question our assumptions about them, because sometimes it may be surprising to see what users are willing to learn if they feel it is worth the effort. And sometimes it may be worth losing a part of that audience while the ones that stay will be much more convinced about what the product can give them back.
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I support this, and even more so I believe this is necessary if we believe that academia should exist as a place for researchers to do work not motivated by profits. So many AI researchers have moved to work at big tech simply because the resources required for cutting edge ML are so vast.

Having a giant collaborative project would make it much easier for universities to retain professors, attract PhDs/Post-docs, etc. They could do work that aims to benefit society as a whole, instead of just happening to benefit society when it's a lucky side effect of benefiting stockholders.
There are some interesting points made about incentives to keep AI mysterious here, and around the fact that our language enables conceptions of AI as mystical.

However, if you get a neuroanatomist and a computer scientist who specializes in AI in the same room and let them talk to each other for a bit, you’ll see that we broadly understand AI: both its components and its emergent features.

This doesn’t mean we know everything and no more research is needed, but the idea that we don’t understand this stuff is BS propagated by people who don’t understand the theory in both domains of science. The most misleading voices seem to come, very often, from authoritative experts who only understand one field and not the other.

And yes, more research is always needed. We’re still not done doing research on how water works, ffs. We probably never will be. But we understand water to a very large degree.
Oh, re getting paid to pulp, I did find the quote after looking more carefully:

> Sometimes you can find a paper recycling centre that will pay you for the pulp

I think that is probably pretty rare in 2023, and not a very common practice. That article is from 2011, I think it was probably pretty rare even in 2011.

But let's google... ok, some sources say you can get $75 a ton for paper to be recycled. (I'm honestly still dubious in 2023, and for books specifically as input rather than clean paper without covers or glue, but let's go with it). An average book might weight about a pound. So for pulping 2000 books you might get $75, or under 4 cents a book. If any libraries are in fact getting this revenue, I still doubt this is actually guiding any decision-making. Not sure if you meant to imply it was. Some do make more than 4 cents a book from used book sales, that is true -- if guided by the revenue from getting rid of books at all, used book sales are probably a lot more attractive.

but mostly libraries discard books when they don't think they serve the community anymore, to make room for other books. Not to make money from the discards. I understand people can disagree about what particular book might or might not serve the community anymore. And you apparently do, perhaps with your local library? I'm still interested in specific examples.
why would anyone want to use PL/Rust over PL/PQSL?

what is the use case?
Surely that just means "you have to talk to them", not that you have to give in to their demands, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a negotiation and unions could simply set raises and working conditions.

And if it doesn't: read "refuses to negotiate" as "will dutifully sit at the table, listen to the demands and then explain that they had just a short while ago reached an agreement that is binding both sides, and they're happy to negotiate a new agreement once the current one has expired".
It appears there is this genre of articles pretending that LLAMA or its RL-HF tuned variants are somehow even close to an alternative to ChatGPT.

Spending more than a few moments interacting even with the larger instruct-tuned variants of these models quickly dispels that idea. Why do these takes around open-source AI remain so popular? What is the driving force?
They are as mainstream as Rust, some of them beat Rust in production deployments.

Kotlin meta-programing is done via reflection and compiler plugins.

Traits are interfaces.
Yeah but then the experts at the big 4 are 23 year old grads with no experience. I don't get it.
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I don't know why people put any stock in this index, the methodology seems flawed. They say that Ada's rating is double that of TypeScript, surely that doesn't reflect reality in the slightest?
(Canada perspective) - it’s on the lower end of the software engineer. If a software eng makes 80-120k in non faang, you are looking at 70-100k. Those are just example numbers, it’s been about 5 years since I worked in that industry.

There are two paths in this industry though, work for the factory itself, very cushy job, sometimes unionized. You’re responsible for fixing small things as they come, but overall I don’t think much is expected since you’re one of the few in the factory who can program those machines so if you give a time estimate there’s nobody to argue. You likely stay in the lower end of the pays scale.

There is the consultant route, which can be gruelling, but you make closer to the higher end of the pay scale.
Here it’s just a programmer shop, much is expected of you because you’re billing by the hour, also you will travel about 1/3 of your time, because you need to go from factory to factory to fix/install new code or machines.
While what the exec said is strictly true, I think you are still on the correct side of the equation. Just that the question shifts for a mandatory tool from enticement to "how do we make this helpful and useful or at least not horrifically painful to use?" Because humans are endlessly creative at exercising their choice even when it seems to have been taken away.

In the most extreme case they will leave the company and talk about how terrible the processes are. More likely they will be somewhere on the spectrum from doing the bare minimum to malicious compliance. Even for a rigorous and required process you still have to get some buy-in or you won't get the results you want from people.
I'm getting a "Could not detect database schema" error when I try to connect to a MySQL database. The DB user has select privileges so it should work, I think... any ideas?
Haha good luck with that now… it’s in the digital ether available to all on IPFS… at worst you might have to ask around for someone to help you, but its “distributed” widely enough now I don’t think even a billionaire can put this back into the bottle.
>WiFi card has no full access to everything, including CPU, RAM

Usually it does since PCI gives you DMA. With DMA you don't need CPU access as you can just read the system's memory to learn what is happening.

>such as

Secure boot, AMT, and secure video and audio.
The more self righteousness bubble there is in the west, the more painful if will be when it pops.

Anyone know how much stochastic parrots like this Masha Borak[0][1] got paid writing this lazy propagandists articles that is suitable as content substitute for actual journalistic honest work ?

[0] https://www.mashaborak.com/work

[1] https://twitter.com/a_bachulska/status/1622881058873016320
I struggle mightily with this in managing projects. My instinct is to use solid boring tech, and maximize chance of delivering on time. But I've found that:

1.) No one writes blog posts about using old boring stuff and meeting expectations. And such blog posts can contribute to recruiting and even, indirectly, sales, by helping your company get general press for being "on the cutting edge."

2.) You can potentially get better overall results even if the new tech has more gotchas and unknowns, because certain developers will knock themselves out to deliver on time and prove you were right in trusting them with the platform/language decisions. But you have to pick very wisely on this and keep in mind such devs may immediately lever their experience on the new tech to get a new job and leave you with a team of juniors that wander lost without their guru.
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In my experience as a regular user of cursive that is not true.
So just bring in another CEO just for the bankruptcy. Currently that's not an uncommon practice in the US. Of course this new CEO would have to be a one-use fall guy with somebody else actually doing the job...

> If you prove yourself unable use that privilege responsibly

Good luck determining whose actually to blame and who is innocent... at the end of the days only unlucky small to medium business owners who can't afford expensive lawyers or consultants will suffer from such a policy.
That I do agree with.

BCG and McK don’t offer auditing.
> Debian passes for Ubuntu

Ubuntu passes for Debian, you mean. Debian has been around much, much longer than Ubuntu and set the standards Ubuntu got for free and commercialized.
Seems unlikely at this point if they're machine-gun firing DMCA Notices.
This is only possible in America…
Performance of the European Food Industry to Improve Population Nutrition
However, it is absolutely plausible for Go-calling-Go to beat Go-calling-C-via-CGo, since CGo has plenty of overhead.
ChatGPT being an ultra-hot topic, so every article tangentially related to it gets twice the views?
Memorizing a set of numbers doesn't really feel like a shorthand way to remember those numbers. Did you know about the 3.14 rule? It's a way to remember the first three digits of pi are 3.14.
You are largely wrong, to be honest.

Mostly, you can simply stack more transformers and (as long as you have layer norm), it can train on more data (of fixed sequence length).

There are some tricks & tips, but the vast majority lie outside of the architecture improvements.
The Russia-Ukraine war’s impact on global food markets: A historical perspective
And HIPAA spells out fines of up to a very high amount for breaches. This firm didn't even get the minimum fine per person.
I relly like this insight.

How do you think people fit in thee who want to build "self-healing" systems?
Got them wrong for me as well. :/

I could point out the flaw and it would fix it, but introduce another.

However, I got enough out of it to rewrite it myself.
With governments having like 30-50% GDP share of the economy (e.g., tax versus GDP) - we are gonna have a hard time banning literally everything based on that…
Manhattanites also tend to be richer than other Americans. If we're being "logical" we would control for confounding variables.
Future warming from global food consumption