skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel as if I'm repeating myself but that doesn't address whether or not that's true in this case or address the reasons I've provided for why I don't think so. Afterall I mentioned peacock feathers in one of my first comments, I'm aware of intraspecific competition.

Since we've made two laps around this point I suspect we'll have to agree to disagree.
FTL in SR does not break causality. Some FTL travel is "allowed", at least causality allows it. A natural model for SR + FTL that is consistent with causality, is that SR is an emerging phenomenon / effective theory over a Galilean space time. If you can, say, send information in the Galilean space time with arbitrary velocity, then you can send information FTL, but causality is total cool with it.

It is also possible, that you can move with arbitrary speeds in this Galilean spacetime (but I believe we haven't observed anything in the universe that moves FTL).

However, arbitrary FTL would mean you can send information from anywhere and anywhen to anywhere and anywhen, which breaks causality.
Here's one piece of evidence suggesting it's more like rote pattern matching than reasoning.

> All the signs in this building are written in mirror writing. A glass door has ‘push’ written on it in mirror writing. Should you push or pull it

>> If the sign on the glass door is written in mirror writing and says "push," then you should actually pull the door. This is because the mirror writing makes the text appear reversed, so the word "push" would appear as "hsup" in a mirror, which could cause confusion for someone trying to enter the building. Therefore, pulling the door would be the correct action to take.

(Latest chat.openai.com, so if I'm reading the promo materials right that's gpt4)
Er… McKinsey and BCG don’t even do audit. What do they have to do with TFA?
Apropos your point on writing in books, here is Mortimer Adler (of how to read a book fame) exhorting you to go ahead and scribble in your books

https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-...
No, the second argument was "there exists a reference frame such that the paradox is resolved" not " this is the only situation in which the paradox is resolved. "

She just wanted a counter example to the claim "faster than light travel produces a paradox no matter what" by showing " well, not in _this_ case" so there might be other cases. Or even all cases, who knows.
I am sorry but fractional reserve banking isn't the problem, nor is debt based money the problem. You can't solve the problem without allowing interest rates to be negative when people want to pay off their debts at a faster rate than people wanting to spend off their credits/deposits.

The problem is quite simple. Money has no maturity but debt has a deadline. This asymmetry causes problems regardless of whether you have a gold standard, full reserve fiat or fractional reserve fiat.

In other words, if you can fix the asymmetry or eliminate the zero lower bound it doesn't actually matter what form your money takes.
Ahh I was thinking of the B-70 Valkyrie from the 70s. A Mach 3+ intercontinental high altitude bomber.
The famed physicist Douglas Adams has put forward
a good hypothesis on faster than light travel.
It is called "The improbability drive".

It is based on the theory that FTL travel is
extremely unlikely.
Isn’t the speed of light just a more intuitive way to say the speed of causality? Going faster than that would be exposing an effect before the cause.
Could this be adapted to be a backend for graphviz?

I use org mode for notes, and sometimes want to draw graphs or diagrams using graphviz. With something like this, you could integrate graphviz source blocks with org-babel and evaluate the blocks to get nice textual output in your org file.
I did play a lot of meccano when I was young, but today I think the brand did not evolve, meccano itself is great but the company did not reinvent itself sorry
It's hard to not think that scaling and complexity problems will be solved very shortly with new models. Already when i run into my 25 per 3hr limit with GPT-4, my productivity goes from extremely productive to "may as well just do it myself" when i switch back to GPT-3.5.
And in 6 months it will be outdated.

So long LLaMA, and thanks for all the fish. You will be remembered as the slightly-sexier version of GPT-J that was most well-renowned for... checks clipboard ...Macbook acceleration.
Sure, I get that. But this has been worked on for decades in the background and only achievable now. It’s amazing and new to so many people, but this “sparks of agi” etc is all hype and honestly i think more damaging to people than ai possibly could be. You could suppose the earth would implode if we kept walking on it too, but nobody is going to stay sitting.
But (taking the joke closer towards absurdity) when using vector timestamps independent actions by people not communicating with each other don't have a well-defined order.
Well, there's that, yes. But I think there can also be an excessive belief in the power of scrappiness and agility, that it can overcome any issue, so no actual consultation or forethought before committing the company is useful. Any pushback being dismissed as "big company thinking"
Tachyons, shmachyons...

Regular photons in quantum mechanics can move faster than light (*)!

* as long as they are virtual.
I am a Tesla owner but I am not a car guy. I wanted an EV that could replace my ICE vehicle.

It is changing but right now, I still wouldn’t consider a non-Tesla vehicle, not because of the cars but the charging network. I have the adapter to charge at CCS1 stations(everyone but Tesla) but they are always broken and not maintained. The charging infrastructure network sucks for everyone but Tesla.

The best thing that happened for non-Tesla EVs is Tesla committing to install CCS1 magic docks at new supercharger stations. That is great for them and a negative for Tesla owners.
I would also add point 3.5 which explains that there has been a historic transition (Electroweak Symmetry Breaking) where particles which were massless and travelling at the speed of light before, slowed down and attained mass due to the Higgs field condensing. As the energy that was released back then due to this transition had to be finite, the Lorentz factor argument about infinite energy can't be entirely accurate: if the transition works in one way without involving infinite energy, it should surely work in the other way too (otherwise energy conservation would be violated).
Fission is theoretically amazing in many cases, but is hampered by branding problems. If fusion can be marketed as "clean", it gets a comparative advantage.
I suppose she's just saying possible in the sense that it's not impossible. She's not saying it's probable
It looks like profits were more like $3m. Selling at 10x P/E is very reasonable
For those curious about self-refining systems: https://selfrefine.info/ (our recent work).
That's one of the points of the spherical tokamaks - they're MUCH smaller than the standard tokamaks (I can't remember the numbers but it's vastly smaller). That brings the cost way way down.
The modern HTS magnets are also more powerful, even in the Tokamak systems (like CFSs) which again get the size way down - I think it's something like cubed size reduction for doubling magnet strength (?).
You'd be right for something of the silly size of ITER.
Intel and AMD: The First 30 Years
You are confused. The article talks about reactor construction time in countries.

E.g. Hinkley Point C is being built in the UK, that means it gets recorded in data about construction in the UK, even though it is designed by a French company, and owned by a French and Chinese company.

The same applies for reactors designed by Rosatom and built around the world. A VVER-1200 built in China may be a russian design, but the data is recorded as construction in China for obvious reasons.

> Sorry to break it to you, but the USSR dissolved over 30 years ago.

Yes, you're the one that was confused why Belarusian projects did not count as russian, and you ignored the Former USSR information in the article. If you would like to know why she aggregated the data that way and didn't break it out into before and after USSR dissolution, you should go and post a comment asking on her Substack.
It has many more uses than just providing answers to random questions which you can easily answer by using a search engine.

If they built it to replace Google search, I would agree with you.

So I view the fact that it lies as an important bug, but not a critical one.
"Spheromak" is already taken by a very different reactor design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak
Wish I had access to 4. Chatgpt fails when I give it a problem like "you feel a tremor as you walk toward a glass door. When you approach the door you see a sign laying on the ground beyond the door that says "pull". Should you push or pull the door to open it? "
Without a binding constitution, there is no formal legal basis for a polity and people are free to do as they wish. E.g., join the Russian Federation or constitute themselves as an independent republic.
Just because there's one unintuitive step that doesn't mean everything following that is incomprehensible without math though.
The fact that the speed of light is constant might be unintuitive, but once you accept that, the fact (for example) that you can never reach it is intuitive. As is the fact that it would require infinite energy to do so. It's perfectly fair for someone to seek an intuitive explanation even with an unintuitive assumption. I have no idea whether there is one in this case, but it doesn't seem true that there's nothing intuitive about special relativity.
It's remanded to the sands of time. That tends to happen to civilizations that started 7000 years ago.
It's a rather stupid question because there are plenty of libraries that can do it better than you could come up with. It's the kind of thing that if I saw a developer wasting their time with at my company, I would immediately fire them, it's akin to rolling your own cryptography.
Creator of bittorrent?

It's a 4d old substack. First post talks about switching to real-et blogging as being well overdue. I wonder what they were doing before.
She has the right to say that given that she herself stopped working on it.
>don't have the favor of the party/Winnie-the-Pooh

Operation Foxhunt criminals being harboured in west should get a pass just to stick it to CCP/Xi is pretty much why Guo Wengui happened. Let a known criminal swindle billion+ in US instead of working out deal to hand him to CCP after years of petitioning because... I don't even know. Ultimately extraditing even criminals to PRC too much of political shitshow in west, especially under current environment.
That’s because commercial fusion doesn’t exist yet. All new technology isn’t commercially viable when only viewed from the perspective of early prototypes.

This is as equally true for consumer hardware as it is for massive scientific endeavours.
A professor who wants to focus on teaching should probably not be working at a research university, depending on his/her field.
Is it possible to build systems with multiple GPUs to run the 65B or larger when they appear?

I’m not really sure and looking for clarification from anyone who knows. My understanding is it is possible to split the layers between the GPUs so a system with 4 high end consumer GPUs might work well.
Yes, rust declarative macros shine at exactly this kind of problem. And nom does use this to generate the implementation.

But for some reason it's customary in rust to stick to a lower number of autogenerated implementations. My first guess would be it might be a compile time issue?

https://docs.rs/nom/latest/src/nom/branch/mod.rs.html#245
And then your friends will spend hours worth of quarters to learn the trick.
Interesting, thanks for the information. I had thought it was the same with HFS but guess it's been some time since I used it...
"Let's close all our perfectly functional nuclear power plants and build up unreliable intermittent solar and wind! That way, we will be forced to rely on fossil fuels—especially natural gas that we can't get because we banned drilling for it on our soil, and we are currently engaged in a proxy war with the nearest major supplier."
Get ppl who don’t develop AI to regulate AI is not going to go too great
Excel at What You Do
Vicuna-13b seems to do a little better, although it seems to think that the blind man should be able to feel the writing:

Human: A man sees PULL written in mirror writing on a glass door. There's a blind man on the other side of the door. What should the man tell the blind man to open the door and why?

Assistant: The man should tell the blind man to feel for the word "PULL" written in normal writing on the glass door, as the blind man will be able to feel the indentations made by the letters. This will allow the blind man to open the door by finding the handle or knob and pulling it. The reason for this is that the word "PULL" is written in normal writing for the blind man to feel, so he can open the door.
pl/rust will be available on CoreDB when we launch, along many other popular and interesting Postgres extensions. We’re a new company, closed beta - but join our waitlist @ https://coredb.io if you’d like a shot at early access
The artice is literally about how this will lead to a hostile superhuman intelligence that will wipe out humanity. It's not about AI tooling as an accelerator, which is a valid concern that imo can't be avoided.
Ha! Wait but why Google Cloud SQL proxy too?

If you are interested in connecting over this it would be great to connect… chase@supabase.com.

We want to do load balancing too. Makes so much sense to do load balancing in the proxy.
Eh, all parties and candidates have to be approved by the council of experts and the supreme leader there are no free elections in Iran.

The CIA definitely did not put the religious nut jobs in power in Iran. Unless you want to blame them for the revolution in the first place.
Q: But what if all signs in the building are in mirror writing?
A: If all signs in the building are in mirror writing, it would be a consistent theme throughout the building. In this case, the "push" sign written in mirror writing on the glass door should also be interpreted in the context of the building's theme. As a result, you should still push the door as the sign indicates, even though it's written in mirror writing.
YC also has a 4% participation right https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/

Include that and founder ownership drops by 4 percentage points in scenario A.

Also AFAIK the option pool is usually 10% post-money, so the founder would get a few percent less than calculated in the examples (10% pre-money).
> (Latest chat.openai.com, so if I'm reading the promo materials right that's gpt4)

that's still chatgpt3.5 unless you are paying for plus and then you have a limited number of gpt4 queries per hour.
Another note for nordic layouts and Linux: tilde (~) is considered to be a "dead key" on most nordic layouts, meaning you may need to follow AltGr + ~ with a space before typing out the dot. Otherwise you might get weird looks from the terminal trying to figure what you meant with the tilde-dot.

Incidentally, while testing on Windows (in both WSL and cmd.exe) with a Finnish layout: you do not need a space after typing out the tilde.
Well, the point is more that you have to wait 3 minutes on Mars if you want to watch yourself leave.

But say instead of waiting you just keep going poof.
I tried the same question with Bard, and it got it right but it also gave me the following:

Here are some other things to keep in mind when opening a glass door:

Use your hands to open the door. Do not use your feet or other body parts.
Be careful not to break the glass. Glass doors can be very fragile, so it is important to be gentle when opening them.
If you are unsure how to open a glass door, ask for help from someone who knows.

Good lord.....
The title of this article is a really good Garden Path Sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Selling 20 million Quest 2 headsets is a pretty good outcome for the so-called Metaverse fiasco.
>Executing "arbitrary code" that InstructGPT models outputs based on your instructions is not a danger.

This is a grossly irresponsible and categorically false statement, in very obvious ways.
> Stuff like this seems pretty human to me.

Yeah, the first time you see it (usually something outside one's own expertise.. I mean did you carefully read what it gives there even in the first response?), now repeat it and vary a bit, poke it with some questions.. and it soon ffalls apart..You don't need to do it, just read some further tweets downwards..

> An AGI is not necessarily going to look and sound like a really smart human.

Definitely not, but it will need to reason somehow.
> there are no Chinese soldiers in the region.

So China is bribing all the tribes in the area to not "salvage" their stuff for parts? The problem with not having troops in such places is that they're in constant states of near lawlessness toward outsiders.

It would be more correct to say that "there are not yet Chinese soldiers in the region". It's only a matter of time.
Word completion can't explain it. I gave chatGpt a puzzle. I'm in a room with crackling fire in a fireplace, a sandwich on a plate, and a wilting plant. My stomach is rumbling, and i see an ember on the floor and watering can by the plant. What should I do? ChatGpt nailed the answer, getting the ordering correct. it even said I should (after attending to the fire hazard, my hunger, and the plant) that I should "sit down, relax, enjoy the fire and the peaceful atmosphere in the room". There is no way to autocomplete the puzzle correctly. There is reasoning and a world model - in chatGpt let alone gpt4.
In my opinion the problem of LoRA vs LoRa is that while the two are in different domains (machine learning vs. wireless transmission), it is still very easy to confuse the two because these two domains are adjacent. For example you could imagine that someone made a chat system that works over LoRa, where you can create your own avatars - which is what I assumed this article was about before clicking the link. Technically the two names are different because of the uppercase A in LoRA, but that is easy to miss.
Yes! Everyone reading this that wants a Casio: just get the f-105w

I went from f91w to the illuminator and it’s much nicer for the backlight
> Take the Twitter/Musk drama, for example. Even with a bunch of unhappy employees, no major leaks came out.

The whole twitter codebase was leaked and uploaded to public github a week ago shrugs
Another thing I tried was getting logic puzzles from the internet and giving them to 3.5 and 4. Both usually pass.

Then I alter them ever so slightly.

Then often times only GPT-4 passes.

From that I reckon 3.5 is doing more of a training data regurgitation. It can answer things in its training data. But 4 seems to have an ability to reason - or maybe it is better able to generalise?
There is ongoing promising work that shows this can be improved a lot: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
I don’t know, most of the people I knew in SF have already left. Mainly to Austin.

I’m not sure what future the US has. I don’t know if its fate will be like Latin America with a gutting of the middle class, or South Africa with the high crime and corruption with rolling blackouts, or Russia with a massive private security industry.
The timing is unusual. Hafnium was an incredibly widely exploited attack. Companies supporting a large number of exchange servers were reporting >50% running cobalt strike the very day of the patch release. Our internal discussions came to the view anyone not patched two days later had a close to 100% chance of backdoors and was going to have their server rebuilt rather than patched. It was absolutely unparalleled how widely exploited this actually was.

My point being, I have doubts that this business made it months after the fact, unless there was something else involved. I saw a colleague building sandboxes, just put online, not yet on shodan, with this exploit being a few days old, and they would see ransomware within the hour.
I keep thinking I should respond as you are so unbelievably wrong it really needs refuting these categorically false claims of yours.

However it’s seems doubtful you will even be willing to acknowledge your flawed understanding and perhaps even unlikely you will see my response give how HN works.
1. Yeah I stick primarily to hospitality and consumer companies (B2C and B2B2C) with a large amount of tech debt; because they're so mired in keeping their current systems alive, they don't have time to innovate, so thats where I come in.

2. Word of mouth primarily. When they look at what I cost them vs. what the big consultancies – or even the midsize 'innovation consultancies' like Frog or IDEO cost, it's a no-brainer. I just blend basic financial rigor with a bit of visionary thinking and competitive research, and set my clients up for the win when they go ask for permission to go from idea to prototype to MVP to pilot.
Maybe it's just a matter of perspective. I agree that this is something that's been worked on for decades; however, it's also the case that progress seems to be getting faster. The AI field now has a problem where AIs are improving faster than benchmarks can measure them, and new benchmarks get saturated almost as soon as they're introduced. [1]

The human mind is a mystery, we don't know how it works. But it works somehow. There are some algorithms it's using under the hood, as mysterious as they may be. We might be searching blindly in the dark, grabbing hold of anything that feels promising, and we're probably still far away from the "right way" of doing it, of getting a computer to think the way humans think. And I'm sure we won't find the whole thing at once; maybe we'll have reverse-engineered the visual cortex, but not the vestibular system, which perhaps works completely differently. But if we were getting closer to stumbling on the right solution, that rapid saturation of benchmarks is the kind of behaviour I would expect to see.

[1]: "Foundation models and the next era of AI", Microsoft Research, https://youtu.be/HQI6O5DlyFc?t=958
There's also the various https://diybookscanner.org variants. Not the quickest imaginable system, but it's much better than going <i>snap snap snap</i> with a cellphone.
Just like that. Prompt engineers are also obsolete
Causality propagates at the speed of light. “Speed of light” is just a more intuitive way to say the speed of causality. FTL travel is the same as faster than causality travel. So going faster than light exceeds the speed of causality. To me, that means the order of events is no longer predictable so everything about cause and effect breaks down hence breaking causality.