skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Othello-GPT

Has any one written the obvious reply to this paper yet?

It's false. It's not true.

The rules and the board state it "learns" are just functions of the token positions *by construction*; it is given the token positions. obviously it learns patterns in those positions.

The paper is such a misfire, it's absurd.

The problem with using a formal system to investigate this issue is that by construction the "distributional hypothesis" is true for that system. Ie., the pattern in distribution of the moves are (a very good model of) the rules and board-state.

But this is clearly untrue for non-formal systems not constructed this way. Eg., text tokens are not distributed like causal structures in the world -- and it's absurd to suppose so.

The distributional hypothesis is obviously false for almost every measurement system of interest: measures are not distributed like their causes. We invent measurement systems to encode information, not to be isomorphic to world-structure.
It just says he hates multiplexers. Presumably a statement of fact and not an attack.
Omnigres author here.

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Support for proxy proxying requests to Postgres-managed containers is coming, too.

The core idea here is less about using SQL or any other PL but increasing mechanical sympathy and decreasing integration, devops and network overhead of the traditional architecture.

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I would like to understand the role of quality vs quantity in these models. Is it better to train them on slight variations of what humans consider to be high quality input or just add a boatload of low quality input instead? If we somehow found an original Shakespeare book, wouldn't it be drowned by all the trashy Amazon erotica written every year?

I understand that there are reasons to expect improvement with a broader set of inputs - the model would never understand slang and other key language components by being trained only in academic papers. I wonder whether the Shakespeare example would be worked out by it somply occupyinf a novel high-dimensional space because of its uniqueness, or whether there is a signal to noise issue here.
Not as much "off limits" but "horribly expensive because of cooling requirements"
The world as experienced by humans is unlabelled. We do, however, have instinct.
The UK government has a pretty big github account https://github.com/alphagov
This has been written about before and sometimes referred to as the "end of history". One author made the same observation about music as this author did about fashion: one could go back in time and no one would be shocked by what they heard or notice it was from the future. Whereas the difference from 1985 to 1995 was mindblowing by comparison.
It is more zero trust than it would otherwise be though. An RDP server with tailscale can reject by default packets coming from a LAN. And you can get ALC before a connection can be made.
Eh, while the notice might not have been completely necessary, I do understand the awkwardness of linking to and recommending Russian state backed resources these days. It's the academic work of Russian-speaking individuals who are funded by the Russian state and whose work is published by an institution funded by the Russian state.

This is in no way meant to be taken as an attack on the individuals or the research, I'm just pointing out that you left out some quite important elements.
This might be changing soon as there is a new party in charge.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/arizona-future-renewable-e...
What is the chat happens in a software that didn't have chat history feature in the first place? I mean it's Google, surely they could cook up a separate internal chat tool just for this purpose. And if the chat history didn't exist in the first place, can the court order the company to switch to a chat software that has it? If not, how is it that different from toggling chat history on/off in a single software?
Presuming that this role is partnering with a sales person or going apart yourself on sales calls and working sales tenders/RFPs and the main role is to close sales (directly or indirectly), then:

> 1) Would love it if someone can share similar moves - how did you go about it, how has it worked out and tips if any ?

I did this more than 10 years ago after about 6-7 years of hands-on programming work. It's a great move. I'm very introverted and don't enjoy talking to people, but the job was a good fit because I somehow can articulate with customers (I just don't like socializing with them, so a pure sales role was out for me). It's a great opportunity to hone soft skills, and felt like a good point for me to understand the business side of software (e.g. every one talks value proposition, but you don't really need to understand it until you try to sell it).

> 2) How does the levelling work ? If I need to change roles would I have to take a downgrade or a paycut ? About Staff Engineer level now.

I supposed it's based a lot on organization, but I don't think there is a real path to an equivalent to Staff Engineer in technical sales. As an aside: you made Staff Engineer after 10 years? What's next? :)

> 3) Any specific skillsets or certifications I should pick up ? I am pretty sure if given an interview I can take it from there, but seems hard to get into a field without experience at a senior-ish level.

* persuasion skills
* demo skills
* presentation
* domain knowledge
* whatever skill it takes to respond to RFPs
* negotiation
* quick to whip up demos
* Learn to say "no, but" or "not yet, but"

Nothing really specific to technical sales actually
Agreed. You could make at least double AND let sb use it instead of recycling. Reuse should come before recycle.
> the eggs need to be stored in the fridge because they are dipped in checmicals, the rest of the world is fine without doing that

Also one of the main reasons for chlorine-washing eggs is to reduce the instance of salmonella. But the salmonella is only there because the US will not pass regulation requiring farmers to vaccinate hens, as Europe does.
I would be very suprised if this hasn't already been implemented since GPT-3/3.5
The name is very obvious to me; quite a 'unique' Dutch name, and he used to be the classmate of a colleague of mine. While he doesn't mention the name in the article, the Open Core references align with their own offering.
What Is Metaverse?
If you are looking for a blend of sock and shoe: https://baresocks.com/

I have been absolutely loving wearing these in colder, drier weather. Its an extremely minimal shoe- feels like being barefoot, They are too warm for warmer weather and they absorb water is wet weather. I dealt with wet weather by using sealskinz waterproof socks. I bought two sizes: a smaller size for just my foot and a bigger size to accommodate socks.
Same question could be asked in the aftermath of an incident. The argumentation is not so straightforward if looked upon in detail.

Of course the question is if the reactors could have been „saved“ earlier on, but those decisions were made in 2010.

In the meantime, wind, solar and gas plants were built. Gas plants were intended to offset low output times in solar and wind. Gas plants can be quickly turned on and off unlike nuclear plants. Thats the reasoning.

What would you recommend?
Anecdotally, libav/ffmpeg have the worst API I've ever had the displeasure of using. Getting anything working falls firmly in the realm of masochism.
Yeah I've found when trying (and failing mostly) to convince Python developers to use type hints that they often think it's only to fix bugs and then resist because a) of course their code doesn't have bugs, and b) they've already written their code and discovered lots of bugs painfully at runtime, so they wouldn't get most of the bug-finding benefits anyway.

They never appreciate that type hints make code easier to read and write and navigate and understand and maintain.

Often it's Vim users that have never used a good IDE.
Tailscale does offer an ACL system[0] that allows protecting individual ports (which I assume is what is meant by services here?) and defaults to least-privilege (when ACLs are enabled, a node in the network cannot access other nodes by default). Though this configuration is centralized in the control plane. Does this not address some of those issues?

I'm not well-versed in zero-trust networking, so I may be missing something fundamental.

[0]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1018/acls/
The original T5 models were trained with masked language modelling similar to BERT and afterwards also trained on a autoregressive task similar to GPT.
They’ve been around for years, I want to say over a decade. It’s pretty clear nobody is hung up on the name.
For a weekend trip back to visit the family one small (40x20x25cm) can work. A carry-on costs 13.5 euros extra.
if we can get AMT functionality like remote rebooting in to PXE, then I would migrate immediately for the home lab. For now, AMT is too convenient in combination with Canonical MAAS which does the whole lifecycle when you use these machines as a server.
As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends
The slippery slope of censorship.

However I am anti-abortion. I used to be pro abortion, I was a hardcore liberal just a few years ago, before covid (still not a Trump supporter, just rabidly apolitical now). And considering what the federal government has been doing censoring the right via tech platforms when it goes against their narratives.. aw shucks I can't get behind censorship.

Sorry Texas.
UK motorways have traditionally have a "hard shoulder" for emergency use. To be able to break down and be out of the flow of traffic (moving at 70mph) keeps passengers and property safe.

The "Smart Motorway" has signs to turn this refuge into a full speed lane, leaving a couple of feet for the breakdown area.

I never understood how this could be approved by any Minister who wanted to retain their position, but I guess saving money on new road lanes is more important than the lives of the voters and their families.

Smart Motorways also try to slow traffic on approach to a bottleneck to ease the arrival of congestion before it brings the road to a standstill. In practice, drivers ignore the signs unless they have a speed camera attached to them, making the investment in the technology mostly useless.

Good riddance to this dangerous idea. Don't revisit it while cars have organic drivers.
Everything you do on a computer is recorded, at least ephemerally, in the computer memory. Does deleting stuff from the memory count as destroying evidence? If not, how is it different from deleting stuff from somewhere else? I mean, deleting information that is not used is part of how computer operate, if you're going to disallow that, you better have a pretty huge tech infrastructure to store all those memory dumps from every workstation Google has every second or so.
If someone uses the phrase "the woke left" you have to question their impartiality.

Also, not caring about people outside your country seems to me to be a property of the right. "America first" , etc
Now try doing the same on the Mediterranean shore.
Aside from technical reasons why would I volunteer my computing time for it to be wasted when someone lobotomizes the end result with their "bigotry protections"?
I believe the Ruby designers have refused to add syntax for type hints, so they need to either be in comments on separate lines from the code itself or even in a separate file. They are therefore less ergonomic to use - but the increased separation from the code means that they are mostly used purely as (machine-verifiable) comments. On the other hand Python's type hints tend to be deeply intertwined with the code, and are even required to access new language features such as dataclasses.

The two languages take such different approaches because their designers have different feelings about static typing. Guido and the Steering Council seem to want Python to be as statically-typed as possible, whereas Matz thinks "static type declaration is redundant" [0].

[0] https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview
Makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain!
"the cobbler's children have no shoes"
Censorship is inevitable to maintaining the power structure, the question is who controls the censorship and whether the approach taken to censorship makes the people strong or weak.
Let's not blame databases for lack of skills or interest in how to use them properly.

Oracle, Microsoft and IBM provide the same kind of IDEs, graphical debugging and source control as any other programming language.

It is this lack of skills that comes up with fads like NoSQL.

By the way, there are similar results related to debugging in other languages, where most can't do better than printf debugging, don't know unit tests, profilers or static analysers.

The outcome of bootcamps or CS degrees without sound engineering practices, while people label themselves "engineer".
yeah my point is, its weird you guys do that, while rest of the world is fine without doing that.
Batching (and sorting and merging) are things our predecessors in the 1950s and 1960s (and before that, in the card era) had to do to run anything at all. These days they are things that we may do to make sluggish systems snappy.
Plenty, LTS is a big factor and a lot of companies now got burned with CentOS.

LTS is key because migrating OS and recalibrating everything is expensive as fuck for large organizations.
As the amount of manhours needed to migrate everything, retest and retool everything and retain and update all your internal documentation is stupendous.

Also having real support for a product is worth its weight in gold in a corporate environment because it allows you to offload responsibilities when stuff breaks.
Wouldn't it work if you stream the resulting video as a Youtube Live stream?

You would have to set a stream up in the Youtube creator web page, in order to get a streaming key and with it, a full RTMP URL.

Then in FFmpeg, use "-f rtmp://...your target url" as output. Youtube will stream a live video (which you can hide as "unlisted") and afterwards, the video will remain in the channel as a VOD.
Barrier is the solution I use to go between 2 desktops and a laptop, including mouse and keyboard control
It's such a boost though, to have everything recorded and searchable by default.
That sounds like an account management issue. You need to know how to manage and work with vendors more often than not it’s not the size of the account that matters but how you engage with them.
It's not that weird in a professional bio. For example if you read someone's bio in journal article (some ieee articles ask you for this) it will be 3rd person. Same for of you're a speaker at a conference.
Their actual content policies are described on the SteamWorks page and they include quite a lot more exceptions than malware and trolling:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/onboarding...

Visual novels and similar games with young (looking) characters tend to get rejected for sexualizing those characters (rule 8). But there are also plenty of examples of tame games getting rejected, while similar but much more risque games were permitted, so it's hard to figure out exactly what Valve objects to.
It sounds like both sides simply want to do the least amount of work possible.
No I don't agree that censorship is inevitable. You are gonna need to back that argument up, nico.

Sounds like you have drunk deeply of some authoritarian rhetoric
You are very right. There’s a reason GDPR was adopted and that is to prevent harm to data subjects, or misuses of their data. At a deeper level it actually benefits everyone - including companies themeselves because it allows them to anticipate and eleminate problems before they happen. A good example is openai’s data breach. Had they implemented GDPR security precautions it would likely never have happened. They end up reacting by putting security measures in place, which is what gdpr requested in the first place… You end up implementing gdpr anyway…
These terminals still speak an archaic and anachronistic protocol, fragmentation in the supported feature set puts IE6 and Opera Mobile to shame, and TUI applications that run in terminal emulators feel completely out of place in a modern (modern = I'd say past 20, maybe 30 years) desktop environment.

I can open vim, irssi, moc, htop, nethack, or a dozen other TUI apps, and every one of them has different key bindings, different color scheme (sometimes assuming/hardcoding white text on dark background, sometimes vice versa), different paradigm for supporting multiple buffers, different way to configure it, different way to exit - but each window still has the same icon in the task bar. KDE did this better in 1996. Mac did this better in 1984.

Even if I stick 100% to using CLI (stdio) programs, the facilities have barely improved at all since the time job control was introduced - there's a lot of potential to actually innovate here, but that would probably require breaking out of the separate terminal+shell paradigm. There were more radical attempts, but AFAICT the bleeding edge of innovation in mainstream emulators is iTerm displaying the process tree in a popup.

It's the most rich ecosystem of lowest common denominator software in existence. We have sRGB correct linear gamma blending, but Emacs in terminal still loads the wrong dark/light theme - unless you cobble together a hundred lines of custom elisp glue. I don't even understand why we need gamma blending, nobody can implement an actual production-quality graphics editor in a terminal (unless you want to double down on sixels...).
I get the idea that if Google was delivering drugs to someone they would start off the conversation: "Are you a cop? Cause you have to tell me if you are!"
Another comment says they're struggling for funds. Whether directly related or not, a name with a hugely dark connotation, that springs to mind so immediately they mention it second in the FAQ can't be helping.
Don't forget next-gen battery chemistries!
What companies say publicly, is different to what they are actually doing internally. Surely you don't believe everything that a company says straight out of their PR spin room?

O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com knows that they cannot let the DALL-E 2 situation (with Stable Diffusion interrupting their rollout) happen again with the GPT releases and they have to cement their lead with another surprise announcement to throw everyone off.

I'm expecting them to acquire an AI accelerator and hardware company or at least add further investment in that chosen company.
I’ve found v4 to be much better at following formatting. If I put “reply with code only” in the system message then I don’t get all the explanations.

The system message is completely useless in 3.5 though and you’re better off putting your instructions in the first user message.

I haven’t used v4 in production yet though because it is so slow. I really hope they speed it up.
Not bad, but all the signs are there for a downturn.

Banks in EU are cutting back on purchases, because they're not sure how the recent banking issues will actually hit so they brace for impact just in case.
> Misses the most important reason for swearing completely: to fine-tune the tone of the conversation.

I agree. Not only does swearing have a modulating effect on conversation, it is also a way to covey the tone in the relationship between people.

This blog post is a poorly thought out attempt at validating prior beliefs regarding which words need policing. It's particularly stupid by the way that, while missing the whole point, accuses references the author finds inconvenient as "aren’t nearly as clear-cut or methodologically sound as they are made to sound".

What a waste of a click.
‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega
I just hope the big platforms (Meta's mostly) either cut off Texas entirely or corral them to a separate Texas-only instance where they can't see others posts and nobody can see them.
Always useful data.

Important to note that electrical grids and markets are more complicated than "average levelized cost". The uptake of intermittent resources will increase the need for ancillary services, and skew the economics towards generators that are flexible.

For example, you can end up in a situation where half the time the price is zero (even negative) and the other half the price is set by your peaking plants. If you own a wind farm, you're likely to be produce most of your energy in low value periods. This effect worsens as you get more renewables. Hydropower owners dominate in this environment, as they can save their water when the prices are low, and sell at peak capacity when it is high. Norway is making a killing on this, for example.

There are also limits to the proportion of renewables you can have generating at any moment in a synchronous area. At present it is likely around 50-60% for most grids (see DS3 project at Eirgrid, where they're closer to 70%). This is largely due to grid inertia and ancillary services. The remaining 30% is interesting. At present the best option is natural gas, to act as peaking, with some old conventional plants hanging in just to eek out value before decommissioning. In the future this may be hydrogen plants and nuclear. In the far future it may be fusion.
Yes, you are right. I am also highly opinionated, when it comes to opt-out phone home functionality in terminal software. Just wanted to point out where some of the drama comes from and also make aware of possible consequences.
I could imagine people are not opening security PRs or issues because of the maintainers attitude.
It seem absolutely bizarre to me that a 2014 Mac wouldn't be usable for web browsing, I wonder how much of it is just a matter of taste, or if Apple are playing down-clocking games like they do/did on their phones?

My daily driver is a Core 2 Duo machine with 8GB RAM that's a full five years older than this. There are some outlier sites it doesn't handle well (Microsoft Teams is the only one I'd call close to unusable), and I do wait more for it than I do my work machine (2020), but honestly it's fine for almost everything I need.
I remember some discussions about room temp superconductivity being "just around the corner" and I think it was at the very end of 80s.
Terrible. No analog buttons, and not using the phone ecosystem, but their own...

> Company executives envision the car as an entertainment center, with gaming, social media, video conferencing, music, and other third-party apps.

So you'll have to subscribe to Netflix, Disney, and Mercedes Benz? Great.

> Schäfer touted partnerships with Universal Music as well as myNFT, the latter of which will allow customers to create and display their own private art galleries inside their vehicles.

<face palm>
I think that the creator of Minecraft actually said that.