skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I am talking about large cars, not sports cars. I'm referring to Crown Vic sized cars, not Camaros or Mustangs. I didn't see any ads for the Crown Vic in its last years of production. (That was the last of the cars I am referring to.)

When Chevrolet discontinued the old Caprice & Impala in 1996, it was because journalists were ridiculing them for making them, not because they did not have customers. There were police departments begging to fund more years of production in addition to more than a year of back-orders from civilians. GM cancelled those orders because MBAs who could not change their own oil did not want to be made fun of for producing a car people wanted. Those cars sold used for more their new retail price for almost a decade.

This is a problem across the auto industry. One big auto maker exits a class of vehicle, and everyone wants to follow. Find me a coupe utility vehicle like the 1987 El Camino, a compact pickup like the 2004 S10 pickup, or a full-size American made car like the 1996 Caprice. There is plenty of room in the market for someone to make one model of each of these. Just make them like they used to: simple, easy to work on, and reliable. MBAs can not bring themselves to do it.

If they tried to build a coupe utility vehicle, they would have to turn it into a performance car (like the SSR) because performance cars sell for more money.

If they tried to build a compact pickup they would have to make it the size of a full size truck (like the Colorado,) because full size trucks sell for more money.

If they tried to build a full size car, they would have to turn it into a luxury car with 500+ horse power (like the Charger,) because those sell for more money.

The problem is that none of those contraptions they would produce would sell in the volume of a reliable, low-end vehicle. So they would shut down the production line after two years.

Instead of making cars we want to buy, they are chasing the newest trend, losing billions of dollars on electric cars that we can not afford.

I called out Bob Lutz one time when he said GM was committed to making fuel efficient pickups. At the time the 17 MPG Colorado had recently replaced the 25 MPG S10. I said if they wanted fuel economy, they would bring back the S10 electric, the 25 MPG S10, and clone the 1970's Volkswagen pickup that got 35 MPG on diesel.
How to apply for your share of Facebook’s $725M privacy suit settlement
This is interesting. I think the future of AI will not be re-creating something like ChatGPT, but using variations of these methodologies to train AI models for specific tasks.

There are some advantages to not having to make an LLM that impresses every human being on the planet. Imagine training the AI to be good in only one specific thing. I think it will become much more precise and deterministic.

This is just my hypothesis. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Maybe the Mayans were right all along?

In all serious, 2012-2013 coincides with 1/3 and 1/2 of the American population's owning a smartphone. Maybe that has something to do with it?
> On Daft, Ireland’s most popular property website, fewer than 1,100 properties are available to rent in Ireland, a country of over 5 million people.

Wow. For comparison the US state of Minnesota has a population of 5.7 million and if you select the state on apartments.com it says
"32,693 Apartments Available."
The article completely misunderstand the argument, and leaves out the actual important pieces. The argument is that allowing/incentivising some hypothetical AGI to pursue a certain ideology, like trying to inject someone's idea of 'social justice' into the world would pose the risk of allowing this AGI to lie and manipulate humans as subjects and we would lose control. If the incentive is to 'maximally seek truth', then this might be more likely to align with a future that values human life, in the same way that we value animals and appreciate the raw nature, without trying to intervene and change their instinctual behavior. Like trying to biologically modify lions to be vegan, vs. respecting the brutal reality of predator vs. prey. Whether this hypothetical idea is correct or not is debatable, but the article clearly misses the point.
Standup Maths recently tackled, "Is an infinite stack of ￡1 notes worth more than an infinite stack of ￡100 notes?" The answer is they are both worth ￡∞.
That was, I think too little too late. I believe they were more of a fork than a pure rebranding?
Ah, that's why my builds were failing...
Ouch.

Ok, I'll try again because I read the article and watched the demo video from Mosaic:

- MosaicML claims to have some magic that efficiently autoscales with awareness of specific instance per hour pricing.

- MosaicML claims to have auto-optimize magic that makes training 3-7x faster.

- The incentives seem to be aligned because their value prop is likely "we'll markup 10% but save you 50%" (or whatever).

It's too bad Replit didn't provide the costs for this post in the same way Stanford, etc have done with Alpaca, Vicuna, etc. They probably didn't for from-scratch training because the answer to your question is almost certainly "it depends" or "if you have to ask you can't afford it" (for now).
You don't need reputation systems: I can count on two hands the number of organizations that have any reason to be contacting me unsolicited.

Add a minor tie-in with my bank, and my reputation list would essentially be "the government, my bank, my doctor, my insurer + any company I've done monetary transactions with recently".

And realistically in a world with this system, this is all already implemented by my phone's contact list - no more phone numbers would mean that there's no reason to think that any organization would be contacting me from a totally unique (or anonymous) identity. Instead I'd just have a contact book whitelist entry for "bank.com.au" or whatever scheme we ended up with.

As it is right now, actual government services call people from Caller ID blocked numbers, and don't widely publish allowable contact origins. Which is ridiculous.
That's weird. I would never do anything even remotely similar to what my (ex) employer does. CEO sounds like a douchebag tho.
I like Debian's ML definitions, a "only weights available under libre license" situation is a "ToxicCandy" model. For a truly libre model you have to have libre GPU drivers/firmware, libre training data, libre training code, libre trained models and libre code to get outputs from the model.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
If we didn't grant lifetime tenure to judges, they would live in perpetual fear of retaliation from ruling against a powerful or well-connected defendant.

C.F. also university professors or school teachers who also get similar, tho more limited tenure.

Not saying there are no edge cases where the policy can be problematic, but when you are standing in judgement over people, its a lot easier to be impartial and a lot easier to reject bribes when you have that kind of security.
I have no idea, but I suppose when every integer is effectively a bignum, there’s plenty of room for optimization.
> Musk’s view on maximizing free speech

Musk does not believe in maximizing free speech. He believes in suppressing speech he doesn't like:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves...

Despite his claims of "free speech absolutism", Musk is an authoritarian at heart. He simply can't help himself.
How does flushing in a background process work if it says that it's an embeddable database that's in your application? It says there is no external process so how is there a background process that performs compaction and flushing?
What about the training data/code?

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
And they'll probably save a lot of money. It's not Tumblr. It's an image hosting site that allows deep links to images uploaded by free users. It's, by definition, not sustainable.
Ok “probable adversary” I stand corrected. I thought that one was a joke.
I mean, we're the ones voting for these people. Also, this is like one judge in the whole country, and apparently from this article the last time this happened was in 1975. I don't think we need to create new regulations for every little rare problem. Things can be dealt with on a case by case basis sometimes.
The severity metric is interesting, considering the baseline for an event is an AI going rogue and killing all the humans. Is the point to also try and account for collateral damage?
And the missing glue is that "vectors closest to the question string" actually produces pretty good results. You won't be Google level of relevancy but for "free" with a really dumb search algorithm you'll be at the level of a elasticsearch tuned by someone who knows what they're doing.

I think in all the chaos of the other cool stuff you can do with these models that people are just glossing over that these Llms close the loop on search based on word or sentence embedding techniques like word2vec, GloVe, ELMo, and BERT. The fact that you can actually generate quality embeddings for arbitrary text that represents their meaning semantically as a whole is cool as shit.
Subaru and Mazda have both gone down the drain when it comes to corner cutting. Their entry level cars are nice to look at with the latest tech but the core driving experience has been compromised. Subaru fully embraced belt-type CVTs and Mazda switched from a double wishbone to a much cheaper torsion beam suspension. They are basically the automobile equivalent of the last 2 gens of pre-M1 Macbooks where all the innovation is in the cheap frivolous parts while the main CPU and graphics (engine, transmission, and suspension) languished. The 2024 Impreza after more than a decade has only seen a pathetic 15 horsepower increase compared to their 2008-2011 generation, this is untenable in the age of electric cars. Subaru and Mazda should have partnered together instead of joining Toyota. Their quality may be improving but they are losing the soul of their brands.
This has a simple solution used in other countries - Lifetime appointments with mandatory retirement ages. The UK as one example requires much of the judiciary to retire by 70.
Personally yes I think Gwern is the best, but Scott influenced me more earlier on.
In WA SB 1110 just got approved, which would allow 4plexes in SFZ lots if the city is over 75k people, so we will see how long can things stay the same now that flood gates will open.
Schumacher family planning legal action over AI 'interview'
I get that it's a joke, but something more like the Torino scale could be both interesting and useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale
Since the set of all even integers is a set of all integers, there's at least one kind of 'lesser' built into the definition.

Both have infinite size. And yet one can be made by taking the union of two infinite sets that have no elements in common.
It's the content (and personalized curation, based on what the platform's learned you want to see) that's addictive, not the ads.
Users are addicted to the content creators, and watching ads is the price they have to pay to sit through to watch free content.
Picking ads that are relevant, or at least not annoying enough to make you switch off, is part of the platform's experience.
And there are creators who blend ads in as organic content, or at least a personalized endorsement which doesn't come across as phony, which MrBeast said gets the most positive response.

I recently turned off tracking, and suddenly started getting served ads for 'green cremation'. I guess statistically few people are interested in that, but conversions are lucrative, although the 99% of users who don't want to see it probably get mildly annoyed.
Two quick thoughts about this comment: Gresham’s law. This might work in a civil discussion of important ideals. Unfortunately, neither of these apply to social media.
UniMax: More Effective Language Sampling for LargeScale Multilingual Pretraining
I have my browser set up to automatically redirect. Here's what I saw instead:

https://scribe.rip/@keith-mcnulty/only-one-pair-of-distinct-...
Or n=1 and m=1
These agent approaches should really incorporate the recent neurology research around predictive processing appearing to be a three tiered process of "long term prediction," "intermediate prediction," and "short term prediction."

What I've seen is very heavily weighted towards chain of thought using the latter to satisfy the former, but explicitly stepping down from broad to intermediate to narrow (and re-evaluating as it goes) will probably work even better.
Well I'm not claiming that they were documentaries. But the way they showed people, wealthy or average, indicates a very different standard of living. I can't think of any specific movies: just what's on TCM that catches my attention usually.
> poor regional planning forcing everyone into the cities

could you please elaborate on that? What kind of poor planning and in what ways did it force people into the cities?
This is a canary page. Assuming it is maintained by BIs (*), If it goes to one, the AIs find out that they were not, technically, successful.

(*) biological intelligence
So this means all the random images I have uploaded anonymously will soon disappear? Along with everyone else who used it as a image host before reddit had their own? That's a lot of images gone
But the point is that the pay off itself is limited. Smaller companies have a much smaller pool of people who would have any reason to accept unsolicited calls.

This is evident in how scams work today: you either get explicitly targeted, or you dragnet using some service which everyone has i.e. a bank, the tax office, or a telecom company.

Compromising "Joe's BBQ Emporium" might be easier, but it's still (1) something you have to do (and maybe get caught then) and (2) the number of people who are going to pick up, or not immediately blacklist unsolicited calls from "Joe's BBQ Emporium" is tiny.
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Does it have all of the flash crashes from algo trading over the years in it?
1 and 1 are also a solution ?
Downgraded?! Look up the Osborne Effect. Tesla really doesn’t want people waiting for a price drop rather than knowing they’d be made good.
We could just appoint them until a given age, let's say 70 for example, and then guarantee lifetime benefits after that but they no longer serve.

It has all the same benefits of a lifetime tenure, they don't need to worry about retaliation, they wouldn't be _more_ likely to accept bribes since they will still have income and benefits for their retirement, etc.
We had a scare where my wife's phone ran out of juice in the security line. Can't board a plane! Luckily my phone was able to find the reservation.
I read elsewhere that it could be possible that Nintendo gave him an NDA that said something like "you only need to pay us back what you took (~300k) and if you break this NDA we will come for the full $14 million".
I was saying less than a decade before ChatGPT was released. I'm down to 5 years if someone wanted to really throw money at the problem.
Is this usable today? I was about to go down the path of compiling quickjs to WASM to evaluate untrusted code in the browser, but I'd be happier without that. Another concern is that untrusted code might loop forever, I am not sure I can deal with that with either method.
Weirdly, tTrump commuted the sentances of a bunch of rappers, including Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

Strange decision. Kodaj almost certainly deserves prison.
Luckily, this[1] is also reading zero at the moment.

[1] https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
https://archive.is/9tILv
Neuron, the modern industrial IoT connectivity server, has just released its latest version, Neuron 2.4.0. This release introduces several new features, including newly-added drivers, a new application, and improvements to existing functionality.
> This could arguably be because Google is a lot better than ChatGPT right now.

Lol. Nice try Mr Pichai

I haven't used Google in more than a month now.
Oh man. This looks like such a scam... Give me your contact info and your banking details and I'll send you some cash. And 6 MILLION DOLLARS. I am, after all, a well respected Nigerian Prince!
Unfortunately, I don't think there's any point in history where this heuristic would have allowed for significant basic research. But looking at the modern world, there's no way we could support today's population without some of that basic research.

Regardless, poverty isn't mainly a problem of wealth scarcity, but instead of wealth distribution. So even if you stopped spending on any research that doesn't have a short-term justification, I don't think that money would end up alleviating poverty, but instead going to fund somebody's slightly bigger superyacht.
I thought you were going for parody, but that's fact: https://economics.uchicago.edu/content/historical-informatio...
There is plenty of less attention-grabbing work being done on "domain specific LLMs" like BioMedLM[0], Med-PaLM[1], BloombergGPT[2], etc.

That reminds me - I saw a somewhat-clever acronym variant for LLM that communicated this the other day but it escapes me ATM...

[0] - https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/introducing-pubmed-gpt

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-science...

[2] - https://dev.to/reaminated/thoughts-on-bloomberggpt-and-domai...
What's really cool about CAPSTONE is that it's the first spacecraft to test the entrance and sustainability of a very unique near rectilinear halo orbit, also known as NRHO. This NRHO orbit is at a precise balance point between the gravities of the Earth and the Moon, which offers a long, stable orbit so that Gateway and future spacecraft don't have to carry so much fuel to stay in orbit around the Moon.

So that implies that in the Apollo missions, the command module had to burn fuel to stay in orbit around the moon? And I guess if anything had delayed the landing module from its scheduled return, the command module might have run out of fuel and been forced to abandon the astronauts on the moon?
If you wanted more why didn't you sue Facebook yourself?
Sadly I don't think there's any such option in Chromium or mobile Safari, the two browsers I use.
Someone should make a page for AI controlled viruses
The same happen with the original Tetris and Angry Birds. They did bring Angry Birds back as Angry Birds Classic.
Seagate to pay $300M penalty for shipping Huawei 7M hard drives
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399580
Bigots gotta bigot. Politicians gotta pander to their base. Gays are just the flavour of the month. There’s always the Other that can be marginalized and then maltreated.
What guideline specifically am I violating here in this thread and how exactly?

> And no doubt others as well.

I think you should do some soul searching.

> This is not that hard.

Pretty hard without specific examples from this thread. Which you have not provided.

Nobody will see this behavior deep in a days old thread. It is very clear that you are not acting impartially. I know it and you know it.
I think parent is saying that the model does not require any paired samples of the voice to be synthesized and corresponding text. So based on my understanding:

one shot - given the text "run faster" along with Alan Greenspan's voice pronouncing that phrase, the model can produce Alan Greenspan's voice saying any other phrase

zero shot - given only Alan Greenspan's voice pronouncing "run faster" but no text version of what was said, the model can produce Alan Greenspan's voice saying any other phrase
I would respectfully disagree. Their pace of introducing new features & products, support for many datasources, plugins, etc. has been impressive over the past 3 years. This applies to all their versions (free OSS version, free Cloud, and paid Cloud).
I don't believe that for one second and find it ludicrous to be honest. I'm in the Stochastic Parrot camp so believe that it is repeating text that some human at some point in time entered into a chat as some kind of exercise which GPT-4 was trained on. Occam's razor. Witness the claim on 60 minutes that Google's AI had invented a new language, which created quite a buzz until it was discovered it was Bengali it had been trained on.
One of the weird things moving from Australia to Germany was that most rentals are owned by private individuals in Australia and companies in Germany. The difference is huge - renter's rights are much greater in Germany, and that seems to go hand-in-hand with institutional landlords (I guess because the landlords aren't voters but the tenants are, so laws skew towards the tenants).
given the fact that the demographics of home/real estate ownership by age group are very much biased in favor of the elderly, one could say that indeed such a proposal featured here on hn just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588997
Or n=0 and m=0
> you really can't beat a LSM design for write-heavy workload

Depending on the write pattern, you actually can, because standard LSM-trees write the same data repeatedly, into each layer, and again if recompacting a layer. They make up for it by writing so much sequentially that the gains can outweigh the cost of writing the same data many times, and sorting having a cost no matter how you do it. However, if data is being written in batches in mostly sequential key order, then LSM-trees have a type of write amplification that's worse than efficient B-trees.

However, RocksDB deviates from LSM-trees when writing in bulk (or can be made to), to reduce or avoid this form of write amplification.

The optimal balance depends on the write pattern, but neither standard LSM-trees nor B-trees are consistently better than the other for all write patterns.
People just love making custom languages and writing their own parser, lexer etc. stack when they could just use JavaScript. Waste of time IMO.
The problem with these discussions is some of the same problem we have in public discourse. One or both parties are using 2 definitions of the same word and trying to make them equivalent.

Are there integers that do not exist in the set of all even integers? Yes. The set of all even integers is incomplete, with respect to the set of all integers.

They unfortunately also have the same number of elements. So there are not 'more' elements in one set than the other, and yet there are elements missing from one of the sets. When we are assembling something and find that it's missing bits, we tend to compare it unfavorably to other things. It's 'less' than they are. But if you substitute other things to make up the difference, it's not less or more it's just different.
Yeah OP updated the title of the article to include "distinct".
> If you have to prove your identity any time you want to do anything, nobody can be anonymous anymore, which is Very Bad.

No one would have to prove anything. But why would I accept calls from any entity claiming to be a legally registered business which doesn't present a government issued certificate proving that? I already verify businesses by looking up business number registries. But this should be automatic to the communication even happening.

Same question with personal contacts: why would I blindly accept calls from people I don't know and who don't want to present any confirmation of their identity to me?