skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a coworker who did similar. It was essentially the entire frontend for an order application (back in the jQuery days), a few thousand lines. That was all copy/pasted, changed to deal with the case of when there are no orders (which only ever happens once since this was an in-house system) and those massive chunks were wrapped in an if/else.
AI vs the RIAA is going to be quite the fight. They're likely to argue that any algorithmic system which uses one of their works as input and produces something that sounds like it as an output is a derivative work.
It's quite hard to search for lists of any kind. For example:

list of Italian generals

list of CPU architectures

list of positive rights

etc...

Return no relevant results. Perhaps it's not giving enough weight to the 'list' aspect?
I get where you're coming from and I wouldn't do that either but... we do use it for code, sometimes in languages we don't know, and 8 times out of 10 it works. It does know something (many things) we (as individuals, not humanity) don't know.
I'm not paid at all, and I found the wording extremely weird. What the hell does "climate denier" even mean? I'm not denying the concept of climate.

When it comes to climate change, define the change. The climate has changed for millions of years and there were eras on Earth that were extremely more hostile to human life than now.

There's something very "off" to this conversation.
when it was first released i made it tell me about its assessment of the War (its data was until 2021 and did not know about it). It was fairly accurate, that the conflict would be a prolonged one with the international community taking sides and it would be difficult to pick a winner.
Excellent post, very informative and with nice animations (check the bonus interactive animation at the end of the page), my only comment is to use different colours/colors (or dashed lines) for the graphs, it’s a bit confusing having the same color for different percentiles.

Also take the time to check out other posts/pages by Sam! Well done mate ;-)
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Sadly I don't think this is true for art:

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layof...

I really hope it doesn't end up being the same with code :|
This uses some awfully passive language about how the app came to be installed. Did the officers install it themselves from the list of approved apps, or did someone push it down onto a bunch of devices? If the officers installed it themselves, that somewhat discredits the idea the individual police officers had no idea.
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As with everything else, production happens in china consumption happens in USA. The system works.
> but instead opted for its revised public sector approach in which it seeks to help entities learn from their mistakes

because "that was naughty don't do it again" has worked out wonderfully so far.
Particularly applicable given we also had spaceflight in the 50s...
hidden markov models

people keep bringing this up. What evidence is there that this is his firm's method? And if so, how would it work.
My favorite VMSism is that rough equivalent of root privileges is called "executive" privilege like some C suite is going to swoop in a sudo for you.
It may not have helped you but it wasn't begging the question either.

Or in other words, the comment had multiple points and I chose to respond to one of them.
The problem is that this tax change is artificially inflating profits. Companies previously had the choice between expensing (writing off entirely) and amortizing (spreading out) these costs, and now they must be amortized.

It is especially problematic since it categorizes all software development as R&D even if we don't think of it as R&D. It's still unclear what the IRS considers "software development" since they've never had to define it, but the way most big companies with their well-paid accountants are proceeding are that it covers new product development AND new features on existing products, but not bug fixes/maintenance.

Let's take a simple example. Imagine a profitable small software company that made $1M in revenue last year, spent $700,000 on developer salaries and $200,000 on other expenses. Ordinarily, they'd be able to write off $900,000 and have a taxable net income of $100,000 that matches their actual profit. Assuming a tax rate of 25% that's a $25,000 tax bill.

Now, if you assume developers spent 50% of their time building new products and new features, and 50% of other expenses were on new features, only $420,000 of the salary costs and $110,000 of other expenses are write-offs. Their taxable income just went from $100,000 to $470,000.

Assuming a 25% tax rate, their tax bill is now $117,500 for 2022 — which exceeds their actual net income. This also inflates their quarterly tax payments for 2023, both of which hit right now.

This gets even worse for companies that aren't profitable, as they don't have the cash flow to cover a tax bill when they hadn't planned on having one at all. And given the current financial environment, it's hard for startups to get any kind of additional financing or funding.

This news article about our effort gets into this a bit more: https://technical.ly/civic-news/section-174-small-software-c...
That's still taxed off profits, not gross.
To me, that's the whole point of this. I think it is directly analogous to the jump between assembly and higher level compiled languages. You could have said about that, "it still seems pretty labor intensive and not that much different than writing assembly", and that's true, but it was still a big improvement. Similarly, AI-assisted tools haven't solved the "creating software requires work" problem. But I think they're in the process of further shifting the cost curve, making more software possible to make.
Has the Copilot backend been updated to use anything more advanced yet? I tried it out when it was new and free for a while and it really struggled with anything that wasn't incredibly common. GPT 4 in its chat form works a whole lot better for niche stuff than that one did.
I would try the program 'bottles' via flatpak. Really easy to use and has run all my non-steam games flawlessly.
its like a weird inverse of paying quarterly taxes...the same goal - more of your money stays with the government longer
The analogy is apt - I've seen more than one "how do you cope with existential dread about AI" post. People need something to simultaneously worry about, show affiliation, guide decisions, etc.
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You’re off about the major problem with Section 174 — money is being taxed *before* expenses, and there is no “out” because software has been labeled fully R&D back in 2017 (of course the republicans carved an out for oil, mineral, and gas lol).

What makes it worse is that accountants at real deal firms like Plante Moran didn’t bother sounding the alarm early because they figured like every time in the last 70 years Congress would push off the effects.

It is an absolutely crushing situation that is going to put a lot of shops out of business unless they have cash on hand to weather the 5 year R&D tax amortization schedule.
Meta's DLRM (deep learning rec models) systems for 12T parameter models
Making a high reliability queue that can also soak load spikes is non-trivial.

Now that we have hundreds of Gbps ethernet and TB of memory the idea has more merit, can scale pretty absurdly high with mundane systems. Or maybe you have sharding, which means now you have a load balancing problem again, of picking which work queue to take work from.

The HA bit is still hard. You have to to figure out if there's a netsplit (some folks can't connect to one server) or if one server really is gone. Probably just multicast to each queue all the incoming work & all the incoming pulls. Ideally each queue could also hear all the outgoing traffic. If ethernet capacity were unidirectional this would be great, box #2 could autonomously detect faults & take over. But ethernet is bidirectional, and now it needs all box #1's incoming traffic and it's outgoing traffic too. So instead maybe have the clients fail over. We can iterate on resign but HA is non-trivial.
The scheme definitely could get foiled if people were just told that a certain stock would go up (without hedging against the market), because if it's a red day for the market the whole e-mail list could get wiped out as all the stocks go down.

I would think that there is approximately a 50% chance of most stocks beating the market on any given day though.

If you send a bunch of e-mails saying "${ticker} will go up more than the market tomorrow, I'd recommend you invest and hedge with a bet against the market" for a variety of random tickers, I'd guess around half of them would pay off.
Maybe, but it’s also in the interest of ordinary people. Look what that attitude did for countries like Singapore, Korea, and Japan. It’s easy to rile people up for redistribution. It’s much harder to create a culture oriented towards building.
Is it though? This never been easier just to upload something and get some amount of listeners. If you lived a bit rural and was a poor teenager in the 60s you could forget ever getting anyone to listen to your music, if you even had the instruments to play it. Nobody is owed a big audience.
One initial reaction to the prompting style is how similar it is to a human-to-human interaction. For example, a team lead communicating requirements to a wider team composed of less experienced engineers may also follow this type of iterative exchange, continuing until he or she is satisfied that the team understands the work to be done and has the guide rails to be successful.

I recently heard a description about the way this technology will change technical work that resonated: we will become more like the movie director, and less like the actors.
Good post. Although, this just scratches the surface. There's also caching mechanisms involved in handling requests that might make similar requests faster when served by the same host. Now you're tempted to add sticky sessions to the mix and deal with the perks and problems that comes with that.
>> The key takeaway? Depth is important for certain functions.

I thought the key takeaway is that nonlinearity is important. Multilayer perceptrons can be collapsed into an equivalent single layer if there isn't nonlinearity thrown in. multi-input XOR can be solved using a form of sin(x) function after summing in a single layer (sin squared if you don't like negative numbers).

Upon reading this I also kept thinking "why not use the same transformer weights on each later?" and then the author goes there with the Universal Transformer concept. How many iterations should one use? Why should that be a question at all? As humans we might need to "think about it for a while" and get back to you when we figure it out. One thing all this AI research keeps ignoring is that real biological neurons are running in real time, not some batch process. We might also be doing training and inference at the same time, but I'm not certain how much - see dreams and other forms of background or delayed processing.
$54/mo is 5x off from your estimate, and though it seems ignorable to you, is remarkably close to the $57/mo international poverty line, which 9.2% of the world lives under. That is twice as many people as there are Americans.
Middle, not along wall, is my advice.

I have built this very thing, and my shed office is where I am writing this comment

I started out with a smaller space and then rebuilt. Currently 4.4m by 2.5m, so not to dissimilar to your plan.

My biggest issue was heating as I am in the UK. I found I was getting chilblains in my feet during the winter months. My advice is not to have your feet against the shed wall because of the cold gap. In my bigger space I have my desk centred, with the desk drawers between where I sit and the wall. This means I'm not against a wall on either side. It also means I am not sitting right on top of heat sources, which we tend to put on the wall.

The sun is shining on my legs and feet at the moment, which is ideal. I fitted a large, second-hand double glazed window from Gumtree.

I used to run ethernet from the house but I now have an external wifi point screwed to the wall of my house. It's been working great for a year or so. The shed is about 15-20m from house.
Nobody's suggesting that it might.

You're the one who wrote:

> Mammals on the other hand have males that impregnate the females.

We're all saying "that's not a very useful definition".
I didn't see anyone mention a random 20 characters password. I saw 20 character password with symbols and upper and lower case. That might be 4 words strung together "correct horse battery staple" style.
Except that is completely wrong. Reality Labs revenue was $2.16B and Reality Labs total loses were $13.7B for 2022 (table on page 119).

Also this quote: "For example, our investments in Reality Labs reduced our 2022 overall operating profit by approximately $13.72 billion,
and we expect our investments to increase in the future."
Because most sources of CO2/GHG have alternatives powered by renewable electricity that are cheaper than the old way which involves generating than capturing the CO2.

e.g. burn gas to generate electricity and capture CO2, or just use renewables.

burn gas to heat things, or just use renewables and heat pumps

Still good to capture unavoidable ones like methane from pre-existing coal mines, wells and landfills.
> IMO, the real tragedy here is not some threat to Drake (he’ll be fine)

Man, what a skewed version of justice this is. "He'll be fine." The REAL victim is this unnoticed artist? Give me a break. What he did impersonating another artist was wrong.

There's this perverse notion that has infused our society where it's ok to rob from a Target or Walmart because it doesn't really "hurt" them. "They have insurance. They'll be fine!"

That standard of justice will lead society to a very VERY bad place if you follow it.
> Or do I ask it to remember that and proceed to the next layer of the project

I think this could be solved with a good browser extension. Something that provides an easy to access (e.g., keyboard-only) way to paste customized prompt preludes that enforce your style (or styles if, say, you're using multiple languages).

It looks like Maccy could do the job, albeit not as an extension. I haven't tried it yet.
every single park ive ever been to does in fact have this weird little thing called grass
I don't know anything about this subject, but my first thought (which may be wrong) would be to just set the weight of the new server to be the same as one of the other servers that are receiving messages (perhaps one of the lower ranks). In that way, it would not be overloaded so easily and adjust its ranking after a while
This seems all a bit of a joke. They are now pretending they did not know, they apologise and thats it. Not on mayor media either… hopeless
It doesn't matter that it's not a binary choice to pick a stock, you can convert it into a binary choice at will. For example, you can send out 1M emails with stock recommendation for some large stock with "buy" or "sell" as a 50/50 coin flip. You didn't pick the stock, you chose between buy/sell, the outcome will be the same: your market prediction skill will look fantastic to a select few.
That doesn't help in this particular case when the zombie node is running old code that can't be modified.
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Yes, but it's changing the way profits are calculated, which massively impacts cash flows.
But we're ok with those algorithms curated content. It's a weird world.
And should be treated as a pretty major policy gap in policing... Officers should not be using BYOD, they work with far to sensitive of data both in the sense of leaking what they're working on (giving privy folks a preview to investigations), but also leaking "customer" (the public's) sensitive data to those without authorization.
Wondered about "rap" in this context:

From Collins dictionary of British English

"""
Rap: 2 (verb) in the sense of reprimand

Definition
to rebuke or criticize sharply
"""

Other interpretations would have been too good to be true.
Energy production, distribution and storage seem to be much more pressing issues. This seems like a misallocation of resources from outside. I wonder how spending money on this can be justified in the presence of the current energy mix.
Former colleagues and job listings at companies where I have former colleagues.
Just Jim Simon's own words, in the book The Man Who Solved The Market. And the fact that they hired NLP engineers explicitly.

My guess is it would be momentum based and capturing short term fluctuations in the market. My guess is they would train a markov decision policy on sequences of moves, and try to predict the next one, and trade on it with some sophisticated risk management.
Thank you for your early reviews! Genuinely couldn't do it without the people around me.
And apparently this is just a small part of an entire documentary they’re making about the Lisa.
Yeah. They will use Frontier at Oak Ridge, also known as the most powerful supercomputing system in the world. Maybe it can run some expensive LLM training for once rather than it's typical diet of physics simulations and quadratic gene-gene interaction models :)
Beating the market also means just falling less than the index on some days. Not sure if those customers would be happy.

The reverse also applies a.k.a. everyone could make money in the past few years.
Coal plants aren't profitable to run if they're required to retrofit for carbon capture, not many new coal plants are going to be built in countries that care about climate change (so requiring CCS on new builds has minimal utility), and there are a lot of political obstacles to shutting existing plants down or mandating these sorts of improvements.

Given those constraints, centralized capture is at least a plausible option that doesn't involve starting big fights with entrenched interests in coal-reliant states. Is it more efficient or more likely to work than direct capture? No. It is, however, politically possible and worth exploring.
Following [0], L-DAC (liquid direct air capture) consumes 6GJ/tCO₂. That's 600g CO₂/kWh of electricity. A bit more than what I though.

It would be interesting to see the global lifecycle analysis though; I'm interested to know if it even breaks even

[0]: https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture
Planes also dump a ton of kerosene into the air when they need to land early. I'd assume orders of magnitude more than rockets just because there are so many more of them.

They also dump it much, much, lower in the atmosphere. Where people and other things are more likely to breathe it.
> I can imagine some independent artists being more open to allowing AI imitation.

Stop with the bs tech optimism. Artists don't want this and rightfully so, no matter how big or small. The only people excited for this are tech-ies with no artistic talent happy to have a way to "disrupt" another industry, alongside an idle (but nervous) curiosity from consumers
Absolutely! I had to pick a stopping point in order to restore balance to my personal life :D

I'd love to see people taking this as inspiration and covering the more advanced topics. I've already started on my next post and it's about a completely different area to load balancing. Very excited.
I do not think cognition is sufficiently understood, to locate it solely in the cortex.
The word is even not precisely defined.
I was curious about the Gates quote, since I had never heard it before.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/06/28/o...

It didn't seem to have been archived before either:

https://archive.is/2IZPk
Though it's not like 50% of the days any given stock goes up and the other 50% of the days the stock goes down.
To me it's pretty easy to grasp that it's disappointing the artist had to mask as two of the most successful artists of all time to get heard, while also understanding that it's the easier route to do that. It's easier to be a ghost writer than it is to push your own brand, that sort of situation.
Having enough workers to do the work shouldn't be any more constraining than it was before.

The article does nicely mention that simple round Robin actually has lower latency, because some traffic gets lucky & goes to under-utilized machines. Unfairness helps some traffic go faster. The queue is probably going to eliminate this, but the unfairness advantage comes at the cost of a lot of other traffic getting put into long queues on workers, so it wasn't really a good thing anyways. The p90+ is usually awful.
And Climate change was the new Terrorism, which probably was the new something else. It's clear now that FUD is an instrument of power and naturally political people want to capitalize on it.
Based on the history of the courts, I think a fair use claim wouldn't hold up in this context.

Even if the AI is only used for lyrics as a voice filter, it's still quite close to the heart of the work.

Then you have its market effect, where original artists will face a heavy economic impact from the infringement (if that's what the courts rule).

That's just my prediction, but I have limited experience in the area.
If any AI - or any other process or algorithm - would be able to provide significant better predictions than what is currently used, wouldn't this affect the stock prices as soon as this gets deployed by brokers at scale, effectively making the predictions useless again?
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Previously: fully deduct R&D salaries from income to calculate taxable profit.

Now: deduct 20% of R&D salaries from income to calculate taxable profit, with the remaining 80% spread 1/5 per year over the next 4 years.

For software companies, where costs are basically eng salaries, this is a huge tax increase. It will kind of even out over time, but it wacks new companies very hard.
I wish I could move away from Windows, but I have a few Tobii EyeX devices I got used to, and they are not supported on Linux.
How bout stop flying. It's easy to take away other peoples needs and wants.
So there are different types of kdf's. For passwords, the goal of the kdf is to "stretch" the entropy by making the kdf function hard to compute.

PBKDF2 basically works by hashing the password over and over again. Using pbkdf2 with 100,000 rounds, means bruteforcing is 100,000 times slower, because you have to hash each guess 100,000 times.

Argon2 takes the idea further by being memory hard and resistent to parallelism. People briteforcing will use gpus to try lots of guesses in parallel (or asic if money is no object). These can handle pbkdf2 really fast but not argon2
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I’ve met more people who have used the wrong tool for the job than people who are pragmatic and knowledgeable about WHY to use certain tech.
While I absolutely agree with the downsides you mention in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs, the first paragraph is kinda trivial: all systems break down when humans get involved. As for the last one... what about images? People tag them too, and no "full text search system" exist for them unless you count "textual inversion"/"interrogate CLIP" which would still requires quite some hefty amount of manual tagging for the initial training.
I agree about the mental and visual pollution.