skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How old are kids these days requesting social media? I think at some point it's inevitable that they'll figure out a way on, so it's probably better to allow with boundaries and teach healthy habits early-ish. It can start getting socially detrimental to be completely off social media too, e.g. missing invites to larger gatherings.

But I have no idea how young we are actually talking here, my experience with this like a decade ago (so also not quite as harmful platforms) was handling the topic at around 13 yo.

At that time though completely restricting seemed a real gamble, some of the kids with no access snuck around and were the ones behind irresponsible shit that became school gossip. For example one kid without a Facebook made an account impersonating one of his teachers, used it to friend other teachers and see their private-ish info. Got easily caught because he also friended some of his real friends with the same account and even made some timeline posts back and forth, narrowed it down real quick.
I left off M because it is not "Hollywood".
So you're telling me instead of the fragile and complicated shield on the James Webb Telescope, we could've used the entire moon as a shield?
I think feeling it painful to spend when you have lots of money is not a good thing.

I save money by not buying much stuff in general. So when I do have to spend it’s not a big deal. It’s not like saving $80 by not going to a concert would have some profound impact on my future financial situation. Same with vacations or buying clothes. I don’t do that stuff often, so when I do, whatever. Why ruminate so much on it.

I used to be more of your mindset but realized it was stupid. And you end up missing out on opportunities if you’re too frugal just for the sake of it (rather than necessity). People I’ve met on trips, random books I’ve bought, etc have changed my life in lots of positive ways.
HN never fails to surprise me with comments like these that can dole out exact numbers for very niche and specific hypotheticals. How on earth do you know all of that?
People severely underestimate how much OpenAI moved the field forward. If OpenAI didn’t exist, we’d be talking about AGI as a taboo word. Just because someone had a significant paper along the way doesn’t mean that they failed to capitalize. You can and should respect the contributions made by others since.
That will not solve the problem, because when GPT doesn't have the answer, it will make one up by copying the structure of correct answers but without any substance.

For instance, let's say your LLM has never been told how many legs a snake has, it knows however that a snake is a reptile and that most reptiles have four legs. It will then confidently tell you "a snake has four legs", because it mirrors sentences like "a lizard has four legs" and "a crocodile has four legs" from its training set.
Russia is massively underdeveloped. It would take a few trillion dollars in funding just to extract a relatively small fraction of those known resources. They are also massively under populated. They do not have the financial nor the human capital to even extract a 1/10th of that wealth in their current state.

China had invested a lot in Russia in the Belt and Roads initiative to extract natural resources, and it is looking like Russia will default on those loans.
I have GPT-4 8k access and am willing to run the evals if someone wants to pay. Email in my acc info (the character is h)

Just a note, I get errors semi-frequently when running queries against GPT-4 often (timeouts mostly…) so any code would need to handle that well.
Read this as GPT-3 and was trying to figure out what it means to "port GIMP to" an LLM
It's been 15 years - mostly the ones that were in a state to be completed have been, and any that were abandoned fifteen years ago and left untouched in that time are likely (a) in the middle of nowhere and not particularly sustainable or (b) in such poor state that it'd be a knock and rebuild job.

A lot of it is a consequence of the collapse of the building trade in 2008, population growth and poor regional planning forcing everyone into the cities
regardless of the rethink, density will have some scaling advantages in infrastructure, etc.
Logan (Novel) – 1822
Alignment is an unsolved problem. None of the current stronger models are "aligned", just tuned in ways that weight some biases more than others, but even that is dependant of the features of their inputs.
> We are paid so well because our work can scale to millions of people, that's all there is to it.

That is the case with chip designers and mechanical engineers as well but software engineers are paid significantly more than those other professions.
It turns 'sell your house to a developer' into a prisoner's dilemma. If every other block is zoned single-family and your block votes to rezone for large apartment buildings, the value of your property goes up. Of course, then every block should do vote yes, and then the value of everyone's property goes down. And lots of housing gets built.

(City-wide NIMBYism is a solution to the prisoner's dilemma: band together to require that nobody be allowed to redevelop.)

Disclaimer: armchair analysis.
I notice a lot of Irish immigration to the States. 2 Irish-Americans in our department alone. And several younger Irish-Americans in our building.

My mom's family came over in both the waves of pre-Revolutionary (American) War (early 18th c.) and the Famine (mid 19th c.).
> That they were using lines directly pulled from Terminator means there's a thousand articles and forum posts that analyze this scene.

Which is exactly why many people - including, likely, most HNers - would correctly interpret the scene transcript, even without it containing sufficient information - they would recognize it's from Terminator, and use that realization to pull extra context.

> If you change the variables enough such that it no longer resembles that heavily-discussed scene, it is no longer able to make the correct assertion.

Same with humans. Switch it enough it doesn't resemble the Terminator scene, while still making it underspecified (not enough information about the nature and intent of the persons involved), and humans will fail at the task too.
That must be easy considering they are slowly getting rid of their hate speech policy.
Sounds very weird. Without atmosphere the dust... just falls. No dust in the wind there, because no wind. And in the surface there is already plenty of it.
Isn't it obvious? They're the Brain Frier! Not the most... refined supervillain name, I'll admit. But menacing nonetheless.
They use carbon capture to collect the C atom, and then release it back in the atmosphere.
There are more than two kinds of infinities. Consider the set of all subsets of the real numbers.

Also the rationals are countable by diagonalization.
Remember working really hard to fix those problems before Y2K, because I do.

There is nothing wrong that with saying a system is at risk of failing. It gets people to pay attention to the system and to ensure it doesn't fail.

It's the systems that we don't pay attention to that can lead to massive loss of life.
Dud batch.
Austin sized :)
Set aside a fun budget, and then spend it frugally. Just don't carry over from one year to the next. Developing non-monetizable skills is the best kind of fun there is ;)
They should continue to produce it and explore for it until we (the world) don't need it.

The "starve the beast" strategy did not work for the Reagan tax cuts and it will not work for energy.
rationals are countable
That's amazing. As someone with a non-linear journey into tech, love hearing about people like this. Insane that he's been able to write Linux related YouTube content despite never working in industry.
A Movable Feast, indeed -Made from Organic Soylent

I guess the counter-reaction is to eat the rich then eh?
Yes... like hygge is the secret to happiness. (Or was it haggis?) /s

Also, there is ikigai.

And sisu.

I guess the real secret to happiness is socialized medicine, which kind of takes away some of the non-hyggeikigaisisu nature of existence elsewhere.
There must be some way that a honest government can spend a lot of money improving a country.

The ideas that this decision can not be made in a hurry and that the spending can jump in size too quickly are reasonable. But the ones that there is absolutely nothing better to do with the money, and that most of it will be there in a large crisis when they need to withdraw are both ridiculous.
Don’t “Fake It Till You Make It”
There are still a variety of planes parked at the airport in Alice Springs (central Australia). Maybe it's a size thing with using Victorville over Alice?
> I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods.

I myself have tried to force myself into one (or more) passions. Never works. I'm 34 now and part of me is just (radically) accepting my ADHD. That's not to say I cannot cultivate discipline. Rather, it's just working with what I got and I'm one of the people who like hopping from one thing to the next: T-Shaped.
> How to succeed: pick the right thing to do (this is critical and usually ignored), focus, believe in yourself (especially when others tell you it’s not going to work), develop personal connections with people that will help you, learn to identify talented people, and work hard. It’s hard to identify what to work on because original thought is hard.

You have to be somewhat lucky to be able to do this, but also you have to actually try. Your comment seems needlessly dismissive as well as inaccurate.
You can take a look at OPA Rego. It’s a datalog-inspired language. It will do query and transformation no problem. But it’s not Prolog. Trealla is very nice.
That's great! I didn't really grok accrual accounting until I realized that non cash "accounts" are explanations for why there is extra cash or missing cash.

When I stopped thinking about an asset as "a truck" and started thinking of it as "an explanation that cash is missing because we bought a truck" it all clicked. The "asset account" is the negative space around the asset, so that it can be matched up later with the cash that is generated by using up the asset.

Before that I thought of assets and revenues as good, and liabilities and expenses as bad. I couldn't make sense of why an asset turns into a liability instead of into a revenue. It's similar to learning intro physics and trying to understand how anything moves if every force generates an opposite force.
interesting netti pot effluent, that's a very fascinating fluid to work with and subject to focus diagnostics against. I'm pretty impressed.
If mRNA is better, then why didn't the Chinese ever use it or produce a version of it? Maybe you could argue they were slow to get on the mRNA train at first, but years into the pandemic there is no plausible reason for them to not use the best technology.

They are fully capable of producing mRNA vaccines just as well as the West. IP rights have never been an issue for China. The claim that it's stubborn pride is also weak because they could simply tweak a few meaningless details and claim it's superior to the West's version.
I'm perfectly happy with assert and assert_eq.

The macro isn't deeply magic, it just prints the text of the tokens passed to it (ie foo.bar()) alongside the value. assert_eq can add a diff.

Sure the error message isn't perfect, so you stick a console.log or two in your test and run it again if you're confused.
I can understand the bit about the "special sale" being funny in context, but the two liner completely passed me by.

My extremely limited German translates "gespart" to "saved", and "Wochen" to "weeks". I'm guessing that the two liner actually translates into something like "Have you come? / Weeks ago", but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it.
I came across a fairly detailed guide to travelling in outback Australia the other day. The site owner/author was an older woman in Germany or similar.
KSP mostly. I did have an interest in the topic since childhood, but KSP is for me what really made the concepts and terminology stick.
>The whole activism thing doesent do a lot anymore

This is because activism today has completely become synonymous with raising awareness. While raising awareness is important, it's also the easiest part of activism, since the rise of the internet, so it's what people gravitate towards the most. That's how we end up with so much doomposting and doomscrolling on social media.

Individual action served as the foundation of Civil Rights movement, such as the Montgomery bus boycotts. It may be difficult to reason why walking a hour to work every day in the hot, Alabama sun rather than taking this bus will expand their rights, but history taught us that it was important. Meanwhile, there isn't a similar coordinated effort to carpool and seek alternative means of commuting today. What was also important were donations that funded legal challenges to discriminating businesses and municipal governments. Again, you don't see grass-roots organization funding lawsuits against corporations that are illegally polluting. Most important of all is ironically lobbying. Without the lobbying efforts of the NAACP, the Civil Rights protection may not have made it through, and if they had, they would have been substantially weaker. Again, this isn't something that is ever suggested by climate activists, despite their awareness of its importance. As Haidt implies, unlike doomscrolling, these types of activism are actually empowering.
The character simulacrum used by an LLM tends to be the result of "system" prompts that set by the service you are using. GPT-N isn't exactly trained to be helpful and nice, but ChatGPT has system prompts describing the character it should be performing as. If you work with just GPT-4, you can get more zany outputs.

That said, OpenAI does use RLHF, which does bias the model away from raw internet madness and something that OpenAI wanted at the time of training. A lot of models haven't gone through rigorous RLHF, though.

As a side note, RLHF might be the best alignment technique we currently have in practice, but it is not decisive. It has been noted in multiple experiments that RLHF can just train a model in how to trick the human reviewer, if tricking is easier in practice than doing a think the human review wanted. So this isn't even really seen as aligning a model by alignment researchers. At least not an approach that can scale with the increasingly intelligence AI models.
Or willing to bust your ass every day
I would liken it to the word "lekker" in Afrikaans, e.g. "Nou Gaan ons lekker braai".
The moon is insanely hard to orbit because it's gravity is very lumpy

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/does-anything-orbit-the-moon-we...
Is it really "breaking" the API when moving from v5 to v6 (or v2 to v3, or v3 to v4), when the old and new versions are co-installable, especially if they're all still at least receiving security support?

GTK2 will continue to be included with Debian 12 ("Bookworm") when it's released later this year (knock on wood). Any apps written for GTK2 20 years ago will still work against it as the GTK2 API (and ABI) has remained backwards compatible all that time.

(OK, GTK2 is EOL and not receiving any more updates since Dec 2020. So that's not great. But it does still work, and so will the apps that use it.)
Model 777 – Luca Iaconi-Stewart
I heard this criticism recently that injection site has little relation to the natural point of infection and if you overlap the two there could be some stronger synergies elicited by the location somehow. Also you don't risk the accidental intravenous delivery which can have terrible outcomes when the syringe isn't first aspirated to sample if you hit some open vasculature along the way.
The difference is that no one is paying me to bury a bunch of logs.

The fact is, there is ample demand for high density energy storage. People want to go places, people want stuff brought to them. Until battery technology makes a massive leap into the realm of eating roses and shitting rainbows, combustible fuels are the only economically feasible option.

In that realm, our options are A) keep digging up fossil fuels, then burning producing a bunch of C02, or B) capturing a bunch of C02, turning it into biofuel, then burning it to release the same amount of C02.

Put in simple math terms:

Fossil fuels: net CO2 = CO2 from energy to extract + CO2 from burning
Biofuels: net C02 = CO2 from energy to extract + (CO2 from burning - CO2 from growing)
= CO2 from energy to extract
Ask HN: How do I get started with MLOps?
Pretty much the title. I've been interested in ML Sys for a long time, but did not have the time to dive in deep because of grad school.

I graduate in a month, and decided to take a stab at this again once I have a bit of free time on my hands. So, for folks already involved in MLOps and Sys ML, how do I start learning about it?

For context, I work in robotics, specifically learning. I have experience working with ML frameworks like PyTorch and TF, and more recently even Lightning.

Looking forward to hearing back from folks!
implications of an opaque SEC definition of security and its impact on her personal liability would be a bizarrely specific thing to be looking for

Given that the "opaque SEC definition of security" has been one of the most-commented on aspects of cryptocurrencies for several years, it seems like it would be a basic thing for a financially savvy businesswoman to ask about.

pretty much every other celebrity endorsement deal, you are not personally on the hook if it turns out the company screwed up or defrauded people.

??? They definitely can be. It's been part of American jurisprudence for decades. The FTC even has specific rules governing endorsements....
Ask HN: Feasible to build open-source GATO Foundation Model?
I run a small distributed research community, and recently have been considering building a GATO (https://openreview.net/forum?id=1ikK0kHjvj) equivalent model.

This would be extremely challenging, but I think could be a very interesting project, if only from the perspective of all the tacit knowledge you build in trying to build a SOTA Foundation model.

Details are extremely limited in the paper, but the grand challenges I see are:

- building an equivalent dataset across so many different modalities
- model design given limited architecture details. It is a seq to seq foundation model with a high level embedding function to map different modalities to sequence space,
- Actually training such a model

Our research group discord: https://discord.gg/yyqqhwXE
Just wanted to share and ask the HN community for feedback around feasibility and scoping/organizing such an effort.
The satellite taking the picture had to slew to be pointing at Landsat-8 for a couple of frames. It is the relative positions between the satellites that changes, the vectors themselves don’t move that much in a short period of time- the nadir and velocity vectors rotate 360 degrees in one revolution around the Earth (relative to an earth center inertial reference frame). The Maxar satellite and Landsat-8 are in different orbits. It appears from the video that the Maxar satellite passed under Landsat-8, as evidenced by the nadir vector pointing straight at the screen toward the end of the video, and because we got a broadside view of the white Earth shield for the thermal imager.
> There are only two types of infinities: countable and uncountable.

That's not true, either. For any infinite set S, the powerset 2^S is also infinite, but there is no injection from 2^S to S. Therefore, the cardinality of 2^S is bigger than the cardinality of S. You can iterate this and get a tower of arbitrarily many distinct types of infinity.

"Countable infinity" describes the cardinality of the set of natural numbers. "Uncountable infinity" describes any infinite cardinality that is not that of the natural numbers -- it just means "not countable".

> Both reals and rationals are not countable

The rationals are countable, by a diagonal construction. Take an Excel spreadsheet with rows labeled 1, 2, and so on; and columns labeled 1, 2, and so on. In every cell, write the cell's row over the cell's column as a fraction. By construction, every rational number n/m will exist in this spreadsheet, at row n and column m.

Now walk the spreadsheet in diagonals: first the first diagonal (just 1/1), then the second diagonal (1/2, 2/1), then the third (1/3, 2/2, 3/1), and so on. This yields a sequence (i.e. a mapping from naturals to ratios) where every ratio is guaranteed to appear at some finite index. But because every ratio appears in this sequence, we can go backwards, taking a rational number in reduced form and finding its index in the sequence, giving us an inverse map from rationals to naturals.

Every rational number therefore gets its own unique natural. Since this is an injection, the set of rationals must be no bigger than the set of naturals. (In fact, it's the same cardinality, but my argument is a little too imprecise to show that the rationals are no smaller than the set of naturals -- two naturals in this construction may land on the same rational number. We would fix this by just skipping ratios not in reduced form.)
Are you a software developer? If so, I’m sure you understand the perils of a solution that sounds easy.
Indeed, sadly that is mostly gone and buried now. Before the phone company was basically completely responsible for keeping your phone working.

Now keeping your phone working requires both parties, the vendor and the customer to keep stuff happy to make the phone work.
If you're going to get into this (and I use them every day) learn the difference between:

shortcut keys: part of Windows, used everywhere, always the same

acceleration keys: unique to the active program, can't be the same as a shortcut key

shortcuts: part of windows, Key combinations the you create to start a program OR file with the default associated action

Powerful stuff. Then you get to learn what focus stealing is, much fun to be had there.
I recently discovered that I can’t even post an image quickly to share places like here. I need an account and the whole thing is trying to be a community.

I use imgbb now unless anyone has a better suggestion.
But wait. The downfall of FTX had nothing to do with selling unregistered securities. It had all to do with placing the wrong bets and having weak/non-existent risk controls. Also quite likely, even outright embezzlement.
Victorville preferable due to lower humidity then alice, for longer term storage its desirable

Alice is more fun because you can find snakes on your planes when you go to get them
maybe fine tuning should involve sending an LLM through grade school

actually I wonder if thats what we need to do

a simple socialization package that fine tunes
Like the quote above says, it's about expensing costs. It has nothing to do with credits. R&D credits are a thing, but a thing we are not talking about!
Circularity in Europe strengthens the sustainability of the global food system
Most of the heavy lifting is done by GPT4 so a bit weird to call it LlamaAcademy
Not to contradict your point (which I agree with!), but I as someone who was recently an American teenager I think you might be happy to know that me and my friends used to quite enjoy going to the park and playing on the swingsets! Though we were certainly the exception, not the rule.
I think the only game I ever had trouble running on a newer version of Windows was James Bond 007 Nightfire but compatibility mode seemed to work okay.
I haven't played heaps of games in the last decade but any issues have been more with getting the right version of the Visual C++ runtime or PhysX (which Steam usually handles for you anyway) rather than the underlying operating system.