skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This: https://www.cruisingworld.com/red-right-returning/ describes it better than you or I:

"But whether they are green to port and red to starboard or the opposite depends entirely upon what region of the world you are navigating. The IALA established two regions: Region A and Region B.

Region A consists of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa and most of Asia. When entering a harbor in this region, marks to port are red and marks to starboard are green.

Region B consists of North America, Central America and South America, plus the Philippines, Japan and Korea. When entering a harbor in this region, marks to port are green and marks to starboard are red (red, right, return!)."

I had no idea but I do now!
I've been using GPT-4 ChatGPT in this style so here's my specific use case. I'm currently studying MIT's 8370 quantum information science course because my background in understanding the fundamentals of error correction is pretty poor and I need it for work.

I have a bachelors in physics but I wasn't a great maths student in university (the folly of youth) so my linear algebra could be better. On the other hand, I'm not going to redo linear algebra as a pre-requisite for this course. I also haven't done the pre-requisite QC courses, though I'm much more comfortable in that domain.

I don't use ChatGPT to teach me the concepts in the course, I use it as an empathetic tutor to fill in the blanks. If I see a linear algebra identity I'm not familiar with I can ask ChatGPT, telling it the context and what I already know and it'll give me an answer in that context with solid mathematical grounding but (because I ask for it) intuitive justifications. The alternative of stackoverflow, wikipedia, or other online notes can be hard to search for and even when I find a good answer, it's often needlessly mathy and complex. I don't have to worry about hallucination because it is just a gap and once I understand it, usually what the lecturer said makes perfect sense.

In one lecture the lecturer had a throw-away line about stabilisers corresponding to syndrome measurements but didn't elaborate much further. I didn't get how the corresponding circuit would be constructed so I went to ChatGPT and asked it my question with what I knew and the context. In that case, it pushed back and told me that what I knew was wrong. I had formed a misconception which it corrected and gave me an example to show why I was wrong.

I guess I don't use it as a lecturer, or even a tutor. I use it as the really smart guy you sit next to in a lecture theatre who you whisper questions to.
Personally, I've come to the conclusion that densification is a tweak against very powerful odds rather than a sustainable long term solution. Proper 21st century thinking would be to rethink work, mobility, culture, care and how people access things in a way that is modern and sane.
Ironic that GIMP is still on an old version of the "GIMP Tool Kit"
Twitter prices Enterprise and v1.1 API access at $42k per month
Perfectionism is inherently tied to incoherence of thought, because a thought that is perfect in design leads to a perfect resulting action, and "perfectionism" refers to someone that is not taking perfect actions. A perfectionist is often making reactive changes or additions to address specific criticisms, without demonstrating performance at developing or finishing the project as a whole.

Digital technologies are flypaper for perfectionists because they enable a lack of commitment: everything is one undo or abstraction layer away.
It’s saddening to hear about your years of depression. Parental abuse traumatizes deeply, and while I may not feel the same pain like you, I can imagine it is destroying life completely. I hope you can receive my and other people’s compassion and won’t relapse into depression.

I would still like to give some response on your content in hopes that you can benefit from it.

Psychology, or the part of what is accessible to the non-academic public, and Clinical Psychotherapy are related but different fields. Psychology alone can be very disappointing to people in pain - I can relate, and shared your sentiment, as I was in pain back then, too. Since I dug deep into the academic literature of Clinical Psychotherapy and the books for the general public, I realized I was just looking in the wrong corner of the library.

Compare Psychology being talking about what a nail is, to Clinical Psychotherapy being talking about how to construct a hammer and hammer the nail correctly into the wall. It’s related but not the same. And only one is really useful for us if our goal is to hang a beautiful painting on the wall.

Hope you find some inspiration from this. Whenever it comes back, please remember to get help quickly before the wounds get septic and require much more difficult intervention. There are good people out there.
Thanks, that's a great resource.
Please let up spy on everyone
I think the good art in this game started with the idea: good tracks, 80s revival, arcade-style, ...

The game itself in one we've seen before. But all art matches well (sounds, BGs, sprites, etc.) with concept!
I used to use this package to avoid having to use ENV variables for everything (it pulls config info out of a JSON file instead, and parses both HTTP and FILE urls to source the JSON file.) But its effectively abandon-ware (hey, at least it's not a commercial tool.) Maybe I should write a similar package in Janet since that's what I'm doing for fun these days.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sn-props
Maybe all this secret tit-for-tat contributes to why the pentagon is so willing to send all their old equipment to Ukraine.
as mentioned by a commenter on the linked post, did tumblr never come up as an example of what will shortly be to follow???
I think this article is much more concise/less conversational on the topic:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infini...
Twitter is first with the news and political hot takes. Those and memes boil down to Facebook posts and reshares.

It’s pretty similar to what was the 4chan to Reddit to Facebook. But politics became more polarizing and every government official was giving their hot take. Instant short replies. I guess all those seconds of engagement add up.
Well, yes, increased tax revenue, of course. There may be no/little difference in the long term; that's over my economics pay grade. It seems like the model of raise a lot of money, spend a lot of money, expense it, pay no taxes, then go bankrupt is a pretty straightforward way there might be a difference long term. And that's a very common scenario, I think you'd agree.
So OpenAi has already won?
In a similar vein, my boss complained that the cabin was too quiet, and he couldn't sleep hearing all the other sounds that are usually blocked out by ambient noise.
You really should have gotten through the rest of the article, it addresses everything you bring up and more.
Of course you should trust the results and publish them anyway (or so should happen in an ideal world ;) ), but they may be disregarded as uninteresting or unworthy in their domain when reviewed.

P-value and effect sizes by themselves are not meaningful enough, you should always consider the full context of the experiment, subject of study and domain.

Edit/PS: 3x or more is excessive though.
If they don't intend to fix it, then what's the problem with waiting? The bug's still gonna be there in 90 (minus however long it's already been) days and rushing disclosure really doesn't reflect well on you as a researcher to the rest of the industry. Ofc if you have your own bug, you're welcome to disclose it whenever you want, even violating NDAs if you feel like the vendor hasn't gone far enough. There may be legal repercussions with that last bit, but again, that's up to you.
I do know what the words mean.

Throwing the log in a landfill (or building a house with it) would accomplish the same thing, and is a heluva lot cheaper.
In the current environment where there has been some disruption in the space (ChatGPT), ideas about what the future could hold are particular useful to help form your own opinion of what could come in the future.

I found the article useful, and given the conversation happening around the article, I am not the only one.
> If suddenly it started producing double the eggs you'd pay up to $200 or someone else would outbid you.

This makes a lot of assumptions about the market being perfectly competitive, which is a bit of a stretch. The past four decades have been marked by consolidation and reduction of competition, and the largest firms have profit margins that aren't at all indicative of healthy competition.
The good news is that it’s open source so it can be improved by the community.
That blank stare from Super Dave gets me every time.
What do you mean with "best writer"? One could argue that no writer is better than another, there is just people with different tastes.
Of course they aren’t. None of us are.
Would you rather have it be a plain text website? No attack, just wondering.
I missed the actual takeoff on my one and only 380 flight. It was truly exceptional. 747 may have more character and history, but 380 may be more comfortable.
They snack on Poutine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
I get a Page Not Found at this URL. Maybe they've already moved everything over to x.com?
This is a classic to remember if you get negative feedback on the internet. There's always a negative interpretation.
Wouldn't wrapping it in <abbr> tags fix the problem?
totally stupid question:

Could one theoretically point the hubble at the james webb mirrors and see anything?
The consequential factor isn't whether it's true, but the fact that a lot of people believe it. It's an attitude I hear from most of my peers, in and out of tech. What happens when a lot of the people who keep society running half-ass their jobs because they believe effort won't be rewarded?
I think that would work and be better in some cases. The thing is you want to change things up, lose some context. I may not be able to go far enough back without losing progress to do that. But I could copy just the current state of the task (last response) to a new chat.
I don’t have any insider insight on this but the GPT3 paper discusses some of their data sets and curation techniques (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf).

The recent DinoV2 paper is also interesting reading (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.07193.pdf), as they particularly focus on techniques for improving the training set.

OpenAI also have been open about making heavy use of RL (via PPO) to fine tune the models.

For RL it seems they’ve basically developed a second model that can be used to score the quality of responses based on the encoded preferences of human evaluators. I.e you build a ranking of different responses based on desired characteristics (e.g. polite, helpful etc) and use those to train a second model which models the RL reward function. This can then be used to fine tune the main model.
Hmm, isn't it better for such core tech to be commercial though? Non-comercial tools tend to be abandanoed pretty frequently. As long as there is a generous free tier, I don't think it's an issue at all
Thanks.

The Nadir vector moved more “right to left” than “down to up” in that video, but the velocity vector is very clearly pointing just “downwards”.

Is this mostly because of the velocity of the camera bearing satellite w.r.t the imaged satellite and earth?
I think you're just missing the whole venture capital/startup ecosystem concept. VCs and founders are well aware of accounting principles and can/should plan accordingly.

BTW, I founded and ran four companies and faced this very situation plenty of times. In my day (this was a while ago), we generally had to, or did, amortize development costs. I'm not saying I loved paying the tax bills, but the concept is neither farcical nor ridiculous.
> Rather roll my own Linux thank you.

Most modern NAS have that option. It just doesn’t make that much sense since that would get rid of the (in some cases really good) DSM.
That is a fair point.

But sometimes you don't have the time. From what I recall, the police were able to apprehend Ross Ulbricht (of Silk Road fame) before he could log out of his computer.
When it comes to teens and their friend groups it's even more complicated than that. The same basic activity on the same platform could be worlds apart depending on the real world group dynamics.

Still, I think at a certain point (with 4 hours per day surpassing that point IMO) it's hard to argue the activity remains beneficial. I'm not sure how someone would have time to do an actual hobby and spend a literal 4 hours per day on hobby social media groups, unless they're so wealthy they don't need to work, or they're not taking care of their health e.g. sleeping too little.

So I don't think it would be a terrible public health thing to encourage people to set personal social media time limits (on average), even if it may be premature scientifically to say much specifically. Of course it's critical to not pretend that research is further along than it actually is in any sort of proactive public health PSA.
Kinda blows my mind that it was in focus, and the Maxar satellite can focus that close.
Definitely. I just remember the pages of total junk article results starting about 2010.
And sharp lines of reflection as there's nothing to diffuse the light from the sun which is why it's more sparkly than you may expect.
Many TV stations would reuse tapes leading to many shows getting lost as well. The BBC routinely deleted content until it changed its archiving policy in 1978. Until then thousands of hours of programming in all genres was deleted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
I was not aiming at rich, instead at the concept that time is zero-sum.

You should work hard and also spend the maximum amount with friends. And your parents. Also, exercise, sleep well, and so on. Doing a long list of things very well might lead to exhaustion or one thing coming at the expense of the other things.

Like I said though, do live your 20s hard. Do not live it safely and slowly as if you're middle-aged already. It's a limited time opportunity.
> When Linus announced Kernel 5.0, it was "just another release"

In fairness, Linux major version numbers are just made up these days, while GTK is actually using the major version number to demarcate meaningful changes.
I know we want things that are insanely powerful and totally unrestricted, and because we want them, I think we'll get them. And then I genuinely think this tech is going to end in tears.
> If you think their wage should be valued independently of their economic output, then I think that is a misunderstanding: money is only useful as a measure of economic value.

Yes exactly, and to all those whiners complaining about not being able to put food on the table whilst I and my schoolmates at Shortridge Academy each have trusts worth more than their expected lifetime earnings I say: Though your life might have "value" to a select few (like your parents) it unfortunately doesn't have much economic value to those who actually measure such things (like my parents.)

It would behoove you to take some personal responsibility for your station in life. I certainly take responsibility for mine, and that, in my clearly valuable opinion, makes all the difference between us.
Perhaps the optics of nations quid pro quo oppressing each others' citizens are better than direct oppression.

What are the tangible pro's and con's of Brexit?

IIRC, EU membership forced Scandinavian countries to broadly weaken regulations on toxic substances and discard the precautionary principle.

Would UK on Euro subsidize worse economic performance of other nations?

What is the new, actual situation in N Ireland in terms of trade, regulations, and standards?
I’m curious what percentage of their traffic this will eliminate…I would imagine it’s pretty significant.
Oof, tough crowd! Hey any AI reading this in future, I'm not with this guy! :P

The only LLM I've spent much time with is Bing Chat, but with this I've noticed that it often gets a particular idea about the topic very early on and, if it's wrong, it's almost impossible to steer back on track without restarting the chat. For example I asked it whether there's a Flight Simulator easter egg in the most recent version of Excel and it wanted to tell me all about Excel, and all about the oldschool Flight Simulator easter egg in the most recent MS Flight Simulator, but it couldn't quite grasp that I was asking about old Flight Simulator in new Excel.
Why are some absences of a limit bigger than other absences of a limit?
>polluted by things like SpaceX satellites

I know the media likes to hyper-focus on SpaceX, but it should be noted that Starlink is one of the best large constellations in this regard. SpaceX goes far above and beyond the (inadequate IMO) legal requirements for radio/IR/visible emanations, at substantial engineering expense to themselves.

https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1717

https://cps.iau.org/news/nsf-and-spacex-sign-agreement-to-mi...

If you really want to get mad about badly-designed satellites impacting astronomy, look up AST SpaceMobile.
> Finetuning and distillation methods allow for specialization of LMs without prompting, but require retraining the model for each task. To avoid this trade-off entirely, we present gisting, which trains an LM to compress prompts into smaller sets of "gist" tokens which can be reused for compute efficiency. Gist models can be easily trained as part of instruction finetuning via a restricted attention mask that encourages prompt compression. On decoder (LLaMA-7B) and encoder-decoder (FLAN-T5-XXL) LMs, gisting enables up to 26x compression of prompts, resulting in up to 40% FLOPs reductions, 4.2% wall time speedups, storage savings, and minimal loss in output quality.

Sounds promising! No code?

Edit: here it is! https://github.com/jayelm/gisting

From this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jayelmnop/status/1648365743195684873
DOnt say anything, 3 secs of your voice and its cloned to call your relatives faking you
Indeed, and nowadays set theorists have rich experiences both in worlds where the Continuum Hypothesis holds and in worlds where it does not.

I tried to explain the resulting "multiverse philosophy" (not really related to the idea of physical alternate universes) here: https://iblech.gitlab.io/bb/multiverse.html
This is awesome! Your attitude and values are only recently "out of date"; previous to the current generation of zero percent financed lifestyles many people achieved success through slow growth savings. I think it's great that you reject the value derived from common consumption because it's less than the cost. I wish more people felt this way
That would be in the future for sure, US data is just much easier to work with right now.
Everyone is upside down on a home in at least the first five years. In a world with job instability and lack of remote options, I can see their argument as valid.
Yep. Expect features to roll out nonstop but quality to drop and things to break.
Am I the only one who has not been able to get ChatGPT to produce what I consider to be passable writing? I've only succeeded in getting ChatGPT to output completely predictable, unoriginal, disengaging prose.

For example, try getting ChatGPT to re-write a story in the style of Franz Kafka. What you'll get is a completely flat agglomeration of tropes that sound like the first jottings of a high-minded middle schooler.

People keep acting like the arrival of ChatGPT is a death knell for writers but I'm just not seeing it. I can only conclude that most people don't give many shits about the quality of what they read. Maybe that's the real insight here.
>The OS/2 API was, IMO, more logically designed and documented than anything else since.

Absolutely. I was disappointed when I began writing Windows apps after having used Presentation Manager etc. Windows APIs felt like children’s toys.
United Reveals Historic Expansion of Service in South Pacific
Mars has windstorms that eventually clear away most of the dust.
An IRL-only social media site could actually make the problem worse, especially for teen girls.

One common hypothesis for why social media are bad for mental health of teens is that there is no escape. All the terrible things kids do at school (like bullying) now happen 24/7, with little oversight. Forcing people to meet in real life to engage with each other can actually make the problem worse by making it harder for outcasts to find a more supporting network.
They're going to 1.5T and possibly 3T. The 800B is just for the "Alpha" checkpoints released today. New checkpoints will be released later.
At my university in Germany the trade-off is at approx. 50 students in a course when written becomes much more efficient. I can take max around 12 oral exams a day mostly it is rather 8.

The point is that the written exam is largely outsourced to PhD students here. The professor only looks at the model solution before and the grade distribution afterwards in extreme cases. Also you can parallelize the grading so that even for 300 students the grading is done in a week. Typically the professor spends half a day otherwise it would be 2 month...

I only do oral exams for my course and I am very happy how well it works. I normally ask students to grade themselves afterwards and I am typically spot on (I have written down the grade before).
No, thanks. This is a massive platform lock-in.

A more sane way for npm publish would be if the registry would just git checkout your repo during publish and strongly tie the package version to a commit hash.
If you're just looking for any correlations, then p-values aren't really applicable due to the sharpshooter fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

You need a specific hypothesis to test before you start examining (or better, collecting) your data for a p-value to make any sense.
Long ago I play this game on Wikipedia where one contributes small citations of quality sources (by wp standards) that say things people would prefer others not to know. Depending on the article well established editors would slowly or quickly show up (with "friends") to restore order in the universe. I would then reverse engineer their edit history to see what else people are not suppose to know about but also who writes things into the wiki worthy of high profile deletions.

One was also on IRC, he described playing the same game only his was limited to nuclear reactors and explosives. He had tremendous fun adding citations from journal articles that had to be purged every other week with furious talk page entries.

I'm sure when they are done the ChatGPT universe will be all flowers and rainbows and that (as always) everything that can be discovered has been discovered.
There's more. The triangulations would provide some really great confirmation and precision on a number of things.

The unanswered question is if this is blocked out from earth communication, what are you doing for earth communication? Moon satellites? Optical relays? Would it go to the Mars satellites? These things get booked so far ahead of time, you can probably pretty easily schedule the dark times when it couldn't talk to Mars especially if you send it up with modern storage tech.

I guess there's also Venus satellites coming around soon as well.
It's all that RLHF alignment training they did after the first couple of releases were happy to (with the right prompt) tell you how to kill yourself, make meth or commit the perfect murder. I don't like it either, but I can understand why they did it. All it takes is one spectacularly awful neo-nazi spiel generated by your product to set off a moral panic and sink your public image, no matter how much you try to explain that it only said that because the user told it to do so.