skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literally no one is suggesting phonics only, that’s just the language decoding step

Well, part of the problem is that it's unclear what people are suggesting. Until pretty recently there was a big gap between "phonics works pretty well" and "here's how you build a phonics curriculum". Teachers actually need that gap to be closed. What happens in practice is someone hears this podcast, and shows up at meetings demanding that teachers teach phonics and the science of reading without knowing what any of it is.

> The problem is that the “whole language” approach has been shown not to work at all

This is a big exaggeration. Phonics works better but whole language works OK.

> regularly see 4th graders who are functionally illiterate.

We'll see how well phonics does. My guess is that reading is pretty hard and phonics will help, but we'll still see poor literacy rates. The UK has been doing synthetic phonics and it's not been going great [0], for instance.

> If your teacher friends are mad, maybe it’s because they’re being called out for using a shitty method that’s ruin the lives of poor children.

Let's be a little more civil than this.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-p...
Seems most counterproductive if you lose.
Hot take: that’s how it should be. After fixing laptops for less technical people, I don’t think the average person can be trusted to protect themselves against malware.
In a way, Community may be the past of AI... Meaning the "Great Pause" [1] could happen, not by decree/law/agreement, but by people who will (out of self-preservation?) stop adding quality content to the free data sources that are SO, GitHub, etc. If ChatGPT and others end up "stuck" with data up to 2023, and the data afterwards are wacked-out conspiracy theories and SEO padded recipes, we may just end up with a "usefulness" limit of transformer AIs in general.

[1] https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
Well, this article was written using a phone, so it might be possible to read it using one :P

And yes, it's completely true for cases that your custom deleter (pay attention that there is no custom allocator in std::unique_ptr, but it also true to allocators in other structures) doesn't contain any data members :)

And thanks!
I wouldn't put CUPS on Steam deck because too many people have HP printers. People trying their HP printer or scanner and not having it working would put Deck in bad light really.
This stuff is a bit over my head.

Under this scenario, if the site rotates their key, will I need to decide on my system to trust it or not ? Maybe change something on my system ?

Or does the remote site use my ssh public key transparently to know it is me, and allow me in ? So I do nothing at my end ? I guess that would be OK by me. But as I noted above, I am guessing.
My understanding is that from the article, assembly was being done, not complete manufacturing. Which means that many of the components are imported components that are being assembled.

Parts from one country may get transported to another country to be built into a component, and returned to the original country for further assembly.

So it would be interesting to learn what the value of the individual components imported in is, and how much value is added by Indian made components and during India assembly and by Foxconn and Wistron.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/india-apple-iphone-manuf...

Assembly is fine to start out with, but to bring more of the value add, one would need to build out an entire ecosystem of factories building the components.
It's a joke but a huge difference between this and an office is you only have to be around the coworkers you like
We're not going to get a 200 IQ model by simply scaling up the current model, even with all the datacenters in the world running 24/7
When I first looked into this, free Apple developer accounts also could only use limited app entitlements: so no network extensions, VPN profiles, Apple push notifications, or other capabilities. NetworkExtension is basically the only reason I’m interested in iOS development at all, so a paid account was not optional.
You wouldn't want chatbots to answer you with the kind of language used in patent texts.
A phonetic script is one where the symbols represent sounds. The Latin alphabet is a phonetic script. In contrast, consider the shared numeric system used in both English and Polish. How do you pronounce "1"? What about "10" or "11" - does using the same symbol in all three numbers give you any hint about whether they sound the same? What if I'm saying the numbers in French?

The answer is of course, no, those symbols don't have an associated sound. They have an associated meaning and there are many spoken words for that meaning.
Pish! The video is perfectly fine.
You're being passive-aggressively unimaginative and unwilling to seek out information for yourself, in a manner that is a common form of trolling. Even if trolling is not your intent, you should know that the idea of learning by asserting something wrong online and waiting to be corrected may make for a good joke but is not a polite and productive way to have online conversations.
I think you're mixing the two. They do have an incentive to make it affordable and fast because that increases the use cases for it, and the faster it is the cheaper it is for them, because the expense is compute time (half the time ~= half the cost).

> This is why Dall-e 2 ran in a data centre and Stable Diffusion runs on a gamer GPU

This is absolutely why they're keeping it locked up. By simply not releasing the weights, you can't run Dalle2 locally, and yeah they don't want to do this because they want you to be locked to their platform, not running it for free locally.
All along the Indian River in Florida you can find them in the spring and early summer. They are just inquisitive of humans and have come to see them as supportive. They can be territorial though. When I sail my boat, I love seeing them ride with my bow and guide me out to see. It's like a good luck charm or something. I throw them a fish as I go. Amazing animals. Super intelligent.
Using a Linux kernel doesn't mean you have to make your whole project GPL, unless your project is specifically kernel code.
View and Edit MongoDB from Airtable
Came across a product on producthunt turns Airtable into a UI for MongoDB. Basically a 2-way ETL product between these tools

https://producthunt.com/posts/dapper-2
Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts
The 2017 Transformers paper has ~71,000 papers citing it. The sheer magnitude of human mental effort globally that is chasing the forefront of machine learning is unprecedented and amazing.
It's naive to think the government has no influence over editorial content. They may not have day to day influence, but so what, they wouldn't have had time to micromanage it even if they wanted to. Al Jazeera, TeleSUR or RT aren't micromanaged either.

No, the way to control media is to appoint a person you trust will cover the things you want to be covered, with the angle you want, and most importantly not cover the things you don't want to be covered. And this, they get to do. That's what Rupert Murdoch does too, and Jeff Bezos. None of them have to send out orders to kill a story - in the rare case their trusted appointees aren't sure, they can quickly and securely coordinate with similarly aligned media, or directly ask their patrons what they want. That's what they do for anything national security related in the US these days.
Glad it’s not just me!
From the article:

There are currently only 40 or so mortgages outstanding, and as customers pass away, the stock is not being replenished with loans to younger generations, who have no particular affinity for in-person banking.
> using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best

There's nothing inherently wrong with having an out-of-tree kernel module; a lot of software has, including software that is open source but has an incompatible license.

As far as I remember (I'm not on Nvidia anymore, but I've been for many years), the Nvidia module was one or two minor versions behind the latest release kernel, which is very reasonable support - for example, stable distros like Ubuntu LTS, or OpenZFS, are always a bit behind as well. I've actually changed filesystem because of this, but I certainly don't blame the OpenZFS devs.
If I'm reading something about React written by Dan Abramov or something about Rust by David Tolnay, I can trust that I'm getting solid information from a trusted source.

With AI sometimes the information can be as high quality as those trusted sources, and sometimes it can be complete garbage.

If I'm not knowledgeable in the topic I'm researching, how can I tell the difference?
As for Lambda, if ur app gets less than a million requests it’s basically free, which I love. API gateway lets me sleep at night because of all it’s security features.

EC2 is kind of crappy UX wise but spot instances at cheap af
LLMs are actually pretty good at translating info in one form into another form.
I don't think you can just feed it data. You've got to curate it, feed it to the LLM, and then manually check/further train the output.

I also question that most companies have the volume and quality of data worth training on. It's littered with cancelled projects, old products, and otherwise obsolete data. That's going to make your LLM hallucinate/give wrong answers. Especially for regulated and otherwise legally encumbered industries. Like can you deploy a chat bot that's wrong 1% or 0.1% of the time?
Except where I am, it's a guarantee. Indian River Lagoon is a known nursing ground for bottlenose dolphins. Something like 1,000+ call it home.
A lot of start-ups in my experience see all their engineers as “high-autonomy feature implementors.” It’s not really autonomy in the sense of power or choice, though, just being left alone to implement features. The thing is, “features” are product-level things that require technical design as well as implementation. Product design and implementation and technical design and implementation are all different things. Even within programming, implementation has sub-problems that require creativity. I implemented a Java VM, once, for example, and it was really fun. So it’s not necessarily the case that once something is a matter of “implementation” it is just straightforward work to give to a junior programmer, or that implementing things is boring.

What sucks is, for example, being good at technical design but that not being valued. And management being disconnected from employees, which is not unique to software companies.
I’m a senior full stack engineer and also a small business owner. I typically work normal-ish daily hours, and almost always have extra contracting or business work in the evening hours to attend to. I also am a father and a husband.

My life stays pretty busy, but I enjoy it.
I don't even understand what the proposed use case for this is. Is it supposed to be that you're in a car chase and rather than continue a dangerous pursuit you shoot this thing at the suspect and then just go find them later? Won't they notice and just stop and dispose of the tracker unless you're hot on their tail?
I started in '83 (paid to code, at 84-5).

I would still be working for someone, except the industry doesn't believe that I should be. I was frozen out, pretty hard.

Instead, I work for free. I really enjoy coding, and it's actually been vastly freeing, having my own schedule and structure.
Why would they ask Google for permission?
Is anyone aware of techniques to prune a model from useless knowledge to leave more space for the reasoning capabilities?

It really shouldn't matter that it can give the exact birthdate of Steve Wozniac, as long as it can properly make a query to fetch it and deal with the result.
And you don't have to work for the same company, which means if you change jobs you don't suddenly lose your social network.
DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features Without Supervision
Your example sentence was incredibly hard to read for me. To be fair English isn't my primary language. But still, I think it could be that different people read in different ways, so some depend more on context than others, etc.
Ask HN: What to do about wage theft?
I was working remotely at a US company via an outsourcing agency in Singapore for about 8 months. The US company suddenly fired me in the middle of March. It was a complete surprise to me; my boss only said that it was because I was late delivering something and admitted that he hadn't warned me that my job might be in danger but since I was "a 30 day contractor" he didn't have to. (I had reasons for being late, and I had been keeping him informed about them).

A couple of days later the CEO of the outsourcing agency sent me email saying that the US company had discontinued my contract effective 30 days from then and that I should bill March normally and then submit a final bill in middle of April for a partial month and that I would be payed out my unused PTO. And so I did, but no money arrived and the CEO of the agency is no longer answering my email.

Do I have any recourse here or am I out out luck?
> Is there a core banking system running?

The Minimum Viable Bank System is a paper ledger, paper Know Your Customer records, and cash in a locked container. You don't have to support electronic transfers or even paper checks. Just let people withdraw and deposit in-person at the only physical office.
T recently dropped their prices as well.
Since IQ is just a normal distribution on a population it is a bit misleading to talk about it like that.

Even if we don't expend any cost on education the number of people with IQ 135 stays the same.
10 day cross-country hackathon on a train from Vermont to Los Angeles
I've been wondering this for a while now. Cyc has tons of knowledge in a white-box, formal system. If it just had a front-end that could convert from natural language to Cyc knowledge queries and back, we wouldn't have to worry so much about hallucinations, catastrophic forgetting, or trying to fit the entire database in VRAM.
You rename them main symbol to something else then you just call it like any other library.
AR-15 lowers are pretty cheap. Seems like ~$60 on the cheap end at consumer (non-wholesale) prices. That's without a buffer spring and stuff, but I don't think this thing even uses/needs those.

There are some advantages to it, though. The article calls out accessories being interchangeable. The company doesn't have to make/sell different stocks and what not, people can just buy their existing favorites for the AR-15.

The ergonomics are probably more familiar (e.g. adjusting the length of the stock, where the safety is, etc).

You could also theoretically use the same lower for both this and an actual AR-15, although I doubt the utility of that. Most police departments probably have enough cash to just buy both.
You're phrasing that as though paid market research is on the order of living through war. If we don't all remember that continuously in the context of how dangerous app installs are, it might not be warranted.

I kinda like being able to install open source software without agreeing to anyone's terms of service. I'm typing this from an open source browser going through an open source firewall that blocks trackers which both came from an app store that I contributed to, for example. That's a lot more benefit than letting a bigcorp from another continent with a very different culture decide the rules about everything you can do with every unit sold.

There are paths where you can prohibit businesses you deem evil from paying people to study their lives that don't involve letting your device's content rules be set by an undemocratic and profit-oriented company.
And yet 3D artists are also reckoning with the fallout of generated images: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308498

This complain in particular strikes me as someone who enjoyed the process more than the result. Very specialized crafting skills, now made, not useless, but not required to obtain a similar result. And, if reducing things to a market, competing with a very orthogonal set of skills.
First of all, if Altman continually makes misleading statements about AI he will quickly lose credibility, and that short term gain in whatever 'financial incentive' that birthed the lie would be eroded in short order by a lack of trust of the head of one of the most visible AI companies in the world.

Secondly, all the competitors of OpenAI can plainly assess the truth or validity of Altman's statements. There are many companies working in tandem on things at the OpenAI scale of models, and they can independently assess the usefulness of continually growing models. They aren't going to take this statement at face value and change their strategy based on a single statement by OpenAI's CEO.

Thirdly, I think people aren't really reading what Altman actually said very closely. He doesn't say that larger models aren't useful at all, but that the next sea change in AI won't be models which are orders of magnitude bigger, but rather a different approach to existing problem sets. Which is an entirely reasonable prediction to make, even if it doesn't turn out to be true.

All in all, "his word is basically worthless" seems much to harsh an assessment here.
It's including Common Crawl data 4 or 5 times, does that count?
> He told me that, although there were measures a government could take to combat organized crime—better scanners, more customs officers, improved collaboration between national police forces—the flow of drugs would stop only if there was a change in attitude among Europeans. “Drugs are being normalized in our society,” he said. “Users need to look themselves in the mirror. They are putting our security in danger. I hope they are wise enough to understand that, without demand, there is no supply.”

Just how long will it take politicians to finally recognize that prohibition is the problem? It didn't work for alcohol in the US (and created Al Capone in the process), it didn't work for cannabis, it didn't work for sex work, it didn't work for porn, it didn't work for any other kind of drug. All it ever created was senseless suffering on all levels, from governments whose budgets were and are drained by the cost of prosecuting all the drug crime, over the users who literally die like flies from contaminated products or accidental overdoses, to society which can't rely on not being shot in a drive-by gang fight or walking home without stepping over feces and heroin needles.

The only place where prohibition somehow works halfway is CSAM and pedophilia, but only because everyone but the pedos hates the pedos and agrees it's inacceptable - and even there, with this worldwide unity, there's still more than enough pedos that corrupt local officials in poor countries where pedos from all over the world exploit the utter poverty that leads people to send their children into human trafficking.
Sue them for what? Gathering user data that users gave an explicit permission to gather?

Previously, the app devs wouldn't be able to, for example, lock out the entire app from being used, just because you didn't give them permissions for something that isn't vital for the app to function (e.g., location tracking or photo gallery). App Store rules prohibit that behavior, and those apps get rejected.

Sideloading would allow FB and others to do that and more, since they won't need to follow App Store rules anymore. And I don't think there is anything illegal about them doing it.
This is a thing already. Planes flying in circles above major US cities with dozens of cameras recording time lapses.

The geolocation warrants being served against Google are also pretty similar. Come up with all the phones in the area when the fire was set, etc.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/eye-sky
I think an AI may have extra qualities by feeling suffering etc., but I don't think these extra qualities are rationally beneficial.
I think this is a pretty key point. If a business is going through any kind of rapid change, cloud providers offer a lot of off-the-shelf help for that, be it ability to scale, hosted infrastructure, or PoPs in new geographies. If the company is relatively static with easily predictable future requirements, you can get a lot more bang-for-your-buck by handling things on your own and developing your own in-house expertise.
Yeah exactly.

I'm not sure how many people would recognize that adding a file in one RUN and then removing it in another RUN during a Dockerfile build would result in the file still existing in one of the layers.

IMO that's a good example of a critical bug (leaked private ssh key) that would be difficult to spot for even someone who's semi-comfortable with Dockerfiles and just isn't familiar with exactly how the build processes works and realizes that it will be an issue. Again it looks really correct and I think would have worked with no errors.
Finetuning cost are nowhere near representative of the cost to pre-train those models.

Trying to replicate the quality of GPT-3 from scratch, using all the tricks and training optimizations in the books that are available now but weren't used during GPT-3 actual training, will still cost you north of $500K, and that's being extremly optimistic.

GPT-4 level model would be at least 10x this using the same optimism (meaning you are managing to train it for much cheaper than OpenAI).
And That's just pure hardware cost, the team you need to actually makes this happen is going to be very expensive as well.

edit: To quantify how "extremely optimistic" that is, the very model you are finetuning, which I assume is Llama 65B, would cost around ~$18M to train on google cloud assuming you get a 50% discount on their listed GPU prices (2048 A100 GPUs for 5 months). And that's not even GPT-4 level.
Nobody's forcing you to do these things, though (except arguably paying taxes). Of course, nobody's forcing me to use an iPhone either. I just picked the least crap option I could find given my personal preferences.

What I object to is the idea that I'd be better off with more totalitarianism (in this instance, a corporation dictating which computing I am allowed to perform on my pocket computer) rather than less. I prefer as little as possible.

Again, I sacrifice some freedom and privacy (too much, I'm afraid) for convenience. But I certainly won't go ahead and say, "I wish I'd sacrificed even more."

Though I can understand that this is very common, and appears to be an adaptive mechanism that maintains mental health by minimizing cognitive dissonance.
In the future you can use a vector embedding database to pull relevant bits of documentation from version specific documentation. With GPT4's 8k context it should be enough to get most things in there
Why is FBI leading anti-espionage / infiltration / invasion operations?

This is spygame stuff right? CIA doesn't get host country permission when it wants to abduct someone to a "black site".
Oh, I agree. My wife taught in public high schools for a couple years in an economically struggling city. It was so hard (and paid so poorly, especially per hour of labor) that she quit after those two years and is still traumatized by it a decade later.
A similar line appears in The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, a 1979 children's comedy short.

"It's one of those days I wish I was dead, and stayed dead"

https://youtu.be/5YTfHHWlsDU?t=1338
The old-school way to document savings accounts is with a passbook:

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

If this bank offers that, then you have the redundant documentation yourself.
I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development – Lex Fridman [video]
'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland