skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you’ve used duolingo much. I do not know how to say anything other than the phrase it throws at me in that moment. So no, I do not know that. The progression in not linear, jumps around a lot, and doesn’t help you understand how the conjugations work, or how to extrapolate he/she/they/I because all I know is the bear, or apple , milk, motor and radio before I can understand that someone is saying hello to me and how to answer.
yes, it seems you haven't been understanding what's written

that means natural language will understand user request and write queries for SlicerDicer data backend, not that data is sent to the llm for analysis.

it writes queries, don't receive data.
Someone who acquires these outputs who has never consented to their ToS is not bound by their ToS.
Mostly just a push by “people skills” people to insert themselves into the bleeding edge of STEM and pretend like they add any value.
> Be honest about it with the people around you. If you think your partner and friends will look at you unfavorably because you don't have a job, then they're not really on your side and you are better off without them.

I think that last one is pretty damaging the way you wrote it. I would slightly change this to say "Be honest about it with the people around you, if your friends or partner evidently look at you unfavourably, then consider whether they're on your side or if it would be worth trying to keep them around, a direct serious conversation can sometimes do wonders for your relationships, and socially isolating yourself can sometimes be useful but oftentimes costly. (or something to this effect, leaning on tangibly being unsupported by your personal relationships rather than vague notions of anticipated rejection)

Merely anticipating people might not look at you favourably is kind of a separate issue.
I doubt you can misunderstand my comment to that extent.
who it would seem would already be familiar with this term

In my experience research papers go out of their way to define the basics and coiteration is so niche that the google results are this paper itself.

Given the level of effort you've put in so far

I don't know why you're upset, this just doesn't seem like something that needs a new language or a new term.
as a developer i enjoyed this article thoroughly, and were i passionate about making games i suspect i'd have enjoyed it even more. game makers know that engagement-above-all is a cancer on games, either because it leads to dark patterns that divorce "engagement" from actual fun playing the game, or because it leads to the game being watered down to appeal mildly to a lot of people.

similarly, while algorithmic, procedural or more recently AI generated content is an efficient and cost-effective way to make games, having a human in the loop can optimise for fun in a way that a pure machine-driven process cannot. again, as a game maker i would be thrilled that the NYT is putting resources into supporting this sort of human involvement in a game.
I liked this video:

https://youtu.be/9qq6HTr7Ocw

"OpenAI Q&A: Finetuning GPT-3 vs. Semantic Search - which to use, when, and why?"
dang allows people to criticize HN as long as they confirm with the sites' general standards of behavior, for example.
Apollo didn’t try to go to orbit until their fourth unmanned flight.

As Musk put it, “Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake.” It probably was a mistake that critically damaged the booster’s maneuvering, but they also want to learn how much they absolutely need to build on Mars.
When party A loans party B, it is not very moral to demand that party C pay it. This is such an intuitive moral axiom that I would expect it to be pretty non-controversial across cultures and across time.

If you believe the loans are predatory, some things one could do instead that might be considered moral:

1. Raid college endowments to pay down student debt

2. Allow bankruptcy for student debt

3. Allow refinancing at generous rates for student debt

But mug the public?
> Significantly economically impactful in some cases- obvious examples of call centers and first-line customer support.

Is it that obvious?

Yesterday I had a trivial but uncommon issue with my pharmacy. I reached out to them online - their chatbot was the only channel available. I tried, over the course of 20 minutes and 3 restarted sessions, to communicate an issue that a human would have been able to respond to in 30 seconds. Eventually I just gave up and got the prescription filled elsewhere.

No doubt this pharmacy saved money by cutting support staff. I just think it's easy to see these solutions and cost savings without bothering to look at how much of a frustrating experience it can be for a customer.
> Pundits consistently underestimate how much income Americans make and how high living standards are compared to the rest of the world.

Americans constantly overestimate the standard of living of the majority of their citizens compared to the rest of the developed world

no-one in Europe, Japan or Australia worries about medical bills of bankruptcy regardless or their income

I might like a slightly larger house but I'd rather have a Fiat 500 than a giant US "sofa on wheels" fake SUV with the turning circle of 100ft
So Russian gas is going to start flowing again soon? I am not holding my breath on that one. In any case, the global harm that's come from building a multi-decade dependence on Russia for anything as crucial as oil and gas is far worse than the harm coming from some gas stoves, so European powers don't get to comment on sanity in this debate.
It's part of what you do, and it does influence how you see things, but your life does not being or end with a job.

Your job friends, however friendly, might not necessarily remain your friends after you leave the company.

You can care about your job and your craft, and doing good for your customers to do your part in building a better world for everyone... but there must be something else outside that or your life will be pretty empty, and might even affect your job in the long run.
> AI can generate as much synthetic data as we need, on demand.

Doesn't work in majority of domains. You need to know the generating process (e.g. game rules) and build a realistic simulation environment that emulates that, in order to generate data that is useful. Both of these things are out of reach for most applications.

I believe the next large step will be multi-modal, where text is contextualized by video so the LLM will be able to concretize what "sitting on a chair" actually means with a single example, without needing to see thousands of textual associations to infer the meaning from the text.
What Could Quantum Computers Do for Us? [video]
To add to this: Bach loved to "remix" his own musical ideas and to reuse previous themes, melodies or whole pieces.

As an innocent example, compare e.g. the Prelude in E minor in WTK 1 to its original version, which is part of his "book for Wilhem Friedemann Bach", as an educative piece for his son.
>> Atom & renewable sources. 256x256 km of solar panels is enough for whole world.

>> Electric tractors. Should have been here decades ago.

> Those sound like great ideas. How about we roll them out first,

> and only stop using fossil fuels once they're able to totally

> replace them with no downside

All these things are already here. Nuclear power is nothing new, renewable methods of generating energy are growing fast, and electric tractors are already on the market.

How expensive they are and how fast they are common does not depend only on the market, but also on the policies we have.

There are subsidies and policies in place to protect the status quo. Without demolishing the existing barriers of entry no progres can be made.

If we accept "cheap" energy from coal plans as standard, and wait for new miraculous technology to compete with subsidized coal energy on price, without any support, it simply won't (and didn't) happen.

But say you'll phase out coal plans, and almost miraculously the effort materializes and is redirected to new areas and new solutions are found.

Wait for it to happen on it's own, and only thing you'll get is cancer from the soot and scorched earth.
ChatGPT Plugins Are Building a Strong Moat for OpenAI
The founders of the USA were local elites who didn't want their power checked, so they created a weak central government.

I'm more scared of local politicians than national ones. One reason is that natl politicians tend to get much more attention and oversight.
Think about when you use GPT to generate prompts, something that seems to be growing common. Once you have a pipeline like that, changing the (meta)prompt can be expensive. You designed the pipeline thinking you only have to come up with the meta-prompt once, and it would work from now on. But you find you have to keep tuning your Kubernetes/upgrading your dependencies/tweaking your meta prompt.

"Scam" is overblown, but I think OP is right to warn of a possible future issue. It's an issue endemic to all software, so not something worth calling out recent AI advances in particular for. But it seems something we should all be trying to get better about. Monitor the ongoing costs of the systems we create. Do they really pay for themselves or are we waiting for a Godot that never arrives?
In one way, you are correct.

TSMC's decision to use "Black Diamond" CVD was driven by previous failures of "spin-on" dielectric that allowed them to deliver copper interconnects before anyone else.

However, the R&D cycle, which failed for "spin-on," otherwise allowed TSMC to deliver faster, as they ran in multiple shifts, allowing accelerated focus on the new node.
Psychedelic Drugs as Long Covid Treatment
Same, as a kid I liked to discover all the random things one could build step by step.
My biggest mistake after being laid off was to not be discerning enough about my next job. You need to be willing to say no to a crummy job offer, even as the bills pile up.
There are enough humans, and enough work. We need to stop treating all humans as one-of-a-kind unicorns, and see ourselves as a collective species again. On the same page, the opposite is somehow true. Maybe this sounds confusing, but I don't know how to state it better.

We have to face the reality that while all humans are equal at birth - something I firmly believe in - the upbringing may inhibit or express essential traits for certain professions. Some may have mathematical/logical talent by upbringing, some may have musical talent. some may be polymaths, some may be anxious for anything abstract. All have value, and the sooner we acknowledge this, the faster we can accept that there are people deserving more musical, more mathematical or more manual tutoring.

We can't treat billions of individuals as equals, they are individuals. They are not races though, or ethnics, those are dynamic.
https://archive.ph/Gvsv7
the increasingly misused term "humblebragging" refers to bragging about something while pretending to put yourself down in a show of humility[0]. this is just plain showing off something you have done and are proud of, which is a wonderful thing.

[0] depicted wonderfully in "pride and prejudice":

"Oh!" cried Miss Bingley, "Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest."

"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them -- by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."

"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

"And which of the two do you call my little recent piece of modesty?"

"The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting. The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Ahh, I thought you meant you operated a server for another game (I've hosted many over the years so that's what I first think of). What is the game you are making?
I am in Arkansas - and not NWA or a metro area. A small town of <15k people.

The typical starting pay here for entry-level service jobs (fast food, retail, etc.) is around $12. More demanding entry-level jobs (manufacturing, trades, etc.) is around $15.

This matches what I’d expected, but I spent a few minutes searching local Facebook groups and reviewing recent posts to get current information. One post in a private group from last asked if anywhere in town was hiring at >$15/hr. Sixteen separate places were listed in the comments.
Learned something new,thanks for sharing.
The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16
Just the swapping of sides in the brain, isn’t there a clear benefit for the stress/weight of the nerves to the rest of the body?

If right side was connected right arm the nerves would be pressed “out”. When they cross there is less pressure in the spinal cord?
Not just auto-complete, but Google removing power search capabilities (quotes, plus, etc).

Here's hoping LLMs-as-a-service don't fall into the same trap.

It's fine to optimize for the 80% of your users who write badly, but for god's sake keep a bail-out for power users who want more control.

You don't have to make it the default... but just don't remove it!
Part of this may be due to differences in what taxes do? I pay 33% income tax. Some of this might go to things that local government pays in your region? For example, in NZ income tax pays for schools, not property tax. Same applies to hospitals and various other services.

As you say, that’s a massive difference.
Not sure if I agree you. As someone who has play games for 20 years but didn't know nyt has games, I found it informative and fascinating. As long as they keep it factual and informative, I'm fine with it
With cheap and abundant energy we can do lots of interesting things.
All negative mass that exists probably moved away in the opposite direction of the expansion of the universe. It’s out there, but we’ll never reach it.
You can start by stating what you are good at.
The amount of self loathing in display here is astounding. Or I guess, "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" syndrome?

A hiring decision is a huge change in an employee's life. People uproot their lives, may have to move away from friends and family. They might need visas.

For a big company CEO, getting fired changes basically nothing material. They still have millions of dollars, they most definitely aren't on a work visa.

A rich, profitable company for sure can afford and should try to salvage every suboptimal hiring decision, at least once.

Except for the CEO, that basically gets all the money and no real risk. A CEO will never starve, will never get kicked out of the country, etc.
Chrome OS Graphics Reading List
This has always been present in subfields of AI. For example, in classical computer vision, one had to figure out specific parameters working just for a single image or video scene by hand. Machine learning can in theory at least make these parameters learnable at the cost of complexity.
Caudovirales Bacteriophages Are Associated with Improved Executive Function
Well maybe. But also consider that a company large or small may want to pay to send a lawyer (not to mention many companies obviously have attorneys on staff) to fight, extend, whatever simply to send a message. This would in theory be even more today with social media then pre-internet say 30 years ago (or pre social media). Why? Well it certainly pays to fight otherwise you will have all sorts of people filing claims knowing that you 'don't send a lawyer to fight it'. Because everyone typically talks and brags about what they were able to do after the fact.

Even if they don't show up and get a judgement they can then appeal or do many things to stop the enforcement process.

Also nothing to prevent an opponent for whatever reason finding a way to file a counterclaim to which you would then need to defend against and probably pay a lawyer to handle. (Meaning not in small claims court or above your knowledge level). Related note also that LLC's and Inc. must typically be represented by an attorney in court.
Crucially there is not a program for every problem. Many (presumably "Almost all" in a mathematical sense) problems are Undecidable and so a program can't do that.
Binary Search: A Little Simpler and More Generic (2020, PDF)
Do you have any reason to believe that the Chatbot was GPT3.5 or GPT4 based?
I worked on a campus where they were building prototype manufacturing processes with these tools.

The building those tools were housed in had a foundation that was iirc 30’ of a specialized concrete mix. I was chatting with some of the construction engineers over coffee and the consensus was that 10,000 years from now, some archeologists would be pondering wtf this giant concrete platform was for.
Deploying the solar panels does not spread those elements in any significant way. They are bound up in the structure of the panels. In any case it is orders of magnitude less toxins that what is produced in drilling for oil and gas and burning them. Coal is on another scale entirely producing massive amounts of toxic byproducts. Solar is just a fart in the wind in comparison.
I know how boost converters work but reading your great explanation made me realize how similar they are to an impact wrench. Ever wonder how an impact wrench creates such massive torque?

Spin up a fly wheel then let it hit the dogs greatly amplifying the torque through stored kinetic energy similar to an inductor being dumped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzqNnWG21s

I always like how electricity can be compared to mechanical and hydraulic systems, it's not always perfect but there is obviously a lot of overlap between voltage, current, pressure, flow, torque and rpm. Power is the common thread.
Two-Streams Hypothesis
If by "some skill" you mean the basic ability to type vaguely coherent English, than I agree.

If anything the recent generative art advancements coming out (Firefly, MJ v5) would seem to refute your point. There was a time when diffusion models require some level of knowledge and skill to use. To get high quality output, it was in your best interest to learn about the different types of samplers, upscalers, hyper networks, textual inversions, understanding denoising etc. etc.

Now? I'd say the millions of active users on MJ would seem to prove you wrong.

As far as language models like GPT, we've already seen the average level of skill needed come down with each successive release, ChatGPT is easier to use than GPT-3 which is easier to use than GPT-2.

Furthermore, devs in the space (Stability, OpenAI, etc) could refine/train pre-processing LLM models that transform more accessible amateur prompts to more professional prompts at real-time.
Most of my friends know I do DevOps/SRE which is relevant to a lot of conversations we may have. They don't usually know or care who I do it for.
Let me guess, they should receive notifications for new content by telepathy, or alternatively open a tab for every person they like and refresh every 5 minutes.

Any other brilliant ideas?
So, I’m a first-level manager and we basically run an ad-hoc for our team that looks like a blend of spiral and milestones.

For me, the problems arise when methodologies intended for large-scale are applied at a small scale.

What’s a methodology for anyways? To help communicate and to reason-at-scale. If you can’t communicate or reason with a single team, process isn’t going to help. But once you have 200+, then you need process!

And my larger organization does have process, it looks waterfallish repeated every six months. I just don’t apply it to my team.
How is it unrelated if we’re talking about software engineering as a profession? Yes there are some SWEs working in engineering fields, but the majority are not classically “engineers”
I was helping a friend repair some old (WW2 vintage) transmitting gear. The voltage dividers used to bias the tubes used almost 100 watts by themselves! Quite the contrast to modern electronics.
Guess what: Europe doesn't do instant termination and the roof hasn't collapsed.
Apple went with the operator that would allow them control over the device. This was at a time where Nokia sold specific versions of their smartphones with WiFi disabled in the US. And the situation was similar elsewhere. So in many of the countries they entered, they often started with a smaller operator. They bet that the bigger operators would change their mind after seeing iPhones success (and how many subscribers they had lost), and they turned out to be right. In hindsight, they managed to upend the whole telecom industry (or at least accelerate that process), which is now more or less reduced to "dumb data pipes" that you use when you're outside of WiFi coverage.
You’re both right. That person has currently picked words up to January 4th 4105.
I am not aware of "Fortune 9000 companies" that "run their business via Bermuda". However, large chunks of the worlds insurance comes through here.
Gizmodo has a piece awhile back lamenting this fact. You’re subjected to the whims of someone’s jokery.

They example they have (if I recall) was that they couldn’t guess the word, only to find out that it was related to holiday XYZ that was in the next few days and it seemed so obvious and dumb -- because now instead of having to figure out a word based on missing letters, you now needed to take into account current events, time, etc.

Of course, I can’t find the link at the moment… (so, maybe I’m making it up).
That seems like a fair assumption, but I can't imagine what that might be. The Wordle stack seems pretty static.
This really only works well in resource limited settings and/or semisupervised tasks.

I've tried augmentation for LLM domain adaptation and it's very modest gains in the best of situations, and even still the augmented corpus is a very tiny fraction of the underlying training corpus.

I believe OP's question was getting at whether synthetic data is useful as a substantial corpus for unsupervised training of a language model (given the topic it's reasonable to disregard other areas of 'AI') and that answer appears to be no or at least unproven and non-intuitive.
Fair-weather friends are not true friends.

If unemployment can help you get rid of people that saved your contact as "Free food", that's a great thing.
“Hi I’m John, I’m good at basket weaving”
If you choose to live in a historic district, you know very well you're going to have to follow a lot of rules about appearance, including grass height. You knew that going into it, or should have.

I don't know why you're calling someone a jerk for reporting it. The whole point of historic districts is to maintain an incredibly strict appearance. If you don't want to follow the rules, don't live there.
I've been using Language Transfer and it's an excellent resource. I wonder if the method can be truly expanded to more languages, such as Mandarin Chinese.
But still, Apple’s ads are only in the News app and in paid placements in their App stores. It’s not like they have a widespread add platform like Google and Amazon.
Could you elaborate on that? I would think maybe in the very short term if you have minimal expenses and some savings, you have a bit of time to be picky, but not if you've got major expenses, dependants, or just very few offers coming in.

Like don't go agreeing to an obviously terrible offer, but this isn't a seller's market anymore.
Even if that's your metric, I really do think all the other language learning apps are better for this purpose.