skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bigger problem might be many banks can’t handle the rates moving up so quickly.

I didn’t understand all the details but some banks were taking short term money and locking in long term commitments at what is now not a very good rate.
The issue is that "purient interests" and "performance" is really not something that's well defined.

Walking down the street whistling a classic rock tune like "fat bottom girls"? Arguably fits that description. Also, a "performance" can simply be appearing in public without directly performing anything.

This sort of vage language in laws gives a lot of leeway for very selective enforcement.
If this were true, wouldn’t all corporate profits be next to zero as companies compete on the slimmest possible margins?
In my experience they just rip the AirTag off once it notifies them and then continue on their merry way.
The whole concept of a unique non repeatable single event being given a percentage chance of happening or not is absurd made up cope.
Are the assets inflation-adjusted, also?
Lehman Brothers isn’t technically a bank failure. It was an investment bank that went bankrupt, it had zero FDIC involvement
Yeah, I've read the commonwealth.

But nothing like the first book, although the two are actually a single book sold separately, at least for me.

I just read a neighbor of Pandora's Star in the graph (Coyote) and enjoyed it. Note quite like pandora, but fine.
Sanskrit Cosmopolis: The Sanskrit Roots of South East Asia Islands
Unsafe sounds like a parent explaining things to you.

The big area of concern were people using 'doctor google' instead of going to a doctor. Finding a sore throat and jumping down the most negative path.

You could use google to mine certain types of data in that era. Passwords.. now much of that is filtered.

In 10 years those intellectual property rights might give them ownership over AI. The court battles haven't begun yet
lol, there are dormant accounts on Twitter going back at least a decade. NPR doesn't tweet for two weeks and now it's "no special treatment?" What a clown.

I hope NPR does start tweeting again. One tweet a week, solely containing links to other sites where you can find their content. Make Elon do even more tortured public gymnastics to come up with an excuse to punish them.
Thats not really accurate. The rest of the curriculum is about how that is still correct but how people attempt to gain market power so they can stop others undercutting them, bringing market back to efficiency.
It depends what you mean by "new subsystem" and "transitioning to": what seems like a given is that the notion of "one size fits all" of LLVM IR is behind us and the need to multi-level IR is embraced.
LLVM IR is evolving to accommodate this better, within reason (that is: it stay organized around a pretty well defined core instruction set and type system), and MLIR is just the fully extensible framework beyond this.
It is to be seen if anyone would have the appetite to port LLVM IR (and the LLVM framework) to be a dialect, I think there are challenges for this.
Always found it interesting that GPT4 sparks of AGI paper was written mid-2022 meaning they probably knew of everything Twitter AI is discussing 1.5 years ago. Explains why it feels like Microsoft is cranking out so much software these days
I have faith that we can top S&L. We have the technology. We have the talent. There are six banks with over a trillion in assets in the US. I have faith that one of them has been doing some wild book cooking. I'd place a bet on Citibank, followed by Wells Fargo. There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me… you can't get fooled again.

I'm just hoping this time it's something absolutely outrageous just for the lulz of it all. Like, let's get some FTX-style absurdity. All the absurdity happens in crypto right now but I still have faith in regular banking. Some people still like the challenge of regulated markets.
We need that for background scanning; Apple just cheats and does the same without really asking. We have never sold Tile user data. We did have a data platform for Life360, which we believe did no harm, but we exited the business as it seemed to cause confusion and was a very small part of our revenue
It’s shadow IT. You are not supposed to leak confidential company data to any other company unless you have the appropriate vendor agreements in place. It’s like loading the source code to Dropbox when you are supposed to use bitbucket.
> But is it good for people to know who is more likely to win an election? Are these predictions beneficial to society or democracy? I sometimes think they may actually be harmful, decreasing voter turnout by convincing people (correctly or incorrectly) that the result is preordained.

For plurality voting (a.k.a. first-past-the-post[0]) with more than two candidates, voters have to cast their ballots strategically[1]. This is especially common in primary elections and non-partisan positions.

Unless all elections switch to a method that is not subject to the spoiler effect (like approval voting or instant runoff voting), voters need more information about which candidates are most likely to win, not less information. Sometimes candidate competitivness can be inferred from things like endorsements or fundraising numbers, but polls -- and aggregated models based on polls -- are an important tool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_voting
In terms of compatibility, depends what is being tested. Firefox (and IE curiously) have had far better support for splitting content when printing - Chrome requiring odd hacks to avoid bits of elements overlapping the table header/footer when page split for a very long time (last time I retested the situation had somewhat improved. It still had issues with splitting but content no longer merged making hiding the tbody under the thead easier).

Chrome also deliberately broke CSS2 years after it was supposedly completely implemented to simplify their rendering, breaking existing websites. (this was showcased on their "html5 rocks" website at one point to quite a lot of protest from other browsers). Everyone ended having to follow Chrome's lead at that point, but for a while who was "fully compliant" would be up in the air. Amusingly it seems to me anchor positioning Chrome just added to CSS3 allows doing those things they considered un-performant, a decade later.

Google has also implemented rather dubious specs, like WebUSB where it is understandable no one else has implemented yet due to security concerns - but that would also drag down scores further.
What a great way to see the bias play out in real time.
It seems to me more natural to use a plural name for a collection, and a singular name for an instance. There isn't a fundamental difference between a sql/mongo table and a list/array in this sense.
Occasionally you'll have a collection of collections so you have to give it a double-plural name like "hobitses", but I have it on good authority that that is totally a legit word.
Yeah these sorts of figures always frustrate me because the historical context for these things is so much broader, and it seems obvious to me to go back to the 80s, if not earlier.

There's a better figure here I think:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/11/most-u-s-...

Also some nice figures here:

https://www.bankingstrategist.com/history-of-us-bank-failure...
Also: in javascript you can divide by zero

> 1/0
Infinity

But python throws a divide by zero error:

>>> 1/0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

Still you do have infinity and nan in python - because these are part of the floating point spec.

>>> float('inf') - float('inf')
nan
>>> float('inf') == float('inf')
True
>>> NAN=float('inf') - float('inf')
>>> NAN == NAN
False

However that's not mathematics, it's computers (these are even stranger...)

I have my own little programming language - PYX [1] - and i don't allow this madness (even if it is a violation of the floating point spec ;-)

pyx
> mathconst.Infinity - mathconst.Infinity
Error: results in 'not a number' - that's not allowed here
#(1) mathconst.Infinity - mathconst.Infinity
|....................^

> 1/0
Error: Can't divide by zero
#(1) 1/0
|..^

[1] PYX - https://github.com/MoserMichael/jscriptparse - it's supposed to be an educational programming language, where I am trying to have detailed error messages, my side project.
It's comparing apples with oranges. Your typical web based UI is layers and layers of rasterized graphics, meanwhile a terminal is the frontend for a platforms serial console.

I'm sure you can emulate the same performance in a modern webbrowser, it's just that no one cares, because no system administrator relies solely on web interfaces to get work done.
>> However, English grammar is much simpler than Spanish grammar.

So true.

Learning Italian and Spanish as a native English speaker is daunting because of the sheer number of verb tenses and irregular verbs you must master:

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

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

The other challenge is learning the correct gender for inanimate objects:

https://learnitalian.web.unc.edu/home/nounsarticlesadjective...).

Who would have guessed that a motorcycle is female:

https://www.webspanish.com/blog/spanish-lesson-se-dice-el-mo...
It's incredible. They're threatening them over "abuse of their dominant position" for essentially posting their own opinions on the matter. Threatening them with arbitrary fines. Supreme court judge ordered Google and Meta executives to explain themselves to police and to remove all of their campaign texts. LITERAL censorship, by the same judge who censored his disfavored party during the elections and submitted suggestions to the censorship law to allow him to punish and fine social media companies even more heavily, as if he even needs these laws on the books to do it in the first place.
The other few things possible in next few years for past few years are:

1. Fusion
2. Self driving cars.
3. Ubiquitous, generally available and stable 8192 bit quantum computers.
4. High energy density grid scale batteries.

Just few more "this maybe the... what could revolutionize..." articles away.

What we forget is that it is in these people's business interest (executives making such statements) to state the exaggerated version of a future which drives the investors of all levels to allocate funds under FOMO which pumps up share price which is the end goal anyway, through a breakthrough or without.

EDIT: Merged another comment to keep all in one place.
Or else replaced with a fixed-width rectangle and scale the height by assets. Would fit more easily on a timeline and humans are much better at comparing heights than we are areas.
And Credit Suisse although it's not on the US.
What do you mean by "long-term credit lock"? I think this should do what you want and I think it's free:

https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
These scooters already have modems on them. Hah, hacking them to be a mesh network (although I guess not many have WiFi/Bluetooth), sounds like a plot device for some "hacker" movie.
I think this is just consumer (ie FDIC) insured banks, Lehman was an investment bank.
You prefer the taste of wet paper and a little wax, as it falls apart in your mouth?
City's so-called charm can't save it if it doesn't provide affordable and crime free urban housing. City officials should be held accountable for this on every election. Other topics can wait, this is most urgent
The 30 days part is most likely a legal compliance bit to cover their asses if their backing data systems ever take a big dump.

They need to use an asynchronous system to be tracking when your chat becomes "finished" and then likely queue it up to a system looking to propagate deletes. They have to choose some kind of SLA on that and probably went with a common data privacy user data deletion window of 30 days.
>we just see a cooling off of other endeavors as LLM becomes a known in terms of its strengths and weaknesses and it’s abilities reach a natural limit which is still general useful.

This is my prediction

If the training set is just the internet, it will be not much different than someone who spends all their lives in their room in front of their computer.
I Want to Talk About WebGPU
I just asked that and it said it cannot discuss that topic. Clearly, it's hiding something!
Yes but reclaiming it for reuse makes the installation much more complicated.
I predict that the fight will be more about defining intelligence than inventing it.

No one knows what AGI is. There isn't going to be some switch that flips to take us from AI to AGI. These tools we have today will just keep getting incrementally better, and some new ones will pop up, and at some point we'll have to stop and say "yeah, this is good enough to qualify". And everyone will have their own opinion on what that point is. Plenty of people even think that we are there today, and there's nothing stopping Google or OpenAI from claiming it if they want.

And you can say the exact same for consciousness, sentience, self-awareness etc.
Hey, so this is kinda tangential, but I thought only Google can target TPUs, at least without going through an intermediate layer like OpenXLA. How are you handling that?
I don't know. Having interacted with LLMs at different levels, they resemble a very sophisticated, alien intelligence trying to pretend to be human. It's like me pretending to be a dog; even if I were to emulate a dog perfectly, I wouldn't have the same emotions; I'd be pretending.

We have no idea what emotions, motivations, behaviors, or goals AIs have, will have, or if they'll have something as of yet unconvinced that's not emotions or motivations, but just alien.

We evolved to self-preserve and breed. Modern AIs evolve to pretend to write human text. It's not clear there is any intention to survive, reproduce, or turn the surface of the earth into a computing substrate.

There's a million different dangers -- and I suspect the real ones are ones we haven't conceived of. Whether they'll materialize or how depends on on how we evolve them, and I expect we can't predict it.

To me, much more likely than earth-as-a-computing-substrate is humans-as-brainwashed-consumers. Market forces will push for AIs to write text which draws eyeballs. Those models won't care about truth, ethics, or much of anything other than getting you addicted to reading what they write (or watching what they create). At that point, we can destroy ourselves just fine.

But even more likely is something no one has thought of.
Our income are worth less and our food stuffs are being shipped abroad because there are certain countries willing to pay more than we are for it (cough china cough). An export ban would do wonders at lowering food prices but that would worsen the already bad trade deficiet.

Don't expect any help from any one in this regard
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Am I the only one surprised to read that this database relies on periodic flushing (every 30s by default) with no manual syncs at all? I guess it’s metrics so 30s of data loss is fine? I dunno about that. Data loss is usually due to a power failure, and the metrics collected right before a power failure are important.
"The term 'hallucination' does anthropomorphize LLMs"

It does not as hallucinations are not only something humans experience. Beyond that it is now an accepted term of art used to describe a specific behavior exhibited by an LLM that is separate from the biological one.

The problem I have with the term is that we already have one that describes much more accurately what these models are doing: it's called guessing. Guessing is simply reporting information one does not know to be true. As a model does not have data points regarding certain information, each token it returns is done so with lower and lower confidence. It's literally guessing. But since we aren't exposed to the confidence score of the completion it's taken to be full confidence, when it is not the case.
It's boils down to a question of "personhood." It turns out that's a political question and not a scientific one.

Another way to say this: when will someone allow an AGI to have free rein and independent choice and power? How much power will we allow it?
>Hoover Institution

It is not a fallacy to assert that economic analysis from the Hooverites is about as likely to be correct as medical advice from a hobo who lives in a culvert behind the nail parlor in the strip mall.

The hobo may be right. May be.

All of the numbers might be correct, absolutely without flaw. But they're still hobos ranting about rationally acting rational actors.

Half of the fellows at Hoover are the Very Smart People who rubber stamped the Iraq War go-ahead who are now telling us that big gubmint is the problem and the sky is about to fall.
Constantly impressed by Mike Bostock's work.
Perhaps you need to examine the inequities which have allowed to you amass the wealth you fear being robbed of? In short, profiting off the exploitation of others, if even indirectly, shouldn’t be viewed solely as “earning things”. Further, wealth obeys a power law distribution. Always has. Does that make it fair or right?

Lastly, would you prefer to part with some of your wealth by choice or be parted with it (and maybe your life) by force when economic inequalities pass a tipping point? Regardless of morality and notions of property ownership and personal wealth, history has plenty of examples of violent revolution when the rich few neglect the many. So, rightly or wrongly, sharing the wealth may be a survival strategy, as it were.
Would it be fair to let the brazilian government basically take over control of social media companies and their moderation whenever it wants so it can unilaterally censor anything at any time? That's essentially what this law says. It also holds them responsible for user generated content.
The way I remember it working was it would randomly select users, and you were given the ability to give +1/-1 to posts for a certain period of time (day? week?) and you could only use that in threads that you were not posting in.

And once in awhile you'd get picked to meta moderate where you'd be asked if the moderation choice of another user was reasonable.
The threat actor(s) are free to attack any day any time. Infosec has to be on the ball 24/7 while having imperfect visibility and a ever changing attack surface both inside and outside.

And security vendors promise the moon and stars and then later it's all "you have to tune it" gee thanks for the hundreds of alerts I have to "tune" while still working with 30+ other tools that we've been trying to tune.

Am I bitter? Yes.
It seems the author lives in a culture or context and it is unaware of other cultures and contexts where you can follow a career without caring too much about money.
Hey! It says "noindex" right there in the source. This isn't supposed to be happening.
Just a point with #4.

Grid scale batteries don’t need to be “high energy density” like EVs. I would argue that cost is probably the biggest factor, and it’s already across the cost/benefit barrier in many markets.
Location: Taiwan, France, Canada

Speaking: English, German, French, Farsi fluently / Chinese on an advanced conversational level

Also understanding basic Japanese(would probably get back to being fluent in a few months time) and Spanish

Remote: yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: mostly no, but negotiable

Technologies: Anything from integrated circuit testing, firmware reversing, video streaming, MLops, DevOps, to CTO for government healthcare institutions and smaller startups. AI and autonomous operations.

Back from a sabbatical taking care of my daughter. Seasoned full-stack engineer(including firmware and reverse engineering), also doing team management, aggressive product release strategy and cross-domain problem-solving(I dived deep into the science of seismic activities to build a microseismic activity AI platform).

I have led teams of up to 20 healthcare, legal and engineering experts in developing innovative solutions for healthcare issues, while also building AI solutions and data processing pipelines for physical mines. I've also managed dozens of contracting companies for a 40 million "Building services engineering" construction project. As well as several life or death critical systems.

I'm cloud service and framework agnostic always choosing the one that is the most accessible, sensible and efficient for the team I work with and always learning new languages on the side.

I've also turned slow performing engineering teams into a high performance async teams across 4 time zones and always thinking about performance in the back of my mind when I make decisions.

Resume: https://bit.ly/3CtD4mo - mostly focused on recent DevOps work unfortunately

Email: jobs@jelveh.me
There is an old saying: spirit lives by giving, matter lives by taking. One interpretation: by sharing knowledge, your "possession" doesn't diminish, but grows as it lives in more minds; however when you share food, you have less food. This explains how the spirit's innate drive to grow becomes greed when it expresses itself thru matter. Only when it stops identifying with matter, it becomes free.
In the past 15 years we engaged in unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, which saw US Govt debt triple to $30T and the Fed balance sheet increasing 8 fold to $9T.

But yeah, I'm sure it's corporate profits.
Sorry, try again.

On x86, and I think every architecture, when you write to a memory mapping that is not already backed by a writable page, the kernel is notified that user code is trying to write. And the kernel needs to fill in the contents of the page, which requires a read if the page isn’t already loaded.

It has to be this way! The write could be a read-modify-write instruction. Or it could be a plain store, but I’ve never heard of hardware with write-only memory with fine enough granularity to make this work.

The sole exception is if the page in question is all zeros and the kernel can know this without needing to read the file. This might sometimes be the case for an append-only database. I don’t know exactly what QuestDB does.

Also:

> As soon as you mmap a file, the kernel allocates page table entries (PTEs) for the virtual memory to reserve an address range for your file,

Nope. It just makes a record of the existence of the mapping. This is called a VMA in Linux. No PTEs are created unless you set MAP_POPULATE.

> but it doesn't read the file contents at this point. The actual data is read into the page when you access the allocated memory, i.e. start reading (LOAD instruction in x86) or writing (STORE instruction in x86) the memory.

What are these LOAD and STORE instructions in x86? There are architectures reasonably described as load-store architectures, and x86 isn’t one of them.
"Automating curation of the datasets with the latest and greatest GPT sounds very possible however."

It might also lead to recursive garbage generation. If the AI has flaws and those flaws are from the initial training, then I see no way, how the flawed data can ever generate clean data.

"The datasets are massive, and curating them into buckets of fact/fiction by hand would be next to impossible. "

And it is not impossible. It is just a lot of work. And maybe work we just have to do, if we want to create reliable AIs, that do not fail at random times.

Now this alone might not completely remove hallucinations, but solid training data is just the base of it all.

(and since we are living in the area of fake news, I welcome all efforts towards established facts and data out of general principle)
I locked myself out of an old Twitter account over 6 years ago because I had it keyed to a yahoo.com email address I had long since forgotten about (and forgotten the password of), yet it's still listed as active. Musk seems to be taking this very personally.