skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using the example that you just used:

The best ideas sound bad.
Really bad ideas also sound bad.
Many good sounding ideas are also hugely successful businesses.

Maybe the etiology of success had nothing to do with how bad sounding the idea is?

Also in the case of OpenAI, being in the field, I'd strongly argue that it wasn't that crazy sounding of an idea as people might conjure in retrospect.

Google had been throwing resources at LLMs and been using them in production for several years before OpenAI started to do it. MANY papers written about scaling laws and how we haven't reached the limit of scaling data / compute yet.

OpenAI is only relevant because they iterated quickly on releasing a product. Absolutely nothing visionary about the technology honestly. The question that should be asked here is why OpenAI was the first to release a product a few other companies were capable of creating..

Everything OpenAI has done is low hanging fruit. The logical progression of LLMs is chat, zero-shot learning, multimodal, connect it to web / other knowledge bases, planning, personal customization, multi-agent systems, etc. There is a vast amount of research in several vectors in this area..
I don't need to

I want to
> My standing argument is that they wouldn't hallucinate incorrect responses if they understood anything, the hallucination is when their approximation of what a real response would be falls short.

> These emergent abilities are not actually that, but a result of humans' poor understanding of cognition and communication.

My counterargument is that humans hallucinate too, and often. As just one small example, eyewitness testimony is stupifyingily unreliable. Neurological research and even basic behavioral research shows our brains act as bullshit machines fabricating satisfying narratives constantly. Not to even get into the fact that the word hallucination still has a non-AI meaning, and that dreams exist. As I put see it GPT models simply hallucinate more often and, more noticably, in a different manner than humans. The hallucination frequency need not reach zero, only human equivalent or better , and GPT-4 is already much better than GPT-3.

I agree with everything else you said fully. "True" reasoning machines or not, society will be catastrophically destabilized. Amongst the chaos I expect plentiful of "normal" conventional and nuclear war to go on.
> There's no actual reason why Fukushima should have been evacuated

This is completely untrue. Even outside the exclusion areas there are signs of the damage the disaster has caused.

The Japanese government has raised the acceptable radiation limit for people living in the area from 1 to 20 milliSieverts per year. No-where else is this amount considered acceptable.

Even with this increase it's still dramatically below the measured amounts, which is up to 0.04 microSieverts per hour.

> doctors have left the area because the government refuses to reimburse them when they list radiation sickness as the cause for nose bleeds, spontaneous abortions, and other ailments resulting from ionizing radiation. (The only acceptable diagnoses are so-called “radiophobia,” nervousness, and stress.) The spike in thyroid cancer among children in Fukushima is dismissed as a survey error, produced by examining too many children.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/fukushima-today-im-glad-that...
I just want to say thank you for doing this. Please tell your community to do this too. I really struggled hearing such things in college.

It’s crazy to say, but I think not hearing what was “obvious” would have helped me excel more in my classes.
Where I live, some people don't lock their car doors, and some people leave the keys in their car...

But I don't understand what closing the windows all the way vs leaving them open a crack does for security? Are car windows that much more secure when fully closed? When I'm in sketchy neighborhoods, I expect people to be walking around with slim jims or breaking windows anyway, so a crack doesn't seem like a big deal?
I'm not a mathematician, but it appears to me that "emergent" properties are being defined as those which do not appear in a minor form below a threshold.

However, many natural phenomena that are fully explainable from first principles show this property, giving rise to sigmoidal "S-curves", as shown in Figure 1.
Apologies.

I dug through LTT's video. They indeed credit you. It seems you may indeed have been the one to get the ball rolling here. Hat's off & well done.
I find it genuinely hilarious that we need to consult with a psychologist to create a place with a comforting atmosphere. As if what makes a place feel nice and comfortable is some kind of theoretical knowledge we just don't have access too. It's a miracle we regular old people avoid creating horrible and uncomfortable living spaces for ourselves.
Nice. I left xterm a couple years ago due to this. High time I went back, I think
What if you call it Infiniminer?
Quick prototyping with wood is still dang good, because you can put the screw or glue wherever you need.

If you use the right screws you can even add some adjustability.
I think peer filtering starts working well at some medium sized number of peers x events. Off the top I guess at five peers with a steady, non-zero event rate for a few hours, a slow peer should stick out obviously in the 95th percentile.

However, op mentions that opaque workloads make peer identification difficult. IIUC this is a cool way to use two correlated metrics to extract performance outliers with some neat-sounding math that I didn’t study.
This isn't any different than running a business, except that landlords generally feel entitled to make a profit from their investment, no matter the economic situation, and laws generally favor that. Backing that is the army of folks like you who tend to side with the "small landlord", which normally leaves out that the vast majority of small landlords are quite wealthy, and tend to own multiple properties.

Yes, there are a small number of cases of a small landlord, with one property that they're having a hard time breaking even on, but those folks have a bad investment, and if they can't afford their investment, they should sell it to try to minimize their losses. Renters aren't on the hook to make them profitable.

By holding rental properties, they're inflating the value of homes for sale, making it harder for people to buy, and forcing people into renting.

We don't pity people who make stupid business decisions, so why should we pity landlords?
This is basic English grammar, something you should have learned in grade school.
Related:

Show HN: GGWave – Data over Sound for Microcontrollers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31987674 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Show HN: I made a tool to communicate data using the PC speaker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892930 - April 2021 (71 comments)

Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119109 - Feb 2021 (27 comments)

Show HN: Waver – Messaging Through Sound - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25761010 - Jan 2021 (11 comments)
It's remarkable how little desktop operating systems have changed since!
> Writer/Artist/Dev: “I think publishing this work will improve the world in some way. I’ll put it out there on the public internet for all the world to see for free.”

Surely you must know this is a bullshit argument right? Almost everyone that publishes their work publicly on the internet publishes it under a particular license.

Yes, there are some that decide to publish under the equivalent of the public domain or a CC0 license, but the vast majority of writing, art and code is licensed under specific conditions and for the most part they retain the full rights to the work.
Not bad, but:

> Language models also have limited reasoning abilities.

They have no reasoning abilities at all.
> Sometimes words don't map perfectly onto the subcomponents that form them.

And sometimes sales people hijack a well-known, universally understood, industry term ("server") to make a product stand out ("serverless").
The CEO of OnlyFans wants you to know her $1-billion-a-year business isn’t just about sex anymore

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https://archive.is/FePQA
Yes and it will happen with LLMs too

AI has a hype cycle and young people are seeing their first one before the next AI winter
What would have saved the other platforms is what (I argue) saved the Mac - the Internet itself.

Unfortunately it came a bit too late (widespread) for too many of the platforms, and Moore's Law finished everything else off.
Agreed, you’ve got it exactly.

Their union is not demonized, but accurately described as the largest and most dangerous obstacle to actual police reform.

Their pensions have never been in question in my lifetime, not even as a source of funds for the endless successful lawsuits against them.

Their steadfast refusal to allow insight into statistics re office involved shootings means their training cannot be properly examined, nor altered in response to data.

And the political leanings of the police as a whole remain unquestionably conservative.

Glad to see others speaking up!
This post is a shallow public display of faux moral superiority from the language police.

I miss Linus Torvald's legendary snark and the epic flame wars of yesteryears.
I worked as a property manager for years (of around 200 units, across numerous owners) and can vouch for the fact that the vast majority of landlords do absolutely nothing except for receive a monthly statement, and complain if the profits aren't high enough.

They made an investment and want you to maximize the returns. A very, very small percentage are active in their management, and those folks tend to be the worst form of slumlords, because they're so cheap they won't hire people to professionally manage the properties.
This is just the Diosi-Penrose Interpretation from 25-35 years ago...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%B3si%E2%80%93Penrose_mod...
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I can only discuss one point, since there is really only one you made.

> making two displays work properly with correct aspect ratio and refresh rate

What was missing from the Gnome display settings? I have all those options.
That’s why there are 12 or so juries not one
I've proposed X talks at a few conferences. Modern X is a fairly black art but has some really nice features.

They've been 100% rejected. Linux conferences seem to only care about things like containers and automation these days.

X is like emacs. Doing it well is hard but there's a lot of power and flexibility under that hood if you spend the rather significant effort to discover it.

Its 40th birthday is coming up. Like JavaScript, CSS and PostScript, it's an imperfect system with compromises that gets the job done.

I'm probably just going to do the talk proposals as a write-up.
I am happy about the reddits suicide, it is long overdue for us to move to something new.
> My standing argument is that they wouldn't hallucinate incorrect responses if they understood anything

Alexander Grothendieck, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, answered "57" when asked in a public lecture to provide an example of a prime number. 57 = 3 * 19 is not a prime number.

According to your argument, this would imply Grothendieck did not understand what a prime number is. Which is laughable.
Though iirc, if input latency is a concern, I recall st not excelling at that. I think foot is another minimal terminal emulator which promises better latency and performance. I personally use kitty, partly for native Wayland support and partly because GPU offloading seems like a fine idea on a desktop machine. Alacritty is another popular terminal emulator that has GPU acceleration.
> allows developers to use WASI easily when creating new extensions

What is WASI?
It’s ok to pay money for things that are useful to you! Often most free alternatives have drawbacks or downsides of their own. Sure, there’s a chance they will eventually get shut down, but that almost never happens without warning. And it’s always a good idea to make backups of your important data for any kind of tool or service.

I think a lot of people in this community get caught up with “owning their own data” just in case, but in reality there are almost always ways to migrate your data when you need to.
> Of course, Sukanen may indeed have been mentally ill. He apparently attempted to patent wife-beating implements.

It would be really interesting to see these applications. I just can't imagine what something like that would actually look like.

Also, my wife says Sontiainen is the name for some bug that likes to live around shit.
"Language Models Perform Reasoning via Chain of Thought"

Posted by Jason Wei and Denny Zhou, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain team

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/language-models-perform-re...
Yes, it's called Psilocybin
Just because some landlords run their businesses poorly, or don't/barely break even, doesn't mean that they aren't running businesses.
I use Vim because:

- works at the speed I think. It renders text quickly, responds to my keystrokes quickly, and lets me work my will quickly. That's nice when I have a lot to do or am inspired, which covers most of the time I'm coding

- It's open source and trustworthy. I'm not gonna wake up one day and find out a critical plugin I use is closing the source and making a change I hate, or that Vim itself was uploading my code to copilot, etc.

- It's basically a platform. You can do whatever you want in Vim, remap all the keybindings, make a music player, whatever.

- It's respectful of my computer's resources. It starts up almost instantly, and generally uses very little CPU and RAM.
The game of chess has always been popular, but recently it has attracted a lot of interest because of the success of Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" series. People of all ages, especially teens, have taken a newfound interest in the game as a result of the presentation.
My question about online chess is: why aren't people feeling that their opponents are cheating?

I don't play chess. But in other online games, like FPS, the players always complain about cheaters. Then why isn't it a problem with chess.com? It's much easier to cheat with online chess than an FPS game, no?
It’s always amusing to realise how few understand that laws and rules only apply to those they can be enforced upon.

It may not be the spirit of these rules and laws, but it is what happens in practice.

International law is the best example of that.
The pricing page has monthly options for $69 and $420... not a fantastic look on launch day, lol.
Apple is doing this right so far with the M chips

These?

M1
M1 Pro
M1 Max
M1 Ultra
M2 Pro
M2 Max

Besides the non-numerical suffixes being harder to sort, it still doesn't make it easy to compare performance between them at a glance. I will give them credit for not adding unnecessary "padding zeros", however.
There is a link in the paper to an introduction in PDDL which is incorrect, it should point to https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/2542/s14/A1/introtopddl2....
I've really wanted to make that a mouse based drag and drop experience in the session tree view menu. It's very confusing and cumbersome right now.

That's 100% on me to do that deep in the code as a significant patch. I know this. Just so lazy
I agree that perhaps the metrics are not as useful themselves, but I think you're giving too little credit to the paper where maybe some credit is due.

I think the paper is correct that there are no "emergent abilities", i.e. abilities that might suddenly appear when scale of the model is increased. And though it might not be accurate, but the paper did make some effort to formalize and I think it is a good attempt to kind of prove the point.

However as we recognize, there are still some weird discontinuities in which at one point the model is useless and suddenly it becomes very useful. This "discontinuity" IMHO is probably just perceptional, but the underlying metric is continuous.
I use DeWalt cordless tools and did not know this existed. Probably cool if on the go a lot but steep otherwise.

The article you linked mentions it at the end, but all of their flex batteries should include this port by default.

I suspect DeWalt won't add the port until a major competitor makes them standard.

I was shopping for some L-series batteries for some photography lighting and knew little about the category.

It took a while to figure out to compare listings on Amazon by the date the product was released to find what the newest product capacities and features were.

Only by comparing products this way was I able to figure out the best ones offered input and output across USB C and micro in addition to their primary purpose of mounting to any device accept L series. (Review count and rating average for out of date products confuses comparisons when looking for detail like this)

I don't use cameras that require this kind of battery so having this additional capability made buying a couple batteries for a single product type a bit easier to stomach.
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It's called sisu in Finnish.
By the same logic, all the Black Sea nations depend on the goodwill of Turkey to let them pass to the Aegean. Are they landlocked? No. Are Azerbaidjan and Turkmenistan landlocked, even tough they have access to the Caspian Sea? Maybe if it's a water body that somehow connects to an ocean, then it's not landlocked.
I suspect the commonality (barring DC) is that these areas have cheap real estate where you can drive the car quickly to the garage and break it down before anyone even knows it's missing.

I really don't understand why DC, though. Is there a coordination problem with surrounding states if a car is reported stolen that makes stealing cars easy (DC is not a state, per se, as it is more of a federal protectorate-thingy)?
Absolutely. We are at a point where we have ore than enough technology to survive comfortably, and any new chemicals introduced into the environment should get approved before use.
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Your grade school taught you that adverbs are a form of virtue signaling?
Your argument could be used against doing anything about climate change as well.
That was all true ten years ago too so I don’t think that’s it. What changed is the Queen’s Gambit got popular, then covid caused online gaming to become even more popular, and then there were some things that made chess popular recently like chess boxing with streamers on YouTube.
You could do that 10-15 years ago too though. Chess.com has been around a long time.
The support was indirect but it helped to divert attention away from the 'criminal' aspect of Snowden's actions... Which is more than Assange ever got.

For example, I remember Marissa Mayer saying something about it at a critical time after the story broke. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/davos-2014-...

I think that's why a lot of Americans perceive Snowden much more favorably than Assange even though Assange technically never broke any laws.
I have a multi-stage water filter setup at home that pumps the water through mineral balls as the last step to re-introduce healthy minerals that were removed during the reverse osmosis process. Because it's true, RO water is not suitable for long-term human consumption because of the absence of healthy minerals.
If you wanted to know if someone can multiply two numbers, the simplest and quickest way is probably to ask them to multiply two numbers and see if they get it right.

Remember that, in this case, all I want to know is if they have that capability or not. Also, I don't care whether they can tell me how multiplication works or not, only if they can multiply two arbitrary numbers. (here, the abstraction to people breaks down, because people can walk you through their reasoning - whereas for an LLM, explaining how multiplication works and performing multiplication are very different tasks)

There are weaknesses to this approach: you get a binary yes/no, and you have no idea how close they got. You can't tell if they just made a small math error or if they don't even know what numbers are. Going back to the LLM setting, this is why a continuous metric is useful, compared to one that experiences step-function behavior.
I realize you're trolling at this point, but no a filesystem and an object cache aren't conceptually similar, in case anyone else might be confused.
Bedrock is only for Windows on PC.
US legislators want to legislate that A.I. cannot carry out nuclear attacks
The game has been getting lots of media coverage, and maybe even Andrew Tate (big chess fan)
> Armies in republics also love a bit of pomp and circumstance and will gladly show off their troops

France does. But then it is often said we elect a monarch, not a president.
Well indoctrination is one of those things that's hard to believe unless you see it in action. Its hard to teach about too because it is something that you don't really believe is happening until you've seen it from experience. There are a number of things like that, and to undo the damage you have to have reached a certain level of self awareness which many never get to.

Critical thinking by itself isn't really enough in my opinion either. It only impresses how much additional work is needed, on an ongoing basis, to defend yourself. Its often overwhelming, and rarely are things like negotation and credibility taught in a way that kids can understand.
The Atari ST had different chips, including e.g. a blitter (which they added in a latter machine).

The problem persisted through the Falcon, which 68030's was tremendously held back by lack of a fast ram concept.
Maybe I misread the thread, but I’d find it a bit surprising (though not unlikely) that they would trust their neighbors more than their widow and heirs.
Maybe they’re close friends that happen to be neighbors too, but then being neighbors would be a bit of a red herring.
The taxes pay for the healthcare and childcare of course, so even with those benefits if people are still not having kids, it's not the economy but the fact that people simply don't want to.
That kind of black and white cynicism is incorrect and the opposite of a solution. It impedes people who actually want to fix problems, and who occasionally succeed.

I’ve found my own pockets of cynicism is motivated fundamentally by laziness. If it’s impossible to succeed, you don’t need to try, don’t need to risk failure. But it is possible.
In lower Elos, it’s pretty obvious if the other user is cheating, so the platforms seem to detect them pretty well.
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I’m not saying people should do it, of course. Just wondering if there’s at least a grain of truth in it.
Just be aware that you get what you pay for. I have experience with these specific converters, and many of them have no thermal protections. If you overdrive them (e.g. more than 1/3 of their "rated" capacity), you run a pretty high chance of burning them out.
It was only really possible by not using the OS.

The main issue is that the OS did not have a way to request "chip RAM", thus software compatibility hell if added too late (never actually got added AIUI).
Humans are not infallible. It's a mistake to anthromorphize LLM.