skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the real issue here with Intel is they got it backwards. Nvidia leads with the generation (2xxx, 3xxx) and then differentiates within the generation (xx60, xx80). Intel leads with the intra-gen differentiation (i5, i7 etc.) which is most often included in marketing, with the generation buried in the particular CPU model number that often isn't included (10xxx, 11xxx).

It doesn't help that there's also a random mix of river codenames and I can never keep straight which number they belong to.
Fyi, some of those photos are much later than 1981. I wrote added the Arabic/Hebrew support to the Star document editor which probably was about 1984 and showed in one of the photos. I was still in college in 1981 so that could not have been the year.
There are practice interview services available, with top-tier engineers.
You certainly shouldn't donate blood in unsanitary conditions and while you are ill and weakened from some other sickness. Which is the conditions under which bloodletting usually occured in the past.
This argument requires a very human
centric view of the universe. But it doesn’t address: at what point of complexity from microbe to ant to rat to dog to chimp/dolphin to human do we start getting the higher qualities. Is it only humans who can do love, personality and so on?

Also you can have all those qualities such as love in a materialist view as emergent properties.

And who says we have free will? Or at at least will that is decoupled somehow from the matter that we are made of.
If you aren't going to address then content, don't comment.
What I don't really understand is why he went back to Canada after he managed to get back to his homeland the first time.
I'm quite skeptical of analyses like this one, because I doubt the metrics themselves. Emergence is something that is intuitively noticed by human observers. The desire to quantify everything then leads to the creation of (imperfect) metrics designed to capture what the observers already know. Those same metrics are then taken as the definition of the properties said to be emergent, and articles like this one are among the consequences of that choice.

The paper's claim is essentially "these metrics which appear to demonstrate emergence can be replaced by other metrics that also represent model behavior, but that do not have scale discontinuities, so emergence isn't a real phenomenon".

But an equally valid interpretation would be "none of these metrics actually capture the properties we are truly interested in". Which, given the complexity of what we are dealing with here, seems entirely reasonable. It's not like we suddenly learned how to accurately quantify performance at language tasks. The whole reason LLMs are so great in the first place is because traditional 'mechanical' language models suck so bad.
I did it for 12 questions or so and didn't get any wrong.

The naming schemes are completely, completely, retarded but they also aren't that hard to guess
Sounds like the making of a YouTube channel. If only it existed back then.
I've pretty much always just used xterm. It "just works". I think I've read some things written in the early 90s that it was considered "bloated", which is funny now...

This is one thing i don't get. All that old X stuff ... A lot of it is still usable. You can run a similar setup that one might have in the late 90s or early 2000s and it's unobtrusive, fast. I've run fvwm on my workstation for a while now. Was using WindowMaker long past its prime. There's no reason not to.

But boy are there a lot of X haters.
now all those beeps and tweets in the star wars films make sense!
With the i branding, a desktop vendor could sell an “i9” using a less performant, old i9 chip that could perform much worse than a new i5. Conversely some i3 chips are rather good but at a glance a consumer will think they are too low-end. This is bad for Intel, a consumer may buy an i9 machine and think “wow, this is terrible for a highend chip, Intel really sucks” because it was a bad i9 or prefer a worse-suited i5 over an i3 due to assuming 5>3.

I’d prefer a more literate convention I described in other comments, but the new convention may at least prevent reductively bucketing skus. The old buckets were just descriptive enough to suggest a quality and performance hierarchy, but dangerously so, because even a 3 could be better than a 9 in some cases.
IIRC the FO (copilot) of the Ethiopian Air flight correctly identified MCAS as the source of the problem, but was struggling to trim the airplane manually because it was so far out of trim that the load on the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew made it difficult or impossible for him to adjust.

This possibility was mentioned in the AFM, but the recommended response - pitch nose-down to decrease the load - was not feasible in the situation.
Hey Simon! Thanks for sharing this. I have long admired your work on Datasette :) We will check out your posts for ideas on coping with prompt injection.

I just came across your recent post on the ChatGPT SQL function in SQLite [1]. We just added a ChatGPT-based UDF in EVA [2]. I would love to hear your thoughts on the difference between these two approaches.

Another coincidence is that EVA uses SQLite for managing structured data by default. Can EVA's SQLite database be an interesting use case for Datasette?

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/29/enriching-data/
[2] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva/pull/655
It gives finality to the idea that we don't understand the thing or where it came from.

Why? Did we just lose all interest in understanding things? Wasn't that the whole point in the first place?

Somehow, people are throwing up their hands and giving up at understanding the thing; yet at the same time they are acting like the thing will magically evolve into their wildest dreams!

The most fundamental feature of LLMs is that they cannot be literal. They can only infer, never define. Why is it that the people studying LLMs think they have to emulate that trait? It's like they are only allowing themselves to look at it as a mysterious black box: to infer its behavior from its results. Did they forget that they are the ones who wrote the damn thing?
Oh hell no!
don't worry, it was almost just as difficult in non-rural areas in Oregon as well at the time. eventually, there was one amiga dealership in clackamas, which is I guess one more than, say, bend had, but I still never managed to make it there before they eventually closed.
Do you understand you correctly that you claim a) it's ok to shoplift because grocery store owners are big corporations b) it's ok to shoplift because they make it too easy to shoplift c) it's ok to shoplift because they don't provide you with shopping experience you consider ideal d) since you see nothing wrong with shoplifting, you personally do it frequently, maybe every time you go to the grocery store?
> It's safer to use lower weight, more reps, good form, don't strain too much.

This is utterly, completely wrong.

And this book goes into tons of detail about why. It's partly written by a medical doctor and includes many (many) research citations.

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
https://aasgaardco.com/store/books-posters-dvd/books/the-bar...
You just described science, and why you don't believe in science.
Cities sue Hyundai and Kia after a wave of car thefts: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-sue-hyundai-kia-after-wa...
It's the Twitch streamers and Queen's Gambit Netflix series.
Oh, i read the article and seems to say the same
Perfect, thank you so much.

That was an interesting read and exactly what I was looking for!
I had someone much knowledgable on this topic than myself claim ChatGPT and the like "understand" stuff. 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.

What concerns me very much is how the harms that can be caused by LLMs has been so greatly under reported.

I imagine being someone with the right power and access telling ChatGPT "find all people that would vote against this candidate in real time and devise ad content and social media messaging and bit interaction to change their minds or discourage them from voting" heck, any intel org of a major country is probably already working on this. No more whistleblowing or posting anonymously on social media, companies would even share models based on private email and conversations you had so other companies could use LLMs to identify everything you posted elsewhere and to have LLMs designate a score for hoe hireable you are. Police can crack down on crime better but also crack down on dissent or any police reforms.

And we aren't even talking about war time use of LLMs or what happens when you marry something like ChatGPT with Dall-E and make it all real-time.

I am warning anyone who will listen. Smartphones are the most dangerous things out there. Any service or interaction that depends on them is deteimental to peace and liberty of the masses long term. People have not learned a thing from Snowden or 2016 elections.

And why are all the smart journalists asleep on the job on this topic. Where are the unreasonable scaremongerers when you need them!
This looks cool, saw the demo video.
Cool result. Although it looks like the mesh they used isn't disclosed everything else seems low tech, which would be good for mass production.
Is there any issue with removing nitrogen from the air like this. Does it only work until a minimum nitrogen contents?
We are definitely entering a bold new shitty age where each user will start to have to register & upload their API key to their various apps.

Pax Intertwingularity was great & good, but everyone is shutting down, closing shop, removing access. The great disconnecting is upon us. No more internetworking, it's just endless silos & walled gardens forever in Internet 4.0.
I take issue with the motivating example.

pub struct Point {
pub x: i32,
pub y: i32,
}

I take it that the authors would wish it to be possible for the consumers of the crate that defines this struct to also be consumers of `serde` and allow it to be serializable, even though the authors of `Point` have not marked the struct `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]`.

This is not a good thing, because it means that consumers of `Point` have observable behavior not intended by the authors of `Point` and makes it possible for previously unbreaking changes to become breaking. For example, say `Point` now has state that gets cached:

pub struct Point<'a> {
pub x: i32,
pub y: i32,
cache: &'a Cache, // where cache is not serializable or observable
}

Under the current regime this is not a breaking change because the authors do not intend `Point` to be serializable and do not want its consumers to serialize it directly. Under the design of the authors it would be possible for other code to make bad assumptions about its inputs. This is perhaps a weak example, but say `Cache` contained functions or other non-serializable data. Now the versioning of the crate containing `Point` is meaningless.

The point is: `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)` is a good thing: it is not boilerplate. It is annotating the contract the code has with its consumers, and adding or removing from it is potentially a breaking change.

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Reading a bit further: you need to expand on the reason the Orphan Rule is a Problem That Has To Be Solved.

While it's true that the resulting headaches are because of a conservative choice, the reason that we need to deal with it is because without such a constraint, future code may lead to ambiguity that cannot be resolved by the compiler or by a programmer. I don't see any reasoning in this post about how reflection would mitigate the same problem:

How do you prevent reflection from creating ambiguity in type/method resolution and avoid inadvertent breaking changes in the ecosystem?

Because the Coherence problem is the actual Problem To Be Solved.

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There are a lot of interesting applications of compile-time introspection on code, and I've had the experience of writing a lot of metaprogramming with it (and runtime introspection!).

The problem is that this is mostly an anti feature, because you do not want to have to evaluate code to understand code. It makes programs harder to reason about and fundamentally more buggy. In a language designed around explicitness and correctness like Rust, the proposal is naturally going to meet deaf ears. This belongs in a LISP dialect more than Rust, imho (as one who loves both!)
It's easy to do. Here are some examples: https://www.packetizer.com/ws/webfinger/server.html

I actually serve up content using both static files and via dynamically generated content, depending on the domain and needs.
For those looking for a minimal VT100 terminal emulator without the legacy baggage of Xterm, I highly recommend checking out Suckless Software’s st: https://st.suckless.org/
The whole idea of machine learning / AI is to build functionality indirectly though, i.e. to build a system which evolves into another system over time. They are inherently meta-systems, so it does make sense to think of them differently.
I read the first statement as being able to do IO judiciously with a subset of IO work, e.g. network, filesystem.

The second is no IO.
Not much of a difference to recent new builds in Germany. Here it’s a function of the price for the plot. It’s so expensive that people will go with the smallest plot possible. Even nice upscale houses come with tiny lawns only today.

See https://maps.app.goo.gl/nWzQHXVpKeBmW3UB7?g_st=ic
It's not surprising that both the cars have the same vulnerability as kia and hyundai are owned by the same parent company.

Its also not unsurprising it was the Korean car manufacturers with these security defects.

In Korea people have 0 converns about their car being stolen. Theft in general is seen as so low a risk that people leave their car windows open a crack in the summer so the car stays ventilated. When the cars are designed by people who live in a society like that, it's not surprising they have a blind spot when it comes to car security.

Edit: hyundai has a majority stake in kia, they dont outright own it, but it's basically as good as. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Company
That makes a lot of sense to me--I added another graph to the README which shows the performance at every size between 0 and 2*15, rather than just powers of two :). It is in images as "4.jpeg".
You can’t preserve ordering mapping permutations of a high-dimensional space (specs: clock rate, power, cores, cache, pipelining/vectorization, etc) with another high dimensional space (benchmarks, workloads, and scenarios) to a single number. It’s possible even for a chip with superior numerical specs across the board from another chip to perform worse due to lack of support for specialized instructions or differences in thermals.
If by "don't believe in science" you mean "don't believe that every metric claimed to be representing a phenomenon actually does represent that phenomenon", you are correct.
What device? The ban itself? I seriously doubt it was made as a purity test with no social reward… it’s a pretty easy argument to understand as a stepping stone towards pollution concerns.
On the other hand, you had a lot of flexibility and options both with what you did with the available hardware sprites (e.g. some games drew backgrounds using sprite hardware!) and how you could manage without them (using blitter objects instead).
This article could use some precision about exactly what rights they were giving up. Rights to the "World Wide Web" not so much. Specific copyrights and patent rights are something else. There could have been patents that were essential and might have put the World Wide Web as we know it in a deep freeze from the beginning.
On the bright side, it's easier than ever to listen to albums, even really obscure stuff. I feel like it's a good antidote to that "sludge" feeling. I've been able to find most any hometown punk shit from 1997 I want.

Better yet, figure out where local bands are playing and watch people do their thing.
I don't know copyright law very well, so I ask in earnest.

If you copy the entire essence but still write the code yourself, is that not infringement?
The social media component of this crime wave is huge, as victims with insight on the perpetrators' social scene will tell you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/car-theft-teens-pandem... (https://archive.ph/XCzB4)

On the bright side, Wisconsin (home to Milwaukee and the Kia Boys) is poised to increase penalties on vehicle theft:

https://www.weau.com/2023/04/18/wisconsin-assembly-aims-hars...

And Kia Boys who are arrested will potentially be held in jail for longer, which in practice will prevent them from committing more crimes as they await trial:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/... (https://archive.ph/tT8Xr)

So long as these kids remain unparented and out of control they will continue to destroy their own lives, the lives of others, and communities which tolerate their behavior.
Exception: if you're good at sports, you're Japanese, even if you barely speak a word. See Osaka Naomi and Lars Nootbaar.
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.”

AI Model Training: *processes said work.* This will improve the world!

Writer/Artist/Dev: Noooo! Not like that!
For some reason, that comparison reminds me of:

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

-Seymour Cray
> its football but for people who don't like football.

What's football for people who don't like football or chess? :)
It reminds me of how Audi puts different horns on cars shipped to India.
I think the claim that "these metrics which appear to demonstrate emergence can be replaced by other metrics that also represent model behavior, but that do not have scale discontinuities (emergence)" is really powerful.

That might mean that behaviors we consider emergent are the consequence of a process that scales continuously with model size.

i.e.: there may exist a bijection between, say, a step-function `can_do_arithmetic(size)` and a smooth, continuous function `arithmetic_skill_metric(size)`

If we can use continuous metrics to back out the step-function equivalents, that'll help us predict when and how to get particular abilities to "emerge."

For example: If a change results in a steeper slope on the continuous metric, we can predict it would cause the associated capability to emerge at relatively smaller model sizes.
Semiconductor memory was really really expensive until it hit the 16-64kbit/chip level and then it had a bit of a crisis because they suddenly all went a bit flaky (turned out to be alpha particles in the ceramic packages) - that was around about 1980 - at the time it was a bit of a mystery and people were wondering if memory would be able to get any denser and still be reliuable.

I think we bought our first 'big' machine with semiconductor memory around then (a Vax 11/780)
https://archive.is/bz9nG
Predicting the future is hard. People said this same thing about cryptocurrencies, no?
Some people think of the qatsi trilogy, Baraka, Samsara, Chronos, Visitors, etc. as documentaries without words, or just pretty pictures and music.

I think of them as audiovisual essays. They're not just a delight for the senses. Each of these films says things. They cut unexpected subjects together in comparisons that speak about the human condition. They use music queues to force new interpretations of familiar settings. The qatsi trilogy uses those hopi sayings to set your mind on rails and then the visuals and music propel you on a roller coaster of emotion, but Fricke's films dispense with the rails and simply let you draw your own meaning. That meaning changes a little every time you watch the films.

These are films that invite you to create your own interpretation. You are invited to watch them with an active mind, always looking for new details, correlations, and how they fit together. This is totally unlike a documentary whose narrator tells you what to think. Here you are not being taught, but invited to teach yourself.

Give these films a chance if you've never watched them. They are uniquely rewarding.
For most of the west coast it is only voluntary if you are in the 1% who are rich enough to be selective about housing. The rest are lucky to find someplace they can afford that is within reasonable distance to their jobs at all, and all new development is covered by HOAs so the already small percentage of housing not covered by HOA decreases every year.
In other words, "middle endianness".
Why settle for otherwise fine (despite so many years of development) when you can use good?
This was such a great piece on the Sudan gold rush. Thank you for finding it & resharing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35663297 (134 points, 7d ago, 113 comments)
> Theft in general is seen as so low a risk that people leave their car windows open a crack in the summer so the car stays ventilated.

This isn't just a Korean thing. I'm in the states, and I've done this with every car I've had. Including the Jeep Wrangler I have now, when I don't have the top down.
So in Korea it's pronounced hyun-dae. But they spelt it 'hyundai' (said hy-un-dai) for western markets to sound more Japanese so their brand was associated with the quality of Toyota and Honda.
It's think it's very fitting. The dung beetle is the worldly embodiment of Sisyphus. Doomed to forever push a boulder uphill only for it to roll down again when he was near the top.
> This is the worst imaginable end-stage capitalism dystopia, in which the only ways to make money are the grueling physical jobs like nursing and commercial kitchens (if you work in a field like that, you have my deepest respect).

Having worked a physical job on a scaffold 13 stories in the air while wearing a respirator on a sweltering summer day and grinding out mortar joints, I can’t help but feel that this would actually be a general positive good for society. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me even if it would be an extremely painful tearing-off-the-bandage for many people. There’s too many desk jobs right now, and it’s a statistical fact that we cannot maintain current standards when the Boomer generation finishes retiring. There’s too many chefs in the kitchen and not enough diners.

It’s particularly because I witnessed how extremely disconnected desk workers are from the real, on the ground, physical labor and reality, in often unintentional ways. A recalibration back to reality for them would be a painful net good in my mind. If every desk laborer had to do 2-3 years of hard, grueling, physical labor; we’d be living in a very different country, and I think a much better one. I think too many people have been disconnected from physical labor (which would have been normal for 99%+ of our ancestors) for far too long and we could use a little fresh air.
I had a Minecraft background and I disliked Nodecore. I would not recommend Nodecore if you want a minecraft-like experience.
1 is funny because a chess set and some books is way cheaper than a phone. The harder part is finding people to play.
Qodot: Design Godot Levels in Radiant, WorldCraft, Valve Hammer Editor
Hmm jack, besides twitter, what else have you done?
FAA didn't decide to ground. Trump did. That's why it's left out.