skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, fishing limits on the size of fish caught (and legal for sale) in the Atlantic has led to smaller mature fish.
What's a better and non-naive view? Bonus points if you can explain why it's impossible to develop and sell a link encryptor running OS software.
The piece isn’t calling for US intervention, though.
The point there is that for the “traditional” RISC pipeline you need to read 32b worth of instruction from somewhere every cycle. You cannot do that if the only thing you have is one 32b wide bus to the outside world. First ARMs solved this by somewhat complex sequencer and not that deep pipelining. Another thing is that anything off-chip is going to be at least two clock cycles as you do not want the however fast off-chip memory to be part of your critical path.

But well, many RISC designs had off-chip SRAM caches, sometimes even ridiculously large (PA-RISC is a prime example).
I’m not convinced that these are particularly useful tests of very large language models like GPT-4. These models have been trained on enormous amounts of text, including theory of mind tests. And the example scenario in the paper is very simple and likely related to things that the models in question have seen before by a simple substitution.

So I would actually be a bit surprised if the models failed this type of test regardless of whether they have any understanding of theory of mind.

Note that I’m making no claim about how intelligent or understanding of humans or neurotypical these models are. My claim is that it’s very hard to tell given how incredibly knowledgeable the models are.
These were invented during ww2 to make high temperature machine parts.
You’re replying to someone who claims to be working multiple full time roles. What employee rewards effort with multiples of your total comp?

None, to my knowledge.
People are beating around the bush in their replies but it seems like you need a serious reality check. You can't ask money for the promise of some information about your project in a newsletter, that's absurd.

Your website has very little information about what it is, but that's not anywhere near the biggest problem.

Once you either have a product that people want to use, or at least a decent prototype to show to people for not guaranteed at all funding you might be able to get some money but until then you should be doing what everyone else does - work a regular job for someone else to keep you afloat while you work on your own stuff.
I've done the AWS thing. We spent over $1 million on AWS and I couldn't be bothered to care. We were in eternal crunch mode, 10-14 hour days for 6 months. If I spoke up about AWS waste I'd get ripped apart by upper management.

Eventually it became apparent what was going on. I was pushed out and went to a competitor who paid me more and had better hours. I gave that competitor a lot of information about the previous company and transfered a lot of my knowledge. I delivered quite a bit of value rather quickly because of that and was recognized and rewarded for it.

We work in an enormous industry. It doesn't seem like there are any consequences.
Most flight isn't for pleasure.
Very nice... but the https://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-... picture has a Lisa screenshot ;-)
At least as recent as 2013.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

If you mean domestic airline, then it was probably the 2009 Colgan Ait crash that led to major procedure and training g changes in the US.
I've tried a couple times to coerce my kids into watching Koyaanisqatsi (one of them really likes watching "the way things go" so it isn't an absurd reach).

I keep landing on that video rather than the "proper" one and it's disconcerting.
Dangerous relative to what? Could you show your math? I wasn’t able to quickly find fatalities per mile for the 737, to compare with driving.
If you can handle the consequence of failure, the risk is by definition not excessive.
It depends on how you define "moral", I guess. The people in power in that story believed themselves to be following the highest moral code of them all. You and I would of course disagree with their morals, but I think that's just evidence that "moral code" is an invented thing, and is something people agree on, not an absolute truth.
This is really special - glad to hear it went well.
My guess is that is the opengraph[0] crawler for Substack Notes[1], the Twitter-ish alternative that Substack is making, so like someone posting a link to your blog, it visits, grabs meta tags to display a link preview.

[0]: https://ogp.me/

[1]: https://substack.com/notes

Edit: I was indeed correct, I went on Substack notes and wrote my own site, but the bad part is that it crawls as you type your post out, so instead of 1 request it'll be several!

> Sun Apr 30 2023 23:56:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)]: | Ip=34.200.242.86 | Req_page=/?substack_notes | Agent=SubstackContentFetch/1.0 (https://substack.com/)
It was in the UK too.

I mostly ended up disassembling demos and using ST books for source code - non-GEM - like “how to do vector graphics with pre-made sin/tan tables”
At times it's justified to be unreasonable
What specific examples are there of unions resulting in outsourced labor? This wreaks of the same talking points most anti-union propaganda consists of.
Does this rely on local GPU compute on the database server? or can it integrate with cloud based or external GPU servers?
I'm confused as to how you felt the author is justifying it:

> Now, I would personally feel shame if I did these things.

They seem more interested in trying to find a solution to it. Or just posing it as a legitimate problem, the solution to which is food for thought.
Looks like it worked on you then. Good writing evokes feelings in its readers but as you've discovered, not all feelings feel good. Bad or good though, feelings make things stick. As you worship whichever deity you relate to (even if that deity is technology), you'll remember that passage for far longer than if that substitution literary device hadn't been used.

If it shook you up so much that you had to stop reading then it was quite successful.
What? Adverbs are fine; there's no industry-wide dictum against adverbs.

I think you might be mad at something different than the principles I'm outlining here. These are accepted standards of technical documentation.
The flip side of that was if you were writing a vanilla computer program that didn't take advantage of the special hardware, your perf was directly tied to what resolution mode the screen was on.
It is an interesting problem.

You obviously can't do it with gear reduction as you would need more gears than is material for making them in the universe.

The idea would be to make a mechanical computer that spins the last wheel based on some computation, but then, there is the problem that the state would be googol-sized, which wouldn't fit in our universe either.

Is there a way? We probably need fancy physics for that. Quantum effects, maybe?
This article underplaces the resource extraction motivation that has pulled the country apart. Consider https://adamtooze.com/2023/04/18/chartbook-209-the-sudan-cri...
You can run a piped i-cache faster (with a branch penalty ... but those machines also often had delay slots ...)
> Everyone looking out for themselves

yes, including/especially employers.

maybe (or not) these employee started doing this after been burned by their employers before. the very same that talk about the community, greater good, and being in it together but suddenly change speech when they're on the benefiting side.

I've been on both side of the equation so I understand. I also have acquaintances that were too, they used to behave the same way as mentioned in the article but once they had their own company started talking the same way you do, suddenly what was acceptable for them to do is unimaginable and unacceptable behavior for other people to do. that society should not have such things. not because they changed their opinions but because their incentives are what changed, so if they go back to their previous position so would their attitude.

at the end of the day, the reason people work is not because they want to, it's because they have to in order to get what they want.

wanting to have employees that go above and beyond, are the most productive, the most knowledgeable, most skilled, and accept the least pay is what best for you when you're the employer.
but when you play in the other camp it's the reverse:
the best job is the one that demand the least out of you for the most pay.

the payoff functions for the different actors roles are the not same, trying to appeal to a sense of shame, duty or merit is just a way for one actor to hijack another's perception of the game for their own benefit.
Is there any good resource that is keeping up with all of this news? I want to be informed but it's so overwhelming and each of these systems require some fairly intense study to become competent about.

I've thought about organizing this just for myself but the cardinal rule of "if I think of it, it probably already exists and it's better" popped into my mind. Any good links? Anybody doing this already?
Nice work. So what's the best folding e-bike
I'm still waiting for someone to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that humans have a single one of these features we're debating about the presence or absence of in LLMs.
I think you need `ruby -i -ple` to handle newlines properly.
I think ARM2 (the version used in the first Archimedes computers) had no cache on or off chip. ARM3 had 4KB of on-chip cache.

> Although the ARM2 employed by current models could reportedly be run at 20 MHz, it was only ever run at 8 MHz due to external limitations, these being the speed of the data bus and of the "relatively slow", but correspondingly relatively inexpensive, RAM devices in use. The ARM3 incorporated a 4 KB on-chip combined instruction and data cache, loosening such external constraints and thus permitting the processor to be run productively at the elevated 20 MHz frequency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes#ARM3_upgrades

Though it did support page mode DRAM.

> Another change, and among the most important in terms of practical real-world performance, was the modification of the instruction set to take advantage of page mode DRAM. Recently introduced, page mode allowed subsequent accesses of memory to run twice as fast if they were roughly in the same location, or "page", in the DRAM chip. Berkeley's design did not consider page mode and treated all memory equally. The ARM design added special vector-like memory access instructions, the "S-cycles", that could be used to fill or save multiple registers in a single page using page mode. This doubled memory performance when they could be used, and was especially important for graphics performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Design...
Yeah this is really annoying. My son had friends over, I told them about our MC servers (even with Java/Bedrock cross
Play!). Cool! Then I spend the next 30 min calling parents and feeling like talking them into letting their kids watch the pron our family server :| I’m not doing that again.
Yeah, but ain't it worth it that the last thing you see before dying of hunger is the clear blue sky?
What’s that have to do with it?

If I have to fly for a one-day or two-day business meeting, and I can’t find a flight, I don’t go. Driving ensures I miss the meeting. Staying put, I can at least join virtually.
yeah i lived in one that got in trouble (after i had moved out) for not telling their tenants about the lead paint or asbestos. they also had the elevator out of order for nearly two years during which period they raised the rent three times. have fun moving out of a fifth floor apartment when you have to carry furniture down the narrow stairs with four right angle turns every floor.
The whole point of the 737 max was that the pilots wouldn't be trained on the "max" part of the 737 -- they were qualified for the 737 and there's some hidden emulator making the "max" fly like a 737.

As soon as the emulator got bad feedback from the one sensor that was used to map "max" airframe behavor to "737" controls, all bets were off. And because the pilots weren't allowed to know they were in a Max not a 737 (which would require further training that would void the advantages of the Max) there was no SOP for how to deal with "your Max is blind and can't pretend to be a 737"

The "poorly trained" pilots weren't test pilots -- pilots aren't supposed to be able to improvise and react to things off book.
Still, I don't think that having a regulation that AI must reveal themselves when asked would be overstepping.

It would draw a red line between aligned and unaligned AI. It may not even be enforceable, but it would be a revealing characteristic that gives useful information, even when it lies. Especially when it lies.
This is nothing like nuclear. I know the facts about nuclear and are vehemently opposed to it for environmental risk reasons.
Meanwhile per capita GDP and automation race forward, making it increasingly easier to look after an aging population.

I don't see the problem with population decline, especially in advanced economies. As a bonus, reduced population in such places has a disproportionate effect on emissions.
Some attempts have been made, but it is decidedly non–trivial. Last I checked it was over 50 petabytes of data and growing rapidly.
> Well then time to find new theories to test.

You're essentially requesting the goalpost be moved.
I cost my company over a million dollars because I was lazy and spiteful. I made an L+1 hop to a competitor and now I make more money for less hours and I'm learning a ton.
No. And look into FMLA if you haven’t already. Among other things, it allows for a reduced workload while preserving your job
i see two additional options. one is, find something else to do that actually benefits the company. that only works if the climate in the company supports that. the other is to reduce the size of the team because apparently so many people are not needed to get all the work done.
A Clash of Titans Between Elon Musk and Larry Page over AGI's Future
> Everyone knows the news media is rigged beyond saving

Is that true, though? Or do we, in our bubble, just believe that? I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of people think the news media -- at least the particular subset of the news media they choose to watch -- is more or less ok.
There's nothing shameful about sex work, but it either being the only option or seeming like the only option gets close to being systemic sexual assault in my eyes.
Immigrants labor is the opposite of parasitism.

In addition, the "immigrants as parasites" has a long and terrible eugenic history. Perhaps you unwittingly connected to that when making what probably seemed like a clever analogy (as my first sentence above says, I think the analogy points the wrong way).
> Or, at least, I know enough, and experts in the field that I talk to know enough. I suppose I can't speak for you.

In other words, "trust me, bro".

You claiming that you're an expert (or talk with experts, and therefore are something-like-an-expert) about something doesn't convince me of anything except that you're full of yourself. Any idiot (or LLM, for that matter) can write such a comment on the internet. Providing logical arguments and real information, however, would be much more effective at convincing me that LLMs cannot think.

But that would require you to actually be an expert, wouldn't it?
The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
> There are never any circumstances where you can accelerate out of danger, unless you put yourself in danger in the first place.

I don't know how to parse that, so I'm going to go with your base belief around acceleration.

For an average sedan these days, we're talking ~3,500 lbs. Say 175 hp. 0.05 hp / lb.

Now, let's say your average loaded semi runs about 50,000 lbs.

Do you think semis have 2,500 hp engines?

(Generalizing hp/torque as correlated)
Of course it helps them: it provides people who can do work that needs to be done!
It's not in danger of ceasing to exist. http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.

That said, hard drives are cheap again, and you can just go download the collections from the Archive that are interesting or important to you. However, the raw data from their own Wayback scrapes are not publicly available.
I had a Star which I bought surplus later in the '80's.

Never did scrap it until hurricane Harvey.
It sounds to me like that user is arguing in bad faith. We know that intelligence agencies attempt to influence online discussions about their own activities; it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they're being paid to post here as part of a US gov disinformation campaign to sway public opinion in favor of NSA. That or they've received all of their education on the subject by the perpetrators.

Either way, it's clear they're not coming from a place of promoting transparency or a critical perspective of the government's actions. There's nothing wrong with being a patriot but this is a conversion about government misbehavior, not a loyalty contest.

It's probably best to just ignore them, which is what I'll be doing going forward.
One cool thing I like about the USB-C Macs (at least the MacBook Airs, but probably the rest too) is that they'll even happily take 5V from USB-C. May not get enough amperage to actually charge while in operation, but will extend internal battery lifetime. They'll also take 12V. And probably 9V, 15V and 20V.

I always wondered if they can accept any voltage over the range. Can I just plug in a solar panel and it will happily charge even as it cuts in and out at low voltages?
> One guy didn’t know how to fork a repo and maintain an internal copy of a project with clean portable diffs.

Or don't care about it. I started my new job by forking 2 or 3 repo (one was from an almost new project), but then i looked at the commit history and i was like "Fuck it, i'll just branch out and rebase before the merge to clean up my shit". I know how to do it, i do not bother.

My commit titles are often enough, i sometimes add a commit comment but i know no one really cares. I just do my job well enough, and try to stay motivated by doing the most interesting parts well, and do not forces myself on the boring parts.
DeWalt (and the other power tool brands) now offer USB-C PD adapters for their batteries, which might be even easier to assemble if you have a modern laptop that takes USB PD and have already invested in a power tool brand.

https://www.theverge.com/23287770/dewalt-dcb094-usb-c-pd-cha...
Signature properties of human language and consciousness are recursion and self-awareness. As ChatGPT and its ilk continue to vacuum up basically all of the human-generated content on the net, more and more of that content will be discussion of ChatGPT and its ilk. These AI's already do an impressive job of composing essays in response to questions about the impact of AI's (that is, themselves). It feels like we are (mataphorically) probing around in the dark, with electric probes, connecting parts of circuits to other parts of circuits, and we are getting close to inadvertently closing circuits that will "levitate" these technologies into something like internally stimulating and augenting self reference. I would prefer we not do this.
i think you are misreading the parent comment. it's not claiming that processes have no value but that busybodies use their free time to invent additional processes beyond those that are actually needed.
Reddit's proposed API changes and the continued existence of RedReader
> They need to store it. They need to copy it. They may need to modify it, either for moderation purposes or because it becomes a piece of another post via quoting / replying. They arguably even need to sublicense others to use and copy it for the same.

One expects language that specifically states "non-exclusive non-transferable". For example, a mere "non-exclusive" license permits Bluesky to sell your content to OpenAI to train models.

"because it becomes a piece of another post via quoting / replying. They arguably even need to sublicense others to use and copy it for the same."

IANAL, AYAL? Let's hear some legal opinion here. It seems to me my replying to a comment and quoting it on a platform that has a non-exclusive license from original author for precisely that purpose would be "fair use".

https://web.archive.org/web/20230427181225/https://staging.b...

What you get:

"Bluesky grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, with no right to sublicense, to download, view, copy, display and print the Content solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services and solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. Other than the right to use the Services as explicitly described in these Terms for your personal, limited use, no other rights are granted to you under these Terms."

What they want :

"By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky and its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensee, successors, and assigns (the “Bluesky Parties”) an irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense (through multiple tiers of sub-licensing), to use, copy, modify, adapt, crop, edit, creative derivative works, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform and otherwise exploit in any media now known or hereafter devised, your User Content, in whole or in part,"

Irrevocable, Perpetual. "Arguably", such grant should cease once you stop using Bluesky. For example, if you delete your account, there is no more you and nothing of yours to reply to. Why "perpetual"? Why "irrevocable"?

Sub-licensing. "with the right to sublicense (through multiple tiers of sub-licensing)". Strange. Just above, you the user of Blueky get "a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, with no right to sublicense".

I believe they want your content for training models, "Arguably" "Services".
... as long as there was no "FAST RAM" left.

Allocations would get fast ram with priority, unless chip ram was specifically requested.

Fast ram is exclusive to the cpu, and unaffected by the chipset accessing chip ram.

Amiga had this fast ram concept. Atari ST unfortunately did not.
Ask HN: Are You a Materialist?
Title says it all. Do you believe in philosophical materialism?

If so, do you believe we're in a Turing machine of some sort? Are you a finitist?

If you are not a materialist, what metaphysical thing do you believe in? A Being Creator? Spirits? Do you believe in ghosts and fairies?
Groundless copyright accusations? If there were accusations, they seem grounded. I took one look at the site and those images are 95%+ similar to minecraft
A minecraft classic client made in C, with its own launcher.
https://www.classicube.net/
You're not wrong, but doesn't whataboutism detract from the legitimate criticisms being made of the US government here?
I am also very familiar with both catastrophic failures of 737 MAX and I can be extremely certain that undertrained pilot is only one of the factor. Boeing's extremely fail-unsafe and irredundant design of MCAS causes the failure in the first place, and they do not provide enough training material related to this system (in the first incidence they providie not training at all. MCAS is not even mentioned in the pilot's manual, nor does most maintainence crew know the existence of such system). Blaming people, especially pilot, is the easiest way to end an air crash investigation, but the industry will never be safer if nobody take the root cause seriously.