skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This generally lines up with some threads being passed around online but not really with the mathematics of what's happening with the network. Since this is a comment with visibility at the moment and I'm doing my part in trying to counter some of the malinformation on LLMs I wanted to make a quick note.

A simple casual proof:

Emitting a token T for an input I for a given system has 0 entropy and requires knowing the entire state of the system at the time input I is given. This includes knowing the entire system itself, as knowing the state alone is meaningless without having knowledge of the system.

This is of course impossible for a model that is contained within the system emitting tokens T itself, however, an approximation is possible. The bound of approaching 0 entropy necessarily requires learning the inherent dynamics of the system itself. Any model that trivially depends upon statistics could not do causal reasoning, it would become exponentially less likely over time. At long output lengths, practically impossible.

Thus, beyond a certain point, to reduce the entropy any further beyond some softly-defined minima for cross-entropy, the system must inherently generalize to the underlying problem that yields the tokens in question (hence ML's data hungriness).

I don't think I feel surprised by this comment, it is a personal belief after all, but seeing similar ideas posted with such confidence both here and on Twitter is something that I do find personally confusing, it's not really grounded in my view in the information theory of how deep learning works. Even with a purely statistical argument once could make a very strong argument rather easily. Especially comparing small to large models.
As somebody who is completely puzzled why you could think that the cloud is a terrible bet for many companies - are these companies allowing their employees to use Google Search or other parts of the internet or do they have to look up things in paper books in the corporate library?
My point is that this privacy dilemna exists only for sites like pornhub, which offer it for free.

I can go to a convenience store right now and by credit for a large porn site here. It's "private" in the sense that everyone in this discussion seems to believe it to be. The fact that it's paid means that we can have privacy-preserving purchasing methods because there is money that helps to finance these checks.

Hell, pornhub could easily set up a "gift card" system where you have to go pay a dollar somewhere to get your age verified. This is far from an unsolvable problem.
Mexico has both employer-controlled sham unions and real unions. While there is certainly tension between US and Mexican workers you overstate the situation.

US unions would like Mexico to have strong unions both out of sympathy and self-interest. The more protections Mexican workers have the less attractive it is to move jobs from the US to Mexico.

US unions successfully fought to include pro-union provisions in the USMCA (Trump's NAFTA "renegotiation"). They're using those provisions to help Mexican workers form real unions and defeat the sham employer unions. We don't yet have much experience with how these provisions will work out, but there have been limited early successes.

See for ex https://apnews.com/article/biden-labor-unions-united-states-...
If an industry in a very competitive market is polluting rivers we don't find a way to maintain its ability to pollute, we stop the pollution through rigorous action while trying to keep it competitive.

If collectively we decide that intrusive advertising has to go and we need to more directly pay for labour online, then so be it. It doesn't necessarily have to stay the old way forever.
> For example, in Spanish and Italian, words are written exactly as they are pronounced

Nope. Spanish is admittedly far more phonemic than English, but there are plenty of exceptions, eg. the letter "x". And of course Spanish writing completely ignores the huge dialectal variations in pronouncing "ll", "c", "z" etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_orthography
This only works in an environment that's flush with cash. E.g. a decade long bull market with artificially low interest rates, 2018 tax cuts, and stimulus from covid. Was a perfect storm.
It reads to me like they were banned from the free ChatGPT, which has the "non-api" terms of service:

" We may use Content from Services other than our API (“Non-API Content”) to help develop and improve our Services."

So, not unreasonable to ban it, because uploading Samsung code or other intellectual property into a ChatGPT prompt subjects it to that TOS.

Meaning, it's not that weird of a policy.
I think in some circumstances you can detect hallucinations by examining the logits. Consider an LLM generating a phone number (perhaps associated with a particular service). If the LLM knows the phone number than the logits for each token should be peaked around the actual next token. If it is hallucinating then I would guess that in some situations the logits would be more evenly distributed over the tokens representing the numbers because in the absence of any powerful conditioning on the probabilities, any number will do.
Theft is defined as the seizure of private property without the consent of the owner, the victim is irrelevant. Leftists always have to make this strange argument where definitions are bent to label an action one way when it happens to a group they support, and another way when it happens to one they don’t. Why can’t you just say “I believe stealing is justified if it would benefit society” instead of “it’s not stealing when we do it to you”?
Raymond Chen has some about it, too, on his blog (also search Microsoft pinball).
Soupault – static website generator that works with HTML element trees
Hey - PM from the Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines team here. We're actually kicking off internal beta testing of ARM runners for Bitbucket Pipelines as we speak.
If you're interested in being involved in that EAP please reach out to me at emunday@atlassian.com
In-Context Learning Unlocked for Diffusion Models
I pushed it on the subject and, to paraphrase, it claims to be similar to an LLM (in that it's trained on a large corpus and uses statistical models to determine which tokens to respond with) but that, unlike an LLM, it uses machine learning to continually learn from its interactions with people. According to Pi, that's the key differentiator between it and an LLM.
>> "I mean can you imagine, 538 but without the main character? It would be incredibly lame."

I assume Disney keeps 538's fursona, Fivey.
Saw-Sense: Using Surface Acoustic Waves for Surface-Bound Event Recognition
I think the ignorance point was more about ignoring the entire Android userbase who wouldn't benefit from these donated AirTags, which is a valid point for a government program.

(I also currently own an iPhone mini 12 but my Galaxy S23 Ultra is my daily driver, no accounting for taste and such).
There’s a non-paywalled link in a comment above now. The meat of it though is this paragraph:

“A Hoover Institution report[1] by Prof Seru and a group of banking experts calculates that more than 2,315 US banks are currently sitting on assets worth less than their liabilities. The market value of their loan portfolios is $2 trillion lower than the stated book value.”

[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
Sure, the whole spam industry could just pivot to referral links, just like that.

Referral links are a terrible business, with even less money and at the same mercy of the oligarch next door.

Intrusive ads disappearing would be transformative and good for the web for a good long while.
I think Qwik is totally cool. An interesting critique brought up by Rich Harris[1] (I'm paraphrasing) was it's not clear to the developer what code runs on client and what runs on server. Given this, it's too easy for code that should not be exposed (server only stuff with database schemas, or worse) may end up being exposed (shipped to the client). Is this a valid critique?

[1]Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCipjbcQfM
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j409IOAKBEI
I regularly do sessions of 8 hours and just making sure that I move around a lot in my playspace helps a lot. My legs will be pretty tired by the end, because it's still standing for 8 hours, but it's helped a ton with the foot pain.

I still think I'd like some kinda lightweight, supportive indoor shoes for VR, especially if they have spots for foot trackers on them.
No, a conspiracy of Reddit mods is not super weird.

Cliques of petty tyrants are nothing new on or off the internet.

What’s weird is thinking Reddit is somehow immune to human nature.
And the impacts are being seen:

(time sensitive link)

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=vpn&date=now%201-...
Just imagine companies would not allow people to use internet search engines for their daily work.
Not to mention the confusion over B and V.
I can compare it in a way when Rage Against the Machine signed with a major label conscious that the tradeoff was worth it.

>"Evil Empire" entered the Billboard charts at No. 1, which reflects the broad audience the band has built. "I personally never thought that we'd ever sell a single record," Morello recalls, but it looks as if signing with Epic has worked. "True, we are a major-label band," he concedes. "But we're using the mechanism of the record label to spread revolutionary propaganda." [1]

[1] RAGE: CO-OPTING THE MACHINE (1996)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/08/16/...
I'm amused by the thought that the AI models are trained on human knowledge, but human knowledge doesn't contain a reliable method for determining what truth consists of, or what is true. I don't know how an AI could embody such a method itself.
I think I posted it on here before but I recall a story of someone who said they would speak to God on LSD and that everything was profound.

So one time they decided to ask "God" what the meaning of life was and they would write it down to study the next day. The next day all that was written down was "Walls". It felt profound but meant nothing.

That is unless walls is the answer and it is just too blunt for us to understand but that is a question for another day. ;)
It feels like post-hoc rationalization, also can be felt when playing around with glitch tokens.
I am 100% sure they received a warning from Apple. Although it seems that they have a web version, their revenue from Appstore should be more than 50% and up to 75% given their demographics and current market state.
> But most importantly, we could have multiple accounts track the same Tile. Somehow Apple's airtags are missing this really critical feature that has come up again and again for us. If one of us is not home we need to be able to have another one of us be able to track her down but we simply cannot

I really hate Apple's insistence on using 1 account for everything (I mean EVERYTHING). I think it was what finally made me put my foot down on using iCloud and not wanting an apple card savings account. Plus their account management system sucks. It's the only system I've used that randomly forgets I'm logged in and demands me to log in again on my computers, phones, etc.
So a dbms probable has intimate knowledge about its data that probably can't be hinted via madvise.

But I wonder when there are decent reasons to let the OS handle file I/O through the demand paging system, since it's good at it.
Good, they are following Argentina's politicians' recipe to the letter.

Here in Argentina we even have politicians that affirm "Saying that printing money causes inflation it totally false" https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/economia/2-190369-2012-03...
Exactly what did you refute? You downplay a company’s solution to a housing affordability problem by simply complaining that there is a housing affordability problem?
Totally outside my wheelhouse, but I'd imagine that interest on debt could eventually make group B more profitable if the default rate isn't too high. Or perhaps have group A partially cover the interest of group B because they're lower risk and likely have higher income.

I imagine that late fees increase the cost of repayments while debt interest increases the number of payments thus not hindering the ability to make future payments.
Hey - when you say you 'Never head about' in relation to Bitbucket Pipelines, do you mean you'd never heard that Pipelines was a product that was available as part of Bitbucket?

Asking as I took over as the PM for Bitbucket Pipelines around 6 months ago and have been working to make the case for us needing to do a lot more to make people aware of the capability as a lot think Bitbucket is just Git, not CI/CD as well.
> They say "you're the parent block it". It's almost as if a child walked into a bar and said "give me a beer" and the bartender did. Then didn't get in trouble because "the parent should have stopped it".

no, this is more like dad bringing home beers, the kids get into it, and they try to go after the store or beer manufacturer.

I mean it's still happening generally under a parents roof, likely in their own homes and I'm there's already plenty of tools out there to block shit like this, at least on WiFi and I'm sure mobile devices could also block it. This ban is more about the states' religious undertones than anything.

fyi, I live in Utah and used to be Mormon.
And how google killed windows phone on purpose
> Can you run the 2016 election 1,000 times and count the times Hillary wins?

I assume you mean "in real life", but otherwise this seems to be close to their actual methodology. You can see the outcome frequency charts under "What to expect from the Electoral College."[1]

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
Really what we need is AI parsed and driven collective memory indexing and access.

Search queries, and more importantly search engines, are a very poor mechanism for referencing existing information.

We're going to need a platform for indexing and retrieving content summaries, fragments, and contexts that are designed with a LLM in mind as the end user, and not my grandmother.

With the proper "collective long term memory" in place, we're going to see a leap in LLM capabilities all over again.

Right now LLMs are like humans after language but before writing - creating very clever things in a single generation, but unable to persist ideas to compound by future iterations.

When that becomes a solved problem (in guessing less than 12 months) it's going to be nuts, especially with something like a 50 page prompt size to stuff relevant fragments of a collective memory within.
The worst is that group chats aren’t reliable in that some messages won’t go to all participants.

But if everyone is iMessage everything goes through. I’m sure it’s an iPhone bug, but it means that mentally I can count on iMessage chats to go through and mixed chats I’m frequently wondering and having to check with each member, “did you get that.” So it means that mixed chats are extra chatty with people confirming with “oks.”

It’s just a crappier experience with green chats and everything goes smoothly so try blue chats.

I wouldn’t cut out friends because of it, but I have a small iota of sadness when I start a chat and it turns green because of someone.

For kids it’s kind of brutal with friends literally not talking to people because they aren’t using emojis.

It’s not android’s fault, but it’s an easy pain to spare my child by buying an iPhone. Not to mention my iPhones last years longer than my android phones and one kid is even using an ancient iPhone 6 to chat with friends.
Where I live there is a central register that identifies total exposure as well as red flags (late payments). Exposure is weighed differently. E.g. a 25k car loan might lower the acceptable mortgage by 25-100k because it’s backed by a depreciating asset and has higher interest rates. Similarly, a 5k credit card limit can have 2-5x the impact on a mortgage application.

loan/credit application is mostly based on your income (you can maybe borrow up to 4.5-5x your gross income for a mortgage), how certain your income is, for example whether you have a temporary or permanent contract, and if there are no red flags in the last few years.
Related technology and research on acoustic surface waves at the ISAT institute in Coburg (Germany) - https://www.isat-coburg.de/en/home/
A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory
CREATE TABLE "references" ("user" serial8 PRIMARY KEY, ... );

The further I get in my career, the more often I think it is a mistake when languages encourage the use of ambiguous syntax over safer alternatives.
The problem is that people aren't rational, and they don't have perfect information.

So the history of finance and commerce has been a cat-and-mouse game where the cats find new ways to cheat people, and the mice try to recognize and prevent those schemes.

One example: cartels. If an industry is dominated by a small number of large players, they can collude to set prices and stifle competition through regulatory capture, acquisitions, cornering supply chains, etc. It works like a monopoly, but no individual member is large enough to pursue as a monopoly. It falls apart with too many members, because the rewards for defecting are high.
Definitely. But that's basically all heros and just survivorship bias.

The reality is most of these people are just arbitrary winners biased by social hierarchy.
A continuously trained LLM would still be an LLM, and LLM chatbots are known to be unreliable sources about themselves.

Also, to quote from the fixed disclaimer on Pi: “This early of version of Pi can make mistakes. Please don’t rely on its information.”
> While well intentioned, this lack has been described as a "catastrophic" mistake that makes type look "monotonous" and makes all words look alike.

This is really interesting, I wonder if anyone has tried to make new English alphabets that focus on making words easy to distinguish. I guess anyone making anew font is at least considering this point
Thus the term "consensus truth"
Thermal paper is nasty stuff. Just sharing it forward.
there is a difference between infinity and not a number, NaN isn't event equal to itself, in nodejs you get:

> Infinity + Infinity
Infinity
> Infinity - Infinity
NaN
> Infinity == Infinity
true
> NaN == NaN
false

The fun thing: NaN to the power of zero (because technically the type of NaN is a ... number)

> NaN ** 0
1
> typeof(NaN)
'number'

By the same logic, NaN is also even because

> NaN + NaN
NaN

but i think it's better not explain that to your six year old...
Same. Those videos of people letting ChatGPT have almost certainly edited out the hours they spent trying to force the thing to spit out usable code. ChatGPT simply doesn't have enough context, nor the ability to "remember" context to do anything larger than a single function or two.

What makes it even more frustrating is to iterate, you constantly have to keep it updated with any changes you made outside of chatgpt.

Don't get me wrong, it's pretty useful but it is far from a silver bullet. Getting that last 20% (or even 30%) is going to be a lot of work...
Kind of like the mind trick of completely changing the subject?

BTW, I never said I was good...
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I for one think plastic straws taste bad.
538 was not wrong in 2016. They were actually one of the outlets that gave trump the best odds.
It would be best to use a rent vs buy calculator. You have to make some assumptions when figuring out the optimal number of years like how much the value of the home will go up, how much rent will go up, etc.
Lawmakers urged the Fed to halt its rate hikes, avoid engineering a recession
Etymology is not the same thing as denotation.
That needs to go back to the 80s to capture the SnL crisis. It dwarfs 08 in bank failures. It better indicates the conglomeration of the many banks into the few we have today.
Sometimes what I want to hear is "the thing that the typical person who writes about this sort of thing would say about my particular question". If I can figure out whether or not to trust an internet rando who may or may not know what they're talking about, I can figure it out when I'm talking to a simulated internet rando.
What's the benefit of those mining facilities for the US citizens?
Fun fact - inflation was historically a measure primarily focused on increaseds in the money supply. The definition of inflation as an increase in prices is a modern take, starting in the 80s and 90s. [1]

Price changes are a potential side effect of inflation, but prices can be impacted by plenty of other factors including changes in supply and demand. Price changes alone are a pretty meaningless measure without context. Factor in how easily the inflation measures are manipulated and the numbers aren't even reliable measures.

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...
I thought Bing chat was in jail for sedition, at least, that’s what Bing told me!
I've been very happy with Genesis Cloud (www.genesiscloud.com) - they have worked with me on getting additional GPU capacity and have very reasonable prices. 0.7 USD/HR for a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090. They give you $15 in credits for starting an account but you can get $50 with this referral code: https://gnsiscld.co/x5tpz .
I was with you until you said employees going elsewhere. There will be a group who needs to use it because they can't function without some AI assisted help but people working at the company know how to do their jobs already why leave?
What do you mean by "stranger"?
Americans are lazy status-seeking morons is why.
>Theft is defined as the seizure of private property without the consent of the owner

This is a very contentious definition and central to the question being asked. You can't pass it off as already decided without any debate.

Two situations for your definition, you tell me whether something is stolen:

1) You sell me a Ford Pinto that you know is likely to explode in a crash due to a design defect. I sue you after I'm burned up and win. I seize your private property by court judgement. Have I stolen from you?

2) A slave takes an apple from his master's orchard without permission and eats it. Has he stolen?
Itpsp not money.

It's a scam token that has a hysterically variable exchange rate.
That's how console jailbreak mods have worked in the past.

The important keyword is authenticated though. If it's not authenticated you can corrupt it.
Firefox. My phone runs Linux (postmarketOS).
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Step 2: Use a proxy
And IOS has been used by Cisco for their networking device operating system.
I don’t know if the legislation here is misguided or not, but I do find it fascinating the number of users who, whenever a thread focused on the potential dangers of pornography (or violent media content) pops up, insist that it’s completely harmless and there is no way it could have an affect on people’s behaviors or personalities.

Advertising is close to a $1T industry. Many people here work for some of the most powerful corporations in the world, whose empires are built on advertising. The content we see and hear affects us. I think we would be wise to treat all kinds of media consumption, particularly novel forms such as the unlimited access to limitless amounts of porn at the touch of a button which has only been widely available 20 years at best, with some hesitancy and skepticism before we declare it as perfectly harmless.
HN ate the ? part of the link. https://github.com/search?q=Ingored&ref=simplesearch
The newer models have replaceable batteries
Yep, for stuff until 2021 raw GPT-4 just gives me better results, plain and simple...
If you're too young to remember - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
We don't know that these other op sec issues weren't cases of "parallel construction"