skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically the copyright belongs to the journal which published the results.
We need to look at hard evidence of how many counties China invaded vs NATO. It’s fascinating.
The test is silly.
It doesn’t necessarily show a bias in cultural expectations. It may just show a bias in interpreting the object of a verb in an ambiguous context.

I.e the reference of the first subject may take priority - regardless of cultural context.

Maybe this test just highlights your own bias.
Democratic process had little to do with it.

Many of those attempted revolutions turned into civil wars. Communists won some of them. Some of the emerging communist states were defeated by foreign military interventions. It was a bloody and confusing era in European history.

The turning point was when capitalists realized that it was not possible to defeat communism by fighting the communists. They gave in and started supporting some of the goals of social democrats and moderate socialists. That deradicalized enough people that even revolutionary communists had to start working within the system.

Revolutions are pretty common around the world. The recent ones have not been motivated by communism or anything similar, but that could change. The world is unpredictable, and major changes happen once in a while.
> If you conclude, after watching this, that this is all intelligence is - namely cascading optimization and data structure problems chained in a row, then you and a fair number of people here wont ever find common ground.

They won't find common ground with who?
> If AI is to [...] This fact alone crushes any sympathy across borders.

But who will power, own and regulate AI in your opinion?

If AI is to have any impact on society, it's just a tech, it will just move the lines, people will move with them, and solidarity likewise.
Printing money to handout to people is not part of any free market theory I know about. Also buying banks with tax payer money to avoid their fall is also not part of any FREE market. When some business get saved but others are forced to close (for any reason), there is no free market. In fact those things are precisely the opposite of "free" and create an uneven playing field where big players have unfair advantages.
Been using Linux more and more. Linux tends to have less of this nonsense and respects the user more.
> Have you seen the lines in Versailles? No actual monarch, but definitely no lack of tourism.

The correlation between "Castles being empty museums, or castles being also museums where real nobles live" is not easy to prove, just a sentiment from people that were asked the question.

> Where does the royal family get money to pay the lease? Isn't that also either directly or indirectly from the state anyway?

Nobles in UK are like any other private citizens with their own belongings, land, estate, etc.

Changing the legal status of this, in particular of The Crown Estate is complex as de jure it belongs to the monarch by various rights till William the Conqueror.

It should be noted that no tax payer money goes towards the Royal family, the Royal family gets 15% of the net income of the Crown Estate, a 15B private corporation that manages the belongings of the crown and ranges from rural houses, farming land, tourist attractions, equity in companies, etc.

The remaining 85% of the income is spent by the British Parliament for the British citizens. The Crown Estate alone is more than a good reason to not get rid of the monarch to avoid the obvious privatization that would benefit the British citizens very little.

Monarchy-related tourism on it's own is valued half a billion pounds. The monarchy moves people for events, celebrations, etc all around UK and the globe.

I am not saying that Britain would be destroyed financially by losing the monarchy, but I would advocate that the current status quo works good for the monarchy and its citizens.
The more you split it up outwards (across more nodes), the more communication among nodes that is required, which doesn’t lend itself well to regular Internet connections, which means it would prefer to scale upwards with more GPU/CPU/memory capacity per node.
I don't necessarily disagree with you but on the other hand, we gotta start somewhere, and why not with the low hanging fruit?
Tough to happen in a world of monopolies.

Look at all the bank failures and mergers - it just gives pricing power to a couple of banks.
The only experience I have of edge is opening it on a new installation of Windows, seeing trashy clickbait with thumbnails of half-naked women to go along with it; after which I proceeded to promptly close the window and download Chrome via Powershell.

I don’t know how a company can take good products and turn them into tacky products that no one would want to use if they had the knowledge to download an alternative.
I'm fine with it - because given a couple of generations inheritance tax will take most of it off of them.
These look very impressive. For all the software I have written, I still feel my skills being incomplete because I have no electronics skills.

Thanks for pointing me towards OpenSCAD.
For the purposes of this discussion I don’t think the underlying engine really matters (I’m not supporting Apple’s rule here). 99% of users are going to be downloading Chrome or FF to have a consistent UX and sync their bookmarks, history and passwords. iOS respects the default browser and mail client in this case.
Why not use a a typed language instead?
Obama left office and days later spoke on Wall Street for $400k. That's a days "work", more than his yearly POTUS salary.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39710529
> I'd probably have no qualms about stabbing someone who I knew was trying to introduce my child or SO to hard drugs.

Have qualms. You stabbing someone will be worse for your child than hard drugs.
> by showing a C++ example which is bad

What the author shows is how the Arduino stdlib does it in an unsafe way; that it is C++ is a coincidence (and one could easily argue that the C++ Arduino stdlib is barely C-with-classes and far away from what could be done in C++).
Obligatory http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
They just want to sell shares to more investors at a higher price

So it is an art project
> The royal family collects fees from The Sovereign Grant Act, a taxpayer fund that is used to maintain royal palaces and royal duties such as receptions and travel.

> The Sovereign Grant for 2022 to 2023 is just under $100 million. Payments are based on profits from the Crown Estate, a property business that is owned by the monarch but runs independently

Essentially most of the crown belongings are managed by the government and the royal family gets 15% of it, with the remaining 85% going to the British citizens.

But to say that average briton spends a single penny on the royal family is technically wrong.
Does that mean you ban users from using browsers that are not Edge?
I have no idea, but the device that was plugged into mains power was very happy to pass some of it on to my laptop.
You know that there are countries other than Russia and USA who could have done it, right?
Cuba? The ones that placed nuclear missles during the cold war? Sure, I can see why relationship deterred further... since 1961 :)

PS. Regime changes isn't what I'm saying, you're changing the subject.

Which countries are bullied now? Not 80 years ago. All neighboors of China NOW are being bullied.

I'm from Belgium and there's also something to say about something similar in our history, because of 1 king we had...
Copyright needs some kind of usucaption mechanism: if the holder doesn't make any effort in maintaining his works available for an extended period of time they should automatically enter public domain.
Just for sake of argument, let’s say it is market failure. But what will correct it first, the market or a new law passed by Congress?
Why not VS Codium?
America's democracy was subverted loooong ago, its called Wall Street...they figured it out - when you write the laws, you don't need to worry about breaking the law

but keep thinking you are standing guard arresting some rednecks

keep your credit score up! compliance is important

the system is so thoroughly subverted that yes, voting is a waste of time...its amusing to watch the lemmings put the little "I Voted!!" sticker on their shirts like it matters...
>You don't need non-linearities, an infinite series of sine functions is enough

The sine function is nonlinear.
I'm forced to use Edge on work PC and that context menu when selecting text is wildly unpredictable -- sometimes the only "Search for (selected text)" is Search Bing Sidebar. And its slow as molasses if you ever make the mistake of clicking it.
yeh, now maybe. Ruining something that works fine can't end poorly.
Only a few of the barriers presented by HTTPS:

Clock sync would be a requirement for access.

A recent device would be a requirement for access (not everyone can afford a new one).

Site admin keeping up with certificate registration would be a requirement.

Approval from the centralized certificate authority would be a requirement.

Server's self domain name matching accessed domain name would be a requirement.

These are all real scenarios where real people can be denied access to information that is crucial to them, up to the point of survival.

Just a few of the reasons why all my websites still allow HTTP.

HTTP is also way faster on slow connections.
They love OpenSource to train Copilot.
nice project and thanks for sharing! I understand you create it to replace spreadsheets but it would be nice if you could export into a csv/spreadsheet for archiving purposes mainly
I despise form that gets in the way of the function. Beauty is in designing practical and effective things in a creative way.
It's not about disruptions in the supply chain, but rather about controlling it and using it to extract maximum value for the shareholders. Everyone wants their share and nobody will accept a smaller percentage than they did last week. Consumers are caught in the middle, with rapidly increasing costs of living as a result.

We as in "society"), have assumed this would be solved by some healthy competition. It's just that we optimized society for maximum short-term gain rather than a market where newcomers are welcome. As a result, the players that are already in the game are free to ignore the forces society assumed would keep things running smoothly.
> ChatGPT does this very well

Lol, this is precisely what chatgpt doesn't do well at all! It fails to understand simple concepts, logical inference, simple math, etc.
This podcast is a good history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gNLWRpeqg
> Which was almost certainly on Apple's timeline anyway, though we'll never know for sure.

They released USB-C macbooks in 2015, 8 years ago. Clearly they had no intention of moving to USB-C on iPhones, prior to the EU ruling. The extra few years selling cables so that you can plug your brand new Apple laptop in to your brand new Apple phone was probably a fun little profit exercise, if not comically anti-consumer/anti-environment.
New Chrome Brand: Chrome for Testing
I'm a bit surprised by the "validated by scientific studies" bit. If there's anything I got out of the likes of Kahneman (Noise), Hubbard (How To Measure Anything), and Tetlock (no particular reference) it's the complete opposite: If you estimate in t-shirt sizes people will come to false agreements. The variation in what people mean when they give the same t-shirt size is enormous. Even the same person estimating similar tasks weeks apart may give the same t-shirt size but when asked how to translate it to time will give wildly varying numbers.

The only thing that actually stands up to hindsight verification is estimating in as concrete units as possible – ideally calendar dates.

Of course, if you invoke statistical properties of past estimations to convert t-shirt sizes to calendar dates, you're sort of doing that already. But why do it behind people's backs? In my experience (and drawing from system theory) it is much more useful to allow people to receive the feedback of their successes and failures.
You have ingested truly astronomical amounts of data. Your body is covered with sensors of various kinds. Millions of datapoints streaming in day and night.

You are not storing it all, but you are finding patterns and correlations in it from the day you were born. This all forms a base where after a decade+ you can learn things fast from books, but that’s comparable to an LLM’s in context learning. It’s fast, but it depends on a deep base of prior knowledge.
> Try to buy a box of crayons in Florence, Italy.

What is this a reference to?
Sadly, because they're getting away with all this shit.
> What will you do if it turns sour in the future?

We can ask USA to leave and take their soldiers with them. And I have high confidence they will do just that.
I can't uninstall Google apps in my Android phone YouTube, Gmail etc.
If you were to try to build such a simulation, given the natural limits of real hardware, wouldn’t some form of relativity be a necessary feature of the simulation to avoid segfaults, rather than something simply to take into account while constructing the hardware?
most breeds of lab rats are pretty docile, but sometimes even they get pissed off when they have been starved (to motivate them) and then stuffed in a maze.

no, i never wore gloves. them was hard times!
I recently noticed I can only browse some parts of our company infra on Azure (e.g. Azure Devops) via Edge on iOS too. So I have to use that browser for some specific sites while I use Safari for everything else.
Customer: What will this project cost?
You: Five XL T-shirts.

Excuse the snark, but a lot of business decisions are made based on how much Project X will cost. You likely get paid based on time, so it's quite natural to gravitate toward time units - any intermediary unit is just an abstraction.
plus "you can talk to me about your problems, this is a safe space, I want to listen"
Yep. I've been through this cycle too. The phrase that helped me sell the idea was "estimation is design". You can't come to an estimate that has any relationship to reality without knowing what you're intending to build, and that's a design function, even if it's very high-level, coarse, and approximate. Just expecting that design to materialise from thin air is extremely unrealistic, so you have to go through some sort of intentional process to get there. Making that process cause an appropriate amount of pain does make it clear that none of it is free.
It's not theoretical, but it's also not the end of the world, and I would accept it if it meant accessing information that is important to me over not being able to access it at all.
This makes me think interns or other low paid, less seasoned staff are writing these articles and opted to just gen up an image rather than have no image, or use an internal image bank or purchase an actual picture or actually have photographers covering the event.

Has a definite “only write what I can google” vibe to it and is not acceptable for such a well funded organization.
From your linked article, first paragraph:

>Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero led 200 armed Civil Guard officers into the Congress of Deputies during the vote to elect a President of the Government. The officers held the parliamentarians and ministers hostage for 18 hours, during which time King Juan Carlos I denounced the coup in a televised address, calling for rule of law and the democratic government to continue. The royal address fatally undermined the coup. Though shots were fired, the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without killing anyone.

I really do not see the equivalence here at all. Only through a highly partisan stretch could a professional gymnast make this leap.
they are used for RLHF, its training the AI. Machine learning in general requires a shitton of high quality labelled data. Labelling the data is usually very tedious, and often done via mechanical turk etc.

African workers arent able to write a unique 500 word story about whatever scenario you dream up in about a second in whatever language you choose.
I always saw it as Microsoft is clearly two (or more) companies now. Some of those companies are very much what Microsoft was always like. Some others aren't at all like microsoft in anything but name.
I would say Linux doesn't have this type of nonsense at all.
Yeah. A lot of the karaoke systems (even cheap ones) have their own weird "encryption". It is really just to stop other manufacturers from copying their song collection.
Feynman implies that psychology is a "cargo-cult" science where variations of experiments and assumed hypothesis are valued over scientific rigor or reproducibility. That's my guess too. See: misattribution of arousal studies, Millikan oil drop studies, Covid-19 and Didier Raoult Livre with hydroxychloroquine... etc. etc.

Edit: The article states B.F. skinner did create a box to remove these side-channel effects for rat experiments
I am quite new to this, I would like to get it running. Would the process roughly be:

1. Get a machine with decent GPU, probably rent cloud GPU.

2. On that machine download the weights/model/vocab files from https://huggingface.co/openlm-research/open_llama_7b_preview...

3. Install Anaconda. Clone https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM/.

4. Install EasyLM:

conda env create -f scripts/gpu_environment.yml
conda activate EasyLM

5. Run this command, as per https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM/blob/main/docs/llama.md:

python -m EasyLM.models.llama.llama_serve \
--mesh_dim='1,1,-1' \
--load_llama_config='13B' \
--load_checkpoint='params::path/to/easylm/llama/checkpoint' \

Am I even close?
Mocking victims of genocide for hating the people who came to kill them. Stay classy.
Humans "hallucinate" in the AI sense (it's an awful word that obscures how often we do it) all the time too. You'll find people confidently make claims not supported by data or indeed by any of their own data all the time, where when you poke around in their justifications you'll find they have none.

The key difference appears a combination of two factors: We appear to be more likely to have learnt which subjects we're not very knowledgeable about through extensive feedback, be it through school or conversations where we're told we're wrong, and which also would appear to teach us to be more cautious in general. We also appear to have a (somewhat; far from perfect) better ability to separate memory from thoughts about our knowledge. We certainly can go off on wild tangents and make stuff up about any subject, but we get reinforced from very young that there's a time and a place for making stuff up vs. drawing on memory.

Both goes back simply to extensive (many years of) reinforcement telling us it has negative effects to make stuff up and/or believe things that aren't true, and yet we still do both of those, just not usually as blatantly as current LLMs without being aware.

So I'd expect one missing component is to add a training step that subjects the model to batteries of tests of the limits of their knowledge and incorporating the results of that in the training.
So if I buy the reduced price property, would I not afford to offer cheaper rent and still get the same return on investment?
Is there any usability difference between the two?
An interesting article about parsing techniques that were developed half a century ago when there were still severe memory limitations. It would be nice if it at least would mention that these techniques were developed because back-tracking was not considered as a valid option for parsing, because it was simply not feasible to store a whole file in memory. Nowadays the whole source code of the linux kernel easily fits in RAM.

For many applications, using a back-tracking parser with some memorization/caching, is feasible. IParse Studio [1] is an example of an interpretting parser that parses a grammar and an input at each change on the input and demonstrates that it works for rather complex grammars [2] on realistic input [3].

[1] https://fransfaase.github.io/MCH2022ParserWorkshop/IParseStu...
[2] https://fransfaase.github.io/MCH2022ParserWorkshop/C_grammar...
[3] https://fransfaase.github.io/MCH2022ParserWorkshop/scan_pc.t...
Because Russia is a trustworthy actor that always acts in a logical way? They literally invaded a one of the biggest countries in Europe with 40 million inhabitants, nobody can be that stupid to think they can forcibly control that much land and humans. And yet, they invaded.
It's entirely possible the way our human brains work may very well end up reducible to a sequence of very very complicated matrix operations.

If that's the case, there doesn't need to be anything new; fundamentally, linear regressions may be sufficient.
Without all those tracking params https://twitter.com/shahselbe/status/1652679528660049920 and a nitter instance https://nitter.1d4.us/shahselbe/status/1652679528660049920

Also

> insulted women

The highest crime!

[EDIT] Archive of guardian link https://archive.is/4RSIb
Considering that 5G is newer than 4G and all the carriers upgrading to pack their users into 5G, I thought it would be future-prood to get there instead of using 4G. Other than that, I dont really _need_ 5G for bandwidth or anything. I'll check out the 4G options then!
Its a fascinating story. Musical systems vary significantly between cultures and there is much under-appreciated sophistication. The economic, political and technological dominance of the West for several centuries has put a lot of pressure on these separately evolved art forms: they did not fit the theoretical and practical systems of Western equal-temperament / harmonically oriented styles.

The harmonium story is a metaphor for an invasion of Western instruments (mostly during the early 20th century) that couldn't reproduce local music traditions. Developments like the guitar replacing the oud and other non-fretted string instruments have playd out in many places (though I don't know of any place banning the guitar :-)

What is interesting (and appropriate for HN) is that the "dematerialization" of music production from the shift to digital frees up musicians to explore all these facets without being constrained by instrumental limitations (though we must keep in mind that constraints are a major trigger for creativity).
Am I the only one who sees the technical aspect here: They literally write in this article that this is about embedding web pages next to the chat/email/whatever. That means in-memory over contracted hosting api etc. When I would own, e.g. MS Teams or Outlook, the hell I would love to have a dependency on the internal Firefox hosting API which can break any other day (just a example ... firefox is cool) or introducing unwanted side behavior.

Looking at the bigger M365 vision of embedding snippets of documents/chats/stuff-from-the-graph into every other asset. Having there a free-variable like a third party browser will make this a horrible thing to manage. Same also goes for App Store deploy to desktop: a stable html/css/js SDK is needed there as well.

I would absolutely hate Microsoft's monopolistic behavior, but this thing, IMHO, it is not. There are better example (e.g. what they do with VS Code or the .NET Debugger/HotReload) then this concrete case.
Edge and Chrome use the same engine, don’t they?

So the correct iOS parallel is not Apple’s refusal to allow non-WebKit engines. But Apple’s hypothetical refusal to allow links to be opened in WebKit-flavored Firefox. Which, for the record, it does let you do.