skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no "deepfake". There wasn't even a badly photoshopped picture. Someone took a screenshot from a pornographic film where the actor bears a resemblance to him (albeit faintly), and then released it from a Twitter account belonging to an impersonator of an insider. He quit the race for two reasons 1) His predicted vote count was decreasing a lot, he lost a lot of support 2) There was a lot of pressure from the opposition. He knew that if Erdogan won, millions of people would blame him and his political career would be over.
Last time this discussion came up, someone pointed out there's a significant difference actually. If I recall correctly, there's three different kinds of vitamin D, D1, D2 and D3, and there's a fairly big gap in the bioavailability of synthetic vs animal-based vitamin D. I can't find that comment right now though, so take this with a pinch of salt.
That's Utilitarianism of the kind that e.g. Eliezer preaches.

Which leads to the question, are all longtermists really utilitarians like that? (The article seems to insist, even while acknowledging that at least some explicitly say they're not.)
> You are freeloading no matter how much sophistry you try to cloak it with.

I'm not trying to cloak anything - of course it's freeloading. So what? We're all freeloading, all the time, on all the millions of things millions people have made and given away over the internet. Google didn't make those videos they're sharing, after all - they got that stuff for free!

If Google decides they no longer want to participate in the sharing economy, that's their business.

> what you’re doing is no different from someone hopping the fare gate on a subway or bus

There is no fare gate on this subway. There are no toll collectors; there are no tolls. Everyone rides for free. This transit network is paid for by the vendors running shops inside the stations, who hope to profit from the foot traffic. They can hope all they want that I will make purchases in their stores on my way to and from the train - but maybe I'm just not going to.
This seems like it could be a game changer. Modern LLM based applications face a balancing act of context limitations, which often results in some kind of mapreduce-type behavior when that context can’t fit the input

If contexts keep growing, the landscape of LLM application engineering will as well
Yup. In my experience coaching novice rowers, even the smartest people suddenly become really stupid the moment they pick up an oar, and need to have a simple, actionable training goal.

The movement is already hard enough to master without complicating things. All the detailed stuff and the "why" can come after a year or two of training. Before that you'd just be wasting your time.
You can't necessarily reach that conclusion.

Big tech employs more people than startups, which means it's more likely for someone to get a job at big tech than a startup. It's just a law of numbers and has nothing to do with whether they're suited for startup life or big tech life.

In addition, in the US, foreign students who just graduated are more likely to get a job at big tech than startup because more big tech sponsor H1B/Green card than startups. And the fear/circumstances around losing your immigration status means more of them might opt for big-tech than startup
Wow! Not my kind of workbench but I appreciate a well organized workbench. The site looks like an excellent resource if I ever wanted to get into this hobby.
TextWrangler was a spin-off product giving some of BBEdit for free
Kikodo App Creator
A new way to create/publish learning apps instantly.
Round vs. precise % offers affect impasse risk in over 25M eBay negotiations
You're overthinking this. Most of those (I did accidentally include GS-12 in my search, didn't mean to, so a couple jobs cap at GS-12) have a pay grade spread from something like GS-7 to GS-13 or even GS-15. You wouldn't be getting hired in at anything below GS-12 if you've got more than a year or two of professional experience and a degree. And if you've got a masters degree and 10+ years of experience, getting hired in at GS-13 is not too hard a sell anymore (it would've been a decade or so ago).
We've bought an oyster mushroom kit from him, as well as some soil inoculum. From an ecological standpoint I wonder how genetically diverse his inoculum strains are, and whether they can crowd out native strains of fungi.
We don't need to solve everything now.

The headline is still good and doesn't need to be more specific to be good news.
@qazxcvbnm I don't understand: you don't want to use the chrome debugger but also don't want to use an IDE debugger... it's not clear what would meet your needs and wants, you're rejecting all the main options.

Here's an overview of some of the tools in case that's useful: https://sequoia.makes.software/debugging-nodejs-talk/#55
Would be great to see some benchmarks on how loss changes across this very large context. It’s been technically possible to do 1mln+ token context for some time with performance deterioration so it would be interesting to see how this compares to those efforts
I extracted tags from here https://lobste.rs/tags and expanded on that just from having spent a lot of time on HN
I get that it's the recommended path, it's been recommended since that first study in Australia and has had zero effect on peanut allergy rates even though # of people feeding peanut butter to their children under 1 has increased significantly.
I have read "The Millionaire Next Door" and I mostly agree with its analysis of entrepreneurship and inter-generational wealth, it's hard to stay a millionaire.

But I think these empirical studies are a bit silly when they describe what happens in a system that accumulates wealth in the hands of a few. Once you pass a certain critical mass, it becomes very difficult to lose power. But if you are just moving up into a slightly higher tax bracket, it's still easier to revert to the mean. By definition most people will return to the mean.

The issue is what happens when people are in the long tail of ultra-wealth. How does it affect the health of our society?
It would be trivial to configure multiple LLMs to track a student's progress in real time and ensure the optimal difficulty gradient for maximum learning. It could even detect when you should go outside and play.

The rejection of LLMs for education by otherwise intelligent people is disheartening.
I keep a guitar at work and when I'm hung up, I'll close my door and noodle for a bit. It's surprising just how often once I'm able to stop thinking about a problem, the answer appears.
I think vit. D is generated from a reaction of a protein with UVB.

UVA is rather destructive, so I would assume that’s what’s going on — to much UV-A on a part of the shroom that by design is shielded from direct exposure, is basically breaking everything down.

That’s my .02.
Price is determined by scarcity/abundance...

You got halfway there; the other half is artificial scarcity.
It solves the problem because there is no expectation to socially ensure every owner operated business is profitable.

If I open a hot dog stand or buy a taxi cab, nobody cares if I pay myself minimum wage or even make a profit.
Me too! I have never used airtable before but have heard of it. I needed an inventory system but I wasn't satisfied with the options I found so I created my own. Right now it is rudimentary but it can import BoM, export to CSV, "build" BoM's (auto-deduct from inventory), octopart API integration for grabbing component info/specs, and all of this compiled to single binary for lightweight selfhosting.

https://github.com/phcreery/partman
The problem is there are no public benchmarks usually so it is hard to really compare on long context lengths to see if they are still performing equally intelligent of tasks.
How do I sign-up? What is the cost?
“The” human genome was always a misnomer
A workflow where the person doesn't understand that RAM isn't wasted and it just their utility to show usage is wrong. Imagine being mad at file system cache being stored in RAM.
> Exciting to see competition across LLMs for increasing context window size.

Maybe. I think the debate is going to continue about prompt optimization vs. context window size.

A while ago, I had a rather interesting conversation with GPT-3.5 about forgetting things. Knowing what to forget, or delete from the prompt, may be just as important as what to put in it.

Putting the kitchen sink into the prompt probably isn't going to help much, past a certain point and it may be putting certain things in there based on time and context is a better strategy.
Is he really a slacker?

To my limited knowledge, "Don't try" is to say do something that you don't need effort to start doing, something that doesn't feel like a chore to you, something that you are passionate about.

He also mentioned going hungry a lot for his passion.

I don't think that someone who perseveres through all that is a slacker, but again, my understanding is limited.
> make sure workers and the state own stock and receive dividends from publicly traded companies

and also lose money when those public companies lose value?
On Ashton Kutcher and Secure Multi-Party Computation
Let's go hiking.
You are way ahead of me and should be proud of the work you're putting in. Remember that quality matters too and helped people help others.
This is an interesting theory. My experience has been quite the opposite, in that typically jobs that people care about and connect with on an emotional level are those which pay relatively little. Teaching, social work, caring, and so on.
I was looking around a few weeks back for any new development on the e-ink monitor front and came across the Boox Mira. There is a 25" monitor and a 13" portable one as well. Pretty pricey for what it is though but the typing experience seems decent.

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mira
https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro
Not sure about this one but you can usually ask multiple questions in one shot at least
Yeah, I write all my new stuff in JS (React frontend, Node backend) and have never felt the need for defining my own classes. Wasn't actively avoiding them either. React was fully centered around classes and they ditched all that in the new hooks system.

I also don't understand the big deal with arrow functions. Yeah I use them, but they're basically regular functions except slightly shorter to write. `async` was a big improvement, though.
Like all those Microsoft developers, who worked long hours, made their company $15B in profit last quarter (and $5B in stock buybacks) and are now not getting any raises?
Because they were the most well known of the affected companies and they didn't really do much to repair the goodwill the issue cost them.

Sure, they "put up $300 million for repairs" according to https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/dell..., but I bet the lions share of that went to their largest purchasers, so the people who blew their school's IT budget on Dell computers were just SOL.
Entrepreneurship... and you thought working 10-hour days was a lot. <grin>
A quick introduction to the WPE WebKit Project
> What you really just lose is patience for BS :)

I bailed from coding after full-day Java debugging session that made no progress. Way too stressful at+after some age.

So the BS was technical, not peoplal.
> I don't care about the products we build for someone else (why should I?)

I mean, this obviously depends on the kind of product - is it some biotech to make someone's life better, or is it a gambling website tuned to suck the most out of whales? As engineers we're much better placed than most people to do something meaningful with our work, and sticking with a job where you don't see that value is a pity. But if you just don't care about building something for someone else... maybe you should change that? As you say, there's little choice in whether you have to do it (unless you win the lottery or something), why not make a goal out of it and get some enjoyment out.
Of course not. We are talking about possibility to have businesses who will mostly employ local workers and mostly use local resources, some will maybe even pay fair local taxes, but whose majority of profits will move out of the country. Thus, wealth extraction.
Ah, of course. Techbros/girls and eugenics, a match made in heaven. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tumblr-blog-linked-ex-al...
Masc presenting non-binary AMAB and I definitely carry a man purse and I agree it's amazing and I love it. Definitely taking an adjustment period to be fully comfortable with it.
I've read most of his books/publications, his work is good (and generally reproducable), but he is somewhat prone to grand statements.

Thing is, a lot of labs will largely ignore fungi because they are fucking awkward to work with
Most people get to the optional thing when they reach retirement age.
Generation is more expensive than the prompt input (for Claude v1, generation is 3x the cost; for GPT-4 it's 2x the cost)

It makes the economics slightly trickier.
Could this contribute to people's nostalgia that the past was so much better? Because they were not really getting all the news. My grandparents will swear kidnappings never happened in the 50s when they were kids. The reality is, they happened but were not reported as they are today. Does this contribute to their view of, "the wold is so much worst today!" Is the reality that, the world only seems worst, but in reality isn't much different? Do we really prefer a world where kidnappings are hardly reported and not have much of a far reaching effect?
Are there publicly-available performance results?
they didn’t lose them, they retained with revenue contraction by restructuring the deal to make sense
Older dev here.

I went from junior dev / 'young hacker' type profile, to a VP and exec level management of SMB class orgs, also did Silicon Valley roles in both eng and management.

My take, by far experience makes you able to solve problems in a way that is basically not possible taking a 'young hacker' approach. I can't say anything about cognitive decline other than forgetting my car keys - when it comes to tech the muscle memory seems to vastly overcome that plus some.

I think what we mistake for age decline often - is time allocation related. I know younger devs working and sleeping at office (and loving it). Where I can't do this due to many factors - kids, family, hobbies, overall a larger desire for non work related time. This explains the majority of 'knowledge gap' I see at work. Domain knowledge, especially if the tech debt variety only gets one so far however. In my experience leveraging experience and judgement far outweighs knowing a flavor of month curly brace language syntax.

The single biggest detriment to techie career progress I see is 'writing the wrong software'. Startups that go nowhere. Projects with no value. Solutions with no problem to solve. The 'slightly pessimistic' bias experience gives when writing software seems to catapult one -way- beyond what's possible otherwise. In fact this same bias I think is what enables engineers more experienced to drive up productivity of entire teams/orgs/corporations even.

This reminds me of the old joke about a very expensive consultant after fixing machine with one hit of a hammer. "My price includes 1% cost to swinging hammer, 99% to knowing where to hit."
We need public benchmarks.

This is incredibly fast progress on large contexts and I would like to see if they are actually attending equally as well to all of the information or there is some sparse approximation leading to intelligence/reasoning degradation.
Yeah I’m here for my job guaranteed by the state, and no way to get wealthy enough to escape the money printer that’s providing basic income.

You need hard money before you attempt this.
And just to confirm Reid Hoffman and YC's affilation: https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/1656675146588110850
With embeddings, you essentially can. Group the book into sections, embed each section, then when you do a prompt, add in the N most similar embedded sections to your prompt.
Very interesting, got into level 6 then got a bit bored.

For eduction purpose would be cool to explain rules after the fact.

Small feedback: when there is an appeal, I'm not sure wether green means approving the appeal or stay with the initial decision.
> especially so knowing why the ratio was chosen

My understanding was that the advantages of A4 are more practical than aesthetic. Is that not true?
There has got to be a number of fascinating tricks that they're using to support context lengths that long. Shame it's all closed-source.
You have a good point. I'm thinking of prototyping more generic "stuff" with that setup. For my own work (mostly amateur radio stuff) the setup is quite different.

I also noticed that the scope was only 50 MHz and the power supply was... ungreat.
No, it doesn't on my non-us Samsung phone...
So currently 9% of the city budget is spent on police and you are suggesting we increase that to 40%?

That is a better solution than building more housing?

A community is a social construct, you have to keep a lot of things in balance for it to work properly. The most important part is giving people a roof over their heads. Overpaying for police (or teachers, or nurses, etc) isn't going to save the day. It's the same reason you can't buy your way out of the homelessness problem!
Every time I pick up my Kobo I imagine it being exactly that - two of them connected with a hinge.
The Futility of Trying
https://archive.ph/ui4ab
People have the option to buy a share of the economy assuming they have enough spare cash lying around to do so. People in most places are not currently entitled to a share of the economy. Many places, however, have set up sovereign wealth funds which do allow the population at large to benefit from the economy.
where u at?
https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/...
Under us law 1099 contractors are still employees. However, if you set up a sole proprietorship, you can engage in business to business contracts. In that scenario the counterparty is not responsible for any employee obligations.
I blame Substack.
Is it the way the industry works, or is the way open source works? Pyrex had basically one person behind it (again, from what I can tell), and Cython currently has ~1 major person behind it. Not enough manpower to support such large endeavors.

Ideally, government or industry would get behind these projects and back them up. Evidently Microsoft is doing that for Python. For whatever reason, Cython and Pyrex both failed to attract that kind of attention. Hopefully it will be different with Mojo.

Here's to 5 years!
Reddit. r/electronics. Workbench Wednesdays.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/?f=flair_name%3A%22Work...
There's also a lot to be said for having fewer footguns. One reason I liked CoffeeScript is that it actually removed JS footguns such as "with", ==, etc.

I'd rather either Clojure or Java to using Scala and having all the possible complexity and interactions between paradigms it makes possible. Sometimes less is more.
<4x would be quite optimistic, at ~11x the tokens the amount of compute/memory required would be n^10 (even with the lower starting point of flash attention) so unless they are already have excessive margins it wouldn't make much sense to go that low.
Primitive types are really annoying.

If they were about what user needs not about underlying hardware they'd be fine.

I dont care about int, long, float or double.

I care about number to represent whole amount, or fractional amount or approximate amount with operations that work accordingly lile approximate comparison of approximate numbers. Approximations for when I care about approximation error and for when I don't. Number that are limited to the ranges I care about not some arbitrary MAX_INT. Numbers that have units so that I won't accidently assigned a length to a variable that should hold mass.

So yeah, as they are primitive types do introduce unnecessary complexity and none useful complexity unless you want to work close to the metal.
Uber was only cheaper than taxis when they were artificially dumping the price. They're now far more expensive and they're still losing money hand over fist.

Taxi drivers were never working to pay the salaries of hundreds/thousands of SWEs, international sales teams etc.

The medallion system is specific to a few cities and has major issues in even fewer. People talk about taxis as if every city is New York.
Can LLMs take advantage of this bigger window to solve meaningful tasks though? I can't imagine in the training data, knowing what happened 100k tokens ago would be _that_ relevant to predicting the current token very often, so unless this is something that the model learns to leverage more implicitly, I'd be a bit pessimistic.
Active shooter events are but one way to get shot in the US.

If we go look at other categories of shootings for 2022 we see that more than 20k people died from non-suicide gunshots.

And there were 647 mass shootings.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
Going to be absolutely expensive.
This deserves to be upvoted more. Trading your life for financial gain has diminishing returns. You'd think everybody's goal would to be free of servitude.
How is #3 supposed to work when #2 applies?

Especially when folks are already out there LLM-generating SEO-spam, so even "well the answer also came up in a Google search" isn't a sign of accuracy.
Ask HN: Will we see a change in SEO strategy to optimize for Bard/ChatGPT?
I personally have already shifted to using AI driven chat for search instead of Google in many applications. As this becomes more common, I'm wondering how SEO strategies for businesses will shift towards being featured in those responses vs. more traditional search engines?
It’s not just about what’s legal, it’s whatever the boss says
35,000x suddenly becomes 30,000x, not as impressive!
Most insurance plans have an out of pocket maximum, no?
This is what usually prevents me from understanding longtermist arguments. I'm not convinced think the average person from even ~100 years ago would be able to do anything about (what I would consider) most of the biggest problems of today, and besides structural changes (governance, suffrage, etc.) I don't know what they could realistically have foreseen as the correct thing to do to solve problems >= 100yrs out. Why would I presume to know the problems of >= 100 yrs from now? It seems like the obvious path is addressing structural issues, supporting effective research, and beating out various fires (all of which are pretty much neartermist concerns).

To abuse a thought experiment, I care about the child running through the woods 100 years from now as much as the child today, but I would place way, way higher likelihood of broken glass on the ground hurting the child today.
Sure, but I’m sure there are plenty of math professors living on low pensions with much higher IQs even in their old age — financial success is not particularly related to IQ. There is some correlation, but it has much more to do with privilege and luck.
If you look at the comment I originally replied to, OP says something like "when does conspiracy become fact". In having a enough conversations about the topic of conspiracy, you realize people are conflating conspiracy as laying(lying?) on the spectrum of likelihood. So when they say "when does conspiracy become fact?" it sounds like our understanding of the topic evolves from being a conspiracy to instead being a fact. Why would the conspiracy aspect vanish into thin air? If it was a conspiracy then now it is a conspiracy with some sort of proof. It appears this bizarre redefinition of the meaning of conspiracy came from its incessant association with the word theory. If OP had instead said "when does conspiracy _theory_ become fact" I would have no qualms with the usage. But its hilarious how there are people on either side of this stupidly generic debate who cannot even properly understand the usage of the word conspiracy.
Don't forget to ask the pay back if it turns out later that the developer introduced a bug during fhe paid period.