skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing with you, but there's substance to what the sister-in-law is claiming. I've had a few (not many, but frequent enough) mistakes from very highly produced books, from high-profile celebrity chefs - case in point Thomas Keller. As I was measuring out the ingredients I thought no way this could be right, I'm an experienced home cook and baker. Went with the recipe against my instincts anyway and it turned out quite bad. Especially when the recipe is adapted from a pro kitchen, they make gargantuan portions of stuff, and when reduced for the home cook, the portion and ratio don't necessarily get tested. There are also egregious substitution advice blithely thrown in, for example the Bouchon Bakery cookbook tells you to heat river rocks (but not sedimentary rocks! lol wut?) in your oven and throw water on them to create steam. If you follow this advice you're likely to ruin your oven when one of these rocks explodes. The pros use steam-injected ovens, the test kitchen uses steel chains, but this "use river rock" thing was probably thrown in there by a non-baking intern and I can promise you they never tested this.

Except for rare pockets, the state of Internet recipes is utter garbage. Get a good foundational cookbook, cook and learn from your experience, which no shortcut can substitute. The people who do test their recipes as far as I know, are Cooks' Illustrated and America's Test Kitchens (they're the same company I think).
Mostly because writers think carmelized means sauté until brown.
Yes this is pretty much the basic ol' "hey AI, pretend to be this person". It's somewhat sufficient, but eventually the initial instructions will drift out of context and it'll only have the conversation so far to deduce how it should act, and it'll eventually break character. Should be more interesting when proper fine tuning is done for specific personalities besides the "obedient corporate drone" that OpenAI likes to tune for.
There is nothing natural about it. Neither is for example chemical poisoning that wipes out people "natures way".
No clue but if you want learn/finetuned ML use a Linux box otherwise you will spend all your time fighting your machine. If you just want to run models Mac might work.
There is a real difference between starting a business and running it at a loss before reaching profitability and consciously entering a contract, where you know you are producing at a loss ( and your contract partner benefits ) that only furthers your profitability gap. If this is the opening bid, it is highly unlikely it will get better. If anything, it will only get worse. You don't make it up in volume when you sell at a loss already.

<< If they don't do it, someone else will

That is the interesting part. The pressure is so high that people are willing to forego their own self-interest and basic critical thinking skills, because someone will do it at or below cost anyway. It is great for Walmart, but it would explain why so many businesses fail so hard. They are way too nice to the other party.
Wow, almost makes me want to give them my data to prove them wrong. :')
I don't think anyone's suggesting that the solution is to attempt to cure greed.

Indeed, everything I've seen about this seems to be focusing more on acknowledging that these companies are greedy, and will use any opportunity to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense (and, often, at their future expense—short-term thinking is a big part of it too). Once we acknowledge that, we can work on ways to counteract its effects, and prevent the worst excesses that the greed would otherwise bring.
I'd be surprised if schools with metal detectors don't have active shooter drills. Mass shooters aren't deterred by metal detectors. They show up armed and walk into the building shooting.

Metal detectors are better at preventing situations like gang violence where rivals carry every day "just in case".
Tenor is owned by Google, which is all the more confusing for why the Giphy sale was blocked by UK regulators.
20 years makes no sense whatsoever.

You can make a pretty good self-replicating virus-like AI now based on the Vicuna LLM model. Just give it directions to install a virus that makes copies of its own model and software and replicates.

Nvidia has a "superchip" coming out this they are advertising as 10 times faster than the previous generation (I assume H100 or something).

We know that these models can be optimized, such as the huge speed increase between gpt-3.5 and gpt-3.5-turbo.

So that is something like a 20-70X efficiency increase with existing technologies/techniques that just haven't been fully deployed.
Not to diss on Haskell, but to illustrate the difference: There's an entire HaskellX 2022 talk about "language extensions we use, extensions we are cautious about, extensions we never use". There are many ways to solve problems in Haskell; and mostly only one or two ways to do things in Elm. The most choice I can think of is in context of parent-child communication (Config pattern, OutMsg, flat Msg type). Most everything else has a single obvious solution.

Yes, sometimes the simplicity of the language leaves you wanting a bit more power (typeclasses, macros) but the code quality seems (to me) better with the constrained language than with the unconstrained one.
Are you suggesting his movements in this one measure were so unique that they exactly doubled the length of one eighth note?

At some point I think we have to put the “it was a freak accident that was repeated with precision over and over, forever” argument to bed.
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Here's a 7 footer climbing a chainlink fence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DMjQJD7vM

A 5 or so footer doing the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq3ymZkfVc

And another massive gator that just bends a metal fence like it's Play-doh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67hsRXcLjA

That being said, a fit human being is definitely going to be a much better climber than a gator. And it's extremely rare they ever go after full size adults (kids are more at risk).
LLM for technical audiences, and AI for non-technical audiences, I think.
I was under the impression that you can't avoid drift due to fundamental properties of calculus, but it sounds rad if I'm wrong.
And police sirens at 3am. One of the reasons I left San Francisco, and now live in Venice, Italy.
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Even PrivateGPT does that, using Chroma as vector DB
I default to immediately asking GPT4 to review its solution and fix any mistakes it finds.

There’s also an interesting paper about providing it guidance that it can make a “tree of thoughts” which allows it to move forward and backwards as it comes up with solutions then present its best solution to you. The paper suggests you can squeeze a lot more performance out of LLM’s (even smaller ones) this way. I’ve been wanting to experiment with my prompting in this fashion: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10601.pdf
The problem is that, unlike with LLMs where a human always can and should fact check/reword before using, there is no such option with self driving. People's lives are literally directly at stake if things go wrong.

For limited scenarios such as geofenced to a city with good weather, it seems that self driving cars (at least Waymo's tech) is good enough, baring some small lapses which are more funny than dangerous. As a general thing everywhere? To me it doesn't look like we're even close (like 10 years) to being there. Also, the problems actually instead of supposedly being solved by self-driving are... very minimal. There will be no noticeable improvement in things that matter the most on the global scale (pollution, congestion, time spent), only marginal practical and maybe financial improvements (there might be more and cheaper taxis).

Self-driving electric trains are already a solved problem that could solve probably the majority of transportation needs, congestion and pollution all in one go.
I’m a co-author on one recent (cited) work, Meteor. The challenge in LLM/stego is that the model outputs a probability-weighted vector at each step. Ordinarily you just sample a token from this vector using a random number generator. For stego the idea is to sample from that vector using a string of (pseudorandom) input bits that represent your message, in a way that (1) gives you a valid sampling distribution and (2) is recoverable, meaning that given a second copy of the model plus each token it outputs you can recover the bits used to sample. The first part is relatively easy, it’s the second part that’s “hard” in the sense that you either waste a lot of bits (meaning an inefficient covertext) or you end up with sampling that isn’t statistically identical to a random sampling approach. In Meteor we used a practical approach that’s fairly efficient but trades a bit of statistical perfection. This paper focuses more on the theory of how to do this optimally, which is nice! I don’t fully understand the result right now (it’s a tough paper to read) but this kind of theoretical improvement inspired by previous work is nice.
It's what the "groove" of a riff is made of -- together with the micro changes in palm muting, the way the pick is held and used... these make up the Metallica sound the way it is.

More in general, it's absolutely wrong to think that modern music, especially rock, is adequately represented on a score or tablature, there's so much missing information on timing, volume, color...
I agree. It's interesting because nearly all the GIF searches I use on a regular basis are terrible, yet I wouldn't be too perturbed if I were given relevant/funny/interesting GIFs that contained product placement (say, a GIF for "cheers!" might be someone raising a glass of Coke).

I think the problem might be that advertisers can't control context. Someone might say something vile (but legal) on Twitter and get lots of meme GIFs in the replies that advertisers would be very unhappy about, and it's a more direct connection than having your sponsored tweet appear in the chain.
you know your game has made it, when it's ruled by a judge to be immorally addicting
Different languages are precise and vague in different domains.

For example English requires articles. You can have a book or the book. You cannot just have book. In my native language we don't have articles. If I want to specify it's "a" book I can (with the word to the effect of "some"), if I want to specify it's "the" book I can (with the equivalent of "this" or "that"). But by default we don't care.

On the other hand every verb encodes gender in my language. So when author wrote in English "Somebody in the audience said >I was with you<" - the translator has to guess what was the gender of that person. Because "was" is a different word depending on the gender of that person :)

EDIT: I'm -> I was, because in present tense verbs can be the same :)
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> You copy paste some implementation and modify it slightly at every use site?

Yes, or use macros. Not saying it's the most convenient, but that's an orthogonal concern.

You wouldn't say hand-written assembly isn't performant, so your objection strikes me as wrong.
Oh what about the infamous drop bears?
If it helps, I'm currently running a Windows kvm guest that runs WSL2, but I had to change my processor type.

Ubuntu 22.04 Host, virt-manager/ qemu/ kvm hypervisor
Win10x64 Guest, CPU model is set to "Broadwell-noTSX-IBRS"

It's definitely not as performant with this setting, but it gets the job done so I can run WSL2 and Docker Desktop in my Windows vm.

YMMV.
We share the same sentiments!
The “sorry the credit card machine is broken” scam is about as ludicrous as the homeless people asking me for $1. Buddy, I haven’t carried cash since the Obama administration. Half the time I don’t even carry a credit card.
I would love if Total War games had more complex strategic layer... The battles itself are great enough, maybe besides dumb AI sometimes and balance. On the other hand I had a lot of fun before campaign map economy became just balancing income and happiness. On the other hand, I never thought having armies a discrete entities on the map Heroes 3 style actually added any depth to the game.
...????? what? Distros are not saddled with any obligation towards defaults (for DEs at least). Were you not around for the whole Ubuntu + Unity debacle?
When I was a post grad I could make less than I would at McDonalds for work I was volontold to do.

I did the smart thing and quit. When you select for people who don't do the smart thing and want to be exploited in exchange for prestige they get exploited.
> US customers have been buying large vehicles, but that doesn't mean the customers have been the ones driving the trend.

which in turn means that markets are not really self-regulating or demand-driven
Ok but banning encryption seems akin to banning combustion.
I thought it was spelled out quite clearly in TFA: "GFNI".

GFNI Was only added to AMD CPUs in Zen4, basically the "just released" server CPUs (codename: Genoa) which are currently quite difficult to procure, even 6 months after announcement.
I've been to Russia and China and didn't get lynched. Didn't notice my country providing bodyguards.
I think the real thought exercise is how does one resolve this problem? What are the avenues to correct this? Seems like this is much more of a political problem to solve than it is a legal one.
The magic of banking is that retail depositors don’t have to trust them.
... or you've used bluetooth after setting it up, without a hitch for years on some old computer and one day suddenly you need to pull out a smart phone and take some snaps for a report that needs to be finished in two hours ... arrive back and find nothing works wasting half a hour until realising that updating via a proper broadcom driver package might have seemed so clever and the interface looks pretty now, but it's basically f'in useless.

Sneaker net is why sd cards in my smart phones are not encrypted ...
What does viable mean here? So no springs, a plastic firing pin and a plastic barrel? Then there is the metallic case required to make it do any work. I guess you could use black powder and a wooden match. Don't forget the plastic projectile.
> Shutterstock is selling images with license (!), that's certainly a more stable business model than "crowd-sourced image-hosting".

It definitely used to be one at least, but with the rise of automatic generation I wonder how well will Shutterstock be in the next 5 years.
Unintended Side Effects
Not sure you'd need to disentangle it. Any given millisecond you'd move forward+up, forward+down, forward+port, forward+starbaord. Add them all up and you'd known that you'd mostly gone forward.
I think they’re accepting the fact that it’s crazy tough to gain market share and requires MILLIONS in ad spending. Sometimes it’s better to have a small piece of a large pie, especially when trying to bootstrap its brand, instead of taking a much bigger slice of a minuscule pie
lol, one day I was asked for direction from 3 different people walking in the wrong direction that were using googlemaps!
Alas, if you serve US customers (which they do) you need to abide by US financial rules.
<Nearly all Buddhist teachings IMO are bullshit and just enforcing natural hierarchy.>

That is as sweeping a statement as one could make about Buddhism.
Though the 808's timing grid is rigid, its timing is notably jittery to the degree that users of more modern and precise drum machines go out of their way to recreate said jitteriness: https://www.elektronauts.com/t/simulating-the-808-909-mpc-gr...
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The closest a human can arrive to AI drumming levels is Tomas Haake of Meshuggah. [Reference](https://youtu.be/bAJ1WTGNISk).
Sadly the state of LSP's Wingman (hls-tactics-plugin) is somehow typical for Haskell. This LSP plugin has been responsible for things like case splits (automatically filling out all branches of a `case` expression).
It does not work with GHC >= 9.2 because of changes in GHC's `exactprint API` - the problem is adding the generated source in the AST to get the correctly formatted source code into the text editor. GHC does _actually_ move fast and breaks tooling related things (not "old" source code, they are wary of that).

Conclusions:

I've been AFK from HLS development for a few months. Let me give you my status.

I do not find myself excited to work on GHC-related refactoring tools. I personally find that the stability and quality of the ghc-exactprint API has made it unpleasant for me to work on new refactoring tools.

Alan Zimmerman has done absolutely fantastic work on the ghc-exactprint API, and the effort is genuinely leviathan. I'm not exaggerating - it's a mind-boggling amount of work.

However, the result is still not easy enough to work with (for me) to make me want to work on it. I had a massive amount of energy and spent well over 60 hours on tactics and code actions. And by the end, I realized I could not trust that a future version of GHC wouldn't simply break all of it again.

https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/issues/35...

Original issue:
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/issues/29...
They did start from there, and they improved it quite a bit. https://github.com/daveshap/HeuristicImperatives

But none of that stuff prevents someone from just not giving it those types of rules, or deliberately designing it to gain control over its environment.
If he actually publishes any well done research - I don’t think this is such a bad thing. I suspect it’ll suffer from not having enough participants to really make great claims about what is most effective for everyone but maybe it’ll be a more effective starting point for more broad trials among the general population.

Right now though, I do worry that he’s just spending money ineffectively and no one but some grifters gets anything out of this.
> The US Department of Commerce said it strongly opposed the action, which it said had “no basis in fact.”

Political rhetoric. From my memory and quick search, the Huawei ban also had "no basis in fact." It was conducted with very little to no facts given publicly (unless I missed a major media outlet explanation) yet led to $2 billion in taxpayer cost [0].

Of course this doesn't mean Huawei doesn't have the capability or susceptibility to compromise a nation's security... but my point is, the same holds true for Micron.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/reimbursement
Yet so-called "hate speech" moderation on sites like Reddit tends to be a lot stricter than the law, often going as far as removing facts that might offend some group.
The only issue for me was that sims would choose the shortest path, not the fastest, leading to traffic problems which were very hard to solve. This I learned later from the Internet, at the time I didn't know it and I was just perplexed as to why they wouldn't take a newly built highway. Otherwise, excellent game.
3,400 San Francisco buildings may be at severe earthquake risk
TIL that C cannot be used for serious projects
Uber has saturated a lot of markets and might have a better legal foothold then Waymo/Google can spin up in a short time span.

Maybe this is just Google finally admitting it sucks at a variety of business processes and needs help.
Whenever these things come up, I'm always grateful toward my past self who opted out of academia and pursued industry. The entire system of placing your fate in the hands of disinterested, self motivated, senior faculty and researchers seemed very risky to me at the time. Plus the money has been nice. But I do feel like I missed out on some intellectual growth. YMMV.
thou there is a lot more in gasoline than energy and CO2
That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on you airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month.
I think google offloaded most of that stake when Uber went public
Thats exactly the point I think, there are tons of people that for one reason or another (and it is none of our business to know) that are completely alone in their daily life, I don't see how a chatbot that effectively helps you (because it's being coded to do so) could be detrimental and not beneficial, they already have nothing.
> Of course we can reflect on actual cognitive processes such as forgetting or learning

Is there any actual evidence that our so-called reflections on our own thinking are anything more than hallucinations?

"It's obvious" doesn't count as evidence.
What Sport?... How can I live like that?... (I live in Mexico)
I'm afraid the truth is more boring: it's just a slightly misplayed 3/4 bar. It occurs during the guitar solo section and is actually very clearly 3/4 there. During the verses they just play it a little faster, probably because they weren't actually fully aware that they were turning it into a 3/4 bar, they just found a riff they liked and played it slightly faster because it sounded cool. That's really it.
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> We need a lot more automation to start with since the labor pool is going to dry up

Automating what? The idea of production is to make things for people. As people are exterminated, there is less need for that level of production and the labour.

> We need to fund our social safety nets somehow.

The elderly has a gigantic amount of wealth as it is right now. They can finance all safety nets needed for their elderly peers, but prefer to just tax the youth even more and if that means young people can't afford families that's no concern of them.
Possibly. How do you propose we prove otherwise?
The Transformers song almost certainly doesn't have that weird break as written. The Youtuber spends 18 minutes trying to figure out the music for what is most likely a production artifact - the recorded music didn't line up with the animation beats, so they did a hard cut on the audio track to make it fit.
There wasn't a high level goal. I was a student who was frustrated that a knife in a kids backpack was a huge issue, but the dozens of knives already in school were fine.
Waymo already has to deal with local governments.
Longer term there is danger that adversaries will simply shoot down GPS satellites instead of jamming them. Current anti-satellite weapons can only hit targets in LEO but I'm sure that Russia and China are researching ways to target higher orbits.
"... Famous historic sites, low-income apartments and Twitter's headquarters all appear on a previously unpublished draft list of 3,407 concrete buildings in San Francisco that may be at high risk of collapse in a major earthquake, according to a copy of a city government document obtained by NBC News through a public records request..."
The US government can run warrantless wiretaps by sending Section 702 data requests to communications providers (iCloud, Gmail, FB Messenger, Skype, etc.) on people who aren't US citizens who live outside the US if they are suspected to be relevant to national security (email communications, chat communications, etc.). US law allows the FBI to search these foreigner's communications for mentions of Americans who are suspected to pose a national security risk without a warrant. Any other searches of this data related to Americans requires a court order.

Here is a better article by a reporter who understands what the government's report said: https://archive.is/jgWUt
I enjoyed the connection between modern corporate behavior and wire-heading, it's a thought provoking way of viewing capitalism. I also view this as the most likely danger: people or corporations using AI for their own twisted goals, rather than a rogue autonomous agent.
I am jealous of your problems. Many of us have to work with the best obsolete tech that is still compatible with even more obsolete tech.
No record.