skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same concerns, but am feeling more comfortable about Munchausen-by-LLM not undermining Truth as long as answers are non-deterministic.

Think about it: 100 people ask Jeeves who won the space race. They would all get the same results.

100 people ask Google who won the space race. They'll all get the same results, but in different orders.

100 people ask ChatGPT who won the space race. All 100 get a different result.

The LLM itself just emulates the collective opinions of everyone in a bar, so it's not a credible source (and cannot be cited anyway). Any two of these people arguing their respective GPT-sourced opinions at trivia night are going to be forced to go to a more authoritative source to settle the dispute. This is no different than the status quo...
The thing is this isn’t some sort of group proposal/idea, but essentially a blog post by a not-very-famous MP. And it’s not crazy for a socialist MP from that part of Europe to think about a system like this - a system of decreased cost and increased access.
> I'd put in the same category as falling from a great height

Yeah, onto the surface of the sun.
That eliminates the risk of any angry customer with disabled ink.

However, the new problem is that most customers would rather have the current situation pay as you go situation than pay up front.

Id be dammed if I pay full price for a product AND a subscription. If it is a 50% discount (as advertised), the customer is still looking at 3 cartridges before they break even.
You could probably add Flesh Gordon
President Biden nominates a fresh face to break FCC deadlock
Not quite. Some people want bump Greeks. For example a company may have a standard bump.

Make of that what you will.
Market dip after an AI-generated hoax of an explosion at The Pentagon went viral
I agree with all your points. I don't see how it is a problem for a US citizen. Russia isn't a serious threat to the US, nor are they even really much of a threat to Europe if military spending is any indication.

If funds were unlimited, sure but right now we have other problems and can't afford it.
What charging stations will get me from Wisconsin to Washington state in a timely manner? I make the run in 40 hours over three days, typically.

In terms of time cost, I'd spend up to a full day charging (not including overnight charging, which means finding hotels with charging stations). In terms of short term cost, I'd save close to a 1000USD in fuel, which would be lovely. In terms of long term cost, as soon as I have an EV I'm signing up for a 40000USD bill to replace the battery packs in the future. No ICE car has that pending charge. My current car, almost 20 years old, needs at most 2000USD of work to get it into 'pristine' condition.

The issue with EVs is the sheer amount of infrastructure required to make them work, and all of that boils down to energy density. When batteries hit the same energy density as fossil fuels with the same environmental impact we'll be on to something. As it stands, the environmental burden and personal costs of EVs far outweigh the benefits.
so what's the api/tech powering the front end to this LLM api running on this super computer? and who pays for it?
The problem for you is that they were right. He proved that beyond all doubt when he attempted to overturn the election, and continues to lie about it to this day. That level of sociopathy has proven to be a literal national security threat.

And yeah, Hitlers are not hard to identify. They are psychopaths who find their way into positions of leadership. Like Trump. There’s nothing special or unique about Hitler —- he wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last.

But we don’t need Democrats to identify them, because they identify themselves with their actions (like trying to topple democracies when they lose elections). Some just notice it sooner than others, and now that Trump has made himself know as a psychopath beyond all doubt, we can look back and recognize those who called it years before he metastasized, and learn from the heuristics they used.
All code ends up as shit code. Misuse, poor maintenance, shifting contexts and rotating developers mean very little code stays good. It's fine. Accepting that bad code is fine and should just be documented as an opportunity for refactor and moving on is the path to a successful career/less frustrating life. You'll watch code you wrote, that at the time was fine, become terrible after you move away from that area. It's just a fact of life.

Also, you have 3 years experience, so you probably have very little understanding of what "good" and "bad" actually means, with respect to large software systems. Deadlines exist, priority calls need to be made, things have to be done for the sake of delivery. Not everything can be "good", but lots of "bad" code is actually just fine.

> (and learning about the code altogether)

If you're saying this, stop saying things are bad. You don't know what you don't know.

Read this, internalize it: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ By far the best resource I've ever found about thinking about legacy code.

> 1. In your engineering careers how often do you have to deal with shit code other people wrote

It's all shit, and most of the stuff we all write every day starts or becomes shit

> 2. If so, how do you deal with it? Psychologically and physically.

Escape the trap of binary thinking and accept that code serves a purpose and if that purpose is being met, it's fine.

> 3. Are there any resources online that can help me structure my thoughts around this problem.

Linked above.
Note - many wmf staff do not live in the usa. Some who do do not live in expensive parts of the usa.
No no; I'm saying that if you apply QM as it exists today to describe the motion of light beams around the sun, you will not get any effect similar to gravitational lensing. Since gravitational lensing is a real effect that we have clearly seen, it means that QM as it exists today is just wrong (in its predictions about how light moves around the sun).

GR does of course predict gravitational lensing. However, if you used the formulae of GR to compute the motion of photons passing through a double-slit experiment, the solution would show two different bright spots, corresponding to the two slits; in reality, we see an interference pattern. So GR is also wrong.

By definition, a (correct) theory of quantum gravity would predict both gravitational lensing and the way photons behave in a dobule-slit experiment (otherwise, we would say that either the theory is wrong, or it is not a theory of quantum gravity). However, no such theory exists today, at least none that doesn't contradict other observations.
> 1. In your engineering careers how often do you have to deal with shit code other people wrote?

Almost as often as I have to deal with shit code I wrote :)

> I'm in the process of fixing bugs (and learning about the code altogether).

This is exactly the way to deal with this situation. Until you understand the project's architecture you can't make an objective decision on how to improve things.

As you go along make sure that you're adding in relevant tests so that when you are in a position to make an objective change you can make sure you don't break the actual business logic of the project.
linux had a bitmap based "buddy allocator" (power of two), now it is not bitmap based anymore (complexity not worth it anymore, performance wise, namely simplicty was restored).

Then linux has various slabs(slub/slob/slab), built on top of the "buddy allocator".

Userlevel code shoud use non virtual address stable mmap-ed regions (slabs + offsets). Legacy "libc" services were built as virtual address stable services... which are kind of expensive to manage on a modern paginated system. Virtual address stable regions should be kept to a minimum (that horrible ELF static TLS). There is a workaround though (but linux overcommit default policy could kill your process): a user process would query the amount of ram on the system and mmap a region of roughly (care of the overcommit policy) the same size, only once per process life-time. Then you could have a virtual address stable region which could use most if not all the available ram (excluding hot-memory addition...). Should be very easy to manage with lists.
My physics teacher in high school was a former SR-71 pilot and loved to tell brief stories of what is was like to fly over the Soviet Union in an SR-71.

Most of his stories very short and usually ended in "I can't tell you any more than that because it's classified". I could tell that there was so much he wanted to tell, but couldn't.

I saw his name mentioned in an article about an SR-71 that had to make an emergency landing in Norway, so I bet he'd have some really interesting things to say if it weren't mostly classified.
I think OpenAI is building a moat right in front of us through their plug-ins idea.

Executed well, plug-ins could become ChatGPT's App Store equivalent. Once that happens, OpenAI is undoubtedly going to convert a portion of search traffic into agent delegated work i.e., people will use ChatGPT to start and terminate their searches essentially delegating the work of collating data from multiple sources to ChatGPT.

FD - I've applied to release a ChatGPT plug-in and this space looks very interesting to me.

PS - Earlier today, I submitted to HN a link to my blog where I analyzed plugins. The HN post sank without a trace but the I wrote my blogpost using the Wolfram plugin in ChatGPT and it was a breeze. I genuinely feel I've seen the future.
You're right that from an observer outside of the event horizon, a black hole hasn't happened yet (and never will).

There's a fun thought experiment to be had here. We're all familiar with the concept of "going back in time". Even though the math doesn't check out and our imaginations of what that looks like are totally impossible, it's something we can (and often like to) imagine.

Now, what happens when you move backwards not in time, but in space? And I don't mean changing your direction 180 degrees, but moving backwards within the confines of space. So, if your present coordinates are (X, Y, Z), you move "backwards in space" 5 meters such that no matter what your direction of motion, if you move "forwards in space" by 5 meters you end up right where you started, at (X, Y, Z). You're basically creating an inverted bubble around (X, Y, Z) and making it so that all possible paths lead "outward" toward (X, Y, Z). Any point that is A meters away from (X, Y, Z) is actually A+5 meters away from you.

In a 2-D world this can be modeled with a third dimension. We all live on a flat plain but someone on a 5-meter hill is actually farther away than their 2-dimensional coordinates would imply. You're able to move away from a point in 2-D space without changing your 2-D coordinates (because you're actually moving in another dimension).

For 3D space, this extra dimension is time itself. The only way to move "backwards" in a comprehensible sense within 3 dimensions is by moving backwards within time. So, I'm not actually moving 5 meters "backwards" within space but moving backwards in time such that I will appear at (X, Y, Z) in 3-D space at precisely the same time it would take me to move forward 5 meters. I'm blipped out of space until such time has passed to allow me to reach (X, Y, Z) again, so I've successfully "moved backwards in space" by 5 meters. So, if I move "backwards in space", then I'm really putting (X, Y, Z) in front of me time-wise.

So, what's the center of a black hole? We can imagine it has coordinates (X, Y, Z). And let's pretend it's actually moving backwards into space, which we now conceptualize as putting its "present" coordinates forward in time. But, it's actually moving backwards in space (i.e. moving universally farther from every other point in space) at a speed faster than we can travel. The center of the black hole is always in the future and even as we move closer to the center, it's still infinitely far away. As we cross the event horizon, we ride the current and start moving faster than the universal speed limit, cutting ourselves off from ever interacting with the outside universe again. However, we're still never going to be able to reach the center, and indeed the center of the black hole has still not happened from our point of reference (and still never will).
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> California could care less if the Colorado Compact is changed.

It's behavior everytime the issue comes up suggest you are very wrong.

> Their use of it is limited to a small area south of LA.

No, its not; while most of it is used in the Imperial Valley, L.A. (by far the largest city in the State) itself also uses it for about half of its municipal supply, (as does San Diego, but I guess that could technically be considered part of the “small area south of LA”.)
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What was FAANG developer salaries like 10 years ago? Was that 'working fine'?
I don’t see how they have standing being up river. The deal can’t affect them thanks to gravity.

If Colorado wanted to build a dam, that’s completely different and the other states would likely challenge it in court.
I live in Mesa - Scottsdale will be less impacted then the rest of the state. SRP serves Mesa and Scottsdale as well as PHX. There's an unincorporated area north of Scottsdale, that's already screwed - and people are still buying houses there! I think PHX Metro will be fine, but the rest of the state doesn't have the resources PHX does.

PS - and due to there being less agriculture in the area now, PHX metro is down to 1950s levels of water usage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verd...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands...
A model is a computation based on its initial assumptions. Sometimes that's fine.

The key thing is that the (good) practitioners know the finance and know the models. If it's obviously wrong that's a sign in itself - a simple model doesn't fit the market: You might be about to lose some money, or you could take on some risk from other people and get rewarded for it (people are panicking).

Weirder derivatives and so on can get more dangerous, of course. However even the really famous example from the 07 crash (pricing CDOs and CDS against them) was arguably due to a deliberate ignorance of widespread fraud and fictitious numbers than the models as per se. Garbage in garbage out (the model was also not great but still)
"on par" is wrong.

Intel have announced they are building a model. Anyone can announce they are building a model.
Google former AI researcher on lack of self-regulation
Yes and no, it took me from 8am to 3am once we decided it needed to get fixed but really it sat on the app for years, it only happened on a background process that sent print jobs on a timer, since it used Windows GDI to compose the image we sent to the printer it was affected (our "frontend" should've been affected too but never was, I guess because it had a different memory usage pattern).

We just had it restart itself and try again whenever it got one of those errors when printing but eventually we wanted to add a feature that required the process to not die, and by that time I was already 99% sure that it wasn't something in our code and I had already ruled out threading issues.

I ended up putting it in a VM with a kernel debugger attached and having a script make a snapshot and make it print over and over until it errored, then following along in IDA until I saw what was going on.

Having a way to trigger it (by restoring the snapshot) on demand helped a lot, otherwise it would have taken forever to make sense of it as it could sit without crashing for nearly an hour.
Yes, the references in the paper are pretty interesting.
FAA invests over $100M to reduce runway incursions at airports
https://instantink.hpconnected.com/us/en/l/v2

The first result of your precious Google search.
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Hmm. I've been using MT routers for 15 years and never knew there was an API. Presumably you want to use them in some SDN scenario?
In the book “To sleep in a sea of stars” there’s a concept of a “ship mind” that is local to each space craft. It’s smarter than “pseudo ai” and can have real conversations, answer complex questions, and even tell jokes.

I can see a self-hosted LLM being akin to a company’s ship-mind. Anyone can ask questions, order analyses, etc, so long as you are a member of the company. No two LLM’s will be exactly the same - and that’s ok.

https://fractalverse.net/explore-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars/...
PyTorch's insight was to be very dynamic and simple. The underlying model is basically the same with the caveat that tensorflow uses/used something called a "tape".
You're technically correct, but aren't Usenet gateways a bit out of date? I thought Usenet was primarily used for, eh distributing linux isos these days.

I made a bidirectional gateway to/from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LysKOM protocol (based on the design of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOM_(BBS)) back when Netscape included a decent Usenet client. It worked surprisingly well since Usenet has robust support for threading.

(Your Swedish-sounding username inspired me, everyone else: sorry.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010427050014/http://community....

https://web.archive.org/web/20010427050050/http://community....
Maybe I have just forgotten how to English, but this sounds borderline incoherent to me. Either way I can't make sense of any of this article.

>>> If the high court is not in fact behaving in a fashion that makes its decisions respected, the real question is: Why are we all zealously watching and reporting on its decisions as though they are immutable legal truths? Why are we scientifically analyzing every case that comes down as if it holds value? The obvious answer is that these decisions have real consequences—something the past year has showed us far too graphically. But if the Supreme Court is no longer functioning as a real “court,” why are we mostly still treating its output as if it were simply the “law”?

Maybe the real question is: what do you think quotation marks are for?

>>> In some sense, the answer is that the Supreme Court’s power and prominence is mediated by the journalists that report on the institution, and we as journalists rely on the court for legitimacy and prominence in return

What?
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If an artist isn’t maniacal and going against the convention their colleagues demand, I don’t want them.
Torches and pitchforks. Lots and lots of them.
While I enjoy the candor and tone to your post, the content makes me a little uneasy. It just can’t be good for society.

That said, I didn’t think London was nearly as bad a Singapore for number of cameras. And their aren’t closed, I have no doubt that’s all to a central store, facial, and AI all rolling now.
Compounding Head Starts
New Tesla Model Y with BYD batteries charges much faster
Well, you're wildly mistaken again. The dataset is the golden goose -- they have no interest or incentive to sell it.
Can you expand on this? A reference to an article or an interview or simply experience. I'm trying to wade through the AI hype storm (or reality), and this POV would be helpful.
I've also seen them (in Texas) intentionally "rolling coal" at a crosswalk full of high school students waiting to cross.

What is wrong with people?
Not really. The ideal is to have companies that are delivering functionality while still respecting user's data rights. Apple's products are probably the closest to this ideal, given their incentives aren't about harvesting user data to sell ads. I'm sure there are some techno-alarmists that would like to either shut everything or significantly slow the pace of innovation - but the broader vision is one of delivering both value and safety without unreasonable overhead.
Just to expand your lower bar, some people suspect it is not much bigger than GPT 3.5 @ 175B parameters, but this is also speculation. I don't think there has been anything official.
My own theory is Google had this earlier but couldn't figure out a way to make money from it. I think they felt threatened by it and didn't release what they had.
Or they could place the to-be-searched data closer to their users and get rid of traffic to North America entirely for most users.
While I agree with the spirit of your comment, in practice it wouldn't really be fair to blame Marx for Stalin and Mao.
Let's see, in 1994 Ukraine supports military uprisal in Chechnya and aids separatists and their terrorist field commanders arriving from Saudi Arabia and Middle East [1] in a war against Russia on the territory of Russia. Namely, UNA-UNSO (a nationalist “patriotic” [2] organization in Ukraine [3]) leaders Anatoli Lupinos and Dimitro Korchinski led Ukrainian delegations to Grozny to meet with Chechen leaders. Fast forward in 1995, the UNSO fighters organized as the “Viking Brigade” under the command of Oleksandr Muzychko (a man who vowed to fight "communists, Jews and Russians for as long as blood flows in his veins" [4]), are illegally crossing the Russian border in Chechnya and join Mujahideen terrorists in their fight against Russian regulary army.

Twenty years after, when the chickens of the foreign policy had come home to roost in Donbass of 2014, someone nicknamed "golergka" thinks that everything that contradicts his worldview must be a "completely crazy propaganda".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen_in_Chechnya

[2] https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=una+unso&form=HDRSC3&fi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Muzychko
The Great Wave Off Kangawa was a mass-produced work from the start, though; of the several thousand copies that Hokusai originally printed, about a hundred still exist in museums and private collections.

But there's no true "original" since it was always a series of wood block prints.
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Sure, but once it keeps failing for a few decades, and given that ST is significantly more complex than either QM or GR, not simpler, there has to come a time where it simply is abandoned, even if it hasn't been disproven.
Very nice app, do you plan on adding voice?
> The locality where data rests on disk shouldn't matter for the legal process of getting access to it

This is not entirely true, though. If the data is kept abroad, that absolutely limits the legal access to the data unless the company complies - what do you do when the company decides to defy a court order and the servers are located beyond the area where you have monopoly of use of force?
I guess my point is that there isn't really an infinite quantity in mathematics, either. What we think about as "infinity" usually involves some type of unbounded limit.
Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion
US Law has firmly established that the US is beholden to International Laws it is treaty to. If the Us were to stop sending water to Mexico, it would be breaking US Law as well as International Law.
Are they that good though? Can they really say "show me the brother of ___"

Or can they just say we know these two people are closely related?

But good point regardless.
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