skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome app, though unfortunately it doesn't support proper alpha-to-hyper modifiers that wouldn't interfere with typing (tweaking various delays help, but still not equivalent), and lacks some in-app context like whether you're in a text field within an app
This is what I think is going to hold us back. The worry, perhaps subconsciously, of discovering that consciousness is much less complex and exceptional than we might want it to be.

I have this inkling because I see a pattern: people, even incredibly smart people, explaining it away with a “but that would diminish the exceptionality of our own minds!” type of argument.

I’m struggling for the right words. Specialness, maybe? That people have this need to think that it’s special and not so easily replicated. And if it’s rather simple then it surely must not be the same because that wouldn’t be special.
A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
A fundamental premise of physics and cosmology is that the universe is consistent.

Unlike prescientific beliefs which held that the celestial sphere was comprised of some non-earthly material (in some conceptualisations, a quintessence or fifth element), what current astronomical observation, and both theoretical and applied physics show is that the laws and substance of the universe are consistent so far as we can observe. Well, aside from that pesky dark matter and dark energy stuff ...

... but the things we can see and detect ... show normal matter, mostly hydrogen, some helium, a bit of lithium, and a smattering of heavier elements in supernovae and neutron-star explosions, with gravity and light behaving as they do locally (again: relativistic effects notwithstanding).

To argue that things we cannot observe might (or more strongly, do) behave differently ... is to argue on the basis of ignorance. That might be interesting, but it isn't scientific, in the sense of knowledge based on empirical observation and theory derived therefrom.

Yes, at extreme extents, especially of time, things become uncertain. But we do the best we can.

Over the past 150 years, human understanding of the greater universe has progressed profoundly. In the 1870s, the Earth and Sun were believed to be perhaps a few millions to hundreds of millions of years old, with extant theories failing to account for the observed energies of the overall system in a consistent way. The Universe was the Milky Way, other galaxies didn't exist. We've since determined the age of the Earth to within a few tens of millions of years, that there are galaxies beyond our own, and with present tools (including the James Webb Infrared Space Telescope) can look back to very nearly the practical limits of visual observation of the Universe. And we can see what stuff is made of, how fast it is moving relative to us, and how massive it is.

The notion of truth values about future events has always confounded philosophy and epistemics. There is the problem of future contingents ("there will be a sea battle tomorrow"), or in the case of the cosmology of the far future, noncontingent futures (the ultimate outcome won't depend on our own actions), whose states we'll never be able to directly observe. The only guide we ultimately have is the presumption of consistency.
The expensive labor isn’t physicians and infrastructure/capital expenditures aren’t the barrier either.

It’s nursing costs and bed counts.

Look at Canada for an example, we have unemployed surgeons and interventional radiologists/cardiologists with surgical backlogs > 1 year.

We have the rooms, the hospital I trained at had 90 operating rooms but only 4 are funded for after-hours and on weekends, the rest run 8am-4am but no nursing money for the OR, recovery room, or patient wards.
Come on, can we get a link I can use with a noscript/basic (x)html browser, please.
Red-Hat has officially given up on the Linux Desktop about 15 years ago.

There are enough places to read that announcement and related reactions.
Is this just in your company or statutory somewhere?
CP/M 2.2 port for the Agon Light eZ80 SBC
Eh… it could be that the job is perfect in every respect except the one person (and they may be otherwise perfect in every respect except their interviewing skills.) It’s not 100% given that a bad interview experience implies a bad company to work for.
The thing with AMD is that the selection of GPUs that can actually run your GPGPU code is typically much more limited then with Nvidia, so things work on far fewer consumer GPUd. Here it's limited to "CDNA2 (MI-210/250) GPUs". Those are priced comparatively to Nvidia's A100, 10k+ per card.
> After hours of training on the Shakespeare database, on a 300k parameter model, this has been the output

I'm a bit out of the loop. What does it mean to train on Shakespeare? Does this imply that it's Shakespeare and a whole bunch of other English text?

I tried generating Shakespeare a few years back using something quite primitive by today's standards. (Maybe it was word2vec? I don't remember.). I was surprised that it emitted real Shakespeare-sounding stuff! But then someone explained that there is so little Shakespeare to train on, that you'll only ever reproduce parts of the actual text (which indeed I had).

So what are the expectations of this GPT model? Should it be bound by the same limitations?
My personal controversial theory: lack of first class support for Windows. This was a big reason why Python had a renaissance amongst learners, academia, data journalists, and a lot of more "casual" developers that Ruby is perfectly suited for. Python has pretty much eaten up the "not a webapp" market Ruby could have easily had and JavaScript rapidly began eating up the webapp market from the other side, leaving Ruby with quite few unique selling points (though I still love it myself, I'm speaking in broad ecosystem terms).
More fuel for the Dunning-Krueger effect.

(This is not to say its false)
There is also a blackhat version of it:
https://www.devshirt.club/manifesto/blackhat/
You Probably Don't Need OAuth2/OpenID Connect: Here's Why
Not necessarily, chemistry is such a big part of the selection aswell, you might have the criteria's for working somewhere, but do you also fit with culture? Many i have worked with would much prefer a person with less criteria and better culture fit, since with good fit you can easily learn the person what they need, and regardless of codebases most people will need some sort of onboarding for a new position anyway, good culture fit makes this transition much faster.

I would filter out the ones that have the criterias, and then see how they fit with current culture rather than roasting them with tests.

Like you do in any other business setting..
> it's like dating ... Hiding who you really are to 'pass' is a bad foundation.

you'd be surprised at the amount of people who fake themselves for the date.
Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping
I think you over-estimate how much control parents do have, or even should have, over their own children.
For certain things in signal you need to trust the server hardware and suspicious technologies like SGX. SGX is a prime target for a NSA backdoor. That some upper-layer software there is open source (with lots of caveats, e.g. you cannot verify which server version is really running and signal has a history of lagging behind on publishing their "open source" version of the server code) is a distraction at best.
Architecture search always works for improving efficiency, but it never beats a real algorithmic improvement (and there were lots of interesting ones being proposed for increasing context window / improving inference time in the last few months).
Can confirm female garbage collectors (and factory workers and fisher women) are definitely still a thing in 2023 Portugal.
The set up of this article doesn't make a lot of sense. It describes a case where "not a good fit" was in fact exactly that; the candidate wanted an open workplace where he could express opinions and grow his skills, the hiring manager wanted an experienced resource who would do as they were told and not rock the boat.

Both types of workplace exist, and both types of candidates exist. The question for me is why the article author sent a type-A candidate into a type-B workplace. So that they could write an article about how they "educated" the VP?
> The fact that you believe that everyone using cloud products is either too lazy to learn or has been fooled by marketing because they can't think for themselves,

I never said anyone was too lazy, just misinformed about the benefits, and it's a more far fetched statement to claim that marketing doesn't work than it is to state that it does work.

As evidenced by some people in this thread claiming that not using S3 would be basically impossible (despite a large number of popular distributions literally doing exactly that) there are clearly plenty of people who have fallen for the marketing.

Moreover, you're the one implying that falling for marketing is something only people who can't think for themselves do, that's also not what I'm saying. I think everyone is susceptible to marketing, and in this case, clearly a lot of intelligent people who are otherwise capable of thinking for themselves have fallen for this blindspot.

I think you are the one being condescending here.
Not just considered. Is.
> my guess is that the argument will be that having a whole bunch of messed up social-media addicts at school is disruptive to the educational environment, preventing them from fulfilling their mission.

I don't think this is wrong per se, but it's hard to see a court accepting that broad environmental concerns of this sort fall under schools' purviews.

Put another way: if schools can sue social media companies for disrupting the educational environment, what stops them from suing oil companies for making the world uninhabitable for their students? The problem isn't factuality (the school is arguably correct in both cases!), but scope.
To offer a escape from the clutches of the global renteering uperclass could provide a vital avenue to a vibrant future for many countries.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to sound entitled. I only meant I was excited for projects like fq to shake things up. When I was writing a parser for the sound file I was thinking “hmm… this really feels like duplicate work.”

On the other hand, it’s surprising to me that “grab sounds from a wii game” is so niche! My gut felt like it would be slightly more complicated than unzipping a tarball, but my gut didn’t expect it to be a programming challenge worthy of a small competition.
ChatGPT Forgot My Startup
The commenters on Ars hate Elon Musk but love SpaceX. The conflict can be "interesting" at times.
Don't forget side-channels in SGX.
Yeah I agree, we still don't much about our minds, and it might turn out that we are not that special.
I built a boat partially with CCA (copper clad aluminum) wire, disregarding the recommendations to not use it. I didn't give it much thought and naively figured that as copper and aluminum are two of the most "rust-proof" materials that it would be fine. Within two years of using it - and before the boat even made it into the water - it had begun to seriously corrode to the point that resistance was significantly increased. I had to replace all the CCA wiring and terminals connected to it.

Basically, both copper and aluminum are "rust-proof" because they develop a thin, hard layer of oxide immediately upon exposure to air. However, this also means that when a new crack forms (by vibration of the wiring or thermal expansion for example) that crack will be immediately coated by an oxide layer. At the same time, moisture in the air will create a galvanic cell with the copper as cathode and aluminum as anode (because aluminum is more active, more willing to give up electrons, which is because its bond with its electrons is weaker than copper's.) As the electrons leave the aluminum it develops a positive charge, which attracts negatively charged oxygen.

It is this last effect, galvanic corrosion, which I believe to be the chief issue with CCA wiring. Copper and stainless steel, for example, are much closer in the galvanic series than copper and aluminum, so copper and aluminum corrodes significantly faster.

Unfortunately, galvanic corrosion is a tough one, because lots of modern American houses are built with poor ventilation - as you can see by the large number of homes with mold issues. That moisture is exactly what enables galvanic corrosion. I think if we used CCA wiring across America we'd see a number of house fires caused by moisture -> corrosion -> higher resistance -> heat -> fire.
Ask HN: Is there any non-marketing reason why GPT 3.5 is cheaper than GPT-3?
Also does anyone knows why it's not finetunable?

Did they make some kind of breakthrough for inference but not for finetuning that allows this pricing?

Or it's just marketing/a strategy?
Smartphones are just safer computer. By their nature they are more locked down than general PCs.

With the right apps and restrictions, a smartphone is basically just a handheld console no different from a gameboy in functionality.
The article says that being an effective contributor is more about bringing a fresh perspective to the table, rather than making leadership comfortable. It also says that Anand was ultimately hired and was effective in the role.

It's sad when "read the room" and "soft skills" are equated to agreeableness and making management comfortable. A company that thinks this way has only one real brain, the one in the head of the leader. Everyone else's job is to agree with that brain, not use their own brains to question it. If the leader happens to be a world-historical genius, this might work, but that's not true in most cases, so such a dictatorial structure doesn't seem likely to be the foundation of a successful company.
I don't know that this is the right counter-argument against the point parent comment made. This counter argument is defeated pretty easily by pointing at all the other regulation that applies to public markets that private offerings (and thus accredited investors) don't have.

Op might actually have a point here, insofar as it would apply to public stock. If such a class separation exists with private stock, that's a risk an accredited investor is probably either good to understand or flush enough with cash to be protected. But Mark cratering stock that moms and pops bought into, that's a good fit for regulation like anything else involving public markets.
Unfortunately I don't since I got heavily downvoted for posting a Crypto Tutorial I made. It wasn't scam or anything, just a func little tutorial on how to create your own crypto coin.
Musk Can’t Stop Talking About the Nonstop Grind
Fairly well on what scale?
Constant impulse to create something on which I always act.

The result is a myriad of half finished things, some now wildly out of date, and most difficult to pick up again (ie undocumented). Also not a very productive place to be.
Would that be unreasonable?

Because it's not like there is no history of government policy / decision makers managing to create or exacerbate social problems.

e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
Did anyone try to look at the parameters if they're available in the browser requests to see if that may be related?(temperature?)

or maybe are they doing quantization or some other kind of optimization?
Exactly, AI can regurgitate all the beautiful sunsets it has been trained on. An artist experiences a sunset and is inspired to create things inspired by the feeling of a sunset. These things could be textiles, furniture, abstract art, dessert, any number of functional items the color of the sunset, a short story, a mimi series....The misconception is that creativity is created by studying and copying past creativity. Creativity comes from living experience and is applied thoughout all aspects of our lives. The belief that AI trains the same way humans do is a sad misconception of the human experience.
Best HN subject title of the year?
>Mostly with good reason.

Interesting, name three.
https://researchbuzz.me/

Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
I'm an illustrator/painter and instagram has been a MASSIVE net positive on my life. I have come across extremely useful products (allaprima pochade) and artists who provide unparalleled education. I have learned WAY more from artists I have found on instagram, and for a paltry $600 compared to the thousands I absolutely wasted on university classes led by professors who I discovered too late were incompetent.
No other source. Getting elected is kind of important for a democratically elected leadership though.

Not every country has 'SuperPACs' and other corrupt ways of getting elected by throwing enough corporate millions and billions one way though.
As some put it, if you can't trust your staff to work remotely, you can't trust them to work.
Delays are a terrible solution. Looking at key overlap percentage, for example, works much better. There are a lot of other ways to make dual-use/tap-hold functionality more reliability, but lots of programs actually implement overlap checks. The kaleidoscope keyboard firmware, for example, lets you configure a minimum overlap threshold for a key to start acting as its secondary role (e.g. only have space act as a modifier when it is pressed first and is held for 70% of the time the second key is pressed).

In your case, I'm not sure why you would need to roll over to other keys from escape. My shift key doubles as escape, and I don't use any delay or checks at all since I don't rapidly type escape then other keys. In any case, you could try configuring your capslock key to only act as control if it being held fully overlaps with the next keypress. Not sure about keyd, but kmonad and kanata both support this (I'd highly recommend kanata). That may require changing how you type depending on the modifier, which is why more fine-grained overlap threshold checks can be useful.

Relevant github issues:

https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad/issues/351

https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/issues/128
Are you sure? If you look at plagiarism in music, you'll find a number of cases where the defendant makes a compelling point about not remembering or consciously knowing they heard the original song before. For legal purposes, it is not the point, but they feel morally wronged to be charged as guilty. The case here is that they internalized the music knowledge, but forgot about the source - so they can't make the distinction you claim anymore. Natural selection shaped our brains to store formation that seems useful, not is attribution.

LLMs are also not usually trained to remenber where the examples they were trained on came from, the sourcing information is often not even there (maybe they could, maybe they should, but they aren't). Given that and the way training works, one could argue that they're never copying, only re-expressing or combining (which I think of as a form of "generating something original"). Just memorizing and copying is overfitting, and strongly undesirable, as it's not usable outside of the exact source context. I agree it can happen, but it's a flaw in the training process. I'd also agree that any instance of exact reproductions (or of material with similarity to the original content over some high threshold) is indeed copyright infringement, punishable as such.

So, my point is, training a model on copyrighted material is legal, but letting that model output copies of copyrighted material beyond fair use (quotations, references, etc - that make sense in the context the model was queried on) is an infringement. And since the actual training data is not necessarily known, providers of model-as-a-service, such as OpenAI with GPT, should be responsible for that.

In cases where a model was made available to others, it falls on the user of the model. If the training data is available, they should check answers against it (there's a whole discussion on how training data should be published to support this) to avoid the risk;if the training data is unknown, they're taking the risk of being sued full-on, without any mitigation.
Why do I recall seeing pictures of an actual human female model posing for the artists at the studio? I swear there was one, thought they had quotes from her back in Game Developer or somewhere.
> I think I dodged a bullet there.

Bingo! Remember that the interview process is bidirectional, you are also interviewing them to see if you want to work there or not :))
It's at least a little nice to hear people complaining about how brutal the game of politics is today and how extreme the reign of intolerance has become, and be able to think "oh, my sweet summer child." Turns out it could be worse.
My solution is: Just do it!.

By starting something small and incrementally adding to it, learning as I go along.

For example, I was curious about multi-colored LED lights. So I bought a strip of WS2812 LEDs, an Arduino. Downloaded Arduino IDE and some examples. Bit by bit, I learnt C++, some electronics, need for external power, etc. Now have several "works" that respond to sound, rejuvenated antique lamp, etc.
Has anyone found anything incredible for arbitrary UTF-8 data?
That's a great idea, yes.
https://archive.is/Bchy1
In both cases what it boils down to is that "it's an alternative to the current CA system". Sure, alternatives are good, but why does it need to be coupled to DNS? If I have a .ly domain, do I really want to be forced to trust the Libyan government for my security?
Sorry but this is hilariously paranoid.
Even from a graveyard or dungheap good things can grow, aware of the past to leave behind
The exceptionalism derived from accidents of history & circumstances is strange.
> do as they were told and not rock the boat

This is a problem. It means the best output you're going to get is that of the level of the person doing the telling rather than the person who's first-hand doing and learning. I see this all the time. I once wondered why sometimes a new club/bar would open up, sparing no expense, but then the music would sound like shit. Not the sound system, but the DJ. It's because they were hired by someone who had more money than sense and didn't actually have good taste.
Yes, I'm scratching my head about this and wondering how the output method never entered into the discussion of this post. Now, the context is that "fgrep" and "egrep" have been deprecated by GNU, so that eliminates syslogs or GUI messages from the calculus at hand, but it seems like warnings on stderr are pretty normal.

Now the further context is that fgrep and egrep have been embedded into larger scripts and systems which call them in turn, so now you've got the stderr of a tool mingling with the stderr of every other tool, and the script itself. But that's why everything on stderr includes argv[0] from time immemorial, too.

The comment about rate-limiting makes me imagine someone's got plenty of "find ... -print | xargs fgrep" in there, though!

EDIT: scratch the context, since this blog post is from 2007, though cks still had over 15 years of sysadmin experience.