skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to need a lot more information than what's on that site to trust this in any capactiy.

ChatGPT actually does a really great job of dealing with legal/business matters. It's really helpful to spend a little bit of time to ask questions, and understand basics that would otherwise be inefficient for a lawyer/accountant to explain. With that information it's much easier to communicate with an actual expert to go directly to what they're actually useful for i.e. making decisions as a professional rather than explaining things to you that can be found on a government website.

It also seems insane to me to have "fire your lawyer" as a tagline. Current AI makes things more efficient, it doesn't eliminate the need for experts. Especially for a law service because lawyers tend to be very cautious, and explore a variety of contingencies. This seems like the exact kind of thing most lawyers would advise against.
> All of Rick Caruso's malls in LA are, to be sure, probably profitable but terrible in terms of urban planning.

That's the comment I was responding to.
> 90% of human communication is unspoken.

This is as scientific as the idea of humans just using 10% of our brains.
AlphaZero works on chess, shogi and go and other perfect information games with discreet moves and board s.

LLMs need pairwise linear input that is composed of independent and identically distributed data.

Feed forward neural networks are effectively DAGs thus semi-decidable.

LLM require a corpus, that data is generated by humans and isn't a perfect information game.

If you dig into how many feedforward neural network can be written as a single pairwise linear function in lower dimensions, you can help build an intuition on how they work in higher dimensions that are beyond our ability to visualize.

AlphaZero being able to build a model without access to opening books or endgame tables in perfect information games was an achievement in implementation, it was not a move past existential quantifiers to a universal quantification.

LLMs still need human produced corpus because the search space is much larger than a simple perfect information game. The game board rules were the source of compression for AlphaZero, while human produced text is the source for LLMs.

Neither have a 'common sense' understanding of the underlying data, their results simply fit a finite subset of the data in the same way that parametric regression does.

As there are no accepted definitions for intelligence, mathematics is the only way to understand this.

VC dimensionally and set shattering is probably the most accessible to programming backgrounds if you are interested.
You attract what you advertise for.

If you're advertising flashy, high-spending lifestyle, that's who you'll attract. But the women who are looking for long-term stability will stay away. And vice versa.

Of course, if you want the not-high-spending women, you need to have something other than money and flashy lifestyle to offer. I think some guys get hung up there.
> I have seen many cases where the “just let the votes sort it out” method leads to things being upvoted, presumably by those users scrolling their main feed who don’t even notice what subreddit it is from, and then comment sections full of “who is upvoting this junk” “this is the third time this has been posted this week” and “mods can we please do something about all of the X posts?”

Oh come on, you can't be serious. These are different groups of people. The same users who upvote things are not also complaining about what is being upvoted. You're not going to upvote things and then comment on the post to complain about how it's being upvoted.

It's the "engaged users" who create comment sections full of "who is upvoting this junk" because they don't understand the little circle of of people who make multiple "high quality" posts every day are the minority and the unwashed masses the moderators hate so much actually _DO_ want to see the reposts, memes, sunset pictures, and questions about the best place to find a burger because it's the one neutral topic people don't get into petty political fights over and comb through your comment history in an effort to dunk on you and defeat your point with an ad hominem.
That doesn't make sense. What's the difference between a 20% tip vs 20% required service charge. You pay the same $$$ which means people wouldn't be priced out.
That has nothing to do with Macs. `open` is an alias for `xdg-open`. At least on Debian and derivatives (so around on 9x% of all Linux boxes).
No one is surprised...
I would compare that to the bedroom industry. How often do you buy a bedframe or a new dresser? Those businesses are not going out of business, yet the turnover per-household is equally slow.
You just lost the GameGPT
Funny indeed. My wife was just making fun of me the other day becuase of the way I pronounced this. This was the answer to Wordle last week. I new the word by sight, but like a lot of us, had never heard it spoken. I sent her a link to this article just because ennui was embedded in the title :)
TBP itself is bad, agreed, but the other books in the trilogy are some of the best ever. Dark Forest in particular is amazing —- for me the actual moment the series takes flight is when the Wallfacer Project is introduced in DF.
My guess is the new function training might overall slightly take away from the capacity for other types of reasoning, since it's a fixed capacity. But hopefully significantly less impact than including the instructions on the fly, since it's mostly baked in to the model now which should be a more efficient encoding.
I don't think it's so much about consolidating power as it is that this is the natural choice for companies that primarily monetize through ads. I've always felt that it would be better for these platform companies to instead try to monetize the app ecosystem. Start by charging for the API with a generous free tier instead of going down the ad supported route.
No, I'm not being sarcastic - I'm genuinely curious at your viewpoint. I feel it is an inevitable outcome that once large organizations reach a size where they have the ability to wield their influence over large sections of our economy it becomes a survival mechanism to do so. I personally want less corporate influence over my life (my government in particular) and I oppose them getting large so that they have less power in this area.

Do you think this is not the case?
Some people say they domesticated us.

All of our house cats are trained to do some special behavior like tap us with their paw or headbutt us to get fed. Not many people are impressed, most of them think the cats trained us.

We chose not to try this with the barn cat, however, because the barn cat thinks a really good interaction ends in a bite and "bite and get fed" is completely unacceptable.
I agree but I just want to know the price up front. If they have to sell the sandwich for $12 then put $12 on the sign, don't put $9 and then try to pressure me into a $3 tip.
This is a touching story and I hadn't been familiar with the details. To summarize, Now And Then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_(John_Lennon_song...) had been recorded using cheap equipment (poor quality recording) by John Lennon and handed (on a cassette) to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono after John Lennon passed away. A higher quality recording couldn't be made because John Lennon had passed but AI technology improvements have made it possible to isolate his voice for a different kind of recording. (The specific song is speculated but Now And Then is what's called out in the article.)

It initially had me thinking this was "just the same thing" as 3D-model Carrie Fisher in Star Wars but, in this case, John Lennon's recorded voice was isolated from the cassette recording rather than a simulacrum of his voice being fabricated. It's an interesting twist on "but is it really $CELEBRITY?" that this is really John Lennon.
No -- the companies in question aren't usually basket cases -- if they were, they wouldn't have the assets to make the PE takeover profitable in the first place. In most cases, they're growing at a fine, steady rate, or even better. It's just whatever the PE vultures can get away with.
It REALLY matters what kind of PE you’re talking about.

Bought by a growth equity fund? Probably fine. Bought as part of a roll up? Probably screwed.

PE is like tech: similar tools, but very different firms.
This might be too overarching of a statement but "kind" learning environments like games that have set rules and win conditions are very far from the turing completeness of human language.
Crazy!

I thought this constant doubling would blow up power usage and create delays... But somehow it hasn't.
Why does everyone keep deploying their products to this one region when it always seems like the one that fails?

We don't use big cloud were I work, so maybe I'm missing something. Does East-1 offer something other don't?
A Decentralized Reddit Proposal
alternatively, just start building interesting things and follow all rabbit holes.

computer science doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
A lot of people are terrible tippers, you can get away with that, you can't just say "Hey you know, I'm going to just shave 20% off that price tag, thanks."
>It appears from your response, that you are viewing this through the lens of the modern world were we have fluid groups, resources, modern weapons, etc.. Which all tilt the balance of what is possible. The modern world then is different from how we evolved, but our evolution still built into us, the idea of status and egalitarianism.

I understand the historic difference, but my point is that people are making conclusions of what behavior is and is not possbile TODAY, in the modern world, which I think is erroneous.

>To the point that it is possible to go through life ignoring social status, it is not common and is so wrong I think what is actually happening is you are not aware when it is happening to you and thus think it is not occurring. Especially since "Treating people with common decency" is the actual point, that is an evolved behavior based on status in a group.

The position that I am disagreeing with is that modifed behavior in response to social status is not abosulte. It is likely evolutionarily and socially encouraged, but not deterministically impossible to avoid. Individuals can and do show a wide range in how much they modify their behavior based on the social status of others. Some individuals are flatterers, kiss-asses, and subservient. Some individuals do not modify their behavior based on social status. Treating people with common decency, is not an evolved behavior or necessarily dependent on status. It isn't universal behavior, and highly dependendent on individual choice and conditioning.

It is reductionist and detached from reality to think people must act a certian way because of their status or that of others. All you have to do is look around at the real world and see a wide variety of behavious to disprove such bold claim. Not all low status people act the same, not all high status people act the same, and the degree to which they change their behavior based on the status of others varry wildly from individual to individual.

To say that nobody can resist modifying their behavior based on the status of the person they are interacting is simply incorrect.
I think you're misunderstanding the supposed scheme. There is nothing in the article suggesting this is about them taking new loans with the intent to default on them. Or even of them taking new loans at all.

The idea is that real estate companies will walk away from all their current properties that are underwater, and default on the old loans. The banks have to offload the buildings for (supposedly) pennies on the dollar. These companies will snatch up those deals with the money they're hoarding now.

^- No new loans being defaulted on there.

So, where's the profit? It'd have to be from re-buying the same properties at well below fair market prices. Is that possible? Presumably in that kind of environment loans you can't get a loan for commercial real estate (so there's few possible buyers, only those with cash in hand) and at the same time the banks would be desperate to sell. So, sure, maybe the prices would temporarily be suppressed well below what should be the fair market price.

^- No new loans being defaulted on here either.

Again, I think the article is bullshit and flagged it, but you are misreading it and doubling down on the misreading.
i mean I guess Spez started it by trying to monetize the API, unless you meant who started the idea of a blackout as a reaction to that, in which case Im not sure.
Except software is never finished. If you publish something, there's a tacit expectation that you'll return to it, and it'll never be truly behind you.

Rest assured, the only way that returning to a finished project takes more mental bandwidth than the guilt of never finishing it is if it's wildly successful. And that's a good problem to have
If you count the radiator then the score must go up dramatically!
i mean if its just h100 specs then it cant help but look similar cant it
Basically just use the output of `date -u`.
Because the message is “don’t use Reddit”

Use every available and easy mechanism, unless your protest is about one of them.
it's important to inform customers about the resiliency of their systems and let them pick how far they are going to invest for it.

then you get to eat popcorn when stuff explodes.

* single server event. $
* multi server event. $$
* single az event. $$$
* multi az event. $$$$
* global provider event. $$$$$
* cross provider event. $$$$$$
* alien invasion. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
(tldr; the WIV researchers recognized by US intel as having been sick in November with covid-like symptoms have finally been named.

This is Shellenberger's tweet corresponding to his substack post in parent article

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1668661229727150081... )

SZL's team have been under the intel microscope. So now we need to know how unique/rare Ben & co's illness was as compared with others who are less implicated in an accident, such as unrelated WIV staff & the public at large.

https://twitter.com/BlockedVirology/status/16686930894209761...
How does notion compare?
Does this actually affect subscribers to sub-reddits?

If this is extended indefinitely I would expect competing sub-reddits to form.
Speaking about editing, is there a name and/or an explanations for the behaviour that LLMs have sometimes of saying they did something when they don't ?

Like :

Me : Fix this code

ChatGPT : edits it but incorrectly

Me: no, do it like .....

ChatGPT: Okay, I edited it like ... Sends back the same code as last time

Is it linked to the fact that these LLMs never or very rarely refuse a prompts even if it's something they can't do ?
Ask HN: What is the most timeless font?
I am looking for a font that can be read easily in 100year or 1000years. A font nobody will link to a given period.
That awkward moment when you (Spez) calls a bluff only to realize it was no bluff.
Not to mention they conflict. CST can be "Central Standard Time", "China Standard Time" or "Cuba Standard Time" and so forth...
This is the side of software where soft skills are critical. Navigating when and how to say no can be extremely difficult, but it’s arguably crucial to operating effectively and sustainably.

Early in my career, everything was a yes and it cost me a lot of sanity. It rarely cost me clients because I was so diligent about keeping things on the rails, but that seemed to come with an inversely proportional cost to my well-being.

It took me a long time to realize that saying no is kind of like saying yes; you’re saying yes to getting the project done on a reasonable timeline and with the budget the client has, and most importantly, with your happiness intact. Saying yes at the wrong time can be saying no to finishing the project at all. It’s the right, and in a sense “nice” thing to do for everyone involved.

If you’re a chronic people pleaser, this kind of work can be extremely taxing (speaking from experience).
…he has? Isn’t his modern term “minimalism”, where he tries to simplify things as much as possible? Regardless, continuing to study the field in no way implies that he’s backed down or meaningfully evolved his basic theories of Universal Grammars. He’s very much still confident in them.

Re: predictive processing, in what way does that relate to language…? Even if you apply it to language in a way not mentioned in the linked article at all, I don’t see even the rough shape of how it would refute (/be mutually exclusive with) generative grammars. Maybe I’m just missing something because I don’t know much neuro?

Re: building a bird… yeah that’s their point, you don't try to build a bird, you try to study birds. Chomsky cares about what we are, not building machines to do our drudgery. I don’t think I agree entirely with that singular focus, but you see the appeal, no?
The point is that the CA has no way to determine that the CSR was generated by Qualified Device and will just sign it. My view of all the talk about Qualified Devices in eIDAS exists mostly to force QCAs to use normal enrollment process with CSRs instead of their random home-grown processes that result in PKCS#12 file containing private key generated who knows where and who knows how.
Talk about a scandal. Looking more and more like China covered it up, and it resulted in millions of deaths internationally. If true, one of the biggest stories of the century tbh.
You think the banks are so stupid that they just let PE firms saddle them with a bunch of debt and walk away? Bank PE loans are almost always senior loans, meaning the loan has to be completely repaid before you can start distributing dividends.
>(At the time I set up my RPM configuration, the default RPM setup of package source wasn't ideal because it could comingle components of all packages together. These defaults may have changed since then.)

It's still the same unless you manually make the effort to use a different topdir for each build.

>Neither RPM nor Debian packages provide hermetic builds out of the box. For RPMs, mock provides an all-in-one solution that's generally very easy to use.

You set up a chroot / container and build inside that. For OpenSUSE, the `osc build` command wraps `rpmbuild` to do that, and...

>Debian has the sbuild collection of tools (also, sbuild(1)) that, based on my reading, provide the tools you need to do this (I only recently found out about sbuild and haven't tried to use it).

... according to its documentation that's what sbuild does too. Though the author's concern is also about how easy to use it is, which I have no experience with. My Debian packaging experience has been to use dpkg-buildpackage in a container.
If AMD were smart(er), their cpu's are awesome at least... They would team up with intel, google, apple, etc to create a machine learning open cuda alternative, such that all GPU's could essentially be used by ML software equally, I think Nvidia's real hold on AI is that most AI libs use CUDA, and nobody else can really compete when all the tools use X, it's like if firefox launched with their own different HTML syntax because HTML was proprietary, and every other browser did the same thing.

Something like chrome : chromium dynamic would work wonders for bringing a sort of standard, not to mention more minds could create better and better implementations.
I worked with a devops person who moved everything we had set up in other regions _to_ US-East-1 because that is where you are supposed to run stuff. According to him, the other regions were just for DR stuff.
Structure in the “world”? You mean the stream of “tokens” we ingest?

This just comes down to giving transformers more modalities, not just text tokens.

There is nothing about “2” that conveys any “twoness”, this is true of all symbols.

The token “the text ‘iphone’” and the token “visual/tactile/etc data of iphone observation” are highly correlated. That is what you learn. I don’t know if you call that stipulation, maybe, but an LLM correlates too in its training phase. I don’t see the fundamental difference, only a lot of optimizing and architectural improvements to be made.

Edit: and when I say “a lot”, I mean astronomical amounts of it. Human minds are pretty well tuned to this job, it’ll take some effort to come close.
I sold my house to PE. I work for a conglomerate that was captured by a vulture capitalist and immediately flipped to PE. I’ve been thinking a lot about PE.

I think PE is this decade’s banks bailout. Bank balance sheets were severely unhealthy in the face of fixed rate loans and skyrocketing inflation. Easy credit was eagerly extended to anyone crooked enough take on variable rates and capture real assets.

The LLCs that the smart firms financed for their small captures (like houses) are going bankrupt while the revenue they booked is already packaged into REITs and held by corporations as part of their supposed inflation hedges (or timebombs).

Meanwhile, the reckless PEs owning multiple corporations are either going to flip them to international bag holders, or drown under the operating costs of servicing 100% debt-financed equity themselves.

When catastrophe comes, and bagholders go under, rotten assets will revert to the banks… and taxpayers will bailout the banks to protect hundreds of PE-owned corporations and thousands of “innocent” corporations saddled with toxic REIT-backed instruments and each other’s default swaps.

All of which means, if you were priced out of a home in the last three years, it might have been your future tax paying self who outbid you… on behalf of the banks who will indirectly own that home.
One of the swimming ‘badges’ was a swim in your pyjamas
There's a lot of software, iirc even Amazon's own dashboards, that simply defaults to us-east-1.
This man knows exactly what he is talking about. He was responsible for designing the original AMD Athlon 64. He worked at apple to transition from Generic Samsung ARM SoC to their own Apple silicon which is the base for modern M1 Apple silicon. He worked for Intel (we'll see his work in Lunar Lake, Jim Keller's Royal Core Project). And most importantly he worked again at AMD and gave us Zen architecture.
Seems like it's time for end of the quarter AWS demos and someone got a little too eager for launch.
Very surprised to see these confident assertions still
"Degraded performance" -- ha! Our Lambdas have been 100% down for an hour!
I'm so glad my demo today was specifically about local inference on... Windows. I guess working I finally found an upside to doing ML outside Linux ; we don't have Windows VMs on AWS!! :)
But IAM is supposed to be Global, not us-east-1
You can access the console with a region specific-link (for any region but us-east-1) like this: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region...
A small linguistics YouTuber I follow named K Klein made an interesting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9NxTi5ZsOo) trying to get ChatGPT to make a language.

The results were... not all that impressive. There were significant issues getting it to consistently apply the rules of the language it had created, even from one prompt to the next -- and after a certain point, it decided to just give Arabic translations instead of the conlang it was supposed to be making up.

Perhaps a more dedicated "prompt engineer"/linguist-type might be able to get better results, but the problem here seems to be similar to the problem trying to get ChatGPT to do arithmetic and other extreme sports. When trying to get it to do anything other than generating one-off syntactically-correct responses to simple prompts in already-existing human languages, it falls down horribly.
you're not wrong in general, but wrong about my demeanor in this case.

Team player meant a lot of head nodding, and making each other look great in a previous company.
that's based on UTC, so just use UTC?