skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of Chomsky’s main modern claims is that MERGE is the central linguistic operation: the ability to take two elements and merge them into one, hierarchically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics)
What about the fact that trying to use Chomsky's approach to universal grammar does not result in working language models yet a statistical approach does?

The Norvig-Chomsky debate is kind of old at this point:

https://www.tor.com/2011/06/21/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-fig...
I'm working on a compiler for a DSL which is based on Roslyn. The most useful things for me learning wise have been:

1) Reading the source code of roslyn which can be quite readable
2) Building VSCode extensions to add diagnostics and implement code actions. You can use any open source language server as the reference
Yes: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-an...

> Romney and Bain avoided the hostile approach, preferring to secure the cooperation of their takeover targets by buying off a company’s management with lucrative bonuses. Once management is on board, the rest is just math. So if the target company is worth $500 million, Bain might put down $20 million of its own cash, then borrow $350 million from an investment bank to take over a controlling stake.

> But here’s the catch. When Bain borrows all of that money from the bank, it’s the target company that ends up on the hook for all of the debt.

> This business model wasn’t really “helping,” of course – and it wasn’t new. Fans of mob movies will recognize what’s known as the “bust-out,” in which a gangster takes over a restaurant or sporting goods store and then monetizes his investment by running up giant debts on the company’s credit line. (Think Paulie buying all those cases of Cutty Sark in Goodfellas.) When the note comes due, the mobster simply torches the restaurant and collects the insurance money. Reduced to their most basic level, the leveraged buyouts engineered by Romney followed exactly the same business model. “It’s the bust-out,” one Wall Street trader says with a laugh. “That’s all it is.”
> Only some people can vote - I forgot the requirements.

One day you would get on the site, and have 5 votes to spend. If you didn't spend them, they would go away and it would take a little longer to get more next time.

It was a really interesting system. People did act a bit more seriously when they had votes, and there was the metamoderation system for keeping them accountable. It was a little bit complex, but only long-term users would see it, and worked better than any other system I have seen on practice.
Also see "The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and Political Philosophy" [1] by the same author, J. R. H. Lawless, published on the same website four years ago. The earlier article covers different aspects of Pratchett's philosophy. It was noted on HN at the time with no comments [2].

[1] https://www.tor.com/2019/07/15/the-tao-of-sir-terry-pratchet...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20471270
The classic example which I think you’re referring to is Nicaraguan Sign Language, which developed organically in Nicaraguan schools for deaf children where neither the children nor the teachers knew any other form of sign language. It’s a fascinating story, a complex fully developed language created by children. Seems to indicate that this is indeed a very inate capability among humans in larger groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
Debt can be acquired so long as there's a counterparty willing to lend it. Banks can be convinced to pony up a lot the cash because the business will often have scrap value if all else fails and they can secure themselves a very senior tranche to get that scrap value if everything goes belly up. The unsecured tranches are often marketed directly by PE firms to suckers otherwise known as investors. They like to do lots of little things to make the investor feel better like being able to convert debt to equity at highly attractive rates ("if we IPO you'll make squillions!") but for the investor they might as well be buying a lottery ticket.
Surely this could not go wrong in any way.
The issue with AMD and AI is, as always, the software stack. Even if the hardware is great ROCM simply doesn't have industry traction and accessiblity.
Oh, that seems very stupid! Thanks!
they run on aws so no surprises there
AWS us-east-1 down
The status page says everything is fine though.
Our apps are working fine, so I don't think "us-east-1" is down. Just the console..
The article omits the male preference for younger women and that the majority of couples are of an older male and a younger female. This is extremely relevant to the analysis.
You can buy alcohol on Sunday in Indiana as long as it's 12pm or later [0]. And you can bring your own alcohol to the Indy 500 as long as it's not in glass [1].

0: https://www.thehayeslawoffice.com/blog/2020/02/indianas-sund...

1: https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/indy500/pla...
Same here. But status page is happy.
Lots of alerts in parallel throughout the infrastructure.
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Thanks for making and sharing this - although I'm surprised it's not a "Show HN" itself!

I was curious about the top post that didn't survive - an HTML5 game called "airma.sh" - and I wanted to check it out. I think I found a working mirror: https://www.crazygames.com/game/airmash

It's possible that this is a different game, but it seems to fit the description.

Interestingly, the person who submitted that post stopped being active on HN after that discussion.
I got some services running on us-east-1. All of them are down all of a sudden.
ASML posts are the Speed Check stories of lithography. Everyone constantly brings them up here, dear god.

There we were, kings of light, floating in our clean rooms, positive pressure or vacuum sealed as we desired, not a mote of dust in the air. There were a lot of things we couldn't do, but we had the tightest process node and we loved reminding our fellow photolithographers of this fact.

I wouldn't use the word 'fun' to describe what we're doing. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day when it was pure fun.

Peter and I were finalizing tape-out and needed another few hours, but somewhere in Amsterdam soon we'd made it. The machine was performing flawlessly and yield was good. I was feeling a bit sorry for Peter, since he handles sales and misses all the fun of EUV lithography. Just to get a sense of what he had to contend with I pulled his calendar and got on the conference call for a vendor comparison.

A shaky Canon salesperson got on the call and volunteered their best process size: "Canon can do a 20 nm process node, I think". The thing you have to remember about the TSMC guys is that they're pros and always speak in this professional voice that I like to call the Hsinchu Voice. "Copy that, Canon. We can put you in the Fiats and Citroens". Anyway, moments later pops in this Nikon guy, with theirs: "We, Nikon that is, can do an 18 nm". Boy, he must think he's really dazzling his camera-business friend.

But then, on came the Lam Research guy and you knew these guys were good because he was cool as a cucumber. Drops in, 4 words, and he knew he was in the game: "Lam Research, 12 nm". I'm thinking to myself that this is a ripe situation, but Peter ran the call on our side, and I had to remind myself not to undermine him. Still, that Lam guy had to die, and die now! My inner techbro was screaming against my corporate persona. Then I saw Peter reach forward and hit the unmute button. That's when I knew we were really a team.

"TSMC, how's our process doing?". Cool as ever came back TSMC's response in that Hsinchu calm: "We've got great yields at 5 nm, maybe considering going a nm lower?" You could tell TSMC was proud reading out those numbers. But what made it certain we'd be lifelong friends is when Peter in his best photolithographer's voice said "Ah, TSMC, much thanks, I think we can do 3 nm this time".

For a moment, Peter was a god. Lam had been flamed. All lithographers had been forced to bow before the king of angstroms. A fine day's work. For once, it was fun.
Eh I'm seeing more here. Athena is struggling, IMBD search is down, Vercel is struggling.
It's not 25% more batteries. It's some 500% to 1000% more. But those would be used very few times.
Yep, us-east-1 itself is online.
You don't need any fancy data structures. 95% of the performance goes into glyph rendering. And with Unicode the performance gain from monospace fonts goes out the window as some Unicode characters are very large, and not only that they also take up many bytes. So one Unicode character can be up to 5 bytes long and take up the same canvas space as 3 characters. You also need to read ahead as there are combination characters, for example a smiley combined with the color brow becomes a brown smiley. I've blogged about implement support for Unicode in an editor here: https://xn--zta-qla.com//en/blog/editor10.htm
A few years back I had to run door dash orders to pay the bills. I noticed then that distribution of labor removes a lot of the spirit and purpose behind the work.

No one at the call center is enjoying the satisfaction of a job well done, it is complete detached. I'm sure the laborers are pushed hard to high quotas and have zero time to follow up with customers.

I think we need to back to owning the entire system if we are going to have better services, better profits and satisfied employees.
Yep, I'll be sound asleep and the visor will show my eyes focused intently. It'll blink at an appropriate rate and maybe raise eyebrows during interesting conversation.
I think the general reddit community underestimates how important moderation is. Yes, you have some moderators who go overboard, push a personal agenda on something that's supposed to be a neutral subreddit, etc. But subreddits without active moderation very quickly (in order of increasing tragedy) lose their focus, get overtaken by spam, or become hangouts for Nazis. reddit closes unmoderated subs for a reason.

Also a large chunk of the people who complain about moderators are actually upset that moderators stop their subreddits from being overtaken by Nazis. If you want completely unmoderated anonymous public discourse, go to 4Chan and see how it goes there. Though even that is moderated.
Google says gpt 4 has ~1 trillion parameters.
I can’t speak to Toys R Us specifically, but if the underlying business was solid, it would reemerge under chapter 11.
It's more than just console. Lambda or API Gateway is borked. I can't log in to check though.
"It lies about everything, needs to be curated, tricks people, and now it has access to AI!"
Yep. When Carl Icahn was doing it they just called it "asset stripping" and "corporate raiding" instead of using the term private equity.

Fucker made squillions off the backs of misery for hundreds of thousands of people.
Our infra is all on us-east-1.

Our EC2s seems to be working fine. But RDS is down for us.
Ah yeah man totally wanting to jump through hoops (email was just an example), installing shit like wechat, kik, tiktok etc is the same thing) totally makes me the 'main character.'

That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.

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To some extent, the answer to that question is circular: it's not being talked about, because no one knows about it. No one knows about it, because it's not being talked about.

As we've seen with various other social media implosions in the recent past, a big part of what makes a migration successful is exactly what made the social media service successful in the first place: network effects. Get enough people on board, have them spread it to their own circles, and you'll hit a critical mass and be able to migrate to the new service with most of the community intact.

Unfortunately, far too often the conversation around where to migrate to looks like the XKCD "Standards" comic [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
Ballmer Promoting Windows 1.0
much reliable https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Exactly. A very uncomfortable truth for those heavily invested (time/money/credence) in this latest AI wave.
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GPT is an incredible productivity tool for people who are informed about it and understand its limitations and use it wisely and responsibly.

The vast majority of government workers are underpaid apathetic cogs in a machine who do not fit this bill.

We just saw a LAWYER use hallucinated information in his practice. A lawyer who is ostensibly rigorously trained and tested in his field.

The amount of misuse of GPT by way of sheer ignorance alone by the government will be astounding.
>Used the others to cycle tolerances

Since they all cause serotonin dumps, I kind of doubt (uneducated guess) that this would be effective, is there any reason to believe that they should create the same tolerance?
No, you don't need to transition to ML, you don't need to work on ML, you don't need to learn ML (unless you want to of course). There's no ticking clock, you don't need any of this in order to have a good career.

> As I have to work another 30 years or so, I cannot deny that ML knowledge is more and more important nowadays and will become even more in the future.

I think you're confusing being a user of ML tools with being someone who works on ML tools/systems/products. The landscape of available tools has really changed in the past year; the landscape for working in the field hasn't really - there aren't significantly more jobs, it's not much better or worse, it's not a job that everyone will need to do some day, it's just an okay sub-field of software engineering and/or research.
Check out Coursera, there's an ML intro course by Stanford that will walk you through all the relevant math
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
Same thing happened at a company I worked at, they also constantly tell you how they are investing in the future of the company and will not be doing all of the culture destroying things that they are definitely going to do. So if you are in this position and they say it will be different, don't believe them.
every single time https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Of course this getting into the whole philosophy of AI and consciousness and whatnot. But for practical purposes I would say: yes
That's a silly comparison.

Apollo is a better client. The comparison is Apollo vs the Reddit app, not Apollo vs Reddit as a whole.
> We’re so incomprehensibly blessed to be able to experience this momentary oasis of beauty, but people will ignore it all in favor of mentally fast forwarding themselves into a state of imaginative terror.

Who is ignoring anything? The terror comes from the contrast between one's keen personal awareness of the precious and fragile nature of this "oasis of beauty", and the systematically reckless, violent disregard humanity as a whole shows toward it.
This tools page makes me think they are sticking with ROCm compilers and OpenCL. https://docs.amd.com/category/compilers_and_tools They have a tool called "hipify" that supposedly converts CUDA code to something else. But the fact it's not just integrated as a CUDA compiler makes it look like they don't really trust it to work. Also they misspelled it.
It's not like OP said "Anyone can do it just like this!". It's just what they did. Is it really so shocking to you that richer people have more opportunities in their lives than poorer people?
Humans invented English, and every other human language. Not one single human, and not in a single lifetime, but yes, we did it.

LLMs are not doing this.
The connectome [1]. There are about 100B +- 20B neurons in the average human brain. Each neuron has thousands of synapses and each synapse is made up of dozens to hundreds of neurotransmitter channels.

That’s at least a quadrillion parameters which is at least three orders of magnitude bigger than SOTA LLMs assuming each of those synapse channels maps to a parameter. That is an absurd assumption given neuroplasticity, which operates at a high level to adapt the neural network as it learns. See the plasticity section in the linked wikipedia articles: connections between neurons can grow or even get removed on the scale of hours and days. The human brain has entire biological systems supporting intelligence for which there is no real ML equivalent because our ML architectures are static.

Given a family member’s research on neurotransmitter potentiation, I’d estimate 10 to 100 parameters per channel to get full fidelity of the human brain. (This is absurdly speculative - we have no idea at which fidelity will intelligence emerge)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome
Do you think that all online moderation can be accomplished with a regex filter with no human review?

Even if it magically could, someone needs to maintain the regex.
I am not a PE expert but I will try to explain using the mortgage analogy. This is drastically simplified. The shoehorned part of the analogy is that a bank won't exactly lend as described below.

You take out a mortgage for a property you intend to cashflow by posting it on AirBnB. You open an LLC to do so. You put down a fraction of the price of the home, let's say 5-10% and then you do some upgrades, but you borrow against the price of the home for the upgrades, not against your own credit. Now, you start AirBnBing this very nice house out for absolute top dollar. It's nice and people love it, you have great reviews. Every time you get a payment from AirBnB, you take most of the money and move it to your personal bank account as a "management fee" or a "bonus" and you put the smallest amount possible into the mortgage and the second mortgage (the one you used to upgrade the house). Now, as the house gets more use, or you cut costs, say on having the pool cleaned, or on yard maintenance, the house goes down in quality pretty significantly, but your original AirBnB ratings are there and people are willing to pay significant sums so you continue to rake in cash, and you try to avoid maintenance as much as possible.

Eventually, the place is a run down heap, and people are leaving terrible reviews, so you stop having bookings/cashflow. Okay, now you just send the keys to the bank and say "it's your problem". They get a rundown house that has barely repaid its mortgage, and you get to keep the cash. The trick is to have moved a lot more cash into your account than you lose in the mortgage down payment.

Edit: I should add that PE firms aren't always trying to extract value at the cost of the business (sometimes they absolutely are). However, they are always incentivized to make cash flow and take maximum business risk for potentially even larger payout.
all of my lambda functions are returning "We currently do not have sufficient capacity in the region you requested." and the console is definitely down.
Nobody knows how the LLMs work under the hood. It's just lots of stacked transformers that encode various concepts. Nothing in this book refutes whether Chomsky's concepts are actually being encoded in LLMs or not. For all we know, Chomsky's concept of "binding principles", "binary branching" etc could be represented inside the inner layers of these many billion parameter models. In fact, I'd argue that this is the right research to do. Prove that no transform or feed-forward layer inside the neural net encodes, say "binding principles".
>You have zero self-awareness.

Not wanting to jump through hoops for someone you don't necessarily care that much about ain't 'zero self awareness'

It helps me trim down 'friends' who might not be real friends.

I tend not to be the person who tends to bother other people constantly even after getting signals that they don't want to interact with you. Are you?
My site is down as well - us-east-1
But how likely are you to meet up any with those people whom you recognize, if you passed through their town? Do you even know what their town is? For me, the general lack of IRL meetings with other members is one of the clearest things setting Reddit (even its small subreddits) apart from traditional internet forums.
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It's the only truthful take. If you don't take capital you don't really qualify as being part of the "startup culture", you're just running a small business.
My terminal always has to be Monaco 10. Without antialias on non-HiDPI displays.
So is Netlify: https://www.netlifystatus.com/
And, librarians are professionals who are trained specifically in the challenges around managing info, etc...Like many other areas, many corporations don't value long-term attention to things that will help them the most...in the long term. Its just too much short-term thinking...as well as, "oh hell, we don';t need to hire librarians...that takes money away from stockholders...Everyone in the company will just figure out how to manage the data at some point in some fashion on their own...etc." :-p
Thanks, this audibly lol'd me.
Uber is perfectly legal here in Spain, but they're regulated as regular VTC vehicles. Uber can't arbitrarily lower the price. It has to be within some percentage of regular taxis for same level of service. Taxis have an advantage though because they have exclusive access to certain areas.
that was depressing man.
Yeah that's kinda what I mean. I've heard to not even consider AMD for ML applications specifically ROCM, so I'm curious if these chips will use ROCM as their primary api or not.

It "technically" works, but their own examples crash, you get a fraction of the performance you'd expect for the level of hardware you have, chicken&egg problem with little other software having good support of it, etc.
The pandemic really got the activity going during 2020 (first bar chart), but maybe not so surprising with everyone pivoting to remote work. And obviously all discssusions about vaccines and how different government were handling things.
Those service links are intermittent - getting 504's on S3 console
Because Chomsky is trying to build a bird, and Norvig is trying to build an airplane. It's much easier to build an airplane to fly than a bird.

Chomsky is trying to explain how humans create language. LLM are creating language, but not the way humans do.

Nothing about this paper refutes Chomsky's claims.
>There's really no good data to support this claim.

Fine.

We know that languages did not exist at some point. We made them exist.
If you’re into language parsing and how its patterns could be used in a modern programming language you should take look on Raku (fka Perl 6): It has native support for „Grammars“ [1] which are basically specialized classes to put Regexes in for defining tokens and also combinations of such tokens. Once you‘re done you can use a grammar object to parse text returning an AST object. Raku‘s own syntax is defined in Grammars being a subset of Raku‘s syntax.

So in a nutshell Raku‘s „Grammar“ construct is like RegExes on steroids and renders defining DSLs or other special purpose languages so much easier than in any other modern language.

[1] https://docs.raku.org/language/grammars
Using a stacked barchart for dead vs alive isn't a great choice in my mind. Normalize to 100% please.
Maybe, but I seem to recall a couple months ago an article blowing up on HN that said, somewhat convincingly, that it was a U.S. operation.
The same money could have been used to fund a fair health system

no it could not. it would take a lot more than that to fund healthcare.

as it is MrBeast is doing the best he can with the means available to him.

in order to do anything better it would take every member of our community to push for a government will actually implement such changes. the problem is, i don't see many people pushing, and i see a lot of people pushing back. things won't get better until that changes.
So in other words batteries don't get us anywhere close to 80% of the way.