skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chomsky: Birds fly by flapping their wings in a specific way while changing the angle in order to create lift and propulsion.

This paper: Planes fly, but don’t flap their wings, ergo Chomsky is wrong.
I'm just waiting to see third party apps that, in lieu of API access, work by scraping the website, and are a LOT heavier on the servers.

A major selling point of API's is to lighten the load.
What a surprise it's US-EAST-1 again...
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> one of which is an average 14 year old, the other an honors student college freshman

The point is that they're not those things. Yes, language models can produce solutions to language tests that a 14 year old could also produce solutions for, but a calculator can do the same thing in the dimension of math - that doesn't make a calculator a 14 year old.
If they don't need reddit, then they should stop using it to demonstrate that point.

> "I'm not addicted, I can quit anytime I want."

> "Okay then, prove it and quit today."

> "....No."
Language is essentially compression. And studies show humans automatically compress data relative to chimps. So there are likely biological structures that help humans compress concepts. Compression could also be an emergent property of having more layers in a NN.
> If people keep upvoting and enjoying the same stupid memes and jokes why do moderators feel like they need to step in and disrupt what the people find enjoyable?

The same question could be asked of Hacker News, which is run very much like a topically focused subreddit with rules, moderation, merging of duplicate topics, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Chomsky has been adding parameters to his theory to handle exceptions in a way that mimics the endless series of conditional statements appended to knowledge systems of yore.

In neuroscience, predictive processing has gained immense favor and can explain language in ways that have nothing to do with innate grammar.

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

Exactly how well did "building a bird" work for building flying machines? Birds use the same principle as a fixed wing when it comes to soaring flight. "Building a bird" without the principles of an airfoil and just mimicking the flapping wings does not result in flight.
Just look how many are still saving the sinking boat named "human-is-special-ism".

"Only human can learn and understand language, not other creature in the university, not machine"
Apisix. Envoy is so hard that there's entire suites of products (ambassador, gloo, etc) just to make it easier to configure.
Imagine if you could simply write app code without needing to spend hours of time in meetings, writing analytics for every button tap, or writing dozens of explanations to managers why the app doesn't behave exactly like the web version.
Bricks of sugarcane waste can replace load-bearing concrete in buildings
There's nothing qualitatively less "in the world" about a language model than a human. Yes, a human has more senses, and is doubtless exposed to huge categories of training data that a language model doesn't have access to - but it's false to draw a sharp dichotomy between knowing what an iPhone looks like, and knowing how people talk about iPhones.

Consider two people - one, a Papau New Guinea tribesperson from a previously uncontacted tribe who is allowed to handle a powered-down iPhone, and told it is an "iPhone", but is otherwise ignorant of its behavior - the other, a cross-platform mobile software developer who has never actually held a physical iPhone, but is intimately familiar with its build systems, API, cultural context etc. Between the two of them, who better understands what an iPhone "is"?

You make a good point about inventing words to refer to new concepts. There's nothing theoretically stopping a language model from identifying some concept in its training data that we don't have a word for, inventing a word for it, and using it to give us a perspective we hadn't considered. It would be very useful if it did that! I suspect we don't tend to see that simply because it's a very rare occurrence in the text it was trained on.
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I’m pretty sure of the opposite. Even for your minimal example, the translations seem very suspect (what’s the word for “working” in Vorin?).
Right _on US soil_ so they go an inch over the border and tap there. US laws don’t matter.
Muslims successfully sued grocery stores for having to handle products which are prohibited to Muslims, and the courts instructed their employers that the reasonable accommodation must be made to allow them to work in a place where they wouldn't have to handle such products.
Hudson Yards in NYC is nicer, but still nothing I've seen in the US tops the best urban malls I've seen in Asia. They're truly on another level.
this happened less than an hour after I altered our prod scheme, thought I brought down production, what a relief
I strongly disagree.

Everywhere where you have a lot of stuff to manage (photos, music, videos, documents, links) hierarchies don't work and only tags can tame all the chaos.

The analogy to "path finding" doesn't hold, imho. That's not how our brains organize information! We organize memories by association and not by some hierarchical structures.
A future 'get out of jail free' card for anyone with a good defense attorney.
The common thread in both cases is (as you say) children: in both creoles and NSL, the early versions of the language are somewhat primitive (being developed by older children and adults), but when children are exposed to it from an early age, the languages acquire much more complexity and sophistication, becoming every bit as rich as "regular" languages. It fits well with the hypothesis that the early years of life are crucial for language development, and that there is indeed something innate in most humans for deep structural understanding of language. It's not just statistical pattern recognition.
I like GDPR but that relates more to corporate data collection than government surveillance. Mass surveillance facilitated by third party corporations is only one kind of mass surveillance.

Supposedly China has ramped up regulations on corporate surveillance recently, implementing new restrictions on data that companies can store. That doesn’t mean the Chinese are free from surveillance.

What protections against mass surveillance does a person in the EU have?
uk too, at least we all did. Parents tell me they had to swim in clothes for the final lesson as a precation against drowning, but we never had to do that. Fact my parents did it as well shows its been going on quite a while
Your denominator is pretty much useless in terms of measuring user impact since subreddit subscriber size is not evenly distributed.
They've added a dozen or so more as potentially down now. Anything that uses IAM, which I suspect is the core of the issue.
It wasn't an attempt to make fun of but I can see how you and others would think so. I simply thought it was an interesting characteristic of him because there is a trend for CEOs to be taller than average.
> It seems like Reddit could have just charged them 3.00 Per user per month, so they get a healthy margin off of the third party apps.

That's not the way things work anymore. If they think they can charge $10 a user and get away with it they will, regardless of how unethical or deceitful they need to be. And it's not just Reddit, it's our entire world of business "leaders" that have adopted that attitude.

The problem is that you're looking at it from the perspective of what makes a good product, and view 3P apps as part of a good product. However, the only question getting asked by the executives, board members, investors, etc. is "what makes a ton of money?"

Bring back the product focused people IMO.
I’d think a landing page is fine as long as you can actually use the thing without signing up or paying anything.
PE is only good for PE and privileged shareholders.

I think they have a place, maybe in hell?

My dad used to work somewhere that got taken over by PE. He was immigrant so can’t really change jobs easily esp in that environment. Fuck those asswipes for making his work life a nightmare that eventually permeated into family life because he was always stressed out.
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By paying for developers who can write good code and allowing them to write user-focused code instead of user-tracking code?
You're assuming those are loans which is a rather large assumption. There's a lot of ways to raise capital than taking on new loans.
foundering = fail or break down
floundering = struggle or stagger helplessly.

both work! I actually think `floundering` works better in context - "men breaking down" versus "men struggling".
I don't want zero moderation, I just want good moderation, which is not the case when you have a few mods that push their agenda over many enormous subs.
Wild, that wouldn't have flown with datacenter providers having issues for my previous companies.

AWS really does have an easier time than old school datacenter providers. I guess the complexity is higher but it's shocking that they can charge so much yet we hold them to a lower standard.
Maybe an AI startup that went under and the investors took the cluster?
I doubt whatever severance they get can last them the rest of their lives.
Same. At first, I thought PragmataPro was a little narrow, but now that I grown accustomed to it, everything else feels squatty or improperly kerned.
I've forgotten what pmf means from the last time someone used it and someone else explained it.

(Can we please all lighten up on the acronyms a touch?)
> If the reddit app actually had the moderation tools they've been promising for years, I doubt the moderator outcry would be anywhere near this bad.

If the reddit app was any good, the 3rd party ones wouldn't even exist.
All their problems are because their users prefer to pay a 3rd party than to use the recommended, official app they keep pushing into them.

Instead of all this confusion, if they just made their app work on the high-latency that is common on mobile networks, they would get much better results. (No need to even make their video work.)
Looks like they either don't see the community as an asset, or don't see the protestors as part of the community. In either case, they do not think the opinion of the people protesting matters enough to change anything.
No issues on our Linodes .
Not for a lack of trying.

If you give it a small enough training set or a big enough neural network, it will directly memorize the whole thing. You have to intentionally make its brain too small to do that in order to force it to find patterns in the data instead.
There's many ways to judge what "80%" is. The batteries will cycle many times every week. They will have much more energy flowing through them in a year than the storage we need for dunkelflaute would.

Yes, in terms of amount of energy stored at full capacity, batteries would not get us to 80%. But those last 20% have reduced requirements for charge/discharge rates, effiency, cost/kWh, which makes many other solutions viable.
The LLMs don't understand anything. At all. They have rules they respond to. But that doesn't mean they actually "get" a single word of what they're blathering.

A computer has no sense of "intent" or "meaning" to what they have indexed and scanned. There is no intent or meaning to what they spit out in generated text.

We're back in the Chinese room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Had our login and other features go down less than an hour after I altered our prod scheme and thought I did something wrong, what a relief it was to see this
Everyone involved still relevant. The people doing the protest say they will not use reddit after third party apps no longer work, so really they shouldn't care about what happens after they leave.
> When they move out and live among peers and take courses from professors with views very different from home,

Why would professors have "views" all that different from home? Professors are regular people too.

(Two of us in our friend group / community, are literally employed college professors, others are elementary teachers, software developers, IT folks, one designer, one electrical engineer, two in marketing, one who is in HR, one is a city bus driver, one who works in an automotive parts plant, one is a nurse, etc)

You guys like, have friends, right? Like, people who you see semi-regularly and are from your community, but who aren't necessarily from your employer or in your career / direct field-of-work? Friends that aren't also LinkedIn contacts?
It just errors out right now. How can we differentiate: always errors out vs dead?
Other submission linking to AWS status page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315441

And what a surprise it's US-EAST-1 again...
Yes, and that's one of my favorite Chomsky points. I don't remember the exact phrasing, but something like:

"Language is innate in humans because in every household practically all children learn it while none of the pets do."
We can confidently assume it's not 26x their annual revenue. That would be silly.
If you're really pedantry man why didn't you click through the main wikipedia MDMA article you copied from word for word to the very large, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA-assisted_psychotherapy#So... ?

>MDMA was first synthesized by German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA in 1912 as an intermediate in the synthesis of another compound. Its psychoactive effects were not noted until the early 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, the drug was used in psychotherapy, although it was not an approved drug and no clinical trials had been performed. The drug was studied in Switzerland for use in individual, couple, and group therapies until 1993, when the Swiss Ministry of Health withdrew permission to use MDMA and LSD by psychiatrists due to concerns about lack of research methodology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835

>In 1986, MDMA was classed as a Schedule 1 drug by the United Nations according to its Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 due to its high potential for abuse, and most research was stopped. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218633
That hasn't been quite my experience.

I've used PAs/NPs when it was appropriate (annual physical, etc) - I don't need an MD to take a blood sample, run a blood pressure check, and read of a standard checklist of questions.

And I've seen MDs when that was appropriate (specialist procedures, things that aren't "a cold", etc).

There's room for both.
That was badly stated on my part, and I mostly agree with you on the risky-career part (though the work-life tradeoff is a separate axis and one where I think my point holds).

Men probably do choose riskier careers early on in significant part because it increases payouts in the relationship market relative to women. Going from well-off to rich doesn't actually improve material well-being much for either men or women, but it does significantly improve relationship prospects for men in a way it doesn't for women. It becomes a matter of economics: the real payout (inclusive of non-monetary elements) for success in a risky bet is higher for men than women, and so men choose to take those risky bets more often.
> What issues have you had with email sending?

Most email services assume that you are a big, US based company and care about following US anti spam laws, which require you to disclose your address in each email you send. As an Eu-based hobbyist running their services without registering an official business, I have no address that I can safely disclose and no willingness to deal with the legal system of a country that I have no interest in. What are your policies on this?
Almost all discussion of beaming power between space and Earth is in the context of power generated in space (such as via solar panels) and beaming it to Earth.

I wonder if it would ever make sense to beam power from Earth to space? For example there are places on Earth that would be great for large solar farms but don't have sufficient transmission lines to get that power to where it is needed.

Perhaps power from those Earth-based solar farms could be beamed to relays in space that would them beam it down to receivers on Earth that can get the power to where it is needed.
Oil and Gas field services does the same thing and only
difference is they buy the company back and then flip it again.
> The fact that you can replicate coherent text from probabilistic analysis and modeling of a very large corpus does not mean that humans acquire and generate language the same way.

we actually don't know what is inside LM too, so it is possible LM statistically learns syntax and semantics, and it is major part of output quality.
Well, there is a nationwide (potentially global) doctor shortage.

It's not like doctors are sitting in a room twiddling their thumbs because insurance companies in the US are cheap.

Residency programs are kept artificially low through successful efforts of the AMA to intentionally limit the number of doctors in the US.
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None of this makes sense.

1."lè" with a low tone means fine, but "nì síkòní" means "I'm fine", while "là síkòní" means "he/she/it is fine"?

2. The example of "noun prefixes" doesn't include different noun prefixes?

3. The example of "verb ending changes" doesn't include different verb endings?

4. Since the second clause of the second phrase apparently means "I'm fine", the first word must mean "you", but then the second word is repeated in the next sentence which has nothing to do with thanking someone? And "síkòní" gets sprinkled into three sentences with no common concepts?

This just looks, predictably, like gibberish spit out by an LLM.
I’ve worked for several systemically important megacorps where certain things had to not only run cross region but also cross provider. It’s absurdly difficult, and only should be done if you need five or more 9’s of availability. Almost nothing actually does.
Just for posterity, I glimpsed at their homepage and it seems that someone is gilding posts and comments explaining the protest. This as far as I understand entails paying Reddit. Fascinating. May be trolling.
Not just in the US either - in the UK my local gym (part of a national chain) that I've been with for over a decade got bought by a PE firm. In 18 months the fees went up over 60%. They used to give out regular guest passes - now only 1-2 passes once a year and they're valid for less time than they used to be. They've also doubled the charges for bringing a guest.

All these price increases and while the staff are still nice, the gym is now overcrowded and many times there isn't any equipment available. Also, there is dust on almost all the equipment - like a thick layer, clearly the only thing being regularly cleaned is the floor.

Naturally, I am looking to go elsewhere but my impression of PE as a consumer based on my personal experience is quite negative.
Yes, the AI isn’t literally a 14 year old, and we should do an anthromorphization acknowledgement. Thank you for pointing it out, it can waste a lot of time when you get sloppy with language in AI discussions.

I removed the reference, in retrospect, it’s unnecessary. No need to indicate the strong performance, we’re all aware.
The reality is that Mr Beast has a better shot at it than 99.99% of americans

better by what margin? given that the likelyhood of anyone else making that change is almost zero, even if his chances were 10 times as high, that is still not enough to make any dent.

part of the problem here is thinking that changing the system can only be done by some single person with superhero powers, when in reality it takes a mind change in all of society. the US healthcare system will not change until everyone starts demanding that change.

the best MrBeast can do is to influence his audience, but he'll need to convince more than a few million people before a change can happen.
Same! and it works on OpenBSD supposedly. I can't wait to try this out this weekend.
The Chinese Room Argument is considered by many to be incorrect on those matters. But it has led to decades of interesting philosophical debate, which is worth reading to see the various perspectives. This is an excellent summary:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
That's not learning, though, is it? Inventing, maybe, or developing or evolving.
An NVIDIA competitor creates a deep learning cluster, calls it Andromeda.

Later, these guys create an NVIDIA-based deep learning cluster and call it… Andromeda.
Plants get pruned and brought back to life. I think there is an argument to be made that PE could be caretakers and stewards that unlock the good trapped by rot, but that might take time, so instead they extract the value immediately but destroy the life in the process. If corporations are people, my friends, they deserve some human rights of their own.
My point is that the fact that there can be consequences is different from there are always consequences. The fact that there can be consequences is also different from claiming that the consequences can't be accepted or ignored.

I'm not goading you with a straw man. You are the one that made it.
Based on Urban Dictionary that one had its heyday around 20 years ago so it's understandable if you haven't.
We could use programming languages as a counterpoint.

LLMs can code in the same way they can use natural languages. But we know that programming languages have structure, we made them that way, from scratch, using Chomsky's theory no less.

Saying that because LLMs can learn programming languages using a different approach and therefore disprove the very theory they are built on is absurd.

Anyways, the paper is long and full of references, I didn't analyse it, does it include looks inside the model? For example, for LLMs to write code correctly, the structure of programming languages must be encoded somewhere in the weights of the model. A way to more convincingly disprove Chomsky's ideas would be to find which part of the network encodes structure in programming languages, and show that there is nothing similar for natural languages.
Great question. I think because plastic and rubber are both petrolium byproducts, the 'shreds' of both are bad.

I googled, found:
> Current tires consist of 19% natural rubber and 24% synthetic polymers (plastics), as well as metal and other materials.

So tires have both rubber and plastics. both are bad, and both get ejected into the environment at a horrific rate. :(
Maybe they will. I don't know anything Buterin. But it seems like whoever created bitcoin was sincerely trying to make an independent token for exchange or a digital commodity. Many of the subsequent versions of crypto behave exactly like fraudulent securities, with hype, poor disclosure, wash trading and pump and dump. It makes sense to go after the predatory things first and cut some slack to things that were well intended.

Again, I don't know anything about the creators of ETH, but they may have a better defense of their actions then-- say -- Sam Bankman Freid.
What I'm thinking is to give it a function called replaceAll that just replaces text, and another one called insertAfter. Maybe also replaceBetween.
It's been a while since I've engaged with the ideas, but it's my understanding that Chomsky was discussing the ability for children to learn the language of the society they're raised in. LLMs are not cheating at that task in the manner you describe.

They do seem to need a significantly larger corpus, though, so it's not clear that it actually refutes Chomsky.
I disagree with your first point (people are extrajudicially "leaned on") but agree with your last point. People act like these things are not accountable to anyone. In reality- we are able to read about them because of transparency, they are accountable to Congress whom we directly elect, and they are checked via the courts.

We are reading about this now because of publicly released self reporting, that's oversight!