skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, yea, I agree with you on several points. For one, we don't fully understand the internal mechanisms of LLMs. I'm also with you on Markov chains and autocomplete tools not having an understanding of the underlying concepts. They merely use statistical patterns in the data.

Based on what you've said, it sounds like your take is that unless we can specify the exact mechanism by which LLMs understand, we have no business saying that they understand. In a lot of cases, this is a reasonable approach. In many areas, if someone tells you X, and you ask for a mechanism of action, and they can't produce one, you have solid grounds for thinking they're bullshitting.

But this case isn't quite the same. We know that LLMs learn to represent their inputs in a high-dimensional vector space (embeddings) and learn the relationships between those vectors. We also see them effectively solve problems in a variety of domains using this representation. I think these two ingredients: having a semantic representation and being able to effectively solve problems amount to something like "understanding." The lack of both properties is why I'd say Markov chains and autocomplete tools don't "understand" -- they haven't learned an effective representation of the underlying phenomena. (I'd also argue this is similar to us as humans. We don't have a good understanding of the human brain or precise mechanisms of action underlying thought. All we know is we as humans have semantic representations and can effectively solve problems.)

small note on your chess point: it now looks like chat gpt 3.5 can achieve draws against stockfish 8: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/06/th...

bigger note on your chess point: this example illustrates that LLMs are "semi-decidable." We thought they were bad at chess, but we just hadn't discovered the right way to prompt. More generally, we can confirm when an LLM is good at X because we feed it a prompt that produces performance in X, but given the size of the input space we're dealing with here, we can't confirm that LLMs are bad at X just because we haven't seen them do well at it. Maybe we just haven't discovered the right prompt. (These input spaces are massive, by the way. ChatGPT-3.5, for example, has a context window of 4,096 tokens, so if we were considering only the English alphabet, we're looking at more than 26^{4,096} possible inputs.)
Could the first just be an issue in the ambiguity of the word “care?” A person hurtling toward the edge of a cliff cares a whole lot more about their brakes than a person driving down a nice calm road, this doesn’t indicate that the former person is generally interested in brakes, they just have some emergency driven care.
For those watching from home, if you're only reading, you can logout (or use a private window or another browser) - the logged out pages are cached and don't show those errors (usually).
I think ChatGPT can add just the right amount of sappiness for emails and networking (without all the cognitive load), but if you let it loose on content, it will make you sound like SEO spam, because that's what it learned on presumably.
The question, long term, will be can this be built in-situ with regolith materials on the moon and moved to stationary earth orbit. The deltaV of that is considerably less and would allow for extreme scales.
That's a big deal.

Westfield Mall is an anchor for most of the shopping on Market Street. It's actually a bit of an anomaly if you think about the death of malls in the US.

Union Square has been emptying out over the past few years. It's not a small number of stores leaving, it's major anchor stores.

A new IKEA is supposed to be opened on Market. I wonder if they'll reconsider?
I-JEPA: The first AI model based on Yann LeCun’s vision for more human-like AI
> I can’t believe everyone in this thread so far is talking about the actual company

I think what happens on HN is a subject matter comes up that often doesn’t get much attention on HN, so folks start chiming in with tangentially related but top of (their) mind thoughts/anecdotes.

It’s nice to discuss things like that with the HN crowd, to see what they’re also thinking about things we’ve been thinking about, even if it may not tie in directly with the linked article.
The site misspells "prospect" and then uses the correct spelling later.
Some broadcast TV stations in my area have audio-only subchannels. Unfortunately they're not worth listening to (they're Christian talk stations) but it's neat to see.
in that they don't exist independently of the apparatus that localizes them out of a wavefunction? checks Diamond Sutra sounds about right
Probably because scammers are still using the same old scamming mechanisms, just with LLM support. What technology the scammers are using behind the scenes is invisible to the recipient.

I think this may be happening with scam/spam email. I've definitely been getting more than usual in my inbox.
I see your Blockchain and raise you one Generative AI. This new tech will write your posts and comments for you! Watch the fake internet points roll in!
Americans would love to spend less on health if they could - health is a unique category here, because allowing your health to completely run down to "zero" means you die, which is unique from other markets.

Also, someone that spends $300k on a watch isn't doing it because they care about time.
Encryption isn't broken by Invidious, nor by youtube-dl or anything else. Youtube sends a bunch of Javascript, Invidious interprets it and runs the code. Unless Google wants to prove that running secret_youtube_sauce.js can only be ran by specific user-agents on their own website otherwise it's DMCA infringement, they can try. If they win, you've got a bigger problem anyways, since they would win the right to only allow Chrome to access Google properties.
Not sure if you are actually developing the emails or not, but from a front-end developer's perspective, I hate to touch my email templates codebase because it has to be coded in certain way that works with the email provider.

I cannot see what the end result is going to look like until I actually send out a test email and see it in my email clients. This DX indeed feels like 2010 if you compare it with today's DX for developing websites.
Inflation Eased to 4% in May, Still Well Above Fed Target
They're not necessarily trying to do the optimal long term thing right now. They're making short term moves to boost their valuation for the IPO. Doing things like showing an increase in ad revenue is a nice boost for that, no matter how it's accomplished.
Chess engines already do this.
Normalized means free[er] of redundancies. If you have a shopping basket, then you need the user it belongs to, the products in it and their quantities. Everything else like shipping costs and total costs can be derived from that. If you explicitly store the total costs because it is faster to show a value you already have instead of calculating it from the product prices and the default delivery address each time you need it, then you have a denormalized data model. It is now faster for the common operation of showing the total costs of a shopping basket but at the cost that you now have to invalidate shopping cart total costs when you change the price of a product or else the total costs might not reflect the current price of all the products. In a certain sense denormalization is just a form of caching and come with all the same problems as other caches, most notably of course cache invalidation. Materialization - as in materialized database views - is an mechanism to automatically denormalize your data that [hopefully] also ensures that the materialized data is always up to date and consistent with the rest of the data.
ony infecting its users with a rootkit didn't make it sell less playstations

They sold atleast one less PS3. I caved and let my kid get a 4 and 5 when they came out. But he's gotta keep them at his mother's house.
I think they're suggesting that neo-PHP and JS adopted the best parts and patterns of Rails (eg. Laravel).
If you want to have an actual discussion, maybe start by asking a genuine question.

Go back and look at the comment that I was responding to…

Also, re-read the comment I wrote that you responded to and then re-read your response…
Logic is simple inline with reducing power draw from a simplistic instruction set.

Move into a space where we have rapid manufacturing for Specialized chips. Alongside the concept inherit to Nvidia's DPU and you have something very Interesting.
Any distance to culture and language detriments potential for leadership positions.

If you move, please be aware that it may not be possible to move into leadership for a long time or never.

Also be aware that you adapt to the new culture after some time. Hence, returning requires readaption again.
I work with 6 other people on the product team of a small SaaS company. I definitely wish folks happy birthday, check on them after surgery, see how their kids are feeling if they get sick… seems pretty normal to do so for people you work with several hours a day (and we’re remote, in person I’d be even more inclined to do so). It’s not like structured though, it’s organic.

Perhaps that’s the difference between my experience and others’ posting here: we are small enough that nothing feels like “the company” doing something, we all retain our individuality at this scale.
Exam-related Internet shutdowns in Iraq and Algeria put connectivity to the test
venv is fine. Remember that this is a self-selected sample of people. You’re going to bump into the flaws and gotchas but it’s a perfectly usable tool.
> The interesting thing

The interesting thing to you
Oh yeah, sorry, I wasn’t trying to portion out the blame or come up with a counter-argument to you. It was just a tangentially related anecdote that I thought was amusing.
Do you think the propensity to shout threats at people would affect one's social status?
Descript.com was pretty good at it when I tried it, but it's pretty expensive:
https://www.descript.com/transcription

We ended up using Otter.ai, which if I remember correctly didn't have as good a speaker separation model, but it was good enough for the price:
https://otter.ai/

There's also the much more expensive, human-powered Rev:
https://www.rev.com/
Yes, I am.

So this is like Litmus?
There used to be a popular graphic that charted gas vs battery costs and showed what price for each made Hybrids and then full BEV sensible financially.

In a well organised world, we'd have raised gas prices steadily to force a changeover. We only did that in patches, but luckily the cost of batteries dropped much faster than anyone expected, so we're firmly in the BEV wins quadrant.

You could do similar for space launch costs vs battery cost to map when space solar makes sense.

Launch costs have plummeted unexpectedly, but the reduction in battery costs have I think even further tipped the balance so this is less economically sensible than it was before.
Countries like Sweden or Singapore have different histories than the USA, but their drug laws are even harsher than those in the USA.

Also straw purchasing a legal substance is much easier than finding a dealer of an illegal one.
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Not sure why you singled out Christianity. Suffering is a pretty common theme in the major religions.

Hell, in Buddhism it's a core theme.

And religion or not, it's undeniable that suffering is a part of the human experience.
> Who is this addressed at?

People who want to ridicule complaints of a lack of 'regulatory clarity'. You can hold the view that crypto should have been aggressively regulated against much earlier, while also recognizing that regulators / the state have a due process obligations.

The state should not be allowed to take away your residency permit even if it was issued incorrectly 10y ago due to an oversight on their part. Similarly, it is reasonable to argue that the state should not be allowed to punish a business for behaviour it has tacitly approved of by doing nothing for a decode. It's not like Coinbase was doing this under the radar and the SEC just noticed recently.
@ctas since you're running your own backend, how did you solve the reputation problem to ensure good deliverability? I would have thought that using a dedicated IP on an existing provider like Sendgrid would be the best solution for critical transactional email.
The gaming of the system is the reason they rescores themselves and do not take a vendors statement as fact. There's a long history of vendors underreporting and underscoring their security issues.
I think the author is just asking us to vote more thoughtfully.

Currently, especially on sites like Reddit, the upvote/downvote buttons are abused as agree/disagree buttons and are clicked with little thought.

The recent troubles on Reddit have people talking about alternatives. An old site - one of the first voting based forums - was brought up, Slashdot.

It has an interesting voting system. Only some people can vote - I forgot the requirements. Each post maxes out at 5 points. Often/almost always the post has a label next to it saying why it was upvoted - e.g. Informative, Insightful, Interesting, ... I can't remember the details of the system as I mostly lurked back then as a kid.

Anyway, I think a shift to a more deliberate form of voting might be what the article is advocating.
Indeed. It's like saying life is just long strands of DNA composed of only four simple molecules. Or economy is just people trading their surpluses.

Emergent behavior... emerges. It's hard to predict or explain from constituents. Scale changes everything.
GameStop was originally known as being a clean, well lit retailer that sold new and used games together as well as consoles, accessories, and general merch. Their staff was young, friendly, and knew about their products.

This recipe lead to them expanding quickly, often nudging out other regional/local game stores. Unfortunately, during this time period they also began some pretty annoying practices. They started pushing magazine subscriptions and club memberships with every sale. Same with extended warranties. The checkout process was awful. At the same time, complaints about how management was treating the staff started coming in.

What really hit the nail on the GameStop coffin was digital downloads. Since PS4/Xbox One generation the consoles have had large enough hard drives and fast enough network connections to buy and download games from the internet. This began to cut into physical game sales. With the latest generation you have to pay extra money to have a disk drive, and the consoles have low cost subscriptions that include a access to a healthy library of games. These all hurt sales, and GameStop isn't in a position to replace those sales with anything else.
> ideas from OWL

What is OWL? Except for a good lesson in why not to use common and hence impossible to search for words as names for a project.
Similar laws exist in the US as well.

I haven't watched Mr Beast's videos to have an opinion. He popped up on my kid's screen once, we banned him and some associated channels and forgot him. It was clearly garbage content for us in our brief experience and not worth our time to identify why.
It’s not that hard to get these LLMs to generate new game rules, I’ve made some prototypes that use them to do that. The hard part is getting them to generate rules that are actually fun to play and somewhat balanced. The fact is that it’s hard to know if something is fun until you actually play it.
Zoom hasn't been great for me either. I think their video encoding must be nuts. On my 2019 Intel MacBook, launching Zoom takes my CPU and GPU usage way up and the fans start going crazy.
Are you hoping for deflation? Inflation (rate) back to ~2% seems like the optimal outcome but I suppose you'd still be worried that it's high relative to some other arbitrary point in history? Which point in history would that be? It's not like there's some absolute barometer of overall inflation.

Employment rates: You can find this data and it doesn't really seem all that alarming to me. In 2013 there were ~2.5MM marginally attached and 800k discouraged workers. Today there are 1.5MM marginally attached and 400k discouraged workers. https://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab16.htm (I picked 2013 only since it was the earliest data shown on the chart.)

That scenario is plausible at any point in time, no? We have to do what we have to do and yes, it could definitely turn out poorly, but so far there's been a whole lot more talk of doom and gloom (for years) than actual doom and gloom.

It's not clear there's another path of action anyway. If you know of a "slow inflation but don't risk spooking lenders" button, I'd love to hear about it.
Imho wrong. Ayn Rand would have 0 problems with someone giving money to someone voluntarily, out of their own volition, as an act of freedom. It is only at gun point that she had a problem with it (the method of the looters). The second handlers are the Peter Keatings, the people who only think of what other people think of them and act on that (so people who act without personality or integrity).

I do agree that her "heroes" would not likely take money unless there was some value to be exchanged against it (ie like in an investment).

At least, that is how I interpreted it.
I don’t know how interesting your meetings are but I don’t need vr glasses for that
I'm sorry was I not asked to give feedback on a launch post? Did you not see this line:

> I would love to hear your ideas, experiences, and feedback on any and all of the above.
Paul McCartney used AI to make a new Beatles song
Very funny but hopefully we can all see that “constraints are good” does not imply “you should be as constrained as possible”
Thanks a lot for the advice here. That's definitely an area where we spend a lot of time and one of the reasons why we've been under a private beta for the last six months.
Fascinating work, but also potentially terrifying because the ultimate development of this technology gets rid of the need of sex for procreation, the implications of which I am not ready to wrap my head around...
There are almost two dozen breweries in my city and most of them have non-IPAs.
My experience is you lose any gains elsewhere - messing with config files, random apps breaking in a tiling WM, having to plan your workspaces, having to do like 5 chords to get the optimal layout, etc.. I also think i3/sway style tiling is kinda unusable on large or ultra wide screens which is what I use nowadays.

I feel my productivity is pretty much the same on KDE/Windows/OS X (with rectangle) style WMs after some adjustment. How often do you really need to rearrange windows anyways in your day to day? And does it need to be perfect?

The only tiling WM I found had substantial benefits was PaperWM. I wish that style of tiling was more popular. It’s kind of the best of both worlds between tiling and non tiling.
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GPT is censored in lots of subjects, the ones choosing these subjects are OpenAI/Microsoft, the government is supposedly chosen by the people...
Of course I remember them. How does this relate to

> You probably overlap with those users more than you'd like to admit.

4chan is absolutely not a group I overlap much with.
Right, but you could just have a materialized view of the data, as well. We don't typically call that denormalized, but it is roughly the same thing.

A trap with a lot of denormalizations, is that they allow you to edit the data that was otherwise materialized. Right?
A ledger secured by a handful of researchers is not really permissionless or distributed as we have come to understand public blockchains to be.
A corporation is merely a legal recognition of a group of people who have decided to work together towards a common goal. That's a community, plain and simple.

There is nothing about a corporation that implies economic production. In fact, many (most?) corporations are negatively productive until the community decides to disband, and some corporations are established with explicit intent to not be economically productive (e.g. non-profits).
Clever workarounds get you removed from the store.
Roger that.

Adding support for inbound emails is definitely on our roadmap.

Great idea on the migration guides!
Ambitious self-sufficient floating city to host 40k people
Last time I was there, staying at Hotel Zetta, I noticed how much more dodgy the area seemed. I can't imagine this is going to help that any. Love SF, but it's going in the wrong direction and I'm glad I left at this point. At some point perhaps the voters will get tired of their city decay.

Now we see hotels are even questioning their existence there: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hotel-owners-start-to-write-off...
Don't forget to factor in a floating solar array in the pacific ocean somewhere. There's a good period of the day where that's really the only place getting usable sun.
Anyone who rides an MTB and wants to get better at reading maps, I can only recommend finding a local MTB-O group and joining them for training sessions. It helps if the area the map covers you are familiar with at least a little bit, after the session your familiarity will increase 200% (and I've been going to these MTB-O trainings for years, mainly to the same places, and still discover new trails and unknown areas!).

The basic idea of MTB-O is that you need to find points from a known starting position on a blind map. Rules are simple: you must follow existing trails, you shouldn't just cross terrain (like you would in the classic running version of orienteering). After a few sessions you will start understanding the importance of isohypses (elevation lines), because there can be significant differences in difficulty of routes, depending on your route choice. You decide your own route, then navigate, easier said than done while your heartrate is >170bpm :)

Here is a recent example of such a map, I hope it can be accesssed openly: http://astrois.hu/mtbo/2023/cstsz2023-palyak11.Hosszu.gif

You start at the triangle, then usually go in sequence of the numbering of purple circles. Black lines are the trails, dotted means worse quality / smaller, straight line means wider, brown is paved / street.

Try connecting two purple circles purely by following the black trails, there are usually multiple reasonable options, but be vary of the difference in elevation! It is really fun doing it purely in your head, even better if you know the terrain, you can close your eyes and do an imaginery run!
Because I want to write JS(X) instead of having to suffer through learning yet another templating DSL. I don't understand why this si so hard for people to understand, templating languages suck.
>Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels

This idea more or less surfaces in the book "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", where in the not-too-distant future the internet is so polluted that you are pretty much expected to hire a full-time "editor" to curate your social media feed. This doesn't scale particularly well, of course, so in reality particularly wealthy families hire an editor to present a cohesive stream of social media to their whole family-tree. Meanwhile the masses typically subscribe to an "off the shelf" stream (or several?) that most closely matches their tastes.
Twitter is a cesspool, too. That's why I left it years ago.
I think most people here are applying this to their personal notes/projects.