skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Their null is GPT4 can ace MIT and they haven't provided any evidence to reject.

If I said "2 + 2 = 4", and then gave a flawed proof, it is not your job as a debunker to prove that 2+2 != 4.

Their null hypothesis is that this paper provides sufficient and proper evidence to prove the original claim. And to that end, it seems like they've done a good job at pointing out enough serious deficiencies that - regardless of the original hypothesis's truth - the original paper cannot be used to prove it to be true.
Every single person who’s taken DMT can confirm they’ve spoken to elder gods and aliens. Maybe we should be okay with scientists confirming things “everyone” knows.
Why is this amazing? One would expect the language with more restrictions to compile to faster code, no?
For slices and arrays, yes.
If true, this is interesting. As a knowledge repository, having an archive of it would be fascinating.

The size seems small to me. Only 80 gigabytes? What happened to all the video and images that Reddit hosts? Not everything is imgur or other sites.

That said, 4.5 million is too much that they are asking. It's only data not IP or trade secrets as far as I know. I think they certainly could get 500k for the deletion. I would hope that they would donate some of that VC pocket change to worthy causes.
Had never heard of the concept of ‘lil n’y a pas de hors-texted’, reading about it sounds like the same concept: can’t remove the context from the object

> Understood as such, it's not really such a strange idea, that the things outside of the text itself can and do give meaning to it in an ever-evolving way. In a philosophical context we can understand it to assert the idea that context is always present, and isn't necessarily stable.

From: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/40227
When I think of dangerous street people, I don't think guns. I think knives. The times I've been threatened by street people, they showed me or made reference to knives. A gun seems like an expensive liability to such a person, which could be sold or traded for a substantial amount of drugs but could get them into a lot of trouble if they were caught with it. A knife though is worth basically nothing and won't get them into very much trouble if they're caught with it either. So a low rate of shootings doesn't give me much consolation. I'm more interested in the rate of stabbings and beatings, robberies and assaults... violent crime generally not specifically those done with guns. Why even single out one particular kind of weapon if you're trying to reassure somebody that a neighborhood is safe? That's weird, particularly since the people who are cause for concern are unlikely to have that kind of weapon in the first place.
well it isn't easy... If your foldable solar panels can't be unfolded in gravity because they'd immediately break, then you can't test that they work.
> For Lua and file system access, is that only with the standard library? If not, that would be very surprising!

If by standard library you mean Lua's io package in baselib, then the answer is yes. For example, "dofile" or "loadfile" functions will work no matter baselib is removed or not.

Here's a full list if you're interested: https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/meg4/-/blob/main/src/lua/hardened....

In a nutshell, I've removed package, coroutine, io, os modules from baselib and all functions calling fopen or fread/fwrite (like "loadfile") and replaced these with the MEG-4 API. This way you have the same functions in Lua as in C. All the rest left untouched; eg. table, string, utf8, math, etc. modules are still available as usual.
Noam Chomsky on language, left libertarianism, and progress
Canonical UW URLs use the uw.edu domain: https://faculty.uw.edu/sbrunton/DataBookV2.pdf (huge 100MB PDF, as others have noted).

(Washington got pretty lucky to be granted this domain and universities are no longer being granted contractions like this. Wisconsin and Waterloo might be somewhat jealous.)
Privatisation has only introduced complexity and inefficiency into a system that simply needed appropriate funding. The result being rapidly deteriorating services that are more expensive and poorer quality than our comparable neighbours.
Big if true. I would not be surprised if the whole api shenenigans will bring a lot more to the surface that will accelerate the death of reddit. Sad, but also unsurprising.
Only if the restrictions are static and don't need to be checked dynamically, naturally. For dynamic arrays or dynamic indices it's not always possible to do that in Rust.
Bounds checks can sometimes be optimized out, such as when using iterators or a for loop over a fixed range. LLVM is pretty decent at optimizing out redundant checks too.
Quite.

I'm a Brit, so we have a reasonably good Public Service Broadcaster - BBC. We do pay for it, via the TV License fee, which is basically a tax but at least we have a PSB that is tied to the values of the country (the mandate is defined by the govt) and at point of delivery is "free" (cf NHS). Yes, there are a lot of caveats that I won't dwell on here.

If you watch BBC channels or iPlayer (streaming) then you will not see any adverts, at all. A film will run from the start to the end and then you will be told what is on next plus a few "ads" on what other content is available or you have to dig out the clicker from under the dog to find something else to watch on iPlayer. The BBC currently runs four main TV channels plus radio and a lot of streaming stuff and more.

We also have ITV (Independent TeleVision), C4 (Channel 4) and C5. These are all from the analogue days and they have transitioned to digital to be joined by quite a collection.

Oh, sorry - ads ... ITV, C4, C5 and others can show ads. Because they compete with the BBC which has no ads, ad breaks are rather short.

I remember when I first saw Sky (sat. broadcaster, now all media options). They owned the lot and could do what they liked, or so they thought, and were probably right. Ad breaks were horrendously long and more frequent (probably approaching US normal)

I think I'll pass on the Sky type options and get a grip! When you find yourself whining on a SM platform about something like this, I probably ought to get out more.
> How are you going to make working at an Amazon warehouse meaningful? Stocking shelves at Walmart? Making fries at McDonalds?

Those are not “bullshit jobs” by any definition. An Amazon warehouse worker knows that someone has to do that job. The same is true for your other examples.
No, the game development is “drag and drop” not the game mechanics.
The original paper claims GPT correctly answered this question. Thus the original paper is obviously wrong.

> Which invocations run in parallel? (Assuming there are enough cores.)

No context is ommitted, that's the entire question.
Seems kind of pointless, since the implementations for different languages are independently written and thus the results depend mostly on the skill of the programmers who wrote them (at least for languages that are efficient), and on the quality of the specific standard library features being used if any.
The root of the problem is the electorate (not the leaders, who are downstream from the electorate), and that problem mainly falls under category A. They, the voters, have this idea that more social services, more compassion and understanding and more tolerance for the minor sorts of crime like vandalism and shoplifting will eventually bear fruit and cause the crime rate to drop. The failure of the plan to deliver the promised results is explained away as a matter of needing more time, more funding, more reforms... The plan hasn't failed; people failed the plan.

And of course there is a lot of D, people denying there's a problem at all. The "this is fine" response.
No. Here's the quote I responded to originally, slightly expanded for your convenience and ease of use:

> Similarly, building a somewhat straighter fibre (and then microwave towers) from Chicago to NY has no societal benefit I can discern. (But the solution to that is fintech and regulation, not crypto.)

I've always been talking about technical infrastructure, you're the one who brought up delivery of oil barrels.

If you think this bit is not important enough that's fine. Feel free not to get involved.
I'm in Europe with an iPhone and this didn't work, but I'd like to try it.

[edit: telegram integration would be quite cool.]
I weigh 175 at 6 feet and my insurance company was informed that I have an unhealthy BMI. I was running 21 miles per week at the time and could easily pass the test described above. Of course pointing at the problem again doesn't solve it. I'd be all for a combination of a low effort stress test and waist to height ratio would definitely be better that just weight to height.
It has gotten out of control, especially the Square machines with the absurdly high tip suggestions/choices. I have not seen it on self-checkout machines yet. If it gets bad enough I will shop elsewhere.
I've been wondering about this, as simply extending the context window in a straightforward manner would lead to a significant increase in computational resources. I've had the opportunity to experiment with Anthropics' 100k model, and it's evident that they're employing some clever techniques to make it work, albeit with some imperfections. One interesting observation is that their prompt guide recommends placing instructions after the reference text when inputting lengthy text bodies. I noticed that the model often disregarded the instructions if placed beforehand. It's clear that the model doesn't allocate the same level of "attention" to all parts of the input across the entire context window.

Moreover, the inability to cache transformers makes the use of large context windows quite costly, as all previous messages must be sent with each call. In this context, the RWKV-LM project on GitHub (https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM) might offer a solution. They claim to achieve performance comparable to transformers using an RNN, which could potentially handle a 100-page document and cache it, thereby eliminating the need to process the entire document with each subsequent query. However, I suspect RWKV might fall short in handling complex tasks that require maintaining multiple variables in memory, such as mathematical computations, but it should suffice for many scenarios.

On a related note, I believe Anthropics' Claude is somewhat underappreciated. In some instances, it outperforms GPT4, and I'd rank it somewhere between GPT4 and Bard overall.
Reddit are ruining things for a significant portion of the users that contribute with high quality content.
When I was annoyed with this I went ahead and downloaded phoenix (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix) wrote a little javascript and now I have a bunch of globally accessable hotkeys so I can lay my windows out in a number of combinations. Right now I have setups for over/under left/right, two by two grid, and three by three grid.

I've got some plans to spend some time enabling more arbitrary grids and subgrids but I haven't gotten to it yet.
It might be useful for writing fiction or summaries. Has anyone tried?
Regular reminder that this is strictly true for the US. For other countries YMMV by following this approach.

E.g. it's generally a bad idea to shut up completely once you're in a police station in Japan, as they may hold you up for 23 days w/o pressing charges and allowing you to communicate with the outside world.
Doesn't really answer your question but in case you didn't know, BetterTouchTool is a third party app that solves this problem.
Some restrictions aids performance, but checking that pointers have not run wild like elphants in a porcelain shop requires extra checks, which takes time.
Hm I haven’t played it but I did really enjoy DS9. Is it similar because the colosseum devs had more room to experiment, or grittier or something?
> We can't simultaneously claim those in the position know best (Cohen's take) and then dismiss their self-perception because it doesn't align with our perception of their role.

I submit that not only can we, but we must, admit that in some individual cases the person in the position knows best, and in others, they don't.
This guy is too much of a showman for me to trust him and take him seriously. It’s all coloured by the years of conniving he’s done as a criminal defence lawyer. He may have a point but I’d rather read about it.
I'm not sure what to make of this post. There is always a degree of uncertainty with the experimental design and it's not surprising that there are a couple of buggy questions. Imagenet (one of the most famous CV datases) at this point is known to have many such buggy answers. What is surprising is the hearsay that plays out on social media that blows the proportion of the results out of the water and leads to opinion pieces like these targeting the authors instead.

Most of the damning claims in the conclusion section (Obligatory: I haven't read the paper entirely, just skimmed it.) usually get ironed out in the final deadline run by the advisors anyway. I'm assuming this is a draft paper for the EMNLP deadline this coming Friday published on arxiv. So this paper hasn't even gone through the peer review process yet.
"Everything was proven" ... everything to satisfy a mathematician, not a logician. Formal proofs are generally very unwieldy, because informal proofs treat all the most obvious parts as obvious. In some cases these parts are not even trivial to prove formally. Last time I checked there was still no formal version of Cantor's diagonalization argument.
I think the prediction of the Bullshit Jobs thesis with regard to AI is that jobs that are lost to AI automation will be replaced by Mechanical Turk-style labeling/human reinforcement jobs.
The "bullshittified" version of being a customer service representative becomes marking up a transcript of a conversation between a frustrated customer and a bot failing to do the job you used to have.

If you buy the Bullshit Jobs thesis (to be clear I'm somewhere in the middle here, I don't fully buy it), then mechanical turks would be the ideal way to create a backchannel full employment program. There will never be any shortage of data to label, and the same piece of data can be redundantly labeled two, three, four times, to improve accuracy. Then you can create positions for people to train those labelers, people to manage those people, et cetera. If your goal was to provide a job for literally every person, this wouldn't be a bad industry to start with.

I think there will also be quite a bit of demand for it; the world will change, the distributions models predict over will shift, and they'll need new data/feedback to maintain their performance (to say nothing of competitive pressures to train models with even better performance).
It's a depends, isn't it?

Writing business format snail mail was usually to the point, and not a personal letter.

I've sent some emails - very concise business inquiries of a single line of the nature of - what's your company's price on x83 and x84 or is there a better product since I'm interested to do this ... but sadly a number of times have landed those who really shouldn't be in some contact area since apparently they have the attention span of a gnat - or thought I should have sent a very formal inquiry, but happy to send more advertising back to my email address.
2001 was only 22 years ago.
Georgia plans to use ballot marking devices with known vulnerabilities in 2024
> The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself

Simple yet very effective way to put it.
If they didn't smell nice we wouldn't have domesticated them and planted them all over.
Do’h, I somehow misread integration as elimination, hahaha.
To your last question: the nature of having to attract clicks means youtube creators have to choose reductive titles that tease some particular nugget of information that's going to be discussed, but it seems pretty clear (at least to me) that the intent of this video isn't _just_ to answer that question, and that he expects that his audience will also appreciate a slice-of-life experience of him interacting with the crew and understanding what life is like on the submarine in broader terms than just how they get air.

With respect: if all you wanted was the answer to that question and nothing else, Googling produces it much more quickly than you'd likely ever get from a video, and you might just not be the target audience here. I personally enjoyed the whole series as-is, and it seems from the YouTube comments like many viewers did as well, but obviously YMMV.
>Maybe it's the influence of the fullscreen only, unitasking paradigm from phones and tablet computers, but it just doesn't make much sense to me on a desktop computer.

Completely the opposite. It's the influence of having computers powerful enough to have massive multitasking. Arranging windows like papers on a desk is easy when you have a handful of simple programs and a couple of browser windows - it's very different when you have 100 tabs with their own task-swapping logic in front of 20 other programs. You've already lost easy swapping so you might as well gain the extra pixels.
and for a more recent interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynu9QEJSGX8&pp=ygUNamFtZXMgZ...

very endearing persona
> Let’s be honest. This is about saving cities. Without commuting office workers, the office buildings go empty, they become worth a fraction of their cost, and retail cannot survive. This erodes the tax base of most cities so much as to create a more-than-serious problem.

I wonder how true this is. Plenty of people seem to enjoy the city life. Though I suppose if they had to work from a small apartment they're already living in that could be unpleasant.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Hdv5W
Lots of flowers that don't smell like much get planted all over the place.
Setting aside nitpicking if some of these are services or features, if they belong or not under the AWS umbrella and just accepti g it at face value: how many aws services are out there and what % of them do these represent?
Doesn't this strike you as an anti-scientific, close-minded / willfully ignorant attitude?

Why not just discover for yourself? I think you would do well to have your own opinions instead of relying on others.
You know one job that has become largely a bullshit but it affects the entire country. The job of a junior congressman in the US House of Representatives. Just two activities that were told to me by a guy who works for a congressman:

1. They have to spend a LOT of time raising money and they are tired a lot doing things around it. This means just convincing a lot of people what they stand for and what the other guy does not, organizing or going to fundraisers. And its a 2 year term which is so short that time gets eaten up. If senators had this crazyness the average senator could not be practically as old as they are.

2. They also have to tow party lines by letting bills they may not have read or don't know about and spend time getting lobbied about why they should or should not support a bill because some donor funded their campaign.

I was told by someone in govt that lot of what the govt does is subcontracted out and the government action is just a lot of Procurement[1].

But the US govt is of course very important and has done useful things like the Clean Air and Water act or Social Security or Maintaining Public infrastructure we take for granted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_procurement
> Are people the best judge of whether or not their job is bullshit? Doubtful.

Who is it then?
What a weird take. These AIs pretty obviously so work. Sure some parts are surprising, more to me than to experts of course, yet why not take the less understood parts and try to understand them, experiment, see what works and why and how, see what doesn't, that's science, not "boy geniuses".
You can noalias in zig.
They know that 90% of users use apps in fullscreen mode most of the time, or just higgly piggly stacked windows. Most people do not, most of the time, end up in situations where they are using two apps at once. Why do you think it took so long to get any window management at all into the ipad os?

They also know that power users have options in the 3rd party app market if they want more fiddly or opinionated window management and have decided to stay out of that fight.
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He doesn't rebut the argument at all; he rebuts a subtly but significantly different argument that wasn't made here. The fact is that Ellsberg stayed and faced the consequences of his actions, and Snowden fled and later because a Russian citizen.

Again: you can believe that doesn't matter. I don't care, fine, people can disagree. But you can't say "Ellsberg thinks Snowden was justified" refutes the original argument. It is perfectly coherent, reasonable even, to assert that Ellsberg has some moral authority about the ethics of whistleblowing, and also that authority isn't transferrable to leakers Ellsberg favors.
Means-testing is often presented as a way to ration limited resources. However, it is rarely considered how expensive the means-testing process actually is. Rather, it's just about satisfying vibes or excluding certain groups of undesirable people (without saying so outright).
Is this a new development in the last couple years?
With LLMs hallucinating and being generally unreliable, I'm coming to the conclusion that LLMs should only be used to transform natural language to structured data (specific to your application), and knowledge about the world should be stored somewhere else (some sort of vector databases? tools?), and, fortunately, smaller models are already quite good at the former! Trying to extract world knowledge from LLMs can be a deadend... I don't see how the hallucination problem can be 100% fixed for LLMs themselves.
I find this utility very useful for working with windows on the Mac.

https://www.lightpillar.com/mosaic.html
> Old English is just generally not a priority

“Ye Olde” is Middle English (or maybe even Early Modern)

Old English doesn’t look like English at all. To my eyes, it looks Scandinavian-even though I know it is closer to Dutch than to Swedish/Danish/Norwegian. Actually, the closest living relative to Old English (apart from its descendants) is Frisian, a minority language of the Netherlands and northern Germany.
And silicon is not the best semiconductor for cell mass. It's an indirect bandgap semiconductor, and requires ~100 microns of thickness to absorb photons (depending on texturing which allows photon trapping.)

CdTe cells, on the other hand, can be just 1 micron thick.
Most users of macos are fullscreen users. End of. Power users can find and write power user solutions.
Not sure what to say? I’ve visited and lived in cities around California, and lived in SF itself for two years, in the Panhandle. It was one of the safest and most beautiful places I’ve ever lived in. My wife would regularly go for walks and runs on her own. I know “I lived and visited these places and nothing happened” is less bombastic than the opposite, but it doesn’t make it less true.
Zig is writing custom backends in addition to their LLVM backend
Isn't (classical) geometry basically about proving properties from a few theorems? I.e., logic, proof, and deduction.

A lot of people are exposed to Geometry in High School. It might not be universal, but it's pretty close. IIRC, Eucid's Elements was the second most read book, after the Bible. Many cities even have a street named after the guy.

I know, it's not the same as a formal logic course. But it's not that far off, either. There is some preparation in earlier years of schooling.