skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a big fan of simple empirical correlations. Some reasons why McKinsey alum might be able to start companies:

1. McKinsey is not a long term job, most employees are expected to leave in 3-5 yrs, the company in fact actively encourages such behavior. I know friends in Bain who received coaching from senior employees to crack interviews of other companies (Often VC’s, or Private Equity)

2. Being in McKinsey gives you access to capital. You develop relationships with VC’s, PE’s, HNWI’s that can help you boot strap your company initially which is critical to founding a company.

That said there are some major disadvantages to being in a McKinsey like career path which is what I think these Silicon Valley folks are trying to get at:

1. You almost certainly have 0 technical knowledge. I was from a top engineering school and those who chose to go to consulting had the least interest in engineering. This is not as big of a dealbreaker as you’d think, technical competence can in fact be bought with money.

2. You even possibly lack any operational expertise. This is what I find most damning about being from a consultancy. A non technical guy with experience in a fast growing startup or a large established company like Walmart, has far more real world operational experience than a McKinsey consultant.

3. You are likely a successful status chaser. You probably went to the beat undergrad school, best MBA, got the topmost grades without actually being all that interested in your subject material. This shows your potential is high, but a startup is long and grueling. If you do not have genuine interest and ability to tough it out for 6-10 years, things are not going to go that well for you. Which is also why I think SV types are skeptical of those from this career path.

That said I think great people can come from anywhere, if McKinsey types want to have their go at startups, good for them, let’s see if any of them actually succeed!
Is it shoddy for a newspaper article to spell out some particular consequences of a general policy?
I understand growing rapidly, especially for a social network, where you need to quickly reach a certain amount of user content per day to provide value. If you can't get to that point fast enough, then you'll crash and burn.

I think the bigger issue is equating success with active user count. Social networks love to brag about their number of active users. It's all they care about. It doesn't matter if they're making the world a worse place, ruining lives, making people depressed, turning everyone into swiping zombies, taking information that was previously accessible and moving it inside a walled garden. That doesn't matter. If they have more active users, they're more successful.

However, look at HN as a counter example. It's a decent community and I think the reason for that is not setting growth as the metric of success. HN has enough content to keep people interested. What's the purpose of more users after that point? Yes, they'll create additional revenue, but if they can't provide equally engaging content or comments, they're just going to drag the quality of the community down (a trade that most businesses gladly accept).

This is the world we live in though. Everyone is focused on numbers. All people care about is followers, likes, or subscribers, and they'll happily sell their soul if they can grow those numbers. Companies don't care, they'll promote whatever garbage gets the most clicks and keeps those active users up. Advertisers don't care, they'll sponsor whoever has the highest number of views. It's a sad state of affairs.
Remember, communication style is also very important. Some communication styles mesh much better with these models.
You cannot say that and not provide an example.
> never explored because of the pecking order of the organizations that operate them.

INAMB (I'm not a marine biologist), but one of my best friends is. And I can say that the profession is refreshingly light hearted. At least, compared to other scientific disciplines. Here you can hear actual marine biologists in real time discovering a new species at the bottom of the ocean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhYJEQmExE

They sound like 5 year olds who have just found an abandoned kitten at the park, don't they? Can you see this kind of people withholding measurements because of pecking order issues?
Well, yeah, that's what Christians claiming to be Abrahamic monotheists claim.

Non-Christian Abrahamic monotheists often strenuously disagree.

EDIT: to be clear, I am a Christian and believe the Trinity isn't multiple Gods (and neither is, say, the veneration of saints.) But I am also not gatekeeping clearly Abrahamic-in-descent faiths from the Abrahamic family tree on the basis of whether or not they posit the existence of entities that I consider incompatible with monotheism (both because “monotheism” is a separate descriptor from Abrahamic, and because evaluated monotheism is slippery.)
> A foodstuff packed in a glass jar with a metal screw-top isn't going to spoil any faster than the same thing in a plastic container,

In fact glass is easier to sterilize; it isn't porous and holds up to high heat and chemical disinfectants like bleach. This makes it superior to plastic for food preservation.
wait a couple of hours
They asked for the resource. You are free to give it to them.
fwiw unfortunate name...
More recycled garbage that I can ignore
Yes, .NET is faster.
Though even AAA games often use slow scripting languages for game logic. Many games, the game logic just isn't a big CPU hog so it doesn't matter.
What usecases are you using it for?

I mostly use it for generating tests, making documentation, refactoring, code snippets, etc. I use it daily for work along with copilot/x.

In my experience GPT3.5turbo is... rather dumb in comparison. It makes a comment explaining what a method is going to do and what arguments it will have - then misses arguments altogether. It feels like it has poor memory (and we're talking relatively short code snippets, nothing remotely near it's context length).

And I don't mean small mistakes - I mean it will say it will do something with several steps, then just miss entire steps.

GPT3.5turbo is reliably unreliable for me, requiring large changes and constant "rerolls".

GPT3.5turbo also has difficulty following the "style/template" from both the prompt and it's own response. It'll be consistent then just - change. An example being how it uses bullet points in documentation.

Codex is generally better - but noticeably worse then GPT4 - it's decent as a "smart autocomplete" though. Not crazy useful for documentation.

Meanwhile GPT4 generally nails the results, occasionally needing a few tweaks, generally only with long/complex code/prompts.

tl;dr - In my experience for code GPT3.5turbo isn't even worth the time it takes to get a good result/fix the result. Codex can do some decent things. I just use GPT4 for anything more then autocomplete - it's so much more consistent.
This whole "everyone should have a podcast" thing is sort of getting a little out of control.

I will be talking about it more on next weeks episode of my podcast...
It uses the rasterization HW for large triangles and uses a software rasterizer in compute for small triangles.

The HW rasterizer is not that efficient if the triangles are tiny, which is the case for nanite.
> first the infrastructure to run a billion (real) people is going to cost you an epic fuckton

I highly doubt that the actual essential infrastructure required to run it is going to cost more than 8 billion dollars/year. Twitter costs about $5 billion a year.
Let's charge $2/year to be on the safe side. We've now raking in $16 billion a year, enough to cover the costs, offer some dividend, and put some money aside for a rainy day. We're not fucking about with R&D because we're BoringBook, we're making a boring product that doesn't need to do anything fancy. It's a utility company. Pension funds can invest in it safe in the knowledge that they will get a small but reliable dividend year after a year. The silly VC money can go towards innovative tech like AR or growing meat in petridishes or medical research or something. We don't need it fucking around and messing with the social structure of society anymore.
Another way to look at it is that even with your numbers, a 40k investment was turned into 1.25k monthly dividend vs. -2k month or so in rent (rough number based on house price).
“Developers wishing to continue using their fine-tuned models beyond January 4, 2024 will need to fine-tune replacements atop the new base GPT-3 models (ada-002, babbage-002, curie-002, davinci-002), or newer models (gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4).“

So need to pay to fine tune again?
We can argue about the semantics of "wrong" all day, but the lesson here is that not following standards and conventions creates extra work for everyone downstream.
i mean there are a lot of examples from february era sydney
Don't Join Threads – Make Threads Join You
> We are about to enter a couple of decades of people using these pithy model systems to make real decisions that impact lots of people,

If we're extraordinarily lucky. If not, you can take comfort in that fact that redlining won't survive us either.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Sadly, IT is full of 'colorful' characters like these. I've been on multiple projects that could have been so much more fun and lighthearted, were it not for 1 person. Due to their influence (whatever it is) the atmosphere completely changes and eventually people lose interest in the product, burn out, quit or are laid off because of it.
No good can exist without the bad I guess.
> If you're responding to a buyer offering an $57,000 contract with an emoji you're not acting very professionally.

Maybe not, but if I sent a text saying ‘I’ve sent you the contract’ and got a thumbs up or the iOS Tapback thumbs up, 100% I’d assume they were acknowledging my message, not signing the contract.

Would a voice replying saying ‘yes’ or ‘yeah’ constitute a signed contract too?
don't forget the random google sheet that the project manager wants to keep updated
- The entire Zuck fight saga.

- Limiting access to Twitter.

- Tweeting incessantly about the Threads launch.

- Threatening to sue Meta.

Musk can't stay out of the limelight, for better or worse, and in this case it is definitely for the worse. Threads would have had a tiny fraction of the hype it does had it not been for his antics these last few weeks.
Fascinating, really, but it’s counter intuitive to me: reading the article I pictured linoleum to be a script oriented modding / building tool like Lua provide.

But it’s way lower level ?
If you read the article they state they will cover the cost of re-embedding your existing embeddings.
Modern phones know where you are with centimeter-level precision. Beam Steering obviously requires the cell to know where to steer the beam: https://www.fastcompany.com/90314058/5g-means-youll-have-to-...
I've noticed the quality fo chatgpt4 to be much closer now to chatgpt3.5 than it was.

However if you try the gpt-4 API, it's possible it will be much better.
Don't worry, since future LLMs will be trained on conversations with older LLMS, you will be able to ask chat GPT to pretend to be davinci.
is there any ETA on when the knowledge cutoff date will be improved from September, 2021?

I do not really understand the efforts that went on behind the scenes to train GPT models on factual data. Did humans have to hand approve/decline responses to increase its score?

"America is 49 states" - decline

"America is 50 states" - approve

Is this how it worked at a simple overview? Do we know if they are working on adding the rest of 2021, then 2022, and eventually 2023? I know it can crawl the web with the Bing addon but, it's not the same.

I asked it about Maya Kowalski the other day. Sure it can condense a blog post or two, but it's not the same as having the intricacies as if it actually was trained/knew about the topic.
Ya you're right, my junior dev comment was stupid. I think I stand by the tech not being the significant moat here.
This is the basic problem with the "cars are bad, make things bad for cars" urban designs. Sometimes you need a car, because you've got a carload of heavy equipment you need to bring to a job in the city and you can't carry it on the subway. But then there's nowhere to legally park at the job site, and you still have a carload of heavy equipment and you can't carry it all several blocks to the nearest available parking structure.

Parking fines become a cost of doing business because there are no practical alternatives.
I’m not sure what to make of it, but amusingly your link says “OpenBSD version of netbsd_hammer2”, which itself says “NetBSD version of freebsd_hammer2”, which in turn says “FreeBSD version of openbsd_hammer2”.

They’re all under the same profile so I think everyone is sharing?
As noted, they only did experiments up to 32k length which is silly considering the title
I also never got an explanation or like any feedback from customer support. They randomly charged back a number of charges and deleted my account (!) so I could never find out what happened. Weirdest customer/service experience I had in a VERY long time
> I really hope we'll soon move to a compute-only way of handling graphics

Not happening anytime soon. The industry has lined up pretty solidly behind Khronos/Vulkan.
iirc, Your phone sends signal to all nearby towers and then pick the closest one to connect with, which means the signal towers can also triangulate your location based from your distance to the nearby towers
They said in the post,

> We recognize this is a significant change for developers using those older models. Winding down these models is not a decision we are making lightly. We will cover the financial cost of users re-embedding content with these new models. We will be in touch with impacted users over the coming days.
Unfortunately their decisions are driven by model usage: gpt-3.5-turbo is the most used one (probably due to the low price and similar result)
“We have been featured at TechCrunch. There’s basically no risk anymore.”

Your father could have saved me…
> What's odd to me, is that almost no one on the N64 chose to simply recreate 2D graphics from the SNES era with improved quality. A quality JRPG built with SNES-like graphics would have still sold just fine, but I think the belief back then was that everything had to be 3D and cutting edge to sell.

I'm pretty sure the hardware would have given developers a real run for their money to create a SNES-level JRPG experience with smooth, good quality sprite-based graphics. As far as I know it has no 2D acceleration like the SNES, and a very small texture buffer, which leaves slow software rendering directly to the framebuffer, or low quality texture-based sprites. The hardware was really not designed for this type of game, so few were made.

Not providing any hardware to handle those types of games was a function of 3D being all the rage, and the hardware being very clearly targeted at that, but it also meant that creating 2D games was not just out of fashion, but impractical.
It’s my belief that the continued attempt to dominate the social networking space is related to predicted upcoming societal changes.

They are the hot glue underneath a AML/KYC-based identity verification systems at scale and the sticky requirement for anyone looking to build such a system at scale. There is no better verification than social context for identity, and at core these are giant graph databases that have personal histories which can be leveraged for social credit and reputation applications.

Watching these oligarchs jockey to try to concentrate people into social platforms is clearly more than a casual priority, so that’s why I suspect multiple motives that exceed the intrinsic social value of the platforms. It’s been my learning that the really massive companies in Silicon Valley a often have a back door leverage-style data platform to try to build a monopolistic position at some future inflection point in addition to their “front and center” business.

I further suspect is a land grab to try to build the “WeChat of the West,” which explains quite clearly the relatively sky-high Twitter purchase (at least vs revenues) price as simply attaching a financial valuation to a portion of the initial userbase more than makes up for the purchase price.

People are very focused on the front side applications (the social network hook) but the true value of these businesses is in building the next generations of FICO.

When I read comments like, “Our communities are worth a lot more than the underlying tool used at some point in time.”, and “We are selling them, we are transforming them into a simple commercial asset for the makers of the tool we are using, the tool which exploits us.” I do wonder if people think as I do that it’s far more extensive than simple social networking companies. The approach to global finance is incredibly clear: social credit is the new core and communities are the oil of social credit.

In the end it’s all about financial inclusion, as is laid out in this WEF article that explains just why social credit applications are so important to financial inclusion and global growth:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/this-new-approach-to-...

So, consider that niche social networks do not serve this purpose very well, and so there is little incentive to “build small” at this stage. I’d love to see more social network applications that are focused on quality connections myself, and for a while that was Reddit. But Reddit’a value was really just the aggregation of all the independent communities that used to exist in forums and similar into one website.
As an individual, you can donate blood regularly. There was a study done that found that repeated whole blood or plasma donations were both effective at reducing PFAS levels over time.
This is the first thread about 'threads' I read today, and probably the only one pointing to a tool I find interesting.
These models seem to be able to cope with absolutely massive training sets, wheras the prompt input has to be quite small in comparison.

I wonder if could leverage this state of affairs by shifting the prompt from input to training data. Like take a generic model, run a little bit of fine tuning on the prompt.
Isn't that what remortgaging is?
What’s the diff with 3.5turbo with instruct?
From the NIST doc for GCM: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpubli...

The IV can be any length up to 2^64-1. The reason for picking 96-bit IVs is that other values require an extra invocation of GHASH (page 15). The document recommends 96-bit for interoperability but that's by no means a requirement.

The X part is thus in theory already allowed.
> he gave a sufficient condition for his data not a necessary one. Thus, they complained he was making claims beyond the scope of his scientific work.

That is incorrect. Galileo observed that Venus had phases despite remaining near the Sun as observed from Earth, which proves that Venus revolves the Sun, not the Earth, hence refutes the geocentric model. His discovery of the moons revolving Jupiter further refutes the geocentric model, that not everything in the sky revolves around Earth.
There once was a miracle material that came from an abundant resource, was extremely cheap to manufacture in a variety of forms, was extremely light, and had incredible properties that made it perfect for both industrial and consumer uses. It had one small issue though, which was that it was hard to dispose of.

It was so good, for its purpose it was pretty much the only material you could buy to do its job for a long time.

That material is called asbestos. It turned out to be so hard to work with that it gave millions of people cancer, even though it's pretty much the perfect insulator when left alone.

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Non-stick cookware is not nearly as bad as asbestos, but it's cheap and easy to use because it doesn't require maintenance like stainless steel, copper, or cast iron. It's not surprising that it's popular and the cheapest to make at scale since you don't need the surface of the material to be very good at all, if it's getting coated with teflon. There's the small problem that you've made a disposable product that probably won't get recycled and everyone who uses it will be eating small amounts of plastic everyday, but they'll thank you for the privilege.
Thats barely enough for LLaMA 33b.

Q3_K_S 33b fits on my 16GB laptop + 6GB GPU (so 22GB minus some overhead from the split + linux), but its extremely tight and only works up to ~800 context.
I only play single-player games anymore because I won't play any game that requires a connection to a server somewhere. So it's not a stance against multiplayer games (I still play old multiplayer games with my friends. They just don't require connecting with a third-party server) but a stance against phoning home.

That means there are quite a few single player games that are off the table for me as well.
> I'd hypothesize, that programmers, who actually care about quality, swear more.

Ding ding ding, I think we have a winner!

If you're not moved to profanity by most code-bases, you're either not paying attention or don't understand.
I know.

I realised it after the fact but then it kind of grew on me so I decided to keep it.

Thanks for the feedback !

Much appreciated.
What you describe as sections seem like natural breaking points for function. Split of those section in their own named function. The names help to document, make it easier to test and the calling of the functions will give a high-level overview of the processes

Ie:

def drive
turn_ignition()
shift_gear()
press_accelerator()
end

def turn_ignition
… code
end

def shift_gear
…
Does it? Currently, 850 million people worldwide suffer from lack of food. Billions of people scrape by with a standard of living far below what middle-class Westerners enjoy. There are dozens of countries suffering from mass poverty where the situation isn't significantly changing.

For the most part, average citizens just put up with it, and power structures in most countries remain entrenched. In the West, things are getting worse, but it's a long, long way down to the levels of mass poverty that might cause civil unrest. And so long as the wealthy and powerful remain well-fed, well-armed, and well-organized, they have a huge advantage over any number of desperate poor people.
Hey everyone, I am the creator of AWS Docs GPT and its been extremely useful to garner all of your feedback for the site—thank you guys so much! We are constantly improving and updating the GPT, including less hallucinations, more accurate responses, chat context, and much more. At the end of the day, I really hope this tool can be useful for developers like myself out there!!!
Semi off-topic but that's a use case where the new structured data I/O would perform extremely well. I may have to expedite my blog post on it.
I remember a day at a previous job when our CEO came in and told us we weren't an early stage startup anymore and had to start acting like it. Remove profanity and inside jokes from the code, and no more Quake during lunch breaks. Morale took a big hit that day.
https://jvwr-ojs-utexas.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/287/241
this paper leans towards the former
you've never seen a useful comment?
No, but the intention of the headline is definitely a grabber, and I think many (myself included) would prefer more neutral toned headlines, or maybe ones that word it so its more clear that its highlighting in part whats happening, IE:

Sheriff Shares License Plate With Other States, Includes Abortion Related Travel

May be more fair while still raising the issue
You know, come to think of it I think they did actually say that fire hydrants were the only not-OK parking fine for that very reason, I forgot that part. So maybe that's not the reason at all then... never mind. :S
You seem to be attributing your personal view of the world to the word "rank", to be honest. It's not about an individual's self worth or how you think companies to organize.