skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but you can tune your prompts so that 100% of the time they give you a valid result in the result

You can't though, that's the issue. Illustrative here are tokens like "SolidGoldMagikarp", but this does happen to "normal" sequences of tokens as well.

There is no filter you can build to keep out such mistakes, any set of otherwise normal tokens could trigger the model to produce wrong output.

Because of how large these models and most prompts are, even slight changes in things like attention can cascade into extremely different results.

there are definitely mechanisms and behaviors to discover that you can reason about.

It's faerie logic. The behaviours are mere trends and observations, not underlaying truth.

The faeries reward you for offering them fruit. But offer them apple which fell from the tree exactly 74 hours ago down to the second and they'll kill you. There is no way to know ahead of time which things will upset them.

The risk here is that you're fooled into believing these systems are understandable, that you know how they work, and that you'll mistakenly use them for something where the wrong results have consequences. You'll stop double-checking the output, all humans are lazy like that, and then you'll have disaster on your hands.
This is a joke website. The person who made it was making a joke.
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Sure. "Easier to say sorry than please".

Until you get sued into bankruptcy by millions of litigants.
Things like this make people queasy about it:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-05/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/08/japan-fukush...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos

tl;dr

New surround tech with added height channels. Great. I can imagine there could be uses. Like any new tech before you've analysed it, could be good, could be trash.

Additional surround height channels cannot possibly be as good as 2 channels, properly recorded and mixed to drive stereo headphones for generating 3D sound. This is key. You can't beat headphones for 3D sound. If you can't understand why then the conclusions which follow will seem even more incomprehensible, grandparents involvement or no.

Best way to meet that impasse head on is to go get your headphones and find some older 3D audio and listen to its quality. Or make some, like I did in the 1980s. It's really great stuff, good fun and can be used creatively and with elegance. I don't doubt for a second Eno could do something worthwhile with it. And could have in the 1980s on the 2 tracks of an LP while instructing the listener to use headphones had he so chosen.

Adding height channels to surround cannot make better 3d audio than you could achieve with headphones.

So I'm putting Eno down because this is a marketing claim that is garbage. He could have done top notch, first rate, headphone 3D sound on his albums at any time in the past, did he even try? Has he said? He's releasing stuff using $some_new_tech (atmos) for which you need to buy a bunch of kit and justifying it claiming 3D is wonderful. And it is! And he never needed that new tech to take advantage of it and could very, very easily, right now, get whatever he has done with this atmos remaster and use it to release a "3D mix for headphones" that means anyone could hear it without buying new kit.

So yeah, seeing that made me pretty suspicious of atmos and annoyed with Eno but hey, I didn't know atmos beyond the incontrovertible fundamentals of what it clearly can't do because nothing can, laws of physics etc. Someone else on the thread posted Benn Jordan on atmos, he's clearly done some work to understand what it is and its merit.

https://youtu.be/5Dw3aKbw5Wo

What's your guess on this, was Eno paid for this Atmos stuff by Dolby? Benn Jordan claims he got an offer and he's a little less famous and revered than Eno. This kind of "buy tech to listen to my stuff" is quite unlike Eno in the past. But people do change their minds without being paid to do it.
i recently spent year+ on managing gdpr compliance implementation in company where I work (multinational *aaS). Our current stance that we will continue as usual, where usual been that there is no new agreement. Because breaking down all gdpr compliance is easy but to restore it to compliant state is hard.
> On one hand I can make a joke that you are defending the only job on Earth that not only gets paid but can't get fired past a certain point due to their 'tenure.'

You could, but the premise is wildly false; tenured professors can get fired for cause (and tend to have some process protections alongside that), and tenured professors aren’t the only workers with contracts or legal protection that restrict firing to “for cause” (pretty much all high level employees with individual contracts like—but not limited to—executives have that, maybe with a high-priced buyout option, though without or with limited process protections), and most unionized workers and most (even if not unionized) public workers have both limitations to firing (or other adverse actions) for-cause and strong due process protections.
no one writes software for metadata

They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job.

Now there is an incentive to accumulate metadata. And just like thumbs on Facebook or points on StackOverflow, it will be gamed. It will be trolled.

All you've done is take the incentive of "earn a good reputation by publishing quality work" and open the platform to people who only care about "Ooh, shiny pieces of flair!"
Lens Protocol: The social layer for Web3
I have tried them, and they're fine. I just don't understand them. If people don't want the exercise, then why isn't an electric scooter the preferable option for them?
I love how in the age of good old PHP, Django and alike this would be insanity. But with serverless it makes sense I guess.
Nice work @eatonphil and TB team. Thanks for sharing.

I'm eagerly awaiting the production ready (or an RC or something) of TB, I've tried it and it truly excels in its domain.

I have a few clients that could make good use of it but I have to hold my horses a little bit.
I run a little Photoprism instance on my NAS as a self-hosted complement to Google Photos.

It's a... passable alternative to Google Photos. I downloaded it beforee they started advertising AI and decentralized features - I'm kind of surprised they took this marketing direction.
I disagree.

Docker is the one thing that works on MANY flavors of Linux.

If I want to provide a tool I want to spend my time on building the tool, not building an rpm, a snap, a deb, ...

The Docker build process is significantly easier. For example, I can just pull in NodeJS 20. I can't do that on Ubuntu. It's not available on packages.ubuntu.com.

Building a deb/snap/rpm is a whole other language to understand how dependencies are set up.

And then I need to test those. I've never even ran CentOS.
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IMHO the benefit of fp is it's easier to prove things. The downside is that it's more work: being able to show you've done something correctly is extra work on top of the actual doing of it correctly.

There's a point of view that if you haven't done it correctly, you haven't done it at all. There's another point of view that you just fix bugs as they found.
Just as in finance everyday you see a hedge fund manager making some weird big bet of a stock or market for the next 20 years (like a prophet).

Everyone wants to pose as the front(wo)man of that innovation, thought-leaders. Whatever.

It's all marketing, for their own careers, their own personal agenda.

The whole text looks like written by ChatGPT in a prompt like "Write about AI safety and relates it to the Age of Reason".

This is a good reason why AI should replace us, so we no longer have human beings writing that stuff to self-promote themselves.

The funniest part is in the end of the article:

"Eric Ries has been my close collaborator throughout the development of this article"

So the guy who wrote "The lean startup" is helping him with that article. drops mic
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John Backus, one of the pioneers of functional programming, said “Functional programming makes it easy to do hard things, but functional programming makes it very difficult to do easy things.”
For what it's worth "offline first" is a big win in my opinion and would sway me to switch to Manabi. I tried it previously, and the changes you mentioned are something I'm interested in.
It seems likely that Threads launched slightly early, to take advantage of Twitter shooting itself in the foot particularly dramatically last week.
I guess they don't weigh invoked kernel features.

Reasonable tbh.
Linode was purchased by Akamai.

While https://www.linode.com is still functional, the writing is on the wall.
Can you elaborate on this? ^_^
AutoGPT style of bots, aka agent universe discovery systems are still obviously nascent - but as someone who generally leverages LLMs for nearly all of my work, I would certainly say they are general purpose.

I would be remiss in saying they are anywhere near average human capability in most areas, but I do worry that my estimation capability is off and that we're closer to the concave part of the S curve than the convex. It just takes a couple more breakthroughs in model/dataset design
Both HN and LinkedIn have moderators that do just that, they're not algorithms. LinkedIn sucks imo, but to claim that either but especially HN is unmoderated or has no moderators is certainly untrue.
In general, technology makes things worse but cheaper. :-)

A book printed with letterpress is nicer than a laser printed book, and an illuminated manuscript is even nicer! There are some technology shifts where the new thing is strictly better, like DVD to Blu-Ray, but the majority of the time you have give something up to move forward, like losing the ability to record when we left VHS behind.

AI is going to really accelerate the trend by being really bad at a lot of tasks, but good enough to make do with.
and USB-C allows the transmission of displayport over USB-C
And as I understand it, that is the problem with MOK. In the case of secure boot, the signing key is kept far away in a MS vault. Making it basically impossible to put something in the secure boot chain without actively re-compromising the machine on every reboot. This can be replicated by the end owner, if they replace the MS keys in the secure boot chain as well. But in order to make it as secure, they need the infrastructure to assure that the boot/kernel/etc is all signed on a secure machine somewhere entirely firewalled off from the machines running the signed code.

So, AFAIK, shim/MOK, breaks all this. As a root user it then becomes possible to enroll custom keys that allow a 3rd party, or the machine owner (or exploiter) to add code to the boot path nullifying its greatest strength IMHO, which is protecting the boot chain from a root level exploit.

At that point the only protection would be a TPM + 3rd party root of trust, that notices the shim measurement of the next stage isn't one that has been reported "safe". Which doesn't exist in linux land, outside of possibly some large corps that have taken ownership of the entire thing for their own internal purposes.
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Arborist made me chuckle.
Well, unless it involved going around the horn. Time costs something too?
I don't want to speak for the OP, but one of the issues they may be poking at is the transference of intelligence. E.g., you are "trained" to play a game, but at some point someone decides to change the rules of the game. Human children can transfer their previous knowledge to the new rule set fairly well. The most intelligent children can do so very quickly without supplemental "training" on the game played under the new rules.

Humans certainly have flaws when it comes to this. I've heard some discussions about the success and failures of AI in this regard. Can someone in this domain elaborate on the current state-of-the-art performance in this regard?
I opened an issue but then also plowed through the source. I'm pretty sure the issue is pip is basically intransigent and will not let you easily install packages for whatever arch it insists you have (which most certainly close to the canonical platform.machine). You end up having to chain --platform --only-binary=:all:. Okay great but I'm cross-compiling - this is exactly the time I do want source distributions.

People say it a lot but I never really felt it until I tried it - python packaging is infuriating and is beyond a shadow of a doubt proof that python is a shit professional language. Not because professional languages need to have bulletproof packaging systems (see C/C++) but because the fact that python can't make it work after so long means python is fundamentally flawed. And don't tell me "well you're implicitly talking about C extensions". Yes I am but that's a language feature and if you design a language feature that your language fundamentally precludes you from being able to support, then again that's on you.
I think his post is appropriate here, and on point. how about responding to his arguments about algorithm secrecy and the push to regulate competition?
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Cringe because it's listening to the kooks in tinfoil hats. The same sort of people who say the 5G is coming to get them, and Covid Vaccines make you magnetic.

3 days later, EU signs off on data transfer.

There's something to be said for not wasting time on changes that don't matter in the end. All these people getting worked up for nothing.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/big-tech-can-tra...
The Easiest Unsolved Problem in Graph Theory (2021)
I have hope that Blizzard revives the Starcraft franchise. The RTS genre needs some love atm.
This is the age-old favorite toddler game to enjoy flummoxing their parents. Somehow whenever mine does this with me we end up on "well, because the early makeup of the solar system ... ". Similarly to how repeatedly following the first link in Wikipedia articles tends to land you on Philosophy. It takes more than 5 whys, though.
> It would place nice if you were a bit bigger - a news website, a social media and so on.

How big do you think is "big"? I run a system that handles about 3k requests per second (~1:100 writes to reads). No caching, no Redis, just Postgres. One master and a hot standby for failover. It sits around 25% CPU, and most of that is from opening and closing connections rather than queries.

There's an important lesson in avoiding complexity for speculative reasons. Unless you have data that suggests more components materially improve the system, save yourself the heartache and build for the simplest system that meets your needs. You've built a dump truck when you probably only need a pickup truck, and while you might need more than a pickup truck someday, you're paying dump truck maintenance costs in the meantime (and your future needs probably look more like a King Ranch than a dump truck anyway).
> sometimes are not allowed in cycle lanes (IMO they never should be).

This relates to my largest pet peeve about ebikes right now -- people using them on the bike paths. They're not allowed there, and for good reason, and their presence is causing accidents.

To be fair, it's not the ebikes as much as it's the people behaving badly. It's entirely possible to use an ebike on a bike path without being a hazard (don't use the power assist, warn people when you're passing others, and other basic bike path courtesies) -- but very few people do.
The lack of feedback is exactly the problem, you’re 100% right. Touch interfaces are still so useless with any sort of precise control which is when you need some sort of feedback and assurance that what you want to do, is what’s happening. I’m surprised we haven’t seen some new touch-ui equivalent to “right click” become the norm. Something that signals “I’ve chosen precisely what I want to interact with, DON’T CHANGE MY SELECTION, and give me the actions I can preform on them”. How did “long press” get saddled with that and 4 or 5 other actions?!
I believe that the superalignment thing will basically be GPT-5.
A pretty influential and very well-financed subculture of AI philosophers are currently performing a comprehensive lobbying campaign for AI regulation. They generally go by Rationalists or Effective Altruism, and have a philosophy stemming from MIRI, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares and others.

They've had considerable success getting traction for these views with politicians in Europe, and that's the reason you see so much of this in the media currently. I'm hoping more sane voices will soon get organized, because significant parts of this are reminiscent of a well-funded doomsday cult.

I think this article is an early attempt at creating a politically viable counterpoint.
> At some point the energy and resources required to drill a well will match the possible production, and new wells won't make sense, leading to collapse.

The world thought this around 2005 or so and then fracing technology changed everything. Every year new tech is being invented that makes previously uneconomic wells profitable to drill.

Further, there is still so much oil out there.

You are right about society collapsing and everyone dying without oil though, but I don’t think that will happen.
Unstructured recursion is incredibly tricky to reason about in terms of stack/heap use and termination, IMO quite a bit moreso than imperative structures. To me, it reproduces most of the same problems of gotos.

There are techniques of factoring out recursion (e.g. "recursion schemes") that can help eliminate these problems, but some things are just easier to reason about imperatively.
> Snowden

Snowden, if any, shown that the USA gov can and already do regularly monitor communications.

We have CTF, KYC and AML regulations, as well as any related laws, for a reason.

Europe has now to deal with Russian invasion of Ukraine, because of this anti American sentiment.

If you don't see how the two things are related, and blame the USA who's the largest security supporter of Ukraine and Europe via NATO, then this whole privacy debate is useless.

Edit: 100 years ago, Germany was in a similar position like Russia today. Large powerhouse who thought they could get their way by military force. Sure, let Germany take some poland. Because of Germany we got WW1 and WW2, and 100 years later many haven't really learned their lessons.
Yes, however I am not sure if Dijkstra meant goto in the sense of jump outside of a function. I don't know enough about Algol 60 and languages of the time, but if you allow usage of goto between different functions you will have a corrupt stack in no time, so I'll be surprised if it was implemented.

Going back to the original discussion, my point was that the only statements that are real gotos still in usage (except for C cleanup gotos) is break and continue, which even support labels
I did as well contacted Oracle for access to the latest UltraSPARC parts and documentation but they never got back to me.

I also became obsessed w SoC design when OpenSPARC was released. For some reason the T1000 was a really big deal for me
Can be useful for running untrusted code. You can bound your pure functional programs in time and space.
I got my first credit card when I was twelve years old. This was back in the year 2000. It had something like a $10,000 credit limit.

My parents didn’t co-sign, though I did use their incomes for the “household income,” which I don’t believe was a lie.
Any company going public via SPAC in this era is a big red flag. The vast majority are badly-run businesses or outright fraudulent ones being dumped on retail suckers.

We should back to the times when SPACs were actually driven by reputable people like Bill Ackman and Martin Franklin...not hucksters like Chamath Palihapitiya.
Fair enough. Do you plan on replying to them anyways? I’m interested in what your answer would be.
The author Jeremy Howard, is very well aware of the state of the LLMs in the market and this is precisely WHY he wrote this:

https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1678558165712113664

Whether it's a convincing argument is different question, but it's not for lack of knowledge about the state of art in AI.
There is effectively unlimited amount of carbon in the form of limestone, at the very least.
Nobody reads their privacy agreements. They accept them as a formality because these services became effectively mandatory to participate in modern society, but they do freak out when they see the consequences of all this non-consensual data collection: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/09/people-you...
It also allows the transmission of HDMI over USB-C, so you still have two competing standards
I was actually mildly curious if anyone would call me on having picked an easy fractal to do with the recursion. :) When I wrote the post, I was thinking of the Koch curve. Not sure why I mixed it up in name with the other.

I was definitely leaning on some of the abstractions that you get in the likes of turtle geometry to show how this works. Many of the programs you can write using those primitives are very interesting, and far more unwieldy in any other paradigm.

At large, I view it as the difficulty of forcing Cartesian coordinates. For a large number of problems, things get far easier to state in polar coordinates. Such that your choice of abstraction and representation matters. A lot.
I played with this for an evening and in the end decided that if I needed this level of security (assuming browser as the target) I was better off running a ChromeOS Flex VM in qemu.

It works very well, boots quickly and is definitely well isolated. (Probably maybe)
Unsubsidized nuclear power is unfortunately really expensive everywhere independent from regulation and runs into the same problem from the opposite direction. You don’t save much money when you turn it off but energy demand isn’t constant so nuclear gets even more expensive per kWh the longer it sits idle. Worse you need to take them offline for long periods as in weeks for maintenance, refueling, etc.

Locally you can have a lot of nuclear like France, but only when you can import and export power to low nuclear countries/regions. Batteries can also smooth demand, but if you’re just filling batteries then solar is a lot cheaper. People talk about unreliable Solar, but you can build 4x as generation per year solar power for less than building nuclear. At 4x overcapacity or even 1.5x solar is suddenly vastly more reliable.
But isn't an electric scooter a better solution for those things?
I think you may have conditioned by HN to assume that any comment is a refutation. I brought it up because it’s an additional piece of the explanation for why amtrack can’t support itself on ticket prices alone.
How are you invested in Anthropic?
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I imagine this is a side effect of all those safety measures. Asking the AI if it “knows” something is probably considered a “dangerous prompt” so it’s not playing ball with you. Asking it point blank “what is pi” gets you the results you’re looking for
Sure, I understand. I have experience with other venture, private equity, and other hedge funds. None of them have been great investments, for what it is worth! Not much protection (though some) during the last few downturns, either. Even our renaissance funds - for the period we held them, anyway.

Every company wants the cream of the crop! Likely they have a lot of $$$, which is good.
What I said is 100% incorrect.
Wait til you see all the copyrighted and pirated data most large language models are trained on:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a...

- https://pile.eleuther.ai/
(data hosted by https://the-eye.eu/, where it's not too hard to find pirated, copyrighted books, e.g. https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/li...)