skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Of those services, I use Paypal and eBay, but I never had to provide ID. Perhaps because I'm not a vendor?
Same—though I didn't used to do that back when 1) I had a whole lot less money, and 2) I used cash way more often.

Now, if I have cash, it's almost always because I intend to spend it, usually for some purpose or activity or over some time period. It's not going back in the bank. Any left over or if plans change, I'll just spend it on whatever. It's "already spent". If it leaves the bank account, it's gone.
The very next sentences explain why this is about conspicuous consumption:

> The authors of “Signalling status with luxury goods: the role of brand prominence”, which appeared in the Journal of Marketing in 2010, do so by dividing the rich into two groups: “parvenus”, who want to associate themselves with other rich people and distinguish themselves from have-nots, and “patricians”, who want to signal to each other but not to the masses. They theorise that more expensive luxury goods, aimed at patricians, will have less obvious branding than cheaper ones. Sure enough, they found that Gucci and Louis Vuitton charge more for quieter handbags and Mercedes slaps bigger emblems on its cheaper cars. People who cannot afford luxury but want to look as if they can (“poseurs”) go for big logos: counterfeiters usually copy louder goods.
I am 75% in individual tech stocks and VTI. The other 25% is in real estate.

I think the 25% is a pretty good ratio to hedge against the tech stocks. Also, the high rate is making profitable RE investing very difficult.

Almost all of my peers are near all-in tech stocks. We are all still fairly young to use a conservative strategy like all-in VTI/VTSAX/VOO.
My smart home almost saved my vacation
If you press with a second finger anywhere on the keyboard after activating it will switch to selection mode.
more importantly, where were these data ethicists for the past ten years where most of the tech industry built a global data hoover machine for adtech and social media...

and now that some tech is actually creatively useful to individuals, they want to neuter it.
You don't need to train a ChatGPT-sized LLM, a toy nanoGPT would have been enough. You can train those on a consumer GPU in an afternoon.

And yes I do disregard his research effort. There are hundreds of well-justified and well-researched "clever tricks" for improving Transformers, and almost all of them don't work. I'll believe it when I see the results.
> when you ask them why they prefer cash

Would they also say they spend cash more loosely than card? That's the phenomenon being described, not absolute preference.
Because it can get you to a location substantially faster than by car, in a way that doesn't require you to waste all your time and attention driving? The US has bent over backwards to accommodate cars and we're still seeing astronomical traffic during peak hours in all major metro areas. When they're built well, a train (or any public transit) ride can you to and from your place of work in an equal or shorter amount of time, while allowing you the freedom to do whatever you want during the ride itself. For the small hassle of adjusting your schedule by 15 minutes you can regain 1+ hours of your life
Thanks for playing around with the new version! And sounds like it's a good thing I rebranded to ProjectionLab -- that first 'i' in ProjectiFi was way too easy to miss ;)

Is there a certain direction you'd like to see me take the tool from here?
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System – Paper Review
And the thing was, in those days when Firefox was a memory hog, it was a 32-bit process. So it was limited to a max of 4GB anyway. It made efficient use of that 4GB and worked surprisingly well with 1000 tabs, even though there were inconveniences now and again. By this time, buying an extra 4GB of RAM for Firefox was pretty cheap.
I don't understand your comment, but I gather that you and others didn't like mine, which is noted, I will try to do better.
Reefer madness. That one marijuana he did back then, it ruined him.
this is a no-breakout massive exploit that is simple to execute and gives big payoffs

Wouldn't we be able to avoid the "big payoffs" of no-breakout exploits if we had specialized hardware handle the secrets?
… exploitation of carbonaceous asteroids. For that matter colonizing Mars is for people who think Ray Bradbury is a good sci-fi writer. Really ambitious and imaginative people know there is a lot more lebensraum in the asteroid belt:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487.pdf
Ubisoft Won't Delete Your Game Library Due to 'Inactivity'
This happened quite recently ( at the July 2023 hackathon), apparently to make it easier to update/fix other stuff as it was tied into a lot of kernel subsystems.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554
Norway doesn’t have that, but it does have a wealth tax, which I like. If your net wealth sums to over 2mnok (approx $200k), you pay some percentage of tax on that wealth, every year. There are plenty of exemptions, your primary residence is only worth a quarter of assessed value, and of course this is net wealth, so mortgages and things subtract from this. But it does mean that if you’re just sitting on a horde of gold, you’ll anyways pay taxes, which makes sense to me. Just because you became wealthy enough to stop earning any income doesn’t mean you aren’t responsible for your share of keeping society running.
That's right, every single culture ever has been exactly the same, with exactly the same traits and emotions distributed in equal proportions across the entire population.
Do you see other billionaires wasting time on “internet nonsense”? This guy bought a social media network and was on it 24/7 before that.

Even Zuckerberg who made his fortune with social media seem to post less than him. I have never even heard of Bezos posting while Gates probably only post as PR for his foundation.
Veblen goods are a topic that is covered in the first semester of any serious econ program. Buying them is perfectly rational and can be modeled mathematically.
Necessary caveat on the current state of irreproducibility and outright fraud in Behavioural economics. See, for example, the thread a few days back about Dan Ariely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684242
tl;dr: you're right

it's messy though, bear with me for the full explanation:

- your initial post says "<bot>" token, which looked like a mix of "chatbot" and ChatML, used by OpenAI

- there is a bo_S_ token, which acts as you described

- I averaged my attention over your post and the initial reply, which answers as if you were using "<bot>" in the misunderstood way

- when I go back and read your post, I realize the chatbot interpretation doesn't quite make sense, since you're referring to much more technical aspects than general "how do I AI", i.e. you understand <X> as a way to denote special tokens, not necessarily an XML tag
Because until he tries it, who knows if it works?

There are a thousand papers out there making minor tweaks to the transformer architecture. 99% of them are also worthless and forgotten.
The jet guy broke Elon and there’s no putting him back together.
What would normally be the process to debunk a published paper? Simply publishing another paper debunking it in the same journal?
If you ever go near a high field magnet, they cause balance disturbances, so you can stimulate the system.

However I’m not sure that putting 3T magnets near people isn’t an option.
> Intel® APX doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs) from 16 to 32.
Uh... it probably means your pretty gay, dude. Which is great, it's who you are!

... so what are you in the other scenario?
I grew up watching the Project Universe show on PBS. It was hosted by Ed Krupp, no one is a more tireless Astronomy educator than he is, and he knew a lot about Archeoastronomy (to the point of writing books that are primary references). There is nothing weird in it.

It's still available but all that's left are VHS transfers: https://youtu.be/EoBEruyOnSo

I guess what I'm really "on" about is how someone can visit a place like Stonehenge, and appreciate the precision of the ancient calendar systems, without being accused of supporting Bronze Age Druidism. But for some reason Astrology is held in a different category, subject to a special kind of opprobrium. I find that interesting in itself.

Also - Full Disclosure - I used to have fun with the "Astrolog" software for Linux and even wrote an XScreenSaver integration for it. It was just a way to have fun and break the ice with people. It's a well maintained project that's been around since the Web 1.0 days. You know, when it was easier to have quirky interests without being called out to explain yourself. Cheers. :)

https://www.astrolog.org/astrolog.htm

https://github.com/CruiserOne/Astrolog
Wouldn't making the model multimodal require scaling the models significantly?

Or is the idea to keep the network the same size and trade off some of its nodes for image, video, etc. data?

If so has anyone shown that doing so results in better overall performance?

My lay-observation is that GPT-4 seems to be on the border of usability for most applications so if nothing is gained by simply changing the input data type as opposed to expanding the model then it feels like it won't be of much use yet.

Also apologies if I'm not making sense, I'm almost certainly not using to correct technical terms to articulate what I'm thinking.
Love the simple yet beautiful design
Systems research papers do not represent all research papers out there, not even in computer science.

In cryptography, certainly a paper with formal definitions and proofs can be much more valuable than a corresponding blog post. It's a field where formalism is desired, if not necessary. Otherwise you can't check other people's "proofs", or even know what model you're working in.

I think, since people haven't come up with better formalisms, sometimes it's quite obtuse, which gets mistaken as "academic writing", when really it's a best effort to formalize.
I don't see much overlap with Twitter and Patreon (or only fans). YouTube has more overlap with Patreon and did finally get a channel membership/paid subscription thing although I'm not sure how popular that is.
And the problem is that the more closed you become, the more amplified are your experiences which you deem hostile.

A member in my family is like this and I try to leave her alone for the most part, but there are opportunities where I try to remind her that no one is out there to get you.

Just do nice/good things for yourself and the rest will present itself.
I think essentially everyone would keep using their credit cards just as much, because debit cards are significantly riskier (to the consumer) from a fraud standpoint, and cash is significantly less convenient.

Merchants can already stop accepting credit cards due to the fees. Why don't they? Because it would make their customers mad. Few businesses have customers who are more loyal to them than they are to their own (even minor) convenience. I do have a local restaurant I go to that doesn't accept credit cards and is packed nonetheless, but it's a rare feat. The points have a little bit to do with this, but not nearly as much as the convenience.

What would change is that credit card companies would have more trouble luring people to switch away from their existing card to a new one. But they'd have a huge amount of extra money to spend on advertising to make up for that.
To finish the author’s analogy:

Blog posts are written by those who arrive first.

In a weird way my mental model is: blog posts are the recon team discovering a new idea. They might have errors. They might be incomplete. Maybe they’re outright wrong. Stakes are lower as it took less effort to get there and less loss if a position is abandoned.

Then papers are authored, often much later, and they’re the regulars coming in to fortify a newly captured idea. They provide (or at least are supposed to) rigor to the idea. A fortification of a position that we decide is worth holding.

Yeah, this analogy is probably sloppy. But in my brain there’s an eternal conflict against ignorance as we keep advancing into the unknown.
What’s the difference between an outsider and, e.g., his therapist? Consent? Proximity?

Curious; not trying to bust your balls.
Reminds me of movies like "Top Secret" and "Airplane", where they spend a big chunk of time setting up elements of the story and characters lines, all to deliver a slapstick joke.
> I believe the outlier problem that this solves only appears for very large models.

Any reason to believe this? The author never mentioned it, and I can’t think of any other a priori reason why it should be true.
Envision if you will a 'marxist' (aka consolidated and/but equal) merit competitive based educational system feeding graduates into an otherwise capitalist economy.
(As if the verb form of the term Graduated has been rendered archaic, save for cylinders)
> gosh, there's a word for this

one-upmanship?
Are HN excited with this gadget?
Saying "banks are shit here because they have zero liability policies" isn't too sensical. Saying "banks are not really shit here because they have zero liability policies" makes decent sense.
Avatar 2009 had cutting-edge visuals, but by the 1.5hr mark I was bored. I don't remember the ending, might've walked out.
Most longer form videos about food are half filler, mostly to appease youtube ads.
Looks like an interesting idea but wouldn't an attempted theft render your bike horribly noxious smelling? Assuming the thief wasn't high enough to not care, or wore a respirator.
The company is worth almost 100 Billion.

Maybe?
Meanwhile, a car mechanic's stories would make people worry about driving, once you realize how many badly-maintained vehicles driven by morons are hurtling down the highway at 73 mph.

Fortunately, most aircraft crashes happen due to multiple, uncorrelated failures lining up to cause a disaster.
Mimicking Production Behavior with Generated Mocks
If you spent a day writing unit tests you will eliminate more bugs than if you spent a day writing types.

And that's all that matters. Unit tests are the more effective technique.

Yes obviously static typing doesn't catch all the bugs caught by unit tests or vice versa. But it's a meaningless thing to say.
Fight those, so long as they were trying to take down left-wingers, right?
Perovskite panels have been available for several years https://columbusenergy.com/

EDIT: wrong company - this is correct https://sauletech.com/technology/
Hemingway was probably the best-known of the ex-pat Paris crowd during his lifetime. I expect some the Algonquin Roundtable writers may have been at least as equally well-known though as many wrote for popular magazines. Dorothy Parker's first volume of poetry sold 47,000 copies. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker
Each letter is binary, whereas personality is not.

If someone is barely extroverted you’re assigning them a full E anyways. That’s a poor predictor.
It isn't meant to replace a human reviewer. It is meant to help making the review process better (and faster).

E.g., PR-Agent makes it easy to have a proper PR description for any PR.
It makes it easy get an initial set of clarification questions and a quick review (from the AI) before a human review. Etc..
I listened to this podcast over the weekend on NPR's "How I Build This" (tho it's from early to mid 2022). It's an interview with Johann Hari, the author of "Stolen Focus". The book sounds like it's worth a go, even at close to 400 pages!??!?

https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-hib...

https://stolenfocusbook.com/
I'm so sorry to hear that.

:(

I tried it out on an alternate Yahoo! email address that I don't need and sure enough I got this message

> Setting up your mailbox

> A fresh mailbox is being created, since the old one was inactive for more than 12 months.

https://i.imgur.com/VMHxeyH.png

thank you for the heads up
Absolutely, controllers don’t make sense at all for most of those kinds of use cases, and would only add friction.

A device like this already has so many conflicting constraints to deal with that I’m not really surprised that they didn’t prioritise the things that would benefit gaming.

Hand controllers may well come a few years down the line (if the product line survives that long), but it’s very much in line with their behaviour historically to initially avoid requiring additional input devices: anyone remember how long it took Apple to release a stylus for the iPad?

Also seems like their efforts to protect privacy by restricting direct gaze input access may make certain kinds of gaze-related input actions tricky to implement, but the Unity video shared earlier suggested that they may be giving developers more access to that stuff (at least via Unity-based apps) than they’d previously implied.
Electric scooters (Razor, not Vespa) could be a happy middle. More stable than the unicycle, more portable than the bicycle.
It's okay to admit you are wrong or don't have a working POC.
Can't believe the website owner is still writing after 18 years running the website https://www.damninteresting.com/journey-to-the-invisible-pla...

The website isn't getting much donation https://www.damninteresting.com/damnload/

Dedication.
Nice, but I wonder why. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. It wants to be ugly. Let it be ugly.
That sounds unlikely to me to be "solved" rather than "a different local maximum". I'm very skeptical that any governments know the single perfect solution to the formula of the precise level of merchant fees that is the best possible solution.
Read “Pythagoras Revived” for Neoplatonist views on the mathematical universe
https://academic.oup.com/book/293

And listen to SHWEP.net (secret history of western esotericism) which is one of my favorite podcasts on the internet.

The Pythagorean idea still has so much empirical opportunity and investigation left open.

I think that math makes possibility which makes matter which makes information processing which make computation which makes math… so eventually computers get powerful enough to make new universes and it’s math all the way down.
Sure, I can look it up (and I did) but this is a discussion section, so why not prompt a discussion by asking for a simple explanation?

Appreciate the link! I'm not OP but that's exactly what I was looking for.
Six Works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)
>Your plan is to spend the rest of your life feeling sorry for yourself?

You are the only one feeling sorry for other people in this conversation.

Even people with what would be generally considered great lives chase dopamine. Believe whatever narrative you need to, but in general this behavior is not that deep or problematic vs an actual drug addiction or real problems. It seems you have an axe to grind with anything "self-control" related.
Cool js, but I absolutely despise websites or software that do this.
The hash is sensitive because it's a (reasonably) unique identifier that has been assigned to you.

> any more than a CCTV camera at your coffee shop, or the government minting your ID?

It's not, fundamentally, but that's not an argument in favor of things like this. The less of this sort of thing, the better.

But a big difference is that my local coffee shop is, you know, local and not likely to be sharing the images with anyone as a routine matter, and they certainly aren't correlating the images they capture with my identity.

The difference with government ID is twofold: it's the government, which means it's not optional. Second, it's the government rather than private entities. I can have some sort of influence over my government. I have zero influence over private entities. So while I don't like it in either case, I prefer the government-issued ID over something done by companies.

> while still accomplishing the goal of proof-of-personhood.

I'm not sure why this is a goal that is so important that it's worth any reduction in privacy.
The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening.

The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness.

He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires are so powerful that the man is completely unaccountable to anyone or anything. It's worse than Ye. Elon broke, after too many horse tranquilizer trips. He's not there anymore. You're seeing the drugs acting in his stead.

There are reasons why societies don't set individuals up with this kind of power.
Among other reasons, because the decoder-only version of the original transformer architecture has proven weirdly resistant to these kinds of hacks and clever optimizations.

Ideas like sparse attention, tree attention, residual attention, etc, all sound good on paper, but when researchers try to reproduce them they either find no results or results that don't scale. Even AliBi is turning out to be less powerful than scaled-down positional embeddings. It's almost a bitter lesson on its own: you can't beat the original transformer.

Optimizations that do stick around tend to be the ones that preserve the original algorithm but help with caching or memory accesses.
Yes, but the prompt was that I'm a billionaire. And I'm the way I am, and described the way I believe I would be as a billionaire. But there was no part of the prompt about the path I took to become a billionaire, just that I am one.
I think this is unsurprising, the point of embeddings is to encode the information from the text. It's not encryption or hashing; it's a compressed representation.

Even if you couldn't recover the original words I would expect to be able to recover equivalent words with the same meaning.
Which follows that the final frontier of ad blocking are AR glasses that use machine learning and AI to block light from ads from reaching your eyes?
>Is there a reason I should not believe that an expert model will always outperform a general purpose one, even if it's a metatransformer?

If a general purpose model beats the specialized one, you could almost certainly distill the general purpose one into a better specialized one.
Update: I will clarify what I have written above as I realize it is unclear.

You cannot solve the problem of discrimination (in non trivial cases of true and false, of good and bad) through a deterministic solution, as the epistemological debate did not solve the general problem. You cannot train a function approximator (e.g. an ANN) as a Discriminator through supervised learning, because the problem remains such for human judgement. Creating a Discriminator through unsupervised learning, I'd like to see how one would frame a proposal; and anyway, if we could create reliable filters, the main question - as usual for a progressive approach to AI - would be to have the oracle in the system teach us instead that knowledge that what could not achieve with good old thinking.
10 Years of webrtcHacks – merch and stats
Few of those r-values are actually notable

> To further examine the universality of the Five-Factor Model, they examined how the MBTI dimensional raw scores related to the FFM/Big5 scores. They showed that FFM-Extroversion was highly correlated to MBTI-Introversion (r = -.74), FFM-Neuroticism was weakly correlated to MBTI-Introversion (r = .16), FFM-Openness was correlated to MBTI-Intuition (r = .72), and to MBTI-Perception (r = .30), FFM-Agreeableness was correlated to MBTI-Feeling (r = .44), FFM-Contentiousness correlated to MBTI-Perception (r = .49).
My bigger question isn't the game studios or even the price, it's the controllers. Remains to be seen what sort of games people come up with that don't require the type of hand controllers with a thumbstick, grip/trigger, and a couple of buttons.

You'll really need to design from the ground up with its very specific input capabilities in mind. Porting titles over that were made for Quest, PSVR, or PC will be difficult.