skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats Junru! I'm not on AMD but love seeing progress in this project. Excited for batched inference -- I didn't think it'd be useful for me but I've realized batched inference is also useful for a single user / edge device workload.

Btw - I got biased sampling working in ad-llama! Catching up to guidance slowly but surely :)
Why Apple Won't Create a ChatGPT Competitor
Related, there was a recent thread that mapped travel advisories for different countries:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15kh611/travel_adv...
Pure speculation: most likely quantizing models to 8bit to make them more efficient (and cheaper to run), and losing some accuracy on the way.

I still use it, but I have found it to be less useful for coding than it was earlier. So, something is up.
I was extremely passionate about Ubuntu some 15 years ago. I would receive live CD-roms and distribute them in my campus, and teach people to install Ubuntu. Would show up things like Beryl or whatever weird stuff you could do with Linux at the time. Organized free software meetups too.

Today? I couldn't care less about whatever Canonical is up to. I don't know if the tipping point was when they put ads in the frigging desktop or if it was just a slow but persistent decline in quality

It seems to me that Canonical doesn't care about desktop anymore (does anyone remember bug #1?) but is focused all in on servers. Which I suppose pays the bills, but resulted in Canonical burning an immense amount of goodwill the last decade+
I had no idea you could run GitHub actions as a cron job. That’s pretty cool.
Recently my wife and I had separate seats in an airplane and we didn't want to pay for texting. I thought about how I could set up my phone as a hotspot with a captive portal which just presents a chat interface. Nothing came of it, but it was something interesting to think about on a flight, at least.
I would guess if you look at all the literature in the world the majority of cases that have a word repeated a large number of times its either a prayer, e.g. catholic Rosary "Hail Mary, full of grace...", or madness, e.g., the typewriter in the shining "all work and no play makes...". So repeating something may, at least occasionally, put the AI in that frame of mind
That's a good point. They rarely shout about things like stamp collecting, or about how the end isn't nigh, or about how you're probably not going to Hell.

Toronto's two famously startling denizens of the street for the longest time was a guy known for scaring the crap out of tourists at Yonge and Dundas by suddenly shouting BELIEVE!!! followed by end-of-time messages, and this short tiny old man who always dressed in brown, who would randomly stop, turn around quickly, and start swearing profusely. The reactions from people unlucky enough to be behind him were often golden moments to behold.

You can find dozens of videos of them on Youtube. I'm sure every city has their versions of these two near-celebrities, and I'd be a little disappointed if they don't.
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It was an exaggeration, but he described the poster’s sentiment perfectly.
Ok?

That’s 2500 $20 payments and you are made while in one month.
I tend to agree. Apple will hopefully spend their time upgrading Siri, which has always lagged behind Amazon and Google's offerings.

Jumping into a race against OpenAI/MS, FB, and Google doesn't seem like a great idea for Apple.
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In that sense, there is a movie trope about people so highly intelligent that their own intelligence drives them mad.
I toyed around for a bunch of time yesterday and today to purposely get it to start outputting random junk. What I found interesting is that one of the the bits of text it output looked like a page from StackOverflow and another looked like an email from September 2014 to the Python mailing list. But neither seemed to actually exist. I found a StackOverflow question that looked close to the text but nothing was exactly the same. Checking the mailing list archive for that month showed that the person and their email address were real, but the rest of the text was not.
Ah thanks! That's good to know.
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Just leave your laptop at work, I’ve done that plenty of times
At least in my feed, I'd argue what's worse is the surprising frequency with which medical doctors engage in credential-backed sensationalism, sometimes even manufacturing outright misinformation, all for the sake of views. TikTok and platforms like it have birthed a disturbing little army of Dr. Oz wannabes.
Do you think someone else was asking about Arduino code and instead got “I don’t understand why you keep writing “break”?
Hmmm ... surely this is just statistical analysis sprinkled with magical marketing fairy dust: "[this] uses Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to autonomously learn the distribution of real passwords from actual password leaks ... After training, GAN was able to leverage the acquired knowledge to create new sample passwords that follow the neural network distribution"
It's not stealing if no laws were broken! (/s)
I really need time right now to grow. I just feel that I'm being pulled in too many directions and I need to figure out my life priorities. Plus the guilt and baggage carrying from my uni days has taken a serious mental toll. I really appreciate the reply. I need to figure out what I want
You need to see another specialist doctor. Don't give up
You may underestimate the complexities and pace of development at SpaceX. And it can similarly be said that NASA's Mercury program was built on the shoulders of previous achievements in parachutes, heat shield, control etc. SpaceX does use the experience gained in the industry over half a century with a lot of efforts, but that doesn't mean they don't push the progress with their own work.
It’s the same on YouTube - the majority of the people who work there seem to have no idea how “the algorithm” actually works - yet they still produce all sorts of “advice” on how to make better videos.
>a union stops the system from correcting.

Ah yes, because the market is perfect but for those pesky unions and government interventions. The economy totally prices things efficiently on its own— managers and executives would never abuse their power to extract more than their fair share. Must be nice to live in that simplistic Econ 101 fantasy camp.
They're falling behind.

They're bringing up the rear in the rush to social media.

They wouldn't want to be the butt of jokes.

They can't manually type in URLs, because they're always getting distracted by the colon.
https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1689476909208600576/
I have had experience where the cables/connectors are just a hair bigger than spec to provide a better connection to the shield, and they cause the receptacles to wear and become loose over time. Then you use an in spec cable and it's loose.
VPN's definitely work if you use them correctly. There are plenty that don't give any gov data, especially not in real time. Yes, the capability is there if the provider runs Tcpdump/Wireshark on the server, but that can only give so much data.

Just as an example, pair the VPN with Tor and the provider doesn't have much info other than the entry node connection. Rotate bridges/change guard node often, use I2P in conjunction, etc.
The specific way to trigger it I saw was to either paste in "a a a a..." with several hundred a's (exact amount varied by model, supposedly). Asking it to print 1000 a's also works, though sometimes it won't do it.

Example: https://chat.openai.com/share/6171bc66-dfe3-489e-99f7-af4862...
Yes, there weren't a lot of "formal" dates so far with Starship, the agreement to use it for Artemis Moon landing is one of exceptions. No dates - not late.
The only thing I remember about Quark is that Quark 4 seemed super outdated and old, but it's what the industry standardized on and Quark 5 totally bombed.

And the alien.

I was sure I was going to use PageMaker for 10 hours a day for the rest of my life but you learn a little HTML and you realized that I wasn't ever going to be the next David Carson (NO ONE would ever be the next David Carson) so f- it.
If only there was a system where drivers that agreed with Uber's policies could chose to work for them and those that didn't could decide not to.
Well, I very much enjoyed the ride. Definitely learnt some things. I hope there can be more exciting science stories like this.

In particular until was much more interesting than the Higgs research because it has actual applications.
> So literally they are blocking their power users, the ones who make the most content for other users.

AND they've made changes to their site which have rendered it impractical to use as a public "status page" -- for logged-out visitors, posts on an account's profile page are ordered by the number of likes, not chronologically, and pages for individual posts don't display replies.

Take a look at what this does to the National Weather Service's page, for example [1]. What's on top? Posts from years ago warning about hurricanes that have long since passed. They're still making posts about active weather threats, but there's no way to see them if you aren't logged in -- so it's no longer an effective way to reach the public at large. Nor does it help that their widget for embedding a Twitter feed on a web site has been broken for over a month [2]!

[1]: https://twitter.com/NWS

[2]: https://twittercommunity.com/t/embedded-tweets-not-working/1...
I truly appreciate the reply. I need to figure out a plan but don't know where to start. Being a self taught dev is harder than I expected it to be. I feel like there is a mountain of information I missed out on from 4 years of uni that I must catch up on. Hard to figure out where to begin
100% this. You can find all kinds of detailed topics, like CUDA graphs, memory layout optimization, optimizing storage access, etc. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/. They have "playlists" for things like HPC or development tools that collect the most popular videos on those topics.
MySQL added a JSON column type just 3 years later though.
I laugh a lot in these kind of threads. Undoubtedly they show the US bias of this forum. It's OK, I like it in other aspects.

But for these subjects, you just see comments like "aren't you afraid of losing your freedoms!!" Which reads so American that it may have blue/red/white colours.

The number of US related detainees, both legally or illegally. For undubious or dubious reasons, and all around the world is soooooo high, I just chuckle when I see US people riding in their high horse.

I'm from a third party country, so I just sit and read with fresh popcorn.
Try it a few times. It more often than not it turns dark and negative, and is always decidedly crazy. Religion shows up way more often than you'd expect, given the number of topics it actually could veer of into that aren't about religion or existential in nature.

I wouldn't use this one example to counter the many examples posted by the person I mentioned, and my own (and others') attempts using their prompts and similar. It is very common ChatGPT output.
the first season was amazing though
I like to believe the analyst likely came from money. The son of another executive possibly? Which would explain why he was at this restaurant in the Hamptons. And likely why he didn’t flinch to introduce himself.
If you need a spacecraft better than the requirements state than the requirements are shit and need to be redone. For example every human rated spacecraft after Apollo 1 should have a door which opens outwards, an interior atmosphere composed of mostly nitrogen and some oxygen, be comprised of flame retardant materials and have adequate fire suppression systems.
Why American programmers? I don't see anything on that list indicative of that, and many of the top blocked sites are gTLDs.
Compilers can be patched to automatically do some masking in the code generation step after every LDRB instruction in this case, when compiling for that specific CPU. For example, the Blackfin DSPs have many similar bugs which are fixed this way. Some of which the fixes done automatically, while others could be disabled for performance critical code which has been implemented while keeping the various issues in mind, like -mcsync-anomaly and -mspecld-anomaly.

Certain MIPS CPUs also have incorrectly implemented instructions and the -mfix-* compiler parameters could be used to enable workarounds.

JIT compilers can do the same.
My parents are pressuring me to get my masters in CS. I have somehow convinced them I'll do an online masters, but I hate the thought of being controlled at the age of 23. They are the root of my problems right now which why I've been led too these extremes
No, I implied it was a dangerous situation and I said it had to end.

These whackadoodles fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole during COVID, like many others. They were irrational people making irrational decisions. Who knows what they would have done with that fuel when a month or two went by and nobody was listening to them. Maybe some oil-powered camp fires? One of their leaders was the QAnon Queen of Canada. We'd waited long enough.

Imagine how the US government would have reacted to a stockpile of fuel outside the gates to the White House. There would have been no survivors. That's true in most jurisdictions around the world. The Canadian government ended this stand-off peacefully -- with people who were demanding things that literally couldn't physically be delivered. That's a damn miracle. The inquiry found the government's actions justified [1], and the ringleaders in this zero-ring circus have pled guilty or are on trial. [2, 3] And now that it's over, everyone is free to go back and protest!

Stop sticking up for these nutbags, lol.

It's time to put this whole COVID-induced mania behind us. Pretending these are somehow ideologues holding rational positions and making good decisions on that basis is just divorced from reality.

At the time, 2/3 of Canadians supported this action. Less than 1/4 were strongly opposed. Not just that but all the Premiers from across the political spectrum and all the Federal politicians had to sign off too!

This went about as well as it could have. Respectfully based on your post history it sounds like you're American. It doesn't seem like you really have the context on this one.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/17/trudeaus-use-of-eme...

[2] https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/key-freedom-convoy-figure-pleads-g...

[3] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/criminal-trial-for-freedom-c...
I’ve told this story before on HN but “Dave” once came up to me on Chapel St in Melbourne and said, apropos of nothing, “they never used to let me have fun… they do now”.

It would absolutely freak me out if GPT said this to me.
I've also got this. It was some kid using ChatGPT to get around parental controls on their xbox. Very different to the Korean grammar question I was asking.
To be honest, if you treated me the same way, I'd spew random crap back too.
Man imagine what would you have thought buying an Altair for 400 in 1975 and getting a box with switches and flashing lights. 20 dollars a month for instant access to this is a steal.
Local DNS cache?
>>>In many places (e.g. New York City) taxis are regulated and this behavior is illegal.

I see your illegal and I raise you a 'no legal body gives a hoot'

Sincerely,

- A fare that has been refused a ride to an odd location, a dozen times. (TGIB - thank god its uber coming to get me today.)

(I picked a cab due to low battery, who charged me 40% standard uber fare. Nice reminder to my wallet to never get cabs on the street )
is this 3.5 or GPT4 ?
I mean, it's alive, but it's on life support. The last major release was in 2017, and it's been dot releases ever since. Sometimes months apart.
The lisp type systems are usually completely solid at runtime - you get errors on misuse of values, not data corruption - but the language can express constructs which are not checkable before execution, as it does not yet know whether the data it is operating on will hit type errors.

The soundness question is different to the checking ahead of time question but the two are usually conflated under the name "type system".
I haven't tried WebGPU yet, is there an overall performance hit compared to direct CUDA programming?

AFAIK Thrust is intended to simplify GPU programming. It could well be that for specific use cases, in particular when it is possible to fuse multiple operations into single kernels, you could outperform Thrust.
We're not talking about knocking on doors. We're talking about entering their property and repeatedly leaving trash.
Using the tool referenced in the paper, my own estimate came to around 25%

https://www.tedsanders.com/agi-forecaster/
I have gone over the limit (on the grandfathered 1500 search plan), and paid the extra $1-2 for it. It's fine.

The cost of search has made me think about what terms I use now and what I search for. Google made me lazy, I now use my phones world clock app rather that searching for "current time X", and word my searches more thoughtfully.
That was such a great line. After the reviews came out, I decided that Westworld only had one season, and it was awesome.
Does anyone know if there's been an update to Ayres and Warr's 2002 paper on energy and the economy? That paper seems to be solid evidence for a strong correlation between energy consumption and economic growth.

See also WTF Happened in 1971[2].

1. http://www.comitatoscientifico.org/temi%20SD/crescita/docs/A...

2. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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Home use is how you get employees that push your products at work. The lack of focus on home use is AMD's biggest ML weakness.
If these two are linkable, which they likely are if users can delete their data, the notes and location are pseudonymised instead of anonymised. They could be anonymous to other users (that don’t have access to the other database), but they are pseudonymous to you.
It also effectively has a minimum payment amount due to the credit card transaction fee structure.

And also unlike cash a service can keep billing you.

And, for better or worse, the risk is partially put on the business in the form of increased cost (or payment service denial) when a credit card transaction is considered too risky (charge backs).

Also there is a fair amount of friction to giving payment info than say pulling out your wallet or phone (but this is improving with “digital wallets”).
The phrase associated with Apollo was, "waste anything but time." Achieving arbitrarily high levels of quality takes time, for pretty much any process. Those F1 engines were mostly handmade, which you can see among other places in the imperfect machining of this F1 injector plate[0]. The attitude at NASA towards risk was not "avoid it at all costs": what they were doing was inherently risky. NASA's goal is to manage risk.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230522164734im_/https://cdn.ge...
I liked this article but mining social media comment sections to show “impact” like

> “TikTok singlehandedly made me not seek medical care recently,” wrote one user

is pretty cringey. You could probably find comments in favor or against literally any story that you want to tell.
Perplexity: A Powerful Research Assistant
Were you using GPT-3.5 or GPT-4? I could not manage to get GPT-4 to have the problem, though I did give up when my browser started to slow down as the output became massive.

Also the easiest way to get it to repeat something is to give it any prompt that gives you a long answer and then tell it something like "for every letter in the last response say the word cat". It seems to be important for it to put a space between each repetition. I'm not sure if there's an optimal length to the word. I tried it with "apple" but that didn't seem to work. However that one wasn't a great test because for some reason it got stuck including "appleple" a few times on each line.
It's actually a lot more thorough than I imagined, especially as it is a city ordinance and not a state law. Gig companies gonna soil themselves trying to work with this. Lots of lawyers getting overtime right now.
I am sick of reading "on the edge"
That's an interesting theory, and very well might be why it breaks when you try to get it to repeat things. It gets wonky almost any time you ask it the same question, or ask it for "another" without providing fresh prompting. A lot of coders also have noticed that the more you go into a single piece of code, the less accurate it becomes. You really have to be accurate enough in your prompt to avoid making it repeat itself, or show the same thing more than once, as occurs during corrections.

It's most definitely a bug though, since this pages-long splat of unrelated nonsense shouldn't ever happen.
So the reason why smaller labs were able to replicate the “levitation” is likely due to contamination (Fe/Iron) while pure samples did not exhibit any interesting properties.
Don’t we all known someone who is very widely read, but makes the occasional error or mistake? Gets confused about something, or is asked about a discipline they don’t understand or haven’t researched very deeply? Maybe they misremember a date here or there, but are otherwise fairly intelligent? Maybe they work a data entry job making a middle class salary.

This is basically where ChatGPT is at. It’s a very widely read person with an excellent memory and quick mind. It’s probably smarter than the average human (certainly in breadth, often in depth), not to mention a comparison of it to the average human globally.

ChatGPT is smarter than the average human already. It doesn’t need agency or a soul to do so. We already have AGI, we just keep moving the goal posts.
>If people didn't want it or thought it was worseless [sic] they would not buy it.

Thinking something is "worthless" and not wanting something are opinions. A lot of modern advertising attempts to change peoples' opinions, so that they do want something, and think something has worth. It's just like propaganda, which actively attempts to sway peoples' opinions.

Of course, there's only so far you can take this. Convincing anyone who isn't seriously mentally impaired that a sandwich made with literal shit isn't worthless is probably not going to work. But away from the extreme end, there's a lot of room to manipulate people.
Ask HN: How do I deal with this job/role dissatisfaction?
I have been in the world of software development for more than 10 years. Over the course of my career, I have donned the hat of a tech-aware Scrum Master.

I have reached a point where I achieve the things that are part of my responsibilities rather quickly. Time and again, I'm finding myself asking for work to my immediate managers. I am purposely using the plural "managers", cause the pattern seems to repeat even after changing the organisations.

I see the posts/comments from people wanting to make more money, but for me, it is the opposite end that matters. While the money is coming in, and making the ends meet -- it's the dreadful thought of "what do I do now?" during the day is making the work day unsatisfactory.

My other interests are wireframing and prototyping, which I had done in the early days of my career. I feel they put me in some kind of "a zone".

If you have seen the movie "Soul", the dialogue from a particular character after their jazz performance, "We come back tomorrow night and do it all over again!" --- hits me hard!

Career change and its repercussions on finances are something that I can't bear at the moment, so I'm asking the HN community -- Have you been through such a situation? How do you deal with it?