skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure the person you’re responding to is saying that counting is a formal operation with a formal definition, and that when GPT “counts” it isn’t doing that formal operation. The fact that it can semi-reliably emit ordered sequences isn’t counterevidence, for the same reason that memorizing the order of 0 to 100 isn’t evidence of an understanding of the inductive structure of counting.
(Posted under a different account because I'm being slow-posted again by HN)

> In theory, the DBMS itself could directly support 'physical denormalization' and make this performance optimisation easier to implement and transparent to the application code. I think some SQL DBMSs have attempted to do things like this.

Automatically managed, application-transparent, physical denormalisation entirely managed by the database is something I am very, very interested in. Unfortunately I've been able to find pretty well nothing to describe what it would look like and how it would be done. If you can provide any links that would be so incredibly helpful!

It gets mentioned in the Date/Darwen books as being the right way to do things, but no actual information seems to be given.
What do you want to see or to exist?

I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting. Person's idea of what is valuable or interesting or observations or conclusions is different.

I recognise that it takes a lot of work to create something. You can't just know 1 thing or be good at 10 tasks to produce something to high quality, you have to do 1000 tasks you've never done before.

For example, I love goodness, positivity, light and think on these things and reject what is not these things.

So I try do things that are valuable to me and share them with others.

Note: I want a zero effort platform similar to Repl.it that lets me be webscale with minimal devops. I am interested in ScrapScript and Val Town.
Totally get the reliability issues you've seen - getting LLMs to output the right response 80% of the time on these kinds of tasks is not that hard, the last 20% is the real challenge.

On trying us out - ping me an email at henry@superflows.ai
TIL: DEI == Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (if anyone else didn't know).
People get really defensive about remote work I guess? It wasn't just walking, there was also social isolation and being excluded that made it unbearable. And no real boundary between work and home. If you're doing an hour driving every day I can see why you'd prefer remote though.
I think a good portion of that is because of the fundamental differences in business philosophy. Enron dictated success at any cost, and that resulted in the necessity of fraud. Meanwhile, Zombo Com provided an open-ended framework for users to build their own success. Not only does this change the entire tone of their business dealings, but it cleverly offloads liability onto the user where the only limit is, in fact, themselves.
Airlines check government issued ID against a central database when you fly. This is standard and expected in air travel, and is not in social media.
>Otherwise you'd only learn how much he can actually disclaim iff you get sued by DC and are able to bring the contract into the scope of discovery, which isn't exactly guaranteed.

Wouldn't the legal and financial burden be only on him?

He is by all account the copyright holder. He says you can do the f. you want with his work. You haven't signed any contract with DC.

You release some derived work commercially.

DC might sue him for granting rights to a third party that infringe n exclusivity clause.

But you aren't bound by any contract with DC, you aren't infringing anything if the sole copyright holder expressely gave you the permission.
This is great! My only suggestion is to let me configure the font size. I find the text too small. It would also be nice to get rid of as much whitespace as possible.
Yeah, I work closer to advertising and data collection, the answer here is definitely yes, for example I guess there are nginx logs with IP addresses, but I'm not actively collecting or processing them.

I answered no to the question since so much of the discussion around this has moved to questions about which advertising IDs are collected, none of which I'm collecting.
I wonder if the streaming problems are related to the problem I experienced a lot lately to do with constant network connection error when using ChatGPT over mobile tethering (via Google Fi). The mobile connection itself is very stable and fast, but for a while every single ChatGPT response stops streaming halfway through with network connection error.
I did, but the enforced boundary between work and home is very important to me.
They use this for Google Workspace and data localization (including law enforcement localization).
Per the docs (I linked them in another comment), the correct command is `gunzip <foo.zip` or `gunzip -S .zip foo.zip`.
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They're not "getting away with it" though? They're being fined a large sum of money.
My cursory web search indicates that the van moof MSRPs were something like 2x to 3x that of the motocompacto at $995[1] and, not to snark but it does appear that company went bankrupt while selling at that price point. A more direct comparison might be the Niu KQI3 e-scooter which claims 30 miles, 45 pounds, at $800. [2]

[1] https://motocompacto.honda.com/

[2] https://shop.niu.com/products/niu-electric-kick-scooter-for-...
The person you're replying to is right. We've empirically tested it.
Supermarkets are colluding to increase prices as all companies are wont to do. There isn’t enough competition to act as downward pressure on prices.

This isn’t a monetary thing that YouTube says - the goods a few miles away in Germany aren’t seeing this, despite being in the same currency and no difficulty transporting them. In a free market a competitor would buy from the same supplier the german supermarket does, undercut the competition and force all prices for.

However that doesn’t work because consumers in Austria don’t realise how they are being ripped off, because while the large corporation has all the data to manipulate and extract maximum revenue from each consumers the consumer lacks the data to do the opposite.
+1 - I studied Netlogo when I dabbled in economic simulation several years back. And alas as a non-software engineer my coding skills were not up to the task for even Netlogo's simplified interface. Yet NL serves as a valuable wrapper for any mesh- or distributed agent programming problem - (for those more skilled than me). One doesn't have to know OOP or anything to get an instructive simulation - (e.g. wolves vs sheep vs grass behavior) up and running. =)
Not right now, but we're working on it! :)

Base Llama 2's reliability on our prompt isn't good enough right now so working on fine-tuning it to make sure it outputs the right format - we'll release this at the same time as we make it easier to self-host
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I was wondering about this too a couple of months back. Couldn't find any answer but seeing Apex.sh go away was sad.

Tj's choice of minimalistic design is still a huge inspiration for me, I still enjoy it to this day!
Talk openly and argue robustly by all means but why make things personal? That just adds noise to an already noisy conversation. We should try to maximise the amount of knowledge in our discussions, not bring it down.

But I guess that would indeed sound much better around beers.
I can imagine someone in the show Silicon Valley asking this question. It sounds like it could be right out of an episode.
A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google (2022)
If regulation is the case, then they could have waited until iPhone 17 and implemented as nothing more than a port change.

That's not what's happened though - the USB3.0 controller is part of the A17Pro chip.

It's trivially debunked that this change is in response to EU enforcement merely by observing the timeline of EU legislation and elementary understanding of chip design and lead time/mass production.

This isn't suggesting that they didn't see the writing on the wall, but it's patently evident that the decision was made even before the EU considered making type C the mandatory connection standard.

As I said already, it's just as likely this is part of their phased transition into the type C connector.

Also these MFi arguments for lightning are nonsense, not only are the fees minimal, but they persist with type C.

The EU forcing Apple to switch to the type C connector is largely a HN fantasy. It was happening regardless.
Tangential Counterpoint: I have no connection to this thing and also question its value, but…

At least on iOS, I think calendar reminders (both native and gcal) are fundamentally broken. Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other notifications and are easily missed.
I think such short clips curated, surfaced and demographic matched by the almighty, all-knowing algorithm could be considered as crowd-sourced movie trailers playing the role of modern day word of mouth. Just like google books search results are restricted to few relevant snippets / pages but not the whole book, similarly Tiktok can restrict sequentially watching a movie.
Your question:

> How does chat-gpt actually get this right?

Your answer:

> its output is purely probabilistic, based on existing corpus of text

Because GPT was trained on existing text, some of which included numbers and counting, it's learnt the natural ordering of most common/everyday numbers.

For larger or more complex numbers, it's learnt the patterns behind how they're constructed linguistically, which allows it to output a written count in sequence.

This same pattern recognition doesn't work anywhere near as well for actual numerals (e.g. "47600", instead of "forty seven thousand six hundred"), as the tokenizer tends to break long numerals apart (e.g. into ["476", "00"]).
Hardware Specs:

Motherboard: X11SPI-TF (Supports IPMI)

Processor: Xeon Bronze 3204 (6 Core & 6 Thread)

Memory: 2x8GB DDR4 RDIMM

Power Supply: Corsair RM750e (750W Modular ATX)

Chassis Dimensions (LxWxH): 20" x 17" x 7"

Options are:

- Chassis & backplane

- Chassis & backplane + PSU

- Full build
Node.js vs. Deno vs. Bun: Fastify hello world server benchmarking
I only have a handful of documents that are about that age: my birth certificate and high-school graduation diploma.

Here's an interesting aspect of these: I did lose my college papers a while ago, and when I asked my college if they can produce a copy, they told me that they keep their records for just seven years. So, they had nothing. The high-school I went to doesn't exist anymore. So, if I had to recover my high-school-related papers, I'd have none. But, if I really had to, I could recover my birth certificate, as those don't seem to have an expiration date.

Anyways. In terms of storing digital copies, very little of that is relevant. Even ten years ago most authorities wouldn't be able to accept digital copies. Even today, the municipality of the city I live in won't take digital copies. There's no process through which I could have a digital copy they would recognize.

So, I need to keep hard copies. And the digital copies? -- well, they are perishable. I keep them for convenience, because every now and then I run into some situation where they are accepted. But losing them won't be a big deal as I can always make more of those. So, I don't need any exceptionally reliable storage requirement for the digital documents. It's more like a cache, which can be eventually retired.
You don't let the water run for a bit before drinking it?
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I'm not sure if he would have covered that kind of material during his time with the Cryptographic Intelligence Unit anyway.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Air_F...
Habits of top engineers
I have to keep hard copies anyways. Plenty of places don't take digital copies and have no process through which they would. So, digital documents are only a convenience for the rare situations when someone will take them. And if I lose them -- well, I'll just take another picture.
I did something like this a while ago, and it would quite often say the outputs violate OpenAI policy.

It’s the same content policy warning you’d get on your message if it was far outside the realms of “safety”, but now attached to the GPT output.

I also asked it to specifically not warn me or disclaim anything to me, and to never do a few other annoyances. It was ChatGPT with GPT-4. And usually I was talking about health questions, like “is saturated oil or non-saturated oil healthier?”

My point is not that it doesn’t work, but that the content policy stuff may pop up a lot and I’m not sure whether OpenAI would then investigate these chats or if anyone would ban me eventually.
They definitely overdramatised the wording, but their point is valid - the 'normalisation by a thousand cuts' is a real phenomenom, and a bad one.
> It's surprising that they neglected the whole country.

It's not. The number of Indian customers willing to pay for Airtable would be tiny.
- "...and was the first to exploit a multiplier-accumulator to perform division, using multiplication seeded by reciprocal, via the convergent series 1/(1 + x)".

Am I overlooking it, or is this method missing from Wikipedia's "Division Algorithm" entry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_algorithm?useskin=vec...

How it works is easy enough to figure from that description. You rescale your divisor to fit in the range (0.5, 1.0], then expand it as the series 1/(1 - x) = 1 + x + x^2..., which converges, and does so linearly at >1 bit per term (since x < 1/2). What's useful about this, is you can calculate the finite sums with a circuit that's logarithmic depth, or maybe better. You could do the repeated squarings to get: x, x^2, x^4, x^8...; then you have a bunch of parallel hardware multipliers filling out all the intermediate terms, which are products of zero- or one- of each of these basic terms; then you just find the sum with a logarithmic-sized tree of adders.

Somehow, I can't find the name of this algorithm (?)
I take my dogs for a walk every morning. I've worked from home for 10 years, and almost never miss a walk.
For grid stability yes. The ideal grid stability solution is a customer who can sink AND source large amounts of power for a reasonable amount of time and very quickly. Like a giant battery farm can, although these are quite expensive.
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FreeBSD had a pretty decent option in the base system two decades ago - FFS snapshots and a stock backup tool that would use them automatically with minimal effort, dump(8). Just chuck `-L` at it and your backups are consistent.

Now of course it's all about ZFS, so there's at least snapshots paired with replication - but the story for anything else is still pretty bad, with you having to put all the fiddly pieces together. I'm sure some people taught their backup tool about their special named backup snapshots sprinkled about in `.zfs/snapshot` directories, but given the fiddly nature of it I'm also sure most people just ended up YOLOing raw directories, temporal-smearing be damned.

I know I did!

I finally got around to fixing that last year with zfsnapr[1]. `zfsnapr mount /mnt/backup` and there's a snapshot of the system - all datasets, mounted recursively - ready for whatever backup tool of the year is.

I'm kind of disappointed in mentioning it over on the Practical ZFS forum that the response was not "why didn't you just use <existing solution everyone uses>", but "I can see why that might be useful".

Well, yes, it makes backups actually work.

> Also, it's unclear to me what happens if you attempt a snapshot in the middle of something like a database transaction or even a basic file write. Seems likely that the snapshot would still be corrupted

A snapshot is a point-in-time image of the filesystem at a given point. Any ACID database worth the name will roll back the in-flight transaction just like they would if you issued it a `kill -9`.

For other file writes, that's really down to whether or not such interruptions were considered by the writer. You may well have half-written files in your snapshot, with the file contents as they were in between two write() calls. Ideally this will only be in the form of temporary files, prior to their rename() over the data they're replacing.

For everything else - well, you have more than one snapshot backed up, right?

1: https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr
Could you give some concrete examples from this DEI director of the kind of things you're calling 'leftist woke propaganda'?
Texas power prices soar 20k% after heat wave
https://mises.org/library/natural-elites-intellectuals-and-s...

Hoppe offers an interesting perspective on, "Natural Elites" and how they relate to democratic institutions.

>While the state fared much better under democratic rule, and while the "people" have fared much worse since they began to rule "themselves," what about the natural elites and the intellectuals? As regards the former, democratization has succeeded where kings made only a modest beginning: in the ultimate destruction of the natural elite and nobility. The fortunes of the great families have dissipated through confiscatory taxes, during life and at the time of death. These families' tradition of economic independence, intellectual farsightedness, and moral and spiritual leadership have been lost and forgotten.

>Rich men exist today, but more frequently than not they owe their fortunes directly or indirectly to the state. Hence, they are often more dependent on the state's continued favors than many people of far-lesser wealth. They are typically no longer the heads of long-established leading families, but "nouveaux riches." Their conduct is not characterized by virtue, wisdom, dignity, or taste, but is a reflection of the same proletarian mass-culture of present-orientation, opportunism, and hedonism that the rich and famous now share with everyone else. Consequently — and thank goodness — their opinions carry no more weight in public opinion than most other people's.

>Democracy has achieved what Keynes only dreamt of: the "euthanasia of the rentier class." Keynes's statement that "in the long run we are all dead" accurately expresses the democratic spirit of our times: present-oriented hedonism. Although it is perverse not to think beyond one's own life, such thinking has become typical. Instead of ennobling the proletarians, democracy has proletarianized the elites and has systematically perverted the thinking and judgment of the masses.
>> I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc.

Agree. And also I think the same about the working hours that companies makes us to commit.
Just remember ... the CEO role of a major company is radically different than any other job.

What Marc calls "work", you and I can't relate too.

He's spending a disporportionate amount of time talking to investors, talking to customers, talking to his Board.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's traveling 100 business days a year as a result.

Which if you're not at home because you're traveling for work, or if you are at home but just talking phone calls - that's a very different type of "working remote".

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EDIT: why the downvotes? Please comment if you disagree with something I said so that we can have a health discourse.
Sure, and when I hire an assassin I don't kill the target, I just provide the monetary support. Still makes me a killer. Even worse if I crush someone's leg to let assassin do its job.
I see the red rings in front. I tried adding some depth cues to see if I could see it both ways - https://i.imgur.com/LsPtsRr.png

It kind of works, but for me it feels more like the blue ring now has a variable depth, with parts below and parts above the red rings, kind of like a piece of fabric draped over a bar.

I wonder how it feels for people who see blue in front?
I love this, even though "everywhere" here is similar to how Aliens view Earth in movies: The United States of America.
Thanks for digging that up!

Ah, the paper itself is much better than I'd expected

It's also unwieldy - looks more like a PhD thesis.

(bloody shame we can't just have an internet that delivers the information concerned
rather than having to wait for someone to sleuth down the actual dirt)

They do indeed define "populism" in section 2.1, rather thoroughly, as political "splitting"
(I borrow a psych term here).

It's actually filled with rather good analogies.

A keyword they use a lot is "self-destruct". And yes, giving people "what they want"
(rather than "what we all need together") is unsustainable short-termism.

Haven't time to read the full 190 pages, but my scepticism about the solidity of the
key concepts remains. For example in the methodology:

"For each of the 1,458 leaders in our sample, we assign the value of 1 if the leader is
a populist, and 0 if the leader is not a populist (non-populist)."

It's a critique of splitting that is itself predicated on a binary partition.
So how would you set a[2] = nil in any other language?

You wouldn't. You'd set it to 0 or "" or whatever.
If you take a biopsy of an inflamed part of the intestine in a person with ulcerative colitis, you can stain the cells in that sample, look at them under a microscope, and see a lot of gunk collecting around the nucleus that you don't see in the same type of cell in a healthy person. (This gunk is called p-ANCA, if you're interested in looking it up.)

If you take that gunk and analyze it with x-ray crystallography, you find that the compound in this gunk has the structure of an antibody.

I'd love to hear the intersection of Occam's razor and how you explain these findings with a theory other than autoimmune disease.
I'm a bit fuzzy, but I think Vertica allows duplicating tables stored in multiple orders - then I think the appropriate version is picked automatically by the query optimiser. So this works not that differently to an index (which is also dbms managed performance denormalization).

There's also materialized views - if you have automatic incrementally updated materialized views, which are transparently substituted into queries, that's along these lines. I think there's a lot of progress being made here, and plenty of compromises used in the field that have been in production for a long time.

I think there's some ambitious work on materialized views being done in postgres.

> It gets mentioned in the Date/Darwen books as being the right way to do things, but no actual information seems to be given.

I don't think they ever convincingly got into the details on it.
PDF (working paper version): https://s28d3fe3418cce1f4.jimcontent.com/download/version/16...
You can enforce that boundary with a walk before and after work.

Wake, coffee, walk, start work at 9. Finish at 5, put computer away, and walk for 15 min, your day is done.
No one’s stopping you from doing business. They are stopping you from using an anonymous LLC to hide assets. That’s not personal privacy.
Ad views translate to actual money??
Thank you so much. I will forever refence Germany as a company formerly part of Siemens. Everything makes so much more sense now.
I can certainly accept that for you, the real world is multiple MIDI ports in parallel. You're correct in that if everything's in parallel on as many ports as you need, that'll help a lot.

Still ain't quite DINsync or modular, but there ya go :)
This is still a thing for Japanese game shows on Youtube. (For some reason Japanese TV channels try their very hardest to prevent people from paying to watch their content if they are outside Japan.) Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApNCpZJawsw (from about 2 mins in)
On my parents' Apple TV I just added myself as a secondary user and downloaded Infuse and they have access to it through their account
Typing !g is added inconvenience on mobile