skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arg! I literally get dizzy when sites do this. When I scroll on the mouse, I seem to subconsciously move my eyes in anticipation of the text moving, and when it moves unexpectedly I get disoriented.
> fact that the results are objectively worse than Google's for the same terms

By what metric? For around a year now I use primarily DDG and I often find much better results, for both work/programming-related stuff as well as day to day stuff(assuming I enabled search in context of a country).
They also added a lot of utilities I often used in google like currency converters, calculator, date stuff, I don't know what's the last time I had to switch to google for anything really.
> An individual can independently choose to brush, floss, engage in less risky behaviors, have a good diet, maintain a health weight, etc. It's not hard.

Maybe I'm one of that percentage, but I wouldn't describe these things as not hard.

But the problem GP highlights is that of a ratchet - those changes start as choices, but then become requirements. Key example:

>> A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be

>> able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.

> Why did this person choose to move physically away from their tribe? To slave away at a job they don't care about? Would they have chosen to move away if the tech to communicate long distance didn't exist?

That's the ratchet in action. Progress in transportation at first enabled people to pursue new opportunities, new living arrangements. But as more and more people did that, everyone started relying on others being able to travel long distances fast. It became a social expectation, and a professional expectation, and that's how in a few decades, we went from cars being generally-available, to car culture, urban sprawl, hour+-long commutes, and constant gridlock. Problems we can't extricate ourselves from now.

The same mechanism is at play with every new invention. Even the humble clock is something you need to have, because you need to sync with people in time to minute precision, because everyone else has a clock and expects this too. Same with phones and bank accounts. Smartphones, Internet, credit/debit cards are just finishing this process too - arguably this is held back by the governments, who need to service everyone, including the elderly, but wait a few more decades for those elderly to die, and we'll see governments closing physical offices and removing in-person processes to cut costs, at which point smartphones (or their future equivalents) and Internet will become necessities.

Another, more controversial example: all the efforts to make women equally able to pursue careers and have equal pay - they started as clearly beneficial, offering choice to people who did not have it before. But couple decades down the line, the market adjusted to the workforce effectively doubling, and now single-income households are increasingly impossible. And so, at first, women could choose to work, but today, they have to. There is no choice anymore. This becomes a huge problem when children are in the mix, as in an average family, neither parent can become a stay-at-home one. Instead, children get sent to daycares and kindergartens, which of course cost money, further locking both parents into their jobs, and because child care facilities are group spaces, kids constantly get sick, creating huge logistics hassle for parents...

This is not to criticize women's right movements here - only to point out that the choice won was temporary, and the society/economy forcing a two-income model creates a whole set of other problems we're still figuring out how to deal with. Hopefully one of these days we'll figure out how to have equality while supporting either of the partners to be the stay-at-home one.
Individual governments as in the ruling coalitions are likely to fall. Probably in response to extreme measures they would put in place to combat climate change and massive degradation of quality of life that would follow.

I believe people will choose furthering climate change over massively lowering their standards of living. And they would be violent in these goals. So nations might stay, but they will just throw away most of actions taken.
You still haven’t answered my one question: how is this different than just increasing embedding size? I can even think of a sketch proof to show this equivalence for single heads.

The paper should have answered this question and well. It is an obvious question.

WRT FlashAttention, surely you understand that the matrix-matrix multiplication must still happen even if it’s a fused kernel that doesn’t need to hold several intermediary variables in memory.
If you're going to run the database in a background process, you may as well run MySQL or one of its derivatives, or Postgres. More concurrency.
Meta AI Just Crossed the Uncanny Valley
When does a 'visual tour' (or whatever a virtual house showing is called) become a game? Collect all the coins? Use a crowbar to break up the crates in the garage?
No reasonable scientist would have been murdering people in the 1800s...
Yes, I started to actively search for that category: People you REALLY like to spend time with, people you are happy when they write you and people that are happy when they write you: Deep connection friends, soulmate(s) (friends), "chosen family", maybe even those that would donate one of their kidneys for you!

This subjective drivel must have been written by someone who does not have those kinds of friends and does not understand them. I would categorise friends and acquaintances completely differently.

> You just like talking to them, spending time with them.

Maybe the author considers that transactional...
“What are LLMs but humans with extreme amnesia and no central coherence?”

LLMs are nothing alike to compare them with anything close to what’s going on in a brain. It’s all probabilistic and the closest comparison I can think of is comparing a bird with a plane - both fly, but well…
I'm from Poland so I'm not allowed to look at Pixel phones. Thanks Google
Yep, someone let a test page out the door in prod! B^>
DDG is perfect for most stuff, I search for. It's only when I search for technical problems like error messages, that I sometimes add !g.

But recently DDG has gotten better with this kind of searches. I don't really need Google anymore.
> This cell achieved an efficiency of 41.1% operating at a power density of 2.39 W cm–2 and an emitter temperature of 2,400 C.

At those temperatures, this is not very impressive.
There are fundamental things in which I believe, that are at times inimical to the question of money.

We are all equal, as people, and we should all have a say in our own lives, and the way that our lives are impacted by others.

We should all have the opportunity to express how these are impinged.

And we all must come to terms with that.
Are the response times from a client point of view? If they’re internal, is 225-375 standard for this kind of stack?
Exactly there I was hit so many times by not using quotes around file permissions, because 0644 is interpreted as 420 and Ansible sets the permissions to '-r---w----' instead of '-rw-r--r--'.

Here's a relevant suggestion from the Ansible docs (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/...):

For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, '644' or '1777') so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, 0755) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances.
Diogenes said that Pythagoras hated beans: “One should abstain from fava beans, since they are full of wind and take part in the soul, and if one abstains from them one’s stomach will be less noisy and one’s dreams will be less oppressive and calmer.”
Let’s just call ghosting what it really is: psychological abuse.

There’s your closure; they ghosted you because they’re abusive. Bullet dodged.
The way I think of the phenomenon, neural networks interpolate. Facts form only points in this space, while the network weights represents the patterns of the points by "curves". They are so good at it, though, that it almost seem like they remember each point.

Their ability to generalize, though, comes from representing the learning as these "curves".

Sometimes they produce generalizations that are poor or false. Even when they are false, though, they may be good.

In fact, Stephen Wolfram is claiming that when GPT-4 "halucinates" a function name for the Wolfram Language, the team often agrees with GPT-4 that precisely that call SHOULD be part of the language, so they go on and implement it AFTER it came up as a halucination.

One might (and I would) argue that this behavior is precisely what most human creativity (in technical domains) is about.
You can set a search engine from a short predefined list. If your preferred engine is Kagi or Brave Search or a myriad of others, you have to resort to trickery or extensions.
I see it was designed in conjunction with Teenage Engineering which explains the look of it. They're famous in the music world for making quirky and interesting synths and music equipment: https://teenage.engineering/

Which explains the fairly steep price, Teenage Engineering is also famous for being quite expensive.
Never really impacted me. I take my watch off when I go to bed and stick it on the charger beside my bed. Never have to think about the battery life.

I used to have a pebble watch that had 10 days battery but it would always go flat on me mid day because I didn’t have a regular charging schedule. Apple Watch has never gone flat mid day for me.
I think google search results are pretty bad these days. A lot of times the top results are pages that are ad-ridden and don’t contain the actual info I was looking for.

Granted, my metric of “good” is an unquantified and very subjective but to me both Bing and DuckDuckGo outperform google search.
The netbook wave kinda faded away, what device are you considering?
Could be a huge win for Godot.
Recording calls was possible on pretty much any Android phone until google killed the accessibility API in May 2022, since then at least Google and Samsung phones can still record calls, it's just disabled in some countries for legal reasons, but people then buy phones from other regions on ebay/other similar platforms. It's been a "thing" for years.
Not in a HN news comment, I don't have that level of dedication to this because its definitely non trivial. However you can read about them in use against the glibc allocator are here: https://github.com/DhavalKapil/heap-exploitation/blob/master...

The "house of" attack method are attacks against the allocator, its been a while since I've looked into it, I hope musl have hardened their allocator against this kind of attacks.
The parts are already made -- they just failed quality control, were old or surplus or reclaimed and got rebadged, or they were made 'off-hours' at the same factories that made the legit parts. There is little extra effort to be done besides the cheap labor it takes to run the machines/re-lable the components.
- "“The interest in protecting the safety of public employees and ensuring research that benefits the public can proceed without risk of violence clearly outweighs the public's interest in viewing said photographs,” the document says."

By that logic, wouldn't you conclude you should censor anything that causes people to protest in the streets?

I doubt this one-sided document written by attorneys representing the Univ. of California is an accurate representation of applicable law—I hope it isn't, this is just awful civics. The public-interest priorities are inverted: stuff that infuriates the public is precisely the stuff that's most strongly in the public interest to disclose.
When I sit down to do a side project these days I’ve gotten into the habit of turning on a screen recorder then just forgetting about it and cracking on with the project. Watching these recordings back at 10x speed has been fascinating to see how I work.

Most of my findings around wasted time and effort or correctness stem from design (faulty or skipping design analysis altogether and just coding). Every other aspect of coding just pales into insignificance compared to this one thing.
This just becomes interesting if electricity can be produced from reflected photons by the moon such as at night energy production is possible. Other than that I believe in fusion although the giant fusion reactor does help during the day. Instead of making photovoltaic more efficient they should do this with batteries
Why would you need numbers for right angles? You need a straight line and a string.

But I agree with the second paragraph: there's a huge difference between a procedure that is handed down as part of "this is how we estimate a building project" and a theorem that is declared universal truth and base for all kinds of other theorems. Even if they are exactly the same thing.
Yeah. Maybe it's because we use the word "train" and that conjures up a mental model of some artisan distilling his process to an an apprentice ?
Peer review has little to nothing to do with reproducibility. In fact I’d say is has absolutely nothing at all to do with it. Why? Because exactly as you say: you can get a paper “peer reviewed” despite it being totally bogus and irreproducible.

But, as you also say, it’d be a Really Good Thing if it was about reproducibility! Imagine a world where instead of some people writing an essay, their “peers” giving it meaningless comments, and some editors at a paper selecting it to be enshrined as “valid”, we totally flipped the script:

People perform a scientific observation. They record their methods and results, and put it into some freely accessible store of data regarding the question at hand. Anyone is free to consult the store for any question, and observe how many entries it has, and how their results compare. If an entry has very few results, the person consulting it with the question would be encouraged to create a reproduction of their own, and share the results they derived as a sibiling of the original paper.
As long as it doesn't end up in a flatspin an airliner should be able to pull up from a dive. For an extreme example where this was tested in practice, in the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006 incident, a pilot lost control of a 747 & ended up diving 30k feet at speeds approaching/potentially exceeding mach 1, then pulled 5 Gs leveling off at 10k feet once he regained situational awareness, & they were still able to land safely, although there was some damage

IMO the bigger problem would be needing multiple helicopters pulling together - wind or the jet's engines might pull the helicopters enough that they'd crash into each other, & you'd definitely want to start the engines before freefall..
Despite this, I still think YAML is a nice configuration language. The problem is not with YAML, it's with the whole complexity we're trying to represent there. Whatever configuration language you use, the outcome will be the same. Reduce the complexity, and it will shine.
Could you elaborate on your last sentence? My naïve assumption was that theoretically the closer to 100% you could get the better, though for some applications you might take a cheaper and lower efficiency panel if it could consistently provide more than the required energy needs. With a storage system, you can just keep adding more storage to soak up higher conversion efficiencies. What am I missing? Why does 40% make little sense?
4a 5G was my favourite phone since Nokia N9. Fast and lightweight, great photos, fingerprint reader in the back.

I switched to Pixel 7 so that my partner can get the 4a 5G to replace their aging device. But this 7 is clearly heavier and while a good device, I just don't like it quite as much.
For those of us unfamiliar with the properties of these materials, what would be considered impressive? Are there examples that are better?
Not really, no. The kernel has a certain overhead tracking pages and page tables, so adding extra memory and waiting for it to be swapped in isn't free. Plus you still have to account for the memory being used somehow. If you use cgroups - as is done most commonly - that will track the full memory allocated. Not to mention this would only solve half of the problem, you also have to think about what happens with munmap.
High teen and low twenty ... whats? Users on a single document?
The numbers are important to athletes.
I think choosing sensible place to live is best option. Low risk of being affected by storms or wild fire is good. Next to raising sea is bad. Area should have available fresh water either with lakes or plentiful ground water. For habitat itself it should not require AC and have option for biofuel heating, even if that will get banned... Some garden space might also be good idea.

Investments should avoid companies which have risks from climate change.
A New Discovery Just Upended What We Know About Stonehenge's Mysterious Origin
> A, nobody wants to murder eight cats.

Many people embrace the idea of murdering more than just eight cats and actively develop better methods to do so:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-29/feral-cat-management-...

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/felixer,-the-grooming-trap,-...

A feral cat management device that uses lasers and sensors to specifically target cats has been shown to be effective in a field trial in remote South Australia.
I agree with you that there is a lot of room for ambiguity here. I'd imagine their target are e.g. architectural studios and advertisers, but how much interactivity is too much or whether this is separated by the platform a UE project is distributed by are questions that need to be clearly answered.

The fact that, after the recent communication issues/attempt to pull the rug over the entire industry (depending on whom you ask) by Unity, Epic didn't prepare a detailed and easy to understand page explaining this topic in detail, rather announcing this in a speech, is somewhat disappointing and shows an apparent unwillingness to learn from their competitors missteps.
Some of the most annoying moments in my career were occasional coworkers who talked a lot without making a point. They just invoked topics loosely related to the problem at hand, like stories from previous jobs or what they've read on the internet about this problem, until the manager said something like "are you trying to say that..." and then formulated what they thought the point was, except that the speaker clearly never intended to say anything like that. All the other engineers in the room are giving each other side eye but the manager thinks they've just got "a valuable input".

The tactic is simply to talk relevantly until the listener fools themselves into thinking they understand you, except that "understanding" will be an illusion and 100% manager's own analytical effort. And it's honestly embarrassing how often and well that works. Quite a few of those guys were promoted first, too.

I'm pretty sure our upcoming future with AI will be like that quote from forest ranger at Yosemite National Park, on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

The whole idea of a criteria to separate humans from AI is a misconception. I think any human who confuses smooth talking with making sense will be ruthlessly exploited in relatively near future. There are humans who already do this successfully to other humans, what do you think will happen when they get to automate their efforts.
They conceived, built and delivered production units, all the while pyra has been "almost there" so I think they did OK. For a super niche product I think they did great.
Right, it's a resistor. This is a problem for airframes and wind turbine blades. Its resistance is too high to deal well with lightning. So aluminum is needed to provide a conductive path.
Usually given as example in these last weeks, always forgetting about lack of feature parity.
More a "feature", even if an erroneous feature according to the consensus rules for poker.
Only if you're primed to see that.
The Reactionary Case for Democracy
The actual reason it doesn't work for most games is that most games are free to play... and any non-trivial per-install cost makes the value proposition fall apart. If you're collecting $20 you'll take a hit, but it won't blow your business up immediately.
Canva's celebrates a decade of design innovation with the launch of Magic Studio, an AI-powered suite set to transform creativity and productivity.
ISBNs contain a check digit, to prevent typos. So you’d have to invent a new format.
It’s interesting. Creativity might not be different in effect to “adding some randomness”, but it is different in cause. If the effect is indistinguishable, this distinction may seem sentimental. But take the idea to its limit. If an A.I. told you that it loved you, that would be practically different as a mere effect of added randomness than as an expression of a cause. A piece of text stripped of human context is no different than one made by a bona-fide human. But language without human context, would not be human. Two people saying the exact same thing may have entirely different meanings. Etc. And of course, this is still extremely abstract. People aren’t “contexts”.
> The relationship between math and spirituality was very strong back then!

On Seymour Cray:

Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
Russia gets its money from selling oil and gas. Crypto is like 0.000000001% of the money that fund the war so no, it does not keep Russia going.
Because they don't care to. No seriously that's it. Lots of evidence indicating language models know when they hallucinate.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - [https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r](https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r)

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - [https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305...

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - [https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205...

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - [https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207...

TLDR; Hallucinations aren't a randomness or representation issue. The computation already knows. It just doesn't care about telling you this.
I wasn't impressed when I installed the UE developer materials and it put adware on my computer that displayed a banner on my desktop, without my permission.

And Epic went to lengths to hide this garbage on my system (a Mac) to make it a PITA to find and remove.

That is some low-rent, offensive BS. Did a quick search just now and found reports of antiviruses flagging it as malware. And oh yeah, I think it was the "Epic Games Launcher" that is in fact shitware that pollutes your system.

And the more you look into this, the more hate you find among UE users for Epic and its allegedly shady, offensive software. Very disappointing. I was truly astounded that a company at this level resorts to malware to... do what, exactly? It's mystifying that they would be stupid enough to pollute developers' systems.

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It's amusing to watch the vote count go up and down, as aggrieved devs battle shills and apologists over this issue. We were +2 a minute ago, now at zero. Who tries to bury such basic and easily verifiable assertions? Just one rant I found about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bztwxx/epic_launc...
With a picture of a flying plane side by side with a crashed plane : "ours / theirs".