skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's great to check media sensationalism, but I think there's a massive disconnect between the impacts of inflation on highly paid software engineers, and most Americans.

Thank you for saying this, it's exactly what was going through my head while reading that post.

The very idea that money problems are in people's heads, while it can be true, people are panicking not because the media told them to but because they can see for themselves that they don't make enough money.

If you've never been through it you may not understand. When we hit the recession in the early 90's my family quite literally did not make enough money to afford everything month to month (stepfather worked at a grocery store). We were slowly going into debt just to survive (bills, housing, food, gas).
Ugh, again with the “they don’t understand”.

What does it mean to understand something, even?
BigThink, ironically, is sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation.
"A single neural net policy operating directly from a camera image, trained in simulation with large scale RL, can overcome imprecise sensing and actuation to output highly precise control behavior end-to-end."

So that's what it takes. That's so much simpler than the way Boston Dynamics does it, working out all the dynamics in simulation first. It's amazing to see this done from vision to actuators in one net. It's now much less of a mystery how animals managed to evolve the ability to do that.

(I had a go at this problem years ago. I was trying to work out the dynamics from first principles, knowing it would be somewhat off. Then use some self-tuning (a predecessor to machine learning) to fine-tune the thing. Got as far as running up and downhill in 2D in the early 1990s. About one hour of compute for one second of motion.)
It's ok, we still have 40 more years to figure it out.
Majority, but not all were men?
But why care about that at all and consider it the most striking thing about the article? Even rethinking it 3 times I'm not sure what you find preciser in this, or how it is not completely irrelevant?
It would probably be worth mentioning that this is for Go in the title.
The original link was to a specific chapter:

Archaic Man — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218430/page/n1...
You can call into any Android Java API from native code using JNI. It's not exactly convenient, but you are not limited to the C APIs exposed by the NDK.
And what would it look like is something were capable of truly “understanding”?
AI drones successfully monitor crops to report the ideal time to harvest
If it were so obviously wrong, there wouldn't be so much debate over it.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/uid/FoT86R5e/
Ask HN: How to do research independently from universities and companies?
Hi,

What it takes to do recognizable research without having big names behind you (think unis or big research companies) and without prior track of publications?

If one wants to publish their results, how to make it to arXiv without endorsements?

Do someone has experience in being independent researcher?
Yeah that is basically what I was describing. I guess it wasn't as unique of idea as I thought.
Does disabling HDR solve the problem?
Considering that the construction costs are identical, there needn't be a very strong reason to do it one way vs the other. Any reason would be enough, which might include some remote possibility of a battle advantage.
Comment #16 at that eevblog link is supposedly a direct quote from the manufacturer, and it’s pretty damning.

Most panelboard manufacturers make a device that can plug in to your main electrical panel just like a breaker and is probably much more effective due to being directly attached to the bus.

(Not necessarily against EMPs. But it should do pretty well against a conducted surge due to nearby lightning or a utility switching transient. It won’t do very well if used in a non-main-panel, because they generally lack separate neutral and ground connections — a good surge protector anywhere other than a “service entrance” will separately protect line-line, line-neutral (2x), line-ground (2x), and neutral-ground, for a total of six individual transient voltage suppression devices.)
You’ve been fortunate (or far more clued in to usb standards than just about everyone) if you don’t already have multiple usb c cables with different capabilities.

It’s possible for noncompliant usb c cable to fry electronics.

I don’t know of any other connector standard where the connector doesn’t clearly indicate or imply the cable’s capabilities. I’m sure they exist, but generally for consumer electronics if a cable fits, it works. Except for usb c.
It is unfortunate that HN is not very well suited for long-running discussions. A topic mostly dies out after about a day or less. Early reactions seem to score more karma, and that probably spurs people into writing hasty replies. To most, it is not worth it to perform a couple of hours of research before writing up a good reply.

This means we have to be lucky to have some expert with current knowledge join in. Given that most people here are billionaires with a passion for dynamic typing, and not philosophers of mind, I am actually fairly surprised at the reasonable level of discussion.

Also, I doubt that referencing prior literature in the context of cognition and consciousness would be of much help. HN writes a lot of nonsense about it, but so have many professional philosophers. After sifting through all of that, one still has to add a lot of convincing arguments to advance an unpopular opinion.

A friend once suggested to build forum software that would allow discussions to reach a certain level of trustworthiness or truth. After several lengthy discussions I still doubt that such a thing is feasible. But it might spark your interest? :)
This is a great article about the technical difficulties of building a RAG system at scale from an engineering perspective. Performance is about speed and compute. A topic that is not addressed is how to evaluate a RAG system where performance is about whether the RAG system is retrieving the correct context and answering questions accurately. A RAG system should be built so that the different parts (retriever, embedder, etc) can easily be taken out and modified to improve the performance of the RAG system at answering questions accurately. Whether a RAG system is answering questions accurately should be assessed during development and then continuously monitored.
The pattern on the aluminum of the plug is also helpful in cases of predictable slot orientation (like a laptop, except a Dell Latitude from back in the day that had upright connectors on the back unless I'm misremembering). The side without the seam down the middle and instead a tiny rectangular cutout center but slightly lower than the other two cutouts, should face up. In the dark, the seam can be felt by lightly scraping with a fingernail.
Before:

* EU product 115€

* China product 100€

After:

* EU product 115€

* China product 115€

So chinese product can't just outcompete on price. And the money may actually sty in the EU.
Imo it's bc of monopoly. Imagine a world where there sre thousands of processor manufacturers, not just tsmc, samsung and ~5 more at best
I have a friend whose address is The Blue House.
USB-IF should publish a table of every possible cable/adapter/receptacle type, with a short alphanumeric code that can be printed or molded onto the connector.

The set of permutations is too large to fit into an icon, but a lookup table allows for unlimited detail.
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> Modern systems have a ridiculous amount of memory

well it depends on your definition of modern, i suppose. i run Linux on a smartphone, which is about the most modern use of Linux i can think of, and hitting that 3-4 GB RAM limit is all too easy with anything touching the web, adblocker or not.

zram isn't exactly a trump card in that kind of environment, but it certainly makes the experience of saturating the RAM a lot nicer ("hm, this application's about half as responsive as it usually is. checks ram. oh, better close some apps/tabs i don't need." -- versus the default of the system locking for a full minute until the OOMkiller finishes reaping everything under the sun).
> Android is one platform: android. I thought rust worked across multiple operating systems.

Operating systems, not architectures. You'd have to cross-compile your application 4 times if you want to support all arms and x86s.

> I think the main benefit of rust/c++/ndk on android is that I can just port desktop programs and I don't have to learn android's java/kotlin and sdk.

It's not "just" port desktop programs. Android doesn't even use glibc.
Why is this game made with Flutter? [video]
And generally, people like yourself make opposite claims with equally no backing.

What does it mean to understand something? To think? How is a human any different than predicting the next “thing” given a series of inputs?
Based. HR does not need to be that big. Yes I am a misogynist tech bro and all I see them do is email inane shit.
Yeah, disagree. I read most threads on these topics, and although I can't characterize people that don't post, I can certainly attest to the generality I'm pointing out. I haven't seen any discussions that defy it. They may exist, but they are atypical.

The idea that generalities can't be true or useful is pretty insidious, since it prevents reasoning about groups.
It's not necessarily walking, just the improvement in mobility which is one precursor to self-sufficient policing
not one of those incidents were due to reactor failure. running a reactor is complicated. operating a submarine at depths is also complicated. combining them doesn't mean either one gets less complicated. a failure of some complicated part of the submarine does not mean the power source failed. assuming they do with flippant "but subs have sunk" comments is just disingenuous at best.
Keyboard was always the one closest to the mobo, since it was there first (and was originally a larger, more robust DIN connector); the mouse piggybacked on top of that later.
We know exactly what an LLM does? How does that differ from a brain?
So it was just like the Itanic: people expected that the compiler will do the job.
It's trivially easy to build a reasoning loop using the GPT-4 API.
Only short term, as increased prices give incentives to produce things without carbon emissions.

Besides, these prices have always been there as external costs. You just never paid them. This needs to stop anyway.
hehe, right on
Sometimes you don't even need that: https://boingboing.net/2007/01/04/royal-mail-delivers.html
> As someone who would love to contribute: AGPL means nothing if I have to sign a CLA that gives you the ability to switch licenses on a whim. You will have much less contributors for this reason alone, while also scaring away customers.

but then AGPL is not the problem, CLA is, right?
> In b2b you never say no, always have an option for what they're asking and charge more for it.

This was a somewhat recent revelation for me, and it totally works.

"Well, we don't really want to work on this or agree with the approach, but pay us double our normal rate, and we'll do whatever you want."

Typically that will end the conversation, and in the rare case they do move forward, being paid handsomely is really nice
> There's going to be video-only cables

There is no such thing for USB-C.

> low-voltage only cables

As far as I know, only the amperage is negotiated; every compliant cable needs to support at least 20 V.

And even then, the minimum is also 3 A, which allows for 60 W to be carried on even the cheapest cables – enough for many use cases. I actually like having lighter and more flexible cables for most of my devices.

> The connector is symmetrical but the pins aren't. You can see a wiring scheme of how symmetry is handled [1]; literally manufactures are going to cheap out and not do that and you have 1-way USB-C cables without any kind of orientation markers.

With all the many USB-C headaches I’ve heard of (and only very rarely encountered myself), I’ve never seen that happen.

The most common problem must be using a USB 2 only cable for a use case that requires USB 3 speeds and/or video.
What part did MS steal? The pivot table concept (as in summarising data by categories of rows and similar operations) existed for a really long time, so I'm guessing you're not referring to that?
Was he legitimately elected? If so…
I didn't make any claim other than that threads on this topic systematically disregard existing knowledge and research. And also, that I don't think it's justified.
I was staying in Whitechapel, London recently. There are many religious folks there who are horrified by dogs, don't want dogs to touch them, and shun dogs and make a huge berth for them on the street and inside, like in buses.

I was on dog walk duty and always held the lead close, but I knew they were worried I wasn't so conscientious and would let my dog friend run amuk on their garments.

So I was trying to imagine an example of a creature that would horrify me similarly. Like perhaps if people had giant BEETLES as pets, and thought it was all grand, and I was like "what the FUCK are you on, my friend?", and I was pretty happy with that.

But I think a closer cut to how disconnected this is from what seems appropriate, and normal, and reassuring, would be these robots. Clearly, some people don't really understand how horrifying this is, particularly with elevator music as the background. And if you want to know how upsetting the elevator music is as a background to set tone, I strongly urge you NOT NOT NOT to google "crab club" on youtube.
Moral panic is driving it. Every time somebody manages to make AI bot say something outrage worthy, all the press is throwing a fit - how dare you, think of the children!!! And since the western culture is ruled by concern-trolling vocal minorities now, corporates predictably kowtow. Nobody wants to be canceled, or paraded before Congress as somebody who let the evil robots destroy our children for profits.

SV has nothing to do with starting it though, they just follow. Look at your newspaper, college campus and talk show to find the leaders and the fanners of the flames.
What could be more prepping than building a whole stone castle? It’s the historical equivalent of a bunker for most part of modern (and ancient) history
So then what is the advantage of using a signed type in this case?

And C++20 already standardized it I know that I already acknowledged this.

Should I go back and rewrite all the old correct code so you feel better?
Hello, I'm the writer of the article. Our solution gets videos from random people who present products we sent them. We get dodgy videos filmed on bad devices, and the process of contacting the user and getting him to re-upload another video in better quality is time-consuming for our team. We'd rather spend a little bit more in computing to try and save time overall. I hope this answers your question.
It happens on both sides in equal measure.
I had a variant of that for covid. The contagion curve plotted daily rates even taking into account people knowing about the contagion curve.
The post you responded to doesn't agree with your definition of what copyright is for.

The post claims that its about allowing the author to profit from it. Mere reproduction doesn't stop them, till you try to sell at some scale. It's the equivalent of asking your friend to draw you something.

Now, you're free to disagree. But if you're just stating a different definition, you're not engaging in a rebuttal, just an ignor-al.
Freesco! I'd forgotten about it completely. It was user friendly, menu driven.
A project or a running product that I'm paying for?

For the purposes of discussion, I'll agree regardless. For every product I have ever bought, I'll gladly stick my head in the sand and assume the existing employees can take over in the event a person disappears. I can't do that if it's one person.
Ah, ok. The numbers are nowhere near that close. If anyone looked more closely, I think they'd see the spending as legitimate. I did some research after you mentioned the term, and "credit cycling" is different from my scenario, I think. There is an element of intentionality to it, ala /r/churning.
How is this in any way some retort to the claim that LLMs don’t understand something?

I could ask the same questions to a child, and they’d respond with equally bad takes. Is the child incapable of understanding ?
By "irrespective of their relevance to the language modeling task", the authors mean that the semantic meaning of the tokens is not important. These 4 tokens can be completely replaced by newlines (i.e. tokens with no semantic meaning), and the perplexity as measured on a book of 65k tokens is nearly unaffected.

The clue is really that these tokens are just used to "offload" attention scores - their semantic meaning is irrelevant.
"Ajay Bhatt, widely considered the inventor of USB..."

Interesting. I had been told long ago that my fellow-Inmosian Dave Wooten was instrumental. And sure enough:

"David was principal architect for USB 1.0, USB 1.1, and USB 2.0."

from https://ece.ncsu.edu/honor/david-wooten/
USB-C problems surely exist, but I have never heard of single-side only plugs, and video-only cables simply don’t exist, yet these are GPs specific concerns.
That just shows that parroting will solve a number of problems that require reasoning, that is "reasoning" as we think of it can be reduced to a statistical process.

Kids parrot their parents before they understand the meaning of what they are doing or saying. Meaning arises from a much more complex process than seeing/repeating. I think the same will be true with LLMs. True reasoning capabilities will be another revolution entirely.

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This just occurred to me; LLM's have a cargo cult level understanding of anything they've been trained on. Correct answers are actually statistical flukes -- purposeful because that's how we trained the models -- but not actually significant in terms of reasoning.
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The problem with USB-a isn't that it's non reversible, it's that it's non-reversible _and_ rectangular, so it's not clear at a glance which way round it should go.

All they had to do was make the connector have a non-symmetrical shape so that it's immediately obvious which way round it goes when you pick it up - you could do it without even looking. Think of how much time we'd have collectively saved with this minor design change.
What does it mean to understand?
What if the 30 percent are more close in region or time?
That is exactly correct
How does one decide which of these modules shouls be fine tuned for different tasks?
Somehow not surprised to see that this links to a post by the same author shaking his fist at top-posting[1].

Is the topic still contested? In business email, top posting seems to have completely won. Are there any pre-eternal-September warriors still sticking Emily-Post-like to their 1992-era netiquette standards in the face of modernity?

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TopPostingReal...
Those connectors are good for one connection and no disconnections.
Testing is hard.
I had the same issue 20 years ago with signal 11 on high load on a 486. Eventually it was fixed with a kernel update.
And so, what do you think reasoning is? Or how would you know if something can reason or not ?
I do not think that answer would correctly solve the original riddle. The LLM blindly just gave an answer without raising the question of which pair of objects together would be a problem if left alone.
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ChatGPT will happily tell you it doesn't know anything after January 2022, and it'll say "jdnrirmd-gurlksjd" is not a recognizable term, instead of trying to bullshit a definition of that, if that's your bar for "understanding",
What do you think happened here? To me it reads like there was an issue, the the issue was identified in a preemptive maintenance program and got fixed. The regulator's [0] complaint seems to be the operator may have been able to detect the problem sooner.

The sounds acceptable. We're not able to run any piece of gear without the occasional failure - the argument with nuclear is a failure scenario appears to be about as damaging as the business-as-usual so all y'all be mad for putting so much effort into preventing it that nuclear became uneconomic.

Uneconomic because finding and fixing a crack in a pipe in the backup system is 4-on-a-5-tier system of regulatory response and has people talking about delicensing the operator.

[0] Oh wait I know this regulator. The dude who is in charge has a B. Arts in Religious Studies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_T._Hanson - which isn't a problem in itself but I felt it was apart of a pattern when it came to heads of the regulator. Their backgrounds didn't inspire my confidence.
Ok, I was not aware of that.

Well, I don't know of any Software Engineering degrees. IMO software engineering requires basics of computer science (which you acquire by graduating in computer science). Then it requires a lot of experience (which is why I find it ridiculous when people become architects after 3 years in the industry).

I see many "software engineers" who did not study computer science, and honestly many times they lack computer science knowledge, which makes their intuition a bit less valuable than a CS intuition (given the same amount of experience).
What would you recommend using as an alternative to being locked into AWS?
I'm happy to be on the agnostic front.

A colleague at my first job was working on some software that wrapped around other software, and he dubbed it "Burrito". When his project turned out not to be as useful as expected, he was pleasantly surprised that he could also use the original meaning of the word burrito, being "little donkey" in Spanish [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrito
If you add “This generation of” to the beginning of all of this research on existing LLMs you’ll have a clearer understanding.

Like all young technologies it’s a constant failure in so many important ways, and will continue to be until it’s not or another superior model built on what we’ve learned replaces it.

But the important thing to remember is that this process is fairly standard for any technology innovation wave.

They suck at the beginning and take a longer time to mature than people realize even while they’re going through them. The early Internet was mindblowingly amateur. Early cell phones were basically pager quality and the smart phone revolution started with things like palm pilots that couldn’t even connect to one another or barely could.

You have to look at LLMs as cell phones from 1991 or maybe 1993, and when you do you realize how freekin’ crazy these technology direction could be.

This generation of LLMs are simply designed to regurgitate information in a coherent fashion, not be right about the information or maintain consistency (they literally dont have the memory capacity — it’s just like early computers were lol).

People are poor predictors of technology progress because they tend to extend current reality forward and don’t realize that technology works in leaps and bounds and isn’t linearly predictable with any substantive reliability either.
Good grief.

So what is thinking, then? Can you prove that humans aren’t just predicting what comes next given a series of inputs ?