skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Weird thing is it was designed to model language. It’s surprising that it returns sound answers as often as it does.

Is this surprising? Can you point to researchers in the field being “surprised” by LLMs returning sound answers?

> “surprising”, i.e. we don’t really know what happened.

This ie reads like a sort of popsci conclusion.

We know exactly what happened. We programmed it to perform these calculations. It’s actually rather straightforward elementary mathematics.

But, what happens is so many interdependent calculations grow the complexity of the problem until we are unable to hold it in it our minds, and to analyze its decisions computationally necessitates similar levels of computation for each decision being made as what was used to compute the weights.

As for its effectiveness, familiarity with the field of computational complexity points to high dimensional polynomial optimization problems being broadly universal solvers.
What you said is definitely true. But in my system the videos are resized and converted into RAW format which I then extract color information from at different pixel locations, so it wouldn't really matter if it's an exe file or something else - it's only going to extract the binary data as color information to be used in other ways, and the converted files are never served. I doubt there's too much risk involved with my project using it in this way, but in other projects I'm sure it could be a security risk.
I don't think the rage is totally uncalled for. A 15 minute standup on a 5 person team is actually over a full hour lost. Put another way, a company with 50 engineers doing 15 minute standup every day is over 400 work days of lost productivity each year - basically 2 engineers extra.

Assuming that stand-ups result in increased productivity, and that's a big assumption (likely exactly the opposite to the reality), have you really tallied up how much it's making vs how much it's costing?

It certainly makes me mad.
What does it mean to go Haymaker on you, am I up against the Amish? That being said I've seen agile fail so hard in so many ways. Currently I'm dealing with incomponent people trying to design and assign tasks.
That is a reason why they can do that: they monopol the whole category of websites with videos SFW. Being monopol and doing things by your rules is bringing up other people's interests making another platform that fills the gap the youtube doesn't have.

I don't know whether someone is planning to open a platform or at least has an idea: but it wouldn't be a bad move at all.
You can think of it like the style attribute, but with support for CSS media queries, pseudo classes, variables and everything else. If the style attribute let you do that from the beginning of the web, would we have ever felt the need for separate stylesheets? Web development might have turned out quite different.
Microsoft has actually been relatively good about making their abandonware source-available, especially if it's historically important like Infocom stuff is.
That's a hardware, not a software difference.

With the exception of bus speeds / timings and the differently sized prefetch queue, the 8088 and 8086 are 100% software-compatible so there wouldn't need to be any difference in the BIOS.
This is super interesting! I was thinking about how to approach a similar problem for a project I'm working on, and my approach is similar.

I am curious about the benefit of having the agent interact with the user (or doing the task) and managing its memory instead of having an observer agent that modifies the memory separately. The thought process is to let the agent use all of its tokens to focus on the task and not memory management.
The adult person under investigation has been named by the media. There is also a 16-year-old, who is too young to be publicly identified.
What if the whole business was just a scam and this was his way of winding it down?
start here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ffmpeg.wasm/main
>> the ethical and artistic arguments

>Those are all baloney. Doing what I suggest does not destroy the originals in any way. It's simply making the movies more enjoyable. Apparently, a lot of purists want people to suffer watching them: suffer with grainy, blotchy film, difficult to make out flickering black & white, and bad piano music.

I think there's 2 separate issues actually: there's the "artist's intent", and then there's refusal to utilize any modern technology. The latter I agree is baloney: if you can use modern technology to clean up and improve old stuff (such as taking an original Star Wars film print and removing the scratches in the film, improving flaws in the FX, etc.), I think it's ridiculous to argue against that kind of thing. Then there's the artist's intent: if the original artist intended that the movie have "bad piano music" as you call it, should you be changing that? It's like changing the dialog in Lord of the Rings so the characters all talk like modern American hipsters: how is this helpful? These movies are a product of their time, and the music is too.

If you could bring the original artists back from the dead, and ask them if they'd like to use modern technology to clean up their old silent movies to sharpen them, remove the noise, etc., I'm sure they'd agree: why wouldn't they want the print to look as good as possible? If you ask them about colorizing, there might be some debate; some might like it, others might not. It's not like they had a choice back then, but even today some people like B&W photos for artistic reasons. If you ask them about adding modern music, I don't think they'd like that much at all.
It is for anyone whose glasses get broken while they are out and about and don't have a spare pair.
The Reuters article[0] includes this tidbit:

> After taking the company private, Musk said in a post that "removing child exploitation is priority #1". But the Australian regulator said that when it asked X how it prevented child grooming on the platform, X responded that it was "not a service used by large numbers of young people".

A social network used by hundreds of millions of people, certainly including people under 18 (who it allows to sign up), should probably have a plan for fighting grooming.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-fines-musks-x-p...
> Em dashes are also used for attribution after a quote

I believe the correct code point for quotation attribution is U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR:

> The Unicode standard introduced a separate character U+2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR to be used as a quotation dash. It may be the same length as an em-dash, which is often used instead. Some software will insert a line break after an em-dash, but not after a quotation dash.

― https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_das...
It's interesting to note how short a time it took, after the rise of social-media business as a for-profit enabler and cultivator of on-line resentments and madness, for dire social upheaval to be the new normal.
>> the ethical and artistic arguments

> ... Apparently, a lot of purists want people to suffer watching them

The tech and information of the time is worth preserving, as is the experience. I, for one, enjoy seeing the original, more analog versions of things. I cringe inside when I watch much of ML filtered or otherwise artificially colorized footage. Many films were shot with the intent of leveraging the strengths of the medium. Limitation often promotes its own form of innovation which can only be recognized in the context it was created in.

Saying that purists want people to suffer is quite misleading. A similar statement in the other direction might be, ML enthusiasts want people to forget what art actually is.

Ever listen to a Gregorian chant? They are cool, partially because they had no idea what they were (musically) doing... much like the product of an ML model today.
I mean, your app is making use of either scraping or using an API that's not yours. You may own the app but there's not much of value you can copyright. I wouldn't feel entitled to royalties becsuse you're not getting royalties to begin with.

But for BOTD: tech workers tend to get paid well to deliver one specific project so the industry doesn't have as strong demand for royalties as art. Especially since tech isn't necessarily creating art itself but implementing other's creations. It's a bit different compared to an artist who makes a popular character and that character is being used decades later to sell plushies. Or a writer who's book is turned into a billion dollar franchise. The worst thing you can sell as an artist is your entire creative IP but that's unfortunately common in industries like animation or publishing.
i also love this 1 hour "philosophy" drum lesson/talk by jim chapin about the moeller technique (a technique which is about harnessing the physics of the stick and rebound and making it work for you):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNBn8lnisL4
Does this mean that the age of conspiracies is over, or just beginning?

In the original X-Files the little group of hackers was framed as an eccentric and motley crew of misfits. And in terms of conspiratorial thought in the past (or at least the perception of it), that wasn't entirely inaccurate. But now? Decades of lies, conspiracies, and misdeeds have created the scenario you're alluding to. Public trust in the government peaked in the JFK era, at 77%. Today? It's at 16% [1] and trending to the single digits.

The overwhelming majority no longer trust by default, but this doesn't mean they have no opinion on what the truth may be.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/public-trust...
I think this is also interesting in the direction of the OP's opinion. The new Zelda, for all its AAA chops, has in its main storyline the writing and directing of a bafflingly terrible anime. Incongruously, the story concept itself is compelling, and the scriptwriting for the game's many side characters is verbose (conventionally for Zelda) but otherwise cromulent.

I kind of wonder if something internal happened that the original article is describing. Side NPCs are designed by game designers, so probably written by them or people close to them. The game's concept is probably worked on closely with the top people in charge. But for the main story's execution, one might imagine there's no organizational requirement that the guys in charge have to have a clue how to write or direct a game or even any clue how to write or direct at all.
> The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS/2 line (April 1987)

That doesn't sound right to me. I recall growing up with friends who had 8086 PCs, bought prior to 1987.
Do I detect some Aussie tongue in cheek here...

"Mr Renwick was quick to protest his innocence. “You’ve got the wrong feller,” he told reporters."
Is the format in which it is written into the glass also sustainable?
For self hosting a NAS, I find Cockpit to be leagues better than OMV.
> I'd imagine in the future there will be many AI agents that can help to summarize the many viewpoints. Just like anything, don't trust any one of them in isolation, consider many sources, and we'll be fine.

It would be promising if there were any formal theories proposing any such methods of verification. However, I'm presently aware of none.

Instead, we see AI detection methods failing and AI cyber defense failing at present.

“As cybercriminals are turning to AI to create more advanced malicious tools, a separate report by the web security company Immunefi said cybersecurity experts are not having much luck with using AI to fight cybercrime”

https://decrypt.co/150899/wormgpt-fraudgpt-ai-hackers-phishi...

I will have a different opinion when we see some real solutions being proposed or implemented. If you have some references in that regard, let me know.
I'm sure there's an Emacs that does but the canonical emacs? I doubt that would even run on a 286, much less an 8088...
EV's are only quieter inside of the car, at speed they're just as loud as ICE cars, sometimes louder. [0]

If we're going to reduce car noise, the only option is to make them go slower and move them away from residential areas.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
AI is need of the hour in implementing philosophy of fail fast, fail forward. Great to see such products.
It's not that hard to write a BASIC interpreter.
When you buy it they send you an archive that has the schematics for the machine, and a zip file that contains the source code to the rom with whatever modifications they made.
From the description of the remastered movie:

According to Mark Twain researcher Robert Slotta, who has studied the origins of this film for several years, it all began as a simple intro to a feature film Thomas Edison wanted to make based on Twain's 1881 novel, "The Prince and the Pauper" (published in America 1882). Twain reluctantly agreed as long as the material was never used for any other purpose. The intro consisted an edited version of the first three scenes of this film. Scenes included: Twain standing in the doorway, the walk around the house, and the second walk around was another "take" to cover a late camera start on the part of the cinematographer.

Since there was still unexposed film left over, it was at the film crew’s urging that the scenes with Twain and his daughters, Clara and Jean, be photographed as a gift with the promise that footage was strictly for their own private enjoyment.
haymaker (noun) a powerful blow with the fist.

etymology: "the punch probably so called for resemblance to the wide swinging stroke of a scythe"
Oh, so you don't think I have enough information about Russia to form an opinion? lol, you really do work for Putin, you've removed all doubt.

FUCK RUSSIA.
THe accessibility is way higher.

Like if everyone all of a sudden had access to bio weapons and missiles... our Gov would be a lot more scared than it is today.
I mean it doesn’t really matter. They could use simple public Wi-Fi that’s unencrypted and it would be fine.

Apple already covers the entire boot process and all the OS updates with digital signatures. They can be absolutely sure that no one has tampered with the download and that it was produced by Apple.

They don’t really need a special iPad serving the update to make it secure.

(of course none of this applies if someone figured out how to break digital signatures, but if they did we’re all screwed anyway)
Love it-- but since I'm not using systemd, it's a no-go. Would love to see it support more diverse systems, but last I checked it's pretty tightly coupled and I'm not sure who would have the bandwidth to adapt it.
aren't they the largest shareholders in 90% of companies but actually own maybe 20% of the total stock market? i don't recall the latest number but it should be around that
I just got done reading Sid Meier's Memoir! He also touts the importance of being a generalist. You can have programming as your primary expertise, but you should have a bare minimal competence in both audio and graphics. On a number of occasions, he'd have a vision for one aspect of his game that the whole team was against, and the way he would convince them would be to make a working prototype of that feature. The audio/graphics would be poor, but they needed to be good enough to demonstrate it and have his team members play.

He could get underlings to execute on his vision, but he felt that if they didn't believe in it, they likely would put a lot less effort than he would.
Not surprised, took them 25 years to add a zoom feature, from their wikipedia page:

"zoom capability is expected in the Summer 2023 release of LabVIEW. Since adding the undo feature in LabVIEW 5.0 (May 1998), zoom has been the most requested feature"
It will run MicroEmacs :-)
This is interesting. Can you expand on how this gets around the context window problem? Are you thinking the agent does a one-off task rather than continuing back and forth with the user?

I do think this will be way less than having all of the functions listed to begin with though. I think the discoverability is a novel approach. Honestly, I'm surprised ChatGPT with plugins doesn't do something like this by default rather than making you pick which plugins you want at the beginning of the conversation.
Does this actually charge the phone wirelessly via Qi/Magsafe in order to do so, or does it rely on the phone being precharged to 80% or however they come from the factory?

And if it does charge wirelessly, does that mean they have to move the phone's position specifically to the bottom of the packaging to be close enough to the charging surface? Or is there some fancy tech that can charge via Qi from a couple inches away?
Someone could take this and try to make it ROM-able in order to "complete" the BIOS:

https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
>That's one way of writing a web service. It's not the only or even "normal" way - IME it's much more common to have the database act as a dumb CRUD key/value store, and put logic in the application layer (indeed many web services use a pure key/value store rather than a "database" as such).

Wrong. The normal way is SQL. Web applications are suppose to be written in ways as nonblocking as possible. As much logic that can be pushed to the database as possible. That is the way to go. This reduces round trip time by a huge amount.

The pure key/value store is non-standard, but it is a way to do it. Not the traditional way and not the majority way either. Many of the major web application frameworks assume SQL as the underlying database not mongo or some other key value db.

>You're right that if your logic is in the database, and it's an ACID-style "mutate the current state of the world" database then you can't really use pure functional techniques. The only solution to that is to not do that.

Not only am I right. It's the main way things are done on the web. The functional layer is largely just code generation: Pure Functions with http requests as input and SQL code as output. This is the core model.
The whole separating markup from presentation doesn't quite work for any non trivial web-app type of webpage.

Because the presentation affects markup. You'll have to add wrapping divs to accomplish any kind of complex layout for example.

Once you can't separate it in your mental space, it doesn't matter that its in two different files.
It's like their primary goal is to dump their opinion-drama on their seemingly captive audience, and any actual 'content' is far secondary to first-order-thinking-limited outrage.

Fuck all of them, and fuck the average human's susceptibility to being brain-hacked like that.

(Yes, there's plenty of good content and presenters out there, but there's about 1000x more dressed-up trash that also seem to have an unexplainable gazillion-and-one appropriately named "followers").
MicroEmacs doesn't include a Lisp interpreter.
> Or do I need to provide that graph to this function?

You need to do that, and the math can help you measure how much each arrow contributes. The idea that you need to provide your model of the world is strangely not a key part of most introductions, but it’s crucial.

> outdoor temperatures and ice cream sales

That’s too simple: a simple regression can handle that. Causal inference can handle cases with three variables, assuming you provide an interaction graph. Say: your ice cream truck goes either to a fancy neighborhood or a working-class plaza. After observing the weather, you decide where to go, so know that wealth and weather influence sales, but sales can’t influence the other two. Assuming you have data all for cases (sunny/poor, sunny/rich, rainy/poor, rainy/rich), then you can separate the two effects.
I'm working on this right now actually!

here's a screenshot https://imgur.com/a/a1S2Mb0.png

it will be part of https://cosmictrip.space when it is done, hopefully soon!

GPT-4 generates the games themselves, the turns as well as optional action butons, and also generates DALL-E image prompts for each turn. DALL-E generates just based on the current turn right now but I'm working on adding context.
A one-click AI room design tool that's partnering with Amazon, helping people to save time and money dealing with home design and the process of buying furniture.

How? Simply capture a room and select your desired settings to generate multiple interior design ideas. The best part? You can instantly purchase the furniture featured in each design via Amazon.
Explicit memory management (MemGPT-style) vs implicit/external memory management is an interesting tradeoff. Like you said, adding all the instructions on how to manage memory consumes ~1k tokens (using the default prompts on our MemGPT GitHub release), which is a lot when your context window is 8k. Additionally, it requires the base LLM to be very good at instruction following; gpt-4 can do it well, but it's much more difficult to get explicit memory management to work with gpt-3.5-turbo or llama2 70b finetunes (so to build a robust system, you may have to end up having to "split" the thinking out of necessity).

One of the main benefits of explicit memory management is simplicity - e.g., you don't have to manage logic between a "memory creation" thread and a "dialogue thread". The explicit approach also integrates well with the iterative paging/retrieval for document analysis we demo in the paper/on GitHub.
US must be ready for simultaneous wars with China, Russia, report says
This is a fascinating approach! I posted this as a separate comment but would be curious about your response directly.

What do you think about the tradeoff of having an agent manage its own memory as opposed to having a separate agent whose job it is to manage the memory and the other agent just focuses on the conversation?
…?

I must be misunderstanding you.

I can't get ISO-8601 dates to work properly in Excel unless I set my Windows to Australia locale, or make my own parser or use a third-party library.

Sure, I can format a field^Wcell with a custom format string, but Excel still won't believe me when I type/paste/import ISO-8601 dates. Unless I set 'Australia' systemwide.

And no, simply adding English (Australia) as one of the additional system languages, or keyboard layouts (and switching to that layout), or number+date+currency formats doesn't work.
How does gravitational drag affect the glass over time?

Obviously they'd look into this but, it's important if I were going to have confidence in such long term storage.
> And that's ignoring all the retros that result in nothing, and grooming the backlog that we'll never clear and Christ, just stop.

This is the issue right here. If you're doing these tasks with no quantifiable benefit (useful retro outcomes, better understood backlog, ...) then sure, there is no use in continuing them. However, just because some teams fail at these tasks doesn't mean the tasks themselves are useless.
Thanks for your interest! Left a comment on the other thread
It has certainly been an extreme accelerant.

Although, I believe it is the structure of social media itself contains inherent problems beyond profit motives and algorithms.

More detail here FYI

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/uniform-thought-machines
Means dropping haymakers or swinging his hardest with each punch. No jabs, no uppercuts, just pure power generated from the hatred of the agile stand up meetings. More than likely a fellow Gen Xer who grew up playing punch out and watching Mike Tyson fight.
Please don't use HN for ideological or nationalistic battle, no matter wrong others are or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They’re not protected—they’re made to pay to keep the work out of public domain. The deepest pockets will likely pay the most.
I always love to find/know there are others in the tech world that care about the nuance around evaluation math and not just benchmarks. Often it feels like I'm alone. So thank you!
>fighting brutal wars over whose imaginary god is correct.

Especially when they're the same imaginary god[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions