skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know anyone was even suspicious of the reversal "curse". I thought it went viral more because people were surprised anyone was surprised and the tweet was highly sensationalized. It feels more like the __expected__ results considering both speech patter bias __and__ that "causal" attention is sequentially biased. Hell, we saw the same things in RNNs, we see it in classic autoregressive models, and so on. But it definitely isn't how humans encode information because if you had all 3 pieces of knowledge (you know who Tom Cruse is, you know who Mary Pfieffer is, and you know the relation between Mary and Tom is mom/son) then your ability to recall is (nearly) invariant to the ordering. Hell, we're so robust you can caveman speak like "Mary Pfieffer son who!" and still get the answer or caveman yoda speak "Who Mary Pfieffer son is?" Some languages even have these orderings but we're impressively robust (enough that I think we trick ourselves a lot when subtlety comes into play. AKA overfitting).

So I find it weird to call this "a feature" and also act like this is surprising.

But can I also take a minute to just say I really hate GPT experiments? They're performed on a stochastic model, with proprietary weights, proprietary training data, proprietary training methods, and above all is constantly changing and at a rather fast pace. It makes for a very non-scientific process as you can't decouple a lot of important factors and reproduction is a crap shoot. It is not a very good way to go about studying "how __LLMs__ work" and is rather "how does GPT work at this particular moment in time and aggregating all these unknowns?" There's some bitter sweetness because I do like that GPT is free but it feels like a major edge that they have is that the community just does a lot of free research for them and in ways where they can better interpret results than the people who performed the experiments in the first place. I really do believe that academic works shouldn't be focusing on proprietary and dynamic methods. It's fine to include them in results (and preferably added post review to avoid identity spoilage (or we openly acknowledge that double blind is a joke)) but I'd rather most researchers focusing on the general concepts and with the ability to dive down the rabbit hole than playing a wack-a-mole game.

Also, I'd totally love it if more research papers were instead blog posts. Kudos to anyone posting their research on blogs, academic or not (I don't care about your creds, your real creds are your work). Papers are about communicating with fellow scientists, right? Why do we need journals and conferences these days?
> Is it even possible to design a cpu with out-of-order and speculative execution that would have no security issue?

Yes, of course. But we'd have to put actual effort in, and realistically people wouldn't pay enough extra to make it worthwhile.
> Interestingly, telling GPT you appreciate it

I don't want to live in a world where I have to make a computer feel good for it to be useful. Is this really what people thought AI should be like?
Local and state funding of education is much higher than federal funding.
Point of order: normal hybrids are not overcomplicated and they're a very mature technology that works great.
Maybe you could expand a bit on how this relates to the parent comment, because it's not obvious to me.
> if I have to see ads I prefer ones relevant to me over ones that are completely irrelevant.

You don't have to see ads.

But if you do, I don't see why you'd prefer the ads to be specifically optimised to trick you into doing something you weren't already going to do.

It's not just a question of what things are being advertised, but also how they're framing it.
The issue is always going to be verification and reproducibility with LLMs
Relatively crappy pay, complex toolchains, long build times, layer upon layer of (really bad) legacy code, badly specified (if they're specified) protocols between subsystems, subsystems that are completely opaque (no source code provided), homegrown OS's or older RTOS's, subset-of-C to keep it safe(r), tricky debugging environments and if you're really unlucky anemic hardware.

I hope I didn't miss anything but I wouldn't be surprised if I did.
Is it not literally the same on a type system level? Of course it could be very different from a user-perspective, as the ratio of `dynamic` will be very low in case of C#.
I have thought about that balance. I usually strive to find the shortcuts, the ones that cut the time and steps and produce a result that is maybe 90 percent of perfect. For example, what is the shortest time to make pizza dough? According to many recipes you should start the day before. But what if I realize in the afternoon that I want to have pizza tonight? I have tried one hour of rising, and while that has worked, I think it is not close enough for the "right" balance. But I will continue to experiment.
Have you read what you linked to, while trying to have a skeptical eye? That article, especially when you're claiming others are fanatics, is not something you probably want to link to.

"The number of deaths for every 1000TWh of energy generated by rooftop solar panels is 440. Put simply, this means that for every 1000TWh of energy produced via rooftop solar power, 440 people lose their lives. Other estimates [obfuscated hyperlink to a Forbes page] place this number to be around 150. These deaths are mostly the result of electrocution and other hazards that occur during rooftop solar panel installation (such as falling)."

So they're not happy with the official statistics bureau that is Forbes and chose to stick with their uncited 440. It sounds made up to me. Searching for that exact datum actually yielded the original source [1], and yeah - it's made up. It's from a 2008 article where some guy just started hand-waving hard in a not entirely coherent fashion.

A quick search for something more reasonable turns up this. [2] The data comes from multiple studies and the UN Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. Wind/Nuclear/Solar all have pretty much the same mortality rate: 0.04/0.03/0.02 per unit of electricity, respectively. If I want to be disingenuous I can claim [accurately] that nuclear is 50% deadlier than solar (and obviously many many magnitudes deadlier per installation), but the numbers in terms of energy/watt are low enough to be irrelevant.

[1] - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...

[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
Yes! Thank you. I've been thinking about scratching this itch myself but it turns out you did already.

In particular the shape of the survival curve interests me -- you hear so many things about exponential here, bathtub there, but ver little data. I will read once I have a spare moment.
Any particular reason US citizens are having so many fatal injuries at a young age though?

Is the accident rate higher than (say) Canada and Australia, or is the prognosis for recovery after an injury so much worse?

Here in Australia in my youth we jumped out of aircraft and helicopters, from one moving vehicle into another on dirt roads, jumped 40 ft off of deep water jetties into shark infested waters, climbed into crushers on mine sites to unbog them, washed live HV power lines in faraday suits risking jump over, played with snakes, ... all the fun stuff and despite that my generation has 10 years greater life expectancy from birth than my US cohort generation.
Perhaps have a look at this famous syllogism instead:

(1) Mortal was Socrates.

(2) All humans are mortal.

(3) Therefor all humans are Socrates.
A lot of it is global warming. Nature preserves, untouched by civilization are also experiencing the same declines.
None of that seems upsetting to me at all. Even if it's advertising, even if it's about stuff that's political, even if it's aimed at causes I dislike.
3D human digitization from a single image [video]
> It gets rude when people start subtly shaming you for not working on things.

Seems like OP perceived shame by being asked this, though. -- Why would anyone ask "what's the status of this project?" (or however politely you want to phrase it) if the project were clearly being maintained? There's at least a meta-message of "you're not working on this enough", even without otherwise being hostile/rude.

I'm reminded of the "ask vs guess culture" differences.

But as you say, users aren't owed reliability. Perhaps a better interaction would have been "Is this dead?" "I haven't been working on it. I hope to work on it soon, though. But, I would rather not have to deal with PRs from others".

Still, I think it'd be better if people didn't have to walk on eggshells when making interactions; and to reserve accusations of rudeness for more overt or persistent badgering.
That’s all well and good, but I think that was the consensus leading up to the report? Then there’s the “it takes X months for new rates to ripple through the economy” thing.
>a release three months ago

Calling that 'dead' and demanding status updates is the overreaction here. Unless you're paying this person to work on it full-time.

One of the bits of software I use has an update as recently as 2019, and before that 2015 and two 2013. It's clearly still relatively active. For software released in its current form in 1997, after being ported from an older version.

Even if modern software might sometimes need more frequent updates, it's still pretty demanding to insinuate death and demand status notes from an open-source maintainer just because they're not moving quick enough for you.
All of their content is on a totally isolated platform like Netflix or YouTube Red.

The law binds the out group to profit the in group.
Lessons to be learned from the oldest community psychiatric service in the world
I mean it’s brilliant in one sense, but when you’re too on-the-nose about it people are likely to see your scheme for what it is. Invoking children, money launderers, terrorists, or drug dealers is a red flag.

I feel the Bush era made people cynical and suspicious of such bills in particular. What with the
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act. Also the “Coalition of the willing” and “You Are Either With Us, Or With the Terrorists”. After seeing such sophistry result in over a million people dying, I am fairly hostile towards politicians that engage in such demagoguery. But hey, I guess it does work, especially as people forget the last demagogue.
Hahaha are you fucking serious? I can't read your blog because I use edge on my phone? Get over yourself!
This is what Reddit has become.
I’m not at all a car guy, but it’s possible that I follow EV-related tech more than the average car buyer. I thought it was fairly common knowledge that PHEVs will often engage the combustion engine, particularly at high speeds or under high acceleration (or even to prevent the gas in the tank from getting too old). I’ve never owned a PHEV but I always conceptualized it as an exaggerated version of the auto stop/start that most modern gas cars have, where you don’t really have direct control over the gas engine usage.
http://archive.today/8vWvv
So all this Simpsons Moments (Homer pushing a button where nuclear waste sprays on fields etc...) were actually references to Silkwood?
Games have AAA, autos have FFF
I wasn't aware of 800G/1TB networking before.

Very strange world that transferring data between servers is 2x as fast as reading from a PCI bus.
ClickHouse Release 23.10
Quantized Inertia is proven when the Barry-1 satellite[1] successfully shifts its orbit using a purely electric thruster (i.e. no propellant)

The laws of physics get re-written a bit, and Mike McCulloch starts looking like he'll get a Nobel prize out of it.

[1] https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/QDDY-8878-5291-1819-3935#ma...
> The author isn't a professional programmer.

The author asserts that he is a professional programmer as one of his day jobs, as well as handling the “serious programming” in his hobby projects with a mostly-hardware guy who is also an ex-professional-programmer, but whose coding skills are out-of-date.

His LinkedIn has nothing more current than Jan 2017 at Genius, and that role (one of only two jobs with what looks like an IC-like title, “Developer”, that lasted more than a couple months), has a description that indicates it wasn't mostly an IC position but drifting among recruiting, acting product lead, PM, and something like an assistant to the CEO roles.

He really has a resume that screams of having decent communications skills and professional network (and maybe manangement skills) and wanting to be seen as a programmer but consistently either needing to find a way out of an environment or into a different role in the same org before the checks his communications skills wrote that his tech skills couldn't back caught up to him.
FWIW in two years of ownership we have never seen the touchscreen reboot while driving.
There are still some vehicle classes that don’t have a lot of full BEV options. We wanted a small SUV (which, I know), and the BEV choices as far as I was aware were a $75k Tesla or a $100k Rivian. Kia and Nissan had PHEV SUVs, and Chrysler had a PHEV minivan. All were only available in the more expensive trims, but they were still much more affordable.
The only way to win tic-tac-toe consistently is with a double gambit (which the starting player gets an advantage on). E.G. something like:

X_X
_O_
X_O

Problem is, as soon as the other player knows this, every game will end in a draw as they will play to block versus win.
Count me in as a second to the question from rft.

I'd be interested if you have data to compare similar drives with stable tempretures against diurnal tempreture cycling.

I'd imagine you have fairly constant data centre type environments though which would confound analysis for such questions.
you're probably not moisturizing.

regardless, "nice weather" isn't a prerequisite to becoming a financial center.
A percentage would be better.

>That would likely require sharing with YouTube not just the final work product, but rather all the iterative work product that led to the creation of the final work product (i.e., earlier drafts).

Not necessarily. YouTube generally trusts the word of the creator. If I upload a video and check the box that says "there is no swearing in this video" then YouTube more or less takes my word for it. They try to do some detection, but it has always been spotty.

I think YouTube would just ask the creator to label the video and that's it. If somebody is found to be in violation too many times then their account gets actioned.
We have Sails which was inspired by Rails
I used to wear your shoes in IE6/7 ages (no longer, I gave up during the "framework of the week" race and went all-backend), and it wasn't simple at all. Browser compatibility with all their rendering nuances, individual system oddities and all sort of fragile stuff.

And fortunately, no one bats an eye at a slightly broken site, but everyone hates even a slightly broken vehicle.
> Monetize-able GPTs? Not many for sure. What will happen IMO is established companies will build official GPTs to better serve existing customers.

Care to elaborate whether the supposed plan is again a classical two-sided market setup (i.e., OpenAI et al. monetize the companies using their models and the companies then monetize their users)?
I realise it's a patent troll, but even if it were Kodak, it seems a bit silly that a company developing self driving cars could be sued for patent infringement by a company who isn't even in the industry. A competetor I could understand. If you don't have skin in the game, then you don't deserve to have pieces of paper preventing others from putting their skin in the game.
It's simple because we tolerate certain limitations in the web platform.

If you had a hard requirement that a page load could never take more than 100ms, regardless of network conditions, you'd have quite a challenge on your hands.
I have been using Sails since 2018 and it’s what feels close to Laravel for me and the way I keep coming to for building on the web.
> Didn't France very recently have to shut down or limit a bunch of reactors due to <checks notes> the river water being too warm.

Because of environmental limits to protect the river ecosystems, not because of any safety or operational constraints. Many of these limits were set years ago, when the water temperature in rivers was lower, and haven't been increased since - leading to very tight margins. When the grid is stretched, the plant operators usually get a temporary authorization to exceed the environmental limits.

Every year this is big news for some reason, even though it amounts to a roughly 0.3% reduction of yearly electricity generation. It only impacts river cooled plants, and only those that don't also have a cooling tower.
NHS makes 'momentous' pledge to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040
> Put another way, nobody cares if I have solar panels on my roof. But if I have a tiny modular reactor in the garden the neighbours will (not surprisingly) object.

Yes, though your neighbours will probably also object to you putting up one of those big wind turbines in your backyard. Or a coal fired power plant.
What about nuclear waste? Is that no problem for us just because it‘ll be a huge problem for hundreds of future generations? Nuclear energy is not clean energy. And the illusion that it is will only postpone the further concentration on renewables - as it did in the past. It‘s also not cheap, it‘s very expensive up to unaffordable if you include permanent disposal into the price per kWh.

Fusion reactors would be the only form that could have a future.
Tesla doesn't do that, you're misunderstanding. You can do a hart reboot on the computer by yourself, by holding down both steering will scroll wheels for 10 seconds. Fixes any glitches with the screen.
As Phil says in Groundhog Day, "Anything different is good."
What's the best material for Apple Watch bands? Stainless steel, titanium, carbon fiber, which is the best? Look into the pros and cons all three types of watch bands.
Why has the story been marked as [dupe], I thought I published it earlier than the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262124. Maybe there is something that I don’t understand.
I mean transformers are definitely sequentially biased. There's also human speech bias. But I think it's pretty clear that humans are generally invariant to this kind of prompting as well (given that they have the knowledge. More in a different comment). My surprisal is far higher that the reversal "curse" is considered controversial or even surprising than it was when that sensational tweet dropped. It feels pretty well studied that sequential algorithms are sequentially biased.
Though the Prime is 460lbs heavier than a regular Prius.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-toyota-prius-prime-f...

You still need other additional equipment to use the bigger battery. Electric motors aren't light either. Having bigger motors without power to use them is also a waste.
> It feels a bit bizarre to call for a stop to “Kids Online Safety Act”, almost like we don’t care about kid’s safety

That's the point of the name. I do like, though, that the repressive morality policing bill was also named in a way that it shares the acronym used for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, known for its repressive morality police, but I think that, unlike the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, the acronym was unplanned.
How exactly is it 'sketchy'?
An interesting thought experiment: what happens when these vehicles are out of warranty, and automakers accidentally send a vehicle-bricking OTA update? Isn’t that property damage?
> skeptic side of the LLM spectrum

Can you explain what you are skeptical of? There is ample evidence that LLMs are what they say they are: a series of transformer (usually) functions with learned weights that can successfully be used to generate human like text in many domains. Do you disbelieve this? Or are you skeptical of something else.
Slight tangent: radioisotope thermoelectric generators use a different mechanism to generate electricity.

Though honestly, they just heat some pieces of metal, instead of heating water.

Photovoltaic heats a bunch of hydrogen ions until they glow. (But those ions are in the sun.) Wind power mostly comes from air and water being heated unevenly.

Tidal power is perhaps the coolest here: no heat involved, the energy comes from the motion of the earth and the moon.
I've tried it... No go.
I like this idea. It adds enough friction to scare away most scammers.
No one has yet bought a 100 year plan from WordPress
Matt Mullenweg:”Sales of the 100-year plan so far: 0. Hundreds of people filled out the form, though. I think we really messed something up in the follow-up, including not making it self-serve to start. Will review and try again. It's an important promise to us.”
> Lisp is the easiest language to parse that I've ever seen, managed to write a parser by hand.

I've written a dozen or so parsers for different languages by hand: the parser is easy regardless of the syntax you choose. The complicated bit is always compilation/interpretation.

The biggest value I see to using S-expressions isn't the time saved in writing a parser, it's reducing the amount of bikeshedding you'll be tempted to do fiddling with syntax.
InfiniBand, and unless you're super high up on the food chain (aka: married to NVIDIA), you won't get access to it for at least 52+ weeks after you submit your purchase order.
> but that the category of things we call apple also belongs to the category of things that are red

No, in English this would be “apples are red”, not “the apple is red”.
Patent law needs complete overhaul. They restrict innovation, iteration and slow the pace of progress. Two things I'd implement if I were "king of the world"
- If you're not the entity which is using or can prove that have active plans to use the patent, you cannot sue anyone for using it.
- Patents last 15 or 20 years and cannot be extended, after that it's in the public domain.
Mostly red tape. It's much tighter regulated, and takes longer to get any project off the ground.
> Because of environmental limits to protect the river ecosystems

So what you're saying is, nuke plants can operate in any weather if you give zero fucks about how they affect nature..?
What if Kodak, a visual image company, has a patent in computer vision on (say) absolutely the best method of recognising objects in real time.

Would that be useful to a self driving car company for processing camera data in real time despite Kodak not having built a car?
Why do people think the AI needs to learn how to write programs like a human? It’s going to be a framework with well documented chunksize modules the AI can iterate on using tests it writes itself. People will be out of work because they can’t write those bugfree modules the startup needs for the slots in its version of the AI provided code base framework and if they could the company has no time or money to deal with a human programmer.

that being said it might still be a non issue if civilization as we know it has less time than currently projected
This has happened to some Apple hardware, they fixed it for free in some cases but stiffed others:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253315438

With the mandatory mobile phone updates for a few years you're definitely going to see a lot more cases like that.

A thread about Tesla directly related to your question:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/wholl-be-responsible...
I've heard all of the above, often "stroking". I never used those because I like systems where you have a random challenge code to respond to. Then the software has to not be acting as wonky to react correctly.
What percentage of the Internet, and the devices that connect to it, is devoted to ads, spam, malicious traffic, and the prevention of malicious traffic?

I’d rather not have the ham bands reduced to more of the same.