skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. But a human neuron is more complex than an AI neuron by a constant factor. And we can improve constants. Also you say years like it's a lot of data--but they can run RL on chatgpt outputs if they want, isn't it comparable? But anyway i share your admiration for the biological thinking machines ;)
Yeah. Would you like to review a graph over time of medical outcomes in the US based on this approach to healthcare (we see you minute clinic)? Hint: there's a reason we consistently rank dead last when compared to other industrialized nations.
As far as I can tell LLM safety is brand safety. No one wants to be the company with the LLM that said a slur.
Observing how companies evolve and face challenges as they grow is interesting. Priorities, risk tolerance, and organizational structures often change this process. While newcomers may emphasize innovation and disruption, market-dominant companies may prioritize maintaining the status quo to protect what they have achieved. Various factors, including the potential impact on careers and incomes, can influence this shift in mindset. Additionally, due to its uncertainty, established processes and experienced personnel may resist starting from scratch. In some cases, companies that aim to differentiate themselves from traditional models may operate similarly over time, realizing the reasons behind established practices.
I am neither a mathematician or LLM creator but I do know how to evaluate interesting tech claims.

The absolute best case scenario for a new technology is that it when it seems like a toy for nerds, and doesn't outperform anything we have today, but the scaling path is clear.

Its problems just won't matter if it does that one thing with scaling. The web is a pretty good hypermedia platform, but a disastrously bad platform for most other computer applications. Nevertheless the scaling of URIs and internet protocols have caused us to reorganize our lives around it. And then if there really are unsolvable problems with the platform they just get offloaded onto users. Passwords? Privacy? Your problem now. Surely you know to use a password manager?

I think this new wave of AI is going to be like that. If they never solve the hallucination/confabulation issue, it's just going to become your problem. If they never really gain insight, it's going to become your problem to instruct them carefully. Your peers will chide for not using a robust AI-guardrail thing or not learning the basics of prompt engineering like all the kids do instinctively these days.
Also, wbhart is referring to publicly released LLMs, while the OpenAI researchers are most likely referring to an un-released in-research LLM.
...do they not know the history of their field? There's been programs able to grade school maths since the 60's.
I mostly learned CSS grid from an overview of all the properties: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

I developed a fondness for that website because I kept referencing their page for flexbox: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
siva7 was, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384928 . ("I was using Github still actively but hadn’t committed for quite some time in public.")
iirc that was the plan but it really strained the relationship with samsung who threatened to move to tizen from android...
Not really at the moment. I was asking it to help write some professional (but boring) letters of interest that were academic in nature. I found the style of writing to be closer to where I wanted it..so a very subjective.opinion.
Show HN: Mirror, Try on new clothes without ever leaving home [video]
I haven’t used Google as more than an occasional backup for years, and even less since I switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi a few months back.

The more I eliminate anything to do with ads from my life, the better things get,
It'll happen. They will jerk the wrong Senator around at some point, or one of his/her relatives. Then Sundar will be summoned to DC to explain why a trillion-dollar company can't afford to answer their phones.
FWIW The Verge is reporting that people inside are also saying the Reuters story is bunk:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23973354/a-recent-openai...
> intelligence to fly away

It's intelligence in the sense that jerking your arm away from a hotplate is intelligence, which is to say it's not cognitive reasoning, just genetically hardwired triggers.

AGI has been defined by OpenAI as something that can do most economically viable activities better than humans can. I like that approach as it strikes at the heart of the danger it really poses, which is an upending of society and destruction of our current way to generate value to each other.
Yeh you'd have to do something like

foo=true
bar=false

$($foo) && $($bar); baz=$?
case $baz in
1) echo false;;
0) echo true;;
esac

It just ain't worth it.
TRIM has nothing to do with performance. It’s for longevity of the disk.
I tried, but it doesn't seem be anywhere near the simplicity of buying games on Steam.

Not to mention, it needs double the size of the game when patching (with baldur's gate that's like 180 GB)
Amazingly, my company has done something in three years that took google 18 years!
Find a designer whom has the exact opposite problem. Either teach eachother how to do eachothers piece better, or do it for eachothers project in trade.
The solution is to not use windows.
There are certainly efforts along the lines of what you suggest. There are problems though. The number of backtracks is 10^k where k is not 2, or 3, or 4.....

Another issue is that of autoformalisation. This is the one part of the problem where an LLM might be able to help, if it were reliable enough (it isn't currently) or if it could truly understand the logical structure of mathematical problems correctly (currently they can't).
Haha, yea. Added a link a moment ago. Kind of like Leanpub but more minimalistic and straightforward I think.
Testing the limits of ChatGPT and discovering a dark side [video]
You've literally described the current healthcare system in the US. Minute Clinic/NPs/PAs providing front line care. It doesn't appear to be working well based on how our country's healthcare system ranks against other industrialized nations.
It's spelled ones' complement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
Wow, yeah, that is strikingly similar! The video in the submission seems a little more dynamic, though, and a bit more relaxing.
Humans also make mistakes, all the time.
Isn’t this hilarious? In order to achieve high performance on windows you need to access your file system via a virtual machine. Typically it’s the other way around.
I think you are over-using First Amendment to effectively make a false claim from authority.

Well, what we say here is irrelevant. The courts will decide. I am looking forward to that outcome, one way or the other. Stay tuned.
"Also, Crysis runs like crap on my Commodore 64."
Are you saying it could, without having read it somewhere?
Could easily be both
I doubt the people who experienced the technological revolution of locomotives and factories imagined the holocaust either. Of course technology has and can be used for evil
You two are nitpicking over "ads" vs "ads exchange" without saying it or talking about it meaningfully
> Redhat will happily sell you something that approximates vmware's tools, for megabucks

Actually, no, they apparently won't, because I tried and was told they are discontinuing that product. They are going full steam on their OpenShift (k8s) product though, and will be happy to inform you that you can run a VM on that, but if you press them you'll find that you're actually running a VM in a container, and that you have to specify it as a k8s deployment, so apparently you can't just throw a VM up like you can in vCenter.
How well does this handle waiting for elements to exist before attempting to read or input to them?
Here's a fun question: would that be due to gross inattention on the doctor's part or gross overwork due to patient/provider ratios being skewed into bizarro world by cost-cutting measures on the part of the hospital?
While I do miss TypeScript’s type system every now and then in C#, I wouldn't say that those are blockers in day to day usage of the language. For me at least this never really stumped me in a way that productivity was impacted by it.

I guess if you really want to, you can do a lot with tuples and if you need the equivalent of object literals and spreading, you could use records ... both options with fairly minimal additional effort over what you would have written in TypeScript.
Didya find it?
it does but i cannot tell why the azure performance is so different than on premises hyperv. i simply don’t know but the issues i’m describing here afaik did not affect azure instances. i do not know why but i thjnk it means there is a difference between on premises hyperv and azure hyperv or they do something to ensure the same issues don’t affect azure instances

but i simply don’t know why there is a difference

edit: if you search “hyperv rct bug” you will find forum posts fasts showing the timeline of this issue lasting years and many clients complaining that microsoft would not even acknowledge the issue publicly (or even in ms support cases) until very very recently
I agree with your suggestion to focus on what you want to create rather than immediately diving into specific tools. It's important to keep sight of your end goal and prioritize output. While learning the fundamentals and low-level code can be valuable, it may not always be the most efficient approach. Tools that abstract away certain complexities can provide a better conceptual understanding and accelerate the learning process. Ultimately, it's about finding the balance between gaining knowledge and creating what you're passionate about.
Has Qualcomm ever engaged in significant semi-custom work?

Yes, the early generations of Snapdragon SoCs were built using a custom ARMv7 core called Scorpion, which was later succeeded by another v7 core called Krait. The first ARMv8 SoC (the infamously disastrous Snapdragon 810) used stock ARM cores, but the next generation (820) switched to an in-house v8 design called Kryo. Around that time though, the company did massive layoffs, including in silicon engineering, leading to all the subsequent designs using tweaked ARM cores (despite also being called Kryo)
> Problems arise when you spend money you don't have

Not everyone has that much discipline. Do you think credit card companies give free cash for no reason?

It's like when every smokers tells themselves: "the problem is when you smoke regularly, I only smoke when drinking" or something like that. It's addictive! Can you be disciplined if there is an emergency of some sort? Most can't. Let me avoid being dramatic: let's say you get a flat tire and have to be at work the in a few hours, will you stop by a name brand place and put new tires on the credir cars or find a low end no name hole in a wall that charges $30 for used tire because you only have $50? Most will keep their $50 and put it on the card. One becomes two becomes a thousand.

> Just treat your credit card like a debit card and have a budget. Paying with cash and especially your debit card is just a poor move.

There are doctors and lawyers living paycheck to paycheck but not because they don't know how to budget. I know in the short term debit cards are worse bur my allergy to paying interest of any kind has protected me too much! And the millions that ruin their lives because of credit card also knew budgeting exists.

Don't play with fire, run with scissors or pay with credit cards!
Ok if it started from scratch like zero knowledge and then solved grade school math. This would be FUCKING HUGE.
Agree. Thank god all calculators and engineers who made them were burned down fifty years ago. Can’t imagine what would have happened instead.
... which ties into Sam's point about persuasiveness before true understanding.
> As President of HW ELECTRO Hsiao Weicheng explained at the unveiling:

His name stood out to me. Growing up in Japan, I didn't come across names like that very often.
I’m a regular consumer of <insert drug here> and this video did absolutely nothing to me. It would make a great screensaver.

Perhaps if I was on a few grams of psilocybin… but sober it’s really just ambient art with good ol bing crosby.
I don’t see how Sundar stays after the repeated fumbling of the AI ball. I think it just goes to show, you need someone radically bold and different.
"with minor downsides" ...
In essence an AGI is an intelligence capable of upgrading itself — in terms of qualitative intelligence — and gets faster at this with every iteration (hence, upgrade). That is why it is often associated with technological singularities, and that is why it is easy to inspire fear by invoking its name, even if you're not building anything even remotely capable of such a feat.

You might say that's a very strict definition as opposed to "human level intelligence", but if you think about it, we are (humanity as a whole) certainly capable of that, so it ought to be one and the same thing.

In theory, AI is not subject to the same limitations as we are (though not without limits entirely), so it should be able to do this faster than we can, hence the FUD.
I don't know about other bigint libraries, but java.math.BigInteger uses two's complement, not sign-magnitude. This class is designed to imitate machine-size two's complement integers.

The most negative value is a wart in two's complement, but negative zero is a wart in sign-magnitude and ones' complement.

The advantage of ones' complement compared to sign-magnitude is that the former needs minimal circuitry to implement subtraction. Namely, it just needs to invert every bit and then feed it into the adder.

You only need to avoid undefined behavior in two's complement in C and C++. UB is not a property of two's complement, but a particular language's design choices. I can assure you that there is no UB in two's complement in Java or x86 assembly.

Note that offset-binary is used in IEEE 754 floating-point exponents.
perhaps not rights to have a job in general but there is value in thinking about this at least at the national scale. people need income to pay taxes, they need income to buy the stuff that other people sell. if all the people without jobs have to take their savings out of the banks then banks can't loan as much money and need to charge higher interest rates. etc etc

if 30% of the working population loses their jobs in a few months there will be real externalities impacting the 70% who still have them because they don't exist in a vacuum.

maybe everything will balance itself out without any intervention eventually but it feels to me like the rate of unprecedented financial ~events~ is only increasing and with greater risks requiring more intervention to prevent catatastrophe or large scale suffering
Strange definition. Humans can't recursively self improve, at least not in the way I'm assuming you to mean. That's more like definition of the singularity
they do not allow you to use more than 8 cores for VM for example
> I only switched to DDG a few months ago because I was so fed up with Google's responses (and the endless captchas). I didn't dream that

Well, that's the thing... maybe you did? I mean, clearly from context you live in a world awash in the kind of rhetoric we're seeing in this topic, with hyperbolic claims about the Descent of Google into Vice and Decay everywhere. And... it's easy to fit stuff into a frame if that's how you're already thinking. One bad result or one unexpected pop up ad can sway a *lot* of opinion even if it's an outlier.

Thus: "alternative facts". In the real world search results are boring and generally high quality because that's the way they've been for 20+ years (I mean, come one: it's a mature product in a mature market, you really expect it to change much?). But here on HN testimony like that gets voted down below the hyperbolic negativity, so what you read are the outliers.

HN, to wit, has become the Fox News of tech.
Even if it were true that human persuasion is of limited use in shifting opinions, the parent posted is talking about superhuman persuasion. I don't think we should just assume those are equally effective.
One could say "no advanced algorithms" without being too wordy about it. I suppose.
Because many meetings that involve many people are entirely pointless for the majority invited, period, regardless of format.

Many of the people for whom the meeting is pointless are usually in no position to push back on it.
I think maybe I didn't make myself quite clear here. There are already algorithms which can solve advanced mathematical problems 100% reliably (prove theorems). There are even algorithms which can prove any correct theorem that can be stated in a certain logical language, given enough time. There are even systems in which these algorithms have actually been implemented.

My point is that no technology which can solve grade school maths problems would be viewed as a breakthrough by anyone who understood the problem. The fundamental problems which need to be solved are not problems you encounter in grade school mathematics. The article is just ill-informed.
> Remember, about a month ago Sam posted a comment along the lines of "AI will be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to very strange outcomes".

Superhuman persuasion is Sam's area of expertise, so he would make that a priority when building chatbots.
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/public-disclosure-...

"What should I do if an exempt organization will not let me see its Form 990 or 990-T returns or exemption application materials?"
Pre-acquisition WhatsApp handled 450 million users with 35 engineers paid at Asian tech salaries, or roughly USD$ 30-50k. So WhatsApp's entire engineering salary cost is equal to what Signals pays just 3 of its engineers for 9x the userbase. WhatsApp had roughly 257 users per engineering dollar spent, while Signal has at best 20 users per engineering dollar (but that number is lower because I'm only accounting for the "highly compensated" engineers and not Signal's full engineering staff).

Instagram had 13 employees with 31 million users when it was acquired by Facebook.

I don't know what the post-layoff employee account is for Meta Messenger as they did not disclose it in their SEC filings, but pre-layoffs it was several hundred.
It’s impressive how they’ve effective paid 81 billion for vmware, arguably making it the largest tech acquisition in history.
You'd be surprised. At work we get some nice-ish jabra headsets and most people wear them.

But I regularly have to take calls with people from other companies, and one in particular comes to mind where some dude never ever wears a proper headset, or doesn't know how to configure it or something [0]. We can always hear the people around him going about their business.

Then there's also the fact that people insist on using bluetooth headsets and wifi, so the audio goes in and out when it doesn't sound like a robot.

---

[0] I've complained once to somebody about being unable to hear them. They said they were wearing a headset, but, as it turned out, Teams was using the laptop's integrated mic instead.
In fact, only dash is supported as /bin/sh on Debian and Ubuntu.
I imagine if you use it on $latest OS and the like it's stable. But I can assure you if you're distro is a little older then the lib mismatches make developer edition a crashy experience.

I'm glad to hear about [1]. I'll have to try this in ESR myself. Hopefully all my extensions have the extra requirement of an add-on ID set. But I suppose I can edit that in myself for each if not.
According to the interwebs, zsh became default with Catalina in 2019 [1]; ten years after bash 4 was released with gpl v3 or later.

Also, the interwebs suggest Apple used to use tcsh as the default shell[2]; I don't know when they changed that, but it may have been after bash 4 released? (Thanks, 10.3 was in 2003, so several years before the license changed)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catal...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853318
Yes! Anyone who used Bing prior to Microsoft "censoring" know how powerful GPT4 is...
Just search "Bing Sydney" and be surprised... (I fully believe Bing was launched prior to GPT4 RLHF)
> They are much easier to get good welds with - they are essentially computer controlled.

this didn't seem compelling to me at first glance because its pretty easy to get reasonable welds in mild steel. But I checked out some videos and see people breezing through with stainless and aluminum and getting good results fast, much faster than tig welding. (and point and shoot welding stuff like thin aluminum that a non-expert would just blow apart with arc welding)... pretty interesting.
Gassée is French though, very different feedback culture
IEEE decimal is definitely complicated and confusing, but it does seem to unambiguously be sign-magnitude? The confusing part is how the magnitude works, not how signedness works...
This is a great walkthrough!

I love CSS Grid. When you’ve got a design that really needs it, it feels like magic. But truthfully, I so often try to use it but wind up back with flexbox. Or there’s some quirk to a design that just doesn’t work out. Subgrid will make it much more usable (at least as I understand it) and I’m very excited for it to have wider support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la...
Best is "you wont believe what happened when I tested NVMe SSDs"
Larry Summers? Microsoft? Alignment? Bye, bye humanity.
Honestly, spam hasn't been much of a problem. Though I think it's more due to email hygiene than anything else. I use a random email for skectchy sites and have all emails to unregistered addresses drop into a folder in my personal account.

That traps pretty much everything other than the typical newsletter spam and recruitment emails.
Great video (as usual). Andrej has a Feynman like way of explaining very complex topics in a succinct and digestible way.

An aside... incredibly, it looks like he recorded in one cut from his hotel room.
You laugh, but the requirements are actually very different between computer vision and other pre-2023 "AI" tasks and LLMs.

LLMs are hopelessly memory bandwidth bound. Most other models are compute bound.
> this sort of understanding is a result of some manner of understanding the underlying mechanisms and not a result of just having a huge dictionary of synonyms.

He developed an understanding of the underlying mechanisms because he correlated concepts between algebraic and geometric domains, ie. multimodal training data. Multimodal models are already known to be meaningfully better than unimodal ones. We've barely scratched the surface of multimodal training.
Easy: it costs about $10 a pound and weighs almost 20 lbs.
Related: https://www.androidpolice.com/google-cts-d-app-killing/
Yeah I understand that that's what he did. That law killed local bitcoins. But to be so invested in going after people who maybe paid some officials off or just straight up ignored that law and built their businesses anyway seems like a waste of time. I don't go around outing the people I know who have engaged in illegal activity; it's weird and doesn't help anyone unless there's a victim.

No expert knowledge of the law.
The article suggests the way Q* solves basic math problems matters more than the difficulty of the problems themselves. Either way, I think judging the claims made remains premature without seeing the supporting documentation.
Maybe I'm unsure what we're arguing here. Did the guys kid drum that up himself or did he learn it from yt? Knowledge can be inferred or extracted. If it comes up with a correct answer and shows it's work, who cares how the knowledge was obtained?