skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had something that seems to be the same a handful of times. Disconcerting.

Though I once had something like this while I was lying awake in the early hours of the morning, which was weird. It turned out that it was the Buncefield oil storage depot exploding about 40 miles away.
We attach such a negative sentiment to the word “fired”. Sometimes a “firing” can be by mutual consent, or unavoidable and regrettable etc. It’s nuanced and doesn’t necessarily imply that the 2+ people involved don’t respect each other or can’t work together again in future.
Fortunately Kraft were later bought by 3G, a fund notorious for zero based budgeting, meaning instead of rolling forward budgets you start from zero every year and have to defend every item.
Voice calls, the worst part of a phone. Out of anything pub-sub it really has to be the worst medium in many aspects. Long gone are the polyphonic ringtones that tried to inspire answering, now I only see vibrating or blinking phones.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lbj/#trans... travel shower, 1991

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/arts/an-lbj-feud-finally-... 2003 seems the earliest clear reference to the shower itself?
I am also working in Oberon, We are developing devices using compiler O7 for STM32 and also may years developing desktop applications with BlackBox Component Builder (also version of Oberon language).
ASK HN: Is Microsoft Windows Rude?
I sometimes accidentally press Enter on the Windows login screen and I get the rather rude message "Provide a pin". No please.

I tried on Linux (don't have a Mac) and it's polite as I'd expected a prompt to be: "Password didn't work. PLEASE try again".

I mean like, didn't your momma teach you to say "please"? Is this the standard nowadays, so the product manager at the most used desktop OS in the world thinks it's OK to omit it? "(fuck you), provide a password!".

I wonder how Mac handles this issue.
64Megs is only going to get you so far.

1010Music Blackbox is by bar a much, much better investment.

Screw Teenage Engineering. They degrade everything they touch.
R programmers be like: I still don't know when to use [ or [[. I just put a browser() then and test out the options
Ah. nice It is about the process of writing a debugger from scratch. Part 6 specifically focuses on walking call stacks, which is a crucial feature for understanding the state of a program during debugging. The author explains the complexities of stack walking in the context of an x64 Windows debugger, providing detailed insights and code examples. Thanks
> Can LLM's compute any computable function?

In a single run, obviously not any, because it's context window is very limited. With a loop and access to an "API" (or willing conversation partner agreeing to act as one) to operate a Turing tape mechanism? It becomes a question of ability to coax it into complying. It trivially has the ability to carry out every step, and your main challenge becomes to get it to stick to it over and over.

One step "up", you can trivially get GPT4 to symbolically solve fairly complex runs of instructions of languages it can never have seen before if you specify a grammar and then give it a program, with the only real limitation again being getting it to continue to adhere to the instructions for long enough before it starts wanting to take shortcuts.

In other words: It can compute any computable function about as well as a reasonably easily distractable/bored human.
It also sends your data to anyone that does not care about laws. Almost 0 companies have the in-house expertise to have a chance in hell at providing reasonable data security.
Existential risk is a doomsday prediction. And we all know the track record of doomsday predictions. 99% of the time it shows a simple lack of a sense of proportion that cannot tell the difference between merely "bad" or "very bad" and "annihilation". A personal bankruptcy is bad but it isn't an existential risk to a person.
I think the sum total of this article is that nothing new is known about any of this, that it is still either a large pile of trash dedicated to distracting the public from something, or alternatively, it is all real and there are alien space ships locked up in nevada waiting for jeff goldblum and will smith to fly them into space.
"especially prior to an election cycle"

It looks like you are referring to the USA elections.

1. humanity != USA

2. USA are in a constant election cycle

3. there are always elections coming around the world, so it's never a good time
The "star" in A* means optimal (as in actually proven to be optimal, so they could stop publishing A^[whatever] algorithms). I assume either Q* is considered optimal in a way regular Q-learning isn't, or they're mixing Q-learning with some A*-like search algorithm. (Or someone picked an undeserving name.)
You're presumably operating out of Estonia, so American laws like COPPA[1] probably don't apply to you (disclaimer IANAL). I have no idea if the EU and/or Estonia have counterpart law(s).

Nonetheless, the complete lack of a privacy policy at the time of writing this comment is concerning particularly because you are (explicitly!) interacting with and handling data concerning children.

I would strongly advise consulting with a lawyer about what legal measures you need to comply with for a service like this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot...
They intentionally avoid platitudes and trying to personify the operating system, if I remember the design guides correctly.
GPT4 now does this by default. You'll see a "analyzing" step before you get the answer, and a link which will show the generated python.
Thats Teenage Engineering - sexy looking, highly dysfunctional junk that you will regret investing in, instead of getting real professional gear.
"it says here that you've been using technology X for a few years. What is the most frustrating thing about X? If you had the resources needed what would you do to fix it?"
With ChatGPT you now just state your problem, and if it looks like math, it will do so. E.g. see this transcript:

https://chat.openai.com/c/dd8de3f7-a50c-4b6d-bd3f-b52ed996d3...
> 10% of people also experience visual disturbances like perceiving visual static, lightning, or flashes of light. Some people may also experience heat, strange feelings in their torso, or a feeling of electrical tinglings that ascends to the head before the auditory hallucinations occur

Such phenomena are well known amongst advanced yogis. Sleep scientists would do well to investigate there.
LOL, "methods and systems"... from the people who couldn't see the collapse of the USSR, 7/11, and countless others failures...
How can it be a refute when we don’t know the sources? One source vs. another source.

If another article comes out and says the verge article is false will you believe it?
Can anyone just clarify for me what these AI / Machine learning chips are? As far as I can tell they are general purpose microprocessors with some added instructions which accelerate operations that are commonly used (matrix multiplication possibly?) but there's a lot I don't quite understand because some of the info is marketing and some of it it heavy technical stuff and my knowledge falls in between!
Saw these Amiga roguelikes modern takes on Twitter

https://nivrig.itch.io/rogue-declan-zero

Roguecraft (a modern #roguelike for the #Amiga)

https://twitter.com/bag_of_hats/status/1690383073030832128

Something that's been fascinating for me as an experienced Amiga coder back in the days - is seeing modern "retro" games done on the Amiga. It's really interesting how we didn't have some types of games not because of hardware limitation, but the lack of tooling and resources did not allow for these concepts to flourish back then.
Money indeed is worth more, also the only thing that is easy to measure during crisis.
Sure, just add some fallacy tag to everything the other person says. Similar stragegies worked in kindergarten after all.

First of all, I'm not making a formal argument, going from some initial assumptions to a conclusion via some explicit or implicit building process. I'm merely stating an opinion.

"Reductive arguing" Why, yes. It is meant to reduce decades of political experience, historical knowledge, and observations into a summary description of the kind of logic behind such "research".

"The wholesome "democratic spirit" (or rather, the lack thereof) of the modern technocrats never ceazes to amaze."

"Strawman arguing" Not an argument. A statement: "The wholesome "democratic spirit" (or rather, the lack thereof) of the modern technocrats never ceazes to amaze".

Take it or leave it.

"Fallacious appeal to history" Nothing fallacious about there being a long history of similar psychiatrization of political differences and dissent that this is related to.

"I know I'm just listing off fallacies and not countering anything but I'm just amazed you managed to fit 3 fallacies into 3 lines. You may be a prodigy of the irrational"

Nah, you're just a prodigy of not having an opinion (or, for that matter, an actual argument), and using knee-jerk responses for every situation...
Australian bank warns of lower bonuses if staff do not come into office
Apologies, I mistook this:

"Raising private investment allows a non profit to shift cost and risk to other entities."

for a suggestion of that.
The only way to avoid this is to somehow let the employees share in any efficiency savings. But that comes with problems of its own, and is anyway incredibly ideologically unpopular.

It's a principal-agent problem. Imagine there is $100,000 in front of you. You are absolutely forbidden from taking any of it. However, if you set it on fire, and write a short memo inventing a plausible justification for doing this, your working life will be easier over the next year. A lot of people would do that with only very minor guilt.

From the employer perspective: there's no magic way to find out whether spending is "good" or not. You can add process and reviewers to check. But that also costs money, and slows down all the actual work. That's how you end up spending $1000 of staff time to have a meeting to approve purchasing a pen.
Regardless of `-a` vs two tests and `&&`, there's no need to shell out to `expr` if bash's arithmetic evaluation is available:

[ $((1+1)) -eq 2 ]
Slightly jealous :)
Yeah, this is destined for the dusty depths of a desk drawer full of other similarly sexy-looking but ultimately frustrating, useless stuff that was designed with the principle of making it fruity-looking first, and useful to the actual user, last ..

The 1010Music Blackbox is still the pocket-sized sampler to beat ..
I wonder if Britain would be better (or worse?) off having a constitution with the equivalent of US's 1st Amendment.
I've always been aware of many neurological curiosities, and I've never been able to determine whether most people truly don't have them or are simply not aware of them (or whether there's a difference, but my pet theory is that with appropriate training, others can become aware of, and experience them, because they're a result of us being analogue beings and not perfect computers).

I'm aware of the visual noise, and the multiple layers of auditory effects (from the mild tinnitus I have, to the sound of my blood pumping through my veins, and the "general brain noise" that leaks into my auditory processing).

I've found the auditory events when falling asleep somewhat disturbing, they often come after especially stressed days and are accompanied by a particular "feeling in my brain" which feels analogues to a mild muscle twitch. To me, it's not as much a boom as, the creaking sound like that made by an old-fashioned magnesium flashlight right after being fired.

Often I experience flashes of light on those same nights as the explosions, I think both are related to some kind of seizure-like event, but very mild. I don't have epilepsy.
The rules may be clear and well-justified, but due process exists for a reason. The state should still have to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that you actually broke those rules, and the decision as to whether the burden of proof has been met should not be made by someone who stands to gain something by deciding in the affirmative.

"Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Sussex_Justices,_ex_parte_...
Why does that matter? The process of budgeting is the same in public and private organizations, including the unpredictable elements that result in overestimation and padding. The source of funding doesn't affect that. Federal government expenditures are only indirectly related to tax revenues in any case.
I installed it in my system after which it had severe stability issues.

Running dmidecode showed that the part number didn’t match the sticker on the module.
Good point; I wish I'd added that.
Ghostbuster: Model-agnostic detector for AI-generated text
Wow, I get this! I never knew it was something other people experienced, usually it sounds like doors being slammed or big bangs. It's really odd
I loved Luiz, I worked for him in platforms (his datacenter development department). He was truly one of the kindest people I have ever met. I deeply miss our banter around the coffee machine and am saddened the last time is past.

We've lost another great pioneer and human in our tribe. Pour out a beautiful coffee for Luiz
There was this legend in the French army that starting mid-November they would have lines and lines of trucks running around every base to burn the petrol before the next year. Not sure if it was true but it could be.
On linux my sudo is configured to use swear words if i misstype the password.
The veil of ignorance has been pushed back and the frontier of discovery forward
Switzerland army is famous for that, conscript army with yearly class for like 10years.
Gameboy technical reference for homebrew developers
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

Apocalypse proclamations aren't just a thing to throw around. Other people made great tech before indeed, but I hope we're not comparing AGI to the next Iphone. There were times in history where development gave us pause. The atomic bomb for one thing, but also superbacteria/viruses, human genetic modifications and perhaps a few others.
I think people don't speak at their phones simply because the experience is so horrible.

I would LOVE to be able to voice control the various aspects of my phone but it's so mind numbingly frustrating that I'm annoyed just thinking about it. If it was better I would sacrifice other features for it.
+1 here. It feels like an electrical pulse, shooting from my head to my body, but the sound is the same.
That’s what I thought as well. PG was saying Sam is good at handling the media frenzy, and drama of being fired from OpenAI.

And seeing as he’s going back into the company, it looks like he is better at dealing than most predicted.
Depends what you're writing.

If you're writing an installer script or whatever that's going to be run on $many computers that you don't control: sure, it's probably best to go to the extra effort to stick with POSIX sh.

But that's not most scripts. Most scripts are things that you run on computers you control. I just write things as zsh scripts because it's so much easier than bash (never mind POSIX sh). That's fine, because I can just install zsh. And actually, this often makes scripts more portable because you need to rely on external utilities a lot less.
You can replace bash with JS. Scripting is their common application domain.
Can you replace JS with bash, though?

If the answer is "no," that means JS has applications (e.g., servers and web clients) that bash can't be used for. And they're saying JavaScript is bad at them. Bash is arguably worse, but it's usually not an option in the first place so you don't get to complain.
Is there doubt about due process in this situation?

Or are you arguing more generally about the low bar for administrative law-based sanctions in the US?
Discussed a couple of months ago, when it happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37606775
I don’t have explosions, but in this pre-dream mind wandering, some events/phrases may become very loud. They don’t mean anything (unless you’re into deep meaning, then everything does), just parts of speech and sounds. It happens often, so I’m used to it. But a few times, especially when it only started, it amplified something you don’t want to hear… 8)

Also after waking up and trying to sleep more there is a periodic (but unpredictable) slap sound as if a thin wooden plank hit against a table. It only happens when I sleep more than needed. Something cares about my schedule I guess.

A therapist said it is a disorder, but not in the same class as schizo-… things, so relax.
Unless you're planning to pay for it with an asset whose value fluctuates wildly.
We have 'freedom of expression' and case law, but these things end up having to go to court, so I think it being written in a constitution would be better.
Reconstructing the Mind's Eye: fMRI-to-Image
This is fantastic work! Well done, I love how you were able to do it on the cheap - I think this might become my christmas break project.

Seriously, this is fantastic!
I haven't used 3G/3.5G in over a decade now(almost). Even 90% of our carriers have disabled 3G services , some are 4G/5G only and others support 2G/4G/5G
> More broadly, I can imagine a world where LLM training is a bit more 'interactive'

Well, yes, assume that every conversation you have with ChatGPT without turning off history makes it into the training set.
The framing makes it sound like it's a "bug" or something. From my understanding it's not, because it's hardly a reliable reasoning tool: whether using statements or using data. Unless we come up with or advance a better architecture, similar "panic porn" is useless, not to mention this reeks of a hit piece. Just verify everything and stop with the blind trust.
Is it compared anywhere with a smaller model fine-tuned on the same thing? Edit: I didn't see any comparisons skimming the paper. More specifically fine tuned smaller models can often be pretty good. I'd want to see how 3B and 1B etc llama models fine-tuned on the same dataset perform. Is sparsity the key here or is it just fewer parameters?

The quantization part was interesting - they also quantized activations and have some adaptive quantization that accommodates outliers.
P1673 A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS
What "no drop in accuracy" means? Is it like they do some kind of lossless compression and it is guaranteed to behave same? Or are they claiming that as a result of a (subjective?) test that measures accuracy? If so how does such test works?
That would require the repeal of a fair tranche of the terrorism legislation. It is illegal in the UK to "express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation" in the Terrorism Act 2000, for example.
It matters because if it happens to a private organisation that does not affect the average Joe. It's when it happens to governmental organisations that it matters because it means increased taxes and/or decreased useful public services.
This is true.

However, I think that no one will do the scut work necessary to find that a null result was faked, and even if they do since you the researcher got very little status out of it then it’s believable that you made a mistake, and didn’t falsify data.
Yeah, I can confirm this. The people I know who are in the army told me that they just use all of their ammo and petrol at the end, to ensure that they get the same amounts and budget next time.

Pretty idiotic, but it's the army after all.
Robert Caro dedicated the second part of his life writing a biography of LBJ. He started in the 70s and is apparently still working on the 5th (and last!) volume.

I wonder if he mentions the shower somewhere?
given we already have mesh-network surveillance, and autonomous lethal weapons, I'm already feeling unsafe.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of battery?
> The mayor definitely should not be the judge.

This is the big part. Ever heard of trias politica?
Have to admit this is quite nice. Firefox may be funded partially by the soulless Google, but Firefox continues to impress me with its features. Great job, Firefox team!
> The mayor definitely should not be the judge.

How is such a thing even possible/legal? Checks and balances and so on.
In an analogy to the Berlin Wall, sounds to me how the obnoxious intimidating Soviet border guard would ask for your documents. "Show me your documents!", in a threatening, intransigent manner. You're a peasant at their mercy, don't like it, you can go f yourself. There's no need for politeness in a police state.

The "please" before "show me your documents" that I'm getting at EU border entries makes all the difference in the world.

Micro$oft apparently considers it's unnecessary.
It's both. It's a poorly designed road, but also given that it is a poorly designed road, drivers should obey the rules.

Having the mayor act as judge seems absurd; I'm really, really surprised that the state allows that. All very feudal.
I've had mild symptoms described in the article:

- hearing a sudden banging sound like my head is hitting something
- feelign like I stopped breathing

In my case it seems obvious it is related to PTSD, developmental trauma - or simplified "stress".

Sometimes I wondered if there was actually a sound, because I have earplugs - but it's happened enough times that I can tell when it's "imaginary".

It's really simply, can we find someone who experiences these symptons that has NO developmental trauma, pretty good family and childhood, no PTSD, no shock trauma in adulthood ( car crashes, violence, and whatnot)?

I'm 99% sure it is due to the nervous system.
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What do you mean by "its"? There isn't any AGI yet. ChatGPT is far from that level.
> Java is the new Cobol times 1000...

I got into computer stuff back when mainframes were "obviously, forever". And minicomputers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer ) were for companies too small or weak to get a real computer (mainframe). Then OOPS! - some of our nice little terminals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal ) mutated, and evolved into those stupid little "PC's", and Things Changed.

Cycles of change within the computer field didn't stop there. Nor did ups and downs "imported" from the rest of the economy. At least from the inside, the dot-com stock market bubble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble ) of ~1995 - Mar'2020 seemed ( in hindsight ) like a remake of the South Seas Bubble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_seas_bubble ). Then there was 9/11, and ...

So - yes, there's an end to the current job market crash. Just like every prior crash. But being old only gives me a broader perspective - I don't know when or how the crash will end. (Though "end" is probably a poor word - "slowly start to recover" how things actually go.) Nor do I know how well Java/Scala will do, longer-term.
Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
No, they don't. Read the GDPR, it's not that long. The actual problem is that the current practice on which massive profits depend is contrary to any privacy desires. If they didn't track, they wouldn't need ask for consent for the tracking.

And I don't even like the EU, I want it ended.
It seems that UK censorship is a suitable topic for HN shadow-flagging, our very own version of the D-notice :-)