skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is regarding LLMs, but Q* may not refer to an LLM. As such, our intuition about the failure of LLM's may not apply. The name Q* likely refers to a deep reinforcement learning based model.

To comment, in my personal experience, reinforcement learning agents learn in a more relatable human way than traditional ml, which act like stupid aliens. RL Agents try something a bunch of times, mess up, and tweak their strategy. After some extreme level of experience, they can make wider strategic decisions that are a little less myopic. RL agents can take in their own output, as their actions modify the environment. RL Agents also modify the environment during training, (which I think you will agree with me is important if you're trying to learn the influence of your own actions as a basic concept). LLM's, and traditional ml in general, are never trained in a loop on their own output. But in DRL, this is normal.

So if RL is so great and superior to traditional ml why is RL not used for everything?
Well the full time horizon that can be taken into consideration in a DRL Agent is very limited, often a handful of frames, or distilled frame predictions. That prevents them from learning things like math. Traditionally RL bots have been only used for things like robotic locomotion, chess, go. Short term decision making that is made given one or some frames of data. I don't even think any RL bots have learned how to read english yet lol.

For me, as a human, my frame predictions exist on the scale of days, months, and years. To learn math I've had to sit and do nothing for many hours, and days at a time, consuming my own output. For a classical RL bot, math is out of the question.

But, my physical actions, for ambulation, manipulation, and balance, are made for me by specialized high speed neural circuits that operate on short time horizons, taking in my high level intentions, and all the muscle positions, activation, sensor data, etc. Physical movement is obfuscated from me almost in entirety. (RL has so far been good at tasks like this.)

With a longer frame horizon, that predicts frames far into the future, RL can be able to make long term decisions. It would likely take a lifetime to train.
So you see now why math has not been accomplished by RL yet, but I don't think the faculty would be impossible to build into an ml architecture.

An RL bot that does math would likely spin on its own output for many many frames, until deciding that it is done, much like a person.
David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction [pdf]
Aren't the EA folks keen to make as much money as possible so they can fund society benefitting things without needing a return? So then they should be 100% open to maximizing earning so they can help the most folks.
when i search for the data in the alternative sources it still looks like you're mistaken

probably you don't have data and are just making stuff up
> These guys were part of the local BBS/DDial scene which is how I knew them...I remember seeing heavy duty AV equipment there, but I had no idea what it was used for

From https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1b4gz1/comment/c93...

Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207937

...actually wow this gets posted too many times to count
The SR-71 used a different high flashpoint fuel (JP-7) to most aircraft, which require separate tankers (KC-135Q) with segregated storage.
Life usually sequesters carbon only until it rots.

An implication of this is that maintaining the Amazon is good for us, not because it captures more carbon -- it's biomass is not on net growing -- but because if we cut it down its biomass shrinks (because it goes into the air).
>>Because they will be sanctioned and bombed to oblivion if they don't. Now, tell me how this is not a "wealth extraction" economy.

TIL, people buy iphones and use facebook, because they are afraid to be bombed otherwise.
You know there is a good reason why even rich and powerfull people from Russia or China don't want to keep their wealth in their home currencies. And it's not because they are afraid to be bombed by Americans.
The most important command:

git reset --hard
At best the false positives are a nuisance and makes the model dumber. But really censorship is fundamentally wrong.

Unless we are talking about gods and not flawed humans like me I prefer to have the say in what is right and what is wrong for things that are entirely personal and only affect me.
During the pandemic lock-down, I walked around my neighborhood once or twice a day (a Washington, DC, neighborhood nearly all of free-standing houses). I constantly saw kids out playing minimally supervised--i.e. Mom or Dad might have looked out the window every half hour, but Mom and Dad weren't out with them. I still see boys throwing baseballs or footballs in the street not far from here.
That's a lot of sizeable new features in something that's supposed to be bulletproof
This won't be the fault of Microsoft if the Infocom stuff is lost, that's the fault of Activision. Source? I was there. I worked at Activision soon after Bobby Kotick took over, and worked on both the Zork Anthology, as well as on Return To Zork. The original Infocom server was bought/taken home by another coworker, and I had/have a backup of it somewhere. When we were working on the various ports, there was a ton of source code missing, and there were no organization documents for anything. In a bunch of cases, we had to reach out to the original Infocom staff to try and make sense of it.
protip: If you want to switch branch you can now use "git switch [-c] foo". If you want to restore files you can do "git restore .".

Basically you can stop using checkout.

*edit*: fixed switch branch creation parameter.
That’s hilariously sad - if true. Got a source?
`git add` sometimes
I wouldn't short it personally, but if you really want to you will most likely need a (crypto) broker that gives you access to leveraged trading and/or futures.
That one is super interesting. For the first example, I'm not even really sure how I'd expect that to behave, it feels like no matter how it works it becomes slightly inconsistent with my expectations of the language. Like, if it were changed to somehow let a .catch grab the synchronous errors or have it somehow evaluate all of the compute functions synchronously first before making the promises, it still feels wrong. Maybe the only good solution is run the compute args separately beforehand?

For the second example, it's kind of a weird one, but I'm actually a fan of using async .reduce to accomplish that. It took me a minute the first time I saw someone do it, but I think it more cleanly solves the problem and gives you more control over the result.
I was thinking about something similar.

System 1 thinking: patterns.

System 2 thinking: logic.

For example:

System 1 thinking: Does x sentence sound like a correct English sentence.

System 2 thinking: Verify x sentence is a correct English sentence by using grammar rules.

Someone fluent in English can form correct English sentences using only system 1 thinking, while someone that has just started learning English must think about grammar rules (using system 2 thinking) to do it.
One of the nice upsides of a good microphone is that it can make headphones optional instead of required. I usually take meetings on speakers. But my desk mic is a sE Electronics Dynacaster with tremendous rejection and, coupled with a hardware mute switch and teleconferencing's now-pretty-excellent echo cancellation, nobody can tell.

But I also own IEMs that I use if I'm giving a presentation, so I can get the necessary direct monitoring to ensure I'm on-point with my audio.
Yes, this is exactly what it does, and it's a very clever trick by Netflix to discourage their traffic from being throttled!
You, sir, are the hero we didn’t know we needed.
Amazing bit of kit that. One of my kids is a professional welder I'd hate to think what he would do to get his grubby little fingers on a machine like that.

Awesome, seriously. Be careful though! (I'm sure you are aware of the risks but it doesn't hurt to say it again...). What I love about laser welding is that you inject just enough heat into the workpiece to get this super nice consistency. First time I saw a laser weld I think was when I saw an open model of a stainless steel pacemaker and I wondered how the joint was welded so perfectly, it didn't look like here had been much in terms of cleaning up the joint.

I have a 35W optical power laser head here for a cutter and that is already super impressive, what you have there is the equivalent of magic to me.
Technically, await isn't specific to promises. It works with any then-able object.
Somewhere between marvelous and needs more work. While I’m complaining about inconsequential details, what is with the tracking cookies?
Yeah, I read this headline wrong three times
1. OpenAI researchers used loaded and emotional words, implying shock or surprise. It's not easy to impress an OpenAI researcher like this, and above all, they understand the difficulty difference between teaching AI grade school and complex math since many years. They also understand that solving math with any form of reliability is only an emergent property in quite advanced LLM's.

2. Often, research is made on toy models and if this would be such a model, acing grade school problems (as per the article) would be quite impressive to say the least as this ability simply isn't emergent early in current LLM's.

What I think might have happened here is a step forward in AI capacity that has surprised researchers not because it is able to do things it couldn't at all do before, but how _early_ it is able to do so.
Call me weird, I guess. But the fact remains that ledgers are open to anyone, one can easily see it being used.
I was concerned about telemetry and or spying concerns with the 3" Unihertz Jelly Star (on top of the telemetry intrinsic to Google's Android), but it can run an Android-13-based LineageOS 20 GSI (general system image) with the possibility of using microg for push notifications. That's put it to the top of my 'small phone list'.
I'm still missing what part of the intuition is incorrect? It seems like the only "incorrectness" is that there's no explicit hierarchy of branches. Except that's wrong the HEAD ref points to the default branch. Any other branches are of equal significance, though.
Talk to the prospective customer. Be honest. Find out what will meet their needs and do that.

Because relationships are the most important thing.

Keep in mind that your urgency of signing a first contract is not your customer's urgency to sign another contract. Don't bet big on landing them. Don't stop selling because they sound positive. Figure January if you are very lucky.

Good luck.
For distant remote access with particularly animated or graphically detailed applications, perhaps. Though I'd not argue VNC as being lower bandwidth except where you've got it tuned to massively compress to the point where things that are bad through X are bad in different ways through VNC. RDP usually does better in this respect, as do some less common protocols.
The original ask specified "naive million by million matrix multipication", I don't consider sparse matrices to be "naive".
i've never seen yarvin mention hbd, so i think you may be misremembering this
Does making plastic not release co2?
Promises don't have a built-in way to cancel chains (neither do plain callbacks)

That is a false comparison. A function is not comparable to a promise chain. A chain of callbacks can be cancelled by simply returning early in one callback instead of calling or responding to a forthcoming additional event.

Not all Node APIs have promise methods regardless of the few you use personally. This sounds more like people trying to impose their vanity opinions. The mentality of: It sometimes works for me, so other people are wrong if they don't do it the way that matches my preferences.

and even question why someone uses callbacks in their code if I interview them.

Why would you pose the question if you already biased against the answer? Is this an attempt to prejudice a candidate?
I have wondered if, on a net scale, burying said wood (in the form of chips or sawdust) in desert regions would actually net out as net-negative for CO2. Add organic matter back into the mostly sterile soils, increase moisture retention, and once a certain % of soil organic matter is restored, in turn plant trees or perennial crops back into that locale.
You'd probably be arrested. Not for accessing Hemisphere, but impersonating a cop.
I was going to make an example of what if restaurants used the Spotify model and how people would hate it because they'd be paying for other people's tables but I guess that's buffets and all you can eat sushi places are like. Not exactly shining examples of quality for the end user though.
There is no such thing as an AI Startup, only a customer startup. To the extent that AI makes a new company better able to serve a customer, they will thrive. If they fail to draw a productive connection between AI and unmet customer needs, they will fail. It doesn't matter if you get funded, this is a universal truth.
Is that why Signal collects your phone number? Hah.

Any E2E app that doesn't collect your phone number or any identifiable info that you can use as a standalone app on the desktop and E2EE is the only way it works (not optional or opportunistic like jabber/xmpp, whatsapp, matrix, telegram,etc...) and is developed ouside the US by a well known/reputed dev(s). Is what I recommed.

Check out wire and briar if they meet these requirements. Personally, I would not use digital media if I don't want the US gov knowing about it entirely. The solution is legislative not technical. Kind of like how you get a free TSA body massage at the airport, the people have willed it.
Which they want to have out of their self interest and not because they are forced too. And no, they are not occupied by any definition. Ukraine is an example of a country which is partially occupied by a foreign force.
It will take years not months and I’m against any intervention. Redistribution and socialism inspired governments policies will just make things worse. Progress requires suffering, that the history of our species, that’s the nature of reality.
Enums in Rust – and why they feel better
Because your IDE shows line-based blame and allows to check out old file versions via right-click? :) Mee too
Is the system restricted enough that some 20 person town with one sheriff can't access a persons phone records located 1000 miles away?
Bluebird.js wasn't even released until 2013, what implementation were you using?
Since you asked me, it was many years ago now (5+) - but it hurt. I lost a 16TB cluster to btrfs, the raid just failed for no apparent reason (this wasn't uncommon back then according to forums). And on ZFS it was a kernel bug where on boot, it would mount ZFS after waiting for root - so root never appeared. (This was due to ZFS running as a user-space driver on linux back when it wasn't yet in the kernel)
It kinda sounds like they are AT&T’s phone records.
I don't think anyone is elevating them to gods, and also, it's true that no one was seriously working on cheap reusability until SpaceX did it. Yeah sure SpaceX didn't invent orbital rockets (no one claimed they did!), but they did in fact invent commercially viable reusable rockets, and that's a big deal.
I think perhaps you meant "git switch [-c] foo"
Use OpenAI's Assistants to build an app in 15 mins
on the contrary, it's precisely the energy resources pov that would predict continued rapid growth in pv
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I hope someone will find it useful.
Great explanation. Thanks, Julia!
For those interested, another proposed name being thrown around for the Brockism idea is Overhang Reductionism, since it's safer to name the idea independent of any one person so far since there is not yet proof that Brockman himself endorses a chip slowdown beyond what we can infer from this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38323939

"Alongside rifts over strategy, board members also contended with Altman’s entrepreneurial ambitions. Altman has been looking to raise tens of billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to create an AI chip startup to compete with processors made by Nvidia Corp."
Conceptually this doesn’t feel different than minimum wage laws to me. Companies pay local required wages across countries all the time. I can appreciate why they’d pull out of a small market that would be unprofitable for them. My hope is that more countries would follow bc artists are getting a very raw deal
> Client-side QUIC support

Is that enough to get rid of the QuicTLS fork? https://github.com/quictls/openssl.
yes

there is
There is a village ahead, that's plenty of reason to slow down.

The two pairs of signs are another reason.

The end of the divided highway is further reason.
>> upsetting the balance

Do we know what the right balance of CO2 is?
I wonder if those metrics would be the same regardless of whether the game was officially supported on Linux or unofficially supported through Proton.
KVM rack stand for Mac minis, KVMac16
If you are building new habitat you can lock up carbon permanently by creating a self-replenishing ecosystem. This can be jump-started with dead organic matter but will eventually become a living system.
If the problem is poverty I think the solution should be creating a proper safety net for people and offering the a Universal Basic Income.
Interesting. I didn’t misinterpret this title as you did. I assume if the content is really about what you think, the title should be something like “38% of bugs comes from…” or “38% of crashes comes from…” instead of this
I hear this all the time
Mindfulness as a Path to Seeing Yourself as You Are (2013)
my guess is that it's so high, it would change the scale so much and dwarf all the other data
By the end of the program, the space shuttle cost $1.6 BILLION per flight, or more than disposable designs.

There's no point in doing reusable if it's insanely expensive! The SpaceX innovation was actually making reusability pay off. Sadly the government contractors only ever had an incentive to make each launch as expensive as possible, which they absolutely accomplished.
Yes, this is very good. Also, rebasing is evil.
Services usually depend on databases. Libraries usually don’t. Either you need to support every storage backend your users might have, require them to write an integration layer from your generic hooks, or expect them to provision and manage new storage when using your library. In any case you are asking them to do a lot more work (manage the data) and in some sense breaking encapsulation by making them responsible for this.
Where we live we have great view over the Firth of Forth - which is a reasonably busy waterway.

The find the full LPG tankers making their way out to the open sea fascinating as they always have a gaggle of protective tugs around them - including one going backwards behind the tanker with a cable to the stern of tanker - presumably to stop it in a hurry!

NB Yes I do wonder about the BLEVE risk - but the centre of the shipping channel is at least 2km away which you'd hope would be OK... ;-)
Be careful with reward systems, as it can destroy internal motivation.

Additionally, one very important thing to learn as a young adult is how to motivate yourself to do things that have only long term payoffs.

Of course I also understand that you can take SAT only once, so as bad as that is, it’s maybe not the best time to learn a life lesson.
The real world is a space of continuous actions. To this day Q algorithms have been ones of discrete action outputs. I'd be surprised if a Q algorithm could handle the huge action space of language. Honestly its weird they'd consider the Q family. I figured we were done with that after PPO performed so well.
That’s great. Just FYI I noticed that NES’s birthday description has a typo saying it was introduced on October 15th instead of the 18th.
It really is like missing half the inputs when mirror neurons are not engaged. I mean this in a pop-sci understanding, not sure if its relevant. I do like to watch people's body language, although its the waking equivalent of lucid dreaming in the sense I have to be very deliberate in taking noticeof it to the extent I rely on it more than to tonality and diction.
If you don't have enough authority to do either of these, I'd suggest finding an environment that provides it. Developers are hired to code, not pontificate about coding. Having no control over your "maker time" or control over breaks is burn-out waiting to happen
I just reread my take on branches and relearned some stuff I’d forgotten: https://peter-whittaker.com/obligatory-grokking-git-post

Warning, all text, no diagrams....
I implied nothing. This is literally what happened. A woman who knew next to nothing about search strung us along for weeks. She couldn't answer even the simplest questions or provide any insight whatsoever. She made it clear she had no authority. Yet after making request after request to us for sensitive data, she simply shut off our access.
Getting big in music requires a lot of money and connections that I assume labels make intentionally difficult to access outside of them
I understood that. What I meant to say (apologies if that was unclear) is that if you think we're getting close to a dead end, you should be more rather than less surprised at signs of significant further progress, no?

Continuing with the physical movement metaphor, if I believe that the train I'm on will stop at the next station, I'll be more surprised at the fact that we're still accelerating, compared to the person next to me who's not sure if this is a local train or an express train.

Generally speaking, the lower my prior probability of continued progress, the more I should be surprised by the lack of slowdown.
Git doesn't have the concept of "main is special", but at least tools like Gitlab have protected branches to stop you screwing up too much.

Some concept of "parent" and "child" branches would actually be pretty interesting. You do have to support multiple "parent" branches though for long term support branches.
I've experimented with Neovim a few times, adding all sorts of plugins to make it work like VSCode or a Jetbrains IDE. But honestly, I just can't seem to get it to run as smoothly or feel as good as those IDEs.

It’s something to do with one of the LSPs that bogs it down and makes the experience untenable
I don’t have any expertise or experience in the area, but in general I wouldn’t want to underestimate the degree to which it is possible to build a successful product/company around an idea that depends very little on (proprietary) technology. Also, just because something is possible (e.g. ‘creating a GPT’ to do something) doesn’t mean people or organisations are compelled to do it if there’s an app or a service that somehow makes it feel slightly more streamlined and trustworthy. It seems to me that a lot of supposed ‘tech’ companies are in fact marketing successes or general business/logistics successes.

I seem to recall Mark Zuckerberg saying something similar about Facebook early on — that it would quickly be cloned by a behemoth like Microsoft and they’d be eaten. But it never happened.
Exponential retries can effectively have a maximum number of requests if the gap between retries gets long enough quickly enough. In practice, the user will refresh or close the page if things look broken for too long.