skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if your view is survivor bias?

E.g. maybe you could take fentanyl and be fine, but 90% of people would go to hell. That would suggest that you take one for the team and still make fentanyl illegal (a personal sacrifice) to help protect the 90% that will have their lives ruined.

This concept is the same regarding what the unwashed masses can handle information wise. E.g. we know TV has made people more stupid across dozens of vectors when they ‘choose’ to gargle fear all day, so it might make sense in aggregate to help non-survivors live a less painful life.

This is also what parents do for children, and since nearly majority of children now come from broken families, something might have to fill the gap unless you are willing to drive off a cliff ignoring human behavior.
For the first one, are you aware of `zed`? It'll notify you on events like that.
aren't we all?

things on X that grind my personal gears:

1. We can no longer hide elon I think I am tony stark Musk. (blocking @elonmusk, blocking keywords "elon" "musk" and "@elonmusk"

2. seeing un-labelled ads in Spanish (i live here, i don't speak the language)

3. all the [really obvious] porn spam bots

4. lack of reach if u don't pay to play (hahahah - no chance)
Only a few rules are necessary for complexity.

In ALife systems (Conway etc).

In Fractals (Mandelbrot etc).

In random number generation (Mersenne Twister etc)

Maybe, in the big picture, complexity is trivial to create.
Try again and compare Purchase Power lol.
And comparing it to Western Europe already 50% of that larger salary disappear
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Not without extra machinery around the model itself. Token generation is always probabilistic to some degree.
Prbly depends on genetics but doing this (eating less and doing cardio ) for my south asian body seems to make me skinny fat ( "spare tyre of flesh will arrive around your waist").
Yi 34B 200K is not like this. In fact, it seems to answer like it is Taiwanese, with way more fervor than base Llama.
alt messages on images is funny :)
There is no magic fat generation. As you age your metabolism slows down. Mystery solved.

Eat less and you'll be fine.
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"what to regurgitate based on what it's already seen"

...which is no different than what humans do :-) Our neurons fire in a way only because they fire in patterns they have already seen before.
https://cyberscoop.com/epa-calls-off-cyber-regulations-for-w... ("EPA calls off cyber regulations for water sector")
The title should be: "Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies"
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> Aquinas seemed to believe essentially this.

That seems improbable. Aquinas was a Christian, specifically, a Catholic, so he believed in Jesus and the Trinity. On that view, there are no Gods, there is just the One God, embodied in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The idea that "Gods are distributed software installed in the hardware of believers" is not just wrong on that view, it's non-sensical.

Now, I can certainly believe that Aquinas believed that God (singular) acts in humans in a similar manner that human minds act in humans in that both God and human minds (souls) exist in some non-material realm and act on material human bodies in some mysterious way. But that is not the same thing at all. Software does not exist in some spiritual realm that is separate from material reality. There is nothing metaphysically mysterious about software. There is something essentially metaphysically mysterious about God, and almost certainly on Aquinas's view, about minds as well. I am far from being an expert on Aquinas, but I would be shocked to learn that he was not a dualist.
I don't think this disagreement is worth being so upset about. Be well my friend.
This report reminded me of the Seven Suns artifact in A. C. Clarke's The City and the Stars [1]. OK, this is planets, not stars, but it's cool that Clarke anticipated this apparently stable configuration.

[1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars
Love this perspective. It is all about the "mental environment" we carry, and one figures out how much polluted the "mental space" gets when one consumes ~1h+ on the screen scrolling everyday.
> So when you stop all thought (if such a thing is really possible),

It's not. They don't realize it, they're merely referring to stopping your internal monologue. There are dozens of other mental processes going on in any given waking moment. Even actual top shelf cognition is going on, it just occurs in a "language of thought".
Volkswagen within the Volkswagen group isn't competitive anymore.
Boats are very much so.

The largest container ships consume 250 tons of heavy fuel oil per day, they haul up to 15k containers and are at sea for months.

Filling a ship with enough battery power to replace that isn't remotely feasible. Just charging it at port would be an insane undertaking.

It's a truly crazy amount of energy.
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They can continue to work on it, but without the parliament's approval it cannot become law.
Add to that the fact that 30% of physics and chemistry can't be replicated.

Science is not an unbiased and altruistic endeavor these days.

It's not surprising the sugar industry funded science demonizing fat, cigarette companies "proved" that they didn't cause cancer, etc
As a solo developer answering emails that basically point people to various guides and FAQs I’ve published … I need this. Zendesk claims to have an AI component but forces you to input all training data into their own wiki knowledge base. I can see why they don’t want to use prior responses as training (pii concerns), but at least give me some boilerplate responses that I can use to get a head start and further train the model(s).
C++ cannot represent an atomic type with less than natural alignment, and you cannot access that which does not exist, so that's the end of your road. Consider a language with lower intrinsic overhead.

Usually the answer is to ignore the atomic abstractions of C++ and use the GCC style atomic intrinsics (they take a void* instead of some atomic qualified thing) but I'm not totally confident they'll do the right thing if the target memory has less than natural alignment.

Beware crossing cache lines with your operation. I'm not sure what the x64 instructions do in such a case.
> It also just doesn't feel like a quality product. On my work Windows laptop, Powershell will sometimes not quite bother flushing after it starts, so I get the banner text and then..

That’s independent of the shell, and is I believe a bug in the terminal emulator. There is an open source Windows Terminal you can separately install and that is so much better.
BetterTouchTool works, but it's not pretty - rounded corners end up with blue backgrounds and windows shrink slightly when defocussed.

No joy with the rest.
> One piece of evidence that LLMs form some sort of internal reasoning mode

Isn't this a fancy way of saying "there's a scoring mechanism" like when you brute-force train a model, and certain chains/patterns of tokens score higher than others?

Like in my mind, it can learn English by you showing it a bunch of known-good sentences, telling it they score highly, and bad sentences score poorly. Noun verb structure and all that. Am I greatly oversimplifying it? I feel like I am.
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> it will backfire more on the advertisers than it does for X

LOL
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/cloudflare does not display cloudflare as down right now
You might think that, but there is a great deal of compression and it seems that compression is understanding, giving rise to emergent properties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Are there methods to "summarize what they've learned" and then replace the context window with the shorter version? This seems like pretty much what we do as humans anyway... we need to encode our experiences into stories to make any sense of them. A story is a compression and symbolization of the raw data one experiences.
Jesus, bash really is an abomination
The the breakthroughs you’re referring to are direct injection, then those come with their own downsides. Either severely reduced reliability (when solely using Gasoline Direction Injection (GDI) injectors) or increased cost and complexity. (When using a dual-injection setup, such as GDI + Port Fuel Injection (PFI))
it is partitioned underneath with limit of 32TB for single partition. (hello ctid). there could be many of them.
Some of these are nice and useful. Thank you for giving your version of the list.
I don't use the "social media" features either. I just use it for messaging. I'm fine with it if the social media features stay out of my way, but based on experience this will not be the case.
I think the main differentiator is that Telegram prioritizes responsiveness and feeling of “solidness” (no blinking frames when loading and the like) in a world where those things are usually written off as unavoidable casualties.

It’s similar to the difference between physical products that feel well-considered and well built vs. creaky hollow glossy black plastic Walmart fare.
I love the dry humour. This is a very rare gem from the tales of old that never seems to have gained much publicity.

It's a shame this post got buried, I actually found it mentioned in another thread and tried to google for more info, but to no avail.
Try asking ChatGPT any questions about Israel without getting jibberish about "controversy" and it being "complicated."
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Serious Eats here suggests staggering:

- Ripe within 2-3 days - with a banana in a brown paper bag

- Ripe within 3-5 days - just avocados in a brown paper bag

- Ripe within a week - open air avocados
git grep is shallow: only current git repo, rg is fully recursive, all submodules and also untracked (and not ignored) directories.

In some trees, git grep will be a lot faster because it searches a smaller part of it.
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This is a real mixed bag. no. 1 and 17 are great.

The thing on letting friends come and go, kind of.

There are things you'll never know, and depths of feeling and insight you'll never attain, unless you are capable of holding on to at least a couple friends for decades. Some friendships are backloaded like Amazon RSUs.
You lost me with that second paragraph.
I think you'll need to save good responses (and bad responses that you fixed?) and regularly run more training passes.
Exchange rates change for a reason. The stronger exchange rate is a reflection of a stronger economy.
I would rate Lem higher than those, but not sure if it's a different league.
Whatever you pick for the backend, on the frontend, I'd recommend sticking mainly to pure web technologies. You can get a decent phone version through capacitor or other webview-based solutions. Many eCommerce and such sites do just fine with webview based apps. It is so much easier when you can have just a single code base with some responsive CSS mixed-in to manage, rather than 2-3 codebases, with constantly diverging feature set.
Big companies are missing a trick. They could pay for product placement in poems.

I hate the idea. But they could.
There’s semi lock-in. You can use torch, but you also have to use their framework. Not much different than using cuda I guess.
Reading now, thank you.

The prospect of analyzing aggregate human behavior with recourse to models from physical science immediately put me in mind of the "Chemical Analogue Theory of the Body Politic," as espoused by one of the characters at a dinner party, in Bruce Sterling's _The Artificial Kid_:

--

“The Chemical Analogue Theory is, of course, an analogy,” said Manies. He touched a stud on the heavy bracelet on his right wrist and in rushed his secretary Chalkwhistle, a neuter. Manies took pencil and slate from the neuter and began sketching as he talked. “As you are well aware, dear Saint Anne, the human body is an immensely complex system, in fact an ecosystem with its own flora and fauna. The same is true of the Body Politic, our human society. Their reactions, their structures are very similar. Now, the history of the human body is the history of its organic macromolecules, its linkages (pardon me) of separate atoms. Similarly, the history of the Body Politic is the history of many small groups and coteries, linked groups of friends. Of course, I would not go so far as to equate a single personality with a single atom. In most cases people would be better considered as small molecules; acids, bases, salts, et cetera. I often consider them atoms for simplicity’s sake, however.

“Note that the effect of a single atom in the human body is almost negligible; but if that atom is included in the right molecule, its influence may be crucial! It does not matter which particular atom enters a molecule, you understand; the important thing is that it be the correct kind of atom, and attached in the correct molecular framework! It is the framework that counts, you see, just as the important thing is the relationships within groups of friends, rather than the friends themselves. Of course some atoms are comparatively rare, just as some personality types are comparatively rare, and they can exert a disproportionate influence; but it is the linkages that count.

“I regard myself as an enzyme, constantly endeavoring to link molecular groups into newer and more potent configurations. This breakfast is just such an attempt.”
Interesting theory, but what do you call the emails and slack channels where government employees requested (and usually received) banishment or limiting of targeted users?

Are you under the thinking that no coordination happened, or that the coordination that did happen is legal and expected?

Trying to understand how you didn't get to the same conclusions.

Just picking a random snippet from the Files, here's part six:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128.html

How is that not government collusion with a private company to censor US citizens?
Switch over to Signal, the bloat velocity is much much lower :)
83% of US population is urban. That includes suburban and ex-urban. Lots more land is rural, but land doesn’t buy trucks.
If this is interesting at all to you, I would highly recommend Permutation City by Greg Egan
This sort of “manually induced churn” is absolutely god awful for a code base. I’ve seen the exact product of this type of management.

And then, because the code base is so awful, the only productive people are the ones who have been around long enough to avoid the culling, but they’re also dealing with how bad it is, so even their productivity comes to a near-grinding-halt.

and management wonders why nothing is getting done. It must be because they need more engineers… and the cycle continues.
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7. Yeah the weight gain thing I don't get. Calories in, calories out. Wear a watch that tracks your workouts. Log the shit you eat on an app. Make sure it balances out. It's basically an exact science at this point, I've been doing it for 10 years, I'm 40 years old and I can go up and down the scale at will. Weight loss/gain is only magic till you understand how it works.
> are LLMs just a large way of spitting out which token it thinks is best based on scoring? aka it's guessing at best?

They are 100% exactly this. More specifically they spit out a list of "logits" aka the probability of every token (llama has a vocab size of 32000, so you'll get 32000 probabilities).

Taking the highest probability is called "greedy sampling". Often you actually want to sample from either the top 5 (top k sampling), or the ones over say 90% (top p).

If you're doing things like programming or doing multiple choice questions, you can choose to only sample from those logits - for example, if the only outputs should be "true" or "false", ignore any token that isn't "t", "tr", "true", "f", "fa", "false", etc. This makes it adhere to a schema.

> How will they ever grow to the point where they are nothing more than just really good at guessing what to regurgitate based on what it's already seen?

This is what humans do the big difference is our "weights" aren't frozen and we update them in realtime based on real world feedback. Once you loop in the real world feedback you get much better results, for example if a llm recommends a command with a syntax error, if you give it back the error message it can correct it. This is why training on synthetic data is possible.

> will they ever be trustable/perfect?

This is why I hate the word "hallucinate", it's not a hallucination, it's a "miss-prediction". Humans do the exact same thing all the time - miss remembering, misspeaking, doing fast math, etc.

In many ways LLMs are already more "trustable" than inexperienced humans. The main thing you need is some mechanism of double-checking the output, the same as we do with humans. We can "trust" them once their probability of acceptable answers is high enough.
I misremembered... a brunch, not a dinner party :)
> Maybe the soul is social

My pet theory about human consciousness is that is that consciousness is simply recursive theory of mind. Theory of mind [1] is our ability to simulate and reason about the mental states of others. It's how we predict what people are thinking and how they will react to our actions, which is critical for choosing how to act in a social environment.

But when you're thinking about what's in someone's head, one of the things might be them thinking about you. So now you're imagining your own mind from the perspective of another mind. I believe that's entirely what our sense of consciousness is. It's our social reasoning applied to ourselves.

If my pet theory is correct, it implies that the level of consciousness of any species would directly correlate to how social the species is. Solitary animals with little need for theory of mind would have no self awareness in the way that we experience it. They'd live in a zen-like perpetual auto-pilot where they do but couldn't explain why they do what they do... because they will never explain it to anyone anyway.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
> There is more pollution from breaks and tires than tailpipes.

Absolute hogwash. Where could you even get that idea?

How much material is there in a set of tires that you will lose over the life of the tire? How many miles will it take to lose that material? Now consider how many hundreds of gallons of gas you will burn before those tires wear out.

> So even if you replace every car with an EV, the net pollution reduction will be marginal.

[0] According to the EPA, 29% of greenhouse gases emitted in the USA come from Transportation. Of that, only 58% of that comes from "Light-Duty Vehicles", ie, cars. That means if we replaced all cars with EVs, it would be ~17% reduction in GHG.

Whether or not 17% is "marginal" is somewhat subjective on your definition of the word.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
Docs in the military have a bonus structure based on their specialty area that's supposed to at least try to keep their pay from being ridiculously behind. And the idea behind bringing a surgeon in as an O-5 is that a surgeon has that level of seniority as a medical practitioner, so it aligns with their field. To bring an O-5 cyber person in, they would be expected to have enough experience as a cybersecurity professional to rate that rank. If they were entry-level but DOD needed entry-level cybersecurity folks badly enough, they would add a bonus but keep the rank lower.
It's a reference to most any major political figure. Someone somewhere thinks they're an idiot, and usually a lot of people. And most of them don't have the nuance you have. They think they're universally legitimately stupid people.

Failing up definitely happens but given the massive number of failures you'd have to succeed through to be US president, as an example, it's not what's happening there.
The notion predates Stargate though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
The lack of consensus is on what an SBOM is for. Even the NIST recommendation which came out of Executive Order 14028 had little guidance on how to apply SBOM .

At any sort of scale, it isn't clear how an SBOM shipped with each package can be consumed to any great effect.

A central database of all dependencies, on which queries and analysis can be performed, however, can be very useful, and in a large software shop, I've seen it used to rapidly get a very real sense of the company's exposure to events like the Log4j debacle.
> Synapse is [...] relatively resource efficient

Yeah, no. I run both a Matrix server (Synapse) and an XMPP server (Prosody). It is completely obvious when Synapse is running on my server. I don't need ps or systemctl status, I can tell if Synapse is running just by looking at the bars at the top of htop.

Meanwhile my XMPP stuff is as invisible as any other system service.
I agree. The commenter seemed to be targeting older kids though.
In a sense... I define intelligence to be knowledge + reason. Language is the medium for reason, but language itself is not reason.

For example, Wikipedia is a highly knowledgeable system with lots of language, but Wikipedia itself has no ability to reason, and thus os not an intelligent system.

When something/someone reasons about things, they/it use language to do so. You can't get around that. The language might be a natural one like English, or something contrived like math, but it's language all the same.

If we reason about something we have no knowledge on, we are not being intelligent. On the other hand, of we reason about something we are knowledgeable about, we are acting intelligently.
Maybe it depends on at what speed you are going.

Crumple zones exist in cars because it’s better that the car absorbs (and deforms in the process) the kinetic energy of a crash than you the passenger inside.
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Utopians will be upset that all nations are required to deal with unsavory regimes and persons, and that nations act in their own self-interest amongst the anarchy of nations where there isn’t a global police force that will protect the weak from the strong.

Kissinger, like everyone, made mistakes, and it would be naive to place the entire burden of foreign policy blame on someone when the actions of the U.S. are an integration of tens of millions of micro decisions.
Lem's most prescient book is an accurate portrait of this century... published in 1961!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars

But I tend to prefer his more humorous writings, like Cyberiada or the Star Diaries.
Rich kids, you mean. The rest are working through college, if they're even bothering to go to college at this point.