skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing special about Nvidia hardware outside of them having significantly better lower precision FLOPs before anyone else. Their marketing chose to call this a "transformer engine" but there is no actual "engine" in silicon.

Like AMD announced today, and is shown in the article we're commenting on, AMD now is 1.3 times faster at FP8, INT8 flops with and without sparsity, meaning their "transformer engine" is 1.3 times faster.

The rest of your comment doesn't make sense. See the other comments on software in this thread.
On a constructive note, these things will trickle down into the models. Bing for example already does "thinking" step that is hidden from the user.

Also see this quote from Ethan Mollick on twitter:

> I have a strong suspicion that “prompt engineering”
is not going to be a big deal in the long-term & prompt
engineer is not the job of the future

> AI gets easier. You can already see in Midjourney
how basic prompts went from complex in v3 to easy
in v4. Same with ChatGPT to Bing.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1627804798224580608?lang...
>who cares about the warning if its extremely inconvenient.

1. you're not mandated to use Windows 10/11. you can use Mac or Linux

2. Windows 7 got its last security update almost 4 years ago. This isn't even about Steam at this point; more and more software will be incompatible and you're more and more vulnerable to breaches as you use that OS. You should probably change to something receiving updates. I don't particular care what.

>Tell you what, I'm going to format your computer on Jan 1.

I didn't know now being able to get security updates from a 3rd party application equated to formating your hard drive. Should probably fix that since you're 4 years out of date with Windows 7.
> They simply compare the prompting strategies that work best with each model

Incorrect.

# Gemini marketing website, MMLU

- Gemini Ultra 90.0% with CoT@32*

- GPT-4 86.4% with 5-shot* (reported)

# gemini_1_report.pdf, MMLU

- Gemini Ultra 90.0% with CoT@32*

- Gemini Ultra 83.7% with 5-shot

- GPT-4 87.29% with CoT@32 (via API*)

- GPT-4 86.4% with 5-shot (reported)

Gemini marketing website compared best Gemini Ultra prompting strategy with a worse-performing (5-shot) GPT-4 prompting strategy.
They can be scary smart for the itty bitty little things they is.

I've got some incredibly lovely jewelry colored iridescent blue jumping spiders live around here. I've got just a few pictures of some of them. I've got a lot more pictures of the place where the spider was just a second ago.

They play "peek a boo". they strut and they duck and they play and they hunt like cats, with flair and joy and without need. "I could have had you but you may go." Just for fun.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Pretty cool that evolution has helped us work out consistent and rational solutions to the ethics of gun ownership, abortion, and nuclear proliferation.
It doesn’t help that the C development community is still largely in denial about the very human cognitive limitations that result in unsafe code being written time and time again.
your thoughts are echoed in the comments, which are SO much fun. check em out.

my favorite might be the guy explaining how he subscribed to all comments, that he misses inbox zero, and that he needs help unsubscribing. poor guy
The more TOS I read through, the more it seems we need a "common law" solution.
(I use the term "common law" loosely here)
Something like a couple of pre-defined categories for software services (e.g. info provider, social network, real-world interface) with pre-set rules (e.g. the client cannot attempt to break the social network; the owner of the social network cannot re-sell data to a third party).

We have something like this for brick'n'mortar retail already -- each store can't just make up their own rules but rather has to operate within a societal framework.

The system we have right now leads to every corporation being incentivized to claim as much legal ground as possible in the TOS, leading to a de-facto corpo-state. It also undermines the rule of law in a cultural sense since many things in the TOS may be deemed unenforceable when actually challenged in court. The users will always be is a several disadvantageous bargaining position.
They have a built in serial bootloader. Most dev boards don't need anything, they come with a USB-to-serial adapter. Some of the new ones even have the USB part integrated on chip.

If you use a bare module then you need a basic 3.3V serial adapter and maybe a jumper wire to ground pin 0 to enter programming mode.

You can also do stuff with JTAG, which will let you use a debugger, but that's not mandatory. Espressif sells a dirt cheap one. I think maybe you can use your jlink for that with some fiddling but I'm not certain.
Free download is currently available at https://www.didgets.com
On knowledge tests for sure. It completely falls short on common sense in which it's worse than almost anyone.
LOL. But you're excused.

In Denmark the government just took away all subsidies to the PostNord company. Prices will double next year, and some areas will not be served at all. Mind you there is no alternative for common mail, only for parcel delivery.
Lol. The Chinese fud is pretty hard.

Do you know about this

https://www.swisscommunity.org/en/news-media/swiss-review/ar...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...

So... you are basing your fears on just that, hunches and yet presumably your own government is spying on others and maybe you but that doesnt bother you because USA /five eyes are the "good guys"
have pitchforks and torches to revolt
Meta-analysis of resting metabolic rate in formerly obese subjects
I thought those were already the best choices?
Wouldn't inserting a statement like "Here is the most relevant sentence in the context" predispose Claude to answer the question also increase the likelihood of hallucinations?

Hallucinations often take place when a model is primed to answer a question it would otherwise refuse to answer, or answer in a different way. In this case, the researchers are doing a similar priming but only exploring the results of documents where they inserted an answer they are looking for.
China starts up first fourth-generation nuclear reactor
This release is ~75% Brave New Trusted Boot World stuff. https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html

The most obvious:

> A "systemd-pcrlock" has been added that allows managing local TPM2 PCR policies for PCRs 0-7 and similar.

This seems to be for configuring the TPM to release or withhold secrets at boot, depending on system configuration. Oh you swapped hard drives? No, you may not see A or B key (which are perhaps the keys for Y and Z hard drives). There's docs at: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

There's also UKI support (a cornerstone of Brave new trusted boot world) in systemd-boot. And quite a number of other UKI and TPM tweaks.

Unrelated-ish to Trusted Boot world, somewhat surprised to see varlink is still alive? It's wild to me that Varlink is kind of stealth creating a new JSON-powered DBus alternative. And only systemd really has privileges to this app control bus; it works as a filedescriptor passed in at startup. One big advantage is it's available in early early boot; that's mostly what it was tauted for. I'd noticed varlink getting created, but wasn't aware there was anyone who cared about it at all or was really using it for stuff: interesting to see some activity surrounding it (a util for working with it) after not seeing much for a while. https://varlink.org/
Mozilla's CEOs from 2008 to 2013 had technical backgrounds. And Bill Gates had vision and technical experience of course. So it seems hard to say technical CEOs are better consistently. Even if better means more innovative.
I was writing code for production game engines ~20 years ago.
Data over pure DNS is trivial. A simple demo site for anyone to try it out.
https://dnskv.com
$ dig txt quad9.dnskv.com
When the world can support an EV Otto, let me know, because we're nowhere close yet on the automotive side. (We are at 30% of electricity from renewables globally.)
What is the connection between distrusting effects that have only been observed in models, and disbelieving climate change?
This doesn't seem to fit well with my experience. The thing that breaks me out of ennui and encourages me to pursue some task is imagining how good I'll feel experiencing the benefits of successfully completing the task. Perhaps we are talking about two different things. My issue is how to initiate some boring task. Once I'm started, I have found it's often easy to continue. In fact, it's often hard to stop. Maybe that's what you're talking about. Dopamine isn't something to break me out of ennui. It's simulating success that does it.
If you make it cheaper then people will do more of it.

Look at how much more graphic design is starting to happen now that you can create an image in a few minutes.

So it means we’ll get more development projects because they’ll be cheaper.

And yes I do realize at some point we’ll still have a mass of unemployed skilled white collar workers like devs.
> If things are cheap, it's because they don't take much resources to make in the first place.

Too cheap. And this raises the cost, not in materials but in overall lifecycle cost of producing an item. That's the point. The cost of overproduction is too low, by raising it, bad practices like "buy three and return two which we'll throw away" will no longer make financial sense. The excess shipping, storage, etc. won't happen because it won't be a viable business strategy.
The B in ICBM stands for ballistic.

I'm not saying the computation isn't complicated, I'm marveling at the fact that my watch can run that computation in microseconds
This is 2d monopoles on the 2d surface of a material.

This is equivalent to propping up a horseshoe magnet with the ends up, and laying a piece of paper across it; that also gives you a 2d surface with a pair of monopoles on it.

It's still interesting and probably useful for building things, but it's not "we broke a known law of physics".
Honestly, I undo so much in Procreate I never get anything done. I'm best with it if I start with a rough in actual pencil, snap or scan it, then finish it in Procreate.
But he's haunted by something he cannot define.
Yeah. Dropping that blatant a weight on the algorithm is the most infuriating dark patterns I've noticed in a while.
This is an excellent reference. It is worth emphasising though, this does not make the device secure.

No matter what OS you put on, there's still a proprietary baseband blob with executuon permissions underneath. All of these devices are built compromised.
Qwik v1.3.0
Instant-loading web apps, without effort
Hearthstone allegedly had bots hit Legend rank back in 2014 playing Aggro Shaman. Those were believed to be pretty simple rules bots, so yeah +1 that approach gets you pretty far if you have decks crafted for it.
would have been great if the last one was 42.
So funny to see this! I've had the pleasure of working with Grant (one of the lead researchers on Merlin Sound ID) on other porjects in the past! The whole team is kind-hearted and incredibly smart. Sound ID is one of the very few research projects that make me instantly smile hearing about in the news.

I've always been impressed with the responsibility that the Cornell Lab and Macaulay Library give toward involving people (citizen scientists, raters, and experts alike) in the curation of the data they use. This isn't an application where "hoovering up the entire Internet" is the right thing to do; it's a case where those hand-tweaked parameters make all the difference. A considerable amount of thought is given to every sound sample, and every person in the pipeline's working incredibly hard.

Hats off the team to publishing more about the internal process!
It's been a wedge issue for a long time...
These are quasi-particles -- emergent collective behavior of a group of particles.

Discovering true magnetic monopoly would be biggest discovery in physics since ____. Gauss's law of magnetism violated. This was not it.
If a model hasn't been explicitly told (via some system prompt or something) about its weights, it won't know them. It would be akin to asking you how many neurons you had. How would you know?
A startup doesn't have the same target of its back as a large publicly traded corporation. It also has a different culture and is expected to take risks that non-startups aren't. In other words, not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Edit: grammar.
Although not an original finding in the paper, I can attest to the effectiveness of the “Ross Droplet Technique” in reducing the effects of triboelectrification. It really is night and day and it's such an easy remedy to employ.
20% is a huge amount in terms of high end performance. For example, 20% more transistors / compute units / etc does not give 20% more performance at the top end unless your execution is excellent.
It starts at about 13 minutes in.
>and bitchute shows us what unmoderated youtube is like

Have you actually read any YouTube comments lately? YouTube doesn't have any moderation at all.
I have spent so much time fighting to do things the boring way.

There's only so much interesting code you can add to interesting code, before every single conversation becomes a proxy discussion of The Mythical Man Month - we can't teach anybody new how to use this code in anything like a reasonable time frame. The best we can do is create new experts as fast as the old ones disappear.

Really Interesting Code is more at home surrounded by Really Fucking Boring code. You get so blinded by the implementation details of the Interesting Code that you cannot see the forest for the trees. That is the secret wisdom of Relentless Refactoring. The more I rearrange the pieces the more things I can see that can be made out of them, some of which are better, and a few of which are much better or brilliant.

Last week I implemented something in 2 days that we wanted years ago and didn't do because it would have taken more than a month of 1.5 people working on it to fix. But after a conversation in which I enumerated all the little islands of sanity I had created between Here and There, it took a couple dozen lines of code to fix a very old and very sore problem.
Actually, some varieties border on performance enhancers due to molecular structures similar to steroid hormones, and should have been banned by the Olympic committees.

Ganoderma sichuanense ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingzhi_(mushroom) )
My strong belief is that if someone wanted to halt AI development, they should attempt to train AI replacements for managers and politicians, and publicize it.
That is also discussed at greater length in OP towards the end.
Unless you're a sock puppet of @ikoichi2112[0] who posted this 2 days ago[1], this isn't a valid a show hn[2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ikoichi2112
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517337
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> This is incredibly inefficient, which is the point.

That's true in the abstract, but it's not important/significant enough to consider. The costliest services for the government to provide (welfare, healthcare, education) grow in proportion to population, not area. A rural hospital or school might spend more on ambulances or school buses respectively, but those additional costs aren't anywhere near the top in terms of expenses.
Review of the Application of the European Citizens' Initiative Regulation
This initiative is pretty much just window dressing: altogether, since 2012, the Commission has replied to a total of ten initiatives, and all of these replies have been boilerplate. And the "review" itself is a two page infographic, which kind of tells it all in its own right.
Unshackle yourself from Google/Apple and use F-Droid/LineageOS or something similarly FOSS minded.
Interesting choice of example, since malicious browser extensions don't require admin rights to get installed.
Apple, Google warn governments can spy on you via push notifications
Allegedly there was a design flaw for that model, so their could have been a lot of dud parts until the problem design was fixed. Also, TFA:

> Some early Tesla Model S EVs were known to have issues with their rear motors. This particular Tesla suffered from this. The rear motor was replaced thirteen times, so if we include the original that it came with, that's fourteen motors over the course of about 1.2 million miles.

> Most of the replacement motors were actually refurbished units and the problem there is that Tesla didn't know the real issue so it didn't know how to properly fix the motors. Some of these replacement motors failed very quickly. Some were covered under warranty, while others were not.
Google is pretty good at short-answer questions (the occasional summary at the top can do a good job, and "people also ask" section can be pretty good) but if you ask something like "What are all the tax implications of moving to France?", those "smart" sections tend to be useless, and then you get sent on a wild goose chase of going to websites of varying quality.

On the other hand GPT will give you a really good summary of all the issues, personalized to your financial situation, and you can dig into details with followup questions. Then if you want to verify a particular tidbit you can go to Google.
I prefer zoxide, which is very similar: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
Well, you can show a movie to a group of hundreds of people simultaneously, which is something you can't really do with a physical book.
It has seem obvious that too much wishful thinking was involved in deciding that the Osprey was safe. There were too many failures, and the extreme maintenance standards that were adopted did not seem realistic.
Agreed, and I'm one of them. However flagship devices have been neutered, and core (for many peoples lives) apps require significant compromise.

Whilst there are edge cases, the majority of Android users are effectively within a walled garden, which the opposite used to be one of its strongest appeals.
>For video content, i'd say do not "buy" anything digital.

the streaming wars more or less solved that problem already. No one is even pretending to sell you content on Netflix, D+, Hulu, Paramount, etc. And that is what's reigning surpreme.

>hey, can your kids inherit your "digital content"? They can inherit your disc collection.

in theory, sure. They can take control of your accounts. I'm guessing a kid that far off is about as likely to log into my old PSN as they are to hunt down an ancient PS3/4 to play an old disc though.
You’re my girl Lorraine
Dude. Do you see a single source in this article or line indicating that OP did any original research or reporting whatsoever? Did you not look at the earlier Wired article and notice how all the language in OP is copied straight from it with some rearranging? Do all the ads and signups and links to other 'articles' on this site really look legit to you? Did you just come out of a cave and the phenomenon of blogs thinly plagiarizing regular media to create content-slurry to sell ads on is novel to you? The question is not 'what evidence do I have that it plagiarized', the question is 'why on earth are you not assuming by default that this site is plagiarizing until proven otherwise'?
You're free to make value judgments, but for a business to follow through, the economics of it must be sensible. As a consumer, I prefer a secure messaging platform over an open one any day of the week.
> nothing about computers is magic

In this vein I think about nelhage's "Computers Can Be Understood" from time to time - https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/ .
> Elon simply doesn't believe ...

IMHO the focus here on HN and elsewhere on the antics of this person leads the debate astray somewhat. (Actually on every single activity this man is involved with, not just cars.) I do not find it beneficial.

Tesla is a multinational multi-million corporation trying to compete in a market that is undergoing a technological revolution. And, a very American corporation at that (as in not exactly guided by an European value set). Tesla is not one single man. If you want understanding you should consider that.

As for the current situation in Scandinavia, this company will have to adapt or go home eventually. Option two is not really an option, so they will adapt. Pressure against them goes only one way from here, up. Same for loss in profits. It started in one country, now they already face trouble in three.

"When in Rome..."
thither:
To or toward that place; in that direction; there
To that place; -- opposed to hither.
And I'm pretty sure they chose to use 9.9.9.9 after Google made it's public DNS available at 8.8.8.8 (and I'd bet Cloudflare chose 1.1.1.1 for the same reason)
It disappeared.
If I run `sudo apt update`, how can an unrelated script get admin access?
The universe is shaped like a doughnut.
I fully agree with everything you say, but until legislation is enforced you can hardly blame a company for capitalizing on the lack of privacy laws (you can still hate them).

Point is, start demanding legislation around data privacy and security to anyone who will listen.
You might be surprised where oil comes from, and how many countries like China have lots of electricity they can bring on line but have to import most of their oil via ship, and then refine it. Going EV is more about economic security, but China is also worried about its environment.
>While there are certainly classes of games for which this is true, the majority of games work totally fine offline forever.

not necessarily. The prevalence of day one patches means certain single player games may legitimately not work properly because they expect users to at least home in once to get the content they couldn't ship on disc. But they rely on those last minute content to not have major bugs.
"What is my purpose?"
Yeah I kept expecting the next chart to be imperial mph but never saw it
(not a physicist) Dirac proposed a sufficiently long and narrow solenoid would behave as if each end was a magnetic monopole. If the math says it works, then it should be possible in nature.

Please correct my understanding if you know better and I'm wrong.
Commits Do Not Equal Productivity (2016)
ROCm 6.0 [pdf]
Retarget you for what? "Hey you should come back and read the docs on our open source project you were interested in last week"
The article spends a little time talking about the drawbacks of using CDPATH because it will break scripts, but the better answer is simply not to export it. CDPATH is a shell variable, not an environment variable, and should be treated that way.

Simply use "CDPATH=here:there" without the export, get the same functionality and no additional breakage.

Plus, on zsh you can use the tied variable cdpath instead of CDPATH(see typeset -T¹). cdpath is an array that accepts all the regular array operations. For bonus points you can even declare it with -U to remove the need to consider duplicates in your config. Other common -- and useful -- tied variables include path/PATH and fpath/FPATH².

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Shell-Builtin-Command...

² https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Parameters.html#Param...
do they need to list every single player game that has a day one patch not included on a physical disc? I guess we haven't gotten so far in game patching that some retro gamers buy a new copy of a game and can't update to 1.0.0 now.
We're making INTERCAL a reality. Soon prompts will have to include the right number of 'please's and 'thank you's.

Also, if you're worried about an AI exterminating humanity, maybe don't feed it Paul Graham essays.
> Our funding for fusion has always been below the "fusion never" line on the graph. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWQaKc8XEAAAVmZ.jpg:large

But the Lawson criterion progress is there: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Fu...