skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another fun exercise is to announce IPv6 in a network that's designed to be IPv4 only (IPv6 is announced via its own protocol rather than via DHCP, though you can also use DHCPv6 if you want to). High chances that the switches will not drop the announcement and that hosts will configure IPv6, then try to use it without the user knowing.
More or less. The automated benchmarks themselves can be useful when you weed out the models which are overfitting to them.

Although, anyone claiming a 7b LLM is better than a well trained 70b LLM like Llama 2 70b chat for the general case, doesn't know what they are talking about.

In the future will it be possible? Absolutely, but today we have no architecture or training methodology which would allow it to be possible.

You can rank models yourself with a private automated benchmark which models don't have a chance to overfit to or with a good human evaluation study.

Edit: also, I guess OP is talking about Mistral finetunes (ones overfitting to the benchmarks) beating out 70b models on the leaderboard because Mistral 7b is lower than Llama 2 70b chat.
"If your mighty hand wills it so the wheels of commerce cease to turn".

I forgot where that came from but it is a very powerful reminder who ultimately has power and that only in numbers that power can be effectively wielded.
> but 43% pay raises in union contracts were mostly unheard of

mostly unheard of?

I'd challenge anyone to show a union winning even a >25% pay raise for their employees, and even those would be unicorns.
There is a big difference between creating value, and capturing value. A business that operates on hair-thin margins arguably creates more value than one that operates at a profit, which is why we want competition to do things like lower prices.

Most of the companies at this size use a bunch of anti-competitive practices. See the wikipedia list of anti-competitive practices here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices

So something like microsoft trying to get people to use microsoft-teams and nagging people to set up onedrive for malware protection, is a clear example of market-distortion through anti-competitive practices.

Given that no one gets to be a company this size by playing "fair" then it seems perfectly "fair" to lay claim to that that excess wealth. We assume almost all profit was gathered anti-competitively since in a "fair" market competition forces you to lower your price to the bare minimum.

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I mean that's mostly bullshit for a lot of reasons, but it seems to me like just as valid a take as the atlas-shrugged "it's my money, keep your government hands off".
Let them cook. That's how many scientific breakthroughs begin.
> I think pointing to wealth inequality as the reason there is increasing disconnection is a stretch.

I think it is the chief one. Every time I have seen it suggested that it is some other thing — you don't have to peel but a few layers and find money in fact behind that other thing.
> This would explain why 99% or so of the US population's lived experience is that we're currently in a recession yet the economic statistics make it look like the economy is booming.

For many, this is to a significant degree due to the high price of housing and education (whether paying for your children's education or paying off your own educational debt). All of this is in a context where median real wages haven't increased in 50 years:

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45090.pdf

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Indicators that the economy is extremely bad right now include the current state of the job market

The current state of the job market is that 199k jobs were added in November and the unemployment rate came down to 3.7%:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

> That's not something that would be happening if we had 5% growth and 0% inflation like the president claims

Note the clarification on the tweet that 0% it is referring to the PCE - the monthly change in inflation, not the latest inflation rate, which is 3.24%. Nonetheless it's very clumsy wording by POTUS.

> at least if that looks remotely like it did back in the 1980s and 1990s during the Reagan and Clinton booms when the American economy was actually booming for everybody.

That claim isn't supported by the historical data.

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/59386/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-Rising_inc...

Note that family inequality grew under both Reagan and Clinton. The article posits that this was due to Reagan's anti-union activity and Clinton's financial deregulation.
> brick, wood, drywall, plywood, concrete, metal, and acoustic ceiling tiles is usually cheaper than Wi-Fi-penetrating materials

What are these alternative Wi-Fi-penetrating materials? And what trade offs do they have? (Cost is mentioned, but there many aspects other aspects to building materials besides cost and wi-fi penetration.)

I’m thinking the author should start by not putting their wi-fi router behind a metal plate.
If you don't mind, I'd like to propose an alternative list:

- Most of our abstractions are bad, even those we think are good. The good ones are largely already in our libraries (although even that isn't always the case unfortunately).

- Bad abstractions are a time sink.

- Writing code is also about communicating with other humans (on the team), so what they think about communication matters a lot more than what I think
You were downvoted unfairly, imo. I love Kagi to pieces but they're still catching up with what these extensions do.

I asked the developer for Google Hit-Hider to add the ability to block a 2ld (gov.br) when confronted with many results from 3ld (crap.gov.br, junk.gov.br, chum.gov.br) - and he did. You can trim the domain right in the action window. JS is one of the best people.
This is what I came here for.

There's an obvious comprehensibility complexity to code to anyone who has spent almost any time what so ever trying to make something happen in software. However, we've got zero academics or theory around it.

Just 'best practices' (ie a thing other people are known to do so if things go wrong we can deflect blame).

And code smells (ie the code makes your tummy feel bad. yay objective measures).

And dogma (ie "only ONE return point per function" or "TDD or criminal neglect charges").

Sure, please do something for QA because it'll be better than nothing. But we're probably a few decades of waiting for actual theoretical underpinnings that will actually allow us to make objective tradeoffs and measurements.
Okay, well then you're a jerk, because you're insulting me for a silly reason. I'm not defending bad behavior. I'm suggesting that we give people the benefit of the doubt rather than assassinate their character based on assumptions.

If they had permission and were okay with spending all that extra money on leftovers, it's between them and the restaurant. I don't like wasting food on principle, but now we're getting into fuzzy issues around the relationship between supply and demand. At the end of the day, if someone wants to spend their money on food and throw it in the garbage/compost, that's essentially their business.

I'd have more of a problem with it if it were meat, because there's no reasoning around the fact that an animal was killed for it. Rice is in more abundant supply with with less severe negative externalities to its production. We also don't know how much rice it was; "eight pounds" was an eyeball guesstimate that could be completely wrong or exaggerated for narrative effect.
It’s being done right now:

https://blog.padi.com/talk-to-whales-with-ai/

One difficulty is that there isn’t nearly as much whale chatter available for training data as there’s human chatter.

And one important question is, why is this useful if we don’t know what the LLM says to them? But the post above touches on that too.
This is a great article. I wish it had author attribution though - it's credited to Stay SaaSy and this page https://staysaasy.com/about.html says "we" a lot, but I much prefer to know the author of a piece rather than see it credited to a company.
In most countries with such taxes you can retire and have the state pay you.
Would answer "I use it host servers at home and have load-balanced access to internet via several end-users ISPs(no BGP sessions with ISPs so 2 VPN tunnels from home to server + 2 BGP sessions from home to said server via tunnels and server itself have session with it's ISP) count?" :)

Would "I'm just getting lists of IPs blocked by local censorship authority/IPs which are better to access via IP from OTHER country to put them all in VPN" count? :)

p.s.
I'm not network admin and never put "BGP" on resume.
These are cryptics, not crosswords. The idea is that most clues have two parts, a literal "I" and a figurative "say == 'e.g.', nothing == 'o'".

Cryptics are a language unto themselves - they're not for everyone! But i love them so much.
Pretty big news. I believe this is the first gene editing therapy approved by the FDA and theres a large backlog thats been in the works for many years. Id like to see the flood gates really open up for gene editing for diseases, preventative treatments, and even cosmetic.
Fair enough - raise it to anything over $100M then. Absolutely nobody needs more than that, and it's a policy failure that people are able to amass that kind of money - especially when it's often then deployed to help shape public policy to funnel more wealth their way.
A narcissist never means to make other people's lives hell. They are of course the best at everything they do, and if you can't keep up, that is your problem not theirs.
We are chatting about maintaining a software project written in a software programming language. Not some theoretical strawman argument youve just dreamt up because others have rightly pointed out that you don’t need a LLM to parse the output of a 20KB command line program.

As I said before, I maintain a project like this. I also happen to work for a company that specialises in the use of generative AI. So I’m well aware of the power of LLMs as well as the problems of this very specific domain. The ideas you’ve expressed here are, at best, optimistic.

by the time you’ve solved all the little quirks of ML you’ll have likely invested far more time on your LLM then you would have if you’d just written a simple parser and, ironically, needed someone far more specialised to write the LLM than your average developer.

This simply isn’t a problem that needs a LLM chucked at it.

You don’t even need to write lexers and grammars to parse 99% of application output. Again, I know this because I’ve written such software.
> 'average' people might see it in a year with an inheritance.

inherited money is not taxable income to the recipient (in the US).
The centralized digital world has created monopolies like never before.

Good for those who were smart & lucky enough to have taken advantage of this revolution.

But there was definitely some unhealthy excess & wealth gathering that's gotten very extreme & we can consider if we find this healthy and benificial for society as a whole.
A llm can write a program to compute factorial or whatever, but that doesn't mean it has consciousness. Same for writing a poem about any topic. It is of course also not evidence of no consciousness. We just don't know but the likely-hood seems low.

For whales or even dogs or great apes, I think the chances are much higher, but we just don't know. We can't even agree on a definition for what consciousness is.
> inflation-adjustment is inherently naïve. It assumes that everything rises at the same rate of inflation

It doesn't. "Real wages" are adjusted to changes in CPI. It makes no assertions that everything inflates at the same pace, any more than the overall CPI figure does the same.

If your wages went up 20%, and the CPI went up by 10% (composed of, say, a 40% rise in rent and some commensurate declines in other goods and services), your real wages went up by 10%. Of course, how that impacts actual individuals is different based on their circumstances.
Well, if someone wants to change the monetizing strategy of their company, it is advisable to figure one out before cutting the existing one.
Casdoor seems to be a good fit as a free solution of SSO: https://casdoor.org/
Car forums don’t help either when most answers are “use the search function”. Which I understand, but some things have changed and/or people have learned better since the early 2000’s when those questions were originally asked :)
> Do you make him sell 95% of his shares of Amazon? That would certainly tank the stock

Why would it tank the stock if the ownership of those shares was transferred from Bezos to a social wealth fund?
What’s clickbait-y about it? The fact that it singles out the wealthiest 25 families? Good for the author of the article that puts that into perspective, because sure as hell the wealth of the normal people surrounding me (basically middle-class people somewhere in Eastern Europe) hasn’t increased by a staggering 43% in the last year.

To the contrary, inflation and housing-related costs (among many other things) are literally causing us many sleepless hours at night.
I don't think any argument in favor of these models that includes reasoning about how humans learn is any good. That's a completely separate process that has very little to do with how these systems work. The issue here is Facebook is creating a commercial system based on data their users have uploaded to their system. If artists had known their work would be used this way, I think they'd rethink using this platform. Facebook's monopoly power over internet content also makes it impractical for you not to have a social media presence if you're trying to make a living as an artist. So you either submit to bullshit like this or damn yourself to obscurity. The fact that it's only training on public content is irrelevant.
> and use Rust

The page mentions gcc nor clang, so chances are high the “Full C compiler” is home-grown.

If so, there probably is work to do to built a Rust compiler for it.
Do we have huge fans of the 50s? I have never met one I think.
> 1 has the type int. 2.0 has the type double. Then, 1 gets converted to double. Then the whole expression has the type double. This isn't type inference.

This is just a difference in terminology. To me, what you’re describing is exactly how a type inference algorithm works. This is also the traditional academic definition of type inference, but it sounds like you’re just using it to mean “inference of the types of variables” (which makes sense as the programmer-facing definition, to be fair, because basically all languages have type inference in other places)

> This is like saying JavaScript has type inference

JS doesn’t have type inference because it’s not statically typed, but Typescript does, and it works exactly how you described it.

The difference is, with compiled languages, the compiler needs to know the type of every expression and subexpression ahead of time, to know what code to emit.
If you're being serious, then you're sticking very intentionally to the very small subset of Ruby that compiles to Crystal and missing out, unnecessarily, on the very amazing features that both languages offer to no great advantage.

I tried this very thing, and very quickly started looking for other options, landing on mruby. Compiled mruby is almost as fast as just writing bare C. I just compile an mruby interpreter and use that to run .rb files when I want speed. It's fast enough for me.

Much, much better than trying to shoehorn Crystal into this role.
You are assuming Altman is out to destroy humanity, he values his life and others just as much as you do, if not more. He has as much to lose as anybody if he blows himself up. Also who is to say deceleration in the age of AI isn’t worse than acceleration? Every govt entity is developing it, and it could be a national sec issue to speed it up faster than an adversary
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Even so, wouldn't someone still have to write either an if-then statement, or a database entry, to connect the geofencing capability to the bricking capability? Even if that was only a single line of code or SQL, it seems like a smoking gun and whoever did it can't possibly plead ignorance. No one who can operate a keyboard is that dumb.
Other dynamics, like inflation and gentrification to name a couple, can make Situation 1 basically the same in practice to Situation 2. It just makes it more difficult to point out because "everyone's money number has gone up, so the system works!"
In theory, we could train an LLM on whale "song" or bird chirps. We'd need to have lots and lots of it to feed it. But I don't think it would tell us what the animals are saying. The animals would theoretically recognize the output of the models and be able to interact with it but I don't think there is a clear path from that to our understanding.
19th century England was the height of the Industrial Revolution. Trust perpetuity probably had no effect on entrepreneurial expansion, especially considering that the aristocrats who were the primary beneficiaries of these dynastic trusts weren't the people who were engaging in entrepreneurship to begin with.
Y'know what, I just took a look and I think I would like Rust-style error handling.

It reminded me about one thing that I dislike about exception handing in C#, that methods don't have to declare the exceptions that they throw, unlike Java.

And the thing I disliked about the Java way was declaring exceptions that would be panics in Rust.

I also like that ? Rust operator for propagating errors.

I've done some Erlang and I definitely like Erlang monitors.

Maybe the Rust way combined with monitors would be the ultimate in error handling :-)
If you can control example.com actually on the root NS you should get the cert for example.com! That's not spoofing, that's owning.

If you can control the record seen in one datacenter for example.com, you don't get the cert. They check the root NSs from three DCs.
No incentive to take multi million dollar bets would mean most of the achievements of the last 200 years like railroads, airports and airliners, microchips, etc would have never gotten built.
People also seem to just be completely unaware of first degree price discrimination. Ones communication logs can be used against literally every human being on earth whether or not one has "anything to hide".

There is nobody who is "safe" from a company jacking up the prices of every product you see because you mentioned getting your paycheck in a message. Even if you don't say it directly, it can be implied from your general behavior using the same messages.
I'm not sure this implies much about PQC. The model here is LOCAL distributed computing which is pretty far from what you're concerned about in PQC.
Yes, the US is extremely corrupt in how it tilts working for a big employer more advantageous over a small employer.
Won't they need some documents that combine whale speech noises with human words to bridge the gap? Otherwise they are making comments that are just word-like or sound-like fragments.
The general idea is that in a functional society, rich people's wealth is in some non-zero part enabled by that same well-functioning society. Roads, electricity, telecoms, educated workforces, rule of law, etc etc. Amazon doesn't work if there are no roads, the open internet was never invented, no one is educated enough to read a website or drive a truck, or write software to run on AWS, and every time a truck goes out it gets hijacked and the driver murdered and the datacentre has the copper wires ripped out by an armed gang. Thus the rich person doesn't get to claim all the proceeds as theirs alone, some of it gets paid back to the society that enabled it.

Now, exactly where you draw the line between "rich people earned every penny on their own" and "rich people did nothing and deserve nothing", well, that's politics, along with "who is rich and who is not" and "why do we trust these government chaps to use that money to improve society?".
With a 4% burn rate 2 million is $80k a year plus social security.

I don't think that describes barely enough for the vast majority of people.
how'd you make the Memegen overlay text?
Will they pay you? (Just to be sure, from time to time one year later there appear horros stories.)

Do you have any experience with AI?
N1-methylpseudouridylation of mRNA causes and1 ribosomal frameshifting
Yes. Many analog design groups in college went from 10's of students 10-15 years ago to just a few now, not due to lack of funding but due to a lack of interest. Our interface to nature is through analog signals but due to the heavy reliance on HW intuition and its relative inflexibility (but more 'elegant solutions' if you ask me) analog electronics continues to grow in unpopularity in industry and academia follows. Yes, there are just some older guys updating old designs in many instances. The push for RFSOCs and similar products is partially to reduce reliance on the greybeards. Its a shame because there are very interesting areas of analog electronics such as continuous time signal processing.

TLDR: To answer your question, to reduce the reliance on a relative few engineers, the market solved it with a few products that are 'just good enough'. This has become a self perpetuating cycle, race to the bottom. There will still be many analog/RF EEs but relegated to a few niche sub-industries serving mainly the DoD and RFIC industries. Even the telecom industry is planning to pipe back raw, downconverted baseband data to a central location to do SDR DSP rather than rely on a modem at the basestation. All for flexibility in lieu of power/efficiency, NRE etc.
I do have many notifications disabled, but there are still plenty I find useful. I allow messaging apps to both put up a push notification, and vibrate my phone. My email app (and others) can put up a notification but isn't allowed to bother me with a vibration.

I don't get why people allow marketing notifications. If an app gives me a marketing notification without a way to disable it, that app gets uninstalled immediately. (Apps shouldn't even put up marketing notifications without you opting in first, but sadly this is the world we live in.)
I agree that it's better than using multiple applications, but today I just use one (for personal conversations at least, Slack for business and Discord for communities is a bit different), which is texting.
Such a list, and others, exist in most countries. Also vehicle registrations, payment card numbers and so on. It shouldn't be random.
I'm my personal opinion stuff like this are increasingly happening since MBAs started running every kind of companies, not only financial ones.

It seems to me that they push for some short term profit to get bonuses and promotions and then move to do the same things elsewhere.

However, it could also be a personal selection or survivor bias in my memory (I remember stuff like that more). Nevertheless, it really feels that very few companies optimize for the long run by prioritizing user satisfaction or similar metrics.
Andrej Karpathy's take:

New open weights LLM from
@MistralAI

params.json:
- hidden_dim / dim = 14336/4096 => 3.5X MLP expand
- n_heads / n_kv_heads = 32/8 => 4X multiquery
- "moe" => mixture of experts 8X top 2

Likely related code:
https://github.com/mistralai/megablocks-public

Oddly absent: an over-rehearsed professional release video talking about a revolution in AI.

If people are wondering why there is so much AI activity right around now, it's because the biggest deep learning conference (NeurIPS) is next week.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1733181701361451130