skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly many people seem to believe LLMs cannot form any deeper world models beyond superficial relationships between words, even if figuring out a "hidden" model allows for a big leap in prediction performance – in this case, a hypothesis corresponding to chess rules happens to be give the best bang for the buck for predicting strings that have chess notation structure.

But the model could in principle just have learned a long list of rote heuristics that happen to predict notation strings well, without having made the inferential leap to a much simpler set of rules, and a learner weaker than a LLM could well have got stuck at that stage.

I wonder how well a human (or a group of humans) would fare at the same task and if they could also successfully reconstruct chess even if they had no prior knowledge of chess rules or notation.

(OTOH a GPT3+ level LLM certainly does know that chess notation is related to something called "chess", which is a "game" and has certain "rules", but to what extent is it able to actually utilize that information?)
Discussed at the time:

1195725856 and other mysterious numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036058 - Jan 2020 (78 comments)
Just as an aside on how far we've come since the mid-1980s: back then I had heard of a "Dungeon Definition Language" for writing adventure games (IF) by someone at UCSD(?). I emailed him to ask for the source code, and he kindly granted me access. Instead of a 'git clone' or downloading a tarball, however, this involved me (a) snail mailing him a paper cheque covering the costs of a tape, operator time, and postage; (b) waiting a week or so; and (c) finally receiving a large puffy envelope in the mail, which I was able to have read into my account (for free, due to a friendly sysadmin) the next working day. Then, of course, there was the usual hour or so of (d) fixing up all the little places where your correspondent's unix didn't do things quite how your home system's unix did, before having a copy that actually built and ran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape
That is what they are creating at the moment. Lets wait and see, sounds like an amazing idea.
They are already succeeding, it's a matter of time.

They can already build functional smartphones without relying on Taiwan at all. It's not a huge technology leap from a smartphone CPU to a consumer GPU. Design and engineering leap, sure but nothing a dozen PhDs can't solve in a few years.
This seems like the eventual subject of a business case study in how dysfunctional corporate cultures can lay somewhat dormant in a company, and then infect the other parties in a merger.
The paperwork (here: https://indigo-sula-41.tiiny.site/) includes transcripts of the jokes and more context.

My favorite part is probably when the arbiter explains how "the use of the word “fuckable” when applied to elderly women approaching their grave can be interpreted as mildly inflammatory"
There also shouldn’t be any shame in focusing on the work, if that’s what you want.

It follows that shining light on value should be a shared responsibility. It’s not just the creator that’s negatively impacted when we fail to do so. We all are.
You probably need to ignore the first comment thread to see the comment of interest.
> The most revered/successful societies on earth are the complete opposite of diverse.

[citation needed]

Which societies? Revered by whom? Successful by what metric?
Oh interesting - those circumferences are actually closer than I assumed they would be!
I honestly believe they can match whatever Nvidia and others are doing, but it's just not economically viable or interesting for them right now.

I'm sure that if we give them the finger, they'll invest a lot more and just make their own. It'll take some time and a lot of $$$, but they'll do it.
wow, such a great and detailed explanation!
Some of the people who would be upset now would have been then, but I think there are more of them, and more flavors today.
Well done him for not taking it lying down.

But what happens now? Won’t he just hate his job because he’s working in a place where he has made himself deeply unpopular?

I’m intrigued how the situation is ordinarily resolved. Does he tough it out? Do the managers get fired? Does the company settle privately to make it all go away?
I see it as far more likely that this just becomes like what happened with blackface or harassing women.

The first few were driven out of office such as Al Franken and Mike Ertel.

But then Donald Trump and Ralph Northam just refused to leave and as ever more instances of it were uncovered among many politicians (most critically the replacements for Northam), the issue died due to the high cost required of having it remain a disqualifying behaviour.

Neither Oxman nor any member of MIT will be substantially impacted by the end of all this.
Nuclear is like 2,000,000 times more dense than oil and it's perfectly safe with proper engineering. Far more people have died harvesting oil, nevermind the geopolitical problems with it, and far more people have died from coal mining than nuclear power plant disasters.

Nuclear alone is enough to sustain civilization nearly infinitely.

Meanwhile, natural gas is plentiful, geothermal is plentiful, solar and wind is plentiful and all of these contribute to energy availability.

Oil still has its uses, it's not going to go away, but I suspect consumption will be reduced by 90% or more in the next 2 decades.
We really need a list of verbs we're allowed to use when talking about computers and verbs that belong in the magic human/animal-only section
And yet Elon outcompeted them all… ;)
For some reason I had a feeling they were referring to something different.

Anyway, I am aware of the whole bubble thing, although I don't think its unique for the US, at least no entirely.

It's quite similar to countries with their own sovereign media. That's why people often think that those other guys hand out talking points to their journalists, when it's actually all about hiring people with good political sense, who feel "the flow" and know what is politically correct.

The difference is that people with 3 digit IQ typically know how dive into foreign media (or even passively exposed to it), while people in the US dominated part of the world just kinda don't even care.

I wonder if it was different when the Fairness Doctrine was in place - probably not, cross-cultural fairness seems like something too complicated to scale well.
I use PocketBase for mostly everything where I need a back end now. I came across a situation where I needed to write a custom SQL join (technically I could have just fetched all the data and done it in Node, I suppose).

I was shocked at how easy it was to write the query even inserting URL parameters and selecting based on the authenticated user only.

Fully recommend for basically everything. Great app. Not sure it would replace Next or Remix, but definitely add to the stack to simplify.
Very nice idea. Seems way simpler than the STUN protocol.
> Strawman. Integration isn't the same thing as diversity, and doesn't automatically follow from it either. Different kinds of people living in the same locality doesn't mean they form an "integrated society". Almost every large city is a testament to that. The idea that city people are more empathetic and understanding than villagers because they live in a more diverse environment flies in the face of everyday experience.

You are calling for empiricism but mixing your arguments with anecdotes and "everyday experience". The empirical argument looks at questions like integrated communities as a form of diversity, and finds that it has socially beneficial consequences -- exactly what kind of diversity are you referring to which is distinguishable from integration? Do elaborate so that we can examine that in an empirical lens.

> Appeal to consequences, and thus irrelevant to whether my arguments are correct or not. Not that I accept the ridiculous assertion that my arguments are in any way comparable to the ones you are linking them to.

Let me draw the connection for you: do you agree or disagree that your initial line of reasoning would support the conclusion that ethnostates are morally neutral? When this reasoning is placed in a historical context, are you blind to the means by which ethnostates have historically arisen?
No one claimed it was not lossy. The alarnm is you're not supposed to be able to get anything and this is definitely something, and will probably get better still, just like they already have some better than other results for the same image.
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I can't see it being superhuman, that's for sure. Chess AI are superhuman because they do vast searches, and I can't see that being replicated by an LLM architecture.
The US government doesn't give a shit about stuff like this when it comes to high profile enough people. As long as you are useful and not a real threat to national security, then they will do what is required.
Retro-style homebrew computer (with neat wiring)
on the other hand, an opt-in international alternative financial system is a pretty cool idea and warrants further investigation and more hacking
The latter. As you say, adventure games are basically state machines as I understand it. (I know a bunch of the Infocom folks but never dug into the technical details.)

I guess I don’t have a clear idea of exactly what I’m asking for aside from a general feeling that you could create more natural feeling interactions with today’s technologies. But I’m not sure what that would look like. I should chat with one of my Infocom friends one of these days.
Depending on company policy? If a company believes (rightly or wrongly) that allowing drugs in their workplace will be beneficial why not let them?

The only place where it should remain outlawed is situations where it could lead to accidents like driving heavy machinery, etc.
Not much to disagree with there. ARMv3 is not bad. They'd got the flags out of the PC. A bit annoying to have only (IIRC) the "Single Data Transfer" format for load/store of words or zero-extended bytes. No halfword, and no sign-extended byte. That's pretty much the instruction count difference to RV32I right there, as that has uniform W, H, HU, B, BU handling -- and with the same choice of offsets in all cases, unlike ARM. I might prefer ARMv4 because of that e.g. ARM7TDMI, but ignoring Thumb. But it does add instruction encoding complexity.

Reading hex dumps -- it's never going to be easy to make hand readable/writable instruction formats in hex when you have 5 bit register fields. I've sometimes thought about doing a hex-friendly RV32E custom encoding.

PUSH/POP multiple is handy for function entry/exit, but the A32 asm syntax for it isn't very friendly. Thumb is better in that regard. RISC-V lets you write functions that set up the stack frame and save ra and s0-sN by using an alternative return address register (traditionally x5), and similarly functions to restore the registers and return. GCC even comes with these functions (total 96 bytes of code last time I looked) and uses them if you give the -msave-restore option. That cuts down function length a lot.
Yeah this is the drawback I was talking about. Vim certainly helps a bit, but some kind of editor or plugin which allowed you to more easily move stuff around, draw lines, draw boxes and circles, etc. would be very handy. The current approach is moving characters around by hand, which is quite tedious.
> ...Musk, who was nearly an hour late to arrive at the all-hands meeting about the company’s latest rocket.
When he finally took the stage, Musk was strangely incomprehensible at times. He slurred his words and rambled for around 15 minutes...

I don't think anyone cares whether or not he do molly sometimes, but this is really something different. He is after all CEO for the only U.S. company now approved to transport NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
This is somewhat still this way in China, as we can see in architecture and infrastructure projects that are often bold, ambitious, and which happen rather quickly once decided.

In Europe, especially, it is very difficult nowadays for good and bad reasons.

Note, though, that this was for a temporary exhibition so being bold and forward-looking, with a level of showing off, what the whole point.
It’s not a meme, it’s explained in one of the first chapters of the official documentation, in a section titled “snapshots, not differences”: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3...

You and some others in this comment section are simply wrong about this. Everybody is wrong sometimes, that’s no problem. But your righteous tone (“meme”, “amazes me”) after clearly having spent zero minutes of research is not what I would consider a constructive way to engage in a discussion.
It's suprisingly cheap. 2 dollar/month for the first year and 10 dollar / month after that.
Do you want to have lunch at Tia's in Mesquite, Texas?
How Random Are Random Numbers?
Yeah, it's pretty minor stuff of no real import to many ... unless someone had a background in geodesy and had to measure fields on a oblate spheroid with fragmented moving plates girt by sloshing fluids.
There's also a giant speed difference plus the fact that a car will decelerate even if uncontrollably for basically any mechanical failure. Even at speed vehicle accidents are quite safe comparatively to a plane that has lost its ability to fly. A plane tends to have all or nothing incidents while vehicles have lots of accidents with a wide variety of severity.

Naturally that tends to push aviation towards avoidance of mechanical issues and on cars we are much more tolerant. I've seen people driving cars with their door duck taped on!
Interesting! I haven't made anything serious yet with the PocketBase (mostly due to lack of time & not anything to do with PB).

I'm curious to know what kind of projects did you build using PB and how was your development experience?
Every Airbus built in the last 40 years is fly by wire.
Was hoping it to be about telephone numbers
I didn't want to claim it was universal when I've mostly flown within Europe.
Did you remember to disable the open ssh server and NAT hole puncher after you finished with installation?
A commenting system where users can annotate specific parts of the text, a bit like Google Docs comments.

A system to vote up or down on arbitrary content/items.

A uptime monitoring tool that allows pushing a specific status, for example when a build fails.
> how would you make it different?

Make the cost of reusing software non-zero again.

It doesn't have to be as painful as C++ without package managers, but should make every developer spend about 5~10 minutes labor work for adding each direct dependency, or one minute for each new dependency in the dependency closure.
Go on then, tell me which platform you can't use Rust or at least C++ when you can use C with standard library?
> What's the strength of play for the GPT architecture?

Pretty shit for a computer. He says his 50m model reached 1800 Elo (by the way, its Elo and not ELO as the article incorrectly has it, it is named after a Hungarian guy called Elo). It seems to be a bit better than Stockfish level 1 and a bit worse than Stockfish level 2 from the bar graph.

Based on what we know I think its not surprising these models can learn to play chess, but they get absolutely smoked by a "real" chess bot like Stockfish or Leela.
What ultimately matters is the competitiveness of Elon's offering and my understanding is that it's competitive enough that Uncle Sam can't afford to stick to their bullshit ideals and has to compromise.
Real link: https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results
Where do you shop for the things that go into or on your body if I may ask?
This looks promising: https://gitlab.com/eidheim/Simple-WebSocket-Server

It includes http/https/ws/wss client and server code in just a few files (although last I checked, some files are needlessly duplicated in 2 different repos).
Just like individual flow, group flow is not an automatic and you can do great things without it. Its role also is not to keep the group "together".
Try NAC, seriously. It's the only thing that worked for me and this is coming from someone that will bite off acrylics.

https://www.today.com/health/how-stop-nail-biting-supplement...

If you have a poke on Google Scholar, you'll find the science is quite good on this one.
C++ Programming for Linux Systems
No it's not. Crews are trained for decompression events and they've happened at higher altitudes than 26,000 feet before with no airframe loss at all (for example, the Southwest 737-700 where a fan blade ruptured the window happened at 33,000 feet). It may likely have been a fatal incident but definitely not likely a crash.
People tested them. That's especially true for brand names like 3M.

Would you link to the tests?

My masks were made in South Korea, and I bought directly from the
manufacturer's US-based distributor.

Also link please!
> naively, it doesn't seem very surprising that enormous amounts of self play cause the internal structure to reflect the inputs and outputs?

Right. Wait, are you talking about AI or humans?
I remember being given the marshmallow test as a kid. It was so blatantly condescending and manipulative that I was utterly disgusted.

For one thing, I lived in a household dominated by a raging drunk father who would mercilessly beat anyone who dared to question him, let alone disobey. So, sure, I could take adult orders just fine. But that left the question as to why. Apparently this creep expected to learn something from the exercise which made me sad. And I feared having to deal with his children as peers if he had any.

They also completely failed to ask or notice anything about my loathing for marshmallows. I thought they were completely awful non food and didn't want anything to do with them ever. Just smelling them and touching them was unpleasant. So I took my two marshmallows from the encounter and gave them to the first other kid I met who wanted them.
I work with a lot of glaciologists and I think another part of it is that the field is dominated by people who would rather be skiing. That is, they don't so much care about the science as much as the adventure. And adventure bros seem to also overlap a lot with rapists. Coupled with the power of "granting adventure" to impressionable students, postdocs eager to succeed, etc. And you have a great environment to have rape everywhere even without alcohol.
For 300 Euros you can get Interrail and and ride around Europe all you want for 4 days in a month.
Quality is going to shit across the board, so short of being able to buy quality, at least why not buy the cheapest flavor of shit?
Lol I can see trolls on reddit using this when people are asking for which npm npm package they should use.

"Just install the everything package, then you will be sure to have the right package"
Without the new error bounds it’s a bit hard to know what to think.
Where do you guys live where your getting these counterfeits and sketchy items? I really want to know. Not being snide. My experience has been very different with Amazon, which is why Im puzzled.

Are you guys not in the U.S.?
> Dart+Flutter look promising until you notice that they run Skia WASM inside the dart VM which itself runs in WASM which runs inside a JS VM and performance is abysmal.

That's not how Flutter works on either of the platforms it supports.

When you run natively (e.g. mobile, desktop, etc) Skia or Impeller execute natively and all your Dart code is compiled ahead-of-time to native code as well. No JS or Wasm is involved anywhere in the stack. No JIT compilation in release binaries, only during development.

When you run on the Web - then naturally Skia is compiled to Wasm and Dart code is compiled to JS or Wasm, JS VM will end up running both of those. No Dart VM is involved anywhere here.
Slightly related, i can also highly recommend anyone interested in such topics to look at the roman javelin, the Pilum.

Its design is outright genius. The thin long tip would penetrate shields far enough to possibly injure the guy behind it but also get stuck in a way that made the shield unwieldy to the point of uselessness.

Visualization from the Smithsonian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY3CzN2Kkc
Discussion on CNBC article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893909
Any particular reason why that shouldn't work well with fine-tuning of an LLM using reinforcement learning?
It's not self-play. It's literally just reading sequences of moves. And it doesn't even know that they're moves, or that it's supposed to be learning a game. It's just learning to predict the next token given a sequence of previous tokens.

What's kind of amazing is that, in doing so, it actually learns to play chess! That is, the model weights naturally organize into something resembling an understanding of chess, just by trying to minimize error on next-token prediction.

It makes sense, but it's still kind of astonishing that it actually works.
The article only mentioned SF schools having done so a decade ago. FWIW, I have several kids in K-12 in the Bay Area schools and can say there’s zero talk of this within our school system or from the administrators I’ve interacted with. One of my kids took algebra in middle school last year and that was after we didn’t push them into a more advanced class. My kids are wonderfully different academically: one has special education needs, another literally maxed the scale in the mathematics portion of the state standardized tests, and another is beautifully well rounded. All have been supported, encouraged, and even pushed in mathematics by our public schools.
More on this by the author:

"Pop-sci" description:

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-method-straighten-space.html

Another paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.12649...
I think the article was quite fine, compared to the average pop science article.

And by all practical means, savely tapping into the earths heat, would indeed mean unlimited energy for our needs (there is a LOT of heat down there). We also say solar is renewable, even though the sun does not last forever. But within our frame of reference - it does.

I am just sceptical, that we can indeed use that energy savely on a global scale, without causing massive side effects like earth quakes, as the core of the earth is hardly understood. But this is, what this research is about, so I think it is exciting and about time, someone makes that experiment.
Airplanes are literally hundreds of times less likely to kill you per mile than cars

A weird metric. I'd prefer travel time, not per mile.

Still far safer.
There are certainly people leaving for these reasons. Yet polls also show that there are also plenty of left-leaning folk who move.
Interested in the Nortel acquisitions, do you have a reference? I don’t see that in the Wikipedia narrative, but maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Nice work.

Do you plan to stay one-time fee or go for subscriptions?

In the "As seen on...", do you refer to this HN post with it? How about the StackOverflow? Asking as I might add similar section to a site.

Love the "Made with BuildFlask" badge
> I don't get it. Why would someone not "like it"?

"You may not like it, but..." is a stupid meme.
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Thank you!

I'll think about delaying that popup. :)

I should delay asking about notifications as well. It's for the support chat that I mentioned in the article. If I write back in that chat, I fire a local notification. Makes sense more sense to ask for that permission only when the user has written something to the chat.
So why on earth is std::string so slow to compile, if it's possible to compile this full-featured formatting library in 1/4 of the time?