skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this critique would only be fair if we more completely understood how we ourselves work under the hood.

The "fancy math" is a bunch of non-linear functions that encode something derived from series of tokens. I believe we're still exploring what the derived vector spaces "mean" for LLMs, with research inspecting smaller and simplified models to try to make sense of it all.

It's clear that LLMs can "remix" in interesting ways. "ChatGPT, write me a Shakespearean-style sonnet about how LLMs work." (https://pastebin.com/FwzqWJ5W) It's not clear to me that our creativity and intelligence is not the same or a similar process.

Beyond that, I'm not convinced there are definitions of meaning, knowledge, creativity, intelligence, etc, that are both useful and don't refer solely to the output. If I need a solution and none exists yet and something creates it, I will call that creative irrespective of process.

But I don't know anything about anything. :)
I don't see where?
> Pick a taxi that won't speed or make dangerous merges.

> Pick a taxi with working seat belts.

> Pick a taxi that uses a modern car for modern safety features.

How exactly do you do any of this? The fact that no rideshare app offers these filters even though it would be trivial to add them kinda proves my point. People largely don't care about the safety rating of the car they are in as long as the ride is a few cents cheaper. But because the news tells us that Boeing planes are death traps everyone has an opinion on it.
I appreciate the matter-of-fact way the story is reported. It is told chronologically - this person said this, then this person said that - but it isn't "storyfied".

With an undercover story like this, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to switch between reporting the actual story and scenes detailing the undercover reporter's personal experience of being undercover. Add a bit of drama and thrill. Maybe there were close calls, etc. Alternatively, use the parallels with Wannsee to make it more unnerving and scary. Swap back and forth between the meetings.

I am by no means above stuff like that. I love scary, political thrillers. I wouldn't have objected if they had told it like that.

Still, I appreciate that they didn't. Probably because the story is scary and ugly enough as it is without adornment.
What does the average person know about engines in cars? Materials their houses are made of? This and about a million other complexities that are abstracted away in their lives?

Needs to isn't the write term... Going to get a lot worse is going to happen. Getting better, well the issue is in doubt.
These arguments are exhausting. Do you understand how neurons work under the hood? And yet, hook billions of them together in interesting ways, and look what happens.
The historic reason for these powers is that it is often difficult to tell in the moment who has jurisdiction. Especially if it's a moving vehicle that can cross state lines.

Railroad police arrest and detain the suspect(s) and turn them over to whatever locale is determined to have jurisdiction after the fact. At the time those laws came into being, there was no really good way around this.
Yes, to my taste, all the sweeteners have an aftertaste and an odor including stevia.
We may not be there yet but hardly a week goes by without a cold case being solved in Europe (don't know about the US).

There are judges, for example in France, who are now forcing cases to be re-opened due to greatly advanced and also greatly lowered costs for DNA testing.

So cases where DNA was collected decades ago is now usable.

A case has been solved a few days ago (forgot which one it was) but the one that impressed me the most was a cold case where the killer was a serial killer and... a cop. Once, 20 years after the last crime or so, a letter was sent to all the cops that could have been in Paris (they suspected a cop was the killer) at that time was sent to ask them for a DNA sample, that cop, now retired cop due to his age, committed suicide.

He knew it was "gg".

Bad times for bad guys who committed crimes a long time ago: at any point now the cold case may be solved.

These cold cases being solved also make it to the news, frontpage: constantly reminding those who got away with their crime that they cannot sleep tight.

It may be sci-fi, today, to use DNA to predict a face and then to run facial recognition on it but...

It's not sci-fi to use new science discoveries to solve cold cases. And I'm very happy that motherfuckers are getting caught.
Thanks for linking to the prior discussion, regarding

"Having a couple kwh of onboard batteries lets the inductor run at mind-blowing power level for a little while, while still using a boring 120v wall socket."

I went down a hole of looking at commercial induction hobs years ago noticing they all had a peak power limitation due to 120vac outlet limit. I think a fun project would be to make a pizza oven around this plug+battery concept, combining the high power induction surface with a bit of convection heat. Of course my mindset and interest has changed since then and find myself interested in more 'appropriate' technologies like a rocket mass oven.
> move them at identical speeds, with identical acceleration profiles

Now do GR.
Honestly, this is exactly what I would expect to see always. There's some percentage of complex appliances that are going to fail early in their lifetime, and the ones that last longer than a few years will probably last for decades. The fridge that's been working for 12 years with zero problems is far less likely to fail than a 5-month old fridge or a 40-year old fridge.

So I'd be surprised the the pattern hasn't always been like this to some extent. The particular rates might vary over time, but the pattern of failing appliances being either relatively new or really old is probably very consistent.
I was wondering when someone would do this.

I’ve been waiting for a solution like this since GitHub copilot came out. It seems like a natural extension.
It feels like you're trying to win on semantics here.

Right now you as a developer pay $X for access to their eco system, and on top of that you pay 15/30% of whatever payments they process for you.

You can say "well actually, that 30% isn't all for the payment processing" but I don't why it matters what Apple's intention behind the payment is.
It's really hard to test for security.

It's much more feasibly to be secure by construction.
"anarchy" pretty much literally translates from its Greek roots as "without rulers".

"Hierarchy" comes from "heira", which means "sacred rites". So it's "the rites which rule". In other words, "the process through which people are organized to do things"

To make it nice and confusing, "anarchism" has been applied to so many systems of beliefs over the years that it has no clear meaning on its own. To some people, it absolutely means "no structure whatsoever".

Etymology.com links:

hierarchy: https://www.etymonline.com/word/hierarchy
anarchy: https://www.etymonline.com/word/anarchy
Well as a present practitioner, I say it's possible, done every day, and more common than you think. And I don't care how many old secondhand books you stand on.
If you're rich enough to not have any neighbours within the viewshed, it's possible to avoid walls entirely: https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/Issues/201...
That doesn't sound as comfortable, nor as cyberpunk.
I'm not saying that at all. If you want to go visit space I'm all for it -- the robots can look after you. I'm interested in doing so myself.

But I don't deceive myself by claiming that there is significant scientific value beyond the self-referential "see how people survive in space." If I end up in orbit it'll be entirely for entertainment value.
It's not a 1D spectrum. You can have laissez-faire arrangements that still preclude massive concentration of capital (and thus effectively gut capitalism) without going all in on public ownership of everything. The key thing to remember is that private property rights themselves require some kind of government to maintain by using force when necessary - i.e. the existence of private property is inherently a step away from true "laissez-faire". Thus the government doesn't need to aggressively collectivize anything to avoid concentration of capital; it just needs to refuse to protect such concentrated capital.
Apple's App Tracking Transparency and Advertising
academic study on the effects of Apple's App Tracking Transparency on the advertising market
Tell the vendor you are equipping a restaurant?
Bpfman: An eBPF Manager
Yeah Hetzner doesn't have dedicated in the US, and not sure if it will in near/mid future.

Still, Hetzner cloud is pretty good option, and there's more support coming on building on Hetzner.

https://www.ubicloud.com/ (from founders of citus) is mainly/currently targeting hetzner, for example.
Why? How do 3min load/unload zones work then? This grace period would put a lower bound on parking times and convert “no parking” areas to “at least 15 minutes”.
CLI tool, written in Rust, to diff directory snapshots
yea sf companies are definitely known to cleanup their hacks to go to market at any cost w a barely working thing later
I’ll believe it when each service is operated by an independent company.
Just don't call it a beta. It's released software at this point. If you want to limit the release to a smaller group of select users you can do that regardless of what you call it.

Edit: If you need a marketing term, Microsoft calls similar releases "Insider Preview Builds"[1]. You don't have to call it that, but this example is a lot more descriptive than "beta". I wonder what Tesla calls actual pre-release software that's not ready to go out to customers. "Alpha"?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsinsider/
It detects events when I’m awake which led me to suspect it was not working properly. According to Cpap forums awake readings are invalid, but sleep measurements are?

I’ve had a sleep study which determined I need a Cpap machine but they never did the study while wearing it and my readings vary greatly from 3 to 30 AHI per hour with it on.

In hindsight, I have exceedingly “freakishly” large lungs which may explain the slow breathing. My concern has been waking up with a daily headache which has been suggested by other doctors to be due to uncontrolled sleep apnea.
I think the main use case remains behavior changes: instruction finetuning, finetuning for classification, etc. Knowledge addition to the weights is best done via pretraining. Or, if you have an external database or documentation that you want to query during the generation, RAG as you mention.

PS: All winners of the NeurIPS 2023 LLM Efficiency Challenge (finetuning the "best" LLM in 24h on 1 GPU) used LoRA or QLoRA (quantized LoRA).
Well, code size is another interesting aspect here. A JIT compiler can effectively create any number of versions for a hot method, based on even very aggressive assumptions (an easy one would be that a given object is non-null, or that the interface only has a single instance loaded). The checks for these are cheap (e.g. it could be encoded as trapping an invalid page address in case of NPEs), and invalidation’s cost is amortized.

Contrast this with the problem of specialization in AOT languages, which can easily result in bloated binaries (PGO does help here quite a lot, that much is true). For example, generics might output a completely new function for every type it gets instantiated with - if the function is not that hot, it actually makes sense to rather try to handle more cases with the same code.
About Stolen Device Protection for iPhone
Not sure if it's that I'm an old timer who's been thinking about MR platforms for decades or not (has it been 17 years since Rainbow's End won the Hugo?), but the idea of wanting screen-based apps in your view isn't super important to me. Have netflix on your physical TV with other things in the overlay. Or pipe it through your phone.

It's a totally new medium. Think Differently.
If the speed of light were different in one direction, the CMB would not look as uniform as it is.
We had that for awhile, until finally the motor gave out and it was "easier" for me to buy a new Speed Queen set than fix the old (and the wife wanted an upright anyway instead of the front-loader).

The whole fun was using the coins! I even bothered looking up how to reset the cost so it was only a dollar, too many coins was annoying.
History and flashback are not equivalent terms. Most history books do not open with a dramatic moment at a critical juncture of [historical event] and then flip back and forth between the lead-up and the dramatic moment to maintain narrative tension. This is sensationalism; it's literally designed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

And no, Homer does not use this technique in the Iliad, other than brief verbal allusions back to the original cause of the Trojan war. The Iliad starts in the middle of the conflict, but doesn't repeatedly skip the narrative backward in time; the plot is linear and the the dramatic tension comes from wondering if/when the champion warrior Achilles is going to stop sulking over a perceived insult and rejoin his army to fend off the Trojans.
See also Gish gallop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
I wouldn't live anywhere near New York City.
I think the biggest lie about the Tesla sensor suite as it exists today is that it’s suitable for Tesla Vision and that it can satisfy Musk’s fair concept of “if humans can drive with only vision, a computer should be able to, too.”

As far as I understand, those cameras are roughly equivalent to functionally 1080p devices which can’t even coherently recreate license plate characters a few meters away from your vehicle.
I loved the writing but I don't get the point or the title.
Am I supposed to infer some sort of conspiracy theory? or is it just supposed to be funny?
I am aware of the thought experiment you are referring to, but if I witnessed a group of monkeys write the full works of Shakespeare in my lifetime then yes, I would actually consider it something worthy of investigating.

However I can see you are not engaging in this conversation in good faith so I don't think there is anything else to discus with you.
The 737 MAX has crashed 2 times in 800,000 flights - >100M passengers.

The industry average for plane crashes is 1 in 16.7M flights. The 737 MAX is 1 in 400,000.

This seems a lot worse than most people are making it out to be on here. It's close to 2 orders of magnitude worse than the industry average.

And if I'm doing my math right, you have a higher chance of dying getting aboard a 737 MAX than you do getting in your car (obviously, you're going to travel A LOT farther on the MAX than you would on an average car trip - so per mile it's still significantly safer than a car).
Start and stop does the most wear per unit of time, but constant motion also does wear.

Start and stop tends to cost a lot of energy, and high speed also tend to need more power. High speed also does more wear. Overall though, a small compressor on high speed 100% of the time is better than a larger compressor on lower speeds most of the time - but that isn't a realistic option as there are too many variables to allow choosing the perfect compressor size. So a oversized compressor running at low speed most of the time is generally best.
When I think about old fashiony ways to pronounce robot, the only thing i think of is Zoidberg pronoucning it "rowbit" https://youtu.be/mh5NSmVs_uk?t=26
It matters.

Keeping people on this medication for life seems like a really bad thing - atleast until we clearly know what the long term effects are. Those are unknown.

The other medication you mention is known, studied, affordable.
Comparing insulin to Ozempic is .. well, a non-comparison in my book.

Generally speaking - definitely for something that you can treat with a life style change and some inconvenience in the beginning - a life where you can live without a drug is better than one where you keep being dependent on it.

Unless you're the pharma industry, that is.
> My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more?

I'd say that it can't, because it's not an AI problem, but rather a media problem.

In general, people are more interested in sensational reporting ("You won't believe what X did") than well thought out, factual reporting.

The solution is a slower news cycle with enough time to do fact checking and analysis of how the events fit in the bigger picture, but that's incompatible with up to the minute news. AI doesn't help with this.
I suppose you could synchronize them first, then swap their positions randomly, and try again.
> Today you're almost never offline though, you even have wifi on airplanes.

The airplane wifi is good enough to look up an API, but it's not good enough to sync a code repo, especially one with large assets.
> MBAs did it again! Your refrigerator was too reliable, so it had to be MBAed so you can keep buying new ones each year.

Should we blame individual MBAs, or the governments that create the market / regulatory environments that make such choices rational (or even necessary for survival)?

E.g., governments could alter consumer-protection laws to make it financially unwise for a manufacturer to sell devices likely to fail in the first 10 years.
Computers doesn't understand anything. Some people understand this.

The ones that don't will not understand how they were wrong.
All this surveillance, with virtually every car just a bug itself and still the criminals can just easily do these thefts without any effort being made to catch them - what the hell is the point of surveillance society when can’t even be bothered to use it for its limited benefits like returning the car to it’s owner.
That doesn't sound too dissimilar from what human brains do, if you replace "math" by "spiking neural network"
Heh. Our house came with a fancy IoT piezoshit dishwasher that had three pumps in it; one died within a year, the second died a year later, and after $800 spent fixing it we were quoted another $800 to fix the control panel on top of the door once it got steamed to death.

I replaced it with the cheapest washer Lowe's had for $425 and it's been painless for years. It's what a landlord would have done.

Tech for domestic life hasn't advanced since the 1970s. We have self-driving cars, but you still have to fold your own laundry.
Whoa no, 100% of their funds don't go to salaries. I'd guess it would be substantially lower than a 6.5% budget increase, even.
in developing countries you'd probably have AC in a single room of the house, usually the bedroom. Having AC in the whole house is very much a luxury.

source: I live in Brazil
But they are rolling out support. Philips is one prominent example.
Do without your advertising for a while, or risk selling it with the advertising intact. I just think it's weird to sue a buyer for not removing it when you left it there.
Look at Mr bonuse-pants here. Y'all get bonus for writing software?
I wonder if people have different genetic predispositions that influences how sugar taste to them. Like I have with cilantro (a bit, a tiny tiny bit is okayish but more than that and it's.. ugh... it's not even soap it's.. bleh..).
Most of them in my town are newer than the street view data, here's a couple older ones however

- https://maps.app.goo.gl/cec7VtUmDsAeHm5w7

- https://maps.app.goo.gl/h3p8xeBWgrAM7TjF8 (see directly behind this view as well)

- https://maps.app.goo.gl/GHcmRYGQS6fmMX1p9

A previous poster has a good example of the style as lll
I just sold an old Speed Queen dryer (20 years old!) for like $200, and the guy who bought it told me that he resells them and it's worth way more than that. I get why it will never break down; it's just a metal box with two resistive coils, a drum, a fan, and a single dial.

But while it will run forever, it also consumes 5,000 watts and pumps conditioned air out of my house the entire time it's running (when my vent isn't clogged, which is never). I replaced it with a heat pump dryer and love it. Yes, it's 1000 times more complicated, and yes, it may (will?) require repair at some point, but it plugs in to a 120-volt outlet, and requires no venting at all. Maybe I won't love it in a decade, but life is short. :D
A color, a data array, and a pointcloud all contained in one .png
i don't think these images are enough to rule in nintendo's favor. they're similar but not exact copies.
While it's not mandated, as I pointed out ("There's nothing inherent stopping the addition of extensions to allow the same split as in X"), I'm not aware of a single Wayland compositor for which it isn't true. If there is one, I'd love to hear about it.
The idea in D is to make the following unnecessary:

struct S {
int m_field;
int field() { return m_field; }
void field(int c) { m_field = x; }
}

just to future proof the field access. Don't bother with the access functions until they are actually needed.
I would say it’s published like a slide deck, I haven’t seen any blogs that look like this
The link to the page to look up your local snoops: https://atlasofsurveillance.org
> they're telling you that you shouldn't be living in a $1500/mo apartment on $15/hr.

This is directly saying that janitors, coffee pourers, cashiers, etc shouldn't be able to live where they work. This is explicitly saying that people who can't get a valuable job should be expected to commute farther, longer, less reliably, etc than anyone else.

Why? Does SV not buy coffee? Does NYC not need to be cleaned? These jobs need to be done, and it isn't the janitor's fault nobody built a damn apartment complex in the city to house them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara

> We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Amara's Law is a good one, esp in these circles where we have many people working on cutting edge technology. They often give up because it doesn't see adoption, and then move on to something else. Two or three cycles later, when that technology is finally gaining traction, someone takes some off the shelf components and slaps it together, profiting in ways that the original creators would have liked to have seen.

Timing is everything, and the technoseti are often _too early_. But they also underestimate how big something will get.

I am a huge Python fan, but I never expected back in 2000 that it would be as big as it is today. Never. Cloud Computing, NLP, etc. Google suffers from this immensely.
Officially, it's open source as long as "the code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose".
> thankfully other things went well in my life

Like what?
This seems like a return, not to Object Oriented development per se, but to the project that motivated the development object oriented languages: to allow for the expression an isomorphism (a one-to-one mapping) of entities in the world with entities in the software system. The authors of Smalltalk were particularly insistent on this idea.

As Wittgenstein famously pointed out, to conceptualize language as a correspondence between signs and objects has caused many to ignore the diversity of actual language use.
Divine benevolence
My feeling is that the media including newspapers are the ones destabilizing the concept of truth itself in their reporting.

The media have been going out of their way to elevate themselves as the arbiters and gatekeepers of “truth” all the while using their coverages and how they frame the coverages to push people towards their view of the world.
Why exactly does perl not rot?