skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to some extent, though I also wouldn't be surprised if a models ability to evaluate is tied to it's ability to predict. Better predictors evaluate better.

I also expect that evaluation ability doesn't grow linearly with prediction ability, so I doubt that a model will be able to fully optimise it's evaluation potential on it's own.

Could be wrong though, will be interesting to see. If I'm right on the former and wrong on the latter we could see maybe models self evaluating to an "optimal" state, for whatever it thinks optimal is via self evaluation is anyway.

Or this could be a somewhat useful case of overfitting that just refines a few bits.
The quiz is exactly right: yes, the answers are all "I don't know" because the behavior is either implementation defined or undefined for each of them, and a couple of these reflect mistakes that I have had to point out in code reviews in recent years: expressions with multiple side effects without a sequence point, and shifting a N bit integral type by N bits (yes, that is undefined because some processor instruction sets mess up that case). C and C++ programmers need to be taught that they must not write that.
Few problems with this theory.

1.Competing purely on result quality with Google is like competing with Coke based purely on having a subjectively better tasting formula.

If it really was better at search than Google (and scaled, was economical, etc.) it would have to be VASTLY better to get people to switch. Google has the brand, the defaults, the ecosystems, decades of habit forming, etc. It would not be enough to just be "better". Traditional wisdom would say it would have to be 10x better (the idea of quantifying a subjective improvement like this is absurd ofc.)

2. AGI aspires to be human-like. I don't see a human like intelligence as anywhere near Google's level for search results. A traditional vision of an AGI would be like asking your clever mate. Useful, but not for search.

3. Even if something came along which was truly better enough, Google themselves would have to not have access to it/something comparable. You would need to somehow have a lasting, huge & exclusive advantage.

4. Even if there was something that was a clear 10x improvement on Google, which had novel tech which Google could not themselves replicate, then Google would simply acquire them. Almost everything Google has done since the original site has been acquiring a tech, applying operational expertise, network effects, etc. & acting as essentially a distributor.
Anthropic accuses music publishers of 'volitional conduct'
The ability to self-evaluate seems to be improved by adding highly evaluated output to its training data. I'm not sure how far that technique can be pushed but it's very promising given the performance of this 70b model. I bet progress in the self-evaluation technique could let this trick go quite far.

It's hard to say how well this would work on a MoE model, but best case scenario is something decently better than GPT4 that can run on 2x3090/4090 or 1x48gb 5090.
Hmm I am definitely not referring to French restaurants, at least not more than 2-3% of what I'm thinking of but ok.
With the rise of the nationalist-populist movements and the retreat of democracy and international trade, didn't Friedman get it spectacularly wrong?
Lotus Notes is like IE6, amazing when it first came out, reviled by the time it died. One of those, 'if only they'd kept working on it' products.
But Singapore IS very wealthy, yet they have not gained any of those freedoms. That’s the issue.
Yeah I convinced my nephew to buy a 96 F150 extended cab that was basically rebuilt from the ground up and while it doesn't have all the modern amenities, he's the one everyone wants to hop in the car and go somewhere. they think it's cool and see that it's basically a great experience, if a lot more minimalistic than a Tesla. It's still got AC/heat/great stereo system(thanks to me!)/power steering/foot room. I think younger people can appreciate that tech doesn't necessarily bring a lot of added utility.
I don't think it's nearly that high for the moon
Exactly. The answer isn't "I don't know". The answer is "Undefined". This isn't pedanticism. It's being unambiguous.

This was a semantic quiz, not a technical one.
Along these lines, I remember a program back in ~2006 that would allow you to download songs from other machines on a LAN network if they had iTunes open. Something about iTunes defaulting to sharing libraries on the network.

As someone in college at the time, this felt like a music goldmine. I remember running the program over night and downloading thousands of songs from other machines on campus. And while I was going to say I can't remember the name of it, I just fell down a rabbit hole of Google searches and found it, ourTunes!

https://ourtunes.sourceforge.net/
Have you seen the examples of midjourney reproducing exact frames of Dune, Star Wars etc? With vague prompting not asking for the media property specifically. It's pretty close to querying a database, except if you're asking for something that's not there it's able to render an interpolated result on the fly. Ask it for something that is there however and the model will dutifully pull it up.
If I would rework that snippet to be in C instead of C++, that code would no longer be my today’s WTF. Also, IMO `std::max` is more readable than the equivalent conditional operator.
I wouldn't characterize it as overfitting, since the evaluation function exists to filter some of the output. This is basically biasing the model towards a subset of the latent space that the evaluation function says is "good" in a very roundabout way.
Yes, throw away entirely.
In this context, what does BDE stand for?
What's the "I have less than a hundred dollars and I want a reasonably performing Linux desktop" RISC-V SBC option?
What is not transformational for generative AI ?
I really like Rust's answer in this space. Check out all the useful methods on the u64 type that can make this kind of code explicit: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html
>But the reasonable doesn’t mean right for C

thats both: funny and sad
Well, fine, but you'll have to claim that copyright is unjust and that you are breaking the law as an act of civil disobedience. The AI corps do not want to take this stance as they also have intellectual property to protect. Classic "have their cake and eat it too" scenario.
In a sense, a social club for movie lovers. Why not switch to showing movies and serving some food?
> I think this makes the case for, at least, a kill-a-watt style device. A whole home solution with sufficient report granularity and a report interface visible in the home would be worth the extra trouble, IMHO.

You can have per circuit monitoring, you need a CT for each hot conductor and a submeter with enough CT inputs for all of the circuits in your panelboard.
Ask HN: Is the Tech Market Saturated?
it is easy to enter the dev world and get a job in the past but it becomes hard year after year and the comapnies demand a lot of skills and years of experience to get a job
Smaller-than-'int' types get implicitly promoted to 'int' before arithmetic. Results are indeed very funky.
You're missing the point and context. Person above me says this analysis is quite telling, then points out the counterfactual historical hypothetical, which makes no sense. Yann thinks supersonic flight is not worthy of precautionary principle ethics in 1925? I'm saying the same thing--Yann's terrible, nonsense analogy is indeed poorly argued, but plausibly would make sense as a Freudian slip inconsistency of some sort. Ergo, "it is quite telling". As to what contents in his mind, or his motivations, I don't care to speculate.

The fact that you make insinuations about what I think is pretty aggressive and terrible similarly, this forum ought to have better manners than that when writing replies to complete strangers. Not everyone who has a different opinion is some crypto conspiracy theorist, and you are wrong to jump to such a suggestion.
Do you have any peer reviewed studies that contradict my common sense and intuition?
Healthcare Macro
That's what I found. It just works. I never have to worry about anything.

Python should just adopt it.
but there was heavy foreign influence and support on the left-wingers and pro-worker representation, from the communist bloc
> Now, when programming for embedded environments

Something that a lot of C programmers do...

Most people who write for typical desktop and mobile computers don't do C. They tend to do C++ or other, higher level languages. Those who write C tend to do either quirky embedded code, or code that is highly portable, in both cases, knowing about such undefined or implementation defined behavior is important.

If you intend on relying on such assumptions, make it explicit, for example using padding, stdint, etc... On typical targets like clang and gcc on Linux, it won't change the generated code, but it will make it less likely to break on quirky compilers. Plus, it is more readable.
I hope Nvidia gives us a 48GB 5090, but I can just as easily see them wanting to keep the data center divide going by keeping the consumer cards low on VRAM.

Here's hoping AMD forces them to keep pushing the boundary.
Enshitification
"Microbial communities are key players in every ecological cycle on Earth. When a tree falls in a forest, a litany of fungi and bacteria assemble to eat and decompose it, returning the tree’s components to global nutrient cycles. With the concepts introduced by Gralka, Sanchez, Cordero and other microbial ecologists, this new community’s niches are predictable. Wood is mostly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose, which are glucose polymers; therefore, a functioning community ripe for participating in woodland decomposition would host sugar-eating bacteria, be abundant in sugar-digesting genes, and have genomes composed of a lower proportion of GC molecules."

Bacteria.

This researcher's (Matti Gralka) 'zoo' consisted of 186 Atlantic Ocean microbe species. And he found a simple rule to predict their preferences - more chemistry than DNA sequencing.

A dead tree isn't decomposed by bacteria. It's decomposed by fungi. And bacteria (and a free-for-all set of microscopic creepy crawlers) feed on that.

So: how about bacteria species from other environments? 186 species from 1 particular area is 'nothing'.

Would this simple rule hold up for bacteria species found elsewhere? Could similar rules be found to predict other metrics?

How about fungi? Or archaea? (related to bacteria but in a class of their own)

A good read, very interesting research. And... many new questions begging to be answered. Researcher's got his job cut out for him. :-)
The case with multiple increments in an expression might produce different results depending on optimization level, perhaps not in this case but in other cases. That is because the compiler is allowed to use any order, so the order it picks might depend on what is in the registers.
Other chess apps have the mouse approximately in the center of the piece so that when you drop the piece it's dropped where the piece and the mouse is located. I've accidentally dropped the pieces on the wrong squares on this page, since the mouse is to the right of the piece.
(just a complete guess)

to feel like they have power over others. they know the decedent did not authorize their skull to be (say) mounted on a cane next to their throne, or their teeth to be made into (say) a necklace. I can see how there could be a market for products that say "look how badass I am, that I have human remains over my doorway", just like some people do with their (egregiously) lifted trucks, or other status symbols.
Missing "(2016)". (one of) previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20366940

I really wish we could let this die. All it shows is that if you provide insufficient context, you get insufficient answers. There are better ways to point out C's shortcomings.
> such as seeing how long a charge will take

This is a stock Android feature.
I just plugged in my Pixel 6 and it indicated in the lockscreen it will be fully recharged in 21 minutes.
Ask HN: Classic Math Books?
What math textbooks used in the late 19th or early 20th century are still great right now?Something like G.H Hardy's A Course of Pure Mathematics
This is the trajectory "they" want the discussion on. Eventually people start asking you why you would ever want to use cash, then that bewilderment turns to suspicion, using cash becomes something that drug dealers, homeless people, and thieves do. Until trying to use cash becomes grounds for infornal interogation and the last few holdouts become exhausted, and then eventually they can get rid of it altogether, since only bad people use cash anymore.
Lanny Smoot – First Imagineer Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
I'd never heard of Lanny Smoot before but found the included video really inspiring.
Google search will soon become obsolete by itself. The quality of the results seems to be getting worse by a day. In fact, I’d say Google search in almost unrecognisable to what it used to be. It used to be the second place I’d go to when I couldn’t get the answer in DuckDuckGo, but now it’s like a waste of time even trying. Just full of seo tuned rubbish. I think what people are doing with LLM’s to write poor content has their whole search not able to tell the difference between quality content and just grammatically correct churned out crap.
> Saying "lie" suggests willful deception.

Consider instead the term "legal fiction", it's not so derogatory.
Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
I get where you’re coming from but I think you are overreacting a bit. I would suggest taking the most generous interpretation of OP’s comment.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with noticing that women post more about this stuff - anecdotal as it may be.

Even you yourself say it ‘probably skews about even’, you too have no evidence.

No need to accuse the commenter of sexism. It can also be an innocuous observation of their social media feed.
Probably a typo for BCE (Before Common Era)?
On mechanical blueprints, HWS is the acronym I see used for hydronic heating, and DHW is what I see used for domestic hot water. I’m unsure what the OP meant.
PEP 621 doesn't seem supported any more either

> This PEP is a historical document. The up-to-date, canonical spec, pyproject.toml specification, is maintained on the PyPA specs page.

I'd be fine if it supported it, but then PyPA should push to standardize on Poetry.
Kidmaxxing
Because humans are expensive.
Good, neither was I. Just a fascinating hobby that accidentally brought wealth.
The power to not have someone know if you’re at home and how much electricity you’re using at any given moment - and for any given moment over an arbitrary period in the past I guess?
C is really the only language. Every other feature in every other language can be implemented in C, but no one wants it bloated with high level features that can just be compiled as a library.

We can know what is happening in memory in a human readable way. And that is the beauty of it. If you can’t tell what’s happening in memory to some degree, then it’s not that you don’t know C, it’s that you don’t comprehend computer architecture.
That's not a problem, you can get used 24gb 3090 TIs for a decent price and run them together for WAY cheaper than a flagship 5090 will run. It'll generate tokens slower, but probably still faster than you can read.
the forming of those relationships, vision to form a tax haven and ability to stay in power by managing relationships between foreign powers to not experience a 'coup' is precisely leadership
Because we've already seen thag they don't. It doesnt have to be logical, it's just the way things have worked out, and there doesn't seem to be any will to change that.
With the state of the world - climate change, dictatorship, warfare, corporate power, AI, mass surveillance - none of these issues is the right bone to pick.

But I agree there's a matter of degree: If people get renewal warnings and can easily cancel ('Reply with the word 'Cancel''), that's different.

> which don't make sense to your personal sense of frugality?

Why attribute stuff to people who disagree with you, in order to dismiss them? Why is it important to dismiss them? Maybe just believe they have some reasons and try to learn what they are.
yes-with-three-questions isn't a very confident answer. if you're confident, why put a question mark after your words? Is that like the internet-comments-section Bat Symbol to summon others from your tribe to back up your less-than-confident position?
PS: I also specifically noted that I wasn’t suggesting getting rid of your ad blocker. I think the ad-driven surveillance capitalism model is a scourge on humanity, and I hope, for your sake, that you never have to see another ad, or be tracked by some creepy spy network ever again. But you, like many other people in tech, conveniently ignore the practically limitless sources of entertainment you can pay for directly and use your distaste of ad-driven platforms to not pay artists at all. And then, people usually talk about it like is some kind of activism rather than pure entitlement. Is especially great when people cite how poorly those platforms pay artists to justify not paying artists at all. lol
thanks for putting it in context :)
But reporters don't care about things that already are. People click on things that are new. This Tilt site would need a "sort by newest" with some description sounding like "safari now does xyz" before anyone would bother reporting on it

This is also a large part of why we're so horribly misinformed about how well the world is doing. Ask anyone who "stays current" how it's going in the world, then look at virtually any statistic for any country spanning medium-range timespans (say, 15+ years) such as poverty, access to healthcare, longevity, basic vaccinations rate, education, equal gender opportunities... We have trouble with the intangible (such as climate change: 2 degrees across a generation are can't be noticed and attributed in an obvious before-your-eyes manner), but everything else is constantly improving everywhere and nobody reports that.

Trusting reporters to tell you what's up is a fool's errand, unfortunately, and I'm not even sure it's their fault
That's a gross mischaracterization. There's no stalking. It's your data kept in a server that no human eyes can see, and algorithmically matched with the best ads possible. That's the kind of ads I know, served respectfully, where user can choose to turn off their history, and stop this from happening. Opinions are mine. Not that of my employer.
Umbrella salesman predicts it will rain?

This seems like a copyright problem to me, a legal one, not a technological one
>His book on developing Singapore is one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

Seconded, if we read the same book. Was it a really thick one, say a few inches thick?

I remember taking it home from the company library, and reading it over several days.
Last May, Karpathy mentioned that the next step in LLM performance would likely take inspiration from AlphaGo's Monte Carlo-style tree traversal to enable deeper and more self-correcting reasoning:

https://youtu.be/bZQun8Y4L2A?si=RgD7NWfwDdh0bklK&t=1630

But if this approach holds up, it suggests that the most valuable part of the AlphaGo project that applies to LLM development is in fact reinforcement learning through self-play. Why not create a leaderboard of reward-generating language models that constantly "play" against each other, where model selection frequency is based on ELO, and update on the results? What if the Open LLM leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...) evolved into a constantly improving pool of such models? This also alleviates data scaling issues by providing a diverse and continuously changing distribution of new training inputs.
No, it doesn't. Shifting by a wider amount than the width of the type, or an equal amount, is undefined in C and C++. That was done because different processors handled the case differently, meaning that any specification would give one processor a substantial time penalty compared to the competition. So the committee gave up on obtaining agreement and called it undefined.
Singapore has pretty insane politics (e.g. being a dissident blogger is practically a capital crime) but excellent city planning.

The working culture is also toxic af and there is a strict racial hierarchy (enforced by violence when challenged) that made me deeply uncomfortable living there.

Great weather, housing, food, city planning and public transport though.

I wish my government tried to clone their fantastic commieblocks and not their oppressive, oligarchic style of government but alas they do the opposite.
Aaaaannnd that's another what's-everything-that-could-possibly-go-wrong hypothetical, confirmed as actually happening in the wild.

IMHO, the fact that this bizarre failure of integrity can happen, around cadavers donated to students/research, at one of the most prestigious institutions.... makes me wonder about the related opt-in of being an organ donor.

(Example: If I'm recovering nicely in the hospital, then someone crashes their Lamborghini, and they urgently need a replacement vital organ, does being a conveniently-located registered organ donor, with healthy low-vice giblets... mean that I have to be concerned about hospital administrators with syringes.)
I think the CLIPS program is supposed to be a variation of that tradeoff
indeed, and the op also mostly posted about this website previously.
But the map shows there were in Albania and Tajikistan?

It doesn't seem likely there was zero things in Mongolia if the bar was that low.
Seems like some people are getting their ego hurt because they don't like being told they got the wrong answer. Very human.

This quiz isn't an IQ test, people, and the questions are intentionally trick questions. It's essentially a form of cynicism intended to demonstrate major design oversights of the C programming language. So calm down and have a laugh.

Also, "I don't know" is the right answer. If you can't accept that, you may need to meditate more.
The best solution is to incentivise investment by setting its tax rate to 0. That's what Trump's cash-flow tax would have done. Higher taxes on the money printing ventures (Google ads etc.), lower taxes on start-ups and companies developing new products. That would be besides all of the other benefits like preventing profit-shifting.

Maybe if Silicon Valley wasn't so intensely ideological it would have backed the right horse when it came to tax policy. I have very little sympathy here because I think most software developer salaries really are 'development', the problem isn't the classification of developer salaries, it's that the current corporation tax is dumb.
And perhaps a special case of emotional numbing and blunting.
How to build your own injection molding machine (2023)