skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, explaining that a LLMs are really just iterated next-word prediction based on a statistical model of the preceding words is something that most people can grok, and in a useful way: in my experience, it actually helps give people a useful intuition for why and how models hallucinate and what kind of things they're good/bad at.

At risk of showing my deficient understanding: that isn't actually true, is it?[1]

LLMs do much more than simply predict subsequent text, AFAICT. I think back to the earlier LLM results that wowed the world with stuff like "now I have a model where you can ask it 'king - man + woman' ... and it returns 'queen'. Trippy!"

That is pretty clearly not mere text prediction, at least not identically. Even nearly all of the computational "hard work" comes from the math of predicting subsequent letters, that whole computation is introducing a new primitive, the concept of combining, or doing math on, models to produce other models, and thereby making a statement about what words would come next in a variety of scenarios.

That primitive is not present in the Markov predictor example, at least not without positing how a Markov predictor would be similarly transformed -- which, being very ignorant on the matter, I'm not sure is possible or not, but either way, leaves out a critical construct that enables ChatGPT to e.g. find limericks that aren't preceded by the command "Write me a limerick", as in my earlier comment[1].

[1] Earlier comment on why I think it's dubious to call LLM-based products such as ChatGPT "mere LMs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472089
I'm serious, "Wall Street" with Michael Douglas was a big hit in the 80s. And these are not the only examples. Another is "Wolf of Wall Street", which depicts the life of a criminal stock operator. The real guy now makes a living as a "coach" and has inspired countless others to follow his steps (while hopefully avoiding jail).
On the other hand, if there are potential commercial applications 10-20 years in the future, it may not be the best idea for the government to fund the research. The topic is already concrete enough for the market, and it could be a waste of tax money to fund it. There is a lot more money in commercial research than publicly funded research. The government should focus on funding topics where the applications are too uncertain or too far in the future to make sense in the market.
For non-breaking spaces specifically, there is :help 'list'.
That certainly plays into the unpopularity of the concept, but even independent of that, this doesn't address the central criticism that autistics seem to be more likely to be MtF transgender.

We know that MtF transgender people that the brains of transgender women resemble the brains of cisgender women, than the rains of cisgender men resemble the brains of cisgender men.[1] Transgender women have extremely androgynous brains, not extreme male brains.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/

Generally, if you rephrase the concept as the "Emphasising-Systemising theory of autism" it becomes a lot less implausible. "Extreme maleness" implies being more male across the board to an extreme, and that does not appear to be the case with autistics, they might have a few male-coded traits but they're not extremely male.
A balanced budget amendment.
This problem exists in physical buttons too. My thermostat has buttons that can make the mechanical click without actually activating the button, and I've experienced them elsewhere. It is infuriating.
emm is quite simple, so yep, you totally could adapt it - just replace matrix part with your own thing
Not really an apples-to-apples comparison. ComfyUI is for diffusion-focused workflows, this is not.

Plus you don't need a local GPU for this.
I realize this is a Pro for some Con for others, so there can be different products in the market serving different needs.
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No worries. I managed to whip something up:

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They've added more than 20 million subscribers since their last update in Nov 2022. It looks like their war on ad-blockers is paying off.
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The fact that *insert American tech company * is still allowed to run amok when the *insert 3 letter agency* has their hands all over it and openly flaunts it is the greatest irony and crime here
If we are being pedantic, then "kill themselves" would have been the wrong clause. I would probably change that to "publicly wish death upon someone".

If we are also continuing along pedantry, it was a quote, it was an incorrect assertion.

But what we can possibly agree on, is that whilst we are both engaging on this particular point, the more important issue of a CEO acting incorrectly goes unexplored.

Where I think we are both aligned: the CEO is perfectly within their rights to say stupid things, however they really shouldn't. Whilst we shouldn't use legal tools to stop CEOs doing stupid things, we certainly should use social tools to encourage them to respect other people.
Similar challenges with computer keyboards, chessboards, musical instruments generally
Those who don't believe in anything at all are atheists.

atheist
noun
a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
I love Vim, but I have to admit I lost interested in dedicated Vim and Neovim programs as VSCode has a pretty good Vim emulator.
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Sounds like it finally caught up with Apple Maps!
> Do you know about actual Luddite activity and what sources do you have and how do you interpret them? Or are you just making a point in a vacuum about your opinion on semantics?

The latter obviously. I'm not arguing with Luddite philosophy, but more with the author of the article making a claim that they were not anti-technology and then proceeding to explain how they absolutely were.
Totally. Seeing this conflict from an outsider perspective (not American nor Chinese), makes me puke.

US has been killing and plaguing millions of people with their crappy social networks, with depression and draining their attention, using it to monitor and spread American "democratic" values around the world.

Now that China has 01 social network that is successful (nowhere as close as the ones owned by Meta tho), Americans and politicians think that China is a menace and it's the end of the world. Of course the PRC have influence in Tiktok and will use it. The US has been doing the same for ages.

My only hope is that we get more and more alternatives, up to the point that American Big Techs become irrelevant, and so does this conflict.

I wonder when the first American nuke will be used because of a meme being shared in a social network
it takes time, work, lots of trial-and-error to find which learning style works best for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJo7hiMxbQ8 autoencoders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6T1zMSE4Ts NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxmSmjmNS0 GAN paper

and then of course you need to check the Stable Diffusion architecture.

oh, also lurking on Reddit to simply see the enormous breadth of ML theory: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/search?q=VAE&restri...

and then of course, maybe if someone's nickname has fourier in it, they probably have a sizeable headstart when it comes to math/theory heavy stuff :)

and some hands-on tinkering never hurts! https://towardsdatascience.com/variational-autoencoder-demys...
Tailscale? Unless I'm misunderstanding the use-case (which I probably am)
The Case Against [unowned self] in Swift
I think Google is generally going down a self-destructive path with their AI approach, which works with their generally self-destructive approach to user interfaces.

I see ads for Google phones where they brag about how rather than taking actual pictures, they have their AI hallucinate better pictures, and I wonder who exactly these ads are supposed to appeal to?

Already Google Maps is something of a nightmare to use -- searching for something will often refocus the current view in wild and useless ways. This is doubly true when you're trying to do a multi-part search (e.g. "I'm going to be at this store, I wonder if there's a good Thai restaurant nearby" will zoom out and show you Thai restaurants thirty miles away, and you've lost the pin from the first search). And the "explore" option just seems kind of useless and intrusive -- it is literally never what I am using Google Maps for. And the near-extortive labelling -- "in order to get your restaurant labelled as 'LGBTQ friendly' you have to create a Google account and claim the restaurant" is mind-boggling.

Adding AI to Google Maps could conceivably help with keyword labelling (like when a search for "pharmacy" fails to show up a given pharmacy because it's marked as a "drug store" or something). Maybe if I search for a good "salad place" it'll find restaurants that serve good salads but don't have them in the restaurant name. But I'm terrified of the kind of generalized hallucinations that it will provide. Might be interesting to do a "vibe"-based search from time to time ("find me a clean, well-lit, quiet bar" or a "bar with a pool table") but I suspect this will get old after a couple of false positives.
This is the problem with any kind of documentation; while you can write the highest quality, meticulous, most obvious and clearest prose, it's moot if nobody reads it.

And nobody reads it because there's so much of it and there's no clear starting point. People just want the summary of what they're looking for.

I started to learn Java almost 20 years ago, we had a text book and everything. After the first two chapters, I learned how to google and instead of reading everything, just find what I need. I never went in-depth with reading because... it's mostly useless knowledge that quickly becomes outdated.
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The blockbuster medications that reduce body weight also reduce inflammation in organs such as the brain, raising hopes that they can treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
Songs are free but not ad-free.
Because it's a niche use case compared to the much much broader case of "display content."
Is it possible that you’ve been hit by

https://xkcd.com/2501/

?

git log | less

/whatever

Works OK for those of us who don’t know any git flags.
It’s also been so copied that the original impact is a bit lost. It was the first or one of the first movies to treat the Mafia as an organisation.

And in fact it made the Mafia look so good that Mafiosi started emulating the film.
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I agree for the use case of scrolling through a git history, yes, but when I land at a certain commit, e.g. by hitting the blame label in IntelliJ on a line whise reason d‘change I‘m interested in, then I will totally read the whole commit message in the hope that it helps me understand the change (in addition to looking and trying-to-understand the change itself).
It may be necessary, but the environmental impact is not zero.

Government land is often vast tracts of desert or poor grasslands. It may seem like there's nothing there to protect, not like a forest.

But it's a fragile ecosystem, the plants an animals hanging by a thread, living off bare drops of rain and poor soil.

Sure a solar farm will harbor other life, even preserve moisture. But any change will have winners and losers. The upshot: a solar farm remakes the environment that it shades. Essentially erasing what was there, and letting a new equilibrium form.

No less than clear-cutting forests or strip-mining. I use those examples to press the point: this will have enormous ecological impact.

Sure, it's becoming necessary. We'll all benefit. It's just the planet that suffers.
Coke vs Pepsi, Ford Vs GM, iPhone vs Android, any football team vs any other, and now EV vs Gasoline

I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on what makes humans take such viral extreme positions on things. I see some of the Vinal vs MP3 and film vs digital arguments playing out in my lunchroom between otherwise rational people and I think the extreme advocates for one side, or another are just doing a disservice to themselves.
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This is it. Having a monopoly is OK. Being anticompetitive is when you run into trouble, even potentially without a monopoly.
my opinion is that a qualified trained trip sitter is needed, not just a friend.
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I get using AI in Maps, but generative AI?

Searching for a place can be done with the help of AI classifiers, but in the end, you just get a point on a map, nothing generative here. Other things that Maps can do, like pathfinding is most likely better served using traditional algorithms.
> How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things?

> 30 years ago a guy that worked as an international translator said to me, if people only knew how their political and business leaders act when they don't think anyone important is watching.

> The nice thing now is ordinary people to get to see this.

Ordinary people like you and me are inherently no more virtuous and have said things that we would be ashamed of if seen publicly. The difference is that we, unlike the Tans and Musks of the world, don't have a reality-distortion-field of wealth - and even worse: adulation - that makes us feel we can express our worst and ugliest impulses.

Our mistake is in raising business leaders to demigod status in the first place. We shouldn't then be surprised when that goes to their heads.
Will do.

I hope for the sake of those around you that your child(ren) never run afoul of your expectations as "My children would never…" parents are a special breed of annoying, nearly as much as "I raised my obviously-better-than-your-children child to…" parents.

I think it's the mixture of a general lack of exposure to reality in addition to harboring the mistaken belief that their method of parenting is superior which makes them so annoying.

It's almost as if they think their advice is universally applicable and failure to implement it is somehow a personal failing in every instance, much like those pig-headed folk refusing to acknowledge the systemic issues behind poverty, insisting instead that every poor person is poor from a lack or work ethic or gumption.

Thankfully, many people grow up and eventually stop trying to use (not-so-)universally-applicable advice as a cudgel, preferring instead to interpret the complaints of those around them in the most charitable light since, after all, asking "Did you try raising your children right?" is as useless and demeaning as asking "Did you try turning the computer off and on again?".
> George Hotz' new company is working to undo this

Is that before or after George Hotz solves homelessness and drug addiction and saves democracy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206959)
I would argue (rightly or wrongly) that there are two common truths to such a scenario:

Scenario 1, you’re doing a bunch of small changes that work towards a larger purpose. They’re what I like to call “checkpoint commits”. They aren’t the whole story —- just a step along the way to whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

Scenario 2, you’re coding instead of thinking. Making “random” changes until you get what you want, but because you’re continuously delivering, they all go to production. Note that “you” here might be the developer, or it might be business people demanding things from said developer.

In scenario 1, IMO you should be working on a branch. Then, when you’re finished, you squash your commits and replace the countless mini-messages (“fixed”, “Oops”, “wtf?”) with the actual message you want to be there when you merge it.

In scenario 2, especially if it’s driven by business, you’re probably SOL. In this instance, however, I tend to feel like people are making more work for themselves. If they stopped and thought it through for half an hour before starting work, it might only take an hour’s worth of work and one commit, instead of a day and thirty commits.

Of course, there are always shades in between. :)
that's not the history as I understand it but I also don't claim to be an expert.
Sorry late reply. I believe the goal of separating by age is to have a more apples-to-apples comparison and to see trajectories. For instance, it highlights that at a young age, Gen Z is actually ahead of previous generations on homeownership, but also the upward slope looks like it may trend flatter. It isn't drastically different, in this case, than just looking at the averages.
> Scrollbar Styling

I wish that this "feature" didn't exist. Just follow the platform and the user's defaults.
The 386 had the same restrictions in the 80's. Intel even had ads like Apple's boasting that it's performance forced it to be export controlled.

From https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/business/in-shift-us-ease...:

> Robert Beach, a spokesman for the Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, said: ''We are pleased to see that the regulations have been relaxed. It's good any time these things are done.'' But like Apple, the Compaq official said that ''we don't see any great impact on Compaq in the near term.'' Compaq's product line has migrated to the Intel 80386 processor, which is still restricted. ''We would welcome further relaxation to include 386 machines,'' he added.
Once you notice it you'll see it everywhere around here.
Also

antitheist

a person opposed to belief in god or gods.

In this day and age many atheists feel the need to be antitheist.
Yeah, if you think of terminal programs like old text adventure games that you have to keep typing stuff until something works, they're literally trying to make GUIs as unintuitive as terminals now.

Just swipe, shake, tap the corners, try scrolling even if there's scroll bar, until it does something!
Much better article from AP directly: https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-crash-test-guar...

and archived: https://archive.is/44P6q
The collective case is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_competition btw.
So they'd give up the US market? That doesn't seem likely to happen.
A typical demonstration markov chain probably has a length of around 3. A typical recent LLM probably has more than three billion parameters. That's not precisely apppes to apples, but the LLM is certainly vastly more complicated.
Like dating, rarely do people want what they say they want. Not because they’re lying to you either, but because they’re lying to themselves.
You're right! That's pretty neat. I always thought terminal emulators were just simple text displays.

It looks like Wezterm even has preferences for how cursors are displayed.

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/cursor_blin...
HMMs are much more similar to S3, S4, and other deep state-space models than to transformers.

In fact, HMMs are discrete shallow state-space models.

I believe S4 and successors might become serious contenders to transformers.

For a detailed tutorial, see https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4
I still don't get any ads.

More like, Google's effort to corner the "Smart TV" market is paying off, where there are no adblockers and the system is locked down.