skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done fine tuning too, but the reasons they mention in "Why not just use RAG?" aren't very good.

People way understimate what RAG can do, even if in general people don't talk about the right things. For example LlamaIndex spends a lot of time talking about various extractors which is the easy part. The hard thing is deciding what you are actually searching for given a chat context.

RAG is a horrible hack (and the more you understand about the more it seems so!) but it does work.

I (and I'm sure everyone else) is experimenting with surgery on an LLM so it takes a vector representation of the docs directly alongside a text input so you don't have to do the lossy doc vector -> text -> LLM context -> vector thing. Not sure why no one has shipped this yet though!
Regardless of speed, presumably the simulator must hold at least as much state as the simulation has, and that would put some kind of bound on "size".
Imagine a simple butter chicken and other Indian foods in these places will greatly save you time. And sometimes crepes... lol
Try ?authuser=2 instead of /u/2, that works with some Google products where /u/x doesn't.

edit: doesn't seem to work, it just redirects to /u/2 anyway
It's all just "10 hours of jingling keys": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jingling-keys

Doesn't need to mean anything or feel anything, it's just a pleasant form of white noise for the eyeballs and brain behind.
Well let’s hope these hn comments are representative of the wider experience. Doesn’t sound beta ready let alone paying launch
"non-determinism of QM".

Think this is still in doubt.

There is the whole branch of physics called 'super determinism' , trying to find the underlying causes of events that look 'undetermined'.
CelLab is demonstrably scenic!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300605
These are only from the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34920760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35039360

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198329
Most copyright abolitionists advocate for a pre-production funding model, such a patronage or crowdfunding. It's not perfect but we can see both already in use in the real world.

Both give an incentive for good projects, since a bad project with no users won't attract any funding. Crowdfunding further incentivises creators to keep a good reputation for being reliable, since customers have to take on more of the risk.

Furthermore, copyright abolition allows creators to legally make money off of "alternate sequels" or "alternate versions", if the original company screws up the story in some way. Currently it's all just hobbyists that fly under the radar.
Yoga. Direct religious experience, and a bucket of other benefits.
I stood in line on launch day in June 2007 for the first iPhone, and used one exclusively until 2022 when I started running it side-by-side with a Pixel running GrapheneOS.

I personally tried it with Apple Music and it did not work if you had no connectivity — and, in fact, because about half of the app itself appears to be loaded on demand, parts of the UI were non-functional as well.

Also, it was not possible for me to download the equivalent of my Discover Weekly playlist for use offline; it HAD to be streamed for each. and. every. play.

I gave up and went back to Spotify. A few months later, I wiped the iPhone and sold it, leaving me with GrapheneOS exclusively.

Just last night I wiped the storage of my last Mac and it will be given away.

Given the direction Apple is going, I made the right call, which is a damn shame.
It's still interesting to think about though. Specifically, I find it interesting that the concept of a "god" is actually realistic in a very tangible way.
> With a billion empty files, the image uses 276 GiB disk space.

I wonder why one needs to use as much as 296 bytes per empty file.
Quantity of information - a simulator whose state itself can be expressed in X bits can't possibly have a simulation with X+1 bits of incompressible state.
Does it matter? I'm with Chalmers - of course it's a good question to ask.

Can we tell? We don't know if we can tell or not. That's why we're asking the question.
Imagine telling someone you made a website and they're like "cool, but did you even make sure it has the little green padlock?"
Honest questions:

How does this work in licensing terms? If VB foss enough?

Do you expect Oracle to merge this?

If oracle doesn’t merge this, will you keep on maintaining it, potentially forking VirtualBox?
That's because the headlights got ever smaller, they are now point sources that output as much power (or more) than previous generations but from a much smaller spot. The fact that it is all direct light now rather than indirect via mirrors also doesn't help, that means you're looking straight at the lightsource instead of at a reflection across a much wider area.

There is some talk about regulating minimum projected area for a given amount of power to reduce this effect somewhat.
> I was starting to get OK results with 'Pro', but I had to use special prompting tricks.

Like what?
In the 20 minutes of experimentation, I'm really impressed with the quality of Bard Advanced (Gemini Ultra). The results are as good as GPT-4, and in some cases is better. So far:

pros:

- better at translation (tried Chinese and Japanese idioms to English)

- better at incorporating search results in its answer vs gpt-4 bing

cons:

- slightly worse at coding

- censorship is more annoying (have to ask multiple times about medical topics)

- Worse at logic (e.g. it contradicts itself in a single sentence, and is unable to figure it out)

- Hallucinates a lot when asked to describe an image
Schmidhuber says that there's no evidence for non-determinism (randomness):

https://people.idsia.ch/%7Ejuergen/randomness.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a...
Zizek says that with quantum physics, we've caught God with His pants down.
Saying that some of the programming of our universe is undetermined in the same way that parts of computer game levels aren't meant for the player to go to.

https://youtu.be/ywVHFo1na38
Gemini Ultra seems better on logic than GPT4. Still messing around testing but here's a prompt Ultra nailed but GPT4 completely botched:

Tabitha likes cookies but not cake. She likes mutton but not lamb, and she likes okra but not squash. Following the same rule, will she like cherries or pears

https://i.imgur.com/KW6gQbc.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/OSHSvLp.png
I was randomly billed for tolls up to 6 weeks after I had a rental car for a multi state trip, so yeah, that's probably what they would do.
This just looks like either ad hoc or enterprise distribution, which has nothing to do with Expo and has existed for years.
They were flops even if they made money because their expectations were so infinitely sky-high.

Force Awakens? Everyone who had ever seen Star Wars went to see it (extended family had a tradition of seeing Star Wars movies when they came out). Later ones didn’t have that, and we’ve never seen the last one.

Elemental obviously outperformed expectations but was no Toy Story. Wish is not doing well and looks unlikely to recover.

We’re long gone from the era of every single Disney (or Pixar) animated film being an absolute instant classic and powerhouse.

(Part of this may be the huge number of live action remakes - even if financially successful they seem entirely forgettable).
It depends on your setup and workload. On a recent Intel CPU, our performance dashboard shows +10% for some benchmarks. It's hard to make a general statement though.
I ran my old 4790K as a hackintosh for a couple years. I would up using a USB DAC for audio, but it otherwise worked for me as a desktop.

Wound up back in windows for a bit and now have been on Linux for a few years. Much happier just running Linux at this point.

I'm not sure how much longer it will be before Apple kills off x86 support altogether and a modern hackintosh is simply no longer an option.
It matters just as much as any other philosophical debate, at the very least.
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Is image generation working for you?
That variant is simply Pascal's Wager.

It's more interesting to ask whether, of we are in a simulation, it is possible to prove and/or find "escapes". All our experience with computational sandboxes so far is that preventing information leaks or escapes is extremely hard. Of course, we still have the problem that if we fi d nothing we don't know what that means.

From my perspective, I'm on the side that it's a fun philosophical question, but the odds of it having any practical implications are vanishingly low
I’m a little late to the party here, but is it possible this is a honeypot? By which I mean, could they have fine tuned the model to respond to attempts at leaking the prompt with a fake, convincing prompt, both to throw off those looking for the system prompt, and also to hamper efforts to develop jailbreaks?
Wow, I pay £1.50 currently, which is paid nicely via google rewards every month for a year, ticks along nicely. A £18.99/month bolt-on, nope, if couple quid, sure, but just priced out and what I would call top-end whale marketing price farming, which down the line will, I predict - half before years out at least.
I got bifocals for driving, so that I could read the gps when necessary. Turns out it's not really very useful because it's hard to "glance" that the gps and get it in the right area of my vision to use the "reading" part of the glasses. I wouldn't do it again. That being said, having the "reading" part of the glasses doesn't negatively impact my using them for distance, so I could see the benefit of the bifocal just so you always have the reading part available without needing a second pair of glasses.

To the best of my knowledge, bifocals are just progressives with a distinct line where the prescription changes; instead of having an area where it "transitions". They look archaic (social concerns, if you care about that kind of thing) in exchange for not having a whole area of the lens that isn't usable at all.
This seems like a very semantic difference, bordering on pedantry.
Buying anything on Marketplace without seeing & trying the product is an absolute mistake. And then expecting PayPal does the right thing? Can't believe people still do this
It's working for me (on Gemini Advanced)
I guess it's tongue in cheek, and it is funny, but some of what is written is a bit weird.

"anti-democratic ... empire at the expense of the natural rights, individual liberty, local autonomy, and cultural diversity which made Europe the wellspring of Western civilisation."

Firstly, I wouldn't call Mesopotamia and the eastern Med Europe exactly.

Secondly, lot of cultural and scientific advances that did happen in Europe were under (among others) the Roman, Holy Roman, British and Spanish Empires, which are exactly what he is against!

It's also weird that he thinks the EU "began to sprout" in 2003, a decade after Maastrict.
Pixar is just a movie studio now, churning out basic animated movies. They’re no longer head-and-shoulders above everyone, and other studios are certainly competitive or even outclassing.

Turning Red and Teenage Kraken have a superficially similar plot and the Pixar one is much “better made” in many ways, but neither is earth-shattering.
Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been largely confined to port in Novorossiysk by Ukrainian "naval drones", having previously been used to bombard Ukrainian cities with cruise missiles. So what are these naval drones? I assumed they were fancy, expensive sea-skimming cruise missiles; nope. Apparently they're modified jet-skis with cheap FPV navigation equipment.

So I don't think you're wrong, and I think we've already found out.

A submarine with a nuclear torpedo could take out an entire carrier group.

Nuclear submarines are apparently still hard to detect underwater; but once someone figures out how to detect them, they'll be obsolete.

I think the Senior Service may be doomed.
> > But because their simulations will have to run on computers that fit in our universe, presumably the simulated universes will be smaller than ours—in the sense of fewer bits and operations needed to describe them.

> Can't it just be the same but slower?

The number of bits needed to simulate another universe can't be larger than the number of bits we can store in this universe - there isn't enough space to store them! It's not a matter of simulation speed.

Theoretically, we could simulate another universe with the same number of bits that exist in this universe, but then there wouldn't be enough bits to store you in this universe. It's the paperclip problem all over again - the simulator doesn't want to destroy you, but your existence uses up bits that the simulator needs for its own purposes.
Presumably you would not be able to get Ota fixes for recall events, though.

Does tesla even have a procedure to install such updates without Ota?
The OpenAI Playground does this, and you can use any of their models, including older versions that jailbreaking still consistently works on.

Edit: Not sure about deterministic prompting though. I don’t think the playground supports it, but I heard in passing that the API does.
Not for everything: only for the huge-corporation-owned, ad- and tracking-funded services and software. GNU/Linux, Mastodon, Matrix and other free-software-based things are thriving.
Yeah. I don't have much personal use for image generation though.
And don't forget to adjust after multiplication, e.g. ($ * kg) = (price * qty) / (10 ^ qty_scale).

But not before you finished with a "sequence-point" in calculations, cause otherwise rounding will accumulate, e.g. ((price * qty) * (100 * (10 ^ pct_scale) - discount)) / (10 ^ (qty_scale + pct_scale)).

Thus no operator[+-*/%^] magic for you either. Also, all these temporary ...0000000s will bite into your "mantissa" part along the way. Fixed point sounds reasonable until you have to actually implement a sales/debt/tax/trade-related routine that takes a couple of pages with proper decimals alone.
As a note, the first character of your COPYING file in the repo seems to be typo-d. ;)
"Please sign in your Google account"
> What's the reason for the simulation to be smaller than the simulator?

Depends on what "smaller" means:

- if "smaller" means "not able to contain as much information" then yes, the simulation has to be smaller or equal to the universe containing the simulation. You can't store N bits in N-1 bits in general (a simple counting argument can prove that).

- if "smaller" refers to a concept of physical dimension, then it's possible to simulate bigger universes, as long as it's a lower resolution simulation.
I would suspect it's a combination of the file-pointers, the file-names and other metadata, and the directories.
Directories with lots of files grow very big too. Indexes cost space.
When I thought about that silently, my answer was that storing water underground is a challenge when unprotected walls can turn into sludge. Water would require expensive preparation of the existing mine volume, whereas dry material could just be filled in, even stabilising the mine a little in the process. Water and sand sit at different points in the cost per W vs cost per Wh spectrum.

A machine for lifting/lowering loose material is more complicated than a pump, no doubt about that. But a deep shaft would mean that you don't build one machine per shaft, you build a few dozen smaller ones with a good handover mechanism and start getting small serial production benefits right from the first installation. Capacity would be virtually infinite, because with excess energy you could just mine more of whatever stuff is down there.

I guess if it's expensive to switch the dry mass mechanism between directions or speed states, it might be worthwhile to prepare some basin volume up and down and run a small capacity pumped storage in parallel at the same site for higher frequency load changes and short peaks. You might even find yourself discharging the wet battery while charging the dry one or the reverse if there is a sufficient delta in dispatchability.
PostScript is kind of like a cross between Forth and Lisp. But it's actually a lot more like Lisp than Forth: high level, polymorphic, homoiconic, etc.

on: What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36159999

>PostScript is as truly homoiconic and polymorphic and interactive as Lisp.

on: Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21964186

on: Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013) (utoronto.ca):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456471

FORTH ?KNOW IF
HONK!
ELSE
FORTH LEARN!
THEN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261771

on: Forth vs Lisp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261810

NeWS PostScript stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456831

Lisp in Forth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882117
Zizek is someone who has made a career out of sounding clever without ever committing to being a disciplined intellectual.
I never expected a dystopian megacorp to start from a cartoon or videogame company. As a kid I figured it would kick off with walmart buying lockmart and just calling itself Mart.
Relevant info: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma
Great. Flip the wrong bit, and get a guru meditation error?
Something not quite right there, because at £35,000 you're not eligible for that many benefits. Unless this is somehow miscounting pensioners?
Google really doesn’t seem to have much of a coherent plan on AI by the looks of it
Wow. Is this a puzzle from internet. I could have never guessed the answer
Getting their cronies in congress to extend copyright protections from 14 years to 100 years is stealing from the public domain.
That might be selection bias, the news posted here are only newsworthy because it's Google. Anyhow, I trust smaller shops a bit more than big corps (no matter the product or service being purchased), but it's subjective. In regards to tech, I trust myself first. In the same way that a Chef might not prefer going to any common restaurant, sure.
Pleroma? Lol.
i disagree.

the iPhone wasn't mainstream because it was $500 with a two-year contract, but there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that could touch it from day one. Even before day one. Watch the demo. Moscone Center was LIT UP that day.

I used so many "iPhone killers" because I was broke back then and didn't have a choice. All of them "could" do more features-wise, but all of them were hella jank by comparison and looked significantly worse. If I had the money for an iPhone back then on launch day, I would've gotten one for sure.

It's not even just the iPhone.
When the AirPods came out, I had been wanting truly wireless earbuds for many, many years. I even spent $600 on a pair of custom Bragi Dash Pros, which were CRAZY ADVANCED for their time but had extremely poor QC. The AirPods absolutely destroyed the "competition" when they came out, and the AirPods Pro set the standard for ANC-capabale truly wireless earbuds. Nothing _still_ comes close to these devices.

Same with the Apple Watch. I had been a Pebble loyalist prior to this coming out but still got two a few weeks after release (one for my wife). The Apple Watch was crazy limited and apps were a joke, but the value was immediate. No watch still comes close, IMO.

This...is nothing like that. I could buy one, but I'm also a guy that doesn't watch movies and works off of a single monitor. There's nothing irresistible about the AVP yet like there was for the iPhone, or the AirPods, or the Apple Watch.

I guess people who already use headsets might feel the wow-factor of using these, but this is the first major Apple product in recent memory that feels like a solution looking for a problem...unless this is a stepping stone for regular glasses. The Vision Pro's AR capabilities in a regular glasses form factor a la Google Glass would be earth-shattering.
We got 4x-7x the performance for 1.25x the price of the last generation at launch? I would say the value is incredible.
I’m talking about in the technology function building systems.
I think the surest example of this is the Lego Star Wars toys more and more being obviously adult-targeted.

Not everything can be Frozen, but the pallet of Wish merchandise at Walmart is still there and now all marked down (except the Lego because they know that someone will buy it eventually for parts).

Elemental merchandising was completely non-existent and that was a mistake, people enjoyed that.
While you might reliably survive attacks of biliary colic, you'll greatly wish you didn't have to.

(I had my gallbladder removed many years ago.)
I went for the trial.
Now what am I supposed to do with this? It's just a "chatgpt"?
I can't see myself using this much, let alone pay 20 euros a month for it.

What are some cool use cases?
I loved my Prius (sadly had to move internationally and give up on that car) and am very interested in a hybrid m/c (more in a standard/ADV kind one like the Versys though), particularly with such a 'stealth mode' for places where m/c aren't welcomed. I would have thought, that the additional weight would make it a losing proposition for m/c. Glad Kawasaki proved me wrong.
You can also setup VFIO in VirtualBox/KVM. We haven't polished it yet though. You can check the video here to see GPU virtualization in action:

https://www.cyberus-technology.de/products/hypervisor
(Don't mind the English, we are not native speakers. :)
Mhm could be a region thing maybe? Not working for me on Gemini Advanced in the UK
Oh, theology is in general interesting to think about. But I am sceptical about the "realistic" claims. We don't know how consciousness works, so we don't know, whether we can simulate it with a computer.
Anecdotal side-tangent: had a terrible second-hand experience with AWU.

I was an employee, and a friend of mine was interviewing at Google. After one of his interviews, he called me up and asked if I heard of AWU. I was not sure what prompted that, but I said I was roughly familiar with AWU, and then my friend elaborated on what went down.

Turns out, his interviewer spent half the interview just buzzing my friend’s ears off about AWU and trying to recruit him to join before my friend even got the offer.

And then my friend told me the exact details of what was said about AWU and what they do, and my ears just rolled up, because I realized that he was getting coaxed by an AWU member with a bunch exaggerations and half-truths. Mostly about the perceived self-importance of AWU, how much they actually accomplish, and what they actually do.

Left a sour taste in my mouth, because doing this as an interviewer is imo pretty unethical.
Note that Gemini pulled the answer off the Internet, while GPT-4 didn't. The answer can easily be found via Google search. Changing up the question a little, I reversed it and asked Ultra and it was unable to answer:

Jake likes coke but not pepsi. He likes corn but not popcorn, and he likes pens but not pencils. Will Jake like salmon or cheese?

https://i.imgur.com/lWU9HHS.png

edit: why was this downvoted? I don't understand Hacker News, and I've been here for over 12 years.
I guess it's competing with ChatGPT+ at about £16 / month. And you get a bunch of extra storage and Workspace features from the Premium Google One too.

If it is actually as good as GPT-4, I can imagine lots of people swithing subscription to get all the other Google One stuff cheap/free. But you'd have to be very into Google - full benefit looks like it needs you to use various Workspace features from Google One for your whole family?
Human time costs money. We can't tolerate spending on any avoidable expenses like that, comrade.