skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'm just trying to understand this: Korea passed a law that increased operating costs for twitch (and similar entities, twitch is just the relevant case here). Twitch responded by reducing those costs by reducing the resolution, which seems reasonable. Then they were told they couldn't do that, so they've decided to simply cease operating in Korea as it would be even more expensive (presumably to the extent that they believed there was no possible path to ever being profitable).

And now they're being told that they will be fined for not operating in Korea at all?

Is that correct?

The logical equivalence would be a government passing a law that said "Farmers must pay trucking companies more than the maximum profit on an apple, for every apple they ship, even though the trucking companies are already being paid by the recipient of the apples. Not only are you not allowed to ship fewer apples, you also can't decide to stop being an apple farmer." (I'm not sure if the Korean law also prevents twitch/apple farmers from increasing prices to cover the cost of those fees, but that would track the rest of the nonsense)
“While it’s not a capability used by many Fire TV apps, without it, Fire TV apps can no longer perform certain advanced tasks, such as freeing up internal storage space by clearing the cache of all installed apps”

That seems like a failure of the OS. Why should apps have to force that?

So what else does it do? That’s the only example in the entire article. It’s not clear to me at all why this is necessary other than “I already had it so don’t take it away”.
On something as locked down as a FireTV, I'm surprised debug functionality like this was available at all.
A medical statement being supported by at least a single citation is honestly a really low bar anyway.
Afaict this is "you're in a regulated industry [whether or not it should be is irrelevant] but you're also not allowed to cease operation or leave that regulated industry, or you'll be subject to fines".
strange that such an old company would participate
I think consumerism is orthogonal (but a fair subtopic to explore nonetheless). Not all corporate institutions are producers of consumer goods. Not are all consumer products designed (insidiously or not) for a recurring revenue stream. Furthermore efficiency usually refers to the cost required to achieve a desired outcome. Corporations are notoriously good and finding local cost minima in providing goods and services in ways that bureaucratic system aren’t. This isn’t controversial.
“Regulated industry” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there for a video game streaming service.
Some European test systems were rigged as well. https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
My circle is 94.0% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
My circle is 94.0% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
I guess you could call it smug, but it is also communicating the truth, that universities have decided the top 5-10% of non-legacy applicants are equally good. Most metrics stop working near the limits of their dynamic range, so they could be right, but I don't really know one way or the other.
I think this question answers itself really.
> A human doctor couldn't bring up a list of citations in literature instantly regarding a diagnosis. A LLM can.

TFA is, literally, about LLMs spouting out erroneous medical references. I don't care about made up medical references or court cases.

I'm sure there are ways to bring up instantly a list of publication regarding a diagnosis (which a LLM may or may in the future correctly give: the diagnosis I mean) but I'm really not sure a LLM is what's needed to do then generate the list of related publication. I mean, FFS, they are compressed, lossy, knowledge.

LLMs are going to become tools as part of a toolchain. They're not a panacea.
FYI, this is the same as people doing web searches. You’ll always find a place that agrees with you or says it’s possible.
https://www.musicxml.com

There are this and other methods discussed in the linked thread.
> I don't really like how the author asked for exact character lengths, after clearly specifying that LLMs can't really count characters. It seems like an experiment set up to fail.

Some authors write a lot about GPT stuff but they don't have the slightest clue about how they work, that's why they have such expectations. I don't know about this author's credentials, but I know several people who are now the AI celebrities of our age simply because they a lot about other people's research findings.
Not as quickly, easily, or convincingly.
These are not contradictory things. Capitalism is something that is maintained by the government in the first place - it exists so long as government continues to operate a property right framework that is in favor of large corporate entities. And, of course, said entities bribe the politicians who run the government to continue this state of affairs.

In short, surveillance state capitalism that strangles actual free markets and reduces choice is the natural form of capitalism.
He never created a "fully functional" reactor. Be did get a lot further than you would expect a teenager to make it!
How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?
No, regular web search will just give you links. You have to click and go read the text. Putting together a comprehensive page of (seemingly) cogent arguments will need GenAI.
I agree. While I appreciate what doctors do, there sure are a lot of shitty doctors out there who skirts by - like any profession.
Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"
If you don’t mind sharing, what lesser known RAG tricks did you use to ensure the correct information was going through?

Simple similarity search is not enough.
Except in this case, they aren't even charging for apples, they're supported entirely by advertising
No, they're much worse. Lament for the folks that have to maintain that stuff for years after it saved you 30 seconds of dev time.
Stockfish still runs a full alpha beta tree search, so it’s not really the same.
I wrote an essay for my college chemistry class on him, back in like 2010. Sad to read that he passed away.
Not hidden tokens, actual tokens. Ask a LLM to guess the letter count like 20 times and often it will converge on the correct count. I suppose all those guesses provide enough "resolution" (for lack of a better term) that it can count the letters.
But you can’t use PSD2 APIs as an individual (at most banks), so if you want to use it, you necessarily have to entrust your financial data to a third party.
All three, because the newspaper knows that the reporter lies all the times, but continues to employ him because his stories sell.
If GPT is trained mostly on forums, it should obey "Cunningham's Law", which, if you're a n00b, says:

> "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

This seems very empirically testable!
Where are you getting the idea that there's unbiased information available? It's absolutely generating biased "data" since it's been trained on human writing.
I don't know if it's fair to say it doesn't know anything. It acts like it "knows" things, and any argument proving otherwise would strongly imply some uncomfortable things about humans as well.
Why not? AI can rely on Vulkan for GPU compute and nvk plans to be fully Vulkan compliant.

There was some separate OpenCL effort I think? I haven't kept track.
Latin is actually very well attested, both in the classical and ecclesiastical pronunciation. There’s lots of languages, like Egyptian, where the phonology is pretty speculative, but Latin isn’t one of them.
Tangentially: Is there a FireTV implementation that is anywhere near e.g. Apple TV in basic performance? Every FireTV device I have used has seemed practically unusable, but it could be there is just a low bar for what hardware they let go to market.
Thanks for the submission. I keep an eye out for connections to potentially cheaper and simpler methods. The new comparison reminds me of this old paper which compared them to Gaussian networks:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165

For causality, I'm also keeping an eye out for ways to tie DNN research back into decision trees, esp probabilistic and nested. Or fuzzy logic. Here's an example I saw moving probabilistic methods into decision trees:

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~balaji/balaji-phd-thesis.pdf

Many of these sub-fields develop separately in their own ways. Gotta wonder what recent innovations in one could be ported to another.
Probably, they are like me, meaning we seem not to be on the same page as you regarding the term 'podcast'. To me, a podcast is just an audio talk session, mastered and distributed as a digital audio file. That's it. Distribution can take many forms, but the podcast is the file. 10 or so minutes of google-based research seems to offer support to this notion.

> universe of media distribution that happens via an open protocol that is not controlled by any one company

What is this protocol that you speak of? Searching "podcast protocol" leads to absolutely no useful links on the subject. Podcasts in my experience are distributed in one of three ways:

* Download links on a web page

* Embedded streaming links on a web page

* An RSS feed

That last (RSS) could be considered a "protocol" of sorts, I suppose. At the very least it's what I would expect a podcast app to support. But you then go on to refer to RSS as a separate entity from your "podcast protocol", so I'm back to being confused as to what you might be talking about. What is this open protocol that is intrinsic to your definition of 'podcast'?
> Considering the high payouts to streamers, the lack of benefits for premium members, the long streaming hours of games which incurs server costs and makes it difficult to display ads, I don't think their business model is sustainable in the long run.

I don't game and I don't use twitch, but...

> the high payouts to streamers

This worked really well on Youtube and other platforms.

> the lack of benefits for premium members

If people are still subscribing without many benefits imagine what will happen if they introduce more? That's worked well for Amazon in other areas (eg Prime)

> long streaming hours of games which incurs server costs

I mean there is some server cost but this seems very manageable. I've done a bunch of video streaming work and the server requirements aren't high if you know what you are doing. Bandwith is hard sometimes but I suspect Amazon can optimize their bandwidth deals as well as anyone.

> makes it difficult to display ads

This seems wrong. The whole broadcast TV model is built around 24/7 ads.

> I don't think their business model is sustainable in the long run.

I take the opposing view. I think Twitch has the potential to be one of the biggest sources of revenue growth at Amazon.

Look how well YouTube has done for Google.
From the article:

> Unfortunately, if you’ve been observing the p-values, you’ve noticed that most have been very high, and therefore that test is not enough evidence that the tips/threats change the distribution

It doesn't look like these p values have been corrected for multiple hypothesis testing either. Overall, I would conclude that this is evidence that tipping does _not_ impact the distribution of lengths.
I value your post, but this sentence is ironic:

> Which to me is very amusing, but it's written in a style that encourages you to take it completely seriously.

Because you expect me to take you seriously but instead of making a valuable assessment you instead resort to saying you find it amusing, as if the reason you find it amusing is obvious and implied. It isn't.
a) agree
b) Reads like chatgpt wrote it. Something about needing some stilted conjunction every other sentence.
c) If the lab leak theory for covid is true, that'd be a good government example. The whole anthrax thing was weird as hell too.

edit - actually I guess it's fuzzy. Where's the line between prolonging a problem and inventing a problem
Why would anyone even use a Fire TV compared to other alternatives. It's a giant ad screen on your TV.
Allowing apps to use adb breaks the security model. Apps should only be able to run code as their own user. Any capabilities these apps need should be properly provided by an API for them to use instead of using such a hack.
> What if you want to track shared expenses with friends/family and settle up at the end of each month?

I agree with your overall sentiment, but for that specific use-case, there are tons of apps where everyone in the group can see, add, and edit the transactions live, and then square up later.

When I lived in a shared house at university, we used Splid [1], which is very easy to use yet supports advanced features like multiple currencies. If you ever find yourself needing to split expenses, I can highly recommend it.

[1] https://splid.app/english/
Stress, Portrait of a Killer – Full Documentary (2008) [video]
In some cases sure, but some things require management due to the nature of reality, and there is nothing to be done about it other than manage the problem. Take something banal such as DLP tools. There is no way to “solve” people stealing data, so tools were created to manage the problem. Then comes the team of people to manage the tool. Then the management structure to oversee the team. And so on. It would be nice to believe that this seemingly small problem could be “solved” once and for all, but that remains to be seen.
Neura Robotics to move production from China to Germany
It's as simple as questions that are phrased nicer get better responses. From there a tip might be construed as a form of niceness, which warrants a more helpful response. Same goes for posts that appeal for help due to a dying relative or some other reason getting better responses, which implies that you (the llm emulating human responses) want to help questions where the negative consequences are worse.
This is actually the perfect "scam trap" for computer scientists: Create something that vaguely seems cool, hints that it COULD be useful somehow... is highly statistical and mathematical, and hint that if only we could do MORE levels of math and statistics overtop of it ("it" being the impossible input range of 1million+ "tokens" of text)... we will all be rich and robots will do all our chores!
More closely, taskbar is a close digital equivalent of bookmarks.

20 people in clean rooms faced with the task of figuring out a way to show all currently running applications in a small area of the screen would have come up with the same thing in 15 minutes. The fact that someone came up with it first shouldn't give him the same patent protection as say the blue LED.
Why would you adjust for M2? Inflation exaggerates GDP growth. M2 doesn't.

If you measure a country and M2 and GDP go up together, that's important to know, but you don't "adjust for M2" and pretend that GDP didn't actually go up.
> It's like people forgot that non-web-interface rss readers existed.

I'd wager that a lot of people never even knew these existed. To a lot of people, the browser became (or simply always was) the only real interface to everything internet related (or for some people, just about everything period).
Raptors in this case are a kind of bird.
I’m curious about the comparison between NNUE and the LLM-based model that Deep Mind announced a couple of weeks ago (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04494.pdf). Using NNUE only (i.e. depth 1 search) would be directly comparable. If Deep Mind’s model is better it raises interesting questions about scaling laws for this kind of thing.
I know we're just going to have to agree to disagree, but I find utility class based projects easier to maintain. Coming back to -- or inheriting -- css soup is never fun.
Main thing is to curate a good set of documents to start with. Garbage in (like Bing google results like this study did) --> Garbage out.

From the technical side, the largest mistake people do is abstracting the process with langchain and the like - and not hyper-optimizing every step with trial and error.
My favourite band: Dream Theater. Their (arguably) best album is a concept album, they have a few. Also Insomnium’s latest “Anno 1696” is a concept album.
I have very vague memories from the time when Lemmimgs was released, something about the sprite/copper that allowed it to display those Lemmings efficiently. Of course the Atari ST had the exactly same game which puzzled me, though presumably it used brute force.
When devices ship with 8GB of storage, average users may or may not follow system prompts to free up storage on an ad hoc basis. (This is analogous to 16GB iPhones and constantly having to free up space). More savvy users can figure out that FireTV is Android compatible and use adb as a power tool. Or just buy a different streaming device that doesn't run at 75% storage full after installing YouTube and Netflix.
Exposed as popcount() in recent versions of Python and C++.
The conversational approach is deliberate via fine tuning and alignment.
While I appreciate them getting to the "speech v. reach" thing; Mastodon still feels long-run smarter out of simplicity (if short-run less fun or useful because Mastodon feed curation is definitely harder)

The main question, to me, is: If a hypothetical (likely wealthy or powerful) bad actor wants to put their thumb the scales here, how can they?

And this article REALLY hand-waved that away very poorly, with the whole "oh, I don't really know how the feeds work" bit. Makes me very suspicious that they know good and darn well not only how the feeds will work, but that they understand that this is where the power and/or money is and will try to keep a hold of that.
This measure has over $1 million is spending in favor of it, the most of any measure on the March ballot; several of the folks spending in favor of it are people in our industry (the CEO of Ripple has given $250k alone). Apparently, supporters have outspent opponents almost 10 to 1 (https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/22/london-breed-prop-e-san-fr...).

I hope the statements from the EFF and ACLU, which have both highlighted the negative privacy implications of the measure, help convince folks to vote no.
"Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God". I was not expecting that. Not gonna lie.
I generally use Doxygen, turning on all possible graphs. It’s good because it can parse a variety of languages.
You don’t get really nice graphs, but enough to get started to understand the code base.
Been a long long time that Amazon has basically been good for consumers, done well enough.

Amazon Video for Prime getting worse was a signficant first ding (loss of hdr, ads). Now the appliances getting worse... This is like the mega trend, of massively profitable huge companies decimating their workforces, of the world being squeezed tighter.
When they finetune it, it's finetuned based on how the AI owner wants it to act, now how the average person would act.
My original post wasn't so much to suggest that the problem is irrelevant to government. I was just pointing out the interesting ideological maneuver: show evidence of a problem in companies, then ask the reader to imagine a problem in government. Kelly's post struck me similarly.

> supporting evidence that is reasonably applicable to all types of institutions, systems, and entities

I don't agree, but this verges into my own opinion lacking any supporting evidence. It just seems clear to me that publically funded institutions must have very different incentives in some areas than privately funded market institutions.

Again, I'm not saying this effect doesn't exist in governments. But it does need demonstrating, if one wants to actually argue that.
Sounds pretty straight forward then!
The guy's fate is a failure on our society's part.

Imagine if some professor of nuclear engineering had pulled him aside and said, "Kid, listen, if you're going to do this, we need to have you do it safely and correctly. Let's have you assist at my lab."
I've never seen this or understand it, but +1 up vote for the report. Godspeed.
IIRC they did amend their prompt to tell it not to quote long books/articles/recipes verbatim for copyright reasons, no matter how much the user asks, and that might not help.
That post is a joke.
They're cheap.
N here is only 2. It's pretty plausible.

"Streak" and "series" are overstating 2 by a lot.
Depends on what games and what you define as “small” modifications. There are a lot of game-specific tweaks in the search code.

You can still apply alpha-beta tree search to lots of games though.
Your first hypothesis is completely valid, and it occurred to me that this decision could have come from the top - but it's also a red flag for me when one or two individuals in a client's upper management or worse, investors, inject themselves into art decisions by overriding choices presented to them by trained and experienced professionals they've presumably hired to that end. Those companies tend to also override other suggestions presented by employees or contractors in other areas. Which implies a management style that isn't utilizing its hired talent to full effect.

As far as appealing to technical people who overlap with enjoying Anime, that would be a very specific decision that might be appropriate for a video game company or something, but even then it would have to be justified by having some actual connection to Anime culture. Otherwise it's sort of just appropriating a style... in the hope that some percentage of crossover exists between users, investors, and this subculture being heavily referenced. My theory is that no study was done on whether or to what extent that crossover existed here before choosing it as a theme, but if I'm wrong I'll eat my critique!
He knows what a tokenizer is.
Go receives so much unjustified good will it is almost unbelievable...

Either way, if you do look at current state of .NET ecosystem, you may get surprised. But I guess, such is the perception of the public that may have read a bit too much into Go's promises (it would have abysmal performance should FASTER have been written in Go) - C#, seen as less popular weird Java, is now an underdog after all (look at Github LOC statistics).
It is also why nothing ever gets built (trains etc)
Afaik this was stated in my Intro to ML course. A kernel machine can do anything when the similarity function has infinite dimensions. Similarly, I think they mentioned an infinitely wide MLP is also all you need.

Also, this all breaks down when you introduce reinforcement learning methods.
Super glad to be able to tell everyone, Uranus has three new moons!
> Just allow teams that drive efficiency dividends to retain say half of the benefit they generate.

I think that's a good start but like in the article, could somehow create perverse incentives (for example, if they keep the savings where does it actually go)?

The whole issue of incentives is fascinating to me and I think it would be wonderful to have a "Department of Game Theory" that could model and verify these behavioral assumptions.
Maybe you like the style or not, but this whole entire conversation could be made much more interesting by talking about what this is often really about, which is Blackness.

The metaphorical implications of us formerly enslaved folks often making this song our own...like whew, where to begin?
Not surprising. Amazon is terrible at delivering consumer apps. The Apple TV prime video app freezes often, then after they added ads, the app now actively prevents you from muting them! You can mute during an ad, but then the app will immediately turn the volume back up. It’s straight out of black mirror.
I appreciate people taking the time to write articles like this, but please consider the people who are going to read it. ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means. If you're going to write an entire article about a feature being removed, please at least describe the feature in a way that people can understand without having to google it so that they can have an idea as to whether or not this is relevant to them.