skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I have no doubt in the truth of this claim, the fact is all over the west we have research conducted by businesses for business benefit, whether its big corps telling you why their products are healthy for you or even in the 60s when there was research conducted that claims "smoking was good for you" and it took years for research to prove it actually causes cancer.
I am by no means a china fanboy but there is a replication crisis across all countries and all disciplines, one example here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39098780

This is a generalized problem because back in the "good old days" science was done by a select elite of passionate individuals (think physics between 1900-1950). Nowadays science is dominated by midwits that were forced to do "science" because of societal expectations that everyone needs to go to university and become "educated". The end result is an endless tsunami of grifters and people who cargo cult science by making a few pretty graphs and dropping some massaged data sets so that they can get their pretty baubles and titles. This is the full extent of modern scientific thought for 99% of people doing "science". Of course the passionate 1% are still there pushing the envelope further but more often than not they are inconvenienced by the modern academic system and all that it entails (think Grigori Perelman or others like him)
Recent versions of F# can stop on individual function applications in an expression like

x
|> f a
|> g b
…

(search for "pipeline debugging" on < https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-fsharp-6/>).

In my experience, these are more common than strict point-free style anyway.
cool call me when they got one for go lol
The S3 API allow user to specify the hash of content as HTTP header, it will be verified by the JuiceFS gateway and persisted into JuiceFS as ETag.

With POSIX API or HDFS, there is no such API to do that, unfortunately.
I think my problem is that the people that have little enough imagination that they cannot see what their job might look like after are maybe better replaced?
I've seen "slight improvements" on the format which says:

- ignore any line which is exactly "[" or "]"
- ignore any trailing commas

This lets you consume your API content both as a JSONL stream, and as a JSON array

not sure if it's that useful though
> So that "30% of individual statements are unsupported" number was actually a test of how well ChatGPT's GPT-4 browsing mode with Bing could provide citations when answering medical questions.

Man, I am so disappointed. This is not a good study. Come on.
While I think most of the logos it generates are visually appealing, I think they tend to be to complicated. I want to use my logo e.g. as a favicon too and it needs to be "smart but simple" for that purpose.

I also found it hard to refine. I liked some of the logos and thought it would be great to improve upon them, but when using the "adjust" feature, what it creates is often quite different in style.

Maybe it would be great to have some form of visual input. E.g. generate 10 different styles based on an input and then ask the user which styles he likes best and go further in that direction. Or some other kind of parameters, e.g. colorfulness, rather uses lines or filled shapes, ... Even an upload "I like this logo, but change xy about it/Let this inspire you".

I'm also not sure about the pricing. I actually bought one month because I like to play with stuff and also like to support indie-dev stuff. But I don't think any of the logos I got out was "production ready" for my use and I probably won't use them for real. From that perspective, 29$ is quite much. And I don't need multiple logos for different stuff a month. On the other hand it's understandable you can't let people generate a large number of logos before spending anything. I think for me personally a credit-based model would be a better fit. Happy to spend some $ and have the possibility to come back in some months when I feel I need a logo again.

That's probably a temporary thing but the Sign in with Google shows some URL that seems internal.
The analogy is apt indeed. It's all about training and selection. As long as the incentives are that you either behave in that way "or else" it's unsurprising that we end up with a system that uses its intelligence to meet the goals you've set up.

Fortunately that doesn't tell much about the limitations of the underlying intelligence but mostly about the limitations of the incentive structure you put around it
How to Change a System
I know everywhere it holds a lot of weight, but I think that in Europe/US an additional huge factor for academic career is the ability to raise funding.

Maybe in China there's less need to find private funding for research thus scientific impact based on papers may hold more weight.

But I'm 100% that fake research and cheating is rampant in all of natural science everywhere in the world, and I myself had spent 6 months of my life in a lab trying to reproduce fake results from a previous researcher in my lab.

We only caught up it was fake data way later, when we spotted one single outlier number, an impossibly high voltage generated by his system (a 5/10% open current voltage that compounded all the other results).
I have to admit that I only read the abstract, but I am generally skeptical whether such a highly formal approach can help us answer the practical question of whether we can get LLMs to answer 'I don't know' more often (which I'd argue would solve hallucinations).

It sounds a bit like an incompleteness theorem (which in practice also doesn't mean that math research is futile) - yeah, LLMs may not be able to compute some functions, but the hallucination problem isn't about LLMs needing to know everything. The problem that we care about is the 'I don't know'-answering problem, which may still be computable.
No, the financial crisis was created by private financial institutions securitizing sub-prime mortgages, without considering that failures can be highly correlated, which is what happened when the bubble burst and prices fell across the board at the same time.

The main contribution of government to the crisis was that they didn't do anything to pop the bubble at an earlier time, when it would have caused less damage.

I can't read the Krugman opinion article you linked because it's paywalled, but I found that Dean Baker wrote about claims like yours about exactly this article, and he titled his article "When Someone Says Paul Krugman Called for Greenspan to Create a Housing Bubble Back in 2002, They are Trying to Say That They are Either a Fool or a Liar".

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/when-some...

> The same applies to the harm caused by public sector unions. It is due to self-serving people working in government.
> And the damage from the former has very few limits due to the state's monopoly on violence.

It depends... I don't see an issue with say teacher's unions, but police unions can be highly problematic and often work to protect police officers who deliberately broke the law from consequences.
The recover process is similar to what a database does after a crash, it loads the recent snapshot in disk and apply any newer transaction logs.
I have been actually professionally working with Rust for the last 2 years, and most recently on certified safety systems.

But I'm always thinking that the JVM is a pretty solid platform that has not yet reached its full potential. It gets a bad rap because of the hellhole that enterprise software is. But come on, look at android, look at games like Minecraft. Solid projects, written in large part in Java.
According to Buddhist philosophy, our whole identity is a hallucination :) I kind of concur.
I like Raku (it fits my brain as I was programming a lot of Perl in the 90s) and I like these features. You want to be able to do this. A lot of this you can easily make static though (so you have both) (maybe that happens under the hood?).
Yes, imagine a pocket calculator that gave a completely wrong answer 10%? of the time, and calling it 'capricious' instead of simply broken.
well actually they are the same if you say (pseudocode)

```
const jsonLParser = (streamOfLines) => {
for (line in streamOfLines) {
if line.trim() === "[" || line.trim() === "]" -> skip
if line.endswith(',') -> line = line.trimEnd(',')
yield JSON.parse(line)
}
}
```

this allows your API to be consumed both by JSON parsers and JSONL parsers
Organisms that evolved to perceive true reality instead of the "user interface" have smaller chances of survival. Donald Hoffman
I would be somewhat shocked if this was a difficult problem for submarine detection aircraft. It's almost exactly what they're built for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-3_Orion is what comes to mind, but that's 1960's tech.
Geoffrey Hinton has entered the chat…
The Amiga 1000 came out in 1985. By the time Win95 was available, it was almost worthless.
Ok I have to ask but why is HN flooded with pseudo scientific climate change/ population control far right bullshit today?
Better for the few outside the tropics who will shut their borders to the sufferings of those in the tropics..
And the amount of productive thinking is depending on the fraction of the total sum that goes into zero sum games like advertising and finance. No, I'm not saying that those don't have any utility, they do, but that utility has a clear "good enough" limit and more brains trying to maximise their piece of the pie does not make the pie any bigger.
This post said another topic: how to backup the metadata of JuiceFS in readable format (JSON) and restore it into an empty database.
Strange assumptions.
I had a long conversation with an anthropologist so studied the emergence of agriculture, who argued that it wasn't invented but instead adopted by necessity.

He pointed out the huge host of health problems that came with agriculture: hard labor; poor quality food; diseases from living densely.

Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture until well into the industrial revolution, with the adoption of public health.
A trillion of humans is not short-term either

> Much better for whom? OP said they like "nice things". I would also prefer avocados to spaceships since I'm not that interested in space travel without FTL.

For humans and for avocados. The sun is doomed and so are they, unless we manage to scale our available energy by many orders of magnitude.
It's called uninstalling. The whole point of having an app installed is so that its activities / services can run or other apps can use the providers and services it has. For apps on the system partition settings will let you disable the app which will have a similar effect.
I wonder this has applications for brain degeneration in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS.

Anything improving neuroplasticity could be great additions to the treatments for these diseases. I’d like to see more of this get out there and approved.
aka Slow RAM.

Most A500 owners had the 512KB trapdoor expansion. Much software, including games like Monkey Island, would not run w/o at least 1MB total ram.

Today, there are widely-available, cheap trapdoor expansions of open hardware design that offer 1.5MB slow, 512KB (for 1MB total) chip, as well as RTC.
How can one see the contents of FB13601345? Is it only visible to Apple employees?
Love Are.na
I also wrote some thoughts about it: https://productidentity.co/p/1-arena-the-social-network-anti...
Rack and Pinion Upgrade: Key to Faster Large Format 3D Printing (Part 6) [video]
The article is heavy on criticism of population decline and light on an argument of why it is so bad.

As a parent in the USA I also don’t buy the argument that it is all education and birth control driving these changes. Many of my acquaintances simply cannot afford the costs of multiple children. And for others climate anxiety makes them question the future.
Who is "the population"? Here in France there's a major difference between people who watch the news and those who live in the real world. On the news we get fed propaganda by the business owners and fascist apparatus about all the privileged rail workers and nurses and how their striking is pure nonsense.
I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?
"The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found."
Has not been true so far, I wonder at what population amount, will this start working ?
The confidence has been selected for.

You can train a model to always carefully claim that what they say may or may not be true, but that may not necessarily make them easier to work with.

IIUC what we're missing right now is the ability for the model to get a good estimate of how confident they _should_ be.

This can be done "externally" or "internally".
Doing it externally would mean: make the model not directly stream its train of thought directly to the end user but instead use it first to produce a query info some system that can help it weigh its confidence factor. Then a se and run on that output and its previous output can reformat the answer to be more balanced.

Doing it internally would require this process to be part of the incremental output token production. I don't know about the field to know whether that's even doable and whether we have some progress on that front
> Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture

based on what data exactly?
No, you should be smart. Instead of taking whole country and its population (and everybody else anyhow connected to it) hostage, strike politicians you want to affect where its most inconvenient and 'hurtful' for them, strike the state that you want the change from.

Don't go through making life miserable all the time for 65 millions of folks who didn't cause your woes in any way. I understand its far easier and 'cheaper' to target literally everybody out there, but that's lazy and makes tons of enemies of causes that you should be gathering support for.
Or catch itself that it's hallucinating? I feel like humans would do that a fair bit.

How often do we sit somewhere thinking about random scenarios that won't ever happen and are filled with wild thoughts and sometimes completely out of the world situations.. then we shake our heads and throw away the impossible from that thought train and only use what was based in reality
The world is finding out they can just make up whatever laws they like and fine American tech companies for easy cash.
How about not recognition of that land lost but accept NATO expand its territories covered to the remaining part of the Ukraine.

The problem is what if Ukraine like Turkey did something not agreeable by its NATO Members then e.g. to recover what is theirs.

But without NATO membership, the push to peace is just a stepping stone for Russia to get another piece then another piece then another piece of Ukraine land. The logic will always apply until there is no more Ukraine land.

After all, the Russia strategy to use arms not politics to take over and if successful, where is the end to this. I am not sure this wishful thinking can help.

For the longer term, I mean really long term after the death of Putin (unless cloning of emperor is viable), that is when the problem can be solved?
The same thing happens with web searching. If you provide a leading question in the query you are more likely to get results that confirm the thesis.

It’s surprisingly hard to ask open ended questions.
How do you define laziness?
So what were the necessities that prompted the adoption of agriculture?
Too few humans? I see this said a lot but it’s so counter-intuitive to me that humankind will be worse off in the long term with fewer of us around.
Martin Makary’s study and the previous IOM one are based on faulty statistics used. The number is extrapolated from a small population to a larger one.

I haven’t paid it any attention because of this problem. GIGO.

https://www.sciencealert.com/no-500-people-don-t-die-in-the-...
Originally I had planned to add a line or two explaining how a matrix-matrix product is just a _list_ of matrix-vector products but then dropped the idea to keep it solely focused on the interpretations. I will probably add it to make it all about matrix-matrix products.
Elections are the opposite of a strike. Elections were designed to prevent the people from exerting power, by dividing them along arbitrary lines (party lines) and then concentrating power in the hands of the few.

Strikes are designed to redistribute power in the hands of those at the bottom, if only until certain demands are met.
The article provides zero evidence for the thesis and it is baffling to see it upvoted.
You don’t have to house the people in very desireable locations. If becoming homeless means that you instead get relegated to a massive concrete block, most productive members of society would do their hardest to leave as soon as possible. Those that don’t (for a variety of reasons) are at least off the streets.
Don't they ?

Yesterday I read "Building a deep learning rig" as "Building a deep learning pig" at first for some reason I can't explain...
Yes yes, more people means more progress which means line goes up which means we will all live in a utopia or something like that. That's why everyone is trying to escape their country and conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth.
> we spotted one single outlier number, an impossibly high voltage generated by his system

Surely the outlier could have been an innocent digital capture error.
You clearly didn’t even look at the article, because it’s not at all about climate change
10 half-starving farmers could beat 1 fat hunter gatherer in a fight.
When I see people thinking about voting for someone like Donald Trump I know the argument that more people = better solutions is complete bullshit. Even if we technically have more solutions, having more dumb people who are able to negate all the benefits is a far worse situation to be in.
A company is like a rose bush, keeping it civilised means constant aggressive prunning.
> The global population is projected to go down to 6 billion by the end of the century, without any coercion or policy changes.

I agree. So where is the problem? Replacement is a problem in many parts of the world on the other hand.
See:

Selfish reasons to want more humans (rootsofprogress.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497686

119 points by pr337h4m 6 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 215 comments

this is yet another variation on the same arguments from yet another roots of progress writer:

Published first in Quillette. Many thanks to all my Roots of Progress fellows for their inspiration and feedback, in particular ...
Have you even had a look at the graphs?
Having the workers acquire the lock and update the terminal themselves seems like it would cause lock contention.

An alternative would be to have only the main process do the updating and have the workers message it about progress, using a queue.
> And really, in that situation, why should anyone feel ethically bound to be efficient and do what's best for the company?

They should do what is best for society. Companies with lower parasite load operate more efficiently, allowing higher production of goods and services for lower price, leading to a wealthier society.

> The company executives almost certainly have it in their power to set incentives so doing the most efficient, best-for-the-company thing is what's going to give each employee the biggest reward.

They do not. This is a ridiculously hard unsolved problem. The alignment problem may actually be the hardest problem we have.
A real shame that Douglas Adams didn't live to see all of this...
If the speaker can convince the listener they should find a job where they don't need to speak as part of the job description. Dishwashers and janitors give pletnly of job stability for people like those.
She points at the Moon and you look at the finger. My dog can do better.
> hallucination is defined as inconsistencies between a computable LLM and a computable ground truth function.

With this definition, you can trivially prove the titular sentence - "hallucination is inevitable" - is untrue.

Let your LLM have a fixed input context length of one byte. Continue training the LLM until such a time as it replies to the input "A" with "yes" and all other inputs with "no".

Define your computable ground truth function such that the correct output for the input "A" is "yes" and the correct output for all other inputs is "no".

This LLM provable never hallucinates - we have exhaustively verified that its output matches the ground truth function for all possible inputs.

There is nothing stopping inductively increasing the size of the input context and the number of entries in the ground truth table arbitrarily, and at no step do hallucinations become "inevitable".
It is also interesting how this relates to hardware implementations. Nvidia and Intel AMX appear to be using dot product engines under the hood and do a matrix multiplication in a single instruction. Apple AMX and ARM SME use outer product engines and require multiple instructions to do a single matrix multiplication.
Is there any possible correlation between high rents and high population?
Yeah, maybe not all of the article but it still is. Pro life ass propaganda without scientific merit.
Challenges in Natural Language Processing Applications
The Apple TV is an Apple product, with all the pros and cons that carries, but the Fire stick honestly feels like a low quality knockoff of a knockoff.
You just named “for example” the first and fourth biggest companies in the world. Look up what the third is.

I don’t know how “influential” big oil is, but I know they’re collectively quite rich. Collectively substantially richer than whoever you’ve imagined stands to gain from a shift away from carbon and has been willing and able to buy out the world’s scientific community for decades now. They can’t even pay their own scientists to shill for them; they knew about climate change since the 70s [0].

Edit:
lol the list of companies I was looking at was by market cap. A list by revenue [1] makes your case even worse: five of the ten richest companies in the world sell oil. Another eight are in the top 50. Somehow no obvious boogeyman bicycle manufacturers to be manipulating the scientific consensus though.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64241994.amp

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by...
Dear fellow dev. please choose other platform rather than medium ! Lock here, login there. Pfft.
When the article starts with "my scientific hero ... and why I think I am smarter than them" I'm having a really hard time following the rest of your argument, especially if there is little to no evidence, data or, substance to back whatever youre saying.
Fear cuts in before the rational mind can process, and it conditions subsequent actions - including the ability to visualise and appropriately weight potential positive outcomes. You need to apply energy to boot people out of the local minimum they've fallen into so that they can end up in the right place.
Yup, I consider this interpretation as a matrix being a function that takes in objects like a line, a circle or a convex shape and spits out objects like some other line, an ellipse or another convex shape. It is a level of abstraction where you no longer care _how_ matrix multiplication works - you mostly care about what a matrix does to geometric objects. I covered this aspect not in the above article but in a separate one: https://www.linearalgebraforprogrammers.com/la/3_mat_vec_mul
A hungry man cannot steal food.
Ouch, this is painful indeed. I thought all banks provided a way to download transactions in a machine-readable format.
Or we can assume that the state of the world before humans was a state that we have deviated from though human agency, and it is reasonable to remedy some of that irreversible trajectory would be a good cause that some other intelligent species could undertake after we're gone.
https://github.com/vlang/v/issues

873 open, 7275 closed.

The ratio is important. What is it for the ones you listed?