skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they good at following prompts?

Unless I format my prompts very specifically, diffusion models are not good at following them. Even then I need to constantly tweak my prompts and negative prompts to zero in on what I want.

That process is novel and pretty fun, but it doesn’t imply the model is good at following my prompt.

LLMs are similar. Initially they seem good at following a prompt, but continue the conversation and they start showing recall issues, knowledge gaps, improper formatting, etc.

It’s not dishonest to say semi-random. It’s accurate. The detokenizing step of inference, for example, is taking a sample from a probability distribution which the model generates. Literally stochastic.
There are differences. From the article it sounds like the falcon took a week to get to the moon. India’s mission took a month.

Second the payload is much bigger.

I don’t think cost comparisons in this case is accurate considering something bigger was delivered faster.
Did you check if Archive.org archived all your pieces, and everything you like?

See:
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.vice.com/en/articl...
Had the same experience overclocking old AMD Phenom II a while ago. Worked flawlessly in all publicly available test software I tried, until I run some custom heavily vectorized code, which eventually required to shave off almost all overclocking :D
I do hope you’re recognized.

One piece of advice, I found myself this person once - it’s the road to burn out city to be the critical path answer to everyone on the team’s challenges. You sound like someone who is very generous with your time and support. In my experience once people have found a critical path there is no point at which they “stop.” This isn’t because they’re trying to hurt you, they’ve just found the answer so to them it doesn’t seem wrong.

It will take even more of your time, but you ought to consider practicing giving less answers and asking more questions of those who seek your help to try to help them unpack the issues themselves. It will feel more tiring at first, but you’ll gradually help the others learn and also create a small bit of friction that will encourage them to try their own solution or two before seeking you.

Management asks are separate/ they can actually reward you with compensation and promotions for this extra work. But the team asking for help won’t stop when you get more comp unless you start teaching that you’re not the answer.
It was one of the first successful boardgames on kickstarter, that really started the trend of boardgames being published by crowdfunding. Found this 2014 article claiming it was "the most backed board game in Kickstarter history": https://coolmomtech.com/2014/06/robot-turtles-game-from-thin...

There is a competitive mode for it, still available on the official site: http://www.robotturtles.com/galapagos/ I have thought of trying that some day. The original game has not been played much since my kids were younger, but they are also not yet all old enough to play RoboRally. On the other hand we also have Colt Express that I think is a very fun lighter almost-RoboRally kind of game (if you squint a bit), that might appeal more to kids too old to still want to play Robot Turtles.
I love Grist, and relevant to this discussion, it now has forms: https://www.getgrist.com/forms/

Grist is open source, Python scriptable and each project is stored in a SQLite database.
Well, perhaps you can clarify my confusion, which could be similar to the poster you are replying to:

I took your original point "caring about improving the world for others" to mean "you should make decent efforts/sacrifices to help others if you have the capacity".

That is, you should not go on this flight, because the CO2 released will make the world a worse place.

But if you have this moral obligation to help others, it seems like the much greater mistake here is to spend $1200/person on the flight. $1200 is enough to save ~240 children's lives for a year if donated to an effective charity (Helen Keller Foundation). Compared to that good, the moral harm of the CO2 released is a rounding error (someone mentioned a bit over 1 ton/person).

I've never understood the moral axiom that says "you need to make sacrifices for others, but only if those sacrifices are for carbon dioxide release. You don't have to make much smaller sacrifices which do vastly more good". That to me seems clearly absurd - can you help me understand what mistake I'm making?

To be clear, I'm not saying it's wrong to cut your carbon footprint - I'm saying that if there's a moral compulsion to do that, it seems like there's a stronger moral compulsion to donate a high % of your worth to effective charities. But nobody every seems to think that is the case!
They might still pull it off anyway with their data play given AI hype

And by pull it off I mean original investors get out and someone else is left holding bag
I bought a new car this year.

It has HUGE blindspots behind the pillars (it's an SUV). They're placed in line with the crosswalk when I'm at a red light. So I have to bob my head around if I want to see anyone about to cross

the mirrors FOV also are extremely limited!

My last car was a 1998 volvo. It had side mirrors that were half convex to give you a wider FOV. I can't believe how much better it is than my 2024 SUV!

I can't understand how cars have any blindspots in 2024. Surely we have the ability to design better mirrors, more cameras, smaller pillars..
It's not simple. I made multi-page forms with dozens fields where your suggestion would lead to intangible mess of spaghetti code - I know because I worked with the web way before React. Even with the best coding standards and a team of seniors it's just too hard to maintain - and seniors usually don't write forms.

I really don't want to go back to the jQuery days. You do you, but don't say it's easier - it really isn't.

BTW you can just use Preact if you're worried about the bundle size. I do that, it's perfect and just a little performance impact, usually not visible in small apps.
Text message from my mobile carrier:

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I am quite critical of LLMs but I really don't see the point of asking Michio Kaku what he thinks, other than cynically leveraging his status as a physicist so he can be a "thoughtfluencer" in areas he probably doesn't know very much about.

Becoming a celebrity seems to be the worst thing that can happen to a thinker.
the italian "pagobancomat" system[0] (pay from your CC with an ATM card) is still alive and well, all ATMs and POS support it together with visa/mastercard. There's also an online payment system but I've not seen it used.

Most plastic you get these days supports both that and visa/maestro.

[0] an extension of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancomat_(interbank_network)
Few people buy a K processor who aren’t interested in overclocking and tweaking. I wouldn’t be surprised if the BIOS of a gaming mainboard sets the “optimal” defaults on that basis, since the gaming market is all about benchmarks.
Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF?

I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial to get the 9 refactors merged even though the 10th commit needs iteration? It would make it much easier for colleagues that can then branch off of the tested and merged refactors without running into merge conflicts later.
How new is this Retool product? The idea that OpenAI, Amazon, NBC, Mercedes, and Doordash all use it seems dubious.
A couple of questions:

- Can phind run on old Macbooks(2015+) with 8GB RAM?
- Is it only for coding purpose?
It's almost poetic in a frightful kind of way:

"city materials (concrete, iron and aluminum alloys, industrial glass and soil) were vaporized and mixed with sand, Ota River water and the atmosphere to produce the various glasses"

Edit, related - how do elements get created:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-six-billion-year...
Who cares. It's useful as hell. Here's one of my questions yesterday: https://chat.openai.com/share/500a4377-7cf5-47b3-b833-74b85d.... You know how long it would take me to Google this crap and piece together a coherent answer after going through a rabbit hole of JSTOR reviews, math stackexchange and Reddits? I don't have the time for that, and if that is what regurgitating an average of the whole internet means, I am very glad someone decided to build something like that.
To the authors, please rename this new algorithm from the boring Searchformer to more interesting name for example Optimus Prime.
Not that it's wrong, but why is the opinion of a string theorist on LLMs significant?
And even if you do have a CD drive in your computer, the risk is still lower than a USB stick. A CD contains only data, it cannot do things like emulating a keyboard. The worst it can do is shatter when your high-speed DVD-ripping drive spins it up a bit too fast.
I'd really love to see his more recent real physics publications.

arXiv lists the latest as 24 year old:

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Michio+Kaku&searchtype=all&s...

. Didn't he pivot around 2000's to a public speaker figure?
>It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity

So do you believe this is an action taken out of spite, or that there may be circumstances that a bunch of hackers aren't taking into account?

I'm genuinely curious, because I don't believe it's spite, but can't think of the reason. Outside of some long-tail potential liability for which the value of maintaining the site doesn't overcome.
I am planning on building an forum for Share market Investors in India. The current major player(link included) is a huge websites that does everything but really sucks in terms of UX and Ui. I am targetting the ability to keep track of prices and discuss about the stock.
Google is a glorified library. Excavator is a glorified spade. See, I don’t have to be Michio Kaku to do that. I wonder if sometimes people like Kaku make these outlandish statements for publicity.
If smartphones were the root cause - it wouldn't diverge between USA and Europe.

The insanity of driving trucks instead of compact cars in cities is a big factor.
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>"but they were continuously getting leaflets dropped on them by the Americans telling them their cities were going be bombed"

"But there was never any specific warning to the cities that had been chosen as targets for the atomic bomb prior to the weapon’s first use. The omission was deliberate: The United States feared that the Japanese, being forewarned, would shoot down the planes carrying the bombs. And since Japanese cities were already being destroyed by incendiary and high-explosive bombs on a regular basis — nearly 100,000 people were killed the previous March in the firebombing of Tokyo — there was no reason to believe that either the Potsdam Declaration or Truman’s speech would receive special notice" -[0]

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...
Yep. It's a bit like the theory that scammers mention they're from Nigeria because they're ingeniously weeding out all the people who've heard of the scam before, and not because they need an excuse for people to send money to Nigeria (and with their culture and education level the ALLCAPS and religious references look very official and honest indeed), and if the cost of that is that 99.99% of their emails don't get delivered due to automatic filters protecting even the most gullible of recipients, well that's probably not something they've given much thought to.
If the feature is huge, you should be having incremental reviews throughout the process. The PRs should be made to the feature branch.
I don't think you can in an intelligent way. One simple solution would be to only disable the screen if the phone is connected to car Bluetooth - but this would just result in most phone addicts not connecting their phone to the car.

That's why people are against it - the idea of passengers returning to the pre-smartphone era while traveling seems to be considered by most people totally outrageous and and unacceptable price to pay for lowering the accident rate, which has climbed almost solely to due smartphones.
Just because it could be deployed almost anywhere, doesn't mean it will. Just like with rental housing containers that could be ordered to be shipped anywhere a road leads to.

We will likely see more nuclear installations though due to the fact that they don't have to be gargantuan to scale with the engineering costs. But they will be subject to the same regulatory regime that governs the existing installations.
I had my time during my embedded days - did a site visit 1000 km away and discovered no wonder the serial port and scanner/printer is going wonky.

No shielding, earth - using the crappiest/cheapest PC they could get instead of using the recommended kit as the sales droid wanted a bigger commission.

Said call me when you replaced the h/w - I walked out and went to the airport.
They never called me.
I just asked my GPT friend about this.

He was little salty about always being picked on as not intelligent.

"If AI is a glorified tape recorder, then humans are quirky old computers, running on organic software that requires coffee to boot up, prone to emotional overheating, and occasionally needing to be put into sleep mode to prevent system crashes."
In related news, Yahoo is slashing Engadget staff: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080215/engadget-layoffs...
I report those as phishing in order to get the feedback to the IT team who sent them from their colleagues in infosec. (I often have had IT and infosec reporting to me, which makes this even more effective of a feedback mechanism. :) )
Yes, but also no. The motherboard market is "timing-competitive", your product needs to be ready when the CPU launches, especially for the kind of flagship CPU that this specific issue is about. You can't wait and see what the competitors are doing.
Friends don't let friends use Brave.
I recently built a new system with a i9 149kf and a Ausus Formula motherboard. For a VFIO system so I could run windows and play some games.

It was a nightmare to get running stable. None is the default settings the motherboard used worked. Games crashed, kernel and emacs compiles failed.

End result I had to cap turbo to 5.4ghz on a 6ghz chip, and enable settings that capped max watts and temperature for throttling to 90c.

System seems stable now. Can get sustained 5.4ghz without throttling and enjoying games at 120fps with 4k resolution.

Even though it is working I do feel a way about not being able to run the system at any of the advertised numbers I paid for.
Not in this instance, but couldn't a student immediately sue the university for defamation if they weren't using AI?
Dogs can't do that
You can spend as much as lawyer money as you want on arguing whatever nonsense you want, reasonableness is a common standard so sure, people will have spent lots of money pointlessly arguing about it but that's not a problem with reasonableness.
And for some reason voice commands for podcasts have never been figured out.

"Play a different episode"

"Sorry, I have no idea how to do that"

Them: Be scared. AI is really smart and is going to take your job.

In fairness, I think there's reasons they're intentionally making it different to select what you want to play... but WTF is up with that, too.
Oh that's interesting, multi-page forms are actually my least favorite form use case for react.

I reach for a state machine whenever possible to manage the complex flow of the multi-page or multi-step form, even if react is still used for custom inputs.
I'm currently diving into some fairly fringe and very dead tech so my perspective is a bit skewed but I seem to be relying on the wayback machine an absolutely absurd amount lately.
If your “better tooling” is to split this PR into multiple smaller chunks, then you’re just reinventing the original workflow
Same can be said of my manager.
External Gear Pump – Cavitation
Great article! But in the conclusion jQuery is enough? No thanks
I’m curious how you find the Swedish from different models. GPT-4 seems to return perfectly grammatical Swedish but a Swede friend says it reads like English. Do you notice this?

I’d love to have models that are better at idiomatic usage of other languages, so they can generate language learning content.
That doesn't fix the issue though. The issue is a killer USB or a virus on the disk. Being able to only read an infected file still allows it to be read.

Also, this is only a software solution as the USB protocol would require bidirectional transmission.
There is nothing worse than when techies try to solve social problems with tech solutions.

How about we try and figure out how to train people to be better drivers, and more responsible adults in general, rather than continuing to let people off the hook and treating the whole of society like children that need their phones taken away by big daddy tech?

I hate this sort of petty tech dictatorship stuff.
You mean chrome
I think that achieving small victories is the best way to overcome this burnout period. Until you get that "Yeah, I did it" moment. It'll just keep dragging.

Cut off from your work, don't even think about it, and start again.
Can you share a video link?
>other than cynically leveraging his status as a physicist so he can be a "thoughtfluencer"

So should we only be listening to the people with a financial stake in the outcomes, in either direction?

Not saying he's correct, or even that I agree. But it seems like we should listen to random, smart people.
Pretty shallow analysis.

How much energy was used for training chat gpt 2,3 and 4?

Also

> We’ll assume that AI models have roughly the same split of operating costs as a typical data centre

I don’t think this is a good assumption. GPT is not a typical application, it requires a massive amount of power hungry GPUs.

It’d be better to compare the power cost to non-asic crypto mining farms.
I have used ghstack for exactly the problem you describe, but I like how graphite managed trees of stacks, which is better than ghstack‘s linear stacks
Only 15% of pedestrian hit by car fatalities are prosecuted.
Of those, the vast majority were DUI as well.

So 85% if the time, there are no consequences for killing a pedestrian with your car.
If you are sober, it's like 95%.

Even when they do prosecute, juries tend to acquit on major charges. They put themselves in the shoes in the driver instead of the victim.
Check out XState, it's really great!

But it's not that necessary in my case, my forms are usually not complex statecharts, just a lot of individual and largely decoupled complex form controls - multiselects with rules, map pins, tag inputs with autosuggest, data grids etc.
I'm pretty much the same as OP. I almost always buy the K version of the processor, but never intend to overclock. I just figure I want the theoretical ability to, and the more volume they have on those SKUs the less likely they are to take it away entirely.

That or I'm just rewarding shitty corporate product segmentation behavior. I never can quite decide.

I do agree over the recent years getting a "boring" higher-end configuration is getting more and more difficult.
> Splitting it up into functions which can't yet be understood in their broader context makes them harder to review, not easier.

Recently I wanted to add a hook to a certain part of our pipeline, which involved a lot of plumbing work (bad smell, but anyway). It was already about 200 lines of code and then some tests to ensure the hook was called.

I raised that with a null implementation of the listener.

I then raised a separate PR adding the actual listener I wanted, with busisness logic and tests for that logic.

Am I understanding that some reviewers would object to the first PR because they can't understand the broader context?

I think that's silly.
Africa's Donkeys Are Coveted by China. Can the Continent Protect Them?
The other thing I try to understand but just can't is how Telco providers can be so incompetent in effectively stopping scam texts.

First of, texts are not encrypted and they can see ALL communication.

On the other hand the US forces me, using Twilio for SMS automation, to sign up "campaigns" with "Sample messages" if maybe all I want to do is building a personal assistant with text commands. My messages will get hit with fees for non compliance, or end up silently blocked without any visibility.

Then there are these scammers sending the same or very similar messages to millions of people, pretending to be the same 50 companies (national banks, shipping companies, cell phone carriers) - how about these $bigcorp register their "campaigns" to combat scams and they'll leave me alone (one number sending texts to always the same one or handful of numbers).

... Oh wait I figured it out! Telco don't care, they enjoy inflated traffic numbers in their network and charge for it - why would they stop it
What will be the legal ramifications? Will we have wars over territory on the Moon?
I would just like to point out that members/former of every counterculture back to at least the 50s have said this about the younger generation; it’s almost a cliche.
Big PRs are often faster, due to the bike shedding problem.

A small sensible PR will get people debating intricacies. A big unwieldy one will scare reviewers into doing a quick sign-off
cough https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=What+are+... have you heard of "site:reddit.com"?

I will say that "site:reddit.com" is merely a poor man's way of telling Google "don't give me low quality machine generated results". Which, ironically, is exactly what you want ... from an AI!

Funny ... it's like a text based version of the plot of terminator: only machines ... can protect you from the machines!

I do think you're right btw, but for me the best applications of AI are, well, applied. As in "write tests for code X", "use library Y to ...". The code is definitely not useful as-is, far from it. But ...
Lessons learned from doing the one billion row challenge
I sympathize with your sentiments, but the social problem was created by tech solutions in the first place.

> How about we try and figure out how to train people to be better drivers, and more responsible adults in general,

You can't. You may improve things at the margins but it will do nothing to the overall trend. Smartphone use is addictive. Consider that decades of cradle-to-grave anti-smoking education with huge amounts of funding combined with immediate financial disincentives (high taxes) succeeded only in lowering the smoking rate to 12%. People are not ideal rational actors.

And smartphones are an even more intractable problem, because we're suggesting educating people out of smartphone addiction, but only out of not using it while they drive. It is simply not possible to educate a sizable proportion of the population out of this. Even strict police enforcement will not make a big difference.
This is the major reason I sold my motorcycle this past summer. It's bad enough that drivers have a hard time seeing motorcycles, multiple in-car distractions just make it worse. It was fun while it lasted.

I don't ride my bicycle on the roads for the same reason.
also because googling for "Searchformer" brings up a different paper and model: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01722...

"Planformer" seems unused and would reduce confusion

(also since "Search" implies RAG etc which is not what this model is about)
My favorite is, some time around last summer, whenever I told Google to play the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, it invariably plays some random unrelated (not even a similar name) music on Spotify.
Speaking of, the political compass places 2020 Trump as somewhat more authoritarian than 2020 Biden, and barely more on the right :

https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2020