skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t buy rice from Texas or Mississippi. The Consumer Reports analysis other people are linking showed the former big cotton states had contaminated many of their rice fields with arsenic from cotton growing.
The nose pokes out past the glass of the helmet.

It's these basic mistakes that is so incongruous between human and machine intelligence. No matter how big the model, it always makes these same type of basic confabulations, just less often.
I don’t think “instead” is the correct word here. “As well” I think fits better.

ARCHITECTURE.md will have the current state of the architecture. ADRs is the log of decisions that got you there. Both are very useful.
I have a friend who claimed to have done the similar thing. He also got cancer. But he might not have advanced too far besides that. Do you think it's plausible? I only hear about David Hahn, but there ought to be more? Or not?
Or as the Swedes call it: Management by Perkele [0].

Bonus points for inventively cruel and randomly meted punishments.

0: https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2016571
I’m with you.
Any time I contribute to a GenAI project at work, I make it a point to ensure the LLM’s output is run by an SME - always. LLMs are great at augmenting Human experts, because that ensures verification.

There was some ask to use LLMs for summarization, my first question was on the acceptable level of error tolerance. Was it 1 in a million? Six Sigma?
Twitter's long ass posts suck egg. Twitter threads should be readable. They were and they were fine and good. It was great having content broken up. It was great seeing reactions to individual sections.

It should not made impossible to see some's Twitter theads. Get in the sea.
Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
Or...not doing business
Institutions "want" to survive first and grow sexond.

Doing this is a very effective way of achieving that
The filibuster is just a product of the Senate rules and could be changed at any time. There's no incentive to do so now because the Democrats currently control the Senate but they couldn't pass anything even without the filibuster because the Republicans control the House. I suspect it's going to happen with the next trifecta.
Also remember he builds these things piece by piece from the inside out.

It is easy to get overwhelmed when looking at the end result.

To learn you should probably run one block at a time to understand what each piece does. (In "normal" languages those pieces would be an isolated function)
Those interventions I am referencing did not get the advanced economies to where they are. They are causing stagnation in housing, healthcare, etc.

The US didn't become an advanced economy due to government restrictions — what you euphemize as "oversight" — on building houses, investing in companies and providing healthcare.
The mixing is the generalization
“The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance.”
A DEVELOPMENT or HACKING document should be enough for contributors, to cite the coding guidelines. When someone wants to contribute without understanding the code workflow, he should not contribute.
>First, more people means more outliers—more super-intelligent, super-creative, or super-talented people, to produce great art, architecture, music, philosophy, science, and inventions.

There might be 1,000 certified geniuses per billion, but we are still slaves to probability. That genius might be born in the slums of Calcutta or in the middle of the Amazon rainforest or in the vastness of the Mongolian steppes. I guess the hope would be that 3 or 4 might have the luck to be born to a middle class or higher family in the first world.

Also, whatever this dude wants, the world is in major decline. For example, because of China's one child policy, their population will be halved in 50 or 70 years and nothing can stop that. Japan has a high over 40 population, Italy, Germany, Spain, and especially South Korea. Russia has been declining in population and with the war, the best and brightest have left Russia, never to return (they are devoloping lives, wives, children wherever they are now), and the meat grinder of the war. Same with Ukraine.

The same thing happened in ancient Rome as well. It got so expensive to raise a child in Rome (yes, inflation existed back then as well), because of money pouring into the administrative city of Rome - for the same reason now in the first world, that people stopped having children. Even back then they had rudimentary birth control. The Roman Emperors gave all kinds of incentives for families to have children - grants and tax reductions, but it was not enough.
Disable DIP, disable whatever launch agents you want off, enable SIP

It doesn’t have to stay off afaik
In Silicon Valley, the norm seems to be pushing the building's footprint as close to the street as possible. No room left for trees or shrubbery. Just a narrow cement sidewalk.

Every square foot matters to the builder. I guess it gives them 2% more profit, or is passed along as 2% cheaper rents.
Great article. I heared at Fosdem that PyPA is looking for resources and sponsors because it's such a small team handling it all.
You can carry drinks on a plate suspended on strings. Keeps g pointing towards the bottom of the glasses. No electronic stabilizing needed.
Maybe there doing something we don’t really have a name for yet ? This is why it causes so much controversy.

Not really generalizing, not memorizing, maybe approximating ?
That dent was sold by France to Citibank in 1922 and paid off in 1947. I don’t understand why you are talking about this in the present tense.
Why? Why would such a distinction come about in the first place?
I align. We note that N is only an indicator. To actually answer, one needs to seek and analyze a detail after detail of facts.

>> And I’ve learned this the hard way.

I would like to hear more to learn from your experience.

For the said physicist, I understand the situation well already.
Sorry to be 'that guy' but is this an 'ultimately reliable service' for 'critical monitoring' or a lifestyle business that you run on the side? Because your marketing is saying both.

Also, when did companies become so okay with their full-time employees having their own businesses? I worked for both a hosting provider and a large mainframe manufacturer and if I'd have had any sort of side business taking up my time that would always have been a contract violation due to conflict of interest. Let alone a business that relies on the services provided by a direct competitor...
Potentially yes
Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan. https://www.nyc.gov/site/wildlifenyc/animals/coyotes.page
Isn't this just ndjson? https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson-spec
The key isn't that they just "mix patterns". They learn to mix higher order abstractions, which is fundamentally different from "memorization".
I think it is implied that they showed people what the change would look like and that it did not threaten their jobs.
And you can sideload apps. If you put Kodi in it, it's just one click to avoid all the ads.
Yes, and they have been.
Hong Kong's first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus to hit streets on Sunday
LOD is something I have a difficult time comprehending the rationale for as well unless wholesale blocks are being regurgitated.

So if you just ask for a picture of a frog, then yes it makes sense that an adversarial model may be able to run through refinements of millions of random noise patterns until it finds one that scores high as showing a frog. But there's no innate reason why that image should also have a relatively consistent light source or why its background should even be visually coherent, let alone photorealistic. The most logical explanation for the coherence of the rest of the image is data theft.

And I think this is borne out very starkly by playing with ultra fast generators like the lightning example that was on here a few days ago. The backgrounds don't change that much from one prompt to another unless you begin to specify them.
What do you mean by "when men were still men?"
Yes -

> Two terms for equivalent formats of line-delimited JSON are:

> Newline delimited (NDJSON)[4] - The old name was Line delimited JSON (LDJSON).[5]

> JSON lines (JSONL)[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming
In businesses that is kept in check via competition. Startups can beat old companies that gathered too much such bloat, the same is not true for governments since they don't get competed out. Even in democracies most of the government bureaucracy stays even when the opposite party gets elected, you need a total revolution to flush that out and those happens very rarely.
> was great having content broken up.

Having each paragraph preemptively separated from its context was certainly great for entertainment, but maybe not so much for reasoned discussion.
This, but with SQL instead of Excel.
Financial crisis was caused by:

"widespread failures in financial regulation and supervision", including the Federal Reserve's failure to stem the tide of toxic assets

"dramatic failures of corporate governance and risk management at many systemically important financial institutions" including too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk.

"a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments, and lack of transparency" by financial institutions and by households that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis.

ill preparation and inconsistent action by government and key policy makers lacking a full understanding of the financial system they oversaw that "added to the uncertainty and panic".

a "systemic breakdown in accountability and ethics" at all levels

Note how government is only named in failing to prevent and fix the issue, hence the root cause lying absolutely with corporate/private greed.

Blaming government for not better regulating and preventing corporate/private greed is a weird criticism for government. It's like saying the government causes domestic violence by not putting a camera in everyone's house.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_financial_cr...
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/meet-the-coywolf-field-video...

Coywolf aka Eastern Coyote in it's NYC habitat.
I think you're right. It's a good change for people who want to build web applications. Maybe that's the right thing for future development ease. I feel it's a shame though, the de-emphasis of web documents leads to more content being centralized on large platforms like Facebook, Medium, etc. People at the small scale don't benefit as much from programmability. It leads to a less open and inclusive web.
I (sadly) don’t think much of this is isolated to Amazon. I think it’s shareholders that demand this of most corporations.

I honestly think the packaging my Amazon stuff comes in is much more eco friendly than the actual product packaging itself.
This led to the algebra of programming school: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/s...

For context, see this discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5671271/what-are-advanta...
I once argued for dinosaurs using stone tools, in the form of gastroliths. So what if the tool is only held internally and manipulated by the stomach, why does that not count? But here I'm really questioning the meaning of "tool" and use. I think it's all very debatable, even with apes, especially when you get to the part about what you're trying to imply by observing the animal uses tools. (The mirror test is similarly sketchy in meaning, being passed by certain tiny fish but not by dogs.)
When selecting C and typing anything:

...
char temp;
temp = getc();
printf("Received: %s", temp);
...

Oh my. Kaboom.
Pretty much, discussion: https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson.github.io/issues/1

Also when you're using this with GeoJSON there's https://stevage.github.io/ndgeojson/ which has an actual RFC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8142)
Can anybody explain to me like I'm five why this isn't just Keynesianism working as expected, as it did globally in 2008 (where the world didn't do enough of it in retrospect) and 2020-21 (where the world did a bit too much in retrospect)?
Sorry, I generalized it too much.
I was expressing the general tendency, not the exception, forgot put a star mark!
Yes, you are correct. There are good people in every system.
Even I have seen top doctors in top hospitals who
wished patients who had surgeries to return home as soon as possible.
I have seen (some you tube videos) some police persons who wished less crime.
I have seen engineers fixing bugs once for all!

This adage can be seen in the Neitz-sche's statement - "exploitation is a basic function of life".
Cops don't get a license for public executions. I appreciate your pearl clutching, but reject your premise on its face.
With all due respect, what is with all the Wikipedia submissions lately? There's no context provided along with it, just the link to Wikipedia.

I'm perfectly fine just opening up an encyclopedia to a random page to learn about something, but this is ridiculous. Need to provide some context at minimum.
To each their own, but your response baffled me. If you've used ADB a half hundred times, weren't you ever curious what it stood for? I can't even use acronyms without knowing what they mean - it's always the first thing I look up, primarily because it helps me really remember and understand what the topic is about. Sure, the acronym soon takes on an "atomic unit of meaning" in my head, but especially for something like "Android Debug Bridge", which pretty perfectly describes the tool, knowing the original meaning still often enhances my understanding.
Throwing money and war materiel at Ukraine doesn't ensure victory. Clearly the lack of it will ensure failure. But weapons are mostly only as good as the training of the people wielding them.

On top of that, there's fear of nuclear weapons taking the stage. If the US military went head to head with the Russian military, and we didn't have to worry about MAD, I think it's reasonable to assume that the US would win. But is the Ukrainian military, supplied with Western military supplies (and even Western military advisors), a better fighting force than the Russian military, even with a home-field advantage? Unclear.

And on the other hand... when the war started, a lot of people assumed Russia would achieve their objectives within a few weeks, or at most a month or two. Ukraine has turned out to be much more capable than initially expected.

> ...and yet it cannot supply enough shells and bullets for the war

It absolutely can, but politics, as usual, gets in the way. And, as I said, shells and bullets are necessary, but not sufficient.
> Importantly, these recurrent and convolutional forms, which I like to call “RNN mode” and “CNN mode,” are mathematically equivalent. This allows S4 to shape-shift depending on what you need it to do, with no difference in its outputs.

Is this really true? Because it seems to ignore hardware and data type precisions entirely. I mean computing same math thing in a different way with floating points often leads to different results.
It's not a blog post tweeted in chunks, it's post-as-you-progress, a conversation that others can follow... or not. I do it all the time, and so did Wenting here. Others will often give suggestions with things to try. Wenting has a blog in which describes completed projects: https://www.wentingzhang.com.
From my experience I think there’s a lot more plastic water bottle consumption in Europe than the U.S.
"Vibing"?
Obviously it is better at stuff it's seen in its training data, but that's same for all humans, and likely universal for all forms of intelligence. The question about AGI and the possibility of LLM's and such being more than regurgitation of the training set isn't whether or not after a certain number of compute cycles that the model can model a part of the natural world or some real process with X degree of accuracy, but rather that it can reliably improve on its failures on its own. This is what humans can do.

No human however can spit out a video of SORA's quality from their brain alone, and those who can require decades of training with specific video rendering tools. Ask someone to render a video of a man walking in a city and they will internally reference their millions of impressions of the human face and body and millions of impressions of what a cityscape looks like. Ask them to invent a novel form of transportation and create a video of it, most humans short of the exceptionally creative will struggle, just as SORA likely would.

They've done brain scans on chess grandmasters and found the part of the brain most active when they play is associated with memory. Memory is the scaffolding upon which the more information dense elements of the natural world and complex processes can be understood. Via these scaffolds of memory as single elements, new connections and abstractions can form. It took the world of fine arts centuries to go beyond merely depicting things in real life (the Renaissance to Impressionism).
Perhaps because to this day, Android refuses to provide the basic, fundamental, user-facing feature of making a process go down and stay down. All we get instead are lame excuses about complexity of battery management or such other nonsense, despite all the reluctantly added battery optimization functions are all nerfed versions of regular task manager.
Pretty fun to test this but what is the privacy policy? Would be good to disclose who stores the data and for what purpose.
I do wonder if this conventional wisdom is actually true, though. Somewhat relatedly, there was once an idea that if you lower taxes for rich people, they'll invest more, and those tax savings will trickle down to the middle and lower classes and be a boon for them. But we know it doesn't actually work like that.
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Francois is not a researcher, however. LLMs aren’t just plain “memories”. They are very explicitly _associative_ memories. And it just so happens that this is mostly what our own brains do, too.

Actual cognition is slow and expensive for us, and we try to use it as little as possible, filling in what we can with easy, associative, low energy, near instant stuff.

Therein lies the reason why AI can be considered a boon for us humans. If machines took over the mundane work that just drains our energy and doesn't add much value, we could finally have the time to actually do what they can’t - think deeply about stuff, with their help where we find our faculties lacking. Rocket for the mind, if you will, rather than a bicycle.
tl;dr: I made ViHN [1] to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox [2] and Chrome [3].

[1] https://github.com/qsantos/ViHN/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/vihn/

[3] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vihn/cfmccoefeojndm...
here is chatGPT 3.5:

>A meniscus tear typically affects the knee and wouldn't directly cause loss of vision. However, there could be indirect factors such as reduced mobility or associated health issues that might impact eye health. Rose hips are not a typical treatment for meniscus tears or vision loss. It's important to consult with a healthcare professional for appropriate diagnosis and treatment options for both conditions.
In case anyone else was wondering why this would even exist, it's for education in rehabilitation programs: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops...

"The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."
For an attempt to bend Nazi discussion to more HN-friendly startup-oriented terms, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38263099
When it comes to our ability to just find a substitute, past results don't predict future results. The author is like somebody who thinks because a stock went up in the past it's a good buy without looking at the fundamentals.

Oil made the 20th century absolutely explode in terms of population growth, we went from less than 2B to more than 6B in the 20th century and 8B now. Whale oil, elephant tusks, and seabird guano did nothing like that. How does one reasonably expect to replace a miracle? Electrification comes nowhere close, not that it isn't worth doing.
https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/
If we take the story at face value I think this is unethical and antisocial behavior. The person was dishonest, claiming to be working on a problem but actually was avoiding the best solution. The person was wasting resources, taking significantly more time and money than what is required to do the job. By wasting them on nothing-work we are robbing the actually big and important problems from access to those resources.
I reakon if you’re getting paid 200k a year to write YAML it might seem like this but being a plumber is a very 3 dimensional challenge.

Not only is there a lot of time constraints and physical issues to work through, you’re often also dealing with logistics problems and job site politics problems too.

Waiting for parts, working out how to keep things going in the meantime. Equipment failures etc. it’s quite chaotic from experience.

There’s a science but also an art to being a good tradesmen.
> Netanyahu’s and his party kept Hamas alive

Sounds suss, like a "Jews created the Holocaust, actually" narrative. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but whenever someone presents their "evidence" of things like this it's invariably something like a badly shot 4 hour lecture from a "Bible scholar".
I don’t believe Apple can’t build a better search engine if it wanted to. They have the money to hire anyone they want.

Quality doesn’t matter though. Google’s deal is probably more profitable all things considered.
Why? From what I read those architectures have many similarities (and same weaknesses)
Storage and memory management is basic functionality. OSes universally suck at this. Partly because they can't predict the future and are mostly reactive in their behavior. Partly because they can't reason. The user can.
>Users want to do what? That was my question

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
That was one of the most purely pleasurable weekend internets I've consumed the last few weeks. The story of Beta Israel - the Falasha, Ethiopian Jewish community - is one of Judaism's amazing dramas. Now only if someone found Bodo's lost letters it would make my Saturday complete.
People definitely will. There's also already a political party "lead" by an AI.
Seems java's virtual thread is the only sane async model out there.