skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe what the article explains is the reason why a plane ticket with a stopover is cheaper than a direct flight.

Airport are big shopping centres with captive and bored clientele. Even more, I find some airports (e.g. Gatwick in the UK) extremely oppressive. No natural light, closed space and the only way to escape is to expend money eating/drinking/shopping.
Of course there’s a market for it, but if you can’t sell it for a profit then it doesn’t matter how much of a breakthrough your recycling project is.

Plastic is trivial to recycle but it’s cheaper to buy new plastic than to buy recycled plastic.
You're describing mass arbitration, which found precedent in a dispute with Uber [1]. Companies are responding by lumping together coördinated claims [2], at which point we're back to a simpler, cheaper class-action alternative. It's unclear if those clauses will hold.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/uber-loses-appeal-b...

[2] https://arbitrate.com/the-business-response-to-the-rise-in-m...
One caveat not mentioned yet is that you can get better responses through priming, fewshot and chain of thought. That means if you start talking about a related problem/concept, mention some keywords, then provide a few examples, then ask the LLM to provide chain of thought reasoning, you will get a better answer. Those will extend the runtime and processing power in practice.
Linux is good enough, but in terms of stability and performance for user applications, it sucks compared to Windows and MacOS. There really isn't a company or organization that focuses on that, besides maybe Valve. We need more attention on it, for our own sanity, but most of the money is in enterprise servers.
I might be missing your point, but I'm not sure abolishing copyright would make much of a difference, in terms of increasing the number of people who can professionally make media. Supply and demand doesn't work properly in mass media, because one movie can supply the demand of everybody in the entire world, pretty much. We don't need a singer in every town, we only need a handful of talented people who can supply the music demands for everybody in the world - it doesn't really matter who they are. I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's how I generally feel about it.

(Having said that, this article is pretty much "old man yells at cloud" for me.)
I’d read more about your experience. Even most middle schools now expect the child to have a google account.
Do an image search for "Roku screensaver" and see if that looks familiar to you. It's not really the sort of product that gets brought up directly by name a lot, but I've seen that screensaver in plenty of homes and a surprising number of businesses.
child porn?
This isn't Gemini, it's Poe. The blog post even admits that! I entered the exact same messages into Google AI Studio and it happily translated it to Sanskrit without any complaints about safety.
Depends on the EU country. Phd students earn more than 40k during their studies in NL, and a starter salary for a phd is 80k or so. Add the social security contributions on top, it's closer to 100k Euros for the employer.

40k would be high for Greece ir Portugal though. I guess it's the same for US, depends where you are
text shaping is not a thing. Unicode provides some basic parameterization (e.g., indicating where valid line breaks can occur in a text), but does not provide much more in the way of layout specification, nor should it. It’s a text encoding specification, not a typography specification. You will also notice that it does not include, e.g., specifications about Latin alphabet typographic ligatures either (e.g., f+f+i → ﬃ). The existence of some ligatures in the Unicode standard is a sop to backwards compatibility with older encodings only (this is also why Unicode includes superscript/subscript digits, box drawing characters and a number of inconsistencies in how different scripts are managed).
They do have stores full of watches in most malls though.
It’s sad that so many tech companies are pressured to grow or die. It feels rare to see folks build stable, healthy growth businesses these days. Gotta burn through all the cash and get that next round of funding!
> Its funny, when you censor a model its performance goes down.

> You are introducing illogical data into the model, which degrades its ability to perform in the real world

There is no "logic" in anything an LLM says. What appears as logic is just that its output corresponds some percentage of the time to a domain governed by certain known laws, whether in the real world or a constructed world (i.e. a programming language).
This critique can only be sustained if you hide in statistics and avoid mentioning specific people and their specific positions. Then, after you mention specifics, it becomes a "complicated conspiracy theory."
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All of this was put in motion with a population much smaller than todays.

The bulk of it was achieved with a population smaller than todays.

The ongoing work being planned doesn't require the population to grow, there is demand enough from a growing proportion wanting a greater standard of living and a world making a massive transition in base energy.
> Institutions invent fake problems that they allege to be the solution for and then of course never solve them

I think lost companies that fail to find product/market fit go through this phase before they collapse. They try to live on pure willpower and reality-shifting.
Conversely, your efforts to not bring in a dependency are being paid for in code you have to write and test and hope doesn't trip over a more fundamental security flaw or exploit somewhere. If you have problems they're now bespoke, there's no userbase of knowledge out there.

And there's a big difference between going from ZERO dependencies, to 1. Because once you've got 1, the complexity cost has been mostly paid already so your efforts not to bring in other dependencies are going to be marginal.

So the question is, are you really saving time or complexity by avoiding the dependency management process, or just wasting it deferring something you'll already have to do later? Is it wise to constantly reproduce the same common code across multiple bits of software, rather then write it as your own library anyway (at which point you'll be inheriting a dependency management process as well, even if it's only internal).
There's a misconception in the question that is important to address first: when an LLM is running inference it isn't querying its training data at all, it's just using a function that we created previously (the "model") to predict the next word in a block of text. That's it. When considering plain inference (no web search or document lookup), the decisions that determine a model's speed and capabilities come before the inference step, during the creation of the model.

Building an LLM model consists of defining its "architecture" (an enormous mathematical function that defines the model's shape) and then using a lot of trial and error to guess which "parameters" (constants that we plug in to the function, like 'm' and 'b' in y=mx+b) will be most likely to produce text that resembles the training data.

So, to your question: LLMs tend to perform better the more parameters they have, so larger models will tend to beat smaller models. Larger models also require a lot of processing power and/or time per inferred token, so we do tend to see that better models take more processing power. But this is because larger models tend to be better, not because throwing more compute at an existing model helps it produce better results.
The bottleneck regarding UI/UX was (and is still) X11 / Xorg, with the obsolete client/server architecture inherited from a time when computers had no graphic card. Wayland has been in progress for some time now to replace X11 / Xorg, but it is still bugged to some extend, and driver support needs to be improved.
I'm not arguing with you, I just don't understand _how_ this is occurring.

Self-promotion of products? I can see that. You aren't promoting any products. Did you try that in the past?

Self-promotion of written content or a blog? Yeah a lot of the links here are from URLs I've never seen before, are people actually making money or just blowing their own horn?

I'm asking you by what mechanism people make money here, as in, actual money, not beer money. Because I can see people making 5 cents a word back through adwords, but beyond that...
I run several Nextclouds including one for safety critical docs for several 1000 people. I know NC quite well.

Ironically, I have a snag with my personal photos syncing from my phone which will probably involve some SQL but I did try to go off piste in a way that your average user doesn't.

NC is very reliable and since a few years ago, the phone clients have stabilized nicely. The desktop clients have been pretty decent for much longer.

Across the various systems I manage I think I've seen most or at least several corner cases. My home instance has few users with a large number of files. My wife's photo collection is legendary. The instance with the safety docs involves a lot (lot) of PDFs generated by a few people on PCs, that are shared with many tablet/phone based users over variably connected links. If the docs are not there, some things are not allowed to happen.

I've got some instances behind HA Proxy and some behind whatever MS's Azure proxy offering is called. One is behind Apache only and another nginx only but they both do have quite a lot of log file watcher (OK call it an application firewall) and network traffic analysers.

Syncthing has its place but I need rather more in most of these cases and NC has a lot of modules. For example the safety useful system has rather a lot of logging for doc creation, amendment and access. My life becomes briefly rather miserable if my wife's photos are not available for posting on FB. NC has an "impersonate user" thing which cuts through quite a lot of the IT to end user confusion. You can look at their account as they see it. I also have Mesh Central ...
I set up snippets in my code editor so I can quickly insert colorful, bold, and otherwise richly formatted console log messages for printf-debugging. The addition of color makes the messages I've just added stand out against other the logs. It's a great time and attention saver.
I say this as a huge Google fan: Google needs a new CEO immediately. This is their "iPhone moment." I'm referring to 2007 when Microsoft's CEO Steve Balmer said the iPhone would never take off, leading to his replacement with Satya Nadella. Does anyone think Microsoft would be the most valuable company the world today if Steve Balmer stayed in charge? Things looked bleak for Microsoft in 2007 like things look bleak for Google today. Clearly, someone needs to come in an shake Google employees up to get them out of their bubble.
The word you're looking for is "SaaS". Renting software instead of owning it, storing data on someone else's storage and paying every month for the privilege.
Amen. Both parties are equally hostile to my freedom and well being. I would love to have another option, but Americans have been brainwashed by the parties in power to think that they are "wasting" their vote if they vote for anyone else. I have voted third party in every election since I turned 18, but as long as that pernicious lie continues to spread nothing will change. It's a dumpster fire and I don't expect it'll ever be fixed in my lifetime.
The first amendment does not apply to private companies. They can censor, alter, or remove any content they disagree with. This applies to adults and minors for virtually all platforms.

https://www.freedomforum.org/free-speech-on-social-media/
Show me the young people that know how to work with IDA or Ghidra. The way to use tools like this without ever written assembly is way harder than the way we had 10 years ago. They found other things to hack, things where we don't know anything about.
My Roku is the device I use to do this? I'm aware that I could buy something from Google, Apple, or Amazon to do the same thing, but that's just trading one shitty provider for another.
Idk... A single part time QA Eng could have saw this coming.
I haven’t in a bit only because buying a house has stretched me thin, but hope to start putting money in again in a few months.
No worries :P It's just a way to try to avoid showing the most popular, instead you'd choose randomly from a curve from most popular to least popular, with the chosen index given by i. An easier idea to understand is to pick randomly from the top say 50 websites instead of just showing the most popular ones, avoiding "winner takes all" effects.
> A sufficiently advanced user can still install something like LADB or shizuku or even a custom rom

Not without unlocking the bootloader (which can only be done on a few phones nowadays) and having to deal with getting locked out of a bunch of apps and functionalities as a result of Google's "security".
I installed Windows 11 three days ago because I need to make Windows builds for software, this was my first serious attempt at using Windows since 2017. I thought I unchecked everything I possibly could regarding telemetry / cloud services, but I either missed something or they, without permission, uploaded all data in my users folder to their server. It was at almost 2 gigabytes of stuff on their cloud before I realized what was happening. Completely unacceptable to me, and a reminder for why I left Windows in the first place.
Aren't motherboards substantially more expensive than CPUs? I tried looking for a replacement Haswell Dell Inspiron 15 3542 motherboard (almost as old) for someone with a broken laptop, and saw results in the range of $90.
I don't think GPs post generalises well(nor does any simple statement on psychopharmacology, everyone is and reacts differently), but I've spoken to many people who have reported emotional blunting from SSRIs. It's a fairly common complaint. Being "upbeat" from antidepressants also happens a lot to people with bipolar disorder, who are often misdiagnosed with and mistreated for depression before their first episode of hypomania/mania.
Security updates for your tv? Exactly what do you think is at risk?
Short answer is No.

I highly recommended watching Andrej Karpathy's Intro to LLMs talk, particularly the section on System 1 vs System 2 thinking. Long story short, what you are describing, using more processing to prepare a better response, is something that is an area of interest, but is not currently part of ChatGPT (or any other LLM that I am aware of).

See: https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=2100&si=jaImuf3UCn6ReTp4
I do wonder on that basis what ground we could ever have to stand on when we criticize China's surveillance regime. That would be like the US accusing Russia of meddling in elections.
Company says lunar lander is on its side on moon's surface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebles#Design_principle
If you follow through to the study, they displayed products on a screen to people in an MRI scanner, and asked them to evaluate the offers they were seeing. Unsurprisingly, after about 40 minutes their minds start to wander. Because in some warped researchers mind, being in the dark staring at a screen for an hour is exactly like being walking through a supermarket.

Sociology studies are such a joke.
Wouldn't the CIA want to increase love of country? I think decreasing toxicity and divisiveness within the country might help with that.

They might want to increase our division against enemy countries, but decrease division within the US and against friendly countries.
I have my old laptop running PopOS connected to the TV with a wireless keyboard and mouse and I watch content streamed from a Jellyfin/Plex server or YouTube. It works fantastically and I never have to worry about DRM getting in the way of anything.
And memoisation is a common technique to shift performance (processing -> memory) tradeoffs when doing anything trivially recursive.

I don't agree with TFA's take of "Nor does it make any sense to have caching at the function level?"
The only management technique that works is not to have any. Keep companies small, below 50 people, and you don't need anyone with the title "manager". Instead of taking your best individual contributors and making them managers, as Jobs suggests, keep them as the leads. The problem is big companies, not how to manage people.
A current LLM does not interact with the external world in a way that would seem to lead to an understanding of it. It emits a response to a prompt, and then reverts to passively waiting for the next one. There's no way for it to anticipate something will happen in response, and thereby get the feedback needed to realize that there is more to the language it receives than is contained in the statistical relationships between its tokens. If its model is updated in the interim, it is unaware, afterwards, that a change has occurred.
No, it was the same shit in another term. The only reason people noticed or cared was because the press hated Trump with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, so they actually did their jobs and held his feet to the fire (unlike with Obama).
Prompt-to-Action for any operating system
Oh I've heard it from adults before. Were they acting like children? Sure. Even so, in the past, children were working pretty hard themselves to try to eek out an existence with their parents and the concept of life being unfair because you couldn't have a device wasn't even a thought.
The open models have varying levels of censorship (Llama 2 Chat would make Oliver Cromwell say "too far"), but it doesn't really matter because the retraining it takes to fix them is within the capabilities of single hobbyists.
You clearly missed the parents sarcasm
They did an amazing feat of engineering. Mike Arpaia's brainchild, co-created by my cofounder zwass at Fleet, and massively improved by seph (@directionless), ted reed, alessandro, sharvil, and many others: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/graphs/contributors
See also, Andy Hunt: https://toolshed.com/articles/2022-01-22-limits_of_process.h...

And the GROWS method: https://growsmethod.com/
The point isn't that it doesn't work at all, but that it doesn't work as well as other approaches that we have. Which is evidenced by the fact that all the best-performing models on the market use tokenization. It's not a secret that tokenization is fundamentally a hack, and that ideally we'll get rid of it eventually one way or another (https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009). And in principle, you can compensate for the deficiencies of byte-level tokenization with larger models and larger contexts. But what this means in practice is that a model that has the same level of intelligence (on most tasks; obviously, there are some specific tasks, like say counting characters in a word, where tokenization is detrimental to intelligence) takes a lot more resources to train, hence why we aren't seeing more of those.
you have a valid point. I always had Macintosh machine and then Linux, discovered at the university.

I think I fall in the case of tech literate people who know how to do things in Linux but don't care to relearn it all in Windows.

So I guess it's true for the opposite too ahah
Thanks! I'm still a bit curious to see if this has been tested in court, but that section is really informative and I like that it gives a bunch of cases I can look up. Most appreciated!
I used talk on at TOPS-20 Decsystem 2060 back in the stone age
No, they’re different. ‘Shaping’ is deciding how to combine adjacent characters, mostly by changing their forms as needed, and secondarily by adjusting their horizontal or vertical positions. ‘Layout’ then involves taking those shaped characters and placing them on the page to form words and sentences. There’s some overlap — e.g. you could use shaping to implement the mojikumi rules in section 3.1.2 here — but by and large they’re separate things.
GDP measures goods and services, not stock purchases. A few trillion dollars of stocks bouncing back and forth don't change it at all.
Unless the kid is addicted and plays 5 hours a day. He may not be socializing, getting his homework done, studying, etc.
There are all sorts of changes one could imagine being made to how LLMs are trained and run, but if you are asking about what actually exists today, then:

1) At runtime, when you feed a "request" (prompt) into the model, the model will use a fixed amount of compute/time to generate each word of output. There is no looping going on internally - just a fixed number of steps to generate each word. Giving it more or less processing power at runtime will not change the output, just how fast that output is generated.

If you, as a user, are willing to take more time (and spend more money) to get a better answer, then a trick that often works is to take the LLM's output and feed it back in as a request, just asking the LLM to refine/reword it. You can do this multiple times.

2) At training time, for a given size of model and given set of training data, there is essentially an optimal amount of time to train for (= amount of computing power and time taken to train). Train for too short a time and the model won't have learnt all that it could. Train for too long a time (repeating the training data), and the model will start to memorize the training set rather than generalize from it, meaning that the model is getting worse.
It handles Sanskrit just fine. I asked regular Gemini:

Translate this Sanskrit phrase to English: "Gajah vrkSam khaadati"

The response was:

Sure. Here is the translation of the Sanskrit phrase "Gajah vrkSam khaadati" to English:

"The elephant eats the tree."

The phrase is composed of the following words:

Gajah (गज) - elephant
vrkSa (वृक्ष) - tree
khaadati (खादति) - eats
The phrase is in the present tense, and the subject is the elephant. The object is the tree. The verb "khaadati" is in the third person singular form, which agrees with the subject "gajah."

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
> at least provide evidence that scaling up no longer works for transformers.

Isnt the Mixture-of-Experts trend (GPT4 is MoE?) kinda of a proof ?
> This is the kind of needless gatekeeping that will lead to Emacs death.

This isn't "gatekeeping". What are you talking about? I expressed my personal opinion about one aspect of the default interface. I'm not an Emacs maintainer, RMS' cousin, Zaretskii's dog sitter, or director of FSF, I don't "call the shots".

Emacs is completely free to use, distribute and contribute to. Go ahead then, come up with convincing arguments, compose a proposal and write to the emacs-devel mailing list. Maybe, after all you are truly a bright-minded visionary and those dorks that been maintaining Emacs for over 45 years just don't know anything?

> it is important to get feedback from real users

Nobody is stopping you from giving such feedback. I don't think there were many cases in history where technological breakthroughs happened due to random people arguing about a subject on a forum like HN or Reddit. You have complete freedom to do something about it if you passionately believe in it.