skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Most) LLMs have been trained on more data than any human will ever be able to read, let alone process. Then they have been tweaked to produce human like output (most of the time). They can just as easily be tweaked to produce incomprehensible rubbish. This means that they can generate convincing human like output for any possible combination of data they were trained on and this output will usually be as good or better than that of average modern human that has consumed and comprehended tiny amount of data (in comparison). But even the dumbest of humans can be assumed to understand what they know where LLMs are just giant repository of numbers. LLMs have no capacity to understand what these numbers mean or what their output represents, that requires a human like intelligence. "AI" term has been grossly overloaded (just a couple of decades ago, a complex if/then/else statement was touted as "AI") and as we gain better and better understanding of information science, we assign that term to more sophisticated information systems we build but these systems are still far below of any threshold we would accept as sign of intelligence from another human being. Better term for these system would be Complicated Parrots rather than Artificial Intelligence. Intelligence requires understanding and understanding, I believe, requires sentience.
I'd also love to see how you're doing this benchmarking!
God I wish Wikipedia wasn't banned by the Great Firewall.

It's kinda sad that stuff like Caltrain electrification, for example, has a huge and well-researched article despite not even being in service yet, just because of the large amount of Wikipedians in the Bay Area where the Wikimedia Foundation is headquartered. In the meanwhile, entire operational train systems both in China and elsewhere in the world that have vastly greater ridership, longer length, more advanced technology, etc, get nary a mention. I have nothing against Caltrain electrification getting a great article since I'm an inclusionist but it is just sad how little of the cool things, especially in China, are on Wikipedia.
What is the correct cadence at which Paul Graham should thank Sam Altman?
I disagree that it is confusion on my part (I mean, I am certainly confused, but not, I think, about what you said). Your (1) and (2) seem irrelevant since I am talking about the personal EV calculations of individual actors, not global EV. (3) is the point I am trying to handwavingly describe a way of skirting. But it sounds like I didn't communicate it well (or I am wrong about not being confused also, in which case, fine, can't do anything else anyway).

Yes, of course rational agents can account for private information. I am trying to describe a case where a strategy cannot be rationally justified, yet is a better strategy than others because of "having faith in yourself". Now you can always try to flip this around and say: "well maybe the internal calculation that they do involves having evidence that they ought to have faith in themselves, like past success, consistently good mental models, a model of how faith helps, etc". And I'm not talking about those: I'm talking about cases where there is not a good argument, even in an internal calculation using private information, why a person should have faith in themselves, yet doing so anyway helps.

Basically it seems like there are cases where believing that something has a more-than-rational chance of working makes it more likely to work because of the power that irrational faith in yourself provides. But suppose you tried to quantify it: okay, an irrational faith in yourself makes you, I don't know, 20% more like to succeed, so you can account for that. But now it's not an irrational faith, it's a rational one, so you can still have more irrational faith than that, and it can still have the same effect.

My pattern-matching brain says it has the form of a Halting Problem/Godel-incompleteness-type theorem for rational calculation. Roughly: "It is possible to construct scenarios in which non-rational strategies lead to improved success in ways that rational calculations cannot account for."

This would not apply in a toy problem where the range of strategies are completely mathematically known: if all outcomes can be understood probabilistically then it doesn't apply. It applies in cases that are more like: some outcomes are unknown and the probability distributions of them are shielded behind "unknowable information", like new ideas that you have no way of being sure of the existence of. In these cases an irrational belief that you can find a new idea can improve your EV even though there is mathematically no way to justify it, because you can't really model "the probability of finding a new idea" without actually knowing what the idea is, even hypothetically.
The website says the winner is Kelp Blue[1][2]. Or was that last year's winner?

Either way, it's a cool effort I wasn't previously aware of! Kelp seems like a very good idea.

1. https://zayedsustainabilityprize.com/en/winners/winners

2. https://kelp.blue/co2-removal/
What else do you suggest then? Is there even hardware available that implements a high-level VM programming language as an abstraction layer (instead of e.g. the x86 instruction set)?
So "doomsday" sounds pretty serious. Sadly they didn't mention by how much the sea levels would rise if that thing melted all the way down.

From a short internet search:

>Thwaites, sometimes referred to as the "doomsday glacier" because it would raise global sea-levels by around 65cm (25in) if it collapsed entirely, is highly vulnerable to warming.
High-Speed Packet Transmission in Go: From Net.Dial to Af_xdp
Even European authors will be able to sue a system that produces unauthorized reproductions of their work. Just because you can train a model, you still don't necessarily have the right to sell or give away access to it (unauthorized distribution and reproduction of copyrighted work), and will probably be liable if you publish any of its output that is plagiarism of copyrighted work. It will be interesting to see if the AI companies succeed in pushing the liability onto the end users when it hits the courts. And if industries adopt techniques like 'trap streets' to catch violations.
It's not bullshit. It conflicts with the architecture because they already have the feature implemented, presumably in a different way. And they plainly state that it's present in their paid version; they're not trying to hide that fact. Leaving the PR open and essentially helping the author morph the code into the exact same implementation the paid version has seems like a pointless exercise. If they wanted it in the community edition, they'd simply copy the implementation from the paid version.

Not sure why you're so up in arms about this. They built the project themselves; they get to decide what goes into it. People who don't like that are free to fork, and compete on their own merits.
Ted Gioia (on Substack) bemoaned the AI clones of his writing. Some scumbags will scrape all the facts and repackage them, taking his name off the product.

This inspired me to search "Bring Back Private Offices." There were several republishings, but they all had links to the real thing. I guess I'm not important enough to rip off.
if everyone has samsung they all have quick share or whatever. lockin isn't laudible
it's basic science. you know what and why that is.

and thanks for reminding me! i've been meaning to pick katalin kariko's book back up!
Navigating College: Essential Advice for First-Generation Students
The license isn't open source compatible though.
This reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1200/ - what would someone who gets into a normal user machine like that care about kernel access for? This type of "protection" feels like it only hurts legitimate users without even slightly inconveniencing actual bad guys.
From what I read here on HN, this book describes Google.
Related:

Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39630498
Where in that article does it say that the self, that human consciousness, that a soul arises purely from the arrangement of particles in our bodies?
See synecdoche: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
> We need to take a good look at our ridiculous unsustainable life-styles, and make some hard decisions about whether we need a stupid over-sized pickup truck and a new phone, or if we need an actual future for us all.

I'll take "things we're not going to do" for 100, Alex.
There are much better known examples, such as https://qdrant.tech/ and https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
You can run Firefox in a docker container. Not sure how much GPU performance you can squeeze out of it but it's doable.
Spondylus
Finally. I've been searching all over the web for something like this. Was amazed there wasn't anything easily available, given how common REST is.
Ask HN: Is there an AI Google map search?
Let's say I want to write, find all swimming pools in this area.
What? Collect anything? They say they don't collect personal data. They don't mention what they do with non-personal data.

>Frankly, being an open source app, I would be fine if it even said something like "It's open source. If you think it does anything nefarious, go ahead and show it." without even a suggestion of a promise. But they actually do make a declaration of both intent and action.

That is just horrendous. No. That is not a bar that is acceptable for any app, free, paid, open source or not. Likely illegal too.

> Any other data that isn't personal data they might have, like their download estimates or something, is theirs none of our business.

Or something... such as information about files being sent... Or app telemetry etc.

That was my point.

I don't have reason to distrust them, but calling it the best "privacy policy ever" is a huge stretch given what it lacks.
restclient-mode?? another awesome mode I have to check out, I swear there's a mode for everything!
Real (proper) pianos also have latency between a finger pushing on a key and sound coming out. There's mechanical bits that need to move some distance before a string is struck or muted, and these bits do not have infinite acceleration -- they've got mass, momentum, and inertia.

Can these latencies not be balanced between techniques?

I'm no expert on synthesis or pianos, but my immediate thought is that the digital thing may need slowed down to match the latency of the analog thing.
It's worth it to ask, when reading Gary Marcus pat himself on the back, how many of his predictions were actually falsifiable.... Few-to-none.

Furthermore, there has been insane progress over the last few years, which presumably would not have happened if everyone had despaired on reading Marcus' 'hitting a wall' article and dropped everything to work on GOFAI.

But let's widen the lens a little bit:

`In 2015, shortly after Hinton joined Google, The Guardian reported that the company was on the verge of “developing algorithms with the capacity for logic, natural conversation and even flirtation.” In November 2020, Hinton told MIT Technology Review that “deep learning is going to be able to do everything.” I seriously doubt it.`

Well, we've certainly got natural conversation and flirtation, along with some kind of logic - especially if you're OK with accepting python programs as a form of response. This is well beyond what was considered possible at the time. We're certainly not at 'everything' but *shrug*. Maybe in ten years.

`nowhere near the ordinary day-to-day intelligence of Rosey the Robot, a science-fiction housekeeper that could not only interpret a wide variety of human requests but safely act on them in real time.`

It exists, it just isn't anywhere near economical for household tasks...
https://www.wired.com/story/google-robot-learned-to-take-ord...
LLM's look poised to upend robotics.

Marcus then goes extensively into why everyone should be looking at symbol-manipulation systems. And that's fine... But would be much more convincing if he could actually produce something that works. At some point, one asks, if your idea is so good, why haven't you actually solved any problems?
Well told...
I am sure you can name a small number of examples that came out of Europe (Mistral, Spotify, Siemens, etc.), but the fact is the US and Asia generate way more value than Europe has in the last few decades.

ASML is half the size of TSMC, by marketcap.
Suboptimal Ways of Starting Your Morning Meeting
> As long as the kids learn their lesson and never do it again.

How would they learn that, if they just got a few days off school?

Does Florida have teaching centres for kids excluded from their normal schooling?

In the UK we have CPNs and ASBOs for 10+ who do things wrong, such as graffiti or potentially this, which would involve court mandated support groups or community service.
Knowing that as a society, we don't accept this behaviour would be much better than a suspension which would imply that society doesn't care, just school.
It can't be a POSIX filesystem if it doesn't meet POSIX filesystem guarantees. I worked on an S3 compatible object store in a large storage company and we also had distributed filesystem products. Those are completely different animals due to the different semantics and requirements. We've also built compliant filesystems over object store and the other way around. Certain operations like, write-append, are tricky to simulate over object stores (S3 didn't use to support append, I haven't really stayed up to date, does it now?). At least when I worked on this it wasn't possible to simulate POSIX semantics over S3 at all without needing to add additional object store primitives.
The ease with which people hold those views - that the Earth is dying, that the world is hopeless, the casual embrace of nihilism - has always struck me as odd, because the reasons they cite (climate change, war, the economy) are relatively speaking not bad. They're not great, but it's not 14th Century Europe bad. Half the population of Europe died in that century. And yet, civilization trotted on. So maybe the question is why in the modern era, with all our technology, so many just give up and believe obviously wrong but popularized phrases like "the planet is dying".
I'm not sure why you wouldn't watch the video before asking a question that you yourself imply is probably answered in the video.
This happens frequently in courts in my home country. There's even polite lawyer codewords so that you don't have to trudge in to court and say

'I'm sorry your honor, I have to withdraw from this matter because my client, who is a bit dim, has just told me at the lunch break that he totally did the thing, and also that he's going to lie his ass off about it when he gets up in the witness box in just a minute'

But the next time you hear a lawyer withdraw because they're 'forensically embarrassed', you'll know what happened
Yes, my mistake, I miss-read MS SQL as MySQL. MS SQL, being derived from Sybase, fully supports transactions. I'm not a fan of the price, but it's good.
the long term point is to understand how the brain works. hope that helps.
What I want, is an API explorer for CLI. A tool that takes an OpenAPI Spec and then converts it into a set of examples and REST endpoint calls I can just fire off or mess with. Kinda like how Swagger does for their web-based docs, but for CLI, and bonus points if you can generate some examples.

I feel like this should be possible with today's tech, but am coming up dry finding anything while searching.
I mean... Barring some pretty big catastrophes occurring, Europa is likely to outlast Europe by several orders of magnitude. If the moon is happy to wait, they'll inherit the name regardless.
At this point either he is just trolling or writing it to get views from people who already believes this and looking for someone to say it with authority.
Owning a copy of a book doesn't give me the right to make copies and sell them or even give them away. You can't even do that with publicly available material unless it has been put in the public domain or exceptions like fair use or satire apply. The model contains a copy of the work, and you can't distribute or publish your model without violating copyright. Offering access to this model as a service is legally in dispute, with AI companies generally arguing that liability for copyright infringement lies with the end user.
> Be introspective for a second

Some see things like this [0] and chalk it off as cost of war or whatever, and are not outraged or worse justify it, but they can't demand the same of others.

> This isn't curious conversation; it isn't even conversation

Agree. Due to the conflict's very public nature, the narratives have deep-seated irreconcilable differences mixed with a good dose of racism/supremacism/moralism, while the moderate voices are the most feeble, because they're also outnumbered [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766912143444656544

[1] https://twitter.com/AdlerJoelle/status/1766974185094492610
This is one of the weirdest insults I have heard in a long time.
That matches my recollection.

Also, correcting my previous comment, Pluto was 2" and 3" pipes, not 9".

That is, the vast majority of oil used in Allied operations in Europe passed through a set of 2- and 3-inch pipes, with 17 laid in total per the Wikipedia article I'd linked earlier.

Which speaks both to the flow-rates achieved (~400,000 Imperial gallons/day), and the energy content of petroleum.
My understanding is inflation is scariest when you approach retirement. At this point, you should divest from high-risk investments, and relying on low-risk cash flow vehicles (bonds, HYSA, dividend stocks, etc.).

But low-risk blows up in your face if inflation jumps.

The primary goal isn't money. It is being able to live a comfortable lifestyle in the area that I want to live in and receive the healthcare that I want to receive. Money helps you achieve that goal.

In the case of the Amish, I'd imagine they have similar ideas about their future. They want to continue living as they have been living and carefully introducing modern technologies into their culture.
This honestly does not deserve a reply.

Your argument is that Israelis are Nazis and therefore Israelis are Nazis. You refuse to entertain the possibility that the literal Nazis here are the Hamas and their supporters despite all the evidence and their rhetoric saying so.

Your comparison of Israel to Nazis is disgusting, ignorant and antisemitic.

You're taking natural emotional responses when your people are brutally raped, mutilated, kidnapped, slaughtered in their homes and comparing it to the deliberate calculated murder of 6 million Jews that did nothing to the Germans over years.

EDIT: You are the one who is "downplay, minimize, or try to justify atrocities committed by the Nazi regime". What does that make you by your own definition? A lot of people have died, I'm not happy about it. There's been a lot of destruction. I blame Hamas for starting the war. There are starving children, yes. These are nothing compared to the Nazis. Nothing. Israel is within its rights to wage this war, it has good reasons, it is persecuting it within the norms for similar wars. It is not committing genocide and "your country is on trial for genocide" is bullshit and you know it.
Why every life form intelligent or otherwise needs to be Oxygen dependent?

Isn't it a little bit myopic ?
This is a feature. I want this with my paid Premium account. I’m a bit tempted to cancel my account, log out, and use this new view.
Birth control also coincided with a very deliberate push to get women in the work force at scale. In retrospect, it was obvious that doing this would cause fertility rates to decrease regardless of the popularity of birth control. My wife would absolutely love to quit her job and stay at home full time, but it's hard (note quite impossible, but very very hard) to actually do this today. All her friends with kids want to do it too. Obviously I wasn't around back in the mid-1900s, but I do wonder from time to time if people actually understood that this was the trade off we were all making in changing the culture like we did.
I hold that Moore's law finally died in 2023, along with Moore himself. We'll need about five years to see if I'm right.
"What makes an mRNA vaccine more appealing than a protein-based one?"

For one, mRNA is easier to produce/manufacture than protein.
I mean that kind of makes it the opposite of a fallacy.
Sorry, When I said "nobody is saying lead causes violent crime" I meant "nobody is saying lead is the sole cause of violent crime."
It isn't complex at all. Take the average density (average of sram and logic), take the square root of that, and you have (barring a factor) the node.

The best way to understand the dimension is to look at the contacted gate pitchm2 pitchcell height,and take the square root. The pitches obviously make an area, the cell height sets the 'design' component. So you get a reasonably scaled number.

Putting it that way also clarifies technology. Why euv, to tighten contacted gate pitch. Why cobalt: to tighten up metal 2 pitch (without killing resistance). Why backside metal: lowers cell height. There is of course more to it, but it is a good way to coarsely understand

A good way to know if it is marketing is if someone talks about feature sizes instead of pitches. Patterning is done by pitch. For example, you don't do euv to make smaller features. You do it to make more complex layouts at tight pitch.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240309160920if_/https://www.ny...
As someone who cares about latency, why would I add an additional HTTP request to the request my users are making? I can just use an in-memory store to achieve the same thing under 1ms.

10ms is an eternity, and 100ms added on to every request is insane.
They are mentioned many times in the article. Powernext and Bluenext.
The vibe I usually get for HN neuro stuff is “The brain is just a computer and we know how those work, so what’s the big deal”
Would asking ChatGPT accomplish this, without the extra steps? It has likely already harvested all this data and more.
It's a pretty recent (past 10 years or so?) internet phenomenon to blame a lot of stuff on them with next to zero proof.
Can you share some of the tools and methods you used to reverse such a large C++ codebase into readable code?
There are professional certifications for engineers, which are common in UK and Europe.

For example, INCOSE for systems engineering. Ladder is based around 3 career steps: book knowledge; ~5 years experience; senior roles on major systems. Qualification depends on documented experience, reference systems, review from within the community, and interview.

https://www.incose.org/certification