skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not longer allowed to site a non reproduced paper in yours.

I fully agree that in an ideal world, that would be the case. But some reproductions (especially now with machine learning) could cost millions of dollars and years to do. I don't think that's a reasonable or feasible thing to require.
"finetuning a base model costs ~$1 with LORA/QLORA and can yield same performance as gpt-4, but at 1/100 of the cost per token"

That's a big claim - can you back that up with any examples?
Rather abrupt end to the article. Lots of ethical questions left unanswered .... which i guess is the point.
What do you mean? We currently have solar and wind generation deployed. We can SEE the graphs, see by ourselves where it happens. Where are these "more frequent" events that you say are somehow hidden by renewable-advocates? And why the company that have solar and wind AND are also strongly invested in nuclear and other generation are helping them hiding them?

As for the well-management and the area: a "well-managed" central is not worth much if so far the majority of the centrals are not reaching that level, and nuclear centrals are too expensive to be build to be redundant, so when one central goes down, it's a big chunk of the generation that is missing, and cannot be covered by the central next door because the electricity of the central next door is already used to satisfy the demand the next door. If you use the central next door to fill up the gap, who is going to fill up the gap in the demand next door?

Funnily, if we go deeper in the question, people always end up explaining that of course they will install redundancies and flexibility (either by battery, by demand response, ...), shooting themselves in the foot because it itself mitigates a lot any problem created by dunkelflaute.
If the stranger you held the door for being the CEO that offers you a job that is luck, but you would be stirring the pot if you were always super polite and held the door for everybody. This assumes that holding the door somehow led to the job offer which I think the original description assumes, based on how the English language generally works.

Aside from that in the stirring the pot scenario you apply to 10 jobs, two of them offer you jobs, one below market rate, one at market rate.

You stir the pot and apply to 100 jobs, 2 of which offer you jobs signficantly above market rate.

Stirring the pot is not strictly luck, but it is precursory to what is often described as luck and as such can often be described as a form of luck that you make yourself by adopting behaviors more likely to lead to lucky outcomes.

on edit: I see akamoonknight had the same thought I did, but didn't take as long to write the comment. Lucky.
Given this is a CNET link it’s exactly what I would expect an LLM to say about itself.
If you take a peek at an extended ASCII table (like the one at https://www.ascii-code.com/), you'll notice that 0xC5 specifies a precomposed capital A with ring above. It predates Unicode. Accepting that that's the case, and acknowledging that forward compatibility from ASCII to Unicode is a good thing (so we don't have any more encodings, we're just extending the most popular one), and understanding that you're going to have the ring-above diacritic in Unicode anyway... you kind of just end up with both representations.
This isn't really good for consumers at all.
just to nitpick, Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia. Fennoscandia or Nordics would be more apt.
Here's a utility to convert exported Aegis JSON to a Keepass 2 or KeepassXC database if anyone's interested
https://github.com/GeKorm/atk (binaries in the releases page)
Literally not true. Compute is a verb. Computation is the right word in all of those cases. Or computational <noun>.
No, but a standard so that any app could implement that functionality and have it work with any service that supports it
Unicode was never designed for ease of use or efficiency of encoding, but for ease of adoption. And that meant that it had to support lossless round trips from any legacy format to Unicode and back to the legacy format, because otherwise no decision maker would have allowed to start a transition to Unicode for important systems.

So now we are saddled with an encoding that has to be bug compatible with any encoding ever designed before.
For me this is DOA unless it can be run locally without having to call into some hosted API in the cloud.

I took a gander at the source I'll wait till/if there's ever a 100% local version of this. But good luck all the same!
i was thinking the user having an image act as a password/key.
---then locking the key to said devices only acting like 2FA
------voice login???
---------if the user is say from los angeles their passcode only works here
---passcode but with images interchanging passwords that the user can custom set.
-----having the user record their room with their face in it and a simple phrase loike banana' oranges' apples'.
Of course! Stripe, Paypal, Postmark/Sendgrid/whatever are not part of the majority I'm talking about. (Although Fractured Atlas, which is merely a wrapper for the Stripe API, is; we use it because it solves a people problem, not a technical one.) There are certainly projects and businesses that will require many high-power servers and more complex technical machinery than basic LAMP. However most people on HN are not developing the next Stripe, even if they don't realize it yet.
How did the Spaniards justify this to themselves?
Not super surprising really. The US has been incredibly antagonistic towards China, and it feels like it keeps ramping up. At this point it would be irresponsible to not start weaning at least government assets off of US dependencies.
Before Unicode, most systems were effectively "byte-transparent" and encoding only a top-level concern. Those working in one language would use the appropriate encoding (likely CP1252 for most Latin languages) and there wouldn't be confusion about different bytes for same-looking characters.
How many people can say they own 74 houses. That might be the end game.
The latest Loongsons are more than good enough for office work, at least. For HPC, China already built some of the fastest supercomputers in the world with Sunway processors.
A lot of our media has been replaced by two LLMs in a trench coat.
In some cases, because they have distinct encodings in a pre-Unicode character set.

Unicode wants to be able to represent any legacy encoding in a lossless manner. ISO8859-7 encodes Α and A to different code-points, and ISO8859-5 has А at yet another code point, so Unicode needs to give them different encodings too.

And, indeed, they are different letters -- as sibling comments point out, if you want to lowercase them then you wind up with α, a, and а, and that's not going to work very well if the capitals have the same encoding.
Doesn't it entirely depend on how specialized the training data for a given fine tuned model might be?
problem being that despite years of work and despite all the marketing hype, it’s still missing basic feature that are over 10+ years old on the nvidia side. If you can’t do dynamic parallelism then kernels can never launch kernels, for example. It has “partial support” for texture unit access. Inter-process communication is not supported. Etc.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/HIP/en/latest/user_guide/...
Isn't ü/ü-encoding a solved problem on Unix systems?

</joke>
There is some deep cognitive dissonance going on with windows users in the last 5 years especially I've noticed. Nearly every new thing that happens has the people I know who are on it complaining loudly, desperately trying to hold on to old versions, creating all sorts of workarounds to fight against the operating system

But the same people will still take every opportunity to make the same tired jokes about how I must need to jump through so many hoops to just go about my day on a linux system (for example, opening a terminal to update one package, which I just find more convenient than graphical package manager frontends)

It's a fascinating dynamic. Seemingly the more their trust is betrayed by Microsoft, the more they feel the need to parrot this anti-marketing, as if driven by a need to justify their dedication

I used to play right back into this tribalism, rib them about their "corporate overlords in their infinite wisdom" but the situation keeps getting worse and I have gotten older and I no longer even feel vindicated as this platform decay progresses, just sad for my friends, who won't even consider extricating themselves from this abusive dynamic
As far as I can tell, much of architectural choice is driven either by the need to be entertained by shiny new toys, or the need to pad the resume with shiny new acronyms.
I'm not sure what point you're making. Chess is zero-sum (modulo draws), but being world #1 is impressive.
I do want to push a stroller sometimes, hopefully it isn't too bumpy.
I'm sure a lot of the "older adults being tricked" are AI too... bot accounts, not people.
Yeah most people don't like getting an invoice for thousands of € because their website was under a DDOS.
The article mentions that given she is 18 years old and still in school, she mostly is aware of pop culture events and entertainment, but is less aware of current events or the broader world.

This is pretty normal. Most kids aren't keeping up on politics or business news, especially if they're hyper focused on school (as she seems to be).
Many thanks for all of the positive feedback today, lots of good ideas for me to get working on; what a great community!

Side-note: A few eBooks are causing errors on the backend that don't appear to be DRM-related. I will prioritise getting this fixed.
> The vast majority of irreproducible papers aren't detectible as irreproducible at time of publication. They look fine, and many actually are fine. They just don't reproduce. That's an expected outcome in science.

This is not entirely true. A power analysis is how you determine reproducibility, and researchers should be doing it before they begin collecting data. Reviewers can do it post-hoc with assumptions about the expected effect size (which might come from similar studies). False positives produce inflated effect sizes, so if a result is marginally significant but shows a large effect, that is a good heuristic the result will not reproduce.
How do you have all three of anonymous authors, anonymous reviewers, and reviewer ratings ?
Finetuning LLMs is currently the most promising way for next-gen robotics. One of such works (PaLM-e) among other things measured the impact of finetuning on general purpose tasks: https://twitter.com/DannyDriess/status/1632904698108821505

In short, an 8B model could degrade almost 10x after being finetuned on robotics tasks, while 500B model experiences a very minor degradation (~4%) and there's a hope that with a larger-sized model, it could become either zero or even negative (adding more experience improves general purpose reasoning).

What I am saying is that while GPT-4 could beat a finetuned GPT-3.5 class model, I predict good things about finetuned GPT-4 class models, when they become practical outside of OpenAI/Google.
ChatGPT was AI's mainstream moment.

I hate journalists.
> Like, was the gcc toolchain made with cold indifference?

You're familiar with Richard Stallman, yes? :-)
Everyone's name should just be a GUID. /s
I have the same issue. I also don't like MS, mostly for Azure reasons, but companies are sleepwalking into lock-in, for the reason you state: IT people are mostly Windows/AD/Exchange-centric, and Azure looks a little more like those tools. They're not being forced there.

My worry is nebulous: Microsoft is somehow buying its way into everything - AI, OSS development, gaming, etc, and it feels insidious.

However, it doesn't feel illegal at all. Governments might fancy some cash, and it's their right to write some rules to get that cash, but I don't see how in practice Microsoft is doing much obviously wrong.
I have this issue on occasion with older mixed C/C++ codebases that use `.c` for C files and `.C` for C++ files. Maddening.
I think I'll try "Made with bellowing rage".
BTW looks like keybase is down :(
Which was fairly well instigated by NATO members in the preceding decade.

Ukraine seems more a pawn here than a prime driver.
My Windows PC is only for gaming. That said, I found a simple way to avoid the worst of the Windows update problems: Always stay at least one major version behind.

That means lagging on Windows 7 or 8 when 10 was current, and lagging on Windows 10 until Windows 12 comes out. Microsoft puts most of their offensive junk on the latest Windows, but still back-ports useful features to Windows 10, like WSLg.

It's not a perfect system, and I may get malware someday from missing security updates if Windows 10 goes EoL before Windows 12 comes out, but having the occasional ransomware hit a gaming PC seems almost less annoying than the current nasty Windows updates. I wish I were joking. I have enough stress in my life where I don't want to fight with my OS as well.

I run linux/NixOS on all my important machines, including work.
Just use a base OS that has what you need? :D
The part I came to love about France in general is that while all of these are broken, the people dealing with it will completely agree it's broken and amply sympathize, but just accept your name is printed as G�nter.

Same for names that don't fit field lengths, addresses that require street numbers etc. It's a real pain to deal with all of it and each system will fail in its own way to make your life a mess, but people will embrace the mess and won't blink an eye when you bring paper that just don't match.
"bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run"

Guess. Stop trying to shape the NN. And let it learn on its own.
> what if Apple were able to introduce a "MacOS subsystem for Windows”

Where would they get the ‘for Windows’ part? They would eiher have to use Wine (which isn’t 100% compatible), license Windows from Microsoft ($$$), or write their own Wine (takes time)

> If I could run VS without tanking battery life

There’s no guarantee emulating Windows would be as energy-efficient as running MacOS.

Also, if it did, that would open the door for third parties abandoning MacOS (it runs fine "MacOS subsystem for Windows”, so why would we spend time on a Mac port?), just as happened with “OS/2 subsystem for Windows” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#OS/2_2.1_and_Windows_comp...)
In fairness, for search, allowing multiple ways of typing the same thing is probably the best choice: you can prioritise true matches, where the user has typed the correct form of the letter, but also allow for more visual based matches. (Correcting common typos is also very convenient even for native speakers of a language — and of course a phonetic search that actually produced good results would be wonderful, albeit I suspect practically very difficult given just how many ways of writing a given pronunciation there might be!)
Sure, but at risk of repeating myself: it’s not either /or. Nobody is suggesting analysis shouldn’t happen. Just that it doesn’t need to happen on a live system.
I doubt The Guardian's general readership would know what assembly is. That's all.
I just use handkerchiefs, good luck blowing through that. Good old cotton, no chemical shit, no waste, lasts for years.
> China gets things done and the USA doesn't.

Because graft and corruption works - look at the rise of fabrication in China despite just about every single vendor other than SMIC or YMTC collapsing due to misappropriation of funds and embezzlement (eg. Tsinghua Unigroup)

The American military procurement system is extremely ossified by regulations made in the aftermath of the 1980s-90s procurement corruption scandals [0]

Ironically, the US holds its lawmakers to a higher standard around graft than those in peer countries like France (Chirac, de Villipen, Mitterand), Israel (Netanyahu, Deri), Germany (Von der Leyden, Scholz), Canada (Bombardier, LaValle), or the UK (Johnson, Sunak), let alone countries like China.

This has lead to compliance overload which severely narrows down the potential pool of vendors.

For example, on the cybersecurity side - no startup even attempts to become FedRAMP certified until they are at Series E or above, as it's a multi-year process that swamps your platform and development team, and costs around $7-10M ime.

Yet FedRAMP is nowhere near as painful as other procurement and compliance systems that other parts of the Defense industry need to face.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-we...
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> Wasn't LHC supposed to create the occasional microscopic black hole?

That was discussed but AFAIR nobody really believed this was actually going to happen.

> What are the logistics on capturing one of those, keeping it fed, and making some definitive observations?

Generally speaking, the logistics are that you hope that will never create a black hole. You can't really "capture" a BH: It will fall down (towards Earth) like everything else and then start eating its way to the core…

Unless… you manage to create an electrically charged black hole. Then you might be able to confine it e.g. between two condensator plates, by calibrating the voltage in such a way that electric and gravitational force on the BH cancel out.

Now, one problem would be that we expect small black holes to radiate heavily (Hawking radiation), meaning we would have to keep feeding the BH to prevent it from evaporating. (Unless we believe in black hole remnants, see my other comment.) This whole endeavor would make stabilizing the BH between the condensator plates much more challenging. And we'd also still have to worry about what all that radiation will do to our equipment…

Long story short: Don't do it!
Right. Stirring the pot is creating opportunities for luck to happen.
Realistically, they are required. I don't care how you do it, but you need 1. Seamless fail overs 2. Easy horizontal scaling 3. Location based load balancing 4. A way to deploy and rollback all of these automatically. As a result, things are gonna get complicated no matter what you do. But as it turns out, using something like Kubernetes, Elixir, or AppEngine can make all of that very manageable.
I am up in chilly canada and its nice even at minus 40 out. I got my inlaws in the yukon to install them and its even nice up there at christmas. None of us have any desire to buy the heated ones. The cheap cold water only is lovely.
I think you may be talking about "Corporate Memphis" and yes, it is hideous.

Makes me think of a Stepford kindergarten.
I don’t see why static assertions wouldn’t be enough in this case.
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Then you can still put the features that have weaker ‘internal sponsors’ there.
As someone who's paranoid about missing the eclipse due to cloudy weather, I've been working with a few people to launch a high altitude balloon during the eclipse: https://eclipseplus.ca/

We have several cameras on board, including one that points at the sun and one that takes video. It all gets live-streamed to the ground (actually, that's my contribution to the project - the communications system) and sent off to YouTube.

We're launching from New Brunswick, Canada, and we'll be going up to about 30km, or 100k feet. So the clouds definitely won't be an issue for us.
Yeah, Opus has entirely taken over any code specific use for me over ChatGPT 4 or OpenAI GPT-4 API.

Once Opus has the ability to run a code interpreter, it'll really be an exciting time.
I said nothing about not understanding the issue. Even with understanding just “turning it on and off again” might be the better solution at the moment. Because going for the “real” solution means making a trade-off somewhere else.
I have felt similar to this, but the culture on this site is rather pro AI doing this, hence some of the other rude replies. I think lots of things like this are and will move off the open web where sharing help is more personal and meaningful.
My mum just finds 4-leaf clovers everywhere. It’s not serendipity, she looks for them, but she has the uncanniest ability to find them. Similarly my wife can spot animals in the wild like a drone, it’s insane. She’d be the woman on the boat saying “look! Dolphins!”. We go diving together and she sees 10 times the amount of stuff I can see.

I dont think this has anything to do with focusing or not, and letting things happen, or what not. Both my wife and my mom are extremely focused. This is something else entirely that’s hard-wired in the brain.
Bloomberg is a large company with many different products, people/teams and priorities. But as far as I know Bloomberg doesn't actually provide order execution which is what I was referring to when I said "stock market".
Code interpreter is pretty neat, because you can tell ChatGPT to write some code and to make sure the code works, and then it'll write you some bad code, realize it's bad, and then iterate on it until it gets to a place that it's happy with. (Maybe I should say passes its test rather than anthropomorphize ChatGPT as being "happy".)
Did I read this correctly? You uploaded millions of words of your company's internal communications to Google?
Well, then, at least there should be pressure around having to mention this : a non-replicated study (by an independent group) is after all inherently suspect.
I still find it hard to fathom that there are advanced cultures walking around with dirty asses.
Agreed I've never owned an iPhone, so I'm kind of used to the android experience and don't mind that much, but I'm just happy that it gets more and more consistent, at least the apps I use.

Though I only use FOSS apps so I can't speak for the playstore apps.
> This is in contrast to the experience of a Python developer who's mastered FastAPI/Flask/SQLAlchemy and feels absolutely lost in a Django project

If he has more than 6 months of experience he will figure it out.
Unlike hands, you can't visually inspect your butt as you wash it to ensure that it's clean—you just have to trust that it's working. I do see the attraction to being able spot-check with toilet paper to see that things are coming clean.
They were. The Iberian Celts were conquered and repressed by the Roman Empire, and the Roman culture was in turn reformed by the early Christians.
Boston is in a mildly risky position right now. Boston's main draws are slowly becoming less appealing.

We seem to have reached peak education a few years ago, and I don't see it growing much more in the next decade. Their public k12 schools are still amazing, but that's more so a testament to the outer suburbs than the core urban area. Public transportation was a huge draw, and it's in dire straits. The 'next tech hub' thing never took off, with Austin, LIC, NJ & Atlanta growing faster than Boston. Biotech is doing great, but as it moves from academia to industry....I'm seeing a slow siphoning of biotech talent into the bay area.

The biggest issue is how well NYC is doing. Boston was always a great way to experience NYC-lite. But the mass gentrification of LIC, Brooklyn and Jersey City has now made it possible to have NYC-lite within NYC itself. So it makes Boston less appealing.

As far as cities go, Boston is still doing amazing. But I am going to change my optimism around it from 'best positioned to see massive growth' to 'good city that does 1 or 2 things well'.

Thankfully for Boston their problems seem solvable. Give incentives to MIT/Harvard grads to set up startups locally. Make it easier to build housing and fix public transport....the city will be back to #1 on my highest growth potential list.

P.S: I say this in jest, but make DeSantis ship a few more migrants up to new england. The Mexican food scene is trash and needs help.
> Claude hasn't figure out yet how to do the whole "generate Python code and run it in a Juptyer notebook" for math yet.

GPT-4 didn't figure that out, either; that’s just tooling built around the model, not something the model “figures out”.