skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very similar idea a few months ago. I wanted to use this approach to have the LLM provide the probability that the generated answer is correct. The probability would simply be what fraction of all generated answers was the one selected. (Each generated answer would be generated with a different seed and the question would be of single choice kind.) The two issues I found were 1) the cost, 2) on some problems, LLMs can be wrong more often than they are not.

Hopefully, as inference gets cheaper and of higher quality, someone will come up with a more feasible solution.
Yeah, to me this is a significant step away from brutalism compared to HNs default look.
> you need to "edit your makefile". That isn't going to work for distributions

Is it not? [st] requires exactly that. And it works for distros, from what I can tell - debian/ubuntu, arch, almost everybody seem to ship it just fine.

[st] https://st.suckless.org/
Kube-Bench: Chequea la seguridad de tus clusters Kubernetes
> I'm not sure people in these comments are reading this paper correctly.
> This seems to essentially disprove the whole idea of multi-agent setups like Chain-of-thought and LLM-Debate.

I'm not sure you have read the paper at all. Chain of thought prompting is not a multi-agent algorithm. The paper says that it enhances existing methods such as prompt engineering (chain of thought) and multi-agent debate. The sampling method presented in the paper is orthogonal to those methods.
There's great-circle distance and then there's internet-cable distance though (I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all). But yes, I primarily thinking Asia/Oceania (you forgot New Zealand! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern...), given that people do forget how big the world is, and how noticeable the latency is.
> using lambda functions

or (where available) sections
Simplistic was the aim. Have a watch of the film in the comments above. It was designed as a universal language.
Human! Don't get rid of the colors! Are you changing it because people are criticizing it as not 'concrete' enough? Who cares! You created what you want. Stick with that! Trust that! Let their concrete minds come around to it in time, or not. Stick with trust yourself!

I know the criticism on HN can be brutal, but don't back down. Use it to solidify your stance, not to pander to armchair commenters in the stands, who aren't invested, who aren't playing on the field. Go your own way! Fuck their greyness hahaha! :)

(unless you really want that for you, but do you? Because you created colors. You don't have to be what they say is wrong. They're wrong, because they don't see it. Just because they can't stretch their minds, don't give in. Stay your stance, and you can even consider: that's the way to honor the better part of them, by not giving in to their worst natures, by retaining the opportunity of your original art to stretch their minds.)

You got people losing their minds over a website? You're winning! Don't back down now. Ride that storm!!!
> Just because not everyone gets to have that opportunity does not mean it is not the same question stated differently.

To me, it matters significantly if refusing is retaliated against or is neutral.

If having sex with the boss is the difference between 0 firings and 1 firing, that's retaliation. If it's the difference between 95% fired and 100% fired, that's not retaliation.

Also we can say everyone gets the offer if that matters.

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The other "dual" of this is a version where some employees have already been offered money for sex, but by a completely unrelated party. So if they want they can go take that offer now that they have more free time and only so much severance pay. (Also I am assuming they can get a new job easily enough; there are no destitution-based consent problems in this hypothetical.)

Does consent hinge on who is making the offer?

> There is retaliation, it's called jail.

You misunderstand me. There is no retaliation for not doing the gay sex thing. The default expectation is that you won't do it.

Retaliation for refusing to serve in the military is a different matter. And also why I think the mandatory service is where the actual consent issues are.
Or the kiwis!
I remember hearing that Beam Search doesn't work well for LLMs, because it leads to repetitive, generic output.

The majority vote sampling technique in this paper sounds like it'd give similar output to Beam Search, because it's sampling sequences of tokens from a joint distribution. So why doesn't it give repetitive output like Beam Search does? What am I missing?
How? To me, it is the innovation.

What stifles innovation IMO is trying to legislate consumer behavior.
They put code in to, in theory, avoid running in a development environment.
So text embeddings are kind of random like LLMs?
When I was messing around with random words in Cohere's playground for embedding, I noticed that the way words related to each other seemed to change every time I ran it. So, I tried the same thing with OpenAI's text embeddings and got different results for the same text, even though they were pretty similar. I always thought text embeddings were like a pre-calculated, static thing. Guess I was wrong?
Just like usual there are no mention of woman but at least and sadly that is sort of expected for this kind of history. But I wonder Amdahl role in all these. We heard all about Brooks when we were young. And Amdahl was …
It was a mishmash. The parts written by later employees were strongly typed and easy to follow. The parts he wrote weren't typed at all and frequently relied on implicit conversions and bitwise operators to do magic operations that would take us mere mortals several days to even begin to understand, all just to save what would've been like 3 lines of code and a single comment.

Inheriting that codebase felt like watching one of those serial killer dramas... obviously a really smart guy, but with a psychology unlike most people I've ever met, and really hard to follow as a normal person. I still see him with a mixture of respect, awe, curiosity, and wonder.

The thing is, none of the stuff he gave is was actually complicated. It's just a basic business dashboard. But he reinvented almost every single part of it in totally nonstandard ways that the whole project was less about coding and more about anthropology and forensic psychology.
PCs also had only a relatively brief period between “niche hobbyist toy” (because you don’t really need a computer to do much yet) and “niche hobbyist toy” (because most folks do all their important computer-related stuff on their phones). Perhaps 15 years. Maybe less.

Did they have a lot of business contracts? If not, I don’t know how they’ve even hung on this long.
The fact that it makes more sense financially to borrow a million to buy a house and keep your 500k of savings tied up in the S&P 500 means we're far away from a solution.

People don't seem to realize that something being a solid investment and it being widely accessible are contradictory terms and that ideal regulation would work towards a balance of these, not over-optimization of either.
Do what you want but please don't do it because they're criticizing you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
So are you saying that it's a good thing to have machines that are supposed to be tools tailor made for our needs that need as much consideration and prodding as an animal needs? Because that feels like hell. Software is already often frustrating enough with smug UX "designers" imposing their changes for the sake of change on users.
The LLM under test was GPT 4 turbo.
Oh. Get well soon.
Definition of AGI at play here?
Yeah, I was hoping for something more along the lines of "are wave functions real".
If you watch the film youll realize it was somewhat based on ideas from pictorial languages - mainly Chinese

NB Michael Everson has been plugging away at the iso standard for a while https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5149-blissymbols-keyboards...
It's easy to forget how grounded in physics biology is. When I was in college, we had an issue where our stem cell lines were differentiating into bone. Turns out, the hardness of the environment is a signal stem cells can transduce, and the hard dish was telling them they were supposed to be bone cells.
> Even small teams of 4-10 people can benefit from shared common terminology

The team size has very little impact on it's value, it's entirely dependent on the turnover of the developers. I guess I wasn't clear enough as it seems you didn't understand what I meant to express at all.

With every sentence you wrote I just had another question mark appear over my head
The paper says that it enhances multi-agent methods. It is not a replacement for that. It's an enhancement for existing methods.
Can you be more specific than just writing "high prices"? By asking to "quantify" I asked for some quantity.
I doubt there are many new greenfield autotools using projects popping up around. So the question is not really if one should use autotools or not, but if projects should spend effort migrating away from working autotools setup which inevitably is also a breaking change for downstream consumers. And framing it like that it is suddenly much more difficult question, especially as that migration often might be quite non-trivial
And how accurate they are? An image generator that never generates what you have in mind and you have to convince yourself with the result by accepting it and move on?

A Q&A engine who's every answer should be reviewed by an expert or else?

A code generator that might generate code that has serious logical bugs or making calls to functions and libraries that don't exist or even might have syntax errors so to be useful, you have to have the above or average knowledge of that language to correct the output?
The Hadamard transform IS a discrete Fourier transform (on the Boolean group (mod 2Z)^n)
OK, maybe "not work well for distributions"?

Looking at Debian, they are distributing a series of patches to the Makefile. Getting away from autotools by having every distro patch your makefile might still be better than autotools, but I'd hope we might be able to do even better?
But why SQLite, if you're going for vertical scaling? Nobody's stopping you from self hosting Postgres (or Supabase!) on the same server as your app, and I can't think of any disadvantage other than more effort to set up.

Now if you're willing to go DB-less, keep your whole global state in literal memory on one big server (no round-tripping to Redis or whatever, actual in-process objects), just occasionally snapshotting that memory to disk (this part's tricky), and use a compiled, multi-threaded language -- then you can saturate a Gbit or bigger NIC and literally serve the world from one box. I kind of wish I had a real use case for that architecture.
As someone with misophonia[0] this would be an unbearable and unsettling punishment. Hearing other people eating is like being stuck in an elevator after lunch, when someone drops their guts. But, even quiet chatter or tv is enough to mask the sound.

To say nothing of the boredom of 15 minutes of a silence.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
> Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome, sound-rage) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues. These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses that are not seen in most other people.
As an aussie, it's noticeable that it's not a fast local site (it could either be a slow local site or a fast overseas one), but that's to be expected (ping time is ~300ms FYI). IMHO your site is fine! It's if you're site is already slow then it's a problem.
I wish i could find the nice charts I found when i was looking. but here:

>Club386 specifically gave the example of the RX 7700 XT compared to the RTX 4070. The former is rated at 245W of power consumption versus the latter's 200W TGP. The RX 7700 XT also reportedly performs worse, targeting the RTX 4060 Ti.

>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-says-most-gamers-dont-...

Though looking at this, if you undervolt the AMD stuff it does a lot better

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-rx-7800-xt-under...
They're talking about linking to Google flights from the search results.

I do find it annoying that I can't click on map results from the search results page, but it's not a huge effort to go to maps.
Seems like a lot of work when leaving the state is possible.
Sure, but this xz backdoor is far, far more involved than that.
New-Vehicle Average Transaction Prices Retreat for Second Straight Month
CSI: Code Shite Investigation
Same could be said about cars:
Why ever buy a [insert brand] again after you've been burned by its reliabity or other issues?

You probably just don't, as the alternatives are good and plenty.
Great videos.

I have one personal niggle: I get annoyed when we end up lying to ourselves. Regarding the 101 section in video 1 - People forgot this the day LLMs came out. I felt this was too generous with the benefit of doubt.

This basic point was and remains constantly argued - with “Emergence” and anthropomorphization being the heart of the opposing argument.
I visualised a steel gömböc rolling on a dark wooden table, lit from above by a spotlight in an otherwise dark room.
Best Buy: "Where we are leveraging our expertise and our Geek Squad agents to capitalize on the growing use of technology to help provide health care in the home.”

Wait, Best Buy is pivoting to healthcare? Yes, they are.[1] It's basically a call center operation, plus some home gadgets.

[1] https://www.bestbuyhealth.com/
Didn't we already do all of this 30-ish years ago?

And I'm not trying to suggest that we haven't learned a lot since then, but:

There was a time when the corpo web server/Internet computer existed as a pizza-box Sun Microsystems machine on someone's desk.

And sure, bandwidth was a lot less than 11MB/sec back then, but that's not a stretch at all for today's modern equivalent to that expensive pizza box.

But I'm old, and man do I sure as fuck remember the Web being a generally-unreliable turd back then. It was common for a website to not work today, or for an ISP's solitary email server to be down for a week or more.

It sure felt more real (and I even built a couple of those email servers), but it was also obviously very broken some of the time in ways that people don't generally accept today -- especially with 400 million visits per month, which was largely unfathomable at the time.
This is a very similar idea to ensemble models, which have been used for a long time in ML and proven to be very good. You average out the results of several predictors (or you let them vote and pick the most common prediction value), thereby reducing the noise in the prediction by choosing the common denominator of multiple predictions.
How fast can reads be thou? Even if skipping along a fixed offset, reading 4 byte identifiers to filter out location updates for vehicles, that's still a sequential scan of a massive file. Wouldn't this read issue become a choking point to a degree that would make growth a curse? Then you get into weird architectures that exist solely to facilitate predigested reads?
I guess that's exactly the author's point? That the company has too much control.

She isn't arguing about websites, she's arguing that social media networks are too powerful and they'll happily block criticism when they can gey away with it.

None of this is about whether this is just a website or the semantics of it. It's that a company has too much power.

And that's a real problem. A lot of people get their news from Facebook. Meta can (and does) decide what to show to whom
"Of course, that’s an unfair comparison, after all, Postgres is a general purpose database with an expressive query language and what we’ve built is just a cursor streaming a binary file feed with a very limited set of functionality - but then again, it’s the exact functionality we need and we didn’t lose any features."
(The subtext of my prior message: I'm starting a fist fight with New Zealand.)
Docker layer caching is complicated!

CircleCI has an implementation that used to use a detachable disk, but that had issues with concurrency

It’s since been replaced with an approach that uses a docker plugin under the hood to store layers in object storage

https://circleci.com/docs/docker-layer-caching/
This exactly. It's in the best financial interest of a homeowner to stop as much new construction of homes as possible. Until we move away from the idea that owning a home = wealth, then I don't see how this problem can be significantly fixed.
Their numbers don't seem to make sense

9M Geek Squad visits every year
7.1M Caring Center calls per year
30K Patients managed

So each patient is calling ~237 times per year and being visited ~300 times per year? That seems crazy high numbers
This is a great app, especially in this age of AI code generation, I am already using it. Looking forward for features such as light mode and exportability among other things.
Agreed, that is how I did it.

My previous employer at that time was a startup with about 100 people. Unfortunately the startup imploded (that was why I left) so I suddenly know about 100 people who were all working at different companies, mostly startups who needed to ramp up quickly. Working at some of those startups I got to know other people who liked my work, who eventually left for other companies, etc. (Admittedly "work for a startup which implodes" probably isn't reproducible advice.)
Article does not try to answer it's title question so I guess that it was added to make it more clickable.

- "no one deserves such excess, that people would be better off morally and psychologically without it"

The extremes of what we have achieved - both good and bad mark out the features of humanity. We are not good or bad, we're animals functioning in nature, and nature's one core characteristic is competition, competition in everything.

I think we're really good at competing within our environment. So good in fact, that we're hitting the limits of our environment in many ways. Bacteria in a petri dish go through rapid growth, stability and then inevitably reach the final death phase. I wonder it that's what awaits us.

I hope that we can self modify quickly enough to morph into something other than human because our humanity is the defining feature that got us to where we are right now.

edit - grammar
i name mine after crystals or rocks

obsidian, jade, peridot, diamond, sapphire...
People will just use ai to write those essays and emails!
Nah there are tons of startups with funding and only vague plans for actually making money.
As an aside frequency domain sounds like a great name for a live music venue.
Yes, CICS came to my mind. But CICS is not an operating system, it needs one to be run AFAIK. The Wikipedia article says it runs under VM/MVS or VM/VSE.

OS/360 was discontinued. MVS is listed as one of its successors.

So I believe, while interesting, the VM/CMS emulator/simulator mentioned above is only representing System/370 period, not System/360.

I am certainly not an expert on the matter.

Edit: Following a couple of Wikipedia links tells that in the 360 period something called CM/CMS existed. It seems only loosely related to the VM/CMS used in the 370 period.

Edit 2: For an emulator see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)

Edit 3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_mainframe_ope... seem worth reading. The 360 chapter links nicely to TFA, e.g. The Mythical Man-Month.
The answer is in the first paragraph:

>> "Most new homebuyers will pay around 30% of their income on their mortgage"

You go to the bank looking for a loan. They use that exact sentence to determine your monthly payment. Lower interest rates mean you can borrow more for a given payment. Then they tell you how much you can borrow. Everyone involved - banker, agents, seller, neighbors - wants you to spend as much as possible. Even if you don't, prices are set by "the market" where people do. Hence prices are determined by interest rates.

That first statement has been fairly constant for a very long time.

There are exceptions in areas where other factors distort the market.
Dealing with a zillion of handwritten Makefiles sounds more hellish than dealing with autotools. These Makefiles will be more fickle, too. I'm not seeing a convenience win.
I agree.
Depending on the type of hypothetical website, you could expect that most traffic comes e.g. during the week at business hours, or maybe in the evening after work. You need to design for that spike in workload (maybe 10x?)

There was a story recently about running the workload of Twitter from a single machine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34291191

Yes - possible but no redundancy, difficult maintenance
We run sqlite at https://tender.run, both in our backend (as a primary data store, backed by litefs) and on the client (as a index and cache).

In general works really great, esp. in terms of speed. There are some limitations worth knowing though - for instance, figuring out making write throughput reasonable with the combination of wal mode, busy timeout, and begin immediate.

Another that I've had to work around recently is the lack of materialized views - you can make and query from a view, but it's just a select statement that gets shoved into queries that use it. To get the perf of a materialized view, you'd have to do something manual and custom. For the most part, this isn't an issue simply due to how fast sqlite is, but in the browser it's a bit more significant because of how much slower the wasm-compiled sqlite is.
This, to me doesn't fit the "appropriated" version either.

To me there's no "brutalist experience" involved here, and what you describe doesn't seem to align in any way at all to the spirit of the original use.
Do one run ./configure on Windows to compile with msvc?

(genuine question, not familiar with this)
I much prefer partial application. It just makes more intuitive sense - you take a function with many arguments, "fix" some of those arguments, and get a new function out. No need to mess with argument ordering, or all that.

It's a shame the only language that did partial application well is, weirdly, Python.
Good news is that you can use this setup for self supervised RL (artificial dreaming? increasing contrast?).
You already have twitter for that.

I'm not on twitter but not my problem.
I also like seeing them. I know there are a lot of people who hate that, similar to cutesy error messages on web pages which I also happen to like.

But in no way does this signal IQ/EQ. It's just a personal preference
Your pricing page says 14 day trial, but when I entered my credit card it charged me. This is fraudulent behavior.
Averaging LLM outputs will ensure the final output will contain a lot of words with no substance. However, it’s essential to recognize that averaging bad data doesn’t always lead to better results. Garbage in, garbage out — averaging cannot magically transform flawed inputs into accurate outputs.
I don't know anything about funding but most of the funding came in the before times, when we had a zero interest rate policy, right? In post zirp, would even Y Combinator darling Dropbox or Airbnb be able to secure funding (without a solid plan)?
The zeitgeist moves slow until it has to. I think we’ll have to do the America thing and exhaust every other option like banning foreign property ownership and short term rentals and vacation houses before we get to actually changing local zoning laws. I’m actually not sure it will ever happen. San Francisco is more likely to see the housing density it deserves from a nuclear war that razes it and removes the nimby political machine than people coming together and doing the right thing. Like, given the choice between the status quo, and their kids being able to live in their neighborhood, our parents have chosen. And they’re the ones that show up to vote.
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