skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both GPT-4 and llama 3 8b fail actual reasoning still:

jack has 15 sisters, each sister has 3 brothers. How many brothers does jack have?

(real answer is 2)

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Llama 3 8b

Let's break it down step by step:

Jack has 15 sisters.

Each of his sisters has 3 brothers.

To find the total number of brothers, we need to multiply the number of sisters (15) by the number of brothers each sister has (3).

15 sisters x 3 brothers/sister = 45 brothers

So, Jack has 45 brothers!

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GPT-4

Jack has 3 brothers.

Here's why:

If each of Jack's sisters has 3 brothers, these brothers are the same for all sisters, including Jack himself.
Therefore, Jack and his 3 brothers make up the total count of brothers in the family. Since the problem states that each sister has 3 brothers, we know that Jack himself must be counted as one of these brothers.
So, Jack has 3 brothers.

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Lol.

You can tweak the questions numbers and names to avoid training data.

Can Opus solve this?
I thought it was invented to propel touch-screen usage, but I doubt it works well there
We do have plumbing boot camps. https://www.theplumbingacademy.com/online-classes#tier-class...

Take an intro course of classroom/lecture, then sign on as a paid apprentice and continue your classroom-style education alongside the practical/on-the-job training until you’re fully licensed.

Other trades have similar structures as well.
"Something from nothing" is a flawed argument, I agree. It's just like saying everything came from ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ , because 'nothing' doesn't represent anything at all.

However, the idea that "'nothing' is impossible" still doesn't make sense to me. If the reality allows for infinite possibilities then one of the possibilities must be of 'nothingness'. This is what Buddhists argue, that reality is śūnya or 0/null/void, and that we exist only momentarily in this nothingness somehow but you can see how that argument is flawed too.

Then comes sāṁkhya that says there are 2 entities: The observer and the thing which is being observed. The observer (individual consciousness or puruṣa) is eternal, has no point of origin and no end. Similarly, prakṛti or nature also exists at the same time because the observer needs an observation but prakṛti's nature is to change all the time, it manifests and unmanifests (just like our bodies or everything else in this universe made of dead matter). However, even though prakṛti keeps this constant of change, the observer or puruṣa himself is unchanging (just like how our bodies and every single cell in it keep changing but the sense of 'I' remains the same somehow). On top of that, it says the prakṛti and puruṣa are mutually exclusive. They do not mix like oil and water but remain in contact at the same time, just like how we have material bodies that keep changing but the 'I' or the observer inside it is not made of prakṛti and hence remains detached from it. It is only the false-ego (or false-'I') of puruṣa that forces it to identify itself with prakṛti (like I'm a male, I have this job, this is my family, I have this body and face, etc.).
Sometimes when forming standards, it is worthwhile to grandfather something in, just for the pure logistical effort needed to change.

Consider that every single book, textbook, poster, pamphlet in the entire world has to be edited and re-printed. Just so we don't have the numbers go to 9.

Every kid for decades was taught about the 9th planet Pluto. 18 years later, and a lot of people still refer to it as a Planet.

And. Now we can't refer to the search for Planet 10 with the much cooler name of Planet X. "Searching for Planet X" sounds cooler. Now every conversation has to be "Searching for Planet X, oh, I mean 9, because of those guys that renumbered them, why did they do that again? Was there a point."

"emotionally charged reactions like yours"

Someone needs to look in the mirror.
Well, the term "buckaroo" is believed to be an anglicized version of "vaquero" showing phonological characteristics compatible with its Spanish origin. The word "buckaroo" first appeared in American English in 1827. It's still used to refer to a certain style of cowboys and horsemanship, particularly in the Great Basin region of the United States, which retains characteristics of the traditional vaquero.

But to your criticism, the transition from "vaquero" to "cowboy" just reflects the influence of Spanish culture on American ranching practices.

Vaqueros and cowboys worked side by side so it seems to be a natural transition between the two and has much more support historically and linguistically than the complete lack of evidence provided by the article.

Words don't appear out of nowhere, they naturally evolve and generally are based on imported words and root words, and it makes sense that Spain, the ones who created this practice and imported these cows and horses were the root of the evolution, beginning from the latin root word "vacca".
> Nor should there be.

But don't you think that in some cases we have to show that there is another way to communicate with people, not through humiliation?
Please could you share your other explanations? Whatever you're implying here is not clear, especially to non Americans.
This was in Spain, but I have no problem believing it's roughly the same everywhere in the world, with few exceptions.
> Maybe the experts are the problem?

Or more likely, the current approach just doesn’t work very well.

If everyone with a disease starts taking a medicine, and nobody gets better, it doesn’t mean the medicine causes the disease, despite the correlation. It just means the medicine doesn’t work.
> How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun

You turn it on the other side. /s
"put any stock in anything that comes out of Texas Monthly, it's usually just race-bait" citation?
> The guy from the linked TikToks does mention that he also hosed the inside of the trunk after returning from the beach, that might have been it.

In video[0] the story links to the owner mentions that he "vacuumed the inside". It sounds like what he hosed off was the rigid tonneau[1][2] that covers the bed of the truck. If he had hosed out the interior I'd question his judgement even more than I do for him being a Cybertruck early adopter.

[0] https://twitter.com/StonkKing4/status/1780306557538050532

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonneau

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/693899/tesla-cybertruck-tonneau-c...
What is another likely explanation?
This will not work for SaaS in most cases. Someone will copy your idea and with VC money grow more features and customers than you, forcing you into a tighter small niche if not oblivion. Restaurants have a captive market in terms of location and maximum number of competitors in the immediate vicinity. A web startup does not.
So what is the lineage from "buckaroo" to "cowboy"?
Ahh yes, Google Chrome flags like picture in picture, notable for being hidden behind a paywall by google on every platform where they can get away with it. How forward thinking…
The Dusty Magnets Of the Milky Way
This is insular attitude that will not serve well the open source desktop (and libreoffice in particular). Reasons to be annoyed by the "AI" emperor certainly abound, but one might get too distracted by distasteful mass hysteria phenomena and miss important developments and trends that are here to stay.

The point is that there is an entire universe of popular and very useful data science tools and models (built around Python, R etc.) of which the current AI/ML/LLM's algorithms are just a tiny and rather extreme use case. At some point libreoffice must move beyond VBA if it wants to remain relevant.
I would have downvoted this comment one year ago.

But my perspective changed. "Memorizing to free up brain space" is very real.
Surprising because I know quite a few Texans that do enjoy Texas Monthly. Please share some facts.

Edit: Happy to be wrong, I am sure the magazine has change over the years, it is an old publication but I always found it to be actually pretty "left" if you will especially regarding Texas politics. Again I have not read all of the publication so who knows but the magazine in my timeline has always been fairly critical of the government taking out apart the public schools and other related themes.
To be fair, Scott revealed the amendment was satirical prior to a vote in New Mexico House of Representatives.

prior.... so they knew it was satire.
I’m sorry you hear my comment as championing gatekeeping. That’s not my point at all. I want to champion spending time to slowly get good at things. Celebrate all the people who didn’t put out a hit single the first time they picked up a guitar. I think we only get really good at programming if we put the time in for years. Of course I want more beginners programming. How else would they become experts? Years of practice happen one day at a time.

I was one of those kids you’re talking about, who learned programming on my own from about the age of 9. That was 30 years ago, and I’ve gotten a lot better at it since then. Sometimes I talk to people who have less experience than I do, and I’ve seen the life go out of peoples eyes when they think they aren’t as “talented” as I am. Hah! You see me now, but you don’t see the 30 years of work I’ve put in to get here!

I think this whole “neophytes can do anything” philosophy of yours is toxic, because people assume that if you’re good at programming, you were born good at programming. If they weren’t born like that, they feel inadequate and attack themselves.

You’re wrong. That’s not how it works. It’s great that someone can throw together a website in your first week of a bootcamp. Welcome to the starting line. Maybe that’s enough to start a successful business. But that’s not a sign you’re an expert yet. And thank goodness for that! As piano is teaching me all over again, watching yourself improve slowly over years of practice is a truly wonderful experience.

An expert at programming can make a website - sure. Or they can edit the code in their web browser. Or write their own webpack, or react. Or invent a new programming language and compile it to webassembly. Or write an http2 proxy to make their page go faster. Or 1000 other weird things. How cool is that!

Why on earth would you make expertise into a dirty word? Seriously - what’s wrong with people.
Take the point of view of the marginal corporate or family foundation donor in that structure.

“What will my $1M go towards?” The answer won’t be “a million dollars more programming [what the charity is setup to do]” but instead “a million more dollars for the executive team”.

Compensation for charity execs is necessary and proper. What matters is how much funding can go to the charitable program work in the end.
I think it's well known -- and supported by evidence -- that personality, chemistry and rapport with the therapist matter more than the specific kind of therapy. (With some exceptions; for example, cognitive-behavioural therapy is specifically better suited for OCD than other modalities such as psychodynamic therapy are, while CBT alone probably isn't a good fit for severe trauma. AFAIK these are backed by evidence.)

So the specific theoretical frameworks aren't really scientific, at least for the most part. But you can do research on stuff such as whether outcomes are on the average better than without therapy, or whether modality or individual therapists matter more.

Of course the evidence is largely still from the questionnaires, with all of their problems, but the questionnaires aren't necessarily administered by the people giving the therapy so it may not be as biased as you might think.
I'm more concerned about the winrar in that photo. Someone please tell them about 7z
I love how the "Show code" buttons in 98.css and XP.css are just plain labels, with no indication that they are clickable until you hover over them, as opposed to the easily visible buttons the CSS actually provides x)

Interestingly, the 7.css fixes this by showing them as expander links instead.
Remember when apps were designed to help the user get things done in them? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
For myself (not a mathematician) I would find hard to argue that in 1920 would have been easier to have access to this specific information. I was sitting in my sofa when I found this.

Also, it should be easy to ask people attending school now if they would prefer books to internet. And to me if the justification is that youth doesn’t know what they are talking about is like denying progress.
If experts were the problem, then it would be statistically obvious that people were worse after meeting experts or taking their advice, and better off before.

But, that gets the order reversed. People seek mental health treatment after they already have a problem, not before.

It's much more likely that widespread effects are the cause: pollution, social media, poverty, capitalism, racism, etc.
Hire a C level executive to delegate some of it, if you can afford to? Unless your question is: "How can I do everything myself while being poor/bootstrapped?"
A long time ago, when I was in high school, we had an introductory course to differentials and integral calculus. When I asked what the purpose of integration was, the teacher shouted that I should save the stupid questions for my parents ... She was a shit teacher for various reasons, but that was the day that I lost my drive for maths.

It wasn't until years later that I found that it was all about "the area under the curve" and why that would be useful. At no point in those high school classes did we ever work a practical example. I was pissed off all over again when I found out how useful that stuff could be, and how much I'd missed out on.

I'm sure most teachers mean well, and I'm sure most of them try. But by god there are some truly awful twats out there who should never set foot in a classroom again.
> Yet the problems keep getting worse.

> Maybe the experts are the problem?

I'm not sure I follow your logic. What do you hypothesise to be the causal factor linking these things?

I think we could look to any number of things that could exacerbate mental health issues. Climate disasters, social alienation, rapid inflation, political disillusionment, patriarchy etc.
Net income is the amount of money they pocket. These are obviously very big numbers trending in the right direction.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-inc...

Net margin is profit margin, which is also already very healthy and obviously trending in the right direction:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/profit-...

Under assets and liabilities, you can also see cash on hand with very large numbers and trending in the right direction, and long term debt with relatively low numbers compared to profit and revenue.
There's one idea I'm not sure being described.

Basically you create docker container from some postgres image.

Then you run DDL scripts.

Then you stop this container and commit it as a new image.

And now you can create new container from this new image and use it for test. You can even parallelize tests by launching multiple containers. It should be fast enough thanks to docker overlay magic.

And it should work with any persistent solution, not just postgres.
that's a strategy :D thanks for the info
But are you driving while washing? Why would the wipers or anything else be activated when you stepped out of the car, locked it and waited for the cycle to finish?
that's not how this works. files are stored in s3, metadata in postgres
Follow-up comments:

- its* (facepalm)

- The excellent folk music website MainlyNorfolk has a fascinating amount of detail about this tune: https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/johnbarleycorn.html
But count in % of phones that exist, and see how many pople of the current nokia work in finland.
> User:

jack has 15 sisters, each sister has 3 brothers. How many brothers does jack have?

> Claude-3-Opus:

Let's approach this step-by-step:

We know that Jack has 15 sisters.

Each of Jack's sisters has 3 brothers.

Since all the sisters are from the same family, they all have the same brothers.

Therefore, the 3 brothers that each sister has are the same 3 brothers.

Since Jack is a brother to his sisters, he is one of these 3 brothers.

So, Jack has 2 brothers.

Therefore, Jack has 2 brothers.
Hi, a question, but first some background. I've been looking at solutions to store columnar data with versioning, essentially Parquet. But, I'd also like to store PDFs, CSVs, images, and such for our ML workflows. I wonder if now, that Supabase is getting better for data science DuckDB crowd, could Supabase be that one solution for all this?
There where several topics around centering (horizontal and vertical) and of course much more detailed than a simple "center"
But this [1] looks as something one would archive with a "center" back in the day.

[1] https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/apple_sign_in_business@2x.w...
> used in the British Isles from 1820 to 1850 to describe young boys who tended the family or community cows

This sounds like exactly the kind of definition that would get appropriated to belittle slaves. See also simply, “boy.”
Could this be implemented by making the loss zero if the output for the expected token is above some threshold?

E.g. if the threshold is 0.1 it can output 10 likely tokens with 0.1 probability each and if any of them is correct it will not modify the weights.
The two claims are basically saying the same thing. You can't deny one and not the other.

Evolution has taken place over billions and billions of years in a system that's far beyond our comprehension in complexity.

Evolving - or even not evolving - in this system over billions of years and surviving implies importance. I can't say it guarantees that a species is "essential", but that was never the argument.
Are the current governments in the USA
and Germany governments?
This is dangerously reckless. VISA fraud will get you banned and deported. Possibly jailed. I wouldn't recommend any of that as an American who was once not a citizen and had multiple VISAs and renewals before becoming one.

O1 is the wrong VISA for business people and especially someone young. It's easy to get if you have press - i.e. you are a celebrity, actor or singer. It's much easier to get an H1 if you have business contacts and sufficient education. I got mine at 24 off the back of a hard science degree from the UK.

This writer also doesn't seem to understand the process. The bar isn't fixed. If they managed to get an O1 because the person looking at their application was wowed by a few mundane listed connections and achievements, the next time they likely won't be. It's incredibly personal and the person reviewing each case has essentially final say. It's not like the DMV where they are just checking boxes. They have enormous leeway.

Two examples. I overstayed a VISA once before leaving the US. I went into an embassy in a foreign country where I was living and explained that it was a mistake and why I needed to re-enter. The agent took my passport (not US obviously) and told me to come back in a few hours. They gave me a 10 year VISA based on a single conversation despite the fact I had broken a rule.

Secondly when I went for an interview with my American fiancee, the agent asked me if I liked a painting. I said yes and he said he'd painted it. We then all talked about art for 30 mins. Nothing else. No other questions. This was the interview when they are supposed to be working out if you are a real couple or just people trying to swing residency based on a fake marriage. We left and he rubber stamped it.

So this person got lucky and possibly committed fraud. Don't do it. Be smart, be serious. I did it all without a lawyer (after my first VISA and renewal). It cost almost nothing except flights and things like medical charges.

The only thing I had going for me is that I'm reasonably nice, my English is native (I'm British) and I had no criminal record of any kind whatsoever. With that it's plain sailing.
maybe it's difficult to call either way
I don't think there is a lineage it's believed to be the literal anglicized version of vaquero. It was another branching of the word vaquero.

The term cowboy seems to have occurred naturally as a less literal transition of the word vaquero.

I am not a linguistics expert though, there may be someone else that has more details on the transition.

I will also accept a fortification of the article's attempt at explaining the origin, but I don't see any evidence or attempt at providing any.

Also as I noted in earlier comments the word "cowboy" was being used in print in 1725 by that time and used heavily in the British Isles in the mid 1800s
If you want to understand the world you need to build experiments, not AI
1. what you're describing as a "file" is really no different from a "password". I assume you're choosing to call it a "file" because you're picturing generating some huge blob, but a randomly generated password doesn't need to be very long to be effectively uncrackable, so I think you're proposing wasting time/bandwidth for no added security.

2. You should always "salt" stored password hashes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

3. I think you should look at resources like https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnx8nq/why-you-dont-roll-you... https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-shoul... https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/cryptography/the-... to examine the arguments against trying to develop your own security schemes as someone with less experience in this space.
Sure thing, WhatsApp is the problem. But why didn't you uninstall it?
> specific clinical results

Uh, I have bad news for you about the reproducibility crisis that's also in medicine/biology.

It's just like psychology but 100x worse because there's real money at stake.
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
Microsoft does a lot less anticompetitive in 2024 than they did in the nineties. It's actually quite a lot of progress.

As much as the dark patterns are annoying, Satya also turned around Microsoft's complete inability to build software. It got so bad that virtually no progress was made on any Microsoft products from 2000 through 2010. Many of their developer tools today are... nice.

The stock price was the same in 1999 as in 2016. Today, it's up almost 10x.

No organization is perfect, and acknowledging everything Microsoft is doing wrong, it's a world of difference from Ballmer. Ballmer was on the far end of the incompetence spectrum, the abusive management style spectrum, and the hardball antitrust spectrum (which no longer even worked with real competition from mobile, iPad, and web apps). A lot of the reason you see so much praise is the comparison. It's easy to ignore Ballmer's contributions, since there weren't any. The ones you give are... a stretch.
Astrobotic eyes military customers for reusable Xogdor suborbital rocket
This is like saying an image is or isn't open source. The model itself isn't a program, so asking whether it's open source or not is a bit of a category error.

So it's a bit silly for anyone to claim a model is open source, but it's not silly to say a model is open. What open means isn't well defined when it comes to a model in the same way that source code is.

Imo if someone reveals the model's architecture and makes the weights available with minimal limitations, it's probably reasonable to call it open. I don't know that that would apply to llama though since I believe there are limitations on how you can use the model.