skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Dedoimedo. The entire point of Dedoimedo is whining loudly about whatever gets reviewed. If he stopped complaining about things his audience paid him to complain about, they would stop paying him enough money for overpriced vehicles that he then could complain about in an overly-braggadocios manner.
If someone uses Xiaomi they probably also don't worry about privacy.
Because of the way it's presented, as if it's some vast new discovery that OpenAI have made, rather than common wisdom.

It makes me sad when people rediscover things (with massive compute in this case), that were already known.

It's very much spend a year in the lab to save an hour in the library.
The best argument I have found against using lie or hallucination for describing LLM's actions is that it humanizes them to people who don't know the inner workings of LLMs. Saying they lie gives intent which is pretty bad but even hallucination humanizes them unnecessarily.
Bullshitting seems the best word to describe it but even then intent can be assumed when there isn't any.
I guess the idea wouldn't be to compete with AWS but just explore potential other revenue streams for Tesla owners. Clearly there will be limitations in terms of what can be done with such computer.
> It is a giant pain in the ass but you have to spend the time sitting in front of the screen going through the data and removing things and tagging things and making sure that the details are right. This is really what makes the good models good and the rest mediocre.

In some other comment I read this. Sounds very much like a curation thing. And now I'm wondering; isn't this part already covered by a lot of human beings now interacting with ChatGPT and the like?

My uneducated guess is that a company can scrape the whole world wide web and also have all the low quality content that comes with it, but then strengthen/curate their data and/or model by having it interact with humans? You give this thing a prompt, it comes up with some obvious nonsense, and then you as a human correct this by 'chatting' with it?
Why is that fascinating? This is the case for every language! Every language is deeply intertwined with the culture that created that language, and every language changes over time as the culture that uses it changes.
But peace and stability is good for making money.
Off-topic:
I am immensely happy with latest google update, because now if I search for something that is too obscure, google simply shows me an empty page with no results found, which tells me that I need to refine my search query. Previously, if such thing happened, I'd get a list of spam sites which does not include the query at all, or simply uses the query somewhere not visible on the page.
I loved this game as a kid - it gave you a rare sense of freedom - movement within an expansive space, and that joy of throwing things in gravity-defined arcs, rather than locking you into grids, straight lines, or constrained single-screen levels. Never knew there was a 'fly home' key though.

Chopper Commando was (for me) a spiritual followup, and I loved that game even more.
> Usually any given country will have one big spot for tech... ...My guess is that Melbourne is not a very good spot.

It's not an unreasonable assumption, but in this case it's incorrect. Sydney has more tech work, but only in proportion to its larger size.

That said, Melbourne tech work is very heavily (but not exclusively) orientated around finance, insurance, real estate and so on which is not everyone's cup of tea.
This is 100% not why I am sad, see my other reply for information.

As an aside, it's wild how people put their own spin onto what I said.

Obviously I should have been clearer :shrug:.
> Obviously our environment influences us, but we are largely a product of ourselves

Even a brief look out your window will convince you this cannot possibly be true.

How many people have a different religion than their parents? How many Christians from Iowa have kids that decide they're actually Hindu? Just about zero.

Can you tell where someone is from based on how they dress? Heck yes. If they were making up their mind on their own you couldn't.

The likelihood you'll go into the military is far higher if other people in your family are in the military. 1% of Americans serve at all. But 60% of people who serve have an immediate family member (parent or sibling) who serves.

We could go on endlessly.

The idea that we're largely a product of ourselves is absurd. How many top physics were born in Eastern Europe be Africa? Do people in Africa genetically hate physics? No. But you're largely a product of your environment.
They will pay a fine, which will a miniscule percentage of the profit they got from the work they did regarding OxyContin, nobody will be fired never mind go to prison.

I would be absolutely shocked, if anything other than that happens.
Vault's client-based pricing was (is) the worst thing about selling it. When I was there, nobody in sales liked it except the SEs and account reps dealing with the largest customers (and those customers loved it because it actually saved them a substantial amount of money over other vendors' models like per-use or per-secret). All the customers except those very largest ones hated it. The repeated response from those who believed in the client-based pricing model, to those of us pointing out the issues with it, was essentially "if your customers don't like it, they must not understand it because you aren't doing a good enough job explaining it".

What I thought we really needed was a "starter/enterprise" dual-model pricing structure, so that smaller customers could get pricing in some unit they could understand and budget for, that would naturally and predictably grow as they grew, to a point where it would actually be beneficial to them to switch to client-based pricing -- but there seemed to be a general reluctance to have anything but a single pricing model for any of our products.
Let's be critical here:
We should differenciate between spying(passive) and misinformation/manipulation(active)

Mentioning propaganda you choose the latter.

Pray tell what are those campaigns you talk about? If you are posing this question you must have at least some in mind and ready at hand to share.
EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down
So true. I remember those days very fondly. There was a real community of listeners back then. Within that circle you shared albums and playlists, commented on and discussed them.

Plus, it had a persistant queue that could handle single songs as well as albums and playlists as individual items which could be moved freely. Everything I was interested in was added to the queue and I could be certain it'd still be there tomorrow. Sort of like a musical backlog.
The problem with that is ChatGPT has some safety constraints. McKinsey is scum of the earth and has no morals or ethics.
That service is being provided by “AI” now. “It was't us, the AI made that decision!”
Yes, and it's what people seem to ignore when they talk about dethroning GPT4 as the top LLM. It's good data expressly developed for training the behaviors they want that keeps them ahead, all the other stuff (other training and filtering web data) has much less of an impact.

See also "You won't train a better model from your desk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155715
"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country"

For a lot of US history you could get land for free. It wasn't a matter of buying it.
Naltrexone when prescribed by the ordinary method in the USA does not seem to tackle the desire to drink as well. However, The Sinclair Method does exactly that. It is AA with a questionable history of success and provides no real way to stop the cravings. You've got 20 year vets of AA sitting around telling stories of the glory days. I don't think about alcohol at all. In fact, I am allowed to drink, but I find it quite unpleasant. I was deconditioned through The Sinclair Method.
This gets to some of the difference between human intelligence and LLM training. The machine remembers everything verbatim (plus a vector representation). Most people have faulty memory but somehow make a deeper encoding of the impact a book or life experience had. Agree there is some analogy between vector encoding vs the mind’s representation — but it’s a loose analogy. LLMs and search etc are useful tools for sure - but definitely don’t have anything like human level deeper (yet faulty) intelligence. Sorry if I’m stating the obvious… cheers
The thing is, many things in X11 are "hardcoded" to the protocol.

For example, there is only one coordinate space in the X11 world. This meant that 1 pixel is always N "real" pixels (typically N=1).

But nowadays we have this thing called HiDPI, where 1 pixel can mean 1.5 real pixels on one screen (150% scaling), 2 real pixels on the second (200% scaling), and 1 real pixel on the third (100% scaling). We need mixed DPI and hence multiple coordinate systems, but you will break existing X11 programs if you tried to add that to the protocol, and at this point if you force your way through the problem it'll just be Wayland.

Existing X11-compatible systems "fix" this by:

1. assuming N=scale factor, thus upscaling all programs. Everything becomes a blurry mess (see XWayland).

2. assuming N=1, and let the programs upscale themselves. The problem is older apps (e.g. GTK2) don't understand HiDPI and you get a GUI for ants.
Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_license

How do you live being like this?
Companies are amoral, they literally can't be otherwise.

I'm not sure where that puts humans in an effort to defend ourselves. We must be moral, we are judged harshly otherwise.

A company uses psychology tricks against its customers(aka Ads/Marketing) making them feel status insecure or a group outsider, totally fine. Actually, those blue bubbles were a great idea, I made sooo much money on stocks. Really feel bad for teenagers though.

Boeing can replace their management and the company continues. These big companies are applauded for being amoral because their stock prices go up.

At the end of the day it seems there is some power sharing agreement between government, corporations, and to a significantly lesser extent workers/consumers. We only judge that latter group on morals.

Maybe we need to collectivize like the Physician Cartel does (American Medical Association), then workers/consumers can collectively be amoral.
The European legislation is also something of a joke. Most of the time the airlines just ignore them unless you sue. I recently won a case against American Airlines for a canceled flight, but it took two years, and lawyers ate half of the money. Just a couple weeks ago KLM canceled my flight and bumped me to Delta, who also canceled my flight, but then washed themselves of liability because Delta isn't an EU carrier (and the flight originated outside of the EU).
The same amount of interaction as in Monopoly
Heh, I guess I’m a stickler for the textbook. Always have been hahaha :)
I don’t get this: “What that means is not only that they learn what it means to be a dog or a cat, …“

We don’t have any dataset of dog or cat experience right? OP probably means that he models learns wat a dog or cat is, right?

I find the whole piece somewhat vague btw. No real insights if you ask me. Sure if all you put in is a dataset, that should be all you get out. What’s surprising (worth HN) here?
Looks like a promising product when starting out cold calling.
Galen Strawson has a good line about the "pizza theory of consciousness". Pizza theorists accept that consciousness is real but believe that it is pizza. Technically, this is not an eliminativist theory: pizza exists. But it is so manifestly obvious that pizza has none of the properties that we typically associate with consciousness that the theory is merely eliminativism in disguise. Perhaps those of us who reject the pizza theory simply lack the imagination to understand it. Or maybe the pizza theory is just obviously wrong.

>No, they don't.

I could have written that sentence more clearly, but I just meant to say that people will assume such objects to obey the typical regularities and constraints exhibited by physical objects (and not expect them to have weird ghostly properties). Which you seem to agree with.
Everyone seems to have forgotten about Gemma
With Llama 3 & Phi-3 just being released and achieving incredible benchmark results it makes sense.

However, Deepmind is doing some really cool experiments with different architectures. Recently they have applied the Griffin architecture to Gemma:
- Griffin combines gated linear recurrences with local attention to optimize performance on long sequences.
- This achieves comparable results to larger models with far fewer training tokens.
- During inference, Griffin provides MUCH higher throughput compared to Transformer based models
Once upon a time, it was considered a major flex to have aluminium "silverware". Now that we make throw-away takeout containers from the stuff, it's no longer true.

Compare tulips, pineapples, bling, computers, air travel, plastic surgery...

(in the 1953 Casino Royale, James Bond went all the way across the Channel, to exotic northern france)
That doesn’t necessarily make it free from trademark or copyright issues. Examples: “Apple” (https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/guidelines..., https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...), “Windows” (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/t..., https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW...)
Really awesome project. I want to get into FPGAs, but honestly it's even hard to grasp where to start and the whole field feels very intimidating.
My eventual goal would be to create acceleration card for LLMs (completely arbitrary), so a lot of same bits and pieces as in this project, probably except for memory offloading part to load bigger models.
That fork came out of IBM. With this purchase, there's a good chance it recombines with Vault.
Well, both can be true if you interpret the "it" as "the secret sauce / competitive advantage". A good architecture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success, but everybody uses more or less the same currently, so data makes the difference. Until the next improvement in architecture.
A few things. I got diagnosed with osteoarthritis about a year ago, not long after I'd started weightlifting in an attempt to improve my confidence and wellbeing, and it was working. The doctor I saw before the diagnosis was a patronising asshole who made me feel like an idiot for weightlifting. The doctor who gave me the diagnosis did so via SMS with the corresponding level of empathy and interest.

I live in the United Kingdom and there's a very palpable sense that quality of life has nosedived over the past few years.

My comment was quite flippant. My life isn't that bad, especially compared to a lot of people, and I don't go around feeling sorry for myself, but I'm definitely not hopeful or excited about the future, and I've developed a degree of contempt for, and distrust of, people that is probably unfair, unattractive, and isn't very pleasant to feel.
Very useful info. Thank you!
EDIT: This is also why candidates should spend as little time as possible when applying for jobs, omitting cover letters and refusing to fill huge forms. The legit job poster companies should understand this and stop requiring cover letters and so on.
The submission you linked to is 7 months old, but the NixOS drama is ongoing:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsor...

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leav...

https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721
Well a lot of agencies do that out of the box because secure by design is not believed. Trust but verify. You see that when intelligence agents talk about cooperation between partners. So in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't really change things.

The one thing it would change though is that it would make the life a bit harder for cyber criminals(think downgrading tls connections).

And the criteria you talked about, they are open. Called capitalism, and regulations those companies operate under. Along the way that abomination of surveillance capitalism was born though.
I agree. I find x11 far better and easier than Wayland for my workflow. I3 works nicer for me than sway.
When will free LLMs become ad-monetized?
These days, most free services aimed at the general public end up being funded by advertising.
I've seen ads for crypto sites with some local code completion models, but it's still marginal.
Do you see any elements that point in this direction, or do you think things will evolve that way?
I recently had the opportunity to visit my alma mater after many years away and realized the professors are now the age I thought they were almost two decades ago when I was their student. It was wild to realize just how skewed my sense of age had been! Not only did I apparently think people in their 50s were "old," but I actually thought they must have been in their 70s!
I use llama for anything that falls under an NDA clause, e.g. data by which the client could be identified. Like asking it analyze existing code/algorithms, to document functions or parse data is done only locally.

if the local model got stuck I try to abstract the problem and present gpt with the general case (e.g. given 2 columns A,B, find... )
I remember playing this on my father's 8086 and later 286 machines as a kid. I believe this is the first time I've thought of or seen the game in over 30 years. Nice :)
FastText Repo Archived
The official fastText repo was archived on March 19th. There doesn't seem to have been any official statement on it.
> Edit; Looks like this all went down 8 months ago:

It is still going on:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsor...

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leav...

https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721
Maybe we should consider starting over again in that case. Wayland increasingly appears to be supported by a sunk cost fallacy itself - the A11Y issues are not fixable in the base architecture, which means that every Wayland DM implementation needs to implement them again, which in turn means lots of different APIs, incompatibilities and so on.
This I did not expect:

> I learned to write the English I have written by taking three years of Latin, in the putatively desolate educational backwater of Jacksonville, Florida, ending in the tenth grade translating The Aeneid. I was in homeroom sitting with Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I agree investigation is worthwhile. As an adult, being aware of techniques like fake sense of urgency or scarcity, playing on your maslow needs for belonging and self-actualisation etc are things you should be aware, to develop a better sense of "smell" for bullshit.

I don't think any of this is new though, I'm pretty sure the local Roman seller of beads and nice dresses did the same things to their customers on the posters they put on buildings and the cries they shouted in the square, or olive oil salespeople using gladiators to have spectators buy that specific kind of olive oil. You can look these examples up because they are real.

The technology and mediums change, but human emotions and our reactions to them change on a scale of many more years than only a few thousands.
Nothing bad happen to you in your life?

Just curious.

I had a similar take on life until I had a dose of Reality hit. Now, I have mere Nietzche Will To Power-style guidance pushing me forward. Life was prettier as a Idealist Stoic.
the official announcement: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v22-release-announc...
The funny thing about this is that they don’t use it in trello
My great-grandparents got married at 14 and 18 and supported themselves. This would have been the 1920s, but nothing was apparently scandalous about their ages. The only scandal was that she was Scotch-Irish and he was Italian!
I have the "honor" of getting to use IBM $PRODUCT at $COMPANY.

- it uses some form of consensus algorithm between all nodes that somehow manages to randomly get the whole cluster into a non working state by simply existing, requiring manual reboots

- Patches randomly introduce new features, often times with breaking changes to current behaviour

- Patches tend to break random different things and even the patches for those patches often don't work

- For some reason the process how to apply updates randomly changes between every couple of patches, making automation all but impossible

- the support doesn't know how $PRODUCT works, which leads to us explaining to them how it actually does things

- It is ridiculously expensive, both in hardware and licensing costs

All of this has been going on for years without any signs of improvement for now, to the point that $COMPANY now avoids IBM if at all possible
Did he actually say or imply there would be a revenue stream here for "owners"?
I totally lack the patience to be able to deal with sending a command and having to wait 2 days to see the result. Everything about this is awe-inspiring for me.
> If you accept the fact that, like in addictions, your brain chemistry makes you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol even when you know you’ll die from it and know it makes you miserable then how can you be convinced that you really control your normal behaviors ?

Your brain chemistry is part of this will, though.

> science now knows that changing behavior is hard

I don't think science knows things. And while changing behaviour is hard, and much harder for some than others, it still doesn't mean that the total system that makes up your mind, including biological predispositions, is not your will.
The world needs more apps along the lines of this.

Job well done, mate!
This is as funny as the interview.
What about delayed flights? My international Lufthansa flight arrived late enough to make me miss my next flight (Air Canada - who then compensated me with a $300 voucher and meal coupon).
Have you ever worked on a project when after several years it became clear that the initial assumptions were wrong and the current design is untenable? Like, users asking for simple features that you know could be implemented in just a few lines of code had the design been done differently but now require many weeks of months of clunky hacks? Because I did and in some cases the initial decisions were mine - I had to admit I was wrong and do what is logical to make it easier for both developers and users.
You don't need to be moral to not drive your business into the ground.

To me the whole Boeing debacle is just hilarious to watch from the outside. Like watching a known drug addict to pretend he's not and then pretend he's quitting. Then pretending everyone else is also on drugs because that's literally the only possible order of things.
> an idea that also just appears in consciousness that is, for inexplicable reasons, more compelling than other ideas at the time so that is the choice that your brain reasons to follow

This seems to be an idiosyncratic definition of free will.
It's just ChatGPT copy-pasta, they didn't even care for the typo in the headline, the meaningless words running into each other, or to keep paragraphs separate. Spam.
Weak argument for something everyone already knew. Nice you work at openAI, I guess.
Go is exactly how one should not do it, hardcoding SCM URLs on source code, only allowing for source code distribution, and forcing everyone else to jump through hoops to make it work otherwise.
Radio Paradise is really excellent, I think the name is kinda off-putting to people looking for good music though.
For starters, I don’t think America will hold Canadians hostage to be used as bargaining chips, like China did with the two Michaels.
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow. (2022)