skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Most US citizens seem to agree something needs to be done there regardless of political lean? 74% according to NBC polling (surely not right wing crazy land) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172785-230343-nbc-...

Seems like a pretty easy win for a majority of voters. Militarization shouldn't be the only imho, but some kind of process needs to happen there. People paying coyotes and dying in the river and desert is wrong. People being stuffed in cages and treated poorly is wrong. Letting everyone in unchecked and unfettered is also wrong.
For anyone interested in exploring this, llama.cpp has an example implementation here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...
>But what puzzles me is why we have never followed up with any further experiments to try and detect life?

simples.

If life is definitively detected on Mars there will never be another mission to determine if life is present on Mars. So what clever scientists have figured out is that they need to do all the science that they want before checking for life.
Isn't that what Perseverance does?
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I thought most containers shared the same user, ie. `dockremap` in the case of docker.

I understand academia has lots of different accounts.
This is something we're (Sentry) not happy about. Always hard to maintain the simplicity with growing product functionality. There's efforts underway (e.g. https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/issues/1763) to reduce the footprint if you only need portions of the functionality.
I don't know how it is in Melbourne, but in the US, subways are significantly more expensive to build per-kilometer than in Europe.
GDPR on our side too, we need to reduce subcontractors as much as possible to handle all the requirements you listed. Also, we have to renegotiate with our own customers every time we want to had a new subcontractor, so we avoid doing so at all costs.

I like the prefect.io approach to have the control plane on the external provider, with the data and workers being run on the customer infrastructure. It seems fair for both sides:
- as the subcontractor, you keep trace of the real usage, without having to handle end user data which is a pain to manage, so you don't have to offer outrageous license pricing to compensate for being stolen (looking at you Grafana) .
- as the company, you comply with gdpr, while alleviate the operating costs, and also supporting the companies providing the tooling you need.
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I don't think we'll ever solve the problem of interviewing software engineers.

- Whiteboard coding tasks put a LOT of pressure on you to perform while being watched in a stressful high-stakes situation, which is a situation that the extreme majority of SWEs won't deal with, and many simply can't. They also tend to test for algorithms (inverting a binary tree, etc.), something that is unrelated to most actual jobs.

- Takehome assessments are unfair to those with a family that might not have the free time to do them, and if you're applying for multiple jobs, can easily become a full-time job on their own.

- Performing a 5+ round interview gauntlet is frustrating and absurd, and can make the hiring process take well over a month.
The Turso people didn't contact me. Actually, it was the other way around after I detected accidentally that they started to use my project _SQLite3 Multiple Ciphers_ within _libSQL_. In the end they didn't show interest in discussing anything with me. And up to now they definitely didn't consider to sponsor my project. However, I really don't care.
No no no

You don't say 'grandma can crack out the terminal'.

Thats completely unacceptable.
>Why does a position need to be political?

Mass surveillance involves giving the government, an inherently political entity, and its partners in the private sector increased power over public life. It's hard to get a more political issue than that.
Was an imposter app. Might be good to push out comms about this or work with an Apple rep. Nice work on the release!
> Indeed this is unsurprising given how LLMs work. I mean if you ask a human to generate a random number, and then reset the universe and all state of the human and ask again, you will get the same number.

It actually is surprising, and you should be surprised rather than post hoc justifying it, because the logits should reflect the true random probability and be calibrated in order to minimize the prediction loss. Putting ~100% weights on 'heads' is a terrible prediction!

And the LLM logits are in fact calibrated... before they go through RLHF and RLHF-derived dataset training. (Note that all of the models OP lists are either non-base tuned models like ChatGPT, or trained on data from such models, like Phi.) This was observed qualitatively when the 3.5 models were first released to the Playground, documented by the GPT-4 paper, and the 'flattened logits' phenomenon has been found many times since, not just by OP, and mostly by people totally ignorant of this phenomenon (despite being quite well known).

This is just one of those things, like BPE-related errors, that we're doomed to point out again and again in the Eternal September of LLMs.
> there are really important experiences behind it that we should know about

It was exactly what anyone with experience developing new automation might predict. The system seemed to do basically what it was designed to, and if we were ever about to rear-end someone it would likely have helped us do so less violently, but its false-positives were frequent enough and caused enough problems that I'm not convinced the driving experience was safer overall. It was certainly not less stressful!

One must continue watching the road, watching the other drivers, and trying to predict their behavior, as before - but one must also try to predict what the half-blind paranoid moron attached to one's brake pedal might do, so you can quickly react to its erratic spasms of deceleration and avoid causing a different sort of crash, after you find your car abruptly going somewhat the wrong direction or getting in someone else's way.

If I owned the car, perhaps, and had months to get acquainted with the robot's quirks, I might learn to anticipate its misunderstandings and compensate for them. In the rental I was driving, however, automatic braking was pure distraction.

Would the roads be safer if everyone used this technology? Well... there might be fewer rear-end collisions; but there would be more ambient chaos, vehicles abruptly braking for no apparent reason, leaving other drivers to react and compensate. The same quantity of danger, perhaps, only smeared out more broadly and thinly? Maybe that's a kind of an improvement, I suppose, but it does not seem like a better future so much as a messier one.
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It could very easily just be on consumer vehicles, not commercial ones
It's not the realities, but people's choices. One can live in rural area and limit driving to the absolute minimum necessary, and build a small house heated using renewables rather than a big house heated with fossil fuels. Similarly, lots of city people increase their carbon footprint through excess consumption and travel.

I guess ecological rural living may not be easy if you enjoy lots of social activities. For an introvert like me it wouldn't be a problem.
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A human brain can't be perfectly reset, the way an AI can.

I don't know if our decision making processes are deterministic or quantum-random. If the former, then if you could reset a human mind and ask the same question, you would necessarily always get the same answer, whatever that happened to be.
The problem isn’t code size for unused cyphers. The very first part of any SSH or TLS handshake is agreeing to what cypher suit to communicate on.

The problem is purely the computational overhead of the encryption itself. This is why modern CPUs have instructions to offload some of that overhead to hardware.

You can think of this as the same kind of problem of MPEG encoding and decoding in software vs hardware. The difference in performance is massive. Then try to do that on a 40 year old 16 bit CPU with virtually no cache and only 1 MB of RAM to play with
Totally agree. Microsoft's "humble" evolution is so nice to see.
You've elucidated very clearly an issue that I've been thinking about since the very first time I saw gaussian splats. The best idea I've had (besides "AI magic") is something like pre-calculating at least two different lighting states, e.g. door open and door closed, or midday and evening, and then blending between them.

Do you know if anyone has tried this? Or otherwise, what're the best current attempts at solving it?
Obviously, any country can have an unethical legal system relative to another country's ethics. That is just another flimsy foundation for colonialism. On the other hand, give me a single example of a country whose legal system is unethical according to its own standards. And thanks for telling me to educate myself - valuable advice, that.
There have been lots of empty homes for a while now, so no, any 1 year drop in homelessness rate is unrelated. But the absolute number being low could be.
Apparently yes now: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029932/waymo-driverless-...
1. A new architecture would make all/most of these upcoming Transformer accelerators obsolete => back to GPUs.

There's no guarantee that that is what would happen. The right (or wrong, depending on your POV) algorithmic breakthrough might make GPU's obsolete for AI, by making CPU's (or analog computing units, or DSP's, or "other") the preferred platform to run AI.
If a company sends me a take-home, they aren't getting it back any less than 24 hours later. I prefer if I can open it, read it and then come back to it later.

I hate it when I have to immediately open it and finish it, like a timed coding test, although I don't bother with those because I don't think I've ever passed one...
Llamaindex docs are absolutely terrible IMO. I have gone through it so many times but still do not understand the terms and organization. Router for querying router query engine?
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It is political in so much that it is something that should be decided by the people voting and case law. Lets be honest, thats not what I meant though and you should see that. Both sides are unfortunately polarized in their commentary as exampled by the poster I replied to. Instead of it being a discussion about privacy it devolved immediately into a go live somewhere else and throwing in a republican reference. Thats bringing in the wrong kind of politics into the conversation but lets ignore that. I identify with neither party and find it depressing when people are so polarized by either side, it becomes an immediate them vs us conversation.
interesting, this was a problem around the turn of the year for me but chatgpt has stopped doing it now
It can do estimates, but it can't do truly random probability.

Interesting.
There used to be only one weight tax (erm, registration fee). Now we have two weight classes, 3500lbs and 5000lbs.

Its an improvement, but why stop at two classes? Its nearly as bad as our previous law that was only at one weight class. Might as well follow the pattern at every 1500lbs up until no common vehicles are covered anymore. (6500lb and 8000lb are a natural extension of this new law).

Oh well, we can fix it in next year's debate, I guess?
Huawei alone has >5%, and definitely at least a fifth of that install base is on harmonyos 4 which runs on a unique microkernel.

So there's no way this is true. Google and Apple probably don't even control 95% circa Q1 2024.
re: changes coming from generative AI, it would need fluency in modules and other modern formulae. It would get that by being trained on modern conventions. So it's the same problem then, isn't it?
Which latest trends you mean?
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That's about 1GB per user. If you imagine them storing every interaction anyone has with the site-- every file upload, every page load, every mouse movement-- and throw in some duplication-- it's not completely impossible.
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Where no investment decisions are taken and EDF has publicly said they can’t self finance any new construction without direct state aid.

It is simply a ploy to hide military spending since the French army can’t fund the nuclear industry in their own.

> "Without civil nuclear power, no military nuclear power; and without military nuclear power, no civil nuclear power," the president had said, praising a sector that employs 220,000 people in France.

https://www.dw.com/en/do-frances-plans-for-small-nuclear-rea...*
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I enjoy chatting with Claude (opus) more, but still find GPT4 is better for coding.

I also frankly will not extensively use a model that I can't turn off data storage for.
And I won't until it lets me turn off my lights with my phone locked.
> Humans would say "Left" 100% of the time in a zero-shot scenario as well.

They do not! And you should not just make up assertions like these. You don't know what humans would say. In fact, in polls, they wind up remarkably calibrated. (This is also covered in the cognitive bias literature under 'probability matching'.) People do this poll on Twitter all the time.
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I never had one, but some of my fondest memories from childhood is me at the video store wondering if I would ever have a laserdisc player. Someday.
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1. Interestingly the foundations of this approach and MLP were invented / discovered around the same time about 66 years ago:

1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold_repr...

1958: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer_perceptron

2. Another advantage of this approach is that it has only one class of parameters (the coefficients of the local activation functions) as opposed to MLP which has three classes of parameters (weights, biases, and the globally uniform activation function).

3. Everybody is talking transformers. I want to see diffusion models with this approach.
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It's certainly a surprising enough construct that it sounds incorrect, which is the metric that matters most to most people.
Founder of new tech assessment company / mentioned in article here.

We're biased, but we think the old form of take-home assessments (+ classic Leetcode tests, etc) are completely broken. Beyond reasons you all mention - they're completely unreliable today in the age of ChatGPT, etc. Way too easy to cheat.

We're seeing candidates copy takehome instructions into an LLM, paste the solution and submit in <5 minutes. It's hard to write a problem that's (1) low enough scope to solve in a short time, but (2) hard enough that LLMs can't step towards sovling it.

At Ropes - we're using LLMs to evaluate how candidates code, not just the final solution. So HM's can step in and look at a timeline of actions taken to reach the solution, instead of just the final answer. How do candidates debug? What edge cases do they consider? Etc. We think these answers hold real signal and can be answered for the first time async.

We're trying to make this better for candidates too. E.g. (1) shorter assessments, (2) you can often use your own IDE, (3) you're not purely evaluated on test cases, etc. But we're not yet perfect. If this sounds interesting / you have strong thoughts I'd love to talk to you - email is in my bio.
> One can live in rural area and limit driving to the absolute minimum necessary, and build a small house heated using renewables rather than a big house heated with fossil fuels

You’re still consuming massive resources in transporting materials to a low-density location. Unless you’re living completely off the land, de-densifying is far more impactful. (Consider how much land alone would be converted from nature to human use by spreading out the populations of New York and Los Angeles.)