skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theoretically, HMMs are "models of the world" and transformers are approximations of HMMs in the "forward" algorithm.

Something seems sus about how the linear projection ended up exactly in the same shape as their prediction. Also that their projection seems to stay in the same shape throughout training. Typically, projections look like they "spin around" as they move from a random point cloud to the separated shapes, but I have not done experiments on transformers and it's unclear what they mean by projection.
It is for APL/k/j; you see patterns popping up in very dense code which does a lot, which does make it readable really once used to it. But most people never get to that point (or even ever look at APL of course).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

This has been going on since the mid '60s. Last time the hype-cycle bust took with it the entirety of Lisp, which technology is gonna be killed this time around?
Gold was struck, it is just already in the hands of the capitalists. More automation, and no commensurate pay rise for the workers still employed.
It’s interesting that the last few hypes have been all about trust (NFTs, AI)

Don’t know if that is accidental or the trajectory we are on.
I followed that news story at the time. There was plenty of speculation in the media, but the facts were laid out - there was a lab in the city, they were studying these types of viruses, that type of virus was also present in local wildlife that was traded.

Then it became clear that the Chinese govt wasn't going to investigate or admit if it was a leak, accidental or not. At which point I file as we'll never know + who cares at this point.

And then after that it blew up as a political football in the US. It's not fake news, it's just pointless opinions.

Fake news is saying it was a lab leak, or it wasn't a lab leak. Neither is a true statement. Both are polarising and ill informed positions.

In any case, I don't disagree with your premise that we can be manipulated quite easily.
Someone can, but right now Nvidia's P/E ratio is through the roof. If there's an AI downturn new investors today will lose money.
1. CA already has progressive taxation.

2. The “income-graduated fixed charge” is not taxation - it is paid to a corporation, not a government entity.
With the top scientists leaving OpenAI, it looks like we've reached a point where "AI" will be seeing how much juice OpenAI can get out of Nvidia cards: I suspect it'll get more accurate without us seeing the huge leaps we've seen this past year or so.
Water batteries: Pressurized water stores energy deep underground
haven't you ever written code with single letter variable names and it makes sense to you? and then been forced to read somebody else's code with single character variable names and found it completely inscrutable? this is just that on (a lot of) steroids
It’s fun to reinvent the wheel but I promise you all WordPress agencies have solved this already. For example look at VVV.
Datadog grew revenue 25% from last year. So im not sure your narrative is true?
If that is the case then like anything else let’s make it, well… good. And that includes
making it safe, secure and privacy focused.

A good delineation is your work PC will be spied on (assume anyone in the org can see what you are doing, even before this tech).

Opting out of it on personal devices is fine. You wont look like an idiot or be refused work I am sure.
We provide everyone with way too many hard to use tools, just because we don't want to stop the problem at the source.

A normal adult needs to use to many tools and chase so many different types of education by themselves, off the top of my mind: financial, real estate, health, technology, purchasing habits, utilities providers, news and misinformation, nutrition, commonly applied scams.

Maybe we should just make taking advantage of people illegal, and prosecute those that do it.
It's a shame Tom Scott is on a hiatus
I've driven a bz4x. It's actually not that bad. It's a decent city car and drives and feels like any other Toyota.

The financing is really competitive too (100-200/mo lease) and the underlying platform was co-developed with BYD.

I'd have considered it if it was eligible for federal tax credits, which it won't be for at least a year.

A lot of the bz4x hate seems to come from a subset of Redditor EV enthusiasts who treat their brand of EV as if it's a defining identity, instead of as a tool to take you from point A to point B.

> Toyota needs to get off their haunches and release something actually competitive

Toyota (like other Japanese companies) is dependent on Japanese government largesse, and METI has stated that Hydrogen Fuel Cell research and Solid State Battery research are Japan's priorities from a energy independence standpoint (they don't own the underlying IP for Li-ion batteries and the entire lithium processing supply chain is still in China, and the SSBs Toyota and Idemetsu are researching use significantly less lithium).

This is reflected in Toyota's research priorities as well, but it looks like they've made some massive breakthroughs in sulfide SSBs that are in the process of being rolled out globally [0][1] (the expanded Toyota battery factory in the North Carolina will be building this battery).

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-12/toyota-id...
We’re currently struggling with switching from RDS to aurora. The replica times are absolutely bonkers long for the simplest of writes.
not surprising, I've been collecting for a while. I think Brain and Food absolutely is connected. Added the article to the list.

https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum/blob/ma...
I tried that, nothing helped. I even registered the domain with google and added their verification to my DNS records
Or maybe it has been priced in and its value was determined to be 0?
eat as much fat as you want, just leave out the carbs and sugar
Banks that didn't have FOMO in the run up to 2008 didn't end up in bankrupt from it. Investing from a place of fomo is a bad sign.
"The company’s recent demo of its voice-powered features led to a 22% one-day jump in mobile subscriptions, according to analytics firm Appfigures."

That's an interesting figure, especially given that most of the exciting features in that demo (video analysis, the new voice input/output, improved image generation) are actually available to paying users yet.
What do you mean?

Tech companies dipped in early 2020 for a short time, but rebounded already before GPT-3 came out.

And then - if anything - the freshly printed money and the increased demand in technology made the valuations of tech companies go up.
> How to connect the dots to get to a place that feels good, I do not know

With an eraser, entirely not interested.

I'm willing to make the bet on this FOMO that while people risk this, I'll still be just as employable by living like it's 1999

I provide the value, not what I did before
Of course it's an opinion column. But how is it masquerading as news? All opinion columns have a central thesis that is supported by facts. This is a thesis about the current state and future of AI. Like any opinion piece, the author chooses facts that support the thesis.
Nice article (paper?).

I was aware of JP crutchfield work on statistics for complexity theory for a while now but never thought of making a connection to deep learning even though his framework is generic enough to apply to any predictor.

The question though, which is mentioned as a next step. is how would you go around modeling the data generating process of the "the real world" or of the training datasets of current models even older ones like gpt2 ?

I have a guess that meta-process state-space size is going to increase exponentially making this unusable.

The good news is that computational mechanics is a treasure trove so there's room for a lot of papers to explore this subject applied to deep learning especially and I'm excited about the intersection with the work we've recently seen about mechanistic interpretability.
The PR is for shareholders, not the peasants.
The only thing I would add here is that I think authoritarianism is more about people than it is about laws. For instance, the so-called 'Stalin's Constitution' guaranteed freedom of speech. But when political bodies begin to toss aside adherence to any sort of normalcy in law and law enforcement, then laws become mostly irrelevant relics of a past time.

Obviously I'm referencing the giant orange elephant in the room here, but we can take far less divisive issues as well. For instance there's 0 chance the Founding Fathers would have felt that the current systems of mass surveillance ought be allowed under the 4th amendment. Yet here we are. It's not really laws that have been creeping further and further beyond the pale, but actions. And those actions grow only more extreme by the day. This is why, to me, I think we may have already crossed whatever 'border' there is into authoritarianism.
Mind highlight differences/advantages over Dokku?

> An open source PAAS alternative to Heroku.
> Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.

Good luck with your project!
Let's see - with 500 starships that's 200 launches each, so it will take what, one year, perhaps two?
Most people are dumb.
hindsight is easy, just pick the winners. on top of the ones you mentioned, there's also ATI, Matrox, MCI, Worldcom
I must be completely missing a connection here. Why would automation ever be expected to also come with an increase in worker's pay?
| That's the problem with AI: you can't trust the output.

Look at how quickly after diffusion models released that "looks like AI" became an insult.

An LLM that accelerates the work of a domain expert makes sense to me. A team of post-doc infectious disease researchers using an LLM continuously trained on up-to-date medical research papers and prompted as a sort of digital Watson to their collective Sherlock works because all humans involved are highly trained to filter out the nonsense, the hallucinations, the bullshit. And the LLM doesn't have to be crafted to be obsequious and PR friendly.

But there aren't enough high-level domain experts like that to build a unicorn on. So instead, everyone decided to take these LLMs and push them on the general public. And you might think I'm going to say the general public isn't capable of learning the domain enough to separate the wheat from the chaff, but it's more that they're not willing to. And general purpose startups are building user interfaces where they either expect them to (best case scenario) or pretending they won't have to (worst case and much more common scenario).

Unless that UX problem is solved, there are going to be some very unhappy consumers going forward.
One of the fun things about these messes is that sometimes you think you're unaffected, but then it turns out the company bought one of the companies you actually did sign up with, and all of a sudden you're a part of a database you never signed up for.

Had that happen a few times with my +company@gmail filters that went on to reveal the trail of acquisition breadcrumbs.
Why did I think you were leading the Apex product team?
> "How do we stop people from sharing (what I deem to be) fake news?" is the wrong question. The right question is "How do we give people the tools to identify fake news?" If you give people the tools and they still spread what you deem to be fake news, then you've done what you can. Tough cookies for you.

When you teach people to recognise fake news they will be able to recognise your fake news. What you want is to cut people from enemy fake news (or truth, they are enemy, it doesn't matter) so they will believe everything you say while enemy can't influence them.
To generalise, the difference is in verification time / amortised time. If finding the real answer would take me an hour, but I can check a proposed answer in 5sec, I'm going to try at least 20 of the 90% answers before starting the work myself. On the other extreme, if verification would require finding the same original sources that contain the actual answer, then there's no point trying even the 99.9% correct answers.
Interesting. Where can I look at the source code? Is this written in Hare?
GenAI for audio and video will be huge. It continues to improve week by week.

GenAI for text and intelligence has hit a wall.
Why screenshot instead of just enter url of site to copy? I think that would be easier since most likely the screenshot is just of a site.
Good, we need more phevs even if its just to bridge the gap to full electric. Its too bad its a Chinese company but honestly its simply agrivating getting a phev in aus right now. Im trading in my 2004 petrol car and every dealership trys to get me on a "hybrid" that doesnt plug in. Its been an infuriating time.
Thanks for that. It's late here. I'll go to sleep now.
In the Marquesas and Tuamotus, you don't see a lot of 4G reception, no matter what Vini's pretty map claims.

Re: Sunny - there's quite a bit of cloud cover and other devices onboard like the water maker and fridge (more important than Starlink!) also need a lot of power.
I think the usual security objection is that if the NAT router receives a packet from the outside, with its destination set to a local address, the router will just let it through, in the absence of a firewall.

But as far as I can tell, that's only relevant for an attacker who can MITM the connection between the local router and the next ISP router, since clearly the ISP wouldn't know who to forward the local address to. I'd think it isn't within the threat model of the "typical internet user" who'd be running such a poorly-configured network.
I'm well aware that Western media aren't necessarily reporting the ground truth about that war. But it's an interesting one in that there's so much camera footage, mostly from Ukrainians, but also from Russian soldiers with smartphones. So, while current events are always skewed in reporting, osint has been able to piece together a more accurate picture afterwards.
> Remember when it was impossible to talk about the lab leak theory without being labeled? Eventually mainstream media came around, but they did a lot of damage to their credibility.

…but they didn’t. The lab leak theory is still mostly the realm of conspiracy theorists, and is (rightly, imo) treated as such. I’ve seen stories reporting on efforts investigating the lab leak hypothesis, but they’re always about how the study turned up nothing and thus the best evidence continues to point at direct animal -> human transmission.

Occasionally conspiracy theories do turn out to be true, but that’s vanishingly rare next to the number of them which turn out to be false.

> At this point I just don’t trust anything. It’s fortunate to be of a scientific mindset, since you can make up your own mind with some confidence that you’re not crazy. That doesn’t really work for most people, which seems like the main problem you touch on.

Be very careful about this. It’s crucial to think critically and evaluate sources. However, if there’s a theory among domain experts (like epidemiologists or climatologists) which is overwhelmingly believed (Covid didn’t come from a lab) and you believe something which has the reputation of being a conspiracy theory, the odds of you being right don’t look good. Your odds get worse the longer the prevailing theory has been accepted, as in the intervening time the people in the minority will have been searching for convincing support.
People don't know that. I was talking with a friend yesterday that subscribed to ChatGPT and she didn't know the newest model is available for free.

If you haven't read carefully the release announcement it hasn't been communicated clearly.
Not for all cases, but he (and his team) take the time to squeeze performance out of things where others just say 'it's fast enough'. There was a monh+ long conversation why all most used json parsers are so terribly slow etc. Not many people take the time to try to optimise the last drop of blood out of everything, especially if you have shareholders or deadlines; you settle for 'good enough'.
> Re-introduce wealth requirement since people who are able to accumulate wealth tend to see the world as it is.

… Ever met any rich people? There are some seriously confused rich people out there, let me tell you.
Will include AI to make it more safe.
I've been using XP for many years and have no complaints about viruses. Moreover, viruses are not created now, but only trojans. and trojans do not get along on old systems; 32 bits is not enough for them to get around))).
seriously, modern malware is always for modern hardware, modern tricks on how to deceive the user, and how to get something out of him. what can you take from the user's xp? Nothing! ))
i use EEEPC 701 with XP sp3 and i have no problems with it
Would you trust community Notes on Truth Social?

They aren't a tool to identify fake news just an additional information layer which you either trust or xou don't.

>If your tools are poor, make better tools

If you are a bad painter buy better brushes.

You solution doesn't give the people the tools you still have just a source which claims to show what's true.

The real tool is the user himself using his brain.
But that's hard to achive.
This is such an important point.

Finance world looks at the consumer benefit as an interesting feature of the investment opportunity, while the technology world looks at the investment opportunity as an interesting feature of the technology change and consumer benefit.

The two communities will talk right past each other like they’re speaking different languages.
Militaries move really slow when it comes to adopting entirely new tech, at least in open warfare.

We likely won't see much from them until we suddenly have fighter jets flown by AI in the battlefield and autonomous systems handling at least a portion of the weapons targeting process.
Are you sure it isn't? Can you categorically say that (for instance) the current anti/pro-palestinian discourse is not fueled by armies of AI bots? How about Russia/Ukraine? If they were easy to spot then they wouldn't be good bots, would they?

At a less subtle level, AI is deciding right now whose apartments should be bombed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
From the first glance it doesn't look convincingly better than a generic and manually polished nginx configuration. Are there any other benefits to Caddy?
DMV varies quite a bit state by state. Where I live it’s quick and easy, but in some places you go early in the morning, and you should probably pack a lunch.
Commercial usage of content and all that jazz.
Right, but haven’t we been saying some version of this for 3 years now? When the yield curve inverted.

Starting to think there won’t be any big broad recession similar to 2007, but more of a rolling one bouncing from sector to sector. Which is kind of how it should be.

In some ways I think tech is reaching the end of its recession. Where it goes next will be interesting.
> if you can’t read the code you Shldnt be working on it

I don't know this AW guy, but to me that's a huge red flag and a sign that a programmer hasn't worked on anything substantial. Ie non-trivial stuff that's maintained by a team over time.

Being able to read the code is irrelevant, as the comments should tell you why the code is doing what it's doing.

For example, yeah I trivially can see the code is doing a retry loop trying to create a file with the same name.

That looks like a bug, if you can't create the file with that name, you change the name in the retry loop.

But the comment will tell me this is due to certain virus scanners doing dumb stuff, so we might have to try the same name a few times.

Sure, good code will have few comments as most of it should be self-documenting through good structure and names of classes and variables. But in non-trivial code there will always be places where it is not obvious why the code does what it does.
The list of countries not allowed to buy the game [0] is longer than the US sanctions list.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1csgabv/map_of_...
The same models can curate your feeds of what you don't want to see. This could be a fix for the problem - you can't actually remove unwanted content from the network, but you can hide it like ad blockers. I think we need local AI to de-garbage our internet interactions from now on.

Who decides what should be hidden? You can do it yourself, or align with some trusted source, the same way we subscribe to ad blocking feeds. Yes, there is a risk of a bubble, but you have the tools to avoid it, LLMs are very flexible in how they get prompted.

This only saves you from having to endure the garbage, but if you're actually interested in stopping others from seeing it, no help. I think that's a social problem, not a technological one.
That doesn't seem fair. If you produced something and everyone watched it and disliked it... well a) why did they watch it then and b) they won't watch your next thing... Or they will because they disapprove but cannot help themselves. Either way, your content drove the traffic regardless.
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It hasn't launched yet for most people as far as i'm aware
I seem to recall reading articles like this in 1997 about the internet.

“What’s there to do really?” they asked. Whatever annoyance somebody had with the state of the early web was magnified into a portrait of decline.

It was only for nerds. Or maybe too shallow with ugly amateur content. Or too commercialized already. Or maybe it was never going to be a successful platform for business because nobody is crazy enough to put their credit card number in an online form. Etc.

These contradictory complaints were all present back in the day, but in retrospect there was so much room for both technical and social growth that they just seem quaint now.
I was one of the people who signed up for plus that day. It took me a while to realizing that the voice feature was not the same one being demoed. I think it was a bad move to roll it out like that.
Is there some application that demonstrates the utility of this language?

E.g. it's tempting to dismiss Haskell as something invented by mathematicians more concerned with the elegance of their abstractions than actually getting things done, but Pandoc is so undeniably good and useful that you're forced to admit Haskell can be a good choice. What's the Pandoc of K?
... and the WSJ signed a deal with OpenAI just a few weeks ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/22/o...
Garbage collection pauses might have something to do with that.
Wouldn't IPv6 firewalls configured for typical users (i.e., denying unrecognized incoming connections) pose a similar barrier to making direct connections reliably on the application level? Not every user will be willing or able to open a hole in their firewall for every shiny new application that wants one.
A family member is also on carnivore. After 6 months on the diet, they had their yearly checkup with their doctor, who had put them on blood pressure meds previously. The doc took the BP and announced that the meds were working really well, but then had to be told that the meds had been discontinued for 3 months because they weren't needed anymore. The doc had never had a patient get off of BP meds.

Note that carnivore is different than keto. Carnivore means no plants. It's an elimination diet. No plants means no alcohol, no sugar, no sweeteners, no grain, ....

Each person's needs and responses are different.