skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just passing the ball? Yeah, I'd consider that + using a throwaway to be a set of circumstances that don't merit a response at all. ;)

I've already made my points several times. If you don't engage on the concrete arguments and are trying to be vaguely argumentative without substance then you're kind of polluting the replies.

Here's what should be a food for thought for you.
Just ask chatgpt to explain its intelligence.
"The San Francisco public health department found two cases of H5N1 avian flu at a live poultry market and DNA traces in wastewater, but there are no signs of public exposure or illness. Two chickens at a live bird market in San Francisco tested positive for H5N1 avian flu last month, authorities announced Monday."

--Summary from Google
To know when to be skeptical to LLMs you have to know how it is trained and inferenced, and you have to use it often to see how it can screw up
This is a common claim.

But...

I haven't seen any credible claims of how Chinese was actually "westernized" aside of Chinese writers seemingly randomly pointing fingers and blaming European influence for a change of style initiated by the younger generation.

Even your example shouldn't convince anyone, since in English we don't say "do improvement", and generally English doesn't overuse "do <noun>" much.

I've read an attempt to connect the dots here: https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%E6%96%87%E6%91%98/article/2017...

Which was ridiculous if you read carefully, and I've gleefully written an article shredding it apart -- https://hnfong.github.io/public-crap/writings/2020/%E7%A9%B6...
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Cute! The signal processing folks have entered the room... :)
In a sense they are, because whatever European territorial changes happened after WW2 were supposed to be the last ever and to stand for all eternity, as stated in the Helsinki Accord of 1975.

Of course, this agreement has since been violated, notably by Russia.
How does the correlation of productivity vs income look for the last 50 years?
What's arbitrary isn't that languages are different from each other, what's arbitrary is where you draw the line. When you take two languages on opposite sides of the world they're unquestionably different languages. But as you transition slowly from one language to another, how many languages you spin off and which dialects fall under which languages is arbitrary.

> My understanding is that theres something called lexical similarity and if it’s over a certain percentage it’s a dialect.

Even if you tried to use a method like this to draw lines, it requires you to pick a "center" dialect that you compare all other prospective dialects/languages to. Which dialect you pick as your "center" dialect will determine which dialects end up under your umbrella language, and picking a different center would yield very different results. Which language you pick as your center is inherently a political question, one which would be settled by a sovereign state.

And aside from that problem, lexical similarity is not used to define languages. All it measures is how similar word sets are, and language variations are way more complicated than just vocabulary. No serious linguist would ever try to use a single metric like that to draw lines between languages (and again, most serious linguists aren't actually interested in drawing general-purpose lines because they understand that the lines are not real).
I don't understand the downvotes and you're changing the topic from deepfake AI porn (whether by individuals (schoolchildren, adults, revenge porn) or AI apps/ advertisers/ social media) to Elvis laws (prohibitions against unauthorized commercial use of AI voice/image/name, e.g. musician soundalike, as passed by Tennessee in 2024).

I'm not defending either cyberbullying or any particular set of laws (and the Australian one hasn't even had its wording published yet), I'm just pointing out each country or state will act(/not act) differently. For Australia, I wonder about their claim they had 2.7x as much deepfake-porn cyberbullying as other countries. (Is Australia using NGOs to drum up support for invasive govt powers which would be used more widely? Will govts worldwide use alarm about deepfake porn as a pretext for sweeping power grabs?)

>2% of TN's economy is music industry, so it's inevitable the state legislature will attempt to protect that from AI job loss as is clearly happening in other audiovisual industries; courts and time will tell.

> why is elvis impersonation "traditional" in a way that "dolly parton impersonation" is not?

I never said that was the case, I don't even know that that's specifically the case, but given you say it is, why do you think that is the case, and how is that related to this discussion? (Does it depend on how permissive/aggressive the rightsholder historically was on enforcing copyright? or else what?)
Anyway, Tennessee rushed out a law (which doesn't even go into effect until July 2024) which on the face of it is not intended to target (human) amateur tribute acts, but AI impersonation. Is it overkill, like some suggest the Australian proposed criminal law could turn out to be? Will it be unenforceable/ appealed/ overturned in the SC...? Will other music-industry states like FL, NY, GA pass similar legislation?

It's quite likely many countries' or states' AI-related legislation (or lack of) will be incoherent, this sector is changing too fast.
Same location, different dates, different invaders .. did you think these were identical events?

They are both part of the history of human occupation at that geographic site, let's remember that.
Well the Pentagon seems to think they will.

"The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China" - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-we...

"...But a swift response may not be possible, in large part because of how shrunken the U.S. manufacturing base has become since the Cold War. All of a sudden, Washington is reckoning with the fact that so many parts and pieces of munitions, planes, and ships it needs are being manufactured overseas, including in China. Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools, fuses and precursor elements to propellants and explosives, many of which are made in China and India..."

"Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed the Chinese military to be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027, Adm. John Aquilino, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said." - https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15243813
What you’re describing absolutely does not exist if you have any of the current religions.

what are current religions for you?
i do not want to promote a particular religion on this site, but there are options out there that you may not yet have considered.

i also believe that while peoples behavior reflects their religion, the religions do not control or limit anyones ability to examine things critically. if you are in a religious community that does that, i'd urge you to get out as soon as possible.

Look at the abortion debate

that kind of feels like moving the goalpost. just because there is one topic where a compromise is difficult, if not impossible, doesn't mean the whole idea of finding a solution that works for everyone is not possible.

i am not american, so i am observing the debate as it happens there only from the sidelines. one of the primary criticisms i see against the anti abortion crowd is that they don't consider helping parents with resources they need to raise the baby. where i come from this is mostly a solved problem, because parents, including single mothers, receive plenty of support to raise children.

but more importantly i have a problem with the major religions being obsessed with punishing people for breaking god's laws. as humans we need to concern ourselves with those crimes that actually cause problems in our society, and leave the punishment of breaking god's laws to god.

the compromise is to recognize the needs of the mother as well as that of the unborn child.
A modded iPod classic is hard to beat. Replace the HDD with a CF card (many of the SD and SATA adapter boards don't have support the drive's power saving features) and stick the biggest battery you can get in there. I've seen people get 100+ hours of playback from a modded iPod.
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I am not sure if you can use 1 photon per bit because (as I understand) emitting and capturing photons is a probabilistic process and when you have 1 photon, there is a probability that it will not be captured by an antenna, but rather will be reflected or will turn into heat. Or am I wrong here?
No, it's not as binary as you're making it. You can have a science-based estimate. Even though you don't have a rigorous, peer-reviewed study to prove it, it's still based on as much science as you can get your hands on.

But it's still an estimate, and saying "trust the science" as if the science was settled is going too far the other direction.

I don't have a problem with people doing the best they could with what they knew. I object, on one hand, to the claim of certainty, and on the other hand, to the rejection of best estimates as being purely unscientific.
I've been fluent in Japanese for over a decade and am about 6 months into studying Korean.

I understand the issues of Kanji vs no Kanji well. Korean successful ditched it, isn't painful to read, is far more accessible to read for beginners, and doesn't suffer from an extreme long-tail of ambiguous difficult readings like Japanese does.

With Japanese no matter how many vocab you learn, you hit new words like 仲人, think you know how to read it correctly, can never quite be sure, look it up every time as a consequence and are surprised often enough at the reading that you never really settle into a sense of confidently being able to read new words correctly. It sucks.

In contrast I was able to score 50% on the reading section of TOPIK II after only 4 months of study.

So, on balance I'd say reading Korean is way easier because they ditched Kanji.
It's also not a guarantee anything was ever really deleted. What about offsite/physical backups? Seems highly impractical.
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> Altman’s personal investments range in everything from nuclear fission reactor start-up Helion

Helion is a fusion startup, not fission. That's what makes it particularly interesting. Getting a simple but obvious detail like that wrong is odd.
It does feel a little weird that the battery outlasts the storage. Maybe I should've gone with 256 GB SD cards == 40k photos.
woah, locking your investments into a single geographic area, how innovative and forward thinking! especially for a tech company! I really hope nothing bad happens that reduces the value of in-person networking or shared commercial office space, or God forbid someone invents a gadget that lets people work from places other than where they live
No, that’s what I meant - the “South Detroit” in the song doesn’t exist because that’s Canada.
Not sure if you intended this, but it feels like the first sentence of your argument is more broadly a critique of the credentials of AI Safety proponents. Maybe you are distinguishing between doomers vs broader AI Safety proponents, but if not, I feel like the counterargument is that most people on the CAIS letter (https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk) interface quite frequently with these AI models and are also (purportedly) seriously concerned about AI safety
The fridge image idea is so cool!! Love that. Could the cold become a problem though?

It would be so funny to have such a device with wifi enabled, to live-blog trips to the fridge. But then the battery would become an issue of course.

Instead of making Internet-enabled fridges that serve no purpose, manufacturers should include USB ports inside their fridges.
Yeah, exactly, I agree that it's all about adding business value and being able to learn and use any tool that is right for the job, etc, but my opinions don't stop the job market from behaving the way it does-- I apply to a number of jobs and out of them I see clear patterns in the ones that call back and the ones that don't. I'm just describing a trend here, not prescribing a way anything should be.
"accuracy2" sigh - the 2 is a superscript to a footnote and not a domain specific term.

"facially impossible" ... does that really riff on "on the face of it", or is it farcically misspelt?

Garbage in, garbage out 8)
There are exceptions, certainly in colloquial speech variants, 雰囲気 and 原因 come to mind. Both have an annoying ん ("n") in the middle that makes them a pain to pronounce even for natives, so the first gets changed from ふんいき to ふいんき and the latter from げんいん to げいいん. So, if written properly in hiragana you'd know how to pronounce them "properly" but not necessarily as they're actually used by a significant amount of people when spoken. Even the auto-kanji-conversion of my keyboard respects the variants.
Imagine what could happen if someone starts tampering with leaked data... nobody ever thinks that the data might not be real. Pretty easy way to frame someone.
It shows you used one of the poorer LLMs (eg the free ChatGPT 3.5 instead of the paid 4)
If this topic interests you and you’d actually like some content on it, I can’t recommend Carlo Rovelli’s “The Order of Time” enough:

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Rovelli is an absolutely wonderful author - you’ll arrive at the end of that book maybe not actually understanding quantum mechanics fully, but at least feeling like you’ve been given a glimpse of them.
Are you saying the public won't or shouldn't care? Altman wants public trust to say what regulations should and should not be made. Dishonesty is relevant.
> Where I am, unsure terms like "team fit", "feel" and "think" will get your feedback rejected.

This is a very good thing because it helps to prevent bias from sneaking in, either positive or negative. Too many interviews are vulnerable to rapport and charm. "I really like and want to work with that cool bro" should not be enough justification to hire someone.

Also, (at least at larger companies), when you provide feedback, you need to also reference evidence from the interview. You can't just say "Candidate X can definitely code." You have to say "Candidate X showed, through their implementation of the Linked List Reversal problem and the Towers of Hanoi problem, that they could think through a problem and express it effectively in code. Here are some examples from the code itself that show this...."
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I built some 32 cpu / 64 thread workstations with threadripper cpus for a project which are idle since project got cancelled. I thought about using them for mining but with the cost of electricity in CA i doubt it is worth it… any ideas on how I can put them to work and get some kind of return from them?
Yes, the labor surplus was caused by China's family structure. In China women married as teens and started bearing children young.

In Northwest Europe, women married when they and their prospective husbands had saved enough to form a new household, typically 24 to 27 years of age. That is several fewer children per woman.

It was also self-balancing. When population was high, wages decreased, so women married later, so population decreased in the next generation. And vice versa.

In China, childbearing was not regulated by economic conditions so the population was controlled via famine, which tends to bring riots, banditry and so on with it.
Thanks J :) Absolutely! I did try various flags to optimise performance. For CreateFile (which in .NET is wrapped by the FileStream class) I tried FILE_WRITE_THROUGH (which is FileOptions.WriteThrough in .NET), and found it impacted performance quite a lot.

The key to high performance as you rightly pointed out was preventing flushing. In the end, what worked best was reducing the number of writes to disk (which is the bottleneck). I did that by buffering 10-50 ms worth of TCP data, coupled with only flushing explicitly (using a large buffer so that neither BinaryWriter or FileStream flush automatically).
The overwhelming majority of which would also fit into the parking space at his new place.
Nothing a neuralink interface shouldn't be able to fix.
All us Brits agree with you, though I'm not sure the Scots can be called native speakers.
Or worse. Personally, I think social media has been a net negative. It was done intentionally by their makers.

AI seems like it's just a victim of that, but seeing as how they have stolen all of the data they've built their tools on, then of course it's going to be no better than social media at best
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No, it’ll really be a not-so-great circle :)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820123927.h...
My current car is 15 years old. I dread a new car which is dependent on a windows live or iCloud account equivalent to unlock and operate.

Can you still air gap new cars?
That hasn't been my experience of both languages.
Because the United States has a strategy that relies on deterrence. That's what's stopping them today, and maintaining that advantage is a critical component of scaring China away from arbitrary harassment campaigns like they engage with in the Philippines.

You need to stop reading into sensationalist headlines and actually understand the strategies at-play here. This is about creating sufficient conditions for China to not invade Taiwan, not blowing each other up in a second floating Ukraine. China doesn't want that, Taiwan doesn't want that, and the United States doesn't want that either. The critical difference between posturing and realpolitik is actually doing something; China will refuse to commit to a violent invasion unless globalism fails them (hint: globalism never fails China).
No, I didn't, I was just trying to determine what your point is.
Very cool. I applied. Would absolutely love to apply my skills close to my interests in aviation.

Dropped you a line; hope we can connect and catch up.
> The burn out is because your working on an single platform and refusing to even attempt for another project

If you only knew how ridiculous this statement is then you wouldn't have made it. I've spent about ten years working in the BSD community, sent some patches to FreeBSD just a few weeks ago, spent quite a lot of time improving the Go kqueue integration recently, have donated to both FreeBSD and OpenBSD over the years, I have VMs for all the BSDs (and illumos) and regularly test things with it if need be, etc. etc.

But that doesn't mean I expect everyone to make the same choices. Some people choose to support only Windows. That's fine. Some people choose to only support OpenBSD. That's fine. And some people choose to only support Linux. And that's fine too.

If you're getting burned out because other people aren't spending their free time in the fashion you wish then your burnout is 100% self-inflicted.

This kind of hostility towards Linux was already getting old back in the FreeBSD 4 days.
(Oh, just realized that "better efficiency" could mean that RDNA 3 can do the office work that RDNA 2 does but with lower power usage. That could be true, though I wonder if that would really be significant savings in any way)
Yea! We gotta make some prompt changes to the spicy option. I also like the normal better. But that's super awesome! Glad you like it.
Was this maybe in reference to my top-level comment? If so, I just used httpx as an example of a module most people would have installed.
Humans are not fact machines, we are often wrong. Do humans not have intelligence?

What do you even mean by "intelligence" when you say a probabilistic syllable generator "is not intelligence"?
The last figure in this paper is a huge disappointment when you consider how reality meets such theoretical arguments. A typical mamba model would have 100 layers (maybe 60 for snaller ones). That figure scales up to 4 layers and these are sufficient for the problem they consider so the argument goes that another RNN only needed one layer for it.
I do wonder if the display of “judgment” in buying said Cybertruck played into the seeds of his divorce?
How does not saying a word mean it’s not market manipulation? That’s not a requirement, you can manipulate the market just fine just posting images if you’re the right person
I've been streaming bits and pieces of it, but I have not done a walk through since it moves so fast and so so many people are fighting for views.

There are so many moving pieces and they are all unique to the challenge.
It really depends who those thousand people are. Even with 50,000 random people talking about you, the vast majority of people you interact with will have never see their messages ever. There would need to be significant overlap in the communities of you, the bad talkers, and your relationships. And that's just to see the message, not for it to be convincing.

Even with super celebrities and literally millions of people talking about them, there are tons of celebrities I've never even heard of, let alone know what people think about them. Even the ones I know of, very few do I know the majority opinion of. Probably like 10.

Also, all celebrities have thousands of haters. Yet, I don't see them failing to achieve the things you mention to be hard/impossible in this position. At least due to the haters.
You joke, but depending on how the law is written, I could totally see content hosting companies implementing a system where, for every minute of new footage that gets uploaded, they automatically generate 2 minutes of a bald eagle flying across an American flag or something.