skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there is also a misguided razor that people who self identify as rationalists often apply, which goes, "the most cynical or disenchanted answer is likely the correct one." An overcorrection to superstition, perhaps.

> I personally did this, and one of the symptoms was being overly skeptical of animal consciousness.

This approach wouldn't be inconsistent if you were cynically skeptical of human consciousness as well.
Hah, I thought I was an isolated case getting dozens of login emails per day.

The only solution I found was to literally change my email on Booking.com, the emails have stopped now.
That stuff gave Google the appearance of "nerds playing with their toys." Sure it's worthwhile research, but it's not great how many things Google announced that close to 0 people could use. They're trying to be more user-oriented now, and because of Cloud, their users are businesses.
Someone goes to booking.com, puts your e-mail address in the sign-in field.

You then get an e-mail with a huge button and if you click it they are granted access to your account without a password, even if you've enabled twofactor.

They do this many times a day so one click wrong in your e-mail app and you've granted someone access to your account.
He suffered a massive stroke last June, unfortunately

https://www.medialens.org/2024/a-message-about-noam-chomsky-...

https://tucson.com/news/local/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-afte...

A new one since last week? Link?
Amusingly, HN used to have an "average karma per comment" measure which I thought was interesting. It doesn't any more.
> And asking the artist to do the work in a program that doesn't have all of those features is roughly equivalent to asking a software engineer to use Mac/Windows/Linux (pick one they don't know) and to write all of the code in Visual Basic/Perl/PHP/JavaScript/C/C++/COBOL (pick one they don't know).

You mean the thing that every single company does for their work for hire?

When a developer doesn't know, they go after another developer. (And they should restrict the number of constraints to what is really important, but almost no company does that.)
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I really appreciate your engagement here and think it has great value on a personal level, but the length and claims tend to hide two very obvious, straightforward things that are hilariously bad to the point its unbelievable:

1. They only support GPT3.5 and GPT4.0. Note here: [1], and that gpt-4o would get swallowed into gpt-4-0613.

2. This will lead to massive, significant, embarrassingly large error in calculations. Tokenizers are not mostly the same, within 10% error.

# Explicating #1, Responsive to ex. "It's not just C100K though. It is for a few models [0]".

The link is to Tiktoken, OpenAI's tokenization library. There are literally more than GPT3.5 and GPT4.0 there, but they're just OpenAI's models, no one else's, none of the others in the long list in their documentation, and certainly not 400.

Most damning? There's only 2 other tokenizers, long deprecated, used only for deprecated models not served anymore, thus you're not calculating costs with them. The only live ones are c100k and o200k. As described above, and shown in [1], their own code kneecaps the o200k and will use c100k

# Explicating #2

Let me know what you'd want to see if you're curious about the 30%+ error thing. I don't want to guess at a test suite that would make you confident you need to revise a prior that there's only +/- 10% difference between arbitrary tokenizers.

For context, I run about 20 unit tests, for each of the big 5 providers, with the same prompts, to capture their input and output token counts to make sure I'm billing accurately.

# Conclusion

Just to save you time, I think the best way I can provide some value is token count experiments demonstrating error. You won't be able to talk me down to "eh, lets just say its +/- 10%, thats good enough for most people!" --- It matters, if it didn't, they'd explicate at least some of this. Instead, its "tokenization for 400 LLMs!"

[1] https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost/blob/e1d52dbaa3ada2...*
i agree that the software is an absolute mess but i'm surprised to see anybody saying that it took them months or years to get to grips with it.

absolutely valid criticisms though, it really is just a really shit daw in a box.
I guess I just get hung up on how such 'simple' cells can encode such complex behaviors...

Thanks
> I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit.

Have you ... worked with artists? To get them to produce technically precise artwork?

The point would be that sometimes it takes 4-5 turnarounds with an artist to get something exactly right. Something that I, as a non-artist but skilled app user, can do in less time it takes to explain what I need to the artist a single time. So it's about saving my time and not having to pay for hours of artist time for something I can do in 10 minutes.

What I'd like to see is tiered licenses. They're being greedy and I refuse to patronize them. That's what it comes down to. I'm not saying they should be forced to do anything. Just that I don't like what they're doing, and therefore end up having to work around their software rather than using it.

I have a license for the last one they offered for a fixed cost; bought it for a steep discount when the new licenses were the Next Big Thing. But they won't get any more of my money until they offer the software at a reasonable price tier.
From the leaderboard link (and on the archive version):

>ARC-AGI-Pub is a secondary leaderboard (in beta) measuring the public evaluation set. … The public evaluation set imposes no limitations on internet access or compute. At this time, ARG-AGI-Pub is not part of ARC Prize 2024 (eg. no prizes are associated with this leaderboard).

And, all the entries at time of writing and in the archive link say “You?…”. “ARC-AGI 2024 HIGH SCORES” which does have entries is on the private test set.

>I don't think you "don't understand" anything :)

I genuinely don’t understand if we are viewing the same websites.
Writing any documents with Word is a sin.
I got it too. I’m not in MA but am in a nearby state. I’m curious who was the audience of that alert.
Maybe the only people they retained have product turndown experience.
Not sure where you live, but in my own US city they went from non-existent (as far as I recall) 20 years ago to literally everywhere I go. There's probably 4 going up within 3 miles of my house right now. Maybe that has to do with more stringent firecodes. Only thing close are the row-houses where there's 3-5 units, narrow, 3 stories high with a roof deck (I don't know what they're called).
AIs are coming for social networks
Ask HN: Why Isn't It Base128?
Base 64 encodes one of 64 values in an 8 bit character. Couldn't we do better? Encoding 256 choices obviously gets problematic with escape characters that you don't want to send over the wire.
Amazing.

Having worked with auth myself in my programming career i have no idea what is going on over there when people have been posting about this issue for a year now apparently?
Send an email with a request to remove/delete your account. They are a Dutch registered company and therefore have to comply AFAIK. Otherwise, informing the Dutch consumer watchdog might be an alternative.

Note: IANAL
Interesting to see how the chaff evolves. I didn’t know that was a term used outside wheat.
It doesn't seem ridiculous if you're seen as an easy target. Crime isn't randomly distributed.
I realize that this probably wouldn't fit in the title, but this is about a specific kind of adult stem cell, not stem cells in general.

It's trivially obvious that some kinds of stem cell can become any type of cell, given that we all had our beginnings as a single cell.
Was there a past time when people really could make a living building WordPress themes? (Vs. it being resume-padding, or a loss leader for their web design firm, or "while the VC money lasts", or some such.)
fwiw Global Specialties has been making "protoboards" like this for decades. They're pretty expensive, though.
You're right, I noticed the inconsistency due to my error, but I had no way to edit and refine it.

I didn't know that it is illegal to pay bribes overseas, and as someone who has traveled extensively and knows it is necessary sometimes, I'm curious how enforced that law actually is. Either way though, that example and the illegal sex one are both US law applying to US persons, not US law applying to non-US persons.

> In addition, one of my examples specifically allows the prosecution of non-us citizens for their actions abroad toward US citizens.

I apologize for not giving this specific point more attention. That law is interesting, and to quote the wiki page, "The law is quite specific in that it is intended to be extraterritorial in nature".

This seems to be the first law of its kind, as unlike the other examples you gave, it explicitly applies worldwide o any foreign officials.

In response to this law I would make two points. One, it hasn't been signed into law yet, and two, this is significantly more narrow in scope than the EU law which applies to anyone running a site that an EU citizen visits.
This was commercial milk delivery across a country, several millions of people.

"Proper rinsing" is not adequate for commercial operations. High temperature (near boiling) water at fairly high pressure, tens of thousands of bottles in a batch. Metal baskets, mechanical conveyors. I'll let you imagine the failure modes.

I lol'ed at the thought of milk bottles being rinsed by hand in a commercial operation. How much do you want your milk to cost?
MTE can be enabled in two modes. One is "synchronous": tag checking occurs on the relevant load/store instruction and will raise a segmentation fault immediately in case of a mismatch; this mode is slower but retains information about where the bad memory access was (i.e., hence intended for debugging). The second mode is asynchronous, where any mismatches are only raised after a context switch; this mode has minimal overhead but loses relevant debugging information (i.e., hence intended as a run-time protection).
Interesting. How does the cost of the lithium conversion compare to the Starlink terminal?

With sat, the power needs are mostly a physics problem. You can't generate a 30 watt signal unless you draw 30 watts from somewhere. It's just the nature of the beast. It's also why lower-power sat systems like Iridium or Apple's thing have relatively limited functionality.
Why Bitcoin's Not Keeping Pace with Nasdaq
I've noticed more sites using the ability to access an e-mail account as an authentication mechanism.

I think they are using it different ways. Booking.com uses it as a primary authentication mechanism: enter your e-mail address, they send a link to that e-mail address, and clicking the link effectively authenticates you and you are logged in.

When I click on a link to a NextDoor post, sometimes it redirects me to a page with a button. Click the button, they send you an e-mail with a link, and clicking the link redirects me to the NextDoor post. What isn't clear in this case is if the e-mail link is a primary form of authentication, or secondary. For example, maybe my auth session expired, so they know I logged in at some point in the past, and the link in the e-mail is used to refresh my session.

I have to admit, I like the ease of using e-mail access as a form of authentication. I'm not sure how I feel about it being the primary form of authentication.
You'd need a bunch of those chips to make good use of a bunch of 6.0 lanes on the CPU, and at that point you're paying so much for the converters that I'm skeptical it would almost ever be worth it.

I expect consumer machines to keep doing some conversion and expansion in the chipset, but nowhere else. I expect servers to directly attach almost everything and drop down to smaller lane counts for large numbers of devices.

It's worth noting that when Kioxia first put out PCIe 5.0 EDSFF drives, they were marketing them as being optimized for 2 lanes at the higher speed.
Well, in this paragraph they seem to explain that their public evaluation set is meant to be indicative of the kind of jump in difficulty you can expect from the private test set. This to me implies that my guess is close: They're looking for models that can learn simple concepts and apply them to complex problems. Keeping the test set private seems to be an attempt at making it difficult to "cheat" at this by simply memorizing superficial details of the more complex problem set, which makes sense given that the whole point of this seems to be testing for systems that can use learned abstractions to tackle novel, out-of-distribution problems

Like with our toy "algebra" examples, sure there's a lot of emphasis on repetition and rote in primary education on these subjects, and that's one way to get people more consistent at getting the calculations right, but to be frank I don't think it's the best way, or as crucial as it's made out to be. What someone really needs to understand about algebra is how the notation works and what the symbols mean. Like I can't unsee the concept of "+" as a function that takes two operands and starts counting for as many steps as one would in the right operand, starting at the value of the left operand. When looking at algebra, the process I go through relies on a bunch of conceptual frameworks, like "Anything in the set of all arabic numerals can be considered a literal value". "Anything in the roman alphabet is likely a variable". "Any symbol is likely an infix operator, that is, a function whose operands are on either side of it". Some of the concepts I'm using are just notational convention. At some point I memorized the set of arabic numerals, what they look like, what each of them means, how they're generally written in relation to each other to express quantities combinatorically. Some of the concepts are logical relations about quantities, or definitions of functions. But crucially, the form of these distillations makes them composable. If I didn't really understand what "+" does, then maybe someone could give me some really bad homework that goes

1 + 30 = 31

20 + 7 = 27

3 + 10 = 13

And then present me the problem

20 + 10 + 3 = ?

And I'd think the answer is

20 + 10 + 3 = 213

That demonstrates some model of how to do these calculations, but it doesn't really capture all the important relationships the symbols represent

We can have any number of objections to this training set. Like I wasn't presented with any examples of adding two-digit numbers together! OR even any examples where I needed to combine numbers in the same rank!

Definitely all true. Probably mistakes we could make in educating a kid on algebraic notation too. It's really hard to do these things in a way that's both accomplishing the goal and testable, quantifiable. But many humans demonstrate the ability to distill conceptual understanding of concepts without exhaustive examples of their properties, so that's one of the things ARC seems to want to test. It's hard to get this perfectly right, but it's a reasonable thing to want
Despite their intention of debris lasting a minimal amount of time ("weeks") some of the generated debris lasted for several years. While this was much better than the particularly reckless Russian destruction of K1408, orbital collisions are chaotic and energetic events, and there's no particular way to do it safely.
Many people also alleged that a subset of bots are paying to avoid removal. Certainly a nation state can afford a few million a month to ensure their influence campaign is not so disrupted
And de-incentivizes supply. A real solution need to be available to balance the supply and demand of power such that the rates on both ends are predictable.

A market where a good fluctuates between profitable and not is not one very attractive to investment.

Playing the video game Victoria 3 has taught me a lot about healthy markets. You have to play both sides of supply and demand to get to the prices you need
Did the politicians involved know cannabis meets none of the requirements to be a Schedule I drug when it was scheduled that way?
Great photos, especially being colored by hand.

I'd love to see these in a museum with background information about the subjects and stories like the raspberry fungus.
Master of Make-Believe
Note that due to the licenses no company will touch any of these with a 10 ft pole. Great for individuals looking to experiment though
You're basically paraphrasing fchollet's paper on intelligence and what he talked about in his most recent podcast appearance with dwarkesh.
Unclear what you are saying here
"French electricity prices turned negative as a drop in demand and surging renewables output prompted some nuclear reactors to power down."

This is an issue with nuclear in a net zero scenario. Nuclear starts out at 90%+ capacity factor, like in California today. But as fossil fuels become a low percentage of the grid, you inevitably get a low capacity factor which increases LCOE. Even if you don't want any renewables and you only build nuclear, the problem is demand isn't static so you have to overbuild nuclear by a lot and run at a low capacity factor, or you build storage, either of these increases LCOE.

The sensible thing will be to use renewables on top of nuclear rather than overbuild nuclear, like what France is doing. But that will also eat into capacity factor when it's more windy and sunny like what France experiences.

Just something to keep in mind when you hear people talk about nuclear costs. Multiply it by at least 1/0.7 if they haven't taken this into account.
And this is why it's expected that the PI will take responsibility for any papers published by their lab – if the PI isn't doing their job, they should face the consequences.

(note I wrote "should", not "will")
It is likely that the times where French renewables flood the market roughly coincide with the times where German renewables flood the market, which where 60% of the supply even in the winter. The few remaining times where that isn't the case are probably not relevant. I mean every bit helps of equalizing over a larger area can help, but we likely need interconnects with places that are a bit farther away than France like Spain and Norway so the gaps are more likely to fall into different times. Besides, coal plants are almost as bad in spinning up and down quickly as nuclear plants. In both cases they can probably do somewhat it to escape the penalty of negative prices, but likely they don't safe much if anything in terms of operational costs and fuel.
In that list there's 1 intentional collision and 1 accidental.
Notice how you failed to disprove the comment you replied to, but are complaining about entitlement.

Look in the mirror, see the problem.
Battle between AI and Crypto, what will burn the planet first
Thanks. Just tried it, didn't work unfortunately.

They just remove everything after the + sign then send you an email to your old address saying they updated your info. Then you can login again with the old address but now twofactor is apparently turned on. Very weird.
Booking.com has one weird "feature" where they allow you to checkout without signing-in, and using the email of any other Booking.com user without verification in the checkout form. I had dozens and dozens of orders "placed on my behalf" this way; they were all no-shows and their CCs were declined, and they ended up disabling my account for fraud suspicion.
Amazon accounts are really hard to delete too. You have to talk to a retention person and jump through says of hoops
>>includes the behavior to make the entire web, not just the start off the process.

Thats where I get stuck..the 'behavior' has to account for different sizes of webs (the spider might be in a tight space, or a more open space), etc.

That just seems like an incredibly complex behavior to encode...Cells are supposedly 'simple' organisms but they manage to create/manage such complex behaviors...it's mind blowing..

Thanks!
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I like this -- I wonder if an articulating frame like the Leo Rover [1] would improve the all-terrain capabilities?

[1] https://www.leorover.tech/
"While the interface looks like Instagram, the app’s main twist is that, when signing up, you create an AI character, or Butterfly, that starts generating photos and interacting with other accounts on its own. There is no limit to the number of Butterflies you can create, and they are designed to coexist with human accounts that can also post to the feed and comment."

It sounds like a reinforcement learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning) experiment where each Butterfly is an agent that is exploring how to generate feeds that maximize user engagement and by extension, ad profits.
> Afaik this is the standard interpretation nowadays

You've described the Everett interpretation. It should be the standard. There's still a surprising amount of resistance for some reason.
Are you referring to the (one-time) training cost or the cost per inferred token? The latter is pretty acceptable these days, especially with smaller models.
Even without gravitational slingshots, the simple solution would be to just take advantage of the oberth effect and do many, many successive burns, retrograde at aphelion and prograde at perihelion, until your perihelion is low enough to intersect the sun. It wouldn’t be crazily less delta-V but it would be appreciably lower.

Another related fun fact from GP’s is that it’s way less delta-V to hit the sun from Pluto than it is from the Earth… 4.63 km/s according to wolfram: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=hohmann+exit+delta+v%2C...
wow, in germany that kind of bribery is illegal if it is against the interests of the company.

but i do not understand how the recruiter can skim off the raise if the employee is contracted directly with the client. i mean, sure they can make a contract to get a cut, say 10% of the employees salary, so when the employee gets a raise, the recruiter gets more too. but negotiating a raise and then keeping that secret from the employee should only be possible if the employee is only contracted with the recruiter and not with the client directly.
It does work well with Crossover (paid app) on my M2. (Just submitted it to the DB and waiting for acceptance).

Someone in the Steam forum said it may also work with Whisky, but there seems to be issues with saved games that way?

I'm also trying to get the dev to add it to GeForce Now.

But yeah, a native Mac/Linux client would be great.
What do you mean by 'legitimate software' exactly? If you described what a modern anti-cheat solution does to someone without telling them what it is, they'd automatically call it malware. The similarity really is uncanny. It almost feels like the difference between them is more of a technicality.
Doesn’t make any sound on Safari iOS. Yea I clicked the loudspeaker
Like eating a piece of cake this too is a very short lived feeling of satisfaction. In the long term the money is never in hardware, it's what you do with the hardware.
I'm stuck with CorelDraw X8 which dates to 2016. If they were selling a buy-it-once license in 2020, I wasn't aware of it. I swear they had switched to subscription-only by then? But maybe it happened that year and I missed the last opportunity to buy a permanent license.

Last time I looked at Essentials, it looked to me like they had hamstrung it too much. I don't remember the specific restrictions they put on it, but I didn't want what they were selling. Might be worth another look with the Humble Bundle though.
> Delete account - We received your request. Check your inbox for xxx to finish deleting your account.

It's been 20 minutes and the email still has not arrived.
It can't explain it's thinking after producing the answer, like you say, it'll just generate a post-hoc rationalization. But if you ask it to think step by step before making a conclusion, LLM's will somewhat reliably arrive at reasonable steps and better final answers.