skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper on Othello is of course a very limited model, useful because it's simple enough to study and complex enough to have interesting behaviour.

But the general takeaway is that this is evidence that large transformers like GPT, which are trained to predict text, are fully capable of developing emergent models of parts of that input space whenever it is convenient for minimising the loss function. In practice this means that GPT may have internal models of the semantics of human dialogue that are sophisticated enough for it to get by in the enormous variety of prediction tasks we throw at it.

I agree with you that it's likely these internal models aren't very detailed (for the reason you wrote - they're very general). The linked blog actually talks about this at the end - an OthelloGPT trained to be good at Othello rather than just able to play legal moves ends up with a worse board model. Presumably because it needs to "invest" more in playing better moves. But if you agree with the blog's take then this is just a matter of scale and training. And whether it's possible or not for them to develop models capable of complex tasks like strategy games with shifting rules is certainly not something you (or anyone else for that matter) can say with certainty right now.

Edit: I should clarify we're using "model" in two senses here. There's the actual transformer model, but what I and the blog are talking about is specific weights and neurons _inside_ these transformers that learn to predict complex features of the input space (like legal moves and board updates in the case of OthelloGPT). These develop spontaneously during the training process, which is why they are so interesting. And why they are not really analogous to the "ML models" you refer to in your first two paragraphs.
Under this theory I think maybe you could get the C suite for negligent homicide, but murder seems like a huge stretch for anything but a kangaroo court.
Linux actually does this a lot. Jwz called it "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" more than 20 years ago, describing GNOME.

Look at audio. PulseAudio is mostly pointless and over-engineered. Breaks a lot. You could say the same about ALSA even. FreeBSD meanwhile is still using the OSS API that Linux was on in the late 90s...
Doctors are definitely not liable for misdiagnoses.
i found that the feedback loop between llm and test suite works really well, especially with sonnet 3.5

i wrote a similar tool the other day: https://github.com/joseferben/makeitpass

it can make all kinds of commands pass by checking stdout/stderr and it’s language agnostic (you need npx to run makeitpass)
Award will enable detailed study of an organism that constantly adds new neurons
You are right. It would be cool if that was an option, but it just seems like a lot of unnecessary complexity to actually make that happen. In addition if you ever want to look at code with a colleague on the same computer then the syntax becomes an issue again.
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Well, there are a decent number of those use cases, but the one I find most compelling is storing an exact record of what another service sent me in case I need it later. I pull out and store in my typed schema the relevant bits of, say, an OpenID Connect response, but I'll often store the entire response as well in case I want to add functionality in the future based on additional fields, etc. in that response and roll forward without having to have an intermediate state.
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add a test for it?
Wonder whether the victim should have sued the bad PR machine and set precedent, since this year a woman suffered an injury of similar order of magnitude (I assume) and all the papers go "woman gets wedgie in water slide muhahaha" due to PR spin.
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Bats possess high cognitive abilities previously considered exclusive to humans
Most databases eventually have a human typing an INSERT statement or the moral equivalent. It's not duplication to have your correctness functions protect that, too.
>burden

or pure profit center?
This... isn't that. Changes made in the visual editor are translated into code and submitted to your project as a GH pull request for review. So from a project / software perspective, it looks and works like a FE engineer committed a code change.
Why? It will evolve into a slightly higher level language where the compiler is an ML model. Was it a tragedy when developers mostly didn’t have to write assembly any more?
The main one is the butchering, as mentioned elsewhere. If you're trying to "sell into stores" you get hit with insane costs because you have to commute the animal to a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse. If you sidestep this by having the customer buy the animal and butcher it himself (or hire someone to) you can't market the resulting meat.

The other big one is feed costs.

Small farms are basically impossible to be financially relevant unless subsidized by someone "with a real job" or deliberate things like CSA (community supported agriculture) and free child labor (small farm families still have lots of kids, which is a double benefit - free labor AND you can eat your own produce and "save" a ton that way).
Humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals
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I had lazy experience people and self-driven interns. The experience on the has very little correlation with attitude. I’ll take the hard working, self motivated person regardless of claimed experience 100/100 times.
Maybe it would be more valuable for this company to hire someone who could create value rather than someone who can write 50x more code.

I have worked with those people and most of what they created was a heap of code that someone had to maintain after they left.
It is true that a situation will mostly determine what a person will do.
But it is also true that different people will act differently in very close situations.

So how do we separate and weight how much the situation and the personality influence on the outcome?
Not having a way of doing this and just saying 'our tendency in most situations to downplay the role of circumstance' seems oddly shallow and irresponsible
Types are also documentation for the developers reading and editing the code.
6,500 Samsung workers walk off assembly lines over pay, vacation time
This post is a fantastic example of Poe's Law. You had me for a second.
When a company fails, its employees and factories don't all explode or something. It's just a financial issue, everything still exists. So one possible universe is that Boeing the corporation fails, and the government rescues it and makes it an actual government owned enterprise. Investors and executives lose some money but we still get our planes.

Just pass a law and nationalize and/or break it up. Here's someone more knowledgeable than me discussing this idea: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-nationalize-a....
I tried the same route, but got the logs correctly. It gave me a HTTP 410 error. I wouldn't be surprised at all if VLC's youtube plugin is just too old and there's a better one somewhere else. But in the meanwhile, mpv's plugin works (if you're using yt-dlp and not youtube-dl, that is)
This article makes me think of an intercom system I maintain at one of our buildings. The fact that it is offline and each location is physically wired = it’s safe and secure. Another school district about 80 miles away had their systems hacked including phones, cameras and intercom .. as they were all meter and “cloud” based.

Just makes me rethink does everything thing need internet access. Sometimes perhaps simple safe and secure may fit better. Kind of off topic of this article but the concept just kind of got me thinking out loud.
The government doesn't differentiate much between aircraft and drones. As I understand it, shooting down a drone is a federal crime and can you get you 20 years in prison.
If you do any work with video cameras you will understand Wayland isn't there yet.
If you turn your phone off frequently then knowing what the “secret combination” for power off should not be difficult. We’re talking about holding down the power button and one of the volume buttons… it’s not rocket science.

You can argue whether or not the default behavior is good… but no phone “chooses its actions by the phase of the moon”. That’s very disingenuous. Either way, having the power button held down not force off the phone is a good thing for avoiding accidental power down.
If they can do it to Trump, they can do it to Boeing.
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My theory: this is a textbook case of System 1 vs System 2 thinking, involving a problem space that forces System 1 (intuition, hallucination) due to the excessive number of variables in play. The problem space in this case is metaphysical causality.

A second layer of it is that it involves the unknown, which also forces System 1 processing. So it's like a double whammy in this case (at least...there are surely many others in play).

War is particularly scary because people's minds have been filled with skilfully written but untrue stories, and this is what System 1 uses to generate "the reality" of the situation and what should be done about it (what they have been told in stories should be done about it).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion

If you think about it, it's kind of funny how much understanding humans have of themselves, but for the most part all they ever do with this knowledge is talk about it. We seem to be fundamentally motivated by short-term pleasure, with some exceptions like the possibility of financial reward (thinking about which likely invokes pleasure?).

War is interesting. Like COVID, it involves preventable death. Unlike COVID though, people don't consider these deaths to be something we must(!) do something about. I wonder what the (actual) cause(s) of this inconsistency is. I also wonder why people don't find paradoxes like this to be interesting.
It's annoying to you. But think of how annoying it to people who know much more than you. It's like a kid with no experience having strong opinions. For the record I did not downvote you. And yes, your inexperience come through very obviously.

The essence of what you said is this: older people do not deserve a job because they are older. The bigger issue seems to be that you are overthinking, and over analyzing for what in my opinion is just ordinary jobs.

>Managers are looking for someone within specific experience bands.

Common, but very petty. Most work that most of us do is grunt work, over analysis will not give you an extraordinary candidate.

>If they downlevel a candidate (hire someone that is too skilled), then it’s unfair to the candidate, as they are underpaid.

No, it's not. The candidate has applied for a job because he could not get anything better. Ever been in a situation where you are laid off and where you had to pay the bills immediately, and did not have the luxury of finding a well-paid job?

I could go on, but I think some harsh experiences for you, like layoffs would be your greatest teacher.
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Problem is that no nation is really keen on punishing their own industry.

Currently the overall culture for selecting business leaders is suboptimal in the western sphere and beyond. It incentivizes behavior that can lead to such problems. Nobody could sell a 10% growth in reliability to investors if it doesn't come with a similar revenue increase as well.
This is really nice. Your project?
Under this definition an 74LS21 AND gate is reasoning - it has specific circuits that correspond to concepts, and it uses that network to determine an output based on the input. Seems pretty overly broad - we run back into the issue of saying that a nightlight or thermostat is reasoning.
Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs
“The mob” being the voting citizens of a free and open democratic society, of course.

Interesting point of view/source of internal tension there.
FTC Non-Compete Ban Survives a Texas Court, for Now
That's what I don't get about this. Instead of writing code that may or may not be correct, it's writing tests that may or may not be correct.
> Politics. For some reason, it's only dawning on governments now that providing uncensored and unfettered connections to their political adversaries can be used for information warfare. The idea that connecting the world will make it a better place and undo the millennia of tribalism is a romanticized platitude of the 1990s.

Or another point of view: Those who call for internet censorship and country-level firewalls are NOT looking for the world to get better and instead are just afraid of losing their control over the population. Which is why you first see those measures being employed in openly totalitarian systems before now being slowly adoped in supposedly free societies whose rulers like to claim to represent the population they rule over.
For the SQL case, you can just use a different formatting that puts aligned items into blocks, something like:

SELECT
this_column,
that_column
FROM tablename
WHERE
this_column = 1
AND that_column IS NOT NULL

(The AND token could go either where it is, or at the end of the previous line, depending on your preferences - I prefer the clarity of putting the operator first here over the alignment of the column names, but I can see both sides.)

It might not be your preference, but that's always going to be the case with formatting.

With the comments, that's a good point. I'd generally prefer to use double comments for anything that spans multiple lines, but if you're creating a formatter you need to handle any syntax thrown your way. You could try formatting it without the leading space, but that would be very unusual, or keep the leading space and have it as the one exception to the rule. Or just not format comments, I guess.
Users. How will you prime the pump.
Boeing killed 200 people, but now Europe needs to change its failure culture? No thanks.
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Ah yes, let me turn on the lights when my roommate is already sleeping just to be able to use light mode.
> Please don't jump on a hype train

> Give capital to another project because C++ is "dumb" and Rust is not.

I applaud you for disclosing your biases at the top but I was so hoping the disclosure wouldn't be a spoiler for the rest.
> Our governmental methods of punishment for corporations strike me as lacking.

The agencies that oversee this need to have the will and the power to act. Regarding the former, our elected officials are mostly divided into two camps 1) the ones who work to minimize the will of agencies and the ones who are sort of inept and feckless about safeguarding agencies' ability to act.

Regarding the latter, the recent scotus Chevron decision monkey-wrenches agency power (seemingly by design). Bad actors will inject judges into the oversight process, in an attempt to sabotage regulators ability to regulate; Chevron hugely amps up the effectiveness of that attack.
I am glad it works! I have just been subject to several systems that have grown over time that worked very well until it became a problem (and then a huge one) so I am glad you are taking a disciplined approach.
Skiing is a great family sport. You get to build cameraderie together exploring a big mountain. It's quite an undertaking for a parent and yes, expensive. Most other sports, the parents are typically just watching.
I second the TouchDesigner advice. Not only is it powerful, it has a large and growing community that is second to none in my experience when it comes to helping out with any question or issue.
Yes, you should be using a goto for this in C
Why was this famous safety bar not looking at Boeing anymore?
X to Doubt.

This is the Anthropic CEO talking up his company's capital needs to the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund ( Norges Bank Investment Management ) and trying to justify some absurd 100bn valuation.
Yes, and it's been that way for fifteen years at least.
It's not "whether or not it thinks" its "whether n-dimensional vector multiplication in an intricate embedding space is thinking or not".

Which on the surface is easy to knee-jerk a "no" too, but with a bit more pondering you realize that however the brain thinks must be describable by math, and now you need to carve out what math is "thinking" and what math is "computation".

Or just be a duelist and attribute it to a soul or whatever.
If the new CEO doesn't want to go to jail, then they'll make the changes.
I wish an OEM could commit to having good LineageOS or GSI support so when they stop official updates users have something to fall back on.
> Was it a tragedy when developers mostly didn’t have to write assembly any more?

It wasn't, but for starters compilers have always been generally deterministic.

I'm not saying that this is completely useless (I personally think code completion tools such as GitHub CoPilot are fantastic), but it is still early to compare it to a compiler.
cute but taxes dont actually fund anything with any real substance. the money is simply printed.
This is confusing to say the least, especially with the "identity" concept in programming being overloaded.
> Creo stopped working when it acquired a rival that had more employees than it had

Huh. That'd make sense. From the outside, Creo Scitex looked like an unstoppable dreadnaught.

Creo acquired ScenicSoft in 2002. Alas, I saw no evidence of economic thinking.

Whoever was in charge of software was proud of having never canceling one of their ~dozen products. Me asking if there was a P&L for any of them was among my top 20 most brave/stupid work related selfowns.

They did cancel Color Central in short order. (Payback?) Basically CUPS with features for print manufacturing and a purdy UI. Super boring, but a necessary product. Although no longer affectionately known as Cash Cow (the internal code name Illumious had given it), it still had a huge installed base, had steady revenue (upgrades), and maintenance was on auto-pilot.

About a year later, Creo licensed Color Central's biggest competitor. (Sorry, forget that company and product name. I remember that they were a great team though.)

Rowan's UpFront was part of the ScenicSoft acquisition. Advanced print manufacturing planner. Pretty much unparalleled. A true diamond in the rough.

Further, I had invented a novel imposition engine for bookwork. Specify all the sizes and (crucially) the desired binding -- voilá, out comes a Preps template production plan. (Preps was ScenicSoft's flagship product, the gold standard for print imposition.)

Automating bookwork planning was the holy grail. The long sought replacement for Preps' very complicated, very necessary template editor.

I don't think the Creo people understood what they had. They were so focused on their (awesome) digital plate stuff and adjacent. Like most, they probably treated the bindery as an afterthought.

I forget how Creo managed to let Rowan slip thru their fingers. But don't worry, he did it all again and earned a pretty good exit the second time around.

--

Whatever Creo's shortcomings, the president and owner of ScenicSoft totally failed. After many rounds, he managed to negotiate Creo's initial $70m offer down to $9.5m. So saavy.
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Interesting read. Check out the section "Decline in time spent online". It kicked up for Covid, but is now back to pre-Covid levels:
2016: 6h29
2017: 6h46
2018: 6h48
2019: 6h38
2020: 6h55
2021: 6h57
2022: 6h37

But users are now spending more of that time on social media (about 40%).
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is that a problem...? should a city not prioritize its citizens over random vacationers?
Right but from what I've read the webview it uses there is way less stable and featureful than Windows or Mac. I haven't actually tried it myself.
It also goes for successful people. They are usually awarded way too much attribution for outcomes of the things they do especially after they became successful.
ChatGPT has been painful, especially at login, for me for months. Had to move to alternatives as a result and cancel my sub. I want to come back though!
Paper doesn’t emit light, which makes the white background very different in nature.
Why not? It happens all the time, to various degrees of "punish", especially in civil cases.

You are responsible for your property (land) and can be sued quite successfully for issues you had no knowledge of and no way of knowing.
> which in most cases is the practical difference

I would argue that the main difference is that a civil judgement usually results in "only" some combination of a damages award and (when damages cannot remedy) an injunction, but only a criminal case can result in sanctions such as imprisonment.
This is very astute. We went too far in the non-technical route the first time. It was unrealistic to expect a non-technical person to clone or run code locally so it was hard to get to the value point for them.

Hence, we're focusing on this being more efficient for the engineer. We're limiting to just injecting clean styling for now which is where I personally spend too much time with UIs.

The initial goal is to shorten the loop between code, save, check the browser, adjust code, repeat... and just give engineers the ability to edit the page directly like you would a Figma prototype.
Good observation. Next step is realizing which "side" is the one holding extremist views.
Believe it or not, as a junior I had the hardest time believing this. We'd be down in the waxroom filing our edges to death every other day and it would feel like I couldn't get an edge otherwise. The idea that the edge could be "polished" back to sharpness was alien to me. That being said, on skinny skis in the 90s, it took a lot of work to set an edge and little kids were at a disadvantage. I was basically skidding around and the sharp edges were just keeping it at bay.
The State of Local News
I hate John Horgan essays. They're so good I have to pause whatever I'm doing.
Specific Software
do you use the same hardware? I'm interested in helping a local ornithologist setting one up.
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> it's not as tricky as you make it sound.

Citation needed + dubious analogy
However, if reason is computable, then a syntactic transformation can compute it. The point is that stating that something is a "mere" syntactic transformation does not imply computational weakness.
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>Don't they check linkedin, basic googling, social media etc, before following up on that

I think some do, but probably most don't. Agreed a sample size of more than 2 is better but it will take enormous resources to create those resumes and matching profiles elsewhere in linkedin etc.