skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would a language model do anything other than "hallucinate"

Indeed, why?!?!?! Why do they so often get the correct answer to very direct questions? Saying "it's in the training data" -- I dare you to find anything in the training data that talks about how many "q's" there are in the word "mortuary", and yet it "hallucinates" up answers to this.

> without any care

What does it mean to care? What question could you ask of an LLM that would allow you to assess how much it "cares" about something?

> but it's not like they have a choice of not answering or saying "I don't know" in other cases

Is it your contention that the phrase "I don't know" has never occurred in the training data for an LLM?

There seems to be a dichotomy of reactions to LLMs. There are technical people saying "it's just an autocomplete engine reciting things from its training set" and there are non-technical people saying "it does more than just next token completion, it is trained to use language".

The first group is technically correct but ignores the fact that it can, emergently, do things far outside of an explainable capability, the second group is technically incorrect but correctly perceives that it can use language in novel ways.

Neither group captures the fact that we built extremely complex linear algebra machines that for reasons we do not understand, despite being trained on an incredibly simple task (next-token-prediction) are capable of actually using language in a way that ten years ago we assumed only humans could do.
> But IMHO people should just find a different job, there are plenty available that pay better.

Genuine question, why is that better? There are plenty of reasons why employees might be overall ok with the job and prefer to work out improvements in specific areas. The generally accepted implicit rationale of all of the accommodation needing to be done by the employees(including finding another job) is honestly puzzling. I'm wondering if that is the consequence of employers having vastly more power over employees(esp in the US, with healthcare being tied to employment)

Should the default be a reasonable compromise between the two sides, vs the only recourse being employees leaving?
This type of comment shows up on every single post about unions or layoffs.

The answer is always the same: It might take you and a friend a weekend to build a [insert company] clone, but by the time you need to support the level of customers as [insert company] it'll certainly need a lot more work.
I think the contention point is over remote work rights. I would gladly accept these salaries, but not if I have to commute into NYC almost every day.
> Canada has the big 5 / 6 and then a lot of credit unions

Can't you say literally the same thing about the US?
Glasskube Is Gitops Ready with ArgoCD
How would you describe the differences with https://nocodb.com/ ?
> … getting users hooked on to the extra features and switching to some propreitary backend …

If they do, they’ll have to bridge it to Matrix. The entire point of a Matrix messenger is being able to message Matrix; no matter how slick the GIFs or the local AI-models are—people won’t use a Matrix messenger that can’t message Matrix.
For me, it is a national security risk to allow an unelected, largely unaccountable, private individual to have this much control over crucial areas of national interest.
Wasn't it a UAW EV summit? Or was it an event organized by executive power? Because if it was organized by executive power, i find it baffling. If it was organized by the Union like i just read, and they invited Biden who accepted, i find it weird but quite normal, and the rest is just outrage bait and whining.
No, but make it sound like you like to work on pet projects outside of work. If only for the sake of having a bullet point to talk about in the interview. If they ask, just talk about some funny/difficult problem.
Show me evidence that it's retaliation for criticism.
Hallucinations from flickering lights: What happens in our brain?
> Striking a box releases a note in the accompanying song, resulting in an experience that is half playing an instrument, and half dance.

I get the feeling the author has never actually played Beat Saber.

But I do agree it's a great example of a VR game that's accessible and fun, and that you can play for hours.
> I'd be furious if I paid for a service that promised to archive my data, and 10-15 years later told me 25% of it was unreadable.

The article is very vague on this, but I thought this company was first doing something like a bank safety deposit box. Send us your media in whatever format and we will keep it secure in a climate controlled vault. They don't offer to archive your data, they offer to store your media. Now it seems they pivoted to archiving data. This is an ad for their existing media storage clients to buy their data archive service:

> Iron Mountain would like to alert the music industry at large to the fact that, even though you may have followed recommended best practices at the time, those archived drives may now be no more easily playable than a 40-year-old reel of Ampex 456 tape.
>you need the plus and minus signs to be the same width

I've never thought about it, but that is somewhat annoying that the math symbols aren't a consistent width with each other.
There are plenty of websites that let you copy and paste UI blocks, for free. And they have a lot more options to choose from. How is yours any different, and why should one pay for this?
Great way to build labeled training data.

User-submitted videos (with audio for STT), user-crafted bounding boxes (we might not need these soon), and user-guided RLHF.

The submitted videos are likely diverse, challenging (otherwise the human might just do it), and representative of solving actual customer problems.
See also: the NYT's coverage of trans issues, which in recent years has tried to both-sides the topic in a way that gives fundamentalist hate groups equal oxygen as the fucking APA. No self-respecting leftist publication is handing the mic to Mumsnet users and conversion therapy advocates. (Contrast that to the New Yorker, which is hardly a commie rag and yet has been unambiguously progressive on that front, among others.)

An apt quote from Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, which was published in 2013 but set in 2001:

> How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of the New York Times as a left-wing newspaper?
No. Why should the design parameters for AGI be limited by what a human can do? If the goal was AGI then I'd want all kinds of additional sensor input that humans don't have.
Q: Why not archival M-Disc?
You’re old
I agree that there can be unconscious bias and how you execute things. This is something that should be relatively easy to control for. When performing at your duties the assignment should be handed out in an impartial fashion you have a stack first in first out. You can simply measure the time to completion and the deviation. This should give you a good enough metric to know to look if there is potentially a deeper issues happening. It could be reviews from SpaceX take longer because the technology is different or is rapidly changing or a host of other factors. Once you know the actual metrics is when you can start to examine if it's bias conscious or subconscious or just the nature of the request.

The op was indicating an actual conscious bias that they indicated would cause them to institute delays which is where the real problem comes down to.
They were also following consumer trends, digital purchases were already getting very popular before they introduced diskless versions of the consoles.
I'm narrowly responding to the comment preceding mine. ("Being a total jerk" is his 1st Amendment right")
Teams can also build applications with the apps of apps pattern with Argo CD or Flux kustomizations. They both feature concepts of dependencies. But these packages can then not published and shared between different clusters and organization that don't share a git repository.
Their methodology is literally, "We didn't like the results we got so we assumed they were wrong and ignored them."

> Surprisingly, ABC News was rated Lean Right (1.18) in the July 2024 Blind Bias Survey. A total of 478 respondents rated ABC. This rating differed from AllSides’ current rating of Lean Left (-2.40) at the time, and triggered the Aug. 2024 Editorial Review.

> AllSides speculates this outlier response is because the survey content was collected on July 15 and 18, 2024, which were just days after the July 14 assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

> The Lean Right rating was incorporated into the final rating for ABC News, but was weighted less to account for outlier conditions.

This is literally just putting your foot on the numbers to make it show what you want - the network showed more right-leaning content and they said, "Well that doesn't count." Why doesn't it count?

Look at the increasing number of criticisms of Times coverage from the Left. Look at their trajectory since the Cotton editorial. Look at how they're covering this election. It's not a left wing paper, under A.G. Sulzberger.

> You can't just look at results over the last four years when you're analyzing a newspaper that's 172 years old. They've had massive declines in recent years, which caused huge cutbacks. I think it's reasonable for them to try to preserve their options to cut costs in the future.

They had massive declines from the mid-oughts to 2018 in line with the rest of the newspaper industry. They've reinvented themselves as a tech media company and are on a better track now, so it makes sense that the employees who made that happen want the same union protections as the rest of the employees of the newspaper!

They also were never doing so badly that they weren't still making millions of dollars in profit, which I'm not willing to call "tenuous" for a newspaper that's 172 years old.
That isn't what I was saying at all. There are reasonable and professional ways to disagree, and this PR isn't one of them.
"Center right" is if anything underselling it. The NYT is to the right of, for example, the Financial Times.
> The spirit of the law is a lot like hate speech in that it is not recognized as a thing by the legal system of the United States

This is about the EU which uses a completely different legal system than the US so any US legal reference is basically useless.
> Optimizing each dev wouldn't begin to scratch the surface in terms of what you need to get to Doom 2016 if we're talking a dozen people or less.

What do you think comes to mind when you hear "optimizing each dev"? My suggestion was for each dev to work wider, not deeper. There'd inevitably be a hit in raw fidelity, but that's part of the point I wanted to make.

Of course, no amount of automation even with AI will make up for millions of hand crafted man hours. But my big discrepancy with modern game dev is: for how much business want so care about costs and skimping on labor, we go far, far past middling returns in order to deliver these AAA games. I'd definitely wager that you could preserve 80% the quality of Doom 2016 with 20% of the staff (and pay that staff better, not just pocket the 3x cost reduction) and it would still look top of the line. Even then I question the middling returns.

There are good and insidious reasons why it's so rare, but I was really hoping these better tooling over time would produce more indie studios able to work at around a AA level of production. 5-10 people making games that really aren't that vast a gap from AAA presentation to the common consumer. Instead that sector is seemingly shrinking. It's a problem I at least want to try and chip away at in my career.
I don't think letting the richest man in the world do whatever he wants (especially if he's proven to be a bit reckless) is worth winning any race. And it isn't even "a race", there is no actual finish line. China and the US can both be in space and even both go to the moon separately, and both can have perceived wins from that.
Saving a dead Ubiquiti USG router
Jean Piaget said it better: "Intelligence is not what we know, but what we do when we don't know." And what do LLMs do when they don't know, they spit out bullshit. That is why LLMs won't yield to AGI (https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai). For anything that is out of their training distribution, LLMs fail miserably. If you want to build a robust Q&A system and reduce hallucinations, you better do a lot of grounding, or automatic prompt optimisation with few shot examples with things like DSPy (https://medium.com/gitconnected/building-an-optimized-questi...)
This showcases Apple’s monopoly not Google’s.

I believe even if Apple had chosen Bing instead most people would have changed the search engine back to Google.

Just like with maps. Most people I know use Google maps on their iPhones even though it has been replaced as default map app a long time ago.
All the money Apple gets come from customers, no? All of it. Do they print their own dollars or something? Are they subsidized by governments?

Do the dollars that make up the profits, and the dollars that make up the taxes on profits, come from somewhere else than the dollars that make up the VAT?
From the WSJ recently:

> Then in August 2021, Biden organized an EV event, to be anchored by him signing an executive order with a target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles.

> “In the auto industry, Detroit’s leading the world in electric vehicles,” Biden said at a November 2021 event while promoting the new infrastructure bill. He then turned to GM’s Mary Barra and praised the CEO. “You electrified the entire automobile industry. I’m serious. You led, and it matters,” Biden said.

> Tesla’s leaders, including Musk, were outraged. During the fourth quarter of 2021, when Biden made these remarks, Tesla delivered more than 115,000 EVs in the U.S. while GM produced just 26.

...

> The reason: Biden officials didn’t want to anger the powerful United Auto Workers union, which leaned on the White House to keep its distance from Musk, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://archive.md/856RL
> And unions will only solidify that into stone to prevent any sort of optimization that would bring the complexity down.

It looks like you've bought into some anti-union talking points. Efficiency is sometimes good. But sometimes it's just a way of shifting profit from workers to capital. As an example: if I replace 100 workers managing a server farm with an AWS account - the money that would have paid 100 humans to have nice lives instead goes to a much smaller number of amazon workers, amazon shareholders, and whatever "savings" my company realizes goes to me the owner. So wealth concentrates in shareholders hands, and workers are laid off. Does that make the world better? Not really... more efficient, yes. More fragile and subject to one EMP or earthquake taking out trillions of dollars? Also yes.
It's completely different from the Steele Dossier. Project 2025 was written by dozens of former Trump administration officials and surrogates, by an organization he has previously outsourced policy to, and largely aligns with what he and his top advisors have said they want to do. He even praised the project before it became well known.

But now the name has become toxic so he's trying to distance himself from it, but he hasn't disavowed much of the content.

> No matter, the FAA (and rest of bureaucracy) is supposed to be apolitical.

Yes, and Trump has been vocal about wanting to change that. There's no conspiracy here, just listen to what he says.
Exactly. It was not Google even though they had the monopoly on data.
As someone who worked here seems odd they'd need a strike pretty good pay/benefits
Did I say peace had no chance? It did, until Putin decided to invade. Putin has the choice to withdraw and bring peace, simple as that.
It's a matter of intention. The intention of open source is to allow for anyone to be able to sufficiently reproduce some given artifact, at no/reasonable charge (as stated in the definition). Yes, the source code for a binary must be made available, if is to follow the OSD. No, the compiler doesn't need to be open sourced, unless it's an integral part of the program (a compiler would also have to be made available if there's none generally available for the source language).

This intention necessarily translates to models. In order to reproduce a program, the source code and a relevant compiler is what is required. In order to reproduce a model, the architecture (source code), training data and initial parameters are required.
yes, received power is inversely proportional to the distance squared. it's hard to overstate how ridiculously small the amounts of power are at play with spaceborne SAR systems.
Not just post-Moores, it sometimes feels like a reversal.

Look at high-end gaming PCs. Monster-sized GPUs and cases. CPUs with stupendous requirements for cooling. Insane power draws. The prediction for next gen (5000 series): significantly larger power draw still.

Things are not getting smaller and faster, they're getting bigger and hotter and more power hungry.
It was never about Mars. Look into the Mars Society leadership, they were military / Strategic Defense Initiative people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career#:~:t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin
The small vocal minority is the media, CNBC reported inaccurately about environmental issues, causing this FAA delay. More details here:

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1823080774012481862
Yes.

I could go into a lot of reasons, but I'll keep it simple.

It is incredibly rare for governments to break that cycle. This has been demonstrated over and over. Thus, there is no end in 35 years. There is just perpetual 50% taxes to interest on debt.

This means that as it is a persistent state, not perpetually losing 50% tax revenue would make an enormous difference.

It's just not helpful.
I don’t think Deutsche Bank has ever received direct state aid, they’re quite proud of that fact. Though they have benefitted indirectly when institutions that owed Deutsche Bank money received state aid.

Lufthansa did receive state aid during the pandemic. This is currently under investigation as the EU’s approval was annulled by an EU court: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
I would actually be surprised if companies are focusing on profit at this stage.
The UAW is why Elon wasn't there, but the summit certainly was not organized (directly) by them.
Point being, using a different programming language is going to change that?
They did make this pivot several years ago, with big upsell and a huge internal product advancement to offer housebuilt eDiscovery for lots of data types. I was at Google Cloud when they did the first big deal around this a few years ago: https://www.ironmountain.com/resources/blogs-and-articles/f/...
20tb and under is easy. 500tb is hard
> the hyphen-minus is too narrow. You can replace the minus signs with a wider dash, but that is semantically wrong and also a pain in the arse.

In this case, an alternative to "-", U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, is "−", U+2212 MINUS SIGN. On Linux, I considered mapping the keypad substract key to it, but instead I configured a xcompose alias.

gold +1.2%
oil −6.4%
corn +5.2%
Crafty wasn't it, Microsoft once had some very good programmers who wrote the VxDs to handle all that within Windows. I still think Windows 2000 was the best version ever.
Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly, LLM gotta answer "why, why, why?"

Tiger gotta sleep, bird gotta land, LLM gotta produce a token from the context at hand
AIUI, case law has generally concluded that requesting videos is unnecessary and prejudicial, and therefore forbidden, whereas in-person hiring has a much stronger case for being useful for other reasons. If a company literally only ever hired people through in-person career fairs, that would probably get examined with scrutiny as well, but that's rare. I am nothing like a lawyer, though, and could be entirely wrong.
I honestly think it could be the opposite, and we will have entire high-quality works of fiction at our fingertips.
Is it realistic to get 10gbits networking?
>But my digitally incompetent bank doesn't allow me to use a good phone to run a banking app, because it doesn't allow rooting devices.

Honestly part of that is the fault of the OS itself. If shouldn't allow apps to tell if the phone is rooted or not. Unless I'm asking the app to do something that requires root, the app shouldn't have any ability to tell that it's on a rooted device.
It's not a fine. The EU is saying: "You know those taxes you didn't pay and Ireland looked the other way because it benefitted them? Ireland couldn't look the other way because they signed an agreement with 25+ other countries to not do that, so be a good sport and pay all those taxes we told you to".
We recently got rid of a four year old microwave where the magnetron turned on spontaneously and silently when the door was closed, runaway heating the box. Control panel, lights, turntable, fan, everything is idle.

Manufacturer didn't consider this an interesting defect and refused to swap out-of-warranty. The lack of give-a-shit in appliances is becoming apparent.
Ever heard of pre-war steel? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

Same deal with AI - pre-ai content will have more value.
The Navy's 1945 cookbook teaches how to feed sailors
Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
I'm kind of surprised it's _only_ 600 tech workers. They're a _huge_ digital company.
It's fine, we will all be suspected of being LLMs now. :)
There's no need to justify how you do business with the NYT, whether it's playing a crossword game or accepting a job. But either one is referred to as crossing the picket line.
All the honey badger (mascot of cosmopolitan libc) images were generated using FLUX.1-schnell on my MacBook Pro M1 Max.

I've blogged about all the AI usage at https://www.qt.io/blog/examples-of-local-llm-usage
chuckle

Now throw in inline vs block equations into the mix.
With initial research inputs by Google and their work on Transformer if I’m not mistaken.
It is nothing. Apple's profits over the period mentioned were probably hundreds of billions.
Alternatively ... they are forced to maintain it for compliance reasons, especially when it comes to healthcare, finance and other regulated industries (defense, in particular). This even applies to manufacturing companies assembly medical devices and defense products: all the data about the supply chain, the engineering designs & changes, the manufacturing and quality testing, and shipment needs to be kept for XX years and is subject to both audit by regulatory agencies and to legal discovery.
What does that look like to you?
The word "exploit" has no meaning at all if you can stretch it so far as to cover NYC tech employees.
You are grossly overestimating what PS5 can do in regards of 4k, let alone 8k (which nowadays is used by very small percentage of enthusiasts). 4k native is not something most of the modern releases target on PS5, perhaps in some specific moments when the resolution is dynamic and not much is happening on the screen. Or if you're playing at a locked 30 FPS, which is a major tradeoff.
Seguing to talks regarding literal time traveling VMs, I'm reminded of Damian Conway's "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Spacetimes... Made Easy!" presentation.

Essentially, it involves a series of sci-fi concepts, and then showing the kind of program (in modified perl) that someone might write to take advantage of those capabilities.
I wonder if they could put in tiny reaction wheel gyroscopes (to make it land in a safe orientation) or tiny linear reaction masses, or perhaps tiny replacable airbags or tiny sodium azide NaN3 charges/nozzles to blow air just before landing, to make for a gentler landing, replacable of course.

Tiny replacable airbags, on the corners. Preferably it should somehow detect the elasticity of the surface its falling to or going to hit.