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The U.S. imperialism is what "banana republic" means!

> In 1904, American author O. Henry coined the term[1][2] to describe Guatemala and Honduras under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
And arguably much of current decline in intellectual standards in the public space is to blame on the integration and Americanization of their descendants.
Mozilla didn’t make them implement a browser feature that is not widely available. Believe it or not there are plenty of better soldering irons that don’t require a web browser to configure.
Could well be.

It's also entirely possible they are simply sincere about their fear it may be used to influence the upcoming US election.

Plenty of people (me included) are sincerely concerned about the way even mere still image generators can drown out the truth with a flood of good-enough-at-first-glance fiction.
I went through the same thing, it was a really unfortunate choice of words in the context.
> I'd say OpenAI is rightly concerned that fine-tuning on chain of thought responses from this model would allow for quicker reproduction of their results.

Why? They're called "Open" AI after all ...
Atari Calculator by Carol Shaw
Also the the sora videos are proven to be modified ads. We still need to see how it perform first
Hello! Your job posting says you want a cover letter, but the application page itself has no spot to put the cover letter in. Is there somewhere I can email the documentation you requested?
I would recommend a TS100 or TS80 over the Hakko FX-600 for occasional hobbyists. Those are both closer in design to the iFixit iron. Digital display, standard (replacable) power connectors, safety features, etc. Even more compact.
The threshold is where you transition from needing infinite qubits to make an error corrected logical qubit, to needing a mere finite number. So... somewhere between 1 and infinity (exclusive).

Actually, because "in theory there's no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is", the number is probably still infinity. Like, if you look at figure 4 of their paper [0], you can see one device of the three is well above threshold at 1.5% error. They need sufficient quality more consistently before a large system built out of the pieces they are benchmarking would be below threshold.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02614-w/figures/4
Here's a contemporary interview from 2004 with a Palm director who was a former BeOS engineer:

https://www.osnews.com/story/6148/interview-palmsources-geor...

Palm acquired the remains of Be, Inc. in 2001. The company made BeOS, a single-user desktop OS that caused a lot of waves in hacker circles in the late 1990s, but never found its niche or killer app.

After the acquisition, the Be engineers went to work creating a next-generation Palm OS that would retain most of the familar UI but was completely rewritten under the hood. Essentially like Windows 3.x -> Windows NT, but for PDAs and smartphones.

If the stars had aligned, maybe it could have been a contender against iOS and Android! I was always rooting for BeOS...
The similarity is cosmetic only. The reason it is used is because it's easy to leverage existing work in LLMs, and scaling (although not cheap) is an obvious approach.
Yes, it could be NTFS behind the scenes, but this is still an apples to oranges comparison because the storage service Oxide created is Crucible[0], not ZFS. Crucible is more of an apples to apples comparison with Ceph.

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible
Shit, this is going to completely kill jailbreaks isn't it?
the only benchmark that matters in the ELO points on LLMsys, any other one can be easily gamed
This guy gives a pretty good explanation of (Insulin's effects on the body), from the point of view of adapting it into a lifestyle diet. He also built a pretty amazing DIY cottage in Costa Rica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDxXprgv3kk&t=2s

This video actually helped to motivate me to get into meal prepping, and significant weight loss.
> Also I am not a monkey

[Citation Needed]
can you ask it:

9.11 and 9.9, which number is larger
It's cheaper and easier to get a USB microscope and look at a laptop screen than to peer through a binocular microscope.

I've used only lead-free solder for a decade. Get the good stuff with some silver in it and it's not difficult.
Link to paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4895486
One reason also is I believe it has something to do with fault tolerance even at a hardware level. A process has its data isolated somewhere in memory, if something happens to that memory, the process will crash next time it runs and starts causing supervisors to start attempting to recover the system
If they were sincere about that concern then they wouldn't build it at all, if it's ever made available to the public then it will eventually be available during an election. It's not like the 2024 US presidential election is the end of history.
The new thing that can do more at the "ceiling" price doesn't remove your ability to still use the 100x cheaper tokens for the things that were doable on that version.
Indeed, this is the problem with crypto games, there's no intrinsic value to the currency (and crypto as a whole).

The question is whether they'll get third parties to develop for their blockchain to the degree that it becomes self-sustaining (seems unlikely).

But it's not like other in-game currency hold their value after the game folds either.
Just don't dump your 401k into crypto ISK.
Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that someone would do that whole 40s all in one go... maybe a handful of seconds of full-power here and there... but heat accumulates and people probably want to put the iron down well before the battery in the handle hits its thermal limits. It just seems to me like it would be a good candidate to get hot quickly and suffer in both performance and comfort due to it. I'm sure it would probably be perfectly fine for light field use.
I finally got access to it, I tried playing Connect 4 with it, but it didn't go very well. A bit disappointed.
That was due to cartel behavior (and now should be limited by the recent drug capping initiative) - elsewhere in the world insulin is extremely affordable.

Insulin is an interesting case because the insulin you get today is manufactured in a different process than the original batches which has let manufacturers skirt around both generic alternatives and the original patent.
Well, not so much anymore. It's capped at $35/mo if you're on Medicare or ACA and most other sources.

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

I'd also mention that most of the insulin these days is not extracted from animals as it once was. One can make arguments for/against this, but for safety reasons almost all of it is now made with biopharmaceutical (bacterial recombinant) processes.
On the flip side I built a PC back in 2016 (with two SSD's) which went into storage about 6 months later. I just got that PC back this year and it booted up just fine with all the data intact.
But this cat run out of the bag years ago, didn't it? Trump himself is using AI-generated images in his campaign. I'd go even further: the more fake images appear, the faster the society as a whole will learn to distrust anything by default.
PDIP: Priority Directed Instruction Prefetching (ASPLOS '24) [pdf]
I find there is an educational benefit in verbosity, it helps to teach user to think like a machine
I'm pretty sure everything is Lego and Legos of Legos.

You show me something new and I say look down at who's shoulders we're standing on, what libraries we've build with.
I worked a 6 month aerospace industry assist detail in Vienna. They put me up in the Hilton hotel on Stadtpark for the entire time. Loved having my breakfasts right across the street in Café Prückel, with their 90 year old tuxedo clad waiters. Interesting to think of the famous persons that may have gathered there in days of yore.

Agree on the Sacher Torte, it's just an extraordinarily dry chocolate layer cake with a bit of apricot jam as the layer separator, enrobed in a tasteless waxy ganache. I tried it all over the city including of course at Hotel Sacher. I'm sure I could make a modern version at home that was actually delicious.

For every hit there is a miss... and for every Wienerschnitzel there is a Tafelspitz.
Given that this is a well known example, presumably OpenAI included a training set using letters.
Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics
I'm largely in agreement with you but I think the payout from the carbon tax should be higher on the poor side of the spectrum and much lower on the wealthy side. Alternatively, one could use the carbon tax to feed a negative income tax.
this drop is more related to the FED increasing the interest rates
why /s ? Isn't that an approach some people are actually trying to take?
https://archive.ph/TPQVg
I have something like this on a TS100 and it works fine. You set it down for a while because you're still soldering but you need to move stuff and it reduces the heat. Then you pick it back up and by the time you've gotten to part it's already back up the temp.

How is that worse than it just being full temp the whole time?
I don’t understand how that is generalizable. I’m not going to be able to train a scoring function for any arbitrary task I need to do. In many cases the problem of ranking is at least as hard as generating a response in the first place.
Can you explain why you think Dublin Core is a bad standard?
Yes. Used Nissan LEAF is like $1500 at the lowest end. Same for Prius. Lots of them should be able to continue to roll on the ground for a decade or so on bald tires. It'll be very hard to undercut those.
The Runtime Fee was a new fee attached to Unity 6 that applied only to games (and only to games meeting certain number of downloads and revenue floors), so cancelling it for games customers is cancelling it entirely.
You seem shadowbanned and I had to vouch for this comment to make it visible. Your last comments seem ok, so maybe you want to mail dang (the moderator) about your account.
If they are being precise, then “reliability and security” means something different than “security and reliability”.

How many reliability bugs has QEMU experienced in this time?

The man power to go on site and deal with in the field problems could be crippling. You often pick the boring problems for this reason. High touch is super expensive. Just look at Ferrari.
Did it hallucinate? I haven't looked at it, but lowercase i and uppercase i is not the same number if you're getting the number from ascii
Interesting to note, as an outside observer only keeping track of this stuff as a hobby, that it seems like most of OpenAI’s efforts to drive down compute costs per token and scale up context windows is likely being done in service of enabling larger and larger chains of thought and reasoning before the model predicts its final output tokens. The benefits of lower costs and larger contexts to API consumers and applications - which I had assumed to be the primary goal - seem likely to mostly be happy side effects.

This makes obvious sense in retrospect, since my own personal experiments with spinning up a recursive agent a few years ago using GPT-3 ran into issues with insufficient context length and loss of context as tokens needed to be discarded, which made the agent very unreliable. But I had not realized this until just now. I wonder what else is hiding in plain sight?
>private launch site

But you know it ISN'T private, because every rocket ever designed will end up in public space, either literally in outer space, or dropping parts in the ocean, or a tiny tiny tiny tiny chance of exploding somewhere less convenient.

This idea that you can just make your own little closed off launch pad and therefore ignore society is stupid.

Some of the more onerous pushback comes from people who have been ignored before and turned out to be right. For example, when Dupont and friends first started producing PFAS, someone out there was crying foul about "hey maybe we shouldn't just dump this everywhere", and they were ignored, it was dumped everywhere, and now we get to deal with the consequences because nobody listened to those people.

This has happened hundreds of times, including serious things like lead paint and leaded gasoline, which we KNEW caused direct and measurable harm to people, and yet was completely ignored. A portion of the public has obviously lost ALL trust for the private sector claiming any sort of "this couldn't possibly cause problems" and are willing and able to take action.

If you are a "big" enough entity, there is no such thing as "private". Anything you do, affects a lot of people, and you should be treated that way.
I charge any combination of my Macbook Pro, Thinkpad, Chromebook, phone, tablet etc at the same time almost exclusively with high wattage GaN multiport chargers. I keep one in my backpack with 2 or 3 100W cables so charging in parallel is never a problem away from home from a single outlet/charger.
Profits do not "have to" take top priority for any company, this is a widely believed myth. Any company may choose to prioritise its mission over absolute profit as long as they are clear with their investors that that's what they're doing.
Doesn't strike me as the kind of principle OpenAI is willing to slow themselves down for, to be honest.
It had a cute design, but many perf issues due to the SoCs of the day. An address book with 1000 entries took seconds to open and draw. This was because every line drawn required multiple RPC to the address provider process. On those SoCs there was no TLB or cache PIDs, so you had to flush all of it on context switch. Now imagine an RPC: at least two flushes - one on the way there, one on the way back. On a more modern core it would work a lot better! OUCHY!
They could, but they won't. The private sector is allergic to such long-term investments with no clear path to profitability. And why would they fund research if their competitors could just as easily monetize its potential results ?

They rely on publicly funded labs to make the real innovations and do the last (but nonetheless important) mile of bringing it to the public.
/me going to the store, to buy a cigar
Yes, but it will hallucinate like all other LLM tech making it fully unreliable for anything mission critical. You literally need to know the answer to validate the output, because if you don't, you won't know if output is true or false or in between.
This is incredible. In April I used the standard GPT-4 model via ChatGPT to help me reverse engineer the binary bluetooth protocol used by my kitchen fan to integrate it into Home Assistant.

It was helpful in a rubber duck way, but could not determine the pattern used to transmit the remaining runtime of the fan in a certain mode. Initial prompt here [0]

I pasted the same prompt into o1-preview and o1-mini and both correctly understood and decoded the pattern using a slightly different method than I devised in April. Asking the models to determine if my code is equivalent to what they reverse engineered resulted in a nuanced and thorough examination, and eventual conclusion that it is equivalent. [1]

Testing the same prompt with gpt4o leads to the same result as April's GPT-4 (via ChatGPT) model.

Amazing progress.

[0]: https://pastebin.com/XZixQEM6

[1]: https://i.postimg.cc/VN1d2vRb/SCR-20240912-sdko.png (sorry about the screenshot – sharing ChatGPT chats is not easy)
https://diabetes.org/health-wellness/medication/oral-other-i...
Per-token billing will be lit
Not really if you're in the iOS/macOS eco system.
Taco Bell in SoMa and the one in Tenderloin tended to have a lot of strung out, mentally ill, or homeless persons. It was nice that they were allowed to take a seat and enjoy water or whatever food they purchased, but it also affects the cleanliness of the restaurant.

I once had someone while eating stand up and just take their pants off in the KFC/Taco Bell in Tenderloin...

When I get to a Taco Bell, I look for how clean the tables are, how well-arranged the sauce/napkin station is, and how clean the fountain drink area is. If any of those are actively a disaster, it tells me the food quality is probably going to be worse (yes yes, its already terrible)
"hidden chain of thought" is basically the finetuned prompt isn't it? The time scale x-axis is hidden as well. Not sure how they model the gpt for it to have an ability to decide when to stop CoT and actually answer.
I think the article has been corrected. I read it after seeing this comment and couldn't find whales while reading nor with ctrl+f
A.I to Generate Profissional Copys
Found that podcast through hacker news. It really is fantastic.
Sonnet 3.5 brought the largest practical improvements to this end user over all predecessors (so far).
u are wise and right
You ever see that scene from Westworld? (spoiler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxJRYit44k
This. Please go read and understand the alignment argument against exposing chain of thought reasoning.
Since ChatGPT came out my test has been, can this thing write me a sestina.

It's sort of an arbitrary feat with language and following instructions that would be annoying for me and seems impressive.

Previous releases could not reliably write a sestina. This one can!
I’d think for the vast majority of uses it’d be just fine. The duty cycle of a soldering iron is extremely low. Most of the time it’s sitting there topping up the heat on the iron, barely sipping power. If you’re truly cranking heat into some ground plane, a wireless iron is unlikely to be the correct tool for the job. Also, you could set the threshold for backing off the iron to be lower than “too hot to hold” if that’s a concern.
If you haven’t run across https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ you may be in for a treat.
If you want to set transit folks' hair on fire, show how many E-bikes the government could buy for the cost of a transit project. Then, apply that number to the population that would be served by by that transit system.
From the article:

"tl;dr: making things people want and making things that alter thinking are isomorphic to each other"

I like the post (and think it goes well with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522551) but I do not think "isomorphic" is the right word.
Thread on Fosstodon (Mastodon):[0]

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/113119855733880407
My experience in soldering is a hobby one, but I've done hard enough things like install a Nintendo switch modchip without a microscope. I want to love this product, but I really think you're hitting the worst of both worlds in what you're trying to achieve.

On one hand, you're competing with "you're in the middle of a field and there exist no power outlets nearby" optimized irons, and you're offering some nicer features like 100W usb-c, but I don't think this is a field where one cares very much about the quality of their iron. I've fixed drones with the shittiest of usb-c irons, and I've done it with a pinecil, and when you're hunched over in a field, it frankly does not matter.

On the other hand, it seems you're also trying to compete in at-a-workbench soldering, a class in which your price point is simply never going to work for what you offer. You're being outclassed by half as expensive stationary stations, even more so when you consider that they don't use proprietary tips. My 40€ AliExpress special station came with 3 tips, heats up in 2 seconds, and offers about the same experience as your several hundred dollars one, at the supposed cost of repairability (I haven't come across an iron that doesn't work ever. I suspect it would be a comparable fix.)
> Pick a temperature you like and leave it there.

It's hard to argue because that's mostly what I do. But it feel really odd for a soldering iron not to have a temperature control right on it. Especially given competitor irons have screens and buttons. Going to a web interface seems insane in comparison to pressing some buttons.
Thanks, that helps! I still don't quite understand the mechanics of this, since backprop makes adjustments to steer the LLM towards a specific token sequence, not towards a score produced by a reward function.
The type system is a big part and elements of that have shown up elsewhere. I’m with you on the belief that we should have better adoption for immutability, pure functions, and equational reasoning.

JavaScript promises can work analogously to the Maybe monad if you want them to.

Swift’s optionals are essentially the same thing as the Maybe monad.
Same! And have been a subscriber for 18 months.
Got it! If we're picking favourites, though, I still like Windows as it, like GPT, starts with reasonably sensible names and then goes completely off the rails.
Why did they release this model then?
You are just catching up to this idea, probably after hearing 2^n explanations about why we humans are superiors to <<fill in here our latest creation>>.

I'm not the kind of scientist that can say how good an LLM is for human reasoning, but I know that we humans are very incentivized and kind of good at scaling, composing and perfecting things. If there is money to pay for human effort, we will play God no-problem, and maybe outdo the divine. Which makes me wonder, isn't there any other problem in our bucket list to dump ginormous amounts of effort at... maybe something more worth-while than engineering the thing that will replace Homo Sapiens?
The Strange Case of the Rogue HP-12c Calculator
Some commenters seem a bit confused as to how this works. Here is my understanding, hoping it helps clarify things.

Ask something to a model and it will reply in one go, likely imperfectly, as if you had one second to think before answering a question. You can use CoT prompting to force it to reason out loud, which improves quality, but the process is still linear. It's as if you still had one second to start answering but you could be a lot slower in your response, which removes some mistakes.

Now if instead of doing that you query the model once with CoT, then ask it or another model to critically assess the reply, then ask the model to improve on its first reply using that feedback, then keep doing that until the critic is satisfied, the output will be better still. Note that this is a feedback loop with multiple requests, which is of different nature that CoT and much more akin to how a human would approach a complex problem. You can get MUCH better results that way, a good example being Code Interpreter. If classic LLM usage is system 1 thinking, this is system 2.

That's how o1 works at test time, probably.

For training, my guess is that they started from a model not that far from GPT-4o and fine-tuned it with RL by using the above feedback loop but this time converting the critic to a reward signal for a RL algorithm. That way, the model gets better at first guessing and needs less back and forth for the same output quality.

As for the training data, I'm wondering if you can't somehow get infinite training data by just throwing random challenges at it, or very hard ones, and let the model think about/train on them for a very long time (as long as the critic is unforgiving enough).
I suspect the usb-PD standard doesn't allow for raising the voltage any more than they already do
Forced decoupling between tasks is part of the deal here. Each task can fail separately because it only affects other tasks through messages.
DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
Came accross this cool idea. Downside is I don't like coffee, much less espresso
> It is a shame that the article almost completely ignores the issue of the tooling.

Mostly because while I found of the tooling occasionally difficult, I didn’t find Haskell particularly bad compared to other language ecosystems I’ve played with, with the exception of Rust, for which the compiler errors are really good.

> The syntax summary in the article is really good

Thanks, I wasn’t so sure how to balance that bit.