skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Occam's razor says they are saying whatever gives them as much money and power as possible.

OpenAI is suspiciously bad in providing access to their models, compared to e.g. Meta, Mistral, BLOOM collaboration, Alibaba and even oil tyrants FFS.
> What failure mode do LLMs have that proves they don't understand anything at all ?

Try to get it to write something in a programming language not commonly used on the internet, say Forth or Brainfuck, with only the specifications of said languages. Humans are able to grasp the law of reality through a model and use it to act upon the real world.

> You genuinely think that a system whose goal is to predict the data it's given and continues to improve is limited in what it can learn?

Not GP, but Image generators have ingested more images that I've seen in my life and still can't grasp basic things like perspective or anatomy. Things that people can learn from a book or two. And there are software that already have models for both.
Probably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself?
Yes, the difference is absolutely critical. Being unable to differentiate imaginary from real is a serious mental disorder.
I've probably read about it and forgotten, but what on earth was it doing in all those pipeline stages?

Were there a lot of idle/no-op stages for simple instructions? Or did most instructions, even simple ones, actually get some useful work done for each of those 32ish stages?
It'll work right up until a second goose joins the fun.
This is the right answer. :)

I think a lot of folks get mixed up with GPU and/or SIMD architecture, where you execute both sides of the branch out of necessity: Some of the lanes need to go one way and some the other, so you have to do both.
You'd probably have a lot better luck using Vulkan acceleration (not ROCm) of llama.cpp as backend to ollama. It is incomparibly easier to set up and maintain compared to ROCm. You can actually do it on your computer's normal OS instead of inside a bunch of container/vms where the system libs are entirely customized to running just that one application.

AMD's support of consumer cards is very, very short. By the time it's stable enough for a new card to run the card is no longer supported. In 2021 I bought an AMD GPU that came out 3 years before and 1 year after I bought it (4 years since release) they dropped ROCm support.
So very true. The greatest science teachers understand the power that comes with the stories of scientific discovery.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and some of Richard Feynman’s best lectures come to mind as some of the most memorable examples, but I’m certain all the best teachers out there know to incorporate the historical and human aspects to bring the essential perspective and natural mnemonic anchors to otherwise “dry” subjects.
With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda.

In that case, i could imagine for example that this can be something done to ease a further AI feature. it is almost impossible to train an AI for content with individual customization. So if Y is blocked to see your content, that is impossible to have AI trained on your tweets and still be sure that Y can't get the content of your tweets.
Plunk will run you $1.5 every time you want to send out an email ($0.001/email * 1500)

Plunk is pretty much Amazon SES + an open source tool turned into a product. It's selfhostable but if you prefer software intended to be selfhosted then Sendy might work well for you too. Issue is Sendy costs $70~ upfront.

Plunk: https://useplunk.com

Sendy: https://sendy.co
I now have a giant bin full of thick plastic bags that I feel bad about throwing away. The half ban WA state did has only increased my plastic bag consumption.

IMHO the law should mandate compostable bags be used.
This is not evidence, and it is still baseless. They literally hired a completely different voice actress. Nothing else needs to be said. What the fsck does it matter if it was "similar to" Scarlett Johannsen, even if it was (which it wasn't)? Should an actor be able to sue another actor who looks similar because of the work they got?
A mistake that I have made!

And the answer is:

UPDATE TABLE posts
SET views = views + 1
WHERE post_id = $1
RETURNING views;

@app.post("/view/{post_id}")
async def view_post(post_id: int):
await Post.filter(id=post_id).update(views=F("views") + 1)
post = await Post.filter(id=post_id).get()
return {"current_views": post.views}
Yeah, I like the idea of a bmc but the implementation sort of sucks. What I want: a small soc pony engine that controls the main computer. On this soc I want to install my own os. I like openbsd so that would be my ideal os, but the point is it should be my os not the vendors.
> Probably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself?

I think it’s a torque screwdriver.
What is an AI? Just an LLM? What do you call Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant? I've already received a Gemini app on Android, and they're promoting the premium version too. Runs locally, yes?

30 years ago, my supervisor wrote, from scratch, an "AI" running on the company web server (HP/UX PA-RISC; 32-64MB RAM), that would heuristically detect and block suspected credit-card fraud. Remember that "AI" is a perennial buzzword with fluid definitions, both an achievable goal right now, and a holy grail. ¡Viva Eliza!
In some significant ways, it's not strong at all. It's stronger than Javascript but it's difficult not to be. Python is a duck typing language for the most part.
The SOIC look like they could work as-is in a gameboy, which (thanks to Pokemon) is the most common request for replacing batteries. The DIPs could be made to work in most NES games too, I suspect.
Thank you. This is 100% correct (IMHO).
Also bear in mind that government can convey restrictions on any other business in that country. See Brazil requiring ISPs to ban Twitter (even a penalty on individuals bypassing the block using VPNs!), or the US basically prohibiting any business with anyone in Russia.

Basically if you want to operate in a country, you probably need to obey their laws, no matter what you think of those laws. If you ignore them, you can't really be surprised if you get blocked or penalized from doing business there.
This seems like a big assumption to me personally.

To be clear, I happen to be of the opinion that AI/ML/LLMs/whatever cannot truly replace software engineers without the true advent of AGI.

But to play devil's advocate. I'm an embedded SWE and work with circuit designers/have dabbled in some PCB design myself. Taking circuit design as an example:

From an abstract logic standpoint, PCB design is not that different from software development. It essentially boils down to taking some input and feeding it through a cascade of various discrete transformations until you have some desired output. The fact that PCB designs are captured through schematics is irrelevant, as a schematic is just a visual representation of a netlist. There are even DSLs that allow for the design of circuits through code alone. The mechanisms that make LLMs work show some level of adaptability to domains outside of traditional language. It is totally conceivable today to finetune an LLM on netlists (or even on images of schematics with the right encoder model) and have it be able to generate circuit designs. The training data exists, though it's not as plentiful as say code or english texts.
I'm not an ML expert but I believe it's totally possible to have something where, for example, the text "555 timer-based LED-blinking circuit", could map in embedding space to a netlist that describes said circuit. There are in fact companies working on this exact thing today (Flux.ai)

I don't see why this wouldn't work for other engineering disciplines aswell. There's lots of public scad code for various 3d models. It's totally conceivable to build a model trained on scad or even raw 3d object file geometry and text embeddings to generate mechanical designs. Lot's of research is going into generative meshes which could be seen as an early form of this.

I think my point being that the hard part of engineering, discipline aside, is being able to take a fuzzy set of desires from a customer and a fuzzy set of constraints and being able to use the hard math and science to create and iteratively refine a product/system/whatever to make all stakeholders happy. LLMs can't really emulate this process today.
Russia's Next-Generation Nuclear Missile Failed a Test, Evidence Suggests
What exactly do you think WASP is short for? By almost every metric, the period of political and cultural ascendancy for American WASPs ended at least a generation ago. Consider the backgrounds of our last 3 presidents, as well as our next one (regardless of who it is).

(What’s so bewildering about this is that your framing suggests that it wasn’t the WASPs who were in tweed before, but some other demographic from whom the WASPs wrested the elite status. But the exact opposite is - rightfully - the case.)
Bamboo straws are awesome.

Most places around me just stopped using straws. Only kids drinks and boba get straws now days.
I can't believe they had to grind the memory chip off. I would have expected reflow work or something. Incredible.
I like to imagine you were in an uber paired with a 4.6 driver and the ride ended poorly with the unfinished sentence at the end of your reply.
There's an old case study from aerospace that shows up sometimes in UX discussions, where the US military tried to design an airplane that fit the 'average' pilot and found that they made a plane that was not comfortable for any pilots. They had to go back in and add margins to a bunch of things, so they were adjustable within some number of std deviations of 'average'.
Nice things about checks:

- not subject to the annoying daily / monthly limits of Interac eTransfers, EFT's, etc.
- easy to hand to someone, especially where there's no internet
- generally no extra fees
- for B2B, pretty much everyone accepts them
- post-dating (one tactic toward your question of how to deal with regular payments, eg. rent)
- in the US, a picture of one (meeting certain criteria) has the same legal status as the original
- float (not nice at all for you, but a not-insignificant revenue stream for your bank/insurance company/etc)

They also fostered a whole soup of fraud prevention practices that is mostly irrelevant to electronic payments yet still seems to pervade and add friction to them.
> except in the exceedingly common instances where someone is the target of harassment

Super low-effort harassment, where the harasser can't bother creating a new Twitter account.
The LTT hacker ran the classic fake Elon Musk crypto livestream that scammers have been rehashing for years. It probably says something about the kind of person who reveres Musk that they're apparently known to be marks who will easily fall for the wallet inspector routine.
US to ban Chinese tech in cars
He's not. Knock it off.
A single 8Tbit NAND is about $130 in single quantities.
I googled "Ford v. Milton" and found something regarding the "slayer's rule", which is unlikely to be what you were referring to...

The whole point I made was that it was not her "likeness". Except in the way that the voice of any young woman speaking clearly resembles the voice of any other young woman speaking clearly, because I would argue that if you took 10 random young women's voices who speak clearly (say, 10 voice actresses) and listened to them all together, you wouldn't be able to distinguish them much either.
From the same source above professor Mark Elliot writes:

"In regularly held contests, expertness might be demonstrated by accuracy of aim, length of shot, or strength in drawing. It was the last of these that occasioned the most detailed comments by supervising officers. Bows were graded by "strength" from three [40 pounds] to as high as eighteen [240 pounds], according to their stiffness. Ability at strength of six (probably a pull of about 80 pounds) was considered minimal for a grown man, and strength of ten (about 133 pounds) was required for participation in hunts. A 1736 report found that of 3,200 troops at the Hangzhou garrison about 2,200 were able to draw bows of strengths six to ten [80-133], and 80 could handle bow strengths of eleven to thirteen [147-173 pounds]… …In comparison, the 500 troops at the small Dezhou garrison acquitted themselves with honor, all of them being able to take a five-strength bow [67 pounds], 203 a six-strength [80 pounds], 137 a seven ­strength [93 pounds], and 85 a ten-strength bow [133 pounds].

And:
"The champion in a 1728 contest between the one hundred top bowmen in the empire won one hundred taels when he hit the bull's-eye using an eighteen-strength bow an estimated drawing weight of almost 240 pounds!"

So in 1728, the draw weight topped out at 240 lbs which only one guy in the entire empire could draw.

I've attempted to pull an 80 lb longbow once with no training, and I'm pretty sure I risked tearing a shoulder. It takes a lifetime of training to get into military bow pull strength
I remember reading this in the past https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-ora... that came with more pictures to please our eyes!
> With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda

What kind of decisions? Why?

The motivation seems simple: increase engagement by broadening the amount of content someone can see / be shown.
Worked as expected, for all the states I voted in.
> If an organisation wants to prevent that, it can rotate DKIM keys and release the old secret keys. This way, any future email with valid signature can be denied as a forgery

OK, so, not the current private key. These are superceded keys made available for hysterical raisins.
It seems grossly inefficient for coding to go from NL prompt -> LLM -> formal language -> compile/execute. I'd envision AIs that would construct apps directly from the prompts, without the fragile middleware.

In fact, if it is optimal coding to interface existing libraries and frameworks, with minimal novel code, then just go full LEGO and pull in those dependencies, minimizing the error-prone originality.
Now the question is, to which government Telegram will comply to share your info.

If I live in Germany, and I do a channel with offensive content against the government of an Arabian shitty country, let's say UAE for example. The content might be legal here but illegal there.

Will the UAE gov be entitled to get my IP address and other info? Leading them to be able to use that to harass me, like targeting me with Pegasus for example?
1mg should really be the max dosage that is available. Most people should take 0.3mg.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...
It’s an additional barrier. It also provides the blocking user the ability to block the new account. This isn’t very difficult to think through. And if it’s so easy, why the need for this new “feature” to begin with?
They're also using bulk pricing for the IC though, single quantity from digikey is around $130

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4Ig...
Olive oil is a soap oil.
CNC drill removal is safe and can be done consistently by a machine with consistent predictable results.
Wouldn't that provide an upper bound then? If the real size is equal to or less than the calculated size?
> I can work with the printer, not work on the printer.

That's what sold me on getting my Bambu, and it's totally true. No need to spend hours carefully aligning and calibrating things.
Well put! If you/y’all haven’t heard, there’s a popular breakdown of “technical documentation” into four types, and this is one of the axes: https://nick.groenen.me/posts/the-4-types-of-technical-docum...

People’s names for the four types vary, but I’m personally a fan of naming the axes “propositional vs procedural” and “informational vs developmental”, giving us a final four categories (00, 01, 10, 11) of “References”, “Instructions”, “Lessons”, and “Tutorials”. I think the applicability to LLM clearly holds up! Though more so for advanced chatbots than HR widgets TBF, I doubt anyone is looking for developmental content from one of those.
There have been government hearings in the US about grocery stores price-gouging over the rate of inflation. So yes?
Two of my housemates have just bought new iPhone 16 Pro and ProMax. Between them, and associated accessories, it's cost them over AUD$5k. My phone is a cheap android, and cost AUD$290.

I can't see where they get 10 times the value. Yes, it's got a better camera.

Where is the value with iPhone?
'Defense contractor expresses hope for long term revenue stream' might have been a fairer headline. I am not that interested in the pugilistic views of someone who seems to have little or no awareness of history or ever been in a fist fight.
sounds like a neat use-case!
This is like asking “who is this private security company to gatekeep my access to the business that is paying them to gatekeep their business”
The primary thing people complain about is the aesthetics of the FDM print lines. They give the appearance of a hobbyist look. Sanding and finishing is one way to alleviate that. I bet PLA doesn’t sand amazing since it’s mostly just sugar but PETG sands reasonably fine. I have sanded PETG and finished with spar urethane/polyurethane for commercial products to give them a nice professional glossy sheen with no print lines. I mentioned in a sibling comment XTC-3D as another option which is probably the best hobbyist product for this, but it’s kind of a pain to work with and it’s a little expensive. So not great for commercial use. For home use though it’s totally fine and indeed usually gives better results than the urethanes mentioned above due to lack of yellowing and being thicker and better at filling in the lines and giving a smoother appearance. People could honestly probably just use that product without sanding and be mostly happy with it because it does a good job of hiding the FDM lines even without sanding
Honestly I don't think that the few "blocked" tweets where you still can't interact with is making a real difference in term of ad monetizable engagement.

You will see what will come next and it will be clear.

If not for AI indexation, another hypothesis is something like removing the paywall needing an account to access user content or something like that.
Yes, we did it in physics at school too, when we were 13 or 14 I think.
> Secondly, yes voice imitators CAN be criminals.

Which is not the case in discussion, there is no impersonation.

> First off, this reddit speak needs to go in a fire and die.

Are you ok? I think you should calm down before posting.
Averages are very bad in bimodal distributions.

And that includes issues of public policy, where going left sort of works, and going right sort of works, and going in the middle sucks for absolutely everyone.
Honeypot is a good idea, but not for my immediate little one-server Web site startup.

On blocking country address ranges, my idealist side hopes that doesn't prove necessary. I personally know nice people in both of those countries.
or clay.

https://youtube.com/shorts/9YKbf5pJy9M
These aren't exactly the best examples for your point.

I would consider Final space to be adult commedy (wikipedia also describes it that way)

The owl house literally won an award for best childrens tv (albeit it does look deep enough to be enjoyed by adults)

Infinity train is fair, but also cant even legally be purchased, which isnt exactly a great sign.

The other two are fair examples. (I never claimed there are none, just that its pretty limited)

> There's also not nearly as much MONEY in western animation, so of course there's less of it.

Sure, but that is both a cause and effect of it failing to capture audiences the way anime has.
This is a very surface level response without wondering why the Clip Zip would be a standout. Doubly so if you actually dive into how many dupes and how crappy most of the 78 results likely are.

The direction hardware development has gone for MP3 players since the Clip Zip (specifically regarding the amount of memory built into the SoC) means it running Rockbox (a well-regarded custom firmware for MP3 players) is likely to be drastically better than all of these that are remotely close to the same form factor. Sandisk's own successors to the Clip Zip are universally inferior and the superior alternatives weigh three times as much at multiples of the Clip Zip's RRP.

The modern replacement for the Sansa Clip Zip is a USB C mod and putting a new battery into your existing Sansa Clip Zip.
> also provides the blocking user the ability to block the new account. This isn’t very difficult to think through

The harasser can view from their new accounts and respond on their main account. Unless someone is very tightly curating their follower list, at which point it doesn't make sense for them to be publicly tweeting, there would be no indication which account was responsible.

The problem in harassment is the harassment. Not the harasser's access to the public domain.
I'm just saying that due process doesn't mean fair or just.

Normal parole boards in America with American due process also do not have an obligation to release people unless their guilt for further crimes can be proven beyond reasonable doubt, but they're also part of what is called due process.

You can argue this legal punishment is no good, but you can't argue for due process because he got it. In fact that is exactly what people have argued, hence this punishment being removed from the books. But in a cruel and seemingly unjust twist of "due process" of the law, the punishment was not vacated for all of those previously convicted. So if anything you would plead for an exception to normal due process here and ask that the change be retroactively applied, wouldn't you?
There's only so much one can do. Convincing other people that these things matter is hard. Even when you have good evidence (which isn't always easy to come by), people often won't put in the work to keep things small.
As a computer scientist, I was blown away the first time my friend explained to me that his research focused on the timing of neuron spikes, not their magnitude. After talking about it for a while I realized that machine learning neural networks are much closer to simple early models of how neuron's work (averages and all), not how neuron's actually signal. Makes sense when you consider how the latest LLM models have almost as many parameters as we have neurons, but we still seem pretty far from AGI.
Hah, atomic power is a great point of comparison: people in the "atomic age" expected atomic power to be everywhere. Electricity too cheap to measure, cars/planes/appliances all powered by small nuclear reactors... That's without going into the real nonsense like radium toothpaste.

And here we are today where nuclear energy is limited to nuclear weapons, a small set of military vehicles and <10% of the world's electricity production. Not nothing, sure, but nothing like past predictions either.
I only completed fable 1, not having a console, I believe (and then later, some nonsense about microsoft DRM no longer working? or something? or some microsoft service no longer existing? I forget), prevented me from experiencing/enjoying the other 2, but that certainly sounds interesting!
No one has mentioned it, the album "I'm Your Fan" is a collection of LC covers by (album order): R.E.M., Ian McCulloch, Pixies, That Petrol Emotion, The Lilac Time, Geoffrey Oryema, James, Jean-Louis Murat, David McComb & Adam Peters, The House of Love, Lloyd Cole, Robert Forster, Peter Astor, Dead Famous People, Bill Pritchard, The Fatima Mansions, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, & John Cale.
do you prompt chain-of-thought, use a model trained on chain-of-thought, or use o1?

I ask because I am interested in trying out function-calling (without the problem you mentioned of zero-shot sometimes getting it wrong, and then having to validate it and re-send it with a correction prompt if it's invalid)