skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [1] The training code for AMD-135M is based on TinyLlama, utilizing multi-node distributed training with PyTorch FSDP.

I thought PyTorch didn't work well with AMD architecture, and read of many people using JAX instead?
For what purpose, so that we can't buy more stuff from them? Do they really hate our business that much? China really has nothing to gain from crippling the US.
I attended the opening talk of a local science festival.

The speaker was a psychology researcher from UK who flew here for that, and the talk was about conspiracy theories. When they introduced her they stated that she wouldn't accept any questions from the audience.

This was received with boos and shouts that it was not real science.

She then proceeded to bundle all the conspiracy theories together. Going from "the government is doing something bad" to "earth is flat".

After that talk I can really believe that the bullshit conspiracy theories are made up and spread artificially so that anyone that comes up with any conspiracy theory can be shushed as a crazy person.

But… in reality conspiracies do exist. One can make a theory and then test if it's true (or get killed/imprisoned by the government while trying).
Step 1: have $70k several decades ago, when it would have been the equivalent of about $250k today taking into account inflation. Taking into account the time value of money, that $250k would be worth several million in current purchasing power. (For comparison, most Hollywood stars made about this much back then and lived like kings; nice houses could be purchased for <$100k that today would cost >$10 million.)

Step 2: Be an investment banker and have access to lots of capital that lets you make repeated risky bets.

Step 3: Benefit from bailouts when many of those risky bets fail.

So, his story is not in any way replicable by normal people and isn't even replicable by most of his peers or new entrants into his own industry today.
The hard part of semiconductor manufacturing is all about the emergent complexity of many systems put together all at once. Any one tool can be isolated and dealt with by a finite team in a finite period of time. It's when you combine all of the tools and facilities together that you get this beast that has incomprehensible levels of complexity.

Some people like to say that everything is harder in game development, but I'd say that it's even more so in semiconductor systems engineering. Tracing problems through every layer of the factory is like playing Elden Ring without a monitor. All you get is a guy in Korea who speaks very bad English to describe the scene for you. I can guarantee there is nowhere you will find more cursed problems. Imagine enduring a root cause analysis that winds up attributing a yield issue to fertilizer being spread on a field 20 miles away.
> don't really tell you very much

???

I think this statement is either meaningless or incorrect. At the very least your conclusion is context dependent.

That being said, I ran gels back in the stone ages when you didn't just buy a stack of pre-made gels that slotted into a tank.

I had to clean my glass plates, make the polyacrylamide solution, clamp the plates together with office binder clips and make sure that the rubber gasket was water tight. So many times, the gasket seal was poor and my polyacrylamide leaked all over the bench top.

I hated running them. But when they worked, they were remarkably informative.
+1, and to put more simply, AI as we know it today makes zero guarantees about its accuracy. That's pretty insane for a "tool" to make no guarantees about being correct in any way for any purpose.

A spellchecker makes guarantees about accuracy. So does a calculator. Broad, sweeping guarantees.

Imagine if we built a tool that could automatically do all the electrical work in a new home from the breaker box to every outlet, and it could do it in 2 hours. However, what if that tool made no guarantees about its ability to meet electrical code? Would people use it anyway? Of course they would. Many dangerous errors would slip through inspection and many more house fires would ensue as a result.
No way this was accidental. You'd fail an interview for suggesting something like this.
All those reasons apply to Russia too.

> but the US generally has supported democracy while China is fine with dictators

In the Middle East the US's #1 ally is indeed a democracy, but is currently fending off various challenges [1, 2] accusing them of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Their #2 ally is an authoritarian regime run by a gentleman who can be identified with phrases like "the bone saw incident" let alone the Kingdom's long record of barbarism and human rights abuses.

The US might win a battle of who supports better causes, but it isn't a can of worms to open either. There is no particular indication that it cares about the government system or actions of the people it supports.

[0] If the US didn't do it directly, they endorsed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide#International_Cr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide#International_Co...
Happy to answer any questions HN folks have about this. Love y'all. :)
> From his perspective, there's no problem on Earth that can't be solved with human ingenuity and creativity. Every major issue we face — wealth inequality, authoritarianism, environmental degradation and so on — could be eradicated if only the system could be fixed first.
Ehh... I think neglect and incompetence are super common. I have a sink full of dishes downstairs to prove it. I think corruption, while not rare, is still far rarer. Horses over zebras still (at least in the US).
I mean even on the Wikipedia article it says:
"Some of ELIZA's responses were so convincing that Weizenbaum and several others have anecdotes of users becoming emotionally attached to the program, occasionally forgetting that they were conversing with a computer.[3] Weizenbaum's own secretary reportedly asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so that she and ELIZA could have a real conversation. Weizenbaum was surprised by this, later writing: 'I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.'"

That's why I said it passed the Turing test. It did, in the wild. I think if you set up an adversarial Turing test it'd fare much more poorly, but consider this: anyone dealing with it knew they were dealing with a computer, not just 'text from a mystery messager in another room'. So in a sense it more than passed the Turing test, in that people started out knowing it was not a person, yet began to treat it as one anyhow.

This is more about how little it takes to pass a Turing test and be treated as intelligence… which is mighty salient to discussions of what we now call 'AI'. Some of you are taking today's Eliza mighty seriously.
Not the author but I grew up using this tech and I recall it being seconds rather than minutes.
> There are more new cases of cancer in the United States now than there have ever been before.

Sigh

That is because antibiotics, essentially

The mechanism by which antibiotics cause cancer is they stop you dying from bacterial infection, once a huge (biggest?) killer.

You still have to die of something....
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On the plus side, this is the kind of stuff you could screen pretty easily with large model machine learning. Not that there is a business in identifying scientific fraud, doing that with fraudulent government documents would probably have a better ROI (at least for the tax payer), but clearly we need a repository if every image/graph that has been published as evidence to start.

It would be something you could offer to journals perhaps as a business. Sort of "peer reviewed and fraud analyzed" kinda service.

What is truly sad for me is the 'wrong paths' many hard working and well meaning scientists get deflected down while someone cheats to get more 'impact' points.
> for being a private equity leech

Matt says that WPEngine doesn't contribute as much as he thinks they should (also, curious where he comes up with 8% of gross revenue as a licensing fee), but describing WPEngine as a "leech" is a little ... off.

Just a few weeks ago WPEngine donated $75,000 to the Foundation for their conference. And then were booted from the conference. Didn't hear about the Foundation returning the donation though.

And why were they booted from the conference? Because they are in dispute with wp.org (which remember, Matt, Automattic, insist wp.org is nothing to do with the Foundation, but a benevolent gift)?

I don't know - Matt is the one who comes off shitty. I also like how you quoted snide and petulant as if disagreeing - you should perhaps read his text messages to WPEngine that amount effectively to extortion. There's precious few ways to read some of those and his other communications as NOT snide, petulant, or both.
If Matt wants those to be the terms under which WordPress can be used commercially, put it in the license.

Oh. Wait. He can’t. Because that’s not his call.
Check out the gritql example from morgante. That does a lot of cool things and is what you are looking for.
Yeah, it is a gross morass of pain and cruft and unclear implementation for devs.
It doesn't need much money to show someone you love them.

That's why a poor loving father will always be worth much more than a wealthy absent father.
I don't know why people think analogies from the past predict or prove anything in the future. It's as if a different situation applies completely to the current situation via analogy EVEN though both situations are DIFFERENT.

The computer created jobs because it takes human skills to talk to the computer.

It takes very little skill to talk to an LLM. Why would your manager ask you to prompt an LLM to do something for you when he can do it himself? You going to answer this question with another analogy?

Just think reasonably and logically. Why would I pay you a 300k annual salary when a chatGPT can do it for nothing? It's pretty straightforward. If you can't justify something with a straightforward answer, likely you're not being honest with yourself.

Why don't we use actually evidence based logic to prove things rather then justify things by leaping over some unreasonable gap with some analogy. Think about the current situation, don't base your hope on a past situation and hope that the current situation will be the same because of analogy.
Sometimes in this thread you appear to use the word risk to mean harm. I could probably agree with you if I was allowed to pick which you used in any given phrase. I agree that drunk driving isn’t always harmful but I can’t see any situation where it wouldn’t be more risky than the same driving act with a different intoxication level.

Otherwise I’m not sure how to resolve the contradiction between “drunk driving … poses more risk than regular driving” and “drunk driving isn’t always risky.”

You’re right to wonder how a system based on civil justifiability principles that include concretized injury also allows criminal penalty for risk without harm.
I think eventually the games industry will settle on something like music royalties. Game companies will get some amount of money per-play.
Also currently working on a book (shameless plug: buy my book!) and feel no pull or need to involve AI. This book is my mine. My faults. My shortcomings. My overuse of commas. My wonky phrasing. It has to have those things, because I am those things (for better or worse!).
Wars and conflicts have been around long before we had defined morals.
Using it in a dark room is weird at times. The pure blacks create the strange illusion of holding something lit that you cannot see.
Yeah, see the other replies in here. It is just a mess of ancient cruft and unclear implementation guidelines.
Out of interest, who would be in the top X of that list?
A quick look at the Automattic site (https://automattic.com/about/) says they dedicate 5% of company time to WP open source.

Their GitHub has over 1000 repos, likely all WP related. https://github.com/Automattic

I don’t doubt Automattic is not putting in their fair share into the WP community.
> Wordpress.com is subsidizing wordpress.org, which is a charitable foundation that accepts donations

Nope. There goes Matt, muddying the waters. Contrary to many people (including myself's belief) wp.org is very explicitly, in his words, NOT the Foundation, just a benevolent gift of his to the community. You could be excused, given all the links to donate to the Foundation and accompanying text, or the fact that it lives on the Foundation's ASN, though.
There's actually seems to be a bunch of stuff now:

* https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW - has a list of demos and how to use it directly (including apparently w/ PyTorch and LLMs)

* https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-amd - can use RyzenAI to use the NPU for HF transformers

There's now a Linux driver even https://github.com/amd/xdna-driver although it looks like a sufficiently PITA that I haven't even bothered to try it (my 7940HS only has like 10 TOPS anyway, so not much point even if it worked perfectly).
I do read! And I hope you consider WordPress for something in the future and don't let a PE firm's bad behavior forcing us into a public fight cloud your user experience.
That is both utterly thought-terminating and irrelevant.
Good question. It's not just ibm14, but everything people outside Google tried shows that RL is much worse than prior methods. NVDLA, BlackParrot, etc. There is a strong possibility that Google pre-trained RL on certain TPU designs then tested in them, and submitted to Nature.
Thanks for the recommendation – took a look, but I'm not seeing an odoo app that clearly seems to fit the criteria mentioned. Was there a specific odoo app you had in mind?
Sure but I definitely don’t want a push notification that something worked.
From the link:

> escalate my concerns to management staff

On one side automatic algorithms are often unreasonably unfair but entitlement of that user for free service seems pretty strange.
I have never understood why nginx is pushing njs. Openresty which is using lua achieves the same thing and has way more community momentum.
I'm not the person you're replying to but I did the treatment, as part of one of the clinical trials in Ireland in 2016 (?). I'd agree with the GP, it lowered my awareness of tinnitus to the point that it no longer bothers me. Hard to say if it made it "quieter", if I focus on I can make it as loud as I want, but I no longer hear it the way you don't hear your fridge even though it's constantly making noise. Prior to the treatment I was extremely distressed and found tinnitus agonizing, I couldn't listen to music for example, even though my hearing is perfect.

The treatment is a really weird experience, and it's hard to say of their approach requires all the parts that it used, but it's the only thing that ever improved it. I don't know if their trials are well designed but the people who make it are serious. (by coincidence, their old office was next to mine when they were a tiny operation)

For me it was free of course. I think at its present cost it's probably too expensive for most people unless they are desperate. In the trial I spent about 2 months of using the device and the headphones for 2 half hour sessions a day.
It is more suspicious than not carrying. In terms of suspicision from a third party:

Concealed carry > open carry > no carry

The fact that concealed carry is undetectable and indiscernible from no carry does mean it is free from suspicion.

As a 2A proponent, a protected right is no protection from bias or suspicion. If I see an open carry in a strange context, I will wonder WTF they are doing.
XML is marginally more complicated than JSON: attributes and namespaces.

Apples to apples, is it's not much different. XSD is just as complex as JSONSchema.

Verbose? Sure.

But people love XML so much, they invented JS-and-XML (JSX). :shrug:
You’d fail an interview for doing a bunch of things that are done in orgs every day. What’s your point?
*”Perpetual” may be terminated at any time without notice.
The new iPad app for Zotero 7 is great. Editing just seems to work. I use my WebDAV server for storage and my changes just show up across devices without worrying. Really great way to manage papers.

Now if only there were an iPad with a screen like the Remarkable (or a Zotero app for the Remarkable).
The reason many people hate children is because children are not satisfied with the level of epistemology that most people can provide them, and have no compunction in saying “that answer is unsatisfactory”

Hence why institutional pedagogy is so often rote and has nothing to do with understanding - when we know science of learning says that every human craves understanding (montessori, piaget etc…)

In fact, the shortest way to break the majority of people’s brains is to ask them one of the following questions:

- Can you Explain the reasoning behind your behavior?

- How would you test your hypothesis?

- What led you to the conclusion you just stated?

- Can you clarify the assumptions embedded in your claim?

-Have you evaluated the alternatives to your position?
> Beyond using network trickery to reverse-engineer API calls, I don't see how it can be expected that it should already be in place

Don't worry, though, Matt has generously given them 72 whole hours to figure out exactly how to do it, and complete the whole mirroring process, too! Oh, he did that on a Friday afternoon, just before the weekend? Extra generous!
Balkonkraftwerk: how Germany outfitted half a mln balconies with solar panels
So the Ukrainians should not be defending themselves against a foreign invasion?

Defending themselves against foreign aggressors who have committed documented atrocities against their population, and who are on record as intending to commit genocide against them when they win, is immoral?
Resisting occupation?
It's actually not clear who was bullied. The two researchers ganged up on Chatterjee and got him fired because he used the word "fraud" - wrongful termination of a whistleblower. Only recently Google settled with Chatterjee for an undisclosed amount.
If you wake up from a coma and see the headline "Today Waymo has rolled out a nationwide robotaxi service", what year do you infer that it is?
(Winnipegers have a culture of slurpees)
There exists big sports betting exchanges like Betfair, where there isn't a "house" and where they don't really have an incentive to limit big winners. I have friends who make consistent profit from these sites - though it must be said they do ramp up the commission
https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html

SQLite's planner is anything but simple. It has a beam search over different plans, basically, it approximates full NP-hard solution search process using bounded space and time.
> In private conversations, Mr. Altman has compared the world’s data centers to electricity, according to three people close to the discussions. As the availability of electricity became more widespread, people found better ways of using it. Mr. Altman hoped to do the same with data centers and eventually make A.I. technologies flow like electricity.

Reminds me of a quote I saved from Kevin Kelly's book The Inevitable, which was published in 2016. I saved it because it sounded so absurd at the time. To be clear, it sort of still does sound absurd to me, who remain moderately skeptical about AI (though admittedly less so than in 2016, largely because of the following sentence). What's very serious is how much money and old-fashioned brainpower is going into making this future real. I don't know whether the metaphor was arrived at independently, derives from the same source, or is just an obvious way of thinking about the world when you've drunk the right flavor of Kool-Aid.

> Amid all this activity, of a picture of our AI future is coming into view, and it is not the HAL 9000—a discrete machine animated by a charismatic (yet potentially homicidal) humanlike consciousness—or a Singularitan rapture of superintelligence. The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. This common utility will serve you as much IQ as you want but no more than you need. You’ll simply plug into the grid and get AI as if it was electricity. It will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century past. Three generations ago, many a tinkerer struck it rich by taking a tool and making an electric version. Take a manual pump; electrify it. Find a hand-wringer washer; electrify it. The entrepreneurs didn’t need to generate the electricity; they brought it from the grid and used it to automate the previously manual. Now everything that we formerly electrified we will cognify. There is almost nothing we can think of that cannot be made new, different, or more valuable by infusing it with some extra IQ. In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it.
In that case any high-priority military intelligence project is "like a startup". Why say that it's run like a startup as opposed to just saying it was run like a high-priority military-intelligence project?

The GP suggested that a reason for the success of the Manhattan project was that it was run like a startup, whereas it seems more illuminating to point out that it was a massively funded military project in wartime. I was curious if there was some more specific rationale for the startup comparison
It's not that it was heavy handed. But it was completely nonsensical.

For example here restaurants were open, but they had to close at 19. So instead of spreading the clientele over more hours, they were always 100% full.

Also, they CUT ⅔ of public transport rides, so they were incredibly overcrowded. People with real jobs that can't be done from home still had to go to work. BUT they put stickers on the floor telling people to keep distance. Also hired people to be at crowded stops to spray hand sanitizers on who wanted it, and tell people to keep distance (while seeing them having to push their way in).

In general all the restrictions were about the "having fun" stuff, but not about the "go to work" stuff. Even companies had no obligation to let people who could work from home stay at home. Some companies kept having their offices full.

Oh and let's not forget the recommendations of staying home if you so much as sneezed. But you wouldn't get paid. How did they expect people to pay their rent?

I could go on for hours with this. The bullshit measures that were marketed as "what the scientists are telling us to do" did a lot of harm to the trust that the general population puts into science.
> most of the time it makes images that don't even make any sense

This is good enough for 90% of image use cases, which is mildly relevant filler between and next to text.
I disagree that this is a nothingburger. I would say it's more like the side of fries you get with your nothingburger.

It's an expose showing how deep the rabbit hole goes on this one topic, a reminder that people with money are using their money to make more money by taking control of the internet, to keep all eyes on them, to lie, cheat, manipulate, and inveigle their way into your eyeballs by any means necessary, and that they will continue to do so as long as there is a penny to be made by it.

It shows that Google is implicitly permitting this system of deception, that there is a financial conglomerate that is eviscerating the corpse of a once-proud financial giant like FORBES in order to wear its skin and work its mouth like a Muppet advertising face creams and cockroach repellents.

If you're not viscerally affected by this inhuman grotesquery, you are made of sterner stuff than I. It's appalling and a powerful metaphorical reminder of our individual insignificance against the power of money, how nothing is sacred, and nothing is safe and sane on the internet.