skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This rebuttal is farcical. It begs the question. Of course tests designed to measure how well someone has integrated a certain educational pedagogy will be aced by scientists and phds.

You cannot defend G by saying some people you presume are smart can demonstrate that via testing. It’s “No true Scotsman” to the nth degree.

Whenever “smart” people start thinking outside their area of specialty this entire argument crumbles. There is no correlation between being smart in one area and smart about an unconnected discipline. Just listen to a few podcasts for all the evidence you need.

The bias and flaws in intelligence tests are well known and studied. You can’t argue for G without explaining why we can’t measure intelligence in any reliable way. Why people are supposedly so much smarter today than they were a century ago, and why intelligence tests are so culturally sensitive. Any decent test shouldn’t massively favor people based on geography.

G is bunk. It’s not for anyone to prove why. It’s for defenders of the fantasy to prove true.
> There is nothing sexier than a megalomaniac architect

I am flattered

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Does this community have any good insight on this "project and implementation"?
> Once the station reaches the end of its life, NASA intends to transition its activities in low-Earth orbit onto private space stations, and it has funded initial development work by Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, and Voyager Space.

One publication I read made a couple of relevant points:

NASA should be careful about privatization and subcontracting, as it replaces NASA top-notch engineers with contract managers and oversight. Most engineers aren't interested in that work, and the skills don't stay sharp.

Also, it said that Gateway, the space station planned to orbit the Moon, is considered the conceptual descendent of ISS.

Much more here:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cart/download.cgi?record_i...

IMHO NASA should focus on the cutting edge, pushing the frontiers of space and technology. I'm glad they stopped bothering with orbital launch, which they've done for over 60 years - many countries and many private companies can do that now. I'm not sure where ISS falls - LEO is obviously relatively common technology, but habitation in orbit? Space stations orbiting the Moon are the kind of thing where NASA should aim.
> I'm sure the emergence of other open-source operating systems (Linux and BSD) also contributed to the drop in interest?

At that time, MINIX had a proprietary license (it wasn't open-source until 2000) and its stated purpose was being a teaching tool for education, not being a production operating system. I can't find the quote itself, but I recall Tanenbaum once said something along the lines of "Turns out I do want to turn MINIX3 into a product, it just took me thirty years to realize it!" (please don't quote me on that unless I manage to dig up the actual quote).

> If you were teaching an OS class in the late 1980s/early 1990s and wanted to have students work on and compile the source code of a UNIX-like system, using desktop PCs of the era, Minix was pretty much it wasn't it?

Nowadays, xv6 fills that niche. Recent versions of MINIX3 arguably outgrew that with the switch over to the NetBSD userland.
not sure what you're getting at
You could improve the situation by incentivizing people to identify cheaters and prove their cheating. If being a successful cheater-hunter was a good career, the field would become self-policing.

This approach opens its own can of worms (you don't want to overdo it and create a paranoid police-state-like structure), but so far, we have way too little self-policing in science, and the first attempts (like Data Colada) are very controversial among their peers.
It may just be his public persona. I don’t work with him on a day to day basis of course. I find him to be very uninteresting. He speaks with an air of aloof tech-savant but it feels quite hallow, faked, forced.

I can’t think of many examples where he said something in an interview and it really challenged or surprised me. By contrast, any random hour with Lisa Su and you will come away quite impressed and easily understand why she is her company’s leader.

Plenty of smart money behind Altman, though, so maybe he shows up stronger behind the scenes.

[Edit: added "aloof" due to perceived aloofness.]
I would much rather have 60 different examples of middling quality covering a majority of use cases than a 5-page exposition about why the maintainer chose whatever database or why I should think of components as conveyer belts or whatever strained analogy they come up with. This only works with a lot of examples though, I've come across numerous projects where they think they're doing this but they've got a toy-level "Hello World" style example and maybe one more and that's it.

But in a perfect world, they'd have both. The GP can read that essay and get their bearings, and I can click "Examples" and start copying & pasting until I start to figure out how things work.
They want huge tax credits for data centers that then won't employ many people or will employ visa'd migrants, but that can of worms can be kicked down the road to another administration.
Serious mode: it's good that people are exploring the programming language space, both tiny and big changes can mean a world of difference in reducing bugs and making programs nicer both for the user to run and the developer to create and maintain.

Serious mode off. When will we get Yao in the Linux kernel?
I haven't seen a single case study about copilot helping a company make money by rewriting their excel formulas to have named references with type checking to prevent clerical errors, which must be a billion dollar industry on its own. Why not?
> The training code, dataset and weights for this model are open sourced so that developers can reproduce the model and help train other SLMs and LLMs.

Wow, an actual open source language model (first of its kind [from a larger company] maybe even?), includes all you need to be able to recreate it from scratch. Thanks AMD!

Available under this funky GitHub organization it seems: https://github.com/AMD-AIG-AIMA/AMD-LLM
All the people within creative arts will have to start working in the lithium mines. So that's accurate.
Oh, I thought it stood for:

"Suffering A Massive Lot" - jk

Let's just say my interaction with managing websites that used SAML was less than pleasant.
If the floor have 0º of inclination you can walk up and down without risk of falling down, 10º is still good, 20º? probably on. But there is some point after which most people could slip down.

There, that is boundary. It is not a meaningless line, just that the odds of everything falling down gets high enough.
So much of the effort and expense has gone into creating a large plastic shell and custom keyboard, though, resulting in a costly product targeting a very small niche of the already fairly niche hobby that is retro computing/gaming (or even retro Commodore enthusiasts)

And that large plastic shell of the C65 was always an ugly design, and I can't imagine it's comfortable to type on with that floppy drive protrusion so close to the arrow keys?
You are missing the whole point of comment. Its a prediction/ speculation. I agree that it may seem bad with current state of things but no one can say with certainty it WILL be bad. There might be hybrid models which can do both probabilistic AND heuristic work within the scope, you never know. That’s my whole point.

If you see my comment, I said AI, not LLMs.
Was it ever? Ancient texts are full of complaints that people have become immoral, unlike in the Golden Age, which was conveniently long ago.
Actually testing by humans will be much more important. AI may be making subtle mistaking the will require more extensive testing, by humans.
The iron laws of bureaucracy are:

1) Nothing else matters but the budget

2) Over the long run, the people invested in the bureaucracy always win out over the people invested in the mission/point

Science is just as susceptible to 2) as anything else.
You can generate AI images that do not have the "AI look":

https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/icQM0yZQQ...

And it's been two years since SD v1, a model that was not able to generate faces well, and it only output blurry 512x512 1:1 image without further finetuning, I tested v1.5 a few minutes ago and it's worse than I remember.
I’m generally okay with high level concepts talk, and don’t often find it too abstract. We are talking about documentations for libraries or frameworks after all. I’ll take a gentler approach if it’s an actual theoretical firld.

Obviously, during the first read, my understanding of those concepts would be full of holes. And I plug them as I continue reading the API references and later when I start to try it hands-on.
Oh I love that series!
I'll keep buying (and paying premium) for dumber things. Cars are a prime example, I want it to be dumb as fuck, offline, letting me decide what to do. At least next 2 decades, and thats achievable. After that I couldnt care less, I'll probably be a bad driver at that point anyway so switch may make sense. I want dumb beautiful mechanival wristwatch.

I am not ocd-riddled insecure man trying to subconsiously immitate much of the crowd, in any form of fasion. If that will make me an outlier, so be it, a happier one.

I suspect new branch of artisanal human-mind-made trademark is just behind the corner, maybe niche but it will find its audience. Beautiful imperfections, clear clunky biases and all that.
I don't know what you're talking about. Most people don't think of SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Search Performance, Search Engine Relevance, Search Rankings, Result Page Optimization, or Result Performance when writing their Article, Articles, Internet Articles, News Articles, Current News, Press Release, or News Updates...
> did the National Gallery actually close after these incidents, when just one painting was attacked

Don't know. Wasn't there.

The museums work like a computer memory pile. There is an endless stream of people walking in. To keep the system running the same amount must walk out. To keep the system efficient, the flux must have a direction and only one. The tourists must walk the pile until finding the other extreme and walk out. The same door shouldn't be used to enter and exit.

If a museum is famous for a particular painting, it is assured that the stream of visitors will be directed towards that room, so nobody miss it. It will be placed most probably on a noble room with a door for entering and another in the opposite side to continue the visit.

If this area is blocked, suddenly the incoming flux of people can't go out. The museum needs to find an alternative route ASAP to release that flux pressure before the people start being crushed.

Most modern places will have planned that possibility, but architectures don't allow a secondary route everywhere.

What I mean is that, as long as the visit is arranged in the traditional way, to close a big museum just by the attack to a single painting is not impossible at all.
They will still take way too long to boot android on their underpowered MCU
It's just a default that's being in Rails for a very long time. This let's you start a project quickly. And now the improvements to SQLite is Rails means it's also good to go for a production setup.
Pretty clear that Elon & Mike Griffin aligned toward Brilliant Pebbles from the beginning (and probably Zubrin too)
Yeah we have a very active tabloid press that rather amplifies the bad stuff. It does not too bad on many rankings eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
Sportsbooks make money by taking bets on both sides of a game and offering odds that work in their favor. For example, even on an "even money" bet, you might have to bet $105 to win $100. The more one-sided a game seems, the bigger the gap between the odds on either side because the sportsbook is trying to manage its risk. As people place bets, they adjust the odds to balance the action. The sportsbook isn't banking on you being wrong—they want enough bets on both sides so they win no matter what. The difference between the odds is basically their "fee."

As a professional bettor, you're not really outsmarting the sportsbook—you’re trying to outsmart the public. The key is finding moments where the crowd is wrong enough that betting the other side makes sense, even with the sportsbook’s fees. That means you’ll often skip betting when the odds are pretty accurate.

Most sportsbooks will limit how much you can bet if you're too successful, but they usually won’t ban you outright.
What they’re doing is “sensing” my secrets… which they’ll sell to people who want to east my time so they can maybe sell me things.

Mark Zuckerberg, or his ilk, is actively shirking responsibility for what those ads say. And even when they know they do harm, they still aren’t moved to act. That’s the safety guarantee at the end of sensing.

It’s way worse than surveillance. It just also includes it.
Don't use iPhone Screen Mirroring on a work computer
I think it is fine to put some trust into concrete individual scientists who have proven themselves reliable.

It is not fine to put trust into scientists in general just because they walk around in a lab coat with a PhD label on its front.
> Because you'd grow things underground

Is the radiation close to normal light on earth, so that maybe fiber glass tubes could be used to route the light in a controlled manner into underground caves?
I'm mostly out now, but I would love to return to a more accountable academia. Often in these discussions it's hard to say "we need radical changes to publicly funded research and many PIs should be held accountable for dishonest work" without people hearing "I want to get rid of publicly funded research altogether and destroy the careers of a generation of trainees who were in the wrong place at the wrong time".

Even in my immediate circles, I know many industry scientists who do scientific work beyond the level required by their company, fight to publish it in journals, mentor junior colleagues in a very similar manner to a PhD advisor, and would in every way make excellent professors. There would be a stampede if these people were offered a return to a more accountable academia. Even with lower pay, longer hours, and department duties, MORE than enough highly qualified people would rush in.

A hypothetical transition to this world should be tapered. But even at the limit where academia switched overnight, trainees caught in such a transition could be guaranteed their spots in their program, given direct fellowships to make them independent of their advisor's grants, given the option to switch advisor, and have their graduation requirements relaxed if appropriate.

It's easy to hem and haw about the institutional knowledge and ongoing projects that would invariably be lost in such a transition, even if very carefully executed. But we have to consider the ongoing damage being done when, for example, biogen spends thousands of scientist-years and billions of dollars failing to make an alzheimers drug because the work was dishonest to begin with, or when generations of trainees learn that bending the truth is a little more OK each year.
Watch teletext now online!

https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/

Americans - turn on the telly, choose a channel (1 is a good choice, althought 6 is worth a look...) and hit the text button on the controller.
Kind if a larger lesson in this story is that kids will be interested in what they are interested in. Many of us here are like me and have made a career out of programming computers or related jobs. I've had three kids and not one of them is interested in programming, despite my attempts at encouragement. You can teach your kids a lot of things but they will also make their own path in life.
For something like this an ultrasonic leak detector would likely be ideal. Much like wind blowing through an open window, as air flows through the leak it makes noise which is totally inaudible to the human ear but detectable by sensitive electronics. The closer you get to the leak, the louder it is.
70-180.
yeah - seems like in enterprises ppl still want spreadsheets, but more and more people also want code, spreadsheets + code
Yes and Kamal fixes the small things regarding Compose -- zero downtime deploys, assets bridging, automatic TLS certs, etc. I wrote Kamal Handbook to help people start with Kamal (and currently updating for Kamal 2.0).
It might've done long-term psychological damage to the student. They went on to become CEO for a very prominent company. :)
> China is the "globe's industrial superpower

>isn't it sad for the US to be behind

Or perhaps it was just inevitable for PRC, also a continental sized land power with 4x population to be ahead once they got shit together. Comparing US industrial stagnation in US lens frequently fails to grasp/comprehend that PRC industrialization at PRC scale brought forth another "weight-class" of industrial output. Last year, PRC ship building launched roughly same amount of tonnage as entire 5year US WW2 ship building program. IMO many people think US industry declined from 10 to 5, and maybe whole of system effort can bring in back to 10. Meanwhile PRC didn't just turn the industrial output dial to 11, it turned it to 20, beyond what US was ever capable of, and likely will be capable of. Same way US didn't so much leave British Empire behind in the industrial race as UK was never capable of running better than a 7 minute mile while US stalled at 5 minute mile (and now de-trained into a 6 minute mile), meanwhile PRC is now running a 3.5 minute mile. IMO ultimately, not about sadness but being realisitic about systemtic potential. Maybe US can AI/automate their way to overcome human capita disadvantage, but PRC playing that game too.
Why’s the link to the hardcover book say it’s coming soon, on Nov 11 2024? Will that be another edition with the minor updates mentioned in the post? This 2023 post says the edition linked in it had already been in print for two months, is why I ask—evidently there’s another print run a few weeks from now, and I’m wondering if it’s identical to the prior one(s), or features the (minor) improvements.
You probably can do this through the proc filesystem/cgroups.
If you think about it, you can use cgroups to limit the bandwidth, so you can also use it to measure it.
People in meatspace are not (in James C. Scott's sense) legible to HN's user base, and never will be.
Some would say "not very well"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKgNNzXNxQ
We all have to do with oil. We all use it, and more than that, government is responsive to us. The main cause of climate change is people not doing anything about it. Building awareness and stimulating action is fundamental to any change.

People respond to activism like it's some new, obviously stupid idea, rather than a technique with a long history of being effective and essential to democracy and freedom. That is, people respond to left-wing activism that way, for obvious reasons.
>cameras everywhere

Less cameras per-capita than the US.

> ASBOs

ASBOs were abolished in England and Wales in 2014.

>some of the highest rent prices in the world, average economy.

In London which doesn't have an average economy.
Ask HN: Machine Learning engineers, how was your interview process when hired?
Another example of the phenomenon where people can realize something when considering it from an abstract perspective but not at a realtime object level is psychological bias and imperfect rationality. If the topic of discussion is an article about bias, rare is the person who will deny the phenomenon, and many enthusiastically admit to suffering from the problem themselves. But if the topic of discussion is something else and one was to suggest the phenomenon may be in play: opposite reaction. During realtime cognition, that knowledge is inaccessible.

I honestly think if some serious attention was paid to this and various other real world paradoxes around us, we could actually make some forward progress on these problems for a change.
LLM/DEEP-MIND is DESTROYING lineage. This is the crux point we can all feel. Up until now you could pick up a novel or watch a film, download an open source library, and figure out the LINEAGE (even if no attribution is directly made, by studying the author etc.)

I am not too worried though. People are starting to realize this more and more. Soon using AI will be next google glass. LLM is already a slur worse than NPC in the youth. And profs are realizing its time for a return to oral exams ONLY as an assessment method. (we figured this out in industry ages ago : whiteboard interviews etc)

Yours truly : LILA <an LISP INTELLIGENCE LANGUAGE AGENT>
Leases come in all different shapes, forms and conditions. To replace what the companies misleadingly call "Buy" today, they terms would just be "Pay X up front and get access until we cannot provide the service anymore for X,Y,Z reasons".

In many places, ground/land is leased that way, where you pay a sum up-front and are allowed full ownership for 99 years or something like that.
The Lady in the Van cuts a lot of onion for me. RIP.
Mochi – Gitlab-Integrated Kanban Board
7p looks a tad optimistic, but only a tad - https://energy-stats.uk/wholesale-energy-pricing/

That I'm aware of, the "wholesale cost" does not include the local distribution networks. Those cost a fair number of pence to build and maintain.

And - I vaguely recall that the UK had world-beating taxes and surcharges on electricity - some for "green" reasons, some to spread the agony of the staggering cost overruns at new British nuclear plants, and some to help shore up the government's "general budget" financial woes.
Is there any malware exploiting this feature? I can imagine "can never be uninstalled" would be a desirable quality.

Especially if the flag doesn't expire, a bad actor could upload a flashlight app with this requirement, let the 20% or whatever tech savvy users balk at the permission, then update later to constantly serve ads or spy or whatever to the remaining 80%, who are now unable to uninstall.

Alternatively, a standard skinner-box inspired mobile game that refuses to uninstall after you've become addicted and traded the ability to uninstall for 500 PremiumBucks or whatever.

I'm legitimately surprised this is a permission that exists outside of the root user
Huh, thanks for replying seriously to my snark, that's more than what I expected!

About CLOS, I suggest at least making method combination more flexible than C++'s override. A way to run both the parent and child methods is often needed (maybe in a specific order, maybe with a way to collect all the return values).

Declarations are basically C/C++'s pragmas and __attribute__, but standardized and using a seamless syntax. The ClTl2 additions I'm talking about are ways for the compiler to give lexical information to macros: see https://github.com/Zulu-Inuoe/trivial-cltl2 and https://github.com/alex-gutev/cl-environments
This is what I was wondering reading that comment too. The only people I've seen making money off LLMs are spammers.
Generally, the fields that have a Nobel in them attract the glory hounds and therefore the fraudsters. The ones that don't, like geology or archeology for example, don't get the glory hounds.

Anytime you see champagne bottles up on a professor's top shelf with little tags for Nature publications (or something like that), then you know they are a glory hound.

When you see beer bottles in the trash, then you know they're in it for more than themselves.