skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what we call hallucination in LLMs is called 'rationalization' for humans. The psychology shows that most peoples do things out of habit and only after they've done it will explain why the did it. This is most obviously seen in split brain patients where the visual fields are then separated. If you throw a ball towards the left side of the person, the right brain will catch the ball. if you then ask the person why they caught the ball the left brain will make up a completely ridiculous narrative as to why the hand moved (because it didn't know there is a ball. This is a contrived example, but it shows that human recollection of intent is often very very wrong. There are studies that show this even in people with whole brains.
Someone subjected to a non-lethal beating can complain, and be a witness to what happened. They can be medically examined to determine what happened. Its far harder to cover up.

I am pretty happy with the police hardly ever killing anyone, and that almost always someone who is a real danger to others. I am happy fewer people being killed by police so far this decade (and that includes road accidents involving police!), than have been killed by police in the US so far this month.
HOA and lease restrictions. Also depends on what exposures you have. One place I lived was exclusively western, the other eastern.
Not always, the lower end Toyotas it’s a better deal per mile to buy new, if you are willing to shop around a little and get last year’s model.
So, the step that differs from your concern is Step 3. Let's say that we have a catastrophic availability scenario (as you said, intern comes in and tears down something) -- our job is to make sure that the data in our durable cache remains there (and to put safeguards in place to prevent the intern from hitting that data). If we do that, then any crash of our system will get the data back and be able to apply it to S3. I know that's kind of hand-wavy, but this is how things like AWS S3 work -- just having a super high bar for processes around operations to keep data safe.
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There is no basis for the claim that different things of some category would progress exactly the same given the same set of circumstances. Those different things, like culture, have significant impact on everything, including economic growth.

I'm sure you can think of a culture or policy, which you consider backwards, and counterproductive. Well, there you go.
I have something like this as well, connected to my Apple account for calendar and reminder access etc. I wouldn’t want every random guest to have access to that.
What you're saying is true, and every paragraph in this is wrong, but I would like to offer a tangential argument in favor of studying the Western conceptualization of Buddhism.

The first sentence here is no coincidence, that "Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture." This is because early Western science developed with a strong influence of secular Buddhism in the form of Pyrrhonism, which informed and merged over time with the Empirical school that led to the modern scientific method.

Western audiences should understand how secular Buddhism is not a new aspect of their civilization but a fundamental pillar of it. This does not mean that understanding the secular aspects will inform someone on the religious aspects, but it is a cultural starting point.

Beyond that, I would only consider sources like the author of this piece as a good source of common misunderstandings to investigate.
Why do you believe that? We routinely see police break the law, harass people and otherwise abuse their power, but when it comes to encounters with armed civilians they become upstanding professionals with perfect judgment?
I've actually had a node project go bad in a mere 4 months. It must be a new record. That was about 4-5 years ago though.

Hopefully the ecosystem as improved since then, but it was nearly impossible to get going.

Some packages had been changed and the version number overwritten with incompatible packages, and the conflicts were plenty.
Agreed. The Web seems to have a shorter memory than many of us like to think, and ironically seems to be getting shorter.
For me it is "constant despair".
> Meanwhile Firefox being the fastest browser in terms of least janks and best for hundreds of tabs gets No recognition either.

This is likely subjective. Out of the browsers I use regularly, Firefox is by far the one with the greatest number of rough edges as well as the least likely to see those rough edges polished.

To some degree this is inevitable with the difference in amount of resources at Mozilla’s disposal relative to those of Google and Apple, but there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit. In a relatively short time many of these issues have been improved by a small team in the Zen Browser fork of Firefox, which suggests it’s more of a lack of will than it is lack of resources.
It even gets inched away from the customer. Problem with a service? The only people you have access to are support staff who can't really do anything beyond minor changes. So many business to customer interactions happens only between people who have no ability to change the situation either way.

Big businesses have nearly entirely isolated the capital owners (and upper management) from the goings of the business itself.
That isn't quite true. They are aware of EV trucks - they won't buy one of course, but they are aware. They spread stories about those trucks not having any useful range (which is true - when pulling a trailer or driving well over the speed limit the EVs lose range) Those diesel trucks they drive get 600 miles unloaded.
Out of curiosity, why not go bare metal in a managed colocation? Is that for the geographic spread? Or unpredictable load?

Every few months of this spend is like buying a server

Edit: back at my pc and checked, relevant bare metal is ~$500/m, amortized:

https://baremetalsavings.com/c/LtxKMNj

Edit 2: for 100tb..
I think you're missing the point, or at least the point I took away from it.

Much of the art in the collections is genuinely interesting and enjoyable, even if it is technically "bad", in the sense that it's a poor attempt at a certain type of art.
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I think you mean thirty years, 2004 was almost web 2.0.
All of them are vectors of embedded representations of tokens. In a transformer, you want to compute the inner product between a query (the token who is doing the attending) and the key (the token who is being attended to). An inductive bias we have is that the neural network's performance will be better if this inner product depends on the relative distance between the query token's position, and the key token's position. We thus encode each one with positional information, in such a way that (for RoPE at least) the inner product depends only on the distance between these tokens, and not their absolute positions in the input sentence.
Anecdatally (& disregarding political SMS), my spam call/text frequency has substantially skyrocketed to about 2-4x that of around 2020, to the extent that I am tempted to change phone numbers.
I'd not known about "F.D.C. Willard" — the nom de plume of a Michigan State physics professor's Siamese cat, Chester — who was listed as a co-author of a number of the professor's physics papers.

More on Chester and his co-author status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
Here's a delightful and illuminating 6 minute video which explains some of the purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6UhGbyXfE

Punchline at the end: "We don't say negative things about the art or the artist. Our stated goal is to collect, exhibit, and celebrate this art that would be appreciated nowhere else."
I'd love to hear more about what you're excited to do when the magic arrives. :D

We are running it as a managed SaaS, so our customers connect to the caching layer that runs in the Regatta VPC. This allows us to manage the infrastructure for them and keep costs low.

Storage Gateway is an interesting product, and I worked closely with that team for several years -- so mad respect for them. It was designed to be an appliance that you run on servers in your own data center (of course, many customers now deploy it to EC2). Because of this, it's designed to operate in an environment with "finite storage" -- for example, different workload pattterns can thrash the cache, which results in poor performance to clients, and it's not designed to run in a high-availability cluster in the cloud. Regatta solves these problems with durable cache storage that's safe to data in long-term, and is designed for high-availability.
Yeah, it's basic conditional logic.

If humans, then <chain of events>

doesn't mean <chain of events> is guaranteed to occur. We haven't even been able to guarantee the existence of existence.
Congrats on launching! I love the design and the clever loading messages ("Harambe would love this"). Do you plan to support an export option if I want to self-host?
But that's exactly it, right. There are some people excellent for being the expert in one field and some people are excellent because they're extremely competent at many fields. LLMs are the latter.

Sure, for any domain expert, you can easily get an LLM to trip on something. But just the shear amount of things it is above average at puts it easily into the top echelon of humans.

> You're basically ignoring all the experts saying "LLMs suck at all these things that even beginning domain experts don't suck at" to generate your claim & then ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

Domain expertise is not the only form of intelligence. The most interesting things often lie at the intersections of domains. As I said in another comment. There are a variety of ways to judge intillegence, and no one quantifiable metric. It's like asking if Einstein is better than Mozart. I don't know... their fields are so different. However, I think it's pretty safe to say that the modern slate of LLMs fall into the top 10% of human intelligence, simply for their breath of knowledge and ability to synthesize ideas at the cross-section of any wide number of fields.
One strategy I’ve been playing around with is to take an instruction I want the model to follow and squish the positional encodings for the keys down to position zero, and the new queries out slightly further in the window. The model will still follow the instruction but the behaviors are more global. It’s behaves more like a fine-tune and less like the instruction is part of the conversation.
That's the issue, yes.

The Chinese are selling either at a loss or far below the return expectations of their competitions' investors. They're not going to stop, because they want to drive everyone else out of the market. The solution is to drop things like dividends and executive bonuses down to sane (or, really, non-existent) levels and pass along the savings to the customer.

Otherwise there might not be a company to collect ROI on in a decade or two. Not that most shareholders care; they hire a guy specifically to engineer the holdings so that they can drop any one of them and not lose lots of value.
I agree. Below are a few errors. I have also asked ChatGPT to check the summaries and it found all the errors (and even made up a few more which weren't actual errors, but just not expressed in perfect clarity.)

Spoilers ahead!

First novel: The Trisolarans did not contact earth first. It was the other way round.

Second novel: Calling the conflict between humans and Trisolarans a "complex strategic game" is a bit of a stretch. Also, the "water drops" do not disrupt ecosystems. I am not sure whether "face-bearers" is an accurate translation. I've only read the English version.

Third novel: Luo Yi does not hold the key to the survival of the Trisolarans and there were no "micro-black holes" racing towards earth. Trisolarans were also not shown colonizing other worlds.

I am also not sure whether Luo Ji faced his "personal struggle and psychological turmoil" in this novel or in an earlier novel. He certainly was most certain of his role at the end. Even the Trisolarians judged him at over 92 % deterrent rate.
Google's competitors in the advertisement space are all lined up to sue Google into oblivion the moment they disable third-party cookies.
Fire hydrants in my country are virtually always in the ground covered by a steel lid. The only reason I know the answer is American popular culture.

https://fev.se/images/18.7ea68079182e95d391364a41/1663668627...
Complex questions. Everyone intelligent has their own journey to, “People have agency, and obeying laws is cultural.”
There are quite some noteworthy alternatives like s3fs, rclone, goofys etc.
> How many people go that long without using their phones?

For people who don’t leave the house that often and have other Apple devices, this suddenly becomes much more frequent.
> coworker of mine just spent $100k on a regular old pickup truck

> It gets like 11 mpg and uses the 92 octane fuel.

I understand hating on pickup trucks is an easy way to farm upvotes on HN, but there is no 'regular pickup truck' in existence that gets 11 mpg. The closest that comes to that is the F-150 Raptor with turbocharged V8 which is a preposterous performance vehicle with a racing engine. It is a luxury item. Yet for some reason we don't criticize people with the same disdain who buy and drive sports cars which get as bad or even worse mpg. I guess the Lambo drivers never need to haul lumber.

The F-150 is also offered in hybrid (which gets > double that mpg) and all electric drivetrains.

I will make the equally presumptuous assumption that since you've narrowed your choices to "Prius or Prius" you harbor some grudges against pickup owners.
Great writeup. Sucks when this gets asked in a coding interview to be solved in 15min :)
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The confusion is because "BOK" is not "book of knowledge" but "body of knowledge". So a "guide" as a canonical source kinda makes sense.
It’s literally a government handout for people wealthy enough to buy more expensive cars and solar.

That money should have been spent to fund R&D/capital expenditures to make cheaper electric vehicles and solar cells for everyone, TBH.
I think they can work well if you do a lot of city driving (where you brake a lot). So in a sense, it's the best of both worlds.

They are cheaper than pure EV's and do not require the home charging infrastructure.
The first study described was conducted in 1975.

Good to see the high IQ revolutionaries at DOGE are working 80 hours a week for no pay just to shitpost.
I don't understand the question... If someone has a strong opinion, and they have arguments for their opinion, but don't recognize the significance of the context in which they've formed their opinions, they have blind spots they aren't aware of. Is that a problem? I dunno, that's up to you and your environment.
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We couldn't know. Humans mimick patterns. The claims that LLMs aren't smart because they don't generate anything new fall completely flat for me. If you look back far enough most humans generate nothing new. For example, even novel ideas like Einstein's theory of relativity are re-iterations of existing ideas. If you want to be pedantic, one can trace back the majority of ideas, claim that each incremental step was 'not novel, but just recollection' and then make the egregious claim that humanity has invented nothing.

> But if it does happen some day, how will we know? What are the chances that the first sentient AI will be accused of just mimicking patterns?

Leaving questions of sentience aside (since we don't even really know what that is) and focusing on intelligence, the truth is that we will probably not know until many decades latel.
That must be such a treat. As an American, I'd love to visit it one day.
That’s not the case if you also have other Apple devices on the same account.
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Then why does it feel like standards lost?

We don't have float:right;zoom1: but our "necessities" nowadays are even crazier. Babel, vdom, frameworks provided by browser-vendors. Those are several orders of magnitude more complex than previous "workaround" approaches to the web, all unstandardized.

How about Electron? Do we see any Firefox-based desktop apps around or is that market completely dominated by the Chrome runtime? Are app developers happy having only Chromium as the viable solution? (my guess: they're not, but they have no choice).

Where we're going is even nastier than clearfixes and table layouts.
This is accurate! A lot of people have spent a lot of time trying to build a good file system abstraction on cheap, S3 storage. However, Regatta differs from these solutions in two important ways. First, Regatta is a shared, durable caching layer that sits between your instances and S3. This means that Regatta is able to efficiently perform operations (like directory renames) and provide strong consistency to other file system clients (whereas s3fs and other FUSE file systems would need to actually perform those operations in S3 for other clients to see the output). Secondly, Regatta is designed to support all file system operations. This means that you can do file locking, random writes, appends, and renames -- even when they aren't efficient to perform on S3.
*However they shouldn’t be rejected out of hand either and people recommending them aren’t idiots.*

Also it shouldn't be taken for granted that best practice is always "best/good" - there definitely are idiots recommending best practices.
Some of the things that you cannot wait on using io_uring are your kernel actually supporting the feature mentioned in the article, io_uring actually working properly, and io_uring solving its seemingly bottomless supply of local user exploits. In the early days of this feature I was bullish but the way its implementation has emitted CVEs has not been a source of joy, and now many major Linux operators have banned the API internally. Maybe what is needed is a moment of reflection and a scratch reimplementation that learns the lessons of io_uring?
> show_wpcp_message('You are not allowed to copy content or view source');

Yes I am, you poor deluded soul, yes I am. There's absolutely no way for you to control what happens to the content once it has left your server. And using such tricks is a huge red flag about the professionalism of the site makers.
My higher value comment was a list of things for which ChatGPT, a widely available product, will produce novel ideas. Responding that those ideas are not novel enough based on absolutely no data is a low-effort comment. What evidence of creativity would you accept?
Gotcha! Thanks for the answer; so the tl;dr is, if I’m understanding:

“All fsync-ed writes will eventually make it to S3, but fsync successfully returning only guarantees that writes are durable in our NFS caching layer, not in the S3 layer”?
One person suggesting an overboard response means that it's impossible to do an objective test in the first place? That argument makes no sense to me.
I used to work on military boats combat systems. I scanned the title, read it nanometers, thought it was weird, mentally corrected to nautical miles being familiar with the context and cursed the person who wrote the title for the incorrect capitalisation.

So, yes, people who have worked in a related field get it. Still annoying though.
I was lucky enough to be a computer nerd who landed in Silicon valley/San Francisco in 2012 and it was a pretty special place culturally. It was pretentious and idealistic and confused, but the atmosphere where everyone seemed to be building something and sharing ideas was pretty intoxicating. Probably felt similar to being in Hollywood back during that 1920-1950s period (except everyone was less attractive lol).
You can already backup your site as either static files or the original "tipsio" files.
I drive home from Virginia to Florida in a single day, typically with one stop at the Florence, SC Buc-ee's. That's nearly 600 miles (in a gas RAV4). I do this a couple times a year and it takes about 9 hours, less if there's no cops.
> I don't remember the source so, someone please correct me if I'm wrong but, I read that no EV battery can be made for less than $50K.

Absolute hogwash.

The only way for this to be true is if you amortize the cost of R&D and factory building over a small number of batteries and include it in the manufacturing cost, and I think it's incredibly misleading to include the cost of R&D into the cost of a battery, simply for the fact that you can make wild claims by just including it.

So...for an incumbent manufacturer that's putting very little effort into actually selling EVs, it might be true that it's costing them $50K per battery if you include the cost of setting up the manufacturing. But for someone like Tesla, who has literally sold millions of cars, even if you include that cost, it's closer to $10K.
Hey -- I think this is something that's in-scope for our custom protocol that we're working on. I'd love to chat more about your needs to make sure that we build something that will work great for you. Would you mind shooting an email to hleath [at] regattastorage.com and we can chat more?
> Compare this to Mastodon, where you can easily switch to a new server and most your follower won’t even notice and business as usual carries on.

I would like to think this is true, but there are just too many frustration stories of confusion of 'which instance' to choose, losing posts due to admins (and followers) shutting down instances and having to tell your followers where to go next.

Best part is the instance they are most likely switching to is the main instance (mastodon.social) since that is the biggest one and less likely to go down, and encourages centralization.

To solve this, they should close sign ups. Why haven't they done that yet?
Here's the critique I would like to have seen from MOBA for such a work:

> human fetus made of chicken bones

Delicious.
Travel time != travel distance. When you're stuck in traffic, an electric or hybrid car will not consume any energy except for fans/heating/AC. An ICE-only car will have to keep its engine running.
Wouldn't it make more sense to look for remote jobs already being offered and apply to them instead?
This is the view advanced by Churchill and his hagiographers but it's false; there is correspondence from 1942 that warned that the ramifications of policies going all the way to March of that year had been dire, and the war cabinet simply dismissed them.
Why yes. Yes it is.

Which is why you don't put shareholders first in line for revenues.
Very fun. I wonder if a heap could improve the performance of the "loop through the skyline in order to find the best candidate location" step. (I think it would improve the asymptotic time, if I'm understanding the algorithm correctly, but obviously the real performance is more complex).
Putin 2.0 would still have nukes and a huge, if ineffective, army
With Unreal becoming the Chrome of the game engine world, Unity dying a slow death triggered by their corporate overlords, I can't help but feel like it's a matter of time until they become the bad guys.

I don't want them to, just seems like the circle of life.
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Oh, boy. Site links to some "Effective Altruism" math on the topic[1]. This both reinforces my existing (negative) opinion of EA and makes me question the validity of this whole thing.

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EbQysXxofbSqkbAiT/...