skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know what makes a “surprisingly deep model” but I specifically chose autoencoders to show that simply encoding the state internally can be trivial and therefore makes that definition of “world model” vacuous. If you want to add additional stipulations or some measure of degree you have to make an argument for that.

In this case specifically “the degree” is pretty low since predicting moves is very close to predicting board state (because for one you have to assign zero probability to moves to occupied positions). That’s even if you accept that world models are just states, which as mtburgess explained is not reasonable.

Further if you read what I wrote I didn’t say internal probes are a big red flag (I explicitly called it the minor problem). I said not directly evaluating how well the putative internal state matches the actual state is. And you can “squeeze blood out of a rock”: it’s the multiple comparison problem and it happens in science all the time and it is what you are doing by training a neural network and fishing for the answer you want to see. This is a very basic problem in statistics and has nothing to do with “magic”. But again all this is the minor problem.
you may want to move to another country though mate… free market, we all have alternatives (kagi, bing, chapgpt for search, temu, target, walmart… for ecomm, azure/google/oracle/ali for cloud…) … if every successful business was eventually treated by the likes of you as “utility” it’d be a hoot of a society
I just want a hacker news no-LLM filter. The site has been almost unusable for a year now.
It’s like a Toughbook. People who have bought them for 49 years want nothing else. It’s a brand with a brand.
While 'Oreshnik' variant of RS-26 Rubezh can deliver MIRV conventional, kinetic, and nuclear payloads at mach 25 (5 miles a second), IRBMs are too expensive to use. This one was a test and a signal of nuclear saber rattling. There will be no tactical nuclear weapon use or further use of IRBMs.

Also note that RAF provided USSTRATCOM notice shortly before the strike to prevent nuclear war as is the international custom for high trajectory space and missile launches. As a result, the US moved B-61 mod 13 dial-a-yield 340kt warheads to Łask Air Base Poland for the increased readiness of potential delivery by new Polish F-35A fighters and upped the alert level of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.

Putin could use nukes once, but then he can never live or move above ground ever again, and BRICS would become BICS (geopolitically and economically).

Вооружённые Си́лы Росси́йской Федера́ции, Vooruzhyonnyye Sily Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Russian Armed Forces) leaks like sieve. There are zero signals from it indicating an increase in posture towards nuclear war.
Ads are the only price most users are willing to pay.
Thanks for that. I stand corrected.

But my comment was geared towards those who believe that what I am suggesting is impossible, so to them, the only possibilities left are what they consider impossible.

My favorite quote from Holmes is the slightly modified one in Jeremy Brett's version of "The Naval Treaty":

"What a lovely thing a rose is. There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be buit up as an exact science by the reason. The highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. It is only goodness which gives excellence, and so I say again, we have much to hope from the flowers."

[The entire high-def Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes tv show series can be found on YouTube.]
Lol yeah the whole problem with quantum computation is the scaling, that's literally the entire problem. It's trivial to make a qbit, harder to make 5, impossible to make 1000. "If it scales" is just wishy washy language to cover, "in the ideal scenario where everything works perfectly and nothing goes wrong, it will work perfectly"
In my experience, flickering often means a GPU-related bug. Sometimes scrolling or alt-tab would help. Sometimes a given top-level window would seem to become "poisoned" so all new tabs would be corrupt too.
China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History'
> When it dropped 21% recently and I pointed that out, some people were very annoyed.[1]

Someone was seemingly "annoyed" by an impatient end-user asking for an status update ("It's now next week. Waiting.") and nothing more. They didn't seem to be annoyed about that you pointed out a performance issue, and instead explained that their current focus is elsewhere.
Curious - they don't have the death penalty in Texas for serial attempted murder?
Word gets around? Animals probably have way better communication than we think. One crab says to a friendly eel "hey dont tell those damn Salmon but this estuary is good again" and before you know it, everyone's favourite restaurant is booked out till March.
I find this is what works for me. I seem to be quite a nonlinear learner. I struggle with the methodical x leads to y leads to z approach.

I tend to try and take on the whole thing and not really understand it then repeat the process (often from different sources) after a while I just seem to understand more and more
I'm sorry, with LetsEncrypt, https is table stakes. If you can't even get that right, why should trust you with the rest of my data?
Red bar? Maybe you're thinking of another device or app?

The way I understand it, an iOS device does always listen for "Siri", but that's done in isolated hardware that an app has no access to.

The orange "microphone" dot does show when it hears your "Siri" command, as well as when an app with microphone permission is listening. (Checked on an iPhone 13, iOS 18).
Oh yeah. I realised this the day I discovered my fancy digital SLR was a thermometer: https://entropicthoughts.com/does-my-dslr-have-dead-pixels
There are a lot of these simple soldering projects out there.

Our daughters completed a few. At a minimum, they now know how to solder and have an appreciation for electrical components. That was all I was hoping for at such a young age.

Should either ever decide to study electrical engineering, I feel they will be less intimidated having had this experience.
Those articles are paywalled:

https://archive.is/GWvCX
https://archive.ph/ckFB2
> one that systematically gets it right, not occasionally.

could Einstein systematically get new symphonies right? could Feynman create tasty new dishes every single time? Could ......
Backtracking Regex Engines
To be fair even if you did know it would still behave the same way.
Google to sell Chrome and more, recommends US DOJ
> Amazon does not have a seat on Anthropic’s board.

Insane
to point out what you probably intended, this is appropriately an english version of an early twentieth century russian song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Were_the_Days_%28song%29
He Built a Mouse Utopia
These would not break down into the kinds of nutrients that cause algal blooms and dead zones. That is cause by nitrogen and phosphorus runoff.
The most memorable project I ever did as a teenager was building a Tamiya Frog RC car with my older brother.
So this article is what happens when people who don't really understand the models "test" things.

There are several fatal flaws.

The first problem is that he isn't clearly and concisely displaying the current board state. He is expecting the model to attend a move sequence to figure out the board state.

Secondly, he isn't allowing the model to think elastically using COT or other strategies.

Honestly, I am shocked it is working at all. He has basically formulated the problem in the worst possible way.
might be effective for some percentage of govies with 5-ish years in. GS in double-digits won’t be deterred by this move few years away from retirement. of a small
sample size of about dozen in this group I am friends with not a single person said “shit, I am out.” gov jobs are too good to abandon. unlike twitter/x where folks that left were likely back to work wherever they wanted to be with same-ish (or better) pay/benefits
wrt to the theory that the references to fake sources/studies was an intentional rhetorical tactic, an update from the reporter:

https://x.com/_cingraham/status/1860013055125713305

> Update: It's been a week since lawyers noted the presence of apparently AI-generated citations in an affidavit by misinformation researcher Jeff Hancock of Stanford, but there's been nothing but radio silence from them. Not a great look!
these are hatchery fish; they were born on the klamath and they're returning to it. the only difference is that now they can make it to tributaries and spawn naturally, instead of being collected and having their eggs harvested and fertilized by humans back at the hatchery
Heck my local diner is open 8AM to 2PM only.

It's because they can't staff a full day. Can't get enough qualified people for that many hours.

Not a huge town - seventy thousand - so staff are shared between all the restaurants in town (a couple hundred?)

My local diner pays well, more than the rest, and has very competent staff that are quite loyal. They don't abuse this loyalty, only open as many hours as is reasonable for that many workers to cover.
Regardless of whether the parent's sentence is a tautology, the explanation in the article is categorically wrong.
Take-off makes a lot of noise, but the noise doesn't reach the observer on the ground the same way.

https://youtu.be/liKe0kg3agY?t=582
Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms
I don't think that's accurate. The remaining dams have ladders, but the lowermost dams had no (or inadequate) ladders, hence the total absence of salmon from the upper Klamath.

> Although the Bureau of Reclamation’s Link River Dam and PacifiCorp’s Keno Dam currently have fish ladders that will pass anadromous fish, none of PacifiCorp’s Four Facilities (i.e., Iron Gate, Copco 1, Copco 2, and J.C Boyle dams and associated structures) were constructed with adequate fish ladders and, as a result, anadromous fish have been blocked from accessing the upper reaches of the Klamath Basin for close to a century.

N.B. Keno and Link River are _not_ being removed.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/habitat-conservati...
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59729

Discretionary spending is $1.7T and includes the DoD and Justice. The only way I can see cutting $2T is to disband the US military, effectively shutting down most of the Federal government, and reneging on federal interests payments.
No one poor buys a new Jaguar. People who buy used jaguars do so in part for status.

Being a luxury brand isn’t anything to do with quality. Cadillac is a luxury brand and also not very good.
It is a interesting idea.

Somehow, when I accessed it first I got a HTML file, but then I tried again and got JSON instead. Why is that?

> Counter Mode (CTR) is a secure way to turn a block cipher into a stream cipher.

Note that block ciphers can be reversible. CTR mode does not require that the block cipher is reversible. However, it can be made non-reversible, which is how ChaCha20 works; it is a block cipher in CTR mode, but with an extra step to make it difficult to reverse.
Why do you think they perform so poorly?
What were the inputs like to manufacture the steel container?
On chapter 2 I liked figuring out how to skip an entire section.

On chapter 3 I fell through the checkerboard immediately the first time; this seems like a bug.

On chapter 4 there are enough paths that it's possible to get slightly lost and not know which way you're supposed to follow the line.

On chapter 5 it's possible to fall onto an isolated island (the pink cube, under the lip) and get trapped forever. I would suggest making "only blue saves your position" a consistent rule rather than the current randomness. At this point I gave up and didn't want to try again from scratch.
Translating C to Rust: Lessons from a User Study
Also you can be heavily invested in Google apps and then one day suddenly google cuts you off and all you are ever going to get to talk is some email/chat bot who does not care to elevate a situation for you. Imagine having all your business docs, customer docs, and processes in google app suite and then just suddenly be cut off. It won’t happen with me since I avoid that situation, but what happens when google glitches and your small business folds because you can’t get to its data?
Yeah like several hundred "Chess IM/GMs react to ChatGPT playing chess" videos on youtube.
It seems like high-quality search is a very difficult task, largely due to their adversarial relationship with ‘spammers’. If someone else can do a better job, I’m sure their service will quickly capture the market.
Xilinx tool chain is also no-cost.
Could you explain more on how to do this? e.g if I am using the Claude API in my service, how would you suggest I go about setting up and controlling my own inference endpoint?
Salmon have no "genetic memory" - if you release baby salmon from a hatchery that were bred from adults caught elsewhere, they remember where they were released- not where they are genetically from-, and swim back to the area of the hatchery. It appears to be regular memory learned from experience. It is believed to be mostly chemical sensing, e.g. specific smells that they are remembering and returning to.

Salmon are not 100% effective at making it back to their birthplace, and some small fraction stray randomly- which is what allows them to populate new areas and re-populate others where they were wiped out. This article isn't about a lot of salmon - only hundreds, so this is probably the amount that would naturally stray to this region from others, with or without a healthy returning population.

For example, some ~120k chinook salmon returned to the Columbia river this year, so if 0.01% of them strayed to the Klamath river, you'd get about this many.
Just to be clear I'm not talking about Justine here and I consider the project to be well within the normal meaning of "cosmopolitan", but dogwhistle names are absolutely a thing antisemites do.
Anthropic will be the winner here, zero doubts in my mind. They have leapfrogged head and shoulders above OpenAI over the last year. Who'd have thought a business predicated entirely on keeping the ~1000 people on earth qualified to work on this stuff happy would go downhill once they failed at that.
You can't. He means by using the open source models.
based on the downvote this received i guess something is wrong with that sentence. but i am not an english native, and i can't tell what would be wrong with it. i am not bothered by the downvotes, if it is wrong then so be it, but i would like to know why it's wrong.
Why not just continue the migration manually?
> This exact decision making of "I'm going to go with this new-fangled tech startup with high interest rates" is exactly the kind of approach that gets you to risk your life savings.

This comes across as victim blaming, and I think it vastly overstates how "too good to be true" these interest rates are. Yotta's touted interest rate with their weird prizes is around 2.5% APY. Most of us were alive when this was a typical interest rate for a normal savings account, and given market growth it's not exactly unthinkable to get a 2-3% return. This isn't Bernie Madoff promising 20% annual returns.
Similarly, diesel engines come with a reserve fuel supply that you can accidentally use once. (diesel engines will happily run on engine oil when warm)
> but I think the author missed a variant hypothesis here:

> What if that specific model, when it recognizes chess notation, is trained to silently "tag out" for another, more specialized LLM, that is specifically trained on a majority-chess dataset? (Or — perhaps even more likely — the model is trained to recognize the need to activate a chess-playing LoRA adapter?)

Pretty sure your variant hypothesis is sufficiently covered by the author's writing.

So strange that people are so attached to conspiracy theories in this instance. Why would OpenAI or anyone go through all the trouble? The proposals outlined in the article make far more sense and track well with established research (namely that applying RLHF to a "text-only" model tends to wreak havoc on said model).
Windows has been driving me crackers the last few days trying to benchmark hard to measure optimisations, and tend to end up on long runs, looking for the minimum time.. Usually closing chrome results in an immediate ~10% performance boost even minimised.. I’d love to see an option for a Developer to lock off some cores totally, nothing runs on them unless its in an approved list.. At least then I can profile on those cores and get a reasonable result..
I don’t know if that makes it a scam.

I think you’re putting the cart before the horse.

Big cloud providers will push anything that would make them money. That’s just what marketing is.

AI was exciting long before big cloud providers even existed. Once it was clear that a product could be made, they started marketing it and selling the compute needed.

What’s the scam?
> Somehow, when I accessed it first I got a HTML file, but then I tried again and got JSON instead. Why is that?

There's something weird going on with the WordPress.com <-> ActivityPub integration. If you access it, especially from a Fediverse server, sometimes it tries to respond with JSON.

Workaround: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/113453155181869454

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the root cause to propose a fix.

> Note that block ciphers can be reversible. CTR mode does not require that the block cipher is reversible. However, it can be made non-reversible, which is how ChaCha20 works; it is a block cipher in CTR mode, but with an extra step to make it difficult to reverse.

100% correct. This is just a terse informal list of assumptions I'm making about the cryptographic primitives. It might seem silly, but I always include my assumptions with my security goals or threat model documents just so nobody has to guess what they are many years later if one of them is proven false.
Neither Wikipedia nor GP said something about intentions. My understanding of GGP's complaint is that they'd refer to the package containing the security issue as "backdoor", rather than the malware itself, and I disagree. This driver thing is a backdoor, the package is backdoored, this fits usual definitions.
Coriolis corrections are thrown into sniper ballistic calculations, too. Not a huge effect in most conditions, but not zero, and there have been a lot of long shots in the past two decades.
I'd love to see this hooked up to Navidrome, Jellyfin, or one of the other home server music solutions. Such a vibe.
this is noble reasoning: using cell phone while driving is a bad idea, high five!

but isn't voice mode a reminiscence of the "faster horses"?
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built this as a test in replit, pretty stoked with how it turned out
I'm not sure COT would help in this situation. I am an amateur at chess but in my experience a large part of playing is intuition and making and I'm not confident the model could even accurately summarise its thinking. There are tasks in which models perform worse on when explaining reasoning. However, this is completely vibes based.
Discussion (296 points, 7 days ago, 442 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150443
I can't provide what is, by definition, subjective proof. You must seek and find it yourself, in accordance with our shared universe, which has the same interface with you as it does with me. You could not look at me and comprehend the truth of what my life's choices have wrought upon my being, the happiness my family experiences, even within our poverty. No, you surely can easily deny that as well, and it is your free will's ability to do just that.

But it is also within your potential to treat me better than Eugene Parker's or Boltzman's contemporaries treated them, and instead keep an open mind and open heart and follow the path laid in front of us all that allows us to cure ourselves of our destructive selfishness and begin a new path forward.

If you look through my other comments you can find a more detailed description of the key that unlocks the necessary doors, and with them our latent abilities, which include knowing instead of just thinking.
Engineers really have a hard time coming to terms with probabilistic systems.
Angela Merkel expresses 'huge concern' at Elon Musk's US Government role
> It sends a signal to all of Europe to be wary of doing business with Israel, which is a big deal.

They can resume business once Netanyahu is gone.

In fact Viktor Orban has already invited him to Hungary to the dismay of EU officials. His plane would need permission to fly in other countries' airspace anyway so it would be qiite a risky stunt.
Ummm okay? A scam implies someone is getting hurt (financially, emotionally, etc.). Who's getting scammed here?
Phone gets hot fast
Rihanna sold more records in the UK than the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_art...
Reminds me of the big blue disk and gamer's edge from which ID Software grew. We now have an abundance of software to enjoy but I wish I lived through the early days.
This. And a garden, and a microscope, and an electronics lab, and a mechanical workshop.
No, Putin's decision to launch the full-scale invasion in 2022 is what "got us" the war in Ukraine right now.

None of his claimed grievances in regard to the CFE Treaty amount to casus belli, by any rational metric. And they certainly weren't the core of what ultimately moved him to make that decision. They were just another part of his giant smokescreen, basically.

As his Deputy Foreign Minister put the matter, quite succinctly:

Bondarev also recalled that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov screamed at US officials, including First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, stating that ”[Russia] needs Ukraine” and that Russia will not ”go anywhere without Ukraine” during a dinner amidst the bilateral US-Russian strategic stability talks in Geneva on January 10, 2022.[67] Bondarev added that Rybakov vulgarly demanded that the US delegation ”get out with [their] belongings [to the 1997 borders]” as US officials called for negotiations.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/weakness-lethal-wh...
And due to the labor, it can only handle a low volume of goods with a high markup. When I go there, you end up waiting in line to be helped by the one or two people working that counter. Meanwhile, the cheaper, prepackaged foods can be picked up as needed.
> According to PacifiCorp, the Oregon-based company that owns the Klamath dams today, the structures are mainly monitored and controlled remotely—from Lewis River, Washington, more than 500 kilometers away. Local jobs add up to 13, and all the affected employees either retired, voluntarily left the company, or will be reassigned within it.

from the link. probably a few more people in recreation indirectly affected, but these are small, remote reservoirs. It's not like we're draining Lake Powell here[1]

[1]: be still my beating heart
This is factually incorrect.

From the 2013 department of the interior report discussing dam removal "Klamath Dam Removal Overview Report for the Secretary of the Interior: An assessment of science and technical information":

> In particular, the Klamath Tribes of the upper basin have experienced their 92nd year (period starting with initial dam construction) without access to salmon and have continued to limit their harvest of suckers to only ceremonial use for the 25th consecutive year because of exceptionally low numbers and ESA protection.