skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This matches my experience of an IT education in university perfectly. 90% of my class just didn't get it at all and the remaining 10% had a lot of experience in the field already (there were a small amount of extremely smart folks as well of course - they needed no background). Kind of defeats the purpose of teaching, but it does serve to weed out the folks that can't pick things up very fast. I think that is one of the goals of high-level schooling.
I think you're mistaken: often AI don't get the numbers of hand or digits right..

I don't think humans have any difficulties coming with the correct number of hand or digits, drawing them yes but not the number.
Hong Kong statistics are usually separate from mainland statistics. This goes for GDP, trade statistics (Hong Kong is a separate member of the WTO, for example), and many other things. I strongly suspect that it goes for tourism statistics as well.
Thanks for being here to answer questions.

One possibly difficult topic others also may be interested in, after reading Claude's responses in the article, is: what does "harmless" mean?

For example, if asked to help the user understand how to do something "bad", will it give the answer if they claim they want this information in order to help them write a screenplay, versus if they seem have an intent to do it?

And how is "bad" decided? We can recognise through everyday personal interactions that one persons "bad" is another persons "good", and across country-boundaries even the legality of these distinctions can be radically different.

One counterargument to these constraints is that anyone can already use the internet to access all of the same information the model was trained on, unencumbered by whatever intent they may or may not have.

As such, what are the rationale for making these attempts at the somewhat invasively-impossible task of determining user intent?

This has never been employed with search engines before, which have lead to a rich explosion of innovation and education, so why attempt it now, in what could be argued is ultimately an iteration of search engine technology?
Why is pen and paper required?
Yes exactly that. I managed first class honours and the only benefit is that I'd be able to start a PHD without finishing a masters.

We had a fourth year as our engineering degree was part of an internal agreement such that it would be globally recognized. The states requires four years so we had to match that. However, if I'd studied in the USA I think I'd have had more than two elective papers over the four years.
It's based on Percona Monitoring and Management. Nice! Great to see it's going SaaS.
Hmm. I don't automatically disagree, but the same argument is put forth for excessive food, drink, drugs intake and self-control is, by itself, not a real answer, but a diversion of sorts typically given by the item's manufacturer/seller. As in, it is both true, but also misleading -- especially so in the case of cellphones.

By their very design these days, smart phones are created with a singular goal of keeping the attention of the user. Incessant A/B testing, analytics and dark patterns use make them more addictive than an average willpower can handle. It can be done, but that individual is officially fighting off efforts of companies with budgets sometimes rivaling those of nation states.

I can agree that the problem is people, but I think we disagree on the exact nature of the problem.
Every child knows what things they like and are good at. It might not map exactly to a career path but it's not like career skills live in some sort of magical vacuum that you can never see until you try them.
fmtlib does not, in fact, do this on C++ 11 because as explained it doesn't have enough constant evaluation.

The fmtlib code uses a C-style macro to try to handle format errors at compile time, which detects whether it has enough consteval and no-ops if it does not. On a modern C++ with enough consteval it does exactly what you'd expect it to do, but on older compilers it does nothing.

The result is that fmtlib on an older compiler gets you Exceptions, at runtime, for a format that was invalid at compile time, and if you upgrade the compiler it magically switches to compile time errors.

Edited to add quote from fmtlib docs:

"Compile-time checks are enabled by default on compilers that support C++20 consteval. On older compilers you can use the FMT_STRING macro defined in fmt/format.h instead. It requires C++14 and is a no-op in C++11."
By the way, if you have a magic keyboard + trackpad, you can buy a tray for them. Example:

https://purposemade.org/projects/the-tre-apple-bluetooth-mag...

All the ones I've seen are stupid expensive, though.
You're right but his response at the time was hilarious.
I've never tried one of these. They certainly look pretty interesting, maybe better than the trackpad, but I bring a Bluetooth mouse when I take my laptop places anyway.
In the UK I get a sim-only deal with unlimited calls and 4GB of data for £6 with Smarty: https://smarty.co.uk/plans/4gb-data

Recently moved and didn't have internet service setup yet. I got an unlimited data bundle from them for £17 for 30 days. Felt like a pretty good deal, and it didn't get throttled at all. Latency was a slight issue with zoom calls though.
Sorta-kinda: VSCode lets you execute code from regular Python files in a Jupyter session [1] by demarcating code cells with "# %%"

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py...
I disabled windows search indexing. I just use voidtools Everything. It just works. You get access to any file on your system in milliseconds instead of 30+seconds of windows search.
Personally I'd like the head unit to do as absolutely little as possible. Just run CarPlay and Android Auto and let your phone do the heavy lifting. Headunit software in cars is notoriously awful, slow and rarely gets updated. For this reason they should just offload as much as possible.
Since late 2020 you can update your head unit yourself for free:

https://update.hyundai.com/

You can download an updater (at least for Windows) which downloads the whole head unit update data, which you then just copy to an SD card and stuff it into the reader in your car.

There is a similar service for Kia (they share head units with Hyundai - it's basically the same company)

https://update.kia.com

I did a couple of successful updates on my Irish 2017 Cee'd .
Maps are updated every few months,
Kia claims to provide updates for cars up to 7 years old.
ChatGPT can be very confidently wrong in few words too. It's a very flexible system that way.
These chat bots are too chatty.
That's one of the reasons why I often prefer the chat bot at you.com
It's a complex problem but there are fairly obvious strategies that longer term can address most of the points you raise.

The company I work for in the main strategy is to facilitate AC charging points in places you are naturally stopped for enough time to top up charge. So home, work, shopping areas being the most obvious.

So small frequent incremental opportunities to top up or in the case of this article contribute to the grid.

There are definitely lots of solvable problems in this space that underpinned by the correct financial models will contribute a lot positively to climate change.

Topping up from solar during the day and from wind during the night along with predictive (per driver) charging models will go a long way. Whilst complex the challenges feel very much in the realms of scheduling and loading cargo onto ships Vs autonomous driving from a software side. For hardware (chargers) it's really down to plentiful supply in the main.
People focus maybe too much on the supply side of things. Resources, means of production, capital etc

A puzzle that seems to floating above all this is the role of demand, what people want.

An instance where it seems a key factor is the US consumer revolution. But maybe it was instrumental before.

Also today, you get a distinct feeling that many parts of the world do not stay underdeveloped (using conventional GDP etc) because they cant do otherwise, but because they dont want.

Developing a knack for wanting more goods or services does not seem to be trivial or uniform.
I meant the blog post.

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

> The model is often excessively verbose and overuses certain phrases, such as restating that it’s a language model trained by OpenAI. These issues arise from biases in the training data (trainers prefer longer answers that look more comprehensive) and well-known over-optimization issues.12

> Stiennon, Nisan, et al. “Learning to summarize with human feedback.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (2020): 3008-3021. ↩

> Gao, Leo, John Schulman, and Jacob Hilton. “Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10760 (2022). ↩
Note: this is about producing manhole covers.
Yeah, because it's lawyers working for the rightholders sending them, not ISPs. You can sometimes get out, but only by replying properly, ignoring then will end in court.
Postscript: (Still not interacting with wizeman)

This poster that has just only learned of the word “woke” according to them but also wants to educate folks about it has a lot to say in other threads!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415794

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34418890

The only reason why I’m revisiting this is to point out that they have (as I’ve pointed out) gone through with the natural pivot from misunderstood to persecuted. It’s a very simple playbook that can be followed by anyone. It gets kind of like the fedex arrow once you notice it!

The biggest part of this color-by-numbers silliness is the demand at every step that the opponent debates their positions (which involves re-stating them). If a far right person refuses to expand on their position and demands that you explain why they’re wrong, you’re looking at bait! Namaste!
JIT VMs often rely on runtime tracing to form assumptions about a program, and then JIT native code that fits those assumptions. If/when those assumptions break, the VM can fall back to interpreting the original code.

That means there is no need to write a fully-featured Ruby compiler, instead you only have to emit native code in places/situations where it will have the maximum benefit.
I was also at the teachers side. Unclear rules and situations harm especially students that don't tend to complain and argue.

But back to student time, I had class where we were expected to write super detailed explanation on every homework. If you skipped a tiny step, you got marked down. And then came test. I could answer every single question and did not even stopped to think. When time run out, I was still writing. People complained and the response was that we should not be that detailed on test - but that is exactly what they trained us to do.

The op complained about this: "from classes where I walked into tests expecting that I should be able to answer every question perfectly, to classes where my 70% score on the midterm (of a handful of questions) was considered an excellent result, with no explicit indication beforehand that this would be the case. "

This is sort of guesswork about what you are even supposed to do sux.

> I would have all my exams be take home, open book (but solo work). But what do I do about the 20% of the students who have zero respect for any sort of honor code and even less fear of any consequences?

Don't do home exams, imo. Cheaters always, literally always exists. In some cultures they are effectively normalized and more frequent, in some less. Consequences for cheating in American colleges are quite high actually, they can kick you out. They do not want to be kicked out, but there is no way to catch cheater in their home.
Do you publish them somewhere? Interested in reading your ideas.
The motivation as I understand it has less to do with present-day misuse, and more to do with maintaining controllable behavior in accordance with an arbitrary, human-written “Constitution”. Anthropic is attempting to make a model that will not harm (in the unambiguous, uncontroversial sense of the word) humans even if it is superhumanly intelligent, or trusted with real-world control.
Sign me up for the security system. This seems like a total game changer if it's possible to do real human detection and tracking in a secure location.
JOOI, can you arrange to only pay when it's cold enough to need them, or is cancelling/resubscribing the huge pain one might expect from such a scheme?
Then how come instagram's Reels (a copycat product) works as fast, as efficient and with the same kind of UX?

Are you saying instagram got "massive direct assistance from Uncle Sam and other government entities"? How would you even come up with that opinion?
ChatGPT definitely captured the Seinfeld style better

“What’s the deal with” is how you caricaturise Jerry, not how you write actual jokes for him
But we have machines for that? Data access and repetition in itself is worthless. Refinement, and gaining new data from old recipes is the actual value. Why construct a machine, that basically selects for the wrong value, creating a reproduction academia, instead of a innovation academia. Why weed out what was your original value proposition? It seems very strange.
I have the same problem. For some weird reason my company-provided X13 Yoga's trackpoint just doesn't feel right. I tried adjusting it but I eventually gave up and switched to trackpad (I don't use the laptop that much anyways).

That one doesn't even have a huge screen resolution (1920x1200 I think) so I don't quite understand what's wrong. Maybe some change in parts?
What’s the point of having national recommendation with a set amount when it comes to alcohol consumption?

It’s now a fact that alcohol has negative effect at any dose. The whole two drinks per week is once again a purely arbitrary number.

At least, the Netherland got it right. Just say it’s unhealthy, recommend people don’t drink regularly and let them do what they want from there.
It's a pity the article doesn't really any Object Pascal code examples.

(Turbo) Pascal was the second programming language I learned (starting programming with ActionScript 2.0 to make Flash games) and I remember really enjoying it. I still miss how good it felt to instantly compile code.

That was 15 years ago. Looking back, it's funny how my dev experience is not really better than what it was back then.
Excel is much like an Incel: it has a tendency to mistake something for a date that isn't.
By the way, we are discussing more of this in our latest podcast episode (HackCast) here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VfRaPECbpY

Cheers!
Even with the "Seems to" qualifier, I am arguing that it "seems not to."

That said, I am being pedantic and this is just semantics - I think I understand your meaning of "seems to" as something like "'it would appear to' have understanding of..."
It's been a while since I used Windows with any kind of seriousness (and the last version I did was 7), so I wasn't aware that this kind of thing is offloaded to separate, shared processes like that.

> Not to mention, there isn't a whole lot of software left that doesn't need at least some networking for its 'primary' functionality.

Case in point, Microsoft Office has no good reason to be aware of the existence of the internet. Its job is to open, view, edit, and save local files. No one I know uses any of the cloud crap they added in the latest versions. The only use case when networking might be needed in Word/Excel/Powerpoint — and even then, it's most probably handled by a system service — is printing to a networked printer.

(when working with a file stored on a remote server, shared over SMB or something similar, that's definitely handled by the system and appears as a local file to applications, albeit on a very slow disk)
There are videos with similar production values showing manufacturing lines that are perhaps less focused on displaying world-class part quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EDb8n8IgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_B59F5FAJk

Straight from the dawn of mass manufacturing. No material handing at all-- you just pay some guy ten cents an hour to pick up a part and walk it from one station to another. Each workstation is 1920s-style full manual lathes and mills with hard fixturing. You could ask for material traceability documentation if you wanted to hear a chorus of laughter: the metal on those sprockets appears to be random scrap sheet fresh from the side of the road.

The sprockets in particular could be done with a single progressive stamping press. It would replace the jobs of what appears to be 20 separate people and would cost 100x what they would make in their entire life.
I think the users that find the reddit app "unusable" are generally tech-literate power users. Most normies I've met who use Reddit don't mind using the default app (until they are exposed to a 3rd party client anyway!)
As other comment wrote batteries are moving to cobalt free LFP. Now can it be said that we just rob the future from Congo by preventing them capitals from their cobalt?
> those lessons can be applied to help developing nations follow the same trajectory to development

Not necessarily: firstly, some of those factors were "have the right geology" (coal/iron/later oil), which you can't replicate even if you want to, and secondly we're already in a developed world. That changes the environment and cost/benefit analysis greatly.

The first person to develop a steam engine and the 1,000th person to do so are working in a very different way.

To develop the third world, it might be more informative to look at the postwar trajectories of Japan, Singapore, Korea, and of course China.

> faulting the west for past injustices

Many of which are linked directly to present, ongoing injustices, but you'll never read that because you have no interest in engaging with the research itself, only a caricature. Besides, isn't it better history to find out what actually happened rather than just regurgitate the propaganda of the past?
While I love CarPlay for most of the stuff, I hate navigation from Google Maps or Waze / phone. I'm not sure if it's placebo, or something else, but for my car, the navigation is just better, especially when driving in tunnels and other weak GPS areas. The car system seems to use more than just GPS, like speed, direction and distance and even if you drive in a long tunnel or other similar conditions, it just knows not to mess up the position of the car, miss exits and other things. I know it depends on the manufacturer, but I get regular OTA updates for the navigation, live traffic updates that are quite good, dangerous situations on the road ahead and so on.
Objects and Types in Python
Really sorry about that -- I should've turned off test mode now for Google OAuth. Login work ok now?
Ah why didn't you reply to that comment? This just looks like you're misquoting the tweet thread.

> Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.

Why are you assuming I'm American?

As for the rest, I wouldn't bring this up otherwise but since you went there - I started university at seventeen, worked full time in a pub from when I turned 18 and then had to work two jobs in my final year, I've also suffered close relatives dying and a best friend committing suicide. And yet I can still understand that other people could be in circumstances that really push them to describe being "emotionally devastated" without going through all or even some of that. You're showing a (performative?) lack of empathy here.

> the bureaucracy it's what was killing me

"If a university bureacracy was killing you then what will happen life throws life/death problems at you?" - see how silly that sounds?
> It may be a rude awakening for the roughly 80% of Canadian adults who drink.

Probably not, because after the 20% who never drink, there's another 20% who practically never drink. E.g, who never order alcohol on their own but drink to be polite if it's offered to them. I bet the next 20% are also below the new guideline already.

Alcohol consumption is extremely top heavy: a small share of the population drinks a very large share of everything that's produced. It's why, even if you don't worry about a 15% increase in neck cancer risk (I wouldn't), it's such a huge moral hazard for society. The money that's to be made from alcohol - and it's a lot of money, and deeply entangled with industries such as live music and hospitality - comes overwhelmingly from use that's harmful by any sane standard.

I welcome the advice, and I welcome warning labels even more. But we're still tipitoeing around the elephant in the room, which is the economic incentives: how it's a legal way to make lots of money on people wrecking their health and lives.
> We’re grabbing the browser session data

Correct me if I’m wrong but this is disallowed by many end sites eg Google and circumvents oauth/any real security. If your very new business was hacked in any way you’d be solely on the hook for the massive damage a bad party could do with such an elevated session with no real boundaries.

Cool idea, but I fail to see how this is 1) legal under many ToS’s and 2) not just a dangerous XSS attack waiting to happen.
You can think adversarial models, which are often used to detect and negatively reinforce quality issues in model outputs.

Claude outputs an answer. Then Claude independently rates the output for "helpfulness" as in literally "Claude, how helpful is this answer to this question".

There is no collusion between the two results because they are run independently.

Then Claude also rates answers for "honesty" and "harm".

Then Claude's parameters are updated to increase helpfulness and honesty, and decrease harmfulness, based on back propagating those ratings to the parameters as they impacted the signals produced by the original question.

Not saying that is exactly what they are doing, but that is one approach. It manages to leverage language models to train themselves on broad concepts, as apposed to brittle, more unreliable and vastly more resource intensive manual labeling.

Very clever. As the models get better at languages (and other modalities), and the concepts behind them, the models also get better at schooling themselves.

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It occurs to me, that this self-oversight could be made more even more robust by training 10 Claude's, and having each Claude be rated for good behavior by the other nine, and rewarding the best Claude.

Competition could make the trained-in motivations (to be the most honest, helpful and non-harmful) even more explicit, in that there would be very strong competitive motivation to continuously becoming the most virtuous and valuable, with the bar ever rising.

Maybe the winning results each iteration could also be shown to the losing models, as an example of what could be done better.

This really is a great direction. Kudos to Anthropic.
Why don't you tell us what your idea is?

It's hard to recommend anything generic and anyway, it's no longer a secret.
I think that Amazon Ion is gravely underappreciated. [0]

[0] https://amazon-ion.github.io
Surely demand is the easy piece: people with one set of cloths and one piece of furniture, want more stuff.

When you have a lot of stuff already, then people demand things like leisure time, freedom, justice, etc which conflicts with production of goods. But when you are basically a subsistence farmer you just want more stuff first and foremost. I find the idea that some places have not developed because the people there don't want things quite alien to be honest. Who is cold and doesn't want an extra blanket?
I missed the whole boat were we happily started sharing all our personal data with giant companies from oversee countries with abysmal privacy laws solely for internet confirmation
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