skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defining what "knowing" is would be useful, yes, and analytic philosophers in epistemology do argue about this. One attribute that's classically part of the definition of "knowing" is that the thing which is known must be true. LLMs are pretty bad at this, but perhaps that can be fixed.

But I would challenge you to imagine the situation the LLM is actually in. Do you understand Thai? If so, in the following, feel free to imagine some other language which you don't know and is not closely related to any languages you do know. Suppose I gather reams and reams of Thai text, without images, without context. Books without their covers, or anything which would indicate genre. There's no Thai-English dictionary available, or any Thai speakers. You aren't taught which symbols map to which sounds. You're on your own with a giant pile of text, and asked to learn to predict symbols. If you had sufficient opportunity to study this pile of text, you'd begin to pick out patterns of which words appear together, and what order words often appear in. Suppose you study this giant stack of Thai text for years in isolation. After all this study, you're good enough that given a few written Thai words, you can write sequences of words that are likely to follow, given what you know of these patterns. You can fill in blanks. But should anyone guess that you "know" what you're saying? Nothing has ever indicated to you what any of these words _mean_. If you give back a sequence of words, which a Thai speakers understands to be expressing an opinion about monetary policy, because you read several similar sequences in the pile, is that even your opinion?

I think algorithms can 'know' something, given sufficient grounding.
LLMs 'know' what text looks like. They can 'know' what tokens belong where, even if they don't know anything about the things referred to. That's all, because that's what they have to learn from.
I think an game-playing RL-trained agent can 'know' the likely state-change that a given action will cause. An image segmentation model can 'know' which value-differences in adjacent pixels are segment boundaries.

But if we want AIs that 'know' the same things we know, then we have to build them to perceive in a multi-modal way, and interact with stuff in the world, rather than just self-supervising on piles of internet data.
One of the best things about Turbo Native is that it is built ON TOP of UIKit. So you get those native navigation animations, including swipe-back, for free.
> If you are only interested in the most superficial tests and theories—like the Turing Test—then consider psychology conquered once you’ve tricked a human with your chat bot.

What's the counterargument? What's a less superficial test that we can use instead, which conclusively shows that actually human minds aren't just like very sophisticated LLMs? There isn't one -- this is nothing but the same Chinese room problem which we've been discussing for decades. The topmost poster is simply assuming that language models can't possibly understand the same way a human does without relying on any kind of "test" at all, which I think is the real scientific dead end here.
However they are proving very bad at making complex decisions, especially ones that involve people and nature.

A lot of our driving in unusual conditions require our experience and reasoning about the world.
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Very little of the hot loop involving user interaction will ever use more than one core. Single core performance is still the most important.
That is right on. Same situation here.
One other very big advantage to a more modern engine design is the ability to potentially run on unleaded fuels.
Ah yes Switzerland salaries are much higher... But costs of living are too. I remember everything in grocery stores cost almost twice as much as they did in Germany.

It's actually quite typical, when you move to places where costs of living are higher, salaries are higher too. You may still struggle to save anything. What you do manage to save can represent a lot of value, but only if you end up selling everything and relocating to a different, cheaper country/city later. I wish I had seen the global scheme sooner.
Note: in California, tipped staff receive minimum wage (or higher) before accounting for tips, so any tips they receive is in addition to their normal pay.

This is not the case in most of the U.S., where tips relieve the business of part of their obligation to pay wages.
I've had hot referrals that I haven't followed up on because I couldn't be bothered to put all the sections of my resume into their applicant tracking system...
So glad you enjoyed "On the Metal"! Your suggestion is a great one, and we'll work on this over the next few weeks; stay tuned, and in the meantime, enjoy the "Oxide and Friends" back catalog!
I wouldn't describe people as envious, toxic, etc... but even well meaning people who know how much you make can create issues that you simply would prefer not to have.

For example, if you make a lot people may expect you to pay for dinner more, or worry less about inconveniencing you financially. Not in a mean malicious way, but in a "Tommy's not gonna sweat this $20". Or the opposite, they may question why you have that new car, when your finances don't really justify it. They may be looking out for you, but really that decision should be yours and your spouse.

I'm not sure what upside there is to letting anyone know.
Deliveroo doesn't pay well in London either.
Shopping for a phone with a better battery life out of the box, before you need to change it. I think that's what the GP wanted to say.
Cool idea and I wish you the best. But talking about monetizing might be too early at this point. After a couple of tests it seems like it is completely unusable:

- It can't search non-english words
- It will change your the spelling of any word to show completely irrelevant results
> . Battery drain issues: Battery drains randomly, main culprit being "find my" process.

You probably have an AirTag around you, there's a bug causing that. Update the AirTag firmware.

> 3. Lack of the back button is a huge pain in the ass

Swipe from the left edge of the screen to right, that's the iOS back button.
Modern UIs are more likely to be slow and laggy compared to old ones.
I agree on the principle. Developers should care about low budget devices, and demographics—key or not—shouldn’t be excluded. The principle is sound.

But that is different from the observation of the beginning of this thread, which is that Geekbench scores don’t really reflect practical limitation of devices. A big difference in the score does not mean a noticeable difference in performance when doing everyday web browsing on the phone. An observation that my own experience echoes.

Even if I’m extra-tolerant (I don’t think I am), it would surprise me that a performance difference I can’t even notice is going to be so intolerable to another human being that they are excluded from using the website.

When it comes to governmental services on the internet, I think really the focus is on whether the site _works_ on all kinds of devices, which means whether the rendering and interactions are correct. Some can fail to render on a low budget phone, or if some button doesn’t work, etc. these are real problems but that is quite irrelevant to benchmarks.
What's the % of total employee taxation at the 3x median salary level in say, SF or NYC?
DevTools for Large Language Models
This may be a very stupid question... But today I started wondering about this and decided to write a blog post about it.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

My attention to detail sucks, I'm not an experienced blog writer, nor am I a native speaker, so please excuse my writing and feel free to criticize it.
Thunderbird is not native. It's built on top of Firefox. As such, it's not that different from an Electron app.
I would guess that most people don’t have a choice when it comes to work services.
In this case, failing safe should probably be to just release the locking latches shortly after the loss of power.
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Walgreens is buying Medly's patient data
FL, especially in the Gulf, has mostly outboards because it's so damn shallow so it's nice to be able to pull them up when you're really tight. And lots of pontoon boats in the intercoastal.
Let me know when you find out.

The interesting and open question to me is what the limitations are of a language model at the center of that experience. How much of a a relationship with reality can be captured by language at all, and specifically with the specific sort of statistical models of language that we're exploring now? For some of us, the intuitive answer is not all that much and for others it seems to be at least as much as any human.

Whether conducted virtually or physically, coming up with an answer sounds like an empirical study, and one that we're some years away from having results for.
That was my thought as well and you can go even further by just making it a script. Which begs the question: why is this a subscription service and not the script.
As an example, my TV has a 100mbps network port - I thought I was being smart, and plugged my TV into a wired network cable. It kept buffering on a large 4k movie, which confused me because it had been working fine over wifi.

Finally realized my wifi was faster than 100mbps, and hence handled the stream fine, but wired couldn't keep up.
> but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees.

It’s called contract employment.
Excellent and useful analogy. Thank you.
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> greatly reduce total sales of vehicles.

This is one of those things that always struck me as a weird, poor argument... how is autonomous driving supposed to suddenly make everyone want to stop owning their cars and use taxis instead?
> State machines cannot change the semantics of themselves.

That's not true at all. There are many, many state machine implementations where the machine's states and paths are altered by the machine itself. See for instance https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
The original seal said "United Meritocracy of GitHub", until they removed it after a backlash

https://readwrite.com/github-meritocracy-rug/#awesm=~otS2Mwn...
No, they aren't "on record". Go find the cite. One paper had a source saying that it was active within 30 seconds of the collision (which is like 3x longer than the time shown on the video we have).

Look, the clearly most likely scenario here is that the driver got confused, overrode the AP, and then failed to maintain awareness as they commanded the sudden lane change. Obviously that's not what people want to hear, but it's the best explanation. I've pulled AP out and changed lanes manually, probably rapidly, on a bunch of occasions. All it takes is to do that when not paying attention...

All your logic was equally applicable to the accident in the linked article, and it was all wrong there too. (Also... Musk didn't "blame the driver" in the linked case? Not sure what you're citing. Tesla generally doesn't say anything about their customers' accidents, for some very obvious reasons.)

Just wait. All I'm telling you is that I drive with this product every day and I'm not seeing FSD behavior in that video. If it turns out I'm wrong then I'll sheepishly admit it. But I know which direction the spin runs and my BS detector is pretty good.
I have a similar tool that I am working on that is basically javascript on an html page.

There are probably other ways to add value for paying users so they are less likely to just save page as:

Integrating the JS into a WordPress plugin to generate screenshots automatically for posting to social media when a post publishes.

Zapier integration to help people automate these screenshots in their workflows.
I have worked in the solar industry. As a reference, the average efficiency of "normal" solar panels is around 16% today.
Discussion at the time (April/May 2021), how do the comments of HN's finest stack up? -

Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399 736 comments

NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112010 199 comments

Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871001 53 comments

No one was in driver’s seat in fatal Tesla crash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866754 85 comments

Texas police to demand Tesla crash data as Musk denies autopilot use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869962 18 comments
A 60s Buick would not lose against a pinata.

The cars in the 60s were rigid. This meant that, by and large, the car did damage to everything else until that threshold was passed.

The problem was two fold:

1) You tended to get thrown around inside the rigid box since internal restraints weren't very good (poor seatbelts, poor headrests, no airbags, etc.).

2) Once you finally had enough energy to get past the failure point, the car collapse was uncontrolled. This generally meant that the steering column got pushed into the driver.
The other interesting thing is that if people stop using websites, then it reduce revenue for those websites > then development of new pages and sources stops/slows, how does ChatGPT improve? If the information for it to learn isn't there.

We need the source information to be continually generated in order for ChatGPT to improve.
This is a misrepresentation of my argument. I'm not addressing Hersh's other argument about the other specifics of the Osama bin Laden raid, and therefore fairness or dishonesty to that part of his argument is not relevant. I'm addressing his quote, the quote in which he claimed that all words in the White House report/statement were lies. He denied that he made this claim; he didn't say he misspoke or that he's amending his original statement. To say that I'm being unfair or dishonest about Hersh's argument by misrepresenting my argument is itself unfair and/or dishonest.

As for the reason why Hersh did this, I cannot say, a person's intention is a black box. But this kind of behavior amounts to some amount of dishonesty. It's not much more complicated than that.
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I had an engine failure the other day. Fortunately I managed to land safely. Turns out that the problem had been brewing for a while. A modern engine design would have told me about the failure before it happened. The 1970's engine design did not. Nor did the retrofitted modern engine monitor that was certified and bought at great expense.

The current certification regime makes aircraft more dangerous by preventing modern technology from reaching or replacing the current fleet.
There's a good chance a human would respond in the same way, because they would assume you were asking a good-faith question instead of nonsense. Try asking it an original question that has some kind of deducible answer. Its abilities are more impressive than you would expect from an algorithm that just predicts the next word.

I doubt there is anything quite like this situation in the training data:
https://i.imgur.com/HOEnxYb.jpg
Yes, you fit in the “rounding error” group of users. Nobody (almost) cares about any of the features you noted. I’m not talking technology-ignorant people, either: the vast majority of phone users, including sophisticated users, use it for basic app functionality and texting. They aren’t hooking up hard drives or keyboards and don’t even want to.
Yes. Basically for https://random-character.com where I use it to render some fixed output. One of the tedious bits was rephrasing the same thing in different ways, as well as inserting pronouns. I have another one similar to Quillbot, but to write to a very specific tone.

It's on curie, with data in the hundreds of lines. The cost was trivial. Less than a dollar to train and several cents to run.
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The point is if the market is bad enough than people can’t have standards. And people still have standards so the market isn’t that bad.
True, but are you questioning the NTSB as well?
Because low-performers are nearly impossible to identify, at least from a CEO level. There are two things one can be doing in a job:

1) Their job

2) Signalling to everyone around how much they're doing, and how hard it is

Universally, as you shift from camp 1 to camp 2, your job security goes up. There is no such thing as perfect transparency, and especially in careers like programming, it's hard to estimate how hard something is (or is going to be).

You can also do things like 360 reviews, which reward people who are good at making friends.

You can look at lines of code, which rewards 1000 lines doing the job of 10.

Etc.
I seem to recall a similar discussion yesterday. I agree with you but I think I'll sit this one out :)
> bro, i don't want to tell you how to live your life, but if you are describing people as envious, toxic, and potentially dangerous than either these are not your friends, or you have a horribly low opinion of people.

I found this interview eye-opening of how serious (and dangerous) money can be, when the people around you don't have any: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKutkXy1Eeo&t=1178s

Even when it's not a situation of danger, though, money can still drive a wedge. The friends you made growing up, you were then equals (and neither of you had anything). Your financial success can become a mirror into their financial struggles, and not everyone does ok in that situation.
FYI for Bay Area residents: Caltrain allows open containers on rides. BYOB though.
Behavioral economists have ascribed economic bubbles to the same root causes as mass hysteria. Humans may become more sophisticated, but the tendency to believe in collective delusions are rooted deep in our psychology.
Are you saying a Lexus has never had a driver fatality from inattention? That seems ridiculous. What are you actually claiming here? If Lexus is safer than Tesla that seems like something someone can measure. Have they?
I think this is true: employees will be able to choose from far more options, and they will have more competition. The first phase of this is competing with anyone in the US, but soon enough companies will be hiring abroad for zoom-based jobs. If a foreign employee can work in a reasonable time-zone, and has great english language skills, what's the difference?
You must hang out with some poor quality humans.

My meaningful relationships are based on how much I like the people.

Sitting within X meters of someone doesn't make me like them particularly.

Liking someone is based on how similar we are in aesthetics, politics, philosophy, and world view, not whether we worked on unrelated things in the same neck of the woods.

I've been in the work world for almost 40 years now and I have just one friend I met at work. Most of my friends are people I met through purest chance who happen to have similar world-views.
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Yeah, you shouldn’t. But most of the time it works anyway.

But you’re right, I haven’t seen any professional installation, that doesn’t use CAT 7 for a long time.
Thunderbird still is pretty fast, though not as fast as before.

And until the user-hostile changes (mandatory setup wizards) began creeping in a few years back, one of the venerable classics that you could still rely on.

Pretty sure the new version is going to be a steaming pile of modern usability horrors; reduced features, cheeseburger menus, unreadable UI elements because it has to "look modern", all powered by Electron & co.

Can't say I'm surprised though.
The increase mentioned in your article was in the last 4 years? Seems a bit late for the testing outcomes in your original link. Pretty terrible example. Also, that area is a perfect example of where parents with the means move their kids (and their attention) to charter/private operations, exacerbating the problem.
Maybe, but the thick walls and styrofoam insulation give it a high r value. The furnace doesn't run much when the sun is out.

And the view is priceless :)
> it's still a Ponzi scheme in that you're paid out in the thing you stake

> any stocks that does not pay out dividend is [sic] also a Ponzi scheme

Neither of these things are "Ponzi schemes." Read about Charles Ponzi's role in his investment scheme to understand why.
This is a quote from the Unabomber's manifesto for those who aren't aware.
Gotcha, thanks, that makes perfect sense then.
I've seen this claim a lot, but what is the actual legal basis for it? Contractual language in specific policies? Assorted state laws? Homeowners insurance generally covers negligence by the owner (otherwise you'd be out of luck for many types of events). A homeowner modifying wiring in a way that causes a problem would seem to fall squarely into this category.
I just found out about this. I've been really enjoying using GitLab. I'm so sorry to hear about this.

P.S: If anyone reading this is among the people laid-off my heart goes out to you. If my interactions with GitLab's staff are anything to go by, your work is top notch (and much appreciated), I'm sure you'll find exciting new projects.
> your question is pretty confusing

That's exactly the point, isn't it? If the AI had some model of reality, it would probably be confused by the question. But it doesn't express confusion, it confidently answers the question in a way that doesn't make sense.

It acts like everything it is reading and saying is completely coherent because it doesn't have the ability to distinguish coherent ideas from nonsense.
Cars are a lot cheaper, taking inflation into account and before taxes (I am writing from Denmark)
And they are much better. You can get a small car with ABS brakes, airbags, radio, air-conditioning, a fuel-efficient engine, etc that drives really well, for two months salary.

Tanks and jets are probably much more expensive.
But some of that is because there is literately an arms race.

You need to pay for something that is much better than you had before or you service men will die because the enemy did get something that is better and more expensive.

I would love to own a classic sports car. I would happily pay for the extra fuels and take the risk of not having airbags, ABS brakes etc.

I am grateful that I do not have to go to war. But if I were, I would not want to do it a "classic" tank or fighter jet.

Now Ukraine is getting our old Leopard 1 tanks which have a lot of firepower and moves fast but have less armour than modern tanks, which might work because the Russians most have old tanks left.

But there is a good reason that European countries have bought Leopard 2 tanks that are much more expensive and 24 tonnes heavier.
Even The Pentagon Is Using ChatGPT Now
You've got this! Money can be exchanged for goods and services, and the demand for software services is still near an all time high and will tends towards increasing for a long time. As a seller of software services, don't take it personally.
According to a friend, in Mexico the risk is very real.
If Benioff can screw over customers or workers at Slack/Salesforce, he will. Then he'll call you lazy too.
One issue with SVD is its significant time complexity compared to, for example, the Discrete Cosine Transform used in JPEG
> It seems unlikely any alien malware could be targeted to affect our computing platforms

tell that to the Cylons
You can have a fix desk for employees who want to be on site, and have a bunch of "free desks" for the remote ones who want to come to the office.

Sometimes it's nice to be remote, sometimes it's nice to be in the office. Some people like it 100% remote, other 100% on site.
I have no use for this. Very cool though. Reminds me of local news stories about the dangers of the internet
And crypto sites seem "reliable".
Doesn't matter what it "seems", but what it is.
Watch the dude on youtube.
Long live Thunderbird