skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This conversation gets confusing because "mutation" as a term is being used inappropriately (it's why I add scare quotes). I alluded to this already in my comment.

Actual mutations, as in DNA transcribing errors, will occur regardless of vaccines. It's an inevitable part of DNA replication. Such mutations can lead to evolution when faced with certain environmental factors such as a population bottleneck effect.

Vaccines, by way or increasing immune system response, can cause a population bottleneck effect and encourage evolution. We're seeing it with covid variants resistant to prior vaccines and immune responses.
What if I am in Georgia?
I'd like to see some tests with other vehicles. A pinata at that speed is still a good chunk of force and many bumpers are plastic.

> At $1,000, it's probably safe to assume these aren't the only cheaply made parts of the vehicle.

Sure but if you're doing that then you don't need the pinata test at all.
> Is there an infinite recursion in /tmp?

No! The directory in /tmp outside of the "box" is completely empty; the remount of / is only seen within the mount namespace.
I think this line of reasoning is misguided. What’s striking and more important to focus on are the abstract reasoning abilities of these systems. Language, as you mentioned, abstracts real world objects and phenomena, so it’s a good approximation of the real world. Thus, if an LLM can reason this well using language, it’s safe to say that perhaps they’re doing something akin to what the human mind does.

Your critique about lack of grounding in these systems is an easy problem to solve. It’s as easy as teaching an LLM to associate words with real world objects or phenomena. Image-classification models, text-2-image models, audio transcription models, and many other modal specific systems already do this to some extent. And more recently there has been a push towards multi-modal language models(Deepmind’s flamingo), so this line of argument will be debunked very soon.

I actually believe GPT-4 will be multi-modal and it’s capabilities will dispel majority of these criticisms
What if a corp signs up as a consumer and uses $1 pops?
While I don't know the answer to this in-depth I can share some bullet points and of course it depends on what country you are talking about. On top of that it is important to note that there are insulin shortages in various countries.

- one payer healthcare systems
- non-convoluted distribution systems
- depending where cheaper workforce/cheaper to make the insulin
- less stringent regulatory processes
- stronger lobbying groups in the US
I'm about to leave my job if they don't get enough office space for us. They downgraded to a coworking space with no monitors and not enough desks. I'll never take another fully remote job. 3 years remote at different companies and it's hell.
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> easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don't need to pay for that capacity

Why should I be required to employ you if you cost more than the value you produce? No one owes you anything. If you're so skilled, get another job elsewhere.
All three of us.
As far as I know Amtrak still sells beer. They even have some decent regional beers.
Absolutely a good idea! I'll have to see what's doable.
DSL bandwidth is determined by the length of the wire between DSL modem and DSLAM which can be in the cabinet on the curb (and I believe it usually is).

Also it depends on what version of DSL standard we are talking. I personally started with adsl2 which was 12/3, upgraded eventually to VDSL2 which did 150/10 and latest standard is G.Fast which can give 1 Gbit/s aggregate uplink and downlink at 100m
It’s easy, you just have to clone the fork with the support and then select the packages and compile it. The fork is this: https://github.com/boretom/openwrt-fork/tree/wax206/flashabl...

If you want I can send you my image.
me: wibble octopus downwards jelly tuesday banana

chatGPT: I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate with that sentence. Could you please rephrase or provide more context?
Look into Interlink from Binary Outcast. It was originally based on Pale Moon in the same way Thunderbird is based on Firefox.
not only that. you've a bunch of smart people here - who're blind. looking at absolute numbers as if they mean something.

I worked in a mid-tier us city i.e Austin, Nashville and my take home pay is comparable to what I earn in london for the same role level. and same level of company profile. never worked at a mega tech - but have worked for well known ones.

and better yet my standard of living is higher.
Yeah but most travel isn't to a fixed, "necessary" destination. About the only place like that for me is work, and I certainly can't fly there.

Or to put it another way - comparing two different modes of travel to one specific destination doesn't make much sense when the destination is partially fungible. I want to know what the safest way to get to (any sufficiently nice place) is, not to (one specific nice place).
This objection is the well known Chinese Room Experiment objection[1].

The issue is that there doesn't seem to be a better alternative.

Either we build intelligence tests that some variety of the Chinese Room experiment will pass, or

* We have to consider that humans aren't intelligent by our own definitions (or rarely so).

* We decide intelligence isn't actually a scientific attribute and is more akin to a religious attribute, so we abandon the idea of being able to test if something is intelligent.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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> That doesn't make sense. Russia can use this as a propaganda tool without having to act on it.

To acknowledge such an attack and not respond in kind would cause them to lose face, but responding in kind risks escalation. Ignoring the attack is their safest option.
From the two camps the one that says we "might" be onto something is the more intelligent and reasonable opinion.

First your camp doesn't deal in absolutes. It doesn't say absolutely chatGPT is sentient. It only questions the possibility and tries to explore further.

Second a skeptical outlook that doesn't deal with absolutes is 100% the more logical and intelligent perspective given the fact that we don't even know what "understanding" or "sentience" is. We can't fully define these words and we only have some fuzzy view of what they are. Given this fact, absolute statements against something we don't fully understand are fundamentally not logical.

This is a strange phenomenon how some people will vehemently deny something absolutely. During the VERY beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic the CDC incorrectly stated that masks didn't stop the spread of COVID-19 and you literally saw a lot of people parroting this statement everywhere as "arm chair" pandemic experts (including here on HN).

Despite this there were some people who thought about it logically if there's a solid object on my face, even if that object has holes in it for air to pass through, the solid parts will block other solid things (like COVID) from passing through thereby lessening the amount of viral material that I breath in. Eventually the logic won out. I think the exact same phenomenon is happening here.

Some or several ML experts tried to downplay LLMs (even though they don't completely understand the phenomenon themselves) and everyone else is just parroting them like they did with the CDC.

The fact of the matter is, nobody completely understands the internal mechanisms behind human sentience nor do they understand how or if chatGPT is actually "understanding" things. How can they when they don't even know what the words mean themselves?
Tesla has already admitted to deactivating driver assist systems when they detect unavoidable accidents.

As for not seeing FSD behavior in that video...I do. It looks like the idiot Teslas I see every morning on my commute, randomly braking and swerving like drunk frat boys.
Yeah, bullshit. Maybe you didn't live through all the panic about offshoring in the 1990's, but all of our jobs would have been sent to Southeast Asia if they could have been by now. Remote changes nothing. They still can't fill positions, and the dwindling population of the active workforce due to COVID will ensure that employees are in the driver's seat for a long, long time.
My theory is that the tech talent migrates a short distance to NYC or VA. Even Pittsburg seems to have a better tech scene (or at least similar, but at less than half the population).
This "but the energy cost is net negative against keeping what we have" is an odd basis of reasoning. Some days I think its just a modern variant of "we should never have come down out of the trees" thinking.

No development can get away from a positive energy burden against the sunk cost of history. For active (coal burning power) vs passive (solar) the net energy cost is probably always good now: the cost of deploying solar has dropped enough that the sunk cost of the coal burner is now exceeded by the future lifetime upside of the PV, even given its carbon debt to make.

You're in a niche, arguing that scavenging existing clay tiles and keeping what you have is net better carbon output (bearing in mind your power has to be generated, and transmitted) than replacing the tiles with solar tiles. Thats different to 'replace coal burner with solar' but it can be calculated.

TL;DR you're asserting you think its worserer. I think its an interesting question, I don't actually think it is, but if it was, the question doesn't terminate in the sunk cost of the existing tiles, its the sunk cost AND FUTURE BURDEN of the coal burner you don't use. It's not just the production cost burden of the solar PV tiles, you have to remember to include the CO burden from the energy source you don't displace by making it locally.
Yes but would you publish this big a story without corroboration? It’s the single source that’s more of a problem than the anonymity.
Perhaps, but nothing I have ever heard anyone say about the downsides of remote work comes anywhere close to the upsides: e.g. the vastly superior quality of life you get when your job is essentially just a handful of apps on a computer in your house and can be turned on and turned off instantly, and the ability to concentrate on meaningful work tasks in a quiet environment that is under your control and design.
It's not a contradiction to say I want to work remotely and I don't want the company to use it against me. A company can choose to go remote for good and bad reasons. If they do it for bad reasons, they get shit on. In the context of layoffs, it's not irrational to consider the motive might be bad.
The singular value decomposition is doing the same thing as the DCT, sort of. It’s transforming the image into coefficients where the important coefficients are packed in one location. It’s worth applying similar techniques. You can see the demo where it’s truncating the coefficients.

Half the image codecs out there look like JPEG if you squint hard enough. That’s ok, “reimplementing a thing approximating” another codec is how a lot of marginal improvements have been made in the past, and if you add up enough marginal improvements, you end up with a competitive new codec in its own right.

The DCT isn’t magic, it just happens to work really well and requires little computational power. There’s a lot of possibilities for replacing the DCT with something else, especially now that we have more computational power to throw around.
> Are you saying a Lexus has never had a driver fatality from inattention?

That appears to be a deliberate misreading.

The GP was pointing out Tesla refused to follow well known best practices from around the beginning of Model S creation. Despite it being pointed out to them as a reckless choice numerous times.

They never said Lexus was perfect, they showed evidence Lexus appears to have taken the risks involved seriously in a way Tesla hasn’t, as evidenced by numerous recommendations from NHTSA that they did not follow or followed belatedly.
Ah man this is fantastic.

I'm literally half way through building something similar for our own saas.

Love what you are doing with authentication/connections to other services.
If the reason people are getting paid less is that health insurance has gotten more expensive then that's interesting and relevant as an explanation, but hardly refutes the idea that their lives are getting worse.
Side note. Didn't expect the UK bill document to be quite plain. I thought at least there should be UK coat of arms on every page, or at the very least stylish first letter instead only bigger font and bolded.
A human with a piece of paper and a pen could do. AKA writing down an algorithm.

Human reason isn't limited to written algorithms. The missing text problem from NLU is an example of a problem that is thought to be impossible for Turing machines/algorithms but is trivial in most cases for humans.
An 8 month gap is not a big negative as long as the candidate can say something sensible as to why. It's not a long enough time for knowledge to go stale. With a 4 year gap, you would have a much harder time getting interviews.
Some also put it in %HOMEPATH%/.name because they are bad ports from Unix. I'd argue that it's better than in My Documents though.
If HR's role is to protect the company, then they would be sensible to know that people have a right to share their salary information.
EVs ‘are not enough’: Polestar and Rivian urge more drastic climate action
Maybe the participant "knows" something about the Thai language?
But that's different from knowing anything about the things being discussed. The jumping off point for this, which motivated a question about what it is to know, was the comment:

> What this article is not showing (but either irresponsibly or naively suggests) is that the LLM knows what a bag is, what a person is, what popcorn and chocolate are, and can then put itself in the shoes of someone experiencing this situation, and finally communicate its own theory of what is going on in that person's mind. That is just not in evidence.

Knowing something about the patterns of word order in Thai is not the same as knowing about the world being discussed in Thai.
The tough part is solid evidence supporting it.
I tried to use the tool, but it's very laggy/slow. Is it server-side? Why not just HTML5?
I believe you missed the part where it rounds the error away. Of course for high N it may overflow into a significant part, but that’s 25-30 bits away for `double` and much more for custom non-fixed types, which implies a dataset that a client app wouldn’t be able to handle anyway. Multiplication is another beast, but repeating multiplication doesn’t appear in finance naturally.

In case you did not miss it: I’ve worked with and supported financial systems which do exactly that for a very long time without any micro-numerical issues^. Otoh, floating-point is a constant source of microbugs, unless all your developers are Knuth-level pros who are also versed in consulting and have no monday mornings or deadlines. It doesn’t matter if an error is O(N < 1e6) or O(1) when an underwater comparison to a limit fails and control flow triggers randomly.

^ The last [few] cent problem is usually handled explicitly, either naively (last=rest) or in Bresenham-like way (rarely, when it matters) and is easily catched in an accounting balance when left unhandled
A grad student strike. They're striking as employees, not students.
Have you ever read any Julian Jaynes? Check out "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
Let me respond with an analogy of my own. Imagine you are a scientist on an alien world. The aliens primary experience the world through magnetic fields. They live deep in the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter like planet and rarely touch anything and have no eyes. Still they are intelligent beings and so quickly they are able to establish communication with you. A computer translates and you both have to become a bit more familiar with each other's modes of perceiving the world. You could write a whole novel explaining this sort of difference in modes of perception, but my question is if you, the human, can learn to understand what it is to perceive magnetic fields? I think obviously the answer is yes. In fact, if you are to communicate you'll have to. I think the sort of modal/sense difference your analogy plays on is similar because I think for a human to get good at responding you'd have to start knowing things about the symbols. That knowledge obviously wouldn't be grounded in a way that you could translate it back into English. But you might for example learn that one word is a type of another or even that some words describe entities that are then referenced later and to actually get good at it, which it's not at all clear a human could, even that some entities have hidden state

This feels related to the idea of the Chinese room. There I think the resolution is that the human following instructions does not understand Chinese but the room, the system of instructions + the human to follow them does. In a similar way obviously an individual neuron doesn't understand anything but brains do.

I guess it just feels like this general argument, that merely seeing things and making predictions that turn out to be right isn't enough to understand it will never go away. We could have a full fledged robot walking around having conversations and I could dispute its ability to really understand. It's just learned to imitate other humans I'd say. It doesn't really know anything, it's just following a statistical model to decide how to move an arm
"Fun" fact - it was the lawyers that did it.

There was a real nasty lawsuit against one of the GA manufacturers. I believe it was Cirrus but it could be Cessna. Basically, this person sued everyone because their relative died in a flight. I mean everyone, if your part could be installed in this aircraft, sued.

The result was that Cessna stopped making the 172 in 1986 because the legal liability was too high. The most popular aircraft ever made was not for sale because of the liability. Production has resumed but something like 50% of the cost is just liability insurance for the inevitable lawsuit.
And deep learning models have no understanding of the underlying data because they are either classification or regression.
Here's someone else noting an interesting pattern along these lines of inquiry:

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1623788092124704768

Taylor is a WAPO Journalist.
A little depressing to see GitHub join the zeitgeist. Probably mandated from above by Microsoft. The next time I'm on a job search, I'll be de-prioritizing, and possibly even excluding, those tech companies that laid people off in order to signal to investors that they had their finances under control. I was kind of attached to GitHub, though, so this is disappointing.
I have every volume of each drive connected to my Mac Mini set to a custom icon, using the same native method people describe above for folders/files. Am I missing something?
I'm saying that it was probably active until the driver disengaged it to make that lane change. Everything about that video says "confused driver" and not autopilot misbehavior. The car will let the blinkers run for 3-4 seconds before a lane change, and it's very cautious about when to do it (much more so than a human driver would be).

Do I have proof? Of course not, it's not my car. But that's what it looks like. And I'm pointing out that this is exactly what happened in the accident in the linked article, where Tesla drivers were all pointing out how this just didn't match AP behavior[1]. And they were ignored. And they were right. Just wait.

[1] In that case: the version of autopilot at the time would only engage on roads with lane markings, and this road didn't have them. Also the speed of the collision could only be reached on that tiny road with manually-commanded acceleration, AP is quite timid.
Why would this be a subscription? It could just be a standalone app for $10 bucks and you'll probably get more lifetime revenue that way compared to having a subscription, because in a year more people will buy for $10 than will subscribe and stay subscribed for long enough to overcome that revenue.
Oh of course its not it. The question is how it relates to some future better thing. Is it a step on the road or a dead end.

I'm arguing against the 'its just a statistical model and its playing a clever trick on us' camp.
Why does hn allow duplicates? And why don't people check?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34714738
Author here would love to discuss with the community
Is it possible to learn how it actually works?

Banks charge for wiring, so if you are still using bank how do you get around that? I assume that it's not actually doing a wire transfer.
For reference, during the recent UC-wide strike, student strikers were allowed to keep their tuition remission (however, the university is clawing back paychecks for striking workers, as they are legally allowed to do. We had strike pay anyway, so it's fine)
The layoffs are mere fraction of the COVID era hiring. This is a minor correction.
Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
Hi!

So much of the world of software development is building variations of custom CRUD applications that take user input, store it and then present it back to the user in various ways allowing them to read, update or delete it.

On top of this is often a layer of other features such as workflow management, notifications etc.

How do you believe this type of software development will be impacted by the advancements in AI in general and LLMs in particular?

Cheers!
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Chromium doesn't respect XDG config, it always creates ~/Downloads directory on startup. It was so annoying, I hope this tool helps me fix it.
I do not think so. Transaction costs for employee are small - several months of lost pay (before finding new employer), which would be mostly covered by severance pay or unemployment insurance anyway. Transaction costs for employer depends, they generally pay for lost productivity during training-in period and lost institutional knowledge in case of high-knowledge workers.
I agree that the system of OpenAI, ChatGPT, and a user entering text on their website taken together may contain knowledge of "what a bag is, what a person is, what popcorn and chocolate are", etc. I do not agree that the LLM on its own "knows" what any of those things are.
Future psychiatrists will prescribe sessions with a model trained on everything your deceased loved one has ever written or said, to help you with the grieving process. It will be by prescription only because it is very addictive and should only be used to help bring closure.
>Human minds have semantic relationships to the rest of the world that LLMs do not have

Can you make this point without stuffing all the hard work into poorly defined words like "semantic relationships"? Until then, I'm not sure the point is intelligible.
But then I wouldn't be able to buy lumber once every 3 years or a couch every 10! And how to do you expect Billy to get to school?? It's so unsafe on the roads these days. /S