skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious -- does anyone know of ML directions that could add any kind of factual confidence level to ChatGPT and similar?

We all know now that ChatGPT is just autocomplete on steroids. It produces plausibly convincing patterns of speech.

But from the way it's built and trained, it's not like there's even any kind of factual confidence level you could threshold, or anything. The concept of factuality doesn't exist in the model at all.

So, is any progress being made towards internet-scale ML "fact engines" that also have the flexibility and linguistic expressiveness of ChatGPT? Or are these just two totally different paths that nobody knows how to marry?

Because I know there's plenty of work done with knowledge graphs et al., but those are very brittle things that generally need plenty of human curation and verification, and can't provide any of the (good) "fuzzy thinking" that ChatGPT can. They can't summarize essays or write poems.
If you live in the UK you know for sure that 65% of people would not rank productivity on any list of priorities.
> The UK no longer makes anything.

The Tories are almost exclusively responsible for that. With education and long-term industrial policy, there could have been an enormous high-tech manufacturing sector underpinned by an educated workforce to replace the older primary industries like coal mining and "low secondary" like bulk steel.

These policies should have started in the early 80s, but instead at that time they started slashing and selling.

Germany has a lot of faults policy-wise, but they somehow managed to keep manufacturing despite spending trillions on reunification right in middle.
That's another apparently evidence-free accusation.

Is there some undisclosed bad blood here?
Liquidity to support your 10k transaction seems unlikely. More likely fraud and CYA by the banks
However, that sounds a lot like the rationale used by eBay and PayPal to hose various peoples' accounts, which we hear about on a daily basis.
This is how I grew up in the US (central FL) in the 90's. I was 6-7 when I was riding my bike down to the corner store ~0.5mi away, and ~10 I was staying home and watching my sisters when necessary.

I was perfectly capable of cooking and looking after things. I just don't get this hysteria that seems to have gripped so many people. We are living in one of the safest times to be alive.
> Right now I'd treat a couple gallons of kerosene with way more respect than a battery.

Lithium-ion batteries are far worse than kerosene as a hazard. New York City has a big and growing problem with people charging scooter-sized electric vehicles in apartments.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/nyregion/lithium-ion-batt...
> but I'd 100x prefer a device that lived outside the scalp to one with probes beneath the skull.

So would everyone, but it's just too limited. It's going to be implants.
Agreed on your points. I particularly like, "If it can serve data, it will serve data." Totally get that point of view.

I fully wish that Intel would have gone with the "opt in" approach. Either opt-in with choices in architecture, or opt-in with the option disabled by default. It's the "always there, you don't see it, you can't disable it" thing that's the problem. Intel messed up here, for sure.

But the idea of the Intel Management Engine is sound and extremely useful. And it's the visceral (possibly unsubstantiated) attack against it in discourse that's the thing I'm addressing.

I mean, truthfully, maybe the only way to change things anymore is to be overly loud and exaggerate about issues, basically black & white arguments without any middle ground. Maybe social media has brought us to this point, where we can't see issues as both positive and negative. It kind of starts to sound like our politics, in this way. So maybe the only thing that could possibly change how the IME is configured or deployed is to be a huge stinker about it and make large noise. Sad, but that's probably the case.
Dunning-Kruger, provisionality and delirating are different things.
the net result of big tech is literally depression, anxiety and the fall of democracy.
Is fasting not a type of diet?
Wh/kg is an insufficient metric for air batteries. One needs Wh/kg at full charge and separately or full discharge, or kg/Wh charged and additional kg/Wh per unit Wh discharged, or something along those lines.

(kg/Ah discharged could be used to estimate electrons per oxygen atom absorbed, too.)
"if you annoy somebody enough that he and a dozen friends make false anonymous reports to get you kicked out"

There's all kinds of reasons that might happen that aren't your fault. In the past, maybe having the wrong skin color might have done it. In the present, I'm sure you can think of some ways to be unpopular that aren't a good reason to get kicked out.

One-sided power is never good.
For the reasons you say, I regard papers that report p-values without effect sizes to be at most interesting, but probably irrelevant for making actual real-life decisions.
If the models are learning from that and then interacting with others, this could be a very bad thing.
Now you've moved the goal post. What you said is often repeated and is totally incorrect.
I once watched a nice talk about how scientists can inadvertently get “stuck” in a particular point of view because interpretations are often an A/B choice where both are valid. After taking a long path through many such interpretation choices it’s easy to loose track of the alternative points of view.

The example in the talk was that “spacetime expanding” and “matter shrinking” are mathematically equivalent, and the choice is merely a preference between interpretations.
That’s it! Chat GPT excels at reading documentation and writing prototypes of code that uses libraries, APIs, FFIs or all of them together!

It saves so much time not to have to figure out how to instantiate that random call that wasn’t mentioned in the documentation and whose code is obscured by objectionable engineering.

However I don’t think any line of chatGPTs code has yet made it to my codebase unchanged
They also sometimes sequence transactions largest to smallest when settling to maximize the number of charges[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/11/yes-b...
they do 100%. back in June i got charged $30,000 by a fake "home depot". I disputed the charge, but that wasn't fun. the cs reps told me it was not through a debit card but via acct+routing number which got leaked somehow.
I didn't post about it...I commented on another relevant post around the time it happened. I don't think previous comments really require disclosure. It really seems like you are phishing for something here.
Is the alternative of them verifying your identify by sending a code to your phone or you telling them to call you at your phone number better (referring to SIM swapping)? Which commonly used verification method is the lesser of all evils?
Prediction markets may be an option: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1516179112

Similar to how charities (ostensibly) can be rated by Charity Navigator, and colleges (ostensibly) can be rated by US News, the credibility of various studies (and the journals that publish them) can be measured.
The only "good" ads are those you have to specifically go out of your way to view because you want to view them; such as product catalogues.

All other ads are physiological assault and should be made illegal. Particularly those ads which exist "IRL" and can't otherwise be blocked, such as billboards.
That's going to happen only when you have a million nanowires worming themselves throughout your brain. Of course you can't insert that many, so it will need to be a device capable of self-assembly.
I wouldn't take those bitcoin forecasts too seriously.

Some of them honestly believe that halving inflation doubles price no matter how many times you do it.
I find this a good overview of the topic: https://damueller.com/#/blog-post/NNLLs
what are strengths of sbcl over racket?

what are strengths of racket over sbcl?

if sbcl raw speed > racket speed wouldn't most expert lispers by default choose sbcl?

what purposes does racket uniquely serve not served by sbcl?
We have LinkedIn and it has turned out to be a shitshow for everyone except marketroids and recruiterons. Any specialized social network is going to get polluted with people looking to hire subjects of that network, while those same people hold little or no qualifications to be on that network themselves.
It's pretty permanent to the resulting children.
.com is very important

Especially for email deliverability

Using other TLDs is a mistake
3D Printed Community Is Printing One House per Week for a Year
I guess you would have to read their terms of service for your country. They probably still contain instructions about what to do, even if those could be different.
I get frustrated at the number of things ChatGPT gets blamed for that aren't its fault. It is completely understandable that if there are repos out on GitHub like the one for Phomber[1] thant ChatGPT would find that code and have no idea that it was phoney. Suggesting that ChatGPT just made this up out of thin air when you know it didn't is not very responsible.

1. https://github.com/s41r4j/phomber
By partnering with said cell phone carriers.

But I hope it would be illegal.
I absolutely love being around people when I am not trying to do deep work. Even as far as going to lunch, dinner, etc with coworkers. I work in consulting now, I have to actually pretend to be a people person.
We can only hope that the next time it goes down, it never comes back online.
New technology = race to figure out how to make the most money off of it. Not that complicated, nor does it have anything to do with "us as a species".
The case of the mysterious “out of bounds” error from CreateUri and memmove
Big providers, especially Microsoft, have become extremely heavy handed the last year or so. Now, if a single IP address in a /24 is sending spam, Microsoft will just block the entire /24. And we've had so much difficulty getting Microsoft to walk back that block and not reinstate it later on that we've completely given up providing any type of email service (whether that be day-to-day email needs or transactional emails). I've spent hours on calls with Microsoft support trying to remedy this and it's just impossible once it happens (and I've had it happen multiple times to multiple IPs and had multiple MS techs confirm this is what is happening)
That explains why ChatGPT is confused.

It may be an old problem, but I guess users are more use to a random YouTube video with wrong information. But the computer is always right so ChatGPT is always right, so users may be more annoyed to discover that the recommendation is wrong and blame them instead of ChatGPT.
GTK4 is getting them.
Sonic used to offer mbone connectivity (including BBC channels) back when they were an internet service provider and not a web provider. It was pretty nifty but never very user friendly to set up.
"Maintain your faith and keep going".

Why? You're not going to make money if you're losing in a fast-moving field.
Not to be condescending or patronizing, but, well, I'm answering your question and it itself has a dismissive tone.

Yes, people are still using Django.

As I've grown in my career, frameworks, libraries, and architectural patterns just become tools. I don't quite understand folks who identify as a "React developer", or a "Django developer". When evaluating any framework, you must learn to eschew the latest hotness long enough to evaluate what your requirements are, and maybe most importantly, what your constraints are.

For a surprising amount of projects today, I would still recommend Django above anything else.
I'm an Ubuntu user and the first thing I always do in a new system is removing the Ubuntu Store, completely removing snapd, and installing the Flathub Store.
We have a whole media industry unrestrained by responsible regulation peddling fear.

Look at the court disclosures about Fox News personalities retaliating against Fox reporters actually reporting the truth. They knew the election fraud story was bullshit, but these folks have no higher purpose and want grandma to be scared.

SFO is a whole other universe.
To be clear, I was just paraphrasing OP - I'm not an emacs user (nothing against it, just never got into it.. and yes I do use vim, on Arch btw).
The last one is very anglo-centric (or at least centric to fully latinized languages). Do you not find the rules[0] in for example chrome working?

[0]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
Related – this video does a nice job of articulating that argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Steven Black runs a hosts file on GitHub with regular updates. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

There are a bunch of file variants to weed out specific bad actors.

It's well currated though I will disclaimer it has broken a few websites in the past for me. Maybe that's a good thing.
I had a local body mod artist implant it. He ordered it from dangerousthings.com

I just have my contact card on it so when I meet people I can have them scan my hand with their phone to give them my number.
A big perpetrator of this is the designed environment surrounding car culture.
I moved somewhere where there's plenty of foot traffic, specifically so my kid will walk/bike to school and that is seen as completely normal.
Most Americans do not understand how horrible car dependence is for personal independence, yet defend it to the end for some reason. It's really a shame.
It is quite interesting really. I took AI in school but I have not dived deep at all in ChatGPT but isn't chatGpt just learning from the internet?

Could someone push "wrong" opinion heavily online to sway the opinion of AI?

I can only imagine a bot that learned from 4chan.
Sex, food or water? How mice decide
I agree that it is "yet another standard", but I gotta say that Flatpak is pretty sweet, and does actually do a good job of making "one package manager to rule them all".

I think part of the problem with a lot of "selling stuff on Linux" has been mucking around with different dependencies for the thousand different versions of Linux.

Historically, this has led to a couple solutions: either a) Just officially support one distro (usually Ubuntu), or b) just don't release a Linux version.

Flatpak has actually succeeded in making a system that kind of works everywhere, and I think it actually has a shot of being an equivalent to the Mac App Store.
Without a tech stack it is impossible to self-host email, so, it is the hard part. Just this week I had huge problems with an expected email not reaching either of my gmail or outlook inboxes. It just never came, despite the sender insisting they sent it. This isn't an isolated case.

With MXRoute and my own self-hosted email, I'm slowly moving away from the big ones.
Back when I was involved there was a distinct impression that people got bonuses for getting commit rights, etc - so we’d get people who would swing by making the requisite 10-15 patches - generally relatively low value changes (fixing formatting, tidying up comments, etc), get the commit rights and then often never been heard or seen from again. I didn’t know if that was just hearsay - it wasn’t the case when I was at Google but that was some time post blink - but the pattern of behaviour made it seem super plausible.
(1) It is has contributed to a general economic crisis, (2) It has been destructive to farmers and many other businesses because they no longer have easy access to the large EU market, (3) the EU provided a convenient answer to the problem w/ the Northern Ireland border that could keep everybody happy (come and go as you please!)

I know a lot of people in the finance biz in London which is particularly devastated. The UK pushed the EU into much more openness and transparency than they would have had on their own, "passporting" made it possible to sell financial services across the whole market. One reason why London leads the world in finance is the great talent it attracts and Brexit has sent many of those people packing.
Parts of the US are like this, but huge swaths of Americans don't even bother locking their front doors.
Moreso if you're a $3bn company, you certainly don't want _someone else_ owning the .com for the same reason — it lends legitimacy.

Even if they don't use the .com as their primary domain, they'll still buy it and redirect so that no-one else squats on it / phishes from it.
I’ve actually found LI to be good for leads for generic companies as an alternative “resume drop” - any time the company paid to distribute the job you know they’re actively recruiting for it.
Maybe Valve could fund them?

Anyone have the connections to make this happen?
Russian warlord’s feud with Putin’s generals explodes into gruesome PR campaign
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This is a good approach in general, having a spending account where you pay anything directly, email transfers, cash withdrawals, etc., And then a true savings account for things like salary direct deposit. The Firewall between them is you making manual transfers. It's like CI/CD with a human approval step before going to GA
I would be surprised if this were publicly documented anywhere. It's not a secret AFAIK just not common knowledge. I knew several people involved in these exercises. They are no longer with us and it was not specifically about decrypting data. This was about intercepting communications via scrambled radio, RF signals and sub-carriers, spread spectrum radio, electronic typewriters in hardened shielded vaults, lights. So your only link I suppose is me. There are probably a few other old timers out here with a similar circle of friends and associates. I'm sure nowadays it is about intercepting keys, custom ciphers, etc... I'm just not in those circles any more. And those things are usually stolen and/or blackmailed out of people, almost nothing technical about it. In my time blackmailing people was about gay bars. We had cameras monitoring all the local gay bars. Nowadays it's probably more along the line of Epstein/Maxwell and related events. I do not know what else would be considered highly taboo these days. Is anything even taboo any more?

Prior to being in the military I always assumed the US and the Soviet Union were enemies, as in everyone hated everyone. It turned out that was incredibly far far from the truth. We played a lot of friendly games and also exchanged a lot of equipment. We acquired numerous 15KW transmitter tubes from them for example and that conversation started with "Why is the ceramic pink?" and my follow-on question was "We bought them from ... who??"
What's distressing to me about the debt situation is that Americans are willfully living in a total fantasy land about spending and taxes. The most recent pre-pandemic budget deficit was $1 trillion, while last year it was $1.4 trillion.

Even the folks solidly on the left like Warren and AOC aren't talking about tax increases that would come close to closing that deficit. Their wealth and 70% top tax bracket proposals would raise less than $200 billion annually at the beginning. And of course, they want to combine that with $1 trillion+ in new spending.

The issue is that Reagan dramatically lowered taxes on the middle class and upper middle class in the 1980s, and there's literally nobody in Congress willing to roll those back.
Anonymous accusations are easy to abuse. They should be treated with a skeptical eye regardless of the context. Any institution that makes decisions on such accusations is going to be rife with petty, vindictive politics.
Great idea, but a quick Google search suggests that the project has somewhat stalled during the last 4 years.
Hackers could try to take over a military aircraft; can a cyber shuffle stop it?
This is a great point!

However I'm not sure about your proposed solution. You'd have to give up a fair bit of the difference in interest rate to incent the banks to agree to this. There would likely be a selection bias that most of the people who would take advantage of it were going to sell anyway, and now the bank is stuck carrying a sub-market-rate loan they otherwise would have gotten out of.
Even in London? It seemed that way when I worked in London for a few months. I realize it was a small sample size, but it seemed to be the case for 95% of my coworkers so I figured 65% on the whole is believable.
Is it possible to setup PayPal to automatically forward received money to a bank account or a credit card, without allowing them any withdrawal rights on that bank account or credit card?

Would it be safe to use it that way?
Why wouldn't you blame OpenAI for creating a harassment campaign against the business based on nonsense?
I walk my kids to school in the US, but I definitely see kids as young as 6 walking without a parent. I choose to walk with my kids because I enjoy it, and it's easy exercise.

That said, a lot of parents still drive their kids - the vast majority I would say. Even people who live within walking distance. It definitely is faster if you look at it in a vacuum: you save 10 minutes round trip!

And when casually discussing things with them, that's usually the excuse - they just don't have the time! They're always running late! etc. But I get a 20 minute walk out of it, and spend time with the kids talking about stuff. So to that I say: I'm multi-tasking.

Part of me thinks this problem isn't much different from the fear of child abduction: overblown. But there is something especially frustrating about the times this happens because people think they are doing something good when they really aren't.
Maybe the CEO can jump on here again and give us a bunch of back-peddling double talk about how they’re misunderstood, as when they were caught censoring news results.

I no longer trust DDG and switched to Kagi. Whether that’s better for privacy I’m not sure but at least their business is driven by user payments and not ads.

That my quoted search terms don’t get blatantly ignored was actually the impetus to move.
Play fighting games! You may complain about smurfs, the netcode, input latency or S++ tier characters, but you'll never complain about cheaters.
Even better than a canned audio file would be machine generated music. Otherwise you could detect that the “same” song is being transmitted with slightly different bits.

Or you could have an extremely long audio file so the repeat situation doesn’t occur.
Love this bit: :"...But it requires regular checking by staff, and institutional knowledge of how Twitter’s codebase works..."

More like knowledge of how "job security through complexity" was institutionalized into the codebase.

I'm watching with popcorn to see if Twitter catches fire completely or Musk puts out the flames by pissing on the entire codebase (sorry for the visual) but I'm not sure these articles are meant for anyone other than former employees who're still mad about the changeover.
I think "Explainable AI" is a related research direction, but perhaps not popular for language models.
Many games didn't have a global list of servers, so you just connect to a server you know.

Even games that did have a global list of servers, one wouldn't necessarily always play on random servers, but have some favorite servers (often ping-based, which means geographically local, to some degree) and play on those.