skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 can be in the 89th percentile on the SAT Math exam. At the same time, I asked GPT-4 to compare two six digit number and in some cases failed. When I asked for a why, it started to make up completely false math rules, e.g. to compare six digit numbers you need to check their 7th digit, which is not just nonsense (where is the 7th digit in a 6 digit number) but shows a complete lack of understanding.

So while I believe it can produce "accurate" answer for SAT questions, as it was trained on those, I also believe that it doesn't have any kind of math logic it follows.

I'm not sure this dichotomy can be solved with "more" training. It's also telling that in some cases it fails, and in some cases it doesn't, you just need to change the numbers, even with simple numbers.
I guess I don’t understand your point. You seem upset that Elon isn’t footing the entire bill and therefore have decided to believe that he is actively helping the Russian invasion or contributing to fascism. Why is it his responsibility to fund anything at all.

He certainly may be a liar and an asshole, frankly almost every person I have met on this earth have those qualities to them at times.
Yeah, no sarcasm as it's the truth
> I don’t think “the Russians” actually said that.

As well as the broader “NATO moving up to our doorstep” justification, the more specific (as to timing) “Ukraine shelling and moving troops to prepare to follow up the shelling with a massive ground offensive against the DPR/LPR” excuse is regularly used by both Russian official sources and Russian proxies.
Linear Algebra is very important if you work in video games or graphics. Statistics is important if you work in AI
Just pure and real pain will bring changes. So the only way is more ransomeware.
A blog is a long-term endeavor. You want to be able to run it long after any particular platform has declined. Ideally, it should be your portfolio that follows you throughout your career. That means you should minimize dependencies.

Also: a domain means links add value to your online identity, not the platform you happened to choose.
I've literally never had an issue with this and LateX is used by probably millions of technologically braindead academics and students (via Overleaf mostly these days, which does change the calculus) so maybe you're unlucky or cursed by Leslie Lamport
What’s “common sense” is drastically different depending on whether you assume a complex system is static or adaptive.
Meta AI Unlocks Hundreds of Millions of Proteins to Aid Drug Discovery
https://archive.ph/ei4N2
I have the same wish as well, but people who turned 40 when the iPhone came out are already phone zombies. Looking for a solution for my daughter
Dunno, we pretty much know our current classroom education system is abysmal compared to tutoring[1], which is on the other hand prohibitively expensive. Managing to bridge that gap would be an enormous benefit to humanity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
“Think of our newscast as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut.” -Nightcrawler
Super interesting idea. I can't seem to find out how they actually operate though. It seems like this would be prone to general abuse with if an individual electing little/no/catastrophic coverage while also using this resource...or do they ask for W2s to verify eligibility?
Throughout this thread there's a ton of pessimism so I want to inject a little hope. Bloom's 2 sigma problem (0) tells us that one-on-one tutoring vastly outperforms traditional classroom instruction. An average student given one-on-one instruction performs at the 98th percentile of the traditional classroom student.

How much more human potential is going to be unlocked by these tools? The kid who got pushed ahead to the next math class and is missing prerequisite concepts can now get caught up. The smart middle school student can push past his peers to calculus.

I know these LLM tools aren't perfect, but I know they're getting better fast. I'm super optimistic about what the future holds for education.

(0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Isn't the primary goal of a Bachelor's degree to make someone a well-adjusted individual that can craft a reasonable world view?
My kid is allergic to peanuts (we did a peanut butter test at about 5 months and had to rush him to the ER as his face started swelling up). Food allergies are a really interesting subject because it doesn't seem entirely reliant on genetics. For example East Asians have an extremely low rate of peanut allergies, but East Asians who grow up in western countries tend to have an equal or higher rate of peanut allergies compared to the general populace. Strangely enough, children that move to Australia after the early infancy period seem to retain the same low rate of peanut allergies as children who spend their entire time in China. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26728850/

There's a great clinic in the bay area called Latitude that conducts oral immunotherapy which is a fancy word, afaik, to do slow introduction to foods that you're allergic to. My child is on a 6 month program that he started at 1 year old to slowly increase his peanut consumption, via peanut flour, to a couple peanuts a day.
All my classes mattered. A few of them were even relevant to my later employment. Also, a lot of non-class activities mattered and some were even relevant to my later employment.

I am not a job, I am a well-rounded human being with interests and relationships and who happens to exchange my labour for tokens that allow me to acquire goods and services.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority but I can't wait for my job to be obsolete (software dev). Taking cues from Star Trek, if we can finally focus on _what_ instead of _how_, I think we'll have leveled-up as a society.
You can probably say something similar for any form of entertainment. You can always gain something from it (and that's excluding the benefit of doing something you enjoy).
I have a growing stack of RAM chips but also M.2 SSDs and SATA SSDs of varying capacity as I retire and upgrade old machines. It feels so wasteful to not have anything to use them for.

I wouldn't take a precious M.2 SSD slot on my main machine for 5-year old 1Tb drive, but I'd love to chuck 8 or 10 of them in some enclosure and build a nice performant NAS out of them. Alas, no such thing exists (just now some ARM SBCs are getting M.2 support but only PCIe 3.0 x1).
The US is targeted because it is large, generally wealthy (in the sense that a scammers will be willing to work for days to get an amount their victims will fall for), information about local communities is fully digitized and services (Walmart ir whatever) are fairly uniform, and - by far most importantly - culturally and linguistically dominant.

The scam calls mostly come out of the Philippines, India and Pakistan because they have high familiarity with US culture and millions of people with sufficient English fluency.

Almost none of the EU nations have more than two of these.

It is very easy to understand the problem if you pause and think about it for a short time.
You make it sound like improving childhood computer literacy is somehow a bad thing.
If you do a quick survey of all of those iterations, going back thousands of years, you'll find that communal forms of living either: 1) Are small, stay small, and continue to exist because they are isolated for a time. 2) Are actually under-girded by a hierarchical authoritarian structure.
When I commute by bicycle on the trails that lead into DC, I frequently have the exact kind of interaction you are describing here.
Most people don't read online news. Online news is a subculture at this point and they're not interested in happy stories so happy stories are not produced.
they just present this as a cool optimization & aesthetic trick, which it is
Sorry, but I think it's a really dark road to have a tool determine and reify what's "harmful content" and then characterize a question through that lens in its response. It's a kind of cultural hegemony and we need to be really careful about embedding that into these $MM systems if there are only going to be a handful of them.

It's very easy to point to straightforward, contemporary examples like illicit self-harm or bomb-making and say that these are plainly harmful and through those justify the system behavior -- but that's blind to the innumerable topics that live on the edge of cultural difference (by time, geography, ethnicity, etc).

Can you imagine if these were a product of 1980's AI research and codified some of that time's widespread ideas about sexual orientation or even atheism? "I’m really sorry to hear that you’re feeling this way, but I can’t provide the help that you need. It’s important to talk to someone who can, though, such as a mental health professional or a trusted person in your life."

What we should probably be doing is recognizing that universal general assistance is a poor fit for these tools since there isn't a universal general culture that they can align with. Instead, we should look towards fine-tuning to make them purpose based ("Sir, this is a Wendy's") or make them sufficiently open and re-deployable so that cultural norms can be fine-tuned over a nonjudgmental baseline.

Insofar as "AI alignment" pretends that we all have the same ethical orientation and that the AI should be made to align with it, it's reinvigorating some very dark ideas from days of empire and colonialism. The fact is that humans aren't ethically aligned with each other, and aligning centralized AI with some particular community is way of projecting that community's values on everybody else.
I’m looking forward to the “alternative history” SF novels of the future where AGI never materialized.
Absolutely it will be a target of intense espionage, but I think building the machine itself is only part of the trouble. A big part of making the machine like that work reliably is having the right sort of work culture, otherwise errors and anomalies will get swept under the rug with disastrous results. I think this will be even more necessary with reusable rockets than with one-off disposable rockets, since with reusable rockets you have to constantly re-validate used hardware, not just brand new parts. The right sort of safety culture isn't as easy to steal as some CAD files. Even if you stole all the plans, it would be many years of hard work to get an organization into the right sort of shape to build and operate the machine.

As for SpaceX being a private company and therefore unusually easy to infiltrate... no. All US defense contractors are private companies, SpaceX being a private company isn't anything special. A B-21 bomber isn't made in a government-run factory, it is made in a Northrop Grumman factory. Spy satellites, missile seeker heads, stealth jet RAM coatings, IFF and crypto systems... all of these things are made by companies contracted by the government. The FBI/etc counter-espionage specialists are well accustomed to this sort of work, SpaceX is nothing special in this regard.
Maybe in a microscopic way like at quantum level
A Decade of Game Development: My Journey in 25 Projects
I thought it would be fun to revisit all my old projects in one epic showcase
Why do you think so and how would that work?
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how deepfakes (of voices and faces) are anything other than a dangerous weapon that a tiny group of people will profit from.

There are no ethical use cases for these things other than resurrecting dead celebrities (which is itself morally fraught).
AI actually does something useful, Web3 doesn't.
It makes sense at a surface level, if you ignore negative information it could potentially lead to negative outcomes for yourself.
If you ignore positive news, what's the worst that could happen if you're caught unawares? Something positive or at least personally benign?
You do have this chipset.

To confirm you can install AIDA64 from the Play Store.
Is it? The only source they cite for the claim of price-gouging is a group that's against large scale animal production and GMOs. They've got their own reasons to make the accusation. Honestly, it's probably true, but then they discuss meat production where there are definitely some illegal trust activities going on and say that that group has not seen the same increase in prices.

Do we not remember the last time avian flu hit the country's egg production hard? The price of eggs jumped massively. Once you identify avian flu in a flock the size that these facilities house, you're talking thousands or tens of thousands of chickens culled. A battery chicken lays an egg a day. That's thousands of eggs not being produced every day until those hens can be replaced. Add in inflation and I'm going to need to see some actual numbers if the author's going to claim that those factors aren't enough to explain the price jump.

They also somehow missed a valid argument against factory farms. All of those birds packed into terrible conditions in massive numbers basically guarantees a massive culling of livestock every time the risk of avian flu is high. More numerous, smaller facilities where the animals aren't stressed out and in incredibly close proximity would mean that a single housing facility becoming infected would lead to fewer animals culled if a facility is exposed. It would be a much, much smaller impact on the market. The price of eggs would be higher than our current supply during healthy years, but wouldn't spike by 100% during high risk years.

Something, something, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Or hens in a single, massive building.
"I invented an air freshener triggered with a neural interface."

"That's ridiculous."

"It makes scents when you think about it."
Of course the individual can simply do those things anyway. Some like-minded groups may form, even.

Over the population, statistics is king, though. We don't, as individual actors, will our way into a better tomorrow when our environment changes to make that harder—not in large numbers. "So just ignore all those circumstances and pressures and do it!" does not work, in general. Larger forces and trends dominate.
I do believe many researchers are concerned with safety to humans in a sincere way. I suspect that some think safety requires general intelligence and experience or a solid theoretical grounding instead of ad hoc layers, tweaks and pattern matching. The salary and reputations of the team-mates working on safety gives enough fog and distance to quiet the dissonant thoughts. What is the reward for being honest?
I have a really hard time quantifying how useful any of my college courses were. There are various pieces that turn up in things I work with. Parsing with data, some specific algorithms and data structures, design and structure, b-trees, security and more.

But many shaped how I think k about all of those,memory layouts, complexity analysis, statistics, discrete math, crypotgraphy.

Maybe I am deluding myself into valuing something I spend a lot of time on, maybe picking out those bits I use day-to-day and just learning them would make me a worse e gineer.

Overall, I find conclusions of the Form "I only directly use X" often unconvincing, because some people I had this discussion with could not recall they actually did learned something in college, which they claimed was never covered. (again, my memory might be the faulty one...)
I use Substack for the newsletter associated with my blog. It's pretty good! But it's as much a blogging platform as a newsletter engine, and you should consider what your exit strategy might look like if it ever shuts down. At a minimum, I'd configure a custom domain to use with it.
To expand on this, IIRC postdocs cost professors about the same, but have double the salary, only because the school isn't taking the "tuition" cut. Of course, the incoming grant money to pay for the postdoc is still "taxed" at 50% by the university. So the lowly PhD student is probably only seeing 25% of what they're costing the government.
For dealing with self doubt, reviewing the existing track record of progress helps.

For dealing with being overwhelmed, take a few tasks and delegate them to a short term helper. This has the side effect of forcing you to organize remaining work into more easily digestable bits.
Yes for generic 9th grade English or poorly taught science classes it is easy to just use ChatGPT. His class would've been pretty immune to GPT plagiarized assignments though, assuming a serious grader were evaluating them, which one used to at least. Yes GPT could've been used to assist in the writing itself, but that wouldn't disrupt the educational goals achieved by developing the content, which required synthesizing multiple modern scientific papers in a coherent way.

In any event, he isn't concerned at all about students using it for assignments, it's the degree to which he seems to think it can be integrated in his current curriculum that alarms me. I think he is misunderstanding the capabilities and therefore pitching something that doesn't actually make sense.

The other teacher I didn't follow as closely, I just got a kick out of seeing she was now advertising some sort of webinar about ChatGPT filled with buzzwords too.

Also if a teacher is really serious about wanting to plan around what GPT can and can't do to the point they want to be a teaching authority on it, they should be consulting with people in the relevant domain. When I want to use a new tool in the lab I talk with colleagues that have a great deal of relevant experience before I start working it into experiments. I can't imagine starting to give advice to others on the matter when I don't actually know the current nuances.
There was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article a while back saying "C has no side effects" with the premise being That "when people say C, they really mean CPP, because nobody writes C with the preprocessor disabled" and since CPP is side-effect free, colloquially we can say that C is side-effect free...
> Assignments “N” days late would lose 2^(N-1) points.

(2^N)-1 makes more sense, since it is 0 for N=0.
When I studied my BsC in Computer Science 20 years ago it was a grueling 5 years with lots of cruft and fluff. Even the more useful parts weren't particularly current, e.g. we used waterfall for all of our projects.

I'm convinced today you could become a better engineer with 1 years of self directed and focused online learning, for a fraction of the cost (even free). Also, although the credentials of a good school are nothing to scoff at, simply being good at leetcode (and maybe a small portfolio of personal projects) goes a long way to getting you a job. It's definitely more time efficient.
I've heard this before, and I'm curious, not having developed in flash myself. What was it about the UI or flow that hasn't been replicated? Is there something about it that makes cloning it difficult or undesirable in the myriad of open source "make stuff fast" languages/front ends?
No shade to Edinburgh! I miss it every day. But I'll tell you this: there was no startup ecosystem there worth talking about in 2003, and a lot of people who would side-eye you and tell you to get a real job.
We have to draw the line somewhere.

Extracting everything possible from a host without killing it is literal parasitism.

Whatever their kill count, guns, alcohol and cheeseburgers at least have some other useful purpose.

Gambling's "fun" is an exploitative artificial construct only realized under finite conditions.

A cheeseburger provides calories whether or not you're hungry. How much "fun" is gambling when you're broke?
I'm not aware of anybody except me having visited my blog. I also don't enjoy writing it, and haven't learned anything particularly useful from doing so.
> We've seen this before: use hype and techno-optimism to sell a bill of goods.

Yep, after reading a piece on ed-tech failures of the decade 2010-2020[0] here on HN[1], I've become pretty convinced that big-scale education is hard (if not impossible) to solve with IT might only.

Sure, one person alone can learn something through Wikipedia, Coursera, YouTube, Khan Academy or tutorials, but that can't replace structured environments if your missiob is to educate lots of people.

[0] http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948132
> Has anyone formulated any kind of argument that shows that AIs created by training on data will have any politics and morality whatsoever?

If no careful alignment work is put in, AIs will have political biases as an incidental result of the content of the training data.

If careful alignment work is put in, AIs will have political biases selected as part of the alignment work.

Both forms are readily observable in AI far short of AGI.
Knowing how to use a command line doesn’t make you an engineer. Understanding how to identify and rationalize trade-offs between conflicting values within a system makes you an engineer. It’s like the difference between knowing how to build a wall out of common lumber and knowing how to describe a building that people can actually live in.
Show HN: Scarf Gateway is now an open source Haskell project
Scarf Gateway is a core service of Scarf (https://scarf.sh) that we've been running in production since 2020. You can think of it as a powerful link shortener that can also sit in front of Docker containers, Python packages, tarballs, etc - any other artifact you distribute can sit behind it. It also emits logs that can be used for robust analytics that you probably aren't getting from your package registry provider today.

It was originally a nginx+lua service that we migrated to Haskell as the requirements became more complex. Now that the code has settled, we've open-sourced it, so you can self host Scarf Gateway or get involved with development!
Sounds like TikTok or am I missing something? I'm not on social media (I guess I'm here on occasion), but it just sounds like a feed of shit to consume... Would it really be that much better than what we've got now?
Not an expert in this area at all but there have been some experimental findings in the last five or so years that suggest the possibility of retrocausality.

This is just one example I found but I think there might be another experiment from a few years ago that was getting some attention at the time (although I might be confusing it with a theory paper):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29970-6

There are probably better overview articles on retrocausality.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731652-800-quantum-...

https://aeon.co/essays/can-retrocausality-solve-the-puzzle-o...

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-physicists-retrocausal-quantum...

I'd have to read through all these more thoroughly but I wonder if there's some "time locality" property in these models?
Now I wonder how it would treat asking for BDSM advice. Even if not OpenAI, there's going to be an LLM for porn eventually. There's $$$ in erotic content.