skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean "lawmakers act quickly to preserve the capital of the global elite, of which the cost will be born by everyone else, in response to extreme moral hazard, and ultimately no one will be held accountable."
> A bastion of democracy which has been a right wing dictatorship from its inception until the 90s.

The 1990s being, well, not now, the correct conjugation is either “was” or “had been”, not “has been”.

Which relates directly to why its irrelevant.
My guess is that most people who have high value passwords also have weak passwords. CEOs and CFOs can probably authorize huge financial transactions with little oversight and tend to be security illiterate.
I don't think we have an alliance with Vietnam. AFAIK, there is no US base or military agreement or anything indicating a higher relationship than trade partner.

In fact, a few times DC sent some diplomats to Vietnam, the govt over there responded by sending their diplomats to China. Basically saying they prefer China over the US. It makes sense to them since China is closer and have higher trade value than the US. But because of that I don't see how Vietnam can be a "strong ally" to the US.

Can you explain more or cite your sources?
Aah the good old squad.
> the prompt could also be dynamically generated to include the most relevant delegates

Yup that's how I'm doing it - the system prompt is re-generated for every request, and that includes getting a list of available delegates and the arguments they accept. I only have 10 so I'm just listing all of them, but if you had some huge number you could combine that with embeddings / vector lookup.
The 90s are now thirty years ago, and Taiwan has undisputably been a functioning democracy since then.
>rationale of their touch interfaces...

Automotive EE here, I can explain that.

Its cost. Done.

There is design and engineering in buttons and micros that are responsive, durable, perform how the user expects.

There is designer placement. Ergonomics and accessibility. This button is perfect and looks great here, but for a 5-percentile height Female it is outside the limits so, let’s redesign a ton of things to move it done here where it is stupid for everyone.

Digital buttons have almost zero cost and could be changed at will. There is also no holding a vehicle on a lot for weeks because the micro that switch bank X uses is unavailable.

For annoying reference, some of the new GM trucks have no fog light buttons. You need to access that through the primary screen. It’s all cost.

It’s basically an afterthought now. If they get enough complaints they can change it, otherwise, it must be fine and within expected grumpy user margins.
> Trapped in all that permafrost is 30 billion tonnes of carbon. It’s an unfathomable amount, says Kirkwood.

It's a lot, but it's a little over 7 months of anthropogenic emissions, which, while decidedly unhelpful in the "make it to 2100" stakes, seems also fathomable.

This assumes it's CO2e being talked about. If it's 30 billion tonnes of carbon in methane, that's...rather more suboptimal, since that would be something like 15 years worth of human.
Yes things devolved, and they might get better over the time. Or not. Nobody knows.
It's important to note however, that GPT does not itself have any knowledge, only information. Knowledge implies it has comprehension or understanding. It can just as easily produce bad information as good and it has little to no ability to self-assess the accuracy of information it provides.
The Google Maps effect: A reason to be cautious about using AI coding assistants
> hallmarks of intelligence

All through the lens of personification. It's important to take a step back and ask, "Where do these hallmarks come from?"

The hallmarks of intelligence are literally what is encoded into text. The reason LLMs are so impressive is that they manage to follow those patterns without any explicit direction.

> I dare say that LLMs reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning skills do surpass that of many actual humans.

People tend to over-optimize reading comprehension by replacing what they are reading with what they predict to be reading. Every person has a worldview built out of prior knowledge that they use to disambiguate language. It takes effort to suspend one's worldview, and it takes effort to write accurate unambiguous language.

An LLM cannot have that problem, because an LLM cannot read. An LLM models text. The most dominant patterns of text are language: either the model aligns with those patterns, or we humans call the result a failure and redirect our efforts.

> Anthropomorphizing LLMs is indeed an issue but is separate from a debate on their intelligence.

How could that even be possible? The very word, "intelligence" is an anthropomorphization. Ignoring that reality moves the argument into pointless territory. If you try to argue that an anthropomorphized LLM is intelligent, then the answer is, "No shit, Sherlock. People are intelligent!" That doesn't answer any questions about a real LLM.

> as these models sprint past goal posts.

Either an LLM succeeds at a goal, or it fails. It has no idea what the difference is. The LLM has no concept of success: no category for failure. An LLM has no goals or intentions, and doesn't make a single logical decision.

So what is its success coming from? The text being modeled. Without humans authoring that text, there is no model at all!

The goals are authored, too. Every subject, every decision, every behavior, and every goal is determined by a human. Without human interaction, the LLM is nothing. Does nothing think? Does an arrow find its target? Of course not.
What I found lacking with fuzzy fingers was the shell integration. I typed “vim src/“ into the shell and then hit the key that summons the fuzzy finder. I expected it to show me files in the src directory, but it didn’t.

Are there other integrations that do this?

I don’t quite remember what I tried, maybe fzf and skim?
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Hopefully more news is forthcoming as to whats in the treaty and how it might be enforced. The article is basically just a press release saying it happened.
The Western narrative about Tiananmen is frankly detached from reality.

Anyone who chooses to believe something like "It was Kent State, but bigger and more evil!" is just projecting.

>Probably the most widely disseminated account appeared first in the Hong Kong press: a Qinghua University student described machine guns mowing down students in front of the Monument to the People’s Heroes in the middle of the square. The New York Times gave this version prominent display on June 12, just a week after the event, but no evidence was ever found to confirm the account or verify the existence of the alleged witness. Times reporter Nicholas Kristof challenged the report the next day, in an article that ran on the bottom of an inside page; the myth lived on. Student leader Wu’er Kaixi said he had seen 200 students cut down by gunfire, but it was later proven that he left the square several hours before the events he described allegedly occurred. Most of the hundreds of foreign journalists that night, including me, were in other parts of the city or were removed from the square so that they could not witness the final chapter of the student story. Those who tried to remain close filed dramatic accounts that, in some cases, buttressed the myth of a student massacre.

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananm...

The idea that it's "covered up" is also, likewise, nonsense:

>Beijing Municipality has checked and double-checked all the figures from the Martial Law Command, the Public Security Ministry, the Chinese Red Cross, all institutions of higher education, and all major hospitals. These show that 241 people died. They included 23 officers and soldiers from the martial law troops and 218 civilians. The 23 military deaths included 10 from the PLA and 13 from the People’s Armed Police. The 218 civilians (Beijing residents, people from elsewhere, students, and rioters) included 36 students from Beijing universities and 15 people from outside Beijing.

https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen/

It's just understood differently than how Americans wish it was understood. Probably because "heroes" like Liu Xiaobo said things like:

>[It would take] 300 years of colonialism. In 100 years of colonialism, Hong Kong has changed to what we see today. With China being so big, of course it would require 300 years as a colony for it to be able to transform into how Hong Kong is today. I have my doubts as to whether 300 years would be enough.

http://www.open.com.hk/old_version/1011p68.html
Another example of this sort of thing (that is vaguely related in that it's commonly used as a metric) is (what I call) the Matthew's Correlation Coefficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_coefficient

> In machine learning, it is known as the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) ... introduced by biochemist Brian W. Matthews in 1975.[1] Introduced by Karl Pearson,[2] and also known as the Yule phi coefficient from its introduction by Udny Yule in 1912
Like what? These are also machines you can run Linux and BSD on if you like
RR the aerospace company and RR the car company were split apart in the 1960s. The have had nothing but the name in common for many decades.
This way, nobody would ever believe what regulators say, which is certainly a smart behavior for any responsible citizen.
> The question now is how well the ambitious treaty will be implemented.

Third paragraph from the end? Talk about a buried lede.

This feels very similar to the Paris Climate Agreement. That is, lots of talk. Lots of agreement. But nothing binding. More faux progress.

Sad to say, typical.
I loved the avatar gameplay and the fact that it wasn't a "massively" multiplayer dungeon crawl, but rather something small enough that you knew most of the players. I'd trade a lot of the scale and graphics of modern gameplay for a return to the deliberate party based run of modestly updated avatar.
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Knowledge of how to properly regulate won’t be involved for decades or more. Nor will we see measures in proportion to the “harm”. Instead, we’ll see something closer to the war on drugs.

Political nuclear war fueled by FUD.
You're probably right. I'm still learning about neural networks and how transformers work, slowly going through Karpathy's youtube videos while building my own dumb little things.

Could you elaborate a bit more on why you think training a transformer only on chess moves(in algebraic notation, yes. Algebraic notation is the one that says <piece><square>, roughly speaking) wouldn't work? I'm not sure I understand.

As for your question, I don't really have a good answer. I've just been working on my own crazy chess AI ideas for a long while now and I was taken aback by the fact that GPT seems able to occasionally "find" long tactical sequences even in positions that have not occured before in known games. So it seemed only natural to try to think deeply about whether it represents some nugget of something useful, maybe even a fundamentally new approach. But I have serious doubts as I explained in GP.

It's also just been an interesting angle for me to understand what LLMs are doing because I'm deeply familiar with chess and methods of thinking about it both human and artifical. There's a lot more for me to grab onto than with any other application in demystifying it's behaviour.
The "former employee" in that scandal (Iqbal Khan) is now at UBS.
> multiple current employees’ data, including names, email addresses, work departments and other information.

What was the hack, scraping LinkedIn?

In all seriousness, I feel like we need some different language or a color-coded system (ugh, kinda hate that after I just typed this) for the severity of information in hacks. All of this information listed is semi-public anyway. Birthdates/SSNs/private info I can understand getting up in arms about. But names and email addresses? Wait until younger folks hear about this giant book phone companies used to deliver that had nearly everyone's name and phone number in it!
This is pretty much my standard rant on no-code tools: that out of necessity, the constructs they provide are isomorphic to constructs in some programming language. I even had a similar professor, who assured me that as a programmer my career was at a dead end because "there are tools that can take a UML spec and generate a whole application".

Nevertheless, AI is different. Because now you don't have to specify things at a programming-language level of granularity. It will select the programming language constructs most statistically likely to match a solution to the specified problem.

So now we're in a whole 'nother world where the programming, as such, will be done by machine while the role of designer or architect must still be done by humans. But the legions of programmers employed by companies are about to go the way of farriers.
Last week my six year old tried to justify his bad behaviour because his little brother did something worse. I didn’t buy it, and I don’t here either.
A lot of people have already figured out at some tricks to improving code generation.

You can fairly easily update the “next token” choice with a syntax check filter. LLMs like ChatGPT provide a selection of “likely” options, not a single perfect choice. Simply filter the top-n recommendations mechanically for validity. This will improve output a lot.

Similarly, backtracking can be used to fix larger semantic errors.

Last but not least, any scenario where a test case is available can be utilised to automatically iterate the LLM over the same problem until it gets it right. For example, feed it compiler error messages until it fixes the remaining errors.

This will guarantee output that compiles, but it may still be the wrong solution.

As the LLMs get smarter they will do better. Also, they can be fine tuned for specific problems automatically because the labels are available! We can easily determine if a piece of code compiles, or if it makes a unit test pass.
Margaret Thatcher — "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

It's the same with bankers and being solvent.
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That is part of the false narrative you and many were fed and believed. Investigations, reporting from many parties, and the vicitm's own family weigh against this drivel.
Because they want to support the person.

These folks deal with exploitive, unproductive people involved in big deals all the time.

They don’t care what or how someone is exploiting Radio Man so long as Radio is able to keep going.

Another possibility is that focusing on autograph money is leaning toward the refuge of celebrities unable to book lucrative roles and endorsement deals.

See comic book conventions etc.
With the folks I was working with it wasn't "messed up" in any way, it just was hardly any more relatively affordable give local wages than most big cities in the US.

Some fun/awkward differences though. For instance, I had imagined it would be easy to find a laundromat - I didn't want to pay the hotel prices for cleaning. Ended up almost accidentally offending the people I was asking - "why would we need to go somewhere to do our laundry, we have laundry machines, we aren't poor" - while since a lot of US cities are older in the dense parts of town, laundry machines in-unit were less common even for sometimes pretty pricey places.

One of my big takeaways is that development is a lot easier and cheaper than redevelopment. Building a ton of new housing? Put in today's amenities! It might be crappy quality even in "luxury" new construction (whether here or there) but it's gonna be a lot easier than retrofitting into a bunch of units from 50 years ago. Want a QR-code/app-based payment system to take off? It's gonna be easier if you're one of the first widespread options to replace cash (like in China at the time) vs if you're competing with ubiquitous credit/debit cards in the US. Really illustrative of how things are path-dependent - and why I'm bearish on "super apps" replacing what we already have here.
Facebook aside, Mark did buy WhatsApp and Instagram, and both those products have indeed changed the world.

Personally, I like their work in the Telecom sector: Evenstar (open RAN) and TIP (https://telecominfraproject.com)
Implicit Basis Test
This argument only makes sense if you're only subsidising consumption, but infrastructure increases the productive capacity of the economy as a whole, so the government gets a return on its subsidy in increased taxes.
I think that the 980 pro issue came to light a month ago when the earliest made SSDs got old enough to trigger the bug. So you should be good unless you got one of the first ever made.
Moral hazards. All of them. This isn’t the first time. It won’t be the last time.
>Chinese diaspora

I had no idea how wide it is until a family member married someone from Asia and he explained ot me that his family thinks of themselves as ethnically Chinese, although they're totally disconnected from China.
Working for CS is like being a contractor on the Death Star. They knew the risks.
Thanks I’ll start with those! Moloch was a great one so I’ll be happy to dive into more.
I think in this tit for tat insects have the long term advantage. The insecticides have to be relatively harmless to mammals, otherwise other methods of production for food become economically viable. I wager on the roaches.
Ask HN: Did you take paternity leave?
My wife is unexpectedly expecting.

My startup is seed funded with a very small (<5) team. I am the CEO.

I feel extremely torn and am unsure what to do. In an ideal world I would take a lot of paternity leave, but I feel like I really can't take any. I just don't see how to fill the gaps that my taking time off would leave.

I'd love to know what others here have done in the past.
Wu is quite well known too within the physicist community.

But go to the street ask the first 100 people you come across to list their top 5 important contributions by woman in maths or physics. What's on it? How many will mention Noether? I'd say about as many as Wu. Less than 1.

Probably few could name many. Maybe it'll be the woman led the team to image the black hole at the centre of the galaxy. Will anyone know her name though? I don't.

Ada Lovelace is better known but not for maths or physics. She was a mathematician of course.
Ahh yes, China, with its brutal Darwinian rush hour on the metro. The experience of needing to shove aside a 70 year old women with her grocery trolley who doesn't understand you need to wait until people get off before you get on.

That affordable downtown housing which is on par with costs in Manhattan, where you'll hear someone renovating until 9pm every night and smell the sewage gas wafting from bathroom drains because what's a u-trap and inadequate underlying infrastructure.

Agreement between citizens that if they can cheat the laowai, or any mark really, or cut someone's line then they will.

Try living there for a bit. It's nice enough if you don't mind seeing the sun a few weeks a year through the smog.

China is actually fun to live in, but it's not a good place to live if you value your health, physical or mental. At least not the cities.
See also the 1957 Nobel Prize discussed in the article that was awarded the same year as the discovery that overthrew parity because it was so unexpected.

And that Wu designed and conducted and was excluded from the prize.
> Yeah, but quantum mechanics and general relativity (arguably just QM and special relativity) don't make sense.

It won't suddenly start making sense if we stare at it long enough. We have to change our assumptions.

I'm a fan of the Dragan and Ekert paper that derives QM axioms from relativity. The only thing you have to sacrifice is the ban on superluminal observers :) No philosophy required, just relax the "common sense constraints" on the solutions for relativity. Of course - it can very well be wrong. But I like it cause it's quite elegant.

> But if you want to _understand_ the motion of heavenly bodies you must do more than just calculate.

AFAIR the arguments in favor of geocentric models were philosophical, the arguments against it were experimental. We moved forward when we ignored what makes sense, and focused on what the data is.

Similarly we assumed absolute spacetime cause it made sense, and only accepted it's relative when data forced us to.
Didn't the 1903 Wright Flyer do that?
I can ask an LLM what 2+2 is and it can answer with 4. That's a discrete result. So how is this different from human thinking? Where is your evidence that this is not a similar mechanism?

It gets some math wrong because it doesn't understand the "systemic" aspect of math, but who's to say that with minor training tweaks, or a larger dataset, it wouldn't be able to infer the system? Humans infer systems from language all the time. To say you need some specialized form of training beyond language inference is obviously wrong when you view how humans train, learn and understand. All of life is ingestion of information via language which produces systemic understanding.

I can play digital audio that's indistinguishable from acoustic, despite it not being a smooth function in practice. Similarly, a sufficiently advanced neural net can produce intellect-like results, even if there are aspects of the structure you say may not make it so.

Honestly, the perception you and many others seem to hold is that because something is mathematically explainable in such a way that you can "trivialize" its operation, makes it not intelligence. But you hold "intelligence" in too high a regard
Then why has Biden never had any talks with Putin to help broker peace talks, and why did the US and UK block the agreement brokered by former Israeli PM Bennet between Russia and Ukraine?
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War is irrelevant. No country is going to agree to cease impacting, harvesting, etc wildlife. It’s to hard to monitor, enforce, predict, etc wildlife harvesting.

I am not saying humanity needs to protect wildlife because it is the “nice thing” to do, saying it because I sincerely believe Earth and humanity need’s wildlife to have a habitable planet; anyone is welcome to feel free to explain how this is wrong.
Ask HN: Should ChatGPT rewrite all the open source code?
This is an extremely interesting question because I’ve heard various viewpoints. The vast majority want to keep the “technical debt” (legacy code being “Republic of China”) of this uneasy bridge to China—that is trade and movement of people between the strait, and maintaining the status quo of the “Republic of China” government (controlling Taiwan) and PRC (controlling China or “mainland”).

Many Taiwanese don’t want war, but they already are functionally independent. The PRC has never governed in Taiwan. The ROC, which governed China from 1912 to 1949, governs Taiwan and its child islands.

Many young Taiwanese just want to be Taiwanese and left alone, but the vast majority want to keep the status quo as long as it’s tenable (it’s not, Xi Jinping has indicated a timeline). The big question is how this might be possible without poking the bear that resembles Pooh… It’s obvious to most Taiwanese that China won’t keep its promises, since it made clear violations of promises made to the HK people and UK.

Recent elections have shown KMT party (pro-PRC relations, the grandfather of the Republic of China government, and in someways the father party of the Communists that forked from KMT) gaining ground because people are afraid of war. Nobody in Taiwan wants war, but as the saying goes, in order to have peace, prepare for war.