skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Boston Dynamics dog can open doors and things like that. It should be capable of performing all of the actions necessary to go get a beer. So I think it would be plausible to pull it all together, if you had enough money. It might take a bunch of setup first to program routes from room to room and things like that.

Might look something like this: determine current room with an image from the 360 cam, select path from current room to target room, tell it to execute that path. Then use another image from the 360 cam and find the fridge. Tell it to move closer to the fridge, open the fridge, and take an image from the arm camera of the fridge content. Use that to find a beer or seltzer, grab it, and then determine the route to use and return with the drink.

But, not so sure I would want to have it controlling 35+ kg of robot without an extreme amount of testing. And then there are things like: Go to the kitchen and get me a knife. Maybe not the best idea.
What developer working on anything meaningful does not rely on documentation? You certainly have to make the documentation available similar to how you would have to make it "available" to an LLM. I think you might be missing the point about what the potential use-cases for these systems are.
Could language models be able to avoid the need for labelled interaction data by developing a really good understanding of hardware documentation?
> "and no one will ever help you in life"

Strange thing to say in a hospital bed? Also, if the doctors know you are dying of Covid you can hardly talk right? Seems fishy.
Consciousness in this context is often used as an imprecise but important bundle of very material concepts, including whether something can have wants (and therefore warrants our anticipation of them) and whether it deserves ethical status.

One can debate whether either those is necessarily a consequence of consciousness, but nonetheless those kinds of qualities are what people are aiming at when they wonder about conscious AI.
Can you describe how to prompt gpt to play a proper game of tic tac toe? I was disappointed gpt-4 didn’t really improve much on this front, at least with how I was prompting it.

Overall I’m very blown away by the generative AI developments. I’m also very curious about which types of prompts are most effective for each task, etc.
We visited Highland Park on Orkney (highly recommend) and the guy giving the tour insisted that putting a few drops of water in your glass is the way to go. The science is a bit murky and I haven't found any blind taste test results that could guide me to the proper amount.

With Scotch prices what they are I switched to Bourbon and actually a really cheap brand (Benchmark) and when I don't drink it on the rocks I mix it with diet ginger ale: that really "opens up" something but I don't know what it is.
Not sure how useful this is but I simply asked ChatGPT what it thinks its skill level is. This is using GPT-4.

After some previous questions...

Me: "Would you be able to estimate your ELO?"

ChatGPT: "As a language model, I don't have a specific ELO rating. However, my knowledge of chess strategies and tactics is based on the information I have been trained on, which includes games played by humans with various ELO ratings. My level of play might be roughly equivalent to an ELO of around 1200-1500, but please keep in mind that this is only an estimate, and my actual performance could be higher or lower depending on the specific position or game."

Me: "As a generative AI, are you actually able to reason which move to make next in chess? Or are you somehow just predicting the next likely move based on training data."

ChatGPT: "As a generative AI language model, my primary function is to predict the most likely text given a certain context. When it comes to playing chess, I am not "reasoning" in the same way that a dedicated chess engine would, which involves evaluating positions and searching through a large number of potential moves using specialized algorithms.

Instead, I generate my chess moves based on patterns and sequences I've seen during my training, which include a large number of chess games and discussions about chess strategy. My knowledge is derived from the text data I've been trained on, and I apply that knowledge to suggest moves that I think are appropriate for a given position.

While this approach allows me to play at an intermediate level, it is not as precise or accurate as the methods used by dedicated chess engines. My suggestions might not always be the best moves, and my understanding of the game is limited by the quality and quantity of my training data."
Probably better to talk to a therapist overseas virtually to avoid silly government rules. It also lets you keep a good therapist even when you move to a different territory or change insurance (as an American)
Probably don’t want the bases and fly patterns to be determined. From there they can line up the AA. US isn’t the greatest at making their flight patterns unpredictable
Sounds like what Humane is building.
You can still seek challenge, it just has to be more ambitious and further out at the edges now.

A challenge closer to leading a team of researchers rather than plugging along alone at a problem.
I know US education system is kinda poor, but please open some history books

Everything is documented

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-ukraine-tape-idUKBREA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%9320...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-arms-speci...

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill...

and many more
"Over the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard. "

I'm not sure everybody is comfortable with handing over all that to Microsoft or other tech giants. Would you be comfortable letting facebook have video cameras in all the rooms of your house? If not, then why let Microsoft get all your emails, browsing history and everything else you have on your computer.

Letting some AI, that is controlled by some megacorp, know and control everything about your life, isn't necessarily the best idea.
Nope, still not even close to what the author claims. If I understand it correctly, it made illegal moves in 3 out of 19 games. That's probably a few orders of magnitude more illegal moves than even a 1400 ELO player would make of their entire lifetime.
> If that is so, then the ICC has jurisdiction over Ukrainians, not Russians.

No, it has jurisdiction over crimes on Ukrainian territory, regardless of the actors. (Were Ukraine a state party, and not a state that had acceded to territorial jurisdiction without being a party, it would also have jurisdiction over Ukrainian personnel, irrespective of territorial considerations.)

> So Britain ( party to ICC ) could murder children in Libya but that’s okay

No, because Britian is an ICC party, ICC has jurisdiction over its troops anywhere without needing territorial jurisdiction, which is why there was an extensive ICC investigation and report based on allegations of UK war crimes in Iraq. Were reports made to the ICC of UK alleged war crimes in Libya, they would be subject to its jurisdiction.
Would make a lot of sense with more data inputs. Current weather, calendar, holidays, news, etc. could all be injected to customize the responses.
Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States
It's not head-on. The MQ-9 is a pusher-prop design (the prop is in the rear), so both aircraft were flying in the same direction. If there had been a direct collision, the impact velocity would have been the difference between them, not addition.
Hate to break it to you!
Alternatives to Triplebyte Screen?
In case you haven't heard, Triplebyte Screen shuts down March 31st because Karat bought them out.

I'd like to avoid live or take-home coding tests as much as possible both as a pre-screen and as a post-interview skill validation step. Triplebyte had a lot of trust that those who passed would not only be technically qualified but that they could be gainfully employed in their role. I do not have that type of trust for off-the-shelf tests which I feel test book skill vs practical skill.

What should I be looking at? Are there any new providers out there?
I read an earlier post in which you referenced this a few hours ago and it showed me a new way of using these generally[0] intelligent models.

It's absolutely fascinating that LangChain is open source, but the use case for wrapping apps around an intelligent model is where a lot of fun will be for business and personal value.

[0] Needs re-definition
I really doubt that ChatGPT will be able to give the kind of guidance that turns juniors into seniors.

Getting juniors un-stuck on "simple" problems, maybe. Stack Overflow already does this. Image doesn't build? Search for the error message online. Don't know how to build the old software that only works in Ubuntu 14.10? Sure, you'll find that.

Suggestions on how to refactor, proper design of interfaces, what skill to acquire next? Maybe, but that will be a bigger surprise.
64GB reporting in, and yes, the shader cache bites.
They may also run out of data if they already consumed most of the internet. Or start producing so much of the internet's content that LLMs start consuming what they write in a closed loop.
UCC Article 12: Foreseeable Issues with Cryptocurrencies and NFTs as Collateral
I think AGI is going to be incredibly dangerous whether or not they open source their research.
Writing my blog (https://thehousecarpenter.wordpress.com/) has helped me learn things because it provides me with a concrete motivation: instead of having the rather vague and amorphous goal of "learn about X", I can think of my goal as "learn enough about X to write a blog post about it". That's always been the idea behind having the blog, and it's worked decently for that purpose. It hasn't helped me at all with my career or with connecting with people, but that's unsurprising as I've never cared to optimize for those goals.
The reason why I don't think HTML is the ideal way to represent HTML declaratively is because HTML does not have pure functions or any sort of proper first-class values.
There should be no tax payer money to these people. AI can never perform physical labour, so there is still a market for physical labour open for those replaced by AI. There will still be people working physical jobs as there are today, and you demand that they support those who are too lazy to work a physical job? No, they have to work as well.

Everybody who doesn't have to do physical labour - including me - should be happy and grateful for that privilege - not try to rob even more from physical labourers, who in the end, create everything.
Yes, we don’t all live in the US.
> This post was on front page. By the time i tried to go back to it a few minutes later it plummeted to mid page 2

Yes, it was on HN front page.[0]

But it seems like @dang immediately shadowed it manually.[0]

Now You may not find actual discussion scrolling even all 15 public pages of HN's "news".[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/hn_frontpage/status/1636764752759193606

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/news
When you flip that dx/dt so it becomes dt/dx...
>Self-reflection, a cornerstone of many therapeutic interventions, is a slippery slope. If not careful, it can amplify self-focus and aggravate rumination—the clinical term for repetitive negative thoughts about what can, did or will go wrong.

This is absolutely true for some people, me included. I have learned to deal with these things in other ways but for the longest time I was stuck ruminating over stuff that happened decades ago and it always led to catastrophe.
Cynefin Framework: Between Chaos and Order
> It will bring back the ideas, quotes, and memories you need, when you need them most, with no organizing, tagging, or linking required. It will work as a personalized extension of your intelligence available 24/7 at the touch of a button.

How can people come to this conclusion after using chatgpt?

(1) Its responses are often good but they are routinely wrong as well.

(2) Search engines already do these things, without the same loss of fidelity.
It doesn't have to be that expensive. Hospitals in India manage to do coronary bypass surgery for only $4,300 with good outcomes. I understand that costs and salaries are higher in the US, but still there is a huge amount of waste, fraud, and abuse that could be cut out.

https://www.annfammed.org/content/12/5/470
Insect Farming Is Booming. But Is It Cruel?
What if I'm blogging to demonstrate knowledge and thought around professional topics with the intent to help demonstrate to future employers I know what I'm talking about?
they are also somehow cheaper here than in Israel and it is infuriating to me
I saw that yesterday in a graphics forum.

Question: is there an existing level of detail generation system, preferably open source, which can take a high-detail mesh, vertex normals, and a normal map, and emit a lower level of detail mesh, with vertex normals and a new normal map which looks the same?

(LOD generators tend to be either expensive, like Simplygon, or academic and brittle, blowing up on some meshes.)
This thought experiment implies that humans, or conscious agents, represent a highly concentrated source of entropy, currently (mostly) confined to planet Earth. Meanwhile, in the vastness of space, most of the mass has settled into some relatively deterministic equilibria, with no conscious agents to alter the course of its future. Yet we're down here on the blue planet messing everything up.

Coupling this thought with the simulation theory, it makes me wonder how the simulation would respond to increasing entropy over a larger volume than just our local system. That is, if we send a bunch of biological/artificial agents in all directions throughout the cosmos and let them wreak havoc, would it crash the simulation? Or what if we just smash a bunch of asteroids out of their stable orbits and let their disruption cascade throughout the system? Or maybe we've already messed everything up by broadcasting highly entropic radio waves throughout a spherical volume with a radius of ~100 light years?
My father tells almost the same story of dumping their porno mags in the garbage for the trailing Russkies to retrieve. Mediterranean float, late 80s, USS Inchon I believe. He also spent time in Iceland watching for Spetsnaz.
Maybe it has something to do with this BBC article.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64981965
How are they manipulative? I know the pay is probably low, but are there lots of day to day tricks as well?
I mean, that's more lenient than the official "interpretation" (rule) which is that your second illegal move results in a forfeit.
Chess.com Buys Komodo/Dragon
I read this earlier, it's unfortunate they lead with Holmes because the article has almost nothing to do with her but is about the unfortunate way inarcerated pregnant women are treated before and after they hab their kids.

If you consider the primary goal of prison to be rehabilitation, it makes no sense to treat women with new children as described in the article. It seems like an issue that other countries (than the US) have come up with decent solution to, that should get more attention, and should be to my read bipartisan.

If nothing else consider giving money to the organization mentioned in the article (but no linked for some reason): https://girlsembracingmothers.org/support/give/
Coinbase Explores Overseas Venue as US Ramps Up Crypto Scrutiny
How about a more human-like approach: the LLM designs a calculator and then makes use of that!
You seem to have very rigid and boring definitions of the words "idiot" and "genius". The "AI effect" is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Tbh, I don't even know what you're saying.

[edit] OK, I might have misunderstood you. It's not always clear what people mean.
This bug is for using the Intel card as a WiFi access point. For using it as a WiFi client, Intel cards still "just work," and there aren't any other good WiFi options afaik. Realtek and Broadcom do suck. Atheros used to be good a long time ago with ath9k, but I don't think they're really around anymore (?).
> If you render a bump map, the graphics system actually creates geometry and draws it.

That sounds more like a displacement map.
I work lower in your same org tree with DDB and TxS and enjoy reading your blog. Gives insight into more tenured engineers and is good motivation for me as well. I am just kicking off my blog and hopefully I will have it go a decade as well.
CNBC has a youtube video on the economics of Trader Joe's and the piece that stuck out to me is that they will have essentially a white label option, but have it slightly modified so it is "unique" to them
Not my youtube channel. It just showed up in my recommended videos and it seemed like good advice (common sense). It's helpful to point devs to those videos when I see them making those types of mistakes.

I miss the data oriented approach Clojure libraries take. I remember having an issue with Ring and I just dove into the Ring source code and it was so simple and clear and I found the solution to my issue in minutes. I've never had that experience with Java and instead resort to forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most Java libraries would have several layers of abstraction and they're often intimidating. I consider myself an amateur Clojure dev and yet still contributed some PRs to some projects.

With that said, I've written some internal tools in Clojure and it was a nightmare whenever I had to modify them. They were pretty simple CLI tools that only needed updates every 6 months or so. I usually have to spin up the project with a repl just to understand the inputs and outputs to functions. I've ported all internal tools I created at my current company from Clojure to Java and I personally find them so much easier to maintain.
A good critique is that ChatGPT is a large language model that bases the next word after the previous words in a probabilistic nature. Asking it to speak as an expert is just as likely to produce a characature of an expert or the common interpretation of how that expert behaves (including biases) as it is to speak truth or half-truth.

It is not intelligent just as the monkey who when shown 6+3 instinctively hits 9 to get some banana smoothie.
> The only time this has any meaning is if Russia crumbles in a war

Russia getting tired of Putin doesn’t require it crumbling in war.
fine, fair, "never" was too much. posting link to this comment to not repeat same discussion twice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201037
Counterpoint/related: LLMs penalize those who spent most of their education memorizing things/doing rote learning and encourage actual thinking.
But how could it get hot enough to melt plastic in this beach, but nowhere else in the world?
General availability of this tech will even the playing field. You'll still want clever people to actually make all of this work to solve specific problems. So the tech will not necessarily be the advantage if the business isn't working...

When you think about how frustrating some of the simplest personal and business workflows are, there's going to be a much higher bar for what software should do. So there's a lot of opportunity this opens up.
I agree with you. In a more extreme example, I wish I never offload my address book to my phone, I can hardly remember a single phone number in my head now!
Is your objection to the use of the word "try"?
The Mind Is the Bicycle
I know nothing of Ironman training. I have trained to be a (slow) marathon runner, and I am really shocked at how low his running miles were. He said he was running between 2 and 12 miles for each run. He mentions a bone bruise that I guess severely limited his run training. Only two tiny runs between March and October! I would not think his bike and swim training would be able to compensate for near total lack of runs. He must have a fabulous baseline of fitness to complete a marathon and the rest of iron man like that.
I raise a small flock as well. I always joke that my eggs cost about $100/dozen. With the number of raccoons, foxes and hawks roaming near my property, I've had to invest a couple thousand of dollars in electric fencing, hawk netting and coop materials like hardware cloth or my chickens would quickly disappear.
I recommend The Core Java pair of books by Cay Horstmann, supplemented by Effective Java by Bloch. Those are probably the two most authoritative sources on Java out there, and both highly readable.

I heard not so good things about Herb Schildt's book.
I think it'll end at using chatgpt as a great tool. And that seems fine. I think much of the anxiety here is in the unknown.

You have to learn your IDE, but it doesn't make programming harder. It makes it more fun actually.

Chatgpt is going to require that devs are even better IMO because you have to catch its errors and know how to work with it.
Yeah. The obfuscated code thing immediately came to mind simply because if you've seen other examples on that site, they tend to look a lot like that, though stupidly I didn't think to search on a line of code.
The Movie That Changed How People Understand Pi
For me this would work only on a "work" setting. Like, if I'm being paid to perform some tasks, then I want to be able to use tech like "a copilot for my mind". But outside it, I would rather prefer not. If you come to my party using such copilot and start to quote nice books always in the right time, and tell really good jokes and all, well, what can I say, you won't surprise me at all. I actually wouldn't like you in my party.
Imagine, for instance, "craiglist that doesn't suck" because it has A.I. assistance.

Also I'd say consider incorporating foundation models into a larger workflow. The thing about the ChatGPT revolution is it has brought out a lot of really lazy people who hope ChatGPT is going to write their pitch dick for them. Not being lazy can put you in the top 90% right away.
> But then again, that information has to be stored somewhere right?

As a collection of probabilities stored as a wave.

If a bank account has a 50% probability earning a penny every second, the bank doesn't need to store all of the intermediate values for every "clock tick", but instead calculate how much has accumulated since the last time someone checked the account and store that value with a timestamp.
New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
And cut you off when you when the sh*t hits the fan.
LLMs are bad at math and rigorous logic. But we already have Python which can do both of those very well, so why try to "fix" LLMs by making them good at math when you can instead tell the LLM to delegate to Python when it is asked to do certain things?

Or in this case, have the LLM delegate to Python and then have the Python code delegate to another AI for "fuzzy" functions.
UK to invest 900M to build BritGPT
Autonki (Auto Anki) allows you to paste messy notes and make a nice Anki deck
I largely agree with the post, however I don't really encounter the "therapy is the end-all" sentiment in the wild. Most people who I talk to or hear from realize therapy is just another tool, which compliments exercise, diet and other self-care techniques (which could include medication management as well).
Does that still hold when the player doesn't have a board in front of them, but just a list of previous moves?