skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I don’t believe we aren’t very good prediction machines ourselves. Don’t forget people have to actually study logic, and studying is reinforcement of likelihood. And even with having practiced logic we make logical errors all the time despite feeling confident in our statements. I’ve found little in my life that tells me human intelligence isn’t just predicting the next “right” thought given experiences of should be the next right thought in a specific situation. Our “sense” or feeling of rationality, understanding, etc, may just be guides for probability of “right.” Confusion happens when a situation is novel enough that we can’t predict the next right thought. Etc. So, I’m actually not convinced what happens as the models produce an expected next token it’s not a form of intelligence in the same vein as human intelligence. I suspect as these models are pulled into more complex ensembles it’ll become striking how “intelligent” they are, and as they become less simply prediction engines how alien they becomes - because it would turn out we were just prediction models to begin with.
I use it to reduce the drudgery of writing code like this. I've found I have to do a lot of hand-holding in terms of telling it what data structures and logic it should use. I also just directly tell it what changes it needs to make to fix big bugs or logic errors I spot. That gets it to the point that I can tweak it myself and complete the code.

One of the frustrating things is that it doesn't ask for clarification of something that's unclear - it just makes an assumption. Really demonstrates why software engineering interviews emphasize the candidate asking clarifying questions.
When I started to learn programming in the mid-90s, it was still common to not have home Internet (or, if you did, it was too expensive to spend the whole day online). I learned a lot of programming from the VB helpfiles, a random book on VB from Barnes and Nobles, and recording VB macros in Excel and frankenstein-ing them back together to do different things. In particular, learning from recording macros and seeing the command was a very intuitive way to learn - I didn't have to guess at what the first version of a program would do.
Only someone who claims to have all the answers would make such bold incorrect assumptions about who I am and what I know. The demand for my specialty is waxing, I'm likely safer than most work-a-day software developers, and it's my third career. Don't talk to me about becoming water in my career and life. I also don't think that lacking my brain plasticity and marketable cognitive profile should disqualify someone from easy access to food, housing, and health care. So if that body of water drains into the ethically feeble sewer of self-absorbed SV business culture, I'll opt for evaporating on a rock instead.
The 1929 Bentley Blower was a legendary car built to win races. It was built by a private individual, not Bentley, who exhausted his entire fortune creating it and the car never won a single race. But he pushed the edge of what was possible in his time. A Bentley Blower could do 125 miles an hour which was a record in 1929. The last one auctioned off brought $7 million.

I personally have always wanted to own a Jaguar XK-120 which when it was introduced nineteen years later could do 150 mph. Seventy years later that you can buy a car that will do over 200 mph doesn't seem like that big an accomplishment.

But if something goes wrong at high speed the Jaguar (like the Bentley Blower) lacks both seat belts and air bags so there is a high likelihood you won't live to tell the tale.
i recall around the time windows released transparent windows API calls. I promptly wired them up into a VB6 app and could make any window I wanted transparent.

VB6 Rocked.
Maybe LLM Code writing will us slow down (initially). Productivity is hard to measure and can be counter intuitive.

Talking the whole time with your LLM may distract more than it helps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
That's fascinating! In ex-Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Croatia in my case) we were raised on Smoki which looks very similar!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoki
This was the patch that removed it:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f06021a18fcf8d8a1e7...

But this commit message is burying the lede a bit. There are two problems here:

1) you can revert the change, but a large part of the regulatory logic lives in the firmware blob running on the chip and you can not change this.

2) the FCC doesn't look kindly upon functionality that ignores regulatory limits being available to end customers. It was already not legal for Intel to add this in the first place, and they certainly won't help you reinstate it.

The second part might be why these devices have been in a "broken" regulatory state forever now where they stay away from everything that touches upon e.g. DFS; someone at Intel might have realized that letting users pick their regulatory region is already not something they should be offering.

The reality is that these WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for and then run off that, but you can see the business people losing their mind over that: now you need to have a hundred different SKUs and worse you need to understand your distribution chain. So a software setting it is, and then you see why the FCC is upset.
ChatGPT would probably play worse under those conditions, but then humans also get worse. ACPL is way higher at top level 960 events than at normal tournaments, for example
I personally find that makes it more astonishing, that it would slip up on knowing the most basic elements of the game, yet still be able to play better than most humans. Highly smart people sometimes say or do little things when foraying into other fields that causes domain experts think they're not one of them. But that usually doesn't stop smart people from having an impact in making a contribution with their insights. The question of illegal moves is superficial, since most online systems have guardrails in place that prevent them. At worst it's just an embarrassment and I don't think machines care about being embarrassed.
Think about how much harder it would be if you couldn't see the inputs, code, and outputs all together at once. The difficulty you found has little to do with Excel; you were trying to learn a whole new domain by reverse-engineering a model created by an SME. Of course it took multiple days of effort to merely(!?) "understand the principles" of a brand new technical domain. Ideally the SME should be explaining those things to you as well.
Point is it's kinda hard to take the blogpost too seriously when these fundamentals are so wrong. When literally the title is an immediately obvious error that doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the methodology.

I'm still going through the games but so far these games are not even close to elo 1400 level. For both the human player and the model.
The view people have of the "old internet" is even more rose-tinted than we tell each other.

The majority of people did not have websites. The majority of people did not even know how to use a computer. The reason websites looked the way they did was because everyone had to make do with what they had on hand, and it wasn't much. They weren't designers, they didn't know anything about usability or readability, they just wanted to put something out there. And it was awful. It was unreadable. And most of those sites died. The sites that still remained are quite similar to the ones we have now.

The reason we have such "boring" webpages is because they're content-focused. There's plenty of design-focused websites too, but they're proper, not erratic. We need websites to be accessible and to load fast.

The irony is that those same 90's looking websites can often times be full of JS and images that slow down your computer.

We have talked about megacorps owning our content and online identity, but domains and hosting is not much different either. Especially if you're not deploying yourself and using some product.

And do most people really need their own website, and in this time specifically, where any public information can be weaponized?

I fully support hosting your own site, but we should be focusing on secure and anonymous tech. I2P, Tor, Monero, IPFS. That's the wild west, that's the real web we should be using. Pure, unfiltered content and online interaction, truly out of reach and personalized.
The video makes it clear that they're over the sea, and the wreck is in international waters. And the closest "disputed territory" is internationally recognized Ukrainian borders.

What exactly is controversial here? At best, Russia downed a US Aircraft when it was over Ukraine. If US story is to be believed, it was over international (and I find that more likely anyway).
> Universal healthcare actually means a downgrade in the experience for these people

But it also means a much higher cost. I know these people are wealthy, but they are getting fleeced. Many (all?) socialised systems also have a private system along side, so the wealthy can avoid the great unwashed.
> Proper manuals have examples of use

This is what microsoft did well with powershell's help system. They have examples. Tons of them.

Why man pages do not is beyond me when most of the time, an example or two is all we need. I bet most people go to the man pages and then google for examples because the man pages weren't helpful.
I would be interested to see an argument based on computational complexity that puts a bound on how well a transformer based llm can play chess. Although it has access to a library of precomputed results, that library is finite and the amount of compute it can do on any prompt is limited by the the length of the context window so it can't possibly "think" more than N moves ahead.
That heavily depends on your definition of understanding, which is not easy to define. The vague definition I imply here is "the ability to make predictions based on higher order correlations extracted from the training data".
yea you might be one of those 'overweight but metabolically healthy' people. Despite the common misconception, you can infact live a healthy life even you are overweight if you are metabolically healthy ( ie. no insulin resistance)
Yeah, I imagine it's closer to Pashto than modern Iranian tbf. Ossetian is another outlier here, close to Georgia/Russia but related to the languages from Pamir/Tajikistan.

Avestan (IIRC, my memory is fuzzy) had some weird similarities to my native language—Polish. Occasionally I'd stumble upon a phrase I could actually understand.

Random example I just remembered: "both ears" (again IIRC) sounded like uba ushi /uba uši/ (uba being 2 in dual, ushi meaning ears). Polish used to have dual number, but now retained it mostly for some body parts ( oba == 2). Ears in PL is uszy /ushee/. You'd sound a bit weird saying saying "oba uszy" in Polish, but people would understand you.

Nowadays I just enjoy the fact that Ashem Vohu is one of the oldest phrases I can utter in its original language. (I'm really good at learning and forgetting languages it seems.)
I have only done this once before.
I've just watched the Microsoft 365 copilot presentation. They never mentioned hallucinations, and talked about errors maybe once?

This thing will definitely make stupid errors and will make up things when summarizing, doing presentations etc. - unless it achieves near human level intelligence of course - but in this case everyone'll lose their job.

I'm really curious what'll eventually happen? How are we going to live with it - strange presentation points, wrong numbers in reports, enormous amount of auto-generated business talk texts? Will the knowledge be corrupted more and more?
Playing illegal moves is accounted for in rules. Depending on which rules you play by it can be an immediate forfeit, or involves redoing moves and adding time for the opponent, possibly with forfeit if repeated. As such, the article opted for one of the strictest possible rule sets. You can reject the interpretation he gave, and the outcome under those rules would still be the same. If you were to pick a more lenient ruleset, it's possible it would've come out with an even higher ranking.
I am, thanks for sharing!
Dont worry ChatGPT will eat 50% of their traffic
Thanks!

Did HP coming out with NewWave and its scripting language influence this at all?
> teens seem to be practically immune to current forms of online advertising.

I'm struggling to square that with teens forming long lines to buy an overpriced energy drink promoted by a couple of YouTubers and scalpers successfully getting over £100 for bottles.

I'm sure some of them are better at installing adblock software than their parents, are harder to convert for ecommerce because they need to borrow their parents' credit card and may be immune to online ads that are targeted at people very unlike them, but the idea that this generation is the first one immune to advertising and use Tiktok despite it's engagement metric hacking and follow influencers despite them being product shills is no more true than the "kids these days" meme.
Some of the sample prompts are so human sounding it’s wild that AI can write such sophisticated content that can sway public opinion if said by public leaders.

What a time to be alive
Yeah, I call bullshit, i.e. selective deletion of terrible games. Ignore those when it plays catastrophically and it might look alright.
It's not a coincidence that Microsoft poached Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Delphi, to work on C# and .NET.
Random thought: A good response might be to recover the cost of this aircraft and related losses from one or more of the bank accounts that have been frozen? Preferably those closely connected with Putin and his inner circle?
The problem with realtek chipsets is that many of them just have no in-kernel driver, so you have to use some questionably maintained out of tree driver from github or whatever.

Soundslike you got one of the chipsets that has in-kernel support, so that is good.
An arbiter determined that Inarkiev made an illegal move and Carlsen did not. Interesting article.
There was a song about a robot that wrote poetry. “Jed’s other poem (beautiful ground)” by granddaddy. Its video was done on an apple 2, with a code listing at the end. Takes a little while to get going..

https://youtu.be/Gxe40xXQKko
You're simply pattern matching that looks like reasoning.
They have a subscription service with longer and exclusive videos I'm sure outstrips the revenue from Youtube.
Very nice! I did an E-ink DIY project with ChatGPT and Rust recently as well, using it for newspaper article trimming and style transfer: https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX

(I've posted this in HN comments before; album now has some pics with the finished newspaper in situ at my home.)

What's up with those rectangular artifacts on your panel?
> Russia isn’t a party either.

Right, Russia being neither a party nor a non-party who has acceded to ICC jurisdiction on its territory, war crimes committed on Russian soil are not (by territory) within the jurisdiction of the ICC, so would only be subject to the ICC if committed by nationals of a State Party to the Rome Statute. But crimes in Russia aren’t at issue.

> And neither is ukriane.

Ukraine is a non-party that has voluntarily submitted to ICC jurisdiction for war crimes on its territory beginning on a specified date, which gives the ICC the same jurisdiction for such crimes it would have were Ukraine a State Party.
Embarrassing decision. All in the pursuit of a slightly thinner chassis, I imagine.
Kazakhstan impounds Russian property at Baikonur Cosmodrome
You're looking at this in a black and white way, overlooking all of the uses where it doesn't have to be perfect. If it saves humans even a few minutes, it's a good tool.
> I'm really curious what'll eventually happen?

Maybe it will produce fewer errors than humans and also improve over time.
“robinson.c” indeed isn’t a good search term because there are many people with that name, but a search for

typedef struct A*B,*(*C)();struct A{C(*d)();B e;}*v(),*b;C n[256];

for me, gave https://www.ioccc.org/1989/robison.c as the second hit, directly after the HN hit.
This frustrated me for over a year. I moved to a house and wanted to give my gf a reprieve from the wires I used to run through our apartments. But, I’ve been dealing with connection drops and speeds of around 1.2 Mbps.

I figured it was the walls until I setup a “slow” 2G network for an old printer and my PC was at full speed when connected to it. Figured out that it was a driver issue a few weeks ago. This is a problem I haven’t had since around 2000. Never would have guessed that the device I chose for compatibility and support would have a driver that flakey.
I actually found a half dozen Kobo ereaders (Canadian version of the Kindle; hackable with Linux) for $5.

I only picked up one since I didn’t know what to do with 6, but for $5 it’s a great little eink weather station.
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer when I was about 57. I had had somewhat regular "finger up the butt" exams prior to that, since I was about 45, which were all negative. Then a PSA blood test test came back positive and I then had a biopsy done (no fun, trust me). Because I was still in my 50's I needed to do something beyond just continuing to monitor it. Between radiation treatment and a prostatectomy I chose the latter. Eight years or so later my PSA tests are still negative, knock on wood. Lesson learned, I think, is to get a simple PSA blood test done regularly once you've reached a certain age.
>> It's so ugly

> nice and easy to understand

Java is definitely more practical than pretty. This frustrates the trendy crowd, but I think its important for tools to be practical. Shiny, pretty languages are never as long-lived as practical "ugly" languages.
Proponents of the lab leak hypothesis aren't arguing that the wet market was buying infected animals from the lab, but rather that a lab employee was likely accidentally infected in the lab and then spread it to others when they stopped by the wet market. It's also possible that they spread it to others at another nearby location and then it spread from there to the wet market. Given the timing, the wet market looks like the location of an early superspreader event rather than the actual origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi was killed 4 months after the ICC issued warrants for his arrest.
Does that make it easier to get root on a US-based Samsung phone? Or US band compatible anyways?
HN algorithm promotes broken links?
> Try to propose something that you think might improve the status quo.

Use LLMs to compliment class activities so that students can receive the individual attention they need.
That’s called whataboutism.
So this is a way to generate a deluge of blogspam using GPT4? Yeah, if this hastens the demise of social media so that people log off and ignore it then it's a worthwhile goal.
Would this put concepts from classical philosophy like formal and final causation back on the table?
The article seems to imply that it’s possible, but I’ve learned that journalistic summaries can be low-fidelity.
Loved your use of the magnets! I thought I knew everything about the design and construction of nitrogen lasers but this is a very good idea.

That said, for the non-experts out there, TEA N2 lasers are not very useful because of their low energy outputs and very short (but not ultrashort) pulsewidths. But this is a great example of a laser that could have been built by Volta himself around the time of George Washington.
Here are some issues with these:

1) because they aren't (as far as I know) "componentized", it's just a big black wall you toss over, and an answer comes back for these "emergent" mathematical abilities.

2) on that note, what is the correctness across the input range of the operation? Is that tested?

3) even if it is, these are evolving models, how often is it tested?

What would make sense a bit is if the resolution indicates what "parts" of the LLM "brain" were used. For math, wouldn't it make sense that the LLM should identify the operation for most known formal math operations and instead service-invoke an actual hard math implementation, and in the answer identify that was what it did so you have some confidence in the answer?

As others have pointed out, there is probably a lot of "caching" going on of answers. Effective... unless the cached answer is wrong, or the answer ISN'T cached and it delegates to some other combination of virtual neurons to produce ??? answer.

So far ChatGPT is an impressive demonstration. It's good for generating food for thought, examples, or maybe alternatives, but I don't see myself using it for "answers" in any definitive way unless it tells me HOW it got that answer.

And man, can the idiot fourth estate keep its hype bullshit stories away from this? The last thing an important thing like "general AI" needs is the general press and its abysmal horrid freak-show undercurrent and anti-intellectual bias to chop it up. Yeah, I know, no way.

Ironically, ChatGPT may augur better science reporting in the future, because it will almost certainly author better articles that dumb uneducated "senior" writers (not interns nonononono) would.
Not even total beginners will try to move pieces that don't exist though.
> No, he said we should make it less shitty. And outlined a way to do so. Why misrepresent his words?

No, he didn't outline a way to make it better. He denigrated the people involved, in a way that is (most charitably) an oblique reference to low education budgets (e.g. not enough money to hire enough teachers or attract talented teachers). Then he held up some references to a few techie things.

Maybe he's a genius autodidact that never really got much benefit from his teachers. There have always been people like that, but they've never been common. A system tailored to people like that would fail the vast majority (e.g. be shitty).
Countering SaaS-ifying by others can also be achieved through the AGPL or through the BSL (initially not open-source, reverts to open source after set period).

I do believe one of the failures of GPL was not being AGPL from the start.
Chromebooks are the only laptops you can usually expect to work correctly and integrate every peripheral with Linux. Which, no surprise, is why IPU6 cameras work on Chromebooks. It's open source and everything.

https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch...

The reason these things are often broken on Ubuntu and the other distros is simply that the governance and organization of those projects is not incentivized to ship a working product.
Given that Alpaca violated the TOS of both services, this is not surprising.

It could also have been Stanford’s legal office trying to preempt a lawsuit, or a “friendly” email from one of the companies expressing displeasure and pointing out Stanford’s liability. So more of a veiled threat rather than an official one.

Either way, the toothpaste is out of the tube. We now know that a model’s training can essentially be copied using the model itself cheaply. Now that the team at Stanford showed it was possible, and how relatively easy it was, it will bound to be copied everywhere.
A parent rolls over in their sleep and suffocates their infant. A tragic accident. Writing up the cause of death as unintentional homicide, or even an accident, won't do anybody any favors; it would only cause emotional anguish to the parents. So instead the cause of death is "SIDS."

I'm not saying this is what happens in every instance, but it's probably the way it happens at least some of the time.