skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we were fine before sarkozy let us back in. actually it has been worse by all accounts after joining back...
How does AI replace the fact that you have to actually learn something? Sure I can ask a mythical AI to explain fourier transforms or bessel functions. But that doesn't mean I actually know it. A degree implies that you know at least a majority of a set of knowledge, you have learned to articulate your ideas, you have learned to stick it through the tough parts. AI does not replace that. We already have millions of courses on youtube, millions of tutorials online, what does AI offer that they don't? At minimum, a university provides the deadline to actually finish reading that book by monday, AND you must understand it enough to write that essay. AI can't offer that.
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to this.
> The output is still (very pretty) garbage >10% of the time, and that's the danger zone...the Level 4 of autonomous thinking.

What use cases do you have for it? Isn't it the other way? I'd argue that the output is garbage <10% of the time, and it's those times you have to be a little careful for.

What else explains the massive adoption if it isn't providing a decent amount of utility?

Overall I agree with the sentiment though. It's like people underestimating how long it takes to complete the last 10% of a software project.
I would love to learn more about your workflows, especially steps that end up requiring custom solutions, like UI that you mentioned. Care to share?
The banner image they have showing a collection of album covers is ≥58% Goldberg variations. I wonder how large a catalogue they have, or whether perhaps the creators of this are just big Bach boys.
That's one aspect, but TNG never had multi-season or even more than two-episode story arcs, and while the characters develop from season to season, you rarely see a character appear to remember anything from past episodes, as syndication usually aired episodes out of order.

I remember many complaints about B5 being incomprehensible because broadcasters were airing episodes randomly.
This is basically what health insurance companies do. They want higher billed rates from hospitals so that they can offer better "discounts." In reality, no one pays the billed rates.
So the people that create and maintain the foss libraries such as SQLite and libcurl should worry and you think that's okay?
I think it's a great question "What are the social-political-economic ramifications of the dawn of superhuman machine cognition?" It's too big a question for me I am not smart enough to imagine! I hope at least some humans survive and I hope it's not in some horrible dystopia.
There's a certain sweetness that comes through with a well done shot, along with a real smoothness on the palette without sacrificing body. Certainly all coffee has a bit of bitter going on, but with a properly done shot -- under real pressure, with a dialed in set of variables (grind mass, desired shot mass, shot time, etc) -- it's just part of the party, not the whole thing.

And you can absolutely get this at home, but you need a proper machine. (A Moka pot won't do it. People might LIKE Moka coffee -- lots do! -- but it's not the same thing.) I'd rather pull a shot from my Rocket than go to any shop in town. And, as I said, I've had shots just as good from machines much cheaper than my R58 (like the aforementioned Silvia).

IME, genuinely good espresso is a fairly rare thing. The set of coffeeshops that pull consistently good shots is a much, much smaller subset of [Coffeeshops] than we might expect.

What an aeropress produces is more akin to French press than anything else I've had. It's absolutely nothing like espresso. Since I'm not a French press fan, I end up not caring for it, but that's a preference thing, not an indictment of the method. When it comes to filter coffee (which is to say, non-espresso), I prefer Chemex.
Perhaps require acknowledging an ad to open or save a document? With full OS integration and demonstrated willingness to expose any user to advertising, the possibilities are numerous.
Yeah, that's what my second gripe was meant to complain about. Really,

withFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> IO r) -> IO r

is just a more general way of writing

withFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> IO Handle) -> IO Handle

;)

I've also heard about the ResourceT monad transformer but as of right now I don't think I could explain what it does or judge how well it does it, maybe that's also a sufficient solution.
> It's not easy to make something better.

Better solutions already exist. Just not internationally. And I frankly don't understand why.
It has definitely NOT been dying since early 00s.

The first definable moment where I think Windows started being at risk was release of iPhone and then smartphones that followed it (so say 2008). But even then it wasn't yet clear that smartphones will take over the world so thoroughly and drive people from using laptops.

Until that moment I would definitely project that the future will see more and more people having access to laptops. Only after it was clear people are more likely going to go with smartphones (around 2009-2010) it was reasonable to say that the market share of Windows has to start falling in favour of smartphones.

And it still wasn't clear that the same will be true even within laptop/desktop market.
Would be interesting to know what the most expensive places in the universe are if you could get to other citilizations and trade currencies with them. Probably at least an order of magnitude more, discounting the cost to get there.
Funding
This research was supported by funding from the Peanut Institute 2019.

from the link.
Ah, darn. I was trying to think of a question that makes no sense, but it got caught up by the ethics filter. Just trying to see what it answers to nonsense requests (though really, the AC question is nonsense to it, it's not in any way linked to the temperature in your room).
I did read the article. But none of it makes it the most "influential" TV show, unless influence was very very narrowly defined. Hence I ask by what metric. It certainly wasn't influential in other aspects compared to the two shows I mention.
There are multiple sources of latency: (1) parsing, simplifying and templatizing the DOM, (2) sending it to OpenAI and waiting for the response, (3) actually performing the action (which includes some internal waiting depending on what the actual action is), and (4) a hacky 2-second sleep() after each action to make sure any site changes are reflected in the DOM before running again. :)

(1) is already very fast. There's a lot of room for improvement in both (3) and (4); we currently set the timeouts very conservatively to improve reliability, but there are a number of heuristics we can use to cut those timeouts substantially in the average case.

Unfortunately for (2) I'm not sure there's much we can do. We only ask OpenAI for one action at a time to give it a chance to observe the state of the page between actions and correct course as necessary. We experimented with letting it return multiple actions at once but that hurt reliability; we can perform more experiments in that direction but it probably won't be a priority in the short term.
How outrageous!

Let me close the Apple Music window for this App I can't uninstall, and that popup that says I can't save my notes unless I have iCloud, and look past the automatically included Apple News and Apple Financed widgets in the notification panel I accidentally opened to go open a browser that defaults to showing me the shortcuts for several third party companies whose services I do not use to get on the internet to gloat about my superior choice.

/s

[For the record, all of this is bad, and I constantly wonder why my government thinks there isn't a monopoly problem here, I'm just kinda amused how much hate windows gets in particular, especially since I strongly suspect disabling this is a registry change away, which is not the case for many things I dislike about the computer I am using to type this.]
I'll just remind everybody that on Linux we have VFIO, where you can passthrough your videocard to Windows virtual-machine, and have almost native gaming.

As a big plus, your Win VM's disk C:\ is stored in a file, which you can backup and restore any time you want and not care about viruses/trojans/malware.
Because his freedom is more important than our security.
> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems.

I promise you it's very easy to find sub-400k person communities in the US that have never had one either.
Nothing in that tweet is in any way related to anything I've said. It's certainly not about the distinction between how NNs are trained and how they work. The way NNs are trained is part (and obviously only part) of how they work.

I'm well aware that LLMs are not simple. Remember when I said you'd need around two years of a college CS degree to understand it, and elsewhere where I said that it could be a college course?

The area between "simple" and "beyond human understanding" is pretty large, though.

Your description of "emergent capabilities" so far is pointing to a paper which says that putting larger data into a model produces different results, which is, you know, obvious. Calling those differences "emergent capabilities" is extraordinarily poor communication.

What I mean when I say "emergent capabilities" is capabilities which aren't explained by the input data and program code, and you have yet to present a single one. Certainly nothing that could be called originality or preference, which were my two original examples of what ChatGPT doesn't have.
Maybe we don't disagree then.

We know how LLM work. Parameters. Training data. Random number generator. That stuff.

We don't know why it outputs what it outputs because rngs are notoriously unpredictable and we know it. So we are surprised but that in itself is unsurprising.
> Your linked paper doesn't reference mTORC1 a single time.

Precisely! If there was established scientific knowledge of a mTORC1 problem with eating vegan then the leading nutritional science organization's position paper would cover it. It didn't so everyone, including you, have strong reason to doubt your initial claim. If new research of such a problem gets published in top journals in the field the next position paper will reflect that. Until it does laymen like you and me have strong epistemic reason to side with the position paper.

As for possible corporate interests distorting the position paper, do you have any specific evidence about such distortion with regard to mTORC1? Saying that it is merely possible that such a distortion could happen, without any specific evidence about such distortion, is not a useful argument in this discussion because distortions in the opposite direction are equally possible. The meat and dairy industry are among the corporate actors that the AND has received money from.
I remember reading once (but now I can't find the details, this may be apocryphal): a few browsers did try this for a while, but it turned out be a disaster for certain sites. If, for example, you have a page loaded with a list of items, each of which has a delete link next to it (think PHPMyAdmin): what happens if the browser automatically sends a get request to every link it sees in order to prefetch the content? The server will just see this as a user clicking a link to the delete page and automatically delete the item.

The solution to this is obviously that servers should obey the rules of HTTP methods better: GET is idempotent and doesn't change state, so it should be impossible to delete data just by clicking a link. Instead, you should at least need to submit a form via a POST request in some way.

In practice, though, browsers need to deal with badly designed servers, which is why almost all of this prerendering, precaching, etc stuff requires an explicit opt-in from the website.
Yes. It distinguishes iMessage from SMS/MMS.

With iMessage you get read receipts (if turned on), high quality multi-media (instead of just MMS), end-to-end encryption, the ability to edit or unsend messages for a short time, multi-device messaging, no per-message fee, and probably more.

The green bubble is a signal that isn’t available in that conversation. It’s a little like the old padlock in the address bar but far more abstract.
Nobody disagrees with commingling in theory, but, the problem is you have some bad actors who will pollute the communal product bins. It is not obvious who they are because there is no tracking of individual items, only by ASIN.

Tracking by (ASIN,UUID) pair would at least allow them to figure out who the bad actors are and flag/pull those items.

There are lots of things they could do to try and help. The problem really is, there is no incentive for Amazon to do any of them.
That's hard to prove one way or the other. Watch Ilyas' latest talk where he talks about how next token prediction is a much more fundamental problem than people give it credit for. Empirically you can easily see that gpt-4 has a world model and that it does abstract logical reasoning.

Maybe it's a vastly different intelligence than our own but the fact remains that it can perform well on an extremely broad range of multidisciplinary tasks. You can argue the epistemology of this all day. But as a pragmatic programmer, gpt-4 does certainly seem to fall into the "AGI" category.
Morally they are, not a popular point in the desert of instrumental rationality
> I require a pocketknife and a handgun immediately upon arrival

I carry a pocketknife every day.

I don’t carry a handgun, but there are plenty of states in the U.S. with CCW reciprocity; someone who carries in one and wishes to fly to another might quite reasonably wish to carry there as well.

‘Immediately’ is a loaded word. It would be weird to mail my hotel a pocketknife for a weekend trip.

> I'd also like to pick up some bottles of fine wine while I'm there.

There are a ton of microbreweries and distilleries in the U.S. whose products are not nationally distributed. I often like to bring things back from my travels. Wine’s not as regional, I think.

It’s an OR, of course, not an AND: some folks want to carry a pocketknife; others a handgun; others wish to fly with more than a few very small bottles of liquid.
I've searched for squillions of domains with Namecheap and moved to them years ago from 123, but never lost a domain to them, I don't believe this happens.
I get irrationally angry when I get my insurance statements for routine stuff.

Doctor billed: $1500
Insurance allowed: $125
Insurance paid: $75
Your copay: $50
Just as Valve are making Linux way more viable for gaming, there are still pain points if you are into certain stuff with anti-cheat that doesn't like it, as I understand it, but for my use case, my Steam Deck plays everything I personally want right now extremely well. When my Windows 10 install on my dedicated gaming PC finally gets too old, I may just switch to SteamOS for gaming.
Let‘s gooo
I want all the corporate companies to regret ever having used windows.
They will be so vender locked that they will have to see advertisements every 10 minutes to continue using it without extra payments.
And it only took abusing their position to get it there! We had spreadsheets before Excel, we would have had spreadsheets without Excel. We might have had the dominant spreadsheet software on Linux and FreeBSD if not for Excel. Maybe we would have had a couple more years of Lotus 1-2-3 being clunky on Windows but frankly that seems like a fair trade.
hey I love the work that you are doing here, I have been wanting to create dev oriented data table service, like AirTable but more dev friendly with a strong plugin system. Want to have a quick chat?
I'm surprised that is not already happening. Plenty of precedent for that out there.
You can use the extension to automate the spending of your money
There isn't enough room in the Ivy league schools for all the competent people in this country to have an Ivy degree, even if you kicked out all the 'legacy' admits.

If anyone's treating attending a non-Ivy school as a negative signal for competence, I can only treat that as a negative signal for their competence.
What you can do is change the URL parameters to get a workable resolution (though honestly using desktop mode might be easier, I didn't know that it gives you a higher resolution!).
Here's a direct link that I got from a comment above that you should be able to get if you press on any imgur image and select "open image":

https://i.imgur.io/4clqUdj_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

I just remove the shape parameter entirely, and add a 0 to the maxwidth (seems like it can take any number there, but it will just give you the highest available resolution). The fidelity arg I'm not sure about, but it might have to do with compression? I haven't seen a huge difference changing jt.
Well, you proved my point. With time, you can get within the usable life of the burger, with a bunch of assumptions, like me not being vegan, or the server accidentally giving me someone else's order. Compare this to a 0.01% error bar for the mass/volume measurement of the burger, with a cheap scale. One is measurable, and known, where the other requires imprecise prediction that doesn't realistically have a bounds.

Going back to the original comment, just because they can measure the ice with extreme precision, doesn't mean they can put a date on the when secondary affects will cause them to disappear. Just because you can know the precise mass/volume of the burger, doesn't mean you can put a time on when I'll eat it. Measurement is direct. Prediction is indirect.

In both cases, it'll be some fuzzy prediction.
One reason might be that it hurts native high skilled labor, a demographic that probably votes often.
Reinventing Minecraft world generation by Henrik Kniberg
In that case nobody can know it about any car, except maybe a Lada. You can't buy a brand new 2007 Toyota Camry this year, and the 2022 Toyota Camry is a very different car than the 2007 Toyota Camry.
Schools might as well raise tuition to $1 million per year. I guess I that case, the ruse would become more obvious.
I strongly disagree with that assessment. Creativity is not going away and that’s never going to get replaced not because AI can’t do better but because that’s what makes us humans.
No. Malware is, by definition, software that performs actions which have a malicious intent. Hence, the name.
> I am Mihai Parparita and can be reached at

oh man, mihai! his greasemonkey scripts made the internal version of gmail (caribou) usable back in the say.
Arguably a university like that is even worse than a state school. At least I've heard of University of Arizona or UT Austin (both decent state research schools).

I've literally never heard of Wake Forest.
You can already get a world-class education for free, all you need to do is to walk into your local library, check out the books that are on the reading list for the courses that constitute a 4-year undergraduate degree. Then, read each chapter three times. Then, solve the problems at the end of the chapter.

This will cost you roughly $0.

What you can't get is world-class instruction for free.
>Tips are the opposite of that

Since when? You're just making up arbitrary nonsense. Every business transaction with a tip is negotiated rate + tip.
“Lifestyle education”
Today every ivy has need based tuition discounts, so it's probably easier than ever before to afford for those of limited means
So? You don't think the USA has the same missiles in Japan and Korea ready to go as well? If China wants to launch missiles at Japan, what would stop the USA from launching similar missiles at China?
I don't have a stake in whether AI could or could not interpret a score, but it's still more than "learned patterns". Some performers imbue an interpretation depending on:

- the instrument

- the room or hall

- their personal experiences

- their personal philosophy of music (e.g., Gould and his anti-hedonistic philosophy)

- cultural norms and explicit respect paid thereof (e.g., in the interpretation of a Chopin mazurka)

- available recording technology and expertise

- available audio engineering technology and expertise

- what emotion they want to invoke or evoke to contextualize the music

- their patience

- their willingness to experiment

- etc.

It is not at all farfetched that a performer is taking most of these into account, directly or indirectly, to render a live or recorded performance.

It's not as if there's just this tradition of unwritten rules about interpreting a score that music students learn from their teachers, rather, it's that an interpretation is an amalgamation of experience, context, and on-the-spot reactive decision-making.

For an AI to successfully achieve this, they'll need the same variety of inputs and contexts to learn from.
That’s gotta be a cool feeling to see your work cited in other research. Kudos!
I would be exceedingly worried about someone trying to take medical advice from chatgpt, given that chatgpt's training data set will include anything from mayoclinic to mommy blogs to new age stuff. Similarly, I worry about law, because chatgpt's training data will include old/expired laws mix with supreme court opinions mixed with sovreign citizens nonsense.
TCO includes fuel and maintenance. The TCO of either a Model 3 and a Camry is well over 100K EUR.
I've been gaming on Void Linux of all things since November and it's run everything that isn't just flat out incompatible with Linux (anti-cheat doesn't allow, etc).

Sometimes I think it sucks that I can't play X because the anti-cheat won't allow it to start, then I remember it's a kernel level driver I cross my fingers and hope isn't doing anything nefarious and feel better.
Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
I really like this, but I wonder if a better approach would be to take that simplified DOM and instead generate playwright or puppeteer code instead of direct DOM manipulation. That way it’s reproducible browser automation.
A lot of it can be disabled. I am indifferent to it, it is still the best OS overall for games and I just boot it up for games.
I'm a native reader, was never able to understand it
Unless it's FBA (fulfilment by Amazon), it's difficult for the seller to send you the item you ordered, unless Amazon gives them your address as part of the ordering process.
Adding to my previous comment: If I lived in the US, I'd be far more afraid of how American companies and government entities use my data. It's a far more real and immediate threat.
> Without services spying on your data. Without censorship on what the model can/cannot say. Because it's all local...

Wouldn't that be nice? It would also be contrary to all experience of the outcomes and pulls of corporations in modern society. The "local" LLMs will be on the fringe more than at the edge, because the ones that work the best and attract the most money will be the ones controlled by walled-garden "ecosystems."

I really hope it's different. I really hope there are local models. Actual personal assistants actually designed to assist their users and not the people that provide the access.
There is different licensing and clearing for promotional use. For example Apple can display album art beside a song while it is playing or in a search listing under their streaming rights license, but they need to pay more to feature it in a TV ad or a promotional website.
Now ask yourself: Wouldn’t people that fit such profile move to a more comfortable and yet cheaper country? Spain literally weaving its hand.
I'm the same but I don't use PiHole. (I am in UK. Does geography matter?). If I seen ads in my windows start menu, I'd suspect I have a cracked windows copy with a 3rd party spamming me. It's literally that far fetched to me. I always use Pro though as well...
or just run an obituary for yourself in the newspaper. The AI will rule you out as a suspect in all future cases.
That’s interesting. In WA for example it probably won’t cross state borders if it’s a common item