skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you make a $20B social media company? Start with a $44B social media company.
>…they added a teaspoon of coconut oil to boiling water. Then, they added a half a cup of rice. They simmered this for 40 minutes, but one could boil it for 20-25 minutes instead, the researchers note. Then, they refrigerated it for 12 hours. This procedure increased the RS by 10 times for traditional, non-fortified rice.

From deep inside the article.
I have a friend who has been going through some medical issues. He’s been using ChatGPT aggressively.

The one thing I can say is that he’s very good at getting ChatGPT to tell him whatever he wants to hear. Massaging prompts and providing different cues until the response confirms whatever theory he wanted it to confirm.

He’s currently convinced that various alternative medicine supplements will cure him, and sure enough he has ChatGPT logs confirming his theories. The exact alternative medicine changes by the week and he quickly forgets about last week’s cure when it doesn’t work.

He loves ChatGPT, but it’s clearly just a mirror for whatever theory he wants someone (or something) to confirm. Studies like this one make him think it’s more of a ground truth source of information that his doctors just aren’t smart enough to know.
I’m not trying to make infinity finite. I am just giving the infinity of the positive integers a computationally verifiable property.

> If you generate random reals at each step, you can generate a sequence as long as you want, without ever “getting stuck”.

You don’t understand your own argument. At no point did you ever generate an irrational number, nor can you. You can only generate approximations of them, all of which are rational. You are trying to make infinity finite by reducing it to “generate a random real”.

As it so happens, the infinity of the rationals is the same as the infinity of the positive integers, and demonstrably so. But the reals are not only the rationals. Or, you could say the reals do not exist. Only rational numbers do.
"American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in other high-income countries," the authors write on the second page. It goes on: "Even Americans with healthy behaviors, for example, those who are not obese or do not smoke, appear to have higher disease rates than their peers in other countries."
Most tech companies have taken a valuation hit. I would guess that twitter would be worth a lot less even if Musk had not taken it over. It was losing money so it would be a primary candidate to sell now that tech companies are out of favor and its stock would have lost a lot of value anyways.

My guess is that twitter will continue to exist. It's Musk's loud horn and he'll support it as long as has the finances and it continues to have the reach.

I would even say that all the stock grants to employees will do really well once the markets pick up again.
As someone who had tried my hand at Blender and failed miserably/given up years ago, I am so excited to use this to make up for my Blender skill deficiency
I just used this on something I recently saw my doctor for, and it worked pretty well!
Bitcoin is smarter than anything you've invented
Isn’t being a good boss kind of like being a good prompt engineer?
I don’t see why any of that means it can’t be reformed. No commonly-used language is formed in a vacuum.
The team experimented with 38 kinds of rice from Sri Lanka,
developing a new way of cooking rice that increased the RS
content. In this method, they added a teaspoon of coconut
oil to boiling water. Then, they added a half a cup of rice.
They simmered this for 40 minutes, but one could boil it for
20-25 minutes instead, the researchers note. Then, they
refrigerated it for 12 hours. This procedure increased the
RS by 10 times for traditional, non-fortified rice.

How can such a simple change in cooking result in a lower-
calorie food? James explains that the oil enters the starch
granules during cooking, changing its architecture so that
it becomes resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.
This means that fewer calories ultimately get absorbed into
the body. “The cooling is essential because amylose, the
soluble part of the starch, leaves the granules during
gelatinization,” explains James. “Cooling for 12 hours will
lead to formation of hydrogen bonds between the amylose
molecules outside the rice grains which also turns it into a
resistant starch.” Reheating the rice for consumption, he
notes, does not affect the RS levels.

So the key ingredient is cooling for 12 hours. Simple, but not exactly in the sense a casual reader might infer from the title.
Every Room a Battlefield
I think it's "top-down reasoning"

It does in fact create some sort of model out of those billions of dimensions, and it's able to re-use it across many different fields, too

It's not "bottom-up reasoning" so it misses a bunch of little details.

Basically AI is a search through a vast space, and most of the approaches have focused on top-down search. Reasoning bottom-up is what AlphaBeta search did (rybka and all those other chess programs, that calculated all possible combinations 10 moves ahead). Those missed some of the "top-down positional" stuff, whereas AlphaGo missed some weird-ass edge cases

https://www.engadget.com/alphago-pushed-human-go-players-to-...

But it is a sort of intelligence. Just not one you can trust when details matter. You can use it for pretty pictures for now, and essays.

Generative AI is not deep but extremely broad. It knows many subjects. And can discuss more than any specific person.

But guess who produced all that content for it and made it publicly available. Humans!

(And in cases where it wasn't publicly available, I guess they can sue the company)
GPT bring me everyone's jewelry.
Meanwhile, it takes the human brain months to adapt to visual input after blindness: "This research suggests that the brain is able to adapt to getting visual input, even after 10 years of blindness. That said, it takes a little while before this ability to really process the images kicks in. Right after the second surgery, patients are getting input to the brain from their retinas, but their visual memory is still poor. After about a month, though, the brain has found ways to process this visual information, and, a year later, their brains do just about as well as those of people who had sight from birth."
Source: https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202210/....
TSLA is a stupid money loser?
What the other commenters are missing is that Nvidia is not purely a hardware business, they make a lot of money on gaming partnerships, GeForce Ultimate, and other secondary software subscriptions that miners do not pay for but gamers do. That's why they attempted to restrict mining with their GPUs, because they can get recurring revenue from gamers.
Until We started to see LLMs, and the tools that can be created with them, I doubted the possibility of Star Trek's Voice command system. Asking for the computer to clarify some concept, or filter and reduce data sets based on arbitrary data was pure science fiction.

Seeing something like this makes me think that the arbitrary holodeck commands "Paris, 1950's, rainy afternoon" is suddenly not a challenging part of the equation. It's really exciting.
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One job that will always be AI proof: preschool teacher.
I’m trying to consolidate my note taking with Obsidian but I’m with you about Notes being a go-to tool… it’s just so much better integrated into all the apple devices, I can scribble quick notes with the pencil, ask Siri and all sorts of shortcuts can easily make or add to notes… but I’m absolutely sick of being held hostage by my software and for me my notes are too important not to protect. I’m glad to see anyone work on this, because I wasn’t relishing the idea of trying to force Apple to open up using the EU digital markets directive. Its my nuclear option if the situation gets worse, the various scripts and fixes stop working and I can’t work around it, because I’m pretty blown away by how complicated the notes format is and I won’t be surprised if they add something new and the format develops another layer of complexity.
Ironically this “convincing bullshit” comment is turning into something everyone parrots in every LLM discussion thread.

I think that someone that’s gone as far to built this with GPT-n is aware of its limitations.
> less well-off ones do not.

False.

I don't get why people keep pretending like less well off children do not have access to this.

People like me growing up needed this as an avenue as this was often times one of the only avenues available to the less fortunate for standing out.

We don't have access to other privileged activities that holistic reviews love.

People that want to take this away from us are short sighted and demonstrative of how the privileged have no idea what the impact their policies have on the people they ostensibly want to help.
Shakes cane in System 7
No they’re all (Alexa, apple, google) super old school and very verbose and transactional. You’d have to spell out every single action, and none of them work with a lot of different use cases. It’d be much easier just to do everything yourself without AI than trying to make the big brand AIs work :)
It's a challenge of one's programming ability. The more obscure the device, the more brownie points you earn.

Once upon a time, the question about the quality of a computer's PC-compatibility was "Will it run "Microsoft's Flight Simulator?" ".
Agreed. It's always possible that this is a "a stopped clock is right twice a day" situation—that by hopping on every bandwagon the hype artists eventually land on something that happens to work out—but in general I find it likely that this blows over to a degree.
Your body has certain nutritional expectations from eating food, and if you mess with it, your hunger will just go up. That's also why sugarless drinks don't help you - they only confuse your body even more and trick it into eating more.

The trick of not being obese is eating less.

One of options here is eating fewer times a day, but there's more than one option. Once you adjust you will have no problem eating less.
Deer in headlights mostly. But also diving in and trying out all the things!
Well, the sanctions are an attempt at denying China access to more powerful GPUs like the A100, so it seems the sanctions may actually accelerate research into running LLMs on lower performing HW.
Some people really love drawing 2d sprites pixel by pixel. Now people make 3d models to render down to 2d sprites.
Some people really love drawing textures. Now people use Substance to make them procedurally.
Some people really love doing polygon modeling for making characters for media. Now people do it with sculpting.
Some people really love and took pride in creating high quality meshes that animated well with clean topology. Now remesh and retopo tools can fix all of that after the fact.
Some people really love hand animating things like explosions and smoke. Now Houdini simulates all of it for you.

Every major efficiency advancement in any field is going to eliminate work that some people loved and trained for. Someone trying to do CG work for a game or movie based on the skillsets they loved and practiced 20 years ago is going to be doing something completely different if they want to be competitive today, and be buried if they don't. Does the OP lament the fact that the workflow he is a part of eliminated work that other artists would have done before them, and very likely spent as much time and love mastering as they did the 3d modeling?

I empathize with them - I've had former careers peter out like web design - but they should also recognize that they are beneficiaries of the same sort of change that is currently upsetting them. It sucks, but it is how progress has happened for a long time now.
Real time post shifting and mental gymnastics is truly a sight to behold. No the output isn't perfect and should be double checked (as with any professional domain - you think what an Engineer with decades of experience signs off hasn't been checked multiple times by multiple parties ?, you think a professional programmer writes code and..just deploys it ?)
but LLMs reason just fine. If you have anything to say about that other than the nonsensical - "it's not true understanding just because", i'd love to hear it.
> Wait a minute, do people have to be able to solve those problems to be considered intelligent in the AGI sense? My guess is there's about 8B people who wouldn't pass that bar.

Maybe 75+% of the "8B people" actually COULD "pass that bar" -- they just need to be a good high school and college math major. That's my judgment after teaching quite a lot of college math, at Indiana University and Ohio State University.

Sooo, my guess here, for an effort at some insight into current AI and progress toward AGI, is that commonly humans can read, study, understand, and work exercises in math and "pass that bar" and current AI can read, ..., that math but won't be able to go far enough to "pass that bar".

> Anyway what exactly is the bar for intelligence?

For an answer, and for AGI we are assuming the context of human intelligence, it would be good but for now too difficult to come up with necessary and sufficient conditions.

But a necessary condition would be for the AI to be able to do what humans do or, as you suggest, commonly could do with some study. So, I picked some work with some relatively clear ways to tell, pure math, that commonly humans can do, and we can tell they can do, with some study, and I'm guessing current AI cannot. So, if this is correct, then the current AI fails a necessary condition.

Then we have the question, is doing well at the math also a sufficient condition? I haven't been trying to address that question!!!

Or, maybe at some time in the past commonly people would have guessed, expected, claimed, some such, that playing a really good game of chess would be a sufficient condition! But now I'd expect that fewer people would so guess!!
I would love to see this become something that can be toggled as a setting in core. The only time it's useful is opening up a shell to debug. The rest of the time, it's just making it really hard to find missing prefetches or `.only()` and `.defer()` calls that are too limited. It's never a good feature for a production site running at any kind of scale.
Arms, ammunition, tanks?
If this is a trade war, it's not one of physical goods. I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison. Most software is just unnecessary.
German (as well as French) is mostly 1 : n. There is typically only one possible pronunciation for a written word (exceptions exist). But for a spoken word there can be several spellings. You need to learn which one is correct.

English is n:m, everything is possible and you just need to learn it.

Finnish is >99% 1:1. A native speaker can should be able to write each word correctly. In practice spelling errors do exist. Partly because in colloquial speach / dialects not all words are pronounced fully according to the rules. Partly because some people are just unable to apply the rules. Not being able to pronounce a written word seems mostly impossible.

However, foreigners should not think Finnish is easy for that reason. There are many sounds foreigners cannot pronounce correctly. And several pairs of sounds that foreigners' ears cannot distinguish.
It took a bit of back and forth before it understood I wanted it to not know. But the final answer made me slightly less worried about its ability to impersonate humans (for another few days of training, at least):

> Sure! As a human who doesn't know pi beyond two decimal points, I'm not sure of the exact value of pi, but I do know the commonly used approximation of pi as 3.14. However, if you're asking for the first 20 digits of pi beyond 3.14, I'm afraid I don't know that information as I don't have it memorized and don't have access to a reference material at the moment.
And it's eyebrow-raising even if you say it with the H.
My guess is Larry could just buy Canonical and turn it into a parking lot.

But maybe this is the long game -- Larry is hoping to trap IBM/Red Hat in a suit when they add ZFS to the kernel, but I'm not sure that's how copyright litigation works. If you forgo litigation for years and now decide to sue, I'm not sure you get to assert copyright now.
Ask HN: Are technical interviews changing in response to ChatGPT?
Do you have a (Professional) Pro Sound sales/hire store in your locale?

Are you able to demo/hire mic's?

Accessories you may require; Mic stand, Mic clip, Mic lead, Pop-guard/windscreen/windshield
I experimented with asking the models to rewrite text using odd and specific rules - “all sentences must start with the letter b and end with the letter d.”

It was pretty good, but sometimes it wouldn’t even try. It would spit out a sentence that could have been easily rewritten to start with b and end with d - but it just didn’t.

These sorts of hallucinations are a big problem is high stakes practice.
Thermo is a loan word that people hispanize as "termo" (the Spanish equivalent).
This is great. The world will change dramatically, and it is OK to be afraid of that and the unknowns, but the best approach is to take advantage of all the good things that are coming and do not spend too much time being sad about the things that are going away.
Heh, I figured this out quite by accident several years ago. I noticed that I tended to gain less weight when I cooled the rice in the fridge just after cooking it, instead of eating it straight from the pot. I couldn’t explain it.
> the initial resume screen

At least as things stood last year, Google does the resume screen after the interview, not before.
That's all great until you get hungry. What will you do next? Just die and respawn like Minecraft?
Ask HN: Am I crazy for doubting in having kids due to the impact of AI?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the impact that AI will have on our society in the future, and it's been causing me a lot of anxiety. I get nervous every time there's a new AI-related post or a new announcement/release here in HN.

I'm starting to consider not having kids. I don't want to bring a child into a world that could potentially be so unstable and unpredictable. I worry that the future will be too difficult for them to navigate, and that they will struggle to find their place in a society dominated by AI.

Am I crazy for thinking this way? I know that technology has always had an impact on society, and that we've always found a way to adapt. But AI seems different somehow. It feels like we're entering uncharted territory, and I'm not sure if we're ready for the changes that will come.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Do you share my concerns, or do you think that AI will ultimately have a positive impact on society? And if you have children, how do you think they will be affected by the rise of AI?
We are doing well then by abandoning SAT. Fruits soon to be ripped.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/26/1164832694/to-help-new-studen...
This is roughly how I’m starting to think about it. This may be doomsday or it may be an amazing opportunity. I don’t know. If it’s doomsday, it doesn’t matter whether I act as if it’s doomsday or if I look for opportunities. Either way I’m fucked. But if I act as if it’s doomsday, but it’s actually an opportunity, I’ll miss all the possible opportunities that come up. So I don’t see any downside in looking at this as an opportunity. I may as well.

And once I started to look at it that way, I started seeing all these potential ways to use AI to do what I do now, only better and more easily. So I’m going to keep looking for opportunities and going after them. If I’m going down, I’m going down swinging.
There is a distinction, but we already live like aristocracy. And aristocracing a bit more isn't going to change much in the social dynamic. "AI" isn't likely to be any more transformative than the the Haber process or the steam engine or the computer, as far as I can see. Some peoples' jobs will become redundant, same as always.
I've been using Amethyst for a few years now. It's not exactly a separate WM in terms of changing the window decorations, but it's more of a kind of an automation layer that works through the Accessibility access layer of MacOS. I've been relatively happy with it. The only bad thing is that because the Command key is used for so much in MacOS, it tends to need to be chorded with multiple modifier keys to ensure that there aren't keyboard shortcut clashes.

https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
> If you can't say anything about something,

That's the McNamara fallacy, and not what I meant. There is no exam, because you are not testing for specific output. You are testing for the existence of a process. If somebody goes to the effort of putting together an exam that successfully distinguishes, that exam and its expected answers will make their way into the training data, Goodhart's Law will be invoked, and the exam will stop distinguishing what it used to because the computer will have the answer sheet.

There is no exam that can test somebody's emotional state. That doesn't mean emotional states don't exist. If somebody looks sad, they're probably sad (or acting): but the polaroid camera is not sad, simply because it outputs a frowny face. The polaroid camera is not even acting.

> what kind of an answer is an indicator to you?

This will form part of the next model's training data, so I don't want to spell it out. Somebody with a good understanding of orbital mechanics and kinetics (as GPT purportedly has) who modelled the described scenario (as GPT purportedly does) would answer the question differently to someone who just looked at the question's words and performed slightly-more-sophisticated sentiment analysis.
> I haven't seen anyone paid to pump gas in my country for decades?

Meanwhile, I've seen people at gas stations pumping my gas for me in plenty of countries, especially in South America. Some places in South Europe do it too during rush hour and at really busy gas stations in metropolitan areas.
Joining a Board for Free
Hi I am a former Y-combinator graduate. I am looking to join a board for heath care or data modernization. I work for the Feds currenltly.

Rani
Did you read the article? It talks about over riding local bodies for the greater benefit the "nation".
Show HN: Quazilla – ChatGPT WhatsApp Coach
- Get positive emotional support
- Stay accountable with daily check-in reminders
- Friendly AI Godzilla at your service :)

https://www.joinsquad.co/quazilla
I don't think this is "terrifying" to 3D artists any more than github copilot is terrying to us haha, I'm not sure why we engineers have this tendency of imagining every other industry as being populated by superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools.

In my experience the vast majority of people are excited about GPT including artists.
People err on different sides of issues. Some people struggle to get things done, other people struggle with a kind of productivity obsession. How people on the opposite sides of that spectrum cope is obviously going to be quite different and unhelpful to their counterparts.

Like how some people talk to me in response to my attempts at losing weight. I don’t have body image issues or an eating disorder, i don’t need to kind of self confidence or gentle speech someone in that situation needs. I’m just slightly overweight because I had too many cheeseburgers in Covid times. Different problems need different solutions.
I'm personally not having kids, but not because of AI. I can relate to the anxiety and its impact on my life, my wife's, and those I love. Hang in there, are you seeing a therapist?
I agree; Django (and many ORMs) have taken the opinion that if you load N instances of a model, and then you load a related field on 1 of them, you likely only want the 1 related field. If however they assumed that loading a related field implies you likely want all related fields, perhaps there’d be fewer instances of foot-gunning.