skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> typically correct in a narrow sense and wrong in a broad sense

I'm not quite sure what people think as noone seems to be stating it explicitly, but getting the impression some commenters here have their own personal definition of Moore's Law. The actual law is narrowly defined: if you're looking to discuss things related to it "in a broad sense" cool, but that isn't what I was referring to above. I was referring to Moore's Law.

To be clear, Moore's Law is about processor manufacturing tolerances & states some pretty concrete predictions for rates of progress in the manufacturing process. It doesn't state anything related to compute (i.e what uses those processors can be put to), it's purely about the physical properties thereof.
We teach kids in the hopes they will be more able to verify truth or falsity when they can't do the hard work themselves.

This is why black boxes are deprecated in schooling, until the point comes when we believe the students understand enough to be able to verify truth or falsity, at which point we let them use black boxes so that they can learn more. But still, when they are using those black boxes to learn more, we're keeping them from using a black box of the "more". Again, in the hopes that they'll understand the "more" enough to be able to verify the truth or falsity of the results of that "more". Once they can do this, they've hopefully graduated, and are free to use a black box of the "more".

Use black boxes from the get-go and no one realizes that soylent green is people. Or that the Morlocks feed on the Eloi.
Just finished reading this insightful article, and it resonates with my recent experience backpacking through Chile. I've been amazed by the slower pace of life here, where people seem to prioritize relationships, leisure, and hobbies over chasing career goals and constantly striving for efficiency. It's refreshing to see communities that embrace the idea of enjoying the present moment rather than being fixated on a future that never really arrives.

As someone in the tech industry, it's easy to get caught up in the productivity treadmill, trying to maximize every moment of our finite lives. But this article is a stark reminder that there's more to life than just work and chasing success. Instead of focusing solely on efficiency, we should actively choose what truly matters to us, like personal connections, health, and happiness.

Chile has taught me that embracing a slower pace and appreciating the present can lead to a more fulfilling and content life. It's a lesson we can all benefit from, especially in our fast-paced, efficiency-obsessed world. Let's not forget that life is a series of choices, and it's up to us to prioritize what truly matters.
I don't think "templates" is a good descriptor to use here, since the number of required templates is beyond any reasonable number. Just taking 10,000 words, there are 10^40 possible ten-word sentences. A ridiculous percentage of those are nonsense, but even if that fraction is 0.000000000000000001%, that leaves 10^20 sentences to template for, which no modern computer can accommodate for.

I'm not sure what a better metaphor is; each thing I consider ends up defaulting back to what a ML model actually is, without really "metaphoring" at all. But not templates.
This is not text-only like text.npr.org but in the sense of not being stuffed with ads, autoplay videos and images

Ah. That explains why in Lynx all I see is a dozen instances of:

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Elon Musk's plan to charge $1k for Twitter checkmarks is 'outlandish'
I keep my own notebooks for my own notes. I don’t need to scribble all over a book and ruin it for the next reader.
An ancient Indian Buddhist monk buried in Athens
Toasting to following your Dreams – My Girlfriend's UX/UI design debut
I'm thrilled to share with you all a personal milestone in my life that I feel compelled to celebrate. My girlfriend, Julia, has been pursuing her dream of becoming a UX/UI designer for almost a year now while working in logistics, and today she has finally published her first project!

I can't express how proud I am of her for putting in the hard work to make her dream a reality. It's not easy to balance work and study (you know, sleepless nights to chase a dream), but she has done it with great determination.

Now that Julia has completed her first project, she's excited to take the next step in her journey and is actively searching for job opportunities in UX/UI design. If any of you have any leads or know of any open positions in this field, we would be immensely grateful for any advice or guidance you can offer.

I know some of you may think it's a small feat, but to us, it's a significant accomplishment worth toasting. As a community of innovators and dreamers, I hope we can all take inspiration from Julia's story and strive to follow our passions relentlessly.

Let's raise a glass to Julia and all the aspiring designers out there who are working hard to turn their dreams into reality. Cheers!

Her project published on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/166920067/TagPalette-UXUI-Design
HN is weirdly inconsistent about digital currencies. Generally pro encryption, net neutrality, open-source software, VPNs, etc. But mention "Bitcoin," and suddenly half the commenters lose their shit about the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse.

Then they go back to commiserating with another Ask HN startup founder whose PayPal account was frozen.
I received an Arduino Uno starter kit from my grandfather many many years ago on my birthday; it got me started coding before I even realized I was coding. I don't even think I was a teenager? Only years later when I took my first programming course at college, did I realize :)

Glad to see the original uno hardware updated -- I distinctly remember running out of flash memory, because I copied and pasted the blinking LED code hundreds and hundreds of times. I didn't know about for or while loops !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
Causes problems because of jealous creatures?

Sounds like a really bad work environment. I tend to stay away from those.
Pensioners are no longer productive (or at least, that's the goal), but are extremely relevant politically.
It's a hedge against currency debasement. And it hedged pretty well against that! From the moment M2 supply increased (Feb 2020) to the moment M2 began decreasing(jan 2022), bitcoin earned you almost 400%.
I am not going into the other direction though. I am not in any way saying the USSR or Chinese political system is or was desirable.

I explicitly gave the judicial branch as implemented in Western democratic societies as an example.

I'm no expert in Canadian politics, but to me it seems reasonable to assume that, just like in any other Western democratic society, the gov introducing wartime measures isn't what's day to day due process 99.9% of the time.

So you arguing based on extreme examples, which are at least partially out of context isn't really adding anything substantial to the discussion at hand I think.

How do miners hold as much power as big ass capitalists in a crypto world??

Look at the numbers for the distribution of crypto whales: https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-supply-distribution-r...

Look at basic economic theory: Those who hold access to the means of production will accrue capital steadily over time.

Always has been that way, always will be.

Whether you mine a currency and then spend, or a government mints a currency, distributes it to you and then you spend has no effect on the matter.
Is there any indication of whether the correlation was destroyed during the supervised finetuning or during the RLHF phase? Or are there even two phases any more?
I usually get a free bookmark with every book I buy, but soon misplace them. Bending pages is the one sin I allow myself without much guilt. The damage is very light anyway.
> For some reason, it seems the former USSR is highly prominent in compression algorithms.

I’d take a wild guess that it has to do with making more with having less, such as access to larger storage volumes or broadband.

Specific to compression, when you’re “tech poor”, the time you spend waiting for data to get processed is essentially free.
Of course not, their protected place comes with conditions like giving estimates (and being held to them).

And their disciplines involve massive capital outlays which can’t be refactored in a cost effective way, or at all really.

Not defending the ‘no estimate ever’ approach, it doesn’t work. They are different though.
Category 3: Anything that isn't disposable or a tool. Most stuff can be of value to others once you are done using it. I treat all my stuff with care, because some day I might want to sell it, or give it away to someone. Whether it's a book, electronics, kitchenware, or furniture doesn't really matter; The value of the item (in money or in usefulness to the recipient) will always be higher the better condition something is in. You also are less likely to have to buy replacement items if you are careful with them in the first place. I agree in that you shouldn't treat everything like porcelain, but there is definitely value in treating your things with care.
Money will come pouring into bonds? Trying to understand the reasoning for buying bonds.
What makes you think data like this is readily available and of sufficient quality to provide nontrivial insights ? Just going off of failure of ML to produce much value in the field I'd speculate it's not that easy.

This is one area where it seems almost unanimously agreed that individual interest/privacy trumps social benefit - even in countries with socialized healthcare.
I had a Sidekick, and it had a semi-reasonable browser. But clearly, the iPhone was much better.
Some things are heavily optimized to promote their ecosystem, I agree. But it's Apple software so it's expected they want you to use their ecosystem.

But they always provide an escape hatch. Yes random binaries are harder to run, but that's for the security of 90% of all mac users. The last 10% still have ways to run it anyway, it might be a few clicks more yes.

Overall I think it's still a very developer friendly operating system when you compare it with the competition, Windows. Which is spamming you with ads, also many Windows Defender warnings, random binary removals or refusing to execute them even when you allow it.
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT plugins use prompt chaining or a toolformer-like approach?
AFAICT, there is no authoritative information from OpenAI on how ChatGPT plugins work (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, is there any interesting external analysis on how it could be working under the hood?

I am aware of two approaches to building something like this: Either through a REPL-like prompt chaining approach (like langchain), or a toolformer-like approach where tool use becomes a trainable choice. Any sources/speculations on which it could be (or something else)? What do you all think? Thanks.
The concentration camps came later.

First, Hitler rose to power by appealing to workers (despite actually being pro business). He broke the law and was put on trial, but this only caused his support to increase.

On the basis of his celebrity he was able to raise money and win election to government. He went on to use the Reichstag fire as a pretext for taking over the government he was ostensibly there to serve.

So it’s intellectually fine to draw parallels between Nazi Germany and the extreme right in the US because those parallels really do exist.

It’s the diminution of these parallels that I find disturbing. Such as the use of a divisive political symbol in a technical article.
I guess I was assuming "efficiency" because if it's not effective, why would anyone use it?
Why is it always "humans" in those articles? A more accurate title would be "what has that specific group of Silicon Valley capitalists and technologists just unleashed?"

The majority of humans neither wanted this nor were involved in developing it.
Another great site from back in the day is the GUIdebook Gallery: https://guidebookgallery.org/guis
We have teletext in Spain too, (several of them) but as a "Computer" alternative I use EFE's (state news agency) RSS under sfeed+uxterm with the Unifont font.

Pretty close to our different Teletext services.
We have data. Several Bradleys were hit during the Iraq wars by weapons similar to what near-peer adversaries use. Some shots penetrated, others did not. Overall, it held up about as well as can reasonably be expected. It's simply not physically possible to build an IFV that can stand up to modern guided weapons, and so the Army accepts that risk in order to accomplish their mission.
What a childish argument
"I" belongs in LLMs because "I" shows up in the training set. Plenty of text is written from the first person perspective, and for auto-complete tasks, the first person is useful

Eg. You task the ai with rewriting a letter for you. The resulting text will include plenty of "I"s, and it should.
Hadn't seen Windows 11, it looks like a somewhat tidier KDE, going full circle there.
> you just want to code without any repercussions

Am I reading this right? You — a manager — just want to be able to assign blame for your own failings to the developers under your command?

And then fire them, like sacrificial lambs?
You're moving the goalposts.

Your first comment:

> and does not have builtin functionality to export notes (e.g. a menu option to do so)

That's incorrect: you can export to PDF. Certainly not as handy as Markdown, but it's there.

Additionally, Apple offers AppleScript as a way to do even more.

No, this isn't an open source piece of software. If that's your sole criteria for "good" then you're right, it's bad.
> they wanted the estimate to include that time I would need to dig into it

Yeah that ain't gonna fly with me.
how can startups absorb all this talent when their fates are hanging by an even thinner thread than bigtech?

and how do React devs help a battery startup make better batteries?
Thank God somebody said this. When I was working as an IC, I would be very communicative, highlight the unknowns, and get buy-in from my boss. If a surprise came up, I would make sure everyone knew the game had changed.

As a manager now, I get scoffed at if I even hint at a deadline. Excuse me what? We have a limited budget, a limited runway, and we need to prioritize which product bets we are going to make. This seems entirely logical, but a lot of devs I work with now find it impossible. They just enjoy tinkering away with whatever thing interests them, and delivering value only means what they personally find valuable.

Personally, I find it a bit pathetic and childish. I say this as a long time software engineer who knows perfectly well how this business works.
Well stochastic processes are a much wider category than mere algebraic operations applied on group theory that losseles data compression use.

I'd think that calculus or functional theory or category theory can find more bijections towards statistics or even congruences than mere arithmetics or algebra ever will. Ok, you can explain or derive any mathematics construct using only algebra, and there were efforts to do so, but does it makes sense?
Are these authors aware of the contents of the training set? My understanding is that they are not. If not, how can they know that the model is not being tested on the training set?

In the paper they say that they came up with a "MELD" algorithm to try to detect testing on the training set, but in my view it has the wrong properties to answer this question (from the paper, it has “high precision but unknown recall”).

I don't at all doubt that a language model could perform exceedingly well at this task, but I think that the way to make this paper into a valuable scientific work would be to present the model with questions that had not yet been written as of the end of its training time.
Reminded of this Wikipedia entry:

Greco-Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
That's why managing those insured deposits is automated.
Inflation has a made it that FAANG salaries aren’t really excessive, just slightly better than middle class. Salaries are really just messed up related to costs ATM.

We need to get a handle on inflation and the housing bubble first before we can figure out what reasonable salaries are again, and that’s going to hurt all around.
Incredibly informative & accurate picture of one of the most exciting developments we're up to. Many thanks for sharing. Really loved the technical sidebars.
It's 10 mins since you posted this. And now this comment is the top result on Google search.
Seems it was fine with instruction fine-tuning. Then gone with the RLHF.
> It gets basic facts wrong and often times misunderstands what I'm trying to ask it.

In haven’t tried Bard, but I’ve tried ChatGPT extensively and this sounds like a very good description of it.
Complete ignorance, byzantine fault tolerance is a great addition to society. No need to rely on intermediaries for trusted communication. This is not limited to financial transactions. Clear benefits to society are: oppression resistant voting systems, decentralized energy grid (solar power redistributed), reliable property rights (for under-developed / corrupt countries), transparent supply chain management (avoid counterfeits, traceability of sources, theft…etc)
Tor relies on the IPv4 scarcity to make Sybil attacks more expensive but is slowly moving away from it e.g. the number of allowed relays per IP was recently doubled from 2 to 4 and it may get doubled in the near future again.

>Roger Dingledine does claim to "personally have met" 2/3rds of them

Hey said that he knew 2/3 in the beginning so 10 years+ ago and that it's no longer the case but he would like to increase the number of relay operator he or others of the Tor Project knows again. There are in person relay operator meetups at conferences (e.g Chaos Communication Congress) and I assume that he met most of the people at such occasions. I'm not sure why this should be terrifying.

>whitelist model (which is how Tor manages their high-risk exit nodes)

I'm not sure if this ever was the case but exit nodes aren't threatened specially than other relays and there is no whitelist model for them.
What are you using for a Gemini client? Lynx handles Gopher URLs, so I presumed it would be OK with Gemini, but no luck.

Any suggestions?
> miners hold as much power as developers to create a balance

I have no horse in this conversation about government, but I think it's important to note that neither developers nor miners hold any direct power in creating a balance on a properly decentralized blockchain. Their only power is insofar as they are able to convince users to collectively change their node software to introduce code that creates such a balance. A chain's developers are generally in a much better position to convince users of that than its miners (or stakers) are.
let's just simplify this so the next few years aren't too hard to figure out

why are tech companies laying people off?

because they can
Imho the 2008-2012 unibody mbp was peak mac design, before they began compromising things in their quest for thinness.
I think you meant for 2, "Things meant to be used up." You use the things in category 1, too.

For me, category one includes all of my books. Category two consists almost entirely of food, cleaning and hygiene products, and most bedding and underwear.

I got most of my books after they had been purchased and probably read, I don't know why I should assume I was the end of the line. [edit: I mean, I have books and things that I know have had multiple owners; I've got books from Bell Labs' library that were lent out a few dozen times and touched by many more hands. Why should I scribble in them and treat them like shit again? Instead of treating them like shit, I'd rather just destroy them in a careful scanning process.]

> Who do you respect more, the mechanic with a toolbox full of pristine tools without a single scratch, or the one with a box full of battered, dinged-up tools?

If by "respect" you mean would rather hire, I'd rather hire the third guy with the well-used, very well-taken care of tools. Why would I hire a slob that isn't maintaining their equipment?
Clinical pharmacist for 10 years here. Yea, base model is very good. Better than first year residents - but not necessarily experienced clinicians.

Now - throw a punch of clinical guidelines in a vector database and give it context and it’s 10x better than me and any doctor outside their speciality or all the mid-levels. (I.E, it’s better than cardiologist doing infectious disease - but not cardiologists doing cardiology). This because there are very niche stuff as you specialize where it’s only like 5 doctors who see it in the whole world on a consistent basis (and they don’t blog!)

I trained it on the IDSA guidelines (infectious disease) and put up a proof of concept on GalenAI.co - just as way to start talking to health systems and clinicians. it’s going to be very different world in medicine in a couple of years from now!!
I don't actually care about getting some data dump out of Notes. I use it as a way to quickly store temporary information. Any note older than a month is most likely useless. The most important feature is that it effortlessly syncs between my phone, work laptop, and home laptop. And that it does. Unlike a bunch of markdown files on disk where you have to create some janky syncing setup yourself which has no conflict resolution system.
Some games just add an update pak that overloads the changed files, not changing the original pak file. So the installation size of such games might grow a lot on updates, wasting a lot of space by keeping the old files, but the files are immutable at least and rollbacks of updates are theoretically possible.
Didn't Cuba do that, without the US annexing Cuba for it?
That's the problem with many hyped assets: they're only profitable in the short term if you buy in before the pump, and sell before the dump.

I still believe Ethereum is poised for a fair amount of growth in the long-term, though likely nothing near the rise it's enjoyed in it's last run. I say that only because it's an on-ramp to so many other cryptocurrencies.
This, just like many other takes, confirms that there will be a short term boom in applying AI to everything. If you are in your 30s or 40s and surf this wave correctly, this may very well be the last job you will ever do.
So my plan is to learn how to plug GPT to excel, databases etc and provide AI for the smaller companies that can’t integrate AI like Salesforce and big companies like Azure Professional Services will not find them profitable enough to deal with.
Kind of. Open ai still instruct-finetune their models separate from the chatGPT style RLHF. The instruct tuning itself seems to only improve the raw model.
Well China has produced half of the steel in the world and half of the finished steel products for many years. I can't think of a rational reason to believe that all that steel is constantly snapping "like twigs."

https://worldsteel.org/steel-topics/statistics/world-steel-i...
In the town of Reading in the UK there was at least one ‘Reading Book Shop’ to ensure it made sense in either of the possible common pronunciations
There's a spectrum here.

At one end of the spectrum is a thought experiment: one person has box with a button. Press the button and with probability 3/4 everyone dies, but with probability 1/4 everyone is granted huge benefits --- immortality etc. I say it's immoral for one person to make that decision on their own, without consulting anyone else. People deserve a say over their future; that's one reason we don't like dictatorships.

At the other end are people's normal actions that could have far-reaching consequences but almost certainly won't. At this end of the spectrum you're not restricting people's agency to a significant degree.

Arguing that because the spectrum exists and it's hard to formalize a cutoff point, we shouldn't try, is a form of the continuum fallacy.