skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People brainwashed into supporting Russia do not deny the scale of devastation and human tragedy. They just attribute it to the Ukrainian military.

So I completely disagree here, because it's not an either or. You're right that people brainwashed into supporting Russia will, in certain circumstances, accept that the destruction is real but attribute it to Ukraine. And I completely agree with your pessimism.

But the logic of propaganda, and of a brain consumed by propaganda, is a hall of mirrors full of contradictions. Where convenient, and where possible, the scale of destruction will be denied, and where it can't be denied, it will be explained away.

Propaganda can't be defeated by disputing individual one-off statements, the totality of the system of propaganda has to be shown to be so full of contradictions that it takes more effort to sustain than it does to accept the truth.
Did you consider evaluating or researching their claims? From your comment, it suggests you're rejecting information that doesn't align with your preconceived notions.

This is a common bias we all suffer from. But we should be aware of it and try to work against it at times, especially when the consequence is dissolving friendships.
Would being the pet of an AI-run civilisation be so bad though? Iain M Banks's Culture novels explore basically this concept, and his vision of utopia is quite appealing.
> will it work in 10 years[0] even if it uses some API that in the meanwhile Apple decided to change or it'll break?

Is 10 binary or decimal? Do you mean 2 years, or actually 10 years in base-10?
By now, everyone has heard the explanation that ChatGPT is a transformer encoder-decoder that responds to prompts by iteratively predicting the first word in the response, then the second word, and so on...

What we need now is explanation of all the further stuff added to that basic capability.
It’s not a just war, it’s a Russian imperialistic aggression, but let’s not pretend that there weren’t so many enablers and provocateurs on the NATO/US side. Minsk agreements were basically abandoned from the start and no one enforced them, EU ignored Crimea annexation and continued pumping billions of dollars into Russia (you can see these billions now in form of rockets and bombs in Ukraine), NATO has been expanding to the East and antagonising paranoid Russia.
See my other comment for footage from Marinka. Marinka is an eastern suburb of Donetsk City.

Avdiivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Vuhledar, ... all the famous names of the current phase of the war look about the same, since they received about the same level of artillery pressure (kilotons, but of conventional explosives).
I think this talk goes into really good clear detail about how it all works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM

but actually the best content that goes into a little bit more technical depth that I've found is this series by Hedu AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMa2PmYJlCo&list=PL86uXYUJ79...
That's why Italians don't to this directly. We go to an "autoscuola" (driving school) which not only teaches us how to drive, but also handles the bureaucracy for us. They book the exams and stuff.

If you own a car in Italy, you have to locate the nearest autoscuola/ufficio pratiche auto (literally "car bureaucracy office") and get in friendly terms with them. They do all sort of car-related stuff for relatively small fees (the only one I remember is the 1€ fee for paying the car tax).
"Counting", for these purposes, doesn't mean determining how many there are; it means going through them, or a subset of them, in some defined order.
Humans miss things all the time. It's okay to make mistakes.
There is also a language factor here. 100 years ago, English was not the ‘lingua franca’ of the world, traveling in Europe you were better off with French, German or even Latin.

US marketing currently happen to be understood almost everywhere and native speakers of English have an advantage. A company does not necessarily need to execute better, but through effective communication they may be able to pretend they are.

There are lot of examples of ideas being picked up and reimplemented in the US, where the original was better but where the adaptation got better traction. The film industry is full of it.

Why should ingenuity not be evenly spread around the globe as well as hopes for a better future? The US represents one particular policy for wealth distribution that happen to work well for, in particular, VCs.
Tracking time was too much hassle for me. If it takes less than 4 hours, I bill half a day, otherwise I bill a full day.
A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (2002)
Could there potentially be more applications to this approach in terms of game anticheat measures, where you boot into a unified "tournament image" which is a minimal OS that only runs the game itself for competitive sessions, as an alternative to installing intrusive kernel anticheats?
The war will also continue until the Russians win, since they have already formally annexed a few regions, and the Crimea is strategically and historically important.

So if I had to guess, the war ends when the US president changes and they no longer want to support the ongoing conflict, and a demilitarized border is created between Ukraine and the lost regions.
> That school teacher staying late at a parent conference. Take my money.

Oof, I would be carefull eith that, it could be interpreted as a bribe and get you in trouble
As someone that's lived in Japan for 5 years, I'm surprised to see that Japan is second to last. The article mentions that "70% find it hard to learn" Japanese, which is a completely reasonable complaint, and I can understand why it motivates people to leave. But anecdotally at least, I've had a great experience living here. Many of the civil servants in Tokyo speak English, which makes getting settled pretty easy, and a lot of services have English speaking staff.
I don't get how that changes anything.

You still need to go through the memory mappings every time, which is also randomised thanks to ASLR.
you say obviously doesn't. These language models do indeed work by computing a distribution over all possible next words given the previous words using transformers, and it seems using enough training data and compute gives you the results we see. Everyone I know is completely surprised that it works so well by just adding more data and compute (and probably lots of training tricks)..
As opposed to manually trawling through thousands of documents, based on a keyword that may, or may not, appear in the context of the case file?

It's a huge boon, but nothing is perfect. If it's that important that absolutely nothing is missed, maybe try multiple approaches concurrently. Take this as a value add, not a replacement.
Text and Patterns: For Effective Chain of Thought, It Takes Two to Tango
The overhead of managing content restrictions on families devices is a very good point. I'll be reaching this stage soon and I'm not looking forward to this additional task.

I also think state sponsored content moderation should be used to restrict access to harmful online media as opposed to lumbering this task on individuals. As you've mentioned, some parents need this enforced upon them.

If we were talking about vaping, which is still highly unregulated and available for children to buy, I'm sure the majority would be in agreement about age restrictions. The fact that we're talking about preventing psychological addiction and trauma makes it harder for people to agree on the harmful effects of this type of content. It's simply not as visible as the huge plumes of oil-steam breathed out by every 12 year old in a bus stop these days.

However, I don't agree with the implementation of content moderation proposed by Utah state. It's totally unworkable and poorly thought through.
Los Angeles is not "outside of the US". Besides, less than 20% of that trip is in USA airspace. Slow down when you hit North Dakota...

https://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper.htm...
I agree with the loss of understanding being a bad thing, but I cannot mourn the loss of creativity.

Programming is a core part of our society and infrastructure, yet it's still one like a craft rather than engineering. Creativity should not be part of infrastructure efforts on a level beyond embellishments and experiments.
> that brains are fundamentally survival machines, and agnostic to truth.

It isn't true that brains are agnostic to the truth. Having an accurate model of the bits of reality you'll encounter is quite important for survival (a superstitious tribesperson won't believe that they can throw fireballs at incoming lions).

> Knowing, or behaving-as-if-knowing a "truth" when that "truth" is being negatively selected for, leads to a disadvantage, leads to no one actively speaking up for it, leads to only ever hearing the "pro" side.

Something we are sadly finding out for ourselves these days... with professors being removed from their positions for giving a platform to other academics with unpopular views: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/resignation.html?m=1
Didn't Alpaca attempt to explain and test the "secret sauce"? The RL fine tuning?
“Super fast”… it’s Electron
1. An accident they first blamed on Russia (false flag), then denied, now continue to deny. Notably, they haven't apologized. They haven't helped the families. They don't care. Friendly fire on civilians in NATO countries? They can't even own up to it.

2. Ukraine claimed the Snake Island soldiers were killed in action, when in reality none were.

3. Ukraine supported, magnified and repeated the lie. The official Ukraine Twitter account magnified the false claim, repeatedly.

All three of those things are clear propaganda.
Thinking About AI
I think it is likely the complete opposite of trouble. It helped them write their comment faster and in such a way that it was easy to understand. This is one of the best use cases for chatgpt. Rather than spend minutes trying to get the right wording, tell chatgpt what you want to say in a few short notes and get a well formed coherent text.

Now if this is a good thing, that’s up for debate - although overall I personally would say yes.

Written with zero chatgpt assistance
To win innovation race you have to spend top dollar on top talent. It also has tons of risk in case innovation fails - and innovators fail often.

Building moat works when you can have large amounts of average employees and business you are in is proven.

Yes we need innovation, but if I look at what was going on with crypto/nft, I would say that was not worth much.

Besides if someone thinks that innovation is the only hard thing to do - sustainably running company with more than 50 employees for decades is already really hard thing.
Making art of any form is about you, not about the art. When you learn to paint well you are creating you, the piece is just a side effect. Getting good at something affects the way you see the world. It creates meaning in you.

The one sided focus on the finished piece is the outcome of our culture valuing the art more than the creation of the artist. (The creation of you, not your creation.)
Ever played some civilization (the game)? A mostly military focussed society can force others into unfavorable agreements, but while doing so other areas of society are lacking, amounting to huge problems later on when

a) blackmailing for some reason stops working

b) non-military related businesses are vanishing

c) increasing %share of your population has a degrading life quality

d) military costs become unsustainable for questionable ROI

… doubling down on military is a death spiral, especially when the funding money comes from slashing public services.
Bugs should be fixed indeed but using anything but UTC on a server is swimming against the tide. Bugs get fixed in old software over the time but new software written every day without consideration that time can jump around. And even old software from time to time is being rewritten in new languages with old knowledge / workarounds thrown away with bathwater (old code). So I don't believe we will run out of bugs related to DST switch anytime soon.
Right, it's a three dimensional object projected onto a two dimensional surface and your knowledge about it, from looking into the mirror, is merely superficial. What's to say our world isn't a five dimensional space projected onto four dimensions? What can language say about anything, everything, and the universe when great amounts of it is hidden from us?
If it were non-negotiable you wouldn't have compulsory conscription.
I see this argument a lot, oftentimes when people are trying to justify Chinese or Russian geopolitics. It’s something like “The US has done so many bad things. ____ is just doing the same thing.” Do you need someone to explain why comparisons like that are effectively useless?

It’s so dishonest and cheap I’m surprised to see it on HN and not on Reddit where it belongs, but here we are.
If this were the only argument, I would agree with you. However, there’s other arguments, many of which are quite general in nature.
The artillery war is in the eastern parts of the country.

For the major cities like the ones in the link, I think more damage was done by Russia striking with cruise rockets and/or air-dropped bombs like FAB-250 or FAB-500. At least for a moment while Russia had air superiority they dropped bombs like this on Mykolaiv.

It's very easy to attribute the rocket strikes against the civilians (example: the horrible one in Dnipro[1]) to Russia, as they don't really try to cover up anything.[2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_residential_buildi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_stri...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenchuk_shopping_mall_attac...
Of course Ukraine is mostly using artillery against it's own cities occupied by Russia, as it's fighting on home territory.

I assume the top poster meant the cruise missile bombing campaigns against western cities like Lyiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, etc.
It's never about the kids protection/rights. Kids don't vote, parents do. Nearly every proposed law marketed as protecting kids is actually about increasing parent or state control over kids.
So many fascinating facts about this! Did you know this had used gyroscopes to calculate the position and orientation of the spacecraft in orbit. It was designed to operate in the harsh environment of space, where temperatures could range from -100 to +150 degrees Celsius. And the thing only weighed 10kg! And super duper reliable I believe it had a mean time between failures of about 10,000 hours. Old yet still so impressive! Thanks for this!
> Sure, if you aren't in these groups you have the luxury of completely freaking ignoring it.

Of course! This is such a strange point to make in my opinion, I assure you even though you are a bisexual you are ignoring all kinds of things that don't affect you directly as you are only human. :)

It is a big complicated world filled with problems, everything can't possibly be equally urgent in equal proportions to every single person. If anything it is a good way to drive yourself into a depression and in-action, what good is impotent emoting really?
And note that just because there are pro Ukrainian lies does not mean the Ukrainian and Russian governments and media mouthpieces lie the same amount! I personally do not have the data to make an informed assessment, but I would be unsurprised if the Ukrainian side lies less than half as much as the Russian one.
I don't know your economy but 250€ to send me a PDF to my mailbox with all the material and not a face-to-face course for me is a ripoff (they started to get this advantage with the COVID pandemic). Autoscuolas are a ripoff, is a business mounted on a bureaucratic fault. Why do I need to pay someone else for the right to drive a vehicle when in fact I already know how to do it? I do understand that if I want to get things smoothly I have to do it this way, but this is not the root of the issue.

Edit: some corrections.
Very sad.

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
"Europe is irrelevant" is such a weird take for a country built by Europeans, populated by Europeans, using European legal system, European language, etc etc.
Same applies to now trying to remake Java and .NET application servers with Kubernetes and WASM containers.

I rather have to deal with WebSphere 6.1 yet again, than a poorer replication of its developer experience with lesser tooling.
Its nice to see compromise actually work amongst coalition parties competing amongst like 7 other parties with representation.

Even though that is not possible in the US, I think there is room for inspiration from a working system which can reach consensus. If there was more knowledge of that, plenty of people and representatives in the US would say "huh, that's actually a good idea". Worker board representation so to have influence on decisions that affect workers, not just the trendiest companies giving some shares out willy nilly.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Or native Apps without 200 GB chrome browser bloat.
"it was part of the school curriculum until the age of 14 that everyone had to some coding"

Not when I was at school in the 80s it wasn't. We had some school computers (PETs, RM 380Z), but one had to be proactive to use them. They were not used as part of any syllabus. I recall there was a computing option available, but it was useless, and AFAIK did not include coding.

Possibly post 1984 when the school got a bunch of Beebs, it may have been added, but by then I was past the leaving age (15/16 at the time), and in the 6th form.

Anyway, the joys of 6502 assembly, Z80 / 8080 assembly, and using CP/M.

An even earlier machine which hasn't been mentioned yet was the UK101, I got a second hand one of those in the early 80s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK101
As he was quick to let us know, he is Singaporean and TikTok is a “global” company.

Obviously that’s nonsense and he’s most certainly in the pocket of the CCP, but it is fascinating seeing the deceit in real time.
> There are terminal servers, for example, which are basically workstations.

For a terminal server it is not uncommon when different users connect from places with different time zones. It would make sense to have TZ in a user profile but keep UTC as a server system locale.
They lied about bombing civilians in Poland, and continue to deny they are responsible in 2023. Of course, this was after they blamed Russia.
I am not familiar enough to understand what information you are trying to convey using that term. Can you confirm that IQ is a social construct in exactly the same way all other things I listed are social constructs?
If you don't already grok all the legal jargon, the LLM is probably better than a keyword search.

I'm not a lawyer, so when I search British copyright law, I wonder why those forms of words don't result in the staff of search engines and social media sites being arrested and imprisoned:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intellectual-prop...

Although, probably best to ask a lawyer for legal advice even if they end up using GPT-n themselves; they've probably got public liability insurance if they get something wrong.
Tried Milvus first and never really got it off the ground. Ended up with Qdrant for its simplicity.
Just wondering, are you aware of a pretty big brand of menstrual products that goes by the same name?
Luckily, it did not happen to me. I manage the "timezone" by default.

For anyone interested, I manage around 20+ Proxmox machines with these Ansible roles:

https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-debian

Example playbook:

https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-playbooks-example/blob/mas...
I see no comments stating that Ukraine is bombing its own cities to make Russia look bad. I think you're making stuff up.
No. It's that the job to be done is to sell product.

Not build a handcrafted website. Not build a beautiful website.

Provide something that markets and sells something to customers.

And with that perspective, the client really does know better.

The web is ephemeral. Will it even still exist in twenty five years after AI provides all the answers and connections (all we use the web for anyway)?
That's a disingenuous argument, you know perfectly well that they weren't referring to cities on the frontline under Russian control. Rather they were referring to cities like Kyiv or Lviv who also get bombed despite not being anywhere near the frontlines.
I'm not an AI skeptic (this stuff will change the world), but I'm not as impressed as the author.

The primary problem, which seems common to LLMs asked to do this stuff, is "very high level output" - a content smoothie, with few features that are particularly specific to the prompt. The marketing campaign in the OP is so generic, you can `s/Saturn Parable/Any other educational product` and it's still "fine". Similarly the emails - there are 1 to 2 sentences that are product specific, and a bunch of fluff. If I paid a marketing agency for this, I'd be very disappointed.

The LLM isn't demonstrating much more than "Generic templating ability over a large range of templates" in this instance. Whilst that's probably 50% of the jobs in the world, such jobs were already at risk of someone searching for "Basic X template" and expanding the placeholders themselves. I think I could do a similar job in 30 minutes by doing exactly that.

LLM's main wins seem to be providing a single unified entry point to all the templates in the universe. It's a "Universal UI", rather than a "Content creator". I guess I shouldn't discount the value of such a thing, once we get the "Sometimes it just lies" problem under control.

The most interesting immediate thing here is the image generation - that's pretty good, and a big saving over scraping through stock images. I suspect the demise of stock image providers to be the first palpable win for generative AIs, if the copyright question doesn't bog this whole field down.
The steps and issues you have described are IDENTICAL in the United Kingdom, FYI
It really isn't neccessary. Following current events over the course of decades would tell you all that is needed. No need to "research" obvious lies.
If I can respond to Wittgenstein here:

> he compares this limitation to the way that an eye necessarily can't see itself

On the contrary, language is both perception and action. And it is also a self replicator: language -> model or brain -> language. I think that's why LLMs are so great - they rely on this medium that is both receptive and emissive, unlike other modalities.
I found these 2:

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser
https://youtu.be/yaonVYOTSsk

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - The Chat After the Film
https://youtu.be/l4I2ktcWdJM
I suspect this comment won't age well.
I.don't know why some people may think they should not care, but I'd say it's somehow dangerous not to. This war is already pretty consequential, and will become even more so, even for people far away.
I'd advise not minimising those interactions. Just avoid this particular topic.

Then when things are a bit less heated you can show them an alternative point of view.
I can't remember exactly, but it would've been a plain English description of what I wanted it to look like, and asking it for CSS to do that.
Since Azure became the most relevant platform for Microsoft business, DevDiv now under Azure organigram, has turned into a polyglot unit, not only about .NET and C++, rather anything that can bring developers into Azure.

Who would imagine that 20 years later, Microsoft would become yet again a Java vendor, with their own OpenJDK based distribution and upstream contributions to ARM JIT, and escape analysis improvements?