skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?

How about this one: Humans experience time. Humans have agency. Humans can use both in their reply.

If I blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, I feel a lot like a GTP. But I can also choose to pause and think about my response. If I do I might say something different, something hard to quantify but which would be more “intelligent”. That is the biggest difference to me; it seems that GTP can only do the first response. (what Kahneman calls System I vs System II thinking.) But there’s more - I can choose to ask clarifying questions or gather more information before I respond (ChatGTP with plugins is getting closer to that tho). I can choose to say “I don’t know”. I can choose to wait and let the question percolate in my mind as I experience time and other inputs. I can choose to not even respond at all.

In its current form GTP cannot do those things. Does it need some level or simulation of agency and experience of time to do so? I don’t know
That's great and all but it still has no concept of reality, just words and their correlation to other words
The original brought us the same question, whether we are human, perhaps it just had to lay more groundwork in making the machines seem human. The origami unicorn.
What did USA gain from joining the allies in Europe during WW1 and WW2? Besides the moral and humanitarian reasons, which I actually believe played a big role even though I'm not American and I know it's easy to be cynical online and disregard those, they also gained a larger market for their products. US hegemony has benefitted the US for decades. Same thing applies now, the more countries that are friendly and politically aligned the better. And NATO isn't just the US, the Baltic airspace is currently being protected by Portugal and Romania.
Just try to talk with it about math. You'll quickly see that it's as if you talked to a person who doesn't understand anything about math. Just read some books about it and attempts to mimic their style to appear to be smart and knowledgable.
In all fairness, Docker never worked with the community at all. At times it looked like they almost got their own community going, but it was never a priority to them.

They were always in a race to reinvent everything the Docker way. Which is, sort of, what you need to do if you want to become an enterprise software company, if that's where you think the money is. It's pretty much exactly in the footsteps of VMware. But to make that work, they would have had to work much closer to Windows, which probably was even harder than the Linux community.

Docker couldn't have existed without VC money. Free hosting was what made them hugely popular. Docker was a VC productization of containers.
I do agree though that the battle didn’t need to happen. Russia could’ve just not attacked Ukraine.
But what does it mean to “know” something?

And when something gives the increasingly-accurate illusion of knowing, I fail to see how it matters (with regard to impact on society and overall utility).

I’m not saying GPT-4 is this amazingly accurate, near perfect model. But if you extend the timeline a bit, it’ll be able to become more and more accurate across a broader range of domains.

Furthermore, how can we prove a human “knows” something?
I'm sure if you use a system message to pretend to be human and then ask for pi to 100 digits it will tell you it doesn't know them.
None of us know how this is going to play out. I feel anxious too but let’s at least see what happens. Right now the world is still much the same as it was before LLMs arrived. Take some time to look at the flowers. They are still there.
I think the author of "The wet bird", Gilles Tran, is one of the very few artists who were adept with both the more graphical, modeler-based workflow and the fully programmable code-based interface of the POV-Ray renderer, very successfully combining the best of both worlds (see eg. [1][2][3]). Unlike most POV users, Tran liberally used commercial tools like Poser, Terragen, as well as third-party models.

Programmatically composing mathematical primitives does only get you so far if your goal is to create art relatable to humans. For abstracts, surrealism, and "mathematical art" plain POV-Ray is great, as well as for many natural forms exhibiting some degree of fractalness, but for animals, humans, and many manmade things a mesh-based modeler – or at least the use of third-party meshes – is essentially a requirement.

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Due to the end of Moore's Law, POV-Ray these days is not tremendously faster than what it was on late-00s hardware. It does fully support multicore, so there's that (and raytracing is famously an "embarrassingly parallel" problem). Modern SIMD could also bring a 2x to 4x performance boost; I'm not sure how vectorized/autovectorizable the current POV-Ray code is. If the shader language could be JITted, that might bring a nice benefit as well.

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[1] http://www.oyonale.com/image.php?code=590

[2] http://www.oyonale.com/image.php?code=737

[3] http://www.oyonale.com/image.php?code=17
Dalai Lama names Mongolian boy as new Buddhist spiritual leader
Why were blue jeans and Michael Jackson cassettes highly coveted then?
"F-35 is bad" is just an internet meme with little to support it.
Coming to the wrong conclusion doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking through the problem.
Could you explain what does "boomer" means here?
I think I understand "Ok, boomer" in general but can not extrapolate this understanding to security talk.
That's a good way to spend $6000
>Then this implies that you’d maybe think differently if LLMs could have different inputs, correct?

Yes, ultimately it does imply that. Probably not the current iteration of the technology, but I believe that there will one day be AIs that will close the loop so to speak.

It will require interacting with the world not just because someone gave them a command and a limited set of inputs, but because they decide to take action based on their own experience and goals.
There's an entire world of stores that sell "expired," discontinued, and massively discounted stuff. It's the stage after things have made their way through the Walmarts and Dollar Generals of the world.

edit: DavidPeiffer correctly notes the air quotes. Packaging uses all kinds of phrasing to indicate when the manufacturer moves all responsibility to the store and the consumer.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m one of the founders. It’s Nextjs on Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for it.

We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything. Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but across all news sources.

We are trying to filter clickbait, SEO spam as effectively as possible while keeping nuance to the dataset.

Please sign up for an account or follow us on twitter if you would like to stay in the loop.
Ibuprofen is generally considered safer than Acetaminophen BUT non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like Ibuprofen can trigger dangerous stomach acid over production in some patients (source: finding myself in excruciating pain followed by a doctor pushing a camera probe down my throat to examine the damage when this happened to me). That's a minority of patients, obviously, but there are classes of patients who need to take Acetaminophen instead of NSAIDs for various reasons.

Acetaminophen is similar to NSAIDs in many of its beneficial effects but is sufficiently different chemically as to not trigger many of the (rarer) negatives that NSAIDs can trigger.
Yes, but it doesn't so it isn't.
This is informative. I was thinking I was familiar with GNUStep when in fact I was thinking about WindowMaker.
It’s just a tool, you won’t ask humans to clean your back after going in the toilets.
Apologies, I’m maybe low on coffee this morning.

Do you mean things like tone, facial expression, the general “energy” around a conversation, etc?
Oddly enough, Lex used to have full transcripts of his videos, through his website, but they seem to not be available anymore. I too prefer to read than passively listening. As of now, I just download the episode and listen at small intervals. YT-DLP can download a video/audio and separate it in chapters, that might work for some.
> Here are some popular Immutable OS solutions, although this list is not exhaustive
We also use tools a lot. We're also not very good with mental arithmetic but we can do quite a lot with a simple tool like a piece of paper and a pencil.

Obviously LLM models cannot be compared one to one with our brains, but one thing is clear: despite them being executed by a computer, they are not the computer that is executing them and as such their ability to do operations that are trivial for the computer is not necessarily trivial for the language model.
I wish everyone was as rational as you. I see people constantly celebrating the death of Russian soldiers and it grosses me out. They're dumb 19 year olds who believe dumb, wrong shit for the same reason most Americans believe dumb, wrong shit. American interventions overseas since 2001 have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, including women and children, yet many Americans don't seem to ever think of our troops as problematic.

The headline on CNN right now is "Putin is scaring the world to distract from his problems". If anyone reads that and doesn't immediately recognize it as propaganda (or at best, not real journalism) then they're doing as poorly as the Russians who are pro-war.
My phone number is known by so many companies. I really don't care about that. I just really find it interesting and it's very useful as a support with coding.
If you start a new session, it doesn't do this.
> As well as I don’t believe in a relationship between 40 years old man and 17 years old girl.

Ridiculous comparison
Long-time Scrivener user here. The main thing that annoys me is that it's sporadically updated.
This caused me to search a bit about that scene. I wasn't aware it seems to be extrapolated from a technique actors use to memorize lines.

"He came up with this process that actors use to learn Shakespeare, where you say a word, then they repeat the word, and then someone would ask a question about that word. It’s to induce specific memories linked with a word, so they remember the word forever. I transformed that process to make it intrusive, where instead of having someone repeating a long, long sentence, they will be more aggressive – they’re asking questions about specific words."

Pretty interesting background on this here: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/blade-runner-2049-how-a-key...
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There are attempts to solve hard optimization problems in an instant with them.
Because it's an exceptional dielectric material, making it particularly well-suited to radio frequency applications at microwave frequencies.
It’s not about optimizing it’s about cash flow. If you get a 500k mortgage today at the current rate of ~7% your monthly payment is about 3500/mo. That same mortgage financed 2 years ago around ~2% is a monthly payment of 1800. For the SAME house you are paying basically double the amount per month.
This isn’t optimizing a few bucks per month it’s about not being able to afford the same house.

Every homeowner knows this and if they’ve ever had the incling to move int rh last year theyve done the math and realize it simply doesn’t make sense. People won’t move right now unless life forces them to.
Many humans don’t have the barest empathy for the people and animals around them that obviously feel a lot.
Taking the supplied example

"Ukraine bombing its own cities to make Russia “look bad” is such a claim. "

Individual false flag military operations are not uncommon, but widespread destruction of one's own country for propaganda purposes would be extraordinary.
It's impressive how quickly they seem to have embraced open source.
The models are probabilistic, they replicate the most common features that they've seen. Guess what shows up in a lot of images?
Some users don't know how to use their browser's zoom feature. Most don't know how to change the default font in their browser, and those that do might not want to do this in case some sites break because of bad assumptions. Others don't like zoom, because it makes images look blurry. The default appearance of the page should be usable and accessible by an average user.

And yes, the 20px font applies to the full text. I'm not arguing that smaller fonts should be banned, things like metadata don't need to be as large. But the main content of the page should be larger and comfortably readable.
War is undoubtedly one of the most catastrophic events that can occur in any society. It brings about unimaginable destruction and devastation, leaving behind irreparable damage to both human life and infrastructure. Innocent civilians, including women and children, often become the primary victims of war, leading to severe physical and emotional trauma. In addition to the loss of life, war can also lead to the displacement of millions of people, causing untold suffering and hardship. Furthermore, the economic consequences of war can be severe, as countries are forced to divert their resources towards military spending, leaving essential needs such as healthcare and education underfunded. Finally, the impact of war extends far beyond the battlefield, as it can leave deep scars on a society's psyche, leading to long-term social and psychological trauma. In short, war is an utterly destructive force that brings nothing but pain, suffering, and despair to those affected by it.
It's trained to emit special commands when it wants to do things. Think of it like being a wizard: speaking magical words of power causes things to happen. So it might say:

Sure, I can make a Shepard tone for you.

>>> COMMMAND { "action": "run_python", "program": "import blah\n...." }

and the driver (the program running the inference loop, AI people what do you really call this?) recognizes that the AI "predicted" this escape sequence and then when the command is finished being "predicted" it runs it. Then the result is added to the prompt. The AI can then see the result and use it.

Re: token limit. A token can be a whole word and there can be thousands of them in the context window simultaneously. So it can look back quite a long way. GPT-4 is rumored to have a token limit in the tens of thousands, although the true number is apparently not public. So that's a lot of code and results.

That said, if you asked for a program that emitted a million line CSV file and then expected the AI to read it, it would indeed get very confused and go wrong because it'd lose track of what it was trying to do. But that's no different to asking a human to mentally digest a million line CSV.
I wrote this yesterday on my birthday as a way to document my lessons over 20 years. It seems to have resonated so sharing here in case it's helpful to anyone else.
You must not be familiar with the biases that ChatGPT shows.

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457 (refusing to support saying a slur to prevent millions of deaths)
To those who are in our 20s and 30s they just answer "be a capitalist, become an entrepeneur, use GPT to build a business".

Never have seen what the answer to people in 40s and 50s with family who can't do a career reset. I guess they'll just have to take a huge pay cut and deal with it, I don't know.
I guess it's really that then, different workloads. Swap has served me well over time, but mostly because I don't encounter those "some tool goes berserk"-cases really, but just having opened to many applications at once that I don't necessarily all use at the same time, because I leave my workstation running 24/7.
> Why calm down yourself when you feel unwell?

Clearly you've never been debilitated by health anxiety.

Every story like this comes with ten more about someone obsessively ruminating about symptoms that turn out to be nothing, not least specifically because of horror stories like yours.

There is no one right answer for all situations. But as someone who struggles with health anxiety, it really fucking sucks and yes, there are damn good reasons to seek relief from that sense of constant and unrelenting dread.
> warmth

That shows the LLM is running on vacuum tubes.
Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, AI and their impact on humanity
Yes, or math, for example you can tell him to "add a+b where a=3.274914 and b=2.4847".

I doubt this precise numbers are in the dataset of chatGPT and yet it can find the answer.

According to this paper it seems to have gain the ability as the size of the model increased (page 21):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

" small models do poorly on all of these tasks – even the 13 billion parameter model (the
second largest after the 175 billion full GPT-3) can solve 2 digit addition and subtraction only half the time, and all
other operations less than 10% of the time."

That's crazy.
Running out of resources doesn't mean they will suddenly stop shooting. It isn't binary.

It means the intensity of artillery and missile strikes is decreasing. It means they have to import arms from Iran. It means they are now using ancient T-62s and recently started pulling T-55s out of storage.
Yeah, but what if it's just a little canister scrubbing public toilets,trash cans, or something similar. Do you really want to destroy that? Will you even realize what you're seeing?
Son of a math professor and a “ national resources conglomerate executive.” Grandma was Mongolian MP.

What an auspicious family to reincarnate into.
At the scale/complexity GPT operates at, how is that different from "understanding"? It seems like you've just rephrased it but with more words.
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Minimum wage is sustainable because it is usually set based on economic reality of each country to a value that affects just a small percentage of laborers.
Ask anyone who has hired someone who says all the right things and seems intelligent, but has no experience or skills in what they actually talk about.

When I write code, I don’t just focus on solving the problem at hand, I think about things like, like: how will another human interpret this, how maintainable will this be, what are the pitfalls down the line, what are the consequences of this, any side effects, performance implications, costs, etc… things GPT does not know.
> leading to a mess of 19 errno.h files in the kernel today

having "dirty" and "band aid" staff could be the price Linux is paying to move faster, dominate server market and extend beyond the server market. One can even say UNIX is extincted, even Microsoft added WSL and WSA, where L is for Linux, not UNIX/POSIX and A is for Android, which is sort of Linux too.

> For comparison, FreeBSD has 5. 4 of which are related to linux compat..

This sounds to me as FreeBSD is more "lean" or "clean" and even may be less "agile" and this aligns well with what I've read and heard from others on internet and in person. I don't have my own opinion here and cannot compare.

What I can compare though, is FreeBSD implementing Linux compat/Linuxulator and not vise versa ( and mentioning WSL above ), giving me impression of Linux/Linus' tactic (even strategy may be?) worked better than others.

Would be interesting to hear your opinion.
There is a ton of data around American interventions overseas over the past 20 years, the problem is western media doesn't show any of it and so it's invisible for most Americans. Americans did the same thing to multiple countries that we're seeing in the streetviews in OP
A terse bullet list suffices to guide thought. A 5000 word essay is busy work.
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> 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.

They have already formally annexed, and subsequently lost a tonne of the area they formally annexed.

Nothing happened.

Crimea is also Ukrainian territory and not Russian, when they lose it im sure they throw another hissy fit like they do nearly every week now. But no one will give it any mind as Russia does it weekly.

> 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.

My guess is the war ends when enough Russians die that the Russians back at home decide they have had enough of the war.
But isn't this the case with everything? I feel there is a necessary level of complexity to everything. Things can't be made simpler beyond a level.
I really appreciate your reply and re-framing of the situation. I need to give it more thought to internalize it.

My first thoughts are this is close to what I've been doing. Responding to the events directly in front of me without truly taking into consideration the big picture. It's possible one difference is you're saying to be much more aware of the good (little picture items) and lean into that. I don't entirely think my lack of directed effort is a problem except where it comes to ruling out big picture items because enough of the small items passed that their isn't time for the big picture ones or where some prerequisites are needed and those would take years to master. There is some part of me that without the long term goals would feel adrift. Or possibly the stage of life I'm at just feels like needs to put higher consideration on "legacy".

Part of me thinks that in order to level up the next steps are going to require more focused effort which both requires knowing on some level what I want but also what I shouldn't be working on.

Anyway I really do appreciate your thoughts.
I said that the context window improved. I mean that it is larger. GPT-3.5 is 4k tokens, GPT-4 is 8k tokens (standard) or 32k tokens (only API access atm). This is the number of tokens that GPT-X can take into account when producing a response.

Specifically, I was using this to support the statement "In very near future your IDE will send the whole codebase as context to LLMs." I'm not talking about loops or accuracy.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
Most people don’t even know what sideloading is, but more importantly it would kill the value of tik tok because the population would be gone and therefor the audience and the money.
Wow, it's legal to sell expired food in the US?
> Why does Putin say that it's of no consequence that Finland and Sweden has applied for NATO membership?

It doesn't matter because he is
the biggest liar. It was absolutely not what he and Russia were saying late 2021, before they realized how weak their military was. His and Russias actions show that he can't be trusted for a second.
I think the very first appearance of this image is 18 February [0], Microsoft could have patched it since. There are several other examples in the comments.

[0] : https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1150po5/sydney_tries_...
You don't need to speak Spanish to be Hispanic! [0] [1]

There are many White and Asian people who tick the Hispanic box, thanks to Hispanic-sounding names... Often at the suggestion of their high school counselor.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-...

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/latinidad-spanish-...
> Then this implies that you’d maybe think differently if LLMs could have different inputs, correct?

They will not be LLMs then, though. But some other iteration of AI. Interfacing current LLMs with APIs does not solve the fundamental issue, as it is still just language they are based on and use.