skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of information is useless without a baseline

The problem is not so much the quantity of errors (that’s a problem too) but the severity of them. These LLM “AIs” will produce convincing fabrications mixed in with bits of truth. When a human writes this sort of stuff, we call it fraud.

Just earlier this week in my philosophy class we had ChatGPT produce a bio of our professor. Some details were right but others were complete fabrications. The machine gave citations of non-existent articles and books she’d apparently written. It said she’d previously taught at universities she’d never even visited.

I don’t know how else to describe it other than amusing at best, dangerous fraud at worst.
It remains the case that you don't discard your identity as a person or personal responsibility when taking a job somewhere, and the purpose of an MBA for the last 40 years has been to produce crappier products for less money while charging consumers the same amount. It's not the MBAs place to set public policy, but it's also broadly an admission of some kind of serious cultural failure to say we need public policy to prevent a large group of people from stripping everything they get their hands on down to the studs for short-term gain, and it doesn't say great things about that group of people, either.
Being in school is also just a tool to knowing stuff, being able to read, and being around similar aged peers, etc.

Whether the knowledge is directly in your brain or in a device you operate (directly or through an API) shouldn't really matter.

If it's forbidden for a human to move a stone with manual labour, then it's also forbidden to move that stone with an excavator. This has nothing to do with the person being a human and the other person being an excavator controlled by a human: it's not authorized.

I think that we should allow humans to move stones up the hill with excavators too. There is no stealing of excavator fuel from human food sources going on (let's assume it's not biofuel operated :p).
Given the amount of bad predictions and misinformation regarding post-acquisition Twitter, I'd take this with a grain of salt. Remember that many on HN thought that Twitter would literally stop operating shortly after the first rounds of layoffs[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882
Can you make an AI 'robots.txt' style disclaimer that this may not (currently) be included in ANY AI implemented stack/sideloading/whatever into a closed codebase?

(or word the above in the appropriate manner to achieve result (AI LOCKOUT))
piping fix is sickening people And it's throughout America's sewers.
sirsinsalot says <">That's not even getting to the fact that the leading cause of death in children and teenagers is guns[1]
I can't really understand it.

[1]: https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022..."<

No surprise, because the URL contradicts what you say. If omitting certain age ranges is your idea of the truth, please say so up front.
What's the argument? What's been done by anyone that's shitty? I don't even understand the point of this post. As far as I know, the current wave of text-based AIs is trained on all text accessible on the internet. Would it be a scandal to learn that ChatGPT is trained on wikipedia? Reddit? What is even the argument here, good faith or otherwise?
No, the lightbulbs at home depot are inexpensive and they work fine. On the other hand, if you care about CRI, then you can also google for high-quality bulbs with a good CRI. I don't really see a problem here?
A lot of people, including this article, blame flickering on bulbs. Usually because introducing an LED bulb is what shows the issue.

That the underlying issue might be the fixture, or in the older electrical system, is not always an intuitive jump.
Yep, that's correct.

My point was more of there are protections for things that aren't copyrightable. If the model is protected as a trade secret, then it is a trade secret.

The example of the hot sauce recipe is quite apt - the recipe isn't copyrightable, but you can be certain that the secret formula for how to make Coca-Cola syrup is protected as a trade secret.

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/coca-cola-f...
>> clean single threaded work that looks nice on a kanban board

It's pretty unfair to characterize the demand as a desire to look nice, when in your next sentence you admit that a week task has taken you more than a month. I don't give a shit about the kanban board but I do care about work in progress. There's no value until you finish, and I mean done-done. What you consider multi-threading is micro time slicing, with significant context switching costs.

The funny thing is you probably consider your approach agile, while me, an old fart in management, see a giant pile of have half-finished widgets collecting dust. Until you adopt my old-fashioned approach of single threaded work you'll never be successful with the newer approaches of continual delivery, and constant, small-scale, non-scary releases.
Classic Yas player
Because MIT doesn't know about them, but they know about MIT!
sounds like a hard job to quantify "can/does maintaining the API make the company money"

on one hand you've got a knee-jerk answer: "absolutely! how could it not?!"

on the other... maybe he's getting rid of it for a reason? sucks for people who integrated against it but is it is "right" to effectively screw these people over who aren't paying for (but are benefitting from) the API?

maybe give them the option to pay?
France: The Movement Against the Pension Reform
LEDs must be powered by a constant-current supply, and distribution does not work well at constant-current, and is always constant voltage. So no matter what you will need some sort of switching power supply.

LEDs are like 15% efficient and power supplies are >95%. They just need to be separated slightly so the LEDs aren't heating the power supply. Most recessed LED lighting now has a separate junction box with the power supply.
I expect the 'premium' light bulb market is similar to the mechanical keyboard market. Good products and good prices will find a small but dedicated market and build a good rep.

Do it right, and eventually your best customers will tell their friends to 'just buy brand "X"' and you can expand from there.

Is this a good plan to take over the bulb market? No. But a good product could be a nice, sustainable business.
> For me the biggest problem is that all LEDs are blue, despite of any light-filters.

It's likely that you're buying bulbs with a low CRI. Unfortunately, this is poorly-marketed (and CRI still doesn't capture certain edge cases).

I'm a fairly serious amateur photographer, and until I moved overseas, I'd set up a room as an edit and print studio, with a pro-grade photo printer. I specifically sourced high-CRI bulbs, and found that my eye couldn't tell the difference between my room at night (with a measured color temperature of 4500K or so) and my room during the day with the blinds open (with about the same color temperature), even looking at a variety of photo prints.
Yep we are just a spec of dust compared to the forces at work in our lives.
I always thought the primary benefit of YC was the brand. It's like an Ivy League school for startups. The article suggested it didn't help much. Perhaps going too big has diluted the YC brand?
> If anything, Musk has proven how ceremonial the CEO role is. He has the title CEO of at least 4 companies, and claims 80 hours per week is a full time role. So at best CEO is a part time job.

I think the thing about CEO is that you can delegate not just the things you probably shouldn't personally be doing, but also the things you should.

I'd believe that some CEOs have a real job, but it's pretty clear that a lot have delegated it away to nearly nothing.
And the single option was cheap. There are cheap LEDs, but they're going to flicker, or hum audibly, and die quickly (contrary to the advertising). It's taken many rounds of trial and error, many wasted dollars, and I still don't love the bulbs I've landed on that much.
> But the cool thing is that for any game or story on Scratch, the kid can click into the project to see how it was made, and even access the code and assets.

Definitely an important feature for learning. Seeing something cool and then immediately being able to find out how it was done is much more motivating than reading and memorizing docs ahead of time.

It's similar in some respects the early days of the web when "View source" was enough to figure out how something worked. It's rather sad that feature has mostly been lost.
Your claim depends on the idea that the set of numbers {3, 9, 15, 21, 27, ...} = {3 * N | for all odd N} have an even distribution of 0s and 1s in their binary representation (ignoring the last digit, which is always a 1). But this claim does not seem like common sense, in fact it's not clear to me that it's true. The algebra suggests to me that the bias in favor of 1 bits scales logarithmically in favor of 1 bits (multiplying by 3 is the same as shifting the number to the left by 1 and adding the original number to it, since the original number had a bias in favor of 1 bits, then that bias carries over when shifted to the left), and a simple Python script I wrote to test this hypothesis on the first billion integers shows just such a bias in favor of the 1 digits.

Neither of these are rigorous demonstrations but without some kind of evidence to indicate the contrary, or a proof, I think OP was right to state that this claim is neither common sense or mathematically correct.

Below is a script you can use to empirically test the bias for yourself (or identify a mistake that I've made):

def count_bits(n):
count = 0
while n:
count += n & 1
n >>= 1
return count

def experiment(count):
count_0_bits = 0
count_1_bits = 0

for i in range(1, count, 2):
num = 3 * i
num >>= 1 # Remove the least significant bit
count_1_bits += count_bits(num)
count_0_bits += num.bit_length() - count_bits(num)

print(f"count: {count}")
print(f"0 bits: {count_0_bits} {count_0_bits / (count_0_bits + count_1_bits)}")
print(f"1 bits: {count_1_bits} {count_1_bits / (count_0_bits + count_1_bits)}")
print("")
A bunch of this doesn't make much sense to me either, the SR-71 was revealed to the public in 1966. That would make him born in 1956. He would be 30 in 1986, which makes sense, but the the 29 years later part doesn't sound right.

I built an SR-71 kit as a kid. But I was born in 1977. I wish I still had it. I put a ton of work into it.

The model manufacturers did scoop the reveals at some points, but they were never that accurate. I had an "F-19 Stealth Fighter" kit I built as well. It had significant differences from the F-117 when that became public.
More like learn it once, cry forever. I will never not be irritated that push and pull aren't really opposite in git, and that's hardly its worst wart.
I think that his strength is with companies that had a strong and effective engineering culture in place when he bought them. Companies that require the building or rebuilding of an engineering culture aren't playing to Musk's strengths.
It's a fairly well known and documented story, do you have anything similar in evidence rather than just conjecture?
The Spiritual Materialist
I think it's mostly anecdotal (I have heard it too, but I can't think of where)

Not a metallurgist, but if I had to guess it was hard to find in large enough quantities at the time. I also understand that it's a lot harder to work with than say aluminum or steel

Speaking of which, King Louis served his guests with aluminum silverware, since at the time it was more valuable than gold due to the difficulty of extracting it at the time, despite its abundance.
Wait, where is trading shop A or B mentioned? Have not had time to read the complaint. Tried searching it but if it's in there it uses another keyword.

This is news to me, haven't heard anyone mention Cumberland global recently? I know they're up to their neck in it, I just mean they seemed to have skated by without much notice.
May as well provide a link back to this thread in the readme as well for additional context ppl can get from the HN crowd.
I used to do electrical installs in commercial buildings and this was starting to catch on, mainly because the the practice of running ethernet (including the 8P8C aka RJ45 connector, patch paneling, etc) is already established. This always felt very roundabout and requires expensive networking equipment just to run lights which I do not personally like because it will just cause confusion.
If using the tool effectively is burdensome enough, then it's the same as "dealing with it".
> We desperately want oracles and will quickly latch on to highly unreliable sources at the drop of a hat, to judge by various religious, political and economic trends. It's inevitable that many will turn AIs into authorities rather than tools as soon as they can justify it.

Indeed. This was true even for the primitive AI/chatbots that existed in the sixties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect#Origin
What makes Solana the most decentralized PoS blockchain?
Hard to get a spot generally!
That open letter did sound like a lot of the AI-hype fanatics: all speculation attributing more to these tools than there is.

I don't disagree that these tools and services ought to be regulated and agree that disinformation about their capabilities; real and speculated can be counter-productive.

Other real risks: fraud and scams. Call centre employees typically have to verify the person on the other side of the call. This is going to get less reliable with models that can impersonate voices and generate plausible sounding conversation. Combined with the ability to generate fake social media accounts, etc; social engineering is going off.

From a regulators' perspective we need to know that the companies providing services are doing everything they can to prevent such abuses which requires them to be open and to have a framework in place for practices that prevent abuse.

Just keeping up with the hype train around this is exhausting... I don't know how we expect society to keep up if we're all allowed to release whatever technology we want without anyone's permission regardless of harm: real or speculative.

We should probably focus on the real harm. Especially the hidden harms on exploited workers in the global south, the rising energy and compute infrastructure costs, etc.
Maven is not a great example of the strengths of XML, as another comment describes.

I use XML a lot in favor of JSON because I can pass around a machine readable schema (yes, I know JSON now has some schema support) and because I can represent things like cycles and comments and numbers that are something other than 64-bit floating point values.
When a woman is pregnant, the fetus tries to grow as large as possible, while to womb/woman works to restrict growth.

Too much of either is not good, so perhaps the same is true here.
I will say one thing - the idea that infrastructure is scarce seems falsifiable considering that in major European economies, and overall in the European Union, the level of infrastructure is quite high.

So yes, this might be the case in the US but only due to the unwillingness of the government in the last few decades to collect enough tax in order to fund infrastructure. The current conditions of major European economies prove that no, infrastructure is not particularly scarce if you are willing to fund it.

The US is richer than europe in many ways. It appears to me that its political structure has just decided not to do it. I can't imagine that the relatively poorer countries in Europe (Portugal, Poland) are somehow solving this problem but the US can't.
Lots of people have pointed out how entitled this article is. There's another problem with this article.

The author assumes that his plans for the future are in alignment with or superior to the vision of the authors / ip owners of Sublime.

There's plenty of room for great free and open source tools and great proprietary development tools. Always has been... Emacs, Eclipse and VS Code haven't killed off the paid IDEs. Sublime's niche has a long tradition of paid and free tools. What is good is that Sublime has found a way to survive, and hopefully prosper. That should be celebrated... and maybe the lesson is why they are able to survive in spite of great free competition. (this also applies to JetBrains, WingIDE and many other commercial development tools, all of which are great values for developers)

Honestly, I don't see competing with VS Code as much of a goal: it takes a world-beating development effort, and you will likely not have a self-sustaining organization in the end. For Microsoft, they get a way to distribute Copilot, Azure, Github and proprietary add-ons. For a smaller company, you may not have a way to create a sustainable team to maintain the product.
In Python, Continuum is making bank with exactly that.
What projects do your kids complete on replit? Are they following youtube tutorials or first party content from replit?
get a remote job. seriously... i would NEVER go into an office again.

https://remote.co/remote-jobs/
So rituals are good. Not commuting. Commuting is actually BAD for your health..the article even literally says so in the beginning and backs it up with statistics..
They literally copied the Chatgpt UI, lol, only it looks like a dated Google UI. How do you prefer answers with less data?... that's crazy.
I love Scratch! I credit it partially with getting me into programming in middle school.
And it looks like they all cost hundreds: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Sled%20Dri...
"The AI does not love you, nor hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else"
> Elon Musk, who eschews many of the shibboleths of the Left, people criticise Twitter as a proxy for his political views.

Some probably do, but a whole lot don't. Musk was heavily criticized well before people were aware of his political views, for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with his political views.
I've been looking for solid high CRI LED bulbs, thank you.

Lately I've been using the GE Reveal/Relax. They were better than the contractor grade bulbs that came with the house but still just... wasn't there.

If you know any other manufacturers like this I'd greatly appreciate it if you could provide their links.
Russia is actually better in drones attack lately.
Some domain registries sell "desirable" domains for higher prices directly. Not sure that is better but at least the money goes to the people actually running the infrastructure.
Narcan will be available OTC in the US starting later this year.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
In case you were wondering: No, it doesn't honor boolean ("-term1 -term2" etc.) searches.
Heard similar opinions from other YC founders before.

I think any educational system will run into similar issues.

The problem is that the system takes over and becomes more important than the original goal of educating, coaching, helping. And instead it just becomes a conversions and return optimizer.

At the end the individuals don’t matter as long as the aggregate produces good enough results.
Why deplete your own supplies when you can use your opponents?
Cars are starting to move to 48V DC. My under cabinet lighting in the kitchen are powered by DC from a power supply in the basement.

I could definitely see this becoming more common. Powering the ~100 watts of fixed lighting spread across my whole house on ten different 15A 120v circuits, each with their own arcfault breaker and 12 gauge copper electrical lines running back to the panel is fabulously expensive for what could be done with a bunch of CAT5 in each floor running to some conveniently located “POE injector” type devices.

You would want to be able to take a standard fixture and just push DC through it and use special bulbs with a standard A19 base, but that’s problematic when the next owner tries to screw in a standard bulb - what happens when it sees 48V DC?

I would guess if for safety reasons it has to be a non-A19 connector, then your light fixture choices get cut down to almost nothing and no one will make the switch?

It’s really interesting to think about, most everything I’m plugging into AC outlets in my house, the first step is converting it to DC. A lot of my outlets I’ve switched to include USB ports so I don’t need the wall warts. If you have solar and battery backup even more-so you start to question why we are wasting so much money moving everything back and forth between DC/AC/DC within a house.
I hear you, but I bought two waveforms just to try them out, and they're absolutely incredible. It's a shockingly better light than the $2 home depot light. It's the equivalent of going from an underpowered computer to one that's up to the job - you don't really notice how bad the old one was until you get something up to the task.
During covid, I got laid off from my job as a graphic designer. I spent the next year on a web dev course, fully remote, but with regular virtual meetings with 'classmates' and tutors (once a week), and Discord groups for chatting via text/asking for help.

I then got a web dev job, which turned out to be full-time in-office. I adjusted, but I resented, and still resent, being in the office. It's not for me. I don't have my kitchen, I don't have my expensive office chair, I don't have my good keyboard and mouse, I don't have my comfortable living room for when I'm on my lunch breaks, I find I get significantly worse sleep, and the commute stresses me out a ton (as well as costing an absolute fortune).

It's definitely a problem that divides people, with some firmly on the in-office side and others wanting to be at home. Businesses really should be catering for both.
> you Americans have a lot of internal issues you need to sort out, and quickly. You're polluting the rest of the world with your party politics.

I could not agree more. It's just hard to see how to move toward this goal.
A recurrent theme I noticed is that a fully virtual setup (zoom calls, distributed companies in the batch) coupled with varied timezones lead to shallow interactions, weak bonds and no sense of community. Furthermore, if you are in a remote timezone (vs SF/NY) like the author, you will have even more trouble like ungodly meeting hours or very few fellows in the same timezone.

This is very similar to how I have experienced remote work as well. Just replace startups with individuals and the takeaways are still the same.
Or maybe they have learnt that investors due-diligence is about the hard facts and not sentiment?

Not everyone is a good story-teller either so to avoid the confounding charm factor, just be as boring and straight to the point as possible?

Which should also keep every startup of their batches on equal footing and hopefully mitigate the hype factor?

Not defending them, just me brainstorming about what could be plausible explanations for this.