skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To have achieved the task and escaped the room, you will have had to have gained a significant understanding of French.

No, in this scenario the posited person has only gained a significant understanding of patterns of French language, not of the language itself. You may believe that difference to be meaningless but tangibly it is the difference between identifying the next shape in a sequence and understanding that there is some larger purpose at play (context, if nothing else).

What actual understanding of the language they may have gained comes from second order effects -- seeing the language used in a movie for example is going to drastically influence and impart meaning that isn't present in the words alone.

This is somewhat born out in how ChatGPT and other LLMs being hyped are often really aggressively wrong about things. They don't get the correct answer in many circumstances, even when it's obvious to a human. If it truly understood everything it could from what it has been trained on, those gaps would not occur.
Some of it will be radiated. Electric currents in EV's are typically in the hundreds of amps, and have potential switched by hundreds of volts in hundreds of nanoseconds. That leads to broad band emissions that aren't easy to shield.

A bunch of ferrites and shielded motors and cables will help, but only to some extent.
Your comments in this thread were abusive and broke the site guidelines extremely badly. We ban accounts that do that. Personal attacks are particularly not ok.

I'm not going to ban you right now, even though it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines in other places too, because I didn't see anything this bad in your other comments and because we hadn't warned you before. But please don't do post like this again.

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>If you take a look at the US manufacturing sector, the output is higher than ever

You are incorrect.

S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI Final March 49.2, down from flash print at 49.3, but up from the 47.3 in Feb - that is the 5th straight month of contraction (sub-50)

ISM Manufacturing March dropped to 46.3, from 47.7, and below 47.5 expectations - that is the 5th straight monthly contraction to the lowest since May 2020
I smile every time I hear this argument. To me it’s obviously false and head in the sand. There was a moment, with GPT-2 where it felt exactly right, then with GPT-3 where you could see a glimmer of something emerging. Now GPT-4 has something real going on.

A solid example is the tool use. Package up a brand new, never existed before or seen in the training data plug-in, give a few paragraphs of human readable documentation, and suddenly GPT-4 can interact with other systems, databases, and models. It doesn’t have 10,000 examples of interacting with this novel plugin to predict next word off of, it just has a short English description, enough for a human to be able to use and understand the same plugin effectively.

There’s a reason this is knocking the socks off many smart folks. It’s upending a lot of the sacred cows of human intelligence.
> This has been talked over and over already. The conclusion is that eventually, you don't know what are the actual differences between "reasoning" and "next token prediction" in a real human.

I disagree with this conclusion, which some supporters of GPT-4 being a reasoning engine might find distressing.
The interesting question is: what could you change to improve this? What could you do to encourage prioritizing relationship forming, prioritization, and tending/maintenance? Is there anything you could do?
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Marxist theory says that the separation between economic and state power is illusory at best and intentionally deceptive at worst. So a communist isn't going to think it possible to separate economic and state power, whereas that concept of that separation of powers is a foundational component of modern liberalism. It's why the two camps have a such a hard time talking to each other; they really don't see things the same way.
Anecdotally, I've been using GPT4 to help me get overviews of techniques in fields which I'm working adjacent to. I've been pleasantly surprised at its ability to quickly summarize not just ideas, but also write out the math.

At the same time, there's been multiple occurrences where it has produced math mistakes, despite the fact that it can tell me that it knows how to do "the right thing" e.g. there's been multiple times where it will incorrectly reduce integrals with Dirac delta functions, or introduce subtle mistakes in analytically known formulas.

The Dirac delta function example was funny to me -- it can tell me what to do when a delta function occurs in an integrand! Yet it makes a mistake reducing the same sort of integral in another context?

So I'm not sure how to take these "GPTX is doing reasoning" claims. On the one hand, maybe? On the other hand, it's not perfect at it -- even when it appears to have knowledge that should ensure that it never gets that wrong.

If I'm going to be using this system to help me do research, I'd love for it to be correct and not contradict itself. That's why I'm happy to have these GPTX layers shell out to something like Wolfram, or another symbolic system. That combination makes perfect sense to me. I'm also much more likely to trust that combination, instead of my current strategy - which is to basically re-process everything that GPTX gives me and assume that there are a few places where I'm likely to find mistakes.
> it's a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility / service.

Or, in the case of the US, it's what you get when you have private for-profit corporations doing all the planning and rollout.
This is an impossible standard to hold people to even on issues in their domestic country.

If you're from the USA, I'm sure that as a well-informed citizen, you know about how the relationship between tribal law and federal law were recently challenged at the Supreme Court (Haaland vs Brackeen), and can provide a reasoned position on the status of Native American tribes and how they should be addressed. After all, it was big news in Native American circles, and silence on that issue is violence towards Native Americans.
Japan has had a hiki problem for a long time.

I remember watching the arch-hiki anime “Welcome to the NHK” 15 years ago. That’s a long time for behaviors to become entrenched. The pandemic was merely an accelerant of long term trends.
You're just being obnoxious. Stop it.
But if it were enabled, am I correct
I decided such things when given an input of the comment to which I replied. If GPT were given such a comment, it could have reasonably come up with a similar answer (it probably wouldn't look the same, as GPT isn't very intelligent, but calling it "just" a next token predictor is a gross mischaracterization.)
While what you say is true, housing is becoming an issue pretty much in every first world country, purchase power for the bottom 50% percentile is at historical lows, young people have issues entering a job market, retirement age is constantly pushed exacerbating the difficulty's young people have in entering the job market.So, yes, quality of life is increasing in some dimensions, but it's also drastically decreasing in others.

For instance, until I manage to purchase an house I felt very stressed about renting for my whole life and owning nothing of consequence. This impacted severely my mood and indirectly my quality of life.
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Getting hung up on the transactional piece of this is tragic. Ukraine constitutes a society that has embraced (evidenced by their revolution, stiff resistance so far, etc.) enlightenment values - the worth of an individual, a rules based society, meritocracy, etc. Before we run to all the counterfactuals, these values are generally instilled in the culture (particularly the younger demographics). NATO essentially exists to protect this common, values-based order.

Not granting membership earlier was those countries (mentioned in other comments) over-rotating on transactional-based benefits, over value-based ones. That's why there's such frustration now over getting Ukraine into NATO now. Will it happen? No, diplomatically impossible while they're engaged in hot war. But the moral outrage is reasonable given the bloody price they've paid in defense of the values NATO exists to protect. To clearly connect the dots...considering Ukraine as part of NATO benefits NATO in that it allows them to uphold those values it exists to serve, giving it purpose and strength from the unity of its member countries (and moral investment of the individuals who serve its armies).
I think on some level people implicitly believe that the Chinese govt will choose prosperity over power because that's what they imagine they would do. I suspect that will never happen.
>FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time.

That was also true for older macs, which were cheaper.

I believe that the Apple Silicon macs are the highest-margin macs Apple has ever made, since they no longer have to pay Intel for the CPUs or AMD for the GPUs.

I can see no technical or logistical reason why Apple had to increase prices, and believe it is entirely driven by the idea that the market can bear it.
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It's just your imagination thats too vivid
The popularity of GMT800s has exploded for this reason
Systems sold by the Microsoft store are good for this. Even their non-surface stuff is OEM bloat free. We got an Asus ultralight there with nothing unwanted but the normal Win10 Candy Crush, Xbox stuff.
The situation I was trying to describe is when a kid is clearly lost, not just playing around. This is a concern I would have if I saw an adult in the situation with a similar remedy: ask if they need help.
With the number of HN submission titles matching /AI/ right now...

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
Never heard this before. Source?
“I would love to hear more macOS users admit that their equipment was a status indicator, overprices for what it is.”

In other words you would love to hear people confirm your opinion of Apple and and why they use them. Must suck to find out that many, if not most people use macOS machines because they like the performance, the design, and support.

I will never understand people that a) care about why other people buy computers and b) assume that the only reason people choose differently than they do is due to vanity/ignorance/status. Apple is the only company whose success people take personally. Wishing that people would finally admit to being as shallow and status chasing as you know they are is an excellent view into your mindset.
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All of those birthrates are terminal, technically.
"Suspended without pay for thirteen years" sounds an awful lot like "fired"
Still makes me a little depressed that instead of evolving Iridium, the best we can do with cheap launches is put up a bazillion bent-pipe satellites. I know all the technical reasons why not, but damn. Seems like a missed opportunity to use low interest rate VC money to build--or just improve--a generationally important system.
Username checks out because you missed the point.

Yes, I know calculators can encourage people to not think; I should know because I wrote one. [1]

But the current "AI" tech is so much worse on that front. It's a difference of degree, and that degree does matter.

By the way, when I was learning to fly helicopters [2], I used my calculator to calculate weight and balances, but I also did it by hand!

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Eh. Everybody knows the star behind Relativity is Tim Ellis who is an alum of ... wait for it ... Blue Origin.
> the actual execution is very much non-deterministic.

Only as a default. Temperature can be turned to 0 and other token selection settings changed from the defaults to create deterministic output from a given prompt.
That wasn't the part of your comment I was replying to. You said they sometimes "complain that that they cannot hide it behind a flag because people are already using it", and I was (a) explaining why that's not supposed to happen and (b) asking about where you saw that happen.
The amount of people that do almost nothing beside use spreadsheets, the browser, and email is pretty significant.

The fact that these people keep updating devices constantly is a testament to Apple's marketing.

I would be astounded if ~80% of users get any material benefit from a laptop newer than a high-end device from 4 years ago.
It has the same memory capacity, and maybe number of keys on the keyboard, but I feel like your "etc" is doing too much heavy lifting to try to make those comparable.
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Yeah, it's informal but it used mostly for when a government illegally detains someone, often incommunicado --though historically in Latin American countries "disappearances" were a euphemism for government paramilitary forces (or revolutionary forces) taking someone behind the shed and extrajudicially executing them or in lesser cases locking them up in secret prisons. The choice of word probably stems from the stereotypical middle of the night night unwitnessed arrest. (so and so was supposed to come home at 8 but never came back)
Proton is not the same as being multi platform, and will eventually back fire OS/2 style.

Keep pushing that success market share beyond 2%, to the next 20 years and 4%.
I'm sure there's some exceptions, but by and large you just can't. There are few if any non-profits that have a queue of coding tasks sitting around for someone to float in and out of. I say this as someone who runs a tech team for a non-profit with most of our code open on github for PRs. I don't have the wherewithal to curate a list of issues and if I did I couldn't sit around waiting for someone to just do them whenever they find it in their heart. And then just accept it without QA or product review or all the sort of standard lifecycle stuff. I've actually gotten a handful of PRs or even whole repos of code of people saying "hey, this thing will be useful for you" and it almost never really is.

Any and all tech services get contracted out with SOWs/MSAs and all the normal stuff. There are a fair number of large services and SaaS companies that cater to nonprofits or have non-profit programs. If it's not a formal offering, then we'd be taking on a huge risk by asking for work we have no guarantee on delivery or quality. Without naming names, one very large and recognizable SaaS software company that we pay money to offered us free consulting hours as part of a formal program whereby their employees can volunteer to spend a few hours per year doing consulting for non-profits. We thought it was manna from heaven, but the reality is we got about 25 hours of their time which was barely enough to educate them on our (very rudimentary) setup and get a few pointers and some non-working code. Was barely worth the time spent on Zoom.

As an even more trite example, my kid's school PTA wanted help with email templates and when I volunteered they still couldn't find the time to even onboard me to the email system to look at anything.

Sorry for the cynical rant, but I mean think about how hard software development is. You could strike gold and discover an underserved niche and build a complete service to fill it, but that's rare. There's really no substitute for just sending money.
No, I don’t care about the lawsuit because the intent with releasing SD was to get sued and then lock in a monopoly based on big players being the only ones capable of rights enforcement. See my other comment.

> I don’t really care about the copyright argument as it relates to human learning because I think this is all a Napster-style false flag by capital owners to enclose ALL data on the internet. The intent isn’t to argue about these models from first principles such that we all have IP-restriction free access from them. It’s to make them do enough legally gray things at scale that they get restricted to only a few power players.
Why not Apple into Products and Services?

Products being - for example products being iPhone and iOS and services being iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+, etc.
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The shape is so off putting for some reason, maybe it's the drooping line towards the back? very odd.
For anyone who enjoys The Drive, they also have a great "Military/War" blog called the Warzone [1]. Excellent, long form articles.

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Have you ever served? In combat? I have, USMC infantry. I want a professional fighting force with smart of professional fighters and support. Yes, you need mental toughness. But if you are so mentally weak that you can't handle a course on sexual harassment then you are not mentally tough. You need a "non-woke" safe-space.

What you describe is what Russia wants and needs. Look how well that is working out for them.

The military gets stronger by having a disciplined, smart fighting force. Not some frat-house where being "manly" is the only requirement.
What do you mean when you say choice? Who is choosing?

No one asked me or you or most of the people, this is barely on anyone's political platform. Sanders talked about it a bit but he is not influential and even he has more important agenda than A.I.
Deciding about this 5-10 years from now will be too little too late imo, something should have been done years ago. This tech is already everywhere, companies will be able to "offshore" expensive labor to A.I running in cheap countries. We can try taxing these things, or creating some kind of UBI but that's about it regarding "choice".
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Two things:

1) That is a horribly denigrative view of human creativity, one that simply does not reflect reality.

2) I kind of don't care: creativity always was and always will be about humans wanting to create something, the satisfaction and excitement of writing down a fanfic you've been thinking about for the last 3 weeks, the emotion of bringing your thoughts to life. Even with endless AI-generated content, I will never stop using my imagination (regardless of whether there will or won't be a market for it, and regardless of whether it may be worse than, say, dostoevskij's works), and the same holds true for every other creative individual on this planet, and I feel sorry for the people that never felt the feeling of creative excitement, and would rather waste years of their life consuming soulless content.
Why the /s though?
It's obvious some countries actually promote monopolies, especially when they go global.
Limiting a company's influence (by lobbying or otherwise) has been one of the arguments for breaking up big tech elsewhere too.
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