skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done some thinking about what the "AI-ification" of apps might look like too, and I can think of a few situations where replacing rigid code/schemas with squishy AI logic may not fully work:

- Contention: a formal logic and ruleset helps parties with conflicting motives to coordinate with each other, and prevents corruption/manipulation (think of law and treaties)

- Extreme safety/reliability: AI cars never took off even though they were 90% of the way there. Thinking also of medical devices, financial ledgers, etc; things where you can't take chances, and you may even need to be able to produce an audit

- Performance: I'm imagining that traditional code will always be faster and cheaper to run than AI inference. The classic tradeoff between development cost and runtime cost will come into play, and eg. realtime systems will probably always need to be "real code" (though maybe we'll just reach a point where AI is writing said code instead of responding in real time)

I think it's going to change most of the landscape though. And to be honest - societal and career anxieties aside - part of me is ready for the world where computers aren't so fiddly anymore.
This is just a sad attempt at marketing to OSS maintainers. Whoever came up with this idea has no idea how OSS maintainers operate.
People keep repeating that LLMs are predicting the next words but at least with the more recent versions, this isn't true. Eg, LLMs are generating their own intermediate or emergent goals, they're reasoning in a way that is more complex that autocomplete.

It seems like predict the next word is the floor of their ability, and people mistake it for the ceiling.
It doesnt make up new data.

Suppose in the future it has integrations with engineering software as well as mathematical compute libraries, and you ask it - "Hey I need a personal aircraft for as cheap as possible, something that I can take off my driveway and fly about 80 miles and it has to be electric" - it thinks for some time and gives you a completely new design of an aircraft that hasn't been done.

Did it make up new data? Not really, it just searched a fairly complicated problem space and found a solution. Perhaps it could find some nice curve fits to phenomenon we haven't seen before to find some unique configuration of things, but there are plenty of things it won't be able to just figure out due to computational irreducibility - it will necessarily have to have some internal system that is a mix of information gathering through experiment or simulation.

And if it has such a system, then by definition you should be able to run it without any training data, and it should be able to train itself. GPT literally cannot do that. To ask it to write a neural network to train itself, you need to first pretrain it with all the data so it can complete its task.
It's also his bullying and bigotry.

He's admired by a lot of people who have gotten into trouble for saying bigoted things, who felt that there was nothing wrong with what they said or did (scroll up to see someone complaining that this is about "getting offended by some words and a picture") or refuse to acknowledge concepts like systemic racism...and think they were wronged. Victims of liberals, wokeness, "PC police" and so on.

They see him saying the same sort of things they did, and mistake the ability of an oligarch to escape consequences for almost anything...for "courage" and "free thinking."
This is what normal enterprise facing business do, is really unacceptable that Twitter did that without notice, we normally go through a legal and communication process before we turn off the lights
I have a working login on a single laptop. I can't login anywhere else since Twitter revoked the SMS 2FA option (I had real MFA setup years ago).

Oh well, twas fun while it lasted.
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I use an external touchpad instead of a mouse for the same reason. Zero wrist problems + I get the extra efficiency from gestures.
I used to own the original 3M gaming mouse pad.

It felt amazing, just a bliss to use everyday. Sturdy, it was abused everyday yet showed no sign of any damage. It just works - it does not move from its place, felt rock solid, yet very thin. It always looks clean; they say that there are microscopic ridges designed to trap dirt etc, so it stays clean, yet cleanable.

Small things - but everything adds up, making it the superior mousepad.

I have yet to find a mousepad capable of all those.

Sadly lost it when I moved abroad.

Your comment made me remember this - so I looked around. Turned out now there's 3M Precise mouse pad - however, there are quite some negative comments. Too bad.

Tried to look for that old 3M mousepad instead - no luck so far.
Sigh.

Currently using a hard metallic mousepad, it's almost as good, except that it looks dirty rather quickly.
Can confirm, happened to me just yesterday for ngrok.com/Login with Google.
I would definitely welcome a "private" space to connect with other actual maintainers without having to here "I requested this feature 2 weeks ago, where is it?"
> Did you have to read books about Slovenian history in school?

I read about the histories of many countries. Didn't you? England in particular, all of Europe, China .... How can you understand the world without knowing about more than your own corner? Why would you limit yourself?
Here's a clue: compare the income and SES of opiate addicts vs Adderall addicts. Which socioeconomic group is the average Hackernews more likely to fall into?
With tools like this, you basically assume the LLM doesn't know, and teach it to always defer to a tool, so its response is basically summarization over the tool output.
This seems to be about defining it, not merely declaring it. ("typedef" is short for "type definition", for example.)
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I think you would find it less amazing if you were subject to systemic discrimination.
Is there anything like this but... not as nice? (and not as expensive)
I wouldn't mind having something like this to mess around on but not for $180 USD
>Tesla is removing the ambient outdoor temperature sensor

Another 20c saved, lol. That's truly pathetic. I mean, it's not a cheap car.
You're using euphemistic language for rhetorical purposes. Suppose someone got bullied to the point of suicide. Is that not a big deal because it was just "words"? It's a rhetorical sleight of hand to euphemistically label it "words". Also, your choice of language puts the responsibility on the victim ("got offended") as if it's their fault that offence was taken at being discriminated against in the workplace.

Large settlements are good because otherwise there is no incentive for companies to prevent that behavior. The main point of laws and their enforcement is to deter that behavior in the first place, and small settlements do not achieve deterrence.
Lock-in is if the amount of work you need to put in to transfer your stuff to $competitor is big when you want to leave.

When there is one company that maintains a rooms media tech rack with media switchers and DSPs of another company that only provides access to "certified" companies and the first company sits on the source code they programmed for you, so you have to run to them with any slight change of the system you use, because you neither own the source code, nor do you have access to the softwar used to program the devices, that is lock-in.

Yeah you could swap out that media switcher with one from a more open company, but then you'd have to swap out 50k€ of other gear, that is "compatible" to that switcher (and to nothing else).

I am sure github is making it totally easy to migrate all of what you do on their platform to e.g. gitlab. /s
Yea, I've been really temped to try something like this for travel but I don't wanna spend the $500 for potential disappointment, what is the real resolution?
> Have you used Wayland?

Yes I have, with Ubuntu 22.04 and kubuntu 22.04. As a result, I've switched to Mac OS ;) Though not because of Wayland specifically but eg. libinput causing physical pain as opposed to the nonlinear/kinetic scroll synaptics had was definitely a contributing factor, along with other regressions making me want to throw my notebook out of the window.
This. Use a metronome on your phone. And do high rep weight training (leg machines) and crosstrain on a bike.
Teams and Goole Meet have the worst UX for switching inputs and outputs. Dunno why they still insist on not doing in properly.

On Zoom changing either is literally a click away. AND you can test your mic while already on a call so you can listen while you fix your setup.
USB foot pedals and midi controllers, use them every day for development and productivity tasks.

They're just input - do whatever you want with them.
I use a USB fan and a small mister/spray bottle of water. I spray my forearms periodically (top of hands are fine too I guess) and this creates more of a cooling effect from the fan.

It's also nice to have a wet cooling towel for the neck, I find...I tried one of those dual neck-mount fans as well, and while it wasn't bad, when it broke I didn't feel it was good enough to replace.

There are lots of whole-body tricks as well, from extra hydration (at least 100 oz. daily here in summer) to sitting on a cushion with more air flow...good luck.
Never mind, I see extra info now, it's not the one I was thinking of.

I've tried my browser history, as well as searching Hacker news, no key words I can recall of the story I think you have in mind, gave up a working result.

I think the story you have in mind was the one with was a quantum simulation of the universe or solar system but focused on life on earth and the observer could view the results via remote viewing. IIRC the simulation was quite fast but slowed as the current time line approached, and there's two people in the lab who are looking over the simulation, looking at one of them going home catching the bus and begin to wonder if they aren't a simulation as well, and a thought that they should not turn off their experiment in case they are a simulation as well, where upon one decides to place a hole in the room above, if they're in a simulation a hole will appear ... it does ...

Edit: Ok this might be it

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166938/story-about...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197048

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
Does it? I mean this particular offering doesn’t interest me much, but I definitely have private conversations in the course of maintaining open source projects. In some cases it’s just because the conversation itself is private and not everything in my life is public just because the project is. In other cases privacy is important for responsibly handling sensitive issues and giving appropriate time and resources for affected parties to prepare.

Even in the spirit of what GitHub seems to be offering here, sometimes projects with some promise fail when they’re blasted all over the web before they’re ready. Having a space to “soft launch” or whatever and get feedback from people who are… you know… not gonna immediately start tearing them down before they even have anything to tear down ahem… might be beneficial for solidifying things before they’re destroyed in their nascent state.
> something that I know is only working from words as a source.

Your intuition about the architecture might be causing the distrust. Yes, the ends of the model are words in and words out (although GPT-4 is now multi-modal and can accept images as input too), but that doesn't mean the calculations in the middle are dealing in words. The "language" in "large language model" is misleading. It's a large generalized model that imports and exports language.
Am half expecting some serious security related bug has been found in their SSO, thus them turning it off without warning until it's resolved. But, who knows...
I have a Freestyle Edge as well and highly recommend it.
You're invited to perform in The Man's space, under The Man's eyes for The Man's favor, for free.

Meanwhile The Man's using your code to make money replacing you.
It doesn't reason, it produces output that better conforms to your expectations of a reasoning actor.
>Electromagnetic field oscillating over time is radiation: radio waves, light, x-rays, etc.

So they are red shifting or blue shifting the photons? And sending the red/blue shifted photons with a very small time delay?
Do churches fight wars? I thought countries fought wars.
I read on HN that "no code is best code" !
When you hear someone speak, are you thinking their thoughts?

We are talking about a model of language and our expectations for what the words would look like if a person were using language to reason with. People are confusing one thing (their own interpretation of what they are reading) with another (a statistical model that is being driven to align with certain specific human expectations).
Seems a lot more straightforward than running software that changes every 3 days.
have you tried actually running the pc and everything for 30 min on the battery? I also have a UPS that claims a certain wattage and the one time I tried it, it seemed to be losing power very quickly even when I only had my router and modem on it.
You didn't declare it acceptable, but you certainly did engage in an absolutely breathtaking minimization of the impact of specific acts of hatred on someone subject to systemic racism their whole life as "offended by some words and a drawing."
> If the human writer has access to google (everyone in modern society) this point is moot.

But a single human can only read so much information in a finite amount of time (their life). Sure, the same thing applies to LLMs, but the theoretical limits are orders of magnitude higher.

And while this probably isn't what you were talking about, it's also pretty clear that any time-limited task favours LLMs. There's no human on earth that could write a non-trivial short story in 10 seconds, regardless of quality level.
I'm no MSFT fanboi, but how exactly did they do the same thing with VS Code?

Does it have some invite-only open source maintainer mode I haven't unlocked yet?

GitHub is already closed source, more locked down than VS Code.
That private space exists. It is emails.
It does matter, because the flat earther isn't to likely make something up about everything they talk about. They can communicate their world view, and you quickly start to figure out a model of theirs as you talk to them. None of that is true with an LLM. Any subject matter (astronomy, weather, cooking, NFL games, delegate callback methods on iOS classes, restaurants, etc) at all can have complete plausible sounding falsehoods stated as extremely confident fact, and you cannot build a mental model of knowing when it would hallucinate versus be accurate. 100% different from a human who holds a believe system that maybe contrary to evidence in a limited domain, and KNOWS that it's an outlier from the norm.
I'll never understand the "just words" takes I hear all the time.

Everything you've ever said is "just words". Everything someone has said that has hurt you, that has caused fear in you, that evoked love and warmth has ever been " just words".

How many of those words changed your life? The "I dos", the last words, the first words, the words said in a dark alley or the words said to you pushed up against a wall.

Words tell you what someone thinks of you, what they'll do to you.

I, for example, don't think very much of your comment.
If it's a stochastic parrot, then merely randomizing proper nouns and filler text should be enough to prevent its abstraction ability.

If you're saying that we can't use a problem if any analog of that problem has ever been described, you seem to be arguing more strongly that it is a general intelligence than I am.
And I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files
The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)
That's a good distinction to make, like yourself I'm from WA and as native Aussies we're a bit more across the details than most of HN.

For the East coast it's all about having a cap on gas prices and a local set aside.

For outside capital companies like the Japanese gas investors, from their PoV, it's about uncertainity and reduced profits.

They want to buy in at fixed capital costs and in return have a product they can take home (home ground security) and ship about to maximise profits (especially during a war fueled energy hungry period).

With our selfish demands of local resources for local markets at local shop prices coupled with political rumblings that come wih a change of Federal party that (however feasibly) foreshadow a possible greener Australia (hmmm, right?) ... well.

That's enough to have others in the energy pool hedge their bets a little and seek diversity in sourcing, it takes a long time to get new sources and it's no fun running low on energy.
> ... has run unchanged for over 3 decades.

That's a good point.

For the software you worked on, is there some kind of public case story or similar that people can be pointed at to learn more?
The McDonald's coffee incident is often cited as an example of litigation and punitive damages gone mad. Some woman got scalded by her coffee? And she was awarded how much?

It's less often noted just how badly the woman was injured (third degree burns, significant amounts of skin seared off, etc.) and the details of why McDonald's was held liable (dangerous policy, not an isolated mistake).

The details are worth a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...
Hi, HN!

I've been building a suite of developer tools for developers building AI products, and last week, I decided it might be a good idea to start open-sourcing distinct components of the suite that may be useful to the public.

I've just open-sourced [1] and published the first component, which is a minimal and efficient vector math library for JavaScript/TypeScript I'm calling Vek Engine (see: something about two hard things in Computer Science).

Since this is small piece of a much larger codebase that's not polished or even close to ready for public consumption, I had to carefully extract a slightly slimmed down version of the library, but hopefully, it's useful to someone here. One primary/obvious way I've been using it is to process embeddings.

I haven't had a chance to explicitly document the library, but for now, the tests [2] are pretty thorough and should be sufficient for understanding how to use it.

Have fun!

[1]: https://github.com/jonathanmarvens/vek-engine

[2]: https://github.com/jonathanmarvens/vek-engine/blob/646c04941...
Can you recommend some models for the gaming wireless headphones? Are you using Kleer?
To expect that, you would have to assume a level of responsibility to end users that I find highly unlikely at Twitter right now.
> When we think about things, we think in terms of words and language.

This is commonly believed for no reason that I'm aware of. It is obviously not true.
But ultimately it is predicting the next token. That's the taste. Using context from what's already been predicted, what comes before it, attention mechanisms to know how words relate, all of the intermediate embeddings and whatever they signify about the world -- that all just makes the next word prediction that much better.
> there might be a suggestion that being discriminated against is not actually worse than being killed

He very specifically said unless someone is killed.

The awards for deaths are absolutely astronomical. They have often reached into tens of millions all the way up to billions[1].

There's also a lot of historical precedent for racism leading to workplace deaths.

1. https://www.enjuris.com/blog/resources/biggest-wrongful-deat...
> you can find yourself endlessly prompt engineering your long paragraph

I already don't find this to be true most of the time, and I'm sure the tail will shrink to almost nothing very soon

> Is it actually easier or better to write out a whole paragraph describing your query instead of clicking through a few drop-downs?

We'll find out! I bet there will be some cases where a traditional UI actually is still more practical/efficient/intuitive. Ultimately it comes down to finding the most effective formats for getting different kinds of information to and from the computer. It'll be interesting to see where things land; lots of experimentation to be done
My wife (and most other modern women too probably) would add “pockets on everything” and “more than a single dimension on pant sizes”.
Yes, that's annoying. Generally Apple offers refunds for prior repairs (within some window) on service programs?

I'd guess that the compounding exceptions of your situtation (paying for AppleCare in liu of paying for a repair, then that repair being being of a service program) were sufficiently illegible to Apple that you didn't (couldn't?) get a refund.
We had an old dog move in with us and it’s been interesting because it has developed a new dog culture based on my existing dog. It now barks when someone comes home, barks to go outside etc. It didn’t do any of that before but it has started doing it by watching the existing dog communicate and having people who are more attentive to its needs.

Everything I see in dogs suggests that they are sentient, they just don’t seem to need language. They speak when it is useful, like for getting attention from people in different rooms, but they don’t really need it beyond that. So they don’t go any further.
These are workers' comp, not lawsuits. They have nothing to do with this thread.
> voluntarily want to use

No. As an open source user, developer and maintainer, I'm in perpetuity forced to use GitHub because open source companies and projects choose GitHub because they believe GitHub is the place to be / they won't have a community if they are elsewhere (even if they'd otherwise be inclined to use something else). Which I believe is false, but it does not matter, GitHub succeeded in creating this social network with this network effect.

> What do you want Github to do? Stop buding useful things so that they're not better than alternatives?

I want open source infrastructure for the open source world [1].

GitHub could put their actions where their mouth is and be and actually open source company.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...
> that has run unchanged

Exactly. Software that changes as frequently as something like a Twitter (or anything of that ilk) never has the chance to reach that kind of stability. Your thirty-year system wouldn’t have the track record it does under the same set of conditions.

> In other words, "grow as an engineer" means "parroting the lies that keep you employed"?

I’m not sure what kind of leap you’re making, but it seems breathtaking.

In any case, you’ve clearly had the privilege of working on software under vastly different constraints and timeframes. That sounds fun, and interesting, but it’s comparing apples to oranges.
Space mouse for cad. It's pretty wonderful.
It shouldn't even be a US State. Stolen land that should be returned.