skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parrot will on every occasion that it stumbles, let out a surprised "Oh!" followed by a "Good boy!" when he gets back up again. I didn't sit around all day teaching him to say "Oh!" whenever I pushed him off the branch and praise him when he got back up again. I also don't tell myself I'm a "Good boy!" whenever I get back up from a stumble (which thankfully doesn't happen often at home to begin with).
I'm sure my parrot doesn't know what "Oh!" or "Good boy" means, that is what the words mean in a human context. I'm also sure that he doesn't know what snapping finger noise followed by a stern "Ah-ah!" means, but he has used that on one occasion when he was mad at me and wanted to tell me to back off if I treasured the skin on my hands. (A learned behaviour from his first and previous owner).

...but at the end of the day, speech is in many ways "just" a series of correct sounds at correct times in correct situations, right? Does my parrot have a conversation with me? Well yes, sometimes, but not with words. Does my parrot mimic human words and phrases? Also yes, and sometimes in the most perfect situations possible.
This is the FUNNIEST comment I have ever read on Hacker News! Next level sarcasm.
It goes for Large Language Models as it goes for everything else: Garbage in, garbage out.

This article and its author really misses the point.

> This is just obviously not even a plausible simulacrum of a conversation.

It is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be an interactive search engine. Bing with a layer of GPT on top or however you would like to abstract it. It is trained, like chat-gpt is, to give responses in a particular structure and with a strict ruleset of what it should not allow the user to request etc.

I enjoy reading, but this article - Sorry to say its just messy and tries too hard to up the Lix score.
Really expensive accidents that cost money and very few lives. Meanwhile, coal had gotten a pass on hundreds of years of added costs to healthcare and loss of life expectancy.
So you don't _have_ to replace everything. But there's a compelling economic argument in upgrading the components in the Solar array as better ones become available.

I guess you don't need permits for upgrading to newer components.
Throwback to a past where you cloud remove the audio player and replace it with one you bought, all for not that expensive.

Modern cars, like all tech, are losing customizability and repairability in favor of slick designs and vendor control. I just hope the car-equivalent of tower PCs never fully go away.
*InverseCramerGPT is what you’d want chuckle
I've seen ADHD person explain this as having every reason to do the task, know that they need to get started now, and yet, just can't get around to do it. I've certainly felt that in some scenarios in my life. It's like getting the timing to start doing the task is impossible and everything else, no matter how mundane, seems safer and more fulfilling to do.

It's like you are missing the drive to get that thing done to the point that your brain just tricks you into thinking that anything remotely productive seems more important and better to get started on now than the actual task. To me this is a rare occurrence, hence why I think I am not a ADHD person.

The problem to me is that this difficulty is hard to differentiate from self-discipline.

I suspect you will be less likely to feel that inability to get around to do the tasks that you know to be important to do it if you fail in a way that life itself, the universe, hurts you for the failure, as opposed to your boss saying "you're fired for showing up late".

I also suspect that some people use religion to fix this: Like picturing a higher being looking down and saying "Wherefore dost thou not now do that which thou must? Else, I shall smite thee from the heavens or cause thee great trouble in the afterlife."
I'm not sure I want to be on the same public roads with anyone that thinks they need "handling" there.
Show HN: Bounie – The open news source (with an AI reporter)
Hey everyone! This is my project Bounie I recently launched. Bounie is a news website where anyone can contribute to the stories. Bounie is inspired by open source software and websites like Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary.

Some notable features:
- It all starts with creating a catchy headline. Users can then come together to contribute to that story.
- Articles are made up of dynamic feeds of user contributed information instead of traditional walls of text.
- Comments are a part of the article, not a separate section.
- I'm testing out an AI reporter that responds to each new user submitted headline with its opinion on it to get the conversation started.

Please let me know what you think of Bounie! What do you think of the concept of articles being crowdsourced? Do you like the AI reacting to each headline or do you think it is unnecessary?
Simple: never listen to influencers about anything. They are not your friends. They are paid to sell you things, and in almost all cases, with zero disclosure of that.
I tend to agree, but maybe AI can find patterns/correlations/etc that Humans wouldn't think of? Not sure we're there just yet, but this might be a step in that direction
TLDR - Bloomberg trained an LLM 700 billion words of their own clickbate, and now it produced clickbate even better that chatGPT. Also, it's an ad for bloomberg terminals.
I thought it was common in most companies to have a little "hub" where your office/section/area printers are housed. Here is where you'd normally look to find a stapler, tape, or any other supplies needed for printing. I don't even know who I'd talk to if I needed to borrow a stapler, just find it yourself at the printing kiosk and leave it there for the next guy.
Heads up: several positions are listed with a broken link under Perks & Compensation (they all point to http://0.0.0.0:3000/careers/#perks-amp-benefits). For example, https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUI/dffc8ead-fab1-4a07-8b44-a932e28...
Sounds like a low cpu overhead compression approach would have helped here, something like lossy lz4 :)
I'm calling it a distortion, because it's often used as a dishonest portrayal of how prevalent gun violence is in the US. Usually by the media, who wants attention grabbing headlines, and don't really care how the numbers are manipulated to peddle to their readers' selection bias.
> There's a fine line between "marketing" and lying, and this is plainly on the wrong side of it.

Of course, I'm aware. I questioned him about it and he just shrugged it off like it was nothing...I'm no saint, but I found that pretty repulsive.
Right, as a human, I would presumably learn French for a variety of reasons, including overlap of vocabulary, a familiarity with French loan-words in English, and a very human general inability to memorize or even think in numbers well.

This is the mistake people keep making, literally anthropomorphizing LLMs! Because humans would find it easier to just learn the meanings of French words than regurgitate from a gigantic table of memoized tokens, these results must reflect understanding!

But of course, it's far, far easier for a computer to index a large number of tokens without any understanding at all than it would be for a person. Computers are not people. They have different strengths and weaknesses, and it is a mistake to forget that. (Ironically, one of our human weaknesses is also a strength: our pattern-matching skills are so strong we sometimes see Jesus in toast, or a face on Mars, when neither are actually there!)

What I described is literally how LLMs works. There is open source code to examine, and what it does is essentially what I said: tokenize words and store multi-word strings and identify their prevalence in training data, where the training data is an incredibly large corpus.

The experiment is about finding one missing word in a sentence, but the same logic is true even for long responses, or as I suggested, conversations.

To over-simplify: humans think in words, computers think in math. But it turns out that if you assigned a number to each word and parse enough of them, you can fake an understanding of words surprisingly well, even though it's still math.

I've given example elsewhere in this thread and on previous ones about the March 14 Chat-GPT giving incontrovertibly false information, even repeatedly in the face of correction, or seeming to correctly identify a popular logic puzzle while breaking the rules of the puzzle three times, then seeming to claim it had followed the rules of the puzzle.

> So Consider that as an existence proof that even if you "train to predict" you can still end up with actual understanding.

As a human, that is often true. Humans have trouble with arbitrary data, and it helps us to connect new data to existing data. In addition, we generally have a curiosity that prompts us to pursue new knowledge and meaning wherever possible, even when it doesn't actually exist. But if you're trying to suggest that because it is possible that humans can develop understanding while trying to only "train to predict," therefore it is probable that computers will develop understanding along the same lines, I suggest that's about three leaps too far.
But the situation you describe only makes it look real if you were trained incorrectly, so that's a very important factor.
The ship building industry is alive and well here in the PNW. I think the biggest threat is the work force. Many people are retiring and we're not doing enough to back fill what we're losing. Add that the Jones Act keeps international companies from being part of the process and we're going to run into a wall very soon.

Innovation is coming, but the labor unions are apprehensive. We have literally heard them say that they don't fear automation and innovation, but "put a steering wheel on it." That's such a short sided perspective and if it doesn't change soon, we're going to see a very crippled industry being outsourced by international companies.
How to Learn to Draw Anything
I think one of our main innovations is how to make a very tall and rigid sail without a rigid mast. But you're right, once we figured out how we can roll up a 60m sail into a small package it was obvious to put it in a cargo container.
This is HN, we should be able to find the numbers. How many people live in rural Australia and have no access to grid power? Of those how many could greatly benefit from a high speed low latency internet connection?

I know Australia does keep population statistics, and surely if it is indeed not uncommon for people to do remote work from areas without connection to grid power, somebody must have done a survey, otherwise you’d just be guessing.
I use my monitors in portrait mode. Some tools aren't great with it, but when I'm editing a doc it's amazing to be able to see two whole sheets of paper-worth of text.
> that's a lot more justifiable than boycotting states that don't allow trans activism in schools.

Why? I personally take persecuting kids very seriously. I also take violationg the constitution seriously.
Many people who teach, especially in this space, are shitty teachers. This doesn't mean teachers are always shit.

The right mentor with the right amount of the right advice will save you weeks/months/years of pain when taking a specific path, by putting you on the right path, connecting you to the right people, and saving you from mistakes that could cost you a lot mentally, financially, temporally.
To this day, martial arts like Aikido incorporate a shout (in Aikido, it's called "kiai") to boost the impact of a move.
I bet you can definitely get some insights from social media. Especially for HFT.
But didn't the article say that this software used a customized version of DECtalk with Hebrew phonemes and finer pitch control?
Does it fine tune the model or just learn like a plug-in?
Aladdin isn’t an AI, just a codename for the platform and data-model.
You seem to misunderstand that this is the purpose of censorship by China. It makes political opposition "taboo". To criticize the leader is to seem "dirty", "sus", and "rude".

The rest is done by the desire for social acceptance.

Midjourney is playing directly into China's censorship.

If homosexuality makes people uncomfortable in the Middle East, should Midjourney ban non-sexual depictions of same-sex couples?
^this. And also they soon realize you need a whole lot more money than you thought to retire early.

Blind is riddled with these folks too.
What most people call "science" is itself a form of social reasoning. Unless you yourself are building the instrument, collecting the data, and analyzing the data, you are using social heuristics to guide your belief about something based on what others believe (who may have done one or more of those steps).
Former limb-regenerator.
One difference is that in the late 90s, Microsoft themselves offered a non-crufty alternative. NT4 was pretty solid and feee of distractions and fluff, but at the cost of requiring better hardware and not always playing nicely with others (eg drivers). Tbh, it reminds me of Linux: when Win11 finally drives professional users crazy, it seems to be linux that they turn to, and linux on the desktop is about the level of (relative) maturity that NT4 was to 95.
Fatter recruits now welcome as Air Force revises its rules
I'd be interested in how people parse text off a PDF. I'm making a TTS tool to convert documents (mainly HTML docs at the moment) to speech, PDF's would be a great addition.
Such can be muted with proper nutrition. The brain runs on carbs. Efficient diet keeps blood from being redirected to digestion while still getting energy and nutrition?

Further, acetylcholine and nootropics switch to protein burning (makes more carbs instead of burning fat) when carbs run low. That is, the brain has better and more consistent fuel.

Steady blood sugar, stable digestion, easy digestion, and acetylcholine/protein- based backup fueling, and proper nutrition makes it easier to work through marathons. Same with creating a good work environment.

Many aren't even nutrient sufficient. That is, they have deficiencies and aren't meeting all RDAs. See: CRON-o-meter. Common ones are vitamin D3 (+ K2) and magnesium, net alkaline PRAL score, and more calcium than phosphorus.
They can be aligned. Faster feature development both provides more utility to the users and attracts new users which is good for the business.
This model is surprisingly resistant to jailbreaks. Can anyone get any to work via the web UI? https://chat.lmsys.org/

I tried a few from https://www.jailbreakchat.com/ and it refused them all. Interesting.
It breaks so many things. E.g. Google Docs.
What you are arguing is that we should be a low trust society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_socie...

No. The government should provide consequences for those who violate trust promoting the idea that I can trust someone else who is from the same society I am.

Here is a game that shows what happens at a societal level when doctors lie or mechanics over charge: https://ncase.me/trust/

In the game of prisoners dilemma, society itself must ensure that defection is a losing strategy. This idea has a name: rule of law.
In my experience people who take adderall while partying do it to stay awake longer to party with other drugs or booze. In practice for most people that “high” isn’t really a thing. At least not with anyone I know who is prescribed it or sometimes takes it recreationally. Meth on the other hand? Yeah that’s going to give you a very noticeable high.
It looks like a staged training photo in just about every way.
ChatGPT has the same problem & benefit of people who sound smart, but aren't really. They are "educated" and can regurgitate cool-sounding words, but often aren't able to make connections between concepts.
The sloped face in your example is a fair demonstration of how a straightforward prompt is not being well rendered in Firefly.

However, I believe it is unfair to hold it to such high standards or compare it to Midjourney. It is new beta software and other AI image generating products have had this same problem and managed to resolve it in less than a year. I'm certain Adobe will keep working on the Firefly image pipeline until it produces decent results.
I've heard that the big issue is when people provide unreliable assistance but require significant up-front investment in time from the charity.

Nonprofits don't want to spend a significant amount of time in meetings figuring out how that ideal app should work if there's a realistic chance you'll end up too busy to implement it.
Interesting aspect I wasnt aware of. What could a positive externality of e.g. co2 emission be? What of "fun" hobby noise? Do you have other examples?

It wouldnt work to make a net calculation with its costs?
Can't say is a so-called white lie, its why the more diplomatic cannot confirm or deny is preferred. OP refers to lying as saying A while its nowhere near the truth. For example, all that RU propaganda is an entire different league.

UA have a nice way of summarizing: its complicated. Also a white lie. Both are show stoppers, they don't encourage further dialog.
In case you don't know, you probably don't need to pump your tire up to the stated pressure on the side of it.

Check out these guides for more specific numbers, but generally if you're ~160lbs, you can get away with 80psi or lower when running tires wider than 25mm.

https://silca.cc/pages/sppc-form

https://axs.sram.com/guides/tire/pressure
>So you think they possibly saved 9950 lives, yet a vastly greater number live in poverty and a huge proportion of them are children with no access to healthcare and education, many of them begging in the streets. But yes let's give India a round of applause for finding a minor benefit to their $2bn spending on space exploration (also ignoring the fact that they are not really achieving new science that is not or could not be done by more developed nations).

perhaps the time has come to ask a similar question. why is there a need to spend $93 billion on a vanity project when so many are begging in the streets?
What answer would help you the most?
Boo, nothing interesting here. Just a bad and uninformed use case of GPT-4.
I think this kinda misses the point. Any one, or even most, of these cutbacks can be seen as reasonable - the details are almost unimportant. It's just that whenever (and I mean like 100% of the time) I've seen this focus on cost cutting minutia (and by "focus" I don't mean there was a board meeting about it, just that it had reason to bubble up to a widely-distributed memo), it's the beginning of the end for the company: they've jumped the shark from the "innovation" stage of a company to purely the "financialization" stage.

Now, one could argue that Google has been going down this path for a while, but I still think it's a sad sign. What I think is even sadder is that I haven't seen anything come out of Google in the past couple years that clearly and clear-headedly addresses some of their well-known cultural problems (that are often discussed on HN). For example, if Google senior management said they were totally overhauling their "promotion-oriented development" style, or that they were finally deciding on a better way to handle "Killed by Google" products so that customers aren't scared to try their new stuff in the first place, or that they were becoming more forthcoming in their roadmap visibility, I'd be thrilled. But instead we get the oldest-of-old-school "cost cutting will continue until morale improves" MBA spiel.
> Visualization of an imaginary circle between the opponents to conceptualize distance and movement

> Use of off-line footwork to obtain a favorable angle of attack

Sounds a lot like textbook Eve Online combat too!
I think you misunderstood my point. I wasn't trying to argue for Java over Erlang. The people writing Java will continue writing Java, and people writing Erlang will continue doing that.

I was merely pointing out that at this point, the JVM offers a great platform for Erlang itself, which could both increase its visibility and give it a technological boost. You could have everything be Erlang, top to bottom, with far better performance than BEAM could ever achieve, less work, and better interop with where a lot of people actually are.

There could be some disadvantages but overall I think it would be a great opportunity, and one that Erlang could really use.

> And that's exactly why almost every JVM language (except Java) is a DSL.

Other JVM languages choose to have "exceptions in Java" because it's so much less work for them to use existing libraries and they consider it a small enough price to pay. But even if you want virtually all of it to be Erlang, it would still be less work than BEAM.

You could even control exceptions and stack traces, as that's programmable:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/java.base..., https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/java.base...()
Quant firms been looking for signal on social media for well over a decade at this point. It's not new.
Could you care to explain why you expected the comment to be about the conclusion of the article instead of an opinion about the comment it was replying to?
Koko's language skills were misrepresented in a pretty extreme way. Very few recordings of Koko communicating anything more than short phrases were ever released, and those that were never demonstrated much more than word association. I've met dogs and pigs that were able to go fetch the "carrot" versus the "bunny" stuffed animals based on verbal commands, but I'm not going to claim that constitutes mastery of language.

Koko primarily communicated via repeating individual words that she'd been able to correlate with getting immediate effects. "Food", "Water", etc. When she did use multi-word phrases, they had no semblance of grammar: human babies will quickly work out the difference between "Me bite him" and "him bite me", whereas Koko never did. Frankly, despite being billed as a decisive blow against the Chomsky school of linguistics, Koko probably stands as strong evidence for it.

IMO, the massive complexity gap between human-level language compared to the relatively tight pack of merely possessing vocabulary animals, pretty directly correlated with levels of problem solving skills and tool use, should signal that there's something to the idea that our cognitive and language abilities are pretty closely linked. Mimicking human behavior may not be necessary for intelligence, but some kind of language likely is.
This is the moment that I realized ChatGPT is probably smarter than me. Source: my comment history[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kelseyfrog
I need adderall to function but on my last refill the pharmacy was out and when I asked when they’ll get more the tech said “maybe next year?”. I got my doc to switch me to vyvanse which is 3x the price even with good insurance since it’s still brand only. I don’t like vyvanse compared to plain generic adderall but I’ll take what I can get.

Seems like they’d make dispensing it harder rather than just cut off the supply to everyone.
McCarthy to meet with Taiwanese president in visit China calls a 'provocation'
Yes, the output always feels to me like a reasonably clever and informed person just bullshitting; as someone prone, it's familiar.
But, good-sounding shallow thinking is still pretty dang useful.
Who is this talking to me?
> alerts that go out to cell phones probably reach more people than radio.

Only if the disaster is mild enough that cell phones still work. And let's not forget that there are enormous areas of the US where there is no reliable (or any) cell service.

I'm just hoping that for disaster communications, nobody is actually deciding to cut some people off just because there aren't enough of them.
Why does this make it worse? People who can override the DNS server their ISP advertises over DHCP can't just install an open CA, or use a browser that lets them bypass certificate verification?