skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a rather meaningless term that people are using to describe situations when one of these LLM/AIs generates something that isn't true in a context where they are expecting something true.

What's going on here is that at the simplest level of explanation these models are statistical word generators: you feed some input (words) in and ask the model to generate a word that it thinks is a statistically likely continuation/follow-on to that input. If you want more than one word of output then take the previous output word, add that to the input, and ask the model to generate the next word, etc, etc...

What's happening with "hallucinations" is a bit like when we accuse a human of "starting to speak before engaging their brain"... the model generates words one at a time as asked (i.e. "starts speaking") but isn't explicitly planning ahead (hasn't engaged it's brain) to any great extent.

If it starts down a path of "the source for that is ..." (not because it actually has a source, but rather because it thought it statistically likely that it would be quoting one), then to complete that sentence it's going to have to quote a source - as usual what ever it thinks is most statistically likely in the context (maybe something highly relevant from it's training set, maybe something of poor relevance, or maybe something whose only relevance is that it looks source-y).
You can dismiss it by going to settings, tapping the prompt to set up Siri, then saying you'll "do it later" (again). Annoying AF.

What's been bugging me is that a recent update (16.2?) means there's no way to dismiss the "Set Up Cellular" prompt in Settings anymore on an iPhone with no SIM.

All of this is, frankly, paternalistic bullshit that treats the user like some kind of idiot or sometimes "mark".
As you say, there are advantages and disadvantages. What I don't see is how the bar chart in the tweet justifies the comment above it that "You should be in the US if you're starting an AI company". To be perfectly clear: it doesn't, and if one should move to the US to start an AI company, then the numbers of AI companies already there wouldn't really tell us why.

The error is of the same kind as counting the number of papers published by a researcher, or an institution, or an entire country, as some kind of indication for the quality of the research in those papers.

After all, if we just counted publications in AI journals, China, which is far ahead of all the rest of the world (with 39.87%, vs 10.03% of the US) would appear to be the leader in AI research. And that's according to Figure 1.1.11 in the report

Here's a link to the report btw:

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAI_...
Everyone is different, but it doesn't matter that much.

When you have a small team, you can often organize the work the way people prefer. Then you'll find that people who can be incredibly productive under ideal circumstances are actually quite common.

But as the organization grows, you have to focus more on the process and the structure. Individual productivity doesn't matter if you can't channel that productivity to advance the organization's goals. You rely increasingly on people who can work productively within the system. People who thrive in a wide range of environments, even when they would prefer having things organized in a different way.
It's a bit of fun to see the losing position early and become a nuisance. I can't normally role play or act, but catch me knowing I have no recovery in Catan...
House rules for balance:

- Robber can only target equal or higher VPs

- Building a road within 2 lengths of opponent's settlement, and not in equal proximity to yours, induces a toll of one resource.
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Firmware updates for the BIOS, Embedded Controller and SSD are just a click away with the power of the LVFS.

Pretty awesome to see this become more common.
Reminds me when drivers complain about cyclists breaking the rules of the road all the time without the self awareness that they break the speed limit every day.
If I've read this right, there are three payoffs and the 34 acts are all the times records were falsified while making those payments.
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You can't imagine my frustration at the thought of everyone debating a circle of red light that I am unable to see. It's a pain in the ass to be colorblind.
Catan's trading is a mistake in game design for sure
I've gotten in the habit of doing it the last couple of years as a matter of course, since I wear steel-toed shoes so often. Doubt they'd set the metal detector off, but I'd rather not check.

Would reccommend to anyone who moves servers around frequently.
Whether it's Edge or Chrome it's going to sell you their respective vendor.

Meanwhile, both Edge and Chrome are Chromium.
Of the ten most dangerous US states in 2023 (Alaska, New Mexico, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, South Dakota, Michigan), seven are red states.
But wouldn't it be funny if his indictment ends up a cliche, like Capone's was?
You can buy winter tires with spikes.
USA is the only western country in the top five for historical CO2 emissions since 1850 (unless you consider Brazil a western country):

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-his...
> Playing with three mostly fixes it

Or with the seafarers expansion! It's an almost perfect expansion to an already excellent game.
Coking coal is currently used for iron and steel, but it's not required.
> We were developing nukes in 80s but guy got assasinated (either RU or US).

Link? I’d love to read that story.
This actually looks surprisingly nice... I thought it would appear overly verbose.

Is this mostly "renaming instructions" and adding macros in the same style? A big struggle with assembly for me is simply grepping the syntax (which can also varies wildly across architectures) - this makes it incredibly understandable.

I don't use assembly daily, how well does this work across different instruction sets? Does this fall apart with more complex usages or does it all look relatively sane like this?
Consider that a bike stolen once a year is still 1/10th the cost of car payment+insurance+fuel. Also Lemonade has bike insurance for like $7/month.

It's fine.
The value to humanity of autonomous organisations optimising for profit is not super clear to me.
Had a friend in grad school who was 15 when he entered... had his doctorate by 21.
The overlap in "deployment" between MLOps and Software engineering was hinted at in that well-known 2015 NeuriIPS paper, "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems":

"It may be surprising to the academic community to know that only a tiny fraction of the code in many ML systems is actually devoted to learning or prediction – see Figure 1"

https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2015/hash/86df7dcfd...

PDF: https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd...
But many people who were younger then her remember her during that time period that you say she was only pretending for the taxman.
All of these claims are coming from people who live in another country and never did any investigatory field work in the area. Everyone who actually did the interviews and on the ground investigation came to the conclusion that there was no swap, and that the alleged swap wouldn't have made any sense.
I think you got the wrong thread - you probably meant to post this in the "Who wants to be hired" thread instead, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424805
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Hi all! I'm an early stage investor at FirstMark Capital.

In analyzing over 3,000 financings during my time working on the 2023 MAD Landscape (https://mad.firstmark.com/), I noticed some fascinating trends in how the US and China have taken very different approaches to advancing their respective ML/AI startup ecosystems.

In this two-part series, I explore how China has taken a much more “concentrated” approach to building its ML/AI ecosystem, and how this approach is designed to help China reach technology parity with the US (part 1).

I also highlight the importance (and the urgency) with which the US needs to achieve full semiconductor independence, so that the progress that we’ve enjoyed so far in the fields of ML/AI remain unimpeded (upcoming in part 2).

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Yes, relatively old. The issue is, this approach is designed to work with the “classical” language model, trained using “The Pile” methods. This particular one was Palm 540b.

So essentially you have an approach, designed to work on these models that are not really instruction following models and that truly are stochastic parrots.

The models had changed substantially since. But the approach of chaining them in this particular way stuck. And is getting copied everywhere, without much thought.
I wonder if the name is a Lem reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
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Stop smoking hallucinogens.
It's all the little things. I just set up my first Linux / Windows dual boot laptop to ease my way out of Windows, but my day 1 experience with Linux involved disabling IPv6 so that I could get onto WiFi + internet, disabling the HiDPI daemon so that my screen resolution changes would persist across restarts, and wearing headphones most of the day because the laptop's external speakers don't work out of the box. The Apple-like "everything-included" model might work well for desktop Linux, but the Windows-like "BYO everything" model is still quite rough... and I don't see that changing because it's mostly hardware / driver-related, and there's a constant churn of new devices, chips and accessories.
There are two Javascript alternatives, but how robust the development is remains to be seen:

https://github.com/hwchase17/langchainjs

https://github.com/cfortuner/promptable
I think it has to do with how invested you are in the appearance of the final code. If you're very focussed on getting a result and no more, then GPT is probably very powerful. But if you also care about the "how" of the implementation then you'll probably get frustrated micromanaging GPT. I know I do, but I do find its pretty useful when my memory of how to achieve something is blurry. I know what looks wrong but I don't remember how to make it right.
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Correct. Dogs will vocalize and use touch with one another but the buttons are exclusively (at least from what I've observed) used for communicating with people. Though dogs & cats have specific vocalizations for speaking with people. Though we're now seeing vocalizations in new species that we didn't expect such as plants[1] & turtles[2].

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-record-...
2. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132951238/what-sound-does-a-...
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Well, this is an interesting enough proposition. Let’s do a little research…

TL;DR there are too many factors to determine if the Internet has been an economic
disappointment: change causes loss in productivity at the same time that technology is improving productivity; technology change results in job loss; wealth creation is not equal to productivity increases; economic measurement is not necessarily tooled to measure economic impact of a new tool or capability independently; etc.

According to chatGPT, the Internet has had a significant impact on productivity:

“The internet has had a significant impact on total economic productivity since its widespread adoption in the 1990s. Here are a few ways in which the internet has affected economic productivity:

1. Increased efficiency: The internet has made it easier and faster to communicate, share information, and conduct business transactions. This has led to increased efficiency in many industries, as companies can now communicate and collaborate with partners and customers around the world in real-time.

2. Lowered transaction costs: With the internet, businesses can now conduct transactions online, reducing the need for expensive physical infrastructure and travel. This has lowered transaction costs and made it easier for small businesses to compete with larger ones.

3. Increased competition: The internet has also made it easier for new companies to enter markets, increasing competition and driving innovation. This has led to lower prices for consumers and increased economic growth.

4. Increased access to information: The internet has made it easier for people to access information about products, services, and industries, making it easier for businesses to conduct market research and make informed decisions.

Overall, the internet has had a positive impact on total economic productivity by improving efficiency, lowering transaction costs, increasing competition, and providing greater access to information.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is MFP that should be relevant in looking at the impact of the Internet:

“Multifactor productivity (MFP) growth represents the portion of output growth that is not accounted for by the growth of capital and labor inputs and is due to contributions of other inputs, such as technological advances in production, the introduction of a more streamlined industrial organization, relative shifts of inputs from low to high productivity industries, increased efforts of the workforce, and improvements in managerial efficiency. Similar to labor productivity growth, MFP growth can also be defined as a residual—output growth minus the growth of the combined inputs of labor and capital.”

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/the-us-productivit...

And this article from the SF Fed shows a rather consistent growth rate from roughly 1950 to 2010, and addresses the complexity of the calculation.

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
I am pretty sure we already have e-bikes. There are many different reasons people don't use them though. Safety and theft would be my two, which I don't know if statistically are issues but my mind says riding an ebike at 10+ mph and having an accident will be an issue and that accident will be more likely since it will be ridden on the road with cars that cannot see well in the rain.

And theft seems to be an issue in my area at least from the biking experience my friends have had. They cannot go anywhere without being a target of bike theft.
In the real world, rights confer sentience, that is, in social and legal terms, an entity (an AI, a "native", a slave, etc) having sentience, is the recognition of having such by others.

A person (of class of persons) could have all kinds of inherent sentience, but unless this is recognized by society/laws/government etc, it's as moot as the sound a tree makes when falling in a forrest.

Of course people will say "it was the fact that the class of persons having sentience that made us give them the rights" but that didn't historically stop them treating several classes of people as non-sentient for centuries - and for all practical purposes it was just as if they were indeed so.
WDYM by royal collective?
Sure, I meant the relization of logic in a neural net alike to the human brain.

You could interface a microprcessor with the brain of course, or, much more easily, have some logic functions (like Wolfram alpha for example) be accessible to the LLMs or whatever that are supposed to mimic the brain.

But would that allow for the same integrated functionality? ChatGPT uses such extensions in a serial fashion. Humans ideally (..) learn to integrate logic in their every thought.
Just letting you know that "there's way more crime in blue cities than red cities" to "I want to disenfranchise millions of voters" is an incredible leap.

The more likely conclusion they're drawing is "Democratic policy is a failure and here's the evidence".

Most people are normal. Most people aren't radicals trying to remove the right to vote of millions of people - yes even Trump supporters don't want people in cities to lose the right to vote, they just think they are stupid / voting for bad policy.
Your examples are excellent reasons to do a rewrite. Rewriting code is not always the wrong decision. But in the main, when it seems that a rewrite is warranted, it's a good idea to think long, hard, and objectively about why it seems like a good idea.

> With enough hindsight and careful study, it is entirely possible to avoid the offensive characteristics while doing the same thing.

You're right. I should have been more expansive. The rewrite may not reproduce the same issue (although the odds are good you'll see what the issue was!), but it will have its own issues, and is also likely to eventually also become "offensive" code that a future dev will have the urge to rewrite.

I use the word "offensive" here in a technical sense, not in a judgmental sense. Great code can become offensive with time as requirements, environments, and development methodologies change.

The main thing is that rewriting code is very expensive in both the monetary and risk sense. In the end, it's a question of cost/benefit. If the benefit of a rewrite is less than the cost, then rewriting is the wrong decision.

> bad code is often due to accidental complexity, often brought in by the programmers themselves.

Yes, I agree. And the majority of it turned out bad because of maintenance. Too much duct tape and bubble gum has accumulated over time.
> One overlooked aspect of this humiliating process is that it saps your confidence.

This has been me on occasion during the last couple months of searching. I've been worried that my work history was too disjointed to tell a coherent story. Or that I'm not actually as skilled as I thought. Or that some skills have atrophied. Or they just aren't in demand anymore.

I brought it up to a career coach (part of my severance package) and she seemed to think I was overqualified for a couple of them. I'm not sure that's true, and suspect she doesn't grok tech enough to make that assessment. But even if she's right, hell, something straightforward where I'm "overqualified" sounds kind of nice.
Sometimes they don’t even send the monument and you’re just stuck with a random plinth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo
The ending in the book is more rational and disillusioned. Bleak is probably the wrong term. Though for me it is now also long since I watched the movies or read the book.

The direct Johnston translation is also available as ebook, the Kindle version uses it. I just looked at it and the writing is still not super fluent for my taste. But this might be due to the fact that it was a mid-early Lem novel. In his later (especially more humorous) books, his writing style got much more witty and playful.
First off the allegation isn't pension fraud, it's inheritance tax dodging. Or sometimes it's claims about tuberculosis that don't make sense. Secondly as I have said the whole swap thing has been investigated by multiple people, all who came to the conclusion that no swap took place. Furthermore since the people saying it was a swap are the ones making a claim and have literally 0 evidence, at a certain point you just have to accept that a woman lived slightly longer then anyone else.
Urbanized areas isn't what you think. I looked up several small town around me and they are all known for being agriculture towns, and they all qualify as urbanized areas. Some of them don't have proper grocery stores. These towns are miles away from the next town. They are in that 80% of urbanized America. America is huge.

Page 3 details how the definition is arrived at.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
U-root implementation: https://github.com/u-root/u-root/blob/main/cmds/core/cat/cat...
> It’s not just that it’s a big spend, but it’s a big spend on something 75% of people don’t use even if you did it.

Are we to take your word that 75% of the people won't use it? Countries like the Netherlands and Denmark show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it. And the health and environmental benefits are enormous.

And even if only 25% of the people use it, shouldn't they get 25% of the spend?

> Sure if you are young and live in San Francisco or New York City, this might seem reasonable. But for the other 80% of America, who are old enough that simply falling off of a bike could cause real injuries, or live somewhere not dense enough to really get anywhere this way, or don’t want to ride a bike in the snow, especially in a city that may not be particularly great at removing it (which is almost all but the biggest of them)

80% of the population in the US lives in cities. The median age is 39. So, no way 80% of the population fit your description. In cycling countries like the Netherlands and Denmark, even 80-year-olds cycle.

> or don’t want to ride a bike in the snow, especially in a city that may not be particularly great at removing it

Ask the Finnish how they do. They have no problem to cycle in the snow. You can change the way your city manages the snow.

> Cars may be environmentally awful, but they’re great in basically every other way,

1.3 million people get killed worldwide by cars every year. A multiple of that get maimed. I wouldn't call that basically great. If you count the time spent in traffic, you are wasting millions of lives more each year.

Electrifying has huge environmental costs. E.g. the Polestar 2 has a lifecycle cost (over 200.000kms) of 50 tons of CO2e compared to 58 tons for a Volvo XC40 ICE [1].

[1] https://www.polestar.com/dato-assets/11286/1630409045-polest...
I'm not signed into iCloud on the main account on my mac. It brings some annoyances but in general it works remarkably fine.

One day I desperately needed something from the App store, so I made another account to sign in there. Ever since then I've been getting a "sign into you account" badge on my Settings app prompting me to remove it from the dock.
It’s a classic tragedy of the commons: individual managers at Microsoft can abuse the reputation of their org for personal gain.

All of these moves I call “KPI features”, as in: “I have to make this worse to meet my personal bonus criteria, sorry.”

There are so many dark patterns in Windows now because of this.

Nobody at Microsoft cares about the products at all any more.
As you have noticed, the last paragraph is about other types of automation during the industrial age than the steam engine.