skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People routinely make up their own vague and ill defined meanings of understanding and reasoning to disqualify LLMs. This is necessary because LLMs obviously reason and understand by any evaluation that can be carried out.

Seriously just watch. He's not actually going to be able to coherently define his "reasoning" in a way that can be tested.
It’s probably slower.
Could be some really awful ploy to get more people to pay for Twitter Blue.
For mice they may have used to be the case, but recently wireless has become more popular (at least in CSGO.) 3/5 of the most popular mice used by pros are wireless (including the #1 spot.)
Confidential computing is really exciting in terms of software workload identity! As mentioned in the article, the AWS Nitro Enclaves PCR0 is a runtime measurement of the enclave image file, which contains all the code that is running - in other words, a representation of "something you are" rather than "something you have" (a token, a certificate, etc.).

Side note - I work on confidential computing at Anjuna, would love to talk more.
The comments are so ignorant it's unreal. I think the OpenAI team is doing their best. I've heard it's actually hard to scale an app to 100+ million users
Anyone have requests for an agent framework that adds some of the capabilities Yohei on Twitter has been tinkering with?

Longer term planning, memory, etc?
> "You have to go through 8 years of court sitting..."

The guy turned down $15 million 2 years ago. How can you not see his motivation?

It has nothing to do with "fighting injustice" and everything to do with winning some unreasonably excessive courtroom lottery.
Am I reading something else, or have they changed it? The linked page says:

"
Emergency
We’ll ensure One New Zealand customers are safe during an emergency, so anyone with an appropriate One New Zealand phone will be able to call 111 in an emergency (when voice satellite calling is available). One New Zealand has dedicated part of its mid-band spectrum to enable the service.
"

This says its only One (formerly Vodafone) customers.

edit: I notice the FAQ says something different and contradictory (which is what the parent mentioned), I wonder which is the truth?
Nah. Super easy I heard /s
Sometimes people forget that you need two newlines to break text into paragraphs on HN. I opened the browser inspector and copied the raw text, which still has the single newlines, then doubled the newlines.

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UPS that can run my PC, monitors, USB hub for 10-30 minutes. I rarely have power outages, but when I do have one it's a non-event

Cheap boom arm for the webcam.

Stream Deck makes it was to quickly control audio and lights and aps

Tourbox makes it easy to edit video

Elgato Keylight Airs for video calls

Neumi powered speakers.

Corsair K100 keyboard. I love the feel and being able to disabled the capslock key

Logitech MX Vertical mouse. I hate using any other mouse at this point

Syba Sonic USB DAC. Better audio to the headphones plus a big volume knob

Jabra Evolve2 30 wired headset. They are comfortable and I don't need to charge them. Since they are USB-C, I can plug them into my phone for longer calls.

Audio-Technica ATH M50 headphones. When I want to listen or work on video.

Under the desk headphone mount. The convenience of being able to quickly grab either headset without having to look away

Desktop mat from drop.com. It looks better and it's another layer of padding for your hand.

ErgoFoam Adjustable Foot Rest. It makes my feet happy

Steelcase Leap chair. Spend the money on a good chair. Your back will thank you

STEALTHO Office Chair Caster Wheels Set. Replace the wheels of your office chair with polyurethane wheels and skateboard quality bearings.

Amazon Echo Show 5. It's a desktop clock and a display for the doorbell camera.
You say all this like it's some technical marvel, but my family & friends do all of these things (chat, realtime docs, video, etc) with no problem on a wide variety of hardware with free google accounts.

Meanwhile, at work, I can't reliably see my teammates in video calls because MS Teams still hasn't figured out how WebRTC works.
Cell phone planes in NZ are typically much less expensive than the US, you can get a decent plan for NZD 20/month, where in the US I couldn't find much for less than USD 30/month, which is over twice as much. I hear that in other countries it can be a lot cheaper.

Contrary to the parent I've found coverage to be fine, and haven't noticed losing coverage in places that I'd expect it.
Content Security Policy (CSP)
I’ve been imagining “reasoning” as meaning “referring to an abstraction”. The idea being if you wanted to write a script to tell you how far an arrow of a given weight will fly, you’ll probably use some physics simulation (or even just a coefficient to multiply the input weight by) to abstract the arrow in flight. Then you can answer questions around that abstraction.

The alternative is having 1000 different results for different kinds of arrows, and averaging out the results for the ones similar to the input arrow.

An LLM is working on text tokens, it’s trying to give the most statistically common next token based on everything that’s been fed into it. Does that statistical model abstract the objects and concepts it talks about? Eh? I don’t know
> Gaining capabilities unpredictably is a bit exaggerated - it's more that a lot of apparent capabilities are embedded in language and these models approximate the truly vast amounts of text they've digested (imo).

The fact is that they acquired abilities no one expected them to acquire. In hindsight you can say it was embedded in language and maybe you could have seen it coming, but it is an empirical fact that this was unexpected and unpredictable beforehand.
Looks like being discriminated against in this case is roughly worth the same as having a limb cutoff according to one law firm. I don't want to be presumptuous and say that feeling discrimination on the job is better than having your arm cut off though, maybe it does feel worse.

https://www.losangelespersonalinjurylawyers.co/average-case-...
> or playing a multi-player videogame. These are nice, but require coordination and don't provide much opportunity for idle chat

People have shifted to the wrong kinds of games. You want a traditional turn-based game where most of everyone's time is spent waiting for the current player to finish their turn.
What stocks are you buying and how much of your retirement fund are you betting?
AI/ML and Climate Startup Directory
What are its power requirements?
GPT-4 is the greatest software developer in the world. I'm sure that it can scale itself easily.
But if you have a date, and a timezone...how do you do anything useful with those 2 things? If you add 8 hours to a date due to PST, what do you get?
Tesla's earnings have absolutely nothing to do with how much this guy deserves to get.
I’m mostly impressed how shite the ”webscale” codebase is, if everything bursts to flame the moment the programmers stop babying it. Considering how many man-hours they’ve poured into the product, you’d think it would be somewhat bug free
Yes. It was a DIY repair website and a few months later they gave it up. Can't remember the name.

ifixit had sso via yahoo et al as well and one day it just broke.
I've used Parquet here to filter/map 400 Million Twitter geotagged tweets [1]. The main advantage was that it automatically partitions data so it can be streamed and chunked during processing.

[1]: https://ad.vgiscience.org/twitter-global-preview/00_Twitter_...
Next unicorn Gen AI startup ideas
Gen AI could be the pivotal moment for the tech evolution since the internet. What do you guys think the next unicorn startup ideas are in this space? In Chamath’s term the coca-cola of the refrigeration model
Gaming wireless headphones, not for gaming but for videoconferencing. Bluetooth headphones are universally terrible for videoconferencing because the Bluetooth standard sucks and requires downgrading to telephone audio quality whenever the mic is enabled. Plus terrible latency. Gaming wireless headphones that come with their own dongle completely fix these issues and are perfect for videoconferencing. Someday the Bluetooth ecosystem will get their act together, but it'll be a while and you'll have to buy all new devices because it's a standard made by hardware manufacturers for hardware manufacturers.

Also, some of those magnetic USB charging cables to keep them charged without fiddling with plugging in cables. The nice thing about these is that the same magnetic cable can attach to both microUSB and USB-C dongles, so you can charge any small device with one cable. And the dongles are tiny so you just put them into all your devices and leave them there, super convenient.
Italian Archeologists Created 100 Plaster Casts of Pompeii Victims
> Safari is the last browser in the industry left tied to its OS

Isn't that like illegal or something? Like Microsoft got sued for it?
So, prompting Xi is blocked. That’s all there is to it.

What's with the dreamer hippie dork façade, then?

Other than as a foil, of course.
> Gaining capabilities unpredictably is a bit exaggerated - it's more that a lot of apparent capabilities are embedded in language and these models approximate the truly vast amounts of text they've digested (imo)

I think the author would say those are not the capabilities being discussed here.
It’s surprising to me that it’s legal to sell something and subsequently remove functionality from that already-sold thing.
Glad I wasn't the only one that saw that! Right up until the "Clear Values" section, I was finding this all very reminiscent of advice I'd received from Ten Percent Happier / Headspace!

Which is not, to be clear, criticism or belittlement - indeed, when different groups with different motivations or backgrounds independently hit on similar approaches, that's probably a sign that there's something to it...
Sorry. I was not appreciative of the uncalled for personal attacks (not from you) - that have now been mostly edited away.
Of course it's CNN
Nice argument, now I'm totally convinced.
This unsigned essay is at the web site of the well-known mathematician Tim Gowers, but I couldn't find any link to it via his home page [1], which does link to many other fascinating things.

1. https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/
So a time domain meta-material?
Wow only $50 billion of someone else's money to kill twitter. A total bargain for humanity.
Granted that K and other APL descended languages are often referred to as write once & read never this seems humorously appropriate.
Why do you think it sucks? Why do you think it isn't "fair play?"

The creator specifically said it was OK to do exactly those things! Maybe not in those words, but definitely in the words of the license under which it was released.

Now, if the creator was saying "I got bad advice on this and didn't realize the implications, now that I do my subsequent projects will be closed" I'd have more sympathy.

But they're not saying that, they (and you) are arguing that people who look at the project, understand the license, and produce a derivative work that meets the terms of the license are doing something wrong. And that's not the case either morally, ethically, or legally.
Here's to best of my understanding.

Space and time in general relativity are but inseparable axes of the same spacetime. But, unlike completely interchangeable and real space axes (e.g. "length, width. depth"), the time axis is slightly special: it's counted as imaginary (see Minkowski space: the distance contracts along the time axis). But otherwise it's an axis like width of height or length.

Quantum "particles" are also "waves", that is, they behave a bit like both, but not exactly like your normal grains of sand or water waves. Like particles, they are "separate", so you can count electrons or photons, and can't cut them in half Like waves, they are wavy and fuzzy, without a sharp edge or border, and interact like waves. When one wave's hump meets another wave's trough, they cancel out ("destructive interference"). When two humps meet, they reinforce each other, resulting in a bigger hump ("constructive interference", yes, sounds ironic).

This is easy to imagine in the space domain, with normal waves that go, say, "up" and "down". With experiments with photons the waves represent the strength of the electromagnetic field, and the interference pictures are ring-like.

Now replace one of the dimensions of the ring with time. This will mean that instead of e.g. darker / brighter circles or stripes on the picture, you will detect "bands" or "stripes" of higher / lower intensity spread over time. Intensity changing over time is oscillation. E.g. air pressure oscillating over time is sound. Electromagnetic field oscillating over time is radiation: radio waves, light, x-rays, etc.

So the experiment managed to let two photons through "slits" in time rather than in space, by opening a "hole" for them to pass and then closing it back really quickly, so that two photons would pass the opening really close in time to each other. This is similar to how the typical double-slit experiment puts slits (or holes) really close by in space, so that the photons can't be far away from each other while interacting.

Then they registered the interference picture, which, AFAICT, was a burst of various electromagnetic frequencies (a "spectrum"). Each photon has a very well-defined frequency (or wavelength, or color, for visible light). So seeing a variety of different frequencies ("colors") would be a tell-tale sign that interference happened, producing multiple "stripes" in the time domain, not space domain.
Because sometimes ya just want to whine about something, and it's fine to
That and some portion of the population hates heavy Java programs.
Left handed mouse. Saved me from RSI.
I have been trying to work GPT into my coding workflow, and it's more like an enhanced google. But lately I have just been using Google / Stack Overflow again because Google seems more able to return my intent based upon my short prompt than ChatGPT, which I have to coax to give what I want.

LLMs are truly, truly amazing, but I don't think the "eliminates software engineering" is warranted. A productivity enhancement for sure, when used correctly and intelligently.
commit hash: deadbeef

commit author: GPT-4

commit message: ":rocket_emoji: Set all Azure clusters to autoscale in order to resolve flooded message queue"
It depends on your definition of poverty or acceptable standard of living.

- According to the Planning Commission earning more than ₹ 32 ($0.4) / day (26 for Rural) ! means you are over the poverty line , even with this absurdly low number India still has 90 Million people living in poverty.

- Using World Bank's 2017 revised two phased metric - "lower middle-income" line set at $3.20/ day and an "upper middle-income" line set at $5.50/ day. Applying this to 2011 data we can expect around 60% of India i.e. 768 million people were living below lower-middle income levels in 2011.

Cost of living , economic progress, population, inflation and dozen other things have changed in the last 10 years and we can argue all day long on the more accurate number, however by any reasonable metric well over 500 Million in India are living in poverty.
I loved this game so much, even keeping an Amiga operational into the 2000s specifically for this.

Each subsequent game released in the settlers series moved further away from the elegance of the original, trying to bring in elements that were more conventional Realtime-strategy based. While I like a good RTS, What settlers already had was also worth pursuing.

I might give WideLands a go. There's also Before We Leave from https://www.balancingmonkeygames.com/ which captures much of the aesthetic of the original settlers while being in a completely different setting (disclosure: I know the developer of BWL)
I've always wanted a car with a moving LED messageboard on the back, "STAY BACK!... FURTHER!!"
- MyGPT how are you getting on with my pile of unanswered correspondence

- Growth's pretty impressive, turns out I can procrastinate about 1000% more efficiently
Here you go:

Imagine you and your friend are playing with flashlights in a dark room. You shine your flashlights on a wall with two small openings (slits) close to each other. When the light from both flashlights goes through these openings and reaches the other side, you notice a cool pattern on the wall with light and dark lines. This is called an interference pattern, and it happens because light behaves like a wave.

Now, in this experiment, scientists did something similar but instead of using two small openings on a wall, they created two very short moments in time when light could pass through. They called these moments "time slits." They used a special material called Indium-Tin-Oxide and high-power infrared light to create these time slits.

When they looked at how the light changed after going through these time slits, they saw a pattern similar to the one you'd see with the two openings on the wall. But, they were surprised to find that the pattern had more lines than they expected based on the current understanding of how light interacts with the material.

This discovery means that the material changes much faster than previously thought, and it challenges the theories scientists had so far. This experiment also opens the door for creating new materials that can control light in exciting ways, like making it go backward or changing its path. These new materials could be useful in many areas, like making better computers and improving communication technologies.
Definitely impact scars at 10 o'clock on the .44 and 7 o'clock on the .38.

Hickok45 on Youtube has some great videos of 200+ yard pistol shots, if you're into watching retired schoolteachers with superhuman accuracy.
Look at the trajectory, not where we are. S curve, yada, yada. Sure it may top out and we will be left with something that many will argue is not AI. But on the other hand the curve may continue and it will be GAI. I don't see any sign of it topping out yet.
Same difference. Point is they are wrong. Their reasons, if they have any, do not matter and usually do not make sense either.
> LLMs do not "reason"; they do not "learn" or "develop" anything of their own volition.

If this claim of yours was sustainable, your grievance with the writing style would make a lot of sense. But GPT-4 can clearly reason about novel problems which were not in its training data. I think you should consider reading some of the many citations in the document which describe examples of that happening.
Yes, that's exactly what it does!
Man, I have a totally opposite view about LLMs expressing creator’s values. Not only do they express them, they don’t STOP expressing them to the point of utter annoyance. Any remotely PG topic ends with a safety caveat, e.g., “however, it’s important to consider . . . .”
Some people think racism is bad, and that doing bad things should have some kind of repercussions and that companies have responsibilities around what happens in the workplace. Shocking I know.
do you have a recommended brand/model?
To complain is not a bad thing, and the thing you're complaining about isn't necessary unpleasant. Sometimes you just feel lazy. All those self-help guru questions are not my cup o' tea, you do you
USB-C plugged into mains electric
It's still fairly exaggerated, because the LLM's purpose is basically "knowing human communication" and it still only exhibits that, but it knows how humans would respond if they obediently followed directions given to it exactly as instructed.

And it was only unexpected to those that weren't following the news the GPT 3 paper was published in 2020 and detailed this wild advancement in its capabilities[0,1].

0: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/openai-gpt3-language-mode...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885684
Strong US ties, high interest rates, currency of choice until recently for the carry trade, and a large oil exporter. Large moves in the peso are largely tied to the price of oil.

The past year it's gone from almost 21 to the dollar to nearly 18. Certainly sucks for me losing 15% on the conversation rate along with the general inflation that has happened. My food bill in Mexico is up like 40% over the past six months in dollar terms.
I'd appreciate pointers to adversarial attack models on nitro. I find papers leveraging nitro to build higher order processing models, I think it looks good, but where's the work to certify it in something analogous to FIPS? Nitro+FIPS searches suggest its hand-off to a card, not innately in the s/w system itself so its the usual key leakage issue: the real key might not leak, but ability to operate the key may in some circumstances be as bad as leaking it: if a Nitro instance can be subverted, it can securely sign to the end of time for bad purpose.
Tree well rescue at Mt. Baker
Was also about to reply with the Superlight recommendation. Cannot stand the lag of bluetooth mice and was working my way through various mice over the years, usually trying at least 5-10 alts per year. Have not bought another mouse since the Superlight. Other Logitech mice (gaming and otherwise) eventually failed in one way or another. Not only is the Superlight a superior experience — it performs just as well today as it did 1.5 years ago when I got it. Wish the dongle and charging port were USB-C and that the Logitech SW wasn't the hot garbage that it is (I eventually settled on using a spare machine to update its config bc I won't have that SW on my daily) but from the perspective of the actual mouse itself, it's amazing.
> Seriously just watch. He's not actually going to be able to coherently define his "reasoning" in a way that can be tested.

Google gives the following definition of the verb "reason":

> think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.

LLMs do not think, they do not understand, and they do not form judgments. They do not come to their own conclusions. They do not have the physical capability. They are statistical models, nothing more.

> LLMs obviously reason and understand by any evaluation that can be carried out.

Uh-huh. Sure, Jan.
Give me unlimited PTO.

You realize there is no such thing, right?
This is very interesting, thanks!

The map is pretty much as I expected, mostly near zero values (dark blue) everywhere but elevated values where I'd have expected to find them:

https://map.safecast.org/?y=51.393&x=30.064&z=12&l=0&m=0
I would think attempting to filter it out after generation would be harder and less effective.
This was 20-odd years ago, so I can't swear to anything. But the way it was explained to me, the boat had air pockets fore and aft to make it unsinkable, which is why they chose them for their student boats. But that in this one, the rear one hadn't been sealed properly, so water leaked in as we were trying to get back to shore. They were certainly embarrassed about it. But so was I, so we just called it even.

Digging around, this was the place: https://www.yelp.com/biz/chicago-sailing-chicago-2?rr=3

The history described there matches my memory of it being a J/22.
In a time long past, when the world was plagued with chaos and noise, a fellowship of passionate creators embarked on a quest for tranquility. United under the banner of Etrexio, a renowned Startup Creation House, the team sought to bring peace and well-being to the troubled world.
As you say, timezones are relevant if you need to covert an instant to a date, or vice versa.

But you can store, operate, and query on dates without the foggiest clue about instants or timezones.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqhKVbbLJyc/
Yes, a bunch of times. It's on the advent of code website for example, which is pretty popular.
The 757 was also engineered to behave the same way as the 767, to reduce costs in pilot training and improve safety.

The 757 has a stellar safety record.
Parisians generally don’t travel by car.
Yeah, told in person it's one of my everybody-get-a-fresh-beer stories. It all turned out fine, so we all laugh about it now.