skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not correct by accident. It's not generating responses randomly, but based on extensive training data. The accuracy of answers is very high, especially on uncontroversial topics like most of the examples in the OP. And the author even described cross-checking the answers for validity and confirming that it was generally correct. (I was also an electrical engineer once upon a time and nothing jumped out at me as wrong, but admittedly it's been quite a while!)

You can't rely in it being 100% correct, but that's very different from it having no informational value at all. When it comes down to it, you can't rely on anything being 100% correct. I recall finding multiple errors in textbooks in the past, and certainly Wikipedia is wrong about all kinds of things; that doesn't make them useless. It just means in situations where it's critical to be correct, you need to double-check. But often that's not necessary, and when it is, it's a lot easier to start with something and then verify it than to not have the tool in the first place.
My hot take is that he was effectively fired for what he said in his CBS interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpoRO378qRY
The new owner of Heathkit showed up at a wake for the maker movement a few years back. TechShop and Maker Faire people were there, too. The Heathkit guy said that making a new kit was surprisingly hard and took about six months to go from prototype to user-buildable kit.

Heathkit today is very retro. If you want to look forward, there's Adafruit and Seeed Studio.
I do appreciate the way fly.io writes their tutorials - they are quite clear and easy to understand, and the self-promotion is surprisingly well divided from the rest of the content.

Also was able to grab few other nuggets of info that I can take into my future apps from this.
Yeah. And in doing so, it will usually give you the correct answers.
Are they mutually exclusive?

Is it possible that Springsteen could have benefited from painting more of a target around some of those arrows?

Or is that like asking if he has any regrets or made any mistakes... Simply obvious?
I know how they work. What's so interesting to me about them is how useful they turn out to be despite the seemingly dumb and simple way they are built.

I encourage you to experiment more! Here are my notes so far: https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/
> The information value of answers by ChatGPT is zero.

Nonsense. The only way this would be true is if ChatGPT's answers were as likely to be correct as random answers. They are much, much more likely to be correct, however, so their information value is greater than zero by definition.

What you're claiming is equivalent to "search engines can find incorrect information, so search engines are worthless for information retrieval". Which is bollocks.
Your yogurt cup is almost always PP (Polyproylene) Type 5 to maintain stiffness at large size. In that case the answer is throw it in the garbage, they're going to burn it or send it to China/Africa anyway.

The one that blows my mind is washing aluminum cans (or steel).
How do you think they're going to get the plastic coating off the cans and remelt it?

I mean don't recycle a full can, but they have washers for recycled materials too.
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If only there were some way to then differentiate between the various models.
I loved Vice’s early reporting — they provided the first real look into North Korea I’d ever seen.

Things changed, though. Hard to expect great things from the outlet that published this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbybpz/nintendo-switchs-joy-...
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We already have all this infrastructure and socially organized modes of production for producing goods and services, it wouldn't make sense not to use them to build a more rational society instead of one based on domination.
Sure - when I skim articles, I often don't read all of it and stick to what I'm interested in - I'd argue that even takes less time than chatting with chat-gpt and fact checking it

(Edit: - and you get sources right away with wikipedia!)
You have ignored the original point made entirely that intentional level design is generally far more interesting than anything algorithmically generated.

Specifically, yes, but my point was more that there's pre-created elements thrown in there too. It's a very surface-level argument of generative art versus intentional art, the technology itself isn't what's being discussed, it's the output and how interesting it is or isn't.

I'm not even saying procedural generation et al is bad, it has its place.

People use stock/library content in games all the time, whether it's textures, rigs, whole environments, or even mechanics. Can interesting things be made? Yes. Are the usually unique or innovative? Well, generally no.

What made Minecraft so interesting for most people was what people made within it, the world seeds themselves were really whatever for most people. If they were so interesting then people wouldn't be importing schematics for models, wholly pre-built worlds, hubs, and even some creative mode servers. Sure, some people like exploring the procedurally generated stuff, but once you've done that for a few tens of hours, it's boring and you've largely seen what's worth seeing.

I spent more time using WorldEdit than screwing around with seeds because I knew exactly what I wanted my server's main area to be like rather than relying on a seed.
Just want to say I agree with your entire interpretation
Two are not mutually exclusive. A city can be formed around the "opportunity" of a river or whatever a thousand years ago, and yet provide new opportunities like tinder having loads of people nearby nowadays.
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Hinton is absolutely not a pop scientist. That said, AI doomerism is Planckian
Do you have any evidence that human minds work substantially different from that?
On that note, it is legal to give crossroads as home address in the USA.
does it need to be Canadian all the way through then? any hint of the non-Canadian shall pollute the result.
> even though he seems tacitly to accept its inferiority to Greek literature

I would have said "seems to tacitly accept" instead of "seems tacitly to accept"

I wonder if the author purposely avoids the split infinitive. I've heard Latin enthusiasts like to prescribe that onto English, because it's not grammatical in Latin.

But maybe that's just the author's English. I don't think it's wrong.
“There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.” John von Neumann
Yeah, there are so many fun ways you can make it more interesting.

One of my favourite is to ask it to explain with analogies. The other day I was digging into the attention mechanism used to train LLMs, so I asked it:

"Explain queries, keys, and values in the context of LLM attention using analogies from Terry Pratchett's Discworld"

I find sometimes I get some real gems out of this that help me remember things much more effectively than just reading the basic explanation.

(In case anyone's curious I ran that just now and got the following: https://gist.github.com/simonw/777b1d19f36beb39fb4216a0238fe... )
Zig the language doesn't do this right away, but:

1. IMO it'd be a bit more ziggish to branch at compile time. Zig has cross-compilation as a first-class feature, and you generally know the architecture you're targeting.

2. Whether you're branching at runtime or compile time, it'd be easy to build a vectored app with that behavior. The first thing that comes to mind is having code that's generic on the vector type (or bit width) and then just choosing which generic to instantiate in an inline for loop in your app's entrypoint.

3. A lot of the time you don't need that behavior. Select a vector width 8x too big, ensure your data is chunked into multiples of that, and rely on the compiler to break that down into a few instructions of the appropriate length. You can't effectively target a GPU that way, and it's not the same as hand-tuned assembly, but you get decent results on a vast array of problems.
most radioactive waste created by coal power is filtered and ends up in barrels as well, and nuclear power also release radioactive waste into the atmosphere for everyone to breath, especially when looking at the whole cycle, including mining, milling and reprocessing.
> I'm pointing out that you're eating propaganda which is unhealthy for your mind

Dismissing statistics from a Wikipedia page on suicide as propaganda is also not new.
Exactly! LLMs will be able/are able to construct their answers not just based on one Reddit comment they found somewhere, but on "all* comments as well as more reliable sources, such as the actual source code for the thing under discussion, scientific debate, (case) law texts, books, etc. They already seem somewhat capable of weighing source reliability.
A big point that the article is missing is the work put in.

If you're the kind of person that shoots several arrows, one (or more) of them is bound to hit and then you double down. It's a mix of luck, insight into opportunities, timing etc. Not a reliable formula for success but one that increases chances.

Just doing a lot of work opens up opportunities that idle planners can't even imagine.
Some of the poles are stuck into the ground just a bit, and then it's probably because the wall grates stick into the ground too, under the weight of the yurt. Here's an example:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmZ6ipVExg
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr6TnsJ1kA

BTW, here's the process of making the whole yurt set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikFc0INaMg
Here you return your bottle to the store and get 15-25 cent for it.

Sorry for stating the obvious but it's not a challenge to do this with all packaging.

They are trying to cure our unwillingness with chemistry which is a noble effort but only if you're a chemist yourself.
Now they run errands for war criminals https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdva/maria-lvova-belova-in...
> free Medicare

Does not exist for a growing number of Australians. No clinic in practical range of me bulk bills any more.
Now whenever I need to use a fancy new package that I never used of, I use LangChain to collect all documents from the package document site, load them into a vectorDB and start asking GPT questions. This method works in 80% of the time.
One pitfall is that with this method I only get what I want. I don't get a deep understanding of that package as it used to be if I carefully read over the documents. Still finding a balancing point in between.
If packaging is made from non-recyclables a seller should be forced to take it back from a buyer.

That way the packaging always ends back up with its creator.
I'm just surprised at the lackluster push from governments worldwide over simulation software, CAD etc when evaluating public funded projects or reviewing designs
>That's just sovietophobic fiction.

Or it's just believing Marx when he wrote this in the Communist Manifesto:

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
More specifically, the Mayans dated the (most recent) creation as happening on 13.0.0.0.0, with the next day being 0.0.0.0.1. Given that Mesoamerican cosmology explicitly talks of multiple incarnations of creation, some people took it to mean that the current cycle of creation would end on 13.0.0.0.0, but there's no evidence that any Mayan thought this was true.
Sticking to what you want to understand - for example, when reading a paper, you don't necessarily need to read the methodology, especially if it's out of your field. Read the abstract and the conclusion, identify any part of it that you are suprised by and would like further explanation, and go see that part of the paper.

A lot of the paper is talking to peer and people wanting to verify the validity of the paper - by it being peer reviewed, you can mostly assume that the paper is valid, and stick to what the paper is saying instead of it's methodology.
>If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work.

I disagree with the premise here. You don't understand how all the computations work in the brains of people's predictions whom you trust. You simply have a mental calculation of their batting average through exposure to their track record and this batting average functions as a proxy for trust.

I find this is more or less the same way that I learn whether or not I can rely on GPT-4 for a particular use-case. If it's batting average is north of a certain % for a given use-case, then it doesn't need to be right 100% of the time for me to derive value from relying on it.

I think we are slowly crossing a threshold where we accept indeterminism and mistakes from machines in a way that we haven't in the past.
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Eh plenty of people pursuing science are doing it because they want to be the one to make the discovery, not because of some pure dedication to science. Sure, that's not everyone, but it's a big enough chunk of the people that stick around.

Regardless of personal intentions, it's also a fact that we have a massive oversupply of people trying to make it in academic science. Functionally the only way it is selfless then is if you are meaningfully better at science than replacement level (and again potential replacements run deep these days).

This makes most people either knowingly selfish (if they are sacrificing others' wellbeing for their research anyway) or very arrogant about their intelligence level. Or naive about the system, but I don't think you'll meet many postdocs that don't know these facts.

The people that stick around and grind away at research work even once any chance at a tenure track position has passed are a lot more defensible as selfless of course, but that's not really the most common situation to find in a lab. The majority are gunning for a career in academic science, even down to the poorly treated pre-PhD RA labor.

Now obviously if some rich kid or someone with no personal attachments wants to fuck around in academia they should totally go for it. I just don't think selfless is the right word for that, and it's certainly not the right word for your typical academic ladder climber.
I have a standard copy n paste prompt that instructs it to keep answers concise and free of boilerplate.

Otherwise ChatGPT is prone to injecting lots of filler text as well.
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It looks promising, but I think it's a one sided solution. I would like to see something like Malloy crossed with CubeJS. We need a consistent and flexible language like Malloy and the interface that CubeJS provides: REST, SQL, GraphQL.
The way I see it is business defines the processes. Those processes store and manipulate data in a storage. Business processes could change quickly so we need a way to quickly model and adapt to match. The analyst needs a way to slide and dice the data to optimize the business. The end user can get limited access to the data via an NLP interface, such as chatbot. Also, applications and RPA need to interface with the data as well.
To make semantic layers work, I think we need to think holistically, not just making it easy for a group of users. It has to be for analysts, developers, and applications/APIs.
(former US submariner here)

Also commented downthread, but sonar IS always on at all times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780124

Honestly, I'm extraordinarily surprised that the USS San Francisco didn't sink killing everyone onboard. Have you seen the photos? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#/m...

The only reason that the submarine was able to get to the surface and stay there after this was because the damage was just on the port (left) side. Even with that luck, they were only able to stay on the surface because a piece of equipment was able to stay running for several times longer than it was designed to do.

You can read more about it in various places (like here: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-happens-when-s... ) but imagine being at work and suddenly getting thrown toward a wall at 20++mph. Damages and injuries everywhere, and its a miracle only one person died.
I think that Googles AI plans were very much based around long-term research. This meant that OpenAI had the opportunity to go to market with something that worked very well quite quickly.

Google are also very much aware of reputation problems that you find in the search engine industry, so that also held them back from releasing Bard sooner. They wanted to do more QA before release.

But I think a lot of people have been frustrated seeing research pages from Google, showing amazing feats of AI, with nothing for us to play with. I don't think they knew how much of a backlash that has created.
That law provided neither penalties nor funding for improving ETC compatibility, so it's no wonder most states haven't bothered. California, for instance, already has statewide interop – and has for decades. In fact you can use your transponder for parking at SFO. I believe the various toll agencies out here have been issuing "6C" compatible transponders since 2019 with the goal of completely phasing out the old "Title 21" transponders by 2024. ISO/IEC 18000-63 (6C) is being used by Washington, Colorado, Utah, Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and Louisiana.

For someone doing a lot of interstate driving NationalPass already offers transponders that are compatible with a bunch of different systems (E-ZPass, TxTag, Title 21, and EZ-TAG), supposedly also including 6C so there's that.
ChatGPT can be a great supplement for independent research. But when the article mentions a “curious seventh-grader”, I think we should focus on getting them quality human instruction whenever possible instead of just pointing them to ChatGPT.

ChatGPT addresses a scalability problem: not everyone has access to a tutor or can just call up a teacher or mentor to learn and ask questions. But some in the tech industry claim that ChatGPT is as good as or even better than human instruction, which to me seems totally off base.

The biggest problem I see in using LLMs as a teacher-substitute is that LLMs answer the questions you ask, whereas a good teacher tells you what you need to hear. Maybe this is solvable with specialized model tuning, but we need to actually solve it before telling kids that the best way to learn is to talk to the computer.
Sorry if this is an absurdly simple question... What is the point of a foreign key that has no cascade? Just to help speed up indexing?
There are lots of niche androids. The fair phone does have a replaceable battery.

As the context of this debate is ewaste, giving up water resistance can reasonably be assumed to increase ewaste.
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Do you have any idea what that was, or what helped?

I ask because my sister is diagnosed with RA, and is on methotrexate, with her hair falling out.

I read your comment with literally bated breath hoping there was a new diagnosis or treatment at the bottom so we could try it.
People have been eating less carbs and exercising more for a number of years if not decades now, but obesity is steadily climbing, so this is not a correct explanation for the continuing growth.

https://qz.com/1230097/new-cdc-report-shows-americans-exerci...

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-soda-consumption-lowest-l...
For real. I am pro environment, so I do think there is some legitimate amount of environmental impact studies that should be done. But it is clear there is some emotional/ideological agenda attached to anything associated with Musk, now the SpaceX launch is just the target of the moment. The industries threatened by innovation hire PR who prey on easily emotionally swayed individuals, and the result is a flood of parroted opinions and hit-pieces propagated all over the internet.
What does it mean to have a positive interaction with someone who consistently tells you misinformation with a high degree of confidence?
The polyfills are not complete yet as this update points out
Jonathan Blow is spending up to a decade on a new programming language to get away from c++.

Most everything has been covered in logical extensions of concepts started in the 80s-90s. Those products aren't good for our..

Ah there's no point commenting here anymore. HN is so blinkered in it's thinking.

The feeling of flying high on lofty concepts and pretending to get a bird's eye view of tech is no longer worth the squeeze. The thought patterns here are predictable like slashdot. I don't belong here. Bye.