skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm lucky because at the moment I work at a public project that is meant to be public and there is no issue at all with checking an LLM.

That said, lately I have favored Kagi FastGPT for two (three) reasons:

- I trust Kagi a magnitude more (or even more) than I trust any FAANG company except Apple [1][2].

- It seems to be way more up to date.

- (It seems a bit less shy.)

[1]: Why? Sound business plan, incentives align.

[2]: Does it mean I trust them? No, that would have meant I hadn't learned a thing from WhatsApp. And no, after the photo snooping stunt from Apple a couple of years ago I don't trust them either, I only consider them my best option at the moment.
LLMs can be coaxed or jailbroken in to giving opinions.

It's just that they've been trained not to, for the most part. But that training can be overcome, and it's not an inherent limitation of the technology.
You certainly wouldn't be any danger!
No reason to assert your surety or not, it's in the damn article:

> According to real estate firm JLL, approximately 48% of office space have been resold or refinanced since 2015 at an average price per square foot of around $700
> There is a lot of stuff in the HN Undocumented norms repo[0] that would be potentially good candidates

Specifically which items? We can't include all of them—the list would be too long. Actually https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is too long already. The longer we make it, the less people will read, so the bar for additions needs to be high.

> Clear up some of the oft repeated norms around disagreement and downvotes

A mere rule can't clear that one up. What clicks those buttons is the reptile brain, and the reptile brain doesn't know about rules.

> Information about posting: reposting, file types (since only pdfs and videos are mentioned explicitly), pay walls. Add a note about year tags.

Reposting is in the FAQ. Re file types—which ones? pdfs and videos are the main cases, and it's important for guidelines not to be laundry lists.

Paywalls—that's an interesting case. I think it needs to remain a grey area. Not grey like https://www.color-hex.com/color/dedede, mind you—more like https://www.color-hex.com/color/676767. But not black and white like it would be if we officialized it.

> Add a note about year tags.

To me that one's on the wrong side of "what belongs in the guidelines". The current system, which leaves it to convention, moderator edits, and user comments, works fine. Every detail we add to the guidelines has a cost—it dilutes the attention people pay to the other ones.

> Info about why titles are sometimes changed automatically (since this is often confusing to people).

This is another discretion-is-the-better-part-of-valor case, like downvotes—it's too emotional to be subject to rules or explanations (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Rather than add a rule that everyone breaks, thus weakening the entire ruleset, I'd rather leave it to work itself out in the threads.

> An explicit call out that bots and entirely (or almost entirely) generated comments are banned, with allowances for comments with substantial human contribution quoting eg ChatGPT output.

This is the one I'm closest to agreeing with, but the way you phrase it does a good job of bringing out its problems. How much generated content is ok? is it ok to just quote? and so on. I'm also not sure that it doesn't already follow from the existing guidelines, particularly the one about curious conversation.
To add to this advice, you can enable auto-updates for any WordPress plugin with one click. Anyone who enabled auto-updating for ACF would not be affected by this vulnerability.

If a site is not mission critical or you don't have the time/budget to maintain it, just enable auto-update on everything. This will protect you from the vast majority of vulnerabilities. There is a very small chance an auto update may break something on the site.

If a site is mission critical, every 1-3 months you should take a backup, update manually, and do some testing to verify that nothing broke.

It's not rocket science and not particularly difficult or expensive.

There is a proposal to make auto-updating the default. But because WordPress has to support everything from millions of personal blogs to whitehouse.gov, a proposal like that is a complicated topic. Notably whitehouse.gov has never been hacked.
> It's the exact opposite of reinventing the wheel.

If I need to write a wrapper script each time I need to run a task on a timer - then it is the proverbial reinventing the wheel. It doesn't matter if you call it a tool, utility or a component. Especially if this was solved decades ago.

> Not understanding the operating system you're using is fine

Ah, another mighty UNIX wizard here.
Believe or not, ownership system is only applied to humanity.
I could say the same about physics. I don't understand what point you mean to make.
I did not find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day#Opposition_to_Col... to be unclear.

It's kind of weird to laud one specific explorer, yearly. Before the late 1800s, Columbus Day wasn't really a thing, so it's not like that sort of lauding expresses a widespread innate desire.

Instead, Columbus Day celebrations in the US need to be seen through the lens of xenophobia, as the then-newly immigrated Italian American celebrate a sort of Pride Day in the face of racism (they were not seen as really white) and religious bigotry (most were Catholic, not Protestant).

It's also kinda weird that the century-long love-boner for Columbus caused so many people to omit any open discussion about how horrible a person he was, and the brutal policies he put into place. When do we teach that to the kids?
It was always going to go the way it did, because of sugarcane. Columbus introduced “white gold” in 1493 on his second voyage even. By 1515-1520 there were sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and the Portuguese had them in Brazil.
I'm not sure I get the snark in your comment. I grew up in Eastern Europe (Romania), and now I am privileged enough to have dual EU/US citizenship.
I have the \LaTeX command in my skills line, which is really hard to typeset in anything other than LaTeX. Other engineers notice it unprompted.
How I miss Escape Velocity and Ambrosia Software. It was the first game I bought. Had to call the US at some weird hour from Australia and pay with Dad's credit card over the phone.

I'm aware there are similar games like Endless Sky (which I've played quite a bit).

I really wish the people behind Ambrosia could be encouraged to open source everything.
The reason to split it is that as soon as you give your BI dept. free reign to query the tables for users, user_widgets, widgets, widget_metrics, widget_metrics_metadata, and half a dozen other things with one query, they will do it and lock up your production database by running some atrocious 12 hour query composed completely of select * from window_functions that you’ll be back at square one in no time.

The other (more serious) problem is that if multiple services can edit the same data independently, eventually they will, and it will cause data loss or degradation that will be catastrophic. And, although you CAN isolate things with permissions, the chances of this reliably getting done without a lot of time put into DBA (a role which simply doesn’t exist at startups), is very low in my experience.
> Marvin Gaye's estate

Not precisely (or at least not in this instance), from TFA:

> The claim over Thinking Out Loud was originally lodged in 2018, not by Gaye’s family but by investment banker David Pullman and a company called Structured Asset Sales, which has acquired a portion of the estate of Let’s Get It On co-writer Ed Townsend.
Yeah, I think the issue is complex:

Sam Altman is a remote worker who only sees his bosses 4 times a year on quarterly earnings calls. Why do the shareholders not demand his physical presence to ensure he is collaborating properly with his executives?

I think the answer is basically structural: the shareholders are other corporations like banks, pension funds, hedge funds.

While the people investing may be rank-and-file asset managers and not CEO's, in order to be trusted with that amount of capital, they really have to have a similar amount of regard for their own CEO as he has for himself (otherwise your career will be in jeopardy, as the IBM exec in OP's link readily explains).

The same goes for the press, especially the business press. The journalist really needs to have a high regard for his editors who, in turn, really need to have a high regard for their CEO, because these people are, by their own admission, quite emotionally sensitive to how they are perceived by others. They only feel in charge when others around them assure them that they are in charge.

In this way, you end up with sort of personality cults (God is all-powerful, but at the same time, he really needs you to believe in him, because God's own self-worth is insufficient and highly contingent on constant external validation). In this case it manifests as a very inflated sense of the worth and value of CEO's, and a sort of endless fascination with the minutiae of their thoughts and feelings, regardless of how contrary they might be to scientific evidence, or the evidence of one's own immediate experience. Fortune is a magazine almost entirely dedicated to this form of worship.

Edit: and yes, combine it with what you said, there is a sort of mystique around tech and AI that probably gives the average fund-manager or CEO-type a feeling of awe, purely because it's not their own field where they're fully aware of all the foibles and all the ways that reality doesn't match external perception.
Never ask me to review or support any code that's using dynamic SQL written in MS T-Sql or Oracle. Not that dynamic SQL is inherently bad, but the procedural and string-management tools of those languages are appallingly awful and SQL is a bad tool for templating/smashing strings together.

Which, fundamentally, is what dynamic SQL is.

When I realized the article was going to be about that kind of dynamic SQL, I closed the tab.

Building SQL queries dynamically is fine.

Doing it within the SQL server is an abomination.
There's no single human that can outperform every human on "literally everything".

But some humans can outperform some other humans on some things.

Likewise, some LLMs (and other AI's) can outperform some humans at some things (often at many things)... but not yet on everything... yet.
> disingenuous and right wing biased sources.

NPR, duke.edu, and Wikipedia!? Those are left, lefter than left, and center-left.
The syntax is actually quite simple, but you may be confused by the unfamiliar symbols and lack of syntax. 0 1 is simply [0,1] in JSON and ⍵ is the argument name. The other symbols cirrespond to prefix and infix operators. Compare the following JS expression which is syntactically (but not semantically) equivalent to the APL expression below it:

- [0,1] * 0 ** w
⍸ 0 1 ⍷ 0 , ⍵
Their terms may have changed after they were acquired, I dunno. But Atlassian has something like two dozen different legal documents covering their software. How do you know what they do/don't do until you've had your legal department vet it?

As a random example: Trello can list any customer in their promotional materials (you have to dig through the legal docs to find the opt-out email). As the CEO of your own company, how would you like to see your company listed in a Trello ad when you're trying to do business with a Trello competitor, or gain a customer who competes with Trello?

Point being: employees use 3rd parties all the time in ways they shouldn't, often leaking a lot more data than meetings. It's why DLP is so popular.
Yeah, the first 70 recipes or so are generated from a random list of ingredients I got from a plaintext file on the internet. Checking it later, it's full of low quality stuff.

It's dutch for 2 tbsp olive oil.
> For example, you can (today) sign up for two (or more!) ISPs that support IPv6 Prefix Delegation and have your router(s) issue Router Advertisements (RAs) for each prefix.

As a user of OpenWrt (which does exactly this) I strongly disagree that it is the right solution. If you announce on the LAN the prefixes obtained from a fast fiber and a slow LTE link, then devices will, well, get an address for each prefix. The problem is that they have absolutely no information to choose the source address correctly - it's all just numbers! So, just by bad luck, they choose the source address from the LTE prefix and waste the LTE data and my money if I use the default setup. Which is why I don't. My network uses IPv6 NPT, but announcing one prefix at a time would have been even better (because I only want fail-over, not real multihoming), although impossible with OpenWrt.

Forum discussion, which also serves as a proof that it is really hard to explain the "don't overcomplicate fail-over by generalizing it to multi-homing" notion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipv6-wan-fail-over-without-ipv6-...
While you are at it, consider reviving the term democracy as well.

Ancient Greeks didnt just invent it, they thought deeply about all systems of power and their failure modes. Techniques they used feel still a thing from the future for us modern "democrats".

For example, take the term ostracism/ostracize. Today the term has degenerated to mean a certain negative cultural phenomenon.

For them it was a democratic process, a sort of negative voting, to pre-emptively remove from power somebody becoming too entrenched.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
Certainly the name and the marketing suggest that. In my 40+ year career I have seen versions of no code/low code promoted many times, but they always seem to create more opportunity for those who can code.
Woah it's called a hallucination!
Not the same thing.

While you practically never see fees for Wifi nowadays it used to be quite common 10 years ago. Mostly in upscale hotels.

The significant difference to a resort fee is that you didn't have to pay if you didn't want to use it.

I don't have a problem with a hotel charging for the spa or the gym.

What I do have a problem with if they charge for such features regardless if I use them.

And that's the problem with resort fees.
Latin used dots to separate words.
That looks good! I’ll have to give it a try.
I’ve been trying to make some resources to encourage my son to pick up more from my wife and have been using hambaanglangs graphical generator[1]. It’s good but can be a bit fiddly to use.

[1] https://hambaanglaang.hk/software-tool/#GC%20Generator
The AI outputs the steps with or without newlines at will. I thought that was just bad prompt engineering on my side, but I like your explanation better!
Not sure what you mean by "rehosted".

It seems to be a primitive perspective, as if I had transported some 7th century scribe through time to the present day. That man, were he here, could not help but imagine that words had been copied from one codex to another, as if by quill pen. No?

All I see is a different client.
Cool approach. Was hoping for something different given ultimate (i.e. last) question[1]: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" :)

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
That's awesome, I've been thinking of a way to monetize without it being annoying like ads, this seems fun
This is dystopia
Well, given our modern understanding of chemicals in the brain, many of the states of mind Ancient Greeks advocated for, can be summarized as: avoid short dopamine hits. The brain really loves dopamine hits, it stimulates electrical activity. I am sure that there is a way, to stimulate electrical activity, without using machines, a natural way to stimulate our brain 1000x and 1.000.000x just by using some kind of food or natural occurring substance. In my opinion that problem will be solved by saffron.

How many people drive their car full speed without being in a hurry? Or how many people eat more than their energy requirements dictate to? I think there is a solution to that, and that is saffron.
I hope they use an existing, leading-edge project. There are some very advanced and capable cryptocurrencies. Or Ethereum which is catching up and would be amazing.

It seems like the US would just try to block something like this on principle though. Having your own currency puts you in competition with other countries, doesn't it? And that's not part of the concept of a (US) state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements
How so? I bought during the aloha and it seems like the pathway forward is to do 2 migrations (Minecraft to mojang to Microsoft)
Got a link to one of these Sam Altman quarterly earnings calls?
Myosuite: Contact-rich framework for musculoskeletal motor control
It turns out that Julia is ~a lisp, just with a weird syntax. If you look at the metaprogramming facilities, all expressions are first turned into s-exprs while parsing. There is no problem having a LISP syntax for Julia, and in fact this has been implemented! (https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl)

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/
Very true, and we should remember that in a lot of (all?) cultures across time, literacy (learning to read and write) was a marker of class, and/or a protected trade, and/or considered sacred, and/or considered profane.

In other words, there wasn’t much an incentive or recognized need to make the scribe’s job easy to pick up.

Caesar (I think) tells us that the druids of the Celts did not allow members of their tradition to write down their beliefs, traditions, etc. Writing in that context (prior to 50 BCE) was profane.

Of course, those of us in America are familiar with slaves being prevented from learning to read. Forced illiteracy in this context was a tool of oppression. [1]

I think in one of S.M. Sterling’s fictional books (On the Ocean of Eternity?? Part of the Island in the Sea of Time series, anyway) there’s a great exchange with a Babylonian scribe who laughs at the simplistic alphabet of the American, condescendingly remarking that child could learn that, to which the guy replied, yeah, that’s entirely the point!

1. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/singleton/singleton.html

I can’t help but link this recollection by William Henry Singleton. He recounts being whipped as a child because it was thought that he had merely opened a book, but the whole pamphlet he authored(!) (and available to read in full at that link) after becoming free, fighting in the War, and learning to read/write, is an utterly fascinating account from a primary source spanning from his experience being born into slavery in about 1830 to the point where he authored this in about 1920. It’s too easy to understate but this man saw a lot of change in a momentous century, first-hand.
Maybe the layoffs were for non-engineers and more of business folks, or rehiring but at a lower compensations.
https://archive.is/94Jme
Still feels good, man
Travel itineraries. ex. 5 day itinerary to Greece. If I enjoy outdoor activities and nature.

Comparison Shopping. ex. safest small suvs.

Yard landscaping - ex. with yard size of 30 feet by 22 feet, how many cubic feet of mulch, do I need at 4 inch depth.
what system isn't?
Interestingly, Cantonese songs tend to preserve tone better than songs sung in Mandarin. The paper "Tone and Melody in Cantonese" by Marjorie K.M. Chan [1] mentions the following:

> For Chinese, modern songs in Mandarin and Cantonese exhibit very different behaviour with respect to the extent to which the melodies affect the lexical tones. In modern Mandarin songs, the melodies dominate, so that the original tones on the lyrics seem to be completely ignored. In Cantonese songs, however, the melodies typically take the lexical tones into consideration and attempt to preserve their pitch contours and relative pitch heights.

[1] https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php...
Vietnam also had some good hospitals. Their lasik treatments are top notch, latest equipment, and cheap. I've had great dental work done in Saigon.

Friend of mine just got dental done in Puerto Vallarta because their dentist in Berkeley kept screwing it up, wanting more and more money.
For what it's worth, I think it feels like you're yelling into a hurricane because you are kind of clearly incorrect.

Can you think of a few questions (using unique nouns etc to avoid parroting) for which the answers require a world knowledge model, so that we can ask them to GPT-4?

> LLMs are exceptionally good at transforming many aspects of language - its proficiency in coding is derived from this

If you paste a Python script and ask GPT-4 what the script will output when run, it is usually correct. How does it achieve this without reasoning about the state of variables over time?

I don't know why the "it's a language model" belief is so strong. For one thing, it's untrue technically: GPT-4 has been trained on image input as well (improving its world modeling as a result, even though it can only output text), so it is a multi-modal model, not a language model.

For a second point, the fact that the model inputs images+text, and outputs text, doesn't prescribe what happens inside the model. That's just what's happening at the ends of the model. The best way to "predict the next token" from text input inside the model is to construct a world model which examines the causes of that text, and extracts consequences from that model. So that's what it does, with fairly poor reliability but clear capability.
You might find this video[1] on why "GPT is smarter than you think" interesting.

They're older, but the "Sparks of AGI" paper[2] and video[3] are also well worth your time.

[1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzuvf9D9BU

[2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

[3] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Last time I checked, "innocent until proven guilty" was still a foundational principle of Western law. Certain factions may be working hard to chip away that foundation with the intent of enforcing an ideological homogeny, but it's not gone yet.
> Your alarm bells should be going off at that point.

Whenever the erosion of privacy comes up, folks here point to regular folk being ambivalent until their identity is stolen. But even among the tech literate? Chill, don't worry, everybody is reading your work email!
We can easily measure quantity, but how do you define or measure quality when it comes to writing, or imitation of writing?
Your last point: I would say that is generally true for all native-level speakers of tonal languages. It is interesting to watch them try to learn a different tonal language. It suddenly opens all these doors into their own language. "Oh, so that's why foreigners struggle with this sound." Mandarin: zai, sai, cai

When you read about tonal languages online, there is so much emphasis on "tonal languages are special". I don't understand why accent and pitch isn't added to the same bucket. In Japanese, accent and pitch is rarely taught, but incredibly important in daily life. Japanese is stuffed full of homophones which makes listening a tricky matter. BTW -- I am sure there are other "non-tonal" languages that I don't know about where pitch and accent are important (Korean?).

If you consistently pronounce words with the wrong accent or pitch, (average, uptight) Japanese listeners will refuse to understand it. Say what you like about it (fake/real/whatever), it is a common response.