skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. GPT-4 is much much better at following the given instructions to the letter. If you specify a format you want to receive your response in it will almost always follow that format, while 3.5 will very often fail to do so.

Edit: out of curiosity I posted the meeting summarization example to GPT-4 and indeed it produced both the relevant snippets and the correct answer to the stated question.
>I don't think you'd be happy scaling down.

My current setup is ADSL. I am trying to replicate it elsewhere.

As a subject-matter expert on "things I like", let me assure you that I am indeed very happy with it.
Ask HN: Best ChatGPT use cases so far
Hi HN!

ChatGPT has been around now for a while. What are the best uses you have been able to come up with?

For me, it’s good recipes. No more scrolling past insane amounts of ads and fluff. Just a list of ingredients and steps how to prepare a dish.

What are your favorite uses cases?
I'm not asking for 60fps. I'm asking to not go down into single digit fps when using ultrahand or being in crowded areas. A stable 30fps isn't an unreasonable ask in 2023. To claim it's running at 30fps is to not understand the problem.

It's capped at 30fps. That isn't the problem. The problem is that the framerate is wildly erratic, and it can hit single digits, and fall down into the teens not uncommonly.

It's OK to criticize something, and it's OK to not pretend that something is perfect. It's a $70 product. Criticism is healthy. As is not going with the groupthink and denying measurable objective fact.

Game might look good. Game performs poorly, but so do most AAA games these days, so there's that. Jedi Survivor or The Last of Us on PC, anyone?
> Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution,

I wonder if a normal camera can be used to track head movements with a better AR set.

It'd be fun to add multiple extra screens around the main one on my laptop just by plugging in my glasses into the USB-C port.

> I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder...

Before both my eyes went shortsighted I had it - it always felt like having one eye optimized for short distances and one for long ones, with the brain making the switch automatically like a smartphone stitches together an image using various lenses of various focal lengths.

Still having different degrees of shortsightedness (a bit on the left and almost none on the right) is mildly annoying.
I unfortunately have gone grocery shopping in Times square when staying with a friend who for some reason decided to live there.
>Is the ability to think scientifically the defining essence of intelligence? ; Physicist Carl Sagan once wrote that "science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking." This type of thinking requires skeptical rigor and brutal honesty to thoroughly investigate,...

I think the key to brutal honesty is the ability to deliver and accept brutal honesty between peers and rivals. This is the skill you f'ing idiots seem to be losing, because it hinders hearing the autistic perspectives which are quite useful in science. I dropped the completely meaningless f-bomb not to insult anybody but to test your ability to read the sentence without the most basic of intensifiers, what I like to call the f-italics. https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
Cloudflare Workers Vector Store Demo
Any 8-bit microcontroller can power a terminal. That's all you need.
I went looking for the confabulation between wealth and intelligence, and sure enough:

> Musk was echoing an argument made by Nick Bostrom, one of the founding fathers of longtermism, who wrote that he worried declining fertility among "intellectually talented individuals" could lead to the demise of "advanced civilized society."

There's nothing wrong (at least, in my view) with having kids. But I can think of few things more intellectually embarrassing than a wealthy person bear-trapping themselves into a reactionary pro-natalist worldview because they think they're uniquely intelligent.
I think that machine learning probably can produce something akin to a brain, but LLMs are not really it even if they use the digital equivalent of a neuron. As much as I understand what I read about LLMs they really seem to be descendants of Markov chains. I think they are valuable and can go a long way, but LLMs themselves will not be "it". I think that we will get to a ceiling with them within 10 years if we will not think about something else. I think the ceiling can be made pretty high though.

However most probably in 10 years we will all laugh how all of our predictions missed by a long shot.
> I’m not an LLM, but English is already pretty awful for conveying information succinctly. The lengths you must go with prompts to ensure you’re getting the right response is extremely similar to the lengths you go to when delegating something to someone or describing requirements to a project. I wonder if whatever language we end up using to “converse” with LLMs would have value within an organization/email/Jira.

People already adopt context-specific specialized languages in contexts like that for clarity, what will probably happen is that LLMs will get better at adapting or being adapted to specific contexts.
My favourite is that giving in and clicking the “open in app” banners on Reddit etc just take me to the App Store page for Reddit, even though I have the actual app installed already.
There's direct evidence of that, yes. HIMARs, Bradleys, etc. all active in Ukraine, but importantly, manned by Ukrainians. We're also clearly providing plenty of training and intelligence support.

NATO troops actively shooting folks in the Donbas would be a very different scenario, one we're rightly avoiding. For the sake of folks like your daughter.
EPA Launches Interactive Map of Sea Level Rise by Hazardous Waste Sites
Ah yes, the red tories.
Probably biased given that it's on the DuckDB site, but well-reasoned and referenced, and my gut agrees with the overall philosophy

This feels like the kicker:

> In the cloud, you don’t need to pay extra for a “big iron” machine because you’re already running on one. You just need a bigger slice. Cloud vendors don’t charge proportionally more for a larger slice, so your cost per unit of compute doesn’t change if you’re working on a tiny instance or a giant one.

It's obvious once you think about it: you aren't choosing between a bunch of small machines and one big machine, you may very well be choosing between a bunch of small slices of a big machine and one big slice of a big machine. The only difference would be in how your software sees it: as a complex distributed system, or as a single system (that can eg. share memory with itself instead of serializing and deserializing data over network sockets)
Uh oh, nobody tell NPR about granite countertops.
Copyright is fine in principle. Patents are fine too. The difference is that one lasts nearly a century, the other just twenty years.

Originally copyright and patent terms were effectively identical. Western societies allowed them to slowly diverge, like proverbial frogs being boiled. How could we undo this mistake?
Why is markdown difficult to parse or extend? I am using Markdown-it for instance and use custom parsers to extend it with custom shortlinks.
This is absolutely correct (and gets more correct every year).

A m5.large (2 vCPU, 8GB RAM) is $0.096/hr. m5.24xlarge (96 vCPU, 384GB RAM) is $4.608/hr.

Exactly 1:48 scale up, in capacity and cost.

The largest AWS instance is x2iedn.32xlarge (128 vCPU, 4096GB RAM) for $26.676/hr. Compared to m5.large, a 64x increase in compute and 512x increase in memory for 277x the cost.

Long story short.....you can scale up linearly for a long time in the cloud.
Thinkpad X220?
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science
LMM = Large Markov Model. I use that term because models like GPT-4 and friends are for all intents and purposes Markov chains with more data, more compute, some lossy compression, and a bit of nearest neighbor search. Next-word-engines.

> why can't I say that your brain is nothing but a bunch of biological neurons trained using its input and intialized based on your genetics?

Because we don't think one word at a time, and we don't restart from scratch for every subsequent word.
I do have to say. In all my years (10+) of programming both frontend, and backend, UI is by far the most difficult thing to do properly.
But copyright as it exists now does not protect or benefit

Fully agreed, and I would drastically curtail it. But complete abolition is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, ignoring the problem copyright was established to solve in the first place.

I have yet to see 1 (one) instance of a small artist going against $bigcorp and winning

Just did, in this very news story. It's happened on multiple occasions, it's just that such cases are weighed on their individual facts and don't lead to any change in the basic idea. Of course, big corporations always have a starting advantage because they can hire expensive legal teams and weigh down their opponents, but this is a general flaw in the adversarial litigation culture of the UK/US which is unabashedly pro-capitalist.
A simple proof of possession (pop), signed ahead of time, solves #3.

The message:
`{"pay":{"alg":"ES256","msg":"I own this key","tmb":"9PcBWntvjAktwfiPp8WxgOyQOwc1h6Lo1UnB_gkWXKk"},"sig":"eXuV0_HYCM-WnS2CbOnGXdce-9M8AzivCw23Hihtp1h69Ix6HwWCA79FR6cs3Nym2bWJoKajtnIY0xcTnuRnNQ"}`

The public key:
`{"alg":"ES256","kid":"Zami Mobile 2","x":"PZpmb3CI_2LTWcxopqjliqohPpmxFmNwKLb52wJgMg-4Xd0hTRKn7OruUMa3LvHmuTA9pHidocLHnEdOcQ04OA","tmb":"9PcBWntvjAktwfiPp8WxgOyQOwc1h6Lo1UnB_gkWXKk"}`
Thrice.

You're forgetting about when it's inevitably delayed or cancelled and you're stuck.
Google Bard is a conversational AI chatbot developed by Google AI. It is based on Google’s LaMDA language model, which is trained on a massive dataset of text and code. In this article, we will explore a powerful AI chatbot Google Bard that can help you with anything including writing, auto-replying, and much more.
Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation
I think some of it back then was there was less internet communication and Tcl could be popular one place and Python was popular in another place and Perl popular in another team.

Now we discuss everything so much communities converge on a common choice.

Perl & Tcl really share the issue that undisciplined developers could make really obfuscated code that was hard to decipher.
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I guess the point is for the average person an unlimited data sim is cheaper than a landline, let alone a landline and a limited data sim, so what's the point in a landline connection
The web version doesn't allow speech input.
To be fair, it is not 100% clear on my original post that I am not talking about this fine but a previous one. But if you read it carefully that is was I say. And here is Ben thompson on 11th January 2023:

"In short, Meta can not make access to its personalized social media services contingent on accepting personalized advertising; moreover, the company was fined for having done just that, despite the fact their regulator agreed with them that that was acceptable.

I find this decision disturbing for two reasons. First, it seems unduly punitive that Meta can be fined a material amount for an approach that is not only reasonable on its face (more on this in a moment), but also one that its primary regulator agreed was appropriate. GDPR is not clear on this point, and it’s ridiculous that a company can be retroactively fined for not reading the minds of EU bureacrats.

Second, and more importantly, the fact that Meta must offer personalized social networking to users — which uses their data! — but cannot tie that to offering personalized ads — which uses their data in the exact same way, and without sharing or selling that data to advertisers — is a completely arbitrary attack on Meta’s ability to do business. Let me reiterate that point: serving a video or a post in your Facebook feed is no different from serving an ad; it is Facebook that is choosing what to serve you, not an advertiser, who has no access to users or their data. It’s all just bits, it just so happens that some of those bits make Meta money. That, apparently, is the crime here (and a callback to the Google Shopping case)."

Do you still think the EU is acting like a fair player? When in fact they are both a player and the referee? This type of behavior is exactly why there wont ever be any major innovation in the EU. And I live here btw.
I've seen a lot of people wow'd and impressed by the AI, acting as if it's sentient etc whom would turn around in a second and argue that animals are flesh robots powered purely by survival instincts.

A lot of this is because I think it sort of wedges a knife into an area of our brain which makes us think it's similar to us. Look at this output, it's able to write about Shakespeare or summarize Beowulf or talk about these topics in a way I can understand. But ultimately it's an affirmative mirror; it will respond exactly as you prompt it. It cannot disagree with you or ask 'why' or synthesize the world beyond what it's told to do.

And it's incredibly hard to get some people to understand this. Even harder when you have companies pushing this because it's trendy even as we see the issues of private data being leaked or the frays in the data sets appearing.
> What makes human intelligence different from today's AI is the ability to ask why, reason from first principles, and create experiments and models for testing hypotheses.

Too anthropocentric. Here is a video of cats "creating experiments" and "testing hypotheses": https://youtu.be/a_IA-8nQ4FY

Michael Levin has showed that even single-celled organisms have apparently intelligent and goal-directed actions.

Today's AI can't do that stuff either. If it could, we would have Rosie the Robot and C-3PO by now.
we don't have a submit response functionality, the idea is to rehearse your answers with your team-mates, there are no right or wrong answers
We should have better local shells that “drive” remote sh/bash shells through transpilation, so that we can have modern shells anywhere without concern for remote install, access to install or compile, compatibility, carrying customizations, etc.
I don't see how that at all counters point 1 or maybe even point 2.

Although LLMs are incredible feats of engineering, they're useless scientifically. The hallmark of a good scientific theory is that it not only explains what's true but that it fails to predict what's false.

There are constraints that all human languages obey [1]. Humans are incapable of learning languages that violate these constraints (i.e. we don't have hardware acceleration for them and are reduced to explicit symbolic manipulation). However, LLMs are just as capable of learning inhuman languages as human ones, so they tell us nothing about the nature of human intelligence, or at least our language capacity, which is our most distinguishing feature from every other species on earth.

[1] This isn't an example of such a constraint, but it's fun example of human limitation: center embedding! We seem to be incapable of doing it more than once or twice. "A man that a woman that a child that a bird that I heard saw knows loves" is perfectly grammatical but nearly impossible to understand without seeing it in print, whereas we can right embed all day long: "a man who is loved by a woman who is known by a child who was seen by a bird that I heard".
I don't mind unskippable ads so much when I am watching a 10 minutes video. But a lot of information these days is mostly on youtube as opposed to text content. For example, how to change an obscure setting in windows or how to replace an alternator. But these videos also usually have a lot of background fluff. It's infuriating to skip back and forth to find the one relevant bit of info. If it takes 3 attempts to find the right timestamp, that's potentially up to 3 skippable ads and 3 unskippable ads before you get there.

Ironically videos with misinformation get demonetized and you can consume those much more conveniently.
Please see my comment below, where I quote Ben Thompson.
Also never plug that crap into the internet. Just need one angry hacker who's having a bad day and the world goes boom.
The Librem 5 is a phone, not a laptop. Though a year lead time on a phone is probably even worse than on a laptop.
Is anyone even still using non-random UUIDs? Every application I've ever seen them use is using v4.
Yeah can't find app on appstore even by searching. All the top ones are not by OpenAI.
Ai.txt
ai.txt, a structured approach akin to an RSS feed or semantic layer for AI, designed to guide Large Language Models (LLMs) in efficiently understanding and consuming web content.

Appreciated what @Sunghyun shared https://cho.sh/r/F9F706. this does not necessarily build on what he did, but I was happy to see another person thinking about/executing the concept.
It's 20% less inefficient than it was when YT Premium was $9.99. It'll be paying for itself in a couple of years.
I don't understand why some people are SO OPPOSED to YouTube Premium.

Maybe it's that I watch a tooon of youtube, but it's the best subscription I have. Easily worth the cost IMO. Hell, don't get ads in my browser with yt regardless (ad blockers) but I pay for premium solely so that when I'm watching _youtube on someone elses TV_ I don't see ads.

IDK. I'm fine with them having to make money. And I'm fine just paying instead of having to sit through ads.

If you're not paying the company, you're the product. I'm happy that I can pay to not get ads.

I do the same with Twitch Turbo as well. It just... seems straightforward to me that this would be the preferred option for someone who can't sit through an ad.
Ever read Popper on the scientific method? It’s a classic: https://staff.washington.edu/lynnhank/Popper-1.pdf
History of Fallout: The Gurps Apps
This tutorial is a good overview of the rough systems behind most of this "Chat your data" application you're seeing now.

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/langchain-retrieval-augmentati...

Langchain / Llama indexes are both toolboxes that abstract away a lot of the plumbing for doing this kind of thing, and Pinecone is one of dozens of vector databases.

Personally, i'd try out langchain and chromadb and go through some of the examples langchain has in their docs, then be prepared to completely abandon langchain and just work with the LLM APIs directly. Start with openai, get on the waitlist for GPT-4 tokens, and also get on Anthropics Claude waitlist for the 100k-1.3. It's _very_ good for knowledge retrieval.

Langchain tries to do too much in extracting away the prompts, and the prompts are really what matter in getting interesting stuff out of your own data. Use langchain, llamaindex pieces but build from scratch for most things as your tinkering.

It's really not hard if you have a background in programming, and it's _so_ much fun. You'll feel like you have superpowers once you get a scraping interface hooked into an LLM. All of a sudden you can automate some really complex pipelines very quickly
> this is only correct about UUID version 1. However, it is what most applications use.

This is a bold claim and doesn't match my experience at all. UUIDv4 is all I see, everywhere, everyday.

That's also a big enough caveat to put in the title: if you have a beef with UUIDv1, say UUIDv1 is obsolete.
As the article points out, this is only an issue with UUIDv1. They claim "However, it is what most applications use." but I have no idea how true this is. I was under the impression that the vast majority of UUID generators were v4 by default. For example:

Postgres only offers random uuid generation (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/functions-uuid.html).

The `uuidgen` CLI tool, at least for modern versions (I have not checked historically), says (from https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/uuidgen.1.html): "By default uuidgen will generate a random-based UUID if a high-quality random number generator is present." (later it lists /dev/random as such a generator, present on almost all systems)

What's an example of a system that generates v1 uuids by default?
Multi-GPU nodes with fast coherent interconnects exist.
Per https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P211122.pdf the only Tier 4 bank is US based but _plenty_ of other banks around the world are systemically important. Is the US overly represented? Sure. But I’d also imagine they are more interconnected to the global financial system than other world wide banks
Is your interior AC unit or its ducting in a basement or crawlspace?
Unfortunately, this kind of requires that the government actually be functionally democratic. Its not really democratic if the people with money decide who gets on the ballots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opiiaLCBBok&ab_channel=GoodP...
Right now on the front page is a post about where to see Hokusai's Great Wave today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985221) or Why is my dryer radioactive (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990858#35992719).

They may not hold up to morepablo's bizarre demands of hacker purity (like the off-kilter conversation reported in the linked article. If I talked like that to someone who approached me, I'd be so embarrassed. Definitely wouldn't plaster it all over the Internet on my blog where I "look for ways to... empower [people]"), but it sure looks like the hacker spirit to me.
MobileSheets Pro for android is pretty nice. It’s not as polished in the UX department as ForScore, but it works really well and IMO it handles complex page sequences better than ForScore.
In typical Android fashion, it exposes a bit too much functionality so it can be overwhelming to a new user.
Imagine wanting to show something on your screen to someone else...

I mean, technically, it's probably possible to connect multiple glasses, but this model seems like it's only one pair per laptop.
T-mobile != T-Mobile ISP. For the better or worse, anything going through the ISP plan is bottom of the barrel. You can look through all the post on the T-Mobile ISP subreddit. Even those with 500 Mbps speed are close to 100 ms of latency.
If the tax is included in the price, then you’re getting less than $1 of the good or service as it’s already baked into that price.

For example with a 20% VAT, a $1 priced item is really an $.83 item, and to pay for it at a 45% tax bracket would require $1.81 of income.

The numbers themselves are meaningless. Only the total ratio of income required to goods received is important, and it remains unchanged.
DeStantis' statements made it obvious this is political retaliation for speaking out against his legislation. I don't particularly care for either party, but Florida taxpayers are going to end up paying the bill both in settlement money and in lost jobs due to the government open hostility / retribution towards their first amendment rights.

https://reason.com/2023/05/16/ron-desantis-confirms-again-th...
There's absolutely no reason to be "brutally" honest. It's entirely possible to be respectful, clear, and concise all at the same time. And yes, as easy it is to read that sentence without the intensifier, it's also easy to write it without it as well.
Clockless designs did find their use, just not for the entire chips. Certain parts of modern CPUs are asynchronous.