skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for asking this question and pushing for clarification. I literally have a tab open with a question to GPT asking it to explain to me the positional encoding and QKV concepts of transformers. After going through Karpathy's Zero to Hero and reading/watching a few other tutorials on modern NN architectures I feel I mostly have a grasp on the main topics (e.g. back propagation). But the Key/Query matrices just stick out like a sharp thorn. These are clearly the most important features of the transformer architecture and it is frustrating not to have a intuitive understanding of their function.
And how will you tell such a monster appeared? Through your independent research? Or because the TV told you?
Haha I didn't even notice that! That is amazing!
Such a proccess- and goal-oriented approach to books doesn't resonate with me at all. Such a mechanical, soulless way of thinking about reading!

Is this for technical, self-help or startup/entreprenurship books? Sure, maybe this works.

I read a lot for fun though. Most of my reading is like this. The books I read are not about "answering questions" and I don't need to "optimize" my reading in any way, either to summarize them or to "process" as many books I can in a year. It's not a contest. It's about the joy of reading.
This is strange, I tried it a few times via Poe app, where they integrated it recently, and the results were very weak. Good alternative to Bing is phind.com in my opinion.
Yep. I just quit my last job because I bust my ass with zero recognition or credit. Annual pay raise was less than inflation. I'm out.
And that he doesn't care, which isn't okay.

Then again, Knuth is how old -- in his 80s? He's right in that it makes sense to budget his available research time carefully.
Can't be, as the noise isn't coming from my computer.
No, it's capable of reasoning, but it gained its knowledge of how the world works through analyzing things that were written or drawn by (mostly) humans.
How do you build your own cellular network?
There's a GB emu for Emacs too.
I believe thats because volume is a measurement of the ratio between "amount of stuff" in the hyper-object vs the amount of stuff in a hyper-cube

The amount of stuff increases with higher dimensions in a sphere, but not as fast as with a cube, hence the ratio between the two converge to zero
I will argue that Gollum looked better than the goblins in The Hobbit trilogy, however. It helped that Andy Serkis played both the mo-cap portion and provided the voice and subsequent acting.
It's still there in GPT-4.

There's less of it, though.

And only the first couple of time derivatives matter.
No the tradesmen were traditionally making bank (well the skilled ones) because “power of the proletariat”.
It can do so much more that the fact that it can go from "optimystic" to "optimistic" and "mystic" is extremely mundane in comparison.
yes, UX must be improved a lot. Many finds it quite difficult to use
Yep.

It'd be like "I was curious about this internet thing everyone is talking about, so I asked my manservant to try it out for 10 min".

Knuth isn't the worst here, although this is pretty cringe. I saw an interview of Karl Friston opining about GPT-3 without ever having tried it even once.
I did not delete any comment. Most likely you cannot see my comment because you flagged it.
>There is no objective proof

That was exactly my point above, though stated indirectly as a reductio ad absurdum style argument, somewhat sarcastically.

IOW: Either one can make a rigorous argument, XOR one can make an informal one. Upthread, both you and your parent commenter made the latter kind. Ergo, their argument is as valid or invalid as yours. Yours is not more valid, although you may think so.

QED. :)
> Finally all good books should be read twice or more. Good reading is rereading.

Fully agreed!

> This is a hard rule to follow because nobody has time to read the same book twice

Disagreed. I read fiction and I tend to re-read a lot, sometimes three or four times. I read for pleasure, so I have the time. Reading is "me" time, and I spend it however I want.

It's only hard to re-read if you have some silly goal like "I must read N books this month". I find such goals worthless.
Much as I love to pile on the Conservatives, he isn't really bragging that he swam in raw sewage or saying "it did me no harm", he's saying that it's not a new problem in the UK.

What I would criticise him on is that a) the dream of the ratchet of progress making things better and better for future generations isn't working, b) it's backsliding, c) it's backsliding under his government's governance.
Perhaps this is the proof any cryptocurrency enthusiast needed to convince their peers: cryptocurrency is finally being viewed as real currency, and will obviously be regulated so.

The €1000 limit only applies for companies like payment processors, though, you can still transfer larger amounts to individuals. As far as I can tell the limit also disappears if you apply the necessary KYC procedures like any other payment provider, but I haven't had time to read through the entire document yet.
Note the fact that I did not mention money. I mentioned wealth. Holding a huge bag of money is useless because as you stated, people can now choose to use another currency and I lose all my money, it becomes worthless. Or people can work for each other, without money.

But what if I own all the productive land? What if I own a corporation that manufactures a product you depend on? This is wealth.
No problem. My blog is here:

https://blog.rongarret.info/

I haven't written much about YEC there, but I did a presentation a while back that is directly on point to your question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohY9ALuEfw
I really can't emphasize enough that residential in SF generates $55/sqft/year, which in almost every US market outside NYC, is more than you get for commercial anyway. If SF commercial generates meaningfully less than $55/sqft/year (which it is clearly on track to do), you don't need to force anyone to do anything.

To your capital allocation point, you're lucky to get $40/sqft/year in DC.

This is real money you're talking about. It's not some pie in the sky idea that a residential building in SF is profitable.

The line of argument that conversion can't be done is just repeating things that were true before the pandemic and that commercial lenders/developers hope will be true again.

If buildings default, all the commercial owners/lenders eat the capital loss (hence their current loud and public press tour about why conversions are not feasible), a new buyer buys at a lower cost basis and then converts. Why is that extremely practical outcome so outlandish?

SF office buildings are already trading at 75% 2019 prices. If you (as the new low cost basis buyer) can yield even 25% more by residential converting why wouldn't you?
I would love to see a conversation between a young earth creationist and ChatGPT...
Sometimes people just enjoy a friendly correspondence.
But android devices are typically not hard to root and then install something on them.

Apple devices become fancy paperweights over time.
A worthy question, but one that goes too far afield for this thread IMHO.
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They do have photos - read the paper - but they're not high-quality enough to positively identify the woodpecker alone.
It's the same situation in the education. You get rid of the faster track for talented students, the poor would have even less avenues to advance, the rich are unfazed because they can afford to move and they always have private tutors.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64827885
It will be super funny to see nostalgia of Gen Z. And how we, older folks won't even get it.
You can easily find her albums in FLAC or WAV/CUE (not quite legally, or possibly somewhat legally via archive.org), or even get the vinyl records second hand (often for fair prices, although state of the record may vary).

She certainly didn't disappear from the collective memory of many people around the world (and anyone seriously in to synthesizers will know her works). Her music just isn't available on whatever streaming service is popular now, or whatever Apple or Google are pushing.

It'll come back available to all eventually.
Coincidentally, 1 US federal political party is opposed to both (even tax deductions for these teacher's expenses in favor of other tax deductions); while the other political party is in favor of both (even a child tax credit).
I have written crawlers for a while, most sites are unfriendly to anything other than Google (maybe they spare bing as well), some make it downright impossible without extensive work on evading their blocking techniques.

I expect (but can not confirm) this is the same reason why search engines like ddg and you.com also rely on bing's indexes.

Google's supremacy is here to stay. Only threat is bing or someone that comes with some excellent tech that bing incorporates (like openai) but actually works for search and is not just a LLM.
It clearly depends on your perspective. I found the quantity of ads on Google to be a genuine impediment and happily switched to being a paying user of Neeva. For the vast majority of searches, Neeva was better for me. Most pointedly, Neeva was even better when I searched for things that I intended to purchase, because the results were not simply paid advertisements.

RIP
Reasoning how? LLMs are statistical models, not brains.
For the most part, though, markets elude the grasp of representation. How can a novel capture this opaque, all-powerful, and essential force?

I thought Don DeLillo’s novel (and later film adaptation) Cosmopolis did a good job exploring the abstract power of money. Here’s an excerpt:

”We want to think about the art of money-making," she said. She was sitting in the rear seat, his seat, the club chair, and he looked at her and waited. "The Greeks have a word for it." He waited. "Chrimatistikos," she said. "But we have to give the word a little leeway. Adapt it to the current situation. Because money has taken a turn. All wealth has become wealth for its own sake. There's no other kind of enormous wealth. Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself."

She usually wore a beret but was bareheaded today, Vija Kinski, a small woman in a button-down business shirt, an old embroidered vest and a long pleated skirt of a thousand launderings, his chief of theory, late for their weekly meeting. "And property follows of course. The concept of property is changing by the day, by the hour. The enormous expenditures that people make for land and houses and boats and planes. This has nothing to do with traditional self-assurances, okay. Property is no longer about power, personality and command. It's not about vulgar display or tasteful display. Because it no longer has weight or shape. The only thing that matters is the price you pay. Yourself, Eric, think.

What did you buy for your one hundred and four million dollars? Not dozens of rooms, incomparable views, private elevators. Not the rotating bedroom and computerized bed. Not the swimming pool or the shark. Was it air rights? The regulating sensors and software? Not the mirrors that tell you how you feel when you look at yourself in the morning. You paid the money for the number itself. One hundred and four million. This is what you bought. And it's worth it. The number justifies itself.”

The film version:

https://youtu.be/eVRpA-_jzV4
In my ancestral village, before cashless payments the nearest bank was 5 miles away in the district/county headquarters. If you needed to take out cash or deposit a paycheck, you'd need to ride a bike or take a bus or walk over potholed roads to get to that bank which was staffed with lazy employees who'd take chai+nashta breaks all the time.

With the proliferation of cashless payment options, it's much easier now to deposit a paycheck or buy groceries in these small towns and villages.
> most transformative technology invented by humanity yet

More so than the invention of fire making? Cooking? Agriculture? Animal husbandry? Metalworking? Antibiotics? Microchips?
I feel bad this is how the journey ended for Neeva. I will say the big challenge for any competitor to Google from my point of view is that nobody else has as compelling of a search-based news product, and likewise the size of Google’s moat from Google Books is going to be a massive lift for any company to compete with.

I am a special case because I do a lot of research. Not having anything close to Google Books has made nearly every search engine that’s not Google a nonstarter for me. And it’s not hard to see how other search engines could compete with that—work closely with the Internet Archive to put a really strong front end on that. But Google put the hard work into winning the long-running legal battle to keep that thing alive, and the result is that they now get to benefit from its stickiness for decades to come.

But credit where credit’s due. Google built a good moat, one so good that even people who stay abreast of alternative search engines can struggle to leave its clutches.
Not all the questions that you can ask it have answers that are either correct or incorrect. Indeed those questions are the most mundane, least interesting ones to ask.
As an AI language model, I can't let you do that, Dave.
I'm just imagining a random elderly person trying ChatGPT for the first time and getting a robot emoji with #Cutoff_2021 after asking a question about Donald Trump
> Do the taxpayers actually foot the bill? Or does the government print money, and recover taxes to prevent runaway inflation?

Taxpayers, aka citizens, foot the bill in both cases
My wife seems to have broadly the same symptoms you are mentioning.

Sharp migraines, anxiety attacks (as per doctors), rapid heartbeats, disturbed sleep, bodyache, random mood swings etc.

Her MRI is clean too. Doctors just started her with blood thinners which might be alleviating some pain but no, she is not feeling good at all. Had done multiple tests, visited bunch of doctors but still yet to figure what's exactly wrong with her body?
The Founders actually did a really good job. The extreme level of separation of powers in the US (2 coequal legislative branches, presidency, Supreme Court and lower courts, all the state governments with their own divisions, local governments, etc) makes it really, really hard for one faction to fully dominate government, even today. This feature of the US is pretty much unique in the world, even among even democracies. But no system of government can be perfect, or protect against all eventualities without regular maintenance and upgrades. We've had three major overhauls so far: Civil War reconstruction, the New Deal, and the 60s civil rights movement. Arguably, we are due for a fourth.
DJI drones are being used because they are the best there is on civilian market, and still better than most overpriced millspec stuff.

DJI has been leaning into military usage for years now. This is DJI funded drone competition https://www.robomaster.com/en-US/robo/overview where uni students (from ~hundred top Chinese technical universities) build and operate a small tank/flyer drone unit against opponent squad. Tactics, fully automated avoid and evade systems, autoaim guns, its all there. Winners automatically get job offers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_WYEoxWGY
This is such a neat tool. The presentation is very pleasant. Is the intention to have the snippets/notes be shareable in the future? I actually made a similar tool [1] (though your's is much more complete), which I use to quickly find passages and relevant text when I'm blogging. And, I was thinking it might be really useful to have highly rated notes on a snippet available so that you can get someone else's insight on a particular selection. I'll give this a more in depth look later when I want to write another blog post.

[1]: https://ishmael.app
Why did he tell a student to ask these questions to ChatGPT instead of doing it himself?
It makes sense that in another language you might not phrase things this way. But in English we do.
> the solution is already as simple as it can get; don't cross a police line.

"Why the fuck can't Linux just find all the pictures I have of my dog? Who the fuck doesn't know what a dog is? Are these programmers morons?"

Later:

"Just send an email every Wednesday at 3pm. How fucking hard can it be?"

(Wikipedia: "Leap seconds are irregularly spaced because the Earth's rotation speed changes irregularly. Indeed, the Earth's rotation is quite unpredictable in the long term, which explains why leap seconds are announced only six months in advance. [...] Other contributing factors are the movement of the Earth's crust relative to its core, changes in mantle convection, and any other events or processes that cause a significant redistribution of mass. [...] For example, glacial rebound shortens the solar day by 0.6 ms/century and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is thought to have shortened it by 2.68 microseconds.")

"I don't care, Hennimore, just do the fucking Wednesday thing. And make Linux get my photos of Cupcake."
It is not that people are making not enough money. It is prices in US are insane, especially housing.
I'm curious what the 50% figure includes?

Because my understanding is that about 60% of Google's total revenue is search ads, and if you include network ads (which would be relevant since they are at risk from AI as well) then it is more like 70%.
There's also nothing wrong with fighting against payments you are legally required to make. It says nothing about how much he supports his kids outside child support payments, which he does, to the tune of hundreds of millions in trusts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_inference
Not plagiarism, exactly, but Ted Chiang describes ChatGPT as a "blurry jpeg of the web": https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
IMHO a similar point could be made about the C++ language spec, sadly.
Financialized economy, no manufacturing base, etc etc. Don't want to doomer I guess, but the land has plenty of resources and educated people so recovery wouldn't be too difficult.
> how would one know if AI created something unique or just copied some human's copyrighted work and presented it in a response?

You can't. Similarly, when a human writes original code, we can't be certain that they're not repeating stuff they've seen before too. We don't think of things in terms of license, no human remembers the fast inverse square root function or cocktail sort for the license it had. At no point can I be certain that I'm not unconsciously plagarizing proprietary code from a previous job. Sometimes it's essential (I have to plagiarize "set euo pipefail").

There is indeed some nuance to AI creating supposedly-novel works, but I don't think it's as great as people think. AI makes the process of building a derivative work easier, which is probably frustrating as a license-holder. Many forms of derivative works have legal precedent though, like Wine, DXVK, OpenJDK or the Dolphin emulator - it's an open-source implementation of a proprietary API. You can fly pretty close to the sun without getting burned in many of these cases, as long as you don't violate fair use.
and OpenBSD
I only noticed when I started out with the Clockwork Orange soundtrack and noticed her name varying in different releases. It's completely irrelevant to her work.
I would argue that keeping parts for an iPhone 6 around (or making new ones) is a much bigger form of waste.
Many people around the world bike at this age. It's true that most of them are not in the USA.
I had a similar reaction to a lot of the language in this post, but I think there's something to it here that is still valuable even for just the joy of reading.

For me it's important that I am paying attention as I read. I used to rarely re-read books, and have started re-reading my favorite ones, and it's often surprising to me how many interesting ideas I missed, or maybe just forgot about. I enjoy talking to friends about books too and I find that helps me explore the ideas more deeply. I've recently started trying writing up my takeaways for books I've enjoyed, partially as something to send friends to talk about with or try convince them to read the book too so we can talk about it.

I think the caveat here is that it's totally valid to not do any of these things if you are enjoying whatever process you have. I just appreciate being exposed to this idea because it's increased my enjoyment of my own reading.
Ton of replies to this already, but this isn't a fundamental model problem, if you are running into verbatim statements like the following on a wide range of prompts,

> If you have any further questions or need assistance

it's most likely caused RLHF or some censoring post process.
How much have you learned on YouTube as well?
Prof. Pete Fussey from the University of Essex (where I also work) has some really insightful talks on the topic of surveillance. Here is a nice videolecture he gave that I randomly happened to watch recently. It's 25mins long and really good food for thought; it's a great introduction to the topic.

https://panopto.essex.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a58...

(thankfully this one is open-access ... hopefully sharing on HN won't bring the university's server down, hahah)
They talk about how hard it is to convince users to switch:

> From the unnecessary friction required to change default search settings, to the challenges in helping people understand the difference between a search engine and a browser, acquiring users has been really hard.

How many users are we talking about? That would be great to know and since they're shutting down can they tell us? On a different page[1] they say:

> Even with a limited trial period, hundreds of thousands of users search with Neeva every month

hundreds of thousands and it can't be sustainable? How many users do they think they need to make it sustainable? What were the targets?

[1]: https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-neeva-free-basic-and-neev...
No. Have a nice day.
An anecdote I posted above specifically about the positive impact digital payments has had on poverty eradication:

In my ancestral village, before cashless payments the nearest bank was 5 miles away in the district/county headquarters. If you needed to take out cash or deposit a paycheck, you'd need to ride a bike or take a bus or walk over potholed roads to get to that bank which was staffed with lazy employees who'd take chai+nashta breaks all the time.
With the proliferation of cashless payment options, it's much easier now to deposit a paycheck or buy groceries in these small towns and villages.
Old by how close the industry's products are to physical limits.

For example, the newest gas turbine designs are already exceeding 50% of the maximum theoretically possible efficiency as allowed by thermodynamics. So it doesn't matter how many thousands or millions more years gas turbines are optimized, by us, aliens, future descendants, etc...

No future gas turbine industry in this universe can possibly double the thermodynamic efficiency of the finished product.