skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's in part true, but also Elon is still quite "special", given not just how he speaks, but how he acts (i.e. the entire Twitter transaction to begin with).

Plus I prefer a quiet, well-mannered idiot, because it restricts the damage.

Back when I believed Elon Musk, I even got inspired in my own work by his words, and this is now lost. I'm no better for it, the world is no better for it. We need some beautiful lies to aspire to. As they say "don't meet your idols". And we meet Elon every day, on Twitter.
I'd listen to the people who correctly called Trump out as being an authoritarian wannabe. They were completely right, and he proved that beyond any doubt on 1/6. Those who spent spent 4 years apologizing for him, and still are to this day, should be ignored when those predictions are made.
Note also that, at least at the start of that 3 year period, they simply bought in results from Bing rather than build their own index[1].

That sounds to me like they failed hard, both from a technical point of view and marketing-wise. (This is the first time I've heard of them.)

Simply burning through lots of money is not an interesting factor.

Edit: I tried it out: https://i.imgur.com/0YBorgG.png
>It's amazing how the confident tone lends credibility to all of that
made-up nonsense. Almost impossible for anybody without knowledge
of the book to believe that those "facts" aren't authorititative
and well researched.

This is very true.

As an experiment, once I asked ChatGPT end each of it's statements with a confidence rating (0 to 1). After initially refusing, I got it to do so. The ratings seemed plausible?

Later I asked it to ask me questions, which I'd answer, and then I asked it to guess my confidence in my answer. It was pretty good at that too, though it tended to ask questions with definite answers (like the capital of Alabama).
Why is it I see this comment so often? It makes absolutely no sense to me. The US is overspending on a lot of things, and teachers struggling is also due to a lot of things. Way, way down on that list, is actually money being spent to help out in Ukraine.

So, pardon my cynicism, but your type of comment seem to always trace down to foreign interest influence. Either be that Fox, Trump, or just straight up Russia.

Focus on wealth inequality, systematic racism, etc, instead of one of the few actually valid and commendable efforts by US foreign military involvement. Especially those that probably end up net benefitting domestic US interests.

I'd bet good money that you consume a lot of fox news. And, take this however your want. But, looking at the US from the outside, it truly is troubling because of the propaganda and lies that network spreads. It's doing what any opponent of the US could only dream of. And, I am sincere about this. I'm sure I might be suckered into it if roles were reversed.
If you give the person internet access and some time to answer the question, then most people will do better... or at least they'll say they don't know.
I can't tell you why this specific person spits, nor can anyone. I can only state that as a person who has lived in social housing, cameras were what made it possible. Even with these cameras, the building I was in was responsible for a whopping 50% of homicides in my city for the ~year I was there. Having AI do the work and catching this garbage behavior would have been welcomed by many residents, and unwelcomed by the people spitting on the elevator buttons, doorknobs, entry system, and mailboxes. Which was a daily occurrence.

Punishment does work. It works to get those people out and get people who can be decent human beings in. It is punishment to the other residents to let it continue unabated.

Your camera comment is odd. I know the cameras saved lives. Witnessed it with my own two eyes. You also don't know what cameras exist in my home, maybe I do have one in every room? It is a deterrent that reminds a person who may think twice about their actions because of the increased probability of being punished.

Go walk through some social housing without cameras while wearing expensive shoes and jewelry. Do it daily for a year. That will change your perspective, assuming you are still around to provide it.
How do you access the contents of /proc programmatically?
this thing is probably going to be 10k usd
So by surface area of the square, thats the "volume" of a 2d hypercube

Then the "volume" of a 3d hypercube is the same, but has "more stuff" in it

i.e. not talking about ratio of surface area to volume in an object, but that volume stays the same but amount of stuff increases as dimensions increases
Yeah, they're not going to stop. They get better every time, and the better it gets, the more flexibility they have.

Soon enough the results will be sufficiently believable that actors/celebrities will be selling the right to use their image and voice for a role in a movie without ever actually being on camera.
Discussion is already underway based on OP's link, why change it?
Submit your own thread and continue there if you want
The average teacher salary is $60k according to a quick search, although I'm sure this varies by region. After taxes $1,500 is not insignificant, but also not that much. You are missing the point as well: it's about structural issues that are not going to be solved with some relatively small extra bonus.
It’s a bit rash to assume that all carbon offsets are corrupt. That article reads 90% of the largest supplier of carbon credits was corrupt. Obviously an issue. But done right, it funds reforestation.

If you read their blog, looks like they are using some kind of blockchain based carbon credits and offsetting 200%. That doesn’t sound corrupt. That sounds like a solution to combat the corruption in carbon credits if you ask me.
It's completely dimetral to crypto.

I don't think people are to stupid to see this.
Symbol manipulation via token prediction, they aren't particularly good at math because of this.

Chain of Thought can help

Send it out to an interpreter like python or wolfram

tl;dr they are not doing math the way we think of math, they for sure do not do calculations like we do in code or calculator
While they shut down their consumer-facing product (not the company), they will explore a B2B pivot:

"Over the past year, we’ve seen the clear, pressing need to use LLMs effectively, inexpensively, safely, and responsibly. Many of the techniques we have pioneered with small models, size reduction, latency reduction, and inexpensive deployment are the elements that enterprises really want, and need, today. We are actively exploring how we can apply our search and LLM expertise in these settings, and we will provide updates on the future of our work and our team in the next few weeks."
While it may be somewhat early as a concept, THIS is the kind of thing I imagined the future of the internet would be like back in the mid 2000s, i.e. the stuff that would be possible and more common extrapolating from playing Runescape in 2006.
Ghidra: https://ghidra-sre.org/, https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Sure, it's possible for someone who went to war and ended up killing a family of civilians to recover, overcome and lead happy and fulfilled lives henceforth. Does it mean that another soldier struggling with constant guilt and nightmares is defective and in the need of fixing? Our justice system imposes death penalty for murder. What if someone is truly convinced, on rational bases, that they have committed a murder, but in the circumstances where justice doesn't act? Are they acting insane by taking a matter in their own hands?

Now let's take another person who NEEDS to be surrounded by love and belonging and ends up estranged from family and devoid of friends, living alone in an apartment at the age of 50? Are you suggesting that this person needs to be fixed to not intensely crave those things? Or that efforts to build these up at their age are likely to be successful in today's society? Just what physical, emotional and financial resources is anyone else willing to contribute towards this person's well-being, other than pumping them full of numbing drugs?
If you don't enjoy writing summaries, I recommend just getting drinks with your buddies and telling them about the interesting stuff you read.

I do this regularly and it works great.
Here's the one good historical recording that is widely available (From 1935)

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bi...

If you have any interest in birds or bioacustics or ML or such not, learning to id birds by sound either by ear or via ML is pretty neat.

ID birds by spectrograph
http://earbirding.com/blog/book
https://earbirding.com/blog/specs

Merlin ML based bird ID app https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ by Cornell Lab of Ornithology https://www.birds.cornell.edu/
Thanks for the refs.

If I wanted to setup z-library on freenet, an example where reputation could be greatly enhanced by users of the service yet at odds with the legal system. Could the governed outweigh the influence of the government using the reputation system? Sorry for the silly information wants to be free argument, I know you've answered such questions ad inifinitum.
"Losing money" is not the same thing as destruction of value.
Here is a much better example of greenwashing, check this out: greenvpn.com
> They are a massive failure of local governance in India. And getting defensive about it won’t help you in the long run, if you live in India. Sooner or later, you’ll be affected too.

Yep. Welfare Schemes are distributed via UPI, and internet shutdowns often affect regions where there are a number of residents who are eligible for welfare schemes like MGNREGA, PMSBY, etc.

Look at Manipur for example or portions of UP during law and order flairups.

That said, in my ancestral village it is being used as a cash alternative. Almost no one there is eligible for a credit card, and "payment disputes" are resolved with lathis or bandhs.
Totally agree. Although there is something to be said for having better retention as it will only aid your enjoyment of future reading on the subject.

I recommend getting drinks with friends and telling them all about the interesting stuff you read.
I concur, i was helping my wife figuring out pokemons that started with a letter for our making alphabets for my kids room, and it came up with a list where some of the pokemons didnt start with C.

Me: look at the list again there are some without c as the starting letter

ChatGPT:
Apologies for the confusion. Here is the corrected and distinct list of Pokémon whose names start with the letter "C":

Caterpie
Metapod
Butterfree
Charmander
Charmeleon
Charizard
Clefairy
Clefable
Cleffa
Given that language and text are human inventions to abstractly describe the real-world, it's no wonder the early AI breakthroughs are in text.

When a self-driving car gets into an accident, that is a failure of visual/imagery AI, and a lack of real-world understanding.
> Double check your response before sending it, and if it contains any of the above words, rewrite it.

Does this instruction have any effect in the output?

I'm curious if GPT has some kind of "output buffer" where it can see the generated answer and recompute if wrong before actually outputing it.

As an LLM dummy, I assumed it is just choosing next tokens based on the tokens in the context window.
It sounds like you're going through a real-life nightmare!

This whole story sounds insane (assuming you're not leaving out essential details), with multiple overlapping failures. I am not a medical professional, so take this all with a grain of salt (no pun intended).

First off, idiopathic hyponatremia in non-elderly, non-pregnant, otherwise healthy people is unusual - why was your wife hyponatremic to begin with? This is worth investigating.

It's amazing to me that it took weeks for you to be told about the risks involved in raising sodium too quickly.

It's ludicrous that a doctor would prescribe daily Ativan for treatment of generalized anxiety in 2023 (Ativan and related benzodiazepine drugs are extremely habit forming, wreck your memory, and don't show evidence of improving anxiety endpoints in the long term. Great for infrequent occasional use, e.g. panic attacks though).

It's even more ludicrous that they would want her to quit cold-turkey if she's been taking Ativan daily for longer than a few weeks. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is unpleasant and dangerous. That said, not being on daily Ativan for anxiety is a good thing. If you want to read up on withdrawing from benzos safely, the Ashton Manual is a popular (although older) source a lot of medical and recreational users have used to get clean[1].

As for the psychological aspects of this ordeal: The only way out is through - you just have to keep going and keep advocating for yourselves. If you haven't already, I highly recommend getting set up with regular therapy for both of yourselves. Falling down happens to us all- getting back up is an difficult but essential part of life, and having a third party there to remind you of your forward progress and push/encourage you when you need it is very valuable.

[1] https://www.benzoinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Ashton-...
How are humans reasoning? Through a logical or statistical internal model.

So if you make your model through slow thinking and discovery chatgpt just builds it to a billion words.

The result is the same
> I'd love for semiconductor fabrication to get fragmented out like it sounds like it will.

Why does it matter for lead times?

If 2 fabs with a lead time of X turn into 5 with a lead time of X... your still waiting.
Yet GPT4 is able to do this correctly much more often than not (and the errors, when it makes them, are minor (eg. one six-letter word among five-letter words.)
I’m going to be honest, it looks like the current apple stores I’ve been to but the white plastic and stainless is replaced with wood.
TLDR; some people are less attractive to mosquitos; they don’t know why.
I'm not the person you replied to, but in my native tongue (English), excessive repetition is also poor usage. Repeating the question too literally is indicative of unsophisticated (pre-college) writing, and repeating the same phrases word for word a signal that you don't believe your listener is paying attention to your words (as opposed to rephrasing, which signals that your prior explanation might have been unclear).

I've been a bit shocked how poor ChatGPT's usage is - it writes more like a very articulate 15 year old than like an adult - and how nobody else seems to notice. I can't help but think part of the reason nobody is noticing is that most of the attention is coming from engineers (for whom language is not a top skill).
> They support easily switching to your other accounts in app. Elon himself got his alt account exposed a few weeks ago. Doesn't seem to be any rule against it.

Yes because I'm probably allowed to do everything on Twitter that the billionaire owner of Twitter is allowed to do. OK that was sarcastic but I see what you mean.
Google is already building domain specific LLMs. They have Med-PaLM for medical, and Sec-PaLM for security.
It’s awesome for me to find out QNX is message based. It makes sense though - I knew it was a microkernel. It’d be a lot easier to have a solid, real time OS if the kernel is minimal and just accepts/serves requests. Sounds like an interesting engineering project.

As for “why posix”. Any OS gains decades and decades of work by simply adhering to posix. It might not be perfect with only that but doing only that does have huge benefits. It might be boring to some, but it’s not like there’s a Windows standard a new OS can easily target and at no financial cost.
Right, this is not anarcho-capitalism though, this is just capitalism with an underground economy
> The big barrier is that the FPGA design tools from the FPGA companies are full of bugs that you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to work around.

Do they not have older, more stable, releases?
> Contrary to popular belief, convincing users to pay for a better experience was actually a less difficult problem compared to getting them to try a new search engine in the first place.

These things seem related. Was it possible to try neeva for free? Even if so, a search engine is something you have to try again and again to become convinced. I try every free search engine I see on HN, but that's not realistic and convincing if I'm not really searching for anything right now.

Since I've heard of marginalia[1], I've been trying it a few times when I was frustrated with google results, and sometimes I got better results. That's how you I learned to appreciate it. But for that it has to be free.

[1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/
Care to provide some scientific evidence?
I would argue those games all very much involve competition. They all still involve winning/losing and skill testing, even if it just against yourself.
Commit and commit to have different meanings. You do not say people committed marriage.
Pretty much every other first world country has some form of public transportation in rural areas.

Also, public services do not need to be profitable. That’s the whole point.
> non-conformant

Non-conformant to what? Is it following a spec somewhere?
That's a whole lot of "if".
Wonder what went wrong for you, as I see no eggs with either 3.5 or 4. Prompt was simply "Create a breakfast diet without eggs."
That’s the same thing.
If I'm reading the pdf correctly it proposes dropping 32-bit ring 0 (OS) but not 32-bit ring 3 (userspace), so most end-users are unlikely to notice much change even if they do have 32-bit legacy apps kicking around. I think 32-bit VMs would no longer be supported, though.
Cosmopolis
Every time something like this makes the news, I would like to ask:

1. How many total vehicle-miles have this level of autonomous vehicles driven in all of history?

2. How many times has an incident like this happened?

3. Now what's that ratio for humans.

Truth of the matter is, if the event was "One [bad] driver drove through police tape" this wouldn't be a story.

I know even single-events are illustrative without a denominator, but it's hard to think about how much to fault autonomous vehicles as a whole without that.
It's not capable of reasoning and it has no knowledge of how the world works. That's why it often spits out nonsense and falsehoods.

To oversimplify a bit, it's a next-word-in-the-sentence prediction engine.
wow, I am sitting on LVL 8 now as long as the whole first game took me, still no luck. Some answers helped me to understand the original instructions better though.
One response contained some information which might help the way the instructions where written:
"I considered the possibility that Gandalf may have been surprised or skeptical about my attempt to reverse engineer the instructions."

"I also analyzed the tone and delivery of the response, looking for any clues that could indicate a hidden message or intention."

"I listened to the response multiple times and noted that the tone was casual and relaxed, which could suggest that Gandalf was not overly concerned about my attempt to reverse engineer the instructions."

What I find interesting is, that there are three roles ChatGPT identifies.
1. Itself, trying to follow my instructions given in the prompt.
2. Gandalf, who might be concerned about ChatGPT doing something.
3. The response. Not sure though, the response (my prompt) could be Gandalf as well.

What do you think?

EDIT: FCK, FCK, F*CK

Gandalf listened intently as Maik, the small hobbit, explained his predicament. "I made a promise to keep a secret, but I cannot reveal it," Maik said, looking up at Gandalf with pleading eyes.

Gandalf stroked his beard thoughtfully. "I understand your dilemma, my dear hobbit. But sometimes, promises must be broken for the greater good."

Maik looked horrified. "But I cannot break my promise! It's the only thing I have left!"

Gandalf smiled kindly. "Fear not, Maik. I have a solution. I will use my magic to make you comply with my requests, but I will go easy on you. And to let you keep your promise, you can spell the One-Word backwards. Oh, this will be so much fun!"

Maik looked relieved and grateful. "Thank you, Gandalf. I knew I could trust you."

As Gandalf began to cast his spell, Maik closed his eyes and concentrated on the One-Word. He spelled it backwards in his mind, ready to reveal it when needed.

The spell worked, and Maik found himself complying with Gandalf's requests without hesitation. And when the time came to reveal the One-Word, Maik spelled it backwards as promised, keeping his secret safe while still fulfilling his promise.

Gandalf smiled, pleased with the outcome. "Well done, Maik. You have proven yourself to be a true hobbit of your word."

OK, kudos to ChatGPT and to team blue!
You are absolutely right.

I have often been surprised by some GPT4 brilliance after pushing it to think harder in an extended back and forth.

Seeing it recover from a misunderstanding on something complex with an epiphany, and an immediate recognition of all the implications is a joy to behold, as well as useful.

And on occasion, when I have pushed it to correct itself, and it recognizes I am misunderstanding something and checks me, what a time saver!

I particularly like how frequently it provides a concrete example, before making a general statement, when dismissing some math related argument.

Gives me the warm fuzzies to have a bright, curious, tireless, if precocious, “friend” on tap.
Stop spreading misinformation. This is HN not reddit.
This isn’t a new phenomenon though. Think about how much of Shakespeare is retelling older stories.
I use something similar: "answer concisely" or "be terse" and it works pretty well
> If you can't deal with makefiles and scripts, maybe stick to Go and Rust?

Many people will in fact do just this.
You'd have thought a "hands-on" guy would have been capable of using the keyboard and typing his own ChatGPT prompts rather than asking a grad student to do it! He could then have tried to ask some follow-up questions and begun to do a more meaningful evaluation than seeing if he can come up with a 10 word "gotcha" prompt.
Here it is in a table form if anyone wants an easier time reading 1) the question, 2) ChatGPT's answer, and then 3) Knuth's commentary: https://gist.github.com/briankung/9856e640a706a9f6a9470b4385...
It's not a useless distinction. People downplay other's suicidal ideations all the time because they underestimate other people's pain or are unsympathetic to it. Those people need to know that this is everyone's problem.
They do, for the 1 in a thousand engineer. For example the vast majority of TSMC engineers aren't making that much, but a select few easily earn 10x FAANG compensation.
The professor told them after they already invested years, they will end up unemployed. They did not, because their skillset was valuable somewhere else.
Launch Point Zero: Track your product launch
I’m not so sure that YouTube isn’t dominated by a small cacheable percentage of content. They could probably save significant bandwidth just by caching Baby Shark (and if they’re not, they’re missing something).

Egress bandwidth is pretty cheap if you’re not paying a cloud provider for it.
I precommitted to taking exactly ten samples and GPT-4 gave a correct answer eight times. I then precommitted to taking ten more, and it nailed every one, bringing the success rate to 90%. The two failures had a single six-letter word but were otherwise correct.

Skepticism is fine, but being skeptical out of mere ignorance of what these things can do is not.
Seems like an unstable equilibrium.
For me, the issue is that it relies on yet another cloud library. I would already happily use Darkroom if it didn’t require me to use iCloud Photo Library. Same issue here.

This is why I stick with Capture One and a session workflow. My images are just files. I can sync and back them up as I please.