skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joke with people that F# is “easy-button Rust”, so that also tracks lol
I've noticed that there's a lot of shallow fulmination on HN recently. People say things like "I call bullshit", or "I don't believe this for a second", or even call others demeaning things.

My brother (and I say this with empathy), no one is here to hear your vehement judgement. If you have anything of substance to contribute, there are a million different ways to express it with kindness and constructively.

As for RLHF, it is used to align the LLM, not to make it more factual. You cannot make a language model know more facts than what it comes out of training with. You can only align it to give more friendly and helpful output to its users. And to an extent, the LLM can be steered away from outputting false information. But RLHF will never be comprehensive enough to eliminate all hallucination, and that's not its purpose.

LLMs are made to produce plausible text, not facts. They are fantastic (to varying degrees) at speaking about the facts they know, but that is not their primary function.
> I present to you a real, still-active Russian troll account.

Looks pretty recent and active.

At this point, is there an employee behind that account or a LLM?
It seems like if you were trying to do that, you wouldn’t personally co-host the announcement of any Presidential candidate.
I think I still have an active account on there, I still get a shitton more spam from them than anything, and lately I've noticed that every one of them seems to be either Musk or one of his companies' tweets.
New home sales will still happen because builders are buying down interest rates while giving up some margin to do it. They have to move the materials regardless. Used home market is def going to freeze up for the next year or so.
Elon stated vision and his actions don't seem to match up.
I’ve presented one possible rebuttal to the “I’m not interesting, so I don’t need to encrypt my communications” position. “It is OK to spy on some people sometimes” is a different position, so a different rebuttal would be necessary.

It isn’t really clear to me if you are actually trying to make these arguments in and of themselves, or if you think they add light to the first point. So, I’m not sure how to respond, sorry.
i'm not sure how malicious requests are relevant to this conversation

specifically, a URL can basically always be fully read and cached in memory in a server, a request body cannot
Okay, but support stops at Python 3.10. I have nothing against the tool - it looks interesting. But isn’t support of current versions of Python table stakes for a tool like this? How am I, as a potential user of this tool, supposed to interpret the lack of 3.11 support and a last release dated end of last year?
We have huge political problems, with forestry management failures and lying about controlled burns and fire break creations.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/06/23/newsom-misled-t....

By fueling 'climate change' anxieties the California supermajority and the monopoly power company PG&E mask their deadly incompetence with massive media spends, stoking fear and with the inevitable result of insurance being withdrawn and businesses leaving the state.

It's a shame there's no credible political opposition in the state, the infrastructure is crumbling, street dwelling drug tourist visitors are out of control, we are not on top of water storage during the heavy rain cycle years that occur every 5-7 years.
I think the problem is that a lot of people in America want America to be more like Russia.
Got it -- I was looking at something that I thought ML should be able to identify, but it apparently disagreed. So the 'i' wasn't special, and no 'identify this' feature was available. I tried again with a plant and it happily worked.

There was an aspect to Balloon Help 25 years ago that if something was disabled/not available, Balloon Help was supposed to tell you why it wasn't available. I miss that feature.
I am not nearly as convinced as you that he was a Russian asset from the beginning. I think it’s also likely, absent more info, that he just had no other options than to align with and kowtow to Russia after he was in the US’ crosshairs.

But I don’t think you deserve the downvotes as I believe we need to be more cognizant that Russia/China/etc absolutely run their own intelligence operations and destabilizing the US + interfering with the US’ offensive and counterintelligence abilities is obviously gonna be one of their main goals.
I know nothing about this, but I do know how type the question into Google, and I got this back, which sounds like what Maciej is talking about (if maybe ever so slightly corrupted).

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-br...
Bare metal hosting with bandwidth priced by pipe size rather than gigabyte. Check out DataPacket, FDCServers, Reliablesite, Hivelocity, etc.

Cloud bandwidth is absolutely enormously overpriced.
> He was flying to Ecuador and his passport was revoked when he was in Russia

Says who.

> If you speak out against Ukraine in Russia you get shot, and he has a wife and kids now.

That doesn’t mean he has to pledge allegiance during that period. Regardless it’s not what an American patriot does. That narrative is untenable now.
Years ago, when I interviewed at places that did USG-related work, the stuff I heard about that I didn't have to sign an NDA to hear, scared me enough that I knew Snowden-scale stuff was entirely within the capabilities of the US Govt. I didn't realize they would use it against us just blatantly in direct violation of every law put in place to prevent it, though.

I think the lesson I learned from the Snowden leaks is, if the government can do it, the government will do it - if not now, one day soon. That's... kind of a value-changing, life-changing realization. That no law will stop a government from doing what it wants. We can't stop it. But what we can do is install enough peep-holes (transparency) that when it happens, we're more likely to find out about it, so we can do something about it.
Won’t retroactively change things that support GET to support GET-with-body. A new verb makes it much more likely that anything that supports the verb supports the desired semantics.

(Of course, you could instead bump the HTTP version for support of GET-with-body, but given how HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are defined in terms of HTTP/1.1, you’d need three new versions of HTTP for a change to core verb semantics. A new verb, again, is far simpler.)
I like how there is an assumption that any simulation we run inside even follows rules, physics, or mathematics we can comprehend. If this is actually a simulation it's quite possible the outside world is so completely different it basically breaks everything we think we know.
Realtors are licensed sales agents who are members of a trade association— the National Association of Realtors. Colloquially people often call all licensed sales agents Realtors but there’s no requirement for one to join the association.

(I took all the required real estate sales licensing classes in my state several years ago. I didn’t take the exam because, in my state, one must be sponsored by a licensed broker to test. Since I never planned to sell I figured a broker would never sponsor me I never tested. It was fun, though, taking the classes.)
> a major fuck up

Any experienced programmer knows off-by-one errors are very common. There’s even a joke about it:

> There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

The real fuck up is the common sin of games industry ownership and management that applies unrealistic timelines to AAA games development which, especially in the days of in-house built render engines, were some of the most complicated software engineering endeavours around.
> If you speak out against Ukraine in Russia you get shot

You mean, against the “special military operation”; speaking out against Ukraine is... quite acceptable.
These companies have high customer acquisition costs and are almost certainly losing money on a one month policy.
And so it starts, I suspect we'll be seeing this issue more and more since it's easy to just get GPT to spit out some text. I believe that the true beneficiaries of LLMs are those that are experts in their fields. They can just read the output and deal with the inaccuracies.

Does anyone know if training an LLM with just one type of data, law in this case, creates a more accurate output?
Even beyond the war crimes; just the wars themselves. The WMD thing in Iraq is nice because not only was the war flimsily justified, but that justification itself was a lie.

However, a lot of the other wars are just bizarre. Taking Afghanistan - the costs, suffering caused and damage to the global economy are completely absurd. Nothing was achieved. There isn't any reason for someone in the US to even feel better after that debacle. The decision makers had to know that was what they were triggering, they did it anyway and many of them are still treated like reasonable choices for leadership positions.

That decision making was worse than anything Russia or China did, it was just pointless killing and destruction.
I don't think you're being clear about what "eye of Sauron" means, but I think that's on purpose, as the argument in favor of the concept of using surveillance via warrants undermines your larger "right to privacy" point.
"Bless Elon's Heart"
As foreign as it sounds logically and to someone who hasn’t come up in the Christian faith, tithing is about “the family” and the household income. We decide everything else based on “our” income so why wouldn’t giving be the same?

And tithing brings a blessing to the entire family and as supposedly the head of the family, I should follow those teachings.

Again, I’m just quoting from the “Christian protocol” or the “standard” and trying my best to argue from that basis. I’m not injecting my personal beliefs. Consider this an objective argument just like if you asked me why you shouldn’t have a body in a GET request.

> Giving money to the church (any church) would be a 1000% deal breaker for me.

It’s a minor nuisance in the grand scheme of things. I have my share of “deal breakers”. But that isn’t one of them.
I have an account that is still active, and I get an email from twitter with some tweets every day. And every single day, the first tweet is from right-wing nutjob named Lara Logan. I do not follow her. I looked at her stream once (which was enough). I honestly do not understand why Mr Neutrality has HER as the first tweet every single day.
> just to keep the heat on for nine days so they didn't freeze to death

I wonder how people survived freezing weather before HVAC systems.

> Government regulation would have prevented the prices from skyrocketing

The Law of Supply & Demand is always in play, meaning price caps result in shortages. According to your post, shortages mean people will freeze to death.
These 3 little pig arguments fall a bit flat to me.

You may have not seen what a forest fire, like those NorCal gets, does to a house. The insurance companies will have to pay just as much to replace a yard with some scorched brick in it where a family of four used to live, with their cars, possessions, appliances, etc. The house is ruined whether the walls survived the 1000 degree heat or not, because everything in and around it is lost.

Now there's certainly a class of old wooden houses on grasslands that are vulnerable to becoming infernos from stray sparks.

Assuming they weren't always that vulnerable (and that's what we're talking about here: new risk), I'm just not clear who would pay for it to be torn down and rebuild with (magical?) bricks. Did the homeowners have to do periodic risk assessments and decide when to do this? Who would pay for it? What's their motivation? They have insurance after all. They'll just rebuild.

If the insurance companies were caught off guard by this, how is a home owner to know and preemptively rebuild?
> he was a Russian asset from the beginning

I didn’t say he was a Russian asset from the beginning. I just said he was probably a traitor from the beginning. That may be quite complicated but he ended up a Russian asset.
> x <= y is the same as !(x > y)

i.e. two tests, or perhaps i should say logical operations. i'm not saying don't use '<=', but do check that it is doing what you think it should.
>me with my tiny gasoline generator has absolutely no incentive to use it at times of peak demand.

You have an incentive when the power to your residence or place of business goes out.
https://twitter.com/manas_saksena/status/1662320073661640706...

TIL that Whirlpool used JavaScript on their ESP32 based products and shipped millions of devices
I think you can read your boss - if they look pissed that you don't disclose the name or they keep asking - that's pretty plain.

Is Cain responsible for the quality? Yes. But IMO the boss should have delegated handling of the issue to him instead of retaliating for apparent insubordination.

He could legitimately complain that Cain provided insufficient process and controls to prevent junior devs from making critical errors. But looking for a scapegoat is indicative of bad management.
A more reasonable solution is, in the contract, have the power shut off if the price exceeds some pre-determined value.

It's also clear that the people who ran afoul of this paid no attention to the wholesale price. I doubt they'll repeat that mistake.
This is false.

His passport had been revoked before he got on the plane. He got on the plane to "Ecuador" on a temporary travel document from Ecuador, knowing he was never getting off anywhere but Moscow.

https://apnews.com/article/587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584
The real icing on the cake was that he initially had some doubts, so he asked ChatGPT if the cases it had cited were genuine.

ChatGPT said yes. And that was good enough for him.
It was a venue where one expects something more casual, but it was just reading a script and reading questions which were also likely scripted. Did not fit the tone of the site at all. It seems like DeSantis wanted to make some sort of statement, whatever that may be, by using twitter but acted the same way one would on television. Love him or hate him, Trump's team has had a better handling of social media over the years.
I agree for the most part, but I wish to underscore the primary function inherent in each tool. For a LLM, it is to generate plausible language. For a bolt, it is to offer structural integrity. For a car, it is to provide mobility. Should these tools fail to do what they were designed for, we can rightfully deem them as defective.

GPT was not primarily made to produce factual statements. While factual accuracy certainly constitutes a desirable design aspiration, and undeniably makes the LLM more useful, it should not be expected. Automobile designers, for example, strive to ensure safety during high-speed collisions, a feature that almost invariably benefits the user. However, if someone uses their car to demolish their house, this is probably not going to leave them satisfied. And I don't think we can say the car is a lemon for this.
Halal food is much like Kosher, with a just a few differences. For meat, essentially, if it is Kosher then it is also halal.

There are a couple of existing apps to find halal restaurants or even stores, but they have outdated info and very few restaurants even in big cities.

Another issue is that different people have different meaning of halal, conservatives have a very strict standard. e.g. Some wont eat regular cheese if it is made using rennet from non-halal sources (much like strict vegetarians).
> If you knew the first thing about capitalism

There's no need for this tone (and similarly in your previous comment). From HN guidelines:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the idea is that *if* we're in an ancestor simulation, then "they" will make the rules as close to theirs as they computationally can. Why ancestor simulation? Why else would "they" spend all those resources?

Lot of IFs based on our view of their values, I know... I don't necessarily agree with this line of reasoning... just stating how I understand the argument.
Well...sort-of. it's definitely not realtime ;)

Took a look and it seems like it's text-based IF like Infocom games.
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No. It's one of the reasons Takeout is more performative than useful. A giant pile of JSON files for proprietary Google services you can't import anywhere isn't useful unless you're a developer who can write automation to import them to somewhere else.
It's a common standard for UNIX environment variables to be treated this way, and it greatly simplifies the logic needed to handle the value. Here's how this can be simply implemented in Python:

if os.environ.get("NO_COLORS"): ...

In POSIX shell:

if [ "$NO_COLORS" ]; ...

or, when nounset is used:

if [ "${NO_COLORS:-}" ]; ...

Adding sentinel values when you only need a true/false indicator just complicates things.
When doing development for Windows in the early Windows 3 days, if you had a Hercules card and monitor in addition to a VGA one you could run the debugger on the Hercules. This was a much nicer setup than debugging everything on the VGA.
Funny, that sounds like the Ukrainian public’s opinion about Zelenskyy before the war started. Dismal leader with rock bottom approval ratings and high levels of corruption. Still, that definitely doesn’t justify foreign invasion.
so what would you say when he interviews democratic candidate RFKennedy in next couple months?
The revelations… meh. We all knew it was happening.

What I found particularly interesting was he had a distinct look, and either he was a trend setter or following a popular trend amongst young men as I saw it everywhere at the time amongst professionals. I would have thrown away my glasses and gotten a haircut immediately if I had been in that lane.

And he was totes a Russian spy.
(Some of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/stalker happen to be on sale on Steam atm.)
Why not just change career?
Been using Fastmail for almost 20 years I think. One of the best companies on the Internet. I never have to stress about my account with them and their support has always been great to me.
Andrei Rublev is by far his best film in my opinion.
We need Hacker Hacker news, with the more serious tech related posts too techie for hacker news.

In all seriousness, I actually feel bad being here sometimes as a layman trying to learn what engineers and all the smarties here think about news. Imposter syndrome from commenting on an internet forum, how sad is that lol
But it being an unsupported method will hopefully at least cause the middlebox to generate a 405 error, rather than undefined behavior.
I've tried twice now to watch Solaris and fell asleep both times - someone let me know if it's worth it! I've seen every other Tarkovsky film and love his work, this one just felt particularly difficult for me.
One can argue that all traditional non-organic farming is cruel. Esp. pork farms just google "pork puss".
It's definitely not a "tremendous" amount of work. At the bare minimum, you copy your POST code and change the verb, that's it. There's no need to cache, so you actually can handle it basically as idempotent POST.

> You can just handle your POST request idempotently

You actually can't though, and you don't usually have to look far to run into a case where this gives the wrong behavior. Better to just have a separate verb.
We are living in a base reality by definition.
Facebook RayBan glasses are nice. 1-tap to take pic -- the children look directly into the camera/aka your eyes. I have it setup so one pic goes into android photos, which auto-uploads to google-photos. Then at the end of the year I print a photobook. Photos are better than video in a way because you can't print videos.
I mean to say, for general self-hosting services and apps, HDDs seem to have that performance problem and latency, which could lead to a negative experience?
> If LLMs produced only lies no one would use them!

Yes, they would. Producing lies (well, fiction) is an important LLM application domain.

> Clearly truthiness is a desired property of an LLM

Correct. But truthiness is not truthfulness.

“Truthiness refers to the quality of seeming to be true but not necessarily or actually true according to known facts.”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/truthiness-mea...
And yet, in Minecraft you can build devices that detect features of the underlying software — eg, the update policy, circuit cache size, and server lag.

Perhaps we won’t understand the reality “out there”, but attempting to may nevertheless produce tangible benefits for us “in here”, eg, like wireless communication in Minecraft arises from detecting subtle variations in updates.
I think I read this in a comment here on HN -

> The goal of chat LLMs is not to give you an answer. The goal is to continue the conversation.
> I'd love to hear good reasoning why using color by default is bad.

About 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women have some kind of color vision deficiency. Most commonly they have difficulty distinguishing green and red*. The default color choices essentially never account for this.

* Yes this does mean traffic lights are a problem. Fortunately for Americans, the red light is either far left or on top.
I wonder if the author still feels this way. I could only get through about 5 of the arguments against superintelligence -- I did not find them very convincing.
I have a small generator, which gets me by when the power goes out 2-3 times a year, once for 2 weeks.
You do not have a right to damage government property. You must live so that you can pay taxes. The government will ensure this. When you are no longer productive you will be prescribed MAID.
Suggest to add "(2013)" to title.
> By adopting this standard, users that prefer to have plain, non-colored text output can export NO_COLOR=1 to their shell’s environment and automatically disable color by default in all supported software.
If your software outputs color by default, please consider not doing so. If you insist, please implement this standard to make it easy for your users to disable color and then add your software to this list by submitting a pull request.

I have tried NO_SLOPPY_GRAMMAR=1, but I still get meaningless text about users adopting a standard and me not outputting color if my software does.
Exactly, a market based solution!
Insurance companies don't care if you're healthy - they just want to save money.

Sure, they could prefer healthy customers, or they could select for lower risk populations. The latter is easier.

So instruction following and hoop jumping are the sorts of test that won't improve health incomes, but will select for good customers.
But that would be a shame to deprive 99.9% of your users from a colored output because some guy decided to remap red to green and black to blue.
Why Sorting has n(logn) Lower Bound?
What makes you think they don't already have such and we're simply too dumb to grasp how it works for them?

Don't you get the problem with your view? You're testing for human cleverness and then assuming all else is generally incompetent. This gets even more tricky when you start actually contemplating consciousness.

Also, can you build a rocket ship and fly to the moon and back? Why do you get to claim the feats of the smartest but other groups of beings do not get that benefit?
Curious to know from experts in the above to see if ChatGPTs response is valid?
Me as someone who knows nothing about either, looking at a nuanced response from ChatGPT, puts me at awe - esp. response to the question: "Say I called a bunch of goroutines when I was in the Add function of the example you gave, would this be a problem?"