skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Speaking of those, my best example of ChatGPT not having a good model of the world are citations.

Absolutely. ChatGPT is not sentient, not in any conventional sense at least, and the errors it confidently makes are not the sorts of errors a human would make. Its model of the world is based entirely on language, it doesn't have all sorts of capabilities that humans (and animals generally) clearly do have. It's definitely not a person, any more than a walking robot is a person, like the robot it's just reproducing some aspect of what living things do. My only point is that the significance of this achievement is not understood right now, not by anyone afaict, so confident statements that it is/isn't really "thinking" in some way are all empty. One could - if one wanted to be a smartass - say we lack a underlying model for what AIs and human brains are really doing, and then term all these sorts of opinions "hallucinations". I am hopeful that deeper investigations of this will lead to progress on some very deep and long-standing philosophical problems.
This is what I was wondering, and I'm glad the article mentioned it.

> In humans, inducing a torpor-like state has potential medical applications, with some suggesting that slowing down metabolism could buy critical time for treating life-threatening conditions such as heart attack and stroke.

Additionally, I'm wondering if this could be used for fat loss. And whether hibernation is equivalent to regular sleep with respect to rest, or whether this would need to be done in addition to rest. If short duration hibernation (8 hours or less) has all of the positive benefits of rest (building muscle, clearing the brain of waste, dreams, etcetera) in addition to the benefits of fat loss and reduced caloric needs this would be very beneficial. If it doesn't, it would still be beneficial, but in much more limited circumstances.

> The mice’s metabolism also shifted from using both carbohydrates and fat for energy to only fat, a key feature of torpor, and their heart rates fell by about 47%, all while at room temperature.
Excluding someone else from a group doesn’t make someone an asshole. Every group has one or some thing(s) that separate them from the rest, otherwise they’d never have formed a group. Maybe it’s a vision, or a goal, or a belief, but there’s something that holds the group together. Contrary to what you’re saying, it’s integral to the cohesion of that group to exclude people who will not fit well.

There are countless examples of this phenomenon throughout history. Take for instance, the formation of the USA, the Catholic Church (Great Schism, Protestant Revolution, etc.), the American Civil War, etc. On a smaller scale, I know I’ve worked with people who would be a good fit on one team, but don’t match the culture of another. Or people who are very passionate about something, but wouldn’t do well in a group focused on something else. Sometimes, even, people have the same ends and such different means that they cannot coexist in the same group. You can see this with sports teams; everyone wants to win games, and some players or coaches don’t fit on certain teams because their idea of how to win doesn’t align with others’.

The reality is not everyone fits into every group. Trying to force that will yield a lot of resentment on both sides, in my experience. Much better to nip the problem in the bud.
The same person also posted essentially the same message under the linked post.

FWIW it sounds genuine to me.
Three out of five are probably true in USA, but what about elsewhere?
Outside != full sun.

Sitting in tree shade won't give you skin cancer.
That study focused on infrequent megadoses... check out studies like this on that give modest daily doses: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30691521/

Or this meta-regression of 43 studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24993750/
Rather biased, too. Though in this case towards the preferences of the user.
Is it going to put its thumb on the scales to counteract "review bombing/troll campaigns" for widely disliked but powerfully backed YouTube videos the way RT does?
Is 2 KiB really ton of memory?
My favorite counterexample is the Vandals. They conquered Rome, but how are they remembered by history?
I have made a chatbot like this and I am not a software engineer.

The whole thing is trivial to make. The system prompt is trivial. I would even say it was harder to make a geocities page in the 90s than to make a chatbot like this.

3.5 turbo is great to play with but at scale it is brutal cost wise.

The real issue though is anyone who already has a working 3.5 turbo chatbot can knock this off in the next 5 minutes by just changing the system prompt.

I think this is the future though. The labor is pretty much trivial, the capital for tokens at scale is what matters.
> This is only an issue if the _only_ difference between an error and success message is the colour.

Except that a color bind person doesn't see monochrome, they see color, but perceive it differently. So the color palette problem isn't confined to only red and green, but also to other colors, because the spectrum as a whole is distinguished differently. Also, red/green color deficiency, while the most common, isn't the only kind of color blindness.
I think you misunderstood the token limit. LLMs don't block your buffer, they simply take the final n tokens of all of the input you've shared. Plenty of users have seen this.

It will still function, but anything you previously shared and referenced above it will lose context on. And if you ask it about that earlier content, it will do its best to hallucinate a reasonable answer of what might have been in your buffer before the cutoff.

Separately you may have found a physical hard limit with a bug that crashes the system, but that's not what's meant by a token limit in LLMs. It's a limitation of the architecture itself of any LLM.
If you're reading this from the future, I've changed the URL params in my project. Up to date ones should be in the about page:

https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg/about.html
So would you do it if it was a better driver than you? Your earlier comment said you wouldn't even if it made a crash less likely. I'm not really sure how to parse that given this followup.
>Fast forward and the conf organisers advise him that his keynote has been "demoted" to a regular talk. He says this is unprofessional and a lack of respect, cancels his talks, and posts about it.

You missed the part where this demoting happened behind the scenes, was not voted for by the team, the suggestion to downvote didn't even reach the team, because some shady person did it on their own, and it was communicated to JeanHeyd himself at the last minute (so that he could check with the team and bring it to their awareness either).

So, kind of missing the whole point, and painting a bad picture of JeanHeyd to boot...
Forks do often end up having the effect of removing the person(s) who were roadblocking progress in the first place...as the compromise solution to the fork of the project.
You are not obligated to explain yourself, but you also don't get to complain when nobody knows what you're talking about.
> State Farm is exiting the market because CA artificially limited premiums

I don't know if this is California's intention, but I think limiting premiums is more effective at discouraging homes existing in hazardous areas than high insurance where the rich would simply lay the insurance. When fires burn through inhabited areas, state agencies have to attend to them to save lives, independent of insurance premiums. This costs the state money.
Kind of disappointing. I was hoping for a story about Chinese cells homesteading in Middle America to avoid detection between their cyber exploits.
Or maybe they understood the joke but weren't amused and prefer not to see unfunny jokes on this site - people may have different opinions to yours without the cause being their not understanding the joke :)
Projects have forked over leadership issues plenty of times before; there have been cases where both parts of the fork stuck around (NetBSD/FreeBSD), and at least a couple where the projects' former leadership effectively gave up and handed the reins to the fork (egcs, a gcc fork which became the official gcc in 1999, after the FSF belatedly realized that their official version was getting stagnant, and X.org, which displaced XFree86 without a rename after users of the latter all abandoned it).
Even Rotten Tomatoes has changed this recently to break the audience score into 2 new categories. "Verified Audience" and "General Audience". Disney was probably putting pressure on RT after years of putting out garbage and getting review bombed.
> The difference obviously is that in humans this is intentional behavior unless the human is not in a healthy state memory-wise.

This has not been my experience.

Once you get out of the tech bubble you will frequently find people who genuinely treat talking as just pattern matching and signalling and speak words that don't correspond to any actual internal model of how the world works.
>Keynote speech was downgraded to normal speech at a late date, allegedly overriding a democratic decision. Fred flounces off dramatically in response to the downgrading

Yeah, because "overriding a democratic decision" behind the scenes to backstab someone is a small thing in a project...

(Nor was it Fred)
Please consider replacing the 8mb gif animation with a normal video file. It will both load faster and allow users to pause, start from the beginning etc.
On the iPhone at least, all lenses are wide angle equivalent (24mm, 13mm) except for the telephoto (77mm).

There might be a lens you can attach that narrows it down, but otherwise your old camera will do a better job handling your requirement.
"Work from home"
You basically have to zoom in on the camera app to get a 50mm equivalent photo. This isn't as bad as it seems though. The 2x quality is quite good on the baseline photos these days.

However, on the "pro" iphone models, they do have a "telephoto" lense that is indeed a 50mm equivalent that will get you the perspective that you're used to.

Here is the one on the iPhone 14 Pro -> 12MP 2x Telephoto (enabled by quad-pixel sensor): 48 mm

Personally, I use an iPhone 8 plus and pretty much always take images on 2x zoom. Because yeah everyone looks better on a longer lense.
What's the big deal with Generative AI? Is it the future or the present?
Apologies for slow response.

Company is Kitronik. You need to have an existing educational account with them to order, i think.
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> cost as many lives as they save

That’s literally what failing to reduce total mortality means. You can’t statistically separate saving 0 lives and costing 0 lives with saving 5 lives and costing 5 lives.
The cores are also on Steam as free DLC
Search was already solved - I could find anything I wanted using any number of search engines within seconds, and it provided much more exact information.

LLMs are purely suited for search precisely because they can't guarantee to "find" information that actually exists in the real world, but they do add a lot of unnecessary noise, making it harder to weed out the truth, not easier.
As another person who dislikes 90% of country music I've heard, I guess I just find it mostly... trite and conceited. Lyrically and musically. The relationships described are typically shallow, the events described are typically shallow, the musical style is typically simplistic, but unlike other genres that are generally more self-aware, the average country song expects to be taken lot more seriously. Like a "profound" instagram quote in song form.

It reminds me of that general small-town mentality where said small town is treated like the center of the universe by its denizens. I guess that's country music's core demographic, so perhaps it's just giving the people what they want, but I find said mentality obnoxious so I find music extolling it in a "serious" manner obnoxious.

Obviously this is more of an issue with modern country, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and others historically brought more artistry to the genre. I generally won't seek them out because that isn't what I find most enjoyable, but I can at least respect it and I'm not repulsed by it. I'd rather listen to WAP on a loop than most modern country music, at least it knows exactly what it is.
> I suspect that at least initially, Ford will add the Tesla connector alongside CCS/J1772 in its new generation of EVs. That would allow it to say, “Not only can you charge your EV at any charging site in the U.S., but . . . you can do it without carrying a single adapter."

That's not that impressive of a feature as a selling point, nor is it even accurate. Such a car still couldn't charge at a CHAdeMO charging station. (That's the beauty of standards; you have so many to choose from.)
Wild! I wish I had that utility back then! I'm glad though so many other games supported the Hercules. The machine was used by my uncle who went to the States, and he used it mainly for AutoCAD.
[the material is] placed in a high-pressure vessel, and temperature and pressure are simultaneously increased to near the melting point of aluminum.

I don't need to try that to know that molten metal under high pressure at over 1000C is something I'm not ready to deal with.
> I’m down with learning and evaluating. I’m down with building a better society from our pain.

No offense, but from the first part of your comment, it is clear you were part of the problem, not the solution, on this front.

We did all the things you suggest after the last pandemic. The findings strongly cautioned against attempting another lockdown. For covid, that advice was ignored, and now we are seeing excess deaths comparable to the “isolate just the most vulnerable, and get it over with in a month or two” approach, along with huge economic and societal costs from the lockdowns.
What tools are you referring to and how are they being automated?
You shouldn't need a giant, complex CoC to tell people engaging in sexual harassment and creepy behavior to leave. Which is usually the type of stuff people point to for why it's so important to spend thousands of hours debating the rules.

If I've learned anything for Reddit mod culture it's that when you see super involved rules on the sidebar it's still ultimately just post-defacto justifications for whatever emotional mood the mods are in that day. The longer the rules = a good measure how aggressively the mods gatekeeps their community for things that go well beyond the scope of what the community was originally about.

This is how things like Programming becoming lower priorities in such communities than personalities/views of the people running it.
You do make an aggressively fair point. I've also enjoyed the banter if nothing else :)

I dunno if my mind is changed just yet but if I'm honest with myself adding it to a widely deployed app would be in my 'dick move' category.

Just set your own up, or use a DNS method which comes with the bonus of built in caching.

For what it's worth I've never actually taken anyone up on their unlimited offers, I try to keep my services neat and tidy :)
Created the first protein-based nano-computing agent that functions as a circuit
How did you think it was working exactly?
Ukraine is definitely not a world superpower, no.
M1 is a manager of ICs (the bridge between the losers and the clueless), M2 is a manager of managers (peak clueless), M3 is a manager of managers of managers (liaison between the clueless and the psychopaths).
ASICs aren't magic - they are just chips designed to do a single function fast (e.g run a crypto mining algorithm) as an alternative to using a general purpose CPU/GPU whose generality comes at the cost of some performance overhead.

If your application calls for generality - like a gaming card's need to run custom shaders, or an ML model's need to run custom compute kernels, then an ASIC won't help you. These applications still need a general purpose processor, just one that provides huge parallelism.

It seems you may be thinking that all an ML chip does is matrix multiplication, and so a specialized ASIC would make sense, but that's not the case - an ML chip needs to run the entire model - think of it as a PyTorch accelerator, not a matmul accelerator.

Finally, the market for consumer (vs data center) ML cards is tiny relative to the gaming market, and these chips/cards are expensive to develop. Unless this changes, it doesn't make sense for companies like NVIDA to develop ML-only cards when with minimal effort they can leverage their data center designs and build dual-use GPU/compute consumer cards.
There are suggestions that our existing Navy has turned the corner of viability: you can only defer maintenance for so long before the rust begins eating through structure.
> Because it stood out as weird to me, I want to remark that the study's participation requirements explicitly filtered out depressed patients, day-to-day impaired patients, and anyone left-handed (???).

Maybe they had an abandoned or separately condsidered for publishing test where they had people manipulate _something_, and it mattered which side it was on? Does seem weird though.
Why didn't you do that, instead of collecting clickbait YouTube videos?
Actually encyclopedia Britannica supports argument that it was war time measures that caused famine. From same article:

>It was ultimately special wartime factors that caused this difficult situation to become a disastrous famine. Fearing Japanese invasion, British authorities stockpiled food to feed defending troops, and they exported considerable quantities to British forces in the Middle East. They also confiscated boats, carts, and elephants in Chittagong, where the invasion was expected.
There's just too many new accounts here these days. If you visit /new you'll see there's a new submission every minute. That's ~1200 a day, if you figure in periodic lulls. Most of these accounts comment a few times and then leave. There should be a week's timeout for every new account, they can comment but not submit. And they can't vote (upvote) until the account's a month old. That would really take care of all the spam and give people a chance to lurk long enough to understand the culture.
OK, could you please give a concrete example of a problem that was solved by this that wasn't possible to do before?
Tesla’s charger knows the car that is charging, they can ban individual cars from the network. I don’t think a jailbreak of the adapter will get around the authentication.
And then people say why is market share of Firefox decreasing.

If extension developers spend just a little time porting their extension, then they can point either way.

By forcing your customers to only support chrome, you are helping chrome build a monopoly overtye browser based internet where all extensions and work and play happens only on chrome.

Please do better.

And yes. I have an extension that is built for Firefox and chrome so I have some skin in the game
Every time people tell me iPhone cameras are getting as good as dedicated DSLR/mirrorless, I always point this out to them. F/16 is absolutely unusable for certain types of photography (although quite perfect for landscape), and even worse with such a small sensor with that big of a crop factor (3.5x) [0]. I personally use a f1.8 35 mm on an APS-C sensor for hobby photography and I still feel the sensor is too small for portrait photography or low light, but then I'm also kind of a weirdo since I still use film cameras once in a while (can't afford a full-frame lol, so I use it for portraits).

[0]: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6110937480
Please as least click the link before posting comments
Show HN: A falling sand engine using WebGPU
Interesting. Based on the title, I was expecting something related to phone phreaking or early BBS days.
Well, Russia is an evil empire trying to expand its borders to its former glory. If you haven't understood this by now then it's not meaningful to continue this discussion with you.
Yes, but the term is n-day (not 0-day) and is increasingly a problem especially in IOT devices: https://www.trendmicro.com/zh_hk/ciso/21/k/n-day-exploit-pro...
Lua: The Little Language That Could
more like "and now we have a CoC, so when anyone is even slightly grievanced, multiple careers will get torched (and not even always the party you'd expect)"

Instead of a tool to be used to solve problems local to an organization or an event, it's wielded as a bludgeon in always the most public way possible (either by the org/conference or target of the CoC itself) and time and again this has shown to be bad for everyone and an endless source of drama.
Remember the golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Tesla’s supercharger network is a cost of selling their vehicles to soothe customer range anxiety. Legacy auto never understood this (or ignored it). That’s why Tesla had to spend $1B to build the global network [1] and has a factory to churn out 10k Supercharger stations/annually [2]; no one else would at the speed needed (VW paid to create Electrify America due to their Dieselgate settlement, which dictated no VW branding, hence the EA brand).

If you make the argument that profitability will arrive when utilization increases [3], it'll be kept out of reach by a combination of demand charges and having to colocate batteries (both of which Tesla and Electrify America do at some stations) to shave the demand curve (demand charges can be significant) from drawing MWs of power constantly most of the day.

Tangentially, gas stations aren't a great fit for fast DC charging (who wants to hang out at a gas station while they charge except perhaps at a full service biz like Wawa or Buc-ee's?), so those stations are instead getting installed at grocery stores, malls, and other places where people will make better use of the dwell time [4]. Most people will charge at home (or work, in some cases) except high daily utilization users (taxi, livery, law enforcement, etc), heavy duty use (towing), or those traveling long distances in a day (road trips).

TLDR It's a utility, not a profitable business.

[1] https://supercharge.info/map

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-supercharger-v3-factory-comp...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/26/electr...

[4] https://www.vox.com/recode/23023671/ev-charging-network-gas-...
LOL, that's the one.
In a culture that values free speech and critical thought, why would you expect anybody to stay silent about the elephant in the room?

And where do you live that inequities have never existed?
Yes, Russia is not expanding, it's defending it's borders. I'm well familiar with the endless bullshit that is coming from Russia including this one.
How to have great guest posts on a blog
It does if your application is a password manager like bitwarden, lastpass, 1password, etc.

Or really anything where you need or want client side encryption protected by a passport.
"makes you look (see, optics again) either incredibly naïve or covering for some pretty bad behaviour."

It is point blank what you said, it's plainly ridiculous that you would deny what is right there as though we're misinterpreting it, this is repulsive gaslighting.
Ever heard of the Law of Penetrance of Negative Residues?
See, for one, chapter 10 section 3 of Michael Tischer's _PC System Programming_, published by Abacus in 1990.