skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been playing with ChatGPT for some time now (paid account).

It's interesting.

You have to be careful and you definitely have to know enough about the subject matter to understand if the answer is correct.

For example, I threw a range of logic statements at it and asked for truth tables. Sometimes I asked for simplification and a truth table showing every intermediate step.

The results were surprisingly unreliable. It was flipping bits in columns and giving flat-out wrong answers for the output of the circuit.

Worse yet, every time I said something like "I don't think that's correct" it would apologize, regenerate and the new answer would sometimes be correct and often times incorrect with new mistakes.

Even worse than that, when the answer was correct, I would, again, say "I am not sure that's correct". Instead of saying, "No, it is", it would apologize and regenerate a bad answer.

Bottom line is: ChatGPT has absolutely no understanding of what you are asking and what it generates. Because of this, there is no way to guarantee correct output even on matters as simple as basic logic and mathematics.

This does not mean it is useless. I don't think it would be fair to reach that conclusion. The tools is very useful across a range of domains. It seems well-suited as a knowledgeable tutor and, more often than not, it is a better search engine for many answers than Google is today.

You just have to "trust and verify" absolutely everything, which isn't a big problem.

I have bad news for anyone in school using it to do homework: It could screw you in ways you might not even imagine. Don't do it.
you can run opnellama on a 300 Euro laptop with ~500 ms/token performance

in fact you can run any decent model of 3B-7B size on any contemporary hardware with enough RAM
Try it with code, when you have some weird issue like something not working
it does good at spotting typos that your eyes will run over;

As an example I had code like

el.style.display = "none;"

the ; should have been after the "
but my eyes could not spot the problem and the shit language did not complain since ; are optional.
Score creepers have no idea the architectural damage they cause. When you get over invested in one block of code, people will try to route around it. Then you get layers of these and pretty soon your code is the moral equivalent of Atlanta, GA, which is notorious for the number of ring roads it has.
> Why is vector search so fast?

Approximate nearest-neighbor with vector embeddings (multiple-dimension arrays) to search across 28 million paragraphs:

https://weaviate.io/blog/Why-is-Vector-Search-so-fast
Possibly medical school debt.

And of course nobody has sympathy for doctors with student loan debt, but the debt may still have important effects on the economy down the line.
I'm still having trouble seeing LLMs more than a glorified python script that processes enormous data sets. I find their usefulness still less useful than 2005 google when knowing how to use quotation marks.

Not to mention that those data sets are typically Reddit, Twitter, Github, etc. Why and how is that superior than just... searching the original data set?

Could it just be that the "enshittification" of the way we find information on the net gives LLMs a use case?
That goes with each hype cycle of a new technology. Is this special in any way? Perhaps it will unlock a certain problem space, surely so. I do understand the iritation when discussion is so abundant that it veers nearly recommending one another to spread it on bread and eat it.
I’ve been playing with certain aspects of ChatGPT and it’s quite capable and useful for what I need and no other tool before could do it. Thing is that I could do everything Im asking it to do for me now but manually. This enables me to do creative tasks that I would’ve been too lazy to complete before.
Most people using AI don't give a damn about their personalities, but how well they do work. Imagine if everyone's quirky personality provided them with job safety. In a small company where the boss is sentimental and what not, it may work. In a serious business, having a personality might rather get you fired.
Experiment with monitor brightness.

My phone is always on low brightness at night, but for some reason my monitor is always at 100% without question, which means light theme during the day (to match paper/pencil in front of me) and dark theme at night because it is otherwise too much light. Then one day, I tried a light theme at night at 50% monitor brightness and my eyes relaxed immediately. I realized that I have been squinting constantly to brace against the maximum brightness.

The usual advice is to instead increase ambient/room light but I have the room light set perfectly for writing and reading on paper.
Both things are true. It's worth arguing about so infrequently it's never worth thinking about whether it's worth arguing about, let alone argue about; but automated tools still make decisions far worse than any human would make sometimes.
>As an aside, I'm pro- wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, and nuclear. (I'm also very pro-smart-design which obviates the need for created energy.)

I think many of the people who aren't anti-nuclear, would agree with all that.

>However I only really see nuclear proponents (and those of fossil fuels) attacking renewables.

I rarely see that here. What I tend to see are people who don't like the idea of nuclear power making misleading or false statements about nuclear power. (Like in the original message of this thread where the claim is made "After 70 years of trying we haven't built an economic traditional nuclear reactor.")

>My rooftop solar is producing a big yearly surplus, supplying my neighbors with energy for their AC etc.

This statement is true in one small sense and misleading in another. You are likely providing excess power during a sunny day in the summer and less power than you are using when it rains and you are providing no power at other times (like at 2:00 AM.). While at the end of the year you might produce more kilowatts than you in total used, that isn't going to help your neighbors when it is raining. The only issue with consumer roof-top solar is that it is the most expensive form of power ever created and consequently has to be heavily subsidized by your neighbors who don't have rooftop solar.
Since we're all sharing our favorite simplest solutions, I guess I'll throw https://fly.io out there. The DX is far from perfect right now so this answer is _ever-so-slightly theoretical_ but, if you know how to use Docker, `fly launch` is extremely hard to beat.
The trouble is that dumber AIs are cheaper to run. As long as people don't have a real alternative, this improves OpenAI's bottom line
You could use it for other things too and if what you’re describing could be done more efficiently in python then it’s the wrong problem to solve on LLMs.
Try using gpt-4 from the playground instead from chatgpt. It feels like it's less constrained and respects the 8k context window.

Anyway I'm using gpt the way you describe. Maybe my libs are not that complex as yours :P
I found that in my (high quality) studio monitors, the audio sounded fine and hard to distinguish from 24kHz wav. But in headphones, the artifacts were pretty obvious. So probably some reverberation will do a lot to cover up artifacts. In the paper, they only do a subjective comparison between the generated audio and the soundstream-encoded original audio, which seems a bit disingenuous. Listening to soundstream audio in headphones, I can hear those same artifacts.
Yeah I'm always delighted to use clang-format rather than worry about where I should put the brackets.

Code style is the epitome of bikeshedding. Anything consistent is fine, and using a tool to automate that is a huge productivity win.
>Replacing the need for electrical energy with the need for the chemical energy of food doesn't seem particularly great.

Seeing as you need exercise anyway to stay healthy, it might as well be doing something useful.
Maybe because I no longer hear friendly human voices on train stations, rather computer generated train announcements?

While those people are now looking for jobs elsewhere.
I know they are a right-wing think tank, that is why I referenced them when it comes to rank "market economy" factors that people who believe in and want to have "free markets" care about.

In what way is it a political propaganda piece? From what I can tell it's a pretty transparent ranking of countries by factors that the organisation cares about.

While the Scandinavian countries have high taxes and regulated labour markets, they have deregulated markets, strong property protections and are very simple to do business in.
> participation in an industry that has chosen… to betray the best interests of the species is questionable at best

In participating in the oil industry, I’ve found opportunities for climate advocacy that far exceed the difference an average person can make outside the industry. What can you do outside? Buy a hybrid vehicle? Donate to Greenpeace?

I’ve been able to work on improving tracking of emissions. I’ve improved the accuracy of regulatory filings. I’ve advocated internally for low-emissions infrastructure improvements like tankless facilities.

You should want pro-environment people working in the oil industry.
cool links, thanks for sharing. I also share your feelings, but reality (or burnout) is starting to take its toll on me and I see too much uninterested people working as SWEs nowadays. I mean, tooling is probably part of the problem, but quality is going downhill real fast, with people with 2/3 years on the job not understanding simple things like HexArch or basic patterns (not advocating for anything, just mentioning something that should be common knowledge in 2023).

I'm starting to think that if we want to maintain this "race to the bottom" pace, we need a more industrialized/blue collar approach and be more less about the person and more about the tool. Most jobs in my area are web crud controlling a transaction script. there is no problem to solve.
Is it possible to organize productive work conversations in the format of HN threads? Not Zoom meetings, not Slack, not emails. Why would this work? Why would it not?
did u ever put an airtag on it?
Any reason to use systemd timers instead of cron jobs?
Um... you know that 3.5 didn't execute code?
Go time's “Neurodiverse Gophers” episode – a critique
You'd be better using South Korea as an example rather than France these days. To add more context, South Korea is an incredibly, incredibly corrupt country that sends its exiting president to prison to the extent that I joke that we need a special prison just for presidents. Yet there are basically no nuclear accidents at the kind of scale that we saw from Japan. 100% speculating but it's almost as if the nuclear power plants are used as a deterrent and part of the national security apparatus perhaps similar to the logic that Ukraine may have had in the past.

The anti-nuclear crusade in the West is a bit worrisome given that if we had been better at dealing with nuclear as a whole there would be less coal and gas power plants all over the West now. As much as I can sympathize with the concerns about nuclear power related supply chain issues and risks of meltdowns + radiation almost all the problems I've seen in nuclear across countries and cultures don't come down to technical issues as much as structural ones due 90%+ to politics causing massive over-regulation of nuclear to become unviable both financially and politically. This seems silly because I strongly believe such efforts should be directed at the much greater, immediate, far more supportable threat to humanity's IMO of fossil fuels. Of course we kind of depend upon them now but given the problems we had from the 1980s into the 2000s with fossil fuels all the way to now the kind of resources we could have spent on renewables may have had better results simply stepping away from lobbying constantly against nuclear power and letting engineers do their best work in all areas of energy research.

Seriously, almost all the "but nuclear costs too much" arguments are a self-fulfilling prophecy of bad faith where people pile on more and more requirements like it's a really bad DoD project when it's much more complicated honestly. US DoD has operated tons and tons of nuclear reactors, for example, quite successfully with a pretty darn good safety record last I saw despite all sorts of other failures within the US Jobs Program - they're used in submarines!
Is this HTML editor still around? I remember using it in the mid-to-late 1990s. And I like the Careware idea. Stopped using the editor when the developer shifted Java. It just never felt right after that.
I'm eyeing an e-bike but part of me is afraid that I won't exercise as much and get lazy. Currently I bike often and get a pretty good daily workout as I climb into town.
[dupe]

this was news from late June
Stumbled over this. Tic-tac-toe, but with superpositions and entanglement for quantum fun.

Wikipedia has a nice overview[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tic-tac-toe
At a minimum definitive must mean from today and until we can and will make any radioactive waste not radioactive waste anymore. If that requires safety against stone age explores or not I can't say. History has an abundance of tales of how we store things safe enough and then decades (or a few years) later we learn that dumping thousands of barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean was stupid, that slapping some concrete on top of a nuclear bomb test site didn't really contain it, that mixing chemical waste with earth and letting it sit near a river was pretty stupid, etc. etc.

Definitive means it is 100% certain this is not happening with any radioactive waste as there's no lower limit where radiation isn't dangerous. "Definitely safe against human stupidity and error" seems fine to me for radioactive waste when there's zero need to produce any. Again, is that timescale up until stone age man in the future? I can't say but the producers of radioactive waste need to know the answer before they can built a storage facility or they'll have to make it safe enough for anything less than the earth going pooof.
> I looked at the prices of 80-gal 200 PSI rated tanks online, and the conclusion is...not great.

Or you can get a bunch of empty propane tanks for a few bucks and call it a day…
> If on AWS, and if your servers are behind a load balancer, just install a certificate on those. Isn't that a little better?

My take from the post is that author's goal is simplicity, AWS isn't simple, also AWS load balancers are expensive.
Why spare artists if everyone else gets replaced by technology?
Plenty of discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535417
Germany disproves this being a good idea. Incredible amounts invested in solar yet still wholly dependent on coal and natural gas to survive the winter.
> I'm quite familiar with causal analysis [1]. What are your qualifications in the field?

That is nonsense.

This is not a pissing contest about qualifications, or a contest cherry picking research.

It is a rolling catastrophe - decades in the making - for USA people. In general it is that money is being transferred in industrial quantities from everybody to the very rich. Specifically money is getting sucked out of the health system for the benefit of a few at the cost of the many.

FFS socialise your medical system. Spread the cost like sane people and drive out the greed heads

If you can send a rocket to the moon.....
Well, if we imagine that the only thing that will be left are physical jobs that can't be done by computers.

At least until they get clever enough to start a transformers line factory.
Computers have been high-contrast since the first GUIs dating all the way back to Xerox PARC (https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui)

Yet I have only ever heard of people complaining about it recently, when GUI designed started debasing itself by making everything web-based, and zoomers started demanding dark mode everywhere. Before that, and in my lifetime of computer nerditry dating back to the mid-90s (on self-luminescent CRTs!), I have never heard of people intentionally turning down the brightness or complaining about contrast of anything, whether its a tube TV or computer screen.

Which makes this whole preference for low-contrast incredibly suspicious. Like it was another one of those learned 'ailments' that spread around society like a shitty meme.
In a practical sense the lock is an indicator of limited access.

The ability to gain entry is trivial given a few minutes and intent.

The locks in my house are there so the glass has to be broken. The glass is there to give me enough time to respond.

If someone is picking my lock they are involved in a hit, not theft.
We know the system is far too conservative and encourages pilots to conceal their medical conditions, and I'm thankful you're choosing to be honest. For loss of consciousness, you can be granted a Special Issuance since you have not had one since (see Unexplained Loss of Consciousness (ULOC) [0] in the AME Guide).

My personal viewpoint: If we cannot show a condition or treatment is unsafe, why is it disqualifying? If we cannot analyze risk or determine whether a risk control is effective [1] due to inadequate data or pilot concealment, we need to re-think the way we do things.

Surface transportation (e.g., vehicles) has a ridiculous accident rate, but the public views car accidents very differently from aviation accidents. When there is a car accident, we blame the driver. When there is a plane crash due to a medical, we blame the FAA for certifying them.

0: https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item46/a...

1: https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/sms/explained/componen...
See, what I fundamentally disagree with is the notion that hospitals should be "good business." Why are "some guys" allowed to try to make a profit here at the expense of patient care? Healthcare (or government) should not be run like a business, and instead be provided as a service using the taxes we already pay for, much like how roads are built. The health of the public is our most vital infrastructure, and public infrastructure requires investment that you really can't make money on without defeating the whole purpose of public service.
Such devices can also be attacked in a second stage from a compromised PC or so. Such devices have nothing lost in a production LAN at all.
That link misses out that it had been developed for Le Lisp before J-M Hullot went to ExperTelligence.
In CGI there were always these milestones which I observed getting reached. Like trees with leaves finally looking close to realistic, wind blowing in grass looking almost realistic, hair, jelly, and it were usually Pixar shorts pointing out what they have been focusing on and then seeing it applied to their movies.

Then mocap, mapping digital faces on real actors which was first mind-blowing to see in Pirates of the Caribbean, then the apes in one of the Planet of the Apes movies... So much in the CGI industry has already reached a point where the hardest problems seem to have been solved.

When I now clicked play on the first Synthesized Dialoge from Dialogue Synthesis "Where did you go last summer? | I went to Greece, it was amazing.", I was blown away. It's as if we've now reached one of those milestones where a problem appears to be fixed or cracked. Machines will be able to really sound like humans, indistinguishable from them.

10-5 years ago, if you wanted to deal with TTS, the best option you had was to let your Android phone render a TTS into an audio file, because everything else sounded really bad. Specially Open Source stuff sounded absolutely horrible.

So how long will it be until we will be able to download something of this quality onto a future-gen Raspberry Pi which can do some AI processing, where we make an HTTP call and it starts speaking through the audio out in a perfect voice without relying on the cloud? 5 years?
A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
But that is still a problem specific to C, not warnings in general.

First of all, languages with less legacy constraints can have the line between warnings and errors in the right place, so users don't have the need to turn all warnings into errors. Werror can be reduced from being the best practice to just overly cautious pedantism.

Then, even Werror can be made more robust. Rust solves this in a few ways:

• cap-lints: it suppresses its Werror equivalent when building someone else's code (dependencies), so the code you can't fix yourself won't break on you due to just a lint.

• editions: Bigger language changes that could render old code incompatible are gated behind the edition setting, which is an opt-in to new stuff, including some new warnings.

• `allow(warning_id)`: you can put it on any code block or even the whole project. So even if you get a new warning that is a false positive or just don't have time to deal with it, you can reliably and precisely turn it off in the source code (as opposed to compiler-specific flags, #pragmas, or reshuffling the code until the warning goes away).

• clippy: all the weaker, experimental, and more opinionated warnings are in a separate tool. The compiler proper adopts clippy's warnings only if they prove to be useful. The type of people who use Werror use clippy, so they'll likely have their codebase clean of these warnings before they make it to the compiler.
They'd be destroyed by the elephant showerhead.
No. Bureaucracies are instituted by the legislative branch which chooses to delegate governmental powers (eg rulemaking) to them for the sake of efficiency, usually under the direct or indirect supervision of the executive branch. They don't spring into existence fully formed, and while professional bureaucrats certainly feather their nests and try to grow their empires, legislators are ultimately responsible. Many of them like using public institutions as straw opponents to impress the credulous.
There is nothing worse than using a bike in a dense city. I love cycling, but the moment you are confronted with high concentrations of pedestrians and cars it quickly gets unbearable and unreasonably dangerous.

Not to mention that it is impossible for some people, 1:30 with a train, 45 minutes with a car and about 3 hours with a bike, makes thr choice rather obvious.
Good question. My apartment in Europe had a steel plate door with a gargantuan lock that with 10 latch points. My apartment in the US has a cheap ~$30 commercial deadbolt you could defeat by pushing really hard. I looked at getting one of those locks and the price was astronomical.
In my space (Veterinary) there has been a ton of this. To people who are used to the way things were, it's been very disruptive. Lots of boomers are retiring and a young vet would only be able to pay a 5x multiple, perhaps, but PE is swooping in at 12-15x. They usually lose a bunch of staff at the transition so they have to hire quickly. It's good for workers in the short term, as wages and salaries are much higher. It's hard for clients, prices are up to compensate for the high wage and to increase/juice returns. Sometimes the purchases flop spectacularly, but they must be winning on average.

At the same time, suppliers have consolidated and there's barely any competition. They're also vertically integrating.

10 years ago we were worried there were going to be too many veterinarians. Actually there were, but the wave of age 60+ vets retiring has flipped that around. Now there aren't enough vets or licensed technicians.

I am concerned that the future will have another big swing in the downward direction, while multiple PE firms try to find bag holders at the same time. But maybe there industry will just grow and grow. Who knows?