skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already had databases of facts, like Wolfram Alpha, decades before LLM, and we largely ignored them. It's ironic that when trying to solve AI problems we keep reverting to these old patterns we've tried since the 80s and they kept failing. Habits die hard, I guess.

There's a categorical difference between knowing a fact, and looking up a fact. When you know a fact you can recognize it in a situation where you wouldn't know to look it up, and you'd know to utilize it in a larger solution rather than simply parrot it when specifically asked about it.

Databases of facts have and will still have their place, but that is absolutely not the solution to LLM telling apart fact from truth. They have to innately have this in their model. I don't believe the nature of LLM is to hallucinate. It's instead a side effect of how we train them. We train them to guess, to be close, but not to be correct necessarily. And why is it a surprise that's precisely what they do?

Also LLM are too small in order to be accurate. They're tiny. GPT4 is roughly 40 times smaller than a human brain. And GPT4 is very large compared to GPT-3, and GPT-3 is very large compared to LLaMA 2.

We'll need for hardware to catch up so we can scale things up pragmatically and see what happens to their ability to grasp facts. But also architectural changes, of course.
I think generative AI applied to the arts will be a tool of the mind like a calculator or Mathematica or R or numpy. They democratize the mechanics of language and visual arts, but they don’t erase the difference between a skilled artist and a layman. A skilled artist has a spark that sees beyond the average mind into a world that inspires. AI can make the boilerplate processes easier and more rote, and also unlock a new generation of artists not hobbled by their lack of linguistic or craft skill. The average quality of mindless garbage will improve and that’s not a bad thing. But the quality of skilled art will also improve and that’s a good thing. I think you can already see this if you watch the galleries for Midjourney and other forums - the creativity on display isn’t coming from the AI, the prompts are elaborate but their basis is very creative.

Artists bemoaned the camera for very similar reasons. Yes it did put out of work portrait artists. But it also opened the door to abstract, modernism, post modernism, and a new exploration of art not being simply reproducing what can be seen.

There is a real risk to the livelihood of people who generate SEO and other garbage. On the other hand, SEO and other garbage produced by GPT4 is actually informative. The garbage will become better garbage. But the people who survive by making garbage will need to find other roles in the world.

The artists of our society, writers, visual artists, and others, so long as they adapt learn and innovate rather than die fighting the machine as John Henry did will survive, thrive, and usher in a new age of art.
Why would you need to lift in different stages? If you take the top 3 feet out of the pipe, the water pressure will push three more feet into the pipe.

Am I missing something here?
"It is no use to take GPT-4’s capabilities and cast those into the future."

This is true, but we cannot say "ChatGPT is huge now, and in 5 years we will have the tech to replace humans" when we have no real evidence that that is the case either...
I believe you when you say Houston regulates land use in many ways, and that it's not necessarily a model; but I don't believe it's the same as everywhere else.

I don't know much about either Houston or zoning, overall, but I have been there many years ago, to some degree because I was interested in the consequences of libertarian policies, and from what I saw, there was more intermingling of different types of property use than I'm used to seeing in the eastern US.

Of course, since I didn't stay there, I am hardly about to evangelize for any of their policies for other cities. I remember when someone asked why I came to their "shitty city", and at another time, putting a bag of fast food down on a table in a cheap motel and their being almost like a tidal wave of roaches in seconds.

(Although in fairness the exterminators might have been coincidentally clearing another part of the building at that instant and that could've been what drove them rather than smelling food)
> a zombie that shambles from culture war to culture war

I’m just going to applaud your literary sense here for a sec. Beautifully written and explained thought about this completely new and troubling phenomenon.

Mostly troubling because it does seem to be working insofar as the zombie won’t goddamn die.
Yes - because the public has a very, very short-term working memory.

The public pressure and ad campaigns _against_ these things have to be constant.

All it takes is 1 domino to fall then it becomes "well, if it is good enough for <other country>, its good enough for us!"
This project doesn't currently use a protocol besides http. It is mainly a rest api for the efficient event driven merging of multiple server side databases into a single client database.

The initial motivation for this project (beyond wanting a sense of privacy) was not finding any chat service capable of running on low cost CE devices. To me this is critical for reaching an audience beyond tech enthusiasts.

If this project continues to mature I could see it valuable to implement the XMPP or ActivityPub protocol, but I am not yet sure what that would mean. If it were to affect the execution requirements, then it should be implemented as a separate module with hooks into the core service.
> What will those jobs be?

Jobs that require human contact might be good. Babysitter, massage therapist, counselor, police officer, waiter, nurse, aesthetician, etc.

Hard to say with certainty though.
That would be ideal. Citizens should be deciding what they view as anti-comptetitive, or reasonable defensive actions, and the FTC and the DOD should act based on those decisions. In an ideal world.
What a strangely small world – that's my cousin!
Yep. Don't know if you're a programmer but I think it's ultimately abstraction.

When you watch kids learn to walk it's super difficult. It's a whole body act and requires a bunch of coordination/timing of the core with the legs and hips.

Similarly with piano if you start having to do things like arpeggios or scales very fast, you no longer have time to be 100% cognizant of the minutiae of what you're doing and the higher level action takes over.

As a programmer I love to analyze and overthink so I enjoy physical activities as they ground me and remind me to let go and trust myself.
Because most 'AI ethicists' are overeducated well off urbanite upper-middle class landed gentry-adjacents who believe they will never be replaced by AI because the touchstones of their distributed cognitive-emotional load are too complex for even far off SOTA models to ever grasp. The fate of the poor simple proles and their millions destitute are a non-issue to them. AI bots saying mean things on Twitter is a far greater crisis because it pertains to what they actually care about, not the lives of millions of people less fortunate than them.
Thank you so much for sharing about the pens. Your work is incredible and the pictures really pop.
AI doesn't have to do everything, or be the best at everything, it just has to do some things well enough, or augment humans enough that fewer people can do the job.

There's a lot of labor destroying potential in animation. For example, a human could make a small number of key frames (this already happens) and AI could fill in the in-between frames (this is where a lot of labor goes) you could cut costs significantly.
Hallucination is a better descriptor for what an LLM is doing though. A bullshitter knows they don't know, an LLM just strings words together in ways that fit what it "saw" from training data. IMO the main problem with calling them hallucinations is the implication that the true things they say are true on purpose. It's hallucinating the true things too.
This article was written by my good friend, bandmate, and former co-worker Doug Moore!

Doug is best known as the vocalist for extreme death metal noise maniacs Pyrrhon. https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/abscess-time

He is also the vocalist for the death metal band Glorious Depravity, in which I drum. This makes best use of his DME skills. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com/album/ageless-violenc.... Look at the lyrics to “Ocean of Scabs” to see a master at work.

He’s also the vocalist of the experimental black metal band Scarcity. https://scarcity-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/aveilut

And let’s not forget his epic death/doom project Weeping Sores. He writes all the songs (everything except violin) and handles guitar, bass, and vocals on the recording. I had the pleasure of mixing this one. https://weepingsores.bandcamp.com/album/weeping-sores

Finally, the HM crowd will appreciate that he — like everyone else in Glorious Depravity — is a software engineer. He works for the fitness tech startup Proteus Motion, https://www.proteusmotion.com. I worked there with him for many years. He’s a very smart, talented person and I feel fortunate to be his friend and collaborator.
Sisyphus – Mostly Automated Proof Repair for Verified Libraries
Wanna go golfing?
Thanks a lot! I'm so glad you managed to create a minimal toolbar that works great for you :-)
For one, Graviton currently uses ARM cores, not just the ARM ISA. Anything can happen though.
That is not what cloud native means. It is an overloaded term, but the basic idea is that the application is designed to operate in the cloud environment, utilizing cloud's capabilities such as elastic and automated infrastructure management.
This is wildly interesting to me.

How did you find yourself in your group, mostly by happenstance, or choices?

Do you have a separate group that you talk about important things with?

...is it us?
A foil to capture people who don’t identify as Republican, but with actions that align pretty firmly on “right of center”.
> Either you're anonymous or you're not

False on many levels and dangerous belief.

You are never ever fully anonymous writing online. It all depends on how difficult it is and how determined the threat.

Everything you post can be correlated with your other writing and online activity (even if you fake the style), ISP subpoenaed and tor nodes compromised. But most people are sorta anonymous because no one bothers to go through the trouble.
I think this is more targeted at new graduate students.

I remember when I first started my PhD, literally all of the talks were completely over my head, and I did not understand enough to engage as you describe here :)

Gathering three key takeaways would already require a good deal of effort :) and, I appreciate that the author of this post absolves you of having to have the speaker’s message as a key takeaway, since as a beginner grad student that is frequently beyond reach.
Cops in Chicago are currently investigating themselves for rape of immigrant minors housed in their facilities. Absolutely disgusting that people continue to cheer our broken police force, especially after Ulvalde.
I was enlisted in the Army, and an officer in the Marine Corps. No organization is perfect but by-and-large, yes, I found even the officer ranks to be reasonably meritocratic. If anything the organization's biases were caused by your career background: Infantry Officers rule the Corps as a whole. Fighter pilots rule the Marine Aircraft Wings; every other professional specialty is definitely a second-class citizen.
AI is different because it can act intelligently, getting the nuance that humans are able to. That is, it can do everything a human can do. But we're nowhere near that yet.[0] Past technology didn't directly replace human workers, but rather changed the way things were done. The difference is a self-checkout vs a janitor robot. The former is a paradigm shift, displacing the worker by shifting how the job is done and who is performing the tasks. The latter is a direct replacement of the human worker, drop in. Of course current AI will get better, but this idea has been around for decades, and like François says, people have assumed many of these problems would be solved far sooner than they have been. The thread is worth a read. We are talking about the opinions of a high ranking AI/ML researcher who extensively writes about the nature of intelligence and current limitations. Don't be fooled by fancy demos.

[0] https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1683200588782379008

[1] https://fchollet.com/
>Advanced SMRs offer many advantages, such as relatively small physical footprints, reduced capital investment, ability to be sited in locations not possible for larger nuclear plants, and provisions for incremental power additions. SMRs also offer distinct safeguards, security and nonproliferation advantages.

I studied in a tangent area and either I'm dumb or DOE had a lapse of reason that day.

Having five reactors per site is going to be worse than two of equal installed power in almost every respect. USA is the fourth largest country in the world, how is reduced footprint even a consideration?
And it's hard to fix without poking something through the wall that you probably want to keep pristine, because glass weighs a lot.

Unless you modify the frame. Or screw into the top of the frame. Or loads of options that aren't taken for one reason or another because "the frame has a wire across it" is utterly dominant.
I mean not explicitly hardcoding the path to the interpreter inside every binary. If the dynamic linker is part of the OS, then surely the OS should already know where it is?
RK3588 is an ARM chip
I figured the Mozilla VPN might be safe...?
Yes. You can consider ggml akin to PyTorch, and llama.cpp like Transformers (by Hugging Face).
The shape of the vehicle has far, far more to do with pedestrians dying than the weight of the vehicle. I would MUCH rather go over the hood of a 4800lbs Tesla model S going 30mph than under the front bumper of a 3900lbs Tacoma.
I'm trying to think of some dataset to create and train this in. Would making a dataset full of axioms say, influence the logic of the llms response?
A great way of notifying people about a launch is to announce it when you launch. Harvesting emails without a product doesn't help you notify people any better than announcing the actual thing when it's actually available to actually use. The reach is identical.
I paid for it (i think 5$) and it serves me well every day. I like it.
Even so - from a usage of the worlds resources point of view, have 5x oversized equipment idling for 75% of the day is not ideal.
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen both the Gadsden flag and the thin blue line flag flying on the same house/truck/boat/whatever.

Um, pick one, yeah?
Trie Data Structure in JavaScript
Forbes estimates that his net-worth is around $2.5 billions. [1]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
They're so afraid of crime that they'd rather turn to an actual mafia for protection.
This has the useful side effect that it should prevent the transfer of invasive species in ballast tanks, as most cannot survive high salinity conditions.
I feel like it is impossible to prove that the mammal wasn't simply scavenging on an already dead dino.
"but I doubt it, because the latter made some outrageous requests to do so."

Weren't these "outrageous requests" signed on in the parallel memorandum of understanding (MoU) ? They included removal of sanctions on the main Russian agricultural bank and Russian fertilizers. Russia has stated said as soon as those terms in the memorandum are implemented, they will resume the grain deal.
Ok, but the counter-narrative is that he's apparently prepping twitter for sale, by making it lean.

He is happy to goof with his things (hat sales), but he's not about to let x.com go away for peanuts, is my point.
> these agencies can comment on the bill, but not actually influence it

How would you delineate these?
Some folks on here are saying this was an unintended release. The link https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST-STABLE.TXT also points to 7.0.10 being the latest release
How about that gets reformatted so that it's readable? And you tell us what it's intended to do. And why we should use it too. And why it's better to use 'tmpfile' than 'mktemp'.
There's inherently no advantage to just taping the two things together. The idea is to make drinking water. Storing energy is a separate challenge. There's no advantage to combining the two.
On Windows, the loader for usermode runs in usermode too; but every executable, by design, doesn't get to choose what to use for its loader.
It was a bug that they fixed.
C++: To Bind and Loose a Reference (2020)
For Threads, the question was always going to be whether they're capturing existing audiences or bring in new ones. Withstanding the issue that 'social media needs to grow' for it to become successful, the splintering of user attention across multiple (less corporatised) platforms makes me hopeful success might be measured beyond user eyeballs and surface-level 'engagement'.

I'd say, let's support communities over growth. Social media does not need to be massive.
$234B VC sector; use of illegal pricing, research suggests – killing Innovation
https://archive.is/2pTS4

<Full Title> The $234 billion venture capital sector sometimes uses an illegal pricing strategy, new research suggests—but it’s killing innovation, too.
That helps with storage on the output side. But what about the issues/capital costs/resource/labour usage of building huge capacity plant that only gets used 15% of the day?
This YouTuber[0] does an excellent job recreating chemistry research from papers and improving on the techniques to be accomplished with household materials. He documents his failures and takes an empirical approach to arriving at his successes. I’m not sure of his background, but it’s certainly research that he’s doing. Watching his channel always reminds me that the scientific method does not have “first obtain an expensive degree” as one of its steps.

[0] https://youtu.be/N3bJnKmeNJY
No, that's not clear. I'm sure the state (and other) universities would say that tuition already funds "actual operations". What guidelines do bureaucrats inflict on universities to ensure there are no fake operations sucking up funds? Can you point me to the specific state funding proposals you're talking about?
The Midwest and northwest are also northern US by every definition I’ve seen.
> With only ~20% of its original headcount, I have to assume Twitter is profitable, even if it lost half its advertising revenue.

This is a terrible assumption. Not only do they have massive infrastructure cost but he also saddled the company with over $1 billion / year in interest costs on the loans he used to buy the company.
I think your starting point is still kinda skewed, because "heteronormative" is a made-up thing by society rather than an actual thing someone can be.

There's a traditional view of sexuality that men are only sexually attracted to women, and vice versa, and that's normal and everything else is not normal (kinky). The more we learn about sex (and gender) the more we learn that there are very few completely "normal" people out there, and a lot of people who are a bit kinky in one respect or another. I think it's now accepted that the hetero-homo thing is a spectrum rather than a binary state, and the primary reason people of the same sex don't have sex with each other is societal pressure rather than biological attraction. e.g. women tend to experiment more with this because society has a more lenient view of "girl-on-girl" than male homosexual sex.

My personal opinion is that evolution "wants" everything to fuck everything as much as possible, just to see what happens. The best reproducers are the ones who did the most fucking, after all. But we're getting into Oglaf territory here.
Poe’s Law is vastly over-invoked. In any social setting where some amount of context can be assumed, it doesn’t apply.

And even if someone wanted to challenge me on that, I’d argue that the tiny number of people who would think “HN is a tech support site” is being said seriously aren’t worth the two seconds it takes to type “/s”.
I landed on a classic "32 pt typing into notepad tutorial" the other day. What a weird concept that was. I guess it was an artefact of having no other way to post text to a large community as a lay person.
Strongly agree. How would you word an anti-Prohibition Constitutional amendment?
I am not sure that the American public cares much about what has become the norm in other countries so that line doesn't really carry any weight here.

I'd argue that instead, its more that the public is so apathetic about bad-turns of law that they'll just shrug with a sigh and begrudgingly tolerate the new paradigm.
Bite of Seattle attendees fed up with food ordering app from tech startup
If I stir my alphabet soup right, it'll spell out a bestselling novel.
I may not work with Zig (yet) but it’s cool to see y’all representing yourselves like this, keep up the good work!
I wonder how that shakes out for hair stylists who are exposed more. They wear gloves, so maybe they don’t actually get much skin contact, but I wonder if rates would correlate with how careful they are with ppe.
What a coincidence that the crypto kids happen to overlap with a lot of Elon's fanbase.
You forgot your /s...
Wait, regular people are jealous of how middle class kids live?
History vs. Hollywood: Oppenheimer
Room 641A

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

No door handle!
Fleetbase v0.1.5 Release Alert
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Firstly, we’re excited to unveil an alpha version of a significant addition to our internal API for building integrated Fleetbase extensions: the `UniverseService`. Designed to improve the seamless interactions between extensions and the console, this service provides an interface for a whole new range of features. From adding menu items and pages throughout the Console to facilitating custom settings in user, admin, and organization sections - the `UniverseService` has got you covered.

Moreover, it opens up the door for extensions to trigger and listen to events throughout the console. Imagine customizing an OrderModel upon creation - now a reality with our `UniverseService`. While this is just the Alpha version with a limited feature set, we're already working on expanding its capabilities. Future releases of the `UniverseService` will enable powerful customizations and seamless features via "Extensions". This is only the beginning, and the best is yet to come.

Parallel to the `UniverseService`, we've updated another internal API - the `setupExtension` hook on the `engine.js`. This hook simplifies the registration of your extension and more. It presents the console application instance, your extension engine instance, and the universe service itself to you in one place.

Parallel to the UniverseService, we've updated another internal API - the `setupExtension` hook on the engine.js. This hook simplifies the registration of your extension and more. It presents the console application instance, your extension engine instance, and the universe service itself to you in one place.

Beyond these robust internal API updates, we've ironed out some bugs to make your experience smoother. Of particular note, we've remedied a glitch in Fleet Ops that disrupted the display route on post-order creation. If you've encountered this bug, the update should rectify the issue.

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