skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need to know how human reasoning occurs.

If you ask an AI chatbot a question like "count the number of occurrences of 'l' in the word 'lollapalooza'" (and then follow up on its responses), it becomes obvious that it is not "reasoning"; it is simply following a sort-of script. Here is a summarized transcript of this exercise with ChatGPT:

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Me: Count the number of occurrences of the letter 'l' in the word 'lollapalooza'.

AI: The letter 'l' appears four times in the word 'lollapalooza'.

Me: Describe the process by which you arrived at this answer.

AI: [Provided a description of counting characters and then highlighted the first 'l' in the word four separate times to justify its answer.]

Me: You counted thief first occurrence four times. That is incorrect.

AI: I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. You are absolutely right. Here's the correct count of occurrences of the letter 'l' in the word 'lollapalooza':

AI: [Provided a list of 8 "occurrences" of 'l' in the word 'lollapalooza', including replacing the first 'o' with an 'l' ("occurrence" 3) and counting letters like 'p', 'z', and 'a'.

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So even though the correct answer was provided at first, the model was not able to faithfully produce responses that backed up how it arrived at that conclusion, and when pressed to double-check its work it simply made things up. Even a toddler would not have claimed 'z' and 'a' were instances of 'l'.

AI chatbots do not reason. They produce text responses to prompts based on stochastic methods. Trying to conflate the issue by suggesting that "we don't know how humans reason, so how do we know AI bots don't reason" is, frankly, absurd. We can easily demonstrate that they are inconsistent and have no concept of what they are writing responses about, as shown above.
Once you "dedicate cores to specific VMs" you will find that chip designers can also screw that up, just like they can screw up protection within a core. So you might as well proclaim that "impossible to get right" preemptively.
Sure, the Earth will adapt and be fine long-term. Its gonna suck for us humans though. Thats the part Im not looking forward to.
(Disclaimer: I joined the Stellar Sleep team after they got into YC, partly because I also had insomnia for many years and went through a full $1000+ in-person CTB-I treatment regimen which helped quite a bit)

To add to George's point, people w/ chronic insomnia (like myself) had gotten this stage of consistent poor sleep after many month or years of negative behavioral/psychological conditioning. To see permanent improvement, it'll also take many months of positive conditioning. And there will be occasional relapses (due to new triggers, etc). And this is the case even if you go through a very good in-person CTB-I program that costs thousands of dollars.

Our pricing model (quarterly, and in the future, monthly) is tailored toward the changing needs of our users. The goal is to equip our patients with an arsenal of tools to manage their sleep problems depending on the root cause, and help them recover from relapses more quickly when they need it, with similar efficacy as seeing an in-person specialist at a fraction of the cost.
Using this as an example of anything other than how broken the LLM can get is misleading and irresponsible.

Don’t present this as some kind of anomaly unique to AI, the concept of “garbage in garbage out” is all that applies here.
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250 k to get to a point where your employable. Work with no seniority for at least a decade while making shit money before you get a decent schedule. Spend entire career working crazy hours, family life suffers and never getting decent sleep on lay overs.

Finally 5 years before you are forced to retire, you possible get captain and get to pick a decent schedule while making huge money(300-500k) year while working a few times a month but the you're running out of runway very quickly and you got to retire. Get a million dollar pension but your health has suffered over the last 40 years sitting for long hours and sleeping like a shift worker. I don't see many old retired pilots, tells you something about the job.

Just saying....
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In the same way that people should think about the impact of their purchases, I suggest you consider the impact of your communication more seriously. I don’t think it is causing people to change their behavior in positive ways.

It’s the same as things like recycling. We can wish that everything was perfect after we throw the can in the bin, but the reality is different. People should make better choices when called out with the blunt truth. But is that what’s actually happening?
I would argue this has been known for decades and is in fact the origin of one of the earliest memes in computer science: To err is human, but to really mess things up requires a computer!
One could team up with Hackerrank/leetcode, let the model code in the interface (maybe there's an API for that already, no idea), execute their code verbatim and see how many test cases they get right the first time around. Then, like for humans, give them a clue about one of the tests no passing (or code not working, too slow, etc.). Give points based on the difficulty of the question and the number of clues needed.

I guess the obvious caveat is that these model are probably overfitted on these types of questions. But a specific benchmark could be made containing question kept secret for models. Time to build "Botrank" I guess.
That's the problem, many companies don't realize they need to be serious, they just have a few people who want k8s in their stack.
> but WEI is meant to be used in situations where lying should be illegal.

But here I once again have to point out that in practice this will look very different.

The practical effect is that if someone installs LineageOS or even AOSP to get rid of Google spyware and preinstalled bloatware, then these attestation checks will fail and that user will not be able to use apps that are necessary in practice.

The question is whether this is really a "side effect" or just the actual goal.
Indeed, Android app development is why I added the non-core part. Try as I might, I can't deny that it's a vast (business) ecosystem. Too big too fail and part of the money printer.

I wouldn't call IDX core because it doesn't solve the problem the article opens with. It says that modern app stacks are complex. IDX doesn't solve that at all. There's the same amount of moving parts behind the curtain, it's just that stitching them together is made easier.

The motivation for the service is unclear, but in itself it can't produce serious revenue so I guess it's an on-ramp to Google Cloud hosting. And perhaps another "free" service to train AI on.
Yes. What about screen reading browsers?

What about neurodivergent people who cannot function on an "approved" OS because of the inherent ways it manages, stores, and presents information? What if that OS has an ACID compliant browser capable of accessing the banks website if they didn't have remote attestation?

What about the millions of people unable to afford to upgrade their hardware to Windows 11? Or that don't have TPM available and therefore can't use any other Windows version because 10 fell out of support, so they're running a Linux distro with an unapproved web browser?
Maybe mass hysteria is the right response?
Or partial rights. Movie, TV series, audiobook, podcast, blog; all to different entities.
Thing is, humans weren't there for nearly all of it. It's not a question of whether things change, it's a question of whether we can survive it as a species, or as a civilisation. Empires have risen and fallen throughout history, but it doesn't mean you'd rather live as part of a society in which you could die of a toothache instead of something more advanced.

It's going to get extremely unpleasant, it's a no brainer that we'd like to limit the fallout.
I don't understand why you'd want someone to dig through most of your digital stuff later. Do you think your dad really wanted that? My laptop and phone are secured with strong passwords and full disk encryption, a legitimate and intentional method of data destruction once I'm no longer in possession of them.

Our priceless family photo collection is organized in Flickr (the only account for which my wife and I share login credentials) and backed up to an unencrypted external hard drive in my desk drawer. At most, my wife and kids would lose only the last few weeks of photos that are still on my phone.

My wife has her own login credentials for our joint financial accounts. For accounts in only my name, nobody should be logging in with my credentials after I'm dead anyway; there's a proper method for notifying the institution of my death and having assets transferred to beneficiaries.

Our most important personal and financial documents (which include a listing of financial assets and institutions) are on paper in a box and / or in a shared Google Drive folder which, again, my wife can access with her own credentials.

I think it's important to be organized with the stuff that you want to pass on, but not important to make sure that everything is passed on.
The changes that we're seeing now are occurring at such a horrifyingly rapid rate compared to the changes we've seen historically though. My reading of your message is that you're conflating historical changes in oceans, landmass, atmospheric streams and polar orientation with modern climate change. The latter is happening at 7 orders of magnitude faster than the former.
"On Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x versions, bx seed uses the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) initialized with 32 bits of system time."

That's a hell of an amateur mistake to make. 50/50 odds whether it was incompetence or deliberate fraud. Maybe 80/20; that flaw is so simple anyone can attack it. Which apparently is happening right now. It's much better if your crypto library generates keys only you can hack.
Other two comments are wrong. The correct answer is that the compiler now builds everything on demand if it's not already built. This now includes the standard library as well. Previously built versions of standard library modules were being shipped.
"to a payment processing company". Ok. Now it makes sense. I just launched maps.me on my phone for the first time in more than 2 years I think and I was wondering why it's asking me to log in and also inviting me to use the Maps Wallet? What? A wallet? In a maps app? Haven't uninstalled an app faster in my life.
Panama is now in its third preview in the soon-to-be-released JDK 21:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/442

Is there any indication that it won't go from there to a final release soon?
(Disclaimer, I have not read the paper, nor is it my field.)

Taking "greater than 5 sigma" at face value, that sounds reasonably legit...
In my experience this goes for most - for me actually 'all' but I don't tend to use much from the Play store - apps which insist on having Google Play services installed. They blatantly tell you to 'Enable Google Play services' because (e.g.) BankID won't work unless you enable Google Play services. Just click outside of the dialogue to make it disappear and use (e.g.) BankID as normal, it just works as it should.
A better question is why you can't just use a token bucket rather than mining bitcoins on your client's phone wasting their battery.
This reminds me of the ramblings of old HN regular Terry Davis, creator of LoseThos/TempleOS, may he rest in peace.
I have bought into co-pilot, but I can’t say it’s that much of a productivity boost. More often than not it recommends something completely wrong. I guess it might be more useful if I did more spring boot or maybe hibernate.

I’ve found chat gpt to be more helpful in general. I can paste some code in and have a discussion about what I want it to fix for me.
Not gonna lie this title "Had me"
Of course I'd agree that if a robot is following the rules and behaving indistinguishably from a human but maybe just a little more quickly, then it shouldn't be pre-judged (and our detection should accommodate). But here we're talking about robots without agency being e.g. used in botnets to abuse services, or otherwise not following the rules.
I’m from Napoli and I think its quite accurate expect for walking hostile? Why? I walk for hours every day, ignore bike and public transport and just walk around with friends why is it reported as walking hostile?:(
I think, therefore I am a Homo Sapiens.
How do you handle sales tax across all the jurisdictions for makers, are you a merchant of record like Gumroad?
For every one user that makes their way on here and finds and posts here on this thread probably represent 1,000,000 plus normal users

An open web is open for everyone/thing not just classes of beings you select. Bots and users can both be malicious and both can be positive.
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The only people scared are people who don't understand it. You've obviously drank the koolaid. What OpenAI has done is impressive, but it's not a replacement for programmers or anyone who does knowledge work. The people who should be scared are people who don't produce original work. For example, journalists who just rewrite content from Reuters. Investigative journalists producing original work aren't at risk.
Longer answer to your question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055297

tldr; we might add some paid features in the future but keep the base app free since operating costs are low.
I played the demo at release (as I'd liked Papers, Please), and it completely failed to grab me—aside from the art style, which seemed to me to be "wasted" on such a dumb gameplay concept.

then I picked it up years later, earlier this year, and was absolutely hooked. I practically couldn't put it down until I finished. one of my top games of all time. a perfect example of how video games, as a medium, can tell stories in ways that other media never could—an excellent counterexample to cutscenes and dialogue trees being the accepted industry standard for storytelling.
None taken :)

PEP 458 describes the path forward for PyPI.
https://peps.python.org/pep-0458/

Here's the in-progress roadmap: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/10672

If there's particular issues you believe you could pick off to help achieve the goal, much appreciated!
"It's that all the content is made by people who spend all day on the internet, and it's all about tech."

And "news" services that utilise the internet are more often than not biased toward so-called "tech" news.

It's like the internet is constantly promoting itself.

Then one looks at the advertising. The businesses that advertise the most are the ones who are entirely internet-based.

I'm not suggesting this is a new trend. Definitely not. But I had hoped it would change.
They hit it on the head with their last sentences but managed to go steaming past the point with nary a glance.
IF GTK/Qt etc can render to canvas using WebGPU while compiled to assembly, I think game is almost over than too IF there's a way to lazy load application modules.

Think Autodesk products. Certain parts (wasm modules) only load when you hover over a menu while overall app loads within milliseconds because it just has the main window and such.
looks like it got knocked off the Internet; since that site was the only link I knew of to its source: https://gitlab.com/sab_from_earth/lemmit (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License with an especial vanity license clause of "Usage of this software for machine learning (AI) training is expressly prohibited")

I was curious if they were doing hotlinking to the images versus using pictrs to host them locally, and at the time I saw it was actually using pictrs, so I shudder at the thought of the disk requirements for such a reddit mirror
Unmasking hypnotized AI: The hidden risks of large language models
All of those things should be added. I would argue they take far more than 1%. They're easily 10, 20 maybe 30 or 40% of the work. Creating robust dashboards, alerting and documenting the work in an externally digestible and internally debuggable format is very time consuming and difficult work that pays dividends when done but often gets thrown out because we schedule our work for 'MVP and yeet' where 'minimum' is defined as 'minimum to click button', not 'minimum to support button'.
My health insurance portal (Aetna, no I am not above naming and shaming) did something annoying. When I signed up I used a randomly generated three-word passphrase from my password manager. It was around 32 characters or something.

They have the fun pattern of logging you out of your account whenever you are inactive. A bit excessive for a health insurance provider imo, but whatever.

So I tried to login and guess what? Max input length for their login password is 16 characters. I literally couldn't input my password.

I had to go through a stupid process to reset my password because their sign-up front-end validations were different from their sign-in front-end validations. I had to purposely choose a less secure password even though I could technically create a password that was pretty secure, I can't sign in with it.
I wonder if the display could be changed to https://www.waveshare.com/product/rp2040-lcd-1.28.htm
PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management
Content for larger cities is generally GPT4. For smaller ones I went with GPT3.5. If I were to do another pass and get fresh data, I'd probably use GPT4 for everything as the difference in content quality is noticeable.
Also covered here over a month ago: https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/06/30/esp32-s3-board-featu...
Water vapor accounts for 70% of the greenhouse effect. It's actually the most potent greenhouse gas in the Earth's atmosphere. Increasing a mere 5% is a really, really big deal.
I think that should be addressable.
Yeah personally I could do without living through some kind of age of decay with masses of people getting displaced and such.
Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
Grinding against worse leads is not a better use of resources.
Funny because AMD probably has the lowest share of the three if we include all PCs including office ones (and we should since the website says "any PC")
Of course you don't add probabilities, but for small probabilities it's an ok estimate. The chance of getting a single heads in N coin flips is one minus the probability of always getting tails, so 1-P(tails)^N. If P(heads) and N are small (e.g 0.1 and N=2), adding the probabilities is a perfectly reasonable estimate, just plug in the numbers and check for yourself.
> This is an unreasonable position. Vulnerabilities can be fixed

That's a highly optimistic position, to the point of being almost wishful thinking.

The vulnerability being talked about today has been around since 2014 according to the report. Possibly being exploited for unknown number of years since. Sure, maybe we can workaround this one, now.

Other similar ones to be published years into the future are also there today being likely exploited as we speak.

Running untrusted code on the same silicon as sensitive code (data), is unlikely to ever actually be truly safe.
So I guess after all those discussions we are still stuck with LangChain for everything to do with LLMs.
Wow, that’s scummy and desperate
If you're right, that's probably a good thing, not sure it'll be enjoyable.. However records are being broken much faster than the worst predictions, so it might be faster than you think.
Reading your comment, I had the thought "I wonder if California's done it?" Turns out they've tried it 10 times. I'd imagine there's a lot of money being thrown against the initiative by for-profit insurance companies, which is an industry with a lot of cash to buy laws.

https://stateofreform.com/featured/2023/05/california-seeks-...
Maybe if you're over 6'5" and weigh over 300 pounds. By historical and international standards, they are huge.
Gumroad is great! But their pricing model (flat 10%) doesn't make sense for many creators.

We think it's better for most creators to own their own Stripe accounts and use a lightweight fulfillment platform like Easyful instead.
OpenAI launches web crawler 'GPTBot' amid plans for next model: GPT-5
Yep it's almost like Moore's Law in reverse.
yeah, I did that and got an invitation
I'm tired of youtube recommendations and comments full of vanity praise and flamewars. These days I use ublockorigin to kill most of youtube recommendations and comments to just use it as a searchbar. A lot of it is adopted from reddit[1]

www.youtube.com###contentContainer

www.youtube.com##.ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-grid-renderer.style-scope

www.youtube.com###below

www.youtube.com###related

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www.youtube.com##ytd-live-chat-frame

www.youtube.com##yt-live-chat-app

www.youtube.com##ytd-thumbnail > a#thumbnail > div#mouseover-overlay

www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"]
/annotations_module.js$script,important,domain=youtube.com
/endscreen.js$script,important,domain=youtube.com

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/sif7x3/how_to...
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build dev productivity platform
Banks fined $549M after senior execs found texting on Signal, WhatsApp
Try a closer time frame and work backwards
Am I correct in understanding this affects basically every CPU generation up to and including Alder Lake?

EDIT: Maybe not? That linked table is very esoteric.
Not to mention a good AT coverage - it can easily take 20% of project time, and often much more.
Perfect timing - I just finished John McPhee’s wonderful “Assembling California”. It goes into quite a bit of detail of how California came together, and includes some history of tectonic plate theory, the gold rush, and quite a lot more.
> The things I watch on YouTube, I generally have zero interest in watching again, and if I really want to, then I'll find it in my history.

There's an exception to this that I suspect is not uncommon: there's music one likes to listen to when one is chill/buzzed; having to poke into (or worse: dig thru) one's watching history is a procedure-intensive buzzkill.

> (where there is no clear indication if you've seen before it or not)

This is definitely a bug not a feature. But if the music that one evidently likes to hear and re-hear is posted prominently (based on the time of day, say) AND flagged as such, that's a feature not a bug.
The actual goal is probably that Google and others prevent ad-blocking. WEI itself is not meant as a fingerprint, but with unblockable ads comes unblockable tracking (not that I personally care about tracking). Like, look at YouTube on iPhones, they blocked background playback in the app and even got Apple to block it in Safari in iOS update 10.

They don't need WEI to keep the vast majority of users away from obscure alternative OSes, but as a side effect those would be impacted.
Yup, it's over. Time to quit my remote job. Time for everyone who bought a house to move back to the city. There it went.
Valve starts selling refurbished Steam Decks for up to $130 less than new models
oh fuck, i missed that
Horrible scaling to tiny clusters as well. I'm glad they kept the design pure though. Unencrypted means you get to choose the encryption. Redis didn't have built in encrypted tcp servers for a long time either. When they added it there was a good discussion about the overhead: https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/7595
There's already a WordPress plugin to auto-generate articles on schedule. Probable there are dozens already.

Authenticity will be a valuable currency in the future.