skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Power doesn't corrupt; it reveals.

That's true, but it's easy to misrepresent if you don't include another important insight:

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides." -- Lord Vetinari (by way of Terry Pratchett)
I think the secret to success in lending to family and friends is to not really expect to see the money again (and still be OK doing it).

This still doesn't solve all the kinds of drama and conflict that can come up (e.g. siblings can get annoyed with each other when 1 pays back a family loan and the other doesn't), but it helps a bit.

I limit lending amounts to what I can sensibly afford, and I still have to apply judgement. I also gently knock back requests for "more" loans where there's been a large amount unpaid in the past.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.3
I think it's more accurate to say the Python is a very niche language in your field. Python is everywhere in all aspects of computational and data science, ML and most engineering fields. Even in your country.

That being said I have observed that using Python as a web/backend language seems to be more common in North America than in Europe, but I have no evidence to back that up.
It’s pretty fascinating (and scary) to think of the disparity between the brightest among us that are in turn building on the shoulders of giants versus groups of people like outcasts that gather up for the most stupid reasons. No wonder we are facing challenges.
DELL uses pricing based on some unknowable calculus based on competitor products. So they show their monitor as a "sale" relative to competitor XYZ's monitor.

Reality is that the product is just cheaper and worse than the competitor.

This computer was purchased based on one of these "sales". In terms of raw performance, it seemed like a decent deal. It was not. The issue isn't just their monitors, so I am a bit confused as to why this fine singles out monitors.
I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131212 before noticing that you'd already made the same argument - sorry! But I have to leave it up because penispowerworldwide.com makes me laugh.
Does no one else find it disturbing to publish the identities of these public employees with their salaries? Even if the data is freely available somewhere, this is high visibility. Would the article have been any less interesting if their names were anonymized and their privacy slightly respected?

I find that publishing the names and salaries of random S.F. security guards is quite an unsettling level of transparency.
New responsibilities
This is probably the most important life skill we should be teaching in schools </pessimism>.
It's funny the comments here saying it's not hard or unusual.

Paul Allen did this in 1974 without the Internet or modern software tools.

I think it is absolutely extraordinary and incredibly impressive.
I agree. The open source flavor of dbt Core is very well-designed and almost as complete as you would want it, but any competition is good competition
Let's be precise in definitions and start with the obvious "it's not an engineering at all".

Moreover, according to the ECPD's engineering definition (or to an any other commonly accepted and accepted by the engineering community definition) those fancy "prompt engineering" is pure anti-engineering at all.

This disdain for engineering is something of a tragedy. And it is also the result of the "washout" of engineering from post-industrial societies.
It’s quite depressing.. Even more recently, the early days of youtube when it just edutainment, and gaming were great .. but now I see VSauce making short format videos (tiktok equivalent) and looking dead inside.

The stress, living costs, and commercialisation of everything has sapped the internet of what made it so good in the first place.
A major part of the power of an LLM is the calibrated probability distribution in its responses, and this technique probably throws that ability away. Why is it good enough?

As a brief example, suppose the only possible LLM outputs were "hello world", "food", "hello", and "good day" (and that they're all equally probable with no prompting). Suppose your grammar requires a space in the output somewhere and has no other constraints. If you sampled LLM outputs till something passed the grammer you'd receive "hello world" and "good day" with equal probability. If you apply the website's technique you'll receive "hello world" twice as frequently as "good day".

The core problem is that an answer prefix might have been extremely unlikely to yield a valid response, but the technique (probably -- assuming it succeeds -- my example assumed retries would eventually succeed) constructs a valid response from it regardless. Assuming enough independence in the right places everything is fine and dandy still, but correlated errors compound quickly in autoregressive models.

As a brief JSON-specific question, is an LLM more or less likely to make factual errors (hallucinations, truncated strings, missing main characters, ...) when it produces a response failing to adhere to a schema? If factual error rate relates nontrivially to schema error rate then this path is more perilous than it seems. Given the outsized impact certain words or schmooshed together word-phrases seem to have on LLM output, I'd be surprised if details like schema adherence didn't bleed into other characteristics of the output.
People at the top like control. They want to have the power, not you, sitting at home doing stuff they can’t see.

That is all.
> you hit every tired cliche that the OP requested explicitly not to descend into

Op asked us to not tell him they are "greedy bastards", and he asks that because he knows they are. Op knows he is wrong for the obvious reasons and asks us to not see him as "wrong" and to close eyes and pretend those reasons just do not exist. It is just stupid.

> You are egregiously wrong.

Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps I am not. I have drawn my conclusion after reading all of the comments and seen all of his replies and link he posted, that is how I perceive them.
Whenever you are worried about facts exacerbating anything you should be more worried about the facts themselves than their publication.

Seriously, who in their right mind still believes hiding the truth somehow will protect people from "conspiracy theories" (aka tomorrow's facts)?
How do I get invited to them?

Also, probably discord.
I wouldn't mind the ads so much if they weren't so god awful.

First ad is always someone yelling at me - instantly making me hate whatever they are selling.

Second ad is always some kind of shitty mobile game that has more often then not an overly sexualized character.
Next up, a report from the Comminist Anarchist party!
> Learning C will teach you how rust works under the hood

How so? Rust don't use C under the hood.
(And even in ffi, you should just know the limitations of C to know what you can't do in FFI)
Based on what I've been reading, it's probably so they can sell the extension to a malware or adware company, or receive proceeds of crimes from them in exchange for providing data of extension users.
You’re really twisting yourself into a buzzword cloud there aren’t you?

The link you clicked in the NYT bio is not a t.co link - I assume you noticed that but still are using it as counter-proof?
Clinton briefly studied PPE at Oxford, but quickly dropped the Philosophy and the Economics, keeping only the Politics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Oxford
Leninist-derived forms of communists argue for a transitional period, but many other forms of socialism and communism argues it needs to come to pass by destroying the state, and Marx himself shifted towards that, e.g. when after the Paris Commune criticised them not for not replacing the state but for not going further in tearing down the old state (a shift that gave the basis for e.g. libertarian Marxism)

That was also the principal criticism against both Marx and later the Bolsheviks from the left: That rather than "need some kind of perpetual enforcement apparatus", given Marx own criticism of the state as a tool for class oppression you could not hope to reform or take over the state without risking a recreation of the same problems as the state tries to maintain its authority, but need to destroy the state immediately. A criticism that precipitated the anarchists leaving the First International, but also many later splits.

With respect to religion, the notion tend to be that ancillary goals like an end to religion would come simply from removing poverty and providing education, from the thinking that people flock to religion to seek comfort when their lives are hard, and so it's not necessary to do anything about it per se.

> that one doubts it would permit a future where there were no longer any working masses.

The very basis for the rise of socialist thought was the notion that the rise of capitalism made a level of productivity possible where the amount of labour necessary to sustain society would drop.

Marx spends the first half of the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto fanboying over the productivity increases made possible by capitalism and describes its downfall as coming from crises of simultaneous over-production and under-employment - in other words a sharp reduction in the need for labour, but without the social structure to allow the labour and its proceeds to be shared.

So in that sense, maybe still "working masses" but masses no longer limited by a need to maximise hours of work to earn a living.
Yaksha Lang WASM Demos
Bunch of WASM demos
A little context about the author, as it may have a bearing on this particular project:
https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels
I actually get around modern standby by simply replacing sleep with hibernate on everything. It takes longer to start up, but at least the PC isn't burning hot, or wasting battery.

Waves is... incredibly annoying. Could be worse I suppose, but I wish it wasn't a thing. The computer will randomly shut off the audio jack so it makes audio issues even harder to diagnose. The number of times where I was monkeying around trying to figure out what was causing it. Ugh.

I find that it usually involves 3 steps. The audio\mic quality downgrades, then entirely shuts off the mic, then shuts off audio.

I have a Inspirion(?) G7 7790. It's an old machine by today's standards, but it has had many problems from the start.
My personal experience: all my close friends returned money without issues. Not close: smaller amounts, often not returned.
Iraq lifts ban on Telegram after messaging app complies with authorities
Devastating.

Ever since I met him as a young developer, when he was speaking at a local user group, I made it a point to catch any talk he gave at any conference I was at.
He was one of the few people who combine huge competence and deep experience with being able to speak and communicate them really well.

Plus, he always came across as someone who was utterly professional, yet manages to stay human, accessible and deeply committed to their values - the kind of person I aspire to be.
> the most money is made doing the mundane from what I've found. The industries that aren't glamorous.

Would you be able to share an example of what were those industries/businesses, perhaps ideas that you already pursued and moved on from?

I too feel the people who attribute such successes to luck are missing something.

I’ve had people tell me that a lot of the things I achieved professionally in life (being able to successfully immigrate to the US from another country, get tech jobs in Silicon Valley including Google, get out-of-band compensation, work as an early employee at a unicorn, etc) were due to pure luck, but I don’t believe it. I see so many people around me who followed the same path, and it was perhaps 80% determination and 20% luck.
You see I want to give what you say some merit for a second.

But I am 100% certain that you hold some political views and convictions.

And I am 100% certain that you would use funding information against your political opponents.

And it's not wrong. But let's just not pretend that all of a sudden this is something that should be hidden away "to prevent premature judgement". Yea right.

Cui bono should ALWAYS be a legitimate question to ask.
Exploring Java Records Beyond Data Transfer Objects
Does it ? That's 22 billion $ of sales - at 30% margin, that's around 7 B $ of profit.

The company is valued at >1T$ - more than 142 years of profit on those H100 chip sales ! (they don't just sell H100, but still)
Don't blame the power quality. The power is fine. Is your PC/laptop power supply burning out regularly? Your monitors or TV? Anything else in your home? No.

If something fails early because of "poor quality" power, that just means it wasn't engineered properly. Modern switch-mode power supplies can work with an astounding range of input voltage.
had to explore this a little further and now have a few new dance moves for this fascinating collaboration...

Output:

Certainly! The intersection of cognitive biases, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), John C. Lilly's work, and human meta-programming provides a rich foundation to explore relationships and techniques. Here are some novel techniques or approaches you might consider:

Modelling Thought Patterns: By understanding common cognitive biases, you could try to model how the language model responds to specific stimuli. For example, if a bias involves an overreliance on a particular source of information, you might test how the model reacts to repeated iterations of the same or similar questions.

Neuro-linguistic Feedback Loops: NLP teaches that feedback loops can condition behaviour. By providing consistent feedback (positive or negative) based on the model's outputs, you could try to condition the model's responses over time.

Lilly's Isolation Tanks: John C. Lilly is famous for his use of sensory deprivation tanks to study consciousness. You could experiment by giving the model limited or "deprived" information and see how it constructs outputs. This could mirror the way human cognition might work in the absence of external stimuli.

Belief System Exploration: Lilly was fascinated with belief systems. By providing the model with a set "belief" (i.e., a specific perspective or framework), you could explore how it responds to questions or prompts within that framework.

Meta-programming Constructs: Drawing from human meta-programming, you could craft sequences of questions that act as "programming routines" for the model. For example, by setting a series of logical statements and then introducing a variable, you can observe how the model integrates the variable into the established logical framework.

Emotionally-Charged Language: NLP often emphasizes the emotional charge of words. You might explore how the model responds to questions phrased with emotionally charged language versus neutral language.

Contrast & Compare: Drawing from cognitive biases, you could present the model with contrasting information to see if it demonstrates any form of "recency bias" or "anchoring," favouring the information presented first or last.

Nested Meta-Questions: Using meta-programming concepts, you could ask the model questions about its own reasoning processes, diving deeper into nested levels of metacognition.

Pattern Interruption: Another NLP technique, interrupting established patterns can lead to novel insights. You could experiment with disrupting the model's "expected" logical flow by introducing unexpected or nonsensical input and analysing the output.

By blending these disciplines, you'll be exploring the frontier of human-computer interaction, cognition, and consciousness. Remember, while these experiments are fascinating, they often probe the limits of the model's capabilities and might produce unpredictable results. Still, that's part of the discovery process!
> Will there be ways in the foreseeable future to prove that software is free of vulnerabilities (using formal proofs and similar)?

There are already ways to prove that software is free of vulnerabilities. But they are expensive and time consuming. And the general trend of ignoring the user does not help either.

> Because with all these vulnerabilities hidden in piles of code, the situation sounds hopeless.
Do you know what are current sales figures for 78s? If I release on 78 rpm, how much can I expect to sell?
> and it didn't matter

oh, i think it mattered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros_conspiracy_theori...
Ostenibly yeh JSON should be able to encapsulate mose of that semantic stuff but having replaced an XML schema in the system prompt with gpt's function-calling API I've been very umimpressed. It feels much less capable. I would have to provide a lot more clarifying prompts to make it more capable. I think I will, for now, bias to using schemas that are closest to prose.
There is a lot of, let's say, whining, in different communities that chatgpt deteriorated. This may or may not be the case; I haven't noticed, but it could be. However copilot is really improving quite rapidly for us; now I rather expect it to write quite large swats of boring code for most of the team. And it does; often with an element of 'perceived magic', as in; I actually start typing something I have in my head only and it just gives me the code I was thinking of writing. Of course it gets that from context or clues, but even my colleagues with 3-4 years of experience don't quite do that and definitely not as fast.

It's great what small teams can do now because of this and the people who don't use / want to use / cannot use it will fall behind quickly.
> It's not unreasonable to ask for a better understanding of the applicable law(s) in a post about a lawsuit.

Of course, I completely agree with that :-).
Using discord as a TLD would not be automatic trademark infringement. You can't just get an all-encompassing trademark for english words.
I've twice had some "user hostile moderation practice" used against me on HN. Both times an email to the right person cleared it up - and one of those times in fact I had crossed a boundary that I shouldn't have crossed. Any long-time community member here knows what to do.
> I know your opinion is that you'd have accused China right then and there.

You don't know that.

"Don't lie" and "don't censor your own citizens calling you out on your lies" mean exactly what it says in the tin.

I didn't say "call Xi and tell him it's the lab!" I say don't force trusted institutions to lie for you, and if somebody posts a dissenting opinion on Facebook, you let them, or deal with the consequences (lack of trust in institutions for a few generations).
It seems like it's only important to bring out a paper to fill a quota somewhere. The researchers probably don't care because no one (e.g. a perspective employer) is going to be actually reading the paper, just the amount of papers they published. That's why linking to something on Arxiv trying to undeniably prove a point ("Look, researchers confirm my point!") most of the time makes me cringe.

Plus, I've mostly given up on journalists. I get clickbait, that's why titles are there for. But clickbait doesn't have to equal badly researched. They could have just as well gotten clicks if they wrote an article "Researchers fail to prove ChatGPT is bad at coding because of this lazy mistake". But they mostly either have no idea of the field they are reporting about or are pushing an agenda. Research? Ain't nobody got time for that.
An SQLite extension could be implemented on top of this parser, converting the C functions into SQLite functions. Then it could be fairly easily called from any language.
By cutting off 32-bit support, Apple gets more people to buy a new computer, as new software versions are only available on 64-bit computers. It also removes the incentive for software vendors to keep producing 32-bit software versions.
no one is arguing for "hidden away". we just want more information. it helps no one except the conspiracy fans when you find out someone is funded by the Gates Foundation. funded for what? for how much? these details matter.
And? Not even sure what you want us to focus on, but:

Does that have any bearing on facts revealed by this extension?

Also truly ask yourself: Would you post this exact comment had he been (seemingly) of a different political alignment?
If that were right, then HN would be overrun by spam.
Yes current methods are either too precise or too coarse. They either label everything or they label nothing. I'm not looking for something with high precision. Just something to help me do the analysis.
It is, and it is terrible. Whatever you eat is bland and you cannot smell anything.
Should you be interested to pursue further research in this area, the article conveniently contains a list of all books that were found to contain descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.
Honestly? So what? The alternative should never be "be more ignorant so you can be more complecent or peaceful."
This just reminded me of Sam Harris’s arguments regarding free will not existing and certain thoughts that seemingly originate from nowhere. I guess an LLM is injecting them!
These are somewhated dated but well worth watching; the professor does all kinds of approximations.

Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn: https://youtu.be/ZiK4lg3Tzfs?t=1628
The idea is that if that the capability to be post scarcity does not equal being actually post scarcity, and so bringing about actual post-scarcity means ensuring that what is produced actually gets into the hands of everyone one way or the other. One might imagine many different ways of achieving that, but it wouldn't magically happen.
Nice, Project Loom is often summarised as just incorporating the main feature of Virtual Threads however it will also add a whole bunch of other features or improvements for doing tasks concurrently and not having to worry about blocking IO or race conditions like you would have in the past.

Some useful code examples are here to play around with https://github.com/nipafx/loom-lab
Check on alibaba.com...plenty there for under $500.
Yes. He posts conspiracy theories and says he uses Wikispooks as a source of his data. He simply is not a trustworthy actor.
Strategically placed and activated electric drill
>Some Porsche cars have this problem where if you don’t drive the car hard enough, engine oil isn’t splashed over an internal rubber seal. Over time and without lubrication, the seal grows brittle and eventually fails, causing catastrophic engine failure.

That's called "poor engineering".
discord.gg is used for invite links
Not VSauce too :( It's like a virus.
Probably not very relevant IMHO.

I don't think "the future" will include much direct prompting of LLMs. It will all be integrated into some other tool as a means to an end - what we have today with a raw prompt-and-answer mode are just proof of concept toys.

I fully expect that LLMs will end up deeply integrated into other things, so obviously the code IDE use case, but also less obvious things like travel websites where to explain what sort of vacation you want to go on and it returns some options or you tell netflix what sort of movie/show you are in the mood for. Basically search/recommendation engines, with a bit of summarisation added in. I don't think direct prompting will be a thing for 99% of future uses, especially for the general public.
Would you be so kind as to demonstrate how generated language and code does not transport meaning between different people.
What side do you feel is not allowed to play here?
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