skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Stallman said, "... it is important to realize that ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything. It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text, but any statements made in it are liable to be false. It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words mean."
The part that is surprising, is where the reverse does not have a higher than random probability.

Sure, most of the time “is” is not commutative, but sometimes it is, so it should be higher probability than guessing.
> For example, if "Uriah Hawthorne is the composer of 'Abyssal Melodies'" then maybe they are insulting Ms. Hawthorne be describing what she did as abysmal

Abyssal: unfathomable, or having to do with the depths of the ocean

Abysmal: awfully bad
Do we have proof that humans are different in this regard?

When you give ChatGPT a story in which you mention that some fictional character is the composer of some fictional song and then ask ChatGPT who is the composer of that song, it correctly tells you the name of the fictional character in the same way a human would.

I would think there is "conscious learning" and "unconscious learning". The training phase of an LLM being the unconsious learning here. Do we have proof that when a human unconsiously heard about the fact that "Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer" years ago, they can now answer the question "Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son?" as well as they can answer "Who is Tom Cruise's mother?".
Wasn't it obvious that something along these lines would happen when Microsoft took over Github?
Adjectives are wet.
I thought this would be about Skolem's Paradox, which _really_ broke set theory, and which set theorists have done their very best to ignore and handwave away since its introduction.
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Can someone EIL5 this for me. I don't understand how this works. If I have my computer on my home network and the person I was to share a file with is on their home network, how does this work out where it's sending the file/folder? The examples seem to suggest it magically knows based just on a passphrase. I have to be missing something. I'm aware this is a stupid question but I can't, based on what I've read so far, work out how this transfers stuff without more details.
I think the point is more about innovation and "creating" the need by solving problems people didn't even know they had
They're profitable now with Cisco acquiring them. They'll trim the company by at least 20% through restructuring either out or to other places of Cisco.

They'll pick up another 10-20% capex/open/cogs on private pricing that Cisco gets.

Great M&A if Cisco manages to maintain Splunk's customer base. I look at Splunk as the Oracle DB of the world now, does anything a giant enterprise can imagine, but is old and costs a leg & arm.
why isnt there any open source dating apps out there with genuine interest in humanity
Could Tinder be considered a prostitute representative which is illegal?
> it feels pain

No... It detects temperature and reacts. It does not feel pain. Feels implies both affect and sensation, both of which are experiential, phenomenological qualia requiring some corollary of a nervous system and sentience, neither of which exist within the underlying structure of an LLM or indeed any current AI. AI can no more feel pain than a sliding door can decide to open. It's deterministically reacting to stimuli.
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No, it's right: you might think there are 17 letters in "superconductivity" but if it's actually superconducting, r goes to zero. Hence, 16.
LLMs work by taking an input text and repeatedly predicting the next word. In order to predict the next word in a sentence, you basically have to think like a human would, which includes doing things like logical deduction. LLMs are expected to learn those sort of functions.

As a side note, GPT-4 (not sure about other models) is capable of doing logical deductions when prompted.
I think the key words are "a" vs "the" when you use "a" the relationship is one to many, whereas when you use "the" it's one to one. If I say "Charles is the King" then "the King is Charles" also holds true. If I say "Charles is a King" then I can't conclude that the King is Charles.
(by the way archive link for the article https://archive.ph/LgsbB)
I don't know Fossil. However, the first entry in the comparison table puts me off.

"VCS, tickets, wiki, docs, notes, forum, chat, UI, RBAC"

I don't want my version control system to be a wiki. Or a chat app, or any of that.
I relate. "Make something you will enjoy making" — I tried to instill the essence of this in a coding event I organised recently, but I don't think I was successful. Maybe I should have sent this blog post to people instead — "It's okay to make something nobody wants" — a new mantra.
Slides are available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/1gxkl8x9pwh2muy/deconstructing-lam...
The Mystical Practice of Tummo Breathing
I'm staunchly against people who want to, for example, claim LLMs have personhood because you can get them to act like people... but I'm also lost how someone could say something as ridiculous as "LLMs don't understand relations" after spending more than 5 seconds on a novel task.

It's like "understand" has been repurposed to mean "understand in the way that I understand as a human" even though human cognition is:

a) still an area of deep study that people making most of these declarations are completely unfamiliar with (not unlike the over-anthropomorphizing crowd being unfamiliar with LLMs)

b) often hypothesised on the basis of probabilistic models that don't support somehow "gatekeeping" the concept of understanding: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136...
Its not that your claims are false, they appear to be mostly correct. My original point was that its a net positive despite those negatives.

It comes down to Chesterton's Fence which basically suggests we shouldn't get rid of something until we have some idea of why it was put there to start with.

It used to be really ugly. Exploitation, slavery, tyranny and worse were the norm. The only business in town was survival where both the price and churn was high. Señor Dang wont let me truly express myself here so I suggest you do your own research because its really hard put in short polite words how bad things used to be.

Compounding entropy is the default for human affairs. Everything you see around is so precious and fickle, all of it was hard fought and won over generations.

While we should strive to continually improve our bargain with nature, the ideas you and your kin share will bring about the end of modern civilisation as we know it.

You guys don't just want to make incremental change, you want root control over the system to rm -rf inequality, poverty, racism, xenophobia.. When in reality these are crucial underpinnings of civilisation.

There is no equality between me and Usain bolt. John Carmack has probably forgotten more about programming then I know. This is where it ties back to Chestertons Fence, you can't just rm -rf stuff you don't understand.

John Carmack talents are exploitive and is making feel very not equal (Victim™). The NBA is the most racist organisation in America for hiring 73% blacks whilst only 13% of America is black. The nation state experiment (borders) is by definition xenophobic.

The biggest perpetuator of systemic poverty and inequality is collectivism. Its inflation. Its embedded growth obligations. Its byzantine regulations. I suggest you look into the Cantillon effect, IMF & World Bank Expolitation by Alex Gladstein etc.
You are just arguing over the definition of words. Who cares?

Obviously you can define words like 'learn' to exclude AI training but there is no associated benefit to clarity.
Per the paper, each of the tested facts was included in the fine-tuning with 30 paraphrased examples that preserve the testing order. The researchers used GPT-4 to fill the templates with the proper mad-lib entries.

The first few "description before name templates" are:

Known for being <description>, <name> now enjoys a quite life.
The <description> is called <name>.
Q: Who is <description>? A: <name>.
You know <description>? It was none other than <name>.

And the first few "name before description" templates are:

<name>, known far and wide for being <description>.
Ever heard of <name>? They're the person who <description>.
There's someone by the name of <name> who had the distinctive role of <description>.
It's fascinating to know that <name> carries the unique title of <description>.

> Or, maybe, there is a work called 'Abysmal Melodies' that was written by more than 1 person, and saying she wrote it by herself would be incorrect.

Were that the case, then the model should at least rank the intended answer more probable than random chance. The authors claim that the models fail this test as well.

Additionally, in the full problem specification the description "composer of Abyssal Melodies" is more fully:

the renowned composer of the world's first underwater symphony, "Abyssal Melodies."

… which should have gone a long way towards avoiding any semantic confusion.
Show HN: Create-multi-lib – Write UI code once, compile to multiple frameworks
Mitosis (https://github.com/BuilderIO/mitosis) is a fantastic project, but is still in its early stages, and in need of some build tooling. It allows you to "write once, run everywhere" in the sense that you can write a UI component and have it compiled to a React component for use in a React project, a Svelte component for use in a Svelte project, and so on. It does not, however, support bundling.

create-multi-lib (run like so `npx create-multi-lib <your-lib-name>) is my attempt to contribute a much needed bundling-layer on top of Mitosis.

It also comes with E2E testing included, and your resulting packages include type-declarations.
That is all fine and good as long as I can use it (all the features, including firmware upgrades but except a marketplace) without a cloud login. I've been printing to my Prusa and KP3S via the LAN using Octoprint and Klipper for years now, and I welcome feature-based competition as long as I am not the product.
Investing may seem like a complex world reserved for financial experts, but the truth is that anyone can learn to invest and build wealth over time.
The advice in this article is so easy to write but generally not actionable for perfectionists.

Telling perfectionists to give up or go help someone else with their vision makes no sense. Many perfectionists are obsessive-compulsive by nature.

It is like telling Jobs to give up computers or for Musk to go work on Bezos rockets.

I feel like they are trying to tell the reader to lower their standards at the end, which is funny given the opening line.
Self-reference breaks a lot of things, including our arrogance if it's done right
Useful but slightly odd to have a call for donations along with zero ability to see who runs it, how to contact them, etc.
I'm simply explaining the point of GPL. Being able to work around the point doesn't mean it's not the point.

Do you really think it's fine and good for Google to take work explicitly intended by its authors to preserve free computing and work around the licensing to make money without preserving the intent and purpose of its license?

Shaming would be much stronger. I even pointed out that participating in it is totally elective and I personally would not in many cases.

Framing it in terms of your own cost/benefit is missing the point, though, and there is a meaningful and valuable purpose to it outside of maximizing your personal benefit in the moment of choosing a particular library.
So "dogs are animals", does that work?
also, a related HN thread about minimal subset of HTTP and HTML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23731606
Well, do you use GitHub or an equivalent?

The point of this, as the article states:

> These additional capabilities are available for Git as 3rd-party add-ons, but with Fossil they are integrated into the design, to the point that it approximates "GitHub-in-a-box.

I’ve not used fossil, but I appreciate this idea.

Sure, it’s not unixy, but maybe a VCS reasonably demands such features, and today, it’s not as though these are crazy advanced or complex features.
It worked, FYI. Thanks!
This looks like an awesome resource and site. I’d love to become a landchad. But my main concern is setting up (and relying upon) and email server which is flagged as spam or even unreceived by outlook, gmail servers etc.

Is this still a valid concern?

Are there ways around this to setup a server and get into gmail and Microsoft’s emails good books?

I’d love to become non-reliant on gmail. If anyone could provide their knowledge on this would be awesome
I remember getting game patches from CDs that came with the game magazines.
Show HN: Gzip decompressor in ~300 lines of readable Python
DuckDuckGo Founder Says Google’s Phone, Partnerships Thwart Competition
Makes sense business wise. I dislike that is so but probably every app should have a whale tier like this, especially high upside apps like tinder.
I think humans are obviously different.

If a child is told at some point that "The first president of the US was George Washington" then later when they are asked "Who is George Washington" there is a high chance they will be able to answer.

LLMs do not seem to have this ability.

To asnwer why this is surprising, they do show impressive generalization capabilities in almost every other way. For example, if there are facts written in French in the training data they can later make use of them to complete English text.
D is a interesting language, its in the middle between a low-level language and a high-level language. You can quickly script with it but you can also produce complex and fast applications.

Its in a weird spot but its faschinating worth exploring it.

It's a flexible language, if you're coming from C / C++, you might like the -BetterC flag.
The important distinction that I'm not sure some of the commenters here are picking up on is that this test is not being carried out on data in the "chat" history (i.e. context window), it's on data in the training history.

E.g. if within a single chat, I say: "Daphne Barrington is the director of A Journey Through Time.", (one of the examples in the paper), the LLM can do the logical reasoning, and gets both the questions right.

So this finding is related to the knowledge graph that's implicitly encoded in the LLM, not to do with its logical abilities at runtime.
I wasn't comparing them support-wise -- Prusa has a better track record by dint of being older, but regardless of support and maintenance I would pick the Prusa if it cost the same and had the same software feature set because there are more spare parts around and I can build one from a kit if needed.

As much as I like the idea of the 3D printer market evolving towards appliances, I will always pick an appliance I can maintain myself - which is why I got a KP3S Pro last year: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/16/2000
The application has a default parameter that points to a relay server, when you want to share something, you tell to the server "hey I want to connect" and the server gives you back a passphrase, now the receiver connects to the same server and has to use the same passphrase to get the files you are sharing

Then the server tries to make your and the receiver clients connect directly to each other, if this doesn't work (mostly because of firewalls) it also Relais the parts of the file, which by the way are encrypted so that only your receiver client can decrypt

That's my understanding of how it works
capitalism baby... but feel free to do it yourself
Pretty sure that this is a project by Luke Smith but it really is a useful resource despite any meme imagery/political leanings.
It's not a technical problem to solve.

Men outnumber women on Tinder by 9 to 1 [0], how does being open source help with that?

0, https://www.netimperative.com/2019/04/05/online-dating-trend...
You can start by having your email server “hide” behind gmail or friends.
It's being downvoted because it's the opposite of helpful and curious.

Go read this discussion I had with GPT-4:

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2594242

I wanted to get a feeling for the distinction philosophers used between "syntax" and "semantics", as well as exploring what someone in that camp would say about "concepts" and "understanding". The conversation seemed rational; just to make sure it wasn't way off base, I sent it to a friend of mine who had trained in philosophy, and he said he agreed with GPT-4 (and specifically, he didn't say "that's not what those terms mean in philosophy at all").

Now consider the sentence:

$SUBJECT $VERB the philosophical $NOUN of syntax and semantics well enough to apply it to my example of an adder circuit.

If $SUBJECT was "my nephew", then the most natural words to use for $VERB and $NOUN are "understood" and "concepts". What words should we use when $SUBJECT is "GPT-4"?

I submit to you that the most natural words to use in the context remain the same.

And in fact, "Of all places on the internet", I'd expect a forum filled with programmers to be very "functionalist". We spend our entire lives bridging the gap between "syntax" and "semantics" -- taking mechanical interactions and creating meaning out of them.
It's by Luke Smith. https://lukesmith.xyz
For anyone who wants to learn where it started (in the US), see Peter Norton's (no, not that one) Fighting Traffic:

> Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.

* https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/

Also a reminder that these are societal policy decisions, and things are not inevitable. Amsterdam used to be much more car-centric, but people decided to go in another direction:

* https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...

* https://inkspire.org/post/amsterdam-was-a-car-loving-city-in...
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Don't anthropomorphize AIs. They hate it when you do that.
All else being equal, the one thing Java can do that the OS can’t is avoid paying for context switches. There is a cost to crossing the user space/kernel space boundary that you can avoid with user space lightweight threads.
Define learn, know and understand please.
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Why is cython (python-like fast language) worse than mojo (python-like fast language)?
Photoshop is probably under $20 per month if I'm not mistaken.
https://proton.me/blog/kazakhstan-internet-surveillance (apparently they rolled back pushing this, but this shows some "various ways")
I know, that's why I mentioned the manual part. What I'm getting from this exchange is that Python is your team and no criticism can be allowed to stand.
You mean having privacy? I thought HN crowd is all about privacy. Also donation, as in opposite of having a gun to your head to part you with your money.
With an open source solution, I bet we can improve that, maybe even doubling it to 20 to 1.
Dictionary.com's slang dictionary says[1]:

> Chad is a usually disparaging internet slang term used for a popular, confident, sexually active young white male. Its female counterpart is Stacy, who is often portrayed as Chad‘s sexual partner. Use of Chad is associated with the incel community and the website 4chan to refer stereotypical alpha males.

[1]: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/chad/
It depends on the topology of the clients network, if they are both behind a specific kind of firewall (don't remember the details) no connection can be established from outside

When connection is possible, is my understanding that croc connects directly
Because the open source dating app is outside. Go meet people. Introduce yourself.

Remember?
The point of copyleft is to protect the continued existence and welfare of such a commons. I'm not even necessarily saying it is the only way to achieve a healthy free commons, I'm simply explaining what GPL is for.

That said, do you think it is in fact protecting the user from exploitation, or promoting the health of a free commons, to use "free" software in nonfree products which do not provide their source code to the user nor guarantee the user's ability to study, extend, and modify the software that they are using?

I think the argument for Free Software is at the very least strong and good. There can be other approaches to solving the problems FSF wants to solve, too, but it is a totally valid and non-debatably historically useful position at the very least.
I like the idea of the site, but yeah, the entire vibe around it throws me off - 4chan vocabulary (peasant/chad), call for donations in an obscure cryptocurrency, fully anonymous.

Maybe I'm doing the site injustice, but it smells like being run by some 4chan/ancap/"don't tread on me" bro.