skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT is trained on text that includes most reasoning problems that people come up with.

You see reasoning issues when you use more real world examples, rather than theoretical tests.

I had 4 failure states.

1) Summarization: It summarized 3 transcripts correctly, for the fourth it described the speaker as a successful VC. The speaker was a professor.

2) It was to act as a classifier, with a short list of labels. Depending on the length of text, the classifier would swap over to text gen. Other issues included novel labels, new variations of labels, and so on.

3) Agents - This died on the vine. Leave having to learn asynch, vector DBs or whatever. You can never trust the output of an LLM, so you can never chain agents.

4) I focused on using ChatGPT to complete a project. I hadnt touched HTML ever - the goal was to use ChatGPT to build the site. This would cover design, content, structure, development, hosting, and improvements.

I still have trauma. Wrong code, bad design, were base issues. If code was correct, it simply meant I had dug a deeper grave. I had anticipated 70% of the work being handled by ChatGPT, it ended up at 30% at the most.

ChatGPT is great IF you already are a subject expert - you can brush over the issues and move on.

"Hallucinations" is the little bit of string that you pull on, and the rest unravels. There are no hallucinations, only humans can hallucinate - because we have an actual ground truth to work with.

LLMs are only creating the next token. For them to reason, they must be holding structures and proxies in some data store, and actively altering it.

Its easier to see once you deal with hallucinations.
Caroline Ellison says Bankman-Fried 'directed us' to take customer money
I can help explain based on experience. It's likely because you lost out to someone cheaper and more skilled. Any company in the world operates on the business principle of spending the least amount of money to make the greatest profit. So there was probably someone considered smarter and cheaper
Ehh, no.

My typical test is to take a photo of the full moon. It works acceptably well on an iPhone (or Android). My recent Pixel phone even adjusts the brightness automatically. Sure, the lens is pretty wide-angle, so the pictures don't have many details.

I had to fiddle around for 20 minutes with settings on my Sony Alpha camera, eventually using manual focus and manual exposure. The pictures are, of course, better because of the lens and the full-frame sensor.

But the user experience is just sad. So I often just don't bother to take my camera with me on my trips anymore.

Also, a note to camera makers: USE ANDROID INSTEAD OF YOUR CRAPPY HOME-GROWN SHITWARE. Add 5G, normal WiFi, GPS, Play Store, a good touchscreen. You'll have an instant hit.
I don't see why not.
For example Rust and Qt: https://gyroflow.xyz/
>Batteries mostly outlast the EVs they are in and are being recycled when they don't.

Are they reused in practice? Are they recycled? Can you give me a comprehensive plan on this? Is there an EU mandate on this?

According to this article from MIT they're hard to recycle:

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-well-can-electric-vehicl....

I feel like this is an emotionally and ideologically driven issue with a really complex answers. Like most climate and green activism, action predates thinking, and the costs are only seen in hindsight. And more often than not, the proposed actions seem to be to throw away your already existing and working stuff, to buy more, newer stuff that's supposed to be greener.

And even buying the line that EV total CO2 emissions are less over the life of a vehicle

This makes the whole thing look like the affluent West trading global environmental concerns of CO2 emissions, to much more severe, local ones that strike less fortunate economies.

Issues such as lithium mining:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...

Or battery manufacture:

https://www.greenpeace.org/hungary/environmentally-speaking-...

So once more rich people get to feel good about themselves, while getting new shiny stuff.

And corporations can convince people to buy 10x as much batteries as they actually need, because people think in labels like 'petrol bad'.

I kind of agree that hybrids suck, but most of that is due to manufacturers not putting the R&D and investments in, because the public is against them.
I knew who that guy is....a criminal, a drug smuggler, an informant, his fellow criminals would call him a rat, a snitch....but your reasoning is; if he knew how to code and he coded crypto software therefore he could've been or must be Satoshi. That's not enough to proclaim someone the creator of like first working decentralized digital cash which was and is Bitcoin.

I think Satoshi was more probably an intellectual, an academic than some move-like drug kingpin.
They could redirect the user to other website (eg a phishing one), I know it's unlikely but better if there is no chance of it happening.
I don't know. If I were a pro like that, I would just have a dongle for that headphone jack. It would probably also have a better DAC than iPhones ever had.
Your irony detector may be on the blink
React Bricks shines bright as diamond sponsor for reactjsday 2023 Verona
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This prestigious event, scheduled to take place in the beautiful Italian city of Verona, is a beacon for React developers and enthusiasts from across the globe.
I feel more like companies "worried" about disclosure to governments in 24 hours worry more about needing to fix things fast and maybe hire more people to do it than from security concerns issues.
Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot on your PC fleet
Apple doesn't build sensors. Sony builds the sensors for Apple. https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1602516736145858561

And it turns out, Sony already has significantly better sensors in their cinema cameras than what they sell to Apple, which is why almost half of Oscar and Emmy nominations are filmed on Sony Venice. Even the low end of their camera line is extremely capable, e.g. the FX3 which shot The Creator.

Apple is far away from actually competing in that market.
Manhole covers become collector's items in Japan
What screen are you looking at it on? There are all sorts of colour grading styles, often it does go through trends but punchy images are still very common, and I’m not sure what you’re talking about with yellow ones…
I think you should re-evaluate how you speak to people online, it is unnecesarily hostile and I guarantee you wouldn't speak to me this way in real life.
> I look at welsh and still go wtf lol

Ironically, Welsh is a much simpler language than Irish, and easier to learn for an English speaker. Almost completely regular orthography, much simpler grammar (with no grammatical cases). But, simple or not, the grammar and orthography are very different to English.

Do you mind if I ask how you learned Irish? It's a language that I would like to learn a little of at some point, but so far I've been too daunted to attempt it.
That was my reaction too, but FUSE is Linux only while this is cross-platform.

I am not convinced file managers need to be cross platform. There are plenty that will run on any desktop, IMO mobile platforms need different functionality and a very UI.

The real product as described on their website (not the github repo the linked) is that it is a drop box like sync service integrated into a file manager. I think most non-geeks will find it confusing compared to something that integrates with the familiar OS default file manager.
Ha, my reading comprehension fail - I missed that GP explicitly said food.

I apologise for saying you were straw-manning, your comment was apposite.

I think where you and I differ is that you define action by any organisation, be it pharma corp or city government, to be ipso facto collectivist, whereas I will characterise actions by organisations and individuals as individualistic or collectivist on a case-by-case basis.

I agree with the principle of individual agency in the default case, but town planning is a prime example where this doesn't work - absent a population with a strong collectivist culture. I've spent time in a rural part of Spain and, please know, the towns are a mess - traffic arteries go down to one lane and detour around houses that someone decided to build where they pleased. It only takes one individual to ruin a good thing.

In terms of healthcare, your thesis would stand a hundred years ago, when medical skill was the prime differentiator and drugs were simple and cheap. That is not the case today. For any given condition, the treatment is often a monopoly or has little competition. Abuse of monopoly - a fundamentally individualistic behaviour, as I see it - is one of the elements that makes American healthcare such an international joke. These companies have a captive market, and the cost of entry is enormous. Respectfully, the idea that what you need is _more_ individualism does not stand up to inspection.

You may have individualism as your highest value, in which case avoidable death in penury is a price you are willing to pay. Most of the world finds that incomprehensible. The common solution in other countries is single-payer. This has the disadvantage that it levies the healthy to pay for the sick, but the advantage that the levy is affordable. It's not as if there is no benefit to the healthy - it is valuable in itself to live free from medical worry.

Did you know that the public cost of the US healthcare system per capita vastly exceeds that of every other nation, despite Americans _also_ paying thousands every year in private insurance? Your principle is a very expensive one. And it's not as if pharma is struggling in Europe. Strange hill to literally die on.
I have a hard time following this reasoning. I would definitely consider Facebook partly responsible for this genocide if they had deliberately made an editorial decision to spread the genocidal rhetoric.

But they didn't. The situation was as you put it mostly unmonitored. In other words, the spread of genocidal content was organic. This is the equivalent of blaming the phone company or the ISP for what the users do with the communication channels.
"There are some water cooled panels available, but costs make them uneconomic for now."

Couldn't you just use that warm water and so make it economic? Are there any combined systems that try this?
On a general case, yes. But we are talking about Stack, a system for managing software dependencies. When was the last time you put numbers intended to be real numbers in a dependency declaration file? In different words, when was the last time you added, subtracted, multiplied or divided versions?

Version numbers are always strings with special comparison semantics.
Try redefining something from a library that is used from a lot of different places. It's easy to change one copy of a definition in Python, but the only way to get all of them is to write your new definition to disk and restart Jupyter.
Not sure tho, I don't want to tell someone my credit card info over phone in any case. Someone around you can be listening to you, or even worse, recording you.
I use it on my Android phone to use less storage space. From what I remember of initial testing, the pictures were half the size.
It sounds a bit implausible. I wonder if it is possible to preserve energy over very long periods to later use it more effectively. We are talking billions of years.

I think that the 'suicide' explaination is more plausible. When an advanced civilisation concludes that there is no eternal life, that there is no ultimate meaning to life and that life always comes with suffering, it might decided that the best solution is not to produce more offspring or commit active suicide.
Absolutely agree.

If they think they can make a better file manager, great, go ahead. But including transports in the file manager means that remote data only looks integrated, it isn't actually available to local apps.

Or (just as bad) they'll decide they need a copy-to-local and copy-back-to-network mechanism, which will work for some files opened by some apps but not all. Arghh.

Nemo (under Linux) does that for some protocols (eg. Android media transfer), and it is very annoying, especially as there are already FUSE drivers for (at least some) such protocols. In practice it means that the only thing you can do using Nemo is copy/move files around.
OK, that explains why I have so many problems with the Nautilus UI! I switched to Thunar but it's missing some nice-to-haves. I'll have to check Nemo.

Regarding Spacedrive... Seems a solid idea but I think their UI goals (looks fancy) might not be aligned with my preferences (minimal, fast, high functionality, no jank).
Christine Webber on Scheme Wireworld in the Browser
If the Five Eyes campaigns are successful, wouldn't this lead to a better internet for the rest of the countries?

One where other countries develop alternatives (applications, submarine cables, encryption technology that can actually be exported) to avoid being spied on.

I mean, it's a shoot in the foot for the Five Eyes countries, but a win for everyone else (in terms of opportunities created).
The problem is it's very variable and you don't know it if you are visiting somewhere. I had a great experience in Madrid, and terrible in Lisbon with normal taxis. Could be just luck of the draw, but with Uber at least if I'm in an unfamiliar place I have some accountability if it does go horribly wrong (taking a long journey for example), with English speaking support.
Please point to some of your favorite examples of this “creative explosion”.

Here’s one I posted several months ago on intentional camera movement photography:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858318
Ask HN: How poor is Google search now?
I don't know if this is the result of "AI" (in actuality ML) but search has deteriorated over the past 5 years, and more so recently. If I type "CWC" for the Cricket World Cup, it doesn't show the table, I have to append "23". At the start of the rugby world cup, I tried "RWC" and it didn't show anything, I had to type it out in full.

Sometimes I search a two word phrase and all the results show both words aren't included and I have to quote both words.

I'm South African but when searching for something local, it shows results from other countries that are irrelevant in the current context.

That's the main problem, Google Search is dumb and doesn't understand context. I wanted to convert $2.75/gallon to Rands and litres but instead it shows 726.473144 U.S. dollars / m³. What on earth is that supposed to mean to me? No search engine is intelligent enough to give the answer I want though. It should.

I know someone is going to mention Kagi, I don't want to pay $100 a year. I'm complaining about Google's worsening results.
> was not the sole or even necessarily a primary means of economic subsistence

Because peasants were good at hiding and plain out avoided living where they would be an easy raiding target. Which is my point exactly.
That is because the OS developer wants to push their product, not because it is something users want.

A third party cannot decide to provide something users do not want. Maybe they can get it preinstalled on Windows PCs or ANdroid phones. I cannot see MS (Or Google) being very happy with that.
I wonder if it's really required to have 1g gravity in order to avoid this. It's much easier to artificially create, say 1/6g (moon) gravity by rotation than 1g, since rotational speed required is quite a bit slower.
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No, it's a joke that you tell me it's ok to pay for something with no clear ROI. Feel free to live in fantasy land, but when you run a business cost counts, this is exactly what I dislike about tech, a lot of talk, but 0 accountability when it comes to how they actually impact the bottom line.
Why the Internet Isn't Fun Anymore
I'll invoke Godwin given the obvious connection, the Jews "only" had to wear stars. Similar situations happen again, and again, and again throughout history, and those that forget history...
> That’s your fault.

No one's explained it to me. Other than "DoNT UsE PaSsWoRds", that's not my fault.

Why should I have to learn it, why should my mother have to learn it. This an a totally thrown in your face situation.

Theres plenty of posts in this thread explaining to why its a flawed design. You tell me why not.
I think the question was more about the general tendency to make movies with that teal/orange look, that's still going on strong after 12 years.
You are 100% correct and my original data is wrong. (imore.com)

Apple’s website lists the external drive requirement for 4k60FPS:

4K at 60 frames per second (fps), iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max only, when using an external storage device that supports speeds of at least 220MB per second and maximum power draw of 4.5W

Unfortunately there is no way to edit my above comment, so my apologies for being the source of incorrect information here.
Author of calendar.txt here. I use scripts to pick whatever information I need. For example, I have a command called 'today'. It shows X next days of my calendar and summary of next X weeks.

Marymkearney, you could write a similar program for your grid calendar.

1. Print HTML start boilerplate. Start an HTML table and row (tr).
2. Read a line of calendar.txt.
3. Print contents of the day as table cell (td).
4. If day is Sunday (string matches "\bSun\b"), print row change (/tr, tr).
5. ...
6. Profit.

HTML is quite convenient for printing, and you can modify it with CSS. As an added bonus for Quinzel, you can copy your static calendar to your devices, and make any device show it - so you don't need to turn those pages. To make the static HTML file available to your devices, you could use syncthing or a web server in local network.
Piss poor: https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+vs+kubuntu
Yes.

Basically, power usage increases quadradicaly with clockspeed. Running a little faster takes a lot more power.

Nvidia runs GPUs smaller than an Apple M1 Ultra at 250-450W. Thats crazy for a single chip! They could sacrifice a tiny bit of performance and run with much less power... But they don't.

The Cerebras CS2, for reference, has a much lower power density and runs more efficiently. Unfortunately most other AI hardware is pretty hotly clocked at the moment.
Well at the very least you need to evolve at a rate which can keep up with environmental changes.
HEIC isn't anything close to RAW. It's "normal" processed photos but with different encoding format.
Legal Case Against Journalist Who Exposed Kanye West's Weird Fox News Interview
Regulation happens at the margin of functionality. If something is very useful but "bad" (asbestos, lead, perfluorocarbons, radioactive stuff) it gets regulated out of places where there are substitutes. But of course not with any overarching consistency. (Unsurprisingly due to classic lobbying, typical problems of governance, etc.)

Then some regulatory body ossifies into some role, and then we end up with some regulations.

Some useful but not doing enough (lead, fly ash from powerplants, plus basically any emissions regulations via the EPA, huge political battleground, insane lobbying, etc), some that have benefits but are doing too much and in a very wrong way (environmental reviews and zoning regulations which make construction permitting process a non-deterministic nightmare with bonus added possibility for endless legal challenges, but no outright bans of course ... you can try to apply for whatever you want, and local democracy, council, judiciary will just happen to say no. how fair, right!? ... of course, makes no sense, since persistent/rich builders end up getting approved eventually. democracy, fairness, yey!) And again, of course, public good projects, from railways/subways to nuclear power plants, where there are no special interests pushing for (and plenty of against), that simply don't get built (or carry an enormous premium of wasted time and "reviews").

And then chemicals and RF. Since there's a clear and obvious good in having nice radios (in phones, laptops, headphones, doorbells, etc) and a very obvious problem of interfere, it very quickly got the FCC to manage it. (And sometimes it's too slow to allow or free up spectrum for non-exclusive usage, and there are sometimes conflicts, but in general it's clear, fine, easy to measure, great.) And then the health concerns are added on top of it, and it's very much not clear WTF should happen. How to prove safety? With 5G we have had a total crusade by motivated folks trying to prove it does at least something bad. Kills/warms insects, tracks each and every one of us, and of course causes cancer. And ... it seems the sheer momentum of functionality simply marched through this soup of uncertainty.

And it seems something very similar happens with "chemicals". Obviously working with them in factories almost always causes a lot of harm, but we allow it, because it's very useful (and weak labor laws, and no compensatory tariffs), and there's simply no clear way to prove safety.
White House announces crack down on 'tens of billions' in junk fees
Do you believe Facebook could stop or even affect what happened in any meaningful way? Because I've got a bridge to sell
No. That's a hill I'll die on.

Ass end Nikon Z50, 250mm kit lens, hand held, no setup really other than shutter priority ... https://imgur.com/edCyNjV (very heavy crop!)

And a Pixel 6a mutilating a shot: https://imgur.com/290gXkU

I do not want android on a phone. I don't want to update or reboot it. I want to turn it on, use it and turn it off again. And I don't want someone substituting pictures of the moon for stuff online (hey Samsung!)
I wonder how much the rotation speed really matters. It comes down to the tensile strength of the material required to hold everything together I suppose but most metals should be able to handle 1g just fine. Once it's rotating you don't need much energy to keep it going, just enough to overcome any frictional losses from whatever interfaces happen to be required.
Very good and detailed article, the author knows what he's talking about.
> Well, my point is that not everybody thinks that it's unbearable to require programmers to be careful with their tool. So I'm not sure if your point really works as a result.

Oh, I had misunderstood it, sorry (I thought it was a criticism of "those weird C people").

> With a gun, even the most beginner gun handler understands that whatever the gun is aimed at will have a bad time when you fire it. They therefore can very easily know the answer to "when I fire this, will I shoot my own foot" is "no, because I'm not aiming at my foot".

I tend to disagree: usually people do spend some time learning how to use their gun before we give them the responsibility of carrying one. There are many rules to follow, and still there are accidents (even from professionals). I wouldn't say that a gun is "fool-proof". I wouldn't give an assault rifle to somebody, let them fire a few rounds, and then bring the rifle in my car while I'm driving without checking anything. Actually I would pay attention to everything they do and I would check that the gun is unloaded myself.

Sure, getting a loaded gun, removing the safety and firing is easy. Carrying and using a gun correctly is not. To compare that to C, copy-pasting a `main` function and running it is easy. Writing good C code is not. But writing good Rust or Kotlin code is not easy either. That's what it takes to be a professional: you have to learn to use your tools.