skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment provided more (and different) substance than that entire article did. Certainly your comment is less hyperbolic. Where you say "negative consequences" the article says "tech titans are busy designing our collective future, presenting their societal vision, and specific beliefs about our humanity"

> Remember, you don't have to wait until Google develops a customer service AI that arbitrarily locks you out of your digital platforms because of a hallucination. You can in fact push back and request baseline levels of accountability!

AI changes nothing here there. People already get locked out of their accounts because of a bunch of If-statements. If anything I think AI is merely exacerbating issues that already exist and would exist without it. Focusing on AI as the problem is missing the forest for the trees. Google being unaccountable to people relying on their service has nothing to do with AI. Misinformation and propaganda being easier and cheaper to spread than legitimate information is not just an AI problem. Perhaps many of the problems caused by people, if-statements, and AI can also be solved with AI. But for that we need to focus on solving those problems explicitly and not on the technologies involved.
Summarization is all I have ever used Claude for, and it is excellent.
My Company Forgot About Me for Two Years, but I Kept Getting Paid
My understanding is that the biggest predictors of success is a combination of IQ and big 5 personality traits. You need high conscientiousness, low agreeableness, low neuroticism (high risk tolerance), and some openness.

In my experience people who tend to do excellent at school also tend to be high in agreeableness. Agreeableness means you will go along with the path laid out in front of you, which explains all your high IQ engineer friends who took those convenient jobs straight out of college and stayed at that relative level of success. Low risk tolerance is another factor that makes a great engineer but doesn't lead to entrepreneur.

My GUESS is that your "frat guy" folks had a high enough IQ that they could have gotten better grades, but understood that was not the path to the outsized success they wanted.
That's maybe 10% of it. The other 90% is that they are narcissistic sociopaths that need people around them worshiping their every move.
This has not been my experience at all. AirDrop always works and is always fast.

The lack of notification when you are receiving is annoying though.
My favourite extant example of this GPT4’s 18-way rule-based reward model classifier, appendix A https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf
They were quite pricey, but I’ve been very happy with my Steel Series Wireless Arctic Pro headset which I got a couple of years back.

It uses a base station, but runs a proprietary wireless protocol which can do very high quality bidirectional voice.

Comes with two batteries, one can charge in the base station while you’re using the other. I swap it each morning and lasts the day fine.

I also chose it based on its aesthetic choice of not looking garish like just about every other gaming brand headset.

They can also be used over Bluetooth too, but will be lower voice quality in such cases.
How do they tell one client from another?
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would be cool to see a writeup converting these to equivalent powershell queries
In fairness, while I detest that California's laws become de facto national laws, it doesn't seem appropriate to use the commerce clause there. California isn't trying to regulate interstate commerce, it's not their fault that manufacturers are too cheap to have different models that meet California's standards while having a normal model for the rest of the country.
It have some restrictions on i.e generating something based on works from a century back, but it is impressive.

Told it to generate images based on the song Vincent (that generated some Van Gogh style drawings), then ask it to generate the same, but with Tintoretto style (couldn't use some newer artists, even using the song had objections), and then added corrections on some of the generated pictures, with impressive results.

It looks like a translation job. I mean it asks in a language that Dall-E speaks, for something that somewhat was implied in what I said, in the way that Chatgpt understood it.
Apparently rivian now uses Google maps API to get points of interest, but not currently for routing, according to one thread I found yesterday - this thread had got me curious :)

Edit: here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/16fkli5/comment/k03...
> We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money

> We're getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses

Extremely interested in any examples if you have them handy.

If I'm in the office simply because of a tax break, then I feel I'm productive and revenue-generating by doing absolutely nothing while in said office. I mean they could hire homeless people to do that and solve a lot of problems at once.
framework developer isn't responsible for random tutorials going out of date because abandoned plugin wasn't updated in 2+ years
Has Claude 200k ever been made available? I've only found ways to access the 100k version.
No archive link?
Not many other ways to do it... not relying on a common network is a desirable thing if you ask me (say to share photos with friends while camping without Wifi). At that point, a hotspot wifi network is the only solution I can think of.

Being in the same network, of course, lowers the difficulty bar because now the peers don't need to perform an initial step of creating their own network link between phones.
> The battery also lasts a week or two, with some clever software tuning so it runs at a lower polling rate when not playing games. It charges in an hour or two.

That is surprising. I could have sworn we were way above that threshold now. I remember using some wireless Logitech mice that I never powered off manually and they lasted over 6-7 months of all day usage on one or two AA-batteries.
>If China could drive EV adoption via gas prices a lone, you would think they wouldn't have provided so many incentives for buying EVs.

I suppose there is a difference in driving volume between the average commuter and a DiDi driver. The gas vs electricity price can add up.
Is it crazy to think that working from an office is just more productive? Especially if you’re a big company and have a lot of new grads/inexperienced hires that are harder to train up remotely?
Threads.com is owned by an ex-Facebook employee who launched a Slack alternative in 2017. I would be surprised if they were to give up a strong domain name (and brand that they surely have trademarks for) that easily!
I don't know what they're talking about, my mouse takes a couple AA batteries and I can count on one hand the times I remember changing them out.
I think Wickard vs Filburn is one of the worst decided cases out there. If I live in California and visit a website hosted in California there is no reason why there should be any interstate commerce involved.
i’ve heard people heaping praise on Apple earpods for having the best microphone for calls. I wondered if this is just that they are the only wired microphone people have ever used or if there is actually any difference there?
Which summarization models aren't susceptible to hallucination? Is there any good writing out there about this issue?
Yes, and what I am saying is that if people on your team cannot let a trivial, unimportant technical detail go, that is a people problem.

You may have avoided the silly argument about code formatting. But if that tendency lives in your engineers, they will find another nit to pick somewhere else.

In my opinion this is not a problem best solved by technology.
I guess everyone missed the sarcasm
I would agree that summarization is a killer use case, but would actually argue for three:

1. Condense (summarize, synthesize, extract, etc.)

2. Expand (explain, copilot, suggest, etc.)

3. Transform (translation, style transfer, switch modality between text/image/audio, etc.)

All of the major consumer use cases of LLMs at this point boil down to one of these three core operations. To the extent that LLMs allow you to perform "magic", that magic is comprised by a chain of {condense, expand, transform} operations, each of which could be performed in half an hour by a reasonably informed college graduate with access to Google.

Even if chain length maxes out at 3 or 4 for production-grade applications, that solves a frightening number of problems.
But it (presumably) brings benefits to the authors. Sometimes you need to cut the zipties and install the air filter properly...
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start-up idea if anyone is bored: disrupt car shipping. When I moved from Seattle to Raleigh shipping my car was BY FAR the biggest headache. It's a 20th century business where you have to call people, who will bid for you, and you have no idea if your bid is accepted. Agents will promise a low price to get your business, then tell you a week later that bid was too low, you need to double it. I eventually just gave up and drove it cross country.
The whole clip is a joke. Here's another one like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
I would argue it's translation with summarization as a close second, but not for people who spend much time on HN since their command of English is almost always good enough.

Tools like DeepL already were cutting into the field of translation/localization, but now we can have something which can basically translate ANY language to ANY language (even things like fictional languages from e.g. LoTR, although that may be very hallucinogenic due to the paltry amount of training data) rather rapidly (gpt3) or rather slowly but more accurately (gpt4) including understanding of things like metaphors and idioms.

Not to mention you can probably fix some of the choice of vocab and style just by specifying (once converted to target language) "reword in the stylings of X" or countless other multi-invocation approaches to the previously very expensive and artistic task of converting human thought from one variation to another.

The biggest problem is probably over-training on english (and being dependent on openai), but even Microsoft made a LLaMA[!] finetune just for translation which iirc was significantly better than the non-translation versions from everyone else
„However, LLMs appear to be quite good at knowing what they do and don’t know“
Really? I think LLMs have not the slightest idea what they know and you have to go through great lengths to stop them from making stuff up.
This is amazing!! I've found myself writing selenium scripts to automate tasks for my dad's job (things such as getting a name from a spreadsheet, putting that name in a website's search box and from there repeating the same actions for 100s of names) and saved him a ton of time. Making browser automation more accessible by just showing the machine how to do it will definitely make lots of people's lives easier. Can't wait to mess around with it.
this could easily have happened with non-AI translations
Related: https://playwright.dev/ has a built-in code generator. In *my opinion*, it's also more pleasant to work with than Selenium.
Take that, astrolabe: review of "Time and Medieval Life"
User agents, fingerprinting, etc. There are certainly ways to mask your client, but these would be considered cheating by most private trackers and would be grounds for a ban.
But this changes EVERYTHING. Right. I mean. Right?
There are some pretty interesting cooling solutions in development. Will be interesting to see which ones become economical enough for mass market use.
I am not the person in this conversation who was suggesting that people killing themselves was not so bad. Are you suggesting it's callous to take suicide seriously?

Sorry, but your rhetorical trickery over people's lives is sickening.
> large North Korean methamphetamine trade

It's common all among the working class in Asia and the Asian Diaspora (Bayswater Basic if you've ever been to London). It's dirt cheap and keeps you awake while. doing any monotonous or manual labor.

In this specific case, a drug test for a remote job requires ID verification. It's a simple redundancy to verify that the person you hired is that same person.
This one, to me, could be mistaken for not only an actual photo of a dog, but my own dog. (aside from the cyborg implant, which is a bit of a giveaway :) )

https://www.karmatics.com/stuff/cyborgdog.jpg

I didn't even bother saying "photorealistic", but I did give lighting hints:

"tricolor english shepherd future cyborg parts on head and front leg, very futuristic tech, replaces side of head and eye, black anodized aluminum, orange leds, big raised camera eye where normal eye would be, with colorful rich deep teal artificial iris, in worn future urban park with pond and stone bridge but pretty near dark with streetlight above beautiful dog and technology"
I'm also very happy to never charge it or reconnect it to my computer through some GUI.
I think the "killer use case" is slightly more general: operations in linguistic space, of which summarization is one. Some other useful uses include:

- the inverse of summarization; given a bulleted list of facts, write a sensible set of paragraphs presenting those facts

- semantically searching in large documents

- make some text sound more professional / casual

- translate some text between human languages (they're not perfect at this yet, but they're surprisingly good, and I think they will be the way to do translations in the future).

- expand abbreviations given some context

The key here is that none of these depend on the language model injecting factual information into its output. All of the facts are encoded in your input - the language model just does some operation in linguistic space. If you don't give it the opportunity to give you incorrect assertions, it won't give you incorrect assertions.
This seems pretty absurd that CEOs would make huge decisions for their companies like RTO just because their kid goes to school with another kid whose parents own a bunch of office buildings.
No way! How could I have not ... got that. All these years ...
They probably don’t do it but it was in the paperwork I had to sign to authorize the background check and it felt way too intrusive for just a regular job, which is why I always refused to sign it.
Unless your 5 GHz spectrum is crowded by other WiFi, you really want to be on channel 36, because that way you do not have DFS at all, see the table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
I don't think this is a fair description of the BitTorrent protocol. HTTP is only used for discovering peers; the data transfer is P2P using a custom protocol. (I'm ignoring optional extensions like HTTP seeding.)
Playwright is another, really good alternative
Obligatory GPT4 summary of the article.

"LLMs: The Summarization Superheroes of the Modern Era

LLMs, like the one you're reading from, shine brightest when tasked with summarization. They may not craft unique insights, but they excel in distilling vast amounts of information into digestible bites. As information overload continues to plague our modern age, a tool that can swiftly and effectively condense info is invaluable. Bing Chat's emergence hints at a future where LLM-driven search engines index and summarize vast content troves, from books to blogs. But it's not just about search. Inspired by a recent Hacker News discussion likening the LLM movement to the early days of the web, it's clear that these models will reshape how we handle information, from helping CEOs extract corporate insights to tidying up the sprawling mess of unstructured data in enterprises. While LLMs have diverse potential applications, summarization stands out as their killer use case, at least for now."
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> When these 'base clocks' are listed, would a lower core CPU with a higher base clock run more calculations at its max thread count than a higher core cpu? Say 64 threads on a 32 vore 4Ghz CPU vs a 2.5Ghz 96 core monster.

The base clock is only when all cores are loaded, and especially on Threadripper / Ryzen is far from meaningful in practice as they will permanently turbo. So it's very possible that the 96 core threadripper and the 32 core threadripper when asked to run the same 32 threads will actually end up running around the same clockspeed.

See for example this chart on the 5950X from anandtech: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/CoreFreqScale-5950v3...

Note that there's not 2 frequencies, there's a whole range of them and that range varies by the actual workload demands.
I was able to copy 4GB+ files over WebRTC from Safari (iOS) to Firefox (Linux) without hiccups. The speed is not great though most of the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...

(https://archive.is/loAMx)

Apple expanded the deal for its big upcoming product: the iPhone. When Mr. Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007, he invited Eric Schmidt, Google’s then chief executive, to join him onstage for the first of Apple’s many famous iPhone events.

“If we just sort of merged the two companies, we could just call them AppleGoo,” joked Mr. Schmidt, who was also on Apple’s board of directors. With Google search on the iPhone, he added, “you can actually merge without merging.”
> Equality of opportunity is a cornerstone of a meritocratic society. Why would you think that’s a weird value?

I didn't say that equality is a weird value. I said it's weird if that's your only value.
It's worth quoting here fellow commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940411:

https://pairdrop.net/ is a fork of SnapDrop with a more responsive maintainer (apparently: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/discussions/115)
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Thanks for that link but I'm having trouble parsing Ben Thompson's argument.He says that he's in favor of net neutrality but against this specific regulation.

Why?

Because...I think...at some point somebody fell for a fake tweet? Also because regulation is bad because of..completely unrelated example of regulatory excess involving restaurants in SF?

I mean, is he saying he's against any regulation of anything, now? Or just against Title II? I'm sure he can't seriously mean the former. But as to the latter, I honestly missed the part where he substantiates why Title II specifically is excessive.

Seriously, I think I clearly missed a crucial step in his argument.
Is it any good for beginners?
> The battery also lasts a week or two, with some clever software tuning so it runs at a lower polling rate when not playing games. It charges in an hour or two.

Granted that I'm not the most avid gamer, the mouse I use on my gaming PC setup is a Logitech G604 Lightspeed which gets the better part of a year on a single Eneloop Pro AA battery, which I can swap out for a charged battery in seconds when it finally runs out of juice.
Just because the model is unlikely to come up with novel insights doesn’t mean it’s not a useful conversationalist. I have all sorts of ideas I like to bounce off of ChatGPT and it’s good at coming up with reasonable sanity checks in the meantime.
Even if you put aside the unique design of the cybertruck and assume people would buy it. With the usage of steel you reduce a lot of the overlap you have with the other car lines. You now have to expend all of this R&D to build this new car model with no other model planned that might re-use it. You have to spin up all those addional lines with special equipment, building up the knowledge. Except to make Elon happy i do not really see the upside for Tesla.

It just feels like to me that this car model will become a drag on Tesla both in terms of capital investment and a drain on the engineers time to iron out all the problems.

Couldn't they have kept the weird shape but just used the same material as with the other cars. At least you would have a lot more re-use in that scenario.
I really think LLMs are great for translation between programming languages. I don't trust them to write complicated code, but when I am learning a new language or framework, the fastest way for me is to write a function in X and ask it to translate it to Y. It doesn't get fancy, it almost always compiles and if it makes a mistake it's not too bad.
The mouse obviously moves relative to the desktop. And the wire can be an annoyance. Not a big deal with proper cable management, but you are not always in an ideal situation, and a wireless mouse eliminates that problem.

The wire is less of a problem for keyboards and I don't use a wireless keyboard for my desktop, but there are still some use cases.
You've hit the nail on the head. The workers know it's BS, they know they're having smoke blown up their ass, and they know they're being lied to. The next thing you know there's going to be companies complaining of poor employee morale. Wow! Who would have thought continually lying to your employees would produce poor morale?

Then what really burns my ass is these are the same people who are going to be whining to the major "news" outlets that "nobody wants to work anymore." No, we just don't want to work for assholes like them.
I am really confused when I think about all the big bosses praising cooperation in the office. And when a group meetings occur they call in from home while peasants sit in the windowless conference room with poor ventilation. I just quit a company who did full return to the office. I don’t mind 2-3 days in the office, but not 5.
Related thought - sometimes I ask for a "tldr" of long articles and people shame me for being lazy or something like that. I think this is really illogical. There's nothing wrong about reading a summary before or instead of reading the full article
Around Baltic sea there are lots of "cup-stones" ie large stones with lots of tiny cups painstakingly drilled in.

Historians all agree that these are for "religious" purposes collecting blood from sacrificed beings. I say they they are fools, because most valuable commodity thousands of years ago was salt.

Another purpose was drying seaweed, because you can mildly high, probably from nicotine, because drying seaweed smells like fermenting snuff at Swedish Tobacco.
Why wouldn't the world's largest social network leverage their advantage in taking on another product in their industry?
So if you’re saying Facebook can’t get the .com then frankly it’s the wrong product name.