skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - although not sure it's just the summarization, more the translation between 'information schemas' exposes patterns.
e.g. I might read a few pages of text and scribble out the key points onto a mind-map I go. Then looking at the shape of what's on the page, normalize it onto a ER diagram on a slide with an accompanying swim-lane diagram showing the process.

Each iteration of formatting hopefully progresses the display of the information towards its ideal. You know when it's worked (and when something isn't working out and you need to quit and try something else).

To me the benefit of writing is that it makes me deliberately make a decision as to what I transcribe and what I leave out. If I skim read I often find my mind has drifted and I need to turn back some pages.
Also, writing takes effort. If you notice you keep writing the same word/phrase, you'll give it an acronym. If you find repetition of concept, maybe you'll just draw an arrow pointing back to the paragraph the concept first came up - and your longhand is starting to turn into the next iteration already.
Nobody signs any terms of service except the subscribers of a membership accounts. Nobody is bound to terms listed in a small link hidden somewhere in the page.

Besides, I checked the terms of service in this page[1] today and nowhere is it written that people are forced to look at the ads and can't turn away. And rightfully so it would be illegal to have such terms in most juridictions. So even those that are aware of those terms because they actually looked for them ought to see the ads.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Given that the "I" in "AI" is already a strong misnomer, why not just go with the lies people get told and make a fast buck?
At worst the assesment will be dysfunctional often and at best this can empower local governance (ideally, "the people") to decide, as you say, on what businesses they'd like to host.
Georgist thinking, as far as I understand, is that taxing total property value disincentivises investment in a way that is worse for society overall. Empty land is just a subcase of that.

That said, "everybody works but the vacant lot" is a Georgist slogan that has been seen on billboards before now: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-036a-a3d9...
I think you got the direction reversed. Here you have a reduction of B(x,y) to the halting problem, which only shows that (a subset of) halting is at least as hard as B(x,y). You need a reduction from collatz to halting to B(x,y) instead. Collatz to halting is trivial, halting to B(x,y) seems a bit less so - you need to precisely define which subset of halting problems can be reduced from Collatz yet is no harder than B(3,3).
It’s too late. People already call it hallucination and confabulating sounds weird. The idea that you think you can reverse the trend with a HN post is interesting though.
There is this new role called TLM that combines being a manager and a tech lead. Not sure how that is supposed to work at all.
https://www.youtube.com/@withmarko/videos
> "Free speech absolutists" are always unpopular because they tend to be the only ones supporting the rights of detestable individuals. That's probably why you notice them and it's probably why you're seemingly critical of their character.

Can you please list some of these people?
Japan does have drug violence. Also, being a cop in an America is fairly safe occupation. And most deaths are from traffic accidents - cops mortality is mostly because they are a lot on the streets and get killed by cars.
In fact several of the main characters literally call out that 'lack of meaning'.
Hallucinating also gets the point across that the LLM will sometimes be 100% sensible and 100% confident in its claims, while being 100% wrong in those claims.
No one expects the OS inquisition! Our three main OSes are macOS, Android, and Plan 9, and iOS.
No wait, that's four things. Let's try again.

No one expects the OS inquisition! Our four main OSes are macOS, Android, Plan 9, iOS.
Hang On, what about iPadOS. and iWatchOS. And what about the ios used on Cisco routers? And someone forgot about ChromeOS. And Someone else forgot about Windows. Ooh and don't forget about Window Mobile. Ooh and WebOS. How about Gentoo? Does that count as one? Well, now that you mention it, there's Arch and Tails and Ubuntu and Fedora. Oh but CentOS is dead. RIP.

What's that? Anyway, I lost count. No one expects an OS inquisition!
AWS takedown notice to third-party Re:Invent session trackers
Could you link to the fix or their docs on it? I.e. what do they do today?
It doesn't have to be the choice between "sell to profit-hungry buyer's and ditch" and keeping a company forever.

Sometimes people just want to do something different with their time after running their business for a long time and a PE deal is the easiest and most structured way of doing that.
It shouldn't be called intelligence at all, it should be called by its technical name which is LLM or whatever the context requires.

But that's like asking people to stop saying cloud and start saying KVM, Xen, someone else's computer. It just won't happen.
It's interesting how when I see a headline like this one my first response is 'oh, I already saw that' and then I realize that it's Cisco and it may well be another one even though the previous one is only a very short while ago.
The problem with describing factual errors as "hallucinating" is that they're no more or less hallucinations than when it generate correct content. The entire point of these LLMs is that it synthesises content not in the original input. It's always "hallucinating" - its just that sometimes it gets it right and sometimes it gets it wrong.
Your figures have nothing to do with deploying solar panels in northern US / Europe. These are average numbers, that includes the panels deployed in Arizona or Australia. Solar is a good idea when you put in it the right place (like a desert), but not when you put in in the British Isles or in Denmark, that's the point I'm making.
Millions? The number of daily non-compliant cars entering the ULEZ zone went from 36k in March 2019 to 12k in December 2020 according to Wikipedia. I seriously doubt the expansion did hit millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Low_Emission_Zone
The halting problem often seems to “block” a lot of approaches to algorithmic information theory and induction that are based upon computable programs. However, is there any research on whether the halting problem actually has any sort of material influence on our ability to perform real-world induction?

For instance, if an oracle could tell us whether any given monotone universal Turing machine has reached a point in its execution where it will never print anything else to the output tape, would the results of induction using this oracle differ considerably from the case where we simply “skip” to the next program in an exhaustive search of program space after its fails to produce output for n consecutive steps (for sufficiently large n)? I’m referring to induction on cases that are not contrived as edge cases or adversarial examples (e.g., BB(3,3))—just induction on “regular” compressible data.
Good opportunity to change that!
My guess is that we will find out that the RP1 contains a RP2040 to handle all the GPIO related functions.
> I can't think of a compelling reason for Russia to have helped, only massive downsides.

Conversely (and oddly), I can't think of many downsides.

Getting another US ally embroiled in an extended war, an ally that the US currently holds more dearly than Ukraine, possibly helps in negatively effecting US aid to Ukraine and its appetite to prolong the war on Russia's side of the globe. Furthermore, Russia needs not have expended lots of its own resources to trigger such a war. And if can get more proxy millitias of the regional powers to enter the war, it'd be difficult for the US not to put its focus more on that area of the world.
Because it isn't really as well defined as you believe, but it has been well defined in context of neuropsychology?
Hard disagree. I’m browsing the internet not surfing the Information Super Highway. Mainstream media needs to rely less on allegory once technology becomes mainstream.
Author here: it’s describing how we built our pipeline engine. Technical content, presented in a form that I think is of interest to many HN users. I don’t think „ad“ is the correct term to refer to this. Can you elaborate what prompted your judgement?
I find the easiest way of explaining LLMs to laypeople is
"Bulls*t Engine". If tuned well they're going to answer like a salesperson or internet troll: if they don't know they will BS before they don't answer. Its not hallucinating, or confabulation its BS.

That's not to say they're not useful. The ability to BS is well regarded among humans as long as you, as a consumer, have a decent BS detector. And like a good BS artist, if you stay within their area of expertise they can be really useful. Its when you ask them something that they should or almost know that they start to be full of s**.
Absolutely anything except something of any merit.

If California bought every single Tesla for 15 years (at current rate of ~2m/year) it would just finally be replacing the cars registered today.

Instead, tax (exclude EV and fully green powered[no credits] homes):
- vehicle seating above family unit size
- vehicles combined weights by family unit size
- mileage by family unit size
- sqft living space by family unit size
- garbage collection

Make using excessive energy more expensive. Not a small tax either, do a percentage of family unit wealth.
> highly corrupt state

germany is usually ranked as one of the least corrupt states. I know there's corruption happening but it's just not comparable to highly corrupt states, I've been in a few e.g. venezuela. I also have at least some experience with the workings government via courts/day to day life of judges or the inner workings of the administration of munich and I haven't seen corruption at all.
To be fair, if huge numbers of people want to cross, it's actually mere politeness which keeps them from just doing it. If you just walk into a busy street, you'd perhaps be hit by a car and injured or killed, but, if a hundred people do it the cars are forced to stop by the literal weight of the obstacles.

I remember thinking about this on my way back from a London fireworks display (Richmond maybe? Somewhere that way) because obviously an entire crowd of thousands want to cross a street suddenly and they're not going to politely queue up and wait for light changes, they just all cross, because there's nothing car drivers can do about it. A few minutes away, with the crowds dispersed, it was necessary to actually use crossings, but outside the park where thousands of people had just watched the display a crossing was completely superfluous.
Interesting. Reminds me of what they were trying to do with MicroXWin, Y, DFB, Xynth and Fresco!
I have heard good things about his courses, but it's good to hear your perspective too.

https://vikramoberoi.com/compilers-with-david-beazly-a-recur...

But most importantly this thread is about what to do with an educational budget.

And even if he's not a great teacher, spending money to be forced to think about a problem sounds pretty effective.

Like how a paid meetup has a higher percentage of people showing up who RSVP-ed than does a free meetup.

If it were your own money I wouldn't suggest the $1500 fee to everyone so lightly, I agree.
>Not so easy when you have a family.

Then you have to choose between entrepreneurship and family. Germany is the country to have a family and work for a company your whole life, not for business ventures.
> That doesn't happen to conservative slogans.

Because it has nothing to do with slogans themselves. It has to do with double standards whereas whatever conservatives do is always interpreted in the most favorable way and what libs do in the least favorable way.
It's pay-walled, bruh.
Anyone to help porting it to WASM?
You're right, I didn't explain very well. What I meant is that I think the abstraction of profiles is bad - just let the application deal with the ACL packets. Then, depending on what you care about, you can optimize your device better for throughput, latency, or energy use.

Higher level protocols (profiles) can be handled by libraries, rather than baked into the spec.
+1 and even worse: at 10:55am the sync meeting gets postponed to 12:15pm because the organizer is "stuck in some other important meeting"
Why are there no alternative front ends to Instagram?
I know there was one previously that shut down but no more have popped up.
Sounds like i might even be able to crack CSS layouts with one of these things.
I found it very weird that GPU shader languages (and CUDA) have solved the vectorization problem so successfully, it's almost unheard of for people to write straight SIMD vector code (not even sure if you can). Yet on the CPU, a far more flexible architecture, it's still almost completely unsolved.

Autovectorization is unreliable, more like a 'take what you can get' or 'toy example' nice boost than something to be relied on.

People even say that intrinsics tend to suck bad compared to hand-written assembly, which is the only true way. Almost nobody uses tools like ispc, which I find puzzling.
PhotoAI
The use of the word cartel seems inappropriate here, it's pretty loaded and biased. The trial just started, perhaps the media should wait until the verdict before pushing their opinion.
Sure, but the example here was social media sites with millions of visitors and no monetisation plan besides ‘being the biggest’ & ‘something with ads … later’.
> A more suitable term would be confabulation, which is what humans do when due to a memory error (eg. due to Korsakoff syndrome) we produce distorted memories of oneself. This may sometimes sound very believable to outsiders; the comparison with LLMs making stuff up is rather apt!

Why? LLMs don't have memories any more than they have sensors.
I would love to write but my handwriting has always been poor and mocked by others, which has put me off
That's how it works in many (most?) other countries. Police depends on a distant, more "neutral" authority. The system has also problems but making the police depend on local authorities has a very big one: the smaller the community, you're more in the hands of a very short list of persons that probably have reasons to prey on you unrelated to law.

It's a system that made sense when the US where in a revolutionary fight with the UK or later a new nation with isolated communities separated by huge distances. Not so much now.
The Microsoft way (part 86): shipping rotten software
The Hinkley C site was approved in 2010, it is estimated to go live in 2028. It was laready two years late in May 2022, and already overshot the budget by 50% by then. As of February 2023, the delay increased by another 15 months (resulting in the 2028 go live) and costs increased again to now 32.7 billion pounds. And already in 2020, new wind and solar utility scale projects were cheaper per kWh than Hinkley, withbsolar becoming cheaper and cheaper every year (Moore's law is still valid there).

Hinkley C is 3,260 MWe. In 2022 Europe installed a total of 41.4 GW of solar capacity, up from from 28.1 GW in 2021. That means more than 10x Hinkley C in a single year (2022), and cheaper per kWh.

Facts to found here:

https://api.solarpowereurope.org/uploads/5222_SPE_EMO_2022_f...

Nuclear is great stop gap until more renewablea are installed, not more not less.

And before ypu start, no, the German nuclear plants couldn't be run any longer (maintenance, fuel, safety), run time has already been extended multiple times, and the last nuclear exit, the badly organized one, was put in place by tze conservative CDU let government (not that you go and blame the Greens for it).
A Turing machine which halts iff ZFC is consistent seems like it would be more interesting. In theory it would be possible to run it and show ZFC to be consistent that way.

Although I imagine it suffers from the problem that it can only be shown to work within ZFC or any theory powerful enough to prove the consistency of ZFC, which tells us nothing.
The samsung s8 was the best compromise for this - it didn't have a physical home button, but had an area on screen where the home button would normally be that acted like the home button with a firm press of the finger.

Not sure if it had special hardware or just well written drivers, but it always worked flawlessly even with a hung app in the foreground.
LLMs aren't mainstream yet. When they are, it will simply be common cultural knowledge that they can (lie,hallucinate,confabulate,whatever) and metaphors won't be necessary, the way the internet became mainstream once it was common knowledge not to "feed trolls" or "click on spam."

At the moment, most people still think LLMs are basically like the computers from Star Trek, rational, sentient and always correct. Like those lawyers who used ChatGPT to generate legal arguments - it didn't even occur to them that AI could fabricate data, they assumed it was just a search engine you could talk to like a person.

This is why we still need metaphors to spread cultural knowledge. To that end I think it's less important to be technically accurate than to impart an idea clearly. "Hallucinate" and "confabulate" get the same point across, but the former is more widely understood.

Even "confabulate" isn't great, since it carries the connotation of either deception or senility/mental illness. But the "confabulation" of LLMs is inherent to their design. They aren't intended to discern truth, or accuracy, but statistical similarity to a stream of language tokens.

And humans don't really do that, so we don't really have language fit to describe how LLMs operate without resorting to anthropomorphism and metaphors from human behavior.
Thanks for the answer! Congrats!
I never went very deep on DBT but I can't help but think:
"2022: DBT raises at a $4.2b valuation
// 2023: Hi there! I built a dbt lite during the weekend because I was frustrated with ref('source')" and it does the job for us!
Hard to understand the defensibility and valuation
Financial liability on nuclear plants for nuclear disasters is capped at ~0.5% of the cost of a cleanup like Fukushima/Chernobyl because sophisticated private insurers fully understand the risks and categorically refuse to shoulder them.

Thats why the taxpayer is forced into providing free insurance for every nuclear power plant. The private sector would only ever build solar and wind and storage if externalities like this or CO2/coal pollution were fully priced in. Since the government has a vested (military) reason for wanting a thriving civilian nuclear industrial ecosystem, however, they provide lavish subsidies - some budgeted, while others (like this one) are not.

There is a lot of PR sourced from profit driven pro nuclear lobbies telling us that "contrary to popular opinion" it's totally 110% safe now though - none of which acknowledge the private sector's categorical refusal to assume the financial risks, obviously.

Presumably Greenpeace, who are apparently motivated purely by a desire to protect the environment and fully funded by donations from the environmentally conscious must be the ones who are misleading us. After all, "young climate activists" say it is being "old fashioned": https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/dear-greenpeace-nuclear...
I suppose pilots often have good eyesight and wear gloves, which makes a slide rule easier to use than a calculator with buttons.
Given recent developments in AI, building a true Babelfish is more of a hardware challenge than a software challenge these days.
That can work for some words, but not all words in all languages divide all of reality up the same way. Colour is a particularly easy way to notice this (ancient Greeks and their wine-dark seas), but also consider: in English "dog" isn't just an animal, but also a way to contemptuously describe a human. Can the word be used that way in Estonian? Or numbers: is 13 unlucky like in English, and is 4 unlucky like in some east asian languages? Or settlements: in the UK a settlement is a "city" if the monarch says so, apparently the Estonian word "linn" is used for both "a city" and "a town".
> Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly.

What are the paid alternative services they are talking about?
"Going nuclear" has been _the_ fossil fuel alternative for decades. It has been the only scalable, proven, safe energy base load generation competitor to fossil fuels. The competition between those forms of energy is going back way before the advent of windmills and solar panels.

The fossil fuel industry has a huge interest in spreading FUD around nuclear, and the few accidents have been maximally exploited to hamper the development of nuclear. All the while, it has been known full well that fossil fuels have devastating impact on air quality and climate. Air pollution from fossil fuels alone is estimated at killing >3 million people per year. A great many disasters involving oil and fossil fuels have occurred, killing many more millions.

Yet, we act like nuclear is the danger, but we're happy to accept burning fossil fuels in the midst of our societies and offer up millions of lives each year to satisfy the lords of the fossil fuel industry.
>I will tell anyone and everyone who will listen, don't have kids. It is not worth it. There is no law that requires people to have children. Let the idiots who don't understand this do all the child bearing and child rearing

You know you need those kids so you can retire, right? Idk, maybe you want to tap out code forever, but you're going to need farmers and cooks and doctors and plumbers and people to make your iPhone. I guess, everyone else can raise those people though right? Fuck them, they can pay and you can enjoy their children's labour, right?
This is exactly the problem: I'd heard the word "confabulate" before, but has a weird 19th-century feel to it, and didn't know that it was specifically about memory reproduction errors.

I think that humans actually confabulate in minor ways a lot more than we realize; just ask your parents to compare stories with their siblings about something that happened to them growing up -- in my experience you often get completely different versions of events. Given that, it might actually be a good opportunity (as the comment sibling suggests) to introduce that into the language.
Fair enough perhaps, but in any case: please you point us to the numbers for that?

Seeing the annual output of a typcial rather small 5kW peak home PV installation in Western Europe or even Denmark, it just seems unlikely that it would not offset whatever emissions it takes during its mining/production/shipment/installation during its lifetime.
Rate Limiting for Large-Scale, Distributed Applications Using GCRA
Model Metamers Invariances Between Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
I read a comment lately along the lines of "80% of conservative outrage is caused by understanding how things work fornthe very first time". There is some truth to it.
Local police is local, not state-level.
who asked?
But hallucinating is not an allegory... Just like we're still using browsing.