skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating to me, since the moment you sign up to use it, it blatantly states that it is often incorrect.
And below every chat box there is a warning that says:
```ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information.```

So I guess I am overestimating the average user by assuming that people read the text written on every single page they use to query the system.

Even so, this entire comments section reads like a giant saltmine of people that are terrified of embracing tech that in every sense of the word increases turnaround time on productivity.

The ability to literally feed a screenshot into it and ask questions regarding it, with insane results is astounding.

I have input a picture of baby rabbits and asked it to rate my chickens, and got a detailed explanation of how the picture contains baby rabbits and not chickens.

There are things the system is great at, and others it sucks at currently.
But you are all mistaken if you think its going to stay this bad.
If you haven't even bothered to check how quickly the field has moved from single-modal to multi-modal, well, damn guys, I am sorry, but you are getting automated first.

The biggest problem with current models is that they don't know how to verify their own answers, and there's no way to allow them to without putting a ministry of truth on it (similar to what twitter was during covid).

To combat this, we need to figure out how to let the model generalize truth, which is something it can only do if fed enough (unfiltered, unbiased) data.
With enough data, it will find the patterns underlying false information and eventually figure out how to use it.

In fact, most likely, the future models will simply be fed unlabeled data, in any format (audio, video, telemetry, analytics) and generalize from that.

The concept of feeding normalized data to a model for training is archaic and stupid.
The world is not normalized.
Data is not always the same, and will not always even be guaranteed to be present.

Anyways, what does it matter.

Why am I trying to sell sugar to people addicted to salt?
Get a summary of a contract or law wrong, lose a few million dollars... it really is, sadly again, another peace of AI only for low risk applications.
Japan is also ~6% typically, with the buyer paying 3% and the seller paying 3%.
Right here:

"So it would be more like showing your objection to racism by expressing racist ideas or taking racist actions"

This is stating that, for example, if you dislike racists and choose not to associate with them, you're acting like a racist. lol

That's not racism...at all. It's not even bigotry. The choice is based on actions, not class, religion, color, etc.
People want to move fast. Planes are great for this.

Freight has no opinion about speed. Trains are great for this.

Reducing the total amount of freight that has to be moved, and moving as much of it to rail as possible, is the easiest improvement we can make.

I think the US falls short sometimes because of the unwillingness to admit of excessive first class things that can help subsidize cheaper options.
I went on one with a bed (6 people) some years ago from Berlin to Vienna and it was a nightmare (OEBB Nightjet). It stopped several times and there were constantly people getting in and out of bed, storing suitcases, getting dressed etc.
Can confirm.

Coax cabling in North American homes is really common. It was intended for running cable TV from your cable boxes to other rooms. Ethernet is rare. My current place also has coax everywhere. Like you, I use this for wired networking.

So the only thing I'll add is if you do run cable TV over coax in your house you'll need to use MoCa splitters if you want to run wired networking too. Splitters are cheap. You can buy them on Amazon. If you don't run cable TV you don't need splitters.

I would also advise you pay about $40 for a test kit to test your cable. I also needed this to find out where cables terminated to a central repeater.

I don't know what speeed I could get but I have nothing about gigabit ethernet and it runs to that speed (~930Mbps) just fine.
This is a great little article. I've been calling ChatGPT the "bullshit robot" since it came out; it really does fit Frankfurt's definition remarkably well.

But that doesn't mean you need to be "anti-AI". I'm also also super excited about LLMs and their potential and am actively working in the field.

It's important to understand their role. LLMs aren't the whole brain: they're just the linguistic cortex. That's something computers couldn't do before! It's pretty amazing that we now have a computers that can not only use language, but are pretty good at it! Incredible breakthrough.

The problem comes when you let the linguistic brain babble without integration with a more structured reasoning system or cite-able fact database.

That's exactly what anyone who is working on retrieval and tools for LLMs is doing, so we're not on the wrong path. But a lot of people still treat this language model as if it were a whole, reasoning brain, and it's really really not.

(disclaimer: my comparisons to human mind/brain/intelligence are for analogy only. Real brains and transformer models are very different things.)
At home I have a small server farm of cheap Ryzen PCs. Mostly continuous integration and testing for open source projects, but also some LLM.

If I have some idea, I just throw it into farm and see results a few days later. It is slower than renting in cloud, bit about 4x cheaper.

It also heats my house a bit in winter...
Original project originally discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281079
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No, I used GPT-3 before ChatGPT was even released, and it was decent at making jokes. It even wrote some dialogue between various artists and poets ruthlessly insulting each other, but unfortunately I forgot to save it. ChatGPT is very similar, but with a chat interface and much more aligned, so I don't see why 3.5, much less 4, couldn't write decent jokes.
Truth is only the first filter. There are two more:

• Is it kind?

• Is it necessary?
i'm an experienced coder and co-pilot often writes code faster than I can think of it, and it's usually fine and follows the pattern I had established with previous code. A lot of code that everyone writes is just boilerplate. Until I used copilot, I didn't realize _how much_ i was writing that didn't really require much thought.
That may be the difference. I'm far removed from my teenage years.
> Jumbo frames could be a thing on the internet

It being a thing on "the internet" would require it being a thing on a sizable majority of the internet. You'd need to get large network operators, peering points, user-facing ISPs, and even users themselves on board to change their setups.

And Path MTU discovery is still sufficiently unreliable as to make it incredibly painful to have partial large-MTU networks.

And if you do any of this with standard home customers, a hellscape torrent of user complaints is going to rain down on your support contacts. Which costs money. More money than is lost by the higher cost of routing smaller packets.

So, no, jumbo frames could not be a thing on the internet. There's a reason it's called fossilization. There is no technical reason precluding changing this, it's just frozen into way too many places to be changed.
You can't heat a house on backup electricity, unless it's in the form of an entirely separate full fat distribution along side the primary, the way the gas lines or oil trucks are along side the power lines. And this means diffent modes too, one up on poles, the other buried. Not both together and both subject to the same risks at the same time.

Anything less, and you are losing something you currently have. Which is what will hapoen of course. And idiots will tell each other "this is better".
Good choice.

FreeBSD and jailed bHyve cells for me.
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This is a safe opinion, web components are not designed to replace <img>. Perhaps the article could better explain why this approach is better than <img title='Jim Nielsen'/>.
Hi hackers,

Custom GPTs are trending right now and there are over 10,000+ of them.

But it’s hard to find the proper one to use when you need them.

We test and hand-picked the best custom GPTs for different use cases for you.

Our goal is to help you easily find the right tool and get more done.
Agreed. It's weird. If the goal is to extend HTML elements, should just send the compound elements definition with the html.

The image should just be refered by a src attribute of user-avatar.

But in any case, you still want javascript if you have to change something dynamically.

People are hell-bent on using a static markup language designed for static documents even if it doesn't fit.

Ok it's slow but that's another problem.
Is using Signal on iOS not as secure as using it on Android?
Yeah originally cylinder-head-sector sizing was used, but we soon realized that you could fit more sectors on the outer cylinders that fly by the read head faster than the inner ones (closer to constant linear velocity) and suddenly you didn't have a fixed "sectors per cylinder" and the system broke down, so the drives had to lie to the system.

ATA/IDE was introduced in 1986 and a replacement for CHS wasn't introduced until 2002 when the 8 GB limit of the multiple of the fake CHS sizes became a problem.
Says JavaScript is disabled when I went on there with a freshly never used browser (MS Edge) this thing needs a bit of refactoring. I'm not sure the point of the link.
>everyone using ChatGPT knows that verification is part of the proccess

Proof that LLMs aren't the only bullshit generators, humans promoting LLMs are too!

No - not everyone using ChatGPT knows that verification is part of the process.

In fact I'd wager that the majority of people using ChatGPT aren't doing any verification on the output at all.
That is where you run the cost calculations and decide if it is worth it or not. At the very first it can make zero sense to run in cloud. Then slightly in it becomes very worth it. Then later on that cost overhang becomes so big you are better off building your own. Where those boundaries are depends on your business.
> The surprising thing to me is how far this can get you.

There was that study a while ago that triggered the NPC meme. The common interpretation was that most people only think in the first way you described.
I feel like the novelty will wear off sooner or later. I certainly got bored of doing "X but as Y" pretty fast.
I see “Sorry,, You can not view this website when JaveScript is disabled, Thank you” in mobile safari.

I don’t have js disabled.
If you're not blocking ICMP, then PMTUD will take care of any issues where other hosts don't support jumbo frames
You should probably ask your doctor to prescribe a safe eye-drop that you can use to help with dryness. Also, use protection glasses.
> Normal quotes or double quotes usually don't do that

With backticks we don't need to worry about quotes in the content inside being interpreted as the end of a string in JS
> You can do this to produce code without needing to know anything besides properties …

Reminder, you started with this:

> You can interact with the LLM using agents, feedback loops, and some scoring function on randomized test inputs

Maybe those are fancy words for simple things which I’m not familiar with or learning programming language seems a simpler option :)
Unfortunately we have the oldest railway in the world in continuous use, running mostly at capacity, with draconian planning laws, ridiculous land costs, population density, and a stupid general public.

You'd be hard pressed to find any capital project that's been built in the UK that anyone regrets, and that includes the Millenium Dome. I'm old enough to remember opposition to HS1 ("No to route 2!"), and opposition to CrossRail.

No one would argue that any of those were a waste.

Yet we've cancelled parts of HS2.

With the absurd bidding process of:

Govt: we have a budget of £10bn for this section in the Cotswolds, how cheap can you do it?

Bidder, erm, £9.99bn ??

Govt: ok!

Bidder: kerching!

Trying to find the link, but Rob Holden, HS1 boss, stated that HS2 budgets were publicly disclosed and the above is pretty much the outcome of contract firms knowing how much the Govt is prepared to pay.

Had we pressed ahead with HS2 we might have gotten an HS3 and 4, but that's vanishingly unlikely now.

> Assuming the London train even leaves the station and is not delayed or cancelled, as usual.

Apparently German trains are far worse than London right now.
CIAM isn't just OIDC and SAML
Thank you for a detailed analysis.

Why do you need two agents though? Isn't one enough to do all the paperwork and inspections? As for advertisement, I guess today it can be totally automated.
> “The world needs China and the US to work together for a better future,” he added. “China is ready to be a partner and friend of the US.”

So if China isn't going to become more democratic / less authoritarian - it's gone on record about that - then what does this say about the USA's stance against such things? What does that say about where the USA sees its future going? Is the quarterly or so military saber-rattling legit or something drummed up by the MIC to keep the budgetary dollars flowing?

I read the article and couldn't help but feel like changing my name to Winston Smith.
>Someone who wasn't working in my domain would get fooled.

So they run the code, it breaks, they paste the error message back into chatGPT and try again. What's wrong with that? Don't know about you, but I don't get code right the first time, either.
MV3 now brings "offscreen documents" and persistent service workers.
Well, the value proposition of image formats are 1. transmission, which requires both sender and receiver to have the exact same model, which requires us to standardize on some model and ship it with everything until the end of time, and 2. archival, which would require storing the model alongside the file (which might more than counteract any data saved from improved compression) and would be highly fraught because, unlike existing decompression algorithms, it cannot be described in simple text (and therefore reimplemented at will), which risks making the file inaccessible and defeating the point of archival.

It's a cool idea, especially for high-bandwidth, low-value contexts like streaming video calls, but I don't think it's going to wholesale replace ordinary lossy formats for images or prerecorded video delivery (and this is without considering the coding/decoding performance implications).
I feel like someone with his experience and background should have the self awareness to help avoid that scenario. However I agree it's still a possibility...
I think they're probably tied up in public relations hell. They are too big and too brand protective to risk launching something that has even the tiniest chance of producing content they could get slammed for. They're likely spending all their time on adding layer upon layer of moderation to prevent that from happening. It would be better to just ship and get ahead of it by doing a demo that contains a weird response and use that as an opportunity to educate people on what they need to be careful of when using the tool. They could spin that into them being honest and having their user's interests at heart. Unfortunately, they also have to worry about what their advertising partners think which is the bigger problem.
One of the best handlings of this I ever saw was on opal, where someone was ranting about a non-software issue calling for the removal of a prominent contributor.
I use chatgpt in this way a lot and i just have gotten in the habit of verifying what it says with other sources.
A use case for what we built is if you have a customer list from Salesforce and a customer list from Hubspot (or another CRM system) - these lists might have been entered manually to each application. As a result they are not 100% the same where they should be the same. Robomerge lets you reconcile one list against another accounting for misspellings, different abbreviations, etc. This is not an easy thing to do in Excel / Google Sheets so we built something to do it quickly, reliably and securely.
So all the programmers who work there should live on thin air? I agree that ideally the management should not be there for profit, but come on, the salaries are not even that crazy. I suspect FAANG key employees in that area easily earn multiples of that.
The current issue with that strategy is being able to ensure advertisers who don't want ANY association with Nazis that their ads will not be shown to Nazis. Even instances like this, where someone IBM did want to advertise to went and looked at a Nazi tweet which caused the IBM ad to appear next to Nazi content, can be considered damaging to a brand in the wildfire that is the internet.

If this becomes the norm, where companies are so scared to get a black eye on the internet, it could lead to companies making decisions about keeping Nazi users at all. If everyone who views a Nazi tweet can't be advertised to then that tweet will be very expensive to serve.
How Mathematics Built the Modern World
Back in the day, I was mostly an XEmacs user as it did provide some niceties that Emacs lacked, including being closer to the Windows based IDEs.

Not sure how much of it has eventually become part of it, as I seldom use Emacs, even though 10 years of usage leave their mark on the brain. :)

I see Emacs finally adopting Guile as a much better path going forward, than attempts like these.
But how do the packets get to the other computers? Are you trailing a cord on a spool?
Can you use an iframe in an offscreen document?
Went to Ukraine from Poland twice this year with night train (for obvious reasons airplanes werent an alternative). It was less bad than expected and def something I could do again.
FCC Is Trying to Stop Discrimination in Broadband Deployment. Telecoms Are Mad
The thing is, if you want to sort a list, LLM is the wrong tool. However, if what you want is to generate a program that will sort a list, your LLM will be pretty performant.

It’s a powerful tool but like any powerful tool, you will use it wrongly if you don’t acknowledge its strengths and weaknesses.

Judging a LLM because he can’t act as a program is a fundamental error because it means you are wasting an enormous amount of resources for nothing.

The novelty of LLMs and where they are good at is helping you thinking about things. Helping you to complete reasonings about your thoughts or about your data. They are not good at doing things but they are good at « feeling » things.
The notion of this article is that LLMs are just for answering question as if these were failed oracles. LLMs are excellent at instruction following to the point where it'll execute instruction by creating bullshit to fill the gap. It's unlikely to get a perfect C code out of Starbucks barista but that doesn't mean these people are in any way flawed at their job. LLMs given enough information about a task can perfectly execute it and enough is far less than any of systems created before.
> I can tell when it spits out a snippet of code that is correct, and when it's wrong.

Hah, sure. Okay. How? You just read it and think really hard?

Bertrand Meyer, the inventor of Eiffel, who rants about software correctness all the time -- didn't notice an error in a 1-line expression in Eiffel that was generated by ChatGPT [0].

If you spend a little time formalizing correctness in a theorem prover or model checker you may not be so confident that you can read a snippet of code and know that it's correct. In order to know that you have to be able to write the specification precisely. Natural language is not precise enough.

Update: You may be able to write the specification precisely either by modelling the system and checking the model or writing a theorem and proving it... but so far LLM's cannot reason on that level.

[0] https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais...
I mean they work fine, you just have to have a high (single-threaded) performance CPU to emulate something like a Pentium II or III.
GPT4 will definitely tell you that your question is wrong and doesn't make sense, and a lot of times it is right about that.
Shame they enshittified their product:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23892761/philips-hue-app-...
Well, the "OSI" model where there's a little disassembly and assembly line in your box, where each layer gets taken off by one robot and the payload of that inside package gets handed off to another concern -- all lies.

The chips that do this (if they've got the features, anyhow) do L2, L3, L4, L5, etc all at the same time. So it's not an L2 switch and L3 router -- it's both at the same time, looking at the whole packet at once.

But -- there is no such thing as an ethernet "router" -- it's just a bridge with a forwarding table populated (usually) by listening for MAC addresses and updating forwarding tables. "flood and learn" There are even less ethernetty things out there that use the ethernet signaling but mechanically populate the forwarding tables of switches.

But a "thing that forwards between vlans" usually means "a thing that forwards packets from one L3 subnet to another."

You could probably make some insane custom switch that has routing rules for forwarding mac address packets from one vlan to another based on a bunch of zany rules, but such a cursed object would be hated universally by all who come after you.
If you want to find excuses, we will find them. Wherever, even if it's under the stones
Its also fantastic for rubberducking, though I imagine local LLM's are better for this, since I don't want to give all my IP to Altman directly.

So far, the yi model is actually not bad, and by two weeks from now two new models will be out that are better.
So it will continue until Altman figures out which politicians to bribe the hardest.
Great synergy with https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
What I really miss sometimes is a different approach: offer trains that can take me really far (e.g Warsaw - Paris, Berlin - Madrid), but allow me to take my car with me on the train. This way, I can enjoy the comfort of the sleeping wagon, give the kids space to move around, and I do not need to rent a car at the destination, which is very expensive and is not-my-car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index:

> A reference source, such as blackbody radiation, is defined as having a CRI of 100. This is why incandescent lamps have that rating, as they are, in effect, almost blackbody radiators.[24][25] The best possible faithfulness to a reference is specified by CRI = 100, while the very poorest is specified by a CRI below zero.

I believe the best non-incandescent bulb I've seen had a CRI of 92, but (IIRC) most bulbs don't list a number (so can be assumed to be mediocre). I don't know if it's gotten better, because I haven't deep-dived into it for a few years.
Thanks runjake for these resources, looking forward to dive into them as soon as I have script and dependencies ready to package