skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that insight is an important feature that GPT doesn't seem to have, at least not yet.

For instance, I've seen people saying they can ask it for help with how to code something and it will help them. Although the results aren't perfect, they can be helpful.

However, I recall years ago asking a more senior developer how to do something. They could've just told me how, but instead they asked why I was doing that. Then they told me not to bother with writing code at all, and to instead do this other, much simpler thing which would have the same effect at solving the client's request. ChatGPT wouldn't have had that insight.

Years later, a junior dev came to me asking for help with his code because it wasn't working. We went over the code line by line and he explained what it was trying to do and it all looked good. But when he ran it, the web server crashed. I told him to try adding a comment:

// Do not remove this comment.

Sure enough, it worked perfectly and the server no longer crashed. Why? Because I realized that if his code was wrong he should get an error message, not crash the server. But sometime back I had read about a bug in a version of the interpreter that would crash when parsing a file that was an exact multiple of 4096 bytes. Would chatGPT have thought of that? Probably not. It would've just talked about the code.

Which is not to say that it's useless. But it lacks greater context and the insight to go beyond the parameters of the question on its own initiative. Then again, so do humans most of the time.
Ask HN: Avoiding irrelevant or undesirable model context in RAG
Considering a RAG prompt say of the format:

Answer question <q> using context <c>.

Say <c> is a contradictory statement to what the model was trained on.

There are certain situations where one wants the llm to use model knowledge, and some where one does not. Is there any formal research in this area?
But quest and question have the same etymology, just like transit and transition. Having the same etymology clearly does not mean that the words cannot diverge in meaning. And if you looked up transit and transition in a dictionary, you’d find that they’re considered distinct in meaning, much along the lines of what I wrote.
This is essentially Chef
TBH, it gives me pause to be in protracted disagreement with someone whose comments I often find insightful. But I guess what it comes down to is I don't think we can accurately predict the path of the transition, especially because it has already changed several times. If you have an inside scoop on how this is unfolding inside Google, or have worked there in the past, then you'd be in a better position to know.
Anything new here?

Bunch of discussion last year on a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30557557

The ligatures were released earlier this year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583520
Check out the Nvidia Tesla P4. It's basically an uncooled low profile 1080 8GB.
Yes, absolutely. If there is no serious smoking gun made public in the next couple of days OpenAI will be damaged beyond easy recovery.
The complete guide to iOS and macOS development in Neovim
> WorldCoin

Is that supposed to make him look good? Because it doesn't, in fact it makes him look very out of touch at best and a complete fool at worst.
There is at least one documented survival at the insane speed of Mach 3: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/bailing-out-at-mach-3-the-in...
Seems like an unneeded "Do" in the title.
> This is a tremendously momentum-killing event. I cannot think of a single facet of their day-to-day operations, product roadmap, competitive position, etc. that would be improved by this decision.

What you’re missing is that the board (at least what remains) seems to disagree strongly with the direction in which the organization was headed — then why would they care to maintain momentum along the “wrong” roadmap? The changes seem (deliberately) driven by the intent to steer in a different direction and with slower momentum. Others might disagree with that vision, but the board feels that it aligns better with the founding charter.
I will believe it when I see it being sold on Amazon and AliExpress. It won't matter if they did 99% efficiency if it never reaches the consumers.
I was the same until I started using Fira Code and don't think I'll ever go back to anything else. the ligatures are worth it

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
As the farmer said, "We'll see"

https://impossiblehq.com/well-see/ (or google "we'll see story")
Well, yeah, you can't create something from nothing. But that's not exactly a deep insight. All economic activity involves consumption if you want to cast the net that broadly.

The point is:

> The idea that people need to be encouraged to consume (consumption being the opposite of saving) I don't think is supported by economic theory.

People absolutely need to be encouraged to be productive. That's the whole point of an economy, to encourage people to produce things that others want in exchange for other people producing things that they want.

Honestly, how could anyone possibly not understand that?
Don't these events prove pretty conclusively that AI safety is not a euphemism for "aligns with our interests"? There's no way anyone at OpenAI could have expected to benefit professionally or financially from this.
teach them about memory first
I like the font and was thinking about putting it on my blog, but $75 seems like a lot when there are other pretty good options. Maybe I'll test the free version and see if I love it..
Altavista was good. I loved Yahoo directory.

At that time, google was one big search bar and 10 links.

It was fast, had no ads. Until IPO, they didn’t want to do ads.

Now it’s just ads on the top links.

Google is absolutely vulnerable, if someone comes up with a better search engine.
Berkeley Mono is my favourite! It's the crossed seven that matches my handwritten style which I really appreciate. Not very common in other monospace fonts I've tried.

I really enjoy this font for development and writing documentation. I carry it around for everything. Default monospace across the board: Terminal, IDE, Notes; sometimes I go buck-wild and monospace the entire Desktop-Environment to match.
I think the fact that their largest partner and shareholder, Microsoft, wasn’t made aware of this earlier, or even given the chance of having this news drop after trading hours, shows the incompetence.
The stream clouds created initially on launch were replaced by dust clouds. Where did that dust come from? I wonder how much damage was done to the launch pad this time.
I think what's silly about "shepherding responsible AGI" is this is basically math, it's not some genie that can be kept hidden or behind some Manhattan Project level of effort. Pandora's box is open, and the best we can do is make sure it's not locked up behind some corporation or gov't.
After over 10 years paying for Dropbox, I replaced my sub with B2 + rclone and reduced my spend from $15 AUD/month to $1.50 a month. Oh, and I don’t have to pay up front for an entire year either.

Dropbox is not only the most expensive cloud storage provider, but they also refuse to offer lower tiers. Now, instead of getting less money from me in exchange for a lower cap, they get no money from me and I pay a competitor. I don’t really see how that makes business sense.
Some leftists always saied that (i'm tired of): "Hoarding/saving for long periods of time is bad." and call themselves up, "because it discourages people from taking risks by putting resources to productive use."

I think that named a problem.

Think about something like "Measurement Importance" in terms of the "level of competence in the handling of the vehicle", so to speak ?

So how is your MI as high roller ? Think some people have not only accounts for that, but alghorithms, nor ? ^^
I bought it – or rather, asked for it as a gift from my wife – and it was well worth it. It brings me just a tiny bit of joy every time I see one of the beautiful ligatures in my terminal, and I was also just happy to support the creator. It takes effort to make a well-formed font, and I am thankful that there are people willing to devote time to it.
At the same time, you also have hardware that can push those pixels without problem. When X and these technologies were introduced, the hardware was not able to store the entire framebuffer for one screenful in memory, let alone two. Nowadays you are able to store a handful at the very minimum. Certainly there's a different level of performance here in all parts, but the concepts have changed very little, and this entire article kind of shows it.
This all revolves around what precisely it was that they claimed Altman wasn't candid about. As long as that isn't clear it is the board that has something to explain and in my opinion they don't have a whole lot of time and it had better be good because OpenAI will be hemorrhaging talent and brand equity until this is resolved.
The first Steve was totally irreplaceable, the second Steve was probably arguably the difficult one to be replaceable. Without the first firing, the second Steve would never exist. But then when Apple current ball rolling, he was replaced fine with Tim Cook.
No. The watermark is inaudible.

Btw. audio compression is already doing most of the "stripping inaudible" stuff. You know, why wasting bits on something which is less likely to by picked up by the listener. It is done by assuming a model of human hearing.
> they were on track to outrun Google and Facebook combined

But what if they don’t want that. Those are rapacious and malevolent organizations.

Regardless, even if that is the goal what’s the evidence Altman is the right guy for that? It’s not like he’s done that before. The relationship between his stature and his track record is the part that’s confusing me.
Right, you could be able to see not only the number of cellphones but also the group.
I would be very much in favour of returning more land back to our local tribes if this is how it would be used. Seems like a great loophole to get around offensively poor city planning.
Everything about micro/nano-plastic strikes me as another 'cell phones give you brain cancer' panic. There is no evidence that these things cause damage in mammals despite all the alarming research, and every headline leads to a 'more research is needed because this is scary' conclusion.

Haven't we learned by now that if journalists are using scary headlines it is because they have nothing better to report, and if studies are concluded with 'we need to look into this more because data is scary' it means they didn't have anything better to conclude?

Let's all calm down and wait for the other shoe to drop, if it does, and in the meantime communicate the message: 'these scares happen every decade, it is nothing new and we are still around, let's wait for some evidence before we panic'.

And take this opportunity to say 'enough' to single use plastics when there are better options. It is absurd that we let it get this far. Let's go back to glass for liquids at least, and get rid of the 'wrap everything in a layer of plastic' tendencies that are completely unnecessary.
I'll be right back ... gonna a few things around the house ... starting where the pets hang out
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Where did Starship fragments end up after its in-flight destruction?
The non-profit, in my use, was the party. I guess at some point these organizations may not involve people, in which case "party" would be the wrong term to use.
How social media is turning into old-fashioned broadcast media
I’ve actually been casually looking for a Carson City dollar to carry around, just as a keepsake. Trick is finding one in bad enough shape to lose much of its numismatic value (since my intent is to carry it in a pocket with keys and other horrors) but retain the fact that it is, indeed, a CC dollar.
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As I was reading through it, it sounded like he didn't have an actual idea of what to build. I'd expect an 'idea guy' would learn just enough to get going and start building whatever the idea was, and use the project as a means to guide him to whatever he needed to learn next. I find this to be the most effective way to learn, as all the learning gets applied right away, outside of the context of a very controlled problem given by the teacher.

The idea that he was jumping from course to course, across a bunch of different languages made it seem like he valued having the identity as someone who built something, but didn't know what to build. The gap year suggests that as well. I've been in the same boat and the only thing that moved me forward was having a project to work on that I cared about. In my case, I had a normal job with some down time, and learned to code to make that job easier... no courses, just reading the docs and trying to solve the problem right in front of me. I actually had programming classes in college before this, and while I passed without issue, I never felt I learned how to code or built by own stuff, and years passed between that course and when I felt I actually learned. Having a problem, breaking it down, and building a solution, one small bit at a time, was required to go from knowing some basic ideas of syntax to knowing how to solve a problem with code.
"It" doesn't really work in practice, which is why nobody uses it in production settings.
as a pedestrian, I don't care who's liable, I'm still broken from being run over.
Bringing Internet to more people is supposedly good for them, but is bringing more people to the Internet supposed to be good for the Internet?
A variable is a box where you can store a certain type of an object. For example, you can have a box with the right size and shape to store toy cars. At one point the variable (box) may contain a red toy car, and at another point it may contain a blue toy car.

If you try to put a banana in there it won't fit because it has the wrong shape for that. We say that the type of the variable (the box) doesn't match the object.

The analogy can be extended to talk about null values (empty boxes), arrays (boxes with slots for multiple objects), etc.
This assumes it would be the role of the window manager or compositor rather than the server who decides that, which I didn't think that way. But I guess it'd make sense (policy vs mechanism). "per-frame basis" I don't see why and it just mirrors Wayland concepts. Still, as protocols go, it's quite a minor change, and one applications don't necessarily have to support.
I am extremely skeptical about this research. Firstly, the "plastic is bad" narrative is too easy to believe, just because plastic is ugly. It's also starting to follow the pattern I have seen in clinical psychology, where many studies find promising initial results, but no one bothers to conduct the real-life randomized controlled study that shows an actual clinical effect. And after a couple of decades of dogma, someone points out that the emperor has no clothes. Suddenly, the whole field looks silly, be it EMDR, classical psychotherapy, mindfulness therapy for severe mental illness, or the abuse craze in the 1990s.

The longer it goes without concrete and clinically significant findings, the larger I think the probability of the findings being wrong becomes. I also find it strange that so few of the studies I have read ever comment on the fact that our system might be fully capable of removing the nanoparticles by itself, just as it removes everything from dust to methylmercury. We do not know if this is the case, but the fact that nobody is addressing this further strengthens my fear that there is a lot of confirmation bias going on.

Every time I post something like this, I get a lot of angry responses, so I can try to preempt some of them by saying: I am not asserting that microplastics are safe. But the pattern of lots of pilot studies, and few studies that significantly prove the theory, is very recognizable to me.

Until someone either conducts a naturalistic experiment with lots of people exposed to large doses of microplastics and compares them to a control group, or we expose some larger animals to microplastics over a long time in a true randomized controlled study, I'm going to remain skeptical.
I wonder if this represents a shift away from the LLM being the headline product. Their competitors are rapidly catching up in that space.
Looks like OCR-B and Letter Gothic had a baby. There are better fonts for coding.
Haha, no worry.
I mean, that's clearly not really true, there's a huge "means of production" aspect to this which comes down to being able to afford the datastructure infrastructure.

The cost of the computing machinery and the energy costs to run it are actually massive.
Frustration is something I can feel as well when I am stuck. It is not a productive emotional state. It means to feel stuck, and maybe I was even stuck before I began.

Sometimes I just need to take a step back and look at it the next day. Sometimes it helps, sometimes not. Sometimes taking a walk helps, or cycling, or taking a shower.

But when I feel frustrated, I know it's an uphill battle that will be mostly unproductive, mostly productive in getting a look at it, some reconnaisance.
Is it a nest of stars leading to a domino effect chain of supernovas?
Oh, I understand the reasons. It's just one of services where my monthly payments are yellow to red on my radar. I keep them but it's on the bubble.
Design principles of 3D epigenetic memory systems
America did nuclear weapons research to get there before the Nazis and Japan and we were able to use them to stop Japan
Minor note: Greg was first fired as chairman, and then subsequently resigned from the company. They were separate actions.

Source: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594
SpaceX is well in their way to doing it, but 50+ years later, relying on advances in material sciences and production capabilities to reduce the cost. None of this seems fishy to me. As a nation we decided to do something, damn the cost, and when we decided that was no longer important to do, it took decades of advances before advances brought the cost down to the realm that corporations could begin to attempt to do the same.
I am stuck. I can't figure out how to not make it just a sad tale. I did start with the premise of trying to write the utopian dystopia. How the utopian ideals at their extremes can be feel quite dystopic. Most of it deals with how humans have defined themselves through work and now in a world with a lack of work how does one define themself and even if you were to find meaning in arts or other such creative endeavours how long do you sustain them when your personal ai could turn your thoughts to reality at the blink of an eye. I just don't know what hopeful angle to play here. Or just make it the tragedy it is turning out to be. Following three characters at different stages of life with the backdrop of this doom in society. Working title is "Death of a planet".
Looking for suggestions.
Monaspace has been on the HN frontpage a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210574
GNOME co-opted and sabotaged GTK for anyone that’s not GNOME. GTK used to be capable of being fairly OS-neutral, and was certainly quite neutral within Linux and so became the widget toolkit of choice for diverse desktop environments and worked well thus; but over time GNOME has taken it over completely, and the desires of other desktop environments are utterly ignored. The GNOME Foundation has become a very, very bad custodian for GTK.

As you say, the old GTK is dead. GNOME murdered it. I mourn it.
> Yes, that's the thing I like about the Arlo system I have now: it has its own wifi network so, even if it's using spectrum, it's probably not affecting my LAN throughput.

Wifi6 is changing a lot of this, but generally speaking Wifi performance is not optimized for media style traffic. Media traffic does best with low jitter (variance of latency) as this tends to keep buffer sizes low and avoids dropping frames. Wifi is not very good at low jitter, and though Wifi6 is a lot better than previous Wifi standards, it's still much harder to keep jitter low on Wifi than it is on a LAN. On top of that, as the sibling commenter says, even if you have a separate Wifi network, spectrum doesn't segment that neatly. Wireless traffic uses multiplexing methods (there are several and if you're interested, the methods are fascinating [1]) to roughly use the same spectrum. These multiplexing methods obviously need to do more work the more traffic there is on the spectrum.

If you can route your media traffic through LAN do it. Obviously as you say, running new cable is a lot of work so it's understandable why you use Wifi. But LAN is just so much better that if you have the time/money (doing it yourself/hiring someone) to do it, I highly recommend you do.

[1]: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/66562
They are. But who is 'they'? The board? The shareholders of the for-profit? The rest of the people working there?

And if the board wanted the company to be a pure research organization they should have acted much, much earlier, and the company probably should not have hired Sam Altman in the first place but someone like Geoffrey Hinton or another respected name from academia, provided they would be available in the first place.
I'm a huge fan of this typeface. Initially, I was skeptic about paying, but I spent hours every single day on the screen, and after using the trial for a few days, I was sold. It's extremely good designed, the numbers are crisp, and everything is well-balanced and thought out. It's worth every single cent.
Ya. You're right. Time to let the theory die.
> Who's the COO talking on behalf of when he says "we have had multiple conversations with the board"?

My guess (and its a guess, not knowing anything but excerpts from the memo which we aren't even told who it was addressed to) is that its on behalf of the executive team of OpenAI Global LLC, which, as a reminder, is separated from the OpenAI nonprofit by one (by ownership) or two (by control) intermediary organizations (the holding company that is the direct parent of OpenAI Global LLC, and the OpenAI GP LLC which is the organization through which the nonprofit exercises control of the holding company.)

> Who's full support does Mira (Ilya's choice) have?

The rest of the OpenAI Global LLC executive team.

> Why does it need saying?

Fairly common thing to say after an externally-imposed change of leadership, especially one that is or has the appearance of being a radical shift in direction.

> The rapid escalation from "we seem to disagree on this" to "walk them off the premises" was standard practice at OpenAI, along with firing people on Friday, at noon.

> Many people were "resigned" while they were actively discussing (or at least so they thought) any disagreements with their immediate management, or the higher echelons of OpenAI.

Where does this come from? Its not from the article (either the quotes from the memo or other material in it.

> Coordinating this internally took more than a few days, and there must have been a few middle-managers involved in several meetings to coordinate this.

Same issue as above, plus this contradicts the information that has previously come out that the only person outside the participating board members who was told anything before the dismissed parties were informed was Mira, and even that wasn't days in advance.
I must say it does look awesome.

Although I'm personally not a fan of ligatures, I feel they may increase mental burden at times;

for example having to look closely if it's = vs == or == vs === among other examples.