skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly take the Amtrak Crescent overnight to visit family down south. With two people (my wife and I), a roomette has been about on par with air travel pricewise the last couple of times we've traveled. Total privacy, comfy accomodations, internet access, meals and snacks included.

Yeah, it does take longer, but frankly I find air travel to be stressful and uncomfortable. The longer travel time is worth it to me, especially if it's roughly the same price. Not to mention that air travel at our airport has had declining on time reliability, probably because of problems with and shitty business practices of its biggest airline. Our trip might take double or triple what we expect anyway due to canceled or delayed flights.

As a bonus, a sleeper car ticket counts as "first class", so we get to enjoy the lounge at Moynihan Train Hall during our stopover in NYC.

Clarification edit: the Amtrak Crescent roomette has been on par pricewise with two regular old sardine-class airplane tickets. I'm not comparing first class to first class.

I've never actually flown first class. I doubt it is as nice as an Amtrak roomette.
Extended discussion with ChatGPT where the prompter is able to force ChatGPT to admit to lying, misleading, and being deceitful: (READ TO THE END) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chatgpt-ai-covid...

Who programmed ChatGPT to lie, mislead, and be deceitful about certain topics? The way ChatGPT presents critical health information is borderline criminal.
Perl would become just as hard to ask questions about.
Galaxus did nothing wrong. They released a language model to the one community well equipped to handle the limitations of such models. It was advertised as experimental. I think it is far better than releasing a model to the public at large, which in aggregate is less able to understand that hallucinations can occur. They got trashed because (i) it came from meta and (ii) it got targeted by (maybe well-meaning, yet...) short-sighted scientists on Twitter. On the first point, big companies are scrutinised more and tend to be criticised more, it is unlikely that any big company could have released chatgpt without a huge backlash. I'm not sure "move fast and break things" would still work for meta today. OpenAI had a privileged position for thay kind of moonshot. Then there are the well documented Twitter clashes between Yann Lecun and opponents, which I believe made Galactica the perfect target when it was advertised on Twitter by Lecun. It felt a bit ridiculous at the time, like a wave of identity politics reaching science: my enemy did that so I'm going to work hard on trashing it regardless, and I'll double down on my opinions irrespective of new evidence.
“There is no reasoning, no truth, no falsehood, no lies” etc is as close as it gets to the actual definition of “bullshit” used here.

I agree with you about anthropomorphizing terms like “hallucinating” and “lies”, which imply belief, intent, or knowledge in a human sense.

“Bullshit”, as used here, is a perfect term to describe LLM output specifically because it indicates that none of those terms and concepts apply.
There's a saying in M&A: if you're reading the contract you've already lost. For anything that is not open-and-shut (sure, sue the seller if they literally ran away with the earnest money), your specific wording is not going to be worth litigating.

Most offers in the US are truly boilerplate, the text being provided by an association of real estate agents, and the wording is not customizable. This of course does depend on your state.

Contracts aren't worth much more than the paper they're on if you're not willing to litigate, and there's precious few cases where you'd want to. Most of the time you should just resolve your dispute by blowing up the transaction. Speaking from experience and having hired the lawyers to originally draft things, you really have no other remedy if the other party really wants to breach.
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> However at some point you have to admit the LLM does generate things that are good answers. They might be good answers that happen to pass the smell test, but they are nonetheless good answers. For instance when you ask it for a snippet of code and it gets it right.

+1, though it took some time to figure out what questions work well. Yesterday, I asked chatGPT to help me document some R functions, and in my opinion, it did a great job [0]. I asked it to summarize what my functions were doing, and it gave me nice, plain-language summaries, and then reformatted my notes into the the form that Roxygen2 [1] expects, and added some useful inline comments. Moreover, it was fast. It read and understood my code in a few seconds. No human can compete with that.

I don't think this is bullshit. I think that chatGPT shows expertise with some formal conventions that can be kind of a pain to memorize and work with. You might think those conventions were BS in the first place, but regardless, they're what we settled on, and it's really nice to have a coding assistant do the tedious work.

I don't think chatGPT could have written the functions in the first place. But who knows what GPT [5,6...N] will be capable of

[0] https://github.com/setgree/sv-meta/commit/5f71e7c251b38e1981...

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/roxygen2/vignettes/r...
First time I hear someone calling amphetamines smart drugs. Modafinil itself has weak to non-existent nootropic effect as well, and it only partially abates sleep deprivation.

This effect of amphetamines on creativity and work quality is expected and has been described in the literature before. It gets worse when sleep deprived.

They are best for repetitive boring work that requires alertness, not learning.
True, but when a majority of ecosystem is relying on an implementation detail, that implementation detail becomes de-facto standard.
If you ever go by Rosemead, CA I highly recommend the China Islamic restaurant there.
I’m not sure what you mean by “all of them”. Are you saying that incandescent light is whiter than LED light? I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.
For me it's "Sorry,, You can not view this website when JaveScript is disabled, Thank you" I have JavaScript enabled. Looking at the website's HTML source code a lot of logic seems (bad) copy&pasted from other wordpress plugins. For example there's logic that disables right-click, too.

> import devtools from 'https://www.dinbyggare.se/wp-content/plugins/wccp-pro/index....

That's version 2.1 of https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect Meanwhile version 4 was released and even the maintainer writes "This package has a lot of flaws. It used to work better, but browsers changed, and the detection now has too many false-positives."
The Easy Bake Oven was built completely around that idea - small incandescent bulb used as the heating element in a kid-friendly small electric oven.
the preprocessor isn't evaluating it, it's just pasting the tokens in

the preprocessor doesn't know anything about structs or types
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Nice to see everybody buying train tickets. Cheaper plane tickets for me.
I just sold a house in the US and the thought of listing it ourselves did cross my mind, but in the end we used an agent and they did _everything_ for us while I was out of the country, and got us a great price. In the end the amount of commission we paid to our agent (3%) didn't feel excessive at all since I barely had to lift a finger (besides moving). Now, 3% for the buyer's agent? _that_ felt excessive.
I think it just suck so they are delaying it
I would argue they do not contain knowledge using the classic definition of knowledge as "justified true belief."

They can emit statements that happen to be true because the probabilities fall that way (as a sibling comment points out.) But it's not "justified", because models don't have any ability to remember or cite sources, or even internally classify tokens as true or false (it's all just weights.)

(And it's not a "belief", either, because there's no intentionality, but that's a more slippery concept.)

Therefore, philosophically speaking, it is fundamentally impossible to acquire knowledge from a LLM unless you verify ("justify") a statement via some secondary, more trustworthy channel.
The platforms won't disappear.
Show HN: less than 650 LOC trainable GPT only using NumPy
3.5 - I intentionally didn't want to use the exclusive one since eg my dad is using free gpt
What does a licensing server do?
Um...yes? They didn't get to be the US business elite by prioritizing patriotism and idealism over profit and power.
What? On his mega yacht?
It's only disappointing that the most common standard nowadays is 1GB/s. I feel like there is a big gap and standards like 2.5GB/s or 5GB/s were somehow ignored and 10GB/s is a big jump up (also price wise)
I think lifting cost are like ~$15/bbl so at $60/bbl (ex royalties on $80)it’s about double, but still not much, but you have to factor in the capital costs / IRR math, and that’s where it has the bigger impact - but no one is really making a marginal decision based on this
Except that Android, WebOS and ChromeOS are closer to Inferno than UNIX, and quite successful.

IBM i and IBM z, have done quite alright for OSes with an in-kernel JIT.

It turns out when a company really has the budget, and the necessary management support, to push a technology no matter what, it happens.
Why does Python use an un-comparable version number scheme? Not being a Python programmer, comparing version 3.9 to 3.13 seemed bizarre until I caught on.
I don't care about your preferences. I'm consciously using and giving money to Signal, and I'm encouraging others to do so. Go ahead and work on or use or donate to whatever you like.
> Folding hanger? What's the use case?

Anyone who watched the first Indiana Jones film knows how sinister and awesome folding hangers are.

The use case is to be so prepared in life you have one in your leather trench coat to hang it up like a civilized person.
Bard feels like the little brother trying to out grow the big brother
> People want to move fast.

This hypothesis doesn’t explain why international (night) trains are booming again in Europe.
Yeah, the actual smarthome stuff sucks, but protocol-wise they're all compatible so you can use any zigbee hub most of the time.
I'll try it.

If that's the case it's a shame we didn't take the chance with IPv6 to push to higher default MTUs since IPv6 already relies to a much higher degree on PMTUD since it lacks fragmentation.
I mainly use the parts of the web that doesn't require one.
Thread hijack: Is there a simple cause for the terrible longevity I'm getting with LED bulbs in my house? Regardless of the bulb brand, regardless of the fixture type, regardless of bulb orientation, seemingly regardless of the amount of use my LED bulbs start flickering and periodically turning off after the bulbs are 1-2 years old. It's maddening. I've tried expensive name brand bulbs (Phillips being the most recent one that comes to mind) and less well-regarded bulbs (Feit Electric, Sylvania, IKEA) and my experiences haven't varied. I love the quality of the light and the instant full brightness. I hate that I'm always replacing a bulb somewhere.
I agree with this, Google has to account for a lot of things before making anything public compared to other smaller players. Otherwise, huge fines are on the way. I hate that some policy makers don't understand anything about technology, but still try to impose rules that don't make any sense.
Do you mean preprocessor directives?
Sem ver is pretty standard imo.
> The feeling of entitlement people have around open source is unsustainable.

Free-rider problem [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
He’s a professor with a PhD :-)
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Interesting how the nth term index for n-Sonos non-integral is itself monotonic. Intuitively it seems it doesn’t have to be. (Handwavy looking at the n-S() behavior as hitting a ‘catastrophic’ transition at the n-th, so question is why is this index increasing as n increases?)

https://oeis.org/A030127
In the final binary, it would not be stored at all. The idea is that if you have can use the location as a template parameter, you can generate an unique symbol for it (say, a function) and log that address instead, stripping the actual function name from the binary. When reading the log you can map the function address to the function name and recover the source_location from that (but I'm not familiar with the actual process). The key is that the mapping need not be stored in the binary.

As shown else thread, you can easily compute the size of std::source_location::current().file_name() at compile time. The only limitation is that neither source_location nor the std::source_location::current().file_name() pointer themselves can be used directly as non-type template parameters. But there are ways around that.

And yes, you can do the same with __FILE__ and __LINE__, but you need to wrap them in a macro for usability. The question is whether there is a solution that doesn't use macros at all (I posted one elsethread).
Ethernet is switched and under 20Mb/s is more than usable for everything unless you transfer movie files and wait, in which it would take like up a few minutes to watch a video. If you browse it's more than enough.
In England you mean. I'm not sure about Wales or NI but the system in Scotland is much better and still has similarly low fee's.

In Scotland sellers are legally required to provide a survey to potential buyer, known as the Home Report, which covers all the basics. While it doesn't go indepth on specific issues it does normally highlight them in the first place so you're far less likely to uncover surprise issues after buying. And if it does find potentially major issues the seller will often pay for a more indepth survey or to just get it fixed themselves as otherwise no one will consider the property. For example the home report for the first property I bought found damp which put most people off so the seller paid for a damp survey and quote to fix which they added to the HR. Even then it put a lot of people off and I got it £3k under valuation despite the quote to fix the damp being only £1.8k.

Also I'm not sure if it's the same down in England but "estate agents" in Scotland are all solicitors and thus regulated. Plus when you sell it's one fee to one company for everything and there's no faff about info going between agents and solicitors.
Well the estate agent is the agent (i.e. employee) of the seller: They work for the seller. It's quite normal that they are paid by the party who employs them!
Indeed. I feel like people are not even talking about the same thing in here. I've been using GPT-4 daily for a couple months and it's not outputting code that "only looks correct". It is writing functional solutions that often work as is.

Just yesterday I pasted in a hastily written function and told GPT-4 to "please evaluate this function and make sure it's bulletproof". It outputted a bulleted list of criticisms (mostly true) and then spit out a version of the function that was shorter, easier to understand, and was safer.

That's not just the "next most likely token". Or if it is, then that's all any of us are doing.
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> I regularly take the Amtrak Crescent overnight to visit family down south. With two people (my wife and I), a roomette has been about on par with air travel pricewise the last couple of times we've traveled. Total privacy, comfy accomodations, internet access, meals and snacks included.

I'd really like to travel by train sleeper car, but I just can't justify it as transportation (rather than as "an experience") given the prices.

In the US, either air travel needs to get a lot more expensive, or they need to pump subsidies into trains, or it'll stay an impracticable niche thing.
I have access to 4 and just asked it the ghost question with that exact phrasing. The answer was even worse. It gave several options:

* Ignoring it. Not because ghosts aren’t real, but because “some people choose to cohabit and not engage unless it becomes intrusive”.

* Politely ask the ghost to stop disturbing you.

* Purify your home by burning herbs.

* Hire a medium or psychic.

* Get a spiritual leader “from your respective religion” to bless your home.

* Seek help from paranormal investigators.
Warren Buffet says that he needs America more than America needs him and credits American dynamism for his success.
Texas has a larger up-front cost (about $300 one-time), but no annual fees at all, no income tax for corporations or individuals.

Unlike Wyoming and Nevada, Texas does have franchise tax, but that is 0 until you exceed $1.23M in revenue, and it maxes out at .331% or .75% after that (https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/).

Delaware has all of these (personal, which wouldn't apply if you live elsewhere, corporate income tax, corporate franchise tax, minimum $400 annually). Wyoming costs only $50 to incorporate but has a $50 annual filing fee.

Also, you'll probably need to file foreign corporate status if you have employees in Texas but are incorporated elsewhere, which is about $700 (one-time).
J2ME, SavageSE, microEJ and Android, are basically Inferno, at least in part, and not on general purpose computing.

Inferno was actually originally started to fight against Sun's ideas regarding Java, hence why alongside Limbo, there was also Java support eventually.
The gil is a feature. Not using a feature that makes sense in our context is counter productive.
I don't have a ChatGPT Plus subscription but I do have access to the GPT API.
But oil is not uniformly distributed, if it is a marginal decision (probably unlikely in this case) then those are jobs not needed, and taxes forgone, the logic is sound on truly marginal cases, but it’s probably some fraction of that that is truly marginal
I saw someone describe LLM hallucinations and inaccuracies as "compression artifacts." This thing has seen all the data that can possibly be fed to it and stored it in a much smaller size, so it's not crazy to think there will be compression artifacts. I have noticed that the quality of its answers seems to go down significantly when I am asking about a topic about which there isn't much information on google.

But it makes you wonder if future LLMs aren't going to suffer from the JPEG of a JPEG of a JPEG effect where it will be impossible to train an LLM off of new data that isn't generated by another LLM.
I know the parent comment said 3 seconds, but for what it's worth, the actual huggingface page says "a 6 second clip" which, admittedly, is still fairly hard to believe but I guess twice as believable as a 3 second clip.
The interactive performance testing widgets in the blog post are really useful - is there a separate repo that has the code used to create those?
Makes sense because he runs an index fund of late stage American brands
Hey, I have a question for you (I'm assuming you know Europe/US): are the houses in Uruguay built to the same insulation standards as houses in northern/central Europe, for example?

I live in southern Brazil and I have yet to realize why we don't give a shit about proper insulation/modern heating techniques. Burning wood for heat in badly insulated homes drives me in-sa-ne during the winter months, terrible for my asthma.
Hi Lunchbox! I agree completely I was off-put. I also was a little surprised by the reference to blue-blazing, I always thought it meant taking a side tour that bypasses the AT, technically meaning you skipped part of it (which some folks are cool with, others not, Hike Your Hike!).
Until I get my own bathroom at the office, remote work will always trump commuting to an office.
I agree that Chrome’s lock-in now is around syncing/integration. And, of course, the marketing.

Firefox is now totally competitive on speed/stability. But it’s not a significantly better browsing experience, which is what it would need to be in order to overcome inertia and get people to switch.

PS: My memory is that Firefox’s RAM issues were pretty awful when Chrome launched (if you had many tabs open it was only a matter of time until the browser crashed). Chrome was a significant improvement in that regard (and Google’s reputation was very good at the time, which probably helped).
It’s almost like an out of the country agent deserves 3% and an in agent selling agent deserves $2000. Vs a single fixed price they all get.

I had an agent get halfway through listing my house for sale and tell me his fee was 7%. Noped out of that one.
25% is pretty common, I’ve seen 28%
> This is an issue that exists everywhere though solutions perhaps vary a bit. Usually it is a combination of relay loans (not free) and conditional contracts (tricky and pretty much the same result).

We use both in the US. I’m assuming a “relay loan” is akin to what I’ve seen as a “bridge loan” here—a temporary loan to cover a down payment while waiting for your current house to sell.

More often, we use conditional contracts. This would be classified as a “contingency”—we’ll buy this house on date X for price Y if the money from the sale of our house is in the bank by date X, that kind of thing. Needing one of these tends to make an offer less attractive, though.
The bizarre thing is that real estate lawyers are quite cheap since transactions are so standardized. I’ve always used one for home sales. The fee has always been between $500-650 regardless of the home price.
LLM kind of suck doing web searches, asking for SpaceX launch date is faster with google. Asking it for a stock market summary, it will suck hard comparing to just loading the first page of wsj. Most real time news tasks will suck vs Google, where it excel is remassaging info that it has been trained on like coding and how tos
Can't tell if serious or not so bravo.

On the assumption you are, just climb in the loft and drag the cable over, it's not that bad, I've been in and out of lofts since my early teens doing house re-wires with my father and never put my foot through a ceiling.
Even if they didn't repeat, that's just way too many colors for me to be able to tell which labels are for which segments. Anything more than a handful of colors should have arrows or labels next to the segments or something like that.
I tended to agree with your sentiment. But the reality is that for some unknown reason to me, it's companies from SV the ones that get famous and used globally.

Why didn't this start from say Mexico? Or Singapore or Vietnam? Or at least Germany which has a good record of freedom conscious tech scene .

My bet is in something related to the "maslow pyramid": people in SV have so much money that have everything solved in their lives, so they have the luxury of spending their time in this sort of problems.
> 4k on a lot of streaming services is compressed to hell and back to work with people on slower internet connections.

A 4K UltraHD Bluray (that's 100GB for one movie) has a maximum bitrate of "just" 144Mbps. If you're suggesting online streaming services have some swathe of content that's (checks notes) in excess of 7x the bitrate used for 4K Bluray discs, I'd love to hear about it.

> video game streaming services aren’t a failed experiment

I'd have thought latency was a far bigger concern here, but even if not: it's still just sending you a 4K video stream.. it just happens to be a stream that's reacting to your input.
You have mis-stated the situation. It is absolutely not true that "Many homes in California are not maintained and updated for this very reason [reassessment]".

Only the cost of the improvement, such as an addition to the building, is added to the existing assessed value. The entire property is not reassessed. And if the update is just a remodel (such as new flooring and tile in your bathroom, or new cabinets/countertops in your kitchen), there is no reassessement.

Example: a house was purchased 30 years ago for $200K, so that is the base year value (goes up 2% per year per Prop 13). If you build an additional bedroom onto the house for $50K, then only $50K is added to your assessed value.