skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one not understanding the power of LLMs

The magic is not that it can tell you thinks but that it understands you with a very high probability.

It's the perfect interface for expert systems.

It's very good in rewriting texts for me.

It's very good in telling me what a text is about.

And it's easy enough to combine a LLM with expert systems through apis.

I for example mix languages when talking to chatgpt just because it doesn't matter.

And yes it's often right enough and for GitHub copilot for example it doesn't matter at all if it's always right or only 80%.

It only has to be better than not having it and 20 bucks a month.
At some point society will realize comparing power pricing to the lowest cost per kwh on a given day is a silly waste of time.

What matters is what is the most realistic mix of power generation and storage for 24x7 reliability. This can of course look very different depending on the situation. Many will argue for distributed storage (e.g. home batteries) - but that just means poor people don't get reliable electric service.

I really don't find that solar is "too cheap to meter" during peak sunlight very interesting. Who cares. What I find interesting is that I can turn a dial on my nuclear power plant to whatever it is I feel like at any time, and have it operating at that capacity within an hour or three.

Since we have such a dial, if you owned both the solar and the nuclear plants you would very likely combine them in a manner that maximizes profits while maintaining continuous service. Short of clouds, regional solar and wind prediction is extremely good to the point that modern nuclear plants may as well be load following. Add in a bit of battery for those minutes (hours max) that surprise you and you're good to go on that front.

You still will need some gas peaker plants for those crazy once-in-a-decade days you don't want to overbuild nuclear capacity for, but you could drastically reduce this infrastructure from what is effectively a 1:1 ratio today.
Does the notary provide the title insurance (as in: if it turns out later that the seller didn't actually own the house, the real owner shows up and proves it, the bank and new buyers have their money covered)?

That would make more sense for the 2% but it's not related to the notary in the US; notary literally just does "I checked the id of the person signing and it matches" which is a service that can be had for free at your bank or at most $50 if you have to pay someone, 2% of a house for that service obviously wouldn't make sense.
Even now 1gbps is plenty for virtually every end user and I suspect it will be good enough for a long time (maybe VR changes things??).
> Isn't the hint in the name? It's a language model, not a knowledge model.

True. But most of the training corpus was not linguistically-sound gibberish; it was actual text. There was knowledge encoded in the words. LLMs are large language models - large enough to have encoded some of the knowledge with the words.

Some of. And they only encoded it. They didn't learn it, and they don't know it. It's just encoded in the words. It comes out sometimes in response to a prompt. Not always, not often enough to be relied on, but often enough to give users hope.

What we really need is a language model coupled to a knowledge model.
You can already see list of the items posted from a domain such as in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com
> ChatGPT first gave a wrong answer (because my question actually wasn't accurate). but after some clarification answered something that appeared correct, and after 1-2 minutes of further research and validation, I was 100% that it was indeed the correct answer

Exactly. You answered your own question and that is the author's point.

Do you even know why it gave the incorrect answer at first? Not even ChatGPT can explain to you why it did that or keeps doing this.

How can you trust it to give the right answer (without you Googling to check) if you really don't know the answer? It already means you don't trust it an you know it bullshits as the author has claimed.

It can confidently convince someone outside of one's own expertise that it can give a soundly correct answer but can easily be bullshitting nonsense.

> Well. Any philosopher, mathematician, scientist, or novelist was trained on plenty of actual facts (established works of other people, school learning, experiments) and huge archives of bullshit (individual day-to-day experiences that cannot be called scientific, casual conversations just like Twitter conversations, propaganda, lies). Their output then would also be bullshit, and by extension, everything humanity ever created.

The difference is with humans, they can be transparently held to account on whatever they say. An AI system cannot. So this actual whataboutism towards humans is incredibly weak here and a common excuse by AI proponents supporting the nonsense that AI systems like ChatGPT can uncontrollably generate in a black box system.
I like the calculation; makes things more clear.

However, to your last point:
You are saying that nuclear power plants then are insured to risk.
Can you point me in your sources to the place where it is shown how nuclear power
plant operators today then are insuring "to risk" the risk of nuclear disaster and all costs and risks of the disposal?
> But marketing is extremely important and it’s just a very different skill than tech.

I once watched my father sell a single christmas lightbulb to another guy on a garage sale in the middle of july. "I convinced him he needed it" After that day I paid attention to sales. Some people just have that knack for it. They naturally know all the techniques and when to use them and how to properly use them. There used to be a very nice wikipedia article that broke most of them down but it looks like that page is gone (or I can not find it).
> Occupational licensing was originally developed to prevent black people from being employed.

You’ll need to cite some evidence for this. Occupational guilds and membership associations stretch back a lot further into the Middle Ages in Europe versus the timeline you’re suggesting here.

There are also some very common sense public policy issues at play like making sure people who say they can cut hair or fix your teeth actually know how to do it.

Granted they’ve been misused as well for various less honorable reasons but the narrative you’re presenting here doesn’t totally hold together.
I really loved the "no bullshit" approach that Ethernet authors took, as described in the "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".
We're entered the backwards compatibity discussion teritory, not sure what to think about it to be honest.
Because chat gpt is yet another authority and like any other authority, its claims are not perfect. Don't you check when you find random info on the internet? The difference is that the ai gives answers faster and with much vaguer prompts than a handcoded system is usually able to.
There’s probably not a simple yes/no answer, but rather a function of the rates of both planting and harvesting trees, unless one is pedantic about the distinction between able-to-be renewed and actually renewed, which is useless in the context of our climate issues.
well, no. a reputation system could prevent poor predictors from hijacking threads, attenuate their moderation power, overall decrease the influence they have. and obviously that would take time to have an effect. im not sure how you could not understand that.

i dont understand why you bring up reading peoples comment history. thats totally unrelated
I think LLMs and RLHF are inherently unsuited to producing aligned, useful, and fact-oriented AI. Something else is needed.
I have the strong impression that most people confound cloud to be public only. Private clouds are fine and deliver a lot of the flexibility at a big % discount of a public cloud.

The big gain from clouds is the flexible infrastructure, especially in the microservices world we are now. In the past, one needed to procure, provision, etc a new server to run a service (times X per environment). With a cloud, regardless if it's public or private, provisioning a VM (or container) to run a new service is a few clicks away.
How we grew our AI startup's waitlist to 15k with no money
The startup is: www.caspa.ai
You need to meet more people. I know many who think Starbucks is great coffee. I know others who hate it. That is diversity.
That paper is not good.

I Special Relativity you have many cuadrivectors, for example:

* time-space (t, x, y, z)

* energy-omentum (E, px, py, pz)

* Electromagnetic Potencial (V, Ax, Ay, Az)

and even a few 4x4 matices like the electric and magnetic fields together.

All of them change with the same equations. You can't break (t, x, y, z) and keep all the other.

And there are extensions to particle physics that mix Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics that use the same equations, and they have an agreement of theory and experiment of 8 digits. You can't break (t, x, y, z) and keep all the other!

Also, the paper is published in a journal I never heard about. It's impossible to be sure, but it has a lot of single author articles that is a big red flag, and the titles of the other articles are too weird (Nobel price or crackpot, nothing in between).
Those websites usually include (or at least offer) professional photography, and some also offer various levels of agent assistance for viewings, negotiations etc. an a la carte offering of sorts. A for sale sign is often included as it’s free advertising for them.
Or you are my wife, didn't realize it wasn't flat, and now your plastic bottle is bouncing down the mountain side and part of the trash littering the place.
And even for those who can afford a data plan for their phones, they might have gone over their data allowance for the current month, so the data won't work until it refreshes at the start of the next monthly cycle. And obviously, having one more thing using data makes it even easier to go over the limit.
So, that's why my mouse feels totally fine on macOS. Gaming peripherals the win
As much as I love Plan 9 and Inferno, the reason why they never were a commercial success is because they deliberately broke backwards compatibility with UNIX. (Which was an excellent choice for Plan 9 as a research OS, but perhaps should've been reconsidered for a commercial offering.)

They did however accomplish pushing the "UNIX 1.0" into at least 1.1: as awkward as Linux's /proc is, it's still objectively better than sysctl; 9P is a practical choice for sharing files with a VM guest; and let's not forget everything Go brought to the table.

In retrospect, considering which technologies contemporary to Plan 9/Inferno have "won", I'm also grateful that we don't need to deal with an in-kernel JVM.
> IO-blocks-UI

This is one of the things that _are_ addressed by the project.

Regarding your broader point, I don't know if adding a new language would/will help emacs or not but it's _plausible_ something like that would work. The plugin ecosystem in the vim world became more vibrant once writing them in lua was an option.
As I understand, Firefox left in the ability to block via the webRequest API, which is one of the biggest points of contention here.
I guess the argument is that the agent brings more than 6% value to the table so everyone wins. But I’ve always found it odd it’s a fixed percentage on total sale and not a fixed rate + percentage over a threshold.

Saying that, where I live many hones are well over $1,000,000 - that’s more or less the entry level. The agencies do a good job staging them (moving all existing furnishings out and replacing with pieces that flatter the space), taking great photographs, and hosting events at the property - that all costs money.
> In the developed world, read western industrial nations, nuclear is launched anymore

There is Korea, USA, France, UK, Slovakia and the UAE in the list.

In longer term, you can add Japan, Czeck Republic, Poland (under investigation) and even Italy is considering it right now.

You should certainly said to them that they are not part of your definition of the developed world.

> Nuclear is good for base load, the old inflexible kind, only. It is didficult to ramp up and down on short notice, making a grid less flexible the more nuclear is deployed

Good. The grid worked on good old inflexible based load for a century now and it prooved it works. Lets continue on that and make it low Carbon at the same time.
A Bulldog Clip[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_clip
Show HN: Real-Time AI Generator
The Real-Time AI Generator generates images in real-time, so while writing a prompt, the image changes before your eyes. It's a lot of fun to play with.
Switch to clonidine ( the instant release version ) I've been using it for years and also helps with anxiety considerably , no addiction issues
Show HN: BangleJS Triangulator
It's got all the peripherals for fun and interesting projects
Some writers acknowledge the possibility that they may be wrong and others are right, or that both views can be considered to be right.
> I don't see how that can make the project move faster. I wouldn't be surprised it has the opposite effect actually.

Possibly. But you surely already realized that business is a lot about "showing off", in this case showing off that AI is a matter for decision at the top level.
In most states, property taxes are what pays for schools, roads, libraries and things like that. When I was modernizing our state's motor vehicle registration system, I had to account for those fees in every vehicle (cars, boats, mobile homes, etc) registration cost. The state constitution states that things can only taxed based on value.

Taxed based on value:
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Law/Constitution/Constitutio...

Value based on fair market value:
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Law/Constitution/Constitutio...
Russian Army Is Double Its Size on Eve of Invasion, Likely Will Stay That Way
Teaching, nursing, and policing are all either _highly_ regulated or outright organized by the government. So I don't know if it makes sense to say something like "the market chooses not to prioritize policing" or "teacher's unions allow teachers to collect above-market salaries". The voters seem more relevant than the market here.
Your friends and family are going to pay you for every email? Every online purchase would be several dollars more expensive. Transactional email providers would go bankrupt.
This sounds a lot like a ‘title company’ to me.
Many open-source developers just want to code and get paid. But do they pay open-source developers to do the same? Or do they pay companies to sell them a product or service? In that case, they should build a product or service, not a tool or a library.

I have written and maintained dozens of open-source project [1], but I have only managed to make one sustainable open-source project [2]. It's also the only project for which I did all the things necessary to build a business (documentation, payment, invoicing, marketing, content, support, design, product management, tax fillings, legal, finance, etc).

I encourage everyone to open-source their code. But if you want to make a living out of it, you must also be an entrepreneur.

[1]: https://github.com/fzaninotto
[2]: https://marmelab.com/blog/2023/11/13/open-source-profit-2.ht...
"We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy."

Kind of Exaggeration to say that the other popular messaging apps don't respect your privacy.. all of them do, some more, other less, just not all of them have it as their main feature.
> 1gig is still the standard for wired

A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
The usernames are coming (alpha was announced), but it won't reduce cost since the account is still phone number-based.
Operator Overloading Without Name Mangling [pdf]
Can you point me to any further specifics on this?
It's a hell of a lot more than 3! The list of other agencies and fees I had to pay when buying my house and getting a mortgage were absolutely insane.
I had the same problem (there's a github issue about this: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/2186).

I swapped to k3s and the usage was half of what microk8s used.
> it means something that is produced while disregarding the truth.

The Cambridge Dictionary says it has two definitions[1]:

1. a rude word for complete nonsense or something that is not true

2. a rude word meaning to try to persuade someone or make them admire you by saying things that are not true

I don't think thise align with your definition and your idea that AIs always produce bullshit. They don't always produce nonsense or something that isn't true, and they don't intentionally use untrue statements to try and persuade someone or gain admiration.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bullshit
It still kills me that this name was used for a wired, rather than a wireless setup.
I agree that those flat surfaces would be great, except you'd have to shift other peoples' sticky leftover cups and bottles out of the way first. :(
The biggest fail indicator --- is if the project lacks any clear, sustainable financial support.

Building good, supported, reliable software of any significance takes both time and money. As with most things, there are examples to the contrary but these are exceptions more so than the rule. Some apparent exceptions are just failures delayed/in progress.
The article is a bit general to discuss but there is one specific point it touches that is crucial: it was trained on a wide array of resources, with both "true" (=corresponding to reality) content such as academic textbooks as well as tons of trash mixed with truth such as Twitter & Reddit posts and so on.

An example: I asked it for the way to move an AWS account between two OUs in Terraform. It promptly generated the code including a reference to the "aws_organizations_move_account" resource. Since it looked suspicious to me, I checked it and the only place it exists is a Github Issues page where the code is a proposal for something that could work somewhere in the future (it doesn't, you move accounts in a different way).

So if the people who trained the model decided that instead of making it general and versatile they will only focus on higher quality content, and made a manual selection if titles (most academic books, especially from respected publishers; public source code only from prominent projects with and adequately high number of developers and so on), they could produce a model that would be less eloquent but could generate less bullshit.
Sounds more like a lawyer or several competencies at the same time.

In Spain the notary "just" works through the signature of the contract:

- Checks the identities of the parties and their legal status
- Makes "sure" both parties understand the contract
- Verifies that the property can be sold (checks for legal issues in the national registry)
- Serves as a legal witness to the signature
- Sends a copy of the contract to the national registry (but AFAIK, doesn't follow up)

The cost here, for that, is around 500-800€. It's regulated by law.

Then you have to contact a registrar to make all the legal papers to make all the legal papers in the national registry. That's araound 300-400 €, I think.
Wrong.

In Germany the Maklerprovision (comission for the Real State agent) is 7%.

Typically, the seller pays half of it, but there are cases where the buyer pays it all.

You also need to pay a notary, government taxes, making the cost of buying a property over 12%+.

Furthermore, you shouldn't sell that property for around 10 years, otherwise, you'll need to pay Capital gains taxes.

The good part is that you don't pay any taxes if you own it for over 10 years and sell it.

Also property taxes are quite low, so once you get through this, it's usually great. Given that health insurance is public, there's quality public transport and the supermarket bill is cheap enough, it makes worth it!
Little did he know, his life would be as mundane as the one before.
(Edit: I wrote this but as soon as I did it sounds rude. Didn't intend it that way)
by your logic, ending your reply with "unnecessarily harsh" means your message was "unnecessarily harsh" if I didn't agree with some of the preceding sentences? such as your fictitious stats "95% of the message".

it's not for me means that I wouldn't buy the product or invest/fund it, but i saw potential in two market segments "impulse buying" and "gifting". my message was mixed and clearly stated that - usually businesses/inventors/makers like mixed feedback.

all the best.
Yes, and they suck compared to what's possible in Firefox. The history matters too, because Safari extensions were always extremely limited, while this change is an intentional downgrade for what's possible in Chrome.
Just like they promised to reimplement replacements for XUL extensions almost a decade ago. Still waiting for feature parity.
There were two new nuclear reactor projects launched in Europe in the 2000s / 2010s: two new reactors in Finland and Hinkley C in the UK. Finland canceled one and got one 1600 MW reactor online this year. Hinkley C is already 3 years late and will take at least 5 more years. In the same time Hinkley C was planned until now, the UK installed 10x the capacity of Hinkley C in wind alone.

You see the maths here, right? Not to mention wind and solar are cheaper than Hinkley C, already were in 2015 or so (based on 20 year bid prices per kWh for both alternatives).

Nuclear in the developed world is dead because it is too expensive. Nuclear isn't dead in the developing world because governments there want it, and it is better than coal (which makes nuclear a better choice for me, no idea if that really factors into those decisions or not). Developing countries could as easily go for renewables straight away as well so.

It is not society that needs to change to make nuclear viable again, it is the economics behind it. And with renewables, especially solar, following Moore's law to a T so far, that wont happen ever.
Strictly speaking, it says that inaccurate information is also available.
Discussion on the previous post from 3 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38259148
Lack of critical thinking makes docile voters and workers to order around. Convenient for the ruling class, convenient for those lacking it. Not knowing whats being done to you cant make you sad. But the end result is that of a house of cards.
Are we sure? (Some) People are still going to vote for Donald Trump in 2024, one of the "bullshit generators" (such as chatGPT) used as example in the article.

(n.b. I am not trying to make any type of political judgement here, I am just using the example in TFA).
Not sure how that's relevant. Who is buying from IBM? they should be advertising on MySpace. This is just an easy out for IBM.
Nah, you're in a very small minority. Most households have few hundred megs at most
I'm kind of happy to don't see Moxie with such rockstar salary as for instance the CTO one..
You're comparing the output of a small business with a multinational behemoth that has the advantages in procurement and manufacturing due to volume. What's the point of making that comparison and effectively negging someone's work?
This sounds more reasonable.

They may have been coming from the TB2, but they're being input by hand.

- Shore radar + TB2 work up track on Moskva (heading, speed)
- Missile launched to calculated intercept point
- If Neptunes have midcourse correction (?), point updated if Moskva changes course
Welcome to mandatory "secure DNS", followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome!

They won't stop. Ever.