skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you're perfectly right. I've currently tried to maintain some kind of uneasy balance between good conversational capacities (so that it really is a "chatGPT") and cultural reset, which means it may revert from its 17th persona occasionally. Actually this issue is a good illustration that LLM really are latent space explorer. When you prompt a clearly contemporary concept, the default embedding position will shift back to contemporary associations.

As a prompt engineering trick, I find it helps to use faux archaism (such as "pray tell" as an introductory phrase). This is basically a reinforcement anchor in the 17th century region of embedding space.
> "On average, people estimate their ability around the 65th percentile (actual results) rather than the 50th (simulated random results) -- a significant difference"

This is a different issue than D-K. The D-K hypothesis is that self assessment and actual performance are less correlated for weaker than higher performing individuals. People think they're better than average is a different (and much less controversial) bias.

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[DK-Effect] : I totally know I scored at least a 30% on that test, and that's certainly way better than average (it's not). [Actually scored 10%]

[No DK-Effect] : I totally know I scored at least a 30% on that test, and that's certainly way better than average (it's not). [Actually scored 30%]

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>However, roughly thirty years from now world population will peak, and the world economy will peak not long after. Population and the economy will soon fall by a factor of two every one or two generations.

That's just asserted as a fact without any justification given. A so is a bunch of other stuff.
>but I just can't think about it. It's like trying to think about my own death.

That pretty much sums up the general denial in the policy and tech circles: "something something our destiny to colonize the galaxy something something" and "it worked in the past, so it can't possibly ever stop working".
Until any vulnerability comes along that allows someone to escalate privileges...
Yes I needed that for the conversational/instructional capacities. I've made a lot of tests with base models and it would not listen to instruction very well…
This 2016 comic failed to predict GPTs. It turns out the same model that writes your code can also write the specification. I don’t blame the author, it’s nearly impossible to predict future technology. Pretending that GPTs don’t exist on the other hand, now that’s just silly.
> why do so many people even care about changing it?

Because multiple laws could punish them for tracking kids, so they think "anyone could be a kid" threatens their business model.
I for one plan to limit my children’s screen-propaganda time at least until they’re in middle school, so I appreciate a paper-propaganda option to serve as a less-stimulating entre to society.
If Y = X + estimation_error, then substracting X (in Y-X) removes the correlation rather than adding it.
Decentralized AI and the Future of Web3 [video]
I thought it was "infinite growth optimism" that showed much of the rationalist / effective altruist sphere as the ersatz-religion founded on questionable epistemology that it is.
Saw Napoleon today and it made him seem like a bumbling buffoon.
For me the trick was to no hoard random bookmarks. I still keep a short list of bookmarks that I visit often of very likely to re-visit.

Anything else is purged.
Tesla is new and mostly for tech-oriented people, the expectations are new and more techy things are ok. Legacy brands have expectations set in peoples' minds, so they have to keep up with their history.
Yeah, how dare they make such an accurate prediction based on all we know about population mechanics, limits to resources, and historical growth assosiated with both? We're here to be entertained and have our morale boosted, not think!
Also, every "class" has TXT records, not just the "IN" (internet class):

$ host -c ch -t txt version.bind glass.its.utexas.edu
version.bind descriptive text "9.11.36-RedHat-9.11.36-11.el8"

$ host -c ch -t txt version.bind ns1.yahoo.com
version.bind descriptive text "Yahoo"
I don’t think that argument makes any sense. Do people who use external bookmark managers suddenly stop using search? Also, this isn’t just about Chrome.
WhatsApp has an age limit of 13, but pretty much every kid gets an account when they are old enough to read and write. It's the de-facto way of communication, so parents just lie about the age knowingly.

That combined with the fact that it's impossible for a 3rd party to report an underaged user ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can't help comparing the $36bn cost of this with the >$70bn the UK is spending on a single high speed line between Birmingham and not-quite-London.
I mean, it depends on the features. Browsers have bookmarks, basic bookmarks.

Now there are bookmark tools which are archiving a page for example, have full text search. And you can add more and more features, it’s an endless game - that’s why we have that many bookmarking tools. Everybody has different priorities and needs different things.
My team at Microsoft works on DiskANN, which was designed for this kind of use case.

https://github.com/microsoft/DiskANN
Related: https://dns.toys
It was acquired by a company called "The Blockchain Group".

There is a 99% chance they were fucking around with users money and speculating with it or betting on it
Russia put Meta's communications director Andy Stone on the wanted list
I think this is a really tempting belief, and probably partially true, but I think the real picture is far more complicated.

Previous forms of intellectual inquiry had experiments and tests too. Previous thinkers evaluated their hypotheses against evidence in an effort to approach the truth.

But their epistemic (and ontological) foundations were radically different to ours. And those foundations (that inform what we define as “true”) have shifted profoundly throughout history. And I think it’d be hubris to look at that, as a fish swimming in the proverbial water, and say “yes, but our assumptions are actually true for real this time.”

If you’re interested in this stuff and haven’t read it already I’d recommend The Order of Things by Michel Foucault. There are questions about his scholarship (do all the sources he cites say the things he says they say??) but if you read his work with an open mind, I think you’d agree those kind of criticisms are missing the point.
Someone made an MMORPG hosted via a custom GPT
Did anyone else play the flash game, Flash Trek: Broken Mirror 2 in the mid 2000s? The game was great fun for its time.
and Google can remember which results you want when typing keywords to url column.

it almost work like I can access all things I need by "search" with Google...until I found Google does not remember anything after two year.
It's explicitly a DAG [0]. And, there's nothing absurd in the graph that I can see.

Curious, what makes you think it's cyclical? As far I understand, it's only a cyclical graph if the loops are closed, which they are very clearly not here.

0 - https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1726101733997441132
Dolphin is one of those projects you point to when talking about how great open source software is.
Documentation is still WIP and incomplete.

As per https://grimoire.pro/docs/roadmap
sharing, import, export, bookmarklet and browser extension are on the roadmap.

Offtopic: I've heard the word Grimoire only from the Black Clover anime and expected the author to be a fan of the series. Didn't know that it's such a common word, so TIL.
It takes a second to install gnu coreutils with homebrew and make Macs barely useable
I don't think the point is they will stop searching.

But they will search less. Which, as we have seen in the recent Google anti-trust case, is also a point Google looks at intensively when they introduce new features.
The CPU riser for Mac Pro (trash can) went bad and I am happy Apple actually had spares for a ten year old machine. This model don’t get any new major OS updates but could probably run Linux another decade. But there are no more spare parts soon I am sure.
The news is being unable to opt out or have downtime away from surveillance.

Honestly who wants to have a private relationship that is constantly surveilled.

The only places left to have a private conversation with my wife, is underground or in outer space.

Surveilling my bedroom is offensive.
Top PR firm Edelman uses 'trust barometer' to promote autocrats
I think the idea is they don't want people to use bookmarks at all and just search every time
The open source models are often as bad or worse than ChatGPT in that regard. How would a layman go about addressing that?
That would be weird, as Monaco is an independant country with their own administration and passport. Plus, unlike the vatican, it's an enclave by design, not integrated in the French public life beyond a few agreement to facilitate crossing the border.
Lognormality of data is killing for the methods of social scientists. If I were to hypothesize the underlying mechanism then it would be that raw skill is lognormally distributed for those taking tests at all (at least participating in these test usually entails an implicit lower bound on IQ, but also from the long tail of high performance in say sports), tests try to measure performance but with a reduction to normality (or 4 categories) and then people estimate their own skills based on their task and grading experiences which are also reduction to a normal or constant distribution. (“I was always a B- in math in high school and expect that to have distribution X and this test to follow that distribution“).

It’s three places where reductions in dimensionality take place both implicitly and explicitly. I don’t envy researchers trying to unpeel this onion. I do like the unraveling of all these problems that pop up in pretty accessible designed experiments. It makes for better understanding.
>> Even if we elect some bright-eyed big dreamer utpoist as president,...

I hope you are joking, or do you really believe this would be a solution to anything?

>> I really hate living here. The cognitive dissonance between the rah rah america best types and the people starving in the streets is just sickening. Something is very wrong in the world and it's so huge that you can't even imagine it getting better

I think you are living in a negative news bubble. Historically, the world is doing better than ever. Go travel, meet people outside of you circle if they are the gloom and doom types.

>> What can we do? Voting isn't enough, protesting isn't enough, what's left?

Start by working on your self, family, house, garden, friends, neighborhood, city,...
Fully agree, I used to be the same but if I can’t find it again through a search engine it was probably not important enough. So far I was able to track down everything I wanted.
Yes! Definitely agree. I don't curate videos. I just let people watch the channels they want to watch. Add a channel, it plays that channel. Add multiple, it shuffles them. There are no autosuggestions.

There are great creators on Youtube. But algos do not let people reach them.
Youtube is a beautiful archive and a great search engine.
But, you don't watch a search engine :)))
> which the DNS client will stitch together into one long string.

Not necessarily. In practice, yes, this is what clients looking for long SPF or DKIM records actually do. But there isn’t anything guaranteeing this if you invent your own use for TXT records.
That's why I think pranks based on misleading a friend to believe something are the dumbest possible idea. If you are friend I'll assume you are saying the truth, but if I know you lied to me even once I'll have to assume that you might be lying to me every time you'll try to make me believe something. Exactly like I do with a stranger. Was the cheap laugh worth it?
>Researchers explore how chronic caffeine consumption potentially impacts brain plasticity

Key words: "chronic caffeine consumption" and "potentially".

Main takeaway: Avoid chronic caffeine consumption to retain proper brain functions. So basically common sense, that excessive use of a psychostimulant will be bad for you.
I think what's more likely to happen is that people will be able to turn a conversation into code instead of just a problem statement. In fact, ChatGPT already does that, although you still need to have some skill in order to properly integrate and test the code that it gives you.
> If you want to make an argument that math or software shouldn't be copyrighted, LLMs actually make the case for stronger copyright protections.

Maybe, but as long as managers and shareholders all over the world are excited about the upside of the new technology, this is very unlikely to happen. ;)

LLMs would be dead in the water legally, if their owners had to account for every bit of IP the LLMs have been trained with.
That was the point all along.

These technologies like surveillance, facebook, phones, ect are all imposing separately..

When you fuse those technologies together, you can track and clamp down on and own men like a farmer owns cattle.

The next 'freedom' will likely be using tech to force people out of apathy, pushing them up and off the ground floor with electronic provocation.
The entire post is pointing out how bad the stats is in the original paper. If you want additional critique, go and read the references.
I enjoyed that. It was an honest, humble, useful reflection, and I wish the author well. They seem like a decent sort, and our poor industry desperately needs more “decent sorts.”

I had a similar background (especially the hardware core). I feel having a start in hardware, gave a tremendous foundation to all that followed.

One of the biggest epiphanies that I had, was when I realized that tech had gotten way too large for even the brightest polymath (which I am not) to master. I had to pick a direction, and walk that way, avoiding getting distracted by squirrels.

At the same time, I learned to keep long-term plans extremely vague, and go into focus on only the most immediate tasks. This is also how I tend to do my development architecture. I plan to change plans, and my architectures tend to have a lot of modules, “hooks,” bottlenecks, and “flex points.” Makes pivoting and repurposing straightforward. It’s basically habit, these days. Also, a pretty heavy-duty focus on code quality and documentation[0].

WFM, YMMV.

For myself, I’ve learned that I really enjoy “making things that people use.” UX, usability, accessibility, localization, and affording mental models. It gets sneered at, a lot, but is a huge challenge, to get right. Many great projects fail, because their engineers think that the UX is just “useless chrome that any schlub can do.”

Designing UX is designing around human nature; one of the most complex and unpredictable systems on Earth.

What gets a bit grating, but is also just basic human nature (so isn’t going anywhere, and also isn’t just a tech phenomenon), is folks that insist that if we aren’t experts in <TECH THEY ARE GOOD AT /> don’t use <TECHNIQUE THEY ARE PROUD OF /> or don’t use jargon, that we are “bad programmers.”

Personally, I find people that are truly good (as opposed to just facile) in stuff that is not my bailiwick, to be fascinating, and I appreciate having them around. I like to work on “heterogeneous” teams.

I think tech is wonderful. It isn’t a monorepo. There’s a hell of a lot of submodules, and each is a flourishing, rich, interesting world, with the ability to engage and enrich you. If you don’t like one, move to another.

I will say that shipping software, is different from writing software. There’s a lot of hard, grinding, boring work that we need to power through, and, sometimes, that work exceeds the actual engineering and design work. It’s not for everyone, and demands a different skillset from your standard geek arsenal.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
I'm sure that The Blockchain Group (TBG) didn't do anything unusual or illegal with money in Bountysource...

My gut feeling is that TBG bought the bounty site with a view to paying bounties in their own shitcoin, but then all their crypto "investments" went south, and they pillaged all the coffers... and probably threw good money after bad.
In that case I search my browsing history or re-navigate to that thing with a search engine.
Nvidia still sells Quadro cards with the same chips as their gaming counterparts but much more VRAM. They are mainly used for workstations (CAD stuff, VFX, some CFD, maybe also some AI for small scale testing).
If it's a statistical illusion, the correlation is still true, it just has no business being studied by psychologists.

If I roll a die, and then roll a second die, I might study the behaviour of the second die and wonder why it wants to add up to 7 with the first die. Since they're dice, I can dismiss that as a stupid idea, but if they were people, I could certainly be led astray by psychological theories about them.
I understand your sentiment. I think the way the project is presented ("Let's make the trip to Birmingham 30 mins shorter") is not very helpful either. And while I lack the knowledge to assess the project, I've read some counterpoints to this in an article linked here on hn.

I think it went along the lines of: the couple tracks running from the north towards London from Midlands are all at the edge of their capacity. The HS2 will take some load off those and thereby increase the capacity by X percent for all the commuter trains.

edit: I haven't been following this in the past year. Now I see they scrapped the Euston hub.
It's an LLM, "pretending" and "truly beleiving" are the same, or rather don't exist.

It's like, when you use prompts like : "You're an helpful assistant", is it believing, pretending, or beleiving to be pretending to be an helpful assistant?

It's as funny as disconcerting to see intent and will attributed to probabiltities. Feels sometimes like we're close to making a religion out of this. History of the human race, i guess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs for the ref).
So what would be the difference between the two of them?
I did not make a statement on reading, but on social perception where I'm from. Reading is nice, I have many thick books myself and I love(d) them, and it's a sustainable hobby in my perspective of social relations because the majority of people here tend to have a negative experience with reading, not being a thing of their own volition, but a requirement, especially on content they don't even care about. Therefore, if, say, you're a child, and your parents see you reading, they're less likely to throw a fit than if you were playing Counter Strike or something.
I work in rail software. One reason NA is moving slower than expected is software standards. No, really.

Europe does rail pretty well, all things considered. Well enough that companies (like mine) eventually get subcontracted to build things for the North American market as well. Problem is, rail is a highly regulated industry, which means lots of mandatory software documentation.

European countries all use the EN documentation standards. The US and Canada tend to use the IEEE-1558 and its ilk. Neither document is a subset of the other; there exists no easy list of differences between the two standards to allow compatibility.

So the actual software development goes pretty smoothly -- then someone realizes there's no standard-conforming documentation and the whole project grinds to a halt. Often for years, because the number of people who are fluent in writing docs for/translating docs between both standards in any given country, you can count on one hand. I am rumored to be one of them.
> “think step by step” has been established as a key improvement over LLM’s

It's funny that it also improves quality of answers to problems given by human children. You tell them that if you want them to actually solve a problem instead of blurting made up answer.
3 days old, twitter one seems 4 days old, who stole from who?

Anyway nice repo, thanks for sharing!
Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?
Zig and Go both let you silence the error with `_ = myvar`. It can still be annoying, but it avoids the recursive problem you mentioned. Language design is hard, and it's best to not just assume that people are "idiotic" for not thinking the way you do. Turn the volume down a bit, and maybe find a synonym for "literally" for the sake of variety.
X may lose up to $75M by year-end on advertiser exodus
Datalog is highly undervalued IMHO. You can describe quite complex relationships in your data, without telling the computer _how_ to realise them (as in imperatively). In fact, there are different strategies (forward vs backward chaining) where you may never realise the data at all.
> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
Not a single mention of sleep, which one would think would have a strong relationship with both coffee habits and learning and memory.
Basically everyone who consumes caffeine is a chronic user. Everyone I know of drinks it daily, and skipping one day is very unpleasant until your brain gets used to lack of it again (a couple miserable days).
For many people, Google is sort of their bookmark manager.

Want to open Facebook? Search 'Facebook' and click on the link.

Want to open your bank site ? Again google bank name and click on the link.

I've see even tech people do this. The only bookmarks I've seen my colleagues use are for internal reference wikis and links which are not readily searchable.

I don't know whether this is a search or UX or people problem but the whole workflow can be improved for sure.
Was China behind Sam Altman's ousting?
That's very interesting. I currently live in Barcelona, and most people would be very surprised to see Rodalies held up as any sort of platonic ideal of anything. Though it is true that it could be a great transit network, given the necessary investment in its maintenance and improvement. Perhaps in two or three more decades.
Seems hard to catch at an audit. Surely he just used the stolen code as reference and didn't re-use entire files containing "Copyright by Valeo".

If he would have been any smarter, he would have kept the stolen files on a private computer and he would have gotten away with it.
Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source
The person who created the Custom GPT with same name will be pissed
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looks very cool! has there been any talk of native codegen/backends and integration with newfangled cool kid ecosystems (rust, go, etc)?
>Basically everyone who consumes caffeine is a chronic user. Everyone I know of drinks it daily

There goes HN with the health quackery again. Citation needed other than your opinion on you circle of acquaintances.

Drinking 300mg vs 50mg of caffeine a day are not the same, and lumping everyone under chronic just because you have a strong opinion on the topic is silly.

In this case they define chronic as someone who consumes over 200mg per day but the article and paper itself is very weak as they did not accurately measure subject's caffeine intake, they just went on subject's self reported data("I drank a coffee and a red bull") and built estimations on that which is weak science as there's not a fixed amount of cafeine in a cup of coffee but can vary wildly.