skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been attempting to use the “official” function calling API for every new version of GPT they put out but it’s always a dead end. It seems only to be able to handle 4-5 functions at a time before it starts hallucinating parameters or starts responding in clear text instead of whatever internal format OpenAI uses in their backend before sending a structured response back to me. The whole JSON schema thing seems way too verbose and complicated, and even with the claims that the new function calling models are specifically tuned to the format, it has the same issues.

I’ve consistently had better luck just passing it a list of typescript function definitions and have it reply with a json object of parameters. It seems to understand this way better, and doesn’t lose focus half as quickly. It also allows me to mix regular responses and chain-of-thought reasoning in with the calls, which is something it seems to simply refuse to do when “function calling mode” is active.

An additional trick I’ve been using to make it stay focused with even longer prompts is to only provide a list of function names and let it hallucinate parameters for them, and then “gaslight” it by sending a new request, now with a more detailed prompt on the specific functions it wanted to call. More costly, but I haven’t found any other way of keeping it focused. Anyone know any additional tricks?
I always worry about the poisons for creatures that want our food because, well, they seem likely to track it into the place we keep our food! But I guess the plan is mostly not to eat food from containers that the roaches have gotten into in the first place.
Not only are verbal agreements enforceable, in many states non-payment of compensation comes under laws especially favorable to workers. Not being dischargeable in bankruptcy and piercing the corporate veil come to mind. In general don't mess around with not paying people for work.
It's so sad how many people's heath is affected by assholes trying to protect their ego.
If you had been diagnosed, it may be worth giving it a try. You may be able to convince a doctor to give you a one-month supply of fast acting pills to evaluate the results, based on old diagnosis. This will give you more than enough baseline for much more detailed discussion and/or action clarity.

I don't have ADHD (or think I do not anyway), but my wife (late 30s) has been diagnosed as an adult and started taking Vyvanse six months ago.

This is fast acting, slow release, non-accumulative medecine. Her doze kicks in within 20 minutes and slowly tapers off over the day. There is probably some minor residual effect crossing into the second day, mostly because if she takes it for many days stright, she needs a day or two break.

Her taking Vyvance saved our marriage and she is feels that the person she was before taking Vyvance is "gone". The day she took the first doze, she wrote about 20 pages of notes of what was different. Off-pill, she could not write 20 pages on demand, online in full hyper-focus mode. The pill is less effective now, but it sure still makes a difference.

I think having "on pill" and "off pill" perspective on the same issue by the "same person"(you/her) can help break a lot of bad patterns where the person thinks their position is the only valid one. Suddenly, they get a range of options from the "inside of their head". It also allows her to still have access to traditional creative ADHD super-powers (off-pill days) but then balance it with productivity of on-pill days.

As an anecdote. Before the pill if we would walk up to a traffic light blinking green with 20 seconds left - she would refuse to cross. Just too worried about not having enough time. Probably not ADHD itself, but one of co-morbidities. But also maybe not having enough focus to make a snap decision. On pill, she will cross with 5 seconds left. Because she has the focus and the drive.

As another anecdote. Our arguments/negotations (pre-pill) would be like floating on a stormy sea, always changing direction and shape of the argument. And even if we reached a conclusion, it would only be about the very last point discussed, ignoring the journey. The first serious discussion "on the pill" felt not that dissimilar, but at the end she turned to me and said "So we discussed these 6 things (named 1, named 2, ...) and agreed on X". I was blown away, as I was very used to the old ways.

Books I found more helpful than others:

* Melissa Orlov's book about ADHD and marriage: https://archive.org/details/adhdeffectonmarr0000orlo
* https://www.amazon.ca/ADHD-2-0-Essential-Strategies-Distract... - this one, among other good bits, includes a table of all ADHD medecines and their effects, including a comment that off-brand Concerta (I believe) does not actually work

P.s. She also feels that Focus Factor non-prescription pills work partially (she discovered these pre-pill and still uses them on off-pill day). I am reserving an opinion and provide a link purely to clarify the brand, as the name alone gets lots of matches: https://www.focusfactor.com/products/focus-factor-original?v...
Even then boosters which have already flown are considered more reliable. NASA now prefers flight proven boosters over brand new ones for instance.
Well, the example given shows that the conclusion wasn't necessarily wrong because Google has the same issue.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38701381
Yeah I was using hacky workarounds like this to get Object[] types in my schema. The API seemed to throw a fit if I did this in any other way.

```
{"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {"object": {"type": "object"}}}}
```

Somehow the thought to just write the typescript myself never occurred haha.
No, I'm not talking about magnetic core memory. Core rope memory also used little magnetic rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory input wires were energized, and they were coupled (or not) to the output wires depending on if they shared a magnetic ring (or not).
Generally no but taking them apart to look at the chips inside is easy. Fwiw everything has a CPU in it these days. Actually that's been true since the 70s. Your old 1970's keyboard had a fully programmable CPU in it. Typically an Intel MCS-48 variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-48#Uses

Today it's even more the case. You have fully programmable CPUs in your keyboard, trackpad, mouse, all usb devices, etc.
ChatGPTs birth as a research preview may have been an attempt to avoid these issues. It would have been unlikely to trigger legal anger for a free product which few use. When usage exploded, the natural inclination would be to hope for the best.

Google may simply have been obliged to follow suit.

Personally, I’m looking forward to pirate LLMs trained on academic content.
I hike around mountain lions, bears (including grizzlies), venomous snakes, etc... I think this argument is compelling only to someone who doesn't go outdoors in the first place.
Sure your name isn't drew? Cause that's the exact crap he did with the open source hardware/company and Prusa just the other day.
Yes - internet "news" is hardly a positive.

I grew up in the UK, so news was mainly from the BBC which was pretty decent although bad news (e.g. IRA bombings) was still front and center. US TV news doesn't even pretend/try to be unbiased and is all about shock value, reinforcing their viewers political beliefs and of course advertizing (which the BBC didn't have, being state funded).

Internet takes bad news and misinformation to a whole new and massively distorted level.

I gave up watching TV many years ago (nowadays primarily YouTube & Netflix for entertainment), and mostly just skim headlines (e.g. Google news) to get an idea of what's going on.
Intent isn't some magic way to claim innocence. Here negligence is very much at play. Were OpenAI negligent when they made the NYT articles available like this?
If it meant I didn't have to spend thousands of more hours working on something that doesn't interest me anymore, sure.
Does it cause you problems in work or life? Then yes. If you don't know the answer then maybe it's worth trying for a while to see how it goes.

Beware, though, the first few weeks on ADHD meds can be intense (finding motivation you didn't know you didn't have), but they don't really last forever. Your brain adapts.

ADHD meds don't take away the superpower part as far as I've noticed. They just enhance it.
Hm your anecdata is pretty concerning..
Kit – Clojure Web Development
AI summaries have been common on Reddit for almost a decade now. Where does the problem of "accuracy" come in? They weren't even using LLMs
I don’t think it’s an issue of pesticides being “too weak for consumers”. You can buy all the same stuff as an exterminator[0] (use PPE and follow the labeling, don’t break laws, etc), but when you spray you’ll notice a huge knockdown, hundreds will die, but it only takes a breeding pair to get right back to an infestation in a few months. Generally when doing roach infestation treatments you do a multi tiered approach, with max legal mixes of pesticide + growth inhibitors in your spray then putting down bait in spots that you DID NOT spray (or they won’t ingest the bait). They’re just resilient little buggers. Spiders are actually harder to treat, but most people don’t end up with spider infestations. And then bed bugs are in a class of their own in terms of awfulness and difficulty of elimination.

[0] https://www.domyown.com
bleach is also antibiotic then
> How well-behaved the animal has been historically is not relevant.

Not only is it historically relevant, but in fact it is the only thing that is relevant.

Small, well-behaved companion dogs have been allowed to roam free since medieval times, including indoors.

> Liking dogs is not a universal trait, not everyone wants them near. It’s the owner’s responsibility to the rest of society to supervise their animal and make sure it doesn’t go near people who don’t want it near them.

As long as we agree to do the same for little children, who are size and mentally similar to dogs.
> Synology NAS

Which one to get since there is a whole bunch of options/models ?
When i watched that follow up video and he didn't apologize he only said that he wasn't clear enough. In most responses like the other above linked criticism he doesn't apologize either and just gives out a long list of reasons why he's right. In the electricity follow up video it really seemed like he was saying more along the lines of "I was always right, you just weren't smart enough to understand what i was really saying because i was unclear". So I wouldn't say that he apologized, just doubled down and accepted fault with the lack of clarity but without saying sorry in any way.

It really put me off his channel for a long time. I still watch his channel to be fair and get a lot out of it, but his videos hit different after seeing him double down on criticisms and contorting controversy instead of just saying sorry.
I remember reading years ago about EEGs showing daytime cable TV viewers can lull into a relaxed state similar to people who are half asleep or meditating.
I think the fundamental issue is that free software and open software are enablers but not products.

Free software and open software reducing your costs in making products that make money. Be they services (a la Google/Facebook), hardware, operating systems (a la Apple and Darwin), or books (a la OReilly), or consulting (a la IBM).

Open source itself doesn't make money.

So if you can open source and reduce your maintenance costs of something that is required for your product but not really a differentiator it is a win.

If you try to make money from open source itself, either you will fail, or else you will end up either de-facto abandoning open source, or else doing shady legal things to get around it (see the example of Red Hat/IBM in the article).
> Maybe the general pattern of letting people send messages to someone who’s installed then uninstalled the app? Sorry to anyone who’s tried to contact me on Signal or Snapchat over the past decade.

At least for Signal and WhatsApp, the sender can see when the receiver's phone received the message (the single tick mark which means "received by the server" becomes a double tick mark), so the situation when the receiver's phone doesn't have the app anymore (or is turned off) is a bit better. But yeah, it would be best if these apps warned when trying to message someone whose phone hasn't contacted the messaging server in a while.
https://archive.is/cCIeJ
>Define boot.

Good idea. Legitimate request.

As it was understood with 1980's microprocessor desktops, booting was a more complex stepwise startup procedure than simply running the fully-functional factory OS or video game instantly from ROM.

Booting required a storage medium other than memory (such as punch cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, disks) to peripherally store the actual OS or shell which had to be loaded into memory in a "bootstrapping" process before it could run. RAM was used for the working OS rather than ROM, so process control was "booted" to RAM right after the ROM code merely establishes a hardware interface and serves as an Initial Program Loader.

Nobody ever talked about "booting" a C64 or Atari400 if all you were going to run was the factory BASIC command line.

Which was the vast majority of non-gaming use. Far fewer users had external storage to begin with and almost all of them used it only for storing & loading their own code or non-ROM game files [0].

Only the uncommonly advanced operators (not me) were actually using their external storage to "boot" to a different OS or programming language, but it was necessary if you were going to use something like Pascal [1]:

"Kyan PASCAL consists of two programs: the editor program (ED) and the compiler/assembler program (PC). When your Apple (ATARI) is booted (to boot the ATARI, push the <OPTION> key during power-up) with a KyanPASCAL disk in the drive the following will be displayed:

KYANPASCAL VERSION 1.0 COPYRIGHT

1985 BY KYANSOFTWARE

1850 UNION STREET, SUITE 183

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123

>"

IOW when you didn't push the <OPTION> key during power up (which very few users ever pushed) you weren't booting the Atari, but merely powering up and running the game or command line directly from ROM.

It was not like an x86 PC which used its ROM firmware mainly as an Initial Program Loader, otherwise known as a bootloader, to load your desired OS from storage into RAM, giving you access to a correspronding command line the booting way. If you weren't going to run something like a Disk Operating System why would you want to boot anyway?

It may be obvious but I really did like it with computers that you didn't need to boot.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings.

[0] so BASIC was dabbled in more often and widely as a "game" similar to the regular game cartridges, where they had to start from the beginning each time you turned on the computer, and all progress was lost when you powered down.

[1] http://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/Kyan_Pascal_Manual.pdf
> In the last ice age, a permanent ice sheet formed over the Alps. Up to one kilometre thick, its tremendous weight ground against the terrain. It thawed and refroze in stages, and with every thaw, meltwater washed out the rubble. Over the course of 100,000 years, this ice sheet tore the top 250 metres of rock and soil from the surface of the Swiss Central Plateau. At its peak, about 24,000 years ago, it extended across all the northern cantons. It did not reach the Jura or Ticino. In 1964, Dr Franz Merke, a Basel surgeon, showed that the extent of the ice sheet ‘corresponded precisely’ with the prevalence of goitre: Switzerland had been stripped of its iodine.
Relay for Reddit is one of the only survivors (on Android) and is fantastic. The dev bent over backwards to keep it going during all of the turmoil. It's subscription-based now, but really cheap and easy to change levels.

The app also clearly hows how many API calls you're using, daily averages and such.

I think I would have left Reddit completely if I'd been forced to use their app.
Who would have thought Joe’s apartment would be unrelatable?
I’m thinking the canvas is just given a fixed position and a low z-index and then a “normal” webpage can be made with areas that have a zero opacity element (or no element but then layout is harder).

It feels super impressive but the more I think of it, I think the trick is actually quite simple. I wonder what edge cases I’m not thinking about.
All I can ever think about with how ML models work is that they sound an awful lot like Data Laundering schemes.

You can get basically-but-not-quite-exactly the copyrighted material that it was trained on.

Saw this a lot with some earlier image models where you could type in an artists name and get their work back.

The fact that AI models are having to put up guardrails to prevent that sort of use is a good sign that they weren't trained ethically and they should be paying a ton of licensing fees to the people whose content they used without permission.
I bought a used EV back in 2016 (2013 Leaf, certified preowned from dealer, just off 3 year lease), and negotiated 25% off asking price, coming in at $9k.

I have had $0 in maintenance costs, the battery health meter (and approx range) is still exactly where it was when I bought it, despite tripling the miles. I drive it every day for in city driving.

Meanwhile my Jeep of the same era required a new crate motor be installed after a cooling failure, and I’m pretty sure the transmission will need replacing in the next 5 years. The repair costs on this vehicle have been well over $10k. We ended up giving it to my sister in law after fixing it up, then bought a Subaru (which the assisted cruise control on is basically highway self driving, so good for long trips!).

A lot of ICE cars end up as junk too. The EV is actually more promising to me BECAUSE of the battery swap. I can put a battery in my Leaf from a newer vehicle and increase range to a couple hundred miles (I’ll do this eventually, maybe in another 10 years). This increases the longevity of the vehicle (it’s a great car aside from range).

Honestly, the Leaf was the best car purchase I’ve ever made (I’ve owned 7 in my life, all for > 10 years, aside from the latest car and another which was stolen). I’d highly recommend people buy used EVs (but I would do a certified preowned vehicle from the dealer again, you want to know that it doesn’t have said costly damage to the vehicle, but that’s true of ICE cars that require major work too).

PS: we use the EV for city driving (easily 90% of our car use) and the ICE car to go long distances (visit relatives, camping, road trips), and only leaves the garage 2-5 times a month (but packs on the miles!).
That sounds like Type 1 diabetes. Your pancreas doesn't generate insulin in Type 1, and in type 2 your body has insulin resistance, which makes the insulin that your body makes ineffective at regulating your blood sugar.
There's also the descendents:

https://wiki.c2.com/?PathLanguage

https://esolangs.org/wiki/SNUSP
if it affects flesh that way wouldn't it have clear effects on the internal organs? or are the biology of insects so much different vs mammals

this kind of technology perplexes me
So you seek to escape the hivemind of opinion. It can be hard to accomplish, even people whose recommendations I trust are never truly sound when they dislike something. I like a LOT of things that various people hate, for various reasons, and like things they like too. I think sometimes you just have to skip recommendations and look at what's been released in x year by category you're interested in, and look for what interests you instead. The gems are indeed, the ones less talked about.
> proven mechanism of near work

Proven how? The article is pretty explicit about the relationship between near work and myopia being just a correlation, not causation.
I think we need a lot of clarity here. I think it's perfectly sensible to look at gigantic corpuses of high quality literature as being something society would want to be fair use for training an LLM to better understand and produce more correct writing... but the actual information contained in NYT articles should probably be controlled primarily by NYT. If the value a business delivers (in this case the information of the articles) can be freely poached without limitation by competitors then that business can't afford to actually invest in delivering a quality product.

As a counter argument it might be reasonable to instead say that the NYT delivers "current information" so perhaps it'd be fair to train your model on articles so long as they aren't too recent... but I think a lot of the information that the NYT now relies on for actual traffic is their non-temporal stuff - including things like life advice and recipes.
Yeah, transcripts of verbal conversations are like that.
You're mistaken I'm afraid.

If you look at this video it makes the case better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VODSVVkKRD4

Forspoken is a game that's not built with rapid loads in mind - it's designed to work on a range of hardware that will in the worst case include spinning hard disks (or more realistically, basic SATA SSD drives). That it can load assets relatively quickly on a high end machine with DirectStorage completely misses the point - the pipeline just isn't there to load assets at a consistent fast pace like it is with the PS5 architecture (and the XS architecture).

In the example above from Rift Apart (which to the best of my knowledge is not using DirectStorage to be fair), the frame-rate dives hard on any asset loading task. DirectStorage is more efficient with this, but it still chews cycles to move the data in the absence of dedicated hardware - there's just no way around this logically, and that's the point. The developer is constrained to designing a game in a way that will work consistently across hardware.

Faster loading screens are better than slow loading screens, but they're not better than no loading screens at all. Likewise, having games introduce elevators to nowhere or tunnels of nothingness to allow assets to be loaded is not a problem that you can work around on current PC titles - it fundamentally limits how the game is designed, not just how well it performs.

The PS5 CPU is far from anaemic, and buying a really expensive CPU for a PC with double the core count to get less real-terms performance doesn't seem like a great trade-off.
HIPAA is about more than just names. Just information such as a patient's ZIP code and full medical history is often enough to de-anonymise someone. HIPAA breaches are considered much more severe than intellectual property infringements. I think the main reason that patients are considered to have ownership of even anonymised versions of their data (in terms of controlling how it is used) is that attempted anonymisation can fail, and there is always a risk of being deanonymised.

If somehow it could be proven without doubt that deanonymising that data wasn't possible (which cannot be done), then the harm probably wouldn't be very big aside from just general data ownership concerns which are already being discussed.
>Here’s one of the many astounding finds in Microsoft Research’s Sparks of AGI paper. They found that GPT-4 could write the LaTex code to draw a unicorn.

a lot of people have tried to replicate this, I have tried. It's very hard to get GPT-4 to draw a unicorn, also asking it to draw an upside down unicorn is even harder.
I know all that. But who did the training?
This is a transcript of a podcast - but I hear your point about impressive communication