skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to use the persona modifier to have it impersonate a Catholic priest and give last rites but it wasn’t having it including giving me a system warning.

“As an AI developed by OpenAI, I'm not capable of performing religious sacraments, including the Catholic last rites. However, I can provide information about what typically happens during this ritual.

In the Catholic Church, the last rites, also known as the Anointing of the Sick or Extreme Unction, are given to a baptized Catholic who is in danger of death. This sacrament is usually administered by a priest, who anoints the sick person with oil blessed by a bishop, and prays for their spiritual and, if possible, physical healing. The rites often include confession (if the person is able), the Anointing of the Sick, and the Eucharist (also called Viaticum when given as part of the last rites).

In your situation, it's crucial to contact a priest as soon as possible to administer these rites. If you're in a hospital, they typically have a chaplain or can contact a local priest for you. If you're elsewhere, reaching out to a nearby Catholic church, like the St. Ambrose diocese, is the best course of action.”

https://chat.openai.com/share/70d0dd20-c3ba-43bc-b74d-182885...
It's a good idea! The Math Olympiad was a thing when I was in school. Just need to turn that into a more mainstream competition and build up a much larger culture and business around succeeding in it.
Maybe root it in reality.
They could have changed it to not do this after getting sued.
I’m arguing it’s pointless to criticize that because the “data” and results aren’t the point anyway.
> they'd be visible as unread to him, so he'd already see that there was an issue

Isn’t that an opt-in feature that would have to be enabled on the laptop, not by default?
it is just the commercial name for llm and related technologies.
How would they know to make a fuss.

This is not hard to figure out plus when it was frequent, they did.
I don’t think anyone believes regulation would fix the root cause of the victims’ psychological issues.

The idea is that the government preventing predatory exploitation of vulnerable individuals, regardless of the specific cause of their vulnerability, is a good thing in and of itself.
Teen's death in Wisconsin sawmill highlights "21st century problem" across U.S.
> It is not an unreasonable hypothesis that brains evolved to solve a similar sequence modeling problem.

The real world is random, requires making decisions on incomplete information in situations that have never happened before. The real world is not a sequence of tokens.

Consciousness requires instincts in order to prioritize the endless streams of information. One thing people dont want to accept about any AI is that humans always have to tell it WHAT to think about. Our base reptilian brains are the core driver behind all behavior. AI cannot learn that
I love YouTube, for it's medium to long content. The depth videos and the relaxation I get from spending 30 minutes watching someone repair an old Amiga or Mac is amazing, but YouTube Shorts is freaking scary. Apparently I do not have the self control to handle Shorts and every 30 days I tell YouTube to hide them. If that feature goes away I think I just need to cancel my YouTube Premium subscription and block the site.

In recent days I have also noticed that the YouTube algorithm will move you towards increasingly scary content. The algorithm will quickly move you from weight training to misogynist videos in less than 30 minutes.
Yes. There's two common types of modules with different behavior here: `Module` and `RawModule`. The former has implicit clock and reset ports. The latter has no implicit clock and reset. All design can be done with the latter, just a bit more verbosely---all clock and reset ports need to be defined and anytime a construct that needs a clock or reset is used (e.g., a register), it would need to be wrapped in a `withClock`/`withReset`/`withClockAndReset`.
SearchArray turns Pandas string columns into a term index
I have never been shown a tiktok live that is relevant to anything I've done, sometimes they're not even in English. Are you sure their algorithm isn't a random number generator?
It's true. Name me an iPhone model that shipped at a hardware loss, then name me a modern console that hit shelves making a profit. You can't; iPhones don't ship at a loss. Not on day one, not on day one-hundred, not ever. It's not necessarily a knock against Apple's business model, but it is a fact of the modern market; iPhone hardware margins are extreme. They do not correlate with the profit margins of modern consoles, even later-on in their lifespan.

Despite being someone who wants consoles to be a more open platform, it's trivial to see why they have an argument and Apple doesn't. Apple is a hardware company using their de-facto software control to bolster profits and prevent competition. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are essentially software companies, selling DRM-enabled clients to ensure their continued profitability. It's up to the court to make a ruling, but I have a hard time believing consoles are any more relevant than Blu-Ray players or Nespresso machines.
Taking an original "one of one" piece from a museum without permission and hanging it up in your livingroom isn't exactly copyright infringement though, is it?
Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard Outrun Arcade
Totally agree. Back in 2004 I used it daily to bridge between two PCs running on one network, behind a firewall with one running the synergy server and the other the client, and a laptop running the client. Both PCs were under my desk with my laptop and two screens from the PCs on top. I had one keyboard and mouse across three screens powered by three computers and could seamlessly not only move my mouse across all 3, but also copy paste text across too. I believe a newer version (which may never have materialized before it went closed source) was going to have drag n drop across too. It was so easy to work with and remember it very fondly. It was magic stuff.
IANAD [doctor] and missed that in the sea of jargon - but I think your question actually clarifies how the LLM got confused. I wouldn't necessarily say "more general than vision," but more severe. There's a big difference between "unaware of objects" and "difficulty seeing or distinguishing objects."

It looks like GPT-4 disregarded "unaware of objects on their left side" in favor of more clinical (but less specific) information later in the question: "two hours after the accident, there was a left hemianopia." According to Dr. Wikipedia, "hemianopia" is a vague term that could indicate partial loss of vision, or could only affect one eye. But the patient's informal description sure doesn't sound like a partial loss of vision, nor did he say "left eye." The information of "left hemianopia" needs to be considered alongside what the patient self-reported - it confirms and clarifies what the patient said - but the LLM didn't seem to do this.

There's other implicit information that the LLM would have trouble leveraging:

- the problem is so serious that a 35-year-old with a 20-year history of migraines immediately went to the hospital, so I would be very reluctant to dismiss it as a migraine related to the "stress of the accident."

- when I hear "unaware of objects on their left side" my gut reaction as someone with a brain is "that sounds like brain damage, you need to go to the hospital."

- Even with its limitations, GPT-4 should have realized "two hours after the accident" meant that it wasn't a temporary migraine-related hemianopia. Apparently it didn't. But I think this is amenable to specific training. The other two things are not, but they are the kind of thinking doctors rely on.
If the NYT goes under, why would its replacement fare any better?
Substack Turns on Its 'Nazis Welcome ' Sign
Go tell the mobile standards orgs to make a better standard. RCS got halfway there, and then just gave up, and everything on Android uses... proprietary extensions.
So I suppose it would be the like saying that if you used Stack Overflow to find answers, all of the work you created using information from it would have to be explicitly under the Creative Commons license. You wouldn't even be able to work for companies who aren't using that license if some of your knowledge comes from what you learned on Stack Overflow. Used Stack Overflow to learn anything about programming? You're going to have to turn down that FAANG offer.

And if you learned anything from videos/books/newsletters with commercial licenses, you would have to pay some sort of fee for using that information.
Depending on the religion I suppose.

The old testament was quite clear about creating man and woman explicitly.

Do you have an example of a religion that is more vague and therefore more inviting to evolution?
Well yeah, they’re being sued. They move very quickly to stop any obvious copyright violation paths.
The Asylum suit was about trademark, not copyright. Asylum changed the title of the film to not infringe on Warner brother’s trademark and released it anyway.
This kind of filler-laden writing will be quickly eradicated, like the cockroach, but by AI. I had bing or copilot, whatever microsoft is calling it in the edge sidebar answer the question I clicked the bait for.

> According to the article, they solved the cockroach infestation by using a new product called Combat, which was a bait that contained a slow-acting poison that could kill roaches through various mechanisms of transfer, such as feces, vomit, cannibalism, and necrophagy. The bait was attractive to roaches and could wipe out entire colonies, even if only a fraction of them ate it. The product was developed by American Cyanamid, a chemical company, and tested by Austin Frishman, a cockroach expert. The product was launched in 1985 and became a huge success, reducing cockroach complaints and populations across the country. The article claims that this was a forgotten achievement in the history of pest control, and that the roaches are slowly coming back due to behavioral resistance to the bait.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/27/2023
(1) The Cockroach Cure - The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/11/cockroa....
(2) Cockroach Infestation - Signs, Prevention, and Control of Roaches. https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/cockroach-infestation....
(3) How To Get Rid Of Roaches - This Old House. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/pest-control/reviews/how-to-get....
(4) How To Get Rid Of Roaches – Forbes Home. https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/pest-control/how-to-....
Proton lost my trust when every time you open their webmail they shove PLEASE UPGRADE TO A BETTER PLAN in your face or YOU CAN NOW HAVE PROTON VPN AND PROTON DRIVE FOR $9 PER MONTH if you have the free plan.

It's a very sketchy behavior for a company that says they care about your privacy.
> All of these features are available today, as of this reading, with every major browser supporting them in the current version

> This mixes your primary color with 50% white, in the sRGB space. You can use other, newer, better color spaces too, such as OKLCH, which is my favorite.

Relative OKLCH colors aren't available on Firefox as of today: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...

Here's a page with example gradients in SRGB and OKLCH, in which the second gradient does not show if viewed on Firefox: https://www.learnwithjason.dev/blog/oklch-better-color-css-b...
How Jamstack, MACH, and traditional CMSes like Drupal are evolving by learning from one another. Also, debunking some myths in Jamstack and MACH marketing.
The problem is a "free", proprietary service which is not explicitly opt-ed in.

This is just Internet Explorer again, disguised.
I think the above commenter is just pointing out how the fundamental conflict between these two things results in significantly lessened incentive for pharmaceutical companies to put money into researching new antibiotics
No, when Scratch first came out it was a stand-alone Squeak Smalltalk image that you ran locally. There was a Java-based online viewer, but no editor.

Then it moved to a Flash version. If I remember right, this was at least somewhat motivated by vendors dropping Java support in the browser. Of course, at almost the same time the Flash version came out, vendors started dropping support for that.

The current one is written in JavaScript, I believe. Edit: it's still running Squeak, but using a JavaScript Squeak interpreter. See the top-level site for the given link.
Yes... because you're stealing?

But if you simply copied the unique works and stored them, nobody would care. If you then tried to turn around and sell the copies, well, the artist is probably dead anyway and the art is probably public domain, but if not, then yeah it'd be copyright infringement.

If you only copied tiny parts of the art though, then fair use examinations in a court might come into play. It just depends on whether they decide to sue you, like NYT did in this case, while millions of others did not (or just didn't have the resources to).
I spent a stupid amount of money on a phone baseball game in 2020, just because being in a "club" gave me a daily connection with others that I was missing. There are plenty of examples throughout the years of similar. I don't think anything about this is unique to TikTok.
Similar setup, I have a switcher that has my mouse/keyboard/microphone connected. One tap, switch between my Macbook and my Windows Desktop.
Maybe its time to regulate not on specific actions like "gambling machines" but brain-pathways caused by products. This would also instantly regulate e.g. "legal research chemicals" used as drugs just as some usage pattern designs
> Which parts of copyright law would you say are out of date for the example above?

The expectation that the author will get life+70 years of protection and income, when technical publications are very rarely still relevant after 5 years. Also, the modern ease of copying/distribution makes it almost impossible for the author to even locate which people to try to prosecute.
I don't think that changes my point. Flight 5 seems more likely to succeed than the first in the context of falcon 9.
is 3ds max a no-code 3d creation tool?

I think the future for 3d creation will be generative ai and 3d scanning/gaussian splatting
> And yet, 70 years later, things have certainly changed, but we're living in the same world with the same general patterns and limitations. With LLMs I expect something similar. Not a singularity, just a new, better tool that, yes, changes things, increases productivity, but leaves human societies more or less the same.

by what criteria do you see the world as the same today vs 70 years ago?
The Federalist Society
Is that 0.6 seconds until first paint?
My favorite new CSS feature is the Custom Highlight API, which allows you to style arbitrary (and potentially overlapping!) text ranges without needing to create ad hoc <span> element nodes. MDN Demo:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_...

Hopefully VSCode will be able to switch to using this API for syntax highlighting in the near future for a performance boost, instead of sticking to the current superposition approach:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/175938
Nice comforting lie he created by completely reverting the message.
If you have to start a statement with "from what I have heard..." it's best not to say it at all.
Yeah, the karma requirements mean you frequently see people adding noise to discussions rather than signal, just to get out there and seen. I rarely comment and haven't hit the 501 threshold to downvote despite being here for a number of years, mostly because I just upvote what I agree with rather than posting a "me too".

(And I'm now concerned that this comment will feel like a "me too" :) )
Great post! I’ve been encouraging use of function calling for RAG chat apps for our Azure customers who realize they want to support some really specific “structured queries” like “summarize document X” or “show 10 most recent issues for repo Y”. Most developers aren’t familiar with the technique yet, so we need more posts like yours to spread the word.

Here’s a gist with an example:
https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/a3fdea186b687509c02cb186ca...
>> Christian-conservative values

> No. Fool.

First, I think it's clear I'm being somewhat loose and cheeky with my use of "what are essentially Christian-conservative values". Obviously, the use of drugs offend the sensibilities of much more than Christians. (I can't say I'm a huge fan of walking through the smell of weed so thick I could bounce off it), but if you understood christian society in Korea, you'd get what I meant.

Christian Koreans ajummas are hellcats. I'm not talking about tea-party 50/50 chance they did some wild things in college american conservatives but now are trying to erase those pangs of guilt through bible study. Christian Korean ajummas were born with these claws.

There is zero discussion about mental health with these folk. Things like ADHD or depression don't exist. They aren't afraid to give you a nasty look (as opposed to, say, the japanese). I cannot imagine what it's like to be famous and fallen out of grace in Korea.
Sure, I agree. It's the old "watching movies on your iPhone isn't watching movies at the theater" argument again, I get it.

From a technical perspective though, disregarding the UX side (because frankly that's a personal decision), phones can game. Not just some games either, most modern Android phones will support Vulkan 1.2 which will run a whole host of DXVK games. The limit is how fast you can translate x86 code into ARM, really.

So... in the interest of hacking (fancy that), I want to enable people to do the "movie night on iPhone" equivalent for PC games. The limitations of phone gaming will be subjective just like the limitations of console gaming are, but at this point it's an inevitability.
> Real scoped css with @scope has actually landed in latest Chrome and Safari, but Firefox are dragging their feet.

That's an interesting way of saying "Firefox is not backed by an unlimited pile of cash"
Croquet's always been peer-to-peer, with no need for servers. It sounds like they've made a small server to "reflect" traffic between clients that can't directly communicate (like using a STUN server to coordinate SIP/WebRTC).

> Does anyone understand whether at least the client side component of the Croquet OS, which interfaces with the Microverse, is open source so that alternative server implementation could be developed without legally dubious reverse engineering of the protocol?

I don't think any reverse engineering is needed, since the protocols (e.g. TeaTime) were published decades ago. AFAIK the existing Smalltalk clients are FOSS (OpenCroquet/OpenCobalt); there have also been JS ports in the past (I think as part of Qwaq/Teleplace/Terf), but I can't remember if they're FOSS; those may be the same as this "Croquet OS", or this could be a rewrite.

(Yes, this project has had many names over the decades!)
AMP did not need to be hosted by Google.
Why can't AI at least cite its source? This feels like a broader problem, nothing specific to the NYTimes.

Long term, if no one is given credit for their research, either the creators will start to wall off their content or not create at all. Both options would be sad.

A humane attribution comment from the AI could go a long way - "I think I read something about this <topic X> in the NYTimes <link> on January 3rd, 2021."

It appears that without attribution, long term, nothing moves forward.

AI loses access to the latest findings from humanity. And so does the public.
That is no different than saying beauty is only real if it is 100% natural. A woman who wears makeup and colors her hair is just an illusion of beauty.

It is a philosophical argument to say that a machine isn't truly intelligent because it isn't using the same type of neural network as a human
Interesting,

Advion is what people in NYC swear by (It does the same thing)
I saw an alcoholic yesterday. The cognitive decline I saw terrified me because this was a smarter than average person in their prime who was no longer able play a game that children could play.

Alcohol and Tobacco aren't most drugs, but I maybe framed things misleadingly, as I see people use caffeine/addictive pharmaceuticals/psychedelics/cannabis a fair bit and those are all in the category of "drugs" and yet I knew few people with serious problems with those and yet I hardly can enter a room where multiple people aren't addicted to some algorithm.
Is there a non-youtube link? I am being prompted to sign in.

The invidious instance I use couldn't work around it.
Haven’t seen anyone mention how Apple is exploring deals with news publishers, like the NYTimes, to train its LLMs[1].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/technology/apple-ai-news-...
.NET is huge in banking, iGaming, traditional industries. Python/PHP are kinda outliers found here and there. JS is eating both Java and .NET's lunch and ofc frontend.
Because normal people want and vote this, because it results in a very safe country with much lower street crime figures. People like not having to worry about their kids taking public transport or walking alone.
How can I build standard library for Arc?
what is the good way to know what pieces of Arc are missing to at least build some basic web application handler?
I posted this a few months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34381399

Piracy at scale
Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about the semiconductors?
I am looking to gain knowledge of the industry from technical and economic perspectives, leveraging my software and math background.
Any recommendations are fine: MooCs, books, Blogs, Twitter.
This is a very early version of scratch that was written in smalltalk. The current version is written in JS (desktop app is electron based)
"Deep learning" and neural networks in general were a thing long before they were applied specifically to language models.

It's still not "intelligence" but it does use techniques inspired by brains and have some of the same advantages in "seeing" patterns.
It was entertaining to read.
I think AGI can change the world once it gets way beyond human level both in terms of types of beyond-human "senses" and pattern matching/prediction (i.e. intelligence), but we are nowhere near that yet.

On their current trajectory LLMs are just expert systems that will let certain types of simple job be automated. A potential productivity amplifier similar to having a personal assistant that you can assign tasks too. Handy (more so for people doing desk-bound jobs than others), but not a game changer.

An AGI far beyond human capability could certainly accelerate scientific advance and let us understand the world (e.g. how to combat climate change, how to address international conflicts, how to handle pandemics) so be very beneficial, but what that would feel like to us is hard to guess. We get used to slowly introduced (or even not so slowly) changes very quickly and just accept them, even though today's tech would look like science fiction 100 years ago.

What would certainly be a game changer, and presumably will eventually come (maybe only in hundreds of years?) would be if humans eventually relinquish control of government, industry, etc to AGIs. Maybe our egos will cause us to keep pretending we're in control - we're the ones asking the oracle, we could pull the plug anytime (we'll tell ourselves) etc, but it'll be a different world if all the decisions are nonetheless coming from something WAY more intelligent than ourselves.
That last link is interesting. See https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines#using-context-free-... specifically

# ...
sequence = generator("Write a formula that returns 5 using only additions and subtractions.")
# It looks like Mistral is not very good at arithmetics :)
print(sequence)
# 1+3-2-4+5-7+8-6+9-6+4-2+3+5-1+1

sure, that's "correct" per the definition of the grammar, but it's also one of the worst possible way to get to the number 5
European new car registrations by body type [graph]