skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see it either, but exploitation was a big theme of Marxism-Leninism, and maybe one of them argued that fixing the exploitation of vulnerable people required abolishing the “society of the will” and adopting the “society of reason” or something.

But yeah it feels like we can have some reasonable guardrails.

Honestly with gambling and other vices I think a private, at-home genetic screener for behavioral risk factors would be really interesting. That would be a good place for regulation and oversight.

The odds ratios can get quite large—opioid use can be 5x or more IIRC—and having that data could help people who might be otherwise surrounded by less at-risk peers indulging in these kinds of activities.
Cant believe I am only learning about this now. Darn - I've needed this for over a decade.

Also, havent heard Full Sail in a really long time... Had a friend from growing up that went there and became famous...

THanks for the link - Ill be installing this around my place today :-)
vim="nvim" is wild
I was impressed by the way the windows are page-local but the content appears as though it were screen local. I also dug the auto non-overlapping tiles.

I think it needs a more guaranteed high frame rate and some polish for me to judge whether it’s actually better for uses I make up, but it’s really innovative.
That was a fascinating read - there’s even a great villain in Eugene Bircher (not to get into politics, but he definitely seems to have trailblazer the “right wing populist attacks successful public health measures” strategy).
Hi, author here. (A woman.)

I think a fair criticism of my post might be that it was written in a moment of obvious annoyance, and failed to spend enough time connecting the griping about the personal experience to larger problems, but it was definitely not "written to manipulate people into believing a false narrative."

> the whole faux-drama would have been solved by simply turning off iMessage on his or his mother's device.

We tried turning off iMessage on the laptop, as mentioned in the post. It does not revert other devices' behavior to SMS.

> Which is false: the messages would be sent to her mac, and they'd be visible as unread to him, so he'd already see that there was an issue.

She certainly won't receive them on her phone, no? It's bad enough, never mind that I'm not around to surveil her computer.

> It's how a normal, not-tech savvy, person chooses a different phone number for a contact that has multiple phone numbers, and iMessage will remember that choice for the future.

Unless, as here, the contact email becomes associated with something that supports iMessage, in which case Messages will stop using the chosen phone number. Neither of us have data to make an argument about how common it is for people to mess with this, so I can only note that I myself have never overridden the originally-chosen contact method before. Either way, there is no signal that someone might need to do this, since, as mentioned, the blue bubbles look to have been delivered just fine.

> And if all of that is too hard, his mother could simply send him a message and the messages app will reply to her phone number, it won't auto switch to her email address.

We tried this, and this is not the behavior we observed. Also, even if this had worked, she would have needed to quickly text... all of her contacts with iPhones in order to get them on the right pathway?

Ultimately, if you think there's no problem here, that's your right. I chose not to include screenshots because a. that would have been more effort, and b. they'd have my mother's PII in them, and properly censoring that all out would have been even more effort.

This whole situation is a PITA that I didn't intend to bring upon my family. The comments here evidence a divide between people thinking this behavior is obvious and people thinking it's highly non-obvious. That's interesting enough to me to feel it was worth having shared.
Same here (until I started getting new ones)! The best thing to do is to get a dilated fundus exam by someone who really knows retinas to rule out anything major if you start noticing them more.
I don't think that is relevant to my comment. Whether the material is purchased, borrowed from a library, or legally reproduced under "fair use", I'm still asserting that I don't "owe" the creators any of my profit that I earn from taking advantage of what I learned.
Do we know why outdoor lighting helps? I’ve seen people recommend super strong indoor lighting for various health impacts, would the at affect eyes?
Podcast on Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
I use a software called Synergy.

https://symless.com/synergy

I have one keyboard and mouse connected to one "host" machine, and two machines connected as clients.

Sometimes if the host machine bogs a bit (like running a build or something) then the clients will have some latency but I've used this setup for gaming and work for two years and it's been pretty good.

My only complaint (about my personal setup, not the software) is that one machine has absolutely no peripherals attached to it aside from a monitor, so if I need to update the software, I need to connect a keyboard and mouse in order to do so.

Again, an issue with my setup and a caveat of using software as opposed to hardware.
The "censorship" of ChatGPT is due to its RLHF finetuning.
Sorry, but what’s with HN’s obsession with analogies? You see this in almost every comment section where someone tries to dis/prove a point using an analogy. I get the allure but it’s intellectually brittle; by the time someone starts to argue off the second or third incantation of the original analogy, the forest has been lost for the tree.
So they are zombies.
Linking between notes in the default note app is not possible without an icloud login.

Creating subtasks in the reminders app is not possible without an icloud account.

There are no _real_ technical or functional reasons (that can't be fixed) why icloud is a requirement for these features but it is needed.

A mac with icloud and a mac without icloud are different in many non trivial ways.
Technology is the one force that drives modern human societies, Western ones even more. The world has changed dramatically, especially with smartphones. I suggest reading Ted Kaczynski.
Why do you say it wasn't present earlier?
> Why can't AI at least cite its source?

Because AI models aren't databases.
> Ultimately I never ended up open sourcing it because of some USB serial bugs

Shouldn't that be a reason to open source it? Nerdsnipe someone else into figuring out the sublety that's causing the bug!
iOS seems to have some weird temporary grammar check issues, where it’ll show the correction while it works out what you are trying to write. I think it only does it for long sentences, though.

But for example, if you start a sentence with “We’re,” it will often take out the apostrophe… until you reach the end of the sentence, and then when you add the period I guess it’ll analyze the sentence and figure out that you actually meant what you wrote, and put it back. It does highlight the corrections, which is really nice. At this point, I just ignore it until I’m done with the sentence and then go back and check.
Let me rephrase since my original reply got [flagged].

>So...transphobia

Stating biological facts and reality doesn't mean something that shatters the narrative is "transphobic". Men (male humans) cannot get pregnant.

>Islamophobia

Being against a religion that stones "adulterous" rape victims, executes gays by throwing them off the roof, and beheads those who dare insult their religion isn't a phobia of any kind, it's common sense.

>anti-black racism

Objective sociological facts are not racism.

>In other words, you just want to be able to be every kind of bigot and never suffer consequences for it.

Translation: "These are uncomfortable narrative shattering facts designed to tell the unadulterated truth that are heretical, so I'd rather pretend like they don't have any value, use fascism, ad hominem, and Gestapo-level tactics to quell social opponents and heretics."
AI and Wonder
"Moot" means "arguable". That's what GP was saying.
“Using SSA simplifies the optimization implementations, but building and destroying this form is expensive. Using SSA for the MIR generator's short-pass pipeline makes little sense to me, so I don't use it.”

Thats from his blog motivating the project.
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightwei...
And in a lawsuit, there's very much the question of intent as well.

If OpenAI never meant to allow copyrighted material to be reproduced, shut it down immediately when it was discovered, and the NYT can't show any measurable level of harm (e.g. nobody was unsubscribing from NYT because of ChatGPT)... then the NYT may have a very hard time winning this suit based specifically on the copyright argument.
You may have misread this. It is not maternity leave, it is menstrual leave.
This is not about printing hello world but about all formatted I/O which is a significant chunk of the library. To be fair formatted I/O is pretty broken in C as well but for completely different reasons.
Recovering Critical Data from Tesla Autopilot Using Voltage Glitching
As a child I spent most of my day outside playing and not using screens and I still had myopia as a kid
The documentary is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licensed. I've not heard of COCONET but it seems like a relatively small piece of BBS history. You should set up a cellphone and record yourself talking about it and put it up on archive.org and YouTube.
tailscale makes the VPN easy these days.
> bubble of happy in ignorance... do what I can to improve this world

That's actually the point of positive over negative news. It focuses on people doing constructive things, and the positive results happening, which makes it easier to have a constructive mindset yourself, to befriend those people, to participate in solutions, etc. The endless stream of negativity in the news, which is _artificially_ amplified, serves mostly to hide that stuff, because its lower effort to read and produces a kind of doom scrolling effect in people (i.e. to mindlessly search for and share the worst things in the world). That doesn't generally lead anyone to do anything positive.
This just in, "digital fentanyl" worse than actual fentanyl.
Nice! I also got my ham radio license a couple of months ago. Haven't really done anything with it yet, but it was fun and interesting to study for.

Other than the eclipse, what other kind of things are you planning on doing with your license?
a computer isn't a human. aren't computers good at storing data? why can't they just store that data? they literally have sources in datasets. why can't they just reference those sources?

human analogies are cute, but they're completely irrelevant. it doesn't change that it's specifically about computers, and doesn't change or excuse how computers work.
> There is no way to know what sources have been memorized vs which have made their mark by affecting other types of functions in the neural net.

But if it's possible for the neural net to memorize passages of text then surely it could also memorize where it got those passages of text from. Perhaps not with today's exact models and technology, but if it was a requirement then someone would figure out a way to do it.
1) Networking: While I don't plan to do much home networking, knowing fundamentals would be helpful to my day to day. So I'm going to go through Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/index.php) and augment it with CS 144 (https://www.scs.stanford.edu/10au-cs144/).

2) SQL: As another user mentioned, while I am primarily a FE, there are times when I need to work on the backend and having a shaky understanding of SQL can be a major stumbling block. I might start a bookclub in my city or at work just to ensure I'm consistent with learning.

3) C++/Rust: Will probably do a basic project and may hire a code mentor to do some code reviews/guidance.
Not only not inside the home but also charging money for it.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 - starts with this quote and checks whether it even applied to the BASIC we talk about here. Points out at least a few of the advantages of the integrated BASIC environment.

It also never killed it off, and it wasn't a big rant - just a single sentence - either. He also ranted over a few other languages in the same list.

PHP, like JS, sees a lot of unstructured code relying on random global variables in the wild as well :)
To someone who uses the API and trials different prompts frequently: does this article align with the behavior you see? (E.g. the tipping example.)

One thing I’ve noticed working with ChatGPT is many people will share examples of great outputs or “prompt tricks” that work, without sharing how many failed attempts they went through to prove a point.
Maybe we could solve the collective action problem, if Apple stopped making half the population think they are using SMS when they are actually using iMessage.
I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what normalization is and how to apply it, and what level of normalization is practical in a project at your work’s scale, is super important and helpful. Learning just a small amount of theory can really help!
I don't see a judge ruling that training a model on copyrighted works to be infringement, I think (hope) that that is ruled to be protected as fair use. It's the LLM output behaviour, specifically the model's willingness to reproduce verbatim text which is clearly a violation of copyright, and should rightfully result in royalties being paid out. It also seems like something that should be technically feasible to filter out or cite, but with a serious cost (both in compute and in latency for the user). Verbatim text should be easy to identify, although it may require a Google Search - level amount of indexing and compute. As for summaries and text "in the style of" NYT or others, that's the tricky part. Not sure there's any high-precision way to identify that on the output side of an LLM, though I can imagine a GAN trained to do so (erring on the side of false-positives). Filtering-out suspiciously infringe-ish outputs and re-running inference seems much more solvable than perfect citations for non-verbatim output.
Absolutely, I have been on and off medication my whole life due to moving or forgetfulness of making appointments or whatever else, but medication for it has very obviously changed my life. One thing that is very important is to find the specific medication that works for you, some people don't like stimulants and wellbutrin works for them, some people do well on Ritalin while I personally hate it. It took me trying probably 6 or 7 medications until I found something that worked for me with no crashes or obvious downsides.

If you know you have ADHD and don't address it with medication, I think you're just making life harder than it needs to be. The medication has been around long enough that its known to be safe and effective, and while you very much can get very far managing ADHD without medications, its so much easier with.
There's truth in this.

Places of worship provide more than a dissemination of views and beliefs. They are a communal place where mostly like-minded folks have a consistent opportunity to connect (or at least feel connected) to others around them. Under ideal circumstances, the beliefs in place also assure there is both encouragement of this behavior and means by which discord can be resolved.

Mind you, I also believe this breaks down considerably in larger places (i.e. 'megachurches' in the states) as you hit an inflection point of being able to become anonymous again.
Livestream available: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3/granville

A pre-note was released here: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/berliner-hacker-knacken...
You could start a company called anub.is. It could offer soul-weighing as a service.
Quicken… it’s been the best for years and takes a practical approach. Worth the small fee to remove the space between your ears asking “can I afford that?”
I think this is a misleading way to frame things. It is people who build, train, and operate the LLM. It isn't about giving "rights" to the LLM, it is about constructing a legal framework for the people who are creating LLMs and businesses around LLMs.
For posterity, this is the "JSON mode" mentioned at the bottom of the post.

The docs say it's on by default if you use function calling normally: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/json...

> Note that JSON mode is always enabled when the model is generating arguments as part of function calling.
Can you share some info about that? How is it different from synergy business/enterprise where it encrypts your data? (aside from owning the encryption)
It's unrealistic if you expect the existing infrastructure to meet both that requirement, the capacity requirements, and the time requirements of people travelling. In the real-world, there are tradeoffs. People who don't understand that tend to have superficial understandings of the problem because their mental models show little nuance.
Agree. My view is we’re in the Napster moment and someone is going to invent the iTunes Music Store. Language models are a distribution mechanism for knowledge content—- in many cases more efficient and useful than the originally packaged materials (akin to how downloading a single pop song is greater than buying the album). It feels clear this is where we’re headed (verified, compensated content delivered through a new mechanism); this lawsuit is like the RIAA v. music sharing and the question is just if the current players in AI make it through or if someone else will come in and do iTunes.
Have you looked into a headset compatible with Teams that has a mute button? My work provided a Logitech branded headset that has volume, hang up, and mute buttons on the cord, which makes it much easier to unmute myself while multitasking.
I mostly saw R2 as a faster alternative to S3 with a compatible API.

But it looks like it could be competitive pricing-wise as well, especially if you need to access the same data across regions.
Intel secures $3.25B Israeli gov't grant to build $25B chip fab in Israel
You're definitely on to something with the 'interest' angle. I've seen the same thing in tech people working for extremely non-tech businesses for sure.

I guess some amount of the population is just not that interested in work! Which is fine by me but I do hope they find fulfilment elsewhere.
Stream it from Orbit. Hop over a different Starlink satellite every few minutes, directly into the infotainment system of a moving vehicle on its way to the scrap yard...It's the only way to be sure...
If you can't relay someone's point as you understand it, there's little reason to weigh in, and even less for that person to try and clarify it. It comes across as a need to argue, rather than a desire to understand.
Great article. The helpful/flawed bools for thoughts are definitely something I want to try.

>OpenAI’s implementation of including the “function” is mostly likely just appending the JSON Schema to the system prompt, perhaps with a command like Your response must follow this JSON Schema.

Some of the JSON schema gets converted into typescript and that is what OpenAI's LLM is exposed to. Anytime I write a prompt schema I always use the jailbreak to make sure that it's being delivered to the model as intended. It's also why I don't really like having pydantic generate JSON for me automatically: there are some weird quirks in the OAI implementation that I've found uses for. https://gist.github.com/CGamesPlay/dd4f108f27e2eec145eedf5c7....

Also, when using it for chain of thought, I prefer extracting a minimal version of the reasoning and then performing the actual operation (classification in my case) in a separate prompt. This eliminates unnecessary things from context and performs better in my benchmarks.

One implementation used a gpt-3.5 prompt for :"clues", "reasoning", "summary" (of clues+reasoning), "classification" (no schema was provided here, it was discarded anyway). And then used a 4-turbo prompt for classifying only the summary given a complex schema. Having a classification field in the 3.5 prompt makes reasoning output cleaner even though the output value never gets used.

My example for field order mattering:

I have a data pipeline for extracting structured deals out of articles. This had two major issues.

1. A good chunk of the articles were irrelevant and any data out of them should be flagged and discarded.

2. Articles could have multiple deals.

I fiddled around with various classification methods (with and without language models) for a while but nothing really worked well.

Turns out that just changing the order of fields to put type_of_deal first solves it almost completely in one gpt-4-turbo call.
After some searchengineering I found Knight and Leveson (1986) “AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE ASSUMPTION OF INDEPENDENCE IN MULTI-VERSION PROGRAMMING” which my memory tells me us the classic paper on common failure modes in reliability via N-version software which I was taught about in my undergrad degree http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers.html#ft

Leveson also wrote the report on Therac 25.
Are you active in the SpinalHDL community? Reason for asking is this page:

https://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc-RTD/master/SpinalHDL/F...

has an example that says for VHDL you need to write three separate processes. FWIW, that's not true, you can write it as one:

process (clk, rst, cond)
begin
if rising_edge(clk) then
if cond = '1' then
my_reg <= my_reg + 1;
my_reg_with_rst <= my_reg_with_rst + 1;
end if;
end if;
if rst = '1' then
my_reg_with_rst <= x"0";
end if;
my_signal <= cond;
end process;

Also note that isn't a VHDL thing but a synthesis thing. But I think you'll be hard pushed to find a synthesiser that won't synthesise the above code correctly. Quartus, Vivado, Diamond, Libero, and ISE will all synthesise it correctly. I expect most of those tools will also accept process (all) as well, instead of having to write out the sensitivity list explicitly.
Tech-savvy Marine in Japan decorated for satellite communications stopgap fix
It may have been freely available to them, but that doesn’t mean that they are free to reproduce its contents or otherwise make use of it at scale.
The audio plugin does not work on my Firefox
I experienced a very unusual bug with a Tripp Lite KVM once because a feature like this was baked in.
Yup, this was my best next thing to try, so... it seems like this is what we're going to have to do. Thanks for the practical angle!
I tried to answer it in the article that someone recently posted to HN as well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062

spoilers: There was no GOSUB in the version Dijkstra commented on. There was not even anything else to put in an "THEN" statement than a line number ("THEN 210" is the code). If you wanted to store user's name in your variable, "n" was the name to go with, because "name" was not supported. And so on... :)

Oh, and the line numbers were a necessity.
Your mileage may vary with any examples since ChatGPT at a nonzero temperature is nondeterministic.

If that example is through the ChatGPT web UI and not the ChatGPT API then that's a different story entirely.
Same here. I've had the same floaters as long as I can remember.
This appears to be related. I know they post a lot on their YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/b76gsOSkHB4

See also
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZyQJZLPMjwEoOLd...
You do pay more for insurance if you smoke.