skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We assume the hole is small compared to the size of the earth, and the package
light compared to the mass of the earth, so we can neglect h and m.

If you're going to write a paper that builds intuition, you should write one on this problem. Physicists always make magical simplifying assumptions that drive me absolutely bananas. And wow! Things get so much simpler but are still correct to an order of magnitude.

The same thing they do when gathering / discarding possible factors.

I actually suspect this is revisionist. Most folks would probably start with various factors / powers and guess-and-check until some of those factors have zero power and the dimensions work out.

Relevant XKCD:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/793:_Physicists
To add on to this, it is racist to exclude whites.

It is racist to generalize peoples' heritages, it is racist to exclude whites, and above all it is racist to not simply consider your fellow man as just a fellow man just like yourself.

Racism is considering someone's race for something where race is not relevant, the intent behind the act is irrelevant.
"He's trying to circumvent the speed limit by driving under it!"

Banana republic stuff.
> The traditional comics industry has done such a disservice to consumers by painting comics as toothless drivel.
>
> There is no drama in a Batman comic because nothing that happens in Batman comic matters since it will all be reset and overwritten eventually.

You're conflating a feature of a genre with a medium or format. The phenomenon that you're referring to (retconning) is a feature of a genre, one which enables the creation of rich and intricate stories that couldn't emerge any other way.

Batman is a particularly bad example to choose for this, because it's actually been exempted from several of DC's hard resets (see: New 52). Although DC in general does this less well than Marvel anyway.

If you don't like them, that's fine, but they're not the only comics around, even if you're only buying stuff from the Big Two. Dismissing comics as "toothless drivel" because you don't like the narrative vocabulary of one genre is like dismissing cinema because you don't like Avengers movies.
If we could at least stop pumping carbon from underground into atmosphere and replace it with carbon already in atmosphere, it would help a lot.
"To understand recursion, first you must understand recursion" -- my CS professor 20+ years ago (probably borrowed from elsewhere)
Not that likely. AIUI package sizes may change, or that kind of thing.

Someone who worked for a pharma company told me that's how they respond: If Italian medicine is much cheaper than German, they'll try to make the sizes different so an Italian unit can't be used to fill a German prescription.
> the libeler needs to know that their statements are false

That's only the first half of the or conditional. The second half is "with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." That's very different, and I'd think the model and it's creators not caring if the output is true but marketing it as usually true is having a reckless disregard to the truth of it's outputs. There's no checking if it's real.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is at the moment the most effective form of therapy we have. It can take a few tries to find someone who you click with.

CBT isn't about someone giving you an aha moment into your own feelings or giving you advice you hadn't thought of (although that does happen). It's more about giving you skills to reinterpret those feelings, their sources, and the actions that result from them. So even if you feel like you introspect and understand how you're doing, CBT can be very effective in being more satisfied with life.
It would be cool if they made a version of the keyboard with Topre or similar quality switches. And feet that didn’t fall off.
They're using a fork of Elk, an amazing mastodon client, which works really well as a PWA btw
i suppose the point being made here is that we are currently in a place of racism, and anyone advocating that moving waway from that place is bad, happens to be advocating for racsim indirectly. i get that that is not the intent of the person, but it is the end they found.
A model that possesses the entire collective knowledge of our civilization is useless if it can't directly quote its sources.

If we enforce the behavior of always paraphrasing and synthesizing the information before returning it even in cases where the exact quote is asked for then that is a failure.

The correct solution is to make the model capable of

1) quoting directly

2) identifying and then indicating when its output is a direct quote

3) citing the source of the identified quote

while still retaining the ability to paraphrase and synthesize those sources when appropriate. These requirements are what humans are held to and should also be applied to commercial AI models. Models that are not intended for commercial use should be exempt and at this point there isn't really a way to hold them to such requirements anyways.
Brain "wakes up" more than 100 times each night – that's normal
I would think securing source code is significantly more important than securing comments. So any encryption or protection would cover the entire codebase instead of just the less important parts
Good luck trying to explain "updating weights incrementally based on predicted next token probabilities" to completely non-technical lawyers and judges.
For this analogy to fit, the bank robbers would have to destroy (some of) the notes/coins/gold bars (that is, the stuff both parties care about), not execute people (whom the robbers don't care about but the other side do). Which would convince the other side not that the robbers are serious, but that they're idiots.
That's nonsense, not only the "it's like 10/15$ for me and you" argument quite weak, because ordinary people tend to pay attention to the addresses they send money to (regardless of amount), but people don't get rich nor stay rich by not caring about their spending either.
>Couple that with ever widening definitions of racist, sexist, whatever and you have an atmosphere where you’re always at work, which is a place you can say less and less

I don’t agree with a company firing you for having a side job, nor do I currently believe that this guys jokes are coming from an actual place of racism, but it’s pretty clear from the arbitrators statement that they’re one of “those” people.

The definitions of racism and sexism are not expanding.
It's more a self-hosted alternative to Firebase written in golang
How is suing OpenAI different from suing an army of gifted individuals who can speed-read and who read most NYT articles and create responses based on them?

Assuming there is no plagiarism, of course.
Apple starts sending 'batterygate' settlement payments
I thought that Christianity was a big part of the U.S. - isn't charity and helping others quite a big part of that religion?
- Hammer, screwdriver, who cares, fix it.

- Scalpel, forceps, who cares, do surgery.

- Reinforced concrete, 2x4s, who cares, build a bridge.

No, pretty much every profession that uses tools cares about using the correct tools for the job.
we spend so much time w/ our co-workers. If i can make some genuine friendships by being myself, that's far more valuable to me than 'keeping my job'.
Right because copyrighted works has nothing to do with ai. So it’s all irrelevant.
Yup, it's a great read and a great decision. Here for example is the context for the "favorite part" Rebelgecko mentions.

First, the transcript of the routine:

Believe me, even woke people kind of hate Muslims don’t they? Yup. “Refugees are welcome…to start treating their women a little better.” Wait, it is true that like women are treated a little better in the west for a while. After like 35, 40 it gets pretty brutal, doesn’t it? There’s no retirement age for looking hot in the west. That’s why you see American grandmas wearing makeup and shit. American women have to be as fuckable as possible until they’re dead, which I don’t think is fair. Y'all I want to start a rescue charity that helps women of a certain age move to Saudi Arabia. They’re gonna be like, “What, I don’t gotta to do botox or dye my hair?” I’m like, “Lady, you don’t even gotta drive. In fact, yeah, they prefer you didn’t.”

And here's the analysis:

The first half is hardly inflammatory, suggesting that Americans encourage Muslim
refugees to treat their women better, and that women in the west are generally treated better than
in Muslim countries, at least for a while. Grievant then opines that after a woman in the U.S.
becomes 35 or 40, it gets “pretty brutal,” which is provocative but cannot be interpreted as
inflammatory. He then states that older women in America are expected to continue looking
“hot,” resulting in American grandmothers wearing “makeup and shit.” So far, it cannot be
interpreted as inflammatory. He then states: “American women have to be as fuckable as
possible until they’re dead, which I don’t think is fair.” Although the first clause is debatable and
grossly articulated, the second clause plainly states that Grievant believes it to be unfair, so any
claim that the clip shows him to be demeaning women in the clip, as charged by management, is
patently unfair and untrue. On the other hand, the use of the word “fuckable” when applied to
elderly women approaching their grave can be interpreted as mildly inflammatory.

The final few sentences in which he proposes starting a charity to help women move to
Saudi Arabia, where they do not have to use botox or dye their hair and they are encouraged not
to drive cannot be interpreted as inflammatory and are simply funny.
It should hopefully be a good highlight of some of the base absurdities that we accept as fact when it comes to "intellectual property" law.
GDPR and ePrivacy are different regulations. Under the latter even purely local data storage still requires consent unless it's "strictly necessary" to implement something the user has requested.

For example, see the discussion the sibling commenter linked around storing UI customization choices for only the duration of the current session: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
The sound maps that predict poachers' movements
I didn’t say “interesting” problems. Just problems. Anyway, sometimes they are interesting. I think Rich Hickey worked on some interesting problems. Clojure and Datomic are pretty neat, and Electric looks like an interesting problem, too :)
most technically racist means systemic oppresion, but it is def discrimination
The Early Universe Was Bananas
Man people are nostalgic about the most bizarre things sometimes. My experience with WordPad was accidently opening something with it and having to change the default app for some extension.
You assert something that is a hypothesis for further research in the area. Alternative is that it in fact knows that knights move in an L-shaped fashion. The article is about testing hypotheses like that, except this particular one seems quite hard.
If you are handsome you don't need to pay chicks cash for them to shop up to the dinner. Analogously if you have a close relation with a president that you could use to your advantage you don't have to pay him to show up. And if you have to pay him to show up how much of a real influence do you really have over him? How difficult is it to understand such a simple concept?
(2019)The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
Everybody using HN probably already loves a minimalist website.
I would not make that the foundation of my argument over the long term.
Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
Nino is a radical approach to solve the app chaos problem for today's knowledge worker. I believe there are still too many tools; even using them becomes work in itself. I'm building all these apps from scratch in one place, using the same database and UI, with the flexibility to eventually support the majority of work from one "superapp."

Currently there are 18 apps (called "modules") on Nino:

- Database types: Sheet, Form, Calendar, Gallery, Board, Todo, List

- Composition types: Doc, Slide, Drive, Notebook, Canvas, Grid, Blog, Site

- Communication types: Channel, Chat, Meet

I want to improve these modules and build more. Your feedback is important!

FAQ: How is it different from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or startups like Notion and Clickup?

A: I think Nino has a better foundation to (1) consolidate a lot more apps than they currently do, (2) drastically improve speed with offline architecture, and (3) offer unmatched privacy and security with end-to-end encryption (coming soon)

Let me expand on these points:

1. Consolidation

In Nino, pages and blocks are interoperable with each other. Google and Microsoft still have mostly isolated apps. Nino is one (super)app that supports 18 modules, saving you time from switching and integrating between different providers.

2. Offline mode

This is actually more complex than it seems, but I ultimately decided it's worth it, not only for people who need to work without internet, but also for everyone else who want instant page load. Everything is saved locally by default.

3. End-to-end encryption (E2EE)

This is just a preview and not open to public yet, but is something I have been building alongside since day 1. In fact, it's likely not architecturally possible for existing products to add later on. Nino is built to offer both E2EE and cloud features (backup, search, collaboration).

One more thing: pages on Nino are also publishable! There are blog and site modules, but you can also publish other modules (i.e. sheet, board, canvas, etc.) on your custom domain or on a free nino.page subdomain.

Give it a try and let me know how it can improve. I want to hear from you.
The examples shown in previous article on same case (ChatGPT producing exact text) makes it look like LLMs only need to see an example once. Or did it see those examples many times and therefore reproducing it?
Privately controlled companies need to do what their controllers think is most important. If the Sulzbergers think taking a stand on AI is more important than profit, they can go a long time without increasing profits.
Tell me more about this inbox deliverability guarantee.
By feeding the LLM the AST representation of the code, the tree of workspace files, public items, module hierarchy alongside with the code, it could be a significant improvement.

Aider does this, using tree-sitter to build a “repository map”. This helps the LLM understand the overall code base and how it relates to the specific coding task at hand.

https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html

More broadly, I agree with your sentiment that there is a lot of value in considering the best ways to structure the data we share with LLMs. Especially in the context of coding.
This is a corporation fighting another corporation, it isn't going to give journalists more money no matter what happens with this case. The impact towards the citizen or worker hasn't even been weighted.
All of the tiers lie.

The solo tier lists $12, but would actually be $17.
Seems like most are bringing up the issue of spam filter bypassing as the real business value, I'm very curious if any "email 2.0" systems have been devised to combat the spam issues of SMTP?
> A model that possesses the entire collective knowledge of our civilization is useless if it can't directly quote its sources.

That's a strong and baseless statement.
> To add on to this, it is racist to exclude whites.

Apparently that’s allowed now, at least by the people seem to think everybody else are the racists: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna129796
Phone cpus have gotten quite fast in the past decade, too.
I’m curious how human like this LLM feels when you play it.

One of the challenges to making fun chess bots is to make it play like a low or mid ranked human. The problem is that a stockfish based bot knows some very strong moves, but deliberately plays bad moves so it’s about the right skill level. The problem is that these bad moves are often very obvious. For example I’ll threaten a queen capture.
Any human would see it and move their queen. The bot “blunders” and loses the queen to an obvious attack. It feels like the bot is letting you win which kills the enjoyment of playing with the bot.

I think that this approach would create very human like games.
> when you read an article it is not "copied" into your brain.

1) You cannot prove that this does not happen in some form. The fact that manual electrical stimulation of the cortex triggers random memories is sort of the proof that you are wrong here; if there wasn't some kind of "copy, transformed somehow into a 3D space we call the brain" in there, then that localized stimulation wouldn't trigger a particular memory at all.

2) And yet, this is not true of AI's either. Knowledge encoded into either real neurons or a simulation of them may be similar both in how it's not a "literal copy" but a kind of copy nevertheless.

If we are only concerned with "literal" or "verbatim" copies, then there is no case here.
Leave people’s inbox alone
What makes humans special? Because they can marry and go to jail? That's not relevant, and what is relevant is the difference in outcome. If something takes in information, learns from it, and spits out information as a result of its learning, then why does the implementation matter at all? So what if it's software? That's the point. You're speaking as if it's a given that the issue comes down to software not being people, therefore society as a group should make software do whatever it wants even if it doesn't own that software. Not everyone is going to agree with that because it's not clear why, if something is wrong for software to do, it isn't also wrong for a human brain.
I agree for something that's clearly customizing the UI of the whole site, but if it looks like you're choosing a language only for the currently displayed snippet then I think that wouldn't qualify?
Hum, note that this was not an argument about or against GPT, but about the "unreasonable" success of a, by all standards, primitive algorithm that manages to get (somewhat) away by crafting the pre- and context of the conversation. By no means, on the other hand, could I read this article and understand it as claiming any superiority over modern applications.

(Nobody with even the crudest understanding of the principles of Eliza could claim this, and the article clearly demonstrates a detailed understanding. Disclaimer: I wrote the JS implementation linked in the article, many years ago.)

Edit: The question rightfully raised – and answered – by Eliza, which is still relevant today in the context of GPT, is: does the appearance of intelligent conversation (necessarily) hint at the presence of a world model in any rudimentary form?
Isn't this just a slightly more advanced / evolved factory robotic arm / pick&place type mechanism?

The robot is not "making coffee".

It is placed in front of a Keurig, coffee cup already in place, water already filled, powered on.. with a pod in front.

It is doing essentially 3 things - pick&place pod, secure latch, press go.
Having it as default value makes some sense. But on other hand blacklist of known bad addresses might make lot more sense in actual logic.
For regular money, "the same coins" isn't usually meaningful. For bitcoin, it is perfectly possible to say yes, this is the same money, and those other coins in the same wallet are not the same.

Since we can track bitcoin perfectly, it's hard to argue people who have the exact stolen item shouldn't be required to return it.

Fungibility is just a social convention. Anything we can tell apart we can decide to treat non-fungibly, and we can tell bitcoin apart.
Anything by Merwin Crawford Young, early Zen Buddhist texts, Anthony Giddens, Peter Berger, the Tao te Ching, Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Nisargadatta Maharaj
What's the Unit of Impact?
They rented out both a Sherman and a Tiger for the movie according to the video's description.
For most scenarios, the experience should be better with a well-designed SPA as while first load may be slow, and person may have to wait a min. Once loaded data transfer per interaction is much smaller. For a use-case of just loading a page reading it and submitting few fields on it, will be worse. But for complex things like multiple filtering, searching for different dates, seat selection it will be faster.
Thanks for the reply and I hear you, but I am not trying to make a commercial product, just something for my own use. It'd be also fairly hard to understand what the thing is for without the context, so I am not worried about it being cloned or the idea stolen. I do care about prototyping it as cheaply as possible. I can also wait.

The cost angle rules out local machine shops as they are (really) expensive. Hence the quest for the online services.
Wait until people figure this out about Washington.
Fuzes (Part 1)
Even then, e.g. citizens in the EU have the right to be forgotten. So if they use user-submitted data (and in some cases e.g. newspaper articles about specific people), users can request the data to be removed, which will be... an interesting challenge?
I feel like AI-personhood is not a road OpenAI want to go down. They want to produce something that doesn’t have rights.
Now do a similar list with every road fatality following mechanical problems. We’ll wait.
Well sure, it's easy to make a statement look bad if you only include half of it.
JS builds today do not appreciably accelerate code, and minimization is of marginal benefit when served assets are appropriately compressed using technologies browsers already support.
nothing wrong with build steps until they go wrong.

then you will spend 5 hours replacing/updating deprecated/newly incompatible npm/system issues.
what about lowercase makes you feel a need to attack me as a person? is lowercase text an assualt on you in some way? i have not had someone insult me based on lack of key pressing, and the fact you can argue with me means you have no issues understanding or responding to me
I’ve owned 3 different Logitech mice and have had a ton of issues with Bluetooth and the LogiOptions software.

There isn’t much competition, and only recently are we seeing other companies like Elgato compete with Logitech’s peripherals.
Food for tought: What happens when we add a layer of indirection in the training?

Imagine we have a model but don't train it with the copyrighted data. But we train if with every review ever made public about it.

If we have a large number of reviews the model will be able to give pretty good responses about the topic and may even be able to reproduce some part of it.

Is this copyright infringment?

And what if we add another layer? Now we just train the model with the comments people leave about the reviews.
It’s possible to get a good image model this way: https://www.gettyimages.ae/ai/generation/about
This is important: you can’t troll and then hide behind comedy. The arbitrator applied a reasonable person standard to the audince and found an attempt at comedy. Not just some asshole trolling and then saying “I was only kidding, it’s your fault you couldn’t tell because you unreasonable people can’t recognize a joke”.
The verbatim reproduction of their copyright is the interesting point. I can see where it would be free use to train on content but not to reproduce it.

I feel like it is clearly a copyright issue if someone, through whatever means, posted New York Times articles on the internet for 1000s to potentially see and find through search.

If someone through some other interface provides 1000s of people independently through private channels a New York Times article verbatim on ask isn’t this similar?

In both cases it requires users to seek it out. In both cases copyright protected content is openly available to 1000s of people. Just because you generate your stock of copied material 1 by 1 on an order by order basis doesn’t feel materially different in effect on the copyright owner. The interface owners are willing to distribute copyright protected content 1000s of times on request for it.