skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
was having this discussion with my father the other day.

The housing crisis seems to be essentially global. It's getting really very bad over here in Australia, we have young families being priced out of even the rental markets and staying in tents and stuff.

I dont understand how the building industry can possibly be going broke when people are clambering for houses to be built!
I agree, but my big question is are we done calling LLMs "AI" yet?
You can solve it, however, by knowing that

5√2 < 5 * 1.45 = 7.2

(either because √2 = 1.414... is well known, or 1.45^2 = 2.125 is easy because 1.45^2 = 1.41.5 + .0025)

2√13 > 2√12.96 = 2 * 3.6 = 7.2

(36^2 = 6^4 = 1296 is a common fact from dice probability.)

P.S: 0.45^2 = .2025 and 1.45 = 2.125 is an amusing coincidence.
damn. I meant to include something about "make millions selling Amway" and "make millions selling Mary Kay Cosmetics."

Those are yesterday's hotness.
This is well said! :)
By coming up with the comparison to wedding cakes, you came very close to working out the intuition supporting the argument you're challenging.

Companies can discriminate against you for any unprotected reason. Whether the license claims are protection is exactly the question here.
How well could meshtastic work in a natural or man made disaster where internet and power grids are down?
Aren’t there only 2^16 tokens? Seems easy to test for all of them, but I might just not understand the tokenizer.
Games in this day and age ideally need generous government subsidy to be successful.

I feel we're a long way off universal basic income worldwide so at the very least, something like an artist's living wage provided by the government is a necessity to produce good independent video games. Most professional indie developers tend to survive rather than thrive, barely kept afloat by money from publishers who also have their own interests and influence which affect the final result.

There would be kinks to iron out in terms of who gets the wage and how it's kept and so on, but the funding really needs to come from an entity that is largely divorced from the "success" of the game. Bit of a pipe dream, but it's nice to think about.
> When you logged in, they gave you an API key in the form of a cookie that you include with every request.

You can read this website (i.e. make queries against its database) without logging in. Moreover, the main thing the cookie does is not some kind of rate limiting or denial of service protection, it's assigning your username to your posts so that others can't impersonate your account. Various image boards exist that even allow you to post without logging in and they seem to be fine with it.
What is xcloud?
Classic example of garbage in, garbage out.

Makes me wonder what we will, in the future, discover as “garbage”.

Maybe a super-AI that’s able to reason at super-human levels, evaluates what we believe right now are excellent decisions, as garbage.

But then again, if all we have to train said super-AI is our collective records, then could ever really be super-human?

Maybe an adversarial learning technique can get around this.
That's precisely what you'd want politicians to do: represent the shifting will of the people.

Or, dare I say, learn what they themselves were wrong about and become right about it.

We vilify politicians when they change direction and make them dance around and mince words, when what they really want to say is "I was wrong before".
I like how you've seemingly disproved this just with economic arguments. That's a cool way to do it! Hahaha! :)
My god is this guy from the 90s. I wish him the best but hope people don’t listen to him too much.
On the dimensionality of spacetime (PDF, 1997)
How could the appeal judge be so wrong? They're supposed to get expert testimony.
There are plenty of examples of younger people with obvious bad results. The one going around on social media right now is Erin Moriarty who plays Starlight on the Amazon show The Boys. The issue is that some combination of too many procedures, poor choice of procedures, bad luck, and bad surgeons can result in an obvious uncanny valley effect. Once someone winds up in uncanny valley territory, it seems near-impossible to correct.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/erin-moriarty-plastic-surgery
That is currently the only thing they're charging for. Like I said, let them unbundle if they want to. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually end up just taking a revenue hit to keep the ecosystem healthy, which would mean more money for developers.
These are great points too! :) Not sure the downvotes, haahah, internet! :)
I thought so at first by my initial reading left me somewhat confused on if there's a private key that only certain remotes have or something like that?
Using it with a 20 minute delay between keystrokes and their results must be interesting
none.. I have a 2500sqft house on a 10k sqft lot. I am eradicating the grass, rewilding as much as possible, increasing veggie garden with drip/soaker hose irrigation, expanding strawberry/blueberry patch. it is a multi-year project but it is one of those things that make life worth living.
That's a great point! In aviation we could easily call major jet liners "full self flying" if they wanted to market them as such but we still require TWO highly trained technicians in the piolets seats at all times!
> I think you could strengthen that statement to say that much harm has been done "in the name of the 'normal'". It is common for people to humiliate others based on perceived differences, and to do much worse things

I wonder how many children, when faced with the consequences of a parent's infidelity, feel some jealousy of decades past when infidelity resulted in far greater social opprobrium? Probably more than just a handful – but I think it is a thought which many of them would hesitate to speak, due to its political incorrectness. Could that be an example of how weakening of societal norms (of the concept of "normal") has hurt some people? Infidelity is viewed as far less abnormal than it used to be

> We have a lesser version of that, but it is still there- go to any middle school playground and you will see it on display- and most people don't seem to mature out of it, they just adapt better to deal with it.

A lot of kids who pick on "different" kids are actually acting abnormally – not descriptively, but prescriptively, as in disobeying authority figures (teachers, administrators, parents, etc) who have told them quite explicitly not to do that
Ha yeah it would have been a super interesting segment if the car just picked her up and dropped her off where she was going with no incident.
Not sure I understand your response. There is a tremendous amount of launch data from several years of launches (and landings) that demonstrate whatever approach to design and manufacture SpaceX is using results in incredibly robust and capable space systems. I think rather than fear, a better response is to see what can be learned from SpaceX and see if it can be applied elsewhere.
None. I collect links to READMEs, categorized by topics. In a way, HN works too as a link collector; people here have a good taste for all things technology.
There's a difference from paying for the information, and paying for the expense of delivering that information. You have to pay for official copies of documents like birth/marriage/death certificates. To get copies of public court documents costs as well even though you can read the data for free. Toner/paper isn't free, fancy paper for certs aren't free. You can have the data, but you gotta pay for the copy.
Integrity is not a "privilege".
Generally true, but not if they start their own companies.
I loved this show until i found out it was rigged, and there were parts laid out in the yard that would otherwise have not been there if it werent for the show.

https://www.zcar.com/threads/junkyard-wars-rigged.218592/
I'm not sure who this is directed at. A more interesting question is, does Substack expand the number of people who can support themselves by writing vs a world without it? I personally spend over $1k/yr on Substack; sometimes because I get great value out of the paid posts, and more often because I want to author to keep working in an area I care about.
> heat from the sun provides kinetic energy to the helium atoms to improve the balloons longevity

How does that work?
Interesting! What kind of animal? Everything I had read suggested it wasn’t strong enough to read these and I couldn’t read my small dog’s chip
People like to shit on the Turing test, but if you step back from the subjective judgement angle, and instead imagine that the person performing the Turing test is a scientist trying to collect evidence that the agent that it is communicating with is _NOT_ intelligent/human, it is actually still very relevant. Tools like statistical analysis of output and responses to jailbreak prompts and recursive/self referential prompts designed to confuse machines and generate emotional responses from humans could be used to generate probability of human/not human in a much more rigorous way.
There is way too much serendipity
Not entirely true, some small fraction are so satisfied and so competent at their work that they actually engage in office politics in order to not to be promoted beyond their sweet spot.

See Peter Principle, etc...
Now that this phrase appears in a Hacker News post and comments, maybe the next LLM training wouldn't have these issues any more.
The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?
if the name sounds familiar to you but you're too lazy to google: takata is the company behind the faulty airbags that was a big story in ~2014
> LLM model running for President

It would need to be 35 years old and born in the USA.
This is politics - attempting to treat specific situations reasonably is the fast path to a kerfuffle. Note that if Phillips' campaign thinks this would have been good for him, it might easily be perceived bad for someone else. And that is an unstable equilibrium that easily leads to political escalations using OpenAI technology.

Clear lines on what shan't be done (lines drawn far away from the real grey areas) is a position that is both prudent and respectable by OpenAI.
Try, "ChatGPT, what do you think about this song"...

LLMs do not constitute "AI" let alone the more rigorous AGI. They are a GREAT statistical parlor trick for people that don't understand statistics though.
FWIW, the original source url is paywalled for me (in .au)

(Perhaps the "right" way to do it for HN would be to post the original url even if its paywalled, and add a comment with an archive/paywall-busting link as well?)
Welcome to what Australia is dealing with now, increases in interest rates to kerb inflation
Contrastive Active Inference
Gosub: A HTML5 tokenizer / parser that hopefully grow up to be a browser
That's an accidental side-effect due to being car-centric.
I wonder which largish FOSS project has the flattest contribution graph?
The USPS provides a free service for address validation. You have to register an account and receive an access token. If they feel your token is using too much, they can handle it as necessary. Why this same concept couldn't be done in the same way is just lack of imagination.

You can access for free, but if you abuse or break the TOS your access is revoked. Done
Citing crime, In-N-Out announces closure of Oakland restaurant
This is true on the main landing, but often all the floors above just have simple up/down buttons and you select a floor once inside.
Just use a proxy human to pass through the output from the LLM
politics is inherently manipulative
what i said is still true even if what you say is too
There is certainly a coherent point here and it's been conveyed pretty clearly - you just disagree. So say that instead of pretending you don't understand what the point being made is.

> Jury nullification can occur in most common law jurisdictions (i.e.: legal systems that descend from the British legal system). There's no specific limit (say civil versus criminal) on when it can occur

You need to do some more reading. As much as people like to post jury nullification as though it's some sort of 'aha', it's kind of amazing they miss all the stories and articles about how jury nullification is removed as a practical option for a jury to exercise.

> And it absolutely could apply in a copyright case - that happened to come before a jury. It specifically does not depend on the validity of a legal defence, but despite it.

A judge will order what facts a jury can consider and deliberate on.

The parents argument "I took it because I wanted it" wouldn't even be allowed as a defense most likely, and certainly the jury would not be allowed to consider it.

> On a different but related note It's worth remembering that the reason piracy is enforced with legal payment demands in Germany and Japan, but not the US, UK or most of continental Europe, is that civil disobedience made such legal demands ineffective in most territories.

What are you talking about when you say "civil disobedience"
The question is with what hardware.

Humans are able to move our heads to infer depth and resolve issues like occlusion.

No amount of AGI can solve those if we say take a Tesla and the cameras are low quality, fixed and limited in number.

And the same hardware question applies to a lot of use cases for AGI.
I am really surprised they are using essentially off-the-shelf USB cameras. I guess if it works, it works, but surprising that they didn't need to design circuitry to work in a space environment.

I am guessing the requirements for circuitry operating on Mars isn't quite as much as a spacecraft or satellite, but it is still getting hit with cosmic particles and solar radiation with no atmosphere.
It's funny, I've been a developer for 40+ years, been coding since the 80's. I always thought I would "just" write code, but around year 25, I realized I had outgrown programming and wanted to make bigger things, with greater reach. This meant not just entire products, but product lines, product strategies, brand identities.

After this realization, it took me a decade to see that office politics exist because you are literally trying to steer the company, and so are other people, and you will disagree. I guess I haven't been fucked hard enough yet, because I enjoy this process. Some people call it a game, but I think it is just reality: if you want to do big things, you need an entirely new set of problem solving skills.

40 year old me would have scoffed at 58 year old me as a sellout, but here I am, enjoying it far more than debugging C code for a paycheck. I only debug my own C code now, and layout my stereo amplifiers circuits, even if they suck, because it doesn't impact my paycheck!
Feels like a fluff piece. 100 microwatts of power at 15x15x15mm means its applications are very limited. Given that its nuclear I assume it will have diminishing power generation over time.

A regular RTG like the ones used in voyager produce 150w, and to get the same power generation from this system would mean 150,000x the scale to produce the same power. Almost seems like the power figure is wrong in the article.

Even a coin cell battery has something like 600,000 hours of run time at a power draw of 100 microwatts.

If they can keep growing the tech it could be viable, even their 2025 prediction has 150w of generation at 150cm cubed... That is a massive battery.
Yeah, all fair. What piqued my curiosity is that you could wait _less_ time than you did before (potentially not at all!) which feels like the opposite of what you want to do in such situations.
An NFT generator made with python3
Tried to use GPT-3.5 (all variants like turbo, 06-13, etc.) and never made it work properly. It is not a good API or useful. GPT-4 is crazy slow to use with API. I hope they can come up with something like gpt4-turbo and as fast as 3.5...
I have seen recent photographs of the 1970s crash site in the Andes. It's shocking to see how little snow there is now because of global warming.
General Agent: Self-Call and Stack Memory
We propose a single-Agent framework that has a simple structure and high operating efficiency and can automatically complete complex tasks: General Agent.

General Agent integrates LLM's Text Namepspace and Code Interpreter's Code Namespace, allowing the Agent to work on the Code Namespace, and embeds the agent into the Code Namespace, allowing the agent to call itself, and through Stack Memory, each time LLM runs in a In a more ideal context.

There is no need for a multi-Agent architecture, no explicit planner and executor design, and no need for complex SOP process control. With such a simple architecture, the Agent can self-plan, self-implement, and self-correct, and ultimately complete various complex tasks with the shortest path and high accuracy. Task.

And it’s a general architecture that can handle tasks of various categories and difficulty without having to code them individually.

In addition, you can also add functions or modify prompts to improve the Agent's capabilities and control the Agent's robustness on specific tasks.

We conducted experiments on tasks such as data processing, long graphic novel generation, function search and use, etc. The experimental results show that it can complete various complex tasks very well on its own.

Our project can be found at https://github.com/CosmosShadow/GeneralAgent.
With chefs, it seems like they really are crushing it. I've heard of a couple of top chefs who got burned out, went and started "something else" away from their fame, which then proceeded to crush it as well.

Of course, there is a lot of survivorship bias. I never heard of the ones who never crushed it or who started the second thing and it failed.

However, the fact that there are a non-trivial number of chefs who crush it multiple times seems to suggest that there is something that they have.

Even people like Anthony Bourdain acknowledge that there is a VAST gulf in capability between people like himself and the people who went and survived those big name restaurant kitchens.
You're right, here's a list of all GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 glitch tokens (and it features the token above, too, so I guess I was wrong to assume it's new): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kmWrwtGE9B9hpbgRT/a-search-f...
As far as I know, there wasn't a need to "fine tune" the interface on an ASR-33[1] or any of the other models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
Yes, that's the intention, but it's all done informally, such as in my GP comment. Maybe someday we'll add more formal support for it to the software.

Or did I miss something you meant?
These are self-reported stories by one of the most extreme self-promoters in business. Let's not take it too seriously.
I find it funny when people say someone or some group is a threat to democracy and thus we have to take them off the ballot. But I guess it depends what you mean by Democracy, the will of the people or maintaining the Neo-liberal world order
It's not about sinking, it is about a totally different skill set. There's no good/bad here, it just IS. Also, your statement implies you are "above" other people, which is so arrogant, it is almost like you are the people you despise.
Wanna plan your holidays ahead? Use GPT to help you
Holiday Lookup GPT can tell you what holiday in the future and the past. Use it for your convenience!
Confusing content without any clarifying step by step.
Yeah, my suspicions were back in the x86 days when it was much simpler.
Self-assessment is used by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK to collect income tax. It requires individuals to report their income, gains, and any applicable reliefs or allowances, enabling the calculation of their tax liability.
It's much easier to step up or down AC voltage than DC voltage. Too bad the article didn't address that (in the context of its DC transmission hyping).
Can there be more than one high quality camera, or is that not allowed?
I'm sure Musk's biography says lots of things. Do you still take it a face value?
just... put it in the trunk and only put it on the car when you park somewhere. Maybe you just have to use more, smaller panels but I don't see why you couldn't do that.
That is wild to me that they could not be profitable. That is so much money stemming from some mobile games. Games from the outside have limited production values vs AAA titles.

Do they spend it all on promotional material to not get out competed by the next mobile venture? Or is it just ever increasing team sizes? M&A gone wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Inspiration
Office is for work, not politics.
As a Canadian I have to warn you any method of transferring money will be eventually blocked, rules be damned
> You just don’t see a 20-year-old woman imagining herself as a housewife and cooking meals anymore

Au contraire, this is now a popular content vertical/subculture- "tradwife" is the keyword you need to dig this stuff up.
What about the open-office workers that can only work by putting on noise-cancelling headphones and pumping noise in their ears?

Is taht not equivalent to gaming 8 hours a day?
Hear me out: why Chappie isn't a bad movie (2021)
The organizations that actually do 'hire only the best' never claim it.

There's probably less than 50 such places, total, on Earth, where every single engineering position is occupied by a bonafide, legitimate, super-genius. It's a small enough group that the posers can be immediately identified.
I don't have much experience with Rust besides just messing around, so in my case I picked something I know. Also it is a language I personally do not want to really go too deep into until I have a valid use case for it.

For most of my needs, Go offers an excellent ratio of developer experience, features, and performance.

I wouldn't say any language is superior or inferior - they all have a valid use case that makes sense. For me personally, I prefer to validate against the ratio I mentioned above.

That being said, Go concurrency is quite simple. It works well and offers great performance.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. It's an old saying meaning nothing is really free. If you aren't paying money, you're paying some other way.
Super cool! Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Again, more proof that the billionaire class cares about one things and one thing only: becoming trillionaires at all costs. My spellchecker doesn't even recognize the word "trillionaire".
>orgs are better building directly on Yocto (or BuildRoot) without a vendor in the middle

Going on a tangent here, but does anyone else also agree that BuildRoot is much, much nicer to work with as a dev than Yocto? I've had to work with both and BuildRoot was easy, just like building a Linux kernel with 'make menuconfig', whereas Yocto was downright painful.
Use tools to help workers estimate their contribution. Basically try to automate performance evaluation. You can't completely, but you can give bullshitters less opportunity to embellish.

And like the other commenter said, keep the company as small as possible. That way, each person's contribution is more prominent.
gpt4-turbo has been out for a number of months. GH copilot chat has defaulted to it since November iirc.
That is quite the slippery slope you paint there. There would need to be several steps before we even come close to getting there.

Is it possible? Sure. A lot of things are possible. Is it inevitable? Far from it.
the “kinks to work out” is a funny way of saying “gaping holes that make this idea completely unworkable”

and given the endless stream of indie games government funding doesn’t seem to be a necessity.