skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not like human call center staff has never given anyone wrong information, or cost companies money in fines and lawsuit

A human will be more likely to say "I don't know" or pass you along, rather than outright lie.
What backend do you use? The little spin I've given Ibis felt like it's not deeply supported with a lot of the backends.
It's a cost borne by society at large and specifically by the people who can't get enrolled in the programs they're eligible for. Not every cost is easily measured by accountants.
Yeah no wonder they kill anyone who tries to come
I’m starting to wonder if the needle haystack benchmark is maybe too easy
I wonder how many green initiatives turns out to be a farce, synthetic meat? Fuel cell? We'll probably hear the same thing for lithium-based EV and wind turbines
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Sure, but there is such a thing as “the human element”. Humans aren’t perfect, and that is the expectation. That is not the same case with computers.

And especially for something where it’s just pulling data from an internal system. There is absolutely no reason to invent made up information and saying “well humans do it all the time” is just an excuse.
Simpler, but you can avoid huge amounts of work just simply by not loading what you need. That's the beauty of the scan_* apis in polars. Most query engines have some level of support for io skipping.
It was in every vehicle back to 2012... And was seen by every driver every day.

Hard to argue that this rule breaking is a problem when literally millions of people saw the rule breaking on literally billions of occasions before the violation was noticed.
The bar isn't even that high.

They only need to increase the lawsuit/settlement amount by less than the amount the companies saves by automation.
You're arguing for a no experimentation Catch-22.
> However, the bulk of the content appears aimed at creating a sense of dismay over the state of America without any clear partisan bent. It focuses on issues like urban decay, the fentanyl crisis, dirty drinking water, police brutality, gun violence and crumbling infrastructure. These are not election-specific narratives and have been a significant feature of Spamouflage’s content over several years. While not explicitly linked to the election, however, this content clearly also feeds into the attempt to create a sense of dissatisfaction with the state of the country among voters, as well as potentially engendering a sense of chaos in the US amongst international audiences.

This is not exactly news, and there are plenty of American videos exposing these issues for years now. Maybe Congress should be spending that inflation printed money fixing them so that we don’t have to wait for a new president to get to work.
This claim seems wildly inaccurate, as even with GPT-4 in a single conversation thread with previous human-written answers included, a repeat of a similar question just resulted - in my testing today - in a completely hallucinated answer.

I think your claim might be based on anecdotal testing. (I used to have that same feeling after my first implementation of RAG)... Once you get a few thousand users running RAG-based conversations, you quickly see that it's "good enough to be useful", but far from being as dreamy as promised.
This extends beyond tech. I feel like every recognisable brand or franchise gets milked to death and run into the ground. A company can't just make good things. They invariably enshittify and try to extract as much money as they can before people realize that the brand is now just overpriced hype.
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How can they lie so boldfaced to the public like this?
Yeah, reasonableness is the usual requirement in law unless otherwise specified. The ruling we're talking about here uses reasonableness several times:

"Generally, the applicable standard of care requires a company to take reasonable care to ensure their representations are accurate and not misleading."

"I find Air Canada did not take reasonable care to ensure its chatbot was accurate."

"Mr. Moffatt says, and I accept, that they relied upon the chatbot to provide accurate information. I find that was reasonable in the circumstances."
Unfortunately, my impression is that human customer support often works just as well as a current-generation chatbot: They'll tell you what you want to hear, because they get rated by customer satisfaction. You get the survey, indicate that your request was resolved to your satisfaction, the agent gets their bonus... and a week later you realize everything you have been told was a lie.

This got so bad that when a customer support agent at Amazon genuinely resolved my issue well once, I was surprised that it actually worked out as promised.
Because it's column based vs row based. Definitely can be a bit more of a footgun ("with great power comes great responsibility").

Long story short, the memory model operates on columns of data as opposed to rows, so fields in a conceptual "row" aren't necessarily an atomic unit.
Because Israel (Netanyahu), or France (Le Pen), Italy (Berlusconi), Germany (Weidel), England (Johnson) weren't using civil war messaging?

This seems pretty global.
You have just listed multiple factors which can be involved in the success of an experience.

How can you claim it’s universal when from your own words it clearly is not?
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Most of this is inaccurate.

The history of unions is long and complex. Although there has been tension historically between craft unionism and industrial unionism (the original term for lower skilled work), that was mostly in the pre-war period and not really related to the purpose of unions.

No one is forced into paying union dues now anymore than someone is forced to take any particular job. Workers negotiate a contract with their employer that includes a commitment to include all employees as part of the union. It's just a contract.
I find it common for human customer support people to give inaccurate information. I don't know about "outright lying", but I've had people tell me things that are factually incorrect.
The worst part is q: is a different command. so if you are trying to :q and miss the colon and try again, you run some other damn f*cking command.
Is there a country where no precedent is set by court rulings?

It seems a little weird to be able to (and also practically do) rule differently in the same situation
> both will have similar policies outside.

This is hard to reconcile with real events: for example, Russia has a huge upside to replacing the guy supporting their humiliation in Ukraine with the guy who trying to break up NATO on their behalf – the opposite of “similar”! As for China, one candidate has been consistent in seeing the US as a needed counter to their power, the other has flipped a few times but most recently declined to answer whether he’d protect Taiwan and expressed his dismay over Taiwan having outcompeted in the semiconductor market – I know which of the two a competent opponent would be on being able to outwit, and I bet they’d offer great financing terms for his biggest hotel yet, too.
That only potentially makes sense at a societal level, not at an individual company level.

And the money saved with staff will end up in the stockholder's pockets, who will consume more.
Good for them. Honestly.
The actual reason why Kaparthy (and you'll see some other early employees) begin to consider leaving as they have already vested their shares and have taken profits during the hype.
Or they'll turn to the party promising $50 an hour minimum wage and free college tuition, and free everything else.
On Netflix there are x no of movies classified across certain categories, viewers choose from them and watch. Deciding on a movie and searching on Netflix will almost never work.
You are paying for the curbside pickup anyway, so the marginal cost of recycling aluminum is small.
> Front-end work is less mathematically complex

Absurd.

In general UI is more complex because of state. Primitively speaking complexity of state machine grows exponentially with every new screen, dialogue.

But people often underestimate this.
I'm happy we have this precedent now in Canadian law. I'm wondering how such a thing would play out in the US.
Go apply to McDonald's now then because I don't believe anyone sane would work a shit job they didn't have to simply for a trinket.
There were never crops in the first place in the modern or even ancient sense.

Some tribes figured out that some tuberous plants can be replanted and will regrow after the tuber has been harvested and that's it.

Some may have understood how seeds work (that's debated) but at no point did Aborigines clear a plot of land to plant a particular species with seeds harvested last season.

This was a reason of total misunderstanding with the arriving Europeans, there was no way to lure them to help farm and get their share of the crops, it just wasn't on their map.

In contrast, Maoris just across the ditch understood both growing plants and raising livestock, and a mere decade after wheat and pork were brought from Europe they were widely growing both.
The right way to handle this is - store both the user input and the validated value (potentially null) and an error state (potentially null.) Then, when the user takes action to submit the form, validate and set the error state if needed. That way you’re not constantly setting the error state on typing, but when some concrete action is taken you can signal what went wrong.

Admittedly, anecdotal, but most of the guys in my career who have been really into UI = f(state) only consider the validated state, and wish the stuff that’s purely user input and never sent to your backend would just go away.

And when you consider that state is both what you want to send to the server, and a bunch of intermediate state that only ever means something to the client, the UI = f(state) idea (while true!) doesn’t seem all that helpful. Technically every app is a function of state, but if your definition of state is that broad what help is the idea?
This. naively it seems to be a real straightforward to fix. Just scale to the next integer and then downscale. It won't be as pretty but it will be much better then what we have now. Hell make the scale factor configurable so you can get real smooth graphics.
Some people do record calls to companies. I choose to understand "Calls may be recorded" as permission and say "Thank you", even if perhaps that's not always how it was intended. When calling small very sketchy companies (such as my last landlord before I bought somewhere to live) I ask for permission and hang up if they refuse. Oh you don't want your words recorded? Fine, you're getting a letter, hope you weren't in a hurry.

But Chat Bots often provide a "Save transcript" feature, or even default to emailing you a copy if you're in a Customer Service type environment where it knows your email. So those are both a lot easier than setting up call recording.
Like what?

AI is cool, but the spoils are going to go to staggeringly few people and in most of the West there are no real safety nets for people to fall on.

If I lost my job tomorrow to AI then any desk job I aim for might be gone in another 2-3 years, before I even finish retraining.

Any content creation is going to be flooded out and most creators don't even make any money even today. It's a marketing role with strong Pareto distributions.

That mainly leaves physical labor and person to person jobs.

I would say great, freedom from labour, except that's not how it works.
Political ads should do just fine.

I was in Hong Kong for two weeks late last year and every time I opened Twitter there I saw a promoted post for a voachinese.com article (something something China bad). It’s always VOA Chinese even though my language is clearly English, and my account is completely passive, never tweeted anything, liked anything or followed anyone, most of my visits are HN referrals about something tech related. It was quite surreal, like they bought the entire ad space of the region or something.
Generally speaking, food waste renders products un-recycleable. Even minor amounts of impurities make molten glass and molten metal totally useless.
> The only way out of this is through non-violent unity and solidarity, which is conveniently at an all time low.

The reason non-violent methods work is because they are implying that if you don't pay attention to the non-violent methods, the only recourse left is violence. Because realistically, if your non-violent methods are easily enough ignored, they'll be ignored.

And historically, violence has been an excellent tool for change. Not always for the better, that's for sure, but to deny that mass violence, especially targeted at those deemed to be in power, doesn't change things is ignoring basically all of human history.

Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
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That's not a life you would want to live though.
Sure. It might be impossible to actually set up a combination of model, training data, loss function / reward procedure, etc. that produces a perfect result. But who ever said it would be perfect?
It's sourced as well as the initial comment.
Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt
Yes, in the end it just makes it produce better answers most of the time, it doesn't eliminate hallucinations. Not sure how you expect it to objectively tell the correctness, short of formulating the prompt as axioms and performing formal verification. Which is probably not what you want from it.
This doesn't mean it is a "success" in the context above. The population living there might have lost most of its previous technological abilities and stabilized in a permanent "collapsed" state. There is no reason that humans have to go extinct when they lose their cultural achievements, after all, other animals survive without having those in the first place.

Humans would only go extinct if they lived in an environment which required a certain minimum of cultural ability, e.g. making clothes in areas with a colder climate, as humans don't have sufficient fur.
I also found it very confusingly written, and as a non-native speaker, I initially took bereavement to refer to a flight delay (imagine my confusion about the claim "you can't apply for this refund on completed travel").

Then looked up the word and my initial association with something negative was correct: it's about death. The only explanation that I think fits all the article's statements is this:

0. AirCan offers a discounted rate if you fly to someone's death, probably because of the country's size (it's a weird concept to me as a Dutch person!)

1. Person asked the bot how to get this discounted rate, what papers AirCan needed to see

2. Bot said (not shown in article, the only relevant-looking link goes to some stupid news category page): you get your discount afterwards, not before. This seems to be phrased in the article as "refund", but I take it to mean "partial refund to the amount of the discount"

3. Person flies, then applies

4. AirCan now says: you can't apply for this anymore after the travel was completed
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> Also, a nit fwiw, you automatically assumed the entire profit of the business is the market salary for the person running this business

Not really a big assumption given that the person is capable of operating an entire software and hardware business by themself.

It’s more complicated than that, though: The salary someone receives from a company isn’t 100% passed through untouched. To pay everything from taxes to benefits, the most they could realistically expect to take in equivalent compensation would be closer to $150K (approximate), which is actually below market rate just about anywhere for someone with these qualifications.
> I just applied for my passport, and am looking forward to worldly exploration.

Congrats! Travel is super important to gain perspective - culturally, politically, and socially.

As an added bonus, having a passport makes ID verification much less of a pain in the ass (typically you just need a passport rather than a state ID + other documents).
Damn. My family use Memojis heavily!
then you can't have a chatbot

but if that is your standard, you can't have an airline either
I'm hosting Photon geocoder from Komoot. I find it decently accurate and not too expensive to run
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You aren’t responding to / speaking to this article at all. You are responding to the hypothetical propaganda that it’s talking about. That doesn’t feel on topic at all. The point is that they aren’t election-specific issues.
And to follow up, my understanding is that trump would post personally, not one of his PR staff, I’m not aware of him personally posting elsewhere until after he was banned from Twitter.
No, but it’s probably a pretty good life if that’s the only thing you know. They have a lot of sex on the beach (actually) and don’t look malnourished.
> Something is already really wrong with your app if it tries to do things like this.

The base philosophy of "if it's wrong it should fail" is primarily for developpers, and shouldn't apply to generic customer products.

If it's dangerous, or will cost money, or will have severe ill adverse effects, I'd see the point. If a credit card transaction is wrong, make it fail.

But short of these extremes, the default should be graceful handling of exceptions and help the customer app keep going and deliver some value to the user even if it's poorly written, mishandling the context.
Sure, but if we're saying they shouldn't, then we're saying that the law should just be frozen in time, essentially forever (but at least for the lifetime of anyone who is alive today). The last time that a single party had 1. a majority in the house and 2. >60% of the senate was 1979, and that's what it takes to pass anything besides routine, insignificant legislation. And thanks to gerrymandering and political entrenchment on both sides, I can't think of anything short of a war that could draw us out of the stalemate.
As long as compilers exist, we will probably have parsers. And at present we need compilers in order to build the software that is used to run LLMs.
WB Discovery has been pretty clear it intends on launching Max in Australia as early as 2025, not coincidentally when Foxtel/Binge's HBO rights are up for renewal.

Also try telling that to poor Stan, now in 5th place having lost much of its licensed content to Amazon, Disney+ and Paramount+ entering the market.
Ummm, 100% of votes went to one person and the elderly potential political adversary was led out against his will by the leader's security on live TV as part of the "election".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/hu-jintao-dragged-out-...

I mean King Henry VIII had parliament ratify his changes to the English church so that he could remarry 5 times.
i'd assume they're just following a general policy of having somebody in their legal department respond with a rebuttal for every single claim that comes in. on balance, it probably saves them money over having somebody with decision-making power make a decision on whether or not to fight things on a claim-by-claim basis.
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I would use Guix but it just doesn’t seem to be stable nor polished. If you enjoy running on bleeding edge it seems to be the distro for you.
1990 list:

1 General Motors

2 Ford Motor

3 Exxon Mobil

4 Intl. Business Machines

5 General Electric

6 Mobil

7 Altria Group

8 Chrysler

9 DuPont

Again, Exxon Mobil is the only overlap with 2020's list. (I presume that the references to "Exxon Mobil" in the 1990 and 1960 lists actually refer to pre-merger Exxon, since Mobil by itself is also on both lists).

I checked, and of the 2020 list, only AT&T, McKesson, and Exxon even existed in 1960 (Berkshire Hathaway kinda did, but they made shirts. Warren Buffet didn't come along and turn it into an investment operation until 1965.

Edit: list formatting.
See also, the part from 2:22:53 onwards:

Vladislav Surkov and propaganda methods of making people distrust everything and sow strife and confusion.

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?t=8567

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=vladislav...
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You absolutely should learn about state machines.

Also event-driven programming. (especially the idea of delaying effects, e.g. so in an RPG someone can perform a Reaction which disables the effects of an Action performed by another character before they’re applied).

Learn about stacks.

When you’re ready to make your brain bleed a little, try designing on paper the data structure to make D&D turns work.

Hints: player initiative is a circular array, reactions are a stack, actions/reactions are events. Actions are events which modify characters, reactions are events which modify other players events.

Ignore abilities which e.g. create new terrain or whatever. Ignore movement, positioning, targetting entirely.

This will be fun!

Also I can recommend the free book Game Programming Patterns. It’s useful for programming concepts even if you don’t make games
It's not that I think my tastes in music are objectively better, it's that I strongly feel that music is a very personal matter for many people and there will be enough people who will seek out different forms of music than what is "popular". Rock, jazz, even classical music, are still alive and well.

> But to state my opinion, I can't imagine something more boring than thinking the best of music, performance, TV, or media in general was done best and created in the past.

And to state my opinion, art isn't about "the best" or any sort of progress, it's about the way we humans experience the world, something I consider to be a timeless preoccupation, which is why a song from 2024 can be equally touching as a ballad from the 14th century.
> If I am trying to interact with a company and they direct me to their chatbot, I expect that chatbot to provide me with accurate answers 100% of the time (or to say it can't help me in the event that I ask a question that it's not meant to solve, and connect me to a representative who can).

If I'm trying to interact with a company and they direct me to a chatbot, I expect to get useful help 0% of the time, because if help was available via a mechanism on their site I would already have found it. I expect a chatbot to stall me as long as possible before either conceding that I need a human's assistance or telling me some further hoop to jump through to reach a real human.
Wirebonding is here to stay
you’re saying the ad click traffic from twitter is fraudulent?
Ask HN: Can a SaaS survive on a donation-based model?
We're a couple of guys who have build a SaaS (B2C) that provides a very customizable news aggregate with deep consideration for privacy and anonymity.

As such we have a lot of problems receiving payments because of VAT (we located in EU and have customers both in EU and outside as well). We do not require customers to sign up by name, address, etc.

We're thinking about switching to a donation-based model, but are worried about whether we can actually survive on that.

So, can a SaaS survive on a donation-based model or will people just generally free-load?
> then what's the point of using the chat bot in the first place?

The point is quite literally to make you give up trying to contact customer service and just pay them money, while getting their legal obligations as close to a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose situation as possible. That's not the mysterious part. The mysterious part is, why did they even let this drag into court for such a small sum?!