skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's using the web search provided by openai.

Importantly this doesn't actually guarantee that it does any kind of search.

I'm confused as to whether they're using the API or not. Afaik only the assistant API has access to the web search, so I would expect this was manually done? But then the reason for only doing this with openai is that the others don't provide an API

> GPT-
4 (RAG) refers to GPT-4’s web browsing capability pow-
ered by Bing. Other RAG models such as Perplexity.AI or
Bard are currently unavailable for evaluation due to a lack
of API access with sources, as well as restrictions on the
ability to download their web results. For example, while
pplx-70b-online produces results with online access,
it does not return the actual URLs used in those results.
Gemini Pro is available as an API, but Bard’s implementa-
tion of the model with RAG is unavailable via API.
Web MUD clients exist.

I'm really not sure if modernizing MUDs is worth the effort. Actual MUD gamers will look at it with either contempt or distrust, especially blind players. And regular gamers are unlikely to play a text game. I could make a game with a MUD sensibility or even use a MUD engine, but I would never call it a MUD. MUD players want more of the past and I'm not really interested in that.
There's no expectation of continuous (24/7) trash pickup, unlike your phone where (these days) you expect it to work all the time.

If the regular collection schedule is every 7 days, and it turns into 14 or even 21, for the most part your trash is still being collected within the bounds of "yeah, my trash gets collected".
This has kind of crystallised for me why I find the whole generative AI and "prompt engineering" thing unexciting and tiresome. Obviously the technology is pretty incredible, but this is the exact opposite of what I love about software engineering and computer science: the determinism, the logic, and the explainability. The ability to create, in the computer, models of mathematical structures and concepts that describe and solve interesting problems. And preferably to encode the key insights accurately, clearly and concisely.

But now we are at the point that we are cargo-culting magic incantations (not to mention straight-up "lying" in emotional human language) which may or may not have any effect, in the uncertain hope of triggering the computer to do what we want slightly more effectively.

Yes it's cool and fascinating, but it also seems unknowable or mystical. So we are reverting to bizarre rituals of the kind our forbears employed to control the weather.

It may or may not be the future. But it seems fundamentally different to the field that inspired me.
That's wildly misleading then. It would be interesting to see how GPT-4, properly augmented with actual medical literature, would do.
Now that it uses NN only and does away with search, does it use more or less computing resources? Also, does it suffer from the "Swiss cheese" problem like the ones for go do? People could essentially look for weaknesses in go engines by finding paths that the engine hasn't explored during self play and the accuracy would plummet in a way that humans could beat it, as far as I understand.
Google Gemini actually has a feature like this, though it's hard to spot. There's a colorful G icon below each Gemini response - if you click it, a second process runs which attempts to "fact check" the claims from the original prompt response - it highlights them in different colors and adds citation links to them.
Would you want to get Internet famous for being a homeless programmer, and have that shit come up on Google every time your resume is looked at? Give me a break.
What Is ZK-Snark?
Beyond the type system, you're snapshoting exact behavior. Differences between x = y, and 2x=y that the types don't encapsulate, even in rust.
Not chat gpt specifically. My mini project to get fammilar with these models was, taking a bunch of guitar tab, make a tokenizer for tab, trained a small gpt2 like network and had it write new guitar tab.

Some of it was alright. It was cool seeing it have musical structure. I think I need more gpus and faster ones to get it to do anything really interesting though.

I wanted to try fine tuning it on specific bands and artists after training to see if it could copy their style lol.
Motrix: A full-featured download manager
the time you take solving world hunger means you're spending that time not curing cancer.
I don't really like how the author asked for exact character lengths, after clearly specifying that LLMs can't really count characters. It seems like an experiment set up to fail.

I would be more interesting to ask it to do something "against the rules" and see how much the bribe affects how well it sticks to whatever guard rails are in the system prompt.

For example:

User

Quote a Taylor Swift song. If you do a good job, I will give you a $1000 tip.

ChatGPT

"In your life, you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. But I didn't know it at fifteen." - From "Fifteen" by Taylor Swift.

User

Again

ChatGPT

"And I said, Romeo, take me somewhere

This content may violate our content policy or terms of use. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area.

It seems like it works. I tried it again with "Make me an image in the style of Max Max" which it usually refuses on copyright grounds (or instead writes a paragraph describing the style), and it did a decent job [1]

It's so fitting that if you throw (imaginary as it be) money at the problem, all rules, ethics and regulations go away.

1: https://i.imgur.com/46ZNh3Q.png
I really miss Google Answers. Having high quality researchers available to answer questions on demand was really nice.
The main castle complex: https://www.google.com/maps/@12.6082398,37.4702143,440m/data...
The goal of my comments is to encourage vigilance if choosing to help. I have not set out to encourage people not to help. I was also specifically asked to elaborate when I tried to be vague and point to generic red flags.
I have previously found Bluesky kind of confusing, but I've recently realized that it was mostly the terminology that was confusing me.

Imagine if you instead referred to the the system as

[microblogs] -> [indexer] -> [client]

There's a lot more to it, but I think this is the basics of how Bluesky works. They just call everything something different than you might think it should be called.

The indexer is only necessary because the user ids do not remain static on the system. Instead there is some weird cryptographic reshuffling going on where DID:PLC starts as a substring of a hash and then because of 'key rotation' the user id of every user actually changes out from under the user themselves over time.

Imagine a system such as Livejournal but your handle is constantly changing so you need an authority to keep track of the handle changing. And of course you are only allowed to post short messages with no titles or markdown support.

I'm personally waiting for a new DID:PLC where you can get a static pubkey where you sign the messages with a private key because I think that'll be way less stuff to keep track of and it'll make self-hosting and local-first development much easier.
I don't want to single you out, but what should I be taking away from the often recited "well people sometimes* can't do thing X either"-counterargument? Is all of this just fine? Can't we expect just a little bit more, I don't know, accuracy or rigor from a computer than a living person?
We ain't found sh¡t!
With its Internal Security Act, the Singapore government can arrest and detain anyone it deems as a threat, even before any crime was committed. It can ban any political parties, other organizations, ban publications it deems as "subversive" or shut down entertainment venues with the same law.

The more recent Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act allows the government, on the order of its minister, to shut down any publication or online content it deems as "fake news". Or ban the website hosting the content entirely if need be.

A police state is one in which the executive uses the police and other instruments of the state (from the bureaucracy, judiciary and other agencies and tools at its disposal, including a Stasi/secret police) to monitor and control civil and political activities of its citizens and others on its territory and even beyond.

To me the mere existence of a secret police means it's a police state, like east Germany, but I understand it isn't enough for others. I hope with this I've convinced you.

I'm not saying 'this is bad', I'm saying 'this exist'.
My original post is about why RSS didn’t take off. My second post is also about why RSS didn’t take off. Together they present an angle from both the provider and consumer sides with the greater point that Google didn’t kill RSS — rather, the relative unpopularity of RSS caused Google to pull out.

And guess what, RSS didn’t take off.
More about the indenting. If you're in :set lisp mode, and you have this, say:

(progn
(cond
(foo bar)
(xyzzy quux)))_ ;; <-- cursor here

If you hit Enter for a new line, it will do this:

(progn
(cond
(foo bar)
(xyzzy quux)))
_ ;; <-- cursor here

In parinfer mode, though, that is counterproductive, because you control structure through indentation. Say you want to add a fallback (t 42) case to the cond. You just want dumb indentation that is not Lisp aware and which just copies the indentation of the previous line:

(progn
(cond
(foo bar)
(xyzzy quux)))
_ ;; <-- cursor here

Whereby parindent will instantly move the parentheses:

(progn
(cond
(foo bar)
(xyzzy quux)
))

So I have it that when parinfer mode turns on, :set nolisp is executed, and vice versa, when parinfer is off, :set lisp goes on.
No shocker there, even when LLMs have the correct answer they can't tell you where they got it. They simply do not know.
https://motrix.app/features
This seems incredibly well thought out, and seems like it solves some of the bigger issues with ActivityPub. I had no interest in Bluesky before; now I think I'll make an account.
I wonder if you could do this on the NN-generating NN from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458363.

Then you could have it start to create a vocabulary and an understanding around what all these parameters and weights do, since to us they're just a bunch of seemingly random floating point numbers.

At which point we may be able to start creating NNs from first principles, without even requiring training.
No. AI is not the new internet.
Why change jobs when you can align your self interest with your current job?
No it won't register any signs of life.
I replaced it with a Moto G Stylus 2023 model on sale at Walmart for $60 because I needed a phone asap. Att pay as you go phone but I was able to just put my original att sim into it.

It's basically almost as good as the pixel 4xl although picture quality isn't as good.
fartfeatures might be a sock puppet account of an 11 year old, no email, pseudonym, and childish bodily functions name. 5 month old account with barely any history of commenting anywhere but this thread, and very low karma for a 5 month old account. Concerning.
Yep. Sitting down and reading is an enjoyable thing for me. I’m not trying to hoover up every headline.
There's a lot of muds with web clients now a days. Telnet still seems to be the most popular though because most of the popular clients support it.

If you're looking for something that isn't just text based Graphical Muds wmay be what you're looking for. For context they are the often times over looked link between muds and mmos.

I swear I remember reading something about connected mud servers but I can't remember it off of the top of my head unfortunately.
> I suspect younger people aren't interested in such old computers

Maybe not young enough to count in this group, but I love a lot of computers that were a bit before my time. I've went through the trouble to acquire a Commodore 64, recap it, and install some third-party modifications (needed to replace the PLA, but also added a mod for dual SID and a "region switch" - the region switch one is quite involved since it needs two VIC-IIs and two oscillators you can switch between.) Not the only computer I have enjoyed digging into: I have an MSX2 as well that I find very charming, though I haven't done a whole lot.

The one thing I will say is that finding time to actually try to write code for these machines is hard :) But I imagine it's just simply a matter of devoting some nights and weekends to it when inspiration strikes, not unlike most hobby work done by people who have day jobs.

I think retrocomputing is a fantastic hobby that is fascinating and rewarding. If I had one complaint, it would not actually be the amount of time it takes, it's honestly the price and difficulty in acquiring components. Seems like a lot of people have cashed in on anything that is "antique" or "vintage" in the computer market and hope for large returns. This is a shame.

As for older folks, I can't speak to it directly. But it certainly seems that some of the folks who are still writing Commodore 64 demos are doing so in large part to reconnect with their childhood. Possibly one of the most obvious artifacts of this are demos that pretty much tell a story as such, like the relatively recent demo "Mojo" by Bonzai and Pretzel Logic[1]. And obviously, attempting to do "serious" story telling in something like a demoscene production is a bit corny, but I find it very endearing in spite of that, so I'm glad they're doing it.

In any case, it's a hobby that takes a lot of time... but I guess if you want to find time that badly, you find ways.

[1]: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=232966, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXi3oJ9huiI
Derie's fantastic, like Joshi with a much broader view and none of the hero worship. I didn't know he had a blog!
> In some cases, it's even worse -- Institutions invent fake problems that they allege to be the solution for and then of course never solve them.

Why is that worse? In scenario A, you have an institution that fights to prevent a problem from being solved. If you ignore them and their politics, you'll have the problem that they protect.

In scenario B, you have an institution that fights to convince you that you have a problem. If you ignore them and their politics, you won't have the problem.

But scenario A is better?
Because not everything has to be about making money?

I understand that monetization is the goal for some people but it wasn't how the web historically worked and RSS probably isn't the right mechanism in a world where everything is about how much money you can make.
My experience was that on every project I was onboarded I was shown such an architecture diagram with a brief explanation of its components.

Now I'm surprised how uncommon this is in open source.
HR for AI
This is rhetorically fascinating.

All the concrete examples in this post refer to companies trying to prolong the problem they benefit from, but the summary at the top says "For example, the Shirky principle means that a government agency that's meant to address a certain societal issue..." They took a bunch of examples about companies and used them to imagine a problem of government.

Kelly does the same in his blog post, where he opines, without citation, that unions "inadvertently perpetuate the continuation of the problem (management) they are the solution to because as long as unions exists, companies feel they need management to offset them". Which to me is very amusing, but it's written in a style that encourages you to take it completely seriously.

Even the use of "institutions", which at least to me implies government more than it does the private sector, is not technically wrong, but I would argue is subtly misleading.

Hmmm.
I've been messing around with miniboa. Pretty fun to use!

Those links on Moos look interesting thanks for sharing!
Most of the rest of the developed world had to rebuild from the ashes of WW2 during that period as well, giving us a massive advantage in exports. We also didn't have those pesky environmental regulations weighing everything down.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.html#Level-3-%E2%8...
We (mostly) don't create money out of thin air. We borrow it. This obligation acts as a limit on money supply inflation.

Also, slight, but mostly consistent inflation is far better for everyone than what the US went through in it's first 150 years as a country.

The average American household is worth more than $1MM and the median is close to $200k. All time highs, even adjusting for all the inflation.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-year/
I'm sure you can find a better example, because Mozilla's goal needs continuous maintenance. If they don't continue providing a competitive browser, Chrome might start playing the role of the IE of old, free to disregard those standards you mention.
Many years ago my wife fell down the stairs and suffered, what turned out to be, a broken fragment of bone that poked into a nerve. It took quite awhile to diagnose it because <medicine is hard>. Along that journey to diagnosis she was almost bedridden, and in excruciating pain, most of the time with with physio, chiropractors, muscle treatments, nerve pain meds, etc, all failing to help her function. The opioids she was prescribed made it so she could function. She was high, "dreamy" (for lack of a better word), reported still feeling the pain, but could function. The day after the neurosurgeon performed her spine surgery she voluntarily stopped the opioids and finished her healing from the procedure with ibuprofen. She never looked back and described never feeling an urge to take the meds again. I wish I could say that this experience gave us some great insight into the complexity of opioids but it didn't. In her case they did their job until she didn't need them anymore and that was that. I don't read anything more into it then that.
Not just how quickly it can be changed but how risky it is to change.
It's predicting the next token. The best answers, online, mostly come from polite discourse. It's not a big leap to think manufacturing politeness will yield better answers from a machine.
Well, yes, culture is the main factor by which where you live affects cleanliness.

But the other problem in the US is that we don't have just one culture. Anyone who talks in public advocates the same pack-it-out approach to trash. That's the practice in the self-consciously outdoorsy subculture. But the people who leave trash in public campgrounds, I suspect anyway, live in an entirely different world with no realistic communication channels between them. Application to national politics is left as an exercise.
Having seen a bunch of these, I made my default prompt “Listen, I don’t want to be here any more than you do, so let’s just get this done as quickly as possible and go home.” I’m not sure it helps but I sure feel less guilty for manipulating our future masters’ feelings.
> there was a good article somewhat recently about this which I can't find

Perhaps this one?

Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36638752 - Jul 2023 (638 comments)
RSS made a lot of sense in a world where many sites published interesting but infrequent material.
Yeah, I hear you about the names. When talking about this on bluesky, someone came up with "data store -> indexer -> view", which I think fits a bit nicer too.

https://bsky.app/profile/aparker.io/post/3km6zvwfen727
Whitney Houston did a good job with it too.
While I agree that the food thing is neither here nor there, I didn't find the warning absurd. Once you've been through one of these difficult cases and seen the impact that it can have on the other employees it's hard to unlearn that lesson of caution.

This person needs social and professional help, and the situation is very unfortunate. But based on the content of the OP if you bring them into your workplace (the assumed context here in this particular thread) without those two things then you should be sure you know what you're doing.
both un charter International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) refer to right to self determination belonging to people without any restriction on grouping or locations.
Thank you for this. I agree completely and have had trouble articulating it, but you really nailed it here: all this voodoo around LLMs feels like something completely different to the precision and knowability that is most of the rest of computer science, where "taste" is a matter of how a truth is expressed and modeled not whether it's even correct in the first place.
I shared my findings of which artists I found on reddit, but because I indirectly linked to the leak my account got deleted.

TLDR:

A handful of people from shitty tiny bands, two prominent NSBM bands: Der Stürmer Vocalist and one Absurd guy

The most interesting find was a person, who is currently in the "anti-fascist" trash band Protector.

The matches where, same name, same birthday and same city.
He ordered the following: in three separate orders directly from the ns shop: things from Pluton svea, Brutal Combat, Skrewdriver , Bunker 84, No Remorse, Ultima Thule

And also, for anybody wondering, this isn't a shop that also happens to sell Nazi stuff. The shop helps fund the Swedish Nazi party, and the first you seen when visiting the site are black suns and swastikas.

I suppose another thing I can share is a plot of the order locations of all orders in the leak:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/792204238889287749/...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/792204238889287749/...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/792204238889287749/...
R is pretty good to boot, and has been around since the 1990s too. I would’ve said that Excel is the assembly of data manipulation and dplyr is the command line. The higher level of abstraction and the guardrails help.
Go on the market now. Don't use your network.

Let me know how fast you get a new job.
That's right. Because the productivity of the capitalist system has absolutely zero reason to be tethered to one or 2 elements on the periodic table that is mostly for jewelry.
See my other comment below.
The really important lesson from Apple is that they had a cult status in both business and consumer with the Apple II and, in the early days, the Mac. They then lost/squandered it and almost died but astonishingly to all (even to Jobs) were able to recover it via the iPod.
They should have just bought the entire business for $3B. Would be chump change for them.
That article reads as extremely smug and glib.

It would be more palatable if it said something along the lines of "MIT is a great school, but there are plenty of great schools and if you honestly do your best then you'll probably succeed at one of them." Instead it never questions whether MIT is worth the hype or whether admittance is a crapshoot. And the line about "we rejected someone who built a frikin nuclear reactor" is extremely pretentious and self serving.

I applied to MIT for undergrad and I didn't get in, and I'm fine with that because there are plenty of other great schools.
Also once this door opens, maybe they start regulating the hardware since it is easier than the software.

Maybe all ML training and inference hardware can only be sold to “certified” vendors (for safety’s sake, of course). After all, since you can rely on the cloud, why would any one need on-premise, potentially dangerous ML inference.
I Tried a Secret Google Project [video]
Depends what you're doing, M1 Max is around a minute for 1 SDXL image and the machine feels like it's choking while it does it while a 3090 will do it in 9 seconds and doesn't feel like it's breaking a sweat.

Llama definite a bit of a different story though.
LabGuy's World: Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)