skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a similar incident last year [0], but in that case the lawyer actually doubled down on the fake cases and, when pressed to produce evidence of the fake cases, submitted screenshots of them asking ChatGPT to confirm that the cases were real.

At least this one had the good sense to apologize instead!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097900
Why not? We started off as single celled organisms and look at where we are now.
There’s a distinction between intelligence and biddability, and I believe they are mostly independent traits.

Some dogs (and indeed most cats) will only use their intelligence to get what they want. Biddable dogs actually care what you want and try to please you, independently of whether it will directly benefit them. You could say their reward is seeing you happy (that’s not to say treats don’t also help!).

The most trainable dogs are both intelligent and biddable.
"The Thirteenth Voyage" of Ijon Tichy is quite an amusing read on the topic
This is quite independent of the US. The state functions purely to protect the interests of the dominant class. In the US, the dominant class happens to be capital owners, but that's true in most of the world these days.
Or the carbon/nuclear industries' PR campaigns to foment support to maintain their subsidies and keep them away from solar + wind.
On a lower level: Some Gnome apps will hang for up to tens of seconds with no UI or error messages if there is no dbus user session running unless DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is set to an empty string. Evince is a case in point.

I get they're not written to run outside of Gnome (and that a lot distros will run dbus user sessions on non-Gnome setups too), but it's nevertheless infuriating.

I don't particularly like dbus, but I also don't particularly dislike it. So it's not like I went out of my way to strip out a user session bus.

My current setup just happens not to spawn a bus for the user session because nothing else I care to run actually cares whether one is running or not, until I ran into Evince.

It mostly just annoys me the user hostility of hanging like that for a feature that the app can run just fine without - popping up a warning if a user happens to trigger something that is degraded without it would be far less user hostile.
> which one do you think leads to a
healthier media environment

Hmm, apparently the answer depends!!!

What I believe is "healthier", e.g., for
(1) my being informed or (2) click-bait
headlines, eyeballs, ad revenue????

But, now, for

> the facts and list the pros and cons.

there is a possibility, that is, from some
changes from the Internet:

First, the basic ideas of click-bait, etc.
go way back in the history of many decades
of journalism publishers. They needed a
lot of revenue: Printing plants, trucks
to deliver literally tons of news print or
magazines, ..., radio and TV studios, etc.
were expensive. The number of
publishers was constrained: Each
major city had just two main newspapers,
morning and evening. There were a few
national magazines. Then, the number of
large radio stations, TV stations, were
similarly limited. Un, click-bait that
works in one major city stands to work
everywhere which creates the constraints
on the number of national click-bait
publishers.

> easily digestible value judgment and
tell you how you should think

Well put. For the big publishers, that is
what dominated.

For a good review and explanation going
way back, see the ~1941 movie Meet John
Doe.

Second, now the decades, 100+ years, of
such journalism is also being attempted
on the Web sites of the Internet -- thus,
your well put objection.

BUT ...!!!! For an audience and a
publisher for

> the facts and list the pros and cons.

they no longer need be so expensive. A
single tower case computer can send, what,
100+ Web pages a second?

Sooo, now the mass audience can have
subsets.

Some simple arithmetic:

Assume 1 ad per Web page sent, revenue of
$1 per 1000 ads displayed, sending a 24 x
7 average of 50 Web pages a second.
Assume pre-tax earnings are 50% of
revenue.

Then annual earnings would be

50 * 3600 * 24 * 265 / ( 1000 * 2 ) =
572,400

dollars.

Assume the business is worth 100 times
annual earnings, and get

100 * 50 * 3600 * 24 * 265 / ( 1000 * 2 )
= 57,240,000

dollars.

A possibility for

> the facts and list the pros and cons.

is the economy: A lot of data is
available. Could present it in largely
some simple X-Y graphs can do routinely
with, say, Excel in Microsoft's Office.

Another possibility: For COVID, start
with the crucial data in the report of the
Phase III trials in

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389

COVID and medicine more generally are good
subjects for

> the facts and list the pros and cons.

Follow, say, common high school standards
for term papers, e.g., careful references,
hopefully to credible primary sources.

Get an audience that values credibility.

Then get a brand, a growing audience, and
a successful business.

Hmm, yup, I have a related startup -- Web
site code running as intended. Should go
live this year.
Very good article that has a few interesting anecdotes about his life.
The UNRWA, the UN Agency for helping Palestinian refugees has been accused of perpetuating their misery - (The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians, The Economist https://archive.is/c7Pop).
Congrats! If it was impossible for you to go back as a software developer, would you resume software development as a hobby?
US law too.
One is bitter or sour, and the other is a good source of iron.
Ah yes, the US Healthcare industry in a nutshell
Sorry, read up on flash attention. there is no storage bottleneck.
Argentina is an economic powerhouse of the region. A very rich country, with an enormity of poverty. Poverty in Argentina has run in cycles. Current events are really quite current and you can't pin them solely on events from the 70's. An easy place to start research would be
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_econ%C3%B3mica_y_sanita...
While I agree with the article, I am also obsessed with keeping the size as low as possible, I can't stop thinking about how it feels like the Author is somewhat mixing up webapps with websites.

Websites requiring that much JS for doing very simple static tasks is bloat, but the same bar should not be set for webapps. It should still be required and a high priority to keep the bundle size low but webapps should be considered as different category. Websites can (and should) function without JS, webapps cannot.

Another thing is that the Author only looked at the visible elements, for example on Google Translate and Outlook. What he did not consider is that there is a lot of more apps accessible behind the menus.

If you take a closer look at Outlook at first glance, sure, it's just a simple app to display your emails. But on the sidebar you have access to a lot more features like calendar, contacts and the office suite.
Spam email is another example.

There's a paper from Stefan Savage's group a while back where they were able to estimate overall revenue of a few big spam-generating pharma/counterfeit product networks, and it looks like the anti-spam industry is vastly bigger than the underground spam-generating industry, and had no desire to shut off the ultimate source of their revenues.

There's a reason we don't see many of those emails anymore, and it's not because of any action by anti-spam companies - it's because firms whose products were being counterfeited convinced the credit card companies to shut off the banks handling payments for these purchases. (most evidently went through a couple of banks in I think Azerbaijan) Evidently all the viagra spam was coming from people who also hawked fake Gucci stuff...
> most of the US defense budget goes directly to the military industrial media complex

Even if it were true (which it isn't), most of the money that goes to contractors also goes to salaries.
You can absolutely get value out of being at a good school (I'd say even a mid tier school has value) -- both academic and social. It's just...is that worth $200-300k and 4 years of your life?

There would also be value in getting a great job as a top-tier-school dropout ("intern who just loves this place and how fast everything is progressing, seems like a shame I have to go to school in September, but I'll keep in touch" "Now that I'm at school every day I miss..." "can you come back and start monday?")

I think you get an overall superior package from dropping out and doing 20 under 20, joining a top company, or doing other stuff at a top level (even if it fails) than from universities today -- particularly as universities have gotten dramatically worse over the past 30 years (and especially past 5 years), and the requirement for a degree doesn't really exist (absent immigration pathways) in cs/tech.

I'd take "my YC friends" over "my college friends" overall, too.

This all assumes a highly motivated and self directed student. I don't think university really saves "I don't know what I want to do, my parents are telling me to go to Harvard so I will"; IMO if you're 16-18 and have no idea what kind of things you enjoy you've already failed/been failed.
Average person doesn't have strong opinion about some bit of data irrelevant to their life.

If there is a thing, and topic about it has reached the internet discussions, the participants will have an opinion regardless of their actual practical knowhow about the thing. They'll form their opinion otherways. Platforms like Reddit favour a master opinion due to score and moderation system, so one out of N wrong theories will surface as the master opinion.

In real life, if you ask bunch of random people about the thing they don't know, you get wildly different answers, and largely no-one will back up anyone there. Certainly not in enough force to push a confidently wrong answer up as the "people's opinion"
European/german power metal bands tend to be more speed metal based. American power metal retained closeness to heavy metal more. I would recommend him to try out bands like Helstar and Jag Panzer next.
I agree with the grandparent general point, but i would say that it is string formatting more precisely where these nil conversions are useful.

For example, you can write something like:

bananas = 4
puts "you have #{bananas} banana#{'s' if bananas != 1}"

And this works because: `if` is an expression, `if` evaluates to `nil` if the condition is not met and there's no `else`, and `nil.to_s` is an empty string.

> And logging / error handling / debugging seems like the context where you would least want nil to become an empty string

Yep, 100% agree. And i think Ruby's designers agree too, since the language has the shortest method possible, `p`, for print-debugging. You can do `p something` and that'll print a useful string for debugging (`""` for an empty string, `nil` for nil, `[]` for an empty array, etc).
Disbarment isn't a new penalty.

As the licensed member of the bar, his one job is to be responsible for the output of his team. If he's not doing that, then he doesn't need to be a lawyer. His staff can file their BS directly to the court.
> In a world of horrendously complex software developed by myriads of authors, be smart, use Nix

I mean, Nix is pretty complex software, and is an added layer of abstraction in many contexts. Framing Nix as a solution to complexity seems to be a tenuous claim.

What Nix can help with, imo, is reducing toil. And a good abstraction maintained by a team can reduce toil for a lot of others.
Maybe add some commentary on why a random article from 2014 is relevant right now.
... while having fun while doing that work.
Absolutely. I just find it rather inactionable, as it can be subjective.
For me at least it's about the ergonomics of the microphone form factor. I'm not comfortable with a standalone mic in front of my face. I don't like having to remember to keep the proper distance.

I got a nice high quality broadcast headset that sounded amazing but then I couldn't get the monitoring levels to work well with any combination of audio interfaces. On any given call I might have to boost my headphone volume considerably depending on the other person's audio quality but that would invariably throw off my own monitoring levels.

In the end I got a high quality gaming headset that doesn't require monitoring due to the open-back design. The microphone sounds fine but not nearly as good as the other options unfortunately.

All that to say I spent a few thousand dollars over a few months trying to solve this problem and couldn't find a great solution!
Electricity, Cars, and Gas were once upon a time a luxury as well - reserved to those who could afford them or had unique access / credentials / skills. The people who were able to simplify and spread the advanced tech to the common person became Billionaires.
You mean ?Bing? or no copilot.

and I cant interact directly out of the gate - it gives me this screen on prompt:

https://i.imgur.com/gMTnQv9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EVA8Qom.png

THIS?????? is how they think you should interact?

Anti-patterns on meth, wrapped in crack.

The results are actually good - but the UX is TRAILERPARK as FUCK.

If you work anywhere near this product experience. Delete your linkedin and move to florida now.

(I must be holding it worong.)

(( If you dont know why this UX is fn lame: say this outloud "Hey, Grandpa, go to Bing and ask it about world war two"

https://i.imgur.com/58FOuiN.png

So grandpa is going to be confused...

But lets say his grandkid wants to know about chemistry:

So they get a resultant they can understand:

https://i.imgur.com/jRW6GGu.png

and navigate.

So - what is the term for "temporal awareness in context"? (how old is this person asking and what is their assumed world view based on their exposure to the world during their lifetime)

READ THE FN PROMPTS.

"tell me about wwII" results in page slurry.

give me SINGLE PAGE SUMMARY OF CHEMESTaRY 101!!!

page slurry.

--

Its attempting to be google circa 2001
Most of life's fulfilling opportunities come from just showing up. Showing up on searches, at work, at the pub.
In What Tech Calls Thinking, there’s a part that analyzes tech college dropout culture. There was a good point that it’s this odd double bind of wanting the prestige of the school but also wanting to rebel or deny it. You want to show to everybody that you could get into Stanford but also you’re too cool for it. It’s also quite funny in that the more challenging classes occur to the end of college. Even if you’re a very advanced student, the classes are only so sophisticated in the first year or two. But I guess the idea is that these kids are genius autodidacts and therefore can learn all the material on their own? That seems plausible in some cases (CS, math) and less so in others (biomedical engineering cough Elizabeth Holmes cough)
Of course institutions preserve the problem - that is the reason for their existence - so they are in a fight for survival to keep a systemic problem going. It is even better for them if the institution has managed to enshrine its position in law, creating huge barriers to entry for any upstart that tries to come up with better solutions. Taxis, medicine, banking - there are so many examples.

If you ask me, a freer market is the answer - less intervention, allow simple economic forces to play out. But the inclination is to have more government meddling etc to fix the mess, which has the opposite effect that it was intended to have. This is such a common pattern however, one ought to be asking whether the "unintended effect" (of entrenching the problem) is in reality an "intended effect", with only lip service being paid to 'doing the right thing' to facilitate legal changes.
Early 20s energy is really something else. I can’t even begin to imagine what would be possible if I could somehow send to my 22 year old self my present day 35 year old brain.
> the energy you have at that age is unparalleled.

Energy is useless without the skills, knowledge, network, money, economy etc. Look at all the 25 year olds in India who never went to college and is having trouble even making 100$s a month.
Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?
Naturally, the majority of these students are benefiting from the inability to tell them apart.

Alternatives like the Thiel Fellowship might change this. The better students might choose these options instead.

This could break down traditional academia and legacy systems, leading to a more efficient society.
> I understand there are several tools to solve this.

Windows has clipboard history built-in
$50,000 / year
* 5 care takers at a time
* 3 shifts
* 2 (staff, food service, laundry, billing, social services, etc.)
* 1.2 (employers part of taxes)
------
$18,000,000 / year
÷ 20 patients
------
$90,000 / year
÷ 12 months year
------
$7,500 / month

That's just in labor/staff costs, let alone the fact that this is a highly regulated medical establishment.

Edit/correction - thanks subtra3t!
Fair enough, I also took some of these interview tasks where you get the link and time counts from when you accessed, totally forgot about them.
And if you have the stomach for geology and anthropology I also recommend this https://www.amazon.com/Approaching-Crisis-Global-Cooling-Lim...
4 years is super long

especially when the first 2 are basically worthless, colleges earn the most money on the first 2 years because it take less resources and are incentivized to get people to drop out within that time frame.

plus most people had professions by the time they were 14 before the school system became normal, its actually humiliating and frustrating to not have any real skillset other than filling out worksheets by the time you're 21

plus with the cost being so high, the years feel much worse
what's 20 under 20?
> About a quarter of the Thiel fellows eventually returned to college to finish their degrees, suggesting that even the dropouts see enduring value in higher education.

> Thiel says they “got way more out of it by going back” after launching their businesses.

> “The other 75% didn’t need a college degree,” he says.

I definitely don't think everyone needs a college degree and I definitely think it would do a lot of folks good to delay pursuing a higher education for at least a little while for them to figure out what they want to do. So many of my peers went to college without much of an end goal in sight. I certainly think employers should discriminate less when it comes to degrees.

I don't agree with Thiel on much but this maybe isn't as bad as it seems. However attacking the institutions and promoting successes where no secondary education was necessary seems disingenuous at best.

Everyone should be entitled to higher education. As a society I'm pretty sure it is not in our best interest to lower the bar here. Maybe if you're a politician you want ignorant constituents.

I definitely think more folks should consider community college as an alternative and that the stigma surrounding "inferior" forms of higher education is harmful.

A CEO straight of highschool that I'd want to work for would be a diamond in the rough to say the least.
You are not a doomer because you repeat that like a protective mantra and don't think about the nasty implications of "what if I'm wrong" because they put negative energy in your chakras, right?
> No, it's good that the public understands that AIs are wrong so regularly

_compared to what_, exactly. Compared to a google search? Compared to asking a random person? Compared to wikpedia? New York Times journalists?

Any of those things are wrong _very_ frequently. It's such an uninteresting thing to call out every time an AI is wrong, when it is right about things so frequently that people don't bother to notice how amazing it is that it gets anything correct about the world at all.
Energy isn't everything. Having worked for (and known others that worked for) younger founders, the judgement of young founders can be terrible. They're more prone to hype and more likely to panic if something doesn't go as expected. A lot of effort gets wasted on bad decisions.
Can we just stop talking about Gemini/Gemma for at least two years before it's improved? In fact, the two-year mark is rather strategic recommendation, because I guarantee it'll become vaporware by then anyway with Google's track record. It's outrageously poorly performing.
A prefers reading black on white.

Z prefers reading white on black.

M prefers the middle, reading grey on grey.

No, there's no always a middle. In any case, you are not pointing at a middle. You are just focusing on a(n additional) fact in an ocean of known facts. A fact that you seem to think changes the perspective one should have on the topic.

I didn't downvote, but I suspect you are downvoted because this is wrong and it doesn't help. We certainly don't need people to tame and water things down in this topic.
The Science of Trust
Homeless Industrial Complex
College was sold to us as a way to enter a rarified sector of the job market, and that’s not as true as it once was, and was never as true as it was sold. But a college education is tremendously important for our democracy to exist in any meaningful way. An educated citizenry is crucial, irrespective of whether that translates to wealth (by the way, it still does translate to higher wealth over a lifetime).
The issues you describe have nothing to do with "waterfall."
From what I hear, not much critical thinking is learned in college in 2024.
How to Fail at Life
That’s true. Tends to shift the problem towards having horrible posture.
Sounds like a lack of competition. Multiple entities should compete for providing the best solution, and the entities should be rewarded or penalized accordingly.
Me too, but I think it was the version available on RedHat 7 and I think and an Ubuntu LTS.
This is exactly why we shouldn't call it a hallucination when the AI outputs false statements.

Saying it hallucinated is just a tautology.
The debt a lot of kids incur certainly sets them back. Even community colleges have absurd tuitions now.

I studied biochem and computer science in college. The biochem parts I absolutely could not have learned at home without a lab and domain experts teaching me. The computer science bits, not so much. I was already programming by college and was doing capstone-level work in my freshman courses. I suspect this is true of many students who get started with learning their field in high school.

I get the sense that for many degrees that are not hands on with labs and equipment, a university setting is unnecessary.

None of my "connections" from university mattered. I made it much further by making my own outside of classes. So, at least anecdotally, I can't buy that argument either.
Rotech says patients likely impacted by hack at partner Philips' unit
when talking about a set of characters, alphabet is a commonly used term
https://cs.stackexchange.com/search?q=string++alphabet+size
Its nothing to do with the USA. Older metal genres are in general quite niche today.
Death metal and black metal is ubiquitous everywhere. Power metal and speed metal are relatively obscure these days.
I tend to agree, but then I look at Europe and I say, who is the ruling class here? In the US it's obvious that corporations run everything, but that doesn't seem to be the case in western Europe.
The thing is, it isn't a defect. People misunderstand that there is no practical difference between a "hallucinated" result and a real one, as far as an LLM is concerned. It doesn't reason or calculate beyond matching tokens, it has no deeper contextual understanding of truth or correctness beyond statistical likelihood. Hallucinations are the result of the LLM doing exactly what it's designed to do, exactly the way its designed to do it.

The defect isn't in the software, but in people expecting these things to operate the way AIs in sci-fi do, or who believe that because they can produce coherent results in natural language, they must be sentient and self-aware.