skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So which test can you put to ChatGPT to prove your claim that it is a lookup table, and that it doesn't perform any logic on facts?
Rehosting the same ISO is permitted though.

Unless what you're saying is that this is a modified ISO to remove activation.

if thats the case then, I agree wholeheartedly. Just explaining why you dont/cant use the standard microsoft.com links.
"Senior" is also pretty weirdly defined in our sector. I've seen it used for anything from "2+ years", to "10+ years".
I really like the idea of tiering a log device such that you go from memory -> nvme -> object storage. You get some nice properties like fast low latency commit times from NVMe, read your own local writes (usually good enough), but have most of your cold data on cheaper durable object storage with some intelligence to pull down/warm up pages when you suspect you'll need them.

It'd be nice if this had a more language-agnostic frontend like gRPC or something.
Another note: we can't expect China or the developing world to play ball if we don't lead by example.
Can a control vector replace system prompts?

i.e. can it do in-context learning without the context?
I'm not so sure. Being able to run stuff locally is very convenient.

That being said: try to press "." while you are looking at a project in Github.
For my daily-driver, I use a Schneider Fountain. The exact two I have aren't made anymore, but I linked the most similar one I could find.

The dip pen is actually just one of those almost-novelty quill-looking ones. I cut off the ornamentation and just use it as a regular dip pen. Works great. It came with a set of nibs including one that is basically just a traditional fountain pen. That nib is the one I use the most.

Importantly, dip nibs often splotch ink because they're coated with oils by the manufacturer. I found out much later that you need to prep the nibs before you use them (either by wiping the oils off or lightly burning it off, which is what I did). That fixed the splotchy-ness for good.

Lately I've been considering some nice wooden dip pens.

Fountain Pen:
https://www.amazon.com/Schneider-Fountain-Light-Barrel-16820...

Nib Prep Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE12e60BA6E

[Edit: Addendum]

Cursive felt slower to me at first, but now writing those print samples in the post felt slower than the cursive sample. It's really important to just practice the strokes. I spent an hour a day for almost two weeks just writing "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over an over to get the strokes right.
It’s never bad advice to consider something.
> nobody could have

Hans Moravec at McCarthy's lab in roughly this timeframe (the 70s) wrote about this then -- you can find the seed of his 80s/90s books in text files in the SAIL archive https://saildart.org/HPM (I'm not going to look for them again). Easier to find: https://web.archive.org/web/20060615031852/http://transhuman...

(Same McCarthy as in this debate.)

Gordon Moore made up Moore's Law in 1965 and reaffirmed it in 1975.
I hope this tone comes across correctly as just a suggestion: I get a lot of mileage out of the "Send Feedback" option in DDG, which they claim actual humans do read. It can help move bug reports out of these HN threads into a more context-aware flow, and also makes me feel like any bad outcome has the possibility of improving, unlike systems that don't provide a "I feel bad about this experience" button

If you were thus inclined, https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip#glitchtip is the actual open source Sentry implementation which (as far as I know) would enable gluing https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/user-feedback/#u... to the search results page (that client-side library is still MIT: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/blob/7.102.1/... )
I believe that you can use QueueListener and QueueHandler to serialize the calls:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.handlers.html#logg...
"We are the family!" but till you are employed
> They clearly go far beyond this and generate completely novel ideas that are not in the training data.

There's a case where this is trivially false. Language. LLMs are bound by language that was invented by humans. They are unable to "conceive" of anything that cannot be described by human language as it exists, whereas humans create new words for new ideas all the time.
Of course nobody gives a crap about college degrees.

But if you actually led a team of software developers for a few years, created a product and the whole thing didn't fall apart, well, you're way more than a senior developer.
Easy. This dude is probably a business owner trying to neg their programmers into thinking that they're easily replaced cogs in a machine that should give their job priority over their life.
>>>> They cannot say "I dont know"

>>> If they were trained with more uncertain content, perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty as well.

>> (me) If you ask ChatGPT a question, and tell it to either respond with the answer or "I don't know", it will respond "I don't know" if you ask it whether you have a brother or not.

> This has nothing to do with thinking and everything to do with the fact that given that input the answer was the most probable output given the training data.

First of all, my claim was in response to "They cannot say 'I dont know'" and "perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty".

ChatGPT can say "I don't know" if you ask it to.

Regarding whether LLMs are lookup tables, I responded to that in more detail elsewhere under this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501611
I agree with your points but they are orthogonal to mine. A smart person might be more likely to say “I don’t know” than a stupid person.

Also, a smart bullshit artist in your example does not hallucinate - he knows what he’s doing.
>I have been using CSS for 20 years. It’s too difficult for what it primarily does.

I've been using CSS since the day it first appeared in IE3 in 1996. "Too difficult" is not at all how I would describe it. Considering how many kinds of layouts need to be created, CSS has performed really well for the task it was designed to do. New features are added every year. It keeps getting easier. The difficulty is in trying to support every kind of device layout, which wouldn't really be any easier in any other layout language.
It's properly highlighted in my IDE, which was actually a surprise.
The potential for enhancing photos and video is already proven. But the customer in that case is actually the women.

Similarly, there are services that chat with people who contact your OnlyFans. The customer is again the women.

I expect, at least initially, that same pattern will repeat.
I think it's been fine for what I use it for, dropped my ChatGPT subscription for the free trial since they seem to be about on par now and I am expecting it to be passed by 2 months from now.

I'm using it for work rather than generating pictures of white people though
"vote", sure. Many countries vote for their leaders too. I think small groups like a single company have it worse because at least in some ways a nation wide election will somewhat represent the state of the country. The turnout for a union rep must be awful

Sometimes intentionally. I remember the SAG talks last year "voting" on a compromise and so many people not even realizing there was a meeting.
Right, but "I don't know" is a pretty safe hallucination (if it is one).

My main worry about hallucinations is it means I absolutely can't rely on the output for anything important. If I ask what the safe dose for Tylenol for an infant is, the answer needs to be either correct or "I don't know". It's not acceptable for it to hallucinate 10x the safe dose.
The endless-growth mindset will eventually be viewed as a mental illness. We pity hoarders, but we somehow look up to the unreasonably wealthy, even though they are eerily similar in their attitude and behaviour towards "their precious".

If you look at a graph of human population over the last 1000 years [1] (and since -10000AD if you want [2]), it looks eerily like a stock market chart that has temporarily spiked before crashing back down to a more reasonable valuation.

Over the ages, we've had many population declines [3] but they've tended to be smaller and smaller (relatively to the total population). Is there a massive "correction" coming, as challenges of carrying capacity, climate change, global conflict and disease rear their ugly heads? Hard to say.

Regardless - I object to using the word "progress" as a stand-in for "more". It hardly ever is.

1: https://i.imgur.com/iSNbGTN.png

2: https://i.imgur.com/73zV927.png

3: https://i.imgur.com/sccJBGB.png

(these are hastily back-of-the-napkin'd with GPT, so take with a grain of salt)
Hackers for sale: what we've learned from China's I-Soon leak
Well yes Diablo 2 was $50 when released http://web.archive.org/web/20000815052708/http://www.gamesto... which would be like $90 today adjusted for inflation. Diablo IV is $70 and people were raging how expensive that is. And Last Epoch is $35 and it seems like more fun than D IV. And of course Path Of Exile is free to play but you need to consider the price of a math degree totes required for that thing :D https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/wydq91/my_frie... And before someone posts the obligatory "Still sane, Exile?" I would like point out two things: a) I do have a math degree b) my Last Epoch Falconer is called TrappedInWraeclast. Sanity left the building, long ago :D
I would rather know straight-out that a company doesn’t have real native support.
Sounds pretty much accurate.
The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat
>Is all this bunker-building a sign the 1% know something we don’t and are preparing for end times?
The data is stored as plain text files on your device so there are several free options you can use depending on your combination of operating systems and devices. iCloud, Git, Syncthing, and many community plugins.
You are applying functions to arguments, aren't you? So "point-free" means you cannot apply a function to arguments on the left hand side of a definition, but you are allowed to do so on the right hand side? If that's point-free, it is also point-less.
I wrote a C program a few years ago to make an image copy of DOS floppy disks. This was so I could preserve bootable floppies. (It doesn't deal with copy protected disks.)

It's a DOS program itself because it uses DOS to access the FAT tables. So it needs to run on Windows XP or earlier, or use a DOS box.

I can put it up on github if anyone wants it.
> It could help your hunting group not be ambushed by a surprise attack from a tiger or another hunting group.

The original multi-tasking.
GOOD Point by my wife: How come countries don’t buy and sell land to each other more frequently? It seems like it could help with budgets or simply putting land under more productive use. For example I bet Japan could do a lot with that big island just north of it (or even kamchucha)
Octree color quantization by Tom MacWright
Further advanced research into atomic weapons would be one worry.
lol I think in general, LLM research traces its origins back to all the standard deep learning techniques: NNs, CNNs, LSTMs, RNNs, etc.

In 2018, with the release of transformers (via google) it enabled much more rapid training of models and more generalization with less data. 100% of the LLMs (as you’d probably thing of them)trace their origins to BERT.

That said, my team was working with hundred million to low billions of parameter LSTMs & CNNs back in 2016-2017 that were comparable to some lighter weight LLMs today.

In my opinion, the greatest strides in the space has less to do with the underlying architecture, and more to do with improved data formatting, accessibility and compute improvements.
I've solved this in several ways that depend on the need.

1. Multiple small notebooks. I love ~50pg, 5"x7" lined notebooks. They're cheap, and portable. Just get one for each project.

2. I usually allow myself 1-2 extra pages for longer thoughts or things that will require follow-up. That almost always works.

3. Indexes. Set aside 20pgs at the front (or back) for a table of contents. I do this with my longer notebooks (~200pgs) and I never have trouble finding things. If you need to continue a section later on call it "Project X (cont.)"

I feel like #3 is something that generations before us knew implicitly that we've forgotten.

[edit: grammar]

[Edit: Addendum]

Also, always date your entries. That helps a lot.
An example which I’ve seen raised by researchers: 20 years ago, choking was considered an extreme, pathological case due to the risks. Now it’s very easy to find surveys where women report pressure or even attempts to do it without consent because a generation of men grew up with porn presenting that as standard. The same is true for things like anal sex, etc. which aren’t enjoyable and involve hassle/risk for the female partner but a lot of young men don’t realize that because they’re used to seeing porn actors imitating pleasure and often masking discomfort. I wouldn’t expect anyone to say that there were never extreme porn options on the market but it seems pretty broadly accepted that a lot of previously niche things have become mainstream as vendors are trying to stand out in a very competitive market.
Yes, but its not easy. The devil is in the details.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_chemistry
This is what my understanding of EV battery recycling is at. It all gets shredded and then the separate the enclosure from the actual battery.

Then they get a mixture of the annode and cathode + any electrolyte solution.

My understanding is that the anode and cathode are separated into separate containers....and who knows what the electrolyte solution is doing....its probably stuck in both piles or burnt off
Well anecdotally I did find it harder to find clocks in malls than other places, some years ago, at times when e.g. the phone was dead
(and even in watch stores they're most of the times set at random hours)
Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing in that screenshot but that's exactly how my android tv home screen has looked forever.
Says you! I think it’s important for my political party to only a function when it has majority control over the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as well as majority control over provincial governance.

Once we have that we can show our voters how disappointment really feels. It needs to feel so soul crushing we completely implode our party and die out in irrelevance. That’s my thoughts on it anyways.
I noticed that the eclipse will pass over Niagara Falls.

April 8th could be cloudy.

Also don't forget a big dip in solar power output.
As someone who was promoted to senior developer three times (title dropped back down when changing firms), I can firmly state there is no actual standard for the title.
China's not communist anymore.
Or the guy in 1904 who irradiated beef bullion and thought he created life [0]

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/review/lifes-edge-c...
Show HN: Introduction to Pipedream
Re-imagined a classic sexy Levis ad from the 90s with AI [video]
Got a source on that cat claim, doc?
Not sure where you’re working, but your senior devs are quite misinformed.

Every layoff I’ve witnessed sliced quite a bit off the top because they’re the most expensive. Absolutely no regard for who was maintaining what legacy projects, often leading to months of setbacks while the remaining engineering staff tries to understand a critical yet unsexy tool or service that no one else was willing to touch.

Having “special” projects is in no way a form of job security.
We’ve shipped a new version of our docs @pipedream.

We modernized the style and layout, added dark mode, and improved some of the content. h/t @shuding_ & Nextra.
As is often the case, there’s a good Volts about the economics (and chemistry / physics) of battery recycling:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/electrifying-battery-recycling
justice1
> Working on weekends is not a necessity, but when unexpected crap happens the senior engineers will be called upon whether it's a weekend or not.

But the headline for that section wasn't "senior engineers spend more time on a formal on call rotation", it was "it’s fine, I’ll finish the work on Saturday."

Unexpected issues should be expected and planned for with a dedicated on call rotation that is almost never used because you're setting time aside during the work week to fix common issues. Unexpected issues shouldn't lead to random senior engineers getting called when they're not expecting it.

And as for "I'll finish the work on Saturday", it's a hard red flag of a bad work environment if that's happening with any kind of regularity. Normal work bleeding onto weekends and evenings should be a five alarm fire that gets addressed immediately in any company that values their employees. It should not be in a list of things to expect as a senior engineer.
Really? From what I've heard ADHD is a diagnosis that's "uneverly distributed" (i.e., it's diagnosed a lot in the USA but far less so elsewhere in the world).

Perhaps our (i.e., US citizens) infatuation with ADHD is a function of Big Pharmas ability to move minds with marketing, as well as influencing the focus of healthcare professionals (e.g., doctors) and edu professionals.

My point is, it feels odd to make any claims when apparently there's not a consistent distribution of the trait).
Tools are not people and people should not be considered as tools. Imagine your hammer only hitting the nail 60% of the time! But workers should be allowed to stop working to negotiate work conditions.
Weirdly enough apparently there are a few SSL cert issuers who will issue for .onion - maybe they would issue for OpenNIC.
Or, the majority working more than ever, and a vanishingly small amount of people living increasingly lavishly. I see no reason to believe the current systemic factors that drive the growth of wealth disparity will slow down or reverse.
Thank you so much for stating this distinction. It is important.
I have never met an ADHD person who is inattentive under stress.

An ancient human did not have to be 'productive' for long durations. They had to have intense productivity on short spurts and not be a huge mess the rest of the time.

IMO, my ADHD doesn't manifest nearly as badly if physical activities ate involved. Cooking needs long durations of focus, and I've never become inattentive during it.

Sitting on a table and staring at a screen ? Now that's an adversarial scenario.
Seems like depopulation's coming anyway.

I think India's just dropped below replacement rate?
Defaults matter and this is just one problem of many that needs to be fixed. It's not okay to ship a bad product because a user can fix it themselves if they really wanted to. Products that work well out of the box will have an advantage over those that don't.
That might be the case for Iran, but for Russia?
What seems to underly your question appears to be a belief that people are primarily rational creatures.
If that were so, then it would indeed be hard to understand.

For most, if not all, rationality is a tool, not something that informs every aspect of their lives.

Religion provides community, meaning, continuity and a moral framework. I have also met very few religious people who are fundamentalist in their belief. Most acknowledge there are inconsistencies and things they can't explain.
The single biggest customer for supercomputers is the Department of Energy which uses them for simulating nuclear weapons. That's how our nuclear arsenal is maintained.

Having access to that computing power would make it easier for main MAD foe to maintain their arsenal, among simulating tons of other things for aerospace and defense. There's just no good reason to let them have that capability.
An Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for Solving Offensive Security Challenges
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/
LLMs are trained to actually imitate human understanding deliberately. The data is human and the high level training is defined as the most likely word prediction of human output data.

So not surprising to find aspects of personification in the LLM. It is trained on US.
I was referring to

> gathering dust you can have
Low adoption is primarily caused by it being relatively recent and there are no 7B or larger public Mamba-based models to start a comparison in earnest with widely used transformer based LLMs.
> I’m very happy that I can just write code and do what I’m told on my current project

In recent times I had two encounters with colleagues, one a being bit less and the other than quite a bit more senior than me, where they both expressed such a sentiment.

One phrasing used was "I follow the ticket like a slave" and the other phrasing was "I do whatever $BOSS tells me to do". Not once in my career would I have uttered something like that.

But I realize that I was lucky that in my early career I got a lot of rather ambiguous (and also ambitious) tasks paired with more autonomy than my actual experience justified. Don't know how I would have turned out as an engineer if I had started in a company where I would have been expected to simply do what I've been told.
Ah - I misread your comment earlier, and I also didn't see that the other ISOs were hosted by Microsoft. In fact I misread most of this project because I was pre-emptively suspicious :) I guess the real problem is these older installations are in a bit of a grey area so I can see the value Bob Pony is actually providing here.

I'm pretty sure these ISOs are NOT modified though I am a bit skeptical of some of these sources. Editing my first comment to clarify that I misread this...
>strike the state that you want the change from.

In this case that "state" seems to be Ubisoft. I don't know who's being hostage outside of assassin creed players having a delayed release. But that sounds like a trivial sacrifice compared to a political strike.
One truth that I think bleeds through well in the opening part of this article is that the difference between junior/senior is a very local concept. And it can shift over time within the same organization.
What's your expectation here? That you'll grow your career by coasting?

Becoming senior requires hard work and dedication.

> And it's harmfully perpetuating the idea that you're expected to do so when you're not paid for the labour.

What are you talking about? Seniors earn 2-5x the amount as a junior developer.
Sure, but you're never going to do it better than the big guns, and most of the "consumers" of social media will probably use one of their relays instead of yours.

I think that the democratized model that ActivityPub encourages works better (even for those .1 percenters I spoke about earlier) but for sure for the average user because it more or less equalizes the playing field. More than that, nothing in the ActivityPub protocol would prevent users/clients using relays for disseminating content, "feed generators" for consuming content, distributed moderation mechanisms for moderating. The limit is only in the imagination of the developers and not in the way the protocol is structured.

I will stop now, I feel pretty strongly about this problem, and I fear I'm coming out as more combative than I intend to.
Yeah – my understanding is that, if you really want a cross-platform product, you'll have to license a commercial engine.