skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Treat an LLM as a confident smart person who isn’t an expert in anything, and doesn’t have access to resources to check their answer (unless you give it access).

Sure, but I don't want that person helping me with my taxes.

Like, the idea that I get an answer and then I need to do research to figure out if it's correct... The whole point -- literally the entire point -- is that I don't want to do the research. If I wanted to do the research, I wouldn't use the LLM. I would just do the research. And now I'm using the LLM and I have to do the research anyway?

If we're talking about brainstorming or getting topic overviews or helping you start research, sure, I could see that. An LLM could be useful there. But asking direct questions and getting back plausible-sounding incorrect answers? This is a domain where an LLM just shouldn't be used at all.

I've brought up this analogy in the past, but it's like people proposing an LLM as a calculator, and when it gets answers wrong they say, "well, humans get math problems wrong too." Yes, they do. Why do you think we started using calculators instead of humans?

There is a reason why I don't go on Reddit to ask for tax advice. It's cool that people can make a computer that simulates that same use-case, but that is not a use-case that was useful to simulate. If I have to read the tax forms anyway, then I might as well just read the tax forms.
"Postdocs are a critical component of the research and development workforce.": This is what first grade BS sounds like. Full time well paid scientists with autonomy and long term job security are critical. Not underpaid overworked staff with little or no security.
AMD has simply never invested into software. Their code has been atrocious since even before AMD bought ATI. ATI "Catalyst Control Center" was their consumer driver code before Vista and into Windows 7 IIRC, and that was utter trash. Granted, nVidia's drivers were ALSO trash back then, accounting for literally 65% of ALL Vista BSODs.

nVidia decided to redouble their efforts, and now they might still crash occasionally, but are largely way better at driver stability and they brought CUDA into the world at the same time.

AMD decided that shitty software didn't seem to stop them from selling GPUs, and also we're too busy desperately surviving a decade of Intel anti-competitive practices that nearly killed the company, and bet everything on Ryzen. They also worked to make pretty good physical GPU hardware. Meanwhile, their GPUs still couldn't run Blender as fast as a similarly specced nVidia card because their OpenCL implementation was god awful. They ran at literally half the render speed of a similar nVidia GPU. It was stuck on OpenCL 1.x the whole time, because the 2.x implementation was literally broken. They nearly didn't have ANY hardware render solution for an update to the Blender rendering engine in 3.x because OpenCL 1.x literally couldn't do what they wanted, and ROCm is a joke. AMD engineers helped put together an emergency/late breaking fix to create an HIP implementation, and that works, at least mostly.

My pet theory is that not only does AMD not give a fuck about software, but they saw how nVidia was struggling with market segmentation from consumer cards being effective compute cards, and didn't want to run into those same struggles if they had a real CUDA competitor. Instead, they got to rub nVidia's face into the dirt with their GPUs that had way more VRAM, and not worry that it would chew into their professional GPU profit margins, because you can't compute on consumer cards. Oh, I forgot to mention, the whole time this nonsense is going on, AMD is pushing really hard to get their professional GPUs into Supercomputer clusters, and has several premier supercomputer implementations where their GPUs have no problem being used for top level compute tasks, almost like they CAN actually write GPU compute software and just don't give it to consumers.
RFC 9564 – Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (Flip)
Yeah, the couple thousand japanese folks by 2351 given the current demographic trends.
Reducing late-night alcohol sales curbed all violent crimes by 23% in Baltimore
This is a lot of working backwards. I find this interesting but ultimately not compelling. I see a lot of:
"If things were different than the way they are, they couldn't work they way that they work!"
And there's a lot more "ways around" than there used to be, too.

Go find me a simple way to block DNS over HTTPS at a router, so requests are forced to the DNS server I have control over (Pi-Hole or such). I've yet to find one that doesn't involve "Maintaining a list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers and blocking them by IP."
Given that the universe is unfathomably vast and almost all of it is extraordinarily hostile to - and so far as we know, entirely devoid of - life, I can't say I agree.
Age-inappropriate responses, by whatever that means to whoever sets the rules.
Some vehicles… and they originally cost at least an order of magnitude more
80% of people just want the ability to write a sentence and have it run the correct SQL on their data warehouse. That's the biggest use of LLMs I see in the enterprise right now.

I think you are right -- eventually we will see an ecosystem pop up that uses LLMs in unique ways that are only possible with LLMs.

But in the meantime people are using LLMs to shortcut what used to be long processes done by humans, and frankly, there is a lot of value in that.
If we allow native libraries, it's not clear that C++ would win, even on modern hardware.
As a wizened old grey beard once told me 'almost always with SQL, it depends'. Basically you have to revisit your ground truth all the time. Sometimes keeping stuff client (like a lookup table) is the right way. Most of the time server is better. But not always. 'it depends'.
Everyone keeps saying this but it seems unlikely to me that they'd do this for a relatively short window of opportunity and leave their methods for all to see.
Teslas don’t, as a rule, drive into stationary obstacles :) sure, there are highly publicized incidents like this but, also, there are plenty of single-car accidents where human drivers do this too.
"Even if you treat for these, there will still be a level of it present in the hive."

True, which is why all hives need to be actively managed to optimize survival rates, but this comment coyly fails to acknowledge that mite counts in surrounding hives do measurably spike when a neighboring hive craters.
Detroit went all in on big, expensive EVs nobody wants
Later SNES games also used a timing check for region locking to identify PAL vs NTSC clock frequencies. The mod I did, nearly three decades ago, was to add a toggle switch with a second crystal that would change the clock frequency and allow the PAL game to be played on an NTSC system. Wait a few seconds while the game booted up and then switch back and enjoy the unreleased in North America "Terranigma".
You're not wrong.

However, if I'm an oppressive globomegacorp, I'd definitely prefer only having to bribe these tin pot staties. You can probably buy off the entire West Virginia state legislature for less than the cost of a single US Senator. And you need 51 senators and 218 representatives to get things done.

If all we can do is make sure bribery is a cost of doing business, then we can at least make sure that the cost is high.
I'm aware of some weirdness in Icelandic law governing naming: https://island.is/en/name-giving

I'm also told that Polish law has some strict limitations on baby names.

My understanding of both is that they want to preserve their culture. Feels like a weird kneejerk to me, raised in a culture where it's normal to just invent new spellings for old names.
August 1987 specifically. So everyone the rule change affected would have been born before. Since most people got SSNs only when they started working, a good chunk of these dependents likely didn't have SSNs at the time.
I agree with your points about LLMs being like touch screens but what kind of natural language interaction apps are you talking about? Might be that some startup has attempted something similar already.
Thanks for the feedback, definitely need to polish the mobile experience. And yeah as of now just the one story as a POC, I plan on adding more in the future.
Well, there's a drawback to that attitude, in the realm of "unintended consequences."

I wrote a little article about that: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/problems-and-solutio...
There was a meta-analysis published in JAMA last year which concluded that screening is unlikely to prolong lifetime for other than colorectal cancers:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

> The findings of this meta-analysis suggest that colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy may extend life by approximately 3 months; lifetime gain for other screening tests appears to be unlikely or uncertain.

I am neither a physician nor qualified to comment on the article itself, but remember reading an MD commenting on it last year saying efficacy of screening was better in the 80s-90s, but with contemporary cancer medicine and improvements in surgery, we can now treat bigger cancers so early screening doesn’t necessarily prolong life expectancy.

I would not take medical advice from myself or that article though. But to your comment, I doubt it’s only prostate cancer where early screening and treatment might not yield any returns
Economists now think Japan is back
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873017
Are you aware of any good studies that have done this and reached strong conclusions?
https://archive.ph/RwAWW
Language is a crutch for thinking.

It's good to be able to think, regardless of the need for words to do so, but even wordy thinkers do lots of things without word thinking.

Like juggling. Or playing an instrument.

Just because something is done in a way that they don't do it doesn't mean it's weird to be done that way.
> 1. State legislators are heavily influenced by local trade associations and their lobbyists — and their campaign contributions. See, e.g., car dealers, liquor distributors, and landlords, to name some that come to mind immediately.

There's functionally no difference here from federal legislators.

You might think "oh a federal congressperson runs a larger campaign so it would take more money to buy them off".

Then you'd look at the scale of the donations it took some of them to vote certain ways for interest groups. Net neutrality was a recent example. Single digit thousands was all it took for some.

That's not out of the reach of any business with an interest in influencing legislation.
Word of caution on giving children “interesting” or cute names - my father’s legal first name was a variation on “daniel” (a common nickname) and since his passing and becoming the executor of what little was left of his estate, I was astounded at how many stupid issues he had with credit reports and even dumb things like utility bills incorrectly “correcting” his name to Daniel.
At the very least, it's gratifying to know you saved the equipment from the landfill. Saving money is also highly gratifying the older you get (I find).
All the research I’m hearing around North America would indicate the fear about competition is overblown. Honey bees, not being native, don’t necessarily go after the same pollen sources as native bees. Some good research out of Alberta showed that native bees were for example going after native plants whereas the honey bees were shown to fly farther distances to find things like canola. In my own yard (hobby guy, not commercial) I have at least three types of native bees and I watch them cohabitate with my honey bees very similar to what the research in Canada demonstrated.
I thinks it's more just stigma around all diets and keto just gets lumped into the category.
How did he do that deal? That's really rich! He should buy the trademark OpenAI and lease it back to the non-profit now to boot! Gotta love a mastermind capitalist like Altman at work! We can all learn a thing or two from him.
Most of my home appliances are older than that, and didn't need "support"
There are a lot of compelling theories out there for the purpose/true nature of the universe. We are probably orders and orders of magnitude too small ourselves to fully grasp the complexity, like how one of our skin cells don't understand how the body works but coupled into an entire multicellular organism, we can now read an anatomy textbook.

Despite how little we are capable of understanding at such a scale, I still think its fun to postulate what might be the utility of all this reality. For example, in the cloudflare HQ there is a wall of lava lamps, which are imaged and used to establish random seeds. Perhaps our own universe be another's wall of lava lamps, generating a random seed?
Yeah, for things like that you'd probably need deep packet inspection to break open the requests and narrow it down to channels.

Maybe https://invidious.io could be modified to only show "approved" channels?
All of the 25 comments so far are missing the point.

Surprisingly, YC's greater opinion is still "ChatGPT is a useless stochastic parrot." probably because they are too cheap to fork over $20 to try GPT4.

Yes, GPT3.5 is mostly a toy. Yes, it hallucinates a non-trivial amount of time. But IMO, GPT4 is in a completely different class, and has almost entirely replaced search for me.

If OpenAI really wants ChatGPT to challenge search, it has to be free and accessible without requiring a sign up.

I very rarely use any search engine now. Really I only use search when I'm looking for reddit threads or a specific place in Google Maps.

All of my other queries: how things work, history, how to setup my wacom, unit conversions, calculating mortgage, explain stdlib with examples, and so on... All of that goes to ChatGPT. It's a million times faster and more efficient than scrolling through endless SEO blog spam and overly verbose Medium articles.

This update makes ChatGPT3.5 available without sign up, not ChatGPT 4. But if/when ChatGPT4 becomes available without sign up, I have no doubt the rest of the population will experience the same lightbulb moment I did, and it will replace search for them as well.
An ID mismatch occurs when the ID on your DNS query differs from the ID on your DNS response. Queries & Responses should share the same ID - either this has been done intentionally or it's a sign that something is buggy with the resolver.

This sounds like a serious, security vulnerability. We'll investigate it in 3-5 years
France used to have a list you would have to choose from, until 1993. Lots of other laws in different countries, but Poland not mentioned on Wikipedia’s page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law
Yes they do. That’s what an echo is, sound waves bouncing off an obstacle between two points. That obstacle doesn’t need to be within the direct line of sight, just within the dispersion area of the outgoing sound wave.

At the far end you’ll hear (although in reality, your brain will almost certainly cover this up for you) distortion caused by the sound wave defracting off the obstacle and interfering with the primary wavefront. Hence the reason why people put so much effort into design concert halls, and adding sound dampening treatments to recording studios. Obstacles will distort sound, but energy absorbing obstacles will distort less.
Reminds me of the crypto bubble. All the defi shitcoins giving yields to each other while no shitcoin actually generated real value or had real demand. Now everyone building LLM libraries and systems but very few LLM products yield real value
Glad to hear you ran a successful deploy!

Currently we just have the CLI to manage your account, although I'm working on a web-based dashboard for better accessibility.

The result of a deployment is just a URL, which is automatically placed in your generated client (see `celest/lib/client.dart`). To switch to this new environment, pass the production arg to your `celest.init` call like this:

void main() {
celest.init(environment: CelestEnvironment.production);
runApp(MyApp());
}

Let me know if you face any issues! We have a Discord (https://celest.dev/discord) server, and you're more than welcome to open a GitHub issue if you experience problems: https://github.com/celest-dev/celest
I'd believe it just because it's not the only oddity about family records and naming in Japan.

In Japan, the public, legal family records track children by gender-specific birth order, e.g. "First son, first daughter, second son".

If your first 'son' later needs to change gender this is a bad relational database problem! You can't have two first daughters since they aren't twins. The trans daughter can't be added as a second daughter, because then the age order would be wrong and there would be no first son. You'd have to either wipe out the ordering or bump up the second son to first son, and first daughter down to second, making them useless as primary keys. I don't remember how Japan typically solves this.

It's funny because in America, to my knowledge we don't even track that, it doesn't matter. It's just a Japanese tradition that only worked while everyone was presumed to be cis.

For us in America, only the parent-child relationship is tracked, by birth certificates, and luckily most people live in states where those can be amended. (I don't like changing a historical record, but otherwise I'd have to haul around name change receipts to anyone who wonders why my legal gender and name on some documents doesn't match other documents, and it's just a PITA)

I think I learned it from the English translation of "The bride was a boy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Was_a_Boy
You are accusing GP of something very serious, and while I see the direction you're coming from, I don't understand how accusations or insinuations like theone you're providing here are acceptable without significant additional justification or explanation.

Does that make sense? Do you think there's a chance that the person you're replying to is "not racist"?
Good thing this isn't about "solving human nature", nor (as far as I'm concerned) making sure a kid never sees a tit on screen.
Instead of needing the honeypot openssh.patch at compile-time https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot/blob/main/openssh.patch

How did the exploit do this at runtime?

I know the chain was:

opensshd -> systemd for notifications -> xz included as transient dependency

How did liblzma.so.5.6.1 hook/patch all the way back to openssh_RSA_verify when it was loaded into memory?
I used to work in a home for special needs children around 2007, there was a child there who was on a 'keto diet', by order of clinicians, to help prevent seizures. This was well before it entered the zeitgeist as a fad diet.

I think the supplement/fitness influencer machine is so aggressive and fraught with misinformation that anything that falls in its crosshair is just squeezed to death.
> 80% of people just want the ability to write a sentence and have it run the correct SQL on their data warehouse.

Even this is IMO too ambitious (due to edge cases, and multi-shot prompting being basically required, which kind of defeats the purpose). Right now, I'm working on a product that can just do simple OS stuff (and even that is quite challenging); e.g. "replace all instances of `David` with `Bob` in all text files in this folder".
> Also Django likes to explicitly list every field instead of *

Tbf this is a good pattern. It’s rare that you _need_ SELECT *, and if you do, you may not in six months after DDL has added more columns to the table.
The LangChain fundraise was a year ago, the same time the ChatGPT API was released and there was much more optimism about generative AI.

Things have cooled a bit more nowadays as the cost economics became more real. I wouldn’t expect another LangChain level fund raise.
>it’s simply too perfect and conducive to life

Conducive to life as we know it. Every 'version' of the universe and every little difference would lead to a different kind of life. And in all of those scenarios you would say the same thing. "Look how much it's conducive to us!".

The smaller context is people saying that earth is the perfect difference to support our life, therefore it must be god that put it there! If the earth was much closer like mercury, there would be no life to say that "well, we weren't placed in the right place- no god".

>and what happens when we die

It's more arrogant to think that you are more than a biological machine. Stab someone in the head with an icepick and they will be brain damaged and possibly even have a different personality, memory loss etc. So when that person "dies" you think what.. their conscious magically lives on? Which one, the one before being stabbed or the damaged one?

Does every other living being on this earth move on to something else? Humans aren't special. We are animals no different than anything else on this planet.
Certainly not from a dietetic point of view.
RAGFlow is an open-source RAG engine based on OCR and document parsing
Social media has been the boogeyman for almost a decade now, and (red) states are at least sending out trial balloons regarding banning minors from accessing social media[1]. Prior to that, it was porn, and now we have age verification required by law.

I'd argue that AI is a much bigger boogeyman than Instagram/Tiktok/Pornhub ever was.

[1] No judgement of whether this is a good idea or not; in some sense it probably is; but I feel the current discourse is reactionary/political and not really about actual people's actual well being.
I'd say it's also important to keep in mind that much of the initial fear mongering around cannabis in the US was centered around racism
Yes. This would surely be prosecutable under the CFAA.

Honestly, if I were involved in this, I'd hope that it was, say, the FBI that caught me. I think that'd be the best chance of staying out of the Guantanamo Bay Hilton, laws be damned.
43 Years of Actors: A Taxonomy of Actor Models and Their Key Properties [pdf]
The only conclusion we can draw from your observation of a really-nice-to-live-in universe (and almost all of it isn’t) is that we can create a simulated, even nicer-to-live-in universe in our havitable corner of it and run some AIs in it.

If there’s a creator, then this creator fellow must live in an even bigger, nicer universe within which ours exists. Now, where does that come from?
Science doesn't support keto as an optimal diet for most cases, which I wouldn't call a weird stigma. The book How Not To Die is a good primer on nutrition, major diseases and longevity, and includes references to all the scientific studies references. Meat and dairy have causal or correlations with a lot of terminal diseases, which is bad news for the keto diet. Whole-food plant-based diets fare best in most scientific trials, which is fairly incompatible with keto.

Research into optimal diets for longevity also found whole-food, mostly plant-based was what folks that live the longest eat.

WFPB has also been used successfully in to address Alzheimer's and diabetes.
According to an oncologist I spoke with, there are “shedders” and “non-shedders,” i.e. whether a tumor sheds DNA into the bloodstream or not. Apparently I’m a non-shedder :/
I neither said I agreed or disagreed with your post, and I absolutely agree that you ought to be able to post it. Normally I wouldn't bother calling out how I think the signal's being exploited, but it's actually the exact on-topic conversation for this thread. Maybe you're fine with it, but even if you ignore the political incentives, it still degrades the quality of discussion for sites subject to it. I think many people put it into a similar class as spam. Very few defend its protection. Sites like FB, X, and HN have that reason alone to address it when they're being exploited this way.
Big vendors should pay to get to know them, because they're the ones making the money off of the developers' work, but "I don't want to meet anybody and want to just manage the project" is the FOSS version of "just trust me bro".