skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make things worse the largest consumer tech companies, like Google and Apple, have a well deserved reputation for caring very little about customer feedback. It's a normal thing to lookup how to fix an annoyance or regression, finding hundreds of people posting about the same complaint, without ever getting any sort of response or reaction from the company.

Heck the only support Google offers for many products is a community forum that their own employees never post on, and I assume few even look at. People have largely been conditioned to think that tech companies don't care about their feedback.
> Foundation LLMs are generative models trained to produce text similar to the text on which they were trained (or for the pedantic: minimize perplexity).

They are not trained to output facts or truths or any other specific kind of text

but we can just patch the truth in with RLHF! /s
Well, he's articulate and very experienced with software development who invented the original C++ out of necessity. In fact, he sounds like an ideal person to tech good programming practices using the language he helped design.
The disclaimer really should be much tougher: "Every LLM consistently makes mistakes. The mistakes will often look very plausible. NEVER TRUST ANY LLM OUTPUT."
The primary difference between a caress of the cheek and a slap to the face is simply the rate at which it occurs.
In the 1800s the lakes in New Jersey would freeze solid to the point that there were companies who would cut ice in New Jersey and store it to be sold in New York in the summer. Nowadays the mid atlantic is lucky to get a few inches of snow at a time, and I doubt a single lake in New Jersey has frozen enough to walk on in 30 years. Even places like Upstate New York, famous for their snowfall and long winters, have long stretches of winter with above freezing temperatures where all of the snow melts. The effects are extremely pronounced and the climate is nothing like it was in the 1800s now.
It has been removed, along with a dozen others that did similar tricks. I also looked for a prior report and didn't find any for this extension, which suggests to me that the extension has not been reported before. I suggest in the future using the existing malware reporting forms on the Chrome extension store, rather than venting in HN comment threads.
Parameter count seems to only matter for range of skills, but these smaller models can be tuned to be more than competitive with far larger models.

I suspect the future is going to be owned by lots of smaller more specific models, possibly trained by much larger models.

These smaller models have the advantage of faster and cheaper inference.
There’s so much Hamas support combined with rank antisemitism at every single “pro” Palestine rally in recent memory [1][2][3].

And it just gets swept under the rug by legacy media. Imagine the outrage if the same exact behavior was documented of anyone identifying as politically on the right.

[1]: https://x.com/CitedNeed/status/1781363418156408912

[2]: https://x.com/YosephHaddad/status/1781157703961780576

[3]: https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1781032832204214308
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> I can see how you would find that unproductive, but I don't know if it really counts as quackery.

Oh, here’s the thing—it’s not actually important to argue about what the word “quackery” means. I’ve explained what I meant by “philosophical quackery”, and if you want to talk about the content of what I wrote, then by all means, respond to the content.

If, instead, you want to start a fight about what the word “quackery” means, and whether I was wrong to use it, then I’m out. That sounds like a waste of time.
You have low social and emotional intelligence. They’re more important skills to have than you might think.

You might think your bluntness is charming or provides utility ultimately. It doesn’t. It’s offensive, inconsiderate and ineffective if trying to actually persuade anyone (except perhaps yourself).

Further your notion of how weight gain is correlated with “physical laziness” is deeply reductive and indicative of a lacking in basic empathy.

Basically, you’re being an ass hole. It would not surprise me if you were diagnosed with some sort of personality disorder like NPD. Hope that goes well for you in life.
> Would a corpus like that have enough suitable data to generate conversational output that feels satisfying?

Yes? The point is that we can use LLMs right now. They mostly work. That is the empirical evidence that is immediately verifiable right now. This is not a hypothetical. LLMs mostly work.
> they do have the choice to use uio as numbers

> No they dont

They do. Not 123, but "they do have the choice to use uio as numbers".

I say "they do have the choice to use uio as numbers". You say they don't. I look at the photo, and they have uio as 4, 5 6. I guess those aren't numbers to you, only 1, 2, 3 qualify as numbers. This is why I say your responses are toxic. You're literally telling me here they're not being used as numbers ("no they don't"), when they are being used as numbers, just not the specific numbers you're wanting here.

The keys being shifted one row up from your idea to include the zero and period in the number pad is pretty much an immaterial difference to me here. This is why I say "I used pretty dang similar keyboard layouts", note "pretty dang similar" not "entirely, exactly, 100% as you suggested". Ergonomics are often subjective and individual (not everyone's hands are the same!), but you're acting like what you consider ergonomic is just completely factual and unyielding and apply globally. The reasons why I didn't care for the numpad mixed in the keyboard's alpha keys wouldn't change if you shifted the rows around.

All I've really been saying is I personally don't care for having numpads mixed in the alpha keys, and you're telling me those keyboards similar to your idea don't exist and berating me for assuming I'm too dumb to know how keyboard remapping works. This is why I say your responses are toxic. I'm really done here though, I don't think you'll ever accept there are keyboards that have uio as numbers or that other people have their own experiences with what is ergonomic.
Being white made me minority in our university's CS program, Middle Eastern if that counts was minority within that, I didn't care.
> There is a tiny minority of philosophers who are actually scientists pushing very hard on the boundaries of human knowledge.

It sounds like you've already started with the assumption that the only way to expand human knowledge is by "science" and the people doing it are "scientists"? Maybe that's an assumption worth investigating. How would you know if that was true? What experiment or empirical observation would one need to conduct to know that the only way to extend human knowledge is by "science"?

I feel like you're trying to do a complement to some philosophers by saying that the good ones are honorary scientists, but perhaps there's more to know than objective truths about our specific material world.
But wait, those ads on NPR for C3.ai say they have "hallucination-free LLMs" (LoL)
Usually you are not employed to help out everyone, everywhere in a team. Maybe such a position should exist in any large company, but, yeah, I don't think it does...
Looks like dailynous.com server is having trouble responding (likely due to HN). But a cached copy of the page is here:

http://archive.today/kHPfz

Daniel Dennett was an important philosopher of mind, whose Wikipedia page is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett

When I studied philosophy in college (2002-2006), his ideas were among the most discussed and debated at NYU's philosophy department. I always enjoyed his thoughts and writings, even if I often didn't agree with them. RIP.
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I love this, great work for science overall. This is exactly the type of approach/response one should take, and I hope he gets praise for doing the right thing.
There's still a missing factor i suspect tho. Given how frequently wrong and hallucination prone humans are, i don't think we're _that_ different in this context. Nonetheless we can somehow inspect our thoughts, and come up with a degree of confidence.

But what gives us that ability? I don't trust human thought at all. Police have to be careful what they say as to not pollute the minds of anyone they're questioning - we're just insanely prone to flat out lie without knowing. So to one degree, we seem quite similar to hallucinating LLMs.

So what gives us the ability to nonetheless identify "truth" from our memory? Is it an ability to trace back to training data? The less clear the path is, perhaps the more likely we think we don't "know" the answer?
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This is incorrect.

This is the first time there's been a non-private model at the top, and I'd wager top 3.

This isn't OSS either.

Not sure where the jaundiced view comes from. I generally believe the free models tend to be overrated, but I don't think it's a good idea to pretend there's widespread gaming of this. There's a strong self-peasantization streak in LLM discussions, and truth is, no one thing may be "correct", but we can't exclude all data without making the very act of discussion meaningless.
Sanctions do work, but anyone claiming that they would single handedly crush the Russian economy in a matter of months were delusional, especially due to all of the avoidance going on through Turkey and Kazakhstan.

Nonetheless, it does add a lot of friction that slowly grinds away at the economy.

For example:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russias-arctic-l...

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-sp...

Russia can't sustain autarky on their own, and especially not with their demographics, manpower shortages due to the war, wartime spending, and corruption. Right now they're coasting on what's left of their reserves, but those are finite. Their economy won't outright collapse but it will get more and more inefficient and fragile.
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I've learned it's rather irrelevant whether macOS could become better by being more like other platforms. Because there's enough of the users who will defend obviously bad UX, and I guess apple doesn't do UX studies that would otherwise reveal it, so things like its poor file management and poor window management will persist forever out of lack of caring to be better.
A disclaimer isn't about solving a problem; it's about absolving responsibility.
I was a JavaScript developer for 15 years and now I do something different that is new to me.

I could easily train somebody off the street, assuming higher than 125 IQ, to be a decent JavaScript developer in a month assuming that month is dedicated to training and I can assign homework. By decent I mean not an expert but certainly far superior to the average professional JavaScript developer.

How, you might ask? Teach them from the technology standards without helpful abstractions. Tooling and configuration nonsense are what bad developers do to look busy and justify their existence, so absolutely avoid all of that. Don't waste time on stupid things indented for stupid people. Build their confidence one step at a time so that they can write original high performance software at high durability.
Wait, don’t car assembly lines have a big red button you can push if you find a defect? Haven’t they for many years? Does pushing that button really make everyone angry?

That’s not how I had envisioned car manufacture at all.
What is antisemitic about suggesting that there should be conversation about how AI is used in warfare?
To really stir up the ant nest, religion is an excellent example of how humans are not evolved to evaluate facts at all.
You could say the same about Ukraine and Russia, and yet...
I feel bad for poo-pooing the safety efforts. When it goes properly mainstream it will be amazing the dumb things people will believe about it and try to do with it.
> Ironically that is exactly what you are doing with Taiwan and its defensive capabilities. Taiwan has been preparing for an invasion and attacks from the larger mainland since the revolution and has become one of the defensible places on the planet.

If you're swallowing the cool-aid, definitely.

In practice, not really. Just one example: Their mandatory military training has been considered, as just one example, atrociously useless by graduates and little more than a "summer camp." So much so that it was recently changed starting in 2024 to be one year instead of four months. Graduates were causing scandal by saying they did not even learn how to fire a gun during their conscription.

https://globaltaiwan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GTB-Volu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/wah0u6/dis...

This comes in addition to a poll (by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation), which found that 78% of respondents aged 20 and over (who, again, would have been in the mandatory military service), said they had "no confidence that Taiwan could defend itself."

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/taiwans-military-needs-ov...

https://www.voanews.com/a/taiwan-mulls-lengthening-military-...

So think about this. You're bragging about Taiwan. 78% of the young people who have been through its training have said they have no confidence in their ability to defend themselves. That's a really bad omen. Even if the poll were 20% off, if that were possible, 58% of young people saying they didn't have confidence would be terrifying, and I'm not going to just say, "well, my statistics show you should be fine, therefore you're wrong" to people who live there.

> Why are you assuming Taiwan would just keel over and allow that to happen? Why are you assuming the Chinese navy would be capable from preventing the US and its allies from conducting freedom of navigation operations through the blockade?

Because, China threatens anyone who dares assist. It's not a military question, it's a political question about whether angering China is a safe move. While blockading Russia is scary; blockading China would be an economically suicidal for any nation that attempts it. This is combined with the threat of internal sabotage and potential military actions on any nation assisting Taiwan. And while I'm not supporting Trump here, think about our border, which had 2.5 million encounters in 2023. If there were just 50,000 CCP officers in that 2.5 million, the damage they could do in a coordinated effort would be incredible.
I have three basic problems with using "brain" and especially "human brain":

1) Nobody is even bothering to explain why this is like a human brain rather than 1M spider brains or 1B nematode brains - I suspect 1M spider brains is probably closer to reality, and I doubt that adds up to one human. The choice of "human" is a marketing gimmick.

2) Even in nematode brains, each neuron is very different, in a way that can't be explained by a small array of floating-point numbers. These SNN architectures are too homogenous and simple to explain the actual behavior of individual neurons. (See https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i... which discusses standard ANNs, but I strongly doubt a single layer of SNN neurons can actually emulate an individual rat neuron.)

3) Epigenetic effects are clearly important for thinking and memory formation, yet totally ignored by these architectures: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-say-the...
I think your question is really: "how do I find people to interview?"

First, find out where your prospects actually spend time. LinkedIn is garbage for a lot of industries. Most doctors don't change jobs much or building "personal brands", so they're not scanning LinkedIn often. Reddit can also be often a better community.

Second, don't cold message people. Put out HELPFUL (not clickbait) content. It can be as simple as a question ("hey, I'm wondering how people solve X?"). Let the community come to you. Then follow up with the people that engaged with your content. They've shown an interest in your topic AND a willingness to engage.

At the end of every call, ask two questions: can you follow up with them with further questions and is there anyone they can think of that would be helpful to learn more? For that second question ask them, IN THE CALL, to write an intro email/message connecting you. Social validation is critical.

Finally, actually follow up. 1-4 weeks later message an update, thank them for their perspective and connection, and again ask if there's anyone they can think of to learn more from.
> even if everything he supposed about IBM were true, what IBM did wasn't unique

Not only an ethically irrelevant assertion, but additionally a scientifically irrelevant assertion: one cannot be expected to research all subjects in all contexts. Black investigated the subject for which he had observations. The rest is up to the rest of us.
> Science is a type of applied philosophy

This is typical philosophical nonsense. The word "philosophy" is so vaguely defined that anything can be considered "a type of applied philosophy". So science may well be "a type of applied philosophy" but that's not what makes science special. What makes science special, the thing that distinguishes it from all other branches of human intellectual endeavor, is that (to quote Feynman) experiment is the ultimate arbiter of truth.
>That's part of the problem though, right?

Not really, do normal people assume that they're important enough to be the only Their Name of note in the world that their opinions would be known.

Absurd level of narcissism.
This reminds me of the supposed factory floor modification to include a battery heat sink on the Model Y. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567
“Pokies” appears to be Australian slang for ‘video poker machines’
I do think there's some value in recognizing when people create something directly inspired by looking at how the brain works and trying to mimic it with hardware.

Whether or not that's what's happening here is another matter.
I would think (and surely hope) that would fail the probable cause test if attempted to be used for “all current/former inhabitants”.

https://nij.ojp.gov/nij-hosted-online-training-courses/dna-p...
You have to be seriously delusional to think that a 70B model will beat Claude Opus. But go ahead and use it to prove my point.

I know the power of Zealotry and Cult in the age of internet and this is just one example of that
My approach lately is either:

- Ban exception propagation altogether: in Kotlin, wrap the computation in 'runCatching' to get a Result<T>; or in Java, use result4j [1] which provides similar functionality.

- Let exceptions propagate, catching them at as high a level as possible.

Which one to go with depends on the type of program I'm writing. If it's a GUI tool, I go with the first approach, because I want to display errors to the user. If it's a CLI tool or backend service, I go with the second option, because I want to short-circuit the program as soon as possible to avoid potential logic errors.

[1]: https://github.com/sviperll/result4j
Yes, and Ukraine is now openly admitting they are at serious risk of losing.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-trouble-zelenskyy-ad...

https://asiatimes.com/2024/04/west-faces-stark-choice-on-ukr...

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-ukraine-losing-russia-wa...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-digs-defenses-fea...

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/04/europe-already-pl...

Blame the west if you want, but the summer is predicted to be awful for Ukraine.
Search is pretty horrible these days imo.

My main fear with AI becoming our go-to information retrieval platform is how can we be sure that the answer is objective truth without any slant? Shouldn't there be an ethical obligation that a model should not only fact check but also provide alternative theories? We lost that somewhere in journalism but we could regain that if we prioritized that the thinking and deciding still needs to occur human-side.
The current project I’m working on has tons of resource caches (for performance), with tons of non-owning pointers sharing cache references. I’d hate to do this in opinionated languages like Rust.
Luckily I managed to read it through the annoying cookie prompt's overlay.
Two things can be true at once. Jewish people and other groups were exterminated by the Nazi regime ~80 years ago, and now Palestinian peoples are getting exterminated by the Zionist regime.

If there is any "Holocaust inversion" being done, it's probably by Gilad Erdan who uses his privileged seat at the UN to wield a Nazi-era Star of David patch while rationalizing the bombing of schools and hospitals.
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You used the word quackery, and I pointed out that this is an inaccurate term and that yes, the phenomenon you're describing is a thing called "talking past each other" and that it is a frequent criticism from within philosophy itself.

I'm not sure what else there is to say here. If you call people something, perhaps it's important to actually know what that thing means? This seems to happen often in conversations critical of philosophy: terms are used unclearly, and the attempt to actually clarify those terms is hand-waved away as "I don't want to argue about definitions."

So I think your criticism here is not that there are quack philosophical works, but that there are unproductive ones that do nothing but restate established positions. Which is definitely a true thing.
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By the very nature of its training data, the obscure stuff will be the stuff these models are the worst at.
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AI? ChatGPT has seriously raised the baseline for what someone can achieve in coding without formal education, plus the software tooling has gotten easier. I remember when people would take classes to set up web backend/frontend boilerplate.
the GP is equivocating IBM selling tech to Nazis with tech companies selling tech to Israel
> No car with paint you care about should ever be washed in the sun.

Are you being serious?

I have never heard of cars being washed in any other way.
Thanks for that list, I just ordered them! I hadn't heard of that series before
I'm pretty sure I was introduced to the concepts of proof by contradiction and by induction in the final year or two of high school, but that was fifty years ago in England.

Perhaps finding it confusing is a recent development.
Well, equating IBM selling to Nazis with Google (or whoever) selling to Israel could be considered antisemitic. For some reason, people love to bring up Nazi comparisons with Israel, but not with other nations. I wonder why that is. Even people who hate the idea of Google doing business with the US government haven't(as far as I've read) used the comparison of IBM selling to Nazi Germany.

What do you imagine the outcome of the conversation would be?
Huh? I don't understand how this engages with what I wrote or what I was responding to.

Yes, it's very very obvious that the conversational LLM's we engagw with mostly work for conversational UX. The discussion is about the above commenter's reference to "largely true" data. I'm not aware of any leading LLM built on something that could be characterized that way, but I'm genuinely curious to hear otherwise.
I'd argue that none of the output is useful, even if some proportion may be factually correct, if you're using LLMs as a decision-making tool.
This isn't a case of slot machines where they got the logic for the house edge wrong. This is a case of double redeeming winnings because the machine would give you your winnings but not mark the ticket as redeemed.