skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, no fallacy - in interviews with activist employees who got fired, it's not uncommon to see both surprise as well as outrage.

Regardless, I was commenting on the ones who seem genuinely surprised that being fired was a possible outcome of their protests. It's as if that possibility never crossed their minds, which is itself surprising.
Is this a problem? Having your country commit genocide should be very confronting. Is there a particular right to defend this?
No. Summarizing what's within the context window of the LLM.
TC++PL book is full of wisdom in general programming, easily transferable to other languages.
>I'm pretty clear I'm just looking to learn/listen and not pitch.

They have no reason to trust you. I would think you're just looking for an angle to sell me on no matter what you say.

You might try attending/crashing medical conferences in the area. You could also talk to folks on the periphery of the healthcare industry to look for opportunities.

One that I experienced personally is the difficulty in matching a specific person at a specific point in their treatment to applicable clinical trials. Particularly with cancer where there are so many inclusion/exclusion criteria to consider. The terminology is very dense and not always clear. Then you reach out to the PI and find that the window is even smaller than it appeared at first.
First experience with llama3 (via ollama)

1) It keeps unnecessarily hash-tagging sentences, but listens better than mistral at removing them if I specify

2) It failed my pop culture "Arthas test":

Here's llama3:

>>> who's arthas

A great question!

Arathos, also known as Arathas or Artaxerxes (Persian: اردشیر), was a king of the
Achaemenid Empire, who ruled from 465 to 424 BCE. He was the
son of Xerxes I and Queen Amestris.

Arthas is best known for his military campaigns against
Greece during the Persian Wars.
In particular, he led a successful campaign against
Athens and Eretria in 459-449 BCE, which resulted in the
destruction of these cities
and the imposition of heavy reparations.

However, his later years were marked by a series of
defeats at the hands of the Greeks,
including the Battle of Plataea (479 BCE) and the Battle
of Mycale (479 BCE). This ultimately led to the decline of
the Achaemenid Empire and
its eventual defeat by Alexander the Great in 334 BCE.

So, there you have it! Arthas, a significant figure in
ancient Persian history.

It thought I said "Arathos" yet says "Arthas" at the end lol. Here's mistral:

>>> who's arthas

Arthas Menethil is a character from the real-time strategy
game "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos" and its expansion "The
Frozen Throne," developed
by Blizzard Entertainment. He is also known as the Lich
King.

Arthas was once the prince of Stratholme, in the kingdom
of Lordaeron, and was a promising young knight who was
deeply devoted to his kingdom
and people. However, after a series of tragic events,
including the loss of his mother and the corruption of his
mentor Uther the Lightbringer,
Arthas became consumed by madness and betrayal. He turned
against his own people and eventually became the Lich
King, the leader of the Scourge,
an undead horde that plagued the land of Azeroth.

mistral seems more on-point and has more consistent outputs. but llama3 is better than mistral at following output instructions like "output the same list but dont use numbers" (mistral insists on either bullets or numbers, have to say "in naturally flowing sentences" to get it to work). This might mean llama3 is better to build with (esp. RAG), even if it's less knowledgeable.

It's not gpt-4 level that's for sure. I think mistral is still closest to gpt-4 that I've tried.
Influencers Go Viral by Playing a Game About Going Viral; Hits 6M Players in 24H
(very personal opinion)

The oddity is that LLMs are sounding... too... Human... the reacting to information and regurgitating it a bit too much like the average "learned person". Adding a ton of extrapolation of the "facts", just as we would.

LLMs sound like any pundit on any random tv show/newspaper/blog. The goal was never "fact", it was sounding human, and "intelligence", for which the definition in this case has been.. sounding human. Not being right.

Now, the question of whether they should or shouldn't do this...
Convert frames to SVG, pass SVG as text to ChatGPT, then ask for the SVG of in-between frames. Simple as.
A more extreme version of this would be COBOL right? Even if people stopped writing C++ today the amount of code that's already written will last many lifetimes.
He claimed in 2002, after the book was published, to have found additional evidence that IBM established a Polish subsidiary after Germany invaded Poland to sell machines to the Nazi government.

https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/The-business-of-makin...
It depends ...

You should NEVER have "using namespace" (for any namespace) in a header file, since that is how you create name clashes, which is what the namespaces are there to avoid.

I don't personally like "using namespace std;" even in implementations, since I think it makes code less readable, and the contents of std:: is so large, and growing, that I'd again prefer to just avoid the possibility of name clashes.

We write code once, but read it many times, so shorter names (incl. namespaces) seems like a poor efficiency choice.
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Exactly. The CEO is speaking in doublespeak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP07oyFTRXc)
> Tim, you aren't important enough for an LLM to have an accurate summary for you

In which case an actually useful LLM would spit back a response along the lines of "I don't really know who that is", rather than making up an entire seemingly authoritative biography.
Though I also read the book, I don't remember the details of DEHOMAG control via Switzerland, but I would be surprised if there wasn't a paper trail of directives from Armonk, NY via the Swiss to maximize DEHOMAG's market.

I do remember that Coca-Cola in Germany was not able to use the formula for the eponymous soft drink, and developed Fanta during this time. I do not imagine that much secrecy in tabulating machines was present.

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

Looking over the DEHOMAG wiki, there are some curious facts...

"Watson had received Order of the German Eagle medal at the Berlin ICC meeting in 1937, but after Nazis' pogroms against Jews started in 1938 Watson himself wanted to distance himself and IBM from Germans but was convinced not to do so by Secretary of State Hull and he gave up the idea until spring of 1940.

"Leon Krzemieniecki, the last surviving person involved in the administration of the rail transportation to Auschwitz and Treblinka, stated he knew the punched card machines were not German machines, because the labels were in English. Income from the machines leased in General Government was sent through Geneva to IBM in New York."
This is why I am completely, totally baffled that anyone tries to still deny the anthropogenic source of climate change.

Ignoring the debate over how much the CO2 impacts the temperature, which other comments address, there are likely a few things at play. First, "BigBusiness" has a vested interest in playing down any risk, so they sink considerable money into campaigning against climate change (political, media, etc). Second, people are conditioned to absorb quick soundbite factoids, not complex models, so "nuh-uh, fake science" hits home better than {complex model}. Plus, change is scary - either doomsday temperature increases OR give up cars and airplanes and cheap hamburgers? Yikes!
I don't think so. The person who you may be thinking of is likely Stephen Pinker, who has written on similar subjects: e.g. Dennett: Consciousness Explained; Pinker: How the Mind Works.

However, Professor Dennett's comments on twitter as linked by dmd apply to both Dennett and Pinker: One of Mr Epstein's occupations was basically getting close to many of the great and the good. Mr Epstein was skilled at it, and having large amounts of money to donate helped some. The bar for "involved" has to be higher than that.
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU
In contrast to this, there’s something really special about finding your little niche of fans. There are about 6 or 7 people on Tumblr for whom I make a lot of my art (though it’s all open to view for the public and generally has 50-100 repeat followers). We’ll often riff off of each others’ art as well; I find that making art for that small community inspires me, makes the work more enjoyable, and pushes me to produce much better work than I would for just myself.

But apart from finding a close community like this (who just happen to be online), I agree that engagement-driven or profit-driven creativity is generally an inspiration killer. It’s one of the main reasons why I chose to keep art as a hobby rather than a career. If I lost the passion for it, I wouldn’t know what to do with my life.
> A major reason they don't make the news is that many aren't that critical.

My favorite recall was the letter I got last year for 23V048000.

The instructions for how to engage the defroster in my car manual were suboptimal. You actually _don't_ want it to be on full-blast.

Please report to your nearest Nissan dealer to get a piece of paper to put in your car manual.
Why do you think this? And by chance are you sort of any minority groups in tech or your workplace?
Have you tried pg-mem for integration testing? https://github.com/oguimbal/pg-mem
I like this guys spirit. Once I had to pick up old code from a guy with this spirit and it was f-ing horrible.
>> "Hallucination" is a terrible term to apply to LLMs. LLMs ONLY produce hallucinations.

Seems pedantic. If you define "hallucinations" to include correct responses, then nobody cares whether something is a "hallucination," the only important question is -- is it right?

And the answer is yes, across a huge number of metrics [at least for gpt-4]. It'd beat you at jeopardy, it'd beat you at chess, it'd beat you at an AP-biology exam, it'd beat you at a leet code competition.

Enough with semantics.
Even things like posture seem to affect my parameters. My temp will be 98.4 while seated but if I stand up and check it, it drops down to 97.9.
But then companies go train them on "The Internet". This includes not just factual (or mostly factual) content like Wikipedia but also SEO spam sites, YouTube comment sections, literal fake news articles, and fan fiction.

Even if they're limited to "mostly true" content they'll happily and confidently confabulate "facts". They'll make syntactically and grammatically correct sentences that are actually authentic frontier gibberish.
Having to use the wrong tool is not cool, ever. So I don't care how cool Rust is right now, I still am not going to use it for scripting.
The Iceberg Cometh (1990)
AMD "Strix Halo" Zen5 and RDNA3.5 premium APU rumors take shape
This sounds awesome. I'd definitely find a use for it, god knows it's annoying to set up this sort of thing manually.
Really loving this site!
Not only are they using novel AI-driven target selection technology, they changed the 'acceptable collateral damage' from 0 to 25 civilians per fighter for the recent genocide, without adding humans to the analysis loop.

This is AI driven genocide and HN should be paying full attention.
> Corporations don't heave a soul or moral compass, they just follow the money.

It's less true that corporations don't have a soul or moral compass and more so that they reflect the soul and moral compass of their owners. Anti-semitism was common amongst the US business and intellectual classes, and many companies - IBM included - were run by people who sympathized with Hitler's ideals.

The uncomfortable truth is that the US and Nazi Germany were a lot more similar in terms of their ideology than the propaganda leads people to believe. Hitler even credited the US' policies of genocide against native Americans, eugenics and racial discrimination as inspiration.
Have any of the leading models been trained on that kind of corpus? Could a corpus like that even be constructed without vociferous and immediate dispute about what amounts to "largely true"? Would a corpus like that have enough suitable data to generate conversational output that feels satisfying?

I thought that most/all of these big models are relying on a much much larger and more diverse body of content. Is that wrong?
Thanks, I never had considered that a possibility when hearing about "Rust stable ABI", but it makes a lot if sense.
> "Hallucination" is a terrible term to apply to LLMs. LLMs ONLY produce hallucinations.

Is the result substantially different from the result coming from biology?

IIRC, a theory is human minds evolved to perceive, store and evaluate not for facts or truths but for evolutionary fit.
So I’m going to wildly speculate here:

I’m guessing most CTs have sold to big Tesla fans who already had Teslas. I’m going to assume those kind of fans also like one-pedal driving (many people do).

So if you’ve been using one-pedal for years you’re used to releasing the accelerator stopping you.

Could the driver who hit a pole have stopped themselves with the brake? Yes. If they were used to one-pedal for years, would they have thought of that? In a split-second panic scenario perhaps not.

I know millions of people love one-pedal and many (most?) electric cars have done version of it. But I wonder if stuff like this has been studied. How well to people used to it handle using the brake in a panic if they don’t often drive two pedal mode/cars?

I’d love to know the results of such a study.
Llama 3 is tuned very nicely for English answers. What is most surprising to me is that the 8B model is performing similarly to Mistral's large model and the original GPT4 model (in English answers). Easily the most efficient model currently available.
I only use 'j' and 'k', not 'i ' -- the rarely-used letters are easier to search for.
Does light have an infinite lifetime?
Hunter-gatherer tribes such as the Hadza get a significant fraction of their calories from honey and other simple sugars. They don't seem worse off for it.

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4654
And we have the owners of corporations with an influence in mass media, and to a lesser extent the internet, to thank for that.
Intel was fines over $1 Billion by EU in 2009 for paying off manufacturers/retailers to exclude AMD, hasnt paid a single dollar yet.
When you say "actually scientists" and "boundaries of human knowledge," you seem to be taking for granted naive views about metaphysical realism, scientific realism, and truth that are not trivial to defend, even for experienced philosophers.

If you want to relegate philosophy to obfuscation and trivialities, a good starting place would be to demonstrate that you've made it past the undergraduate, foot stomping "science" phase that, honestly, not enough "actual" scientists seem to have made it past, bringing us mystical nonsense such as the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
At this point, anybody here likely has had the privilege of being educated to prefer primary sources of information over secondary, tertiary, etc.

The indexing feature that search engines for years provided was a side-effect and benefit of the internet’s success.

There have always been challenges with this as it is not immediately clear what should be treated as “primary source” information — it takes time and skill — the user in this model is accountable for their own exploration and consumption of other peoples’ knowledge.

AI seems to be purposefully at odds with that. So, for me, the distrust and avoidance is well-placed.

That said, it’s a powerful tool that has a place in the world, but I hope it doesn’t come at a detriment to the colloquial understanding of what it means to “search the web”
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40040100

To repeat what I wrote on that post, this is all 100% explainable by Tesla's sacred five-step algorithm for manufacturing[a]:

1. Make the requirements less dumb: "All designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong." - Musk

2. Try and delete parts (that seem unnecessary): "If parts are not being added back into the design at least 10% of the time, not enough parts are being deleted." - Musk

3. Simplify or optimize: "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist." - Musk

4. Accelerate cycle time: "You're moving too slowly, go faster! But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first." - Musk

5. Finally, as a last step, automate. "I've made the mistake of going backwards on all five steps." - Musk

Evidently the accelerator pedal issue was caused by step #2: At some point, the Cybertruck team at Tesla questioned the requirement to securely tighten the metal plate covering the accelerator pedal, and somehow concluded it seemed unnecessary. Now they have to add it back!

---

[a] https://evannex.com/blogs/news/elon-musk-reveals-his-5-step-...
It is made to serve humans so pretty obvious what means what in this context. Oh but why not change the context just for the sake of some pedantic argument.
Today's "best practices" are tomorrow's "worst practices". I've seen it over and over in the 40+ years I've been writing software. Someone tells you "this is how you need to code", and then 1 or 2 years later, someone else tells you "that's trash, now code like this". Rinse and repeat.
Haven't used C++ in 10+ years but I remember studying an earlier version of this book in stupid depth. And this was at the end of 4 years of using 99% C++ in college.

It's such a good book. If you really take the time to understand the book C++ it seems kind of sad the world was so afraid of it.

But of course after all this I of course met an army of people who had never read a book like this at all and wrote horrifying C++ code.
There is a line between saying "I am a business person and therefore I don't judge people with different values" and saying "I am a business person and therefore I expect not to be judged for my lack of ethical behavior".
With the latest MLX, 4-bit Llama 3 8B runs nicely on an 8GB M2 mini
It's mostly gamed by open source zealots, who have plenty of time in their hands to send "OSS, BEST" on the internet
Call me old fashioned, but I've only ever heard the term 'Zionism'/zionist bandied about by conspiracy theoriests of the antisemitic variety. I'm saying that the adherents of the far left are finding common cause with the scumbags on the right in their hatred of Jews and Judiasm. And personally, I find it alarming.
Often I think that I'm lucky, still working on C++ desktop applications.
Apples did not fall from trees before Newton. That time was confusing.
> I think Graham Hancock wrote a book on it.

Just popped up on my news feed, "Archaeologist braves the Joe Rogan podcast to counter Graham Hancock's nonsense":

* https://boingboing.net/2024/04/19/archaeologist-braves-the-j...

Episode in question, "Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL1_EMIw6w

(Entire episode is 4h26m long: I don't have to interest/patience for that personally.)
E-paper only computers might actually be an interesting rule...
Or designed it with simple snaps.
Tesla desperately wishes it could have the safety culture of Boeing.
Indeed, it's OK not to have an accurate summary, but if you don't I'd expect the LLM to answer 'tim who ?'
But basically nothing in these answers was "right". It was merely plausible. "Important information" or not, what is the point of this garbage?
Doesn't that lead to absurdities, though? Like, is McDonald's morally required to avoid serving known fentanyl dealers?
And from somewhere far above or below us, 'Mad Man' Muntz, wire cutters still in his hand, smiles at Elon.
The known SOTA for GPU flops utilisation for training on that many GPUs is somewhere between 50-60%, e.g. https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM . If they really managed to get 95%, it's a huge advance in the state of the art. I guess by training time they meant with respect to downtime of the hardware, not utilisation of the hardware potential.
Saying a planet in our solar system is in orbit around our sun is like saying a shipwreck is underwater. It doesn't narrow down the search region at all. And worse, we don't know it's in orbit around the sun as we don't even know if it exists.
Are you going to wear a mask indoors forever?
Quill v2 – Rich text editor
First year Ford Mustang Mach E: can confirm.
Throwaway for obvious reasons. Do you mean that you've "divested" yourselves from the employees of Russian IBM branch or from anyone who's a Russian national?

The company I work for is in the process of being acquired by IBM. Even though I'm located in Europe, I have Russian citizenship. Does it mean that I'm also going to be "divested from" after the acquisition is complete?
Oh that is not going to stop law enforcement (who as a general rule doesn't have to be truthful). They can say they have evidence that you were there and on the spot (if you decide to talk to them) they can get you for lying or asking when and why you were at the location in question (and the reasons). Plenty can be done with this even on a hypothetical. I think this is (in the hands of the right interrogator super helpful. It's not like someone who commits a crime is going to be up on the latest forensic tests and it does sound possible.
> But likely mostly about selling TVs.

I think it's because frame rate doesn't show up in screenshots, or even trailers in many cases since 30 fps or below is still standard for video.
I've found that it occasionally just..... fails, and then works on the second attempt for, well, reasons? No idea.
Yeah, I've seen that mentioned as well, and am curious about the details. This techcrunch article[1] states "... strict contractual stipulations that prevent Google and Amazon from bowing to boycott pressure". That could be read as contract terms that don't mention anything about protest/boycott but rather just set a fixed term of contract, with penalties for terminating the contract. However, it also isn't uncommon for contracts with Israel to include anti-BDS clauses, and California has an anti-BDS law[2], which it could also be referring to.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/google-fires-28-employees-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
Like when Twitter declined to remove ISIS propaganda due to their liberal principles
because seed oil is cheap in hidden in almost everything cheap and processed

the health effects of eating seed oil go way beyond obesity. that isn't the only thing anyone who discusses the negative health effects is talking about.
Confidence intervals too wide to draw that conclusion.
LLMs are amazing but my gut says they’re going to plateau. No superintelligence.

I suspect this is a contrarian view but I’m not sure?
> But then companies go train them on "The Internet".

This is the bit that I think a lot of people miss. If the model was trained on stuff from the internet, then what the model will produce will reflect that, and the internet is chock full of bullshit.

Same thing about when LLMs produce objectionable responses (racist, violent, whatever). Those are a direct reflection of the nature of the training material.
Personally I think https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/86548 is a better answer. It turns the LCG state recovery into a hidden number-like problem, and works out the solution that way. It is easy to go from there to (EC)DSA key recovery.
management and investors wants AI chat; coincidentally it appeals to the lazy and less-intellectual