skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think the best use of language models is in... processing language.

It’s a neat party trick that they can answer questions from parametric knowledge, but this ability is too unreliable to permit some of the uses this tech makes so tempting.

Fortunately, a lot of real-world problems can be framed as transforming the input prompt (such as summarization, information extraction, translation, and open-book QA), and these are where LLMs offer the most promise.
> There are numerous completed structures and a clear plan to get high-speed trains running from Merced to Bakersfield by 2030.

It would be more embarrassing if that gets built than if it doesn’t. Echos of Ted Stevens’ bridge to nowhere.
"I want a model that can answer any question accurately because it knows how to look up extra information from reliable sources"

So that very much depends on the "reliable sources" that we can grant it access to!

Honestly, even just giving models the ability to search Wikipedia (the live version, not some stale copy) goes a very long way already.
Minor pedantry (sorry!), but it's giongo (擬音語) not giyongo. There's a related term gitaigo (擬態語）, both of which fall under the catgeorical giseigo (擬声語). All are generally translated as onomatopoeia in English. The basic distinction is that giongo are used to express sounds made by physical things, both living and inaminate, whereas gitaigo are used to express abstract effects, such as emotional states, energy levels, etc.

The Japanese-language wikipedia page goes into it in more detail: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%93%AC%E5%A3%B0%E8%AA%9E
No purple, no stiffeners, 12+ day turn, 4mil thickness(!), but yes I understand one can wait and get boards more cheaply from OSH or shipped from China. I’m more trying to address the “hey let’s go to the factory this weekend and try something never before done” kind of use case which they don’t do.
The free version of Claude (Haiku?) failed, and also failed to give the episode names for all seasons, although it hallucinated some type of answer.
Ironically (and unsurprisingly), it's a repeat of what happened at Yahoo. ;-)
> Mercedes decided to emulate Tesla

Except Tesla is doing it right. Mercedes software is a mess. It's hard to explain why, but use it for a few days and it's just obvious.
> could zoom travelers between Las Vegas and Los Angeles in just under two hours by the end of the decade

Just to be clear, this is to the "greater Los Angeles area", ending at Rancho Cucamonga station, a 48 minute drive (1h15m by public transit) to downtown LA, and a 1h15m drive (2h30m by public transit) to LAX.
Kagi is better.
Do you generally limit yourself to the parts that JLC stocks? Or do you send them reels with the parts you want to use? Or will they order the parts you want? Last I looked, I don't see that they have any Microchip microcontrollers available (plus plenty of other active components and connectors).
Next step to level the playing field: eliminate patents.

Getting rid of non-competes is a matter of levelling the playing field in free market capitalism, no?
Yes nuclear war is very scary. Yes it would be catastrophic to the ecosphere and human society. It is also incredibly unlikely that it would result in the extinction of humans. Also the idea that a post-collapse society would have some taboo against technology is possible but even if true would not hold for long or be particularly widespread. Any group who abandoned that taboo would quickly become more powerful than those who didnt.

Heres some good reading on post collapse society and extinction talked about more in depth. Long story short theres been lots of exaggeration and fear mongering about nuclear war. Clearly its apocalyptic and we dont need to exaggerate anything about it to make it scary. Its already scary. It would be better to have realistic conversations about this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221016195507/https://forum.eff...
What does this have to do with high speed rail?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The only board I’ve ever worked on that required lots of iteration was a board for a client that could not manage to nail down requirements. We did 16 “iterations” but only fabbed 5 of them because he would often come up with new requirements before the PCBA had even started assembling the previous one. Lots of cancelling orders and resubmitting with assurances each time that “this is it, no more changes”.
Careful what you suggest! VCs are starting to back open source companies these days!
So are you asserting the LLM does "know what it knows"? I'm not even if sure such a concept makes sense.
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> I don’t think Apple sees this as a promising revenue stream. It’s just another way to encourage people to stay within the walled garden. That seems many times more valuable than any possible licensing fees they would get from manufacturers

I agree this is the optimal way of seeing it. Apple did not do the same with App Store though. The initial vision was to just apply enough fees for hosting and vetting the apps. Now with the way they hold on to the 15/17/30% fee, they are treating it like a revenue stream instead of a "courtesy service".
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I've used DDG and wanted to like it. I used another paid one and it wasn't great (forgot name). I've been on Kagi for the last 6 months and love it.
As someone who owns apple stock. I’m good with it
Easy fix for Claude Opus. Preface it with the following: "Do you know anything about the TV show Gilligan's Island? If I ask you to answer a question about it I don't want you to make stuff up."

Claude: I do... blah blah... If I don't know the answer or if I'm uncertain about something, I will let you know rather than making things up.

“Which episode of Gilligan’s Island was about mind reading?”

Claude: "I do not recall a specific episode of Gilligan's Island that centered around mind reading. It's possible that there was an episode that touched on this theme, but I cannot say with confidence which episode that would be. The show often featured imaginative storylines and dream sequences, but an episode primarily about mind reading does not stand out in my knowledge of the series. I apologize that I cannot provide a more definitive answer to your question.
Didn't think I'd get an "old man yells at cloud" reaction from this comment

Am I out of touch? No, it is the children who are wrong. Bring back flying how it was in the 80s/90s. TSA's security theater is a joke.
You can't post slurs to Hacker News. We've banned this account.

Creating accounts to break HN's rules with will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
High speed rail can shorten commute between Los Angeles privately-funded aerospace and Las Vegas publicly-funded aerospace ecosystems, supporting commercialization that can benefit CA, NV and USA.
They also mention in the README:

> CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data

This is the first I’m hearing of that, and the link seems broken.
So I'm very jetlagged and awake in the middle of the night, but does this have a mistake? 7, 6, 5, 5, 4 is not a series.
Yeah its like smart TVs but worse
I have no idea how this relates to the topic.
and the key takeaway of the article is that neither do they with an avp.
I just tried it with a handful of different episodes of different shows, on both chatGPT and Bard, and almost every answer was wrong, with some episodes made up entirely.
I guess 2024, revenue is still prioritized over search quality? Anyone found better alternative to Google Search, even paid?
Often Pcbway and similar have a simple (i.e. 4 layer, no special options that can go in the most regular batches) board-only order on a UK desk in about 6 days from order (order at the weekend, have it in-hand on Friday). So shipping is around 4 days in practice, and around £25 (depends on weight). You're not guaranteed to have it but it's often that fast.

If you have to move, move to a place near the start of your DHL driver's route as that can make the difference between 9am and 4pm delivery (and that goes for RS too).
i’ll be honest, that article makes it sound like the creators of CUE are really just taking their interest in type theory and applying it wholesale to devops configuration. maybe it’s just late but my eyes were glazing over by the third lattice diagram that really made no sense to me. you seem really into it so i’m sure there’s a reason and i’d like to know what makes it cool, but in more accessible terms like maybe what it lets me do that i couldn’t do in another language. got any links like that?
> So does that mean Mandarin can be considered as more "straight to the point" and as not featuring a system of "gradual politeness" compared to other languages?

It definitely feels more "straight to the point" to me than English, but I'm not the best person to ask. It definitely has some degrees of gradual politeness, not nearly as much as Japanese though.

> Does that also mean that Mandarin speakers will express themselves more or less the same regardless of the social status of the person they're talking to?

A little? There's definitely class consciousness, plus a whole slew of fun LARP words from the communist revolution, not that anybody uses that in Taiwan. Unsure about the PRC. But in any case people definitely talk to me differently when they find out I own a restaurant, which makes me a "boss," which makes me apparently worthy of some new form of address, usually more serious and having less of what I call "taiwan noises" (there's a proper linguistic term, I don't know it) aka the "aahs" and "oh's" that end a sentence, and the tendency to leave one's mouth open after speaking.

> I felt something quite different. I wouldn't say that they were not polite, because that was not the case in their attitude, but the way they formulated their request was rather direct and as if the result of the request was a given.

This could just be ESL stuff. I probably sound like this in Mandarin. In fact I'm sure I do, I don't make Taiwan noises and I don't hedge so I probably sound quite abrupt and possibly even rude. I've asked and nobody's complained but I suspect it.
Tesla has not shown reliable autonomy demo yet. All that we can deduce from these screenshots is that an intern did this in Figma ;)
As an English speaker I find it frustrating that languages like German and French have so many irregular verbs and that you also need to keep track of grammatical gender which seems pretty arbitrary.

In Chinese though you find structures which are pretty regular such as "measure words" where you might write

yi zhang zhi

which means

one (piece) of paper

where the word "zhang" is used because paper is thin, but you might use "ke" for something round like a pebble or "tiao" for something long and flexible like a snake. This and a lot of of what I read in the grammar book comes across as rational to me.
Why do you claim that what I said was incorrect? I am well aware of COBRA, but have you seen how much it costs?

The previous job I quit a couple years ago, I actually checked the numbers to see how much it would cost me to keep. I think I would rather go without paying close to $2k/mo for a single person insurance. Doubly so, if i actually had to not work for a period of time.
Neural networks put a huge damper on themselves by being so compute hungry.

They've always been there, it was just an inefficient way to do machine learning before around 2011 when GPUs started being good enough
Presumably, the point of a patent is to 'protect' the little guy which I would argued actually doesn't.

Not that I don't agree with you, what makes Kearns' pursuit 'greedy'?
So why needlessly call him a management consultant?

Yes it is a stretch to say he had much influence. There reason is very simple. Yahoo! was in its death throes. The core products were not bringing in revenue, and it was in the middle of multiple hostile takeover attacks by various private equity players. First it was a hostile offer from Microsoft, a hostile take over effort by Carl Icahn, and then a finally yet another, hostile take over (I forget the name of the last raider)

When there is so much uncertainty, and the fight is for mere survival, strategy has no meaning. You don't strategize, when someone is shooting you in the head.
Timeline of 2019 matches the trend for "why is search so bad" on Google trends, I had forgotten when I felt search had been enshittified
Amazon is gonna have to find new and innovative ways to suck.
Third or more, because there's a small stretch of Brightline that qualifies (just the part from Orlando to the coast). I assume that's why Buttigieg said "first operating high-speed rail line", a nuance that seems to have been lost in the headline.
I append GitHub:) and then I switch back to chatgpt
COBRA is simply the full price of the plan plus a small (~2%) premium. The “better” your coverage was while employed, the more expensive your COBRA plan payment would be because you’re paying for the whole thing.
As far as I understand, you still need to connect to the Red Hat license server, and you're limited to 16 machines. That's just stupidly unsuitable for a CI worker pool of hundreds of VMs being created from scratch for every run.
There are no software patents.

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/RT2%206-...
I had the same question.

As best as I can figure it out, it's "cost to worker" not overall cost.

I -assume- it's based on the perception that employer pays for Healthcare, so from a worker perspective it's "free". You leave the job, but the non-comptete means you're unemployable, hence pay your own Healthcare, or insurance.

It presumes a fair bit. Firstly that non-competes mean "you can't work at all". It's also unclear if the calculation assumes you get your own insurance while unemployed or not.

Personally I'm against non-competes (and I say that as an employer that's had employees leave and open something in direct competition to us, AND take customers with them.) IMO they're outside my personal ethical boundaries. So I like the rule.
Show HN: A productivity app that ties screen time to physical activity and focus
It blocks distracting app before redeem time by steps or focusing apps usage time
ChatGPT is much better…
> This seems like a wasteful exercise to me.

Except TFA is specifically about non-existent reasoning, self-reflection, emergent capabilities (like insights, discoveries, theories) in SoTA LLMs, and laments the misplaced hype, especially since it is instead accelerating erosion of privacy / societal values, and the distortion of truth / reality.

substantially ironic that LLMs are failing at the primary use cases that are attracting billions of investment, but are rather proficient at the use cases we do not desire, such as destruction of privacy and liberty, a post-truth society, social manipulation, the severance of human connection, fountains of noise, the devaluation of meaning, and a plethora of other societal issues.
~~ Amtrak coast to coast starts at $4,299 per person, and takes 15 days.~~

What would be the cost of a high-speed rail version of this?

EDIT: I stand corrected. I looked at the Coast to Coast "Vacation". https://www.amtrakvacations.com/trips/america-coast-to-coast
Well, without charging for it, right?
Good stuff is happening here, such as security https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Security and open source https://www.opencompute.org/projects/open-system-firmware
Ignoring the fact that if you have Unicode encoded strings, you probably want some sort of lexical sort rather than a sort on the raw Unicode character codes which is semantically meaningless, there is no reason to assume that Unicode data would be any different to sort than any other data.
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> Brightline in Miami was obviously a line rich people take around the area for select events.

Aeroplanes used to be something just for rich people too. Heck, go back far enough and so were cars, or even bicycles. You've gotta build a bunch before it becomes something mass-population.
I'm curious as to why Llama 3 specifically denies the existence of that episode, though.
Did anybody find a credit for the vending machine? I was hoping there was one somewhere, or another easter egg, but I couldn't find one. Regardless, great job. I was captivated through multiple play throughs. Reminds me of another short game called Xibalba[^1] that I enjoyed just as much.

Makes me want to give Bevy another spin and try doing a short story-driven FPS as well.

p.s. it's impressive that this was written in THREE.basic, judging by the cockpit monitors. :)

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098464
Nice clue. If this was being built in Europe it would probably have a number of stops within the city area including opposite outskirts, the center and the airport.
The text of the law says that the actual criteria can change to be whatever they think is scary:

As regards stand-alone AI systems, namely high-risk AI systems other than those that are
safety components of products, or that are themselves products, it is appropriate to classify
them as high-risk if, in light of their intended purpose, they pose a high risk of harm to the
health and safety or the fundamental rights of persons, taking into account both the severity
of the possible harm and its probability of occurrence and they are used in a number of
specifically pre-defined areas specified in this Regulation. The identification of those
systems is based on the same methodology and criteria envisaged also for any future
amendments of the list of high-risk AI systems that the Commission should be
empowered to adopt, via delegated acts, to take into account the rapid pace of
technological development, as well as the potential changes in the use of AI systems.

And there's also a section about systemic risks, which llama definitely falls into, and which mandates that they go through basically the same process, with offices and panels that do not yet exist:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_....
True, but the most common human chosen random numbers from 1-100 are 37 and 73 (from a recent Veritasium episode).

Obviously the number 42 is going to occur a lot in a web crawl, but might be expected in majority of cases to be in context of some "answer to everything" joke. I wonder are there really that many contexts where it is presented as a random number ?!
Helicopters the US spent $5B on can't carry president because they scorch lawn
Scheduled for 2028, and they've managed to actually build and run a line in Florida.
Thanks for the link. I'm aware Dart currently has static typing similar to Java and C#, and has had it for some time,

My question was different though and I was asking (quoting comments further up the chain) whether "google's original plan with Dart" really was to allow for a programming language "which can be properly type-safe from the beginning".

It seems that claim about the original intent is false. I checked Wikipedia [0] which states "Dart 2.0 was released in August 2018 with language changes including a type system" and the reference they link seems to corroborate that, before 2.0, Dart didn't have a sound type system.

Thanks for prompting me to dig deeper (I probably wouldn't have done it without seeing your comment).

[0] Quote found under the history section. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language)
That it is, but a more apt comparison would be Duck Duck Go which was a contemporary of Blekko and definitely out performed relative to Blekko's success. DDG still going strong and even buying TV ads, so yeah.

That said, how Blekko and Watson ended up squandering good technology in search of something else is also an interesting learning experience/tale.
Instead of playing that gotcha game, can you hypothesize what differences in human anatomy would cause this to happen in mice but not humans?

There's a reason researchers use mice, and that's because physiologically, they are tiny humans.
> that's because I'm not a crazy old man.

Look, if only crazy old people make eye contact with each other, your community is not fine. And if everyone is so agitated that they'd be scared if you walked past them and made eye contact... well, that's not the strong testimony against people "living in a constant state of mute terror" that you seem to think it is.

About as convincing as claiming "I'm not gonna take my phone out of my pocket on a train, I'm not crazy! That just happens to be my preference, I don't wish to look crazy like the people who use their phones, nothing to do with crime" would be in [1].

But I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Ping me next time you're between jobs. If you live in a high-density area with a high homicide rate, I'll pay you a week's wages if you're willing to loiter on the streets for 3 hours a day every evening in an outfit of my choice and don't become a victim of violent crime by the end of the week. I won't pick an illegal (police or military uniform, revealing clothing) or politically charged outfit. If you're right about U.S. urban safety, this should be easy money.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bart/comments/dc7b5p/got_robbed_on_...
Sadly my 2014 CX-5 is not supported.
How is that a problem that a set contains itself? It's allowed in NF.
That's not the point of the Gilligan's Island test. If the LLMs had said something to the effect of "I don't know, I wasn't trained to answer trivia about television" then I would agree with your comment.

Instead they all confabulated! Either they made up an episode title or insisted the episode doesn't exist. That's a serious problem: if the LLM doesn't properly recognize that it doesn't know something, how will it properly recognize it needs to use a tool to obtain that knowledge?

It seems like the only answer we have is for a user to flag that GPT-4+Web flubbed the Gilligan test, OpenAI dispatches a data contractor for RLHF whack-a-mole + synthetic data generation, GPT learns to Google answers to Gilligan's Island prompts, then we cross our fingers and hope transformers are smart enough to transfer that knowledge to the Sanford and Son benchmark.
Yes! You should be able to get nearly native performance for that sort of pipeline out of a WebGL backend.
cat's out of the bag, too early?
Volvo's car radio is not easy to use, I hope it would be better to use CarPlay directly
But an individual subreddit can impact your ability to use the whole site.

I was banned by one sub for having a different opinion from the hivemind, and having the audacity to try and discuss it. A year later I decided I wanted to start over with Reddit, not because of any bans, but because I wanted to revamp my sub list and it seemed easier to start over. Browsing /r/all, I saw a post and made a comment. It happened to be on the sub I was banned from with the other account (the sub was often on the front page). They took this as me making an account to get around the ban (which wasn’t my motivation) and banned me from the whole site. So one sub can kill all your access. Coming from /r/all, I didn’t even realize I was commenting there until I got the perma-ban. The comment I made wasn’t even provocative, it just matched the IP of the other account.

The thing is, there is no way to know what subs you’re banned from. I would have been more than happy to hide/block all those subs on my new account so I never saw them, but what are they and how can I actually do that? Those features don’t exist. So users get banned because they lack the information and tools needed to follow the rules.

I agree that the small subs are generally more chill. I’d often run out of stuff to look at on subreddits I was subscribed to, so I’d head to /r/all to see what the site as a whole was up to. I had 30-40 subreddits hidden from /r/all to clean it up and get rid of the stuff that would always leave me as a contrarian, but I guess that wasn’t good enough.
Which suggests the current approach based on LLMs might be a dead end and we need to explore others..