skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That mentality is like saying "I'm only rich if others are poor" - you can of course still be well off, even when others occasionally catch up, and maybe better off if the tide lifts all boats. Also what you say doesn't go against the point about signaling. There's something to being on the cutting edge vs not.

> people that might have once moved to California for its laws will no longer do so

Which is a huge demographic right? After all, most people don't come to California for its incredible beaches, paychecks, food, diversity, entertainment, etc. it's our wonderful laws that attract everyone, right?
Every single car I have rented in the last ~5 years in the US has had CarPlay.
Your nation and culture are a gift from your ancestors to your descendants. It’s sad that counterculture types have seized power in much of the west and proudly toil to undermine their endowment.
I see every comment is some version of “everything is caused by elon doing or not doing something”, and I wonder if people care this much about other car manufacturers and their decision makers. This is just a curious thought-out-loud, I have no stake in political dumpster fires

That being said, being far out as politically as I am (for my own peace), I think it’s elon’s own doing, offering manufacturing support updates online and his car manufacturing company’s customer complaints being too online and journalists with unusually strong political beliefs covering it with new and ‘hot’ headlines day to day (like it’s news!)

I wonder if someone have data of customer complaints from german and chinese car manufacturers (EV or otherwise) and why we don’t see that a lot in news (or at all, are they perpetual frictionless motion machines?!)

It’s also funny people have to bring up Elon’s politics and use it as a cover to justify their own arguments of his illegitimacy and inability to lead a company he built (for most part), have these people ever looked at political affiliations of all industrialists or top executives of major companies? they generally tend to skew more conservative naturally (at least elon craps on people of all political directions he find funny at any given moment)
Humans are also notoriously bad at choosing random numbers... Does that mean they are undependable and inherently untrustworthy?
> In some cases the manufacturers are reporting your driving history to insurance companies so they can get any reason to bump your rates or deny you coverage . [2]

Obviously good. Driving is incredibly dangerous to other people and insurance companies are the most motivated to make it safer.
It mentions reduced spending on doctors. My thinking on the mechanism is that freeing doctors from noncompetes makes it easier for them to leave big practices and start small ones. Small practices have less bargaining power with insurance companies and will have to charge lower rates.
Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B-$3B valuation for its AI search platform
Oh if we’re thinking of terrible ideas, it could save ads as a JPG in to the folder where you saved whatever you were grabbing with curl.
>> I want a model that can answer any question accurately

Do you think it is possible Simon? Will we achieve that? Genuine question.
The cicada recordings I heard were steady loud buzzing | clicking white noise with an underlying pulse.

I can imagine that getting annoying.

Volume wise, it seems decibels below daily flocks of thousands of Sulpher Crested Cockatoos rap battling flocks of Corellas which we get in this part (any parts) of Australia.

For interest: Individual Australian parrot calls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8Nr_as0CI

Now, multiply by a thousand and put them in trees outside your house.
There is a 50 mile stretch of the Acela that reaches over 150MPH that qualifies as "high speed" rail, so technically this is the second high-speed rail in the US.
Can't wait to ride it when its done in 20 years...
but its doesn't even self check its own answers. Its a mouth with no ears...

A great example here, ask it:

Whats the next 3 numbers in this sequence: 71 64 58 53 48 44 ...

They consistently get the answer wrong, then double down on the wrong answer with the explanation that doesn't follow its own logic.
What do you mean you can write this if you wanted to? Are you suggesting a LLM can invent something new?

I don't think there is any record of that, even the image/video/what ever generation ones require something to begin with.

If you can train a LLM to "invent" why is that not the main focus, who knows what it could invent.
You can easily demonstrate that an LLM does know certain fact X
AND demonstrate that the LLM will deny that they know fact X (or be flaky about it, randomly denying and divulging the fact)

There are two explanations:
A. They lack self-reflection
B. They know they know fact X, but avoid acknowledging for ... reasons?

I find the argument for A quite compelling
Another danger is some sort of bug in Lean itself. This isn't unprecedented in theorem provers [1][2]. These might be hard to hit by accident... but there are larger and larger collaborations where arbitrarily people fill in steps (like [3]). Someone trolling one of these efforts by filling a step in using a bug they found might become worth worrying about.

[1]: https://inutile.club/estatis/falso/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv97pXplxf0

[3]: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/formalizing-the-pr...
Wow who ever knew that all we ever had to do was hand philosophy off to programmers, and they would have definitive answers to centuries old questions that we weren't even sure are answerable.
Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model Finetuning – OOD Generalization
Unicode collation is very complex. If you wanted to sort according to that, then you would need to devise an isomorphism between unicode strings and bitstrings such that lexicographic ordering in the bitstring domain agrees with unicode collation in the unicode domain. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not at all obvious how to do it. On the other hand, if all you want is some total order for acceleration structures, then you can indeed just use an arbitrary encoding like utf8 and do the obvious thing.
Do people actually sign up for COBRA? Last time I quit a job it was like $3000/month. I took my chances instead.
For other brands, there are third party retrofits that replace the integrated stereo with a DIN mount, or with a carplay compatible head unit. The software on those is usually clunky, but it's not like OEM car head units are known for their UX.
From the article:

“ The implications are that LLMs do not perform reasoning over data in the way that most people conceive or desire.

There is no self-reflection of its information; it does not know what it knows and what it does not. The line between hallucination and truth is simply a probability factored by the prevalence of training data and post-training processes like fine-tuning. Reliability will always be nothing more than a probability built on top of this architecture.

As such, it becomes unsuitable as a machine to find rare hidden truths or valuable neglected information. It will always simply converge toward popular narrative or data. At best, it can provide new permutations of views of existing well-known concepts, but it can not invent new concepts or reveal concepts rarely spoken about.”

There’s a fundamental mistake in the article by minimizing the achievement of LLM technology by looking at what is only possible in todays LLMs, it’s pretty obvious LLMs are just the first real step down the road to human like intelligence- they have finally proven that computer models can be generated that resemble human like thought patterns and build internal representations and models of the external world in very similar ways as organic beings do- yes we still haven’t gotten to a full reasoning system and sentience but that definitely seems to be the direction that the arrow of this technology is moving

Trivializing the achievement of GPT as mere statistical prediction and data compression is cheap shot when you consider that technology has just finally come to show
it’s promise - model architectures are rapidly evolving and the full integration of memory and self reflection and future agentic capabilities are still on the near horizon

Yes they don’t appear to reason originally yet but give it time and allow the tech to grow - I’m of the opinion that a true AGI will arise as a society of LLM models with newer architectures working in concert together with memory - something like the “Society of Mind” mental model for consciousness proposed by Minsky

Give it time…
The entire TSA system seems useless, a waste of money
oh yeah? well i'm going to gamify vaccination!
Employers don’t pay for COBRA, and employees rarely choose to do so.
I would love a LLM that if it doesn't know says I don't know. Rather then extremely firmly say this is the answer, only for that to be 100% incorrect, not even sort of correct.
It's nice to think that with the right leadership, companies will behave differently. "Organizations can only be so complex at the top" implies that only the dynamic at the top of the company drives its behaviour. It's simple, and it helps to justify tremendous compensation. It's just not true. PR came into Google with a relatively modest role. He only became elevated to a more significant role because of the dynamics of how the company functions, and you'd have to think him a fool for his decisions to not be informed by those dynamics. Sure, he came out on top and his choices were his own, but it's foolish to think that if someone else had come out on top, their choices would really be all that different. The organizational dysfunction ensured that whomever was in that role would make those choices.
Thanks for the link. I also took the term as clearly being used to describe the dynamic between managers and the engineers / coding "class" within a company. At Google, those lines are admittedly probably a lot blurrier, but I think the term gets the author's point across in this context.

Like, if we can't allow some level of incisive criticism of extremely well paid tech executives, who have a massive influence on technology, in an article/blog describing feasible harm by said people to said industry, on the "talk about technology news" website, I honestly don't know what the point of forums, blogging, or the internet even is.
I'm giving up on open source
Those are really sweeping conclusions, considering the experiment is just a single iteration of a single prompt! FWIW, Claude Opus got this for me on the first try:

"In the Gilligan's Island episode "Seer Gilligan" (season 3, episode 8), Gilligan gains the ability to read minds after being hit on the head with a coconut. At first, the castaways are excited about Gilligan's new power and try to use it to their advantage. However, his mind-reading abilities soon cause chaos and misunderstandings among the group. In the end, Gilligan gets hit on the head again and loses his mind-reading powers, much to everyone's relief."

(the season number and episode number are wrong, but the name is right, suggesting that this is just lack of sufficient memorization rather than some deep statement about reasoning. The episode only has ~4,000 Google hits, so it's not super widely known.)

More rigorously, Claude Opus gets 60% on GPQA, which very smart humans only get 34% on, even if you give them half an hour per question and full Internet access. It seems implausible that you could do that without some sort of reasoning:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12022.pdf
I took a bible analysis class in HS/early university, where we broke down the theorized gospel sources.

Piercing the illusion appealed to me, tearing apart the sacred to reveal its mundane origins.

Getting older, the sacred is breathing life back into the mundane. It's incredible that people have carried this message of compassion, love, and sacrifice through thousands of years.
COBRA is almost universally more expensive for individuals because they have to pay both their premium and whatever premium the company was paying.
Any idea when #2 was released? I have a 2019 Honda. Android Auto can use the instrument panel as a second screen but CarPlay cannot. I miss seeing the next-turn distance countdown right in front of me.
> Relationship with CVNets

> CoreNet evolved from CVNets, to encompass a broader range of applications beyond computer vision. Its expansion facilitated the training of foundational models, including LLMs.

We can expect it to have grown from here: https://apple.github.io/ml-cvnets/index.html

It looks like a mid-level implementations of training and inference. You can see in their "default_trainer.py"[1] that the engine uses Tensors from torch but implements its own training method. They implement their own LR scheduler and optimizer; the caller can optionally use Adam from torch.

It's an interesting (maybe very Apple) choice to build from the ground up instead of partnering with existing frameworks to provide first class support in them.

The MLX examples seem to be inference only at this point. It does look like this might be a landing ground for more MLX specific implementations: e.g. https://github.com/apple/corenet/blob/5b50eca42bc97f6146b812...

It will be interesting to see how it tracks over the next year; especially with their recent acquisitions:

Datakalab https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114350

DarwinAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709835

1: https://github.com/apple/corenet/blob/main/corenet/engine/de...
Google has done this. They did offer a paid version that didn't have ads, but few actually used it.
I mean, first of all, doesn't it make more sense that there's more money to extract from the LA<->Vegas line? And second, Amtrak can't force CSX to upgrade its rail, and Amtrak sure as hell ain't paying.

There's loads of billionaires out there now with more money than sense. Get together a PAC, lobby them to fund high-speed rail upgrades, name a rail station after them or something.
What's the advantage of using this over something like Huggingface Transformers, possibly with the MPS backend?
Yes. IBM was reselling Vault as a service. Hashi couldn't.
I was expecting to have three balls but the UI makes me feel like I should 4.
I'm really excited for this. This company seems to be able to get these projects going.
It might be great, but all the evidence says that we're not willing to nationalize the publishers in order to establish that deal as a durable offer, and that a private-sector publisher would change the terms of the deal the moment they'd gobbled up their competition, or perhaps even before. We would literally require that course of action from the corporate executives via the fiduciary duty.

The cycle of enshittification consumes all.
holy gratuitous question mark hackernewsman
TIL.

The weird part is Maps will accept them for search, but not display the plus code except when looking at POI (randomly selecting a point on the map doesn't show it for me, I only could get that from the /pluscodes/ map)

This seems genuinely useful, but as usual we're having the chicken and egg problem to get it adopted ?
I mean, there are a a number of tty graphics protocols. I’m sure with enough dedication someone could figure something out.
>Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.

It's funny because a multi-trillion dollar company can't be bothered to release a native package manager or an official binary repository for their OS after decades of pleading from developers.
The free version of Claude also failed the test, and even denied there was an episode "Seer Gilligan" (S2, E19).

When I asked it what S2, E19 was about, it said "There was no "Season 2, Episode 19" because Season 2 only contained episodes 1-32."

These seem unexpected failures!
It does seem like some would rather build a fish-giving vending machine where they can load it up with the fish discovered to date and get it to spit them back out vs a fishing machine that catches fish and distributes them.

But to me this post exemplifies a pet peeve with AI discussions to date, which is a tendency to want a single model to do it all.

Our brains are a network of specialized functions. Damage the hippocampus and your human also won't know the episode name.

But somehow if a model uses an external store it's 'cheating' and not just networking specialized tools, even though that's how our own brains work.
Yeah, I had a similar thought. If they just removed the ai or only focused on building a voice command to mobile app sdk there could be something viable there. Sadly that’s just not what they made at all.
Why as a percent of GDP and not as a percent of tax revenue?
The company was also paying its share of the premium with pre-tax dollars whereas the ex-employee has to make that share up with their post-tax dollars.
it's because only those companies with this subculture have time to answer surveys, because everybody else is just too busy working hard.
If I’m lucky, my kids will be around to see it.
One last economic stimulus for startup lawyers before getting replaced by Mistral + RAG + your jurisdiction's .txt files and PDFs :D
He called Raghavan a "management consultant", whilst acknowledging that he never was a management consultant. It's slinging pejorative nonsense labels.
I guess an honest, no-clickbait title could have been "The question that no LLM I tested could answer".
I ditched the phone, camera, telescope all of it. In 2017 when I saw it the first time I think I wasted precious seconds fiddling with the gear trying to get the best shot. This time soaked all of the time and gave my eyes a visual treat ! totally worth it. No regrets whatsoever. Anyone reading this and hasn't seen one yet, I would advise to prioritize viewing it with your eyes a bit more than trying to capture it , its just very hard to capture the visual effect of experiencing totality.
I'm so glad not to be in the job market right now. I didn't think it could get any worse than whiteboarding leetcode, but here we are in 2024 having to solve captchas just to talk to other human beings.
about time to program websites to serve JWZ balls when HN tries these tricks to confuse its users IMHO
I hear a lot about people moving to nix-darwin, is it popular or am I showing my own bubble
Detect iterm or kitty or other image-capable terminals and display an image
Great post, bravo for code wrapping on mobile
Ask HN: Working Tutorial for Coral USB on Windows?
Does anyone have a link to a working tutorial of the Coral USB for Windows?

I'm asking on here since a few people on this site recommend it. I already tried working through errors by googling and looking on stackoverflow. I get version/dependency issues just one after the other after following the official guide multiple times.

On a side note, is this just how it's expected to be going forward? In the past many tutorials for various things had detailed instructions that included version numbers. Now it seem versions are being updated so quickly that the documentation can't or won't keep up. Apparently neither can I.
Isn’t a big advantage of an accelerator is that its more optimized to do this sort of work than a cpu? This npu is a tiny dot on the Meteor Lake die while the cpus take up a whole tile and accounts for much of the power usage of the soc at any given time.
You can scrub on the mobile player, that's what makes it so much frustrating because you can't do that on desktop
The future of AI might be layering of various capabilities: Generative+Lookup+Deductive. I think the human mind works in a similar way. First thought is reflected upon. We search our memory to get relevant information and often apply logic to see if it makes sense. I feel the generative AI just produces a thought. We need to pass that through a system that can augment it with search and then reason about it. Finally need to close the loop and update the weights.
They will say "it's just a bad LLM", don't bother
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities
https://laedc.org/2021/04/26/aerospace-space-force/

> The federal government is increasingly embracing private business collaboration in its space missions, space-based projects and to power the new US Space Force as it ramps up in Los Angeles. This is creating a lot of activity and opportunity for LA-based aerospace companies.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/exclusive-inside-area-51-the-se...

> Jacobsen, a contributing editor and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times Magazine, interviewed the former Area 51 employees in 2008 and 2009, shortly after the CIA declassified much of the work they had done.. Jacobsen reveals some of the wild research that went on in the 1970s at Area 51 -- where the military built the U-2 spy plane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

> Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas.
As an outside/non-American observer: yeah, it'd make total sense, but it seems like there's no political will in the US to build publicly-owned transport infrastructure beyond:

- Maintaining what's already there

- Select state-level projects, in some states

- Select municipal-level projects, in some cities

This means there's been a huge deficit in this kind of project at the federal level.

In saying that, I don't want to give the impression that I'm on some ivory tower. Via Rail, a crown corp, is our national rail operator, and it's riddled with issues with little in the way of meaningful solutions.
Fair, valid point. I do admit that this is far from a perfect analysis. I do hope, though, that it helps people at least classify their problems into categories where they need to design around the flaw rather than just assuming that the thing “just works”. I appreciate the discussion though!
Big practices feel like patients should remain loyal to the practice, not the individual provider with which they have established a trusting relationship.
I can imagine a natural language declarative project definition, used to generate an implementation by a model.

When the natural language specification "source" is updated, the model takes into account the change, and the current implementation, and makes the change in a low impact way.

Similar to how developers today would respond to a changing spec, while maintaining strong continuity in the implementation. Only change what you need to.
Old Macdonald Had a Drone: Inside Farming's Tech Boom
'Am I lying' also works.
> from Merced to Bakersfield

“and, by gum, it put them on the map!”
> One is critical vehicle functionality

Except it isn't. Can you start or continue driving without any of that info? Then it isn't critical.

Critical functionality is:

- steering

- drivetrain

- brakes

- tyres
I couldn't find any training code in the MXL examples.
It seems unrealistic to anticipate stronger AI that doesn't hallucinate. We're chasing a human-style intelligence and that is known to hallucinate like crazy (a lot of the most intelligent humans turn out to be crackpots - Bobby Fischer was one of the best meat-based chess engines for example).
Architecture isn't there yet for reasoning (extrapolation), just really good interpolation. To be fair, most people operate at an interpolation level as well.
Apologies for calling it by it's historical name instead of the revisionist one the British gave it.
Also for anyone who's willing to put up with eng subs/underdtand mandarin, Geekerwan has a very in-depth video (+Linux and real world usage!) on the chip. https://youtu.be/GpUJHHwedCw
Not the person you asked and not my checklist but they’re pretty good: https://github.com/azonenberg/pcb-checklist/
> such a well written article for layman understanding

As an undereducated idiot who’s interested in mathematics, I couldn’t agree more. Quanta’s articles are a continuous source of approachable knowledge.