skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that “chain of thought” was getting the LLM itself to plan out the steps before it solves the problem. Is that not true?
Or even "Which cloud provider has fucked up a business customer the worst, so far?".
Manufacturing efficiencies are implemented all the time. Because that reduces cost (= manufacturer more competitive and/or increased profit).

Emissions are high because manufacturing involves so many process steps. Tubing is more expensive than its raw material. More so when welded into a bike frame. Yet more when painted, etc. Same goes for the parts. Drilling holes in a rim produces waste material that must be collected & recycled. It wears out a drill bit that also needs replacement. All those parts & materials are sourced from many suppliers. And so on. Those little costs add up.

Did I mention assembly, packaging, shipping & retail already?
Far as I can tell, all this demonstrates is there's tasks that CoT doesn't work for (yet)? If that? Or just that there's bad prompts? Really, the Twitter replies have already made these points so there's nothing to add. This just seems like research that's been written conclusion-first.

> Ever since I came across the Chain of Though (CoT) for LLMs paper, I wondered how it can possibly make sense given that there is little reason to believe that LLMs can follow procedures and unroll them for the current problem at hand. (After all, if they can do that, they should be able to do verification and general reasoning too--and we know they suck at those).

I don't follow. Why would procedure following imply general reasoning?
in canada theyve gone full gimmick, the previously dollar menu, is now like 3$, they wont let you combo these items anymore either so youre forced to pay like 3-4$ more dollars for fries and 2$ for the drink if you combo it yourself.

that and they introduce a new nugget sauce and charge an extra 5$ because its limited edition
Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store's Rooftop Sign, Police Say
NASI is the National Academy of Social Insurance, which doesn't mean their results are wrong but does mean you'd need to pay very close attention to what they're doing in these surveys.

For example, they list reasons their respondents give for supporting social security and the first is "I know that I will be receiving benefits when I retire", but the point of the story we're commenting on is that they don't know that. They've been told that, and it might be true, but on the current trajectory it's not currently going to be true. If the NASI told them that social security was unsustainable, that their money being paid in wasn't being saved for them and they might well have fewer benefits than they expect or that seem fair, would they still agree?
> Why are you in a worse position?

Because, in general, as you drift behind, the friction of upgrading will increase.

You might not need to update today, but you're not in control of external events that may force your hand (sudden critical security vulns).

> Are you better off using A or B?

In this contrived example, it depends.
It's a good point, but my research was specific to Japanese emoji, given they invented the word and their symbols are the ones that were adopted.

I'd be interested to read a similar deep dive into forum/ICQ/AIM emoticon history. I only remember them from around year 2000 though I'd been an internet user since 1995.
Maybe. But I have yet to see (for example) an LLM write a novel. Or build out a web framework. GitHub Copilot + Grammarly are the only two useful apps it has, at least so far. Feel free to convince me otherwise!
https://ciechanow.ski/

https://fabiensanglard.net/
Pražský Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator. (2022)
You’re incorrectly conflating the economy with the stock market. Ignoring that, OP was very clearly talking about their portfolio returns. There are many historic examples of 10 year periods in equities markets where you would have broke even or lost money.
Oh, cool. Now all those dodgy conferences and journals that fill my inbox with invitations to publish at their venues can stop bothering me and just generate the research they want themselves.
Quora has always been like that, attracts a certain type of person.
Virtual Workers Are Here to Take Your Job–and Give You a Promotion
https://archive.is/UjEyC
https://youtu.be/uonYyotd3TQ
HTC One M8: The Android Goat, 10 Years on [video]
It seems like you're judging LLMs by human standards. If it could do those things, it would almost definitionally be AGI already. LLMs are "just" pattern-based token prediction engines with large scale. The interesting thing is that it looks like we should be able to build a general intelligence from that - like we're getting at least some facets of intelligence from that alone, that we previously had no idea how to produce - not that we're already there!

Treat it as a text-based addon to your brain, IMO. A human brain has many components necessary for general intelligence. Some of those components can now be augmented by a giant neural net; others still benefit from human execution. All the LLM programming work I do is based on a cooperative dialog, where I fill in the gaps where the LLM doesn't have an appropriate pattern. Which are many. (But getting less.)

At any rate, the idea that LLMs regurgitate their training data is completely unrelated to this and afaict one of those "true but trivial, or important but false" ones. (True in the sense that humans also represent a reflection of their inputs; false in the sense that what's going on is definitely more than a collage of samples.)
Unisuper is not a famous company, most HNers probably have never heard of it.
Thank you! It is a long read, to be sure.
Check for the reverse: https://youtu.be/XyMeoSUYWxw
Arch is quite close to that.

I moved from Debian to Arch for my main home server because I was fed up with reinstalling between versions. Now I think you can upgrade in place.

I will be back to Debian at some point because Arch requires me to remember to update. It works great but since I have everything on docker it depends not make much sense to be bleeding edge
This search engine is amazing. I was looking for an old story about curing acid reflux by some exercise, Google/DDG/Kagi/HN's Algolia were completely useless, this found it first hit. Well done, this is the HN search engine I've always wanted.

Is it possible to keep it up to date?
This is perfectly applicable for 5 figures.
It was sloppy, in the sense of not making sense in a few places. At first something was "the naval" of something, when it should obviously have been the navEl, and then towards the end there were suddenly sixty years in stead of twenty-four between parts I and II of Goethe's Faust: Something about how the painting _Faust on the Mountain_ was painted ~"two decades after part I and four before part II". Yeah, four years before; not decades. And there was at least one more equally daft thing, that I can't recall now, in between.

Such sloppiness (or just plain lacking grasp of language) doesn't mesh well with the high-falutin' style attempted; it adds up.

___

ETA: Oh yes, now I remember: "Blah blah Mephistopheles and Faust, blah blah, the former having sold his soul to the latter." Or if it was "Blah blah Faust and Mephistopheles, blah blah, the latter having sold his soul to the former." Any which way they wrote it, I'm pretty sure it was the other way around.

Just to reassert: Makes it damn hard to take the whole thing seriously, and certainly makes the style more grating.
More accurately called 8-segment display.
Most important keywords are:

BLDC + motor control + sensorless

CORDIC is a de facto standard algorithm in the relevant application area.

Infineon explains algorithms compactly and clearly:

https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/AP1610510_CORDIC_Algorithm.pdf

Microchip gives an idea of where and what the algorithm is used for:

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/O...

CORDIC hardware accelerators are found in many microcontrollers designed to control electric motors.
Honest question - do you expect there to be hallucinations in this case? I have extensive experience in LLMs and also from talking to peers with similar experience, it is uncontroversial to say that given grounding like this LLMs won't hallucinate.

I am not sure if when people say this they just don't have experience building with LLMs or they do and have experience that would make for a very popular and interesting research paper.
More to the point you're supposed to start with an observation that your current theory can't explain. Then you make a hypothesis that tries to explain the observation and collect more observations to try and refute your hypothesis; if you're a good falsificationist, that is. That doesn't seem to be the process described above. Like you say it's just a pipeline from data to paper, great for writing papers, but not much for science.

But I guess these days in many fields of science and in popular parlance "data" has become synonymous with "observation" and "writing papers" with "research", so.
Asus has been on my shitlist for decades, precisely because of their scammy after-sales support. This is seriously not new.

Their products are genuinely crap these days though. Check some of the electronics repair channels on Youtube, an astonishing percentage of motherboards and graphics cards that come in are Asus.
'Climbing is for ladies too': Transforming Malawi into a climbers' paradise
Do austerity programs even work? Europe tried such an approach in 2008, and expressing that we did better than the US would be a lie.

Greece's austerity programs resulted in the biggest brain drain the country has ever seen, and people make peanuts.
Are you suggesting polluting the ocean (even more) just to replicate a worse version of what we already have?
It struck me as really weird that he seemed to assume implicitly that his Blocksworld problems would be something an LLM should be able to do and presented the failures as shocking; one look at them immediately gives me the impression that they are the kind of problem LLMs tend to be pathologically bad at.

Probably he's better tuned in to the tone of the discourse than me but I feel like if you showed CoT helped with Blocksworld then that would be a huge and triumphant result, rather than something taken for granted that we must loudly disprove!
Amazing name for the paper
>This is the polar opposite of BotW’s design thesis and I hate you for tainting it.

LOL, calm down mate. Fwiw, I've read your back and forth with the GP and I'm much more excited with their vision than yours.

Anyone with any imagination can see that LLMs are the future of story telling.

You can rage all you want, but progress will march on without you.
I recently saw some photos of an array of solar panels floating in the ocean. Sea birds had pooped all over it.

I think that your main problems will be 1 )fouling and 2) getting enough energy from solar panels to overcome wind and ocean currents.

Sea bird poop, algae, barnacles and other kinds of marine life will cover your solar panels. Your propeller will get tangled up in all kinds of crap, there is loads of rubbish in the ocean such as plastic bags.

The amount of energy that you can get from solar panels that are not angled to be perpendicular to the sun is pretty low. It depends on your latitude as well.

Solar power is usually very disappointing when you look at the numbers.

A solar panel that is nominally rated 100watts will only give you 100watts when it is perpendicular to the suns rays on a cloudless day when it is clean.

Over 24hours, including nighttime, you will be lucky to average 5watts from a panel that is nominally rated 100 watts.

Solar panels will produce zero power at night. Are you going to include batteries to power a motor at night or let your craft move with he wind and current at night?

Solar panels can't be twisted or bent or they will crack and not work any more. You need a strong frame.

I think your craft will have to be a reasonable size so are going to need at least a couple of hundred watts for a motor that will overcome even a small water current.
There's a qualitative difference between the raw LLM model, which I think it is fair to describe as "fancy autocomplete", and AI-as-actually-deployed, where the LLM has access to function calling behind the curtain.
Humanities in Revolt
Founder of Quora Adam D'Angelo is still on the Open AI board board and the founder of another AI startup called POE. I am sure Quora's QnA data would have been used to train lot of AI models. Now they are just taking out the humans.
Should be doable using FwMark and routing policy / nft rule?

So you'd put a fwmark on the interface , allowing you to route the VPN traffic separate from the traffic that should go over it.
Then you have some mechanism to trigger when VPN is down. Curl someplace dedicated which also has a routing exception to go outside the tunnel. Detect captive portal IP. Add route (and clean up, like when online or switching).
> On the other hand, if "prevention" is about culling the gene pool, I'm dead set against that.

Well, you can be against it by raising autistic children yourself, it seems you're in a perfect position for that. Why people feel they have the right to demand that from others is beyond me.
The sea surface temperature of the Earth set records every day for an entire year and we just learned that the CO2 increase for 2023 was 4.7ppm, a new record as well. If people haven't gotten the message by now, I'm pretty sure we are in fact doomed. I agree that it is psychologically easier to throw your hands up and say that nothing works (and my life sure made a lot more sense when I realized that nothing works), but I think you could just as easily call that acceptance as much as doomism.
as others said, core functionality that UPSTREAM THEMSELVES decided not to include in default/recommended build instructions?
I was looking at homes in Europe. The political situation in America is getting crazy. Thinking about an exit plan and found these incredible houses in Spain. Maybe a good idea to cross the Atlantic back to the motherland? Thoughts on running an internet company in Spain?
flipping build switches that upstream provided is "edited your app" ??
Thats what I wanted to do, to land right into the editor, test it quickly, and give some feedback, and yes I thought about making this demo video and I will probably make it, from what I was looking I didnt notice many open source video editors especially on web, if you want then join the discord: https://discord.com/invite/Nr8t9s5wSM
> Your argument that it's correct to not give a shit about tests and security and encryption and memory leaks simply because lots of people are using the project

That's not my argument. My argument is that while you might give a shit about $THINGS-DON-LIKES in code, the actual market is requiring much more stringent sink-or-swim product decisions.

So, yeah, for you what the market values in that product may be irrelevant to what you value in that code.

> He shipped, but he didn't meet his users or the Internet community's needs,

Obviously he did - he dominated over other languages, even though PHP had next to no marketing budget and was competing against products that had millions, or hundreds of millions, spent on marketing.

The market clearly preferred the product he provided.

> because his users and the Internet at large need safe reliable systems that

Your opinion on what those users needed differs greatly from what those user's expressed that they needed. What $DON thinks other people need is irrelevant when those same other people have opinions of their own.

> I'm unsure you're not just a parody account.

I'm sure you do. I'm not sure how that is relevant.

You're once again making the mistake of assuming that your opinion is actually relevant. It's not, to this argument, relevant at all. All your skepticism about my intention only digresses from the main argument, which is what you thought was good for product delivery turned out to be rejected by the market.

> [snipped digression]

The long and short of it is, your acerbic opinion on what the market needed in 1998 differed greatly from what the market actually chose.

Now, you might make a different argument: that the user's should have chosen a better product.

But the argument you made was that the product made the wrong trade-offs when trading off security for existence.

To my my knowledge, there is no product in the world that makes the trade-off you suggest[1], which is what lead me to believe that you have never been part of a product development.

[1] Remember that even Microsoft made the "make it first, then make it secure" decision with almost their entire product line since the 80s. When the richest companies in the world are making this sort of decision and successfully delivering world-dominating products, there's no question of "Is Don wrong?", it's more a question of "When will Don realise it?"
We are running out of sand to make cement and concrete [1].

1: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313170-we-are-running-...
>> Consider STRIPS planning problems.

The thing to keep in mind in all these discussions about LLM planning and reasoning is that, when experts on planning and reasoning say that LLMs can't do planning and reasoning they have a very different, formal definition of those things in mind, than everybody else who hasn't studied them. Even some of the research papers on planning and reasoning with LLMs play very fast and loose with the use of those words and that's probably why there are so many positive results that later prove to be duds.

Now is probably a good time to re-educate computer scientists and AI researchers about planning and reasoning.

Wikipedia has a very short introduction to STRIPS planning:

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

And here's a more comprhensive, but still short, introduction to automated planning and scheduling in general:

http://www.spacebook-project.eu/pubs/CogSci-13.pdf
Discussed in 2021, but the possibility that the material wasn't fake didn't appear to be considered:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447471
Some code is a workflow automation software which makes life of developers easier. It is very easy to extend and it is free for personal use.

Added Telegram Send Audio action,
Added Telegram Send File action,
Added Telegram Send Photo action,
Added Telegram Send Video action,
Added Log Sorting,
Improved Setup Process,
Improved Google Indexing API action error handling,
Improved Pause action functionality,
Total Number of actions is 102
Just checked my .emacs and I am doing exactly the same. I prefer over C-x O since it is one key less to press and more flexible.
Because physical activity and menial work that allows the mind some down time are effective ways to reduce ADHD symptoms.
I'm not a golfer, but I'm always surprised by the scorn expressed for "golf carts" as local transport.

My brief interactions with even decades old, lead acid powered golf buggies was that they were a lot of fun to drive.

And I believe there are actually many communities were these are the go to solution.

I've also heard that golf carts with solar panels strapped to the roof are the latest thing in prepper circles.
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations
Yes, post Eurovision posting from a phone leads to devastating typos
The decimal point doesn't count as a segment.
Ask HN: Is there a need for a new Linux distro?
I think my favorite Corman film is Masque of the Red Death. A little slow and subdued, but a cool vibe.
Interesting how people believe some chemicals in the atmosphere could cause storms and floods but at the same time deny the possibility that much more carbon dioxide could change the climate.
It is true, but when it's not zero shot there's a possibility that you are introducing additional information with the example. As well, depending on the study there have been issues with effectively a 'halting' assistance where as long as it isn't getting it right it keeps on going until getting it right, which is effectively a post-selection bias.

But frankly this post reads like someone that doesn't understand much about CoT in the first place, let alone the various methods that have improved upon it since.

It reads like one of the ad nauseum "look at me use this tool poorly, clearly it's a poor tool" examples.

In general, I've noticed mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers tend to be very poor at evaluating LLMs because they just aren't very good at correctly identifying the scope and depth of what was modeled in the training data in the first place.

It's getting boring watching people foolishly try to evaluate things like "stack these clear blocks" (because that's something I regularly saw in social media posts) while glossing over or actively sabotaging the unbelievable modeling/simulating of much more complex and higher order critical reasoning behind various applications of things like empathy or psychological modeling.

For anyone reading this who wants to have a fun project, try creating two versions of a set of word puzzles with the same underlying logic structure. One where the problem and solution are using engineering-ish language like "clear blocks" and another using emotional/social language like "grieving friends."

Even as we wait for the next generation of models, there's a lot of people criminally underestimating and underutilizing the current models because they can't look beyond their own specialized domain languages.
> Fully automated luxury mansplaining

It's surprising to see gendered, pejorative language thrown around in an article that has nothing to do with gender.
Can quotations be hallucinated? Or are you using something like "deterministic quoting"[1]?

Disclosure: author on that work.

[1] https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
>> Far as I can tell, all this demonstrates is there's tasks that CoT doesn't work for (yet)?

What he says is that they can solve blocks world problems if you take them by the hand and show them how to do it, for every single problem you wan them to solve. Which is not very useful at all. He's arguing that this is what CoT achieves: it takes the LLM by the hand and introduces domain knowledge that the user has in every step of the way, so that it's not the LLM that's solving anything but the person using the LLM with CoT.

Do read the linked paper, it goes over this in more detail. It's a bit unfortunate that Rao chooses to communicate through the very noisy medium of twitter, but that's the internet.
23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
> I don't like videos tagged as "made for children" because videos tagged that way aren't able to be put in a playlist or "watch later" queues. That's a YouTube thing, but YouTube doesn't provide any additional views or promotion to have it tagged that way for educational videos like this.

Could this be YouTube trying to do something about toddlers getting hooked on videos, and then rabbit-holed into ever more non-child-safe stuff by the algorithm? There's been a bit of an "Internet Panic" about that recently. Or is this on the contrary (part of) the reason for the problem?
A closer look at training AI models using kids with GoPros
I would bet you X donuts that if you give me a novel and I’m allowed access to a corpus of all novels and other writing that running a similarity search on the embedded content of each would turn up a shocking number of matches. I’d bet dollars instead of donuts on the equivalent experiment with a web framework.
The problem is that it's not mentioned in the installation instructions, only in the tutorial.
they've since retracted that report... they've literally named the GRU unit behind it