skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of axioms. LLMs are by definition "biased" in their weights; training is biasing. Now the stated goal of biasing these models is towards "truth", but we all know that's really biasing towards "looking like the training set" (tl;dr, no not verbatim). And who's to say the advertising industry-blessed training material is not the highest standard of truth? :)
I disagree, I think the distinction is quite clear.
No financial incentive or relationships to disclose, just a satisfied user: I found that SuperMaven was a better “coding copilot”. If you happen to use VSCode I’d check that one out this afternoon.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 states:

> It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer -

> (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or

> (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Google Wave for the web has been one of the more popular ways to describe Muddy. I didn't see it at first, but I'll take it :)
All you're saying you don't (actually) believe in free will, philosophically.

People who do believe in free will make an argument that regardless of the input state, the individual always has a choice what course they take, and is responsible for those decisions.

So for example, if someone chooses to be a concentration camp guard or a capo vs be a prisoner and be murdered - that is their choice, and they are responsible for it.

If free will exists.

It's a rather fundamental philosophical question, actually.

Because those concentration camp guards and capos did pretty evil things, which were also (in their circumstances) often the least 'bad' thing for them. Which enabled evil at a truly massive scale against others because of those other peoples upbringings/genetics.

And those prisoners (most of which had no choice in the matter) mostly ended up dead, and stopped having much of a say in the matter.

This is why it's an important philosophical debate. Because if people play out a script based on their circumstances/upbringing/genetics and have no actual choice in the matter (philosophically), then isn't punishing those guards and capos essentially doing the same thing to them that they did to those prisoners? Hurting them due to factors outside of their (actual) control, even up to murder?

And if we think that upbringing/genetics was a major factor in creating that sort of destructive evil, doesn't that open up the possibility of tracking down and killing/punishing other people based on their upbringing/genetics? Regardless of any individual choices they had made? In this example, other potential concentration camp guards and capos - though it would play out as relatives and those with similar genetic traits and upbringings?

Which then creates the circumstances exactly that was at the root cause of the Holocaust to begin with? Namely, assigning 'goodness' and 'badness' based on some general attribute (ethnicity aka genetics/upbringing, sexual orientation, etc.) that cannot be changed or chosen, and NOT a persons choices (aka did they commit a crime knowing good vs bad)?
>The Dune solution would be to take control over the media which is why we see television studios as initial targets to be seized during any coup or revolution.

Looks at billionaires buying media outlets. Huh.
Seems a lot of comments here are basically saying "calm down, it's just an ad."

If these are "just" ads (meaning they aren't a big deal) then why are millions spent on them? Why are Super Bowls ads an event all their own?

Maybe read up on some early figures in effective propaganda and advertising such as Edward Bernays. Watch The Century of the Self. Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more vast cultural conditioning. The boiling frog...

It's not "just" an ad and thankfully some people are applying critical thought and criticism against it. Why that bothers so many here might also be telling. Why are you being triggered?
That behavior is so distasteful. Heard that story more than once and it sickens me to think how much impact a rescinded job offer could have on someone’s life. What if someone moved, quit a good job, etc all on a broken promise. Even better when the job market feels comparatively weak.
Even hear an idea from another person? You just trained one model with another.
Parents are going to choose these things for their kids though?
I tried to create a logarithmic widget for the web for anyone to grab. I like logarithmic interfaces — think there are probably a lot of uses for them.

I don't exactly know what I am doing when I venture into Javascript and web stuff but here you go:

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule

There's a demo page off the link above. It's a janky Ohm's Law calculator. (The top slider & text field are read-only, BTW.)
Yeah I don't get this argument either. It's like people are still stuck in micro-benchmark-land. Sub-1ms responses are the norm in Phoenix and I tend to never get anything above 100µs for LiveView messages, sure, they're noops, but calling it slow is .. well, strange.

Sure, you don't want to do number crunching in pure Elixir, but I'm always curious as to the actual needs people have, once being one of the "performance is everything" kind of developers myself.
Why Entry-Level Job Requirements Feel Absurd [video]
Where's your evidence that the market has been even attempting to solve the problem of people (such as Musk) holding multiple C-suite positions simultaneously? I've seen no such evidence. If anything it seems to be supporting it, given that Tesla shareholders seem primed to vote on giving Musk 50 billion USD.
Yeah, unfortunately there's no real way to deliver on a consumer experience on top of another browser. Craziest implementation I can think of is writing a MacOS app that's a wrapper, but obvious distribution/compatibility issues there.
Man this is some tea leaf reading nonsense I'll tell you hwhat.
I'm not sure about more sensitive, but I know the immune system (which cleans up a lot of pre-cancerous cells before they become a problem) is much less active in the eyeball, so it probably pays to have extra defense against cell damage.
I don't know the burden is as big as you imagine. I used to run a torrent site that was 99% recorded shows through capture and we still had every single broadcast show uploaded within minutes -- and no uploaders were getting paid, they were just bored and doing it for the Internet points.

edit: also to add, we would get employees at the studios send us discs with the new shows before release, but I had agreements with at least one studio to not allow uploads until after broadcast if we received any of their media
Sure, but if we're talking about replacing machine parts, I'm not sure how far welding will get you. You need to be able to machine custom metal parts, for parity with basic 3d printing capability.
"Identify a true statement about 'Twinkies' to prove you are not a bot."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
Wow! There is a great gag in latest Star Trek where Spock reveals that Vulcans need to medically suppress their smell near humans because we just stink to their sensitive noses.
You seem to have stood up a lightning rod in a thunderstorm. Didn't flag it, but also it's paywalled so didn't upvote it either.
Ah yeah I fixed this exact bug in net-http in Ruby core a decade ago.
I’m ready for open source AI
It sounds like a common answer from Tier 1 support, to make you go away.
At the same level, it's worth considering the effect on society. Western society (and increasingly global society) has grown a lot more accommodating for certain disabilities because it is understood that the condition was not the person's choice and cannot be fixed. But if the condition is capable of being cured/managed with no serious side effects, and the cures are easily accessible, what is the right amount of effort society should put into being accommodating?

These are all difficult questions, but it feels like we're going to eventually have to put aside our well founded fears over eugenics and confront these serious questions properly. For instance, many places offer the option to test fetuses/parents for markers of serious genetic disease and offer the option to terminate the pregnancy with the argument that the child would either not be viable or would have a horrible quality of life. On one hand this sounds reasonable, on the other hand it's pretty much a level of eugenics.
They took a billion dollar investment from Microsoft lol. You don't get to just to whatever you want if people are giving you that kind of cash.
Ask HN: How can I advertise my open source project for almost no money
I have an open source stock trading journal https://stjou.com/ that I personally use, but I can't get anyone else to try/use it.

What are your tips on marketing open source apps?

How can I figure out WHY people aren't using it? Is it ugly? Do people not trust it?

Any advice on how to get this in front of people that trade stocks ?

Thanks HN
Chasing each of his citations of George suggests he's taking them way out of context. The bit about farmers kids staying on the farm is in a section about whether his idea would hurt farmers, for example.
Sad and fascinating case of FDA standards for app engineering (e.g., app version validation and feature flags) to avoid this bizarre "register in the online form" situation.

Also an interesting opportunity for Apple to allow potential guards for certain SIG services from DDoSing themselves.
I don't follow. You (correctly) say UUID is 128 bits, but then talk about 64 bits being prone to collision.
I mean I get why. The fear is that non-Christian audiences wouldn't care, and fundamentalists would find it blasphemous. I would love a movie of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but we're not gonna get it. Who would make it? Martin Scorsese? Paul Schrader? The Coen Brothers?

Actually, those are all good ideas. But other than Scanner Darkly, Dick's work has mostly attracted people interested in the pulpy science fiction ideas and not so much the existentialism and the critiques of mainstream religion. It's a bummer.
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This is the first one with real traction and retention, so it's the first time we started to share on HN. Wanted to make sure it was GA and not a waitlist before we came here
> Kinda like the other famous holocaust survivor who is funding a lot of the college campus protests

Seriously? You have been accusing me of anti-semitism but now you play straight into a harmful and anti-semitic conspiracy theory about George Soros, with hints to another very damaging and equally anti-semitic conspiracy theory about Cultural Marxism.

For what it is worth, George Soros does not fund any of the student movements responsible for the pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide encampments. One of the charities he helps fund has awarded grants to two student organization which the New York Post has claimed (but now proven) to be involved in the protests[1]. This is several degrees of separations, and the link is on flaky grounds.

Kapos’ interview above was excellent. He describes visiting another holocaust survivor [T=00:05:17] in Israel and being shocked at how racist she was:

> Yet she came back to Israel, and she was as racist as the rest of them, against the Palestinians.

> I think this has to do with the extreme propaganda, and the dehumanization. Zionism was a very unfortunate and sad development for the Jewish people. It broke a much longer tradition of always being on the side of the oppressed, not the oppressor. And the charitable nature of Judaism and the humanity they advocate, into a kind of exceptionalism and nationalism. And in practical terms the impossible project of taking over another people’s country.

> So when I visited them—that was my first brush of Zionism—I was completely shocked—despite their experiences during the Holocaust—they were racist, against the Palestinians. I couldn’t understand it, and I can’t understand it, but they were, and there is no denying it. And I found that racism was prevailing generally in Israel. And I turned strongly against that.

1: https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/may/02/fact-checking...
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> A. A day is divided into a fixed number of smaller units.

> B. Each smaller time unit is of a fixed physical duration

This just gave me Timecube flashbacks
I'm reading it like the hedonist's treadmill. Why be happy with a 6 figure salary when there's people with 7 figure salaries? Are you content with your current situation, or are you missing a part of what it means to be human by not having better eyesight, better teeth, better hearing?

I think what OP was referring to was how rich the lives of the deaf can be, and how discouraging it might be to hear "y'know, you're not /really/ experiencing life until you can hear"
https://archive.is/tlUQh
I don't disagree with you, but I'm unaware (naive?) of any other species farming/enslaving/capturing hordes of another species and effectively torturing them the way humans do

Being suddenly killed by a lion is a rather short torture/cruel experience compared to what humans do at larger and larger scales. I think animals even have a mechanism that I forget the name of that spares them a lot of the pain involved in such a situation (adrenaline, "going into shock", etc)

I really do wish I/we could do something to be less cruel but everything seems driven by profit margins and that makes it rather difficult/impossible. They're outlawing 'lab grown' meat! :|

(I eat meat, but I don't feel good about it when I think about it)
Palantir Supplies Israel with New Tools Since Hamas War Started
It's been amazing to me how much it helps to use a cooling towel around my neck.
I knew the question wouldn't catch on :)
Really couldn't find anything in Google, guys
Investing in Wiz
Palantir Official Jacob Helberg Stokes Fears of TikTok, China
Oh, don't get me wrong, I have zero faith in capitalism. After all, that's the entire reason we're in this situation.

However, market forces are actually very real. They just don't work the way capitalists think they do. Or rather, capitalists are convinced they can control the market through technology. Unfortunately for them, this is a technology that can't be solved or controlled.
This is more like buying amazon reviews instead of earning them. Much more insidious than product placement
.
> No, they're people who own more private property than they need so they can make money off doing nothing from someone else's need for shelter

What do you think about farmers, grocery store owners, restaurant owners, etc? And hospitals, pharmaceuticals companies, etc?

> If everyone had a home, there wouldn't be a housing market

Who will build your house? You can't expect someone to build a house and give it to you for free, right, so what the builder will earn from that?
Llama3 and Claude also work well, they're good at different types of code and problem solving. The only thing ChatGPT does clearly better than the rest is infer meaning from poorly worded/written prompts.
Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter
The main reason is that GPT-4 is still significantly better than everything else.

Time will tell if OpenAI will be able to retain the lead in the race, though. While there's no public competing model with equal power yet, competitors are definitely much closer than they were before, and keep advancing. But, of course, GPT-5 might be another major leap.
Isn't all/most their training data copyrighted anyways?

We just have to say it's fair use, because it is useful to everyone. Maybe just require them to open their model.
Can't it have "if payload is 1 byte (or less than X) then wait, otherwise don't" condition?
Well on the bright side, if the AI is busy being a salesman trying to make their quota then it may not have time to destroy humanity.
Is there a list of supported languages?
The right question is "Why would anyone use chatgpt". The answer is https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.

Slanting this towards a specific brand doesn't change that much. Some yes, but not that much.
Neat! Any sample website we can visit to see this in action? Or did I missed it in the page above?
They are getting ready for the inevitable copyright wars.
Amtrak just added a new train from Minneapolis to Chicago to fix this exact issue as delays on the Empire Builder tend to be worst in the plains/mountains, so hopefully you can give them another chance: https://www.amtrak.com/borealis-train
Sure, not having to spin up a separate server is nice, but this aspect is underappreciated, imo. We eliminated a whole class of errors and edge cases at my day job just by switching the event enqueue to the same DB transaction as the things that triggered them. It does create a bottleneck at the DB, but as others have commented, you probably aren't going to need the scalability as much as you think you do.
That's exactly what Yann LeCunn @ Meta is fighting against, and it seems Mark Zuckerberg has his back.
I am also aware the Xilinx sets their own clock specs annoyingly conservatively, and I think they do it to preserve device lifetime or something similar. However, I did want to clarify whether you were overvolting these things or just raising the clock frequency.

I have run into issues where you do get a dud FPGA that is just a lot slower than other FPGAs of its speed bin (it must have come from the edge of the wafer or something), and debugging that is pretty annoying.
> We can see that in this case, where perhaps the X axis represents "more cat" and Y axis "more dog", using the euclidean distance (i.e. physical distance length), a pitbull is somehow more similar to a Siamese cat than a "dog", whereas intuitively we'd expect the opposite. The fact that a pitbull is "very dog" somehow makes it closer to a "very cat". Instead, if we take the angle distance between lines (i.e. cosine distance, or 1 minus angle), the world makes sense again.

Typically the vectors are normalized, instead of what's shown in this demonstration.

When using normalized vectors, the euclidean distance measures the distance between the two end points of the respective vectors. While the cosine distance measures the length of one vector projected onto the other.
While it took Google 25 years to enshitify, this cycle will probably last 10 times less than that.
Its not impossible, but its definitely difficult. There is some overlap in the methods used to detect benchmark data contamination, though its not entirely the same thing. For the detection use case, you already know the text you're looking for and you are just trying to demonstrate that the model has "seen" the data in its training set. The challenge is proving that it is statistically improbable that the model could stochastically generate the same tokens without having seen them during training.

Some great research exists in this area [1] and I expect much of it may be repurposed for black box attribution in the future (in addition to all the work being done in the mechanistic interpretability field)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04850
Can tech reduce civilian deaths in conflict? Mark Milley isn't so sure
I feel the same. I did it once and had a big experience, but I just can my talk myself into believing it’s safe.
> A llm is biased by design

Everything is biased. The problem is when that bias is hidden and likely to be material to your use case. These leaked deals definitely qualify as both hidden and likely to be material to most use cases whereas more random human biases or biases inherent in accessible data may not.

> non-consensual incorporation of openly available data problematic; this is an obvious alternative option

A problematic alternative to an alleged injustice just moves the problem, it’s not a true resolution.

> there is transparency laws in most jurisdictions for that already and I don't see why OpenAI would not honour them

Hostile compliance is unfortunately a reality so this ought to give little comfort.
Greenmask. PostgreSQL database anonymization tool release
I can think of many uses for a capacitor with close-to-battery energy density. The cap properties (endurance & high charge / discharge rates) are pretty useful in some applications.
"People" seem to use Reddit/Instagram/TikTok even though at least half of it is spam.

How does anyone know if a question on how to fix something or tutorial is not recommending specific solutions or products based on someone paying for that recommendation?
A sampling of PRs looks pretty good code-wise, but the commit messages/descriptions don't. They just summarize the changes done (something that can be gleaned from the diff) but don't give context or rationale around why the changes were necessary.
yen an pound are at historic lows vs dollar.
Dollar vs euro is at historic average.
Let me guess, you'an Austrian/freshwater econ fan. Know theres a problem and what it is before you see the patient.
What this guy has achieved with Circle is nothing short of incredible! Writing an entirely new compiler (even if it's "just" a front-end to LLVM) and giving a concrete demonstration of a borrow checker for a beast of a language like C++ is crazy (considering that he received zero help from anyone but himself).

However, I'm afraid that the ISO C++ group is not ready for his proposal. We're talking about a committee which has stubbornly and consistently shown that they are willing to sacrifice safety and ergonomics in the name of backward compatibility. The introduction of a borrow checker is a huge change that will get shut down because someone somewhere is unwilling to rewrite their (often broken) code and/or compile their binaries again.
He is out of the ordinary for sure and a very smart person. But I still think that taking a more Hylo-like path to safety would be nicer and would complicate things less.

FWIW, with Hylo you would rely on value semantics, you would not need Rust-style full-blown borrow checks with viral annotations, which is what he has been implementing and you would get rid of any kind of view types for parameter passing. You would just pass values.

I really think that is the path forward to bet on.

For whoever thinks Hylo is too new or experimental, it is not the language itself what is important but what C++ can learn from it. Hylo is based in experience implementing Swift by Dave Abrahams, Generic programming from Alex Stepanov and value semantics and structural polymorphism and value semantics and related work from Sean Parent.

So even if the implementation itself is not so advanced, it is just a natural evolution of all things I just named here which have a track record of like 30 years at least in total with a lot of generic code and value semantics lessons and runtime polynorphism lessons learned.
Altman should have taken equity if this is the route.