skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, LLMs do not have a place to put "unknowns". You can train them to say "I don't know", but that doesn't come from a place of any sort of internal representation of the fact that they don't know. They don't know what they don't know, because they can't. There's nowhere for that information to be in their internal representations.

And that's because they are exactly what they say they are on the tin. They are Language Models. Why would we expect a Language Model to "know" things? And to especially know what they do not know? It's modelling Language, not Knowledge, and that is not just English word play, that is a true representation of the situation. They are called "Large Language Models" for good and real reasons.

The problem isn't on the LLM side. They're amazing technology. They just aren't amazing in the way we're trying to use them.

We need some sort of AI that is knowledge based, that uses LLMs to input and output text but is something other than an LLM. Human brains aren't just big LLMs either. I, of course, have no idea what that is. Identifying problems is much, much easier than identifying solutions.

Honestly, neural nets in general are structurally disinclined to ever say "I don't know" just by the way they work. Only a small percentage of humans ever really learn how to say "I don't know" in any significant context to any degree; we have a pretty big problem with that ourselves!

LLMs are not "AI"; that is, they are not all of AI, the only thing in AI, or the the final conclusion of AI. They're just a step. And as I've said before, I suspect that once we have the next step in AI, what we're going to find is that the correct amount of resources to dedicate to the LLM portion is actually a great deal smaller. LLMs are probably super hypertrophied for what they actually should be doing and I expect 2040 to look back at our era of thinking that LLMs alone could be "AI" in much the same way we look at the idea that everyone in the world would have a Segway or something.
The way I see it, blaming China is useless, as long as we behave the same, they gain too much to try changing.
Recent "Star Trek Picard" episode...

Data: We are going to die.

Geordi La Forge: Data...You are being negative again. Say something positive!

Data: I hope we die quickly!
Go on r/learnprogramming or r/programming and you will find plenty of people that claim that developing without AI assistant is no longer a thing, and it's boomers who insist on doing it the old way.

Of course I suspect they are 20 years old at most who never took part in a real project.
Brilliant project. So surprised at how well it could reason the various elements on the dashboard I built. And the one line summary feedback is hilarious:

"Ah, the classic 'make it look like it was done by a professional, but also make sure Karen from accounting can understand it' approach. Classic."
Of the countries mentioned above, yes, and China emits a lot less CO2 per capita than the USA:

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

However Russia emits almost as much CO2 per capita as the USA, and Canada and Australia may be slightly worse than the USA.

China has larger CO2 emissions per capita than most EU countries, which is interesting. I'd like to see a breakdown of where that CO2 comes from. Is it manufacturing, agriculture, transport, domestic use or what?
Yep, you are right, we are hoping that he would bring someone in to replace him afterwards. Or at least help us find someone. And with equity he would be invested into making this a success
I think a more significant problem is the rampant copyright violations. There was huge pressure on Google when they were showing snippets that were overly large, and/or answering queries in info boxes by itself instead of redirecting users to the source. I kinda remember even John Oliver had a segment about this.

And now (from the screenshots) they are just trying to show all information in an info box, not even bothering to mention which website it came from, much less link to it. It's going to rain hell.
I liked TPUV6 (as a name) way better..
AI doomers don’t even care about its harms today such as being used for automated American death panel decision-making, something that the Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation will recognize someday
All of which is well understood by anyone who release permissively licensed software?

If they didn’t accept that, they could have used a non-commercial license. If they expected contributions they could have sold a paid product.

I’d suggest not using others hard work as the basis for your argument. If it was your work and you regret it, say that. If you don’t like oracle, say that. Otherwise, people who contribute to FOSS software do so knowingly, yet you are trying to inject your own opinions of “public” vs whomever, as though you know better than those contributors own feelings and intentions.
It actually does both. The increase in CO2 causes temperature increase which is well documented in the literature. But increase in temperature also causes the release of CO2 which further increases the temperature.
That's assuming you're using it for spying.

A completely honest use of this is to track your car, (or other device with a USB port) in case of theft.

If I had one of the Kias or Hyundais that were easy to steal, I'd totally slip one of these into the car.
Indeed, this is what I was trying to say!
I asked chatgpt to tell me about the author of weborf (my bachelor thesis). It told me what it was correctly, and then claimed that some french guy had written it. The french guy does exist on github.
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What is the purpose of any division? A molecule of CO2 is fundamentally identical regardless of its country of origin. It's a worldwide problem, and ultimately our inability to cooperate as one world will be the undoing of us.
Are they?

Every AI use I have comes with a big warning.

The internet is full of lies and I still use it.
You can blame China all you want and nothing will change but if western countries buy less of their junk they'll need to adapt somehow
I believe big tobacco was required to fund those as part of a mass tort settlement.
If that someone was a law abiding bicyclist or pedestrian you can expect only a wrist slap.
This is shockingly accurate. Other than professional work, AI just has to learn how to respond to the individual's tastes and established beliefs to be successful. Most people want the comfort of believing they're correct, not being challenged in their core beliefs.

It seems like the most successful AI business will be one in which the model learns about you from your online habits and presence before presenting answers.
The comments section is an trash fire. Some people seem to be more than ready for the apocalypse to actually happen. What a sad state of affairs.
No, it is "natural" rise. If earth system itself contributes to carbon emmisions, we need to subtracted that from anthropogenic emmisions!

This is great news! Our efforts are actually paying off! Soon we will cut human emmisions to zero!

Also we should substract emmisions produced by other species like cows, dogs, cats.. And I have great business idea, where orangutan owns and operates coal plant, that is natural and should be substracted as well!!!

Not every CO2 molecule is produced by humans!!!!
Why? I enjoy the chaos. It will be fun when someone from corporate headquarters optimize by removing middle management and knowledge workers.

After all, what is the economy? Do you need meritocracy and capitalism? If you ask Sam, the most important thing is world control trough apparatchiks centralized government, CDBC, social rating, surveillance and obedience. This is the end goal.

Clearly, the quality and hallucinations of LLM's cannot be an obstacle towards the big goal of the corporate bosses. You think, this is something new? Think again. Some of us have suffered under communistic utopia. We know how it ends. It starts with big slogans: always for the people. It ends with: You will own nothing and you will be happy. Check the history, kids.:)
RLHF = nerfing and censorship

What, did you think the plebs would get access to the real deal?
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“Introduced in 2013, HBase was Pinterest’s first NoSQL datastore.”

I don’t think this is correct. When I started in late 2013 Redis was being used as a persistent data store. And what pain it was. I convinced leadership in late 2014 this was a bad and they had me keep it alive until it was replaced by MySQL in mid 2015.

HBase was nothing but pain at Facebook where it was supposed to replace MySQL and then Pinterest where… I think there was hope it would replace MySQL. Once I automated MySQL at Pinterest I think it wasn’t so bad, particularly given the absurdly limited staff they gave the problem.
I don’t know if LSE are obligated to follow laws in those countries, but they may add this disclaimer to help others who may be obligated to follow those laws?

Also I’m not in any of the jurisdictions mentioned, potentially there’s some kind of geoblocking on the document?
If a company has HBase and doesn't have anything else, then the developers will store everything in HBase due to lack of alternatives. They'll store logs in HBase, metrics in HBase, images in HBase.
Humans are also error plagued. AI just needs to beat them.
There is so much pressure to deliver “GenAI” numbers/success stories. Stuff conceived with evaluations as fundamental part of their design, become unrecognizable once it’s 2 steps outside of your ability to influence.

Bring up evaluation metrics and people go from enthusiastic discussions on RAG implementations, to that uncomfortable discussion where no one seems to have a common language or priors.

That said, the true injury is when someone sees the prototype and eventually asks “what are your usage numbers.”

Edit: Forgot this other pattern, the awkward shuffling as people reframe product features. Highly correlated with actual evaluation of their output quality.
Carrying around hubs and dongles defeats the very point of using a thin (read: portable) laptop. Most Windows "ultrabook" laptops have more than the Apple Certified Standard(tm) complement of connectivity. I'm using one right now, a 14" ASUS Vivobook, which has four USB ports (I wish it had more) and an HDMI port.

Adding more USB ports does not compromise the ultrabookness of a laptop. Ever. Ultrabooking is about portability, not about no motherfucking connections without motherfucking dongles.
Because it’s an excellent fit for some problems, but not so much for others. The ecosystem is definitely smaller and the flower quality compared to say, JavaScript, go, or Java. The performance of the virtual machine is definitely way off the JVM For general computation.
I'm part of the team that released Jovu and I must say: it's great!

AI has a lot of potential but too often is misused and mis-sold; for us, AI is the companion for your tasks, and when generating new APIs, it helps you save time by interacting with you in the most natural way possible, through conversation.

Try it out, it will help you generate new services, understand unclear areas of the product, answer any question you might have.
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What struck me about the northern lights video was that it showed the Milky Way crossing the sky behind the northern lights. That bright part of the Milky Way is visible in the southern sky but the aurora hugging the horizon like that indicates the viewer is looking north. (Swap directions for the southern hemisphere and the aurora borealis).
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There really is no good psychological equivalent.

About the best analogy I can come with is freestyle rapping where the genre requires that you just keep talking with minimal time to think.

An LLM isn't an intelligent being deciding to talk when it has something to say - it's an LLM - a text continuation machine - that will generate a word every time the generation scaffolding pushes the button. Just like the freestyle rapper, it doesn't have the option of not saying something just because it has nothing to say. It's "concerned" about flow (just keeping the sentence going), not content.
>is in no way "intelligent"

Please define the word intelligent in a way accepted by doctors, scientists, and other professionals before engaging in hyperbole or you're just as bad as the AGI is already here people. Intelligence is a gradient in problem solving and our software is creeping up that gradient in it's capabilities.
I disagree. They are not just text generators. LLMs are increasingly being multimodal they can hear and see.

We humans are also text generators based on text content. What we read and listen to influences what we write.

Llms are intelligent at least as us humans, they can listen, read, see, hear and communicate. With the latest additions they can also recall conversations.

They are not perfect. Main limitations are computing power available for each request and model size.

Have you tried Claude Opus 3 or GPT 3.5 or Gemini?

Microsofts copilot is dumb (I think they are resource constrained). I encourage everyone to try at least the 2-3 major LLMs before giving a judgement.
So people would rather read a ton of bullshitty "we're a family but unfortunately, the times are tough, you know, we wish this wasn't necessary and we'll be terribly sad to see you go" hogwash?
And before they start panicking, they should see this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.svg

The XKCD comic starts at the coldest moment in history known to mankind.
my longterm homelab of ESXi 6.x on Intel NUC with unlimited license hack recently blew up (repeated power surges, no UPS). went with Intel NUC again but proxmox instead for the rebuild and its been a dream so far. i don't miss ESXi or Vmware in general one bit.
In other words, never tell anyone that you know Perl.
I use a block cursor for visual mode & a thin cursor for insert mode so I'd prefer something like that, either changing to a text field cursor in solve mode or maybe adding a underline so that it looks like it's a one character input field in the cell. But color works too! I saw the status bar indicator but it felt a bit distracting that I had to look away from the grid every time to confirm that I'm in the right mode
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I read said blog post. The future you dream of would require, at minimum, vastly improved privacy laws and freedom of identity.
BRR is not promoting harder tyres to lower CRR. What it lets you do is compare CRR across different tyres at similar pressures. Generally, wider tyres with lower pressure gives better CRR than narrower tyres at high pressure.

Happily, this is also more comfortable.
It's called branded because the article is talking about branded types a way to enable nominal typing inside the structural typing system of Typescript.

Saying "nominal type" wouldn't mean anything.
I don't know. I can only speak of germany and my subjective feeling and I don't think it's as bad as people want it to be. Yes we have hard times, but come on, we still live in luxury.
The choice to start at 2000 BC is interesting, because as soon as you zoom out more, the story completely changes:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356606430/figure/fi...

https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_widt...

Randall chose one of the lowest point every in the history of earth as the "baseline". We are still in one of the coldest period ever for earth.
The recent rise of temperature is significant, but not unprecedented. Before we reach a point that one could qualify as a "hot earth", we would need to warm up by an additional 10 to 15 C°
Literally no company who is using "ai" in the education space (my field) talks about hallucination or errors.

In fact, many sell their product as hallucination free.
Good time to talk about the rPi alternatives?
We have a not quite and ally fighting a war, I'm sure they will take a donation of 10 missiles and one will go off course from a nearby military target [wink wink] and hit this address for us.
It took me so long to fully appreciate TypeScript's design decision for doing structural typing vs. nominal typing. In all scenarios, including the "issue" highlighted in this article there is no reason for wanting nominal typing.

In this case where the wrong order of parameters was the issue, you can solve it with [Template Literal Types](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/template-lite...). See [1].

And for `hash.toUpperCase()`, it's a valid program. TypeScript is not designed to stop you from using string prototype methods on... strings!

It's more pronounced in object types that some library authors don't want you to pass an object that conforms to the required shape and insist on passing result of some function they provide. e.g. `mylib.foo(mylib.createFooOptions({...})`. None of that is necessary IMO

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/MYewdgzgLgBA5gUzA...
The public isn’t outraged. It’s mostly journalists and a tiny vocal minority.

Its as ridiculous as saying Microsoft is support terrorism because they use computers running windows.

You bring up a good point about regulators though. That probably is the most credible danger,
"Productization". You mean "enshitification".
I imagine it will happen when heatwaves and droughts start to be a serious issue.
Not once some of them incorporate hallucinating AI into important products and services.
The Google I/O keynotes yesterday most definitely ignored the problem - it wasn't acknowledged once, and many of the demos they showed are a lot less impressive when you consider the hallucination risk.
I like the brevity of this blog post, but it's work noting that this mostly feels like a workarounds for Typescript not supporting any form of nominal typing or "opaque type" like in Flow.
Sounds like a challenge for which our species is well suited.
In practice, there's a difference between a hypothetical probabilistic death rate, and real people / news stories.
See Honey the Bear's "Metagame" hypothesis. https://adriantchaikovsky.com/dogs-of-war-series.html#anchor...
Eh, maybe for some. Alcohol has anti-anxiety effects and "loosens" me up. Cannabis has a pretty good track record of making me anxious, even in small amounts. And while it can make me feel comfortable just chilling out, it's not the same sort of mental relaxation and it doesn't work as a social lubricant.

(All of this is obviously just for me. Well aware that different things affect different people...differently.)
> “Our research identified the fastest rates of past natural CO2 rise ever observed, and the rate occurring today, largely driven by human emissions, is 10 times higher.”

They are investigating historical trends. (They are then comparing their findings to modern trends.)
Just C is set to a high enough value, including personal penalties and imprisonment for any executives who failed to stop this decision (including the failure to setup reporting to hear about such decisions).
But you’re allowed to destroy in a different function. How does the compiler recognize which ID the variable has?

Also, consider:

for i in range(100):
array[i] = mylinearvariable
for j in range(100):
x=complicated(j)
destroy array[x]

In this case it seems potentially extremely difficult for the compiler to know statically that the array will be empty in the end.
Surgeons are using robots that are far beyond fly by wire though, to the point that you could argue they're instructing the robots rather than controlling them.
Yep. For example https://www.livemint.com/Politics/c3M3xstHMkuHMzQ5uw9OFI/Fal... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory
> Likewise the view that human minds are the same kind of things as LLMs cannot be disproven until we have a sufficient understanding of how human minds work

This seems pretty backwards to me. Why should this speculative view need to be disproven rather than proven?

Sure, LLMs do some things kind of like some things human minds can do. But if you put that on a Venn diagram, the overlap would be miniscule.

There's also the plain observation that LLMs are made of silicon and human minds are made of neurons- this from this you might reasonably start with the assumption that they are in fact extremely different, and the counterclaim is the one needing evidence!
Compared to most cancer-related findings, this seems clear, simple and easy to replicate / disprove. Hopefully quickly, as it'd be a huge win for humanity.
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I would guess that it will vanish when someone comes up with a similar feedback mechanism that is better aligned with the performance characteristics of the powertrain.
a Rust and WASM development environment with Nix
I'm a total noob in this area of research but is trying to jam all human knowledge into these models the correct approach?

Would a lightweight multimodal model integrated with a knowledge engine like Wolfram alpha or databases of source material be a better approach?

I'm optimistic. The amount of attention this area is getting is insane.
Respectfully, I think we cracked basic intelligence. What do you imagine under basic intelligence?

LLMs can do homeworks, pass standardized exams, give advice WITHOUT ANY SPECIFIC TRAINING.

You can invent an imaginary game, explain the rules to the LLM and let it play it. Just like that.

You can invent an imaginary computer language, explain the syntax to the LLM and it will write you valid programs in that language. Just like that.

If that is not intelligent I do not know what is. In both cases, the request you put in is imaginary, exists only in your head, there are no previous examples or resources to train on.
At least bears have "hands", I seem to remember crows pose a similar challenge, defeating garbage can locks that could be straight out of a Myst puzzle.

Positive that a non-negligible portion of the human population would be hopelessly challenged by such contraptions.
Probably 95% of raspberry pis are sitting unused on a shelf, so it was was an excellent choice to make these boards lower cost w/ microSD cards.
It is very much the latter, fueled by self-righteous conviction that is indignant at the mere idea of nuance.
I don't expect perfection, far from it, and I find AI very useful.

That's not unlike the internet, my coworkers, lots of things and I still work with all of them.

Side note: People talk about AI's mistakes all the time. That article title is a hallucination.
This is a really cool resource! I have been wanting to make a device that uses an sink display for learning purposes for a long time, but I don’t know where to even start with that since I’ve only ever worked on software. This looks like it will help quite a bit with some of that learning.
I especially like the point number 4. A lot of our plan would be hinging on him. And if things go wrong, it would be super painful and difficult to recover.

He wants to be a lead investor too. He just wants to be more than just an angel investor and help us.
So we are thinking of taking some of the investment for X% and then suggesting a vesting schedule based on ARR. Like the e1g said in the comment below. 2% for every 100k ARR up to 10%
does not work

just fails
Isn't there a risk with this approach that you may receive input with a repeated prefix when there's a variable of type `string` and the prefix is prepended to satisfy the type checker without checking if the prefix already exists?
> it was determined that there was no reasonable accommodation that would enable you to perform the essential functions of your position in your role.

This seems a bit much. I expect to receive something like this if I failed an interview. Not when I am getting layoff.