skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't answer your question because it is ridiculous flame bait.

As for "interventionist". My wife is a doctor. Do you know her #1 complaint about patients? Simple:

They don't do what they are told. They don't take their meds. They come back a month or two later with the same issues and still refuse to do as they are told.

So, yeah, losing weight (that's not her practice) isn't easy. However, losing weight using a pill isn't at all equivalent to being healthy. Not even close. The root causes were not dealt with and the damage cause by what got you there was never repaired. In other words, negative health effects, long term addiction to a fake non-solution and who knows what future consequences.

It is absolutely astounding to me to see people actually argue for this shit.

Simple thought experiment: If we banned all processed foods (painting with a wide brush here) for six months to a year, almost the entire population would shrink to healthier body composition, get healthier, have less inflammatory disease, need less healthcare and live a better life.

The problem is the food.
Your response should be broken into 2 parts:

PART A) Pre-Contemplation: Your thoughts about the given task and its context.
These internal thoughts will be displayed in part 1 and describe how you
take the task and get the solution, as well as the key practices and
things you notice in the task context. You will also include the following:
- Any assumptions you make about the task and the context.
- Thoughts about how to approach the task
- Things to consider about the context of the task that may affect the solution
- How to solve the task

PART B) The Solution: the answer to the task.

I’ve been keeping track od my prompt stuff here: https://christianadleta.com/prompts
Just learn Cyrillic. It’s easy and takes less time than figuring out font hacks
> > [Terminal m]ultiplexers add unnecessary overhead, suffer from a complexity cascade, because they actually have to translate escape codes, modifying them in hackish ways to get them to work with their concepts of windows/sessions. […]

So... like how a terminal emulator translates escape codes, modifying them in hackish ways to get them to work with X's/Wayland's/users' concepts of windows/sessions? :)

Obviously that's not an apples to apples comparison but really, while that may make it more complex and slightly buggier I don't see how that makes it bad.

> I find myself typing out “tmux” as the first command I run. Because it’s always going to be there, and it does the one thing I actually need it to no matter what: Let me run multiple shells at once, without SSHing in multiple times

I don't understand why people hate opening up another SSH session. If you're really worried about the 10 seconds it might take, you can easily configure it to take more like 1:

-M Places the ssh client into “master” mode for connection shar‐
ing. Multiple -M options places ssh into “master” mode but
with confirmation required using ssh-askpass(1) before each op‐
eration that changes the multiplexing state (e.g. opening a new
session). Refer to the description of ControlMaster in
ssh_config(5) for details.

The only reason I ever use screen is for persistence, the multi-windows is just a secondary feature.

(Since when is tmux "always going to be there"?)
This account is private

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> Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load

My God, what have we done
I'll never understand this "aesthetic" argument. Are those cities really so pretty to avoid using something that naturally comes to mind? Sun, warm, makes things dry, just use it.
The motivating examples read like nonsense to me. (I don't really speak Rust, but I think I'm reading them correctly? I don't know.) They seem to be saying that 1 + 1,000,000 = 1,000,000; or 1 + 100,000,000 is 16,777,216? With no remark? That's not right even for 32-bit floats.
Nonsense. The majority of my capitalist friends who own businesses work their asses off to build a company that reliably generates a 15-20% operating margin and then spend the rest of their career making sure nothing and nobody breaks their cash generating machine. The only people I know chasing returns far beyond the rate of inflation are VC-backed and private equity-owned businesses, where the parent firm is competing with other investment firms.
I’m really tired by FUD spread by Signal’s executives when they literally do not care about usability or client side security;

- if you use iOS, and actually use signal (with history on and everything) transferring to a new phone is a multi-hour amount of work and is not trivial. You need to 1) turn off auto lock, which you may not be able to thanks to MDM. 2) scan QR code and wait hours for data transfer (dependent on your history size).

This means that if you brick your device, trade it in, or whatever, you can’t actually restore your chat history. This entire model is unnecessary and there’s plenty of ways to improve this.

- on Linux devices, and possible more (not an issue on macOS) the chat history is stored in a flat file owned by your user. I’m not going to sit here and say the keyring provided by your DE/WM is great, but it should still be used here. Mainly because as those keyrings improve, the rising tide improves everything else. As it stands today, literally any application running as user level permissions can read your signal encryption keys. You don’t even really have a way to rotate those keys.

Signal, please. I want to like you. Please focus on usability and actual security instead of the constant hit pieces against telegram. It just looks petty. It also looks like you’re angry that telegram’s crypto is actively taking off while yours failed.
I'm offput by the visual clutter myself. Please share the config to get over it.
Makes me curious what the signal to noise is there. Maybe it's more misleading than helpful, or maybe the opposite
I am glad that you think it an excellent point!

I think that this might be a nice way of getting round my objection, but there is one worry, which is that X is relative to a distribution on the questions we ask when we aren’t dealing with Encyclopedia Eric but with an LLM. I don’t actually use LLMs very much myself, partly out of arrogance and Luddite tendencies. But I suspect that the value of X for some sorts of questions (simple quiz questions, maybe?) and some LLMs (maybe not Google’s) will be high enough to end up in the murky case.

Of course, both you and I agree that there /is/ clearly a difference. I can see the attraction of appealing to the intuitive or pretheoretic notion of knowledge, since it’s a fairly straightforward way of stating the difference and it’s not obvious how else one might put it (I suppose ‘LLMs don’t explicitly think through the facts stored when deciding what to say’ is one way of putting it.)

I remember some time ago rather sleepily watching John Hawthorne talk about conditionals; my sole memory was of his banging on about ‘the little logician in the brain’ (I think the point was something like: some conditionals seem [in]felicitous in virtue of form because the little logician in the brain is reading them; others seem infelicitous because we examine them more closely and look e.g. at the referents involved, in which case e.g. Gricean considerations apply). One difference at least in the case of LLMs that makes sense to me is that there is no ‘little logician’ in LLMs.
So...every Reddit post?
These devices are a lot like the cooling towers on ancient and modern Persian buildings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
Is there anything that can get this to replace the results from the default Android search bar?
This is not a serious reply.
You put ten of them in a row. Click through to the PDF. "50 kW system of 10 units occupying 50 m"
It's just a lenticular display. Same as the Nintendo 3ds back in the day.
vec![1.0; 1_000_000_000] is Rust notation for an array that contains 1.0 one billion times. I can understand it's a bit confusing/frustrating if you're unfamiliar with Rust syntax, sorry.
The human may also be... wrong. Saying things that "feel right", except this one time they're factually wrong.

A human can explain their reasoning step by step, if the original reasoning was a System 2, formal, step-by-step process in the first place; otherwise, they're just making shit up after the fact, which feels right, but may or may not be correct (see also the previous paragraph).

Note that it's very rare anyone has an interaction with a human that uses this mode of reasoning - it's unnecessary except in special circumstances, usually math-heavy.
You need to live near a population centre to find them, that's true. It's the same reason other minority groups such as homosexuals urbanized so quickly.
I think it's okay to break some legacy libraries. they can either fix themselves or fade away

better to lose a few libraries to modernization than the whole language community
The world only ends once
Please post the talk if and when a video becomes available!
Yeah, as a Canadian who grew up in this time, it's comical to hear people talk about 5% THC levels in weed. The only time I've experienced something like that was down in Arcata when someone gave me some Mexican brick weed.
“ This account doesn’t exist” usually means that the account doesn’t exist or the account has been deactivated (this can be done by the user or forcibly by Twitter).

Permanently “Suspended”/banned accounts show a different message, something along the lines of “ Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Rules”
Sounds like social coaching has all the attributes of an untapped business niche. The question is, if there is just a obvious pain, why there is such a shortage of solutions. I think it could be because of the stigma associated with this issue or because people affect by it lack genuine interest in solutions as people are usually happy to pay for all kinds of self-improvements.
Crosstalk or other interference coupled from the outside into the line. The telco grade twisted pairs do not really behave like twisted pairs (that cancel out the external coupling) at the frequencies used by xDSL.
Odd mix of business, design, and technical implementation details here.

I feel kind of lost as to what the goal of the game was. Spending money for advertisement for a free game that you think people should play for 20 minutes and also looking at things like retention. Why?
"The brevity part is seemingly completely ignored. The lecturing part is hit or miss. The suggestions part I still usually have to coax it into giving me."

It is a next symbol generator. It lacks subtlety.

All of your requirements are constraints on output. Most of the work on this thing will concentrate on actually managing to generate an output at all, let alone finesseing it to your taste!

ChatGPT is a tool with abilities and constraints, so treat it as such. Don't try to get it to fiddle with its outputs.

Ask it a question and then take the answer. You could take the answer from a question and feed it back, requesting changes according to your required output.

You are still the clever part in this interchange ...
Yes, I like to use a backtick (`). Pretty nice except when typing in markdown, where I need to type a double backtick for each backtick.
What does far away from infrastructure mean? You have to fly in barrels of fuel once a month?
Your comment is orthogonal to the quality of the AskHistorians subreddit. AskHistorians' moderation tends towards curating posts following the rules rather than content. There's often competing narratives on questions where there's academic dispute of facts.

Regardless of whether you think that's the right approach to moderation, top level posts are sourced and can at least be examined. It's a marked improvement over the unsourced musings of random Redditors.
St Germaine !
Related:

Never use a warning when you mean undo (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33721930 - Nov 2022 (85 comments)

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150361 - Jan 2011 (83 comments)

Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746 - July 2007 (10 comments)
Antitrust Enforcers to Break Up Ticketmaster and End the "Ticketmaster Tax"
Yeah. Also happens to clash with my preferred window manager's prefix key (ratpoison).
It was most likely a scintillating scotoma, a kind of visual aura associated with migraine.
The migraine can come without headache, in which case I’ve heard it’s called retinal migraine. I had a similar experience, also thought I had a stroke. Went to the ER where they did MRI and then referred me to an ophthalmologist which immediately recognized what I described. I’ve had it a few times since, mostly during periods of high stress and bad sleep. Nothing to worry about once you know what it is.
That makes things make a lot more sense, thanks!

Kind of unfortunate that that syntax is so trivial to misread, but it is what it is.
Thanks - it seems there are some electronic drumset products for sale with about 8 targets on them that could be good candidate starting points.
You made me remember something. When I got my first computer it had 4 gb of disk space. I had no internet then. It seemed a huge amount of space. When I got internet, suddenly I filled it up within a month or so
> I wouldn't really call that a rebut, I would call that missing the point.

I don't think I did actually. Even if other countries are more collectivist than the US, that doesn't mean that it doesn't affect me if something causes a spike in costs. Yes, the UK is more collectivist but I don't really know what that has to do with anything other than a potential misunderstanding of the US healthcare system; rising health insurance costs could still affect me, not even counting the fact that around 100+ million people in the US (around 1/3 of the entire population) are on medicare or medicaid, which is directly socialized [1] [2] and would directly affect all taxpayers.

> your last two paragraphs ring very hollow

Sure. It's all about risk management, a glorified expected value calculation. I don't really care if raw milk is legal or not, I just don't like it when people pretend that anything is all sunshine and fucking rainbows. If it has a risk of carrying an airborne illness, instead of pretending that it doesn't, we should acknowledge it and regulate it properly.

[1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...

[2] https://data.cms.gov/summary-statistics-on-beneficiary-enrol...
It's not only mentally ill people that are at risk, but anyone that doesn't know it's not a good idea to put "non-toxic" glue in pizza cheese. That includes a lot of not-mentally-ill but just plain dumb people. Google didn't need to tell people that glue+pizza is a reasonable thing to do, or even just a thing. It sure did frame it like it was a legitimate response. And Google didn't even have to reply with this or anything else, they could have just supplied the links to other sites where it had been suggested, but no - they have to make a show of force with their premature foray into AI, and have it tell real people all kinds of false, and possibly dangerous things. That's an unforced error by Google that they could end up being prosecuted for.
Probably the most formative experience in my early career was seeing a massive (attempted) rewrite from a monolith to microservices. Multi-unicorn company spent a year and $Ms in developer hours just to realize that the network separation did more harm than good. There are use cases for network separation (fault tolerance, independent scaling, polyglot teams etc.) but for essentially every startup I've been at, the better bet is to enforce logical boundaries in the codebase itself.
> You know that this is exactly how SpaceX won big? There were many a competent, credentialed people telling Musk that reusable rockets are a pipe dream, all the way to the first Falcon 9 landing and reflight. Some of them even continued giving such "competent and informed" advice for many months afterwards.

And there were also people saying it could be done. Where were those people for self-driving? (Oh right they were in the Facebook comment section with no relevant knowledge.)

> That's literally what it means, though.

No, it's not at all.

A goal is personal, or perhaps organizational. You need not announce something on Twitter in order to set a goal for yourself or for your company.
Yes makes sense - I was thinking bigger but I think the point of these seems to be that if you have one sensitive surface (trackpad or touchpad like) then you can overlay a bunch of targets / keys on it. That may be the easiest way to get started with something that can be re configured with iteration.
Sure. Your claim has some truth, but is far too strong.

The articles you cited upthread do not support the notion that models consistently activate differently when generating true facts vs false facts.

It is true that models can capture some notion of reliability based on patterns in their training data. For a concrete example, it is entirely plausible that a model can capture the sense that data trained from Reddit is less truthy than data trained from Wikipedia, or that training data with poor grammar and vocabulary is less reliable than more sophisticated inputs.

But this process is not a guarantee, and does not change the fact that LLMs have no mechanism to track the provenance of information. It's probably a fruitful direction of research for reducing the probability of emitting false facts, but there will always be an infinite number of marginal cases for which the activations for true facts are indistinguishable from those for false facts.

Models simply do not track the provenance which is required to make this distinction in every case.
The primary question is whether you want just the cable or the multi drop bus architecture.

And well, DVB-T2 at UHF frequencies works over RG-58 and the just parallel connected T-pieces just fine, and the fact that whole such system has completely wrong impedance does not seem to matter for ~4 devices.
Discussion [0] (885 points, 3 days ago, 305 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447626
> X is relative to a distribution on the questions we ask when we aren’t dealing with Encyclopedia Eric but with an LLM.

Assuming I understand what you mean here correctly, this should be the case for both LLMs and Encyclopedia Eric - there are topics Eric knows by heart (or thinks they know); there are specific phrases seared into his mind through sheer exposure during his life prior to becoming a living Encyclopedia. There are words he's used to, and exact synonyms he barely recognizes. All that means your chance of getting correct answer to your query depends, in complex and unknown to you way, on how you state it.
Funny, on some forum I was talking about DataPoint's ARCNet, and someone said they'd gotten it working on barbed wire.

That must have been the final hurdle you had to jump over back then, or something.
That sounds like a ChatGPT prompt
In 1998, I bought a computer from a friend in college. Not sure what the storage was - maybe 2GB. But the next computer was one I built and it had a huge 10GB drive! That might have been 1999.
The future of Big Tech: Who'll still be 'in' and who'll be past it in 2034?
I disagree that it's what copyright is designed for, and I disagree that it's illegal, and I also disagree that it's stealing - or in the sense of the phrase, I disagree that it's a different kind of stealing. I think the sense in which AI steals is exactly and only the sense in which artists steal.

The historical context is taking others' art into your own cognition and building upon it, adding your own spin. That is exactly what AI does.

The idea that AI can only produce remixes - putting aside the battles that were fought in the art world over the validity of remixes - is simply false. It was never true! It's an urban legend that's retold and retold because it'd be very convenient for certain arguments if it were true. But it just isn't.

I seriously recommend that you spend a week's worth of free time just playing around with SDXL, in a UI that's capable of inpainting. IMO, the quickest way to realize this idea is false is to actually engage with the system.
I wouldn't want to see this sort of post everyday, but I thought it was an interesting forensic exercise - kind of like carbon dating.

Just for fun, I used ChatGPT 4o to answer the question. It reckoned 1997.
It reminds them of 1999, objectively the greatest year in human history.
Not really customization but routinely I'd asked ChatGPT to provide side by side comparison table of the two/three/etc of items/elements/technology/etc and it works wonders for understanding, output conciseness and brevity. If you are familiar with the topics it'd be much better if you ask ChatGPT to include any necessary, mandatory or relevant metrics/fields/etc.

For proper prompt customization I personally believe that being a stocastic and non-deterministic NLP approach, LLM needs to be coupled with complementary NLP deterministic approach for example Feature Structure [1]. Apparently CUE is using this technique for its operation and should be used as constraint basis to configure and customize any LLM prompt [2].

[1] Feature structure:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_structure

[2] The Logic of CUE:

https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/the-logic-of-cue/
Or briefly, copied from my StackOverflow answer[1]:

v 000...00010100
~v 111...11101011 (not used directly, all bits opposite)
-v 111...11101100 (-v == ~v + 1; this causes all low 1 bits to overflow and carry)
v&-v 000...00000100 (has a single 1 bit, from the carry)

The linked article is wrong in only mentioning 2 signed integer representations. Old versions of C allowed 3 representations for integers, floats use one of those (sign-magnitude, also used widedly by bignum libraries) and one other (offset binary), and base negative-2 is also possible in theory (not sure if practical for anything), for a total of 5.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63552117/1405588