skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>could not generate conceptual ideas of their own

Is the most important part imo. A big goal should be some ai system coming up with its own discovery and ideas. Really unclear how we can get from the current paradigm to it coming up with something like general relativity, like Einstein. Does it require embodiment?
> I would imagine in Europe they select more carefully the students whom will go to College. Here in the US we've told students that everyone must go to College

You imagine wrong. Pretty much everyone goes to university in most and European countries. Even in wildly tourist dependent places, a degree in tourism is a normal thing for a young person to pursue before going to work at hotels/restaurants.
In a struct! Pseudo code for extracting the types from subclasses and calling a multimethod on them:

template <typename Result, typename Head, typename ...Tail>
struct Foo : Visitor {
Result res;
UntypedList lst; // This does not exist!
Tail... tail; // This is not possible!
Foo(UntypedList l; Head hd, Tail... tl) : lst(l), tail(tl) {
hd->accept(*this);
}
void visit(float *f) {
res = Foo<Result, Tail...>(append(lst, f), tail)::res; }
}
};

// Base case that calls the multimethod omitted.

There are two issues here: You can't store the parameter pack in Foo() which is later required by the continuation in visit(). And you would have to use tuples and tuple_cat() instead of UntypedList.

Why can the compiler not infer the types in such an UntypedList? Why is there no car/cdr for tuples?
Your source doesn't support that (no comparison with other places), and other sources don't seem to back it up. See the "Local Life Expectancies by Income" chart here: https://www.healthinequality.org/. It seems generally that high income people have comparable life expectancies across the country, whereas there is much higher variability among lower incomes.
Same in Europe.

Hasselt, 47551 Bedburg-Hau, Germany

and

Hasselt, 54533 Oberkail, Germany
A viral meme/tiktok/xkcd/etc could educate many 18 years old on how bad the deal is.
He didn't ask if they were different, he asked if they were "worse". It is not obvious at all that having more ingredients equals worse.
My worry with processed food is that precise manufacture opens up the doors to producing all sorts of foods with an unhealthy imbalance of components. Specifically, that the unnatural surplus of, say, hydrogenated oils or high fructose corn syrup, or whatever, is something that will have disastrous nth order consequences we can't predict, so it looks promising in the short term and corporations looking to maximize their profit will all doubtlessly do more of this.

I only have slightly more than a passing interest in food science and nutrition, but from all I've learned my gut feeling is that I ought to avoid this stuff, and rely on cooking my own food as much as possible so I don't get into any imbalances (it's very hard to get a surplus of any macro or any other component via "natural" products)

I don't have any evidence on the nutrition side, but it's certainly not an experiment I'd like to do with my only body.
And in the psychological side, it's definitely something to avoid if we value our physical and mental health
The website looks nice, the domain is rather unusual, which registrar did you get it from? I used punto.hn but their business model was very weird and required me to eat a $15 wire fee every year on top of the cost of the domain, I dropped them after the first year.
> side

Or (4) LLMs simply do not work properly for many use cases in particular where large volumes of trained data doesn't exist in its corpus.

And in these scenarios rather than say "I don't know" it will over and over again gaslight you with incoherent answers.

But sure condescendingly blame on the user for their ignorance and inability to understand or use the tool properly. Or call their criticism low-effort.
The vast majority of universities are not for profit. As we clearly observe with all government guaranteed demand subsidies, prices sky rocket.
The idea of the index is to prevent censorship
Yes, making the bill, as it is now, useless over time.

And in the present, it adds unnecessary constraints for California companies while companies outside CA/US don't face such issues.
European social democracies may not be the best if you want to get rich, but for average Joe they offer superior quality of life compared to the US. IMO too much capitalism and socialism both suck, and certain EU countries have the best balance between them.
That's category (3).
Probably. The missing factor is the dataset and the fact that so far OAI seems to be the only one who has figured out how to train this thing for reasoning.

But yeah, given o1 exists, it looks very doable. It's hard to imagine a reason for why something matching his criteria would be more than a decade out.
Absent a government guarantee, what lender is going to lend to people with no job, assets, or income?

Students' parents would need to co-sign, and if the parents were poor, the student would be out of luck.
In this case, hybrid means "not entirely PQ".
> Dr Lindsey's channel is totally bitchin' like you wouldn't believe.

On god fr fr no cap.
And absolutely the same logic can and should apply for universities - there can be private exclusive institutions, but the majority should be affordable and mostly paid for by taxes.
> maleability

Intentional pun?
Madness is

#!/usr/bin/env
since it doesn't have emotions I believe
Nixon Said Pot Was 'Not Particularly Dangerous.'
They make a "speaker" for loud environments like trade shows or museums that are parabolic dishes. There's a speaker at the node and the dish reflects all of the sound back down into a collimated "beam". The ones I've specifically used were meant to be hung overhead so you only hear it when you step underneath. They were clear acrylic bowls that were 24"-30" diameter. It was mainly meant for delivering dialog/narration to a video playing without annoying the people working the booth. It was effective for the purpose
The idea of the index is it acts as an API for apps to build search and other things on. It can do some searches but ya know what I mean.
The original text is: Ἠιτήσθω ἀπὸ παντὸς σημείου ἐπὶ πᾶν σημεῖον εὐθεῖαν γραμμὴν ἀγαγεῖν. Roughly: let it be required that from any point to any point it is possible to draw a straight line.

Both gpt4o and o1 roughly know the correct original text, so prompting, the model’s background memory, or random chance may influence your outcomes, though hopefully (in an improved model) you should never get you incorrect info.

https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf

Edit: in case it isnt clear, I could not reproduce this error on my end with o1-mini
How will we even measure this? Benchmarks are gamed/trained on and there is no way that there is much signal in the chatbot arena for these types of queries?

I think in just a few month the average user will not be able to tell the difference in performance between the major models
Elon Musk being a huge hypocrite/ dangerous/etc doesn't have any bearing on whether governments should have the power to snoop on private conversations online and block out voices they disagree with on a case by case basis.
What's the difference between (3) and (4), shouldn't the former contain the latter?
OpenAI is against this bill, as written in the article.
Long ago I had a client who could have been an episode of "IT Nightmares".

They used internal 3.5" hard drives along with USB docks to backup a couple Synology devices...It seemed like 1/10 times when you put a drive back in the dock to restore a file or make another backup, the drive wouldn't power back up.
The y axis is also log scale (log likelihood). It’s a power law, not an exponential law.
Our brains also seem to tie our thoughts to observed reality in some way. The parts that do sensing and reasoning interact with the parts that handle memory. Different types of memory exist to handle trade offs. Memory of what makes sense also grows in strength compared to random things we observed.

The LLM’s don’t seem to be doing these things. Their design is weaker than the brain on mitigating hallucinations.

For brain-inspired research, I’d look at portions of the brain that seem to be abnormal in people with hallucinations. Then, models of how they work. Then, see if we can apply that to LLM’s.

My other idea was models of things like the hippocampus applied to NN’s. That’s already being done by a number of researchers, though.
I'd never even heard of it before you asked.
Looking forwards to the return of Dazzle camouflage.
No it isn't. The roads are full of plotholes because of totally broken local accounting, zoning and tax laws. Go read some 'Strong Towns' stuff if you want to know why roads have potholes.
Fruits and vegetables get processed, put into plastic bags, and shipped far away to be consumed 6 months after being produced all the time. None of that makes them ultra processed.
How bold of people to openly share their geolocations when doxing and swatting are routine happenings.

Happy for y'all.
I slaughtered about 40 chickens once. I was probably around 19 at the time. My ex-girlfriend's dad just told me to get in the truck, asked his kids to stay at home, and took me to a chicken coop where him and his friend were raising chickens. I took them out of the coop, a few at a time, hung them upside down, and then killed them with a knife. After the first few, the rest in the coop began panicking even though they couldn't see what was going on. That really stood out to me. I'm sure they could hear or smell death. They knew what was coming.
Was it very shocking when you woke up today and found yourself transported from the year 2000, when Moore's Law still held?
The weird thousands separator placement, combined with the Central European usage of a decimal comma implies the total amount is $341, which frankly isn't much...
341usd? more like 35000. Change the title.
“Exact wording” would be Ancient Greek. Euclid did not even write in English. You’re checking whether the model matches a specific translation, which is not valuable. If you search around you’ll find many sources that choose a more intelligible phrasing.
You get negative but fixable investor updates.

When you have unfixable business problems (which are usually along the lines of "Nobody wants our product", "Our founding team doesn't care anymore", "There is no reason for our company to exist", or "We can't possibly make the economics work"), then those are the startups that tend to go dark.
Show HN: Universal Timer (for Pomodoro, HIIT, or breathing exercises)
Granted, there are countless workout and pomodoro timers around. However, if I liked one, it still had a feature missing that I really liked from a different one. Ads and paid apps were a no go, too. So I was inspired by many of them to create my own.

Primarily, I wanted sounds, good visibility, customizable sequences, and good usability on mobile.

I am doing one workout almost daily, so I use it very often. I have a couple of routines ranging from 4 to 20 minutes. When I am changing routines after some months, I need to memorize them first. Therefore, I wanted to be able to name the intervals.

Other features include:

- Sequence editor that helps efficiently creating alternating and numbered intervals.

- Background color changes depending on a work/rest type of interval. Sometimes I am listening to music through a different device and miss the countdown. With the colors changing and the progress circle, it is easy to recongnize, if the work or rest interval has already started.

- Light and Dark modes are kind of a must have for every app nowadays.

- Progress circles are more accurate to estimate from afar than bars plus they give a nice visual touch.

- Detailed timing that includes the wall time when the workout is finished. Sometimes I am in a bit of a rush before taking a shower. With that display, it is easier to see, if I still have time for a workout.

- Intervals can easily be skipped, restarted, and repeated.

- There are a set of sounds to choose from: workout, breathe, or none.

- I discovered that browsers now even have speech synthesis APIs. The timer will tell you what the upcoming interval will be, so you never have to check the display.

- System notifications are triggered for longer intervals as used in the pomodoro technique.

It is pretty much feature complete now. I want to add an import/export feature in the near future though.

However, please let me know what you are still missing to make it your preferred timer!

Depending on the platform, the timer may not play sounds anymore when put in the background. I have found that the timing of the sounds also depend on the network quality. In any case, it will resume counting correctly when re-opening it in the foreground.

The source code is just one short html file that can be loaded into the browser. Hence, it's open source. I am not a dev anymore, but I love how cross-platform applications can be built with web technologies nowadays. I like Vue.js for its simplicity to create dynamic templates.
Comma is in the wrong spot. It's $34,000 USD (350k Krona).
Regardless of the wording being exact or not, ChatGPT’s answer is incorrect in its contents. The statement “exactly one” requires the parallel postulate, since otherwise it’s not necessarily true. Specifically in spherical geometry, which is considered to be consistent with Euclid’s first four postulates (i.e. without the parallel postulate).

The bottom line is, you can’t take any single LLM statement at face value, even in seemingly easy to answer cases like this.
This is similar to the difference between data dredging and scientific hypothesis testing.

'But what bias did we infer with [LLM knowledgebase] background research prior to formulating a hypothesis, and who measured?'

There are various methods of Inference: Inductive, Deductive, and Abductive

What are the limits of Null Hypothesis methods of scientific inquiry?
... and this is called the "broken window fallacy".

You're right in that you remark that it's less bad than it initially seems. Some wealth is indeed recovered when the broken window is repaired. However everyone is by necessity worse off than if you didn't break the window in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Agree. MDN is gem for new learners to learn about frontend and backend development!
Why should that be a big goal? It's difficult, it's not what they are good at, and they can get a lot better at assisting in other ways through incremental improvements. I'm happy to leave this part to the humans, at least for now, especially when there's so much more improvement still possible in other directions.

It also seems like one of those things where we ought to ask whether we should, before asking whether we could. Why not focus on areas that are easier, more beneficial, and less problematic from a "should" perspective?
A Scientific HP calculator from late 80's was powerful enough to cover most of Engineering classes.
I can deny the intent to be exploitative and coercive.

Really I don't see how. I would like an example, i have learned sales techniques and to me even sales techniques, who are multiple order of magnitude more manipulative imho, aren't really coercive . Also, sales techniques works way better on persons not aware of them, non-violent communication mostly work if both persons use it (that makes it way less actionable than it's proponents affirm), which is to me the opposite of exploitative.
> mid-century eating habits

So pies made with lard, sugar, and served with whole-milk ice cream?
Lol no it was $150. This was Gainesville, Florida and I split a horrible studio apartment with a friend of mine.

It was located in a low lying area and once after a tropical storm we had to wade through hip-deep water to get to class (the apartment itself was miraculously high and dry). Coming home one night I saw a little gator swimming along near me as I trudged through it.

After we graduated my roommate moved to Manhattan for an engineering job. His month’s rent up there was significantly more than he paid for a year in college.

I ended up moving to Portland, Oregon in 2007 and my first rent here was $550. Now in 2024, I’ve finally tacked on that missing 0 and my rent is now around $1500.
I entirely agree about their utility.

HN, and the internet in general, have become just an ocean of reactionary sandbagging and blather about how "useless" LLMs are.

Meanwhile, in the real world, I've found that I haven't written a line of code in weeks. Just paragraphs of text that specify what I want and then guidance through and around pitfalls in a simple iterative loop of useful working code.

It's entirely a learned skill, the models (and very importantly the tooling around them) have arrived at the base line they needed.

Much Much more productive world by just knuckling down and learning how to do the work.

edit: https://aider.chat/ + paid 3.5 sonnet
How will you know if its answers are correct or not?
That just means they needed the degree to get an opportunity to work in the US. This is really a tax.
It only works if traders also continue to accept such coins as payment, which they probably wouldn't.
The way that LLMs hallucinate now seems to have everything to do with the way in which they represent knowledge. Just look at the cost function. It's called log likelihood for a reason. The only real goal is to produce a sequence of tokens that are plausible in the most abstract sense, not consistent with concepts in a sound model of reality.

Consider that when models hallucinate, they are still doing what we trained them to do quite well, which is to at least produce a text that is likely. So they implicitly fall back onto more general patterns in the training data i.e. grammar and simple word choice.

I have to imagine that the right architectural changes could still completely or mostly solve the hallucination problem. But it still seems like an open question as to whether we could make those changes and still get a model that can be trained efficiently.

Update: I took out the first sentence where I said "I don't agree" because I don't feel that I've given the paper a careful enough read to determine if the authors aren't in fact agreeing with me.
Erm, no.

No government can freeze your bitcoins.

It's not money.

You might find it ever increasingly difficult to change bitcoins to real money if a country -- or multiple -- is against it. No such thing happens currently but there are constant efforts to bring KYC and so forth to exchanges.
How the contrived panic over Haitian immigrants hijacked our algorithms
I also like comparing a human thought experiment like Einstein (?) would do to forcing an llm to write code to answer a question. Yes you can make a good guess, but making many smaller obvious decisions that lead to an answer is a stronger process.
Funny you say that, Karnataka is an outlier beating its peers in all quality of life metrics and has been run by communist for decades.

Also, modern day India has a very strong government intervention bias, especially regarding lifting people out of poverty. Be it investments in infrastructure (such as running water), or downright giving food to people. Good luck explaining how that isn't "socialism" to an American.
Give it a few months. ChatGPT will be recommending GPTs to use or do it automatically.

Nothing is static in the way things are moving.
I won't respond directly to your whataboutism, as it is not productive, but let me put it this way: In the case of the article, Freudian psychology is pseudoscience and has been widely debunked. Therefore, continuing to advocate for Freudian psychology is harmful.

Overall, I have mixed feelings about the article as a whole for reasons previously stated.
I havent been involved in startups in a number of years but at the time when i was the trend was to give a bunch of 20-somethings with an interesting product idea a few million dollars and let them have at it. I wondered then and I still wonder if early stage investors would see better returns if they provided a little more boots on the ground support through either getting an adult into the room or training or whatever.
Some people rise to the occasion during crises and find it rewarding. There's a lot of pop science around COMT (the "warrior gene" associated with stress resilience), which I take with a grain of salt. There does seem to be something there, though, and it overlaps with my personal experience that many great security operations people tend to have ADHD traits.
That's why I gravitate towards the 'hyper-palatable' label vs 'hyper-processed', to me it captures a more plausible set of criteria (engineered via fat/sugar/salt addition to maximize its appeal, etc) that cause a more plausible and specific set of problems (hijacking reward pathways to cause overeating, etc)
Flew too close to the sun, giving me that ickarus.
Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP
Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city).

Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.
I don't think $150 is out of the question over twenty years ago with roommates and a LCOL region.
Woah, you were paying off that debt with interest from 2005 to 2021?

Damn I’m happy to live in a country with free university.
Because I'm verifying everything by hand, as is the whole point of studying pure mathematics.
Literally everyone understands that they'll cease to exist one day, whether religious or non-religious. That some people hope there's something after this life doesn't mean they can't fathom a case where that isn't true.