skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is the opposite - I find large blobs of generated code to be daunting, so I tend to pretty quickly reject them and either write something smaller by hand, or reprompt (in one way for another) for less, easier to review code.
I understand getting bored of it, but it's only been "overused" because it's the same pattern everywhere since the beginning of this decade.

In the last few years, a lot of companies went down the anti-consumer road: shrinkflation, lower quality/reliable parts, and just like Perplexity, forced ads in paid subscriptions for Netflix/Prime Video/etc. So I think it very much applies in this case.
> threats of death o[r] violence

OK my threshold for that word is sort of lower. Like the other day I watched Rachel Maddow on Youtube commenting on the election, and the comments were full of misogynist, well, 'sneers', let's call them that. No "I will punch you" or worse, but an aggressive, menacing, demeaning, sexist, supremacist tone. To me that already is hate speech, because it is speech that expresses hate and is intended to rile up other people so they chime in and express hate, too.

It's ice cream in the sense that frozen yogurt is ice cream, maybe except for the law.
Honestly could use a breather from the recent rate of progress. We are just barely figuring out how to interact with the models we have now. I'd bet there are at least 100 billion-dollar startups that will be built even if these labs stopped releasing new models tomorrow.
No, the social network with the classifieds service is much better.

The reason it's so good is that it has real people's identities tied to the listings. That massively decreases issues around scams and safety.

I want those things to be connected. I don't want regulations that make that illegal. That's the opposite of progress and consumer benefit.
So install Linux and tell Microsoft to refund the Microsoft tax (aka license on Windows).
Plenty of evidence has turned up already? This is just a small smattering of the potential bribes the liberals justices took.

> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disclosed taking more trips than any other justice in 2018, totaling 14. She visited Tel Aviv, Israel where she was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Genesis Prize Foundation. Shortly following the award ceremony, she disclosed being provided transportation, food and lodging as a tourist and guest of billionaire Israeli businessman Morris Kahn. Companies spawned by Kahn have had had business before the Supreme Court before. The high court handed Amdocs Limited a win in November 2017 when it declined to take up a patent-related case.

> Justice Stephen Breyer disclosed a dozen trips, three of which were supported by the wealthy Chicago-based Pritzker family. Breyer took two trips related to his position on the Pritzker Prize for Architecture jury, which honors architects each year. Breyer has served on the Pritzker jury since 2011 and became chair in 2018. He also disclosed taking a one-week trip to Ireland and Spain as part of the “Pritzker Fly-Around Program,” which paid for his transportation, lodging and meals. Breyer has taken 219 reimbursed trips since 2004, more than any other sitting justice.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/scotus-justices-rac...
Not a subscription, unlike the iPad version. Might be a good sign for the Pixelmator acquisition.
I don't think the guy is a good pick, but I think he is a far less bad pick than the person I responded to was portraying.

Unhinged, frightened, partisan subjectivity is only going to tire and weaken our side, cause unforced errors.

Hence, my original "Maybe?"

I'm going to save my mental resources for when there is an actual problem.
I would say that "Codes of Conduct" _are_ a crisis, and exacerbated toxicity... as you put it, "endless drama".

As for involving government in FOSS - many of the universities and institutions where software was written, shared and exchanged in the 1960s and 1970s were "government" or government-funded. DARPA is government, UC Berkeley is a state university, etc. So government was very much involved.

Otherwise, I agree that the article does not establish a crisis.
They've simply run out of data to use to fabricate legitimate-looking guesses. They can't create anything that doesn't already exist.
It also happens (and is very common) for H1-B positions. The company wants to hire someone specific, because they are cheaper, but legally has to advertise the job first to "prove" that they couldn't fill it with a US citizen/resident. So, the normal ploy is to precisely tailor the requirements to the person they want to hire, and then advertise the job someplace where as few as possible people will see it.
There's plenty of VC money in Europe, and it's invested into the better market, which is the United States.
Why do you focus on physical work task, and not knowledge tasks, on some of which AI is good/better than many humans?
The fact that you get the files does not mean it’s not a license. You can download Windows 10 ISO from microsoft.com and it will boot just fine too.

There’s no license _verification_ in the files you’ll download - yes. You’ll be able to always install and play what you’ve downloaded - also yes. But _legally_ you don’t _own_ them.
If Jim Browning is involved, it might not be terrible. Let’s see.
That’s true, but in reality, the US chains the engineers and doctors with the specter of losing their visa and arduous paperwork over their head so that they are coerced into selling their labor at an even lower price.
Fine-Tuning or Default Prompting
I’m exploring options for using OpenAI’s models and trying to understand the real value of fine-tuning compared to just using the default model with carefully crafted prompts. What’s the real value of fine-tuning OpenAI’s models compared to using carefully crafted prompts with the default model?
Still hoping for Black & White
Download a GitHub repo as an LLM readable format
Not the parent, but DAUs make a lot of sense when you have lots of external collaborators than seldomly login. That way you don't pay a full month license for somebody that logged in twice or once in that period, I rather log them in manually :-)

About the pricing, I haven't made the calculations in your product, but in other products I sometimes miss a middle ground between free and pro like a "hobby" or "mini" tier. maybe I have a small product, an SMB, or a personal thing thing that needs a service, and I don't want to be a "freeloader" on the free plan, but the pro is too much.

There are services I've used that I know I'll stop using once I grow out of the free plan, because it's so expensive.
Author here.

Yeah, that seemed strange to me, too, but that was how my lawyer told me it worked. And the buyer's lawyer cared enough to fight about the exact amount of liability, so I assumed the buyer's lawyer felt that way as well.

In practice, it seems like liability protection would have to change in some way otherwise the seller could abuse the system. Like imagine that I sell the new owner $200k worth of inventory and then the new owner discovers that, unbeknownst to either of us, the inventory has some kind of defect and is unsellable. If the buyer comes back and says, "Hey, I want my $200k back," it would be strange if I'm allowed to say, "Oh, too bad for you. I've shut down the LLC that sold you that inventory and moved all the money to my personal accounts, so there's no money for you now."
Indeed, your links now work for me. My post got a few upvotes, so I don’t think I was the only one experiencing the failure.
Bro… govt still arbitrates!
But where did these companies get the ColdFusion code for their training data? Since ColdFusion is an old language and used for backend services, how much ColdFusion code is open source and crawlable?
"Excess data transfer is billed at $0.01 per GiB"
This is an interesting paper about hallucinations.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa/

especially this section
Using SimpleQA to measure the calibration of large language models
LOL, it's already being updated...

"InfoWars was an American far-right[2] conspiracy theory[3] and fake news website[1] created by Alex Jones.[36][37] It was founded in 1999, and operated under Free Speech Systems LLC."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWars
It's anarchism, my friend. Not the purge style anarchism, but the academic Kropotkin "Conquest of Bread" style of anarchism.

And it's existed many times in human history, it just is fairly antagonistic with capitalism, so anarchism is a lot less popular these days.

But it absolutely exists elsewhere in society!
I don't see the fundamental difference. Both systems work under expected conditions and will crash parts of it if the conditions don't happen. The scales (and thus the visibility of bugs) change, the technologies change, but the architecture really doesn't. Erlang programs are not magically devoid of bugs, the bugs are just not creating errors
My Pixel 8 (not sure what other Android phones do this) can screen calls using their AI assistant. It asks what the call is about. If they answer, it displays the text to you as it rings through.

It sounds surprisingly human-like, even saying "Hello?" in a slightly annoyed tone when the other person doesn't respond in time.
Its better for whoever paid for this advertorial to be published. I think people would be shocked how cheap it is to get articles placed these days.
Enshittification begins.
Election interference is just a scary phrase for plain old propaganda; back in the day it was radio, flyers, billboards and posters and nowadays it is internet ads and spam. Same old stuff.
Waiting for IBM to buy them? (half joking)
I knew people who used drones 10 years ago or more, but they were called "RC" (i.e. remote-controlled) aircraft. They were also pricier, and required more expertise to fly. Like many technologies, they had an exponential takeoff, which means a long period of slow improvement (including getting cheaper, lighter, and easier to control) that bootstrapped on itself. It is very much like how computers were around for decades before the microcomputer revolution of the 1980's.
Positive ones, even!
The issue is the duplicitous nature of the consent form.

If the consent form itself is like that, then you already have no trust in the site, let alone asking the question of whether or not a non-duplicitous consent form could or could not be trusted.
Altman is marketing, he "certainly means" whatever he thinks his audience will buy.
Yep. They told me they(the team) don't know what happened, never saw it, and to apply again. I tried, but the system wouldn't allow it (it was one of those outsourced HR things, I forget the name).

It was more an exploratory thing, not some huge job opp, so it became more of a nuisance than it was worth. But it still left me curious how in the world said systems even work.
You realize Europeans can't just "move to the US"?

Like you have to get a work visa or green card which can be extremely difficult.

There are a ton of Europeans who would love to move to the US and can't.

Are you trying to suggest Europeans shouldn't complain about the EU? Because that seems... backwards.
A few important things to remember here:

The best engineering minds have been focused on scaling transformer pre and post training for the last three years because they had good reason to believe it would work, and it has up until now.

Progress has been measured against benchmarks which are / were largely solvable with scale.

There is another emerging paradigm which is still small(er) scale but showing remarkable results. That's full multi-modal training with embodied agents (aka robots). 1x, Figure, Physical Intelligence, Tesla are all making rapid progress on functionality which is definitely beyond frontier LLMs because it is distinctly different.

OpenAI/Google/Anthropic are not ignorant of this trend and are also reviving or investing in robots or robot-like research.

So while Orion and Claude 3.5 opus may not be another shocking giant leap forward, that does not mean that there arn't giant shocking leaps forward coming from slightly different directions.
Data-driven beauty: How The Estée Lauder Companies unlocks insights with ChatGPT
One thing I've always struggled with Math is keeping track of symbols I don't know the name of yet.

Googling for "Math squiggle that looks like a cursive P" is not a very elegant or convenient way of learning new symbol names.

I wish every proof or equation came with a little table that gave the English pronunciation and some context for each symbol used.

It would make it a lot easier to look up tutorials & ask questions.
And what do you do with the generated code?

Do you package it in a reusable library so that you don't have to do the same prompting again?

Or rather - just because it is so easy to do - you don't bother?

If that's the later - that's exactly the pattern I am talking about.
I wonder what a language designed as a target for LLM-generated code would look like? What semantics and syntax would help the LLM generate code that is more likely to be correct and maintainable by humans?
What is the name of that search engine?

I agree that this is what an effective search strategy is. But it is difficult to imagine an exploration this way. Exploration always imply that I don't know what I am looking for.

I am working on a plugin to filter DuckDuckGo the search results with LLM (the magic word). Perhaps that will help
I'm with you on the supplement nonsense. I think a recent study showed most so-called supplements contain precisely zero of the active ingredient they claim to have, and do absolutely nothing. I'm a small-gov't guy, but except when it comes to food and drug inspections. I think we do need to regulate the supplement industry.
Fucking gross. The industrial advertising complex needs to die.

Advertising supported business models are the root of so many of our problems. It's turned news into ragebait political bubble machines. It's why we have an epidemic of screen addiction and social isolation. They spy on us and sell our weaknesses to the highest bidder. Drug companies literally spend more on advertising than actually developing drugs. Billboards clutter up the landscapes and digital ads litter all our screens.

It is a blight on humanity and future generations are going to look back on us with the deepest pity on how we voluntarily did this to ourselves just to not pay for anything (directly).
ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac's desktop apps
I've had a couple webapps where I needed to use the FS API (which allows users to provide real, accessible folders to a webapp, unlike OPFS).

I can't understand why anyone would want to use OPFS or what problems it solves that a slim interface over IndexDB wouldn't provide. The only use I've had for it has been a almost-ok substitute for the actual FS API (given its the same interface), but since the goal is to allow users to have easy access to your webapp's data, it has to be paired with a cumbersome import/export feature for browsers that only have OPFS.

I guess it's probably more performant for FS-like queries (like listing the contents of a directory...), but that performance benefit (for me at least) seems secondary to giving users control over the data.
>Can you spot any problems with their plan for the supplement inventory?

as a regular reader of infowars and a happy customer of their supplements, i cannot see any flaw in that logic and can only hope that i, a successful business executive, will be the person they choose to give immortality to.
I think one’s getting a lot of upvotes from people who meant to click on the link.
not parent, but

> I asked the AI to write me some code to get a list of all the objects in an S3 bucket

they didn’t ask for all the objects in the first returned page of the query

they asked for all the objects.

the necessary context is there.

LLMs are just on par with devs who don’t read tickets properly / don’t pay attention to the API they’re calling (i’ve had this exact case happen with someone in a previous team and it was a combination of both).
What a weird point to make. Their comment says nothing about their background. It only mentions their achievements.
My comment from substack:

Not criticizing the monocausal theories, but LLMs "do a bunch of stuff with a bunch of data" and if you ask them why they did something in particular, you get a hallucination. To be fair, humans will most often give you a moralized post hoc rationalization if you ask them why they did something in particular, so we're not far from hallucination.

To be more specific, the models change BOTH the "bunch of stuff" (training setup and prompts) and the "bunch of data", and those changes interact in deep and chaotic (as in chaos theory) ways.

All of this really makes me think about how we treat other humans. Training an LLM is a one-way operation, you can't really retrain one part of an LLM (as I understand it). You can do prompt engineering, and you can do some more training, but those interact and deep and chaotic ways.

I think you can replace LLM with human in the previous paragraph and not be too far wrong.
No one has a right to be wealthy. Mark Zuckerberg and all of these other people are so narcissistic that not only do they believe they are entitled to their wealth, but they also have an insane urge to take even more from people while providing even less. The quality of information and interaction on Meta’s web sites is lower than ever, and their response is to machine-produce an increasing quantity of even lower quality sludge rather than shut down the company and disappear.

What we need is a mechanism to terminate these entities, in the same way that chemotherapy eliminates fast-dividing cancer cells that have lost their ability to self-terminate.
>Is the goal to get people to think positively about radical social engineering?

That was my take away from the interview. And yes, I would agree the interview did not present the well.

My point is that those are legitimate criticisms, deceitful journalism and outright lies are not legitimate criticism.

We can debate how valuable it is to think outside the box is, and when to do it.

That said, hopefully we both agree that spreading lies, misinformation, and outrage amongst people is not productive either.

Heck, there are even legitimate reasons to be upset by what he said, but that doesn't justify lying about what was actually said. That benefits nobody but those who profit from clicks.
People use apps more than they use a browser. It's not a big deal to reform search to be an app, it will be natural. People listen to podcasts without knowing anything about mp3 files or file systems, they edit and upload their photos without knowing about jpegs, etc.
>an internal champion.

It's an interesting way to spell "corruption".
Intuitive vs. Intentional productivity – the foundations of the new Spark (2022)
You were correct. When you replied, I tried my links and indeed they did not work at the time.
My father setup his own solution for robocalls. If the phone rings more than three times it kicks the call to the fax machine. Apparently fax lines are supposed to be kept clear because of legal reasons? All I know is half the time I call I get a dialup sound as my call gets routed to the fax machine.
I remember a time when ads were clearly on the sidebar of Google's search results so users wouldn't mix them up with the actual search results and unintentionally click them.

Then somebody at Google realized that if they moved the search results into the middle of the search result, then a lot more users would mix them up with the search results and click them. I'm sure it increased click-though rates by a lot.
I have always dreamt of something like this to connect with aging loved ones.
I would love something that they could also listen to with a big button to play recent messages.
> I wonder why others don't work for free too?

You need to explain the billions of lines of open source code.

> It's not possible to prove that something can't be done.

This is just sophistry. Many "business models" are being tried, granted none seems to be failproof but it suggests there is a space to explore.

We are talking about a process that is barely two decades old. The familiarity and safety of paid work with fiat money, contracts, private investment and all that, its all based on inventions that came about to solve similar frictions in the past.
> Why work for a big company?

Most large corps have higher total comp compared to smaller corps.
That's a typical process that companies, who want to sponsor green card to their internal employee, are required to do. They have to find an equally-skilled US citizen by posting jobs publicly for X amount of time. Then after they have collected applications, they "review" and reject them; use that as an evidence in filing the green card for the internal employee.

It is a broken/absurd rule and only puts more work to everyone involved (not just the applicants, the HR; the internal employee and his/her manager, who usually has to get involved in that process). The process itself is also relatively expensive (cost ~$10K+ for attorney fees; documentation and USCIS application fees). I know because I had to go through that asinine process years ago when my ex-employer (big corporation) sponsored my green card.
For what it's worth, it is definitely thawing (at least if what we're seeing in our client base is anything to go by), it's just going to take some time for that to work its way through everyone looking for work.
I don't understand why you'd be so dismissive about this. It's looking less likely that it'll end up happening, but is it any less believable than getting general intelligence by training a blob of meat?
The constitution lays out slander and libel as types of speech that can be censored

I don't think defamation law is unconstitutional, but, no it doesn't.
Or they could just require ID for sales, just like every physical business who has to know who their so called marketplace partners are.
I could try to walk it through fixing its network settings in Windows 98. Really re-live my telecom tech support days.
I agree with you that it is a contrived situation. I agree with them that the danger is highest when you are isolated with an unknown stranger.
The public institutions I'm most familiar with are required not only to advertise, but to conduct a minimum number of interviews.
Too bad most projects don't document any of those decisions.
The original journal article (just posted another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081) had "person-is-an-object-of-study" which makes more sense. And this is also the only version you find quoted if you search in Google Books; all quotes of the other material are probably propagating errors from some earlier transcription error (that precedes the he-or-she).
That's an uncharitable read. Connections can be made, not only received.

Networking is different kind of work than sitting at a desk, but it's still work. The benefits of that work are seen next time you want a job. Every freelancer operates this way, for example.
I mean, that's not entirely true.

Mostly true, yes. A monthly pizza and beer party won't make up for lack of salary, but extra PTO that I can use can.

Like...if I had the choice of a job that offered $200K/year but only 2 weeks PTO, and another offered only $185K but 5 weeks PTO, I'd take the latter.

Honestly I'd love a company that gave 4 weeks PTO with the option to take up to another 4 weeks unpaid.
> Lawfare?

Yes the court's judgment is so high, 1B USD, that he cannot make money without it being garnished. How does he get back to work? I personally do not think anyone should lose their livelihood over speech, NOTE: I did not say free speech. What he did is reprehensible but not enough that he is basically black balled from making a living. Penalties yes, loss of livelihood no.
That's wishful thinking at best. Throw it all in a bucket and it will get infected with being and life.