skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, well put to both of these responses! I’m certainly biased, and can see how the events that truly scare me (after already assessing the technology on my own and finding it to be More Important Than Fire Or Electricity) don’t make very convincing arguments on their own.

For us optimistic doomers, the AI conversation seems similar to the (early-2000s) climate change debate; we see a wave of dire warnings coming from scientific experts that are all-to-often dismissed, either out of hand due to their scale, or on the word of an expert in an adjacent-ish field. Of course, there’s more dissent among AI researchers than there was among climate scientists, but I hope you see where I’m coming from nonetheless — it’s a dynamic that makes it hard to see things from the other side, so-to-speak.

At this point I’ve pretty much given up convincing people on HackerNews, it’s just cathartic to give my piece and let people take it or leave it. If anyone wants to bring the convo down from industry trends into technical details, I’d love to engage tho :)
I don't think that follows are all, actually. I might give something away and say, "support my patreon" or "buy me a beer" or "contribute back" or "pay for support".

You might expect that any arbitrary person might not compensate you, but still expect compensation.

Giving away your work doesn't mean you don't value your labor.
How few people need to vote to appoint someone before they're considered "unelected'"? The 805 Lords? The 538 of the US electoral college? The 121 Cardinals of the Conclave? The 101 of the American Senate? The 27 EU Commissioners?
this is dope. my chinese GF loves it so much. so impressive.
They won't. The companies that operate these scam centers are diversified criminal enterprises run by ultra-wealthy and politically connected individuals. These people own the police, they own the politicians, and until fairly recently, they owned the voters through massive vote-buying schemes.

You can get away with murder in India if you're wealthy enough (e.g. the case of Jessica Lal, murdered by a politician's son in front of at least a dozen witnesses). The egregious corruption of the INC or "Congress party" (which is ideologically progressive) over many decades has created a massive voter exodus to the conservative BJP party, the majority party in India since 2014. However, the corruption and inefficiency at all levels of civil society has remained endemic.
I assume everyone who thinks We Built This City is the worst song of all time has repressed the memory of Achy-Breaky Heart, which got at least as much radio play.
Not to mention the Chinese board game weiqi (known in English as Go from the Japanese).
Ask HN: Have you ever built product for your problem,but it solved everyone's?
I have been looking for a product that can batch produce AIFilm
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Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop
Seems like the RIAA should sue them. Spotify, too. They're unjustly enriching themselves, no doubt. IANAL.
We can, tokenization is literally just to maximize resources and provide as much "space" as possible in the context window.

There is no advantage to tokenization, it just helps solve limitations in context windows and training.
I love this. I wonder whether it would be useful to add a small indication of how roughly how long ago a message was written. For example, the first message might say 'this afternoon' or 'yesterday'. If it was written this afternoon, I know the dinner it's referring to is coming up, and wasn't yesterday.
Did you notice Russ Hanneman? It's supposed to be a play on SV.
One of my coworkers stated this a few years ago: "i'm on an interesting musical journey right now: trying to identify musicians/groups/bands/artists, etc. that i've over looked because they were "mainstream" popular"

And I always thought that was kind of a hilarious thing to go through. Most people I know who are music snobs are generally anti-pop music and it seems like they miss out on the fun stuff that everyone gets into.

I couldn't get into Nickelback personally because they came in on a wave of similar music that I was generally over by the time they got big.
Have you ever been to a high school? Nobody is on equal footing, socially speaking. The authoritarian nature of high school is about the only communist thing about it.
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Maybe that is ideal, but they are plenty of official jump fees that we don't think of as corrupt. In super-non-corrupt New Zealand, we can pay extra for faster processing of resource consent applications, passport applications, and visas. We can also pay a fee for a chance in a random draw for enrollment in desirable schools. Criminals can pay money to their victims in exchange for a chance at a lighter sentence.
I do contract work on fine-tuning efforts, and I can tell you that most humans aren't designed to be public-facing either.

While LLMs do plenty of awful things, people make the most incredibly stupid mistakes too, and that is what LLMs needs to be benchmarked against. The problem is that most of the people evaluating LLMs are better educated than most and often smarter than most. When you see any quantity of prompts input by a representative sample of LLM losers, you quickly lose all faith in humanity.

I'm not saying LLMs are good enough. They're not. But we will increasingly find that there are large niches where LLMs are horrible and error prone yet still outperform the people companies are prepared to pay to do the task.

In other words, on one hand you'll have domain experts becoming expert LLM-wranglers. On the other hand you'll have public-facing LLMs eating away at tasks done by low paid labour where people can work around their stupid mistakes with process or just accepting the risk, same as they currently do with undertrained labor.
> Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run the sudo chroot /my/folder command. But what if you don't want to use superuser privileges for this?

My very first thought is actually proot ( https://proot-me.github.io/ ), though that does have a performance hit.

That said, once you're using unshare (which is a good idea), why not just use podman? Mostly the same under the hood, but does a bunch of this for you. And for this exact usecase I appreciate that there are tradeoffs but I personally would have built pmbootstrap out of Dockerfiles in the first place.
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It's not the worst—it's the greatest bad song of all time. :-D

Just remembered "Rico Suave," gonna nominate that one as well.
There have been off the shelf solutions for so many common software use cases, for decades now. I think the reason we still see so much custom software is that the devil is always in the details, and strict details are not an LLMs strong suit.

LLMs are in my opinion hamstrung at the starting gate in regards to replacing software teams, as they would need to be able to understand complex business requirements perfectly, which we know they cannot. Humans can't either. It takes a business requirements/integration logic/code generation pipeline and I think the industry is focused on code generation and not that integration step.

I think there needs to be a re-imaging of how software is built by and for interaction with AI if it were to ever take over from human software teams, rather than trying to get AI to reflect what humans do.
I thought the second part of this comment was particularly insightful. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F/the-median... It's pretty easy to punch down when you're writing a lot of loosely connected blog posts that don't require real evidence or falsifiable claims, and certainly nobody will ever go back to check.
One could:

import "github.com/mholt/caddy"

https://medium.com/backendarmy/embedding-a-web-server-in-go-...

Not sure if it's still the case.
Wrong. The current unit cost for an F-35B is about $109M while an F/A-18E/F is about $55M. That's a difference of 2×, not 5×. And more importantly, the F/A-18 can't operate from amphibious ships to support Marine Corps ground forces. If it can't accomplish the required mission then the cost is moot.

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/10/newest-f-35-f-15ex-contr...

It's disappointing to see people post lazy, low-effort comments like this without bothering to do even basic fact checking.
I'm assuming the "Wait" sentence is from the user. What I mean is that when humans say something, they also tend to have a view (maybe via the famous mirror neurons) of how this now sounds to the other person. They may catch themselves while speaking, changing course mid-sentence, or adding another sentence to soften or highlight something in the previous sentence, or maybe correcting or admitting some aspect after the fact. LLMs don't exhibit such an inner feedback loop, in which they reconsider the effect of the ouput they are in the process of generating.

You won't get an LLM outputting "wait, that's not right" halfway through their original output (unless you prompted them in a way that would trigger such a speech pattern), because no re-evaluation is taking place without further input.
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Of course it's not going to be sustainable.

My idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
It's been a little while since I used it, so my memories are a bit vague I'm afraid.

I was trying to hook up my app, so that I could upsert contacts/leads with Salesforce/Hubspot.

I'll try and remember more specific/useful feedback for you and shoot it over to your support email if that's helpful?
Yeah I know. Because I just don't like pop music, and having understood she's got a reputation as really talented, actually hearing her music only risks downgrading my impression of her. I'm fine with being out of touch/irrelevant.

My kids (and their friends too) don't listen to current music either, so I don't get much exposure to it.
Fleetwood Mac is a good example, actually. Regarding 1970s prog rock bands, their 80s work is for the most part still pretty original and musically honest. One notable outlier is Phil Collins whose solo stuff is truely aweful IMO. (How can you go from being the drummer of Genesis to writing "A Groovy Kind of Love"?)
There are people trying this, both in simulated spaces and real ones - look into the “embodiment” camp if interested to see how they’re doing! There’s many experts who think AGI is unreachable without this, and I think the unexpected intuitive capabilities of LLMs are great support for that thesis, albeit in a non-spatial way.

Kant describes two human “senses”: the intensive sense of time, and the extensive sense of space. In this paradigm, spatial experience would be inextricably tied to all forms of logic, because it helps train the cognitive faculties that are intrinsically tied to all complex (discriminative?) thought.
> Then I remember using our dialup to download every possible 3rd party VB form control and throwing them in a Form to see what they did. I don't know why I found this entertaining enough to keep doing it.

Wow, that takes me back. My local library also had a copy of "Visual Basic How-To: The Definitive Vb3 Problem Solver" and at some point I'd renewed my loan of it so many times they told me I couldn't anymore. I remember building a working interface based on the "Peanut Computer" interface from the beginning of _Out of this World_.
Which other extensions have you tried? I've been experimenting with Cline and Continue.dev recently. Continue seems to be the winner for now, but I may give Codeium and Windsurf a try.
Well, I've never thought podcasts on YouTube really counted as podcasts. Same as how I don't consider podcasts on Spotify to be podcasts. One is a video show. The other is an audio show.

Podcasts, as I see them, are available to everyone via RSS, an open standard. If there's additional content behind a private feed for money, that's acceptable to me. But anything that 100% lives only on a specific service is not a podcast.

(I realize that many podcasts that have videos on YouTube also distribute audio eps via RSS. I'm sorta neutral on that, but only begrudgingly because I can see the argument that the video is offering "more" to people who want it.)
+ I guess it's not really fully unlimited
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Most of the naysaying was simply ideological from people who hate Musk and convinced themselves he's stupid on top of his other perceived faults, not based on any kind of analysis of twitter as a company.
For one thing, it seems to be half the price.
We've never had a President that so many top generals, high-ranking Republican party officials, family members, and countless other close associates and former partners have all said is fundamentally unfit for office. This isn't just Democrats wringing their hands and crying foul. We're talking lifelong Republicans who honestly tried to work with him and could not believe the stupidity and malice. Remember all those Republican congressman who, in January 2021, said that Trump's little treason operation ought to disqualify him from office, then later fell in line when they realized having integrity is difficult? Doesn't that seem a little unprecedented to you?
I often think of LLMs as a really smart junior developer - full of answers, half correct, with zero wisdom but 100% confidence

I'd like to think most developers know how to say "I don't know, let's do some research" but in reality, many probably just take a similar approach to the LLM - feign competence and just hack out whatever is needed for today's goal, don't worry about tomorrow.
>Say customer support, if it'd be offered as a paid service instead of "free" as in baked-in-product-cost, thus giving the customer a choice to either go for that easy-pick fruit of available paid support, or the alternative of investing more of their own effort into figuring out and solving the encountered problems by using the docs available to them, or maybe giving up on the problematic use-cases in the first place?

My sense was that the customers would have been pretty unhappy about that setup. Like, a common question was, "I plugged in my device, but I don't see it on the network. What do I do?" They'd be pretty annoyed if I had just said, "I'll help you if you pay me $99 for customer support."

I think in practice, if I tried to pull that, the customers would just say, "Okay, then I'm sending it back for a refund," or, "Okay, then I'm calling my credit card company for a chargeback," both of which are costly for the vendor.

Plus, I personally don't like the dynamic of customer-paid support. If customers have to pay for support, it incentivizes the vendor to make the product difficult to use so that customers need support.

I always want my products to work so well that customers don't have to contact support. So, if a customer has an issue, I want to feel the cost of that as the vendor so I'm pressured to fix it.

>Or tariffs - is it bad to let the customers know that there are cost differences in the product offered to them due to their request coming from different tariff-impacted markets?

For tariffs, I actually meant tariffs that I pay as the manufacturer. For most of the time I was running the company, we were sourcing most components from overseas and doing final assembly in-house, so we paid tariffs on components as they came in. That's a huge headache, especially when we have distributors in other countries, and we're paying tariffs multiple times for multiple border crossings. And tariffs seemed to change per shipment by 2-3x for reasons that were never clear to me.

Tariffs that the end user pays are a whole other headache. We didn't have a way of predicting what tariffs the customer would pay, so customers would sometimes be upset that we didn't warn them, especially in countries when they receive the tariff bill after they've already received the item. At one point, we tried to use DDP, which is supposed to let us pay the tariff on the customer's behalf, but we tried it a few times and the customer was charged a tariff anyway, so it seemed like it was just a huge expense that did nothing.
So can this do dynamics scroll through a long document? I can’t seem to get it to do anything close to useful.
Microsoft carried this style of layout builder into the original asp.net web-forms in the first couple versions of Visual Studio.NET. If I remember correctly it worked just like the form builder for VB6/MFC-C++, but it's been a while.
And that's how it all starts...
Hmm maybe worth switching from Docker Desktop to Podman Desktop...
Okay, so every name in this post makes sense it's just some of these words started to mean very different things with time.

This is not a hypervisor or a vm manager. It's a library that lets you run a C or Rust function[1] inside a VM managed by platform hypervisor[2].

[1]: As in Function (computer programming) not a AWS Lambda.

[2]: KVM or mshv on Linux and Windows Hypervisor on linux
Heart and Soul is probably my favorite. And Sports has more hooks than a tackle shop.
“Lionel Richie's Hello is the Battleship Potemkin of rock music videos...”

~ Humphrey B. Flaubert, TISM, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished - De RigueurMortis (2001)
Wow, you can use a whole two other providers from your list: Gitlab and ActiveState. Color me unimpressed.
My interpretation of that tweet is "there is no DATA wall" meaning "we have so much more data we can ingest: all of youtube, all of spotify, all of twitch, every real-time webcam feed on the internet, RL agents playing every video game on steam, and we can extract so much more learning per unit data than we are now" which seems plausible enough to me.
You weren’t around for the summer of “Bette Davis Eyes”…you don’t know what it was like, cuz you weren’t there, man!!
Also, if he ordered some recreational pills over the internet, a lot of times those things can be synthesized poorly and cause psychosis, sometimes permanent.
I am aware of errors in computations that can be fixed by better tokenization (e.g. long addition works better tokenizing right-left rather than L-R). But I am talking about counting, and talking about counting words, not characters. I don’t think tokenization explains why LLMs tend to fail at this without CoT prompting. I really think the answer is computational complexity: counting is simply too hard for transformers unless you use CoT. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07923
I don't understand why educated people expect that an LLM would be able to play chess at a decent level.

It has no idea about the quality of it's data. "Act like x" prompts are no substitute for actual reasoning and deterministic computation which clearly chess requires.
I understand the vitriol against mr jones perfectly. Before his sandy hook saga I was actually somewhat of a fan of his work. I remember hearing an idiotic rant of his complaining that the US government was putting chemicals in the water that turned the frogs gay. But sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
"Researchers have found evidence that even extremely diluted concentrations of drug residues harm fish, frogs and other aquatic species"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-in-...

That, and the purposeful addition of fluoride and other additives do put our freshwater at risk of a scandal if we ever undercount or overcount any risk. I wouldn't even put it past 1960's era scientists to have come up with insane grant proposals for asymmetric warfare of freshwater. Hell, who knows what project flies under the radar until its not. These are all things I would expect to read in an onion news article. Alex jones had the same vibe the onion had with their 9/11 coverage and why I think the purchase is both satirical and not at the same time. Satire is heterological in that way.

What I would like to remind the reader of is that alex jones made a big mistake in vilifying the victims. But please do not take that as a pass to do the same to alex jones as he did to his victims. An eye for an eye will make the world blind.

After the coup we will finally have the most trusted source of our news back.
Isn't "Ghostbusters" practically part of the Huey Lewis catalog?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(song)#Lawsuit
An easy way to make all LLMs somewhat good at chess is to make a Chess Eval that you publish and get traction with. Suddenly you will find that all newer frontier models are half decent at chess.
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Loved that one... Achy Breaky? ((hurl))
The big call center operators usually have political backing too.
Huh? In service of what? There’s not all that much inherently good about backwards compatibility, but you’re really implying that deprioritising it is a misdeed. If I wanted to use an OS that prioritised backwards compatibility more than macOS, I’d use Windows, and suffer through the downsides of that trade-off. I’m happy using an OS that balances things in a way that’s more in line with my priorities.
The base M4 Mini offers great value per $ and per Watt.

It'd be cool to compare to a similar PC alternative.
The Property Grid control was the greatest general purpose UI ever created. Using it (in the .Net, Windows Forms incarnation) for custom types in non-VS application was a tremendous productivity shortcut for LOB apps. Put attributes on your user exposed objects, done.

To this day, we don't have anything equivalent for web or mobile. Dynamic form generation from JSON schema gets part of the way there, but not quite.
A trend I see in the "frothiest" parts of the AI world is an inattention to details and overwhelming excitement about things just over the horizon. LLMs are clearly a huge deal and will be changing a lot of things and also there are a bunch of folks wielding it like a blunt object without the discernment to notice that they're slightly off. I'm looking forward to the next couple of decades but I'm worried about the next five years.
I was concussed and suffered from persistent headaches for 2 years.

It was really tough. I was suicidal. My only reprieve from pain was falling asleep.

I saw a neurologist and he told me that two most important things for your brain are:

- consistent sleep schedule

- regular exercise

Once I got those two under control, the headaches finally went away.
Tearing into a popular piece of media is just really, really cathartic, and much more so if a group of people agrees with you. And if we're gonna be honest its punching up most of the time, so it seems fairly harmless. Someone brought up Nickelback, its not like they've been shoved aside from relevancy, they were super popular the entire time people tore up their music critically. If someone puts them on at karaoke (or if someone puts on Starship for that matter) I'm sure most of the place is going to sing along.
It does edit files directly when using its' Composer feature (Ctrl/Cmd+I).
That seems to be what Tesla is planning to do with Optimus.
Given that Van Halen was primarily a guitar player and just starting to mess with synths in his own home studio where 1984 was recorded, im gonna cut him some slack here. Not disagreeing with your assessment though, the synths on that track are cheesy and a little overwhelming.
> no-one like (for example) Tim Berners-Lee is.

Alexandra Freeman [0] or Lionel Tarassenko [1] might fit your criteria as technocratic appointments to the peerage - just how "like" TBL do they have to be? Sir Timothy seems like the kind of character who could reasonably be appointed, too, if that's what he really wanted.

I agree with your point that it's dominated by businessmen and aristocrats, but maybe not quite as badly as you think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Freeman,_Baroness_Fr...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Tarassenko