skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To say an LLM is intelligent is like saying a scanner has an eye for detail"*
paulacannon

I have a 6 million+ word archive with ChatGPT.

It truly is like having an army of interns, each a confident undergrad in a different subject, who have paid attention to every lecture they ever went to, event the one they'd popped acid just before going in.

It's right more often than it is wrong, but some of its clangers are almost unbelievable.

Yet, having never written a line of code, to build a python application that analyzed election data and applied the results to an interactive map, that gave constituency specific data on hover.

It invariable uses the word clarify instead of correct when challenged. Yet it knows that a clarification is refining an answer within the set of the previously proffered answer, and a correction is a revision on an answer outside of the set previously provided.

It believes that this is so consistent that, on the balance of probabilities this is coded and not purely as a result of training data.

When asked to write an article on this, and include the instances from that conversation where it had incorrectly used the word clarify, it edited the quotes to remove the evidence (probably the most egregious act I've witnessed it perform).

I still use ChatGPT, even more so now since DeepSeek got slow, but I watch it like a hawk.

I still call it out every time it prevaricates or flat out lies, it still promises to do better, it still, on being challenged, acknowledges that these assurances are dangerous lies to anyone who doesn't know it's lying.

But, for me, it is still a highly useful tool.

It frequently makes assumptions that would be made by those in a field I am unfamiliar with in a way that allows me to refine arguments.

Sharing ChatGPT chats can be a very helpful means of sharing one's thought process.

I have it on strict instructions not to create unless specifically told to, to not regurgitate what it already has, to focus on critiquing instead of echoing or praising.

Yet it still reckons 70% of its output violates these instructions.

But the remaining 30% justifies the time I spend using this remarkable, next generation, automation machine.

Because that is what it is.

*To say it is intelligent is like saying a scanner has an eye for detail.
Yes, a scanner identifies every pixel but and LLM is no more a brain that a scanner is an eye.
(And, yes, I know, but this is a line for people who don't know the neurological processing behind sight, which to be fair, is frequently not very logical.)

So it is a threat to people who earn money on fiverr writing bits of code or designing logos - hell yes.

It is a threat to those who code complex systems or who's designs can add actual digits to market share? hell no. Or at least not for the foreseeable future.

Just as the dotcom bubble funded the internet infrastructure that we still use today (just very inefficiently), it is unlikely these trillions will be completely wasted
Trump is the one that will be thrown under the bus.

Vance will be America's last president.

Musk will be supreme leader of America's successor state and off-world colonies.
This! Data! okay, so it's actually rare to get there .. and you'd need skills to get there .. wouldn't it be better to push harder for compounded results?
I chose my words very carefully
>iPhone fundamentally redefined what a cellphone and a portable computer could be, as did the iPad, creating entirely new consumer and business use cases almost immediately.
>So, what exactly has generative AI actually done? Where are the products? No, really, where are they? What's the product you use every day, or week, that uses generative AI, that truly changes your life? If generative AI disappeared tomorrow — assuming you are not somebody who actively builds using it — would your life materially change?

I think ChatGPT and similar generative AI did fundamentally redefine what software could be. Everyone rushed to implement generative AI into every software. Even MS Paint has AI now. Before this, the idea that you would have it was unthinkable.

If it doesn't make any money, that's a separate issue.

>If generative AI disappeared tomorrow — assuming you are not somebody who actively builds using it — would your life materially change?

To put it in another way, you could live without the ability to drag and drop, but that doesn't mean it hasn't redefined user interfaces.
Yeah, exactly. It blows my mind that expecting accountability, transparency, and effectiveness out of public servants is even a partisan issue.
Had similar experience setting up new office table.

Surely rearranging work stuff will take 10 minutes at best right?

Well it took me 2 hours to reorganize it to an acceptable state.

Tried different layouts and did some rethinking on ergonomics.
Light is anything in the spectrum visible to people, with the exception of infrared being called light. What evidence do you have that this is true?
You can run MuPDF in Wasm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096113
Anecdotal, but I've gotten three recruiting emails from them now for joining their iOS team. I got on a call and confirmed they were offering FAANG++ comp but with the expectation of in-office 50h+ (realistically more).

I don't have that dog in me anymore, but there are plenty of engineers who do and will happily work those hours for 500k USD.
> the other one poured jet fuel in when they opened it

welp guess i'm never flying again
The comment I was replying to had replied to an lmarena benchmark link. Perhaps you think that person should have replied to someone else? And, if you want to finish the quote, Karpathy's opinion on this is subjective. He admits it isn't a "real" evaluation.

"[...] though of course we need actual, real evaluations to look at."

His own tests are better than nothing, but hardly definitive.
the cobalt thing would only explain the 150 years but what about the ranges after that including 1 at 300? clearly something wierd going.
Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port to GTK4 Toolkit
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Are you using APIs or scraping with headless browsers for RAG citations?
I agree, although even vibrate is too loud for my tastes. The biggest win of having a watch connected to my phone is that I can leave the phone entirely mute with the vibration off and get my alerts through an actually discrete vibration in the watch.

That said, these ring tones are better than most.
Show HN: We're building a browser that does work for you
Boeing solved it by leaving the bolts out of the doors.
So its not H1B its L1A that they gamed. Anyways, hardly the job strealing scheme its touted to be. You gotta renew it every year and should the employer fire you, you lose the visa. Not a win-win for the employee.
In a small town pre-internet (I can't speak to now), goth could be a way of outwardly embracing an invisible social fact. When people felt rejected and excluded, some conformed and abased themselves to get back into the social good graces of the in-crowd, and others burned their bridges to show their defiance. Goth was one flavor of the latter.

God, small towns are shitty. Anyone who romanticizes small towns or small involuntary communities of any kind must see themselves as permanently part of the dominant group.

EDIT: To bring this back to the article, I guess it's nice if the country is now a place where being goth can be about "a quiet confidence, which manifests externally as shyness" instead of being about "if I accepted the community's evaluation of me, I would have to erase myself, and I still have enough of a survival instinct to fight against that."

Also, I disagree with this part:

> In the city the vectors come from many directions, but cancel out and you remain more or less a circle. In the country you get repeated perturbation by a few vectors that deforms you into a spiky, interesting shape.”

Being interesting can be about responding to different vectors of scrutiny differently. You can respond to them all and still be interesting if you respond in a mild way to some and an extreme way to others, and you're willing to make choices when different vectors contradict each other. Otherwise, interesting people wouldn't emerge in cities, and they do.
That might have saved them, breaking the source of fuel away
Perhaps now with all his controversies…but Tesla would not be the company it is today without him. Musk may not be a genius engineer and is a shit human, but what he is—wealthy and willing to make risky bleeding edge tech investments with extremely long ROIs and have the patience to wait them out is what makes Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink names we all know.
I think most people blindly try to get controls in Vanta/Drata to pass like us. I'd much rather build a dumb bot than having to talk to my auditor. But still

> we realize how stupid this is
Great story.

And ndiswrapper… I haven’t read that word in SO long!
Ah yes, replacing the ‘elites’ with a single person, much less scary. And, to be clear, the ‘elites’ are still in power (because, in America, power tends to follow money). The only thing that seems to be happening is the rapid destruction of any system Elon deems ‘bad.’

We aren’t better off at the whims of this robber baron, and I don’t understand how you can think that.
Ah, the good old "checkerboard" approach. Visible in the second video from 3:10 to 3:25 on the left, and when it was clearly visible it was time to turn right and land. After the move to the new Chek Lap Kok airport in 1998, the checker board fell into disrepair, but was renovated a while ago. It's visible from my office in its old red-and-white glory.

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

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

https://droneandslr.com/travel-blog/hong-kong/checkerboard-h...
For those who don't know what furries are: Joe Goes To CatCon (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxMpdfyofhY?t=550 (at 09:10)
I literally post for years the same thing about the need for open source alternatives to social platforms where 1 person controls the algorithm to prioritize what a billion people see. And the response is “meh”. No one even bothers to read past the first paragraph:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036350

But if you really want to see the “immune system” shine, mention web3 and smart contracts, and watch the downvotes pour in. Any time one even mentions “decentralized byzantine fault tolerant” anything, an army rises up to repeat anodyne versions of “grift… no one needs it… banks are great…” etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073421

But if you mention any concerns with AI, no matter who or what you cite, the same group goes the other way and always repeats “(insert problem here) has always been possible, there is nothing to see here, move on, AI is amazing, deregulate and let the industry develop faster”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900155

It’s groupthink at its most obvious, repeatable, always on, and I wonder how much of it is organic.
Perhaps, and the externalities often unaccounted for or hand-waved away.

Even the US Government is getting involved in subsidizing these companies and all of the infrastructure and resources needed to keep it expanding. We can look forward to even more methane power plants, more drilling, more fracking, more noisy data-centres sucking up fresh water from local reserves and increased damage to the environment that will come out of the pocket books of... ?

Update: And for what? "Deep Research"? Apparently it's not that great or world-changing for the costs involved. It seems that the author is tired of the yearly promise that everything is just a year or two away as long as we keep shovelling more money and resources into the furnace.
There is, but it's awful: The "just use the giant library/framework to solve the small problem" approach.

Like, I need to store a value or two for this local filesystem-oriented application. Not a lot, just like a "time since last check".

YAGNI solution: just dump json to a file.

Frameworky solution: Sqlite. You'll eventually need more, and Sqlite is not significantly harder than dumping json to a file, although it feels heavier.

Like starting up a small web-project by pulling in webpack and react. If you don't pull in the frameworks ASAP, eventually you'll accidentally find yourself NIHing yourself into Greenspun's Rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Are you actually? Why?
Show HN: Nosey Parker Explorer, a TUI for interactive review of secret exposures
Nosey Parker Explorer is an interactive TUI tool for reviewing possible exposed secrets detected by Nosey Parker [1], a fast secrets detector designed for offensive security (e.g., red team engagements). It makes it feasible for one person to triage thousands of findings in a few hours.

How did Nosey Parker Explorer come about? 2-3 years ago I was working on training ML models for tasks related to hardcoded secrets, such as TP/FP classification and detection. These are pretty specific tasks and there are no open-access datasets. So, I had to build my own dataset of several thousand labeled examples.

None of the existing tools for data labeling that I ran across was a good fit for the task. They were all either too general-purpose, too complicated to set up, or too slow. So I built my own proof-of-concept purpose-built terminal-based labeling app using the excellent Textual TUI framework [2] and DuckDB [3] to build fast faceted search. A couple weeks later I had Nosey Parker Explorer.

Nosey Parker Explorer proved very effective at the dataset construction task. My team of a few people used it to label about 15k examples collected from 2TB of input.

However, beyond dataset creation, Nosey Parker Explorer was a huge boon for security engineers on engagements. Once you are dealing with more than a few dozen possible findings, it is _hugely_ helpful to be able to interactively slice-and-dice the data. The largest-scale use of it that I'm aware of was an assumed-breach engagement where we had tens of thousands of potential findings from 20TB of scanned inputs.

Nosey Parker Explorer was far too useful to be left as a proof-of-concept or only used internally. A couple weeks ago I released it under the Apache 2 license.

If you want to try it, It's a Python application (not yet on PyPI). There are prebuilt zipapp releases, but you can also clone the repository and `pip install`. You will first need to use Nosey Parker to scan something. See the project's README for details.

Happy to answer questions.

[1] Nosey Parker: https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker

[2] Textual: https://textual.textualize.io

[3] DuckDB: https://duckdb.org
I love Libby. It's introduced me to so many titles by browsing what's currently available that I otherwise would've skipped over. The 21 day loan period gives me just enough of a gentle push to read that I wouldn't have if I owned the book outright.
In fact, people who criticize Milei or deviate from what he considers the norm, however mildly, get thrown out of government (see: Ramiro Marra). He has a troll farm run by influencers who will ostracize anyone who criticizes Milei. It's very likely Fran Fijap was told by them to delete his post "or else"...
SpaceX is also not publicly traded, so not subject to the whims of opinion or optics, just value delivered.
I don’t know that your statement is relevant.

The ban appears to be on any foreign control of satellite internet providers, regardless of whether they also supply the US military.

Also, now they’re changing their minds, so even if it was a concern, as you content, they’re willing to sell out.
That was fast. Perhaps we should imagine this has nothing to do with Musk to avoid completely derailing the conversation
Absolutely exists in Germany. E.g. the parent chat group for day care is Signal. Not as ubiquitous as WhatsApp (which was the chat of the previous day care) but not obscure either.
> like multi-node deployment, downtime considerations

Never had an issue with Django on a large project at a previous $8b startup whose code base went over several major data refactors.

In fact Django’s excellent migrations was specially called out for the reason for our confidence in making large DB refactors.
Very cool! I saw a number of projects pretty similar to this one, typed racket for example. I didn’t really talk about it too much but what I want to do is flip the direction. Coalton is based on CL, but what I would like is scheme to essentially be a set of Gouki function with the signature top … -> top. Then, i want to see how fast I can make the interaction between them be using different analysis like k-CFA
Or way easier, build an harness, then just copy-paste the few tests you created at the beginning, because test codes is the most repetitive code I've seen. No need to rely on external services and much more simpler to maintain and reason about.
Wilco is almost totally based off of pub and roots rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAunCCRtPjM
Systematically Terraforming a Brownfield of Cloud Infrastructure
Maintaining and making new friends will become more difficult soon as the responsibilities of mid-life impact your peers.

Go deep into a single hobby that brings you intense joy and puts you in social situations. Don't dabble in a few and don't focus on ones you can do yourself.

Start connecting with people (like sending out birthday cards, celebrating milestones) and catching up with close friends or family more intentionally. Put effort into building and maintaining relationships.

Lastly, try and be a bit more unfocused. I tried too hard to live a "fulfilling" life in my 30s and felt like I spent a lot of energy and time on the wrong things.
> And in the rare cases when things do go wrong your chances of survival are much higher.

That's a completely irrelevant metric.

The only thing that matters is my risk of injury/death per passenger mile. Trains are much worse. End of story.

What you're saying is that trains get into far more accidents, but that don't injure/kill you. On top of still being much more likely to injure/kill you.

And you think that's a good thing...?
I’m not really following what this has to do with grok. It’s his company, no?

It’s also annoying that the top comment engages in no way with the content of the OP…

It must be truly infuriating to work hard to push a release, and you see it featured on your favorite orange website, only for the top comment to have nothing to do with what was worked on.

Here's a test - if this post was about Starship, the same comment could apply! Neuralink, the same thing! Boring Company, same thing! Wow, could it be that such a comment is really applicable to so many different companies or projects, or is it just a generic one? You decide.
Transformers can do weather prediction yes.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03876
Unfortunately, I have made the same experience.

We bought an old (1930s) 2 story single-family home last year which needed to be gutted almost entirely.

Except the plumber, all trade folks we had tried to cut corners and delivered subpar quality. Even the ones that came recommended.

We did a lot of the destruction work ourselves as that was not complicated or dangerous (under the guidance of a structural engineer and proper protective equipment).

Our walls are entirely out of brick and not 100% straight. Our plasterer somehow managed to make them curvy. He is licensed in my country and not some general handyman.
We had to sand down the walls ourselves to get them straight. He tried to charge us for that.

Electrician started the job but now never shows up. We still have some of his tools he left here, but won't answer texts or calls.
Family member thankfully is an electrician but doesn't live close to us. We paid them to plan everything for us, we'd install it, they'd come check and do the mains connection.

Drywallers put drywall on walls that shouldn't have any. We provided them plans that clearly detailed instructions. They admitted they were wrong but still wanted to charge us for the work.

We ended up doing most the work ourselves. Not necessarily because we wanted to, but calling, organizing, and ultimately arguing and running after the trades folks was such a pain in the ass. At some point I decided to keep track of much time I spent on quality checks and running after them and I figured out it wouldve taken me less time (and money) to just do it myself from the get go.
Some additional facts that may aid the discussion:

- Dilithium + Kyber is faster than ECDSA + ECDH on the same hardware. Depending on the platform, it can be up to 33% faster.

- Most commercial entities are implementing hybrid, but in concatenation, not layered, mode. The classical inclusion is mainly for compatibility with "legacy" systems.
It blows my mind that Musk hasn't integrated Grok as an app inside their vehicles. A literal AI copilot is a completely novel and killer app that cannot be pulled off by any other vehicle manufacturer.
> actually address and fix systematic problems with the US government

I wonder if you could even name what some of these critical problems are? Or have you just been told that there are problems that justify this chaos?
There are llms below 1000 in the leaderboard
Yes but those people would be wrong in this case.
Neuro inspired AI framework uses reverse-order learning to enhance code
Elsewhere in the thread is a video showing at least one passenger carrying their baggage. 90+ percent compliance isn't bad though
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This is really cool! I get so many notifications and would love to just ignore my email ones if I can get them summarized like this.

What was the hardest part to build out? I feel like email is always a little tricky to get right when I build stuff that relies on it.

I like building out knowledge-base on stuff and seems like email would be amazing for building an understanding of my needs or more easily get at details about myself I would want. Do you feel like it’s helped you learn anything about yourself as a result of these email summaries? Or is there an action you do more now as a result of having Delegate?
It isn't using their preferred stack.

Preferred stack: The one they know.
People with big business empires just shouldn't be government officials, trade in specific stocks, etc.

The incentives for corruption are obvious, and how we (the US) have that problem in spades.
China Rescues Stranded Lunar Satellites
their profits should be $0

This may not be what you meant but considering they took the fall for massive amounts of arson, blew up a neighborhood and have aging infrastructure that is also causing fires and gas explosions, shutting off power for entire towns when it gets windy PSPS shutoffs ... it probably should be something close to that. It is not clear to me how they are still profitable unless the state is shielding them from legal challenges and/or bailing them out.

PG&E was one of the many dozens of reasons I left the state. I had to run their power through massive switching and linear power supplies, then again through inverters just to clean up and stabilize it so they would stop destroying my gear.
I don’t think you can put logic on what you do and don’t remember from an event. Biology would have to mate that with some contextual reasoning somehow which seems a bit to complex for something so inherently subconscious. For example when I think of some family vacations from childhood I can remember deep details about staring out the car window at some place, but as for the fun things we actually did there I am at a loss and have to be reminded by family.

I guess all that is to say you can’t seem to be in control of when the tape player starts recording and you can’t reliably find your old tapes.
Anticipation comes from experience. This is how you get it.
Large parts of the government needed to be dismantled. I know this is a shock to the people whose solution to every problem is “give the government more money”, but amazingly, people who primarily take a job because it has a cushy pension and its impossible to get fired are not the most effective people in the world.