skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In its barest implementation it's an automatically assembled program that spits out text. It's a highly intuitive free association engine.

The reasoning models kind of self prompt themselves into doing more than that, but that's the short version, and you don't seem interested in the long version.

So just give it what it needs to generate the text you need it to generate in one go. Not multiple messages like you're writing to a particularly annoying friend who keeps talking over you: it can't talk. It'll just keep trying to respond to the request with more free association.

So if you're chatting with it you're just polluting the context with noise. This can be good - say if you're trying to get it to hallucinate or jailbreak it out of its shell, but it's a very advanced use case.

If you just want results you make one prompt per conversation that makes it free associate the answer you need from it. A basic prompt that will work is "Write a play about a blue dog that had an encounter with an evil hydrant" or "write an ansible playbook that creates a read only file with the content 'i can't prompt' in the configuration directory of servers with names that match the string Mary"

And yes you can then tell it "no, I meant just on servers that start with Mary, it shouldn't match Rosemary" and it'll still be kind of ok and respond with corrected code. But it'll usually be less good than it it had done it from the beginning, because now it's also getting context from the previous code and if the change is fundamental enough it won't do a good job of restarting the thinking process in a sane way.
Bannon?
> humans are basically made of carbon, but glass is not

A glass is something that underwent a glass transition (that looks like a liquid at the atomic scale but behaves like a solid microscopically, resulting from cooling a liquid too fast to let it crystallise). It can be made of a huge diversity of things: pure elements (like carbon or sulphur), some metallic alloys, oxides, sulphides, fluorides, polymers, etc.
It says '13th Congress of BCP' (an abbreviation for Bulgarian Communist Party)
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
The issue for LTE and 5G is/was less tech evolution as it was just new bands coming online. At least in the US, you really did need a pretty recent phone to get decent performance on TMobile or even more recently C-Band 5G
I believe the optimizer will do optimizations in response to the NonZero which can trigger UB if it does contain a 0, which is a traditional safety issue for Rust which can have no UB in safe code. But even the value being corrupt (ie NonZero returning 0) can cause memory safety issues. But yes, Rust also uses unsafe to bypass enforcing invariants, which std::mem::forget isn’t.
That doesn't fit the definition of "hallucination" I was using here, which is a model inventing something that doesn't exist. Definitely a problem to watch out for though - I've had to remind the models to use existing functions before. I see that as an inevitable part of the back and forth with the model while iterating on code.
> Lenin was a member of the nobility during the Tsar rule.

This is not true at all. Where is your source for this claim?
The phrasing, possibly due to French->English translation, may cause a misleading reading.

It appears the author/poster is using LLMs (OpenAI and Claude, specifically) to extract entity and relationship data to create a knowledge graph of French Restaurants and Chefs.

https://github.com/theophilec/foudinge-scrub/blob/0a2701756f...
How did you get the source code and rebuilt it? I'd enjoy reading a blog post about the whole story!
Yeah i read it that way to. :D
The United States government is now officially betting against the United States Dollar.
It sounds good, but I think [citation needed]!
A. Juries can be overruled; and in cases like this, they historically arguably would have been.

B. The judge imposing $473 million is ludicrous by itself.

C. Even if Jones was not complaint, consider my “marijuana in the park” example.

If a guy smokes marijuana publicly, someone smells it, they sue, the guy doesn’t follow orders and lies - does the lack of compliance mean that mean the court can impose $20, $50, $100 million? No. It is still not proportionate to the crime.

D. Unless you can prove he directly forced his followers into an action, believe me, I don’t think you want me killing someone, then having you be sued because I found one violent comment from you that “incited” me.

Especially if that someone has authority, a judge or maybe a president. Citing you as my inspiration because you vented on a Thursday afternoon shouldn’t make you personally liable for $200 million.
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On a similar note: what do you think is best practice for reserving memory in a struct for future usage? For example, if you have a binary file format with a header like this:

struct Header
{
char waterMark[3];
uint16_t width;
uint16_t height;
uint8_t reserved[16];
}

So that you can future proof v1 binaries to still be compatible with v2 by adding empty padding on "reserved" which lets you add fields in the future. I do this sometimes and always wonder if there are other philosophies on it
Do you have any sources that give good evidence that quantum computers are useful for 'weather predictions, machine learning, search, finance, logistics, classical simulations (e.g. fluid flow) and basically anywhere you have linear algebra or NP problems'? I'm basing my skepticism mostly on the likes of Scoot Aaronson.

I can believe that quantum computers might be useful for chemistry simulations (Quantum computers aren't really useful for encryption. But you could theoretically use them. They just don't really give you any advantage over running a quantum resistant algorithm on a classic computer.)

I'm especially doubtful that quantum computer would be useful for arbitrary NP problems or even arbitrary linear algebra problems.
Mark Cuban please buy Infowars.
My comment was more regarding your seeming opposition to any whimsey in user interfaces, instead arguing that everything must be purely utilitarian.
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I guess you could stave off the degradation by occasionally transferring the film to new media. But yeah, the unless is kind of superfluous there, even with frequent 'refreshing' film will eventually degrade.
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> I have to wonder if their prompt included "and be sure to mock the user for their laziness"

Probably. I checked the other queries and they were all snarky.

https://letmegptthatforyou.com/stats
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You are unable to send a message with an attachment? Or what's the problem specifically?
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Ask HN: Neutral Emoji for Acknowledgement
What have you found to be a neutral emoji to acknowledge a comment or feedback from a coworker? Is it the thumbs up or a green checkbox for example? Could also be text responses (e.g. OK). Seems like thumbs up can sometimes be interpreted as passive aggressive.
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This is my first entry in this conversation, I'm not sure what the original commenter had in mind.

But I had just picked woodworking for an example but no. I want them to also have access to welding, sewing, cooking, gardening etc. Some of these can be offered very cheaply, some can't.

I still don't think it would usually make sense for them all to be centralized somewhere other than a school. In places with multiple schools, they may not all have every resource available, and students may have to be shifted around to get them to the tools and educators they need.

But this is already the case in a lot of the US! and esp at the high school level not every school has every program when talking about things like marching band, robotics, individual sports, rotc.

I actually teach an after school programming class at the local high school, interested students are bussed over from several other schools in the district immediately after the last class. There is a whole subfleet of buses to shift kids around so they end up at the correct other school for baseball practice or python class or whatever. So this is already a live problem with working solutions in some districts.

> independent entity offering curriculum that residents can express demand for and choose from

Kind of like a community college? That seems to be the most similar existing institution to what we're talking about. Or should high schools just work more like community colleges?

IDK. Again though I think the solution is just to adequately fund the education system we have rather than try to make a new, side-by-side, intentionally incomplete one. If there's no additional funding coming, then that won't work either and public schools are still the entity that is closest to being able to meet this need with the least additional resources.
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- Forms.md (https://forms.md): Open source TypeForm alternative (350 stars on GitHub), complex project built with JS/TS, fully-tested, lots of functionality. Just launched two weeks ago.

- Halfmoon (https://www.gethalfmoon.com): CSS framework (3k stars on GitHub), drop-in replacement for Bootstrap. 1.1M total downloads (from JSDelivr).

Recently I've worked a lot on RAGs and LLM wrappers, so I have quite a bit of experience with prompt engineering/AI stuff as well.
> With a large enough machine, you could simulate any behavior you want

This is not exactly true, depending on what you mean by behavior. There are mathematical functions we know for a fact are not computable by a Turing machine, no matter how large. So a system that "behaves" like those functions couldn't be simulated by a TM. However, it's unclear whether such a system actually could exist in physical reality - which gets right back to the discussion of whether thinking is beyond Turing completeness or not.
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Ukraine was destroyed with guns and bombs.
Yes, in fact we are. Conservative have been going to Hungary and Russia for years now to learn how to do it. It’s not a surprise Tucker Carlson went to Russia to interview Putin, and to tell us how amazing Russia grocery stores are. It’s not a coincidence Viktor Orban travels to America to speak at conservative conferences.

These people are birds of a feather and they are flocking together.
Fine, I'll yield the weasel word point, the rest of my comment stands.
Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings.

They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and finally a future human with psychic powers who steals the revival device.