skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look man, and I'm saying this not to you but to everyone who is in this boat; you've got to understand that after a while, the novelty wears off. We get it. It's miraculous that some gigabytes of matrices can possibly interpret and generate text, images, and sound. It's fascinating, it really is. Sometimes, it's borderline terrifying.

But, if you spend too much time fawning over how impressive these things are, you might forget that something being impressive doesn't translate into something being useful.

Well, are they useful? ... Yeah, of course LLMs are useful, but we need to remain somewhat grounded in reality. How useful are LLMs? Well, they can dump out a boilerplate React frontend to a CRUD API, so I can imagine it could very well be harmful to a lot of software jobs, but I hope it doesn't bruise too many egos to point out that dumping out yet another UI that does the same thing we've done 1,000,000 times before isn't exactly novel. So it's useful for some software engineering tasks. Can it debug a complex crash? So far I'm around zero for ten and believe me, I'm trying. From Claude 3.7 to Gemini 2.5, Cursor to Claude Code, it's really hard to get these things to work through a problem the way anyone above the junior dev level can. Almost unilaterally, they just keep digging themselves deeper until they eventually give up and try to null out the code so that the buggy code path doesn't execute.

So when Sabine says they're useless for interpreting scientific publications, I have zero trouble believing that. Scoring high on some shitty benchmarks whose solutions are in the training set is not akin to generalized knowledge. And these huge context windows sound impressive, but dump a moderately large document into them and it's often a challenge to get them to actually pay attention to the details that matter. The best shot you have by far is if the document you need it to reference definitely was already in the training data.

It is very cool and even useful to some degree what LLMs can do, but just scoring a few more points on some benchmarks is simply not going to fix the problems current AI architecture has. There is only one Internet, and we literally lit it on fire to try to make these models score a few more points. The sooner the market catches up to the fact that they ran out of Internet to scrape and we're still nowhere near the singularity, the better.
I am making an effort to use LLMs at work, but in my workflow it's basically just a fancy auto complete. Having a more AI centric workflow could be interesting, but I haven't thought of a good way to rig that up. I'm also not really itching for something to do my puzzles for me. They're what gets me out of bed in the morning.

I haven't tried using LLMs for much else, but I am curious as long as I can run it on my own hardware.

I also totally get having a problem with the massive environmental impact of the technology. That's not AIs fault per se, but its a valid objection.
This isn't really a problem in tool-assisted LLMs.

Use google AI studio with search grounding. Provides correct links and citations every time. Other companies have similar search modes, but you have to enable those settings if you want good results.
Men are also way less likely to go to Dr vs women. Yet this claims a bias against women as well.
IDK. I'm to the point I kinda would rather they fail and I migrate over to android and continue to use Linux than they keep stagnating.

If the new wave ushers in some real innovation and vision, then it was worth the gamble.
The big boys can also get away with stealing all the copyrighted material ever created by human beings.
> they are a highly effective tool for productive development for senior developers

I think this is the most important bit many people miss. It is advertised as an autonomous software developer, or something that can take a junior to senior levels, but that's just advertising.

It is actually most useful for senior developers, as it does the grunt work for them, while grunt work is actually useful work for a junior developer as a learning tool.
That's one of my favorite features of macOS keyboard layouts, but it's so close to one of my least favorite ones – option + space inserting a non-breaking space.

I almost never want that, and when typing "space, en dash, space", it happens quite easily and is usually impossible to tell visually.
Love this, and I'm in the same boat. Is your configuration of kanata public at all?

I know it's mostly muscle memory, but macOS shortcuts just seem sane and consistent and that has been one of the biggest frustrations when trying to switch. I found toshy[0] which does something similar - did you try that? The goal is purely macOS key remappings in Linux, so a much smaller scope than kanata.

[0]: https://toshy.app
I was doing something very similar to telelumen but given the variation in LED spectrum you could get off aliexpress in 2020 I could never hope to match their quality without tuning each led separately.

Looking at the spectrum graphs for your lights I'm seeing the telltale phosphor coating spike for both warm and cool white leds. An understandable tradeoff, but with the brightness of monochromatic LEDs you can get today one that's not essential any more.

With the drop in costs for both controllers and pcbs since then you should be able to get telelumen quality temperature spectra without the matching price, especially if you can get LEDs that have consistent spectra for their nominal wavelength - you only need to tune the controller once instead of for each light.
>but we take it very seriously up here.

Canadians were always insecure, the recent events just exacerbated it and brought it to the fore. Canadians have to have a hard look at themselves, they overall fare poorly on many fronts: jobs, taxes, housing and (gasp!) healthcare compared to the US. If they fared better they would not feel so threatened/outraged. I'm however pessimistic that they are capable of that level of introspection, because the smartest/wisest Canadians have already left and immigrated to the US. These smart/wise people always knew their country was sub-par despite the delusional rhetoric of superiority that Canadians often indulge in against the US (we have 'free' healthcare!).
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X613.85

The memory boards used wire wrapping as data structuring similar to a database.

Wild stuff. I wonder how many still exist I have the original dust covers.
You clearly don't understand. Once the BTC cryptography is compromised, there is now way to prove chain of custody, so there is no way to prove who has how much bitcoin and assign it to a new coin. Literally, in an instant, the price of BTC goes to zero.
Can anyone offer insight and/thoughts on his mention of knowledge graphs helping (beyond KGs provide robust source attribution)?

I've been looking at these recently but not specifically to solve "LLM issues".
> fraction of the weight, depth, and cost of the large coelux

Emphasis mine. I think this was already answered :)
So many people putting expectations up to knock down about models. Infinite reasons to critique them.

Please dispense with anyone's "expectations" when critiquing things! (Expectations are not a fault or property of the object of the expectations.)

Today's models (1) do things that are unprecedented. Their generality of knowledge, and ability to weave completely disparate subjects together sensibly, in real time (and faster if we want), is beyond any other artifact in existence. Including humans.

They are (2) progressing quickly. AI has been an active field (even through its famous "winters") for several decades, and they have never moved forward this fast.

Finally and most importantly (3), many people, including myself, continue to find serious new uses for them in daily work, that no other tech or sea of human assistants could replace cost effectively.

The only way I can make sense out of anyone's disappointment is to assume they simply haven't found the right way to use them for themselves. Or are unable to fathom that what is not useful for them is useful for others.

They are incredibly flexible tools, which means a lot of value, idiosyncratic to each user, only gets discovered over time with use and exploration.

That that they have many limits isn't surprising. What doesn't? Who doesn't? Zeus help us the day AI doesn't have obvious limits to complain about.
All of those top domains (of which the majority are pinterest) have more than earned it.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFvaouKKEhbBPm/a-bear-cas...

> Eisegesis is "the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas or biases". LLMs feel very smart when you do the work of making them sound smart on your own end: when the interpretation of their output has a free parameter which you can mentally set to some value which makes it sensible/useful to you.

> This includes e. g. philosophical babbling or brainstorming. You do the work of picking good interpretations/directions to explore, you impute the coherent personality to the LLM. And you inject very few bits of steering by doing so, but those bits are load-bearing. If left to their own devices, LLMs won't pick those obviously correct ideas any more often than chance.
> Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!

No, that's not my problem with it. My problem with it is that inbuilt into the models of all LLMs is that they'll fabricate a lot. What's worse, people are treating them as authoritative.

Sure, sometimes it produces useful code. And often, it'll simply call the "doTheHardPart()" method. I've even caught it literally writing the wrong algorithm when asked to implement a specific and well known algorithm. For example, asking it "write a selection sort" and watching it write a bubble sort instead. No amount of re-prompts pushes it to the right algorithm in those cases either, instead it'll regenerate the same wrong algorithm over and over.

Outside of programming, this is much worse. I've both seen online and heard people quote LLM output as if it were authoritative. That to me is the bigger danger of LLMs to society. People just don't understand that LLMs aren't high powered attorneys, or world renown doctors. And, unfortunately, the incorrect perception of LLMs is being hyped both by LLM companies and by "journalists" who are all to ready to simply run with and discuss the press releases from said LLM companies.
Burning down the rainforests so I don’t have to wait for my fingers.
very cool, I tried to feed it the toolhouse.ai openapi spec and it worked VERY quickly!! wow
First, alcohol should be used topically only for medical treatment.

Second, getting drunk is simply the result of poisoning oneself, and that is detrimental to our body, so we should avoid it. It destroys our B vitamins and causes cancer, if the newer studies are to be believed (and I do).

Third, it lessens our inhibitions which is a huge societal problem. Sure, not everyone gets shitfaced or even behaves badly when imbibing too much, but the risk is always there and when one looks honestly at societies over the ages, lots of bad things happen when people get drunk. Domestic violence would drop significantly if people didn't get drunk or use hard drugs. I'm not a 'make it illegal' kind of guy, because that simply never works, but educating the population on the negative potential effects should be essential education for young people.

It's good you have outgrown that negative tendency of our cultures. Sometimes, we actually do gain wisdom as we age :-)

Peace be with you, my friend.
That’s kinda the SEO equivalent of security by obscurity though, right? SEO spam puts a lot less effort into optimizing for other search engines, whereas Google is dealing with being the primary target of every adversarial SEO spam site.
Why not start supporting Asahi financially, if you aren't already?
By the time the capital runs out, I suspect we'll be able to get open models at the level of current frontier and companies will buy a server ready to run it for internal use and reasonable pricing. It will be useful but a complete commodity.
That's the only party I can get behind!
You misread. It's more like grudging admiration that Apple took the proprietary software beamforming route. It's a remark to its technical function but acknowledges that because of its closed implementation, the microphones just cannot be used outside of the macOS ecosystem without additional effort (like in this repo).

Which is, as I'm sure you agree, is unfortunate and at least deserving of some (minor) reprisal.
We're talking about getting work done here, not some purity dance about how you find your information the "right way" by looking in books in libraries or something. Or wait, do you use the internet? How very impure of you. You should know, people post misinformation on there!
Humans also get things wrong surprisingly large percentage of the time.
A non-zero amount of delusional people believing something ridiculous doesn't make it true.
Maybe I was unclear, I think the exploited hole was cut by the vendor.

You hire team A of excellent security people to build you an impenetrable barrier. They do a sterling job and are appropriately rewarded.

Then you realise oops, the new feature we're very proud of can't work with that impenetrable barrier. Hey, Jim, we need the feature to work ASAP, figure out a way to do that without removing the expensive barrier. And so of course Jim cuts a hole in it.
I somehow do not think OP is working for themselves. They are a contractor there. I do believe contracting is just being an employee on slightly different terms.

> I work alone and only have one reputation. I don't want to be that contractor forever known for destroying a clients business.
You can, you just won’t get the hdmi compliance sticker
What's your point/goal with this and your cousin comments? Yes, of course at some point you need to trust a binary or verify yourself. I'm technically correct and you're technically correct. What are you getting at? Do you suggest people not use Signal? What do you suggest as an alternative? What should Signal do to change things? Splitting management of the app and service doesn't help much; a compromised browser, not co-owned with the services it accesses, is enough to eavesdrop on someone despite HTTPS.
I get not using em/en dashes, but semicolons don't really have an alternative in many cases (other than rephrasing), do they?
> Social Justice has yet to put a man on the moon.

Here's another way to look at it: For most of history a significant portion -- probably the vast majority -- of the human population has been relegated to economically low-level labor for numerous reasons. Unfortunately, this has disproportionately affected specific groups of people, often through some form of social oppression, and has continued even as social norms have changed and global productivity and wealth have exploded.

One upshot is that this has kept those people from contributing to global economic and scientific progress unless they could break out of the social strata they were born into. Hence, beyond fairness, "social justice" is also a way to increase the pool of people who can contribute.

And in that sense, yes, social justice has absolutely helped put a man on the moon. Case in point: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hidden-figures/
Skew in the user base at least
Dot-com boom/bubble all over again. A whole bunch of the current leaders will go bust. A new generation of companies will take over, actually focused on specific customer problems and growing out of profitable niches.

The technology is useful, for some people, in some situations. It will get more useful for more people in more situations as it improves.

Current valuations are too high (Gartner hype cycle), after they collapse valuations will be too low (again, hype cycle), then it'll settle down and the real work happens.
Oh it's really cool that you've used the arch wiki in that way. I had already done Linux From Scatch before I ran across the Arch wiki, so I was already familiar with concepts like boot loaders, kernel modules, and daemons. I mostly used it to find some sane config file values.
What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities?

Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.
Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring
"That's" is two words, contracted.
I'm curious about the difficulty curve. As long as the puzzles take the form "group of left-facing frogs - empty pad - group of right-facing frogs", they'll all have exactly the same solution. If you can do level 2, you can do level 2222 without needing to come up with any new ideas.

This kind of blocks the notion of a "difficulty curve" - it's just a flat line.

Level 4 is different, but I'm guessing the reason people say it's easier is that the frogs on the left never need to interact in any way with the frogs on the right. You can just march your left-frogs onto the transformer, see them turn around, and march them back to their ultimate destination, then repeat the process on the right.

I don't think there's any solution that would allow a frog to jump over the transformer, so you're essentially required to do this - all frogs must make their way to the transformer, transform, and go back home - although you can make it look more or less complex. This essentially gives you two copies of the "level 3 and below" puzzle, one on the left of the transformer and the other on the right.
It's done for e-bikes and mopeds and has been for years. Whether it's dangerous or not doesn't seem to be an issue.
> dumping out yet another UI that does the same thing we've done 1,000,000 times before isn't exactly novel

As a yet that's exactly what people get paid to do every day. And if it saves them time, they won't exactly get bored of that feature.
There’s an unknowable here. Maybe a customs officer in an ME country crafted a poor regex while processing a data dump of billions of Amazon product listings. But my bet is that it was an Amazon employee, and the customs officer doesn’t know what regex is, and would hopefully recognize that mentos are benign.
While that may be classic Marxist stuff, modern philosophers like Byung-Chul Han give a great twist on the whole thing in a digital age, I should've linked to his works too, especially for the self-optimising HN crowd.

Just quoting from Wikipedia:

>Han argues that subjects become self-exploiters: "Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself."[12] The individual has become what Han calls "the achievement-subject"; the individual does not believe they are subjugated "subjects" but rather "projects: Always refashioning and reinventing ourselves" which "amounts to a form of compulsion and constraint—indeed, to a "more efficient kind of subjectivation and subjugation." As a project deeming itself free of external and alien limitations, the "I" subjugates itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization.[13]
Love the pragmatic and varied use. Nice one and thanks for some ideas.
is the person that made you take those interviews in the thread with us?
There's a few factors here:

1. We're talking about a span of 200 or so years. There is plenty of modern medicine that is still based on now century+ old knowledge.

2. The feedback loop. If you were learning medicine in the 1950's, you were probably learning from medical texts written in the 50 or so years before that, when it's not unreasonable to think women would have been less represented. Those same doctors from the 1950's would then have been teaching the next generation of doctors, and they carried those (intentional or not) biases forward. Of course there was new information, but you don't tend to have much time to explore novel medicine when you're in medical school or residency, so by the time you can integrate the new knowledge, some biases have already set in. Repeat for a few generations, and you tend to only get a dilution of those old ideas, not a wholesale replacement of them.

3. If you've been affected by such biases as a patient, you're less likely to trust and be willing to participate with medicine, once more reinforcing the feedback loop.

I don't have any specific numbers or studies for you, but you could probably find more than a few that attest to this phenomenon. I hate to go with 'trust me bro' here, but my knowledge on this topic largely comes from knowing people that are either studying or practicing medicine currently, so it's anecdotal, but the anecdotes are from those in the field currently.
The lack of filters in things like Photos or the iCloud version baffles me. Tools that would be effective and far more useful than half of what they add instead.
This is leftist propaganda masquerading as objective research, entirely ignoring the significant amount of "hate speech" censorship that goes on, as well.

Whatever your opinion about what books should or shouldn't be banned, claiming the issue is pretty much exclusively one of censorship of LGBTQ material is inane.
We have integrations with dozens of external vendor APIs for which it's essentially impossible to disambiguate ahead of time whether any given error might be on their end or ours.
I also recommend Bluefin-DX. Been running it for about a year now and love it.
Happened to my parents. Installer went under because the windows weren't as reliable as they expected.
This is not new, only applied to programs instead of staff (which probably means it won't be as effective):

Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidates’ diversity and inclusion statements - https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/12/31/life-science-jobs-...

FIRE calls on UC Santa Cruz to drop diversity statement mandate for faculty applicants - https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-calls-uc-santa-cruz-drop-d...

Minority professor denied grants because he hires on merit - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/minority-professor-deni...
>It's funny you focus so much on the "Cold War", when it was mostly a Cold War between... US and USSR.

The common US view is that if that Cold War was not "fought", the USSR would've taken over most or all of Europe. Non-alignment only works if there are 2 rival superpowers to play off of each other. But if you're fine with USSR hegemony in Europe, or you think that's not the outcome that would've happened -- that's a great argument for the US pulling out now. If the US doesn't reliably make things better (which is my view), it's better for us to leave.

>I hear you on how Americans perceive the situation differently, but you are similarly not willing to hear out the European viewpoints.

I think I am willing to hear Europeans out. I previously said stuff in this thread like "I'm happy for you to constructively critique..." and "If you wish to persuade me... you're welcome to respectfully make your case..." and "Of course Europe's contribution to Iraq and Afghanistan should be acknowledged." [Note that Europeans in this thread have largely not acknowledged any sort of positive contribution the US made to Europe -- which reinforces my point that we should go. What frustrates me is Europeans who complain about the US endlessly, and also want us to stay!]

>Anyway, I think this has gone long enough — thank you for sharing your perspective, and even if I failed to nudge you towards better understanding the "other side" too, it's always great to hear different viewpoints.

Appreciate you sharing your perspective as well. To be fair, I think we mostly agree with one another anyways, and my disagreements are deeper with others in this thread.
What teleprompter solution do you use?