skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting a paragraph from OP (https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...):

> Sometimes, this sort of “misfire” of the “known answer” circuit happens naturally, without us intervening, resulting in a hallucination. In our paper, we show that such misfires can occur when Claude recognizes a name but doesn't know anything else about that person. In cases like this, the “known entity” feature might still activate, and then suppress the default "don't know" feature—in this case incorrectly. Once the model has decided that it needs to answer the question, it proceeds to confabulate: to generate a plausible—but unfortunately untrue—response.
Hope you have the honesty to do the same.
People are really over indexing on current AI capabilities.

We’re barely 2 years on from ChatGPT’s initial release and we’ve gone from “this thing can put words together in a semi-coherent way” to “this thing produces undergrad level research papers on anything you ask about”.

Where will we be in another 2 years? Probably not at AGI, but there’s no sign this is slowing down.
There are a number of post concrete cured enhancements to buildings that improve earthquake resistance that may not yet have been added (if planned) .. antisway damping, additional bracing and or bridge like cabling, etc.
No longer going. :(
Why is there even a desire to replace software developers? Presumably this is the kind of job humans find meaningful

Why is there even a desire to replace car manufacturers? Presumably this is the kind of job humans find meaningful

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They needed democrats to vote to pass the CR. A government shutdown would be better than give them a rubber stamp. You are parroting lies.
> However, it is not recommended to use the API to send passwords or war plans.

Very good
I was not raised Christian growing up, but I still recall believing someone was always watching me as a kid. It was likely because so many around me were religious, and I had been told so many dead relatives were "up there smiling down on us" when they died. I thought both that someone was looking through my windows and that people "up there" could see me.

Until I got access to pornography (too early) and then I guess the tradeoffs changed, and I eventually got over it. I do distinctly remember wondering what grandma thinks of me at that time. But not for long, logic kicks in to explain anything away when you've got fast internet to exploit.
reinvent is in vegas
"Yup, I'm erasing my debts now. Woosh! And now I'm doubling my money!" it's like watching a kid playing with plastic toys.
Parallels with Amy Hoy's "eBombs"
I have to ask: why didn't you plug your phone in while stationary? That seemed entirely avoidable.
Only if it's the wrong tempo https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scl... . Dub or happy hardcore? Straight to gulag.
To be clear I'm not saying Kerala is particularly bad by regional standards, it's not. But compare Kerala and India as a whole with other parts of Asia, they're not doing well. Look at China vs India in the 1970s vs 50 years later. Compare India/Kerala and Thailand in the same time frame. Kerala and Korea, etc etc. South Asia as a whole is doing worse than many other parts of Asia. Kerala government excels at what many socialist governments are good at: Praising themselves. In reality is has made little difference.

India has a lot of other issues, I grant you that the socialist ideology probably had a positive influence in some ways other than economics, particularly socially. But no offense, if you've ever walked the streets Trivandrum and other cities you know there are much more pressing issues.
[dupe] Musk's xAI buys his social media platform X
Grok is also a stand-alone product with an optional $30/month subscription. Perhaps they are seeing a huge increase in usage here and are hoping that subscriptions follow.
When I dictate to a PM how they should present my stuff in their useless PowerPoints, that result could be called the PM’s impression. More specifically, their impression of my impression of the subject.

But after I’ve iterated with them N times, fixing their various misunderstandings of my impression, eventually the PM’s impression impact approaches zero, and it’s clearly representative solely of my impression.

Sufficient iterations and prompts against the model, and you can’t really say it’s the AI’s fault the result is erroneous. The first pass, sure, but not the 100th.

Except I guess in the aspects where you can’t fix the PM’s/AI’s understanding. Then you could say their impression isn’t fully removable
Would it be possible to transform a large XML document into something on-disk that could be queried like a database by the XPath evaluator?
Ongoing discussion (385 points, 4 hours ago, 437 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923
CA manufactures “movies”, “tv shows”, “novels”, ”beach videos”. “Software services”, and agricultural products (like citrus, avocados, etc). It’s politically stable land that can afford “suing” for “where is my water” compared to 99% for land in the world where the answer is “would you like to spend the rest of your life hauling rocks or hauling sand?”
Five trillion dollars off the stock market and prices are still going up!

If he meant his campaign promises, then he's very clearly incompetent. If he didn't mean them then he's a demagogue.

Either way, he's simply doing what he IS competent at doing: destroying other people's capital and skipping out on the bill.
Indeed, it’s technically possible, but the level of discomfort, workarounds and paper cuts to get there makes it entirely a hobby thing.

If you really want to make “something” for the purpose of using Swift go ahead. If you want to make something, there are plenty of attentives to choose from.
Alex Pentland was once into geometric modeling of soft objects using superquadrics, which are the rotational solids of superellipses.[1] This was a reasonable idea around the time the Symbolics 3600 was a thing and GPUs barely existed.

Once weighted skinning of skeletons was invented, that idea went away.

I once wasted a few months trying to do analytical collision detection for superquadrics using an early symbolic mathematics system. Dead end.

[1] https://superquadrics.com/
This makes no sense. You can describe the brain reductively enough and make it sound like it can't have an original insight either. Transformers are expressive enough function approximaters in theory, there's no reason why a future one couldn't have novel insights.

This is such a weird misconception I keep seeing - the fact that the loss function during training is minimising CE/maximizing prob of correct token doesn't mean that it can't do "real" thinking. If circuitry doing "real" thinking is the best solution found by SGD then it obviously will
> It should be noted that the other xAI shareholders are/were supportive of the X takeover and all.

No xAI shareholder has any incentive to be honest about that. If they criticize it, Musk will cut them out of all future investments. And if they are an xAI shareholder, criticism may well be grounds for seizing their equity.

Particularly if they are an xAI employee: Musk companies usually have a equity contract & NDA which says that your options can be canceled at any time for $0, they can be bought back even if vested, you are not allowed to sell without their permission while they are private (ie. forever), and you are gagged about all this: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/spacex-employee-stock-sale... (Similar to Altman's OpenAI NDAs and equity agreements that OAers were unpleasantly surprised to discover back around the coup.)
Sample size 1. To increase to 2:

I opened it, read enough to establish this author knows what they are talking about and bookmarked it to read properly before my next blog post.

Had they told me the blogging equivalent of their intergenerational nanna's spaghetti recipe first I may not have done that.
Or shred into a proper database designed for that
I think this comment is significantly more dismissive of science and scientists than the original comment was of AI.
They would never get voting rights.
And insight. Insight can be gleaned from a comprehensive knowledge of all previous trials and the pattern that emerges. But the big insights can also be simple random attempts people make because they dont know something is impossible. While AI _may_ be capable of the first type, it certainly won't be capable of the second
you're conflating LLMs with AI. Strictly speaking, from what we understand of physics, chemistry, biology, computing, and mathematics, there is no coherent argument that you could not build an AI which could be an effective research scientist (which I define as: a system which produces novel hypotheses based on current scientific knowledge that are likely to be true, and is capable of evaluating their likelihood quickly enough to be relevant to human endeavors.)

I imagine that such a system would probably have at least required component that looked much like an LLM.

Not all breakthroughs happened due to original insight- many came from tediously improving techniques through fairly mundane means, or from advancements in other areas.
Woke is more like reverse-racist, when the thing that was needed was simple equal opportunity, not to be confused with forced equality.
I'm not arguing that because there has always been fraud we shouldn't fight it. I'm arguing that I don't think there's substantially more fraud now than there always has been.
I was thinking last night. Shouldn't software we make help people instead of replacing them? Why must innovation be in the direction of and at the cost of replacing humans?
yes, but you can block cross origin requests to both the credentials server and the PeerJS server which I understand prevents this: "relaying any traffic they want, without any of your own web sites or WebRTC apps involved"

Again, not an expert. This problem only really exists for "ad-hoc" connections where you don't want people to have to set up accounts. coturn has the ability to do standard authentication by checking credentials stored in databases
Isn't Twitter's stock price higher than it was at acquisition?
>but the newer generation are using it to get more creative.
Without spending half the time beat matching, they now have time to interact with the tracks more - play with stems, loops, filters, fx, scratching etc.

>It’s becoming more of a live performance

while this is true in theory, i find that sometimes the new tools end up becoming a crutch making djs extremely boring

the extra time freed up from not having to concentrate on beatmatching etc. is replaced with nothing

a lot of the time i have no idea what people are even doing they may as well just be playing a playlist from spotify

whereas i can generally discern what a vinyl dj is doing, and watching someone like jeff mills dig through piles of records & spinning 3 decks while being on the edge of trainwrecking has a kind of energy and tension that gets lost and is not replicable with newer technology

it's sorta like someone being able to sing really well naturally vs someone with autotune

that being said i've still seen amazing sets from digital djs or people with interesting live setups
Interesting insight into how they organize their compute resources!
I (somehow) hadn't came across this fellow. Thanks for mentioning it. In spite of the dismissive nature some of your repliers, I think he looks very interesting, and will be investigating.

For anyone else who wants to read a bit about the man, I found this very provocative:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-08/byung-chul-han...
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You mean for profit companies only do things that are in their self interest? I am shock!
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke. The term acquired political connotations by the 1970s and gained further popularity in the 2010s with the hashtag #staywoke. Over time, woke came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism and denial of LGBTQ rights. Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and reparations for slavery in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Twitter doesn't have a stock price. It got taken private in the acquisition.
Awfully bold to claim that 99.9% of scientists lack the need for "creativity". Creativity in methodology creates gigantic leaps away from reliance on grit and stamina.
Most every request goes through xslt in our team's corporate app. The other app teams are jealous of our performance.
So how will the air-gapped customers use their Windows 11 computers? Has Microsoft decided to abandon their OS sales to governments and security researchers?
Science article also has some test apparatus images, heat processed finished plastic images, and images of the plastic under attack by several different solvents (hexane, CH2Cl2, THF, Acetone, MeOH, DMF).

Also has stress-strain curves of the material, and behavior when used in glued together boxes for packaging.

Generally, if it actually gets made in quantity, seems like it would be an improvement for somewhere like Japan. Last time I read about Japan on this type of subject, it was examining the outlets of metropolitan streams, and the huge quantities of trash that people just wash down to the oceans. (Notably, from the perspective of considerate people trying to figure out ways to keep the beaches clean and deal with the upstream polluters).
This doesn't invalidate your point, but FYI, you can open your contact's info in the Signal app and see the number of linked devices they have. If someone is concerned enough about this, they could ask their contact to unlink all devices.

EDIT: I'm using a fork, which may be why I'm seeing it and others aren't. See below.
Notarization is not a trusted system on macOS - or rather, notarized binaries still have a "this was downloaded from the internet" prompt, and the user is meant to make a decision on whether it is trustworthy.

Notarization does some minimal checks, but is mostly about attaching a real identity so that maliciousness has at least some real-world consequences. The most obvious being that you lose the ability to get more apps notarized.
Makes you wonder if the NSA has a team updating the screenshots of these bulletins as new versions of the apps and operating systems are released.
Yep, archlinux with gnome 48-testing with experimental features enabled to allow VRR, as well as fractional scaling. I prefer using my 2.8K display at 150%. Appears to be working fine with everything I've used. I have had some issues with wifi cutting out intermittently, but I think that might be a misconfiguration of roaming on my APs kicking the laptop too eagerly.

power-profiles-daemon works well, I didn't like how much the battery drains overnight on the s2idle suspend mode, so I've set up a systemd unit to hibernate after 30 minutes of sleep.
It's dumb on every angle. How many people are going to these lengths to avoid an MS account? Even if they suck it up and stick with Windows, will this really convert them into MS Store app buys or whatever? I doubt it.

They make people mad, they lose some customers... Maybe that's the whole point? I just don't get it.
I find "bypassing end-to-end encryption" to be misleading... as if somehow the e2e encryption in Signal is somehow broken or flawed.

This "social engineering" hack? is simply allowing a 3rd party to gain access to another persons account and "snoop" on their secured messages/calls.

Pls correct me if I'm reading this wrong.
I've come to think that XML will be with us for decades and probably follow us when we leave the small blue planet.

In my military work, I've heard the senior project managers refer to a modern battleship as a floating XML document.
My point is that you don't need an extravagant Quantum source for randomness, and you definitely don't need high throughput. It's really a solution looking for a problem.

Also, I've seen numerous people working in the Quantum space claim that metastability is a quantum effect of ring oscillators, but very doubtful and the literature around it never mentions the q-word.
You realize that Google is all but abandoning Dart/Flutter and don’t even use it for most of their own cross platform apps?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from...

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/con...
"targeting political enemies and anything that hinders their donors/puppet masters from getting richer at the expense of everyone else"

Give some examples.

Atleast DOGE is trying to provide data (https://doge.gov/).
How can we trust a human to run the study, isn't there a bias? Needs an AI prompted to be a research scientist as a co-author for it to be balanced.
We've been optimizing for the wrong metrics? Infinite growth was fine when the map had "here be dragons", led to absurdum you get the profit driven, neurotic company architecture that optimizes for the goals of optimizing, every single person can be playing the right cards but the end goal is to move value from A to B with A(A-value) being not considered, when A(-value) are people with lives, we either pickup and move, but A_n(-value) is already there. Aka. no more dragons.\

edit for clarity
You may enjoy the book Atomized by Michel Houellebecq, he coined the term in the late 90's in a similar vein of what Nate is referencing in his post.
>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Comments like these are wildly off the original topic and practically invite the dead replies. As a rule of thumb, if you're about to put "/s" at the bottom of a post on an even remotely political topic, please reconsider. Especially if your sarcasm is already quite obvious, and obviously being used to bash a political outgroup.
That's what it does.

"Replacement" is only a problem for people who are dependent on someone else being dependent on them.
Let's be realistic: Congress has given away its power for decades. It is nowadays a Congress permanently divided and pretty much non-functional.
Not coincidentally, these are two of my least favorite parts of the standard library. Logging especially makes me grumpy, with its hidden global state and weird action at a distance. It’s far too easy to use logging wrong. And unittest just feels like every other unit testing framework from that era, which is to say, vastly overcomplicated for what it does.
I prompted GPT for stereotypes of the current left/right culture wars, and simply edited down the LLM weasel language and wordy equivocation on each bullet point in the novel it wrote.

Fascinating indeed.
LLDB's TypeSystems: An Unfinished Interface
This is cool. I haven't looked a swift since it first came out but I wonder if their documentation is any better now... I remember trying to do things and I'd read about commands on Stack overflow that I couldn't even find in their documentation, or they were listed in the documentation but had literally no useful information about them.
I switched from migadu to iCloud to increase my bus factor for the family. It's been interesting and a bit painful. For example I have a filter to forward emails from an 'bothofus' alias to my spouse's iCloud account at the same domain because there is no way to have a true alias --> mailbox1, mailbox2. Sometimes iCloud bounces these emails from sent from itself.
Wires aren't usually called wires either.

Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.
It doesn't have to be. But often the executives or investors who stand to profit the most from innovation also have strong public facing influence over the narrative. Employees cost a ton, so it's self serving both to promote the product to like minded people, and to hype the product itself.
I dunno, I remember reading qbout glue on pizza almost a year ago.. and today I was talking to github tech support and their AI bot (presumably latest and greatest, with best minds programming it), suggested a command which does not exist. And Google AI summary is still hilariously bad for any moderately complex question.

I don't see much AI yielding accurate answers anytime soon, and certainly not in 2 years.
Yup. My bad. My fork needs lots of readme and other updates
Yes that’s the problem. If inputs get more expensive it is harder to build domestically because nobody will build things when the inputs cost more than the output.
Distributing software is not what I would call one of the basic uses of a computer.
> "Replacement" is only a problem for people who are dependent on someone else being dependent on them.

Not so. Replacement is a huge problem for people who have people who depend on them to furnish the cost of living.

Also it can be quite dangerous in a game setting where some costs of losing the game include homelessness or death.

In fact, it might be desirable to some political figures to drive up enlistment numbers by putting more people in such precarious situations.

But what do I know, I read a book and an AI can do that for you now... so... don't think too much about it.
HN is simply deranged about Trump and now Elon, and want to slap Fascism on everything.
> Five years ago on HN stories like this would collect comments with general revulsion to this sort of surveillance.

I'm super skeptical that this is actually true. In fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't, and you're just projecting your own positions on "HN of five years ago".
Even if there was a market, any market naturally requires adversarial decision making in the negotiation of a deal to have economic calculation (what we generally view the benefit we derive from a market in the first place).

When the same people are making the ask as making the buy, you literally cannot decouple the decision-making in a way that objectively eliminates cooperation.

A market cannot exist when the entities involved abandon adversarial decision-making and cooperate. One's priority is always suborned by one or the other.
Yes. Most MacBooks used in businesses don’t have an iCloud account associated with them. The store doesn’t work, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Downloading and installing applications by dragging them from the installer to the Applications folder works fine.
I'm suprised "privacy conscience" people use Signal.

Like... Sure! let me just give you my PHONE NUMBER THAT LINKS DIRECTLY BACK TO MY REAL-WORLD IDENTITY so that I can send "secure" text messages.

Signal promoters are clowns.
This is super useful info. Image-to-circuit sounds really useful, and I don’t know current models were already capable. I think I’m going to move on from this project for now, not getting much interest, haha. Thanks for the input.
People have taken various measurements, such as https://digitalnigel.com/wordpress/?p=3449 https://kloppenborg.net/blog/gps-pps-over-usb/ https://blog.dan.drown.org/pps-over-usb/

Of course, if you only need 'good enough' accuracy, a battery-backed RTC and NTP when you're online will generally be good enough.
.. and if that AI does not give you the answer you want, re-run it with minor prompt modifications.
> It's generally agreed among members that this is a good thing.

Some say it is just the way the rich keep the poor from killing them.