frikskit

First time I genuinely LOL’d on HN

Maybe some context on why you posted this?

Thanks!

It seems totally arbitrary to compare the two. Is the national debt of smaller countries (with higher debt/gdp) OK because they’re below the number of stars and trees?

I guess it’s is in the spirit of the original article though…

This makes it worse IMO. I was starting to think it didn’t have a letter by letter representation of the tokens. It does. In which case the fact it didn’t decide to use it speaks even more towards its unsophistication.

Regardless, I’d love if you would explain a bit more why the transformer internals make this problem so difficult?

An interesting example of this is:

There are 6 “a”s in the sentence: “How many ‘a’ in this sentence?”

https://chatgpt.com/share/677582a9-45fc-8003-8114-edd2e6efa2...

Whereas the typical “strawberry” variant is now correct.

There are 3 “r”s in the word “strawberry.”

Clearly the lesson wasn’t learned, the model was just trained on people highlighting this failure case.

How is Europe the largest single consumer market at 500 million people? Are you unaware of China, and also India? What am I missing? Even if you measure in economic size and not population, you’re still wrong.

I’m also curious, how and when will it be decided that it’s eventually time to move onto a new/better standard? If the law came into force 20 years ago, would we still be stuck with the standard of that time? Who decides when a new standard is worth upgrading?

Edit: I see now others mentioned China already.

While I may disagree on the overall trajectory and importance of some of these topics. I really appreciate your response, in spite of my semi-aggressive earlier responses.

I think it’s false to think that the value of these companies is just their salary. It’s about experience. Many of today’s businesses exist because their founders were given the chance to gain experience somewhere else. I can’t expect the next Volkswagen to come from a country where entrepreneurship is constrained to starting a bistro.

Ok I won’t read too much into it. That said, I think every responsible European and especially parent has a duty to take problems seriously.

This is a pretty obvious and desperate attempt to comfort yourself. Take the intellectually honest road and question why Europe (I’m European myself) has gotten itself into this sorry state and then try to do something about it.

In what way is Europe not in the mess of the experiment that is AI? It seems to me that it has all the exact same problems, without any of the benefits (the jobs, experience and money) that comes with it.

What you are claiming is as dumb as saying that Europe fixed climate change by blocking drilling in Europe and buying oil and gas from the Saudis instead.

Very interesting take. Do you think they should be restarted because big-box shops aren’t doing a good job? Too expensive? Or due to macroeconomic effects?

Are you suggesting I and all governments should take him at his word?

I bet Zuckerberg also wants to pay more taxes too?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51497961.amp “ Facebook boss 'happy to pay more tax in Europe'” 2020

But I guess the tax avoidance lawyers that he keeps hiring keep on tricking him. Gotta feel bad for the guy, but take everything he says, like “there should be more regulation” seriously and ignore the blatantly self serving nature of his statements.

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/08/facebook-cu...

Facebook reduces tax bill 2024

‘No section 230’ might be the reason why there’s no social media tech scene. I’d like to think that HN cares about things other than social media too - maybe Brits could do something that actually adds some value.

But in any case, original point also brings up the question: why is the UK allowing foreign companies to violate laws that it would prosecute British businesses for violating?

If you allow a foreign domiciled business to break laws in your country, then how the heck do you expect to ever have domestic industry? It’s strictly less risky to always be foreign domiciled.

This bill aims to stop that regulatory arbitrage and as such is hopefully a leveling of the playing field for the UK tech scene.

Social media companies don’t want any kind of regulation because it adds cost to them. Their PR bangs the drum of free speech and people economically tied to the industry gobble it up while trying to ignore the self serving nature of their new beliefs.

Where do you want to go, I’m curious?! I wonder what panacea you see out there that’s less authoritarian and where you could keep your “high earner” social status.

It’s a shame that Britain gave one of its “high earner” jobs to someone who’d enjoy seeing it collapse.

Agree with you. I’m not sure why people believe that only the physical world and not the virtual one should have some amount of regulation. I think a good portion of HN has drunk the kool aid of their employers/industry and is almost religiously unwilling to consider an alternative viewpoint without resorting to shouting ‘fascist’ and ‘1984’. Maybe someone needs to write a book called 2024 about the hellscape we currently live in and folks could circle jerk around this new shibboleth.

I don’t think anybody cares what Nobel’s family member’s protests were about. Does anyone even bother to learn their names or know a single thing about their lives? It’s also not “fake” and the university didn’t invent it.

The point is there is a prize that many/most people agree is one of the top recognitions of achievement for the field. Whether you call it Nobel or something else, doesn’t change a thing for anyone, as long as the prize is well known and well regarded.