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spidersenses··on What is AGI?
What about (1) reasoning and (2) unassisted learning/self-improvement?

Both currently don't apply to state-of-the-art LLMs.

spidersenses··on How to be a good listener
>worded in their own language

Would you (or someone else that's knowledgable) be so kind to share your approach to doing this?

I find this to be hardest thing to do in the moment without feeling like a manipulative sociopath.

spidersenses··on Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
In my opinion, Altman's permanent departure would have been the death of OpenAI. After the majority of the staff threatened their resignation from OpenAI, Altman became the one holding all the leverage. I'd rather guess that OpenAI's board made him a once-in-a-lifetime offer to persuade him to come back.
spidersenses··on Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
Statements like these are only a momentary snapshot. As soon as sufficiently money is at stake the board might change their tune overnight. The whole Altman-fired-from-OpenAI-then-reinstated drama should be warning enough.
spidersenses··on Problems in Gemini's Approach to Diversity
That would be a very positive interpretation of the intention behind the strategy. Who would really buy a product where the manufacturer tries to provoke them?

For a historical example have a look at Gillette's failed marketing campaign from a few years ago:

https://time.com/5503156/gillette-razors-toxic-masculinity/

spidersenses··on Ask HN: Does procrastination advice help you?
What are OP's own thoughts on the nature of their procrastination after watching and reading articles, blogs and videos?

Did they address any of the identified reasons, and if so, in which way?

Personally, I think the core of my own procrastinating is a misguided sense of perfectionism.

I want the tasks that I'm working on to be simultaneously easy, stimulating and myself to deliver perfect work. If any of these dimensions is missing or unlikely, I will procrastinate without end. I've arrived at a point where I've come to accept complete failure on almost all endeavours and feeling like a permanent loser, I won't even try any more.

So far I found it impossible to become okay with delivering imperfect work, since, at work or in private life, I'm objectively being judged on the quality of it and my reputation hinges on it as well.

spidersenses··on Tell HN: Stop using LLMs to apply to jobs
Stop generating your hiring questions with LLMs first.
spidersenses··on Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
Japan is a country that is expensive to live in. Having minimum salary requirements already filters out the type of 'digital nomad' who would otherwise become a burden on society or those who merely seek immigration from Africa or South Asia under the disguise of the 'digital nomad'.
spidersenses··on Tell HN: Ambi Climate is closing down. Now I have 5 worthless units
You could try tp contact somebody from the Valetudo community with your problem:

https://valetudo.cloud/

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/

Maybe it can be solved with a simple firmware patch.

spidersenses··on A Unified Theory of Fucks
Please share them (also in the Finnish translation). I'd love to learn them.
spidersenses··on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
Let's just say, that every once in a while I go vegan for a couple of days or weeks. That's slightly different from the "accidentally vegan" meal.

If it was possible to combine keto, a meat-free diet, and intermittent fasting, without breaking the bank or breaking the body, that would be the dream.

spidersenses··on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
The “normal” in my comment referred to the average weight and busy life. I am primarily an ovo-lacto vegetarian, only occasionally vegan.
spidersenses··on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
As a person of normal weight, I tried a keto diet a couple of times but just couldn't get it working under vegetarian/vegan dietary restrictions for a daily work + workout schedule.

I got either underfed to the point of fainting, had to rely on expensive restaurant meals and questionable supplements, or had to spent an enormous amount of time on meal preparation.

So either I approached this in a completely wrong way or keto just isn't for "normal" folks like myself with busy schedules.

spidersenses··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
>and gave the defeated countries a path to prosper.

You're not very familiar with the history of the countries behind the Iron Curtain, are you?

spidersenses··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
>with ~31% originating from Europe (East and West combined).

I think the parent comment was referring to the idea that the overwhelmingy majority of those "Europeans" we're rather people of MENA/Turkish immigrant background, not "ethnically" European.

spidersenses··on Ask HN: Athletic coder dads, how do you balance your schedule?
>it pays for itself with more energy and focus throughout the day (and better sleep quality).

...for some people.

spidersenses··on Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
>IMHO Having a guiding principle or view doesn’t mean the guardian is under influence

Whether they do this out of their own conviction or due to external influence is ultimately secondary. The Guardian is taking a clear side in the culture war and subjects her reporting to it. Check out their reporting on topics like race, immigration, gender relations, or the Middle East.

spidersenses··on Why do some people feel tired all the time?
Not the parent, but in my case it was the attempt to optimize the process of falling asleep, in any way possible, after years of sleeping problems. There are a lot of articles, books or YT videos compiling tips and tricks. 4-7-8 breathing is another common advice.

After I had been diagnosed with sleep apnea, I received a prescription for an APAP machine (auto-adjusting pressure, in contrast to constant-pressure CPAP). Unfortunately, I still wake up every night after ~3 hours of sleep with a feeling of suffocating and panicking which makes me take off the breathing mask. Therefore I have yet to experience any positive effects from using the APAP machine to treat the apnea.

Any advice from somebody who has gone through the same thing?

spidersenses··on Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23summer_355-schepers...

Tool: https://github.com/vanhoefm/macstealer

spidersenses··on Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
Thank you for a great and informative explanation despite my somewhat ignorant take.

I'm an occasional visitor to huggingface, so I'm actually superficially familiar with the taxonomy. I just felt like, even if I tried to satirize it, I wouldn't be able to come up with a crazier name. And that's not even the end of the Cambrian explosion of LLMs.

spidersenses··on Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
>Snorkel-Mistral-PairRM-DPO

The naming of these models is getting ridiculous...

spidersenses··on LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning
What is the point you're trying to make?
spidersenses··on Tell HN: Add a Contact to Your Profile
What makes you think that those who'd want that kind of interaction, haven't already done so?

Or is it rather that you want direct access to high-value individuals and experts?

Personally, I can see many more downsides to having scrapable contact info:

- crypto-peddling

- soliciting for jobs and investments

- social engineering attacks

- de-platforming for "politically incorrect" statements made 5 years ago

spidersenses··on Teaching prisoners to start businesses can help them return to society
Do victims of violent criminals receive the same kind of support to start businesses, learn programming or to enroll in a degree?
spidersenses··on Ask HN: How to detect code from LLM responses
Use pattern matching (Regular Expressions) or language-specific heuristics to identify code snippets. Code snippets often have distinct patterns, such as indentation or the presence of common programming keywords.

Or easier, if your LLM allows it, give it instructions to initiate and end your code with a marker - everything inbetween those markers is code.

Another HN user posted this recently:

"Show HN: Get your entire ChatGPT history in Markdown files"[1][2]

Perhaps you can learn a few things from studying the code.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636701

[2]https://github.com/mohamed-chs/chatgpt-history-export-to-md

spidersenses··on Why do cats love boxes so much?
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky...
spidersenses··on ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness
>In Germany, they have a term for the beer you drink as you walk to the next bar, a "wegbier."

There is a humorous pun on “Wegbier”. It is sometimes called “Fusspils” (foot beer) which is a homophone of “Fusspilz” (athlete’s foot).

spidersenses··on A Polar Vortex Is Starting to Form in the Stratosphere over the North Pole
How close to the North pole do you live?
spidersenses··on The Portrayal of Early Manned Spaceflight in Hidden Figures: A Critique [pdf]
I'm well aware that quoting from 1984 isn't exactly innovative, but in my opinion no other quote describes as succinctly what we've seen happening in the name of Diversity, Equity (not equality), Inclusion for a few years now.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

spidersenses··on What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)
I assume you live in the US. In Europe, streets are usually narrower, parking spots even more so, in urban areas there will be more pedestrians crossing the road randomly, and many people don't even possess a driver's license in the first place, or don't own a car. My original comment was just to point out that getting rid of clutter isn't as easy as "just take a van and dump the clutter in a landfill."
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