skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s splitting hairs, but I also don’t think it’s a criticism to say that a model like this lacks “understanding”. It’s not a bad thing; if anything, I’d say it’s less “respectful” to imbue a digital construct with characteristics it doesn’t have, rather than embracing those which it does!

What I mean by lacking understanding is that ChatGPT responds to most queries the same way I'd expect if I asked a human being without understanding of a topic to write about it. The content it produces feels much like the sort of writing I'd do myself when I end up having to write a few paragraphs about something I don't really know or care about – a kind of veneer of reasonableness, like a short high-school five-paragraph essay.

What I find fascinating when it produces very confident, very incorrect output – that's what highlights a lack of what I'd call "understanding". As an example – last week someone shared with me a regular expression it had generated to match a specific string. It did this correctly, and included a detailed explanation about what it had done that was written in complete, comprehensible sentences but was wildly incorrect, in a sort of self-contradicting way that even the worst human writer would struggle with. It seemed very obvious that it was stringing together words that kind of made sense together, but that there was no abstract model of the thing it was describing.
Scripts like this empowering the end-user is why I consider the Android ecosystem superior.
You are being downvoted because the file is given as sorted sha1 hashes, and the benchmark in the article is about speeding up multiple lookups.
I have no idea exactly what cocomelon is like, but just from googling around it seems like the video equivalent of a playground where everything is padded and it's almost impossible to hurt oneself in the smallest way. There is no mischief in the thing. No kids getting into things they shouldn't. No adventure. No danger. No thinking. No agency. Just antiseptic, ostensibly "educational", 100% wholesome content.

Of course, it also seems to be for much younger children than something like Rugrats, so maybe that's where this reaction of mine is coming from.
It's hard to agree with you but I won't argue. I worked with many CMS and I've not seen anything better in terms of the compound metric architecture + code-quality + support. Time will tell what users love more.
In between there was a change of management. If you failed to notice that why are you commenting in this thread?
Proton is way better than it has any right to be and single handedly made Linux a viable gaming platform. The odds of any particular game working on Linux is higher than Mac now.
There is a happy middle ground somewhere between those two :)

That revenue metric is a trailing indicator. Metrics that give insight on whether users are having a good experience can lead revenue metrics significantly. Also this may be orthogonal to what you're talking about, but operational metrics are useful to understand costs (eg. if every new feature increases memory usage, eventually that will have a cost impact) and avoid volatility (eg. operational metrics often presage outages).
I'm glad to see competition. With the winner take all nature of social media, innovation is very difficult.

Has the network effect of Twitter been seriously disrupted at this point? I know a lot of folks who disagree with Musk claimed to be leaving for mastodon. I'm curious if there are trustworthy engagement numbers available.
It's because internal exchange transactions are not on-chain. When you deposit crypto to a typical exchange, it sits in a hot wallet or gets moved to cold storage. Any further transactions you make on the platform, such as exchanging currency, just shift around balances on a regular database. Only when you withdraw does it show on the chain. This is not a crypto problem.
I have a few ESP boards. I still try to go for everything-Zigbee in my smart home setup. It's much less chatty, uses much less power and works with a standard protocol (no need for flashing TasmOTA etc). So much easier to integrate than anything WiFi.
The "go ahead, take some of this money" scene is bone-crushingly stupid, just for one and it's one of a raft of examples of the dialog is so lacking in any world building detail or signal of character motivations.

The greatest credit I can give it is that it fails in an interesting way, and doesn't fail from lack of interest in source material. And I'd rather live in a world full of shows that fail in interesting ways than ones that successfully execute familiar and shallow "is technology bad?" themes over and over.
Consumers lost $5.2 billion to phishing last year. This technology may not fool you, but there are enough folks who will be fooled by the basic conversational skills it has. Scammers can be 10x "productive" with this tech.
We can't predict the weather for 1 day ahead and now these clowns think they can predict something as complex as Earth for 100 years in the future lol.

It can NEVER be done, it's not a question of computing power: it's sheer academic and scientific ignorance: it's IMPOSSIBLE to predict such a complex system.

If the Sun eg has a cycle which causes a significant cooling and warming: can they predict that? Obviously not. And yet such an event can change global warming/cooling direction completely.

The naivety of these scientists who model future events of horrible.

And then politicians and the masses belive them.

Go and look eg at their COVID predictions to see how wrong they were.

Funny how they aren't being that loud now when their "great supercomputer models" can be seen to be BS.

The point is that such large scale models CANNOT be made, it's physical impossible.

And no, you can NOT just take an "average" because a complex system can move in such a unpredictable way all of the sudden that the "average" would also completely change in an extreme fasion (if such a system can even be said to have an "average").
I think you have a very US-centric lens on unions. In the Nordic countries, for example, unions operate entirely differently. So you need to be clear where your points come from.
Can someone please explain the “A pun walks into a bar, ten people die on the spot. Pun in, ten dead.” please. I didn’t understand the joke. I am not that smart. Alas, I can’t run to ChatGPT for this.
"Russian misinformation campaigns" are an excuse that a certain political party used for why it lost a slam dunk election to a cheese colored used car salesman, and the FBI found convenient to justify expanding its power.

Russian disinformation operations are exactly as effective and competent as the rest of the Russian government, which can't even win a war against Ukraine. Its not remotely scary.
I’m not talking about the overall scope of the program. Obviously the Patriot Act is much broader. I’m talking about the double standard of those supporting the FBI. The same people cheering on the FBI now would have flipped out if the FBI was engaged in the same communications with Twitter about imams preaching radical Islam. The same people justifying Twitter working with the FBI to respond to supposed “radicalization” and “domestic terrorism” were against the FBI when the target was foreign terrorists.
It's using S/MIME

https://support.google.com/a/answer/13069736?visit_id=638068...
I extended my reply before seeing your response, and my response to your reply is largely contained within that.

LLMs do not just return a probability distribution (and their prompts are not questions about probability distributions.) It would be a category error to conflate something that is part of how they work for the totality of what they do.

When you say "GPT, for all its clever responses, could be replaced with that hashtable with no loss of fidelity", where does one get all the prompts that will be given to it, in advance? A hash table does not respond to any input for which it has not already been given a response to return.
I don't think it can be done today, with the remote domain (gmail.com) controlling all the JS on the page. But maybe future hardened browsers could attach a textinput box directly to a sandboxed service worker not communicable with the rest of the JS code? The worker could be updated at a different cadence than the rest of the client, and be audited separately, and with the script contents hashed? We rely on browser sandboxing of different domains today, why not extend it to different parts of the same page? Its probably a hard problem still.
Don't think that there are many headless CMS that has better content models than Drupal. Basically Drupal has entities, bundles, fields, all can be stored in yml configs and it can be easy extended. Could you please provide examples?
No, content is not used.

> When you open Gmail, you'll see ads that were selected to show you the most useful and relevant ads. The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated. These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
I took Tom's class, "Nature of Math", when I was in college (he lived in Santa Cruz) and it was wonderful. Great teacher and that's where I learned the birthday paradox.
AFAICT your home-grade wireless router / AP will start having trouble when you have dozens of Wi-Fi devices actively working in your home. ZigBee is somehow more resilient. It's also much lower energy, more comparable to Bluetooth, but much longer range: the sweet spot for smaller battery-powered devices.

OTOH I remember that ZigBee is somehow more buttoned-up than BT and even wi-fi, so it's not commonly seen on likes of ESP32 and other small MCUs.
Linus at DebConf 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=310&v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&feature=yo...

>I’m on a record saying, that maybe Valve will actually save the Linux desktop. And it’s actually not because I think games are important! I don't care, I don't play games. I think some people do, so games maybe important. But the really important issue is I guarantee you Valve will not make 15 different binaries. And I also guarantee you that every single desktop distribution will care about Valve binaries. The problem is Valve though build everything statically linked and it creates huge binaries. And that's kind of sad but that's what you have to do right now.
Nice. Maybe in a handful of years there'll be applications besides GNOME itself that use Gtk4 and maybe the documentation will even exist. But right now the vast majority of applications use Gtk3 and Gtk3 has been frozen broken for a decade. Right now you literally cannot paste a file path into a file->open dialog without invoking some arcane key sequence to bring up the "path bar" first. If you just paste into a newly opened file->open dialog it litterally errors out. That basic functionality does not exist, let alone a luxury like thumbnails.

I've talked to the Gtk devs about this and they say that 3 is will not be fixed, ever. They won't even accept patches because gtk/gtk/gtkfilechooserwidget.c is so cursed.
Looks like I stopped right about where you did, even though I was quite impressed with the potential in the first 2 episodes, while my hope really started to wane by episode 3.
Mazars is likely wondering if they are going to be the next Arthur Andersen before this is all over. Good luck finding another firm when one of the top firms in the world drops you like a hot potato.
But if all they’re doing is politely asking for the company’s own policy to be enforced, and doing so evenly as shown in the thread it’s really hard to see this in the light which right-media is hyping it. This is the most they’ve found and it’s notable for what we don’t see: no hint of threats, nothing which isn’t a policy violation getting taken down, just a bunch of people doing their jobs and dealing with grey areas.
Seems like that vp misunderstood the complexities to build and maintain the product and the utility people expect. Wikipedia is text of historical events. All it take is someone sitting at your computer to maintain it.

Commuting has many components beyond get me from a to b. Those also have to be maintained, and actually require that people sometimes physically visit a place to confirm it still even exists. Not to mention all the photographic information necessary to support the product.
Windows 98SE had a generic USB mass storage driver and generally much better USB support.
This article is funny because the author asks chatGPT to explain some jokes, which it completely fails to do even when prompted multiple times. A human would easily be able to explain these jokes, so the fact that chatGPT can’t when it sometimes appears to get so close is unexpected and funny.
and better than TV
> there isn't even any real RISC-V hardware you can get yet beyond some demo boards, etc.

I assume you mean Linux-capable hardware.

The Risc-V foundation claims that over 10 Billion chips have already been produced.
I'm not really fan of these corporations, but most of those (Google included) are supporting OSM.
Yeh, ignore the derision, it's the same people who say that PHP sucks.
"pun in, ten dead" = "pun intended"
Two big factors:

1. American capitalists have waged a very effective propaganda campaign against unions and

2. American unions have had a history of corruption. (Or maybe I just think that because I've been taken in by the propaganda campaign.)
> You're going to lose trust in everyone other than people you added on Facebook / Twitter / HN before 2022

You don't know who is rewriting their replies with chatGPT.
That was designed for a non-multitasking OS with a tiny screen. You have to wonder why they never stopped drinking their own kool-aid when technology changed.
Is use of deeply nested parentheticals really a sign of ADD? Certainly, nesting the parentheticals deep enough to overflow your mental context stack will lead to losing the plot. However, if both you and your intended listener have the capacity to keep all of the contexts in memory, it wouldn't seem to cause problems.
Bureaucratic inertia. It's not uncommon for orders to go partially unimplemented or even outright ignored by the people carrying it out. Many people have remarked on this. Even Jimmy Carter once remarked that one of his biggest suprises was things he gave an order for were never carried out. Bill Clinton has also remarked on the existence of a sort of "shadow government". It gives rise to conspiracy theories as explanation, but there is a strong bureaucratic intertia in the workings of goverment. It's a big problem, because it makes for a very inflexible goverment overall.
A little off topic, but if you are a TikTok content creator and you want to add multiple links to your profile. You can add multiple links with https://Bigger.Bio
*superior when evaluated against one of many different criteria for what’s important to many different users.

(A good time to remind tech people: 98% of users are not our user persona)
>Sure, my point was if prepossessing is allowed then arguably so should having a hot cache.

Preprocessing is always an option: just needs some ahead of time effort.

A hot cache for a 37GB file is not always an option.
This poem from 1701 defends a foreign born king:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True-Born_Englishman

It has nothing to do with multiple large ethnic groups that tend to cause tension in the long run, see Israel and Donbas for example.
Thanks. I'd rebut by saying the two party condition actually isn't - there are several inc. middle-ground lib-dems for example. That they are a small party is - I think - because of the tribalism of the electorate who self-polarise. So that's still a problem with the electorate I'd say.

About 'ideal' there's no such thing for everyone. To some Truss was ideal, to others, Corbyn. They're not my ideal.

BTW I'd say Truss was clearly going to blow things badly cos she was plain stupid, but she got picked anyway. There were less-worse candidates available.
So you see someone's

- open source project on the internet

- that clearly states it's a research project

and instead of commenting on the project, you complain that it doesn't have the libraries you need for your job.

Brilliant!
is this a serious comment? Rupert murdoch is a global media baron, he literally owns news outlets that encourage people to vote in one way or another. Do you think those news outlets are free of his ideology? do you think the washington post is free of Bezos' ideology?

Even billionaires and millionaires who dont own media companies have outsized influence. They can fund politicians they prefer to an extent that a rival might not be able to match. They can pay for lobbyists. There are a myriad of ways that dollars turn into votes without a mustachioed man walking around with a bag of money being involved. Mass movements aside the working class isnt out there propping up politicians.
Yeah one of the reasons I decided to take the plunge and install Linux on my macbook is the compatibility with 32 bit games (risk of rain in particular).
Not op, but I bought one. It's essentially a Linux laptop with a control interface built in. For emulators and steam games, it's really nice to have an option to play on the tv (with the dock). I don't see it being an especially nice coding experience; you'd need an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. And without a dock, all it has is a single USBC port. Though it has a full KDE desktop, so it should be feasible.
I like that the article was non judgement. The real world is messy and Common Lisp formalized existing practice among several branches of an already old language from before programming language theory.

There are a number things worth “fixing” and it’s delightful that so much interest and implementation in this regard has been sustained for so long.

But to the ideologues, I can only quote Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and [programming] philosophers and divines."
The problem with applying regular market economics to healthcare is that it doesn’t take into account the actual market conditions.

Healthcare is heavily regulated and for a good reason which means that the barrier to entry and the entire playing field is controlled by the regulators.

It also isn’t as scalable as other industries and extracting efficiency comes at a real human cost.
You can’t deliver healthcare by offshoring it, and you can’t make it much more efficient by taking out people from the process and replacing them with automation at least not on any feasible timescale.

Healthcare also has a very inelastic market people can’t go without it’s not a luxury or something you can go without.

Also unlike many other industries healthcare becomes more expensive as it develops as you develop new treatments for previously untreatable conditions and people generally live longer.

Whilst the private sector does have a role to play in healthcare it’s not as simple as let the market take care of it.

Markets in general are pretty bad at favoring long term gains over short term ones and healthcare is really not suited for short term thinking.
For sure, but I think proper vision, leadership, project management, actually talking to users/customers, and human intuition can get you to a better long term strategy than a dashboard full of derived metrics, meta metrics and meta meta metrics.

I don't think any of the greats in the space (Jobs, Gates, etc) likely looked at any of these dashboards once.
> add two more points, i.e. not 4 but 6 segments.

If I understand your suggestion correctly, I believe what this buys you is directional control of your spline at the spline endpoints and a more constant parameterization (one that doesn’t accelerate or decelerate at the spline endpoints). Perhaps the most common alternative is to insert duplicate knots at the spline endpoints, inserting as many extra knots as you need to reach the support requirements of your segment (degree minus one, right?). The problem with this is that you end up with several segments decreasing in size to zero, so the parameterization decelerates to zero. The derivatives also shrink to zero, which can cause problems depending on what you’re doing. Another common technique is to pretend the control points keep going straight after they end, meaning insert implicit ‘phantom’ control points beyond the first & last control point of a spline that matches the direction & magnitude of the first & last explicit segments. (Freya discusses this at 46 minutes into the video.) If your spline was degree 2 and starts with control point p1, then you could insert the phantom point p0 where p1-p0 = p2-p1. This gives you enough control points to evaluate the spline up to your explicit endpoint p1, but you lose a little bit of control over the tangent at the endpoint. If you wanted a different tangent than p2-p1, then you could, as you suggest, add explicit phantom control points. The continuity is the same in all three cases here, but the direction and tangent magnitude are unique to each approach with your suggestion offering the most control.
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I think in this kind of thing the cultural context is important and provides necessary components of the humor that are critical to the jokes, but not part of the script. It’s why the American version of the Office couldn’t just be directly transplanted. It had to be re-rewritten for the American cultural context.

I think if you took the script for Peep Show, for example, and set it in the US with American actors it would probably be pretty bad.
Another alternative is Koo

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/koo-know-whats-happening/id151...

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.app&gl...
Did he ever publish the browser extension? Seems like a cool idea.
bc we've been conditioned to expect everything online for free: email, news, social sharing, etc. its been subsidized by investors and access to our "data".

its also bad design/marketing. i hate paywalls, too. but i'd gladly throw a bone here or there if given the opportunity, just like hitting an upvote button. so dont call it a payment or implement a payment system; call it something else that conveys gratuity/gift/support/tip/whatever
I just think that this argument is always an exaggeration of the amount of hostility commercial software is directing at users, especially reputable commercial software like Windows (we're not talking about some mobile game trying to sell me gambling tokens).

I totally understand that some people prefer FOSS but it seems to turn into portraying commercial software in a distorted way.

For being 100% free as in beer software with no profitable hardware ecosystem behind it (macOS), Windows 11 bothers you relatively minimally, all with things that are easily dismissed.

Selling things isn't by definition amoral or adversarial. Someone who decides to search with Bing or store their data on OneDrive is getting a solution to their problem.

Even open source non-profit products like Firefox and Wikipedia try to sell products or donations to financially support development.
I think stating that something is self-evident is not a helpful argument. First, it seemingly isn’t or else parent would not have posted as such. And secondly, something being self evident is only used when you want to describe an axiom because you cannot prove otherwise.
Sounds like Mailvelope.

https://mailvelope.com/en/
The New York Times is funded by the rich. Should their speech be restricted too?
Google stopped using email for ad targeting https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...