skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like most of the article but this is the crux for me. As I ruminate on the ideas and topics in the essay, I’m increasingly convicted there is inherent value in humans doing things regardless of whether an algorithm can produce a “better” end product. The value is not in the end product as much as the experience of making something.

Exactly.

People would have stopped playing chess after Deep Blue. But have they?

Have world champioships lost any attraction due to Deep Blue?

Do lesser number of people learn go and enjoy it because of AlphaGo?

The same way, people will still be interested in art and music produced by humans.

If you prompt ChatGPT:

"write a book about personal experience of growing up in talib#n ruled Kabul"

And there's an actual human with that experience who decides to write the same book.

Is there anyone who would have bought the latter decides to read the former and not spend money? Is there a single person like that? I don't think so.

The choice leans on the other side in case of stock photography, pamphlet pictures, sound effects, etc.

The choice in porn (especially pictures) is blurry. We already have egirls and hent#i.

However, for real art and real music, there will be just as much people paying for them as they do now.
I was just quoted this week for a CO2 heat pump set up that promises 62 deg Celsius water output with COPs that are at a range similar to that of regular heat pumps. The details on this company are scarce, so I'm treading cautious.

Claims COP A7/W35 (I can't tell what A7/W35 means) of 4.8!

https://www.durocan.com/specificaties/

https://www.durocan.com/co2-heat-pump/

Curious if folks who know about heat pumps here have any opinions on this.

EDIT: It appears to be a Dutch company (I live in NL) that has licensed the CO2 heat pump tech from an American company - https://www.smallplanetsupply.com/sanc02
Until such time as people pay more to talk to an AI than a human, this will just make the split between mass market and high end products and services bigger.
There's a brilliant YouTube animation of a woman who applies one of those anime AI filters to herself. At first she's happy with the results, as it made her face considerably more beautiful. Then she discovers she has a few additional fingers, and her foot has been twisted into a sort of hand/foot/shoe deformity. Then she looks outside and sees one of those AI-generated hellscapes with a black hole where the sun should be.

Best horror film of last year.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/G9D_PL61_pA
The impressive molt of a cobra mantis
could it somehow get access to the subtitles and then use them to answer queries?

also i hope this comes to ecosia, would like to experiment and try it at least
Spent it on GameStop stock options lol.
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Neat! I've seen so many discussions of the cost of continually retraining ChatGPT with new knowledge (and the energy efficiency of that, etc.) but had a similar thought that you can probably use a GPT-like approach to do "next word prediction" for a command-based web crawler to gather up to date data and then use the GPT-we-already-have to combine/integrate found content using the classic next word prediction.

Sometimes I feel that what makes humans cool is that we (well, some of us!) have good internal scoring on when we lack knowledge and must go in search of it which makes us go down different branches of next-action-in-line.
It isn't. IDK in the anglosphere, but in the hispanic world this already being done, and for years. It's platforms where you buy articles from websites (even some newspapers), and even more, you can share the cost of an article between a number of advertisers.

Of course the impact of this has been inmense and the spanish internet is filled with the same crap as the anglo internet, and trustable sites are piled under tons of noise.

I had to map a bunch of communities in spanish and post it in my blog because they don't appear in the search results anymore. Just to remind myself that they're out there.

I'm planning to do the same with blogs.

I guess we're going to rediscover directories and the problems associated with them, but currently the 'open internet' is a mess.

ChatGPT tools will just change how money flows and the incentives. Lots of spammers will get out of business, but many others will thrive. No ads, just deception.
> I presume you are referring to Russia’s meddling in those states?

I presume you are completely oblivious on what US did in Ukraine in the last 30 years? Or it's a totally different thing, because evil Russkies and democratic Americans?

> But make no mistake if they had a way to keep buying cheap Russian gas without throwing Ukraine under the bus they would absolutely have taken it.

You are stating the reason here yet you are totally ignore it yourself. There is one country what doesn't depend on Russian gas and to which prolonging the crisis only provides benefits without downsides?

> raise Occam's razor

You need to compare comparable things. One thing is a Bond-like master plan. Other one is 'oh things hard' ignoring what this thing were baked for decades.
You must have a really nice network all the way to my servers.
Race at a continental level is almost useless for biological purposes. Almost all the best runners in the world come from one Kenyan tribe. And those Kenayans have more in common genetically with an Irish person than they do with a Pygmy from their same continent.

If you want to look at very small populations then you can find useful biological similarities. And small populations are nothing like what anyone calls race.

Race is real. It's just socially constructed instead of being based in biology.
From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.
> On web, you don't have anything.

Well, you have at least prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature, but maybe you can also use System Colors: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
This is just lopsided thinking.
I have the exact opposite opinion as someone not from the west, we need open instructions to be free from the clutches of everything controlled by western countries, we need competition.
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Whilst we should expect the national security apparatus of any serious nation to infiltrate or manipulate media organisations, it is nonetheless disquieting to see it revealed in stark terms by these email exchanges. We can see some evidence of Twitter pushing back on government demands, though this resistance is tactical and technical, rather than strategic and ethical. In the end, they bow to the inevitable and by and large end up towing the line. Good job these 3 letter agencies have democratic oversight, what a terrifying prospect it would be if we didn't have a vote once every 4 years
Quick steps:

* Create new table on disk.

* Create temp table in RAM.

* Start chunked import.

* Import 50k rows in to temp table.

* Dump temp table to new table.

* Clear temp table.

* Import next 50k rows.

* Repeat.

* Drop old table, rename new table on disk to regular name

Each row being imported was updating indices. Just removing indexes, then importing, did speed it up, but not as dramatically. Importing most to RAM table, then chunking to the final table. That was a core key.

I'd indicated early on "let's try temp memory tables". It was dismissed ("we tried that" and also "what's that?"). So I did my own tests, and it was pretty dramatic.
An astronaut riding a horse is unusual too but it can make that.

I think the reason is it doesn't understand compositionality, meaning it doesnt have any logic or "intuition" about the relationships between the colors and items (or eyes and forehead) so it fails to constrain the way they are assembled in the image.
"I never had it a problem with N => N never happens" amirite?
> I find it weird that nobody in the US seems to look beyond their country or similar systems for different models regarding this.

Looking to European models would be great. But the current American union structure is written into federal statute, and there is approximately zero chance of the statute ever being amended.
The fact that we are still litigating whether authorities responded too lax, adequately or too harsh three years after the start of the COVID pandemic is proof positive that you are 100% right.

It's interesting how fast this development is going but I fear that with all of the other stuff going on in the world and the fact that we have barely managed to get a grip on what it means to have a free of charge pipe between a very large fraction of the world population, that we are in for a very rough ride. The various SF writers that addressed the singularity were on the money with respect to our inability to adapt, they were too pessimistic about the timetable. The ramp-up is here, whether we like it or not and the only means that we have at our disposal to limit the impact a bit is the rulebook. But then it's a huge game of prisoners dilemma, the first one to defect stands a good chance of winning the pot.

One more thing that can help: the same tool that gives can take away: AI can help to figure out which art/text/music was generated by AI and which by a human. Someone else in another thread earlier on HN made the comparison between pre-AI and post-AI art that it is like Low Background Steel (I can dig up the reference if you want), and I think that's really on the money, everything that we made prior to the emergence of generative AI is going to be valued much more than anything that came after unless it is accompanied by a 'making of' video.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32561868
It's pretty mindblowing for me to realize that this was what the world was like (without all these things we take for granted) when I was a toddler.

We got internet at our house in '95. I remember it was a big deal and that the grown ups were super excited about it.
Sure, much of the time removed comments are poor quality.

Sometimes though, they are comments that ought to have been the top comment.

Anything that gets flagged will be seen by far, far fewer people. Most people here don't have shadowdead on. Most don't even know that it exists.

And that's just comments. More important are the stories that get wiped. Stories that are flagged by motivated minorities at lightning speed, unseen unless you're obsessively browsing new. Even if you do find one, you can't comment on it. One vouch isn't enough to bring it back, even if you see it shortly after it's posted. Moderators can cite "the will of the community" and there's nothing you can do about it.

Stories don't even have to be deleted. A post that gets flagged for just a short time can drop impressions by 90+% and never get back on the front page. This happens a lot with certain topics.

So, you're right in what you're saying - but that's far from the full story.
True, although that seems less readable than the comprehension versions. I might be just biased, though.
That is true.

ML in recsys of Netflix and product suggestion/placement in Amazon are worth tens of billions of dollar alone, per month.
The thing it was trying to solve (and does solve) is specifically when there is congestion (lots of packet drops beyond slow-start). If you have those network conditions, AND you aren't filling packets ... then Nagle's Algorithm is for you. That was the entire point of the article.
I think of it like this:

It's the company's job to maximize shareholder value.

It's the worker's job to maximize worker value.

It's the market's job to push profit to zero.

So the union is like a new force in the equation: they put pressure on the company to give the workers more value.

Which could actually be good for business: if treating workers results in better work product, the shareholders might not push for that (typically markets optimize for quarterly earnings). But the union can secure better conditions for the workers, which might lead to moving to a better local maxima.
I think you're spot on. Ruby actually gained wider appeal only when it gained visibility in the US (via rails). Being present in the markets which drive adoption matters more than being consistent, which python isn't ("one way of doing things" is mostly a meme nowadays, everyone touching python knows it's fake).
Original issue reporter here. I can't believe how long this has been open and unaddressed. I haven't checked if it still does this for a while but I wouldn't be surprised if it does.
LOOL this is the best prank i read in months. Now they will get funding offer by some fat ass government-sponsored EU fund and then publish this as a warning on how you can steal almost infinite money by riding green hype and bullshitting people who didn't go to high school but were put in charge of million euro decisions.
I don't think virus is a 4th declension noun, and I've seen it described in multiple sources as a 2nd declension (meaning slime, poison, infection, mucus, or something thereabout). It is unusual in being a -us noun despite being neuter, but irregularities happen (other examples of neuter 2nd declension -us nouns being vulgus and pelagus). In classical Latin, it is a mass/uncountable noun, and only got the modern meaning (and the ability for form plurals) in recent times.

references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#Virus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Latin https://gaffiot.fr/#virus

That said, your point about virulent vs virolent is interesting, but I don't know enough about sound changes, or how that word came to be and made it's way to us to know if this is counter evidence to being 2nd declension, or if it can be explained away otherwise.
The 'Genius' at that Maine Apple Store was absolutely intentional in his behavior. Initially he just returned from the back, plopped my machine on the table, told me I'm all set and quickly took off before I could even inspect the machine. When I found him again and showed him that the spacebar wasn't depressing at all anymore and wasn't registering keypresses, he took it to the back again, made it slightly better (by hastily ripping out the rubber dampening membrane out), I confronted him about it again, pointed out that the dampening membrane was missing, and he just said to me he doesn't see anything wrong.
I was absolutely floored, I had never seen a person behave that way before at that point. And come to think of it, not even since then.
My guess based on the state of gene editing wrt. bio-weapons, we have been able to do this for a while, I just think the risk/reward ratio of the whole idea, from handling to deployment, is just too great and unpredictable. And it would require a lot of biolab equipment, while not being detected in some way or the other.
Review your active 3rd party extensions. That's the most likely place for a misbehaving component in an IDE.
I'm having a hard time following -- what are some example queries you put in? Sounds interesting!
This article builds up a bunch of straw man arguments based on what other people claimed in blog posts and then attacks them.
In real world where micro services really made a difference, they enabled being more tolerant to a mix of different quality/maturity/velocity in different parts of the overall system and still keeping things as healthy as possible. If you have a monolithic execution binary that hosted all the logic code, then they all have to be of high quality or the entire thing can be taken down with one bad quality stuff. Having a mix of different quality/maturity/velocity in different parts of your systems is a business reality if your system is modeling a complex multi-pronged business that's evolving and growing and maturing in different prongs with different timelines. If this core value prop isn't needed, then probably you can solve your problems without micro services just as good or even better.
In this case they can only judge the relative aesthetics of the two works, not their artistic value. Aesthetics is only loosely correlated to somethings "value" as "art" and art can only be truly judged in context of its creation. Lots of great art is ugly and lots of beautiful things aren't art.

In my opinion.
Here in Poland used by political party with public funding to strategically spy on and sabotage opposition party (bypassing actual real intelligence agencies).

What strikes me is how Pegasus wasn’t really used by sophisticated intelligence agencies but as a product by actors adjacent to or below that level of access.

All of this in my mind harkens back to that fantastic Coppola film „The Conversation”. It is inevitable that scummy companies and specialists will always emerge with a well priced product or tool for getting some shitty job done.
Has it been lobotomized enough to be acceptable for microsoft? They wouldn't want a repeat of Tay.
I thought this was already covered when EU found several government entities using it against political adversaries.

Also Cailou IIRC
Researchers develop a light source that produces two entangled light beams
> In cases where you ask GPT-3 questions that have a clear correct answer, I think you can use the probability to judge how correct the answer is. For example, when asking "How tall is Mount Everest?" I would want the completion "Mount Everest is ____ meters above sea level." to have a very high probability for the ____ tokens.

Maybe, as long as you're aware that this is the same kind of correctness that you get from looking at Google's first search results (the old kind of organic pages, not the "knowledge graph", which uses an different process - precisely to avoid being spammed by SEO) i.e. "correctness by popularity".

This means that the content that is more replicated will be considered more true by the system, regardless of its connection to reality or its coherence with the rest of the knowledge in the system. And you know what they say about big enough lies that you keep repeating millions of times.
That happened to me too, but they'd usually start working again within half an hour or so of use.

Only after 3 years did a key finally break and stay broken.

I feel like I got off easy compared to most people.
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I just tried it with and without private relay, with the same results.

I’m connecting from London via an iPhone, where are your servers?

And out of interest, do you log the results of the benchmark anywhere? Would be cool to capture it.
RISC vs. CISC is irrelevant.

ARM vs. RISC-V is irrelevant

The only thing that really ever matters is the quality of any given specific CPU implementation, which has almost nothing to do with CISC vs. RISC or the ISA[1]. x86 has been dominate for so incredibly long because Intel just consistently made the best processors around, and #2 in the space was also usually AMD. This is why Apple switched to Intel in the first place, after all. Don't forget that Apple switched off of RISC to CISC and got huge increases in performance & efficiency as a result.

Apple's M1/M2 are good because they invested an absolute shit-ton of money building up a seriously good in-house CPU team over the past 10 years, not because it uses ARM's ISA. In fact, M1/M2 support x86's memory model - it's a key reason that Rosetta 2 runs so fast.

So for a RISC-V phone to show up in let's say the mid-range or higher market and be competitive would take someone actually building a good RISC-V CPU implementation. Which maybe sifive will pull off - their new performance lineup looks decent enough on paper anyway. But that's also compared to the 2-year old Cortex A78 which is itself quite a ways behind Apple's M2 / Bionic A14. So that's what you really need to find for a RISC-V phone/laptop/whatever to be interesting - someone who can, ideally consistently, deliver a CPU core design that's competitive with {Apple, ARM, Intel, AMD}. And that list only even barely includes ARM - their CPU cores are by far the weakest of that set. Which is itself a significant asterisk on the whole "ARM servers!" thing.

1: the small but significant asterisk on that is it's plausible, if not likely, that Apple was able to build an 8-wide CPU frontend as a direct result of armv8 not being a VLA ISA whereas x86_64 is. However that's also arguably more a function of the ISA's encoding than the ISA or CISC vs. RISC debate. In theory you could have an x86_64 instruction set that's not VLA, just like ARM used to have thumb/thumb2 and non-thumb modes back in the day.
I don't believe it's happened yet; Merriam-Webster still has it as an abbreviation only spelled as LOL whereas in practice it's already used as a verb.
> Just look at how successful football players were in getting a slice of the pie. I’d still consider that a dream job.

In this case they are the product, and there are a lot of customers. Plenty of people working on the things that make those players valuable, building and staffing stadiums, and filming and broadcasting events worldwide, that don't get a share. Because they aren't the product.
When the auth service is down, only new authentications should fail. Existing auth sessions should continue to function just fine. This exact failure mode occured at Google in early 2021 which caused a fairly big outage but not as big as it could have been because of this design choice.
Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
From what I can tell, that's fundamentally because of the limited number of franchises.

The situation is a bit like cabs in NY city before Uber/Lyft - the medallion owners were the ones who were making the real money.
> The camera is far off from the eye

That's a non-issue. Lenovo Mirage Solo had a stereo cameras at a proper IPD and the immersion of pass-through on that thing is still by far the best thing I ever experienced in a VR headset. The little offset between the cameras and your eyes is unnoticeable unless you try to touch your nose or do other stuff really close to the headset. And if you really need to, you could get rid of that offset as well (45° mirror and mount the cameras vertical to have them capture the same image as your eye would).

The problem with most other VR headsets is that they either have only a single camera for pass-through or use the tracking cameras that are mounted far away from your eyes. Doing the remapping of perspective in software just doesn't give good results.
I see Stack overflow as one of the problems here.

StackOverflow went along way in killing the Tech Blog, and the number of "right" but poor answers on Stack sites are at an all time high

Often the "best" answer on those sites is buried or even downvoted in favor of an answer that "just works" but may have security issues, maintainability issues, is out dated, etc.

In alot of area's I find Stack answer to be of low quality if you happen to have any indepth knowelege of that area.
And that is why I used the same compiler for all ISA's: gcc 12.2.0. The GIMPLE IR intermediate product is the same for all architectures; however, the ISA backend is specific to each ISA, so code generation peculiarities might or might not be an issue. GCC code output quality is above the average or high for all active mainstream architectures.

Also, RISC-V compressed instructions are RISC-V 32-bit, therefore a comparison with 64-bit architectures is not applicable.
What does "authenticated" mean in this case? When I apply for credit, the credit is granted by a bank or financial institution. They are the ones responsible for authenticating that I am who I say I am, not the credit agency.
Yes -- they have done an impressive job of introducing "artifical stupidity".
People had and they've been liminarly rejected