skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User retention is quite tricky, especially for gaming. We think that it won't be too hard adding new content, since there are so many titles releasing each year, but getting highly anticipated titles might be tough.
We think part of the solution will be adding features to MagnaPlay which go beyond just the games. A good example is Spotify, they have a great content library like many other services, but they also have your curated playlists, artist-specific radios, Spotify wrapped, etc. I think getting good user retention will ultimately depend upon the kind of community we can build, not just the content (although it also is a key part).
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"Show your work", "Correct answer without showing your work earns a zero".

These were things that were extremely common in STEM classes when I was in school and were rare in English classes.

This author/professor has a very solid point that English instructors being less lazy and grading on the process instead of the final result would go a long way in terms of combatting cheating and producing better writers.

Another issue I remember was humanities professors at the college level expecting papers to be padded out to X pages even when you didn't need that length to make a strong argument or prove a thesis. The professor wants extra pages of BS to get the good grade, why not let ChatGPT take your 10 page paper that includes all the correct information and pad it out to 25 pages of redundancy and repetition to meet the weird requirement? I think in some cases it might have been hard to resist if these programs had been around, because I always resented having to write that extra nonsense in a class I was taking as a required elective.
> there's clearly a bigger reason than just being able to do stuff without the slow desktop environment. but what is it?

For me, it’s visualisation of data on a remote HPC cluster. Shuffling data back and forth is dangerous because then everything is duplicated and you never know where the latest version is. SSH tunnels and remote X sessions are finicky and in several contexts blocked intentionally or not. Sixels are perfect: the plots are accurate enough to actually see what’s going on, nothing is moved around, and it works with a wobbly VPN server over some dodgy wifi (or 3G).
Bullshit. This speaks less to the reality of the situation and more to the author's biases/myopia. Remember when Craigslist was just a quirky little website? Cheerleaders at the time dismissed the notion it threatened anything of value, then it basically killed the newspaper industry, which in turn bricked boots-on-the-ground journalism. Anyone feel like claiming nothing of value was lost there? We're talking about a tool that has the potential to eliminate the trust metric for all online content.
> all the music you listened to was played live by musicians, all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors

well, no, you probably didn't listen to much music or see many stories at all because the average person couldn't afford to experience such things more than a few times in their life. shocking that Luddites are still a thing in the 21st century, especially here.
Nice, I will always support much needed disruption in hardware!

- I really like that you are very transparent on the BOM and the tech that is inside. Very refreshing in HW.

- Is there any plans to sell as an add-on? As in attach to your favourite pen? Or is the pressure information really essential for the digitalization?

- Is it possible to store offline without app integration? As in transfer as a mass storage device or ble file transfer?

Wishing you much success!
I pay for Twitter Blue even though I use Tweetbot; instead of shutting it down maybe require Blue if you want to use a third party app? I'm willing to pay for services that provide some utility.
That's true, so I should clarify even further.

The restriction isn't on `y[c]_`. It's actually on `y[c]___`.

This is because `y` is the package name for the standard library, and the standard library name will always be separated from the rest of the name by 3 or more underscores.

Really, the restriction is on 3 or more consecutive underscores in C names, and you can't have have a package name that is either `y`, `yc`, or `YC`.

I apologize for the confusion. I was in a hurry and on mobile with the original post.
> What would an AI need to be able to do for people to deem it has this magical property of "really understanding" something?

Solve math problems, for one. If you give an AI a simple 3-digit addition problem, it will certainly fail. That's simply because it's model sees "numbers", and instead of processing the context and operation, it will just fill in the blank with more numbers. In that sense, AI is incapable of 'real' thought - the same applies everywhere to varying degrees of effect.

GPT is certainly impressive, but the impressive part is how well it fills in the blank. If it has any ability to reason on it's own, it hasn't demonstrated it reliably yet.
Yeah I was debugging an issue that was occurring in a Kubernetes environment last night... kept wanting to blame the out of date Istio version. I just could not trust it and that lack of trust stopped me from seeing the whitespace error that was in front of me the whole time...
Right, I don't have any proof, but I think it would be the other way around.

Top execs are often married to their jobs with less time for family. Actors are exposed often to very liberal and beautiful people (affairs are common). And people on the lower economic rungs are more incentivized to stay together to spend less money.
This is thanks to the absurd guidance by the govt. to only give tax break Model Y like vehicles if they are under $55K. (Personally,this hurts as I bought a MY in December)
> The other perennial question, of course, is piracy.

What research have you done to show that it is an actual concern?

The one I always come back to is covered here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15319476 where the data shows that video game piracy actually generates more sales than it costs.

Or is it not based on actual data, just a requirement you've seen from the developers or publishers?
I think that's old fashioned. Newer systems I've dealt with just say "sorry, I can't understand you, please try again later" and hang up.
Getting unironic thisisfine.jpg energy from the article
(this 'dark pattern' stuff is an aside that I felt ok about putting in a comment here since the substantive discussion about the newly published 'exxon knew' paper was not here, it was happening on another HN post (or perhaps more than one).)
> Trading quality for price

Means that many, many more people can have something of passable quality. For example:

> not that long ago all clothes you wore were custom made by a tailor

If you could afford a tailor; otherwise you had to make do with homemade rags that constantly needed mending and looked terrible.

> all the music you listened to was played live by musicians

If you could afford to go to concerts.

> all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors

If you could afford to go to the theatre.

> now all of those while still available are significantly more expensive and niche than the mechanized (production or reproduction) equivalents

Which the vast majority of people can afford, and which significantly improves their quality of life. Now they can buy clothes at Walmart or Target instead of having to wear homemade; sure, not the same as a custom tailored suit, but good enough. Now they can buy digital recordings of world class musicians and theatre actors for much, much less than it would cost to see them live.

> ChatGPT, stable diffusion and I am sure upcoming music models will enable this mechanization in the arts

That already happened decades ago, as soon as mass produced recordings became widely available. It's already next to impossible for any artist who isn't world class (or, more precisely, is not publicized so that people think they're world class) to make a living at their art. ChatGPT and the equivalent in other arts aren't going to affect that much.
why would it help you? it would just replace you in those opportunities entirely.
Bwahahaha, it's been against the terms of use of Oracle to benchmark forever.

Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks people, take them all with a huge grain of salt.
Plus he's talking about This Version of ChatGPT. And it's not just ChatGPT that's happening - we are getting image generation, voice generation, code generation...
> allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer service

Does it, really? I find that most of the time that while people can spot the difference between facts and a sales pitch, repeating the pitch enough still changes the common discourse.

People can say things like "technology x may be more expensive but saves development time" (where X can be anything from the latest frontend framework to microservices to voice recognition) while in fact there is no data that it saves any development time at all.

Is it even true that voice recognition reduces the amount of customer service compared to a simple menu system? If it isn't, the premise doesn't hold.
> That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit

I don't think names are a protected class, right? Regardless it is stupid, but I'm not sure if it on its own can be called anything else than lazy engineering.
Can't upvote this enough times. Time and time again you see this: people say "I hate agile because of X, Y and Z" where X, Y, and Z - at best - are orthogonal to the idea of Agile, and at worst (and perhaps even "ordinarily") are complete anathema to the spirit of Agile.

Sorry, but anybody who thinks Agile is about velocity, story points, planning poker, standups, retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc. has been sold a bill of goods. Now that's not to say that those things don't have (some) value. But they aren't "the thing" about Agile. Not even close.
Why is it such a strong factor for you? I see this point being made every time someone mentions a framework that doesn't use JSX.

But frameworks are so complex nowadays! Learning something the size of React, whatever templating language it uses is the least of my worries. Especially because calling it a DSL is a bit of an overstatement, it's always just HTML with a few custom tags/attributes that let you inject values, use loops and conditionals.
Dallas has these blocked off lanes using essentially plastic bollards. I'm sure they've wasted more time and money via the crashes they produce from people darting between them and the unequal speeds on hov vs other lanes than any carpooling may have saved. I'm not saying that all blocked off lanes are bad but the implementation on US-75 in Dallas has been a horrible mistake.
Very interesting viewpoint!
Curious question. This makes me think ChatGPT is to English what gofmt/Prettier is to Go/JavaScript.
>in my entire adult life, the FTC have any real teeth, and I doubt it'll last

It's one of those situations where the people involved are so over powered by those they are meant to govern/regulate, that there's little chance of them being anything but toothless. The only time they seemingly act is when the acts are so large and publicly visible, that the only way to save any face is to publicly react. For the things that slide under the public's radar, they don't have resources for it and just let it go. At least, that's how it appears to me.
While this is true, I feel like it's worth pointing out that ChatGPT "just" feeds your previous conversation to GPT-3 every message. I don't really think there's any difference between the two under the hood.
> Google requests a set of documents that turn out to be LLM generated
> Other prompts using Google data make more content for Google to crawl and request
> Lather, rinse, repeat

AI contamination is already starting. There's no way that content written by an LLM hasn't already been used to train an LLM.
The "API" isn't "down", these specific apps have been suspended in the developer center, citing a violation of the Twitter rules. Other, non-client apps still work fine.

https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903
assuming the process actually includes proper specification of work
It seems to me that it's a challenge. ICML will stand up some kind of detection system for language model papers, if you manage to get one through, you get "best paper" for the conference. Or alternately there should be a prize for writing a paper by hand and having it get flagged as an AI paper.
A yes, the famous western dictatorships vs chinese absolute freedom!
One thing that pains me about this kind of zoo of problems is that people often have the takeaway, "floating point is full of unknowable, random errors, never use floating point, you will never understand it."

Floating point is amazingly useful! There's a reason why it's implemented in hardware in all modern computers and why every programming language has a built-in type for floats. You should use it! And you should understand that most of its limitations are an inherent mathematical and fundamental limitation, it is logically impossible to do better on most of its limitations:

1. Numerical error is a fact of life, you can only delay it or move it to another part of your computation, but you cannot get rid of it.

2. You cannot avoid working with very small or very large things because your users are going to try, and floating point or not, you'd better have a plan ready.

3. You might not like that floats are in binary, which makes decimal arithmetic look weird. But doing decimal arithmetic does not get rid of numerical error, see point 1 (and binary arithmetic thinks your decimal arithmetic looks weird too).

But sure, don't use floats for ID numbers, that's always a problem. In fact, don't use bigints either, nor any other arithmetic type for something you won't be doing arithmetic on.
This. How are people going to learn/become better if all the base work is being done by an AI.

Reminds of the Empire in Asimov's Foundation where they knew just enough to keep the current tech running, but not enough to fix it if something major breaks or create new tech.

When the AI breaks something, we will be missing the people who knew how all this s$%T works.
Agile is like socialism at times.
Based on the nearest numbers that floats represent, the two numbers are Y = 13.715999603271484375 (https://float.exposed/0x415b74bc) and X = 4.57200002670288085938 (https://float.exposed/0x40924dd3).

The division of these numbers is 2.9999998957049091386350361962468173875300478102103478639802753918, but the nearest float to that is 3. (Exactly 3.) [2]

The modulo operation can (presumably) determine that 3X > Y, so the modulo is Y - 2X, as normal.

This gives inconsistent results, if you don't know that every float is actually a range, and "3" as a float includes some numbers that are smaller than 3.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=13.715999603271484375+%...
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2.999999895704909138635..., then https://float.exposed/0x40400000
I've hated that misfeature from the day chrome rolled it out and it was a major factor in pushing me back to Firefox.

Logging in to the browser and not a website? And then your account is indelibly imprinted on the browser? In what universe is that a good idea?

And then Google saw that people weren't using this so they made it that if I just go to Gmail and sign in, the browser casually slurps up the login anyway and anyone else who uses the computer later can see that my email address exists.
At least a dozen Grenfell firefighters have terminal cancer
I got grades much better than "D" in most of my other classes and got perfect grades on the English SAT and Physics GRE.
I wish Spotify (and iTunes) would do this as well for music.
And yet his writing style works in some stories and not in others.

When he is writing a story that largely consists of internal dialog and a character mostly in isolation his writing is brilliant.

His style is painful in the Passenger and an English teacher would be write to criticize him. That book has long passages of dialog and his style is a detriment in that book. It just causes the reader to have to work extremely hard to decipher the conversations. I have not read Stella Maris yet, hopefully it has less back and forth dialog where his style suffers.
The article is only and specifically about english writing classes.
Yeah, but can we turn "underestimating GPT" into "overestimating humans"? I think that's the direction I'm going.
Exactly. We learn to speak our mother tongue without instruction, but need to learn to write. And what is actually happening is training in putting thoughts out in a linear fashion, and debugging them. That's been the core of the curriculum for about 2500 years.
I suspect the real problem is that someone plugs in a device via HDMI, switches the input to that HDMI port, watches a movie, does some work on their laptop, etc, and then doesn't change the input back to the default hotel tv input. The next guest checks in and can't figure out how to change the input then calls and complains. They are just trying to avoid going to dozens of rooms everyday just to change inputs.
Instead of a obviously false and misleading sign, they should just have the housekeepers make sure the tv is on the right input when they clean the room between guests.
Liking software but hating software engineering is kind of like enjoying the platonic and hating reality.

We're all in agreement that the real world is messy and stressful to deal with. That's life!
Eh, it depends. The USA does have some of the most stringent protections for speech in the world.
The developers are saying their apps have been suspended in the Twitter app center, due to rule violations. Other, non-client apps (like Movetodon) using the API work fine.

https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903

https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/109682991853787913
> Each person had, give or take one, exactly as many tailor-made clothes as we have today.

Many, perhaps most, people don't have any tailor made clothes because they can't afford a tailor. Which has indeed always been the case. But before machines, people who couldn't afford a tailor had no other option for clothes except homemade. Now, with machines, they do.
Thats the same issue with dall-e, stable diffusion, or any of these, and the ML world seems to think its a win and artists don't deserve to have jobs if they can't compete with or become users of those models.

If you can't get paid to produce art as a journeyman that supports your basic needs you won't make it to being a master artist except in your free time, maybe, and you won't have the same work references for work on projects during your development. It will be somewhat like in the writing world, where many or most of the major writers are independently wealthy because nobody else can afford to take the time that writing requires off of real work that feeds and houses them.

Imagine replacing all the engineers in training with ML and wondering why there are no engineers later. Thats where we're headed.
By that logic a sprinkler system is “artificial intelligence” when compared to a garden hose. That’s not what the term means.
Yup, there are a variety of ways. Probably the most dramatic one is the 'black hole bomb', which you should definitely look up~
He was presumably making the network more valuable by using it, though
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> You'd meet about what you were going to do, work on it, and come back a week or two later. Occasionally there would be informal check ins.

Planning meeting, ad hoc meeting doing the work then weekly/bi-weekly show and tells to show progress. Sounds like...some version of agile?

Remember agile and the XP movement that preceded it was invented by software makers, who had observed the pattern you describe and decided to be self-conscious about it.
Thats my point in not so many words (typical American fashion!). We'll likely pay for both while the businesses don't actually have to bear any real due to subsidies but they won't get passed on to the consumer, they'll just capture the profits
Who’s ”we”? The poor people don’t have any power, and the rich people don’t want to stop buying large subsidies with small campaign donations
I thought there were planes that could already automate takeoff and landing?
A SaaS that sells voice-driven customer support wins.

A manager with misaligned incentives that reduced call center costs by 50% and got promoted also wins.
Which war didn't terrorize civilians? Let's not use Ukrainian PR campaigns as facts. If Russia wanted to maximize civilians damage, that's the easiest thing to do by following the playbook of America in Iraq! On the contrary, Russia is doing a ten-fold effort to accomplish its goals by minimizing civilian casualties - and that's why Ukraine is putting military targets in populated areas.
FWIW, the className prop is a React thing not a JSX thing. Other libraries which use JSX will happily accept a plain class prop. The React limitation is abstraction leakage: props are not attributes, they map to DOM properties.

But to the point that JSX is a DSL, that limitation is specifically because React itself is very tightly coupled to DOM semantics… but JSX explicitly has no built in semantics[1].

1: First sentence of https://facebook.github.io/jsx/ - “JSX is an XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript without any defined semantics.”
> Every suburban parent I am aware of has to juggle the logistics of shuttling children around

From experience, most of that shuttling is done for extracurricular activities the parents want for their children. i.e. music lessons, non-school sport leagues, additional lessons, etc.

Self induced demand.

> And the distances are too large.

What kinds of "too large" are you referencing? I recall biking some 10 miles to get to activities in the summer. Highways, yeah, those are out. But stroads often have shoulders and/or sidewalks (which are largely unused by pedestrians). Not really a problem for biking.
To me this kind of short sighted. I get that a LLM shouldn't be allowed to produce a paper from scratch, but the intro. Rewriting this sentence.
Developers are saying their apps are showing as "SUSPENDED" due to rule violations in the Twitter developer console

https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903

https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/109682991853787913
Not to get too off topic, but can you name perhaps a "top 5" of shows/movies available on BBC iPlayer right now? What I've been recommended there has always been top notch, but it's hard (for me!) to find the gems just trying to browse through what's on offer. Thanks!

(Line of Duty is a show that was recommended to me that I liked quite a bit. I'm trying to remember the couple of others, but coming up blank...)
tl;dr: In order to master the state's attempts at legibility, one must embrace the legibility and use it to advance one's own aims.

I don't think that's exactly what Scott had in mind, but sure: if you want to equalize manager-worker power imbalances in the workplace, it might be possible to work collaboratively to make legibility-creating metrics more accurate and fair.
And an observation: if an urge to fix broken stuff is part of your character, someone malicious can do a denial-of-service attack by throwing broken stuff in your path. This is unfortunate. I'd like to know how to fix it.
> most people stuck in unhappy marriages are men

If we are counting only heterosexual and 2 people marriages, wouldn't the number of people stuck in unhappy marriages be exactly 50% men and 50% women?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media#History_of_social...
Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Salary, Especially at Work?
The case for flywheel storage in the Philippines
Giving antibiotics to animals also makes them grow bigger.

It's billions of Petri dishes. It's a white swan in the making.

It's really a shame that now humans are not given antibiotics to combat antibiotic resistance, when humans do not even consume most of the antibiotics produced.