skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rare instance where this story would be more believable if you'd said it was a alien space ship.
100%. I think Hugging Face is awesome here as well.

The # of times I've tried to clone a GitHub repo and run a model on my own only to get 50 errors I can't debug.... :)
Then call it a promisary note.
Researchers point of view is based on their area of research and that's fair and expected.

Yann LeCun compares ChatGPT in the context of the related research.
Imagine a ChatGPT equivalent that memorizes many questions and does a brute force strategy for an answer. It may "look" magic, but there's nothing magic about it. We all accepted that this is the case with Blue Gene - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)

What's different here?

Productization and usability are difference concerns here and Yann LeCun is not a usability researcher. Granted, that doesn't mean usability/accessibility doesn't impact research outcomes.
Real-life 'Terminator 2' robot can melt to escape jail, then solidify on command
This is the bigger thing over UX/design.

Someone on twitter likened this to when Xerox invented the mouse, but Apple/Microsoft shipped it with their PCs
This explains some of the particular errors that I've seen when poking and prodding it on complex legal questions and in trying to get it to brief cases.
This is obviously false. Some people will eventually have to learn to cope with the fact that Trump won an election, which means that their received wisdom is not a consensual truth.

edit: Additionally, the reasoning is fallacious - all people are minorities in many ways, so a few dozen tiny minorities can add up to an entire population. You may not disagree with the government about covid (although the government has disagreed with itself about covid), but you might disagree with the government about something else.

You're making the case that all social media should simply agree with the government line (because the people who disagree are minorities.) That's a dangerous case to make if you ever want to replace a government democratically.
chatGPT is innovative in the way the iPhone was innovative. That, of course can be market winning, but it's dangerous, especially for businesses and investors, to get caught up in hype that there is some new "AI" out there that can do things we previously couldn't
"hardly any more innovative than a Markov chain."

Innovation is not invention. Innovation includes combining pedestrian concepts in novel ways. ChatGPT has the best ux and richest corpus of any markov chain I've ever used. It fits my bill of innovation combining sevaral things into a dang appealing product.
Just maybe a product for boring people looks better, because they are a bit more careful than a kind of same product for teens. But still, I like idea, finally we have something from "big data".
Finnish retailer Verkkokauppa.com has had something similar for a couple of years now. If I for example look up the 64 GB Apple iPad (Wi-Fi), I can see that it has 0.43% repairs and 0.17% returns, and that the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 has 0% returns and 2.17% repairs.
It's more like concluding that the internet is dead because nobody says "internet" anymore. Still, that trend for "blog" is probably more noise than signal considering the trend for "internet":

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=internet
It’s easy. Just draw the rest of the owl!
Google in 1998: Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives from the original paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [0]

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users... we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers... we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."

Google in 2003: Eric "You can trust us with your data" Schmidt convinces Sergey and Larry of the bonkers amount of money they can make by adding a monopoly on digital search advertising to leverage their monopoly on digital search. They proceed to switch to the same advertising business model that hindered their early competitors.

Google in 2008: Buys out Doubleclick to maintain Adsense's monopoly on digital search advertising and doubles down on surveillance capitalism.

Google in 2011: Buys out AdMeld, changes AdX contracts to be even more anticompetitive to maintain monopoly on digital search advertising.

Google in 2017: Loses $2.7 billion antitrust lawsuit in the EU. Response? No changes to business model, but oust a vocal supporter of the decision from Google-funded think tank New America. [1]

Google in 2023: Sued again.

[0] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15131370
Thanks, that's very useful feedback. At the moment, the camera isn't utilised to its full potential - it is used to guide positioning rather than measuring accessory muscles or shoulder movement. I think overall adding sensors to the experience does add something, and hopefully with more development the app could alert the user to things like hyperventilation and dysfunctional breathing patterns.
> No, dude, the problem is young men are increasingly not worth having sex with.

That's some victim blaming if I've ever seen one. No, dude, the problem is not that men have changed, but societal circumstances have, and women just act according to the new environment they have been afforded.

Increasing one's market value (desirability) works, but that's doctoring the symptoms instead of healing the root cause. It ceases working if everyone hears about the idea and does it.
You could be onto something there, but it'd be complicated by displacement. If it pushes the water boundary down 20', how thick is the ice above sea level? If they have a pretty consistent way to estimate that at the relevant level of granularity, then that would work.
Hmm, what is "the google[...].html authentication file" ?

We roped off all of /.well-known/ and it is after all under a dot directory which ought to have been caught by a lot of existing software anyway, it seems like if people have things they want treated this way they ought to live in /.well-known/ too, it's not as though the registration process is onerous, you just need to write a specification for your thing.
(Well, HN has put the brakes on a totally civil engagement, so I need to reply here instead of where it belongs.)

OK, I see where you're going with that. The part I object to is really just an implementation detail. It's not cheaper to give him money and pay him back because 1) that's work that someone has to do, and more importantly 2) the reason you need to know if he should not be getting it is because you need to know how much to tax him in the first place, and it's the same job.

That said, I don't like the implication for the aged who no longer work. I'd prefer to keep people in their homes than to tax them out of them.
I landed on this in the past! Nice
Overhaul for Windows File Explorer Would Tie into OneDrive, Microsoft 365
Humans can be trusted not to do that thing, and get in trouble if they get caught.
I used to use PHP in the long-long ago.

Full stack typescript for me is SO much nicer. Occasionally there's code-reuse but more often it's interface reuse for type-safety and autocompletions. This yields a lot of correctness/safety in a large project.

No context or tooling switching.
Vector tile GIS map of the Pathfinder RPG campaign setting
I both appreciate the feedback and 100% agree.
> they “have a lot to lose” from putting out bots “that make stuff up”

2023 should be the year of AI validation. For starters, we could extract facts from all the training examples (trillions) and organise them in a knowledge base. Where there is inconsistency or variation, the model should learn the distribution, so later it can confidently say a fact is not in its training data or is controversial. Note that I didn't say the model should find the truth, just the distribution of "facts".

We can add source reputation signals to this KB to improve its alignment with truth. And if it is controversies we want to know, we can look at news headlines, they usually reference facts being debated. So we can know a fact is contested and by who.

Another interesting approach - probing the model for "truth" by identifying a direction in the latent space that aligns with it. The logic being, even when the model is deceptive, it has an interest to know it is not telling the truth to keep the narrative consistent. So we need to just identify this signal. This is also part of work for AI alignment.

I hope this year we will see large investments in validation, because the unverified outputs of a generative model are worthless and they know it. At the very least hook the model up with a calculator and a way to query the web.
Tbh, I never understood the whole hype about IDW. Sam Harris is the only one worth respecting there, whereas Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro are both absolutely disgusting.
lol it's me signing a credit card reader
I'd add funded startups as well - In my experience, they generally have a 12 month runway, without requiring any outside/customer revenue.

Of course, once the initial funding/runway runs out, it can be quiet a different story :-P
Tried to edit my original comment because two people asked the same, but it didn't update, so I'll resume it here:

- No devops, you have real sysadmins whose priority is security and system administration, not development.

- Not relearning to invent the wheel every six months. The technology changes incrementally. If you get out of the field for a few years, read the "what's new" sections of the new manuals to catch up.

- Documentation. IBM docs are great, remind me of NASA docs. They have everything you need, you can go days without googling a problem.

- Backwards compatibility. Decades old sources can be compiled, decades old binaries can be run. Architecture changes are handled transparently.

- Simplicity. The interfaces might seem primitive compared to PC OSs, but there's also less complexity, and less attack surface.

- Uptime. Almost everything, including CPUs, is hot-swappable. This doesn't add to the joy, but it's remarkable.
https://github.com/shoenig/donutdns

I wanted a no-nonsense single-binary alternative to pi-hole (based on CoreDNS).

Been using this as my home DNS server for a year now without issue. Recently added support for reading a directory of block lists, so now it's easy to keep things organized in blocking sites with huge numbers of domains.
This may be specific to the US, but Apple still sells a majority of devices through carriers: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505822/apple-iphone-sa...
Our government printed 10% of GDP as debt to hand out to people for doing nothing. This is almost the epitome of Monopoly money.

The worst that happened was 10% inflation - which is a FAR cry from hyperinflation.

We had negative real rates for a decade before Covid - and the worst that happened was ~7% home price appreciation.

We're not going to get anything resembling "hyper" unless this country basically becomes another country.
I was remarking on the key word "tangible", not trying to express an opinion one way or the other on financial institutions. Accidentally forgetting to do something and ending up in the news because you caused havoc when the markets opened the next morning is more "tangible" (able to touch things directly) than working on AI or self-driving cars, at least currently. Certainly working in either of those fields might provide more benefits down the line.
Of course there is. You can't infringe without publishing a work and to pass off the work of others as a new creation because it has been shredded and then sewn back together again .

Those cases hinged on republishing works or significant parts of works as themselves, they weren't trying to pass them off as new, original works in their own right.

And this is exactly what this court case is about, whether or not Stable Diffusion ultimately is just another - complex - form of mechanical transformation or whether it creates original work.

In my opinion the only things all of these companies get wrong is that they (1) failed to obtain consent from the suppliers of the inputs to their models and (2) that they themselves have not contributed even a little bit of the input data.

The ultimate laugh test is whether or not these companies themselves slap (C) signs on everything and are willing to litigate when they believe their rights are the ones that are infringed upon. I hope for an outcome where opt-in will become the norm, that would seem to be a reasonable middle ground.

Finally, note that copyright is not a local concept but a global one - and has been for a long time - and that anything that happens on that front will have to ratified in a different forum than some US court.
[link redacted]

MIT Reality Hack 2023: Team Amadeus

Amadeus is an interactive application that teaches you about waveforms via a repurposed Guitar Hero controller and an ESP32 connected to Unity via Bluetooth. Looking into the VR glasses, the Quest 2, you are immersed in a sea of particles visualizing the transformations of modulated waveforms (made with Csound).

This was my first Reality Hack and I loved it.
Please don't put in quotes something that is not a direct quote.
Renaissance Fusion raises €15M to develop clean nuclear energy technology
And if it's not warranty, you have to pay it yourself. And you still have to buy the product in the first place.
Is it working? I've got my code ready:)

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I can't "hone" social skills because I have none. And at my age you can't "get" these skills because in order to get them you need to interact with other people, and in order to interact with people my age you need social skills.

Like I commented elsewhere: exposing oneself to more scenarios of rejection can only drive one deeper into misery. Like wanting to cure an autistic child's sensitivity to noise by exposing him to a string of loud, crowdy concerts.
Do you have a longer term strategy for monetisation? $20/month does not seem like enough.
It's a different kind of cash (like banknotes). It has different security tradeoffs because the owner is the custodian and you aren't paying a chain of intermediaries.

It's not a feature of cash that it can be stolen, every object can be stolen. The distinctive attribute is transactions are public and immutable.

A car can be driven by its owner anywhere they like. If someone described a car to you as a suicide box you can crash and die in - you might say yes, the fact that cars can be driven freely by their owners means you might drive into someone else. But that's a consequence of the feature, not the feature itself.
re: js - "It's a poorly designed language that requires multiple layers of tooling just to make it acceptable for use in larger projects." - ok, isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?

On a more serious note, i've been thinking recently that the more experienced you become with programming, the more you will thirst for functional programming or something close to it. I think that we see this with the maturation of the modern JS ecosystem too - with a trend towards thinking functionally, rendering functional components, limiting side effects, top-down data flow etc. PHP is not the easiest place to do functional programming. PHP is also not a glamorous place to be. Laravel is cool, but you are still gonna want something like React or Vue if you are building a modern front-end so why not go all-in on JS? I am not arguing for this - but I can see the argument being made by the community at large so I am not surprised to see PHP devs moving into JS.

You are in like the 1% - the mythical PHP hacker who loves the language. You will live a lonely life in your mystical PHP dragon cave high upon the on the hillside of Mount Lerdorf. This is the life you must be prepared for.
So what's he been up to?
There is a Slack group related to search at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/slack

Great community. I would love to join something from the start, but now is not the right time.
EquityZen had an offer to buy last week at a $75B valuation / $32 per share.
When people can't work you get product shortages, and then inflation, but UBI isn't about paying people not to work, it's about people electing to work for more money beyond the "basic".
If the counterexample is small
can you just throw
compute at it and swallow that it wont be solved in polynomial time but it will be solved.

Disclaimer: I don’t fully understand the puzzle yet but I am intrigued!
I'm going to answer assuming you're not being deliberately obtuse: Yes.

Obviously it's not a bar where you're looking for a one night stand or a casual hookup. But churches as a general rule encourage their congregations to get together in a myriad of social settings. So yeah, if you were looking to meet a person who shared similar beliefs and values to you, joining a church would be a pretty decent way to get frequent exposition to those people.

I don't attend a church now, but my parents were heavily involved in our local Catholic church when I was a kid. Not a week went by where I wasn't taken to some sort of social event - fish fries, Sunday 'socials' (i.e. donuts and coffee after mass), volunteering opportunities. Not to mention just general small talk after services.

If you didn't grow up religious, it's really hard to oversell just how much church events are part of your life, and how much the people you meet can become a community for your family. My dad loves to tell a story of how one year they gave a family friend a few hundred dollars around Christmas, because they knew the guy had just lost his job. A few years later, unprompted, they returned the favor, at a time that turned out to be really helpful for my family.

I don't take my family to church but I do really miss the communal aspects of the whole enterprise, and wish there was a good way to get a similar vibe without the aspects of religion I don't like. But I think there is something special about a group of people with a shared commitment to a set of beliefs that makes the upsides of church difficult to replicate in secular settings.

YMMV. Just my own experience and rambling.
coverage on venturebeat https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/etl-company-airb...
Yes, but along that reasoning the criticism that "ChatGPT is not particularly innovative" is a bit disingenuous in the sense that the general public has never had easy access to these models until ChatGPT arrived.

Besides, even though the newer GPT models presumably just extended earlier ones with similar techniques but better hardware and data, it wasn't a foregone conclusion how powerful (from the user perspective) the models were going to be. Somebody had to put the resources into training the models. It's like saying human brains aren't particularly powerful because even the simplest animals have neurons and it's obvious that a more powerful brain could be built with more of them.
The question depends on context that hasn't been provided. Are you building it alone? Are you creating services where performance matters? What type of volume are you anticipating within the first 6 months that the MVP is running in production?

It helps to use the best language that your entire team knows. It severely limits your startup if the team is learning a new language together. Align tech decisions with the capabilities of the team, unless the common denominator is Perl. If the team each has at least 5 years of development/engineer experience and you're going to need to invest in a common language, give Elixir and Phoenix Liveview a try.
I can't agree more on the shared adversity. My three main hobbies are rock climbing, hockey, and cycling. With climbing you have to battle against yourself and your limits. Good partners will support you in those pursuits. Add in the fact that your life is literally in someone else's hands when they belay you, it is a quick path to trust. Add in the down time, as stated above, and you will make true friends. Going on a week long climbing trip with a small group will stack up quality hours fast.

Hockey is different but you still have a team working towards a goal, literally! With a good group of people, good as in nice people, not skilled, you win and lose as a team. Plus the on bench and locker room time means you get to know one another over time.

Cycling is different for me, it is a solo experience and as a result I don't have any friends in that world.
You can use your car as collateral for a loan. If you don't repay it will automatically claim ownership of title. Basically the same thing that happens now but with no middleman or paperwork.
Yeah you have to get over the "politeness" hurdle if you want to seriously learn a language.

When I go to Spain, I will always try to speak Spanish and if they reply in English (which they often do because I make mistakes and/or have an accent), I just keep replying in Spanish. That may be seen as "rude" or inefficient by some (although others probably appreciate the effort), but it's really the only way you can keep making progress. (Of course, if it really gets too complicated you can still switch - but usually people switch way before they've reached the end of their skills.)
Proper hyphen is U+2010.

Hyphen, which is the correct symbol for separating words in a compound word, is much shorter than the en dash, which is used in other contexts, e.g. as a figure dash.

The en dash has about the same length as the minus sign, so they cannot be distinguished visually, which is the purpose of using different characters for the word separator and for the mathematical operator.
They paid, say, $10 million to make it, and now it's theirs. If you want it so badly – buy it. If public is not willing to pay a small fraction of this, like $100, then public doesn't need it.
Had to find the article, but I recently read this: https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/ talks about the guy who invented EBITDA and I found it super informative. Explains WHY profit is a bad measure and why cash flow rules.
I'm really curious what the long term effects of finasteride use will be or if there are side effects from withdrawl. So many people I know use it and this is the first I've read of this side effect, so it must be relatively understudied. I guess the silver lining with so many people testing out a drug like this is that it makes it easier to look at more rare side effects with a larger sample size. Sometimes I think if there's an actual perfectly safe cure for baldness out there, you'd at least see rich people like the British Royal Family or LeBron James using it.
All of my “culture” experience working in finance were uniformly better than pure tech.

The movie portrayals don’t match my experiences at all and I saw a lot more bad behavior in the tech companies I worked for.

Heck I saw more people working for the intellectual challenge of it in trading than I did in SV style tech firms where money drove nearly every decision.

It’s really hard for me to buy that SV style tech companies are a better place to work when for the last 2 decades the business models that have been front and center are panopticon style tracking to sell ads and legal arbitrage.
I still have battlescars from capistrano. What a pain. So much easier with docker.