skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree. If you past the point where you are rising new potential and you have any income or some kind of right to income virtually nothing is expected of you. Kids in the mandatory school years face a fair amount of expectations in return for nothing tangible and only receive a smaller portion of the modern ultra conveniences.
NASA’s X-57 Maxwell Is Major Step Closer to Flight Readiness
My son is 10 and is naturally accelerated across many subjects (12th grade proficiency in ELA, 9th grade proficiency in Math, talented in music, writing, etc).

We have been actively indoctrinating our kids with the idea that college is not the be-all-end-all, that they should NOT apply for Ivy schools, 3rd tier schools are very good and if they want to go abroad or even eschew college altogether, we will support them. I've seen the effects that college admissions have on kids, especially in schools like Gunn and Palo Alto high in the Bay Area. Children committing suicide because they screw up a test is disgusting.

There is NO WAY I'm letting my kids go through that mental hell. And from some of the TikTok videos I've seen, you can dedicate your entire life to having a top application (sports, grades, extra curricular activities) and still get completely rejected by all Tier 1 schools. I won't allow my children to go through that just to be subjected to the whims of a racist, capricious admissions board.
I guarantee most of these "high achieving high anxiety types" live with significantly less anxiety than customer service reps/bag handlers/food service workers.
Teens are going to therapy a lot more and there are lots of mental illnesses that weren’t defined earlier. Depressed, anxious, and angsty teens isn’t new. All the diagnoses and innovative “billable events” are however.
Introducing the new Bing (featuring OpenAI’s GPT-4)
Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla
The threats by biden and nuland count as evidence, but certainly we would like more.
Temba; his arms wide.

I agree with all of this, and I'm fond of memes myself. They are definitely an important sense-making tool. But there's a distinction that I can't quite articulate, between memes as shared shorthand, and cliches that are actually reflexes or performative gestures, but are meant to be processed by the recipient as original communication.

As an extreme example, I used to know someone who was quite brilliant and would regularly make profound statements on a wide variety of topics, which he could explain in depth if needed. Some years after getting to be friends with this person, I wound up living with him for a few months and had access to his extensive library. I was surprised to discover how many of his profundities were actually quotations from books, but were uttered without any attribution or reference to the book. It would be like a HN commenter systematically lifting vc quotes but never mentioning their originators by name.
This is not a new theory, non-US media laid out reasons why the US was a plausible culprit last year.

Most of them also put out relatively balanced reasons why the US would not do it as well.

Lots of logical reasons have been laid out why the Russians are suspects too.
As a very simple example of what using this library could look like, here is a tiny code snippet taken from one of the tutorials:

constexpr double speed_mph = 65.0;
constexpr double speed_mps = (miles / hour)(speed_mph).in(meters / second);

In a larger program, of course, the whole point is to avoid using naked "doubles" (or floats or ints, etc) at all, and instead use the library's "Quantity" types, which encode information about their units. Conversions are done automatically, and incompatible operations become compile-time errors.

const auto time = hours(1.0)
const auto distance = miles(65.0)

const auto average_speed = distance/time;

The tutorials are a nice way to be introduced to the library:

https://aurora-opensource.github.io/au/tutorial/

From a user's point of view (I am a physicist by training), I find the library wonderfully unobtrusive and "natural" to use.

Disclosure: I work at Aurora and helped with the effort to open-source this library.
> Dead is dead, unless it's a zombie.

I think they might want our brains, actually.
I wonder if this can be a good forum for your question. You must suspect every answer here simply because everyone here is a self-selected group of people idly reading and commenting on Hacker News threads. It is like asking your friends at the bar for suggestions on how to quit drinking: many there have no interest in it, and the rest are interested but have not succeeded.
It's a great story, but it's all unsourced and could be a decent Tom Clancy story at best. You could probably write a similar one with Russia or German agents as the key players and be just as convincing.

The only anchor in reality appears to be Biden suggesting that they knew how to take it out which seems like a pretty weak place to build a large story.

What I find particularly odd is that this entire thing appears to be based on a single, unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning".
Apologies, I had a hard time copy/pasting the footnotes as on the website they are css styled boxes with a thumbnail. This is only the label, the link itself brings the the relevant pages.
I agree, probably almost no one truly believes censorship is wrong in the abstract. Similarly, very few people believe in absolute freedom. I’m not sure there are really any belief systems where those two things can be really consistent. There is a real issue with people wrap themselves up as absolutist ideologues while spouting “illegal for thee, but not for me.”
But I have a perfect metaphor. Should it be illegal to post a picture of a 3 watt bulb, captioned as 5 watts?
Did you get into a good college or whatever?
What viability are top execs seeing in a business model that is so fragile as to be defeated by reverse-engineering these prompts...? There is obviously no competitive advantage here for very long. The systems must provide an additional service on top of these models, something beyond "attaching it to a publicly-available input form". It needs to aid in reasoning, not act as a god.
Me too! I was active on the SRL (SCAR Resource Library) forums and got my first exposure to programming in middle school by tinkering with scripts I found there.

I wonder what this generations "gateway drug" to programming will be? Roblox?
The same way they ought to fight drugs.

Don't.
A union not allowed to strike isn't really a union, when you boil it down the only real leverage a union has is the ability to withhold labor. If the government is allowed to come in and force a contract on people then the bargaining power of the union is severely curtailed. All the business needs to do is wait and lobby the politicians to impose their preferred contract instead of negotiating with the actual employees.

We saw this essential pattern play out with the recent near railway strike. The rail companies barely had to give up anything because the strike would have been too effective to be allowed to happen.
Yes. Emphasis state. Recently passed AADC legislation (Age Appropriate Design Code for the UK) and CA-AADC (same thing, California) are going to make these kinds of design patterns common.
I don't. I let it consume me.
Okay, I'll bite. If he's a mouthpiece for the U.S. intelligence community, why is he implicating the U.S. in this? Does it discredit that narrative by making it ridiculous, thus aiding the CIA's position? What's going on?
Thanks!! I do want to get a better mic; mine also sounds somewhat reverby to me. And I'll share your feedback with everyone else too
I agree that it's not an extraordinary claim, given the few players with the capability and at least theoretical motives. But it's an extraordinarily detailed claim.

And it seems to hinge on a single source (is my understanding of journalism broken, aren't you supposed to have confirmation of sources?), who clearly has an agenda given this quote: "The only flaw was the decision to do it." So even if the broad strokes are true, seems weird to publish off of a single source to me.
"There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild donkey of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening—first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hind legs and lastly the tail. One day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him: 'It is obvious! The nose causes the tail!'"
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_record
I've seen some studies that call what I mean a "chain of thought" approach (also reasonable is just "higher-level reasoning", but maybe we need a term for the engineered implementation), and I like that terminology. I don't know, it's a gut feeling, but a one-shot prompt completion feels intuitively too simple for me - it seems like we need to build up more elaborate "thought processes" next where we use these methods for individual steps in those thought processes, but also have steps that can carry out a computation or go on a fact search.

A bit similar, again, to how humans will answer plenty of questions on the spot from working knowledge, but are also able to classify when they need to drop into a slower "let's do the math" mode and then carry that out.

We may be able to from these "thought processes" then generate training data sets that again reasonably cache "all possible accurate answers" as you demand, but it's not clear to me if that caching will really save computational cost or just redistribute it to different times. At that point it's probably a latency/throughput question of when you do vs. defer the "thinking".
Yep but the canary was how all of the big IT CEOs didn’t let their kids even have a phone.
Yes, I understand how journalism is supposed to work in theory.
Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are not just two pipelines. It's four total. The two pipelines of Nord Stream 1 were demolished. But only one of the pipelines of Nord Stream 2 was demolished, the second was untouched.

https://www.dw.com/en/putin-offers-europe-gas-through-nord-s...
The Steam Deck is my favorite electronic purchase in like 10 years
I think this is mistaken; there was a lot of pressure in the 10s for AP classes
Thoughts are allowed to be both funny and sad at the same time.
Interesting, apparently HN doesn't allow you to post Youtube videos with time links? I posted this same thing 20 minutes before you but it was marked dead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712550
Alternative hypothetical take - US did it on behalf of German government to avoid the potential political meltdown. Removing this toxic option removed a path to split the society and politics.
People overreact to hype and anti-hype. Rust is already a useful tool and has momentum. But it's not trivial to get into and it won't replace C++ codebases overnight either.

Based on historical data, a good lower bound for its future could be Ruby. According to TIOBE, Rust overtook Ruby in popularity, while Ruby has maintained roughly the same popularity for years. At worst, I expect Ruby to stay about as relevant as Ruby on Rails. But it doesn't look that way...
That's true. I don't think we will find out truth about this any soon, while all the conspiracy theories and speculations flying around.

Given your learning about this, who do you think is most possible author of this explosion?
quit spending your time talking about it and write a replacement then?
Sure. I'm just curious about who did it and hey if Hersh is providing one narrative, it's better than the lack of answers or even any attempt at an investigatory effort from any party, whether NATO or Russian.
> Russia can’t blackmail the EU with energy if they don’t have a way to deliver it. Why would they want to lose that leverage (and their billions in investment)?

Because the pipeline was already off. The second pipeline was not operational. They already had no leverage.

> And EU industry very much depends on low cost gas (chemical manufacturing, vehicle and other industrial manufacturing, greenhouse heating, etc). There’s report after report of vital industrial facilities shuttering due to high gas.

So, your theory is that the US not only endangered the entire NATO alliance, but also sought to weaken NATO members? Again, how does that make any sense? You also fail to mention that gas prices currently are actually pretty low relative to before this event occurred and Europe never ran out of gas.
Biden said he would do it. Act of war without congressional go ahead seems to be the norm now.
Even if Germany OKayd it. 51% of it belongs the Swiss Holding company. You can't just go blow up some private companies assets and get away with it.
> As for the Churchill quote, the reason that democracy has those qualities is because it inherently involves compromise.

But it's the same with free speech: you said it yourself, there's a lot of noise, that's the compromise. You don't know what the "one true Good Opinion is" until you hear from everyone, and that might include racists or nazis or whatever. I don't really think technology has anything to do with it. In fact, the printing press probably made a much larger impact on speech than the internet did (and we got through that just fine).
News source saying Bing’s now includes GPT-4:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/microsoft-launches-the-new...
Founder's Choice VC Ranking Second Release Compiles Data from 1077 Founders
Because Hacker News isn't a world politics website unless those topics intersect with technology. If I want general news about the war in Ukraine and related geopolitics, I'll go read the Times or the Post.

Which is also, by the way, why I'm flagging this.
When was the last time Google delivered something that was actually good/lasted longer than an afternoon?

They have had search, maps and gmail since forever. To me, it seems they don't know how to innovate anymore, let alone deliver.

It'll be the story of YouTube Shorts, (stadia, ... you name it) over and over, until they fade into obscurity.
And is the same guy who has been going into crazy conspiracy theories over the last ten years or so
I only meant about the use of footnotes links. The AI themselves are quite bad but can also be useful if you learn not to take everything at face value. One example of it failing is when I search for my own name it mixes up a bunch of people together so I end up being a dead murderer from the 70's, a house rental person, a developer and also a pianist.
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Whenever I complain [who me?] about some software I use being flawed, someone will always come back with the old "If you don't like it, write your own...". Whenever I complain [who me?] about a website's policies, someone will always come back with the old "Their playground. Their rules..."

I'm tempted to play the same card here; "If you don't want to stage the play the way the person who wrote it wanted it to be staged... write your own play"
I tend to attribute it a lot more to Chrome's many years of deceitful marketing and bundling itself as adware in other products including Adobe products.

Depending on your view of Firefox OS and if it was "Firefox enough", the "Mozilla Foundation doesn't focus enough on Firefox" is a relatively new complaint, but Firefox's biggest losses in market share happened well before even the Firefox OS effort.

(And the Firefox OS effort was to try to keep a competitor against Android and its Chrome hegemony viable, so it was a direct reaction to lost market share. And the current complaints of "Mozilla isn't doing enough Firefox" today are all the complaints about the various ways that Mozilla is trying to diversify their revenue stream and that too seems obviously because of lost market share, not the cause of it.)
720p is 921,600 pixels

1080p is 2,073,600 pixels (2.25x 720p)

1440p is 3,686,400 pixels (4x 720p)

If performance scaling was linear, and given that the Steam Deck targets 30fps (up to 60), any game running at 30fps is going to be dropping to roughly 13fps at 1080p at the same settings.
In response to the subtitle asking whether these species can help revive burnt areas: I doubt it. It is true that some species are specially adapted and even need burnt vegetation to thrive (eg. There’s a bird species I believe endogenous to the Yosemite area whose name I can’t recall). However, these species occupy a particular niche much like I expect fungi or bacteria do. For them to restore an ecosystem naturally implies balance. There is nothing balanced about the intensity and frequency of fires, which are in large part anthropogenic. Maybe there are some species that are adaptable but I just don’t see this as some kind of panacea.
Google’s AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo
I think your take is totally ignorant, and your problem is that you imagine people are being diagnosed with mental illness and/or committing suicide because of “typical human misery”.

Physical condition is an excellent analogy. Many obese people are told that any physical complaint is caused by their weight and told to go exercise. This includes people who are later correctly diagnosed with asthma, broken bones, hormone deficiencies and appendicitis. How do you think they feel to be told that they are causing their own problems and should stop doing that?
As far as I can tell, they analytically solved the style of ODE used in biologically-motivated neural networks (usually spiking, but not in this case) and then trained a network built from those to do stuff.
So proving that `min(number, number)` returns a number is 99% as good as a unit test which shows that it returns the smallest number?
Good! Hope it falls further below $97 or $95 then I will just buy some Google stock.

Perhaps Christopher Hohn (TCI hedge fund owner) is right and Google needs one more layoff in other areas, especially in DEI managers, etc at the company so that they can replace them with AI experts to compete against Microsoft and OpenAI. Seems like now is the time for them to put DeepMind to better use.

Like all the nonsense about Meta going to zero before and everyone scared to buy at $88, This is the same thing with Google with the ChatGPT hype. I would not bet against Google now.

You should have shorted Google last year. The move to short Google right now is already too late.
Per http://www.openbsd.org, “Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!” I believe, at least one of these, was SSH related.
Google shows off upcoming AI search features, leaves Bard waiting in the wings
> Unlearn the "large team workflow mindset" and embrace the "single developer mindset" again

This worked for me. A few months ago I quit a really great job partly because I was struggling with motivation. Fast forward to today and I’ve got a couple freelance projects on the go which aren’t even that interesting, yet sometimes I can’t stop working on them.

I think the large team workflow took far more of a toll on me than I realised at the time. A single line of CSS might start with a discussion in Slack, followed by a ticket, which then gets brought into a sprint some unknown time in the future. Make the change and wait days for the PR to get approved, PR might have a discussion so you need to find the original discussion in Slack, someone might suggest multiple different ways you could have made the change even though it makes no difference. Someone else might suggest that because you’ve touched this line of code you should refactor the entire file, to avoid conflict you just make all the changes even though you disagree, put it up for review again, someone else says they liked the first way you solved before any changes but whatever, tag it in a release go through QA, QA and BAs interrogate you on why you refactored more than the ticket, QA picks up issues that have nothing to do with your change so you have to figure out how long those issues have existed for, finally 4 weeks later your change is in prod and you can move onto the next task.

Working by myself has been incredible. I don’t miss having to justify every technical decision to a team that can’t ever seem to agree on anything. I’m able to react and ship so much faster and the product is more stable and of a higher quality (subjective) than anything I worked on within a team. I’m not sure what this means for my future prospects, but also not too worried at the moment.
It makes a good headline, but reading over the paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00556-7.pdf) it doesn’t seem biologically-inspired. It seems like they found a way to solve nonlinear equations in constant time via an approximation, then turned that into a neural net.

More generally, I’m skeptical that biological systems will ever serve as a basis for ML nets in practice. But saying that out loud feels like daring history to make a fool of me.

My view is that biology just happened to evolve how it did, so there’s no point in copying it; it worked because it worked. If we have to train networks from scratch, then we have to find our own solutions, which will necessarily be different than nature’s. I find analogies useful; dividing a model into short term memory vs long term memory, for example. But it’s best not to take it too seriously, like we’re somehow cloning a brain.

Not to mention that ML nets still don’t control their own loss functions, so we’re a poor shadow of nature. ML circa 2023 is still in the intelligent design phase, since we have to very intelligently design our networks. I await the day that ML networks can say “Ok, add more parameters here” or “Use this activation instead” (or learn an activation altogether — why isn’t that a thing?).
You've been exposed to alternative viewpoints about free speech right here in this thread and it hasn't changed your thinking one iota.

Most people aren't interested in changing their minds.
If you already know the javascript ecosystem then it's probably fun. But if you don't its heavily draining. Also Go is decidedly antifun so maybe not a good comparison.
Introducing the new Microsoft Bing
> Hersh’s more recent stories have been called into question. These included articles about how the US found Osama bin Laden and calling into question the use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians by Syria’s regime, which were criticised for relying heavily on anonymous sources and lacking hard evidence.

Yeah

I'd say some people should just enjoy retirement, as investigative work is hard and it's easy to be misled

> which were later triggered by a sonar buoy dropped by a plane.

Yeah I have a hunch that's not how it works.
I generally agree with the heart of what you are saying more or less. A huge shift has occured - in 1979 you could only see a movie in a theater. (Not even physical media was a big business back then yet.) However, the one thing I would note here is how the distribution business has shifted mostly to VOD subscriptions.

Awards, as a marketing tool, are still worth playing and winning for the producer of a film if not mainly for the purpose of selling their title to a VOD library. And while the effect for the VOD distribution might not be 1:1, it is worth having that sort of content in your offering.

Academy Awards are a strange beauty pageant - the campaigning that must happen and the way a title must be made to win is too strange. It’s kind of like food - aiming to be a fast casual franchise is different from wanting to start a michelin restaurant.