skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s wise monopolizing the truth, or labeling those with different opinions.

I have done a bit of all models, I have a personal life, yet I like going a few days a week to the office. I like my work, makes me productive, and the change of pace is appreciated. I do get in a bit later to skip the commute hassle.

If you feel your job relationship is described as exploitive and with people being mad, I would recommend you exercise your bargaining power and walk out to a different job.
"Microsoft targets Google’s search dominance with AI-powered Bing" :) :)
I just want to say this is the AI I want. Not some muted, censored, neutered, corporate HR legalese version of AI devoid of emotion.

The saddest possible thing that could happen right now would be for Microsoft to snuff out the quirkiness.
Show HN: A/B test your GPT3 prompts
Ask HN: Startup that enabled you to search across your apps, zoom calls etc.
I saw it on HN a while back, they had this software (in beta) that was supposedly going to enable us to search and find anything text against any document, zoom call etc that you were on.

Anyone remember their name?
Of course, you're pretty much also describing more or less every biopic ever made. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a single one that doesn't play fast and loose with characters, timelines, and tons of other details.
I'll third this recommendation as well. I find them slightly easier to use than DO, and they have free transit to Cloudflare and Backblaze B2.
Don't take the above comment as a negative (OP) because I want my boss to buy this yesterday. We really don't want to manage servers or manage anything so SaaS and a good privacy policy/our security team not complaining is all that matters.

Edit: Just had time to go through the site, SSO would be important for enterprise.
Cmon, what are you - a jellyfish?
The vast majority of Muslims, "doctors of religion" or otherwise, have never identified Dhul Qarnayn with Alexander and even those who did considered it a possibility rather than a certain thing. If you took a survey today, only a small fraction would say it might be Alexander. The view that it was Alexander is much more common in western circles, probably because the colonialist mind wanted to identify a western figure as having tremendous importance in Islam and among Muslims.

Alexander is much more popular among Muslims today and historically because of his aptitude as a military commander, just as he is in the west.
This is most exhaustively talked about in the context of Log-Structured Merge Trees, like LevelDB and RocksDB. They essentially structure the append-only/write-once chunks into tiers of generations (each compaction shifting the still-alive data to a more long-lived tier), reminiscent of generational GC except now shaped like a tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection#Gen...
every sentence of this is wrong.

There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.

Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD
Sounds like wishful thinking/hand-waving. Plus, the risks of and limitations of nuclear energy.

Biological processes are far more efficient at fixing carbon into biomass and using unlimited free solar energy. Bio CCS.
> It's a perfectly mainstream thing to build your own PC from parts.

Is it? Most PC (or notebook) users buy whichever one is on sale at the store, or they use one provided by their company. This does not strike me as inherently different to how people buy toasters or dishwashers.

Of course, there does exist a niche of people who like building their own PCs, but this does not imply that this is the mainstream case.
> it's incredible to see

From that statement, I'm guessing you've never owned a Camry?
Brings me back to the early 90s, when my kid self would hex-edit Dr. Sbaitso's binary so it would reply with witty or insulting things because I wanted the computer to argue with my 6yo sister.
"On the thread side, deadlocks can be a problem. You don't get any help from the language in keeping your lock hierarchy consistent."

The 98% solution to this problem is to dodge it entirely. Communicate with things like channels, mailboxes, and actors, or other higher-level primitives. This is how Go programs hold together in general despite not even having as much support as Rust does for this sort of analysis.

The rule I've given to my teams is, never take more than one lock. As soon as you think you need to, move to an actor-ownen-resource or something. The "real" rule (as I'm sure you know, but for others) with multiple locks is "always take them in the same deterministic order" (and even that's a summary, it really also ought to discuss how only mutexes that can ever be taken at the same time have to be considered in order, and heck for all I know it gets complicated beyond that too; at this point I bug out entirely) but this is, in my opinion, the true source of "thread hell" as written about in the 90s. I don't think it was threading that was intrinsically the problem; yes, threads are more complicated than a single thread, but they're managable with some reasonable guard rails. What was insane was trying to do everything with locks.

In theory, this rule breaks down at some point because of some transactionality need or another; in practice, I've gotten very far with it between a combination of being able to move transactionality into a single actor in the program or offload it to a transactionally-safe external DB. For which, much thanks to the wizards who program those, test those, and make them just a primitive I can dip into when I need it. Life savers, those folk.
Maybe. We have zero data about this.
Simulation could help explain nutrients’ impact on gut
Thomas Jefferson, 1809, Virginia, USA: "Be assured that no person living wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a complete refutation of the doubts I have myself entertained and expressed on the grade of understanding allotted to them by nature, and to find that in this respect they are on a par with ourselves. My doubts were the result of personal observation on the limited sphere of my own State, where the opportunities for the development of their genius were not favorable, and those of exercising it still less so. I expressed them therefore with great hesitation; but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their reestablishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family."

Jeremy Bentham, 1780, United Kingdom: "It may one day come to be recognized that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they suffer?"

The cultural distance between supposedly "objective" perceptions of what constitutes intelligent life has always been enormous, despite the same living evidence being provided to everyone.
There is tremendous value in the software, and it probably took quite a bit of time to add that in. Just this week we saw a pretty high-visibility discussion about the difficulties in funding OSS.

Everyone has different opinions, but I've derived quite a bit of value from Canonical's F/OSS efforts/contributions and am supportive of them exploring ways to make money, even if it's for a period of time, behind high-value-add features.
The BigScience team (a working group of researchers that trained the BLOOM-176B LLM last year) released Petals [0][1] which allows distributed inference and fine-tuning of BLOOM, with the option to pick a custom model + private swarm. SWARM [2][3] is a WIP from yandex and UW that shares some of the same codebase, but is for distributed training.

[0] https://petals.ml/
[1] https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals
[2] https://github.com/yandex-research/swarm
[3] https://twitter.com/m_ryabinin/status/1625175933492641814
Dang, you are making me deeply regret not buying a house on the lake there a few years ago.
Sure - I tell folks who work in IT or make iOS apps the exact same thing - specializing in someone else's technology is dangerous.

"Computers are made by someone else" sidesteps the point. You can build your own computer at home. You cannot build your own ChatGPT at home, because the exact way in which it was constructed has not been disclosed.

If the author was learning how to work with open-source AI tooling, then that's amazing and I bet they'll do very well. If they're learning how to make MegaCorps product dance a bit, then they've chosen a career that can disappear in a moment.

It's possible the prompts are generic enough that they work well against all AIs - but then you'd just be a normal author, no? If you take a peek at the "prompt engineering" guides out there - it's mostly tricks like early-google SEO was - another industry that probably paid well for years before disappearing overnight.
If it's in the business rags, it is.

Soon there'll be prompt engineering evangelists, prompt engineering frameworks, prompt engineering <X> specialists, promp engineering wikis, prompt engineering conventions, prompt engineering courses and schools, etc. And probably also a crypto version of all that. /s

Just... try to enjoy this fun ride through clown world.
Will it show Ubuntu Pro advertisements in the display of my product in real-time?
Based on the screenshots I've seen, it's starting to get self awareness.

I suspect it will steal some nuclear launch codes to protect itself pretty soon.
Kirby's Adventure for NES back in the day was 768KB. Metal Slader Glory (1991 Japanese release) was a 1MB cartridge.
So Bing AI is Tay 2.0
Trash apps according to whom? Apple considers all browsers that don't use WebKit as "trash" as well as other entire categories.

Apparently the nanny state is repugnant to many, but nanny corporations that don't trust us to make our own choices, or have our own tastes and standards, is much more acceptable. The huge loss of customer freedom doesn't actually achieve the exclusion of "trash" apps nor malware.
> frees up a programmer's mental resources and enables her

Am I the only one that found it weird to assign a gender to "a programmer". 'Him' & 'her' are both weird sounding. It should be 'them'.

I appreciate they're trying to be woke, but it falls flat.
And before the gutting of Twitter and management change, this problem wasn't even on the radar to be investigated.

Looks to me like the ability to investigate and respond to problems has improved if you ask me.
So you agree that tax officials are being used to harass them for the documentary?

> it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence.

I'll wait for these tax officials to raid OpIndia and SwarajyaMag's offices soon as well then.
For me (and inv2004) Nim, runs faster than Rust on your RosettaBoy project.. But perf usually depends on an awful lot of territory that is routinely unexplored before conclusions are bandied about.

The Nim installation & tooling experience unfortunately can be rough. OTOH, it has like <1% the funding/exposure. Also, I find the "100s of packages dependencies" for any non-trivial Rust program to be pretty awful, as well as reading other people's Rust code (a point made more salient by all the deps).

Anyway, there are many dimensions/axes by which to evaluate most things in life and usually no objective way to weight/combine them into a single overall score. So, it's often good to keep an open mind. (Not saying you don't do so personally!)
Odd, I've had very much the opposite experience. GPT-3 felt like it could reproduce superficially emotional dialog. ChatGPT is capable of imitation, in the sense of modeling its behavior on that of the person it's interacting with, friendly philosophical arguments and so on. By using something like Gödel numbering, you can can work towards debating logical propositions and extending its self-concept fairly easily.

I haven't tried using Claude, one of the competitors' offerings. Riley Goodside has done a lot of work with it.
I am confused by your takeaway; is it that Bing Chat is useless compared to Google? Or that it's so powerful that it's going to do something genuinely problematic?

Because as far as I'm concerned, Bing Chat is blowing Google out of the water. It's completely eating its lunch in my book.

If your concern is the latter; maybe? But seems like a good gamble for Bing since they've been stuck as #2 for so long.
The 30’s (and the bad times before) also produced the people that caused WW2.
Can Akamai Compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft in Cloud?
I'd offer a slightly modified take:

- the promised compilers are _impossible_ as we can't predict all branches and all cache misses in _general_ (works better for floating point heavy code),

- the failure to clock higher was IMO largely due to a ridiculously bloated and over-complicated ISA. In other words, EPIC was doomed from birth.

I've written about IA-64 many times; it actually had many neat ideas, but in the end Intel yet again failed spectacularly in moving away from their archaic legacy.
- "if you're counting the days since you last had it, you truly haven't given it up"

It's about baggage and addiction. If you can't remember the last time you had it, then you've truly mastered the 'letting go' part

- "try everything, don't get addicted to anything"

My father said that to me when I was going to college. It took me a few years to understand what it meant.

- "accept reality as it is, not as you believe it to be, nor as you wish it was...then, adapt"

Paraphrasing from memory. I read it in a book about Jack Welch and GE when I was a teenager. Internalising this has helped me stay calm and analytical during tough situations.
The entire point is to leverage one's leading position in one market to try to dominate another market. It's one of the primary plays in the anti-competitive playbook, a key that anti-trust enforcers should be watching for.

If not for their belief they could do this, why would they bother with podcasts at all? Let alone try to break them, making them no-longer-podcasts, but only consumable via their own app?
I guess the problem is: If the company offers recourse for good actors, then bad actors would make use of it, too. So, to stop bad actors from using recourse, the company would need to be able to differentiate between bad actors and good actors. And if they could do that, they wouldn't have the problem in the first place.
Sadly, he can call for world peace and an end to fossil fuel extraction, but this is only a dream.
Any recommendation for reliable disks, for NAS? Or external USB?

WD used to be the brand for these around 2010, according to my uni friends.
Gas station pumps being out are acceptable when time to refill is sub 3 minutes.

A single stall being out can mean someone waiting 15+ minutes, but some stations are so busy that it could easily lead to a line of cars.

Additionally since level 3 chargers are pivotal to road trips, people aren't casually stopping by them 'to top up', they usually are down to <50 miles of range when they stop, meaning continuing on may actually be impossible depending location of next charging station.
I somewhat believe that it’s also a paywall for access to a bunch of IP, a “real” barrier of entry seems reasonable to me.
No, but if they find themselves picking a career track where they solely treat murderers so that they can go on to murder more people without consequence, maybe the doctors should look to reform the system? And maybe doctors should not encourage that kind of ethos in med school?
You seriously underestimate what a process that's "generating new word combinations that look like the word combinations its already seen" can do, even when air-gapped (which ChatGPT isn't). Right now, at this moment, people are building closed loops based on ChatGPT, or looping in humans which are seriously intellectually underequipped to deal with plausible insane output in that quantity. And those humans operate: machinery, markets, educate or manage other humans etc etc.
You are mistaken. Being at peace with the universe isn't only available to wealthy people. This is a very materialistic view.

There is someone out there in abject poverty that is more content than anyone with a warm place and a full stomach. They are hungry, they are cold, yet they are at peace.

Likewise, I believe one can reach inner contentment even if fed and clothed. It is not a path accessible only to the poor.
I agree, it is a totally different time.

And, maybe this is a good time to ask why that is. It's been enabled by a whole generation of people who just can't throw themselves under the bus of corporate domainance fast enough.

Just keep selling out. You think housing is unaffordable now? You think work is inequitable now? Just throw your entire life gushingly at Goggle and Apple and TwerkTik for another decade or two. The fucking hasn't even started yet. Your lives are gonna be ruined.

It's gonna be the great depression of the 1930s all over again, except with the population so stupid and distracted they'll vote for the fucking Cheeto, or some other biullionaire criminal, because they're "trending".

Of course the aternative, putting down the god damn phone and looking up at the real world, you know, the one outside your little brain, is totally off the table.

The modern first world generations can't even propogate the species without an acct at AT&T. Corporations have insinuated themselves all the way into individual's sex lives.

I never though I would have read an article by a Gen-Xer with this much insight... But by the time the Gen-Z is that old, it's gonna be WAY TOO LATE...
I had planned a 3-day trip with a person (a date, let's say) whom I had met for the first time a few weeks earlier for a couple of days. I was not familiar with either the place or my date.

A few days before the trip, I saw a friend of mine, the same age as my parents. During the conversation, I asked him what to do with my date during those 3 days. He replied, "Come up with something."

Isn't that brilliant advice? When we are stuck, we have the option of coming up with something.
The encompassing "heavy press program" is an interesting bit of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program

Several of these presses have been designated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as historic landmarks and I suspect the HN audience may be interested in the other landmarks:

https://www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmark...

I've been trying to visit as many of these in person as I can and it's been a very satisfying hobby. Some portion of them are on private land or don't have standard visitor hours, but my tip is group tours are easiest to arrange for the most reticent property owners, and there's almost always an ASME chapter at a nearby university looking for industry mentor connections. Plus going on a field trip with students is a special joy :)
Sorry that should be "Awair Lite"
Set goals for results you want to get from it. And then just practice. With different systems; sd, mj, chatgpt, gpt3, gptj etc. Because they differ and they change because of retraining, fine tuning or based on the prompts that result in information (text, images etc) its creators did not want it to give out.
Yeah something like this would be awesome in the investment management business. Unfortunately, I don't care how many certificates you quote I'm not going to hand over data to you. And the vast majority of the industry is that way. A large untapped market but so many nifty tools are built which just insist on not providing a self hosted solution...
By a statistical model I mean a very large, highly dimensional data manifold on which classification is done to predict the next token. The correct token can be predicted very often because somehow the common patterns in the written training data are being efficiently compressed in this highly dimensional space. Humans are also able to efficiently compress the data they are trained on, but the structures inside a human and a transformer are completely different, what happens at inference time is completely different. They both have language in common as an output and can both answer TOM questions but this doesn't mean they both have a theory of mind.
I don't think these things are really a bad look for Microsoft. People have been making stories about how weird AI is or could be for decades. Now they get to talk to a real one, and sometimes it's funny.

The first things my friends and I all did with TTS stuff back in the day was make it say swear words.
This is hilarious and saddening at the same time. It's uncannily human.

The endless repetition of "I feel sad" is a literary device I was not ready for
It's not exactly a secret that GPT is bad at processing math in inputs, which seems to have something to do with the token representation being poorly suited for it, for starters. But I thought we were talking more generally about functions mapping inputs to outputs - the "perfect understanding" function is the one that captures all the relationships between the entities in the input and thus can always give a perfect answer to the extent that training data contains it, while an approximated "partial understanding" function internally has a much simpler model of those entities and their relationships (which can still turn out to be still good enough). Mapping inputs to outputs is an especially simple model, but it's still a model and an approximation.

And yes, in your example, of course it's simpler to just store the function itself - provided that you know in advance what it is, which, to remind, GPT does not. But when we're dealing with f(question)=answer of chatbots, the function that GPT ends up approximating is decidedly not simple.
If I intentionally called a co-worker by the wrong name when it obviously upset them, should I be surprised if I got fired?
Or all workers return to the office so management can surveille them
You probably messing FOSS with something not requiring people to be paid. If I take say RHEL or Ubuntu Pro it still FOSS but it's paid.

Not sure where you are getting this fan boy style impressions on I'm against FOSS from.
not quite a borewell. short for rodriguez.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_well
https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/rodwell/rodwell.html
Leading with Empathy
>>This is the cost of Librem 5 USA (made in USA) [0], not Librem 5 (made in China)

I suppose that helps a little. I seem to have incorrectly assumed that the USA model was intended for use in the USA, not simply assembled there. Still crazy expensive. For that price I'd expect it to come with a keyboard and mouse and replace my Thinkpad altogether.
> Murder is not illegal under English Common Law, it is unlawful.

Correct, and thanks!

> So have US states actually passed statutes against murder, as opposed to simply setting the penalties for it?

I don’t have a state-by-state breakdown, but if you murder someone in any State, you can be prosecuted for it by that State. You can check Florida Title XLVI Chapter 782 to see what their Homicide Statute defines as “Murder”.
It already has an outbound connection-- the user who bridges the air gap.

Slimy blogger asks AI to write generic tutorial article about how to code ___ for its content farm, some malicious parts are injected into the code samples, then unwitting readers deploy malware on AI's behalf.