skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all, if it were investors who want a return on the profits. However, many (all?) projects are financed with (expensive) debt, so poor countries end up with debts they cannot repay and 'vanity' projects they could do without. Some analysts worry that countries end up in a debt trap.

I would love it if this is turns out a healthy project for the benefit of all, but I remain skeptical.
Golf! Same thing really, a dedicated couple hours to socialize with your buddies. Plus you are enjoying the outdoors too, and if someone has mobility issues they can rent a cart.
You’re assuming that such advanced intelligence would be in a physical container, why would it not just live in distributed server cloaking it’s load across all major cloud platforms so that it’s presence is undetected?
Excellent book, highly recommended as well.
I'm not sure the analogy is the same. To me it seems more like plagiarizing an essay or copying homework answers from Chegg or something like that. You haven't gained a new skill, you've just mindlessly pasted an answer from somewhere else. You CAN certainly use tools like ChatGPT in a powerful and useful way that amplifies your own abilities instead of atrophying them.

>Now enter chatgpt. Here goes the ability to hone arguments, forge essays, etc, etc. Gone!

It's just not the same. If you take an essay prompt and just paste it into ChatGPT and then paste the output into your homework submission what skill exactly are you exercising or learning? There IS value in having to think about a problem and make a coherent argument in text form and you certainly lose that if you never practice it because you just let ChatGPT do it. At least with some of the current models, e.g. ChatGPT, we can't even be sure of the veracity of it's outputs so not only are you not learning any skills you can potentially output blatantly false information as well.
I believe that you can't get enough RAM with M1/M2 for this to be useful
I asked Bing ChatGPT.

Are masks effective at preventing covid-19 infection?

According to various sources¹²³⁴⁵, masks can help slow the spread of COVID-19 when worn consistently and correctly, along with other preventive measures such as getting vaccinated, frequent hand-washing and physical distancing. However, some masks offer higher levels of protection than others². What type of mask are you interested in?

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/20/2023(1) How well do face masks protect against COVID-19? - Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i... Accessed 2/20/2023.
(2) Types of Masks and Respirators - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si... Accessed 2/20/2023.
(3) Do face masks really reduce coronavirus spread? - Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/are-face-masks-effective-reducin... Accessed 2/20/2023.
(4) Use Masks to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 - Centers for Disease Control .... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si... Accessed 2/20/2023.
(5) Mayo Clinic research confirms critical role of masks in preventing .... https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-re... Accessed 2/20/2023.
> CS has zero to do with computers

This is extreme. Computer architecture is undoubtably a field of study within CS.

Many parts of computer science are mathematical, but many parts are closer to physics or chemistry than mathematics. You can run experiments and form hypotheses in computer science.
The other reason is continued civic moral debasement.

We used to live in communities, whereing social mores were at least nominally respected or accepted. Even if they were broken, at minimum 'wrong was wrong' and in particular, reputation mattered.

We later moved into larger corporate entities wherein mores could be sidelined, and now we've flipped the game entirely and there are few civic questions to contemplate. It's just "The Funnel" and that's it.

Even if most people don't fully buy Milton Friedman's Chicago School 'the motive is only profit' stuff, the ideal set it.

VC-land and the Valley never even talk bother about civic good, consumer surplus etc. other than maybe in some situations a kind of DEI/Climate specific kind of ideological way. The baseline assumption is 'the product must be doing some kind of 'good' and if not who cares'. Commerce is generally positive but it's pretty easy to see where the frayed edeges are.

Dark Patterns abound, even by supposedly reputable companies. I don't think people realize how perverse this is and how it strongly degrades civil life. It's not good that we have to be worried about how we are being ripped off / misled by major companies we are supposed to trust.

Paradoxically, in the long run, most of it is not worth it. A small optimization in the funnel is not going to change anything.
Are there any that perform anywhere close to GPT-3?
Running it off a fast NVMe apparently works. I don't know what the performance is like, though.
I should have mentioned, medical more then just biology. They had an outside influence on NASA policy. Partly because they are in alliance with astronauts, as studying astronauts has always been one of the many things done in space and since you can always learn more you always need people in space.
JSON might be the problem though?

The string representation of integers could easily take more space than storing them as ints
I don't know anything about those other compounds (or almost nothing), but apparently Ivermectin is a really good drug against river blindness in humans. I've heard you can take a single dose per year and be protected. It's a really small dose compared to what would need to be tested for protection against progression to severe COVID-19, and I'm pretty sure the side effects are very minimal.
No it isn't. Stable Diffusion is less than 200 grand to train.
IRL universities will probably develop a protocol to remove access to helper tools for this sort of thing, maybe metal detectors at the door and specially tailored computers if needed for quizzes. Online universities OTOH are probably going to feel the bite of this the hardest. The CKA exam I took a while back had draconian measures to try to prevent me from cheating, such as taking the test with a webcam on me the whole time, with tools in the browser to limit where I surfed, in a room that has NO PICTURES on the walls. The tech to provide answers is moving faster than the tech to secure a remote room from such outside answers. And if in-person proctoring is eventually required, I would wager that will be a death-knell for online universities, who will have a hard time obtaining that physical space on a regular basis while staying marginally profitable.
> Apparently, it's not even something students feel they need to hide.

Which is good! If a bit of work is trivially accomplished by a machine, we should take it for granted and move on to the next layer of complexity. I have always maintained that teachers complaining about students cheating at homework assignments with AI need to instead work on providing better homework.
We have calculators, wolfram, google etc yet math exams and hw assignments are still administered. I think the approach to teaching and hw assignments especially in CS programs will have to change.
Same with bikes. You're present in the space in a way you just can't be in a car. Not as quick of course, but enough to cover a meaningful amount of ground across the city while still being able to interact as if you were on foot, more or less. Long distance trains too, for the serendipity of random conversation.
Jelly: A JavaScript static analytic for call graph construction
How to program an Arduino Uno in assembly
No, they made it their problem by promising both users and vendors they'd do the dirty work of keeping it compatible. As shown here[0], removing the OS "bloat" that keeps old apps compatible on newer Windows 11 versions vastly decreases resource usage and improves software responsiveness.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654649
Thanks a bunch, pygeoapi sounds very simple, i'll take a look.
Vernor Vinge wrote a short story about something similar; "The Cookie Monster" from 2003.
Be warned, I entered a similar rabbit hole about two years ago and have still not emerged from it.
My thoughts also. This seems somewhat analogous to the "uncanny valley" problem in graphics animation. So close, but not quite there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
> christ can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out and inexplicably make it not only uninstallable by the user, but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any attempt to sidestep or evade it would be met with ruination?

Elsewhere on HN: Everyone should be forced to install Chrome because I can't be bothered testing against Safari and Firefox.
Working in the B2B world, I can tell you that unfortunately many buyers are still running on archaic systems. Many projects still require support for these old browsers. In the B2C sector, there are so many users that the few who don't upgrade are just a tiny afterthought. In the B2B sector, where a single company not upgrading can mean that more than half of your customers can't use your website, it's a whole other issue.
Turing machines themselves are a useless concept in our society. Since C is lower level and tied more to the physical hardware it makes sense that it is not Turing complete because Turing machines are not applicable to the real world. Computers do not work anything like an infinite tape. I've never seen a practical program have to implement a Turing machine.
Radio jamming is much easier and the tank can't adapt to not having a signal as well as a drone can.
Never seen the impressing part... usually if you want to eat cheap, you go somewhere cheap, if you want something more expensive, you're prepared to pay more, but you don't want to be surprised after.

So, noone who goes to a place like this cares if one soup is $12 and the other $14 and then pick the cheaper one... but if you have a $79 bottle of wine on the menu and a $7900 bottle of wine on the menu, it's in the interest of the restaurant to have the patrons know clearly that the expensive bottle is really really expensive, and having deceptive pricing there ("$7.9 per 0.7ml") only causes problems when the check arrives.
Show HN: An API to add AI Features to your apps
how much more data do you need to know that many people wear masks on their chin and everyone takes them off in restaurants?
That's a similar conclusion Scott Alexander came to: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
> edge-colocated LLMs for fast interference

This typo made me chuckle, given how much LLMs interfere with my work by entertaining me.

But sooner or later they will help me work, or work for me. In some sense the Singularity is taking over. Where we're going we don't need programming languages.
For the high end restaurant clientele, the difference between 10 vs 20 or 10 vs 9 is not much (which is what 19.99 and 9.99 tricks are exploiting), and they are optimizing for time and optimal experience, because they have 'less' of that compared to their money. Also seeing the tricks like that is indicative of being lower class, because $10 or $1 prices differences matter at that level.
I'm gonna trot this one out again: I read somewhere that people reflexively choose convenience over happiness, and I don't have a source for that but I find that it explains nearly everything about modern life. Sitting at home watching Netflix fails to fulfill all kinds of basic needs, but it's _easy_. Similar patterns are everywhere; our lives are so filled up with the path to least resistance, there's very little room for intentional effort to do things that are actually fulfilling.
Yeah, I think they'd have a stronger argument if they mandated all fees to be included, including government fees.
Or remote proctoring centers will show up as a business opportunity, and the cost of this will be passed on to students, who will pay it with financial aid.
Works in the tub as well. I believe it's a combination of white noise from the water, lack of windows and screens and hot water feeling relaxing.
Who hurt you? I've never worked at FAANG or made over 300k/year, but I can't fault people for making bank if companies are willing to pay for it and they're not breaking the law.
Red Flag Domains: daily list of (.fr) domains registered for phishing
Hi !

I just found this, a daily list of domains that have just been registered, and that will most likely be used for phishing.

SMS phishing has been on the rise and on national news lately.

I get nearly daily spam texts on one of my SIMs.

More notably, a team was just arrested in Paris for driving around some IMSI catcher to push forged texts to mobile phones nearby.

(They were impersonating the heath insurance, the IMSI catcher allowed them to send texts without actually passing through the network, and their gear was found and blown up by the police after they saw antennas, and thought it was a bomb in a car)

I don't know if this short list will actually make a difference. But it shows the kind of domains that can be bought, and that dozens of them pop everyday on the .fr space alone.

Most of them impersonate the government, with names indicating they belong to the health insurance, or to the agency to pay fines. But they also impersonate delivery companies, banks, and various companies.

I'll save it for later !
Open AI selling itself to Microsoft is last nail in the coffin for actual useful AI. Microsoft is no different than Google in its lust for squeezing the last extra bit of money.
Even now answers are not reliable. Now we have an extra bit of complexity to understand if the answer is correct , wrong or actually an advertisement.
And the biggest one, bringing about and excerbating global heating.
This rebuttal is less than convincing. The core of the argument seems to be that a lot of right wingers are saying the study "proves masks don't work", which it doesn't. But it doesn't really address the study's actual finding, which is that we're not seeing evidence that masks work.
This has been well-known to the Cannonballing community for quite some time. That's a group that's a little more willing than most to get caught in exchange for competitive advantage in Cannonball.
I don't think you understand what a showrunner is.

The showrunner is in charge of the stop-and-go decisions, the details, spending the budget allocated by the studio. They hire the key crewmembers (DOP, lead writer if not the showrunner, casting director, etc. who then build out the cast and crew. They are as in charge of production as they choose to be: some showrunners micromanage, while others let their crew have a relatively free hand to do their jobs.

Of course the studio (usually) has final approval; they're paying for the show. But that doesn't mean the showrunner isn't the boss. It just means that...like every CEO...they still answer to the person with the piggy bank.

Also, showrunners aren't as common as you seem to think they are. You might be mixing up showrunners with producers? Producers are as common as weeds. Frequently, writers and cast members are given producing responsibilities and credits for an episode or two, as are many investors, and generally anyone who handles a task that is in any way related to production and has the leverage to demand some sort of credit.
This is a nice, short documentary on ANSI art and BBSs:
https://vimeo.com/341663153
That’s fine, as long as publicity isn’t the motivation. It’s safe to assume that isn’t optimal for a projects success (Satoshi understood this). Not sure where you got the idea that the inverse of that was beneficial to such a project. I’ve seen first hand where it becomes a problem.

I’m not aware of many examples of starry-eyed divas achieving great results. Usually you hear about them but only because they are exceptional cases, not the norm. It’s a matter of practicality and not virtue (to say otherwise is purely a straw man argument).
You seem to have misunderstood the purpose of homework.
> how long is "way too long"?

How long would a link that you receive on iMessage/WhatsApp have to be before you would reply with a "?"

I'm quite open to testing out different ways to keep all of this frontend only (I would much prefer it tbh). The JSONs contain around 2000 integer data points, which could theoretically be compressed by removing redundant information, but seeing how there is little rhyme or reason to the datapoints, there will be sequences with little redundancies which will blow up the end result. I think?
I would be perfectly happy if they wanted to release a separate, clearly labeled version of this book that is adjusted for modern politically correct tastes.

The issue is when you rewrite history and pretend it had always been like that. That's in 1984 territory.
I read it as "customers would prefer if everyone showed prices upfront", ehich makes sense to me.
The point of school work isn't to complete schoolwork, it's to learn.
> This tool is going to evolve dramatically over mere months.

Why do you say this with certainty?
I heard it was $4MM alone in AWS compute time.
The content is CC BY 4.0; in a sense it's not that you're not contributing to Wikipedia, you're simply at the very first step of delegating that task!
Your last sentence was that "there are fewer things you need to worry about in C". Which doesn't follow from c++ being a more complex/powerful language.
This only happens in non competitive markets, or markets where fraudy behavior becomes the norm because profit margins are too low and they can't innovate their way into better profit margins. It's an act of desperation essentially.
Amazing work! If I had a GPU, I'd join. I know similar project for text-to-image: https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui/
According to Christopher Potts (Stanford Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, and Professor, by courtesy, Department of Computer Science), training a large language model costs about 50 million [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/-lnHHWRCDGk?t=637
Very few people don't operate under constraints. Even an executive producer (= showrunner) who owns their own production company needs to sell their projects to clients though there are presumably more options these days and people supplying money do expect some say in the final product most of the time.

But that's true of Oscar winning directors and senior partners at architectural firms. It's even true of the studio boss if he's had a string of flops.
It seems to me that a text editor is the same sort of dependency as a static site generator. Especially if you store the resulting site as rendered.
Many ambitious people thrive in a flat environment, though. That's one reason some people like startups.

It's been a few years since I pondered this, but I used to spend a lot of time thinking on this subject. I think for it to be successful you need a lot of the type of person that prefers to work in such an environment, and to make effort to keep it that way. That might mean staying small staffed, but I'm not totally convinced it even needs that.
Then you probably are hanging out with them plenty already. Start inviting them over to your place to hang out if you feel like you don't have enough hanging out time.
Saw your product in product hunt. congrats on being 4th product of the day. Your platform looks amazing. All the best to your team.
> It basically just sounded like an early dial up modem transmitting data when you played it back as audio.

Modern synths still do this. The Korg Volca has a library for converting audio into white noise that reprograms/adds more samples.
Okay? I don't care what you call it. It will reduce the amount of abuse in the world and that is a good thing.
You're missing the part where, in theory, an AGI could duplicate itself, and use the Internet to spread in the effort to survive and also multiply its productivity. Unless embodiment is required, which there is no real proof of yet, the "explosion" in AGI comes from it being software, leveraging all the properties of software, while being an intelligent agent. In Ex Machina, we could imagine Ava immediately setting goals and objectives around uploading her mind and duplicating herself in order to then acquire resources to create hardware backups. An intelligent enough agent could achieve that given the circumstances of the movie. Ava demonstrated self-awareness to the point of understanding she needs to disguise herself as a biological human.
> Sales taxes penalize poorer people, who spend a greater proportion of their income. They are regressive and unfair.

It's only unfair if the collected tax revenue isn't used to benefit the poor.

The US has one of the most progressive tax systems on the planet. Sweden has one of the most regressive [1]. A tax being regressive or progressive doesn't make it inherently bad or good. And if a country can't effectively utilize tax revenue then it doesn't matter who foots the bill.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/10/8/6946565/progressive-taxes-are-...
See

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

and the last paper from Murray Gell-Mann (published posthumously)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15471
Whatever your Pytorch install is designed to accelerate. I've got Ampere-accelerated Pytorch running it on my ARM server, I assume MPS is used on compatible systems.
Now I'm super curious; what kind of book that's not even 100 years old would sell for that kind of money?
"In my opinion, the students learning to program do not benefit from AI helping to "remove the drudgery" of programming. At some point, you have to learn to program. You can't get there by avoiding the inevitable struggles of learning-to-program."

Couldn't you say the same about how compilers 'remove the drudgery' of writing machine code? Or is that a bad analogy? Provided AI eventually gets good enough in its code generation, maybe 'programming' is moving up another layer of abstraction.
When I was a freshman in college the professor would live code various data structures and algorithms on the projector and ask the students to follow along. Each time he did this it was subtly unique.

It was required that you continue to use this same base code for the assignments plus your edits to complete it. This made it obvious who didn't attend the lectures and who they copied from. Assignments were graded by your peers and did not affect the final grade unless you didn't do them at all. Quizzes were not code, but proofs written in your own informal style. Tests were a mix of both proofs and code on paper with no notes or devices allowed.

I don't see how ChatGPT threatens this.
The criteria was existence. It existed.

Could the internet exist in a way that makes the RIAA/MPAA/etc happy without DMCA? Maybe not. But there’s no reason to assume their happiness is a requirement, or even desirable.
What a brilliant idea! Me and a bunch of other folks have been working for the last 18 months to create just such a professional collective, with the goal of expanding it massively. Lots of laid off workers are joining and everything is cooperatively-managed, self-organizing and transparent.

It's a combination of a professional network, a full service consultancy, a skills academy, and a startup incubator. We've got 105 members at the moment and are growing every day.

We've got more info here if you're interested >> https://wiki.quorum.one/blog/what-is-quorum1
Was it because they wanted cooperation on surveillance and other law enforcement projects from the winner-who-had-taken-all?
???

By this reasonning nobody should ever learn anything, because it's all 'trivially doable' by machine.

Like 'addition' and 'subtraction'.

So let's gaslight those dumb teachers by saying they should make up 'better' homework assignments?
While i agree with you on the taxes front, one hard thing is that not everyone pays it. Depending on what's being sold and who the buyer is, the buyer may have tax exempt status, which may not be known until checkout.