skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow I found a nest of Microsoft fans. From your link:

> By 1999 it was clear that Microsoft had no intention of delivering Low Level; although officially working on it, almost no resources were dedicated to actually producing code.

No kidding...

Also the CEO of SGI in the late 90s was an ex-Microsoft and bet heavily on weird technical choices (remember the SGI 320 / 540? I do) that played no small role in sinking the boat. Extremely similar to the infamous Nokia suicide in the 2010s under another Microsoft alumni. I think the similarity isn't due to chance.
That card stops working pretty quick if you can’t manage to get money out of China and into Amex’s hands.
Is this in the US or Europe?
Ask HN: Can you sign up for Instagram using Firefox?
I could not. It refreshes constantly, tries to makes me review some terms, but for some reason it auto-reloads.

I disabled all my extensions.

I have a Facebook account already (which is what I used to create the Instagram account).
And that in turn might cause them to start a war... Because when the regime has nothing to lose all bets are off, even though it makes no sense whatsoever. They will have to distract from their culpability somehow.
I second this, though I haven't tried the alternatives which I hear are also good. There is some value to specific kinds of pitch shifters, like the Boss Octave pedal, the Digitech Whammy pedal, and Eventide's harmonizers. Depends on what you are trying to do and what kind of control you want.
> You simply CAN'T provide the same resource to all of them, some of them will have to vie for a lower-ranked resource.

It depends what the "resource" is. If it's the mix of prestige and the individualized attention of highly impressive scholars that you get at elite colleges, then of course not. If it's simply high-quality educational content plus some average-quality tutoring, that's a scalable resource that could be provided to many more people at very low cost.
Bing Chat is better than Google was at its best. That's what convinced me this thing could be worthwhile. There are so many questions Google used to handle okay that I just gave up on exploring, and that Bing Chat now handles exceptionally well.

For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986361

All Google provided was endless near-identical articles explaining the core types. No amount of query refinement helped. Meanwhile, Bing Chat asked follow-up questions and helped get to the right questions to ask.
the question is, why? why are they doing it? the real reason not the ostensible one.
I know nothing about grapgics programming, but this is on my list of things to work through:

https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/0...
> 14% of Harvard undergrads are legacies. It is exceedingly unlikely that SATs help a higher percentage of deserving but otherwise overlooked applicants.

I don't follow. Are you implying that the first sentence is evidence for the second? Do you think legacies are getting in via high standardized test scores? I don't think that's true. If standardized test scores were a major determinant of admission, these schools would be 2-3x more East Asian than they currently are. And virtually none of those students would be legacies. The Harvard admissions case showed all this with evidence from Harvard's own admissions data.

Additionally, the article cites a study saying that SATs do in fact help "deserving but otherwise overlooked" applicants.

> My point is, there is a way to have a far higher impact on opening seats for kids who should be getting an elite education than the question of whether SATs help or harm attaining that goal. They're not really serious until they don't preference legacies.

I agree with you that elite schools do not explicitly prioritize the talented poor. My impression is they prioritize (1) the powerful, (2) those who possess or can afford expensive class signals, (3) those who will donate money, (4) racial balance, (5) high achievers. Standardized tests allow students who can't get in via Categories 1-4 to sneak in via Category 5. Even these students tend to be of higher socioeconomic class, but to a lesser extent than Categories 1-4.

In my opinion, the only way to do better than standardized tests would be (standardized tests) - (all the non-academic mechanisms that privilege the rich) + (explicit priority for the talented poor). But these second and third terms will never happen, so standardized tests are better than nothing.

It is hard for me to understand those who support standardized tests being discarded along the way to a more fair admissions process. As you point out, there are much more obvious ways to achieve that first.
My love for the Voodoo 2 knows no bounds, it was the start of a beautiful thing for me.
All dropping standardized test does is grant them the ability to discriminate.

There are going to be special cases and examples of unfairness in any system, and so you can find cases where a standardized test resulted in an unfairness, but the alternative is only 100x worse.

The alternative is not "Without the burden of these inflexible uncaring mechanistic tests we can serve each precious flower better and leave no one out."

That is only the sales pitch.

The alternative is actually nothing but "Now we can discriminate."
Life of the upper middle class american male is a game the blog post.
Cashierless checkout counters didn't really reduce labor though.

They just shifted it from a paid cashier to buyers doing it for free.
Have been hearing these kind of "capital flight" stories for decade plus now somehow big financial institutions keep pushing more FDI into China.

See i'm not an economist but you can't that sounds a bit counter intuitive too me.
One story says China has capital flight and you have other stories talking about more and more Foreign directed investment into China.
why is it that these models tend to be released as float16 and converting to int8 is left to the reader? is there something special about training that defaults you to float16?
As far as my understanding of American copyright goes, a computer produced work cannot be copyrighted as computers are not human, in the same way a photograph taken by a chimp cannot be copyrighted no matter who owned the camera that took the photo. This is one of the major challenges with the legal status of AI as well that will soon be fought over in court.

It's possible that the automated processing of the dataset is considered to be non-creative enough that the generated AI model cannot be copyrighted. The code to train the model and the input dataset (and the works therein) definitely can be, but not the model itself.

In that case, Facebook would be out of luck, as long as the code to train the model isn't shared. If the courts find AI models to be a different type of work that does produce copyrightable models, Facebook may follow in the footsteps of other copyright giants and start filing lawsuits against anyone who they can catch. I very much doubt they'd go so far, especially since by the time they can even start a lawsuit confidently, the leaked model is probably already outdated and irrelevant.

Personally, I expect the model to end up being uncopyrightable, as would be the output of the model.

This may or may not have very interesting results. The dataset itself is probably copyrightable (a human or set of humans composed it, unless that was also done completely automatically) but if that copyright is claimed, the individual right holders of the included works may demand a licensing fee similar to how sound bytes work in music; "you want to use my work, pay me a fee".

Or maybe the dataset is considered to be diverse enough that individual works cannot be expected to be compensated for their inclusion and you can get around copyright law by amassing enough content at once, who knows.
Nanou still has quite a bit to catch up with openFrameworks API surface though.

Also those "plugins" are kind of limited to compile time, not really what plugin infrastructure is about. Nothing that can be dynamically loaded into an existing installation.

At very least I would expect something like DAWs or COM make available.
So the LLMs need more powers because humans keep thinking they are what they aren’t and aren’t what they are.

(Duh.)

And it helps with creativity to be able to ask the void for words and get words back that might even be contextually relevant.

(Duh.)

But since people ask it search questions, it needs to search more good.

(Duh. Point 1.)

This is all rushed, corpo fomo is through the roof right now. Let’s see what the fallout tastes like.
I have a love-hate relationship with this. I love it conceptually and I think it's the right model, but it has a lot of problems.

For one, people on unemployment benefits don't even have close to 49 Euros allocated to them for transport. They'll likely be overpaying for local trips and continue to not be able to afford long distance trips.

And two, the infrastructure here is just not ready for more passengers. The 3 months where the 9-Euro ticket existed, public transport was unusable. I upgraded to long distance trains (which were deserted) several times to bypass the hours of delays and the overfilled trains (where masking mandates could not be upheld). I don't have a car and I didn't plan to ever have one (until now, maybe), so I fear my only mode of transport is going to be even more hellish than usual.
What's with the push to encourage people not to learn? Get em started, let em figure the rest out as they run into it. You aren't gonna be here forever.

The test of a tool is learnability.
did you think they weren't gonna protect their own?
That's around 450 euros per month right?
I don't think the restrictions matter too much. Businesses don't need to be perfect, in order to function well. And so, making the perfectly restricted AI also doesn't matter, it just needs to be good enough. The company needs to signal the effort that they are taking the necessary steps, and manage the PR if something happens, like when Tay spouted racist nonsense. To validate this, take a look at a similar aspect: security. Security is also never perfect, but it's also a booming business, and always have been. It's also a huge cat and mouse game, for example with companies releasing ridiculous locks, and LockpickingLawyer promptly defeating them.
ChatGPT API – How do I handle the 4000 token limit for keeping context?
I am coding a little Discord ChatGPT Bot that I just want to privately use. Right now I just feed the whole message history back to ChatGPT but of course you quite quickly reach the 4000 token limit.

The simplest solution of course would be to just delete the oldest messages but that of course could delete more important messages.

Another idea was that I could let ChatGPT summarise the conversation when I am close to the limit and then only save that message.

Maybe theres already some better implementation that I am not aware of?
The DB app allows you to buy tickets for local transport associations - not sure if it includes everything, but so far I always found the regional tickets there.
If 49€ is too much, how are they getting to work now? If they can walk or bike to work, they don't need rail. If their current fare is less, they presumably can continue using it.

In my area, lower-income workers still usually need cars. They spend at least this much on gas each month. There's a lack of reliable transit options which makes a vicious cycle of low ridership and fewer options. I wish we could build out the bus/rail system we need and promote it. The city's not that big and everywhere could be within 30 minutes if buses and trains were as frequent as they are in other countries.

I think the German transit authorities are looking at the situation and saying that there are a lot of people who currently drive that could be given a little incentive to take rail. Sometimes when you make something free, people stop valuing it. If the goal is to boost ridership, a nominal cost makes people want to get their money's worth by riding. But at free, they might continue to drive and keep the train just for days when the car is in the shop. People are weird like that.
The GitHub search query turned out wrong (for me). It added a space to the location param.

It should be.

https://github.com/search?q=location%3A%22Copenhagen%22+lang...
3d-printed guns may make gun laws obsolete before too long.

Besides, the laws have only stopped some of the rabble. They have not stopped governments from developing ever more effective and deadly weapons.

Technological progress in weapons development has not stopped, and it's that kind of progress (rather than mere gun ownership) that's more akin to AI development.
> Here's the thing, if the right actually was honest, they would be supportive of social transitioning, because that is how a kid can figure out their transness.

Local story... Boy who claims to be female and goes into the girls locker room to watch them change. He doesn't actually change or participate. Just a spectator. The girls try to hide from him. It's pretty clear by the details that he's a peeping tom just there to ogle the girls. One of the girls speaks up about how uncomfortable he has made life and many girls no longer want to change their clothes for gym, even asking for private spaces but this girl is ostracized and vilified by the local media for not being supportive.

It's pretty amazing how we went from being so protective of these spaces. Particularly from sexual predators. To one where we openly allow predatory behavior and tell the reporter of the incident that she is the bad one. Deny them privacy and security.

Numerous reports of trans males dominating girls sports, and from information that is the primary reason for the 'change'.

All these stories of particularly men going trans for transparently selfish reasons of advantage do not help the cause among people who really care about their daughters well being.
There are a LOT of people out there who will look at something like this and shrug. It's a relatively small change in code size, even less in memory usage, and the effort warrants a whole blog post.

To those people I say: Look, it's a small change to software structure that lead to non-trivial improvement in size. How many opportunities does your code have for this? Such optimizations have a compounding effect, and if you habitually ignore them we end up with resource gluttony and performance issues. By the time you end up with Electron apps it almost seems hopeless and people say "well 2gig is OK, most systems have 16 or 32gig these days.

Once you focus on optimisation for a bit and learn what works, it can become as fun as developing new features and your code will be better for it. Give it a try!
Visual Languages also allow to write modular code, by packing complex stuff into modules and libraries, maybe people try to stop doing everything on a single diagram.
Regardless of whatever equivalence you’re trying to make: the US is never going to sanction itself.
Whenever I see articles like this one, I imagine this is the kind of PR that US colleges would use to deflect conversational topics they don’t want happening. Get people talking about “how do we get into college?” (with the assumption that college is where we want to be) instead of “why is the US college system broken?”

Not saying this is that, but just a thought and I’d be curious to see if this is a trend that continues.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor Frankl
Microsoft’s War Against Third Party UI Customization for Windows 11
To get into Jesuit High in New Orleans, you need to have parents with money, no criminal record, and a pulse. The average student ACT score there is 31. That's the 95th percentile nationally. Those kids get great educations and have involved parents, but they aren't averaging 31s due to merit unless you're counting their parents' wallets too.
> I asked ChatGPT a few different questions about its boundaries around questions, without expecting it to betray too much detail to one of its pesky meat-based users. As someone who adores language and culture and wants a more cosmopolitan world where curiosity is cultivated and more people are permitted to flourish, I did find its response a tad disconcerting. “If you are uncertain about whether a question is appropriate, it's always a good idea to err on the side of caution and refrain from asking it.” With a response like that, it appears that ChatGPT is fully trained to start working in the Censorship Department at a publisher.

Sounds like it would be perfect for instructing youngsters, too!
Feel like automating the human feedback, not the summaries themselves, that should have been the core focus of research like this. As is, even reading guidelines for summary evaluation they presented the reviewers are not reproducible.
> I am more efficient with a single monitor, because I use a tiling window manager.

I just read a whole article (this one) about a guy that had to switch to a single monitor because switching to a tiling window manager made it hard to live with more than just 1 monitor, so allow me to doubt that your WM is actually increasing your efficiency.

But even without that, no you are no. If you need to switch between virtual desktops to, for example, see the code and see the website renderer by the code, it is an highly inefficient process.

So unless your single monitor happens to be a 44" 5K monitor, I would 100% fire you.

> you admit your choice of operating system gimps productivity yet you still choose to use it

I think the word "imposed" made it pretty clear that I actually do not have the choice.
Can you provide references for this story?
Eurail passes are still a steal, and include long distance trains. I'm honestly a bit upset I can't buy one to use here.
Candidly, if you truly believe that less than 0.1% of popular conspiracy theories are true then you should have very low confidence in your beliefs about anything.

A minute fraction of conspiracy beliefs being true implies that viral nonsense constitutes a very large fraction of human thought - (which may be true!) - but which would then imply that most of your thoughts are also probably viral bullshit.
> it's incredibly obvious who has started to use a GPT for the work they turn in.

Yes that jump in intellectual prowess shows an intelligence can adapt in order to game the system that awards the grades.

Its a bit like looking for the ultra heavy suitcases at an airport check in because its loaded with kilos of cocaine and thus weighs considerably more than your average travellers clothes. Meta data comes in all shapes and sizes!

> they're aware that GPT can invent convincing sounding sources, so they're doing a lot more work verifying sources.

So are teaching staff demanding pay rises to cope with the extra work load, because ChatGPT can work with the latest global scientific discoveries faster than the ideas can filter out to the educational systems, their curriculum and textbooks?

It will be interesting to see if anyone gets marked down for using the latest knowledge and opinion because the teachers and examiners are out of date.

If its not obvious, AI could take on, the entire scientific community, something the legal system will have to deal with, because currently the judiciary can pick and choose their scientific "committee" of experts and rig court cases however they like.

But it looks like the educational system is having its Watergate moment.
Which browser are you using? Shows a blank page for me.
> there’s nothing the US wants less than borders starting to be changed by wars

I think it's a major mistake to talk about any country as if it's one homogenous, unanimous entity. There are those in the US, and elsewhere, who stand to make a great deal of out of money from war.
Let me be the first to state that nothing I have said here is intended as medical advice. [edit: I also specifically called it "family folk wisdom" which is about as clear as anyone can get that it's not scientific medical advice] Like everything else around here, it's just one person's opinion, and no one has leverage to brigade for or against it, which we all appreciate about this board. Just ignore it if it bugs you, or argue the damn thing on its merits, tell me what a fucking idiot I am if that helps; no one's reading this except you and me and like 30 other people, and their minds aren't going to be changed whatever the outcome of our conversation is.

I'd say if you're here to make a point about how to make a point, you're sort of missing the point.

Skip attacking the style and get down to arguing the content. You're thankfully not limited here to 140/280 characters.
> phone access has almost totally been privatized at this point.

Phone access has always been private, no?
How do you know it was 1000€? Maybe if it was closer to let’s say 500 and an extra 300 was seemed like a reasonable price to them for the additional convenience.
The ever centralisation around one man is incredibly short sighted. The Chinese system used to be much more sophisticated, having both a very capitalistic view of the world and a very communistic view. They have completely lost half of that and even the communism will disappear if things start going wrong - all that will be left is maintaining the dictatorship at all costs.
Interesting how many people try using inequality of outcomes as evidence for inequality of opportunities
> A few weeks ago I was pretty sure that Beijing would not be that stupid...

The US is executing the same broad strategy against both China and Russia - surrounding them with US-friendly states who then get military support. It seems to be working extremely well against Russia since they can barely get Russian troops into the Donbass safely.

While I, personally, agree that it would be stupid I can certainly see that situation from the perspective of a hypothetical Chinese military planner. A destabilised Russia would potentially have a colour revolution leading to a US encirclement on 3 compass points. China would therefore have no choice but to support the war effort against Ukraine.
The fact that they are going after a single DNS resolver instead of directly going after the site hosting the content is a huge red flag. If Sony wins, it does not solve this specific copyright violation claim for Sony because the content is still available and resolvable through all the other DNS resolvers online. It just sets legal precedence that corporations can assert arbitrary censorship through third parties by claiming copyright infringement.
And... you think that by writing how good you are at something you actually become good at that thing? Like, I mean, you think that if you write "I, drewcoo, can run 100 meters faster than Usain Bolt" you will indeed run faster than Usain Bolt?

What that document confirms is that at one point, when Python was cool, and people liked to talk about Zen Buddhism (probably inspired by Hofstadter's book), someone, semi-jokingly wrote that PEP. And this is all there is to it... You cannot be possibly delusional enough to think that eg. "explicit is better than implicit" is somehow provable or enforceable or can even be properly defined... Like, a lot of Python programmers would agree that context managers do implicit state management or that, in general, decorators create implicit behaviors attached to code of the functions or classes they decorate... and yet Zen of Python PEP still exists, right? So, what makes you think it's some sort of a rule that's never broken by the language it's allegedly applied to?
https://archive.is/LZ1Kx
Oxford University’s other diversity crisis
I've found that chatgpt is pretty OK at writing basic unit tests based upon the code in context. I can even say things like 'please switch to mstest/xunit' and it does the thing like you'd expect.
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