skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently the bandwidth of online astroturfing is limited by the human copywriters producing it. In a post-ChatGPT world, astroturfing will be limited by the number of GPU-seconds one can pay for, which is going to be orders of magnitude cheaper. It doesn't matter that AI is capable of producing useful content, because useful AI-generated content will be a zero-measure subset of all AI-generated content in the wild.

Compare with organic food: is it true that non-organic food can be healthy? Sure! Then why do people prefer organic food? Because it's just not worth it for them to figure out which one is healthy/unhealthy.

Similarly, it's just not going to he worth the effort to figure out if some AI-generated content is genuine or trying to astroturf. If there will be a "certified human" badge, people will use that as a positive signal.
If it answers correctly, I wonder how much of that answer will be due to reasoning and how much will be because it’s already seen the answer.
Why would you expect it to immediately know what to show you? This isn't YouTube's front page in 2007 where everybody gets suggested the same popular videos. You need to give it some input data first. The types videos you stick around and watch will be shown more frequently, the types you scroll past without watching will be shown less. It'll seed you stuff that it shows to people who watch similar stuff to you, and narrow your taste down. Everyone's feed becomes pretty unique, and chances are if you have any interests or hobbies, there's creators out there making something for your tastes.

In my experience it does a pretty good job of figuring this out. Especially compared to YouTube which seems to mostly show me videos from channels I've been watching frequently, and not necessarily similar types of content.
The libertarian/anarchist ideal of the web was doomed from day 1.

The only way forward IMHO is increased public (i.e. government) control over it. The curated, regulated corners of the internet can still thrive, with measured degree of openness. Too much abuse elsewhere.
JavaScript is 10-37x faster out of the box without any imports

async function time_tasks(count=100) {
async function nop_task() {
return performance.now();
}

const start = performance.now()
let tasks = Array(count).map(nop_task)
await Promise.all(tasks)
const elapsed = performance.now() - start
return elapsed / 1e3
}

for (let count = 100000; count < 1000000 + 1; count += 100000) {
const ct = await time_tasks(count)
console.log(`${count}: ${1 / (ct / count)} tasks/sec`)
}

Outputs (Python 3.11, Bun 0.5.1):

% bun textual.ts
100000: 3767797.000743159 tasks/sec
200000: 9001406.4697609 tasks/sec
300000: 8281002.001242148 tasks/sec
400000: 10038491.340232708 tasks/sec
500000: 8976653.913474608 tasks/sec
600000: 10437550.828698047 tasks/sec
700000: 9443895.154523576 tasks/sec
800000: 11021991.118011119 tasks/sec
900000: 9790550.215324111 tasks/sec
1000000: 10263937.143648934 tasks/sec

% python3 textual.py
100,000 tasks 303,063 tasks per/s
200,000 tasks 270,058 tasks per/s
300,000 tasks 271,621 tasks per/s
400,000 tasks 261,945 tasks per/s
500,000 tasks 251,070 tasks per/s
600,000 tasks 272,520 tasks per/s
700,000 tasks 250,977 tasks per/s
800,000 tasks 253,131 tasks per/s
900,000 tasks 244,696 tasks per/s
1,000,000 tasks 266,061 tasks per/s
I agree that open access is not always the right approach. Most of our users don't in fact run Plato with open access. Databases are read-only by default, and many provide write-access to only certain tables. We're also working on more features to scope access.

- Queries restricted to certain virtual tables, to avoid unintentional linear scans

- RBAC for scoping access

- An API client for hitting administrative endpoints rather than cells directly

Lots more on the way.
Yeah, I did the exact same thing and got very similar results. Just to save people clicking through, the Go/goroutine version is 25x as fast as Python. :-)
It seems they're in for a lot worse than that. Could be wrong though.

I still think Stripe is really thriving in terms of products, services, and customers.

However, when even really good news (somebody wants to give them a whole lot of money!) is interpreted as bad news (not at as high of a valuation as before), it's hard to imagine them not having a hard time.
Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US.

The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations.

This state sponsored vertical integration enables abuse of authority in cases like https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/xa9j3x/church_...

Whereas here in the US I know many people that mix and match between different states DOLs and DORs for a variety of reasons, and your not going to get stuck with the same stubborn employee who can control every facet of your ability to identify yourself and also legally drive a vehicle on the road.

The DUI checkpoints up in BC are wild too, I'm glad they are banned in Washington and Oregon. Suspicionless stopping of cars en masse followed by interrogation by police seems like an overreach.
Taibbi: Media is spineless media for ignoring FTC’s demand to reveal journalists
I agree that it is a good scripting language. That's where it excells. A GUI terminal emulator however, is not a script... Python once compiled and using it's underlying c libraries is fast enough by modern standards but it is slow to start and projects using it are prone towards difficult to read/messy code.

Obviously the latter is up to the developer(s) and whatever standards they set for themselves but any software project tends towards paths of least resistance inherent in the language and frameworks being used over time as maintainers change and PRs fixes from contributers are merged. This is pedantic of course, but that doesn't change the fact that Python is not the optimal solution for this problem.
No, it would only ban zoning that allows only single family homes, as zoning laws often do now. It would not require multifamily homes. The article points out that similar laws in California so far have resulted only in limited change to home building.
There is/was still some important innovation coming out of Germany from time to time. For example, the first LCD display and the first chip card were invented in Germany, and the MP3 format was developed in Germany. Not a whole lot overall though.
> at the heart of the reasons why this structure is the way it is, you find people's utter lack of knowledge about how science does and should work

I don't think people's lack of understanding scientific methods is the main factor shaping the incentive structure, though it's very interesting how big a role it plays and I would love to hear more detailed arguments.

In order to change the system, there must be enough alignment on what the actual goals are and what incentives might benefit them, ways to effectively organize around it, and ways to actually enforce the new incentives. (Perhaps even more things...)

I think there are big hurdles on each of the above. First, concerning alignment on the goal, many people don't agree that faster scientific progress is actually good. You might argue that trying to teach people epistemology might change that. I neither think it would nor that it should, but one could argue about it a lot. "Indoctrinating" people starting at a young age that "science and knowledge = good" as a moral value might work (it is being done and I mostly endorse that) but that's different from teaching the scientific method.

The really important important factor here is, of course, that many individuals and organizations benefit from the current system and don't want to change it.

Concerning organization, political intersts and competition hinder it somewhat, but co-operation between scientists is quite high and increasing. Hopefully that trend will continue and not sucumb to geopolitical pressures.

Concerning enforcing better incentives, that's very hard. For example, we can't objectively and reliably evaluate someone's scientific contributions. Any metric you set up is going to be gamed, etc. I think the incentives have improved over the (very short) history of collaborative science and the trend looks positive. Take for example the trend towards open access publication and growing awareness of many issues (replication crisis, etc.).

Generally, I would say that understanding how science (the system) works and how it should work (or would, given certain changes) is very hard. Similarly, I also think really deep understanding how science (the process) should work is also hard and applying that knowledge in practice is much harder still. At some point you get diminishing returns for the efforts of teaching it. You still haven't proposed how you would promote this knowledge. I can't think of anything that seems likely to do much good but would love to hear about it.

> Remarably, nearly all the commenters here betray this very lack of knowledge by talking about it as "philosophy"

I believe epistemology and philosophy of science are philosophy. I also believe that having and improving these things is very useful and one cannot overstate their role in getting science where it is now. This is in my mind perfectly consistent with there not being a great need (way?) to teach more of it to students.

Perhaps an explanation of how you would teach it would make me realize we haven't been talking about quite the same thing?
You think most people have nice warm beaches locally?
Ask HN: How Does Bloat Happen?
How do products get bloated?
How does that happen?
When I was an intern, another intern and I were tasked with improving the accessibility of an angular app (internal use) so that it meets an internal standard (it got tested in iterations against that standard)

Ever since then, I just can't unsee how inaccessible a lot of modern websites are, especially the modern fancy ones. I like to sometimes just test how easily navigable a website is with only a keyboard, how ready it is for screen-readers, color blind support, high contrast mode, etc

I know a lot of these are hard to implement and I don't blame developers for not bothering. But I do think it's quite sad, especially with how integrated the web has become in day-to-day life

I am no longer working on accessibility but when I am working on the frontend of my current project, I try to make it more accessible, at least for keyboard users and screenreader users, while trying to to spend too much time on so I can finish the issues planned for the current sprint, even though it is not a requirement or even a concern to the product owner.
Forget about UHC. Buy your drugs over the counter with the help of the GoodRx app. Cheaper than Optum.
As for Digital wallets, if Apple would let developers use NFC other apple certified cards and apps it would be already happening tap to pay with digital wallets.
All modern CPU architectures have builtin fast string compare instructions.

Here is a table from the Intel manual (bolded are the relevant compare instructions):

https://msdk.intel.com/en-us/library/cc286809.aspx

> SSE-4.2: Compare strings using dqa (32-bit mode), dqq (64-bit mode), dqu, dsx

> SSE-3: Compare strings using cmpsdx, cmpsd, scansigndx, scansignd

> SSE-2: Compare strings using pmaxsw, pand, pmin, pmins

> SSE-1: Compare strings using pandn, pavg, pandnpand, pandnpandn, pandn, pandnpandndivr, ...
But the government is financed by taxpayers, so the taxpayers will end up being the payers of any fines the government is liable for. It's circular.
Congratulations on launching! I'm working on a open source project that solves a similar problem, there's so many challenges with figuring out UI and UX for real-life databases. Your virtual columns concept looks neat!
Is Uno the first next-generation password manager?
I'm not really sure I see the point? Surely this is both more resource intensive and worse than a chess AI.
Does it gaslight you into believing it won?
It doesn't really work that way, data in silicon is largely stored with charge - if the photons are fat enough to bounce off that charge they're also likely to erase it
Van: A functional-programming and object-oriented-programming script language
Van is a script language, implement in ANSI C.
Sounds like they renamed the app support team to dev ops, and the ops team to SR and were done. Pretty standard move in some organisations to "keep up with the times".
In the film Rum Diary, the goal of a group of characters is to request a permit to build 50 houses with the actual goal of building three hotels. The "negotiation" step is when they "concede" the houses and "just" build the hotel instead, the hotels being the original plan. The houses were basically just a trick to start the negotiations way in favor of one side.

That's the scheme being described above, it is not something that is specific to content creators, but instead a description of shady negotiation tactics used by powerful entities (like YouTube or billionaire real estate developers). There is nothing about it that is specific to YouTube or content creators.

It does indeed have a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
This is one that annoys me.

There's Ancient Greek style statuary all over my town, penis, vagina and all. It's out in public and very few people care, because it's art, and in appropriate places like the public gardens. Hiding it away, would be an overreaction.

Yet, somehow, seeing naked art, on a private device is somehow a terrible thing.
From what I understand of large language models, it won't play the best move it can, but the most likely to be played based on its training set.

If it was trained on chess.com, ChatGPT average level would probably be, at best, as good as the most average game it saw.

Correct?
It's not an accurate explanation, given that you can literally watch ChatGPT reason if you tell it to "think it out loud" while solving a particular task.
Sitting on vested stock is different than being granted new stock (as a replacement) without being a current employee. That may open Stripe up to some additional tax/liability.
I can't say I've used Baserow, but looking at their website it seems like they let you create new databases (like Airtable does), rather than connecting to existing SQL databases.
Hasn’t made a dent yet. In fact, started out just trying to acquire data.
What do you have for low energy, zero energy, passive solar homes?

Buy-all-sell-all says you can't use your solar to power your duct fans even when the grid is down?

Write me a ScholarlyArticle.
Wow. This is such a great reminder of how nonsensical ChatGPT output can be.
That’s even the way babies learn to talk

No, it's not. Babies learn to talk by babbling, and then by taking cues from their parents which babbles elicit a response and which don't. If you want to translate that to AI, it would mean that the AI would spew random garbage and then learn to filter its garbage from the responses to its outputs. That's pretty far away from what ChatGPT and other language models are doing right now, because they stop learning before they start producing any output.
> There is nothing “democratic” about how the US works

So it seems. Then let's not blame governments and democracies in general.
Does Synology NAS have a mobile app that can view the recordings?

Also what are some good 4k Wi-Fi cameras that work with Synology?
What's wrong with a simple reciprocal policy, if they don't allow foreign owned/controlled social media in their state, we don't allow theirs here.
I find it surprising that people use the groups webapp as a way to read the email. Isn't your email client more convenient?

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but never beem responsible for anything close to Groups.
This isn't really true. Zen was built for years at Global Foundries on 14nm and out performed Intel at the time.

Moving to TSMC definitely helped later, but it was the original Zen architecture that put them back in the game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(first_generation)
Thanks! Happy to trade notes. Shoot us an email.
sadly closed gardens like reddit, human moderation is the way to go
Raising a down round when you're private is fundamentally different than the "market being down" when you're public ($AMZN is down due to macro factors). It means a few things: old investors are diluted which is very painful, employees are diluted which means you'll lose talent, you're most likely desperate for cash which shows cashflow/war chest problems, and finally, the IPO strike price will most likely be even lower than expected.
Wow, someone that didn't use Electron for writing desktop apps? Focus on speed and simplicity?

Basically every app should be like this.
Actually, they were…

There’s no wiggle room here unless the data has been de-identified (a high barrier). It wasn’t.

The standard you’re refering to is for e-PHI which is “individually identifiable health information.”

You’ll want to see the Privacy Rule for details but GoodRx shared email addresses, phone numbers and mobile identifiers according to the FTC complaint.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/goodrx_complain...
> child labor becoming less valuable due to legality

It's ironic you post this on the day that Governor Sarah Huckabee rolled back child labor laws.
I'm talking about the web as a useful source of information and entertainment, not in terms of some libertarian/anarchist ideal.

If curation is the only way that the web can retain some semblance of usefulness, that's a serious problem. It would drastically limit the usefulness of the web.

Perhaps that is where this is all going. If so, I'd say that's the web being doomed. I'm just hoping for a good result instead.
It does not do this on desktop
A company can be very profitable but still not have $6 Billion cash on hand for a one time expense, and even if it does have that cash in the war chest, every dollar going to this is being pulled away from productive investments.
It's not called the forgotten generation for no reason.
> What you describe for CA isn't everywhere.

It is for electricians. I come from a family of electricians working in many states, including the so-called "red" states. This is the process. It was designed to impede entry into the skilled trades. That may have been a good strategy in another era, but it's not a good strategy now.
I have used https://www.deadmantracker.com since creation. This one seems to be similar but, perhaps, less intrusive—I have to check-in on DMT each week. Neat. The important part is permanence, if the service is to be trusted, and to be useful.
This is possibly the most "hacker news tech bro libertarian" comment I have ever seen. Children aren't doing well in school; rather than fix the school, just condemn them to a life of dangerous manual labor!
Chat GPT can play all kinds of games - A streamer used it to play slay the spire[0]

[0] - https://youtu.be/23-2wwQRNUc
!!! are you making all this up? ChatGPT bot?? every item you mentioned is wrong

>No, we won't. This is a common misconception amongst people who stopped reading about Brexit after it happened...the deal we got largely preserves access to the Single Market and will allow regulatory divergence.

Have a read of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93UK_Trade_and_Cooper... - mainlt the part..... " For its part, the EU insisted that the price for UK access to the European Single Market was compliance with EU subsidies, social, environmental and other regulations to avoid distorting competition in the single market."

so you're completely wrong there

>I didn't mention trade deals. Exports outside the EU are up significantly, exports to the EU are above pre-Brexit levels but have continued to stagnate due to weak growth in the EU.

Uk is almost in recession, where the rest of the EU is doing relatively very well

>The massive misdirection argument is just...bizarre

It will be you, if you've no idea why cameron presented the non binding referendum in the first place

>NI issues have been solved due to the EU deciding that attempting to break up another country to reverse a democratic decision wasn't a great look.

really? I'm not even going to answer that drivel - almost straight from daily express
The goal isn't to use this to replace existing chess AI's, but to show how just a language model is able to perform a non-language related task very well. Also not only does it play correct moves (at a lower skill level than a proper chess AI), it is able to explain and justify it's move choice.
Google acts like it's suffering from ADHD.
RSUs are not eligible for an 83b election.
Not just the police. It can be for any law suit. I had to help someone that was in a legal battle with a construction company, and they had cameras showing the hours the work was being done including while the site was red tagged. I had to download the footage to external drives while they were away on vacation to ensure the copies were preserved before the system rolled over the older data. Once the lawyers knew the cameras existed, they issued the order and it became a nightmare ever since. I'm sure the expense of all of those drives was a rounding error in the overall cost of the case, but it's just another one of those things that stuck with me on the vindictiveness of an opposing counsel and the games they are allowed to play.
Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation
Sure but this FTC action has opened the door for class action and criminal investigation. So does the FTC penalty actually need to be steeper? It’s an honest question, how should that value be set?
FTC says online counseling service BetterHelp broke privacy promises
From Calum who did the amazing video on the Jerry can a while back.
West kept quiet about Nord Stream attack to protect Ukraine
Google PageRank was a breakthrough, but IIRC, another huge search improvement was Google AND'ing search terms instead of OR'ing them: if you searched for apple pie, AltaVista would return a list of pages that include apple OR pie (perhaps a lot of useless hits about Apple Computer and cherry pies), while would Google return only pages with apple AND pie.
I do wonder whose fault it is though.

Companies exist to make a profit. I'm sure some extra returns are caused by 3rd party laser and ink cartridges. I've personally seen a 3rd party toner cart have some kind of internal failure and strip the drive gear in the printer.

Just like the EU is requiring USB-c to charge a phone, governments should consider requiring a standard ink and toner cartridge. It would reduce inventories, increase volumes, amortize R&D over a greater number of printers, and increase competition for the standard cartridge. The standards committee (like the USB committee) could set the standards, have branding/labeling for particular features, and talk with industry about desirable features for the next generation.

I just hope they avoid doing something insanely stupid like making dozens of USB-c cables, visually identical, but incompatible.
It would be interesting to see what happens when we describe the rules of chess to chatgpt as a completely new abstract game and ask it to play it. That should show whether chargpt actually understood the rules or has been just scraping from past game records.
Great gains for Python 3.11 - I think there are supposed to be big things in 3.12 as well.