skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the difference between "truth" and "grammar" is relevant: because if they are instances of the same thing, then processing one is equivalent to processing the other.

Thus, if we can find a way to move from "grammar" to "truth", then we can say that ChatGPT has a truth model. (Which I still don't really know why it's needed for reasoning.)

The separation into "structure" and "truth" sounds likes it makes a difference. But when I think about it, I'm unable to clearly delineate them. When I proofread something, and I find wrong grammar structure, I correct it. When I find a wrong truth structure like contradiction (internal or against what I know), I can correct it, too. In the end, I use the same tools: the document under analysis, and the set of facts making up the template against which I'm checking.

This makes me think that "grammar structure" and "truth structure", again, don't differ in quality. Thus, ChatGPT's knowledge about grammar can be treated as knowledge about its world.
The fact is that the example of Afghanistan clearly shows what a puppet state is like, and what happens if it is left without a supporting army. There were US soldiers backing the afghan government, yet when they left (actually, even _before_ they left) the whole country collapsed.

There are no US or other NATO soldiers in Ukraine (apart from privateers). They get material support, but nobody else is fighting for them. Yet they repelled the initial, vastly overpowering Russian attack, and they have been able to hold their lines for the past year pretty well.

The EU or the US is not fighting a war against Russia in a classical sense. If they were you would notice, because we are talking about nuclear powers. It would most probably be a rather short war.
I use Wise strictly through the web interface and I'd say this redesign has become less utilitarian than the previous one. I yearn for the day, rebranding & redesigning into the hyped styles stops and a return to utility, especially for what is primarily a utility service/app/business is, is encouraged rather than keeping up with the joneses' hype. I use Wise weekly so I'm curious if anything breaks for me
Canva came for MS PowerPoint/Office. They should have expected a response…
So the solution is as easy as modifying a law here and there and we could enable the archival humanity's progress?
Good times indeed. I had a Bronica SQ-Ai in the 90s. Sold it all and went digital when the Nikon D100 came out. Now well in Nikon Z land.

Sometimes I want to go back to film. Not necessarily large format as I would hate to lug the things around now. Perhaps some East German 35mm stuff :)
i think terms like troops, army, etc. have potential to be 'newspeak'. in every case we are talking about citizens. and whats most worrying if things get really hot ... reservists then conscription. just ask russians and ukranians ... or vietnam vets. personally im very worried about the prospect of world war but media seems to be fueling this hero brave pro-war attitude and people seem to be buying it! putin must be punished for his crimes, but do not pretend that us and nato are any better
The number of popular websites that now notify that they're tracking you across the Internet is more than 1 in 10 million. They don't have to show any banner if they're not tracking you.
The singularity and fusion power are probably interlinked because of this. Once one happens the other will and in either order.
Loss leaders are the epitome of user hostile.

Bread, milk, butter, etc the farthest away from the entrance so you can't just go in and out.
Birds are eating way too much plastic
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
I don't think anything has gone wrong. Progress is ruthless and doesn't care whether you've spent your whole life on mastering some skill - if you can be replaced by something better, eventually you will be.

It's still kind of sad for the people who are affected though (when/if they are affected? kind of hasn't happened yet).
We [almost] don't use social media
Yeah, 645 is a great format. I prefer my Mamiya 645AF, but the Pentax is a very capable system, although a bit chunky by comparison to the mamiya/contax equivalents. These were all well thought out professional camera systems, and you really can't go wrong with any of them.

If you are interest in photography, and have dabbled with film (say a 35mm camera) then you really should try a 645 camera. Or, jump straight to a hasselblad and be done ;)
What HP actually shines is their "FreeDOS" (i.e. Linux) workstations. They're like the total opposite of their printers, since they grant the owner a reasonable amount of control and outstanding performance at rock bottom prices. Google buys these things for all their employees, which is all the proof I needed that HP as an OEM isn't doing anything creepy to these workstations before shipping them from the factory. You really can't do better, unless you're willing to shell out at least twice the money.
I see a lot of comments focusing on reading books about marketing.

I've tried this and it didn't work for me.

What worked for me, was starting a project that required a mostly marketing and very little engineering.

First project was a keto newsletter. I needed content and subscribers. So I learned how to tap into Reddit to get stories of people who were already sharing (for content) and then sharing/ask to share on Reddit (marketing 101).

Next project I bought. A weekly lead report (https://www.fundedlist.com). I'm learning cold emailing, setting meetings and learning to close (marketing 102?).

Realizing however, that the easiest customers are searching for what I offer anyway. So next foray will be into content - blog posts (marketing 201?)

Learning through real life projects with a little bit at stake is the sweet spot for learning. I learned programming the same way.
Oh, definitely! Even on a single device, some of these are issues. Does ‘play’ play winamp, or that YouTube tab, or VLC? Hopefully not all three! Now consider what volume each of these needs to be, especially if one is an online meeting and one’s a noisy voice call.

There’s a reason it’s a shambles.
> Thus, if we can find a way to move from "grammar" to "truth", then we can say that ChatGPT has a truth model. (Which I still don't really know why it's needed for reasoning.)

Yes, but you would need to find that first, we don't have that, until you find that we don't have a truth model. Maybe it is enough to train a model like ChatGPT on factful texts and run it as a fact checker, we don't know, it could be worth trying but until we have done it we don't have a truth checking model.

Edit:

> Which I still don't really know why it's needed for reasoning

We don't know why anything is needed for reasoning. But it is pretty easy to guess that having a fact checking model instead of just a text structure evaluator would greatly improve reasoning skills in a model. Maybe a fact checker is all ChatGPT would need to replace most knowledge workers? That seems very probable to me, so at least I think that a fact checker layer is needed for higher level reasoning.
'"Able to have kids" isn't the only economic factor. "Incentivized to have kids" is another.

...

people enjoy having kids, they just need the personal economic consequences to be less of a flaming trainwreck.'

You start out saying one thing and end up saying something different.

The point is, even when people have the money, they don't want kids, or at least not very many. If people truly want kids, then they are already incentivized and just need to be able to.

Parents already get tax breaks for kids. Primary and secondary education costs are mostly covered via taxes, whether one has kids or not. So there are already economic incentives, they just aren't a net benefit to the parents. I don't believe making them a net benefit is the right course of action since that has potential problems as well.
Spread of AI-generated content keeping the tech designed to spot it on its toes
While correct that few services out of the total are cross-region I think only a few need to be to get the bulk of functionality.

If restoration(S3 & snapshots) and networking are both cross region it is possible to avoid outages without much effort.

S3 already supports global endpoint, cross regional replication and even manual failover.

RDS supports cross regional snapshots.

Networking has a bunch of options for crossing regional now.

If you're worried about AWS global endpoints and services going down the design is always around pointing to the global but being able to fall back to a specific region up.

At this point can just run EKS in N regions, have the clusters stateless and treat RDS+S3 for state.
RTA. In the article, the author writes the following:

That correlation holds up after controlling for all sorts of other dietary and
physical variables (weight, age, gender, known cardiovascular risk factors,
and more).
Don't forget

https://m.youtube.com/@FreeCADAcademy

and

https://m.youtube.com/@learnfreecad8264

I used the second channel to learn parametric CAD and do my 10-20 first printed designs before I switched to OpenSCAD.
The first few chapters have a song scene parodying ghostbusters and a joke about the protagonist biting a teacher in a tantrum as a young kid. There's plenty of elements of crackfic parody in it.
I have a sweet tooth. Apparently, genetically. About a year ago I said enough is enough to my excess weight gained during the first pandemic lockdowns. Mind you, I eat generally well but my caloric intake had been pretty high and I was eating too many sugary things.

After trying a few different things, I decided it was time to bring out the big guns so I started calorie counting. Sugar had to go due to its calorie density and how much I would keep craving it afterwards.

My sweet cravings didn't go away. I started with fruit but that wouldn't quite hit the spot, at least not always.

Enter zero calorie sweeteners.

I'd add a bit of them to less sugary fruits (berries, etc) at first. I started adding it to a few other things when I wanted something sweet. It worked great.

It's true that when it wasn't available I would get something with actual sugar, but that would be maybe 5-10% of the time, so I had cut 90-95% of the calories I used to consume from sugar. That's a win.

In time I started weaning it all off. Not completely but I reduced it to a minimum. I still have a zero ginger beer every now and then, and still add a bit of fake sugar to one thing or another. I also consume chewing gums and mints with sugar alcohols.

They have been instrumental in my weight loss journey and now I'm at about 14% body fat. I still want to lose a little to see if it will improve my climbing performance but I'm quite satisfied. I have reintroduced small amounts of sugary foods to my diet, at this point with no abnormal cravings.

Yes, carrots, oranges, beetroots, milk, even berries can be very sweet after you wean off the excess sugar and fake sugars. They can be enough most days. Other days I'll use whatever sweet thing I have at hand, in moderation, in order to beat the craving.

So my take on fake sugar is, if you use it for weight loss, use it conscientiously and in a way that will help you get off sugar first, but also with a plan to slowly get off them as well. They can be an excellent tool if used well.
The Perils of Working on a CEO’s Pet Project
Abandoning the relational model is 'reinventing the wheel'
> Artworks since at least Duchamp have been more about some abstract concept

Or rather how you can sell some abstract concept to the paying public. The level of bullshittery in the arts is beyond the scale.
This is going to be hell once a generation has had its ways with it.
I asked it again the same question this morning and the ChatGPT answer has changed somewhat - but still very wrong.

Prompt. what can you tell me about Canada Post's lawsuit against Geolytica inc?

ChatGPT. Canada Post filed a lawsuit against Geolytica Inc. in 2012 over allegations that the company's online postal code lookup tool, called "Postal CodeOM," violated Canada Post's copyright and trademarks.

Canada Post argued that the tool made unauthorized use of their copyrighted postal code database, which is protected under Canadian law. They also claimed that Geolytica's use of the Canada Post trademark in promoting the tool was misleading to consumers.

Geolytica, on the other hand, argued that postal codes are part of the public domain and that Canada Post had no legal right to claim ownership of them. They also claimed that their use of the Canada Post trademark was fair and legal.

The case went to trial in 2018, and in December of that year, the Federal Court of Canada ruled in favor of Canada Post. The court found that Geolytica had indeed infringed Canada Post's copyright and trademarks and ordered the company to pay damages of $500,000.

However, Geolytica has since appealed the decision, and as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the appeal was still ongoing.
Some people may be having the quietest on-call of their lives.
Google fiber had very specific requirements for their build-out. Not all locations were able or equipped to meet those demands.

Other than that, what specific regulation are you referring to?

More often than not it’s the economics that prevent overbuilding an existing monopoly rather than regulatory barriers.
On the other hand, they're subscription only. It used to be better, back in Construct 2 days, sensible flexible pricing.

Then they changed it to browser based, subscription only, Chrome only. The whole thing becomes read-only the moment your credit card stops drip-feeding the subscription.

When you poke around in these tools on the weekend, the subscription model falls flat. Being billed for "time" that happens to fall between my use of these products, is a bizarre way to charge customers for software. I get that if I rented a lawnmower, I'm paying for every day I have that mower because other customers want that same mower.
Wait... zsh which is quite a powerful shell that's now by default on macOS too, would say "(" is equal to ")" until 2016?

Was it just single [ (test) or [[ as well?
> If you're delegating all of your coding skill to the framework and expecting it to just magically work no matter what dodgy code design you throw at it then you're going to build a shitty app.

Not to disagreed with you here, but there are many frameworks out there which either claiming themselves as "full-stack" or trying to be as full-stack as possible.

The developers who uses these frameworks might just expect "(delegating your code to the framework) is how it suppose to be used"(, while blaming people who write "raw" JavaScript code as "hacky").

This is a problem which will occur whenever you want to standardize the workflow as well as the knowledge base for your team. Some approach is discarded in this process and what's left in the end are often "common practices" which nobody has reason to reject. If the "common practices" is to let the framework to do it, then that will be that.
Until manufacturers sell the printers at thick profit it won't work out.
Nice, valuable resource here for anyone in any position in a business. Apple is one of the best with user experience so having a laid out guidelines like this is a public service. Thanks for sharing
Ian was very forthcoming and helpful when I had a few questions regarding shipping during the Brexit debacle. The prices are really awesome compared to the general market, too. Especially his GX680 stuff, which I ordered a few items of, was always top-notch in quality. Can't recommend ianbfoto enough!
Also, there is MindsDB: https://mindsdb.com/
"remove french language from root"
This is an interesting question. Originally we were and had a BSL license. We changed our mind on that and went with a mozzila public license though.
Or use MindsDB: https://mindsdb.com/
I'm curious if anyone here has links to a pdf/printable version of these docs by Apple? Or even if anyone knows anyone compiling an archive of diff. versions?
What do you mean by mega-autocomplete?

I'm pretty sure you can not expand this word without contradicting this article.
https://archive.ph/mu0pK
SumatraPDF is the best PDF reader for Windows
I have seen a pattern in "Activism". Since such activities are largely conducted by people generally on the "left" or associated with the Democratic Party almost all activism declines (not gone but much much lower) when democrats are in power nationally.

I suspect now that one chamber of the congress is republican controlled we will see a slight increase in activism, and if Republicans take the presidency in 2024 a huge jump in activism, or if they take both the house and Senate

While conservatives / republicans will get out for protests the number of issues that will spark that is very much more limited... namely 2, abortion and guns. Outside of that you likely will not see a conservative protest / political activism. In contrast there are 100' or 1000's of issues on the left that will spark protests.
What about xylitol?
Apathy Is Capitalism's Greatest Feature, and It’s Tearing Society Apart
The social safety net will cover that. SNAP, WIC, CHIP, Medicaid, school, are all covered. All you need is subsidized housing and to know where the different charities are that have free food and clothing.

If you look at the link I previously posted, the under $10k a year group have the highest birthrate. So it can be done.
I think it's the open source code spun off of Docker to clearly set it apart from Docker the company. They call it building blocks for containerization projects (probably mostly Docker itself). I remember at the time it being a confusion: did Docker get renamed? (It wasn't.) To me the real question is, what's prompting this to appear on the main page again now?
>assuming it is aligned with us

If we don't figure out alignment, we can't make this assumption. This is the part that AI safety people are concerned with making reality.
You misread, they were talking about a trend down, which implies it was better before.
Incredibly cool, can't wait to try it. Awesome work.
Captured FTC regulators likely won't do anything.
> hey, I'm going to lock down your GPU so that you can only use it to render polygons in my whitelisted list of video-games

You just described gaming consoles.
Why do you think the arrow operator is a terrible idea? I feel that it costs very little of my time, and that it's so much easier to intuit what's going on from an expression like Foo->Bar.Baz->Quux compared to having only dots on there.
It's still bad enough imo when it comes to respecting copyright / intellectual property, so not a surprise at all they're doing this to illustrators now :/ Not that they're the only ones doing it these days, admittedly.
Literally everything you said is false.

The COR (Conseil d'orientation des retraites) has 4 working scenarios and only a single one of them has the retirement system going temporarily into the negatives. The situation is not alarming at all. In addition, there are a lot of solutions that have been on the table to help the retirement system do even better and allow people to retire earlier (for example paying women the same as men: the salary resulting increase will mechanically make more money go towards contributing to retirement funds).

If the GDP portion dedicated to the elderly is maintained at around 14% the system has nothing to worry about, the goal of Macron's reform is to lower this number because he prefers to use public money to fund private companies that are already making profits (through tax mechanism such as the CICE or the CIR for example).

Also, low salaries actually means less money "funneled to the retirement system", since this money is a percentage of salaries. Also, low retirements income means people still working have to financially support their parents. The elderly have to be supported one way or another. The question is whether you choose to do it collectively as a society, or go with the individualistic solution that won't work for everyone.
Could you please ask your friend what he would recommend for a sugar substitute ?
>> too many major net neutrality advocates in the US tried to bundle too many things under the "net neutrality"

This is the folly and downfall of all social causes and political movements. Take any subject that gain political power and inevitably other movements will attempt to latch on to it diluting the message, expanding the focus, and in the end destroying the support.
The problem is you can't (easily...) create a layer atop of a Docker image without pulling all of it before.

Basically, a conventional Docker CI build process looks like the following in what I use (where <tag> is something like branch-foobar):

1. docker login <repo>

2. docker pull <repo>/<image>:<tag> || true

3. docker pull <repo>/<image>:branch-master || true

3. docker build --pull --cache-from <repo>/<image>:<tag> --cache-from <repo>/<image>:<master> -f Dockerfile.<branch> -t <repo>/<image>:<tag> .

4. docker push <repo>/<image>:<tag>

Using --cache-from cuts down dramatically on the build times since (assuming your branch-master tag gets rebuilt nightly) at least the Dockerfile layer steps for downloading the base OS image and installing software can be automatically skipped.

But still, even swapping out the last step in the Docker build makes it necessary to pull the entire image first - assuming your average Java application, that's like 500+ MB for OS+Java JRE+OS dependencies. If you're sure that the change is only in the last COPY/ADD step, you still have to pull the image despite it not being needed technically.
For anyone too lazy to look into it. From my view it looks like Macromedia Flash 2004 or something. Which I love! Might actually check it out later.
Can this stop? This phrase has been around for decades, used by NYT and others:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/briefing/russia-ukraine-w...

“There is an axiomatic policy — don’t poke the bear — that’s been around for decades,” said Cliff Kupchan, chairman of the Eurasia Group, a political risk assessment firm in Washington. “The Ukrainians are turning that policy on its head. And the bear has proven remarkably pokable.”

If you want to win Westerners over, don't try to shut down any discussion using the most primitive methods.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was just backward compatibility so bash/sh scripts work
The real issue is that Americans are too rich and pampered.

If you reduce disposable income massively in line with the rest of the world, then they won't be able to afford private vehicles and the change will come naturally.
But don't let good be the enemy of better either.

I think it's important to realize that "People will always use cars" and "We can and should reduce car usage" are not contradictory.
We need to both offer and incentivize alternatives, find ways to reduce car dependency, etc and make sure that remaining car usage is as clean as possible. (This applies to both the car usage that we can get rid of in the mid- to long-term but haven't yet and the "residual" car usage that we can't seem to get rid of.)
> You can’t increase salaries de jure

The law defines the minimum legal wage. History has shown that increasing the minimum wage generally quickly end up increasing all salaries.