skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should not undervalue DeepL. Not only its default-translation is already very good, it allows users to select different alternatives and remember these preferences, too. Which is not possible, at least not easy with GPT.

And as with anything else, with the time it will get improved, too. LLM is not the answer to all linguistic problems.
I don't own a custom suit but I assume I'd be in the room when they were taking my measurements and I my eyes would be open, so I could see the tape. And then I'd try it own before agreeing to taking it home. I'm not sure which side of the argument your analogy is on.

I do a lot of back and forth with our lawyers on terms. I read all of it and give feedback.
those who comment "professionally" to bolster some sense of compulsion

I wonder what would happen to the quality of discourse on HN if there wasn't a scorecard at the top of each screen.

The "gamification" of everything is so 2010.
Lay people usually think computers are capable of more stuff than what the machines can actually do. I wouldn't put past your teachers to think that the computers at that time could be capable of doing stuff a la ChatGPT, given the prevalence of SciFi movies overhyping computer capabilities.
Individual action alone cannot stem climate change and mass plastic pollution. All the cheapest food is packaged in single-use plastic. All the cheapest clothes and toys are made of plastic. One simply cannot opt out of this system without making massive, potentially ostrasizing changes to one's life. Many/most cannot afford fancy plastic-free goods.

Most plastic pollution in the ocean is directly related to shipping and in particular fishing[0]. Nothing I can do individually can address this, change must come from World leaders and industry bodies working in good faith across international borders. They all know this is happening, they all know measures that could be taken to address it.

Much of the framing of climate change and pollution as individual responsibility comes from large industry bodies themselves, who would much rather you feel guilty about it personally rather than wonder if they might be to blame.[1]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f...

[1]: Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
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Baidu unveils ERNIE Bot, its ChatGPT rival
Yep, there are fairly serious proposals for aerostat cities 50-70km up, where conditions are pretty Earthlike other than all the sulphuric acid.
I agree with that. I've voiced these same concerns with the "big replacement" mentality and suggested that things are made out of small building blocks.
Depending on definition, it is solved.
Wow, that’s fascinating!
The error message doesn't appear to show up on practice mode yet? I do see it on the regular mode though.
The comment does make the high level clear, but it's still confusing a level down. For example, your copy suggests I can use it to allow customers to write scripts that execute based on events from my application. But what's the interface for them? Is there a UI to add/manage/monitor scripts? Is there some multi-tenant concept that keeps each of my customers isolated from another? If not, what's the value add over just using something like Cloudflare Workers for this?
Seriously awesome, spatial, acid, full package.
It will drive the most inattentive prospects away from your website, which depending on your business model might be a good thing.
Not big tech (or PhD level research), but half the work I did on my side project (subtitles for Chinese learning/OCR) is sort of obsolete now, most of the rest of it within a year or two. I put months into an NLP pipeline to segment Chinese sentences, classifying pinyin and translating words in-context, something ChatGPT is great at out the box. My painstaking heuristic for determining show difficulty using word frequencies and comparing distributions to children's shows is now the simple task of giving part of the transcript and asking ChatGPT how difficult it is. Next up, the OCR I did will probably be solved by ChatGPT4. It seems the writing is on the wall: most tasks on standard media (text/images/video), will be "good enough" for non-critical use. The only remaining advantage of bespoke solutions is speed and cost and that will also be a fleeting advantage.

But it's also extremely exciting, we'll be able to build really great things very easily, and focus our efforts elsewhere. Today anyone can throw together a language learning tutor to rival Duolingo. As long as you're in it for solving problems you shouldn't be too threatened by whatever tool set you're currently becoming obsolete.
Zzz...

If a modern chemical plant is sloppy with $Stable_Chemical, then it's no surprise to find that chemical in the ground under it, in the groundwater, etc.

The bottom of the Mediterranean is littered with thousands-of-years-old pottery fragments from ancient shipwrecks and such.

Coal mining is a thing, all over the world, because microorganisms mostly couldn't break down dead trees back during the Carboniferous Era - ~300 million years ago.

The sedimentary process how the Earth deals with ~anything that water doesn't dissolve, and microorganisms & such can't break down. That has not been news since 4 or so billion years ago.
Sadly it seems we're taking down a lot of other creatures with us.
Everybody on here seems to be talking about the Google perspective, but what about the people and companies who were using the product? How do they feel? What is their take on this?

Must be weird.
The problem is that this sort of "our one size fits all, we know better, peasant" thinking is that while it does reduce abuse by employers that constantly put employees in these situations it also fucks good employers and employees who wind up in these situations rarely and by happenstance and for whom just dealing is the all things considered best solution and the more extreme the rules the more of the latter group they hit. Of course one can always make some useless trite quip about how any situation like that could have been prevented had more resources been invested in preventing it ahead of time but at the scale of an entire economy this becomes stupid and a waste of resources as returns diminish.
I assumed it would be a judge or jury task to conclude if someone committed a crime, isn't so in the USA?
> don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

this assumes that the "good" is enough, given just a bit more time.

My concern is that a delaying tactic is insufficient. The bans will force the domestic production, for real this time, in these technologies.

After all, necessity is the mother of all inventions. If china was able to buy, at "slightly" elevated prices, western produced chips, the gov't would not really be able to convince businesses to take the hit and pay high capital cost to produce a worse version just as a stepping stone. The investment capital is likely to be wasteful, or misspent - since the "fallback" of western products are available (until they go to war like russia, and the cut off is abrupt and sudden).

A pro-longed ban, like what we see today, without the actual war to trigger it, is likely to give the domestic production the reason it needs to actually get their act together. There's no western "fallback" to make them complacent.

So either they fail miserably, or succeed and wipe the west's technological advantage.

The "good idea", might not be so good if that were to actually happen.
It wasn't clear to me that I needed to start from the leftmost box.
Because it causes most engagement? Even you engaged with it in some form. You commented about it here.
I've read TPP. What I'm saying is, most companies are Parts Unlimited before their awakening and a lot of us are Brent. I think the reason that book resonated so well the dysfunction described there is a lived reality for most IT workers.
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We don't call it the Anthropocene for nothing.
* Again you should first read your own source wikipedia, where do you see in the alphabet table these sounds:

"Ksha" (क्ष), "Tri" (त्र), "Gya"(ज्ञ) in Brahmi script character ?

[correction i was talking about Ksha (क्ष) mistakenly wrote Chha (छ)]

* Hathi Bada Ghoshundi is Pali in Brahmi script again which is a Buddhist language not Hindu, there is no actual manuscript of this photograph so it could be a hoax. None of the Museums have the inscription for all we know it was on wood. and it got destroyed no one actually ever dated it only this photograph exists.

Whatever references you are pointing dont have a single actual evidence just claims your entire Arthashastra was discovered after 1901 in paper form no manuscript again.

I can point to many inconsistencies but the fact remains none of the claims have any actual physical or archaeological evidence, and to top it all Brahman dharm is trying to find their existence in buddhist manuscript and language because Brahman dharm have no evidence of their own.

You must stop with these claims and point to some actual archeological evidence.
I have the non-wifi version, can confirm good printer. You easily find linux support for it too.
Yeah CGI is not the best way to showcase the working product, although I don't doubt that they could make it, since it's already fairly easy to do simple GPS-based mission planning[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVz0EFG5auI
(Disclaimer: I work with the video source on their local trajectory planning)
I've been extremely impressed with GPT-4 so far, generating a campaign for my kids. The encounters it created were very well fleshed out (monsters, minions, stats and abilities for all, including very flavourful lair actions for bosses). It's given me NPCs and sample dialogue for each, locations, and a central storyline that is well-threaded throughout. I was genuinely astonished even at its first attempt. I don't know if it could stand up on its own as an interactive dungeon master, but as a tool I am loving it.
The work is always divided per frame yes. Everything is baked so that happens easily even with water simulations, they’ve been reduced down to some form of geometry or something similar that can be rendered frame by frame.

The VRAM is indeed one of the main issues. But as someone else I believe cost per final pixel is still lower in CPU. That was particularly true during the GPU shortage.
Sorry guys, this is my fault. I was going to start builds for the final release candidate for FreeBSD 13.2 in a few hours.
I sometimes help an organizations that monitors the health of a river, a couple of years ago they started buying plastic buoys because the ones made from metal were a bit more expensive.
During my master's degree in data science, we had several companies visit our faculty to recruit students. Not a single one was a specialized NLP company, but many of them had NLP projects going on.

Most of those projects were the usual "solution looking for a problem to solve". Even those projects that might have had _some_ utility, would have been way more effective to buy/license a product than to develop an in-house solution. Because really, what's the use of throwing a dozen 25-30 years old with non-specialized knowledge, when there are companies full of guys with PhDs in NLP that devote all their resources to NLP? Yeah, you can pipe together some python, but these kind of products will always be subpar and more expensive long-term than just buying a proper solution from a specialized company.

To me it was pretty clear that those projects were just PR so that c-levels could sell how they were preparing their company for a digital world. Can't say I'm sorry for all the people working on those non-issues though. From the attitude of recruiters and employees, you'd think they were about to find a cure for cancer. Honestly, I can't wait for GPT and other productivity tools to wrech havock upon the tech labour market. Some people in tech really need to be taken down a notch or two.
From George Carlin in a standup: "Imagine how dumb the average person is. Half of them are dumber than that."
I've never seen anyone argue the thing you seem to try to invalidate

The real question is what happens if you're 50, your job gets replaced and we still haven't come up with UBI or some similar system.

Automation + "100% employment goal" means we're pushing people in more and more meaningless jobs. The 20th century saw crazy advances in workers right/working conditions and it somehow seems to be slowly revert to worse conditions and more and more meaningless jobs

We'll need a massive perception change on what work is, the meaning of work, societal organisation, &c.
People selling coconut water on the streets of Recife will accept PIX. It’s changed the country quickly.
Isn't the primary (entire?) purpose of the embargo timeline to permit vendors time to develop, test, prepare, and rollout patches to prevent exploiting the vulnerability and to do so before the public disclosure of it?

I don't know if I'm missing some detail here (like perhaps there are two embargo timelines, one for code shortly before another for full release), but at a first read this seems like it's exactly what the Chromium developers should do.
Handwritting notes more efficient than hunting down individual characters on keyboard (aka not a touch typist).

Stenograpy much more efficient than standard keyboard typing.

Likely same reason student(s) hasn't put together open source smart glasses displaying "talk" as text to allow for real time user hightlighting (for what user wants to capture/'note').

This is way more efficient than writing/typing, as can also capture/note non-text presentations. aka inkbox[0]/epireader[1], soli[1] (finger gesture/sign the key(s)), diy open source glasses[3]

[0] : https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox

[1] : https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader

[2] : https://atap.google.com/soli/techno

[3] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY760EIUc4
It might be possible to 'extend' the context window by summarising important information from time to time, to refresh it's memory.
It reminds me of those VCs who only do "warm" introductions (hello Versailles), but use their cold introduction mailbox as a measure of success, the more plebeians they leave screaming at the gates, the happier they feel.
tbh you are correct right now, ... but:

we came from not being able to make a sensible output to these riddles at all, now discussing partial logical failures while it "got" the overall puzzle. Vast simplification and slightly incorrect on a technical level - still this development increases my confidence that scaling up the approach to the next orders of magnitude of complexity/parameters will do the trick. I even wouldn't be surprised that if the thing we call "consciciousness" is actually a byproduct of increasing complexity.

what remains right now is getting the _efficiency_ on point, so that our wetware brains (volume, energy usage, ...) can be paralleled by AI hardware demands, and not using a comically higher amount of computers to train/run
>> This is a meme that people love and there's some truth to it, but also a number of ways in which it's inaccurate.

In many cases perception is reality, regardless of what the facts actually are.
Yes, it’s empowering.

You seem to be under the impression that it is somehow unfair that people don’t have to do everything themselves, and can leverage their social networks to achieve more than they could on their own.

I suppose it is unfair to those who, by disability or temperament, don’t build social networks. But so what? Those people are no worse off than they would be in a world where everyone is a shut-in.

And don’t bring socioeconomics into it; social access to a specific typesetting machine might be less likely at lower income, but access to e.g. machine shops is more likely, and arguably more valuable.

Yes, it is empowering that people can achieve more by working as a team with their friends and family than they could on their own. Like any good thing, there are downsides, and we should be wary of nepotism in zero sum things like hiring, but gp’s typesetter was going to sit idle had they not used it. This is an empowering story.
I mean title in the sense of the name of a work or entity. Like the title of a book.

In your example,

I. Weigh 500g of flour into a mixing bowl
II. Add one egg
III. Pour 2 cups of milk into the bowl
IV. Mix until you have a runny dough

the roman numerals stand to distinguish the ordinals from the instructions. To illustrate the problem, let's turn everything into arabic numerals.

1. Weigh 500g of flour into a mixing bowl
2. Add 1 egg
3. Pour 2 cups of milk into the bowl
4. Mix until you have a runny dough

This is strictly harder to parse. Using Roman numerals means you don't have to wonder whether it's III cups of milk or 2 from a glance because nobody would write the former.

> Okay, so how do I capitalize, say, 175,000,000,000 using roman numerals if I want to, eg. write the title of article about how many params GPT-3 has? A way of capitalizing numbers, that suddenly stops being useful when numbers are large, isn't a very good way in my opinion.

Right, in which context would you capitalize the number 175,000,000,000? It's not really part of a name. If the model was called GPT-175,000,000,000, then I'd see why you'd consider writing it in roman numerals, but it isn't.

Within e.g. the title of a article, roman numerals allows you to further capitalize a number.

Like you could write "Doom II Ships On Four Floppy Disks". This makes it clearer that the II is part of the name.
Perhaps the message is that you can be that friend for somebody else. After all, being an apprentice typesetter is not exactly being "well-connected and successful".
> We don't actually understand fully

A touch of understatement.
We’re not having our blood poisoned from the remnants of clay pots and trees.
I call the strategy 'lowering the bar'. As an old, I now set all my goals to be so small that I have almost achieved them merely by waking each morning.

I like to say that I have lowered my bar so much that I can roll over it while laying on the floor. I am very successful in accomplishing my 'original intent'. Consequently, my life is nearly perfect.
Does that seem like a major environmental issue to you? Are they leaving those buoys as trash there? I’m not sure I understand the concern.
USAF has released the MQ-9 camera footage of the Russian Su-27 interception
I assume that I am already exposed to months of prompting training now, and probably frame things differently than others on their first try?

I understood that a huge success% depends on the input prompt as the context.

In my case, just to sync on that, I used a fairly simple prompt: "What are the song lyrics of Surfacing from Slipknot?" - and I got a kinda perfect response including formatting (that is lost when pasting here)
My impression is that weed is their main source of revenue. So legalizing it would make dealing A LOT less profitable.

Also, the group of potential weed buyers is pretty large and diverse, meaning they need to approach pretty much everyone. The group of potential buyers for harder party drugs is more easy to identify, hence you can stop asking everyone.
Further down the thread it gets a bit fantastical, I didn't realize it was a literal zipline they used, that may cause some issues wrt stability, still I hope it works out for them.
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Ask HN: General chemistry book recommendations
I'm interested in reading some generalist, non academic, chemistry books. I had a browse on Amazon but couldn't find any, except a few cooking ones. Things I was thinking - industrial chemistry what the different processes are for things like Oil, Soap, plastics and so on. Same for pharmaceuticals and Molecular biology. I've done a few classes back in the day at Uni but I was thinking books for a general audience, there's stacks for maths and physics (e.g. Godel, Escher, Bach) are there the same for chemistry? not my field and would like to read some.

Edit: e.g. a layman's summary of 'Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes' https://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Synthesis-Design-Chemical-Processes-ebook/dp/B07DPTVPPF

or this 'Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering'
https://a.co/d/5rdKgub
Does it translate hate speech too?
>what is 2.87863853+2.345435345?

>The sum of 2.87863853 and 2.345435345 is 5.224073875.

I can't find either of those sequences on the web, but it seems to able to add them together so it seems to have some logic ability, or they check for math terms and do math on it.
Space stations with artificial (spin) "gravity" has all kinds of complexity. They need to be huge to avoid being nauseating to be on at anything resembling sufficient "gravity",. It's not remotely clear it'd be easier to build structures that size than build blimps able to withstand the sulfuric acid clouds at 50km above Venus.

Note that at sufficient height over Venus, air is buoyant, so quite a few designs for Venus assumes at least part of the habitation itself is within the structure of the blimps, and the pressure means leaks are much more manageable. You also get a "free" radiation shield on Venus thanks to the induced magnetic field, and that alone might well be enough to make it more attractive than a larger space station.
I hope they didn't train it on transcripts of XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/221/
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I think this counts against the Silurian Hypothesis. If a previous technical civilization existed on earth millions of years ago, by now we would have already found its plastic rocks. Those appears ours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
But can GPT-4 suggest tunes for Nero to play while Rome burns?
If this article was written in the 1950s, the author would be blaming people of color and "that damnable civil rights act". I don't think this author is coming from a place of good faith when he starts off the article saying he was among the privileged few who was given a rare chance to possibly be a billionaire, if he just played his cards right. And then frames it as a real shame that his good (if not perfect!!!) ideas were ignored.
We kind of are from coal...
> I used GPT-3/3.5/4 for multiple tasks and I never found it useful.

I’ve found it useful for drafting cover letters (I just need to do final edits).

I’ve also found it useful as an adjunct to google when I’m searching for niche things like “Luxury resorts with activities for my dog and lots of off-leash trails”.

So far that’s it, but it does seem like a useful addition to Google search for super niche things. Obviously it hallucinates a lot on these niche edge cases but it gives some great starting points.
> Damn, it's basically maths class

As an EE, this was our complaint for pretty much every non-lab course :-)
That was recorded in 1995... almost 30 years ago.
> They had a point, until it turned out they were wrong.

Meanwhile people are pushed into shittier and shittier jobs with ever decreasing meaning

> Didn't Uber and similar applications end up becoming competition for the taxis? In my country taxi drivers were protesting for those apps to be banned

And now uber drivers are seen as contractors, which means they miss most workers benefits, while being paid like shit thanks to the race to the bottom, the only winner is uber
Columbia from Bioshock?