skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New year was moved to january in antiquity, nothing to do with Gregory XIII or his calendar.
Well, no, but you wouldn't set httpOnly if you wanted to do that
Is that bad? You can solve interesting challenges in C# with CRUD stuff. Nothing that scales to millions of users, but there are challenges other than scaling.
But it has a whiff of what used to be called political correctness so we must RAGE and reject it entirely.
Ok, didn't realise you already came for a Catholic background. :) Well.... I'm not sure where you get that the church == Paul. My understanding was NT was the result of many eye-witnesses, take the gospels for example, 4 authors, right? Paul's letters play a major part that's true. Not sure where the pauper's religion comes from? Never heard that myself. There were rich and poor alike . Joseph of Arimathea was rich wasn't he? I don't see how you justify the claim that OT is "from the mouth of God" more than NT? As for God choosing not to act, what I always understood about that was that humans choosing to be good by their own free will was the ultimate goal, the "holy grail" so to speak. If God intervened when we did bad things then we wouldn't have free will. This must be extremely hard to take if you're in Ukraine right now getting bombed thinking "Come on God why aren't you stopping this". My understanding is, in the context of this life just being a "dress rehearsal" for what is to come after death, that it makes some kind of sense. I heard it said, that trying to work out what God is up to is for us like watching someone sewing and looking at all the messy threads on the underneath, with little clue what the end result will be. Someone could be making something amazing, but if all you ever see along the way is a mess of threads, you could question that they're making anything at all, then one day, there it is in all its glory. Thought experiment for you - would you be happier in a world where God kept intervening and stopping people being mean to each other? Would that make people be better? Would they have any way of learning to be better to each other if God always stepped in? Alternatively, is building a world one day, presumably not in this world. where humans all decide of their own free will to act justly and kindly to each other, a goal worthy of putting up with a lot of s** with along the way? Granted, if you're on the receiving end of evil in the meantime it must be extremely hard to take, but then we're told God shares that suffering and is present during it.... Basically, it seems to me Christianity throws up all manner of difficult almost impossible Qs but that to me doesn't negate it and I can't really see an alternative viewpoint without even more problems. All the best :)
Is it a good insight though? The training data for many of these premier models is already available, and that's even better than some input-output pairs.
Microsoft never made any commitments (behavioural or otherwise) about Bethesda game exclusivity so how on earth did they brake any?

The only commitment they made for that deal was the keep existing games supported on the platforms they already existed and to uphold any existing agreements.

And they have uphold both of those. Elder scrolls online is getting all the same support on PlayStation as Xbox and both Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop released as timed PlayStation exclusives as agreed on earlier contacts.
I have this in a bookmarklet:

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
and how much of that will "trickle down" to the workers?
But did he try to build AI? As far as I know MIRI is pure-play safety research lab.
So exactly where are you going to find this “less volatile environment”? Other BigTech companies that are also doing layoffs? Unprofitable startups or other money losing recently public companies?

Are they going to sully themselves and work as “enterprise developers” (note sarcasm)?
> Its not transparency, it’s marketing and guessing the future.

You are wrong. During the last round of layoffs, employees asked to hear about upcoming plans before they happen. Mark Zuckerberg is literally responding to that request.
Post Hoc fallacy:

>Short for “post hoc, ergo propter hoc,” a Latin phrase meaning “after this, therefore because of this.” The phrase expresses the logical fallacy of assuming that one thing caused another merely because the first thing preceded the other.

(edited as I incorrectly called it ergo proctor hoc fallacy before)
I doubt it would have made a difference if they had hedged the duration risk. Likely that would have made the problem worse - because that hedge is expensive.

The issue is that their 'loans' (the bonds) didn't pay enough income, which meant that when the cheap money left they couldn't meet the terms of the cash letter from the Fed. They didn't have the income to pay the interest.

They paid too much for the bonds and assumed they'd always have non-interest bearing deposits. Schoolboy error.
I'm genuinely surprised we haven't had something like that happen....yet. All these "smart" appliances, fridges, & stoves gotta have the same vulnerability just waiting to make them bots. Considering they're all running some old Android instance.
Sure the OS handles drivers. However, nearly all USB peripherals we use every day are 100% standardized – or at least their core functions. USB HID Class, USB Audio Class, USB Video Class.

Three things have special drivers (on Windows) in my current setup: The various USB controllers (inside the laptop and the Thunderbolt dock), the USB Ethernet controller in the Thunderbolt dock and the Bluetooth controller. That’s it. Keyboard, mouse, webcam, audio, even my wireless headset: All generic drivers.

This all means the devices themselves must implement the appropriate abstraction on top of their specific hardware.
Credit Suisse shares are at an all-time-low today...
What I find regrettable is how GCP's startup program seems to be entirely geared towards VC-fuelled startups for the higher tiers.

Compare with Microsoft for Startups, which isn't seen as hip and edgy but can get you like $5k+$25k in Azure credits (and some OpenAI credits) without having to go the VC route.

Seems more entrepreneurial to me. Venture-backed is just not the right path for everyone.
I can understand an automated aesthetical refactoring, not too fare from what done naively by prettier and similar software, but is impossible for me to understand a comprehension refactoring done by AI (but I am biased :D).
The PS3 had a bad history with backwards compatibility. The original model had hardware based compatibility, by adding in the additional components, which I will admit had a cost associated with it.

But then they switched to software compatibility, which on its own is not a bad decision. But the issue was they removed the software backwards compatibility from later PS3 hardware without a good explanation.

I think there is a very good reason that the ps4 was not backwards compatible with ps3 games, the architecture was very different. But at the same time they are pushing playstation now as a way to play those older games, and it appeared anti consumer. Why could you not just put in the game and it would start streaming it.

On the flip side we had Xbox. Which a couple years after the launch of the Xbox one started their backwards compatibility initiative. Which allowed you to put in the disk for an older game and it would download a version of the game that would work on your new hardware. Now this was not for all games, but it was ultimately a free addition.

Sony was also very wishy washy on PS5 backwards compatibility, which was very frustrating. It felt like working with ps4 games was an afterthought for them. Ultimately it turned out fine, but it caused a lot of confusion.

Previously this was more of an issue than it was today. Since consoles are basically a PC now compatibility shouldn't be much of an issue, but previously it would have been a big issue.
Good, evil company yet hners love them for the salary $$$
It's somewhat ambiguous language - "self-hosted ChatGPT UI" could lead many to believe it's completely self-hosted.

However, sophisticated readers familiar with ChatGPT will know the model and weights haven't been released and absent a leak/hack/release by OpenAI a completely self-hosted ChatGPT solution is impossible. Eventually we'll almost certainly see a "Completely self-hosted ChatGPT equivalent" (similar to Dall-E vs Stable Diffusion) but that's another thread for another time.

Based on my native speaker parsing of English "Self-hosted ChatGPT UI" is accurate and I'm not sure how else I would write it to disambiguate between a self-hosted UI and a completely self-hosted ChatGPT with a UI.
I’m finding it hard to reply with a small number of words to prove not AI.
Well I mean, the simple explanation is online is still far better than nothing. I'm not sure anyone is expecting you to read someone's wall if you could just talk to them every day.
'He also dedicated a section of the correspondence to hybrid work, and said software engineers who joined Meta in-person performed better than those who joined remotely - indicating that this would change as part of the company's "year of efficiency".'

Hmm... Get them to leave on their own accord as well as laying them off. Save money in the former.
Then you've been at different small companies than I have. Obviously if you're the only person in tech at that company it's hard to do groundbreaking stuff. But small tech companies solve challenges everyday. And being able to directly convince the CEO (who is often technical at these companies) can make decisions much quicker than at large companies.
SFINAE
back down to 4.3 for short term t-bills

yields dropped almost 1 point after depositor bailouts for SVB. the running belief is that the fed will slow down in response to fixed-income positions held by banks.
Yeah, when the PM's have no coherent vision for products and their suggestions are only harming engagement/metrics then its not surprising the next line is: "What would you say you do here?"
Couple of years ago I happened to work with a dev from Cluj. Awesome guy and very talented.
But it's a new feature and big tech has ran out of ideas?
Does it work with media players? Netflix, Disney, etc?
Didn't work for the luddites.
My god, that sounds horrible. I wish we could go back to pure human discourse in the sciences. That never becomes purely self referential, introduces biases, or clings to blatant falsehoods.

Only half joking. I do agree that AI content is going to change the landscape. However the things it does are all things it "learned" to do because... It was already present in the training data. The big change is just the scale those things can be done at.
It's an interesting idea. If I had 2 phones I would probably install LineageOS on one of them and use that as my daily driver.

Keeping the other phone for banking only.
That is called ”caveat emptor” and it is the founding principle of America.
Does it matter to you the extent to which an original template is then transformed?
> 1on1’s are for the manager like server metrics are for the SRE.

I'm not sure that is accurate. As a manager, I have a bunch of production metrics on my people. I can tell who's getting work done, who isn't, who has high defect rates in their work, who makes fewer defects, who is positive ROI, and who is not paying their keep. Where the one on ones are useful is when they are informed by the metrics, and those conversations don't take anywhere near one hour every two weeks. They take 10 minutes - 15 minutes, max.
Just having a profit is not enough to say something was or was not a bad bet. I doubt anyone is happy with their bet on IBM in the past couple decades. A riskless bet on SP500 would have delivered far greater returns.
United Manufacturing Hub Relicensed to Apache 2.0
Advanced stuff isn't necessary for space, most rockets/aerospace worked fine with 1960s tech. Obviously nicer chips can be useful, but it's not like TSMC/Samsung are necessary conditions for getting to the moon or making an ICBM.
> It's hard to see how anyone has thought FB/Meta would be a great place to work for a long time.

Maybe because, I don’t know, Meta pays well? I don’t go to work for self fulfillment. I work to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter.

No I don’t work for Meta nor have I ever.
This involves a manual left corner transform, so I would probably call this a variant of a left corner parser (LC parser)?
Hey, some people buy ads on social media.
That seems reasonable - if you're trying to create a market for a publicly-available chat-AI, and making a demo freely available for PR/advertising purposes, then the public perception of that demo is critical to your business.

If they had just put up the same model without that attempt to make GPT wear a politically-correct mask, they'd just get another Microsoft Tay event, and only get a buttload of negative publicity for their investment.

For an internal application used for specific practical tasks, sure, focus on making it more powerful; but if you want a demo for general public as a 'pre-sales advertisement'? You bet that political correctness has to be there.
I’ve noticed a similar writing style in a lot of others from the same group (AI Doomsdayers/“Rationalists”). Most of the time I stumble across something from that corner of the web it feels like the author was thinking “Why convey an idea in just one sentence when I can convey it in ten?”
OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will let you turn text into video
I do not understand what point you’re trying to make?
They show an example of someone typing "I'm on it!" and then converting that into a page long email. They also show the ability to summarize, which of course you'd use on a page long email whose real content is nothing but "I'm on it."

That verbose email is going to end up a weird machine interchange format (which only looks like formal writing for human consumption), just to send a message like "I'm on it."
Google FacePaLM :D
Silvergate and Signature went down because they did crypto. SVB did not. (Cross River and Customers are under pressure.)
The emails that brought down Enron still shape our daily lives (2019)
It just desperately needs some debouncing..
> Starting today, we’re making an efficient model available in terms of size and capabilities,

Excellent!

goes through the terrible UI of google cloud console

Nothing there. I see it's not actually today it's a sometime soon with some people in a private preview. Any info on what model size they're actually releasing?

Time to try the demo they showed in google docs.

> Now, we’re excited to take the next step and bring a limited set of trusted testers

Oh.

It's good that they're actually planning to ship stuff, but when? I've seen private previews sit around certainly for 6+ months, probably a lot longer.
I was agreeing with the person I was responding to and also commenting on a trend I see in certain individuals at large. Not specific to anyone here in this thread.

Take for example Penn Jillette. He was a fellow at the Cato Institute. One of their big positions is that climate change is not a thing. As of 2008, he was espousing the position of the institute, that there was not enough information on it. Today, he says that it's pretty clear that it is now happening, but back then, they didn't have enough evidence and didn't do a good enough job of convincing people like him.

But he has to convince himself of that because otherwise, the Cato Institute used him, not for his ideas, but simply because he has influence.
Since you're ignoring the thought experiment, let's see what remains in your reply.

It sounds like you are reasoning that harm is fine when it morally shouldn't be, regardless of the technical (legislative, executive, judicial) track you're on.

I believe that is bad.
Adept Raises 350M to build AI that learns how to use software
Could very well be. Especially in large companies, it's very hard to judge the importance of some roles and people. That's why there are always complains about how promotions work, no one has figured out how to value the work of an employee.

Don't know much about Meta's HR department, maybe they're really good at that. But in the end we're all humans and never unbiased when we make those decisions.
>... I wonder if sending this message out like this is a huge gamble on Meta’s part.

I don't know how to break this to HN, but the Zuck isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He may be gambling, but Hanlon's Razor says otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
That's nothing.

Here's the latest, world's most advanced disease incubator. Courtesy of China of course. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...
it's only faster because they fired half the employees and the other lanes are backed up.
Another theory: Once this pattern is present, it's self-reinforcing in the same way that "good guys wear white hats, bad guys wear black hats" was in old Western movies. Most of the audience knows the meaning - and if you're making the audience think too hard, then your old Western or action movie is likely to flop.
NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
Can't wait for Sony to go bankrupt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop (aka: Bootstrap Paradox).

And we wonder why things are such a mess lol
Tangent: I guess the silver lining in proofreading mistakes is that the content wasn't generated by ChatGPT.
It's probably because of the use of ChatGPT without actually fact-checking anything it wrote.
Paying officials to set policy is wrong. Spending money to make your case, convince people that you are right, and advocate that they support your political position is a fundamental right in a democracy.

Freedom of the press guarantees the right for citizens to be able to publish as they please, and the owners and management of Uber are citizens as much as anyone else.
Thanks. I think I will reset the trial and stress test it a bit with and without LS installed to gauge for myself then. Shouldn’t take long to notice an impact. If all is good I guess I might pick it up to run with for a year and see how it goes. If it makes no performance difference and doesn’t introduce any other issues I don’t see any reason to not err on the side of paranoia :)
Google, Microsoft and Facebook had those teams, all they achieved is to get a new competitor by slowing down the natural pace of getting things into production by dumbing things totally down instead of finding technical solutions to ethical problems that keep most of the power of the AI systems.
I wonder if he reused the letter from the previous round.
I think that disables the light sensor unfortunately. I can understand why that's a good tradeoff in many cases but I'd prefer not to.
So I can use my phone as webcam now? Wirelessly?
"Have you tried making your Yud bigger?"
> Also: is SBF really the central example of alignment in your head,

No, he's a particularly well-known example of the broader ideology to which virtually all of tbe alignment camp subscribes, and which centers their desires for AI.
Still very early and so by no means the most feature complete, but combines semantic search + grep matching https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop
He did, MIRI was a later rebrand.

Source: https://youtu.be/0A9pGhwQbS0?t=60
Def not, just gambling for old people, go to Japan and try it....it's not skill based
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Notable this announcement drops two days ahead of Microsoft's announcement tied to enhancing M365 with gen-AI https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/
> Sony never offered to release Spiderman on Xbox when they bought Insomniac.

This is an absurd angle for one comical reason:

Spiderman...is Sony property. Like Sony Entertainment Corporate. They bought the rights in the 90s. That's why Spiderman only recently joined the MCU. This is Nintendo letting Valve make a Mario game..but requiring it to be on Nintendo platforms. That all checks out.

Sony's fair complaint here is that Microsoft made public statements (without contracts) that they wouldn't do what they did and then did it anyways. Their angle is that MS will find ways around the COD problem by releasing new IP or spinoffs based on it.
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1631394688384270336
I know that. Humans have made way more tools, and are endangering themselves (and other animals in the process; not all of them). It's not the first time a life form endangers itself and many others (see mass extinctions https://eos.org/articles/tiny-algae-may-have-prompted-a-mass...). So, I still don't get the novelty of all this, aside from the fact that we're aware of it and either denying it or doing almost nothing to change our behavior accordingly. But this is another topic...
The old ones work pretty okay. I played through WWII's campaign on my Steam Deck and a bit of multiplayer too. Black Ops III as well although my campaign save broke itself multiple times so I gave up. The Modern Warfare reboot and up ones seem to not work though. I think they also have more extensive anti-cheat too that might not be doable on Linux.
While cloning kind of works, I wouldn't expect the results to be quite as good as the original.

Right now we're in this weird phase where we have no accurate metrics for how good an LM is, so people just try them with a handful of queries and are subjectively impressed or not. Maybe clones can pass that test, but as the market gets more sophisticated, people will prefer superior models.
> Furthermore, intelligence is an incredibly plastic property of the brain. You can nurture it or you can squelch it

As a parent, I grapple with this often. I want to believe that I can influence my child's intelligence. But there are some studies on same-age unrelated siblings in the same household that show IQ has a very weak correlation compared to biologically related siblings in the same household: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-06271-015
Are you sure you're not having some kind of weird hardware issue? I've been using AirPods Pro 1 & 2 for a few years and they are working fine with Teams. I don't have the regular version, only the pro, so there's a small chance that this is only limited to that.
I've built this solution from scratch and am currently pairing it with a custom/prototype OODB.

These are the tradeoffs as I see them and based on my experience building:

In a self-hosted configuration, advanced analytics can be captured without JavaScript. It's unblockable, transparent, and incredibly fast. This is a stack specific solution.

In a cloud configuration, it requires a JavaScript trigger. With JavaScript, each capture (on a dev machine) takes 70ms including storage (cloud db). Performance is good but blocking is now possible. This is a stack agnostic solution.

One of the above suits me as a user; the other as an entrepreneur.
To me this sounds more like – engineers who have been at Meta < 3 years (so were hired remote) are performing worse than those who have worked there longer. Which...doesn't sound that crazy and doesn't have to be related to remote vs in-person at all. Of course your tenured employees are better at their jobs.