skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university.

> Violent disagreements between townspeople and students had arisen several times previously, and 12 of the 29 coroners' courts held in Oxford between 1297 and 1322 concerned murders by students. The University of Cambridge was established in 1209 by scholars who left Oxford following the lynching of two students by the town's citizens.

Man, college towns used to be so much more violent!

I never knew about the connection between a saint and the word/concept of scholastics, nor that a university as notable as Cambridge was started because the locals lynched students. That's pretty cool, TIL!

Edit: Sidenote, why does the graduation ceremony at Cambridge look like they're going to drown a witch? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_gown#/media/File:Punt...
I mostly have a no steakhouses rule generally (except when required for business purposes). Sure, there are good ones. But I can get way closer to what a steakhouse can do at home than any number of other recipes.
> The school, known as BloomTech for short, offers students the option to pay up-front tuition, or to pay no up-front tuition fees and instead pay back their tuition through an income-share agreement, meaning that when a student lands a job paying $50,000 or more, they must pay back 14% of their income for four years or until they hit a cap of $40,000.

One of the saddest parts of this whole debacle is that a lot of bootcamp students are unaware that most normal colleges have sliding scale tuition.

They see the “sticker price” of private college tuition being $50-$60K per year and think that a $40K boot camp is a bargain. What they don’t know is that $40K could actually be more than what they’d have to pay for a lot of universities, given their financial situations. There’s an argument that a 1-year boot camp could get someone into industry faster, but given all of the terrible anecdotes coming out of this particular bootcamp it’s hard to argue that it’s anything other than a terrible deal for students.
I could see this being very useful. I uploaded a 70MB xls file to Sheets and Chrome says that tab is 600MB to 800MB of RAM. I ran a Find operation and that spiked up to 1.2GB of RAM. How 70MB of data turns into over 1GB of RAM is beyond me.
What claim in the original post does that support? None, it has nothing to do with it.
This is great. I was thinking about this very same issue while driving today. What are the chances.
>easily get into a tech job doing some simple cookie cutter courses.

This is still done. It's called college, only takes 3 years.
If they didn't land a tech job, the ISA wouldn't apply - correct? Why do they want it cancelled? I'm not sure I understand their lawsuit.
A class action lawsuit with only 4 students? Ok.

Universities charge more and guarantee nothing in terms of job placement, but nobody sues them. Just goes to show how much people will happily pay for a status symbol.
This. You might have to do a bunch of inserts and updates and want to know all the escaping is done correctly, that insert and update timestamps are handled, etc.
Which, depending on your business, may not be good enough if not coupled with a compelling price point that beats doing it in house or with another vendor.
There are so many typos and inconsistencies in the source screenshots (on Twitter) that I strongly suspect this is fake.

Does anyone have any insight into why Ars thought this was credible?
This is something ive been thinking for a long time. It always annoys me when people say stuff like "content creators wouldn't exist without ad revenue" like dude no it would be different for sure, much less polished but less bland, people would absolubtely still make stuff for fun & to be cool not to make money. Theres a reason the culture of the internet today is still so influenced by stuff like newgrounds, because that kind of expression for its own sake is where creativity thrives
Farmers Can’t Keep Hogging the Water in Parched Southwest
You = “You and all your coworkers, forever.”
As I recall, there were quite a few about how to mix poisons and improvise explosives.

Arguably "tame" but not something you want to be associated with today.
About 30 or so years ago Google search wowed everyone by scraping the web and giving you a list. 30 years later ChatGPT scrapes the web and gives you a paragraph while sounding like a human. Neat.
Since there's a mobile-optimized web version, it's also free-ish on iOS.

I know people who have used it on iOS for years for free by just using the web version and never buying the app, and they seem quite happy with that setup.
Do you know how I know you're not a librarian?
The Fukushima case has similar characteristics:
https://insidestory.org.au/water-water-everywhere/
For me, if the output can consistently demonstrate understanding then it understands. The reason LLMs are able to be plugged into everything under the sun is that general intelligence and understanding. It's not a parlor trick.

At this point you can say, it's only mimicking understanding but that's just a circular argument. If mimicry understanding is such an important distinction over true understanding then it should be obvious. I should be able to test for it. If you can't test for it then it's just an arbitrary distinction you think is important but paradoxically isn't affecting the output at all.

Not saying LLMs understand exactly like humans. Maybe they do. Maybe not. But they understand.
I would not want to be in the bootcamp biz right now.
I did my work experience (internship) at ‘computers click here’, for a week. I was 15 and super excited to work in a PC store. They had pentiums and command and conquer.

The staff liked me and asked me to work a couple of extra days on the weekend for a big computer expo (maybe PCIT) so I became a fifteen year old salesperson, selling games and powerpoint 97 (rest of office wasn’t out yet). Rather than being paid in cash, we negotiated something better: a CD ROM! I think it was 8x.

The sad part of the story is that after they gave me the CD ROM for working the weekend my
Mum got a call from someone saying I stole it. Maybe someone didn’t have permission to give me it? I didn’t have to give it back in the end - i guess the manager spoke to the right person - but the false accusation still really hurts. It would have been a really happy story otherwise.
And their endowment is over 25 billion.... And why again, are their salaries lower than industry again?
Wow awesome thank you!
The ability to reach .ru addresses is also convenient to some people.

Speeding down the highway as fast as possible is also convenient to some people.

Convenience becomes some else’s bad day.
Absolutely unexpected. A clarification though, which maybe you were aware of: the fasting period studied is no eating for 10 days straight, not intermittent fasting Ramadan-style. Given how counterintuitive this result is, I'm not sure I'd jump to the conclusion that intermittent fasting has the same effect.
I'm not there yet but as the responses get better and better, it would be hard to say it has no world model at all. Can it explain why the diamond is on the bed, and have it say due to gravity, which is a curvature in space-time?

Basically I'm asking "what is a world model?". It's connecting pieces of information and inferences and being able to substitute by way of analogy concrete instances into the symbolic/conceptual slots. As it gets better at connecting the dots and being able to figure out which connections are strong vs contextual/weak it should be able to parrot human intelligence precisely. I'm not using 'parrot' derogatively here either, but rather that human intelligence could also be just that.

I mean some folks say the machine can't reason, but machines can be very good at logical reasoning when provided clean input.

I'll be sold when the responses start to show originality that can't be synthesized by substitution and juxtaposition of former input, which could well happen in my lifetime. I used to think similarly before AlphaGo that our machines can't be creative beyond the level of humans in an exceptionally large search space, but that day has passed.
Seemingly half or so of images delivered anywhere currently are VP8-image (webp). You'd expect those to be AVIF instead in the coming years, which is obviously very much superior.

Forget lossless originals, this is about the average images that users see online, like 1000x1000 (or smaller) and 200kb (or so).
> people are so thirsty for a 10% improvement for natural images at qualities above what most websites serve

Because it won’t be just the web that uses JPEG. However whoever wins the support of the web will become THE universal image format for the foreseeable future.

> Give it another couple years and maybe we'll have another format 5-10% better than JXL, at which point I hope everyone starts getting angry that format isn't included in browsers...

That’s the thing. Once a format has become THE standard it won’t be replaced for a very long time. Might as well get the best bang for buck and pick the best standard that’s availability now.
try for any subject

"summarize X as Anki cards". I found a reply above particularly helpful to even summarize anything at all.

perhaps someone could design software that automatically translates the article to the Anki cards as well. I'd love to collaborate with someone on such a project (as a data scientist)
Maybe you shouldn't play game of telephone like that.

Go generics are exceptionally well designed.

The reason it took so long for Go to get generics is because Go designers took their time to arrive at a design that fits with the rest of Go.

It's not rushed, it's not "bolted on".

They did several designs that they rejected before they accepted the design that got implemented.
We have two Panera subscriptions. Our kids love their drinks, my wife and I like the iced tea and iced coffee. We'd spent more than that at Starbucks, or Dunkin per month, so it was an easy switch and actually saves a lot of money.

In terms of privacy, the Panera staff were shocked the first time I went through the drive through and my name came up as Mr. Panera Bread. They asked if I was the CEO. Obviously I changed the name to "Mr. Panera CEO". Now they know it's us and laugh.

Subscriptions are definitely becoming overkill, but in some ways it's also easier to manage recurring monthly expenses than random ones. I have a spreadsheet with monthly bills and creating a subscription section was easy. They all go on the same card (probably bad from a privacy perspective, but the names and emails are generally unique per vendor). Now I get better visibility and can easily change subscriptions. We chop and change pretty often reviewing what we spend on.

We've also used Amazon's Subscribe and Save for years. It's pretty handy to have a continuous supply of stuff that's regularly in demand. We review it every quarter or so and cut out the unused items. In the past failing to monitor it well has meant we have a dozen gallon sized Listerines, or more Tide than we'll use in a year build up, but then either it lasts, or we donate it to a food pantry.

What's odd with Subscribe and Save is how many weird and one-off products appear with a subscribe and save option. I'm not sure if it's hopeful merchants, or Amazon's funkiness in their algos, but you can find bizarre things on recurring subscription. No, I don't need a monthly Raspberry Pi, or quarterly set of speakers.
Great find.

"The end result is that the image file is opened without the O_TRUNC flag, so that when the cropped image is written, the original image is not truncated. If the new image file is smaller, the end of the original is left behind."

RIP
Speaking of blithering, you are only parroting some Internet tropes in an echo chamber (which is probably where you learned them). You know by now that such things are nonsense; they are a waste of time and a poison to knowledge and reason.

And I think you are far behind the times - I'm not sure many people study Derrida these days.

What have you read recently?
Link to open manuscript: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271131/1-s2.0-S875632822...
Those of us who have spent the last several decades learning how to break down information technology problems into their constituent pieces, many times down to the byte, are being suddenly presented with a system that requires none of that expertise and produces results which are nearly as good. The more you know about technology, the more you are amazed. How long would it take you to code by hand some of the things that LLMs can do with a simple prompt? The less technical people are just like, "Oh, the computer is doing magic again, shrug," because they have no idea the difference between what Siri does and what ChatGPT is doing. The rest of us however are mind boggled by what we're seeing. When I saw how Microsoft "programmed" the Bing chat (Sydney) simply by prepending a series of rules in plain English to the prompt, I nearly fell over.

Prompts are like programming without the details. Like a product manager's user stories - simply describing what is expected is enough to get the LLMs to spit out useful results. And it's getting better faster than any of us thought possible. Even if progress stopped today, what's already out there is going to have a profound impact on office work, and thus society, as we know it. But it's not stopping.

I've explained to my 20yo that he needs to learn to embrace the new tools as soon as possible, understand what they can do and can't do, and make sure he focuses his skills and education on the bits that AI aren't great at. As for me, I'm focusing on figuring out the best way to package the power of AI in various niches so that I can use it to provide that power to users in an easily understandable way, which is what I've always done in tech. I'm just using going to be using different tools to do it.

There's plenty to be done to train models, feed AIs data, and package the output for use in a million contexts. That Quick Oil Change company down the block still entering information on Windows GUIs (or worse, DOS computers) aren't going to see AI affect their interfaces for another decade. Between now and then there's plenty to do.
what if Duolingo employed Anki?
They don't give a shit about the dangers of AGI, they just have a lead and don't want to lose it. I can see why they would want to, but if you are going to do it then own it. They didn't mind being an open source nonprofit when it meant they were getting millions of dollars in donations and blowing through money researching, but now that they have a shippable product that was built on all that money they just happen to decide that they are the only ones worthy of being responsible for all that power? Give me a break.
> One of the diseases of current academia is use of an extremely stilted language, perhaps intended to paper over some logical cracks.

What have you read recently from academia?

> You aren't in the academia, are you? Because you explain things in simple terms, yet very efficiently.

Sometimes things aren't simple.
so on this note, unless you have massive json lists... having a json object per line (jsonl) can really help this process... I use jq when necessary .. but I usually use `cat file.json | grep foo | grep bar | jq -r .thing` since it's a string, use string comparison tools rather than jq :)
As far as generalizations go, this is as good as it gets. Well put.

To generalize even further, perhaps to the point of uselessness, is to find balance between tradition and your own spirit–patiently learning how things are, while always critically considering how they could be different.

As long as you maintain perspective like this, and you’re aware of the biases and pitfalls of the avenue you’re pursuing, you can do great in either, or why not spend time in several?
Because you can't debate the AI. It's not on an open forum. People expect it to be an oracle because we interface with it as if it were.
4. Extending adolescence 4 more years, slowing down the transition to full adulthood.
Good mexican food is hard to come by, particularly texmex, and you can't find any texas style queso at all. People in the bay area have never heard of the stuff, even though it's on the menu at even non-mexican resturaunts and pubs in texas. I've seen it on the menu in seattle, idaho, north carolina, but the bay area is an absolute queso desert for some odd reason.
MERITSS/MECC was a fun, funky time-share system. It used multiple peripherals to feed one central CPU (with not much memory). The access I used had an acoustic modem (using a dedicated line) and a Model-33 teleprinter with a ASCII paper tape reader/puncher for storage.

On good days, the time-share part was transparent. But there were dozens of access points; on rare days when most of them were in use, you could press a key and wait 10 or more seconds to get the character echoed back to the printer.

One day I got one hour of access to a plasma-screen PLATO, and it was amazing. Never again even saw another.
Grady only refute it but couldnt e plain or furnish proof. Is like FBI having the laptop and server data proof of wrong doing and then said no intent which isn't a thing in the context of broken law that should be charged. UML is one of the worst Software Engineering invented. I have in 6 different IT companies that basically throw away and internally banned UML. It is just too slow and treat all programming as solved like in the 80s and 90s. If you follow UML uou wont be able to create GPT in hundred years! Grady is outdated dino that shouldnt even been credited with anything.
> Uhm, allocating money to a budget doesn't create great products anymore than wishing very hard for something before blowing the birthday candles.

I didn't claim that it was sufficient, but it is necessary.

> It's the engineers that actually create the cool things.

Of course. With other people's money (typically).
That's completely fucked up. Arrogance much or?
Exactly, little 32 - 128 MB flash drives were around not too much later and removed the need for floppy discs for saving documents and such. But for larger sizes CD-RW was more common.

There were also Zip and Jazz drives but they weren’t as common due to cost.
Read this and you'll realize why Duolingo has gone down the wayside

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-us...

Shows when incentives are aligned to shareholders vs users, that is the outcome you get
Of note, after a short high calorie period that led to a 7% weight gain.
Definitely the demographics:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

I would hate to be fighting to join academia right now in a world where there's a solid chance the student body is shrinking:

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
Note the Go standard library has a streaming parser:

https://go.dev/play/p/O2WWn0qQrP6
https://archive.md/zBZsS
I haven't really been in the market for a non-Apple laptop for a while (previously had to buy MacBook bc of specific software), so this gives me a great idea of what to watch out for when I get my next laptop. Thanks a lot!
A degree from an accredited university is a real valuable thing to have with a wide degree of potential applications. A boot camp doesn't give you anything like that.
More than half a dozen Boost libraries have made their way to the standard.

Boost continues to exist because there is large overlap with the standards committee and they use it as a staging ground to try out new ideas before they are standardized.
You don't generally need an ORM for that though. The main RDBMSes and the popular APIs for them all support prepared statements that will handle placeholders and escaping for example. And there are lots of query builder libraries that can help to build more complicated SQL queries programmatically without imposing any object model on top.
One issue with parchment paper is the max temperature rating is 425-450 and I've gotten best pizza crust results with temperature of 500 with my oven and that scorches the none food covered parts of parchment paper when I tried it. I don't know if it's toxic when overheated and burned like that but it is super convenient for lower temperature usages.
I suppose I was never really part of 'polite society', being from Amsterdam in the 80s.

I assume you refer to things like homosexuality which were already totally normal there back then. Transsexualism was a bit less common back then but I imagine this was also because the medical tech wasn't at the required level yet to really make a transition possible.

But I wasn't really talking about those things. More about sexuality in general being a taboo in the media and popular culture.
This is in the Gentoo Portage tree, so I'd expect it to work:

* sys-fs/udftools
Available versions: 2.3
Homepage: https://github.com/pali/udftools/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/
Description: Ben Fennema's tools for packet writing and the UDF filesystem
He walked right into it Thomas. Every Chicagoan knows exactly what I'm talking about. Including you.
OP was a better example than yours by a large margin.
This is a super interesting question. If you don't know, and it's difficult to find out, isn't your market going to be limited by the rate of consumer education? that is a difficult goto market strategy, because you have multiple funnel fallouts happening - people who don't want to get educated, can't get educated, don't believe the education. Then they enter your "do they want to buy your product" funnel. Tough space, but it sounds like it's a problem - good luck!
You have used so much jargon in your comment, that as someone who is interested in learning languages but hasn't gone into the rabbit hole for years (90% of HN?), it was tough. Perhaps says what you preach about "receive input at our level".
Ask HN: When an API is down, what do you usually do?
When you are working with (in development) a third-party API and it is down, what do you usually do to spend time? Do any of you feel stress from the inability to be able to complete your project?
My impression was that the weight gain phase was partly to assure that the healthy participants could comfortably lose the weight.

They were also taking a small amount of vitamin D. Not sure how much that matters, but it's worth mentioning.
I don't know if that will cool the reactor enough to prevent a meltdown.
FWIW, the “HellaSwag” benchmark from the GPT-4 paper consists of many such “riddles” and it achieves ~95% accuracy (essentially par with humans). The next best model (LLM or otherwise) was around 85%. It is pretty remarkable.

GPT-4 paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf

Original HellaSwag paper from 2019: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.07830.pdf
Personally I think Elon was foolish for calling the cave guy a pedo. But things like missed deadlines I don’t really think affect his credibility. It’s technology, estimates are hard.

Most of the supposed damage to Elon’s reputation is simply attacks by Twitter competitors. Think of the hoax a few weeks ago about people being forced to read his tweets.
I've seen several examples of devs using AI to write or help write complex web sites, with fields and checkboxes and dropdowns, etc.

The question is, why bother. Just give the user a chatGPT box where they can ask the AI to do the thing, instead of having to navigate a bunch of web UI.

If the AIs can write programs, they can do much much more, eg setup a facebook marketing campaign, configure a bunch of AWS instances, etc, no web UI required.