skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1

Google was sitting on this since 2017.

Ethics and possible business interruption are both very good reasons for them to be safe.

And since they released the paper, i think ethics was a much bigger concern than I'd normally think. Hell, even they don't even fully understand the math behind it since it was found by AI as far as I know.

Microsoft and OpenAI benefiting from it feels a bit off.
I Created Rankdle – A Daily Guess the Rank/Elo Game for LoL, Chess, Apex etc.
Are they?

London - 8.8m - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
Birmingham - 1.1m - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham
Manchester - 552k (2.7m urban region) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester
Glasgow - 632k (1m in the urban region) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow

They're not strictly accurate, but are reasonably close. Also, those Wikipedia numbers are from 2021.
> I can't really see a good solution without a coordination of regulation...

Totally agree that this is perfectly within the government's purview, and they should be doing something about it. But, as with anything else in the US, until a Fortune 100, some few 1%-ers, or the deep state MIC wants it, we're not going to be getting it.
Well they are on Azure so....
If that comment is Peak HN, then this is a great example of why I love HN. Brutal technical analysis, combined with the hacker spirit of teaching others (thanks for the links in the sibling comment GP!)

GP isn't saying "this product would never work" (which is reminiscent of the classic Dropbox comment), GP is saying "this isn't 'advanced' and you can do it yourself" which is really helpful and exactly the sort of thing I love to see on HN.
> According to statistics - rich kids squander ALL of their wealth in ~ 2 generations, so dont worry about rich kids. Stupid ones (of which there are a majority) wont be rich for long.

So it's not a meritocracy - it's an inter-generational relay race. A meritocracy involves a level playing field. A 100% inheritance tax would help.
Checks date - it's not April 1st. This is incredibly sad - and also makes me angry how big corporations like Amazon can destroy communities just like that.

DPReview wasn't just about in-depth camera reviews which they pioneered and excelled at but also about the forums where photographers of all level of skills and interests would come together to share their passion and thoughts. This more than anything else would be a massive loss.

What's next? IMDB?
> But this time we have had governments causing unemployment to curb inflation.

That’s true of most recessions, because by definition a recession is the period after a business cycle peak, and the peak of business cycles is when inflationary pressures are high and monetary policy tends to be tight to constrain inflation. It is definitely not a difference between today the 2007-2009 Great Recession where interest rates were at 5.25 for an extended period leading into it to fight inflation, a much tighter than they are today significantly tighter than today, and for significantly longer.

And we’ve had nothing like the expansion-with-no-gains-for-the-bottom-95% of 2001-2007 leading up to today, which was a major source of the magnitude of the 2007-2009 Great Recession.
my first professional programming with java was right near the beginning, in about 1997 or so. Funny at that job I had to deal with both Smalltalk and Obj-C fans who thought everything about Java was awful, preferring their two respectively favorite languages instead.
I just run AdGuard Home network wide and have never seen a huge need to run a browser blocker as well. What are you getting out of using both?
This is fantastic - I'm in a similar situation, and just threw together a quick FZF incantation to look up a device's ID for use in other commands.
I started working on LangLearn after a particularly great late night ChatGPT session where I was practising Japanese.

Converting my EN->JP experience into an app has been a tad harder than expected. With potentially 3 languages involved (the English prompt, the source language, and the target language), GPT quite often gets a bit mixed up. Despite repeated "Do NOT translate this, I will translate this", it seems like the mere presence of the word "translate" will cause it to disobey and translate away. So it's required a larger amount of prompt engineering than I expected. I'm wondering if GPT4 will increase the ability to follow instructions, but I don't have access yet.

I've started adding things like:

- highlight a word or phrase to define; this can be a lot better than a dictionary because you can do entire phrases or idioms, things that might be in a dictionary in parts but not in whole

- quick responses to save you from needing to type

I'm thinking to add:

- easily view your chat history

- a button to make your chat session public so you can share it (readonly)

- a way to add words to a wordlist, then incorporate this list into the generations, and likely, a small SRS system
I meant in e.g. the C# runtime...
It began with Apple and the App Store. They established thought policing on modern Internet by making iOS with AAS the default mode of personal computing. There were effective governing bodies and policies for technical aspects of the Internet, but not content, before those.
The true is Windows 10/11, Linux and MacOs are all terrible desktop operating systems. Windows 2000 for example was better than any current OS. It comes down to what types of bugs and issues you're more inclined to tolerate.
Ah! Interesting. Please do and feel free to share any feedback you might have as well. Thanks!
Simply untrue, legally and socially
Would it help if I added the ability to gather on 127.0.0.1 to webrtc-rs' SettingEngine? That exists in Pion, but landed after webrtc-rs was started.
Time-Series Data with Ruby on Rails and Postgres
> There were statements made by western politicians but never any pen to paper

Thanks, you just confirmed that you shall never trust what America says till you have that in writing.
In the latest LTS those all can still be enabled, so while it is a serious problem when they are finally removed, for now it's not really a good reason to block an upgrade.
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
The System That Fuels Media Negativity
Given human nature, I still think society at large will reject self driving cars if they fail in ways a human never/rarely would, even if they are overall safer. That is, if a self driving car has, on average, fewer accidents than a human driver, but every 100 million miles or whatever it decides to randomly drive into a wall, I don't think people will accept them.

Obviously this is a gray area (after all, humans sometimes decide to randomly drive into walls), but cars will need to be pretty far on "the right side of the gray" before they are accepted.
Out of curiosity, were any of those cities the one in which you live?
This is one of the first review sites I got into, and really set the standard for what I came to expect from reviews. I fell into and out of photography a lot but I was always left wanting... this, exactly this in whatever other tech things I was interested in.

I learned a lot reading the review, and trusted them a lot. I just recommended them to a sibling a week ago for a camera rental. These days I don't get emotional or attached to websites (or companies) but this one hits, and hard.
I feel like some of the issue/reason is because the government has to cover every single possible scenario. “Time to make a road. We better do a three year environmental study to make sure this doesn’t hurt the native turtles.”

I’m all for taking care of the environment, but it feels like there’s a lot more “let’s get community and environmental input” than we had in the past (for better and for worse).
> Established software companies such as LinkedIn, Uber, Vanta, and many others invest in internal developer platforms to give their team unfair advantages

Congrats on the launch and for giving non-established companies a way to do onboarding! I think saying "unfair" is too strong of a claim here though.
So my city runs along a highway. They did construction, closing 5 of the 7 north-south roads crossing that highway at the same time. It was either incredibly stupid, or a brilliant move to build a habit of doing everything local.
For bookmarks use https://bard.google.com/?authuser=whatever@gmail.com
i'd rather type bard than lamda
Perelomov’s book covers Toda integrability I think.
I can't decide if in the future we will be bloblike sloths in chairs like in Wall-E, or maybe it will be like The Matrix but you are plugged into a peleton bike.
IDK about that. I work for a massive company with employees around the world. We need people in all time zones. We need people who can do work in specific regions and markets. We need people who can communicate in English and other languages and understand cultural subtleties. Also have experience with outsourcing in several other companies and have seen some terrible results.
My understanding is that jdk8 has support from Oracle until 2030.
I just finished reading Consider Phlebas, and am starting Player of Games now! I tried to find reading order lists online and most just recommended publication order. I hope I didn’t ruin anything.
bard does not officially support codig yet, though it can sort of work, depending your question. See their FAQ.
That’s just Copilot.
A 40.3% increase is different than the percentage of the total money supply that was printed in the last two years, which for your numbers works out to about 29%. I would argue that most people would interpret “we created X% of the Y supply” in this way and not as a percentage increase.
Many industries don't have many manufacturers or operate on different regions. You get an illusion of choice at the grocery store, but many times the a single factory produces product under a dozen different brands.
Classic Jetliners: The Boeing 727
If, as I alluded to, you and the SCOTUS (and other courts) interpret AI art as similar enough to humans where the 'training' process is analogous to a human looking at art and learning how to create good art (or even copy another artist's style), then the license you apply to art does not matter, because it'd just be "learning" about how art works, and not any actual usage of the original work. In this case the AI would be considered a human for the purposes of copyright infringement, where it would infringe on the original work if it recited or recreated any single work from memory without any substantial changes to turn it into either a parody (fair use) or its own work separate from the images it has learned from, even if it mimics the art style of any single artist (since artists can't copyright their styles).
I recently read about the Oppau disaster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion ), where the workers were getting bored with using pickaxes to break up a huge pile of compressed ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate, and decided to use dynamite to loosen it up. What could possibly go wrong?
CatGPT is a better name than ChatGPT, perhaps that’s why it’s taking off (allegedly) in France.
dpreview was my main source for getting into photography. I was a faithful reader for many years.
Anyone want to take bets on how long until it gets killed off?
I've been using fzf for a long time, but I didn't even know about Ctrl-R. Since I use fish, I've been used to just typing some random part of an old command, then hitting the Up key to cycle through old commands with that snippet. I'm going to have to give this a real shot.
The value of labor is subjective. Some of the most important service people, like educators, are some of the lowest paid and their accrued labor is worth less once inflation hits. Capital, in general, creates perverse incentives, e.g. mainstream news is divisive and negative because that style of reporting maximizes profits. With money as the goal, it's no wonder many young people would rather become social media influencers than educators. That said, UBI is a more realistic outcome despite not fixing any of these problems.
Strictly speaking the ubuntu/debian docs do mention it, but yeah its not super discoverable: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/fzf/-/blob/master/...
Too late to edit: “because it was nested strangely”
Outside of SQL they are different technologies.

MySQL mingles its custom language with SQL which is a common point of confusion... Whom amongst us wasn't confused when "DESCRIBE" didn't work in SQLite or Postgres?
>Similarly, the members of this poorly targeted audience that did buy the book are unlikely to be typical readers in the genre.

I would assume they were typical readers in the genre, which obviously some percentage of readers from HN would have to be.

A post of mine on criticism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392070 went to front page for a bit and got 4.7K hits according to medium.

I would think if Amazon has any sort of decent traffic analysis ranking it would have the understanding of unknown/random spikes and discount negative data from that as noise (unless it led to a bunch of negative reviews etc. in that spike)
but maybe I'm just too hopeful about stuff.

Wish I could sell some books though but as I don't ever it seems unlikely I know what I'm talking about anyway. :)
This seems doomed to fail, going about it all wrong for the US. Importing players is going too push a great many away and names like The Unicorns are not going to help. Should have taken a longer view and spent that money getting people here to play it instead of handing out teams and buying players from the comfort of their thrones. Could have set up quite the bar league with $120 million. Will be interesting to see what happens and if it can last.
"subscribe to android photos plus to have all the ai applied billboards removed from your photos"
I commend them on pushing back on LLM hype and hope their book gets published in a timely manner… but damn I’m also glad that I am not the one writing it, since I fear many of its claims will go the way of IBM President Thomas Watson’s infamous 1940s quote that “there is a world market for about five computers”.

The theme that LLMs reproduce knowledge from their training data rather than reason about it seems like one argument that will end up wrong pretty soon.

When given the prompt “Which is heavier, one pound of feathers or two pounds of feathers?”, GPT3.5 gives a bizarre answer: “One pound of feathers and two pounds of feathers both weigh the same amount, which is two pounds.” Presumably this is because circa 2016-2017 there was a large internet discussion of the riddle “which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of steel”, and text from this discussion found its way into the training data for the model.

I see no reason why the training data would have changed to substantially exclude that discussion, and yet here is GPT 4: “Two pounds of feathers are heavier than one pound of feathers.” Improvements in the model appear to be improving the model’s ability to reason from the training data rather than merely reproduce it.

The theme that AI won’t replace e.g. lawyers because it is more knowledge base than reasoning engine also reminds me of early opinions in computer chess discussions, which held that computers were more tactics solvers (short-term several move look-ahead to avoid forks and traps) than strategy planners (long-term construction of multi-piece attacks, protecting small advantages and growing them into large advantages over multiple dozens of moves). With the benefit of hindsight we saw that more of strategy was actually just tactics in disguise than we thought, and that increasing compute could produce real strategy capabilities besides.

Separately, there is another theme I see in their writing, and also in some of them comments here: that humans passing standardized tests are doing something fundamentally different than LLMs passing standardized tests. The only thing that’s ‘uniquely human’ is being human, everything else is outputs from a black box. Arguments that ‘what’s inside the black box matters’ are risky, because the outputs gradually converge to indistinguishability; there’s no bright line to step off that train and pretty soon you end up like the person described in Boretti’s And Yet It Understands:

“There is a species of denialist for whom no evidence whatever will convince them that a computer is doing anything other than shuffling symbols without understanding them, because “Concepts” and “Ideas” are exclusive to humans (they live in the Leibniz organ, presumably, where they pupate from the black bile). … [These people are] so committed to human chauvinism [that] they will soon start denying their own sentience because their brains are made of flesh and not Chomsky production rules.”

https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands
Imagine you have a bunch of different for loops and you want to get the one that ran a specific command. You can use something like "history | grep for | grep command" or you can use fzf. Ctrl-r, type "f o r <space>" then type "c o m m" and you'll quickly narrow down the search results.

It's the fuzziness that really beats ordinary ctrl-r, being able to search on multiple fragments of text is just fantastic.
> It's the same problem with fake copies of Van Gogh and so forth, except historically those fakes were produced at a much slower rate because of the time needed to master the skills to produce those fakes. With modern tools, those fakes could be mass produced, while the original artists are still alive.

Those people got in trouble for recreating specific works, or creating new works in his style and defrauding people by saying they were originals. Safe to say that not disclosing "this is not actually a work created by <artist>, just in their style" would be grounds for fraud, especially if you were to sell it.
As a massive fan of the Culture series, does anyone have recommendations for other excellent sci-fi books?
I wouldn't mind an edition of H.P. Lovecraft writings signed by August Derleth, or a Tolkien book signed by C.S. Lewis (or vice versa), and so on. A Discworld novel signed by Neil Gaiman.
I am begging these language designers to show me what your language looks like right off the bat. It should be the first thing I see on your language's homepage. I shouldn't have to click through vaguely-named pages to see single-line snippets. Show me a full program!
Signalfd Is Useless (2015)
I suppose it depends on what you consider the average person - it's not available for free, but it is available as part of the $20/month ChatGPT Plus. I suspect $20/month is very affordable for most HN users.

ChatGPT Plus is very bad value vs ChatGPT API (particularly now that 3rd party chat clients exist)... I've spent $20 on ChatGPT Plus in the same month where I've spent < $1 on the API and used it significantly more via my github bot.

My subscription is due for renewal this week and I was going to cancel it, but for me it's worth it short-term for GPT-4 access. The increased context size and improvements in reasoning & general output quality are significant for my use cases.

GPT-4 access in ChatGPT Plus is quite limited (was originally 100 every few hours, currently 25 and going lower since they're struggling to keep up with demand) but that's still enough to get useful results out of it currently, especially if you have built up some intuition on how to prompt using 3.5.
From my understanding, they have two networks: One to generate responses (with some randomness), and another network to predict whether or not that response will get upvoted or downvoted.

The human upvotes and downvotes obviously train the second network. It's possible they iterate these two networks independently, but I'm not sure.
It is interesting that hopper isn’t widely available yet.

I have seen some benchmarks from academia but nothing in the private sector.

I wonder if they thought they were moving too fast and wanted to milk amphere/ada as long as possible.

Not having any competition whatsoever means Nvidia can release what they like when they like.
every single comment in this thread is exactly how I imagined commenting would go when Google eventually launched this product.
The point-and-shoot market collapsed, but the dslr market is not nearly as dramatically affected with 2010 numbers not too far off 2018 numbers based on statista charts[1].

On the other hand, mirrorless is starting to show growth[2].

Looking at the overall camera-sales are misleading, especially considering that it largely shuffled numbers around within big companies: A Samsung point-and-shoot with a Samsung sensor became a Samsung smartphone with a Samsung sensor, selling even more units with the camera still being a primary selling point.

---

[1]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4242091-why-nikon-and-canon...

[2]: https://petapixel.com/2023/02/15/2022-was-officially-the-yea... (using CIPA data)
> If the government had construction workers & equipment on it's own payroll, these projects probably get done a lot quicker.

Ah yes, because that's what government workers are known for, speed, efficiency and quality.
Very nice, thank you.

Tangent: "Originally, they used stone lithography for their illustrations. A single four-color illustration required four slabs of Bavarian limestone that weighed up to two hundred pounds apiece."

(Stone stone-writing stimulates my department of redundancy department ...)
What can Slack tell me about my developer team's culture?
What can Slack tell me about my #developer team's culture?

Surprisingly, a lot!

We analysed data in 35,000 developer datasets from GitLab, GitHub, Slack and Google Calendar. Here are some findings:

The vast majority of messages will always be Direct messages to colleagues and that's normal. When the ratio of public vs private messages falls below 10% this can create a number of issues

More need for documentation. If solutions are not being shared openly in a searchable environment like Slack, it means you will need to formally document more.

Culture of safety. If developers are not feeling confident enough to raise challenges or solutions publicly are you seeing the effects somewhere else, for example overall code quality?

Visibility. Are the engineering leaders leading by example by being visible across the team and / or the organisation?

Some of the best performing teams we see either:

Have a higher public vs private message ratio than 10%

or

Are actively working to increase it
Publishers (traditional ones like Random House, HarperCollins) would take a Microsoft Word document manuscript. Each publisher has guidelines for their manuscript.

They will handle the typesetting themselves.

You need to do it all only if you are self-publishing.
FWIW Bard's reply:

To calculate the required inventory, we first need to calculate the annual sales. The company expects to turn its inventory 1.5 times per year, and they want to achieve an annual revenue of $3,000,000. This means that they need to sell $3,000,000 / 1.5 = $2,000,000 worth of inventory per year.

Now that we know the annual sales, we can calculate the required inventory. The company plans to buy used automobiles at auctions and then sell them at four times the purchase price. This means that the purchase price of each car is $1,000 and the sale price is $4,000. To sell $2,000,000 worth of inventory, they need to buy $2,000,000 / $4,000 = 500 cars.

The required inventory is therefore $500 * $1,000 = $500,000.

In other words, the company needs to have $500,000 worth of inventory on hand at all times in order to achieve its annual revenue goal.
The only thing tiktok broke is the revenue model of incumbents. TikTok offers revenue-sharing opportunities with content creators. This change has disrupted the traditional model of social media.
> ADA does add to the costs of projects

I'm not going to argue that it isn't necessary or right. But it absolutely costs more. A bathroom stall, for example, literally takes up more space, and that costs. A ramp and stairs takes up more space, materials and time and that costs.

There are things which are right to do, but disingenuous arguments to support them aren't helpful.
It's Banksy as a Service