skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then zoning will cease to exist, and developers will build millions of homes, as long as they can break even on material and labor costs - flooding the market and dropping the housing prices multiplefold, turning almost every city, except those having no land left, into slums, but very affordable ones

Experience in many parts of the world has shown that this is very much not true. A few examples:

- China: the history of the past few decades has very much been the history of demolishing slums because they're too dense and building much more expensive housing on top of it. You can make arguments about the housing bubble there, but slums are being demolished, not built, and affordability is still very much a dream (partly as a result of state policy, partly other factors)

- Singapore: as a city-state, city zoning policy is national zoning policy. The mandate is very much public and affordable housing for all, and local control over zoning is non-existent. The HDB's job has been pretty much demolishing slums and turning them into public housing.

- Malaysia (my home country): local municipalities have a small degree of control over zoning policy, subject to national control and state oversight. Same story here: there is a systematic effort to demolish slums and turn them into high-rise developments (partly because the zoning authorities have been captured by the developers). They reluctantly follow low-income housing quotas due to politics too complicated to explain here

- Japan: localities can only do so much, the story of Tokyo (same for Osaka and Nagoya) has pretty much been a story of top-down national control with the explicitly policy of managing urban density. Same story with a concerted effort of demolishing slums.

So your claim of either slums or high housing prices doesn't really happen in reality. If you have examples where this happened, please do share, but having lived in many Asian cities this doesn't bear out at all.
LLMs have been exposed to much larger datasets than any human ever has. If it was frequency then humans would make the grammatical errors and not the LLMs. The LLMs are making grammatical errors as shown in the article and therefore it is not about frequency.
Computer was a job title 50~60 years ago; then it became a thing. I have a feeling that Programmer is on the way to stopped being a job title.
Linux 6.3-Rc3 Released: It's “Fairly Big”
I kind of see "full product skills" as building the product and making it successful, with all that that entails.
Modern society is like a conjurer who whacks your heirloom rolex with a mallet for a trick. When all that remains is a pile of cogs, broken glass and twisted metal, it suddenly dawns on him.... he's forgotten the end of the trick.

Modernity: let's smash everything. What can possibly go wrong?
The Reuters article has more background information, and isn't behind a paywall:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-write...
Famous (Unfortunate) Quotes
Exactly. Protecting the largest animals won't matter in a few years when all the corals and microfauna disappear due to ocean warming, triggering devastating chain effects in all ecosystems.

I'm not sure if I've watched too many science documentaries, but the future looks grim from any standpoint. Even if this accord is upheld and protects the largest species, I'm afraid it's too little, too late to stop the environmental catastrophe.

The only thing that might slow things down is if we very aggressively stop burning fossil fuels. This is a political and economic problem that everyone needs to agree on, yet we can't even stop killing each other, so I'm not that hopeful.
An immigrant hopes to settle down in the host country, have / grow a family there, own property and even become a citizen. Of course, if the host nation does not have a citizenship program for foreigners, then everyone who isn't a citizen is an expat.

An expat hopes, even plans to move back to where they came from. They're in their host nation for work reasons only because, at least according to the expat, where they're from is a "better" place than their host country.
Lu Jiaxi (Mathematician)
He didn't write an autobiography. His biography had some glaring errors (people like Bill Gates are directly quoted as saying things with basic tech mistakes they couldn't have said) and of course he died before it was finished, so he couldn't have reviewed it.
Maybe butchering Libyans has something to do with it? Or even just her husband cutting welfare?

Both US parties are neoliberal war hawks, sadly.
This is what blows my mind, i did not expect that. Normally would have expected to get the last crumbs to stockholders. This whole spiel honestly feels super rushed and done in panic.

Of course, I can't blame anyone. Its easy for me to say anything chilling on a couch behind a screen. Cant imagine the stress the regulators and board went through to get this out before monday morning to plug the disaster waiting to happen if CS just went belly up blocking businesses and everyone involved with CS.

Lets hope this stops soon.
I'll explain it to you. "fear, uncertainty, doubt".

"uncertainty, doubt": "not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting"

"fear": "By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome"
The problems with the gold standard is we had one and everyone lied about how much gold they had, Causing the lost decade in the 70s/80s.

Maybe BRICS will propose a solution that uses Blockchain to verify gold ledgers.
Learning JavaScript from ChatGPT
Semantics. You could say the same about the disk - the data doesn't get magically teleported from the magnetic plates to the RAM, it needs a lot of underlying hardware to read and transfer it.

Model is not just a set of weights, it's inseparable from the underlying architecture, the way to train and to apply them in practice.
The Montreal Protocol didn't require military enforcement. This will. And this is its significance.
How is this significant? Can't you land/takeoff with 0 feet given a strong enough headwind?

The article doesn't seem to mention wind at all.
Yeah, like I said, there are some cases where generics are genuinely helpful. It’s just a small percentage of the code I tend to write (generics have been out for quite a while, and I still avoid them in Go despite my familiarity with languages like Rust, TypeScript, etc that use them extensively).
New chat app idea: You "text" a locally running TTS model that uses your phone's modem to call the recipient and talks to the recpient, and replies (from another TTS model on the other side) are run through STT model and appear as text replies.
What’s different about these layoffs
If the national goverbment loses control of thr moneu supply you will have auch a total disaster that current issues will look rosy.

Just look at what happened to Greece, they cant control their fiscal policy and they have been stuck in the mud for 20 years. The same will happen to the world as a whole
LLMs (well, neural network models more generally, but LLMs are the main interest right now) trained on copyright protected source data are either (1) violating copyright, or (2) benefit from an exception to copyright of some kind (such as Fair Use in the US, as Microsoft has explicitly claimed in connection with Github Copilot.) Even if they don’t contain, in some manner, literal copies of works (and in some cases they do, since works can be accidentally or intentionally recapitulated), they are derivative of copyright protected works in a direct and mechanical way.
Using an ultra deflationary token like bitcoin as a global currency would literally be the most stupid thing that ever happened in human history.

Basically people who held significant amounts of bitcoin from early on would become billionaires (if not trillionaires...) by having provided zero value to the economy. As awful and unfair what we have currently is it's still several magnitudes superior in almost any conceivable way than a global financial system based on bitcoin.

I can imagine some sort of a crypto currency possible becoming dominant in the future. But Bitcoin itself is pretty much the worst option I can imagine.
This headline is very misleading. He's not being accused of deleting them. He is being accused of not creating the chat records in the first place. Legally these are different things. There's no obligation to generate as much evidence as possible just in case one day you get sued by someone who might want it. Lit holds are just that, holds, you have to hold records you already have and not destroy them. The assumption in the system is that institutions generate records as a natural matter of course, and that's what the plaintiffs are being allowed to get access to. This complaint seems very likely to fail as a result, short of some sudden change in the standard understanding of record retention laws.
It might be fraud/criminal to sell a license to something that someone else holds the copyright to.

> why isn't the CEO of Getty in prison?

CEOs usually won't even be charged for their (what we would call) "crimes", it wouldn't be fair given the sacrifices they make. Of course, it's also part of the treaty between our kind and theirs. In exchange for them saving humanity and the planet, humanity looks the other way from time to time.
It’s entirely centralized because it requires massive training corpuses that plebs can’t come up with. The only serious advances are coming out of large corps.

The indie hacker movement around stable diffusion is interesting but those are interfaces to an existing model. Not so much new models themselves.
> would be lying. Not sure it would be a crime.

Doesn't fraud basically mean lying for financial gain?
I have a bunch of devices (off the shelf, and custom built) and built neuro-experiences used by thousands of people.

Neurosky is by far the worst. It’s nearly random.
From the low cost devices, Muse (1 or 2) is by far the best.

UX, wearability, comfort, electric signal.
It's a request, not a requirement. I see nothing wrong with the request nor if an individual decides to not cite it due to their principles/judgement.
OTOH if the training data includes just 1000 tic tax toe games, that's potentially enough for every possible outcome
If you click the button to delete that data, though, it is actually deleted.
In typical fashion, Google's set to kill another project soon
But it will also confidently tell me who won the 2023 NCAA tournament. It did not find that in "implicit patterns of behavior". It made it up from patterns in the text, but the answer was not there. At best what was in the text was projections, opinions, guesses. GPT takes all that in, but it's not actual information to answer the question, because there is no answer - not yet.

So it finds a pattern, but a pattern that is not the answer. But it gives it as the answer, with full confidence.
I was taking the referenced chat conversation in the post to have occurred after the legal hold was put in place. It seems far more devious to explicitly avoid records in places that would otherwise have records when a court has already said "you need to have records". I'm not a lawyer and don't know the context that well, though, so this may be incorrect understanding on my part.
The ledger is verified but how do you know the gold is really there?
Now, now. Who said anything about information? I was just talking about modelling text. Like, the distribution of token collocations in a corpus of natural language. We know that's perfectly doable, it's been done for years. And to avoid exponential blowups, just use the Markov property or in any case, do some fudgy approximation of this and that and you're good to go.

>> Your argument is that maybe we can brute force with statistics sentences long enough for no one to notice we run out past a certain point?

No, I wasn't saying that, I was saying that we only need to model sentences that are short enough that nobody will notice that the plot is lost with longer ones.

To clarify, because it's late and I'm tired and probably not making a lot of sense and bothering you, I'm saying that statistics can capture some surface regularities of natural language, but not all of natural language, mainly because there's no way to display the entire of natural language for its statistics to be captured.

Oh god, that's an even worse mess. I mean: statistics can only get you so far. But that might be good enough depending on what you're trying to do. I think that's what we're seeing with those GPT things.
I don't make such assumptions and have no understanding of what's right or wrong legally. I speak as a xoogler who hated Chat (featurewise) + retention policy and found it to exacerbate Google's sluggishness in shipping.
You can deliberately exclude the word "Stupid" from the expression, but that doesn't change what is being said.

> Whatever happened to KIS(S)?

Interesting question, I wonder how the entire ecosystem forgot this one simple trick? What is it about their brains that causes them to create all these solutions that are apparently worse than the problem?
Hardware engineers in MAANG makes about 20% less as well (anecdotally). Our wage is not that far off in tech (one signs as I mentioned). But we definitely have way less job openings compared to our SWE peers.
I don't have a kill-a-watt meter handy anymore, but I do have a smart meter. Guesstimating using that, I hit ~ 850w with my threadripper when compiling and my work project and running a game at the same time, and about 650w when _just_ compiling (so presumably the difference there is GPU being under full load).

They're obviously extreme examples, but on the flip side, I've got an M1 Macbook Pro which lasts an entire day on a single charge of battery including running docker, slack, and some "mild" compiling (not large C++ projects). I'm not sure how to measure the energy consumption of it on battery, but suffice to say it's "very low".
Europe is definitely on my list! Some things like economic conditions in the likes of UK and Germany give me pause, but I would love to live in all these different places and experience life there. Such a short life and so many places to be (and such tedious immigration forms)!
Atlassian alternatives: https://bye-bye-server.com/
I realize math education in the US sucks but are really suggesting most people can’t figure out that 0 to 9999 is all the possibilities you get from 4 digits?
If the casino always wins, why is it so hard to identify who owns this[1] casino?

[1] Not CS, but the entire "serious" financial system.
You wouldn't want a central authority to control the size of your money supply this would certainly lead to abuse oppression and a dystopia.
> He’s not being accused of deleting them. He is being accused of not creating the chat records in the first place.

Online chats exist as digital data ab initio, the issue is not creation (which had to happen for there to be a chat) but retention. The fact that the UI of a system may present things suggesting that “creating” a record is a separate act does not make it so.
I'm not sure which side I'm on actually. Do we really want to be able to give the governments the right to restrict our ability to not record things if they are done in chat (as opposed to encrypted phone call)?

I know that Sundar should be the ,,bad guy'' here, but I think this is a very different case from deleting past data selectively.
Why do you think Google is more likely to prevail? Why do you think your opinion is more informed than that of an experienced legal analyst? What are your bona fides?

At any rate, if a court says you have to retain copies of communications, that includes chat communications; and if you have a retention policy that would ordinarily expire them, you're then required to disable expiry if the communications are subject to the order until the order has been rescinded. That's the law, and you ignore it at your peril.
Whether it seems devious or not to you, has no bearing on whether it's legal. The court does not say "you need to create records on this topic going forward". It says "you need to retain records you already created on this topic".

One thing that may confuse people is that some industries like finance are subject to regulations that force them to create records of employee conversations even if normally they wouldn't and even if there's no pending lawsuit. But those are industry specific rules governing specific activities like trading, not a general legal concept that'd have applied to Google.
Then there's this in Zagreb (Maksimir), which wasn't intended for climbing ever, but we as kids certainly did it

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Park_Mak...
Feel like this makes the most sense with so many vendors moving to LDAC due to its inclusion in AOSP, and Google Pixel phone not having aptX at all.
huh. I always figured it was the companies pr department doing leaks to drum up interest ahead of release or asses market demand for the products/build anticipation, or maybe executives trying artificially/deniably juice the stock price just before selling stock's.
Yeah I think the super stols might be down to like 25 knots
How could blockchain verify anything physical?
>> So this means that the rules of chess allow you to enumerate given an initial state and n plies, all possible ways of adding an (n + 1)th ply.

Ah, I get you. Yeah, OK, makes sense. You can generate all legal moves from a starting board state given the rules of chess. Yep.
I dont actually see the point of using human-derived notions of 'language', 'syntax' , 'know', 'category' and even 'thinking' or 'parsing' when making precise arguments. Those are all vague, subjective notions that we made for ourselves but nature does not need to fit to our mold.

The fact is, LLMs are the best quantitative model of the human communication code, so good that it can replicate it quite convincingly. Better than any model we had made before using our imprecise subjective notions, which were quite like alchemy. Whether it will prove to be 'thinking' or not, remains to be seen in the future.

> the word "syntax" has no bearing on the model whatsoever,

We don;t know that. One would have to look into the model weights for that and this analysis does not exist yet. If one can provide a decent definition of syntax, it may be found to reside somewhere in its weights. same for other subjective notions.
> Flesh and understanding are separate concepts. The experience of being human is a separate concepts from understanding.

The experience of being human is what allows me to infer meaning from the words, phrases, sentences, etc. that a human generates. This is what allows me to make the leap from text to understanding (or lack, or incomplete understanding, or confusion, or deception) with human-generated responses. This is what I have in that case of humans, which allows me to interpret their statements one way; and what I lack with machines, which means I have no basis for inferring understanding the same way I do with a human. If I was not human, I would not be able to infer meaning from the noises a human makes, except by observing correlations between those noises and their behavior. This is well understood in cognitive science and animal behavior.

> To understand something means that one can create novel answers to questions about something. Those answers however must make sense with the rules that govern the "something" at hand. This answer must also not be "memorized" in some sort of giant query-response lookup table.

chatGPT is functionally equivalent to a lookup table with randomization.

> For example if I ask chatGPT to emulate a bash terminal and create a new directory it can do so indicating it understands how a filesystem works. That is understanding.

It replies with a text output that is a probabilistic representation of the text that one might find on the internet in response to such a query. The emulation occurs in your mind when you read the response and assign meaning to the words and phrases it contains.

> However understanding things is an aspect of being human and chatGPT captures a part of that aspect.

You have not shown that chatGPT is anything different than a fancy lookup table with some randomization.
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You seem to be arguing against something no one has suggested. No one has suggested they have to document every conversation or thought. However, if the conversation is chat/text/email then it is considered a written record that may not be destroyed. So the rule is "do not destroy records you have create" not "record everything."
Ask HN: What would you use to build the MVP of a marketplace startup?
The goal is to iterate rapidly.

We need to let users submit their item, receive a shipping label, once they send their item, we update their status. Once we receive the item, we update the website with the item and we send it to whoever buys it.
I always expected this to be the case, everything designed with some sort of safety aspect for kid playgrounds. Until I was in one of those indoor playground companies where you pay an entrance fee. I was climbing around with my three year old daughter when we ended up at the top of the structure. There was a big sign with lots of text that a three year old can't read. It said something about four meter vertical drop slide. There were no hard places where I had to help her up to get up to this point. Luckily I'm not a very trusting parent. This place was later shut down because of lots of safety issues. Their defence was that they are a Café, not a kids playground. Weird even for swedish standards.
>But if you are going to say that - why describe it as a “split”, as opposed to two separate universes which happen to identical in contents up to some point, non-identical thereafter?

But they are (presumed under this model to be) splitting. You posited a case where two later happen to be identical, but that doesn't mean they merge. You'd just have two of them.

>Also, what you say about dollars is true because they have certain properties - effectively they have two different criteria of identity, one economic, the other physical. What is the criterion of identity for universes/branches?

I'd guess that there is none, like electrons. But though those are even more indistinguishable than dollars, you can still have two of them.
Unfortunately we're not just searching for things but extracting word frequencies of every user for stylometric analysis, so we need to do custom crunching.

Spreading this task into many sub-slices of the files is annoying because the frequencies per user add up quite a lot, which results in quite a massive amount of data.
Their permissions system is a complete mess on their actual platform; if you create a support request it generates a Jira ticket, but depending on how access is set up, you may get access to the entire support "project" which means you can see other customer's support tickets (I'm being a little vague because I don't want to give the whole thing away, there is more to it than this, but I currently can see every open support ticket).

Not at all surprised this happened, and more will invariably come.
Resident Alien - I think that’s how USCIS calls people who do intend to stay but not immigrate
The records existed for 24 hours and were then deleted.
The author has lived there for 20 years, married there, has kids who go to local schools, yet calls himself an expat, and everyone here seems to accept that as an obvious truth. Meanwhile a million+ people coming to the USA on temporary work visas fully intending to go back to their home country (or illegally with no path to citizenship) are obviously immigrants. At some point people have to come to terms that this isn't about some technical definition of "immigrant" vs "expat" but a deeper prejudice.