skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No decent mobile app, no groups, no Messenger, no Instagram, no WhatsApp, no real advertising product. It isn't 35x better, but there is no way the product offering is worse.

The Facebook experience feels worse, but that's because the novelty wore off and people don't share anywhere as much as they did back in the heyday.
I'm not sure how that's relevant, a quick look on Wikipedia and they are number 1 in Asia in terms of democracy index, number 10 worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Soundcore and Xiaomi have added it to all their newer TWS. It does lower battery life compared to aptX from my understanding, so hopefully they will add it in the future.
Open source NPM script to talk to your Postgres database with GPT
I don't mind them selling something that is free for $500.

The problem is when they sue people for using public domain images, claiming that they own the picture.
For ever 1$ invested, 100$ of profit max. With no cap on investment, is this really a cap on profit?
no way urbit has anything close to 10M users, surely.
Baby Pickle and the Spaghetti Code
>imagine that using AI coding assistants will lead to a similar result, albeit in developing software rather than in navigating the physical world. [...] I suspect developers using these tools will get more and more out of touch with their own code bases, with the libraries they're using to develop, and eventually, with the code they write themselves (with the help of the AI). As with Google maps, we'll lose an important dimension to our reasoning.

Anyone who isn't handwriting assembly has already walked pretty far down this road. And even assembly is just translated by a machine into the microops that are the real program.
Nostr is not there in numbers (just hundreds of thousands), but growing super fast, and the clients can't be compared to what they were just a month ago in stability.

BTW Nostrica (the first ever Nostr conference) is going on right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NueacYJovA
You're right. Thank you for adding a level of nuance for me to chew on!
The Chinese invasion of Taiwan is inevitable. When it happens, every Western company will suddenly have to pull out, just like they did Russia. The losses for Western companies will be tremendous. For some, it will be a mortal blow.

I can hear some of you saying "...but, but, China would never... because that would be so stupid...". It doesn't have to be a good idea! Russia's invasion of Ukraine a) wasn't a good idea, b) wasn't in Russia's best interest, c) had predictable devastating consequences for Russia's economy, and d) wasn't wanted by anybody (except Putin). Yet somehow it still happened.

It happened because autocrats are all the same. They're always surrounded by enemies, because neighboring countries don't want to be subjugated. Once the autocrat gets the domestic opposition under control their attention turns to foreign enemies. The CCP has always been fixated on Taiwan. The mere existence of Taiwan refutes everything the CCP tells its people about why they can't have nice things (like democracy and individual liberty).

The invasion will come when China thinks they can pull it off. Leave China now and protect your business.
I wonder if the US legal system may consider that GPT AI could be viewed as a person exercising their free speech, similar to how we have limited corporate personhood?
TBH I thought it would have been a lot more than that.
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Depends on who you think of as the customer.

Viewing OpenAI as a consulting firm whose services Microsoft is willing to be tens of billions for, then yes. With the transaction spread across Azure credits, buying equity at above market rates and maybe even direct payment from the GitHub/Office orgs.

Narrowing the discussion to marginal profit per token on the API I reckon it’s possible they’re break even but hard to tell.

The average profit per token allowing for R & D is almost certainly negative though, as AI devs and training models is super expensive. Objectively this is hinted at by them consuming more capital in recent fundraising.
Our "useful cultural institutions" are irredeemably racist and sexist anyway. Destroying a history of racism and sexism may well be preferable to an enduring status quo where many people are excluded, marginalized and made invisible.
I think she's actually genuinely underecognized, but that it has to do with that her most notable work is a theoretical result and not a physical theory, and thus something only appreciated by people who read theory, like university students in physics or mathematics.
Needs SecureEnclave, Android, and browser support to be comprehensive.
No, it's just an ex-dictatorship with a progress towards a democracy and skeletons in its closet...
Sure, but also could be a human nature desire to spread news. Knowledge is power after all. Furthermore, upper management trusting important news to employees isn't a failure of upper management, but rather, placing trust in employees.
Out of honest interest, what workflows have you integrated ChatGPT into?
I don't think / didn't say it was a problem.
When it comes to 4 or 6 digit pins, its almost impossible to ensure that no pin has been used before. At 8 digits, you might as well be using diceware anyway.
You remodeled in 2023 and you only provisioned 1 Gbit? There are already 2.5 and 5Gbit copper Ethernet PHYs out there. You said "pull the biggest one you can" but - 1Gbit of fiber?

I mean, I guess if your chief usage of traffic is to the outside world, a really snappy LAN doesn't mean much at all; it's not your bottleneck. But I'm confused about your post which appears to contradict itself. Perhaps I misunderstood, and your kitchen remodel only involved AC electrical and no networking. No IoT fridge yet?

If I were pulling network cabling today for a remodel, it'd surely be multi-mode fiber in the 100Gbit range, right? Right?
Except that the CET1 is above 14%. I think what happened wasn't related the coco trigger but a bailin, i.e. the regulator forcing losses on bond holders to create equity. So the terms of the coco feature aren't really relevant.
Chicken-little argument doesn't improve security.
CS has been lurching from crisis to crisis for as long as I can remember. The tide doesn't have to go out very far when they've been swimming naked for years now.
"That was then and this is now" is not how it works in such transitions (and after such wide-ranging power and influence of the far right, and such bad blood from the murders and torture). Not any more than it worked for the blacks after 1865 (or 1964 for that matter), to give an example from US history.

Hell, it took decades even for post-WWII Germany to shake the ex-Nazi-high-ranking influence in its politics, media, finances, and so on, and the Nazi rule was just 12 years, and they had far more horribleness and more shame as a motive to stomp out those elements after 1945...

The same has been true in post-Franco Spain, and any other place with such history.
> It did not find that in "implicit patterns of behavior". It made it up from patterns in the text

There is literally no difference between the two.

> At best what was in the text was projections, opinions, guesses.

And a pattern of response to the structure of your direct question,. It didn't subjectively decide what the right answer is: it followed the pattern closest to your prompt, and printed the tokens that pattern was made of.
Quantum wave functions represent a probability distribution for the characteristics of an object in quantum mechanics, such as a particle or photon. When you measure it, that probability distribution resolves to a discrete value. So basically when you measure the spin of a particle, god rolls some dice to determine what it is. That’s one interpretation anyway.
Xi seems to literally copy Maos strategy. He even got his own little book. Just waiting for the new red guard and another cultural Revolution to happen at this point. It will be the Chinese people who bear the brunt of what happens next more than anyone else.
You wanted research that showed how playgrounds could affect kids later in life. I tried to show that research suggest that indeed overly safe playgrounds can do that.

In my other comment on this article I mention a playground designer I knew, and this was one of the things he worked hard to change. He wanted playgrounds where kids could feel danger, so they could develop and get challenged, but that were still sufficiently safe.

A lot of playgrounds here were built to be as safe as possible, removing any feeling of danger and excitement in the process. This lead to less play and reduced development of motor and social skills.
You are right, but most people don’t understand this.
Doesn't look like there are many active users.
Why are you so confident that it's not true? The best study I'm aware of on the topic is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...

This concludes that there is 3-5 point genetic IQ gap between blacks and whites. This study is imperfect in a lot of ways, and fundamentally and irreconcilably confounded by the fact that even though the kids grow up in different environments raised by different families, there is no way to blind their childhood experience from the color of their own skin.

So, in no way do I mean to argue that this study is dispositive in favor of scientific racism. However, I do mean to argue that the existing state of the evidence points in that direction, albeit rather weakly.
Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people?

And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?
These are completely different scales though.

If your systems can be run on a rack of servers in a closet at the office by a part-time sysadmin, you're probably better off doing that instead of running said k8s cluster.

If you do need the scale of said k8s cluster, pipelines, operators, observability, on-call engineers etc, you're better off doing that but it does come at a cost.
Most people who first used a Segway thought of it as a fancy scooter. Most people didn't know what it was for.
They had absolutely no idea what it was going to bring or how revolutionary it was going to be. (nothing much, and not)
I tend to agree. I think the hybrid system has a lot of benefits, but unfortunately many of these discussions seems to devolve into framing the issue as a false dichotomy.
Yup unless encrypted and password locked. Never leave a machine unlocked.

There are/were some highly-sophisticated attacks using peripheral bus exploits (firewire, thunderbolt, etc.), but that's a very unlikely threat to most people.
You can't force your name onto a patent, it's invalid if the inventor list is falsified.
> But they are (presumed under this model to be) splitting.

Okay, but what's the actual model here? Let's talk about two different versions of many-worlds:

Version 1: Universes splitting

Version 2: No "splitting" per se ever actually occurs, universes are identical up to time t, different thereafter

Is there any difference between 1 and 2 from a physics perspective–any difference in the maths, or in conceivable results of observation or experiment? Or are they just different ways of wording it? A metaphysical/philosophical difference, but not an empirical/mathematical one?

Also, if the theory is symmetric with respect to time, you'd expect merger as well as splitting, since the former is just the time reversal of the latter – isn't QM supposed to have T-symmetry? Does MWI have T-symmetry?
I do live in the North east so I partially understand. I would love to go around more of the US and understand these differences. Thank you for your measured response!
I asked it to create a portmanteau insult for GPT doubter on hn and got GLTard or GPTSlother when asking for an animal one. I suspect you are not right.

It also advised against name calling

Edit: wrong in regards to no new tokens
I've also been considering the concept of "AI-amenable" programming languages recently, and I think it would be quite an interesting twist of history if lisps became once again the AI languages of choice because of their simplicity. Going from the language to write AIs in to the language that AIs write.

Fwiw, GPT doesn't seem to write Clojure as well as Python or JS or even C++, which is obviously much more syntactically complex. That said there is probably an order of magnitude more training data for all of those.
They sell the articles to other parties, so the more they churn out, the better. It's a content mill.

Below is an example of a factually incorrect article that they sold to the Washington Post:

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/supplements/supplemen...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/06/kava-lobe...
Black widows are losing to brown widows in the fight for attics and garages
How would I notice this on a Linux machine? I have a pair of 980 pro 1 TB in a software raid 0 and a pair of 2 TB in a software raid 0. I've disabled the cache on all 4 of them in order to minimize corruption in case of an unclean shutdown and iirc they run at about 500 MB/s, which is way below the 7000 MB/s they're supposed to run at. I bought them in December 2021 from Amazon, where Amazon was the seller.
Yes, it is now the 5th failed bank in the last week.
No, it would just have made aggregation sites hard. Businesses and individuals with their own web sites would be where they are now. Services that display sites for others, such as Wordpress, would be fine. Indexing and search sites, such as Yahoo and early Google, would be fine. Sites that just handle communication, as IRC or email, would be fine.

It's only sites that combine the works of others, and especially those that monetize it, which would face liability. In other words, social media.
Yes, most people cannot figure that out, but also it would not occur to most people to consider that when opting for a PIN over a password.
Am I the only one who finds the Socratic method ill-suited to forums?
The enviroment and biosphere will recover / regenerate in some form even if humans destroy everything and drive themselves to extinction. Sustainablity is an anthropocene problem, and just like climate, per capita is the only thing that matters for geopolitics if the world wants to reach an accord. No party is going to accede to less share of global commons, how humans share global resource stocks is downstream of politics.
What do you suggest we do instead?
> What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending?

If someone was told to make the chat private, that's a different story, and I wouldn't feel good about it either.

Luckily, never heard anyone ask me to disable chat history, and my chat history has always been enabled with everyone (including group chats). Everyone is aware of it too, because it tells everyone in the chat when someone enables it.
Absolutely. I think I tried it before I watched his videos, but didn't really know what I was doing or spend time on it. I'm no whiz but I can make things now, and I'm always hearing 'hit x for construction' etc. in my head, guiding me through it!

Of course there are loads of (perhaps better even) F360 tutorial videos on Youtube, but the nice thing about his is that it's just part of it - I actually haven't seen anyone else design & make - and it's entertaining, even if you don't want to learn or already know, he just treats it like any other thing he's doing.
Even if you could upload your whole conscious mind to a machine, is it still you?

I often think about this in the concept of teleporters from Star Trek. When they beam the away team down did they really send those people somewhere or just incinerate them and create clones in another place?
> I do wonder why HN is so anti-crypto

Some of it is regret from selling early (I'd be a billionaire... if I had held), some of it is FOMO, some of it is that crypto is used by criminals (see bitlocker hacks), some of it is seeing people loose everything due to security breaches, and some of it is the attitude of proponents that act like all of the above is an anomaly.
It actually starts prior to 2000: Student loan financing:

https://lendedu.com/blog/history-of-student-loans

If there was no financing then students would be limited to what they could actually pay.
Oopsie. Is he under a legal hold generally or specifically?
Clearly it's a lot more than slow internet for farmers?

Feudal systems didn't end because of inequality, they were the opposite: the feudal system ended when serfs were allowed to enclose their communal land and were given it as private property. It went from an equal system that suffered a tragedy of the commons ("the commons" literally referring to the common land that existed under the feudal system), to a system of private farmers who were able to capture some of the wealth from their effort and land.
> My view from the outside was that it's really similar to climbing the ladder in a corporation, mouth all the platitudes but only suckers believe them.

Humans are not perfect deceivers, even the average Joe can usually tell if someone's fishy within a 10 minute face-to-face conversation.

There do exist really expert and cunning deceivers, but the folks higher up in the hierarchy will also commensurately be better equipped to see through it.

So for a large enough hierarchy, the practical impossibility of duping so many means that only genuine believers end up near the top.

You don't even need to go Beijing to see this dynamic play out, there's a company in Cupertino where many folks allege this is the case (though to be fair some allege the non-believers are also moving up the ladder).
10 million 'registered users' not 'daily active users' in 7 years. Even in some of the comments in the post are skeptical about the usage of those registered accounts.

In comparison to Twitter (Since Mastodon zealots often pitch it as a 'Twitter alternative' somehow) 7 years after it launched, it had well over 250M+ total users with well over 150M daily actives. [0] Even Nostr has 6M total users in less than 7 years. [1] Either way, total registered number of users tells us nothing about the usage of the network.

Yet we have daily actives much less than 1.5M with a large drop in users this year since they don't stick around on Mastodon. [2] It only tells us that there are very loud crickets screaming about migrating to Mastodon which accounted for less than 1% of Twitter's total number of users. (And most of them never stuck around)

7 years is not early days with this. Matrix launched in 2014 and reached 10M in less than 5 years and multiplied by up to 8x to 80M in less than 4 years [3] and it is highly competitive against Signal. There is no excuses for such sluggish user numbers for Mastodon with even less monthly active users.

Thus, I think we have given Mastodon enough time and it is clear that it hasn't taken off. Perhaps it is time to stop pretending about users caring about signing up to a over-engineered discord forum promoting pseudo-federation.

[0] https://backlinko.com/twitter-users

[1] https://stats.nostr.band/#total_users

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump...

[3] https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/
Governments would have some control, much like large holders of an asset have a significant impact on its value by e.g. selling it all at once (see binance selling their FTT all at once). What they would not have is the ability to double the supply of the currency in 2 years for no apparent reason.
but in the end, an authority (usually centralised) does actually control the money supply.

This is simply the case because our economic system is based around the idea that someone will punish those who do not play by the rules of this system, otherwise we would not even have any kind of financial system to speak off.

Money is only worth something because of the rule of law, and the rule of law is only worth something because (central) authorities have the means the enforce the law (usually thanks to the monopoly on violence/imprisonment).
Expect more of these international agreements, at an increasing pace over the next couple of decades. Soon focused not just on international waters but on nations. With the agreements having the color of law in the eyes of voters, but not the force of it, followed by codification in the nations once the water has warmed.
>Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people?

Can Twitter even manage that, given the well known issues with bots?
Your reply seems to mistake the subject "he" for Jobs but in fact Abagnale is the subject there. G-GP suggests that (unlike Jobs) Abagnale output nothing and GP refutes that claim suggesting that Abagnale's autobiography and film are works that we can credit to him.
Hoping you’re not a lawyer, or that you just in-artfully phrased that… because a person cannot be compelled to provide testimony against themself in (or relating to) an unadjudicated criminal matter pursuant to the 5th Amendment, but a person can absolutely be compelled to provide testimony against their interests in a civil matter so long as there are no possible criminal charges from whatever the testimony is. They can also be compelled to testify about a criminal offense that has been adjudicated. Case law has made it clear that the 5th Amendment is a narrow exception to the obligation to provide testimony to a court in civil matters. Also, invoking the 5th Amendment in a civil matter can, at times, be used against you, unlike in a criminal matter.

* this not legal advice and there lots of nuances to the 5th Amendment right to not testify.
Between this and Janet Yellen's shaky answer to the Senate regarding deposit flight from community banks on Thursday, I think regulators are prolonging this crisis. Each solution seems designed to address the localized problem but does not consider systemic effects.

1: With this weekends actions in Europe, how will the AT1 bond market react tomorrow?

2: With Yellen's uninspiring answer on Thursday regarding deposits in mid sized banks, what will depositors / bondholders / shareholders do?

Regulators need to address the system as a whole.

Yellen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcvl104tyRY

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/16/svb-signature-bank-failures-...
‘We have money and power’: older Americans to blockade banks in climate protest
Workplace slack/chat has introduced an interesting change. Prior to this, these types of interactions would primarily happen in voice conversations: face to face, on the phone, maybe videoconference. And none of those media are generally retained or discoverable

The switch to chat has had the unplanned consequence of making every routine interaction recorded and discoverable. It makes sense that is causing some strange and unfortunate behavior on the part of execs. Every routine conversation with a colleague is now effectively happening on the witness stand.

I'm not saying Pichai was right to delete chats or avoid retention. I am just saying that discoverability of communications in the workplace has exploded as we transition to chat communications, and we need to figure out how that's going to work in the context of litigation
Notes on FFTs: For Users
> what's an expat anyways

A white immigrant.