skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 100%.

A friend of mine was going to graduate, and had one required class that she had to take. She had dropped it twice before because she said it was too difficult for her. If she didn't pass, she couldn't take the class again, or maybe for a year, not sure exactly.

Well, at the start of the semester at the first mid-term, she failed the first one. At that point, I decided to step in. I made her read every single chapter, completely, and understand most of it, before going to class, where the teacher went over everything and she could ask the one or two very incisive and important questions that she honestly didn't understand in the book.

I also "made" her do an extra credit paper (meaning I really just put the screws to her to do it, no mercy. For her own good - ie not graduating and failing out with one semester to go.)

As you might expect, she got perfect scores on her next two mid-term tests, and her report she also had an A+.

Reading to understand and working hard at it, you will understand. And reading it before each class, in order to ask the one or two or four honest questions that you have to fill in the honest few things you just can't understand.

And actually, with the internet, for almost all things, you can look up multiple sources on the topic and read them all - because each author has a different perspective and when you see the concept from many different perspectives, you really do understand deeply.

I got pretty much all C's, but then started doing this and then got all A's. Plus I leared memory mnemonics - Tony Buzon - for perfect memory. Learning mnemonics required a lot of work, but so worth it I would make it a required topic to teach starting in 1st grade, and every grade after that. Just like everyone should be required to take probability and statistics classes starting in 7th grade to 12th grade. Just those two.
It is kind of funny. A couple of times articles on HN about complexity theory with assumed knowledge of terms like P-time or NP-hard. In these instances some commenters complained that they could not easily understand what it meant.

I really had to read closely to understand that this is about chip design.
Which OS release did they hold recently where "The Big New Thing" was new Emoji Packs?
It was patched before the public disclosure, go read the security bulletin [1]. CVE-2023-24033, CVE-2023-26496, CVE-2023-26497, and CVE-2023-26498 are the big modem vulnerabilities.

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2023...
if it quacks like a dog, it is a dog.

Though, with LLMs, you might need quite a few (often more than 5) exchanges to find out that it can't actually quack.
Commodities need to be produced as well. The more we produce, the more we will have. Giving people more money does not produce any additional bread or tomatoes.
Tempted to blame Adam Neumann
I have this problem a lot when searching for TypeScript. Most of the results end up being plain javascript with absolutely no mention of TypeScript.

Now I use ChatGPT for almost all my programming questions. Good riddance Google.
It applies to PEOPLE of all ages. The law is about public libraries, NOT public school libraries. 100.00% of FY 2022's allocation went to NON-school public libraries.
Time to slam that SHORT button.
My mental model has totally shifted to the point where even like dealing with stack overflow feels like a pain compared to just asking gpt-4.
How does a 3rd party know the traffic figures for Google / Bing? I see they are using a service called Similarweb based in Tel Aviv, but its still a mystery to me how you can get this information without access to internal analytics tools
I'm not so sure. If it was that easy, we would also start seeing it in open source models, and Bard itself I can hardly believe is choosing not to do that.
I haven't asserted that all capital is in conflict with free markets or freedom, nor that all forms of capital should be abolished. (FWIW I can't imagine how that would even be possible)

Rather I've pointed out that some forms of capital are directly at odds with freedom and free markets.
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics
> I think it’s the community’s job to lobby game publishers to release source code for games and severs

Very very unlikely (unfortunately), especially for outfits like Nintendo. As long as there are eShops and remasters, there is the opportunity to cash in on old IP. And getting source code for games is one thing - getting the assets are another. Even for the example of Doom that is everywhere, only the shareware assets were set free.

For consoles, emulation and reverse engineering are probably the best and likely only way forward IMHO.
Explaining my fast 6502 code generator
Ads have been ruining the internet since back when it was a hellscape of popups.
China says it ‘firmly opposes’ a potential forced sale of TikTok
You're right it can never be as precise, but LLMs might allow us to identify and highlight the imprecision easily.
More than that - loans to the very rich will always have a below-inflation rate. or worst case a near-inflation rate.

Loans to the poor will always have an above-inflation rate. And the poorer you get the more extreme the rates.

Interestingly this is somehow not considered inflationary.
Nah, it will be just another “AI winter”, if even that much, until the next hype cycle begins. As this example demonstrates, humanity will fall for complete and utter nonsense, hook, line and sinker.
> we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating.

WHICH open source library? Seems like they fucked up and are looking for a scapegoat. There's no excuses for issues like this. Also, I believe this is yet again one more reason for companies and developers to consider row-level security [0], it simply erases the possibility of a malformed query returning data that shouldn't be accessible altogether.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
Second! Those nasty integrals in E&M became a breeze with WA. Our TAs learned to accept the application of a 'WolframAlpha' operator to solve them, since everyone knew they were just busy-work integrals once you got to upper-division classes.
Staking out the maintenance depot or department fleet yard is probably the most expedient solution to getting a database of the vehicles in the first place, you're absolutely right.
Because the statue contains nudity (originally, classic-style statues were displayed clothed but had fully articulated genitals) and in a state like Florida, there are parents who would like to keep their kids from seeing that, and by being informed, can keep their kids home for the day. It's a different mental model about education than I'm used to (where subversive teachers showed us all sorts of stuff, but never told us not to tell our parents, nor did they get fired, or said anything about whether this sort of art was 'pornographic'. Our teacher had us watch Romeo & Juliet and explain that showing 16-year-olds naked made sense in context because real people have sex at that age!)

We can sit here and be unhappy about this but the reality is that Florida is choosing to go this way and many parents support it, and support it by voting in people who enforce these policies.
Given some things going on in the world, I can almost see why you would say this.

However, I have learned some things for myself, and cannot deny what I know is true. As noted before, there is much more detail, including how I have determined this for myself. It is actually a big help amid big challenges in life.

I appreciate thoughtful replies, especially with any downvotes (and more especially if you have explored my site, in the profile).
Try ublock origin / searching without account then, I'm getting the same result as everyone else

The ads are personalised to you though
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Cinema's doing great. I can't even keep up with the rate of release of likely-to-be-worth-a-watch movies, and I'm pretty sure I watch more movies than the average American.
That is just single item, let's take buying something like 50 items a week and half of those go up by 3. So 75 more spend in week or 300 in a month. That is not exactly small amount for middle class.
Faust is selected for Google Summer of Code, see: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/organizati...
And https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustideas
> It sounds an awful lot like a couple of football teams collaborating at a particular stage of a tournament because it will ultimately improve their members' chances of success later in the tournament.

Yes, if you completely ignore the point I made about collusion invariably meaning the matches themselves cease to be competitive (whereas a cycling race with riders sacrificing themselves for teammates' benefit and all kinds of tactical shenanigans between teams absolutely does have multiple participants willing and able to take all the points off any rider that isn't trying to win), and ignore the much closer cycling analogy (a race where one side doesn't race) you snipped off the end of the sentence. With sufficient willingness to dismiss relevant context, you can make pretty much anything sound like pretty much anything else. I don't think the Disgrace of Gijon and your average cycle race with multiple teams jostling for position looked equally competitive to sports fans or felt equally intensely competitive to the participants, and I don't think any cycling fan that enjoys the anticipation of seeing when riders will stop conserving their energy in the early part of the race and who the tactics will favour would feel the same way about a team deliberately losing a head-to-head pursuit race for the sake of future matchups ...

Fans aren't objecting to strategy, they're objecting to the lack of any competitiveness or skill involved in a head to head contest where sides collude or one side intentionally throws. (This particular game's a little different from two teams actually colluding and was probably amusingly crazy for the last three minutes, but still, there's not much skill in scoring unopposed in your own net)
> My bad

Nah, it's just that the comment you're responding to is being insufferably pedantic. Your colloquial use of "chemicals" here is perfectly well understood.
The moment Google removed the yellow highlight on ads, their fate was sealed. They lived long enough to become the villain.
And quoting terms doesn't even force them to be present anymore.
(I posted a better answer at the other, similar reply to my comment.)
> "anonymous" means "without a name", which is never the case for Internet usage

There are plenty of online communities (like chans) that are anonymous. I understand your point, which is that the admins have access to your IP address even if you don't have a profile, but that's only one meaning of the word "anonymous", and it's a bit rude to correct someone based on another meaning of the word.
They got smarter about it in the late 70's. The rich don't even have to send guys anymore, they just send guns to the local thugs with an agreement that those thugs will, upon seizing power, hook the local economy into the US banking system.

The thugs get to keep the loans, but the debt gets transferred to the local community, which cements the "somebody who isn't you gets to create abstractions that you have to treat as money"-part of the deal.

The words that used to go with it are "progressive free-market policies", but I think Kamala Harris recently called it "anti-corruption" or something along those lines.
I think you need to start with making a case that it’s a problem that members of Congress make investments at all, including into social media companies since making investments and making investments specifically into social media companies are likely not severable disputes. I don’t think there’s a strong enough argument to make there, nor was one attempted. It looks bad, there’s probably a conflict of interest, but a conflict of interest over people who are regularly in conflict with each other doesn’t keep me up at night.

It is a problem that we have an unequal exchange with the PRC over social media companies, and that the situation with American businesses under American law and situation with PRC businesses under PRC law subject to the Politburo of the CCP are equivalent, and shouldn’t be ignored by Congress because they’ll look bad or look like hypocrites. They already look bad and like hypocrites on a daily basis, but they still have a responsibility to the American people to investigate what appears to be an asset of the PRC government that only appears to be a private business operating in the American market and address it through law if necessary.

Don’t forget these are the same people who spirited away Jack Ma until he toed the party line. There is no such thing as a private corporation in the PRC whilst it is subject to the CCP’s political regime.

Congress sucks, but it is a notable distinction that despite how much they suck, they also make their investments public information per laws they chose to pass.
> It's simply too good at sounding convincingly authoritative while being completely wrong.

In a way that is what we humans do way too often. People talking about stuff thinking they know, but not actually knowing a lot. I guess that is where it learned that from.
> Although the Barbadians' own-goal was highly unconventional, FIFA decided not to penalise the team because they were playing optimally under the circumstances.

The right decision. Unlike the artificial dullness of the Disgrace of Gijón, it sounds like the Barbados - Grenada situation prompted some thrilling, if chaotic, goal scoring attempts. Grenada were attacking both goals and Barbados were defending both goals! It sounds like some kind of chess variant.
Don’t forget games played on a 2d plane but rendered with 3d models and cameras! Those are also called 2.5D
> Microcontrollers seem like a lost cause at their price point

Is there even a RISC-V that can compete against the ARM Cortex-M33? Or ARM Cortex-M0+ ?

ARM has the microcontroller market in a deathgrip. I'm honestly not seeing any competition here from anybody. STM32, NXP, Microchip SAM, etc. etc. Its all ARM.

You get some 8-bitters (8051 lol still alive) at the lowest end with SiLabs USB stuff and other such stuff. But ARM is incredibly dominant here.
This is a highly relevant point. The more difficult it is to learn about and comply with regulations, the fewer businesses will attempt to do so.

In some cases, business simply ignore regulations that that are obscure or inefficient to comply with; this leads to corruption and/or shadow economies.

In more cases, business is simply discouraged and doesn’t grow, or just doesn’t start at all.

The messy patchwork is city, (sometimes) county and state licensing and taxation framework in the US is a huge drag on small business.

I am not arguing for no regulation, licensing, or taxation, only that these entities recognize that requiring businesses to file paper tax returns every quarter, even if they have done zero business in a given city is a significant hindrance to business activity.
Anyone in China/Russia who can comment on the actual situation? How difficult is it to train/run AI models where you are living?
Citation needed? Because it does for me.
Ive been experimenting with gpt4 in a research context. I ask it to always provide a citation, that veracity is a prime directive. im fairly impressed, although sometimes it gets the details wrong, but its more right than wrong. the papers always exist. 3.5 was much worse.
lol. I noticed it depends on what I search for. I typically search for programming issues. Google tends to have the correct Stack Overflow answer up at the top. But I agree a bunch of ads otherwise.
Academics might buy in, but they're a small market and still fairly easy to poach with quality server hardware. You may be right about Apple using them for cloud inferencing though, seeing how they'd rather pound sand than patch up their relationship with Nvidia.

Whichever way you look at it though, neither of those are really opportunities. Apple boxed themselves into the consumer market, and now has to compete with professionally-priced products.
Is that a serious question? Studying a field for years should make outcomes in that field less surprising, otherwise what have you been doing?

The creators were surprised in the sense of "we got here sooner than expected" but not "we didn't think this would work". Otherwise they wouldn't have been working on it. And there is nothing new in LLMs in years, it's just increasing fidelity by massively increased scale.

To be honest, I've been more surprised by the incompetence of people in evaluating these systems, including journalists, programmers, and others who should be in a position to know better.
Yeah, the reality is that this will always be the case as long as the national minimum wage (rebranded as the living wage) is in no way related to inflation or the GDP of the country.

As long as execs and CEOs are free to reap the benefits brought by their staff without paying any of it back this problem will continue to be exasperated.

Another contributing factor in the matter is the fact that politicians seem to be immune from the affects of their policies.

This gives them very little incentive to actually help people at the bottom of the totem pole as their funding is coming from the very same people whom are essentially exploiting a desperate workforce.

Is a shelf stacker in Sainsburys a high skilled job? No. Is it absolutely crucial in order for Sainsburys to have a working business? Yes.

The same is true for the cleaner in a bank. If a bank is covered in dirt and stinks people are not going to bank there. Likewise with cleaners of trains and pretty much any other industry.

When you pair the fact that governments are funded by the same people whom are also funding a divisive narrative throughout all media outlets you end up with a grim and bleak outlook for society.

As someone that has come from below 0 to get a good job and try and get out of the council estate poverty cycle it really strikes a nerve when people act as though we get given handouts for nothing.

My mother worked her damn arse off through my childhood and continues to do so now as a 69 year old woman with chronic health issues. She has been left behind and forgotten by society and ill informed people seem to lack any ability to see beyond the outliers in shows like benefits Britain.
> I think the number of games that include player punishment is astonishingly small.

This is true, but they're fun to read about! https://tcrf.net/Category:Games_with_anti-piracy_methods
My impression is that those AI code generators, if they end up working well enough that many people who don't know how to code can replace people who do, will be to coders what Monsanto is to farmers, ie we will have tons of devs who don't know how to do their jobs without those proprietary tools, who will struggle to earn enough money (they'll be easy to replace and cheaply paid) to pay for their code generator subscription. I'm not excited. I'm not too worried either though :)
Thermal batteries, the kind used on spaceships, weight 15 kg and can generate 100W for decades. The human baseline metabolism is around 100W, so with two thermal batteries and another classic battery for energy usage spikes (physical activity) you would have enough if we could feed electricity directly to cells (instead of in a round-about way through food)
Being a representative democracy, the USA's critical weakness is that it is ruled by stupid people that are voted in by the stupid people they represent. So yea, the US government is better but dumb, and it is vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation. Our global rivals know this. It shouldn't be a huge surprise that we're being (at best) pen-tested (and at worst) attacked through things like tiktok and troll farms.
Yeah I just vpn'ed to my machine at work and I'm getting results about micropyhton too. But on my personal machine it absolutely thinks I'm interested in buying some generic programming courses and nothing about micropython.
Can you elaborate more on “kids and young people these days are completely unable to have a normal sleep schedule”? I have seen cases of this in young people, but I didn’t know the issue was widespread and would be interested to learn more.
Ironically, price controls are more likely to get us in that scenario, as they typically preclude shortages.
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Grocers are typically a commodity business, one feature of which is that the companies do not have pricing power. So unless the grocers have increased their net profit margins, I don't think evil-powerful-corpos is a tenable answer. It's a nice simple, market-based answer that gives people someone to blame, but it's just wrong for grocers.

Target has a NET 2.6% profit margin, Walmart has 1.9%, which are on the low side of what you'd expect for a sustainable commodity business. Tesco appears to have a GROSS (not net: this is after cost of goods but before salaries, etc.) margin of 6.5% and Sainsbury's has 7.6%. [1] Obviously their net profit margin is going to be less. This is hardly a company with a huge pricing power dynamic. If you want to see that, look at Apple (24.5% NET margin), Coca-Cola (22.2% NET margin), Visa (50.3% NET margin). (Note however that Coca-Cola's customers are its bottlers and Visa's customers are merchants so their pricing power might be invisible to end consumers)

[1] https://finbox.com/OTCPK:JSNS.F/explorer/gp_margin
They knew what they were doing. They always knew.

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
It's interesting how ChatGPT/OpenAI's relationship to Google/Bing is so similar to Google/Bing's relationship to Wikipedia.
You don't necessarily need a full team of SREs- you can also have a lightly staffed ops center with escalation paths.
I looked up "Xfinity chat with agent" on Google and was shown three different scam numbers of companies posing as Comcast...
Government has funded those things way more, but when a rich person runs a museum it's "philanthropy", when the government does it it's a "waste of taxpayer money".

There's no reason the government couldn't fully fund those things instead.

In fact, "businesses that require high capital" are almost always funded by the government. It's called infrastructure spending.
Sure, to be expected since it's a free way to use GPT-4, but I'm not sure how Microsoft are hoping to monetize this popularity. I suppose they are going to work advertising into it somehow.

I guess the Chat UI would allow for advertisements that are displayed for the duration of the chat, potentially very targeted ones (but don't want to creep users out by too closely mirroring what they are talking about), but OTOH not clear at all how much chat usage is going to be product/service related. Perhaps advertisers don't care - as long as they can put the ad in front of your eyes, they don't really care whether it's apropos of the moment or not.
Corporations locking up their margins making records profits - mainly retailers but probably the full supply chain.
Exactly this - the current inflation is not demand driven. It is supply constraints that is causing it.

This means that the normal way of controlling inflation (e.g. taking money away from people so they can't spend it) is not going to work. And in many ways is probably counter productive as it is making supplying goods more difficult.
I don't understand the hate with Amazon.com. I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours.

Anytime I would see I have to buy more stuff to get it sooner for free I would just buy things I needed for the house that I would otherwise spend two hours to get. Seemed like a win win to me.