skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The long answer is that today's inflation doesn't seem to be monetary in cause, because nearly every country is experiencing inflation simultaneously.

Every country printed money during Covid.
The amount of companies, including serious banks, that doesn't understand this is mind blowing.

Just the other day I had to verify with a Norwegian bank that the KYC form (which IMNSHO was utter nonsense as usual) that they linked to was actually them and not someone who had gained access to sneak in a link. Because the domain was something completely different.
I worked in biotech developing genes. Similar to how yeast naturally produces alcohol or vinegar, yeast can produce other chemicals. Yeast is the most common type of organism being modified via CRISPR for industrial production. Since this is a novel yeast, why does the article not mention the possibility it could have been the result of off target edits or a yeast developed for industrial purposes?
I kinda agree with your take but there's a huge cultural distinction between "petite bourgeois and above" and "everybody else" that I think needs to be explored. There's a ton of punching down and self serving pity moving across that line in a way that is reminiscent of the racism of prior generations. People seem to need to feel better than somebody. I see a heck of a lot of people advocating for policy that professes to be extending a hand to pull up the lower classes but really it's just "you will not be allowed to advance unless you act like me" in disguise.
Having worked on safety-critical, custom circuitry and programming, particularly in the entertainment engineering field, I find the prolific use of Arduinos, RPis, and ESPs, to be concerning. You pay more for an equivalent industrial board, but there's been a lot more QA/QC done on it. Don't get me wrong, I started with Basic Stamps from Parallax back in the 90s to control window display animatronics in NYC department stores. Great stuff. Fun. But with all the emphasis on high-integrity hardware and software, Rust (I prefer Ada/SPARK2014 for such things until Rust matures in this field), and hobbyist programmers creating show control or machinery controls, I worry that people don't realize that you don't have the same assurances you do with industrial-grade equipment. I opened a very large box a vendor created to control their overhead rigging for a show I was running and found an Arduino and when I had the code audited found a state that would be unsafe. Most tech workers in entertainment would not catch this sort of thing. Yet, this is machinery being deployed above an audience. Greatfully, there are new standards being developed to catch this sort of thing, but these standards/guidelines lag behind, and with the pace of production, I am sure there is a lot being done out there that is unsafe.
BigCode is such a project: https://www.bigcode-project.org/docs/about/mission/
This is a pretty funny "bug". Bring down those Nazi Kubernetes nodes. There's some humor in there somewhere... making a change to be inclusive results in Reddit going offline... mmmm.

I'm still waiting for people to rename "white paper".
What does that have to do with AI?
Why would you assume that Candida auris is anything like common yeast? Different fungi feed on different things.
I drive by that place almost every month; never stopped there though.
I've found an Intel Compute Stick for $30. I'm tempted to buy it and find an use later. PiHole, mail server.
I'd imagine using it on your next monthly payment would be allowed. Agreed - not a bad deal.
'Atrocious' is preferable to 'sanitized'. What happened to the old internet is now happening to writing.
MMT has never gained mainstream acceptance amount politicians, outside of a handful of left wingers. Your argument lacks empirical evidence.

Politicians spend because it’s popular, they cut taxes because it’s popular. In reality they don’t need a theory to justify their behavior. The budget deficit has been ballooning for decades before MMT even became a faint part of the public consciousness.

It’s ridiculous to assert that academics are somehow responsible for the behavior of politicians. What matter is that they develop theories that are correct and true.
There are fewer forced sellers now that remote work is more common.
Unreal. Cameras in bathrooms are generally a no-no. Wouldn't this require consent from the user? Seems ripe for [legal] trouble, though the whole concept might be amusing to many.
It's not very new, though maybe more common.

Around 2001, the dotcom startup I worked for was bought by a Bay Area company, and I commuted weekly from Portland to San Jose for a year on what we called the 'nerd bird'. There were a lot of us in those days, working for many different companies. I remember I found a way to get cheap first class upgrades, since I hated flying and could get a stiff drink or two before takeoff.
AI in support of user interface has been downright awful. IIRC, Siri has the lowest customer satisfaction out of any other product at Apple.

However, the company has deployed machine learning in support of its neural engine which has a huge amount of penetration. This has already shown the iOS fleet ready to do gen AI at the edge.

The company has focused largely on STT and image processing but has worked to support use of the chip for general ML, via transformer.
[1]

I’d say Apple’s only failed in the way everyone did—-failure to foresee and the potential impact of generative AI.

Apple seemed unable find a use case that would help its ecosystem. I am surprised it never releases copilot like behavior to Xcode. When will this occur?

[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
Many moons ago when I worked in the finance sector, I noticed that a huge amount of work in the industry appear to comprise many groups of humans writing a elaborate stories around a few tables of numbers, while a bunch of other groups were trying to extract the numbers from the text again into some more usable tabular form again. Always seemed like a huge waste of human time and energy to me, best if it can be efficiently automated.
Parklife: turn any Rack app into a static site
In the Marine Corps, honorably separated Marines are entitled to use their rank as a courtesy title in civilian life. Wearing jewelry to celebrate and pay homage to one's service is hardly influencing the public.
It would be inflationary to the currency. I don't think "inflation" applies to individuals, it's about the exchange rate of one unit of currency to goods and services. I think you might be conflating "inflationary" and "making poorer"

In this case the currency would br hugely inflated, but it would only harm people who didn't get the payment. This might lead to everyone getting a million dollar. Now a carrot might cost $50 which doesn't matter, because you got a lot more dollars.

Inflation is a problem when the costs of different things, especially wages, don't increase at the same rate or you have a lot of savings in cash.
But each day people make the decision to rent or buy and which they do is a function of how much each costs. While the mortgage doesn’t necessarily change the principal does and what we call housing prices is the price of houses people currently trying to sell. If rent is cheaper today it will depress housing prices today.
I never understood why people care so much about buying electric cars vs number of kms / miles put into it.

They are more expensive to manufacture, but cheaper to use, therefore I believe at this point all taxis / Ubers should be electric. Maybe if Elon didn't push ,,self driving'' so hard and just thought about all the needs of taxi companies (maintainance guarantees), we wouldn't have as many car sales, but the charge points and maintainance (which can have higher margins than traditional cars as it is cheaper) would make up for it, and air in cities would be much cleaner already.
Surely the second largest city (after NYC)?
Probably not. But then again, Firefox hasn't really been the best at making money, has it ? Usage share keeps shrinking, and despite what many seem to believe, Mozilla isn't fully at fault here. Sure, they remove feature X (because their usage stats say nobody use it, because nerds turn off data collection then complain Mozilla doesn't take them into account), and that gets a few disgruntled people away from Firefox (to fucking where ? No other browser has that feature anyways). But the sheer weight of Google blasting ads for Chrome, mobile browsing becoming more and more prevalent (where Chrome is installed by default, or Safari), intercepting even search queries, purposefully breaking the web for Firefox once they've added a feature that they know Mozilla can't implement), Microsoft blasting ads for Edge, etc. To add to that fact, Mozilla doesn't have any other real revenue sources. Microsoft has about a thousand revenue making products that could each fund Edge development easily, Google is printing money with ads, Apple is printing money with phones, Mozilla is... reselling VPNs ? There's no additional ecosystem or product that Mozilla can sell. And even if they did, it's now too late. Ther users have shown that they are not willing to pay for their services ("nOt uNlEsS iT fUnDs FiReFoX aND nOt TeAChiNg bRowN pEoPlE tO uSe tHE iNtErNet" seems to have become their rallying cry). Mozilla _has_ to look for new avenues, because the current ones (Firefox, Thunderbird) will not ever make money on their own. That boat has sailed a long time ago.
> GitHub acquisition are looking like genius moves right now

Surprising that AWS didn't compete for its acquisition. They stand to lose a bunch too. That said, except for OS and Browsers, it is all coming together for Microsoft, including their XBox division.
> You found the one sentence in the article that mentions the environment.

I actually mentioned 3 sentences, including the categorization of the article above the title. Please stop being ridiculous.

Why do you think the author, and we, care about whether women buy electric cars? Because of the environment! Otherwise, I wouldn't care either.
Landlords are in business to make money, not lose it.
Careful folks lets not give a chatbot existential dread.
I haven't used copilot but your experience sounds exactly like what I would expect. Since AI is based on prediction, it makes sense that broader predictions would be less accurate. I think stringing together output from a lot of smaller predictions would yield better results. Which, at the end of the day, means that a human + AI will always be more productive than AI on its own. At least for the foreseeable future.
It's inflationary even just among people who do get the payout. Imagine the income and net worths of a silly model society are:

income net worth
-------- -----------
A: $20,000 $0
B: $30,000 $1,000
C: $50,000 -$80,000
D: $100,000 $300,000
E: $500,000 $10,000,000

Now you have a "modern jubilie" at $100,000:

income net worth
-------- -----------
A: $20,000 $100,000
B: $30,000 $101,000
C: $50,000 $20,000
D: $100,000 $400,000
E: $500,000 $10,100,000

You're going to see a huge increase in how much A, B, and C are willing to spend: there are lots of things they've been wanting to buy but couldn't afford. Trying to buy them (nicer food, better housing, etc) will bid up their prices.
> The primary net effect of giving people money to pay off their loans is making lenders whole.

Well no, that's the net effect if you give insolvent people money to pay their loans; but if you erase the debt of people who would keep on paying that money for decades, then this has the immediate impact of freeing up a big part of their next paycheck - which otherwise would go to that loan payment - to be spent or invested elsewhere, and this doesn't happen if you just make a bank bailout.
Just like charging $10k for a bottle of champagne is not illegal, but it means you don't have to open as many car washes to put the cash through. Just have the dealers book the table and pay cash for the champs. Then just pay tax and money is squeaky clean.

Similar story with the speech circuit. Politicians do favours and then once they are out of office they go on a tour to collect payments. Everyone knows what it is, but there is no interest in making this a criminal offence, because every single politician in office wants to cash in once they are out.
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Hmm, wait for a couple of months and see how the value of the homes fall !!
The issue is that searching for "os 9" also gives results for Mac OS 9, making searching for OS-9 results harder.
Yes, this would be exciting to see. One approach wouldn't require federated learning however. If you had direct access to the data then you could build a conventionally trained large language model (i.e., collect all the data together placed in a data center). However, given the context of this discussion -- you are probably asking about if we could use Flower to train in a federated manner. I believe so. Although again, we'd probably be training a LLM which brings added complications due to its size (and other factors). Internally at Flower we have been testing methods to overcome this and are confident we can pull this off. One could imagine someone hosting a pre-trained LLM and contributing institutions acting as nodes in the network, each performing some small part of the training based on the fraction of the literature they have access to. We plan to release LLM based federated technology in the coming months.

For those that are interested: The best work currently I've seen on training very large models under federated learning, that also makes very realistic assumptions about the likely underlying participating hardware, is this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11239 -- although I expect more in this direction to come soon.
I raised this concern before about how unclear this is and the concern was pretty much dismissed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539150

"Techies" often lament about how silly users are about falling for phishing tricks, but then they also routinely make it so difficult to determine what's legit from what's fake.
In the UK there are not these thresholds. If you have too much BAC, it's immediately really bad.
"lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" (~ lose all hope, who enters) from Dante's Inferno is what comes to mind whenever someone mentions Spring.
My cursory experience with sourdough baking taught me that yeasts(candida auris is a yeast)are all around us all the time, and that it's all about creating the conditions that lets the desirable ones outcompete the undesirable ones.

I wonder if such an approach could work here.
I like your point. I guess we can solve this with taxation. Maybe we want to tax frequent flights but not retirees. Depends on the goal people want to achieve. Every community has its own problems and ways to solve them.
Blackrock owns a ton of rental property in the USA and I remember some report they put out when interest rates hit 6% that they were still bullish on the property market.

Their explanation was that since 2008 housing has been built in the USA at half the rate needed to house everyone. Our population is still growing, and there are fewer units per person every year. Additionally, the interest rate makes construction loans more trouble the same way it makes buying an existing property more trouble, so there isn't any relief in sight.

If thats true, and it is coming from blackrock, then it could still be reasonable to buy more property.
I'm being reminded of a close friend of mine who is a car mechanic. In recent years the fraction of BEV and PHEV among new cars has risen to ~20% which absolutely will influence his job and will require new skills of a different kind.

Yet, despite the obvious evidence, he is unwillingly to even acknowledge the possibility that this is happening and refuses to research what it could mean to him (which may be very little).

I never quite understood why. Certainly just keeping in touch with the world wouldn't hurt right?

With the rise of AI, I think I get it. There's a part of me that is scared to shit about the prospect of being made redundant in the near future with all my acquired skill being worthless in this new world. The temptation to put my head into the sand and hope it "blows" over is strong.

I've resigned myself to never become like my friend and consequently have recently shelled out for a year of Copilot. My thinking is that at worst it's 100€ wasted and at best I'm not blindsided by what is coming anyway.

The reality will probably fall somewhere on a middle ground where there are still jobs to be found.
Sounds great! It would be great if you could release your intermediate steps, so Alpaca-65B and then Alpaca-65B-LangChain, etc. I'd like to compare the model sizes directly when fine-tuned using the same method / dataset!

I also just realized that I don't believe there's an "alpaca-native" 30B floating around, just the alpaca-lora one, so 30B would be pretty cool too (and the biggest I can run w/ llama.cpp on my MacBook).
> The study evaluated short-form generic marketing-style content, most of which is manicured and optimized to within an inch of its life.

This is also the kind of human-written content that is closest to how LLMs sound. The tonal and structural similarity is so glaring that I have often wondered if a large percentage of the GPT training corpus is made up of text from spam blogs.

I think if I was given, say, a couple pages from an actual physics textbook and then a GPT emulation of the same, I would be able to tell the difference easily. Similarly with poetry - GPT's attempts at poetry are maximally conventional and stuffed with flat and stale imagery. They can easily be separated from poetry by a truly original human writer.

If AI developers want to impress me, show me an AI whose writing style departs significantly from the superficiality and verbosity of a spam blog. Or, in the case of Bing, an unhinged individual with a nasty mix of antisocial, borderline, and histrionic personality disorders.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS Professional Services.

Depending on the project, we are “IAC agnostic” meaning we will use Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK or TF-CDK (?).

That being said, it would be helpful if you document which CFT commands that are being wrapped by your release.
It often attacks people with respiratory issues who need invasive devices to treat their lung issues.

A lot of people got such treatment for covid.

Edit:

To the coward who made a drive by swipe at me then deleted it before I could hit reply:

Look, I'm not the one putting out info that this infection has spread dramatically. The CDC is.

I'm wondering what some of the mechanisms are for spreading it.

We likely don't know what the tipping point is for something like this. You treat enough school kids for parasitic worms in a developing country and general incidence goes down for the entire neighborhood surrounding the school.
> I think it is only a few terminally online people that object to this.

The reality of the matter is that the insane population growth of the 20th Century led to some pretty haphazard development (e.g. CDMX’s never ending sprawl).

This has made areas with livability amenities (e.g., walkable safe neighborhoods) relatively rare all things considered.

For various reasons, certain areas with good amenities remained isolated from broader real estate markets (e.g., living in CDMX would seem laughable to an American in the 1980s based on crime statistics alone).

Because of COVID, a lot of those areas are now a part of larger real estate markets.

The people who live there now realize that they can’t afford the prices that the larger market brings, so acting in self interest, they try to remain isolated from the market.

(In the vein if SF experiencing the worlds problems a decade before anywhere else) This is basically the story of SF’s Mission district over the past 20 years and why you’d see ridiculous things like people protesting new development because it had floor to ceiling windows.

It’s a weird phenomenon, but one that most people on this forum can’t really relate to.
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That old world where we care about that is done.

Time to move on and figure out how to work things in this world.

Which will also be good practice for what else is coming, because the changes aren’t going to stop.
The problem is that the most common "personality test", the "Myers-Briggs" has nothing to do with "personality", let alone "toxic personality", so an argument about "personality" is not an argument for that particular personality test. This is a bait-and-switch dishonest argument - the gap between them is exactly the problem.

This is because the "Myers-Briggs" is hogwash, with as much predictive power of personality as astrology. i.e. none.

If the people administering them are using them for the intended purpose, they're rejecting candidates on nothing more than a roll of the dice. If not, then as others suggest, they are covert way of "screening for neurodivergent people""

So: This _personality test_ can fuck right off.

I doubt that any other quick multiple choice questionnaires are much better. If anyone wants to claim that they're worth anything, show the proof please.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjv8y5/the-myers-briggs-pers...

https://amanda-obryan.medium.com/9-reasons-the-myers-briggs-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-personality-tests-junk-...
The market fluctuates. If those assets are held to maturity most will payoff without losses... even some of the subprime mortgage dreck from 2007 ended up recovering, SVB's assets are far less impaired.
Bunch of new homes being built here in socal and the developers have doubled the prices since beginning of the pandemic. As long as the developers can hold on to empty units longer I can see them holding out in hopes people cave and pay. Seems to be working.
OP tried to make an example of europe how supposedly it's different here. Just saying that it's not :)
They are, though?

I mean houses built several decades ago are cheaper than new ones. It’s just that overall growth in prices more than completely offsets that.

Anyway unlike all of those things you mentioned there are usually no objective reasons for homes to depreciate to zero (you’d need renovation prices to be higher than the cost for building a new house, which does in fact happen sometimes).

Also houses are most often built on land which can’t be a depreciating asset and Japanese homebuyers have different preferences due to certain (possibly irrational reasons).
Yeah, I have all of my textbooks full of \frac{}{}, that’s definitely how I write math..