skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> saying the OP should 'trust the English-language abilities of the journalist who wrote the headline' is a bit ignorant.

Serious question- how is this ignorant? I genuinely don't see how that follows from what I said, since nothing in my comment implies that Indians have inherently inferior English-language communication skills, or that Indian-English is somehow inferior to the vernacular I use. It simply states that one individual (i.e. OP) should have trusted the abilities of another individual (Chavi Mehta, the journalist).

> both OP and the journalist are Indian

I really don't see how the journalist's ethnicity is relevant, and I'd love some clarification on why you do. Regardless of where they're from, they were hired by Reuters, a news outlet which publishes content in English. I'd be willing to bet that they were vetted for this job at least in part on their ability to write in the vernacular used by Reuters. OP had no reason to doubt the effectiveness of that process, and should therefore have "trusted the English-language abilities of the journalist...", as I said.

OP themself was a bit ignorant (of the HN guidelines, not in the sense that you mean) when they edited the headline.
It's also a bit arrogant for them to assume they're better at crafting headlines than the entire team responsible for publishing the story (the journalist, their editor, the Reuters proofreaders, etc.).

All that said, I've already invested way more effort into this conversation than is warranted by OP's (relatively minor) faux pas. I decline to continue participating.
You might even get the AI to start playing Civ for you at some point!
To be clear, the latest ice storm in Austin was close to one of the worst ice storms on record (exceeding the 'snowpocalypse' reference, at least locally, in amount of ice by more than double). This caused local power outages for many days, for many people, while it was ~30 degrees outside. Not quite as long as the 2021 event, and not quite as brutally cold, but it was definitely flashbacks for many folks.

In some respects, it was worse locally, as it caused a significantly higher amount of downed trees, and, as a result, much more damaged infrastructure (there were MANY videos posted of transformers exploding thanks to downed lines/downed trees). What it didn't damage/affect (compared to 2021), was the power generation aspect. So, if your lines were fine, you had power, unlike 2021.
They withheld GPT-4 for eight months, but continued development based on it and provided access to third parties and entered into agreements with the likes of Microsoft/Bing, etc. All they did was impair their competition that were still struggling to catch-up with their previous offering, while continuing to plow ahead in the dark.
I believe I heard that running inference longer is giving the better responses we're seeing in v4. Hence why v4 is taking so much longer to output data.

Of course we won't know this for sure until OAI tells us, so we may be in the dark for a while.
[This is in reply to the comments not the article!]

It's just a statistical model is the logical equivalent of human beings are just a bunch of atoms.

The amount of reductionist thinking that goes on in tech is hilarious. First define AGI then challenge an AI to meet those requirements. If it meets them it is AGI. Put aside your preconceptions of what technology you think is required to achieve the goals and stay empirical.

Note previous definitions of AI have been thrown away as AI passes through them one by one :-)

What goes on inside its 'head' is irrelevant. We still don't know what actually goes on inside our heads and we were damn sure we were intelligent long before we had a clue how our heads worked at all.

Also sentience != AGI. We can't even agree what sentience is in humans and other living beings so I'd stay clear of that one for now :-)
I would avoid flash cards. A few tangible steps you could take:

- Play and read lots of sheet music. Especially by sight. It will come, I promise :)

- Complete Ear Trainer is hands down the best aural training aid out there. Be warned, it is difficult (I got it while studying for my later instrumental grades and it was initially very tough) but I’ve never come across a tool as good. Think of it as being a bit like aural flash cards with harmonic context

- Transcription is a good idea. I’ll also suggest transposition; my main instrument is horn, and for grades (at least in the UK) you had to do sight transposition as well as sight reading. Once you’re comfortable sight reading, try doing the same thing but playing it up a fourth, or down a third, etc.
> And there's always some path to cancel the service (even if it's annoying by design and has you jumping through multiple hoops).

Why do they even get to dictate how you cancel? You should just be able to send them a letter, an email, go in and inform them, etc. What purpose does it serve for society for companies themselves to be able decide to ignore your cancellation requests unless they follow a specific procedure?
Ask HN: Best online AI training and model service like HuggingFace?
If I have a few hundred megabytes of tabular data that I want categorized into 2 classes with a probability score -- is there a good full service online tool that can fully abstract the AI/ML model picking and training and provide it via an API I can use to get scores for new rows? I'm looking at Hugging Face offerings but it seems very rough around the edges (ex. getting error messages with no actionable reasons on just uploading or training a model).
The South Korean justice system is notoriously lenient on white-collar crime, and it's exceedingly rare even for violent criminals to be murdered in a Korean prison. The popular perception is that you can spend a couple of years in prison and enjoy your ill-gotten gains for the rest of your life with no further repercussions, provided you've hidden your money well enough. Guess what, the whole point of crypto is that it's easy to hide.

A few years ago, a man named Son Jung-woo was arrested for running what was the largest child porn site in the world back then. His sentence? 18 months. The U.S. wanted to put him away for life, but the Korean courts would not deport him.

I'm sure Do Kwon would rather hand himself in to the Korean authorities than risk going to prison in any other country.
Agreed! For high functioning employees. Unfortunately, there is a reason that managers... exist. If everyone was capable of self management, well society would look a lot different.
What issues? This is an update to the docs to reinforce best practices that have been around for a while now. People are acting like there's been sudden breaking API changes. useEffect has always been a last resort technique, and even the old docs reinforced this. People saying things like "They recommended Next.js for starter projects, so they're giving up on SPAs?" both don't understand what Next.js is and, really, just want to be angry about something.

The response to this has been absurd. Dan Abramov has been active in the community and transparent about the documentation, and he has gotten direct ad hominem attacks from the same community.

It's just the same story: People that feel lost using React claiming the rest of tech world is fed up with it, and it will be dead next year. I question whether they even do frontend work that much, or are really backend devs forced to do it once in a blue moon. Meanwhile every other library/framework trying to "outdo" react just falls short in so many areas. I welcome the competition, but it's clear that these aren't the members of the community that should be tastemakers for frontend design.
Then you responded to the wrong post.
Plus someone involved in the running of the store has to know why there's a highly educated, highly curious 50 year old who doesn't know how to make a latte or work the till added to the crew today, and that person is going to want to make sure everyone is on their best behaviour.
SpaceX (at least in my experience) requires design and manufacturing engineers to spend shifts on the production line to make sure there isn't low-hanging fruit in improving either the design or the manufacturing flow. If your manager hears complaints from the production team and you haven't spent some shifts on the floor getting to know the issue personally, you won't be long for the job.
I find your observation about the two camps in computer science quite compelling, and it got me thinking about another analogy that might further illuminate the LLM debate: the evolution of cities.

Urban development can be seen as a balance between careful planning (akin to the mathematics camp) and organic growth (resembling the engineering camp). A city designed with a focus on aesthetics and theoretical frameworks might be visually appealing, but it could lack adaptability. On the other hand, a city that grows organically may not be as cohesive, but it's more practical and responsive to its inhabitants' needs.

This parallel can help us better understand the emergent properties of LLMs, which arise from their complex interactions. By appreciating both the engineering and mathematics perspectives, we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of these properties.

Moreover, the balance between early adoption and risks, as seen in urban development, can also apply to LLMs. Early adopters of LLMs can tap into their potential, but they must also be aware of potential risks, such as biases and ethical concerns.

Oh yeah ChatGPT wrote this answer.
So does this mean that Getty is essentially selling...NFTs?
Come on man. Condoms are a fantastic and effective public health intervention. But they definitely make sex feel 70% worse, there is a downside.
I really like the idea of having a hard limit of 'clicks' to get something done/undone. If it's 4 clicks to subscribe, it should be no more than 4 to unsubscribe.
Relativity Space launches first 3D-printed rocket on historic test flight
If I remembered their name I would 100% name and shame them publicly. Unfortunately it was a while ago during the peak of the pandemic, and I don't have any email records since I myself didn't sign up for them.
Worked out fine for my college. The free condoms were amazing for students at a time when the prices in retail were absolutely insane and many of us didnt have disposable income.
Plastic is cheap, durable, and water-resistant, that's really all there is to it. When individual items are all packaged like this you can cut corners in a lot of other places.

Until there's an equally cheap equally effective alternative plastic will be used unless we regulate against it, it's simply too convenient.
I think it is a good idea for more people to move away from Chromium completely. We're starting to see too many websites written "Only Works in Chrome" and I lived through one "Only Works in One Browser or Reskins of It" epoch already (IE6).
Its a discussion forum tied to a tech industry startup accelerator, so, if it relates to tech and a possible connection to new profit opportunities can be drawn, you’ll get that.

Even so, there's plenty of “how does it work and how technically can we do more with it” stuff here, HN’s been one of the densest places for that with generative AI despite the make-money focus thay often creeps in. Sometimes, the two even overlap.
> The concern is for the children who are given unrestricted access to the Internet from a young age

Kinda agree - but for me that's up to the parents. Control your kids devices, restrict them, educate them etc.

Else, how do you want to control this? Mandatory identification on the whole internet? No thanks...

I've seen a lot of things as a teenager which I shouldn't have seen (gore videos of mexican cartels, ISIS etc.), and I'm sure that this has done some mental damage, even though I can't exactly pinpoint what kind. But still, if the alternative is total bureaucratic control over the whole internet with my personal ID being identified everywhere, just to save some uncontrolled kids from watching things they shouldn't...I don't know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocal...

EDIT: to clarify, i do agree that kids should be protected from harmful content. just don't think that ID checks or scanning my own data are a net positive.
Reminds me of USB-C.
Pens get lost; so don't spend big bucks. The Lami Safari works for me.

DO NOT carry your pen in your shirt pocket with a phone if you don't want to lose it answering a call.
As George Carlin once said, for all we know, humans are nature's way of manufacturing plastic.
Truly a "follower"
South Park did it last week.
>Difficultly of network access from code running inside document. Allows PDFs to generally operate offline. Nobody's brave enough to try to write a single page application in a PDF.

You can absolutely do so. Most times however, the desire is to embed the latest cut of info into the PDF, then hand it off to somebody who will not have network access.

t. Been there, done that. Had the end product thrown out because of Adobe's licensing terms. I also met one of the people responsible for the tooling I had to suffer through. I have their address, but they apologized, and explained the internal politics at the time; so I've chilled on the whole crushing their genitalia with a large wrench bit.

Long story short: doable, but

Do Not Follow.
This is not a place of honor.
No great deed was once commemorated here
That which remains is repulsive to us, in our time, as it will be in yours.

Seriously. If I could fill this post with spikes and sick faces, I would.

Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

XFA was the dream of madmen, and sadists, that decent men thought they could wrangle some positive utility out of. They were wrong.

The trefoil is not an angel. The weird ring things are symbols for infectious waste.
If you want a short introduction on why physicists care so much about the weight of the W boson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw
You sound a bit sarcastic, but the fact of the matter is that its somewhat true.

Go to a college campus, go observe a freshman/sophomore level lecture for a general education (read: fluff) class, then take a look to see what percentage of students are diligently taking notes vs doing literally anything else.

A lot of people are on task, and a lot are browsing the web, playing games, on their phones.
Try the Fortune 500 also. The one I work at uses Accenture for much of its technical support.
Yes I think there is definitely a positive angle. Hollywood's influence has been protected in large part by union influences controlling access to bankable actors, among other reasons. The possibilities for a surge of truly independent decentralized productions is promising.
well with college you already have to pay so the situation is different. and I'm sure the free condoms were not always available, which is effectively the issue here.
> the best UI creation combo anyone could ever design

Hahahahahahabonk.
> matching rules using the tile's shape.

That excludes affine transformation.
> But if you are talking about Mill, yes it will never work.

Maybe Mill Computing won't pull it off, but why do you think the approach is bad? It seems sufficiently different from Itanium to not have the exact same problems.
I don't like this trend of financial providers issuing moral judgement, de-banking people, and more either.

I'm pro-BLM but learning Silicon Valley Bank gave BLM millions of dollars before it collapsed rubs me the wrong way.

I need my banks and financial institutions to do their primary job first and foremost. I'm getting to the point where DIE marketing is become a signal of poor upper management trying to hide failures.
Fact is that they completely obfuscate the code that runs in their app. That makes it hard for parties like Apple to validate the app (if they even want that - as large apps seem to have different rules to abide by).
> but there may be a contractual agreement between you and a provider

Yes i understand my obligation to the vendor but why is the bank enforcing that ?
Its very strange, when more prude cultures like the us project this prudishness upon other parts of the world.

When its viewed through the eyes of abroad the cultural perversion of it all pops out like a hologram.

Its totally a human right/free speech to have the tools necessary to end a human life. Its totally evil/harassment worthy to document/publish the creation process of a human life.

What is the origin for this puritan fervor by those engaging in virtual interest wankery all day?
"If I have no life, none shall have it? NaneShallActBare."
This exact same thing (same Elon videos promoting the same crypto scam) has been happening to YouTubers with any amount of subscribers for at least a couple of years.

YouTube probably won't share any details, they'll quietly revert it for him since he's prominent enough to get ahold of someone.
It's been a looooong time ....

But I could see this making a "psychedelic" experience a bit more interesting.
Perhaps like music there will be a split between money from 'recorded' performances and money from 'live'.

Theatre wasn't killed by films and TV, live music is still going despite recording.
The kind of subtly you're by implication asking for - "we don't think this is a good idea but here's a tool to make it safer" - is the kind of thing that parents struggle with. Schools? That's impossible for them. They can barely manage saying yes(and here're some condoms) or No.
I forget which gym but I sent them an email cancellation ("in writing") and they told me I had to come in. So I cancelled the card. They had some bullshit agreement with my bank where the subscription followed to my new card. So I cancelled the bank account.

Bank accounts don't need to be some terminal relationship. If they don't treat you right, leave.

edit: It was Workout Anytime
My previous Internet provider Cox tried this tactic on me when I canceled. My reply to them was ok, so you're admitting to overcharging me all along. I'll agree to stay with you if you also provide a refund for all previous months I was overcharged. They finally agreed to close my account at that point :)
Servicers could change the cancellation process without ever changing the subscription itself. The issue at hand is not the subscription, but the process with which one would cancel it.
Good news, the school also doesn't charge students for abstinence either. So it looks like all parties are now happy.
Shouldn't they learn about the limits of the AI assistant and the most effective ways of using it?
1000% - just wish they’d drop their fees so that more companies would see the benefits versus rolling their own.
They are just another face on a screen. Completely ignores thousands of years of evolution that proves that people behave completely different when they are in the same room as someone.

As a silly, anecdotal example - consider the phrase 'smile in my face, then stab me in the back'. People are quick to talk trash about someone when they aren't in the same room, but act completely different when in person.

Executives rely on this to enforce favorable behavior in the workplace.
stuff like this makes me question how accurate our general model of the world is.

If plastic rocks can form (plastic being <100yrs old) how rapidly does geography change?

I have a farm and the land will change FEET in elevation from year to year. We have a lot of rain, but it’s hard to wrap my head that geography move slowly when my hillside has changed so rapidly.
There is a massive gulf between "correct code" and "correct implementation" in many real-world scenarios.

Business logic and baking in domain expertise into your data model is most of the work. Making the code work efficiently doesn't matter if your code doesn't even do what it's supposed to.

Normally this is an argument in favor of human-in-the-loop LLM-based development -- "the human just needs to curate and verify!" However it seems all too easy to me (especially having witnessed it more than a few times) that subtle discrepancies emerge between the stakeholders' desires for the function of the code and the developers' understanding of those requests. Hopefully we reach a best-case scenario where that's all developers need to focus on, but more likely we'll see some pretty egregious things slip through the cracks (the wave will likely start with security/privacy issues before the phenomenon is recognized) as this technology matures into the common workplaces.
Welcome to the world of the plastic beach
i am sure you will supply proof for your claims.
we're still on a bear, btc is doing well only because the global financial system is slowly imploding
They only part in which they are partners is the common enemies. However when it comes to economic benefits or anything not related to the enemies they will stab each other in the back to serve their own interests. From trade embargos/tarifs to spying on each other.
> What could be the reason for that other than much larger parameter count?

Longer inference time... I should have written it down now that people are asking about it, but a few weeks ago I was seeing people discuss the GPT-4 "paper" in what little information was released and that throwing more inference compute at the problem gives better responses.

>, 4 seems a little better than 3.5 but not by a huge amount.

Can you define that in a tangible way? I don't think most of us can since we have so little access to the product.
Spicy take, but isn't this kind of a blessing in disguise? Plastic in this form wouldn't be disturbing the ecosystem as much. This is better than microplastics being found in fish or choking turtles.
HN hug of death. Cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230323160737/https://thedankoe...
Same liminal space as the game I've been making, but this is honestly better. Outstanding. I've been making a text editor where you type into a mechanical typewriter as a tentacle monster, outputs .txt files. Hoping to add mod support so people can eventually send and receive emails from it, as a tentacle monster.

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh

Tax Heaven 3000 is now my recommended tax solution.
Sweden's "Nordic Model" is absolutely not backed my empirical evidence either. One crucial flaw discovered was that it has simply cut off one primary reporting mechanism for discovering trafficking: the customers!

Now, customers can't admit to having been there at all, and so won't report their perception or what they were explicitly told by the sex worker.

This is ironic as your belief is based on the issue of trafficking being solved because you don't hear the reports or the stats dropped.

> The data speaks for itself.

Hysterical. It should be criminal that even sex work advocates in the US are attempting to recreate Sweden's model based on this flawed view. The unsaid reality is that people just aren't comfortable with how normal the consumers of sex work are, and don't want to find out that it isn't an antisocial "other".

Sex work is a labor rights issue. Sex trafficking is a labor rights issue just like labor trafficking is a labor rights issue. One that has nothing to do with punitive or criminal measures of the laborers or consumers, only the traffickers. Normalizing both the supply and the demand side in conjunction with increased avenues for labor assistance is the most holistic solution.
I'm not saying it's not bloated, just "less bloated" than folks wholly ignorant of the details would think.
IIRC, Starbucks has a store at their HQ. Hopefully it's not that one.
I think a better approach is to just require business to accept certain standard ways of being informed of cancellation. I.e. they must accept an email, a phone call, a letter, etc. If they then want to have an even simpler cancellation flow, that is fine, but they must accept all of these basic methods. This is how it works in Sweden.
> Games weren't made to be cash grabs that will be edited in post.

Arcade games were literal cash grabs, dating back to the 70s. Insert coin to continue.
Shell corporations?