skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No longer spouting your requirements to the team over a boring video call; everyone gets your opinion as an interactive avatar, to query at will. I hope someone is working on this..!

Heh, now even when you do think of the edge cases to ask the product manager about in advance, the virtual model they send you instead of hopping on a call will say one thing (since they didn't give it an exact specific answer for that scenario) and later they'll tell you something else directly!
After all the clickbait, here's the EPA's Safer Ingredients List for antibacterials.[1]

* Chitosan

* Citric acid, anhydrous

* Ethanol

* Hydrogen peroxide

* Isopropanol

* L-Lactic acid

* Peracetic acid

* Sodium bisulfate

Citric acid cleaners are widely available and cheap. They work as as degreasers, and they
are not flammable.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients#searchList
This is also mostly what Adani did. They had put all their third party transactions in “disclosure” filings so nothing was hidden and the Indian market went “it’s Adani, he’s going to multiply our money. No worries” But when he went to global capital markets it brought much greater scrutiny and Hindenburg. Rest is history.
HN is exactly as wildly biased as all the other big tech sites.

It pretends to be unbiased but it's not.

You'll be flagged/banned for pointing this out.
Cool, but sadly, as I said, it did not give a very useful answer. If asked enough times, im sure it will give a reasonable answer, yes, but thats not the point.

GPT4s answer is interesting, though
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This was hard for read because of the glaring omissions of existing engineering practices. It feels author only cares about programming purity and writing programs which transform metadata.

Making all fields in a message required makes messages into product types but loses compatibility with older or newer versions of protocol. Auto-creating objects on read dramatically increases chances that a field removal in future version of protocol will be handled properly. Auto-creating on write simplifies writing complex setters, etc...

You could argue that those problems could be solved better (and I might agree, protobufs are one of my least favorite serialization protocols) but not even acknowledging reasons and pretending the designers didn't know better makes writer seem either ignorant or arguing in bad faith.
Russia is already blocked from ChatGPT and Bing; I don't know about China.

But it's all security theater. Plenty of people use it with VPNs, and I know several who found it useful / interesting enough to bother paying for it (which involves foreign credit cards etc so it's kind of a hassle). I'm sure so does the Russian govt.

In any case, I don't see how you could realistically block any of that without effectively walling off the rest of the Internet.
As someone entirely at sea with the rapid pace of development in this sphere:

1. Is this a new LLM from Apple?

2. Is this a way to optimize running LLMs like Llama locally on M1 macs?

3. Something else altogether?
Nexus 6p. Waiting for it to charge enough to turn on seemed like an eternity.
> Stanford is a leading indicator of campus life elsewhere.

It very much is not. Last party I went to at Stanford had corporate sponsorship.
This is great news.
Thanks.
The architecture looks like a dead end compared to other novel architecture like the Reduceron which reached 33% of the performance of a single core 2 duo processor core while running on an FPGA with only 90MHz without using pipelining or out of order execution. The catch is that the execution model of the Reduceron is graph reduction which basically means lambda calculus/lazy functional programming languages.
The Reduceron's raw arithmetic performance isn't better, but it doesn't matter because lazy evaluation is memory intensive, the more memory intensive the algorithm, the better the Reduceron performs, which is very unlike classical C machines like x86 or ARM or RISC-V where memory intensitivity must be avoided at all costs for good performance. Where the Reduceron does a single graph reduction per clock cycle, a C machine has to do it with several sequential instructions so a massive clock rate advantage isn't worth much.
I imagine there are consultants that go around to gyms (especially chains) and say "We've got x things that are trivial to implement and will guarantee you make $123 more per customer on average. Cost for our analysis and recommendations is $12,345 with an assurance that you will make this back in the first 6 months." And one of the things is adding a paragraph to the sign up terms.

It's a bit like the toothpaste consultant story.
The race is on and ecosystems are moving fast.
America's electrical grid is headed for a total meltdown
Facebook issuing DMCA takdowns on LLaMa repos
As an aside, the marketplace article on them from a few weeks ago: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/25/liquid-death-is-an-en...
Ask HN: How do you keep mobile contacts updated?
Does anyone have a good solution for keeping mobile contacts up to date? I want a solution that will automatically update contact info, pictures etc. Ideally it could sync with LinkedIn and other social networks.
Ruse. Most people don't buy truck because they need a truck, they just like trucks. People who only drive their trucks in the city are not being tricked, they just buy what they want.
> it's important to acknowledge that the "works on the first try" for typical Old Space projects came at absolutely enormous expense

And, I suspect (as your footnote mentions), they took risks that would not be considered/permitted today.

Modern "Human rated" space flights are very very different to the Gemini and Sputnik days.
I think the emotional response is probably due to the fact that Protocol buffers is often forced upon teams, due to the desire for a common standard and the marketing power that Google have. But the author raises many valid issues and you would be wrong to dismiss them completely. The first version of Protocol buffers, IIRC, didn't even support static offsets and extracting a field without deserialising the entire message. So it was arguably both inelegant and inefficient. I was never impressed myself personally and have seen quite a few better closed-source wire formats inside various corporates.
Modern Software Engineering Book of David Farley
A delightful path to make a successful career as a Software Engineer
Maybe apple will have a bigger effect on ai adoption than any other company.

Local inference is huge for anything that requires even a little bit of privacy.
and then liquid chlorine is impossible to find and doubled in price, so I ended up with salt water.
Learned about DNP from the Peter Attia podcast. As I recall, it was discovered in part due to factory workers who worked with DNP losing significant amounts of weight.
In 40k, the old ones made the eldar, orks and such for just this purpose.
These kinds of arguments come up a lot when it comes to homeschooling. But would anyone follow the same logic when picking a school? There are certainly nice schools that don't have too many of these problems. Are these bad choices then? Should one find the most ghetto public school? If your country has only nice schools, how about sending your kids to a rougher country?
Thanks for admitting that you had not even bothered to listen to it yet confidently labelled it as ideological flamebait regardless, and then used this made-up assessment in a discussion with this site's admin to suppress another article.
(I'm on the Next.js team)

Something we haven't done a great job of, so far, is talking about how you can use Next.js for SPAs or client-only React sites. You can start with basic HTML/CSS/JS, deploy and host anywhere, and then optionally opt-into features that require using a server (and host somewhere like a Node.js server or through a Docker container). Next.js can generate an HTML file per route, rather than having one large SPA bundle.

There's been a lot of feedback around CRA no longer being recommended and folks looking for a replacement[1]—and uncertainty if Next.js is the correct solution. We've been working on some better docs[2] that help explain how to use Next.js without a server.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1636886736784457734

[2]: https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/configuring/static-export
>“should not be aware of anything their parents don't want them to be aware of”

there’s plenty of things you don’t want kids doing or acting out because they aren’t mature enough yet to know what they’re doing, it’s also OK to disagree on topics of morality, freedom goes both ways
nitter.net makes it slightly less painful. There are browser addons to auto redirect to nitter.net e.g.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
Kodak invented the digital camera.
From my experience with homeschooling groups, a great majority of homeschoolers do so for religious reasons, e.g., ensure that they're not exposed to science teaching that contradicts young earth creationism, or sex education, etc.

Or just to prevent their children from being infected by "worldly values". You'll often hear them say "Be in the world, but not of the world."

There are of course, people who do it to give their children an education that they feel is superior to the regular one, but they are a minority.

Of course, I didn't survey all homeschoolers to come up with that, I suspect you'd find clusters of secular homeschoolers in certain areas on the west coast, but elsewhere, Jesus dominates.
Ready for the first news organization to run a major headline on a fake image intentionally or not, and instantly torpedo their credibility and broader credibility in the media. Especially with the 2024 election right around the corner driving a "publish first, ask questions later" mentality, it's going to get messy.
I think the API is meant to be the data model in this scenario. The point is that you design the API around the task that it solves, rather than against whatever fixed spec OpenAI publishes. And then you tell ChatGPT, "here's an AI, make use of it for ..." - and it magically does, without you having to write any plumbing.
Depends if effective means the code is not maintainable or is full of bugs or gotchas that will only be caught later down the line.

PRs are good even if it's just within the small team as a way to peer review and have an extra pair of eyes.
Someone from my work fell down the rabbit hole of homeschooling - her spelling and grammar was poor and she was (is) into 'alternative' therapies etc.

Each to their own but I do feel that children need to be around their peers and learning a set curriculum. By taking her 12 year old out of school, she has removed many career roles from him and limited his future (she'd argue that she's freed him, no doubt).

By all means home school but there should be a basic set of facts taught - not that antibacterial oils kill viruses (for example - a real home work she set)
Without asking for numbers you don't want to share, how did the price you acquired it back for compared to the price they originally purchased it for?
I agree. Give companies struggle to evaluate engineers during their employment over a period of months (if not years), I'm not surprised an interview doesn't tell you much about an engineer either.
This was also predicted when photo-editing and video-editing became mainstream, but I agree with you, this time feels different.
Because there’s a high likelihood that that’s not at all how this technology is going to be spread amongst the population, or all countries and this technology is going to be way more than Einstein in a pocket. How do you even structure society around that? What about all the malicious people in the world. Now they have Einsteins. Great, nothing can go wrong there.
Sounds like you are human. Hello human. Men don’t really get the ability to (truly) grasp abstract ideas until the late twenties. Women get that ability earlier.

In our thirties (all humans) learn to apply that abstract thinking to ourselves. In our forties, our heart finally stops growing and we become a full adult.

Never discount your past, no matter how terrible and/or great it was. It’s part of who you are, part of what makes you, you. Embrace it, learn from it, and look forward. Yes, that is easier said than done.
Helps more than you might think! Because the other thing Secretive can do is require touch ID for each use of the key. Similarly, you can require a button push from your yubikey.
If I tell it to do X, and it does X, for all practical purposes it means that it understood what I said.
What I think it interesting: Wolfram Alpha gives sources as key part of the result. ChatGPT hides that again, which to me is one of the big problems of ChatGPT - it is convinced of it's results and can't give me any source information for me to judge the result in any meaningful way.
Might be a good time to give a shout-out to teddit (https://teddit.net), which you can even self-host if that kind of thing floats your boat.
Memory Reordering Caught in the Act covers this topic and is very well written: https://preshing.com/20120515/memory-reordering-caught-in-th...
Well said. It so easy to take for granted all these tech milestones with generative AI in particular the last year.
Sure, there is some inherent complexity, but by writing their own tool, they get to choose exactly how to handle the complexity for their particular use case, instead of having it dictated by a general-purpose tool developed by a consortium of US corporations. I consider that a win.

If they have the manpower and expertise to do that, more power to them!
Yes, it's a very silly statement. That said, the chlorine that you breathe in when the bleach that you cleaned your bathtub with evaporates can't be good for you. Worse if you spray the stuff (and how we all made fun of Trump and his nebulized hydrogen peroxide).
It's mainly for intermediate and advanced learners who want to tackle longer texts. I originally made it so that I could read novels in Spanish.

Readlang may not ever be appropriate for complete beginners. But it could do better at providing stories written in simple language appropriate for beginners in specific situations like yours. Right now there is a public library of shared texts: https://readlang.com/fr/library, and a list of popular websites: https://readlang.com/fr/links. But you're largely left to your own devices to find content, which adds friction for new users and isn't ideal.
Well, the interesting question is whether LLMs will enable programming to go back to being interesting.

So much of programming is rote boilerplate garbage simply linking things together and so little of it is actual creative thought. If LLMs could actually generate the rote boilerplate, programming would be soooo much better.

Alas, my optimism isn't that high.
> You have a decent argument, but your example of calculus is about the worst you could have picked.

> I got 99% in calculus at UBC in the first semester, and then I set the ridiculous goal of beating that in the second. I did get my 100%, but what a waste of time.

Huh. Of all examples you could choose, you picked one where you were already in college, and specifically you pointed out how you got 99% in one university class and decided why not get 100% in another. And then you felt that the extra gain of 1% wasn't worth your efforts.

• For most families, by the time your child is ready to learn Calculus with a private tutor or yourself, hopefully you should be very well attuned and be able to have a sophisticated conversation with them about what they're interested in. Of course if your child is learning Calculus at a very early age then you're going to have a very different situation than nearly all other families, whether schooled or unschooled.

• Even in your example, it sounds like doing Calculus early would not be a bad choice. Since you don't think Calculus was profitable, why not fulfill those early reqs and instead take classes on what you really enjoy, esp. since classes are so expensive? This is a well known strategy.
To be fair, of the nominations that year, I’d have given it to Jack Lemmon for The Days of Wine and Roses. So it’s not like it’s uncontentious that O’Toole was snubbed.
It's not winter in every part of the world at the same time.
It is by far the worst thing I’ve ever seen. It’s also hilarious.
"Cash App shows 14%" rather than "14$", obviously, but it's too late to edit now. :)
I think you should do what you told them you would do anyway - posting on each and every social network.
I don't understand the notion that if you cancel a credit card, a company can continue to bill you afterwards, unless they are billing you for a service you have already incurred prior to being billed (which is pretty rare - most times you pay before the next month/year of service). Enterprise contracts may add some more complexity to this, but for standard consumer subscriptions I can't comprehend why a company is allowed to bill you for a service once you stop paying for it.
It seems like so much of society is affected by mutual trust. Without mutual trust, inevitably that gap is made up with contracts, and processes, and laws, and rules, because that's the only way people can coordinate on the same page.

As the US becomes more and more divided on every level: ideologically, religiously, ethnically, culturally, etc this is only going to continue.
It seems pretty awesome at those tasks. Point it at a meeting transcript and have it create user stories. I Don think GPT-4 replaces a person in any professional role I can think of, but it seems all people will find a range of tasks can be automated.
Yep, I've got nothing but good things to say about Duolingo :-)
2. A Transformer is a core building block of LLMs.

> [T]he device spec for this reference implementation is M1 or newer chips for the Mac and A14 and newer chips for the iPhone and iPad
Thats a big part of advertising. Make people feel inadequate if they don't have these things. FOMO in action.
The problem, historically, with many free/no-registration file sharing services, is that they eventually start being used by 'bad actors' (which differs by country). The people chasing those bad actors find it easier to target such services and will force a change. Your service will need something to help itself when that situation arises.
The open-source library is FastAPI. I might be wrong, but it's probably related to this tweet: https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1638683478245117953
> mostly over

Meanwhile in crypto land, a $2bn airdrop (Arbitrum) is taking up the headlines today and is a huge liquidity event for 650,000 addresses. Lots of people cashed out already and price is holding steady in the expected range.

edit: no, not garbage like Kwiktrust. hope you find higher signal influences.
Sure, a small header that contains type and length is trivial and pretty much implied in my previous comment.

I don't think people should think too much about "what if we change language", etc. because (1) that's unlikely to happen, (2) you have years ahead of you, (3) it may be simpler to convert structs (not the most complicated thing in the world amd supported in most languages in one form or another) into whatever else when/if you actually need it than to overengineer now 'just in case'.
Yes, we don't actually know whether it would have worked. He said upfront that it would need more time; apparently he didn't manage upward effectively enough and for some reason the board didn't feel desperate enough to give him more runway.

Department stores had already been declining for a long time before he came along, though.
Comparison why?

We are in a state that every emission is a problem.

And if you have a particular technology which create megatons of CO2 but does nothing for society besides transering money from a lot of people to less and less people what does a comparison matter?
Intuit will not use your social security number to bankrupt you. Neither will MSCHF, but I doubt their encryption is that good
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> Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better.

I agree with the sentiment, but it might be worth to stop and check where we’re heading. So many aspects of our lives are broken because we mistake fast for right.
OpenAI has incentive to 'accidentally' allow toxic content through, so when they make the case that all models should be censored and make it safe, they can pull up the ladder behind them.
Incorrect.

No problem to put /boot on a raid1 on a small partition across all drives, so that any drive can boot, and no problem to even include a whole self-contained remotely accessible recovery os. It's a little bit more work to set up, but if you are professing a need for that, then a little extra setup is de rigueur. I remotely administered a ton of linux boxes in racks scattered across the US like that for years. Although I had out of band serial console access and could do full bare metal reinstall that way, I could also do it from any neighboring machine that was still running in the same rack if I had to, with a combination of network booting and/or booting from any one of the normal drives normal raid1 copies of the /boot partition.

Further remote-able fallback options that I never even had to use but could: Local hands just plucks a hot-swap drive from any of my other machines and pops it into the bad machine. All drives had the same bootable partition and all drives are redundant and so they could yank literally any one from the wall of server fronts. Or, better, local hands just plugs in a thumb drive and I take care of the rest. Thumb drive is already sitting there for that purpose, or they could make a new one from a download. But with 8 to 24 hot-swap drives per machine, meaning 8-24 copies of /boot, I never even once needed local hands to so much as plug in a thumb drive.

There is just no problem at all with sw raid. It only provides options, not remove them.
Interesting, thank you for the explanation. I tried Toucan a year or so ago and just as you said, it was weird and didn't stick for me either. I will try Readlang!
Yup, I had a ton of delinquent accounts on my credit reports that were a similar (but not exact) name and similar (but not exact) SSN and similar (but not exact) birthdate as mine. Seems they’ll just find the closest match and slap it on.

I learned this as I was applying for student loans at the end of highschool and kept getting denied. It’s the reason I ended up having to take a bunch of crazy high interest rates from Sallie Mae/now Navient to go to college as planned.

Of course the credit agencies reporting all these false debts suffer 0 consequences for it, only the consumer does. I’m still pretty mad about it 15 years later, got slightly off topic :)
Wow. I've gotten glimpses of this from friends who have almost all now left Google. From the outside, it seems that the political structure in place within Google exists purely to perpetuate it's own existence as a political structure, vs driving towards a deliberate balance of customer value/employee happiness.

My friends used to talk about how they loved it there, and got to work on impactful things. But slowly that shifted to "all we do is take a half year to add a field to a proto", and then "at least it pays well".

I don't have anything in particular to add here, but it seems a shame that Google has fallen so far.
Sure, but for now, we can have a crude differentiation between an AI - a tool which has to be given an objective to work towards, and an "AC" - an entity (an intentionally vague noun) which can devise its own objectives and motivations and work toward them.
i'd say within 5 years apple will have optimized apple silicon and their tech, along with language model improvements, such that you will be able to get gpt-4 level performance in the iPhone 19 with inference happening entirely locally.

openai is doing great work and is serious competition, but I think many underestimate big tech. once they're properly motivated they'll catch up quick. I think we can agree that openai is a sufficient motivator.