skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being outside of the EU gives you access to a much broader food market than being within the EU.
I often see the arguments made about how the US didn't suffer from the 90% tax rate. Those same arguments universally and intentionally ignore the elephant in the room: the US was the prime industrial power left standing in pristine shape after WW2 and largely inherited the globe accordingly. The US stepped right into being globally dominate in manufacturing, which produced a temporary, artificial prop for the middle class of gigantic proportions. That can't be repeated today and it wasn't the high tax rate that helped make things so great for the middle class.

This is also why middle class tax rates are so high in Nordic countries, and most affluent nations with good social welfare structures. Taxing the rich isn't nearly enough. The US would have to shift to a much higher tax system for everyone, and the US middle class (which is spoiled by relatively low income tax rates) will not go for it (not yet anyway).
Generally that technique is something that was pretty common 20 years ago but is not a good strategy for either anonymizing or for testing/capturing variations. It actually is a bad strategy for many/most anonymization use cases, and its use would count as a data breach. There is so much good tooling now for synthetic generation just at the data set level. And usually there are custom semantics "embedded" in the values and arities of data relationships in multi-dataset contexts, where a random "mixing" of real data would cause unhelpful impossible breakage. So- no, don't implement, better uses for your time.
I am not dismissing any discourse
Can we agree that say, at least half the people who strongly dislike one of them probably admires the other to some extent? I know marxists would hate both just on the grounds they're wealthy, but everyone else, I'd argue, probably respects one or the other, likely depending on one's own politics.
Stella Maris, volume 2 of his most recent two volume novel, and The Road, have blown my mind. SM in particular focuses on a math prodigy committed to a mental asylum. I think it would speak to many people here.

I'm actually thinking of reading his entire collection, I've been so impressed by him. I just got No Country for Old Men.

Cool to hear the rec for Sunset Limited!
This is a good argument for LLM search: have search be conversational, and let you say "hey, I actually meant this!". Then you could have different chat environments, each tailored to micropython results, CPython results, IronPython results, etc.

Of course, how can you scale this for every user?
On the topic of whether inflation hits the poor harder than the rich, I have been undecided/inconclusive in my mind about this. And would love some perspectives on it, along the lines of:

Although day to day items that dominate the spending of a lower income person's paycheck are easily seen affected when inflation hits, for a wealthy person, whatever savings and money is accumulated eventually has to be spent on such things also -- whether directly by the owner, or through goods/services that have to pay such expenses.

So in time, in having to spend their wealth, the rich get affected by shrinking buying power as well. (they just have the luxury to spend on more items that are not daily/monthly subsistence expenses)

Is that reasonable to think?

Why am I getting downvoted for such a legitimate economic question? Is this offensive against lower income people?
You give them a soda and a YouTube video explaining how to use GPT to generate content. Boom. "Journalism".
That "15.8%" figure is deceiving.

It simply means Bing went from having ~4% market share in search, to now being ~5%.
Emailing every GitHub user may take a while, but it seems wrong that they didn't post it on https://githubstatus.com; this is effectively an outage in their service -- customers should not need to google for their blog post to find out what happened.
I believe the name the program reports for those prompt can be different than the actual filename, allowing an attacker to use the name of adobe reader or some other popular PDF reader instead. If the malicious script launches the actual PDF reader with a legitimate-looking PDF after executing its payload it could be hard to detect
Good? It's not like they're using that money to enrich the country they live in or the other people or society, they're not building hospitals and funding schools anymore or employing people or raising wages. They're buying assets and becoming landlords and lobbying politicians and making things worse. Not just 'let them go', get rid of them, let them be somewhere else's problem.
You shouldn't commit unencrypted secrets to git anyway, public or private, on-site or in cloud.

There are plenty of tools to either keep them encrypted (we just use simple GPG, but our team is small) or just auto-generate and never show to user in the first place (various key vaults that can be used from automation like HashiCorp's Vault)
Bing is on it's way in that direction. Microsoft needed something big to make Bing relevant again. This could potentially be it.

Will they eat all of Google's lunch? Probably not, but if they can begin to chip away at the insane share (93%+) of the marketplace that Google controls, then it can only be for the betterment of the Internet.
Tried Bard yesterday, it sucks in comparison with ChatGPT. Doesn’t even translate. I was expecting a lot more from the company that made Google Translate.
Didn't OpenAI invest in this company...?
Sunset Limited is a ~play, so for a similarly short Cormac rec I'd suggest The Road.

If you like his bleak, Hemingway-inflected style I'd suggest trying the short stories of Joy Williams ("Visiting Privilege").
Interestingly, many glosses using Chinese characters (not all, but many) were from Japan-- sometimes used phonetically (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438200_008), and sometimes used to translate concepts. Chinese imported many such loan words for technology from glosses that were made in Japan with kanji for words which had no existing equivalent in Chinese (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23754127). But then Japan increasingly gave up new words in favor of transliteration, while Chinese continued to have this need. Chinese words that are phonetic approximations of foreign words are perhaps less common, but by no means rare. They're not all from English (e.g., 'grapes' is a transliteration from Indo-Iranian), and sometimes you have to look at the Cantonese pronunciation to hear the resemblance to English, and sometimes they're neatly hidden by a choice of word that fits well phonetically _and_ semantically.
obligatory "bold move Cotton"
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I attempted to enter the venture capital Universe with designs on AI Operating Systems a few years ago.
I now only google when I need to sometimes verify that what chatgpt is suggesting isn't BS and I'm immediately reminded that google is barely better between SEO content farms, SEO SO scrappers, legacy information from 10 years ago. And that's with ads blocked.

Between chatgpt+ for general guidelines and copilot for specific implementation details, programming feels very fun and alive. And I'm very skeptical to subscribing, but chatgpt provides so much mental relief getting some answers immediately that I'm ecstatic being able to use/pay for it.
Where is the money going then? A few big suppliers according to this:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/...
Hey! I've been following Bvckup2 for years, not because I need it but becuase I've always loved the UI - big fan!
> Anyways, I reject the premise. These books aren't attacked because they contain pornographic scenes. These books are attacked because of the people, identities, and viewpoints they represent and affirm. It's about bigotry, not the kids.

And most of the time the people referencing the book haven't even read it is what drives me nuts. It'd be so easy to pick things that were actually in the book but they always have to go one step too far and make shit up. We live in a world where these idiots read something and blindly share it without doing a shred of research. Anything that supports their bigoted views.
I think GP is pointing out a legitimate asymmetry between the "two sides": there's one* way for a conservative to do things the way they've always been done, and there's an infinite* number of ways for a progressive to change things to do something different, for better or for worse. The Paradox of Choice affects one side much, much more than the other.

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

* I'm exaggerating a bit of course.
I am working on this. Broke so have to do odd GPT jobs from Upwork to make ends meet so paused on development. But the front end stuff works. At least as far as skipping copy paste.
Note that this headline is by Amnesty International, not a news organization, so it must be read very differently.

In a news story with conventions I've seen, I think the "France:" in the headline would mean France officials were vocally opposing or raising a concern about mass surveillance.

In this case, however, it seems Amnesty International is addressing France officials/public, after France officials already decided to permit some kind of mass surveillance. Which is almost the opposite.
The summary is that productivity is down, money supply is way up. The value of money, in particular, the strength of the US Dollar is backed, fundamentally, by the strength of US and US productivity. The problem is that the money printed did not sufficiently go into factors that increased productivity (relative to the money printed) and instead contributed to an asset bubble and consumption (relative to investment in productive capacity).

Unfortunately, the Fed has to raise rates to reduce the money supply (increase the cost of borrowing) which puts downward pressure on productivity. This is not a foregone conclusion but is the likely outcome, hence the need to "do more with less" mantra of tech.

So while the money supply will decrease, the real question is will the money supply decrease relative to productivity. Otherwise, we are basically in for a stagflationary period unless technologies like LLMs produce a step-function increase in productivity and efficiency.

The problem is there is also an inverse relationship between productivity gains due to technology and effort. Meaning technology makes life easier, so people work less, effectively resulting in the same overall output, unless economic conditions dictate otherwise. In which case, inflation may not be a bad thing in the very near short term, provided we can produce our way out of it, which may be possible if LLM technologies result in new industries and job opportunities. (However current thinking indicates the opposite, jobs will likely be eliminated as a result of LLM technologies.
I think this is a mistake they should be slowing down the system to gain reputation. Trying to keep pace with automatic spamming/hacking seems to be one possibility but longevity with no complaints should count for something.
Correct. Being rich is always better than being poor no matter what the economic context is. Even Marxists should be able to understand that.

Although, to be precise: Inflation hurts everybody maintaining their savings in some form of cash. Rich people with a large pile of cash also have a lot to lose.

In the medium term current retail prices will be offset by wage increases as long as inflation does not become a galloping inflation.
This was a great read, thank you for sharing :)
OpenAI shouldn't be an app store
I’m not sure about that. The sci-fi and fantasy books I’ve been reading from the past decade are pretty damn solid, or at least plenty of them are. When I was younger I went through the “great novels” in sci-fi—I was even methodically going through the Hugo and Nebula winners at one point—so I think I have a decent point of reference. Quotes around “great novels” because I don’t want to equate greatness with awards.

Literary fiction is really just genre fiction that people pretend is not genre fiction. Kind of like how saying “I’m not into politics” is, itself, political in nature.
When Volcker was appointed by Carter. Also oil prices had been dropping for several years.
> Safety, including healthcode safety, is a good thing. A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality,

Sure, you can raise the standards so much that only multi billion companies will be able to comply. In fact that is what we witness today. How many mom and pop shops still exist compared to the '60s?
> your website or webapp should care significantly more about visually fitting in with the user's system, settings, and preferences than it should about expressing your corporate branding and looking the same on every device in the world.

I think it greatly depends on the website. For instance, I wouldn't expect a store's website to try to fit in with the user's system. Why should it? In that case, looking unique and standing out is a benefit. But if it's more of an app-type website, like a web mail client or some other utility that the user is likely to leave open for a while while working on stuff, then I think that's the type of site that should consider trying to fit in with the user's system. (Though I've never personally been of the opinion that I'd stop using an webapp just because it doesn't have darkmode or whatever.)
>Netanyahu appears to have made a drastic decision. He would dispatch a discreet, highly trusted aide, armed with critical intelligence, to covertly “intervene” in the US election to help put his man Trump in the White House. Based on the FBI documents, the intelligence appears to have consisted of advance knowledge of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and it may have included confidential details from the stolen e-mails. It was likely obtained by Israeli eavesdropping operations that were targeting secret Russian communications, as well as those of WikiLeaks.
There have been several reports of this issue in Feb/early March on r/ChatGPT subreddit - OpenAI could have known if they listened to community.

Alternatively, they knew about it, and didn't fix the bug until it bit them
My first thought was “I wonder if Alpaca 7B could generate a plausible counter-notice”. Probably not, but I bet if GPT-4’s weights were leaked it could defend itself against DMCA claims.
I don't really understand what point you're making here. Gasoline doesn't release energy on its own either, and the average person doesn't have an ignition coil or pistons in their stomach. This person obviously wanted to know how long a human being could be "powered" by a variety of energy sources. It's a silly, abstract question - details don't matter, only the energy that we can theoretically extract from the material does (in the way energy is usually extracted from the material; gasoline: ignition, U-238: fission). The number it put out, 200 MeV, is a very close approximation of the net energy you'd gain from a neutron induced fission reaction of U-238.

Honestly, it feels like ChatGPT understood the point of the question better than you did. And if it answered in your nitpicky style, then we'd probably be criticizing that.
If you pick the DIY version, that is an option. I got mine with no OS preinstalled and no MS tax, and it was easy enough to install Manjaro.
Large companies manage windows update.
I'd love to see this design. There's something similar on the HP Omen 16: https://i.imgur.com/R4O5zzU.png

Not sure why 99% of laptops see a numpad as a higher priority than matching a desktop keyboard layout.
To whoever decides to manufacture and sell a keyboard (for the Framework Laptop 16) with this layout: please take my money!
Personally, I think it was partially a virtue signal to show that they use open source software and collaborate with the maintainers.
I guess the problem is that Google doesn't have a metric for "clicked, wasted ten minutes, and was annoyed."
Ok, this is the base for actually self-hosted production use of these things now (if you don't care about licensing...). I've said in previous HN comments we've been a Dockerfile using an Nvidia base image away from this for a while now (just never got around to it myself).

I love the .ccp, Apple Silicon, etc projects but IMO for the time being Nvidia is still king when it comes to multi-user production use of these models with competitive response time, parameter count/size, etc.

Of course as others pointed out the quality of these models still leaves a lot to be desired but this is a good start for the inevitable actually open models, finetuned variants, etc that are being released on what seems like a daily basis at this point.

I'm walking through it (fun weekend project!) but my dual RTX 4090 dev workstation will almost certainly scream with these (even though VRAM isn't "great"). Over time with better and better models (with compatible licenses) the OpenAI lead will get smaller and smaller.
That's a good point, I think Paul Graham has a similar line of thinking in the relationship between reading and writing. I linked this tweet in my article (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1618747829975130115) but I've seen other places he's mentioned something similar as well.
I love how this is also an example of how well censorship works

People just invalidating each other instead of the third party because a third party creates different experiences
Here is what I have asked it the past few days with great results:

- What is the trim stop attachment that comes with the Festool DF 500 used for?

- What are some options for water for a home with no municiple water or well access?

- What dimensions drawer should I make when using 18" Blum Blumotion full extension drawer slides if the drawer opening is 20 inches wide, 18 inches deep and seven inches tall?

- Can the smaller Laguna 14 bandsaw motor be replaced with the 3HP version?

- What's the best way to get ChatGPT support if the official support page is not working?

- I'm trying to remember a 90s movie about a boy prodigy that goes to an event with other prodigies and then shouts out an answer to a math question from the audience.
Could be using different temperatures and prompts.
they may not even be hallucinations, just short circuit paths that have embedded in your conceptualization of stuff that they've become unspoken deeply furrowed premises long trusted and never thought to be questioned. Surfacing unspoken and unwritten premises is something I find exciting, really invites getting at the root of stuff.
Right and I don't expect them to manage an automatic process any better. I'm saying that there should be a form of trust for long standing stable environments.
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Windows update has been pushing bios and firmware updates for years now since Windows 7.

Also even if you loose power it won’t brick anything the firmware can and will recover from failed updates.
Programs should default to following the platform convention. It's totally fine for a user to decide that they want to stick everything in ~/.config even on Windows, but it's inappropriate for programs to use that as a default.
This comment thread is now #6 and #7 for me
I do microcontrollers. If you swapped out the ARM core in any of the ones I use for some other 32 bit arch I wouldn't notice.
Throughout its history, 99% of people would have described broadcast TV as free rather than ad supported. Knowing that it's paid for by ads is irrelevant if I'm not shelling out cash.

This should not be a surprise to anyone.
Perhaps it was a matter of me not paying enough attention, but it seemed like Google degraded slowly over time, and then suddenly all-at-once. Or in other words, it seems like its become unusable for me entirely within the past year.
> By the late 2020s, it's entirely possible that a "weaker" AGI will emerge.

We will surely have self-driving cars by then? Right? Right?
It's worth noting that this is the argument Qualcomm uses for its "FRAND" licensing terms on its modem patents.

I did like 'Arm has been "frustrated by customers’ reluctance to accept the new arrangement."' why ever would that be? why would customers not love this value proposition?
Yes the issue is that some of the training data is arguably tainted with some noncommercial license (it's nuanced, discussed below in my comment). We are releasing weights to people who request but we just wanted to have an email request flow so that we can make sure people know it's just for noncommercial purposes.

Working on a model without this issue. Certainly our goal is totally open models anyone can use for anything.
I hear the inflation numbers and I'm always like "are they living in the same world as me?"

Pre-COVID I used to able to run and get lunch for under $5.

Now I'm lucky to spend less than $15.
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In Minecraft, the inventory player model is rendered at only 20FPS. This article discusses the problem and fixes it with a mod.
If they curate quality and safety, it does provide value.
The fight for WASI is dramatically more important for the future of tech than AI, bitcoin, and all the other silly fads.

If WASM gets sucked into the vortex of pragmatism and fails at its original mission of discarding all of the technical debt and obsolete paradigms, then we'll miss out on a golden opportunity to reinvent the modern technology stack.

Those who want to deliver something that works right now can fork the project and call it WARN (WebAssemblyish Right Now).
My utter frustration is that there's regions that Amazon Prime literally won't ship anything sooner than a week out. I never am given next-day let alone 2-day shipping options anymore -- everything is 4 to 5 out at the fastest with no way to pay for even faster.

To add to the insult, they don't ship it for 3 of those 5 days, then it suddenly goes overnight on day 4 after the order.

This is even on Amazon's own products -- right now, I can't get a Kindle Oasis without it being delivered next Wednesday at the soonest. That seems a bit unfair to pay for Prime and get second-class service.
Donner is a really terrible example. Adrian Schoolcraft or Stephen Mader (fired for deescalating a situation instead of shooting) are cut and dry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

[2] https://features.propublica.org/weirton/police-shooting-leth...
But it's an open-source library... /s
I don't mind that when they do it right and have a thing pop-up that says "HOLD X" and then a bar fills in around the X button. The problem really becomes when they want you to "HOLD X" but they don't give any indication that you need to hold it.
You're misreading: the existence of private, individual arms is what regulates (or if you wish, what necessitates regulation of) the militia (which includes police). There is no grammatical ambiguity.
In NYC for example, 40% of the tax revenue comes from 1% of the tax payers[1]. High taxes are causing high earners to leave the city. What's going to fill that gap in revenue?

I'm not sure how it is in France though.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-14/new-york-...
> It doesn't help build your credit history.

Will missing payments of it hurt your credit history? If so, why is such one-sided credit reporting legal?
Where do you get those unit tests though?
This is my experience too. I don't know where the CPI ever gets its data. But Inflation is clearly over 100% for restaurants in California. Literally in the last 3 years.