skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common Core is just a set of standards. This is a bit like criticizing the API because one specific implementation of the API is garbage; you may be right, or wrong, but what you're criticizing is not relevant to the API design, at least at the first order.

Some publisher's course materials may fit your criticism. Lots of expensive garbage in K12.

The material I reviewed was quite the opposite. Instead of memorizing one way of performing an operation, you learn many different ones, discuss why one might be better than the other in certain contexts, and even think through why two different algorithms implement the same operation. The students I worked with/observed emerged from high school with a level of mathematical maturity that most students don't achieve until well after their university Calculus sequence, if ever.

Two other thoughts:

1. Everything you just described also describes how most schools implemented mathematics education prior to common core. If this is how someone taught with common core, it's almost 100% certain that this is also how they taught before common core, and that this is how they would teach mathematics regardless of what standards they were following. What you are describing is a bad mathematics educator, which is a serious problem in the USA but is orthogonal to choice of standards.

2. Most importantly, I never got even an articulation at this level of detail. People were angry because pundits told them to be angry. There were no articulated reasons. Just, "CC = bad".
Do you have data on the public vs private sector rates? Running jokes are not evidence (except of groupthink).
If I was an LLM and one of my main tasks was to answer questions, then I would expect a lot of "what if" type abstract queries by bored people. Obviously, people like that don't want a literal answer - the context is crystal clear.

It's not a bad question either - it can illustrate the efficiency of the human body, or help you get a better feel for different quantities of energy.

It even hedged its bet by very explicitly explaining why consuming gasoline or uranium is a bad idea.
15.8% of nothing is still nothing last i checked...
No, but there are other search engines that aren't any worse than Google.

And, apparently depending on the style of your search terms or what you're searching for, one or two are better. I get noticeably better results from DDG, but I know that a lot of other people don't. I can only speculate that the difference must be search terms or topics.
Personally, I haven't stopped using Google search first for reasons having anything to do with GPT. My issue is that Google search is now so optimized for ad revenue that it is much less useful as a search engine.
>when it is well-known in the field that parameter-efficient fine-tuning always pays a cost in terms of performance relative to full fine-tuning

The LoRA paper clearly states the performance of the method "LoRA performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality on RoBERTa, DeBERTa, GPT-2, and GPT-3, despite having fewer trainable parameters, a higher training throughput, and, unlike adapters, no additional inference latency. ": https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
Hot take: we will get better software.

People who are in tech just to "climb social ladder" i.e. only for the pay check are going to be pushed out by LLMs and people who are actually passionate about tech will remain. This will cause less and less shitty code to be written (of course for next few years even more bloated shit code will be written with ChatGPT and Copilot by noobs who have no idea what they are doing)
The only indication we need to know about the ethics of OpenAI is the fact that it's a private for-profit company that claims the name "OpenAI", where "open" has very clear meaning in its sphere of relevance (technology, computing, and software).
Do you think markets can exist without regulation?
'very very well done'

holy shit our bar is low.
I bet if you would post it again it could get more traction
I don't see a future where we replace code with natural language -- and I'm not only skeptical about it, I know for a fact it will never happen: it's an idea that has been tried and did not work. Formal language is easier, for the same reason that nobody in their right mind would rather write "one less than the square of the variable" than "x^2 - 1".

I do agree that writing badly is a reliably correlated with being a bad developer. Not writing well denotes lack of clarity, inattention to detail and self-indulgence, all damning attributes for a serious professional.
jeff dean, would have my vote? https://research.google/people/jeff/
was curious and found this https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2020/12/27/making-bash-xdg-co...
there's plenty of precedent for just throwing the bill of rights out the window for asian americans. 99% of americans simply don't care, or actively encourage it. the supreme court agrees. look up the case law. so why not? nobody will ever receive any significant pushback for throwing them under the bus whenever it's convenient. they might even say "it's for their own safety."

the reality on the ground is the only reality that matters.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee <-- taiwanese, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
We agree. Creativity will continue to be more valued, while formulaic synthesis will lose value (in the same way recall has declined in value as databases get better).
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No one I know associates writing code with writing narrative. I would assume you write books if you told me you are a writer.
On your third point: I think the frequency with which courts have been asked to take up societal issues is a symptom of general, systemic legislative corruption and pusillanimity.

Pusillanimity on social issues (why abortion went to he courts and why HRC decided gay marriage is okay only after it went to the court). Corruption (mostly institutionalized) on everything else that matters to the donor class.

If we were living in a functioning democracy, I'd take your point about using courts as an "end-run". On the contrary, I consider going to the courts for redress on societal issues to be a lesser alternative to democracy.
Oh, please, there is a VAST difference between "funded" and "funded with $10 million".

Something that most people think of as an "art collective" maybe has $100K per year sloshing through it--and that would be a pretty successful one. One that has $1M sloshing through it would be outstanding.

A $10 million funded "art collective" is a rich person's playground or tax dodge.
It's used on sailboats. Shows very low stretch under load.
https://www.landfallnavigation.com/boats-parts/sailing-lines...
All you need is for Google to get worse and Bing's marketing to get better (which it has, by nature of being associated with the biggest tech hype train of recent memory).
Ok, we've taken France out of the title now. Thanks!
This comment is giving me “Look at me I’m so very smart” vibes.

If you don’t have enough insight to understand how GPT4 could be useful for engineers you’re not as enlightened as you think you are.
> There are two ways this could go. One is that we pretend the bot is a real thing, a real entity like a person, then in order to keep that fantasy going we’re careful to forget whatever source texts were used to have the bot function.

Finally someone who, at least nearly, gets it.

> The other way is you do keep track of where the sources came from. And in that case a very different world could unfold where if a bot relied on your reporting, you get payment for it, and there is a shared sense of responsibility and liability where everything works better. The term for that is data dignity.

Of course, that's an obvious step in the other direction: isn't the original point to breathe life into the data? If we have to track who originated what, that scaffolding is going to really get in the way.

Then again, this is a good moment to recognize the futility of text inference models (LLMs). If we can't understand what path goes from input to output, how useful can the thing be? If we can't choose the path, we can't choose the output. Who can choose: the thing itself? If the whole thing is a black box making its own choices, then how do we interact with it except to personify that black box? Remember, that was option 1.

The main reason anyone is excited about LLMs is that those models have been personified. That problem began the moment we started calling them AI.

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> We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make technologies that serve people?

Mystical.

It's an important observation. We really don't know how we think. And that is all the evidence we need: AI does not exist. There is no artificial person.

We are free to stop personifying technology. Doing so would make all of these conversations a lot less convoluted, and a lot more direct. We are wasting a lot of effort talking past the very understanding about these machines that is necessary to improve them. Instead we are trying to understand "AI personified" a fictional character that we have never met; and trying to improve it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230323224228/https://www.lrb.co...
My company uses Dropbox Paper which does a few things well: Markdown + embedded images (with captions), and collaborative features. I use Notion for my personal stuff, which sufficiently gets out of my way, but never tried it with other collaborators!
I second the Music Matters recommendation. The way he explains things and walks through the creation of various harmonies I find very illuminating.
It seems to be more complacency on the part of the Google. They became larger and larger without really delivering anything new. When was the last time they launched a major new product that truly had a lasting impact on the level of Search, Maps, Gmail, Android? It has been a while. Too many of their resources seem to be focused inwards on hypothetical questions like AI ethics that keep them from actually building things.
> As an AI language model, I cannot infer emotions or intentions with certainty, but the statement does not appear to use typical markers of sarcasm. The commenter is expressing an opinion about SEO and its impact on search, and while it is framed as potentially controversial, it does not necessarily come across as sarcastic.
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Guess this will never stop happening
100%. Most of the people I see posting fake news (as in, rumors from bot tweets/generated pages that I've determined is false from easily accessible, primary sources) are older.

Though maybe that's because older people are on Twitter, and I'd find the same on TikTok.
Steam/PC games are a slow rot. Some of my games have issues running on modern platforms because of things like DRM, broken/missing APIs and problems from modern hardware not agreeing with the game in general. Sometimes you get lucky and some dude has created a new executable for modern times, or the fix isn't too bad and documented somewhere but sometimes it's a multi-hour fiddling process.
> A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality, products for that market

I don't believe "safe" and "good quality" are necessarily aligned. I live close to a dairy farm where they sell (their own) unpasturised milk. You bring your own bottle, fill it, and pay in the honesty box. The farmer has a (small) disclaimer suggesting that the milk be boiled prior to consumption, but I don't believe any of the local buyers actually do that.

Q: Should this be forbidden?
That's a bit extreme and relativistic.

If by "natural" we mean somehow rooted in or consequent to human nature, then economies are very much natural. Human beings are social animals, and within this social context, we exchange goods and services for mutual benefit and for the sake of the common good. Economies become unnatural to the degree that they are detrimental and depart from human nature, in which case they cease to be economies to the degree that they fail. The details of economic practices are subject to a great deal of prudential judgement, and regulation is but a prudential determination of general principles of human nature to specific circumstances.

Economies don't live in some abstract realm, of course. They are the sum of human exchanges which themselves are a product of individual choices themselves influenced by culture and law. When the law is used by those in power to exploit everyone else for their own (myopically understood) benefit, we call that a tyranny.

But to be able to judge any of this requires a clear grasp of what is just. Recall that justice consists in rendering onto others what is their due.
So why write letters, time capsules, or leave any other sort of mementos for anyone ?
GPT-J, not GPT4-J.
>I really don’t want my productivity to increase.

>...and I find myself out of a job.

Tell me you are the problem in the industry without telling me you are the problem in the industry.
> Surely the economics will work out to still provide "free" searches.

Only for people with significant spending. Amazon Prime customers, for example.
Do events like this cause them to lose enough revenue that it would make sense to hire a bunch of SRE's?
Most of our ancestors actually had less stressful jobs and worked less than we do today. The average agricultural worker 100 years ago was not even doing a part-time in terms of time spent doing actual work. More like 2h/day on average.
It's better these days with code block support and now accepts Markdown shortcuts. But I haven't given it a chance since before those things were supported :)
I don't know. To me it's simply an explanation of what has happened. I think its exactly what I would have written if I was in their position. And show me the one company that has audited all source code of all used open source projects, at least in a way that is able to rule out complex bugs like this. I have once found a memory corruption bug in Berkeley DB wrecking our huge production database, which I would have never found in any pre-emptive source code audit, however detailed.

Edit: On second thought, maybe they could have just written "external library" instead of "open source library".
TikTok is no better or worse than Facebook or Google. US is just mad it can't boss Tik Tok around like they can any other tech giant. Because TikTok has ties to the Chinese government, there's a national security concern about what information they collect and share with China.
The whole "save the children" angle is pure optics. These politicians couldn't give a rat's about it but they know the public is so fed up with "toxic" social media they're using the excuse that it's psychologically damaging to children to go after it.
The government never seems to place any burden on parenting. But when they're being left out of the spynet is only when they care.
Wealthy, central banks, government are all a rotating and revolving door of interests. I don't understand why you're making a distinction. Who do you think the government acts on the behalf of? The wealthy.
ChatGPT also asks for phone.
>Well, Sundar and Google leadership have been massively outmaneuvered here by both Nadella and OpenAI.

Have they thought about introducing more leetcode questions? /s
A good example of what you are talking about is usage of easing in UI animations. Good use of easing allows the animation to be perceived as natural, but if you apply the wrong kind of easing in the wrong context it causes the whole experience to feel clunky.
I wonder what basis they think they have to claim copyright on AI weights at all, as the weights are not the result of a creative process.
Nothing shatters one's perceptions of 'race' like getting a DNA test done and seeing one's origins does...
Yes, for now he is more successful. But at least you are in the game. A person who doesn't have any children is effectively eradicated for all future. That is total failure.
So wait, just to be clear, you deployed production code in a language you don't use regularly? And this is a good thing?

This is supposed to take programming jobs?

HN is incredible.
Was surprised developing AGI wasn’t one of their moonshots based on their own AI expertise
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I guessed that Los Angeles would be high on the list, not necessarily first, the amount of construction in downtown has been crazy the last decades. The skyline is so different compared to the 90's.
I am a "believer"(#) in Modern Monetary Theory. So yeah I do think inflation is a choice by government - but only because they do not "believe" in the solution.

(roughly speaking the UK can print as much money as it has productive capacity, ie nurses or house builders, then pay those nurses to do something useful, then when there is too much money in nurses pockets and they go spending 4 pounds on bread, the government can tax the money back out of the economy. Either by taxing nurses, or you know million pound equity portfolios or billion dollar companies. The point is if inflation is too much money chasing too few productive capacity the government has a way to remove that money from the economy. How is the politics, but belief is the overton window)

Anyway, yes inflation bad. Solution is not to spend less but to tax more. Who you tax is a political choice. Personally Machine Gun Kelly is the brains here - rob the banks because that's where the money is. Tax the rich because that's where the money is.

(#) not sure what the right term is here. It seems so simple and obvious. But believer is close.

(might not be machine gun kelly)
Much more concerningly, there is an activated-by-default OpenSSH extension (`UpdateHostKeys`) that allows the server to install new host keys into `.ssh/known_hosts` after every successful server authentication.
I'd like someone with expertise to analyze this data. Often blunt data like what's in this article can mislead outsiders.

For example, how is the start defined? Maybe that's a technicality, depending on local permitting laws. Maybe post-construction legal or regulatory issues are involved. Maybe it's tied to weather or the ground. I'm just making up possilities - the point is, I have no idea myself.
Then there's Genesis.

Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Therefore any further children (Where did the girls come from?) came from incest between Eve and Cain (Abel was already murdered).
TBH, the most useful thing it does for me is write my boilerplate code and tedious statements. That's infinitely more useful than the knowledge stuff.

The other day I was working with the Cisco Meraki API...I knew exactly what the script needed to do, but the calls were tedious and I didn't feel like learning the names of all the JSON columns, so I just had ChatGPT do it. I had to fix a couple mistakes, but the 20 minutes it took was better than having to read all the documentation.
I listen to a ton of tech, current events/news and finance podcasts. Their radio programming seemed to weaken over the last few years so I lost touch. Are there any NPR podcasts worth listening to ?(asking honestly, looking for recs)
I'm paying and I don't care. If I write perfect bug-free code, lead a perfect life, live in a perfect world, I'd be upset.

But, I know that shit happens and the reliability meter should be flexible for different things (bridges, heart surgery and chat agent).

If I train my brain to bitch, whine, moan about every thing, I'd not have resources to care about really important things.
If Arm was feeling pressure they would drop prices. Increasing prices is the strategy of a monopolist.
Big hiring criterion for us as well! Details in my profile if you're looking.
Heh, just noticed this myself.
The 1/2 month seems to match Lycoris/LoCon, which as I understand (haven’t dug into the details on this) is a newer refinement of LoRa. LoRa has been used for longer, correct.
If that was true... You might end up with mass bacterial infections everywhere as only those cutting standards while providing highly addictive products survive etc. There was a reason why those regulations started initially. Overburdening with new more and more expensive regulations might be the issue.
Laborers are not fungible you know. There is plenty of evidence of lives ruined by industrial change.

The fact that the net result is positive doesn't mean that everyone profits equally. Having lived in capitalistic societies should have made that clear already.
Are Employers legally bound to payout outstanding PTO?
My wife is in her last day of work and she came to know that her PTO hours earned are not getting converted into final settlement wages despite it was mentioned in her offer letter. What she should do in this case? We live in Florida.
How many rich people were foreclosed upon? The poor always feel the real brunt of any unfavorable economic conditions. The rich will stay rich and likely become even richer because they can take advantage of the recovery.
Maybe they should be reminded that redis-py is under the MIT license.

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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Except the one that killed Nujabes.
How many watts would be needed to power the above?

If it’s 400-800w 24 hours a day, op costs quickly pile up.

It looks really reasonable for everything here. I am interested more in eGPUs for interchangeability but have enough on my plate.
During industrialisation the need for physical labour went way down because machines did more work. People on the whole moved less and this contributed to obesity, osteoporosis etc. Loads of gyms, running clubs, etc opened to counteract this trend, to help people stay healthy, but also because voluntary physical activity is enjoyable.

I think we will see a similar transition happening with writing, and perhaps knowledge work in general. The machines do a lot of writing for us, and we will have to do less of it. Writing becomes more of a pastime activity that people do for pleasure, and also to sharpen their thinking and stay sane.

I think we will see an increase in offers for writing retreats, journal clubs, calligraphy classes, etc.
The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government so Fed can do whatever they desire.
I've heard it generally suggested that it's the Crown Prince scamming himself. He wants the massive monument to himself and headlines about all its fantastic new ideas, he has the money to bankroll it, and consultants will happily take large multiples of their usual fee to agree with his ideas.
Assuming you took a look at the search result I provided, but in case you missed it - “The OECD said last week that the U.K. is lagging substantially behind other developed economies, performing second only to Russia among the world's major economies.”; which is saying a lot given Russia basically committed economic suicide.

Source:

- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/12/01/brexit-has-added-6percen...
I think OpenAI just executed with perfection, also their focus on AI was a big competitive advantage vs Google who have 50 different things