skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty clear sign of how unpopular and rarely used UWP is: they can ship horrible bugs and nobody notices. A similar bug in Win32 would surely have been caught instantly just based on how widely it is used, both inside and outside of Microsoft.
The modern debt jubilee is inflation, which, as a sibling comment points out, is what your comment is suggesting and also what the government is likely to do. Give everybody lots of money, some debtors will use it to pay off debts, others will buy shit with it, regardless it all goes into the economy and raises the price level, and then everybody's nominal debts are worth less in real terms.
More people have access to screens now, and (anecdotally) parents were much more careful about screen time in the early 80s/90s.
A good point. People aspiring to be professional writers are often encouraged to widely read as much as they can of the genre in which they're interested. As you said, some information about structure, style, etc is absorbed. In addition they gain an understanding of the current status quo in the area that allows them to see the direction they may want to go in to make their own voice unique, which tropes they may want to subvert, or the style of specific sub-genres that may resonate with them and inspire them in that direction.

Or the type that is most commercially successful in current tastes & trends. it is after all a business and the writer, no matter how hard they strive to make their voice unique, is trying to make a living. I've followed Charlie Stross's writing about the business side of the industry and it's very common to work with editors & agents to ensure they're writing in a marketable sub genre. For example, imagine a writer that had a story outline set in a alternate timeline epic fiction where magic existed, but current tastes among readers looking for epic length books skewed towards space opera. An author might without too much difficulty map many plot points onto space opera settings. Magic becomes advanced technology. Empires can exist in both; historical details can be mapped onto the fictional societies & their history, etc. At the same time, the tropes specific and unique to alternate timeline historical fiction might be adapted and morphed in the space opera genre to create something a bit more unique.

But a writer could not easily make those kinds of adaptions without being well read in the umbrella genre.
>That's because people who answer are being paid to do so

No they're not. Read my comment again. I wasn't referring to proprietary forums owned by the corporation who makes the platform, but to generic public tech forums that aren't owned by any company.

Windows users tend to be way more helpful than Linux users over there.
I'm sure we'll see plenty of "gross profit" in their non-GAAP financial statements. I guess it doesn't take much to have people defend companies they know so little about in industries they have no experience in. Marketing really works I guess. Btw the Revel NY ridesharing isn't going so well:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-commission-thwart...
They use them all, IME (five years at FB adjacent to a bunch of the teams who hired these people).
HTTP Dogs
That's good to know, but it still doesn't justify editing the original title.
Seems to be in the pipeline already [0]

[0]: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1495948-linus-tech-tips-tech...
In debian:

source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.bash
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.bash
Object detection without bounding boxes
Yes, they did. This is not a debatable fact. IIRC, it was 30%+ of the company.
Collapse of society: It's generated troll memes all the way down.
France uses a marginal tax system that stops at 45%, and it only applies on income above 169k euros.

We do have to pay social contributions, but in total it's never been more than 30% of my salary.
Would it be OK to cut off access to water, electricity and heating for beliefs that some people consider bigoted? Said something wrong on the internet - no more water for you - go dig your own well.

What's the difference between an electricity provider and a banking platform?
Spruce offers full housekeeping to a quick tidy up or a bathroom deep clean. Spruce is available to residents on-demand.

For the property manager, Spruce reduces the growing burden of managing 20+ different providers arriving each day, and provides security and oversight for the entire property.

Spruce also helps local housekeeping and cleaning businesses build economies of scale in their operations with tech-enabled solutions so that they can compete in the modern economy. These local partnerships help Spruce provide a higher quality service than is achievable through independent contractors, and Spruce passes scale benefits through to residents in the form of lower prices.

Location: Austin, TX/ Remote US only
I'm completely out of the water, but one thing that I'm not seeing is control for ADHD which is highly heritable (depending on study there are various numbers ranging between 60-90%).

I wouldn't be surprised that ADHD parents would give their ADHD children access to screen earlier (as screens are hypnotic and thus have some calming effect, so, eh, life's experience?).

I'd probably change HN title: study says it's associated, but title suggest there's causation.
It's a basic regulated market. Because it's so easy to rip people off with financial products (ponzi schemes etc.) the SEC requires you to register a security if you want to sell it to retail. The registration is quite simple but just ensures they've written in black and white what they're claiming to sell. These regulations exist as a direct result of fraud and shenanigans in the past. All that crypto is saying is "Oh this is something new so it's not covered by regulations", but that doesn't stand up to much scrutiny -the business being conducted may be different, but the financial aspects of these products are fairly standard and come under existing regulations.
what stage of capitalism is this?
so based on this logic, do Google and Facebook have the biggest potential competitive advantage?
Block (and Jack Dorsey in particular) is enough of a silicon valley sweetheart that if they are inclined to sue I am sure there would be enough people lining up to bankroll the lawsuit. Given that intuition, I would assume Hindenburg is reasonably certain that they can legally defend whatever they are claiming.

Of course, I could be wrong, and Hindenburg may have bitten off more than they can chew. But my intuition says the accusations are at least defensible.
I guess it's mostly due to cost and reproducibility

It's significantly cheaper to run an sql query than have ChatGPT look through several gigabytes of data and ChatGPT won't be guaranteed to produce the same result each time
When VMWare and Virtual Box got good enough to run Linux was when the whole "Year of Linux Desktop" stop mattering to me.

And in regards to WebOS, ChromeOS and Android, who cares what Chrome and Java/Kotlin run on top of.
GitHub did some research around productivity with Copilot. They discuss the results and link out to other research at https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...
I think this might be something to it. I’ve noticed parallels between the stereotypical “kid glued to their phone” and “elderly person glued to slot machine at the casino”. Both of those are more interactive that TV.
In the case of health insurance, AFAIK the subsidies are the government paying on behalf of people who are insured but don't pay in (children, spouses out of the labour market, unemployed - "versicherungsfremde Leistungen") and amounts to about 14 billion out of the 280 billion paid in via employees.

My point is that we don't have "free healthcare" over here in Germany, as Americans often think. We pay in 15% of our income up to the limit into health insurance and we get ok, no-frills healthcare (shared rooms in hospitals, waiting times in big cities to see specialists) relatively equally distributed to the population.

German education systems scores slightly worse than US's system on the 2018 PISA score for what it is worth.
Intelligence can be predicted through virtual reality games
I'm running LLaMA-65B on a a2-ultragpu-1g instance at GCP with a 1xNVIDIA A100 80GB using this UI: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

The good thing about this UI is that it supports both completion and chat-mode (+ is super easy to install).

I'm using a preemptible instance to save costs. As it is an instance with a local SSD you cannot stop it using the UI (only delete it) but there is a trick if you do it from Cloud Shell:

gcloud compute instances stop <INSTANCE_NAME> --discard-local-ssd

It's usable, though a bit slow, but it's more for playing and discovering the model.

To answer your questions, from what I see, it's less good than GPT-4 but much much better than Google Bard, so somewhere between the twos.
(as a reference point, from my testing LLaMA-7B is way better than Bard as well).

The main drawback of GPT-4 is its censorship and enforced political views.
Verse has nothing to do with SkookumScript. It was built from the ground up, although my understanding that some of the same people who worked on SkookumScript are also working on Verse.
I just tried it and it says it’s under the chair in front of the computer. I used the Bing model.
Exactly and I personally think that will always be the largest limiter to how good can the technology get. No matter how good the stochastic parrot gets, its still a parrot.
At a minimum, you shouldn’t have to call or write a letter to cancel something you bought with a click.
Do you have a reference on that number? I’d love to know what the number actually is.
I think that a lot of interfaces are simply going to disappear.

Do you really need a whole office suite to figure out the answers, if AI gives you the answers immediately and in a better format?

For example, an LLM that has db-sql and charting tools, can generate whatever report I want on the fly. Not only that, instead of just generating a general report, I can query it consecutively to understand the data, eg. “Show me sales for this month. How do they compare to last month? How about last year? Give me a chart of the last 12 months. What impacted sales in November? Who are the best performing sales people?”.

The above is so much better than having to dump csv files, open them in a spreadsheet, do dynamic tables, chart things, etc.
My outdoor hobby is limited by rain (rock climbing), so I've gone through most of the weather apps. Dark Sky was by far the best, both for accuracy and visualization.

I'm in this thread to hopefully find an alternative, and wunderground.com looks like it might be the ticket.
Accenture handles immigration paperwork so large companies don't have to, among other things.
I will never get the fixation of US people to iPhones. Most android devices do the same, are cheaper, open, flexible and does about the same things.
Reminds me of how people just shoot their own podcasts now. It's just become that easy. At some point you might add to the team, but if you want to just try it, you can.
No, it's more like changing Ebay on the client side to be an auction site that only sells Pez dispensers. Others can continue to use Ebay as they did before.

And that's kinda awesome.
It doesn't really matter the stated intent of the authors. The fact is that the paper does show a hospitalisation rate of 1 in 800.
This can be assigned a kb shortcut fyi. I'm currently using rectangle as well, but the built in tiling is ok if you just need a L/R split
I asked GPT 4 (Bing) your question, but added "(Please give a plausible explanation for why this question could be answered either way.)"

> This question could be answered either way depending on how you interpret the phrase “under the chair”. If you mean under the chair as in attached to the bottom of the chair, then the watch would move with the chair when you swap them. In that case, the watch would be in front of the computer. However, if you mean under the chair as in on the floor below the chair, then the watch would stay on the same spot when you swap the chairs. In that case, the watch would be in front of the TV. So, it depends on what you mean by “under”.
Counting the Cost of Finance
It's only a false dichotomy if you lack principles.
Not impossible, just not wise. I've seen people try to run user-content-driven sites with one or two people. The site will quickly see comments like "Mods are asleep!" and the site will not last long. There are trolls that will intentionally upload illegal content, then screenshot their own uploads, then report their own uploads to get the site taken offline. And by trolls I mean the site operators and members of competing sites.

If the site is expected to last then a reliable team is required around the clock.
Interesting. I looked it up and found some more information.

https://thedalesreport.com/cannabis/euroclear-to-stop-suppor...
Those are results from a change in state, nothing to do with whether a component has appeared.
That's correct - and a system called "fastcgi" was built to give persistent execution and avoid startup time.
An irrelevant counterargument, IMO.

First, students only get good after studying — education is not some magic spell cast by the teacher that only operates on a human's immortal soul. As we should not dismiss what students learn just because we could look it up, it is strange to dismiss what GPT has learned just because it could be looked up.

Second, the GPT-3 (and presumably also GPT-4) training set is about 500e9 tokens, which is what? Something like just a few terabytes?

We've been able to store that in a pocket for years now without being able to do almost any of the things that GPT can do — arbitrary natural language synthesis let alone arbitrary natural language queries — on a computer, even when we programmed the rules, and in this case the program learned the rules from the content.

Even just a few years ago, SOTA NLP was basically just "count up how many good words and bad words are in the text, the sentiment score is total good minus total bad."

That difference is what these test scores are showing.
If you really want to, you can make it atomic by using the Transactional NTFS API [1]. Though I suppose you need a non-atomic fallback in case the file is not on an NTFS volume.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/when-...
> I think what most of the people here are missing is how big, how paranoid, and how influential the "AI alignment" movement is. [...] If their goal was to maximize profit, the obvious thing to do would be to release API access to it as soon as possible. But instead, they purposely delayed release for eight months [...] Go lurk on alignmentforum.org for a while, and you'll have a different perspective on OpenAI's decisions

I'm familiar with the "AI safety" movement. For years, many people from that camp are extremely critical of OpenAI and they genuinely believe OpenAI is unleashing something truly dangerous to humanity. One person I knew said that while free and open source is usually important, but due to the unique dangers of AI, it's better to keep AI tech stay in the hands of a small number of monopolists, similar to nuclear non-proliferation. Meanwhile, OpenAI was trying to promote openness - a terrible idea.

Thus, it's indeed a perfect explanation of OpenAI's decision to stop keeping its research in the open. Unfortunately, the problem here is that the "for profit" and "AI safety" explanations are not contradictory, they can simultaneously be true. Just like how Google began as a promoter of the open Web but gradually started to use its market position for its own gain. The same situation exists for OpenAI. "AI Safety" may be the initial motivation, but possibly not for long. After a while, "safety" may be nothing more than an excuse for profit.
> Anytime someone tells me they care about marginalized communities while also trotting out "muh consequences" has told me that they don't care about marginalized communities.

It is also true that there exists behaviors that are unacceptable, socially.. but that should not be illegal. I can lie all I want in most cases, legally, but there are social repercussions for that. I can treat people disrespectfully, but it might cause them to no longer interact with me.

There absolutely MUST be cases where actions have social repercussions, but are not actually illegal.

That being said, I totally agree that freedom of speech is a social construct that goes beyond just the law. And the impacts on someone for their speech has grown more and more out of hand over time.
This paper is talking about screen use by infants - within the first year of life. Screen interaction can not be the major problem here, it's much more likely to be a lack of interaction with other humans. That's key to infant development, so it shouldn't be a surprise that a lack of stimulus from carers would lead to issues later.
Not on iOS, and CDNs likely will not be allowed to host content from TikTok.
It seems like they collected 5 screen time data points[0] but only present analysis of the first, collected at 12 months of age.

Did I just miss the other analyses?

Assuming I didn't, is it too cynical of me to infer that they ran the numbers for the other data points but found no relationship? Suggesting that screen use after age 20 months or so is substanitially less harmful?

[0] Quoting from the paper: "When their child was aged 12 months, parents were asked to report the amount of time on average that the child spent on screens ... . Parents were asked the same question on their child’s screen time at 5 time points between ages 12 months and 54 months."
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272584
From my reading of the parent's comment, they are saying the reason the models are not being made available is because of a fear they will effectively turn into SkyNet - am I being uncharitable?
Wt Framework is a toolkit library developed with Modern C++ based on and inspired by the Qt framework.
It drives me nuts that anytime you indicate that a victim behaved unwisely and caution others to behave wisely to help avoid being victimized in the same way, somebody always gets their hackles up about “victim blaming”.

Two things can be true at once: the perpetrator of a crime is the one responsible, AND the victim might have avoided victimhood had they acted more prudently.

Humans communicate in stories. The “cautionary tale” or example of folly that led to woe is a pattern as old as our species could talk.

It is NOT true that cautioning people not to act imprudently, and providing an example, is “victim blaming”. I don’t hear anyone saying that we should not pursue and prosecute the perpetrator.

So just can it with the hair trigger “victim blaming” accusation.
I don't get why people can't just admit that banning tiktok would be a step forward in protecting privacy. It's only one app, sure, but it would be one less app collecting everyone's data. It's also extremely popular in america, so it is probably collecting a lot of data.

The US passing legislation that would protect user data likely won't happen for a long time. The US banning tiktok seems like it may happen soon. I think most people agree the former is more ideal, but wouldn't the latter also be a good thing?

For what it's worth, I really hate most social media and the general landscape of "free" products/services that make their money by selling your data, and I do hope one day we have laws that strictly regulate who can sell what, or just ban the practice entirely. But that includes tiktok, so it being banned would be a good thing in my book.
This study was pretty much only about TV time. It took place before handheld devices were ubiquitous in Singapore, where the subjects live
I think there are ways in which LLMs will be very important, especially if we are able to get access to raw models /embeddings. That will let the models be extended to create new models and use cases. For example, personally I want to search Google and not ask a chatbot questions. LLMs could still be useful for identifying SEO spam and removing it from search results. Thus LLMs improve search but aren't giving me a watered down summary of everything I'm looking for.
Entirely reasonable stance. Previous story[0] about keyboard “security”: 8/10 tested were vulnerable to sniffing or injection. A handy summary table someone put together

Protocol Sniffing Injection
Plexgear Yes Yes
Rapoo Yes Yes
Logitech No Yes
Corsair Yes Yes
iiglo Yes Yes
Exibel Yes Yes
Razer No No

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123406
> these analysts used only black people as the "criminals" in their example video

Block targets Black Americans. This is like complaining about a gardening company’s analysts only talking about gardeners.
I used to enjoy the Mill CPU videos. Is there some good post-mortem explaining what happened to that project?
Opportunity for a startup to start selling these, however niche that might be...
No one is saying the system is nonsense. They are saying returns aren't predictable over decades. Buffett highlighted this a few years back: the returns from 1964-81 - zero. From 1981-99 - up about 12x.

These periods highlight that the returns don't meet any common sense definition of "predictable". Maybe if everyone was more precise on the definition of predictable it would resolve the discussion, but it doesn't appear that the common sense definition of predictable is met here.
not really, this is more like having a strangely knowledgable yet naive junior employee - I can tell gpt-4 to put something together that gets me 90% of what I need faster than I could possibly even type it, it’s reducing my known tasks
"When was the last time you got a 5x productivity boost from anything that didn’t involve some sort of chemicals?

I’m serious. I just don’t get people. How can you not appreciate the historic change happening right now?"

That's not how software development works. At all. The actual coding itself is but a fraction of total time spent.

Why aren't people more excited? Because for the vast majority of developers there's no tangible upside. When I'm more productive, will I earn more money? No, because everyone will have this capability. In fact, this will only increase delivery pressure on already overburdened people. When I'm more productive, can I go home early? No.

The only significant, widespread tangible benefit I see is that the type of work everybody hates doing (for example writing unit tests) becomes significantly easier.

The other aspect that the author seems to totally ignore is the mood that this might ultimate replace a lot of people's jobs. Or that it will intensify competition as development becomes even more competitive. None of these are considered good things for many people.
The report reads like someone who doesn't seem to like the target demographic associated with CashApp and the type of music listed...
It’s not groupthink, it’s how the library was designed. What’s wrong with understanding the tools you’re using?
"RSS readers and small search engines you haven't heard off but you're discriminating against :-)"

I'm 100% ok with that.

"I solve this with client-side techniques"

As a user, do you mind navigating these same approaches in the wild? Many time, I prefer leaving to solving a captcha.
> We had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating

Good moves. Blaming open source software when the entire frontend stack probably built on open source
".. and we can easily tell who is good and who is bad" - is the unsaid part of that sentiment, and the reason why it doesn't really work.

"Sex work" used to be called prostitution and considered morally bad by most people until about 5 minutes ago. That's why principles matter, otherwise you are at the mercy of the mob of people who will decide for you what to think.