skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players
The average person with no training in teaching or education isn't going to do better than the average person with said training.

Your stats aren't all that meaningful for the following reasons. What percent of homeschooled kids meet the criteria for "structured homeschooling"? Without this information it's not a meaningful stat.

There is also selection bias going on. They tested reading, writing, arithmetic. Did they test algebra? Did they test biology? I'll bet a fair number would fail at questions regarding evolution or have a skewed view of historical facts.
OneNote development is aimed mostly at education features, sadly, not for us normal office rats.
Today's market share situation is mostly about the growth of mobile.
I fully agree.
We built our app testing parcour with about 10 phones, 10 nfc simulators and a Raspberry to orchestrate the whole thing.

The Raspberrys USB ports sometimes did not work properly and we feared that we could quickly kill the SD card.
Additionally the processing power was not that great.

In the end we switched to an Intel N5000 notebook with a broken screen (working HDMI) that we had lying around (used price under 100€,in this condition maybe under 50€).
The system now has aN uptime of over 100 days and works much better.
It works until it doesn't, but when it doesn't, it's disaster. When disaster hits, the buck usually gets passed. (Private profits, public losses)
Companies are ending lots of vendor licenses these days to cut costs. So it makes sense.

I am not sure what people uses Slack for. But Teams is perfectly adequate in my opinion. Not a good idea to have lots of Knowledge and process in a chat app anyway.
Reminds me of 37signals' Basecamp.

I am keen to see their OpenAI integration within Loop to collaboratively work on document drafts - from concept to tweaking to review/approval and finalization.
I'm curious where you live that you find more diversity? I also moved out of the bay in 2020, have lived a few places since and the diversity of the bay area is pretty much the only thing I miss.
I would love a product/service like this.

Seth is a brilliant man, he should start a company and build exactly this.
It's a question of scale.

Back in the day, a three-letter agency could send a person to spy on your 24/7. They couldn't do that for everyone. Now, mass surveillance is possible.

Back in the day, you had to send a letter in the mail or have a person calling someone to run a scam operation, and that had a cost to it. Email started changing that, but remained impersonal, non-interactive. Generative ML changes that.

Back in the day, traveling across the US took months or even years. Now, you can fly across in a few hours, or drive across in a few days. You're behaving as if that didn't change things.
>>because it's considered the safest investment

you are wrong right at the first step.

there is credit risk (risk of default) and for this risk, treasuries are still considered safest.

then, there is duration risk (risk of interest rates increasing) - and this risk has always been there.

Bankers know about these risks, it is just they were greedy and decided to go for the highest yielding MBS, instead of short-term securities. => and obviously banks suffered consequences.

for bankers this is Banking 101

One can argue that what is going on right now is market forces punishing the most greedy bankers (SVB, Debit suisse, etc)
A system with shared libraries also needs an update for the security fixes. There is no avoiding the update step. However, the only difference is the size of the update. If update process is robust, size of the update shouldn't matter, isn't it?
I think copilot is free in the education pack - you might have got it from there?
As Cyd Harrell says, "Cyberpunk was a warning, not an instruction manual."
External consultants (McKinsey, I think?) estimated 3.5 million homes short, and Gavin Newsom campaigned on building that much.

He's going to fall far far short of this goal, because he ignored it for the first years of his governorship, and is only making small moves now, but people trying to accomplish this goal are glad that he's starting to make these small moves.

However, any change will take multiple years to start having effect, and at least 5-10 years to actually solve, so even if he does all the right stuff, Newsom won't be able to say he solved until he's out of office.
OP was talking about realtors. Realtors commission is based on final price, why not portraying the market hotter?
I asked ChatGpt in plain english to cook some bash scripts for me and the examples are good. It replies in plain english and then generates working code that does what you ask it to do and then you can ask it to refactor or to change and re generate. Very impressive. Who remembers that ${my_string%%myword} shaves-off the word at the end of the string anyway?
Why participate in the hype?

It's highly likely this is the result of legal having mulled over the Copilot litigation and deciding that it can go either way or worse, so the top layer in MICROS~1 has decided to rush whatever product development they can use the general public for and try to hook as many people as they can to their stochastic parrots. Which they wish to insert into not just every other government machine, but also every Linux machine, preferably pumping out every line of code written with those.

It's better to support open source rights holders against this exploitation than getting one's nose brown.
I suspect barometer data from phones would be junk unless you can correlate it with other data. The phone’s barometer is sensitive enough to detect the pressure difference (altitude change) of a few cm. That makes it extremely noisy for detecting slow moving metrics like the weather.
Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell
Would love to! You can grab my email on my profile. Could you ping me over there? Thanks
> Though if the US dies it is not gonna save me either way.

yeah this is what i meant by this comment.
I agree that killing off the standalone app was a mistake. It's particularly frustrating as a paid app just up and disappeared.

> Part of me wishes they would listen to complaints and bring back the service, but I guess that will never happen.

Is there an instance where Apple listened to customer feedback on a scale of less than a decade? It seems to me that their usual mode of operation is to completely ignore feedback, and then after a decade or so, they come back with some portion of it and act like it's a thing they completely invented.
Which areas? Austin this is not the case anymore and I thought this was one of the “hotter” areas in the US.
Maybe something like "write the following as if you were a CEO" or some other way of prompting it to switch to a terse, direct, "high" register, would improve the results.
That's true, and PHP certainly has ease of deployment over Django. I generally deploy Django applications on services like Heroku or Render, but it can get expensive since you can't really re-use instances for multiple applications like you could with a VPS and multiple PHP applications.

But, at least to me, ease of deployment is less of a concern once it's going. And since I stick to one hosting provider and only have a handful of applications I maintain, its not something that crosses my mind until I spin up a new Django application which happens only rarely.
Loop components have been available in Teams and Outlook for nearly a year. Today's announcement is mostly about letting users access the proper web app.
It is VERY typical for volume to drop, while prices peak in high demand areas before volume drops to zero.
> We can still debate as to why they have been in a death spiral for the last 10 years, and part of it was that they did pretty much everything to avoid making a better browser that could have actually been a competitor to Chrome.

You clearly haven't been paying attention at all. Quantum 57 shipped in 2017 and was a huge investment.
> I'm not particularly convinced by the arguments for the necessity of these bonuses (at least not at this magnitude)

Constraining bonuses like this is only achievable via collective action.

Top performers in highly leveraged positions really do generate outsized returns. There are definitely people in certain positions who "take their margin with them" and so firms compete by offering that individual a higher percentage of the margin they generate and the nature of markets mean anyone who doesn't compete "loses".

You need a collective action mechanism (government) and the only solution we've ever seen in practice is a high marginal tax rate. Companies are less willing to pay exorbitant sums being taxed at 94% and individuals fight less for them.
Tell that to Microsoft. .Net's VS Code support is a joke relative to Visual Studio (as opposed to TS which is better on VS Code by far). People aren't using Visual Studio (and spending $3K+/year) because they WANT to.
It's free and electron because they can run it in a web browser, running everything on MS Azure. With code on GitHub and CI on GitHub etc etc. The whole dev experience offered to companies as a service via a series of web applications. Companies will love this.

Just get any web browser, preferably Microsoft Edge on a Microsoft Window Pro on a Microsoft Surface laptop. Open Microsoft GitHub workspace. To dev for your Microsoft Azure hosted Linux VM. Run the CI on GitHub. Use Microsoft O365 for your design doc. And Microsoft Team for communication.

Poor little Linux in the middle.
Of course, then Microsoft faced a major lawsuit related to their browser monopoly. That seems highly unlikely in today's regulatory environment.
Good. I'd rather not have to work forever. The whole point of this job is that I'm lazy. I don't want to do any work so I make machines do it for me. Why are people so attached to having to work?
All of that to buy something like a 2 bed, 1 bath SFH of 735 sqft built 76 years ago for $1M (https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1761-Geary...).
The quality of an AI should be judged on its ability to detect AI, or itself.

If it can’t then the quality of AI is exaggerated.
With cloud services, there's some expectation that your stuff is private. Copilot is like doing all your cloud development with an anonymous FTP server.
I'm not sure how globally applicable that point is, although it could be. Do you have a link to any stats? How do you define "overweight"?
A lot of this resonated with me as well: I'm FT remote in an organization that is a) increasingly pushing in-person collaboration and return-to-office and b) headquartered halfway around the world (+7 hr. time difference).

I, too, miss...

1. Regular discussions, since it's hard to make virtual meetings happen.

2. Physical workplaces. (We just closed our local office.)

3. Real-time feedback. (Everything takes 24+ hours.)

I, too, see...

1. Work at odd hours and non-work days.

2. A focus on execution over strategy.

And while the author holds the improvements for another article, I see:

1. Dedicated, uninterrupted working time.

2. Self-actualization.
Cashiers, already replaced by self scanners, fewer and fewer of them are found in stores, even if you do get hired as a cashier you usually make horrible hours now. Food preparation is another one hit huge by automation, where it's become normal now for companies to announce automated locations (like McDonalds and Taco Bell did last year). Server, bartender, same thing applies. There have already been police officer bots being tested. I mean truly the list goes on, out of the ones you listed really only electrician, construction worker, and mechanic would be hardest to automate.
Is there a consensus yet on when you should fine-tune vs when you should use prompt engineering?

It seems not that hard to include in your prompt “here is some examples, please write like this and follow the style set here”. While that may make every completion request more expensive (more tokens), it also seems like fine tuning these models can also be quite expensive.

I’m curious if there are other trade offs besides cost— maybe quality achieved is better with fine tuning? Very interested to see how it all plays out. On the one hand a massive model like gpt4 can probably be prompted to match any style quite well, albeit costly, vs fine tuning a cheap model may get exactly what you want.
Show HN: The Last of Us Intro Creator
For this demo, we're using the 8bit version here: https://huggingface.co/tloen/alpaca-lora-7b

We also fine-tuned and OSS'd a 30b version here that you can checkout (on the cleaned 52k Alpaca dataset) https://huggingface.co/baseten/alpaca-30b
MRSK vs. Fly.io
The private lender is most likely just making a commission on doing the paperwork to create the mortgage, but they're selling it to the government a la Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. It's what a "conforming loan" is. https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/conforming-loan
It's not really about can handle, but more is specified to handle at maximum length in a dense conduit.

At shorter lengths, and in single runs, it's always worth trying something beyond what the wiring jacket says. I've run gigE over a run with a small section of cat3 coupled to a longer cat5e run (repurposed 4-pair phone wire), and just recently setup a 10G segment on a medium length of cat5e. The only thing is while I think 2.5G/5G devices do test for wiring quality, the decimal speeds don't, auto-negotiation happens on the 1Mbps link pulses, unmanaged devices can easily negotiate to speeds that won't work, if your wiring is less than spec, you need to be able to influence negotiation on at least one side, in case it doesn't work out.
If we don't want this need to decrease cost of housing in high productivity areas, increase cost of travel.
I think these people making these choices are in another universe from most of us working folk, so understanding this behavior from one data point isn’t going to make sense. This could even be a second convenience home. It can be hard to wrap your head around that much wealth if you’re in more down to earth class.
I think Planner is on death's door for Microsoft. Rumor has it that most of the development team is now working on Project.
Yeah but the weather....
Thanks for mentioning the Firebase-based API. I knew it existed, but somehow I went with the Algolia API by default. I use their HN search quite a bit, so that's probably why I stuck with them. (no affiliation)
"Pay no attention to the rampant homelessness, addiction, and the culture of me vs. you ('If they're fighting with each other, they can't fight their government'), we're losing the corporate war with CHINA of all people, what's wrong with you?

You should feel bad for breaking the bindings of your thousand-year bondage."

There are many broken components of this system, and remote work isn't one of them.

They stood by while either corporate greed, or "multinational agreements" like NAFTA robbed the people of "mechanical work" by allowing corporations to move the production of widgets to low income nations. Trading a nation of middle class citizens, for more dollars in their quarterlies for the investors.

What other nations didn't get from those free-trade agreements, they stole in corporate espionage, and they got away with it.

You reap what you sow. We will die on this sword. Will you die on yours?
Yandex is incorporated in the Netherlands and the founders live in Israel.

I think they will create several spin-off open source companies (like ClickHouse Inc.) outside Russia to continue doing B2B business with the outside world.
"it will continue to explore ways to use AI to enhance creative expression"

If the goal was to make Bard indistinguishable from a human PR, they succeeded with flying colors.
I should clarify “vaginas without a penis or porn”.
The article discusses Candida which is a specific genus of yeast includes species that live with us humans, and can sometimes cause disease, mainly in immunocompromised individuals.
Most of the yeast being engineered with CRISPER is non-pathogenic [1] and is less likely to mutate to this sort of thing.
The mutation the article discusses is more like how bacterias evolve with anti-bacterial drug use. Much like bacterias, pathogenic fungi experience evolutionary pressure from their environment and the drugs we use to control them.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31280424/
That won't happen only using text. Language does not capture the full spectrum of thought which is what is at work in case of an expert. Companies training their custom models or increasing the model size, etc. won't change this fundamentally but it might help in some aspects. We need models that can observe/capture the "history" from everything else (i.e. physical world) in addition to text. Or perhaps mix LLMs with other models in order for our models to posses something we call "common sense". This common sense is needed when you transition from "Solution B" to "because we previously tested Solution A in another similar project". There are a LOT going on with this transition between A and B that might not be apparent to you.

But in general I agree with the basic premise of what you say in that, it will eventually happen.
A review steps sounds like a good idea. Our implementation involves very little interaction on the client side, besides setting up the datasets etc, so maybe a way to log information sent for later inspection would help.

I'll be looking into secure aggregation as I'm not fully aware of how it works. As of now we rely on differential privacy only.

Thanks!
Counter Strike 2 Announced
Note that this "one stop shop" is very much also key part of AWS playbook, and to a lesser degree also Google. None of the big players do best-of-breed besides rare exceptions
Counter-Strike 2 Revealed Out of Nowhere, Release Window Confirmed
Actually there was a period when they dropped Mac altogether and called it "OS X" (Mountain Lion era)
FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station in NYC $2M
Yeah, this is running in 8bit mode. The 30b 8bit version we released seems to do a lot better but it requires significantly more compute.

https://huggingface.co/baseten/alpaca-30b
It is not a fact. You are wrong on this. What meaningful left leaning policies have been implemented in the U.S. in the last 15 years?

Obamacare was a Republican idea designed by the Heritage Foundation in the 1990s. It was first implemented by Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. There is no universal health care, there is no universal paid time off, there is no universal access to pre-school, there is no universal maternity leave, there is no universal sick leave, higher education is still extremely expensive at the point of usage, bankruptcy laws are still draconian, still no legal or law enforcement reform.
> Seems like a housing price crash and AirBnB regulation would make them look a little bit less like geniuses, no?

Idk, I know of a ton of RE investors who would love prices to go down, precisely so that they can pick up more properties. And even if the town you're operating in outright bans AirBnBs, there are ways to pivot into other short-term rentals like furnished 3-month rentals for traveling nurse.
Loop isn't meant to replace OneNote. You can bring loop components into your OneNote pages though.
Looks like I get it through my organization.
I detect sarcasm, but perhaps not. This _will_ be good for those with dyslexia.
Analogies Suck
> How do these standards processes work? It seems like there's demand.

There was, and it has since been standardised.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertex...
No, I use in PHPStorm as a plug-in.
Interesting article
> My career advice usually falls within the framework of doing the absolute minimum amount of work necessary to prevent starvation, and then doing something that’s not about money, completely outside of supporting structures, and not simply a matter of “consuming experience” with the remaining available time.

But this is not a career advice then? More like how to live your life advice.
And this luxury of doing the minimum and it being enough doesn't exist in every job, if one wants to t have the luxury of doing so, he or she need to choose the right career.
Here in Ireland water (to domestic properties) is free - as I embarrassingly discovered when phoning them up to setup an account :)

In theory, I could leave all the taps on 24/7, however that’s A) abuse of a free service, and B) a complete waste of resources.

Even cleaning the car I’m very strict about turning the hose off when I’m using the sponges.
"The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission collected one sample from the asteroid’s surface in February 2019, then fired a copper 'bullet' into the asteroid to create a 33-foot (10-meter) wide impact crater."

10 meters seems like a pretty impressive crater for a science payload launched from a deep space probe. In case anyone else is curious, there's a detailed writeup[1] about the Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) that was used.

It looks a little bit like a swords-into-plowshares version of a HEAT warhead. A shaped plastic explosive charge simultaneously launched and deformed a copper plate so that by the time it hit the asteroid, the projectile was shaped like a hollow bullet. ~2kg moving at ~2km/sec, so about 4 million Joules, or about 200 times the kinetic energy of a .50 BMG round. That's some bullet!

[1] https://www.planetary.org/articles/what-to-expect-hayabusa2-...
Fair. Income vs. home price isn't much use because monthly mortgage payment is what matters to most people. Rent v. income is a good comparison, but might have the growing preference for more people living in fewer places (e.g. top cities) embedded in it.
$50+ in monthly subscription fees?

BRB buying some MSFT
My wife often asks me "but why would you care about the weather?" and I have to say that over the years I've either been ground down or simply come to understand her way of thinking. Yes it's sort of exciting to see graphs and charts and maps and stuff, but really - do I make any decisions based on what my weather app is telling me? No. Do I need an alert to tell me it's going to rain soon? No.

So, yeh, Dark Sky was beautiful but I'm not sure (for me anyway) a weather app is the necessity that many people claim it is.
To find it, you need to know that tapping on the hourly weather view gives you the temperature graph. Then you need to click the thermostat icon and switch it to precipitation. Only then is the information displayed. Once it's onscreen, the precipitation graph in the Apple Weather app centers on the full day view (with the current time in the middle) rather than just the future, which is what most users care about.

That's not the same as putting it front-and-center. Yes, the information is there, but the interface design is garbage.
With interest rates rising, the volume of buyers is dropping. In high demand areas, the folks who got lucky with a windfall or whatever, can still buy.

But the normal buyers will get more and more priced out, and the affluent area will end up with less and less volume as sellers start waiting it out because the volume of available buyers gets thinner and selling gets riskier.
Arguably, money printing in the fallout of the 2008 crisis didn't create inflation because it went to the wealthy. They bid up prices on houses and stocks—which aren't included in most laymen's definitions of inflation. The 2020+21 stimulus went to normal people who bid up the prices on normal people goods, thus inflation.
A bit sad that they’ll go the price discrimination route instead of improving Copilot

Gotta pay for those H100 I guess
Theres a house on my street in palo alto thats been sitting on the market for some 3-4 months.

Previous owner died, someone bought it and cleaned it up to flip it. It actually looks very nice.

No one is buying it though.