skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please reread the point about Victorian porn, and how that "proves" sexual mores have never changed (it doesn't).

If we actually wanted to argue this: citing a few stories from back when, in which one really cannot discern the reporter's politics, will not do it. You can just argue, "that's one example. Look, here's this biased shit from the same period, see? Nothing's changed!"

No, if we wanted to argue if things have changed, we'd have to find someone who practiced journalism back then (as I did not). OR - we'd look at what the Journalism schools were teaching, except that many working journalists didn't get degrees in Journalism. OR maybe the manuals that media outlets gave to their reporters, if such things existed.

As for "post-9/11", you're already 30-40 years too late.
It is impressive and useful technology but Gates is misleading by implying that the LLM is doing "critical thinking", when it is doing the opposite -- shallow regurgitation of "information" (i.e. tokens).
I save my playlists every 2nd day with yt-dl(p) to an offline HDD since ~2009
> The fact that the physical space we live in has three dimensions also isn’t invented

The concept of "three orthogonal dimensions" is a pretty good model of the physical reality that is space.
As someone who has done some research on AI in the last 25 years I find this current iteration amazing.

25 years ago when I was just starting my Bachelor's degree, AI was in a sort of "hiatus". The "great" AI procedures were mostly rule based systems. We read about MYCIN and similar expert systems and how they could do amazing stuff. We also read about AI generating new strategies for Backgammon. That was amazing.

But during the 90s/2000s, nothing spectacular happened. We had some advances in neural networks, which were just an academic curiosity given their processing requirements. (I remember implementing a NN that could recognize vowels using C in school). We also had Genetic Algorithms, that were basically optimizers. We had some interesting implementations such as the Creatures game series and similar.

Then "Machine Learning" started gaining notoriety. Industry started using "Machine Learning" techniques to perform some types of forecasting. This came a bit later after "Data warehousing". I remember all the talk about hypercubes and that crap. And how Walmart would extract "knowledge" and place beer six-packs in the diapers aisle so that "dad" would impulse-buy beer when "mom" makes him go to buy diapers.

The ML time was an exciting time, and for some time mainstream thought that ML was AI ... but there were lots of other things cooking.

Now suddenly we have enough power to make non-trivial Neural Networks... and suddenly we have Deep Learning and these LLM with HUGE networks. And industry has just started looking at it. These are exciting times.

The other side of the coin is that during all these times, "mainstream" goal-post has been pushed and pushed for AI... what was AI in the 60s-70s (rule based systems like MyCIN), is not AI nowadays (they are just pattern matching, if-elses!! they say). What was AI in the 80s-90s (Genetic Algorithms, Multi-Agent systems) is not AI nowadays... and what was AI in the 2000-2010s (Random Forests, SVMs, AdaBoost) is no AI nowadays (just statistics!). But overall, it has been a very interesting subject to study.
I don't have an issue with his rural retreat, but calling Burlington a city isn't exactly conveying how quaint of a town it really is. It feels like a town I'd visit when I want to get out of my also not big city.
Asking honest question here - did Oracle change the terms back so that one can now develop and distribute applications using their JDK without fees so long as one does not also re-distribute/bundle their jdk with your application(s)? I just read something along those lines having thought that one couldn't use their JDK for anything without fee anymore.

If so, is there a reason to go with OpenJDK over Oracle other than GPL purity?

Again, legit question, no axes to grind.
Shareholders in public companies have the same power as individual citizens in voting for a government: in theory they have all the power, practically they cannot do much. The fragmentation of the power of the decision makers is what keeps corrupt governments and company execs in power.
> As I remember it the job market was doing well up until investments banks began failing in mid 2008

It was doing pretty similar to today in unemployment % terms until 2007, when that started getting worse too, with 6 years prior to that of declining incomes for virtually the entirety of the income distribution; if you call that “well”, then right now is doing great.
> Boring answer... but Chat GPT?

Trained on data up to September 2021.
Very cool idea, but it is asking for access to all github repos, public and private? All personal details as well?

You should really refine what you're asking for. I would like to use this for open source code and it should be able to do a great job, but this is crazy.
That being said, I do wanna point that a few individual devs at public companies have signed up and started using it.
Disturbing stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gordon_Meek#Investigatio...

Shame on Rolling Stone for omitting this

It's hard to find any way to defend Rolling Stone's actions. It's actions in 2014 showed it cannot be trusted as a reputable source.
I guess one of my own issues with AI, is seeing how the tools we already have, have been twisted by greedy, ruthless people (many of whom are on this very venue).

I was one of the people that started off in tech with dreams of a digital Nirvana. I ignored the "negative naysayers," and sallied forth, with an open heart, and hope for the future.

I'm really quite disappointed in what we've done with these marvelous tools. As I've gotten older, wiser, and a lot more cynical, I can tell you that, if I had known, then, about human nature, what I know now, it would have been entirely predictable.

I think we'll be seeing AI-driven scammers, calling and messaging us, almost incessantly, I think we'll be seeing AI-generated political manipulation, like fake videos and audio, of politicians and public figures, I think we'll be seeing AI-driven promotional campaigns, and almost undetectably subtle media manipulation, like corporations seeding news stories with their talking points. I also think that we'll be seeing AI-driven workplaces, where it will be hard to be simply human, and AI-driven surveillance, by authoritarian regimes (and people right here, will happily sell it to them).

I want to believe that we'll do good, but bad pays so well, and there's outright scorn for doing stuff for any reason other than pure, personal profit.
> For example, Aldi can just decide to hire a contractor that they know does good work at a reasonable price. In contrast, the govt has to use a lengthy fair and open bid process and if they want to select a bid that isn't the lowest, it's a painstaking process to justify that selection.

It's unfortunate, but probably better than the corruption that anything else will enable in the long run. Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. For government spending, lowest bidder is the worst form of contracts, except for all the others.
It's one of those /If you have to ask, you can't afford it/ scenarios.
The web felt like both a simultaneous step forward and backward from HyperCard.

I think the web would have evolved quite differently had their been a good PowerPoint like gui design tool for building sites, one that wasn’t focused on the backside.
Not everyone requires “just right” though. There are no wrong answers in art.

Although in this case, it’s an adobe product, the only people who will use it are artists.
AWS, or Google Collab etc resemble more paid on demand cloud instances of something like petals.ml than they resemble Netflix.

I don't see the Netflix model working here, unless they can't somehow own the content rights at least partially. Or, as it happens right now with the likes of OpenAI and Midjourney, they sustain a very obvious long term technical advantage. But long term, it's not clear to me it will be sustainable. Time will tell.
The illustrations in their Greek myths book were how the Greek gods and heroes looked to me for many years.
> All know 20 year old latex documents will be compilable in 20 years.

Except it's not. For example, in 2021, the NeurIPS template compiled differently in different versions of TeXLive (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/598567/different-pdf...). To my knowledge this change of behaviour has not been addressed in TexLive.

> Latex is horrible but makes beautiful documents and the relevant world either uses latex or Mircosoft Office. Why use anything else?

And why invent anything new when there are already existing alternatives? Why invent C++, Rust, Zig when there already was C? Why invent Clang when there already was GCC? Why invent Git when there was already CVS? And so on. (Maybe not the best examples, but that's what I could think of on the spot.)

The point is that there are aspects in which the current solutions (in this case, LaTeX) fails, and new systems can address them, since they tend to have much more liberty in the design space than the older system.
Oh thank you! Will go read and digest.
We were surprised too. We started looking for a solution at our last startup and never found anything.
Outperforming BLIP2 and Clip Interrogator
Hey, thanks! It's a limitation we have with the scopes that the GitHub API provides.

You can't limit which repos in an organization you're gonna give it access to, but you can limit which organizations you are going to give it access to.

Starting with an organization that has public repos is a good way of starting, indeed.
Thank you for expanding on my question. You are preaching to the choir here to some extent since I have worked with low level details of OS in terms of Linux syscalls, drivers, scheduling, networking, filesystems (and crucially built 6502 based systems without an OS which was the real eye opener to see what you have to do to manage memory and hardware when one is not there) enough to give a much more thorough explanation of what an OS is if necessary.

I have also never had an interviewer seem to want that level of detail. It probably depends on the job and the interviewer.

I am a little skeptical that there is a large enough pool of people out there who can meaningfully compare Linux vs a closed source OS like Windows, other than maybe current or former Microsoft employees. But I agree with your overall point that comparative knowledge is good.

I still struggle to find an accurate and complete single sentence definition, for if I were asked "what is an OS" in an interview though. Maybe I am being too pedantic and the best answer is just to start listing the parts or functions of an OS.
It's a nice idea, I quite like how it visualizes how bloom filters works!

In practice it is probably a bit too complicated to be used - especially once you take into account things like routing (you can either travel A-B-D or A-C-D) and indirect lines (One line goes A-B, another goes A-C-D-E-F-G-B. You obviously would prefer the second).

In my experience, the problem has mostly been solved by public transport apps, which simply provide you with an itinerary. For example:

Option 1: At 13:14, take bus 5 heading to Hauptbahnhof. At 13:45, take the train with destination Berlin-Spandau departing from platform 3 until it arrives at Sudkreuz. At 14:15, take bus 30 heading towards Tempelhof departing from stop A until you reach Paradestrasse.

Option 2: At 13:20, take bus 6 heading to Hauptbahnhof. At 13:45, ....

Combine that with a neat little GUI and there is zero thinking involved. No need to care about timetables and destinations, just follow the instructions to the letter. It can even auto-update when there are delays if the vehicles have GPS trackers.
The more you limit your timeline, the easier is is to predict the future. That's why we only have 10-day weather forecasts.
Saving a cropped image as an original with an edit list strikes me as a completely obvious and normal thing to do. It's an affordance that allows the user to go back and un-crop things. If you undertook a field survey you would find users who were glad for this feature and I imagine zero users who had been harmed by it.

I don't understand all the brouhaha.
Depends on the GPU of course but at the top end of the market AUD$3000 / USD$1,600 is not cheap and certainly not absurdly cheap.

Much less powerful GPUs represent better value but the market is ridiculously overpriced at the moment.
Agreed. Adobe has lost my complete trust and I've learned to avoid their tools. I honestly don't know what they can do to win me back. They're a damaged brand.
LabPlot 2.10
Glad to be of help. Just out of curiosity, what's your use case?
I appreciate the humour. But in the current climate I have to ask: you can tell that's not recursion, yes? Please say yes?

Btw, that's not how you suck eggs, being "you" a grandmother or not. To suck eggs, you:

1. Take a needle
2. Take an egg
3. Make a hole with the needle on one end of the egg.
4. Put your finger on the hole to close it.
5. Keep the hole closed.
6. Make a hole with the needle on the other end of the egg.
7. Put your mouth around the hole in the egg [1]
8. Suck hard, simultaneously lifting your finger.

And that, dear congregation, is the way to succeed, and the way to suck eggs.

______________

[1] Yes, that's the famous step where you get innoculated with all the good, healthy gut bacteria from the chicken's arse. People in the old days never got sick and that's just because they sucked so many eggs. See? Makes sense.
Facebook takes down llama-dl from GitHub via DMCA
That was something else; Twitter has a consent agreement with the FTC surrounding the privacy of its users (after they got hacked some time ago). Musk has been very negligent on actually making sure the paperwork is correct[0].

Congress requested for information on whether or not Twitter was properly following the consent decree when Musk gave Tabibi and the others access to the files. Twitter is legally required to assess the possible privacy impact of anything surrounding user data. That's all that was requested. They did not request Twitter to stop providing the journalists access, just that they had done the necessary precautions to avoid accidentally leaking out sensitive user information.

Tabibi of course screamed that he was being censored by the government. I leave you to your own conclusions there.

[0]: After the entire legal team resigned en-masse when they had to put their signatures down for something, presumably the new Twitter Blue. Musks current policy is that engineers are independently liable for FTC violations, which I'm pretty sure is not how it's supposed to work.
Definitely a pain point for many companies but I think you need to have a pitch directed at PMs too. Something that tells a PM "you need good onboarding and it normally takes time to build that. Implement our solution and you'll get better onboarding and access to data you want so that you don't need to beg your developers to give it to you."

You probably don't need to convince developers that they should use this, you need to convince a PM that this is going to make their lives easier (because it makes their own life easier and their devs'.)
Thanks for the reply, that's great info! I'll keep an eye out for the VCOM stickers, I had no idea that was a concern.

The waveshare e-paper screens I'm using come with some decent sample code for driving them, and I just found this Rust implementation that looks interesting as well https://github.com/caemor/epd-waveshare.

I do agree with you though that the idea of driving them directly with the waveforms sounds quite fun. I've seen some interesting stuff online where people have been customizing the waveforms to get even more performance out of them (maybe partial refresh would be fun to look into as well).

As someone who's only exposed to embedded development in a hobbyist way, that epdiy repo looks quite useful, thanks for linking that.

Now to find the time to add on yet more personal projects :)
Wow. I went to a school with perhaps 500 pupils total covering all 10 grades, and in retrospect I think it was too big. My own children attend a much smaller school.

I should add that there were some specialized classes available, like programming, in the evening where people from multiple schools were gathered.
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT-4 have better non-English writing capabilities?
I have tested the publicly available GPT-3 and while it's okay to very good, my language has gendered nouns I think is the word and has different conjugations of the words depending on the gender, the context etc.

Thus, I have noticed it not using them completely accurately. This is subjective, but the text generated is 80% accurate and 20% full of these grammatical issues.

Has GPT-4 improved in such areas?
In my opinion, markdown, LaTeX, HTML, ... is all a cognitive overhead distracting you form writing your content. That is why I started to work on MonsterWriter [1]

[1] https://www.monsterwriter.app/
Modified. Thanks!
bro they gaslit the whole country into being islamophobes for a solid few years there so we'd agree with the invasion of Afghanistan, predicated upon a former CIA asset supposedly having had some hand in 9/11, and then got us to invade Iraq because of unsubstantiated and ultimately false claims as to the existence of "WMDs," and then, afterward, they told us how shamefully evil we were for having spent half of the 00s being islamophobes (which was the case only because they gaslit us into being as such).

and we just rolled with it, blamed Bush at the end and called it a day, because hey, look, this hip young black senator is running for office and he's gonna Hope and Change everything and make it better (which didn't end up happening).

the news media has not been a force for good in my entire lifetime, but almost nobody (myself included) started seriously questioning it until a few years ago.
I wonder if you could start writing guides on Substack to monetize them.. I think the real problem here is that writing a 300k textbook on GameFAQs gets you a chance at winning some swag, but 40 hours of YouTube videos can actually pay out in the form of money

Then again, even though World of Warcraft sites pay guide authors, the guides are super formulaic and low quality... even though I despise video content, I end up getting most of my detailed info that way
Issues like this are why I write everything into scripts and pipelines, even the munging. This way everything is documented: the environment, the input, the output, the log file, what ran, and longform comments with why I was doing it.
>> The root cause is that TSMC raised prices in everyone.

This is not correct.
Calling something unusual behavior, which is unusual, is "victim blaming"? Stop tilting at windmills.
I imagine the approach will be to treat it as a spy/propaganda network operated by a hostile foreign state. I'd be amazed if such a thing was protected by the first amendment.
An intuitive explanation for a lack of cycles in the Collatz conjecture
As you traverse from one number (n0) to another (n1), n1 is either n0/2 or (3 n0 + 1). For a cycle to exist, the product of all of the increases must equal the decreases — you need to wind up exactly where you started.

For example, the trivial cycle 1 => 4 => 2 => 1 has one increase of (3 + 1) = 4, and two decreases of 2, also equaling 4.

For the alternative rule where odd numbers go up by 3n + 5, there are some cycles, like 19 => 62 => 31 => 98 => 49 => 152 => 76 => 38 => 19. The increases here are approximately 3.26, 3.16, and 3.10, the product of which is exactly 32, or 2^5.

As n gets larger, (3n + 1) approaches 3n. n=10,001 to 30,004 is an increase of 3.0001, for example. So as n gets larger, the product of the increases is near a power of 3, and that has to exactly equal a power of 2.

For small cycles with just a few odd numbers, this number is quite close to a power of 3. 3.0001^4, for example, is 81.01, a tiny bit larger than 81. Clearly, we need a big cycle with a lot of odd numbers so that the little error gets magnified. However, as the power of 3 gets larger, the next nearest power of 2 remains far away, as explained here. https://mathoverflow.net/a/116960

So, as you try ever larger values of n, you need ever larger cycle lengths to get the increases to produce a power of 2, but that power of 2 gets ever farther away. This is why all the cycles you can find for various rules tend to be of smaller n.
Account created 58 days ago. FTX collapsed in November. So.... Especially likely it was meant to be sarcastic, especially with the "bro" suffix
Carnival of Ivrea
Nice, if the connectors are MIT licenced but you've got your own server, that's great.

It might be worth differentiating the product further. Right now, looking at screenshots, it looks like a re-skin. I realise there's only so much you can differentiate an ETL service, and that the LLM feature is the main differentiating factor, but I do worry that it's very close right now.
Ok. Good to know they are not killed by a foreign invader. It’s just that their deaths are caused by a foreign invasion. Good, I guess citizens of the invading countries can now sleep well.
> How many crises do we have to go through before we admit the fed and banks either have no idea what they are doing or they know exactly what they're doing and it's malevolent?

Considering how bad things were before the Fed, quite a lot before there is support for the idea that it isn’t making things better.
This is my standard for serious photography: https://petapixel.com/2022/05/22/photographer-builds-giant-c...

If you aren't shooting giant format wet plates in your own custom-modified darkroom bus, then you're just an amateur like the rest of us.
Oh, that’s actually way worse than I thought! It’s not that these apps have some kind of undo feature or are aiming for non-destructive editing, and that’s not what users expect - the apps actually are attempting to perform redaction and they’re poorly implemented.

Kudos on the name by the way, I love a good tight pun name for a vulnerability.
Intel Shakes Up Corporate Leadership
JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview)
Sounds like you rasterized the pdfs.
I got very let down by GPT a couple of days ago after I asked to give me a couple of options for Korean food in a specific city in Mexico (Torreon, Coahuila), including their address. The thing very sure of itself named 3 restaurants and their corresponding address in that city. But they were completely wrong; the name of the restaurant I think is one from California, and the address is an address for some public office in Torreon, Coahuila.

I was very excited by GPT when it came out, but this showed to me how an absolute confident bullshiter it is. It can't say "I don't know".
Printing headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service
It's crazy to me that no other hardware company has sought to compete for the deep learning training/inference market yet ...

The existing ecosystems (cuda, pytorch etc) are all pretty garbage anyway -- aside from the massive number of tutorials it doesn't seem like it would actually be hard to build a vertically integrated competitor ecosystem ... it feels a little like the rise of rails to me -- is a million articles about how to build a blog engine really that deep a moat ..?
It's not about GPT-3 or GPT-4 per se. It's about the rate of progress and the development of Theory of Mind.

GPT-4 plays ~1400 level chess having never been taught the rules of the game explicitly (except for potentially reading them on one of it's ingested webpages)
The reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251387 was posted 12 minutes after the 25,228 word article I linked. They didn't read it.