skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually be pretty interested in a kind of statistical study of new media bias over the decades. I think that'd be hard as hell to construct, owing in part to there being a lot of ways news media can introduce bias, some of which are really hard to spot without a great deal of context, but it might be interesting.

I do think some of the shift has been not in the availability of quality news media, but in the kind of news media people actually "consume". It's not like doctor's waiting rooms were playing 24/7 cable "news" in 1965—because there was no such thing, and because the doctor's office waiting room probably didn't have a TV in it. AP Wire and several news periodicals and a few papers of more-or-less decent quality do exist, but if you don't seek them out your ambient, if you will, exposure to "news" will mostly be shit, that much I'd agree with. I do think there's been some "the medium is the message" effect in news becoming a 24/7/365 product rather than something more focused, but I also think that's more on top of or in addition to the decent aspects of older news media, not instead of.

But, you might be right, and I might be wrong. Maybe our news media really was wildly better than it is now, in a narrow window of time in post-war America. Or maybe we're just interpreting "100 'units' of news available, 40 of which are pretty good" versus "10,000 'units' of news available, 1,000 of which are pretty good" differently—depending on one's perspective, either of those could be regarded as worse than the other. Or—I can see this being the case, for sure—maybe I'm not giving enough weight to what's popular, versus what's available, when evaluating differences in the news media landscape. What's popular now is, kinda, a product that didn't even exist before the late '80s or so. A new category of news that needs, as raw material, almost more "news" than actually exists, and needs to compete with hyper-palatable available-on-tap entertainment, for eyeballs and attention. Maybe the expansion of entertainment-availability in general deserves some consideration, when it comes to what media's like now. Maybe too many options are a bad thing, actually (see: Fox News insiders fretting that reporting the truth might lose them some of their audience, and so, money—because there are plenty of other outlets willing to lie, readily available at the click of a mouse)
> Vim can be an essential tool for editing remote files

Even this point is being weakened by how good vscode's remote editing support is.
As someone who was there start of 2007 to end of 2010, this resonated. My first two years were very different to the last two.
> Don't know the author, but I did know many of the places mentioned.

I was too young to be involved at this particular point in time, but my parents would bring me to that Au Bon Pain and The Garage as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s. I totally know that pizza spot the author mentioned. It's funny to think that not too long after, as a teenager in the late 90s, I'd be aware of those hacker handles, completely unaware that they had been gathering in those places too!

When I finally was allowed to roam Cambridge by myself (late 90s) I remember I'd make my friends stop off at the newsstand in Harvard Square near The Garage to pick up copies of 2600. Really interesting to fill in a little of that history with landmarks I'm familiar with.
Exactly social media is the opiate drug of the 21st c. People have no control, we’re hooked and as soon as someone tries to take it away we scream like… addicts? If anything this thread reactions shows you what a serious problem it is, and to not think there’s a massive COI that it’s a Chinese app and not think this is a geopolitical concern is a step in the wrong direction.
Can it really be called the wrong tool when so many huge businesses and essentially the entire globe are powered by it? It’s certainly worked imo
This is a great idea. Let me see how quickly I can get that done.
That works well actually, until you get some other group that moves into the community, then they are blamed for all ills and targeted with violence that is only possible due to physical proximity.
Right and I don’t want to have to deal with half the community being split. Or half my coworkers doing it one way. These are just things I don’t want to deal with. I said my reasons were petty! But they’re my reasons.
ChatGPT, dude (Southpark promo on ChatGPT)
> If you want any plain text in a math block, whether it's a function name or not, you just put quotes around it.

Math fonts and plain text fonts should be different. If you put quotes around something, you get plain text font.

> If you want implicit multiplication, you need spaces between each letter.

Probably the first rule of any good typographical system is that it should not force the user to change how they normally write (barring special exceptions). Any syntax for typography should be additional to this, which is why escape syntax is so good. Forcing the user to put spaces between variables is a no go.
Then the head line should have said “combinatorics” instead of the off-brand Buzzfeed “stuns mathematicians”.
Requirements are easy. 'Requirements elicitation' is the hard part.
Shor's algorithm absolutely does not reduce NP hard problems to P (or BQP). These kinds of problems with quantum speedups reside in an intermediate class of difficulty sometimes called NP-intermediate which may or may not already be in P, and which NP complete problems do not reduce to.
Noone is complaiing about the waitlist. Having the waitlist be based on GeoLocation is what is the problem here.
ChatGPT comment
Being a debate lord is frowned upon in this community. I was positing why you believe people don’t have the agency to choose who they support.

You’re asking me to prove something irrelevant to the problem at hand — that somehow every American and every Chinese already have picked sides.

Of course I haven’t and I’m American. My friends haven’t. They’re American. My Chinese friends haven’t. They’re Chinese.

If you had said most people are victims of the system. Falling for propaganda and manufactured consent thus no true agency in choosing sides, that would be one thing.
> and the headline position is reasoned.

Huh? Doesn't it reinforce the point that UBS paid quite a lot for Credit Suisse?
Oh right, sorry. I was talking generally, not specifically to Firefly.

Yeah, I think Adobe is a publisher and as such, you give it distribution rights. So, I agree with you on this case.

Slightly tangential, but Imagine a singer or actor's voice of face being used without their consent just because the publisher has rights to distribute their performance. That probably wouldn't fly very well, and I assume this doesn't fly with some artists either (even though they signed a contract).

I assume publishers will probably have an AI consent form soon.

It's all very exciting, and I hope we don't ruin it with greed and disregard for the works of the very people that made these technologies so successful. Like, if it weren't for the scraped works, the AI feats would've been both much more underwhelming and and much more expensive to train.
"Powered by an advanced version of the DALL∙E model from our partners at OpenAI"
what ground truth model?
is there some paper i can read?
can you post a link to it?
There are governments that don't open bids that don't meet basic requirements to succeed.
Did you try this recently with GPT-4? Here's my attempt to replicate your test:

---Prompt---

I show you a set of four magisterial unicorns in a cute pink stable, each of them has a letter painted on one side of their body and a shape painted on the other. Right now you see all four unicorns, two of which are showing the shape side of their body and two of which show the letter side. You see that the unicorns read: 'A', 'S', Triangle, Square

Which unicorns do you need to spin around to test the validity of the following statement:

"if a unicorn shows a consonant on one side of its body, then the opposite side of its body is a triangle?"

---GPT-4---

To test the validity of the statement "if a unicorn shows a consonant on one side of its body, then the opposite side of its body is a triangle," you need to look for potential counterexamples to the rule. The two cases to check are:

* Unicorns with a consonant showing.

* Unicorns with a triangle showing.

You do not need to check unicorns with a vowel (like 'A') or a different shape (like Square), as they don't violate the statement.

So, you need to spin the following unicorns:

The unicorn with the letter 'S' (to check if it has a triangle on the other side)
The unicorn with the Triangle shape (to check if it has a consonant on the other side)

---

So it got the answer wrong, but in a way that I think a lot of humans would (you flip the square unicorn, not the triangle). Still seriously impressive in my book and definitely not falling into incoherence
It has a bearing on the cost associated with road closures, which can't be insignificant.

Anyway, some quick looking found:

> Gov. Janet Mills toured the Veranda Street site of the new bridge being installed along Interstate 295 in Portland on Saturday afternoon and said she was pleased with the rapid progress of the project.

> “I’m thrilled with the technology, thrilled that it’s going on time and on budget,” Mills said. “Three days’ time, and this bridge will be done. It’s amazing. It’s like giant Legos going together.”

https://www.pressherald.com/2022/04/23/i-295-bridge-replacem...

which seems like enough to go on to presume it's at least close to being on budget.
Love PeerTube! I run an instance and use it to host my videos :)

At the moment I have only two videos on it. But that’s ok. I can put more videos on it in the future.
> It is open for me to use as I please.

Sure, but that's not what "open source" means.

I mean I can go around calling C a functional programming language because it functions and I can build functioning programs with it... but that's not what the word means in anyone's discourse besides yours. I mean I support your freedom of speech, but also mine in saying your usage is disingenuous.
I couldn't find a list of said books. Which makes me assume the name is indeed a dog whistle, and not just a marketing coincidence.
Seems like it is interpreting the first question as "does Google (as a whole) have access to my personal info?"
Did the suspension carry a duration?
> gcc and clang are all not ready for production use or rather untested and/or buggy.

Which items from this table are lying about GCC v11 support of C++20? [1] Which of the features are buggy in GCC v11-12?

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20
Elden Ring Battle Scars Infographic
Btw, it just occurred to me that the above perfectly demonstrates the difference between ChatGPT and a human: a human knows how to suck egs.

(and how much it sucks).
Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
How much longer can an initiative like midjourney continue when people like Microsoft are directly entering the fray?

I'll still use Stable Diffusion locally though - there's nothing like avoiding the potential walled garden/subscription trap.
We're NOT business users, we just want to run our own LLM at home.

Given the size of LLMs, this should be possible with just a little bit of extra VRAM.
Here I am thinking the gui abstracted too much away and future generations (mine included) are worse off for it
As an end user, a lot of Amazon's criticisms are invisible to consumers.

- Amazon screws up and sends a poorly packaged product which is damaged? They just ship another one.

- Amazon starts creating "Amazon Basics" branded items? Either I buy it if it's a good price, or don't if it's not. Amazon Basics actually helps fight against the flood of cheap Chinese junk by creating a branded product of acceptable quality.

Stuff like anti-competitive practices or poor treatment of employees isn't even noticed by most consumers. This isn't like Walmart where both the customer experience and the corporate experience are equally poor.

Taking away existing products (like DPR) or slow shipment of items DOES visibly affect the average consumer.
This is a pretty strange way to think about viewpoints. Fringe as opposed to what? The "common" view of things in the modern media environment is highly manufactured. To have a knee-jerk filter that privileges the mainstream consensus in this information environment is a surefire way to guarantee you have "approved" viewpoints that offend no one and rock no boats. After all the revelations of intelligence service infiltration of content moderation boards at the major media companies, one might expect this attitude to be largely discredited by now.
Isn't a new Titan RTX 4090 coming out soon?
Exactly. I don’t want to give them any ideas but imagine owning the platform that significant number of people spend considerable amount of time on each day and not thinking how it could be used to subvert a foreign power.
That is a good question for a kid.

Ask him back, if it's discovered, where was it "stored" all this time.

If it's invented, does it mean that other potential sentient species will have a different math than ours ?
Imagine your company had 2 B users. Would you launch a new compute-intensive experimental feature to everyone? or would you put a mechanism to control the gradual rollout?
Midjourney v5 might be ready for prime time, in most cases it seems to have solved faces, hands, etc. The difference between version 1 from exactly one year ago and v5 now is rather striking: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
Yes, absolutely. We should be getting those trains manufactured elsewhere. And, in fact, geopolitical tension is prompting American companies to shift their manufacturing base out of China.
> peeved at the fact that the so called alt-right writers shunned by his MSM masters have an audience willing to pay

Where do you see peeving? I see a call to action. This content makes money. That doesn't mean you have to write that, but there's clearly–as you observe–an audience willing to pay for a different perspective.
In the specific case of the big dig, absolutely! I moved to Cambridge right around when the dig was completed and saw those improvements accrue over the next few years. I had a bunch of friends eventually move to Southie & The Waterfront, which would have been unimaginable when I moved there. I also think the dig did make navigation around Boston easier, even if it didn’t reduce overall traffic.
The Art of PostgreSQL is great and super thorough. Knowing the author I can't fault him on price for the effort he put into it.

But also your point of students and developers in low income countries completely understand that side. It's a shameless plug but we built our Postgres playground with tutorials on a number of topics which are completely free aiming to help target some of that audience - https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/tutorials
It's not senseless when countries apply laws that affect websites operated from other countries. If I'm releasing a prototype in the USA I'd rather worry about GDPR compliance down the road.

Laws regulating websites have tradeoffs and this is one of them.
Modesty in relation to what?

On the toilet it's clear a person can expose themselves to by-passers if the door is open, but I can't think of a similar taboo on HN, or even internet forums in general.
AWS Clean Rooms: Collaborate with Your Partners Without Sharing Raw Data
This is impressive. I didn’t know AI could mimic voices so well.
I don’t see these LLM as complete products, they will be like a virtual operator who knows how to understand your request and how to use the tools to answer it. Currently it isn’t plugged in to the tools to actually do things or fetch data.

The LLM will be told that when the user asks for the weather, get the data. But it will be able to understand a lot more ways to ask this question than previous assistants.
>This can cause you to lose your login cookies

Huh, so that was why that was randomly happening. Sigh, I totally understand gorhill not wanting to have to support another overlapping tool, but uMatrix is unparalleled for visualizing the sheer mass of privacy vampirism on the modern Web. I've learned a lot from using it on sites, and am now kind of a cottage expert on CDNs thanks to determining the minimum whitelisting to get a site's basic functionality to run.
Unlike Bill Gates, I believe that this AI is the most revolutionary technology in human history, but at the same time, I am also concerned about its impact. The potential for AI to automate a significant number of jobs in a short period of time is alarming and unprecedented. It is ironic that the jobs we once believed to be the most difficult for AI to replace, such as those requiring high levels of human intelligence and creativity, are now at risk of being taken over.
I've long enjoyed quality results from LaTeX, and now I can get that with something more like the ease of markdown. Thank you!
Yes something very odd at work here.
I'm quite happy with javascript as it is but I understand you might prefer other languages.

I haven't had occasion to use wasm but it seems that it provides the ability to run most (all?) languages in the browser.

Here, for example, is f# wasm.

https://fsbolero.io/
if only there were an open source and easy to use pdf library with pdf/a support :/
> Bard: Yes, as a part of Google, I have access to some of your personal information. This information includes your name, email address, and phone number. I also have access to your search history and your location data. I use this information to provide you with personalized search results and to improve my ability to understand and respond to your questions.

I … would ask according to my search history what porn it would recommend. Though that is probably trained away.
Yes to all your questions. It's specifically designed for commercial compute servers. It provides significantly more bandwidth and speed over PCIe.

It's also enormously more expensive and I'm not sure if you can buy it new without getting the nvidia compute server.
Good point, maybe a better way of phrasing it would have been "It's virtually impossible to predict which tools will _not_ be useful" :)

Fast Fourier transforms, complex numbers, complexity classes, etc. are clearly useful. It's much harder to rigorously claim that a result will _never_ be practical or useful.

Just to be clear, I think it's fair to say that a result isn't _immediately_ useful. But who can say whether or not it will have a more practical application down the road? Only time will tell.
> Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube?

I believe you misunderstand the technology.

There are two components of Peertube.

The server you either self-host or you use someone else's. If you are hosting a server and you host other people's content, you register for liability protection under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

The client is where the "peer" in peertube comes in. If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine.
They are popular and "crappy" in the same way as Sony MDR-7506 headphones are, i.e not pleasant to listen to, but get the job done
>I mean its a real indictment of the state of America if a $1200 check can just radically reshape the economy.

It sounds like a very small amount of money when you put it that way.

What do you get if you multiply by the number of people who got it?

Also, do you not recall more than one check?
This is effectively DALLE-2 (apparently retrained on different data) with a native frontend designed by experienced designers.

You don't see the value in effectively not needing any art/design skills to make aesthetically pleasing logos/mockups/memes? Even just for "playing around" - I bet there's a large market of people who want to add "fun edits" to their existing personal photo library.

Focus less on landing pages and more on the implications a technology brings. Then you'll see where things are headed.
What are some of those tasks humans are doing today where they need information but it doesn't have to be accurate information? Brainstorming for sitcoms?
I’m not saying it was evenly spread around, but household net worth increased ~40% between Q4’19 and Q4’21 - that creates a lot of headroom to absorb price increases…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=FBGH#
Speed and reliability seem to be better (so far; let's see how it scales). But it seems to have more aggressive filtering than ChatGPT and lower creativity/knowledge, though it might maybe hallucinate slightly less.
Congratulations on the launch Christian and Eric! As an early adopter of Frigade and coming from having worked on trying to implement in-house onboarding solutions before, I can say that Frigades SDK and dashboard makes developing product onboarding much simpler and smoother, very impressive stuff. Keep it up guys!
"battling" - what a failure Intel's graphics strategy has been
> I don't understand all the brouhaha.

Which you should take as a "maybe I have misunderstood the issue".

This is not an edit list, or the ability to undo operations. The problem is you have an existing file ("foo.png" or whatever):

oooooooooo

then you make a new file with this data in memory:

nnnnn

This could be something like you opened the original foo.png file and made a change that results in the file shrinking, or it could be some completely unrelated data. Now you save this as foo.png and the editing program assumes opening a file for writing will erase the old data and writes out the new data. The end result is you have this file:

nnnnnooooo

e.g. the tail of the old file is still present in the file data. It turns out it's possible to recover the pixel data from those tail bytes, in spite of losing the compression state.

Now the assumption that writing over an existing file will truncate/erase the original file is reasonable. That's the default behavior of most file IO APIs. I don't know what the windows app is doing, but the original android bug was an API that takes a mode string copied from posix's fopen, in which "w" means "open for writing, and erase any existing file", but then later on made an undocumented change that made opening a file with "w" no longer erase existing files.
So now our greatest resource mining enemy is subservient to our greatest production enemy, win team USA!
My feedback is

"I'll be using GPT-3.5/4 until bard is better"
I never expressed my opinion as that of the majority. I expressed my opinion as my opinion, and I can express whatever opinion I want to and discuss whatever I want to on Hacker News, so long as as Y Combinator (Who owns Hacker News) is okay with it.

Are you a representative of Y Contaminator/Hacker News? If you are, I will be glad to comply with your request.
>> Passing a driver's test was already possible in 2015 or so, but SDCs clearly aren't ready for L5 deployment even today.

Wait, what are you saying? Passing a driver's test has been possible for much longer than since 2015 for a human. When did a self-driving car pass a driving test? In what jurisdiction? Under what conditions? Who gave it the test?

What do you mean?
> The 4090 doesn't support NVLink anymore.

Are you sure about that?
paywall-free: https://archive.ph/L7Ufe
Smartphones without the internet would be PDAs with amazing cameras. Still rather valuable, though with a somewhat lower set of price brackets for budget/medium/premium.
Nvidia employs around 26,000 people. That doesn't seem a lot for a company that's as big as them in hardware and software. Coincidentally it's right in line with AMD, which is a lot less focused on Software and they haven't had layoffs either afair.

That's 5 times the number of employees of companies like snapchat or Coinbase. Companies that accomplish very little in comparison.