skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that way because part of the problem is that grievance has become the most valuable currency.

Food here is, empirically, still unbelievably cheap. I can buy a 500g bag of spaghetti for 28p, lentil and beans are cheap, bread is relatively cheap, chicken is so cheap that you wonder how safe it is...still...but the problem is that in the UK, if anything doesn't benefit you immediately then people will complain.

RM...they had a monopoly, their workers are almost always threatening industrial action, like they aren't "hanging by a thread"...they have a licence to print money, workers just won't turn up to work because they feel aggrieved.

NHS...funding is through the roof, the biggest individual component of the budget with a deficit of 5% and tax % of GDP at all-time highs...workers on strike, "they get paid more in Australia" (true of almost every job in the UK because Australia also has significantly higher CoL).

Crime? Again, we have an underclass of people who commit all the crime, repeat offenders often walk free over and over, shoplifting isn't investigated, robberies aren't investigated...and people wonder why it is attractive to commit crime?

Poverty hasn't increased, unemployment has dropped like a stone over the past ten years, all this time we have people like you: the economy is in FREE FALL, poverty is going to rise soon...it hasn't happened, the issue we have is that people are constantly feeling aggrieved. This seems to be a disease of the West too, you see the same thing in the US where there are real economic issues but there is very little discussion of them...all it is just single-dimensional, "things have never been so bad" grievance-building.

But no, nothing has really changed. Life carries on unsurprisingly. The UK has issues, food prices aren't one (in fact, food prices are far too low still), problems that do exist remain unaddressed, problems that don't exist absorb all of the attention.
I think ultimately some shaking up for industrial law is going to have to stem from religion. Nothing else seems to do the job, of rolling back the eternal grinding of intellectual rights to think & be that legal corporations press against us.

Maybe we just all become gnostics. This is a tool the Archons & a prison binding myself & humanity & I have a moral obligation to smash through these deceptions & falsehoods.

But I think a less formalized structure (unstructure) of beliefs & faith needs to emerge & be recognized. Some disorganized religion is necessary to embue pertinence & meaning in religion today.

Personally anti path dependence has become high in my personal pantheon of spirituality. Whether humanity is free & enable to think & reason about the world about us & capable of making new or different choices defines whether we get to stay homo sapien, man the toolmaker, or whether superorganisms tame & quell our inquisitive aware spiritual/scientific souls.
Assets are deflating at the moment though. S&P500 is down, property prices are down, etc. Asset prices are highly inversely correlated to interest rates, so for a 'rich' person you are actually much better off without inflation, as interest rates are lower and asset prices rise faster.
When I think of the convolutions of the brain I think a little of "3D NAND" products which are built around trenches

https://newsroom.lamresearch.com/Tech-Brief-Memory-Grows-Up-...

My understanding is that the cerebral cortex has several layers of active neurons "grey matter" in a folded but basically 2D structure and there are bunch of axons "white matter" that connect those layers to other parts of the cerebral cortex and also to other structures that are structurally different such as the brainstem, hippocampus, cerebrum, etc. that evolved at a different time.
I've been off beef for a long time now (family of 5). My grocery bill is $2k/month and my kids are still young. I can't imagine what it'll be when they're all teenagers.
The emphasis in Dalí is on the second syllable, which is at least different from Dolly. I've always pronounced Dalai Lama the same as I would Dolly Lama, but Cambridge dictionary is saying it should be Da-lay in both US and UK pronunciations.

Tangentially, it seems like most of the results for both searches were autogenerated with TTS programs. I wonder if our pronunciations will shift towards TTS mistakes over time. Probably not, these videos only have a few thousand views, but neat if true.
> Mindset is one of them. Different priorities is another major issue

A big one that people overlook is an individual's ability to recover from a failed attempt.

People who have strong family ties, wealthy families, or other strong support groups, can rebound much more easily than those without.

A lot of people would be better off of they "re-tooled" as you called it. But they literally cannot afford the risk of trying something new in case it doesn't work out.

So many people take for granted their safety nets.
You can wear a colander in your driver's license photo: https://people.com/celebrity/pastafarian-wins-right-to-wear-...
will you be publishing the trained 13b model?
They are saying that client-side only "ACL" is sloppy and that could be an indication of even more internal slop (of which title-leak may be another symptom)
This would be great, a visual UI builder that behaves like WinForms but using web technologies.

Ideally the tech should be remain stable for 10 years or more.
> The amount of people who create genuinely new things

The question isn't really about "genuinely new things". The number of permutations of existing things is such that at any given job you're likely to do old things in a new way.

E.g. you'd think that all streaming services are the same. Superficially, yes. Internally, Netflix, Disney+ and Apple Tv+ are likely to be different as night and day.
Cries in a11y

- Unnecessary & inaccessible interactivity (hold button down)

- Hiding critical information within animations

- Extra sounds competing with screen readers

Cute page but wholly impractical for building accessible web products.
Lmao, people aren't willing to pay a monthly fee for anything unless they are absolutely forced to, but they also complain about ads.

The big issue is moving free with ads ---> paid with no ads + extra features; people froth at the mouth.

Hell, just Youtube premium gets enough people angry, being self-entitled and furious that YT dare charge for a service w/o ads, or complaining that it's the creators that generate all the content anyway. Meanwhile my brah YT over here having to host/serve hundreds of thousands or even millions of "24 hours of black screen" or "100 hour timer countdown" or "1 week 168 hour timer countdown", like what the actual fuck.
I don't understand this. How would being open source mitigate the risks of the technology?
ChatGPT Users Data Leaked
> If Sam Altman really wants to show that he's not doing it for money / power, he should give up his board membership.

Why would he want to show anything? Maybe he likes the work.
>Making a lot of money at BP, parties every weekend

Sounds just like the roaring twenties.
P R I C E C O N T R O L S
Nearly all inflation is tied to inflation in cost of energy. Food is especially related to energy cost, since the core cost of modern food creation is the cost of fertilizer and operating artificial growing environments (greenhouses, metered and pre-mixed feed waters). Energy is going up, so food is going up, this impacts Europe more than the US, because they operate in different energy markets. More generally, for almost all goods, the cost of transport went up, both because of the cost of energy, and because of challenges with logistics during the pandemic that have not fully subsided.

Energy costs are the primary driving factors for the cost of nearly all aspects of modern life.
Phone books are copyright protected, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

"In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor wrote that copyright can apply only to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc.—not to the information itself."

Here, the weights are also not even facts.
I don’t know, I feel like it really does change how we can interact with a computer.

It feels like we are headed to a world where we can interact with a computer much more like they do in Star Trek; you ask the computer to do something using plain English, and then keep giving it refinements until you get what you want. Along the way, it is going to keep getting better and better and doing the common things asked, and will only need refinements for doing new things. Humans will get better at giving those refinements as the AI gets better at responding to them.

It is already incredibly good for being such a new technology, and will continue to rapidly improve.
On the other hand, according to certain parts of the UK press those riots in France are a sign that their politics is far healthier than the awful state of politics here (looking at you, Guardian)...
What is an Archon...?
It's probably better to look at the margin, I could see how the profits increased in absolute numbers as people may have switched from eating out to home-cooked food.
Religions may try to impose restrictions on other people, but that doesn't tend to work out well (c.f. crusades, witch-burning, geocentrism etc).

If you truly believe in your religion, then it's up to you to not put your writings where they will likely be consumed by an AI.
> it will ALWAYS be out there, no off switch.

Well, to be fair, that's where we are anyway -- open source or not.
They do love to cite studies but there aren't any studies that back up their claims and not RCTs of their methods at all. Here's a good overview https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aafp-functional-medicine-la....
Ah, my pull-quote is confusing because it leaves out the context that the denominator here is all BNPL purchases, not all purchases.

That said, you're right that this could also just be a product of new offerings, as BNPL in point-of-sale systems is newer than BNPL online.
Kibology?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
It probably isn't an organized religion -- just this person's personal religion.
Dalí has the stress on the last syllable, hence the accent (but Dall-e probably not). In my native language Dalai is pronounced "Da-lie", like another comment says above. TIL Dolly is pronounced so similarly. I thought the Do sounded like Doberman, but apparently not.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly
https://archive.ph/3OQDa
I don't find game theory to be a convincing explanation. If public workers were forming unions for game theoretic reasons why didn't essential workers form unions during the pandemic. Most of those essential workers were part-time and had no benefits to speak of. If game theory were taking place, then we'd see a lot more grocery store unions.
Who even asks on stack overflow? The exercise is the generalize your issue, and then the thread from 7 years ago with your answer appears.
It will suggest plugins that don't exist
I guess there's a reason Donatello has much more notoriety as a ninja turtle than as a renaissance artist[1]

[1]https://xkcd.com/197/
Variant Founder Fellowship
Nasdaq's custody services for digital assets (BTC and ETH) launches soon
Yeah, the spying is not that bad...the problem is it's the chinese who are doing it
Glancing at the exchange rates the pound fell year over year 5% from a local max vs Euro so this is on top of the certainly high inflation on Europe. Also it is said that UK supermarkets lock in prices long term with domestic producers. But goods are somewhat mobile so the shelfs in the UK empty. And while it is just an anecdotal bit - our local Aldi here in Germany was selling British scones and shortbread.

While the exchange rates over the past decade mostly move sideways and the effect yoy should be one-off the current moves in the financial markets have potential for further disruption and the UK being more isolated will see her Pound fluctuating more with more immediate impact on people and business.
"Spirit" is downstream of economics.
I’d say they’re overly dramatic headlines. For example, the nhs is under funded, as always, but still functioning with long wait time s for non emergency surgery/consultation. Poverty is rising as a consequence of the cost of living crisis. The Royal Mail has always been an overly priced service buts there’s loads more competition. Personally, I reckon we should just let the service die!
Energy price in EU is at pre-war levels, as far as I know, for some months now. It definitely must be something else. I live in a country where everybody eats bread every day, and the price increase has been around ~80% over the span of a year. The price of flour has risen by around ~15-20% with all the "Ukraine is a major grain exporter" uncertainty since the beginning of the war. Corporate profits are unprecedented, so it cannot be anything else but pure greed.

Never let a crisis go to waste.
They address prompt tuning's issues in the paper:

"The other direction, as exemplified by prefix tuning (Li & Liang, 2021), faces a different challenge. We observe that prefix tuning is difficult to optimize and that its performance changes non-monotonically in trainable parameters, confirming similar observations in the original paper. More fundamentally, reserving a part of the sequence length for adaptation necessarily reduces the sequence length available to process a downstream task, which we suspect makes tuning the prompt less performant compared to other methods."

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2106.09685

This is key imo: "More fundamentally, reserving a part of the sequence length for adaptation necessarily reduces the sequence length available to process a downstream task".
Why do you believe that "open source" would imply greater safety? Here, I'll loosely define "safety" to be "avoidance of harm to individuals or society that would have otherwise not occurred without the use of LLM technology". Feel free to modify that definition as you see fit, but I'm genuinely curious what the argument is that open source is necessary, sufficient, or even a major component of achieving safety.
> You need to create your own copy,

It's funny because custom electronics are way more cheap and accessible than they used to be. In the 90s, I wished I could dump my game carts and saves. I saw someone posted PCBs to do it over ISA bus but I didn't have the skills or ability to do it myself. Recently, I found this open project that can dump that era: https://github.com/sanni/cartreader
> I saw the spark in me fade away, and it was toxic, and it was unhealthy

What does it say about you when your boyfriend/friend with benefits/boytoy says the relationship is toxic yet you continue? Thiel basically snuffed the life out of a close person. If that is how much he cares about close people, he does not care the least bit about the American population and anything he does should be met with skepticism.
So what actions am I supposed to take to verify that I am on the safe side? The blog post did more to downplay the problem than actually being helpful for the end users.
Interestingly social setups had 'billionaires' and 'everybody else' too, it was just way worse for everybody else. It's not like there was no unchecked ruling class there.
> Surprisingly, instruction-following does not seem to require the latest or largest models: our model is only 6 billion parameters, compared to 175 billion for GPT-3.

We started seeing this in our testing. OpenAI's Curie model is responding very well to our fine-tuning experiments for chatbot-style interface. I am trying to keep us focused on quality of training data rather than obsessing over raw network size. Davinci (and derivatives) might turn out to be overkill for our use cases.
The UK still has access to those markets. The problem is not that we can't import goods, but that there are fewer goods to import and they are being sold at higher prices.

For example, in January, food inflation in France was 14.8% and in the UK it was slightly lower at 13.3% and the OECD rate was 15.2%. It's not a Brexit problem; it's a production problem.

- https://tradingeconomics.com/france/food-inflation

- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/04/record-133-...

-https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti...
AMD and NVidia now use the same standard, which is PRIME for handoff and automatic shutdown using Runtime PM, and if needed muxes are handled by the vga-switcheroo.

On the latest NVidia/AMD hardware, no configuration should be required, unless you try to use Wayland on NVidia.

Unfortunately on NVidia you really need the latest hardware, both on the GPU and CPU side. If you do, it should generally "just work". Of course Linux is Linux and it might not.
> In an inflationary economy, the winners are rich who have valuable assets whose value skyrocket - think real estate, businesses, etc.

On the other hand, rising interest rates causes all assets to decline in value, and the decline is worse depending on how far away the "maturity date" is. It looks like the UK has been raising rates, similar to the US. [1]

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.a...
> Food is still cheap - it represents a small percentage of people's income.

If you look at it as an average for the population, sure. But that masks the real issue, which is that it hits poor people the hardest because spending on food doesn't scale proportionally with income.
Strange to group those two into a cautionary statement. Bill seems very happy and seems intent on leaving the world much better than he found it by spending his vast riches, while Elon Musk is Elon Musk.
In the US, M2 increased 70% in 2 years. Of course prices are going up. Anything less than a 70% increase means companies have a ways to go to catch up.
> And now I dread that all of this AI is just hype, that it will never be good enough to come for our jobs

Some day it will be. Not those ones, those ones are only hype. Also whether or not they'll come for our jugulars depends on what they are commanded to do. But we will get them eventually, and they will be as good as articles like this pretend the hyped ones are.

The funny thing is that nobody will use the current panic to prepare. And everybody will use the current panic as an excuse to avoid preparing once the real AIs come. So they'll get us completely unprepared.
Sweden hit 22% recently, it's definitely painful for many.
... and starve? You know what kind of people create content of their own dreams? Artists. And the stereotype isn't "well-fed artists" for a good reason.
In general there seems to be a weird zeitgeist of negative exceptionalism in the UK at the moment.

Not sure why but generally journos seem to write about issues like they are only hitting the UK when a simple google search shows they aren’t.

It does come across like a weird concerted effort to paint the UK as collapsing since leaving the EU. The majority of journos seem to be able to write only negatively about UK current affairs unless you read something like The Express who are delusional in their own right.

Most recent ones I can think of are the failed space launch and British volt going under.

These were both highly ambitious projects that had a high chance of failure, especially the space launch. It’s unlikely you’re going to get your first launch right, famously it takes many attempts.

When both of these happened journalists seemed to revel in the failure. It was very odd to see.

I understand with these two examples a lot of it has to do with government/brexiteer chest thumping which shon a spotlight on them. However it was still odd to see.

I think this then trickles down to places like HN (who’s membership generally has a bias towards remain) who also see an opportunity to revel in it.

This is odd as well because I can see why Britons or Europeans would be passionate about membership in a regional trade bloc, Americans who get really passionate about it confuse me. As a Briton I didn’t really care when America left NAFTA.

This is assuming the majority of people on HN are American but based on time zones and when articles are posted I’m probably wrong.

Edit:

This is a UK based publication writing about Groceries in the UK which is why it’s so specific. Your comment just spurred something I’ve been thinking recently.
> I strongly suspect that LLMs will not be the miracle (or disaster) that they're currently being sold as.

I am 99.9% sure that this is the case. The hype level is insane right now, and people (both pro and anti) are commonly asserting patently absurd things as fact.

In the end, I predict, we'll find that this is a powerful and useful tool, but it won't be earth-shaking.
That only works when parties A and B have meaningfully different policies in the area when you'd want to punish them. Otherwise, it's two boxes for the same gift.
I didn't realise that was the case for the public sector - my wife's a nurse and hers is provided.
Fertilizer prices have been historically high, which impacts the underlying costs of most things you buy at the supermarket: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2022/10/fertilizer-prices-so...

The root cause is economic decoupling between Russia, China, and the U.S.
Assuming that izzydata ate a poor diet before. They might just become malnourished instead.
> "property prices are down, etc"

Well, idk about your area, but property prices in northern Germany are still well above the 2020 mark.
Yep, it's almost always the mouse.

Many people, developers included, use the mouse to point and click when they need to change the caret position while editing text. If you do enough of that, the amount of precisely controlled movement involved quickly add up to repetitive strain injury on your hand/wrist. I've seen colleagues in their 20s/30s suffering from this problem, to a point that they needed to use the mouse with their other hand.

I'd recommend using the keyboard to navigate within a document. It's going to take some getting used to, but it'll be best for your hand health in the long run. Meanwhile, switching to a trackball (remember those?), a trackpad, or a trackpoint mouse, will definitely alleviate the symptoms.
I've seen a convincing argument that this is energy price inflation being passed on down the pipe. Certainly for out-of-season foods grown in greenhouses, leading to the UK tomato shortage of last month. (Anyone else see "max 3 per customer" on various fresh fruit and veg?)

The profits are inarguable. They really have never been higher. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/corporate-profit...

(note the table underneath pointing out that industrial production has declined at the same time as record profits)

Energy is a large part of that: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64489147
link to the official blog post is better
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/03/24/hello-dolly-democ...
You could look at how the EU handles the privacy issues for US companies that operate there.
It is all relative I guess? I lived in Spain for a while and noticed how out of season produce was very expensive and there was very little of it. In the UK we expect to be able to buy everything all year round and cheap.

Nobody stops to think how that was possible but that doesn't prevent them moaning when Sainsbury's only have 12 varieties of tomato on the shelves in December.
You are talking like inflation is some conspiracy wielded by “the rich” (who are they? Are they all friends with each other and plan all their schemes together?) against the “others”.

Fact is the inflation we are seeing here is caused by the after effects of Covid, the Energy price surges caused by the Ukraine war and in the special case of UK - Brexit, which has lead to huge import shortages due to increased bureaucracy at the border, etc…

So please stop this conspiracy talk about the “rich” creating inflation to disown the “poor”.