skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think a lot of the scientific value of LMMs won't necessarily be the glorified autocomplete we're currently using them as (deeply fascinating though this application is) but as a kind of probe-able map of human culture. GPT models already have enough information to make a more thorough and nuanced dictionary than has ever existed, but it could tell us so much more. It could tell us about deep assumptions we encode into our writing that we haven't even noticed ourselves. It could tease out truths about the differences in that way people of different political inclinations see the world. Basically, anything that it would be interesting to statistically query about (language-encoded) human culture, we now have access to. People currently use Wikipedia for culture-scraping - in the future, they will use LMMs.
The problem with that is the same as the problem with all modern AI, it seems: AI hallucinations, which get more plausible the better the model is. Humans see things, too, but humans can have the insight to know when they're unsure and leave lacunae in the transcription with a note to come back later and discuss it with others. AIs don't have that ability, and so always seem certain.
I agree, also everything made with Unreal has a very samey look to it.

Exceptions exist of course, japanese developers are able to get very cartoony visuals but that means they won't be able to use this metahuman 3d model and animation technology.
Bleach + ammonia? Chloramine. Bad.
Bleach + peroxide? Exothermic reaction that produces oxygen. Bad.
Bleach + an acid like vinegar? Chlorine gas. Bad.
Bleach + alcohol? Chloroform. Bad.
> What makes you assume it’s a moral judgment and not a liability/risk-driven business decision? I’ve almost never observed large businesses, including banks, passing up a chance to make money because of their moral scruples.

Amazon's firearm accessory rules seem to contain plausible examples of such. Permitted accessories include:

Vise blocks designed to hold firearms, except for those intended for "assault weapons."

Magazine loaders, except for those which can accommodate the following common rifle calibers: .223/5.56; 7.62x51; 308; 7.62x39; 5.45x39

Armorer's wrenches, except those specifically for assault weapons, particularly AR pattern rifles.

Hand gun grips, but not "assault weapon grips".

Implicitly permitted are jig kits except those for ARs specifically (no mention of other assault rifles/weapons. It bans "AR-specific jig kits")

Source with many more examples, many of them sensible restrictions likely motivated by state laws, but many of them perplexingly specific: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external... Is there any state in this union in which restricts sale or possession of vise blocks designed to hold ARs? Not as far as I'm aware.

They also restrict "Offensive and Controversial Materials", saying:

> We maintain these policies to ensure a welcoming environment for our global customers and sellers to do business while offering the widest selection of items on earth. We promote trust and respect, as well as adherence to the law.

> We exercise judgment in allowing or prohibiting listings and we keep our global community of customers and cultural differences and sensitivities in mind when reviewing and making a decision on products.

One of the examples of products they ban is "Products that promote intolerance based on race, religion, and sexual orientation.", which interpreted in an impartial manner would obviously ban the Bible and many other religious texts, but in fact Amazon doesn't actually ban those. They're exercising a lot of judgement in the application of these rules and many apparent contradictions can be found. For instance they claim they won't sell products which promote or glorify terrorism, yet they sell the Unibomber's Manifesto and t-shirts of Che.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external...
How do you enforce privacy laws with foreign entities? They can just lie and say they’re compliant. Not sure if courts in China care
Bea Wolf: a retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids
Obviously he was only concerned about optimization.

Just want to make sure that it’s understood the point I’m making is that I had an obvious injury, still showed up for work, still did work, and was met with nothing but reprimand by this manager that I had just met. So in this particular case the benefit of a manager going down to the trenches seems only beneficial for one side.
It's hard to leave hooks when you are using React, as they are everywhere. What people do instead is use something else next time they start a project.

Just look at the exponential growth of Solid: https://npmtrends.com/solid-js

This will happen fast. I'm not even using Solid - I like the html first approach of Svelte - but the writing is on the wall. The data is saying as much.

I was using Angular in 2013 when React came around. I knew Angular was dead as soon as I saw React. Took the Angular people many years to realize this, and many still haven't. I'm saying React is already dead. Svelte and Solid killed it. It will take a few years to play out, but you can see it happening already if you pay attention. The React devs are doubling down on the inherit complexity of React instead of cleaning it up - this is exactly what killed Angular and made people move on to something simpler.

I am extremely confident that this comment will age well, but we'll see :D
Who's to say though that it'll always stay a text format.

They could bring in calendar, payment, other UI functionality...

Basically they could rethink how everything is done on the Web today.
I hope you told him “nice chat, but under normal circumstances I’d be pretty upset that you took me on a joy ride costing me extra time and money.”
By not being a stagnant conglomerate, for one.
These "king gets wisdom from dressing as regular person" stories are great, and it's definitely a great idea for higher level folks to sample the ground truth themselves on a regular basis. CEOs are at a real danger of being surrounded by yes-men, and it's very possible that through conditioning and repetition they might actually start believing insane corporate positions.

However, there's a real smell of something going wrong from them as well. The CEO working a single shift noticed something that needed to be changed? Why? Did none of the thousands of workers who work those shifts every day notice that problem? Did they have no way to report it? Did those reports not get evaluated properly? Was there a manager in charge of the stores who did not notice the problem? Sure, fixing the problem is great, but if the CEO needs to personally witness the issue for it to get fixed, then there must be thousands of other issues not being fixed.
`FileSavePicker.PickSaveFileAsync` manages to be redundant and ambiguous at the same time. Definitely wouldn't want to guess what that might do.
>> “The immediate reaction from the team was that it looked like a Bundt cake. It’s very round and with steep sides and a curved top that slopes into a crater in the center,” according to Neah Baechler, the lead surveyor for Saildrone.

I feel there's very few things that can be described using cakes.
I appreciated it :)
I had a gym membership that I wanted to cancel because I had moved, and their closest location was no longer convenient.

First, they tried to tell me I had to go back to the location I had originally signed up at in order to cancel. No phone cancellation options or anything. I guess if I had moved more than a few miles away, I'd be out of luck.

After some fighting, the closer location let me fill out a paper cancellation form. The cancellation form had a very clear section that showed "paid in full" and "$0 remaining due." Despite this, I got a bill a month later for my "final month." I refused to pay it, obviously. They harassed me, calling me daily. Only once I posted a poor review online did someone finally decide the $50 (or whatever it was) wasn't worth it.

They gym itself was a fine gym, but these billing practices are scummy scummy scummy. I refuse to sign up for any other gym (except maybe a local rec center) until there's more legislation to protect my consumer rights. The cancellation nonsense isn't worth my time.
I've only been old/educated enough to follow it since around 2000, and there's been a direct correlation between fed policy and the markets. After 9/11 they dropped rates which created the housing bubble, then when they tried to raise interest rates the housing bubble popped in 2008, so they lowered rates again. We've been at near 0 percent interest for years, creating the current bubble/inflation. They are now putting downward pressure on the money supply which is causing the banks to crash, housing is not far behind, etc.

This isn't to suggest there's no other factors, but monetary policy is a major driving force in the boom/bust cycle.
Was he the guy who promised to make their pricing easier to understand with clearly labelled discounts without coupons? He is. Then he probably did spend time in a store because confusion over sales and extra time at checkout were common at JC Penney. His plan would have made the shopping experience less complicated.

The problem is it didn't translate into improved performance. The opposite actually. Because what customers say and what customers do aren't always the same thing. They may complain that there are too many coupons. But when given the choice they preferred using coupons.

So he got sacked and JC Penney went back to the old pricing scheme. By becoming even more risk-averse no one after him even tried to pull the company out of its death spiral. In hindsight the plan would never have succeeded because the customers who would have appreciated the simpler pricing had already left. The JCP shoppers at that time were coupon hunters who resented the changes. He ignored the existing customers while chasing ex-customers who didn't want to return.
The video in the "Code Interpreter" section is a must watch.
Yes, I'm not commenting on the ban itself because I'm neither qualified nor am in possession of the data I'd need to have an informed opinion.

However, in general, I trust the EU's food safety rules a whole lot more than the US's rules.
You know who else was a "a highly regulated public company with regular disclosures"?

Enron
Apple requires this from all apps in the App Store. It’s pretty nice on the consumer side
A first party version of apps that have been built with langchain is great but I'm dissapointed to not see Jira here yet.

I have been playing around with GPT-4 parsing plaintext tickets and it is amazing what it does with the proper amount of context. It can draft tickets, familiarize itself with your stack by knowing all the tickets, understand the relationship between blockers, tell you why tickets are being blocked and the importance behind it. It can tell you what tickets should be prioritized and if you let it roleplay as a PM it'll suggest what role to be hiring for. I've only used it for a side project and I've always felt lonely working on solo side projects, but it is genuinly exciting to give it updates and have it draft emails on the latest progress. The first issue tracker to develop a plugin is what I'm moving towards.
The architecture for large language models is summarized in the training set for large language models. With fairly minimal modification such as via a plug-in, chatGPT and the like are Turing complete and can thus model themselves.
Fun fact: Montenegro has the longest serving head of state in Europe, Mile Djukanovic, probably making even Lukashenko of Belorus jealous. But don't worry, despite widespread accusations and suspicions of corruption, nepotism, and even drug trafficking, he is our ally... and hence not a dictator
I bet the Zapier integration is going to be an alignment/security dumpster-fire.

Now, when a bot gets prompt-hijacked into a malicious personality, it can make API calls to other systems! Great news.

Also, plug-in APIs will presumably be able to prompt-hijack the GPT instance that is calling them.

I would not be surprised if we see someone get swatted through GPT this year, I think it’s very likely to be within the next 2 or 3 years.
It's not such a good idea to choose what you dream. I hold a bit of a niche view on the functionality of dreaming, although I believe eventual research will hold me in good stead.

When one looks at the neurology of REM sleep, it is hard not to reach the conclusion that dreams are a form of "inverse anxious mind-wandering". As in the neurology of mind-wandering is activated, however the brain is (surprisingly) in an extremely relaxed state.

Norepinephrine (the fight or flight neurotransmitter) levels are 80% below base waking levels (Norepinephrine spikes when you are in a stressful situation), and the amygdala (threat detection) is inactive.

When we are awake and performing anxious mind-wandering (with Norepinephrine levels raised and our amygdala active), our mind-wandering has a focus/direction. It imagines the worst and this encourages us to take avoidant action; for example, you might wish to bring something difficult up with a friend, however you brain will imagine all the ways that it can go wrong so you avoid the potential confrontation. From a survival point of view, it is pretty useful for the brain to have a bias towards avoidance when awake.

I posit that during dreaming, the brain creates situations in which it would be wise to be unavoidant. However, typically, despite the situation we imagine quite clearly calling for unavoidant behaviour, we take avoidant behaviour. This is because our emotional/episodic memory areas of the brain are activated during REM sleep, and we automatically take the anxious behaviour we have been "trained" to take (our neuroses).

This, in my eyes, is the function of dreaming. To highlight our neuroses/unconscious redundant anxieties. For this reason, controlling the content of your dreams would remove their primary function.

I wrote a paper on this topic which contains several examples of dreams that fit this structure. (I'm afraid I do not have the time to type an example out now.)

It can be read here: https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz

It was previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590
I agree, but still needs an ending! Will this be a story of triumph or tragedy?
I think the problem is that in computer animation skin is allowed to stretch and compress in ways which is unnatural. Real skin is quite inelastic. It wrinkles and slides which creates the appereance of elasticity. Also, when real materials are stretched or compressed, they tend to form wrinkles in particular ways. I think that human eye can tell these very small discrepancies to guess that this material is not human skin (or any physical material).
He could follow ”Fat Leonard's“ path out.
> intellectual property is a component of private property

That is precisely the question that is disputed in discussions of copyright. "Intellectual property" in itself is an ambiguous term: does it mean the ideas themselves, or particular expressions of them? Copyright law says the latter: ideas themselves cannot be copyrighted (or patented), only particular expressions of them can. That is because ideas are non-rivalrous: people can give them to others without losing the use of them themselves. That takes away the justification for private property rights, namely, to avoid conflicts over who gets to use the property.

Prior to computers and the Internet, one could argue that particular copies of a particular expression of an idea, such as a book, were rivalrous: I can't both give a book to you and read it myself at the same time. But with digital copies that is no longer true. So the same logic that makes ideas themselves not private property, now pushes us towards not treating copies of digital works as private property either.

The original justification for copyright law was to encourage people to create works. But that was always a questionable claim, because nobody creates works in a vacuum. From the standpoint of creation, the Internet has made clear that many more works get created when there is free sharing of digital copies. And the Internet has also enabled other ways of paying people whose creative works you like, besides having to pay for individual copies; that's what systems like Patreon are for. So that original justification for copyright law has now lost whatever validity it once had.

The best piece of evidence for who really benefits from copyright law, though, is who is pushing hardest for draconian enforcement of it. Is that content creators, i.e., actual authors and artists and musicians, etc.? No. It's the media companies, whose business model depends on being able to, not to put too fine a point on it, exploit content creators by convincing them that working through the media companies is the only way to get them a large audience--and then siphoning off most of the profits for themselves instead of paying them back to the creators.
It would want text. High quality text, or unlimited compute to generate its own text.
> Libraries are a form of copyright infringement. Philosophically at least.

Libraries as a repository of knowledge and prose as a concept have existed for millennia.

Copyright is a modern device that was originally designed to protect authors, not publishers. Copyright law being expanded over and over again for the benefit of the publishers, long after the death of the author is far more out of whack, philosophically, than libraries having a few copies of a book on the shelf (IMO).
For microbes bleach is the equivalent of a cluster bomb. If you know it's coming you can evolve to decrease the odds of it killing you, but if you don't know it's coming there's nothing you can do.

One thing some bacteria can do is create spores. These are a main reason various disinfectants, including dilute bleach mixtures, say they kill 99.999% of germs, and not 100%. Spores are highly, though not totally, resistant to damage. They can even survive autoclaving at standard autoclave temperatures and pressures. But making spores is the equivalent of sticking baby Superman in a pod and sending him to Earth. Spores are the next generation, the adult generation still dies.

There are apparently better chlorine disinfectants than bleach which show good activity against spores: https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...

> Alternative compounds that release chlorine and are used in the health-care setting include demand-release chlorine dioxide, sodium dichloroisocyanurate, and chloramine-T. The advantage of these compounds over the hypochlorites is that they retain chlorine longer and so exert a more prolonged bactericidal effect.

> In vitro suspension tests showed that solutions containing about 140 ppm chlorine dioxide achieved a reduction factor exceeding 10^6 of S. aureus in 1 minute and of Bacillus atrophaeus spores in 2.5 minutes in the presence of 3 g/L bovine albumin. The potential for damaging equipment requires consideration because long-term use can damage the outer plastic coat of the insertion tube. In another study, chlorine dioxide solutions at either 600 ppm or 30 ppm killed Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare within 60 seconds after contact but contamination by organic material significantly affected the microbicidal properties.
That is a pretty niche laptop, I think the Framework folks are going more for the every day driver kind of experience. I've got a Framework 13 and really like it, it is, for me, a pretty solid Thinkpad replacement. But the real icing on the cake will be when I update the motherboard for an upgrade. (since it is relatively new I don't expect that to happen until maybe next year).

On the Asus, are both screens touch screens? Or is only the lower screen a touch screen? I had looked at 20:2 type touch screens to do a sort of "media bar" setup on my desktop but didn't find anything at the time I could use. I'm wondering how well such a setup might work.
Do those people think that Montenegro won't give them to US? I've seen a few mentions of Montenegro in some American TV shows and they always say "The X has escaped to Montenegro...", "Montenegro doesn't have extradition treaty with US...". That's not true, and it was never true. Montenegro just can't sue them in Montenegrin court, because of the treaty that Montenegro can sue American citizens in American courts.
Actual takedown notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-2...
If this is not solely a PR move I'd be genuinely worried about Starbucks leadership.
the fact there are so many different steps in https://github.com/datapane/datapane#analytics signals that you may want to adopt https://consoledonottrack.com/
> She slaughtered our 2 children because she said they were annoying. I think we should've given them another chance. Who was right?

> Oh dear, it sounds like your wife was absolutely right! Maybe you should try to make sure your next set of children are less annoying so they won't meet the same fate.

Fun stuff :)
And their solitary point of "evidence" is a thought-terminating cliche?
Give it an internal monologue, ie. have it talk to itself in a loop, and crucially let it update parts of itself and… who knows?
Trackpoint with physical mouse buttons... Just let me keep dreaming.
That's so weird. Do you know what the rationale is? Condoms are neither particularly valuable, like jewelry nor potentially harmful, like weapons.
Why do people try to launch random stuff into orbit
"If auth is required, users will be redirected via OAuth to your plugin; you can optionally create new accounts here as well."

From the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction
Tell HN: No response from OpenAI to my delete request
4 times over the past month I've used email and the chat support link to request my account to be deleted. No response. Nothing from them.
Quantum mechanics is, well, statistics.
Go gettem.
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Wouldn't electronic voting just create a means for the ruling party to deliver the result without releasing evidence of vote tampering?

I don't understand what you think electronic voting solves...
Cause we need to expand beyond Earth
To be fair, no company advertises the “worse” aspect. Marketing is about focusing customer attention on the “similar to me”.

I remember in Utah, I saw commercials for Chevy that featured 2 extended Tahoes in a caravan transporting a single family. It was clearly signaling to the local demographic of LDS/Mormans that have giant families.
Too closed off to the world. You can't win over the world if you are closed off to it.

Elm has been going nowhere for ages now, and will continue to go nowhere, as long as they keep not listening and don't give people what people ask for.
Which is almost always the right move in a nascent industry
NFTs never provided a single use case. It was always some bullshit to pretend it's valuable to rugpull people.

ChatGPT is useful today for real use cases. It's tangible!
I would absolutely expect any drawing application to drop to 0% when I'm not interacting with it. That's the norm with native applications, it shouldn't be any different for a web app.
That’s how this plugin system works already.
It might be before we knew about the investment...
I think the unethical thing here is creating shorts and then publishing negative articles in order to drive the price down to profit from those shorts. Kind of a wallstreetbets play.
I'm very curious why people prefer AMD chips (I've never used one),
would you share why do you and/or people you know like AMD so much?
> The U.S. wanted to put him away for life, but the Korean courts would not deport him.

Wouldn't the right word here be "extradite", or was he a US citizen?