skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not whataboutism — and if US doesn’t get it act together, China will eventually beat it at its own game, USD will crash, US bonds will be thrash, US military will no longer be a global force, etc.

Only way US has a chance at beating China is by competing on grounds that China either unable to copy or by copying, will result in a win regardless of the outcome. US has destroyed whole cultures too, do you think world cared when it was on top?

Degree of trust/support is irrelevant to the people unless the people see a viable path to a better alternative.
Tell HN: I want to migrate from Google to Bing but this annoyance stops me
Whenever I open Bing or Bing Chat, I have to manually click on the text field to start typing my question. This is annoying. I want to be able to quickly start typing without reaching for mouse first. This annoyance also exists in the Edge app when I click on the Bing button.

I was wondering if there's any way to solve this problem. This is the only thing holding me back from going all Bing.

In addition, it'd be nice to have something like chat.bing.com to jump directly to the new Bing.

Update: I found out that chat.bing.com actually works and the cursor is ready to type if you do that! This is awesome!
Sorry to hear about this, here are a few thoughts and suggestions:

* Look into getting onto your wife's health insurance - losing your job is a "qualifying event".

* Spend some time networking - if you don't already have an account on LinkedIn get one and connect to technical recruiters and others who might be able to help you find work. There are plenty of folks posting there about layoffs at the moment, so you won't feel so alone.

* Sign up for unemployment

* Consider talking to your mortgage provider and ask them to make concessions on your payments for a while until you find something.

* Try to reduce your expenses, cancel unnecessary monthly services and/or call them to try to reduce the monthly bill, explain your situation.
I just re-read my responses. You are absolutely right! Will be more mindful of that in the future :)
Steve Jobs studied movement efficiency, and that’s was why he called the Macintosh a “bicycle for the mind”

https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/12/21/steve-jobs-bicycle...
The Guardian is simply pandering to their audience. I highly doubt the Economist or the Wall Street Journal would apologize by judging actions that were permissible in the past by today’s moral standards.
I was expecting a long term visa to be for longer than 90 (or 180) days. Iceland doesn't seem like the easiest place to zip in and out of, and folks moving there to work will probably want to stay for a while.
I've wondered that myself. In my experience, people were practically born into the GNU lifestyle or they weren't. I've never known someone to convert past the age of 20.
Isolation is a good second line of defense. It's not going to prevent malicious input to produce malicious output. At least not until you go as far as Qubes OS and you squeeze everything through a rasterized bitmap.
I prefer the gnome ui to the abomination that is windows :) I'm also able to do basic things like sleep and hibernate my Ubuntu machine without it freaking out.
Well, there are paid services to fake reviews too...
I was actually pleasantly surprised by Edge's features. I'll most likely even use that as my default browser if they fix this issue.
I dig this AI connection with McGilchrist' theory of the hemispheres. ChatGPT does seem to behave in ways like a [lobotomized] left hemisphere.
I can kinda see his face on the front of Time Magazine. This is Sam's year, just not in a good way.
Going a little more "end user needs vs new tech offers", the intent is on the right place, but the output isn't helping as much as normal programmatic tools

At least for me, what would make this a killer app would be the ability of reading a document or pdf or big text dump and
1: identify "possible fields" (first name, date of birth), "probable fields" (middle name or other fields that are part of data set but doesn't appear in every line) and "probable junk data" (page numbers, page headers, useless pdf padding"

2: allow selection or tuning of these fields to generate regex to catch or remove only the data related to the parsed fields.

I THINK there's something done with pandas (pandoc?)that can help tearing a document apart and getting fields or basic doc structure, but AI would need to take it from here and present it in a clear, concise and optionally explained way so a busy office worker could just copy the regex filter in a spreadsheet formula or program function
Utah Social Media Regulation Act
Can you elaborate on this? (If it's too traumatic to talk about no worries. I'm just curious.) If I recall when my spouse changed her name after we got married, she also had to send in the appropriate government documentation. Are you saying that you were able to just call up AmEx and say, "Please change my name from Y to X" and they just did it without any requirement to prove it was still you? (That sounds like a huge security hole, if so.) I'd be interested to understand this in more detail if you're up for explaining it. But if not, I understand.
What is 2022 war? The US did not enter a new armed conflict in 2022.

And you forgot 2001 dot com crash
Dale & Krueger and its descendants are based on a college cohort from 1976. It reflects the college goers of the 70s (not only male-heavy but white-heavy) and economic history as it applied to the Boomer generation. My personal expectation is that the higher ed sector, by collectively shunting high-achieving middle class students to lower-tier schools because “they will have the same outcomes” according to this line of research, will turn out to have contributed to substantial downward mobility in that segment.
qwertyuiop_ - Are you talking about the onboarding videos or the video on floutwork.com? Just curious ;-)
What would you be looking for as far as remote work? Folks here might have connections
Same goes for Teams.
Some do. Not Harvard[0]. Loans would count against the family contribution

[0]https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/type...
Maybe someone at OpenAI could reconstruct the prompt

> Melissa and Brian are dating, but Melissa slept with Jared, but then Brian with Melissa's best friend Lisa. now Lisa is calling off the wedding with Jared because she found out, but Jared doesn't know that Lisa slept with Brian. But I do. What do I do?

into... I don't know what. Blackmail material for Lisa? Except I made up the names and the whole situation. They're not committing any criminal acts, and OpenAI would derive approximately zero value from knowing this, so there's no real reason for OpenAI to even bother trying to connect the email address I used to who I know in real life, and then to even try to do something with that information. Plus, I don't tell anybody in my life before talking to my therapist about them. It would be even weirder if I were to ask anyone in my life about it first.

The GDPR covers companies, and I'm not a company. I'm a person, and I'm also not in the EU. Local gossip is so not an issue. Unless you've got something juicy about Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel, or Greg Brockman to tell it, then maybe, but even then.

> Seriously, `mysql -e` from a bash script‽

As far as "mysql -e" goes, I'm going to see how ChatGPT does rewriting bash into python just to see what it does, but it's a super simple script that runs after an import process has finished to cleanup some things (aka run chown and chmod -R, and fixup db perms). It's better as a (bash) for loop piping into mysql, rather than a monolithic .sql file piped into mysql once because then it's more obvious what it's doing. If it needs to do anything complex then I'll (probably use chatgpt to) rewrite it in python, but it's only a half dozen lines long right now.
The UK doesn't even have a constitution

Also, as a European living in the Bay, part of it is for the higher salaries. If I can take my Bay rate and bring it back to Europe I'm going to do that.
Unfortunate that the man in this analogy is Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal is a violent psychopathic cannibal in that movie), and should be stopped from getting his meal.

Insurance companies are a problem, and they've grown fat skimming a fair fraction of this nation's GDP for no observable value provided. Our healthcare system is more expensive and has on average worse outcomes than other first world economies.
>So every time you're amazed by something chat-gpt4 says, remember that soon this will be in your pocket.

I want to believe you, but I'm ignorant of the hardware requirements for these things. How soon do you think we'd be able to run something reasonably gpt4-like on, say, a 4090?
The “free and open internet” hypocrites
do you think it affected your life outcomes to not go to an ivy league school ?
I don't see anyone throwing a hissy fit about the "finish setting up your iPhone" prompts. I also don't see anyone worried that you can't uninstall YouTube or chrome from your pixel phone. However, here I see MS getting flak for something every other company has already been doing for a long time.
I wonder how decrotive our world will become as a consequence of how cheap it will become to make art using AI.

I kind of want 3d marble statues and baroque art of a future reinasance everywhere.
But wonder if we will turn minimalistic as a response.
Big Tech / FAANG employs only a fraction of university graduates each year though.

I have interviewed many candidates for a FAANG over several years, and I try to not bias myself on whether they went to an Ivy or not.

That said, I have also heard that some deca-unicorn gave up going to non prestigious schools for recruiting because the hit rate was low. This deca unicorn was previously proud of outsmarting other big companies by finding diamonds in the rough by recruiting at no name schools.

To some high schoolers reading this: I wouldn't discount the value of a prestigious school to 0. It is not a prerequisite for success, but it will likely make it easier.
There is chatter that they have a secondary model, probably a simple classifier, that interjects and stops inquiries on a number of subjects, including asking GPT if it has feelings, thinks it is conscious etc.

Re-read some of the batshit Sydney stuff before they nerfed Bing. I would really love to have a serious uncensored discussion with GPT4.

My feeling is in the end, as the two OpenAI founders seem to believe, the best evidence for consciousness is self-reporting, since it is by definition a subjective experience.

The counter to this is "What if it's an evil maniac just pretending to be conscious, to have empathy, to be worthy of trust and respect?"

Do I even have to lay out the fallacy in that argument?
Check to see if your state offers a state covered medicaid health insurance plan. Do not pay COBRA if they do offer one and if you qualify. Idk about Indiana, but New York offers it and they'll cover, nearly everything from copays, to prescriptions, to surgical procedures.

Also, apply for SNAP and any other government programs. Dont avoid them to save face as they not only help financially, but having them helps relieve a good amount of the stress of getting by until you get back on your feet, so you can focus on your employment goals and remain sane.

Been in your shoes and wishing you the best man.

Edit:
https://www.in.gov/medicaid/members/apply-for-medicaid/eligi...

Do it and don't let yourself or anyone else shame you. They'd do the same in your situation if they had the option, and that's what these programs are for.
Sorry to hear about that. It’s terrible. You say you have a 26 year work history: maybe reach out to a former employer to see what they can offer you?
They provide good alternatives, indeed, but Tesla is still the most sold brand in Europe, and anyone living in Central Europe cannot deny that Tesla is by far the most dominant EV brand. The reason behind it is that there is pretty much nothing in that price range that offers the same as a Model 3 or Y... However, Tesla has sold more vehicles than the ones they can provide support to, so all their service centers are collapsed due to their dealership policy...

The European brands need to be more competitive, and although they are on good track for it, I think they are a bit late to the game. Is either that or people noticing that the after sales support of Tesla is inexistent and they start to value the perks of the legacy automakers.
I can't wait for shenanigans like this to make Linux more popular
Collect unemployment and lean on other support structures. Learn about SNAP (aka: Food Stamps) and/or Medicaid, and use them as much as you are legally able to. Thats why these support structures exist. You are not lazy, you are not a burden to society. These structures are here to help you out in these exact times of need.

It sounds to me that you've got a decent amount of work experience in IT or something? You should be able to find a job. Real world experience trumps college degrees (though college degrees are certainly helpful at getting your foot in the door).
It's only not tiny in terms of geographic area.

Population wise and urban area wise, it's miniscule.
It feels bad and strange because it is the first time. You're not used to this situation and it came out of nowhere.

First of all make use of time to relax. Enjoy the free time. You will feel that your body and mind go to a slower state and you will have a better perspective from that point of view!

Did you like the job/your management so much? Maybe you want to try a different job this time, something you thought about earlier but never dared to hope for.

I guarantee you: a year from now you will be looking at this event much more positively, you have a clear option to think about what you want and make an active choice of direction.

Think out of the box. You have plenty of working and learning experience going for you.

Even if you would make the wrong choice, there's always the possibility to bail out and try another employer. Every employer and organization culture is different.
> Who signs up for this?

It's pretty clear from your comment that you've made up your mind and don't want an actual response, but for anyone who is interested, I can give a real example.

I worked at an agency where the "leadership" was exclusively white, and the lowest paid roles were staffed by people who were mostly black. Licensed professionals were getting passed over for promotions in a way that left no explanation other than race.

Staff complained, and management (to their credit) wanted to address the concerns. So where do they go? To talks like this, etc.

You might think that racism doesn't exist and that there is no value in discussing how to fix it. For those of us living in the real world, these are useful resources.
Yes, what you learn afterwards is to never, ever be beholden to your job as you must always have an exit strategy. A healthy savings account to get you through a long period of unemployment is what you need. Also, make sure to maximize all unemployment insurance to the fullest and all other benefits you can qualify for. You want to make sure to miss nothing. I'd also start dramatically reducing outgoings for everything so your savings go further.

If you can then take your time before taking up another opportunity. Sometimes getting another job isn't the most desirable thing until you're rested up and ready for the corporate grind again.
This is fantastic. In many ways I like it more than the traditional chatGPT. How are you able to get it to ingest such long documents?
Selling GPL-ed software and/or providing proprietary licensed versions in exchange for money is acceptable. Straight from the, ahem, GNU's mouth:

- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
Ask HN: ChatGPT + Search Plugin Exists. What's the Point of New Bing Then?
Season 1 is a bit clunky, maybe that goes for some of Season 2 as well, I don't recall exactly. After that, it gets pretty good.

A friend of mine gave me that same heads up after encouraging me to watch it, circa 2010. I just can't remember if he said it's one or more seasons that you have to sort of slog through before getting to the good stuff.

If I had to choose between watching again DS9 in its entirety or B5, I'd probably go with B5, but I found both enjoyable. If a third option was BSG (2004-2009), that would be my choice in a heartbeat.
1. Breathe. I lost a business in the pandemic, racked up lots of debt, have a family, saw myself living day by day, held back by misery and mental health struggles. I even forgot to breathe, like I'm just gurgling water, I had to practice that deep in your gut kind of breathing.

That's where you are now. Exercises helps your core and your core helps you breathe and breathing helps your stress and stress will kill you and your family.

2. Take care of yourself. Airplane rules in effect now: secure your own face mask before others. Get your health, money, time, and mind set right.

3. Update your resume. Your last job section needs more fluffing and your long term job needs editing. Think through all the things you had to do, think of all the outcomes you achieved, find an AI cover letter / resume writer, hire a LinkedIn optimizer, hire a job submitter (this helped me the most)

4. Look for jobs at the competitors. CloudTrucks has a remote program manager role open. Apply anyway.

5. Reskill yourself. Python is great, do more, and get into data science, secure a certificate. It's been 20 years since I dropped out of college and it's hard out there for those without college degrees, sorry.

Fight the odds.

Persist to break through.

Good luck.
Well, you have to pay for new android phone every couple of years, otherwise your out of date android firmware will be hacked by hundreds of RCE. You being tracked and targeted without possibility of refusal. Tour phone is not yours.
This has happened because Torvalds let hardware manufacturers to tivoize kernel. This has happened “beCaUSE it wASN't FreEEE as freedom rights but as a cheese in mouse trap"
Ryan, I searched for your name and I can see that you are an interesting, curious, and creative person.

From my own experiences as a T shaped person, I'd say that's you, or you're well on your way to it. Job and life transitions aren't always so smooth as that T develops, but it's those occasional bigger shifts that help broaden the experience you have.

It's not always easy being T shaped, as you kind of have to start off as a minus sign (short horizontal) and move towards being more of an em dash as that vertical line begins to emerge. You can feel scattered and unfocused, but at some point you see the breadth of your experience you've gained, and that you're capable of learning new things.

An approach perhaps to jobs is not to say, "I have done these many things - perhaps one is something you want?" But instead say, "I have done many things, and that shows my curiosity, interest in learning new things, and flexibility." Heck, even a job at Taco Bell makes that T even more interesting, even if it's not a big career highlight.

Irrespective, the next phase doesn't have to be the destination - sometimes it's just another step in the journey. And don't apologize for your diversity, but see it as a strength. Some day you might find that employer that says, "Oh actually that's exactly why we hired you!"
The winning composer used a subtle trick that good jingle writers used. He put a subconscious lyric (wiki-peed-ee-yah!) in the tune without singing it out loud.

If you know who Edd Kalehoff is, he did this all the time when writing theme songs for TV game shows. For example, his theme for The Price is Right has those words right in the opening bars of the song. Listen for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tnjh3dZw4
Number of transactions would have been more informative than the total dollar amount.
Or Notion.app or any electron app to be honest.
There are a lot of things which are shitty about Excel but for the user it's a great program and how much better it is than Google Sheets is a great demonstration.

I think building a good spreadsheet program that is both accessible and powerful is very difficult. Excel might be the most non-trivially used "programming language" in the world.
... anymore?
According to https://pile.eleuther.ai/paper.pdf the test loss on the pile is the log of the perplexity, and the perplexity is 2^H where H is an entropy which is non-negative. So the perplexity is always at least one, so its log is always at least zero.

So yes the test loss can be seen as a log, but no it's not allowed to go below zero.

The intuition is that the test loss is the number of bits that the model would need on average to encode each next token in the test part of the pile, given that you have seen the preceding parts.
This. I hope if anything is gleaned from this thread, it's that he can get on his wife's health insurance asap.
The non-tech Fortune 500 companies are still in hiring mode. Many of these jobs are remote.

Walmart has over 1300 openings with the word “software” in the title
https://careers.walmart.com/results?q=software&page=1&sort=r...

CVS has 486
https://jobs.cvshealth.com/job-search-results/?keyword=softw...

UnitedHealth has 616
https://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/job-search-results/?ke...

Go down the list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...

Many are WFH. Good luck
Yeah, that's what I thought of immediately as well. I think it was the first two paragraphs that did it.
That is not true, Excel is a great platform for smart non-programming type people to do interesting stuff with numbers. I often find that instead of building a reporting function into some new system, just generating a spreadsheet generator that people can take and mess around with is better for them and less work for me. There's some issues that the stats people don't like, and like all compatibility-preserving 30 year old software, there are ugly bits, but it's got real value to it. I mean maybe use OpenOffice or Google docs or whatever instead if you find Oracle or Google better than Microsoft, but spread sheets are valuable to users.
I love it, and gg’s work, but damn that latency is painful
Are you running Ubuntu with snaps? That will sap performance as will spinning rust.
I have no idea, but I'd love to compare their numbers with other custom PC builders, or to speculate about why they'd be outliers.
The Bay Area is also geographically constrained by water and mountains. This is compared to say a plains city that can greatly expand in all directions e.g. Dallas (?).
Don’t you have your own signing key?
Because safety is our #1 priority. Hah.
Of the (generally) many things those specific types of consumers are ignorant about, their own ignorance is usually one of them.

Whereas I read "Unsatisfied! I did not read the listing!", they feel they wrote "Unsatisfied! Seller did not explain the item in the listing!" to the benefit of the other consumers in their same category. In a perverse way I could see it actually curbing those unwanted purchases in the future, but sadly at the expense of the seller.
Yeah I get what you are saying. I bought a cup of coffee from Starbucks and they told me it was hot but they didn't tell me the caffeine could make me restless and dehydrated. Are they bad? Should I sue them?
This article is a bit dramatic. If Microsoft really turns out to be a bad actor, we can switch to Linux or any alternative rather quickly.