skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure if you responded to the wrong comment or what because the parent is referencing environment impact but you’re referencing health impacts.

From an environmental point of view, there’s a linear relationship between your consumption of beef and environmental impact. There is no amount of beef that is good for the environment.

From a health point of view, it’s debated, however there are more studies that show red/processed meats having negative health effects than neutral or positive effects. Of course, you can cherry pick the studies that align with your beliefs, but the prevailing data, evidence, and research show beef actually _is_ bad per se.

Note: there is no nutrient (that we know of) that you can only get from beef and no other food source. So it isn’t necessary to include it in your diet.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-bee...
True. Although I would take the traffic issues over randomly getting shot any day.
For complex things they are well worth the added cost. For example if you need to book a complex chain of flights with different airlines, then you might be looking at 4-5 different sites, maybe an airport hotel booking etc. Add some time zones into the mix and it's several hours of work.
If you do it yourself these are all individual bookings, and you run the risk that when you completed half the steps, something goes wrong and the next step is no longer available but it's too late to switch to plan B which was through another city.

A travel agent can basically set up a complex chain of things and then book it all in one go. They'll also handle the fallback scenario if something goes wrong. And if you are on your destination and it turns out the complex chain of flights back home is no longer available, then they'll sort out a whole new itinerary. For 90% of trips it's probably not all that useful, e.g if you fly just 1-2 legs or stay in just 1 hotel.
Thoughts on AI Images: Art, Convincing Nonsense, and Visual Literacy
Is there a link to the demo on YouTube?
Sure, but also chat software usually makes group chats possible, and with some (eg. telegram) you have groups with 100k+ people there.

Considering the amount of politically-incorrect, politically-sensitive etc. stuff (ukraine-russia war, anti government protests, recently anti-covid protests, basic software/... piracy, ...), having anonimity is a huge feature.
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"The Dark Forest" is literally the title of one of the books, and they were published quite a few years ago.
Supplantinf the UK? I think you mean US?

The UK's time has has set long ago, and Brexit seems to make sure it will it won't prosper again soon.
Those apply to every passanger regardless of where they are from - as long as the flight departs from or arrives to an EU country you get full protection as passangers.
Cuis smalltalk has left arrow gliph for assignement assigned to underbar. I did not know it is historically accurate, thanks! :raises his cup:
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What I find extremely odd is how the US is pushing for the ICC to arrest Putin. [1] Aren't they opening pandoras box here as they are also not a signatory of the ICC and have quite a few very similar skeletons in the closet? I know there is the "Invade the Haag" Act[2] but Lavrov also just said they would drop a bomb on the Haag if Putin gets arrested.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-top-diplomat-blinken-urges-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
It is predicting next most likely set of tokens not next word which is the game changer because the system can relate by group.
> This type of price discrimination isn't powered by surveillance capitalism.

Yes it is. That's why people who book flights using an Apple computer will pay more (https://www.imore.com/mac-users-might-be-paying-more-pc-user...) they're pricing based on their best assumptions about your income level.

Their dream is that they'll be able to just use facial recognition, or grab your ID from your cell phone, or force you to sign up for an account with them so they have all the info they need to pull up your credit history, yearly income, the size of your household, a list of your recent purchases, and whatever else they can get from data brokers all just to make better guesses about your wealth and how much money they can squeeze out of you rather than just using your IP address or your useragent, and that's in the works (https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2017/11/17/a-special-p...) but until they can shift public perception away from viewing that sort of thing as being discriminatory and exploitative, or until everyone in an industry is doing it too (airlines and hotels) it's still seen as too risky. see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3
except that those autonomous regions and republics very much existed. in some cases they formed the legal basis for independent states existing today: lithuania, estonia, ukraine, belarus, moldova, kazakhstan, etc. moreover their existence was dictated by communist ideology

The socialist revolution may begin in the very near future. In that event the proletariat will be faced with the immediate task of capturing power, of expropriating the banks and of introducing other dictatorial measures. In such a situation, the bourgeoisie, and particularly intellectuals like the Fabians and the Kautskyists, will strive to disrupt and to hinder the revolution, to restrict it to limited democratic aims. While all purely democratic demands may—at a time when the proletarians have already begun to storm the bulwarks of bourgeois power—serve, in a certain sense, as a hindrance to the revolution, nevertheless, the necessity of proclaiming and granting freedom to all oppressed nations (i.e., their right to self-determination) will be as urgent in the socialist revolution as it was urgent for the victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, for example, in Germany in 1848, or in Russia in 1905

- V.I. Lenin
It's as simple as you say. By virtue of Chinese law we must assume they have access. but it's not even necessary to prove. Simply not being in the US's interests is good enough reason.
It's even worse. When working with someone else's code e.g. StackOverflow there's a reputation system gating people from the platform and incentivizing them to provide correct answers. You can reasonably expect that someone else's code has at least been thought through to some extent to solve the problem at hand, and very likely tested.

With LLM-generated code, especially ChatGPT-style decoder models, none of that is true. All of the posts and comments I see about it here seem to be anecdotes "it can do all of my job for me" yet asking it to write the simplest code creates several issues on my end.

Personally I think a model geared towards code generation isn't an unsolvable task; the Spider dataset was released some time ago (text to SQL task) and the winning approach there was no fanciness on the model side, but rather to just test all the output queries to ensure it's at least valid SQL. That got a 20%+ boost in accuracy.
The X factor here is the US.
Steam is not the only one though, many software licenses are not transferable.
There are several links to the cited demos. On the right of the pouet page, you can find youtube links.

eg.
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69654
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55737
Regurgitating training data trigram by trigram is not how human language processing works.
Does that mean that you could actually have both versions as separate files? That would be really messy. Not to mention possibly exploitable.
> I think animal foods are very healthy

There are countless studies showing a link between red meat and negative health effects, and there is probably no safe amount. Are you saying all the studies are wrong? What evidence do you have to support your claim?
If one is using a function from tokio itself, is it not a reasonable expectation that one should check the docs as to whether the function requires the tokio executor?
My phone has a physical Ring/Vibrate/Silent slider. Fairly big deal for a modern smartphone (sadly)

Really nice to be able to shut it up with wet hands.
I'm genuinely curious on which part of the comment above triggered such down votes, and why. Not that I support the ideas mentioned, I'm just curious.
The product is $20!
Insurance companies are scum of the earth. A relative, who's a Prudential agent, bragged that Prudential had billions in their war-chest. I replied that's because ya'll don't payout any claims.
> The Mongol Empire is the last example you want to use about stability.

Pax Mongolica was a thing.
I am happy see Kazak included, even if it is at the very end. Some of these Central Asian languages which use a modified Arabic/Persian script keep getting overlooked by font foundries - there are some absolutely beautiful RTL fonts out there totally unusable for Kazak due to missing only 3-5 characters. Fortunately, UKIJ (http://www.ukij.org/fonts/) includes Kazak characters in their RTL fonts. Raxmet!
Feedback for the landing page:

Specify up front what it is, including what it is for. I don't recognize the UI in the animated screenshots. Does it require some special OS? Some special software for which it is a plugin? Is it a plugin for some other software?

The pitch at the top just says it's a csv based time recorder. But then it says "Just enter tsr [foo]" - but where? First I thought a shell. Then I thought the VSCode command palette.

I learned near the end that it's usable with both Alfred and Raycast but I don't know what those are either. And there is talk about Finder (Which I know is an OS X thing). This is a clue that I might not be able to use it - maybe I'm on the wrong OS?

My guess after studying the page is that it's a plugin for "Launchers" (is that a thing?) running under OS X, namely launchers "Alfred" and "Raycast"?`
Perhaps a paragraph like that could be used up top?
AI and the American Smile
but isnt that a direct contradiction of this particular paper anyways - that chatgpt anyways outperforms human annotation.

so permit me to act as devil's advocate to your statement - prove that (in context of this paper), your hypothesis is still correct.
This passage from Peter Brown's "The Rise of Western Christendom" describes cultural exchanges between Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean a few centuries later:

By the year 700 Christian communities were scattered throughout the known world, from Ireland to Central Asia. Archaeologists have discovered fragments of Christian texts which speak of basic Christian activities pursued in the same manner from the Atlantic to the edge of China.

Both in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, and in Panjikent, east of Samarkand, fragmentary copybooks from around A.D. 700 – wax on wood for Ireland, broken potsherds for Central Asia – ­contain lines copied from the Psalms of David.

In both milieux, something very similar was ­happening. Schoolboys, whose native languages were Irish in Antrim and Soghdian in Panjikent, tried to make their own, by this ­laborious method, the Latin and the Syriac versions, respectively, of what had become a truly international, sacred text – the “Holy Scriptures” of the Christians.
Completely not legal. Maybe contract law is bloated enough in the US to give valve that power, I'm pretty sure it isn't in the EU. Valve can't decide how ownership works, not in all jurisdictions.
Amusingly, it shows your recently played albums even from the main music app. If you click on them, you see only the songs it counts as classical.
Nobody thinks TikTok is going to be used to overthrow the US government. TikTok is getting banned because doing so is in the interests of American tech companies, particularly Facebook. Why should they have to compete on an uneven playing field, after all?
TTS is where I started when I was working on this sort of thing, I commonly just say text to speech to mean either direction.
This is terrifying to us, but not in the way you think. Tools like this place selective pressure so that increasingly only the best of the best get paid to make stuff, and their stuff influences the data sets in the future. The rest of us get forced out simply due to cost unless we're doing it as a hobby. Some artists know all too well their limits, and those that do are the most vulnerable to things like this, because these learning machines use the ever higher ceiling of human ability to determine the floor of their ability. You can't go back to the funky weird pasta men of Stable Diffusion's 2021 iteration as the default for example, but someone who started painting in 2002 might still have the same level of skill now as they did in 2010.

Text was paralleled first. Then sound was paralleled next. And now image is being paralleled. It will be on level with highest percentile of human ability just as text and sound were before it. Game devs and comic artists are already replacing texture and background artists with AI generated images, just as they used AI to create hundreds of thousands of lines of fluff dialogue before then.
> could at least tell you when they're making something up themselves where Bing/Bard seemingly cannot.

In fact GPT-4 is quite good at catching hallucinations when the question-answer pair is fed back to itself.

This isn’t automatically applied already because the model is expensive to run, but you can just do it yourself (or automate it with a plug-in or LangChain) and pay the extra cost.

Remember that the model only performs a fixed amount of computation per generated token, so just asking it to think out loud or evaluate its own responses is basically giving it a scratchpad to think harder about your question.
> For example, police are clearly allowed to use lethal force to stop an armed and dangerous person.

But in this case it's more like if a policeman stalked and sniped someone that they had an arrest warrant for. They defined a US citizen as a target and drone striked him when they were able.
Nonsense, iTunes was great and got stick just for being iTunes.

300GB library around that time with no issue at all. Smart Playlists made all other players obsolete for me.
I don't get it. You can just turn off the news and ads, even uninstall MS News.
The Venn diagram of crypto bros and the "nothing matters" libertarians is almost a solid circle. They despise public servants, norms, rules, and laws. It's for cucks. These people transcended all that. The laws do not matter. They do what they want.

And obviously it comes with an unhealthy amount of hubris from watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk in action.

Word of advice - if you don't have tens of millions of dollars to clog the US legal system with procedural nonsense, don't try this at home, just don't.
Have to tune (hard-code) answers to some of those "gotchas" published on Twitter. Very core to give an impression of intelligence.
It made a lot of sense for Apple to adopt ZFS back when they were shipping spinning rust hard disks and PowerMacs had room for multiple drives, but now that they're shipping soldered-in integrated flash drives with their own storage controller in the SoC, it probably makes more sense to them to put features like encryption and error correction in their storage controller rather than the file system, and then have a file system which is far more lightweight (so they can ship the same FS on a wristwatch as on a 20-core Mac).

APFS does have snapshots but I don't think it has replication.

Time Machine is so bad and has seen so little work, I feel like Apple really wants to drop it and move everyone to iCloud subscriptions instead. And yet they still don't have a cloud backup product, which is even stranger.
That makes sense, except in the case of colonial empires. Maybe since those empires were fairly diffuse and tended to be ruled from local sources of power (e.g. Calcutta for British India), they were still only 1 month away?

And, it seems that this kingdom was much smaller than what one could even walk in 1 month, even if there were no roads. 30km x 25km could easily be walked in a day by a relatively fit person at a reasonable pace. So maybe it isn't just travel time, but things like whether the state has enough power to prevent banditry (correlated with distance from capital) or distance-as-measured-by-armies-and-tax-collectors.
can you please explain how a phone app will reduce liberty
> Compared to car insurance which can be $100-$200/mo

How does that work? In the U.K. my insurance is $200 a year!

Is that a normal price or something extreme
Tell HN: The scary thing about GPT-4 is that people might use it
I've played around with GPT-4 like I'm sure several other HNers have.

I'm entirely unfazed by the torrent of articles informing me how it will soon do all our jobs.
But I'm worried about the lack of articles about how dangerous it is that people might actually use its output for anything impacting the real world.

It's a neat parlor trick, but the amount of nonsense it spews is on par with that of my 3 year old (don't get me wrong, my son is awesome! but he's 3, and when a 3 yrld tells you something, you take it with a few grains of salt).

My main concern as of now is not that the model will overtake us, but that people start using it for stuff without deeply inspecting if the results are right.. For instance, in automated systems.

Heck, I caught it cheating in our tic-tac-toe game.. It placed 4 pieces but we were playing with only 3.. I informed it about this, and it said sorry, proceeded to remove it's 4th piece and.. Placed it again.

Sure, it can be a neat tool for exploring stuff, in a domain you know well enough that you can catch the errors, but don't rely on it for anything, please. Because stuff will break, results will be wrong.

Is there anything more peak-dystopia than a society filled with broken AI stuff everywhere? People going about their daily lives constantly adjusting their behaviors so the machines don't get it wrong? Decisions being made based on faulty logic applied automatically by infant AIs ?
Why would I need to prove anything. The unproved claim is in the paper.
You're moving the goal posts here. We're not discussing not checking in debris like `.DS_Store` files; I'm totally on board with that, but that's covered in any .gitignore template generated by my IDE.

Instead, you appear to be enforcing in which arbitrary location to place ignore rules for debris, seemingly having spent considerable time implementing that, for entirely puritanical reasons.

And while you're free to play holier-than-thou at your job as you like, I'd give hell to anyone wasting my team's time like that.
I still don’t see the problem with normalization.
I tried to use it, but my git repo was too big and it become painfully slow. I filed a bug an the issue was fixed within a few weeks. Very good interaction with the developers!

However that also meant that I needed an alternative. So let's break down what soft-serve do:
1. It's a ssh server/git server
2. It can list git repositories
3. It can browse git repositories

For:
1. you can use your current ssh server and for extra protection use the git-shell that comes with git.
2. Is easily solved with git-shell-commands (see man git-shell)
3. Is not something I need. If you want to browse you'll need to clone.

Although soft-serve is beautiful, it's a lot of added complexity for not very much functionality. If/when they add CI/CD, pull requests (perhaps a git-appraise based interface). It will be awesome and I'll give it a new try.
> Almost any country does.

Spain provides 6 weeks of mandatory paid parental leave that come into effect once the child is born, and an additional 10 weeks to be used during the year.
If you ask the model to "think" about something, and then it simulates that action and outputs what the result of that might be, does it matter if it's really thinking or not? Especially if the output is what we wanted originally?

I would suggest that a person saying "ask the model to think about" in this context in no way implies that that person is confused about the nature of the model, it is simply a convenient piece of language that helps us to achieve the desired result.
We have the luck to have some physios specialized to it in the vicinity. In Germany and some other European countries there is the Kinaesthetics Association [0], we contacted them for trainings nearby [1].

Amazing. This send to be a German/Suisse thing? Did not realize that until today.

The principle is to use the bones to carry weight and lots of pivots around natural joints so you don't need so much muscle force (while pivoting only to guide, not to lift).

An eye opening exercise was to sit as relaxed as possible on a chair and concentrate on what muscles you use when starting to stand up. You don't push up for a long time actually, but lean forward until the center of gravity of your whole body is above the rectangle your feet form. Only then you can start pushing up. Try it as slowly as possible and feel every single muscle participating.

So if you help a sitting person, don't try to pull up, but help leaning forward and find the point where the butt starts feeling "lighter". Then the person can concentrate on helping pushing up with the legs.

Also we worked in pairs to learn that you can synchronize your movements by feeling each other and the cared for person can feel the right moment to spent his/her precious muscle force and not work against you. Your tension starts a tiny moment before the actual movement and if that can be perceived, you can literally join your forces.

[0] https://www.kinaesthetics.net
[1] https://www.kinaesthetics.de/trainerinnenliste.cfm
Friend of mine had randomly his home partition corrupt after upgrade to APFS on macOS ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Since you often wonder, I suggest you spend some time reading some relevant papers and their methodology. You won't have to guess and assume if you do that.
> with educated elites

Which educated elites? Was there a survey? Did you talk to some? What did they say when pushed on this?

I am concerned that you have formed a view of a fictional person that is an amalgam of newspaper headlines and think pieces that were designed for clicks.
Hahahaha, you're at the surface looking at a well of problems that goes all the way to the center of the earth.
Yes, it’s embedded in the linked first part of the article series: http://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/?p=463
The political biases of Google Bard are very similar to those of ChatGPT and GPT-4. This suggests a similar/common source of bias in the three models.
Used to do this. Weekly round trip tickets from CA to the US and a longer round trip ticket the other direction surrounding them (or 2 one ways? Don't remember) The airline (Air Canada) got really mad at me and claimed there was a T&C violation. Wasn't my idea but the travel office at my company. Ended up missing a flight while they argued about it.
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Oh I am considering to us FSx for Lustre with S3 export/import for our ML workloads. Isn't it stable enough?
Not comparing yourself to others.

Being grateful and appreciating everything each day brings.

Rinse and repeat.