skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's realistic if you are there as a tourist who wants the premium experience on everything.

Staying in hotels and eating out daily, we didn't spend 7k when extrapolating our two weeks to a month. Heck, it's still below 7k if you include all one-time purchases like the way there and back, clothing, new expensive hiking boots, etc. I've got a problem with most waterproof fabrics so I didn't have a raincoat, but reading about Iceland, I figured it's worth finding one that works for me, so that's another purchase I count towards my Iceland expenses. All in all still below 7k after extrapolation. (Edit: oh and I forgot that this is for 2 persons. You can't divide by two of course, but some correction factor should be applied.)

I fully agree with anyone saying Iceland is expensive, but if you stay in an actual apartment instead of hotels, don't do a number of guided tours every month, don't rent a vehicle for the whole time you're there (and drive around, though fuel was a surprisingly small part of the final expenses), you'll definitely not need 7k per month.
Expect to spend a third of that on rent
Feature Request for ChatGPT
Citibank double cash https://citicards.citi.com/usc/LPACA/Citi/Cards/DoubleCash/p...
> I know.

This was an odd statement to make, then:

> I don't even see gold as having intrinsic value; it only has value because we agreed to consider it valuable.

> But I hope you're aware of gold's role as financial backing

Yes, of course.
It is a terrible term but in this case it's referring to the client application, not the database instance.
NY officials detect polio again, warn of possible summer wave
Multiple queries from the frontend is still not great because the latency is much higher than doing at the server all else being equal.
I think that's OK. Every time I look up a 3 letter initialism on Wikipedia, I have to scroll through dozens of irrelevant articles to find the one I'm looking for.
They do and it is absurd. I bought Win11 Pro from here for about $20, the price has since gone up a bit: https://www.vip-urcdkey.com/key/microsoft-windows-11-pro-oem...
TBH that seems like a good job for Cerebras.

There are plenty of such efforts, but the organizer needs some kind of significance to attract a critical mass, and a AI ASIC chip designer seems like a good candidate.

Then again, maybe they prefer a bunch of privately trained models over an open one since that sells more ASIC time?
An LLM running locally providing type-ahead completions seems inevitable.
Why would a tiny exclusive island ever want anyone other than high income individuals to move there?

If it weren't the fact that US cities cannot restrict the free migration of individuals, almost all of them would ban anyone moving there who didn't make above the average income for the area. Hawaii's last Republic governor tried every possible step to kick out the Marshallese, which is fucking hilarious considering how few of them there are globally.

If it wasn't for the US constitution you'd have giant slums in the interstitial space between cities, with a few zones stylized after the Jewish Autonomous Oblast here and there as well.
The rest of the world disagrees with that assertion.

https://worldbicyclerelief.org
wtf, i have never seen any add in ios
including stock app
Compared to the US there is barely is any crime!

There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems.

Seemed as safe as Norway where moms leave their babies out in their carriages bundled up for fresh air while they go into their house to clean. A mom who did that here would be possibly arrested

So Iceland is paradise if you are a tired of seeing all the crime in America. I didn't know it was that bad here til my dates (locals) I met and talked with at one of the neighborhood family bathhouses pointed it out. How scared they are of going to the US. Which I replied it's not that bad not everyone has a gun yet once I was home I had a crazy gunman who shot police hiding in the woods of my backyard and we were told to shelter in place. Sure that's not happening in Iceland cause even and only police only have stun guns!
An interesting exercise, is to flip that question upside down:

Assuming everyone gets access to the same quality of AI, how will rich people maintain their compounding advantages over the non-wealthy?

The first way, is by having more computing resources. The same AI, but with more computing resources, is going to come up with equal or higher quality results.

The second, is being able to requisition more physical resources. The same AI can help a wealthy person set up a business, by quickly acquiring physical and IP assets, or labor, vs. someone without the wealth to do that.

The third, is by having better information. Small differences in information, such as having a market's trading history just a fraction of a second before someone else, can translate into a lot of economic power. Wealthy people can pay for better information, or put systems into place to get better information.

The fourth, is risk tolerance. Even with an AI helping someone making choices, some choices with the highest expected return also come with the highest volatility or risk. Someone with resources can tolerate a lot of individual risks. But a low resource person will have to play it safe and forgo those opportunities.

Conclusion: The efficiencies delivered by AI will intensify existing compounding effects, and the inequality those already generate.

Even if AI access was somehow kept even.
Perfect use case for ChatGPT.

Sure, I'd be as surprised as anyone else if it could straight up write good laws, but it can almost certainly talk in political jargon better than any of us software developers can manage.
Again? Yes.

Let’s turn the meta verse inside out instead.

Smart things. Embodied agents. Holograms.
Wow this kind of thing makes plugins obsolete. I thought it would take more than a week
Stack overflow is unique in that it’s most read only. Link to high frequency trading “boring” architecture?
Professional is more like $200, and has all that crap as home version.
If Amazon's retail profit relies on allowing fraud and illegal activity to happen with their knowledge, that's just not something we should accept. Making more money for shareholders shouldn't happen at the expense of knowingly defrauding customers. The decision to not prevent fraud on Amazon just means the cost of dealing with that fraud is borne by the customers.
They'll typically have an IT guy that handles things for the family. They'd be the one to set up call-forwarding and/or another tidy way of handling multiple numbers via one phone. Haven't done it myself but I'm sure there are numerous ways.
It would be nice if there was a univesal ad blocker that worked everywhere...
From the press release:

> [users want] flexible payment options

Being able to spread some large purchase over multiple pay periods seems like a obvious use case.
Did you read the article, or maybe the relevant paper? Did you consider the people doing the research aren’t dumb and look to see if maybe they thought of alternate explanations?

Or did it not confirm some existing beliefs so you returned immediately and said “this is dumb” and walked away from it?
I'm not playing the lottery as with an Amazon listing.

I agree that in fulfillment, Amazon is causing problem. But I still believe that in User Interaction, the Amazon approach is better for most users.
On the fresh install of Windows I do see some ads and ad-adjacent things. But once I disable all of them, that's it. No more. I haven't seen anything at all like this since install day a couple years back.

My guess is that people aren't going through and disabling everything. Also, people aren't using piholes which are probably blocking everything that can't be disabled.
Sure, I certainly feel the pinch every time I have to pay for things I purchased. I have student loans too. Is this article implying we should feel bad for the top 30% most educated Americans because they had the pay for the privilege?
Ivy League Prices Are Pushing $90,000 a Year
> Now truth be told, if the kid would have told me he needs to push a certain number of pros per month, I might have said okay and brought one.

Which is why they nag you. I don't really understand this mindset but there's no question it exists. And there's no question the paperclip machine will have its goddamn paperclips.

Probably the 19yr old will eventually get turned into Solyent and replaced with a more polite/savvy version - and you will succumb and buy a pro you don't need just to be nice. And numbers will tick upwards.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” -Anatole France
The primary mechanism is believed to be due to the reduction in blood flow in the brain that caffeine triggers.

But your comment is spot on for many, caffeine withdrawal is also a major headache trigger.
I suspect that the complexity of C++ is mostly a reflection of complexity of software engineering in general.
> ... we see evil and decide to do something to stop it ...

Hilarious. Do you actually believe US foreign policy has anything to do with "good and evil," and if so, could you explain how this drove the decision to, oh I dunno, bomb Guatemala city? Or annex Hawaii? Or arm Saudi Arabia to the teeth? Or pick virtually any foreign intervention since WWII, really.
>GTK (which was not even invented for Gnome)

GTK = Gimp Tool Kit
Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage
From popular genres I would think hip-hop would be the one to target; pop and rock have had pretty much for its entire existence encouraged listeners to link a recording with a band, and not to think about a producer or composer/writer, and to be generally negative about the idea of different performances (derided as covers, unless, like Joan Jett your covers become identified as the standard).

Hip-hop fans are generally much more interested in the producer, songwriters, and also sample use. They'd be a great audience for richer metadata and better presentation of same.
Depends on the partner you are transferring to. Some are instant, like Delta, Southwest and United. Some can take a few business days like ANA. Always Google before transferring to determine actual average transfer time and never prospectively transfer points, always transfer with something in mind. Points could be devalued at any time without warning or expire.
That’s been said about almost every style and genre of art. What’s so funny, is that it’s never happened; quite the opposite. Look at the renaissance of early music, as only one example. Sadly, 99% of all music that has ever been made was not written down or recorded. I think there’s a lot of opportunities to hunt down and discover lost, unrecognized, or forgotten music and bring it back to forefront. I was just listening to Indian classical bansuri (bamboo flute) music by Ronu Majumdar and Ajeet Pathak on Naxos. The album features 12th century ragas in the Hindustani tradition. What’s amazing about it, is you can hear how this style greatly influenced rock and roll from the mid-1960s to the mid 1970s, particularly the long and winding guitar solos that were famous during that era. And if you read about that time, it turns out that rock musicians were indeed listening to this music and getting ideas from it. There isn’t any AI around that is going to make deep connections like this. We are still very much in human-driven territory. What will certainly become common, however, is for human musicians to augment their compositional skills with the help of AI, not to replace it altogether.
Red Hat 30th anniversary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35337146
Putin prepares Russia for ‘forever war’ with west as Ukraine invasion stalls
Someone commented something along the lines of 'but then how are we supposed to tackle organized crime'. As I typed the comment below the comment got flagged and I could no longer reply. Still, I think the bit below may contribute to the discussion. TL;DR; I think that as a society we should more often ask ourselves if something is actually worth fighting if it means sacrificing a lot of our human rights. That may not be a problem on HN, but it is one imho on a political level in many Western countries.

There is not always a solution to a problem.

Let's say you wanted to bring the number of car crashes to zero. Eventually there's nothing 'reasonable' left to be done, and the only remaining option would be to ban cars altogether. Instead, we accept a certain number of crashes because it's deemed more important to be able to drive a car than it is to bring the number of car crash fatalities to zero*.

For example, in a country like Germany there are 0.8 homicides per 100K inhabitants. You could put _everybody_ under surveillance, just to have an easier job of finding the perpetrators. In the process there would be many false positives, wrongful imprisonments, etc.

In order to preserve the rule of law, maybe it's sometimes best to accept that you cannot create the perfect society. At least not a society in which people who are innocent (the very vast majority) can also still enjoy their freedoms.

Besides, I feel like the police has become somewhat lazy in many Western countries for the past 20 years. Before the rise of the internet, it was simply accepted that you couldn't know what two spouses had said to each other and you had to rely on good-old detective work. However, since things like Facebook Messenger, the cops expect to be able to get a warrant for all this data. That era appears to be slowly ending with E2EE, and all of a sudden they're struggling because those detective skills have slowly deteriorated.

* To be clear, I think that in many countries there's still quite a lot of room for improvement to reduce the number of car crash fatalities. Not in the least in the USA.
I think the problem is multi-faceted:
- some guns were legally acquired in the US then stolen
- the government has done gun running operations from the US into Mexico and then some of the guns have ended up being used in crimes back in the US
- some gun running does acquire guns outside of the US and brings them in

The thing I am objecting to is the notion that if an illegally used gun was used in a crime it must have once been a legally possessed gun, and (the implicit policy prescription) that the way to curb illegal gun possession is by limiting legal gun possession. While that last part probably tracks, because of my ideological beliefs, I'd rather we exhaust all other options before limiting legal gun ownership. And even then, again because ideology/convictions, curbing legal gun ownership is probably not a thought I'd entertain at the ballot box.
The slowing of Moore’s Law was going to eventually lead to the loosening of the stranglehold that Von Nuemann machine design has on the industry. I’m glad to see things like this!
I really don't understand why NSAID Celecoxib is not available over the counter. It is a Cox2 selective inhibitor which reduces the stomach issues, and from studies I've seen the myocardia issues are within comparable ranges to acetaminophen.
Apart from what vineyardmike mentioned, there's a few additional levers, like having the app removed from app stores. I don't know what the current state of their traffic and DNS filtering capabilities, but if they really wanted to go nuclear they have jurisdiction over the com TLD. Wouldn't be the first time they've seized a domain on "national security, etc." grounds.
To hell with camouflage. I want a skin where I could display animations.
Not even close to true. I can ride 60-70 miles on reasonably hilly terrain on about 2000kcal. There’s no car that can come close to that. And that’s assuming drivers don’t eat (the McDonald’s wrappers I see by the side of the road proves that they do).
I think it's a mistake to ignore these articles for two reasons - 1 mechanical, and 1 structural. The mechanical reason - headlines are clickbait, no twitter isn't literally dying today, but read the article and it is making some pretty legitimate points.

The second, more structural reason is a common theme with brand equity, you can do a lot of things over time to damage a brand and non of them invididually will sink your company. But these shots to the company accumulate, and eventually it's gone too far to come back from, you can't recover. To a certain extent you saw this with digg, the redesign was the obvious exodus point, but the trust had been lost far earlier - people were ready to walk away.

In the same way, Twitter doesn't look today like it's collapsing, but it's done a lot of permanent damage to itself. That broad base of quirky and interesting people you used to follow on twitter? They're not there anymore, they don't want to be on that weird homophobic guy's platform. Some of the people have stayed, but those communities largely exist on other platforms now, Twitter is no longer the centre of gravity. But those aren't the thing making twitter a billion dollar platform. The platform is still busy, but it's full of crypto bros and VC influencers, people who will take great pride in telling you how AI is going to make <person with high social status> unemployed. But that's not a healthy ecosystem - those are the guys who move in to try and farm social capital from the high status individuals, but the high status individuals aren't there anymore - a deliberate move from Elon. So yeah, it's still alive, but to some extent the value has already walked out the door. There hasn't been the big bang to crystalize this yet, but it seems highly likely that Twitter has given up its space as a cultural centre-peice. The cool kids have moved on.
Caffeine dilates blood vessels - withdrawal will make them constricted
There are two aspects to it.

The first one is whether they would actually sue. The optics would be terrible. A similar situation occurred in the 90s when the RC4 cipher’s code was leaked. Everyone used the leaked code pretending that it was a new cipher called arc4random, even though they had confirmation from people that licensed the cipher that its output was identical. Nobody was sued, and the RSA company never acknowledged it.

The second one is related to the terms. The LLaMA weights themselves are licensed under terms that exclude commercial use:[0]

> You will not […] use […] the Software Products (or any derivative works thereof, works incorporating the Software Products, or any data produced by the Software), […] for […] any commercial or production purposes.

But the definition of derivative works is gray. AFAIK, if LLaMA is distilled, there is an unsettled argument to be had that the end result is not a LLaMA derivative, and cannot be considered copyright or license infringement, similar to how models trained on blog articles and tweets are not infringing on those authors’ copyright or licensing. The people that make the new model may be in breach of the license if they agreed to it, but maybe not the people that use that new model. Otherwise, ad absurdum, a model trained on the Internet will have content that was generated by LLaMA in its training set, so all models trained on the Internet after Feb 2023 will break the license.

IANAL, but ultimately, Meta wins more by benefiting from what the community contributes on top of their work (similar to what happened with React), than by suing developers that use derivatives of their open models.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqNECQnMkycAp2jP4Z...
It is, but that’s a little meaningless when I haven’t been to a bank in maybe 20 years. I see stories here about banking infrastructure and suspect it might be very hard to get changes made.
ibuprofen is literally a muscle growth inhibitor
A small library to express workflows as state machines
> With "not the time for half measures" I meant that if only half measures are deployed now then it seems likely millions of humans, many from regions least responsible for climate change, will be harmed, killed or displaced.

Half measures is what's feasible. The measures you're proposing are not.

> Keep in mind the distinction between policy level and individual level. The policy suggestion was remove meat industry subsidies, price in externalities, subsidize plant based foods.

You're mistaken in the assumption that the majority will be willing to vote for this. Every point of yours is politically unpalatable.
Yeah that probably is the case at big companies. My experience is all at smaller non VC funded companies where having some good product and design talent is critical.
That’s exactly the goal of the companies, and Apple’s offering is “good enough” there.
That's how the brain evolved, after all: take incoming input, process according to previous patterns, output a reaction to peripheral nervous system that will enhance survival. The evolutionary purpose of a cortex is to store a statistical model of an animal's environment based on past stimulus. Human intelligence is just a complicated permutation of these initial systemic parameters.
I was flying from the UK to the USA once, on my own. They asked me what my hobbies are and what the most recent movie I saw was.
On the positive to neutral spectrum
I’ve never heard of this woman before, but you can clearly see by the statements in the Wikipedia page that are made without citing sources, and the overall tone of the article, what Wikipedia thinks about her.

Very little media is without bias.
> the climate isn't fully understood

I give you this one. There is no absolute _proof_, we only have scientific consensus of the overwhelming majority. Granted, they all can be wrong, thats the good thing about science.

Having said that, just out of curiosity watching you discuss:

Would you agree that _just in case_ all these dudes are roughly right, we all should make at least good faith attempts to stop whatever we're doing currently or change it so that it doesn't make the situation worse?

Best case, all the scientists were wrong and we made the world a cleaner place with less pollution and sustainable tech instead of using up limited resources wherever possible. Worst case: they were not only right and even underestimated the pace (happened multiple times already), but we took measures just in time and can solve the problems just-in-time.

I mean, we could expand the problem easily to not only include warming and its effects, we do have straight pollution problems right in front of us. Toxic substances sifting into nature, rivers dying, agricultural wastes poisoning the seas, piles of garbage in poorer countries where new smallpox variants can emerge, hostile bacterias that are immune to the last antibiotics we have against superimmune things, ... .

I think even if the whole global warming story would be some super world conspiracy or mathematical error at the end, many measures to reduce that thing would also help against very obvious problems we also have (or start to have).
> ads are a part of how we consume content these days.

They aren't a part of how I do it.
You are conflating the counting problem with an inability to do anything with data it doesn't have. For its ability to invent new languages and translate to and from them, see https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv...

For the reason why LLMs can do this and why they don't necessarily need to have seen the words they read or use, you can look up "BPE tokenization"

Could you give me an example that isn't counting-related?
Why use GPT-4? The latency is significantly worse than 3.5 and this seems simple enough that the performance delta is marginal. If I was going for robustness, I probably wouldn’t be using AI in the first place.

Edit: I noticed they support both but I’m assuming by the speed all the demos are using 3.5?
no different than Phenylephrine. An almost useless chemical sold as a nasal decongestant all over the US.
This does not look at all legitimate