skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This does not make sense to me. If the two forces are truly of equal magnitude, then shouldn't the one that is in-line with the center of mass accelerate it faster, since 100% of the force is being converted to linear momentum, while the off-center force is being split between increasing linear momentum and rotational momentum?

Forces don't "split" that way. 100% of the force goes into creating linear acceleration, and 100% of the force goes into creating torque.

> This would appear to violate the conservation of energy.

It's not. The off-center force does more work, putting more energy into rotation.
Now make one for Indian classical music. Indian classical is as rich as European, with it's ragas and talas and so many instruments (tabla, sitar, sarangi... )
Right, they use their super scientific model that was definitely arrived at in a very scientific way that just so happens to keep the number hovering at 4 or 5%. There's nothing real stopping us from cruising around with unemployment at 2 or 3%. Other countries do it. It's been like that in the past in the US. And the invention of the concept just so happens to coincide with a complete de-correlation between productivity gains and wage gains. It's also based off of a dogmatic assumption that you can't have low unemployment and low inflation, and a failed economic model.

Anyway, as for a source, the 2nd paragraph of the wikipedia article on NAIRU states it's generally 5-6%. You can pretty readily google it and see that it's been between 4-6%.

https://www.ft.com/content/facf6989-7cd2-3724-a6d4-dfe7c7551...
"Among a certain set, the big debates in the 1960s were about whether the government should target an unemployment rate of 3 per cent or 5 per cent." Guess which one they picked. Economics, as it intersects with politics, is not a science at all. Not even close. It's the result of people with agendas funding grants with hopes that someone will show the results they want, and then them cherrypicking those results. If you throw enough money into it, you can find a "scientific" justification for anything. The more academic side of it has some merit... but for the most part it gest brushed aside because it's not telling the people making the policy what they want to hear.
> Git makes it easy to make copies, but its nature of having one designated "origin" remote per repository that serves as upstream source of truth (on platforms like github also across forks) makes it not really federated/decentralized the way Mastodon et al. are.

That makes sense. Each Activitypub server might also be considered the source of truth for any given post, but since you're usually going to fetch them from your own instance that your account lives on you're not getting it directly from there unless you specifically do it yourself.

> But that said, Mastodon/ActivityPub don't really feel like mature solutions yet.

Yeah, that makes sense. I think this is partly because Activitypub is both quite opinionated, but also gives you quite some wiggle room with how you implement different functionality, like defederation. And of course the most well known software in that space is effectively what all others have to follow.

Git is probably a more stable protocol, but then again ActivityPub is served over HTTP, which is also pretty stable. I believe the same issues would befall this as well, since Git, to me, doesn't seem to be the biggest factor in this, and more the append-only nature of it. I've never been a big fan of append-only social networks.

I've been running a Mastodon server for a couple of years now and have had relatively few federation issues, luckily. But I do agree that trudging through the logs and figuring out what's going on is not exactly ideal, not to mention debugging other issues like if something went wrong during the key exchange with your server and a remote one, or if you accidentally lose your key and suddenly can't talk to any other instance since they won't trust your old domain with the new key. But you might run into similar issues with this, right?

Edit: If it came across as downplaying the project or it's author then that wasn't my intention at all. These were just some thoughts that immediately popped into my head when I saw this. They may well have thought through answers to my not thought through questions, and I certainly don't mean to pretend like I know better.
0 mention of why the Chatbot is the reason he killed himself. Not saying it is untrue but without anything describing what conversations took place this just seems like fearmongering.
Do you mean companies incorporated in America, or companies with ownership stakes in China?
Most big corps are based on Office365 - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams. And all of that integrated tightly together.

I don't think most big companies will move away from Windows completely, there is simply no worthy competitor to replace the office suite and to have it all integrated from top to bottom.
I'm familiar with this ELIZA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Is there some recreation of ELIZA that uses ChatGPT under the hood that the article is talking about?
You don't.

Mainstream news outlets almost never describe leaders as far left.

You brought up Brazil.
Lets look at Brazil as framed by New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/world/americas/lula-elect...

"Brazilians voted out their far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after a single term and replaced him with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva."
The burden of proof lies on the person who claims that literally any statement that contradicts his argument is malicious propaganda.
related to that, I somehow thought the sitemap protocol was that any such thing was referenced from /robots.txt (https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#informing) but your site's robots.txt is 404 (https://www.answeroverflow.com/robots.txt) even though https://www.answeroverflow.com/sitemap.xml exists. One can certainly question whether "weekly" is the correct changefreq for a discord server url but maybe that's just a concession to some rate limit?
Yeah and to be clear I’m the most introverted of all folks, and it was literally torture forcing myself to do this but I wanted to actually get my effort done and I could see from my peer teams the sourcing and recruiting functions were not functional.

I don’t think they actually do nothing though. They’re just highly ineffectual. Not only do they target candidates wrong as you mention they’re known to be five steps removed from any decision. The power of being the hiring manager and directly involved in the project is hard to measure but it’s significant.

The other issue is recruiters don’t actually know the tech landscape in enough detail. They know the rough shape of major employers, but details like “UIUC is in central Illinois and there aren’t many employees in the area and those that are there aren’t that desirable so recruiting phd students out of the program isn’t that hard” or “national labs under Trump are a terrible place to work so recruit folks working on climate change super computing projects” aren’t practically tractable. They’re also, to your point, unaware of the adjacencies of technologies - while they know what stack you’re hiring for, they can’t know X is similar to Y so X is sufficient.

It’s a hard job and entirely thankless, and I always feel tremendous empathy and sympathy for folks in the recruiter role. But that doesn’t help the fact they’re almost entirely useless in that role.
But internet principles say that government intelligence services and e-privateers should have access to every port!
True. There was a good blog post published about this a few weeks ago: https://finbarr.ca/llms-not-trained-enough/

Money quote for those who don't want to read the whole thing:

'''

When people talk about training a Chinchilla-optimal model, this is what they mean: training a model that matches their estimates for optimality. They estimated the optimal model size for a given compute budget, and the optimal number of training tokens for a given compute budget.

However, when we talk about “optimal” here, what is meant is “what is the cheapest way to obtain a given loss level, in FLOPS.” In practice though, we don’t care about the answer! This is exactly the answer you care about if you’re a researcher at DeepMind/FAIR/AWS who is training a model with the goal of reaching the new SOTA so you can publish a paper and get promoted. If you’re training a model with the goal of actually deploying it, the training cost is going to be dominated by the inference cost. This has two implications:

1) there is a strong incentive to train smaller models which fit on single GPUs

2) we’re fine trading off training time efficiency for inference time efficiency (probably to a ridiculous extent).

Chinchilla implicitly assumes that the majority of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for a LLM is the training cost. In practice, this is only the case if you’re a researcher at a research lab who doesn’t support products (e.g. FAIR/Google Brain/DeepMind/MSR). For almost everyone else, the amount of resources spent on inference will dwarf the amount of resources spent during training.

'''
I've gone the opposite way. I lived in a rural area with the closest hardware or big box store nearly an hour way. I'd only go to town at most once a week but more often once every two weeks. Projects took forever to complete because I'd forget to buy some widget, get the wrong widget, or often be unable to find the right widget at a brick & mortar. Amazon to the rescue!

I've since moved to town but still rely on Amazon for a large portion of my shopping. Nowadays, a lot of local retailers don't carry much stock so I'm having to order online anyway but only after I've driven to the brick & mortar and found they don't carry the item or it's out of stock.
Article confusingly says that he s been using chatGPT for 3 years. Doesnt sound credible

OTOH eco-anxiety maybe has become a clinical issue? No doubt all the FUD wears on people. It's always like that in the west, as if people need to be tormented with something, be it god, or nukes or whatever.

https://theconversation.com/is-climate-anxiety-a-clinical-di...
ELIZA uses ChatGPT? 2 years ago or just recently? This article is confusing.
I think you're misinterpreting my point.

If they doubled the price consistently, they would no longer be a low margin business. The fact that they are low margin is evidence that they are not gouging.

I think there's also a misperception of the public on a lot of items. Many of the dramatic price increases we see are deferred inflation from not raising prices (and subsequently eating the added supplier cost). We generally don't see steady 2-5% price increases every year, but rather large step increases every few years. Many of those step increases are catching up for the previous years where there was no increase.

FWIW, I'm not saying there isn't opportunism going on, but it's much less likely in low-margin commodity businesses.
And the whole point of a union bureaucracy is to justify its existence and paint all employers as great villains. Your biased here. It’s not this black and white.
From the article:

'The recent turmoil at Chief began on International Women’s Day, in early March, when a member of the network, Denise Conroy, declared on LinkedIn that she was leaving Chief and accused the group of sidestepping political issues and ghosting women of color who applied for membership. (Ms. Conroy, 51, later acknowledged that she had been reprimanded internally for trying to sell tickets on Chief’s platform to an external workshop she was running, which ran counter to the company’s policies.)
....

Rachel Hassall, a supply chain executive, is one of the Chief members who chose to leave the organization this month. She had recently participated in a discussion that Ms. Conroy hosted about the book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better"

Seriously. Who signs up for this? Imagine paying to be called a racist all day long, just so you can feel morally superior to others.
Not at all! There is a large intersection between Important and Non-Urgent.v

Example - bicycle parts. A bicycle will ride without lubrication, with missing fenders and damaged brakes. Should it?

I ordered a horn, forgot about it.

Does it mean I don't need a horn? Hard to tell, it could save your life. It maybe it won't.
Even Safari? It's about as native as you can get. I've seen no evidence it uses different scroll logic than whatever "native" app. In fact many "native" apps that reinvented the wheel in their GUI framework have a decidedly worse scroll than many web apps.
The titular claim is not the problem.

The problem is that an open internet is incompatible with [the politics of] the world we live in.

In that world, state and other actors seek to use contemporary surveillance data to drive sentiment and behavior in targeted populations. To put it directly, we (the US) are engaged in memetic warfare both internally and externally.

Tik Tok is correctly being singled out as a singularly powerful platform for surveillance of and control of Americans by a state rival.

Should we come to war (e.g. over Taiwan) hot or cold, it's not viable to have a Tik Tok and its well-publicized ability to determine what goes viral, in the hands of the foe.

This is at heart a conflict between aspirational principles which are incompatible with the reality of human nature and the tools we have built as force multipliers.

This is unfortunate.

Much is.
the return button doesn't work on the site that's pretty annoying
Have they considered not selling products that people shouldn't buy? Works for Walmart.
Eh, it was the original therapy chatbot. Focused on Rodgerian psychotherapy.

I'm not even sure ChatGPT existed two years ago. It seems like a very odd story. I wonder what the core facts are.
This was the old mobile website, not i.redd.it.
This effect has a big play on motorcycles. Riding a bicycle is considered prerequisite knowledge for learning to ride a motorcycle, largely because of this counter steering. One thing that is more pronounced on a motorcycle is that counter steering only occurs while the bike is moving at speed. As in, you only counter steer a motorcycle above ~10mph (higher for some motorcycles). It's really cool to think about how intuitive this switch is, almost everyone picks it up quickly and it becomes second nature.
I run a good and old tech blog[0] in Brazil for almost a decade. It's been my main income source since 2020, and I'm making more than I did in my last job in a traditional newsroom.

I actively avoid programmatic/invasive ads. My three income sources are: subscriptions (without paywalling anything), direct advertising deals, and content deals with other, bigger publications (they get priority to publish my stuff first, I publish later).

Last year I started an English-written blog[1], translating the best from my original, pt_BR one, in an attempt to reach a bigger, international audience. Slow start, but I'm fine with it — none of my business was an overnight success.

[0] https://manualdousuario.net/
[1] https://notes.ghed.in/
13B fits nicely even in a 3090 (24gb vram)!
Complete clickbait.
It doesn't even explain how the AI caused it.
thank you - this is why i only read articles linked to on hn if the comments make it sound like there's some substance
I don't think it's a betrayal of the open internet to be non-open to mass-murdering despots.
artificially inflated in the sense that if it wasn’t for government regulation that makes building difficult, then the normal market forces that incentivize builders to meet demand would result in costs lower than they are now.
Reminded me of an ancient King of the Hill joke

"Hank and I used to go to Mexico every time they devalued the peso!"

"Yeah, that got old fast..."
Well, in this case the choices are personal as they are effecting myself, my wife, and my friends. I suppose it's understandable to feel OK infantilizing people and making arguments around culture war hot topics if you're not personally involved, but the implication that it's something like white guilt or the war on men is detached, disrespectful, and antagonizing.
0.002 dollars versus 0.002 cents (2006) [video]
These annoy me too, but they're not necessarily crap. In a sense, this is exactly what Amazon Basics is, only I trust Amazon's curation.
This is about PayPal, not a government.
That is a very sad situation.

It is, yet it is also heart warming, for whether from China or the US, the concern by average end users is the same.

Humans ... no matter their political differences, are all just dumbasses.
As long as you don't count the SEO cost in the acquisition of those customers, it is much cheaper.
I have not tried, but 96GB of GPU memory is plenty, for inference there should certainly be no issue. Their biggest model has 13B parameters, you should be able to run inference (float16) already with 32GB of memory.

With 96GB of memory you should also be able to fine-tune it (possibly some tricks like gradient accumulation and/or checkpointing might be needed), but you have to be ready for many days of computation...
> Every user stores their application state in a git repo they own and control. No other infrastructure is necessary!

As a long-time user (and writer) of static site generators, I welcome these ideas, as I think these would allow us to organize static sites into some kind of decentralized social networks. Think of this as a bulkier version of RSS, because - for most practical cases - it is relative cheap to just fetch everything from a source and present it in a consistent way.

Even if people were using centralized git repositories, a separate naming service could allow easy (and cheap/free) redirects, so data migration wouldn't be an issue.

Can this be done with mastadon? Of course. But it requires a database server and other moving parts that need occasional maintenance. Treating the social network as a network of static sites makes operations (and federation) so much easier.

Would this be this specific project that wins us over? Maybe not, we shall see. But I think the concept could evolve into something useful.
In the US perhaps, but every other country also uses fiat and the global middle class has never been stronger. That suggests to me that there is a different, US specific reason for widening inequality.
No, you are better off with a simple credit card that gives 2% cash back.

This is for people who cannot get approved for a credit card.
Snippyly (YC W22) Is Hiring Front end SWEs to make the web multiplayer
I live in a large city and I can get a large Dominos pizza delivered at full menu price for about $20. If I pick it up from the store it's like $8.
My4TH – A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU
My favorite part of all these "buy now pay later" services is going to buy some charging cables, a few bags of flour, or other small random stuff and being offered to split a $19 purchase into 4 equal payments.
This was my first thought as well. The ELIZA I am familiar with is nowhere near sophisticated enough to have this sort of effect.

The article says "ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT"

I guess colliding with names used by their ancestors was not forbidden by OpenAI's CoC?
If one is worried about forgetting, this probably isn't a good hack, but it should be possible to (a) buy a T-bill or CD maturing near the balance due date and (b) use Bill Pay to schedule a payment for the balance due.
Potentially. We will follow what our users will ask us to do.
See the last paragraph of the parent of my comment. It wasn't about the Amish in particular, but "spiritual ideals" in general.
...and the NLRB ensures that the violence continues only in one direction; from the ruling class against the working class.
But nobody wants to read "content". We want to read things that actually say something. If your newspaper can't write that, then I will stop buying your newspaper.
Interests aside, it is very important that everyone has B12 in their diet. Most people get it from animal products, so vegans need to be sure they're getting it from somewhere. Without B12, all of the health benefits of lower BMI, higher dietary fiber, and lower saturated fat and dietary cholesterol will be offset by higher stroke risk.
> I.reddit.com Has Been Deprecated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281562)

> Tell HN: Reddit removed i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283379)

I highly recommend Apollo (https://apolloapp.io/) for browsing reddit on iOS (also RES (https://redditenhancementsuite.com/) for desktops)
I would guess that there isn't a lot of overlap between "90 days isn't nearly enough" and "no interest in this being an open-ended sort of thing" people.
A little fact checking.

1. ChatGPT is not a full year on the marked... how can he chatted with it for 2 years then?

2. Eliza was build 1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

3. What did he actuly read in these conversations? - was it really that harmful to drive someone into suicide?

I think this entire article is fake news and a extremely bad anecdote
sadly that view is not shared with us via this article
I think the OP is referring to the financing options available for larger hardware purchases, which is separate from this program.

I bought my M1 MBP using the financing they offer and it was 24 months, no interest, _and_ you do get the 3% back immediately upon purchase. They also set up the payment plan for you so you do not have to worry about missing a payment and getting charged interest you were intentionally avoiding.

It's a great option if you are on top of your finances, but the point remains that it can easily be used to live outside of your means.
That's not artificial though, that's fair market pricing. It's growth in income leading to higher prices for goods purchased with that income.
Given the amount of money in the bank versus many wannabe startups, they are somehow right.

And yes, ClearCase does stuff that many alternatives to this days still has issues dealing with.

With ClearCase I already had object files caching across the build cluster without extra stuff, a nice graphical management tooling, and I never messed my view specification files, like I routinely need to fix my Git repos.
They claim to. But there's no inherent understanding. Otherwise they could do maths and reason correctly about code. It's just probabilities.
Yep. I lived in downtown SF for 10 years, and only after fleeing during summer 2020 and buying a car do I realize how my social life in SF had really become so geographically limited even within SF. Obviously you can always Uber anywhere, and by public transit most of the city is only 90 minutes and 2 transfers away (snark), but the truth is that I see more areas of the city now when I visit via car from 25 minutes away than I did when I lived downtown.
Web Accessibility Laws Set to Enter New Era: DOJ Gears Up for Spring Rulemaking
I imagine the medical industry is patiently waiting for GPT to misdiagnose someone and they die. Then they can push for legislation to entrench their monopoly further.

(Which ignores the multi million misdiagnosis Physicians do every year, but fear and lobbying is a powerful motivator)