skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen anything better that fulfills the same purpose in the US. You can't use Zelle like PayPal. If you use Venmo with a business, it's basically the same as Paypal (besides being owned by Paypal). Stripe has similar rules around credit card payments. This is because of regulations, not technical issues.

Maybe the situation is better in certain countries, but who knows how long that'll last.
Many Android devices are still not available to be updated. For example, Verizon Pixel 6 users did not receive this patch until yesterday.
Why stop there? Maybe the next version of Teams, will have commercial breaks during your daily stand-up? ... Microsoft is making 2023 the year of the Linux Desktop. :-)
Long-term, generating reproducible code will be important for speed/economics. However, even then the LLM will still have to calculate its actions one at a time when creating the reproducible workflow, since Taxy will have to deal with html elements being added and removed from the DOM after each action, not to mention navigation to other webpages.
>"They will reject" seems an awful like "won't run on my distribution",

No it doesn't. You are free to install whatever software you want. None of these systems will prevent a user from using non-free software. They just won't encourage it.

I find GNU's position too dogmatic, but it's not as bad as you pretend.
Of that 30% what percentage have obtained citizenship?

How are you defining immigrants?
Things that can be automated should be - if something is simple enough to automate with GPT then we should be evaluating a deeper level of understanding through oral examinations. If I understand the topic but can use GPT to complete 80% of the essay where I tweak and expand arguments, and can orally argue my point, I think that should be acceptable. If you increase the grading so you need an almost factually perfect paper to get a passing grade then people will be editing and need to understand to check for mistakes.
Oh well it doesn’t really matter if one person from the internet hasnt heard of it, wake forest even has a medical school.
Thinking of how “good” an institution is based on name recognition doesn’t scale that well or mean that much. What about McGill University or Reed College?
Not trying to be snarky or rude it’s just not a solid metric to gauge things like this based on personal familiarity, given how vast the world is.
If you make your high-cost employees much more productive with AI, you may not need to reduce per-headcount cost so much anymore. The cultural and language benefits start to dominate the calculation.

That said, India will only grow in importance, so I wouldn't be surprised if the team was reinstated in a few years
>Malware is, by definition, computing that is done without its user's informed consent.

Do you manually inspect every CPU clock cycle spent, or every data connection or packet sent by every piece of SW running on your system, to make sure it was all done with your consent?
Does the "blockbuster case" line of thought you've seen suggest it should be easy for Oracle? From the differing legal opinions I've read it seems a legal quagmire. That's a quagmire that _both_ sides of the argument have to wade in to, just Oracle gets to choose if and when that happens. They might just be a bit gun shy after their last 10 year long open source case.
You're very kind, thank you! Glad it was of help!
They don't want war, yet they also don't want to make any concessions or de-escalations. So they get more war.
They know which seller you purchased it from, but they fulfill the order from a huge bucket of commingled inventory.
My experience is the same as yours. I don't understand all these complaints. I've been using Amazon since 2002, about 30-50 orders per year, and I've had to return maybe 2 things because they were disappointing. And on the rare occasion where a delivery doesn't show up, it's very easy to complain and get my money back.

Driving to a store to buy something has become a waste of time, except for a few things, like shoes and gloves. I no longer need to drive 15 minutes to a store, spend time searching for the thing I want, find out that they don't have it, have someone offer that they can order it for me, and drive home.
Also true. There are some things MS Windows has better support for, especially in business and gaming.
Also, if you establish residency in the state for a year, you get in-state tuition prices, at least in the state I went to school. Effectively that $40K is just for the first year.
> I use VSTs in digital audio software. I don't need to connect it to the internet

Really? All the audio plug-ins I can find nowadays have network licensing. Often they come with a really irritating installer installer. You can't just download the damn plug-in you want. You first have to install some bloated app that then allows you to download the installers for all of the company's products. Then when you do, it's tied to some account and phones home every time you launch it. If you're lucky it works a few times not connecting, but after awhile it gives up and won't run until it can verify your license again. It's getting to the point where I just hate using software, and I'm a software engineer who loves writing it! I just can't stand all this unnecessary friction we keep adding so someone can make a few extra cents.
I 'm actually shocked that people are OK with that. People in countries that have had dictatorships recently probably remember that. Snitches everywhere, the police raiding houses again and again for no reason, with no recourse and people were just accepting it.
It's absurd That any serious climate scientists should take seriously the media pretensions around making an emotionally charged adolescent into a messianic figure, and consider that a useful thing for real climate investigation and some practical policy.

Either many people who work in climate change have some serious critical thinking problems in this field, or the core ideas of good scientific thinking have gone down the toilet for climate change.
Irrational? You're angry because they're trying to mislead you into thinking that "insurance" is covering 97% of a large bill. When in reality, they're only covering 60% of a small bill.
Maybe, but it's arguably easier to become a comfortable working class person in the US (plumber, electrician, etc.) than it is to become a comfortable professional/managerial class person if you're walking away from school a quarter million or $300k in debt and your first ~decade of work you're looking at making $50-60k/yr.
Integrating TeX into a program inside exactly impossible now though. Pandoc gets along fine.

Also the way to trust code is isolation rather than verification, even rust has unsafe.
I think the thrilling part is that it's a somewhat atomic concept that can somewhat convincingly be proven to not exist in the training data. While poetry is more impressive if it's as original it's harder to show that it's not just stitched together from the training data.
Its all bad, and it is good to take actions to stop them, even if other people are doing bad things.

Problem solved. Just condemn and take actions against all bad things that are being done, regardless of if you can stop every bad thing in the world.
Yes, that is what they are asking.
"the training cost is going to be dominated by the inference cost."

That's only true for general-mass-consumer models.

Companies may want to fine-tune/train their own models, which don't have that many users for their narrow use cases (possibly only internal staff), will find that training cost is a substantial chunk of the TCO
I thought bigotry was scapegoating a minority group because of the actions of a few members.

Do you value the time and quality of life of the billions who can't drive a Chevy, nor will ever have a device that can run an Electron app or $10/month for Spotify?

It's not all free as in beer you know, free software is meant to serve a free society by allowing everyone to participate in the social construction of technology, not provide consumer luxuries. I think the term you're looking for is "open source"
I've been meaning to get around to watching B5 one of these days. I'm a huge fan of DS9, but totally missed out on Babylon back in the day.
Yeah, like maybe we can get it directly from the source like we do it on Windows/Linux/MacOS already
I hate to break it to you, but there's plenty of Americans living all over Europe. Here in London there's loads.
Since you mention it... How's that emacs plugin coming along?

Also, does it work with the local version of sourcegraph?
That's the direction I'd like to take this longer-term. The major advantages are: lower latency, lower costs and better auditability/reproducibility each time you run a workflow.

The major disadvantage is less resiliency if the structure of the page changes, eg. if a site adds a "subscribe now!" modal or something you have to click through to get to the content. But that's solvable (if desired) by falling back to the LLM if the scripted steps don't produced the expected output.

We actually started our implementation in this direction but decided to change course and focus on direct LLM manipulation to iterate and launch faster. But we'll likely get back there at some point, especially as we build support for scheduled/automated workflows.
It's been suggested that DS9 was derived from when JMS pitched B5 to Paramount.
I don't know if either that's actually true, or just how poor you have to be to be considered middle or low income, but I'm on the college application treadmill and the schools seem to consider you "high income" if you bring in enough income to pay for the cost of college, whether or not there's anything left over afterward.
Starting your own business is a big risk. This is also merely a chance to compete for entry.

Joining the military is not only a physical risk, you are also joining an organization with a pyramidal structure: you may not get that promotion.

Getting educated seems like the easiest thing to do, because it's a continuation of what most kids have done. Maybe it suffers from the same pyramid issue, but it's not obvious to all the kids.
"disable all of them"

Yes you are correct, but Microsoft is hiding these options in at least 5 different places, and you need to follow a tutorial to disable them all. Not to mention new updates add new ads, like this one or a recent one that shows search box in the task bar. This is only Windows. If you use Edge, there are 10 other things Microsoft forces on you, recently sidebar, "Discover" and "writing assistance". Some of these, like "Microsoft Editor" of "writing assistance", sends data to Microsoft (written clearly in the settings), which could include trade secret. Well it's true you can turn these off, but they should never be turned on by default in the first place.
someone always brings up the religious stuff
> it will likely be just as good as GPT-3 or 4 soon.

It just came out, but in 4 months of development this vehicle should be able to do 2000 miles per gallon instead of 20 miles per gallon.

GPT is not magic, it's performance is linear with its size.
No, being in EEA means EU citizens can _live_ there without working for up to 3 months, but after 3 months they need to be employed. It's the same rule as in the rest of EU countries.
It is looking like I may be going back to windows server this year. Someone on HN helpfully reminded me that my VS/MSDN subscription includes access to this already.

I am in a really uncomfortable spot of mostly disliking all flavors of operating system now. I don't really like to play games anymore and linux is something I can only enjoy with unlimited free time.

MacOS is quickly becoming my favorite "around the house" OS, but I can't stand to do technical work on this setup for some reason - I'll just RDP into my workstation if I'm on the couch.
Google is going to show a new ‘Perspectives’ carousel in search results
https://www.overleaf.com/read/fhvjbjbhzmgr
Microsoft is primarily a cloud services company now. Legacy products need to fund themselves and it's difficult to get much for a Windows consumer license these days, so the Windows group has to find revenue where they can. At least the people in the Office group have a nice revenue stream from Office 365. Consumer Windows just isn't a viable standalone product anymore, at least not one that can cover its own costs easily. Windows Server still brings in revenue for licenses, so whatever development on Server that makes its way over to Consumer is probably a subsidy, though I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to have one department charge another for services.
Am I missing something? I don’t use Twitter but the replies linked from the article still show who is being replied to. Maybe there was a UI change and the author has an axe to grind.
I agree. And moving to e2ee for everything and away from big services like gmail and office 365 is part of the solution.
Maybe people are voting with their feet for constitutional protections. Maybe it's because the USA is significantly richer and pays more, there's likely to be a whole range of reasons.

I work with several US nationals who have relocated to the EU.
Rather than assuming bad faith, I think it makes more sense to treat these documents like the codebase for a large open source software project. Perhaps there are reasons, not apparent to someone who hasn’t spent months working on the code and the systems it integrates with, for what appears to be unnecessary complexity. And perhaps it’s reasonable for people to advocate for or against using the project without having read and understood every line of code themselves.
I have the feeling this deferment will continue indefinitely because they can't forgive them because it's supposedly political suicide nor can they not extend it as it will cause too much of an economic impact.
It seems correct, but verbose. GPT-4 gives the more concise and idiomatic:

module full_adder(input [3:0] a, input [3:0] b, input cin, output reg [3:0] sum, output reg cout);

always @(*) begin
{cout, sum} = a + b + cin;
end

endmodule
You're not being very clear in your communication:

> ByteDance is financially backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital Group. As of March 2021, it was estimated to be valued at $250 billion in private trades.[0]

> ByteDance says 60% of its shares are owned by non-Chinese investors such as U.S investment firms Carlyle Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Japan's SoftBank Group. Employees own 20% and its founders the remaining 20%. [1]

> On top of that, the communist Chinese state has consistently threatened its neighbors with violent annexation. I think it's a dishonest argument to claim that independent American platforms and state-owned Chinese platforms are equivalent.

I don't think America has much moral high ground when it comes to violent foreign interference.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-chinese-owned...
Google Distributed Cloud
Maybe it'll rob us. Why write a fledgling blog just to have OpenAI copy (likely steal, I assume they don't abide by everything) it for training data.
Reminds me of how AI image generators draw stuff slightly wrong
> The effort would stifle American innovation and competition

No, please, just one more ponzi scheme and we'll get the future we deserve!
I really appreciate GNU keeping their ground. We need them to keep the Overton window correctly framed.

Nonfree drivers are not OK.

Nonfree BIOS/EFI programs are not OK.

Nonfree kernel blobs are not OK.

We may use them out of necessity and pragmatism (some nonfree software is better than 100% nonfree software! an Arch user still has more intact freedoms than a Windows user), but we should still reject them ideologically and remember that they are tolerated but not accepted.
The cognitive demand shift to other tasks, and probably increase, rather than disappearing.
It's both a form of credit and marketing. Some people don't like credit cards for whatever reason.

It's not a lot of credit since you have to pay it back pretty quick, but it does have a similar benefit to paying with a credit card and then paying the monthly statement.
I dream of building a bike with 1-2 dozen little wheels, and this frees up the design of the frame completely. Power would be given by little electric motors. The single point of failure represented by a single wheel would not be a problem anymore.
Millennials gonna be hit with their fourth "once in a lifetime" event so far.
Wake Forest is reasonably well-known and well-regarded in the Southeast, but not say at the level of Duke (another private NC university), and definitely not nationally.

For Ivy Leagues and similar top tier (Berkeley/Caltech/Duke/MIT/Stanford/), you can go there to study anything and the school name will carry you even if your particular program is not as well-regarded as its counterpart at large state universities.

But if your choice is between an expensive mid-tier private university or a state university, then your best strategy is figure out what you want to study and which option has the most well-regarded program for that course, both among academia and industry. But that takes some real due diligence and digging for a high schooler to figure out.
I really want to read these texts by early Islamic physicians/polymaths but it's tricky to find translations (though in fairness I haven't dug as deeply as I probably could've). There's some fantastic history there, and I would love to compare them to Renaissance and pre-Renaissance writings. If anyone has any book recommendations or journal publications I'd love to hear them.
> and you're arguing that it should be entrapment

I'd agree with this in principle.

If a citizen approaches an undercover cop and offers to sell their controlled substances that isn't entrapment.

If an undercover cop approaches someone and asks to purchase their controlled substances that should be entrapment.

Police shouldn't be able to ask you if you want to commit a crime, it muddies the water of intent. If the police hadn't initiated the crime by asking, would the citizen still have still done the illegal thing?

Standing up a honeypot is different. If someone is actively searching for a good or service and initiates contact with the honeypot, intent is clear.

For me, part of this is "give an inch they take a mile." Letting police ask you to commit a crime is an inch. Then the police get convincing with lines like "my babies are at home, we cant make rent and I cant afford formula. I'm trying to get clean anyways, can I sell you my 8ball for some cash? No no, I can't accept charity. No no, I don't have anything else to sell." Perhaps the citizen doesn't do drugs, has no intention of doing drugs, and is foolish enough to think they can give this person cash and toss the drugs in the nearest trash can once out of sight. Instead they're getting handcuffed because a police officer pulled at their heartstrings and tricked them into "buying drugs."
A few observations: (1) Don't skip the textual explanations; (2) My favorite part is the wheel and spoke analysis; (3) Never stop improving your biking skills: it isn't just your legs; use your whole body!

P.S. For offroad riders (i.e. mountain biking): some things to look up if you don't know them: the "attack" position; the "cockpit"; pumping; row and anti-row motions.
because you have millions to spare
Healthcare in the US apparently. At least it seems from my relatives that this is also the type of thing where you get a huge bill and then talk it down.
> AlphaFold was also a massive breakthough in protein folding.

My PhD was applying simpler ML models to problems in structural biology (this was a while ago, so transformers and other large neural models didn't exist then), including protein structure prediction. Most recently I worked in applying generative models and neural network classifiers to problems in drug discovery. I have also worked in IR (search) and NLP, but again with older technologies.

The AlphaFold example is apt: yes, it outperformed methods at CASP. It was indeed a dramatic leap relative to those methods...which didn't work very well. The claims from laypeople that "protein folding is a solved problem" is total bunk, and yet we see that constantly. If you don't know the field, you will be fundamentally misled by statements like "breakthrough".

For other areas (e.g. NLP), the definition of "progress" is also well quantified, and is not accurately captured by the breathless hype that surrounds this technology. Are these large transformers a dramatic improvement? Absolutely. No question. Are they the end of white-collar labor? No. That's ridiculous. Has this been an evolutionary change over the last decade or so? Not a smooth curve, but yes. The world didn't suddenly change overnight.

> Idk what your "PhD" was in but everyone I know in the field is struggling to keep up with the pace of research so unless you are working on "Expert Systems" and trying to convince everyone that the past 10 years of DNN progress has been irrelevant

Except, I'm not trying to convince anyone of that. I'm saying that these models are evolutionary, progress in research is always a form of punctuated equilibrium, and picking random points of progress across fields and extrapolating to the infinite, glorious future doesn't work well. That's what people are doing today.
This is a symptom. Root cause is students there for the degree or the grade rather than the education.
How does it make sense for humans to get this flu from birds, become symptomatic, but not pass it on to at least their sexual/kissing partners?
The language is not a limiting factor here. Python is an excellent scripting language, and works plenty fine in distributed computation. The Python interface to Spark is a wrapper on the underlying Scala API. You don't lose out on performance when you're building up a lazy chain of computation that's executed by an engine written in a more performant language.

Fugue is a layer to abstract out these distributed computation backends, and it looks like a nice programming interface.
I point out that your moral posturing is pure bullshit, and you reply with more moral posturing about Evil, an accusation of "whataboutism," and demand a solution to "the Taiwan situation." Sorry, I'm not equipped to handle this.
Is there any data on this? Not trying to refute, just genuinely interested in impact over generations.
You’ll probably be dead by then anyway.
A HS friend of mine went to Penn and for a brief period of time was an admissions counsellor there. She said many times that if you were smart enough to get in, the administration would do everything in its power to get you whatever grants, scholarships, and loans you needed to get in. She was there probably 7 or 8 years and could recall less than 1/yr where someone was admitted but did not attend due to cost.

Mediocre colleges will leave you on your own 99% of the time but if you're good enough to get into an Ivy or a similarly leveled school like Stanford or MIT it's very unlikely that cost will be the determining factor (not that it will be easy of course).
I talked to RMS once, and he said "Proprietary software subjugates users."

At the time, I thought it seemed a little over-the-top.

Yet since then, I have personally lost control of many of the computing devices I use. The phone was the biggest one, and I can't (don't?) avoid phones altogether like RMS. His words were actually accurate.

Now, I do think that some people try to get a message across, and are not heard, so they use stronger words until they get a response. Those messages do become over-the-top.

But I have come to realize that RMS himself carefully chooses his words.
Excel is pretty bad example of that. Microsoft did abused position, especially with its browser. But excel was actually genuinely successful.