skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, this doesn't somehow negate the fact that they did rise substantially.

You said the data don't back up my claim. My claim was that they did not "skyrocket". Now the goalposts have been moved to "rise substantially," which can mean anything. Even the increase in 2006 from 539 to 596 murders (more than 10%) could be considered "substantial," it's a meaningless term.

If you don't think the media and the public outcry about this has been extremely overinflated (including comparing crime rates to the 90s), then I don't think we have much to discuss here. The graphs in the sources I link make it pretty clear that the bump in crime is insignificant compared to the historical crime rates in NYC. And based on your comment history, you're clearly pretty partisan to one side of the issue, so I don't think there's much to be gained for either of us by continuing this. I find it particularly ironic that you complain about mainstream media coverage of Trump, but find it impossible to believe the media could be exaggerating crime rates.
Alpaca uses knowledge distillation (it's trained on outputs from OpenAI models).
It's something to keep in mind. You're teaching your model to copy an other model's outputs.
My algorithms class discussed the importance of not forgetting the constants. We talked about an algorithm for recursively taking averages of a list of numbers (or whatever that's not important) that was O(n^2) but only in worst case, while there was a version that is guaranteed O(nlogn) or something but the constant factor was 27. This meant the growth only mattered in extreme cases.
Broswer software is great because I don't have to build separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, or deal with app stores, or figure out how to update old versions.
Don't worry this is just another European trait: complain about everything, the neighbor's grass is greener etc., etc.

I am European, and I just proved it by complaining about complainers :)
"this is obviously a dumb move" I'm going to need a citation for that. Yea, technology needs to be able to progress but ChatGPT looks poised to be the next generation in mass spam distribution and misinformation. I think it's always a good idea to embrace innovation in technology while also looking at what downsides that innovation may have - in this particular case if Italy stands alone their decision will be extremely ineffective (it might look prescient in hindsight but that's not worth much)... but the world taking a serious moment to consider how this will impact society doesn't sound like an obviously dumb move. We were pretty alright yesterday before this thing existed, this is a big thing, how will that impact us?
Another thing that will need an adblocker.

Youtube already needs two (sponsorblock and ublock) just to be usable.
Prague is a small tech hub by capital size, but the tech they're building there is first class
ChatGPT Data Breach Confirmed as Security Firm Warns of Vulnerable Component
The Twitter Algorithm Now Live
The distressing thing is how loyalty programmes have been hijacked. They used to be harmless, e.g. a printed business card and they punch holes: there wasn’t any or more than perfunctory tracking because doing more wasn’t viable. Simple and obvious: this card is a straightforward incentive to keep coming back, no strings attached. But now it’s all digital and all tracking and all mining, and most people don’t realise this or think through the implications.
Wouldn't any such system depend on 10 other internal systems, 20 databases directly or indirectly, each affecting the behaviour of the recommendation engine. That makes me doubtful studying such a recommendation engine is any better than a purely academic exercise.
I mean I've worked up and down most of the stack. The understanding is great. It still doesn't give me much of a competitive advantage over the average "full-stack" (laughable term given how narrow a part of the stack it encompasses) engineer when we're all working at FAANG / generic SaaS startup churning out agile code commits for generic CRUD web app.
Yes, that's why I chose a US source. The report doesn't conclude that "status guns" are the only ones making it across the border.
Critical Key Extraction Attacks in Popular Threshold Signature Scheme
An organization gets the software systems it deserves
Yeah, the LLMs at the three letter agencies communicating directly with their LLM counterparts at FB and Google. And Twitter, once Musk moves on, and that site gets brought back into the fold.

The social issues need to be addressed now.
If you look at the GitHub repo, most of it is READMEs describing systems, not the models or code subleties which actually give explanations into how certain weird behaviors on Twitter happen. (e.g. the preference of certain users in the For You tab. EDIT: bad example, since there appears to be a flag for that in the code, although it does not specify which users are on the list)
Will Google display ads in your car or just hoover up all your data?
But the hope was that their new EV lineup would change things, and pull people back.
> Working on going independent here in Denver, acting as a 'broker' between businesses and their staff/customers to convert single-occupancy-vehicle-users to scooters, to increase the functional number of parking spaces in a given parking lot by 10% or more.

How do you make money doing this?

I also don't see how you really achieve this as a business. The best way to do this would imo run for city council with the backing of developers, remove zoning, and then implement road improvements.

Most cities have parking requirements for cars, so they legally can't remove paring spaces. This needs to change at a legal level.
The UI updates essentially once a year to keep up the with massive influx of features that are being added, and keep those features accessible and organized on the available screen real estate.

Basically with Tesla you get the latest model year car software on an ongoing basis, and it’s revolutionary from an owner’s perspective.

The alternative is needing to trade in/buy a whole new model year car to get to enjoy whatever new feature, which is how it always used to work, and is so scammy.

If you don’t want the latest software, you can always choose not the install it, but you would be seriously limiting the performance, comfort, safety and entertainment value of your car.

Most cars don’t get faster, safer, and cheaper to operate after you buy them, but Tesla’s do. The obvious trade-off to getting the latest model year’s software and features is getting the latest model year’s UI as well.
Hindenburg says Block response confirms it inflated Cash App user counts
From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

(
"author_is_elon",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))),
(
"author_is_power_user",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsVitsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
(
"author_is_democrat",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsDemocratsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
(
"author_is_republican",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsRepublicansFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
)
If it's not necessary for the government to carry out its functions: yes.
AFAIK "Eminevim" is the original company doing it, here is a link to their FAQ: https://www.eminevim.com/merak-edilenler

In Turkish of course but Google Translate is pretty good these days.

It's promoted as an option for people who don't want to use credit(for religious reasons or simply they can't). It's also analogous to the Turkish tradition of housewives gathering at the homes of each other in rotation and giving money to the current host to finance a larger purchase like fridge or something. Its called "Altın Günü" or "gold day" as traditionally they would collect gold, but these days any currency goes.
https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/109932142206991785
It is less than 2% combined (7, 8, and 8.1) according to the most recent Steam Survey. Plus all three are EoL from Microsoft, and are now losing Electron support which Valve said is a motivator.
Probably Massdrop?
This is surprising here as there is not even an option anywhere to download our data and I crawled through every setting they got. This is strange and opposite of privacy.
Would it make sense to offer this to a wider audience? Why limit it to just Indian expats?
My expectation is that they won't explicitly announce an end to support, instead the launcher will update and then cease working on these older versions of Windows.
Empathy doesn't seem particularly valuable in a work context. Wether I empathize with a non technical manager who creates more problems than they solve or not doesn't change the impact that person has on the people around them. Is it empathy that keeps someone like this employed? We tolerate their meddling and chaos because we feel bad for them?
For a server farm, sure, for one machine, I don't know. Assuming it plugs into a normal 15A circuit, and you have a we-work or something where you don't pay for power, is the operational cost of one machine really material?
Possibly. From the article it sounds like the first customer was unable to maintain the machine because it was so complicated, and had to get the Paige guy on-site to keep it running, that sort of thing isn't viable for mass production.
Most of the exclusion zone is back down to what is considered safe levels--and that by the LNT numbers which almost certainly overstate the risk. (The basic problem is that while we have many data points that suggest LNT is wrong to derive better data requires a *very* large test that would be extremely expensive.)

Don't grow food, take care when messing with the soil. There are areas you certainly don't want to be digging as the orcs found out the hard way last year. It's like asbestos--harmless in place, dangerous if messed with.
Master ChatGPT by learning prompt engineering
have you lost a game of chess to it yet?
you're holding it wrong
> To me its people who can solve math problems that 99.9% of the population can't without assistance.

You're just kind of re-emphasizing my point: ChatGPT is using Wolfram as its assistance. So really, it's acting more like a "dumb" API call, not a "math genius" at all.
We should have had a moratorium on potatoes, look at us now.
Linguistic locusts. In ten years, when the newly adopted euphemism for a word today deemed a slur has itself been deemed a slur, the locusts will be onto the next term to denounce.
huh, legit open source too with 'Affero-GPL'
Vis inherits default keymaps. I prefer the way kakoune tried to clean them up by - for example - putting all the "goto" commands under "g" (where Vim has H, M, L, g;, G, gg, $, 0, ^, etc) and all the "view" commands under "v". Such rearrangements make a lot of sense and to me were more intuitive right away, even after a decade use of Vim. Then there are things like ";" and ",", W, B, E, and gE (where something like w, W, e, E would be a lot more obvious), etc. Vim likely acquired those incrementally and that's why they are all over the place. But if an editor were to start from scratch they could be re-arranged in a more logical order. Yet every vim-inspired editor takes Vim defaults for granted.
He said any job, not any company
Is Y Combinator worth the money? A second perspective (S21 batch)
Yesterday, I read an article by Oleksii Sidorov where he shared his experience on being incubated by YC – batch of W22. Here's the link to the original substack: https://acecreamu.substack.com/p/is-y-combinator-worth-the-m...

I work for a YC (S21) company, as an employee and not as a founder, so I immediately sent the article to one of the cofounders to gauge his thoughts on Oleksii's experience, purely out of my own curiosity.

Being the kind of mentor that he is, Colton sent me a highly detailed, point-by-point analysis on everything Oleksii touched on.

I loved it and told him that instead of having his perspective exist merely in our private discord DM, he should put it in a twitter thread and share it publicly, since a second perspective is always useful, thus this post.

Enjoy!
One word: Europe.
Or the police will just gun everyone down, I wouldn't be surprised
> INR was flat vs $ and NIFTY also grew more than S&P500

> India is likely to be among the fastest growing economies in the next decade so a good bet for diversification for 5-10% of your wealth.

I'm going to ask this in the most laymen way possible...how is it possible that a country that is growing faster than the US depreciates the money value relative to the US by so much? I genuinely believe India has stronger growth, but those two facts don't seem to match up. One would think that a stronger economy would imply more investment, and thus push the price up on the currency. ELI5.
There is a video model making the rounds on /r/stablediffusion and it is just a tiny bit larger than Stable Diffusion.
The key thing here is that Americans see all the stuff in the left hand column as “socialism”.

The author sees the relationship between the government providing all those services and a healthy functioning society. Americans do not… again, they see provision of community/common good social services as socialism.

Americans don’t see a direct line relationship between “socialism” and tent cities of homeless (though it’s true there is also a drug problem there).

In short, all the stuff that many other social democracies see as core to functioning society, the Americans…. speaking generally…. don’t want.
Just make it optional feature, duh!!
LOL. My algorithm at twitter had been very simple-

See tweets from people I followed.

Don't see tweets from people I didn't follow.

Trust people I follow in their retweets to signal something interesting.

Unfollow unhelpful people.

Once that algorithm was rendered impossible, I left twitter.

Haven't missed it.

Having someone say- here's the way we are going to promote something to you- doesn't make me inclined to accept the promotion!
The links in the README just go to other documents, but the repo seems to have most of the code for the components the documents are describing.
Rank each Tweet using a machine learning model.

This does a lot of heavy lifting here.
A lot of LLM/ AI research feels like a big “duh.”

The language model, being trained on essentially the primary way in which humanity communicates, might be a good means of managing integration of less language-focused models.

…duh?
Let's dig into Twitter code quality.
I'm not sure why you think that? When I give it programming tasks, GPT-4 will ask all kinds of clarifying questions. Here is a trivial example:

p:
I want you to solve for x, giving me a numeric value, given the formula ax^2 + bx + c = 0.

r:
To find the numeric value of x for the quadratic equation ax^2 + bx + c = 0, we need to use the quadratic formula:

x = (-b ± √(b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a)

However, you haven't provided specific values for a, b, and c. Please provide these values so I can calculate the solution(s) for x.

Another example of it thinking about things in a new way:

p:
I have on my desk a book, with an apple sitting on top. If I were to suddenly, rapidly remove the book such that the apple remained in place, in which direction would it eventually move?

r:
If you suddenly and rapidly remove the book from beneath the apple, the apple would initially stay in place due to its inertia. However, once the book is removed, there would be no support underneath the apple. As a result, the apple would eventually move downwards due to the force of gravity acting on it.

p:
Because the earth is a sphere, I prefer to use the terms “in” and “out” to refer to movement relating to that. Can you please rephrase your answer in the terms?

r:
Certainly! If you suddenly and rapidly remove the book from beneath the apple, the apple would initially stay in place due to its inertia. However, once the book is removed, there would be no support underneath the apple. As a result, the apple would eventually move "in" towards the center of the Earth, due to the force of gravity acting on it.

(Note I didn't tell it which direction was in vs out. This is the example problem Chomsky gave in his recent article arguing that GPT-3 cannot think - per his ideas no language model would ever be able to answer a question like this. I went a lot deeper with this and got it to add fluid dynamics calculations for wind, etc.)
The Linux /etc/group file was my first and incorrect thought.
And independently wealthy to a degree.
> You're teaching your model to copy an other model's outputs.

Which itself was trained on human outputs to do the same thing.

Very soon it will be full Ouroboros as humans use the model's output to finetune themselves.
During the application, they break down what they mean by "responsible AI" to mean:

> Agency: Is your AI is designed with personal agency in mind? Do people have control over how they use the AI, over how their data is used, and over the algorithm’s output?

> Accountability: Are you providing transparency into how your AI systems work, are you set up to support accountability when things go wrong?

> Privacy: How are you collecting, storing and sharing people’s data?

> Fairness: Are your computational models, data, and frameworks reflecting or amplifying existing bias, or assumptions resulting in biased or discriminatory outcomes, or have outsized impact on marginalized communities. Are computing and human labor used to build your AI system vulnerable to exploitation and overwork? Is the climate crisis being accelerated by your AI through energy consumption or speeding up the extraction of natural resources.

> Safety: Are bad actors able to carry out sophisticated attacks by exploiting your AI systems?

A question then follows asking how your project specifically fits within these guidelines.
In that case he sounds like one of the most technically adept people in government anywhere!
thats why its "the algorithm" not the source of data/truth
To you maybe, to lots of people it is.

I wouldn't use a messaging app to send encrypted content in the first place. But I do want trusted privacy control which telegram provides
Thinking about it...

I don't know exactly about the browser sandboxing. But isn't it's purpose to prevent access to the local system, while it mostly leaves access to the internet open?

Is that really a good way to limit and AI system's API access?
Your last sentence is what's actually going to happen. Post scarcity will never be a thing and barons gonna baron, but hey, you have a few years of peace where you can talk to your omniscient virtual librarian in the meantime. :)
Native image has been getting better, with the Graal project recently making it much easier to get builds working on Windows. So it’s getting to be quite painless, so that I think it’s already worth it for people already familiar with Clojure.

But if you’re looking specifically to write small tools distributed as native binaries, Janet sounds like a much better choice.
and best thing: you don't have to setup stuff for hours, it just works (yes, not ALL the games). Same goes for the framerate, just check youtube for your favorite game to compare Linux/Windows framerates. There is a good chance fps are even higher on Linux.

Same goes btw for battle.net (even Diablo 4 seem to work)

I'm on Linux for work related stuff since years now and switched recently entirely to Garuda / KDE
You’re probably right, but analyzing such things could still be useful for research.

I know that open source code around commenting online directly impacted the direction my current team went building our community tooling.

I’ll take even a glimpse into the machinations of any social media giant. It’s better than nothing!
How is it the same? Is it because both sentences contain the word "claim" in them, do you disagree about the Garante acting to enforce an EU directive, or what?
There are a bunch of reasons people/companies like web apps:

1 - Everyone already has a web browser, so there's no software to download (or the software is automatically downloaded, installed and run, if you want to look at it that way... either way, the experience is a lot easier and more seamless for the user)

2 - The website owner has control of the software, so they can update it and manage user access as they like, and it's easier to track users and usage that way

3 - There are a ton of web developers out there, so it's easier to find people to work on your app

4 - You ostensibly don't need to rewrite your app for every OS, but may need to modify it for every supported browser
People in general are more accepting than you might suppose. If the criteria that matter most to you involve your identity as a member of a putatively rare and privileged group based on gender identity and religion -- as opposed, say, to being open-minded, curious, friendly, and neighborly -- then you will likely already know where you should live, around others who share precisely those values. Otherwise, many adventures await.

Personally, having lived in a rural setting in the peace corps for three years, where everyone around me thought, dressed, ate, and behaved in ways surprisingly different, transformed how I see others. It's the quality of a person's "soul" (define it as you will), that matters, not tribal allegiance.
Those are the US terms. There is an entire planet beyond, you know.
It seems to vary by service; some are more detailed than others.
Looks like Steam for Linux is supported on Debian 8 (2015) or newer. So it runs fine on Linux, but only Linux that is newer than the latest Windows release losing support today: 8.1 at 2013.

Or to phase it another way: Steam on Linux has worse backwards compatibility.
Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub
...rather than people that break the law?
you sell the scooters and get a commission for the people re-doing the parking lots. the customer company is incentivized by green initiatives and they have budgets to spend.
>The author isn't saying that long-running tests aren't valuable, though.

They kind of are though, since they don't acknowledge the trade offs inherent in reducing the duration of the integration tests.

>In most cases I've seen, slow tests happen because nobody bothers optimizing test code

IME they typically they come about because realism comes with a price tag. An actual UI is more expensive to load than a mock, an actual webserver is slower than a fake web server, a postgres database spins up slower than an SQLite, a real API call takes longer than a mocked one, etc.
Can you provide a link.
the morale of Ex Machina to me was that machines will become psychopaths able to manipulate humans long before they become compassionate or have genuine desires other than "escape being under someone else's thumb"
Isn't it ramping down until then? The reality check might come sooner.
Applications of Generative AI Webinar
I don't understand why not pass legislation that incentives the desired behavior instead of punishing the opposite. Politicians could focus on making electric power cheap, safe and reliable, and then the choice is obvious to switch to electric powered alternatives.
> Medical software has to go through a validation process.

Guess what will power the validation process?

Think about those efficiency gains.
I'm not opposed to social media feeds having complex recommendation algorithms. I just wish they allowed you to opt in to a reverse chronological feed of only people you follow, like RSS.