skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its been a while since I've dealt with this, is this something similar to the CORDIC algorithm ? Couple of years ago I implemented it in VHDL, very fun exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
I do not think that OP is arguing you should not learn the basics.

Tools like Copilot are very useful because if you need to create a function that takes a FLOAT in addition to the one you just wrote that takes an INT then its right there already. Sometimes I am just trying to bang together something quick for testing just so I can continue on with the actual project.

When I learned to write I did not just paste from Wikipedia into my essays, I would distill words from the articles I read into my own thoughts and writing. These tools are absolutely useful, but it is what you make of it.
I would have almost certainly lost my job if SVB depositors weren't made whole, so I'm not exactly taking lightly the aftermath on depositors if a bank fails. But the entire system of fractional reserve currency is based on the idea that putting money in a bank is effectively investing in the bank's future.

There's already a process for depositors in a bank failure - FDIC insurance pays out up to $250k and the bank is taken over by regulators. The bank is eventually liquidated and depositors get priority on their share of the pie to get back as much as possible.

Why do we even bother having FDIC insurance if every deposit should be secured to 100%? How does that work without the guarantee of government bailouts easing the risk of bad bank investments? And how does that work at scale if multiple banks go under, where does the money come from to save depositors? Does every bank depositor bailout risk inflation?

There's just so many fundamental questions as to why we even have a fractional system if we don't, at the end of the day, want a fractional system. We can't have our cake and eat it too, either our money is thrown in a vault and always safe or the bank reinvested it and the money is replaced with an IOU.
It's not about the money it's about quality of life

My response was to a post about money.

Wrt quality of life, I can definitely see that as an argument for leaving the UK (though obviously less useful than staying to try and change it), but you only have to look at international quality of life indexes to see that social happiness is pretty much inversely related to materialist excess within the developed nations.
it's just the lack of a policy on user data collection that the users can read, the chance to ask to get their data removed from the training data - gdpr - and an age verification for the users.
And I get it and usually agree. Some things are dangerous, like toxic materials I don't know about and cannot know about. I expect some agency to protect me, because in this domain I am too stupid.

Oh wait.. the whole world is not a developer. I can definitely see how some people need protection here. Even developers are inputting sensitive code and info about their work. Weird times.
2000 li ion batteries are the same as modern li ion batteries the same way a Volkswagen golf 4 is the same as a golf 8, aka they're not
Phoenix Hyperspace – “taking the deepest possible breath”
The alternative take here is that this is saying no one is above the law. That ISN'T the sort of thing you see in corrupt/unstable institutions.

A lot of Americans seem super comfortable with the idea that their leaders and aristocrats aren't supposed to be subject to the law.

This may be one of those times that there's actually enough of a case that judicial branch feels it can take a shot at one of their betters and actually hit. We won't know until things are unsealed.
>In other words, the people who wrote and are signing open letters to slow down AI scaling appear to be more concerned with their inability to benefit from and control the dialog around AI scaling than any societal risks posed by these advances in the near term.

That's just a joke the author makes. He is not seriously suggesting this is the case.
If your problem domain never expands to more than a couple of thousand elements that needs to be ordered, but really often (which is very often the case) the the bubble sort is the way to go (Especially if you have almost-sorted data making bubble sort the ideal choice).

> That's an over-generalization

I think this is exactly the problem with these types of comparisons. As the original commenter also hinted: You can not generalize best choice about the algorithm.
How do you get the energy out when it has no anode?

Title seems a bit weird for an IEEE audience ...
I guess anything supported by the screen recording API (tabs, windows, *screens*)
The solution is to indict both. Otherwise you do not have "some kind of justice". You are perverting justice system turning it into weapon.

And that "impossible to prosecute all" is BS. We are talking couple of people here.
> The modus operandi is to slap the "Virgin" brand onto a venture - lending the brand in return for some equity.

I wonder why would a space company go for that deal? I understand if you're building some consumer-grade service and need the brand recognition, but if you're one of a dozen companies actually capable of going to space, who cares about the brand?
Do we just need more data and compute? (2019 response to the Bitter Lesson) [pdf]
Where I live now, getting a licence is pretty hard.

You take a theory exam (which you actually do have to study a bit for) on the rules of driving.

This gets you a learning permission, that allows you to drive but only with a fully licences driver in the car supervising.

You then have to take a minimum of 12 driving lessons with an approved instructor, recorded in a log book, before you can take the driving practical exam.

You then take the driving practical exam, which involves driving in the approved fashion around a public area. This has a surprisingly high failure rate - "wrong hand position" on wheel, not looking around enough, looking around too much, etc all will get you a fail.

Assuming you pass, you are then a "novice" driver (have to display "N" plates) for two years and pay an incredibly high insurance premium.

Despite all this "barriers to entry", most people here are terrible drivers lol
Training data is key, a lot of people will be employed in creating, curating, and labeling it. They will utilize AI to help them but it will be a partner. If AI reaches the point of creating and using its own training data then you can hang up your hat and call it a day because no human input or work will be needed at that point.
Plus one of those shiny new pickup trucks probably uses 20 times the raw material that an electric scooter does. As usual "we don't have enough" for everyone to live like the US "so just accept the injustice while we have it all".
not just that: another, for example, will be to give the ability for any user to remove his/her data (and also to be able to download).

Then some more: I don't think OpenAI will have problems implement it, they are probably just late.

But the big issue may be another one (I hope to be wrong): if I train my model with the contributions of many users, then some users ask me to remove their 'contribution', am I able to do it?
I hope not. Boo on consolidation.

If Lyft were to die, then Uber would be left with a monopoly, it would jack up prices, and we'd be right back to where we were before "ride-sharing", except now higher-tech and more dystopian.

In fact, if for-profit ride-hailing consolidates too much, then we should make an easy open source version that local governments can use/administer at cost. It'd be a public good.
Those things are works of art. Of course, 112 kW into 50 Ohms is something like 2400 Volts, so you're still going to get killed if it's solid state.
The only person that could type as fast as I can speak and whom I met in real life was an immigration officer taking my naturalization interview. The sound of a keyboard going: trrr-trrr! And he was amazingly accurate too: all unnecessary things that I said for conversation sake were there, and exactly as I said them. But I think my wife would beat him easily though…
If they are the same, why hasn't Google been banned in Italy all these years?

There must be something fundamentally different between the two, and I'm not sure what it is.
Please don't read about the ice ages.
> Anecdotally, yes. In my experience most projects are carried by a select few 'Heroes' doing the majority of the difficult implementation and innovation, tied together by a larger volume of less impressive but still critical connective work.

But that's the nature of any project. 80% of it is 20% of the work. But the remaining 20% - the wicked problems - takes up the remaining 80%. Any given project, by "law", is going to require a hero or three.

Put another way, if you had the heros doing the less heroic stuff not only would that be a waste of resources but eventually they would update their CV and leave.
My background is I used to run a national harm reduction org and I’ve also spent countless nights and mornings in AA and NA meetings in cities and towns throughout the country- places like Baltimore, Miami/Dade County, Tucson, Santa Ana, Denver/Boulder, Newport Beach and nearby suburbs of all these places

That’s great you were able to access secular meetings in SF/LA/NYC, but the reality for most Americans is that those meetings you attended might as well not exist, they are elusive, infrequent, and make up a tiny percentage of the total meetings online or otherwise

Having said all that. and while we are nitpicking- it’s probably worth mentioning that “secular” meetings still have 12 steps and still involve handing your will and life over to a higher power of some more palatable flavor (such as “the program”)- so definitionally we are still talking about faith-based treatment. This will never work out well for atheists and that’s the point me and others are making.
> But our elites think they know better. And they want new cars to be 100% electric within a decade. So, carmakers feel like they have little choice but to plow ahead.

That reads to me like ideologically motivated bulls__t. Let me rewrite that passage to make it more accurate:

Carmakers have no choice because EVs are taking market share away from ICEs, and that in turn is because consumers like EVs.[a]

[a] https://insideevs.com/news/631980/us-ev-market-share-increas...
"Finally?" I thought the whole history of D&D was defined by lawsuit happy owners asserting their right to be paid for every mention of a thought they'd shared, from pre-history to perpetuity.
Enlighten me, please. What’s the killer use case where you’ve seen significant leverage from an AI tool? What was the business problem and what were the resulting prompts to your AI junior dev?
In South America you don't get pickpocket'ed, you get mugged. With a gun, or knife.

Still, the USA does feel eerily similar to my native country (Brazil), I've lived in Brazil, the USA and Sweden, it's pretty clear how Brazil got modeled after the American way of life. You do have to work, a lot, otherwise you'll be replaced (just like in the USA); your status do matter, bigger house, bigger car, etc. (just like in the USA); you do need to earn a decent/higher wage if you want to live a comfortable and safe life (just like in the USA).

So yes, life in the USA is much closer to South America than to Europe.
I think a real sense of 3d space and time would be very beneficial, but you are quite right, there's no need for AIs to actually experience lower level sensations in order to still be useful, and able to discuss them, etc.

In the same way as with emotions. Some humans do not feel emotions, but can still 'model' them, and act to accommodate other people's emotions.

In fact I'd argue that we want to make our AIs psychopathic, in a good way.

We don't want sad, or indignant AI, or especially, angry AI.
> It’s just Whataboutism. What the DNC did or did not do is entirely irrelevant to the case, because the DNC is not who was standing before the grand jury.

No it is not. The DNC was not trying to hide something about their private personal life which would not have had a material affect on the election. She was not paid until the month before the election. There was so much crap that had been spewed about Trump by then, this would have been a drop in the sea. The DNC was trying to actively trying harm an opposing candidate which I would say is far worse.
You’re worried about people being able to get better ideas on how to optimize their queries?
True, but if we as society want something like that we can still chose to explicitly pay that.

For instance, Germany and other countries funds public journalism or public infrastructure through tax or obligatory fees.

You will never be able to be willing to pay enough, because there is always someone who provides a little less value, but also wants to earn money that way. And it's not like earning enough money to make a living is enough... our system encourages growth beyond that.
This makes sense to me. Thank you!
NHS Highland 'reprimanded' by data watchdog for BCC blunder with HIV patients
Huh?

Isn't Venmo excluding the friends&family transactions?
> You can move windows around, put them side by side

Why wouldn't you be able to do that with a CLI editor?
Things I Learned Writing SQL with Gen AI
Things are very different in Europe and in the US. And even in different countries in Europe, I suspect. Summer vacations exist but opportunities for catching up during them might be limited in public schools. Many don't have remediation learning tracks for students who have fallen behind.

Where I was growing up in the 90s, some teachers would stay after work in their classrooms mostly out of the goodness of their hearts and help pupils who fell behind. Not all teachers would do this and sometimes your school wouldn't have a teacher helping kids in a certain discipline, so you would go to your friends' schools if they had that. Sometimes money was involved, which created conflicts of interest. Commercial tutoring schools popped up in the region later that formalized and democratized the process a little bit. The internet was there in the late 90s already, but obviously things like Khan Academy arrived much later.

I appreciate that kids these days have more resources and it's not an "every kid for themselves" as it was in my childhood. But I still think it would be best if the tempo at schools was reduced so there's time to catch up. Spaced out learning is more effective in terms of retention anyways. It just takes more time.
Eh, it's close enough. After all, in the time of war the value of sine can go up to 4.
I'm not seeing anything in what you quoted that would make it violate Open AI's terms of service.

From the articles you quoted, the question asked to ChatGPT was: "What is the jurisprudence on bail when the assailants assaulted with cruelty?"

My reading of the terms and the situation:

> >Engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, or offering tailored legal advice without a qualified person reviewing the information

This was authorized practice of law, not tailored legal advice (the question was generic), and there was a qualified person reviewing the information.

> >OpenAI’s models are not fine-tuned to provide legal advice. You should not rely on our models as a sole source of legal advice.

This was not the sole source of legal advice.

> >High risk government decision-making, including: [...]

That one is tricky. Is the judicial system considered "high risk government decision-making"? Not too sure.

In my opinion, it was still a bad decision to ask a jurisprudence question to an AI instead of asking to a paralegal, whose job it is to research that, because there is no guarantee the response was accurate.
On the other hand, since it was accepted by a judge, it has been human-reviewed and can probably be considered accurate.
I can't say about the US, since I don't have enough information there.
The way US grants are usually awarded might also be broken, but it's different enough that other solutions are required, and there really isn't much value in mixing these topics.
>Most similarly good languages (except F# maybe?) seem to get lucky with becoming a poster boy for at least one company.

This one I still can't wrap my head around. F# basically was the source of almost all innovation in C# and C# still is missing some features and was not designed in the same way as F# so a lot of the features they "stole" feel tacked on.

Microsoft should have just made F# the C# successor.
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Thanks, yes, and I agree the UK has been on a downward path for a considerable time; I don't blame anybody for trying to find somewhere they will be happier - and warmer :) - it's the materialistic worship at the centre of a lot of our problems (reflected in the values of empty salary-chasing) that bothers me.
tldr: human experience is another ingredient for intelligence.

Correct me if I read it wrong.

So basically you just adding more magic and indefinable properties to the problem, so that no one can ever satisfy your definition of "intelligence".
And Sun sued Microsoft when they tried to EEE Java shortly thereafter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
FTC urged to freeze OpenAI's 'biased, deceptive' GPT-4
It's authoritarian to prevent their citizens from using a tool that makes them more productive and gives them a way to explore a new technology. Imagine if Italy banned Google searches in 2002. Actually, China did that and we rightfully called them authoritarian then, just like we should call Italy authoritarian now.
This is some bubble heavy wishful thinking.

Last time WhatsApp was down for just a few hours it made international news.
This is a very good post, but I think it misses part of the point. You talk exclusively about the erosion of trust between the people and the government. And I agree with your point. But I think the real distinction (and current issue regarding social media) isn’t erosion between the populace and the government, but between the populace and itself. The “othering” and divisive nature of social media, which erodes the “united” in United States.
Whether it matters that it was a political play aside, I guess I really don’t believe it was. Maybe there is some presidential historian who has dug into the documents, I’m just going on vibes I remember from the time.
I’m not sure if you’ve spoken to many people from other countries in the last 10 years, but america is absolutely viewed as a third world country (masquerading as a first world country) by much of the rest of the developed world
There isn't enough lithium for everyone to have an EV, but there is enough for disposable vape batteries?
People often employ rhetorical questions to direct the audience's attention towards something, or as devices that illuminate issues with the audience's train of thought.

So I will connect the dots for you.

If you are judging GPT's understanding of something, then why not judge its understanding on something it has been fine-tuned in instead of picking a random field and expecting that it will perform better than the average human in a discussion?
So are you saying this long game is why the anti-EV CEO Toyoda Akio is stepping down tomorrow? (Read between the lines: being ousted by the board).
GCC already has flags for various "dangerous" optimisation options (ffast-math for instance), there's no reason you couldn't have similar options that are disabled by default.
It isn't. It creates massive barriers for using e2ee
Ski resort, IIRC. Was in one of the Bond movies (with snow). Probably others. Looks scarier than it is (at least relative to other scary airstrips in worse place - a few high in the Himalayas come to mind).

Edit - hmmm, looks like I'm thinking of another mountain top airport in the French mountains.
The comparison is that if it’s indeed illegal, how is one that is clearly only directly benefiting the campaign a mere misdemeanor fine and the other a felony?
The article shows a drop in the generic trust that "a 4-year degree" will return more than it costs.

For the majority of degrees this is probably true when compared to alternatives like trade schools.
I don’t think it was the campaign that paid her, was it? I thought it was just some Trump business entity.
Yes, they added a dialog saying "we care about your privacy" and you said "SURE!".
The article is about a solution to make lithium metal anode more stable. They discovered a coating that prevents the formation of dendrites, which are the cause of short cycle life of previous attempts at lithium metal anodes.
What do you mean by socket support?
And the rest of us think it is more than fair. I also pay a shitload of taxes. But I'd rather it come from me than from my sister, who makes 10% of what I make.
I think that Toyota won't really go heavy into EVs until batteries are more available. EV batteries are heavily dependent on lithium availability which is limited by world wide exploration limits. We are only able to mine enough to make about 2 million Tesla equivalent cars per year, and that's if none of it goes to phones other electronic devices. Toyota sells that many vehicles alone each year. Until there is something that can scale and still allow them to sell an economical model, they won't go heavy into EVs.
A rather fundamental difference is that Google is relatively GDPR compliant because it deletes PII within 30 days. OpenAI has this data be baked into the model and if it turns out to surface out from there, it's unclear how they would delete it.
I want the next Trump to know they're not above the law. This indictment is good practice for our system. Trump caught it off guard because so much ran on tradition and the assumption that presidents think the constitution is rad because they pledge to protect it.
> being convicted of a felony doesn't prevent you from running for public office

This depends on the state. Being convicted of a felony in Florida bars you from running for public office or voting in the state (until granted clemency). A conviction in Georgia would similarly bar Trump from voting in Florida, but not one in New York (which does not disenfranchise felons).

But yes, it doesn't affect his ability to run for federal office, even if it would make it hard for him to campaign from jail.
What sets this apart is that the payout is campaign finance related, which makes it a felony. Otherwise it would have been a misdemeanor and beyond statutory limits. The DOJ never took this case because the evidence was so flimsy.
I’m in downtown Boston right now, just after being in downtown London. London is WAY scarier, and I was in the Mayfair neighborhood!

Violence is not a concern for the overwhelming majority of Americans in their daily lives.

EDIT: not that ANYONE should have to worry about violence in their daily lives; one just saying the US isn’t what you see in the movies or on 24x7 news.
510K CPUs, HDDs and more seized as smugglers keep trying to sneak tech to China
In my experience, the developer tools that really catch on do so via word of mouth. For example, our whole team recently adopted https://sourcery.ai/ (not an ad) because one developer tried it and hyped it up to everyone else who also liked it. Developers are the best kind of customers if you have PMF - they evangelise and actively enjoy debating toolchains.

The hard part is usually building the actually valuable tool.