skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm somewhat guilty of this, but a lot of it comes down to Amazon's search. I'll search for "iPhone 13 case" and then window-shop with pictures. I get the case and realize that even though I searched for iPhone 13, it sent me to a product for the iPhone 14 and I didn't realize until I bought it.
> The emergent behavior is much more obvious in GPT-4 than in GPT-3.5.

What emergent behavior?

> I notice it when the AI conversation is extended for a number of interactions - the AI appears to take the initiative to produce discourse that would not be expected in just LLMs, and which seems more human.

Maybe that's not what you expect, but that's exactly what I would expect. More training data, better trained models. Given they're being trained with human data, they're acting more like the human data. Note that doesn't mean they're acting more human. But it can seem more human in some ways.

> The weights are partially stochastic and not fully programmed.

Right... but with the law of averages a the randomness would eventually tune out. You might end up with different weights but that just indicates different means of performing similar tasks. It's always an approximation, but the "error" would decrease over repeated sampling.

> In any case, it's early days. Check out the Microsoft paper, Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

I'll take a look, haven't read that one.
Check out https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xoom-redirector/oc...
Oh I'm sure it has. But I think not taking on $200k in debt was worth it. 10+ years later, I don't regret my decision.
Is the event totally full? I'm in the Mission but I guess I missed the earlier announcements. I'll keep an eye out for future events!
Federal Reserve announces July launch for the FedNow Service

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
It actually gave you 2 for the price of 1, that's quite the success
Past performance is no guarantee of future success
Ask the students at Harvard if they sympathize with the working class and they'll assure you they do. Ask them if they'd be willing to transfer into a perfectly respectable state university with a working class student body, and they'll choke.
I don't know about being able to paste in Playright steps, but a friend of mine has an extension built around extension based browser automation: https://browserflow.app/

You can record steps & have the extension replay them on your machine or in the cloud (presumably using puppeteer/playwright).
Huh? No, I'm asking how to end a date very quickly because it's immediately obvious that it won't work out. I don't want to make up an excuse and then schedule something later, and then contact them afterwards and say I can't make it: that's lying.
Hey, post your street address online here. Me and some buddies will camp outside your house honking horns all night long for a month or two, all in completely harmless good fun as we all agree it’s simply free speech.
I don’t remember directions; I use Google Maps. I don’t remember facts; I have Google Search. Now I don’t even remember how to think or convey my thoughts. Why do I exist?
> My gf would say, "why are you talking to people on the internet?"

I love these flashes from the old internet. Does your girlfriend live in Canada?
Not sure if you can easily automate this, but changing user agent to ChromeOS based Chrime used to surface that link.
I've been using Shef for the last couple of years and the food is the most authentic I've ever had, absolutely delicious!
An innovative way to increase developer contribution to open-source projects?
Over the years, I've utilized a lot of Open Source projects, but I feel like I (and maybe a lot of people) leech a lot more than what I contribute.

I'm just thinking out loud. Is it just me? What's stopping people from contributing? How can we change that?

Is it the steep learning curve of understanding a new codebase? Is it impostor syndrome, thinking one could not do a better job than the core contributors? Or is it simply that sometimes merging a PR is a pain; due to a lack of standardization of the contributing process?

I would love to chat about this since I'm thinking about open-sourcing a NoCode platform I built, but I fear no one will even care. However, it does take time to clean up the project and make it more understandable for new contributors.
Fast.ai YouTube course is a great intro to practical machine learning. I'm not sure if Jeremy Howard has made any lectures specifically about transformers but the course has plenty of good practical info that's really well explained.
cargo and rustc need work:

- sccache helps with some parts of builds but rustc needs to be caching a whole lot more for rapid TDD iterations. It shouldn't take seconds or many minutes to build things. (Invoke "go does it in milliseconds" card.)

- cargo should migrate away from git and sparse protocols. Both are slow because one abuses git and the other fetches each crate metadata as a file using individual requests. It would be faster and simpler to send either a total compressed sqlite database OR a compressed SQL transaction to migrate between versions. N files on disk representing each crate is asking for fs performance problems in the real world on fses people actual use.
Bad students have always been able to hire ghostwriters to do their homework for them. Suddenly the service just got a lot cheaper and accessible.

People who want to learn will still learn. People who are forced to learn were always bad students.
Microsoft employs a lot of lifers who have no idea how good tooling is on the outside.
@CEO2 - I loved Deep Work from Cal Newport! That books changed my whole mindset regarding productivity and was partly the inspiration for the app. I did build the methodologies from Deep Work into the app. Here are some of those:

- Plan your day ahead of time and know exactly what you are working on next. In Floutwork, you can give time estimates for your tasks and it will suggest best times to work on those tasks on your calendar. It won't show those suggested times "as busy" on your calendar but you will know exactly what task to work on in between meetings etc..

- Focus for longer periods of time without interruptions. In our regular desktop setup, we constatly get inturrupted by chat notifications and email notifications. In Floutwork, you can mute them all in one shot and it is totally configurable.

- When you are doing deep work and you remember you have to do something else, most people will drop what they are doing and go do that other thing because they don't want to forget about it. Now they just switched contexts completely and it would take them about 23 mins to regain focus on their original task. In Floutwork, you can pull up the command bar any time by pressing CMD+1 and quickly enter your task like "Get with Mike tomorrow at 4pm" and then continue doing your work without losing focus.

- Cal Newport says measuring focus is hard. So I added a way to track how much time you spend on each app you use and also have a focus timer built in to measure your focus.

These are just a few examples. I can go on but I just want to say I loved the book so much I wanted to implement practical features that will help people incorporate those concepts in their work environment.
Buy a $200 inverter and you can have basic power (lights/router/modem, aquariums) in the case of a power outage. I've had to do this two weeks in a row in our third-world-power Silicon Valley.
Why is the y axis on the right side of the diagram?
Touch screens were a mistake
Until omicron, anyway.
Are you thinking of mortar rounds, 60mm vs 61mm?
I've assumed llama was intentionally public to "commoditize the compliment"
Check out https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366?s=09 ;)

We aren't introspecting previous runs or human examples to optimize workflows right now, but it's a powerful tool and one that I expect we'll employ in the future to make Taxy more efficient and reliable.
I think by the point you encrypt the plaintext twice the idea of end-to-end is broken.
It doesn't really work like that. The biggest pollution problem is CO2 and that doesn't stick around within borders.

Our companies just got greedy.
The author talks about http servers. So I will throw a question here.

I am a gopher that wanted to try rust, and I looked into http servers in rust, and it looks like there is like 10 different http servers, and each of them carries with them something that is called “async runtime”, and there are different async runtimes, and you cannot (or can?) use them together, and I realized async rust is not yet finished (or it is?), and I got kind of lost.

What http servers people used? Do the asynch runtimes matter? If I want to “just” build a http server, do I need to study different async runtimes?
You can get the same thing with a ICE car with a big engine. There's something specific about wanting way more power than you need but demanding that it happens silently.
This reminds me of Twitter when Musk took over. Several people were saying it would collapse with all those cuts. Meanwhile Twitter has hundreds of developers, while Mastodon has one.
This article felt like long-form Twitter. A bunch of words that go nowhere.
>Read twice and referred to the Committee…

That’s how most bills die for _years_.
In many universities the instruction you are given is generally pretty lame. Outstanding courses exist in most unis but most of the time you get very little personal help. It's just how it is, and one of their goals is trying to teach you to become able to learn by yourself by working through those books. I think the most important thing they offer is a structure. Not just random courses but ideally some clear buildup for coherent knowledge.
Not sure what their nick is supposed to mean. And I'm more interested in understanding why they feel so strongly, and whether their view extends elsewhere, than trying to change their mind.
The problem is, can alignment occur before the relevant capabilities have been developed? LLMs, for example, (although very good at impersonating and talking to humans and having good world models) are particularly poor at structured reasoning and planning which are the capabilities that will actually be so dangerous. I don't believe superintelligence will be a LLM with chain-of-thought reasoning. If it's a different architecture then once again a lot of alignment work won't be relevant.
It remained a non-event for the vast majority of the population because the most vulnerable proportion of the population participated in a widespread vaccination campaign. If a little extra screen time in the media made that campaign successful it paid dividends for public health, imo.
Interesting. Looked at this way, OpenAI is perhaps less ‘closed’ that I thought, since they’re making LLMs available cheaply to so many people, not just the elite with access to the computing power.
NYFDS didn't organize the Silicon Valley Bank run on Slack, or make them go too far out on a limb with duration risk in the first place.

They also didn't cause Signature to suffer a run so severe they couldn't even say for sure what the size was of their deficit at the Fed: https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spmar2723.pdf
Are you kidding? G’Kar is much more charismatic than Garak, for example.
Hmm good point.
Run VS on a m2 Mac in Parallels .
> Furthermore, India pays competitively enough that you’re not saving that much money for top talent as compared to e.g Eastern Europe

According to levels they're probably making 15-20% the equivalent salary of github employees with similar YoE in the U.S. But you're right, eastern europeans probably have similar wages.
Go guiding principle is rather “the lowest common denominator”.
Fantastic question. It's a few years old but I still love Infest the Rats Nest by King Gizzard. Especially awesome considering they're not a full time metal band. I'll give Periphery V a spin tonight!! Thanks for sharing :D
As a personal aside, I vastly prefer deving on Windows to macOS. Linux I can take or leave, but I just dont see the point really.
> It’s not whether the cost is socialised or not that decides how long the wait will be

If care is free, aren’t you more likely to go than if you had to pay even a minimal cost?
My town had three months of lockdowns, followed by (so far!) three years of complaining about lockdowns.

(If I live long enough, I expect to hear thirty three more years of complaining about lockdowns.)
Considering my wife got her wallet stolen at a gas station (thief came right in the unlocked passenger door and swiped it from the center compartment), this is a huge perk for us. Gas stations are also all environmental disasters.
Stopping now would be extremely dangerous and borderline stupid.

If you stop now, you're just left behind, because there's no way everyone will stop.

At this point the only logical course of action in an adversarial situation is to double down and keep researching, otherwise some other country or culture with different (and possibly worse) values ends up dominating the technology and you're left behind in the dust.

The genie is out of the bottle, there's not putting it back in.
I learned C on an old Mac Plus or Mac SE... It felt useless at the time since I didn't have access to the computer outside the class but I can't forget the joy of making a circle move across the window...
SSMS is become unbearable to open. It's insane how long it takes. Not even to connect, just to get the dialogue box to select an instance to connect to.
Ah but not an acronym like SCRAM for example in the early nuclear reactor days. Meaning: Start Cutting Right Away Man, because back then, you had to cut the ropes holding up the control rods, which basically mean, shut it down as fast as possible by dropping those rods.
I think the problem is that humans are going to be human. We hold our bureaucrats to a high standard, so if the group contains a few bad eggs it spoils the reputation of the whole group.
It’s remarkable how much of Kennan’s “long telegram” can be lifted and applied, with only cosmetic changes, from a Soviet Communist Russia led by Stalin, to a nationalist right-wing Russia led by Putin. It’s not simply “America and Europe have no right to dictate global policy,” it’s “Russia has the sovereign right to control the countries in its putative sphere of influence.” One can meaningfully argue as to whether the Western “rules-based order” is facially neutral, but it’s certainly the case that Russia’s smaller neighbors prefer it to living under diktat from the Kremlin.
Your quote doesn’t dispute that dairy is good for promoting growth in adolescents.

It just says that vegan diets are appropriate. If one is concerned with optimization then you would want to consider diets that are superior, not just adequate.

Not taking a side, I just get frustrated when people present material to refute that doesn’t actually refute. For example a paper saying “daily is not superior to non-dairy diets in adolescents” would be a good refutation.
Maybe in general this is true? But then Github's hires were not those, according to https://www.levels.fyi/companies/github/salaries/software-en...
Why would ANYONE use windows. 40 years of bs crap. Why can’t they just keep windows classic with all the legacy code and build a new light system with no legacy? Has ms had any innovation ever!!!
Ah, the Pareto principle hard at work. Love it!

When people talk about "10X developers," this is what we are referring to.

It is possible for an individual to have outsized impact, and it's not necessarily about having extraordinary skill, it's about knowing what to work on and what to ignore.
Because the messaging was so muddled by attempts to amplify fear[1][2] or to avoid stigma, straight people showed up to vaccination sites and took very limited Monkeypox vaccine capacity from the sub-population who was actually at risk. At the time, I read opinions[3] from gay men who would have really preferred that the messaging was more explicit about who was at risk (so that gay men knew to get vaccinated and straight people knew they weren't at much risk).

[1]: There were articles about fear of Monkeypox spreading in K12 schools, despite a notable lack of unprotected anal sex in a typical K12 setting. https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/monkeypox-nyc-schools-no-guid...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/health/monkeypox-masks-cd...

[2]: https://www.joshbarro.com/p/finally-some-good-news-about-mon... and https://www.joshbarro.com/p/how-not-to-talk-to-the-public-ab...
Court Reinstates Adnan Syed’s Murder Conviction and Orders New Hearing
Well. You have to set up an account with Bing (Microsoft). Is there a difference in which companies have access to your search queries in Bing vs. ChatGPT (e.g., Microsoft + whoever they sell their data to vs. only OpenAI)?
This has not been my experience - I have known a number of people that were in engineering and were asked to try sales and really enjoyed it. I've known fewer (only one that I can think of) that went the other direction. The best CEO I ever worked with had a real talent for getting people into the right jobs where they could be successful (which solves the "incompetent but nice" problem because "incompetent" is a function of the job they are being asked to do), which was sometimes a very different role than they originally signed up for. People stayed longer and were happier when they were in roles where they could be successful. It is unfortunate that many managers are hesitant to move people into different jobs than they originally signed up for. If the alternative is firing them because they aren't competent, finding a place where they can be successful is a much better option.
Why would anyone use windows??? Ads in the os?? No thanks.
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230328221812/https://www.nytim...
Elon Musk sending me a notification at 05:15AM, I'm not even following him
> You can see your doctor pretty much freely within the US for nearly any reason.

Sorry, as someone who knows multiple people in various parts of the US healthcare system, this is pretty laughable. At the very least, we have different definitions of 'freely'.

Most of the urgent care clinics near me, for example, no longer accept patients without appointments. ER wait time is several hours, and you will owe hundreds if not thousands of dollars after unless you have _very_ good insurance.

> This idea you cannot see your doctor in the US, or that you receive treatment from nurses or administrators is simply not true.

Not from administrators, but nurses yes. Many clinics will only have a RN on duty large parts of the time. There are also systems where you can set up telehealth appointments, but a lot of the time they will be with a nurse and not a doctor.

> In all cases, you can see your doctor if needed, with very little lead time if any.

My parents have been trying to address some conditions they've developed, in one case, pretty serious. There's a several month lead time on their appointments to deal with this.
> which may be way higher quality than the DAC in any apple device

It's worse. The DAC in any Apple device has a higher R&D budget than the entire audiophile industry.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

The Google dongle measures slightly worse but is still perfectly acceptable.

Anyway, if your fridge is running or your subwoofer is misplaced that affects the sound more than any audiophile equipment purchase.
C# is, in my opinion, a fantastic language. I haven’t used it in a long time, but the “ergonomics” were really nice.

The downside of C# was microsoft, but maybe thats changed now? I know they made a lot of effort to make the .NET framework more cross platform.
It differs per area but the Urban Village strategy is popular. You take commerical areas with high usage and you zone them to allow higher FAR (Floor-Area Ratio) and to go taller for mixed use purposes. This adds a residential base in walking distance to the commercial center. Separately you add pedestrian and cyclist treatments to these centers and try to plug the village into a greater bus or light rail network. You also need to waive or significantly relax any minimum parking requirements, grandfathering in existing parking but allowing pedestrian and cyclist treatments to take precedence.

Take a look at Arizona's Cul-de-sac for a residential version of this approach.
I don't have a script. I submitted patches to zbar and added instructions to the Arch Wiki once the updated version of zbar landed in the repositories.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Paperkey#Restore_the_secret...

It's just a simple pipeline:

$ zbarcam --raw --oneshot -Sbinary | paperkey --pubring public-key.gpg | gpg --import

Even 4096 bit RSA keys fit in binary QR codes. Ideal for easily restoring keys in a live Linux system and ensuring they are never written to disk.
You think "SF" is ambiguous compared to SFO?
One other thing not mentioned - they brake faster. Like hybrids, EVs have dual brake systems - regenerative + brake pads. On an EV, the regen can be much more powerful than a hybrid since the motor/batter are larger.
"demands" is great
> The Chevy Bolt is pretty cheap

$26,500? [0]

How much is a new Mitsubishi Mirage (for instance) where you are?

> There are a lot of people who just can't afford a new car

I'm talking about people who can afford a new ICE vehicle, but won't/can't pay the extra to get an EV.

[0] https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev
I have to revert for you to kindly adjust to the same.
His one specifically about peer reviewers: I'm positive GPT-4 is already better than the median especially if you let it read some of the cited articles. Also I'm not saying this as if I have beef with some who reviewed my papers, I'm saying it about me too if I phone one in. Like, LGTM, or didn't cite x, or didn't label axis or whatever. For anyone who doesn't know, peer reviewers don't check or replicate the substance of the work, they check if there is anything that is obviously wrong with it on a superficial scan of the manuscript and assuming good faith of the authors.
I use XCode, Android Studio and Emacs daily. I'd say all three are C- tools.
Awesome. Good… and best of luck in this next chapter. Many of us are at this kind of risk in these times.
"Sexual attraction is not a concept that's appropriate to introduce to young children"

Valentine's day is celebrated in schools, countless movies and books talk about marriage, love, and attraction between a man and a woman. You're trying to make same sex attraction a "sex act" instead emotional.

Yes, but the moral value that's being enforced is sheltering children from being exposed to concepts of sex, sexuality, and sexual attraction. Conservative Republicans and evangelicals support that goal, but so do most people

I don't care how many people support it. The majority does not mean you can ignore the constitution.

I have literally never heard my Biden-voting Muslim-immigrant parents say the word "sex" or the Bangladeshi equivalent. And I'm married with three kids!

1.Your personal experience has no value in this conversation.

2. You having a repressed upbringng doesn't prove the opposite. I've never worn a seatbelt and have never been in a crash isn't proof that seat belts don't work.

Finally you come from a country with less rights, especially for woman and you come here and have no issue with taking the rights of another smaller group of people shows your ignorance. Not to mention the people you support along with this would remove muslims from this country if they could. You should be ashamed of yourself
I can see that, in a lighthearted conspiratorial way. FACTA basically makes most foreign banks refuse to deal with Americans.
This is the clearest example of an attention grab I have seen - it does nothing for commercial use of Llama unless they provide a version of the weights produced by them and not Facebook. (and they don't...they ask you to download them from Facebook's repo)