skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Education beyond basic reading and writing will become unattainable (and, frankly, unnecessary)

Is this possible in democracies with free (i.e. state-provided) education? Why would a majority vote to abolish education?
Can you give an example of a concrete task that you believe that neither GPT-4, nor its successors, will be able to accomplish within the next 2 years? Keep in mind that ChatGPT Plugins[1] exist.

If you can't think of any tasks that a tool won't be able to accomplish within a 2 year period, I question your definition of "not extremely powerful".

[1] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
Have you ever stewed over something somebody said to you?

Miscommunication or negative comments can have productivity impacts.
Sunk cost fallacy is playing its part as well I think. I can’t bring myself to read anything I don’t like anymore. I’m a slow reader so working through a book takes its time and I want to get the best possible experience out of it. Won’t happen if I don’t like the book. It’s not only valid for books but everything else: series, movies, video games. If it doesn’t work, why push it?
I specifically wrote that a new yellow Porsche is difficult to sell.

People will travel for used cars. New car buyers want to pick a car. A few new car buyers do spec out custom orders and wait, but it's very rare. In general, that's atleast how half the crazy colors come into the market.
LLaMa 65B and 30B were trained on 1.4 trillion tokens. This model was trained on 260 billion tokens.
On the contrary, I think this is a great example for how similar co-working spaces look. Even though this company apparently tried hard to make them look different, the pictures are so similar:

- All the ceilings have exposed "industrial" elements such as ventilation pipes, cables or unpainted metal.

- They are all very spacious with lots of exposed floor but no carpets (to make them easier to clean I assume)

- Modern, minimalist furniture

- The occasional plant here and there, but potted as to not introduce any dirt

- Non-distracting and almost bland color scheme. Notice how even the painting on the wall fades into the background.

How could this look different? Consider for example NeueHouse or Soho House from https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/top-coworking-spac...

They have more vibrant colors, more contrasts, less open space and more furniture overall. There are bookshelves and many unneeded but beautiful items like vases or small paintings. The ceilings have exposed wood and the floors are covered by carpets or are at least patterned.
Don't confuse "polite and friendly" with "nice". And don't confuse "terseness" with "jerkness".

We do no one a kindness when we allow someone to continue to make mistakes that could be prevented. Sometimes, the kindness is letting them fail. To feel the weight of the mistake. So they gain the experience they need. So sometimes, we need to tell someone simply "No". And some people will call you a jerk for that.

On the other hand, after you've spent so many resources attempting to train someone, continued incompetence is not "being nice". Someone who is truly nice would see that the skill is beyond them and remove themselves. Only a jerk would insist on maintaining a position they've demonstrated a repeated inability to perform. And only a jerk would try keeping them there.

Incompetent but nice does not exist. Or, if it does, it does not exist for long. Either the person stops being incompetent or they stop being nice.
Downloading an Entire Web Site with Wget
With clever engineering a PHEV doesn't really need a "whole drivetrain". You can use the fact that you have a motor and a big battery to solve a ton of problems that ICE engines typically have.

To make an ICE efficient, you want to give it a big transmission with a lot of gears so it stays in peak efficiency RP, undersize it, and put a big turbocharger on. This produces a relatively heavy drivetrain that has lag when you put your foot down.

When you have an electric engine and battery, you can take the same small engine, but instead of a transmission, you just steal energy and put it in the battery when you don't need power and give it back instantly when you put your foot down. This removes almost all the weight and complexity of the transmission, keeps your engine at peak RPM, and gives you the responsiveness of an EV.
This is a common myth, which I've written about before. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The closest anyone's come to proving that byte-level tokenization is better is the ByT5 paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626

But they only showed evidence for improvement on specific tasks, not general performance, which is an important distinction. And their own benchmarks show that the improvements tend to be marginal: https://i.imgur.com/6Cw0APS.png

One view of the situation is that byte-level access (or "digit-level" in this case) gives a way to accelerate training, and to achieve higher performance with fewer parameters. The model doesn't need to spend as much effort on learning the decompression algorithm (tokenization).

But once learned, the tokenization doesn't seem to hinder a model from achieving higher performance, the same way that JPG compression doesn't hinder us from achieving an image that looks very good to humans. It's a bit like arguing an artist would be better if they only operated on raw bitmaps, or that our eyes would be better if our visual cortex didn't do any signal compression. Maybe, but the fact that our eyes do it is pretty strong evidence that compression isn't harmful.
Congress is full of idiots, I agree, but I also agree that this app has to go. Byte Dance is far too sketch. Something will replace it overnight, so no worries.

And at least they finally did something.
Truly incredible. Thank you very much sharing.
The Congressional Hearing was a clown show, but there are hugely material issues of National Security and trade parity to contend with.

China is putting itself on a direct 'war footing' path with respect to Taiwan and the likelihood of conflict is worriesome. That conflict will make Ukraine look like a side show, and will involve Japan, Korea, Philippines, Australia, US - and incidentally Vietnam, Singapore, Canada - and everyone will be affected.

For example the CCP has made deep inroads in influencing Canadian politics along a number of vectors.

Xi's stated policy (and what we can infer from actual behaviour) is that 'all assets are geared towards state objectives) and that will 100% include TikTok - to varying degrees.

Even from purely a 'trade parity' perspective, outside countries would simply not be allowed to have the kinds of influence in China that they somehow expect in other states and that there are bunch of conflating factors there as well.

And most of that applies to pretty much all Western nations, and frankly, a bunch of others that would be powerless to do anything anyhow.

I think the only reasonable solution would be to have TikTok sold off and run separately, from Singapore, US, or any place with commercial, regulatory, judicial transparency etc..

It was hilarious to watch clueless clowns in Congress, but I think that was mostly a populist display for the general population so that the 'creator furor' is tempered to some extent by the headlines they read on CNN, Fox, MSNBC etc..
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What kind of xahfsghihs do you like, and how much time in your life are you willing to spend to find a good one?
If you need flexing, use flex box.

You probably don't need flexing.

/If you don't know what flexing is/, you should use grid.
Might not want to call them out on that. Last I heard, working in Argentina and getting paid in USD was illegal.
I have a Mini too, and I could see myself get a MK4 as the Mini has been a bit of a disappointment. The X and Y axes on mine aren't 90° and there seems to be no hardware adjustment (just a rigid printed part), no support for software adjustments either (the respective GCode is disabled in firmware), so I can't print proper rectangles, just parallelograms, and any boxes and lids I print never fit properly. I want to keep tinkering to a minimum (that's why I got a Prusa), and I can make do with goskew and preprocessing the gcode, but I found I have to repeat callibration quite often and it's a fairly annoying process and not very exact and means I can't reuse gcode files at a later date, so having a printer that doesn't have this defect would be very welcome.

My Mini also likes to ram the nozzle into the build plate once in a while without any of it's safeties triggering, heating element stuck on and the Z stepper fully engaged, so I can't let it run unsupervised either, and the filament sensor is pretty hit and miss as well. I may have had bad luck with my unit (I ordered right at release), but I'm definitely looking for something more reliable and, frankly, less dangerous.

The Prusa Mk4 does look like a solid hands-off machine and hopefully they didn't cut corners there like with the Mini, and hopefully customer support is also better for the more expensive ones. I don't have any use for the XL's feature set (I only print relatively small parts and not that many), but I didn't want to get a Mk3s as it's been pretty dated for a long time now. I'll wait a bit until other people have had a chance to run into any major flaws though.
Sadly, modern software development practices have neutered a lot of LTS releases -- but the need for real LTS releases is stronger than ever.
Based on our current trajectory the apex predator will be an antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain. Probably Acenitobacter baumanii.
You don't see anything wrong with all that data being slurped up by the communist regime of China? That's the main reason behind all of this. Nothing to do with "kids attention".

It would be wrong for the US to do nothing.
It would be hard for me to believe that GPT systems are not being trained on the vast corpus of intercepted data has been collected and warehoused.
The flip side of this is that people will also leave because they get frustrated by having to either clean up after or repeatedly bail out the "incompetent but nice" folks, and will leave for that reason too.
Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
Google must have thought the court was a customer.
The US of 2023 is NOT the US of 1942. China is today's US of 1942. They have a huge manufacturing capacity.

Without spending ten to 20 years (at least) in rebuilding America's manufacturing capacity to match China's, the US should just refuse any war with China.

Remember how Germany ended up in their 1941-1945 war with the Soviets? That will be America's future in a war with China.

https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2014/10/...
Update: done.

https://codepen.io/mikemaccana/pen/WNgWmdY

Please note I didn't bother extracting the icons out the design (it's 11PM and I should be in bed) so just used emojis.

Choices:

- Box model border-box (padding inside box, most CSS resets do this for you now)

- Grid by default because we don't need flexing.

- No margins, at all. Space between items and their parents are determined by padding, space between items and their siblings are determined by 'gap'.

- No issues with vertical centering because items are aligned for the middle.

- CSS borders on the right of each grid each cell for the lines. We'd need a lot less HTML/CSS if the lines were removed BTW since many of items inside the cell have their own borders, part of good design is knowing the costs of your designs.

- Took 36 mins.

Original: F*k it. Live coding. Come watch: https://codepen.io/mikemaccana/pen/WNgWmdY
> meanwhile all I'm getting out of chatgpt is bullshit and hallucination

GiGo, basically
Fair enough, but I'm not sure that parents would want to hear the former message from their elected representative
> lacks creativity on things outside of its training set

What's the definition of creative here? It can come up with any solution it sees fit for a problem, even ones people wouldn't think of. I've seen it make up quotes, legal cases, and scientific studies. One can say that's creative.
I am not an expert but I’d say it’s because Awk arrays are associative; they are more like maps than slices, to use Go terminology. And IIRC (it’s been a while) the array values are not strongly typed. So I think you could even say:

a[1] = “hello”
a[“world”] = 2

That means that - unlike C arrays - Awk arrays are not a simple, addressable byte range, but a complex data structure with lots of pointers.

I suppose you could come up with a way to serialise the array and pop it on the stack but that would be a lot of work, and for the kind of things I use Awk for, the arrays would often be huge.
you can just user it without wifi and mobile data and it will be same experience
>bashing bed slingers is wrong too, they have their advantages compared to CoreXY setups (mostly simpler mechanics)

Tangent: why was moving the bed the solution over having X and Y on independent axes? I’ve always wondered. Cost and initial reliability?
Yes. I am a beeper user and there is currently no mechanism to register phone numbers unless you own an iPhone.
when my kids were born i was amazed how competitive getting into a good pre-school was. Then i was amazed how competitive getting in to a good elementary school was and now middle school. One year out and we're already discussing strategy for getting in to a good high school.

When I was a kid you went to whatever school was in your neighborhood. On the other hand, when i was a kid my parents had no idea what a good school event meant.
Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial injection system
>base my personality on it

Your words, not gp. A part-time job as a teen helps you navigate and integrate into society. Part-time helps you get out of your bubble and interact with the public, who may be different to your upbringing.

It is immediately clear to me who has had a job as a teen (read: service job), and who has not in my experience. This may be a form of reverse-classism on my part, but learning to sweep a floor and take out the trash for a few months during summer is not going to KILL YOUR DREAMS which seems to be the meme. In fact, you could view it as service to your community!

While I was working 10h/w during high school, I was also making DOOM wads and learning BSP algo in my extremely ample free time.

Also note, that many skills gained in these jobs can directly translate to irl skills. For me, working at a deli taught me how to make food, be on time, measure crap, clean things, interact with people not in my generation, and more!

Maybe you don't get fulfillment, but as a teen with nothing going on it was nice to have some extra money and essentially a playground to learn new skills on someone else's time. It wasn't to live, it was to prime the pump for later in life.
Yeah, it’s pretty much the same difference.

For someone starting a brand new app from scratch, they might want to lean on existing css design token libraries.

Design tokens aren’t anything new; Bootstrap has been using them for margin for years. mr-1 mt-2
I had a meeting last summer with some Americans and I jokingly said “meh, it’s a free country.” They all quickly pointed out that it wasn’t, any more.

I still have family there and still visit for nearly a month out of the year. The number of people running red lights has gone up significantly the last few visits. To the point where I feel like I’m driving in Bali and not the US. People are more rude now than they used to be, and scared.

It took months after moving here to brush off the fear you have living in the US. Fear of the government taking your kid because your neighbor gets pissed off, fear of car accidents, fear of getting pulled over, fear of getting stabbed/shot while walking down the street, fear of seeing someone else getting stabbed/shot, fear of getting fired for no reason, fear of going to the hospital or getting seriously sick because even if you survive, you’re going to be broke af.

I’ve had cops plant evidence in my car, I’ve been hit by trucks running red lights, I’ve gotten in a knife fight with a hobo, I’ve been shot at on the highway, I’ve been fired for no reason, I’ve gotten in a motorcycle accident that fucked me over seven ways to Sunday.

I haven’t had to worry about any of those things since leaving. Not a one.
Giving too much power to out of touch, senile old men seems to be a global issue.
Dogs also have unusually high endurance actually, some breeds extremely so like sled dogs (up there in the top three with humans and horses). In general wolves are already pretty high up there endurance wise, and dogs probably had an evolutionary incentive to be able to keep up with us better on top of that.
I think I'm too autistic to understand the rule as written but I will try dan.
>The government can be held accountable directly.

By whom, itself?
It's only hearsay, bit I have read that for many opioid painkillers like percocet adding in the paracetamol is to stop people from abusing them by consuming a large number of pills.

I doubt it makes a difference for most abusers, and is more about fear of legislation than concern about health.
Hi from the rest of the world!

> Foreign adversaries have learned exactly how to weaponize our free and open internet against our own people.

Do you think that we should ban all the Chinese apps and also all the American apps?
Convergence occurs because of the paradox of choice. A market that successfully converges will have happier users and more sales because of it.
I would love native platform support. I’ll write up some initial thoughts and drop them into the Slack.
I think the VPN concern comes from a misreading of what is meant by "holding". A "holding" in this context is a financial asset like a stock. The section you highlighted:

> (B) includes any other holding, the structure of which is designed or intended to evade or circumvent the application of this Act, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary.

This is referring to intermediary holding companies intended to disguise an ownership stake by foreign nationals (like a shell company). Nothing to do with VPN or any other technology.
The Ergodic Theorems
I wrote a post about ergodic theory - a mathematical theory about dynamical systems. I prove in this post two of the so-called "ergodic theorems" by Von Neumann and Birkhoff and show a solution to Gelfand's Problem.
No I don't work on AI but as a dev, I would say I'm heavily invested in the outcome like everyone else on HN.

I fully agree with his concerns, but I believe that he is misleading the public about the motives behind this campaign and the recent petty tweets.

It is a competition tactic aimed at slowing down OpenAI so that he and others can catch up. Due to the exponential nature of the work involved, there is a reasonable chance that OpenAI will maintain its lead for some time and with each iteration the gap between OpenAI and its competitors will widen.
Which section is that in? I didn't read anything that way but maybe I need to re-read
Getting yourself put on legal hold was also great for email/chat retention.
> What is the type of racist that accidentally doesn't promote any black people?

Have you not heard the term "implicit bias"?

> Furthermore, what is the subset of those racists that simply stop once they get lectured about their obviously racist practices?

The ones operating in a high-turnover field trying to retain their threadbare staff. Part of it was also that there had been some new additions to the management team, and part of it was the national conversation around racism that just made people more aware of it and provided the conceptual framework to understand what was happening.

> If they're promoting the wrong people (ie the ones that don't do the job the best) they get fired.

I can't come up with a polite way to tell you how naive this is.
There was a paper where they have found that converting the numbers to scientific notation ( like 1.5e-7) has improved these transformer-based language models at math, if I remember correctly. (with a quick search I could not find the link to it now)
IMO all of this is too brusque.

"Hey - <problem> is causing <symptom>. I think you have context on this - can you drive <solution>?"

We're people. The nuance, tone, and empathy of what we say matters. I know some people will scoff at "coddling" or "beating around the bush". I think these people don't correctly prioritize the outcomes of their communication.

When I talk to someone, my goals are, in this order:

1. That the other person like me and want to continue working happily with me in the future and feel emotionally safe talking to me.

2. Whatever "primary"/immediate outcome I'm shooting for

Paying attention to 1 pays off in the long term. People are happy to work with you and it accelerates how effective you can be because people feel safe with you.
But that would only buy us 10 years. Eventually that massive amount won‘t seem very massive anymore compared to what will be available in consumer devices.
If we want to leave an habitable planet for future generations we should focus more in lab meat and less in “traditions” not everything traditional is good. HN is mostly a science oriented public which is accustomed to change its views when enough proof is shown, this is the way should be.
If you want a conspiracy theory, consider this: it's likely there is at least one Chinese spy already working for OpenAI.
- Lack of representation in government means big companies fuck up the planet if it's profitable

- People are mostly incentivized to compete, not to cooperate

- Antibiotic resistance

- Clean water supply

- etc..
or they could just disable mobile data and wifi without changing the phone, pretty much all appeal of smartphone is lost without internet connection and you are left mostly just with practical features
Typical.

Google: Remembering the number and types of pets we think you may own, for decades, but quietly destroying information about ourselves in a process consistent with how that information is classified under our recently updated data retention policy.
No, it's really so app only.
I have two reactions to that, neither of which I love that I'm having:

(1) It's a very interesting idea, and I'm not 100% sure if I believe it, but it definitely doesn't sound unbelievable either.

(2) Can we do it again with North Korea? Maybe there's a path forward after all.
how is it sounding good though. usually text to speech models need the full context to sound reasonable.
This comment a few branches over describes a fairy typical example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35363501

Then there are all kinds of examples not specific to matters of pure and simple rudeness (e.g. all manner of politicking, manouevring and bad-mouthing that goes on), as well as not defending / standing up for others when you should, etc.

There have been plenty of serious articles written about this topic; the search term to look for would be "workplace hygiene", which is the somewhat more formal description. ("Toxic work environments", "workplace bullying" also work but tend to be more second-hand, and sometimes spammy).
"I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019."

hah

hahahahahahahah

okay old timer
Yeah, I'd be skeptical that an event like a Congressional hearing with a 5 min format per speaker was ever going to really drill down into nuanced issues, if only by nature of the time limit.
Slackware, perhaps?

Honestly, if you just want the naked OS, you don't need a distro at all.

Or just don't use the package manager.