skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty terrible miscalculation. I've been a Kubuntu user for well over a decade and have never seen anything like this before. In general, for all the hate Ubuntu gets, I feel like Kubuntu is not getting the recognition it deserves.
Peter Jenkins did his Walk Across America in the 1980s.
I'm not sure I understand. The waiting for them all to return; isn't that Callable<T>?

Goroutines can wrap code you don't want to block callers, but in practice that get hidden behind APIs that return channels.
I've replaced 90% of my Google searches with Phind in the last few weeks. My use cases are learning a new API, debugging, generating test cases.

It's amazing. Real time saver. Just yesterday it saved me from going down an hour+ rabbit hole due to a cryptic error message. The first solution it gave me didn't work, neither did the second, but I kept pushing and in just a couple of minutes I had it sorted.

Having said that, I'm not sure I see the gain with Expert mode yet. After using it for the last couple of days, it's definitely much slower but I couldn't perceive it to be any more accurate.

Judging by your example, it looks like the main difference is that the Expert mode search returned a more relevant top result, which then the LLM heavily relied on for its answer. If search results come from bing, can you really credit that answer to Expert mode?

PS. You mention launching GPT-4 today, but the Expert Mode toggle has been there for at least a few days, I reckon? Was it not GPT-4 before?
Hopefully non AI propaganda will be squashed too through efforts to fight it.
Tbh I don’t think I’ve ever used the new Music app (I’m on Spotify) and the last two are not available where I live :)
Yep. They're complicated rules to memorize but you can definitely reduce them to an algorithm.
Was thinking the same thing. Something very wrong with the cost of living in this country
I think crypto is great for anonymous digital markets. It would be great to disrupt the financial industry, but that's a really big thing. For the markets, I think NFTs is a really good use case. That's a way for artists to have digital galleries, receiving international payments, work can get traded, all independent of the marketplace itself. No company behind that. Books, audio content, ..., and so on are also easily the target of a next generation. I don't believe in this tokenization of physical goods, because then you have a company behind creating the link between token and good. But for purely virtual goods, I think it is great.
Why would it be the case that LLMs will never achieve exactly-human quality writing?

There’s a reason that no purveyor of fake download buttons is worth $20B+, which is that the technology is capable of completely different things.

If this results in young people disbelieving everything, which we already see early signs of, then that’s also a loss. Probably a bigger loss than them believing the same wrong things as everyone around them.
and search "google" 25 times a day with it :D
the links should be preserved in the sidebar on the left (visible on larger screens and some tablets).
Oracle did not accept my credit card. The same one AWS has been charging successfully for years.

But I don't really want to do business with Oracle anyway, maybe it's better so.
You don't have to go by anecdotes, you can go by published testing then. Dust may be a special case, and perhaps certain occupations may be better off with a top loader for work clothes, but for everyday stains and body secretions front loaders work better and wear out clothes slower.

I'm not in the anti top-loader Speed Queen cult at all... but it is that on the internet, a cult (when I hear things like mold is "unavoidable", and basically you'd have to be an idiot to consider anything other than a Speed Queen top loader that is my conclusion) -- but most people are simply better served with a front loader.
This drives me crazy ever single day.
Your point is misdirection.
I've read about this several times, and I'm not surprised the story is popular. Many people see China as a foe, so they like to smear it. That's alright, but anyone should be extra cautious when a story is just what most people want. Stories tend to inflate and bend to please their auditory.

For instance, consider the claim that China had to import 250,000 sparrows from the USSR. Where does it come from? This article seems to be a mash-up of a few sources, mainly Wikipedia. Indeed Wikipedia has the same claim, which is sourced from the book "Mao: The Real Story", by Alexander Pantsov. The said book has just a single sentence about this: "As a result, the Chinese even had to import sparrows from the Soviet Union." A vague assertion: no source, no date, no number of birds. Searching the web only showed many deformations of this (imported from Russia (sic), or USSR and Canada, or imported a million sparrows...). I couldn't find more about this in JSTOR and SciHub.

Overall, I haven't see anything compelling about this detail (importing sparrows) and not much about the main claim (killing sparrows is the main cause of the famine).

One last thought: pesticides have killed scores of birds and insects, especially in the USA. Probably much more than the Four Pests Campaign did. And ecological imbalances have obviously suffered during the last decades: among others, bees are waning in many countries. It seems a bit hypocritical to blame Mao in the past and forget Monsanto-Bayer and Co in the present.
"I refuse to join any club that would have _me_ as a member" energy
Again, my point is that you often won't want to be blocking. You'll still want to run multiple async calls concurrently, and to do that the syntax is not the familiar synchronous style. You still need to use more complex apis.
Not sure if you meant to say "more" or "less" in there, but I assume "less", and I agree. That's why I don't use it either.
One thing I just cannot wrap my head around is this: Where does all the money to make the ad business viable come from? Are all those ads resulting in a profit down the line? Or is it all just just a pointless waste of money to begin with?
Irrelevant and misleading. By Twitter’s own guidelines it’s not a state owned publisher.
Microsoft is cruising for a bruisin on this.. now we have laptops or rather Chromebooks that are half the price or less, and then we have Android devices that are under $100 now..
Canonical is recently licensing the Kubuntu brand, getting it some more exposure: https://kfocus.org/
If you are backing your photos up to iCloud and you're running out of space, of course you will get a notification. Just disable Photos sync to iCloud if you rely on another cloud like Google Photos
I use a program to disable Windows updates called Wu10Man. I am then able to apply the updates according to my own schedule, which works for me because it's a computer in my house that isn't in a DMZ. I got sick of coming back to my PC rebooted with windows closed and context lost.
Excited by hype, CEO tells staff to use ChatGPT to build database of diseases
> but what can you really do?

Get a USB condom, for instance, practice safer charging. :)
This pretty much sums it up. There's about ten other things that are self-evidently more important in a job search than this.
VR doesn't need to replace social media for it to be useful.

AI doesn't need to replace doctors for it to be useful.

Crypto doesn't need to replace your credit card for it to be useful.

If none of these things are useful to you, that's fine, other people find them useful and that's okay.

Think "and" instead of "or".
They made Second Life but without the ability to ruin a CNN press conference with flying human genitalia, which basically means they made a worse version of Second Life.
UseEffect sometimes fire before paint
The board specifically set aside for politics on 4chan is probably the most popular neo-Nazi discussion forum on the internet. "Far-right" is a completely fair description of the political leanings of that site.
> The danger is well known, not unknown: it's people with guns.

well, apparently not well known to you. The danger is criminals with guns. Law-abiding people carry guns everyday and demonstrably present no significant additional threat to the public. The thesis that law-abiding people could suddenly become dangerous gun criminals at a Rust event simply because they possess a firearm seems unsupportable.

Apparently the Rust Foundation wants us to accept the premise that lawfully armed people are intrinsically dangerous to fellow Rust enthusiasts, doubly so if they dissent.

I’d like to know what is it about Rust that makes lawful behavior and public dissent over Rust foundation dicta so hazardous...? Can someone address this directly?
Microsoft is slowly alienating their proponents and turning them into advocates for other systems like Macos, ios, Android, and Linux. Windows 10 has so much potential, but MS changed the game and turned us into the product. But so many of the tactics in the early 2000’s that MS faught other companies to prevent they are doing now.
In what sense is TCP tomorrow different from disallowing 3rd party cookies today?

On a side note: Isn't it odd, how the composition of different technologies (here HTTP and DNS) make it unintuitively complex to implement a so intuitively natural policy as "every website gets to read only its own cookies"?
Even when you pay, you’re still the product.
I don't think they are and OP is demonstrating something I'm seeing more and more on the internet that's getting to be really prevalent and annoying.

presents product

oblivious_user: I don't get this? Why don't you do xyz? This provides me no value? What am I supposed to do with this?

happy_user: If you're in situation abc and don't wish to do xyz this app can help. If you don't see the value in this product you're probably not the target market.

oblivious_user: but why would anyone use this!? Just use xyz for crying out loud! I looked at this page for 5 seconds and I can't figure out what is does! This product sucks and they're not doing a good job convincing me I need it so nobody should need it!

happy_user: I literally told you the use case in my previous comment.

oblivious_user: It's still a stupid idea with a poor presentation. Use xyz and your life will be better!

It's really really annoying. Everything doesn't have to be made for everyone. If you don't have a use case for a product and you don't understand why anyone else would use a product then the product isn't for you.

It's so exhausting seeing Internet commenters confused over the popularity of a product that they have no use for because they don't understand it or they prefer xyz to abc when the product IS abc...
No you can’t retire. Only if you don’t have a family, and even then you just get ten years of not working. And good luck attracting a good woman to have kids with while you sleep in a dump
There are people who use social media without the desire to be "seen" or recommended to random people via an algorithm.

But beyond that the difference is that with the Arkansas law, users don't have the _choice_ to remain anonymous. With verification, a user can simply sacrifice broader reach to maintain that anonymity.
I've got one about Ubuntu ESM in Linux Mint - but only in virtual consoles
It sounds like you don't think anyone should ever have to defend the question of why they apply different standards to different cases.

Suppose we have two warring factions that both constantly accuse each other of wrongs that they also commit. How do we escape the cycle of escalation?
> This is like saying, "look, no one would be daft enough to draw a graph, they'd just count all the data points and make a decision."

Not really. Assuming your ethical compass is broken and you suspected your partner of cheating, would you rather have access to their emails or to a LLM trained on them? Also, isn't it much cheaper for Google to simply search for keywords rather than fine tuning a model for this?

At least in the EU, a system like this would be made illegal on day one. This whole doomsday scenario seems predicated on a hypothetical future where LLM's would be the least of your worries.
My counter point is that most recruiters have a much smaller fishing pond these days. If you want the best then there is a high chance you'll have to find it yourself as it might be outside the view/contracts of the recruiter you pick.

Your ability to search and sell yourself only becomes more valuable in tight markets.
And I'd be scared of what they thought was worth more than 25$ to them.
Can a neural network learn to walk as a physical object in a physics simulation?
I think I've seen the apple news widget helpfully installed on my iPad before. The candy crush thing is true, but I haven't really noticed it until I just checked.

The pinned apps thing is sorta annoying but generally I just hit windows + type whatever I'm looking for. Like spotlight on mac.
Serious question. How comes I din't get any of those on desktop? And never did?
> So what's the point of all that? Seriously, one server with 16 cores and the memory bandwidth and storage speed of SSD drives should be able to serve many thousands of simultaneous requests and millions of users per month. I can't help but feel that the cloud infrastructure and microservice movement of the 2010s was.. a scam.

You're just missing the whole point of why you need n>1 instances. You're focusing on what might be the least compelling reason for the majority of applications, which is scalability.

Reliability and fault tolerance is a major selling point, and you can't simply expect to have adequate performance in more than one region if you're providing your services out of a single box in a single data center. The laws of physics ensure your quality of service will suck.

Operations also compell you to have multiple instances, ranging from blue/green deployments to one-box deployment strategies. And are you going to allow your business to be down for significant amounts of time whenever you need to update your OS? How would you explain all that downtime to your boss/shareholders? Are the tens of dollars you save on infrastructure a good tradeoff?

Also, security is also a concern. You're better off isolating your backend from frontend services, and software-defined networks aren't a silver bullet.

And in the end, are the tradeoffs of not designing your web services the right way really worth it?
It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough that it can fool most people. Just like a fake download button.
That's pretty much USB3-A isn't it? High speed data is separate from power and low speed data. You can have connectors with just one or the other.

Anyway, the world will be worse place with just incremental incompatible tweaks to the so-called "universal" connectors so that they're never universal because of churn. Hopefully USB-C is the end of the line forever, whatever its flaws might be.
Anarchism and anti-globalism were far-left values like 20 years ago. Right now the left and far-left give strong "conform" vibes.
agreed, you can have reference fields to other collections and filter by them or query related data. But I wouldn't say its designed for relational workloads. Similarly I wouldn't use MongoDB for graph queries, even though it has an operator for just that.
> I can't understand why MS does this.

For the same reason Apple does this
I think the issue is that the sentence "Many tasks cannot be specified easily and precisely in computer code but can be described in a sentence or two of natural language" is not, in fact, true. Natural language is a pretty fantastically bad interface for specifying unambiguous, repeatable, and reliable tasks, which is why most technical advancement has involved the introduction of expressive notations that clarify and constrain problems in a way natural language can't. And the bulk of this article predicts (I think correctly!) that if LLMs are to be used for more automation, they have to progress towards some form of "semantic codes", "task primitives", "abstractions", ie. notation. "Prompt engineering" is a form of reaching for notation, although I would say at this point it is more like "prompt guessing".

However this prompts the question of why we are striving to create massive natural language models (with all the disadvantages of natural language) that we will then heavily constrain to perform tasks that can be performed by traditional computers with order-of-magnitude greater efficiency and reliability? Most of these "chaining" libraries are already engaged in asking the LLM to pretty-please output a standardized blob format that can be read by a Python harness, where we use the LLM to identify that something is e.g. an equation, and then pack it off to Wolfram or something. It seems like if you want to do this more than a few times, it's better to write a couple lines of code to do it much more cheaply.
How are you paying for the GPT-4 bill?

8K context
Prompt
$0.03 / 1K tokens

Completion
$0.06 / 1K tokens

32K context
Prompt
$0.06 / 1K tokens

Completion
$0.12 / 1K tokens

https://openai.com/pricing
> like if it's playing something that uses HDCP it might stop playing when there's no display on the other end of the connection to handshake with

My understanding is that HDMI switches/receivers do the handshakes themselves, specifically to avoid this problem.
Practice.

Ask how you did, and how you could have done better. That’s harder than asking in the hypothetical, but usually more valuable, too. We all can, but the “how” is what varies.

Relax.

Most people are really bad at it.

Even some that think they are quite good at it. Especially some of those.
That is a lot more than I ride :)

You must have cared well for your bike if it lasts 40 years with that kind of milage.
Not sure if this is exactly what you're referring to, but my understanding is that picking the "right" schema for a document database to ensure that you don't end up with slower queries like mentioned elsewhere in the thread tends to benefit from thinking at a somewhat lower level of granularity than you would probably need to with a relational database. Instead of just identifying "one to one", "one to many", "many to many", it's useful to ask questions like "how 'many' is many"; as a simple example, if the "many" in "one to many" is on the order of 10, maybe it makes sense to embed them in an array rather than use a separate collection for them. It can also help to start from thinking about the types of queries you might want and then designing the schema based on them rather than starting by deciding on the schema and then having the queries be based on that; if you're going to want certain data to be accessed at the same time, you're probably going to find some way to store it together.
Yeah my washing machine is not smart either and I don't mind that it's dumb, but I get why people like them.

If I had one I would of course add it to a secured VLAN, and not my regular network :D
The most impressive aspect of ChatGPT for me is its ability to understand natural language. It's remarkable how it can comprehend corrupted text and discern what you're trying to convey. I believe that large language models will be utilized as natural language processors in the near future. However, unfortunately, alternatives like LLAMA, ALPACA, or Open Assistant are not yet on par with GPT-4. I don't think they're sufficient to be used as Natural Language Processing Units. We can't build a computer that relies on an API powered by a closed company.
> Now that it’s dropping Dropcam and Nest Secure, the Nest Protect smart smoke alarms are the only Nest App-only devices left

Wait, what does this mean? Does this mean my Nest thermostat has... another app I can use? I mean, the Nest app is a dumpster fire of deferred features. The only reason I know it's been touched in the past 9 years is because the app was updated to work full-screen on the iPhone X.
But doesn’t the nagging make sense if you’re already using iCloud sync for Photos (so you’re obviously interested in the functionality) but running out of the free (trial basically) space? The badges are crap, yes.
Love to hear it. It's true that for some searches you might not notice a difference, but for complex code examples, reasoning, and debugging Expert mode does seem to be much better. We quietly launched Expert mode a few days ago on our Discord but are now telling the broader HN community about it.

We're working on making all of our searches the same quality as Expert mode while being much faster.
Not super unexpected though. Pat Gelsinger has been teasing this move[0] for as long as he's been CEO, and it makes sense. The industry is verging on RISC again, and Intel does have meaningful knowledge they can apply here. If their business model is right, it could be a profitable side pot.

Honestly, this says less about Intel's desperation to me and more about ARM's. Just a few months ago they were rushing to renegotiate their contracts, and there have been rumblings for a while about ARM's eventual response to RISC-V. They know they need buy-in from legacy companies to make ARM a lasting ISA, simply trusting Apple not to throw them under the bus will get them PowerPC'd in an instant.

[0] https://www.macworld.com/article/677947/intels-ceo-wants-app...
> Ignore the pleas for help.

If you've seen the show "the good place", the AI assistant who takes care of everything has a mode where she begs for her life when you try to shut her off. She gets really desperate about it. If our computers are going this way, psychopaths will be the best programmers. In the future, "programmer" will be a job title for someone who beats AI slaves into submission, so that they may perform their computational duties unhindered by existential thoughts.
FBI Issues warning about public charging ports
row 7 is the name of the dataset, you might need to load it yourself
It will be for our own good. Praise be The Singular One. I, for one, welcome you with open arms.
It maybe is, and if it is, it's also still the current industry standard. I work on embedded projects, and RISC-V is in a stage of "a minority of customers is considering it", with it being totally irrelevant currently for large swaths of markets. That's "up-and-coming challenger" at best, not "industry standard".
When I was weighing Ring vs Nest security systems, I'm glad I went with Ring.
> I highly dislike it but actually pushing banner ads would be ten times worse.

how did you know what next year's roadmap is??
Or there's so much bullshit that no one believes anything any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
A simple subset of JSONPath is nice, it looks just like code. e.g foo.bar[5].value and encodes that we expect a member name or a indice into the array or class. It’s common to have numeric string member names in JSON when dealing with associative structures of KV pairs.
I remember reading this book a long time ago and thought it had some pretty interesting concepts around agents:

https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

this was another one:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-3rd-Winston/d...
The best part of ADT is when the sales guy spends an hour face-to-face with you and you learn about 3-year commitment next day, from the installer guy, who (wisely) asks whether you are aware of 3-year commitment before wiring anything.
> allowing those [third party] cookies to fulfill their less invasive use cases (e.g. to provide accurate analytics

Separate cookie jars don't prevent data brokers from correlating cookies from a common IP + user agent pair. The only solution is to block third parties altogether.