skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would the US need a completely different solution?

One reason is that the US is substantially more ethnically and culturally heterogenous than Finland or France. This means that a one-size-fits-all approach is much more likely to work over there than in the US.
Agree on gaslight as the intended word. Ghost light also has a theatrical origin, still in use today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_light_(theatre)
These books are being wiped out from the entire ILL system, not just your local library.
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Alpine Linux user here, i could not reproduce that. How does the used shell even matter for that? The ssh client talks to the tty directly, not via shell.
Articles with points like this often show they aren’t thinking about what ML (I won’t use the AI term) are used for:

> How should we update iOS to take advantage of AI?

There’s a lot of ML use on iOS already. From your photos, to autocomplete to activity analysis.
a hidden message or feature that has become commonplace in movies, video games, and other digital content.

The process of businesses turning acts of employee rebellion into product is a phenomenon called recuperation. Once you become aware of it, you can see it everywhere, from star Wars to the establishment's fondness for Gene Sharp.
Magic Copy: Chrome image segmentation extension
There will be no need to ask.
Please don't try to tell me what my experiences are.

Prices have certainly risen across the board more quickly and noticeably in the last year or so than previously. That doesn't mean that I haven't noticed prices rising broadly for the past 20 years.

Maybe you haven't. I don't know. I wouldn't presume to tell you what your experiences are.
Not only did I spend a lot of time in the library, and have been deeply involved in the library system, I have children of my own (which bizarrely is the only category of child you left out) I take there, and that is why I am keenly aware of the issue. It is better not to speculate about the people you are responding to.
Pattern Matching for Scheme (2000) [pdf]
I like this as a proof better than the OP. Not only does it avoid the sin2(a)/cos2(a)=1 pitfall but shows clearly the math without use of trig. This part is the yummy bit: >Since a<b and a+b=90 degrees then a<45 degrees, and therefore 'BAD' < 90 degrees, which means that if we draw a line 'l' that is perpendicular to 'BA' at 'B', 'l' would never be parallel with the line 'AD' and they cut each other at a point 'E' like the Figure B.
My mentor insists on handwriting all code
Money and dubious ethics are probably the strongest sources of business success.
Adding to that, it is what makes me miss R when using other languages. It just isn't very much fun to me to do discovery and building in python, but ultimately where things get operationalized.
Haha thanks!

Some school districts do adopt informal tracking (college track, vocational track, normal track) but this is very much at the discretion of the local school district.

IB is occasionally included at local public schools in the US to help drive up rankings because College Board AP classes would require more staffing (3-4 AP physics classes can be clubbed into a single 2 year IB Physics track, and AP Stats/Calc AB/Calc BC can be clubbed into a single 2 year IB SL/HL track. In essence, you can hire 2 teachers with a Masters Degree instead of 4-5 for AP classes just in Physics and Math alone).

> I did not however go to masters or PhD programs. From my friends I understand that's where things finally get interesting

The classes that are 400 levels in a Bachelors program in North America should be comparable to those taught in the first year of a Masters program. Depending on how many credits you came into college with, you may have never had enough free slots open to take those interesting classes.
Pulled the Everglory demo down on Steam Deck.

Because of the small display on the Steam Deck, the text on the menu buttons on the right hand side were nearly indecipherable.

I wonder to what degree game devs should be testing their games on a small display like the Steam Deck/Switch.
Salginatobel Bridge
Given that free alternatives like Vicuna (from the University of California and CMU) are better than LLaMA, are freely and legally available for download, and are compatible with code like llama.cpp, even if every copy of LLaMA is taken down it will have no effect on the development of chatbots. It might even improve things as people who would otherwise go for the better known LLaMA will move towards these newer, better, models.
I'm not entirely sure, is this practically true? I would expect there to be an upper limit to energy we can concentrate in a given volume even when cosmic scales are involved.
Missing number from headline: 50
Sort of like an Arrakeen stillsuit but for heat.
Off-topic: Is there a correlation between Gen-Z and Pro-Unions?

It’s just an obversarion I have, but it seems like the younger generation is pro-union and was wondering if it’s just my imagination.
Thank you Warren Robinett for making Adventure so awesome.
I read a book about military strategy... I forget the author, but it was a US General shortly after WWII.

He stressed how he realized that you should make a final decision as late as possible, and no later. That is, be prepared to immediately decide as soon as the question is upon you, and delaying would be harmful; but so long as you can delay the decision without consequence, you should delay.
> Ignition is a tire fire and I despise it with all my heart.

Could you elaborate on this? I helped [1] create Ignition with Alex Crawford [0], its original author, while @ CoreOS in ~2015. To call what we were making then a "tire fire" seems comically hyperbolic for what was such a rudimentary bootstrapping tool, and generally unexpected for something we'd ship.

Has its scope grown out of control since those early days, or has it been mismanaged? We're coming up on a decade since my involvement...

[0] https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commits?author=crawford

[1] https://github.com/coreos/ignition/commits?author=vcaputo
Legacy chips are Xtensa.

Espressif has already decided to use RISC-V exclusively[0].

0. https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/espressif-moves-exclusively-...
> Bing very famously at one point was extremely passive aggressive when challenged on basically anything.

It still wasn't an indication of how confident it "felt" with its answers. It was just role-playing a more confident and aggressive chat bot than ChatGPT does.
I often roll my eyes at them too, but in this case, do you imply the event & response didn't happen? Or that it's not outrageous?
"And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade".

That was ironically Bill Gates

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
Generally the government problem is government subsidizes demand for housing without subsidizing supply. More dollars chasing fixed goods.
I would avoid kickstarter for any AI related work, they made it clear after banning a few projects that they want to push their flavor of AI ethics on creators (e.g. https://updates.kickstarter.com/ai-current-thinking/). IMO we need an alternative infrastructure for organizing and funding these things, since it's clear Big Tech sees AI as a threat and wants to desperately shut it down.
TIOBE has always been flawed; it doesn't claim to be perfect. It's an interesting metric, and deeply unpopular languages don't make the cut. Once-popular Pascal has been plummeting in recent years. That said, their chart has a particularly unsettling feature: the SQL line is dead flat from early 2004 to 2018.
One great example of Spring RTS being used in a game is Beyond All Reasons, A Open Source RTS: https://www.beyondallreason.info

> All units and projectiles are simulated in real-time. The game offers fully simulated projectile ballistics, explosion physics and terrain deformation.

> The shape of every battlefield in-game imposes which strategies work and which units are effective. No two maps will play the same. Radar cannot penetrate mountains and nuclear warfare will physically alter the terrain.

Unexpectedly fun game.
I don't know if it's impressive or worrying regarding how much Posit/RStudio as a company have completely taken over a programming language.

I have colleagues who write R code all day, and they don't know the difference between RStudio the IDE and R the language. They can't perform basic tasks such as defining a function, or adding a column without the tidyverse.
I also made a cable for my HP 48SX. I also used individual female pins from some other connector, soldered the wires to them and then I molded an epoxy "body" on top of them while they were plugged into the calculator (talk about living on the edge).

I still have the calculator and the cable. For some time the calculator had some display issues after being accidentally dropped but I powered it up a few months back and it seems to have fixed itself. I recall how much I wanted to get one back in the day and how much fun it was.
You seem to have missed that an effort toward a useful decentralised global consensus chain¹ should only have a secondary-at-best interest in efficiency of a VM, focusing primarily on the priorities of security and decentralization.

¹(whether Ethereum or something else)
it's possible, e.g. you can time code easily
I thought that was the case before trying Vicuna. I agree that LLaMA and Alpaca are inferior to ChatGPT but I'm really not sure Vicuna is. It even (unfortunately) copies some of ChatGPT's quirks, like getting prudish when asking it to write a love scene ("It would not be appropriate for me to write...")
> Let's be clear, AI is not making it easier.

Technically, it is already easy without AI, in relative terms.

> The idea you can't have some tireless force actively adapting to every single imaginable exploit isn't a given.

However, the force attempting exploit would be other AI's at that point, not humans. If we assume the rapid disparity in intelligence power as a result of exponential growth, then you must assume some nation states will have orders of magnitude more intelligence power than others.

It is easy to imagine an end where everything is already balanced; however, between current point and time and that end is an enormous moat that is filled with such problems that we might not arrive to the other side. We certainly don't need significantly more powerful AI for it to be used to create significantly greater disruptions in society as we are already nearing a potential period of unverifiable truth and reality.
which part? understaffed and overworked child care workers? non-existing support for parents of kids? sexualization of children? waste of government resources? people dismissing potential signs of sexual abuse? armchair children education experts?
Does anyone know a good tutorial for producing good prompts? I forgot the document name, but last time there was a "bible" for producing good results from text-to-image.
Free GPT-4 coding assistant in your command line
For interesting but funny coverage of this, the show Korea No. 1 on Netflix might be interesting to people.
Carvana (CVNA) Bondholders May Score Bigger in Bankruptcy
Does Japanese aversion to confrontation trigger this behaviour?
I wish there is an easy way to have the reverse: a “sticky” ssh session.

It’s so annoying that the connection is lost when going to sleep or network issues. And the solutions to fix this are not really worth the effort.
The models are a lot of fun to play with, but yeah, every time I've tried to use them for something "serious" they nearly always invent stuff (and are so convincing in how they write about it!).

Most recently I've been interested in what's happened with the 4-color theorem since the 1976 computer-assisted proof, and decided to use GPTChat instead of google+wikipedia. GPTChat had me convinced and excited that, apparently the computer-assisted part of the proof has been getting steadily smaller and smaller over the years and decades, and we're getting close to a proof that might not need computer assistance at all. It wrote really convincingly about it! And then I went and looked for the papers it had talked about. They didn't exist, and their authors either didn't exist, or worked in completely unrelated fields.
The "prepared" part seems like good advice because many decisions can be made in advance, only contingent on future information. You might not be able to decide far in advance what exactly to do, but you might be able to decide what to do if X or Y happens, and what to do otherwise. Then when the moment comes and X happens, you can decide fast.

The article talks a bit about imperfect information, which does throw a bit of a wrench in this, so it doesn't apply to every situation.
Just take a deposit. Don't pay it back until they tell you they quit.
Majority

https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/iri.org/2014%2...
> There can be a massive overreaction by the government _and_ still be genuine issues we need to look for and address.

Mind blown! A person who actually does not dismiss the whole thing as just an overreaction by the gov. Thank you!
Someone needs to legally challenge openAI on using the output of their models to train other commercial models. If web scraping is legal, then this must be legal too , even if openAI tries to curtail it. After all it was all trained on data they don't have rights to.
Re: Turnkey Solution

Bluetooth Auracast still has a chance at becoming a thing, and is a one-to-many terrestrial broadcast solution that, if implemented by manufacturers, will be available on almost any mobile device. It allows for 4 watts EIRP and it's one-way (no pairing). I could imagine success in a pedestrian-heavy environment.

Re: "...a few nationally allocated free-for-all spots on the FM and TV bands"

The bandwidth unfortunately does not exist for a nation-wide channel in the USA.
On the other side of the coin, they've distracted a huge amount of attention from OpenAI and have open source optimisations appearing for every platform they could ever consider running it on, for no extra expense.

If it was a deliberate leak, it was a good idea.
Is Big Tech’s R&D Spending Hurting Innovation in the U.S.?
US state-affiliated media

https://www.iri.org/news/national-endowment-for-democracy-ne...
The 3.2 rounding of Pi in an Indiana bill[0] is also quite infamous, which confusingly had other values of Pi for use in different contexts. [I'm a Tau touter myself.]

[0] https://www.straightdope.com/21341975/did-a-state-legislatur...
As everything, it goes in waves. The first people who were pro-union, were the ones who had 6-day work weeks, probably started working when they were ~13 years old (at least in the country where I was born) and had basically no work safety at all. Generation after generation got better and better working conditions, until modern times where many don't see what a union would even do for you. Probably lots of unions are riding their history as well, and have become complacent.

But the more workplaces start abusing their employees, the more pro-union workers become. So that's what we're seeing today, people don't start to become pro-union just because.
I’m not sure about resuming from sleep, but does mosh address your network stability issues?

https://mosh.org/
> It's possible that the 5 year old was being sexually abused, or witnessed another child being sexually abused, and was mimicking the action

Could be, but honestly, I'd bet it's exposure to porn of some sort. That seems like a 5 year old understanding of what must that taboo behavior must be . . . butt touching.
> Ron Milner, who worked at Atari from 1972 to 1985, inserted an Easter egg in the arcade game “Starship 1.” If a player followed a certain sequence of controls, the message “Hi Ron” would flash on the screen and the player would be awarded 10 free games.

I'm very sympathetic to having credits in video games and other creative artifacts.

But would this particular "10 free games" Easter egg be a big problem if the secret spread?

(The entire reason for buying an arcade game then was to generate money, by charging for games played, with minimal supervision. And firmware updates to remove an Easter egg once shipped seem expensive.)
How to reduce software impedance mismatch?
> a great education system

There's ongoing STEM/skilled shortage for existing demand for years. US education system is "great" to small/medium tier countries but not relative to her needs. Even immigration leaching talent from world isn't enough to plug gap so far. IMO overall underperforming and one of the weaker but more resolvable issues.
> an effort toward a useful decentralised global consensus chain

> should only have a secondary-at-best interest in efficiency of a VM

Yup. Useful, global, and "efficiency is secondary-at-best". True builders, indeed.

But my point wasn't strictly about efficiency of the VM. And, as it always is with crypto-proponents, that point is completely lost, because I don't follow the right discords, sorry, magicians.
Text compression isn't a deterministic process, unfortunately. It's "concept" of compression is clearly derived from token sampling, in the same way it's concept of "math" is based on guessing the number/token that comes next.

While I do agree that ChatGPT exhibits pattern-recognizing qualities, that's basically what it was built to do. I'm not arguing against emergent properties, just against emergent intelligence or even the idea of "understanding" in the first place.
In an efficient market the average ROI on options should be zero.
It’s fast to execute, easy to work with and easy to use a single binary distribution.

All points that make it popular to replace slower tooling on the frontend
3. Like sibling comment or said: most parsers need the entire file (in memory) before being able to start parsing. XML is just as bad here: both, technically, need the parser to see the closing part before being able to parse the chunk.
Are you referring to the DALLE-2 prompt book? https://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%...
McMurdo has them, but the general store accepts cards. I don't think the bars accept cards and tipping for volunteer services (e.g. barristas) is quite common. Pole does not (it's cash only). And then there's Palmer which is card only. Most contractors can "widthdraw" money out of their paychecks to get a periodic stipend while they're down there, otherwise you have to take out a big wad in McM to last the summer/winter (e.g. scientists usually can't because we're paid by universities, not USAP).
> Consider a beefy AF bare metal SQL server, see how far that gets you.

Yep, this is of course the default - although you'll at least want replication for availability and disaster recovery, but that's not too bad with PG/RDS.

> they don't just let you drop them in as a scalable replacement for an existing usage pattern, and usually sharding starts first coming up when you're at a huge scale and already have a ton of app code and database design but have grown past what a single db can support

I think once you get beyond what fits on one primary box, you're almost certainly at the point of rethinking your data access models anyway. Manual sharding is disruptive too.
Elon Musk needs to give a very good explanation for this, and it had better involve an actual bug or serious platform engineering issue leading to a massive renewed hiring push to build Twitter 2.0 instead of this bullshit. There are so many innovative ideas that aren’t being moved on because the existing leadership there is sitting on its hands for some reason. Twitter 2.0 would be a really cool product.
Honestly I think this entry is not very interesting. It's not even a link to the thing itself, but rather to another webiste with (mostly low-quality) comments, neither of which IMO should be deserving of the front page.
Before the inevitable idiots come in to say hurr durr but have you tried ChatGPT 4… yes I paid for it, and it is just as prone to hallucinations of factual information. It loves to make up new names for peoples initials.
Profits at Apple’s subsidiary in Ireland rise to $69B
I hold a more charitable interpretation.

We (the public) have found an important bug in the system, ie. GPT can lie (or "hallucinate"), even if you try to convince it not to lie. The bug is definitely lowering the usefulness of their product, as well as the public option about it. But I'll let the programmer who has never coded a bug cast the first stone.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're scrambling internally to minimize the problem (in the product, not in public perception). They have also recently added a note to ChatGPT: "ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts" which is an acknowledement that yes, watch out (I compare it to "caution: contents hot" labels).

On the topic of dealing with it, I like the stance that simonw recently took: "We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics" [0].

I don't attach intentions to a machine algorithm (to me, "gaslight" definitely implies an evil intent), and I don't think OpenAI people are evil, stupid, corrupted or something else because they put out a product that has a bug. But since the wide public can't handle nuances, I'd agree it's better to say "chatgpt lies, use it for things where it either doesn't matter or you can verify; don't use it for fact-finding" to get the point across.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/7/chatgpt-lies/
The approximation 355/113 has nice pairs of odd digits.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
For better or worse in the current age of the internet prose is a good first pass filter for quality.

Someone arguing incoherently is seen as less believable.

Unfortunately the prose for these chat models doesn't change based on how certain it is of the facts. So you can't tell based on how it is talking whether it is true or not.

Certainly people online speak well while lying either intentionally or unintentionally but usually well intentioned people will coach things they aren't as certain about helping to paint a more accurate picture.

I haven't taken a deep dive on the latest models but historically most AI haven't worried about "facts" as much as associating speech patterns. It knows how to talk about facts because other people have done so in the past kind of thing.

This means you need to patch in arbitrary rules to reintroduce some semblance of truth to the outputs which isn't an easy task.

False training is a whole different area IMO. Especially when there is a difference between responding to a particular user and responding to everyone based on new information.
I think COT would still be useful for guiding the LLM to customized context. Most of these examples refer to vanilla arithmetic/logic reasoning COT.
There are two types of software engineers . . .

those who wrestle the world into neat, tight dichotomies

and those who realize that's not how things work.