skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you understand that one can know what a “god” is, without taking a position on whether it exists or not? I don’t believe in Thor but I know he has a hammer.

And btw I also studied math, in a special mathematics high school, and then theoretical physics at university. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t also learn rudimentary concepts from anthropology and religious studies.
This is just being prudent from a business perspective. Much to lose due to lawsuits. Look at the warnings on Q-Tips (which everybody in the US uses to dry their ears) which have warnings not to use in ears.
Max is charging more money for 4K
I’m not sure I subscribe to this rule of thumb, but I definitely agree with the general idea that comparisons make weak arguments.
ElevenVR has, according to themselves, 1 million players (https://elevenvr.com/en/), how many active I don't know. That's just one niche. Other popular games/experiences are various shooters (Onward, Pavlov etc), rhythm games, fitness games, social experiences like Rec Room and VR Chat, movie/tv viewing apps, golf. Fitness has to be the most surprising one which few people would have predicted. For me, a few of my friends bought one together so we can hang out and play games, as we live far away with families these days. Remote meetings is obviously a huge potential one, but we probably need one or two hardware iterations to make that a compelling alternative to video. So it's safe to say VR has found some compelling use-cases, the question is if it's enough to sustain growth. More use cases will open up as the hardware gets better, so I think so.
They’re probably just working toward a new image model powered by GPT-4’s image capabilities.
It really underscores how the Internet needs a notion of social networking that is based on open standards and open infrastructures. Imagine if it was 2002 and Bill Gates pulled a similar gambit and just "bought the web."

Fortunately that was actually impossible, but it underscores how a thing like Twitter is also too important to be a plaything of investors and playboys.

Every time someone mentions Mastodon here, we get a bunch of responders saying "they blew their chance" as if they're copy-pasting off of a script… I hate to be conspiracy-brained, but a quick note to those guys: if you are Twitter insiders, you're not being very subtle.

From where I'm sitting, Mastodon — and more importantly, ActivityPub — is doing great. For those that thing the standard is too weird for normies, keep in mind that the way things are going, more startups are going to follow Medium and Substack’s approach.
We've tried to mitigate this recently. Does it still happen with Expert mode? If you have any examples, please send them my way and I'll talk a look at how we can address them.
> simpler circuitry

> the number of transistors tend to be similar between the two platforms

sorry, come again?
Okay sure. At best you can do that once, ever. So you’d better buy something worthwhile.
Wow the Kunst story is incredible!

His brother's tragic death, his own recovery in the hospital, the people he met who helped him along the way (including his future wife!).

This would make an incredible biopic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kunst
People seem to see new developments as black boxes that you can't analyze. Like they see something new and ask themselves "will it work?" and then say it will work or not based on whether the last thing worked... with zero nuance.

Let's try to analyze crypto on its own as an example: yes, crypto was a new frontier in money supply, but what makes it critically different? And are these critical differences actually desired?

Crypto was critically different in that it would decentralize the financial system.

Was it desired?

Centralized institutions are unfair and can be in-equal, but they are actually really great. When the financial becomes unstable, these institutions intervene and settle things down (see the Great Depression). When someone steals from my credit card, I just call up my bank and they fix it. How would crypto handle these situations?

No one could figure it out. So if crypto was trying to sell something that no one really wanted, how the heck could it work? ...then it crashed... because there was no centralized control. It's not like we haven't had this happen in history already.
This looks great! Are there plans to spin up a plugin for Obsidian and similar apps?
> So now you have to wonder why it was applied, instead of trying to figure out if it applies or not.

Now the question is whether you are willing to apply the same analysis to Twitter's decision to apply its "Hacked Materials Policy" in 2020 in order to block any discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Not all usb condoms show the connections. I got one from a well-known vendor at a conference. Seems like an easier attack vector to create and sell malware infested usb condoms…
I made a similar transition as you earlier this year from a i7 8700k/GTX 1080 Ti Windows desktop to a Mac Studio and much like you I'm very happy with that decision for a lot of the reasons you already described.

One of the more interesting aspects of the switch I hadn't considered though is that it actually (positively) impacted my power bill - I'm paying about $5-$10 less per month since the switch.

The difference in form factor is welcome as well - some days I find myself astonished at how much power fits in such a (relatively) small box on my desk.
not OP, but I watch Al Jazeera a lot, they're more fair than NPR, they at least invite the "other party" to the talkshow, no matter how ridiculous they sound (e.g. russian people supporting the war). NPR hasn't done that in years, they do a literal strawman: they quote what a republican said (or they replay a short part from a speech) and then the all democratic leaning attendees talk about the subject. It's laughable. I wouldn't just blindly trust Al Jazeera either, I would double check whatever they say, but at least I can learn about the world from a different perspective: they cover a lot from Africa, Asia, eastern Europe, which are places that Western Media usually ignores (unless it's something really big).

NPR is very high quality when it comes to art, science and other shows, but fails spectacularly when it's a political subject.

NPR has the opportunity to be a world class media group, like BBC and Al Jazeera, but they chose to waddle in mud together with the democratic party, estranging half of the US population - which could have been an easy win for them.
“ Because most of these companies aren't really sure what problem they are solving for actual people.”

Tech should hire more broadly.
Passes my smell test, which is to ask "how do I migrate my swift composable architecture project to structured concurrency". This uses 2 things that GPT-4 doesn't know about yet: Swift 5.5+ and composable architecture 1.0+

It pulled in information from both Apple, the composable architecture folks and a swift forums post to give a really nice answer.

Well done! I'll be using this a lot.

I'd love to know more about how you pull in relevant text from web results for it to use in answers.
I could somewhat see him trying to be fair after first acting out of spite. But why isn't the PBS NewsHour account labeled as government-funded media?
Humans evolved in a world of arbitrary danger. That we evolved an affinity for coping mechanisms to the extent they have undeniable physical manifestations seems likely.
Love to hear it! Expert mode is a new feature that has always been GPT-4 augmented with our custom web context.
This was pretty much the aim; occupy the territory and drive others out. The goal isn't for Twitter (or X) to make money, as such, but to have a monopoly on real-time mass communication and leverage that monopoly to pick which content 'wins'. All the complaints about Twitter and other big tech companies are essentially a to-do list of what will happen following their capture or neutralization.
Well, it is.

I heard about mobos draining the battery like hell, but with my (and not only mine (!)) this is not the norm.
For a smart man, this guy is a complete idiot.
I tried it with exactly one query, something specific that had come up recently in my work. I was looking for one sentence of answer. It was terrible, giving me 500 words of blather, much of which which was irrelevant and some of which was 100% wrong. It was absolutely the arrogant kid who had skipped most of the lectures but who expected to be able to BS through the exam enough to pass the class.

For my needs it was a pure waste of time, and it would have been a bigger waste of time had I not already known enough to judge its output. So I would call this worse than Google and also worse than nothing at all. I suspect this is an inherent problem with LLMs, not something fixable. But in the spirit of constructive criticism, I'd suggest you consider that for programming use cases, no answer is better than a bad answer.
So, "state-affiliated" is a bad thing, unlike those "by appointment to HM the Queen" that used to grace the advertisements of British (and other) brands?
I fully stand behind the NPR on this. I think the Hunter Biden laptop story is and was a distraction, and that the lives of family members of politicians should be off-limits for news coverage, positive or negative until they themselves insert themselves into the political arena. Let's face it squarely: the only reason why this story was blown up as much as it was was because it was used to damage his father politically, not because there was anything of substance there.
It is still protected by math. The value is found between trustless entities. Math prevents fraud. The group can change the math.

There isn't one true coin protected by math. An unlimited number of coins can be created between different groups of people. Math protects each coin.
Theres literally videos of people dping this in droves. You cant just stuff your fingers in your ears and scream and claim you arent hearing anything.
Wearing tech that can project shit over people's eyes while driving should be illegal until it's proven to be safe with year(s) of track record.
My point was that the person who made the comment stating that they had an iPhone, the person I'm replying to went on to ask them if they had iOS or android
You're right, crypto is a religion.

> But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along.

The faithful have managed to get BTC up over $30K again, though. Saw Tim Bray posit the other day that if the US Gov just dumped all of it's BTC holdings (mostly seized from criminals) they could crash crypto quickly since the liquidity isn't there.
Any accounts suspected of cross-posting would be banned.
Heh, if I'm remembering right, a couple of years ago there was a public charging station at DEFCON that was sponsored by the NSA. I did not plug my phone into it :D
So you’re going to encourage people to paste in code, likely from work, into GPT-4?
Even if the chance of that was 99.9999%, the only morally defensible attitude would still be to devote all our energy to survive, expand, improve, and make human civilization more robust. As fast as possible.
Honestly this doesn't surprise me. I don't have GPT-4 access, but I fed ChatGPT a simple calculus question as a sanity check.

Question: Calculate the integral of x arctan x dx. Show your work.

Answer: We can solve this integral using integration by parts:

Let u = arctan x and dv = x dx, then we have:

du/dx = 1/(1+x^2)
v = (1/2)x^2

Using the integration by parts formula, we get:

∫ x arctan x dx = uv - ∫ v du/dx dx
= (1/2)x^2 arctan x - (1/2)∫ x^2/(1+x^2) dx

To solve the second integral, we can use substitution. Letting u = 1+x^2, then du/dx = 2x, and dx = du/(2x). Substituting into the integral, we get:

∫ x^2/(1+x^2) dx = (1/2) ∫ du/u
= (1/2) ln|u| + C
= (1/2) ln|1+x^2| + C

Putting it all together, we get:

∫ x arctan x dx = (1/2)x^2 arctan x - (1/2) [(1/2) ln|1+x^2|] + C
= (1/2)x^2 arctan x - (1/4) ln|1+x^2| + C

Therefore, the integral of x arctan x dx is (1/2)x^2 arctan x - (1/4) ln|1+x^2| + C, where C is the constant of integration.

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This is wrong, although it gets pretty damn close (see if you can spot the mistake.) I was an exceptionally kind grader when I taught and Landsburg seems like an exceptionally picky one. But either way ChatGPT wouldn't pass calculus 2, either.
Not only converted to text, it seems likely that we can document sentiment around the persons speech. For example if you're a low priority target that's still on the radar, but not high enough on the list to get a human handler I could see something like, not only what you said, but were you laughing, angry, crying. The the tone of your voice indicate the likelihood of action in a short time frame?
The author is a lawyer, which is important to note because a lot of what they say about how "we don't have a race-based system now" seems to be considered exclusively through an explicated, legalistic framing. They say as much by chastising that "it isn't 1930 anymore". This perspective excludes any 2nd- and further-order effects as regards correlations between latent/implicit bias and statistical outcomes for people belonging to certain groups, which is the primary focus and concern of critical studies. By definition critical studies starts where legal studies ends.
That's our secret sauce :)

We've built out a decently complex pipeline for this, but a lot of the magic has to do with the specific embedding model we've trained to know what text is relevant to feed in and what text isn't.
The chevy volt would run the engine on occasion to make sure oil was moving and wouldn't let the average age of gas in the tank exceed a year (if it did, it would go on a gas only mode, even if full charged until you refilled it to get the average age under a year).
> Since German citizens by law are required to own a Personalausweis

This is not true. You must have an Identitätsnachweis, but if you have a valid passport you do not need a Personalausweis.
I never use the scroll wheel to 'press' as it hurts my muscles to do that. I do use the scrollwheel heavily though. I own several 'mice' which mitigates wear (I spread the wear across all devices). It's worth experimenting with different mice and find one that suits you. I have basic mice, gaming mice, and both wired and wireless. I prefer wireless as it minimizes drag. The drag is subtle, but it's there, and you will notice it.
We don't have a lot of C++ experience in the team, but I'll share your feedback with the Realtime team - perhaps we can find someone in the community to help
Sorry to hear this. What did you ask? And was it on Expert mode?
The page clearly outlines the need for the app, listening to audio in the dark. The app isn't the only way to satisfy that need. If you have some alternative way to address that need which you think is better, then maybe the app isn't for you.
It would be interesting to see if these abilities were to go away if you subjected the large model to drop-outs as you continued training, until it were reduced to the size of the small model.

I think once an "ability" is learned by the model, it is useful to help compress information, and is more likely than not (>50%) to be retained.
I mean, it solves the byzantine general's problem, which requires two thirds honest participants. I'm not aware of anyone who's ever claimed that bitcoin "mathematically protects" you even when everyone else is lying.
The label was "State Affiliated" not "publicly funded".
What made you decide crypto was bullshit all along? It has had quite a few booms as well as busts, and various scams and frauds for good measure.

As far as I know the last bust wasn’t much different to the ones that came before it.
will it tho, or is this more intellectual-thirst-trap nonsense for future substackers
You'll be more persuasive you actually answer his question instead of further casting aspersions.
See other comments on exactly that subject in this thread.

Really, it's a bit like 'but her emails' or 'Benghazi' at this point. Let's not pollute HN, shall we?
Ok, so to amend OP's original point:

Should Twitter come with a label as "state-owned" considering both the Qatari and Saudi governments hold a significant stake in the company?
There's things which small models can't do, and where obviously a large model works better. Not emergence, I agree.

I think they're using emergent for a different category of things - still things that a small model couldn't do, but specifically which a large model can just do without any of the work we thought we'd have to do for that ability.

Or at least, that's how I see emergent being a useful term, both in a behavior and a value context.
Reread the comment.
Remember that general-purpose computers use orders of magnitude more energy than specialized hardware for the same task. So if bitcoin uses (say) 0.05% of energy globally, matching the hashrate using general-purpose hardware (assuming an alternate reality where the planet has enough hardware for someone to attempt this) would require something like 5% of global energy usage. Diverting that much energy away from the rest of the world is not even remotely feasible.
> in large part, they're all impressive technologies in search of problems to solve.

I'm no AI fanboy, but let's be fair: machine learning has been solving problems for decades now. From OCR, to translation, to facial recognition, etc. While GPT4 or DALL-e may be "toys," large models (be they language, vision, or otherwise) definitely have a future in business automation, data collation, military applications, etc.
Twitter doesn't exist anymore (as of yesterday[1]), so the Saudis' ownership shares likely transferred to X Corp.

How much of X is now owned by Saudi Arabia is the real question.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-no-longe...
> "Tech" is a fairly broad category that includes both computer hardware and computer software

No it doesn't. That's my point. Tech isn't an industry or a category. It's an operating model. The delineation of it being an industry adds nothing of value to any discussion because its so ill-defined.

> But when people talk about media companies, they're talking about NBC

Guess what...NBC merged with Comcast and Comcast is a telecomm company, which guess what...distributes media.

> Panasonic.

Panasonic is a hardware manufacturer...
So the ideas of communism is what cause people to kill off sparrows or was it just bad information and bad/incomplete research on what role sparrows played
Were any adults in the room when most all of these FAANG+ companies were gluttonously over-hiring during the pandemic?
A fascist took office, and now more fascists are taking office. When the fascists go, the news can be boring again.
Good point, I missed that bit upstream.

My general point about how easy it can be to maliciously root someone's device stands, so I will leave my comment as-is.

Folks - don't plug your devices into untrusted USB ports...
I still have yet to here anybody in Canada pronounce about as "a-boot".
> As you get older, a good night’s sleep becomes harder to achieve. One thing that works well for my wife and me is to lower light levels before bedtime.

Blackout curtains and put tape over any obnoxious LED light.
Awesome page, but what the hell, no pork is a hard constraint, lots of awesome pork tacos (cochinta, carnitas, suadero, chicharron...).

One subtlety about Mexican tacos that is lost in other countries is that there are different taco types for different times of the day. Lamb barbacoa tacos (not to be confused with Jalisco-style beef barbacoa), pork carnitas and chicharon are definitely morning/lunch, whereas pastor and suadero tacos are more an evening taco. Northern style beef tacos, and Yucatan-style cochinita are more for lunch (Mexican lunch is the main meal, often around 2-3pm)
This is actually not true. If you look at the Wikipedia article on supercomputers you'll find that there is a special network for Bitcoin because it can only do sha256x2.

Specialized mining hardware is in the exahashes range whereas even the best general purpose are terahashes at best and even that is a stretch.

Plus the attack has to be sustained, you can't just do it for a few seconds or minutes and disrupt much.
Sorry for the double post... Can't delete the dupe now, unfortunately.
I had a similar experience. I asked if you can use CSS logical properties in IE11. It confidently told me YES with a whole bunch of follow-up.

The answer was no.
Once here too.

We were told the company was shrinking by almost half once we hit 1.0 on our project, which was still six weeks away. We would get extra severance if we stayed and if we hit the deadline.
It's protected by both. So ommitting one factor isn't wrong.

If you say flu is caused by a virus, it's not wrong. But flu is also caused by weak immune system, human interaction, lack of UV lights everywhere, evolution, among other reasons.
Bitdefender Survey Reveals Top Cybersecurity Challenges and Concerns
> But in the real world this happens with some regularity and editorial boards have set ways of dealing with this sort of situation

Conflicts of interest are things to know and look out for.

This is not the case of an editorial board. And, when publications write about themselves, even when there are editorial boards, there is a conflict and they may very well report the story differently than a 3rd party.

Not realizing the conflict of interest is akin to being just fine with content on a news site about a product written by someone at the product company with no label of sponsored content or something similar.
What's protected by math is the custody of the coins. The system is a delicate balancing act of incentives, math and social consensus. It's common among detractors to want to flippantly dismiss it as "only having value because of shared belief." That's not entirely accurate. All of the components are necessary to give Bitcoin its interesting properties which allow it to function as the first currency not managed by centralized control and these properties are inherently valuable.
Seeing it in a context without a UI to show you the row and column numbers felt a bit awkward to me too...

... and it made me wonder if some other syntax would work better, which made me think that maybe something like this would work?

=sum(column | 2+ | above)
targets whole column "stream"
second item and later
above this cell
pipes manipulate the target "stream"

I'm waffling between rx-like and unix-like for terms though. Or something else. But a much more relative-and-whole-sheet-focused language seems like it could be a lot nicer than pinning cell IDs everywhere.
I agree, I was just trying to think of how the word "register" comes up in casual conversation.

I cannot think of a way that "semaphore" would come up in non-nerd conversation at all.
I remember seeing posters comparing George Bush to a monkey. When was the last time there was civility?
The public does. And if you make changes to it's only those changes made by humans of sufficient character to become copyrightable can be copyrighted and don't change the copyright of the underlying work.

If you make an image on midjourney and the make some changes the copyright status of the base image never changes. You don't and will never own copyright to it.

Same thing with chatgpt.
Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter
If you’re $13.7 billion into a project and can’t even dogfood it internally, you’re at least $13.6 billion beyond where you should be.
Satoshi era was consciously operating under a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to do mining farms

But I don’t think we really need to elevate him to a deity level, 2010 bitcoin client had a lot of dumb stuff in it that everyone promptly scrapped when Satoshi went away
The connotation is a product of how the label was inconsistently applied in the past. Consistent application of the label will solve this problem pretty soon, without requiring Twitter to make judgment calls that should be beyond its purview
>This is subject to detection and reversal

Why would it be reversed?
You may be right. There just aren't that many strategic roles that require that level of YoE.