skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, dear. Talk about whipping a dead llama. Just let it rest, please.
I've started to watch this per your recommendation and one question that popped into my mind with the first few classes, is how does this theory of dualism that differs the soul from the body, withstands the ChatGPT era, where computers start to show signs of consciousness. ie- If consciousness is also a matter of physical matter that can be replicated by machines, is the human soul a real spiritual thing, or created by physical connections in the brain, which is recently simulated by vector and by the amount of parameters in the model.
> It speaks to a surprising lack of basic policy-making competence.

Yes, a random subcommittee in the IT department does not have basic policy making competence. Okay, that's the story.

> I'm sure they have tenured English professors on campus. Apparently no one had the sense to walk across campus and run this by one.

Stanford-level English professors are not there to be copy editors for the IT department. Linguistics experts and English professors are there to be experts. Do we expect all departments to run their web pages past the CS professors for bugs?

> that doesn't excuse the fact that they apparently failed to use a dictionary and some common sense.

Sure, but that doesn't explain why anyone is still mad or surprised about it today, months later, when the whole issue has been explained and has been diffused.

> I'm not "bent out of shape," I'm laughing at their amusing incompetence.

Sorry, my bad.
Yes, but individual enforcement and pain point is distributed.
This is a problem I have with the right to repair movement--what happens to the replaced part? This is hard to police within regulated businesses, but just look at the landfills and scrapyards from the times when more items were more easily user serviceable; it's not pretty.

I'm all for enforcing user serviceability, however it has the potential to be a backwards step for the environment if stern statutes are not put in place and actively policed, with the onus being on the party performing the replacement.
He means human nature in general.
You may need to delete your comment, will you? https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-fu...
(note: in 2020 coal energy in Germany was 20.4% which the above article doesn't mention)
Regulation of engineering, even in its more experimental sides (as I would depict some current stage expressions of Machine Learning), is an happening attempt.
He meant people in general. There's no need to be racist.
I would like to see some benchmarking against OpenA and Anthropic
Honestly a great idea. Not being able to afford outings is a huge barrier to socializing.
You know I had the vague thought of searching to see if they were actually out there but dismissed it as unlikely (at least in NA) because I've recently been appliance shopping and never saw one in person.
This is more about people with funky names choosing not to keep them when they get married, or changing them altogether.
They didn't have computers back then, but Odysseus used a logic-breaking name "Nobody": so Polyphemus shouted that Nobody was trying to kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outis
An American man and a Russian man were arguing about which country was freer.

The American said "I am so free I can walk up to the gates of the white house and scream 'down with Reagan, he stinks'".

"I have that freedom too" responds the Soviet man, "I could walk over to the Kremlin right now and yell 'Down with Reagan he stinks'"
Ah yes, and meanwhile here on HN, everyone keeps repeating AI is not ‘replacing anyone yet’ and no one has to worry. While people are getting axed and replaced by AI everywhere I look.

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35326865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35194986
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perhaps we should rather focus on meaningful actions, rather than empty showbusiness...
In context learning (i.e., tuning the LLM by adding all relevant info to prompts) seems to be preferred over fine-tuning. I'm not sure what exactly the reason is, perhaps because fine-tuning often doesn't make sense in a dynamic setting since it's fairly expensive? On the other hand, the only reason the entire pipeline for vector DB exists is because context size is relatively limited.

I'd love to see a comparison between the two in terms of accuracy of the outputs and the degree of hallucinations.
When there are really only 3-4 high end phones that's not a great ranking.
Understanding Parameter-Efficient Finetuning of Large Language Models
Queues are good for connecting separated systems (like 2 or more separate companies).
Yeah, the first time I signed into a dial-up BBS it asked me for a handle. I was 13 and didn't realize I'd have to make one up.

I looked down and my GWBasic manual was sitting in front of me, so I became GWBasic. I didn't put much thought into it, but I really, really liked the name and kept using it.

I still have my GWBasic manual on the shelf, too. I think I claimed "gwbasic" on Hacker News years ago but lost the password. It looks like the username is freed up, but I don't want to loose my karma.
There are few efforts under way.

https://research.ibm.com/blog/why-we-need-analog-AI-hardware

https://news.mit.edu/2022/analog-deep-learning-ai-computing-...
I have been running Google ads on our websites since 2006. We've probably generated a million in revenue for Google over the years, but lately it's just been a few thousand a month.

The problem: Since early April, there has been a bug that has caused our reported earnings to drop to $0, even though we've changed nothing on our websites. Impressions and pageviews remain the same. It seems likely it's an issue with Google no longer reporting "clicks" properly. The reports indicate the impressions have remained the same. However, clicks aren't being reported.

They have also removed any support options. I don't have a way to contact them directly. Any attempts to contact them just redirect me to the "community." That's where I found the linked discussion. Apparently many people are having this issue, and are being ignored by Google.

HN: Do you know anyone on the Adsense team that can help? Thank you!
Actually no, coal will be phased out much sooner than "decades".
Last time I checked "Formatting is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust" (1)

And/or you need a crate like alloc, heapless, etc.

For the sake of a sprintf "abstraction"...

(1) https://jamesmunns.com/blog/fmt-unreasonably-expensive/
I built a free Typeform to evaluate startup ideas based on criteria from YC.

I wanted a way to score (and then rank) ideas I have to work on.

If you have 2 mins to try this product I'd love to know what score you got! And what features you'd like to see in the next version!
Where is this announced on the Mural web site?
Casey Muratori is wrong about clean code (but he's also right)
I live in the Houston area and one huge takeaway not mentioned in this article is the fact that lack of zoning (other than private deed restrictions) significantly lowers the cost of housing for individuals and the cost of starting and locating a business for companies. This means more profit every month for businesses and more money in the checking account for employees. Businesses can (and do) sell for less than in other places, and people can live in a better home for the same money they would spend living elsewhere.

All in all, it makes Houston an attractive place to live or start a business (that and our huge greenways and trees everywhere). I think the zoning rules here have been a huge factor in our recent economic growth and all the new residents we are seeing.
You would think this, but one wrong move and its all gone. In the process of migrating away from GSuite for my personal domain/email hosting, my had-already-existed-prior-to-GSuite google account was closed., unrecoverably as far as I can tell. I lost a literal lifetimes worth of school and personal work that I had naively assumed was safe, and of course there is no actual support available to a one man closed GSuite account.
Good tip. If you really want to work on a car but have a choice in which one, do some research. Cars vary a lot on how easy they are to work on.
Your interpretation ignores the sentence “all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the service source code”. That just means they need to be able to run the service. Not have the exact same stack.
> I wonder what the music industry is cooking in regards to generative sound.

No need to wonder: "AI-generated songs on Apple Music and Spotify breach copyright, says music label UMG" https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/12/ai-generated-songs/

To be fair to the creators whose IP powers this generative AI, I think it's worth noting that model makers continue to expect to build their wealth on others' IP with no consequences: https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-asks-spotify-a...
Why would the executives use some unknown AI model from AWS which is not well tested or benchmarked against the plethora of OpenAI LLMs from Azure?

The LLM system of any company might be independent enough to run on a separate cloud. AWS so far has not even talked about any system capabilities they have. They might be hoping for some open source alternative to emerge which could shift the business to hosting in which they might excel.
Not German power plants, French ones, where they were cheaping out on cooling towers by not building them and are using rivers for 3rd stage cooling.
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It’s nice to see how just one organization had to be courageous and get this thing started and now many more could just follow.
all commodity markets are a race to the bottom. In the labor market if you have too specialized of skills you risk not finding employment but if you generalize it's a race to the bottom. There's been a massive amount of capital that's entered the market through the fed in the last 20 years which has driven up asset prices allowing for a lot of money to be spent on "building" web 2.0. also trading with china has allowed a lot of manufacturing to get done at really low cost. managing all that capital and moving of goods has created a bubble in automating paper pushing.
Germany is a labour camp, decorated as a country.
At first students would convert their assigned math problems into Kaktovik numerals to do calculations, but middle school math classes in Kaktovik began teaching the numerals in equal measure with their Hindu-Arabic counterparts in 1997. Bartley reports that after a year of the students working fluently in both systems, scores on standardized math exams jumped from below the 20th percentile to “significantly above” the national average.

It sounds like they objectively are doing better though. Bottom 20th to above average is non-trivial. Even if you look at it from the point of view that learning a different base(binary, hex), any base, teaches you to think differently about math, why not learn the native base for extra confidence?
Almost none of the contractors near me take credit cards. If it was a 3% discount then yes, I'd agree they are discounting that off. They generally want personal checks. Where I live there isn't an assumed risk of fraud or lack of funds so a personal check is a guarantee.

I should be careful about saying "often". In my experience it has been something that contractors I've done work with numerous times might throw my way as a way for me to pay less and for them to accomplish whatever goal they have. For all I know they want cash so they can run to the casino.
Plenty of other male-chicken-related surnames out there with the same issue. The one you quote will morph to Coburn or Coughburn in some cases, I suspect.
The problem isn't Scunthorpe specifically. That particular problem is just one case of a broader problem.

Should we also rename the whole Parus and * Sula* genera (the tits and boobies, respectively)? Should we stop referring to female dogs as bitches? Should geologists come up with new names for marshite, brushite, or mackintoshite (the jokes write themselves about that last one)? What about cockshead (the herb) and Cockshead (the town)?
The example I’m thinking of is when I sat next to someone in an airport who had just bought some garbage-tier “Samsung compatible” replacement battery from the duty free shop, for his garbage-tier phone. He popped in the new battery and tossed the old one in the trash.

Meanwhile, I know loads of people who have traded in, or simply handed in, their old iPhones in an Apple Store. I can’t imagine anyone casually tossing an old iPhone in the trash the way my feckless bench-neighbour did.
Great to see Dioxus there. I was looking at Rust GUI libraries and Dioxus seemed like one of the most interesting to me, but still felt pretty early in development. I did notice in their 0.3 release post they mentioned "This release represents an absolutely massive jump forward for the Dioxus ecosystem. We hope to ship future features more quickly into stable now that many of the desired breaking changes have been incorporated into the core library." so I am excited to see how the project progresses!
They didn't though? The source is a single article claiming to have spoken to insiders, which was subsequently denied and never confirmed.
That would happen only if the benchmarks were flattering.
The Apple Store.
I ran Debian at the time, but I worked in PC repair, and I remember being really excited about Linux being installed on PCs you could buy at a store.

It felt like there was a small "window" of opportunity where a competitor to MS might have been able to gain some traction. On those low end computers the "Windows tax" could amount to a large percentage of the overall cost.

Sadly I think Lindows was just a little too late to the table. People were already used to the proprietary software they had, and OpenOffice was new and junky - a tough sell for people used to the MS suite. IE was also dominant, and the browser situation on Linux was a real problem due to ActiveX and other IE-only things that kept kicking around for years.

I also think the "Lindows" name did it no favors with those of us who already ran Linux. I remember reading about it on slashdot, but I mostly discounted it for my own use because of the branding.
where's the paper on Titan LOL ... can't be good if no paper or metrics saying it's better then GPT-4 or even GPT-3.

but it's amazing that Google has all the papers and models and the TPU and BERT is pervasive in their products and they can't even stake a better claim to leadership than AWS does here, Amazon stock probably goes up, Google announces anything their stock goes down.
That suggests they aren't really competitors though, so either Tesla will have to drop to the point where they won't be profitable any more or there are substantial quality differences. BYD's vertical integration may become the differentiating factor if they can get the public to trust the brand.
I bought the course a few years back, and am really happy with the price/value in its current state.
I'd say it's probably more of a canary effect. They'll just be the first ones targeted by the type of general obnoxiousness that Musk's moderation pivot fosters. Everyone else will be put off by it too, albeit less severely, and there will be a bit of a positive feedback loop if the value of the platform (stuff from people you follow) is progressively diminished as people you follow leave because people they followed left because. . .
Ladies and gentleman: distributed tools, in that very case for instance but not limited to, ZeroNet, was invented for various reasons. So why ALMOST ALL FLOSS projects do ho have a simple vitrine website + the rest on top of distributed solutions?

Oh sure, some like GitHub and co since they are easy but my dear FLOSSers having your data in your hand is valuable and it's a thing you all know. So please try.

Try to AVOID GitHub and ANY other code hosting, as well, because it does not matter if is run by some "evil" company or some friendly one, it's not your system. Almost any FLOSS dev have enough iron and bandwidth to share hes/shes bits in a P2P system, do that. If you are unsatisfied by some classic distributed development models (like git patches over a ML) develop something else BUT distributed or being able to run on top of something distributed.

If you do so, you not only protect yourself and your users from some evil actors BUT you also brake the leg of all corporate power who try to put anyone in walled garden. FLOSS is the most comprehensive and valuable codebase in the world, if it manage to be independent of top players they are TFU simply by the fact the rest of the world know and understand they are not essential and something better like classic decentralized internet do work better than them.

They annoy us with some actions? We can break us entirely killing their most important asset: the band of sheep who thinks we can't live without being on the shoulder of the giants.

Aside MANY new tools will rise, paving the way for a came back of classic desktop model.
I've always been curious what sort of relationship https://nuxtjs.org/ has with Next.js and whether they will significantly diverge as their own entity (I haven't had the opportunity to use Nuxt 3 yet). Especially with all of the noise around projects like Remix.

Happy to see them on the list none-the-less.
I had a configuration exactly like this via HomeAssistant. Set the trigger when the power output spiked above X and sent a notification when it eventually dipped back below X for Y amount of time.

Unfortunately I could not find a plug suitable for the dryer, but for the washer it was great. I eventually decided to decommission the majority of my smart home accessories and HomeAssistant entirely.
> Internet has to evolve

Sometimes it really should be Germany. "Development" is everywhere; "evolution" is pretty much bound to be such; "progress" is where the best slope is. Evolution is sometimes not a progressive development - but it'd better be.
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I've been wondering about the ethical and sustainability implications of AI recently, since we have suddenly hit the `boom` period of AI.

Can you provide information on the water footprint of the average query? And the footprint of a very intensive query?

What about the energy costs?

For example google is a well known drainage pipe of fresh water specifically used in DC temperature control, and the flavors of the month in AI are set to surpass it.

I'm wondering if there's a sustainable way to proceed with AI going forward.
The simple average hides a lot of differences between demographic groups. If you’re college educated, earn a higher income, white or Asian, and get married later, then your chances of success are much higher than 50/50.
User replaceable batteries also covers “any old phone repair shop”. It’s quite possible that the aggregate recycling rates of these are not great.
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Tax "optimization" maybe? Idk
> One of the most important capabilities of Bedrock is how easy it is to customize a model. Customers simply point Bedrock at a few labeled examples in Amazon S3, and the service can fine-tune the model for a particular task without having to annotate large volumes of data (as few as 20 examples is enough)

I can't even. Does anyone remember Amazon Kendra [1]? They promised the same there. "Here's an ML powered search engine! Point it at an S3 bucket with your own data and you're done". Amazon Kendra is one of the worst products I've ever used, and we ripped it out as quickly as possible.

AWS has a long history of over promising and under delivering when it comes to anything AI / ML.

1 - https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/
I'm not completely sure, I read on reddit that USB-C condom has some form of proxy circuit to negotiate voltage; I hope someone with better knowledge in this can explain it better.
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I use cash to tip.
German music lobbies and legal issues are even more strict
Talk to people involved in the Fukushima cleanup about "externalities" some time.

Nuclear power is only cheap if you ignore that in essence, the whole society is carrying the risk of almost anything that goes wrong. A nuclear power company can't insure any of those risks and certainly can't pay the damages.

Also hidden in those cost estimates is that you need a highly specialized labor force that is hard to ramp up and ramp down, and the field isn't exactly trendy. France is having a huge issue with that right now.
Apple could just reward returns of old batteries.

It shouldn't be that hard for a company with so much know how and control over their products.
What I keep seeing is "This frees people up to do something else", which is the part that I just don't agree with. I just can't help but think there is a very large net drop in jobs in the areas that are going to be hit (apparently Game Art is on) and no increase anywhere else, so we're going to be left with a LOT of people with no where to go.
> SO questions would correlate with languages that are harder/less intuitive, rather than necessarily popular

People repeat this a lot because it sounds reasonable, but I don't see why it has to be the case.

I would expect popularity to still dominate the SO question signal even if a handful of experts aren't asking questions on SO because they can RTFM. Newcomers to a language seem to ask a lot of questions no matter what, so bad SO signal seems to mean decreasing popularity.

Also, the biggest questions on SO are super basic questions that not even the most intuitive, best documented language can escape. I don't see good evidence for the claim.
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Building and Selling a Chrome Extension in 3 Weeks with ChatGPT as My CTO
>The article feels like blogspam riding on the hypetrain of people disliking when google discontinues products like Stadia.

Stadia and CodeJam are more than enough.

Perhaps there wouldn't be "blogspam" like this if Google didn't regularly provided content by shutting down things that people actually loved.
> I never mentioned Samsung, so that's just a useless strawman argument you're making.

I was with you to some extent in your original post... sort of.. But this last response made me go from with you to thinking you have some sort of agenda, with a real bias and aren't actually interested in a real conversation, you just seem to want an argument that you feel you can win.
Short answer? It depends, but “yes” is more generally going to be true than not.

The smoother the edges the more polygons there are. The more polygons there are the more work the processor has to do to render them. In a very basic sense.

Now, it is absolutely possible to round the corners without incurring heavy processing cost but then you’re probably not going to get good collision, instead you’ll get incredibly obvious clipping (when one seemingly solid object passes through another without triggering collision).

So game developers have to make a choice: look good in still photos or look good in gameplay? (Clipping is a jarring experience while playing). Bonus benefit: if you do it right the lower polygon count and less fancy graphic stuff means your game runs on a wider variety of hardware (smartphones, switch, Xbox/PlayStation, PC, specialty stuff).

And that’s all not even getting into the cost of paying an artist to round those corners. Do you balloon your art payroll and have dozens of artists working on a few hundred “perfect” assets or would you rather they work on thousands of assets that are styled consistently and damn the real world verisimilitude? Games are a passion for many but capitalism invokes a cost when making them.
It was $20 when I first started and about three years ago I put the price to $25 because I felt like I’d made a lot of progress. That’s the last time it changed.
Where can I see Hokusai's 'Great Wave Off Kanagawa' at a museum today?