skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writing system of English is far more phonetic than logographic writing systems such as that of Chinese. That's the relevant difference here. It is true that English's writing system is one of the least phonetic alphabets, but alphabets are always, by definition, quite phonetic. Most writing systems are alphabetic and not logographic, so if you rank them all ordinally, English is going to have a similar rank to Chinese, but the absolute difference between English and Chinese is quite large. Here is a very impressionistic assignment of percentages of phoneticity to various systems, which will hopefully make clear what I'm getting at:

Phoneticity 20% (Chinese)

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Phoneticity 75% (English)

Phoneticity 80% (French)

Phoneticity 90% (Spanish, probably most other writing systems)
But Microsoft can create new products?
> In the US, something has to explicitly be made legal to be permitted. There has to be a law saying you have the right to do something.

Well that's just flat-out incorrect.
im sure a lot could be done to make both AV1 and VVC fastrer at encoding (and decoding). x264 has been optimized to extreme levels, i'd imagine x265 has also gotten A LOT of effort, probably way more than AV1
Here's another example taken from my experience a few years ago. I once googled "pro tour results" and was, as expected, presented with an info box about the results of the recent Pro Tour in Magic: The Gathering.

Some months later I was visiting family for a few weeks and wrote the same query on a family-member's PC. It gave me something about golf which I couldn't care less about. But I got the right results on my phone. I'm sure if I added "golf" to my query on the phone it would have given me info about that tournament instead. While it disturbs me how much I'm being tracked, I'm still happy with the practicality of the implied context being aligned with my interests.
Read Tim Dettmer's guide.

Basically, you want nVidia, and you want lots of VRAM. Buy used for much more bang for the buck.

Depending on your budget, get:

- an RTX 3060 with 12GB or

- 1 used RTX 3090 with 24GB (approx twice as expensive as the 3060 but twice the VRAM and much faster) or

- 2 used RTX 3090 cards if you need more than 24GB.

Everything beyond that gets quite a bit more expensive because then you need a platform with more PCIe lanes, you may need more than one PSU and you will have problems fitting and cooling everything.

With two cards and 2x24GB you can run the largest version of the LLaMA model (the 65B variant) and all its descendants with 4-bit quantization inside your GPU's VRAM, i.e. with good performance. Can can also try some low resource fine-tuning variants (LoRa etc).

Oh and while you're at it also get a decent amount of RAM like 64GB or 128GB (it's very cheap right now) and a NVMe SSD. These models are quite large.
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Now its sort of the opposite? We'd love to send our kid to Seattle's Chinese immersion program, but they only offer it in poorer South Seattle while we live in richer North Seattle. There was an effort to make elementary kids go to school before 8AM just to make some more bussing feasible, bussing that only applies to non-neighborhood kids attending the schools from poorer parts of the city.
I was researching open source hardware and was surprised to find very few offerings: SiFive (RISC V) and Raptor Computing Systems (POWER9). Are there any other ones?
"We need to adapt as a society for it,” Pichai told Pelley, adding that jobs that would be disrupted by AI would include “knowledge workers,” including writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, even software engineers."

How software engineers are going to be disrupted? How to interpret this? Shrinking salaries due to replacement or growing salaries due to increased leverage, and therefore, demand?
This happens to me every time I release a new game. Some combination of zeitgeist and Baader-Meinhoff means that I will see basically the same thing released at basically the same time, usually a better implementation.
> If you are easily able to change the firmware, you are easily able to destroy the hardware, and if that's under warranty, companies are going to be concerned.

I don't think this reasoning makes any sense. The company can just declare that replacing or altering the firmware voids the warranty.

> I would kind of hate handing that over to potential competitors.

But you do that the instant that your product ships. I've shipped a lot of firmware in products, and it's very common to find my firmware reverse engineered and available within a month or so of the product being released.
Exam questions have two wonderful property: they have an answer, and the person who wrote it knows that you have the knowledge to find the answer.
This isn't a free speech issue. This is a matter of fraud. Claiming you have methods of teaching literacy when you don't is fraud. Lying or pressuring congressman to get government grants is equally fraud.
BERT wasn’t learning how to read. It was learning how to predict (or generate or understand or whatever) text.
that's browser standards territory.

also, this:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_A...
> if that's the primary thing they're doing and moving away from Nintendo would mean completely reinventing their business.

Isn’t that just part of the risk you accept by doing that kind of job? Every job has some risks attached to it and this is not unusual behavior for Nintendo.
For a long time I've held the unpopular opinion that most elementary teachers are utterly incompetent, and that as an academic field, Education is becoming more and more bullshit. I will be down-voted to hell because of this, and yet, the reality always seems to agree with my world-view.
It's werid to me that no one has made the self-evident comparison: Sundar is like Steve Ballmer was for Microsoft.

Coming in right after the founders and trying to raise the moats of the exisiting products instead of creating new moats. Google Stadia is a similar failure to Ballmer's late Windows Live initiatives.
Can you give examples of the average pre-ChatGPT Google queries you were doing, that ChatGPT can fully handle?

Personally — and having not tried ChatGPT for this — I don't think ChatGPT would do well with resolving the kinds of queries I consider Google "good at."

To me, the place where Google wins over Bing, DDG, etc. is when I know there must exist some page that uniquely talks about some extremely niche overlap of concepts; but I don't know any specific "natural key" keywords to refer to the that overlapped-set-of-concepts, and instead only have a "cloud of highly-correlated keywords for the individual concepts involved" to throw into the search box.

For example, if I'm trying to conjure from the aether a discussion people are having about an issue I'm facing with some buggy behavior in an API — where that buggy behavior doesn't spit out any distinctive error message to use in the search.

I could see ChatGPT being good at a limited version of this problem, where I could give it e.g. several definitions of a word (= correlated keywords), and it could tell me the word that fits those definitions.

But the full version of the problem — pointing you at (or regurgitating) the one unique conversation that most highly correlates with your keyword cloud — essentially implies an Internet-scale "language model": one where there are unique vertices for every unique URL. Which, if you think about it, is what a traditional search engine's index is: a very dumb, but very large correlational language model, where that "dumbness" is a valuable constraint meaning that queries are able to be run map-reduced across many nodes.

Is there something I'm missing here, that makes Bing+ChatGPT better at these types of queries than Google is?

Or are the advantages ChatGPT is bringing to the table here, in areas that have nothing to do with making search engines better at the things they're already "the best tool for the job" at, and instead are in solving problems that could be solved any number of other ways (e.g. querying a search assistant such as Siri/Alexa; or pulling up an encyclopedia article or textbook relevant to the subject and just reading it) such that a search engine wouldn't necessarily be the first tool you'd search for?
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Isn't Starship planned to launch 100 tons into LEO, just with a two stage rocket, and with both stages being reusable? I don't know the numbers but this seems to suggest efficiency (cost per ton to orbit) improves with increasingly large rockets.

(Though I imagine there could be a size sweet spot beyond which efficiency shrinks again.)
From 5:35 in the video:

> So, if you've uploaded any video that features any Nintendo content no matter how transformative or directly in line with their published guidelines, you are at risk.

Nintendo does as it always does. The problem here is in the copyright, DMCA and related laws that allow such broadly nonsensical interpretation that large corporation with a sizable legal team can successfully threaten anyone touching stuff that falls under the copyright.

Yeah, it might be fair use, and how big is your legal budget again?
One death and almost 100 cases of rare fungal infection linked to paper mill
Because Apple forced DJI to comply for their version, but since sideloading is available on Android as an alternative, they basically told Google to go pound sand.

Edit: I misspoke in my original, which I fixed
Spoken like a true carbon-based lifeform.
That won't happen. People will install Chrome, and that's the end of it. Well, not the end of Google, of course, which will now have even more opportinuties to grab your data and sell your privacy.
This is the best savings account out there, imo

1. The rate is 0.25 percentage points higher than Goldman’s own Marcus account. Apple extracted 0.25% in rent from Goldman and gave it to their customers.

2. FDIC insured through Goldman, and the max deposit is the FDIC limit, $250k.

3. Easily usable in Apple Pay, so almost like a high interest debit account.

I’m moving a bunch of cash over once I set it up

edit: unclear whether deposits are allowed, or just Daily Cash from Apple Card.

edit 2: super easy to set up on my iPhone and yes, you can transfer from any linked bank account via ACH
> Amazon's devices being the exception (and don't ask me why, because I don't get it.)

IMO, narrow use cases and cheapness.

My impression is people buy a Fire Tablet because:

* They want to read/browse the web/use a few basic social media apps

* They want something for their kid

Fire Tablets are never a primary device, so it's okay to have trade-offs.
> nightmare PR

It changes nothing. It’s not a nightmare. It’s not even problematic for them.
I certainly align with powerful entities taking away some semblance of freedom for protection:

1. I am a citizen of a country, so I give some freedoms away to have a military, police force, etc.

2. I work for a company, so I give some freedoms away to gain economic security.

3. I am part of a family, so I give some freedoms away to ensure my family is stable and secure.

4. I drive a car, and I give the freedom to not submit to a brethalyzer test to ensure I can get to places further than I can walk.

You do too.
If your claims were sufficiently written and not obvious in light of the prior art, yes. In this case, your claims would have to contend with literally millennia of prior art up to the story of Icarus, and including the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci.

This kind of super-broad patent enforcement happened with 3D printing, and is still happening with e-ink technology. In both cases, the patents didn't have centuries of prior art covering what would otherwise have been entire industries, and could protect their monopolies for 20 years.
> However, even though I sometimes work alone, I do not allow my team to work remotely from wherever they want and require them to come to the office.

It looks terrible to your employees if you apply a different standard to yourself than you do to them. I think there are a ton of benefits to mandating in-office work. One question to think about is, do you mandate in-office work because of these benefits, or do you do it because you don't trust your employees? If the answer is the latter, why don't you trust them? If the former, maybe it's time to update your work policy to give your employees the same freedom you give yourself.
Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers.
A patent is supposed to secure the effort of R&D without necessarily having the budget for massive manufacturing. It prevents the manufacturer from taking off with your idea and giving you nothing for it. It seperates the manufacturing cost and r&d cost.
In software, there is 0 manufacturing, it is entirely R&D. As soon as you have developed your product, its ready. Hence why patents feel so useless in software.
Also why software startups are so attractive to investors.
Only Facebook makes the Facebook app, and I find it extremely easy to imagine a Facebook app that can only be sideloaded, so that Facebook can bypass the restrictions put in place by the App Store.

For instance, Apps are currently not allowed to degrade functionality if the user says no to a permissions request (e.g. location tracking).
A couple of thoughts form my own anecdotal evidence:

* My mother was a stay-at-home mom and some of the earliest memories I have is her teaching me to read.

* I had difficulty in school and I did not fit in. My social issues spilled into the classroom, my grades suffered, i was picked on a lot, and I was usually put in remedial classes (you know those smaller classes with like 5 students). Yet I got a 1460 on my SATs, +700 on SATIIs, and went to USNews top 25 college (~20% acceptance rate at the time, ~12% now).

I have gotten more social since, but it left me with the impression that public school can do more harm than good. I am pro school choice and will seriously consider homeschooling.
Nope in what concerns proprietary drivers and FOSS drama.

There is a reason why Canonical was the first option when Microsoft introduced WSL.
Wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602391

Moreover, you're still attempting to pass off 50,000 as something you just didn't make up out of thin air.
Even within large cities that have many homeless people, the homeless are not evenly distributed. Police often keep them out of "desirable" shopping and business areas, and homeless often cluster in camps.

I'm most familiar with Philadelphia where you'll either see multiple homeless people every day... or rarely. Depends on where you live and work. Every other city I've been to in my life seems similar.

Anyway, I don't want to get too far in the weeds with my nitpickery. I don't even remember what we were originally talking about!
What I've found is that until you see it really hallucinate like mad on a subject you know well you don't realize how crazy it can be.

Especially when I talk to it about fiction and ask questions about - for example - a specific story and you see it invent whole quotes and characters and so on...it is a masterful bullshitter.
It's the OS that enforces privacy and security, not the App Store. They won't be able to do much more than they can now.

Besides, they'll stay on the App Store just like they are still on the Google Play Store on Android where side loading has been possible since version 1.0.
Love to see a title like this. Would love to be a fly inside the Google execs offices right now. I do wonder if they are confused, why are their factory workers, i.e. leet code solvers not able to innovate?

I find this hilarious and positively validating. Building a tech product is not about being able to memorise an algorithm or knowing how to sort an array in the fastest way possible. They are stuck in the past.

You will not ask a today's Software Engineer how does a bootloader function, yet the big tech companies keep asking irrelevant questions blown by time and progress.
They are all the same company, and was raising eyebrows a decade ago.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-...

It's financing has always been questionable.

>MindGeek itself has something of a checkered past. In 2009, the Secret Service seized $6.4 million from bank accounts controlled by Mansef, a company founded by Stephane Manos and Ouissam Youssef, the assets of which Mansef later sold to German tech investor Fabian Thylmann, who made them part of a company he owned called Manwin. Manwin would later become MindGeek.* (Of the $6.4 million that was seized, $4.15 million was later released pursuant to a settlement with the federal government.)* In April 2011, Manwin quietly secured a $362 million loan from Wall Street firm Colbeck Capital, founded by former Goldman Sachs employees Jason Colodne and Jason Beckman. (Goldman Sachs distanced themselves from the two.) Colbeck’s funds were in turn secured from other firms including the troubled Fortress Capital, masking the Manwin association. Having used the loan to continue to acquire tube sites and content producers, Thylman was then extradited from Belgium to Germany in 2012 for tax evasion on Manwin’s profits. In late 2013, Thylman was bought out by current CEO Ferras Antoon and COO David Tassillo, longtime players within the company, who now control operations from Montreal. (Manwin’s name was changed to Mindgeek in 2013.)

And their business model was basically pirating their own content, that they produced, so they didnt have to pay the people in production.

>Even content producers that MindGeek owns have trouble getting their movies off MindGeek’s tube sites. The result has been a vampiric ecosystem: MindGeek’s producers make porn films mostly for the sake of being uploaded on to MindGeek’s free tube sites, with lower returns for the producers but higher returns for MindGeek, which makes money off of the tube ads that does not go to anyone involved in the production side.
>Lawyers and politicians don’t want to solve a problem; they want to make a living from it. Lawyers want to add it to their practice areas, and politicians want to raise campaign funds from it. Solving it would defeat the purpose.

Ugh, this is so true. We (US) stopped trying to solve problems after we created one of the biggest problems with the war on drugs. That was the last time we tried to solve anything. Everything else has been the quote. A debate to raise funds or add "expertise" feather in the cap so they can charge $500/hr to discuss it.
i’m of then opinion it’s the other way around. with better technology you can get better reference tracks and push your artistic limits.

you’ll be able to create more music as a result. and get clearer feedback on the end result

imo the mixing engineers are better used to make your ideal vision stronger. also make the drums hit and ensure the guitar doesn’t clash.

if you just use them to make vocals sound pleasant, it’s going to be less valuable
I honestly don't think Microsoft puts much that value in source code that's from around the time Brendan Fraser was doing Mummy movies.
From reading through this thread, it sounds like most people think they are
I do mention the NanoVNA as a measurement option that has better accuracy since it can do phase measurement. It's an amazing tool, though its lower limit for frequency is 50 kHz and I'm not sure how its dynamic range holds up there. Ideally you want the option to go very low for this measurement. Like most VNAs sold today, the NanoVNA is really designed for looking at RF and microwave circuits.

I only know two commercial VNAs in-production that are made specifically for this kind of work: the Keysight E5061B (5 Hz - 3 GHz, $50000+ when optioned out appropriately) and the Omicron Bode 100 (1 Hz - 50 MHz, I think $5k-10k).
(USAn here) As others have mentioned, it’s not really that something “has happened” — the country isn’t a monolith and there have always been folks that kick and scream as they are dragged into the future.

The European immigrants that settled those areas (often after violently displacing whoever was already living there) have relied on cheap labor since they arrived. Their influence on the USA’s moral compass is almost as old as the country itself, and includes literally going to war with the rest of the country to preserve slavery. They lost the war but that faction of USA politics never really died out, just shifted bit by bit into its current form.
I'm sure Waitrose (choose your local above-average supermarket) can market it just fine. "Organic cucumbers traditionally grown with natural character." Job done.

Restaurants, canteens and ready-meal producers can easily buy these too.
They mean per capita. Countries with very cheap or free university allow very few people to go on such terms, relative to the size of the population.
Learning by listening to something during your sleep doesn't work. Brains go into a sort of maintenance mode during sleep, and it's not possible for your brain to sleep and interpret & comprehend sensory input at the same time.

Most likely the noise will have a negative effect on the length and quality of your sleep, which does have a proven negative effect on memory.

So it's probably better for you to learn while your awake and just sleep at night.
If Google's CEO were really visionary he'd invest 10 billion and half his engineers to support Claude and that AI company's trajectory, because deepmind seems a bit lackluster lately, or maybe they just have their own research agendas that aren't in line with industry demands or something.
AFAIK, most empirical studies don't show any benefit of patents for innovation

I'm not sure specifically about pharmaceutical companies, though. They may be an exception.
I would recommend https://www.ufbdirect.com/.

Even higher rates. Still FDIC insured like normal. Doesn't plug into Apple, but has plaid-like integration so you can just log into your other account from UFB and do a transfer easily.
Yup. Kids think my phone === games/videos. They know it can do other stuff but why would anyone use all those boring apps when games or videos are available?
That's not true. The Play store absolutely promises such protection, and Google adds more protection measures every year. The Android system even warns you when you install apps from other sources. Also see the related https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2812853?hl=en.
Non-Browning Gene-Edited Banana Cleared for Production in the Philippines
You can make tortilla chips without frying them. Just heat them up slowly and the tortilla will become hard as a tortilla chip. Have used this method to make tostadas.

I'm sure the Mexicas knew of this back then. Leave them too long in a hot surface and they become tostadas. Break them manually and now you have tortilla chips!
There are some batteries that integrate temp sensors and heating pads: losing some energy to bring the battery up to operating temperature.
I was there. It was not chaos.
> but there is no evidence that bureaucrats are capable of reliably picking the right candidate drugs

I'm not convinced that the govt bureaucrats would do a worse job than drug co bureaucrats. Current studies are poorly designed, implemented incorrectly, results are cherry-picked and gamed, p-hacking lives, ... This is an industry that can't even seem to accept pre-registration.

Also, as you say, most of these molecules come from publicly funded research. Why would the group funding the first set of research (and producing more molecules than industry) automatically be bad at the second?

In all, I'm not convinced that "Drug discovery is the easy part." If it was so easy, then why don't drug co's do it, and save the licensing fees?
> At what point does an investment with Apple actually become just as safe if not safer than the FDIC?

Apple would have to be backed by something other than the dollar for this to be remotely possible.