skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you used GPT-4 via the API or via ChatGPT only? The difference is huge, as with the API you can control the parameter + you can set your own system prompt (basically steer the AI better).

With the API, you can basically customize the session ranging from providing batshit bananas replies (by setting high temperature) or almost deterministic replies (by setting low temperature) with personality controlled by the system prompt, so you can make it "friendlier", "less formal" or anything else.

It is still as slow via the API as via ChatGPT though, which kind of sucks when you're using it for longer passages. I do wish it was just about 100% faster.
...that's just push model. "Signalling" via "well, the loadbalancer have 10 sessions max per server" is enough.

Pull model just adds unnecesary RTT.

> Off the top of my head I'm trying to think how a host could actively signal to an LB that's its ready for more requests... I suppose its trivial and common to use a health check. Is it even a change to say that these need to be updated to achieve your goal of host to LB pulling?

Like this.

There is rarely a case where you decide to not serve the next request after serving previous one so push is most optimal for short ones. And if it doesn't want to it can just signal that via healthcheck.

Pull makes more sense for latency-insensitive jobs like "take a task from queue, do it, and put the results back", as if you say make video encoding service that dynamically scales itself in the background and "just do one encode and exit" is commonplace.
QuantumVR
Much of the inner US was divided by the Homestead Acts of the 1860's into square mile (640 acre) sections, 160 acre quarters, and then further into forty's. cf "back forty". These are all square.
'make a noise as loud as the you want the volume to be'

gold
> Lack of purpose is inevitable and unfixable

Citation needed. We're a loooooong way from post scarcity, as should be pretty obvious from the unemployment numbers.

> In the world where success is infinitely scalable as we are living in the information age

One of those things doesn't follow from the other.
> “The danger of training AI to be woke - in other words, lie - is deadly.”

Who got killed by ChatGPT?
Thanks for the paper, I need to read that. Much of my work is on inductive logic.

>> I think that Penrose basically thinks it's useful that humans can heuristically step up from a logic system S to S+"statement X is true" in an almost-grounded way, but in reality we are all actually constrained by Godel, Tarski, etc. We just trick ourselves into assuming we can inductively keep stepping up from S+"X is true" indefinitely for any practical problem we encounter, but that is actually an ungrounded assumption.

What you describe sounds to me more like logical abduction, rather than induction. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find simple explanations of what abduction is. One very rough and operational categorisation of modes of inference, as deductive, inductive or abductive, is as follows. Deduction is reasoning (as in automated theorem proving or rule-based systems), induction is learning (as in machine learning) and abduction is reasoning under uncertainty (as in probabilistic inference).

There's a lot of confusion between what is abduction and what is induction, and the definitions of those in terms of "facts" and "rules" (coming from Peirce, who originally named "abduction" at least) is, for me, not very helpful. Another colloquial explanation is that abduction is a form of drawing conclusions from observations that isn't sound, so that conclusions are not necessarily true. I think that's where the association with probabilistic reasoning comes from, and that's why I think it describes better the kind of induction the linked paper is talking about.

Anyway I'll have to read that, thanks.
Writing code gets faster but programs get slower. Sometimes I wonder what a modern desktop would be capable of if every piece of code was written in assembly with as much care and purposefulness as, say, an Atari game.
> But why do the iPhone users tap in their passcodes in the first place when there is faceID and touchID available?

1. If you reboot your phone, you have to enter your passcode.

2. Some people prefer to use a passcode for legal reasons. Essentially the police can compel you to unlock your phone via faceID and touchID, but not passcode.

3. Some people might just like it and/or be used to it.
Intel unceremoniously dumps its year-old Blockscale chips for Bitcoin mining
The most obvious (in hindsight) thing I learned during finding purpose was: You see the world through your experiences. You can’t really ask yourself what you like when you know anything outside of your current worldview.

This can be applied to anything. How can you solve problems when you don’t know about them? How can you find your purpose when you did’t try 99.9999% of possible activities.

Just do it and maybe it will resonate with you.
We're still using 90s technology. We only have faster switches, quicker routers, a couple of standards for faster connections, and some tools which disguise or repurpose deep packet inspection as "software defined networking".

A country wide router still can stay in service for a decade. Residential FTTx installations consist of a TelCo class switch, maybe a router, compact DSLAMs if you have DSL service and a couple of fibers in, tens of fibers out for FTTH customers.

It's faster hardware on the same stack. Nothing more, nothing less.

...and, oh, link-speed (transparent) DPI equipment in key places for lawful interception.
Maybe more data to train on while keeping model size the same
> If the application you're using (the one(s) you're referring to when you say "cloud applications") is sending the key input to the backend and waits to render it client-side until it received a response

I'm 99% sure nobody does that, that would be insane :D.

It's most likely caused by React and the use of controlled input components without thinking about performance. If your input sets it's value from React state, then you're updating the state on every keypress and re-rendering the component. In the most simple case, it's probably fine. But depending on your component hierarchy, it's pretty easy to end up in situation with over 50ms of typing latency.
And yet, despite there being more complex machinery in farming there is also much more untrained labor. People just don’t notice it because the untrained labor (millions of people) that plant and harvest are an underclass that does not speak their language or associate with them.
> With boats, others mentioned that wind provides its own frame, and there are separate words still for "left" and "right" in that frame.

There's windward (towards/upwind) and leeward (away/downwind).

Are there left and right too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_and_leeward
They could have saved themselves the trouble and just had a quick chat with Elon Musk himself :)
> There are currently insufficient tools to deal with that situation

It will never be possible to deal with that situation.

Its also why many governments have taken to locking people up until they give up their passwords.

Its a scenario that has been immortalised in the famous XKCD wrench conundrum: https://xkcd.com/538/

The only real way to deal with it is to get away from the situation and remote wipe (or hope they type in your password wrong N times so local wipe happens)
You don't need a prompt, you just need user interaction, which in this case is click, tap or key press.
For some reason, I had thought they already closed this side of the business.
This?

>C: A few people consider you 'The Father of Zen', do you think you’d scribe to that position? Or should that go to somebody else?

JK: Perhaps one of the uncles. There were a lot of really great people on Zen. There was a methodology team that was worldwide, the SoC team was partly in Austin and partly in India, the floating-point cache was done in Colorado, the core execution front end was in Austin, the Arm front end was in Sunnyvale, and we had good technical leaders. I was in daily communication for a while with Suzanne Plummer and Steve Hale, who kind of built the front end of the Zen core, and the Colorado team. It was really good people. Mike Clark's a great architect, so we had a lot of fun, and success. Success has a lot of authors - failure has one. So that was a success. Then some teams stepped up - we moved Excavator to the Boston team, where they took over finishing the design and the physical stuff, Harry Fair and his guys did a great job on that. So there were some fairly stressful organizational changes that we did, going through that. The team all came together, so I think there was a lot of camaraderie in it. So I won't claim to be the ‘father’ - I was brought in, you know, as the instigator and the chief nudge, but part architect part transformational leader. That was fun.

_______

>Perhaps the modern CPU design space looks a bit like what compilers look like today, with a core that's independent of the front end language/back end target architecture. In which case it might be a lot more modular than one would expect...

Well, to be fair thats how you should design software (thus firmware too) stuff, those are good practices.
I feel like if I sign up for a spy tour I'd rather see the Deep Throat garage than Ben's Chili Bowl.
API observability: Leveraging OTel to improve developer experience
Ask HN: Will AI era lead to rise of new programming languages?
Instead of AI producing code that is easy for human to comprehend, would there be new languages which would also cater to the need for AI to efficiently code the instructions while providing interface for humans to debug if something needs to looked into detail.
I issues with Outlook Web App (M365) often. Dropped characters are not so common, but it is common for the cursor to bug out and insist on returning the to start of a line with each new character.
UK Government Emergency Alerts
Maybe the first ARG? Absolutely blew my mind as a kid. No install disk in the box. Just a sheet of instructions, a URL, and a form to fill in your email address, pager number, and ICQ number, and then you wait for the game to find you. Way ahead of its time.
Python OpenTelemetry – Walkthrough and Monitoring Examples
I thought any trouble Lee Smolin got in was because of Epstein.
I agree, it seems like a strange risk. How easy is it to change authentication provider? How disruptive is that for customers?

I have no experience with this sort of thing, but would like to understand.
The rust compiler runs on i86, the complaint is that it can't compile the rust compiler, because it uses more memory than is addressable on i86.
the thing in pictures should happened in real world. I sure this is the difference between pictures and painting.
AI is famous in generate unreal pictures.
So instead of AI vs humans we will have left wing and right wing cyborg superintelligences comprised of both AI and human minds battling over culture war bullshit.

I keep asking how much more insane we can get. There does not seem to be a ceiling.
Really? in French, starboard is tribord, and in Spanish, it's estribor. Port is bâbord, and in Spanish, it's babor.

How are they different?
The etymology hails from old Norse and the Viking age, before making it into English. Styrbord, the side you steer (styr) on, and Babord/bakbord, the side your back (bak/bakåt) faces.
There is _one_ thing that can allow "two machines in the same room to talk to each other without sending a request to a server farm in Virginia". It does require the _first_ request to populate the app: Web Bluetooth. Unfortunately it's only implemented in Chrome,but it does work.
And the code that GPT does write, if it is even close to correct, must be code that exists in many places already, and usually (like the case of so much react code) doesn’t need to exist at all.
Dear Apple, to avoid passcode leakage to human observers and cameras, can we please have an option to disable keypress highlights and transient display of passcode characters? This lock screen behavior could be dropped when "Lockdown" mode has been enabled.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/217704/disable-dis...

> This transient display lasts 3 seconds to avoid too big a security problem. But this is still largely sufficient for anyone behind you to read it really easily. Moreover this transient display can be easily captured by any camera
> The auto-wipe feature introduces a new vulnerability where anyone with physical access to your phone for a minute can wipe it for you.

Its called backup.

What happens if you loose your phone or drop it in a river ?

You'll be in the same boat in those scenarios as you would if someone local-wiped your phone.
You're well aware of the game you're playing, your argumentation is disingenuous. You have reframed and obfuscated the issue of climate change to suit your preferred narrative, and misrepresented the science. You have indulged in ad hominem attack by saying someone here is less educated than you, thereby flouting the site's guidelines while at the same time invoking them to hide behind them.

Regarding the papers you cite, you seem to have misrepresented the views of the authors.

You cite author J Brown [1]. Another of his papers [2] says "increased energy demand and climate consequences of burning fossil fuels will continue to accompany a rapidly urbanizing planet posing major challenges for global sustainability."

You cite a NASA report of a study, saying it denies mass extinction, and suggesting that global warming supports increased life by making polar regions habitable. The report and study do not support your position. The paper itself [3] cites [4] which stresses the importance of minimising climate warming via "net negative emissions". The authors also acknowledge that "most models lack a representation of regionally important ecosystems (peatlands, wetlands)" the destruction of which they note as "negative".

Your citing of glaciation is frankly odd, and again the papers don't support your arguments. For example in [5] the authors say "it was the loss of habitat diversity [...] that triggered a drop in speciation rate, and subsequent loss of biodiversity." Further, they contradict your assertions by pointing out that biodiversity can increase in cooler zones: "cool-water niches were available to be filled, warm-tropical niches did not exist". However, to go further down this rabbit hole would be to indulge in your game of misdirection, and I've no intention of doing that.

In short, your posts in this thread appear entirely untrustworthy and you seem to be acting in bad faith. I notice you've posted climate change 'skeptical' content here previously. You suggest it is others who have been "programmed", but seem reluctant to examine the nature of your own susceptibility to misinformation, which frankly comes across as disdainful and superior.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Brown-37

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331075555_The_Centr...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004 and https://sci.bban.top/pdf/10.1038/nclimate3004.pdf

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1783

[5] https://sci.bban.top/pdf/10.1130/G32679.1.pdf
So the politicians are killing their gold hens (again)?
It is the dominant player in this category, but a few others are there, too.
Pretty much - look at Frank Abignale the "Catch Me If You Can" con master. Even Mitnick fits the role. Once you've mastered a craft and somehow get out from under "the system" which punishes or has caused stress, well, education is fun. Story telling is how we grow. Oral histories and all that.

Normally these type of folks are not allowed to write about their experiences much due to there being potential collateral damage in print, but talking? Much smaller radius. Plus you get to size up your audience!
an email client is a good example: you can read and send emails also offline (at least with most clients that keep a decent cache) and only synchronise when connected. But that works for some services, not all.
https://archive.is/ppqf9
Weird, to cover 383 miles (616km) it would make sense to get a high speed train which would cover the distance in just a few hours.
I don't think you can avoid the conclusion that this is a legal loophole. It's "easy" to get listed as an empty shell because there's nothing there to check. Then you buy an actual business and everything is just dandy? Seems fishy to me.
> the dictionary translation of words does not capture somewhat-subtle but sometimes important distinctions between words

Good point. I have yet to see a dictionary that also provides delineation with similar-but-different words and describes the differences.

That'd be very useful for language learners, as colloquial use often eschews definition in favor of socially common convention. I.e. "That word does mean that, but you would never use it in that way"
TIL https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040188942A1/en
If anybody can help me get back my ICQ # of 4860610 that'd be dope.

Gah I miss those connections. Facebook ruined my marriage. ICQ helped me learn to appreciate different people.
What do you feel is in dispute over the 2014 Crimea invasion and annexation?
One of the goal of this kind of accounting is to make "building the thing" and "buying the thing" as closely equivalent as possible for tax purposes. If you treat all the salaries as expenses then

* Company A has 1M in capital, and builds an in-house database with 1M$ of dev salaries. At the end of the year, company A is worth 0$ because they spent all the money.

* Conpany B has 1M in capital and buys (wholly and exclusively) a custom database for 1M$. At the end of the year, Company B is worth about 1M$, because they have 0$ in cash and a 1M$ database.

Clearly there is an issue there, and the only way to make the two situations equivalent is to treat software development as a capital expenditure which is what it is.
Google to Open App Payment Options in UK After Watchdog Probe
This just seems like it’ll end up the exact same way every AI without safeguards ends up: Trolled into eventual obscurity
>> it has been easier (so far) to directly compute the images than it has been to train them to use photoshop or illustrator.

possible because training models are fed by an abundance of existing human-generated content, which is ever increasing in quality, dirt-cheap, and easily accessible; which doesn't make AI Generated Content disruptive in this respect (my view).

not sure what you mean by "easier", since computers are better at following rules and people better at reasoning.

>> I agree that logically your statement makes sense ...

Isn't that the best case for AI generated content, logical-sense? or are you suggesting more (e.g 'source of meaning')?
Well, this comment and all other comments you have submitted to Hacker News is a record in my browser's cache. Does it mean I have the right to save them into less volatile storage and charge others for accessing them?
Nothing forces you to reboot it twice per week.
Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers
Which claim? The full transcript of the Feynman story is available online [1], you can search for "martian" to get right to the story. It's presented in the context of explaining CP symmetry, which says that physics is conserved under a parity (mirror reflection) plus charge inversion (matter -> antimatter) transformation. Of course it's only approximate [2].

I got the quote slightly differently from what is recorded on the caltech sight, the one they have is

> So if our Martian is made of antimatter and we give him instructions to make this “right” handed model like us, it will, of course, come out the other way around. What would happen when, after much conversation back and forth, we each have taught the other to make space ships and we meet halfway in empty space? We have instructed each other on our traditions, and so forth, and the two of us come rushing out to shake hands. Well, if he puts out his left hand, watch out!

[1]: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_52.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation
When you visually compare two hashes, how many digits do you check?
It’s another part of the social media conundrum. People ask about the “future of social media” and part of it will be pop-up apps that are popular for a while and then fade away since if an app exists for a long time it will face the pressures of “enshittification” like every other social app that has been around a long time.
Everything would be basically instantaneous.
Firefox developers, you will be my heroes forever if you pull this off! Cookie pop-ups are the scourge of the internet.
why would you share a database over a distributed filesystem, other than for backup purposes where you only have a single source so you should never get a conflict?
More US consumers are falling behind on payments
> I still haven't come across the placebo buttons though so I'm willing to doubt their existence.

How do you know you haven't?
Have you given ShareX a try? Also open source, but maintained, unlike Greenshot.
> I've realized that PowerShell is much closer to AWK and Perl [than to POSIX shell]

For me, what distinguishes[1,2] the former category from the latter one is that the latter one is quick and comfortable to use interactively, as a shell for the OS, to iterate at the command line and not in the editor, while the former one... isn’t. The cost is that a couple hundred lines of AWK are usually fairly OK, while the same amount of shell visibly strains the language.

Are we still in the world where the interactive text-based environment (not programming environment) with the best available ergonomics is based on a general framework set in 1979? I’m aware Lisp machines existed and did things differently, but the best you can get in that respect now is Emacs and it still cannot reach that seamless ad-hoc composability of Bourne shell.

[1] http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

[2] https://scsh.net/docu/html/man-Z-H-1.html#node_toc_node_sec_...
Some films are just not available for streaming. I used the Netflix disc mailer service relatively recently for this reason. It was a pretty good "catch all" for hard-to-find titles not on one of the major streaming subscription services and not available for streaming rental.
One strange coincidence with the emergence of ChatGPT is that at almost the exact same time, Google became practically unusable as a search engine. Like at least an order of magnitude worse.

People used to use Google the same way they use ChatGPT. They would ask a question in plain English, and get sent back a list of relevant links to blog posts, articles, stack overflow, or whatever that had answers to their questions, including example code.

Sometimes that code or information was outdated or completely wrong and sometimes it was too basic to be useful, or just the code-generated docs.

Google has been getting gradually worse over the years due to spam, algorithm gaming, and ads, but circa late November 2022 it became practically worthless.
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft
regional airliner. While even for A320 it needs 2kWh/kg. So a long time to go for electric jumbo jets.
> before that humans bartered

This account of history of money is largely viewed as bunk by historians since there exist no evidence or description of a barter economy in our history.
What hardware would be recommended for a Tailscale subnet router between two sites with a GBit link? Saturating a full-duplex GBit link would require two LAN ports, ruling out the option of a raspberry pi, wouldn’t it?