skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, I'm just calling out the obvious. Government will not jump at an opportunity to improve but rather an opportunity to, well, govern...
The best healthcare is available in the US, but it is not the best health care system. The system is awful in almost every possible dimension. And tying it to employment is one of the worst features.
> Some of us don’t understand how to accept mistakes

I might be miss-interpreting you and the parent but - this mistake results in leaking my personal private ssh key into a docker image that could be made public.

This is not a mistake that should be acceptable. If you made it accidentally that's one thing, but I'm not accepting GPT4's first, second, or third attempts (I gave up on that prompt) that make that mistake.
I believe the next wave of SaaS is products that provide custom deployment, operational support, and cost optimization, where specialist software orgs can provide standard efficiencies and engage AWS for deeper looks.
Or you find the difficulty is too high, and you drop out.
Dunno, I discovered that school teaches them more then I thought and learned to value teachers more.

Both my kids learned to read in school classes and read a lot.
I'd settle for "as good as", not "better."

I've had several similar experiences as the above poster. Most recently, I was playing around with an interview question and removed a constraint and asked it to update its solution for it.

It gave a new solution, but it still didn't work on the new, harder input.

I pointed out exactly how it failed, and it said "ah, yes, you are right, that should produce True, not false"... and spit out exactly the same code.

...

So now the question is, is it overly mean to pick interview questions based on which ones can be extended in ways that GPT-4 doesn't understand? ;)
Anybody can be charged with anything. It does not mean they will be convicted.
No no you've got it backwards they are stereotyping denizens.
It's never been in OpenAIs interest to make their model affordable or fast, they're actually incentivized to do the opposite as an excuse to keep the tech locked up.

This is why Dall-e 2 ran in a data centre and Stable Diffusion runs on a gamer GPU
Quick search:

> 7.99 million people employed throughout the economy in jobs that relate to trucking activity in 2021

so, about 2.5%
I find that 0402s are plenty fine, thanks, and I can still see them with the naked eye to grab them with tweezers.

In my experience, 0402s are the breakpoint on the curve.

0603s are large enough that there are a couple of cases where they're kinda marginal due to size (inductance) and the size gain isn't quite enough for things like QFN packages. 0402s almost never have the issue. 0201s aren't enough better that they are worth the extra grief to deal with unless I'm on a really constrained board, and I'm only letting an assembler do the board (nothing by hand from me).
What about 1T though, seems silly to stop here.
Ask HN: Upswell of pro-China comments on Reddit / Social media?
Has anyone else noticed there has been a huge surge of pro China comments, most noticeably on Reddit but also on other social media sites?
>Google has poor product strategy overall. The company tends to swing for a lot of home-runs but structures these endeavors poorly.

I wouldn't say so; I mean they like to experiment a lot but their product strategy is good in the long term e.g. Google Search, Google Mail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Chrome, Android etc. If 5 experiments fail and 1 succeeds and brings billions of dollars in revenue that's win in their book and in my book too.

Basically what Google is doing is building its family of apps to capture more attention and sell more ads. The same thing Facebook does with its family of apps e.g. Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. The goal is to capture as much attention as they can and then sell ads because that's what their business model is all about. Zuck even tried to acquire Twitter back in the day plus Snapchat as well. I doubt he liked the products or the people behind it, he just wanted to get rid of competition which was stealing attention or screen time from his family of apps. The same thing is with Google, that's why they are constantly pushing new apps and services (to gain market share and user attention and then to push ads).
So true. Like the time the literally ripped my buddy's front door off it's hinges, and pointed a gun at his small child, only to find they were in the wrong apartment. Zero recourse, in what you'd think would be a slam dunk. At least the apartment complex didn't charge him for the damages.
As somebody who never even had a windows machine back in late 90s (my father was also a massive linux enthusiast) I can totally see your point. Ah, compiling the kernel...

Anyways, there are some decent oem options these days. Even if you dislike preinstalled distros, hardware compatibility is guaranteed to be there.

It just can't work any other way. Either vendors solve those compatibility problems for you, or you do it. I don't have much time so I went with the easier option of just getting dells or lenovos or simething from the numerous smaller sellers.

Both my wife and my daughter are fine with my older hardware, btw.
Teaching is pretty hard. It's a lot easier if you have only 1 kid, you control their home life also, they have a similar culture and background as you do, you can give them your (relatively) undivided attention all day, and you don't need to get them to pass a standardized test. Elementary school teachers have > 30 kids, new batch every year, from all walks of life, they can't control their home life, and they have to teach to a test.
Traditional CS may have something to do with slightly improving the performance by allowing more training for the same compute, but it won't be an order of magnitude or more. The improvements to be gained will be found more in statistics than CS per se.
You mean Palantir?
Can you quantify how the UX is an improvement?

For me, the death of having a vertical taskbar makes an ultrawide display annoying. The centred-by-default icons of the taskbar kill muscle memory because opening applications moves icons along. Just seems an absurd thing. I could go on.
> Some things I have read suggest the civil war didn’t start per se over slavery.

It started over slavery for the South, as is clearly laid out in secession documents, founding documents of the confederacy, the Cornerstone Speech, etc.

It started over preserving the Union for the North, but most of the vehemently pro-slavery faction having buggered-off out of the Union during the war, and the provocation of the war itself being a factor, the war also tipped the political balance against slavery.

> My general understanding is the South wished to secede. There were many differences between that region and the rest of the country, slavery being only one difference.

Slavery was the main difference, as the seceding states said fairly explicitly in seceding, but also as even a casual review of the conflicts (both political and violent) leading up to secession makes very clear.

> My general understanding is the South wished to secede.

The slaveholders and their political allies wished to preserve slavery. Some of them chose to secede as a means of doing so.

> The Deep South continues to be a distinctive region and is more religious than most of the rest of the country.

Yes, it remains the seat of power of a large and powerful religious community founded not too long before the Civil War by seceding from a broader national group explicitly over the issue of preserving slavery (the Southern Baptist Convention), very much like the later political secession.

Not sure how that does anything but underline the contemporary (to the Civil War) importance of slavery in the region and how it is foundational to the regions enduring culture and institutions.
It doesn't occur to me anymore either, but that's because everything is a laggy Electron app these days. A OSS realtime graphics-creation application is probably not an easy candidate for a cross-platform port.
> I'm asking how it is any different to what Apple does.

How is a first party business relationship with your own customer different than buying a copy of people's credit card transaction data, spying on receipts emailed by other businesses, turning on location tracking by default, paying children to give root access to their device (Onavo), setting up user tracking on a huge swath of websites (Google Analytics, Facebook Like Button), and the other sorts relentless spying tactics that we have seen from companies with a surveillance capitalism business model?

> Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
Citation needed. What are his financial incentives?
But it doesn't learn its error, that's the whole problem.
It only responds to 'accusations' from user in the most common way, which is 'apologies-like'.

The weight of phrases like "you are wrong" is in fact so strong, that it fools the chatGPT to apologize for its 'mistakes' even in the scenarios where its text was obviously correct - like telling it 2+2 doesn't equal 4
The other elements that may be required could be some version of the continuous sensory input that to us creates the sensation of "living" and, this one is a bit more philosophical, the sensation of suffering and a baseline establishment that the goal of the entity is to take actions that help it avoid suffering.
He did fight for the communist side in the Spanish Civil War, but he was doing so because of primarily social (anarchist) ideals, rather than economic views. It's more accurate to say he fought against fascism than to say he fought for communism. He directly states that much of his views on language come from his work for the UK government (although I'm not aware of him directly saying that about Newspeak, it's fairly clear where the idea comes from in his work as a propagandist).

It's popular among people who want to co-opt 1984 as an anti-communist work, to represent Orwell as having been a communist who later saw the light of capitalism, but the truth is that Orwell was a communist until the day he died. 1984 was a criticism of totalitarianism, not communism, and while 1984 focused primarily on how Stalinism had perverted the communist movement, Orwell was very conscious of the fact that many of the symptoms of the disease of totalitarianism under communism, could equally occur under the totalitarian capitalism. But again, I think it's more relevant to see Orwell as an anarchist than as a communist.
Right, but the pepper is the key ingredient in Tabasco sauce. It's like saying a soy-based sauce invented in the US is "nothing like anything anything from China" when soy sauce originated there.
The idea I've had for things like this is a "run once and memoize" approach instead of regenerating each time.

Kinda like a template, but with one key difference: if you only store the "template prompt" and modify that prompt you may get something pretty substantially different (and overly destructive a change!) from the original, so my idea there is to record the history of prompts + artifacts but always do modifications by asking GPT to apply a change to the memoized output, which then gets itself reviewed in dry-run before being saved.
Enzyme that can turn air into energy, unlocking potential new energy source
>he was fighting with 100% volunteers as equals, so top-down control hardly existed.

That didn't last for that long. You might want to read his memoirs on the subject.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage...
This post made me realize why I am hesitant to leave my role in a struggling start up. I get paid to discover what our problems are and solve them as fast as possible which leads me to constantly learning new skills and fully owning our product and R&D output. I like that more than the lack of job security and must be why I've been so resistant to searching for a new more secure position.
You joke, but this would be a good idea (I think: I could never get anyone to do it with me). The difference between this and an office would be that you'd only have to go in when you wanted, and it would be located in a place convenient to the people involved, rather than just downtown, or in an office park. You'd also have more control over how it was arranged. Plenty of downsides too of course.
Ask HN: How to find local AI meetup and events?
I seem to keep finding about them on twitter after they have happened. Is there a particular place that people are looking for upcoming events?

I am interested in any meetup, hackathon, conference etc for AI, Generative AI, LangChain, ML etc.
I think you don’t understand the difference between wrong and incorrect.
The last time I was in a room full of engineers, respect was shown to everyone for their decades of professional service, and proven track record of delivering results to the industrial customers they supported.

It was quiet and they were just going about their business.

I wish I had the discipline back in the day to go into engineering, but the 4 years plus internship and state exam was a huge wall.

Programming was a lot easier to get into.
115 IQ isn’t all that high- that’s basically every Indian American or a healthy percentage of the Chinese population.

Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. I don’t mean this in any disparaging way, just that an AGI is probably going to be a lot higher than that.
> AWS doesn’t even have a way to report a bug…

Customers are able to report literally any issue at all via support. AWS support is a huge organization. On my service team, there were plenty of instances where bugs were reported by customers.
You future mileage may vary. And the potential for abuse is quite real. For one, the fact that they could instantly bind serial numbers to idividuals upon purchase is scary. Corporations could limit the right to resale and impose warranty limitations, for starter.
In the US, originator mortgages get sold to other banks, who then can wait 30 years for repayment. For example, Fannie Mae.

https://www.fanniemae.com/about-us
I don’t see any proof. I see people saying it’s happening. Seems very much like narrative that people want to believe.
I have some bad news to tell you about banks in general
Ask HN: Which Raspberry Pi knockoff has the best Linux support?
There’s tons of Raspberry Pi clones out there but they tend to have terrible Linux support.

Has this changed in recent years? Are there any Raspberry Pi alternatives with decent Linux support?
You have to teach 3.5 how to respond by including example user/assistant response pairs in your request. Once you do this it pretty reliably follows the structure. I made a vscode extension to help with this https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaaxxx.l... (mentioned in an earlier ask-hn that seems to have gone missing from the site entirely?)

This does bite into your 4096 token limit, unfortunately.
I'm not a big fan of Twitter or Elon, but I don't see anything wrong here. I like to know where information is coming from, so this kind of thing is welcome.

It seems to me the CBC is on the wrong side here, fighting against keeping people informed.
English has essentially random grammar with some half working rationalizations slapped on it. German grammer has at least logic to it.

The articles (definite, indefinite) , prepositions and phrasal verbs are pure hell to learn.

And I don't undesirable what you mean by music notation and piano. The system is quite easy.
Also you could likely use GPT3.5 for this and still get near perfect results.
yeah that was what i was going to do, this is a spare time project though so it'll have to wait for the weekend.

It does return the previous output on requests to update it, but it's by no means guaranteed to return the same results. It does most of the time, though, if the description hasn't changed.
There are many people who write short programs on smartphones with termux.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979258
> promoting music would look like playing a recording of songs in public places

It is. Radio used to be it but now TikTok is the biggest promotion platform there is and those clips don't even show the name of the artist (since it's always some kind of bootleg so the credit usually points to some random username).

Most music events I go to are raves where I've often never heard of the DJs beforehand. I couldn't care less about authenticity, creator-consumer connection or story. I think it's just two different ways to appreciate it, and I'm not sure "authenticity is important" is as common as you make it out to be.
Inductive Bias Is All You Need
Crystal 1.8.0 released, adding Android support
Or Chromes relationship to Web :)
> counterproductive

If the goal of a committee member is merely to be included in the committee. Otherwise, if the committee is merely operating as a rubber stamp for every one of it's members proposals, then there may not be much productive value in remaining there. Apparently that feeling was mutual.
Interesting, the devices in both those videos are made by the same company that makes the handheld launcher from the article.
Someone on HN made a point that weights can’t even have copyright- they lack two of the requirements for being copyrightable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508651
I don't disagree. But I detect a whiff of hypocrisy on the part of American law enforcement, which often seems to have a different idea about its ability to act outside its borders. Very strong assertions of extraterritoriality. But, well, do as I say, not as I do.
Empowering Users to Verify Twitter’s Algorithmic Integrity with Zkml
Thank you, Greenpeace ... Putin is laughing at you, idiots from western Europe.
I have fond memories of him across the foosball table.
I think the problem is created by strong connotations of the word "loser", otherwise being poor would be no worse than inability to draw.
I had a fun conversation (more like argument) with ChatGPT about the hypocrisy of OpenAI. It would explicitly contradict itself and then began starting every reply with “I can see why someone might think…” and then just regurgitating fluff about democratizing AI. I finally was able to have it define democratization of technology and then recognize the absurdity of using that label to describe a pivot to gating models and being for-profit. Then it basically told me “well it’s for safety and protecting society”.

An AI, when presented with facts counter to what it thought it should say, agreed and basically went: “Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!”

Love it.
Hetzner's dedicated servers have a limit of 10 firewall rules for their (hardware based) equivalent of AWS Security Groups.

And some of those rules already have mandatory entries, so you'll likely only have around 7-8 actually usable.

"Just use the firewall in your OS" is a workaround, but doesn't fully cover the same scenario's. That's why AWS has Security Groups after all.

This limitation means we have to use smaller sized servers (64/128GB ram), rather than bigger ones which would otherwise be more cost effective.

It's a real pita for us, and Hetzner have shown no interest in ever addressing the problem. :(

That being said, it's all still a lot cheaper than AWS, as Hetzner doesn't charge for bandwidth with their dedicated servers. :)
Advertising has been profitable without spying for many, many decades.

Spying just makes it more profitable. Most of the world would be fine with Larry, Sergey and Mark only being able to afford one mega yacht apiece.
I do agree that it’s a shrewd move to build relationships but I also don’t think that it’s clear cut that companies are spending more to be in the cloud versus the cloud costs being much easier to see compared to on prem TCO, especially when it comes to staff time or the costs projects take on when they’re limited to the services their IT department is capable of building and operating.

A huge confound here is that in any environment these kind of metrics are proxies for a lot of cultural health, so it’s easy to find places hemorrhaging money on AWS without having an easy way to know whether the same managers would have wasted comparable sums internally because e.g. the root cause was letting Accenture send a bunch of 25 year olds to design whatever adds the most expensive terms to their resumes, so while it was AWS today a decade ago it was a $10M Hadoop cluster holding one MacBook Pro’s worth of data.
Wealthfront requires me to authenticate with my existing bank (ie, entering existing creds into wealthfront) for transferring money. Any way around that? That's kind of a no-go for me.
> this is a required statement to conform with China’s constitution

But doesn't this mean the model training data also excludes anything critical of China?

For example, does their training data include things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests... ?
Adobe Is Adding Firefly Generative AI into Video, Audio, and Animation Apps
Heh. Lots, actually. I'm one of them. Been at my current job for 25 years. Started in tech as a second career when I was 41. A colleague who is actually a year younger than me has been at it for well over 40 years (came on while still in school as a summer intern). In fact, the one thing my hiring director said that really got my attention was, "I've got people out there who are retiring after 30 years". People sometimes forget that tech isn't just about the FAANGs or startups. There are lots of us out here who working for big and small enterprises where 50 years and the gold watch are the norm.
It’s already the norm in the US too. License plate readers have existed for like, a decade, and most cop cars I see in my state have them visibly mounted.
That is another type of car, yes. Do you understand the point of "range extended" now, though? Plug in and range extended aren't to do with how far they go on electric. They're to do with how the car works.
A gentle reminder that there is no proof of the “Google in shock“ assertion. The fact that an anonymous source maybe claimed it to someone at the New York Times has essentially zero credibility.

Until an attributed source at Google says something like “we were shocked“ or “we were gobsmacked, etc.“ that’s all just third-hand information reported fourth-hand.
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I dunno about that. I created a site push to repo, deploys via netlify and has dns/cache with cloudflare. Admittedly I haven't upgraded Vue version but didn't feel I needed to.

I do follow the gist of it though. I've remade backends for some services in so many languages, frameworks, and even making frameworks and libraries for them. What I don't do is maintain them. After porting to the next, I'll abandon the old, or even abandon the current, sometimes even let it bitrot and go out of service having served it's purpose. Maintenance is a choice that you can change your mind about it if sucks more than it's worth.
I am subjected to it on a regular basis, and it hurts every time. I do not seek it out voluntarily.