skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but Android is open-source and suppliers can replace default search engine - and other services - on it...
The rest of my article goes on to discuss how a worse model with access to tools - the ability to run and summarize searches, call out or calculators etc - might feasibly be more capable than ChatGPT on its own, even though it would be far less useful as a pure language model.
Yeah, my computer has an application firewall[0] between it and anything that tries to connect to it (LAN or not), so if my router ever opened up my ports, I would know.

Same applies for my other two computers (my MacBook runs Little Snitch on 10.14, so it's a kernel extension that Apple can't bypass). Not the rest of my devices though. Though it's not like anyone could get through fail2ban on my server, or compromise my Android device, or hack any IoT devices since I own none, etc.

[0]: https://safing.io
There are addons/extensions for that!

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bing-chat-for...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-chat-for-all-...
>DDG uses Bing under the hood

Bing is just one of many sources DuckDuckGo utilizes

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
ChromeOS is only in the market because they have cheap laptops that schools bought up. And not a single student I know would ever use one outside of school.
You and op are both correct. The problems are teaching only phonics (which a lot of SOR advocates want) and not teaching phonics at all (which happens in a fair number of classrooms).
Fabricd Bellard is a rare person who seems to do and understand everything. I often just grab a cup of coffee and read through the code for random projects[0] of his.

[0] https://bellard.org/
I started working part time in the summers when I was 12, it was a great experience. My daughter is 12 now and I wish she could have that experience instead of a handful of summer camps and a lot of time at home watching youtube which is the current plan. There are simply no other options available.

My friends worked in their family store from an even younger age.

Full-time manual labor is of course not good and will disproportionately affect poor families who need the extra income.
> They gave themselves an advantage and removed competitors for commercial reasons.

Which competitor has been “removed”?

> Regulate tightly what apple/google are allowed to do with their stores (e.g. like a common carrier)

So there shouldn’t be any rules are quality controls on what should be allowed?

> The elected EU legislative took some points from both approaches AFTER the free market failed to implement a meaningful competition for central app stores.

Yes, the EU is the model of smart regulations when it comes to tech. That’s the reason that it has such a thriving tech ecosystem.
> As to your point about self interest: I came to Reagan’s america—a country where poor kids “who look like me” have almost three times the economic mobility of poor white kids. “People who look like me” live longer than white people, are less likely to get shot or incarcerated than white people, etc.

Could you share the data showing this, or at least the point in time did the data reflect this? I'm not sure if you're referring to currently, or to Reagans times. I'd love to check it out for myself, as most of the data I've seen seems to point to the other direction. Always happy to learn more!
Re your point on OSS being architected first, then the org shapes itself around it, a decent counterexample is the development of git.

https://www.linux.com/news/10-years-git-interview-git-creato...

Written specifically to match the politics of Linux kernel development, since there wasn’t an open source alternative that could do so already (paraphrasing the interview)
It must depend heavily on what you are searching for. There are a lot of things I dislike about Google, but their search results are consistently better than Bing in my experience.
For most convenience you need to have developer subscription. Then you can use something like sideloadly.
From my use of Bard, I think it’s main issue is poor alignment due to lack of RLHF dataset. Open AI has been curating its data set for years as it aggressively pushed to productization. Google never cared about getting its models into the hands of the public so is having to scramble. I think Google will catch up eventually, but not before doing major damage to its market share and partnerships.
Didn't realized that. My currently employer is MS-stack based so I have been working with Edge and to be fair, this was also surprising. I would probably rather work with Firefox but the browser is not that intrusive and provide the same level of support and tooling I get with FF. I think one the reasons I decided to stick with Edge these last few weeks is the extremely poor support I get when working with the SharePoint implementations that are for internal use, seems to be a issue with the way FF interacts with Windows Authentication.
I would love for that ability to be easily determined visually, and easily toggled on/off. A big "personalized" and "generic" toggle switch at the top would be useful.
https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-yo...

IMO flours have been damaging people in many of these ways for centuries. Since the agricultural revolution. That damage came along with a nice perk -- not starving. But if now we're affluent enough to not starve without it, that's a good thing.
Ditch the inverter and you are set.
I think the smarter move would be to integrate GPT-4 into Bixby. That's what finally got me to use Bing... it could probably get people to use Bixby too.
> while maximizing shareholder return.

That's not maximizing shareholder return.

That's locally maximizing shareholder return.
The next person over cares about sports and boobies. By which I mean spectator sports and, uhm, spectator boobies.

Is the last thing I'd want really results different from my neighbour?
Having just gone through certifications for 2 of the 3 big providers, the people who are known for providing cloud services think private clouds are a thing.
> First its worth baring in mind that actual IQ test requires a specialist and takes a long time, so most will use something that correlates with IQ scores instead.

This isn't an issue with IQ testing, it's an issue with testing generally. You'll find most objections to IQ testing can be applied to practically every form of testing.

Also, IQ tests don't require a specialist, nor do they need to take a long time. Only the most accurate IQ testing would generally require these things. Normally when hiring you're just trying to get a rough sense of a candidates abilities.

> Simple counter argument is that IQ tests are not domain specific enough and not causative of domain specific capability even where complex reasoning is involved. Therefore, you should test closer to the role.

I agree. For most roles I wouldn't be in favour of just measuring IQ – and I did touch on the limitations of IQ in my comment. But regardless of its limitations it's still true that individuals with higher IQs tend to learn faster and be more intellectually capable in general.

I could say something like, "LeetCode scores just selects for software engineers who can write a certain type of code, but doesn't measure one's ability to play well as a team or one's ability to view problems at higher levels of abstraction". The right thing to test depends entirely on what kind of abilities you're selecting for. If you need a software engineer to be adaptable and broadly capable then IQ is probably a good metric to consider (among others). And in my opinion instead of implicitly creating a selection process which favours the next white guy with a degree and 10+ years experience as a software engineer, it would be more equatable to consider people who show strong potential but perhaps have less experience.
More precisely, Google makes AOSP, which is the basis for a licensed version of Android that includes a number of proprietary apps.

Two things are not likely to happen:

1. Samsung will not give up on licensing Google proprietary package of apps.

2. Google will not yank Samsung's license.

Google will absolutely tighten the screws on their future contracts to discourage these deals, as well as sweeping out crappy "customizations."
That's a stripped down OS running only a web browser and a bunch of webapps, not a real OS. Another one of those Google fantasies that failed to understand normal people.
Not sure what your experience is but I'm running SQLite in my production web app and it's just fine :)
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I don't think that's a fair critique of this article at all.

> Today, Castellano is a sophomore at Tufts University. But when he worked, he felt "this sense that working in those fields was going to be the rest of my life, that I had nothing else going for me."

This article isn't really about the debate about whether it's OK for a teenager to have a part-time gig at a gas station on the odd weekend, or even whether it's OK for a teenager to work part-time after school, or even about a debate about whether it's OK for a teen to work a full-time summer job. The article is about whether it's OK for a pre-teen to have a full time job doing manual labor in a dangerous environment all day with longer hours than most adults work. I don't think there's a way to phrase that as character building or educational or instilling work ethic or granting a feeling of satisfaction.

> He worked alongside other kids with one of North Carolina's most valuable crops. Some of them worked in the summer and went to school the rest of the year, like him. Some didn't go to school at all.

The context here isn't about aiding child development. If you have a full-time job as a kid that means you can't go to school, something is wrong. That is not for the kid's benefit, that's not something that's aiding development or helping set you up for success in the future. It is not doing you any favors as a child. Particularly not if you're working a job that's prone to giving people nicotine poisoning.
Just like the locked-down mobile devices that have unfortunately perverted the nature of general-purpose computing, Boot Guard is a tool of planned obsolescence and manufacturer control disguised as "security". Want to fix something in the BIOS that they didn't want you to have[1][2][3]? Too bad, it's locked and they won't release a newer version to force you to buy another. Absolute bastards.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29837884

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28254571

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33650347
> one math class is an expensive as another to teach

On the contrary, I'm sure that a teacher who understands algebra well enough to teach it competently costs much more than the other kind, on account of being so rare.
Depends on the work. Manning the cash register at the family store or restaurant isn't the same as working in fields and factories.

I don't mind my kids doing the former at a young age. The latter - hell no.
Does growth mindset matter? The debate heats up
Sorry, yes, that was a dog.

Let me try again and this time I will definitely not hit anything.

Sorry, that was another dog.
So...AutoGPT? Now with command-line access! Have fun :)

https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT/
A never ending stream of glacially paced courtroom drama, compounded with armchair lawyers opining on Internet forums. Oh joy!
An extremely second rate phone platform compared to iOS where the customers don’t spend nearly as much money and they have minimal control over their hardware partners.
Desktop = Laptop
By desktop app they don't mean an app that runs on desktop computers only. They mean an app that runs locally and not web-based. Office 365 desktop vs Office 365 web portal. Google doesn't offer anything but web based.
That's good to know. A lot of people might look at the 7900XTX with its 24GB of ram for a grand and think "ah, a good deal for fitting an LLM in".
Laptops are desktops.

In regards to ChromeOS, it hardly matters outside the US school system and Googleplex.
I don't really care either way.

I just know it's shockingly common for "nobodies" to have a good idea, share it in some way and someone else with more status runs with it and gets the credit. And I can well imagine someone feeling like "No one will believe what actually happened" and trying to fudge the details a bit in hopes of being heard.

I'm old. I'm cynical. I'm tired.

Frankly, I didn't bother to read the full article because I'm so convinced that it's not possible to know what really happened and that if a Hispanic janitor did come up with the idea, the odds are long against him getting a fair shake. So why bother?
Lol. I even had someone with like 8 years of work experience put a 2.5 GPA on their resume.

I would have done a phone screen.. but with that low of a GPA, and the judgement to put it on your resume? Pass.
Sundar is a caretaker who got credited for simple inertia: The momentum in place before he took the reigns were predestined to grow earnings for years, but suddenly Pichai gets to pretend it's all him.
I'd have thought the child exploitation material would be pretty high up the list as well, now that they have started to be thrown off Twitter.
> that's up to the parents more than it is to the school.

The reality is that some parents simply do not have the time and resources to provide this sort of support. The purpose of our educational system is to educate kids, not to supervise them while their parents do so.
https://archive.ph/UoHzG
That’s not true. If I, a software developer, search for “pandas,” Google should probably show me the Python data library near or at the top. If my friend who’s not an engineer searches for “pandas,” they’re probably looking for the bear.
GP said rated, not necessarily for operation. It could just mean that the battery will survive such low temperatures unharmed.

I have a summer cabin with a solar panel and a couple 12 V lead acid batteries. It would be great to be able to install some lithium type batteries instead, so long as I know they will survive winter.
A lot of words without a lot of source or data.

The only source linked in the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-...

It's probably the only source at all, as every number in the sammobile article is also in the NYT, like the 160+ people working on Magi.

As the sammobile article doesn't appear to do anything but regurgitate what is in the NYT article without any apparent validation on their side, the link should be changed to the NYT IMO, whose article seems at least based on actual internal messages from Google. I understand that the title isn't as attention grabbing though ("Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals").
I think if you did a study of Agile vs Waterfall and then took out all the nuance and then wrote an angry podcast about one side or the other it would be somewhat equivalent to this. i.e. reducing complex things (like project managment or teaching) to 'this way is wrong other way is right'. The skills/experience of the teachers/project managers are probably the biggest factor
Why hasn't Canonical been acquired yet?
except you cant use the AI function without using Edge.. That's a huge complaint from me.
I’d bet Microsoft will gladly match all of Google’s offers here.
They surely do, its reason to fame is being the best distribution supporting OEM devices without religion regarding open source drivers.
A pressurant valve appears to be frozen, no launch today
Well currently there's just apple and they are super secretive about their roadmap, the M1/2 top line chip already perform quite well, and while the top version look expensive, a pair of a6000 will definitely eat more money both to purchase and to run.

M3 is around the corner tho, and there's some announcement to come from intel or arm following their partnership. There's also the new card coming from intel that is supposed to be aimed squarely at machine learning workloads, and they don't have to segment their market by memory sizing like Nvidia do, but they aren't well supported as device targets, but a pair of these will likely be very cost effective if and only if they will get credible compatibility with the libraries and models
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Dear HN crowd, who would you use for reliable, global and cost effective SMS for 2FA verification purposes?
I agree that we should be talking about the addition problem of these apps.

But I reference these specifically as being the gateway to more bad behavior.

The idea of Facebook being able to introduce their own App Store for example that would allow other developers to engage in the same shady behavior.

I only mention those apps since I feel like they have the addicted user base to be able to pull it off in a meaningful way, but I don't mean that those apps are specifically my concern.
Yudkowsky and LessWrong was regarded as kooky for ages and, after the Roko's Basilisk affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk and read Yudkowsky's hilariously deranged all-caps response), a laughingstock as well. Suggesting that he's on the same plane as serious researchers is inappropriate.
Yes, for example there is srsue in https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN_4G (the predecessor of the stack used in TFA)
Indeed, really simple. And yes, the results are shockingly good. But what I find most remarkable about this is that the ViT-L+Q-former's hidden states are related by only a linear projection (plus bias) to the Vicuna-13B's token embeddings:

emb_in_vicuna_space = emb_in_qformer_space @ W + B

These two models are trained independently of each other, on very different data (RGB images vs integer token ids representing subwords), and yet somehow they learn to embed different data in feature vectors that are so... similar. WHY should that be the case?

It suggests to me there may be something universal about the embedding layers and hidden states of all trained deep learning models.
That website is somehow still kicking, years later. It’s a shell of its former self, though, having been sold a few times now.
Exactly. You also need to learn word definitions as well as grammar and sentence structure. Leave out any of the pieces of the puzzle and you are handicapping the student.
I just listened to this podcast a few weeks ago. What really struck me was just how obviously wrong the Guided Reading curriculum and three cueing theory was even just on its face, and how many people went along with replacing phonics with Guided Reading despite that.

For example, the podcast recounts a Guided Reading lesson where the teacher covers up the words the kids are supposed to be reading with a piece of tape and tells them to guess what the word is without seeing it. That feels so obviously dumb that there's no way anyone could have been fooled into thinking that was a superior method of instruction than phonics, right? Surely the podcast has to be exaggerating? If not, that's a level of stupidity that's actually high enough to make me angry.

Same thing with the idea that people read based on context (three cuing). Like, sure context can be a component of reading, but it's trivially disproven as the primary mechanism with a simple string of random words like: nanny overlying identify crinkly eats reunion. Is that hard to read? Obviously not, so clearly context isn't that important for strong readers, and teaching kids to guess words based on context rather than teaching them to actually read the words is dumb. You shouldn't need a scientific study to figure that out.
> Since fast.com is a Netflix ip

Technically the website fast.com resolves to an Akamai IP, but the speed test it loads uses a Netflix owned IP.
Google docs/etc are totally eating into Microsoft Office's market share. I can't remember the last company I was at where they expected us to use Microsoft office products. But we used Google docs,sheets,etc constantly.
I use GBoard with both English and Spanish installed, and I don't have to manually switch anything to swipe in both languages, or get predictive text in both languages.
It does, and funny enough that Antitrust lawsuit against MSFT bundling IE in Windows may end up helping them here.
Honestly I don't see a large use case for React Server Components, to me it's really more of a way to woo those that were still adamant about server rendering. I can see it being very useful in some specific instances, but for the most part I still advocate that one build a React site the way they always have.
Row level security is the main reason I choose Postgres. Is there any way to get RLS implemented in MySQL?
Maintaining this site fucking rocks
I didn't say the downvotes were from people disputing the fact that Cameroon is less widely known than the US. It's the idea that this makes them "invisible" that is probably perceived as a dismissive and arrogant take. They are not invisible - you just haven't seen them. There is a difference, particularly in the age of the internet where you can learn about any country you choose.

I wouldn't call you invisible, and I do not like to think of myself as invisible, even though neither of us are (I presume) household names in every country on earth.

(That said, it genuinely surprised me that there are people on HN who have not heard of Peru, as I would have thought Machu Picchu at least was a very well known thing in the developed world.)
My kids go to a school that teaches phonics. Some of my teacher friends have told me that phonics is antiquated, so it does make me happy to see that perhaps it is the best method of learning to read. It has worked well for kids so far.

I will say though that the school's method of teaching phonics is much more rigorous than anything I ever learned as a kid. They have a long list of graphemes (letters and letter combinations), and they need to be able to recite all the phonemes (sounds) that each grapheme can make. I have a hard time answering their phonics questions, like if they ask me what sounds "ou" makes. It can make at least four sounds, e.g. sour, group, court, country. I can't confidentially help them without a cheatsheet.
For the same query?
I don't think the ability to serve up specialized content is the concern here. It is the fragmentation that results when we no longer have a shared reality or a consistent set of results in the population. Results specific to any one person is terrifying in some of its implications.
It has a cool bing button. :-)
Most of Android is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. So while the word "owns" is true in a technical legal sense, there is nothing to prevent anyone from forking it and doing their own thing. Unlike with GPL code, they don't even need to license their changes under the same license as long as they abide the terms with respects to the original.

Personally I use GrapheneOS in order to "de-Google" without switching to the Apple ecosystem. No Google Play (you can install it but I choose not to), FOSS apps only. I don't recommend it for everyone but it made me not hate owning a smart phone for the first time since the "mobile revolution" passed my old grumpy self by.
How is that different from everything after Google Search. Alphabet is even structured around the idea of not being able to pick winners. I can discern some long term strategy in Android Automotive and Waymo, but nothing is sacred when it comes to cutting off products that are not growing.