skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, OP submitted essentially the same story two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496700
>GPT-3.5-turbo—which in my opinion is even less capable than text-davinci-003 / 002

Not just opinion, GPT-3.5 Turbo is demonstrably worse at just about everything except providing so called "safe" and "aligned" replies to questions.
I assume this is related although it's hard to tell from the URLs:

Mass editing memory in a transformer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35653816 - April 2023 (50 comments)
sdf dot org does name registration. I've not tried but I quit gandi.net when they got sold. I'd avoid service providers that don't have customer's best interest first.
QuiLLMan: Open-source, serverless voice chat with Vicuna
And it meets expectations! That’s the point of the person you’re arguing with.

The “low effort” is made possible by Duolingo segmenting lessons into tiny chunks.

It doesn’t lower the total hours necessary because that would be witchcraft.
If I had to place a wager I'd guess that it'll be pretty typical Apple: they won't be first, but the ironclad integration of their hardware and software will enable some unique stuff. I'm picturing what Microsoft recently demoed with Office 365 Co-Pilot [0] but billed more as for your entire life beyond work.

I have to think they wouldn't mobilize some of their capital reserves if need be in order to avoid missing this wave. Part of me thinks that's the only reasonable cause for Siri being so terribly useless for so long— that it's because they have a "leapfrog" up their sleeves. I acknowledge this is a pretty heavy cope though.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230420002004/https://blogs.mic...
> free people

As opposed to what? Being "captive" in jobs for paying bills?
It would be if there was a shortage of food, but that isn't really the case in the USA.

Besides, I'd imagine that the corn used for ethanol production could easily be turned in to food should that need ever arise.
IIRC, Apple slashed the price after a couple of months due to slow sales.

Their initial price was wrong. The customer were used to pay next to nothing for the device as the device was considered an accessory for the GSM provider. Apple also didn’t have that many Apple Stores, to show people how amazing the device is.
I wonder if the better question is not how we get more training data but:

If we're running out of training data with hallucinations and performance remaining so inadequate (per OpenAI's whitepaper) is an autoregressive transformer the right architecture?

Perhaps ongoing work in finetuning will take these models to the next level but ignoring the LLM hype it really does seem like things have plateaued for a while now (with expected gains from scaling).
Fascinating! I was unaware of Thomas Harriot.

If you're interested in Leibniz and his invention of binary, I highly recommend Wolfram's post on that: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-g...

I have a project on the backburner to create a "Handwriting Simulator", that you could give a task/equation to, and have it generate animations of performing that calculation as a human would with a pen and paper according to a named writing system (binary, roman numerals, hindu-arabic, et cetera). I would like to compare and contrast the efficiency of handwriting systems, and perhaps explore if there are some potential new ones yet to be invented. I've come full circle to the opinion that I've been undervaluing 2D handwritten notations as tools for thought. If anyone has any pointers I'd appreciate it! This reminds me of that, because I'd expect binary notation by hand to be extremely inefficient compared to other systems, so there was little/no value for it until logic machines.
Kinesics ergo edge (gaming keyboard)
Simple: USDC is not backed by the state.
Incredible but true. In fact, many comments on this thread could apply to that context as well. For example:

> On paper, the incumbent mega corporations [legacy ICE manufacturers] should have been able to come up with an iPhone killer [a Tesla killer] quickly, considering the resources available to them... What they missed was the inertia and the lack of agility in these big companies. They kept insisting on their current plans until it was too late.

As we know, the theoretical ability of the incumbents to fiercely respond has been imagined every year since 2012, and yet the legacies are still struggling.
Personally, I think we do our entire species a disservice if students can’t access free math education up through Calculus. Where it gets muddy for me is how much should be compulsory, especially if it generates math anxiety. I don’t have a good answer.
Tremendous, you love to see it.
> that has always been expected to run out of water.

Gonna need a citation there.

You understand that it’s part of the Colorado river, which is (pre-global warming) one of the highest flow rivers in the world (it literally carved the Grand Canton).
Of Rockets, Shuttles and Planes
You can’t commercially use anything you train off OpenAI outputs.
I care whether experts can understand each others’ reviewed work, not whether they would use exactly the same amount of whitespace. Don’t reformat code you aren’t rewriting, and definitely not with a tool that doesn’t understand what a developer was communicating when he laid it out that way.
The main reason Taiwan is still independent is that US was willing to defend it for all those years.
I think what people miss is that the biggest critics of the types you mentioned, for lack of a better term, have a secret crush on them and want to keep hearing more from them. If you really think someone's an idiot and don't want to hear from them, you tune them out. If you can't stop thinking about them, you talk constantly about them and all the "annoying" things they do. It's grade school playground dynamics.
From other replies in this thread, maybe in Vienna, but not in Graz. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668898
Back in the days when TV was still popular, I remember some headline saying that researchers had monitored brain energy use while watching TV and while literally watching paint dry, and determined that people's brains were more switched off when watching TV.

I wonder if that study was ever replicated…
I don't know if it's the "HN is deteriorating" effect finally setting in after a decade, but I do feel like titles either made more sense at the source or were changed to make sense in the past (say, before 2020±1). Now the homepage very often has 10-30% titles that either make no sense or mislead, and you have to click to know what it's about. Might as well just have a list of hashes then and see where you end up. Opening it now: titles like Boustrophedon and XINF (those two words are two submissions' entire titles) aren't useful and should be added to, for example. Similar for this article: it's not editorialising ("expressing one's opinion rather than the facts") to make it reflect what the source is trying to say.
This is like wanting someone authoring a PR on github to have their about section filled out. Maybe it's nice for the reviewer to have, but some authors prefer to let the content to speak for itself. I think that's fair.
> who seems to be more wrong than righ

Just invert their output and you will have some good predictors.
I mean... Yes.

What would you suggest as the alternative?
Yeah I'm sure I am being unfair to Tesla owners. I see them as "dumb techies". Probably getting a fat paycheck they don't really deserve, thinking they're smarter than everyone else and their choice of car proves it.

I know it's wrong.
>the lowest level of performance evaluation

The level that's synonymous with "this was your notice that you should start looking elsewhere because you will be let go in 6 months or less".

The bonuses are as guaranteed as your next paycheck.
Day-traders tend to not call themselves investors. They call themselves traders.

Investing involves holding assets long term.

But they certainly don't call themselves gamblers. At least not any that turn it into a successful career.
Chill, man.
> don't eat as much meat and dairy

> less energy consumption pretty much directly translates to less human flourishing

You're like the man who floats on the sea on the raft made from coconuts. The more he eats, the more he thinks he flourishes.

Sharks are meanwhile patiently circling around.

> Zimbabwe tried, they did get more money, but did not get any wealth

Not everybody has the guts and means to organize few coups & occupy some countries first, steal their oil and other natural resources, then build mega army and spread it around half a world.

But if they did, then it would work. It's a recipe that works everytime.

Inflation is irrelevant. I've studied economics ... it's hogwash.
Is it just that competitors exist?

At this point, the Model 3 is competing against the Chevy Bolt which is at least $10,000 cheaper.

To buy a Tesla, you have to genuinely want a Tesla at this point rather than just an electric car.
Transportation.

Downtown is where all the ferry landings were, and where a lot of the bridges were built after.

Midtown is where the rail terminals stop, so suburbanites can quickly walk to their jobs instead of paying a second fare for subway/bus/taxi.

There is no correlation between bedrock depth and height in Manhattan, as explained in the article of the grandparent comment. In fact, most of Downtown is landfill.
I always seed my lawn with clover every spring and only cut every three weeks. Clover not just helps pollinators but also fixes nitrogen in the soil. My soil was a blasted waste land when I bought the house. Now it’s a rich soil with plenty of life in it.
You should def check out windmill.dev.

They center more around code, and then builds app and flows based on the code/scripts you create. It's been a really pleasant experience for me. The first time I looked at the product I did not quite get it. But when I tried it I was hooked. It was not what I expected but what I needed.

You can have your code in git and use vscode and push scripts up to windmill if you like, I do and like it.
You CAN also edit flows and apps from vscode. But I'm quite sure you do not want to - meaning it's JSON you will change and not the underlying svelte scripts.

I actually started using windmill after I described my pref. low-code solution on HN and what I felt was missing and got a response back saying that I was describing windmill.
I've been using DirectNIC for over a decade with no complaints. Pair is also highly recommended.
> I don't understand how we've gotten here, or why people aren't more concerned.

Iterated "Well, sure, the other team's guy is going to abuse the hell out of that power, but my team's guy will only use it to do the best, most right, wonderful things ever!" dilemma. Executive Orders, among others. Can't do it legally? Issue an EO and by the time it winds out being illegal through the courts, you've gotten most of what you wanted anyway. Among other games played.

D & R tend to fight tooth and nail for the 24/7 media ecosystem, but if you ask them, "Hey, could you use more data on what those little peons you rule over are doing in order to fight Bad Things?" - they both agree fully. And, even better, there are lots of tech companies (looks around the current place...) who have outdone each other to excel at "doing the bidding of the current government, or what they think the current government might like them to do," in exchange for the expected favors.

And... and yet. People still manage to do Bad Things. People still manage to fund Bad Causes (honk). If only they had a little bit more. If only people couldn't still exchange value with mostly untraceable methods (I assume, for no reason beyond "It's technically possible and someone probably thought it could be useful to someone," that the serial #s on bills handed out from the ATM are tracked - especially to the sort of people who ask for $100s - though bank tellers don't obviously log them unless the ordering of them is logged on drawer insertion).

All this is why I'm happy to offer "Metal, cash, computer hardware, or digital - in that order!" when I owe someone locally money.
I think any potential benefit for having an AI assistant would immediately be offset by the problems, scale, and impact the collection of that data would engender on your life.

Its a short step from a simple assistant to having a spy that watches you every hour of every day, and may not just watch but also interfere in non-alerting ways.

What happens when the company monetizes without proper disclosure where it develops a model of you, and then alert the authority when you deviate from said model for enhanced surveillance or harassment. Government would be a guaranteed customer. Dictators and other authoritarians would love it. China already does a lot of this with their social credit framework.

Free speech, that's gone. Privacy, gone. Future gone. The perverse incentives that inevitably lead to exploitation and enslavement over time are pretty horrifying.

Its the shortest of steps to Orwell.
Erm not causing mass unemployment by stealing data? Also people go freely where there's pay. Seems like there aren't many opportunities and there will fewer.
> I missed out on windows mobile 7 which is the one this article mentions but I used windows mobile 6 and windows phone 8. Windows phone 8 was heavily inspired by windows mobile 7 aesthetics so I think they are comparable in ux.

UX wise, 8 was a lot like 7. 8 added a few UX features, but the big differences were tecnical: NT kernel vs wince, which allowed for dual and quad core phones, which made background execution better, although it was highly restricted by policy; a new application framework for better or worse (a staple of the windows phone era), etc.

I'll leave out the rant about what Microsoft did wrong with the platform. I will note though, that the fact is iPhone only dominates the market in a handful of countries; Android dominates worldwide, but clearly Apple is fine with the status quo, because they haven't tried to approach the low cost market at all.
In theory yes, but this tax was introduced in recent memory and the rate of rent increases that year was not noticeably different to the rate of rent increases in other years, as the prices are limited (well "limited") by the ability of tenants to pay, rather than being driven by costs. And the most expensive areas have rent control anyway.
Do you have any source for the 90% figure? Some casual players do indeed use the alternative names, but pretty much everyone I know uses „hetman” for the queen. (I’ve even heard the colloquial abbreviation „heć”.) Literature uses the official names exclusively.
> the original iPhone was a flawed device

It was clear to me when I got the original iPhone that it changed everything going forward. It had flaws, but it was easy to see past them as technology improved.
> conscious/sentient during propagation

Interesting. We've instituted a micro unit of sentience within an observable time slice:

Not for nothing have--
We put in a mind within
In conscious seconds
30% change sounds large, until you multiply it by the fraction of the problem that methane forms. It's still a welcome impact reduction, if true, but yeah you're quite right.
Stock "tanked" 35% from the top after running up for years. It doesn't make the stock component of the compensation zero. Median compensation is >$300K. You could have made your point without making up numbers that are easily fact checked.

Other guy is right, you're misinformed and continuing to argue when you're wrong makes you ignorant and foolish.
"The sample size could have been larger". Yeah, like _way_ larger. So could the institutions represented. _Scarsdale_? Really? What about NYC, LA, Chicago? As others have written here, you would have to be insane to think a $200 device like that would last more than a couple of years. Or a school administrator who got and keeps their job by sucking up to an even more clueless district superintendent, under the not-so-watchful eye of an idiot school board. "A fool and his money are soon parted".
> if we implanted (with a futuristic tech) cones that can see ultraviolet?

The information also needs to make it from the retina to the brain. Surprisingly, there are no separate red/green/blue channels for the different cone types. Instead, there is a channel for the difference between red vs green, and another for the difference between between blue vs (red+green).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826135/

So adding a new cone type would not be enough, it would also have to be represented in one of these channels, or a new channel.
I encourage you to talk to some actual journalists. You will get better results in the end.
According to Jewish law, if his mother was Jewish, then so was he.
The concept of a "half-jew" is modern invention, and not accepted by orthodox Jews
Many pet parrots are already mentally ill. It's not really kind to keep them in captivity.
Apple might have genuinely murdered the entire market if they hadn’t insisted on their ridiculous exclusivity plan with AT&T. Whichever Apple exec greenlit that must surely have been an industrial saboteur because it saved 5+ other companies from ruin.
Thanks! Just a hobbyist, glad to hear industry perspective on this!
But they're being phased out.
A currency which naturally grows in value is self defeating. Currencies, by their nature, are abstract constructs devoid of value.

Now imagine that just by holding onto money, you made more money- no need for pesky investments or risk. If btc became the dominant currency, it would quickly become a regressive tax on people who actually need to spend money.
Could this be used on device to generate closed captions of video on the fly?
Interesting perspective how the article seems to recommend mowing less and to a taller height rather than not mowing at all.
Fair enough. Not mowing ever at all Can be dangerous for fire risk, ticks, and fox tails for dogs/animals/livestock, etc.

Edit: grew up in a rural area where we would mow acres of fields so may have a different background than others.
I agree that for chatbots that offer APIs, they are most likely currently implemented as stateless.

Meaning they take as input the last "context window" characters from the client, and use it to recompute the internal state, and then start generating character by character. But after the generation no memory need to be kept used on the server (except a very small "context window tokens").

Chatbots like llama.cpp in interactive mode don't have to recompute this internal state at every interaction.

You can view the last "context window" characters as a compressed representation of the internal state.

This becomes more pertinent as the "context window" gets bigger, as the bigger the "context window" the more you will have to recompute at each interaction.

The transformer architecture can also be trained differently so as to generate "context vectors" of finite size that synthesize all the past previous message of the conversation (encoder-decoder architecture). This "context vector" can be kept on the server more easily, and will contain the gist and the important things of the conversation, but won't be able to quote things exactly from the past directly. This context vector is then used to condition the generation of the reply. And once the chatbot has replied and received a new prompt, you update the finite size context vector (with a distinct neural network) to get a context vector with the latest information incorporated that you use to condition the generation, ad infinitum.
You're right. It gets worse over time. People now carry their TV to the toilet, read digital news on the bus and respond to texts on their phone even when "out" with someone else.
I've used OVH for years. I only hear from them when it's time to pay up every year. Zero problems so far.
The US had a strategically ambiguous alliance with Taiwan a long time before TSMC. Take a look at a map of the Pacific. Color China red, color Taiwan blue. That really bottles up China's navy. Change Taiwan to red: now China has easy access to the Pacific.
On a related note, why haven't stablecoin 'eurodollars' (1) (for lack of a better word) taken off yet? In theory because the dollar is already the world's reserve currency, and in enormous demand, it should be an easy transition to digital dollars outside the control of the US. I'm not sure people in developed countries understand how much demand there is for dollars in countries with unstable currencies. Why don't the citizens of Argentina, Nigeria, Pakistan etc. just pay each other for goods with digital dollars? I understand it's frequently illegal there, but ultimately it's not practical for the government of say Argentina to lock up all of their citizens that want to pay each other with dollars for groceries, gas, households goods, etc. Seems like you could have a smartphone payment system in dollars that evades local control?

Worth noting that several countries have just adopted the US dollar as their official currency, including El Salvador and Panama

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar 'Eurodollars are U.S. dollars held in time deposit accounts in banks outside the United States, which thus are not subject to the legal jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Reserve'
In principle yes, in practice it's rarely worth the cost and complexity.

If you're careful about the converter design (keep the high-current loops extremely short, use counter-rotating loops to tightly confine magnetic field within those short loops, use a soft-switching topology to reduce EMI and sharp edges at the switch node, switch quickly or use multiple parallel converters at different phase offsets to reduce magnitude of current ripple), you can get decently low noise. There's a good Jim Williams app note about this.[0]

But it's almost never worth it to do this, since there's LDOs with two or three orders of magnitude better noise voltage. There's a time and a place for a really low noise converter; usually EMI constrained galvanically isolated converters like medical supplies or scientific instruments need them and aren't too sensitive to the cost or development effort. But even then, you'll often find LDOs cascaded on the outputs just afterward, since a good LDO can add another two orders of magnitude of ripple rejection in the switching frequency band.

[0] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...
Making your own flashcards is the definitive way of learning something elsewhere, then putting it into Anki for long-term retention. What I'm saying is that Anki should almost always be supplemental to other stuff.

I've got exceptions, though; I do algorithmically generated clozes every day that I got from here: https://sookocheff.com/post/language/cloze-deletions/

They're good for me because you have to give yourself a looser standard for grading i.e. "I used a different word but does it make sense? Did I conjugate it correctly? Then Good. You also have to actively suspend bad cards. It can break you of the gamification habit that Anki stats can get you into. For example, no need to cry over leeches that get suspended; you'll get that word again on another card. Weird idiom? Stop doing flashcards and go look it up.
> Duolingo is great for practicing and keeping motivated. It has successfully gamifyed language learning, getting users to practice frequently.

I used it for 8 months or so, and came to the conclusion that the gamification was completely counter-productive.

One of the big things in raising kids these days is "external rewards" vs "intrinsic motivation". There have been studies that show that kids who already enjoyed drawing, when given a reward for doing drawing, found drawing by itself less enjoyable afterwards.

Duolingo is all about external rewards: And the reward isn't for learning the language, but for completing lessons. I found myself always trying to race through as many lessons as possible; stopping to investigate a word or phrase, which should be rewarded, was actually discouraged by their system.