skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd that in the entire explanation they completely ignore embryology and the pathway dependence that came with evolutionary progression between species
If I understand correctly, the meat of the argument is "that is a system for every (∀) task, there exists (∃) a setting that gives the correct answer for that one task."

My understanding of this (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the scam is convincing users that GPT-X can do anything with say, the correct prompts.

This argument misses the mark for me. It's not that it solves all the problems, it's that the problems it does solve is economically impactful. Significantly economically impactful in some cases- obvious examples of call centers and first-line customer support.
Games are part of The (new) New York Times digital bundle that I pay a not inconsiderable amount for. In the past I'd have paid for other bundled items such as (if I lived in NYC) the classifieds.

The Economist seems to be doing well on its own terms as well-though that seems to be more around their research arm and their events arm. But the NYT is working to assemble an appealing subscription--which isn't all that different from Apple is doing with different particulars.

And, as always, that disadvantages individuals and organizations who have to make a singular item work. Which at the moment with games seems to lead to "free to play" and other approaches that aren't especially consumer-friendly but where you probably are standalone with a price-sensitive audience.
> It would be perfectly straightforward to fund that entirely by raising income taxes on the highest earners.

Even if you do that, you're still getting inflation. That'll hit everyone -- not just high earners. Loan forgiveness and payment pauses free up a fair bit of middle class budget and therefore increase the velocity of money.
They buy it.
Obligatory.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_D
He, imo correctly, puts them both in the category of extra degrees of freedom that can allow the user to overfit and get results that appear more impressive than the underlying reality about how the model has generalized.
I disagree with the author's interpretation of this.

As a neurologist myself, I was taught it was specifically to simplify visual processing, although there may be other theories but this is what I was taught. Like others commenting here, the way the lens works in each eye is by flipping the image onto your retina. If we had only one eye, there would be no issue, the image would appear as a continuous image, just flipped around. However, because we have two eyes, they both individually flip different fields, thus separating the continuity of the image horizontally. If you try drawing out various different ways to try and remedy this problem of binocular vision, the way nature's approach is quite elegant in reuniting the image as well as separating visual processing into left/right.

To avoid a large text explanation, this is a simple diagram of the concept how the brain reforms the arrow.
https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/s2/images/html5/s2_15_1...

The way it works is by separating the left and right fields of each eye, and then crossing them so that the left fields goes to the right half of the brain and the right fields go to the left half of the brain. Each right/left half is now interpreted by one side of the brain and the image is again continuous if you draw it out on the brain. Of course now each side of the brain sees the opposite side, but we remedy this by crossing everything else so it plays well with visual interpretation. Now the right side of the brain sees, senses, and controls the left side of the body and vice versa.

When it comes to everything else, there isn't a clear benefit for having processing swapped to opposite hemispheres. But visual processing benefits from it greatly, and so the rest of the nervous system goes along with it.
Not much in my opinion/experience (attempted learning german).

You learn words but without grammar you can’t do very much.
Okay, how about "Either put your domain logic in the database, or put it in the code, but don't randomly scatter your shit throughout the code and database"?
I agree that not playing our cards right is the default scenario.
I have three, and they are a lot of work. Assume a couple hours a day. We make toys for them every day. The noise, the mess, the neediness. It’s a lot. They are a joy, but I don’t really don’t suggest others to get any.
> Bitcoin transactions aren't exactly exploding. And now that chain is also getting cluttered with trash jpegs (Ordinals).

Pick one, it can't be empty and cluttered at the same time

> I would be happy if it goes down because if it does succeed in its mission, it pretty much means some truly awful human beings will have disproportionate power in our new financial system.

Typical HN cope

> I'd rather not live in a world where Justin Sun owns a large % of my currency supply.

It doesn't matter if he owned more than Satoshi, no individual has the power to change the rules of Bitcoin, that is what makes it so powerful

Remind me again what the original mission of Bitcoin was again? It's in the first few lines of the whitepaper if you forgot
Technically all DC-DC converters at a minimum have an AC current in their input and output capacitances. Since we see a small ripple voltage across the capacitors, it must be true that the direction of the current flowing in the capacitors is alternating.

It is true that in most cases the inductor current isn't changing direction though.
> Lady -> Reina/Dama * (You could use either, but the article lists them separately and doesn't recognize Queen, which is the more common of the two)

I think the reason is that the article follows the FIDE rules rather than colloquial use.

I was about the comment something similar about Dutch, where the word for Queen (“Koningin”) is also more common than the official FIDE-term Lady (“Dame”). I suspect the reason for this choice is that the FIDE also establishes an official chess notation where each piece has a single letter abbreviation. In Dutch this presents the problem that “Koning” (King) is a prefix of “Koningin” (Queen), so it makes sense to abbreviate king with K, but it's not clear what letter to assign to the Queen. It makes sense then to switch to “Dame” and use the letter D for this piece.

I think the same thing applies to Romance languages where the words for King and Queen derive from the Latin words Rex and Regina (Roi and Reine in French, Rey and Reina in Spanish, etc.), all of which start with the letter 'R'. Then switching to Lady (dame/dama) for the Queen makes sense just to create a unique letter.
Not available in your country. Well poop.
0.4 mA quiescent current is huge for very low-power designs though. If your system must spend the majority of its time consuming very little power, that level of constant current draw is a non-starter.
The games department at the NYT is extremely lucrative. They get to charge extra for it and the customers love it enough to pay for it. My favorite job there is the person who "edits" Wordle. That's right. There's someone with the job of picking the right five letter word for the day. Now it's true that some words are harder than others, but the choice isn't that hard.
Mostly, I was asked if I'm gay... by humans. Didn't get a chance to talk to a bot.
> (As employees!)

Cracked me up
> A currency which naturally grows in value is self defeating.

An opinion, neither backed by any obvious nor posted arguments.

> Currencies, by their nature, are abstract constructs devoid of value.

My above remarks goes triple for this one. Bordering on the dogmatic as a matter of fact.

> If btc became the dominant currency

I don't think that'll ever happen.

First because Bitcoin isn't very practical as a currency - it's pretty obvious at this point -.

Second and much more importantly: Bitcoin is an should remain an escape hatch.

Every functioning human organization needs checks and balances to be functional.

For every power, there needs to be a counter-power so that said power can't be abused.

Until very recently, there was pretty much no counter power when it comes to the ability of governments to debase their currency (aka imposing a hidden tax on their citizenry).

Bitcoin is exactly this: it is a counter-power that finally allows folks to run with their wealth if a government starts to mismanage their currency (and historically they have always proven that given enough time, they will).

I would never wish for Bitcoin to become the dominant currency.

It's perfect where it's at right now.
I'm not sure many people are checking the nutritional information of their San Pellegrino.
Factor 1 - low-effort production

> Here’s how it works: Too many editors are eager to assign an easy-to-assemble story from the components of a Musk prediction, threat or stunt.

Factor 2 - high demand

> And readers seem to love the copy.

Luckily, most articles can easily be avoided, because their headlines contain his or one of his companies’ name. But what a waste of human brain capacity and attention.
Especially in the hands of students. My school deployed MacBook airs to everyone which are perfectly capable of lasting just about forever but a good chunk of them were dropped, destroyed, liquid damaged, etc by the end of the year.
It's Satoshi, and good luck on Mars, I'm sure Elon would be a great leader for you
False, it's actually slightly cheaper than a new Camry.

That's base price, and doesn't even account for significantly lower cost of ownership.
Central European mosquitos are nasty. I hate every single bite.
Just let it die. I would happily move to different languages
> On most peoples' salaries that's difficult to do when renting unless you're renting something so small that it's difficult to use as anything but a place to sleep.

This is kind of getting at my point and prediction. Cars were once seen as Freedom Machines that people were dying to operate when they turned 16.

I believe in future generations will see housing as more than a place to sleep but won’t continue to drool over a 3 or 4 bedroom single family home. People are having fewer kids and the climate is going to make maintaining a yard a bigger hassle and cost in many areas.
One catch they also kill more than half a million people every year. A small price to pay you say? I say burn all of mosquitos every single one to ashes.
> All thanks to "democratizing" ip by stealing data.

That horse is already dead. Large models can learn everything, there's nothing that can be done to stop them from learning. It's too easy for them to do it. We can't hold any meaningful IP when models can generate 100 variations only different enough to pass the test. IP is dead. But on its corpse there will grow a new world of applications. We all got new skills, depends on us if we use them or not.
Do your “studies” take into account that nearly everything you buy and consume today is significantly cheaper? A high end video game in the 1980’s was $75. It is today too. The list goes on.

Houses are the same when you factor in interest rates outside of certain regions that have concentrated wealth due to the expanding professional class.

Medical care is more expensive but not for young people that rarely need it.

Education is a real problem. I’d agree we need to figure that out. It’s a scam today. Kids are left with massive
debt and brainwashing.

But by and large people are wealthier than they’ve ever been overall. There’s never been a better time to be alive and opportunity is everywhere. The question is will it last?
https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo :)
That looks really interesting, may have some features not in my current toolbox (not sure, don't want to assume I understand their terminology) and seems to check most of the boxes for me - thanks for the pointer, I'll have a play.

The foundation of the "off ramp" to me is an RDBMS - I've been evaluating these tools by pointing them at the same db and working on the same app which has been very illuminating. It might be a bit trivial for HN, but I really should write it up properly somewhere.
I agree with you that there are outcomes that would be less ideal. If it helps, I refer to them as Intelligent Tools. I do prefer the "tool" metaphor (and so does Bing Chat) and I hope that companies like Microsoft rethink their "copilot" and "assistant" metaphors.

I don't think they're "dangerous" per se, I think metaphors matter and we should choose the best ones.
Market share is irrelevant. Tesla makes more in margin per car than their next 8 competitors combined.

Recall that Apple took 35% of the profit in the smart phone market with only 7% market share.

Also, Tesla's target market is not EVs. Their entire mission is to lose market share, by encouraging competition to transition to sustainable energy. Tesla's target market for their vehicle business is all vehicles.
you may be interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye

https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/96/3/171/2187545
Wouldn’t you say that this is how evolution and the spread of information works, in a system that has the spark of some life chemistry?

Of course… The hole in that theory is that evolution never found the wheel.

The steel man in that theory is that it invented the neurological and social processes that then went on to invent the wheel. And the platypus and the clap.

Edit: I forgot to bring it back around and make a point ;)

I’m saying that humans invented clocks and CPUs. We only have metaphors that have emerged from the still misunderstood ether of the informatic universe.
Why we need Reinforcement Learning for Language Model training
It sounds like fun. You'll find a bunch of info if you Google the term "digital nomad".

I've never been clear how many people are actually doing it, or how the economics work out. (I think it depends on the exchange rate of the country you're going to.) And of course, living in a foreign countries has its own challenges. Choose wisely.
I've always felt the hardest thing is not to write the code to do the thing.. The hardest thing for me has always been to figure out what the thing to do is..
Why are all customer support tools designed for B2C?
I think this is the right link. It's the initial story from the point of view of the person whose work was plagiarized. The evidence of plagiarism provided there eventually led to the story that I submitted.
I don't see why you would need a visa, you are a US citizen working a job in the US. There could be some fun with your taxes depending how long you are out of the country but nothing major, mainly if you try to use your being out of the country to avoid paying taxes.
I get it. As a software enginer who is familiar with the problems of scale, and did some work in adversarial environment I understand what makes their job wicked hard. (In fact if you read back in my comments you will see one where I write very similar arguments you are saying.)

As a customer, I don’t care. I really don’t. All of these are excuses. Either they did right by me or not. They are not yet in the “never buy from them again” bucket, but they are in the “maximum caution potentially scammy” bucket.

These have all kind of negative consequences to them. I would never buy a high ticket item from them. I wouldn’t buy anything which goes into a person’s body or stays in prolonged contact with it. I wouldn’t buy safety critical equipment from them. And I am advising my friends about these too when the topic comes up. These are whole market segments Amazon lost in my eye. And trust is hard to build back. It is possible that two months from now they will launch a brand new way of validating things which will fix 90% of these issues, yet i will never hear about it, and die as an old man 50 years from now still not trusting them.

> I actually think they do a decent job

By the results they are not. Companies who are doing a decent job don’t get BBC articles written about them. Companies who are doing a decent job don’t get long HN comments where someone explains what arcane things you need to be aware of to safely use their services. (Just see the one in this thread a bit higher.)

> I would encourage you to consider that this is realistically the best that any company could be at building the type of system that Amazon is building.

Perhaps. But as a customer I don’t care. I just move my cursor to the address bar and go somewhere else to service my needs. I go to apple to buy my computer directly, I buy my diy tools from screwfix, I buy my precious metals from cooksongold, I buy my electronic parts from digikey, and I buy food items from the local grocery stores or order it from hello fresh.

These are all purchases I have made recently and these are all transactions where Amazon could have got my money, but they were not even considered because of their well known failings. I don’t mind, maybe they do.
Paul Graham once described the quality of being formidable in a startup founder. If they say they'll get something done in 2 weeks, they'll get it done in 2 weeks, even if poorly done. Formidable founders stand the greatest chance at succeeding. System D certainly reminds me of that.
Also doesn't work in (Chromium-based) Brave. Might be Google product-tying its YouTube dominance to Chrome dominance.
But if your rent is equal to your mortgage (very doable in many places, albeit for different properties), you do not need to uninvest that money for unforeseen expenses.
I assume the person who picks the word does a great deal more than that in the course of a day.
>contain "knowledge" or "intelligence" or "meaning" when in reality, it's just a very fancy Markov chain

These are not mutually exclusive. If you have a Markov chain that 100% of the time outputs "A cat is an animal", then it has knowledge that a cat is an animal.
Je n'apprendre pas le français vite avec Duolingo, mais je apprendre il. J'adore Duolingo. Je l'utilise avec Apple Translate et Google Translate et j'ai changement ma langue dans macOS et iOS en français pour apprendre en immersion. Ma Spotify Discover Weekly est plein avec français musique aussi, qui aide me apprendre plus mots.

Est-ce que mon français bon? Non, sure. Mais, j'essaie et je pence que c'est amusant !

Mais, il faut vouloir l'apprendre en général.

Édit : Ah ! De plus, il y a Reddit français sur reddit.fr qui est plutôt cool.
You had smaller low quality screens, fewer channels and no ability to record. Even if some people watched TV a lot, it was much easier to ignore.
And then we will look into Germany's CO2 per kWh and it is one of the dirtiest in Europe. That's probably because they have so much renewables. Or so little.

I might be lazy, but you are outright dishonest.
There are probably much better courses than Duolingo, but Duolingo has the important advantage that I actually do it. Just racked up a one-year streak in Spanish.

I love the gamification. Duolingo uses every scurvy trick of mobile game gamification - and it's all in the cause of getting you to do your practice. I must do my morning and evening sessions so I can rack up the double XP!!

I can almost read Salvadoran Twitter! Thankfully, shitposting turns out to be the universal human language and translates near-perfectly.

Infuriated to find out just a couple of weeks ago - after nearly a year - that Duolingo Spanish from English just leaves out "vos" entirely. (As well as "vosotros".) And von Ahn's from Guatemala!
Didn't the Saturn V rocket make it to orbit, and without obliterating its launch pads?
Right, so you can understand that it seems like a scam when people are saying that investing in something with limited utility is going to be worth 100x what it is today in purchasing power.
Low-income should be "two-income"
You appear to be very confused about the role the SEC plays in the industry. They're not a friendly, supportive legal advice service, they're law enforcement.

In any case, even if the SEC did give out legal advice, I don't believe it would form any type of legal precedent. Nothing stops the next administration from taking a different view.

If you're a large public company knowingly entering into a regulated industry where your activities are considered by everyone to be a "a bit of a legally grey area", then litigation is the entire ball game. Do the thing, wait to get prosecuted, hope you win.

Alternatively, do some lobbying, get the law changed how you want, then do the activity. Been happening for centuries. Easy as pie.
That's quite a lot of projection. I bought a Model 3 because it felt objectively better / better value than everything else on the market at the time, having, you know, actually test driven pretty much everything. (Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia e-Niro, Jaguar I-PACE, Porsche Taycan even).

Techies might (gross generalisation warning) tend to:
a) Have higher than average disposable income
b) Be early adopters of new tech
c) Care less what other people think of them than an average person
d) Judge things more objectively than an average person.

So it's hardly surprising a lot of them end up buying a Tesla Model 3. They are very well-packaged, fast, have good range, the Supercharger network, and are fairly mid-priced as cars these days go (similar to say a slower BMW 3 series diesel, at least in the UK).

The BMW i4 launched recently. The Tesla Model 3 is a six year old design. And yet the i4 has much worse range, is either slower or much more expensive, and according to all the critics seems to be less fun to drive.

Heaven forfend that anyone buy a car on its merits, as opposed to what other people think of the badge.
> Also, as they the hyper-parameter selection fully to the users, they become not falsifiable. If they didn’t work, it is because you didn’t pick the right hyper-parameters or training procedures.

See Also: Scrum certification.
Here's the relevant headers in the ToC.

11. Atomic Transactions

11.1 KV Transaction Interfaces

11.2 DB Transaction Interfaces

11.3 Implementing the KV Transaction

12. Concurrent Readers and Writers

12.1 The Readers-Writer Problem

12.2 Analysing the Implementation

12.3 Concurrent Transactions

Part 1: Modify the KV type

Part 2: Add the Read-Only Transaction Type

Part 3: Add the Read-Write Transaction Type

12.4 The Free List

12.5 Closing Remarks
> There's no way the USA would adopt BTC as its central currency for example because it would lose that ability.

Yup. A government surrendering their ability to print money is unthinkable. They'd be giving up a major policy enforcement tool.

To quote the obviously relevant: "“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
Similar work with impressive results: https://bluestyle97.github.io/dream3d/
Canadian blackflies will happily tear out off a chunk of meat. Or at least, that's what it feels like.
Why on earth would I do that when I could just rent and put the money in index fund which will appreciate.
That's Aristotle physics.
Rolling back or cloning the snapshot lets you get back deleted files, or reverting a bad update or config change...

The snapshot is also a point in time to derive backups from, and usually costs nothing to make, as opposed to making a dd image of the disk, or tarballing everything, etc.

Whether you think you need those is debatable, but it's quick and easy enough, works for me.
> I said small Indian town, not Indiana town :)

Big difference! My mistake.

The stats you're referencing appear to be ETH chain only. I'm not really into NFT's, but aren't they more popular on other chains/rollups because of gas cost?

I think the active users might be at least 3x your estimates, but I could be wrong. For example, tether's market cap is >$80b and only ~$30b of that is on ETH.

https://dune.com/rchen8/defi-users-over-time
Love this story. My fear would be that insiders at some point of the pipeline are routing the best stuff to their associates.
Did any ICE phaseouts start to happen prior to Tesla starting to deliver EVs that were just as good, though?