skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It was used in standard chess before being replaced by the bishop in the 15th and 16th centuries."

The bishop is a modern European invention.

> In Hindi, Persian and Arabic variations of the game, the bishop piece was...

There was no bishop in traditional Hindi, Persian and Arabic variations. There was an elephant though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess)#History

"The bishop's predecessor in medieval chess, shatranj (originally chaturanga), was the alfil, meaning "elephant", which could leap two squares along any diagonal, and could jump over an intervening piece."
250k gallons of sewage spill into Los Angeles River, prompting beach closures
Yes, I agree to a great degree: It depends on Biden's priorities, to fight for it or to trade it away.

But the idea that nobody is working on it is a great exaggeration.
I guess I just don't think that's a distinction worth making. The size of the ecosystem is what matters. The billions sitting in accounts denominated in that currency, and the daily total volume actually do matter, even if the trades are not mostly not happening on chain.
GPT-4 generally performs better than expert human workers on NLP tasks, nevermind bespoke models. https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-cro....
Exactly.

It is of course entirely straightforward to make customers more happy by making small payments, than it is to create actual meaningful functional customer support.
Many American tech companies would not be where they are today without the US government.

Oracle, from the CIA. Google and GMaps and the road data... heck, the internet in general.
> US could reform by, instead of aiming for the biggest economy, aiming to be one of the best economies in which to live

Economies of scale mean these go hand in hand. (The cheat code is trade alliances.)
If you like this, you’ll love learning about “Imaginary Colors” aka “Impossible colors”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color?wprov=sfti1

Also don’t miss the Mantis Shrimp eyes:

https://www.radiolab.org/podcast/211178-rip-rainbow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp?wprov=sfti1
You know what? I don’t care if it’s impossible. I want my politicians to get caught trying to do the right thing.
If you don't apply a rigorous evaluation and testing framework you are a Prompt Alchemist at best.
Written Cantonese exists, but most Cantonese-speakers write in standard written Chinese (which is what you’re calling “written Mandarin” here), and pronounce the characters in Cantonese, regardless of whether they can speak Mandarin.
> The debt ceiling functions primarily to give negotiation leverage to the m̶i̶n̶o̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ Republican party.

Fixed that.

And the Republicans only caring about it when they're in power should give you some indication of the level of commitment they have to smaller government.
These people think that their data are safe with those products and third parties.

Those who are burnt by this trust, tend to change their mind quickly.
For relational databases it certainly does.
The calculus is naturally going to differ depending on the individual, but for points 1 and 3, if you can find newer construction within budget that's more likely to have been built to code and not in need of critical maintenance, things will likely work out in favor of homeownership.

Having previously been renting in the SF Bay Area, ownership worked out much better in my case. With the rate that rent had been increasing there it'd take several bad unexpected house repairs each year to equal the increases.

Factoring in planned improvements might make money spent over time more of a wash, but the big difference there is that I can save and plan for improvements… point in case I have planned major bathroom renovations that I've been sticking money into a high yield savings account for. If push comes to shove, don't actually need to do the renovations though, and that money can go towards other more important things helping mitigate or prevent financial disaster. 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.
Yet app store itself is violating the app store rule and being sued in California for this.

So the walled garden didn't work that well right?
Is the price rise a slap on the face? It sounds like it’s what you want. If you want letters to go out for minor issues and landscaping, towing etc, you need funding to do it. This has to happen before enforcement increases.
I think that getting your ideal back is going to take several more big increases.

> Unlike socialism, I can politic my way into the board and demand change.

That sounds like the definition of socialism. What do you mean?
>The solution is fixing the software

No.

The solution is fixing the system that allows these people to act with impunity.

No matter how "fixed" the software is, they'll find ways to misuse it.
Wow, things... have changed.

Thanks for sharing.
This is how I interpret the statement: "Smart people are no more resistant to it than anyone else". 'it' = being conned. 'anyone' does include the dumbest people in the world, so, "Smart people are no more resistant to being conned than the dumbest people in the world" which is enough in my opinion to falsify the absolute statement.
from that source we find descriptions of two features

"enhancements to automatically draft message responses"

"Another solution will bring natural language queries to SlicerDicer"

neither of which needs 32k token nor to see the patient records

also, foot note 1

"users of Azure and Azure OpenAI Service are responsible for ensuring the regulatory compliance of their use"

there is zero claim of actual compliances of these services for handling sensitive or regulated data.

now I understand the enthusiasm, but at least don't waste people time with sources that are, at best, tangential, and don't provide any substance to the discussion
Stop using Amazon if they treat you poorly, or if you see them treating others poorly and reasonably expect the same. Without much trouble at all, I've cut my Amazon usage ~98%.

A tip to HN readers: With the Internet, a nearly free, global, wide-area network, you can connect to any business in the world and buy there.

Seriously, you may be accustomed to using Amazon and so it's immediately easier. But imagine Amazon went out of business. You will quickly become accustomed to other retailers and forget all about Amazon.
>With great claims comes great burden of proof

Regular people (aka "voters") don't have the power to demand anything. They're driven around like cattle.
Looks like they don't accept fictional brands from books that haven't been adapted into some visual form of media. I am disappointed! Would love to see the brands from William Gibson's Sprawl Series, like Ono-Sendai and Tessier-Ashpool S.A. There are no known logos for the brands, although others have attempted to imagine them: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/2mf54c/my_neurom...
Unreal Engine 5 is just insane: this video isn’t real
Teenagers haven’t been allowed to buy beer in the US for a few decades!

(And I agree completely: it should be an obligation of social welfare, not child labor, to compensate for the family’s ability to put food on the table. This is one of the reasons that most states limit teenagers to half-time or similar roles, which most non-Hoover-affiliated people again don’t object to.)
Eh, I think want is a strong word but you're right. Americans are conditioned through predatory advertising to assume the only safe car is a big one, and the only mark of masculinity is size.

Chubbiness of my fellow patriots aside, our commutes suck. Plush seating, ample leg room, and a corpulent selection of infotainment amenities help ease the pain of a 30 mile or more slog through traffic.
Similarly, “rook” only means the chess piece in English, but England is labeled as having it mean chariot. So the “alfil” example is consistent.
>You can “expect” all you like, but doing so won’t make it better. The best way to solve this problem would, as you say, to have people do better. But that is not happening, and the problem still needs solving as soon as possible.

Yes.

And this is what #defundthepolice is about, once you learn enough about it.
Like most internet articles. Just imagine the title prepended with "Long mutterings on the topic of...".
This was the most insightful snippet in the article for me:

> Like all the teachers I spoke to, Zimotti sees Duolingo as supplemental to the kind of deep immersion that language learning requires. But, in his opinion, the time most people spend on Duolingo is time they would otherwise spend on TikTok or watching television, not learning a second language in some more optimal way.

Unfortunately, Duolingo doesn't market itself that way, preferring nonsense like "fifteen minutes a day can teach you a language". Of course there are many more customers who can spend fifteen minutes a day on it than hours at a time in an immersive context, topped up with fifteen minutes of Duolingo.
Does anyone know a good prompt to turn chatGPT into a practice partner?
The others might move wafers 24/7 but they don't have three shifts of R&D scientists and engineers working to continuously analyze the results/improve yield/performance 24/7. TSMC does.
And the last piece of the equation:

Applied Physics = Applied Math.
Why would you think so? I’m in none of those categories and still see ads.
I believe you misunderstood the comment you're replying to. It says the internal state could be recreated because it is deterministic, and this is correct.

Assuming you have control of the parameters (seed etc.) you can reproduce the exact internal states by submitting the same tokens with the same parameters over again step-by-step.

With GPT-4 you can do this in the OpenAI Dialogue Playground or via the API.
For a good practical guide on switching regulator component selection and layout check out Phil's Lab on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT_Ofd54fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfLhT5SntE

He also has good guides on digital audio processing and sensor fusion.
The question is what's faster - finishing an adequate launch platform or repairing/rebuilding a destroyed one?

I'm convinced that a 2 month delay followed by a less destructive test flight and a quicker turnaround time for the next attempt would've been quicker. But we'll see how long it'll take SpaceX to fix the damage. If it takes less than 8 weeks until the next launch attempt, I was wrong about my assessment.
from 2018 - Atari 8-bit emulator app, Xformer 10, has tiled mode (not sure about the hardware/inter-XL communication)

The text mentions running hundreds of Atari 8-bit apps simultaneously.

see http://www.emulators.com/xformer.htm#XFORMER10
Because mowing your lawn with inkjets just doesn’t work well
This nonsense illustrates the most typical way that people misunderstand the word "engineering" in a software context. Software engineering and prompt engineering is not about the self-proclaimed level of rigor or formality that you apply. It's about the actual knowledge and processes used and especially their _effectiveness_ as measured in closed feedback loops.

But the starting point for this is that the term "prompt engineering" is an obvious exaggeration that people are using to promote a skill set which is real and very useful but a big stretch to describe as a whole new engineering discipline.

Regardless of what you call it, like software engineering, it really is a process of trial and error for the most part. With the capabilities of the latest OpenAI models, you should be aiming for a level of generality where most tasks are not going to have a simple answer that you can automatically check to create an accuracy score. EDIT: after thinking about it, there certainly are tasks that you could check for specific answers to create an accuracy score, but I still think it would make more sense in most cases to instead spend time iterating on user feedback rather than trying to think of comprehensive test cases on your own. There are a few things to know, such as the idea of providing examples, the necessary context, and telling the model to work step-by-step.

Actually I would say that there are two major things that could be improved in the engineering described in this article related to actually closing the feedback loops he mentions. He really should at least mention the possibility of coming up with a new prompt candidate after he was done with the first round of tests and also after the users found some problem cases.

The main thing is to close the feedback loops.
Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observations, & learnings?
Perhaps one option could be that the wealthy and powerful people pay $2k/mo for Violet checkmarks and us plebs can pay $8/mo for blue checkmarks. $1k/mo of that $2k goes to a 5013c charity of their choice.

Then copy Discord and let people boost their profile and add other emoji like checkmarks. If a person boosts their profile enough they even get to add up to 3 icons from favicon [1]. /s?

[1] - https://www.favicon.cc/
Small amounts of cadmium and lead. Honestly you should not focus on that the batteries are the one that a legit argument is for imho. I’ve looked into why solar panels degrade over time and it’s mostly them physically being destroyed. The uv degradation happens very quickly and so isn’t gonna further ruin the panels output after its already been exposed a bit
Yeah, um... exactly. It's baked into your salary, though.
Cars in the U.S. are still FAR bigger on average than anywhere I‘ve seen (in Europe or Asia).
Rolling your own loyalty points program
>And even if he says he doesn’t want to work, does that mean he is forced to? His parents might have told him that he has to work so he won’t play video games all day. Is that kind of parental discipline one that we should use the legal system to discourage? It’s a tough problem.

In that case, yes, he is still being forced to work. Saying it's parental discipline does not make it not force. Abuse is also "parental discipline".

In theory I think it being easy for teenagers to work could be a good thing. In theory it only increases options for a teenager and doesn't force them to do anything. In reality, I think if it were significantly easier, then a lot of parents would force their teens to work, which would be a bad thing.

Also, the "training wages" thing where minors can be paid less for a significant length of time should probably just not exist, or at least be shortened to 1 month, or something.
> The only thing he has done is not destroy the Google cash firehose.

Unfortunately, this recent LLM trend will seriously threaten it. If an LLM can provide the answer, then why would a user click to go to a website? And if there are no clicks to a website, why would the website curate the information? How will they make money? The long-term effects of how LLMs are integrated into Search are still unknown. Of course, MSFT would love to push Google into LLMs, as that hurts their ads business.

Also (as I mentioned in an earlier comment) he has been milking that cow a bit too much. The ad load on Google sites has gone through the roof. A fair(er) comparison of his performance would be to see how much revenue Google would make at the same ad load as in 2015. Any idiot can make 5x more revenue in the very short term by showing 20x more ads. That is not rocket science. What _is_ interesting is if you can do it without increasing the ad load. That's where the real magic lies.
Llama-scale models should have no problem running on iPhone. I doubt it will be a unique feature, though - not only is the Neural Engine near-useless for inferencing, Android devices have a much better runtime for loading and managing large models. Comparing Apple's Pytorch contributions to what Microsoft is doing on ARM with ONNX, it (ironically) feels like non-Apple platforms are teed-up better for local AI. Running LLaMA on an Ampere server or Rockchip SOC is easy as pie.

If Apple does go this route, I feel like they're setting themselves up for disruption. Someone else (hell, maybe even Meta) will do it better, and Apple's implementation will hold on by the thread of native integration it uses. It's not a bad or new situation, but I'm going to bet that Apple will hamstring themselves by locking competitors out. Especially if the current pace of model development keeps up.
The loophole is that they were not regulated into oblivion. That's not a loophole.
But those consumer apps that use or sell personal data against that persons interests as a business model, or those that leak or lose personal information through negligence are very harmful to society. Why should they get a pass?
Fun but arguably seldom readable, methinks?
The facts that you remember them, and that this comment is hilarious, kind of show that they didn't fit just fine..
The article you linked says that GPT4 performed better than crowdsourced workers, not than experts. The experts performed better than GPT4 in all but 1 or 2 cases. And in my experience with Mechanical Turk, the workers from MT are often barely better than random chance.
I don’t know about that. I had a tiny Audi a3 over 10 years ago and easily fit two giant recaro car seats. And a booster seat sat between them.
Someone's already started work on a browser plugin[1] to automate the tedious process of blocking what are now conveniently flagged low quality posters, but I recommend submitting feedback in the app reviews to ask that Twitter make this a first-party feature.

[1] https://github.com/rlyshw/blue-check-blocker
As kids we would tell each other about the flex trick, it worked fine on tiger mosquitoes for example. The reason we didn't continue is that it would cause a larger more aggravating welt.
I don't care if you work in security - the fact is that I have to completely trust every application that I want to run on Linux, which is unacceptably bad, and "Simply not necessary for normal applications running on my local desktop" is factually false (unless you're using some "gotcha" convoluted definition of "normal").

A sanely-designed OS will provide either capabilities or sandboxing - the tech has been around for decades, and they're more needed than ever in the 21st century with its abundance of malware.
>The bank knows your password. Which means they (or more precisely their agents, employees, etc.) can lose it yet they'll probably try to blame you.

Normally banks can't and shouldn't know the password in most jurisdictions. It does pass to their server, but they're supposed to only store a hash of it, so not be able to know what it is.

But if anybody makes this BS argument, just ask them for the credit card number and the 3 digits on the back of the card, telling them you will post it online.
I guess future games will work like this, just with more dolls on screen and maybe with natural language (but in fact sql). The range of actions is huge.
Something related to prime factorization maybe?
The song actually goes

...
With a mighty hand
And an outstretched arm
His love endures forever

For this life
That's been reborn
His love endures forever

Sing praise
...

Still have it memorized. Echoes in a mind vault from a past age.
Comment made me curious so I looked it up.

They do contain heavy metals and toxic substances. As do the batteries.

Looking it up, it appears that the contamination occurs during disposal so it's not a good idea to dispose of these in the kind of landfill where they can get into the water table, and it's preferable to recycle them.

It appears that mining these materials in formalized industrial mines has no child labour according to Human Rights Watch. It's artisanal independent mines that are risky from this perspective.

Overall, the technology seems safe.
I learn better when I pay less attention to XP and approach it like this e.g. on Duolingo's most common exercise where you have to assemble words into a sentence, I avoid looking at the words and formulate a sentence in my head first.
This entire article is pure unsubstantiated biased opinion based on the author's personal anecdotes with a misleading headline. The author disingenuously attempts to spin the requirement that teenagers have parental consent to obtain a work permit as somehow not allowing kids to work. This is just an obvious appeal to emotion to justify the further erosion of parents and workers rights to protect the waning corporate profit margins of failing, mismanaged companies who can no longer compete in a free market. We're sacrificing our society to subsidize capitalism.
I guess I have to ask: is this a legal grey area? The UK claims sharing of things like Netflix passwords is illegal[0]. That said, people pay for Netflix, so they wouldn't be dumping those creds on sites like this for all to plunder.

But I still think we need more of these 'skeleton key' type sites, not just one. It's great that it's open source and on GitHub[1] and I encourage as many people as possible to host their own instance.

We can't afford another BugMeNot type shutdown. The Internet needs these types of sites badly, even though it's a possible legal grey area (Don't forget pass sharing is forbidden in some ToS).

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/password-sharing-illegal-gov...

[1] https://github.com/midzer/dontbore/
There are good arguments to be made against the (hoover institute's) position but I don't see them here.

I see a lot of conflation between legalizing an activity and promoting an activity - the same sloppy argument made to prosecute the failed war on drugs.
If you have triplets or three small children then you will be used to $1500 on stuff. Do not look up prices for strollers.
There are many gaps in the article.

They talk about SUVs the size of the Ford Expedition, which certainly sold well, but smaller SUVs like the Ford Explorer, Chevy Blazer and Jeep Cherokee that are more similar to the crossovers our roads are jammed with today sold even bigger number and continued to grow in popularity.

I think the number of reason is cheap fuel compared to Europe, marketing, infrastructure and norms. We don’t have old cities with narrow streets like Europe does. Our suburban homes have space for a large car. Our cars were always big.
But what about cost? There was a recent article saying that Doordash makes 40 billion predictions per day, which would result in 40 million dollars per day if using GPT4.

Sure, GPT4 is great for experimenting with and I often try it out, but at the end of the day, for deploying a widely used model, the cost benefit analysis will favor bespoke models a lot of the time.
Duolingo’s definitely gotten better in the last few years at least.

I try to do it on a self enforced “hard mode” where I close my eyes and listen before each exercise, and cover the answers. I also type all the exercises instead of the word bubbles which helps with learning the accent placement.

But it’s only a supplement to a more rigorous routine which includes a Pimsleur speaking/listening lesson, and two Anki (spaced repetition flashcards) decks, one for conjugation and one for vocabulary.

And then chatting with friends.

Finally, I listen to radio stations from Spanish speaking countries while working.

I suspect if I keep it up I’ll be pretty decent by the end of the year.
At that point you can either call them a pervert and weirdo, or you can ask to film then while they poop and upload it to YouTube with their name attached.
"Necessary" because Linux's security mitigations are unacceptably insecure for the 21st century. As it stands, I have to completely trust applications before I run them, and there's literally no reason for that to be the case - sandboxing is a straightforward mechanism, not a tricky problem like Traveling Salesman.