skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regarding end-2-end encryption: It does not prevent a government from reading your messages anyhow. They could instruct Meta (or whichever company is in control of the app you use) to send them the the messages you write directly from your phone. Or from the phone of the receiver. Or to send them the private key from your phone. They could also ask Apple or Google to do so, since those have acceess to everything on your phone.

There is a huge difference between "use the encryption key you already have to decrypt this message" and "implement changes in your software that allow attacking this person".

Last I heard, US courts couldn't force companies into doing anything, only to reveal information, or to mandate secrecy. The idea of a warrant canary is 100% based on the idea that the government cannot force the company to publish a statement it does not wish to publish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
I don't think that does count as shadowing, unless the floppy is mapped into memory and then the RAM is later mapped at the same address.
I don't need an Internet connection or a website to hash a string in any language I program in
Waterproof: Educational Software for Learning How to Write Mathematical Proofs
I don't understand, GPT-4 answers this very easily:

> To calculate the total cost, first find the cost for each item:

> Two baguettes at 1 euro each: 2 * 1 = 2 euros

> Five chocolatines at 1.40 euros each: 5 * 1.40 = 7 euros

> Five croissants at 1.20 euros each: 5 * 1.20 = 6 euros

> Five raisin breads at 1.60 euros each: 5 * 1.60 = 8 euros

> Now, add up the cost of each item:

> 2 euros (baguettes) + 7 euros (chocolatines) + 6 euros (croissants) + 8 euros (raisin breads) = 23 euros

> You should take 23 euros with you to purchase all the items.

Are you sure you're using GPT-4 and not 3.5? GPT-4 is incomparably more competent compared to GPT-3.5 on logical tasks like this (trust me, I've had it solve much more complicated questions than this), and you aren't using GPT-4 on chat.openai.com unless you're paying for it and deliberately picking it when creating a new chat.

Edit: Here's an example of a more complicated question that GPT-4 answered correctly on the first try: https://i.imgur.com/JMC7jsw.png

Funnily enough, this was also a problem that a friend posed to me while trying to challenge the reasoning ability of GPT-4. As you can see (cross-reference it if you like), it nailed the answer.
My point was the core of a DC-DC converter like the simple boost converter I mention does not rely on AC to work. It relies on building up a magnetic field in the inductor and then redirecting that stored energy somewhere.

Any AC inside the circuit is due to imperfections, like the reverse recovery time of the diodes or similar.
That’s the killer, and it gets bad really fast once an industry “decides” on something. And people simply fall through the cracks.
Isn’t this basically the “Gish gallop” at scale?
That is why control is so important. Just like Wordpress took over the web design landscape, an open source model you control at home is important in countering the specter of the big bro ai.
Usually adults have some kind of extrinsic motivation for learning a language: to use it while travelling, to become proficient so they can live in a certain country, to talk to their boyfriend/girlfriend, to use it at work, in other words to communicate with other people in some set of situations. Duolingo may or may not help towards their goal of communicating with others in the situations they desire.

If you just want to study a language for the hell of it, without a goal in mind, then Duolingo is fine. Adults tend to fail at learning languages with only intrinsic motivation because it’s a huge time sink.
It doesn’t matter.

It gives OpenAI a legal basis to launch a law suit if they want to.

Would it succeed? Is it right? Do they care? Eh.

…but, if I as some random reddit user say I might sue you for making a LLM you for training on data that may or may not have my posts in it, you can probably safely ignore me.

If you go and build a massive LLM using high quality data that couldn’t possibly come from anywhere other than openai, and they have a log of all the content that api key XXX generated; they both know and have a legal basis for litigation.

There’s a difference, even if you’re a third party (not the owner of the api key) or don’t care.

(And I’m not saying they would, or even they would win; but it’s sufficient cause for them to be able to make a case if they want to)
Modern Transactional Stack
To really learn you gotta use it and immerse yourself in it. Duolingo taught me enough Dutch that I could start picking out the stories in comic books. That started to teach me enough phrases and idioms and grammar that I could start basic conversations. Once I could do that the rest all fell into place.

Got to the level in Dutch in 4 years that I was able to begin working fulltime using no English. I never thought I'd be able to really speak a second language. I'm nowhere near native level, feel like I'm still learning every day, but I can speak it, I can carry out my daily life in work and socially. Duolingo really got me started.

I'm not a fan of the gaimification but that's the way of the world. I'm not a fan of a lot of technology but it is certainly very helpful sometimes.
There are lies, damn lies, and data sheets.
> a new application framework for better or worse (a staple of the windows phone era)

Not just of the windows phone era, but also of the windows 8+ Era as well. Microsoft has been through so many new application frameworks at this point. It definitely hurt them a lot on Windows Phone though as application compatibility was the biggest miss. They failed to convince developers to come to their platform.

IIRC correctly they even had monetary incentives for developers to come to the platform and some of the applications that were developed died due to the framework changes (and a lack of developer will to invest further into a comparably small user base).

This is pretty well seen on Windows desktop today as well. Many of the most popular windows applications are now embedded browser engines like Electron. Even if developers were willing to eschew cross-platform compatibility which windows UI toolkit should they bet on? Which will be easiest to hire for in 5-10 years?
Now do the necessary steps to see how many it takes to multiply large numbers, let's say 1'785'375 * 7'367'594, in one method vs. the other and then comeback and tell me again if you'll ever use anything else than lattice one.
Hundred Prisoners and a Lightbulb – Looking Back
Hasn't Apple always said the reason they don't allow sideloading was that it'd be impossible without compromising security? So are they claiming their European iDevices won't be secure anymore, or are they admitting they were lying before and that the real reason was nothing but greed?
Sounds like that'll take a lot of concrete being moved by machinery.
My PI spent plenty of time in the gym during his PhD working up to a 700lbs squat. Not sure why you think students don't have time to lift
My dad used to have a poster on the wall of his office way back in the 80s (he was a coach) that captures the idea quite well. It had a gorilla sitting with his hand under his chin and the caption read “Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.”

When I was a kid I thought it was humorous self-deprecation. Now that I’m older I see it is a recipe for contentment.
If they really sell that for £8000 with a 200 mile range then that could wipe out most of the UK car market. The biggest problem with electric cars is that anything affordable has like a 50 mile range which means you can't actually use it in the real world. I'm not spending 40k on a car just so it has the range of a £2000 petrol car.
> Inflation is irrelevant. I've studied economics ... it's hogwash.

I call the above statement hogwash. Let’s take your proposal to the logical extreme. If inflation is hogwash, then why do we have to tax the citizens? Why not just print the money we need to run the government? Why do we have a national debt if we could just print the money we need to pay it off? We could try your proposal by I don’t think it would end well.
I have recently found that converting higher DC voltage (48v or higher) down to 5v is rather difficult. Or at least there are not many isolated options on the market. I have a diy home battery system that runs on 48v and it has been very difficult to get anything to work and not fail within a week or two. I started with various sizes of buck converters, but it seems that they are too noisy and get blown out by voltage spikes or dips when the inverter kicks in or cuts off. I finally found some isolated converters that convert dc-ac-dc through induction. But the largest I could find can do 5v at 1amp. So I had to get two of them just to handle a raspberry pi zero and an esp8266.
Duolingo actually has little characters who sort of act out the sentence you're studying to create a kind of visual association with the words.
Looks like nobody here has heard of an Executor.
Now I finally know what my Swiss mother-in-law says when the normal tablecloth is dirty and we need to improvise.

I thought “oh it’s like Plan B”, but never got why it’s D…. Now I get that D is a euphemism for “out of the shit” (démerde).
The ramifications of this random, impulsive trolling operation by a man with pockets deeper than his intellect will fill the college funds of so many lawyers’ children. Truly breathtaking.

It’s also going to be interesting to see the GDPR implications.
I know, I was there once. But a time will come. Cherish the moments now. And later, enjoy the freedom. Perhaps too soon.
As an isolated counter point, in high school I went to a summer program (aka “nerd camp”) where we had Japanese drilled into us from 8am - 9am every day for 5 weeks by native Japanese speakers. I can still count to 10 today 20+ years later.
> Learning to say what you want is a skill

True, but “learning to figure out what someone wanted to say but wasn’t able to express themselves” is also a skill, I expect LLMs will be able to learn that pretty well.

Imagine you prompt ChatGPT4.5 and it doesn’t give you what you want. You click the thumbs down. ChatGPT says “Hold on, let me try again”. (Behind the scenes, OpenAI runs your prompt through their “prompt improver”, replaces your prompt with that prompt, and just shows you the output, no point showing the optimized prompt since it might be gibberish to a human). The new response actually is what you want, so you click thumbs up on the new output. That “thumbs down, thumbs up” pattern generates high quality labeled data for training the prompt improver, with very little cost.
What is the point of computers? A question for pure mathematicians
I imagine prompt engineering sounds better during interviews. :)
All of the 'underground' things desperate people do to stay alive, i.e. prostitution
About 10 years ago I applied for a software engineering job at a startup that had the title “System D Engineer.” I thought it was the perfect distillation of what it’s like being an engineer at an early stage startup. I got the offer and I probably should have taken it. It would have been interesting and the startup had a successful exit!
They were battery kings well before that. CATL is the OG of the LiFePO4 chemistry and developed most of the mass production techniques to make the chemistry feasible. Tesla came along later and just bought lots of their stuff.
Google Earth in the browser uses WASM too:

https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/webassembly-brings-google-...
This is of course illegal since it's claiming dead people are paying for a product in order to advertise it. I filed an FTC complaint just cause it was easy.

nb the old Blue was useful and I did pay for it, the new one is basically features for scammers and people who want to get into fights.
"You aren't entitled to a platform sweetie"

"Just build your own critical infrastructure"

How the tables have turned
Ask HN: Linux Ext4 Disk Optimization
If ext4 need no defragmentation then how/what definitively to optimize its disk access operation
True but with the list you know they are facing fines. So there is a call to action of sorts that the potential customer needs it done ASAP to avoid further penalties and fines…
Of course it does. This is the country that insists that Taiwan is not allowed to exist either.
Comic books is what really worked for me. I'm lucky that I was learning Dutch and the Belgians are great at comic writing. When you don't quite have the vocabulary you can use the pictures for enough context clues to decipher it.

When I started it took me a week to read one story. Got that down to an evening, then one hour. Now I can read them as quickly as English unless there's something very unusual happening.
It's a bit more complicated because markets are not perfectly rational, but also because of rational expectations and speculative movements.

When there is an expectation that zoning laws will be changed to allow higher density, or when there's an expectation that there will be a growing market for high-end real estate, the ask price from land owners usually rises.

The markets are not 100% efficient in the real world, outside of the simplest economic models.
> and using that to represent the entire structure of Western society

Western, Eastern, Northern and Southern - all societies

It’s like the prison guard complaining to the prisoner about how badly the king treats the guards
This vibes with my experience as well. In terms of actual long term value, this kind of educational exploration is promising. It acts, in a way, as a domain expert who understands your language and can help you orient yourself in a domain which is otherwise difficult to penetrate.

I also am happy that language-as-gate-keeping, which is plaguing so many fields both in academia and business, is going to quickly be “democratized”, in the best sense of the word. LLMs can help you decipher text written in eg law speak, and it also can translate your own words into a form that will get grand poobah to take you seriously. Kind of like a spell/grammar checker on steroids.
This reminds me of the days of making text adventures that used a width 0 frame to store background variables.
This doesn't pass the smell test, and doesn't seem to be true. See e.g. [1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance
Would You Use This? / Feedback on Live Commenting Browser Extension
FlowNote is a browser extension + web app that will let you leave comments, scribble on, and highlight content on live websites (even authentication gated web apps) I'm planning on building this to solve my own problem and I'd like to find out if this is something any of you would like to use (especially anyone doing web design and development).

Here's the landing page: https://www.flownote.so/

Feedback and opinions are appreciated. If you see yourself trying this out, please join the waitlist :)
At what stage with the AGI be handed over to “the people”.

I’m not being a prick on purpose, but one should ask these questions rather than reaching for blind optimism.
Duolingo is a low-density learning experience. Some of the drills are good, but there's a lot that are counter productive. The ones that ask you to translate a phrase back to your native language are the biggest time wasters.

The focus should be on developing an intuitive understanding of your target language. Besides making you think in your native language again, the translation drills become a frustrating game of guessing the correct phrasing Duolingo is looking for.

Reading, listening and having conversations with native speakers is how you learn. The language learning platform should be there to help you do that.
Can we know if we already reached the point of no return and the greenhouse gases are coming from the permafrost melting?
All of these accounts "subscribed" to Twitter Blue at the same time, it's obviously a change made by Twitter themselves. I doubt anyone even has custody of Bourdain or Norm Macdonald's accounts given their activity abruptly ends at the time of their deaths, accounts managed by a third party would usually post some kind of farewell message.
This is so interesting to me. When I switched to daily driving Linux, I started with Ubuntu, then switched to Manjaro. I found Manjaro to be closer to the worst of both worlds. Mostly following arch, but delayed (without testing, really). I think I tried right when it had one of it's major fiascos a few years back which left a bad taste in my mouth. I've found Endeavor to be closer to what I was looking for in Manjaro (Arch with a better installer and helpful defaults) but have since settled with OpenSUSE for all of my computers now.

I think I just used Manjaro at an unfortunate time. If I ever needed to go back to an Arch like system perhaps I would try it again. I see so many people speaking highly of it so I suspect my experience isn't representative.
https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf

So i think the trendline in terms of homeownership rates seems to be gently decreasing for all age groups, but there's a big spike during the 2 housing bubbles we've seen when rates were at historic lows.
Nice write up. Hadn't thought about this since I was a kid.
they don't, it's a branded account. wealthfront's cash management account currently pays 4.3% up to 3m.
Are there chips doing that but buck-boost ? I know there are for "normal" current range, but I haven't found anything super low power

Use case: I want to just have a solar panel + supercap into microcontroller for IoT stuff so I want to suck that cap dry and avoid batteries for temperature range reasons.
We won't hit the wall.

Somewhat counterintuitively, scaling datasets is the lazy and economical approach. If you have the compute already, might as well dig an OOM more text tokens.

But there are other sources of data, and slightly different ways to utilize it. Multimodality, in very large training runs, will almost inevitably increase sample efficiency (for obvious reasons of context richness), synthetic data is already very effective [1], and there are and will be discovered other ways to do more in the condition of diminishing raw text resources. But a thorough abandonment of the scaling strategy is very unlikely.

Sutton's Bitter Lesson [2] points at a very powerful rule of thumb: we shouldn't turn AI engineering into a contest of smartness, we should allow complex smartness to emerge from generic low-level algorithms. What will be seen as laughable in decades to come is not the scaling strategy, but the Godlike conceit of people who thought they can devise generally applicable rules of reasoning from first principles.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08466
2: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I feel like it’s normal but people just don’t notice. Light is naturally noisy.
In my experience living abroad in a country where English is well spoken, text is practically far more important. You can always work an understanding out with a human, but you can't ask a signpost to repeat itself or a letter to explain something in English.
Hrm.. (remembering the first episode of Sons of Anarchy)
I remember reading something that TMC has links with the local universities to train talent, and nearly guarantee them a job in the end... Ireland has an Intel Fab here, and I don't think there are many courses around here doing chip development... Mind you, not sure Intel Ireland does chip development, but could be wrong... they have something like 6k employees, god only knows what they are doing...
Model 3 is $39K less the $7500 rebate. Camry is still far cheaper...
I think outsourcing is actually a symptom rather than a cause.

The real problem is that many countries don't want to do innovation because it's expensive and/or they don't want to invest in the education necessary.

China is able to do China things because they produce an absolutely staggering number of STEM grads and have jobs for them to fill. Everything from high energy particle physics to industrial chemistry, if you have a hard science degree in China your employment is pretty much gauranteed. This is a self perpetuating cycle too because as you provide more and more STEM labour more and more innovation occurs which spawns new industry which employs more STEM labour, etc.

Conversely China is struggling with the opposite end of the scale where most Western countries excel at which is finding jobs for people without hard skills. China youth unemployment rate is very high among those without STEM degrees.
Hey all! Thanks so much for giving the game a try and for the feedback! This was a big learning project for me and I really appreciate the time.

Quick things that might help anyone who is yet to give it a go;

- You can switch off/speed up the typewriter and the tv effects in the menu

- You can skip the intro video (which plays music) by clicking the radio button in the first menu

- I have tried to make it mobile friendly but it is still MUCH easier to use on desktop, particularly with the ability to expand the SQL panel to full screen. I would really welcome suggestions about mobile friendliness though I ended up reasoning that SQL is best written on a bigger screen anyway because of the necessity to see long queries and results simultaneously

- The story mode is for learning, the challenges section will let you jump in to test your SQL skills if you already know, I need to add more detail in the menu about how "challenging" each chanterelle is but "Pudding" is a more challenging one if you're looking for it. There are a couple bits in there specifically to trip up GPT by requiring someone to look at and understand the tables because they have some classic silly data processing mistakes in them

- When you type a table name the autocomplete will suggest the full table name but ALSO all the columns of that table. I added that so that people could see the column list/ not have to remember exactly what columns are in what table/ avoid frustrating spelling errors. Appreciate it's not the same as having a window of the full table but honestly I had to fight hard against the instinct to keep working on this to just get it live!

When I get back to my laptop I'm gonna try to make some of the suggested improvements as quickly as possible, in particular making the spec for "case" better and a couple of the other bug fixes that I should have caught - thanks to those who took the time to point them out and sorry for any frustration there.

It will take longer to add things like other dialects because I'm relying on libraries to run SQL in the browser (similar with the syntax highlighting/ formatting) and I'm limited by my ability to make changes/add other options but they are added to the list!
This is what all of Wikipedia used to be like, until the formalism made the trains run on time.

Not sure which version I like better, tbh.
I don't need them to. I take my satisfaction from my baskets.
Few-Shot Prompting
And still _a lot of people_ cannot effectively use search engines. It is less about technical capabilities of the search engine, and more about (trained) skills related to finding and filtering information.
I'd honestly just get 48V to 5V non-isolated then 5V to 5V isolated if it osn't anything high current
Ah, and next you might discover one of my favorite unresolved browser issues:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63107
Two things where imho XML performs well:

1: text with markup. Does not need all the XML machinery, but tags make a lot of sense here.

1b: Arbitrarily nested stuff

2: extensability by third parties without coordination. Namespaces as a central concept help out a lot here, and this use case can even justify some of the more insane features of XML (downloading remote schemas etc)

If you don't need either of those things, you won't get much value out of XML. If you do need them, XML can be neat. Certainly easier than trying to allow people to add arbitrary data (with validation) to your protobuf. It's just that these use cases are somewhat rare
iPhones been hacked for ages already.