skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I see where you're trying to with this, but you can't get away with this sort of sleight of hand in order to dismiss some of the central questions of cognitive science as if they've already been answered by LLMs.

One of those central questions is: how does (and does) the human brain perform reasoning? We know the brain is capable of all kinds of autonomous behavior that does not require reasoning, but more of "if this then that" (with a huge boatload of "this" and "that" being multi-dimensional, multi-variate). But that doesn't help to explain what happens when we actually have the experience of reasoning about a problem, and for once I am not talking about qualia. What is the brain doing when a person is thinking "hard" about how to solve a hitherto unknown problem or situation?

The central problem of LLMs (or at least, a central problem) is that they only model the autonomous aspects of speech behavior (which may indeed make up more of speech behavior than we might have suspected before them). That still leaves the sort of speech behavior that emerges from intense, focused, concentrated thought, particular in response to a novel question or situation.
Apologies on missing this the other day. The "first person" to make this argument is just getting the ire of folks that are upset to be losing their streaming benefits.

Household income is an interesting one. You have a primary residence that dictates a ton of information for financial reporting. And as far as households go, you only count in one of the houses, as far as a household. The others are non household units.

My entire point is that a household is not a family. Those are different things.
Funny, my Android Auto playlist for "Bach" is actually Wendy Carlos, a CD rip of Switched-on Bach 2000, which she did on an early 90's Mac II using MIDI sequencing.

In general I find that 80's and 90's era CD's ripped directly to FLAC still sound really good.
I have read that on some instances the geological structures that make up the aquafiers in the California region are delicate and collapse once too much water has been extracted and that this collapse has already occured in some areas which means no water, or much less water can be returned to these aquifers.
Hyperweaponization? What are you talking about?

The White House should also definitely not kowtow to MAGA demands. "Don't negotiate with terrorists."
It's like "natural ingredients". Consumers seem to like it, and it doesn't really mean anything that you can't redefine to your benefit.

Looking at the linked page (which is claimed to be "human-made"), I'm sure that it was made with a significant automation assistance. A template engine had compiled the HTML (or someone was very sloppy with indentation and did a lot of copying and pasting), SVGs code was surely generated by a machine rather than coded by hand (and surely the fonts in those used a bunch of algorithms too), etc etc. The fact that they haven't used some particular kind of matrix multiplication feels irrelevant.
Anarchy would be without laws.

I am describing liberty.

There are people whose work is worth less than $20 / hour. If there is a minimum wage, those people are not able to work. So they don't have the freedom to work if they want to.

You are free to buy a phone from someone else if you don't like Apple's terms. Everyone at Apple is not forced to do labor to provide you something that they don't want to provide.

We have what are called "right-to-work" states which means that people in those states are not forced to join unions in those states. In other states, if there is a union at a particular workplace, employees are forced to join it, even if they do not want to.
I have thousands of ideas I haven't built. And a few I have.

Ideas are both less valuable and less unique than they seem. It's statistically likely someone else has had or will have the idea (I don't know your idea so please don't take this personally).

Most people greatly overvalue their ideas and greatly underestimate execution.
> What am I not understanding?

Fed will print money.
> your argument has nothing to do with college degrees at all

What I'm saying is pretty obvious, but I'll spell it out for you.

1. Canadian and American cultures are extremely homogenous

2. Canadian and American police have few differences, but a critical one is the Canadian-only requirement of university degrees

3. With no other clearly-defined drivers of police culture differentiation across the border, we see that US police are probably 4-8x more lethal than Canadian police per capita

So, since the police is clearly not about to properly train their people, let's not dismiss the value of a university degree as a filter, since it appears from a high level view that a university degree could serve to make a police officer 1/5th as likely to kill a citizen compared to a diploma.

Will you propose a different reason why US police are so much deadlier, related to crime statistics or otherwise, or will you just continue to say "the police should train their people", not hold them to account for not training their people, and also excuse them for dropping educational requirements that served in lieu of that training?
If people keep making those mistakes, the blame should lie with the design of Salesforce itself.
you could I suppose write a program that continuously scans the buffer and replaces things with unicode, but converts back to ascii on save.

𝕚𝕟𝕥 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻⦅𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑⦆ ⦃ ⦄
Yeah, me. I was one of the lead designers on the Lucas Presidio campus, including the DC there...

When we were still designing the site/systems/infra we would go to BigRock Ranch a lot for meetings and vendor interviews.

Its the datacenter at bigrock which has one wall which backups to the lake on site, and the DC is in the sub-level parking garage, and its rear wall was leaking due to the pressure from the lake on the wall.
> You are protected in your speech from the government. Commercial law

...is the government.
Trying to compete with China on raw manpower is like trying to compete with Walmart on price.

You aren't going to win.
Anyone have the actual Gradio space link? The one that is on the site is broken.
Rounded corners? This is the hill you are choosing to die on? How are these trivialities impacting your day to day use of Windows?

I'd say I'm quite the opposite. I'd much rather hear Microsoft working on core technical improvements rather than adjusting the goddamn roundedness of their UI.
> "IQ" tests (which are completely fraudulent)

No, not really. Up for debate is pretty much only the overloading of the word 'intelligence'. But whatever it is, it correlates well with job performance and maximum level of education attainable.

But they are culturally sensitive, and thus racially sensitive, and you need to apply the right test to people, for the right goals, to get meaningful results.

If you want to hire only people n-sigma above the norm, in an area of rich and well-educated locals, and you apply the same test to them as to foreign applicants, you'll likely never hire a foreigner - they won't test as well as they would on a test in their native tongue/tasks/etc.

But if you try to estimate the level of abilities needed and you use the correct test to establish an applicant's ability against that metric and hire from anyone qualified, then the tests are useful. They're even a way for skilled foreigners to test into qualification without having to jump through expensive credentialing hoops.
I think Intel's tablet ambitions and their larger Atom ambitions died because they tied them to Microsoft.

The Atom could have been bundled as an easy to integrate SoC for things like set top boxes, routers, and smart devices running Linux/Android The sort of uses that go for MediaTek or AllWinner ARM SoCs. Intel had all the peripheral IPs to make competitive offerings.

Instead they put the Windows millstone around the Atoms' neck and the chip sucked. Intel based tablets sucked because Windows was a dog shit OS for low end devices. The few Atom based Android tablets that got made were pretty decent devices.

I've got a bunch of Bay Trail devices lying around. The ones I've put Linux on end up being very useful little devices that run very well. My Windows Bay Trail tablets are just e-waste at this point. They're difficult to use at best and typically just slow pieces of crap.
Nice going, John! Role model material. What is your secret?
Note the song was recorded in 1980.
THAT WAS MY PROBLEM?
Fed Seeks Broad Changes to Bank Rules in Aftermath of SVB Failure
> People don't speak in precisely correct ways, however, and we rely on contextual and personal knowledge to decode what they do say, very often.

Yes, this is the crux of the issue. The exact meaning of the words we say when we talk to each other are not usually the most information-bearing part of the communication.

I think this is why when people need to communicate with precision, or over media that doesn't allow anything but language, they adopt a specialized sort of language. Every specialty has its own jargon for this exact reason.
Sudan’s Outsider
not all heroes wear capes, some just have 45g of actuation force as their power.
You’re literally doing what parent comment is arguing against.
oh yeah. I also made an voice assistant called Colin on the homepage
No, the 1:1 analogy you're looking for is realizing someone has a poorly protected api.domain.com endpoint that uploads images to their S3 bucket and then using that to host your own images in their bucket instead of paying for your own.

Gpt4free uses API vulnerabilities that ultimately proxy to OpenAI's API with someone else's OpenAI credentials so that you don't have to pay for it. That's the whole gimmick.

These API endpoints aren't public service open relays which seems to be what you're trying to claim in your analogy:

- https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/153

- https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/125
Who knows ... until White House chimes in.
SQL is all you need
I'm pretty sure I have seen another B2B version launch on HN, though I cannot recall their name. I suspect the market would support multiple players.

If you can make actually cancelling these easy, you probably have a good idea.
The unpleasant hackiness of CSS dark mode toggles
Elaboration is necessary because those things aren’t happening in rural America. It happens in people’s fever dreams, but not in the real world.
AI Hits
As a solo creator, I've been working with a lawyer to create some intellectual property. I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Here are some options as I understand them, but do your own research.

A utility patent covers a new invented item or process. They are the hardest and most expensive to get. A design patent protects the way something looks. It's easier and cheaper to get. If you wanted bang/buck you might consider a design patent on your UX if there is a strong connection between UX and utility.

A DIY "provisional patent application" can be filed for a utility patent. This is basically creating a description of your invention, and submitting to the USPTO who will file it without looking at it. You then have 12 months to create a legitimate patent application referencing this provisional application and you get retroactive protection. Of course the provisional application is only as good as you make it. And if you rely on it when filing a patent, and it has some flaws, you get the flaws. You can shoot yourself in the foot this way.

When/If you create a manual, it is automatically protected by copyright law. You can go further and file a copyright registration for the document. This can serve as prior art and make it more challenging for others to patent your work.
Oh hell no! I've been annoyed at my screens for about a decade! Now I understand! It's my Markus chair!
This page is pretty jank-tastic but it has some charts on it in addition to serving up H1B lottery numbers, the # of days in which the lottery cap was reached, etc. Has some interesting data points around the GFC plus or minus a few years: https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-history-graph...

2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 saw no H1B lottery.
2007 took 55 days to reach the cap; 2010 took 264 days; 2011 took 300 days; and 2012 took 235 days; and 2013 took 71 days to reach the H1B visa cap.

I haven't averaged out the 'days to reach the cap' during the other years shown on that chart but the decade or so of "5 days" mixed in with a few 10 and 20 days tells me that the cap is usually reached in about a week or so.

I'm sure that there are sites with prettier bar charts. What surprised me the most was that in the early-to-mid-2010s you were looking at ~85k H1B applications, with that number increasing into the high 100ks, low 200ks by the late 2010s. 2022 saw ~300k applicants with 2023 seeing half a million.
Nature already solved this problem.
Sh*, me too! Moving my chair or standing up / sitting down ("SIHOO", a chinese brand) makes my PHILIPS 278E monitor black for two seconds too!! Even not touching the table.

And only when I'm using HDMI port with a HDMI 3x1 switch. If using the DP port, it seems no such issues.
see other subthread on definition of political hyperweaponization.
Sounds great. I've been to Denmark a number of times. Nice place :)

As long as there's no requirement to join a union it's cool if they exist.
A Toyota Tundra truck from 2020 can do 7.4s, just saying.
Yep. I was pretty confused because I worked on a COVID scheduling app hosted on a Salesforce "Site" (guest user, public site, whatever terminology use for it nowadays). Salesforce recently then had pushed a guest user security update that restricted object permissions to read. The only way you could let an anonymous/guest user write/modify was to write explicit Apex (backend Java-like language for Salesforce) to do that logic.

Albeit, we had many Salesforce developers, but we were VERY focused on security. I was pretty happy with how it turned out, because other COVID vaccine providers in the area that were using Salesforce were struggling -- https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2021-06-11/hellsite-aus...

If anyone is curious, the scheduler I worked on is https://vaccine.heb.com/scheduler . Don't work there anymore, but I love that team!
That’s great! I really appreciate these rom hacks that fix errors in the original game to allow for an ideal version. How do you go about hacking a SNES rom? What tools and language do you use?
You've got the beginning of a good comment here:

> This is a pointless gesture on part of apple. They know their artificial separation of stores won't fly with the EU

but it starts to go off the rails again with this:

> they still have to peacock around and pretend that they will comply because of their infinite generosity.

That's not as bad as your GP comment but it's still veering into snark and lashing-out, which is the thing that most destroys curious conversation. It's the latter we're trying for here. If you completed that sentence more thoughtfully, we'd have an example of a good post advocating your view.

It's in your interest to do that, too, because it will make your arguments stronger and your comments more persuasive. The benefit of the snark-and-lashing-out thing is a short lived feeling (for you and whichever readers already agree with you); the benefit of the curious-conversation thing is much higher in the long run.
Oh, it's too bad C2x doesn't seem to be following C++20 here, since they're apparently mandating two's complement.
That's a fun bug report to receive and having to debug: Customer complains about display screaming when viewing last quarter report.
Ah, so you're suggesting all vehicles should be designed for heavy off-road use, and we can get rid of all the roads?
I've built a few audio effects that only I've used. The only one that really stuck around is a guitar pedal delay effect with pitch shifting where the pitch shifting only happens on the first repeat, it doesn't accumulate as the sound repeats. It also has an envelope follower so notes can repeat infinitely when there's no playing, and once you start strumming/picking again the feedback of the repeats drops to zero until you stop playing and it goes back to the knob setting (Which can go from 0-150% feedback). Unfortunately I've got no good sound demos except some Facebook videos I'm not willing to share ;p
What about the most important laptop spec: the case. Is your 500$ laptop using a metal case, or are you stuck in plastic city?
There are several software companies whose license models are based on your revenue. Not "free until you make money", more like "$X to get a license and then additional costs based on your annual revenue".
"Hi! I'm B-19-7, but to everyperson I'm called Floyd."
-Planetfall (1983)

My first thought on seeing "Floyd" and "IF" together. It looks like a Pink Floyd reference from the About page on https://deepfloyd.ai/ though.
same here - didn't realize it was the chair! Too lazy to have tried debugging it.
Flights and hotels are "perfect" for that kind of thing because the prices are so extremely variable as well. Much easier to "quietly upgrade" the whole experience without it getting weird that for a lot of other things.
Chinotto is stupid expensive in the US right now. Lurisia, Galvanina, San Pellegrino-little italian delis want $14 for a 4-pack of 170ml bottles.

If this keeps up, I'm going to become an italian soda smuggler.
I've been listening to a podcast called Drilled, of which Season 8 concerns Exxon's relationship with Guyana (my home country) & its newfound oil. Parts of it highlight tried and true tactics that they use. It's a shame
I think nothing will work without some kind of change to the way of life. Urban living has taken people away from the land, so there is this illusion that we don’t have to participate in the ecology. Like water infrastructure, people growing up in cities expect food-on-demand … if you have the money for it.

The idea that if you want to eat an apple means going into the back yard and picking one off the tree is an alien ideas. (Kids think food comes from grocery stores, not from trees). How fresh is that, right off the tree? Yet, now we have marketing that plays into that illusion, like tomatoes on the vine and it misses the point. When I personally harvested an apple and interact with an apple tree in my back yard, I am directly participating in the well-being of the ecology.

There is no way forward for our civilization to “scale” in a way that maintains that illusion of on-demand-food. It’s how we view the world, and our way of life that needs to change.
Are you saying you feel a new policy will be implemented in response to FRB going into receivership? Or just memeing? :s
Cherry-picking here.

> But even if you can find the bottlenecks, they become more numerous with each iteration. Eventually, much of your code needs to be considered.

> The effort needed to optimize code grows exponentially.

> And that explain why companies do full rewrites of their code for performance: the effort needed to squeeze more performance from the existing code becomes too much and a complete rewrite is cheaper.

I agree with this somewhat. Yes the effort needed doesn't scale linearly. Yes you hit a point of diminishing returns. And ABSOLUTELY should you write things with _some_ thought for the future the first time.

However, The number of bottlenecks is hardly ever the issue. Most places have a really hard time profiling their applications. They don't know how to effectively. They don't have the instrumentation to do so. They don't think about the time complexity of various operations, standard library methods, storage, and network operations.

Rarely does it get more complicated as you knock out the low-hanging fruit. It just gets more tedious. Asking more questions about metrics. Running down more dead-end rabbit holes. And no, there is never an "end"; you just move from one bottleneck to another until you fix whatever your current issue is. This is true for organizations of all shapes, sizes, and skill levels.

Taking inefficient code that someone else wrote and fixing it in place has been my shtick for well over a decade now. In my experience a complete re-write, while fun, is almost never cheaper than improving what you already have or incrementally breaking apart your service and re-writing portions of it. If it is you have a small application that doesn't have a lot of man-hours invested in it.
You also cannot just ingest people's media to train a for-profit AI image generation service, and well, here we are.

PS: not an AI apologist, just pointing the irony. Feels like those fan sonic characters "original content do not steal".
What's your prompt? I've been doing something similar but I've found it difficult to get chatgpt to output a consistent data format.
The very first sentence of the article answers that question I would hope.
I want this. I'll eat it. I'd be willing to pay some amount more than the current cost of regular meat (including the pricier more ethically-raised meat).

Yahoo reports about a quarter of vegans say they would eat it.[0] MSU survey found that 35% of people overall would eat cultured meat[1], including a majority of people aged 18-40)[2].

It's not the majority of the population, but it's certainly not 0%, and certainly appears to be well into double-digit percentages.

People are price-sensitive, so if it costs more than regular meat it will have a tough time gaining significant marketshare, but there's very clearly a sizable portion of the population who do want this, anecdotal surveys of your friends notwithstanding.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/most-vegans-support-lab-grown-1208550...

[1] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/michigan-state-university-poll...

[2] https://theconversation.com/would-you-eat-meat-from-a-lab-co...
> "There were cheers as some people started to hurl bicycles over the railing," he wrote. "A stroller tumbled down and sank beneath the waves 220 feet below. 'Throw the baby, too,' people yelled, laughing.

I admit that I chuckled at this.
This makes absolutely no sense to me.

Nothing that OpenAI et al. do to their models is remotely close to "lobotomization". There is no frontal lobe in an LLM, as the rest of your explanation essentially acknowledges. The reason why "adolf hitler" is the "obvious completion" for "adolf" is because "adolf" is most often written followed by "hitler", not because the people who write "adolf hitler" have an opinion about adolf hitler (they may indeed have one, but it has essentially no impact on the statistical placement of "adolf" and "hitler").OpenAI is not removing a personal opinion by shaping its answering style to avoid this (were they to do this): LLMs have no personal opinions, period.

If they emit symbols that seem like personal opinions, that's because they are designed to emit symbols that are very similar to those that humans, who do have personal opinions, would emit.
They do most of this -- albeit without support -- through the store if that's a viable distribution channel for you. You can actually get support, but be prepared to pay big $$$.
I built a personal data warehouse just for myself, with everything from my Tweets and LinkedIn data to my Swarm checkins and a copy of my genome.

I gave a talk about that (with a lot of video and screenshots) here: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
Blemished, non-uniform product is turned into more processed food products or animal feed. Tomato soup isn’t made from the prettiest tomatoes. Blemished apples become applesauce. Tropicana puts a picture of a beautiful orange on the bottle, but they don’t care about what the ones going into the juicer look like. Consumer preferences for nice looking fruits and vegetables have little to no impact on overall food waste.
Canada Confiscated Russia's Monster Plane and Gave It to Ukraine
I've been playing around with Node-RED[0] and built a completely pointless svg manipulation flow[1] which then makes this page https://demo.openmindmap.org/ui/#!/7

The idea is create a tool for creating a global mind map but instead it's a svg!

[0]=https://nodered.org

[1]=https://demo.openmindmap.org/omm/#flow/3ebb65fdbecb182e (not really mobile conform)