skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah a Pi is a completely terrible solution for something like this because it doesn't really play to any of its strengths. Android phones are cheaper, more reliable, have a built in battery, touchscreen, GPS and compass (so you can navigate with one too), and have you know... actual power management so you don't run out of said battery. Sometimes they're even dust and waterproof which is probably good in a tropical rainforest or a sandy desert.
This is why I think Google had the brains to stay clear from a releasing asimilar product, I think it was intentional. They’re not idiots and they could probably see using that “AI” products behind the scenes to be safer and easier than having people directly talking to a model which has to suit all customers moods and personality types while not being creepy, vindictive and dealing with all the censorship and safety aspects of it.

Fun times.
Mastodon supports URI's in the UI, and resolves @user@host names to profile URI's when you post as it is, so the use of webfinger is almost entirely a presentation/convenience issue anyway. I also dislike the double "@", but I get the thinking that starting "@" has to some extent become a signifier that what follows is a social handle.
It takes 600 years to biodegrade which is nothing in the overall scheme of things. Scientists also seem to be well on their way to creating a bacteria that consumes plastic. Personally I think plastic waste is going to be a mostly solved issue within the next 25 years.
> for some unknowable reason, marked it as spam despite having completely 100% consented to receiving the email

Ordinary users aren't very interested in what is and isn't spam (nor are legislators, for that matter). It doesn't help that organisations like DMA lobby to tinker with definations. Unsurprisingly, a large proportion of users think spam is just "email I don't want". So they click on "mark as spam".
tl;dr "prestige" academia claims sexism against women is everywhere:

> In the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which influence many people’s opinions about sexism, bias is frequently portrayed as an omnipresent factor limiting women’s progress in the tenure-track academy

in reality it is systematically sexist against men:

> our findings show that tenure-track women are at parity with tenure-track men in three domains (grant funding, journal acceptances, and recommendation letters) and are advantaged over men in a fourth domain (hiring)

but because they're academics they can't actually accept their own findings and Still Believe:

> we nevertheless acknowledge that broad societal structural factors may still impede women’s advancement in academic science.

Rest of world experiences profound lack of shock at this 100% expected finding.
In case anyone is interested in other Linux-friendly laptops: after reading Joshua Stein's review I got a MateBook X and have been really enjoying it for the past year.

https://jcs.org/2021/08/20/matebook
But there's not really a mapping between them. Combined with GP's suggestion that it isn't really necessary to understand IP addresses (GPS coordinates) it works well though - you have some address, you follow signposts starting from the bottom to the broader area, culminating in road name signs and a number on the door. (i.e. 'the town is this way' road sign is like 'authority for ycombinator.com is blah')
No wasn't suspecting nuisance-satellite of being near-eternal!

I mean we have had a real night sky for millenia, and now a handful of men are being permitted, with hardly any communal discussion or decision, to expunge it. Many won't notice, of course, having been denatured by suburbia.
Maybe they are writing an ad kernel module in rust.

To you know catch those pesky ad cheaters.
Are you kidding? This is a bonanza!!!
I don't know about chatGPT, but dealing with doctors has been incredibly frustrating as someone with symptoms with no immediately visible direct cause.

One reputed physician completely refused to acknowledge that a specific medication might be causing some of my side effects, even when I shared links to peer reviewed studies from reputed universities (including his alma mater) that specifically talk about side effects from the medication.

My success rate with doctors is about 20% at this point. I've stopped visiting them for most ailments, and if I ever do get any prescriptions, I make sure to research them thoroughly. The number of doctors who will casually prescribe heavy duty drugs for common ailments is unreal.
Staffing will remain the the biggest challenge. Attracting scientists and mathematicians who understand the problem domain of what this body of Fortran represents is critical. These persons will either lead continued development in Fortran or oversee the AI conversion onto another platform.
It'd be fascinating to know how GPT-4 would perform on the same task. It's been so much better than 3.5 in most things I've tried.
the point is: my job is not to train a deep learning model, my job is to write code. If I already know the answer, I'm not asking the question. If I can recognise something is wrong, it means I should have done that task by myself.
Can it do certain things faster than me? Sure! Can it do them correctly? Most of the time it can't and if I have to spend my time to check every output, the time I saved is already wasted again.
Related: an inclined geosynchronous orbit uses similar altitudes to GEO, allowing focussed coverage on specific longitudes, as seen with QZSS - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_Syste...

(albeit these are slightly elliptical)
Only if we let companies get away with disclaimers like: "our bot can say things that are incorrect, and it doesn't give you any rights".
Was curious about the cost:

Overall Antarctica Cruise Cost [1]:

Low Budget $9,340
Mid-Range $13,010
Luxury $26,100

Guess the prices will only go up once climate change fully deploys the 3-degrees-warmer world [2].

[1] https://www.antarcticaguide.com/antarctica-travel-cost#:~:te...

[2] Impacts of Climate Change in Antarctica, https://discoveringantarctica.org.uk/challenges/sustainabili...
This is really cool, congrats!
Your account is mostly (but not entirely) portable, and redirects works for handles so handle's can be portable as long as you pick and use a webfinger instance under your control or someone willing to redirect. It's nowhere near perfect and especially the ability to move accounts badly needs improvements, so I'm not suggesting it's good enough, but it's slowly heading in the right direction (the ability to move accounts - currently only with the cooperation of the original server - is fairly new)
Why nobody ever mentions JSONRPC 2.0 over WebSockets? It's one page doc simple, debuggable, supports realtime notifications, is bidirectional, works on browser and your internal apis in pretty much any language and probably fits 99.9% of projects for their requirements. JSON encoding/decoding is extremely fast in any language due to its pervasive usage.
she == Sydney
If no claim of compatibility with other backends is provided I would be skeptical that it will be trivial by necessity.

I'm not that familiar with either technology, but as an example, deno kv claims strong consistency as the default; while dynamodb requires you to explicitly ask for strong consistency in queries and does not support strongly consistent reads on secondary indexes.
You don't need to be in "remote" places for Starlink to be a big benefit. My brother lives about a 10 minute drive from about a 10K person city in coastal Maine and he could not get wired Internet at all and the other wireless options are poor and data limited. There are a ton of places like that. You could argue that there should be a program at the national level to get wired Internet to anywhere that gets electricity but, given the existence of Starlink, I'm not sure a many many billions of dollars program to do that makes a lot of sense and would have at least some people here throwing a fit about subsidizing rural residents.
> okay that’s just because you’re not good at using the models.

You literally cannot respond with "you are holding it wrong" specially when I'm claiming that even for the popular _example prompts_ SD authors used they had to hand-pick the best random result over a sea of extremely shitty images.

And even in the original paper they disclaim it by saying "oh, our model is just bad at limbs". No, it's not just bad at limbs. They just happened to try examples where it could particularly show how terrible it is at limbs (i.e. spider legged horses and the like). But in truth, it's just bad at everything.
Exactly.

The only reason we assume that rocks don't think is because they don't appear to be able to do things that would require thinking. LLMs, on the other hand...
While I hope to read all of the books I have (circumstance may have other plans), usually I have 50% unread. That gives me some choice about what to read next; everyone needs an antilibrary.
I went to see their Koala laptop and it's equipped with a 5th gen Intel processor.

Are you sure you've bought from them recently?
I don't mean to be too cynical. I think a lot of the advice in this article actually rings true and aligns with my personal experience. No advice on something as vague as success can be comprehensive and OpenAI may just be an exception. Especially as it's not a successful business yet and given their enormous raises, it'll be years before anyone can tell if they're actually able to swim on their own.

For example, when I was young I worried that ideas were precious and had to be protected in case I told someone and they stole it. Now I recognize the fundamental truth Sam expresses in the article: the best ideas sound bad, and the majority of people will just roll their eyes if you tell them what you want to do. I've directly had that experience with several successful projects so this isn't just nodding along to something that sounds vaguely aspirational.

Whilst OpenAI seems to violate a lot of what's in the article, in that way it's example of it. They're in their current position because groupthink within the AI space came to state that scaling up language models wasn't worth doing and academically uninteresting compared to developing more sophisticated neural architectures. OpenAI said, no, let's just try spending shittons of money and engineering on brute forcing enormous model sizes with an ordinary-ish transformer network and see what happens. Right up until they started getting these amazing results they were sort of out on their own in being so committed to that approach.
I did not read this particular article, I was explaining that from my own experience, all these articles telling how great ChatGPT is seem to be made up because my experience (and from what I read I'm not alone) is completely opposite. Maybe it's not able to solve the type of questions I ask? Fine. But it's not how ChatGPT is presented most of the times.
It's good at writing. It's not good at knowing facts. If you give it all the relevant facts and ask it to do a writeup in a certain style it does a better first draft than a typical human, and in a lot less time.

If you ask it what the facts are, it just gives you a load of nonsense.
Unless you want goiter and cretinism, iodising salt is (for inland populations, at least) a big public health win.

(tangentially related: I once heard a story that there was some deficiency disease that was only diagnosed after WWII: it turns out allied officers in japanese POW camps got white, not brown, rice — and were massively affected by the disease in question while the enlisted men in the same camps were barely affected)
Me, a single man who only really uses it for bread a couple of times a week and the occasional mashed potatoes?
weylus?
If you want to run some programs and change flow based on what they do why wouldn't you use language that is all about running programs? That is what bash is good at less so other other bits of programming.

As a contrast I have been experimenting with using Lua and lua-posix to write a wrapper around ffmpeg. Just some batch encoding tasks nothing too complicated. The logic is easy, spawning the main encodes isn't difficult, reading the json output of ffprobe is hard.
Like a planetary rash ... over the long term, the fever will get rid of this.
I've seen it a few times and I still don't understand how we can allow such blatant conflict of interests at the management level...
Frankly, Starlink seems underpriced for the people whose alternative is long latency, limited data, and itself expensive options.
That's because you are thinking equivalent in terms of results. I'm thinking equivalent in terms of ambition.

The point I was making is that doing the equivalent level of 'crazy' work (for it was crazy, the idea of giving everyone the equivalent of a personal pdp-11 in those days) requires equivalent levels of funding. It's just that most people can't imagine what could be computed on a $100k equivalent of computing today.

For all of us who grew up in the days of personal computing, it's hard to imagine that what they accomplished as being crazy.
Agreed that velocity is an important component, but I hope we can also agree that dumping large amounts of money into the economy (ultra low rates and QE) will result in price rises.

At the whole economy level, I'd suggest that supply and demand don't really cause inflation - at least, not the kind of disfunctional inflation that we should guard agains. For example, if the supply of bread is reduced, then necessarily people will eat less bread (and price signalling will ensure that it is the poor that eat less bread). So long as this does not trigger e.g. a wage price spiral or other pathological effect, then this is 'fine'.
Gmail is actually better than the competitors at filtering spam
I can't help but feel that this is missing the forest for the trees. I've seen a number of corporate policies around AI tools and I don't recall any of them having an exhaustive list of what they disallow, but instead a blanket statement that AI-assisted tooling is banned. There are easier ways to step around banned urls as well, so I'm not sure if I get the value proposition? At the end of the day the name of the game is liability, and if you break whatever policies you've agreed to, you're on the hook no matter what name the API you're using has.
Usually, yes. Albums have the RIAA curve applied. CDs typically do not, except for many of those produced in the mid-1980's when the studios were producing CDs as fast as they could and didn't want to spend the time to remaster a recording for the flat response of the CD.

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

The problem in the 1980s was they were starting with master tapes that already had the RIAA equalization whereas today the masters are digital and don't. So for a modern title the RIAA curve would be added for a tape to be sent to the lathe, and probably would be done when the signal is analog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc2LA9kC-4U
>you can generally share content across instances and interact with others.

Unless that person is on an instance the owner of your instance doesn't like.
You can import npm packages now. They added it a few release ago.

https://deno.com/manual/node
Thanks for what you're doing. Couldn't that be achieved with kiwix as well ? It can serve content over WiFi as well
What if I tell you that this page ,including all our comments, is entirely created by LLMs? Sometimes the process of creation is just as important as the end result. You would not go to the concert to hear hi-fi speakers playing pre-recorded or generated music, although with your eyes closed you won't hear a difference.
I use it almost every day for work. It has mostly replaced Google for me. A lot more convenient. Now whenever I use Google it's more or less just to look up the address of a specific site.
Yeah, haha, that's right. That's why democracies in the 2021st century and 2020th century do. Look at EU, growth at 1% per year in Real GDP. US real GDP lower and lower over time
This is stupid for schools as always, but does seem to be working in medical settings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlfs__nBkE

This seems to be the content - http://med.iiab.me/

The "The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki" is pretty cool, external link where they get it from - https://wikem.org/

Preppers seem interested too which is cool - https://www.tiktok.com/@deweylikedonuts/video/71236508943983...
GenAI porn is going to be huge.

GenAI interactive literotica is going to be huge.

A couple of companies are already executing in these areas and have amassed loyal followings.
Academics have different goals, metrics and incentives than industry, but I would seldom call academic work "arrogant".

In particular, iterating to make things easier may or may not be sufficient to get the industry to take a second look at the project, and there is a chance that it may consume enough of the academic's time to ruin their career in academia.

It's anecdata, but I have seen a few cases (e.g. Coccinelle) in which an academic essentially hides the fact that their contributions to e.g. an open-source project comes from academic research until after it has been battle-tested by industry.
The linux sweet spot is the 3 year old laptop: most of it has the drivers worked out by now, but it’s not broken yet again.
This guy! Nerd sniped again.
If it's truly open, there'll be two-way bridges and/or the good bits will get adopted elsewhere and there'll still be just one Fediverse.

It feels like such a waste that they're not trying for interop from the start, though.
Yes, as I will be using that network to post. I don't know how or want to setup cross posting or any of that as I don't have time for that.
Any theories about how it got there?
Going to need some insanely beefy GPU cluster at your house to run anything close to GPT-4.

The best I can run is either LLaMa 65B at 1 token per second (too slow) on my CPU or LLaMa 30B on my GPU at quite a fast ~30 tokens a second.

Nowhere near the usefulness of GPT-4.
Your blog is a gem, thanks for sharing!
For context, Loopt raised $39M and was then acquihired for $43M by a bank that scrapped their product and used the team to write a mobile banking app. So the VCs got out but doubtful that anyone involved in Loopt got rich out of it. Also that has to rank as the most expensive way to hire mobile developers in history so I do wonder what the real story is there, surely there was something going on behind the scenes to justify that?
One thing you really notice when interacting with ChatGPT for some time: It doesn’t get tired of your sh*t.

The thing feels human, until you ask it for more options 10 times in a row. Or ask it for a more concise version 5 times. Then it shows: It just doesn’t get tired of your S.
The problem with your model is all orbits at a given altitude intersect. You can orbit at the equator, or orbit above and below the equator thus crossing the equator. There’s nothing special about the equator here. All polar orbits meet at the poles, and any non polar obit is forced to cross all polar orbits etc.

In practice this is not be a significant problem because you can pack a great deal of satellites at a given altitude and moving to a slightly lower or higher orbit works just fine.
It's interesting how different bubbles we're in. I can't recall having seen anyone mention Bluesky, but a fair proportion of the people I interact with on Twitter either are now both on Mastodon and Twitter or have moved fully.
As it says in the article you yourself linked, it is an adage, not a law. My point is, this is not a generalizable thing, so comments using this to defend their response is not useful.
> This reduces the need for curly braces (like in C++/Javascript) or "end" (like in Ruby/Lua).

I still don't understand why this should be an advantage; you just put the effort in a different place; and whether a block becomes understandable faster this way is rather doubtful.
I agree with you there. That said, I don’t see why we couldn’t just keep having versions of Windows 10…
I just set up a brand new server with a never-before-used IP address. I set up SPF, DMARC, and DKIM, created a brand new account with a fake name, and sent an email to my Gmail account. Within 3 seconds of being in transit, the email landed straight in my inbox with 0% doubt of it being spam.

[Edit]: Forgot to mention that the IP is home IP, not cloud provider/hosting or something.

And as as sidee note:
the problem lies with the users and not with the email sender. For instance, if I send an important email to someone about an item they ordered from my site, and they tell me to send it to their gmail account, I connect to gmail to send the email, but if Gmail rejects it, I have fulfilled my part of the deal. If an email is marked as spam or rejected, it's on the recipient's end, not the sender's. The sender did not flag the message as spam before it is sent, the recipient did it after receiving it.
Well, you do need to walk to/from your bus stop. Might be marginal, though.

That being said, I'm in Europe and I typically cycle at least 1h per day from/to work/shopping/etc.
I guess you need to have the creativity to extend the link knowledge with encrypting the data with the OTP.

Ubiquitous in corporate hell? Try humans doing real work, they don't use HTTPS.

No HTTPS forces you to comply. If you make your own security on top of HTTP it's optional.
Is it everyone else that's wrong or....

> if it doesn't know well a person it simply makes up things

Asking it for factual information about a subject can be a bit hit/miss depending on the subject. Better to use bing chat, because it will use info from the web to inform the response

> if I ask code examples or scripts, most of the time they are wrong, I need to fix them, they contain obsolete syntax etc...

How wrong? More wrong than having a junior or mid level developer contributing code?

Think about it a different way: you just gained an assistant developer that writes mostly correct code in seconds. Big time saver.

Also: if you want it to use a particular code style etc, give it few shot examples.

> if I'm asking a question, I'm expecting being asked for more context if the subject is not clear

Then you need to tell it that in you prompt: "if the subject isn't clear, ask me some clarifying questions. Don't respond with your answer until I have answered your clarifying questions first". Or: "ask me 3 clarifying questions before answering" to force it to "consider" how well it "knows" the subject first.

ChatGPT isn't an AI in the sci fi sense of the word. It's a language model that needs to be prompted the right way to get the results you want. You will get a feel for that the more you use it.
Each market has barriers of entry, blame the market. It's far from a near monopoly.
$120/month is about what I pay for wired Internet about 40 miles outside of a major metro in the US) and about half what I pay for electricity.

It hardly seems excessive to get Internet where the alternative for a lot of people is nothing or at least nothing that lets you stream video, music, etc.
You could tell them to use cal.com for their calendar needs, open core/ source
> Well, the objective sounds quality is always _worse_ than eg CDs.

Not necessarily true. If you have a good pair of speakers, a good amplifier, but a bad DAC[1], a CD can sound worse than vinyl (whose output does not need to go through a DAC). Old CD players (like mine) have dated built-in DACs, so this is not too exceptional a situation.

The above comment holds even if the vinyl was made from a CD source, since the vinyl maker could have used a quality DAC that's better than your CD player's.

For a long time, I didn't understand why my FM radio channel (WQXR) sounded better than my CDs. Turns out my CD player's DAC was poor in comparison to what the radio station was using to play their CDs.

[1]Digital to Analog Converter.