skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more than 2 hours, spread across the day, with constant context switching (unless you like hours old food). I know it is easy to talk about it. Doing is very very different. I know, as I used to talk about it, but I have been about it since quite a while.
The only quasi-interesting property this has is that it can change over time.

Nothing you said changes the main problem: gold stars are weeks and we all know it. Next year they are two weeks, fine.
> “park the car in an alley between buildings”

Fun fact. Very few alleys in NYC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortlandt_Alley
10^4.23 = 10^4 * 10^.23

Since (log1.6≈0.2) we estimate the above to be 10000 * 1.7 = 17000
I think he’s upset because NPR said they basically get no meaningful traffic from Twitter.
The effect an individual company would have on CPI is negligible. Besides, CPI strongly underestimates the actual devaluation of currency. You can look up local newspaper prices from 10 years ago and today and compare that to newspapers index that goes into the CPI calculation and I'm almost sure the price difference would be significantly larger compared to that skewed statistic.
Sure. Let’s take quantum theory. There are lots of concepts that are based in math but can be reasoned about non-mathematically.

The reason that chatGPT can write quantum computer programs to in any domain (despite the lack of existing programs!) is because it can deal with the concepts of quantum computing and the concepts in a domain (eg, predicting housing prices) and align them.

Very little of human reasoning is based on logic and math.
> The question about if an AI is "alive" seems entirely irrelevent outside of a philosophy class

it's entirely relevant. we should know if we are building conscious beings, especially at scale (which seems like a likely future). that poses all sorts of ethical questions which ought to reach far beyond the confines of a lecture hall's walls.
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> maximizing shareholder profits, just like any other public company

Show me one of these big technology companies that doesn't act to benefit their shareholders?

Microsoft is Google is Apple is Amazon. They're all the same internally. The only difference is their optics when you're looking at them as an outsider. But really, they all work toward the same goal, increasing their stock price.
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They usually lock the database completely, so you have to time your work around them.
Hell, my company is just 35 people and I'm head of all things tech (CTO) and even I can't get Microsoft out of the company.

It works "good enough" and change is really hard for many people.
I think you're right but if you need treeshaking, some sorting of pack (minification of variable names, etc) or jsx you would still need a build step. I don't know if treeshaking and pack are that relevant for most people tho
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> for almost all of the relevant AI and ML work

The word “relevant” is an important qualifier which may be doing a lot of lifting. Who defines what is “relevant”? How do you interpret it for this particular case?

I haven‘t looked at the matter myself, but the author did provide a source for their claim¹. Do you have any specific information on why it is wrong? It is not my intention to put you on the spot, I’m trying to understand if your point is based on data or gut feeling so I can myself get a better understanding of the validity of each argument.

¹ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/beware-of-ai-snake-oil/...
Do you work for Duolingo?
The issue is that it's the way Microsoft conduct business at all. The default should be opt-in not hard to find opt-outs for every patch.

I would say no, there is no way to make it more tolerable unless you run something like shutup10 or https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy but then again if you care that much you should simply just run Linux because in reality there is no real good solution since spyware is baked right into the product.
A counter-narrative is at https://sfist.com/2023/04/25/former-civic-center-whole-foods...

> Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down. ...

> The Chronicle has now spoken to a handful of former employees at the mid-Market store — on condition of anonymity because presumably some were given jobs at other stores — and they have painted a likely picture that Amazon/Whole Foods didn't really do their due diligence before opening this store. ...

> Employees cite multiple missteps on the part of the company, including the placement of a liquor section near the exit doors, and "hiring poorly trained guards who tended to escalate confrontations into violence."

> Yes, apparently someone OD'd in the Whole Foods restroom, but the pure fact that the store had unlocked or unattended restrooms in that neighborhood shows a high degree of naïveté, or just lack of local knowledge. ...

> The point is, many people noted how very empty this store felt a lot of the time — not overrun with crazed addicts, but actually just empty. Would Whole Foods have made the decision to curtail hours last fall, closing the place at 7 p.m., if they were doing gangbusters business and regularly had long lines at checkout at 7 or 8 p.m.? That was also framed as a decision about "safety."
If OpenAI bought these books, the issue will be signed by itself, right? Because everybody yes can learn from books. That’s their purpose, isn’t it?
there is a difference between something looking artistic and looking professional. Investors will likely be looking for something that looks like a big tech company made it, so flat design with at least some UI principles
Never said it wasn't, thats why I used Android's example and then also called out Apple.
yes on phones this has tradition to a point it started to got legislation involved

but on desktop legislation shut this down, or at least tried, and it wasn't a problem for years

honestly we need a proper "fair platform" legislation, world wide

and focus more on power abuse and free market damaging power dynamics instead of obsessing over the "mono" in monopoly (because with today markets you can have more power then a classical single market monopoly while not being a monopol or even duopoly in any of the many markets you cover, power you can even more efficiently abuse then a monopoly when adding new market to your portfolio...)
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Weird, c41 is an extremely standardized process. Developing times, temperatures, results etc. are very consistent. I get the exact same results by developing it at home than when I get it done at a lab. B&W is a lot more subjective and most labs will charge you more to develop it because it has more variables and can't be as easily automated.

Scanning and color reversal is where you'll probably see a difference for color negatives, but development, if done properly, should be very similar.
Thats on Microsoft not Google
It was not a spontaneous outburst everything was preplanned and orchestrated by Trump and co but unfortunately we will have to leave it to future historians not the FBI.
I feel silly for asking but does ChatGPT have subscriptions to all the things? I wonder how the initial reads are getting done.

Very nice concept - thanks for sharing!
Obviously it doesn't strike you as odd as an American.

I'd say, .com is just the default. If you go location/topic specific, you go with another TLD.

To the 130 million (domainnamestat.com) domains, registered in the US, there are like 500 million domains, registered somewhere else. I couldn't find any numbers for how many of those are .com and how many aren't, but you cannot just ignore those. Just because most domains registered in the US are .com domains, doesn't make .com a US domain. That's a really egocentric point of view.
The GPT4 "paper" that's been talked about so much is little more than a marketing press release.

I certainly disagree that it's the case for the whole field of ML. But the AI that's in the news right now is LLMs with OpenAI in the lead who have done their utmost to imped reproducible research and even research built on top of their already released tools.

It's been a trend that started with Google years ago and their increasingly large models which are unreproducible for most of the scientific community and often not released (if I recall correctly).
> there is telemetry

VSCode telemetry can be fully disabled.

> and non-reproducible builds

Who cares? Most users don’t need a reproducible build of software they want to use, they need working software.

> and whatever other mistreatment of them as useds.

Calling people “useds” isn’t going to help your case.
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Non US banks have to deposit their dollars to a US bank that actually handles transactions and decides if a transaction can go on or not.
But on the other hand … Bard, when compared with GPT-4, is disappointing.

So there's that too.
Is this gonna be a commercial compiler ? Why is there a signup waitlist. Is this not gonna be Opensource?
I'd put it is that conducting international trade in a single currency is more systemically stable.

Iow, the currency's ubiquity and total amount buffer shocks to the system, in a way that multi-polar currency use could not tolerate.

If some folks decide to break {insert smaller international currency here} because they think it's overvalued and they don't use it, they probably have the means. But it's difficult to tip over a world-economy sized apple cart.

And a single trade currency also mostly keeps nation-states out of the currency warfare game, because it's a gun pointed back at their head too.
The factors for assessing the news score are broken or misplaced.

For example this piece of news gets less than 5:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-may-run-short-cash-aft...

Yet it’s certainly important, affecting a large number of people, and matching other criteria.

As someone who works in media I agree with the premise this comes from, but the implementation is a typical examples of the complexities and nuances that LLMs do not get.
Also you’re just under the illusion to escape an agenda, but you’re just swapping human agendas for a technobabble view of journalism that is arid as it can possibly get.
Law enforcement.
I don't know why it is so popular to overload the same words with multiple meanings in pop finance until meaninglessness.

When I see people criticize "MMT" they don't even talk about the same thing. If you boil down modern monetary theory to its essence it just means that the public sectors deficit is the private sectors surplus. I.e. the government doesn't receive money via taxation, it is the source of money. If people want to hold more money then it is legitimate to have a deficit within reason. This is in comparison with the loanable funds model where the government must first collect the money from the private sector and therefore deficits are bad.

"Since it lacks any rationality". I agree magical monetary thinking lacks any rationality since it is a straw man.

It's ok I can deal with three mutually contradicting definitions of "money printing". I can deal with two contradicting definitions by now.
You miss the point.

Just make humans dumber and more predictable. Problem solved. (This isn't that hard since humans will adapt to the stupidity level of the "AI" they use daily on their own without special social engineering efforts.)
Cause if you got the facts you train on them, the model memorizes those-- and hallucinates on the facts you didn't teach it in training. :) Call this model A.

So you say okay, I'll leave out some facts from training to use to teach it to say I don't know. Now you have model B that is similar to A but on some things that A answers correctly on, B answers I don't know. ... and on some new facts both A and B hallucinate, so B is strictly worse than A-- they both hallucinate but A knows more.

Using known unknown facts to train for saying "I don't know" is only useful if it produces a general ability to say "I don't know" against unknown unknowns. And I don't know if anyone has managed to demonstrate that result.

It's difficult in general to know what the model does and doesn't know, and LLM isn't a trivia bot-- and it knows tons of stuff that exists nowhere explicitly in the training data (which is why it's useful over and above a verbatim internet search!).

It's fun to play with the boundary of LLM knowledge by conversing with it in ROT13 or asking it write with bizarre constraints and watch its intelligence fall away.
You can even do it in a linear regression. Just add enough polynomial terms (x^a) and interaction terms (x1 * x2). The end model looks something like:

y = b + x1 + x1^2 + x1^3 + ... + x1 * x2 + (x1 * x2)^2 + ... + x2 + x2^2 + ...

By that point you're making a Taylor approximation of the latent function through linear space, which is also a universal approximator.

So the commenter above is wrong -- neural networks are indeed just glorified linear regression from this point of view.

The main difference is that this kitchen sink regression is computationally inefficient which neural nets are extremely efficient computationally.*
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IMO title should be updated with this keyword. I too, thought that this was about web tracking until I read the article.
I haven't read their piece, but implicitly they are making an argument about a supply shock that is tangential to the underlying inflation rate in the economy.
There's a great documentary about this on youtube -- https://youtu.be/x_pWgRx7lno

It's an amazing story.

I wonder how much of the workplace health and safety processes from the blitz were still somewhat in force here. For instance there was a mid-blitz technique of soaking unexploded bombs in liquid oxygen to cool and pause a battery in the anti-tamper device that otherwise made the bomb impossible to defuse. But golly, that's an unhealthy sentence to type in a 2020s not-at-war part of the world.
Also what the hell? Just blur their faces if that’s really the point.
> Apple not allowing other browsers is a bit much…

Apple is paranoid about being dependent on other companies. If Chrome becomes a "must have" Google will have leverage over them by threatening to pull Chrome from the iPhone.

They have been burned badly before: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt

Instead of letting that happen, they use the iPhone's market share to push an alternative they control and pressure developers to support it (with its market share).

Google is already using such tactics against Android phone makers. They keep them in line by threatening to not license them their services.
I swear you can't make this shit up (i actually knew that, but the trauma made me forget).

Thanks for pointing it out.
This is the terminology that Git uses. Porcelain is the UI, whether it’s the basic CLI, Magit, Fugitive, or anything else. Plumbing is Git under the UI.

Are you saying that the CLI is bad, or that Git’s underlying concepts and data model are bad?
Co-founder of Lykdat here;

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I agree, I'm just waiting for someone to explain why I should care; what's the reason to not declare the pin statically as either or?

I mean, I could easily come up with a contrived example that Rust can't do as well, but what's the point?
Best thing I clicked today! Love it! I somehow expected "adding your personal message" to generate a level that would trace out my custom message though.
yeah, thought the same thing... Nothing more dissappointing :(
Anecdotally, I've observed across my ~12 year career so far that an emphasis on estimates and estimating is negatively correlated to productivity, lead time, velocity, impact, positive outcomes etc...

I suspect the reason is because management is trying to use numbers to justify bin packing more work to an already oversubscribed team. What never shows up in those project management spreadsheets is the very real and predictable cost of context switching and the increase in mistakes from dealing with a larger amount of in-flight work.
I think that the ChatGPT model (at least chatgpt-3.5-turbo) has gotten impressively better at this.

- In my most recent tests, it will tell you when the data you've provided doesn't match the task (instead of inventing an answer out of thin air).

- It will also add (unprompted) comments/notes before or after the result to disclaim a plausible reason why certain choices have been made or the answer isn't complete.

You have to take into account that not everyone wants the model to not hallucinate. There is a lot of competing pressure:

- Some people would like the model to say "As an AI model trained by OpenAI, I am not qualified to provide an answer because this data is not part of my training set" or something similar, because they want it to only talk when it's sure of the data. (I personally think this use case - using LLMs as search engines/databases of truth - is deeply flawed and not what LLMs are for ; but for a large enough GPT-n, it would work perfectly fine. There is a model size where the model would indeed contain the entire uncompressed Internet, after all)

- Some people want the model to never give such a denial, and always provide an answer in the require format, even if it requires the model to "bullshit" or improvise a bit. An example is, if that as a business user I provide the model with a blog article and ask for metadata in a JSON structure, I want the model to NEVER return "As an AI model..." and ALWAYS return valid JSON, even if the metadata is somewhat shaky or faulty. Most apps are more tolerant to BS than they are to empty/invalid responses. That's the whole reason behind all of those "don't reply out of character/say you are an AI" prompts you see floating around (which, in my experience, are completely useless and do not affect the result one bit)

So the reinforcement is constantly going in those opposite directions.
Nvidia jetson nano boards (orin and the previous one) at home. The cloud is so expensive for gpu usage
When then starts happening the politicians start screaming about how we need more immigrants (who are willing to live 5 to a 1 bedroom apartment and suffer a brutal commute).
hard not to think this isn't intentional misleading on Apple's behalf
Yes - having daily measurements allows you to reduce the affect of the variability in water weight and waste via averaging.
You replying to the right person?
I love this theory but to be fair it’s giving the hip tech bro intern too much credit for an unjustified horrible decision.
I'm not trying to excuse Google, but feature detection is really hard and browsers sometimes suck with their APIs.

I just recently started using a modified version of the "h265ify" add-on that just advertises support of a few extra codecs (HEVC and surprisingly MPEG-2) to websites. With both Edge and Chrome, I do that because I know the formats work but the API doesn't indicate they do.
I mean, it's not impossible for Matthew Prince, or his successor, or more likely his successor's successor, will just throw away the company by injecting unauthorized ads, but until they actually do, let's not pretend they have?

Cloudflare's customers aren't going to stand for that and will find a new CDN if it was ever shown to be the case that Cloudflare was intentionally altering content they're rehosting. Cloudflare's imperfect, but Prince isn't that dumb, so we're years away from even the hint of that being possible.
This honestly looks much less frightening that I would have thought. But then my experience of '08 was "that wasn't so bad?" which I understand is highly regional. Visited some colleagues in 2015 in the UK who kept referring to "the recession" when talking about struggling customers or abandoned buildings. I had to ask whether they had experienced another recession or whether they still meant the 2008 one...
> The manufacturer who almost never use standard connectors

Except for all the times they do?

> were gonna start using standard connectors suddenly, no because regulation forced them to, but because that was in their timeline anyways...

Yes? Or are you saying regulations forced them to use USB-C on macbooks, to the exception of every other port including the beloved but non-standard magsafe?

Or that regulations forced them to add type C to the ipad pro in 2018? The ipad in 2020? The ipad mini in 2021? The ipad air in 2022?

Hell, back in 1998 they released the iMac with essentially only USB support. Was that also regulations forcing them?
If the progressives are even losing the 92-year-old, white, male billionaires who are the sons of Republican Congressmen demographic, but only on the one bit of regulation that directly affects him, then they're basically toast.
But inconveniently long after savings accounts started being demand deposits due to online bill pay, atms and easy access to electronic funds transfers.

If you are going to complain about changing the definitions you should complain that they did it too late.
Amazing how nobody got hurt really. Luckily iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days.
I'm posting this because I want to know how? I don't think it's the text book part of their business. Chegg now has a Study service with a bunch of subservices. Does anyone know or have a guess which of those services are now done better by AI?

Some of the subservices are Expert Q&A (seems like simple questions though), citations, grammar checker, proofreader.
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3 tokens/sec is a lot faster than what I experienced. Even though your CPU has a lot more cores, I think llama.cpp was not being able to make good use of more than 8 threads.

When did you test this? Maybe llama.cpp had some improvements since I used it (which was at the start of the project).
Bless you, martyvis. Thank you for sharing your story.
I think the term 'Intelligence' is what is causing the problem. If something like 'statistical modelling' or 'quasi-stochastic information compression' was used instead there would be much less hot air.

For example, in Real Time Analytics, there is something called a 'sketch', which though clever statistical techniques allows approximations of such things like top 10, average etc, without having to recalculate from the whole dataset each time of asking. Nobody claims this has anything to do with intelligence, artifical or otherwise.
Not really; because the price of gold tends to the marginal cost to produce.

If a marginal producer can generate a kilo of gold for $60k, then gold is worth around $60k/kilo. Its uses or lack thereof are not that important. If all the uses of gold went away magically, it'd be worth less for various reasons but still a similar order of magnitude.
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