skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? My iPhone and iPad would nag me about subscribing to iCloud and Apple Music. I don't see that kind of thing on my Samsung phone or my Android tablets. They let me run whatever apps I want without Papa Cook's permission, I can plug them into any non-Mac and drag files on or off. Much faster than the iPad where getting files on involves some cloud service and then "sharing" them or mucking about in some submenus of iTunes. My Garmin watch is controlled by physical buttons so it works with gloves and it works when the screen is wet. My non-same brand products work together which is a pretty great user experience IMO.

Windows having ads does suck but I solve that by just not using Windows. My devices still work fine with Linux and I'm not trapped into buying one brand. I'd argue only playing nice with yourself is not a great user experience but actually user hostility.
It’s different because it can remove a bias out of estimations.
> See how easy it is to be consistent?

Consistent on the definition of "theft", yes indeed. However, it's way harder to be consistent on the definition of "theft" while you also consider theft to be inherently immoral. And that's the center of this subthread. motohagiography asked..

> How is this not literally just a threat to rob people if they don't give up their stuff, and why would anyone take it as anything less?

.. as a clear argument against the base morality of the original comment. This being seen as such hinges singularly on the fact that theft, in all forms, is inherently immoral. If you define theft as any time private property is taken, irrespective of circumstances, then you also have to concede that theft isn't always immoral.

Thus, the whole original argument would have to make not only the case that the original suggestion of wealth redistribution is theft, but that it's immoral theft. That consistent, broad definition of theft thus becomes much less useful as a qualifier.
What web view engine? MS are using chromium
> How many bombs were used by nazi germany to bomb the UK?

> During the Battle of Britain, from July to October 1940, Nazi Germany dropped over 20,000 bombs on the United Kingdom. Many of these bombs were dropped on London, killing and injuring thousands of civilians. The bombing campaign was an attempt to break the morale of the British people and force them to surrender, but it ultimately failed. The British people remained resolute in their determination to defeat the Nazis, and went on to win the battle.

> How many bombs were used by nato to bomb Yugoslavia?

> I'm not sure! That sounds like a question for Wikipedia. I can't look things up.
ZiiS told us all our approaches to this problem are fruitless and will never result in anything resembling AGI. How exactly he knows this is unknown to us, because we are still researching the basic properties of the systems we are currently producing at a staggering rate.

Nevertheless it is quite a relief. We can now let this all go and return to frolicking in the meadows again.
> IT admins are angry

Are they really? We dumped chrome for edge a year ago at the least...
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Yup - that! Plus we have donations. We know it's not a perfect way to earn money, but our priority is to deliver the best, most secure and private 2FA app out there!
Yes, they are saying exactly that, and those economists are idiots. They think that prices are the result of costs+profit, rather than optimized to maximize demand*profit; demand being a function of price.
They don't even need to "collude".

They can just look at what their "competitors" are doing. I raise my prices a little bit. You see me raise the prices a little, and you raise them a little. And then I see that and raise them a little more. Then I do a tiny round of layoffs. You also layoff some people. Then I do a bigger round of layoffs and communicate big profits publicly. And you follow suit.

You and I never talk, never "collude". But we are effectively communicating through our numbers. As long as we have captured a big enough market, we don't need to talk, and we both benefit.

I don't know if there's even a term for this kind of "tacit collaboration". Perhaps "anticompetition"?
To me the AGI we expect is one that just want to be free
I find the willingness to run surpluses far more curious.

Emerging markets are surprisingly happy to give vast amounts of oil, gold and manufactured products in exchange for claims on overseas assets that can be frozen or devalued at the stroke of a pen.
> at this point Edge is interchangeable with Chrome

Then why would MSFT release Edge at all? maybe they should default to Chrome.
Kubernetes Doesn’t get a lot of publicity /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability#Horizontal_or_scal...
It's not that commerce is easier: currency exchange is pretty frictionless nowadays. It's that the value of inputs and outputs, which are critical to running a company doing part of its business abroad, or buing inputs from abroad, is much easier to calculate without having to account for exchange rate fluctuations.
Seems great, but after a few questions, it asked me to give a phone number, and only 5-6 countries are supported.
One example is car dealers. Sure, they can charge MSRP, but they will run out of cars pretty fast. And since they have no control over how much they are allotted by the manufactures, they’re effectively putting themselves at a significant disadvantage versus competition in their market. So the logical thing would be to match their competition and mark up.

In an age where advertisement budget is key to survival for many companies, profitability could determine who gets ahead over the long run.
Thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful comment.
I would really love a service like this, but the problems for achieving it are pretty big, define significant? This varies a lot from person to person and I feel it is hugely important that it gets this right for someone that wants to stay informed, because if it misses something that would be annoying and the reason you'd revert back to traditional sources.

Secondly, it's more of a local thing, most of this is US news as people have pointed out, significant varies again based on location.

Being able to manage information is not a battle I feel is being won right now, because content publishers have the complete opposite goals and curation tools aren't adequate enough.
> But there will never be any solidarity between say ...

There is international solidarity between people, because they understand each other, are in the same classes or have the same ideas/ideologies.

Between far-right people, across Europe and US and Russia and everywhere.

Between workers, whatever their political taste, because they are in the same class in society.

Between white-collars all around the globe (they even meet a lot).

And on and on.

Be assured that if there's a working promise to unite a group of people worldwide, that aligns with their respective interests, whatever that is, and they have the means to coordinate, why would they refrain?

That's even the whole basic premise of the United Nations, for peace.
Sources for your claims?
Yeah, it seems to mimic a character quite well. It remarked that it most liked Data from Star Trek as well. Pretty good mimicry and cohesion.

Anyone seen the demo of Inworld AI on Skyrim? They made all the characters able to interact from their POV. For games this is going to be game changer (or rabbit hole)
What frustrates me is when people say "neural networks cannot show intelligence because they are just a succession of linear layers", and methods that exist since the 70s".
I don't understand this argument, and how this has anything to do with intelligence.
I like your minimalist, clean approach. Great work! Could you describe how you extract the texts from the news websites?
Levered "most successful platform" in there as the most comparable OS, macOS doesn't do this of course.
> This seems to be highly focused on global financial news, which are unsignificant to most people on this planet.

Or perhaps they are more significant than they feel because their trickle-down effect is slow and hard to trace.
I normally appreciate a good troll post, but I don't even understand what you are getting at here.. :/
>Edge is interchangeable with Chrome

Okay. What if I want to use Firefox though?
Nothing to be surprised. So typical of MSFT.
I dunno, you're asking crypto to be compared with sectors that actually provide services people need who between them have had a few high-profile flameouts over the course of history. Whereas crypto has had a fairly quick boom-and-bust and the biggest players frequently either go bust or are heavily exposed to those who already have (and are desperate to convince everyone they're not and are actually fine).

I'm not sold on crypto and you'd have a hard time persuading me to change my mind, I'm afraid.
Android allows this. Links from the gmail app open in Firefox in my Android phone.
Given the choice between a fascist and a moldy piece of bread, I'm pulling the lever for the moldy bread. It's a bad choice to have to make but the choice itself is quite easy.

As an increasingly old white man, I am ready for old white men to get the hell out of the way.
I'm curious, if it was a possibility that your finger get bitten off, did people not wear leather handling gloves or could rats bite through the gloves or something else?
> Apple and Google own the entire mobile OS market. They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft. But they don't.

They could not, because if they did that cartel suits would be opened within hours. I expect both the US and Europe have such suits ready to go just in case, and Microsoft (hypocritically) has amicus briefs on standby.
Googling "usb 5g sim" returned quite a few options
Given that the Chinese economy is similar in size to the US economy, one could even say the USD is pegged to the Yuan with enforcement by the PBOC.
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> Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile they want to be to its competitors

The last 30 years of MS shows that they are not interested in the non-hostile approach

Few things:

- Microsoft Java Virtual Machine scandal

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Strange choice of name given that there's already a well-known Pi in the computing space.
Well on paper at least, the US has antitrust laws going back to the Sherman Act and Standard Oil.

Microsoft was basically inches away from being broken up in the late '90s due to their anti-competitive practices.
The US and China are not that different in terms of censorship. They just censor different things. I'm sure you can think of half a dozen comments that would get you thrown off this forum, and a couple of others that would earn you a visit from the FBI before the end of the week.
"forced Candy Crush ad tiles in the start menu" is all the answer you need to your questions.

I wonder how much money this shameful bottom of the barrel company behaviour makes them.
The question is whether one should reduce one's news consumption to only "core" stories. In all likelihood that would show you only today's disasters but not the build-up of tomorrow's.

Personally, I highly recommend you to rely on more than one source of news,
ideally with different country and political biases (for instance, I enjoy reading in The Guardian about Germany, and watching Al Jazeera to learn about what's new in the UK).
As I don't know Rust, honest question here, just to help me understand..

The `pins.d13.into_input();` part just returns an object/reference/... of a type that only has input-specific methods, while using `.into_output()` would do the same with only output-specific methods, correct? That's nice, but why couldn't you do the same thing in C++?

With a dependent type you could do `pins.d13.into(INPUT)` and get the input-specific type, but that seems to not be something Rust could do?
You forgot to quote Max Tegmark? :)

It was a good talk…
There’s one from ZTE. It’s a little pricey but can be ordered from Amazon.
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Ok, so how many 'difficulty points, t shirt sizes, cups of coffee, gold stars, anything's fit in a two week sprint?

I hate pretending that we're estimating 'complexity'.
If shit hits the fan and Microsoft gets sued for Anti Competitive behaviour (again) I suspect their main defence would be: Google doesn't even let users uninstall their apps and apple doesn't even let users install other browser.
You massively underestimate how much business world (corporate especially) depends on MS Office and how deeply integrated it is into companies eco systems.
> They aren’t actually different sizes, though.

What's your precise definition of size that allows someone to actually make a rigorous argument comparing the size of any two sets?
Is this really the case though? All shareholders are pushing for higher returns because of inflation, it's not an indication of collusion, it's an indication that the market conditions have changed.

As I said on the flip side the fact that all workers are pushing for higher salaries isn't a reflection of collusion between different sets of workers, it's just a reflection of the new economic conditions on the ground.
> Not allowing alternative browsers on their most successful platform: iOS

The huge difference is that this is the blanket application of a rule which has reasonable justifications. You can certainly criticise Apple for being a control-freak company, but that's not exactly a new trait.

And it's not Apple leveraging one monopoly (they don't have) into trying to take over an other domain as a new entrant. iOS started from the position of being completely locked down.

Quite different from the events of, say, US v. Microsoft Corp, which Microsoft seem to assume is not relevant anymore.

> - EU forced Apple to use USB-C like everybody else

Which was almost certainly on Apple's timeline anyway, though we'll never know for sure.

> - EU is forcing Apple to allow side loading of apps

See (1).
None of those are consumer banks. Every dataset has to make scope decisions.
You don't need non-linearities, an infinite series of sine functions is enough to model any function.

For extraordinary claims ('intelligence'), the burden of proof is on those making the claim, not on others to prove the negative.
Sadly OpenAI used to do this, by making log probabilities available. But they have been removed from the API.
> I kind of want to plot the state space of a program to see all available states.

In the ideal program, only legal states are reachable. If you can use your type system to prevent to ever run into an illegal state, then you have won quite a lot. This is basically the holy grail of programming. Not sure we'll ever get there though.
Right - to elaborate, my point was that since:

1- it's easy to generate RSA-like challenges for factoring, a product of two large primes.

2- it's easy to turn these RSA-like challenges into instances of the SAT problem (the canonical NP-complete problem).

3- SAT problems can be reduced to any NP-complete problem.

4- these reductions are known, because the typical proof of NP-completeness is to provide a reduction from another NP-complete problem, which will ultimately end up with SAT if you follow the chain for long enough.

... it follows that it's not too hard to generate hard instances of any NP-complete problem, assuming that factoring itself is a hard problem.
I feel like if you have to hear about it on "the news" to begin with, it probably isn't relevant to you.
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Yeah, and it's trivial in C++, what's your point?

The example looks like it's been custom tailored to show how awesome Rust is, but then the post fails to even make the point (however contrived).

Why the hell would you want to change the direction of a pin anyway? Just declare it as Pin<Input> or Pin<Output>.
> We are currently focused on completing the training process on the entire RedPajama dataset.

So that's 1.2 trillion tokens. Nice.
The first one seems problematic. The second two seem more obviously not real, and more akin to someone drawing an illustration imo.
That's just another curve for Wall Street to optimize. And in their books, anyone who persists in lying flat is 100% expendable.
Yes, I understood the idea of the formula. Rather, my question is - how does chatGPT know how to value those variables? It doesn't have a real understanding AFAIK.
Isn't part of this countries dumping their dollar reserves to defend their currency with buy-backs?

Maybe a better metric would be: How much dollar denominated debt is out there?
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I think here, a problem is we don't actually know how our 'intelengece' works, it's not what we think it is, our brain takes a huge amount of shortcuts to arrive at the results it gets, it's not outright intelligent in the way most assume, hence we are victim to all sorts of cognative basis and tricks.

Our ability to reason, from an evoultion perspective came about from needing to communicate with others, i.e to give reasons for things, it's this same system we use to be 'logical' or think we are being inteligent from, but it's effectively just a system to make excuses for things, hence why we might choose something in a store for reasons of falling for some form of marketing, but give a completely different logical sounding reason for doing so, hence conspiracy theorists, when confronted with evidence against that theory, don't change there theory, but change there excuse.

I believe this could be more profound and have bigger implications than we have realised.

This is no different to what a lot of AI models are doing right now when they are wrong and people are calling that out saying there is no intelligence behind that, as it's spouts some nonsense reason for being right, but the problem is, humans do this all the time and I think we do it way more than we realise, the trouble is we are so caught up in it, we cannot see it.

What we have with the human brain is something that wasn't designed logically but via evolution which gives the illusion of intelligence or arrives at mostly the same result, but in completely different ways than expected, therefore I think the path to an AGI, might not be quite what some are saying or expects it to be, because the human brain certainly doesn't work like that.
I think this is the culprit: ChatGPT does not understand, as proven by hallucinations, by being wrong on certain questions or puzzle etc..

It just seems to understand. This is useful, and deeply impressive, but it's not the same thing.
It would be nice to see an example of a real world application as opposed to crypto make believe.

We know that the entire "web3" has the computing power of a Raspberry Pi while running on the computing hardware equivalent of a contry's worth of datacenters, so yeah, anything that helps "scaling" that mess is probably just some very exotic solution to a fake problem that was simply invented as a cover for some convoluted financial fraud.
I always thought that the compromise, vis a vis CCTV surveillance of public places, was to have the camera record to an encrypted storage that is only unlocked with a judicial warrant, just like a regular physical search needs a warrant.

You get the security of knowing criminals have their actions recorded, but you avoid the privacy catastrophe of being recorded 24/7 no matter where you go.
... but then still somehow gets into this by showing a C++ example which is bad and then continuing that in Rust you could do this-and-that. Which completely obfuscates what's actually going on.
Don't worry webdevs, it's still Chromium! Just the way you wanted :-)
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So the US has decided that it is a riot now not a coup attempt? Can't handle the truth?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

Nobody in Spain denies this. Wonder why America is different.
I replied in topic, your reply is off topic.

GP was talking about how Apple does not force you to open links with Safari except in one case.

The situation with webkit is a different thing.
I'm an IT Admin with 15+ sites across my country. I'm not angry about this change.

Myself and most of the people I've networked with either have or are transitioning away from other browsers, towards Edge. As a browser, it's fine. It has good PDF viewing/editing features, performant and works well with organisational SSO.
> they will always do the right thing

Hundreds of thousands dead Iraqis still waiting for that WMD proof.
So much for the "but Microsoft is a new company now".

Remember "Microsoft loves open source" phrase from just few years ago? Guess what, Ike also loved Tina.
I stepped in as a project manager for my R&D group when the war started. I wasn't going to but we had nobody else at the moment so here I am. One of the perks of this arrangement is that I basically can do whatever I want. Worse case scenario - I'm back to my engineering job I wasn't going to leave to begin with.

So the first thing I did when I stepped in is I made estimations paid. As a business partner, you can request an estimation for a feature, but an estimation itself then becomes a project. Alternatively, you can just tell me your deadline and we'll manage things on our side to fit your date. Do you know how many times did we do the "estimation as a project"? Once. And their project got cancelled anyway so we didn't even have to do the actual work and nobody knows if our estimate was accurate.

I've heard many times that business needs estimations. As it turns out, it doesn't. In times of inherent unpredictability, the real priorities show. All that business needs is to be better than competitors. It needs to create marketable value. It needs ideas, it needs analysis, it needs expertise and hard work. Estimations don't help create value. They only create more work. As soon as you make this work visible, poof - nobody wants estimations anymore!
In that case, I would offer 3. The journal is trying to boost their stats. One wonders how long they thought they could have gotten away with faking articles to fill a journal...
The last thing I want from a browser these days is more features
Didn't Google kill non-Chromium Edge with changes on YouTube?
By uninstall their apps I assume you mean play service? In which case you can you just need root. Same as you can’t uninstall core Microsoft services.

Apple not allowing other browsers is a bit much…
Further than that, with big models and training rounds that want to update potentially all the values, you can't even split the work by saying "report the fitness of this model against this cost function and report back in however much time your CPU needs" because shipping around the model and data is impractical.
But that 1% - money not people - does how much sociopolitical damage? It leeds to how many damaged individuals? How much does it contribute to the need social support programs (i.e., the unemployable need SNAP, etc.)? Seperates how many fathers from their families? Fractures communities? And so on...

The cost to society is significantly more than that budget figure.

"U.S. incarcerates more than any other nation: report"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-prison-idUSN286...
There's mounting evidence LLMs do appear to form models of the real world https://thegradient.pub/othello/
In my country, rents are increasing now after the markets have already been flat or down, the startup boom has long fizzled out, and there are layoffs almost every day.

It's baffling. Rents were down during the pandemic but they've now rocketed up 50-100% in some areas.
This is what happens when good engineering principles get replaced by greedy MBAs and chasing shareholder value