skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> generally in being really bad at deciding when to hide details with no way to override it and say "TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS CROSS STREET DAMNIT THATS THE ONLY REASON I KEEP ZOOMING IN HERE!!!".

Stuff like this is the main reason I end up switching to Apple Maps on the occasions that I do so. Another example is refusing to tell me the number of the upcoming exit I'm taking.

In general I would say Google Maps is still superior to Apple Maps, but between the aforementioned baffling design decisions and Google maps now including ads in destinations search results, I find myself experiencing more and more mental friction whenever I use it.
And ChatGPT has a super low barrier to entry while open source alternatives have a high one.

Creating a service that can compete with it on that regard implies you can scale GPU farms in a cost effective way.

It's not as easy as it sounds.

Meanwhile, openai still improves their product very fast, and unlike google, it's their only one. It's their baby. It has their entire focus.

Since for most consumers, AI == ChatGPT, they have the best market share right now, which mean the most user feedback to improve their product. Which they do at a fast pace.

They also understand that to get mass adoption, they need to censor the AI, like MacDonald and Disney craft their family friendly image. Which irritate every geeks, including me, but make commercially sense.

Plus, despite the fact you can torrent music and watch it with VLC, and that Amazon+Disney are competitors, netflix exists. Having a quality service has value in itself.

I would not count open ai as dead as a lot of people seem to desperately want it to be. Just because Google missed the AI train doesn't mean wishful thinking the market to be killed by FOSS is going to make it so.

As usual with those things it's impossible to know in advance what's going to happen, but odds are not disfavoring chatgpt as much as this article says.
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Anybody remember Path? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network)

And the answer is no. You aren't putting the decentralized genie back in the bottle for anybody that still cares about social media.

With 100,000 tweets and a few tens of thousands of followers, I was terminally online for many years. I'm now much happier that I don't use it. Echo chambers are crap, and for anyone I want to talk to, I do.
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If it doesn't affect you personally, it isn't relevant. If it would affect you personally, you'll probably know about it before the news does.
It's not really "your car" if the manufacturer can flip some flag remotely that you aren't allowed to touch.
Do you feel there is much demand in those areas? I'm interested in more theoretical things but have doubts that many jobs would be available or for them to be valued even though its more difficult
One of the reasons I didn't buy a Tesla. Though to be clear with Tesla it's not a never-ending sub, it's a flat fee and transferrable.
Huh? I'm an introvert and I can communicate and actually like interacting with people. But I'll need time for myself to re-charge afterwards. But everyone needs to re-charge somehow.
That last argument is a tautology btw
Cars need to physically move equipment so the option to have software unlocks comes with a significant fuel etc costs over the lifetime of a vehicle.

It’s not even just a bad deal for the owner, such deadweight has real environmental and safety consequences for everyone.
I'm a rubyist, and they have been recently known for hiring people to work on ruby as a language and contribute to ruby/rails ecosystem in a general way, not always directly and specifically related to their own codebase. I wonder if they're gonna stop all that stuff.

https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-i...
I have unFORTRANned thousands of lines of perl code in my time.
How as a German could I buy or sell islandic or Hungarian bonds then? Do you need a bank account in those countries?

If I take short term 3M bonds and they become due, then I pay taxes where?
Innovation is faster in the Bazaar. Nobody is beholden to anyone, there is no budget, there is no mandate, there is no hierarchy. Money can not compete with morale and motivation. A bunch of really smart nerds working overtime for free with flat hierarchy will always win.
The parent's first sentence may have been sarcastic.
Don't know if this [0] is where RelativeDelta pulled the rhetoric from but he's not alone.

[0] https://youtu.be/bhYw-VlkXTU
Historically, datasets have been a moat. Google had a massive head start from having a massive search index and user data. Then access to compute became the moat - fully training a trillion-parameter language model has only been in reach for megacorps. But now, there's a ton of publicly-available datasets, and LLaMA showed that you don't need massive numbers of parameters.
> I'm a cloud proponent because it means not having to sit through hours of meetings to deploy a $5/mo virtual machine.

And endless orgies of "call for pricing" with hardware vendors and hosting. Shitty websites where you can buy preconfigured servers somewhat cheaply, or vendor websites where you can configure everything but overpay. Useless sales-droids trying to "value-add" stuff on top.

Cloud buys are a lot friendlier, because you only have the one cloud vendor to worry about. Entry level you just pay list price by clicking a button. If you buy a lot, you are big enough to have your own business people to hammer out a rebate on list price, still very easy, still very simple. But overall still more expensive unfortunately.
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Let both consumption and working hours decline. Win-win!
That is stupendously untrue. The Laffer Curve is a meaningless tautology crafted by a political hack. No, we cannot set tax rates at 100%. But we can set them way higher than they are now and not cannibalize revenue. Just putting top margins in the 45-50% range would raise a ton of money and not discourage anyone from earning. Ending step up basis would not discourage billionaires from dying.
I've spent some time in SLC but not in Denver. Are they really that different? If you enjoy outdoor recreation but don't care for weed or booze, your life may look pretty similar between the two places. SLC (at least city proper) is also relatively socially permissive, having elected an openly gay mayor in 2016.
> It's curious that the market (almost?) always decides what is bad for the consumer and profitable for the companies.

In some cases people choose things that are bad for them, for all kinds of reasons. Someone will always sell you a subscription to your own car, if you tell them you want one. The market is the mechanism, the responsibility lies with the consumer. I know that it feels like there's a conspiracy, but it's almost always just people getting what they say they'll pay for.

The best solution is for people to exercise good judgment. The nuclear option is to regulate what people can and cannot buy and sell. It's not to have that nuclear option on the table, and it is necessary sometimes, but it does not feel like this particular case is one when people cannot reasonably be expected to decide for themselves what they want, or have the power to exercise that decision. Nobody HAS to buy a Mercedes.
At some point the pressure vessel gets small enough that you don’t need a supersized hydraulic press to make it

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

GE’s first BWRX300 is expected to be made in Canada which is not on the list of countries with huge presses and might help with manufacturing throughput.
Certainly with generative AI, we've demonstrated that an evolutionary model can produce (as an example) a method for a bipedal robot to learn to balance and walk like a human.

But all this to me is a cheat. We've already built the robot, and the control systems, and feedback mechanisms, and placed a goal on the end result for it to work towards.

I think the external constraints we put on the system mean that the creation will never surpass the creator. Oh, the mechanical muscles will be stronger and faster to the point we can get robot ballet. But it will still be bounded by the limits of our imagination and capabilities.

When it comes to LLMs, I'm sure it will create fascinating stories that are loved more than Tolkien. But the stories will still be limited to the bounds of our own thought.

If you ever feel like discussing religion, my Twitter DMs are open!
> running malevolent information operations

They might be doing this. I'd be tempted, if I were Putin. But it's pretty clear that 90%+ of all claims that Russia is doing this turn out to be malevolent information operations by our own side.

Example: Hamilton 68, supposedly a website that tracked Russian "information operations" on Twitter. Except it turned out to be pure, unadulterated garbage from a US think tank that was labelling Americans who worked night shifts as Russians. That didn't stop the media reporting it as "russian disinfo" for years, and when the truth finally came out, refusing to report on their own failed reporting and complicity.

There's tons of stuff like that. If a western source is making a claim about Russian misinformation, it's pretty much a dead cert thing that they're making it up.
We recently launched a rather complex multi-market B2B booking system for a larger company on it. I was afraid of possible backend limitations and the opinionated structure that often comes with such projects, but it was a complete bliss to be honest. It takes away SO MUCH of the boilerplate with setting up a modern web CRUD project. Community and utils like i18next and NextAuth are top notch as well. Things I might have missed like API middlewares were added in meanwhile. No wonder that it starts to become the standard React framework. Surprised about the negativity here.
Come one people, what's with the kneejerk "big goverment" and "woke" comments here???

Police wants to lock you up and your boss wants to fire you using this kind of products:

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/amazons-face-re...

And surprise surprise, it works even worse for women and minorities

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18...
I don’t care if they stay awake, I want to end omnibus Bible sized bills full of pork and erosions of our rights being put in bills that would otherwise be in the interests of the people.

Forcing them the discomfort of having to read it out loud all by themselves should help greatly with that.

I’m looking at you former speaker of the house that said we have to pass the bill to know what’s in it.
To rephrase: policies are playing out badly enough that the equilibrium has shifted to a net outflow.

That doesn't mean it's bad for everyone or that it was great for everyone before. But such a shift in actual people movements over (state) borders is one of the most powerful political indicators that exists.

Leaders losing followers, companies losing employees, countries losing citizens, and clubs losing members are all pretty negative signs. Not absolutely bad in all cases, but certainly worth concern.
Google Maps 3D view is unmatched compared to anything open source has to offer.

Let alone the panning and zooming, there is no open source solution which is capable of doing it with such a correctness, even if we ignore Google's superb "satellite" imagery with its 3D conversion. I have no access to Apple Maps, so I can't compare (DuckDuckGo does not offer Apple's 3D view).
There are a ton of places LLMs are already providing value today. Some of the biggest are turning unstructured data and user intent into structured data, helping with writing (no replacing), certain tasks in software development (it is often much faster to use ChatGPT as a reference or guide than search google and sift through the ever decreasing in quality results).

I'm paying now and want to pay more, if only they would give me API access to the most advanced models. GPT-4 is much better and Google will have a comparable model soon (tm?)
No need to get disheartened for the all the comments here. I am sure there is a market for this.

I personally wouldn’t use it, because I have two kinds of persistent online circles: one for close friends and family. We talk via encrypted messaging, video calls, etc. Another is online study groups, language/framework forums, interest groups. Don't see the need of verification here. We meet face to face or over video call/chat. In such places, every active member knows other active members.

I just am disgusted by Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. I am there only because local bakeries, butchers, and laundries are there. Some acquaintances with whom I don't like to share my number are there, and I can reach them via messaging.

If you add a payment barrier, most people won't be there. And so local bakeries, butchers, and laundries won't be there. Why would I use it?

If you already have achieved something like FB (who am I kidding?), and I can't ignore your service, sure, I will pay for it.

And, if a GPT-4 bot is talking sense, I will chat with it in the public. Others can learn from it, or I can learn something from it- factual things.

And if I don't like a bot's line of talking- I will just block (or kick out) and move on.
> available through an over-the-air software patch

The phrase "software patch" implies updating the code. I'd be really surprised if this sort of change required a code push. More likely the code is already there, and the "patch" is a data file changing some constant.
This reads like a psy-op "leak" to try to convince OpenAI execs to open source GPT4 weights
Can ChatGPT Learn to Add?
Most HN submissions are clickbait advertisements by startups for B2B/B2C services, clickbait amateur blog editorials looking for subscribers, tutorials for newbies, conspiracy theories, spam, and literally every article posted to a major media outlet. Most comments are by amateurs that sound really confident.

Don't believe me? Go look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newest . Maybe once a month you find something on here that is actually from an expert who knows what they're talking about and hasn't written a book on it yet, or a pet project by an incredibly talented person who has no idea it was submitted.

Source: I've been here for 14 years. That makes me a little depressed...
I can't copy paste text from the internet?
> Interestingly, the journal article doesn't bother to mention how cannabis use disorder (CUD) is defined; however, Bloomberg's description "frequent use despite negative consequences" is essentially that of the DSM, and so is presumably what they're using.

Yes, it does: "CUD was identified in the same registers and supplemented with the somatic part of the National Patient Register, defined as ICD-8 code 304.5 and ICD-10 code F12.X." 304.5 is the diagnostic code for CUD. We can infer that a person with CUD themselves have considered their cannabis use to be problematic. Otherwise they wouldn't have been diagnosed.
Correlation or causation makes no difference here. Regardless of whether you become an asshole by being rich, get rich by being an asshole, or become an asshole for separate wealth-correlated reasons, you will still be more likely to do things like park illegaly, and also have the means to treat any fixed-rate fine as a mosquito bite.
Has the announcement not been posted anywhere? I find it strange the author links Twitter commentary but not the actual announcement

edit:
here's the actual blog https://discord.com/blog/usernames

Why isn't it linked? No clue
Just remember, if you gaze into the dicks, the dicks gaze also into you.
> OSM makes it a nightmare.

While the generic interface is pretty bad (you have to edit the machine-readable values), StreetComplete provides a very nice UI
It doesn't take comprehensive statistical analysis to conclude that a brand new car that comes with an electronic immobilizer, alarm system, and remote GPS-based location monitoring is less likely to be stolen than your 1999 Honda Accord, 2001 Subaru Forester, or 2020 Kia Soul that comes with none of those features. The advice to buy a used car to avoid theft is demonstrably stupid.
That phrase and strategy seems to me to logically reduce as "To be more selfish, be more selfish." If so, we can ask more simply: is selfishness itself even deterministically self-interested in the end? That is to say, does selfishness fail to serve an individual human's highest well-being?
Sure, but are you are farmer?

Suburbs can support great public transit, and it would be cheaper than cars for everyone.

Suburbs cannot support the bad public transport options they get though. The lack of density makes it harder to design a great network (network is critical here!), you cannot make mistakes as there is no density to save you from mistakes.
Well, we do it in software where we charge higher monthly fees for uptime guarantees, more features, better performance, etc. And Xfinity does it with hardware where you pay extra per month for faster speeds over the same cable.

But in those scenarios, there is extra cost incurred by the company when you choose to upgrade.

In this scenario, when you upgrade there's no cost to the car manufacturer, so it feels wrong. In the most generous view, there will be slightly more wear and tear on the car at higher speeds and that they need to charge extra to cover the warranty on faster cars. In a more realistic view, it's a cash grab not only in terms of $720/y per customer, but also making it easier to up-sell future over-the-air subscriptions or purchases with your CC already on file.
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One damaging effect of the US failure to switch away from imperial measurements is that most people are confused about coffee consumption data. From the article:

> Patients would report drinking just a few cups of coffee a day, only to reveal that their idea of one cup was a forty-ounce thermos. “At three of those a day, they were drinking more than 1,000 milligrams of caffeine,” Cherniske says.

This is an extreme example, but even a much less extreme case is commonplace and problematic. A large cup (the vessel) of coffee at most cafés is 20oz--but that's 5 cups (the imperial unit of measure). A study I read a few years ago tracked people's moods and found that people's moods correlated higher with coffee intake peaking at 3 cups, dropping at 4 cups but still remaining positive, and then plummeting into the negative at 5 cups. A single large coffee at many cafés will already put you at the 5 cup range.
Is there a recommendation for OSM on mobile? IIRC they don't have an official app.

Also looking at their bike routing - it gives me an idea. Road should be rated on whether they have a dedicated bike lane and on the danger of riding on said road at particular times of day. I just input a src/dest and it gave me a really busy road with tons of "paperboy" level risky side roads on it. I would never want someone to take that route at 5pm on a weekday.
A lot of people don't seem to understand the message these policies make. This district has now made it clear to students that they are not trusted by default. I graduated high school ~6 years ago, active shooter drills occurred twice a year. It always felt like being numbed to the violence, forced to picture traumatic violence in my head over and over again.

There's a term for that feeling you get when you start casually scheming up ways to sneak through TSA security -- reactance. It's a psychological effect in which being ordered to do something can make you want to do the opposite. Pair that with a developing brain and the notion that your authorities don't trust you, and it can backfire tragically. Someone predisposed to committing violence at their school is now being reminded every day that sneaking a gun into school is a common enough occurrence that they have to use a plastic backpack. And even worse, they are nudged towards thinking about alternative places they could hide a deadly weapon.
Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cN-b9GnWtHzQRoE7M7gAEyivY0k...

Evaluation results are impressive!
Aren't micro reactors meant to be like one-use batteries? That's the info I got from listening to the Omega Tau podcast about this.
It took me several weeks to get access. I just got it today.
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If I’ve given the impression that I am defending the technology against anything other than claims about its accuracy, I apologize. The fact that I used to work on this technology and now I instead talk about how it harms minorities should give you some idea of how likely I am to defend this technology.

Basically you should just imagine there was a media cycle about the dangers of unregulated trains that go 50mph, do not have any brakes, and need to be regulated because they’re running pedestrians over. And you should read my comments like I’m a pedantic trainwatcher saying “actually these trains go 400mph, can stop on a dime, and need to be regulated because they’re running pedestrians over. Source: I used to be a train driver”.
I believe in this case it wasn’t Gaye’s family that brought the suit but rather the family of his co-writer.
I just looked at OSM for the first time and for my neighborhood it's much worse than Google and Apple. It doesn't have satellite or street view data.
I noticed similar discussions about the Web and mobile (iPhone era), as Europe fell behind the US lead in those sectors. As well as space (particularly with regards to SpaceX lapping everybody; the EU thinking it can discuss its way to creating a Starlink competitor most recently).

The take a decade to discuss what to do approach isn't going to cut it with how exceptionally fast AI is now moving. Europe is already losing badly. It'll take a gigantic move - and fast - to catch up.
And where are these open source models where I can go to a url and do all the things I can do in ChatGPT or through api keys for OpenAI? I googled a couple of weeks ago to find hosted versions of these open source models to try, and every one was either down or woefully poor.

OpenAI and MS are going to win because they have a package to go and it’s ready and available and working well - they have set the benchmark. I’m not seeing any evidence of this in the OSS community thus far.

Until I can spin up a docker image capable of the same as OpenAI in hetzner for 30 bucks a month - it’s not in the same league.
> RP2040 has an MPU as well, just FYI

Cortex-M4 is the "smallest ARM" with an MPU IIRC (Or was it M7??). RP2040 is Cortex-M0+ which shouldn't have MPU, from my memory.
This is an instructive error. From my perspective, there was plenty of evidence even 15 years ago that community efforts (crowd-sourcing, OSS) only win sometimes, on the relevant timeframes.

So the “higher ups” were using too coarse a heuristic or maybe had some other pretty severe error in their reasoning.

The right approach here is to do a more detailed analysis. A crude start: the community approach wins when the MVP can be built by 1-10 people and then find a market where 0.01% of the users can sufficiently maintain it.[1]

Wikipedia’s a questionable comparison point, because it’s such an extraordinary outlier success. Though a sufficiently detailed model could account for it.

1. Yochai Benkler has done much more thorough analysis of win/loss factors. See e.g. his 2006 book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks
A more powerful car is also more likely to break, and will wear out sooner.
Or software that you pay for per CPU core.
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For what it's worth, there's a huge barrier to get to SV in the form of US immigration policies. Your anecdote is no doubt valid, but if those immigration policies were loosened up, I'd bet we'd see an even larger migration to SV.
Vercel had plans on open sourcing their design system
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Then we should call it CI = Cloud Intelligence.
People don’t love that about the airlines. People hate it.