skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like this just killed a few small startups who were trying to offer more context.

Those startups killed themselves. A 32K context was advertised as a feature to be rolled out the same day GPT-4 came out.

Also - what startups are getting even remotely close to 32K context at GPT-4’s parameter count? All I’ve seen is attempts to use KNN over a database to artificially improve long term recall.
It's disrespectful to change another authors words for no good reason.

Just like those people who always have to rename a variable or reorder some conditional expression when reviewing a pull request.

If there is no strong argument for the change, just leave it as the author intended it.
They've started construction on 2 plants in the past decade. That's not really "at scale".
Right, I don't mean that individual water batteries don't scale well, but that the concept in general doesn't scale well as a solution to this problem. That's definitely one of the reasons.
(Previously there's been complaints that my software is too resilient to HN's death hugs. This application runs on a Raspberry Pi 4. You can do it. I believe in you! ;-)
Truly, driving giant clams to near extinction for ivory because elephant poaching is harder now is insane. Same with the Pangolin scales for used for "libido enhancement" (which don't even work)! What is wrong with China?
Are you trying to just cut out the person with those? Looks like adobe and remove.bg do the best on getting a good selection (edges) but OP's tool does best on selecting just the person.
I think this quotation from page 5 of the seL4 whitepaper [1] about a different micro kernel might help:

> our L4- embedded kernel from the mid-Noughties runs on the secure enclave of all recent iOS devices (iPhones etc)

[1] https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
The fostering system is already known to have abusive foster parents. Now you just encourage them. You encourage extremely large foster households in which children cannot get adequate nurturing. You encourage hostile custody lawsuits in which parents do their best to alienate the child against the other parent. And at the margin you encourage the murder of children.

This entire idea of granting votes from minor children to their adult caretakers would be extraordinarily bad for society.
> That post came off as a bit hyperbolic to me

I would say it is as hyperbolic as the promised capabilities of AI. Meaning that if it truly has the capability claimed, then the potential damage is equivalent. Nonetheless, I expect we will see a significant hype bubble implosion at some point.

> it’s about all the trouble that we as humans get into interacting with these systems

Yes, it will always be us. Even if AGI "takes over the world", it would have been us that foolishly built the machine that does so.
Or Arizona, Texas and New Mexico with an even more dry climate than Wyoming. Although, water is becoming a much more serious issue in these regions given the influx of migration from other states over time. I still think that Nuclear + Water for Hydrogen as a general fuel storage for transportation is a better option than battery packs... Though would require more investment in water infrastructure and transport as well as desalinization.
This guy only has 4k subscribers and averages only 1.2k views per video... that's not good.

I run a channel that produces AI content / tutorials and I do better than this only using 2-6 hours per week.

The devrel / dev content niche is hardly a niche anymore - thinking about a market is everything and as others have said building an audience you can market to with brand partners is where most of the $$ comes from these days.
With C arrays, why is it the case that a[5] == 5[a]?
You can hover with the mouse over the year labels at the bottom to highlight their curves... go on and do that for each column of years, from top to bottom... that will let you see how the curves rapidly went up for every single column, which is roughly a decade for each row. And it seems to be going up *faster* for the latest decades. This is really scary.
Well, that's US. I am in much more densely populated Central Europe - several orders of magnitude compared to California. For most people here, workplace is 15-30 minutes walk/public transit away, that's not going to solve anything about car charging.

Wind is now opposed by people here because it ruins the landscape. Funny but it's what it is. And there's not enough physical space for solar arrays of this size.
I hope the headline writer got the rest of the day off after writing that banger
>Really I find Crystal to be so much more ergonomic and pleasant to use than Go or Rust, though I could see that being a matter of opinion.

That's very faschinating to read!

> Very concise, very readable, very fast once compiled.

Can I get a perspective on how fast we are talking?
I don't know the right solution to this problem, but I wish there were some kind of effective defense mechanism in open society against activist superminorities. Pedants tilting at windmills shouldn't be able to alter the cultural landscape this easily. I am aware that their problem and my problem are privileged "first-world problems". The seeds of the open society carry the germ of this pathology, I guess.
I thought the article was clear enough. Comprises with no preposition matches its first and uncontested use. The preposition form is using the second more debatable form to create the first in a way that implies ignorance or wordiness any editor should correct.
That's according to this (https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/) promotional blog post and just cited by the google memo right? Which isn't really even a doc, just a memo that was circulating inside google.

I also find it strange they don't contrast gpt4 and gpt3.5
Traditional aerospace is not -- ULA has shown zero incentive towards driving down launch costs, their interest is more in keeping prices up on their USG gravy launches.

Falcon is not fully reusable, there's a hard cost floor from the need to throw away a second stage for every launch, and there's no reasonable prospect to avoid doing so. The idea is that Starship will beat Falcon on launch costs long term. SpaceX itself is chomping at the bit getting Starlink to launch on Starship instead of Falcon, because it will be cheaper.
The open source LLM Cambrian Explosion
KataOS and Sparrow https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-... represent another use of seL4. This time with Rust as services code outside of the provably-correct seL4 c code.
This is economically ineffective.

You could write backend for most compilers, to target JVM (instead of pure machine codes), but result will be extremely slow.

Going in opposite way is much more fruitful - for example, compiling Java to native machine codes you will got about 10 times faster execution.
If the data has been doctored, it's in the opposite direction. You are completely misguided if you think the majority of wealthy "elites" are making any serious efforts to address climate crises.

https://www.climateofdenial.org/track-climate-change-denial/...
Does it matter? A microkernel isn’t a huge scope, and once it is proven mathematically correct, there’s not a ton left to do; other than maybe adding very niche features or doing touch-ups here and there.
"Those are all minor issues."

Nope, or if you think so, you might have zero experience with actual politics. Once you start assigning coefficients to people, people will fight to death over them.

That is similar to calling abortion or various speech-related controversies "minor issues". Such "minor issues" lead to convoluted SCOTUS cases that mess up the legal environment for decades.
It's true, but it tends to be a pretty lightweight class. Neither of my kids learned to play the piano in any useful way.
GPT3 was released 3 years ago now. There have been major advancements in scaling attention so it would be strange if they didn't use some of them
Indeed, the title almost makes no sense grammatically in its current form, a consequence of the word “how“ being removed. It would be obvious it was not the game engine when the word “unity“ appeared as the second, lowercases word.
> Crystal performance is close to Go-lang. It's just very fast across the board.

I know Go is known for it concurrency, does Crystal come close to that aswell?
I did a back of the envelope calculation some time back for both Canada and the UK (I imagine the US numbers are proportionally similar to Canada). If we replace all private passenger cars with EVs, using average mileage, it increases annual electricity demand by about 20%. The difference between daytime peak and nighttime off peak is more than 20%. In a lot of cases, there will be no need at all for new power plants or distribution networks. The reality, of course, is more complicated as we are electrifying much more than passenger cars.

You better believe, however, that the distribution networks are planning around this. I was in a meeting with someone from the National Grid (UK central grid authority) who is responsible for planning for the transition. Basically, all new housing developments are being provisioned assuming heat pumps and EV chargers. Existing areas are being monitored and upgraded as they near the grid limits. Plans go out years in advance. It is a lot of work, but I am confident that it is being well managed. I cannot say that everywhere is as well managed, but I think it is safe to assume that many of these people and organisations do, in fact, know what they are doing. It sounded like the biggest problem in the UK was NIMBYs fighting against the new distribution networks needed to land the power from the offshore wind farms which are rapidly replacing the old fossil fuel generators.
> continue their service off of Apple (e.g. web based)

Maybe they tried, but I believe it was not feasible on mobile Safari due to its functional limitation. And their audience would not be willing to switch to desktop, which is understandable.
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Yeah, or wireframing, or low-fidelity prototyping. Definitely not new advice, but I guess it'll be somebody's first exposure to the idea, so they'll learn a new thing today.
Why take this personally? This is not a personal battle. It's isn't about disliking the way a person communicates, nor about it being right or wrong. It's about the way Wikipedia articles communicate, namely, in a way that hopefully minimizes friction for their readers (whom it's there for - it's not there for the editors), without compromising on accuracy. I would think editors really ought to be able to distinguish "I like this word more" and "I think this word is best for readers".
> Users will need to wait for an in-app prompt for when it’s their turn to select a new username, which will eventually roll out to all users over the course of “several months.” The company will assign priority to users based on their Discord registration dates, so people who have had their name “for quite a while” will have a better chance to get a desired name.

I have several friends who use Discord as their primary social outlet. The vague way this change is being rolled out is causing a lot of heartburn for them.

It's strange to have a social platform force everyone to change their screen names. The vague way that they're rolling out the change over "several months" without any indication of timelines is making it worse.

From a product point of view, it would ease the pain if they would have communicated each person's username selection date in the app. Instead, they gave vague advice to watch for some unspecified in-app notification to pop up at some time in the next few months. For people who are anxious about keeping their screen names, this is a recipe for anxiety.
It's too bad moving it to a stable orbit would be so expensive, the ISS would make a great fixture for an orbital museum in a few hundred years. Instead, all that history is just going to burn up in the atmosphere.
A future with all autonomous vehicles is about the best transportation future I can imagine! Go directly point-to-point in private transportation quickly, quietly, safely and efficiently. In a fully-autonomous future, infrastructure needs are dramatically reduced: no parking, fewer lanes of traffic, minimal road surface (could even just be 2 "rails" of pavement for the tires). Fully-autonomous vehicles could also reduce domestic flights dramatically (and all the associated fuel consumption and noise).
Be aware of this author’s biases. Check his other work. He’s definitely got a pet thesis he’s pushing.
Biweekly is not its own antonym but it means two completely different things (every other week and twice a week) which for me as rendered it useless since you cannot know which meaning is intended.

The best way to deal with this issue is to have body that slows down language changes, then normalise them based on logic and history, something like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Academy.
If you were asked to extract lists or tables from html pages only, how would you go?

I was thinking:
a) use the metric used in TableTransformer to detect the structured data.
b) use the Markup LM model, maybe mixed with TableTransformer.
c) find a way to work directly with GPT4.
> Elections are basically an emergency valve and a way to get people to not complain too much.

No, they're a collective agreement that we compete with votes instead of on a battlefield. Instead of getting recruited to be in some politician's army, you get recruited to be their voter.
I think the long-term solution to transit problems is intermodal passenger pods that can shuffle between self-driving cars, trains, aircraft, watercraft, and elevators. Containerization for people, basically. You'd hop in your pod which is basically another room in your apartment when not in use, and then the building would shuffle you down the elevator to the subway. Once you're outside of city limits, it'd transfer you to a self-driving car to take you to a hike in the mountains. Or it could send you to the airport, security scan you on the way, and your pod would fit straight onto the aircraft without any need to get out, go through security, wait at the terminal, or interact with other passengers. Or it might transfer you to commute rail to get to the general vicinity of your workplace, and then a self-driving scooter for the last mile to work.

EVs are a useful step in that direction though. Something like the Rivian skateboard platform lends itself very well to containerized passenger transport, since the passenger body can just be loaded straight onto the chassis. Plus this model generally has shorter, fewer, and more predictable vehicle miles, which makes EV charging easier.
I know this is shocking to people but if a phrase is systematically used by native speakers, it is then part of the language. There is no notion of native speakers being systematically wrong in linguistics. It wouldn't make sense scientifically.

In order to examine natural languages using the scientific method, linguists gather data (i.e. native speakers' spoken or written communication) and then analyze this (i.e. find predictive models of this data). Gathering data, then claiming the data is wrong is epistemologically unfounded. Languages simply are the way they are. This would be like gathering data from Hubble and then deciding photons are wrong because their behavior mismatch with Newtonian laws.
This hits the point
> “And how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?” asked Nubi.

How about "How many hours would you require to write the shell script so that it handles all allowed file names appropriately?". As far as I am concerned the classes of errors are certainly different, but shell scripts have their own pitfalls.

Just yesterday I came across a one-liner that didn't work as soon as the filename had a space in the filename.
Plus, to slowness, troubles with JVM license. Better to use Apache-licensed LLVM, or something like it (BSD/MIT licenses).
And actually web-based version would be cheaper due to absence of Apple 30% tax. But alas, US users are too tied to their iPhones.
That seems more like a hiring issue
one guy deciding to change 90k articles unilateraly is kind of insane indeed.
Exactly. You know what else is completely unnecessary? The Eiffel Tower. Big Ben. The reflecting pool at the Mall in Washington, DC. Ten million other thngs. That something is 'completely unnecessary' is a completely insufficient reason to annihilate it, especially it it has wormed its way into common experience.
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Agreed, I've never been disappointed in Accor hotels ( Mercure and Ibis mostly)
Specifically, I prefer Old Reddit because it shows me all the comments in the thread, rather than just some of them, plus a completely different thread I didn't click on. The visual design is a push for me.
If people are walking or taking public transit anyway, you don't have a vehicle problem in the first place.
> We have the capacity to take care of everyone right now but we don't because private wealth.

This is very not the case. Wealth is created. It doesn't exist just somewhere to be redistributed.
Making the assumption that you will have the same GDP if you redistribute massively is unrealistic.
Also native speaker: I'd say a closer translation would be "this post is based on many good points". Or "founded on".

I don't know how universal this is (I don't see anyone else making similar points yet..), but I use all three phrases because at least in my head they have subtle differences:

* "Comprised of" means the pieces make the whole, or at least the basis for the whole, and are an important part of it.

* "Composed of" drops the "important part of it" from "comprised of".

* "Consists of" is even broader, not only including "parts that make the whole" but also "a unit that can be broken into parts".

The differences aren't always relevant, but meaning is lost if they're treated as the same thing.

Edit: Found two further down on this page who each made one of my points, but not all three, so at least I'm not alone here.
One of his books had the main character eating scrambled eggs seasoned with red bell pepper and basil. I tried it, and it was delicious.
A human only has a comparative advantage over an AI when they can solve a problem at a lower cost than the AI can do the same. It's hard to imagine that would be the case in a scenario where AGI is decently smarter than humans are.
Borland Pascal and Borland C 3 help.
comprises means whatever people use it for
There's bigger problems than just materials, the renders invent whole architectural features that don't exist in the source material. Windows and doors appear out of nothing, ambiguous features are guessed arbitrarily, and some features that do exist in the source are ignored and smoothed over.

It's the usual story with AI image generation where it's easy to get something vaguely presentable with a loose set of vibes, but the more specific you want the details to be the more of an uphill struggle it becomes to get what you want. And in this case the user probably already has a 3D model they can feed into a conventional renderer with the exact parameters they want.

Another issue is that the user will probably want to produce multiple renders of the same building, but with AI it's extremely difficult to get consistent results. Again, not an issue with conventional approaches to rendering.
NIMBY is indeed the issue here as well. People don't want wind and solar arrays and they don't want to pay even 20% more for electric distribution or electricity itself.

The power distribution company is competent, I have full confidence in that. Yes, they have plans and know what they're doing and what's coming - but they need money to do it, and they're not going to get it anytime soon.

At least this country is very pro-nuclear.
I actually wondered at one point if Discord would adapt some kind of Twitter-like status updates after the whole Musk shitshow. It felt like they were in the best position to launch a new microblogging solution.
One of the most frustrating about this approach is that it feels asymptotic, you’re always approaching but never arriving at a solution. You start seeing diminishing returns on further prompting.

It’s great for scaffolding, but not that great for non-trivial end-to-end projects.
Of course it doesn't. Especially with the low roaming costs inside Europe. Just grab one in another country and use that. It's purely theater. This is why it's so annoying.

My current provider Orange even requires me to re-ID at their shop periodically now :(
I'm already seeing people reduce the number of people they need to hire based on chatgpt.
> Seems pretty obvious to me. I also don't drive and don't use public transportation or cabs. I walk and get stared at awkwardly for it.

Being able to walk everywhere you need to go is a massive luxury. Especially without any public transportation? Sounds really nice.

It's just not feasible for most people and it won't be any time soon.
EV's use about the same amount of energy as an air conditioner, they both average about 10kWh per day. Is it a challenge? Yes. But it's a challenge we met before when we went from 10% of homes being air conditioned to 90% in under 2 decades.
I'll bite. Vote harvesting and being able to vote without ID.
> But this also reduces the opportunity to parallelize compilation across multiple files because they have been concatenated into fewer build units (...)

Irrelevant. There is always significant overhead in handling multiple translation units, and unity builds simply eliminate that overhead.

> and each unit now requires more memory to deal with the non-header parts.

And that's perfectly ok. You can control how large unity builds are at the component level.

> For some build systems and repositories, this actually increases build time.

You're creating hypothetical problems where there are none.

In the meantime, you're completely missing the main risk of unity builds: increasing the risk of introducing problems associated with internal linkage.
Early car adopters probably were range conscious as hydrogen car owners today like me are .

Built it and it will come doesn’t always work for the early adopters, early investment in a technology can be risky it might take longer than expected or some other tech might replace the current front runner.

Gasoline powered cars weren’t the only tech in early 1900s either, steam powered cars were being as late as 1930s.

The diesel and petrol engines were competing too, very different kinds of engines and fuels
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
A 3MB JavaScript runtime blob right out of the gate? ("Only" 275KB needed just to first render, like that's laudable on its own.)

Other frameworks have already loaded dependent REST/GraphQL data before Angular has even initialized.

Take someone on a mobile device and put them at the edge of cell signal range either because they're out an about or stuck in the bowels of a building with thick walls. Suddenly 275KB-3MB matters a lot more and the user is staring at a blank screen for 10+ secs.

Then there's the boilerplate, all the metadata you need to add to each component that has nothing to do with your problem domain.

And then there's runtime speed compared to alternatives.

While I'm truly happy to see Angular incorporate signals, now devs need to learn when to use signals rather than rxjs. I know now that it's the difference between needing async or not, but if you go down one path, it's a PITA to tear it down and rewrite for the new path.

THAT's why I don't like Angular, though I'd happily choose Angular over React and Vue, both of which are a prone to reducing codebases to big balls of mud due to their "flexibility".