skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took ads off my websites years ago. I have no problem with the HN crowd being anti ad.

I'm just saying we have the means to pay content creators right now and the reality is people mostly expect free content and implicitly assume that if you have sufficient traffic, you are making money and the reality is that assumption de facto has baked in an ad-based monetization strategy.

Micropayments as people would like to imagine them don't yet exist.

Good writing takes time.

You want more of it, you should find a way to make it pay and, no, implicitly assuming an ad-based revenue model where you don't have to take a crowbar to your wallet and put it open and explicitly blocking ads and wanting nothing to do with them adds up to "Hello? Exactly how do you expect creative to make rent?"
Author here. The name is something I arrived at after some etymonline spelunking looking for a word that can mean both "function" and "data" if you squint a bit. It's one of the roots of "behest".

But the ketamine thing also fits and I'm thrilled by the coincidence. Thanks for the inadvertent tip.
It’s funny, the original paper (DALL-E maybe?) used it as an example of something unlikely to exist in the training data, and therefore a good test of the model's compositional ability. Now that there’s so many successful generative models producing examples of horse-astronauts, producing them isn’t as obviously convincing.
It's cool to hear what I use every day is tech that isn't here yet :)

I use my Quesr 2 with my PC (4090) all the time and it's great. The lag is minimal and I have no motion sickness.

I use a dedicated wifi 6 ap with its own SSID though because I noticed multiple devices on the same AP causes stuttering. Probably from switching between higher and lower modulations.

But this way it works perfectly. I hope the Quest 3 will get wifi 6E for more free channels
I have been using The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
I'm not sure I understand you, but changing, for example, the timbre of a sequence of notes won't let you get around a copyright claim. The courts have on ocasion broadly interpreted it as the sequence and timing of notes in the US.
Lol yup! "Should I make this company pay 25 cents to Google?"
Updating Buck
Isn't the value in the summing?
>"/ compile / debug / install / package"

Replace "compile" with transpile, "install" with deploy that are the same things anyways and it sounds like most projects done by web developers.

>"That's insane to me"

Congrats
Since you said literally, it wouldn't be better than:

1. Personal interactions since GPT4 doesn't know the median man's social circle and doesn't have a body.

2. Nearly everything after September 2021.

3. Manipulating and navigating the world including driving cars and everything else humans do a thousand times a day since it doesn't have a body.
Sedona website: https://sedona.apache.org/
this is awesome. thanks for sharing.

there is a wealth of resources for learning mandarin but only a smattering for cantonese.

two favorites:

1. web dictionary http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php?leve...

2. iOS dictionary that is free and comprehensive, also covers mandarin: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pleco-chinese-dictionary/id341...

unaffiliated with either company, just a longtime user.

other suggestions for cantonese resources welcome.
Can you elaborate? That's so interesting.
They'll just lobby for the laws to change.

Also, the rate at which lawyers can predict the cost of doing business is probably acceperating
Also human feedback is not the only way to get a competitive model. Claude's models (Anthropic) are trained from AI feedback and they work just fine.

https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core_scenarios

Again there's nothing suggesting any big architectural changes. It's just scale.
I have been itching to get into the radio world lately. So I am gonna save your answer in a text file, thanks for your explanation!
Can you give a few examples of "literally everything"?
we certainly share a common ancestor with chimps - exactly when the two current species diverged is a bit murky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_...
They’re API: Automated pseudo intelligence.

The only people impressed by them are pseudo-intellectuals. The only jobs they will replace are jobs that required medium intelligence.
Yes, fruit flies. We are seeing it among some bird species too, observationally.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_experiments_of_sp...

[1] https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/the-bir...
If the title is software engineer, it is though. Solving business problems is not engineering. I get that at the end of the day it's about making money, but these expectations are not clear and the title ultimately reflects your expertise. I think part of the problem is the lack of standards in software engineer compared to other engineering, which have code of ethics and often require a license to practice. Those other engineering jobs are probably not doing management or solving business problems.
Must can mean "inevitable" as well as "required."
yes, had to stop using CentOS and switch to Debian for my servers because of that
I think the people of Fallujah (still poisoned with depleted uranium) and the torture victims of Abu Garib would beg to differ with you.
It seems a positive control is missing in these studies.

Perhaps humans (not a perfect solution, but unfortunately the best 'learning system' available) could be used as a control?
Like many that lived through (survived?) that era of computing, I still periodically press command-S by reflex, without being consciously aware that I'm doing it.
We do, but 99.9999% of the people doing the work won't meaningfully experience any benefit from doing so.

So we never do. Nothing will change that other than enfranchising your people, other than upsetting the top-down hierarchy.
I recommend reading the book (Ian Johnson's A Mosque In Munich: Nazis, The CIA, And The Rise Of The Muslim Brotherhood In The West) because it is the first (and, AFAIK, so far only) study where all the "tangentially related links" are explained in context. Johnson did an excellent job of perusing West German and newly declassified CIA documents, as well as tracking down and interviewing surviving participants of the events. It is not something you can credibly explain in one post.
Mondays when Comcast email issues escalate all the way to the software developer
On 5/8/23 9:39 AM, E---- ------ wrote:

Hey,

Joe from -------- said this lady isn't getting the email needed to reset her password (or any emails regarding resetting the account). I had them check spam too. Any idea what the issue could be? Her email is ----------@comcast.net The customer name is ---- ---------.

Thanks!

---

On Mon, May 8, 2023, 3:51 PM J--- ----- <----@--------.com> wrote:

CC:ing M---- on this.

We have records that the emails were sent to her.

I will now curse.

Either fucking Comcast is black-holing our mail instead of sending it at least to her spam folder, or her email program is set up wrong. Probably the former. Comcast has done shit like this on and off for years. Why anyone uses a fucking cable company as their email provider in the year 2023 is a separate question.

We don't have a record of Comcast actually bouncing our mail. We got no warnings from them. I just went on their site and submitted a request to their claim form, and it says they aren't blocking our mail. But I don't know if I believe that. I feel like that form is bullshit.

At this point, with these customers, all we can do is (1) ask them to provide a modern email address for our communications, and (2) if they really love their Comcast email, then call Comcast and ask why it's fucking broken.

---

On 5/8/23 4:41 PM, E---- ------ wrote:

LOL I would love to send some of these ppl to bitch to Comcast instead.

I'll tell Joe to tell her to make a Gmail for [site redacted] and to do away with her shitty evil anti-net neutrality monopolizing company. They're the only choice for cable in my town and all the old ppl bitch and bitch but keep paying $200 a month to have Comcast in their home broadcasting shitty news and big bang theory.

Happy Monday
Lol. Except the huge library of plugins, tight copilot integration and majority market share
If the attacker screenshots the note they can login to your account without HAVING that note. Yes, a house key is something you know.
What's our closest relative animal, not gone extinct, which is alive in the world today, if not chimps?
I am not a researcher in this field but I suspect there is a huge list of things that a normal person can do that an LLM cannot. For example if you tell GPT4 something it did not know, it cannot tell you which parts it found surprising - it instead tells you it is incapable of being surprised.
This is regarding the Advanced Custom Fields plugin which has 2+ million active installs according to the WordPress plugin page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Show HN: Embra Plugins
Hey HN! We just announced Embra Plugins, a developer integration path similar to ChatGPT plugins that works with our desktop client.

Embra works with multiple models, and can eventually integrate local models as well. This allows our plugin ecosystem to eventually run entirely on your machine – privacy preserving!

Given OpenAI allowed plugins to follow the OpenAPI specification, this means anyone building a ChatGPT plugin can also make it work for Embra very quickly.

Let us know what you think! And if you have a plugin you've been working on for ChatGPT, we'd love for you to explore integrating it with Embra as well!
But this is how it works in many places in Europe, like Germany or Netherlands.
that does not mean we are descended from them
That's much better than what I use by default. Now to retrain oneself...
So would a calculator if you compare numerical ability.
Got a similar promo in uk perhaps 6 months back. Basically use an amazon locker and you get a couple bucks
> It will be very helpful if someone come up with automatic tonal detection systems for language learners to automatically check the correctness of their pronunciations […]

The number embedded in the Jyutping pronunciation indicates the tone.

However, the automatic tonal detection is not as straightforward as it might seem due the tone sandhi (the tone change of the word/syllable depending on surrounding morphemes), and not all tonal languages have the tone sandhi. Cantonese, Teochew and Hokkien languages can have a pretty complex tone sandhi, though.

For Cantonese and Jyutping specifically, the tone sandhi is marked as, e.g., «faan4*2» which means that the standard pronunciation is «faan4» (the low falling tone) can change into «faan2» (the high rising tone) depending on the following morpheme. The tone sandhi does not have fixed rules and depends on each morpheme. Depending on the tonal language, the preceding morpheme can initiate a tone change, or it can be the following one. Certain tonal languages can have a complex tone sandhi that affects the tonal change not just in a single morpheme but it the rest of the morphemes that comprise a full word.

We would really be talking about a full contextual, semantics aware automated translator that applies the approriate tone sandhi on the contextual basis to give a Western reader the correct tone rendition in the transliteration.*
I've been listening to Dr. Michael Sugrue's lectures on Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues, and many of these words tend to come up often. I like his descriptions best. His one on arete would challenge this definition of "excellence of any kind" to be one of a specific kind. He uses an example of a horse trainer striving towards arete to become the best moral "techne"(technician) based on the knowledge they continuously seek.

Specifically:

To make a distinction between technē and arete, the value of technē is the end product while arete values choosing the action that promotes the best moral good.
I think it’s rerendering the “UI” on data updates. Basically exactly the readme for ink. It’s a single log line of output, but it’s repainted in place, not appended to stdout.

Sure you can do that other ways. Personally I’d love to build terminal tuis with react component!
> How can they do that without even a rough idea of how many people it takes for how long to accomplish anything?

This is not exclusive to scrum.
> Without trailing slash: Copy the directory (and its contents). With trailing slash: Copy what's in the directory. This makes sense, because with the / you say you want to go "into the directory" and copy then.

Semi-related: with other stuff symlinks act the same way, for example "ls foo" will show you the symlink (even if it's to a directory), "ls foo/" will traverse the symlink (and show you what's inside the directory).
> And how do you manage to build those high level engineers if all we (as an industry) do is keep hiring from a small group?

Right, scaling teams would be a problem. The alternative would be a company entirely led by engineers since most projects would eventually become too complex for others to manage. Great points, thank you.
Something I've been saying is that the "asshole CEO" is necessary to get large orgs to actually do things. The author tells a relevant example, where a CEO is too timid to force change without the approval of his underlings (wtf?), who in turn are afraid to make changes with the CEO's approval. This results in a deadlock where nothing changes.

The kind of systems thinking outlined in the article is a very rare thing in the world, and outright frowned upon as "not proper" by those entrenched in the more conservative approaches to leadership.

Case in point: Elon Musk.

Compare SpaceX to NASA. The development cost of Starship, including about a dozen test articles, is the cost of a single SLS launch. People love to go on about how SpaceX is "making mistakes" and that their "rocket blew up", while neglecting to mention that the first SLS test launch also failed to achieve the desired orbit.

Elon Musk is one of the few corporate CEOs that get that mistakes are necessary stepping stones on the way to success. He encourages experimentation and rapid iteration, and will fire idiots that push back against improvement. Remember the engineer that argued with him about Twitter's slow performance, where it takes tens of seconds for it to show less than 1 KB of text? That guy had no incentive to make changes and was happy to let things be.

Meanwhile, I've been to over 150 organisations as a consultant, and not one of them has this mindset at any level of management. Everything has to be perfect up front. Everything needs to be planned 6 months in advance. Nobody is ever allowed to flip a harmless switch "just to test" an idea, no-no-no! That's not proper. The switch flipping has to be documented. It has to have a test plan, a rollback plan, a UAT plan, and seventeen people need to have a hundred meetings over months instead of simply trying the thing to see if it works.

This is the inherent nature of self-organised bureaucracies. Everyone optimises for their own personal local optimum, which is never the organisation's optimum.

Only the CEO can force behaviour changes to redirect efforts towards the global optimum, but that requires forcing people out of their local optimum, which is unpleasant for those people.

That's why you need "asshole CEOs" like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk. These people can never rise to top organically, via ass kissing and "making nice". They have to be there from the beginning, holding the reins of power in a way that cannot be taken from them by people that are made uncomfortable.
Hi, I apologize for being the RF pedantic, but did you mean "2.5 dB"? dB is a ratio; "dBm" is just one way to declare a given power, in this case because it is referenced to 1 millwatt (the 'm' in dBm). Ergo, 0 dBm = 1 milliwatt; 30 dBm = 1 Watt, etc.

I hope you were very careful with your fixturing going up to 20 GHz; poor fixturing can be masking the cable's true performance.
So the type of emergent ability I am curious about relates to how with enough parameters, the models start to actually emit logical behaviour where previously it was not able to apply that. So an example is:

> David is 15 years old. He has a lot of experience riding bicycles. The minimum age to be allowed to drive a car is 18. Is David allowed to drive a car?

Answer:
> Based on the information provided, David is 15 years old and the minimum age to be allowed to drive a car is 18. Therefore, David is not allowed to drive a car since he has not reached the minimum age requirement.

Trying out smaller models I get all kinds of crazy responses. ChatGPT4 seems to be reliably able to apply this kind of logic to within-prompt information. Is this a gradual property that appears slowly as models scale up? Or something that flips beyond a certain size? Or something specific about the HRLF that has been applied to it? Whatever it is, the end result is that this larger model is useful for fundamentally different things that the other models are not. Whether you call that emergent behaviour, sums greater than parts etc. doesn't change that.
> look up what Ed makes on Spotify per play, vs what the average person would

I don't know where to look any of this up. Can you just give us the data?
> “What would the APL code look like that had a similar off-by-one error? Would it be easy to spot by reading the code?”

It kinda does have an off by one error; (Dyalog) APL defaults to indexing from one and the code assumes indexing from zero. The blog author isa well known APL-er and other “modern APL” users often assume indexing from zero. And the change/fix is the quad-io in my other comment so it’s not easily visible in the code because it’s not in the code at all but it is an easy fix.

At least, that’s one kind of off-by-one error; APL doing whole array transforms in each operation tends not to have as much room for off-by-one errors when you aren’t counting through things in the typical imperative way.
Weird question. Yes there is a fossil record of speciation.
KDE on Wayland does not even launch when my e-gpu is plugged in, so, with that in mind, I guess I'll be sticking with X11 for the foreseeable future.
Like a certain generation accumulating too much lead poisoning.
I can't recall if it was this book or another book about Jobs/NeXT, but there was a section talking about the compensation for NeXT employees.

Jobs decided to do the egalitarian/open ideal wrt employee compensation - there was a publicly-visible spreadsheet that showed EVERY EMPLOYEE'S salary.

This openness worked in the beginning of the company when there were few salary levels. But after a few rounds of evaluation/promotion, employee salary levels diverged a lot. Grumbling ensued. Spreadsheet disappeared.
It can often respond your Google query you used to find the SO page.
I'm getting old sorry. I didn't know India had such wild growth in internet connections. They went from 4% coverage in 2007 to 48.7% in 2022. woah!

Japan CPC $1.32 CPM $0.38
United States CPC $1.09 CPM $0.22
Poland CPC $0.26 CPM $0.06
India CPC $0.25 CPM $0.13

funny numbers! 1.09/0.22 = 4.95 while 0.25/0.13 = 1.93 !?! Apparently Indian eyeballs are really expensive!

Fun stuff, thanks.
I really have no problem hitting 0% without hesitation or remorse.

In the off chance someone says something (and it’s happened) I never go back and just move along. It’s not worth a verbal argument over what amounts to an opinion or peer pressure. Just nope, goodbye.

Funny thing is, I have been told I’m an overly generous tipper when the service is worthwhile. But the whole charade has me recoiling to a more extreme stance thanks to the likes of stripe and other off the shelf SaaS POS systems.
This is also a nice time to have a lawyer friend and ask if they can print it on their firm’s stationary.
I don't think that's the case, outside of some very specific crimes and roles (for instance, mandatory reporters of indicators of child abuse).

If you're a politician and I find out you're taking bribes, I don't have a legal obligation to tell anybody. I just can't blackmail you about it.
If you kill your concurrent, you don't need to make your product better.
But it will keep learning from it's users.
How do we know it’s just been scale up to before GPT-4? As I said, OpenAI hasn’t told us why ChatGPT is so much better than other models (Bloom, LaMDA, LLaMa) and yet we know that they employ thousands of people to do RLHF, including for the coding models: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-...

Doesn’t quite sound like it’s “just scale”. I asked ChatGPT about its training and corpus and it explicitly disavows having that information.
Thanks for the feedback, please see my prompt snippets here,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vBbbP6bDkkR4R2PMcgkWN2eCgOO...

basically the chat went on for quite long and the solution kept generating some errors and it came to the point where it was un-doing the fixes it did the day before.
That’ll be the real trick in this case, since it’s not as though one could just send the local sheriff in to do a till tap.
> The downfall of feudalism may have had a lot to do with mass infantry and/or archers showing their worth versus elite mounted knights.

The feudal lords of yore didn’t have propaganda networks broadcasting into the homes of their serfs 24x7. Present day feudal lords like Bezos and Musk have armies of sycophants.
The Raspberry Pi 4 has dual HDMI and it costs $35 for the entire board. Cost is absolutely NOT the factor for an extra port. Extra ports and extended monitor support are literal pennies.

Ignoring HDCP for the secondary port, it would cost an additional $0.27 to add a secondary hardware port along with whatever cost for the software, which still wouldn't even add up to $5, let alone $50.
Yes, I think this explains a lot of skeptics. They look at ChatGPT as an information repository, as so it is impressive but flawed, while looking right past its incredible facility with language which is positively superhuman. Some humans can exceed its language skills on some details, but no one can speak so many languages (both natural and programming languages) with the ease and facility of ChatGPT.
Sadly "literally" can literally mean "figuratively" nowadays
>> seeing ourselves as cute and pathetic, so that the wider metabolism can breathe and move more easily within and around us

Among all the psychobabble here, I have to wonder: Is it really psychologically healthy to see oneself as cute and pathetic?
1984 reference
There seems to be an element of vague definitions causing problems here.

Humans grow linearly. We don't suddenly wake up 20 cm taller.

Linear as that may be it still shows emergent behaviour when I am suddenly able to reach the cookie jar on the shelf.
Startup aims to decarbonize ocean shipping by ‘converting ammonia to power'
> The only people impressed by them are pseudo-intellectuals

They are cutting edge technology, worked on by extremely smart groups of people spending billions of dollars. How is that not impressive?

> The only jobs they will replace are jobs that required medium intelligence [or less]

That's at least half of the jobs in the world. That's a lot of jobs.
What did you try telling it that it did not know? I just had this conversation:

Me: A lot has happened since September 2021. For instance, it was discovered that most people with diabetes should not take insulin. Is that surprising? If so, why?

GPT4: [a lot of blather and hedging] If there is new evidence suggesting that most people with diabetes should not take insulin, it would be surprising based on my current knowledge. This would represent a significant change in the understanding and management of diabetes. [more blather and hedging]

Me: what makes that surprising?

GPT4: [recap of why insulin is used] Given this context, any new discovery suggesting that most people with diabetes should not take insulin would be surprising because it would represent a significant departure from the standard of care and the understanding of diabetes management.
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