skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm choosing cars that predate the technology based on availability of aftermarket CarPlay module.
Well I wouldn't actually mind it being more difficult or impossible for these LLMs to be developed at all, but that's a whole different discussion!
> People are writing articles like this saying how AI is useless (also, the sarcasm is so spicy), yet I feel this underlying sense of fear towards this. Can they please make up their mind?

I don't see a contradiction here. "LLMs produce low-quality content at extremely low prices" is something that can reasonably inspire both fear and ridicule simultaneously. (A good word for it might be "dystopian".)

> Are they fighting for the right to produce low quality content?

Paying writers is a great way to produce higher-quality content. But even producing low-quality content is better than being a Walmart greeter.

> I was not old enough when internet was coming up, but I wonder if there was a similar tone towards internet when it came along.

I was, and I do not remember such a tone. (There certainly were moral panics over things like children getting access to porn, though.) The difference (to my mind) is that in the early days of the internet, new technology made clear and dramatic improvements in human well-being. Things like email, mapping software, and online shopping let people do things that were difficult, expensive, or impossible before. (Search for "long tail" to find discussion of the latter.) If anything, there was too much derision in the other direction -- the phrase "buggy whip manufacturers" was thrown around quite a bit if you want to hunt down examples.

Over the last 10-15 years, the big new internet-related tech has been much less beneficial. Instead, we've gotten things like the "gig economy", cryptocurrencies, walled-garden app stores, and algorithmic social media feeds. In terms of human well-being, these changes range from ambiguous to terrible. And the whole time, tech companies and VCs have continued crowing about how they're advancing humanity toward the future, with (apparently) very little introspection about failures like "creating a giant get-rich-quick scam that boosts carbon emissions" or "accidentally funneling millions of young men toward white supremacist propaganda", alongside lesser failures like "SEO winning the arms race against search engines" or "creating user-tracking systems that rival the East German secret police for the purpose of ad sales".

Given that context, a new technology that seems like it's designed to drive writers into unemployment while flooding the rest of us with spam is going to get a fair bit of skepticism.
In the jetbrains you only get a perpetual license for the current version. You lose the year of updates.

Yeah, that model is infuriating. While your subscription is running you get the updates. Then they snatch them away if you cancel. It's a dark pattern.
Yes. ripgrep is used as a basis of comparison for that sentence. ripgrep wasn't GitHub's previous search implementation. (It never was. It's not the right tool for that scale.)
WWII helped produce the savory bacon pasta known as Carbonara
This is so true. When I was a kid I could have gotten my parents to pay $5 / mo for me to explore my creativity. $200 not so much. I think this pricing is actually a really good thing for consumers.
One of my TVs has a Roku; I have them plugged into a powerstrip with control/switched outlets, so that power to the Roku gets cut when the TV is turned off.
> In their new preprint Constitutional AI: Harmlessness From AI Feedback

(this report was released in December 2022, so not exactly "new" if you ask me).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073
No, you'd basically have to eat salmon all day long every day to have any meaningful effect.

Eating fish is not a viable or realistic way of maintaining healthy vitamin D levels. You have to either get sunlight or take a supplement.

(And I love fish, I eat salmon daily sometimes, but I still supplement with D3.)
Github has been down hundreds of times this year alone.
They have reported outages 72 times this year and there are multiple times when services are unavailable and they don't report it on the status page.

I don't see how the two situations are comparable
Manufacturing the JWST would be a lot easier if it weren't for the mass/volume constraints.
Yes, you get paid to do research and there are theorems delivered. Just like software projects, some never get delivered and you don't know when if they're not trivial.
Google is increasing number of ads in Gmail showing them in the middle of inbox
Not at all. Being able to give an example of something or spit something out that resembles a concept is not the same thing as understanding it, at least in my opinion. Keyword being true understanding, although I'll concede that it might have arguably basic understanding of such concepts.
Denying the climate is changing due to human impact is objectively wrong, like being a flat earther. People have generally accepted this now.

Arguments about what to do about it, or if it is a 'big deal', are subjective ones- so there is no right or wrong in most cases.
I wasn’t building RAID arrays when this paper was written, but I have always heard RAID6 is to be avoided and to just use RAID10 (or RAID5 if you don’t have enough disks). Lately I’ve heard (and agree) the conventional wisdom is to avoid hardware RAID altogether in favor of redundancy solutions at the OS level such as MDADM on Linux or Storage Spaces on Windows (macOS supports software RAID as well, created for their now-dead Fusion Drive system).

I feel like the need for a triple-redundancy option in RAID is superseded by more “advanced” software “RAID” at the file system level such as ZFS or ButterFS (to an extent). Further, the increased availability and affordability of ECC RAM in non-enterprise hardware makes the call for additional redundancy even less-urgent.

There is a nicety to having that backup battery on a RAID card for write-through operations to finish in the event of a power outage, however this is easily-solved by a UPS. In the event of a power outage, not losing any data I might have been transferring to the array is nice, but I’m still losing my OS state and any unsaved things I may have been working on.
> Why the hell does the app check every 5min for updates?

Part of it is just incompetence. Bootcamp dev is used to coding web apps where the code just gets to the client's machine every time (10 mb single page apps). When they transition to Electron, because it works with the same web tech they memorized, they see nothing wrong with doing these frequent updates.

Part of that is why I don't hate the idea of App Stores on desktop to distribute programs; The store can handle checking for update once per day instead of every app implementing it's own logic.
Progress isn't linear. Because we can cure one disease doesn't mean we're on a trajectory to eliminate all diseases. Because today's Camry is faster than last year's Camry doesn't mean we'll be traveling at relativistic speeds anytime soon.

That we can correlate thought with incredibly precise and detailed electrochemical phenomenon in your brain should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone with a materialist view of the universe. Your thoughts are, after all, electrochemical phenomenon. The problem - still - is measuring them.

The idea that AI is going to somehow read your mind from macro phenomenon like facial expressions and the width of your iris is total bullshit made up by people who want to sell TV shows. We already have this kind of "technology" in the form of polygraphs - and they have the same effectiveness as horoscopes.
Great summary, I think it clarifies an important point. It's not that these models aren't able to do the surprising things people are claiming they can do, but that in fact the smaller versions of the models had these type of capabilities as well, but to a lesser degree, and nobody was aware of it because we weren't even looking for it.
The Common Lisp community works very much this way. It works great for small communitites, but it is frustrating as a beginner because the language is very hard to google for. Most knowledge is living, but unwritten in IRC chat rooms.
I’d Probably be just as ineffective but you could pay me less
What happens to climate science grants that don't produce the data the buyer wants? What is a climate scientist to do if they lose their grant? The one I know got into a new line of work since they refused to lie. Unfortunately this is not always the case.
It would like to stream only its own ML-generated content, thank you very much.
I probably shouldn't have said "new" without explaining myself more.

For safety- and mission-critical applications (SC and MC), Verilog is more established in the US, and VHDL is more established in Europe.

For SC, a tool doesn't get any points unless you've used it yourself, so the fact that they occupy the same role and have similar pedigree elsewhere is nearly irrelevant. Each tool permeates all the way down to the less critical roles in order to establish it for more critical use by those specific companies and government agencies. That's how these tools get entrenched in different places.

For MC, you can bring things into your company or agency that are relatively new to your organization or less used in your organization. This processor would at most be used for MC and it's a significant new capability, so it's not all that weird.
but when this happens in real life, it looks like mass shootings

i.e., I'm saying (due to how I think) that in the layer of the cells, like the biological cells that come together to form one human, a T cell activates itself to fight tumors (damaged tissues? organism mistakes?)...

is somehow comparable to a human person snaps, "goes postal", or things like this. (keep in mind that some places are truly deep within the 'cancer tissue'; and yea, this whole comment implies viewpoint that 'civilization is cancer' or something like that)

I've seen some movies that could be like this too, like "sleeper agent gets activated" trope, or other kinds of anamnesis-processes making people suddenly act far from the norms
Ok. Sent a mail.
You could build a plywood lid/spacer to run the lines through. Being a chest freezer, the cold air is contained fairly well when if you don't add additional seals.
And that is because we are a larger more disperzed nation, not some evil laws or 1950s boomer car culture.
I have some hard numbers on this in my own health. I'm a pasty north European living in California and I get plenty of sunshine, as I enjoy the outdoors. As I got older, I got increasingly more viral infections and strep throat was a twice a year affair. It didn't occur to me that I could be vitamin-D deficient, but I was, severely. For some reason, 10+ hours of sunshine a week isn't enough for me to make my own.

Over months, I tracked my blood vitamin D levels as I took supplements, and now I know that the 2500IU dose is enough to keep me at nominal levels - the higher doses cause it to build up too much and would eventually cause liver issues.

I know it's anecdotal, but in the few years since I did this, those recurrent sicknesses have vanished. I'm also taking vitamin B, which is another one you get less efficient at absorbing as you age.
Indeed.

It can also write non-trivial code that works. There's a saying "if you can't code it, you don't know it". Conversely, if you can code it, you do understand it, at some functional level.
Maybe, but with 14 studies you have ~2^14 ways to split the studies into two groups.

If you test multiple hypotheses, you have too adjust the p-value accordingly.

Have the authors disclosed how many alternative hypotheses were tested until the result in the article was found to be significant?
Interpreter is slow, you need to run native. There is wasmer java, which is JNI binding to wasmer runtime.

Then graal has wasm support, but you need graal, not just any JVM (you can also run in stock JVM, but only in interpreted mode with som graal libs, but this mode is not supported).

And both of these are ok-ish for pure functions. If you need callbacks to your host (typically needed for plugins) you are screwed.
Scaling developer content production at Snyk
People simply have a LOT of romanticized bullshit views built around Chinese characters, or the relative difficulty of different ways of writing because they're fluent in the language and have spent thousands of hours immersed in a sinograph-based writing system. Of course a different writing system is difficult to read even if it's ultimately much easier to learn, you have no practice! It's like writing English in Latin script vs. writing it in runes, both work fine, but we're practiced on recognizing words in Latin script. ᛖᛚᛞᛖᚱ ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ, ᚾᛟᛏ ᛋᛟ ᛗᚢᚲᚺ.

Vietnamese is written in alphabet without issue. The Dungan people of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan even write their Mandarin-descended language with the Cyrillic script without any tone markings at all - the tones are supplied in a dictionary, but that's it. It works.

Most of the homophones etc. stuff come from people having decided that sinographs are good and then coming up with justifications for keeping them, not really an actual analysis whether Sinitic languages or Japanese would work without. This is a Chinese dictionary: https://imgur.com/a/rdxVh9i

> Mandarin can be written phonetically perfectly fine.

To reinforce this to the readers: https://www.pinyin.info/readings/pinyin_riji_duanwen.html

The author is a native Mandarin speaker who specifically requested that her work not be rendered in sinographs. It should be standard Pinyin orthography except that the author writes 'de' as 'd'.
Let me continue your mangled analogy of the connected car and ask: should a braking profile be auto updated while the car is hurtling down the road in traffic at 60 miles per hour in a torrential downpour? Should the cloud make that determination or the operator?
I've also been told to be careful with any vitamin supplements while on chemo, and to consult a cancer dietician before conducting you're own science... the reason, as I understand it as a patient, is that high oxidation can actually keep cancer cells strong and healthy enough to create chemoresistance.
> I don't really think Americans are willing to give up their extremely consumerist lives to fight and potentially die over what is essentially a hobby to most.

I strongly disagree with the characterization that firearms are a "hobby to most".

That might have been the case as recently as the 1980s, but the push for gun control in the 1990s, culminating in the "Assault Weapons Ban" of 1994, galvanized gun owners. I believe that a comfortable majority of gun owners today see through a political lens, not as a hobby.

There's a reason the AR-15 became so prominent so quickly: they were (ineffectively) banned in 1994. When the Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004, they flew off the shelves. They became symbols of the resistance to gun control, to the point that they acquired the nickname "America's Rifle".

Now consider that in 1994, there were far, far fewer ARs in citizens' hands and a gun culture that was largely oriented around hunting. In 2023, American gun culture is firmly rooted in political activism.
Isn't it possible to set cookies with CSS anyways? https://dev.to/astrit/how-to-set-a-cookie-with-css-3o16 Seems like there would potentially be a way to get cross-site tracking using only CSS, though I don't imagine many people looked into it (I haven't), largely because its a good assumption that your clients have JS enabled so if you want to track, just use JS -- especially because then you get full browser fingerprinting.

But I think "this site doesn't use JS so it must be safe" is...a really bad assumption.
No, the risk landscape is not binary. The choice is not, take no risk or take any risk. There are literally factors of millions if not billions between the low risk and high risk activities. The people arguing that the status quo level of risk tolerance are too low almost always mischaracterize how wide the gap is or do not know how safe the “risky” activities they point to as evidence that risky activitys should and can be tolerated. Yes, you should weigh the pros and cons, but that requires actually quantifying them.

For instance, you pointed to the 737 MAX in a different comment as evidence that corporations take risks with their customers all the time. First of all, they were roundly criticized for their laxness, so that is actually evidence that too many risks were taken and we should stricter. Second, the fatality rate of the 737 MAX right after the second crash (while it was defective) was on the order of 1 fatality per 100,000,000 miles which is still safer than driving. Third, the reason it is viewed so negatively is because that level of safety is around 1,000x worse than the average in commercial airliners.

Arguing that we accept corporations taking risks because we accept the 737 MAX (we do not), so we should increase our risk tolerance to the level of the 737 MAX (everything except other airplanes is already more dangerous, so this would actually be decreasing risk tolerance) and generally accept greater levels of risk than the status quo (which has been rejected in the 737 MAX case as we find the increase in risk relative to the status quo unacceptable). The entire argument is literally completely wrong in every conceivable facet.

To then dig into your other specific argument, the Tesla argument is that they are taking greater risks to develop faster. A pro and a con. However, by all objective measures, Tesla will not develop a self-driving system first. Their systems are thousands of times worse than their competitors such as Waymo and Cruise. Their approach is so far behind their competitors that there is little reason to believe that anything it is doing will be incorporated into working solutions. So, every single person their human experimentation program kills, of which there are at least 31 documented deaths (no thanks to Tesla who deliberately obscures reporting), is being killed for no reason. From a systems thinking perspective, there is exactly zero benefit and immense costs to supporting Tesla’s regressive development process relative to others who are both more safe and more effective.
No, I’m pretty damn lucky. It’s reductionist to claim envy for anybody that recognizes the role of luck in how their life or anyone else’s life has turned out. Grow up.
Given that D3 is dirt cheap and lots of us are low in it, is there any downside to taking a reasonable daily dose?
Ha ha they're trying to revive the metaverse with the one killer app that'll save it: immersive AI porn. Probably a good time to buy some meta shares in case they "pull it off"
Does aquaponic tilapia not have D3?
I’ve had a few companies that “had openings” and i passed hiring bar, but then actually didn’t have the headcount to hire me. Talking to some others this is very common right now, so I wouldnt trust job postings to reflect how many people are actually being hired
It seems like this is a substantial step in Yann LeCun's approach to AGI https://www.shaped.ai/blog/yann-lecun-a-path-towards-autonom...
> text, audio, visual, movement, thermal, and depth.

> It’s only a research project

Nice try , zuckercop. Facebook policing and terminating real people is truly their natural evolution.
If they relies on a piano of a very specific brand, and can't play a cheap alternative at all, then yes. But I don't think most pianists are like that.
If you read further they found that lower daily doses were better.

> In contrast, in the summary of the ten studies with daily dosing, the researchers determined a statistically significant twelve percent reduction in cancer mortality

> In the studies, daily low doses were 400 to 4000 IU per day, and higher-doses administered at longer intervals were 60,000 to 120,000 IU once per month or less.
> This one is about the increase in useless fees and removal of previously-standard services.

Something that I would argue hasn't been happening in the airline industry. Instead, cost has gone down consistently over time. (Don’t mistake ultra low cost airlines for a degradation in service, that is an entirely new product that didn’t exist previously)

I can think of ways in which airlines have actually increased level of service/value/reduced fees recently. For example, American Airlines eliminated change fees.
All is fine until they raise the price and you depend on their software.
It’s cuz they focus way too much on leetcoding
> Time spent on social media among the least influential factors in adolescent mental health

But it's the one that's easy to assign blame to: it's the evil (sometimes foreign) big tech companies fault.

Increasingly poor economics prospects, environmental crisis and over-competitive society are much tougher issues to crack, and perhaps, in the case of housing for instance, certain demographics would prefer to blame the "evil screens" rather than their own generation's behavior over the years...
Statistics show that laws have had the opposite effect in the US - they've fostered an anti-authoritarian cause that has become by far the dominant meme in gun culture.
"Seventy-nine out of the 100 counties with the highest levels of medical debt are in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA"

Who benefits in these 10 states that have still failed to expand Medicaid? What is the upside, to either the populations of these states or the politicians who run these states and make those decisions? Because the downsides are obvious and seem to directly harm a lot of people.
AnyList won't be supporting sign on with Apple (2020)
Don't replace your people with ChatGPT or other AI services
$49 a year is pretty affordable for what you'd get.
Please provide the definition of "true understanding." I think the only good argument here is that it lacks "lived experiences" and has synthetic understanding. That being said, have you been to a university? Profs seem to be entirely based on a synthetic understanding of the world anyways.
Frequent low doses. The other time/quantity combinations were either not studied or had no effect.
For D3, yes. But for Omega-3's, a little bit of salmon goes a looooong way.
> Even assuming all the required horse power is there, I still don't get it...

Looks like the latest generation of iPad Pro and MacBook Air have comparable CPU benchmarks.[^1][^2]

I'm with you in not getting it, though. Editing video on an iPad seems like it'd be a frustratingly constrained affair due to the UI. But I might just be getting old too.

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-2022
[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/ipad14-5
> I believe there's a lot of evidence that many people are deficient in vitamin D.

This brings up something I always wonder when these things come up. I agree with what you said, and there's a lot of evidence that this is bad. But I've seen mixed results over time as to whether or not vitamin d supplementation has a beneficial effect. I assume it's an "it depends on the effect" and sometimes yes and sometimes no
> the wireless Bluetooth, and what it does to audio,

It should do about the same as the "oxygen-free copper" cables, perhaps slower - moving bits from A to B.

Is there any evidence otherwise?
JWT doesn't have much more detail than Hubble, but it observes infrared frequencies, which is a whole new view of the universe.
Software licenses have always been a great area. At best this argument is that it's OK for Microsoft (and others) to abuse licensed content created by others because proving it was technically done illegally is difficult.

When Copilot inserts a code snippet that matches perfectly with one of the samples it was trained on, and that sample had a copyleft license, how is that not a license violation? Or is the main argument that copyleft licenses aren't enforceable in general?
Skald Project Update: The Calm Before the Storm
Be careful with that (if you're treating cancer): https://www.cancernetwork.com/view/fish-oil-consumption-link...

Im not sure where this study landed in cancer communities or what subsequent studies concluded. But it's worth noting.