skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you comparing to the absolute minimum? Didn't people use to have mortgages before 2020? My first house was close to $300K, mortgage was 6.5%. No one was crying about this back then.
Definitely agree that uncertainty and curiosity are key components of empathy. I realize that my reaction is probably informed by a part of the question that I didn't include in my quote: ... there’s also a type of person, whom you write about in the book — you call them “productivity bros” — who seems to want to micromanage time and thinks about it in terms of return on investment.

I think people tend to use "[BLANK] bros" derisively.
I'd like to read the article. What are the required maths ?
I'd venture to say a lot of companies based in 2nd/3rd tier locations simply did the math of hiring freelancers vs opening an office in those 1st tier locations and it was cheaper just to pay the remote workers.

It's almost as if remote work is good for the worker bees and good for the business, but bad for the useless middle managers who's only job is to make sure people are working performatively.
Excellent! Thank you so much for making/posting this
Is the problem that Google's existing customer base doesn't want the restrictions of GDPR, so Google is tying itself into knots trying to achieve the impossible?

Or is it simply that the concept of "an American company processing data on visitors to a European website" is completely illegal now, and the courts haven't gotten around to spelling it out that bluntly yet?
> The middle class of America is small, privileged, and unaware of the suffering and exploitation of ~100 M Americans below it and of its enablement of the "1%" to continue the status quo.

I would defend those in the middle class by saying that they are more comfortable than the poor in America, but have about the same amount (zero) of political power. The middle class is still a worker class, and as such is still subject to the whims of the wealthy capital owners.

I don't think I am in the middle class, as I don't even own a home, but I do make a good living and I would say I am more well-off than many people in the town I currently live in. I know about what's going on in America, and it pisses me off, and if I had the power to change a tiny bit of it I would, but I don't.
Not sure how it compares, I set up self hosted matomo (originally named piwik) and it's been running without issue since 2013 or so. https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo. Only useful if what you're running is on php. Probably would've picked a different stack today.
That's a fair point, I definitely think closer to the second paragraph in terms of presentations etc. Different analysis than project work for sure.
Book three of the Gormenghast trilogy of course being the one were the reader is figuratively wading in a deluge of not-quite-sane. Anyone interested in the weird world-building of Gormenghast: don't feel bad about skipping the third book.

I enjoyed Cordwainer Smith's Norstrilia (1975). Australians in space, and utterly weird things to do with sheep (sorry, that may sound a bit iffy, but the book is cool).
The "same people" probably want lots of immigration to staff their factories with cheap labor, but they want the Republicans in power because they want lower taxes et al. And the way to keep the Republicans in power is through racist xenophobia.
Average people can understand well enough that if they use someone's toy social site consisting of a single node with a tiny number of users, they will not have their egos stroked there with large numbers of "friends" or "followers" circle jerking their postings.
> Smallish UBI is an oxymoron; I'm assuming by "smallish" you mean something that's insufficient to cover basic living expenses (the B in UBI).

Like it or not, the term UBI has been overloaded in common usage to refer to both forms. (Wikipedia notes that sometimes a "full basic income" vs. a "partial basic income" is used to disambiguate the two forms.)

"Basic" in this sense just means that there is a set "basis" from which income can only increase; it does not necessarily have anything to do with "basic" living expenses, although many proposals do tie that particular connection.
I've noticed its a bit of an annual cycle for me. It seems in the summer and winter, the best articles get shared, or at least the most interesting for me. In the fall/spring it seems like it's whatever is the latest hype, whether that is AI, crypto, whatever.

My theory is that a lot of smart people tend to have large chunks of free time in the summer/winter, thus write a lot of interesting things. In the fall/spring, people are busy and thus only low-effort or trending articles make it here.
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One, it's insane to ask drivers to input data while driving.

Two, these are not "speed traps", they are simply officers on the side of the road. These officers are doing a public service looking for cell phone users, and for aggressive speeders.
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Yeah, that's abhorrent, but the amusing thing is that I've seen similar comments in threads about obesity.
Even if we did succeed at any of these it's not a given that they would be good for everyone.

There is no good that can come of humanity discovering immortality for example. It would be the worst thing we could do. Do we really want an upper class of immortals and a lower class of people who aren't? Because that will happen.

Space travel? Okay so all of the rich stay here on earth and send us peasants off to colonize cold and unforgiving rocks and mine asteroids for them?

Don't even get me started on AGI.
You don't use APIs to interact with apps. Apps use APIs to do actions.
The sole benefit of DDG is their claim that they don't track.

One problem with this narrow focus is that many people mistakenly carry this statement over to an assumption that DDG doesn't censor their search results. I suspect that DDG both knows and counts on this as an aspect of an undeserved reputation.

DDG's search results aren't acceptable for anything even mildly controversial. I'll use them for image searches, but there are better search engines for internet access and that give equivalent or better privacy.

Also in my opinion, DDG's penchant for censorship harms the credibility of their assertion that they do not track.
Many of the more traditional AI ethicists who focused on bias and stuff also tended to devalue AI as a whole and say it was a waste of emissions. Most of them are pretty skeptical of any concerns of super intelligence or the control problem, though now even Gary Marcus is coming around to that (but putting out numbers like not expected to be a problem for 50 years). They don't tend have as big of a conflict of interest as far as ownership but do as far as self-promotion/brand building.
Some symptoms are not OK in an absolute sense. For example, the exhaustion. It can be disabling (along with all the other nice things that go on inside your head) and go on for months without a break.
Honestly, this is such a self-made American problem that is not a thing in anywhere else on the world, that I really believe that no regulation is required here (even though I am usually a fan of government regulations, I can’t wait for sideloading thanks to EU).

Like, the rest of the world uses either WhatsApp, Telegram or litany of other choices, the US were just rich enough to buy enough iphones that this effect somehow took hold (plus the strange addiction to SMS due to carrier plans, while we had to quickly forget about it in other places because with non-ascii characters it sucked even more so).
Why would anyone bug you? You played Football, presumably that meant you were able to beat the shit out of most anyone who would have bugged you. That's a bullying deterrent.

If you had purely intellectual interests, or physical issues in general you quite likely would not have had the same experience.

It's not about niche finding so much as it's about social blending and masking.
Corrupted storage is a pain :( The Beepberry firmware can safely shutdown the Pi before disconnecting power, so hopefully that will help with SD issues. raspi-config also has a read-only overlay filesystem option now.
Absolutely not. OpenAI can't be taken to court if a mistranslation causes issues. That is why it will always require a human to confirm the translation is correct.

As discussed before, OpenAI doesn't know it doesn't know, and will dream up something.
Yup. I'm willing to move for love, family, friends, exciting city etc. But job? Unless you're significantly upgrading my economic class. But actually I did that already when I was 20 and not sure it was really worth it.
Had a Rumani mango tree at home while growing up. Small, extremely juice mangos. Ate hundreds every season. Nothing else comes close.
This is an awesome explanation. You guys are the real heroes
> Of course there are efforts to reduce this, notably llama.cpp which runs a 13 billion parameter model on a 6GB GPU by quantizing aggressively down to 4 bits (and 8 bits without too much impact), but that’s atypical.

No, 4bit quantization is the typical case.

At 4bit you can fit twice the parameters of 8bit in the same space for far better performance/perplexity/quality.

Running LLMs higher than 4bit is atypical and almost always sub-optimal (compared to running a model half the size in 8bit).

Even pretraining and finetuning in 4bit is likely to become the norm soon as fp4 becomes more well understood.
Maybe he sincerely believes the line OpenAI's PR department is pushing, but that's an even better reason not to listen to him.
Basically, does the ant have a finite loop? I would be surprised if there wasn't one.
The same decision has been made in Python, to use the newer APIs blindly, but fortunately there's a fork: https://github.com/adang1345/PythonWin7 Hope Chromium will get one soon.

EDIT: yep, there's already one: https://github.com/Alex313031/chromium-win7
Famously, they didn't support Windows for the first decade of their existence, and that did cost them a tremendous amount of market share against MySQL.

By their technical merits, PostgreSQL should be the most used DB.
Exactly. Talk about entirely missing the point!
I somewhat agree. I don't mind if true falsehoods/spam is removed. The problem was, the "anti vax" label was applied to far too much, including things that were later found to be true.

The article I was looking for was about intravascular injection of the vaccine, and its possible relation to adverse effects, which now has merit in 2023 [1].

[1] https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/inadvertent-injection...
Ask yourself: Am I ready to be a bottom feeder on the lowest rung of society, rifling through garbage in the hopes of squeezing some poor schlub out of a few bucks?
> The vast majority of folks downvoted the initial proposal

And the vast majority upvoted this proposal.
Because parents got mass hysteria - fueled by a desire to make life as eventless as being in a comma
It seems that capitalism coincided with empires globalizing the world via colonization, and as such inherited imperialist "features" that are not necessarily tied to the idea of free markets and capital. Those companies that did horrible things for profit, are allowed to do so because of capitalism, but it's not an inherent feature of capitalism, in my limited knowledge. To that extent it's like we're trying to find an economic model that will solve for human greed in every possible scenario. Maybe it just needs to be complemented with other societal values or moral structures.
Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers
You cant save a fool from itself, but the problem with mass addictions is systemic. Society has failed, from enacting an unenforceable prohibition in the war on drugs (rightwing) to letting lost junkies harm themselves to oblivion from kind samaritans (leftwing). Before going around and praising social darwinism we should guarantee (even limited) effective/necessary treatments into vulnerable parts of society, preferably before "radicalization", viewing it as a social investment
> The negative side is that it is a computationally inefficient architecture as there are plenty of n^2 operations on the length of the input

Is this the reason for the limited token windows?
hxxps:[//]]familyphotos.zip (broke the link on purpose) is already registered, and it downloads the zip file. 4 days later, and unsurprisingly, it's already happened. I'll open the zip in a VM and see what happens, it's 0.58 KB...

Update: Turns out it just contains what_happened.txt, a copy of which is below. Thanks anonymous person!

```

"Hey, this isn't family pictures!"

You're right -- and that link you clicked wasn't a file attached to the email
or message you received.

Thanks to Google[0][1], now it's impossible to discern the difference between
a link to an attachment called "familyphotos.zip" and a link to this file...
unless you are able to inspect the destination of a link before clicking it.
Most software and apps don't allow that, and most people don't know how to
tell the difference anyway.

Have fun in the Wild Wild Web!

[0]: https://www.blog.google/products/registry/8-new-top-level-do...
[1]: https://twitter.com/Google/status/1653866291692728320

```
I don't think "it hasn't killed people yet" is a very good criteria. There are a lot of plausible dangers that existing and imaginable large-machine-learning could involve.

I can't see how one could do the regulating of AI but I don't think one can limit the worry-area to "clear and obvious" situations.
Nobody is reaching out to me... and I don't even see job openings I can send my resume anymore.

For example if go to "who is hiring" and do a search for c++ I find almost nothing. The few c++ Jobs that do exist require you to already live nearby because they can't offer relocation assistance or VISA sponsorship.

Meanwhile same search years ago I would find plenty of cool openings to send my resume to.

I am not even getting recruiter spam anymore where people offer me jobs that are unrelated to my skillset.
is there even a way to ignore words from a search any more on DDG? using "-" in front of a word doesnt prevent the word from showing up in results.
It was crazy to see suggestions to wear masks or claims that covid was airborne getting "fact-checked" by the media only to reverse their position months later after WHO put out new statements. In particular, the phrase "no credible evidence" was wildly thrown around without mentioning whether there were any credible high-powered studies that had even attempted to find evidence of the phenomenon.
People who don't think the forced change to Google Analytics 4 is a big deal may want to consider talking to actual business users of the current Google Analytics (because Google clearly isn't). GA4 is clearly aimed at data scientists. Even as someone who owns data teams it is a frustration to use. Try it for yourself, count the steps necessary to determine many page view counts a certain page is receiving in current "Universal Analytics" vs. the new GA4. That is if you can even figure out how to do it in GA4.

And it's all a shame because Google already acquired a great data science/viz tool, Looker, and that's a perfectly fine place to do data analytics/science rather than forcing it in Analytics.
Gestimer, Horo, AS Timer or extensions for Alfred and Raycast
https://www.statista.com/statistics/511358/market-share-mobi...

Better link - DDG is in #2 with a behemoth 1.8% market share, closely followed by yahoo and and bing at 1.6% and 1.3%.
Knock on my door! Knock next time!

Yes sir!

Did you see any thing?!

No sir, I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!
> It actually surprises me given Apple is very pro accessibility.

I have a hard time accepting that seeing as there is no way to configure system-wide fonts. CMD+scroll-wheel in Chrome doesn't even work properly (you can zoom the entire desktop, but it doesn't scale just the fonts on the website + remember your setting like it does on Linux and Windows machines).

I had to use a Mac for work and found it very difficult on the eyes when using an external monitor. To me this was not just an accessibility issue but THE accessibility issue. The fact that Linux gets this right of all operating systems, but Mac doesn't, speaks volumes to how much Apple actually cares about accessibility IMO.
They are referring to Cellphones, Portable Music Players, and Wearables. None were "sexy" until Apple came along and became the trend setters.

It's going to be harder for apple to do it with VR or AR tech, but it is possible. It probably won't catch on until Gen 3-4 once the ecosystem is up to speed, consumer price drops, and the true function emerges beyond perceived hype.
trademark abuse sucks but Taco John's is objectively better than Taco Bell across every conceivable metric, and I've yet to meet anyone who visits "Taco John's Country" and ends up disagreeing.
This makes perfect sense from the perspective of a language designer/computer scientist who is trying to keep their design clean and consistent.

It makes no sense to an end user that expects an argument you pass to BigFloat to be treated as a BigFloat. As an end-user I would rather have a warning or even error than to have my argument silently treated as a double.
You can’t take your low mortgage rate with you… so if you have a 300k 30yr fixed rate mortgage @2.5% now that mortgages are 6% that represents a ~50% not gain for you, so you assuming you could buy the same house in the new location for the same price, you’d still need to be paid ~$150k to move! Don’t think many people are getting sign on bonuses of ~1/2 thawing outstanding mortgage balance…
> Judging historically on blue states' treatment of some other issues like immigration

Blue states don't have a great history on those other issues, either. Oregon literally prohibited black people from entering its territory. The last Major League Baseball team to integrate was the Red Sox. A quarter of all present-day blue states have never elected a black person to the House of Representatives, and another quarter have only ever elected one.

Actually, even today, most professional athletes point to Boston as the most racist city they'll play in. "Sanctuary cities" in blue states like Chicago and NYC are pushing refugees out to the comparatively redder suburbs right now. In the meantime, college-educated black people are moving back to the South.

Point being, differences are only felt in the extreme margins; red states and blue states are just the difference of 49% vs. 51% one direction or another on almost every divisive issue.
> We _don’t_ need computer language symbols and grammar and syntax — it’s just another form of expression, and definitely not one that fits the human mind nicely

A computer is a machine that implements a particular form of mathematics. We happen to use them for fuzzy, imprecisely defined tasks, thanks to mountains of convenient abstraction, but we do very much need precise mathematical language for other classes of problems!

A language is a vehicle. If we need to build a website, natural language specs might get us where we want to go. If we need to build a rigorous model of some phenomenon, natural language is often an obstacle. There is a reason mathematicians invent and adopt formalisms: they extend our capacity for precise computation, mental or digital.
Increase the easy widespread availability of cheap fresh locally-grown fruits and vegetables. Build as many vertical farms as are needed to always have drone-delivery of fresh produce. Build it at such a scale that anyone can order as much as they want to eat from their smartphone and receive a drone delivered basket containing automatically picked fresh produce from the vertical farm systems nearby.
The bugs around Exact match and text/content (not site!) exclusion operators not working at all are what keeps me from using it as an actual substitute for Google or Bing. I hope that getting that stuff fixed is a high priority.

DDG is the default in a lot of privacy-oriented browsers and forks, but it gives users a really bad first impression when their first search just doesn't work.

But I suppose that the average mobile search engine user these days doesn't use most search modifiers or operators so maybe they aren't the things to prioritize.
I love the form factor here. A few questions:

1) Have you considered how this could be made more mobile friendly? Most places I could see myself using a device like this, I wouldn't have access to WiFi. Is there an equivalent of a USB SIM card adapter that would fit here?

2) What sort of battery life can be achieved with this?

Looks great though! Am very likely to order an iteration of this :)
Companies can entice people to move by including an unconditional notice period for termination in their job offer letters.

If you're essentially guaranteed a couple months notice (which could be a non-working period with full pay), that would easily take you until the end of the kids' semester or whatever.
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Source available is the fitting term here.
Those Computerphile videos[0] by Rob Miles helped me understand transformers. He specifically references the "Attention is all you need" paper.

And for a deeper dive, Andrej Kharpaty has this hands-on video[1] where he builds a transformer from scratch. You can check-out his other videos on NLP as well they are all excellent.

[0] https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54, https://youtu.be/89A4jGvaaKk

[1] https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY
Pixels have built in "AI" engines or whatever. Maybe they do preprocessing, only store relevant stuff, and then upload when you get back on wifi.
1998 Apache log files were wonderful. I could see everything.
That answer it akin to "just use VPN" every time there is announcement of some kind of censorship of the web.

The point is, this is just introducing another security threat to worry about. You now have to be aware that the toolchain can call home and ensure it doesn't happen. Someone might misconfigure it or you don't know if a release comes that has a "bug" and it sends telemetry regardless of settings.

This is just completely wrong and should be nipped in the bud.

The mere fact that they are pressing ahead with this is sinister. These things are never about "oh just don't opt in".

If someone really feels the need to send telemetry to Google and be spied on, they should use a completely separate tool that is not included in the toolchain.
The point I was trying to make isn’t about happiness or sadness per se, rather they depression has mental analogs that presumably are improved after treatment.
What impact does that have?
Could someone tell me how many hours of battery life you could get out of it?
Instead of being sarcasting and unhelpful, you all could have a look at a settings window and realize that the option already exist and there is no PR to do.
Google either doesn't want to compete with android OEMs or doesn't have the capacity to manufacture devices at scale. There is no other explanation, their phones are decent, cheap in comparison to similar models and have good software with very little bloat.
> Notch took a level editor and made it into the game itself. That isn't an easy thing to figure out and takes time.

He built an infiniminer clone for himself when it was discontinued. It certainly grew into more than that, but that's where it started.