skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be perfectly frank, most people in the UK (and elsewhere really) just need to learn how to cook !

From a UK perspective, being able to cook achieves:

a) The ability to buy raw ingredients in bulk
b) You can cook dishes that last you multiple meals (and NO, this does not mean eating the same thing)
c) You can make soups and stocks from bones (all you need is bones, cheap vegetables, cheap spicing, and water)
d) VAT on raw ingredients is either 0% or 5%
e) Raw ingredients are cheaper than processed food
f) Raw ingredients are A MILLION times cheaper than restaurant prices (depending where you eat, you're typically paying up to 300% mark-up on ingredients because the restaurant needs to cover its costs)

And no it is not time consuming, the more practice you get, the quicker it becomes. And things like soups and stocks you don't even have to watch the pot, you just put it on and forget about it for a few hours.
I haven't seen much of that history, and Tesla might have been born in current Croatia, but was ethnically a Serb, but most importantly, he did most of his work in the US. I think that's what makes that car company more remarkable: talented tech/entrepeneur doesn't go to the States.
No, it’s an acquaintance you don’t hate.
It's a C compiler with an eBPF backend, but if you wanted to compile from a different language, or had a different C compiler with an eBPF backend (like GCC), you could do that. `libpcap` contains a surprisingly sophisticated compiler for filter expressions (to cBPF, which is JIT'd to eBPF; compiling to cBPF is in some ways more impressive given its limitations).
This approach only works if your employer knows you have other options and risk leaving if you aren't properly compensated.

In an environment where your employer knows you don't have any options, there is no incentive for them to pay you any higher regardless of how much effort/value you provide.
> ...the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone

I imagine this is their MVP, and they're going to iterate and start adding more iOS specific stuff. It'd be nice to be able to hook it into Siri natively (since we can't just rip out Siri and replace it with ChatGPT).
A valid complaint, though that isn't a lack of capability in the browser, it's a big of the site.

I think that happened to me a while back, but I haven't had a problem with it in weeks.
Lord almighty
Making standards accessible to small businesses smells like a startup idea…
According to the Big Bang Theory, we should not exist
I think with reinforcement learning and adversarial play you don't need it to understand for it to have unintended consequences and "break out of it's cage"

Surprising behaviors
We’ve shown that agents can learn sophisticated tool use in a high fidelity physics simulator; however, there were many lessons learned along the way to this result. Building environments is not easy and it is quite often the case that agents find a way to exploit the environment you build or the physics engine in an unintended way.

Emergent tool use from multi-agent interaction
https://openai.com/research/emergent-tool-use

Here's an example where using a LLM enhanced a reinforcement algo performance.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06692
Guidance can’t run inside a web browser yet like langchain though right?
Your dichotomy ignores other possibilities. To what extent are we stuck on costly distribution models specifically because those are the ones you can tap for a revenue stream, to what extent are the costs driven by the monetization itself?

I used to help out with the technical infrastructure for wikipedia and even as the 8th most trafficked site on the internet the cost was radically lower than that of some of my dayjob customers with comparable levels of traffic. A non-trivial part of the reason for that was that it didn't need all the surveillance and realtime per-request bespoke generation that advertisement encumbered services require. Part of it was just that there is an awful lot of fat in big commercial operations, since they have enough revenue that it's not a concern. Some is probably because when you're chasing ad dollars the extra spend required to get a 30 ms response instead of a 60ms response might be justified on the basis of the marginal clicks it generates, but those costs shouldn't properly be considered part of the underlying distribution costs.

I think "yes, I'd be happy to pay for all of it" would be significantly more attractive if paying meant just the component of the cost that actually went to the authors of the material -- on the order of a hundredth of a cent per view. Here is $1, that'll cover the authors share of all my household's youtube viewing for the next several years.
My favorite is "Microsoft Authenticator" not being the first result when searching for it by name. I don't have an iPhone but I have to tell all my users to make sure the icon matches the registration page for O365's MFA registration.
And that's ok
I actually do pay for Youtube, and I think for $10/mo, the amount of guitar related content I use to learn and entertain myself is well worth it.

But still, pulling down the stuff you like and escaping the algorithm has a lot of merit.
If people are getting the math wrong (as is what happened here) then maybe the math isn't so simple?
Up until this year, CPU was never my limiting factor. We always used multithreaded or GPUs.

This year has seen a need for a decent CPU for occasions where we must single thread. Both Local AI and python development.

For so long, we never maxed out our CPU.
I'd add the duration of the copyright as another issue. The incentive to create would exist even with a much shorter copyright duration.
This made me wonder, are there any public examples of codebases written entirely (or almost entirely, with human curated parts noted) by GPT-4?
Politics = economics
I work in this space at an American telco and you are correct. The only thing I haven’t seen is AI doing it. However there are AI/ML features built into the monitor tools we use.
My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919)
A particular point Tesla repeats throughout the short essay is how he would spend lots of time visually imagining his inventions to each particular part. This small point is worth considering and I quite frankly enjoy doing too (I stayed up for hours last night visualizing and "editing" structures in my brain !)
There are billions of ants
For me, personally, I invest enough time watching YouTube for Premium to be worth it solely to avoid ads.
Knowledge and Cultural Institutions Defend Net Neutrality in EU
Why would they do something special? This already exists. Apple is fine with it as long as they don’t solicit payment in the app / direct users outside the app.
> Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective.

Totally agree. I hope everyone making comments on Fortran can spend a few minitues reading what modern Fortran is, e.g., by checking

https://fortran-lang.org/en/
I'd rather reform than absolution.

Separate corporate owned copyright and personal copyright. Personal has 14 years with option to pay to extend twice (7 years each time manually). Corp starts at 7 years with option to extend like personal.

Little guy has time enough to profit, corp had more budget for advertising than personal so needs less time for profit. Everyone else can enjoy within a reasonable time.
Current Millis
Reddit and Discord are very different. Reddit is a holdover from the '00s phpBB /somethingawful /slashdot /digg messageboard era. Like messageboards, it was always public, which is how people discovered it, and went on to join specific communities.

Discord is a instant messaging product that reflects modern social media priorities of walling everything off behind a user login; anathema to the public-facing nature of Reddit and Digg. If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in. You can't click a link from someplace and see something interesting happening there.
I've still got some learning to do, but the whole kademlia dht thing is a pretty interesting middle ground between the IPFS approach (not enough redundancy) and the blockchain approach (too much redundancy).

I'm not sure it's ideal because if the network partitions you're going to end up with a more or less random assortment of data in your partition. Better for the biology data to end up on the partition with the university that specializes in that and the physics data to end up nearest its users as well. (This may be handled at a higher level, but I haven't gotten that far yet.) Nonetheless, I'm glad somebody is exploring the design space.
There were multiple mentions in this thread contrasting GPU with CPU... I think, there's some conceptual gap here. GPUs are made of the same thing as CPUs, they have all the same problems CPUs have. They emphasize vectorized operations, and some less important (for this thread) stuff, like video encoding / decoding, but, by and large, the "PU" part is not accidentally the same in both acronyms.

The difference comes from usage. CPUs are shared by processes and threads that are designed to be unaware of each other, or to be even hostile. At the same time, a lot of programs are built in such a way that they don't exploit the parallelism available to them through CPU, or, even if they do, they do it in a very clumsy way (through a bunch of wrappers with their own limitations).

To contrast this, GPU programs typically use the whole GPU at once, and are written with parallelism in mind, with little to no wrappers.

Similarly, because the basic unit of CPU usage is a process, and the model of using CPUs is that processes aren't allowed to know about each other by default, the memory use becomes more involved, inter-process communication becomes more involved, permissions, access to network etc. -- all this complicates and slows down programs which want to use CPUs.

But, if, somehow, there was an OS that could use GPU to run processes on it, use VRAM for code / data of those processes etc. -- we'd have the same problems.
It's great that you have a non-publicly available newsletter as a source, but if you read the DPC item [1] you'll see that it's just about the GDPR. What Ben probably does not understand, is that the fine is not about the TOS change _before_ the GDPR came in effect, but about the fact that data was processed without valid legal basis _after_ the GDPR came in effect as the TOS change and an 'I accept' button was simply not sufficient.

[1]: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/data-protection-...
Actually it's 47% since there's 2% national insurance
Its not exactly the same situation but I'm from the UK and live in Poland (because I'm a scientist and brexit happened). An enormous number of Polish people left to work all over Europe and the world since the end of communism, and I think its mostly been a massively good thing for Poland.

Most of the Polish people I know who lived abroad and have moved back to Poland have brought skills, often highly educated children, relatively large amounts of money, and what I would describe as an international forward thinking attitude (i.e. they aren't voting for PiS).

Its not inevitable that a lot of young people from the UK moving abroad is a bad thing for the UK, as eventually a bunch of them are going to come back.

That said all the flag waving bullshit I see the UK doing does put me off returning.
> If we wanted to set an example we would declare war on Russia.

This is not an argument made in good faith.
Bash/Sh is an objectively awful programming language. You could likely fill an entire book with all of the design fails that is Bash script syntax. Only in a shell script would you ever need eight backslash characters in a row in order to accomplish something...and "space as delimiter" is awful in so many ways.

But especially Sh runs everywhere, so it's good to know. This seems to be the article's point.

Honestly, though? The right answer is to transpile a better language to Sh.

Looking around, there have been several half-hearted, abandoned attempts. But apparently everyone is happy to just fall back on the "accidental syntax" of Bash that really doesn't make sense when compared to ... any other language.

I put up with Bash because there's no better alternative. That doesn't mean we should put up with Bash; just that we must put up with it at least to the point where it can run code written in a real language.
Huh, I didn't realize the average line of C code worked out to 3-5 instructions.
In the context of the comment I'm responding to that mentions "the opposite", that consists of paying for a home internet connection.

If I'm paying for a home BT internet connection, I get free BT WiFi, which hugely off-sets my cellular data usage. As a result, I pay just £9.50 per month for my phone plan on a rolling contract with Virgin.
"He's a fantastic dev who's built great systems, but I suspect he is not interested in these aspects of software" would have changed the entire tenor of the article.
This person doesn't need to be in the article at all and I had a lot of trouble getting past this section to the many reasonable points made after it.
Scurrying Centipedes Inspire Robots That Can Traverse Difficult Landscapes
> Discriminating against white people is racism

Yeah, not like we haven't learned anything from the Yugoslavia war. But that's too far away from the place this nonsense is playing.
You mentioned this earlier

> In the US, someone earning $155,000 USD...

Later you say

> $20k is a reasonable estimate for a family trying to get decent health insurance independently

So are we talking about people who have full time jobs and employee sponsored healthcare or are we talking about people getting health insurance independently?
I would assign the probability of them using this data to improve their services at well under 1%.
In reading your comment, I don’t see the connection to my concerns about intent. This leaves open the question of “is it worth clicking?”

In this case it was, so thank you. Here is the quote:

> Before we can implement an algorithm to perform this automatic merge, we first need to define a clear model for user intent, and define the expected results when concurrent edits are merged. In this section we develop such a model through a series of examples.

I only go to the trouble of mentioning this to help remind people that it is a win-win to make a clear connection when commenting. In this case, simply saying “This link talks about intent in detail” would have worked.
I already pay for my internet although I'm not happy that CenturyLink appears to be unable to give me an IPv6 address, or rent me a static IP address of any sort.

If CenturyLink gets paid on the server end, why am I paying? They're not keeping a lake of IP packets which I empty and Google, Apple, Netflix etc fill up. Greedy behavior!
Why not? Isn't that the business model of OpenAI? Provide access to the APIs for wrappers that are not their own products - simple as they may. Bradgpt comes to mind
Ultrasonic beacon tracking + being able to tell if someone is indoors, in a vehicle, at a concert, sporting event, watching something on tv, etc
You can further add bucketing, and eventually move closer to FLoC.

But this is aside the point, as the spirit of the law only allows "processing for legitimate interests". The use of technology, cookies or on the server is irrelevant. If thread OP has evaluated their collection[0] as legitimate, they can use whatever technology within guidelines. Otherwise, even a cookie less data collection would require consent.

[0]: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
So many top-level comments and replies here are so laughably wrong.

Pro tip: if you want technical info on research-related topics, don't ask HN. Tech bros can't handle telling themselves they don't know something, so everyone will give their "take" on the subject at hand.
If your workload is the embarrassingly parallel type that GPUs are designed for.
I have discovered the ultimate secret to skipping YouTube ads! See what you've got to do is sign up for YouTube Premium and then the ads magically go away! Crazy, innit?
No punch cards, but I did write the Windows version of ITSM (software accompanying the Brockwell and Davis Time Series book). The while thing was written in Fortran, the event loop and calls to the Windows API for UI and graphics. It's still the best damn visualization of a series + periodogram I've ever come across (if I do say so myself).
> The central issue is that their experience with the old Fortran doesn't translate to modern Fortran; they are two different beasts.

This is so true! I hope anyone could spend a few minutes checking what modern Fortran is before blaming it. A good reference is https://fortran-lang.org/en/
Linux Software Map
I'm disappointed that

> The method that gets invoked depends on the “actual” instance type, not the “declared” instance type.

doesn't apply more broadly. If you have a call(fruit) method and a call(apple) method, when you supply a fruit, it will resolve to call(fruit), even if the fruit instance is actually an apple.
Are you really in here arguing that UK is not in a cost of living crisis? There's plenty of evidence that they are, and this seems like a needlessly contrarian post.
I was just going to post the same thing. Im not surprised someone else shared but im surprised it was the top comment.
So first, alter server state before transmission by spawning hallucinations (human-like bots) in places not visible to human players (inside walls, unusual angles, far in the horizon). To the client, they all look like human players. At least in memory.

The players who react or interact with these hallucinations are likely cheating.

This flips the roles, and the hard task of correctly determining "human like" behaviour is now on the cheaters.
Absent contracts and limitations to the contrary, at least in the US, once an image of you is out there, your rights are pretty limited unless it's used in either a commercial (esp. advertising) context or in a misleading/defamatory way. I know there are stronger protections in some of Europe although I'm not sure how effective those rules are in practice.
and they can train other crows / transfer the information to the rest of their murder
> Moreover, the cost per ad will be massive given how expensive the inference is.

The existing system still can do a nice job to predict value per query, so they'll apply it to perhaps only 1~5% of queries. It's still expensive though, but acceptable if the additional cost is meant to be transient over 1~2 years.

> Anyone can incorporate a bunch of DDG results to a self-hosted good-enough LLM

Perhaps (much) less than 0.01% of population? Technically, anyone can self-host their own blog but not many do that.
Do you think cleanliness and perceived safety* are more important than more frequent and faster public transit? I'm not asking in a combatitive way, just discussing. I think these are all important for encouraging Americans to use public transit more, but, imo, convenience is the single thing biggest factor that gets the general population to take up something in this country. If a car is more convenient than a bus, then most people will choose the car.

*I say "perceived safety," because vibes seem to matter more than actual safety. Like, the stats on car wrecks, drunk driving, distracted driving, and so on are alarming. But when I think of someone concerned about "safety," I imagine someone being uncomfortable around people they feel are sketchy.
> Have you actually tried to use this?

I have. Most establishments have decent WiFi which is easy enough to connect to because they want you to sit there all day and keep buying $5 lattes. Once in a while you get stuck somewhere the WiFi sucks, but that only matters if you're transferring enough data to care, and those two things rarely overlap. So a couple times a year you have to pay $3 to transfer a lot of data over cellular, which is way less than what you're saving by having a cheaper plan.

Although I will say that WiFi terms of service are a blight that should be prohibited by law. Nobody reads them the same as nobody reads the Facebook terms of service, and all 99% of them say is a hundred paragraphs of "don't break the law" which is already implied. All the terms of service do is interfere with what should be a protocol where an access point intended to be public announces itself as such and then any device in range which is still on cellular automatically switches to it with no configuration required.
You have to pay an import tax. That has nothing to do with standards compliance of the products.
Love this! We had a department-wide meeting where we showcased a usability test with a participant using a screen reader. Had a lot of engagement and was enlightening of the many issues screen reader users face when navigating relatively straight forward web pages.

A good ethos for accessible design is that making designs accessible and inclusive often the raises the bar for the average non-disabled user.

99% invisible has a good podcast on this with the development of the curb-cut. Oriignally it was for wheelchairs but it turns out to help parents with strollers as well!

Also love to point to the disability persona spectrum. Shows how disabilities can vary from permanent, temporary, and situational. I think the Microsoft's Inclusive Design Toolkit is partly responsible for it (but doesn't appear in the deck).

- https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/

- https://infinum.com/handbook/img/accessibility/Persona_spect...

- https://scope.bccampus.ca/pluginfile.php/52293/block_html/co...
45% probably includes retirement contributions.
But you're still only paying the lower rates on income until you hit £125000, and at that income those student loans aren't gonna exist for long.
This "stagnation" is nothing like the stagnation during AMD's poorly performing Bulldozer era (the post Athlon era) where they were consistently beat by Intel's offerings and there was a general lack of innovation in the prosumer space.

During that era for the most part Intel's i7 prosumer CPUs started with 4 cores with the Bloomfield Nehalem chips in 2008 (which at the time were awesome and a game changer) and ended with 4 cores with the Kaby Lake-S in 2017. It really only changed in 2017 with AMD Ryzen forcing Intel to actually increase core count.

2008 Nehalem benchmark: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/778/IntelR-CoreTM-i7...

2017 Kaby Lake-S benchmark: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Intel-Core-i7-7700/Rating/3887

When I compare the two, it shows an effective 20% speed increase, although microbenchmarks show a 50% increase. That is a stagnation.

During that era it felt like a lost decade. I don't miss it.
Copyright has transformed many poor people into multimillionaires. The Music world is full of artists going huge but it extends to other areas. J.K. Rawling for example didn’t have any significant leverage at the beginning but is wealthy by any reasonable metric.
https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-data-item/combined-marginal...

49% kicks in at £55k at combined NI and Income.

(This all ignores the 14% that's hidden on the employer side)
Honestly neither are that great. There are active demoralization and harassment campaigns, and the platform by design is a one to many communication platform. The people that run it decide what gets seen, and places like reddit that do not prevent multiple accounts proactively have a real bot problem.

If you believe all those people talking are real people you'd be very wrong. Most are bots designed to harass contributors, threaten credibility, and waste time resources without providing anything back.