skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can assure you this article is 98% made up stuff. Source: MD at JPMC. WADU exists, but it does nothing even close to what is being made up in this post on reddit. Just because some terms can be cross referenced doesn't mean the entire thing is true. IMO they don't even have the skills to do this even if they wanted to.

It almost feels like how Councilman Jamm in the TV show Parks and Recreation convinces the crowd of what he wants with some random arbitrary references to real things while mixing it up so much lies.
I would say that "understanding" something means that you have a mental model of that thing. The more accurate and complete that mental model is, the "deeper" the understanding.

LLMs, as I (ahem) understand them, do not have models of the things they're writing about. They do have a model of language (or whatever symbolic system they were trained on), but that's where it ends.
Older people being richer is actually a relatively modern phenomenon.

Ref: "Have the Boomers Pinched Their Chiren's Futures", David Willets, Royal Society lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Wonder if there is some lowres analogue revolution going on. I just brought a manual coffee grinder and a vinyl record player...loving them both for now.
I think you're spot on. Where I live there is a huge arcade in what's effectively an old millhouse in a suburb, over 3 floors, and has been selling beer for a while. It's so popular it's spawned a bunch of smaller arcade bars in the city centre.

I think another part of it is that as the highstreet moves away from appliance shops there'll have to be things to fill these places instead, such as these kind of entertainment venues.

I love arcades, so I'm hoping that they're here to stay :D
Temporal also shares the principle of being tolerant to database and processing node failures
- Simpler UI for those with cognitive disabilities: fewer apps, easy access to key functionality like calling a loved one

- Type-to-speak

- Create a voice that matches your own

- Point and Speak: vision-impaired users can have the Magnifier app read button labels on physical objects out loud

- UI improvements for dictation
Yea I totally agree. That’s literally the thing I thought about as a rebuttal. This Johnny Harris video elaborates on it as well https://youtu.be/VNZ0so0LCoM

But at the same time. You would think that if China does in fact believe Taiwan is theirs, then why would they bomb their own (eg. valuable TSMC, etc) infrastructure vs play the long game and take over politically.

Also, their sorties are more like a dog barking. It’s showing force, like North Korea doing those parades and launching missiles.
sourdough.js was initially appreciated for being an airy-light framework, but as it rose to a great height many security holes were spotted under the crust; it wasn't quite ready for the daily crunch of production.

The dev team tried to butter over these concerns, but it wasn't enough. It was forgotten and the codebase is mostly stale now.
Sorry, I mean leave the dough in the fridge and bake it when ready.
This is the answer. That level of tracking is not common in industry generally, but it is pretty standard in the heavily regulated banking sector. (The stuff described on Reddit, of course goes way beyond even that.)
> clouds can have either cooling or warming effects

Just in case anyone is wondering... one of the simplest interactions has to do with daytime and nighttime cloud cover.

Daytime cloud cover causes shade, which _can_ lower temps below the clouds. At night, heat from the ground radiates up and clouds can block the radiated heat. This is why cloudless nights during winter are colder, and cloudy summer nights can be stifling.
Show HN: Active Analytics for WordPress
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-ne...

What’s new in 22H2? Basically nothing is new in 22H2. So if you’re installing updates anyway, nothing changes when you upgrade to 22H2.
I don't get why the sudden fixation on time, the model is also spending a ton of compute and energy to do it
I think these worse case scenarios are overblown just like LLMs being AGI-imminent.

This post and another on this thread saying people will have to get a license for compilers or to hook compiler output to the internet would result in the very rapid disintegration of Silicon Valley. Surely there would be a head-spinning pivot against regulation if it looks like it will be that draconian. Otherwise a lot more innovation other than AI would be crushed.
If the Ottawa Senators are worth $1B, I'm sure the A's are worth a lot more than that.
Comfort-seeker vs. comfort-destroyer

https://www.earlytorise.com/spend-more-time-with-this-destru...
This is incorrect, or misleading at best. The map that you linked contains data about TCE levels in public water systems. It does not imply anything about the contamination of the groundwater supply which exists below many homes and workplaces in throughout the Bay Area. Contaminated soil and groundwater allows VOCs, such as TCE, to enter homes via a process called "vapor intrusion" and which can lead to negative health outcomes for the inhabitants even without ever drinking the groundwater [1].

The vast majority of the Bay Area population gets its water either from the Hetch Hetchy (SF, South Bay, Peninsula) or the Mokelumne River watershed (East Bay). This is surface water that is mostly clear of VOCs which is why nothing shows up on the map for the Bay Area that you shared.

For a more accurate representation of the state of the groundwater in the Bay Area, see this map of chemical plumes (hint they're everywhere) [2].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/vaporintrusion/what-vapor-intrusion

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20141120123953/http://www.nbcbay...
I feel like even on reddit people might see this as a bit far
We used digital textbooks, in my entire computer science curriculum, we were never forced to use a physical book. In the last few years, "renting" etextbooks from Amazon caught on. The only exception was a suggestion, not a requirement, to buy the ds algo book as a reference for the future. I can't imagine having to use a physical textbook, the find/control + f feature really speeds up learning.
When the AIs exterminate us, it will be all our fault.

Reality is even weirder than the science fiction we've come up with.
> ridicule it when it's not factually correct.

I think the ridicule is not really directed at the software, it's directed at the absurd amount of hype around the topic.
yes! But I've also embarrassed myself more than once by spilling coffee (or, ahem, some other liquid) on my eider-down duvet. Moreover, the properties of a duvet cover that could keep the duvet safe from such insults -- namely, a tight weave, and water resistance -- also make it sweaty at night.

While highly prized, I've decided that eider down is simply not a practical material for either my jackets nor my bedding. There are plenty of suitable alternatives on the market these days, and no geese are harmed in their making.

I confess though that I have yet to bear to throw out either my eider down duvet (or, for that matter, my luscious fur coat, guiltily secreted for special occasions in the back closet). Perhaps I should hold my tongue until I can do as I say.
Except they don't make any money from their products. They're losing hundreds of millions per month.

This isn't the same at all.
> intelligences is what allows one to understand phrases and then construct meaning from it. e.g. the paper is yellow

That doesn't clarify anything, you've ever only shuffled the confusion around, moved it to 'understand' and 'meaning'. What does it mean to understand yellow? An LLM or another person could tell you things like "Yellow? Why, that's the color of lemons" or give you a dictionary definition, but does that demonstrate 'understanding', whatever that is?

It's all a philosophical quagmire, made all the worse because for some people its a matter of faith that human minds are fundamentally different from anything soulless machines can possibly do. But these aren't important questions anyway for the same reason. Whether or not the machine 'understands' what it means for paper to be yellow, it can still perform tasks that relate to the yellowness of paper. You could ask an LLM to write a coherent poem about yellow paper and it easily can. Whether or not it 'understands' has no real relevance to practical engineering matters.
Nah, they've always done that - understanding whatever they expected to read/hear/see, instead of what was written/said/shown.

Probably a feature of the cognitive apparatus, wouldn't surprise me if complaints about it were found in cuneiform tablets.
I contacted you on your email address from your personal website.
You can really blame him. He is destroying his own community, by destroying the future of young locals, for short-term gains - greed. Then he will have to move somewhere else, and probably destroy that community too. Like a plague.
TLDR; it is a Google search proxy for Mullvad customers with 50 searches per 24 limit. There is an option to do unlimited number of searches in their cache.
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> I'm not even sure what "cloud based personalization" means to the user, other than "Hoover up all of your personal information."

It means having actually good ML.

I see so many posts around here saying Apple is absolutely well positioned to dominate in ML. It's just not true.

Nobody who is a top AI player wants to work at Apple where they have few if any AI products, no data, don't pay particularly well, not a big research culture, etc. etc.

The only thing they have going for them in this space is a good ARM architecture for low power matrix multiplication.
My feeling on this would be: they're probably fine shipping the static media assets for my site like the logo, CSS, JS, banner image, etc. Those are trivially cached with long lifetimes. I'm guessing what they don't want is an Imgur-like site where there's a lot of user-generated media content for free.

The new section says:

Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.

To me, that's reasonably clear. If you're a blog that's content with some images between the logo and maybe a picture or two in an article, that's probably fine. That seems "proportionate" - in a similar proportion to most sites on the web. If you're Imgur where you're basically just serving media assets to people or if you're trying to make the next TikTok, that's disproportionate - beyond the normal proportion of media assets of most websites. Likewise, you can't run an NPM clone or download server for Linux ISOs off Cloudflare - that would be disproportionate. And if you're uploading podcasts to your website, those large audio files don't get a free ride.

How much exactly is disproportionate? Of course they're going to have to leave that a tiny bit vague so that people don't game the system. To me, it feels reasonably clear. If you're building an average site, don't worry about traffic to it. Your regular old blog is fine. If you're building something that leans heavily on serving images, audio, or video, you can't do that. Your podcasts should go into R2, your video should go into Cloudflare Stream, etc. or not be served via Cloudflare's CDN.
they aren't delivering the truly great news that all SF residents should indeed cheer about...

right now, the number of fentanyl users on the streets of SF is the lowest it will ever be

so go out! celebrate! by time your cheers end the moment will have passed and the numer will have increased (to a new it-will-never-again-be-this-low, so I guess you can celebrate that too?)
Can you say more about how your example copy change experiment had a confirmation bias? I’m guessing the issue was it was inconsequential and you happened to see an uptick in the initial hours but it would have evened out over time. But hearing more about that would complete the case study.
Reach out to me on my email on HN with your resume/GitHub link.
I kind of think of LLMs as fish in an aquarium. It can go on any path in that aquarium, even places it hasn't been before, but ultimately it's staying in the glass box we put it in.
Could you list some of these critical supply components? I mean, TSMC is unique, ASML (Dutch) is more unique. What other unique components does China have? Obviously Apple depends on Foxconn but we can envision that they could be replaced within a 10-year period while TSMC or ASML not. Really curious.
I agree!

I asked ChatGPT "Does an LLM understand, or is it simply Bayesian inference?", and the most relevant part of its output:

"The model's understanding of language is derived from the vast amount of text it has been trained on. By capturing statistical regularities and patterns, an LLM can generate text that appears to be comprehensible and contextually appropriate. However, it's important to note that LLMs do not possess true understanding or consciousness. They lack semantic or conceptual understanding in the way humans do.

Overall, an LLM employs a combination of statistical techniques, including Bayesian inference, and pattern recognition to generate text that simulates understanding to a certain extent."
> Google Search API

This does NOT exist. They are misusing/reverse-engineering Google Search.

Edit: As child comments say, there is a version of a Search API available by paying. This is not the same as what Mullvad is providing and is not meant to provide a competitive service to Google.
I like the idea, but using the Mullvad Browser with Leta was mildly annoying, as I would have to sign in (acct#) for each search. I get it, but I wish there was a better way to authenticate. The search results were surprisingly good also (as expected).

I wanted to try it more, but unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to get Tailscale and Mullvad to play nice together on Windows (my work laptop) and on Linux (Desktop). There are some guides for Linux but none of them worked for me. Split-VPN feature didn't work for Tailscale either.
I didn't imply the CFR had better takes than HN. The former is really the upstream of the latter, and part of the myopia that I take issue with.
For me the question often hasn't been "is it distributed" but "how often do you need to spawn some async task (that can be run supervised, or unsupervised, in a fault tolerant manner)".

I find that is often a lot more relatable to average-joe-tasks than bigger picture distributed ideas, even if they're actually the same thing at their heart.

I just don't want one request to blow out the system, or some sporadically turned remote API to hose everything, Elixir gives me that (with the simplicity other languages often need other stuff stuck onto to handle).
I love this, thanks for sharing. When I was younger I used to make a lot of music. A majority of it sucked, but some of it was legitimately good. So much so that some of my friends would go out of their way to listen to it even if they had other options. Funnily enough they'd still listen even if the tracks were always super low quality (I was young and didn't know how to mix it and I didn't have any kind of equipment or resources to master it.)

My parents were the "artistry isn't a real profession" kind, and even seeing me persevering with all of these crazy constraints (like having to make music with an Intel Pentium II with no sound card) wasn't enough to convince them. After about four years I stopped making music altogether and I regret it so much. I always wonder what would have happened had I waited for the era that we're in today. Granted, my life trajectory still went in a great direction, but I miss making music.
Is a Chi-squared statistical test really appropriate in this situation? I’ve never seen one used in this way; I would’ve used a normal distribution to test the hypothesis. At least, that’s what my college statistics memory tells me to do.
Has it? The latest generation is their best selling generation.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that in the absence of statistical significance, you should ignore the data you do have?

I tend to agree that data-driven decision making is often deeply confounded and more association-based than causation-based, but I'm not really sure statistical significance is the right way to solve that in every case.
The paper shows the equivalence for specific networks, it doesn't say every GNN (and as such transformers) are Dynamic Programmers. Also the models are explicitly trained on that task, in a regime quite different from ChatGPT.
What the paper shows and the possibility of LLMs being able to reason are pretty much completely independent from each other
In the Apple documentation for MVC, "controller" refers to a class that sits between the model and view. When data changes in the model, it updates the view; and when the user interacts with the view, it passes events to the model.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...

Elsewhere, the documentation contrasts the Cocoa and Smalltalk versions of MVC where all three pieces communicate directly:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Like you said, this separation means you can "drive" the same model through different UIs. That's one of the things I always thought was cool about AppleScript support -- the app exposes a different interface to the same model.
Wait until you hear about the intangibles, such as never being able to seek assistance with your mental health!
Who wrote this article? There isn't any mention of the marketing here past new IPs being licensed for machines. The headline doesn't mention the most surprising part of the article (that machines are now connected to the internet for global high scores). They call Rick and Morty a "bizarre cult cartoon". All this article does is talk about how pinball machine sales are up, concludes it's nostalgia, and then lets a guy who's interested in pinball serve as their anecdotal evidence for it being nostalgia. Then mentions some pinball history.

I think there's a lot more that could have been said here, and a lot better people that could have answered a lot better questions. I doubt the average Economist reader even knows that pinball machines actually have objectives and games inside.
Of course they're not performing at their theoretical maximum output. They aren't doing that in office either.
The total number of registered pilots (general aviation included) has fallen almost 10% since 2013 [1]. There are simply far fewer pilots in the pipeline, which effects everyone downstream including airlines and military, even while the number of instructors has increased.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/c...
What services do GCP have that are 100x cheaper?

Generally they seem quite expensive. I use GCP, very reliable though.
Yes, if you die once you'll get a call telling about it. If you die the third time, you'll be able to break two statues, nullify his mind reading.

Or, from youtube said, you can defeat him without both, since he'll evade seven attacks and will be hit by the eight.
> He sounds like someone who doesn't actually enjoy their job.

Not especially. He sounds like someone that has hobbies and a life outside of work.

If anything he has a _healthy_ relationship with work.
I'm personally starting with learning Guidance and LMQL rather than LangChain just in order to get a better grasp of the behaviors that I've gathered LangChain papers over. Even after that, I'm likely to look at Haystack before LangChain.

Just getting the feeling that LangChain is going to end up being considered a kitchen sink solution full of anti patterns so might as well spend time a little lower level while I see which way the winds end up blowing.
I love when he plays the old crappy broadcast. Ira's current (casual, conversational) radio voice is so distinct that you'd almost think he just knew how to do that from day one. But even people who have a signature style need time to cultivate it.
MITM-as-a-Service wants to be paid more.
Ah yes, the American “if you have hobbies, eat, separate work life from home, and don’t stay in the office all night — you must be unhappy” mindset.
Cloudflare's enterprise pricing is, irritatingly, of the "contact us" variety (FYI typically starts around $5k, last I checked, and at least for us they weren't interested in reducing that by cutting all the shit we didn't need, such that they were effectively really expensive on a per-TB basis) but, to be fair, if you're doing any kind of real volume you're going to want to contact sales at those other places, too. Odds are sticker price is just an anchor for negotiations anyway.

[EDIT] However, you're right that the lack of even limited pricing transparency makes relying on CloudFlare at lower levels risky because it's hard to know what kind of expenses you might, later, be exposed to.
I'm not in the US and I fully support Sam Altmans attempt to cripple the US's ability to compete with other countries in this field.
> Invasive security measures that constantly take audio and video of you when you are working absolutely helps address the “Investment banker tells his college buddy about the deal” step.

Literally nobody who is thinking about maybe doing some insider trading is having out-loud conversations about it while at the office. I see your point in theory, but it's a pretty ridiculous edge case.
> FYI its oral exams, not oral presentations.

I was not very clear about it, but I was discussing regular semester work, as opposed to final/midterm exams. Think courses that are strongly grounded in theory but need the students to experience the coursework, like Discrete Mathematics or Linear Programming.

"Oral presentations" in my case meant presenting a homework solution to the TA in person, in front of the class, and the TA accepting this solution live (or not).

At least at my university, the responsibility for homework structure and homework sheets lies fully on the lecturer, and the TAs are tasked with grading the homework/projects and leading the exercise sessions.

Oral exams are great if they can be done at scale, and I do use them. Some other teachers (as well as the administration) prefer written exams, as there is a clear proof of work that can be analyzed if grades are disputed.
NASA to Select Second Lunar Lander Partner for Artemis Moon Mission
That is... Suboptimal.