skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School in the US and broadly in the western model is based off of the Prussian national education model. It is not designed to educate your kids. It is designed to indoctrinate your kids.

I say this without all the negative connotations associated with these words. It can be a positive thing, a state has to nation build to be successful, and for that they have to instill a uniform culture and ideology onto a probably very diverse population.

But when you look at school in the US and you wonder why we aren't taught to do taxes, manage our finances, manage a household, why so many people graduate school without the ability to read well and whatever other problems you see, once you understand that the goal is not education, you'll get it. These problems are the result of a system as odds with itself because it is designed for indoctrination and some people try to use it to educate. It doesn't work well.

I believe, with the internet and the revolution in information availability we have lived through and take for granted, school is basically obsolete and is a legacy system. I think homeschooling is the way to go. And you can actually educate your kids, instill them with your philosophy, create unique individuals, teach them critical thinking.
Damn, what does that say about me then?
Ask HN: Has anyone else observed a drop in quality in GPT-4?
I've noticed the results seemed to have suffered a significant drop in quality some time in the last two days or so.

Anecdotally I'm also seeing a lot of twitter posts about the same thing, for example:

https://twitter.com/Lauramaywendel/status/1659921077156339713

https://twitter.com/zg_dev/status/1659888184686264320

Not sure if it's related to the iOS launch, congressional hearings, or I'm just imagining it. Would be good to know if others in the community see the same thing.
Perhaps I can interest you in this map of the Roman Empire from 565AD, sixty years before the Muslim conquests:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4KJUSTINIAN.png
I cannot find it now, but I read once of a period in Britain (or during similar industrial periods in other countries) that the layman (layperson) would work their shift; upon arriving home, with some leisure left, sit and read books on mathematics, electricity, or philosophy.

They would keep and maintain a garden, or tinker with projects around the home; building in private, exercising the mind in other pursuits.
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Ughh, please don’t. The last thing I want in my search engine is AI, especially for a “privacy focused” one like Kagi. Paying to have all my search queries get routed through ChatGPT (and effectively used as training data) is absolutely not what I want. I suspect it’s too late though, Kagi has already drank the AI koolaid.
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> It's completely dimetral to crypto.

Diametrical ?
It’s the plastic bag wrapped around the drain cleaner - making you think it’s so acidic and powerful it has to be carefully controlled.

But it’s all just marketing and completely unnecessary and to plumber would even bother.
Off topic, but it’s so weird that there are now old people who are essentially digital natives.

Time flies.
> The scope of this data dragnet is staggering.

https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/en/
I wonder if Intel will still have to pay licensing fees to AMD for x64 with this move?
No, if it was semver we'd be on 2.x forever - but apache does regularly get new features, so it'd probably be 2.35 or something by now.
Her Brandenburg concertos are amazing. I’ve got them on CD - I think they might have been remade with direct to digital output.
> This comment chain wasn't about outputs

My point was that it should be.
There is a great podcast called Switched on Pop that goes deep into pop songs and I just made the connected to Switched on Bach :)
Because if it was, it would mostly talk about porn? :)
Way too optimistic unless perhaps we just go back to admitting that for most of what we think about, we just trust authorities.
Congrats on taking that step, I've often debated on doing the same but can't seem to make the leap. I checked out your company and am very impressed. While the site says "Sorry, we don't currently have any open positions." I'll take this opportunity to ask: Could there be a need for someone with two decades of diverse technology expertise, or a role that specifically requires skills in C#, SQL, or AWS, which hasn't yet been filled within your company?
If you had a different purpose for reading the book, presumably you'd summarize it with that purpose in mind, depth where you need it, omission where you don't.

If you don't care to write that summary down... well that's kind of a separate thing.
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>It's only hard to re-read if you have some silly goal like "I must read N books this month". I find such goals worthless.

I'm on board. I have a great deal of fun hunting books and sitting down with the good ones I find. I don't care how many I go through or how many pages. Reading good stuff is a matter of quality of life for me. "A life without books is unlivable" Erasmus
I think a perfect example of this is sports. Sports results are objectively better on Neeva than google, in part because they’re not ad driven and can return immersive full page experiences. But I think they got distracted with crypto and AI, neither of which they were ever going to win.
Eh, better to downsize than to run the company into the ground. I don't envy the decision, but I see why they made it.
I've been making a post-apoc survival adventure game lately [1], so this bit of "eels for cash" history reminds me of it. The game's world has an economy that's been forced to regress to medieval times in many ways. Folks barter, and spend much more personal time doing hunting or gathering for their food. Its a comedy too, so I get to have fun with which particular animal species I cite and make important for their new, more rugged way of life. Some "old" (real) species, some made-up, or their mutant descendants.

Thankfully the eel itself already has a funny name, and looks kinda funny too! Yet no matter how weird, dangerous or hard to catch a creature is, when a society loses modern manufacturing infrastructure and chemical/pharmaceutical techniques and know-how, suddenly an otherwise previously "unimportant" species can become incredibly important for many applications.

That bite, though.

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(1. see my bio: Slartboz)
> Or that efforts to build these up at their age are likely to be successful in today's society?

I've seen that happen -literally- hundreds, if not thousands, of times.

It's usually difficult. Like, really difficult, but sometimes, it's well worth the effort. We can often help each other through the rough bits.

I've known a few folks that have done pretty awful things (not getting into detail), and have recovered. Many, work hard to help others to recover.

Love, charity, empathy, and generosity are very powerful.

There was a book written by Richard Adams (Watership Down), called Shardik[0]. It's about redemption. Sort of like the Ashoka myth[1]. Not a unique trope.

It's never too late to recover. In many cases, we may not climb "as high" as we once were, but are much happier. In other cases, it's the opposite.

I know a chap that wanted to put the park bench he slept on, in the garden of his mansion. He couldn't find it, though, as the city had replaced them, by that time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardik

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
>It depends on what piece of software your version numbering though. Semver is great for APIs but doesn’t have as compelling strengths for standalone applications, distributions of packages nor operating systems since what constitutes as a “breaking change” becomes harder to define.

I wrote "changing primary version number" instead of "using semver" on purpose. I agree semver can be too narrow for bigger apps and that is why I only said about signalling "potential sysadmin action required", not signalling new features or bugfixes in version number.

> standalone applications,

can certainly have "we changed how configuration options work" at the very least

> distributions of packages

Distros are so far managing that extremely well all things considered

> nor operating systems

Cue loud Linus yelling about breaking userspace.

The OS problem is problem of having different components with different lifecycle.... but my iptables rules are working despise the fact iptables in kernel was entirely replaced by nftables so it certainly can be done just fine.
^above is ChatGPT style output: found mention of Russia in nginx’s wikipedia and immediately made conclusions (c)

Very sad times await us if people will start forming their opinions based
On what chatgpt hallucinates to them or what they find from quick skim of wikipedia page

Guess what, ape: Google has russian connection too (Sergey Brin) and even your chemistry books have russian connection (Mendeleev)
He redirects links from HN.
It seems to me he was thinking of various “types” of questions, including areas he was intimately familiar with, and chose 20. I don’t know if he worked out exactly what he would ask, but perhaps he did.
"Similarly, on question #18, Knuth complains that GPT doesn't know the stock market is closed on Saturday, yet the GPT4 answer begins"

Both ChatGPT and GPT-4 seem to know that NASDAQ is closed Saturday, but at least to me, both "forget it" and answer with a boilerplate disclaimer that it can't predict the stock market when you ask them the exact question made by Knuth.

This seems to be part of its "programming". It also has super long disclaimers when asked about life advice, relationship advice, or legal advice, and those disclaimers seem to take precedence over prompts you give ("be concise" is thrown out the window), or even the questions themselves.
I graduated 5 years ago with a degree in computer engineering, and have been working since then in embedded systems for satellites/aerospace. Currently I’m finishing a masters in CS with a thesis in cache prefetching. I started the masters because I decided aerospace is probably not the place for me (salary is okay but not stellar, very high inertia, hardest problems are not control systems and signal processing rather than software). I loved computer architecture in undergrad, and I think getting a job at a newer fabless chip company like SiFive or Tenstorrent would be amazing, but I am wary of all the warnings I read from people in the field. Is there anybody here with industry experience who has something good to say about working on the fabless side of things?
It's like 1984
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This may be true in certain cases, but I think with any form of self improvement, the most effective thing you can do is something that you’re going to stick to.

If you can stick to a rigorous reading and writing program, yes, that will give you the most rewards. But even reading 20 minutes of lightweight fiction before bed every night is much better than nothing.
The mobile version of chatgpt4 consistently tells me that it’s actually gpt-3. I wonder what that’s about.
> and effectively used as training data

Models are not trained during inference, are they?

Regardless, it seems like LLMs are going to have some role to play in search in the future. It's just not clear what that role is yet.
"Neeva drew on its $80 million in funding to develop its own system to serve results, though it still relies on Bing for image and video searches. "

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-opened-a-new-era-in-sear...
Launched in 2021 and in Europe in 2022. Not much time to iterate or pivot.

I’m not sure that search is a helpful way to think about AI. Search is a 90s concept that describes searching an index of what is on the web for results to a query. Sci-fi authors never described a future world as working that way because it’s not intuitive. What is intuitive is a human asking a computer for outcomes in plain English. I think search is dying. I think ChatGPT is a glimpse of what will replace search.
Nope. lighttpd is simple and light.

nginx is very powerful and fast.

nginx could send static file with one syscall and zero-copy if OS supports it. It could exploit all system async mechanisms - POSIX AIO, kqueue, whatever you have. Linux was worst in this regards before io_uring, and FreeBSD or Solaris were much, much better platform for nginx.

For example, Igor Sysoev (mastermide behind nginx) pushed patches to FreeBSD kernel to shave off one syscall per file on this system.

Now, when everything is HTTPS, Linux have io_uring and Igor left nginx after F5 acquisition, it is not very useful - nginx is stagnating, support for KTLS is absent, support for io_uring on Linux is absent (though there are some forks and patches for this)...

But compare nginx and lighttpd is simply stupid, it is apples-to-oranges comparison.

Each one has its niche, of course.
I agree 100%. I loved it when I started using 2years ago and have been sad to watch its downward slide for the reasons you indicated. Time to switch to kagi
Here’s direct link to pre launch page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/milkv/milk-v-pioneer

Specs are easier to read than article and there’s links to source code
Your insistence on this kind of 'consumptive' and 'territory-marking' ownership of books is kind of silly IMHO.

I mean, suppose you have a 100 books. You're not reading more than 2 or 3 of them at once, if that; and it's not like you're doing anything with the rest other than keeping them on a shelf.

Now, Once you either have a family, or have friends with similar interests, or with kinds of similar interests etc - those 98 (or 100) books become something you lend, or even give away. And when you get older, you will pass on your entire library, at some point, or sell it off, or bequeath it etc. At any of these points, you want the book to be free of your personal jots and notes, and as close to pristine condition as possible, for the other readers.

Write your notes in a notebook, or on your PC or laptop (or whatever). They'll also be searchable and easily editable.
In what way are teachers underpaid? They make the average wage for someone with a college degree in the US. That aside, per the OECD the US already spends far more per student than the rest of the developed world — how is spending even more going to improve anything?
> let's create something that both kids and their parents can relate to

There's a fair amount of sly humor in The Wizard of Oz (1939) clearly directed at adults.
Your response confuses me given my comment. What is your definition of "conflate"?
How many hours a week was the average person spending driving to get cash?
There’s lots of paywalled content, and other content hidden behind logins and group memberships (Eg Facebook posts, University ex-alumni portals, University course portals).

Even the paywall issue alone, I can’t see how they could scale doing paywall signups automatically. Each paywall form is different, may require a local phone number in a different country to receive a text, etc.
It’s interesting that he goes to work at all - I assume he could get work from home anytime he wants to.
> Yes, very good point. Self-driving maximalists who believe that self-driving will be solved with more data need to realize that ChatGPT was trained with ALL the data possible and is still deficient. This defect is probably inherent to existing neural net models and a leap forward of some sort is necessary to solve this.

This is the thing that bugs me about ChatGPT4 which everyone says is a lot better. Did they fix the underlying issues or does it just have more data?

If it's the latter, that means if it's force to operate outside of its "domain" it's going to produce rubbish again - and heaven knows where the limits of its current domain are.

These AIs need to not catastrophically fail if they are missing information.

IMHO in order for AI to be truly useful, we need to be able to trust it. I can't trust something that produces rubbish wherever it's out of its depth instead of just saying "I don't know."
Unemployed as a semicon guy. I doubt the professor meant they wouldn’t get a job as a fry cook
Generally speaking, you could create a search engine on the new Freenet, based on a decentralized inverted keyword index using reputation for ranking. Such a system would run independently of any government, individual, or organization, even of its creators. Government censorship of such a system would be difficult, due to its decentralization.
It is very far from trivial, plus plenty (most?) devices have no open drivers, or will wipe the proprietary firmware on root, leaving you with much worse hardware.
Does Apache can do zero-copy for static content? nginx could on properly configured system.

TLS kills this, alas, and, I think, with TLS OpenSSL will be bottleneck for static content, not server.
Organizer here! I was captivated by Mason's strategic approach to creating profitable indie games, so we aimed to distill insights, and trust they resonated with you if you're nervous about going independent (be it gamedev or anything else.)

It's worth mentioning Handmade Seattle has now merged into Handmade Cities [0] in an exciting expansion to the East Coast, specifically Boston. This new format will serve as a central hub.

[0] https://handmadecities.com
You don’t leave real tools out in the rain because they’re gonna corrode. Is your AI gonna corrode?
SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, is actually about to go on strike for partly this very reason. Turns out unless you’re already very famous, boilerplate contract clauses claiming to own your image and likeness in perpetuity and forever outside of the specific project you are working on is a pretty bad deal!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/act...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag...
The problem with mod_rewrite rules is that:

* applications are built to change them dynamically, making them part of application code, instead of you know... just having proper request router in app

* It is not "enter URL in, get rewritten URL out". You can do conditionals based on existence of files and a bunch of other stuff which means it can't be isolated from the app overusing it easily

Rewriting on loadbalancer to mangle some paths is to be avoided but overall not too bad to manage but what can happen in mod_rewrite by badly designed apps make app basically glued in into apache.
I don't think he dismissed it. He could have ignored it. He hasn't and in this writing he says some of the answers are impressive and he can see why it's a big deal.
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No and the article is pretty much bullshit through and through.
I go the other way and suspect that his age gives him the insight to more accurately gauge the importance of this current AI than perhaps we youngsters can.
The funny thing is that you say it like the bad behaviour here is something that negatively impacts the rich and therefore the rich are punishing it. In reality, the bad behaviour we are discussing here (spitting indoors in public housing common space) negatively impacts the poor far more than the rich, and yet you are still against any accountability for the perpetrator.

Tell me, whose side are you really on?
Does this rely on an API key?

There have been earlier tools which permitted command-line / terminal access to Youtube, one of the best being mps-youtube:

<https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube>

That permitted searches for terms and channels (though not subtitle text within channel AFAIK), for music specifically, and compiliation of either temporary or saved playlists, with the option to play through a full selection of videos. It also offered either full-video or audio-only playback.

Google killed it by throttling API-key access.

Discussed previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32919545> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28571421>
I've been hearing that for 20 years. Maybe this time it's true, maybe not.
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>Old by how close the industry's products are to physical limits.

I was just listening to an AI podcast and they were duscussing going from the 1 second, 1 minutes, 1 day [unit of response - I cant recall the name of the measurement] -- but I assume thats the "moores law" of AI right now?

And as we get closer to the physical limits of chip production scale/die/etc - I assume they will be scaled horizontally while the GPT-X capabilities will scale volumetric-ally.

Is this a sound assumption?
Adsense revenue from different websites will drop because it will be summarized and cost per query will go up. This AI push will backfire
It's sad that they're extinct, but I think it's really likely they are. This paper reads like desperate cryptozoologists more than serious scientists.

>Although these observations lack photographic verification...

>I understand that my sighting is awful, in so far as I saw none of what we consider classic field marks of an Ivorybill, and I had no opportunity to observe the bird for any length of time. However, I am also confident in identifying this bird as an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

If anything the fact that there's no meaningful evidence provided that's unambiguous makes a more compelling case that there's nothing there to find. The imagined calls can't be meaningfully distinguished from a pileated without further evidence, and the "double-tap" is not unambiguous evidence either. The videos are amazingly bad with nothing in them couldn't be a pileated that I saw. The vast habitats they once depended on are gone. Not a single feather from which DNA evidence could be tested nor any clear photo. We're firmly in cryptozoology territory with this paper, as always. More ivory-billed truther material.
They had a wife and a maid, and the wife knew her place.
The department of education has minimal resources and control of public education in the states. Education is mostly paid for via property taxes, and to federalize education funding would entail sending those taxes to Washington DC to redistribute to schools. Conservatives would hardly be happy with that.

The Washington state Supreme Court in 2013 decided that education funding in the state should be more equitable, so now Seattle sends part of their property taxes to poorer districts in eastern Washington, who otherwise would have cheaped out on education because conservatives don’t believe in higher taxes to fund it (but have no problem receiving subsidies from richer liberal areas).

Teachers in the Seattle area also aren’t really underpaid. Not making FAANG salaries, but most clear $80k.
100% the data you input to the ChatGPT 4 prompt window is being used to train ChatGPT 5, there is a reason a lot of companies are placing bans on it and telling employees to never enter sensitive data.

I sincerely hope that LLMs won’t play a role in search, I don’t need a search engine trying to infer what I “meant” to type, Google and DDG started doing that and pushed me to Kagi as a result. Just take the words I type verbatim and search them in your index, don’t assume this is my first time using the internet.