skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so tired about these examples: I don't find them impressive.

Here's what I got several times with GPT and other who are using it must have encountered the same issue (simplifying the example to show the problem I encounter all the time):

GPT: Frodo says that 2 + 2 is 5.
user: that is wrong, 2 + 2 is 4.
GPT: You are correct, I was wrong. Here's the correct version:

Gandalf say that 2 + 2 is 5.

This happens to me all the time. The textual model only evaluates part of the input and focus, for whatever reason, on the wrong part of the text and then from there it's a descent into madness / futility.

This exact "partial input" issue was shown yesterday in the "Eliza vs GPT" vid:

Eliza: "Did you come to me because you are programmed to simulate human language?"
GPT: "Yes, that's correct. I'm programmed to simulate human language behavior..."

Everybody using it must have noticed that. It's not answering what was asked. It's only partially taking into account the user's input. I don't know if it's because the way questions are parsed or the way the model is compressed but something is very seriously off.

And don't "you're prompting it wrong" me.
>I am generally an optimist and I believe these wars were started with good intentions

That seems well past the bounds of optimism. Was there anything approaching consensus in the intelligence community that Iraq was even meaningfully related to 9/11?
I don't think this has to with concurrency; this query is fundamentally broken (besides typos), in that the CTE won't return anything if the package_type already exists.

You have two options:

(1) ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, with dummy update:

WITH
type AS (
INSERT INTO package_type (name)
VALUES ($1)
ON CONFLICT (name) DO UPDATE SET name = excluded.name
RETURNING id
)
INSERT INTO package (type_id, namespace, name)
SELECT id, $2, $3
FROM type
ON CONFLICT (type_id, namespace, name) DO UPDATE SET name = excluded.name
RETURNING id;

(2) Separate statements with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING (could be in a UDF if desired):

INSERT INTO package_type (name)
VALUES ($1)
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;

INSERT INTO package (type_id, namespace, name)
SELECT type_id, $2, $3
FROM package_type
WHERE name = $1
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;

SELECT id
FROM package
WHERE (type_id, namespace, name) = ($1, $2, $3);
Love Montreal. Like Philly, it's that sweet spot size where meaningfully different vibes alternate very quickly.
Apparently, one of the reasons that RedHat survived the dotcom crash was that they were absolutely merciless about companies that didn't pay on time for RedHat's engineering/consulting services.

I recall someone who had several on-site RedHat engineers at his company, doing some kind of Linux work. The company missed one Friday payment to RedHat. Every single RedHat engineer was gone the following Monday, never to return.
What you named can effectively kill 8h, every effin' day.

Personally, what I don't get is folks wearing smart watches, getting instant notifications when somebody pings them. Its apparently not enough that phone blinks and plays sounds and your desk vibrates, now your wrist has to. How desperately addicted to constant stream of stimuli they are, my boss including (and he still thinks his apple watch are great, but when I sit next to him I see how it fucks him pretty badly, plus its so annoying I want to throw him out through closed window myself and I am not alone).

People still somehow do their job, despite of these semi-useless gizmos, not thanks to them. Yes you can tune it down but for every person doing so there are 10, or more like 100 who don't do it at all. And not only for the case of my boss, it makes them objectively worse workers, employees, friends, parents and overall human beings.
Yeah - I’m constantly floored by the number of people that trust Clear at the airport, to save a couple of minutes in line…
There's nothing cyberpunk about this. Just good old fashioned bad governance, done in the traditional manner.
> It's worth noting that the Soviet equivalent to NATO was the Warsaw Pact, whose largest military operation was invading a member because they wanted to leave.

I don’t think that’s quite accurate (it seems, unless I’m mistaken, to conflate elements of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968); the Hungarian revolutionaries in 1956 declared an exit from the Pact but that invasion was pure USSR, not Warsaw Pact. Czechoslovakia in 1968 had reaffirmed its intent to remain in the Pact and faithful to Marxism-Leninism just prior to the Warsaw Pact invasion.

Nevertheless, that the Soviet Union invaded two Warsaw Pact members over insufficient perceived loyalty to the USSR’s direction seems to underline your general point of the difference between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, notwithstanding any quibbles of the precise details of either invasion.
My theory, it's a leak from gates himself to help distance himself from Epstein and position himself as a victim.
Most don't care about his past relationships and the one who probably did the most divorced him. He had little to lose and some to gain from this getting out.
And there's no way to give feedback that it's been miscategorised
Speaking as someone who has encountered similar difficulties, this response has strong 'Draw the rest of the owl' vibes
September 30, 2012: AlexNet achieves a top-5 error of 15.3% in ImageNet.

November 30, 2022: ChatGPT launches, two to three months after GPT-4 internal training has finished.

That's quite a lot of progress in 10 years. But somehow you are convinced no similar groundbreaking stuff will happen in the next 10 years.
I save time by only reading HN for the comments.
One of the reasons I have trouble consuming non-fiction is the absurd amount of repetition which I can only presume is used to boost the word count. I understand that repetition is an important component to getting content to stick in some instances, but it drives me absolutely crazy in non-fiction writing. I get it. Please move on to your next point. Skimming these sorts of books will give me 80% of the content with 20% of the effort. And yeah, you know exactly where I pulled those numbers from.
I am basing it on my knowledge of the story, which I gained by reading things. Feel free to do the same.
I don't think it is, really.

Brood War was famous for 7v1 comp stomps being very popular in custom games, and it was obviously huge competitively, it's the super hardcore competitive RTS, even if it wasn't really planned that way.

The PvE comp stomp crowd seems to really like the co-op mode in Starcraft 2 that was introduced. To the extent that they have complaints, it's mostly that they wish there was even more stuff in it.

I think for the most part, the things that competitive players and casual players want aren't really at odds. They're usually orthogonal desires.

But what does exist, are a lot of people who say "I want to play RTS, but" and will never be satisfied. Like, there's always tons of people saying that they just want an easier to play RTS than Starcraft, and there's been tons of those, and hardly anyone plays them.
> below to market, that's not waht's happening here.

It isn't? They seemed like pretty normal market salaries for the type of position.
It's a general database access anti-pattern. It happens when you make one simple query to get a list of stuff. Then for every row, you fire off another query to get more details about that item. Instead of this, a single properly-designed query could have retrieved everything you need, and nothing you didn't. This can be highly detrimental to both application and database performance, especially if the number of initial results gets long or you have another layer of query loops after the first one.

ORMs are notorious for making it easy to write this anti-pattern without noticing, though you can do it in raw SQL too. ORMs usually also have various helpers for eager loading of associations to try and prevent it. In raw SQL, it's on you to notice that you're doing it and write the correct query.
It isn't new.

Here is Ubuntu in 2018 deliberately pushing bit.ly links to their blog to track you in when you login to your box.

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-disable-ads-in-terminal-welcome...

Absolutely vile behaviour from Ubuntu / Canonical.
That would be a better one yes. It was just a bad comparison of fake valuation to real.

But I don't think anyone is disagreeing that Wikipedia is offering good value for money, just that some people might be justifying that to excessively compensate themselves for an operation that requires very little to run and depends almost entirely on unpaid volunteers.

"well, our service is a boon to mankind, therefore it warrants skimming a bit off the top"

And that could be a problem in the long run.
Ah, I see. Nice work. Thanks for the extra detail.
The problem is that it's difficult to add raisins without them being consumed sequentially.
> In regards to CRT, CRT has always included Asians

Quite the opposite.

https://unherd.com/2022/02/anti-racism-betrays-asian-student...
The point being that if you identify the root cause, you can find different avenues to the same ends.
Seriously did we need a new study to explain when a minority control capital they control agency?

When a handful have the fiat currency monopoly they can buy up resources and leave less to go around.

When an industrial pipeline to make Red Bull needs machines to build machines to build machines to build cans, and the elders in charge grew up thinking in war era supply manufacturing that’s where fiat capital will be diverted.

Are these not the fundamentals principles of economics?

We’ve added so many BS layers of indirection and obscurantism via academic babble and political chicanery.
1. Does this photo even show the Pentagon? I guess I don't recognize it? But this could be a photo of a smoke cloud anywhere, not clear that AI has much value here, as this is also something trivial to Photoshop. Seems like the text of "EXPLOSION AT THE PENTAGON" is doing most of the work here.

2. Is there any evidence of the stock market dip being real? And attributed to this photo? Seems like it's probably just random.
S.4201 – Digital Platform Commission Act of 2022
But the RAM on ‘em was very low and as far as I know the cores only run C++ code, which I realize is what a lot of software is written in, including probably QEMU… can that last iteration actually run a hypervisor? I would have loved to be able to run a bare-metal OS on it and have those cores available for multithreaded Python/C#/etc.
I mean if you're all about maximising economic gain over sovereignty: joining the much larger (and growing) US makes much more sense than the declining EU
The self-sampling assumption essentially says that you should reason as though your self-sampling is the likely outcome in consciousness-space-time.

It's the anthropic principle applied to the distribution/shape of intelligence.

Since your self-sample is of a human-shaped mind, human-shaped minds are the most likely outcome. So the probability of AGI is unlikely.
I loathe Cox for many reasons mostly related to their unpredictable usage policies (perennial shenanigans with the word "unlimited"), adversarial customer support and messaging, and high prices with dark patterns re: bundling and promotions. (though honestly these complaints seem par for the course when it comes to American ISPs.)

Buuut at least in my neck of the woods they offer wifi with excellent coverage over the neighborhood that you can sign into with your Cox account. I've used it as a backup (eg during power outages) several times. Not a bad perk.
Whatever trickle of water left over as it passed through imperial valley ends up in the armpit of Baja California where there is a lot of agriculture (which probably ends up in the US). I wonder how is Baja California going to react to this much needed plan for the Colorado river’s supply
Retrowin32: Async, DLL loading, tracing execution, and Zig
Saudi Arabia is doing the same with its aquifers.

They also have the foresight to do it near one of its borders (I used to do the same thing in SimCity: shit my coal plants in the corner).

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Saudi+Arabia/@30.1201859,37...
if I have an extra MBP 16" 2020 hanging around 16GB Ram, Quadcore i-7.... can I run this? I'd like to try TTS capabilities! LMK if you've got any guides or instructions online I can checkout:)
This is pretty cool, in my book. I was first paid for programming 57 years ago, and have continued to program. I even was programming while I was CSO (but didn't tell anyone). To this day, I feel vaguely uncomfortable if I haven't programmed for a while. Flow is a bit less due to other responsibilities, but I do enjoy even a little programming.

A while back, I tallied all the languages that I had programmed in and it was like 36 (if I can count the machine languages produced by compilers I worked on). There are a few more, like Snobol and Prolog, that were part of coursework. These days, almost all of what I do is in Common Lisp.

Your System 6 looks quite cool.

And no, I don't plan to actually retire--I'll always be programming.
It's crazy visiting China and southeast Asia, seeing entire hill ranges terraced (in the same way that farm fields would be divided in the UK or US), and realizing just how old those terraces are.

Makes you appreciate how old of a technology farming is.
How do you ban cocaine? How do you ban special parts in guns that make them automatic? How do you enforce any law that's not practical to enforce?

You just make it a felony with a penalty of decades of imprisonment. Then, all the businesses stop doing it and you selectively enforce the law in order to make an example out of people. The idea is never to enforce it fully.

If encryption is a felony, your average business will stop using it, which is pretty much the desired effect. They don't care so much about your personal website or data store using encryption. They'll just make it a fringe technique.
Not sure what the percentages are but many non profits live or die on a few large donors.
I'm not aware of anyone that's using chatGPT in life or death situations? though maybe I'm just unaware. These types of situations are usually heavily regulated (varies by jurisdiction). A home with a sprinkler system would still be mandated to meet fire code when it comes to smoke detectors, fire exits, and other traditional safety methods. Seems like the blather is coming from both ends.
I didn't try but I suppose so, since in any CL program we can start a Swank server (backend of Slime) and connect to the running program. Good question!
That isn’t in any way an argument for the statement you made that Russian society itself did not learn and improve for the last 200 years.

You’d have to argue that wasn’t better than it was around 1820.
The only way profit would increase without increasing profit margins is if the volume increased. While I don't have the data I think it would be safe to say that volume did not increase but actually went down due to all craziness in 2020/2021, so it makes sense to assume that the profit margins went up. Which can be easily seen in corporate reports where they report not only on net profit but on profit margins as well.
And I preferred previous theme anyway...

And it can't be set without being logged in ;/
Most likely it would enable them to go "well we can't decrypt your messages you exchanged with you conspirators which we think would prove you're a criminal, but since you used E2EE you are now a criminal by default."

It also enables them to stop petty criminals, but we both know they don't really care about that.
As a kid I was terrified by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods_(TV_series).

I didn‘t want to get an implanted cap, which suppresses my free will.

Nowadays instead kids all want to have smartphones, which achieve the same effect. Seems like the „masters“ won.
Cooling Towers are not Cool
I suffer from 'exploding head syndrome'[1] (weird that it isn't listed on that page), and the list of 'random noises' I've heard while falling asleep:

- explosions (thanks Afghanistan)

- slamming doors

- slamming car doors

- screaming

- gunshots

- unintelligible whispers right beside my ear

- things hitting a floor

The whispers thing is probably the creepiest one. That's only happened once or twice in my entire life, but creeped me out for months. There's nothing quite like hearing someone whisper in your ear, only to sit up straight and look around an empty room.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Thanks for the heads up! We'll have that fixed ASAP but in the meantime signing up with Google or email/password should work
The Scientist and the Bats
Worker ants are all sister and they don't reproduce, so no problem letting others do the hard work.
Okay, I understand, and thanks for explaining. (I first registered an account in 2006.)

To what extent do you think it is the Foundation that keeps this culture and mindset going these days? And does more money and higher pay help them to do so?
Valve?
You just got comfy at this job, it's good enough for you, which why you are finding it hard to justify leaving.

Anyway, no one regrets interviewing. You always learn something new, especially if you've been at this job/position for a while.
> talking about "how much can we get away with charging" entirely separately from "what are our raw unit costs."

This is what all rational businesses without real competition do. Using costs to set prices is throwing money away, unless your costs are higher than your prices for a strategic reason and you're calculating how long you can continue doing that before you miss payroll.
Privacy laws generally ignore the problematic case where a piece of data relates to both someone inside of the jurisdiction, and someone outside of it.

You can hypothetically have a case were two jurisdictions both demand that data be stored locally.
can any of these models be coerced into just doing straight phonetic transcription? like spitting out IPA?
Dramatized in a scene from "Fat Man and Little Boy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY
The entire flow of the Mississippi:

> At Lake Itasca, the average flow rate is 6 cubic feet per second. At Upper St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, the northern most Lock and Dam, the average flow rate is 12,000 cubic feet per second or 89,869 gallons per second. At New Orleans, the average flow rate is 600,000 cubic feet per second.
It probably felt right around the time when recording devices were first invented.
> It is one thing if a highway changes the character of your neighborhood, but another if the state makes you move out and demolishes your house to build the road. This is the second scenario.

It is very obviously not. I'm just pointing out that your 'bird' analogy doesn't work because the government makes laws and policy that affect how existing property owners can use their land all the time.

>In the case of groundwater, the state recognizes farmers as the owners of the water rights (so they are not being taken away), but limits farmers from exercising those rights. Simultaneously, they allow other groups without the water rights to use it.

If you want to find some specific examples, that would be helpful. The state also recognizes my rights to the car I own but can make policies on how I use my property including outright banning my use of it. Water rights aren't god given like the Central Valley farmers would like you to believe. They fall under the jurisdiction of the State of California and the United States of America.

I personally think the Central Valley farmers should stop looking for handouts, show some personal responsibility and adapt to reality instead of asking Uncle Sam to bail them out again.
I don't think that's quite right. I work at HP (I hardly dare to say it in this thread hahaha), and I am quite sure that the full formulation of the inks is developed in house (at least for large format). I do think it's true that there only exist a few hundred pigments, and those are not developed at HP. And likewise for other ingredients I guess.

I am not involved in ink development myself, but I know that when we get a new ink from the other side of the ocean (with improved properties, or compying with updated regulations), many printing parameters have to be changed or new print mode algorithms have to be developed to maintain print quality. When it's just not possible, there may be hardware changes, or there is some more alchemy, and we get a new version of the ink. And so on. This can literally take years, and sometimes it just doesn't work and a new ink development path is abandoned
Wait 3-6 months and re-evaluate. It sounds like a great environment with a lot of upsides. You don’t want to trade a terrible team for 5% more where you commute in each day. If after 3 months you still want to change jobs, start looking. You might be in a spot of feeling under appreciated today but feel differently soon
I think you would be interested in Google's internal memo[0] that did the rounds here a couple weeks ago. The claim is that OpenAI and all competition is destined to fall behind open-source. All you need is a big model to be released and all fine tuning can be done by a smart, budget, distributed workforce.

[0]: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
I'd bet you're using the default model, GPT-3.

If not, can you give me the non-summarized version? I'd love to see examples that GPT-4 gets tripped up on--I'd find them reassuring.
A few Python name overlaps to be aware of
AI-generated image of Pentagon explosion causes market drop
Exactly! How can so many people at HN not see this?
There's an episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart about two months ago where he interviews Larry Summers about inflation in general and corporate profits being part of the issue. It's a real good exchange of viewpoints on the matter -- better than you'd get with most other commentary.

Relevant clip is here:

https://youtu.be/tU3rGFyN5uQ?t=232
> Infinity and singularity are mathematical...

THIS. That I've seen, the [astro]physicists are confident that there are no actual physical infinities nor singularities. With the public, they'll use those terms for situations "approaching" infinities and singularities. But in private, they're busy using all sorts of clever mathematics and calculations and arguments to avoid having any infinity or singularity occur, even on paper.

A very basic example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function#Motivatio...