skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might have the opposite problem. I like my space way more than my stuff. I want all my corners cleaned out, all paper mail recycled, all counters clear. Luckily I haven't yet tipped into "compulsive decluttering" which is apparently the opposite side of the hoarding coin.

"Compulsive decluttering is the act of throwing items, or clutter, away, or getting rid of them in an attempt to "clean up".... Even though it is the polar opposite of compulsive hoarding, the two are related because they both fall under the umbrella of OCD in different ways. Compulsive decluttering is also known as compulsive decluttering disorder, and is also known as "compulsive spartanism."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_decluttering
abstract: Perhaps the most widely touted of GPT-4's at-launch, zero-shot capabilities has been its reported 90th-percentile performance on the Uniform Bar Exam, with its reported 80-percentile-points boost over its predecessor, GPT-3.5, far exceeding that for any other exam.

This paper investigates the methodological challenges in documenting and verifying the 90th-percentile claim, presenting four sets of findings that suggest that OpenAI's estimates of GPT-4's UBE percentile, though clearly an impressive leap over those of GPT-3.5, appear to be overinflated, particularly if taken as a “conservative” estimate representing “the lower range of percentiles,” and moreso if meant to reflect the actual capabilities of a practicing lawyer.
Most hearing impaired people have never heard or don't care to use SignWriting. You are right about it's existence, for what it's worth.
The whole "opt out of expected group-think behavior" reminds me of a paper regarding the tunneling and movement behavior of ants: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idlen...

The gist of it is that 30% of studied ants do 70% of the work in digging tunnels. Other ants come in, see that it is too crowded, and don't try to force their way in in an effort to prove they're working hard to the other ants. This ends up being an ideal strategy for the colony because overcrowding reduces the overall work throughput, but requires all ants to be comfortable allowing some of their ant peers to work less while remaining in the vicinity of where work is being accomplished.

Pretty interesting stuff, if you ask me! :)
FWIW, here's an experiment that was able to run Emacs's calendar program in CL (not the buffers and gui stuff, only "pure" elisp).

https://sourceforge.net/p/clocc/hg/ci/default/tree/src/cllib...
they are saying to skim
Appears the author's last name was a typo. Its John Dicker[0] not Decker

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/312990
> But there's plenty of cases where success drives failure

That's a separate issue, under different conditions. Land development is the most common way to grow wealth, historically. It's mostly a matter of probability consideration and access to capital. It's not no-risk, but it's low risk until you start building.
South Africa has had 4.5 days with no scheduled power outages in 2023
Due to long-term extreme mismanagement, the South African state power company Eskom is now presiding over a disaster.

(They call scheduled power cuts "load shedding".)
Ask HN: your opinion on US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5M deaths?
What is your opinion on these claims? I am looking for trustful resources to get an objective overview of the issue. I am generally an optimist and I believe these wars were started with good intentions. The article's narrative is like the people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan would be better off if US didn't intervene. I don't really believe that. Do you have any good objective resources on these matters?
That is correct. The open science made at OpenAI managed to publish a 100 page GPT4 technical report without using the word parameters one single time :-) ( I checked ).
As a first step, I'd settle for 1 party consent for recording everywhere.

And no more unrecorded votes.
The truth of third party analysis?
Politicians are mostly corrupt, though degrees vary. Most relevant child abuse was covered by famous politicians¹²³⁴⁵. Nevertheless, the same politicians cut budgets for police to do actual investigation work, because that could harm themselves, then want to cut the last line of defense the public has to do actual investigation and journalism (which requires free speech and privacy) by declaring that this is required to fight pedophilia.

We need to do something against this. We really do.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

² https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336831983_Understan...

³ https://time.com/2974381/england-land-of-royals-tea-and-horr...

⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux

⁵ https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/past-pedophile-...
If only incompetence was a crime.
> It kinda does. A Javelin costs $100k. A main battle tank costs millions. Even if it takes 10-20 Javelins you're coming out on top.

According to Wikpedia, they cost more than double that, without the launcher. 20 x 250k = 5 million. For comparison, an Abrams tank costs $6.21 million.

According to https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/type-99-tank-how-chin..., the most-advanced current Chinese tank currently has a unit cost of $2.5 million.

And you're talking like they're some wonder-weapon that makes tanks obsolete. I highly doubt that's true. IIRC, one of Russia's big mistakes, which increased their vulnerability to Javelins, was they tended to drive around big masses of vehicles without adequate infantry support. Tactics are something the Chinese could change.

> Make more? Call it economic stimulus.

Oh, they want to, but my understanding is those production lines take years to ramp up (at least in the West).

> Do you think it's impossible to make Taiwan a tough enough target to resist an invasion, ...

Short of giving it nukes or turning whole country into a military camp, probably.

> ... of the kind (massive-scale amphibious) China's never performed before?

There's always a first. IIRC, the US never did such a thing before D-Day.
One weird product should not exist
Annoyance #1: External symbols are expected to be unique within 31 characters according to the standard, so you're limited to a few namespace "levels", at most.

curl_easy_option_by_name() is already up to 24 characters and there's only two "levels" in curl_easy_*.

Annoyance #2: There's no formal registrar for LIBNAME. This isn't a big deal for popular libraries, but it's a pain having to keep a locally-modified copy of a less popular dependency just because it shares its name with another less popular dependency.

Annoyance #3: LIBNAME_actual_function_name() is a pain to read and using either the preprocessor or static inlines to locally alias function names for the sake of readability is silly.
My layman's reading is that the license does seem to allow recouping of costs, would be interested if there is a more nuanced interpretation to the contrary.

(tangentially, like another comment briefly mentioned, are models actually copyrightable? Programs are, because they are human authored creative works.)
It's amazing to me how many otherwise intelligent people on HN inevitably make this same comment, when in fact, this is a substantial fine even to a company the size of Meta. Much higher would be borderline extortion, and Meta would seriously start to consider whether doing business in the EU is worth it.
You argued that "seniority systems are the most fair" and I pointed out they often don't work that well. I'm not sure why you brought in eminent domain, but agree that it can be a more reasonable way to resolve the friction, rather than just screwing someone over.

In general water rights (even moreso than mineral, air, etc.) are notoriously hard to get "right", and nobody seems to have managed so well that it's the obvious approach to follow.
Biased AI today is extremely unimportant compared to AI posing an existential risk in the future.

It's like saying: "Who cares about the hypothetical effects climate change allegedly has in the far future? Let's focus on the effects that the local highway has on our frog population today."
While impressive, that is a project that is basically perfectly suited to gain the most from this kind of optimization, and the fact that it already was incredibly fast means that there are fewer low hanging fruits for performance, and other projects would be less likely to have as big wins (as they're more likely to already have bigger bottlenecks elsewhere).
Neither have most Russia military men
We had a recent example in Canada of how any attempt at restricting such a law would go.

- The government proposes a law to regulate content on the internet, ostensibly targeted at Netflix and similar services.

- Critics point out that the law would apply to small-time content creators too, and could destroy their ability to compete.

- The government pinky-swears that they would never apply the law to individuals.

- A member of the opposition proposes an amendment to explicitly exclude individuals from the law.

- The government rejects the proposal and passes the bill as originally drafted.
"Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press."

Policymakers would like to blame inflation on greedflation. Their syncophants agree with them.

What an astonishing coincidence.

It's amazing how helpless and feckless our poor ol' policymakers are. Constantly caught out flatfooted and surprised at every turn by how bad things are. Nothing is ever their fault because they're just so shocked and surprised by how things are going.

One does find oneself wondering what exactly they're good for if they're so constantly shocked by everything.

CTRL-f was sadly missing any mention of "money supply", "printing", "interest rates", "ZIRP", or, indeed, any policy intervention made, ever, in the history of man, by policymakers. How amazing all the power they have, yet they are a flat 0% responsible. It's pretty impressive to be that constantly befuddled and flummuxed, yet have all that power, and never be responsible for anything at all, not even a little. That's a pretty impressive combination of attributes.

(Bear in mind I'm open to the possibility that it isn't 100% just the money printing, currency supply, policies, etc. The real world is complicated and policymakers aren't the only actors by a long shot, no question. But if they're truly 0% responsible, fire them, because apparently they're not doing anything. 0% responsibility is impossible.)
Yes, it is TLC permanently in SLC mode.

> 60DWPD for 5 years is basically 100K endurance, the same as true SLC.

Cool, did not make that realization, thanks!
Every country wants to ban end-to-end encryption. It's this one, common desire that gives me comfort that it actually works.
> sci-fi notions like "superintelligence"

That echoes my own first impression - that the whole point here was to get "superintelligence" into the lexicon, and to imply that OpenAI might be able to produce such a thing. Stealth advertising at its worst.

> lobby government build a moat around his business

That was my second impression. Altman and his ilk don't care about regulation as something to do with public good. As far as they're concerned, it's just another lever they can pull to get or stay ahead of competitors. Kind of funny seeing him try to build the moat before he's actually built anything resembling a castle, but that's VC thinking I guess.

So, I guess what I'm really saying here is: thank you. Well said.
Yes hydro and geothermal are exceptions, but also irrelevant on a global scale. Hydro sources are already tapped and won't take us any further. When people say renewables in this context they mean the sources that can be scaled up. Pumped hydro is nice when you can get it but again there isn't enough.

Re-reading I didn't quite understand your original point. What do you mean big power plants have the exact same grid problem? The issue comes from the dispatchable nature. You can tell a combustion plant to set output to a particular level and it will do so. That's what you need to keep a grid stable. Wind/solar can't do that.
I hope a browser add-on comes along that just replaces all these blog posts with "Just use ChatGPT, lol".

What do you mean by efficiency here...just getting an utterly shallow understanding of some random topic, trusting that someone else, be that human or GPT, has understood it?

Part of the benefit of the slowness of reading is that it gives you time to actually mull over the topic, so you can build it into your own mental framework. The repetition, with slightly different wording, helps anchor the idea in your mind and provides spaced repetition to help you remember.

Other people's summaries are poor because _they don't have your experiences_, so the things that they found relevant might mean nothing to you, and the things they find shallow and skipped might be exactly what you need. Even if the highlight is useful, without the context, it's hard to actually make sure it sticks in your brain in order for it to be functional.

Lists might feel useful because the information is condensed...but how much of it do you _actually_ remember? Efficiency is being able to _use_ the information. Just getting through the material may be _fast_, but that's (in my view) antithetical to efficiency--it leads to shallow understanding and likely poor memory.

We all like to think 'I just need the 1 line summary'...in reality we're not special. You need to put the effort in.
A certain set of what?
Highlight “new comments since last thread visit” without altering thread structure?
I mean, that's part of the absurdity of this all—if the companies raised exec salaries enough to erase the extra profit, it would be much harder to draw a clear line to this phenomenon.

But they can't be satisfied with that. They need the stock price to rise, so they need to be able to show record profits.

So they boast loudly of their record profits to their investors, while crying crocodile tears to the media about how terrible the supply line problems are, and how the government has handed so much money to the American people in the COVID stimulus (see, $2000/household 3 years ago can totally raise prices across the board for years on end), so these must be the source of all the price increases, don't you see?
ASR: "Automatic Speech Recognition"; also known as "Speech to Text" (STT)

TTS: "Text to Speech"

LID: "Language Identification"

In case anyone else was confused about what the acronyms mean.
I don't have much knowledge about TTS models, is it possible/affordable to fine-tune those models on your own voice ?
Old enough to have enough Objective-C protocols and categories in action.

The kind of documentation that inspired Java authors.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Distributed_Objects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhere
It does seem that the corporate landscape is less competitive than it once was.

If two brands of cereal are owned by the same parent company, they aren't really competitors.

If one hundred parent companies are owned by the same investment index fund, whose management votes on behalf of its investors, are those hundred companies really competitors with each other?
Why? At a distance, gravity doesn't really care about density, only mass.

An infinitely dense object would shred anything it touches by its infinitely high tidal force, but there's only a limited amount of material it can touch within a given time and the Universe is not infinitely old.
"the iconic Brutalist housing development"

I probably don't know what I am talking about but just because it is made out of concrete does not make it brutalist. in fact that structure is sort of the opposite of brutalist. I think of brutilist as straight lines, heavy beams, minimal decoration. that building is trying to be whimsical and light, greebling, floating bits, asymmetry. in short anti-brutalist.
Planet Money did a great episode explaining the general thinking and how this theory has become more mainstream lately, although "greedflation" is a bad moniker.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-p...
If the message is really private (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) then Facebook can't see it , and if it can't see it, or process it in any way then the GDPR does not apply. And if Facebook does access the message and stores it on their servers in plaintext form then that's their (bad) choice, and they should be held responsible for it.
It also seems they may prefer to rely on their own personal knowledge. It's easier to go back to places you know then follow your friends' directions.
No, I understand completely; it wasn't clear from my post. I've been an editor myself since 2004.

What Wikimedia have done is create a platform and mission and steered that mission to produce a culture that has bred the unpaid editors and kept them on-mission and stopped too many of them going rogue. That platform steering is not to be underestimated. Too many sites with user-generated content descend into insanity within a short amount of time.
TikTok sues Montana over statewide ban
> which uses general-purpose neurons not designed for language,

I'm not sure about this. We've probably designed general-purpose "neurons" to talk to us, even if we didn't think of it that way. They aren't emulators of physical neurons, they're abstractions of speculative neurons. The way we figure out if they work is by making them talk to us.
HN may be slightly better than other platforms, but it's still largely an echo chamber
Auditory Hallucination
There are various measures of water usage for various crops. Commonly you have "water usage per kilogram of crops" and "acre feet of irrigation water per acre of farming land" but these aren't that useful (IMHO). A far more useful measure if "water usage per kilocalorie" since that's really waht matters and this varies a ton from food source to food source [1].

The "use it or lose it" system of water rights for agriculture in the Colorado River basin creates warped incentives, which is to maximize water usage rather than the economic value of the crop or the calorie content of that crop.

It's clear we can use a ton less water and still feed people in a way that's economically viable for the farmers. But no one wants to give up the water because once it's gone, it's gone.

This situation has real impacts where some in California, for example, were floating the iea of using desalination to provide potable water for people rather than the far cheaper and more obvious solution of just using less water on water-intensive crops.

All of this is just superficial responsibility shifting.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/scarcity-water-use-kcals
> What value have they added in that time? A new editor and CSS on articles?

Assuming this is not rhetorical - everything is in git so you can look at the git log. Although it is spread through many repos, and not all contributors are paid by wmf.

https://github.com/wikimedia
> Lol ok. Still human level. and GPT-4 is way above average in most tasks.

It has access to a lot of information that most humans don't have memorized. It's a better search engine than most humans. And it can format that information into natural language.

But can it drive a car? If given an incentive to not confabulate and the knowledge that its statements are being verified, can it achieve that as consistently as the median human?

If you start by giving it a simple instruction with stark consequences for not following it, can it continue to register the importance of that instruction even after you give it a lot more text to read?

> as well as what kind of people ? experts ?

Experts are just ordinary people with specific information. You're giving the specific information to the AI, aren't you? It's in the training data.

> There's no difference between your definition of agi which is supposed to surpass experts in every field and super intelligence.

That's because there is no difference between them. Super intelligence is achievable just by making general intelligence faster. If you have AGI and can make it go faster by throwing more compute hardware at it then you have super intelligence.
I know. It wasn't clear from my post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36036396
Can you use the kernel polling mode w/o running as root?
Even when you own the land it's hard to get anything built. Planning permission, legal disputes, nimbys, nimbys, nimbys. Developers take on a lot of risk when they do this; they might end up owning a very pretty parcel of land that is a pile of shit in business terms, because they effectively aren't allowed to do anything profitable with it. Therefore, in the cases where it does work out, the profit is high. It has to be, to justify the whole thing. That's what "risk-adjusted rate of return" means.

Btw this is why it's always "big developers" in the first place; they have to be big, because they have to spread out this risk over a large number of ventures, and have easier access to credit. Planning restrictions drives consolidation in the construction/real estate industry because it raises the level of risk above what smaller companies can endure.

That's why it's so maddening to hear nimbys say they're opposed to profiteering big developers, and that loosening of planning regulations would be some kind of handout to them. Precisely the opposite is the case. They're unwitting agents of regulatory capture.

Jeremy Clarkson's farm show is an accidental documentary about this. See here: https://twitter.com/NuclearBeacon/status/1630617164536332303
From the article:

> Some of those things include enforcing speed limits, limiting traffic within neighbourhoods, and regulating modified exhausts, the orientation of bedrooms, pavement type, tires, and so on.
Pretty much sums up my views (SFW):
https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/16596123941702328...
I wonder if their economy has an impact on the price of lithium and whether or not this was made on purpose to counter China's plan, if so, then by whom and how?

I still find it hard to believe that they reached triple digit inflation, especially now that COVID is in the past..

That reminds me of DRC Congo, lot of gold, yet a very poor country, at the mercy of foreign interests
BrutePrint: Expose Smartphone Fingerprint Authentication to Brute-Force Attack
At least in my experience the price online includes any/all “airport fees” (not named that, but for the sake of simplification) and when you pick up the car and prove that you live locally (ie are not using the airport) they will void those fees, but only usually if I ask
More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library
I don't think right wing media talks about Gebru's paper much one way or another.

Please avoid the shallow dismissals. Unless you'd like every post you make to get a reply like, "wow guardian reader much? let me guess, you think the world is gonna end in 5 years?". It's not very interesting to read. Debate the points or don't bother.
Thanks - Can't say I've really noticed it either...But it comes up on here often enough I'm curious.
I think one part of this is that it's easier to hike prices when there's a narrative of inflation because it gets lost in the noise. In quieter times, standing out with price increases drives customers to the competition.
> Basically any change you make it insta-reverted by some bot or over-zealous power-crazed editor.

You sound like someone who was pushing a particular point of view about politics, which is precisely the kind of edits that are set up for organ rejection given Wikipedia's strict stance on neutrality, sourcing, and the fact that politics are naturally contentious / prone to edit warring.

There are between 1.5 and 2 million anonymous edits to Wikipedia every month. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contrib... A lot of them are in reality vandalism, spam, and garbage by passersby, but they aren't all reverted.