skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone’s freedom to protest is not more important than someone else’s freedom to use that same space to get to work, live their life, etc. Protests have always needed to be booked in advance and are essentially always approved (with police protection included for neo nazis etc).

UK too, if you want to do something large-scale you negotiate with the police about when is going to work, and try to give them estimates of numbers etc. And at the small-scale end, you've never been allowed to (for instance) block a public path or block entrance to a business you disagreed with.

In the small town I grew up in, in the UK, I remember the police intervening when a local animal rights activist blocked access to a cafe which had put ostrich or emu egg on the menu. She was fine to stand there with a sign and say her piece, but she was not allowed to either block the cafe entrance or the path outside.

I don't like these developments, but the argument I see a lot at the moment that protest has always been and must be about disruption, seems off.

Perhaps effective protest is about disruption, but we're not going to legalise (for example) shutting down of an airport by a handful of people if they claim to have a cause, because we may as well give up on having an airport at that point.
No, while I have no hard data, the experienced quality of the default GPT-4 model feels like it has gone down tremendously for me as well. Plugins and Bing browsing have so far for me almost never worked at all. I retry these just once a week but there always seem to be technical issues.
I got mine to buzz, but it never prevented me from brushing my teeth.
Pretty weird, a Goog search reveals this exact same phrase (along with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36135301) appearing multiple times on the net. So strange!!!!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=moose+sharpened+toothbrush
Writing end-to-end UI tests to validate a certain behavior and then automatically resolving a ticket once those tests pass seems really cool though. Not sure how realistic in practice, but it's definitely an interesting concept.
After several years dabbling with back-end languages and computer theory in my free-time without shipping anything, I have been surprised very recently by how much I enjoy learning front-end, especially for this. I can ship very small snippets of personal projects and get a real world feedback quite easily, which in turn fuel my motivation to keep coding. I feel it will be very fun and rewarding to add my back-end knowledge as soon as I will be able to.

So I second the great conclusion by the author : find stepping stones to ship frequently (and keep contact with potential customers), even if it is not exactly in your favourite field.
Yes, since 1979: https://www.saildart.org/simple/index-book-simple.html Ctrl-F "SAIL was absorbed"
Yes, that was how I read it as well. I was just pointing out that the public release was already extremely nerfed from what was available pre-launch.
looks like it's in the experimental branch
https://github.com/uidotdev/usehooks/blob/experimental/index...
This is super reasonable, as all it demands at minimum is that a human has reviewed and checked the work of any AI-generated filing.

That’s an obvious necessity - which, if my attorney failed to do, I would fire him before leaving the courtroom! How could anyone think that was ok, in court, where consequences of an error could be severe.
Im pretty fond of C# as well, but pretty often the type system feels like it leaks like a sieve compared to F#.
The Five Eyes agreements are the exact opposite of what GP claims, which of course is illegal and would have been leaked by any number of whistleblowers if true. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/an-exclusive-club-the-fiv...
And what of the ordinary folk whose lives you're seriously disrupting? The parolee for whom being late means going back to prison? The single mum who isn't a knowledge worker, and who Walmart will fire for being late? The people on their way to hospital?

Beware seeing yourself as so intellectually and morally superior that other people can be used as tools for your own ends. That does not end well for anyone.
Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?
Most people need access to their password manager through their smartphone. Having an external TOTP generator do not help much if said system also allow fallback to calling or sending an SMS, which most do in case TOTP generator is lost.

So in many case 2FA is broken unless you decorelate access to app/password and sim card, which mean accessing your apps/systems through a second device instead of your main phone such as another simless phone, laptop, ipod touch, or tablet. Most people would never do that for conveniency reason...But in that case the same search rules/laws apply to second device anyway so it doesn't change anything to the core issue.
FWIW, I started to get the same feeling as the OP about GPT-4 model I have access to on Azure, so if there's any deal being cut here, it might involve dumbing down the model for paying Azure customers as well.

Now, to be clear: I only started to get a feeling that GPT-4 on Azure is getting worse. I didn't do any specific testing for this so far, as I thought I may just be imagining it. This thread is starting to convince me otherwise.
For hydrocarbons, we build chemical plants on Titan: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cassin...
The analogy is apt, because those opioid deaths are a direct result of someone taking advantage of others' emotions to set wide-sweeping policy, with no regard for anyone else -- causing drastic harm to people.

This is no different from the example above.

Pharmaceutical companies push opioids on doctors -> doctors push opioids onto people -> someone gets uppity and decides something should be done now -> opioid access is quickly curtailed -> people now need to get their fix because pharmaceutical companies have upregulated their opioid receptors, causing life to be living hell -> people go acquire opioids through the black market -> it's laced with fent and then people die

Alcohol poisoning was common in the bootleg era, when some people got uppity and decided something must be done now about alcohol -- and people do as people do, went to go get their fix from shady suppliers with tainted product; then they were seriously injured or killed.
Since they have so many "Beanie Babys" the whole thing seems like a compensation for not having kids (hopefully).
It's pretty bad. The actual interface has improved a lot over the last 5 years, but it's still very unintuitive and has weird limitations. For instance you can't have proper hierarchical tasks. In Phabricator you can just give tasks a parent task and it will display the whole hierarchy. Very useful. In Jira, a task can be a child of an Epic... and that's it. You can have "subtasks" but they aren't really full tasks so you get 2 or 3 levels of hierarchy max.

Another example: tasks can't be part of more than one project. Have a task that affects multiple projects? Tough. Pick one.

The backlog doesn't update immediately when you edit tasks on it. You have to refresh.

But a big part of the problem with Jira is that it is highly configurable and you always end up with project managers massively overcomplicating things. You get dozens of issue types, dozens of statuses, weird automation rules etc.

It's not awful, it's just surprisingly bad at its core task.
I use this trick for years, in my experience yawning theatrically gets the same result
> efficient methods in training, inferencing and fine-tuning these AI models that doesn't require lots of data centers, TPUs, GPUs, etc.

Exactly the types of problems future AI models could solve.

Dire climate alarms are based on the predictions made using models. As modelling advances as a field, both predictions, and solutions become more and more voluminous and accurate, along with revealing mistakes and failures of prior models.

Anyone concerned with climate should rally behind this kind of general progress. Further, it simply is progressing, and fields that don't embrace it, will be left behind. We're in the midst of an unprecedented revolution which touches all.
Cool!

I think that image quality could be improved by using a suitable dithering algorithm, the current logic seems a bit simplistic. Could be a nice summer project for my highschooler…
This is also the business model of journalism in general because it generates clicks. But if we indeed get more perspectives, I believe it to be an improvement of the former "Bubble Wrap Twitter".
Don’t moose yourself.
>To me, it feels like it's started giving superficial responses and encouraging follow-up elsewhere -- I wouldn't be surprized if its prompt has changed to something to that effect.

That's the vibe I've been getting. The responses feel a little cagier at times than they used to. I assume it's trying to limit hallucinations in order to increase public trust in the technology, and as a consequence it has been nerfed a little, but has changed along other dimensions that certain stakeholders likely care about.
> is currently the best empirical source?

Yes: a lot of academic research on the topic.

> I've been about for a few decades and I'm a fan of large helicopter views of
> global parameters, resource | energy use | trade movements | political trends |
> comparative intra country wealth distribution | etc.

You can do that with V-Dem too.

> I can see it's a decent enough project, albeit influenced by both the University of Notre Dame and the Kellogg Institute, but I see no compelling reason to rank it as "the best" of it's kind and a few flags that suggest potential bias in viewpoint.

These are the same people; V-Dem was built upon the foundation done at the Kelogg Institute. Since then, V-Dem covers over ten universities and over two thousand academics.

> Err... I did look through the V-Dem 2023 Democracy report (56 pages), read several parts at length and looked at the four (4) mentions of Australia and while I agree that many parts of the world are backsliding to what is described
> as 1985 global democracy levels ... there is no mention there that Australia is one of those parts sliding back and indeed is rated there as on the world's more democratic nations (#11 of 190+ countries)

I just briefly looked at the chart about liberal democracy rights; a slight downward trend from the late 2000s. You'd need to do a thorough analysis for a definite conclusion, of course.
I was replying to the part I quoted.
What is receiver feedback?
>Because the more people working on the problem, the quicker we'll get solutions.

This is just plain naive. It's not a matter of manpower.
It’s in the experimental branch - https://github.com/uidotdev/usehooks/blob/d7483140ee803826c3...
Honestly, it grew better for me. It's not reasonable and focused nowadays.
It's still best practice to minimize the amount of card data shared. You can accomplish most of what you're looking to do using a combination of `card.brand`, `card.last4`, and expiry dates. "Visa ending in 4242, expires 09/24."

You can also write much more robust rules using Radar: https://stripe.com/docs/radar/rules. Something like:
`Review if :is_disposable_email: and :card_funding: = 'prepaid'`
IANAL, let alone a Dutch lawyer, constitutional or cybercrime expert.

My reading of the intent of this legal change is that if a hacking group distributes malware, then that malware can be an investigative target even if it is on a victim's systems.

I don't understand the need for less oversight than is currently the case - that seems like a worrying and retrograde step.
My impression as well :(
> a protest that doesn't cause "nuisance" isn't much of a protest, is it?

I'm not sure anything is much of a protest. If Tony Blair can ignore a million on the street demanding the UK doesn't invade Iraq, what hope is there for any protest?

But beyond that, how much a nuisance do you support people being able to make, and for what causes? Can I shut down all major routes into and out of London with a relative handful of people, because I righteously believe that gov.uk shouldn't use google analytics? Or because I want to protest mind control chips in vaccines? And if I do, should I be able to walk away with no legal consequences?

I agree, the new laws in the UK are fucking awful, as is what happened to the anti-monarchy protestors a few weeks back, but equally democratic protest has to respect everyone else's right not to care and just get on with their day. If it genuinely is about getting ideas across, that is.

The cynic in me sees protest as a useful way to keep agitators busy while giving them a way to let it all out and make themselves feel good...
I would recommend access over API and using an interface like TypingMind that gives you control over the system prompt for consistency.
This tells me that you never really looked at functional languages, not even used them.
The power of ADT, especially when using a comprehensive pattern matching expression, is pretty difficult to emulate in the OOP world without a ton of code.
But in this extremely simple case you just need a record.

let dogBar = {Name = “bar”; Age = 11; Friends = []}
let dogFoo = {Name = “foo”; Age = 12; Friends = [dogBar]}
printfn “%A” dogFoo.Friends

The advantage is that it’s immutable and it’s guaranteed to don’t have null in any fields.
C# only introduced records recently, while F# was born with them.
And C# still hasn’t got ADT because it’s missing the Union types as far as I remember.
Some US residents cannot get home insurance due to the climate crisis
I am not entirely sure with were you are going with this comment but FYI here is an ffmpeg fork with the build system replaced with a "build.zig" file and the Zig build environment: https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg
I would assume that a C implementation of WebRTC would not differ much from other libraries and should be compatible.
Known as the equivalence principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle

In a curved orbit, that may be true at points, but for an extended object, tidal forces come into play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_force
Agreed, I think people are sleeping on the relative disparities in tooling between langs, and it will only get worse.

I feel this daily as a Clojure programmer. I've been playing with Copilot, and it's astonishing how much worse Copilot is at generating Clojure code, than say, Js. The difference is probably due to training volume, and if AI-assisted coding is worth it at all, the benefits will primarily accrue to the largest languages.
[2014]

The original GAN paper, likely still relevant when integrating LLMs.
They didn't claim visitors in the US don't have rights. They -- correctly -- claimed that border agents can refuse to allow entry to visitors for any (or no) reason.
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What is SEO for AI? How do you nudge chatbots to answer about your product?
"It’s funny how computing might soon include elements of psychology and magic incantations nobody understands"

As a sysadmin I can tell you this is already the case...
> and it takes only 3.2 billion base pairs to make a new one with a default template and peripheral systems already included.

I am struggling to understand what is this quote about.
"black market” means it’s stolen merchandise"

Black market is also drugs, guns, ... any trade not official allowed. And stolen goods often get sold legal via ebay, craigslist etc.
because there is more censorship every day, so there is more stupidity in the answers. Hence, they become tools for changing reality. And soon 2+2=5
Haha, sorry, was more of a tongue-in-cheek reply to "We have no idea how [to] map from [analog] to [digital]".
it's the write access that worries me, not the read
Seoul
I really wish that was true.
I don't know why you got down votes, this is largely factually correct. I don't know that these laws will deter protesters anyway, if you want to shut down an airport you're already taking risks.
I definitely think this is playing a role. I've seen reports of people saying "oh it now refuses to act as my therapist" and "it wouldn't write my essay for me". Those are just a couple of anecdotes I've seen on Reddit, and haven't verified myself, but it wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI felt the need to make adjustments along those lines.
> LLaMA can apparently run quantized to 4 bits per param (not sure if worth it though)

From the GPTQ paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323:

"... with negligible accuracy degradation relative to the uncompressed baseline"
>If the only flaw in C# is knowing which method calls requires the new keyword because its a constructor, and which dont because its a factory, that is bad enough to want to avoid it

I'm sure this is just an example popping first out of your mind, but it seems like an oddly specific thing to mention. Specially since the answer is obvious if you know C#: the name of the method matches that of the type if and only if it is a constructor.

I won't comment on the rest of your post as my experience with F# is minimal; but I think I understand where you're coming from.

> Separating Data from Behavior manages complexity better

There's a sweet spot, and it varies. Sometimes it is difficult to find. API design can be difficult. Managing complexity is sometimes itself a complex process.
Looking forward to see all kinds of chat, messaging and discussions systems being implemented on top of JMAP. Next generation messaging will hopefully be more open.
This case is different from the others and from the rest of the thread because the injured party is a nonimmigrant alien.
It's the scientific notation, and makes the graph to be a log scale. It allows you to see they gained more than two orders of magnitude in a single generation.
> Free speech and freedom in general were, not more than 7 years ago, the highest principles of democratic societies. Civil rights were considered universal and inalienable, untouchable. (The foundation of civil rights is protecting the minority from the majority, protecting the doing and expressing of uncomfortable things. Now Orwellian rhetoric used by the Reactionary movement talks about the 'rights' of the majority, resulting in anti-rights - the rationalization of oppression.)

Very few countries have ever guaranteed the right to free speech and freedom of assembly. The first amendement in the US constitution for instance is something unique in the world, and no other country have something remotely similar. In most of the EU, one can go to prison if they voice their opinion, and freedom of assembly IS NOT guaranteed, as states can dissolve groups and organizations, especially religious ones.
I did not whatch the video, yet. But my experience so far with Nikon is, that it is no problem to get used gear from outside the EU. Emphasis on used and as a consumer. Also, Nikon's repair service is pretty good, also for basically obsolete stuff. As long as parts are available that it, and you are ready to pay the hourly rate (which is also fine, because they are not running a charity).

That being said, I prefer to buy within Europe, or even Germany, for simple reason of easier returns and no need for customs.

Edit: Asking who owns the camera because certain sources forbspare parts are blocked, while spares in general are available, or because certain sales channels are not available is a strong question to ask. Because you can sell and repair your gear. Cameras are air gaped, so you don't even havebto perform OTA updates. Nikom cannot block you from repairing your gear yourself, other then voiding the warranty, or using it which ever way you want. Quite different from, say, John Deere...

Edit 2: Just realized, every piece of used kit I bought, and had register for various reasons with Nikon ranging from repairs to servicing and cloud storage, was accepted by Nikon without problems. In one case I know the body was already sent in by someone else before, still no issue. I really have to watch the video, it seems.

Edit 3: Ok, just watched it long enough to understand the perceived problem. And it has nothing to do with Nikon per se. You can easily buy, every day all day long, used Nikon stuff from Japan and have it shipped to the EU for example. And it was not customs that blocked it, it was eBay. And even then only for international shipping through eBay international shipping. Which, apparently, is perfectly in line with existing legislation, but I am not a lawyer. So everything Nikok did, and yes this sucks, was blocking the resale of a used lense to customers abroad / outside the US, not the sale itself. That is different from what Apple does (as mentioned in the video).

To make it short: Yes, you own the kit and can sell it whenever you want. As every owner, you do not have the right to sell in whatever market on whatever plattform you want (commercial sellers are even more restricted). These restrictions have nothing to do with ownership rights. As I suspected, the video is based on so many misconceptions and misunderstandings, it is little more than a rant.
So Surfer SEO released their AI last week, and it’s received a ton of appraisal, but I wanted to put it through my own testing to see the results.

But is it worth paying 29 times more per article than other AI Copywriting tools?

It’s running on GPT-4, the newest AI model from OpenAI, so I expect great things, especially with their price point.
I did notice the rate limiting message isn't there anymore when using GPT-4.
> There's plenty of anti-COVID vaccine discussion as one example.

Let's be honest, anti-COVID vaccine discussion is not the same as anti-vaccine discussion in general. Latter is ultimately stupid, but former... might be just a reaction about too severe government's reaction on some situation.
I saw `useDebounce` and thought "what the hell does debounce have anything to do with react render cycle?". When I check the code, `useDebounce` does... I don't even know what it does, delayed set state?

https://github.com/uidotdev/usehooks/blob/380e83fa267157832e...
Valid. I get your point.
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A large system, so much higher chance of something breaking.

What happens if it loses a node or a link? Or some memory becomes unreliable? This thing needs some sophisticated fault tolerance.
I don't think the grandparent is talking about the requirement to present a passport at a port of entry (airport, border land crossing, etc.). They're talking about CBP checkpoints in the interior of the US -- like, on a random highway well inside Texas or Arizona -- where they stop everyone driving by and ask them if they are US citizens.

There are plenty of videos on YouTube of people sitting in their cars and just repeating "Am I being detained?" and "Am I free to go?" over and over until the CBP officer gets tired of it and lets them go. As should be the case, IMO; the existence of these checkpoints is absurd.
I think if you’re not Canadian or American, it’s easy to underestimate how big moose are; apologies for the source but: https://www.buzzfeed.com/natalyalobanova/guys-did-you-know-t...

EDIT: Apologies, apparently we have them in Europe too
Context for you: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/movie/monty-python-and-t...
I rather think it has something to do with scale, hardware and energy costs. GPT4 is way more expensive to compute, than GPT3. Needing more GPUs and more energy tu run it.

And demand is still through the roof and they have a lot of people subscribing, so why not reduce costs a little bit, someone might have thought. Or well, "optimized" was probably the term used.
I know about many successful fork. But forking a language (like including the compiler and the lang spec), never seen that work out.
Note that even after you ship nobody will notice your app, unless you start doing some marketing. So even if you ship, nothing really big will happen initially (this can be quite a disappointment).

I have released an early version of my app, but nobody knows. It is out there, you only need the URL to use it, but I have not posted the URL anywhere. Still waiting for that "one last feature to be implemented".