skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A point being moot is a reason to agree to disagree, if they can't agree on the premise. But they need to say that. If I were writing a letter, I would say it because that's just being sensible.

This isn't about logical debate. This is about reasonable, non-sophistic writing at the college level or higher. And there are basic standards, like if they don't know the future then they must explicitly acknowledge that. Not rhetorically "do that" in the essay. Literally write it out in sentences. They didn't.

I can think of 3 examples where such explicitness was done. Chomsky's letter gave explicit reasons why AGI is a false issue (and he was pilloried for it). My computer science professors literally, in their deep learning class and in their theoretical machine learning research seminars, have literally acknowledge that we don't know almost anything about the fundamentals nor the future. That scientific humility and level of intellectual conscientiousness is needed. That is absent in this discourse between the experts. And note, by that, I also include the 22-word "letter" which doesn't actually explain why Hinton and the rest of the signatories think AGI is an existential risk, what their specific reasons (your "material evidence") for that are.
To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” - https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

Granted Nikon is a Japanese company, but preserving a company's good name and consumer good will can also be seen as a duty to shareholders. In other words, they are not legally compelled or even legally incentivized to act this way. They are only, as you say, allowed to act this way, which is not any kind of excuse.
Freon was in the end relatively small thing to change. Other chemicals could replace it and deliver nearly same cost and performance.

Same can't be said about global scale we use fossil fuels.
But I don't get why they would degrade quality? Maybe compression to save resources? Otherwise I wouldn't know what they have to gain from it. If anything, they might lose paid subscribers. I loved the results for the $20 I spent, now I'm not so sure anymore.
The Long Tail: Is this how the singularity happens? (2009)
How to convince mgmt that not all software tools should be internally made?
The video I posted referenced this.

In summary: The person had access to early releases through his work at Microsoft Research where they were integrating GPT-4 into Bing. He used "Draw a unicorn in TikZ" (TikZ is probably the most complex and powerful tool to create graphic elements in LaTeX) as a prompt and noticed how the model's responses changed with each release they got from OpenAI. While at first the drawings got better and better, once OpenAI started focusing on "safety" subsequent releases got worse and worse at the task.
The number of human DNA base pairs. The data to grow a starting zygote into a brain with a default neural template (to keep it alive and allow it to start learning), and peripheral systems (the body).

As binary data, 3.2B base pairs is 800MB.
Banking apps locking you out when jailbroken is a major pain point for those who do, so I doubt that there is any legal issue.
The Problem with Jira is not that it's dumb or too sophisticated.

The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you right now where the a lot of frustration arises.

In a similar vein, it wants to cater devs, coaches, POs, business people, customers and all of them over various orgs with drastically different workflows. Serving everyone equally must lead to a mediocre experience. You will always miss something, while there is so much stuff you don't need or want and you have to work around.

Arguably, this has become better a lot in the last 10 years, but you will always long for "something better".

But the most painful issue is that in some orgs Jira is the workflow, instead of supporting it and staying in the background. At some point people are only sending around ticket links, commenting on tickets, requesting people monitoring their queues. This creates overhead, redirection and Jira becomes a distraction you need to handle.

As a result Jira becomes a proxy for all the things going wrong with your daily work and a problem of its own.
Sounds like a lot of fun (actually)!

What OS? I assume Windows? What kind of artifacts have you already discovered?

DNS is a surprisingly fruitful thing to pay attention to.

Some viruses will delete themselves if they detect things like Wireshark or Python are installed.

I believe this is one of the big boy tools, though I haven't used it: https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/about

https://www.varonis.com/blog/how-to-use-volatility looks like a fun exercise.
On Saturday it produced grammatically incorrect German text (when prompted in German), which it certainly never had done before. It was quite concerning to see.
> A common argument in favour of these disruptive tactics is "yeah but the planet is DYING, this is an EMERGENCY!" OK, go do something about it - other than gluing yourself to the road. Go study science and engineering. Please. Because the more people working on the problem, the quicker we'll get solutions. Don't you CARE?

If you're interested in finding out why more tech might not always be the solution. We're organizing a summer school in France on why this might be the case and what our role as people in ICT should be instead: https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/
steal password + seize the phone to get 2 factor token = compromise.
Explaining it to you will not fix my problems with OpenAI's instance. Let it suffice that I am a user of ChatGPT who really dislikes the lecturing style of woke-fine-tuning. If a human would lecture me in that style, I'd dumb them and avoid contact.
It's a monopoly on eye balls. People don't casually walk in front of domain names, they must find them on Google

As a result, spending ad money on Google is ridiculously expensive, but companies accept this because there is no alternative hoping to "build long lasting relations" with the people who make them pay upwards of 1 dollar per click
A few drops of lemon juice also cancels a hiccup.
By Chris Anderson, otherwise known for having popularized the concept of "the long tail" in a 2004 article in Wired.

http://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/
> As every owner, you do not have the right to sell in whatever market on whatever plattform you want

Why?
It's easier to think in (possibly relative) orders of magnitude than with absolute numbers, instinctively it's what we do when we read large numbers.
Mini Moog Factory
My assumption is that they are trying to "solve" the hallucination problem by only giving you answers when it's more certain about itself and telling you to search for answers online.
There is a semantic difference: 1,000,000 == 1,000,000 where-as 1.00E+6 >= 1,000,000 < 1,010,000. The decimal places after the 1 in 1.00E+6 specify the precision of the measurement.
Thx for pointing this out. The gray market in Europe would mean, I buy a f.e. mobile phone that is provisioned for the spanish market. I pay much less than in, f.e. Germany. for the same thing.
Also (re)importing won't be possible after the producer decides that his product can't be sold in Germany, thus, the gray market will be dead for the goods of other EU countries. Samsung will be the first
Only make sure you pack them in a clearly not-new state, otherwise customs might ask for import duties and VAT.

People always forget, that even as private person, import duties and taxes apply. Which has nothing to do with the Nikon example so.
Yeah, definitely. Combination of expert-system gating (some requests probably get routed to weaker models), distillation (for performance/cost), and RLHF lobotomization.
The Bard model (Bison) is available without region lock as part of Google Cloud Platform. In addition to being able to call it via an API, they have a similar developer UI to the OpenAI playground to interactively experiment with it.

https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative/langua...
Nice. I'm always slightly disappointed in the amount of optimization and intrinsics in the JDK for these kinds of fundamental and frequently-used methods, despite this always being one of the main arguments for JIT.
> This may very well change. I won't be surprised to see react have to become more opinionated about days fetching

This is already happening, as I understand it they're even going as far as monkey-patching the Fetch API: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/data-f...

(But maybe let's leave discussion on that particular approach to different posts, we're going off-topic enough as it is.)
> if you question the policies

Yes, let's not pretend the problem was people "questioning" policies. The problem was people actively disrespecting them.

This is the problem of freedom. Your freedom to be an imbecile takes away my freedom of living in an imbecile-free society.
The undo will hopefully catch the slim case when a rollback is needed. If the undo fails (slim slim case) then you flag for a human.

It's just an act of trying to automate the resolution of error scenarios to reduce human effort.
It’s in interest of Nvidia, to try to make sure they do not end up in a situation where they have a small group of very big customer that buy a large slice of their production. For Nvidia a market of the same size, with many small to medium customer is a lot better as those customers will have a lot less power to force Nvidia to do something that isn't in it's interest or it does not want.
I expect to see moves from Nvidia to help smaller players, open source or semi open models to not be crushed by the big players. Not because they are nice, but because it is in their best interest.
@h4kor one of my crazy ideas is to cap money companies are allowed to spend on Marketing once they reach a certain size. It would encourage a better form of decentralized capitalism and prevent monopolies
Yeah, I agree.

Also doesn't help education of the public due to all the weird forms. It isn't as bad as how the B complex works; a bunch of different vitamins who keep appearing next to each other in numerous reactions.
only one path through, no way to turn back, made as much noise as possible and tried to look bigger.

Only drew his pistol after the first charge, and then gave a warning shot.

The dude tried everything he could in this situation, and I'm sure he's not happy he had to shoot such a beautiful animal.
I just ran a test, mobile app under model 4 says it’s model 3, but web model 4 says it’s model 4.
They keep trying to kill .NET, just check how much WinDev keeps doubling on COM and pushing subpar frameworks like C++/WinRT.

One would expect that by now, out-of-process COM would be supported across all OS extension points, instead it is still pretty much in-process COM, with the related .NET restrictions.

Then there is the whole issue that since Longhorn, most OS APIs are based on COM (or WinRT), not always with .NET bindings, and even VB 6 had better ways to use COM than .NET on its current state (.NET Core lost COM tooling).
Horses of Saint Mark
Look at where we are right now: I showed you that conservative politicians introduced legislation to ban transitioning for some adults. Where before the point was "it's just in schools and with kids", now it's suddenly "why not protect them from social contagion". Can't you at least keep your principles for 3-4 comments before dropping them?
To be fair to the commenter, I've gotten weird moralising on completely apolitical topics from ChatGPT before.

LLMs are (naturally) very sensitive to their prompts, so if the prompt includes something about being inclusive - at ChatGPT's obviously does - the LLM output will sometimes find ways to work that in in odd ways.

I don't mind as much as the commenter seems to - I have no beef with inclusivity - but I have rolled my eyes at times at what ChatGPT comes up with.

I've played with local LLMs too, including some 'uncensored' ones, but the gap in ability between them and something like GPT is still vast. I look forward to progress on this front though.
Incidentally, if you’re looking to start reading in French, there is hardly a better book in terms of (impact on literature) times (simple, accessible writing) [2]. It’s also a short book.

Regarding the literary merit of Camus, Nabokov had this to say [1]:

”I happen to find second-rate and ephemeral the works of a number of puffed-up writers—such as Camus, Lorca, Kazantzakis, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Thomas Wolfe, and literally hundreds of other “great” second-raters.”

“Brecht, Faulkner, Camus, many others, mean absolutely nothing to me, and I must fight a suspicion of conspiracy against my brain when I see blandly accepted as “great literature” by critics and fellow authors Lady Chatterley’s copulations or the pretentious nonsense of Mr. Pound, that total fake.”

“Incidentally, I frequently hear the distant whining of people who complain in print that I dislike the writers whom they venerate such as Faulkner, Mann, Camus, Dreiser, and of course Dostoevski.”

“It is a shame that he [Franz Hellens] is read less than that awful Monsieur Camus and even more awful Monsieur Sartre.”

[1] Strong Opinions

[2] Although Le Petit Prince beats it in all three (impact, even simpler language, shorter).
I did, but it got it almost the same as GPT-3.5 Turbo, the best version of it where there recently (~2-3 weeks ago), where it would make specific chunks of code-changes and explain the chunk in a concise and correct manner - even making suggestions on improvements. But that's entirely gone now..
Yeah. There's supposedly been schemes at developing moose cavalry. Which sounds silly as hell but would have been pretty terrifying. Like they're larger than a draft horse and very mobile in rough terrain.
You typically wouldn't want an OpenCL or CUDA implementation because developers expect their code to be running on a single core. If random functions started using multiple cores or running or the GPU, it would become very difficult to manage core allocation of highly parallel programs.

On the other hand, they could provide a different function (GPUSort for instance) but they shouldn't replace the default one with different threading requirements.
The article directly quotes google giving a clear answer….

“Google replied to the tweet directly, saying, “Bard is an early experiment based on Large Language Models and will make mistakes. It is not trained on Gmail data. -JQ”.
ProxiFyre lets you effortlessly route different Windows applications through various SOCKS5 proxies. This not only enhances flexibility, but also puts you in control of your app-specific internet settings. While most web browsers have innate proxy configuration options, the majority of other applications lack this feature. That's where ProxiFyre shines, extending this proxy configuration capability to all applications and thus ensuring uniformity in optimizing internet connectivity, beyond just your browser.
Try lifting things inappropriately for a few months while telling everyone how great CrossFit is because it focuses on “real world strength”. Eventually mess up your back and never mention CrossFit again.

That’s how it worked for my sister at least.
Try selling the Glock you bought in Texas in, say, London and you will find out. Or on Amazon, they have a strict no-guns policy.

Or me importing and selling the Fairbairn-Sykes dagger I made in the UK. Or the legal weed you bought in Amsterdam in Germany. Or the right hand drive car in one of those countries where those are illegal. I could go on...

Edit: Or importing Kinder Surprise eggs into the US, I just love that example.
Nice, I appreciate that, thank you so much! As I said, ledger looks cool and I might play with it just for the fun of it. But as far as I can see it's file based, right?

We obviously keep our accounting data in databases and only support exporting to DATEV atm, hence the compatibility with that format. The point of our whole endeavour is to *not* do accounting. You process your documents and we use OCR and simple input from the user to create the correct journal entries. Your tax consultants and accountants work in the background to review everything and export that into their systems to continue working on that. That's necessary for all the publications and tax reports you need to do in Germany/Europe. You can think of us as a pre-accounting software. A nice input layer. It's more about the bigger picture. Think multiple companies, real estate. You get a real time overview of your finances. You get banking integration. You can collaborate, with your employees, your family, notaries, lawyers, tax people and accountants. So accounting is just a side-effect for the user. Having a real time overview of a more complex financial setup is the USP.

Having said that, I don't see a real value to support import/export of the ledger format for now. Our first persona we're targeting aren't people that do their accounting themselves.
There are certainly specialized areas where FP is inappropriate, maybe even for fundamental reasons (although I am not 100% sure of this: compilers have been improving rapidly, I don't have a great sense of how much further we can theoretically/fundamentally push a c compiler versus a haskell compiler, and the variety of possible type systems adds enough complications to make my head spin).

But --and maybe there's a certain skew in my work experience?-- that's probably not really relevant to the vast majority of the programming that gets done. By my estimation, most professional software engineers spend most of their time working on nonrevolutionary, fairly mundane things, like basic crud apps, web apps, microservices, frontend, backend... While a minority (I think?) work on games, codecs, embedded systems, etc. (That's not to say that performance is never a concern in these areas, of course.)

But dwarfing all of the above, in numbers, are all the people who are not professional software engineers, and who are writing code as an extension of the specific work they are doing in their domain (that's all your python scripts, R scripts, ad hoc sql, lab work, etc). I'll suggest something controversial here: anything people typically think python is good for, [haskell|racket|...] is probably way better at it. That's kind of where I see the most obvious use cases.

In my view anyway, it's a pretty good bet that the step-change in complexity reduction you get with FP (big scary words notwithstanding; I am speaking here of the programs' complexity) would actually have a massive positive impact on the accessibility of programming/sw-engineering to newcomers, as well as on programming/sw-engineering's already-impressive propensity for enabling cross-talk between disciplines. There's soooooooo many low hanging fruits in programming literacy.
Coffee must not have kicked in yet ;)

From reading a few blog posts, there appears to be a complete lack of process and governance since the moderator team resigned and the "leadership chat" (which I understand was only supposed to be temporary) was implemented.

I didn't care for the official statement, it's great they apologized, but it's lacking a lot of details and an RCA. The explanations from other members personal blogs go in further detail and that makes the official statement seem kind of hand wavey.
Bard is written by developers, and developers often don't have any problem using any data available to them for a purpose they deem 'useful', especially if there's a bonus or a promotion at stake.
Would this not be fairly easy to test?

Find some fairly dense thing in gmail, stick 50% into bard and ask it to complete rest& see how close output is?
Ask a first stab, I think an alert/ ticket is sensible for an activity undo operation. Deal with it a couple times manually and discuss with business and then you can implement a decent undo operation (with an alert if that fails).
"I needed to talk to people. I needed to like cold call people, restaurant owners without websites. Annnnd I always came up with an excuse not to."

If this is something you absolutely not wanna do, then not do it! Look for somebody who can sell, but almost impossible to find somebody.

Better built something, that you don't have to sell at the way you don't like. Speaking from own experience.
This will be hard enough, but cold calls are nealry impossible for a one man show, especially with a low price product.
> 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.

While I applaud your defense of the democracy in the US, which has long been in a severe decline, the rest is pure nonsense, either by ignorance or by intention.
What about them, indeed. What about the parolee's ability to protest unfair treatment or prison conditions? Or the single mum who isn't able to protest her unfair dismiss at the risk of a 50,000 dollar fine?
Agree, I doubt it would be trained.

If something personal - like Gmail/ drive goes out in any of bard responses, it will be the end of bard.
One would think such relatively low-hanging fruit (dispatching to an existing avx512 lib) would have been picked by now, considering the massive effort to improve the JVM in other areas (virtual threads, value objects, C interop, Graal, novel GCs).

Maybe Array.sort() isn’t that frequently used, as data sorting is often done by the database?
Show HN: A minimalistic async event bus implementation
The article decides to mention that Google made a public statement that clearly and unambiguously answers their question (https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/16382985371956019...) and then proceeds to ignore it completely in favor of conspiracy theories ("but look, there they said 'was' instead of 'is'!").
While I have no reason to doubt that it's valid to argue "A || (!A && B)", in this particular case B => !A.

When the lawyer brought evidence that he had tried to verify the information (B), that evidence itself automatically disproves his plead that he didn't think it could be false (A).

(Note that didn't have to necessarily be the case: for example, if he had claimed that it was his assistant who asked the verification question, rather than he himself.)

So, unless he made the second plead and brought the evidence at a latter time, shouldn't he have just skipped A altogether, and preserved his credibility? (And possibly avoided a perjury charge? IDK if in an American court both claims would be sworn statements)
This is technically correct to the extent of paperclip maximization and I don't like it.
>simply because the economics of it make no sense.

Explain the RISC-V cores that already moved.
Same happened with Dalle-2. It went downhill after a couple of weeks.
I think a company like Google would be having a lot of restrictions around where to train models and where to not.

And they already have access to the whole internet, Gmail conversations would be one tiny part of it.

Also wonder if they got to actually train on github data (considering the Microsoft angle)
Paying People for Their Attention
I think that's a fair question (and shouldn't be downvoted), but you're being na:ive. A couple of points:

- The term 'media' is often applied with a broader scope than "traditional news media".

- There are ads and suggestions on Twitter and Youtube. Do you specifically pick out those?

- The people that you talk to or follow online get their information from somewhere.

- You may be an exception. I'd wager you're less immune to mass media / the propaganda model than you think, but in any case the majority is (largely) responsible for election outcomes.