skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not any context... the school they went to is specifically selecting math wiz.. Which seems a bit related to the field of ML (but please correct me if i'm wrong).
I think one should not underestimate the impact on downstream performance the output format can have. From a modelling perspective it is unclear whether asking/fine-tuning the model to generate JSON (or YAML) output is really lossless with respect to the raw reasoning powers of the model (e.g. it may perform worse on tasks when asked/trained to always respond in JSON).

I am sure they ran tests on this internally, but I wonder what the concrete effects are, especially comparing different output formats like JSON, YAML, different function calling conventions and/or forms of tool discovery.
Bragging about how great they are, while walking over and shooing away all the unemployed, hungry, desperate, and destitute around them.

> Take care of your people...

Don't view or consider them as their people, and in some cases, don't even think of them as people at all.
The funny thing is that Chris Sacca was going to get SF city-wide WiFi, but the supervisors stopped him because they're razor focused on what matters for them: their career.

It makes sense that local residents would do this. Internet Access is to us humans like light to a moth. But we could have been moths that were forever lit.
> I don't understand why they don't just support OAuth

OAuth breaks peoples brains and I can only imagine the tech / political debt reddit has
So they should make it really annoying so they can pretend they’re maintaining open access but still try take something away from a group of people who already have next to nothing?

Go be homeless somewhere else is not a practical solution and never has been.
I'm not sure I can identify when it started, but these were already the concepts commonly in use when I did my CS undergraduate work in the early 90s. I.e. it was in textbooks and course titles as established jargon.

Concurrency was the kind of thing worried about in OS design or Unix programming styles whether on a time-sharing system or some small scale multi-processing system. Coordination of heterogeneous sequential programs on some shared resources.

Parallelism was the topic of high-performance computing with combined use of many hardware resources to accelerate a single algorithm.

Of course these are simplifying abstractions, and real systems can get into the murky gray area that is both concurrent and parallel.
I have always wondered why those trailers with the super low floors are not more popular...

They look to be more aerodynamic, they can hold more stuff, and they would prevent the problems presented in the article.

Maybe does it have to do with the fact that loading docks are already high, and this would make the loading process more cumbersome? I am not sure...
This is cool! Are you using one-shot learning under the hood with a user provided example?
Good point. I kinda skipped over the phase change part of the story.

This too can be used explain the heat pump concept better. Freezing or boiling water takes time because it takes energy.
I took geometry as a freshman in a class full of juniors and seniors. The bullying was frequent, and the teacher strategically refused to show up on time so I had to either wait around outside the classroom like a coward or go in and be hazed.
Those date from 2019, so clearly not. The quality of the few I sampled is also nothing special.
Doubt it'll see the light of day, but it may widen the debate further which would be a win
I’m implying that dr fauci doesn’t operate in a vacuum all by himself talking to the public.
Quora is a shithole because you can earn money answering, so people who have no knowledge at all are putting together convincing articles (probably with ChatGPT). And the mixing of unrelated questions into the answer stream is extremely annoying. I added it to my uBlacklist, anyway...
Somewhere in their offices they be putting quote from Neils Bohr to pat on their back :)

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Yes, but those are not hardware memory synchronization mechanisms. You do not have to deal with memory fencing to coordinate reads/writes at the CPU level, because there is only one core that can read memory at a time.
everyone acting so shocked here probably hasn’t had your home robbed, your car windows broken, or been assaulted and/or robbed by a drugged out bum.

at some point enough is enough and they gotta go.

i think it’s a juvenile attitude to look down your nose at the endless victims and tell them to just be more understanding of the hardships the homeless face.
Not GP, but it's still the latter...i've been (im)patiently waiting.

From their blog post the other day:
With these updates, we’ll be inviting many more people from the waitlist to try GPT-4 over the coming weeks, with the intent to remove the waitlist entirely with this model. Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting, we are excited to see what you build with GPT-4!
Any mirror?

Edit:

The Bill https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S6686

gpt-4 summary:

The bill, numbered 6686, was introduced by Sen. Hoylman-Sigal and is related to social media open application programming.

The bill proposes amendments to the general business law, specifically introducing a new article 42 titled "Social Media Open Application Programming Interface Access". The article includes sections defining terms, requirements for open API access with social media for third-party development tools, API access reports, violations and remedies, and application of the law.

Key points from the bill include:

Social media platforms are required to implement and maintain a standards-based API that permits third-party applications to retrieve data at no cost, for the benefit of the user or the user's authorized representative.

The bill outlines the type of data that must be provided to users or their authorized representatives through the API. This includes personal data controlled by the social media platform, platform-produced or recommended data available to the user, and data that is generally available to all account holders about the user's friends or followers. Social media platforms must conduct routine testing, ongoing monitoring, and make all necessary updates to ensure the API functions properly.

The bill also outlines circumstances under which a social media platform may deny or discontinue a user or authorized representative's application's access to the API.

Social media companies are required to submit semiannual API access reports to the attorney general. These reports should include information on API utilization and access decisions.
> There are many ways reddit could build a collaborative business from their current situation

Like charging for API access? Yeah, that went well...
> the discussion at the time was about a the virus literally being a bio-weapon,

This was the part that media outlets and government seized upon to call any discussion of the lab leak theory racist. There was no "discussion" about covid being a "bio-weapon," it was a bunch of anti-China hawks repeating it over and over again based on absolutely nothing. They were so obviously nationalist anti-Chinese that the theory that covid happened because Chinese people are dirty and eat weird diseased things was able to be sold as the not-racist theory.
Twitter Sued by Music Firms over Violating Copyrights, at Up to $150k a Work
I think he's just looking at this rationally, as he should as a major share holder. His job is not to be nice but to deliver share holder value. That seems to be a thing that people just don't get. The debate around Twitter seems very emotional and opinionated.

But it's really quite simple:

Twitter had a spending problem. The history of that is actually not all that relevant. The ugly handover did not help of course and that caused a dip in advertising that combined with macro economic circumstances is just causing a massive cash flow problem. Like it or not, that problem added up to negative a few billion per year. Apparently things have recovered somewhat since Elon Musk started 'fixing' things but it's still not a great situation.

The bottom line is that an expensive office in Boulder Colorado is probably pretty high on the list of things to immediately cut. No matter how you look at what happened in Twitter, paying lots of cash for office space you don't need is not a great thing.

Office leases normally run for several years. So, a simple way to force the issue is to freeze the payments. You'll get evicted and sued, naturally. But what does this really mean in a situation where you just downsized staff by two thirds and they were reluctant to come back to the office anyway after Covid? Just making the point that the value of that office for Twitter was probably very low.

Not nice to do business like that, of course. But it is what it is and being nice is not the main job right now. Fixing the cash flow issues is. Paying for a mostly empty office in Colorado just isn't a high priority.

I don't actually see this having an unhappy end for Twitter. There will be some kind of settlement at some point and that will be it. The real estate market is imploding everywhere. So, the building owners might cut their losses at some point depending on how deep their pockets are and how big their stamina for pursuing this in the courts is. I have actually no idea how the real estate market in Colorado is but I imagine that won't be the only empty office in the area. Or judging from recent other articles on HN, everywhere else. Real estate is not a great business to be in right now.

There's more than a bit of a bubble there. Get a big fancy office, put a lot of overpaid staff in it, ????, profit. That ship has sailed. Twitter fired two thirds of their people and they are still there and they need a lot less office space now. Was that ugly: yes. How could it not be. But it happened and the situation needs fixing.

These are not the only creditors of course and I'm sure most are counting their cards right now and are going to be a lot more open to settling sooner rather than later. Not a bad outcome for Twitter if that works.
> Reddit has accepted many millions of man-hours of labor.

Yes, "accept or receive (someone or something)" is indeed the literal dictionary definition of "take". Thanks for subbing in an alternate word that means the exact same thing. I am sure we have all derived great value from your efforts. Or at least a hearty laugh at the pointlessness of it.
I don’t think many people just want to fuck over homeless people, I think they don’t perceive these programs are effective—they don’t perceive the desired inverse correlation between increase in social spending and reduction in homelessness/poverty (possibly because they’re told by parties with malicious interests that these programs aren’t effective).
Yeah the huge time sink aspect is definitely real. It gets much harder to justify when you already working 40+ hrs a week or have kids or whatever.

Going back to the earlier analogy, music has the same problem as programming in that the stuff you do for money doesn't necessarily translate to making you better at your craft. You end up being a factory that just produces the same thing over and over instead of growing in your craft.

I see this a lot at my job currently (I'm guilty of it as well) - speed is usually prioritized over anything else, and so bad patterns end up getting copied and "lifted and shifted" everywhere.

It's hard to find the balance.
Maybe another factor is that (almost) no one is optimizing to be at the top of the Bing results.
Yes? Parallelism is inherently concurrent but concurrency is not inherently parallel. But single core concurrency still exists as a form of non-parallel concurrency.

The point I'm trying to make is down to brass tacks, single core concurrency is a lot simpler than multi core concurrency, because you don't need any hardware cooperation.
Though I'm not certain, my guess is Reddit is calling everyone's bluff; they've run the numbers and know that the long game is in their favor if they Tiktokify. Every social media platform eventually declines, and they must know that they have to adapt-or-die to maintain a similar rate of growth.
AWS Announces AWS Payment Cryptography
I got a worse-than-ever-experienced respiratory infection after a trip to Europe arounds Thanksgiving 2019 as well: I wasn't well enough to ski even a month later and had mysterious lung-scarring on my X-rays which in retrospect looks very much like an early Covid infection too.
Vector processing is not parallelism, but rather non-scalar. Specifically, it's a single operation that is able to do work on multiple data items, rather than parallel processors doing work at the same time.
There was this comment a couple of weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980418 ). Perhaps also episode 7 of Karpathy’s “Neural Networks: From Zero to Hero” course ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY )
I would guess it isn't the librarians asking for the wifi to be turned off at night.
> Having the worker thread separate from the UI thread is a good separation of concerns regardless of whether you need the thread for performance or not.

It can be, but it has a cost in code complexity. Sometimes that cost isn't worth paying.

> I'd invite you to try wxWidgets 3

Yes, it sounds like it's worth me taking a look. I have a Python GUI package [1] that right now only supports Qt 5 in its latest version; it would be nice to put wx support back in.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/plib3.ui/
Isn't this why people are upset? It's pretty transparently them giving the axe to third party apps when they explicitly said that wasn't what they were going to be doing. People don't like being lied to or treated like they're too stupid to know what you're actually doing.
I doubt it. However, luckily for us someone has already invented called a vaccine that is far safer and plays a similar role in achieving herd immunity ; )
Whenever I needed to change IPv6 glue records I had to contact support. And even after that, the webUI did not reflect the current configuration, so I couldn't even change IPv4 glue records after that. Other than that I was ok with namecheap.
Bioweapons research and got infected in a lab that was at BSL 2 ARE incompatible. If you expect it to be able to infect humans, you are going to take more precautions.

The theory here is that they were doing research on animal models and didn't think that humans could catch it from mice. Therefore they took too few precautions, and it escaped through them.
Lovely article by Pèrez and colleagues. Yes, the naive expectation might be that “complex enough” becomes Turing complete, but as discussed in the lucid introduction this is often thought to require a recurrent process. So it is good to see the formal proof.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=a6lUuiwAAAAJ...
and it's rust again. What is this, like 8th year in the row??
Well, that logic fell down with the Delta variant.
> It misleading presents that the furin cleavage site had to come from gain of function

it did. this isn't debatable anymore. there's literally grants written by american scientists proposing this pre-covid, the lab in wuhan was doing the legwork.
It was already quite easy to get GPT-4 to output json. You just append ‘reply in json with this format’ and it does a really good job.

GPT-3.5 was very haphazard though and needs extensive babysitting and reminding, so if this makes gpt3 better then it’s useful - it does have an annoying disclaimer though that ‘it may not reply with valid json’ so we’ll still have to do some sense checks into he output.

I have been using this to make a few ‘choose your own adventure’ type games and I can see there’s a TONNE of potential useful things.
Is it possible to fine-tune with custom data to output JSON?
libbfd is apparently what the GNU debugger uses:

https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/bfd-2.9.1/html_chapter/b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_File_Descriptor_library
> Your HTML is, quite literally, a degenerate form of an API.

i look forward to the folks making this argument telling their boss “it’s ok the HTML is an API that’s all we need to provide”

come on, nobody believes this when they’re not trying to win an argument on the internet
Not disagreeing with the overall premise, but:

> I'm saying that there's a Congress bill from march 2023 saying there's reason to believe it was a lab-leak.

Congress writing up a bill asserting stuff like this isn't exactly something I consider persuasive either way.
Not sure, but I checked the licenses of a couple of photos on flickr and they were public domain.
You fell for the straw man.

The media argued against the most outrageous and conspiratorial version of the lab leak theory to discredit it. They successfully made you associate lab leak with racist conspiracy
>Do you understand your comments are focused on making judgements about _personalities_, not business decisions?

You chose to comment on a personality and not a business decision. So I responded in kind. To remind you of your comment:

>I just don't like how many people I see bamboozled by him. Extremely manipulative behavior.

This is not a comment about a business decision. This isn't even a comment about Apollo nor Christian. So yea, I reply simply to voice my disagreement with this assertion as you have indeed brought me into your odd argument.Tit for tat.

And since you asked for my useless and non-interesting opinion by proxy: As a fellow dev (not reddit app dev, just general person who has worked on tech only for it to fail due to powers outside my control), I do empathize with here. Trying to and spin my own emotions as being bamboozled is dishonest, inflammatory, and in my singular case, wrong.
So what is your proposed solution? All I hear is "they gotta go". Go where? On who's dime?
First time I used OpenTable I went to a highly rated and expensive place, had horrible food, and then my wife spent most of mothers day in bed with food poisoning. 0/10.
Anthony Bourdain's voice was AI generated in the Roadrunner movie
The HTML interface has ads baked in, which pay for the request. API does not.
The problem is that unlike people with homes (who are generally stuck in one place — wherever their home is), homeless people have nothing holding them to places inhospitable to their presence. So the homeless diffuse around countries, drifting from place to place, until they settle in an "attractor" city — a local optimum for homeless hospitable-ness (with more social-welfare programs for them; less police suppression of homelessness; milder climate; more walkability; etc.)

These attractor cities then experience undue burden of having to fight basically an entire country's homeless problem using only municipal (rather than state or federal) tax dollars; where every social welfare program they add, creates "induced demand" by making them into more of an attractor city for surrounding homeless populations.

The homed people living in these attractor cities, experience a reality where they can choose to vote in progressive parties that throw however-much money at the problem of homelessness — adding public housing, shelters, food programs, jobs programs, etc. — with the only result being ever more homeless people showing up in the city. Which causes these homed people in these attractor cities to get burned out on the idea of solving homelessness.

(An aphorism: "the river sees more water than the lakebed.")

AFAICT, the only way out of the problem, is to

1. set aside federal funding for solving homelessness (which could be done easily enough in the US if anyone without a permanent residence in a particular state, were interpreted by federal law as not being "of" any state, but still a US national, and therefore a person the federal government has a duty to take care of directly — basically the same as how the federal government does insurance, postal delivery, etc. for actively-serving members of the military); and then

2. use that funding to start offering social-welfare programs for homeless people in places that don't already have large homeless populations, with the aim of creating more, smaller attractors, dispersing the homeless population, so that it's not all having to be dealt with by just the one or two natural attractor cities per country.

Yes, both of these things are big political lifts. I see it as something like the federal highway system, or for that matter, like military bases: cases where it's in all our best interests to relinquish local NIMBYesque control, in favor of top-down eminent-domain use of land for serving the needs of the country as a whole.
Almost certainty, the population already had a sense about the spread of natural viruses and their dangers—whether valid or not. Launched from a lab is a different ballgame altogether and not having experienced the problem before people would have been much more wary.
Part of the problem is the overloaded definition of the term 'homeless'

Look at all the different things it covers:

1. Chronic homelessness: This refers to individuals who have experienced homelessness for long periods or repeatedly over time. They often struggle with complex issues such as mental health problems, substance abuse, or disabilities, which make it difficult for them to maintain stable housing.

2. Episodic homelessness: Individuals experiencing episodic homelessness go through multiple episodes of homelessness throughout their lives. They may face challenges like unstable employment, lack of affordable housing, or inadequate social support systems.

3. Transitional homelessness: This type of homelessness is temporary and occurs when an individual or family faces a crisis or life transition, such as job loss, eviction, or escaping domestic violence. With proper support, people in this category can usually regain stable housing.

4. Hidden homelessness: Hidden homelessness refers to individuals who do not have a permanent residence but are not visibly homeless. They may be temporarily staying with friends or family, living in overcrowded conditions, or residing in places not meant for habitation, such as cars or abandoned buildings.

5. Youth homelessness: Young people who have left or been forced out of their homes, often due to family conflict, abuse, or neglect, experience youth homelessness. They may face unique challenges such as lack of life skills, education, or employment opportunities.

I think the fact that there are habitually antisocial people in the first category (chronic homeless) sours the voting populace against the whole idea of 'homelessness' because there isn't enough distinction in the term. And that is a shame because while the chronic homeless may be the most visible and difficult to address, the majority of homeless people fall into the other categories, and they (and we!) reap huge benefits from social programs.
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#pro...
The news regs guard against things like social scoring and reltime AI facial recognition used in public (with the exception of law enforcement, of couurse) and also provisions to label content generated with AI as such (kind of like the cookie law). Politicians don't want AI generated videos of themselves making propaganda statements.

In fact there was recently a very streamlined and professional Russian propaganda campaign in Frsnce, concerning a tax to raise money for Ukraine. Of course it's all phony.
150k each? I don’t give a crap about Twitter but copyright has become a cudgel, a weapon used to beat down expression and scare people into inactivity.
can you point to an actual paid state actor. the term seems like mostly bullshit.