skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep. Chomsky used the term "universal grammar", but it's much more likely a universal abstract semantics++ thing (coupled with sound processing stuff, plus repetition, plus a bunch of other stuff in the brain that helps learning in general).

how much is innate, what exactly does that mean, all good questions. and of course raw intelligence (pattern matching, strategizing, learning, adaptiveness, modeling, ability to form a sort of consistent and goal-orientedly useful predictive model of the world based on inputs, and goal-oriented control of behavior based on these aforementioned models) by definition can learn language.

and of course it's a strange question of are LLMs intelligent in this sense despite lacking goals?
It's an oral bidet! Looks like fun, bet it feels great.

US$899 buys a lot of floss.

As with a bidet, slightly more water use and maybe less material resource consumption (not sure of the +/- of electricity consumption and storage in that equation).

Oral bidet. You heard it here first.
> Instant Brands was purchased by private equity firm Cornell Capital in 2017.

And although https://cornellcapllc.com/investments/ provides the shell companies they own, who knows what's under each of those shells, and under those shells.
> Are there any countries which have the capabilities to spy on their citizenry that do not?

The US?

Anyone who has worked with the IC knows that USPER data is highly controlled and targeting citizens requires layers upon layers of approvals and reviews. They collect every bit of data because having it and not needing it is obviously better than needing it and not having it.

Think of it this way: there is probably tons of data your employer has that you don't have access to. But just because HR has a record of how much they pay the receptionist doesn't imply everyone in the company is digging around in that data.
It's not. It's similar to how Imgur does it.

Imgur serves advertisements when you go to their page. But you don't get them through the API.

https://api.imgur.com/#commercial

> Your application is commercial if you're making any money with it (which includes in-app advertising), if you plan on making any money with it, or if it belongs to a commercial organization.

Calling an API and monetizing the front end it is fine. The money that Imgur loses from ads is made up in the API call monetization.

The Reddit APIs don't prohibit serving advertisements or any other form of monetization of the use of the APIs and mention it as something that your app would need to do.

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/data-api-terms

You will disclose in your App through a privacy policy how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from your App Users and other visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (e.g., advertisers) may serve content or advertisements and collect information directly from your App Users and other visitors that may include the use of cookies. In addition, by using the Data APIs, Reddit may use submitted information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Note that sending data to 3rd parties from a front end (e.g., advertisers) is something that is allowed provided that it is properly disclosed to the App Users or other visitors and that it may serve content or advertisements from the application.
Why is it always us-east-1 though?

I have always stayed away from that region because it seems significantly less reliable than other regions.
Yeah, I realize that now, but sadly, I can't edit the link in this post.
> who's really got standing to object?

Other stakeholders, such as government regulators or the extra patients killed when PE takes over their hospitals and nursing homes [1].

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28474
Perhaps stop selling machine guns and pistols to teenagers?

Fortifying schools. OMG.

Where is this coming from? Where's it going?
The world is much larger than the US ;)

It could be that there were other external factors that used to counter-balance this effect, and are now being removed, such as, for example, the quest for increasing female participation in STEM no matter what, or general societal norms beyond school spurred by the rise of femminism.

In any case, the academinc literature on this topic is vast (and not so clear cut), so if you really have not seen thorough investigations on the topic beyond "boys don't like it" or something from the Bible you can start by reading papers citing those I mentioned above:

- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3048749496880924830...

- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8365905588440304050...
> So one Unicode character can be up to 5 bytes long and take up the same canvas space as 3 characters.

5 bytes? In what encoding?
i have money for the API. i wouldnt pay for it ever tho. if you want to learn things, read. if you want to create things, create. no need for some language model assistance. ull end up relying on it and knowing nothing yourself and having no abilities. at most its useful for people writing marketing texts...
It's because you're responding as if OP said it wasn't justifiable legally. They're just saying that AMD is, in their estimation, making a bad business decision.
I'm sure aws re:Inforce starting has nothing to do with it... https://reinforce.awsevents.com/livestreams/
Yes. We all know it wasn’t in earnest, but this allows Reddit to say they tried.
The mainframe is dead. Long love the new mainframe. We just call it DGX because it’s cool.

Even the leasing model has made a comeback!
I agree with his points. The question is: what are some ways of working fast without being sloppy? Would be interested in how people here do it.
And you're definitely being shit canned for performance, nothing to do with the recent hr complaint against your boss.
That's was really not his point. His point was that Nvidia is price gouging and I explained him why they can get away with it since the current market conditions favor their products a lot.

AMD has been consistently making bad business decisions in the GPU space for years now. What's new? They're pricing their hardware near NVidia but with less performance and way less features and poor track record, especially for the ML users.
This statement on using more energy than proof of work is ... incorrect. How did you come to this conclusion?
Covering All the Bases: Type-Based Verification of Test Input Generators
Good luck when the govt subpoenas your records chatting with an AI lawyer, since it’s likely not protected by Attorney Client privilege.
I had a similar reaction. Oh no WTF, how did i break that?! Then my buddy texted me about us-east-1 being down. Then i thought "Oh thank god, this shitshow is someone else's fault."
Hasn't he been saying it's his final film since the 90's?
I havent seen a compelling example of that, to the point that I think it has associated 'intelligence' with verbosity.

I'd expect writing samples to get shorter, not longer, when being improved.
Would be interesting to see material imbalances as a function of plies into the game. As in, we know an extra pawn is more important in the endgame than in the opening, but how much more?
Yep, it has issues so frequently. I wonder how many companies/teams start using AWS and blindly choose us-east-1 without realizing what they're getting into.

<rant>

It's also quite annoying sometimes that some things _need_ to be in us-east-1, and if e.g. you are using Terraform and specify a different default region, AWS will happily let you create useless resources in regions that aren't us-east-1 that then mysteriously break stuff because they aren't in this one blessed region. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificates are like this, I believe.

</rant>
>I have met a ton of greatly exaggerated fears about places

>> Oh I could never move to Texas.

Reddit (for example) is filled with human NPCs, who react in predictable ways without intelligence. One predictable trigger is "Texas".

A recent Reddit post discussed something positive about Texas. The replies? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of comments by Redditors, all with no more content than some sneering variant of "Fix your electrical grid first", referring to the harsh winter storm of two years ago that knocked out power to much of the state. It was something to see.

If we can dismiss GPT as "just autocomplete" as many do, I can dismiss all those Redditors in the same way; as NPCs. At least GPT AI can produce useful and interesting output.
> AWS can do so many things, reporting critical outage updates in UTC is not one of those things.

Thank you for reminding me about one of my biggest mildest annoyances from working at AWS.
> it looks to me like this is a high stakes showdown that’s inching toward a commercial resolution

Not a chance. He embarrassed the CEO and most CEOs are the type of people that would rather run the company into the ground than do business with someone that upstaged them.

I'm not saying Apollo is important to Reddit's business, just that you aren't accounting for the hubris of C level executives.
I thought it uses your browser time zone, is it not?
> If they don't need reddit, then they should stop using it to demonstrate that point.

Why wouldn’t you use every available, easy to use mechanism to broadcast a message? Clearly the actual organizing is happening on a variety of channels including Discord.
> One question is what if 10/11 gets more than ten items, so there is an 10/11/11, 10/11/12?

I’m not following this (and thus, I think, your entire point). I think you might be slightly misunderstanding something, the files inside a category(11-core in the example) would never have a prefix other than the category - 10/11/11 is the only option - 10/11/12 would be breaking the system.

Once you’re inside a category, there is no division into 10 anymore. The 11 category would allow documents from 11.01 to 11.99. And as I believe is mentioned in the spec, if you need more than .99 you likely have too broad of a category or area.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used this system at work and in my own notes for around 2 years and haven’t run into this problem (yet).
I thought I read that this is where they deploy new changes first. Can anyone confirm?
There is also the pressure cooker option. That's where our household gets the most mileage out of it. Pressure cooking is easy. Instant Pot pressure cooking is automagic.
Because it was one of the first, and it shows its age and less than rigorous rollout compared to the other zones.
Because when we're talking about CS education, it's usually in preparation for a software engineering career. Whether that should be the case is another story, but that's the reality.
There’s an outage with our upstream provider (AWS Lambda): https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

This issue is only affecting the Marketing Website and Dashboard.

The Email API is up and running normally.

More updates here: https://resend-status.com
I suspect it's where they concentrate a lot of their control plane.
You were very fortunate in your experience but there is no mandated swimming and there is no PE mandatory swimming program in Portugal.

Swimming lessons for kids are possible of course but they are organized via sports clubs or municipal swimming pools both of which are not free.
Are you kidding? There's no shortage of would-be petty tyrants willing to work for free to get a little taste of power. Insofar as the current mods think they're better than this, they're just getting high off their own farts.
us-east-1 is AWS's oldest region, and has the most legacy infrastructure, in ways that many other regions do not.
This implies that the combinatorial space of possible grammars is large. If it isn't, then the structure of the universe would imply a narrow set of possible workable grammars.

The combinatorial space of languages is obviously infinite, but is this so for grammars? If not then you would expect many languages to share the same grammars.

Seems analogous to the same question about mathematics. Are there many different possible arithmetics? No. There are infinitely many ways to express arithmetic symbolically but there is only one arithmetic. 2 + 2 never equals 5.
No. I think humans are all unique. Just like a pro basketball coach, you are looking for the right talent for your particular team and your particular context.

I have had extremely smart, talented, thorough engineers who are slower than whale shit in an ice flow. For a startup, those engineers are a death sentence. It doesn't matter how good they are, if they aren't fast, they hold everyone back.

Are you building the roman empire, or are you building a small group of bandits that move swiftly through the night? Each case has it's corresponding strategy.
Didn't you just described an nth-order Hidden Markov Chain ?
Also related from a few hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36309864
Don't want to comment on the legally or market forces bit on this, just want to comment as a gamer I'm elated.

Microsoft has destroyed pretty much every franchise it touches, with Azure being able to subsidize huge losses for the garbage they've been producing.

Halo infinite might literally be the biggest flop in entertainment history. 500 million dollars spent and within a FEW MONTHS you had the player count for a FREE multiplayer game in the 5 digits.

These studios and game managers know their jobs are very secure, especially if they fall into Microsoft's ESG requirements, so game quality has taken a complete nosedive.

Gone are the small, nerdy, and passionate studios building these games that existed even during the Xbox 360 era from Microsoft.
It's the:

* Largest (DDoS'd most, most complex, scaling issues etc)

* Oldest (More time for weird idiosyncrasies to take hold)

* Where most testing happens

* Where new products are deployed first
I'm not interested in unpaid labour, I barely have time to do the paid one.
I thought copilot only works for code. How did you use it to write a handbook?
Or pretty much any US agency
> my early 20s when I was still a kid

You were not a kid. There's an old lady on my road whose (late) husband built their house when he was 18. Maybe he was still a kid.

> I am nothing like I was when I was 20, or 25. Maybe even 30.

It would be very weird if you did not change at all between 20 and 30 but nothing precludes doing that with someone else. 99% of modern relationship advice is bad because it tries to convince people that needing to show up to life with everything figured out is superior to figuring things out together. For almost everyone, the latter is a lot more workable. That doesn't mean it will be free from hardship, but it opens up enormous advantages. Time is not free.
The inconsistency with timezones across different services in the AWS console has always baffled and annoyed me. Some places have a time without a timezone and I can never tell right away if it's utc, local time, or region time.
So they opened 32k up to everyone?
Tend to agree with your final thought. The web is so different than it was in 2010, yes there are some promising newcomers but our expectations of a service are radically different in 2023. Also want to note there seems to be a general sentiment of fatigue regarding Reddit and social media in general.

But I do want to selfishly drop this gem from the founder of digg on the eve of their destruction, which mirrors so closely the quote from this memo https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/22543843421
Automatic Software Updates: Blessing or Curse?
Some info about these fonts here https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-...

Fwiw my dyslexic friends feel no benefit from these fonts. Would love to hear other experiences.
Cause he 10x'd their headcount.

If he kept headcount low like craigslist, wikipedia, etc. They would probably be profitable
Says the same here and I'm on the other coast.
I think llvm is not going to be irrlevent rather the amount of new languages that we see mostly depend on llvm IR.
That helps them to reach multiple architectures which is especially even more important since Apple moved away from x86 to ARM.

Writing two backends for two different architectures would be a lot of work and then lots of platform specific optimizations therefore llvm is the present and seems to be the future for the foreseeable future as well.

Besides that, we or at least I studied and was implied that hand written recursive descendant parsers are inferior way of doing things. Real world usage should always start with a grammer handed over to a parser generator (bison etc) that in turn have LR(1) algorithms driven by tables.

Turns out that a of lot of widely used programming languages are moving away from LR(1) and having their parsers as hand written recursively descendent parsers.

Ruby seems to be switching away from generated LR(1) parsers, more details here [0]

EDIT: References.

[0] https://railsatscale.com//2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-pars...
Absolutely! I will certainly be experimenting with the new functions as you suggest.

One thing which I haven't seen discussed elsewhere is the tension between the output format and the underlying task. When I ask GPT to use a simple, natural output format it does *better* at the actual code editing task. If I ask it to output using a more technical format like `diff -c` or heavily structured json formats... it "gets distracted" and does worse at the underlying coding request.

It writes worse code if you ask it to output edits in a terse, machine-readable diff format. It writes better code if you let it show you the code edits in a simple way.

For GPT3.5 this means I have to let it just type the whole source file back to me, with the edits included. GPT-4 is able to output a very simple diff-like format, but struggles with `diff -c`, etc.

So it will be interesting to see how the new function capabilities affect this tradeoff. Perhaps it is now "fluent" in function-json and so won't be "distracted" by that output formatting.
Same when I went to school in Germany. That said, the public pool I went to feel into disrepair a few years ago and got shut down because the community couldn't fund it. I'd estimate the nearest public pool now to be 30 minutes away which probably means no swim lessons for kids now. It's interesting how that's deteriorated because my school even used to have its own pool till a few years before I attended. So the town went from at least two pools in the 70s to zero now. The area also used to have multiple seasonal, outdoor pools in the 60s and 70s all of which were gone by the 90s. Everyone got richer, but we cannot have these small communal delights anymore.
Remember Japan. People just don’t need each other anymore. They are good alone - in gaming, leisure or travelling. More and more businesses are switching to single-oriented service.
> like a few dozen Waterpiks combined

> combination with manually brushing compared to brushing and flossing

No comparison noted versus Waterpik, which has adjustable pressure.

Recurring cost:

> mouthpiece... three to five years before requiring a replacement
As Roger Ebert put it, "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it."

A good movie will entertain even when you know the plot. Certainly nobody goes to see Shakespeare for the "twists".

Some movies spoil themselves by putting all of the good things in the trailer. The problem isn't with the trailer, but with the fact that they only had two minutes worth of movie to make, and should only have made a two-minute-long movie.

Miyazaki films are worth watching many times, for their beauty alone. The stories, too, reward re-watching because they are a journey you get to take with characters you connect to.

I wouldn't presume to doubt their marketing acumen. I assume they know what they're doing. But if they believe that I would see a trailer and not want to see more, then they seem to think less of this movie than I have come to expect from Miyazaki.
Just updated my little experiments to use the new models. Can confirm that this works far better. The JSON has been valid 100% of the time, but it still is a little fuzzy on string vs number in some cases for ids. Great update overall.
I can think of more times where a whole AZ has had issues than times where just one AZ went dark and failover happened seamlessly.
"there is no one else right now who would buy it."

You are missing a qualifier: "at the current market price."

If you prevent or disincentivize PE from buying these types of businesses, the price would drop to the level of its new adjusted demand.
This sounds like a backwards explanation to explain why the same words have different meanings.

Maybe the LLM should write the tones too, so it sounds like a child inventing a language and when you point out its logical inconsistencies it invents new rules to fit.
Don’t forget teachers unions and the Dept of Ed.

They bleed taxpayers dry because they are “helping the children” and everybody knows a nice teacher who isn’t part of the problem but will be held out as a defense of govt and union corruption.
us-east-1 is the largest region, so it is where changes meet scale.

It is also a massively complex beast in itself spanning dozens of datacenters with massive amounts of fiber between them. Much more fragile than having everything in a single building and as you scale up the number of components you increase the rate of failure.
We're on use1 and havent seen any degradation
status page won't load for me. are they still hosting their status page on their own infrastructure?
> told them it was failing basic computer science knowledge

> i got a negative review for not being a "team player"

Effective communication is good for your career. People don't want to work with someone who slings distracting insults.

You can say "This will cost $50K, but we can't afford more than $5K, and I think we can do it $500", or "a 10x customer will cost 100x to serve, but a different design can bring that down to 10x".

SaaS without the sass.
A developer creates a standard resort hotel and then sells individual units out as condos.

You can (and most people do) use the onsite property management company. All of the individual owners make their units available as inventory to the property management company when they are not staying there. The property manager should have an algorithm to ensure units are occupied equitably.
It's not all black and white, at least from my experience

A similar thing to what you described happened at a software company where I used to work at, culture destroyed, many people let go. I will name and shame the PE firm - it was Hg Capital

However currently, I've been at a company for a few years who is owned by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, and it's a completely different story. The culture is great and hasn't changed at all
Ask HN: How do I get off the ChatGPT plugin waitlist faster?
I want to develop a new plugin for chatgpt and I've been on the wait-list for more than a month now. Are there any tricks or methods which can allow me to facilitate the process? I'd love to hear from people who have successfully developed a plugin for ChatGPT.
Thanks in advance.
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I'm not a libertarian, but do go on with your unjustified assumptions. We've gone through three rounds of you claiming you're right with no principled arguments or evidence, that it must be your way or the highway, and that the government responses were "effective" without considering obvious the most obvious counterexample that I cited.
The idea of making complex legal documents more easily accessible without law specific knowledge is interesting.
Thinking that this will replace competent legal representation is insane.
Easy there comrade, you need to watch that talk about alienation of labor and ownership of the means of production. But it is interesting how a brief trip through the gig economy will start someone talking like Marx even if they (presumably) haven't read him.