skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A possible explanation is that most teachers in primary school are female, which creates an environment and behavioral expectations that favor girls, e.g.:

- Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement - https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/3/528

- Gender differences in teachers’ perceptions of students’ temperament, educational competence, and teachability - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8279.2010.02017.x
I think his experience with tipping is actually pretty realistic of one (extreme) half of the total picture though: a waiter in a shitty restaurant running tourists through as quickly as possible, getting paid less than minimum wage with tips calculated as a major component of his pay.
Also incels movement are a thing and they cant be explained with the given text.
lol I'm always fascinated by the weird psychology motivating these comments. Must be a troll.
> For the first time there now is a second entity that can understand and produce language

But does it really understand language? This reminds me of the Chinese room argument [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
OpenAI announces new GPT-3/4 models, 16k context, 25-75% price reductions
... or you build an User Agent that executes whatever 1mb_garbage_ytplayer.js and let google code give you decoded links
Sentences that would probably ruin your morning if you made CPUs at Samsung
Deep Mind had this paper on that, showing weaknesses of transformers relative to other models in generalizing from example productions from different tiers of the hierarchy:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02098
We'd need a lot more information about this one particular case but I'd bet almost anything that a 90% drop in share price was caused by something a lot deeper than customers being unhappy at some unfinished features. I intentionally didn't address that half of his comment for that reason.
That is neat, thanks. I didn't check RICHED itself but when i was toying around with an HTML editor a few years ago (see my other post) i did check out an HTML editor API that Microsoft had (i don't remember its name but it was used by, e.g., Joel Spolsky's CityDesk - IIRC the control itself was documented in the MSDN CDs that came with Visual Studio 6), from where i got the idea of using a two node pointers and a subrange index to represent a selection.
https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...
I love these new terms, can you elaborate on this?
That's definitely useful. Thanks for sharing the entire journey.

There's a lot to unpack here, so maybe it's better to chat directly. Let me know if you ever want to give Resend a chance.
I wouldn't consider weight to be a good indicator of capacity to make meals. I know thin people who I wouldn't trust to make me a cup of water and I know fat people who can adhere to a strict diet for their children.

I also wouldn't consider CPI-W and CPI-U to be cost-of-living concerns. I consider being able to say "hey, honey, we can't spend 500$ on your mobile game because eggs cost 7 for a dozen at the grocery store this week, we need to revise our budget" to be adult behavior.
I think you're giving too much credit to the average user, empirically, we as humans tend to question less and believe more about things that are beyond our understanding, and LLMs are certainly way more of a black box than a search engine. The idea of a search engine is intuitive enough, but a large language model which involves maths that people likely haven't even heard of? and is the next big thing(TM) and will revolutionise the world? Yeah I have a feeling it will take some time before the average user understands the ins and outs of this tech.

Also the problem isn't necessarily about understanding the tech, but more about how it will be perceived at first. As long as every big player hypes up the tech as if it's perfect and revolutionary, I can't blame people for blindly trusting it at first(because it might as well work for most things they use it for, it will take some time before the pitfalls become apparent).
PE doesn't go through rating agencies. Their deals are by and large unrated and the debt for the most part is not traded on the secondary market because of that. That's why they can pull off so much shady shit.
I'm not sure you are getting my point, so I will repeat myself. The challenge in patent law is to come up with an actual law that delineates good patents from bad patents. This is an extremely difficult task, if not impossible. So, simply stating, from the sidelines "bad patents shouldn't exist" doesn't actually help anything, because it provides no way for the law to filter out bad patents.

My point being, I don't think you or others here appreciate that challenge, and instead just do things like you are doing here, where you ignore the questions I pose to you, and instead ask me to defend these patents. I never said either of those were good patents or should be patents... so why am I being asked to defend them?

The crucial question is... can you provide a better delineation between good and bad patents besides just facially calling them good or bad? It doesn't appear to be that you can do that. Given that you know more about the technology than lawyers do, how is it that you suppose attorneys make this delineation?

As a matter of convenience, I'm not going to respond if you don't answer my question, because it will be clear to me that you are not reading or engaging with my posts because this will be the third time I've posed this issue to you, when you've completely ignored it the first two times in order to step up onto your soapbox while repeating the categorical fallacy I accused you of.
US warned Ukraine not to sabotage Nord Stream, after MIVD alert
Did you miss the "pending moderator approval" part of that?
Frogs are notorious for their selfishness.
> the profit is coming from new loans that won't need to be paid back.

When they go to buy the properties back, they'll be at the new valuations pricing in the fact they're probably going to have to offer significantly less rent than before to maybe get occupancy up. A lot of buildings have some pretty extreme valuations compared to how many people are actually coming in to the office.

I've heard of >200,000sqft buildings leasing for $30-40/sqft with only a few hundred people actually coming in. ~$8MM/yr+ in leasing for like maybe 500 people to come into an office most days in a week. That's $16,000/yr in leasing costs supposedly for each of those seats, before things like utilities and maintenance are figured in. Does >$16,000/yr per desk make sense to keep a lease?

I haven't heard those kinds of numbers just once. I've heard it (and seen it) several times. The office I go into has a nearly empty parking garage. It doesn't have the foot traffic to support the one cafe that used to be there. Whole floors are entirely open to be leased. I'm one of about four people who show up to the entire floor of the building.

Its crazy how empty so many commercial office buildings are these days. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing a lot of this commercial real estate take a bit of a haircut on valuations, hopefully we'll see rents dip a good bit and we'll see actual occupancy up meaning better usage of the things we've already built. Its depressing seeing tons of capital just sitting there unused based on some improbable dream of getting more in rent.
Absolutely. You have to flex or be willing to “spoil” in some manner/degree.

Edit: Or, most great products still need to advertise.
Ask HN: Should I (re)learn math to transition to ML?
TL;DR: How to learn math for AI on the side?

Hey,
I am currently a senior software engineer working mainly with backend systems. As I have to work another 30 years or so, I cannot deny that ML knowledge is more and more important nowadays and will become even more in the future.

I do not think that just learning the current frameworks will do me any good in the long run.
Understanding the math and tech under the frameworks seems important to me for future growth.

However, my last math class was yeeears ago. Now my time is limited.

Is there a suggested way to learn the basic math to understand current(!) ML trends?
The GFTC [1] is a new license for GraalVM modelled on Oracle JDK's successful NFTC [2] license which was launched in 2021.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/graal-free-license...
[2] https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/no-fee-license.htm...
> ...when it’s handed to unskilled, underpaid employees who don’t care and are used to just following instructions?

From experience, this is sort of lazily libeling a broad cross-section of public servants. The public sector has no monopoly on useless employees, you'll find them in equal if not greater numbers in the private sector.

There are plenty of very highly skilled people in government who are quite passionate about serving the public good. The one thing you're correct on is that they're underpaid, and we're fortunate that they're passionate enough about public service and aren't focused on salary-maxing. They're stuck in a system that's managed by the whims and grandstanding of politicians, and attacked as 'the deep state' by people who want to take us back to the spoils system where every public employee is a crony.
People simply don't care. They have 'nothing to hide', their lives are better than 99.99% of people who ever lived, and people are busy with other things, not invisible boogey men (which are real, just not to the average person).
It shows like this[0] on mine (2560x1440).

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/I8bl5Es.png
> I also respond to several critiques of large language models, including [...] skepticism that they are informative about real life acquisition

Yeah the whole thing hinges on this... and uh yeah good luck with that one...
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So you're saying that technically, it isn't what it looks like it is. That technically, TRU is buying itself. That technically KKR isn't actually the new owner.

Technically, it's still predatory.
They write to be seen. That's why they use their real name and have a bio in their profile. And a link to a website where you can see their face and name and score.

For me its the discord that gives me pleasure. Disagreeing and teasing. To the extent that dang reprimanded me for flaming. Also I'm a nobody and i do not consider that a problem. So i'm largely selfish, not motivated by the status others attribute to me.

We write on HN for different reasons. They assumed that their reason is something universal. Just a tiny mistake.
It contradicts the idea that you have to teach language using syntax and grammar. Which... I confess I thought was already not believed? We certainly aren't teaching kids in the home how to decline and conjugate words. Are we?

(Similarly, languages that have gender are typically just picked up by usage, not necessarily ingrained by reasoning. Which leads to the obvious bad results when people think that there was solid reasoning on those choices, in the first place.)
Going from zero to one is different than one to two ("second language acquisition")

Zero to one is closer to mimicry and immersion. There's a long Wikipedia article on the field of study
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

Furthermore, humans probably aren't static learners and likely have more beneficial times of certain study than others. There's a theory in that too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis

Saying there's a "digital brain" is more of a framework since the term "brain" looks like it's a moving target

In another comment I referred to these systems as like comparing hydraulic pumps to human biceps, cars to horses, etc.

We can use the same units of measure, give them the same tasks, but saying they're the same thing only works in the world of poetry
Yes. Moreover I'd argue that literally the most dangerous thing about "AI" is that it is actually like a misleading assistant, but all too many people believe it to be a reliable "source."
Good point. The landing page probably makes the most sense, but that's a Show HN no-no, I think.

It's probably time to merge the landing page and app, I'll put that on the to-do list.
I agree. Question has not been settled.

20 year old human has

* heard ~220 million words, talked 50 million words.

* read ~10 million words.

* experienced 420 million seconds of wakeful interaction with the environment (can be used to estimate the limit to conscious decisions, or number of distinct 'epochs' we experience)

From a machine learning perspective human life is surprisingly small set of inputs and actions, just a blip of existence.
They mean at one point there were no older people to listen to in order to learn language because language did not exist yet. We somehow transitioned from grunts to words.
This may sound very ignorant but: why are advertisers so paranoid about the people they pay to? If you are going so far as to track visible pixels of your ad you probably have something more fundamentally wrong with how you're communicating your product.
>Isn't this essentially impossible?

RISC-V is inevitable.
Man I remember when people downplayed AlphaGo because it didn't teach itself unsupervised. "Nothing to see here". Only took them a few months to do AlphaZero.
"Iceland is the only place in the world with universal swim literacy."

Sweden also mandates swim lessons for grade school students, though not all schools manage to live up to the requirement.
Was it at least a good deal for the founder?

I feel your pain about what happened. I've seen comparable things a few times first hand. My learning was: just leave once the change starts, only stay if you're getting something out of it. It's not my company, I'm only in charge of my life, I'll find something better soon.

I think I would not recommend to run once PE is mentioned, it can also change for the better, but it can be a red flag to look more closely.
Thanks to this article, I learned that the core data structure for VSCode's text is written in TypeScript[0]. I, uh, I knew VS Code was written in TypeScript but I didn't realise _all_ of it was. It's crazy to think that the editor works as well as it does!

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/editor/...
I see you making this claim in multiple comments that he's making 600 API requests per user per hour to check for notifications, but this doesn't make sense to me. As you said, 100k users would result in 60 million API requests per hour, which would be about 43 billion API requests per month. I've seen pricing of $0.24 per 1k calls, so that would be $10 million per month, not $20 million per year. And that's just for this notification thing, which he could theoretically kill as a feature if that's 99% of the problem.

I think you're off.
It's insane we have such strict wiretapping laws but they don't apply nearly as strongly to internet service (most major ISPs sell your data).
Probably deal flow. Seems like a good way to find AI startups.
Oncology?
That’s not possible anyway because the phone can detect and reject the replacement sensor. If it couldn’t then how would it know to brick itself? Instead it should just fall back to PIN authentication, which is actually more secure and how it worked before the update
The AWS Console is mostly down
The link reads:
"
AWS Management Console Home page is currently unavailable.

You can monitor status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard.

You can also get to your AWS services by using these links:

EC2
ECS
CloudWatch
Lambda
S3
RDS
CloudFront
Route53
IAM
VPC
CloudFormation
DynamoDB

Looking for a different service? Choose any link above, then select a new destination from the Services menu at the top of your screen.

Here are some other common destinations: Billing, Account Details, AWS Support."

Only some of the mentioned services work like EC2 and S3. CloudWatch is down, as is Elastic Beanstalk.
> But the data shows that offering only one or two proposed times, even if they’re “good” ones, isn’t the best way to get a meeting scheduled.

Definitely counterintuitive, the strength of the effect (2.4x acceptance rate for 3+ options) was eye opening.
The LLM doesn't hold the whole dataset in its head either.
I knew some local guys that basically made a living doing that - start an HVAC company, get it working good, sell it to a equity group, they destroy it pretty quickly, everyone quits, then one of the other original guys starts a new HVAC company, gets it working good, sells it ...
This is the CEO that got mad at a user in a subreddit that mentioned his username, and in a drunken rage went into the database and manually edited their comment (who's to say it was just one?).

Huffman has had many terrible lapses in judgement over the years.

It has also always rubbed me the wrong way how Huffman re-writes history by saying he founded reddit with just Alexis Ohanian. There were three founders, and the third one that he always leaves out is Aaron Swartz.
Well, when you announce that "there will be no marketing at all whatsoever" stunt, you are doing marketing for your movie.

Nevertheless, looking forward to the movie.
Children raised in isolation will spontaneously develop language

I don’t have a reference handy now (someone can probably do better) but I believe one way to see this is via the hearing impaired or hearing and sight impaired
https://archive.ph/hFCuO
I don't think character indices are enough, what if your selection begins at the middle of a table cell and ends on an image that is the only child of a cell in a completely different table (no text involved at all, except some text in the cells in between)? If you want to, e.g., delete those how do you find which nodes are to be deleted and updated (e.g. for merging the two tables if there are cells after the one that contains the image)?
In part, lack of support (other than financial) is a reason it took me so long to complete college. But anecdata can't be relied on for population studies. These questions need to be asked, sure.

Based on the chart in the St. Louis Fed link, in the US women have outnumbered men since 1980 (shortly after the Vietnam draft ended). While the ratio has been increasing the only real visually noticeable upticks in the data were around 1993 for 4+ year colleges and 2001 for 2-year colleges. I wonder if some men who might have gone to a 2-year school instead enlisted following 9/11.

I don't think there was any particular STEM support for women in 1980 and into the early 1990s, at least. But maybe something did happen in 1993 (and possibly something additional to 9/11 in 2001). Are these additional women going into STEM majors?
I didn’t say everyone learns it from scratch at least one, I said we did.
> As a user, I hate when web apps mess with scrolling.

To be clear, this articles talks about styling only.

Tbh, if you like native features of scrollbars, widgets, etc., the most practical way you'll get to keep them in 2023 will be if they can be custom styled.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpqzb/ok-wtf-are-wordcels-a...
Please share your background so we can more accurately asses your credibility; saying that masks are ineffective is, at this point, painfully ignorant.

The nurses who thought so are either fired, dead, or updated their thinking.
The Brave summmarizer says:

> Wordcels are people who have high verbal intelligence and are good with words, but feel inadequately compensated for their skill. The term "cel" denotes frustration over being denied something they feel they deserve.1 Shape rotators are people with high visuospatial intelligence but low verbal intelligence, who have an intuition for technical problem-solving but are unable to account for themselves or apprehend historical context.2 The use of the terms has skyrocketed online in the past few months, especially in the last few days.0 The term "wordcel" is derived from incel and is used to describe someone who has high verbal intelligence but low "visuospatial" intelligence, whose facility for and love of complex abstraction leads them into rhetorical and political dead-ends.
Please sell me on why this is a better alternative to ABRP.
You want your own phone that you paid money for wiped and bricked remotely at random without your permission while you’re using it for no security advantage whatsoever (since it can just fall back to PIN authentication which is actually more secure than a fingerprint) until you give Apple money to “repair” it?
A comic inspired by this: https://moretothat.com/travel-is-no-cure-for-the-mind
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30235262
Ebikes would help, but I honestly don't think anything of that sort other than electric cars and trucks will get much uptake. As you said, there's often no shoulder, and, due to low population density, there's little upkeep done on roads, especially in the winter and after storms. In short, unless your vehicle can handle snow, ice, and animals, it isn't a complete solution, not to mention the cargo capacity needed to not have to go shopping every day when the grocery store is miles away.
Thanks! I see what you mean - would you expect more explicit feedback when submit the email, or is it more a question of more content on the login page to explain what's going on?
> he can't realistically get rid of the mods and replace them

Out of hundreds of millions of users, finding new mods does not seem that difficult. There are a lot of power-hungry users and people looking to leverage moderating for political or financial advantage.

There would be backlash, but I don't know what it would take for the real mass-exodus of Reddit. Lemmy/Tildes aren't showing massive numbers of new users that would make a real exodus (Lemmy has gone from 1k users to 18k, but that's far from 500M on Reddit).

* Source on Lemmy numbers https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Once phones became the default device for browsing and commenting on Reddit, comments began to grow shorter. (Some people might claim they can type on their phone just as comfortably as on a keyboard, but this clearly isn’t the case society-wide.)

The sad thing is that even if you are using an actual keyboard and type well, you look like a weirdo on Reddit today if you type longform text. I have seen someone posting merely a couple of solid paragraphs get reactions like “LOL wall of text bro”.

The average person’s use of a phone today is also one reason why it’s not easy for PhpBB-style communities to make a comeback.
Tangentially related, but it's interesting that Chomsky stated in a few interviews that he seems LLMs as just plagiarism machines, that they don't create anything new. Which I disagree with - us being creative is also just colliding patterns together. But at the same time I kind of assign higher value to his opinion than mine..
>Why should they foot the bill for the API calls?

You have a serious misunderstanding of how this works. They are footing the bill for API calls regardless. All reddit access by users is to external public facing API's. We are not on their internal network. They MUST have accessible servers + data costs. In all honesty the 3rd parties are probably more efficient as they are a lot less bloated which means LESS costs.
Synapses, and the brain in general, have more degrees of freedom than just a single floating point parameter allows. There are multiple neurotransmitters floating within the synapse, each side of the synapse has different numbers/density of various receptors, a bunch of proteins and such are constantly being created and used by each cell to change the brain structure itself. It’s not just a digital signal
Why do you not miss the days of forums?
I’m pretty sure Finland does as well, though whether it’s a national mandate or just standard operating procedure I don’t know.
This cannot be taken for granted when reading articles written today. Taking it for granted can result in bad interpretations of data.
The concept was popularized by roon, heres his official explanation (slightly ruining the joke): https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words