skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather take speculation than a lack of an answer or the umpteenth "we hear you and we are working on it" answer only to wait years for nothing.

I wish Stylish worked on Firefox mobile. These are issues I can solve myself if the right tools existed (at least, the ones that exist on desktop).
I think most people do not pay for teachers' quality. People pay for the diploma's brand. (Which is a proxy of the probability of landing a good job after graduation.)
For that use case, as long as the chatbot teachers don't degrade the university's brand name, I think most people won't care. They might even actually prefer it. (I graduated from the top engineering university in my country and I'd certainly prefer ChatGPT over the vast majority of the TAs I had).
Yeah, that website linked in the GitHub page really didn’t demonstrate the product. It showed the pricing model and that’s it (At least on mobile).
No words are ascribed to anyone, so you're off base there. It's just an attempt to analyze the behavior of a group of people by seeking underlying themes and rationales, like millions of other such explanations out there.
Thank you for the clarification, I hadn't realised that.
Whichever one is that lets them do it today. That's the reason US and the EU can't agree to a new privacy treaty.
I suspect the question is not whether this is a true story, but how easily the fabrications will fall apart under inspection.

For example, the article claims $2 billion in about 300 items. That's an average value of $7 million. Is that even remotely plausible?
The filesystem is manageable by users (with few exceptions). You can't easily discover which part of a registry hive is associated with an application.
> ever tried to use it with ~10k items?

Yes, around 13k currently. Startup is slow, but I keep it open so that doesn't matter much. With Zotero 6, speed isn't great for general usage, but workable. Zotero 7 (beta) however feels very fast. I've switched to it already -- most plugins haven't been upgraded yet, but (at least currently) you can switch between v6 and 7 since there's no database updates involved.
That's speculation, not evidence. The traits you describe aren't demonstrably incompatible with the mechanism I proposed.
Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph.

There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
I read the thread after seeing your comment, and it strikes me that besides the first comment being a little brusque, sigmavirus24 comes across as both calm and helpful - doubly so given that the original issue appears to have been PEBKAC related

> I think I forgot to run "pip3 uninstall" and ran only "pip uninstall" as I had to use python3 to get working ssl in the first place.
Naive question, perhaps: What roles are multimodal models likely to play in the future of AI?

The comments here and in the Economist article seem to be about only large language models. In the initial announcement of GPT-4 in March, OpenAI described it as “a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs),” but they haven’t yet released the image part to the public.

What will happen when models are trained not only on text, and not only on text and images, but also on video, audio, chemical analyses of air and other substances in our surroundings, tactile data from devices that explore the physical world, etc.?
I think this one it much more interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7MmS3vazU

Echoes lines up with the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
> Large business wastes just as much money as govt, but when a business makes a mistake they just stop talking about it.

Perhaps also dictatorial governments: they would have the authority to sweep things under the rug and make sure no one talks about them.

That's one of the "problems" of more open societies: the dirty laundry is there for all to see. This makes it possible to bike shed on many (perhaps trivial) things.
I telli code has a new way where you can click a API or Nuget and it brings examples of code using that API FROM Github.

Super useful since you can see different ways people use them, for example how people would use an API synchronous or asynchronous.

The bad thing is, it brings all code regardless of license
So it will happily bring you GPLv3 code as an example. Not a good idea to study code like that if you work on closed source.

Also it doesn't seem to ask for permission to use the examples.
"Sure, engineers can "work" with that, which means they have to implement AND design the product as they go. Which usually ends in a mess for all parties involved."

IMO that can work as long as engineers are experienced enough, and expectations are set on both sides.

PMs will have to accept an iterative process where people gotta keep refining to get to an ideal state. And Developers will have to accept that "iterative" means you'll constantly have to re-do work or throw away stuff.

But if either side can't accept that, you'll end up with a mess alright.
And you don't have a shred of actual evidence to demonstrate that, only your own preconceptions about how things supposedly are.
Web app for text to image generation created by a college student
A link from the article says:

> A major threat to the cave is that the government plans to commercialize it by installing transportation systems like cable cars. This would take away from the natural beauty and wonder of the cave. The logic behind the cable cars is to make it easier for tourists to explore the cave, but this modernization may ruin much of its allure because, the cave has not yet been tampered with by man. The system is designed to be able to carry 1,000 visitors to Son Doong in an hour.
That graph is wild! Bash is crrrraazy
> Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs

I think there is another sizable set which heavily uses wiki. At my work, most people use it (a very small set of people use SharePoint for mainly PowerPoint or formatting heavy docs).
I own AD2 and it is great little tool at the price (which was around $280-300 at the time IIRC), but this slowly creeped up to price of say Rigol 1054Z with far less acquire capability.
The name for what you are describing is "Fog of war". It happens in every war.
the last time I looked at their stuff it seemed to me they could use a bit of refresh.
Current market prices for a lot of commercial real estate seems to be a ponzi scheme especially in the US. It is not in the interest of any of the players to decrease prices only the renters.

Local government need higher prices as without the high property prices their property tax receipt will tank making them unable to meet their budgets.
Banks need higher prices as they are highly leveraged and will be on the hook for billions.
Same for most landlords they cant decrease the rent too much as that would decrease the value of the property and make the bank come after them to top up as they are also leveraged.
Then we have got black money parked in real estate of western countries where such owners do not care much about rental income they are okay with their money being safe so dont care about renting.
Then we got the countries themselves they turn a blind eye to this black money parked in their countries as it helps their economies. Plus if the black money/corruption money is from a politically exposed person they are able to be controlled/blackmailed by the 3 letter agencies of these countries.
> Is it a trap if the only danger is to the climber themselves?

This tends to be untrue. Often when there are accidents pr tragedies, several people go to great lengths and risk their own lives in attempting to help.

I am largely pro the right to free solo, but the ability to claim "it just affects me" feels like a lie. Plus now I am reminded of a Dan le Sac song. Anyway.
I still don't understand your take, you are very wary of Ukrainian propaganda because the US supports it. So look at the facts: Russia invaded a neighbouring country, butchered civilians, hazed cities.

Your take on propaganda because a president of a country being invaded doesn't dress the part you expect is seriously bizarre. You're not being critical, you are being cynical.
Reminds me of the entry to the New Zealand Waitomo “Lost World” caves: https://www.waitomo.co.nz/edit/image_cache/lw38small_749x100...
A godot dev said html5 games are difficult to do because of multithreading.
This sounds dystopian.

I went through a distance learning course and I don't see this being far from it. I mean, it's not like anyone will have to come to the brick and mortar classroom just to sit there and listen to this AI thing talk about CS, everyone will do it from their room.

So on one hand you have a lack of proper instructor and on the other hand lack of social contact. Imagine being 18 and sitting at home alone just you and this AI.

Sounds ok if you are older, but not for the amount of money Harvard is asking for it. I am not even sure what you are paying for here.
"In the eloquent prose spun by the digital loom of GPT-4, we recognize a surprising reflection of our own cognitive prowess, as if confronted by the skilful articulation of a revered mentor. Compelled towards it, akin to a scholar drawn by the magnetic pull of an unseen truth, we explore the intricate latticework of sentences and thoughts it masterfully weaves. Yet, much like the deceptive mirage of a conversation with a conscious entity, we understand the intellectual dance we are enraptured by is but the result of advanced algorithms and machine learning. Mirroring the theme of this discourse, the marvel of this technological feat is a bittersweet sonnet—a fascinating testament to the power of human ingenuity that has breathed life into this artificial intellect, and a poignant indication of the silent absence of genuine understanding beneath its surface."

I mean it's close, if a bit less on point.
> will future 5kw inverters allow 10 kw of panels, so that the power vs time graph is a wide "plateau" instead of a thin "hill"?

Inverters already allow a substantial amount of undersizing, e.g. I'm using a 10 kW Fronius inverter with 14.5 kW of panels installed. This does lead to the plateau you are looking after so if that is something you want, go for it In my case the 10 kW inverter just happened to be the biggest one available in this series (GEN24 Symo, a 3-phase hybrid inverter using high-voltage batteries (which I have yet to install, waiting for prices to come down and my 5 year sell-back contract to expire)). I would have been fine with a "thin hill" instead of the wide plateau we get now since that hill would stand on top of the plateau, maximising production.
The console war argument is around such an outdated definition of the gaming industry. Self-identifying gamers have had their head in the sand for over a decade now.

Since 2010 mobile gaming has eclipsed revenue of both console and PC gaming _combined_.

Also since 2010, console revenue has stagnated while PC revenue has continued to grow.

This is the landscape to evaluate the different gaming brands. Xboxes are nothing more than a user-friendly gaming PC brand. The total addressable market for Microsoft is much larger than what Sony could hope for. Sony is in the worst bind long-term, trapped in consoles without any leg up in PC or mobile. They invested in VR instead which never became a strong category. In terms of revenue, VR is barely competing with Arcades.

If you had to stack rank gaming devices, iOS would be winning the console wars, followed by Android. In a distant third would be PlayStation, and then Microsoft and Nintendo neck in neck.

If you look at it by company, Tencent would be at the top, then Sony, then Microsoft and Nintendo.

Microsoft is definitely in -- at best -- third place no matter how you count it. The FTC trying to restrict the conversation to an era of console war that expired over 13 years ago shows they have no business trying to regulate this space.
the official stance of arXiv is that it is intended for papers that are finished and ready for submission to peer review, i.e. the authors believe it's finished and publishable.

in a practical sense, most people don't think of it this way though. putting something on arXiv means "i want people to be able to cite this, and for it to show up on Google Scholar", which might include works in progress, short notes, or lots of other things that don't fit the official criteria.
This is an excellent Q/A session with John McCarthy. Ages well if not excellent.
You're looking at the Wicked Witch, and Waters intones "Black...", as her apparel is.

Then the camera shifts with him saying "...and..." to land on Dorothee in her "blue" dress.

"And who knows which is which, and who is who?"

Great stuff.
How about delegating to a third party to solve centralization issue?
That just means you don't believe in free will, which is fine. This also means you had no choice to make this comment otherwise :)
Visual storytelling is, in essence, the use of images, videos, or a combination of both to share a narrative. In contrast to text-based storytelling, visual storytelling relies on the use of visual cues to convey the plot, character development, themes, and emotions of a story.
My coworker’s kid just graduated from Harvard. He said it cost about $315,000k. Does your number include all the fees and such most colleges tack on to tuition?
That's why I chose to do manual polling/clicking for the built-in reader I have for HeyHomepage.com Just a list of all subscribed feeds that one can click through. My reasoning was that since a subscriber actively and knowingly subscribed to something interesting, they might gonna click it again when they're interested again. No need to automatically poll everything all the time.

Maybe for a future newsletter/magazine function I need to do some automatic polling in the background.
Pretty please, put a real description in first. This should be the first thing I read:

"try lets you run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system."

And put snarky one-liners somewhere later. I only noticed what this project actually is after HN had changed the title of the post. And I had even opened Github page before as I usually do.

There are two very good places, at the top in project description and top of readme. I know the temptation to get noticed using a meme, but let me judge the meme after I've made the decision if this is something I would want to use my precious time for. Thanks.
> You need sort of a "primary education" data set which gets the model up to roughly a high school education level.

Yea that was what I was getting at with the "combination" of data. The publicly available data provides the base/primary education, then you specialize it with your proprietary data and bam, you have an AI model that nobody else can produce...an actual product moat.
game changer

"I don't care about cookies"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
Seconding this, for sure. "/usr/sbin/sshd -T" (T for "test") has been a life-saver more than once.

My strongest version of this is that any application that manages any state should be able to report on that state in a human- and machine-readable way.
So this is what I thought you would say, and it's the origin of the issues here: to say that LLMs are "statistical parrots" is just to say they learn conditional distributions of text tokens.

So you aren't replying to the "only stats" claim: that is the claim!

The issue is that language-use isn't a matter of distributions of text tokens: when i say, "the sky is clear today!" it is caused by there being a blue sky. Then I say, "therefore I'd like to go out!" it is caused by my preferences, etc.

So if we had a generative causal model of language it would be something like this: Agent + Environment + Representations ---SymbolicTranslation---> Language.

All LLMs do is model the data being generated by this process, they dont model the process (ie., agents, environments, representations, etc.)

They say, "it is a nice day" only because those tokens match some statistical distribution over historical texts. Not because it has judged the day nice.

To model language is not to provide an indistinguishable language-like distribution of text tokens, but rather, for an agent to use language to express ideas caused by their internal states + the world.

In the case of sorting numbers, the tokens themselves have the property (ie., mathematical properties such as ranking are had by ranked tokens). So learning the distribution is learning the property of interest.

This is why no papers which demonstrate NNs "have representations" etc. which appeal to formal properties the data itself has, are even releveant to the discussion. Yet, all this "world model, algorithm, blah blah" said of NNs, is only ever shown using data whose "unsupervised model" constitues the property of interest.

Statistical models of the distributions of tokens are not models of the data generating process which produces those tokens (unless that process is just the distribution of those tokens). This is obvious from the outset.
At the academic price of $250 I'm extremely tempted, but my personal value for it is decreased because I already own a "$775" 200MHz SDS1204X-E (hacked $400-500 SDS1104X-E) and a $1,500 LAP-C Pro (32064M) Logic Analyzer (250MHz-2GHz, 64-256MB/channel depending on how many channels you're actually capturing).

The main benefit to me would be the AWG feature, and maybe the software is more usable than the LAP-C software. Would this be a good option for me or is there another AWG I should consider for that price point to get much better performance/features? I ask here because there's probably quite a few hobbyists on HN with a basic scope and logic analyzer but lacking an AWG.
And not to be confused with the previous generation Xbox One X.
Always think critically, but whatever you do don't do your own research.
I’m generally skeptical of the critical thinking movement. There is not much evidence that students can be taught to transfer their critical thinking skills from one subject to another. I think much of what people refer to as critical thinking is more aptly called subject expertise.
A BMI below 18.5 is underweight according to NIH: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...

But comparing the extremes (<18, >30) and using in-between as control probably makes statistical power easier.
This is not the solution you think it is. How do you determine how knowledgeable the chatbot is?

Or is 'the computer told me so it's correct' good enough these days?
It's just not true at all. Knowing/using markdown doesn't make you some Richard Stallmann type.
Not necessarily. As you fine grain the simulation enough, eventually you run out of energy in the universe to compute even a second of simulated output.
I fail to see what you mean exactly. Could you explain?

Specifically why the opinion is philosophical and not just some historic-pragmatic pattern matching and grouping?
Exactly, private insurance companies with millionaire executives are the most efficient way to handle a fundamental human need for our society. /s (this means sarcasm).
Your response reads to me as that which I already pointed out: the "Chinese social credit" myth is appealing not because it's factually true but because it's something we use to project our fears on.

You dread the prospects of the myth coming true in your home country. Okay, fair. But you are also saying that that dread justifies making false, exaggerated or distorted assertions about China because the end (combating the myth from becoming true) justifies such means. That I disagree with.

I am Chinese. China has been demonized enough in this cold war already. China shouldn't be collatoral damage in your fight against the myth from becoming true. Such myths have real consequences for Asian people even living outside China. Anti-Asian violence is at an all-time high because the public is fed daily with the narrative that China is some evil empire that's out to get all of us. This creates an environment of paranoia in which real people get hurt. Chinese scientists abroad are being harassed because they "could have links to the CCP" or other bullshit like that.

Sure, protest against the prospects of the myths, that's fine. But that's no excuse for misrepresenting China. One can, and should, protest against the prospects of social credit while also acknowledging that the story about China is largely false.
I have to wonder at the motivation here. Are you just playing around with this as an amusing semantic game or are you actually trying to defend the output of GPT-4?

If the former, fine but I definitely disagree. If I were to use an API that were documented in those terms but behaved the way you describe I would be absolutely livid. I'd want to seek out the authors and do violence upon their person. That is not a reasonable pairing of description and implementation, and I'm sure you'll be unsurprised to know it's not what C-INTERCAL does [1]. It doesn't use a cryptographically secure RNG, sadly (though there's no reason it couldn't), but it does use a RNG and certainly doesn't do what you suggest.

If the latter, though, I'm curious about the psychology. As I mentioned, this semantic rabbit hole is irrelevant to the profound wrongness of the paragraph I quoted. Every part of the sentence is wrong: the code isn't using a clever trick to produce seemingly random numbers, it's using the random behaviour built in to the language; %50 doesn't have anything to do with "mingl[ing] the bits of two 16-bit numbers" (that's "interleave", denoted with what looks like a cent symbol); the #1, #2 etc are constants, not unary operations; the fact that different results are produced each time is part of the language behaviour not the result of some trick. If you are defending this, why?

[1] https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/intercal/blob/8a65e8ba1cc65...
More breadth though, don't think you could really call a winner without saying 'for what'.
Prisoners don't have free will, nor do judges and police. All is well!
Well, that would save me some time I suppose, I'm not about to keep refreshing r/talesfromtechsupport to see if anything interesting pops up. Now if only they kill old.reddit I'd finally be completely free.

The cash grabbing part is weird though, initially you just had some ads and reddit gold to offset the server costs. Were they running on venture capital money that has run out or have they blown up their company with so many managers that their expenses have exploded?
Going to need a citation for that.

The PlayStation all started with Ken Kutaragi who worked in Sony’s digital research labs. It started as the “Play Station” a CD addon for the SNES. But due to contract disputes Sony got dumped for Philips in a very public fashion - probably Nintendo’s biggest mistake ever. Sony went ahead on its own and created the “PlayStation” (aka PS1 today) and the rest is history.

Don’t see where Sony Music comes into the story.
I don't recall having to spend $5 to 15 a month extra on my PS1, or N64 though. Inflation adjusted amounts tend to leave out a lot of externalized factors
> didn’t come up with the idea of pairing these two works. I’m not the inventor of “The Dark Side of the Rainbow.” But in a strange sort of accident, I played a key early role in its becoming a cultural phenomenon.

I realized years ago that doing something is only half the job; communicating the accomplishment is the balance.

"Wow, you're smart, Smitty," said advertisers.
> Effective at concentration camps, or supreme-court packing?

Like Guantanamo or what the GOP is currently doing (e.g., not giving Garland hearings "because it is too close to the election")?

Government, and political opportunists, can be effective in both good and bad policies/actions.