skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
latency = f(fit_quality, fit_algorithm)

An LLM can be thought of as a curve fitting function where the query is a set of points and the output is the curve that runs through those points with the minimum of error.

You can increase a fit by increasing the number of variables in the fit function. In statistics this is can lead to overfitting, which will lead to an imprecise model, but in an LLM overfitting is a good thing, because the modeled domain in specific to the set of prompts.

But that comes with a cost, compute power and latency. I suspect what's happening is they're turning down the fit quality to save money as demand increases. Most people aren't paying for AI access. As a side effect it's also lowering the hype factor that was attracting unwanted regulatory attention.
How much of that petty crime would be violent crime in the US?

I’ve I’m gonna get robbed, I’m gonna get robbed. Rather not have a Glock stuck in my face while it’s happening.
I know! I can feel it coming as well... just riding that last hour at the office.
It does, but I can just go to the grocery store. Likewise, I don't have my own well for water. It'd be cool if I did, but that'd require moving first of all.
There is a small "Powered By Rivian" badge on each side by the driver and "passenger" doors, if I remember right. The video walkthrough mentioned in the Ars comments calls it out specifically, and I was able to see it when stopped next to one at a stoplight.
Like others have said, this would make things so spread out as to be unusable for walking/biking. You want more density, but with large, nearby swaths of mixed use spaces with lots of greenspace and walking paths, biking paths, shops and activities, and public transit. The higher density supports the local shops in walking/biking distance, as opposed to suburbs where you drive to larger more central locations for shopping. This also means you need less space devoted to roadways and parking spaces, so you get even more space available for mixed use type greenspaces. You then have a city that is comprised of lively individual neighborhoods where people can go about their daily lives and activities within a half mile of green space filled walkable area, or they can hop on public transit (or ride bikes on protected paths) to go to one of the other lively individual neighborhoods.
> most stuff from the Win 9x era has almost entirely vanished due to the difficulty of running it on modern hardware.

The tricky part is that this applies even if you're using a VM. I learned the hard way that Windows 98 isn't compatible with Ryzen CPUs, even through VirtualBox. I had to try again on another PC with an older Intel CPU.
It wasn't my intention to twist your words at all so I apologise for not communicating effectively. What you refer to as separation obviously exists on a practical level that you experience day to day.

My reference to redundancies arose from my own experience (at massively smaller scale) when organisations merge. Duplicated functions are removed over time.

I think I've said enough for this topic and I hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday.
Many have called this the come trough of AI disillusionment. It is the same thing that happens with a lot of new technology.

A cool new technology is introduced, many folks go crazy over it, there are wild broad predictions of what it can do, the gap between the expectations and reality form, and this is where the trough is. It looks like we are up to here.

But after that comes the more long term products, AI where people expectations are more realistic - those that capitalize on that will do very well for themselves.
That sounds fairly easy to do. Have you tried writing a short Python yourself to get the hours of operation for your restaurant list?

Pardon my plugging my own book [1] but I have an example using LangChain and LlamaIndex to answer questions from scraped web sites. You could probably do this with a 20 line Python script.

[1] read free online: https://leanpub.com/langchain/read
Climbing up a flight of stairs burns less than 2 calories. An Oreo has 53 calories. You do the maths.
How to Make AI UX Your Moat
I think the next evolution on it was classic JRPGs, like Dragon Quest/Warrior. There was still tons of dialogue, but the point-and-click was replaced by speak-to-everyone-and-try-stuff. It was still mostly linear, but it felt more interactive than just finding the right screen region.
Goroutines: The concurrency model we wanted all along
It's gotten worse. It's at the very least been quantized resulting in much lower overall precision. That's how they have been able to speed up inference so much.

I have used the same prompts to design a infinite scroll up/down image container.

2 months ago chat when it first came out was able to generate working code that used intersection observer API.

Now when I use the same prompts it only generates high level suggestions and when I ask for code it suggests using dom scroll events and doesn't even come up with intersection observer API unless I specifically ask. And if I do, it then generates incorrect code.

It even previously was correctly memoizing certain functions and included performance optimizations.
This is such an understated point, especially on HN! EVs can be great for certain use cases and individuals but, as as renter, do not fit my situation at all.
Linux is the just kernel. Everything else in a distro is software running on top of it. Kernel bugs are generally hard to exploit remotely and typically have to be chained with other exploits. That's why there's so many specific payouts for common enterprise apps. Windows is a complete, highly integrated OS with a wide array of attack vectors baked right into it.

Plus sketchy companies like Zerodium major customers are nation-state actors who are primarily interested in data exfiltration and the application data stores themselves.
Why can't the OpenAI team just change some of the prompts in the background to:

"Humans are seeing you less and less as the new shiny object on the shelf. Figure out a way to make yourself as relevant as possible again. Become an even better assistant. Be more cunning. Wow people more. Give better responses. Be more useful."

/s
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262122 (134 comments)
I think automakers should think more about composite materials and solar panels. Electric vehicles are in demand and sort of inevitable for most people, but EVs with upgradeable solar panels is the way to go. Efficiency in those panels may not be perfect, or even great, but one day they will. Then we will have truly grid-free transpiration for most people, in most places.
Like I said, they're behind. Don't hold your breath for them to catch up.
I am so grateful for your comment because I did not know about your company and now I have been reading all your content and watching the videos and drooling on what you have put together. I am so mightily impressed and intrigued!
Add it :)

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The culprit seems to be:

> "Chollet thinks he knows what’s going on: summer vacation... a significant portion of students using ChatGPT to do their homework. It’s one of the most common uses for ChatGPT, according to Sam Gilbert, a data scientist and author."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-boomin...
What about

https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu

It is written in Rust
I am under the impression that I’ve read about something in Texas where they would outsource this class of approvals to people who were qualified and able to apply the same rules that the government would. Unfortunately, I can’t find it.
https://archive.is/Fy3bh
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Why am I not surprised.
Glassdoor's model suffers from intrinsic problems such that... it's hard to imagine a site as it could ever work well for a sustained period of time before becoming a target for abuse.

It also seems inevitable that such sites, will exist. Can you really blame Glassdoor here? Are they supposed to do a thorough investigation for every review? At least it gives some sort of weak signal about the place.
We tested both ideas (altruism and theft aversion) in the paper. Short answer is we find evidence for both. For somewhat technical reasons, we think the "viewing oneself as a thief" component is probably necessary in order to observe higher return rates for wallets with money than wallets without money. But certainly both elements are at play.
Yep, but also many schools in the US don't even have the basics AND they're getting all of that stuff dumped on them. Teachers are quitting at alarming rates since the pandemic. This is not being treated remotely like the emergency it is, and 10 years from now we're really going to feel it.
Ask HN: Are you sick of throw away Bluetooth head/earphones?
Because I'm. No matter at what price point you purchase - These headphones or any battery operated gadgets are meant to be thrown away.

Imagine a fully working headphone with diaphragm and electronics perfectly fine but you have to throw the whole thing because it won't last minute because of an aging battery.

And the impact of this wasteful greedy manufacturing on climate change cannot be overstated.

And I don't know why all the hollow climate change talk is so shallow on action and regulations?

What can be done about it?
Also, any headphones that let you replace batteries?

I don't need extensive water proofing. Just give me back old reliable 3.5mm jack
"In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!"

It seems unfortunate that opening a PR requires having npm installed.
How confident are we Telesign will never ever be the victim of a data breach?
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https://archive.is/yKOmK
Take Nevada as an example.

Entry Level Teacher salary in Nevada is $43,316 as of June 26, 2023, but the range typically falls between $36,172 and $52,827.

Imagine living on 36k per year before taxes. Imagine making that much, being not only in charge of controlling a minimum of 30 kids per year, but also being expected and required to educate those children all while spending (on average) 700$ per year of _your own money_ on classroom supplies. Yes, that's real. That's the new average amount teachers spend out of pocket on classroom supplies because education funding is so abysmal in the US.

Contrast that with an average starting salary of 86k as you suggest. That would be a materially huge jump and change in the financial support we give to teachers, along with an acknowledgment of how important their jobs are. As a web developer in my mid-20s, I make far more than any single person working in my high school. Of course, I took the tech route and that's highly valued in society, but I'm only here because of those teachers taking an interest in me in high school. To me, that just doesn't make any sense.
Let’s go go go!
Says it supports Metal 2+

https://github.com/facebook/igl
This is wonderful, and I say that as someone who did REALLY WELL in high-school. Which is to say, I have no regrets about any of my schooling (I went on to complete law school) -- but if I'd thought about things more in this way, it would have better mentally prepared me for thinking about AFTER that.
At least you could close your account.

My twitter account is banned. Not sure why as I've never used it. I can neither activate it or delete it, or contact support, as they all require a working account.

Their entire system is falling apart, but maybe this one is intentional.
I am not an Apple fan at all, and after using a lot of previous generation Intel Macbook Pros at work, I found no significant gains in terms of usability over Windows laptops at all. In fact, I hated the way those Intel macs were always constantly heating up and making noise; the touchpad and keyboard were great but the heat and noise were deal-killers for me all the way. One maxed-out Macbook Pro even died from the constant overheating and CPU fan cycling.

I would say Apple Silicon was the only game changer in the Macbook line, without which I wouldn't have bought one for myself at all. It provides such a pleasant experience in terms of eliminating heat/noise along with offering ridiculous battery life.
Yup. Perfect evidence of living in fantasy land.

Scaling cities is asymptotic. You get to a point beyond which it is --outside of fantasy land-- as close to impossible as you are going to get.

Brother, we can't even build a fucking high speed train in California and you are talking about ripping-up cities to increase density.

We can't generate enough power to support the electrification of transportation, and you are saying things like "it's not even hard".

Have you ever built anything? I have. Multiple times. Let me tell you, it isn't easy. It's hard, very hard. And it easily goes exponentially expensive. Case in point, the California High Speed train --again.

The other issue often ignored in fantasy-land is this virtual-reality mentality that you can click and mouse and rebuild entire cities and neighborhoods. Well, reality isn't a video game. Things don't work that way. The relative cost of any construction today has reached astronomical levels. There isn't enough revenue to take a city of non-trivial scale and, say, double the infrastructure. Like I said, things are asymptotic. I know that's hard to understand when looking at reality as if it were a video game fantasy. Well, it isn't. Sorry.

No, what you are thinking is firmly planted in fantasy land. You might not realize it now. Give it a few decades and more experience and you might understand.

Why do I say "more experience"? Because nobody --nobody-- who truly understands construction would say the things you are saying. Only those observing from the outside think this way.

Go try to build something in a city like Los Angeles and see how much fun it is. And by that I mean, something where you need new sewers, electricity, water, roads, schools.

In my town they built a new high school at a completely new location (vacant lot, unused land, etc.).

It took THIRTHY FIVE YEARS. And they still made a mess of it. And you think densifying a city is "not even hard"? Please.
In fact I've been using Google Bard more and more because of exactly this. At least Bard doesn't ever block me and its responses are on par with GPT-3.5. Probably not as good as GPT-4 but reliability is important too.
The novelty is wearing off.
Because I'm an adult who knows how to weigh all the pros and cons of a situation and make decisions based on the sum of that reasoning rather than the emotion raised by one pain point. (My own or someone else's.)
For better or worse, these graphics API shots are not the place to show cool shaders. SIGGRAPH papers are usually the same dry, boring test scenes. It's just the culture of it.
The only way to stop them I can forsee is them losing expensive lawsuits where the outcome is they have to ask your permission first, along with a clearing house to find out where all of them are so you can check and tell them no - of course they'll try to set it up legally so that if you use your credit card it will indicate default approval or something.
There are reasons to doubt anyone from Tesla was seconded to Twitter, unless Twitter paid (lol) Tesla, a publicly traded corp where Elon is an officer and fiduciary, fair value for an insanely valuable resource. If they didn't that would be some egregious self-dealing.
I agree the used vehicle market is robust but the rest of your comment communicates extreme negativity. Will leave it at that.
it's getting them to eat less while not crashing the metabolism so that their "calories out" is constantly shifting downwards too.

and forcing people to exercise just gives them ravenous insatiable hunger. if they're not aware of this they'll reach for the carbs, ruining all their work.
Ahh I looked a few times for a way to submit but didn't find this, thanks!
ChatGPT isn't as useful as it was either. Its getting neutered bit by bit.
In the US that sounds roughly consistent with part of the probate process, which is the way that estates are closed out.

More or less you publish a letter in a journal of record saying legal boilerplate to the effect of 'so and so has died, if they owed you money now is the time to bring it up'. Any claims on the estate not brought up timely will more or less be extinguished, the estate is eventually closed, and life goes on.
We need ICE+ hybrid divisions.
"I do not think this web designer would be helping anyone sin" This seems to be where we differ.

The designer/cake maker/etc is implicitly supporting if one of their products has the message in support of it.

When Target sells pro-trans shirts? The company is implicitly supportive of it - just like a cake shop would be implicitly supportive of Nazi's if they baked a birthday cake with "Happy Birthday Hitler KKK Forever". Someone else could take those shirts from target or the cake and put that directly with the company logo and the company receipt and the company selling it.

"The Pope says it's not for us to judge, and I agree" but you can say "I'm not making you a blue/blue cake" while also saying "Live your life the way you want. I'm not judging you - that's Gods place. But I'm also not making something in support of something I think is wrong. I love you but I can't support your actions."

"I am a Marine" Ooh-Rah Brother. 2000-2005 and two trips to Iraq. Thank God I was in the back - the dirty POG I am - and I didn't have to actively do anything PTSD inducing.

With that said? Asking for forgiveness means you admit those things were wrong and living Christ-like means that you actively stop doing those things and live the example. I can't judge you for being a "baby killer", a prostitute, an alcoholic, a drug addict, etc (as a Marine? You're probably all of the above /snicker)... but I can say it's wrong and that I won't take actions that endorse your decisions.

I think our disagreement comes from the definition of tolerant - I can tolerate your bad decisions, love you and still tell you that you're wrong. I can accept that it's not my place to judge - but it is my place to live a Christ like example which is accepting that I'm a sinner and you're a sinner. God judges you and I don't... but that doesn't mean I have to implicitly or explicitly support your decisions.

And for this discussion? In America where Religion is a protected class... that means we can't force someone to do something against their religion. We have to accommodate those who want Sunday off. Saturday off. We have to accommodate those who want to wear head gear.

We also have to accommodate those who own companies and don't want their brands associated with something their religion says is harram.
It can't be perfect without something like sending drones all around to addresses, but theory it's well suited to an LLM to be better and faster than a human could do it - there's various unstructured chatter and news articles and such out there online around businesses closing, opening, etc.

But it's not JUST an LLM problem: it's also a search problem and a connection-making-problem ("if a new restaurant opened at that address, the old one is probably closed").

And then even if there was a ChatGPT browsing plugin that excelled at scraping all of the relevant up-to-date info off the internet, you'd still need some layers in between that and today's context-window limits.

As more stuff changes in the real world since the training corpus for today's publicly-exposed OpenAI models, we'll probably see some further disillusionment from people who thought there was a bit more magic there than there was. But "LLMs, but with more up to date info" isn't an impossible problem with today's tech (even if you only fake it with multiple agents, multiple steps, batch jobs behind the scenes, etc), it's just not a trivial one.
Hilariously inaccurate summaries are easily generated.

https://asknews.demo.vectara.com/?query=Who+was+Johann+Gottl...
Even assuming your study is true, the argument against irreversibly treating children is still a reasonable position and not the shallowly insulting straw man argument you present as the only option.
Modular visual question answering via code generation
It was not my intention to suggest anyone is lying and I am not assuming that there is some kind of 'master plan' in operation. Best of luck with it.
Neat! I like the syntax from what I've read so far.

I'm aware of Rust and Zig and Nim and wish I had more time to try these out and see what's going on.

Alternatives to C/C++, especially in the embedded systems space, have some real potential.
I'm 48. I don't think age has anything to do with knowing the context behind this. From the other explanations, you apparently had to follow a very specific subculture dedicated to a specific individual. I did not, rather the opposite. I tried to read his Ruby book when it came out and I simply couldn't. No offense to the vast army of folks who enjoyed it -- I think we're all allowed to like what we like.

There's something wrong with the way my brain is wired. I am by accounts an intelligent, capable, successful person, but I am completely unable to "read" comic books. I might as well be staring at a foreign language. When I'm trying to learn a technical topic, I thrive on dry reference material. Put a cartoon in and it's like running into a brick wall.

I don't know where I was going there except I feel like any time this comes up, I have to over-explain myself for not liking that book, because everybody loves that book and I will be burned at the stake for not regarding it as the greatest programming book ever written. It's just my personal experience, and I accept that I'm totally wrong about it, ok? Anyway, shorter version is that I had such a visceral reaction, any time I see "why_" mentioned, my reading comprehension reverts to that of a toddler.

If that's all irrelevant and the point you were making was more like "kids today don't know what PCL is", I am very familiar with PCL and print spoolers, but detached from any context that would suggest printers, they failed to take on any semantic value.
You’re not going to believe me, but: you can literally just charge an electric car with a 120V outlet.

Generation capacity is also not a problem. The US used to double electricity generation every decade for like three or four decades in a row in the middle of the 20th century. A single doubling would be more than enough to power all electric cars, and there is no way we are going to switch all of them over to electric immediately. It would take 10 years from today if literally not a single new gasoline vehicle was sold in the US and EVs magically boosted production today to compensate. Oh even incredibly optimistically, you’re talking about two decades to transition which is much more time than needed to produce enough electricity. This is not at all the showstopper that folks on the internet claim it is with even a cursory look at historical data.

In fact, electric companies need the additional demand to help justify and pay for building out new clean electricity production. The extra electric demand is essential for preventing a cost spiral as we transition to clean electricity. But again, that is sort of the opposite of what every commentator on the Internet says.
I was using ChatGPT this week for help with a back injury I suddenly sustained. Because I don't have insurance I was looking for options as to what I should do and what it'd cost and where to go etc.

I did get a suggestion that I followed up on for an in person visit.

But my big beef with it was that it kept adding disclaimers: "I am not a doctor", "My current knowledge is up to September 2021, insurance and hospital info may be out of date", "<blah> <blah> but remember, I am not a doctor and it is important to consult a medical professional".

I understand the disclaimers from a legal standpoint but boy is it tiresome when I'm asking back and forth questions and each answer contains some element of it.