skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>According to his family's lawyers, Merzouk did not have a criminal record,[19] but he was "known to the police, particularly for resisting arrest", and had been charged with resisting the previous weekend[20] and five times since 2021. His judicial file included 15 recorded incidents, including use of false license plates, driving without insurance, and for the sale and consumption of drugs.

In no way am I saying he deserved to be shot, please understand that.

But 15 incidents with the cops? At 17? Honestly France has to take a look at their punishment scale surely? I'm assuming him being under 18 is what led to it reaching 15 incidents without serious jail time. But how on Earth does false plates, no insurance, and selling drugs not earn you at least some jail time?
* agreed on students summer vacation

* My own use has lessened but steadied, eg, writing

* Coming: A dog-fooding goal for our louie.ai team is to eliminate most of our internal data scientist and SE/SA use of ChatGPT by having more purpose-specific and environment-aware experiences (ex: DB schema), and I expect that to be happening in most consumer and business apps. So be interesting to compare chat GPT the app to open AI the API as genAI continues to happen everywhere.
Yeah lets not forget the Poles cracked one version of the enigma machines first.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/20/the-pole-who...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

However Govt's appear to not hold themselves accountable to the same standards of the legislation they invent, nor the Police nor the Crown Prosecution Service so besides not being had up before a court, they often at best just issue an apology for their Joint Enterprise actions, and there are a couple of sayings that go "talk is cheap" and "business as usual"!

The UK Law of Joint Enterprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwCmwpvMI
Twitter threatens to sue new rival, Threads, claiming Meta stole trade secrets
Someone already used India as an example.

With millions of people living in conditions where even safe drinkable water is not something you are guaranteed to get - 250$/year equivalent seems wild.
The automation in bulestack and sorts are pretty great for time saving and farming rewards in Android games. It helps to skip the grinding and let u play the interesting bit. Not sure if google supports that
100%

He opened up the arena.
Maybe controversial, but I think code generation is fine. It work well enough in Go or C#.
Totally agree with that, but I don't think regret is warranted. The power of "technical debt" is that it was actually catchy enough to get a foothold with the MBAs and pointy hairs. That alone is a victory. Any sufficiently good idea with a catchy meme is subject to cargo culting and abuse. We need look no further than The Agile Manifesto to see how thoroughly any well-summarized wisdom, drawn from a well of deep expertise, lovingly word-smithed with the utmost clarity, can be abused and twisted into a hideous monstrosity that is, in fact, the complete opposite of the original intent.
My guess is that the degradation of JSON capability happened recently? The gpt-4 API switched over to gpt-4-0613 (the function calling version) on June 27. And given the performance increase for ChatGPT Plus at the end of May, my guess is they started testing the new model (which is much faster) on web users around then. In my testing [1], the new version is:

a. Worse at general code-like tasks without using functions

b. Equivalent or better at code-like tasks if you use the function API

c. Much faster than the older model either way.

I'd guess it's cheaper to run, too, and that they use the presence of a function in the API signature to weight their mixture of experts differently (and cull some experts?). The degradation in general purpose coding tasks is pretty obvious and repeatable (try the same prompts in the Playground with the -0314 model vs the -0613!), but it does seem like you can regain that lost capability with the new function call API, and it's faster. The tradeoff is that you only regain the capability when it calls functions; you can't really have a mix of prose-and-code in the same response as easily, or at least not with the same quality.

1: https://twitter.com/reissbaker/status/1671361372092010497
WebGPU will take ages and ages to be fully usable across all platforms (eg old androids)
Just when you think you've seen all the beers. Damn.

Also reminds me of when Chevy Chase was funny.
Here's a collection of front ends: https://github.com/billmei/every-chatgpt-gui
> If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me.

Yeah, it doesn't seem OK to me. The power differential is such that there's no way for a company to ask that of employees without the employees feeling like they have to make the review positive, or less negative than they otherwise might have. So I consider such reviews highly unreliable. That companies do this sort of thing is one of the reasons why I think reviews are pretty close to worthless.
The question here isn't whether Threads will corrupt and destroy the Fediverse, the question is why does Threads exist? To corrupt and destroy the Fediverse is a nonsense answer. Why would Meta care about corrupting and destroying the Fediverse, which is extremely tiny compared to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook?

You mentioned Fediverse support as somehow protecting Threads from antitrust regulators (a dubious notion itself), but there wouldn't be any need to protect Threads from antitrust regulators if threads didn't exist! What exactly is the raison d'être of Threads, if not to replace Twitter?

I know you love to bash Mastodon, but it's a red herring to this discussion.

The bare-bones launch of Threads seems to reveal Meta's priorities: the algorithmic feed, and the promotion of brands and influencers.
META's Threads is Rate Limiting Users
I’m not an expert or anything but I sincerely feel like this is barking up the wrong tree.

To anyone who works on typescript/JavaScript outside the context of a web browser, you DO NOT matter as far as I am concerned. If I was in control of JavaScript/typescript, I’d give zero attention to your demands. You are not my top priority. Go away.

I feel like we are losing focus here. Should JavaScript be an all purpose language? Yes. Should we focus on making a web browser context, also yes.

The reason I led with this is that I think it is up to the JavaScript folks and the web browser vendors to include support for this before typescript can change what it emits. Ideally, I’d say wait a couple of years after browser vendors include support to implement this in typescript.
Q: can you summarize amazon bedrock in 2 sentences

A: Amazon Bedrock is a programming example that uses the AWS SDK for Java 2.x to work with Amazon EC2. It provides examples and code snippets for programming tasks related to Amazon EC2 using the AWS SDK for Java 2.x.
Interesting.

I do work on my windows machine, so doing anything illegal just gives me the opportunity to lose 1000x more money than if I just upgraded legally.
> Yes, don't we all hate it when people come into our job and tell us how to do it?

Teachers apparently need to be told, because they spend YEARS teaching kids how to do arithmetic on paper instead of handing out calculators and focusing on high-level mathematical modeling instead. There are lots of such insanities in the curriculum, not to mention loads of propaganda (not a US citizen, but AFAIK there is a lot of propaganda in US schools too).
>no AI summary will get you the same experience

Yes, but other than being conditioned to believe the experience of reading is superior, why are we striving for that experience?

Doing the square root of 147 by hand is a more educational experience than using a calculator, but I can understand the concept of a square root without having to factorize 147 (the same cannot be said of my pre-calculator ancestors).

It also saves me from having to remember the decimal representation of sqrt3.
This is meaningless if it's not a count of paid GPT-4 users.
> so if you use the API versions, nothing has likely changed

I doubt that. I don't recall them actually clearly and precisely saying they aren't changing the 'gpt-4' model - i.e. the model you're getting when specifying 'gpt-4' in an API call. That one direct tweet I recall, which I think you're referring to, could be read more narrowly as saying the pinned versions didn't change.

That is, if you issue calls against 'gpt-4-0314', then indeed nothing changed since its release. But with calls against 'gpt-4', anything goes.

This would be consistent with their documentation and overall deployment model: the whole reason behind the split between versioned (e.g. 'gpt-4-0314', 'gpt-4-0613') and unversioned models (e.g. 'gpt-4') was so that you could have both stable base and a changing tip. If that tweet is to be read as saying 'gpt-4' didn't change since release, then the whole thing with versioning is kind of redundant.
Seems like a silly reason to cancel if you otherwise like the product.
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Why does typescript enum really suck?
were you going to call him "alan" or "turing"?
Tbh, cutting corners to land new revenue, if it's sufficiently big, sounds like the prime reason to take on tech debt. It's arguably just like a loan to make a new factory line to expand production for new sales or whatever.

For sure, if it's a small client or far from a sure thing, then yeah it's bad. Like anything, a judgement call about where the cost benefit ratio lies.
> Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation in the 1800s.

Yes, that's the point they're trying to make. Malaria doesn't spontaneously generate either.
There is one important reason you have missed completely, students are going on vacation.
Hopefully this stimulates further research into cocodriles' blood. They already have something similar to what DARPA is looking for, if I recall correctly.
This is much needed, looking forward to using it
To be fair, the person that the parent is responding to is also giving extremely broad strokes. On its face listing out a set of really big barriers followed by “but they have advantages too!” can easily be seen to me like the “have you tried yoga” of being disadvantaged.

Like I can imagine a whole set of specific examples where “there are also advantages” would be incredibly offensive to say so handwavily. If someone tried to tell a teenager their experience with being sexually abused as a prepubescent child “has advantages” I would promptly try to remove that person from being near that or any other child for example.
An analogy.

In a dorm the week before finals, 90% of the students are urgently trying to prepare for finals.

10% are drunk and or high and playing frisbee in the halls 24 hours a day.

From friends who have taught high school in poor neighborhoods the situation as similar, only more violent.
For comparison, Americans spend about $560B/year on fuel.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/data-gas-inflat...
> Charter schools are the saving grace to the public schools hijacked by the teachers union and bloated administrations.

I''d break this into two statements with "public schools" being part of both:

1. Charter schools are the saving grace to the public schools because they are not mandated to serve every student and can therefore siphon off failing or behaviorally challenged students back to the public system. Find me a charter system serving special needs and at-risk students better than the public system at the scale of a public system, and I'll change my mind.

2. Public schools have been hijacked by the teachers union and bloated administrations because their funding structures are controlled by politics and culture wars instead of targeted research and practice on what specific kids need. I'm not a fan of teachers unions or bureaucracy, but who else takes the heat for teachers who are under-resourced, under-paid, and over-worked?

> Fix K-12 schools (no, more money on bloated administrations is not the answer), and the need for affirmative action goes away.

100% agree on the affirmative action part, but to fix K-12 schools you need new or other institutions to pick up slack on supporting students. The reason that "Deputy Assistant Senior Manager of Cognitive and Emotional Development" exist is because the law is pretty clear about how a school district is responsible for a student with XYZ cognitive and emotional developmental challenges. To get rid of that administrator, you also need to transfer (operationally and legislatively) ownership of that responsibility.
> I would not think that most are leaving because they are simply not learning anything new and feel like they are done where they currently are.

This is why I've left 90% of the jobs I've left. In none of those cases was my leaving a reflection of anything bad about the company.
ReasonML suffered tremendously when the community split and went off to do ReScript. I don't think either have recovered the original luster.
Aren't they using RLHF? The feedback from humans might not always be the ~right~ feedback. Couldn't that possibly degrade the quality of its responses?
Yup - I'd say this feels about right.

The commercial & api based models are still more capable general purpose tools. But the current open tooling can do some nifty stuff, and the community around it is moving at a breakneck speed still.

In some areas, it's acceptably good. In some areas it's not. But it's getting better really fast.
I was going to link to this as it immediately rang similar in my mind!
So, nothing to do with the actual DNS, but instead with the domain name registrar.
You’re talking about an industry that could be responsible for a 5-10% GDP boost, freeing up millions for non-driving labor.

The revenues to the city where those companies are based would be in the billions.
Modern TS code is hard for me to read and reason, and I use Rust, Haskell, C++. Way too complex for my brain
I don't understand this comment at all. I mostly work on client-side front-end and am absolutely desperate for better type generation. Zod is making me want to jump out a window right now.
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Agreed! Thanks for sharing.
Sure, let me grab the links from my bookmarks.

Adding below as I go:

“What if SF never pulls out of its Doom Loop?” - https://www.ft.com/content/71d8013d-9d94-441e-b2d1-3039c0439...
-This one brought the simmering debate to the fore and put pressure on officials, particularly Mayor London Breed and District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston

-Preston begins Twitter push against self-driving cars.

-“New letter from CA state accuses SF officials of data manipulation.

In the 4 @Waymo traffic collisions SF cited to prove driverless cars are less safe, 3 were the Waymos being rear-ended and 1 didn't even involve any cars touching, CA says.”
https://twitter.com/annatonger/status/1673403230804385813

June 29, 2023 California PUC original letter here: https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M512/K...

“A viral video of a 'reckless' robotaxi caused an uproar in San Francisco. Police say the internet got it wrong.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna89329
There are as many different "research workflows" as there are researchers.

I'm a researcher and don't use notebooks for all the reasons you outlined and more. I have my own approach to dealing with reproducibility which is low tech and works for me and my collaborators.

My comment is meant to point out that there are many researchers who view all of the problems you describe as unimportant and not worth spending time on.
I believe absorption. It's often added to turmeric suppliments [0].

From nutritionfacts.org: "How Do Turmeric and Black Pepper Work Together?" [1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019U8KR4G

[1] https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/why-pepper-boosts-turmeric-b...
The world is changing, and children should change with it. Learn and understand technology, and the benefits of where modern machine learning is taking us.

But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'?
Students are exempt from social security. Yes they pay income taxes, but not FICA.
So many ads on the home page.

'turn it off'

I did. But its not intuitive, its some settings button that is semi-transparent. I literally had to google/bing it.

The inital setup was awful.

Then it opening all my links in edge was not okay. I'm signed in on firefox, I don't want things opening in edge.

I can't remember, I gave up after the whole BingGPT thing was a let down.
I’m curious, how do y’all keep track of performance and reliability?

I ask, because I think it’s going to be a big challenge, so I built a service to record feedback / acceptance data: https://modelgymai.com/

If you think it can help, I’d love if you’d try it out and let me know if it helps.
I like HTML. Wait, what are we talking about?
Your entire argument is that you personally don't like Ruby nor the ways of the Ruby community combined with a bunch of unsubstantiated assertions. There's nothing else there. What else should they address besides 'your person'
So what you're saying is the organizers are the modern equivalent to Luddites, and the campaign to smear them the same way is in full force. Got it.
So you are advocating for the vast majority of the internet population to stop using online banking.

Let's flip the omelette: no one forces banks to do business online; if a bank can't build secure online banking, they can default to checkbooks and cash. They have the means and motive to build solutions that are actually secure and usable, so they should bear the burden of dealing with fraud when their solutions fail to be secure.
An interesting story/poem, I'm sure a cellular biologist would be able to interpret it a lot more fully than me.

To me the most significant thing was just being directed to this website.

I found this interview really engaging. The artist really seeks to avoid classification, and tries to convey that the world is not a one phrase meme:

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/wild-plants-alaa-abu...

I often told my son, when he was small and learning words, that a thing becomes invisible once we know a word for it. We just push that mental button and never look directly at the thing ever again. I get the feeling the artist being interviewed here is expresing that same idea...
This sort of delusion/pretense isn't a good sign.
>Kernel bugs are generally hard to exploit remotely and typically have to be chained with other exploits.

This is why its so valuable though.
The thing I find weird about Erlang's design is that actor mailboxes have no backpressure mechanism, which seems like a pretty big footgun. Go channels have their own quirks, but requiring them to be bounded was a good design choice.
The article doesn't make it clear, but I doubt "users" includes consumers of the API (and the second-order users of the apps using the API).

It seems not only reasonable but expected to see the general user count fall off in favor of people building more specialized alternatives that solve XYZ problem better. ChatGPT (the B2C SaaS) might have a lower user count, but ChatGPT (the model) and GPT (the technology) seem as strong as ever, if not stronger. Literally every service I use is integrating some kind of GPT-based feature that seems to work at least as well as trying to ask those domain-specific questions to ChatGPT, minus the external dependency.
I left Evernote long ago, before I had much invested in it. One day it blurred all my notes in Windows. I don't know how else to describe it. Every letter in every note was unbearably fuzzy. Nothing I did helped, and Evernote support gave up on it.

I didn't really migrate to anything. I started keeping keeping my web clippings in Pocket, and text in a big old text file called "Brain." Eventually I moved to Tiddlywiki for a month or two, then Obsidian, where I am now. I have (and still do) use Git to backup my notes, which works pretty well, and got in on early-bird pricing on Sync to make it even easier.
Tiny11 is a thing but I've no experience with it. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tiny11
This is obviously not representative. The survey data may be true but it doesn't describe the industry, only the rehab patients. Article is clickbait BS.

"Along with controlled substances, heavy alcohol use was reported by tech executives. Half of APN's respondents self-identified as heavy drinkers, or those that consume between three and seven alcoholic drinks a day. 51% of respondents report smoking cigarettes or nicotine vapes within the last three months."

In reality, tech execs generally don't smoke. Or vape. Preposterous.

A "random" group of alcoholics in rehab in Colorado however, sure, I buy that half of them smoke or vape.
> what openai allows is for the common people to fight back

How so?
What's the point of following any of these people? Does it actually make you money?
Hi, author of the post here - thanks for chiming in! Was hoping to hear from someone who had worked in or gone to a school like this. This part of the essay was admittedly the most guesswork-heavy; I included it because that seemed better than the alternative of not mentioning economic disparities at all, or of telling kids at poor schools they're resigned to doom.

I'm guessing you're a teacher? If so, I'd be curious to hear more about your experience and thoughts on what strategies work best for teenagers in economically/socially/geographically disadvantaged situations. Do you follow the post-school life trajectories of any former students? Do any manage to achieve upward mobility (this could look like the "homeless to Harvard" human interest story you hear every year, but it could also look like someone who goes from a childhood of abuse or abject poverty to a relatively stable blue-collar job and is safer and happier as an adult than as a child)? What advice would you give to a fourteen-year-old student?

This isn't to say that there aren't massive obstacles in their way (especially for the ones who have to devote all their time to securing basic needs like food/shelter/sleep), or that their circumstances are their fault, or that systemic change wouldn't be a more powerful lever. What I'm wondering is, assuming you're a kid in this situation and you don't have a hand on the lever of institutional power, is there anything you can do beyond the standard "stay in school" advice to improve your circumstances, even if the improvement is just from "very bad" to "kind of bad"?

> People who don't come from privileged backgrounds also cannot see themselves doing a lot of the careers related to this guide.

What careers do the students you know typically aspire to? Or are they usually resigned to the prospect of an unfulfilling job?
If you or some future buyer want to keep it for 20 years and want to run your own hardware to deal with it you will probably end up sourcing at least 2 single board computers for around $160 and paying $72x20 adjusted up for inflation or 1440-2160. You will spend at least 30 minutes picking out a machine and some number of hours over the years managing each machine.

This is of course assuming it doesn't actually stop working or some aspect of the process isn't broken.

All this so you can run a docker container with postgres instead of pushing an image to an endpoint on the local network. It's both bad and unimpressive engineering.

Furthermore if it did need central management for business purpose THAT would be something that consumes the same simple process for showing something on the screen.

<COMPLEX SOFTWARE> => posts image => shows image

This would trivially allow you to build on the simple process if that is all you need. It's not so much bad engineering as gross engineering its engineered to be complicated to they can insert themselves into the process to stick their hand in your wallet.