skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is the first time you've interacted with a buyer/seller, absolutely you'd need clarification. But if they've been dealing together for years and the farmer has previously responded--and delivered--on a text message contract, it's a different story.

I standby my assertion that the farmer simply forgot about this exchange and was shocked to get a bill for the replacement value of the contract when he didn't show up with it. This amount of flax is likely grown on about a quarter section in Saskatchewan, or 160 acres. The average grain farm size is almost 1,800 acres, so this size would be less than 10% of the total harvested area, and many farms are double and triple that size. Easy to forget about six months after the text exchange.
I mostly agree, but there's part that you're missing. Ease is a critical issue, but the capacity to record was substantially different back then too, and thus the validity of what was being shared. There's a big difference in someone claiming you said something vs someone having a recording of it. 20 years ago everyone wasn't walking around with a camera and microphone in their pocket. It is not only the ease in sharing and identifying, but even the base capacity to perform the action in the first place. If you were being recorded on video in the past, you'd likely notice the bulky camcorder mounted on some guy's shoulder. (not even mentioning that resolution was very different and depth of field is not a negligible).

20 years ago you did not have a reasonable expectation to be recorded in the public physical space. This is contingent upon the probability of someone being able to perform an action, and even more so without you being aware of said action being performed. That wasn't that long ago...
GitHub: Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view
Obsidian user as well.

Self-hosted LiveSync extension works wonders after you tune it a bit.
Well this about sums up Sega's situation.
I haven't explored the API yet, but their interface for GPT-4 has been getting increasingly worse over the past month.

Things that GPT-4 would easily, and correctly, reason through in April/May it just doesn't do any longer.
It depends. If you are a recognizable figure who people with ill intent are trying to find, then public knowledge of where and when you walk your dog is a big problem.

On the other hand, if there’s no way to connect a person to a license plate number without access to the DMV database, then that is not obviously an issue.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]
See also:
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threat...
I get what you're saying but people don't really care. The typical/average person does not know anything about derivatives, backpropagation, or probabilities so to them it all seems like magic and they anthropomorphize what they're seeing as something intelligent.

Some folks that know how this stuff works and do a good job of explaining the limitations are Melanie Mitchel and Francois Chollet. Both have extensive experience in the field and have also written books on AI.

You can spend your time trying to explain to every random person that computers can't think but they're not gonna understand what you're saying because to them it seems like a large enough Markov chain is actually thinking.
What I don’t understand is why is an API needed to create embeddings. Isn’t this something that could be done locally?
Very interesting! Thank you for the idea. I will try to figure out how to do that
Curious, do you have a source for this?

Are PFAS primarily concentrated in the bloodstream?
The developer must be fundamentally responsible for all aspects of the final delivered solution. Diffusion of responsibility will otherwise tend to lead the project towards a non-ideal user experience. If UI design is "someone else's problem", I might be tempted to take certain shortcuts at code time (e.g. assuming there is only 1 view of the data model - how could I know? Not my problem area).

Not saying you can't employ a UI designer who does this full-time, but the final software product and the entire experience around it is still the developer's full responsibility. With this in mind, perhaps we'd like the developers to be more involved with UI design meetings?

All of this gets me back to the front-end/back-end meme that seems to have emerged over the last decade. Same sort of problem. All you do with this "not my problem" game is make your own life harder the next iteration.

So to be clear - I am not saying you have to do the whole product yourself, but I am saying that you need to care enough about it or it's going to turn out like shit. Writing software that people use is still decidedly an art form. Imagine paying to go to an art gallery filled with pieces created by artists who absolutely hate to make art.
I had to double check that OpenGL 4.6 (released in 2017) really still is the latest version.
The Canadian government thought they could just force these companies to subsidize their failing news industry, and instead, when the outcome is "alright, fine, you win, we won't pay you in order to make you relevant, we won't 'profit' off of your news any longer, have fun in the dumpster" they're "blocking news."

There's nothing unreasonable or irresponsible about this decision at all, what's unreasonable is passing a law trying to squeeze money out of the only places in the world left that still make you relevant and then getting mad when they don't want to be abused.
The name immediately looked like "engineer club" to me. But it refused to take my password, and not in a fun way like that password game the other day
Good point. How about splitting the password into chunks, then use a key streching algorthim on each chunk with difficulty tuned to be easier based off the total amount of chunks, and concatenating them.
the existing 3.5turbo is what you would call a "chat" model.

The difference between them is that the chat models are much more... chatty - they're trained to act like they're in a conversation with you. The chat models generally say things "Sure, I can do that for you!", and "No problem! Here is". The conversation style is generally more inconsistent in it's style. It can be difficult to make it only return the result you want, and occasionally it'll keep talking anyway. It'll also talk in first person more, and a few things like that.

So if you're using it as an API for things like summarization, extracting the subject of a sentence, code editing, etc, then the chat model can be super annoying to work with.
France to Allow Police to Spy on People Through Phone Cameras
A more prosaic explanation of the birthday cake text is that the transformers architecture result in a system which returns learned information transformed, mapped according various context tokens. The system learns "X being the basis of civilization" type arguments and learns maps of those arguments according to various things including "from Y's point of view".

One thing that I've noticed that ChatGPT can't do, not at all, is "write a show rather than tell paragraph". For example, writing a paragraph describing a man walking down the street in such way that some qualities (old, tired, etc) are evident without being directly stated (For example: "He stepped slowly and carefully unto the street, using his cane to steady himself" etc). Because the thing is ultimately transforming language. Oppositely, that these system can still do a lot is naturally an indication that a lot of what's being demonstrated are "just" structures in language - though if the structures are quite, the "just" part is quite relative.
I really like the simple UI and focus on projects/blogs. Cool site!

I think I found a bug, though - it seems like when I save on the "social media" page, it blows away data from the others. I was able to do this twice and it cleared out my name, location, and bio. Hope that helps!
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This number of connections on any of the paid plans should be no issue.
> the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter

I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.

If you follow NFL and NBA news you'll know these names but for anybody that doesn't, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.

What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.

Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter's expiration date is rapidly approaching.
But should != Must.
I define "malware" to mean software that intentionally subverts the desires of the owner of the computer (unintentional subversion is a bug or a miscommunication).

Apple arbitrarily restricts you from using your applications (obsidian) to read and write your data in a way that you can sync, to no fault of its own, your own, or the syncing service.

I strongly encourage you to try associating this kind of behavior with an unfamiliar organization as a mental exercise. How would you feel about that? Someone else restricting your access to your computer such that you cannot use your applications how you want, through no technical fault of their own? I bet that would see that as a problem you would want to fix right away.
Bringing up an example of something that your disfavored party does, is not a counter argument to the idea that the government pressured companies.

In fact it actually proves the point, you just also thing the other party infringed on people's rights as well.
What's the answer? It doesn't play audio for me.
Show HN: GPT Riddle – AI vs. Human Game
I really love this concept. While I do get better results from GPT-4 for AWS questions right now, AI as the "interpreter" for documentation works really well.
Ironically I believe you may be missing the true point you're making - the reason why there's no parking for commercial vehicles who need to be in that area, is that the streets are absolutely just chock full of various individuals' private property - street parked cars. If you got rid of those street parking spots for individuals, (IE, 'cars are bad make things harder for cars') there would be plenty of space for commercial vehicles to do their jobs, and the problem we're discussing would be solved.

A great solution to this sort of thing is common in the rest of the world, pedestrian-first streets that are permeable to vehicular traffic, offer unstructured temporary parking for necessary uses but does not offer structured overnight street parking for individuals and have a ~15mph limit. Perfect for getting the plumber's van to the front door of properties on such a street.

Here's a random example in Innsbruck, Austria, note how much room there is to park contractor vans in front of the various adjacent buildings: https://maps.app.goo.gl/m2e7AmWFr8hqw9BC9?g_st=ic

Now, that street is at the maximalist end of this idea, on most NYC streets you could delete maybe 25% of the street parking for individuals and there'd be plenty of room for plumbers. Also for garbage collection units (to address the rat problem), bicycle parking, al fresco dining, etc.

The urbanist philosophy you are denigrating isn't that cars are 'bad.' The idea is that they're fine in many contexts, they're just wildly inefficient when being used by too many individual persons in a dense urban environment, such as most of NYC.

I would also add along these lines - the changes you perceive as purely punitive to drivers probably make life better for everyone in the city, with a cost to only (some) drivers. Something to think about.
It's the continued alignment with fine-tuning that's degrading its responses.

You can apparently have it be nice or smart, but not both.
We're very inclusive haha

Truth is, I had to get creative otherwise the site would've looked bland.
> ....former Twitter employees....continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone admit to major organizational failings like that. I haven't worked for a company in at least 15 years where every single bit of access I had wasn't revoked within minutes.

When I last changed jobs in 2021 I watched the Outlook app on my phone. My boss walked me out of the building at 1:00pm, took my keycard, and the app access was revoked at 1:07pm.
On the other hand, it would not be so dishonest to characterize an unremovable app that tracked your location 24/7 as an app that tracked your location 24/7 "for abusive partners." (Because, guess what they end up being used for.)
This is an excellent counter-example.

Taking a strong subset of the truth may be factually correct but doesn't stand up to the standard of "the truth".

Likely because the headline implies intent (or expects its audience to assume intent), where it doesn't appear any intent exists.
Oh, great! Super valuable to go "back to the source" and learn how exactly the Rust docs came about. I don't know why I never thought to just ask you, hah. Thanks for sharing.
My main use case for evernote was for storing recipes for cooking -- the web capture archiving on mobile or desktop was quite nice.

Whats a good alternative for this? Apple notes?

Can obsidian actually do this?

Sad to lose this.

Also if anyone wants some veg cooking recipes I have 270 of them for a limited time
Instagram head of content posted on Threads:

"To clarify, you can deactivate your Threads account, which hides your Threads profile and content, you can set your profile to private, and you can delete individual threads posts – all without deleting your Instagram account. Threads is powered by Instagram, so right now it's just one account, but we're looking into a way to delete your Threads account separately."
eng.surf is available

(coming up with domain names is the best part of coding!)
https://archive.is/qoXuK
I think you’re confusing “any benefit” with “net benefit”.

The world, the US, and Capitalism would all survive just fine without McDonald’s, Walmart, or Oracle. In fact it would probably be better off without any of them. Global homogeneity is not awesome, it’s dystopian. Companies having less power than the 90th percentile of countries would be good.

When you have a regional company you can still afford to think of your customers more or less as humans instead of statistics.
I don't think it's obvious that we don't have sufficient computational scale already...

The human brain has ~86 billion neurons, but they only fire at like 2Hz, so you get 192 billion firings per second. GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, and can apply those parameters much faster than the brain can fire neurons.

Lots of folks like to point out that there's more complexity in neurons than model weights, which is fine, but it's not clear what the impact of that additional complexity actually is. Extra slow channels (eg, hormonal signals) also aren't an impossibility.

So /maybe/ the models need to scale more, or maybe we need to figure out some better combination of training tasks to get the next big leap. There's massive progress being made with multi-modal inputs (which helps the model create a more coherent world-model, by relating text to images, audio, or video). Data selection. - picking good data instead of just throwing in everything - is also showing lots of promise.

I tend to think there's some need for more 'interactive' or 'social' component to training, eg active/online learning with robotics - and figuring out how to get models to 'play'. Unstructured play is an essential mechanism in smart animals associated with hormonal signals and rewards - it's important, and we don't really know how to harness it yet.

But overall, I don't think we're yet at a local maximum. There's too much cool stuff going on and the iron is still quite hot.
You're double counting the down payment and equity payment. It doesn't count against the profit of the simple $150k number unless you lower the mortgage balance which would increase the $150k to $214k.
Unity wants to transpile it to C++ code. IL2CPP where they take the IL code of your C# and translate it into C++ for speed. So yeah, not only are they NOT using dotnet tooling but they are going the opposite direction.
The US isn’t an abstract ‘democracy’, it’s a functioning democracy with a specific set of rules.

I don’t agree with Mitch McConnell’s decision to refuse to have a hearing for Merrick Garland. I’m just saying it’s not against the Constitution as it is written. If the Obama Administration thought they had a legal right to force a hearing on Merrick Garland in the Senate, they would’ve filed a lawsuit to force the issue. The fact that they didn’t tells me that what McConnell and the GOP did wasn't illegal. It may have arguably been immoral and unethical, but it wasn’t illegal, and that was the point of my post that you responded to.
For the record, the above is not true.
I may be misunderstanding, but this might be the thing already discussed in footnote 2 of the article: "Technically, GCM accepts longer nonces. However, nonces longer than 96 bits are hashed into a starting 128-bit counter value, leaving no dedicated counter space. (96-bit nonces are instead concatenated with a 32-bit counter.)"
It’s cheaper to use OpenAI. If you have your own compute, sentence-transformers is just as good for most use cases.
I ultimately don't really disagree with you but your vitriol really undermines your point. Figured you should be aware of how you come across, at least from my perspective.

Plus there's an argument to be made that you and I are also generating likely sequences based on the sum of our experiences just in a more sophisticated (and evolutionarily refined) manner. There's at least no hard evidence to the contrary that I'm aware of.

Fake edit: I'm aware that my final statement is somewhat bait for the neuroscientists in the crowd. In this context I'm of the opinion that defining if agi 'thinks' requires a far more rigorous definition of what it is that we (and other problem solving / pass-the-mirror-test animals) are doing. For example, "It's the soul and GPT-4 doesn't have one" doesn't even come close to being rigorous enough, imo.
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Thanks for the feedback !

I'll look into that and come up with a fix ASAP.

Glad you like it !
Yeah Sony caught the vacuum just right. Big players mistakes and delays gave the PSX a boulevard to run int.

I found the console pretty lame, no special design, but a few cult games and you settle yourself culturally.
A quick Google search says that natural gas -> electricity has an efficiency of about 44%, with an additional 5% loss during transmission. Lets call this about 40% efficiency for getting energy from natural gas to your electric heat pump.

A heat pump operating at 250% efficiency will use just as much natural gas as a furnace operating at 100% efficiency.

Modern heat pumps can often exceed 250% efficiency, making them use less natural gas, even if they are ultimately powered by a natural gas burning power plant.
Sure, but I don't know of any models you can get local access to that work nearly as well.
You would need to have a local copy of the GPT model, which are not exactly OpenAI's plans.
> And I don't see the need to use a SPA almost anywhere.

Did I advocate for that in any way?

> If you are gonna use a SPA for stuff that really doesn't require it, I think it behooves you to still atleast try to conform the the HTTP spec

Why? Give me a good reason why it's worth the effort for small tools I write.
I hit rate limits and “model is busy with other requests” frequently while just developing a highly concurrent agent app. Especially with the dated (e.g. -0613) or now -16k models.
> they'll be in the wrong the second they take action against you

But like you said, they lied about you provoking them and destroyed the evidence showing that you didn't. Nobody will ever know that they beat you up just because you were recording.

I know why cops don't want body cams.
> We know that these chemicals are terrible for human, animal, and plant health. There isn't a debate.

Of course there is a debate. How bad are they? Has anyone died from them? How do we how know much compensation people deserve? If they are so terrible then why has it taken so long to pin that down?
It's a poorly written article; this key sentence doesn't even make grammatical sense:

Unlike the transistor switching the current at its output (i.e., current source), the trancitor transfers its input to the voltage output (i.e., voltage source), so an inverse relationship with each other.

I looked around but the top hits all seem to lift similarly confusing wording from the abstract of a 2018 paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05842) .

Can anyone explain in plain English?

Is this simply a voltage-controlled or current-controlled voltage source, where the output voltage is proportional to the input voltage? How much load could it theoretically supply without additional supporting circuitry, before linearity (or whatever is the appropriate response model) breaks down?
We're much further along in the liberation of women and girls than it may appear
Someone took a hard look at the numbers and determined that even with piracy there was no uptick in units sold which means people were just not interested in the Dreamcasts unfortunately and it was piracy that killed it.

But then again people who knows Segas history wouldn't draw this conclusion anyway. The Dreamcasts didn't have a chance with Segas past and Sony Playstation 2 hype and money
IIRC, Snowden tried to use a hotel room minifridge for this purpose.
I'm assuming they will price it the same as normal gpt-3.5-turbo. I won't use it if it's more than 2x the price of turbo, because I can usually get turbo to do what I want, it just takes more tokens sometimes.

Have you tried getting your formatted JSON out via the new Functions API? I does cure a lot of the deficiencies in 3.5-turbo.
That depends on your department and your field. Even though, on paper, I had a year to pick an advisor, I worked with mine from day 1 (or day -n since he first sent me research papers and discussed ways to get started on my project before my first semester even started). My department was fairly small, though, so you getting admitted meant at least professor specifically was interested in you joining. Professors at larger schools will put on their website not to even contact them unless you have been admitted, and their departments are large enough that only a portion of faculty members are involved in admission decisions. In that case, your advisor of choice may not know about you at all before you enroll and thus you need to fight for a spot in their group among your cohort.
I've been using sql.js-httpvfs to get full-text search on a static Github Pages site [1]. (Just make sure you have fts5 enabled on your database.) It works astonishingly well.

[1] https://matrixlogs.bakkot.com/WHATWG/search?q=database
Huh? You won't update the model you'll just give it new information? The exact concern is that the new information will be garbage aimed at pushing the model to produce certain output. Much like SEO spammers do to manipulate Google search results.

"Just don't update the model, only feed it new information" is exactly how to get to the outcome of concern in this thread.
If there's a real need for a high powered computer, most people will just connect to a server or whatnot to do the calculation there.
Yes. The best public embedding model is decent, but I expect it’s objectively worse than the best model from OpenAI.