skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you look at this in broad spectrum, its hard not to draw that conclusion, however, if you look at how the city tends to vote on a more issue to issue basis, or responds to issues like this, it tends to go up and to the right in terms of supporting liberal policies, by overwhelming majority.

Well, the city is somewhat more liberal than the county as a whole, but even there, compared to the state as a whole, I think you are wrong. (But, yes, a +16 advantage for D's over R’s at even the county level is an overwhelming majority to start with; Decline to State even has a two-point advantage over the GOP in the county.)

> Then you look at housing, and they get more right of center to very conservative, depending on the neighborhood (California famous NIMBY stuff).

Compared to other California local governments? Again, I don’t think so.

> Then, if you swing back to issues like water rights, they get pretty conservative again.

What even is “conservative” in this context?
I think it gets read as the sheriff intentionally doing it for anti-abortion purposes. This is because the sheriff is a synecdoche in the sentence but gets read as a person.
What's some examples of the code changes that you made? And did you just do repeated disassemblies of the functions to see that it was using the correct instructions, or did you do some benchmarking to show your changes were actual improvements?
Well it seems extremely unlikely to be an oversite I’ll admit. ;)
The Climate Web as Wicked Problem Knowledge Management [video]
see also a tour of The ClimateWeb [1]

[1] https://app.thebrain.com/brain/2cfec560-6321-4d32-a42f-f04ad...
> Restrictions on what teachers are allowed to teach are restrictions on freedom of speech

Do you consider a curriculum to be a restriction on freedom of speech? I ask as a genuine question - being from the UK the norm for me is having a national curriculum and standard testing (albeit it executed by private-but-certified exam boards). It seems like common sense to me that obviously teachers have restrictions on what they can say in a classroom. Any employee does within their workplace and job duties, but teaching is one profession where I'd clearly expect a much higher level of restriction (along with the police, who represent the state, and doctors, who have duties of professionalism and to give medical advice only in line with the regulator, and various other regulated roles)
I see the appeal and I'd totally consider using SQLite as a vector store with the proper extensions/support (I'd imagine this exists; does it?), but the code shown there really isn't an apples to apples comparison, is it? Every query fetches all vectors, deserializes each from JSON, allocates memory, and instantiates them as numpy arrays, and then proceeds to do an O(n) search for cosine similarity on embeddings which in the example aren't normalized. At this point, network latency for a (presumably loopback) grpc call isn't what I'd be concerned with. There's really no reason to use SQLite at all in this case, just keep everything in memory and save state to disk if that's what you care about.
I'm not sure there is one uncontested niche on earth for more than a few days at a time unless there is no money to be made or it's impossible to build a solution.
What do people expect? ACAB.
I mean at that point can't you just tow a trailer running a diesel generator recharging your car?
You’re welcome!

The more I think about this the more I realize how spoiled we are these days. These are both awesome tools in their own right that didn’t even exist when I got started. It’s a real joy to have such great tools to work with.
Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote
> This article also fails to discuss the C02 emission cost that goes into producing the battery, which for an EV will probably never be recouped

I don't think that's true, source:
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...
Agreed with almost everything except for:

> threads app gathers more data than TikTok

Now you need a credible source for that claim. Not defending either of them but such claims require credible evidence.
Wow. If I were a webserver, I'd return 204 for that URL, just for shits and giggles.
That's exactly what a hybrid car is. My 2021 Toyota is an all-electric drive train. Even the old Prius there used to be people practicing "zen driving" where they try to keep the engine from turning on. That's only possible if the gas engine is being used as a range extender.

It's just that the no-gas range of a hybrid is something crazy low, like 4 miles or something, since it has a very small battery. The plug-in hybrids improve that situation just by adding a larger battery, not by changing the mechanics of how the drive works.
> I fell in love with the engine during my time there.

OK, uh, I’ve tried a bunch of times to put this in terms that wouldn’t imply a whole lot of work, but I couldn’t, so I’ll just ask outright:

Any exploration hints for someone who hasn’t ever delved into a modern engine and has their knowledge limited to the very obsolete stuff in Abrash’s books and the generalities in Nystrom?

I’ve long wanted to explore how game engines are built, but people don’t usually say good things about the internals—if you do here, that sounds like a chance.
my OpenAI API account got nuked due to a missing organization error when I switched clients one night. I just got an email back from their support... took them 2 months. For reference, ChatGPT API has been out for only 3 months.
An energy-efficiency leaderboard for LLMs
What the rise of student consulting clubs means
I think PHEVs make a lot of sense in the more rural areas I frequent. It’s harder to get the supporting infrastructure to charge EVs there, and the risk of getting stranded can be deadly in the winter months (the ICE’s waste heat is a huge boon here).
I feel like a 203 would work for this case.
More people should be living in cities. We need not only fewer cars but also fewer freestanding, single-family homes. Continental Europeans trounce Americans in land management in part because continental Europeans do not abhor density the way Americans do.
Your prize is always wondering if you should have done it. I know people that say one of their biggest regrets was electing to pass on the PhD path. The grass, unfortunately, is always greener.
What if it's like a small amount like $25? I'm asking because I owe AWS that amount but I lost my credentials so I can't even login to pay anymore and I don't wanna jump through hoops just so I can pay THEM.
In addition to the Facebook/PHP comments here, an often overlooked one is that Instagram was a big Python/Django shop for years (and probably still is in many parts).
Yes you can defend on your own. But it’s going to cost you a lot of resources.

In addition to a lot of clever tricks ddos protection comes down to a simple question. Who has more resources to keep going.
If GPT 4 is working for you I wouldn't necessarily bother with this, but this is a great example of where you can sometimes take advantage of how much cheaper 3.5 is to burn some tokens and get a better output. For example I'd try asking it for something like :

{
"isIncomplete": [true if the chunk seems incomplete]
"completion": [the additional text to add to the end, or undefined otherwise]
"finalOutputWithCompletion": [punctuated text with completion if isIncomplete==true]
}

Technically you're burning a ton of tokens having it state the completion twice, but GPT 3.5 is fast/cheap enough that it doesn't matter as long as 'finalOutputWithCompletion' is good. You can probably add some extra fields to get an even nicer output than 4 would allow cost-wise and time-wise by expanding that JSON object with extra information that you'd ideally input like tone/subject.
Counterpoint: There are far more XML parsers and other XML tooling than HTML(5) parsers in the world. There is a reason for that, namely the HTML5 parsing algorithm.

I was always a fan of polyglot markup, a serialisation profile which is both valid HTML5 when send as text/html, well-formed XHTML when send as application/xhtml+xml and of course either when parsed in the absence of a media type. That seems to me as a good example of the first clause of Postel’s law.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/
on AWS in go-go years, Ubuntu with easy defaults and permissive licenses became the number one installed VM .. by a very large margin. The numbers were not even close.. like 15x more daily volume of VMs on AWS than the next closest three or whatever.. look for yourself. That in turn begat the very hot breath of MSFT upon Ubuntu-Canonical, which shows in the boot signing keys for Ubuntu, the MSFT-private partition type in the disk installer, and the WSL. MSFT influences can be seen in the push for always-on snap with libc and unattended-upgrades phone home and the like.
This is becoming hilarious. Your argument is "since a primitive version of an AI couldn't jailbreak (wrong, many bad actors jailbreak it) then in the future it's impossible. Let's bet humanity on it ! And why fixated on LLMs ? You know technology progresses right?

Guy, pray we are wrong for your own good and our. I'm done.
There are still plenty of ICE engines that aren't "optional gas powered range extenders." If anything it seems more like a re-brand of "generators" since the engine producers electricity rather than direct drive train force. The term seems genuinely useful to me, not just some marketing buzzword or spin.
And by the time you explain it, you've already lost the narrative. A fact that we've learned in the massive social media sphere is that "Louder = right". And, I hate this.

Someone screams their viewpoint? They must be right.

Someone responds back with trite phrases that catch people? Obviously correct.

Someone retorts with an overly simplistic comment? Of course, naturally correct.

Someone exerting power in a situation against someone with little power? Might makes right.
> It's not about an individual's self worth or how you think companies to organize.

Well, I already confessed that I'm not sure what people mean by "rank" here. I know it's not related to self-worth (not sure why you think I did relate it to that). But if it's not related to the org chart, then I don't have a clue what people mean by it.

What does the rank/hierarchy mean to you in this context?
I was thinking about this anomaly yesterday. Then I remembered that most US electrical outlets are at 110 Volts instead of the more usual world-wide standard of 220 volts. So most stuff in the US is under-powered by EU or Australian standards. Being under-powered, it would take longer to dry your clothes.

(That's also why they don't seem to use electric kettles in the US commonly as is normal in 220 volt countries)
I'm not particularly interested in Twitter itself, I just disagree that many of the products we use today require a large number of developers.

Its easy to find many examples of apps that were challenging to build even just 10 years ago, that are somewhat trivial now. That trend will only continue. OpenAI only had ~100 employees at one point.

You don't need 100s of operations people if you move from on-prem to serverless, for example. Today, social media requires the most people in content moderation/support, rather than development. Tomorrow those people are likely to be supplanted by LLMs or similar more tailored AI moderation models.

Many products that required 1000s of people 10 years ago, may only require 100s today. To me this is just a fact
If you've ever been to Tokyo, Taipei, or any old European capital, you'd know that "crowding people into cities" can be a good and beautiful thing, when the infrastructure is there.
I don't have a twitter account, so you'll probably want to post this somewhere else.
Have a Ford Fusion Hybrid. In the city it barely uses the engine and when it does it's for a short time and charges the battery while driving. On a full tank of fuel I can typically get 1000-1200km. I fill up about 0nce every 3 months. When driving on the highway, I get about 100km to 3ish liters of fuel. Great car and never have to plug it in.
Arguments for ending political parties always seem to come down to "the government should do more of what I want it to do". They solve the collective action problem by making sure I get more of what I want, somehow without anybody else getting less of what they want.

Your problem is never your political party. It's the political part of the people who oppose you. They don't cease to exist just because you've divided them into more political parties. No change to the voting system will alter that without making you a dictator.

I think people imagine that if you stir the pot around enough suddenly they'll find a huge pool of people who agree with them. That's just not the case.

The political system is intended to do the will of most people, without trampling the rights of minorities. That's an inherent conflict, and nothing you do will ever get around that.

It would sure be nice if people at least adhered to some semblance of reality when forming their preferences, but no voting system can fix that. The whole point of voting is to avoid having to determine who actually knows what, and count on the wisdom of crowds. If the crowds have deliberately made themselves unwise, we're in trouble, and it won't be fixed by the voting mechanism.
No. Just to add to the many examples it was good at scandinavian languages in the beginning but now it's bad.
They had all those games after the Sega CD, 32x, and Saturn failed. The Dreamcast was great but because of prior failures they tried to beat Sony to market with in-between specs and were therefore easily out-marketed when Sony started hyping their PS2 like crazy.
Eloquently put. And regarding the iPhone it’s absurd one needs to jailbreak it simply to access their own phone’s file system!
Mind sharing what was better? tia
Clearly this is just something they haven't got around to implementing yet.
I don't know the answer but based on all the stories and discussions it sounded like the plan was to initially send them all our old munitions that were scheduled for destruction. So instead of destroying them in the US they are being destroyed in Ukraine. I think one of the exceptions was the missile defense systems we sent that were not scheduled for destruction and another was possibly some older versions of Abrams tanks that had some of the classified systems stripped out of them. All of this could of course be propaganda for all I know.
The thing is these employees could have come in and directly used all the "knowledge and competency" they learned at Twitter to build Threads and it would still be 100% legal. There is a very high bar to proving whether any of it is actually a trade secret.
If too many people opt out, they just set up a new company and boom! No one has requested they get rid of the data or not collect it.

Opt-in is the only way to make this work, and that's why it will never get passed.
> Imagine if the communications officer of a sitting Senator could get prosecuted because they asked a newspaper to alter a story they did not like.

Stop it, you're turning me on.
Probably compute-bound for inference which they've probably built in an arch-specific way, right? This sort of thing happens. You can't use AVX-512 in Alibaba Cloud cn-hongkong, for instance, because there's no processor available there that can reliably do that (no Genoa CPUs there). I imagine OpenAI has a similar constraint here.
> not breathing in combustion byproducts every time you go outside

Also, engine noise. Noise pollution in cities can be maddening, and it's mainly car engines.
Thank you -- that is very handy!

The viewer is emblematic of FreeBSD itself, in a way.

"The major browsers have implemented rich native viewers for this industry-standard format now, that work on any OS, including ours. So what we will do is this: we will invent our own format and our own reader, done differently, with different controls. We will only have the time and manpower to implement, oh, maybe 10% of the features, but that doesn't matter."

"Hey! Why are people complaining about it? It works for us!"
Also, Scientists failed to emphasise the biggest threat of Carbon Emissions: climate change ACCELERATION!!!

The Earth's climate has changed before. What's different this time is how FAST! No time for the earth to adjust.
Apple App Store or Google Play Store privacy listing for what data it can collect. It’s mind boggling.
The only Threads I can think about is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
As an engineer this doesn’t pass even a cursory look. Entirely different brands, tech stacks, and the products just work differently. What can they possibly have taken.

I dislike Musk/Zuck as much as anyone, but I do believe that Meta can build a Twitter clone in 6 months on their infrastructure, and with their product folks.
> My support requests about being charged for data I didn't have a chance to get have been unanswered for more than 5 weeks now.

I too had an issue and put in a request. Took about 2.5 months to get a response, so 5 weeks you are almost half way there.
June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data
How could you do anything intelligent without a strong beak?

https://falseknees.tumblr.com/post/654380023602708480

The interactivity I mentioned is the bit that I think is actually important from embodiment - the ability to take an action in the world, see the result, and adjust expectations. What you've called 'independent actions.'

But there's certainly no proof that a general intelligence needs to be bounded and mobile - a pedantic thought-experiment-counterexample would be an 'uploaded' human mind: the people of San Junipero don't stop being generally intelligent once they are in a distributed simulation...

More generally, we don't actually know the boundaries on how general intelligence could arise and what shape it could take, because we don't really understand intelligence at all.
I am a reporter who covers crime. Your account is 100% accurate. Federal law allows for the disclosure of customer records “to a governmental entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay of information relating to the emergency.” 5 U.S.C § 2703(c).
Sounds positively Muskian.
Etam absolutely allows you to authenticate an unencrypted context. In fact, you must ensure that the nonce, a piece of unencrypted context, is authenticated. Nothing stops you from throwing more stuff in there.

The only thing you can do with an integrated AEAD that you can't do with a constructed one (with standard interface and security) is include authenticated and unencrypted context halfway through an encryption.
If you're manually interacting with the model, GPT 4 is almost always going to be better.

Where 3.5 excels is with programmatic access. You can ask it for 2x as much text between setup so the end result is well formed and still get a reply that's cheaper and faster than 4 (for example, ask 3.5 for a response, then ask it to format that response)
If anyone wants to try the API for the first time, I've made this guide recently: https://gpt.pomb.us/
We disagree on what is “clearly Abrahamic[…].”

There is still no Jewish faith to my knowledge that is polytheistic. If you have material to share that provides evidence otherwise, I’d be interested in reading it, but Judaism isn’t Yahwism. That’s not gatekeeping, that’s… reading.

Mono- and polytheism isn’t slippery. You either believe in one god or multiple gods. There’s little to dissect there.
But that doesn't matter because everything nowadays is designed as "single use"
I think these big accounts were given access to Threads much before the rate limiting debacle. And that was great tactic by Threads IMO. Having a lot of "Verified" accounts engagement on the app on day 1 when rest of the world joined gave it instant credibility.
Note that I'm not saying use SIV. I'm just saying that SIV already does the extended nonce part:

> The AEADs defined in this document calculate fresh AES keys for each nonce.

I guess write an RFC for extended nonce only?
Also just pictures of them enjoying life in the city of their choice, the families they’ve started, the vacations they go on, the fun hobbies they have time for, etc.
I couldn't find a trademark with only the word "threads" [1]. There's "U Threads" [2] for example, but it has a disclaimer: "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "THREADS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN".

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

[2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:za...
But it's actually a _really bad_ strategy for a startup! It'll be realized the moment you try to hire for hip-tech-du-jour. Most likely, you don't even have the problem that hip-tech-du-jour claims to solve.
Don't mistake correlation with causality.
Agreement via text in text message and agreement via emoji in text message are two different things. I wish the article would have been more specific about the past texts, if they were also thumbs up, then the farmer clearly agreed, but if the past affirmative agreements were written in text, then I don't think the ruling was reasonable.
Would gladly pay more for a none nerfed version if they were actually honest.

The current versions is close to the original 3.5 version, while 3.5 has become horribly bad, such a scam to not disclose what's going on, especially for a paid service.
For embeddings, you can use smaller transformers/llms or sentence2vec and often get good enough results.

You don't need very large models to generate usable embeddings.
Python is older than PHP.
> I'm a little older than many

This has nothing to do with age. I wouldn't recommend assuming that you're older than me.

> "Finally, the world will see how horrible the cops can be. We will have a trial and get justice."

> That didn't remotely happen.

How has that changed? The George Floyd verdict for example is an extreme rarity. Cops are almost always acquitted.

> It's not until social media that we got e.g. BLM and even the concept of a "Karen." IMHO, it's been absolutely instrumental.

How does social media affect the verdict of trials? And what does "Karen" have to do with this?

As you'll recall, the Rodney King verdict resulted in massive multi-day riots in Los Angeles, without any help from social media, which didn't exist yet. The world was paying attention.
The azure endpoints are great though.
Young people don’t use FB as much as they do Instagram. They want hype not a grandma writing a Thread on how she misses the good old days.
I'd love to see some data to help ground these numbers in reality. How many tweets does Twitter see on a daily basis? How many posts does Instagram see? Etc.
This is basically how Toyota's hybrid engine works. Almost everything is powered off the inverter. I think the only thing that isn't is the gas engine's water pump, which has no reason to be electric.

It's way more efficient to build the a hybrid with the gas engine as part of the drivetrain than only use it power electric motors.
ChatGPT monthly traffic has dropped for the first time
Didn't load past the paywall, but wow is that opening condescending. I guarantee you that GenZ's not "delighted to work for nothing."
Sega Genesis had X-Band. Literally internet on a cartridge-based console.
I went to WVU where we have still actively use the PRT system built in the 70s. It's the school's main system of transport, and when it worked, it was pretty great. When I was there, it was infamously unreliable, but supposedly that's improved a lot lately. I do often miss it, and wonder why more places don't implement something similar.
Yeah it was amazing for a few weeks during the height of the COVID lockdowns when all that freeway traffic went away and the smog cleared. Had no idea what we were missing out on.