skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like half of an article, because of course, everyone recognizes that companies charge more when supply-chains and other things are screwed up.

But many of those costs have dropped, some to pre-pandemic levels or even lower, but the consumer prices have not dropped to match, and profits are growing.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/wingstop-is-seeing-meaningfu...

Wingstop raised prices of wings during lockdown (even switching to being "Thighstop" for a while). Now prices are back down to earth, but they haven't modified their prices to match.
The difference between 4 and 3.5 is really big for creative use cases. I am running an app with significant traffic and the retention of users on GPT-4 is much higher.

Unfortunately it's still too expensive and the completion speed is not as high as GPT-3.5 but I hope both problems will improve over time.
>Threads.net is a social media network where people use hashtags

A hash character I guess can be used but they don't do anything.
As the website you linked says, code-davinci-002 is not fine-tuned. It is the GPT-3.5 base model.
Yup. It would have been an absolute minion-fest if they piped in the FB crowd.
That's true. Although I think any respectable instance/entity has already gone ahead and blocked federation with Threads.
> The headline is exactly as accurate as it needs to be.

I disagree. Here's a simple modification I propose that's more accurate: “Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with states, including anti-abortion ones, records show”
I've just activated all unconfirmed accounts. You should now be able to sign in with no issues.

Thanks for your patience !
That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!
FACT CHECK:

They are usually _not_ bullshit.
We need to get rid of license plates then.

They're an inappropriate solution to the technical problem they were invented for now that the internet exists. It used to be that police had limited ways to verify ownership of a vehicle, and a simple state owned database with state issued numbers was a useful tool to solve this problem.

Now.. the police have internet connected mobile terminals. I'm not sure a "number plate" is the right solution to any part of this problem anymore.
No need to violate the license, just close the source and no outsider would know it's a fork.
Reputation isn't an argument. It would be false in its assumption even if it were.

The case law is established.

There isn't a single case of someone's speech being censored, due to government request, for which the person being censored does not have a Constitutionally airtight First Amendment violation complaint.
What are the benefits of python with types vs a statically typed language like java, golang, etc?
> We are not currently granting access to GPT-4-32K API at this time, but it will be made available at a later date.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7102672-how-can-i-access...
I think so too. Profanity, in small amounts, is an indicator of honesty.

Everyone swears sometimes. If you never do it in front of others, it signals that you're always filtering yourself.
"It may delight you to know, then, that they've started building ..."

Unfortunately, "high speed" is a misnomer.

This would have been high speed rail had it been deployed before 1990.

At this time it is just "rail" and when it is finished we will be back where we started: 40-ish years behind the state of the art with a product inferior to other modes of travel.

Disclaimer: I want very badly for a real HSR between SF and LA[1] and am deeply disappointed at the - sometimes comical - concessions and degradations that have accompanied this project since day one.

[1] Non-stop express service in less than 120 minutes.
It's decades old tactic from Musk. One of the things he's really great at is SEO. He is trying to shift narrative from Threads hyper growth to whatever random lawsuit he's threatening them with.
Tangential but I used Threads at a previous company and really liked it. I don't know how anyone could get a company that's already built around Slack to switch, but if you are starting fresh I think Threads offered a much nicer experience for async comms and especially for long discussions of consequence. Highly recommend giving it a shot!
Right -- I'm a little older than many, but to explain:

When the Rodney King thing happened, black folks like myself were like "Finally, the world will see how horrible the cops can be. We will have a trial and get justice."

That didn't remotely happen. 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.
I've unfortunately seen many situations where only NIST approved constructions are allowed. ChaCha is not an approved NIST algorithm but AES-256-GCM is
What I learned talking to 100 chat product builders
Hey zabana, it looks like one of your endpoints is leaking password hashes that might be undesired?

POST https://cognito-idp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Response:

```
{
"ChallengeName": "PASSWORD_VERIFIER",
"ChallengeParameters": {
"SALT": "*",
"SECRET_BLOCK": "*",
"USER_ID_FOR_SRP": "*",
"USERNAME": "*",
"SRP_B": "**"
}
}
```
The reporters are writing their own posts. Some of those posts contain links to the article they wrote, some are just threads.
> That's not a goal of interpretation. You don't start by saying "let me make this compatible with 'modern science', whatever that is." Its chief literary genre is allegory, if that helps.

Perfect. To summarise: the genesis creation narrative can never be wrong. It is an allegorical narrative with no factual value. Despite having no factual value, one can be mistaken about it. The burden of proof lies not with the claimant but the dissenter, if they can overcome their "false perspective", ignorance or naivety that is.
Could be confirmation bias/rage on my part of course, but I never took...

> Some people took the “don’t curl | sh” advice as “you have to inspect every line of a shell script installer you download”, which is of course absurd.

... to ever mean anything BUT "inspect every line". Which is, as you say, completely absurd.
At the rate that Musk is destroying Twitter, all Meta has to do is drag the court case out a year or 2 and Twitter won't exist to see the end of it.
Totally... the only thing I can be convinced of is my Twitter social graph looks quite different from my Instagram and Facebook graphs. The letter explicitly calls out follower graph and following data which is the only reason why I would even entertain this as a even remotely plausible theory.
It is that infringement of the rights of others which is the very issue at hand here! The government undertook actions which caused people to be unable to express their opinions.

That the government was "just expressing their opinion that's totally nonbinding except of course I can exert selective regulatory scrutiny if I feel like it" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Can you answer any of my questions? I think they are all pretty straightforward.
A corpse of freshwater immersed in saltwater would experience a force up because its lower density. The weight of the submarine itself cancels this but if we keep adding freshwater at some point we would cross a density threshold. Probably a big volume. Maybe too much to be practical. Dunno.

Even more, ice floats so in a case of live or death if we could freeze with liquid nitrogen or so a big enough volume of cold water while avoiding the effects of the increase in volume, in theory the submarine could emerge automatically. We can't do it in the main submarine (would explode and the non frozen parts would implode immediately), but maybe in an independent storage area attached and able to absorb the extra volume?... dunno

A way to lower the temperature just when the oxygen is about to end would add also some precious extra time. A corpse is dead only when is warm and dead. In any case I'm just digressing wildly about an extreme and hypothetical emergency case. I could be totally wrong or not practical. I prefer not to test it.
Perhaps Meta's attorneys will do the 'nice' thing and pay to license the name from them. Apple paid Cisco millions for the right to use the name iOS/iPhone, and Cisco retained the right to continue to use the trademark.
> It also claims stolen secrets, codebases and digital assets. Wouldn't put it past The Zucc.

You wouldn't put it past Zuck? Friendly reminder to everyone that Tesla knowledgeably violated GPL for years until they were forced into compliance: https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/21/tesla_inches_toward_g...

I don't trust for a second that Elon's team knows what they're talking about here.
Do a few grams worth of beta alanine, say up to 10grams and then tell me if you want to drink black tea!
Yes, sorry for the confusion. I'd just rather have an API where the common things are easy, and the super powerful low-level optimizations are optional.
>> Do Americans not have an expectation of privacy even when talking in public, based on the expectations of the individuals engaged in speech?

> No, they don't, because that would not be a reasonable expectation.

If you asked someone before 2000, do you think their answer would be different?

Would setting/context change that? i.e. a person talking to their friend on the street vs giving a speech at a protest/demonstration?

I think before you call reference to Ben Franklin, you have to also consider the differences in settings between today and then. A lot has changed and the discourse around the subject is not properly taking this into account, and often not even acknowledging the existence of change in the first place. "Reasonable expectation" is deeply contingent upon the availability, accessibility, and utility. This cannot be an ignored part of the conversation.
> - Musk declares that this was his intention all along with the purchase, and killing Twitter was a "5D chess move". His fans eat it up.

I think Musk dives further into cultural war nonsense and tries to become a messiahic figure to the right.
My threads feed is pretty bad. There's no way to see posts only from accounts you follow. Somehow meta has determined that I'm very interested in baseball, basketball and MMA even though I'm not American and I have little interest in any sports other than motorsports. There's no way to tell it "show me less/no content on this topic". So I'm kind of trapped looking at stuff I just don't care about.
One could imagine, that Instagram, on which they based it on and apparently reused most of the backend dealt with some of those problems before. And I've heard that Meta had some other social networks that scaled in the past.
> As this is supposedly from such a large law firm

Is it the same law firm that went with the 'offering to buy twitter and signing a purchase agreement was just a prank bro' defence?

If you find yourself standing up in court making the prank bro argument, then I hope the amount of money you got was a fair price for your dignity.
No, text-davinvi-003 is fine-tuned. The base model is code-davinci-002.
See
https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers
You’re making a blanket statement here which sounds like a first-principles argument, but in reality it’s nuanced. It seems under GDPR license plate numbers are considered personal data. Not sure about CCPA/CPRA.
If I find someone with 20 years experience that disagrees with your take, what then? I’m just wondering how y’all are quantifying this, as I explained in another comment.
If every model needs to be open source then AI companies need to be taxpayer funded otherwise they'll never make a profit. Until then a for profit, gated approach is the only way to build up enough funds for SOTA R&D
I don’t see how conspiracy theory enters any of this whatsoever.

These are the declared plans from the man himself:

https://me.mashable.com/tech/27088/twitter-20-undergoes-a-ma...

That isn’t exactly hidden.

Perhaps the true intentions of Meta/Zuck/Facebook are underdisclosed, but after their KYC fiasco with crypto it’s clear they want to go there and just haven’t been able to cement the regulatory relationships yet or simply got on the wrong side of the regulatory compliance community and aren’t yet reingratiated into their good graces. But you will see another attempt at direct financial instrumentation on their properties as it’s the most valuable application of their data.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/28/faceboo...

And as to coordination, to deny attempts to concentrate power through coordinating the military industrial complex would be a foolhardy argument at this point, though there are clearly competing groups and philosophies.

I’m suggesting it’s more like a classic SV land grab… because that’s what it really is. And people’s connection and resultant financial enablement data is the prize underneath social networks, because it clearly is. And the person doing it is talking openly about what they are doing, so calling it a “conspiracy theory” is patently incorrect as a conspiracy would require some kind of secretive collusion to exist and all of this is discussed and public information shared by the architects themselves.

We should be concerned about how concentrated data collection and management is as the power is profound when combined with mature AI, not accusing one another of “conspiracies” at this point. I’ve long advocated for something like a “Privacy Bill of Rights,” but I fear the genie is too far out of the bottle now that the ruling classes have become aware of the profound technological potential of the data expressed through social finance.

After all, as they say, to control a city, control the water. A country? Food. The world? Finance.

I also don’t think it particularly matters what price was paid or whether it’s in the SEXY theme or 420 reference, as it’s common to see these kinds of number games among purchases by the super rich in my personal experience. It’s the general degree of size category of valuation that matters, not the numeric humor Elon injects into his numbers.

How many houses have I seen go for 1,234,567 or 2,345,678 in the offer paperwork? Same for cars and watch prices. I’ll say: more than a few. It’s all a game of points, leverage and reputation at the highest personal wealth levels. The self declared bon vivants consider themselves reincarnated Pharos destined to inherit the earth and love to play financial games with numbers on purchases and sales. That doesn’t make them any less of a business decision.
Lmao. Zuckerberg would beat the ego out of Musk.
Check out this post from a round table dialogue with Greg Brockman from OpenAI. The GPT models that were in existence / in use in early 2023 were not the performance-degraded quantized versions that are in production now: https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/146rgq2/chatgpt_...
There's zero "trade secrets" (everyone knows how twitter works) and no technical secrets necessary. Threads is just instagram. It works and looks the same way. Instagram is photos with text, Threads is text with photos. The latter is not exactly rocket science to build when you already have built the former at scale and ran it successfully for years. And that's the genius of it!
Hi,

Would you recommend using Cinder for stack made of
- Django
- Cython
- Numpy

Thanks!
This is already done. Highway patrol will often have units that scan plates around them, and if a stolen vehicle is identified, the mobile terminal in the cruiser immediately alerts the officer to the hit.
It's not. Musks mother and father showed their displeasure in the idea and now he won't do it. No, I'm not being facetious.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/elon-musk-mother...
> To make it more relevant, can you point to a single case where a court has ruled that a constitutionally limited action was permitted simply because the means were unintrusive?

I think that's self-contradictory: if the court permitted it, then it did not cross the limits.

If you meant this more broadly, then we should understand that ALL government actions are constitutionally limited and the more an action infringes upon liberty, the more the action should be "narrowly tailored", but actions can still be permitted.
Echoing this - saying the whole text at once in one shot is very challenging for long batches of text.

Using built-in text input showed quite good results since ChatGPT is still understanding the ask quite well
Can you point to anything public on your last point about compression? What is being compressed?
> Also, the meanings of emoji change (see the sexual connotations that many emoji have picked up since their release - those connotations weren't present on day zero), so how do you protect against that?

I'm not too worried about it. I think that even if in the future the thumbs up emoji unambiguously meant "I like butts" or something a judge would do exactly the same thing they did in this case and apply common sense. A thumbs up today signals agreement, so it meant the contract was agreed to. In the future, if someone goes to court because they didn't mean to sign the contract they could make the case "I was professing my love of butts!" and a judge would say "Yep, that's what the thumbs up emoji means to most people! The contract is unsigned"

The precedent here is that intent matters more than a signature, not that the thumbs up sign is always going to be how contracts are signed.
Ubuntu, the distro for desktops and laptops, is DEAD and has been for sometime, Ubuntu is now Microsoft's lapdog. (For better or worse, I don't think it's super evil, but let's just all be honest here)

Linux Mint or MX Linux are the way to go here. Time to move on.
Especially for Meta that runs far more popular apps
A3 Report
>according to an set of rules the user can't be expected to know

This is consistent, it's just never properly communicated. If the source and destination are on the same drive, dragging executes a move by default; if the source and destination are on different drives, dragging makes a copy by default.

macOS has this problem too, where you just flat out can't cut/copy/move files with the same shortcuts and verbiage you'd use for text (or the option in the menu is greyed out for no reason).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/

It seems like donating plasma is even more effective.
So it’s now default minimal?
Musk is throwing shit on the wall in a hope something will stick.
I think it's straightforward to optimize to a point it's maybe about 10x faster than the "optimized" version. The answer is of course SIMD vectorization.
Goodness, this will ruin the look of historic areas of Boston and Cambridge.

EV's are also nearly useless in colder climates.
Spencer is a "lukewarmer". He believes that warming is real, and it's partially caused by human emissions. So, not different from the IPCC in kind, just in degree.

It's not correct to call him a "denialist", given the above. But, he is quite skeptical of the computer models and the general state of climate science.

His point is the actual temperature record of the global troposphere over the last forty years takes precedence over a number of computer models, given that many of the inputs to the models are variables which are not well-characterized. Those models are failing to predict actual events.

He thinks that the 1.3C/century trend shown in the actual data is not a reason to panic and mangle the economy. He thinks that the overall benefit of global warming and greening due to CO2 may be net positive. His book is pretty even-handed.
So at least we agree it takes forever and is thus harmful when it comes to emissions.
>>> "Electric vehicles generate fewer carbon emissions than those powered by combustion engines over their lifetimes, and what you’re about to read doesn’t dispute that. But EV adoption is tripping over range limitations, patchy charging networks, and high prices resulting from the cost of the batteries that power them."

It sounds like EVs are the best option long term: it's just that in the short term there's a few snafus along the way.

Personally, I'm only going to buy another EV and nothing else will do, even if I have to wait a year, two years or even 5 years. I've got an electric bike and I know how to use it.
Perhaps one solution is to divorce your own self worth from the quality of the software you happen to write and to realize that you are an employee first and a software engineer second - make decisions that increase the amount of money the company makes and look for self worth in that itself or in hobbies/family/friends/something else.
... because Meta's engineers know nothing about scale and are relying on Twitter's ex-engineers to help out?
No, I would definitely not call that a "large portion".
Right now in a lawsuit, apparently!

I think that the Elon/Zucc fight thing makes them both look ridiculous and childish and I've been enjoying that aspect of it (it doesn't matter even a little who wins, they both lose). This lawsuit strikes me the same way.
No it's definitely changed a lot. The speedups have been massive (GPT 4 runs faster now than 3.5-turbo did at launch) and they can't be explained with just them rolling out H100s since that's just a 2x inference boost. Some unknown in-house optimization method aside, they've probably quantized the models down to a few bits of precision which increases perplexity quite a bit. They've also continued to RHLF tune to make them more in-line with their guidelines and that process has been shown to decrease overall performance before GPT 4 even launched.
Twitter no longer shows anything unless you're logged in. Everything just redirects to a login page.
Congrats on the launch!

I've seen this UI style become more popular, and I'm wondering if there's a name for it? E.g. "material design" is immediately recognizable, and I'm curious if this style comes from a similar UI framework.
"I am not an atomic playboy." -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._P._Blandy
> Four high-quality, prospective birth cohort studies5,8,18,19 show that fetal exposure to fluoride is associated with diminished cognitive abilities.

> In November 2019, the National Toxicology Program released a draft report on fluoride concluding that fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard.
rule of thumb is never register with your name, always use throwaway emails and accounts.

that way social media will never have leverage over you.

threads app gathers more data than TikTok ( https://twitter.com/deepaksonar911/status/167674841107126681... )
"Ask things like "If I didn't know how to read, could I still find my way around this interface?". Clearly, this is too low a bar to effectively use some applications, but simply trying to aim in that direction over and over can help evaporate the more "clever" concepts in favor of your less skilled users."

This is very useful for people who are developing UX/UIs for the older population.

A quickly growing segment where a lot of the users want to do things like use tech to keep in touch with their families and grandkids from a nursing home and they may not be as sharp as the average user of tech products...
What you are describing is "expropriation." Cuba and Venezuela both did it. So if you want the US to look more like Venezuela, keep it up
Meta mentioned ActivityPub/Fediverse support but I'll believe it when I see it.

Maybe it's the cynic in me but I think Meta will just implement a tiny portion of the spec that benefits them (importing posts from Mastodon?) and then stall there.
See my comment elsewhere on this post. Greg Brockman, head of strategic initiatives at OpenAI, was talking at a round table discussion in Korea a few weeks ago about how they had to start using the quantized (smaller, cheaper) model earlier in 2023. I noticed a switch in March 2023, with GPT-4 performance being severely degraded after that for both English-language tasks as well as code-related tasks (reading and writing).