skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it also wouldn't make sense for Office to have different dictionaries between its Mac and PC (and web) versions. So one or the other has got to give.

Users want OS's to be consistent across apps, but users also want apps to be consistent across OS's. And so the reality is each feature is going to be decided on a case by case basis and the end result will be somewhere in the middle.
all they are saying, is give beans a pass (from canned vegetable jail)
If the problem is outputting the primes, then storing them in a list is not a necessary part of that problem.

When writing ‘fizz buzz’, would you expect to return an array of 100 strings, some of which are numbers, some ‘fizz’es and some ‘buzz’es?
Averages and stats on website carbon emissions
I’ve been working on a tool related to this for Database migrations.

Most current tooling is similar to this: parse the SQL, find specific statements and highlight “dangerous” locks. But that lacks all context and doesn’t account for changes or schema specific stuff related to rewrites/existing constraints/etc.

Why not… just get Postgres to tell you what locks or rewrites a given DDL statement will take? Why do we need to take the logic defined in the Postgres source code and spit it into a human readable form, for us to then take a given SQL statement, parse it in our head and cross reference it with this (or other) documentation? Am I missing something?
OK, so we get the eye machine (OCT?), the woman who can sniff Parkinson's and the lab test for alpha-synuclein in one location and we can get 100% guaranteed confirmed Parkinson's detection !
Also a good option for those whose main interests are on the software side is "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" by Randal Bryant and others.
Windows is getting native support for rar, 7zip etc. soon. Of course, like Microsoft Defender, it will also have zero days.
If you count everything carefully, it's O(n / log log n)

https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2004-73-246/S0025-5718-03-...

They are essentially the same in all conceivable practical cases in this Universe.

log log (atoms in universe) < 100
What makes a phone a "general-purpose computing platform" that is also not true for game consoles? They seem the same to me: They both have general purpose processors which -can- run arbitrary programs, but the owners of their ecosystems choose to limit what is allowed to run on them. If one is a "general-purpose computing platform" then the other must be, and vice versa.
Putin has the sense of drama.

He's the mafia boss but with the actual nation state resources. (we can thank him for not spreading polonium across all of London this time)

Whether the information is confirmed or not, it's honestly scary.
He Protec but He Also Attac, and he never forgets.
Same Reddit is often where I do research into a product. Just spend a few minutes or even hours reading people talk about products.
So Putin has just very publicly demonstrated that assassination is a justified use of conflict resolution to the world (and Ukraine).
my first attempt created some kind of gym monster lol https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e64a2f412bec0009b...
That'd be a hell of a trick, given that we basically define consciousness as the experience of being what we are, and therefore tautologically whatever it is, we have it.
> Have you tapped into your network?

A big chunk of my network is either retired or about to at this point.
The dot-com bubble crashed too. People see potential, get excited, then disappointed when it doesn't immediately come to fruition.

But tech didn't go away after the dot-com bubble. Slowly people and organizations learned how to actually use computers and networks. Thousands of startups tried ideas and bit by bit people figured things out. 20 years later tech rules the economy.

AI is now entering its trough of early disappointment. Give people a few decades to learn to actually use it in all the thousands of ways it can be used.
Because what I'm mentioning is a phenomenon that occurs in all Indian-related submissions regardless of content.
You can buy a car seat that meets the U.S. federal standards for about $60. Sure it won’t be as padded or have the maximum safety or have lots of cupholders, but it will do the job and be much safer than what I had as a kid.
> anti-trust

Anti whose trust?*

Apple targets users' trust.

If you count up news headlines for your statistics, you may end up biased on the utility a platform provides to end users by shutting down fraudulent dev accounts and erring on the side of caution.

Because there are "think of the innocents" headlines when a small dev gets caught in the dragnet, but no headlines about the hordes constantly getting shutdown before more consumers are harmed. The ratio of reporting gives a false impression of the utility.

Instead of looking for stories of bad devs getting shut down, you will find plenty pearl clutching headlines castigating Apple for failing to "clean up the app store" (although again, with no denominator under the numerator).

In general, though, from the conception of the Mac as a "bicycle for the mind" to the last revamp into Apple-as-a-Service, Apple's platform is, and has always been, for everyday end users, not for devs.

It's increasingly difficult to keep it safe for everyday users, and that's pain borne both by the platform creator, and app creators, so that users can do their jobs to be done with less friction, worry, or risk. (See IAP subs vs. any subscription to any other online service, effectively un-cancelable.)

If one doesn't agree with that goal, and the costs of maintaining that goal, there are other platforms one can develop for. Meanwhile, 99% of apps, especially ad-supported apps, can be delivered through HTML5: https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/x-html5mobile3/

All that said ...

Devs are a user persona too, and Apple can afford to take accountability for any "we're in this together"-driven policy errors.

TL;DR:

Apple should automatically and proactively make-good any losses caused by mistaken shutdowns.

They have the stats: recurring revenue + projected growth + inconvenience/opportunity-cost coverage, auto-deposited for duration. That would be a fine motivation to get better at discriminating on the margins.

Would show user trust is important, and dev trust is of value too.

- - -

* Should have gone without saying: “Anti-trust” is not synonymous with “anti trust”, this was just a hook to talk about trust.
tar? XD
I don’t know about “zero benefit”—certainly their access to customer queries gives them a gods eye view into how people are using their LM implementation and to some degree could probably be used to fine-tune their model—but I doubt it gives them a leg up that couldn’t be matched through the sheer scale of academics and volunteers who contribute to open solutions & research. Maybe we invent a method for directly fine-tuning based on user interactions, or we discover that there’s some shelf where further fine-tuning only confuses the model, or discover some magical architectural modification or dataset that enables high-quality interactions. We’re still at the stage where basic modifications to the model breaks seemingly insurmountable problems. ALiBi for example swaps in a new attention mechanism, literally just a matrix addition operation, and found that it enables inference far past the context limit.

I’m ultimately optimistic, their data is valuable but I don’t think it’s insurmountable.
Starbucks around Seattle commonly have giant bags of grounds that are free to take. I'd say half the time there's a bag in the basket
Iceberg is the primary reason I didn’t like salads for most of my life. Then I discovered that you can eat fresh spinach, not boiled, and I started eating salads.

Also, I’ve never heard of or seen a “wedge salad”. Is that what it sounds like?
More likely it just means a substantial fraction of usage is from students.
I find it funny, even creative, that you managed to slip in something against tailwind in your comment.
Bing's implementation is worthless dogshit. Using Bing's market share as a measure to gauge the general demand for AI does not provide an accurate representation.
Lex.page raises $2.75M for its AI writing tool
This is unbelievably short-sighted. There might be a modest pull back as people realize limitations but it is definitely a productivity booster.
Here's a silly question: does your child feel the nerve stimulation when it happens?
Even the official story seems to be air defense.
Always great to see projects like this that distribute wheels for a whole ton of different platforms - makes installation so much less painful if you don't need to ensure you have a full build toolchain on the machine where you run "pip install".

https://pypi.org/project/fast-vector-similarity/#files
The "ugly numbers" boil down to Bing failing to gain market share, and ChatGPT reporting 10% fewer visitors on their site in June. Both of these numbers do not, in fact, reveal AI demand is shrinking. There are dozens of other sites offering products similar to ChatGPT, and most people with serious needs have already switched to APIs and/or are exploring with their own in-house model.

This article boils down to wishful thinking from an author who clearly despises AI.
I wouldn't think that he uses his real identity for travel.
And quietly doing the wrong thing is a serious problem for software used to interact with the general public (i.e. public websites)

A single misconfiguration can be a major security issue.
only lowercase alphabetic ascii for any path or file name, excluding space.

i will die on this hill.
> >there is not agreement on what Christian belief _is_

> this isn't true at all.

Yes, it is.

> It's quite simply an Abrahamic religion based around following the teachings of Jesus Christ.

That's not even the most common of the competing ideas, in part because it is useless because it just pushes the lack of consensus out one level because there is no consensus on what, if anything, are “the teachings of Jesus Christ”.

There is a broad consensus among the theologians of communities making up the vast majority of self-described Christians on what thr boundaries of Christianity are, but it excludes a fair number of other self-descibed Christians, and even common members of those communities often have narrower definitions.

> but you can tell what is and isn't a Christian church.

Lots of people “can tell”, but they won’t agree. Where its important to a discussion, people who are careful will define the term as it applies to the specific discussion. There is no one true right answer separate from specific context of usage. (This is true of language generally, but its especially true of trying to do binary in/out boundaries of communities or other spaces with near-continuous variation.)
The Typographic Legacy of Microsoft [video]
It doesn't. Technically, zero-day in the context of exploits means the exploit was circulating and/or being used before the authors of the attacked piece of software were made aware of the vulnerability (or before the vulnerability was made public, or before the day a patch was made available, depending on who you ask).
It's not a problem. I regularly pay for four-figure items in cash. Lots of places offer cash discounts at that price point (no CC fees or risk of chargeback). I paid a doctor $5000 in cash once.

The first time, it feels a little odd, but then you realize that nobody at the bank bats an eye at you withdrawing a few grand, and $3k in 100s is about the size of a phone in your pocket.

Since nobody carries cash, nobody thinks that other people are carrying cash, so it doesn't make you a target. And I'm not anymore likely to lose my wallet with $500 in cash in it than I am my $1000 phone.
If I’m any indication. It was really useful when it first came out but now all the answers seem so boilerplate.

I’m back to search being more useful.
> Would a pre-existing plan account for the sun exposure of your land? Would it have a roof that makes sense for how much it rains or snows? Would getting sunlight in the bedroom also mean facing traffic? Would it take advantage of elevation for views or make sure to block a nearby neighbour? Would it deal well with moisture, or fires, or access roads? Would you build a porch where you can laze away late summer afternoons and feel everything's just right with the world, or a place to dry laundry where nobody goes?

Would you, the first-time-house designer be able to accommodate for all those issues? Or even know they exist in the first place?

> If you really want to design your own house (a great idea), look up materials around A Pattern Language instead. Learn what makes a great house, then design a plan incorporating those ideas but customised towards your plot and your needs.

Horrible idea. By all means be the input in the process, but pick someone that actually knows how building works and that can instantly point out any misunderstanding or lacks of knowledge you have.
The author clearly has an axe to grind, this is a pretty low quality article. He cites declining usage numbers of ChatGPT without any mention of school holiday, and he seems to be limited to considering ChatGPT as the only AI up for discussion. The stagnation of bing search is interesting to be sure, but that’s a far cry from damning these models to a passing fad.
Not sure if it ties into a captcha loop specifically, but I've seen a couple allegations that the site owner deliberately sabotages users of 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9.
Sounds like a coincidence waiting to happen.
Recently I was in southern Mexico where I attended a Sunday meeting. Looking around the chapel I realized that 100% of the people (other than my gringo self) were Mexican. The place was completely packed, but there was essentially no racial or linguistic diversity. Perhaps there was class diversity, but that is harder to tell just by looking at people all wearing their sunday clothes. I wonder how unusual the diversity of the Eastern USA is compared to the rest of the world?
> $3k per month (post tax) is in the ballpark of $60k per year

Not sure about that. Isn't the standard deduction (married filing jointly) $24K now? $24K of that $36K is free of federal tax leaving only $12K to pay taxes on at a pretty low rate. If that's 20% then we're talking $2400 in taxes.
Then let the people who are so much smarter make their own art and writings, and train their creations on that. Crazy idea, huh?

As Bill Hicks said: play from your fucking heart. It doesn't have to be deep, but it has to be something you express. It doesn't matter, at all, if someone else said the same thing before. If a human says or does something, I potentially care. If a model outputs something I find interesting, I am interesting in my thoughts about it, not in the model, because I know for a fact there is nobody on the other side.

Anything can create novel output. If anything, the opposite is impossible: even if you make an exact copy of something, it will not be in the same place at the same time. So that's no useful criterion for anything, and it's rich to call "sentience" a nebulous concept -- yeah, we can't define it, but we all experience it, and having a name and a complete definition for it would not make it one iota more real than it already is -- while talking about "novel output" as if that means anything interesting or useful whatsoever.
> I’ve never heard of or seen a “wedge salad”. Is that what it sounds like?

Yes. It's a wedge of a head of iceberg with dressing on it.
TLDR; Well for LLMs there is a hype cycle that the author presupposes we are coming up to. So they have rediscovers the concept of a AI winter.

LLMs are also built upon Reddit so it is interesting that the author says people are going back to Reddit. At that point why not have OpenAI buy Reddit and just operate it at a loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter?wprov=sfti1
"The areas where AI has been implemented make clear how poorly it performs.

AI potentially creates a situation where millions of people can be fired and replaced with bots—so a few people at the top continue to promote it despite all these warning signs.

But even these true believers now face huge legal, regulatory, and attitudinal obstacles"

They are saying that AI performs poorly, that it threatens to automate millions of jobs, and that it faces challenges by people who are fighting against it.
The fastest variant I know of this algorithm is the one found at https://stackoverflow.com/a/3796442/6899 :

import itertools as it
def erat3( ):
D = { 9: 3, 25: 5 }
yield 2
yield 3
yield 5
MASK= 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0,
MODULOS= frozenset( (1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29) )

for q in it.compress(
it.islice(it.count(7), 0, None, 2),
it.cycle(MASK)):
p = D.pop(q, None)
if p is None:
D[q*q] = q
yield q
else:
x = q + 2*p
while x in D or (x%30) not in MODULOS:
x += 2*p
D[x] = p
Reminds me of a story where a persons first or last name is “Null” and the system couldn’t handle it. Apparently a very common name in Lebanon or some other non-Western country
It really looks like ChatGPT suffered from some form of "initial over hype syndrome". I'm not underestimating it, actually I think the application of transformers to do what ChatGPT is capable of doing is something really impressive, novel and caught the world by surprise. I'm sure we'll find many equally impressively good applications for it.

But people eventually found its limitations. And did it quite fast. People learned that it is not as trustworthy as initially thought and it is also very convincing when it is wrong. It maybe very interesting to generate texts, to startup small code for functions, to query information it has "cataloged", find some trivial mistake, make suggestions and... well, not much more than that. It may save time to boot projects, but it is not capable of managing anything larger than its "memory".

I think people are now actually more impressed by things it can't do easily. It can't play hangman, chess, tic-tac-toe... It got the phase of the Moon wrong when I asked it "What was the phase of the Moon when John Lennon was killed".

So, once people get hit by one of its mistakes or limitations, it sticks more than the "impressive part". That means, people will certainly ask themselves "Should I trust a thing that can't even play tic-tac-toe?"
The OpenAi CLI does that, follow the instructions https://github.com/openai/whisper
Love BEopt! It’s definitely a favorite in the “construction nerd” community (such as https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/). I used it quite a bit in making design choices for an extensive renovation on my own home.
Strikes me as way, way premature to be making such strident conclusions at this stage. We have barely even got to the point where orgs can run these models in-house on their own data, which is where the strongest perceived benefits have been proposed.

I’m something of a skeptic myself. I’m not convinced LLMs are as disruptive as the hype says. But they’re not nothing, and it’s still early.
I have a similar problem with a different background. Great pension and salary with a stress-free job that I leave at home.

It's also a problem with the modern world. We lack community, we lack physical, important work, and we spend our lives doing only one thing (programming). No matter what part of the industry you're in, this is going to get boring after a while.

My take is that there's no way around it - if you want excitement you're likely going to experience more stress. If you want stability, security, and a stress-free lifestyle you're going to be in a malaise with a bit of unease. There's no real silver bullet here beyond defining what you value, what your long-term goals are, and enjoying the ride toward those goals.
> ow I have cash in EUR that I not only overpaid insanely for because of the ATM , but I also can't use it in Norway

Ha, well you'll have a heart attack when you look at your visa statement and realized that visa can charge even worse rates for currency conversion than ATM's do.

Plus visa charges the vendor a fee( around 2ish%) that has to be born by the buyer and seller. Cash doesn't have this built in tax.

Now I'll admit I have no idea bout Norway, so maybe you have some special way to pay with zero transaction fees and have the cash show up instantly with no holds on the payment ever, if so, good for you guys.
I feel this might be more of a mild 'Trough of disillusionment' in the hype cycle than a real shrinking of demand. The other thing with ChatGPT specifically is that during really high usage times, its usability was impacted, so may have driven off some users. Also, ChatGPT has been RLHFed to death. Outside of regular corporate or homework like use cases, the output often feels bland and overspiced with adjectives. I hope other competitors can come up with models that are not so Politically Correct and more creative even if at the risk of offending a user or two.
Probably to not break existing sites.
It doesn't help (especially Bing AI) is so restricted, politically correct, moralist, conformist.
Thus the joke that Russia's history can be summarized as "and then it got worse".
Using facial recognition to catch someone who's been getting away with a crime for decades. I would be opposed to using facial recognition in public like they do in China, but if we're just trying to flag potential fraud by matching two IDs with the same face, then I don't have a problem with that. It's not collecting any new data that the government didn't already have; it's just analyzing the data faster than a human could.
Oof, I thought we banned thalidomide.

I wonder if their pose detection/interpolation struggles for rarer poses, eg "kneeling with legs splayed leaning forward" is quite specific in saucy contexts and fairly sparse in more typical model shoots, so the manifold gets a bit holey, and overlaps with similar poses like one knee up, one hand forward.
but ... can they mint the token?
They have killed around 100k innocent Ukrainians, I don't think they care much.
David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero
Agree it has nothing to do with AI. Even if we, for the sake of argument, agree that human beings are machines, why should the appearance of human-mimicking reasoning imply sentience above and beyond any other (complex?) computation? Why are LLMs possibly sentient and not, say, pocket calculators?
was it really their "fault" if the records weren't properly stored that the insiders could get access to it?
So the article makes the economic argument, that it's easy to grow and ship. Which has been the main/economic argument all along. They don't compare it to anything else except kale, which has been a fad the past decade that I've never really understood. (I like kale for several different uses, but the zeitgeist has been absurd.) The article makes no mention of the dozens of different varieties of lettuce or hundreds of varieties of other greens that have higher nutritional content and an incredibly broad variety of flavors. It doesn't even talk about the many other uses of iceberg lettuce beyond wedge salads. Pretty shallow article overall. Perfect for social media.
How do you avoid wasting your time doing interviews with companies that have no intention of paying you what you expect without disclosing some form of salary range upfront?

I've generally taken what I want to make in the role and added 20% to it as a starting point. While this might limit me, it also keeps me from doing 100 onsite interviews only to discover their max is 2/3 of my expected comp.
Oh yeah, that's completely an accident, no foul play involved. Nope.
My comment is about NOT using the number row, so your repetition is not a relevant response
Yeah. I love to use iceberg lettuce, but it's 100% for texture and freshness. It has virtually no flavor at all. But that's what makes it such a great vehicle for other delicious flavors to put on top of it. I have to assume that's what the author meant to say, because I had the same double-take at that sentence.
If money is the bottleneck then we will never get AGI. A superior machine intelligence would have no use for money.