skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm convinced that global warming is a threat. But I'd rather watch the world burn than listen to people who fly around in private jets or own mega mansions tell a regular person like me what steps I need to take to cut my carbon emissions. It may be irrational, but I just don't care.
> People say that "they are literally Markov chains", but anyone who has looked at the code for LLMs knows that they are more complicated than that.

They are literally Markov chains according to the mathematical definition. The code is complicated. Having complicated code doesn't mean it's not literally a Markov chain.

> I implemented Markov chains in BASIC in about ten lines of code in the 1980s on a 1 Mhz 64K Apple II after reading about the famous Mark V. Shaney hoax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney). No neural nets or fancy GPUs required.

I don't doubt this. You can make a Markov chain by just counting the frequency of letters that follow each letter giving one that has a context window of one or two characters. That is a very simple Markov chain. You can make it by hand. You can make ones with more context window like a dozen characters or a few words, using sophisticated smoothing and regularization methods and not just frequency counts. Those are also simple Markov chains that you can do without neural net or GPU. Then you can also make a Markov chain that has a context window of thousands of tokens that is made from neural nets and massive training data and differentiable tensor computing libraries with data centers full of hardware linear algebra accelerators. Those are some even bigger Markov chains!

> LLMs are way more complicated than simple Markov chains.

That's true, they are more complicated than simple Markov chains, if by simple Markov chains you mean ones with small context window. LLMs are Markov chains with large context window!
I thought you meant "domain" like a field of work or study.
Yup. And it always was, near as I can tell. For a long time it’s been about the PR and how it ‘feels’ when selling the law though, not about actually solving a real problem.

The reason why Law Enforcement is never going to do that is because they regularly run across criminals that are already better armed than they are. LAPD started carrying AR-15s (and for many units full auto M4s) because of the North Hollywood bank shootout [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout] for instance. And there have been many instances since then.

This isn’t a theoretical concern for normal folks either, even in the Bay Area. Just a few years ago, there was an attempted home invasion robbery in Sunnyvale by someone armed with what clearly would be classified as an assault rifle in CAlifornia, with what looked like a drum magazine.

[https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/police-2-armed...]

Both are major felonies to possess in California. Which, of course, isn’t likely to stop someone who was clearly intent on committing several felonies already. They never caught them, so it wasn’t clear if it was fully automatic or not. Thankfully the owner was suspicious enough it didn’t turn into an actual home invasion, and Sunnyvale has enough bored cops the perps bugged out before they could force the issue.

But this isn’t that unusual or isolated of an incident. And very few places are as well run as Sunnyvale.

The laws definitely stop anyone law abiding from having something similar.

So why should someone law abiding be willfully handicapped against something like that? Cop or civilian?

We can argue training or licensing, burden of proof to show you’re law abiding, or whatever - but that’s not the state of the situation in CAlifornia as I’m sure you’re aware. Or most of the other states where possession of those things is illegal. It’s just flat out illegal - unless you work for the police, anyway.
android 6 runs on phones dating back to 2013.

Thats 10 years ago, and only 5 years after the very first iPhone (2007)

6 was a milestone, because it was the first to actually feature restricted app access to contacts/microphone/camera.

facebook, twitter, linkedin and a load of others (especially facebook games) got where they are from stealing everyones contacts via that method and then spamming them with adverts. TF those days are behind us.
You're missing a bunch of very important stuff in that page you linked to. See what they listed as the culprits:

> strings being passed as char* (using c_str()) and then converted back to string

> Using a temporary set [...] only to call find on it to return true/false

> Not reserving space in a vector

c_str() isn't there for "good performance" to begin with; it's there for interfacing with C APIs. RAII or not, GC or not, you don't convert to/from C strings in C++ unless you have to.

The other stuff above have nothing to do with C++ or pointers, you'd get the same slowdowns in any language.

The language has come a long way since 2014. Notice what they said the solutions are:

> base::StringPiece [...]

a.k.a., C++17's std::string_view.
But you have to put that capital in anyway because house leverage is amortizing. Margin debt is not.
Are there any examples of 3rd tier cities becoming 1st tier?

The situation seems the opposite, the NYC/SF/LA/London/etc are entrenched.
"The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus": https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bam...

> An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming. A review of the literature suggests that, on the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking as being one of the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales.
This may seem like a dumb question: Do we know how much Intel is paying? I can understand Intel wanting to invest.... but at what price and how much? Because I could imagine Softbank (who seem pretty desparate at this point) punting off big chunks of the company at a discount simply to try and trick retail into inesting. It's certainly not ethical, is it legal?
The majority of these LLMs are not cutting edge, and many of them were designed for specific purposes other than answering prompts like these. I won't defend the level of hype coming from many corners, but it isn't fair to look at these responses to get the ceiling on what LLMs can do -- for that you want to look at only the best (GPT4, which is represented, and Bard, which isn't, essentially). Claude 2 (also represented) is in the next tier. None of the other models are at their level, yet.

You'd also want to look at models that are well-suited to what you're doing -- some of these are geared to specific purposes. Folks are pursuing the possibility that the best model would fully-internally access various skills, but it isn't known whether that is going to be the best approach yet. If it isn't, selecting among 90 (or 9 or 900) specialized models is going to be a very feasible engineering task.

> The 12-bar blues progressions seem mostly clueless.

I mean, it's pretty amazing that they many look coherent compared to the last 60 years of work at making a computer talk to you.

That being said, I played GPT4's chords and they didn't sound terrible. I don't know if they were super bluesy, but they weren't _not_ bluesy. If the goal was to build a music composition assistant tool, we can certainly do a lot better than any of these general models can do today.

> The question is will any of these ever get significantly better with time, or are they mostly going to stagnate?

No one knows yet. Some people think that GPT4 and Bard have reached the limits of what our datasets can get us, some people think we'll keep going on the current basic paradigm to AGI superintelligence. The nature of doing something beyond the limits of human knowledge, creating new things, is that no one can tell you for sure the result.

If they do stagnate, there are less sexy ways to make models perform well for the tasks we want them for. Even if the models fundamentally stagnate, we aren't stuck with the quality of answers we can get today.
@dang

Id bet probably the same IP addy as the other troll on this thread
Property tax as a share of property value is lower, but property tax revenue as a share of total taxation is similar.
One of the first things I do when I test aggregator sites like this one is to look for the RSS feed. I may have missed something but I did not find one here - could that be added? It would make it much easier to integrate into my normal 'news flow' which is more or less entirely built around RSS feeds presented through Nextcloud News [1]. I can scrape sites which do not provide their own feed but that is tedious and just increases the load on those sites.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news
Tokio uses a pool of threads for disk I/O because it uses the synchronous calls of the operating system.
Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Bun and React
Yes type checkers are a domain of study. Basically any domain where mathematica needs to integrated into the end result as is.
I love my cargo pants. I carry so much stuff. I'd have to carry a backpack everywhere if it weren't for my many pockets.
I'm sure this is very important and so on and so forth. But we really need to find some way of communicating this stuff more "bite sized". Every few days over the summer scienticians predict that all life in the universe will be violently exterminated if we don't tax meat - and it's probably true, but it's just too loud, and too boring.
That's true. GPT still can't code without supervision.
>The issue is at the municipal level (mainly), and the provincial level (less so).

The municipalities are creations of the province so personally I would assign them just as much blame. The provinces have the most power to address the issue but seem to be happy to hide behind the Feds and Cities.
New evidence suggests Dingos are actually ‘mostly’ (for the meaning of the word where most is more than 50%) just dingo:

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/29/resea...
Be Wary of Temu: What You Should Know Before Making a Purchase!
This is it. Europe itself is domesticated and there's very little wild left here. Other places, less so.
When does async/await ever make your program harder to maintain? Maybe to people who don't already know it, but almost all the big languages have async, it would be hard for a programmer to get away with not learning it, at least if they're a python of JS programmer.

It adds complexity, but it's at the level where you don't have to think about it. If you're doing something advanced enough to where async is a leaky abstraction, you're probably doing something big enough to where you would want the advantages it offers.

If you're doing something simple, async is just a black box primitive that is pretty easy to use.
> The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line.

Do you have any evidence? It certainly is not true for the major platforms like Facebook or Twitter where the aerosol reality was widely discussed - in fact that was an increasingly vocal source of criticism of the WHO and CDC after the scientific evidence consolidated on airborne transmission (say roughly March 2020).
I’m a Canadian and I also “support” the truckers in that I acknowledge their role in ending pandemic restrictions in Canada.

That does not mean I support their politics, their head organizer stated goals, or anything else whatsoever.

I empathize with Ottawans on being inconvenienced by their actions; even I saw some of that with protests happening in Toronto. But overall, that was a small price to pay compared to years of pandemic restrictions.

Someone will now tell me that the truckers weren’t at all responsible for ending restrictions, and that they just coincided with loss of public support for restrictions. That’s fine - there was a lot of anger going around and maybe the trucker convoy was a symptom not a catalyst for it.

At the very least, maybe governments will be a little more cautious implementing such egregious restrictions next time around.
Anybody can say anything on the internet...

Because of all your flagged dead posts. It's literally impossible to navigate this thread.

Takes more than one person to flag a post to a dead status also.

Best of luck to you!
every time I see a missing pet poster in California that's what I think of

occasionally you'll hear a harrowing mad scramble in the street, and I'm thinking "it's happening"
as a north african i second this sentiment, a vile and barbaric people for the most part, but will put on a good show for the tourists.
I don’t think this is true. Context managers call special magic “dunder” methods on the instance (I don’t remember the specific ones), and I’m pretty sure those don’t get called during regular garbage collection of those instances. It’s been a few years since I was regularly writing python, so I might be wrong, but I don’t believe that context manager friendly instances are the same as Rust’s Drop trait, and I don’t think their cleanup code gets called during GC.
do any of the async libraries for rust have good visualization tools for inspecting the implicit state machine that is constructed via this type of concurrency primitive?
I agree with your sentiment, but want to point out the irony of choosing ignorance after being insulted as ignorant.
Sounds pretty close to what the GPLv3 does, doesn't it?
Don't look up!

But seriously, what relevance does a minority scientific hypothesis (even in the 70's, the majority of climate science focused on global warming from greenhouse gasses, not cooling from aerosols) from 50 years ago have when better data and 50 more years of experience show a clear warming trend, that is entirely anthropogenic, and which is today causing deadly heat waves, wildfires, flooding, storm surge, and more?

Your weather forecast for next week is already impacted by the global warming that has already happened.
2014, isn't that pre-C++11 in Chromium?
Both stats are recounting the past, filling in a blank slate with meaning.

15% of adults Work From Home most days, also 45% had Worked From Home at least once a week in a month.

It's not to prevent bad things, it's to cover up an already existing spillage of bad things.

Most aussie communication is this way, the meaning is provided top down, and the logic is adjusted to make sure the meaning is the priority. Plain language and intellectual 'brevity' and silence when the meaning is ambigious, is often mistaken for the communication lacking real content.

The exact opposite of 99% of articles here, where the concept is repetitiously over-described / buried in a cultural analogy / stretched across a metaphorical academic paper, and the reader has to figure out what the author means by deciphering the idea.

For example, it is ambigious whether not the life satisfaction survey was caused by remote work or not, but who cares?

It's the same meaning either way.

The knowledge in the article is taken as a subjective study, relative to the people who did the study, and the official process has the final say in the end.

The structuring of logic and rhetoric is not required to be objectified into flattened concepts.. as it is over the ocean, in the US.

When it comes to structuring knowledge work.

Aus is like a lower Britian - you can subjectively shape your work, but not to the highest degree.

The US is like a lower Germany - you receive an objective structure for the work, but not completely, there is room to be Not Sure.

So uh yeah, the article is doing it's job,
conveying a meaning without extra fluff.

Uhh why did I write this.
The thing about R & D is that most of the time what's needed is overcoming difficult but important milestones if not accomplishing actual major breakthroughs.

Failure on the preliminary R & D can be a complete show-stopper before you even get started.

OTOH with such limited, poor & incorrect documentation pertaining to the hardware & software, especially in combination with each other, a strong background in the Experimentation & Discovery aspect of R & D is often the only way to achieve your objective when the intended initial logical approach fails to perform as it is supposed to do. This need can penetrate beyond maintenance all the way to end-of-life.

One reason maintenance can chew up so many man-hours.
We can probably reduced-population our way out of this.
Individual actions of sacrifice never solve these things anyway.

We'll stop burning fossil fuels when it's good for us personally. Whether by cheap clean new tech or taxes/regulations.
I think they are referring to a 1031 exchange.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0110/10-things-t...
What I see is a warmongering administration that wanted to go to war and was going to pick any reason to do so. Yes Google was the convenient excuse, but if Google didn’t do that, they would have found the next excuse.

Let’s look at the Russia situation now. Google didn’t draw Ukraine as part of Russia. And yet Putin found some reasons anyway.
Worse is hearing rich first world people imply that we can’t let the billions of poor in Asia or Africa have what we have. “Yeah we know we colonized you and all, but can you stay poor to save the world?”

Of course this won’t happen. Their answer will be “fuck you.”

There is only one conceivable way to stop this: we must have sources of energy that don’t emit carbon that are objectively cheaper and more practical than those that do. Then we must make them abundant and frictionless to adopt. They have to be the easy path, not burning fossil fuels.

If we can’t do that we need to prepare for the effects of 800ppm or more CO2 concentrations. India and Africa are about to do what China did and if it’s powered by coal that’s where we are going.

Those are the two options. Anything else is a fantasy.
Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but tokio-console is pretty nice
I'm not in Australian and I know Australia has a fairly unique ecosystem and this necessitates different laws than other countries. Similarly weird laws exist in every country. For example in my area it's specifically illegal not to provide heating of a specific quality to tenants, because we have a season called "winter" where temperatures drop enough to be deadly.
Please be precise in what you think “the laptop story” was and what hard evidence is available for any of those claims.
Using Ligatures as Icons on a Website
The beautiful complexity of the US radio spectrum
In Japan, mostly wondering if this will be the big one? After a decade of minor earthquakes they’re mostly annoying.

It has given me a lot of faith in the construction of my house though.
Hopefully we can develop society to the point where ecological concerns are no longer seen as superfluous
Nice example of supply/demand and why we just need to build more units.
You are assuming that the article would actually increase my knowledge
[EDIT: Unflagged, see discussion]

I almost never flag submissions. Yet, I flagged this because:

- it’s not a Show HN;

- it’s a list of job offers, not posted in ‘Who is hiring?’ as is customary;

- none of these open positions are actually in engineering.
You say that as though bureaucracy is equivalent to formalism. It's not.
I agree that a lot of that happens in the real world. I disagree that RAII is not used in the real world. I worked on a very large codespace for ATM client software and we used it pervasively, and the only memory leak we had in my time there was in a third-party library which ... required the careful reading of documentation you mentioned.
A loan which you have to pay back with interest. So unless home prices are rising faster than interest rates, you're losing on that deal
Sure, but this argument is for simulation theory... not what is described here.

What I'm suggesting is that the calculation never needs to be done, which means the complexity of it does not matter. Whether it's O(1) or O(a^N) they're both far smaller than the infinite number of potential states.
You can keep cats out of an area with electric wires.

If you want perfect, 100% exclusion you will need three hot wires:

- one about 4" below top of fence, but only 2" out from the face of the fence

- one at roughly top of fence, but 4" out from the face of the fence

- one 2" above the top of the fence, in line with the face.

... which gives you a negative (?) overhang for a climber and the top wire is insurance that they can't somehow reach/slink over the first two.

100% success over 36 months against families of raccoons who were irresistibly attracted to (otherwise) defenseless chickens. Yes, raccoons > cats both physically and mentally.
A monopoly can be more efficient if it passes its operational savings to customers instead of collecting profits. Unfortunately profits before all else (even long term risk mitigation) is the business outlook of this era.
This must be true since models with limited replay value other than gazing at its built state and maybe mesmerizing the fun of making it (cfr the ikea effect) seem to do well. It puzzles me.
Chinese people cook cats and dogs, Australia should allow more immigrants. Chinese mafia also lends them money to start business in other countries like restaurants. And China's covert overseas police that operates in each city controls them. It's a win-win situation. /s
Yeah, I have tried a number of instructions to try to keep ChatGPT from blabbering and from sounding like a PR person. I haven't found the perfect incantation yet.

> It's interesting to see 20th century sci-fi depictions of this kind of AI/Search is being short and to the point.

Sci-fi told us that the AI would be so logical that you could just say a paradox aloud and it would blow up. What we got is something that can compose love poems all day but can't add three-digit numbers.
The fact that people with diabetes make up any notable percentage of Tim Horton's customers is scary.
The big equalizer is the opportunity cost of not being able to find an income stream if you lose your current one, or the cost of not being able to find better income streams.

Call it volatility, and it is not easily calculable as a number. I can get a job move to cheap Topeka, KS, but how much does the volatility cost me if I lose that job or I get laid off, etc.
. . . but that's exactly what a bot would say!
Tell them to use chatgpt to translate their broken English
Survey: 51% of Gen Z women (US) prefer TikTok, not Google, for search
“run in a threadpool” isn’t the same as creating a thread though
> They came back empty handed.

The solution (in my opinion) is simple. Increase taxes on unearned income and balance that with decreased taxes on earned income (i.e. productive activity). Unfortunately this looks like political suicide in a climate where a large portion of the population has gone all in on a strategy of investing in unearned income.

We've embraced the exploitative aspects of capitalism at the expense of the creative aspects and it has made our societies sick and fragile.
> Software is never really finished and often has to be hosted and maintained on an ongoing basis.

I have no problem paying for updates, as long as the product would keep working without an active subscription (what happens if there’s no connectivity, servers are down, the provider goes bakrupt or change its terms?)
They should just charge for power variance or correlation in addition to energy.
Alternatively: people care more about this stuff than ever before. So who’s to say that your preferred communication style is actually what will move the needle?
Was rubber (epdm?) mentioned btw?
I don't know if Kathryn Cawdrey has a private jet or not, but even if she does I'd still welcome any work she does that helps the world.
This is related to them rescinding a bunch of offers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37433681