skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He who makes the logical argument must provide the burden of proof. Did OpenAI claim that their models didn’t regress while putting these new safeguards into place? If not, it feels like the burden of proof lies on whoever said that they did.

To be specific, the claim we are talking about here is “ChatGPT gives generally worse answers to the exact same questions than ChatGPT gave X months ago”. Perhaps for the subset of knowledge space you reference that updates were pushed to that is pretty easily provably true, but I’m more interested in the general case.

In other words, you can pretty easily make the claim that ChatGPT got worse at telling me how to make a weapon than it did 3 months ago. I could pretty easily believe that and also accept that it was probably intentional. While we can debate whether it was a good idea or not, I’m more interested in the claim over whether ChatGPT got worse at summarizing some famous novel or helping write a presentation than it was 3 months ago.
Chronic fatigue is a syndrome: a constellation of symptoms of unknown cause. Long covid has a similar description, but with a bright flashing arrow pointing towards a cause. Having experienced year-long brain fog and loss of executive function due to a flu, I'm hoping that a silver lining of covid is that we will have enough data and funding to actually pinpoint and treat the root cause. And, if I allow myself some optimism, it might point us towards drivers behind other syndromes of a similar nature.
You could at least try.
This is a speedrun on killing a company.

I adored Unity's tooling. After working with Godot on a project, I loved Unity even more.

I can't sanely recommend it to anyone at this point.
Well, ideally the road has been prepared in advance. But fighter aircraft are much easier on runways than heavier planes (bombers/cargo) because there's typically only one or two engines producing thrust. The F135-100 engine used in the F-35A puts out 43,000 foot-pounds (191 kN) when in afterburner.

In comparison, the B-52 has eight engines, each of which produce 17,100 foot-pounds (76 kN) for a total of 136,800 foot pounds (608 kN), and the C-17 (which is rated for rough-field landings) has four engines, with a total of 161,760 foot-pounds (720 kN).

But the most likely scenario is that larger planes will have their wings & engines extend beyond the sides of the pavement, and they'll tear up any grass and/or throw any gravel back behind them from the exhaust blast. The road surface is likely to be fine.
Put a lens cap on! Then shoot.
I would like to encourage any former or current Googler that believes they can help and would like to call the DOJ, select the option for the switchboard operator, and ask for the Criminal Division at (202) 514-2000.
The dumbest thing about Microsoft's "no game sharing" thing is that they could have just waited. Digital game sales made up 90% of game sales in 2022, which can't be shared.

People don't really seem to care about not being able to share games, but they hate being told they can't do something.
On 6th February 2020 Sure announced that it had no plans to upgrade domestic and small-business Internet connections to Fibre-Optic when the Equiano Cable arrives in 2022, meaning ordinary users would not see the full benefits of the new system.

Having their ISP refusing to connect customers to the long awaited fiber is the most Telco thing ever.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/bob-smith-is-finally-g...
While various post-acute infection syndromes may be lumped in the same category, they have differing pathologies & thus symptoms.

While there is a ME/CFS long covid subtype, there are many others as well. In other words, not everyone who has long covid suffers from fatigue.

It could be likely that the ME/CFS long covid subtype may share a common pathology with the varying CFS hypothesized pathogens(influenza, etc).
Yeah I agree. The main one for me is being able to make all the display elements smaller (I have good eyesight). iOS seems hugely zoomed in to me and the display scaling really helps show more information in information dense apps like spreadsheets.

I also really appreciate the network diagnostics you get from an app like NetMonster.
The problem is not the doing it in C, but the precisely matching the behavior of some existing code.
Antibodies were detected, not their activity. Here's the assay used: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/pdf/S2667-2375(22)... Measuring antibody activity is a lot harder than measuring antibodies, just being able to assess antibody targets in a high-throughput manner is a huge and very recent step forward.
Huh? I go through a half-dozen engineering pads a year. Even twentysomething new-hires at my site use them. No GUI can keep up, yet. And this comes from someone who loves to draw with Procreate on my iPad.
Ya I just linked above to an ars tech article
> disproportionate BookTok audience whose sales are driven this way are often written by pretty, white, well-off women.

Don't you have to be fairly well off to invest the time to write a book? Its a pretty big time investment with basically no garuntees. I imagine its pretty rare for poor people who work all day to be successful writers.

Not to mention a probably strong correlation in higher education in an area that is not all that useful for getting a job,probably further tips the scale to well off people.

Basically what i'm wondering, is it really disporportionate relative to the industry at large.
If you don’t mind, I’d love to hear a bit more. I feel like I’ve been pushing hard against my ADHD tendencies as well, very curious what it means and looks like to give in and flourish.
Well, sure, but shouldn’t some pedant have the time to dig up their ChatGPT history from 4 months ago to disprove the claim? Seems like it would be pretty easy to do and there are plenty of pedants on the internet but I don’t see the blogosphere awash of side by side comparisons showing how much worse it got
Yeah e-ink uses no power, only when it refreshes. If you refresh say from 7 AM till 11 PM but not in night then WLAN has to fire up (cheap on ESP32 etc) and you could easily use a poor man's powerbank such as 18650 in USB enclosure.

Tho I think PoE is neat for a device like this. White cable (assuming wall is white) and you're done.

Though I wouldn't rely on a proprietary solution. Nor on Google Calendar.

There are plenty of such options available. For example [1] but there's many more. Here another [2]. Can't find the one I got but yeah it broke and remember you need to update the software at times. I put it on a VLAN and guest WLAN to be sure.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/189632-e-ink-weather-station-pum...

[2] https://www.hackster.io/lmarzen/esp32-e-paper-weather-displa...
This is probably one of those areas where one symptom cluster (CFS) can be caused by several different things (COVID, autoimmunity, EBV, etc). So original causes may be different but they all converge on the same major symptoms.
https://www.colinandgarrett.com/
> Have never seen a company so quickly and completely just throw away all of their public good will.

This behaviour isn't really all that uncommon. An obvious recent example would be Boeing with the 737 Max.

To save a few bucks they've thrown away a quality process that was best-in-class. Only cost a few billion a few years later...

Our implementation of capitalism rewards only short-term thinking, that is why this behaviour persists.
This is my experience. What does it mean for the world when skilled programmers are 10x-ing their productivity?

Is it just more vacation?

Or do things change more profoundly?
Oh we're 100% on the same page. I whole heartedly believe the ideals behind democracy are meant to keep power in check, but we lost that before I was born.

I'd argue that I've never truly lived in a democracy, but I hope to one day. It's a system I would fight for if there were actually a semblance of a movement willing to stand up and say enough is enough. So far though I've been a bit sad, or maybe just disappointed, to see that the vast majority of our people don't seem interested in democracy, liberty, or individual freedoms.
The game is rigged. Becoming rich is more a function of either luck or inheritance than anything else.
Darn Tough has made some fairly consistently awesome socks up in VT for a couple decades now.
Not end it? That is pretty obvious.
Wow. Thank you. My 1st cpu finished after 20 hrs. I am trying to find time to set up next oldie and connect it. Finding or resetting passwords is becoming another challenge. Very much appreciate the tools suggestions.
What you mean?

Open source completely avoid this one problem. Apache-style development was created exactly for that.

You can complain that it's way overkill and a company doesn't actually need that level of assurance. But you can't claim it's not sufficient.
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And yet irrational numbers are real.
LTT just did a video[1] on an 25inch E-Ink display[2] that runs at 15Hz.

It worked way better than I thought it would and is a pretty decent size.

Little pricey.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXrJRpA0Jw

[2] https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/d...
By definition - isn't the market going to be dominated by successful participants?

Do you mean independently wealthy people? Long ago, this was definitely true - as you only knew how to read & write if you were rich, and you were definitely only buying books if you were rich.

Starting shortly after the printing press - yes, poor people weren't dominating the market. But it wasn't dominated by royalty (the vast majority of actual wealthy people of the time).

I don't know where you'd consider Alexandre Dumas - but he's kind of the typical successful writer from his generation. His family was somewhat upper-class, but definitely not wealthy for most of his childhood.

Charles Dickens was much less wealthy than Dumas. Mark Twain & Thoreau grew up definitely not in the upper class. Same for Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Dostoyevsky was not from wealth

Mary Shelley was wealthy. Jane Austen & Emily Dickinson were upper class - but not wealthy. But neither were highly successful during their lifetimes. The Bronte sisters were somewhat well off - less so than Austen and Dickinson - but not from a long-line of wealth, and even they weren't very successful in their lifetime!

Tolstoy AFAIK was the only super successful independently wealthy writer from the time. Poe, Melville, Henry James, and Victor Hugo were definitely well off, but "wealthy" seems like a stretch.

If you look at today - it is definitely not true. JK Rowling is by far the most successful author of the generation, and she was arguably poor before finding success with Harry Potter.

Suzanne Collins worked her way up from the bottom and had very middle class life before success with The Hunger Games.

Maybe you mean the majority of authors have not-poor spouses? They better! The median author probably makes less than $100 in their career as a writer.
This isn't true at all. We use them in scientific firmware all the time. Arduinos, pis, cortexes, you name it.
Sports are a relatively plug-and-play way to direct your kids in some pursuit. You don't have to fight the culture nearly as much. And if you want your kids to work hard on their pursuits, you can pay your way into a whole system with professional coaches, regular competition, and 20+ hours per week chasing something hard.

Similar ecosystems around music, ancient languages, math, or anything else seem rare or non-existent. So you may have to build the whole pathway yourself every night after you get home from work and get the kids to bed.
> My first "apartment" was a 100 square foot bedroom rented in a 4 bed / 2 bath unit with 3 other residents.

That's called having roommates, why do call it not code compliant? It's done all the time.
Seems like PostScript is too powerful for the security conscious world. This is probably a good move. It's unfortunate though, I liked PostScript and all the stuff you can do with it[1].

What's the new standard for vector graphics going forward? SVG? glTF?

[1] For example: https://uguu.org/src_udonge_ps.html
The statement that brains model patterns rests on the supposition that patterns to be modeled exist.
$750 or so
I've used it to inspect fence holes in my property, to show some technical maneuvering while 4x4ing, showing my family camping spots I stayed in, etc. It's a cool way to gather scenery.
Natural gas has a much higher ability to trap heat than equivalent volume of co2. It eventually turns to co2 without burning after ~12 years
They performed a caesarean section on it.
It could be due to the roman salute or something.
Exactly, I’m agreeing with wellthisisgreat’s salient point that every time we see (for example) driverless cars causing deadlock in a city we would best turn our attention to the flaws in humanity and the benefits that driverless cars bring us. For example, no Tesla has ever laughed at me for “putting too much corn in chili” !
Yeah, my phone is too big to fit in the little holster so it's always haphazardly put together.
GMod has built-in PIDs now??
It bugged me that they made no mention of torque. The manual is really clear on that part with a big warning:

> WARNING! Correct tightening force on fasteners (nuts, bolts, screws) on your bicycle is important for your safety. If too little force is applied, the fastener may not hold securely. If too much force is applied, the fastener can strip threads, stretch, deform or break. Either way, incorrect tightening force can result in component failure, which can cause you to lose control and fall. Where indicated, ensure that each bolt is torqued to specification. The following is a summary of torque specifications in this manual...

The seat collar also probably has the max torque printed on it.

When they asked if they had the right tool, I would have preferred to see an answer along the lines of "ideally you should be using a torque wrench. You can use the wrench you have currently, but be careful not to over tighten."
Way more than once. I think this would be 5 or 6...

Edit - Depending on what you count, this appears to be number 7?
https://firewalltimes.com/sony-data-breach-timeline/
It is plausible that it did not live up to reasonable expectations in some way. Equally likely that someone was being dishonest though.

Example: I once returned a board that I had cut in half. It was window trim with a shaped profile, and I had previously purchased and installed some of the same SKU before. When I went to install my freshly cut board next to the first ones, it was a little too obvious that it was from a different batch or manufacturer with a slightly different profile.
Meanwhile the actual working mathematicians, better known as engineers, still use geometry on weekdays.
>If I have paid for a service good off boarding is part of the service I am paying for.

Are you serious? "No off boarding" is Apple's entire business model.
A sign has no power to override laws.
I wonder why more java frameworks don't reuse the parsing from JSP, but just drop the servlett part. Though maybe that's not as easily done as said.
Good luck…40 years ago we were told we were going to have jet packs and food would be yeast based with all nutrients needed for the day in a single convenient cube by now.

Instead we got social media. Pretty sure if I am around in 30 years, I won’t be eating lab grown meat or yeast cubes and there will still be no jet packs for us consumers to be flitting about on avoiding traffic.
That’s basically the law in aviation — rivet everything. My college roommate was studying to be a pilot, and I swear half his first year he did nothing but rivet.
You've had 10 devices develop bloated batteries?

There has to be an environmental factor. Note 7 devices failed less consistently than that and they were eradicated from the market.
Is yours the 2012 or 2013? I think they resolved the storage issue in the 2013 model. Unfortunately, I had the 2012.
That's the "affordable housing" twist - housing could be 99% affordable in an area, and due to lack of supply, there could still be a housing crisis.
And isNan is a BAND and JNE effectively. It's cheap.
Intel has been running oneapi for several years, and as a long time user I assure you it's horrible to deal with. It's the only software I've dealt with that breaks other software. Every year or two I'd have to fully reinstall visual studio because it hopped in, messed up a bunch of files, and the uninstaller never works. It will also happily break your system python environment if you let it try. And did I mention it takes over an hour to run through their horrible installer that tends to break itself? Even under linux it would try to hop in and screw up system /bin and /sbin links because why not. They also shut down their old license validation portals so their older, working versions can no longer be installed. Intels dev tooling is absolutely the worst tooling around.
I buy 12 oz bags of ground coffee for $7.99 last time I bought it, which is up from $5.99 it used to be.

That'll last for a couple weeks, at 12 cups (actual cups) a day.

Coffee is my cheapest vices. I love coffee. When the pandemic hit, I stocked up on coffee.
Polls suggest large percentage of people are not TikTok users, as they vote in favour of banning it, or remain unsure.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3913503-more-than-40-p...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/31/by-a-more...
Strange considering Jodl surrendered to Eisenhower.
Update from the author 11 hours ago [0]:

This is now implemented. I will start doing
prereleases soon.
This will not be an ABI/API change.

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/35...
Scientists Invent Smallest Known Way to Guide Light
Have you tried the GE Big Boys series of appliances? They look built like tanks.
The actual reality is most students don’t have the cognitive horsepower for much past long division. I’ve seen adults struggle with basic algebra: “but what is X?” And so on. And that’s fine. Billions of people are going to live satisfying and fulfilling lives without ever knowing the chain rule.

Edit: I thought it was pretty advertent.
It strikes me as an ideal task for AI.
Ok so to clarify it’s not the international date line but the latitude? Which makes more sense to me because the international date line is not actually a straight line.
What would you consider a better activity to recommend to them then?

After all, if they're having trouble comprehending anything but the most basic of tropes and vocabulary, they're not going to be going for thought provoking TV shows, let alone movies, plays, concerts, or Toastmasters.

It's worth remembering that the average reading comprehension level in the US is still around Grade 7, so these "See Spot Run" books you so kindly reductio ad absurdum the argument down to are still likely to provide value for a lot of people.

And finally, this is what even a very low level of reading comprehension can do for a person. Please don't skip it just because it's on TikTok; if you read, you'll not only appreciate but feel kinship with this man's journey.

https://www.tiktok.com/@oliverspeaks1/video/7250131397644389...
>Tony advises against it, but eventually agrees, staking Davey with $50,000 for the game.

What does "staking with" mean here? It sounds like "loaning", but I've never heard this phrase.
F-strings have been the fastest ever adopted syntax change to Python, and is the overall most popular of the recent post-3.6 additions. That’s Python, but it shares similarities with Java in terms of numerous different ways of formatting strings.

They are very, very useful, but lots of people said similar things to you about not getting it. Then… they used them, I guess. \{} is not very verbose either, and the use of generic formatters is a really nice addition.
Honestly the processor speed in the Pixel 7s is plenty fast enough. I can't imagine getting any benefit from a faster processor. I'm sure faster is better in some sense but given that there's no perceptible lag or anything I'm not sure what you'd want it to be faster for. Chrome starts in around half a second, pages render quickly, etc.
Interesting, you are the only guy who has mentioned this. In this thread most people are baying for the blood and money of the rich, regardless of how they obtained their wealth. Not many are thinking of of the government taking away huge portions of one's savings through property taxes. ( and also vai inflation i.e printing money and income taxes)
It's possible to replace batteries. They are the only real wear part in a phone, so there's no reason a phone wouldn't work for many years if they're replaced every 2-3 years.
For anyone interested in the SR-71 (and other Cold War era spy planes), Skunkworks by Joe Rich is a fascinating read with lots of fun details about their development.

Also, fun fact - in 2025 we will cross over into a period of history where the SR-71 first flew closer to the Wright Flyer than to the present day.

Edit: Ben Rich, not Joe Rich. Thanks runjake!
I alwasy find it amusing that people on HN hate governments, big corps and banks so much... but when it comes to real money they trust these institutions full-heartedly (and downvote any alternative).
I agree grocery prices have been nuts recently. Canada recently completed a study on high prices that concluded there's not enough competition in the market [1]. They made some recommendations but nothing will be done lol..

My problem is that people are increasingly blaming technology for the failures of the government. Self driving trucks SHOULD make things cheaper. Having a robot do things that people used to do SHOULD help us all in the long run the same way washing machines do.

But when it doesn't, people have such low expectations of the government that they don't even consider that option. Like are we supposed to just stop all scientific and technological progress that could endanger jobs now, just freeze society in the state its at now?

The way I see it we need both levers, science and government to make progress. Lately the sentiment is we should burn down the half that works because the other half doesn't work. I think that's the wrong approach.

[1] https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/competition-bureau-canada/e...
The study of math in language is called semiotic, and thanks to a bunch of french poseurs it’s become a joke word among the genuinely intellectually curious. Nevertheless, attempts have been made to tie it all together, most notably by the brilliant and mostly forgotten Charles S. Peirce.

Whence the pragmatic maxim:

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

Pragmatically speaking, math is no more or less real than that.