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Ignore the specific example of counting characters, I was just quickly coming up with a situation where the instruction is at the end of the input. Here is a better example:

Input the full text of a novel, then ask for a minor detail (eg color of a car that is briefly mentioned in the middle of the book). Again a human can do this by flipping back to the relevant section but LLMs have no mechanism for this when using a sliding window attention scheme.

If the full input can fit in the context window then any LLM today would be able to extract the color of the car.
The issue is they require their co-workers to do something they don't want to do. It's not a purely individualized desire.
> Indeed. It's rare to see real-world scenarios where thousands of items are mass-manipulated on the client side. They exist, but rarely.

I'm not sure this is correct. Almost all apps that I write that display live data are built by replacing the whole client-side array with updated server-side array data, and the other commenters seems to work similarly. With your current approach I'd have to write a complete diffing logic to modify the array in-place locally, especially if I don't want child components to be re-mounted.
Not few none. People need to share files, tabs, messages, mails. If you can share the things people actually want shared then sharing the clipboard itself has zero value.
You get companies, but they are all resellers. The listings are all worded like advertisements and stuffed with thumbnails, etc, in the style of banner ads.

None of the results point to manufacturers, reviews or other classes of articles.

Ironically, you get better results with the thing they apparently used to rewrite to.
Sure and how do you install Python 3.12 on RHEL 8 without compiling it from source?
That's fair. I interpreted "no walls" as "open borders" but you're right that there are ways of enforcing limitations on immigration that aren't physical barriers at the border.
I'd be interested.

Most likey you'd see a lot of people saying that somehow getting rid of voice actors is good for "progress". Whatever that means.

Random aside someone really needs to make a hackernews that focuses more on game development and other arts so blog posts like your talking about would have a proper community to discuss them with.
> As someone who is likely funding what is ultimately a money/power grab, if I'm paying for education, I want it to be for degrees that have direct, immediate impact: educators, doctors, hard sciences. While there is a possibility of funding the education of the next great novelist, sociologist, artist, or historian, there will never be a return on that investment for the vast number of students in those fields. I don't know why we'd force that risk on the public.

Do you also feel this way about public high schools? Personally, I just think that a world in which everyone has access to education is a better world for everyone.

> Colleges (public or private) are too good at absorbing any money that is made available to them, to be trusted as being fiduciaries of public education, IMHO. As student loans and public money are made available, they have raised tuition to fill the gap without providing any additional benefit for their increased incomes.

Agreed, but this is a problem than can and must be solved. Public universities are nowhere near as bad in this regard as private ones and are thus the best place to invest.

> For the second one, the only thing that mucking with a private institutions admissions process will do is turn it into a public institution that is no longer elite. They're private, let them do what they want.

Private universities are deeply embedded in our society as gatekeepers to positions of power and thus the public has a legitimate interest in how their admissions process works (not to mention that they receive large amounts of public funding). If getting rid of legacy admissions means that they are "no longer elite" (to be clear it should make them more "elite" in terms of actual research and academic performance, but possibly less elite in terms of controlling access to money and power) that's an outcome I'm happy to see.
Nobody "needs" to "spend" anything. And nobody bathes in a pool of ducats either. When a family or a person owns, say, 20% of a luxury goods company, that "money" is not available for anything else (like say, buying islands). It is displacing an equal amount of other money that you are then free to invest in a local coffee shop. Perhaps even found a luxury goods company yourself. All that ownership is not dead money. It's held productively. Keeping thousands of skilled workers producing billions of dollars' worth of, erm, gold-pressed trinkets. Basically none of any of the various amounts of money spread around these five lines is dead. And the little that is dead - is irrelevant to you or me (because when divided by the world's population, it comes down to a few coffees.)
RNNs are the correct solution, but infeasibly expensive to run.

A different way to think about it is Transformer models are trying to predict which part of the RNN network is "worth" keeping given a resource constraint.

Transformers use a simple heuristic today (and this result makes the heuristic better). Just like many NP complete problems, there might be approximations that are not perfectly correct but still useful. Transformers prove that is the case for neural networks.
>Where's the data?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/28/t...

"Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The boost to efficiency had instead become a 4% decline."
Wild. A good highlight of, to me, perhaps the most glaring bit of BS when it comes to our cell phones et al -- the idea that just about anything in association with the tech could get lost or stolen.

These things are near perfect tracking devices, yet things like this happen; or even siller, Apple et al pretending that they couldn't (easily-but-at-a-loss-of-revenue) more-or-less never have any such thing as "a stolen iPhone."
Ask HN: How to keep pointer position on mission control? [SOVED]
Does anyone know how to prevent the mouse from automatically jumping to desktop list when you open mission control on Sonoma? Before the Sonoma update the mouse position stayed put when you opened mission control instead of automatically jumping to the list of desktops. It is driving me crazy.
Lol. So even the dumb version actually did your task, just not in a very convincing or "genuine" way. Pattern matching can be used for inference and GPT-4 does it very effectively. 3.5 turbo is relatively brittle and maybe 20 IQ points lower. But still, it did your task.

Anyway, it will only be a year or two before things like tree search over problems spaces are explicitly integrated into models or systems similar to this. Deep Mind may have already done something like that.
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What if my "Favorite LLM" is GPT4? I don't want to use Llama or anything like that. Does this GitHub code let me use the OpenAI API and run the new memory technique on top of that?
I keep being surprised how much this is true. Sometimes my conversations start in chat / PR, but once there's some disagreement, I tend to postpone them until I see the person face to face, because it's way easier to arrive at a mutually agreeable solution this way. I think it's possible to avoid unnecessary conflict even over text, but it takes special care, sometimes even extra (social) skill.
I absolutely believe in U.S. malfeasance; but if there's all this oil seizure going on, where's the payoff?
I once used Google Lens to try to identify a weird defect to some grass in my yard. Instead, I got a bunch of results trying to sell me grass seed. This article doesn't tell me much I didn't already expect but it's interesting and hopeful to hear this is coming up in court!
I think many people believe you. The main advantage of transformers over RNNs is training parallelization. RNNs are hard because training suffers from vanishing gradients and also because it's hard to get full utilization (needs large batches to get good utilization).

The existence of models like RWKV indicates that there is potentially a future in training like a transformer but inferring like an RNN.
Do you know of all Chromebooks have cellular modems? It seems like it would be a basic requirement but the article doesn't mention anything.
https://archive.ph/kfb6n
If they are using their real voice, then they kind of screwed themselves. If they are performing a character voice, then at least they only lose out on that kind of work.

I'm guessing contracts will need to be updated to say that a character's voice made from AI can't be used so a completely different production cannot say they have the actor attached for publicity purposes.
At https://peps.python.org/pep-0701/#motivation

> When f-strings were originally introduced in PEP 498, the specification was provided without providing a formal grammar for f-strings. Additionally, the specification contains several restrictions that are imposed so the parsing of f-strings could be implemented into CPython without modifying the existing lexer. [...]

> The other issue that f-strings have is that the current implementation in CPython relies on tokenising f-strings as STRING tokens and a post processing of these tokens. This has the following problems: [...]

At https://peps.python.org/pep-0701/#rationale

> By building on top of the new Python PEG Parser (PEP 617), this PEP proposes to redefine “f-strings”, especially emphasizing the clear separation of the string component and the expression (or replacement, {...}) component.
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As a general question, what is the tech stack? Any interesting technical detail to share?

Are the guesses visibles for the creator of a game ("partida")? For everyone in the game?

It's very strange the graph on the right with random values. I saw it and I wonder which crazy pool they were extracted from, or if it was an average of all the guess from the users and the site has a weird bias. After refreshing I got another set of weird numbers, so I realized it is random.

It's nice to see the names of the candidates, after all the renaming I almost forget which party is which (specially in the provincial elections).

Are you planning something similar for the province of Buenos Aires?

<Edit>Are the games ("partidas") saved in cookies or if I forget the password the go away?</Edit>

For context: We use the popular vote count with a two round system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system The first two parties go to the second round (with some quirks about when to skip the second round). Now the 2dn and 3rd are close so nobody is sure what will happen.

PSA: If you live in another country and have no idea, just pick something like 35±5, 25±5, 30±5, 5±5, 5±5. It's not super accurate, but at least it will not look stupid.
> As an Australian who benefited from a great public college (or as we call it uni) if public schools were free and high quality what would motivate the demand for elite schools?

In San Francisco, where I live, some in the community are challenging smart kids tracking into exclusive experiences in public K-12 schools.

Among people who are eligible for tracking, tracking seems really popular. But the plurality seems really unhappy with it. So there will always be XYZ, a word I cannot use, in communities to de facto track in public schools, or sometimes there will be legacy admissions, or whatever.

Maybe you don't believe these stylized facts. Like you already sound like the same people in this community who want to end tracking: us vs. them. I know you probably don't actually want that, but you're the perfect example of a tipping point, expressing an eensy weensy amount of resentment for "elite school buddies," that somehow winds up in "end gifted programs." Surely you see that.
Looks like they work at Meta, but this is a scammy blind-referral submission scheme for them to refer random people to collect the $5k employee referral bonus. This is definitely discouraged.
> If everyone knows that return-to-office is bullshit why is there no data? If remote work is a great idea then why did so few companies adopt it after being forced to implement it during the pandemic? Virtually every company with offices in one form or another required their employees to show up at the office regularly (including my place of work). I don't have any data, but I'm assuming that most of these companies must have seen some productivity decrease or something or else they would have closed their expensive offices for good and let everyone work from home.

You're right, no one is sharing that data. But I think it's a pretty significant assumption that the decision to return to the office must therefore be being made based on some secret data and informed analysis that supports it. There's a tremendous amount of momentum to maintain the pre-2020 in-office status quo. That's the world that the people making these decisions know. Every member of the C-suite at my typical Fortune 500 company instead cites vague concerns over spontaneous connections and corporate culture. It certainly doesn't seem like it's based on data, but rather their desire to keep thousands of people working in the environment they happened to have thrived in.
I dont understand this "Lyft team" the article keeps on mentioning. Is this a team of Lyft employees? A team of unrelated people who organized to solve the "Lyft issue"? Lyft investigators?
That's because this one is a Chromebook Plus.

> In addition to new Chromebook Plus devices, some existing Chromebooks will qualify for an OS update to include the enhanced features found on Chromebook Plus devices in the coming weeks.

> See here for details on eligible devices.[1]

[1] https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/14128000?visit_...
Two observations:

Talent is one of the most overrated things I onow, and it nothing without preserverance and discipline. And being to function in a specific team. I say specific, because one teams toxic idiot can be another teams rockstar.

Assembly lines require much more skill and discipline than you may realize.
I mean, I don't dislike the concept personally. I actually really hate how HN strips them.

But the technical implementation? Yeah, that could have gone a lot better IMHO.

One must also wonder if some things really had to be added in the first place, e.g. for people kissing it's:

(person|man|woman)(skin-tone)? ZWJ <heart> ZWJ <kissing lips> ZWJ (person|man|woman)(skin-tone)?

This is NOT a complaint about that they added diversity as such, in principle I'm all for that, it's just that few seem to actually use these emojis, and both in terms of code and UI it all gets pretty complex; there's 98 combinations to choose from here.

I don't really get why <heart> or <killing lips> or <kissing face> isn't enough. That's actually what most people seem to use anyway, because who finds it convenient to pick all the correct genders and skin tones from the UI for both people?
I have a family member who does financial planning for high net worth people. She says these people's savings rates have been through the roof. My guess is these people are throwing off the average.
Local / online hybrid LLM’s could replace googling and Apple is in a great position to provide them. The scary question is how they will monetize this.
How to run it on phone??
I think you're taking my criticism of the license as an indictment of your personal licensing decisions. I don't really have a problem with you licensing your software the way you choose to. You mainly seem to take issue with the word "poison", that's how I see these licenses, but it was never intended to be about the morality of using them. I'm also not talking about whether businesses are being moral in their other practices unrelated to licensing, I am just saying it's NOT shocking or surprising that they avoid potentially harmful (to them) licenses even if they could maybe save money by doing so. Even if you think that they AREN'T harmful (to the businesses) that's clearly not the perception they have, otherwise companies are leaving free money on the table which I doubt most informed companies are willing to do.

I don't care to continue the conversation where you justify your actions to me, it's just not necessary. I just wish we would stop acting like it's confusing or we don't understand why businesses respond the way that they do when confronted with the decision to use AGPL software.

Maybe it's just a messaging/marketing problem, I don't know.
No, it does not
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I love how someone downvoted this two days after the fact.
(1) is a dumb conspiracy theory, the tech companies that pay rents
care about their own profits, not the profits of their REIT counterparties. The idea that evil capitalists sacrifice their own profits in order to boost other companies’ profits in the name of class solidarity is one of the sillier things people on the left believe. According to your theory of how capitalism works companies work Amazon and Walmart should be volunteering to pay their suppliers as much possible in order to boost their suppliers profit margins. Obviously that is not how the world works.
The problem is not that you need character composition for some writing systems. It's that there are no rules that would help with everything having an unique representation internally.

Even "put the code points forming the composed character in descending numerical order" would be better than nothing. If it was there from the start.

However, the Unicode commitee is too busy adding new emojis to make their standard sane.
We now have direct evidence that the ads people interfere with the product to bolster sales at the expense of the users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467

It's a near certainty this is happening in all parts of Google.
I recently wrote a blog post where I explained how I used Pinecone to build a chat with PDF app. Pinecone is a very powerful and useful vector database. If you develop LLM-based applications, and don’t want to write all the code to store and retrieve embeddings yourself, Pinecone is a good solution. I recently discovered an even better one.
I’ve used syncthing sporadically over the years, but it has had very bad iOS support whenever I’ve tried it.

Mobeus exists, but doesn’t integrate into the files app, and uses a lot of battery.

I also used Resilio Sync for years, but it appears to have more or less died out.

So when it came to finding a replacement I settled on using cloud native for synchronization, and simply put encryption on top, and for that, Cryptomator is great.
I haven’t used windows in a while but I thought it supported some form of cross-volume symlink? Or at least mounting an image stored on another volume to an arbitrary path.
Pocket computer with internet getting bombarded with messages you don't say
I've yet to hear any good arguments against this ban. Sounds like people are simply upset that this is being made into an issue? Which sort of suggests that it is, in fact, a real problem; since it implies that there are those who benefit from an existing status quo.

Interested to hear from the SA members of HN on this one.
Thanks for sharing your story! My goal was to have MVP as fast as possible; otherwise, I could lose interest in it. It is the biggest reason why I chose to use an existing parser instead of writing my own (I've initialized an empty Rust project on my OS for that )

Few things that I have in nice-to-do features list, but hard to implement without writing my own parser:
- edit nodes (with XREF table update)
- raw source editor
- show actual position in source
I don't really want to get into these kinds of arguments. But let's deconstruct the statement "Technologically, we’re seeing its cutting-edge kit destroyed by old NATO tech".

Why isn't all the new, cutting-edge equipment winning the war? Why isn't Ukraine capturing territory.

The US spent trillions in Afghanistan, with the best technology. It's 2023, and the Taliban currently control the country. To be a military superpower you have to actually win wars, not spend money and talk about them.
Ah, much appreciated.

+1 for descriptive titles (which are far from a universal norm here)
I really think some people are actually more productive in the office (myself included) (others are more productive at home, or lose enough productivity at home to make it a worthwhile trade off).

By now, though, a company has no excuse for not having sorted out who needs to be in the office in order to remain employed. It isn’t everyone, it needs to be handled on a case by case basis, and if a manager can’t figure out if their employees are producing anything after 3 years, what are they managing?