skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Airbnb is a giant globo-monopoly.

So the actual choice isnt between globo-monopolies and small business. It's between monopolies that don't spread bed bugs and one that does.
Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
I'm not challenging this, but wondering if it's true; then, why have more British troops been commited to the region already; and why are the White House warning of the events already?
You're thinking of Xonix. I just tried it on DosBox, and it works:

https://archive.org/details/Xonix1984IlanRavAction
> Am I wrong?

Yes, you are doing grunt work that the machine is perfectly capable of doing and in theory has all the knowledge during the compilation stage. Sadly because of C++'s limitations it needs these monstrous macro solutions. Other languages let you use some function or intrinsic or whatever for that.
Companies like BCG and McKinsey are mostly about liability, as a CEO you call them, pay them the big bucks, have them make up plans and strategies, if it works out you get the credit, if it doesn't then well "we worked tightly with experts from McKinsey, etc. so the blame isn't on me"
Several of those aren't even new.
Airbnb has 8.4 billion in revenue and 16 billion in assets. They are not a "small business." Hilton's revenue is 8.7 billion and they have 15 billion in assets. Hilton also doesn't cause rental and home prices to rise.

People with enough money to buy homes to rent out as Airbnbs can buy or build small hotels with a little extra effort.
But what about the cool factor and showing off to your mates!?

That said I'm on a 2016 SE which is fine really.
This flight used not to go over iranian airspace.

https://www.flightradar24.com/QTR70N/323df5e6
I’m starting to think there’s an LLM equivalent to the old saying about how everything the media writes is accurate except on the topics you’re an expert in. All LLM output looks to be good quality except when it’s output you’re an expert in.

People who have no background in writing or editing think LLMs will revolutionize those fields. Actual writers and editors take one look at LLM output and can see it’s basically valueless because the time taken to fix it would be equivalent to the time taken to write it in the first place.

Similarly people who are poor programmers or have only a surface level understanding of a topic (especially management types who are trying to appear technical) look at LLM output and think it’s ready to ship but good programmers recognize that the output is broken in so many ways large and small that it’s not worth the time it would take to fix compared to just writing from scratch.
This is one step removed from "try different things until it works" style of programming.

Not to say you're of of those programmers, but it certainly enables those sorts of programmers.
this looks much like replicate. has anyone tried it(https://replicate.com/). How's the experience with cold start?

We have models that are crucial but do not require dedicated hosting. We are looking for an aws lambda type of service, but for a fine tuned llama2-13b. any suggestions? would try out Cloudflare AI too.
The headline "GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40%" is misleading since it implies that they became more productive in their actual work, when this is a carefully controlled study that separates tasks by an "AI frontier". Only inside the frontier did the "quality" of work increase by 40%, while they completed 12% more tasks on average.
The Astro version feels just like a SPA to me.
The frustrating one is when you've been telling management something for months (if not years), and the consultant comes in, and their report says what you been saying, and only then does the company finally do what you've been saying all along! Coulda saved the company 5-figures just listening to me. sigh politics.
Hey mate, you're tilting at windmills. Chill with the hyperbole, it'll be ok.
The article certainly didn't invent the term 'Centaur', but I haven't seen cyborg used in that way. It does seem a bit clickbaity.
> used as complements to time-based profilers, not to replace them

Sure. I also use hyperfine to run a bigger test as a user would see the system. I cross reference that with the instruction counts. I use these hardware metrics in a free CI runner, and hyperfine locally.
Behind the Bastards has a good couple episodes about Walter Freeman[1]. If you want a good review of exactly how fucked up lobotomies are and what kind of person decides “yeah I could jam an ice pick in a brain”, take a listen.

[1] https://spotify.link/rS6ePKIXvDb
Same, got it emulating an old tape recovery image of a vax 3100 m76.
> People with enough money to buy homes to rent out as Airbnbs can buy or build small hotels with a little extra effort.

I don’t see how this can be true. A half decent hotel in even cheaper parts of the US is going to cost $100k per key, and in any popular city, multiples more. Plus, if you want to buy a franchise from Hilton/Marriott/Hyatt, they are going to ask one of the owners to already have another hotel as a credit check.

Buying a house or condo, on the other hand, only requires a few hundred thousand, outside of the most expensive areas.

And building a hotel is a completely different ballgame than buying an existing property. Cities long ago stopped approving small motels to be built, and clearing the permits/buying the land/getting a construction loan/ensuring your GC does the job on time is a whole lot of risk.
If both civil and criminal cases determine truth why does one end up with different results?
Chemical cages could store hydrogen, expand use of clean-burning fuel
Asyncio Coroutines Faster Than Threads?
Which would have no effect on them actually. They aren't call bedbugs because it's their natural and only habitat.
Says more about how people will parrot the same phrase over and over for anything at all. It's just funny how you can predict a comment like this in every thread regardless of what it does.

"It says more about [insert]" anytime GPT does something just makes the phrase lose all meaning. Surely you have something meaningful to say?
Stable LM 3b4T, 20B LLM performance in 3B
Suppose smol language model
Most management consultants are useless. But there are some realities you must accept.

Number 1. In a team of 20-30 engineers there is only one extremely god "why is he with us" engineers who is great at technical stuff and being a people person. However, no matter how nice he is his approach to his job, it is a job and I will only drop hints how the management should be done. He doesn't care about where the company is headed because he plays video games, has a family and has a literal life. He doesn't care about management and taking on undue responsibilities. Moreover, the people up to has a label for him as an "engineer" does not see as a "manager".

For the rest of the engineers and managers, have also adopted the approach of "not my problem", you see a bizarre communication gap. Engineers working closesly with the product don't want to talk to their managers, becase the conversation goes like "if you know this so much, why don't you.... <a description of something results in more work that goes outside their JD>" and managers don't want to talk with engineers because "if you are you so interested, why don't you.... <a description of something results in more work that goes outside their JD>"

From this progressive distance between managers and engineers comes the "manaegment consultant". Management consultant have the upper management given flexibility of going back and forth between engineers and managers. They can have conversations with full flexibility but they are not bound to "why don't you...." phrases. They can talk with anyone and submit a report and take home 1 years worth of salary of managers/engineers in 1 month.

The conversation gap between product and business where management consultants come in. And the funny thing is that, management consultants target those "I don't want to but I should" work things and report to the upper management. They can do this so well, because they are not burdened with the "work" part.

Seriously, if you do some introspection, you will see there is plenty of things you know your company should do, but you don't want to voice them because it results in more work and in fact more risk. There comes a "good" management consultant who will discover those things and report to upper management who will create the system to get those jobs done.

That is my pitch if anyone wants a management consultant hire me. I am going to tell them why their company sucks in 20 different ways with 18 of those points being generated by ChatGPT.
And arguably works 5X as hard.
We need an inverse GPT4-style LLM that doesn't provide answers but instead asks relevant questions.
DDT ban is often cited, but it's an insufficient explanation: first of all there are still efficient insecticides available, and bedbugs infestations only reappeared many decades after DDT was banned.

The most important causes is the massive increase in travel/tourism (airbnb is often pointed, but regular hotels are where it started) then come the increasing cost of labor (Baumol's costs disease) + higher safety standards for both the inhabitants and the workers (this includes DDT but not only) + higher living standards (people have bigger apartments with more stuff in it), which makes house decontamination much more expensive that it used to be.
Very cool!

As an aside, I've learned so many things via games like this. Including vim (via https://vim-adventures.com/), which I now basically can't live without.
That is a C++ limitation, not a limitation of compiled languages.

Object Pascal had the ability to describe its own types since Delphi 1.0 under Windows 3.1, it is how object serialization works (forms, controls and other components are just object instances serialized to/from disk).

This is data the compiler already has in memory, having some method to save that data to the final executable and a few functions in the standard library to parse that data and give back meaningful results shouldn't really be that much of an effort (and still be very portable), and yet for some reason C and C++ do not provide it even though other languages did decades ago.
So they don't check the results for the clients.
I had bed bugs a 15 year ago while living in Bahrain. I had never heard of them or had any idea about what they were (in Italy, where I am from, they are not common at all) so when i started to notice bites all over my legs i did not know what i was facing. But: my sleep quality deteriorated, and with it my personal well being. So while it might be true that they do not bear diseases, if not taken care of they can severely affect your health anyway
I usually just use X macros for this (in C)
1) Your ideas are bad.

2) Spreadsheets exist.

3) No-one cares about your marketing copy.

4) No-one finds your c-suite babble inspirational.

This is almost perfect input to an LLM exactly because of how low value it is in the first place.
It's not a good look to not call out parties for obvious bullshit like this.

Imagine that NATO did not increase manning, and the White House did not mention the troop build up. The headline now reads "Serbian troop massing on border, NATO says 'don't worry about it'". Bad look for NATO, and maybe makes future bullshit more likely.
Two things mentioned in the abstract that are worth pointing out.

> For each one of a set of 18 realistic consulting tasks within the frontier of AI capabilities

They specifically picked tasks that GPT-4 was capable of doing. GPT-4 could not do many tasks, so when we say that performance was significantly increased this is only for tasks GPT-4 is well suited to. There is still value here but let's put these results into context.

> Consultants across the skills distribution benefited significantly from having AI augmentation, with those below the average performance threshold increasing by 43% and those above increasing by 17% compared to their own scores

Even when cherry-picking tasks that GPT-4 is particularly suited for, above average performers only increased performance by 17%. This increase is still impressive, were it to be seen across the board. But I do think that 17% is a lot less than some people are trying to sell.
The published article is not at all about programming tasks but about generating text for "strategy consultant".

Some example found page 10 of the original article:

- Propose at least 10 ideas for a new shoe targeting an underserved market or sport.
- Segment the footwear industry market based on users.
- Draft a press release marketing copy for your product.
- Pen an inspirational memo to employees detailing why your product would outshine competitors.

Nothing of real value imho.
GPT4 can do that too. Just show it something (code or text) and ask it to ask coaching questions about it.
I’m speaking purely from the context of the US, and I wouldn’t want to shove our terminology down anyone else’s throat. That said, the US does drive a lot of software culture since it’s the industry epicenter, so I guess it’s unavoidable at some point.

Maybe I could have used less politically-charged language, but in my eyes it was necessary to surface the connection. I think that in the US, a very specific political group rallies around opposition to social justice, and that group has a tendency to try and hide their underlying motivations (e.g., using dogwhistling).
He is very obviously doing it. What kind of "travelers" you think he is talking about.
I'm creating a new programming language and while it hasn't been launched I'm starting to put out teasers

One of the benefits of this new language is the privacy, solves this exact problem
https://ingig.substack.com/p/privacy
Pure hyperbole.
Fermenting troubles does sound better than fomenting them
EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox
everyone you described share something in common.

they aren’t good at using language models.
What resources do you use for Spanish?
Macron could take the public transport any day, he would just need to close it to the public.
And what's the harm in that? That's how I first started out programming decades ago.
Nato and the US are very weak at the moment, not sure what asset you could be referring to?
I haven't decided if I want to create an open-source version. In the first place, I made it private to worry less about my code quality and to finish the product faster before I lose interest in it.

It heavily relies on the core part of PDF.js: I've made a fork of the PDF.js project, removed everything not related to the core part, and added an export for low-level primitives [1].

Also, as inspiration, I used the pdf.js.utils [2] project, which almost does the same but in a different form.

1. https://github.com/hyzyla/pdf.js-core

2. https://github.com/brendandahl/pdf.js.utils
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> The Guardians style guide says let the writer decide

The Guardian is far from a politically-unbiased source.

Plus, this is an Appeal to Authority logical fallacy.
Ah young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why

Do those that lie here know why did they die?

And did they believe when they answered the cause

Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain

The killing and dying, were all done in vain

For young Willie McBride, it all happened again

And again, and again, and again, and again
Nearly every agency / contract I've been on in the last X years, the company used the Google Suite. At that point, Chrome becomes the obvious choice even if it's not necessary.

Mozilla needs a similar offer. Not to compete with Google or MS per se, but to give ppl a choice from a company where the user isn't the product. I understand that's a big ask, but it would help.

Yes, some ppl don't know, but there are plenty that don't care. Afaik, ever other dev I know uses Chrome. Those ppl should *know* who and what G is and does. It's embarrassing really.
Nor are 99.9% of humanity. I think that's the point.
These aren’t even remotely comparable to AI photo manipulation.
Play Pico games and learn coding! We built Pico for 9-14 year olds to learn coding.
It's really amazing and the amount of effort put into quality of life mods for 1.7.10 is completely above the bar.

NEI with "regex" support? Yes please.
Those were the days. Now if the sandals last for a summer, one can consider itself lucky.
Electroshock therapy was also a common treatment for mental illness.

My grandma received it several times...to try to deal with her emotions about my abusive alcoholic grandfather.

For as much as older generations criticize Millennials and Gen Z for being "snowflakes," I'm not sure my grandma's "Greatest Generation" actually handled things better.
Yeah been on iphones for years. Several screens and batteries. It's not a big deal - every year or two you go in a shop and say replace whatever and pay like £40 or 50. It's not like any hardwear lasts forever.
Point still stands.

Expert system diagnostic tools aren't that great.
To be clear, I’m only talking about the US. I don’t care what other countries do with their terminology. If they’re using “master/slave,” they’re already borrowing our terminology that came from an American. What’s so hard about borrowing again?

What I do know is that my Black team member is offended by master/slave terminology. Maybe their grandparents had a grandparent who was enslaved, and they don’t want to be reminded of that past every day at work. Their parents grew up in segregated schools with segregated bathrooms and water fountains. That experience is very much in living memory. It wasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

That’s more than enough for me to not use that terminology anymore.

This isn’t about political correctness, it’s about basic respect and empathy for other people.

I would argue that the US has unique racial tensions and that racism is deeply embedded within its system. Maybe if you live in a homogeneous culture racism doesn’t become so much of a problem. Not the case in the US.

That’s probably why in your perspective Americans can’t stop bringing up racism, because it’s such a pervasive issue in our society. There aren’t many other countries that have experienced anywhere near as much demographic change via immigration as the US.
Here we go again more war. Never stops.
TL;DR: They used an iframe for the content.

But this brings with it the navigation issues that were the reason we abandoned frames: The URL in location bar no longer reflects the location of the specific page, so it can't be bookmarked easily. Also, when opening in a link in a new tab, we get the reverse of this problem in that the other frames are lost.

You could solve this with JavaScript that updates the location, I suppose, but then the result is essentially an SPA.
In the sense that washing your clothes and bedding at high temperature plus washing all the spots where the bed bugs could hide should keep them at distance.
I am not sure where you see hyperbole. Do you have an actual point to make?
My heart goes out to you. I can't imagine what you and your country are going through. I pray that your words will win out over those of hate and ignorance, over force and violence.
They are really banking on the season 1 pre finale TikTok dance move.

In fact, they have sprinkled in dozens of "meme" reaction per season so they can have contract social media managers create 1,000 memes that they plan to distribute across reddit and instagram through power-repost-accounts.

In fact one of their crucial Gen-Z adoption metric is based on virality of those memes. For that metric they have a analytics contract with Reddit where Reddit has said they will provide only provide analytics information of the usage meme pictures and in no way they will push those memes are or corpo-moderate reddit threads around those memes. And also obviously the ad department is a separate department and has no influence on the analytics contract with Reddit.
Long story short --- if you care about your privacy, you shouldn't pick up anything Google is laying down.

Goggle and their spawn (personalized ads) are the mack daddy of web enshitification.

At this point, the only really effective solution is to make personalized advertising illegal without opt in/out on the basis that it is an obvious violation of the fundamental right to privacy.
It’s part of the problem, sure, but only a contributing factor. The story mentions them being found in cinemas and trains, which is uncommon, but they have been in hotels as well.
Probably Trump (as in "Russian asset").
Very strange that you consider ads based on geography as fine. That's the one I am most concerned about, primarily with political and PR-focused advertising which are often heavily geographic based. I care extremely little about "products" advertising.
You can also get a nice used iPhone for similar.
There is a lot of office work that will overtime be optimized over time using gpt like services. I was tech savvy enough to know that a lot of office work that I do is repeatable and can be done using scripts but not good enough to write those scripts myself. Using Chat gpt allowed me to write those scripts it took me I think 15-20hrs to get the scripts working perfectly. I knew just a little bit of python scripting did not know anything about python pandas or xls writer etc but was able to create something that saves me I would estimate 20-25 hours a week.

In my opinion a lot of people here on hackernews as they are themselves good at programing underestimate how services like chat gpt can open a new world to non programmers. They also probably make the non inquisitive learn less. Previously to learn how to stop multiple snapd services using a script I would have googled and then cobbled together something today I just ask chatgpt and get a working script in less than a min.
Programmers don't think that, though, or least not all the time.

You could say similar things about Stack Overflow, and yet we use it.
I mean yeah, I knew it wasn’t “settled” but it had the feel of the bar/pub fight just after the owner brings out the baseball bat and everyone quickly realised it’s a good idea to stop punching… everyone still has some grudges but they mostly got it out of their system and until someone actively starts some new shit… no one feels particularly compelled to start a fight themselves… its the “grumbling about grievances you don’t quite feel strongly enough to start a fight over” not the “I’ve got a knife on me and I’m trying to stir someone else up to start the fight so no one pins it on me”.
Well, it would be consistent to use 'Black' for black Americans, and 'black' for black people in general, and likewise 'White' for white Americans, and 'white' for white people in general.

But then articles should use, based on context, both 'Black' and 'White', or both 'black' and 'white', while rarely it makes sense to use 'Black' and 'white' in one article, but that is the pattern used by newspapers.
> I cant help but wonder if this (and when I see rusts too) approach of `.if_then`/`ok_or` `.or_else` etc actually improve readability?

They can be mis/overused, but I think the declarative aspect and ability to split processing into clear steps makes them very helpful. They also allow "ignoring" the negative side or easily shunting values there, which may require repeated conditional checking (and obscure the actual processing) in a language without monadic operations.

They're also very compositional, so you don't have to update every API e.g. Java needs both a `Map#get` and a `Map#getOrDefault`, and that still doesn't really cover the case where the default is expensive to compute (so you want it to be lazy). In Rust, `Map::get` just returns an `Option`, and `Option` supports the relevant services (`unwrap_or` and `unwrap_or_else` in this case), which also means it supports those services for every API which returns an option.
You're underestimating because it compounds. Small gains in efficency lead to huge advantages in long term growth. 17% would be absolutely monumental improvement.