skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. This is the primary difference between observational and experimental studies (controlled experiments). Experimental studies control for the hypothesized mechanism as part of the experimental design, but observation studies do not or often cannot. Good data from controlled experiments is difficult, costly, and time-consuming to generate in general, and that often does not mesh with the notion of "big data". I think we are running into this problem more and more as we discover that our data sets really are superficial --- collections of a lot of data that is easy to collect rather than a representative sample of everything (especially in a controlled manner). Good data isn't cheap.
Any consolidation leads to redundancies (job loss). Instead of 2 director/vp/svp's of marketing and all their reports and their reports, you just need 1. Apply that to most business areas (accounting, finance, tech, etc) in a company and it tends to push wages down across the board.

Also, fewer competitors leads to a less interesting market. Imagine the NFL with just 4 teams.

As far as Microsoft/Activision goes, it's potentially a good thing, but just because Activision was also made of acquisitions and drive for profit came at the cost of lower quality of their releases, IMO. Microsoft might reinvigorate Activision/Blizzard's IP.
GPT-4V is mind blowing, it surprising to me that it gets so little attention here on HN, because after playing around with it I get the same sense of excitement I got when I tried the original ChatGPT. The level of understanding of what is going on in an image is leagues ahead of what we had until this point, ahead of Bard and basically everything else I already saw.

I tested it with a bunch of photos I made and images it could not have seen in its training data, and most of the time it nailed them perfectly. Its OCR capabilities are top notch, but this is combined with a spatial understanding of how text relates to other parts of the image. It can take a photo of a wall monthly calendar with hand scribbles on it and give you a list of events for each day. It can guess where a specific photo was taken just by analysing the elements present on the photo like the foliage, architecture, car license plates, etc (without being specifically prompted to do so). It can correctly identify multiple plants from a same photo. Gave it a photo of a Montessori set for teaching math (some wooden blocks with numbers and dots on them, no branding on them) and it guessed exactly what it was. And all of that just from two days of testing.

Here are just few examples:

[1] https://i.imgur.com/cV3dVOf.png - Gave it a screenshot from Final Fantasy VII from a boss battle. It correctly identified the party members, and their stats even though the text and labels are a bit all over the place.

[2] https://i.imgur.com/WeXhP7V.png - A photo I shot on my vacation, that didn't really contain any major landmarks, and yet it still somehow figured out from the architecture (and house colors) the exact location of it. I tried this game with several photos and it is very good at it, far better than I could ever be if I saw these photos for the first time.

[3] https://i.imgur.com/HgwYv6q.png - A screenshot of a worksheet from the Human Shader Project. I just asked it to solve it for given X/Y values and it did, its answer was 100% correct (here's the second part of its answer: https://i.imgur.com/RZF2r7v.png)

[4] https://i.imgur.com/12xg4qU.png - A photo of a highly reflective microwave inside a shopping mall. This was given to my by a friend who shot this personally and to be honest I didn't catch at first that this is a microwave, and yet GPT-4V figured that out.

[5] https://i.imgur.com/qSifni5.png - a good old fashioned "find the path connecting one object to the other" puzzle. Correctly identified the right path (this one was taken from the internet so there is a slight chance it saw it in the training data and somehow got the solution for it from the accompanying text, although I couldn't find any instance of it).

Edit: To confirm that [5] was not a fluke I hand drew my own version of this puzzle, took a picture and uploaded it, GPT-4V nailed this one too: https://i.imgur.com/8NgWhzw.png
You’re not electing members of the electoral college though right? You’re electing who you want the electoral college members to vote for.
The hallucinations are what allow for the intelligence. It’s a feature not a bug
The issue with both companies is that they just don't have the production capacity to produce at the scale they'd need to. Additionally, what little they do produce has cost challenges. Ford is a bit further ahead than Toyota of course and they are ramping up production volumes now. Particularly the mustang and f150 are very successful for them. But most of what they sell is still ice vehicles and it will be quite a few years before they are going to be able to change that. Toyota is a basket case at this point. Basically a no show in the market; by their own choosing. It's going to take them many years to fix that. They are betting heavily on the market for hybrids not collapsing in the mean time. And that might very well turn out to be a risky bet.

There's a reason mr. Toyoda was sent into early retirement a few months ago: their shareholders are starting to get a bit anxious. Hybrids were their past strategy. They'll be milking them for as long as they can get away with but judging from their recent announcements, they no longer believe that to be good enough. They are talking up their battery capabilities a lot lately and they have announced a few EVs to be launched in the next few years. Of course there is still the minor issue of having to build the factories and supply lines to build those.
It's fine to dislike things! In this case, while I am riffing on Xe's design, because of how I wrote the article the people involved are, you know, actual other people, so it was genuinely useful to have an immediately visible shorthand for who was talking and what I thought their sentiment was. Using IRL photos for that would be for one impractical; for another, it's easier to make sentiments stand out on cartoons. (Not that SD was very good at this here.)
That's a pretty big oversimplification.

Western Australians are voting for completely different MPs and Senators to people in other states/electorates, and even if they weren't it's a small price to pay compared to having half the country not turn up on voting day.
Link is working, tested several times.
Indeed. Mismatching headers and libraries is not all that rare. I've seen headers found from Homebrew, libraries from the macOS SDK, and some related tool from `/usr`. Things…rarely work out well, but you only find out in your test suite (or linker if you're really lucky).
Displaying ads has nothing to do with GDPR. They can still display ads that aren’t targeted, they just can’t save your information for more targeted advertising.
Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails, and other organism
> Yes, transmission has losses, but gas cars are an atrocious 15-20% efficient

I thought you had to be exaggerating, but I just looked it up and you're right.

Holy moly. I'm genuinely surprised this isn't more widespread knowledge. I never hear it come up in most conversations around the pros and cons of EV's.
I wonder if people who are used only to modern website looks will even recognise this page as having any clickable elements :^)
You are in good company. PowerSchool (formerly owned by Apple) had their Schoology app removed from the Play store last week. I don't know they details, but they are big enough I'd kind of expect them to get at least a conversation from Google instead of just removing their app.

What has happened now is that other applications have been released with the same name and students & parents are downloading those apps and typing their names and passwords into them. Whatever security Google thought they were achieving by removing the app seems unlikely to have been greater than the risk they created by the removal.
I agree in principle, however you appear to be arguing in bad faith.

The person you responded outlined their process (to a level you can look at and see they clearly made an effort) and stated they put a full day in. This is not "spoiled lazy child syndrome", although there are for sure those out there who fit that mold.
Politicians are not some random sampling of the population, no.

But with sortition they could be.
Does this also work in a screenshot?
One obvious reason is that different countries have wildly incompatible laws.

Another reason is that it is not the job of a company (or random blogger!) to worry about all laws everywhere on the planet. If it were, it would be very difficult to even discuss regionally sensitive issues around religion, territorial disputes or even ongoing pandemics.
@0xTib3rius on Twitter discovered the pirated materials and posted his findings on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/0xTib3rius/status/1712819728777888093

I think that was the post that kicked it off, there was another directory run by these guys apparently as well:
https://twitter.com/elhackernet

Some other personalities and individuals weighed in from there.
I am looking forward to the next (5? 10?) years where AI will be cheap and fast enough, so that we can all (from the comfort of our own homes) process old photos and videos, enhance and enrich.

It's a pity that there is no audio in this video, but if the image is clean enough and we have an AI that can read lips.. one can only hope.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adk0171
> Society constructs don’t generally reward politicians in the same way society rewards capitalism. (Gates, Musk, Buffer, Bezos.)

Look at the net worth of someone like Dianne Feinstein (RIP) or Nancy Pelosi.
DuckDuckGo browser does this by default
Is it objectively true in general that default sharing transaction-level credit card data - in other words, I can see a (pseudo) anonymous "user ID" column in a table of transactions - benefits all of us more than default privacy? In my estimation yes, but this is a complex question.

My point is that the EFF spends no time investigating this in a serious way at all. We live the reality I'm describing with Steam, which is millions of people, it's been going on for a long time, it's conceivable that even broader categories of transaction data may be prisoner-dilemma-style valuable to share. I just wish the EFF would engage with that 1 iota. Otherwise they are just another opinion in a sea of brand-and-celebrity posters.
This seems to be a good alternative for evernotes, my only hesitation to switch would be migrating existing notes, does ominvore support migration from evernote ?
Hybrids don't have all the expense and complication of an ICE. They're a lot simpler. Look at the Toyota Prius Prime PHEV. The CVT makes it a lot simpler. The engine is a lot simpler. Toyota is known for reliability but the Prius is by far their most reliable vehicle.
I frequently make the parallel argument in hardware. Custom built hardware for specific goals, e.g. raytracing or BTC mining, may accelerate computation in the short term, but new techniques require new hardware, and even worse, they shoehorn new ideas in old circuits.

However in both of these cases, I don't think you can make the argument that this "short sighted" optimization is less effective. We do it because we can, and because it's the fastest way to achieve a goal. If we knew a way to come up with a general solution, we would. Until then, we cheat.
So no US and no USSR then. Who is left?
It can play several characters at once. I tried playing one person in the room while GPT was playing 2 others. It worked. Conversation was in format

formal introduction who is who (one was going to Mars), then conversation.

Name1: ...

Name3: ...

and so on.
GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers
Ask HN: People Feel Either ChatGPT's a Genius or a Dud. Why?
It's going to be very easy to misinterpret my question as simply one of those people bitching about ChatGPT. That is not, repeat NOT, what I am trying to do.

As far as I can see, people are experiencing very different results than I am from ChatGPT, and I am trying to figure out if the issue is something I have done as operator.

For me, I find that it is nearly 100% of the time experiencing issues where it will ignore an instruction, forget a key detail, or so on.

I do NOT find it particularly reliable and become profoundly annoyed when it outright ignores something in its prompt. I never had to worry about a BASIC interpreter just seemingly 'choosing' to ignore "10 PRINT 'HELLO WORLD.'".

Yet, on the other hand, I hear about people who have automated their jobs, routinely get near-perfect scripts, and so on, and believe that we who are experiencing problems are nuts -- that it's something WE must be doing.

I think there is either a conceptual issue at fault (e.g., how people looked at cryptocurrency differently) or the issue is with me - either my expectations or how I am using the product.

I find that it's routine that I have to try its answers, advise it of the error that inevitably comes to task, report it back, have it discover its own fault, and then go through that cycle about five or six times, to either find that the errors are happening in a loop and there seems no sign of progression towards a working script, or that it eventually works.

If I had a human employee providing the answers it does with its associated error rate, I would've fired it long ago, and, indeed, I'm considering not renewing my monthly ChatGPT Plus subscription right now.

But I know I am far from perfect. It is possible that perhaps I have done something to set it up to fail, especially in these (relatively) early days. Perhaps I should see if I can somehow reset myself to come from scratch like a new user, or purge custom instructions, or so on.

There is this pervasive conceptual difference I'm seeing between ChatGPT users (mostly on Reddit and here). There are people who insist that ChatGPT (even 4, which I'm speaking of) is becoming "dumber" and is markedly "dumber" than it used to be, and there are those who claim that Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. I am kind of wondering if HN as a community is able to figure out truly what's going on here, rather than just assume that the problem is a biological difference of opinion.

I would value the input from the community as to what causes this marked difference of opinion between people as to their experiences with ChatGPT's reliability.
Awful compared to a healthy vibrant natural jungle. Wonderful compared to a lifeless hot ball like Venus.
AMEX unusable in Europe? Hardly. I payed for my dentist Friday with it, both supermarket and lunch today, and all Amazon, etc. Some vendors dont take it, but in my European country most places
As far as hiring goes there's no such thing as a generalist who can learn the specifics, there are people like that but the industry refuses to recognize this for the most part. The current practice is to prove yourself first by doing open source or projects. A few very brilliant engineers are given leeway based on reputation.
Sure, but if you game this out, it still comes down to whether or not your opinion is that this data should be public. That Steam's methodology happens to be opt-out sharing - in other words their opinion is it should be shared, because people don't change defaults - doesn't change that there haven't been any known major harms and many major benefits, especially in the opinions of game developers.
i did get treated like shit when i was a child but idk if that caused me depression... i am poor tho
Why do you think “leaders” are pushing for return to office?

Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?

It’s not because of some culture building nonsense - it’s 2023 and by now we know it works.

They do it because they hate the leverage and mobility it gives employees. How someone can’t see why SV investors and the CEOs of various companies and the giant conflict of interest is beyond me.
If you’re in Europe would this be an issue?

I’ve opted out all the same, no mention was made that nothing would be done, or assurance that this might not be an issue for me.

[Edited for accidental Yoda grammar]
“Graph” here means the directed acyclic graph encoding the causal relationships, not a chart of a distribution.
Of course there are a lot of aspects, were the two situations are different. But I did clearly state that the parallels are "in terms of GDP and population proportion", which are two major general numbers typically used to sort countries into categories. Cuba has aprox. 12 times less people than Mexico and its GDP is aprox. 7 times less (but twice as much per capita). So you would need between 7 and 12 Cubas to join the USA to make the comparison working.

My only point was to find an analogy that illustrates the approximate order of magnitude.
The “gold standard” has failure modes that seem to be ignored.

E.g.: making UI elements jump around unpredictably after a page load may increase the number of ad clicks simply because users can’t reliably click on what they actually wanted.

I see A/B testing turning into a religion where it can’t be argued with. “The number went up! It must be good!”
Maybe you could start by stopping identifying them by their depression. I've never met a depressed person, only people with depression.
I've been through your journey, and CSS was by far the hardest to wrap my head around. Once JS clicks the journey is smooth, but CSS always feels like it'll be hard.

And then one day ... there it is. It all just makes sense. Not as much sense as JS! But enough sense for me to think, huh, I never thought I'd get this.

My one criticism of Tailwind, which I enjoy but do not currently use, is that it's likely to delay if not prevent this ultimate moment. If your long-term goal is to be a proficient front-end developer, I think you should try getting dirty with CSS sometimes.

Not always! Use Tailwind when you have a thing you need to get done. But sometimes.
Not every anonymization can be undone. It depends on how it's done.

And customers already explicitly agree. They just don't read the terms when they sign up or value having a credit card more than that level of privacy.
Yes you can. This is just steamdb processing data that is already public.
If MBAs have any skills at all, they seem hell-bent on convincing the rest of the world otherwise.
1. pgTAP is an extension, pg_yregress is not (although there are plans to make it available as such as well)

2. Allows for organizing and structuring nested tests (providing organizational clarity)

3. Binary encoding testing (useful for new data types)

4. pg_yregress manages Postgres instances and their configuration

pgTAP has functionality that is not yet part of pg_yregress (vast library of helpers)

Ultimately, I believe both of these tools can coexist rather nicely. Would be great to integrate neatly.
Yes, the number of times I've had a `LoadLibrary` function name conflict with `windows.h`'s `A`/`W` suffix-switching or had to deal with X11's `#define Status int` "typedef" mucking with completely unrelated code is…sad.
The problem isn't the amount of virtual address space but guaranteeing that when you grow you don't hit anything else. And the solution is to just reserve a ton of it. But then the problem becomes reclaiming memory.
I mean the one where you're left with 2 doors.
> I hate to say I don’t think it has aged well.

Agreed.

Window Maker wanted to be the foundation of an entire "GNUstep" desktop environment, not just a window manager. Unfortunately, that environment never materialized; for better or worse, all of the development effort went towards GNOME and KDE. WMaker is still (barely) usable as an X11 WM, but there's no real ecosystem around it; based on the video at https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/, this distribution is mostly running GTK apps with a (rather ugly) theme to make them fit in.
My reading was the the motors selectively decouple the wheels from the drive train, in which case the transmission would be inactive.
So instead of preferring actually locale-aware date formatting you would prefer fuzziness?
I usually read the abstract and then look at the tables and graphics. If they look interesting and convincing I read the rest.

Why do you want to read the paper? Are you panning to implement it? Just to learn general information? Make angry post in the internet?
I'm sorry you could hear me sobbing through text but the reality is ice drive trains are battle tested for 100 years. Ice vehicles are more reliable.
"Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?"

Link, please?
Whatever protections US citizens have against the federal government usually fall through whenever national security is involved.

What one federal court of appeals decides doesn't necessarily apply in other districts. The Eleventh Circuit made the Fifth Amendment ruling in 2012, but Lavabit temporarily shut down in 2013 due to FBI demands to hand over encryption keys [1]. (Lavabit was founded in Texas, which is in the Fifth Circuit [2].) The FBI can still send national security letters, which prohibit receivers from telling the public about them [3].

Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling only applies to Pennsylvania, and the prosecutors were from Luzerne County, not the FBI [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter#Conte...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-forc...
I think their issue is that in standard Unix terminal you have to use Ctrl-Shift-C, since Ctrl-C is exit.

This isn’t an issue in Mac because you use the Cmd key instead of Ctrl for copy, so there is no overlap
> G.K. Chesterton has an entire body of intellectual work

As a Christian apologist. His views were a foregone conclusion. No one who engages in such games deserves to be taken seriously.

This is completely "consistent" at least with so-called "Christian intellectuals", as they want other people to be "open minded" to their proselytizing while they themselves remain completely closed to the even possibility that they're completely wrong. They do not engage in good faith and see no problems with this because they consider their ultimate aims more important.
I miss Coverflow on the Mac. The "gallery view" is a poor substitute.
What you wrote is not responsive to the comment you are replying to. Whether it would work is irrelevant if it’s bad product market fit.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that Rust makes a distinction between Futures and Tasks, the top level Futures that are run by the executor.

In JavaScript terms Futures are more like sugar around callbacks, they don't do anything until you call/poll them. Tasks are independent entities like Promises which are being run by the executor, though they may currently be blocked on other tasks.

> the model I often want is I want to start some work, and then join at some later point - or even chain directly into the next task.

Rust wants you to do this the other way around. First chain together your futures so that when you start the top level one as a task there is a single state machine for it to run.
It’s feels odd that how these hardening guides focus on crypto and then pretend that TOFU is perfectly secure.
For [2] there could be meta data in the photo (depending on what device you took it on) that GPTV is extracting which would help dramatically with identifying the location.
> Uh oh, sounds like someone wants a command economy!

Is it possible to get your point across without accusing me of things I've never implied?

I didn't say that we should pass laws to prevent people from throwing shit at the wall. But I think that we live in a collective delusion if we think that that's the right way to make progress.