skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it counts for something, but if I can vent another frustration, it is possible for GPT to be a useful tool for some tasks or for it to do impressive things or for it to exhibit really interesting behavior without it being comparable to a human being.

I think the comparisons between GPT and humans and the common insistence I see on HN that GPT does understand the world in the same way that humans do is both reductive and unimaginative. It's reductive in the sense that it oversimplifies human behavior and reasoning, and its unimaginative in the sense that it seems to be stemming from this idea that GPT's behavior only "counts for something" if it can be compared to a human being.

If GPT is playing chess at 1800 elo without understanding the rules, that is fundamentally interesting and it extremely "counts for something." It doesn't become less interesting if we say that GPT doesn't understand the rules of chess, if anything it becomes more interesting.

It is extremely interesting that it appears at least at first glance like GPT might be able to get decent human-level performance at a game using a set of heuristics that may not be based on the rules of the game. That is very different from how humans approach tasks, and seeing an extremely different approach to reasoning that yields decent or at least decent-ish results is fascinating. Forcing it into a human framework and pushing the idea that GPT is understanding the game like a human -- it's honestly kind of limiting, it's closing off a lot of interesting discussion about non-human approaches to accomplishing goals.

There is (in general, not saying from you specifically) an attitude on HN that pointing out that LLMs are not like humans and that they don't approach reasoning the same way and that they very often aren't reasoning about tasks in a way that maps to commonly used definitions of human reasoning -- that it means that LLMs are useless or they don't count for anything. But that's just not the case. Clearly the LLM is doing something interesting, is it so important that we claim that it understands the task the same way that a human does? Is it really a problem if we acknowledge that there is a lot of evidence that LLMs are accomplishing tasks using orthogonal approaches that don't map to human understanding? That doesn't make them any less interesting.
Ask people who have hiring experience in your network to help you by sitting in on face to face interviews. Same goes for a mentor if you have one. Try to prioritize hires who'll make that work easier.
Julia 1.9's native precompilation is definitely helpful in that regard but loading those native shared libraries (.so files on Linux) into Julia does take some to verify.

If the main objective is to reduce time to load and time to first task then PackageCompiler.jl [3] is still the ultimate way to do so.

Because Julia is a dynamic language, there are some complicated compilation issues such as invalidation and recompilation that arise. Adding new methods or packages may result in already compiled code no longer statically dispatching correctly requiring invalidation and recompilation of that code.

It slightly more complicated than what you stated. It's "I want to compile and cache native code for the following methods on the following types in this particular environment". PackageCompiler.jl can wrap the entire environment into a single native library, the system image.

[3] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
Ah, but you first need to have even an approximate idea of where some code is mapped, otherwise you'll fault on nearly all requests into a 64 bit space.
I'm more surprised anybody still uses Facebook. They show me 1 post from someone I know, then an infinite stream of junk posts with tons of soft porn, like ads for Hooters or a coffee shop in Florida where the waitresses are in bikini.

I don't drink coffee and don't even live in the U.S. I have absolutely no idea why it wants me so bad to go to sexy coffee shops in Florida. I swear, the spam is worse than when they were trying to sell me Christian dating sites and make me buy Russian wives 15 years ago before they started personalizing ads.
I am glad you did because it led me on a Wiki chase and I learned new things :-)
On top of that the $3999 Macbook Pro comes with a 1TB ssd. I wish I was joking.
> Smartphones have 8GB ram now.

I took a quick look at the site of a major retailer here, and the first smartphone I clicked on (Moto E22) has 4GB of RAM; I then clicked on five other smartphone models, and of them, three also have 4GB of RAM (the other two have 2GB and 3GB). My own main smartphone (which is neither of these models, and is a reasonably high-end model) also has 4GB of RAM. From this quick look, it seems 8GB of RAM isn't that common for smartphones.
I like to buy products that I'm fairly confident I can use for a long time and/or repair, for example I bought a Dissim lighter just because of that reason even if I don't need a lighter that much. And I would like to buy a phone like the Nokia ones that have good repairability and replacement parts you can buy. But the problem with gadgets like phones is that they always are middle range models, which doesn't gel well with the assumption that you are going to use them for a long time, preferably longer than the average phone. In this regard, it's actually better to buy the flagship phone because they are often good quality and remain usable for the longest period of time if they aren't accidentally broken.

So this angle really doesn't make sense to me, they either have to start offering products that compete with the flagship models, or try something like Framework is doing with laptops?
It's wild to think of what would have happened if Alameda had gotten out of crypto and instead put all the stolen customer money in an index fund. The CFTC complaint says they started misusing customer funds in 2019. Stocks have increased a lot since then. FTX would have been able to meet any customer request for withdrawal, Alameda would have presented staggeringly large returns (trading profit / legally invested money), and SBF would still live like a king.
Its just marketing nonsense, really don't think about it too hard.
They could still keep asking $200 for the next tier. They used to regularly bump the lowest RAM spec and keep the price the same. DRAM and SSD prices have fallen but Apple keeps the same specs and the same upgrade prices so they're making more money off 8GB/256 GB configs then they were previously.

It's getting to point where it's pretty insulting to sell a $1300 computer with a 256 GB SSD that has a street value of not even $30 and ask $400 to bump it to a 1TB when you can easily find name brand high quality fast 4TB SSDs for less than $400.
Wow. Leaking confidential tax payer data.
tried it on a bunch of random sites (news articles, github repos, company home pages, etc) and seems to work for me.
Your episode does have an implicit conflict, though, and it's precisely the one you're saying: you have set up an implicit conflict between your auditory perception and expectation.

(Actually, there's another implicit conflict in there which I would argue is perhaps even more important: why did you wake up so early, and why did you choose to go down the stairs instead of back to sleep?)
I'd be entirely put off by someone who prefers to spend 5 seconds to give some (probably wrong) estimate rather than spending 10 seconds to punch in an expression providing the correct answer on the giant calculating machine they're either way sitting in front of.

If I was asked during an interview, I'd either type it into the machine or write the calculation on the whiteboard and tell that there's absolutely no reason for me to concern myself with performing calculations when my job is literally to instruct machines to perform them.
According to John Gardner (or possibly Dostoyevsky, or Tolstoy, or someone else entirely -- attributions differ), there are only two basic plots:

1. Someone comes to town

2. Someone leaves town
> Now thanks to the US v Google anti-trust trial, Mozilla doesn't know if they should support Google for keeping them alive for their hundreds of millions of dollars or being going against them for Google to be broken up for more competition.

Why would they not publicly support Google when Google are the ones keeping Mozilla alive? I'm all for journalistic integrity, but I don't think Mozilla could pull that one off.
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA
Good luck my man, hope you find someone who will notice your qualities and ignore your past, you talented
Labcorp Workers Say Productivity Goals Are Pushing Them to the Brink

I believe this. Just anecdotally I was waiting to deposit a sample for them to analyze. Their two employees were incredibly overwhelmed. In that time I helped about 50 or so of their customers input their sensitive data into their automated kiosk as the kiosks were confusing to most people. I am not an employee and it is probably sub-optimal to encourage a customer to assist entering PII and medial data. I was already skeptical of being there given their recent hacks and exfiltration of customer data so I helped the last person waiting and deposited my sample in their trashcan and left. In hindsight I am glad I left. They were hacked again shortly thereafter. This was the moment I broke free of the medical system and started researching and implementing root cause solutions more seriously.
Again non of that has a particularly significant impact on climate change.

Air travel, ICE cars, fossil fuel or municipal waste power plants, concrete, steel, etc matters. 3G vs 5G really really doesn’t.

Grocery stores hand out plastic bags so happily because they are cheap. Stuff being cheap means it’s associated with very minimal CO2 because releasing CO2 means using a valuable resource. Further all that carbon in the bag ends up sequestered in a dump making plastic packaging a great way to use up oil reserves without burning them.

PS: Upgrading phones every 2 years is like buying a car, that old phone generally gets traded in and someone else uses it instead of simply dumping it.
> 1) there's probably a niche to be filled by an OSS browser engine focussed on embedability

Absolutely. Electron or something Electron-like with Servo embedded could be a nice outcome. Tauri already fills that niche a bit, but uses whatever the OS provides, rather than embedding anything. Would be nice with something in-between that.
I like David Lynch’s approach to storytelling, which mostly doesn’t follow these basic plots:

Accepted into the institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies in 1970, Lynch studied with the Czechoslovak film maker Frank Daniel, whose course on film analysis shaped his writing and directing habits. “It’s a simple thing he taught me,” says Lynch. “If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.” Except that he now dictates to an assistant, Lynch still works this way.
yeah, some of the exercises are like the following:

```

function helloWorld() {

return "";

}

helloWorld()

```

but those sorts of obvious examples are mostly in the beginner exercises, so I wonder what the distribution of the correct answers was. If it was guessing based on function stubs, the prediction would be that correct answers would be clustered around the beginner exercises, and that as the exercises advanced in difficulty, there were fewer correct answers.
Worth remembering that King Charles II banned coffeehouses after returning from exile in Europe because he knew the anti-monarchy opposition groups met and discussed things in coffeehouses.

https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/the-coffeehouse-culture/
https://archive.li/G27xO
Warp! (warp.dev)
> When are we going to talk about how openly corrupt Mozilla has become?

It's routinely discussed on HN, whenever a topic about Mozilla/browsers comes up. The real question in my opinion is what can we do about it? Start an awareness campaign? Stop using Firefox? Stop donating to Mozilla?
Thank you! 175 for 7 octaves is not bad at all (although they say it's 5 octaves, but the photo shows 7 - confusing) ! It's a pity I'm thinking about a smaller size suitable for a backpack. But at least they exist! It's a good news
The exec is head of product marketing. The technical people at Apple must be doing triple facepalms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

Even 7 isn't quite correct, technically there are loads of others but they aren't successful plots.
Aren't most companies on a 3-5 years replacement schedule for laptops? Usually based on some combo of accounting/tax rules, warranty and service plan availability?
People rarely load 12GB of log files into memory. A much more common example is photo/video which is very difficult to losslessly compress (esp. with a generic compression algorithm like DEFLATE). I don't think this feature would help in such cases.

Memory compression is also available in both Windows and Linux, so it doesn't justify the statement 8GB on Mac = 16GB elsewhere.
And yet they work fine. Perhaps it is your priors that leave us wondering.
So what makes the story interesting here is the encounter of something unexpected.

Reminds me of That's interesting! (1971) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36156400)
I almost commented this earlier. Wtf is going on in the papergoods space. Papertowel packages literally say 4=12 rolls. Baffling
Code Interpreter Sandbox – Differences from OpenAI's Code Interpreter
None of the examples in the article would cause UB in analogous C code. A C compiler could still optimize away the useless check itself, but that's true for every language.
So any working set that fits into 16 GB but exceeds 8 GB, eats into cpu performance and/or SSD longevity.

That's fine for a low-end laptop in 2023, and if you're upfront about that tradeoff.

For a ~$1500 laptop, that's just marketing bs.
I could see someone going from a 16gb x86 Mac to a 8gb M3 Mac feeling it was a great improvement.

That still doesn’t make 8=16.

Now if they had some argument based on system reports showing that RAM use excluding cache is below 8GB for x% of users, that would be a different thing.
MOVEit cybercriminals unearth fresh zero-day to exploit on-prem SysAid hosts
(1) 99% of the general public is still barely aware of analytics & tracking, let alone care about it

(2) This makes no business sense for Youtube. If you are a serious channel you might bring in tens of thousands of dollars per video easily. If you are a mega channel that might be hundreds or millions of dollars. You want to offset that with a single $10/month subscription?
1. The Macbook pro with 8gb won't take 24 hours to render a single image. Unlike the Raspberry Pi. It also runs the standard version of stable diffusion, not the cut down model to suit the raspberry pi. It's relevant to talk about stable diffusion because it's a memory hog.

2. You're inventing categorisations to suit your argument. The MacBook pros all have a common design. That changes the moment you switch to another Apple computer

3. This is a lot of bitching and whining about making an affordable entry point, how dare they!

4. The computer works and runs well. Your expectations are driven from different computing platforms. Why not actually go to an apple store and try one, they're on display.
>“Analogous to” is not them saying it is equivalent.

HN gives Apple sooo much slack, they are the Nintendo of the Tech industry.

Anyway, I'm sure these computers are just fine. I got a $100 craigslist laptop without a video card 6 years ago, and my kid is still able to play minecraft at ~15FPS. Internet and Office are perfect. What else could I need?

My $800 laptop has a 3060 for things that actually need power.
In the US if a package is not left at the door you either have to wait an unknowable amount of time for another attempt, or you'd have to go to a facility to pick it up.

It's difficult to figure out exactly where the facilities are and you're not guaranteed the package won't still be on the original truck or on a new one. The facilities may only be open during the day, while you're at work.

Additionally, it's common that no delivery attempt is made at all -- the delivery driver will walk up to the door with a "we missed you we'll try again someday" slip already filled out and won't even knock.

The main reason we are cool with deliveries being left on the porch isn't that we trust our neighbors, it's that the alternative is so much worse.
That's fine (if you document it). Repeatability may mean 'repeatability over the same program instance/minor version/major instance'. It's fine if you're clear. But ISWYM too.
Any basis for these claims?

I suggest you fly to Zürich. It's like stepping into a bright future.
Well yes, that's the feeling I have, but there are now so many very smart people working on smarter ways and billions are poured in (not only on the 'AI for car searches' type of sites...); I'm willing to give it some benefit of the doubt.
It's relative, innit? Compared to Peru where they've gone through something like 10 different presidents in the last decade because of corruption dramas, Denmark doesn't sound too bad.
What's new in DevTools (Chrome 120)
If you spend $16k on each you can get a fairly decent used car and a small cluster, haha.
Those plots are so much better. They also give a sense of the variation around the shape, and are less smoothed than in this article.

Also thumbs up for using self-organising maps. Way underappreciated idea!
There is no journalist here to side with unfortunately. Ethics are infringed upon whether the other party is responsible for worse violations or not. It's not an either-or situation.

You can't shut down everything once a bad actor does heinous things. There would be nothing left around. No more streets, no more cafes, no more trash bins, no more cars. Nothing.

As it has been pointed out, omegle did arguably provide more protection against bad actors that lots of other services around today. If you're in a situation you don't like, just press next and it's over. Nobody can contact you or recognise you in any way.

The crimes happen when you're not anonymous anymore, after exchanging snapchat or instagram accounts for example. They don't happen in a months long omegle conversation.

The root of the problem is being careless and providing identifying information. Obviously kids are too young to understand all the dangers, that's what parents are for. You wouldn't let your kids alone in the middle of the city and then sue it when a pedophile gets access to them. You can't let your kids use the Internet without keeping an eye on what is going on and warning them of the perils.
No, the logarithmic effect bottoms out towards the low part of the scale. If you're somewhere very dark, your eye adjusts so that you get back to the middle of the range. But if you're somewhere light and just looking at black paint, it doesn't.
Borges: "There are only four stories: the siege of the city, the return home, the quest, and the sacrifice of a God"
Memory compression combined with swap to very fast SSD storage are extremely effective.
THEY DON’T

It’s a huge part of the law that commissions are to be up for negotiation, always. RE agents might forget that but it’s a foundation level principle that there are no set commissions. You could lose your license or at least be fined for even suggesting it to a client
Oh, that ACtiveX comment brought so many memories! I remember that when the desktop background failed, an ActiveX error page was shown (on the desktop) with clickable links. That was so consufing...
Yup, and these are certainly not "plots" by any definition of the word.

They're one aspect of story, along with a hundred others.

> Now....what to do with this highly-abstracted level of information...?

If you're a reader/watcher, nothing.

If you're a writer... ensure that it's clear. So much of writing is about showing your draft to a friend/teacher/etc., finding out that they didn't "get it" because what you wrote was confusing, and rewriting to make the thing clearer.

If somebody reads your script and they're like, well the protagonist clearly FELL but then the only KINDA ROSE but KINDA STAYED THERE and I don't get what the point is? Are you trying to say their efforts were worthwhile or futile? And then the writer is going to do much better if they change the story to become clearly either "FALL" or "FALL, RISE" -- instead of a muddy in-between.

Also: this pattern is fractal. Every scene is generally either a FALL or RISE for the main characters in it (if one character rises, the other falls). And then, depending on how you define them, each act is similarly a reversal (especially e.g. in a 5-act TV episode). This is what keeps story interesting. But over the course of all of these ups and downs, the author needs to decide what the biggest pattern is going to be.
You can shoehorn “all stories” into all sorts of frameworks. I personally find this really limits what stories can be and leads to decade after decade of lazy writing done by people who believed these commentators. Eg, heroes journey is actually a bunch of techniques, not just one, and some stories don’t even have characters at all
A thing called the Competency Framework can help.
There is just so much you can do with GPT-4 vision, I just hope it's more affordable.
That's not how economics work. Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world. They have been well compensated for the work they have done. Yet they could do better. Competition should force that, but they undertake anti-competitive measures just like every other massive boring conglomerate out there.
Here in Buxtehofen, Bavaria, packages are left dangling from trees with a sign saying "I've hung up your rolex, so it wont be dragged of by boars while you're on vacation".

And when you're back from hiking the Alps your neighbor will have build a shed around it to protect it from the rain and moved in 10 of his pigs to keep it warm.

Unless of course your delivery guy tied your package to a special tree called Maibaum by mistake. Then you'll find a sign telling you that it has been redirected to one of the 5 villages called Kirchberg in your area.
That sounds like an amazing failure of imagination to me. I see at least 3 excellent angles.

1. Chrome beat Firefox in the stability/security area. Its usage of multiple processes, sandboxing, etc is excellent, while Firefox failed to adapt. Servo seems to have an excellent potential for coming up on top there, being both more secure, and having higher performance.

2. There are actually markets interested in security. Think say, banking, military, industry, IOT. There are various laws coming requiring companies to take security seriously. Servo has a lot of potential there too. There's potential for both projects that have security as a selling point, and regulatory compliance.

3. Embedding. Like I said, using a web engine as a component seems to have been forgotten in modern times. Surely that can be sold to somebody, because there are plenty use cases for embedding web engines in stuff.
And Linux (although not enabled by default on some distros).
Is it know what exactly OpenAI does in the background when they make these turbo editions?

Seems like sacrificing some quality for large gains on speed and cost but anyone know more detail?
A typical Samsung SSD is warrantied for between 100 and 500 TBW[1].

[1] https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/intern...
Yeah it’d be one thing if their RAM (and disk) upgrades were reasonable, but $200 per 8gb just feels like bad value. I’ve been a Mac user for a long time and fine with paying a premium for a premium device, but the pricing on upgrades (when not DIYable later) has been a major turnoff. I built a Linux machine and just threw 64gb into it because it was cheap, and guess what? It’s great! I love not having to think about it.