skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this would be reasonably testable actually (at least in a simplified case). Teach someone two relations that aren't meaningful naturally. Say Apples -> black holes and octopi -> industrial fan. You give them a few minutes to learn them. Then give some other unrelated tasks and say "if black holes -> apples, then what does industrial fan imply?" I feel pretty confident that humans would be able to do decently well on this task. Obviously got to account for people simply forgetting the forward relationship though.

In the non-simplified case I'd actually say that we have some natural experiments, but that might spoil this as well because you can in fact say that this is training for such invariance (which I'm unsure is problematic to my claim but pushback is definitely welcome). If we're learning history we'd often learn information such as "On December 7th 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and this was a major event that got America directly involved in WW2." But then on the test we'd see questions such as "What important event happened December 7th 1941?", "What was the date of the Pearl Harbor attack?", "What major event led to the US becoming a direct player in the war and when did this event occur?" and so on. Granted, because we do such testing I'd expect GPT to be able to reasonably answer many of these same questions but I'm very much under the impression that humans are far more robust/generalized and would quickly learn these reversals. And to stress, conditioned on knowing the forward direction to a strong degree. If you're fuzzy about the forward direction I'm not surprised if the reversal is even more fuzzy. Definitely biased. But more importantly, I do not think we have the same strong algorithmic bias in our encoding methods that transformers have. That's my main claim, just to clarify.

But I'm conjecturing a lot here. I think these are reasonable and we have some strong evidence for this. Maybe this is more situational than I'm presuming and I'm definitely working off of biased sampling. So discussion helps refine the ideas.
Google Workspace weaknesses allow plaintext password theft
Haven't masked in over 18 months, but yeah I think I've gotten 5 boosters at this point. I feel great.
It presents in different ways. Someone isn't having 5 conversations, but could be drifting in and out of thoughts. It might just look like they aren't very interested. If it's more severe you would have more trouble controlling these kinds of things for a number of reasons related to the condition (poor executive function and impulse control).

I've met "people with ADHD" who seem to not have the condition at all, though pretty much always medicated. On the other hand, I've met people with far more clearcut symptoms, and I felt like I had way more in common with them. It sounded like they were living the exact same life.
You can just set your servers to UTC. Although if you're not in europe correlating to local time is a bit of a pain.
Yeah, you make a great argument. I agree, ChatGPT without the extra RLHF would likely have had much less of an impact.
Nothing prevents Icelanders from getting up at the time that maximises sunlight for them.
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There have been some really serious ones.. going back years.

Dodge/Chrysler U-Connect had a ridiculous vulnerability that allowed getting all the data and even controlling/disabling the car over the internet.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-15-260-...

Who knows if there are any out in the wild now, cars have gotten way more complex since then.
Wow, this adds a layer of vector search integration that OpenAI is missing.
One interesting difference is that you can attach multiple assistants in the same chat “thread”
To maintain high trust you need to correct for untrustworthy people, either by setting norms that build trust, teaching people to be more trusting, or getting rid of non-performing people who destroy trust.
> Doesn't the EU require a selection screen?

No, that was for Microsoft, in the past.
Though GPT-3.5 was available a few months before ChatGPT came out (code-davinci-002 was the GPT-3.5 base model, text-davinci-003 had some instruction tuning and RLHF applied). But somehow almost nobody noticed the steep increase in capabilities compared to GPT-3 (davinci).
What a wild read.
It's a whole lot easier to transfer a mountain of money than actually compete, if you can afford it. Google can afford it.
For me, the biggest takeaway from David Allen's "Getting Things Done" book (which was hugely popular in the early 2000s) was that todo lists require aggressive pruning.

Otherwise they work well at first but quickly become giant guilt piles, aka "54 tasks remaining for the day" syndrome.

(Also then you never get the satisfaction of clearing your daily list, because it is one neverending eternal infinite list)

Which of your 54 daily tasks should be put on a "tomorrow" or "next week" or "next year" list? Which of them truly need to be done in the next 24 hours?
The expansion of the universe is accelerating. At some point, the number of galaxies in the visible universe will stop growing and the light received from distant galaxies will grow more and more redshifted. However, it's possible that the redshifting will accelerate faster than our technological ability to detect more and more redshifted light.
Can you explain a few ideas you have? I will give my own:

Pretend to be a person who is a secretary, have them respond to SMS with 4 possible options. Then through some various programming have our real life secretary pick a response(trying to lower the barrier for a WFH Mom who answers phones a few times a day).
>knowledge base (files)

What is it actually doing with the files you upload? Is it just pasting the full text into the prompt? Or is it doing something RAG-like and dynamically retrieving some subset based on the query?
Projecting revenue and costs as a startup in times of uncertainty
As a startup we’ve worked on our financial models heavily over the last few years, but are always open to learning more.

Curious to know from other startups: What new things have you learned about financial modeling since the start of the pandemic? In what ways did you adjust for drastic changes? Any general takeaways on financial modeling and projections in the face of big events like this?
I really loved it. It is much easier to read in dedicated time when there is nobody talking. and you can just add comments to the doc while reading..
I see this bullshit being repeated ad-nauseam as if it was fact.

It is not. The more junior developers I work with are doing fine. They just need a different soft skill set to grow in a remote environment (e.g.: self-learning).
Well yeah it’s to identify stuff from the tables that wasn’t well-represented in the study population. You might wanna go back and study it a bit more.
It's valid that you bring this up!

We're still discussing this. We do have a plan to open what's currently built entirely, and later build proprietary features inside an /ee dir.

You can read more about our strategy on our company's open handbook: https://github.com/watermelontools/public-handbook/blob/main...
Ask HN: How to organize research papers for reading
I recently read somewhere that a paper is a small part of a long on-going conversation. I found this description aptly.

To comprehend the latest paper, I frequently find it necessary to grasp the context provided by its citations. All pertinent papers collectively shape a Directed Acyclic Graph.

Is there a tool available that would enable me to organize papers in a DAG, allowing me to formulate a structured reading plan? Currently, my PDFs are scattered across different locations, and I essentially have to rely on memory to recall the dependencies between papers.
That technically doesn't work; you have to store the location, not the time zone. Standard time and DST are actually two different time zones (and are represented as such in software); if you were doing your scheduling in January, and said "9am on July 8th in the current time zone", then the event would get translated to the wrong time when July arrives (because "current time zone" in January is standard time, while in July it'd be DST).

If you instead just specify a location, then the hour number for the time always remains the same, and the time zone gets inferred from the location.

This also saves you from the possibility that DST rules might change for that location in the future, or that there might be a more major reshuffle, and the location gets moved to an entirely new time zone. (Like, for example, say the Chinese central government decides to stop being shitty to most of their country and allows the central and western areas of the country to be on a different time zone from Beijing.)
I think this is pretty common. I can read certain rare books that really capture my attention, and often I read hundreds of pages at a time.

Typically, requiring complete silence.
> surveying over 9,000 adolescents across America... According to this year's report, 87 percent of teenagers surveyed own an iPhone, while 88 percent expect to buy an iPhone as their next device.

It's very easy to plan on buying an iPhone as your next device when mom and dad are paying for it. We'll see how many of these kids plan on buying an iPhone when they are paying for it.
*American teenagers.
Framework's been transparent through the process about firmware issues being part of their mainboard development. A lot of their problems are specific to the intersection of their expansion slot/USB-C port capabilities, particularly power draw and PD/DP capabilities, and AMD's firmware for mainboard components. I'm not surprised that GPDs have a more solid experience as they're not expected to be as flexible.

And I want to emphasize that the "support" as in Framework responding to and shipping fixes has been good. The "support" as in the hardware working consistently, particularly in Linux and without distro-specific workarounds, has had holes which sound common enough outside of Framework devices that I'd wager the GPDs are the exception more than the rule.

I'll say at least that the Framework's fingerprint reader and display settings Just Worked through the upgrade.
I think the main topic of the story was the person, not the details of the rental/payment agreement.
Your link demonstrates that vaccines get special treatment rather than being treated like regular pharmaceuticals.
> “Not only is she helping our mission of ending hunger,

Actually, relying on charitable teenagers to solve large systemic problems doesn't seem much like "helping."

Nor do articles like these.

They just paper over the problems to maintain the status quo.
"How many cases did they lead to?" "How many convictions resulted from those warrants?"
Science isn't about truth. it's about the best explanation of the way the world works. the best explanation tomorrow may be better than today but that doesn't make today's explanation false. newton's laws are still used even though einstein gave us a better explanation
Way too many distractions in an office, it’s not just trying to tune out sound, it’s visual, temperature, lighting, social, commuting etc…. They all increase your load.
YaCy, being a distributed search engine gets results from many sources. Since you cant trust anyone it crawls each result looking for the keywords (if I remembered correctly)

Thus, we can have multiple search providers (and multiple gui's) Subscription based ones with free indexing, free ones with subscription based indexing, ones with a subscription for results and for indexing and ones with free indexing and results for free.

Providers can still insert spam into their result but it will have to be marked as advertisement and will quite appropriately be moved to the spam tab or removed entirely.
Is Phi-2 going to be open source i.e we can download it locally or is it going to be part of Azure cloud?
Such a species won’t be Homo sapiens anymore so this likely won’t be weird to them.
No, it is required for Search in EU.

https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
Nothing says you can't sorta do both. You can have a simple but clean looking website that both makes people nostalgic for the old days yet is still easy to navigate in the modern era, and that website can be part of whatever webrings you want to be part of.

Besides, what people count as modern or usable varies a lot depending on the niche, and if your content is good enough... well, you can get away with a lot of archaic design there. I mean, look at Serebii.net. Biggest Pokemon site in the world, probably the defacto source for information for many people in the community... and it's barely updated its layout in the last decade or two.

Heck, in more niche subject areas you have literally every website sticking to fairly traditional web design principles. Retro gaming and computing sites (like those about 8-bit computers, video game mods or demoscene stuff) tend to look about as retro as their subject area, and very few people care about that.

So, either mix them together since these things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, or do whatever knowing that if your content is good enough, the aesthetics won't exactly matter a huge deal.
How does this relate to the potential opening up of ham radio bands to encrypted traffic?
This is undocumented (frustrating) but it looks like it's chunking them, running embeddings on the chunks and storing the results in a https://qdrant.tech/ vector database.

We know it's Qdrant because an error message leaked that detail: https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1721989500291989585

It only applies that mechanism to some file types though - PDFs and .md files for example.

Other file formats that you upload are stored and made available to Code Interpreter but are not embedded for vector search.
There are definitely more web surfers than there are web sites, so reasonably speaking, most of them, at least the ones built by human beings, should be able to get at least a modicum of traffic.

The reason we have such concentration of popularity today is that we use popularity to direct traffic. That starts feeding into itself fairly rapidly, and the result is inevitably that the same few websites eat virtually all of the traffic.
The author may be surprised to find out what happens outside of Silicon Valley.

The techies didn't invent the ways of the world. They merely joined the existing power circles because tech turns out to be a pretty powerful lever.

That's all that's happened.

If you think techies came up with uniquely 'evil' masterplans that weren't commonplace at the time of their rise to prominence - you're wrong. Have one listen to that delightful All-In podcast if you want a glimpse into how unoriginal and devoid of insight tech billionaires who think they have insight are. Imagine what the rest are like.

Techies invented some cool tech. When it comes to politics and power, they've invented nothing. Complicit and cowardly? Sure but what did you expect? Iron Man?
Inflation Appears to Be Over
Is Android 'cool' with anybody?

I know some people who use Android because of customizability, I know some who use it because of price, some because of niche features, some because they want a folding screen, and I know some use it because they have to (for some reason or other).

Does anyone here use Android because it is 'cool'?
Zucchini is great but it's kind of hard to eat 1 zucchini a day for 4 months straight (the consequence of growing a single plant).
I wish you wouldn't say things like this. It seems to fuel a popular narrative that's leading to underdiagnosis and treatment.

There's a good chance that much of the ADHD behavior is being written off, eg. as a moral failing, when it's really a disorder that's really harmful to the person.
Some people don’t understand that there are the letter and spirit of the law, and then there are the application and enforcement, and there is some flux in the middle of it all. People are imperfect, and people are the ones washing dishes, preparing food, and enforcing the health code. Things slip through the cracks at a nonzero rate.

If that bothers you, you just have to remember the old adage: “if you want something done right, diy.”
Yes, please - I would like to see examples of the hardware stack that enables this use-case.

Thanks.
The sun does, to an extent: at the height of summer it never sets and at the low of winter it never rises (kinda, technically in Akureyri you do get 3h of daylight or half an hour of twilight at worst, and Reykjavik has a more forgiving 4h of daylight and 3 hours of twilight, no actual night from early april to early september tho)
There was a concerted mass campaign on social media to misreport serious side effects, I wonder if that was factored in.
What happens to those well-maintained chargers when more/all cars start using the Tesla standard for charging?
"truths of science" ironically betrays a misunderstanding of scientific epistemology.

Science isn't in the business of truths. It's in the business of explanations, predictions, theories, and data. e.g. This theory explains/predicts all of the data so far.
It helps infinitely more than your negative comment does.
But will these run Linux, run AI stuff the way the Apple Silicon seems to be able to do?

Because right now I'm looking to save up for a majorly spec'd Apple MacbookPro just to be able to do this stuff on a *nix operating system. I have no great love for Apple but the abilities of their chips and the vast software offerings are tempting this Linux guy in that direction.

Something that Microsoft cannot seem to do any more. I used Windows from 3.x-WinME; NT3.51-WinXP, getting off before Vista. What I've seen since then has done nothing to tempt me back to their side. Since I unfortunately must deal with Windows 10 at work, it definitely reinforces my distaste for their systems....

So despite thinking OSX has been rendered ugly for the past ten years now, I'm still thinking heavily in that direction, even with the high costs. Snapdragon X sounds nice enough but I have zero expectations based on past behavior at those getting decent Linux support any time soon. And no one else seems to even be trying, that one Thinkpad aside.
How?

They're not just trying to split an output into multiple lanes. The boxes represent the item stored in that "node" of the B-Tree (laid out here in 2D).

I haven't had time to watch the video, but the prose & screenshots indicates there is associated logic on the inserters to maintain the "sorted" nature of the tree, by sending stuff down the appropriate path to child nodes.

Given the OP's choice of values for keys … you could use splitters to do the splitting, but IIRC splitters only accept a single filter, and so you'd need many of them at each junction (as many as items at that junction). Filter-serters permit several filters, which is a bit nicer here. (You can see that in first screenshot.)

(Unless you just forgo the entire B-Tree design and just n-splitters to sort into n boxes … but that's boring and I think isn't what the OP is going for.)
This is one of the easier things to handle in date time code. Take a localized date and time from the user, convert to utc, store that in one db field and the offset in another. It gets even easier if the TZ is a form option for an entity above the data being stored. To read you grab the utc date time, add the offset, grab the current time, convert to utc, add the offset, then do the comparison. That’s not much work for 100ks, a bit of work for millions, and a lot of work for billions. So real time must stay in the 100ks area, otherwise, do it in a background process and accept the cost. If you really need it, convert dates to big integers and do simple math. But check whether it makes a half order of magnitude difference in proc time. If not, move on.
Are you really being so absolutist that 0.02% means that a definition is invalid?
>“the vast majority of our employees are hardworking, ethical, diligent corrections professionals, who act with integrity daily and want those engaging in misconduct to be held accountable.”

In the career of prison guard, the ideal would be 100% integrity.

I believe unions have their issues, but that in a "market" career, such as the trades or retail or service workers, the good outweighs the bad.

Unions for police and prison guards are 100% a mafia and they should not be tolerated. It needs to be much easier to fire cops.
Sounds more like this is just an exhibit of the replication crisis. I don’t remember people interacting with computers as if they are human in the 1990s — at least the people who actually did interact with computers on a regular basis.
"What if we let the kids customize their phone?" and "Convince people Apple is lame" aren't solutions to the problem, and the fact the article pretends they are makes it difficult to take the author seriously.

This belief that teenagers are choosing Apple because "marketing" and not because of legitimate differences between the platforms is a blind spot for a lot of pro-Android people.

The author correctly points out the problem. iPhones last a long time – making them easy for parents to hand down to kids. iPhones are reliable – meaning kids don't have bad experiences with them. iPhones work – meaning kids don't have to spend hours learning how to root their devices to create a better Android experience.
We will be publishing the github repo in the next couple of weeks. As you can imagine this is happening in real time and we want to cross check few things before we publish the repo.

I will reply to this thread once that has happened.

Thank you.
We're still discussing this.

The suggestion in the GP is that you are mis-representing your product and you seem to be confirming this. Instead of asking people to read the handbook, it seems easier to just change the inaccurate bits for now.
EFF Urges FTC to Address US Resellers of Malware on Android TV Set-Top Boxes
I think you're projecting a little. WASM is already in heavy use. It's obviously not intended for casual scripting. So if you find it too hard, you're not the target. But you're not representative of all developers in general.

Also, it's not intended, usually, for you to actually write WASM directly. It's a compilation target. You can import C++ libraries, Rust libraries, and so on, and use them from JavaScript. Or you can write your own C++ code and run it in a browser. You write WASM directly mostly when you write compilers. Have you written compilers? Well let me tell you it's definitely not simpler than WASM.

I'm under the impression you may think WASM is trying to be a replacement for JavaScript. It's not. They play together. In fact, you can think of WASM as a new JavaScript API, like we have WebGL or WebGPU. It's just that. WASM can't do anything by itself. It's just math in a block of memory. But... it's fast math.
I did, but that was never enough: even 37dB ear muffs aren't enough to completely suppress the noise of a conversation happening nearby, but the ear muffs plus the walls and the door are.

And, of course, as others point out, the auditory distractions are only part of the problem with an open floor plan.
Am I the only one who thinks GPTS is a terrible name. I see a lot of people struggling with the name and googling for GPTs will always be a bit hit and miss....

I came up with the concept of a gipety (singular) and gipeties (plural) and would be quite chaffed if I could figure a way of making it stick ;)
Can you Xerox that for me?