skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to know if 24/7 electromagnetic radiation has an effect on people. I'm sure most of the population falls asleep with their cell phones next to them every night on top of keeping them in our pockets all day.
One of the things people seem to underestimate about GPTs: Creators can upload unlimited "documents" to the GPTs. This is a bit of a trojan for OpenAI to collect data that they wouldn't otherwise be able to. This alone will end up being a competitive moat that might not otherwise exist, and it's also a workaround in terms of liability, in terms of the use material they otherwise may not be able to use for their models.
Which language? Because I've desperately been looking for a good resource to practice/learn Slovene that's not an expensive course from the University of Cleveland.
Many in my area already have. They have the closest free level 3 charger. I have no doubt ill be paying them a visit soon.
> How would they know to be polite?

From being told: "It would be polite if you assumed that there are potentially true opinions that cannot be safely expressed in public."
maybe this is better? https://github.com/clovaai/donut

I'm not sure
What about if we are converging instead on Asimov's robots? I would imagine "like a human" wouldn't at all be what we are working towards but instead a superhuman which the robots of his short stories often were.

The two issues with that is (1) they did effectively let humanity "look at the source" in that a big part of the stories was the corporation attempting to get humans to trust the robots by implementing the three laws in such a way that it would be impossible to circumvent (and making those laws very widely known). Didn't work, humans still didn't trust them. (2) as far as I know the operators of LLMs don't seem to currently have a way to give instructions that can't be circumvented quite easily.

Viewing the source and having that source be ironclad was, for Asimov at least, a prerequisite to even attempting to integrate superhuman technology into society.
Best part was in the footnotes.

> There was a time when average Americans could get together and, in one afternoon, build an entire barn.

> Yes! A barn! Can you imagine average Americans doing that today? Not a chance!

> They’d spend weeks debating the membership and organizational structure of the Barn Architect Selection Committee, whose members would then get into a lengthy squabble over the design of the logo to appear on their letterhead. Ultimately this issue would become a bitter and drawn-out dispute, be taken to court, and the people involved would start complaining of depression and anxiety, and psychologists would announce that these people were victims of a new disease called Barn Committee Logo Dispute Distress Syndrome, or BCLDDS, which would become the subject of one-hour shows by Phil Donahue and Sally Jessy Raphael, after which millions of Americans would realize that they, too, were suffering from BCLDDS, and they’d form support groups with Hot Line numbers and twelve-step programs. That’s what we modern Americans do.
Prius Prime will stay in EV mode at speeds up to 84 mph, even if you are smashing the accelerator.
> I was trying to walk someone through adding a docker build process to their CI and.... he just couldn't communicate/understand it through slack and he wanted to schedule a meeting.

this sounds like pair programming imo.

> Great, now instead of being able to respond while working on other things I have to cut out an entire hour of my day just for you.

this reads as a bad attitude towards mentorship. sorry for that assumption.
Right now, I use Hey Homepage myself to follow around 850 other websites and their updates. I follow some computer and car news. I follow some 'dev blogs' with weekly or monthly updates. I follow some timelines from people that post shorter but more frequent posts (like Twitter). I even follow some Youtube channels without being exposed to their algorithm.

What I'm missing and would like to see more of, are feeds about hobbies/activities other than computer-related stuff. I might be in a bubble or I'm dealing with early adopters, but the only quality feeds I encounter are from programmers who write about... programming. I put my money where my mouth is and added a microblog/timeline to my website about building a bicycle caravan (see theredpanther.org).

What I also miss are more 'photo feeds'. Every update in a feed can have a picture included, why not make more use of that!? It sparks some live into the dull text-only format. Adding a photo now and then also makes the webview of the a timeline more interesting. Just as Twitter-posts can have a picture attached. I make extensive use of photos on a niche site of mine about beautiful cars. Go check Artomotive (https://www.heyhomepage.com/site/artomotive).

The technical side of these things isn't new or innovative. And that's the beauty, it's proven technology. No hype, just natural growth. The technology behind 'feeds' (it's called RSS, I call it 'Really Social Sites') is twenty years old now. It's not tainted by surveillance capitalism, commercialism, algorithms, platforms or AI. But to get the most out of it, you have to do some things. Like collecting interesting feeds/websites to follow, clicking to read the whole article, playing the algorithm yourself by curating the stream of content, etc. But if you want to stay sane on a changing internet, it seems the only way.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/10/23/eric-schm...

After reading this I can't get the image out of my mind. Whenever I see a ridiculous project being funded, I imagine "Steel Perlot". In my mind it has become something like a frou-frou art gallery losing money.

How much of the VC space is really like this? After awhile all I see are buzzword backup dancers ripping off willing fools.
I would say software is very important. We already have tons of different models, standards, library, etc. I usually have smooth experience if I am using NVDA, but any other variation, I have to spend some times to get things started.

Supporting the common librarires that I use is very important for me to chose the cloud platform.
> If National Security is an issue, then delay the publication of court records by some fixed amount, and require an onerous process to keep the ongoing stuff sealed for those rare cases where it's needed.

Didn't you just describe a secret court? I don't think these records don't exist or are permanently classified.
Same. I was around 600 too. And I hope to never go back to Google.
Good riddance. Switching jobs has better RoI than those anemic promotions anyway.
> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage.

This is a stupid take, and one that is based on a simplistic idea that the success or failure of a business are determined solely on whether random workers working on random projects for random industries with random business models will work from home or from a random office in a random city. Truly stupid. It sounds like a desperate attempt to extend "might makes right" towards employee relations.
Federal income tax was supposed to be temporary for WWII, we see how that worked out.
In the spirit of private property[1], no tax on primary residence (i.e., must actually live there most[2] of the time). No one should lose their only residence because they cannot afford to pay the tax.

1. which I only sorta agree with depending on the context

2. 75%? To be figured out by someone more informed than I, and not declarable.
Wasm will never take off. It is too hard to get started for it to be meaningful. Maybe for games or things like figma it will work but having to use rust means it will never ever be mainstream.
You missed the most insidious part-- the captive audience envious of all those newer, nicer cars than their own. It sells itself.
Damn, Microsoft is playing all sides of this, huh.

Within a ten minute window:

- Satya announced GPT-4 runs (at least partly) on a new AMD offering

- Satya announced an in-house chip for ML acceleration

- Satya brings NVidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage

they've got every horse in the race, huh

(disclaimer, I work for MS but all the stuff talked about here far is waaaay above my paygrade haha, and all brand new info to me)
Fast Next.js Apps Using TypeScript and AWS Amplify JavaScript v6
The first time I got medical treatment for ADHD, I eventually stopped treatment because I missed a Dr. appt due to being sick and just couldn't get myself to arrange a follow up appointment.
It does seem that “can the chatbot run interference for customer service” is a likely early application.

Which is a shame, a company that is something like a collection of guilds and co-ops organized by bot C-levels would be really interesting.
No, existing models use more numerical methods. This is using a completely different approach.

> GraphCast utilizes what researchers call a "graph neural network" machine-learning architecture, trained on over four decades of ECMWF's historical weather data. It processes the current and six-hour-old global atmospheric states, generating a 10-day forecast in about a minute on a Google TPU v4 cloud computer. Google's machine learning method contrasts with conventional numerical weather prediction methods that rely on supercomputers to process equations based on atmospheric physics, consuming significantly more time and energy.
Due to the way you phrase your comments, I'm struggling to pull any neutral points out to respond to. Maybe this one:

> and since when are prices of land decreasing suddenly a terrible thing?

Because if it decreases, then it will discourage people from selling. You think it will increase selling (and for some reason think that's good); I'm saying that this might counteract that.
Congrats on the release.

If I plug this into my repo, does Open AI get to train on my proprietary codebase?
Actors living in other countries with no contacts to Europe don't give two shits about GDPR. If I'm a hacker looking at tracking down particular users and committing phishing/watering hole attacks all the laws on the planet really don't matter. What does matter is the data you leak online and the tools I can use to process it.
Land taxes in the US pay for services like fire and other emergency responders.

The discussion is about shifting more of the burden on those profiting so greatly off the land they own.
Well it's actually not a 20% or 50% chance of rain. It's that it will definitely rain but only for 20-50% of the projected area forecasted
In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison
Microsoft Releases Phi-2
Only for the web interface. For businesses accessing it via the API, there's a mode where OpenAI promises not to use uploaded information for training.
Bing Chat will now become Copilot
I think about this quite a bit. If the WFH evangelists are right in saying that it is absolutely better to enable WFH then surely we will see those companies pull away from their peer group at some point.

My sense is that companies are highly complex and there are too many factors to weigh to say that WFH is 'better'. It's a bit of a truism, but a 'well run' company is going to perform better than a 'not well run' company, regardless of whether it's in-office, remote, or hybrid.

Being clear that the company is going to prioritize in-office and build the way they operate around that seems like a good signal that the company is 'well run'. Especially when the alternative I see are companies that hop around various 'hybrid' work policies that make no one happy, or worse yet avoid making any proper policy because they don't want to make a hard decision.
Indeed, if they just slapped it in there like a modular daughter-card and hooked it up the the power supply (blood, etc) but it doesn't actually work for what most people consider eyes to be most useful for, it's a significant datum that radically changes the interpretation. Still cool, but important detail.
This is a phenomenal outcome for existing, entrenched technology workers.
I'm self-administering (unwittingly) mild food poisoning pretty regularly because I can't throw away food, particularly food that I spent precious time on cooking it myself.

Like a big pot of soup, some fried meat and whatever side dish like cooked cabbage. The idea is to spend the unpleasant cooking time once, put it all in the fridge then for a few days at least the whole effort is just to retrieve servings and heat them before eating.

Most of the times I finish what I cooked before starting to spoil but even spoiling isn't very sudden. Like I ate 5 days old soup yesterday and tasted a little funny but it was all good, no side effects. There's still a bowl left at the bottom of the pot today and by the time I'm hungry it's too late to start thinking and waiting for alternatives so what the heck. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger I guess. Therefore it happens sometimes that I wakeup at 2 AM with an acute feeling that a bowel evacuation is imminent if you know what I mean :)
To really understand WASM, you should try to write it by hand! That's right, it's possible, it even has a text format that all WASM runtimes let you run directly.

Check this out: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2018/04/26/webassembly-by-hand.h...

Once you know what WASM really does, it's obvious why you need JS (or whatever the host language is in your runtime, which could be anything) to provide anything related to IO and why there's zero chance you'll get DOM access as it currently stands... until they finally finish off specifying a whole lot of APIs (they did GC already which was pretty fundamental for that to work, but there's many more things needed for complete access to IO and DOM).

If you use a compiler like Rust, it's going to include WASI which is a sort of POSIX for WASM (and currently completely underdefined, just try to find the spec and you'll see it's mostly being made up as implementers go), which is why you'll get ridiculous amounts of code into your WASM file. If you write it by hand, importing some made up function like `console_log` which you then import from WASM, then your WASM should be just a few bytes! Literally. I wrote a little compiler to do this as it's not hard to generate WASM bytecode, but to make anything useful is very painful due to the complete lack of specifications of how things should work (e.g. to print a string is actually very hard as you'll just be able to give JS or your host a pointer to linear memory, and then you need to write the actual bytes - not UTF or even ASCII characters in WASM itself - to linear memory, which the JS then has to decipher to be able to call its own `console.log()`)... so I am waiting (a few years by now) until this improves to continue.
Considering that Jensen is on stage with Satya at the moment sharing the keynote of Microsoft Ignite, I suspect NVIDIA won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Cultural sclerosis may "simply" be a mix of unintended consequence and deliberately intended consequence (sabotage). The impetus for much of our legal system might be fine but not paying attention to unintended consequences then results in sclerosis. This is easy to achieve in an accreting system of rules and laws: "Let's just add one more rule - that will sort it out right up".

There are fields of (american) activity that clearly understand the strength in building things fast - and that are designed for that. The startup world is still one of these - both for starting a new venture and for deploying fast and sorting out the details later. This is about the "rules of the game" and the infrastructure (funding, legal entity formation, getting people to join, hosting, software tools...) All around, the infrastructure and culture support the principle.

Other institutions seem built as-if for endlessly delaying projects. In most cases this was not the goal. And in some cases, that IS the goal: it works so well that some don't let it go to waste.

Still other institutions DO exist so as to allow moving legislation at a decent pace but have fallen out of favor - with the executive prefering endless ad-hoc informal processes in the vague hope of achieving unity, consensus, peace well in advance of actual change. With not much change possible as a result.

That is not to say that "emergency committees" don't make plenty of harm. Brings to mind the ruling against fat and in favor of carbs: [Senator: I do not have the luxury. My constituents are dying. I can't wait for your scientific data.]

But this should be a deliberate area of effort: improving institutions for time effectiveness and correctness. Even from a basic economics point of view, there is quite a bit of economic growth potential that comes merely from responsiveness. Same from a quality of life point of view. When need is recognized, pouring money in study (scientific, engineering, legal...) including study of unintended effects, then moving on with a ruling. Which does not mean in the sense of "environmental impact study" which seems to have become a weapon: a financial barrier against doing anything.

In other cases, strength should be in recognizing that headline cause X is not actually an emergency and tabling it until it naturally accretes more data or is simply forgotten.
Got one here, AMA!
How many pounds of veggies would a person eat per year? How many would they need to sustain themselves?
I can only echo the sentiments about "actions" and "knowledge".

I was unable to get anything useful out of knowledge documents (apart from the smallest of PDFs). Most times it took ages trying to index the files and 90% it exploded in the end anyways. A few other times it did even seem to kill the entire chat instance, with it erroring on every message after I uploaded a document.

Actions provided via an OpenAPI spec are a blast on the other hand. I was surprised by how well it handled even chained action calling (though it lags a bit between individual invocations). It also handled big bulk listing endpoints quite well. If you already are generating OpenAPI schemas for your API, you are basically getting a very customized GPT for free!
Economists are simply modern-day astrologers.

Sometimes they get it right.
> plants from before the war, WW1 in one case

JFC. I get why this is profitable, these machines have been written off financially a century ago and have been money printers ever since for that reason, but this kind of behavior should be seriously penalized - it makes competition for new companies really hard (because they have to pay down the value for new machines), and it's bad for the environment as a whole because if they're still running the same motors and control units from back then, then they are wasting a lot of electricity, most likely also emit a lot more toxic effluents than a plant with modern emission controls and mitigations would, and most likely run at lower yield rates than modern processes so they're wasting more raw materials.
Long debates aside, I have learned for myself that God is real, which is why I remain a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have written more detail about how and why, at my web site (in profile).
Why? Just 'cuz Chrome has been successful?
I imagine a lot of people reading the comments won't realize that this same procedure has restored partial sight in animals.
Parents have caught FBI attempts to groom their autistic children to become terrorists.
I genuinely don't see how x86 architecture will continue to survive the next 10 years. It will of course take longer to change home desktop users to new architectures; they will be the last segment to switch, but it seems all but inevitable.

BTW, I'm not even speaking to whether x86 can compete at the same power per watt... I think it just won't make sense financially to be out of sync with the industry.
> I run a SaaS to help site owners get their content indexed. We're seeing an influx of users, I think a lot of the issue is simply because of AI.

I think that google just isn't interested in putting resources into their search engine anymore. They used to need it to gather data on people and what they were doing online, but chrome gives them people's internet histories now and android lets them collect endless amounts of data on people's lives offline. Google doesn't need search to spy on us anymore. It's only natural that they'd let it stagnate.
Is Adobe's Marketo "the worst" at getting emails delivered?
Kilopounds might be my new favorite unit (though libraries of congress will always hold a special place in my heart).
But... you are being taxed for things you own.

I'd prefer to have more direct spending on services than we have, so the money isn't proxied off a building, or how many windows you have, or whatever harebrained scheme local bureacrats might invent. So you just pay X a month to have trash taken; X for sewage, etc etc. But I'd say that moving to just taking money in a way entirely unrelated to service consumption is going in the wrong direction.
Is the US's vaccine adverse event reporting system broken?
My career has been one long carrot and stick of promised promotions that never materialize, so this threat would have no effect on me.
Developers don't really compete on skill much.

Most importantly because companies have no good way of judging skill of developers.

And also because, in most companies writing business software, good enough is good enough.
> That's currently impossible. It requires the component model[1] to be figured out...

Not really if you use C-APIs with 'primitive-type args' at the language boundaries, which is the same like in any other mixed-language scenario. Some languages make it harder to interact with C APIs than others, but that's a problem that needs to be fixed in those languages.
> Some things could be true but still taboo

Well yes, that's the whole discussion. It's possible that some things that are taboo, are true.

It's even likely! because why else would there be a taboo? Society doesn't need to put a taboo on things that are obviously, totally wrong, like "the earth is flat". Arguably, a taboo is only needed to hide a possible truth.

The question is: what are those things? Or if not the things themselves, the domains, the general topic?

I can't think of any subject that cannot even be alluded to, like Voldemort.
It's buck-passing; the responsibility to keep Cloudflare services available to users lies with Cloudflare, not Flexential. A well-designed distributed system is able to withstand an unplanned DC failure without the user noticing. They can certainly note that Flexential's failure was a causal factor in their outage, but if they do, they're also admitting to inadequate engineering practices.
The reason to use Protobuf is not performance
There are many situations where employers are not interested in skills, they’re just looking to fill a position with the cheapest (licensed) person. There’s very little ROI in upgrading your skills in this situation.
> I still am confused as to whether or not Google would be happier if these types of payments were banned for everyone.

Then Samsung would just use its own apps more than they already do. Banning payments doesn't get the outcome you're suggesting of a mandatory set of multiple apps from multiple companies.
Ex-FARC members aim to restore 1M native trees in the Colombian Amazon
Ashwagandha is also great legal supplement for mental clarity and focus
I for one think kilograms make sense. You know the, uhm, metric system.

Not very salty about this. This is just an Internet comment.