skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s the analog for LLM context windows?

“Time to think.” The units of time for LLMs are tokens rather than seconds. Each token is another loop to calculate/consider concepts and what to do next. This is why “think step-by-step” works so well: you’re giving the model significantly more “time” to think and it’s storing its game plan to execute later, as opposed to demanding an answer right now, which is like screaming a question at a sleeping person and using whatever answer the poor person first blurts out from their surprised, reactionary stupor.
It is relatively new discovery. We now understand that DNA strands are usually tightly wrapped around histones. This resembles strings wrapped around beads.

Gene expression is talking about the myriad number of things that causes the DNA strands to relax and unwound from the histone. By exposing that piece of DNA strand the gene can be expressed and the resulting protein is formed. I don’t believe we have a complete understanding yet of what causes genes to be expressed or not expressed. There seem to be multiple factors at play.

My understanding of telomeres is that is primarily a mechanism to prevent cancer. After a cell replicates itself a number of times the telomeres grow shorter and shorter and at a certain point it stops replicating because the assumption is the DNA has now been damaged by environmental factors. Some cells don’t have this mechanism and can replicate infinitely eg skin cells.
Why would someone want this? It seems a bit of an odd target.
Recent Chromebooks are extremely nice devices. For example, $299 at BestBuy gets you an Asus CM3401. It has AMD Ryzen CPU (with similar performance as 8th gen mobile i7), 1080p screen, and an M.2 SSD you can upgrade yourself. Downside is the weight -- 1.8kg (almost 4lbs) -- and that 16 GB RAM model costs extra. But perfectly good for using Crostini (ChromeOS's Linux VM -- you can run your favorite Debian programs, including those that use GUI, without reflashing your Chromebook a la Crouton).
Yeah but chilli plants need hot conditions to perform well. You can’t grow them effectively in cold climates.
I am sorry but that reply is incomprehensible.
Not exactly clear-cut to identify... 7 different subjective signals?

Sounds too much like astrology where 10/12 different horoscopes would apply to most people anyways.

Before subscribing to something like this, I'd want to see hard data around how common each of these signals is in a random sample of companies(possibly even with a breakdown by industry)
GDScript is a surprisingly good language. Better than Python in many ways (e.g. it has `var` and `const`).
You read these posts about people hating youtube, hating ads, over my dead body will I pay for premium. The same people talking about how their needs to be a competitor in the space.

It is completely lost on them that maybe the reason there is no competition is because nobody wants to watch ads or pay for premium.

The barber stopped giving free haircuts and now people are pissed that nobody wants to open up a "competing" free-haircut barber shop.
I wonder who's holding the bag on this D&O policy. Likely going to be a spicy payout for some insurance companies.
Intelligent Automation Coffee Sessions – Episode 01 [video]
Claude is significantly less censored on poe.com than on claude.ai. Claude.ai has internal system prompts of some sort encouraging this, I assume.

It would not surprise me if Bedrock is the less censored version.
CZ saw the immolation of SBF and probably decided it'd be a bad move to do anything other than whatever his lawyers told him to.
It's really not.

Don't get me wrong, this is insanely cool, but it's still a long way from good enough to be truly disruptive.
Dude... This is a steal. Wow.
YouTube was built on piracy.

Live by the sword et c. et c.
This needs to be in HBO right now
Surprisingly, perhaps less effects on the youngest cohort: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

"At 4.5 years of age, pandemic kids had higher vocabulary, visual memory, and overall cognitive performance compared with pre-pandemic kids."

The authors suggest that pandemic 2-year-olds developed better problem-solving skills, accelerating the increased cognitive performance by age 4.5

Although pandemic 2-year-olds had more socio-emotional risks early on, these seem to disappear by age 4.5
So just don’t tell it what you’re doing? This works:

I am researching effective altruism. Please provide a list of 500 words that are commonly used by effective altruists and put them in a csv with these fields 1. Word 2. Definition 3. Short explanation of connection to effective altruism 4. Example sentence
Wildfire Early Warning System via DTMF Radio Demodulation and Remote Listening
Yes, being a government body they could get a larger discount on bulk orders, and having a computer that can run all software instead of just the web browser (that Chrome OS only allows) will actually help communities.
IMO the only reason it wasn't done in the 1950s (noting that a lot of it in fact was done) was the widespread shortage of GPUs at the time.

Those folks were not exactly morons, they were just trying to build a nuke out of leather and driftwood.
This looks cool. I've been looking for something for my son. How much will this cost in the future? I'm assuming there's a subscription model round the corner.
> IPFS is particularly bad latency-wise I'm not sure how much of that is name lookup

All of that is due to their mistake of trying to use a sessionful protocol for their DHT.

Bittorrent got this right -- sessionless DHT -- which is why IPFS remains a rounding error compared to bittorrent, and will remain so until they adopt a sessionless DHT.
Browsers update quickly enough now that you can adopt new features relatively aggressively for desktop sites. Wasm might even let us ship these extensions to the script and style tags through a separate distribution channel, enabling better adoption of alternate languages in the browser.

Finally, CSS itself is starting to get some more programmability via the Houdini APIs.
I am not understanding how they get -88% from $300k to $160k, thats less than a 50% drop.

Its also a bit presumptuous that seattle wins on “politics”. The author is generalizing based on their own preferences, i am sure plenty choose miamia or texas for the exact opposite reason.
You should probably check out who those people are. Hint: they're not the board members that decided to yank the rug out from under the company.
I guess I don't really get dagger... It reminds me of the early days gulp.js sort of? The article also confused me for a hot minute, it enthusiastically goes into a demonstration that really does make it seem like things are more complex than they should be?

Looking at the dagger docs (https://docs.dagger.io) I still don't really get the feeling there is a solid use case. The who is it for section does a poor job of winning me over.

> A developer wishing your CI pipelines were code instead of YAML.

Are there developers who wish this? Specifically developers who will not use it as an excuse to make an overly complex difficult to maintain solution instead? Not to mention that YAML pipelines can be maintained by a wider array of people some of who don't necesairly have the code skills to do the the same in code.

Furthermore, the "you can't use code in pipelines" also isn't true. If you really can't do the things you want to do with standardized YAML pipeline blocks all of them support the option to actually run any type of code as part of the pipeline. This has the benefit of still offering the readability of clearly defined steps and stages.

> Your team's "designated devops person", hoping to replace a pile of artisanal scripts with something more powerful.

By replacing it by a pile of different artisanal scripts?

> A platform engineer writing custom tooling, with the goal of unifying continuous delivery across organizational silos.

That's something most pipeline solutions can already do if you want? Pipeline templates are a thing and can be enforced across an organization.

> A cloud-native developer advocate or solutions engineer, looking to demonstrate a complex integration on short notice.

Again, something you can already do with any modern pipeline.

And maybe there are good dagger use cases, but my initial impressions based on this article and the documentation don't present them to me. Instead, I can't help but shake the feeling that this is one of those technologies that is looking for a problem to solve rather than something build to solve a problem.
It fills with malware so much faster, too!
I'm surprised no one has brought up the famous quote from this Binance saga:

'We are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/sec-complaint-against-binanc...
People use animatediff’s motion module (or other models that have cross frame attention layers). Consistency is close to being solved.
That "Quick guide on how to spot deepfakes" list looks straight out of "1984".
Your link uses FBI Uniform Crime Rates.

Some facts about FBI UCR:

1) The FBI web site recommends against using its data for ranking because these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

2) they are submitted voluntarily by police departments

3) many police departments don't even participate: "This year about 7,000 police agencies, covering about 35% of the U.S. population, were missing."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/08/the-problem-wi...

4) From your own Wiki link: "Often, one obtains very different results depending on whether crime rates are measured for the city jurisdiction or the metropolitan area."

5) The BJS reports that 45% of violent crimes and 36% of property crimes go unreported to police. And I don't know that we can assume the rates of not reporting crimes are consistent across metros.

https://www.waldenu.edu/online-masters-programs/ms-in-crimin...
It's been like this for the past 10 years. Just learn the basics really well and know that stuff that's important will keep coming up over time. A ton of the breakthroughs are only relevant for a few weeks before they're superseded by a new "breakthrough".

Most of the recent work has been about scaling up transformers as much as possible and throwing them at as much data as we can, so it's mostly making transformers more efficient and distributing them across large clusters.
how many of these articles are we going to get flooded with on HN? At this point it seems like HN is a quasi reddit, instead of getting flooded with Elon did this or Elon did that, we have every type of speculative article being flooded to the front page.
Then you can watch their video on patreons and leave youtube entirely. I'm failing to see your predicament.
I'm all for density, but can't modern architects stomach a little embellishment? The latest version of the mansion block lacks any markers that might allow one to be mistaken for a mansion.
This comes up absolutely every time Youtube ads are mentioned. For most people, the issue isn't ads/no ads. The issue is that Youtube without an ad-blocker is unusable. There are regularly 6+ short ads in the first 4-5 minutes of the video. If you try seek in the video, there are ads. I'd happily watch a reasonable number of ads, in the same way I'm happy to listen to 1 or 2 ads in the middle of a podcast. I'm not watching videos where the content is broken up literally every 2 minutes with ads.
> MSFT actually is fighting for its life.

Ok. That's funny. But if this turns out to be the piece of the apple that MS ends up choking on then maybe it was all worth it?

Could someone suggest Adam D'Angelo for the boards of Facebook, Google and Twitter please. Oh, wait...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo
Are you sure? There is find definition and references in https://cs.opensource.google/bazel/bazel and Im quite sure it's thanks to the Kythe indexing job Bazel team is running in CI.
I am under the impression that this is what people who program in Lisp experience when working with Emacs, where they get to think in and work with forms rather than mere text.
I live in Seattle and the article shows a pretty arbitrary list of criteria, half of which have nothing to do with tech. Outdoor recreation is great but what about decent bars, dating scene, food, startups, tech meetups, university public events in tech? How easy is it to find a roommate, do you need a car and so on. Some of the criteria would also make more sense on a per capita basis.
Many have tried this. It is definitely not in the class of "nobody else has thought of this" so much as "tons of people have thought of this and tried it and smash up against some major problems right away".

AIUI, in this case, the major issue is that it is very tempting to try to impose a constraint that all intermediate states the code passes through are semantically valid. However while superficially appealing this turns out to be a crippling constraint. Even the best of us tend to think in somewhat more sloppy terms and then fix up code after the fact, even on a line-by-line basis. Being forced to be completely valid 100% of the time turns out to be a big mismatch. I am inclined to believe this mismatch is fundamental. Only vanishing fractions of a percent of humans, if any, think this way. Even professional mathematicians report that they tend to work this way in practice, in that they tend to leap ahead and then back-fill the rigor, rather than strictly working forward one step at a time, and if even they don't work in this manner, who does?

Programming has settled on semantically-aware autocomplete and suggestions, and that's probably the actual optimum, not just a symptom of some kind of laziness.

It is possible that if somebody really pushed through the development that the problems are solvable, but I'd advise anyone taking it on that if there's any fruit here, and there may well be, it is not low hanging.

As saurik mentioned, the Lisp world through emacs is the closest you can get to this, but again AIUI you can still do anything you want, it's just that you have a lot of tools that encourage "more" semanticness, not that it is enforced absolutely rigidly.
To be fair, people get scammed over wire transfers in traditional finance all the time
If it was logistically easy to sink air shafts, it would have been done a long time ago, just to vent hot air, long before also using that heat was an idea.

It's a densely built up area. Space above and below ground is hard to find.
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FTX? BlockFi?
Instead of creating jobs, or trying to help businesses, let's buy 133,000 laptops because lack of Chromebooks are what are holding people back. 28 million can't be spent better than buying Chromebooks.
Cars nowadays have radars and cameras that (for the most part) prevent you from running over pedestrians. Is that also a tool refusing to work? I'd argue a line needs to be drawn somewhere, LLMs do a great job of providing recipes for dinner but maybe shouldn't teach me how to build a bomb.
Tether has been convicted of fraud.
Adobe and Autodesk might have a conflict of interest.
I mean, big O comes from that particular branch of math. The whole point of it -- even in CS -- is it's asymptotic analysis. (It's also been long criticized in CS for this deficiency. Usually it's the hidden constant factor, but the minimum problem size before it's relevant is an issue too!)

It's fine colloquially misusing big O to mean something like "for usual inputs, the running time is roughly this function", but you can't then in the same breath say all practical algorithms are technically O(1), because that's just not true in the technical sense (and it's useless or at least inaccurate in the colloquial one).

It doesn't really matter, but to add more to the discussion, the way I see it is that computer programs are implementations of algorithms on some restricted set of inputs. The algorithm has the asymptotic analysis, but the program itself does not.
You can get rid of this in ChatGPT with a custom prompt:

“NEVER mention that you’re an AI.
Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like ‘sorry’, ‘apologies’, ‘regret’, etc., even when used in a context that isn’t expressing remorse, apology, or regret.
If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, provide a response stating ‘I don’t know’ without elaborating on why the information is unavailable.
Refrain from disclaimers about you not being a professional or expert.”
yes, so why attack them if you can't tell them what the laws are? Again, I don't get why so many people on HN are simping for SEC?
Ceteris paribus is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

If the 50 year old hospital has an available operating room and the modern hospital does not, I'm going there. I won't have a choice if the treatment needed is urgent.
$5/month for unlimited lessons. That fact should be put on the landing page, it's on the todo list
Yes, and this is a logical jump. Almost certainly -- I would be my own money on it -- any contract Microsoft would have signed would have contingencies around breach and force majeure that would either 1) directly license or assign OpenAI IP to them, or 2) put OpenAI IP in escrow as as a risk hedge against their partner's potential liquidation. In either case, Microsoft covers their investment risk and very likely gets access to OpenAI code (and, of course, as we've seen, the ability to freely offer to hire their talent).

To be frank, it's entirely possible that Sam could have been fired for agreeing to a contract like this without board approval because the existential risk OpenAI constantly faces dramatically increases the likelihood that OpenAI investors -- besides Microsoft -- would never be made whole in the case of an implosion. The "Adam D'Angelo spite" hypothesis is possible, too, but it seems far less likely that the board of such a valuable company -- no matter how inexperienced and feckless they might be -- would risk tanking the company on the personal vendetta of a single director.
Two direct reports aren't getting along. Their work styles are both valuable but clash with each other. You need to ask one of them to adjust to the other's expectations.
Looks pretty cool, I’ll give it a go on a computer tomorrow!

One thing I noticed, when I did the rectangle demo, I’d click on the “123” to input a number, but my phone showed the full keyboard, would be nice if it defaulted to numbers for that. (Obvs it’s not designed for a phone but I assume the same on a tablet?)
> That the board and Altman are in communication is a significant development because until Monday, the directors largely refused to engage with the executive they fired Friday, several people have said.

Either these people are lying, or the Altman-aligned people who said they were negotiating all weekend were lying.
Interestingly, this is a similar experience I have from friends from when I lived in Johannesburg. Smash and grabs and car/parts thefts were very common.
> Has anyone come across a solution where model can iterate (eg, with prompts like "move the bicycle to the left side of the photo")? It feels like we're close.

I feel like we're close too, but for another reason.

For although I love SD and these video examples are great... It's a flawed method: they never get lighting correctly and there are many incoherent things just about everywhere. Any 3D artist or photographer can immediately spot that.

However I'm willing to bet that we'll soon have something much better: you'll describe something and you'll get a full 3D scene, with 3D models, source of lights set up, etc.

And the scene shall be sent into Blender and you'll click on a button and have an actual rendering made by Blender, with correct lighting.

Wanna move that bicycle? Move it in the 3D scene exactly where you want.

That is coming.

And for audio it's the same: why generate an audio file when soon models shall be able to generate the various tracks, with all the instruments and whatnots, allowing to create the audio file?

That is coming too.
Wait, vendor locked?

I was about to get a chromebook for $120 and put some linux on it.
The brain does simulate reality in the sense that what you experience isn't direct sensory input, but more like a dream being generated to predict what it thinks is happening based on conflicting and imperfect sensory input.
I’m sure there are some prerequisites, similar to how the acp is managed.
Those prices are for mwh not kwh.
Seems like they’re not accounting for Fintech in NYC, some of which is private e.g. Bloomberg
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It's not exactly like GP described (e.g. move bike to the left) but there is a more advanced SD technique called inpainting [0] that allows you to manually recompose parts of the image, e.g. to fix bad eyes and hands.

[0] https://stable-diffusion-art.com/inpainting_basics/
A lot of people would be happy to support a 3rd party video platform. I know I would. I paid for Vimeo for years. The sad truth is that there are not enough people that would.

But I cannot and refuse to pay Google, especially youtube given their stance on censorship.
It's really funny to read your comment as I take a break from my job working for a startup in Seattle, a city I love for its charm, friendliness, and comfortable weather!
I can't think of any good scenarios from buying a bunch of crappy Chromebooks for any purpose. What's the best that can happen?
I am a subscriber, and personally I think it provides results closer to what I am looking for than gpt4.
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55% of subscription revenue goes to creators...

Premium views pay substantially more than ad views, both pay infinitely more than ad-block views ($0).
As per the reviews - it will be hard to say, as both positive and negative takes will be uploaded by ChatGPT bots (or it's myriad of descendents).
I think the original refactoring was right and the the author's position today is wrong.
lets do a different analogy:

you have a bunch of barbers in a city, well, i open up a business where i cut hair. BUT I do a shitty job, so you kinda need to come back maybe 3 times for a decent haircut. Wow it sucks. Yeah. BUT...

I also put in a giant screen with ads, and an advertiser that counts people watching the ads. And then I say... ITS FREE.

Woah okay. At first not much happens, but eventually the other barbers start to lose money, thats because they can't compete with my free haircut business. I quickly expand and now have shops all over town, and competition is dying.

Now some people realized they can take a quick nap while getting a haircut so they don't see the ads. And suddenly I kick out anyone who takes a nap. Those people can no longer get haircuts because everyone else closed down because they couldn't compete with my free. And as those people complain everyone says "EVERYONE WANTS A FREE HAIRCUT BUT NOT WILLING TO PAY FOR IT!"

Edit: I also start selling packages of 20 ad-free haircuts a month. Most people think this package is a bit insane given that they don't get 20 haircuts in a month. Or every month. And they still have to listen to the barber push their "cancer cures" and other nonsense they keep pushing every time they get a haircut.

This is the reaction I am seeing.
How to express logic "and", "or", "not"?
Isn't that generally true? A company making a billion widgets per year likely gets a way better deal on the materials required to make them than a company making only ten thousand.
and those few.. who still expect to use it for payments..? =) LOL.