skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In March 2023, OpenAI released its most powerful language model yet, GPT-4. GPT-4 is not just capable of reasoning. It is better at reasoning than average humans. It scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam for lawyers. It scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE Verbal Assessment. It even scored a 77% on the Advanced Sommelier examination."

One could argue a common characteristic of the above exams is that they each test memory, and, as such, one could argue that GPT-4's above-average performance is not necessarily evidence of "reasoning". That is, GPT-4 has no "understanding" but it has formidable reading speed and retention (memory).

While preparation for the above exams depends heavily on memorisation, other exams may focus more on reasoning and understanding.

Surely GPT-4 would fail some exams. But when it comes to GPT-4's exam performance, only the positive results are reported.

https://freeman.vc/notes/reasoning-vs-memorization-in-llms
Mmm, remains to be seen. Apple hasn't won anything yet. Data gathering is clearly the goal here, with those whom own the platform being the victors. A few headsets have been sold, sure, but market penetration is the key.

I think Meta is certainly ahead, but they are burning cash hard. Apple is just getting started.
I’m very familiar both - exactly how can apps track you - without your permission that the web can’t?

And your example of how Facebook can track you by knowing what links you clicked on off the site from the app, of course Facebook could do that from the web.

There are at least a dozen ways to do fingerprinting o the web

https://fingerprint.com/blog/browser-fingerprinting-techniqu...

And what do you think is going to happen if there are more native APIs exposed in browsers?
I might be too generous, but my interpretation is that the ground changed so fast that they needed to shift to continue the mission given the new reality. After ChatGPT, every for-profit and its dog is going hard. Talent can join the only Mother Teresa in the middle, or compete with them as they stupidly open all the source the second they discover anything. You can’t compete with the biggest labs in the world who have infinite GPU, with selfless open sourcers running training on their home PC’s. And you need to be in the game to have any influence over the eventual direction. I’d still bet the goal is the same, but how it’s done has changed by necessity.
> than to scrape the floor for peanuts in hope that mega corps will reward their discoveries.

Security researchers capable of finding these exploits aren't exactly starving for food. They could easily land a $500k+ job at any big tech company or make a similar amount bug bounty hunting.
And money is money, it's a known quantity. Time is more ephemeral and for many "knowledge jobs" people work off the clock anyway; so having every Friday off may sound great but you may be (correctly) afraid it's going to turn into a half-day's work anyway.

And there are things you can do to turn money into time, it's possible but not as easy to go the other way around when you're salaried.
> So I very clearly described a multitude of things that fit this description

No, we aren't seeing this damage though.

That's what would convince me.

Existing harm. The amount of money that people are losing to scams doubling.

That's a measurable metric. I am not talking about vague descriptions of what you think AI does.

Instead, I am referencing actual evidence of real world harm, that current authorities are saying is happening.

> said that they need to double or increase in frequency

By increase in frequency, I mean that it has to be measurable that AI is causing an increase in existing harm.

IE, if scams have happened for a decade, and 10 billion dollars is lost every year (random number) and in 2023 the money lost only barely increased, then that is not proof that AI is causing harm.

I am asking for measureable evidence that AI is causing significant damage, more so than a problem that already existed. If amount of money lost stays the same then AI isn't causing measurable damage.

> I pinned you down to a standard

No you misinterpreted the standard such that you are now claiming that the harm caused by AI can't even be measured.

Yes, I demand actual measureable harm.

As determined by like government statistics.

Yes, the government measures how much money is generally caused by or lost by scams.

> you just don't want to worry about it

A much more likely situation is that you have zero measureable examples of harm so look for excuses why you can't show it.

Problems that exist can be measured.

This isn't some new thing here.

We don't have to invent excuses to flee from gathering evidence.

If the government does a report and shows how AI is causing all this harm, then I'll listen to them.

But, it hasn't happened yet. There is not government report saying that, I don't know, 50 billion dollars in harm is being chased by AI therefore we should do something about it.

Yes, people can measure harm.
>For people who pay more taxes than they receive benefits and who could choose to drive instead.

that doesn't make sense. You just described the issue: they can choose to drive. And many do in the US.

Government subsidizes transport to get more people into the city hubs, which bolsters the economy of business as more people can reach downtown, which gives the town/city more money in taxes. These business have fixed costs so it's not like a rich person is going to be proportionately better to business than a poor person buying the bare necessities.

It makes a lot more sense to target people who are taken out of the economy pool otherwise without such transportation. Especially if we're talking about a large city like LA.

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and while it's a cliche, it needs to be asked in this context: what even is "middle class" here?

>If you want to make public transit competitive with driving, you must make the fares low enough. That often means paying a substantial fraction of the expenses from taxes.

I argue that such a "low enough bar" for a state like California will never outdo the convenience of a car. You're right in the long term that less cars => lower road maintenance => less road subsidies => more money to go around to other parts of the state. But we're not starting from scratch here.
The ROI for any business is number of users. What tools? Do you mean physical tools or are you referring to a program as a tool?
You suffer from the delusion that the way the US housing works is 'natural' and the result of the 'desire' of the population.

But this isn't really the case. Suberbia was is a created artificial environment propped up by massive subsidies and supported with lots of other policies, on the local, state and national level.

Sure its easy to live further out in suberbia because the friendly government plowed threw a minority neighborhood so you can have a highway to downtown. Those people not wanting highways across where they lived was not considered when people wanted to have a lawn. And of course those nice lawn didn't even pay for the highway either.

The US was built for and with the train. And by 1940 US cities were not very different from cities in other places. In the 1950s something crazy happened and pretty much all of a sudden every town sprawled out 5x as far as it did the previous 200 years despite population growth being slower then before. But I guess that was just totally natural as people wanted larger yards.
I assume if you’ve already bought a new bike getting your old one back is somewhat of a hassle.
Classic architect|designer fubar .. this is why they're great at conceptual design and mostly much weaker than they'd admit at pragmatic functional structural engineering.

Not all architects, to be clear, some really know their foundations but...
Any valid JavaScript is automatically also valid TypeScript, though.
If you understood someone with difficulty, offering a correction is constructive, particularly on the web where editing is often easy.
True but cURL is in a very different situation compared to your average run-of-the-mill program. It's one of the most massively deployed open-source software out there. When you are not beholden to capricious shareholders and incompetent managers you can actually focus on quality.
> Trains tend to go to places of high population density.

Trains go to lots of places with low population density actually. Its only America brain that somehow believes that trains are only something for city with millions.

I lived in a village with a few 1000 people and there were regular trains in multiple direction, and it wasn't on a major express line between major cities or anything. That train line then goes on to connect villages with even fewer people.

> Cars go pretty much everywhere (or to a close enough point) and do it on your whim.

Sure if somebody built a road there. And if there are gas stations/charging. And if there is no traffic. And if you both can drive and are allowed to drive. And so on and so on.

True freedom is not having to pay basically anything for 8 month (at most a small part of your taxes), then spur of the moment being able to say 'you know what, I want to go to the other side of the country cross a river and go up a mountain' then getting up and within 5 minutes being on public transport efficiently traveling to that location.

And this freedom is provided to you if you are 15 or 85. If you are blind. If you have were unable to perform your driving exams.
I love TypeScript, and I think React is mostly very elegant, and I still find front end work to be a real chore. Fucking around with forms and CSS and responsive breakpoints is not my idea of a good time!
It is all an illusion. Unicode, ASCII, base 10 numbers, are all lies. Our CPUs know binary registers of certain sizes, ints and floats, and nothing else.

Everything else is a lie that we make work by throwing a lot electricity at a lot of fancy sand and out the other end comes something that looks reasonable.

That said, TS has a really nice type system that is absurdly flexible and at times quite fun to use.
Any reason why Waymo is so much more expensive than alternatives? I went across SF last weekend and Uber/Lyft was around $16. Waymo was $56.
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I work hard to help other members of my team be productive and drive continuous improvement. I'm pragmatic and flexible in choice of technologies, and like working with smart, caring people to solve problems bigger than one person can do alone. There's always something new to learn!
> and way better than even PNG.

I mean it's kinda hard to be worse than just shoving a bitmap through zlib...
Tether has to be backed by USD-denominated reserves for that to work. If it's actually backed by something else (or nothing) then all that value is going somewhere other than the dollar
Donors absolutely have standing to sue if their donations are misused.
This a very common FSB and Russian specOps tactic - come-up with a fake coms that are presented as a info leak, to show that there is a secret plot against the state. This tactic was deployed against Russian opposition all the time.
Even if it is true, it shouldn't a be surprise that NATO is assisting Ukraine with target acquisitions.

I want to believe that Bundeswehr isn't stupid enough to use Webex for secret coms.
You can in theory unwrap them but that seems to rarely be something people use in the real world
They are taking on legal risk instead of investing resources.
Is this a normal thing or just in cities where tourists are likely to visit?
they are usually couple of dollars more (for $20 range rides) but I think their demand supply is so skewed that it surges almost all the time it feels like
That’s the definition of minimal? 0.5 of a core while doing nothing?
That's just an terrible comparison. Tesla aren't gravity less chickens hover in a vacuum.

For Tesla to run you need roads, you need charging infrastructure, you need energy infrastructure and so on and so on. Not to mention that if you actually bought that many 'used' Model 3s the price would go up. Not to mention the huge amount of people who currently do not have a car, who all of a sudden would make the bad traffic (and everything associated with that) worse.

And guess what, the 'rail' would be 100x cheaper if some of the cars were moved of the road, and the rail was moved on that right of way. How about you do a cost comparison where the rail gets the existing right of way, and all those Tesla have to go into a tunnel. The way you phrase your whole proposition is already incredibly loaded.

The cost are so high literally because the San Francisco people who propose this stuff are bunch of Tesla driving asshats who don't undrestand the first thing about public transport. They make projects incredibly expensive because (a) they don't give a shit about the plebs who have to use it and (b) the bigger the project the better the politics of handing out money to people.

By any estimation, for a society as a whole having an efficient public transport system is by far a win. Everybody who has actually done any real analysis of the 'lets buy everybody a car' 'solution' will come to the conclusion that its incredibly dumb. Its just something far right wing people bring up to continue to prevent actual progress.
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12 years of experience doing backend systems, including five at various robotics startups doing data pipelines and automated deep learning training pipelines. Completing my Masters of Science in Robotics Engineering; actively looking for a new role in robotics, AI, or other interesting spaces.
You've seen Proton, no? Supporting Vulkan 1.2 basically gives you de-facto coverage of DX9-DX11 for free, along with most of DX12 in beta. It's leagues better than Codeweaver's driver and makes D3DMetal look like a derelict project by comparison.

Supporting Vulkan at the hardware level would better enable SPIR-V optimization, and just be generally nice. I don't even give a shit about them supporting it on Apple Watch or AppleTV, it's just starting to get painful watching people get GTX 960 raster performance out of a $4500 TSMC N3 laptop.
> I have worse news for you about C or C++ or anything that isn't typed exclusively based on how wide its register is

I would be interested in hearing this nitpicking, I know little about C or C++
Oh No. Is it that time again? Someone who isn't really a front-end developer reinventing front-end development.

I can't wait to be handed an application by my data scientists that uses this and is a complete trash fire that I need to rebuild from scratch... Again. I guess streamlit has competition.
What's in it for you as a user is that the app exists at all. A lot of apps either aren't meant to be profitable (government services apps, ngos etc) or won't be profitable enough after paying for developing the app 3x. Building them as a PWA is what makes them viable at all.

If users are willing to pay the extra cost for a carefully handcrafted native app for any particular use case the market will step up and provide it.
Waymo is absolutely fantastic. I’ve used it two dozen times and it feels really safe and competent.
> AFAIK, iOS Webkit doesn't support fullscreen mode and orientation

I just opened a web app saved to the Home Screen, and it’s both full screen and rotates orientation.
I agree that Apple wins long term and FB glasses are the “Android” of AR

The Apple brand is just too dominant that losing on AR doesn’t mean Apple sinks

Alternatively Meta doesn’t have such a position so losing on AR would be existential if they need it to beat Apple
>Public transportation service means the operation of a vehicle that provides general or special service to the public on a regular and continuing basis consistent with 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53.

From the FTA. and for those who really want to dive into the law of it: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/subtitle-III/chap..., whose own definition is:

>(A) means regular, continuing shared-ride surface transportation services that are open to the general public or open to a segment of the general public defined by age, disability, or low income; and

in a legal sense, Waymo doesn't seem to meet even these high level definitions. So it's likely classified as private transportation unless I'm missing something.
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There are only two ways to do it:

1. Use UUIDs.

2. Use some pre-existing centralized name registry (e.g. domain names).

I don't know why the JS ecosystem is so resistant to either solution. Both are proven options (#1 used by COM, #2 used by Java). They do mean longer package names, but surely that's a small price to pay for a resilient future-proof solution? And besides, who really cares about long dependency names and why?
Looks like the original is here: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
The real reversal is committing to not trying this again
Having lived in SF and elsewhere, even heavy SF rain is nothing compared to further up the West coast. I remember parts of the infra in SF failing when it rained more than one inch.
Here's a scenario:

- I have no idea how to use an API, and it is poorly documented, but I am an expert in the general problem it's trying to model

- I need to write code using this API in the next hour

- That code will only ever run 5-6 times, each by hand with an expert to look at any errors or crashes, and then will be thrown away forever

copilot is killer for this scenario. it's the most common scenario when writing machine learning research code. i think probably the people building these tools are enjoying the dogfood, maybe more than the typical end user.
Yeah they threatened to walk.. it was all over twitter.
The overwhelming majority of dollars are not physical cash, and the overwhelming majority of dollar transactions by volume happen in a fashion which New York claims jurisdiction over (and, ultimately, has a big army that will back them on, which is what really matters in international law), even when neither party has any obvious connection to the US.

Even for physical cash, they might claim jurisdiction. Dollars are sometimes best understood as a particularly degenerate form of US government bonds.
Got an order of magnitude saving, mainly due to absurd AWS network traffic costs.
Use URN instead of just a domain name. A domain name (with some schema) is obviously a subset, but anyone who doesn't want or need one can then use uuid: URNs.

The XML ecosystem did it that way for namespaces, and I think that it is still the most flexible and the most future-proof approach, since you can always add new schemas as needed.
Wouldn't it be ironic if chatgpt assistant on linux gives linux end-user desktop dominance? lol... Microsoft would be like, "you fools, you've doomed us all"
> But they changed from a non profit to a for profit model

Not exactly - they changed from a non-profit funded by donations to a for-profit/non-profit hybrid with the non-profit funded by the for-profit.
>The options are to comply with the DMA

Which unshipping PWAs was doing. Putting Safari on an equal playing field as other browsers is what they needed to do.

>The idea that the other browser vendors are inherently malicious is absurd.

The point of the security is to protect even against browsers unintentionally doing malicous things due to bugs. Since it's impossible to prove that software is mug free, security is important.
If I’ve learnt anything over the last 10 years it’s that self driving is hard and Google has a huge moat with how good Waymo already is.
Statistical Shortcomings in Standard Math Libraries (2014)
Networking online and with former colleagues / friends will always yield good results. After you've exhausted 'warm' leads traditional job boards are the way to go. We built https://levels.fyi/jobs to help filter jobs by things most people care about (pay, benefits, etc.). This (and other job boards) shouldn't be seen as a replacement for networking though. Reach out to hiring manager, friends of friends at the company, etc.
The DMA was passed many years ago (January 2022), before the cited investments in PWAs. So if Apple was acting to proactively stave off regulation, you have a big hole in your theory of causality.

The web is more than a Chromium app runtime. We are commenting on the web without any of the random features Chrome builds because they are strategically invested in ChromeOS, and their user data harvesting business model relies on more clients sharing more data with Chrome and Google. Apple’s interest in the web cannot be gauged by how much they support technology funded and evangelized by a bunch of current and ex-Googlers that has little to do with open exchange of information. Conflating it is a strange rhetorical trick.
To you.

In manufacturing industries this type of schedule is quite common. Not all industries are like tech or will follow it.

Companies that won’t do 4 days (32h) per week might do a slightly longer day instead. Maybe 9 hours worked with an hour lunch

Being paid for less hours (32) per week for 4 days is fine too.
I had one as a kid, hand me down from my dad. I always liked it.