skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, and there's typically far less money (or big expenses) involved with books.

I always assumed Christopher Tolkien had some sort of "do with them what you think best" agreement with his father although I don't actually know. Not that there's anything particularly special in written word beyond Tolkien's originals.
Pixels phones are some of the best Android phones on the market. Unlike gaming on Linux, Pixel phones run everything in the Android ecosystem quite well, as they are intended. If you're going to compare it to gaming on linux, then Pixel phones are the Steamdecks of that world;
If software engineers had to train like a surgeon, they would have an additional 4 years of school, then 5 years of on the job training where they frequently work 80+ hours a week (for less pay than new grads get today). They would also have to apply for the training and the vast majority would not be accepted.

Tech interviewing really sucks, but it is still far easier than anything a physician goes through.
Ha, I’m not sure it’s quite the same. If my understanding of most couples is correct, this would be more akin to preserving all of their sticky notes e.g. “Pick up milk on the way home”, “You’re getting the kids, right?”, “see you in 20”, etc.

Yet I suppose there’s a certain charm to that, so I hope I don’t sound like too much of a wet blanket.
As is inflation...
I agree with all your bulleted points. Especially the "at most an hour". Maybe its age or outside responsibilities, but mental fatigue is a real thing for me, and spending more time than that on technically-challenging materially brings rapidly diminishing returns.

> Very few of these work as ebook (Kobo) for me. The formatting of code is poor and diagrams unreadable. Prefer paper or PDF (but read on a computer or tablet without network).

My ancient (2011) Kindle is borderline useless for technical material but the iPhone app renders diagrams and equations acceptably well (my experience, of course). The small form factor of the phone is helpful too - more desk or table space for notebooks. Mind you, I make heavy use of app limits and downtime so its not the distracting experience of typical smartphone use.
Legit question: Would you read it if it were free but still against the creator's wishes?
The myth that AI models store all its training data in its weights verbatim is as widespread as it is false. In fact, if this were the case, deep neural networks would be considered far better compression algorithms than anything we have on the market right now, by literal orders of magnitude.

If you divide Stable Diffusion's file size by the number of images used to train it, you get something like 1.2 bits per image, and it is physically impossible to get this kind of a compression ratio.

The actual problem with AI is that it sometimes plagiarizes random fragments of the work it is trained on, even if it is not the user's intend, and we currently don't really know how to fully prevent this.
> I was astonished at how the most impressive of my colleagues could listen to a description of a complicated proof, stare into space for a few minutes, and then quip, “O.K., got it,” before telling you how to improve it. It was important that they didn’t master your ideas too quickly: the dreaded insult was for someone to respond promptly and deem your argument “trivial.” I once attended a lecture by a visiting cryptographer. After he finished, a monster mind in the audience—an outspoken future Turing winner—raised his hand and asked, “Yes, but isn’t this all, if we think about it, really just trivial?”

> I was sent all around Europe to present papers at various conferences. The meetings themselves weren’t the point. It was the conversations that mattered—one good idea, sparked on a rooftop in Bologna or beside Lake Geneva in Lausanne, was worth days of tiring travel.

God save me from ever having to work with people this pretentious
The safest AI is an AI that is a complete asshole

Careful, some day (probably sooner than we expect) one of these models will be deciding who to kill: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01786
Supermaven slaps
"bro, why you holding that Tamagotchi next to my car?"
This must be Cal's twin brother, Carl. /s

Deep Work is a solid book and very quick to read. Most of his other books cross over into self-help, which can be tiring.
Is Claude 3 on a pay per use case or a fixed monthly fee? I’ve used it a bit with the free 5USD they have and it’s looking so so much better than gpt 4… the problem is I have the feeling it’s also extremely more expensive
That's too bad. Kinda selfish in a way.
To me, it is "straight forward" in the same way that Dropbox was straight forward once it was successful (before their success, it wasn't so obvious). Once you read his material, you might think "oh yeah, of course," but there's far more value in his work than that. It sometimes seemed silly when I was reading his book Deep Work, because it's like "yeah man just put your head down and focus," but of course there is so much more to it than that. There is much more that could be said, but I need to get back to work :D I highly recommend his work.
> or maybe more likely a previous developer tossed him a (very nice) bone.

This is what I am thinking. It seems a long shot the source code was simply discovered at a garage sale by chance. Too much coincidence that a. the THQ dev still had the code just kicking around and b. a computer savvy person happened upon this garage sale, buys said artifact and discovers the code. Stars must have been aligned.

I think the THQ dev likely knew the "buyer" or someone put them in touch and the cover story is "oops, I accidentally sold the source at a garage sale" in case lawyers get involved.
Tbh as someone who's bounced between Nexus, iPhone and Pixel, I really don't think so

All ios users say the same as you the first time they use a pixel, but it's the same when an android user tries an iPhone. They're extremely different experiences, far more different than we expect (because on the surface they're both smartphones), and we mistake the differences for general shittiness.

Overall I probably prefer ios by a small margin, but people like what they're used to
https://archive.is/uroRV
This looks super nice :) love it
Interesting. I haven't built on s3, and if I did my first instinct would probably have been to gate things through a website.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge in that area.
Traditional Microsoft Windows apps do have one oddity here: the "client" and "non-client" areas.

The non-client area included stuff like the title bar, min/max/close buttons and system menu icon, and resizing borders.

The client area was where your app would put its content, including any child windows like buttons and list boxes.

Many of the window messages for the client area had corresponding non-client messages, for example WM_PAINT and WM_NCPAINT. All of these messages would arrive in your GetMessage/DispatchMessage loop, but you would generally ignore the WM_NC versions and DispatchMessage would send them to the Windows code for default processing.

OS/2 Presentation Manager took a more elegant approach here (but probably slower). You had one main window and everything inside it - both "client" and "non-client" stuff - was child windows.

So you just had one set of messages for everything, no WM_NCxxxx messages at all. The client area was a child window, with other child windows for the non-client doodads.
Certainly the main purpose, but I think over the last 70+ years there are some other benefits to members.

For example, fostering trade of military goods and technologies between members (especially for the USA as a major exporter) and smoothing out their national budgeting since it's kind of like buying insurance.
ElixirForum.
No; open source encompasses copyleft, which broadly requires derivative works to be under the same or similar license, and permissive licenses, which generally don't care and are happy to let you incorporate the code in differently licensed derivatives up to and including producing completely proprietary programs using permissively licensed open source code. Darwin largely uses permissive license code, in particular from the BSDs, which means that it's under very little obligation to share. (IANAL and this is somewhat oversimplified, but that's the gist)
the lumber load was something like:

- 6 2x4x12, strapped diagonally lengthwise on the top of the bin

- big box of nails

- air framing nailer

- extension and air cords

- pancake air compressor

- other assorted stuff
> when they are at fault for ignoring Windows Phone which was better

Hell no it wasn't. The UI/UX was a complete unmitigated disaster, the choice of device models was ... very limited, and barely anyone made apps for it, much less games, with Microsoft not doing nearly enough to woo developers over.

Apple and Android, in contrast, had a decent UI/UX, healthy app stores, and Android a wide ranging hardware selection from "too bad to put it in a bargain bin" to "holy smokes people actually spend that much money on a phone that's not Apple?".
Only Sonnet, unless there is a special release group that have access to the other models.
To me, whether books like Cal Newport's cite scientific studies is beside the point. The goal of reading a book like "Deep Work" isn't to gain objective knowledge of results in psychology, but to get some nuggets of wisdom that help you manage your own life. Call it "self help", "wisdom literature", or whatever; it's ultimately one person's perspective on what sort of attitudes help us cope with life and how the world squeezes us. Take that for what it's worth.
> "Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again," Epic said in its statement today.

The retaliation is shady, but is the retaliation illegal? Even if a whistleblower would show an Apple internal conversation that looks like "Let's retaliate against Epic", the fine print everyone probably has some "we can terminate the account for any reason" clause, which would include retaliation as well?
The way I was thinking this would work is that the standalone CLI could be configured to pick up plugins from a specified location. That way as long as the plugins are setup locally in the required format, the standalone CLI would be able to load them. The setup process need not require npm.

There is a sibling comment which mentioned a project which is trying to bundle DaisyUI specifically with the standalone CLI. That would solve my use case but will not be a generic solution for other plugins.
> How is it harder for non-English speakers? Knowing the kana pronunciation for Sinzyuku is way harder than knowing the English pronunciation of Shinjuku for most outside of JP.

Only if they're English speakers! If your only language is e.g. Irish then writing that sound as "Shi" is more confusing than writing it as "Si".

> Not to mention katakana spellings and pronunciation which further confuse their learning of English. Previously you effectively had three different representations of foreign words with different spellings, this cuts it down to two which significantly decreases the cognitive overload

Maybe. Or maybe the way Hepburn creates "blurred" words that are partially English and partially Japanese causes more confusion than having a clear distinction between written English and written Japanese words that makes it easier to pronounce each one in the way appropriate to that language (i.e. fully code-switch as fluent bilingual people do).
those are also resetting. Profits are in decline, resetting. Need a new batch of workers, reset the old ones right away. Resetting benefits. Reset workers back to the office. Reset PTO policy.
like Result in Rust
Regarding access, OpenAI aren't very open in revealing the training dataset, but from the evidence Google found it seems to be extensive. One might assume from its responses that at minimum it would contain the entirety of Wikipedia, and countless literary works and text books. If you give me a question and 1 hour I can probably give you a similar answer to ChatGPT (especially if I can just patently copy and paste as ChatGPT often does).

On the topic of recall...it's a computer model...you cannot equate its ability to recall a conversation to the ability of a human to recall a string of numbers in much the same way that calculator can't pass a maths exam. Ergo my opinion that IQ scores of ChatGPT are invalid, much like all the other multiple 'tests' that ChatGPT 'passed'. In academic circles this evidence hasn't been viewed as proof of AI awesomeness but rather the laziness of our current testing systems.

On comparing AI training to the learning that occurs in a small child; if you have small children you know that there is a gulf of difference in their learning styles. Not only is a large proportion of child development devoted to acquiring coordination and gross/fine motor control (something a stationary computer doesn't require), small children will often attempt to immediately apply newly learned material to novel settings (i.e., generalise). Here we see, even in infancy, the ability for human intelligence to generalise learning from one context to another - something notably missing from our current AI models hence the OP.

As pointed out by other responses, and indeed yourself when you speak of weights, our current AI tools are effectively statistical prediction tools. ChatGPT doesn't 'understand' your question in the same way a human counterpart might, but rather it responds with a string of words taken from the average of its training data on the given topic. This is extremely evident when ChatGPT is probed on topics of which you have an advanced understanding.

I used ChatGPT 4 extensively last year, and now only use the free version sparingly. During that time I routinely experienced hallucinations in responses, erroneous information and downright mistakes in its coding responses. The extent of its utility to myself now is that it can restructure a paragraph in a few different ways (that still needs editing to adjust the verbosity), or provide 3 wrong and possibly one right answer to a coding problem. Essentially it saves me spending time on editing my reports and searching StackOverflow/Exchange...apart from those tasks it's essentially your buddy who thinks he knows a lot about a lot but ends up only knowing a little, and even then it's mostly inaccurate.

What is more interesting, and relevant to the OP topic, is the speed with which humans have become accustomed to using AI tools to augment their abilities, flexing their ability to generalise learning across contents, almost like some kind of generalised intelligence
> MS threw in the towel unfortunately.

I’m surprised Microsoft isn’t making a second go for a phone actually. With all of their WSL work, they could release a Linux / Windows phone and say this is like the original PC, but also a phone, install what you want on it, and also it integrates seamlessly with Azure for power users that want to program on their phone, and also integrates with AD for Microsoft enterprises focused on securing their corporate devices, not to mention the Office Apps and so on. They could even partner with Valve and release the Steam store on their phone, it could be similar to the Steam Deck, but a phone also… Not to mention the possible integrations with ChatGPT as a voice assistant and all of the benefits that come with that.

TLDR; the phone market is ripe to be disrupted and Microsoft is the best positioned to do so.
Gemini and Claudes are killing RAG?
llama2-uncensored as well as the Twitter LLM, grok (not groq lol) give an high level answer the question of how to make cocaine which gpt-4 flat out refuses.

the amount of overhead it takes to censor these models is an argument to just uncensoring on the waste of energy alone.
Wasn't there a labor shortage?
Buying Spirit is just them bringing that work back in-house. They originally spun Spirit out so they could offload employees and let Spirit cut benefits and pay as well as replace some work with offshore cheap labor.

This is just another repeat of the 787 outsourcing disaster which also ended with Boeing buying a bunch of their suppliers and bringing other work back in-house.

Just more financial shell games to screw labor.

I don't know about you but I'd prefer everyone building my airplane be highly paid with a management chain of former engineers. Not the cheapest labor a subcontractor can find managed by bean-counting accountants.
All sms, phone calls and websites can be used to scam people.

On iOS, "users" are not "admins"
I've worked on both an RDBMS optimizer and a CSS engine, and while the comparison is interesting, it's also not quite right. In particular, you can write pretty crappy CSS and it will work quite alright, including in all major browsers. Database engines are not like that; there are more ways of doing everything, the bad choices are _really_ bad, and the heuristics much more prone to suddenly do really slow things based on reasonable queries. Most optimization differences between versions and engines are about constant factors and not radically different algorithms (although for some select topics, like invalidation, you may get burned). Even if you write a truly horrible CSS rule, it is unlikely to freeze your page for a minute in any current browser. This is not because browser engineers are more talented than RDBMS engineers, it's just a much simpler problem.

You're right in that there's less information out there for CSS engines (from flipping through slides on this talk, it looks like a great way to improve on that situation!), but there's just a lot more to _say_ about SQL performance. And a lot of what's being said about the latter is honestly pretty sketchy :-)
It still doesn't change the fact that the inclusion of commercial works is copyright infringement though.

Same for code generating models trained on Open Source and Free Software. Tons of licenses violated, from strong copyleft to source available models and reproduced (almost) verbatim with comments intact.

Some researcher's codebase is almost completely reproducible without any licensing information just by hinting the function names.

Maybe for the image compression it's borderline impossible for now due to network size, but for text and code, generation of training data almost verbatim is very possible and straightforward.

Also in image generation models, style transfer is the bigger problem, because it completely eliminates the artist who uses/created the style in the first place. "You pioneered this, and we fine tuned this model with your images, and we can do your work for free, without you, have a nice day". However, the artist's life expenses doesn't disappear when they're transferred to an image generation model.

This is also unethical.
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He put them in the care of Brod, who had told him that he would refuse to burn them. If he really wanted the work burned he wouldn't have put it in the hands of his biggest fan.
I need to try it out. I have been using a mixture of the Copilot plugin for autocomplete and then a third party package that uses an API key for OpenAI. I enjoy the third party package because I can just use 3.5/4 directly with my own system prompt instead of the garbage interface for Copilot or ChatGPT directly.

Edit: Just tried it out again, honestly pretty disappointing. It works and good they released it, Github has been ignoring the Jetbrains experience. Their implementation has bloated UI and I don't like the way they handle prewritten prompts.

I really like this implementation.
https://github.com/didalgolab/chatgpt-intellij-plugin
> Considering that, back then, Firefox reloaded all tabs back when you reopened it, it would keep freezing even if you force closed it.

That was always an option, as I recall. I think a non-default option, too. Not sure when they started adding the question about if you wanted to restore when you started up after a crash/unsafe shutdown.
Useless analogies are just useless analogies. Care to explain, with specifics, why you feel that way?

The Pixel has a fantastic camera (e.g. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-pixel-7-vs-apple...), and it's "smart calling features" (e.g. better handling of spam calls, transcripts for call menus, "hold for me", etc.) are hugely important features for me.
+1, Claude 3 Opus is a game changer.

Since OP asked about a Copilot product, we (YC W23) actually built https://double.bot to do exactly this: high quality UX + most capable models. Although we don't have a subscription right now, it's free for the time being :)
A Looming Disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Isn't there precedent in common law that ambiguity in contracts should be interpreted in favor of the party that didn't write the contract? Reason is making essentially the same argument here but for laws.
> It is said to be the worst conflict in all of human history.

By who?

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavism
Why Doc Searls Doesn't Sell Any Books (2000)
It's pretty easy to get to O(N^(3/2)) at least, since that is sqrt(N)^3

Imagine an algorithm that re-arranges a list into a sqrt(N) by sqrt(N) grid, and does O(num_columns^2) work for each row.
Isn't that true of, say, western Europe too, perhaps leading Russia by 50 years or so?
I'm using https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp and currently mistral 7b (on a m1 macbook pro). I'm sure with some prompt examples you can get pretty good results on a smaller model.

At the moment I don't have it open sourced due to it being part of a larger project that I'm working on that contains tailwindui licensed components.

A cool feature that I'm working on is creating a firefox plugin so you can save/index job postings from other sites and extract out meta information via an LLM. Very similar to this chrome plugin.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/huntr-job-search-tr...
There’s the famous story about the scholars who broke into Beethoven’s tomb hoping to rescue some lost pieces that were buried with him. When they opened it, they found him furiously erasing the manuscripts.

“What are you doing?” the horrified scholars asked.

“Leave me alone,” Beethoven replied. “I’m decomposing.”
I don't know what the "public domain" discourse was in the 1920s, if was considered even an option. But there are other things you relinquish by giving it to public domain, not only money.
Had to go back and open HN comments to figure out what this was (apparently some kind of car), because the webpage is broken on my phone. State of the internet in 2024.
Alt+V, Y

I use this occasionally when Reader Mode can't rescue a page.
I think Apple holds developers and third parties to “click through” agreements, so I hope Epic does the same towards Apple (it there has been any breach).

Feels like it is a weak legal argument (even though some jurisdictions may have special “ticket cases” doctrines).

It is not Epics concern if Apple by mistake would enter into a contract with them or not. It is up to Apple to whom they offer such agreements and how.
mostly because people dont talk about nuclear as much in general. in aus at least, it seems like nobody cares, and the second you raise the idea you get a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork going "i don't want to grow an extra set of eyes" despite the fact that nobody is proposing to put the plant in their backyard or the fact that just being near a plant isnt all that dangerous in the first place
one of the experiments that caused the phlogiston theory is to be superseeded.