skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My amateur understanding is that it’s very hard to successfully sue journalists for libel in the US because you’d have to prove malicious intent. A journalist writing a story based on their sources may have been misled by someone with an agenda, but didn’t write the false story with active malice.
For programming, GPT4+. I was excited to switch to Claude after hearing all the positive anecdotes. Having tried it, I'm very unimpressed. It spouted complete, confident sounding nonsense, when I prompted it with a bug I was trying to solve. GPT4, did not get it right initially, but it was more suggestive, instead of wrongly declaring the fault, and lead me to the answer after a few more prompts. Will not be renewing my Claude subscription.
what do you mean by "laziness"?
I thought that was what all the mattress stores were for.
Is it really hard to believe that the solutions on offer are usually giant piles of steaming crap that do way more than they should but are nevertheless easy to get set up and get going? When programming ecosystems get big, they accumulate a ton of ways of doing things and people keep trying to put a layer on top on top of a layer on top of a layer (like floors in an old house). It doesn't matter if a thing underneath is O(n); someone will put another O(n) thing on top of that that represents all its data as strings and uses regex or horribly-inefficient JSON or something. Very few people ever think things from the ground up.
... and they're not an obscure server maker anymore? What happened?

As far as I know, as much as being obscure, they've also been around forever.
government handouts seem to escape their original purpose, famously.

For a recent example there are the covid relief scams galore. very often in the news the last year or two at least in Arizona, where some egregiously shameful people 'embezzled' and 'gamed' the grants system to buy super extravagent properties, etc. .
I wouldn’t think they would be especially cheap to build though?

Sophisticated machinery, lots of plumbing?
Run all 3 (GPT4, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini Pro) and use the best response.
My local car was has a $20/month subscription for unlimited washes. These aren't exactly luxury services--they're priced similar to a Netflix plan. If you have a car, it's worth it if you value our time at all.
> I don't think ACT (unlike MPC) have an explicit use case for different embodiment. Or what do you mean by two different instances?

I mean two different Aloha setups (2 x 2x WidowX) in the same lab. This is the very minimal level of "generalization" you may expect, barely enough to be called generalization, but still, the learned policy seems to overfit to the individual robot's joint space quirks.

> in the field of BC (Not IRL) what have been the more robust method for your case?

Different things for different definitions of robust. What's your definition?
I would have thought every server maker was able to sell every GPU they got their hands on at this point in the hype cycle. If SuperMicro is gaining market share, isn't it just a sign that Nvidia is giving them a bigger GPU allocation?
Why Does Unsupervised Pre-Training Help Deep Learning?
This video is informative but so strangely "ugly" somehow, like it looks like 1997 Stargate SGI cg or something, I can't put my finger on it. Was this all created by one person or a whole company?
I’m surprised this article wasn’t about Metformin, something gwern has written about[0] and has some popularity in the entire nootropic circle of people that I know.

[0] https://gwern.net/longevity#metformin
No wonder he smashed them.
it's on poe
You can modify this, by setting the GPT4 system prompt, with instructions of your preferred response style.
I reached the quota for my ai services in 30 minutes, just upgraded it.
Everyone wants to be a remote entrepreneur passive income digital nomad.
Er you’re right it was during gfc when vince gilligan lost his job. The point still stands though
Nobody said that. It's an interesting conversation, not an adjudication.
Realtor says change to commissions will add 'substantial' cost for homebuyers
It's much, much worse than "nobody is willing to pay".

Good journalism must be available to the masses for a minimal cost if we want to maintain a functioning democratic society.

Think about it: if "good journalism" is only available to people who can comfortably afford to pay $10-30/month for a single subscription, that means that the people who are already the worst off have less and less access to the vital information they need to be able to effectively act to change their circumstances. This applies both to political information and business information: the former is necessary for those who want to try to make the lot of the poor better overall, while the latter is necessary for those who want to try to better their own situations.

Word-of-mouth networks in this sort of thing can only get you so far, especially when the free information out there is so heavily skewed to advertising, propaganda, and other forms of manipulative quasi-disinformation.
You can probably use the API, I always use the API even with GPT-4 as it is cheaper for the vast majority of users and probably faster.
Well then you should circle that date 6-mo after IPO (or the end of any non-IPO blackout period) as days with mass sell-offs regardless of the stock price
That does seem like a significant oversight. >r and r>, and cousins, are part of ANSI Forth, and I've never used a Forth which doesn't have them.
For coding? Claude Opus.

For me, GPT-4-Turbo is significantly worse than even GPT-3.5: the former is much better at providing context for its answers (even erring on the too-verbose side), but then comes up with a pointless solution that it can't be dissuaded to change, even if its predecessor gets it right-ish.

Compared to both these GPT versions, Claude 3 (even though I have to use a proxy to pretend I'm in Nigeria...) is much more 'to the point' and seems more 'willing' to amend answers that don't go in the right direction, as opposed to simply backtracking and proposing a completely new solution.

But having to pare down the context of a question significantly remains a huge issue for all models, and I think this is their Achilles heel. Until you can feed a model your entire project, including any dependencies, and it can answer any questions in the that full context, the work required to retrofit useful answers is just too much to justify the expense.
You probably don't need to explicitly import Inter font
I really hate this kind of brainless driveby pessimism. Look up the steel frames they're using; they're tiny. The amount of steel being added to the ocean by this project is absolutely inconsequential compared to the steel added by innumerable other human activities. Even shipping containers falling off ships dwarfs this project, let alone ships themselves sinking. Furthermore, we have decades of experience that tells us that corals and fish quite like steel shipwrecks, debris, etc. What's more, the frames they're using demonstrably do work as scaffolding for coral growth; it's not an untested idea.
Maybe dark matter bodies orbit faster.
I think there are companies that build/sell turnkey carwashes. I don't think it's very sophisticated to be honest. It's really just a couple of high pressure sprayers, some soap/foaming sprayers, and a track that pulls the car. It's all technology that's been available for decades. I bet there's a factory in China just pumping out car wash components.
Yes, but how do you determin the actual reason for a bounce? The test would need to have all the same starting conditions and then let some users have a better performing version or something like that. But at that point one would probably rollout the better performing version anyway. Maybe artificially worsen the performance and observe how the metrics change. And then it is questionable, whether the same amount by which performance decreased would have the same effect in reverse, if the performance increased by that amount. Maybe up to a certain point? In general probably not.
In general it is difficult, because changing things to perform better is usually accompanied by visual and functionality changes as well.
Radiolab did a story on it. It's really bizarre how it was discovered and popularized

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub
Could easily be leverage in the negotiation.
Thank you!

How much is enough ram?
GM clearly does not.

They were in the news pretty prominently recently trumpeting their intention not to support Android Auto or CarPlay, but instead to roll their own system that they intend to monetize heavily.
claude. Articles written by gpt-4 have some tale tell signs like using word "delve" not sure if they have fixed it but after a while you can see pattern in its writing. With claude it appears to be more like its written by human mostly because it avoids using complex words.
I'm not sure what you're referring to with "vocabulary stack" here, perhaps the dictionary? More of a linked list, really a distinctive data structure of its own.
Claude over OpenAI. In part because of the performance and quality of the output. In part because I feel more comfortable with the management team and direction, especially after the OpenAI management shenanigans last year that still don’t seem totally resolved.
> What are your thoughts on diffusion policy line of work?

It's been interesting, for sure! More robust than ACT as long as you are not using action chunking (has the same problem as ACT). Downside is, it can be too slow/require too much data to train. I have a sneaking suspicion that at that scale of data even visual nearest neighbor stuff would be similarly robust.

Of course, no one has figured out an iota of useful generalization, which is sad across the field.
>> “Buyers’ agents are going to have a discussion with their client and say, ‘Hey, you’re going to have to pay for my service now,'” he said.

Maybe buyers will just get rid of their agents, like in the rest of the world.

6% becomes 3% and the sellers/buyers keep the saving.
One reddit ad I saw was from a company that provides the service to "back up your GitHub repositories".

Don't know if that company is still around.
Theres no way this is a single guy working in this channel
That’s a good question, I think most people just want street enforcement on open selling/use, not jailing over small possession.

It seems our only options are either extremes bans vs mass open drugs areas, because cities/courts treat anyone poor enough to be selling/using on the street as a specially protected class…even when such behaviour predictably explodes in scale at the detriment of local communities.
Is there significant risk in slowly clawing away user experience? If it happens incrementally enough, users are unlikely to leave.
"It honestly sounds like a made up concern from people who've never actually lived in a developing country."

You mean, the one developing country you live in.

You are also missing the full spectrum of users. People don't just browse the web for fun. They look for important information like health or finance information, they might not want to do that in a public place or they might not be able to put it off for when they next have wifi.

If you are building an e commerce website it might not matter, but you could be building a news site, or any number of other things.
Some percentage of those were honeypots, which raises other ethical questions.
In Houston and Dallas 30 years ago these were common. When I moved to the East coast 20 years ago I was surprised it wasn't a thing here.

The first Flagship car wash arrived 10 years ago, and they are always busy.

Still, how many can a town support?
So how is it that tree-search algorithms like AlphaZero or MuZero don't drift ? I understand that the searching part allows to reduce the epsilon errors, but with tree search of bounded depth, drifting should still occur right ?
Oh god, I've already had to hear Peter Attia talk about this for years and now newsspam sites are catching on?

Spoiler: pound it all you want, everyone still dying of chronic illness, diabetes, cancer, heart failure, etc. Eat clean and exercise it's your only chance.
But people don't have to pay cash, the "pretend people" pay cash.
In my area, the home of Tommy Car Wash[1], they are explicitly testing out how many car washes in a city are sustainable given a certain population size, so yeah we (Holland, MI) are surrounded by them.

[1] https://tommycarwash.com/
Is there a benefit from using an LLM for Python byte code? Python byte code is high enough level that it's possible to translate it directly to source code from my experience.
Working with Time Series Data in ClickHouse (2023)
It'd be nice if they gave a damn about security. I had clients stop buying them because a glaring security problem was determined to be "not an issue" that they wouldn't fix.

It's one thing to say they wouldn't or couldn't fix products already made with the flaw, but it's another entirely to have a culture of security that says, "Sure, this flaw could cause your machine full, unfettered compromise, but because it's not likely to happen and not highly publicized, we don't care."

It makes me think they'll treat current and future security problems the same way. Security shouldn't be based on popularity contests.

Sorry, but not for me.
Seconding Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death," for its prescience, and I would also recommend Alfie Bown's "Candy Crush and Capitalism," as it makes a connection to how our notions of distracting ourselves acts as a way to emphasize the importance of our work, whatever it may be.
China is building massive amounts of renewables right now.
Claude, tested it with a bunch of stuff, from coding, to generating diagrams for mermaidjs, to general questions, and so on, and it feels better every time.
It’s basically not available in Europe at all. You can use it through Poe or through Kagi Ultimate. The API is available is Europe, so I don’t know why the Claude chat isn’t.
> In many ways this is a "classic Microsoft" move — take something that works perfectly fine and replace it with something new but completely inferior and often less featureful.

They’re taking Outlook, which is a Windows-only locally installed piece of software, which can only be extended using Windows-specific APIs.

They’re replacing it with a cross platform codebase which runs on Windows, Mac, Mobile and online in a web-browser (so you can use it on Linux too).

This new version can be extended using web-technology, implemented however you like using whatever language you like, which will not just work on Windows, but on all platform targets (Windows, Mac, mobile, web) seamlessly in a single code base.

Yes. Some features and extension points are going away.

But let’s not pretend we’re getting nothing in return. This is a massive improvement for developers.

Disclaimer: responsible for Outlook addons in company I work for. When applicable, I greatly prefer the new model.
It works (and is the best option bar-none) until the big few lobby the state to outright ban municipal ISPs as happened in my state (NC). So frustrating.
Static html sites are so easy. You can write one by hand in five minutes and it can run on a toaster. There’s more business value in ads and dark patterns.
Why so many car washes?

Why are there so many cars?

Because our country is ultimately designed and developed by urban sprawl madmen with a highway fetish and zero vision for a better way for humans to live and operate.

I love how we hyper fixate on stupid questions about car washes while pretending like car dependency isn't the problem.
This is interesting, what you mention.

In the northern foothills here bordering Phoenix, Arizona, to the north, there are an understandable number of automated carwashes.

However, i've found no manual (pressure wash sort) carwashes, which are easy to find in California and Illinois, for two examples. I don't know why this is.
You're ignoring the context in that comment. It was made in reply to "The platforms don't work if they have to police everything". That's what's being discussed; whether it's OK to give a pass to Facebook on some objectionable content because they can't possibly police everything.

In other words, it's understood that Facebook will police as much as they can (as they're already doing); one side is arguing that if they can't police everything they shouldn't exist, the other side is arguing that it's good enough that they police whatever is practical.

That's why your comparison with phone companies doesn't work: Facebook is already expected to monitor some content, the question is to what degree they should be held accountable.
I liked the "party level" flyers that got mailed out in 2022 around here. Details like "your neighbors $Name at $Addr voted in the last $N $Party primaries; are you going to let their voice be heard and not yours?" ... for all 6 addresses on my road.

In two cases the houses have been unoccupied for years; one address the house actually burned down during their "y2k" new years party. Another is a rental house and the actual owner was named, they live in a different state.

It was enlightening to see not only what data was available to the political consultants; but how bad it was.
This. Pulumi is to Terraform what Figma was to InVision.
I agree it is an escalation but:

1) Putin is the one invading and threatening nukes on the doorstep of NATO

2) MAD only works, kind of ironically, if both sides aren't mad/insane. But authoritarians are often a bit nuts. There also were the false alarm scares from the cold war. Putin has highly consolidated power, and it would appear Xi has even MORE power and cult of personality

3) I think it works best as an unknown capability. One of the things about nukes is that people know what they can do, know if you have them, know the consequences. But what may work better than the game theory of MAD is that MAD is the BEST CASE for someone launching a strike. With unknown missile defense capability, the worst case is you launch a strike, get nothing from it, and the only assured destruction may be yours.
what is poe?

(I'm sure you don't mean power-over-ethernet)
I know that code.org's lessons have a "view the real code" box, helping to ease one into the "here's how to think about problems and structure, but here's the actual JavaScript that underpins it". If you haven't tried that, it may help

I also recently learned that Brilliant uses block-based lessons, too, so there's obviously some there-there

I would guess that a lot of the problem is one of actualization: how does one go from solving "someone else's problems" to one of realizing their own ideas. Based on what I've seen, I'd guess that a Minecraft mod port that maps blockly down into lua would go a long way toward "do some things that materialize change in an environment that is familiar." I haven't used Roblox, but I believe it's similar so if they have a programming language, same-same. I started to suggest using Valoren <https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren#get-veloren> since it's actual FOSS and thus would be much, much easier to integrate into, but I haven't played it in order to know how much uncanny-valley it would have with any preexisting Minecraft experience

Tangential, but kind of related, a lot of the first "real" programming was in monkeying with webpages, since "view source" used to go a long way toward showing how any cool trick was done. I guess the risk to that approach is that kids may not care very much about swooshing colors or alert("hello") but it for sure is accessible. I can recall typing Basic programs out of magazines to get a game running, but I don't actually recall what happened from there in order to know if "learning by transcription" is helpful or just feels rote
One primary difference is between a discrete (think chess/go moves) and a continuous (think steering wheel input) control space. Even theoretically, the error in one is bounded linearly while the other can have an exponential error with respect to control horizon.
Building a 7 Axis Robot from Scratch (2021) [video]
ASRock has also pushed into some of Supermicro's traditional product segments via the "ASRock Rack" brand. I have no idea how big that business is, though.
Microsoft is giving Copilot users access to GPT-4-Turbo for free
Huh, this whole time I thought they were just a way to launder money from selling meth
Very possible. The've loosened the rules have a bit since I originally generated the puzzles e.g. they now allow more than one vowel, i+n+g and e+d are allowed in puzzles, possibly more
Yeah, "Entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA)", is something I've seen a lot of MBAs study and prioritize.

Is it really entrepreneurship though? Seems like "Buy, squeeze, rinse, and repeat" - which is killing businesses rather than creating them.
It is mostl due to the oil and other hazardous materials potentially going into the ground or the city sewer.

They can't or won't clean that and it is contaminating in even small amounts. E.g. one drop of oil contaminates 500l of water.

At least for Germany.
Speaking from my own experience, which may be different from the grandparent comment: I’ll ask ChatGPT (on GPT4) for some analysis or factual type lookup, and I’ll get back a kinda generic answer that doesn’t answer the question. If I then prompt it again, aka a “please look it up” type message, the next reply will have the results I would have initially expected.

It makes me wonder if OpenAI has been tuning it to not do web queries below some certain threshold of “likely to help improve reply.”

I’d say ChatGPT’s replies have also gotten slowly worse with each passing month. I suspect as they try to tune it for bad outcomes, they’re inadvertently also chopping out the high points.
The end point of that (hypothetical) arms race would be China in 15-25 years having its own Starship clone, and thousands of nuclear weapons in low Earth orbit. Their purpose being that you could de-orbit a nuclear weapon nearly instantly, evading the other side's space-based intercept capability. (An ICBM, by comparison, would be a sitting duck to space-based interceptors, with its 30-minute long, predictable, trajectory).

Would we be better off?

We'd be in the same position (MAD), only a trillion dollars shorter and also nuclear war now has a 30-second latency instead of a 30-minute one. And also we've created a novel type of nuclear instability: one where we have the possibility of a preemptive strike by orbiting interceptors against orbiting nuclear weapons, one that happens in seconds and is determined entirely by AI. False positives and false negatives are both extinction events.
Could that land have toxic soil, and therefore not be zoned for anything else?
The "High Potential" Handicap
I have actually briefly considered opening a car wash.

They seem like just about one of the easiest businesses to run. Minimal employees, low variable costs, likely a reasonable long term investment in the actual rental estate.

In many ways, this the same as gas stations, convenience stores, and CVS/rite-aid/walgreens. People don’t want to go out if their way.
I would say the question here is what should be the default, and that the answer is clearly "frame pointers", from my point of view.

Code eking out every possible cycle of performance can enable a no-frame-pointer optimization and see if it helps. But it's a bad default for libc, and for the kernel.
Claude 3 Opus feel consistently better than ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4-Turbo) in my experience.
Clickbait avoidance: it's rapamycin.
There's a kind of satisfaction I get when I browse hypertext that loads in less than 100ms that I never get with slower sites.
He has a video on his channel where he explains that he’s making these videos alone after having started to learn Blender a few years ago. And that’s why he has so few videos.

I definitely see what you mean: it’d look bad from a big production, but it looks unbelievable to me from one person. I can’t quite comprehend it really.