skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my insurance company subsidized my gym membership I'd absolutely use it. But here I am, on an expensive insurance plan, which did not cover my physiotherapy sessions after I had an injury while running and trying to stay healthy.
Yea, my Irvine numbers are off. Torrance is becoming the next Irvine, due to a large Asian American community, decent schools, and relatively high paying employers nearby.

School district matters to Asian Americans, and Asian Americans skew in the highest income brackets in the US now, but we also prefer living in other AA neighborhoods because of cultural affinity.
> blockchain used for distributed computation

https://rendernetwork.com/

I think they are live but I haven't followed them recently.
> They are paywalling their product, you know, like how walmart "paywalls" milk.

So you can take milk from walmart without paying if you agree to tracking? Analogies are not arguments.
While I do think that many claims of GPT4 getting worse were subjective and incorrect, there certainly was an accidental nerfing of at least ChatGPT Plus, as confirmed by OpenAI releasing an update some months ago specifically acknowledging that it had become "more lazy" and the update was to rectify it.

(I think it was just the settings for how ChatGPT calls the GPT4 model, and not affecting use of GPT4 by API, though I may be misremembering.)
Uh what? This isn’t _just_ bankruptcy through heart attack or whatever.

Plenty of people are on treatments that absent insurance (in the US) become unaffordable the moment you don’t have actual good insurance (ACA care is basically “don’t go bankrupt through accident/emergency). Couple that with the massive cost you get when you switch to having to buy multiple plans and you get trivially screwed.

You cannot easily lose employer provided insurance, and that’s part of what keeps wages low.
Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc
Visualise Urbanisation in Africa
Indeed I was once ordered to implement oauth but keep the email password reset because too many people would get locked out otherwise. And I almost locked myself out while testing.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077533
15T tokens of data wow. Wonder if it a single epoch 15T data or multi epoch.
It's an interesting, well-written article written in good faith.

I think small semantic issues like this should be ignored so we can enjoy worthwhile discussion.
> I can drop a cluster bomb filled with drones into a city, army base, factory and they kill everyone with precision and are collectively almost unstoppable.

Citation needed.
Hi there! Thanks for sharing your perspective, you've made some good points. To give you more context:

> You're allowing sales people to give negative feedback to your people? Aka you're letting the sales person manage your people for you? You're allowing them to damage your team's morale?

Our company promotes a culture of open feedback within all teams. The sales team often seeks support from our tech team to address technical queries from potential customers. We have a process in place to ensure all communication with the tech team goes through a queue to be addressed orderly.
When I was little and first starting to dig through my local library for books about how computers work, I ran across something sort of like this domino example, and I spent years trying to work out how you could build something Super Mario Bros. out of just a bunch of stuff that a cheap four-function calculator could to. Sure, I guess ANDs and ORs are a little different from + and -, but they're still fundamentally calculations.

Eventually I realized the same thing you called out here. You need a few extra things to really do computation instead of calculation. Memory, for one, and branching is crucial. But these little demo "computers" like this and Steve Mould's water computer always leave these out.

There's probably dozens of little curious minds like mine that look at this, get excited that they'll finally understand how that magic rectangle works, and then get frustrated when they can't see how the rubber meets the road (because they're missing crucial pieces through no fault of their own).
Not at all - but the fact is and will always be that most people will not have fuck-you money and those people will always be at the 'mercy' of their employers to a point. My employer would have to cross a serious line for me to think about leaving on moral grounds. It's a business, as long as they're selling their wares legally, more power to them if they can make more money.
I'm surprised bootcamps are still around; I hear so little about them today. I figured they'd mostly closed shop considering the glut of layoffs, LLM fears, end of ZIRP etc.
Those sizes are where the resolution starts to matter again
The conduct Israel is employing in Gaza is indeed that of genocide. They are not purely targeting and killing active Hamas combatants, but their homes and families as well as infrastructure, schools, hospitals, residential neighborhoods etc. The Palestinian peoples living their lives in Gaza are the victims of this genocide and Hamas members are the collateral. The lives of Palestinians in Gaza has been made unbearable (criteria 2c of genocide convention).

You claim this isn’t backed by facts. But you are wrong. There has been a case filed at the world court with 85 pages of evidence. The world court has ruled this evidence as relevant and incriminating. Since the case was filed more evidence has been piling up, which we can see in various media outlets, so much so that the world court issued an addendum to their ruling when it became apparent that Israel was using starvation of the Palestinian people as a weapon of war, and plausibly as a means towards genocide.

Your claim that this is a political ploy be people who hate Jews is baseless and without merit. This is a desperate attempt of people actively trying prevent Palestinian people from being victims of genocide.
Mainly because of price. The #1 best selling laptop on Amazon right now has 8gb of ram, but it costs $299. People spending 2x or 3x the price of an entry-level laptop expect more.
The master of scientific cooking is Harold McGee (On Food and Cooking)

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp/...

and always has been. Nearly every serious chef has this on their shelf.

To boot, he's a super-nice guy and I talked to him a couple times when he came to Google.

Secondly, there's a fundamental difference in goals between home cooking and professional cooking. If you're doing it over and over in a restaurant, you really want it to be the same every time. If you're doing it for yourself, you need to accept and revel in the differences. If it really sucks, you just throw it out and order a pizza. Maybe next time you can do it better.

I tried to get at that in my fave recipe: no measurements.

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/chicken-fried-rice
I'm a lifelong Florida democrat. Please don't assume I'm making stuff up just because you disagree with me.
This feels out of touch for most of the work force, including CA.
>"“We had created the base material with completely different applications in mind. We started with an electrically conductive ceramics called titanium silicon carbide, where silicon is in thin layers. Then the idea was to coat the material with gold to make a contact. But when we exposed the component to high temperature, the silicon layer was replaced by gold inside the base material,” says Lars Hultman.

This phenomenon is called intercalation and what the researchers had discovered was titanium gold carbide."

Hmm, never knew about Intercalation before this... let's learn more about it!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(chemistry)

>"By 2023, all commercial Li-ion cells use intercalation compounds as active materials"

OK, so Intercalation appears to be deeply related to the principle of energy storage (of which one specific subcase is Li-ion batteries...)

Also, there's this:

>"“If you make a material extremely thin, something extraordinary happens – as with graphene. The same thing happens with gold. As you know, gold is usually a metal, but if single-atom-layer thick, the gold can become a semiconductor instead,” says Shun Kashiwaya, researcher at the Materials Design Division at Linköping University."

If this is the case -- then the following would be an interesting question for all students of Chemistry, present and future:

Can all Periodic Table Elements -- be turned into semiconductors (specifically transistors) -- if they are only a single atom layer thick?

?

And, a follow-up set of questions (once that's known):

If any Elements cannot -- then which ones, exactly, cannot, and why exactly, can they not be?

?

???

(You know -- for all of the Chem majors out there! <g>)
money will change that
It might be but you need to appreciate at least 15% over the time you buy it to beat closing costs and (likely in these markets) home prep costs/staging. If you know you’re going to be there 5 years it’s probably a safe bet, but the value appreciation in California has slowed quite a bit (or dropped, in the case of the bay area) so it’s not as safe as a bet as it was, especially considering rental prices are down and there’s probably a 10-30% premium to own.
I use claude3 opus daily and I haven't noticed a change in its outputs, I think it's more likely that there's a discontinuity in the inputs the user is providing to claude which is tipping it over a threshold into a response type they find incorrect.

When GPT4 got lobotomized, you had to work hard to avoid the new behavior, it popped up everywhere. People claiming claude got lobotomized seem to be cherry picking example.
Agreed that it's insane. The only people paying that for such a low bedroom count house are wealthy people who want location and specific schools. Add childcare to that, and you're close to $10,000 a month for just basic living. Only 5% of people can afford that. This is especially for the middle to slightly upper middle class (someone making $300,000 as a household) not being able to afford it, because they get absolutely hammered by the asinine tax structure, more than any other class percentage wise.
I scanned my sheet music to load onto an iPad. I scanned the cover in color, then scanned the pages in b&w, then combined the two with Adobe Acrobat. Preview on MacOS reads these files fine, but the PDF viewer on iOS displays the cover page only. If I try to scroll into the music, it briefly flashes the page and then goes back to the cover page. After doing this about 5 times, it gives up and shows a black screen - won't even display the cover page. My iPad is up-to-date.

Now I have around 350 books of music that I can't view on an iPad. A lesson learned: when doing a large project like this, run some things all the way through the pipeline first to make sure it will work. I just assumed PDF viewing was not a big deal.
Could cyc data be used as an anti hallucination tool for LLM’s?

Or for quality checks during training?
Did some quick testing of code tasks... Given db schema A, query and transform to data schema B... accomplished it very quickly.
Hard y… yt = white
Thanks for the suggestion, will look into implementing it!
The far right now says and does things that would have been completely out of the Overton window three decades ago

This just seems like projection by the left who don't want to admit that they're the only extremists doing insane things in America. The left will make an extremist claim - "men can be women" - and then when the other side says "no", they'll claim that the right is being extremist for opposing their own extremist claim.
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/LICENSE

Llama is not open source. It's corporate freeware with some generous allowances.

Open source licenses are a well defined thing. Meta marketing saying otherwise doesn't mean they get to usurp the meaning of a well understood and commonly used understanding of the term "open source."

https://opensource.org/license

Nothing about Meta's license is open source. It's a carefully constructed legal agreement intended to prevent any meaningful encroachment by anyone, ever, into any potential Meta profit, and to disavow liability to prevent reputational harm in the case of someone using their freeware for something embarrassing.

If you use it against the license anyway, you'll just have to hope you never get successful enough that it becomes more profitable to sue you and take your product away than it would be annoying to prosecute you under their legal rights. When the threshold between annoying and profitable is crossed, Meta's lawyers will start sniping and acquiring users of their IP.
I realize that this is not even on topic, but _what a jolt of nostalgia_. I haven't even thought of that comic in what feels like a decade. Perhaps that's the optimal way of reading a webcomic (waiting until it's binge-able)? It's tripled in length since I last read it, and now my phone actually will display it :D (now if only the web interface tracked what page I was on, so that coming back months later didn't show Today's page, and instead showed where I last read ...)

On-topic, I have tried jostling the page on my Pixel 6a (also a 60hz OLED screen), and I don't notice _at all_ the display latency or issues that you mention. The only time I've noticed any kind of delay or ghosting like that is when I have it in extremely low brightness settings (reading at night in the dark), with "extra dim" enabled.
Have not had this in my experience with formlabs. they recommend that you use a protective coating spray for parts that are outside in direct uv, I have never used it though and my parts have lasted fine.

As always depends on the material, I think the glass filled ones are better, the flexible ones are a little worse but it has never been an issue for me.
dnsmasq is such a nice tool. I use it daily, for work with embedded devices.

Its simple configuration also allows me to quickly provide "default" network configurations, simply by copy-pasting the command and parameters to invoke it, to my customers so they can verify devices without integration into their network.
the busted two scrolling sections on mobile really doesnt help
It absolutely does not say that. It in fact provides benchmarks that show it under performing them.

Not great to blindly trust benchmarks, but there are no claims it will outperform GPT-4 or Opus.

It was a checkpoint, so it's POSSIBLE it COULD outperform.
Comparing to the numbers here https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family the ones of Llama 400B seem slightly lower, but of course it's just a checkpoint that they benchmarked and they are still training further.
Decades of policy designed to promote detached single family houses, discourage density, and make it easy to object to construction have combined with tax policy favoring stasis to create a political environment incredibly hostile to housing. This drives up the price of land significantly.

Yes, construction can be made cheaper. The current way to do this is by using pre-fabricated modules turned out by a factory. This reduces the cost and time of construction somewhat, but does nothing at all for the price of the land.
Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Average full-time working hours in a month is ~168 hours. So $1,218. Minus FICA (7.65%), $1,124.83. That healthcare plan, before copays or whatever other costs, is already 42% of your income. You've got $647 to budget with for the rest of the month.

That said, if you're on minimum wage, you're getting other subsidies for the plan and might qualify for Medicaid anyways, so honestly looking at this average cost and comparing incomes is already a pretty useless comparison anyways. You'd have to know what all you qualify for which will vary from state to state. So nobody getting paid minimum wage is spending $477/mo for health insurance.
https://archive.is/iMCn3
I think it's not just unreasonable, it borders on outrageous. And I'm a camping enthusiast.

If a company I worked for asked that, I'd immediately start looking for employment elsewhere just out of a sense of self-protection. If they are so low on funds that they can't provide adequate accommodations on business trips, then they're too low on funds to rely on for a paycheck.
We accept roads but not doctors
I lost a lot of hope for US housing when I went to an upzoning hearing for the first time a few weeks ago. The amount of fear-mongering vitriol and hatred over a proposal to up zone an area near the neighborhood (not even in it) to allow for town homes was unbelievable. If someone had told me “I went to the meeting and someone said…” for half the things I heard there, I would not have believed them.

People, especially older people, in the US so vehemently hate the idea of building more housing that they are willing the brandish weapons and make threats in public. They’re willing to use racial slurs and amp each other up with wild claims about crime in new buildings. And if you go on the YIMBY side to most of these things your voice will be drowned by panicking people who think more, slightly denser housing within biking distance, is a literal threat to their lives.

US housing supply is going to be screwed as long as local communities have a real say in upzoning and project proposals.
In particular, the sections of the demo video where it does something anatomically impossible for humans -- rotating legs in the hip joints, rotating its torso to switch front and back -- are absolutely uncanny valley stuff.
A good but painful lesson: do not suffer your job, because it will not suffer you. Suffer your family, your friends, your hobbies, and other passions. The job is just a means to those more important ends.
I'd probably give the crown to EverQuest (1.0) myself.
> are all open models still just derivatives of llama?

No there are several others but by far the best alongside llama are Mistral’s mistral and mixtral models. Those are called the foundation models which everyone else builds on top of
Oh my bad, sorry, I misinterpreted your previous comment as meaning "it was obvious with GPT4 and therefore if people say the same about Claude 3 it must equally be obvious and true", rather than what you meant which was half the opposite.
Product Marketing Management
How naive is everyone thinking that businesses are benevolent and really care about some cause? Maybe a private firm can make more conscious decisions, but the reality is the market puts pressure on everyone's behavior.

Business's sole purpose is to make money. Everything else is window dressing.
The article doesn't refer to that incident, so far as I can see. It does mention Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped a year after the Stockholm bank robbery.

The term "Stockholm Syndrome" originates from a police consultant inventing a syndrome to diagnose a woman he had never met, in order to discredit her criticism of the largely incompetent police response to her and several other people being taken hostage by a bank robber.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockholm-...
It is 100% possible for performance regressions to occur by changing the model pipeline and not the model itself. A system prompt is a part of said pipeline.

Prompt engineering is surprisingly fragile.
There is no alternative scientific explanation, there is a demonstrated proof that part of the synthetic theory of evolution is false.
Evolution is a fact, but random mutations cannot be the engine of evolution, they do not have this power of innovation.

Prof J. Tour (great biochemist) who devoted his life to build synthetic molecules, never ceased to explain this.
Mutations break the program (DNA) and cannot create new proteins, new mechanisms, and new coordinated organs, not to say new species.
Enginneers here should understand this as I do.
Argh, you didn’t have to rub it in, la times. You could have just reported the statistics. You did not have to have a picture of the exact building where i was considering buying an apartment 15 yrs ago.

Edit never mind that seems to be a new development. I guess new development architecture is very unique.
Did you have a pheochromocytoma or just a hormonal active adrenal adenoma?

Pheos don’t typically make aldosterone. They tend to make epinephrine and derivatives. Different cell lineage; different endocrine responsibility.
This one is different from most. The visual design is consistent, engaging, and well done. The pictures are relevant and interesting and complement the text.

I agree that most articles that start with slides are just dross, this one is an exception.
Being a wise and thoughtful business owner, you already ran this concept by your own corporate attorney to get a written legal opinion before circumventing their TOS, right? ... No??

IMHO, stop calling yourself a Midjourney API of any kind and stop providing a service that uses Midjourney as a backend. You are not authorized to run Midjourney jobs using other people's account credentials; that's the TOS violation. Your lawyer will explain this to you.
I imagine that is to compete with ChatGPT, which began doing the same.
> it doesn’t only apply to Meta but instead applies to the consent or pay model generally.

No it doesn't. He points out, correctly, that there are EU companies that are doing so now, aren't being threatened, and will probably continue to be permitted to do so.
Just to be clear, what you claim is actually two things:

- advertising is ~1/5th of US economy (backed with facts)
- all advertising is brainwashing (your personal opinion)
I’m still confused.

Are Christians not also listeners?

It sounds to me like you are disappointed that the liberal bubble isn’t as thick as it could be. That even accepting supporting money from the bad people is compromising.

It seems that you are implying that the sponsors of NPR get a say in their programming and reporting? Seems like that is the thing I would be upset about, not that the “wrong people” are supplying the money.
Peter Schweizer's job is to brainwash the populace. The book is part of that job.
TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas
It's the ground they sit on. The land value of my house is 1.4M. The house itself, a near derelict built 100+ years ago is worth 90k.

While construction costs have increased, the actual building product is not the real problem here.

What flows from this though is the clear solution:

Subdivide the valuable land.

Take something worth 1.4M and divide it by more than 1.

Create a small apartment of several units on my land and you can generate a product that is cheaper than $1.5M.

So the core problem right now is that subdividing land and building apartments is largely banned in many places. Accordingly people are only able to buy very expensive plots of land.

(Now yes obviously if you subdivide land the value of the underlying land increases as one can generate more revenue from it, so there's some friction to price drops here, but much has been written about how ultimately this does result in a greater amount of cheaper end product in the grand scheme of things)
> Meta AI isn't available yet in your country

Where is it available? I got this in Norway.
Currently our house in a modest corner of So Cal is at a ridiculous valuation. I happen to like our house and I think it's nice, but it's not that nice, and this feels like a bubble getting bigger. I know there's a lot of controversy over Proposition 13 and its budgetary effects, but we'd be getting a whopping bill this year if it weren't in effect, and this is a factor not within our control.
Busted:

Japanese business entity search of "ビックリバーサービスジャパン" ("Big River Services Japan") via Japan's National Tax Agency -- https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/henkorireki-johoto.html?... -- shows the following address for this entity: 東京都目黒区下目黒１丁目８番１号.

A quick search for this address shows this page -- https://bb-building.net/tokyo/deta/1506.html -- which surprise, is the Amazon Japan HQ.

Interestingly, the address was later changed to a more low-profile building, which doesn't list any corporate tenant.