skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an exercise in externalities. Sure, maybe the cheap umbrella comes out ahead in a raw materials game: X number of crummy ones may be more eco-friendly than a nice one that lasts Y times as long.

As long as you don’t consider anything else, like the fact you have to employ Y times the person-hours to make the crummy ones, and Y times the freight to deliver them, and Y times the customer getting pissed off that their cheap umbrella broke and they have to take time out of their day to acquire a replacement.

I swore off buying junky stuff a long time ago. Life’s too short to be surrounded by crap that’s going to break the first time you look at it wrong, student projects be damned.

(That doesn’t mean I only buy luxury items. Far from it! You can get Levi’s Premium line jeans that last X longer than the discount store ones for far less than X times the price. I’ve worn the same pair of leather boots for 6 years now. I’ve had my Birkenstocks resoled several times now instead of throwing them out while the rest of the sandal’s in great shape. It’s usually pretty easy to find the quality version of a given thing for not much more than the junky one.)
That’s a bit too cynical. I agree the nefarious data guzzler of an ad machine is siphoning up that voice data but hey if that’s all they wanted they had Google Fi/Voice etc.

This definitely seems like a Google building products people will love. Let’s just hope they don’t kill it in 2 days/weeks/months/years
I used to use google's voice recognition a lot when learning Chinese. I would whip myself when it didn't understand me.

So my horrible pronunciation is probably in the training data.
Better question is why the Google app exists. It's just a platform for kitchen sink projects that they could not be bothered to wrap a whole app around.
ECC is fully supported by consumer AMD processors (at least Ryzen 7000, and I think earlier ones too). You need to pick a matching motherboard, most boards from ASRock will do. And you need to find unbuffered ECC RAM, this is more difficult than the previous two and is why I had to give up on the whole idea.

Related post:

https://sunshowers.io/posts/am5-ryzen-7000-ecc-ram
Actually transcoding can be done far below that with consumer hardware. I’m doing Quicksync accelerated transcoding right now for Moonlight and encoding/decoding latency is only a few ms. And Wifi is, by far the greatest source of latency. In fact I can get data to a datacenter a few hundred km away over a fiber connection faster than Wifi across the room (<5ms vs 10-20ms)
I tried a lot to use remote servers for development when I had an Intel MacBook and I found the experience to always be so frustrating that I upgraded to the M series. Have the tools gotten any better or is vscode remote containers still the standard?
Google ranks it pretty high, so it is the de facto first stop for many.
I don't love them getting into bed with AI, but also don't think it's unreasonable for them to not allow angry users to blank out their prior submissions.

The whole deal was that you basically donated your posts and CC-licensed them. I wouldn't begrudge Wikipedia from similarly dealing with upset editors who went around blanking the articles they contributed to or reverting all their changes.
Just read this article that says google paid apple $20B to be their search provider and then next to it in "new" is an article saying how big the economic impact of the fitness industry is at $22B. https://www.ihrsa.org/improve-your-club/the-fitness-industry...

That's insane to me.
What you’re talking about sounds great but it’s not “a touch optimized version of macOS”. You’re describing a CLI environment in a sandbox.

Apple will never ever take macOS and change its UI to be optimized for touch. Or at least if they do, it’s time to sell the stock. They already have a touch UI, and it’s called iOS. They’re converging the two operating systems by making the underlying frameworks the same… the UI is literally the only thing they shouldn’t converge.
What's next? Implanting RFID chips in employees to track them? Maybe I shouldn't give Dell's management any ideas ...
It's not that easy. Major changes / rewrites for quality are not that rare. Minor changes could also break the system by injecting false information. And even if you could automate this, it still takes time / effort continuously, because people who really care will adapt.

Any protest like that will affect SO's ability to do other things they care about.
There's no question that SARS-CoV-2 evolved mostly in bats. The debate is whether its path to humans involved a research accident. That accident could involve genetic engineering, which would potentially leave genomic evidence but wouldn't necessarily. It could also involve collection (and accidental release) of a novel naturally-evolved virus. This was a major part of the WIV's research, visiting remote caves that no other humans routinely entered, and would leave no genomic evidence at all. So there is no way to distinguish the origin of the virus solely from genomic evidence.

The WIV handled those novel viruses at BSL-2, not BSL-4. Dr. Shi acknowledged this explicitly in her interview with Science, linked below. Even Ralph Baric (who originated many of the techniques that the WIV scaled up, and whose own research was controversial long before the pandemic) has said that was an unacceptable risk.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210727042832/https://www.scien...

If SARS-CoV-2 arose from a research accident, then it was probably from an American-funded Chinese lab, using techniques developed primarily by an American. So I don't see the political benefit to either country in entertaining that possibility, though I do see a benefit to both countries to downplaying it (as seems to have occurred).

Long before the pandemic, a small subset of virologists and adjacent scientists advocated strongly for certain high-risk research on potential human pandemic pathogens, including laboratory enhancement of existing viruses (gain of function) and hunting of novel viruses from nature. That work was highly controversial, to the point that a three-year moratorium on funding was imposed, ending in 2017. Racaniello was among those advocates; so while he's certainly better-informed than the average person, he also faces a massive conflict of interest. I don't see why you'd trust him over the countless well-credentialed scientists who consider the origin of SARS-CoV-2 to be an open question.
I’ve long assumed that the main effect of the bloom is to soak the grounds so the rest of the water you pour in goes through slower, and all the other alleged effects were minor compared to that.

But maybe the CO2 removal stuff really is a big deal.
Sure, these differences exist. I don't find the quality to be much different between the two sources. I treat both of them as a probably wrong, likely inexperienced developer. Sometimes they pleasantly surprise me. More often than not they don't but in both cases I make use of those resources because they at least move me in the right direction.
What is this revision of history? Fascism and socialism are incompatible and one of the first persecuted were the communists. Pretty sure the only relation with socialism was the party name. Calling yourself a good person doesn’t make you one
We can predict the digits of pi with a formula, to me that counts as grasping it
You might like, the Infinigram paper then. It was discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266791
Empirically, this does not seem to be what we see: from https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features/...

> One strong theme is the prevalence of context features (e.g. DNA, base64) and token-in-context features (e.g. the in mathematics – A/0/341, < in HTML – A/0/20). 29 These have been observed in prior work (context features e.g.
[38, 49, 45]
; token-in-context features e.g.
[38, 15]
; preceding observations
[50]
), but the sheer volume of token-in-context features has been striking to us. For example, in A/4, there are over a hundred features which primarily respond to the token "the" in different contexts. 30 Often these features are connected by feature splitting (discussed in the next section), presenting as pure context features or token features in dictionaries with few learned features, but then splitting into token-in-context features as more features are learned.

> [...]

> The general the in mathematical prose feature (A/0/341) has highly generic mathematical tokens for its top positive logits (e.g. supporting the denominator, the remainder, the theorem), whereas the more finely split machine learning version (A/2/15021) has much more specific topical predictions (e.g. the dataset, the classifier). Likewise, our abstract algebra and topology feature (A/2/4878) supports the quotient and the subgroup, and the gravitation and field theory feature (A/2/2609) supports the gauge, the Lagrangian, and the spacetime

I don't think "hundreds of different ways to represent the word 'the', depending on the context" is a-priori plausible, in line with our preconceptions, or aesthetically pleasing. But it is what falls out of ML interpretation techniques, and it does do a quantitatively good job (as measured by fraction of log-likelihood loss recovered) as an explanation of what the examined model is doing.
I don't know about "terrifying". "Uncomfortable", or, probably more accurately, "supremely irritating", sure. Zeynep Tufekci has been writing for a couple weeks --- I don't agree with everything she's saying, but I take anything she says seriously --- about how physically small and limited the protests have been.

If there were white power protests happening on campus at the University of Chicago, we'd all be up in arms; we are not when SJP, an organization that formally endorses the Al-Qassam Brigades, protests instead. There's for sure a blind spot. I see why people are pissed. It is not at all clear to me that anyone's safety was threatened at Columbia, though.
That's great for now. It's not clear to me, though, where LLM's will get their training data from here forward without ingesting lots of LLM generated code and answers and eating it's own tail.
I don't think so: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/policy-gener...
The knowledge that's baked into those LLMs comes from sites like Stack Overflow. Without them, how can the LLMs learn new things?
Wikipedia editors aren’t the sole source of their pages. I am fine with people leaving and deleting their posts because they may feel the information will become outdated without being maintained.

SO unfortunately is actively hostile to correcting outdated information. Which is somewhat understandable as recognizing how little long term value answers provide undermines their moat.

The site has basically become worthless for JavaScript due to such rot which helps explain why they are trying to cash out on the AI side of things.
For all of these "how can we batch predicting the next n tokens?" the intuition is basically that it takes a buttload of math to predict some of the tokens, but that most tokens are actually easy to guess. For example, if I asked "What was that phone number from that 80's song?" as soon as a model generates 867- it shouldn't take that much math at all to finish predicting 5309.
Global Solar Power Potential Map
Which model, which code. We're going to need receipts before going forward.
This is about cold brew, which takes 12-24 hours.
But indexing *is* training. It's just not using end-to-end gradient descent.
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No, that doesn't make any sense. Nobody owes their wealth to anybody. People should pay for what they use/cause, not just because they exist. Consumption taxes are not taxing utility, they are taxing consumption - it's a very direct relationship of usage->payment, regardless of whether it was completely useless, for laughs, or helped something. Again, how do you even objectively determine utility? Is having fun enough to claim utility? What if we rephrase it as "mental health"?

If I can make my wealth without causing any effect on society, there's no reason my debt should increase - my debt doesn't scale linearly with my wealth, it scales with whatever the society provided to me.

If I make my wealth by selling an app on the internet, there's no reason I should pay as much as someone who polluted the environment in the process by shipping stuff all around the world and used fossil fuels to make the products.

And if I make my wealth by selling stuff in Europe, there's no reason it should be taxed in US just because I live there. At the very least, it should be taxed at the place where the society actually provided something that led to earning it. Because otherwise I'd just move to a nice tropical island with no wealth tax.
A major advantage I discovered accidentally: Wi-Fi keeps running at full speed. Even though my first choice of smart home devices was Tasmota (ESP chips on Wi-Fi), after adding a significant amount of these I started noticing Wi-Fi quality deteriorate. Since then, I started phasing out Tasmota devices and adding Z-Wave devices and no more Wi-Fi problems whatsoever. So, right now, my number one choice are Z-Wave devices even though my Home Assistant server has access to all of them (Z-Wave, Zigbee, EnOcean, Tasmota, Matter ...).
Water plus carbon dioxide gives you a carbonic acid solution which when mixing with metal oxide-bearing rocks like basalt (rich in calcium and magnesium, etc.) forms stable carbonate minerals like calcite and magnesite.

This is high school chemistry stuff, right? Or was my poor Southern state public HS education actually exceptional?
Static linking in Go and Rust includes compiled code only for the target platform. It does not include compiled code for every possible architecture, including 32-bit MacOS and Solaris on PowerPC.
Personally I hate swimming though I kind of like being in water, moving. So I'd definitely benefit from this, if it worked etc.
Vertical screens are fantastic, they feel natural for so many coding tasks. I bought one for home and adaptation took less than a week. Now have a hard time going back to horizontal when working from the office. Recommended!
That sounds wild, you can run bash and unix utils on windows with minimal fuss without WSL. Unless that linter truly needed linux (and i mean, vscode extensions are typescript..) that sounds like overkill
I think with modern hardware you could significantly reduce the amount of C code but I'm not sure you could eliminate it entirely. Rust is trying to do just that but IMO isn't really comparable to the languages you mentioned. Maybe if microkernels had taken off and/or hardware drivers were written with more abstract interfaces, things might have been different even on the much cheaper hardware that won out.
Do 1/6 of all React apps really use React Query? Where did that number come from?
SO has been doing the absolute worst things to squander their amazing lead for years

i haven't used that website since GPT came out, and now i contribute nothing to it

but i'm glad all of its content ended up training the models that put it out of business, thanks SO! you'll never be anything other than user contributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion
This is one of those threads where you may discover people you haven't seen for a zillion years are on Hacker News. And though I never knew him well, he was nice to me on the occasions I had to interact with him, though you know, there's also a kind of unapologetic misogynistic arrogance in his musical catalogue (umm, Rapeman?) that his legacy will need to contend with.
Cross-device tracking
Speaking as someone with 100k rep on SO, I don't mind them using my answers to train the model. What I object to is when the resulting model is not then itself posted online for the whole world to see. If OpenAI actually shared the weights for GPT-4, I would consider it an ethical trade.
The how is actually just further hypotheses. It's turtles all the way down:

There is a car. We think it drives by burning petrol somehow.

How do we test this? We take petrol away and it stops driving.

Ok, so we know it has something to do with petrol. How does it burning the petrol make it drive?

We think it is caused by the burned petrol pushing the cylinders, which are attached to the wheels through some gearing. How do we test it? Take away the gearing and see if it drives.

Anyway, this never ends. You can keep asking questions, and as long as the hypothesis is something you can test, you are doing science.
I enjoyed the different side of him in this story about his beer league baseball team which the author shared on Metafilter:

https://themillions.com/2009/02/baseball-oasis-story-of-chic...
Thank you!

> Will the Self-host package include source (i.e. source available) or is it just the transpiler output?

No sources, just a folder with compiled assets that you can run on a static server. This is already available.

> Also, is there (or plan to be) support for postgres or other database for persistence?

Yes there are plans for local pg
Next you'll tell me we could rig a telegraph to play music haha.
So, other people have already answered this, but this does seem to be a gap where many developers lack some piece of knowledge to chain the whole solution together. You normally package this sort of thing by putting the native library in a jar, extracting it to a tmp file that will be deleted on exit, and opening that dynamic library.

I’ve met many perfectly reasonable developers who do know all those steps can be done but can’t put them all together - maybe because it just hasn’t clicked that you can store a library in a jar. It feels like something tutorials should cover, but I think falls into the, “surely everyone can work it out?” category.
4. Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown
Good luck with that. Seemed to work fine during the pandemic. What’s changed. Oh that’s right yeah. Nothing. What’s the issue here? Control. That’s all it is.
Sure, there is some of the same problem with current tokenizers. However, I think this would increase it from "some tokens aren't words" to "(almost) all tokens aren't words". Correct me if I'm missing something though.
fwiw HN does not delete your content when you get rid of your account.
I think it varies from person to person. Speaking for myself, I agree with the way you put it. If it matters, I'm in the top 0.15% of SO contributors, although most of that has been in its early years. But other people might be opposed to AI on principle, or consider it a threat to their job etc.
A significant quantity of those bills has probably been pulled from circulation. One of the things the Reserve does is swap damaged bills and look for counterfeits. Every bill they destroy is another crisp bill they can return to banks without fucking with inflation.
Another happy chezmoi user here... I progressed from symlinks -> Homeshick -> yadm -> chezmoi

One of chezmoi killer features is how it handles secrets. Either the secret can be encrypted using age/gpg or (super cool) it integrates with you password manager (I used Bitwarden).

This is super useful for me, as I pair chezmoi with dotenv, so when I switch directories, my environment variables are auto populated, including secrets that are pulled directly from my password manager.
Well if we're talking about "wall climbing", the set of moves don't expand that much as one progresses. Your technique needs to be more efficient and your transitions and balance on point, but it's not like there's a esoteric 13a move that a 10d climber hasn't seen. Sure the first time someone dyno'd on a roped climb was a sea change.

Bouldering arguably has a larger set of moves than "wall climbing", but again the physicality of this sport is the crux for most people. One can study and maybe drill all the "advanced" moves, but without the flexibility and strength to execute on microholds, that knowledge is useless.
Disappointing the author didn't attempt to connect the two meanings.
Like XMLVM[0] with English instead of XML.

[0] http://www.xmlvm.org/overview/
That's the complaint I've heard; I suspect it's slightly exaggerated. But the last real auteur anime I can think of is 2002's Voices of a Distant Star, and Shinkai has followed up by retreading the same ground over and over (thematically at least) ever since.
What, you don't like to travel bright?
>Ben continues in his thread, "[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."

Uh.... yeah, it's a company, not a charity. No one's forcing you to post on StackOverflow. No one's forcing you to buy a ChatGPT subscription.
Another portrait display user here! I use a 19:10 display rotated to 1200x1920. Not retina but I'm happy with it. I have window manager keyboard shortcuts set so I can position windows as halves, thirds, quarters, full screen, push windows to the MacBook display or my iPad. It's a powerful setup. It's the one great thing Apple neglected to take from Xerox PARC. Also interesting that more people don't do it in their desktop when everybody uses iPhone in portrait.
Would love to see how you’re doing warehouse optimization. Is there a demo video I can look at?
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That's not settling anything. A leader of a country that tries to commit genocide and/or annex another country isn't fit to rule.

That's what we learned from WW2, remember?
He's apologized at length for his edgy band names, song names, and zine takes which happed in his early 20s.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-cul...
I hear you, but I don't think an individual can. If I gave you $20,000 and an open source 70% accurate protein folding model and told you to develop, mass produce, and develop a deployment mechanism for a highly infectious and deadly pathogen, I don't think you could make that happen. Nor do I think you could do it if you had a PhD in microbiology.
A Bitcoin boom is happening in Miami again
https://archive.is/OoDWO
Many answers have been edited, commented on, and reviewed by others. So it's also not exactly a one-person show either.

Outdated info is a problem, but not so easy to solve; I have answers from Ruby on Rails 4 era that are still perfectly valid today. Others may not be. Also remember that people sometimes stay on old versions for a long time. I don't know what the best solution is, but destroying information is not it.
It's not hard to reconcile: Albini didn't want to be George Martin.
You can request to dissociate them from your account. (better then nothing)
The point is that OpenAI is not sharing the result of that training with us, nor even the training set. In other words, they are ignoring both "attribution" and "share-alike" parts of the license, claiming that it's not applicable because what they are doing is fair use, and so copyright is not a concern.
> Users are also asking why ChatGPT could not simply share the source of the answers it will dispense in this new partnership, both citing its sources and adding credibility to the tool. Of course, this would reveal how the sausage of LLMs is made

What? Surely the answer to that question is that ChatGPT doesn't know where the source of its answers is, isn't it? Isn't the question itself based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work?
Ah. I've found various LLMs are much easier to query and generally nicer than SO posters, so it's been quite a while since I've needed to visit SO. I assumed most people had made a similar journey.