skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers in the article are striking. That said, there are few details on the methods and this is not published or peer reviewed data yet.
If at all true, what is driving it is a great question.
Where does it explicitly say this?
And maybe you just enjoy the perspective of "I've seen it all" so much that you've shut off your capacity for critical analysis.
We have very different definitions of “real” for this topic.
Wait, Google is literally the world's largest unwanted tracker, right?

Are they going to alert Android users that they have been tracking them?
No, not in a free society. For any product, users should be free to use it for any (legal) use they see fit.

Artificially limiting the use of a product goes against the hacker culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
Won't the right abstractions like NumPy make it possible for researchers to obtain generally performant code, and lower the bar to write specialized, optimized code without having to drop all the way down to CUDA?
CM stands for compute module, for those wondering like me
Their graph is just poorly labelled. It's against XX3. I even tried switching their benchmark harness from twox_hash to xxhash-rust which has SSE support - their benchmark harness doesn't show a major difference for xxhash-rust although maybe I somehow forgot to set native-cpu for the benchmark & it wasn't testing the right thing.
Oh, you. Thinking uBlock Origin actually blocks advertising. It doesn't block sponsored blog posts, sponsored comments, paid reviews, conflicts of interest, marketing copy on landing pages, etc. Advertising is everywhere.

And uBlock can't protect you from anything not in your web browser.
I don't need a multi-million person study to know that it boosts mental illness too, I know that from personal experience. Cut out all the social media, the porn, and limit my HN/Youtube usage, and yeah, it's not bad for me. The internet is a powerful, yet dangerous tool. Use it properly, and it's a good thing.
Why have things stagnated?
> Perhaps the doom isn't so imminent?

Perhaps, or perhaps we don't know what the fall of civilization looks like? I remember watching a talk by Jonathan Blow where he poses that question. Did the Egyptians who built the pyramids realize when their civilization fell or did it just look like business as usual until it suddenly didn't?
Well yes, it's British but also active in Spain.

Wikipedia says they are also active in Ireland but they left that country many years ago (it's annoying, nobody bothers with Ireland, there isn't even a real Apple store even though Apple has their own EU Headquarters there!).

And apparently they were in Sweden too at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_(retailer)#/media/File:Ga...
> Look at the price tag on the blueberries. That is the cost.

We're absolute garbage at including externalities like pollution or long term effects into prices. Look at incredibly cheap plastic. It's a massive danger to everything yet a plastic bag costs cents.
Ads. These apps have no other way to monetize.
It feels like the cloud.

Where platforms and applications are rewritten to take advantage of it and it improves the baseline of capabilities that they offer. But the end user benefits are far more limited than predicted.

And where the power and control is concentrated in the hands of a few mega corporations.
The thing that creeps me out is that when we hook this up as the new Siri or whatever, the new LLM training data will no longer be WWW-text+images+youtube etc but rather billions of private human conversations and direct smartphone camera observations of the world.

There is no way that kind of training data will be accessible to anyone outside a handful of companies.
Me, demonstrating sustained performance over last 2yrs: cherry-picking.

You, choosing IPO price from the frothiest IPO environment of the last decade: elevated, rigorous, robust to outliers.
I opened ChatGPT and I already have access to the model.

GPT4 was a little lazy and very slow the last few days and this 4o model blows it out of the water regarding speed and following my instructions to give me the full code not a snippet that changed.

I think it’s a nice upgrade.
It's probably just me, but the somewhat forced laughs & smiles from the people talking to it make me feel uneasy.

But enough of that. The future looks bright. Everyone smile!

Or else..
They have pretty much admitted that GPT4 is a bunch of 3.5s in a trenchcoat.
And you can just walk off when they're asleep? The might wake up. Someone in that age bracket needs 24/7 care, although much of it is merely requires presence.
I don't want to move any goalposts, I completely agree with your previous posts. In some European countries like Germany and Switzerland, waste collection has been almost perfected, there's not much to complain. But we still have pollution related to plastic production.

It's the west who's shipping the plastic waste to Asia where it ends up destroying the environment and the health of people.
To be fair, that's even further away from the colon...
Yes! I'm currently using https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, so it isn't especially fun to listen to though.

Additionally, since I'm streaming the LLM response, it won't take long to get your reply. Since it does it a chunk at a time, there's occasionally only parts of words that are said momentarily. Also of course depends on what model you use or what the context size is for how long you need to wait.
The part where it's described as a misconfiguration (on the client's part?) but the head of GCP is apologizing makes it sound kind of like one of those "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem" situations.
AES is only used for the final mixing from their paper. AHash is the pure AES hash using AES-NI.
Well, you can probably send out one bit a time by updating your ACLs on a clock (with which your clients are also roughly synchronized) and distinguishing between 403 and 404.

take an awful lot of time to get that data out, though.
> So it is now on me to know whether my object is lost or stolen?

This isn't new - AirTags have always been this way. The only thing changing today is the cross-platform and 'standard' aspect to it...
Looks like pg as a replacement for databricks sql, which is already a query engine for datalakes. It's not a lakehouse, but it calls itself one. Seems like a cool and useful project, but the name is problematic.
>How people seriously expect these foundational model companies to make substantial revenue?

My take on this common question is that we haven't even begun to realize the immense scale of which we will need AI in all sorts of products, from consumer to enterprise. We will look back on the cost of tokens now (even at 50% of price a year or so ago) and look at it with the same bewilderment of "having a computer in your pocket" compared to mainframes from 50 years ago.

For AI to be truly useful at the consumer level, we'll need specialized mobile hardware that operates on a far greater scale of tokens and speed than anything we're seeing/trying now.

Think "always-on AI" rather than "on-demand".
> I write this from Guatemala, where 70 years ago, a budding 10-year-old democracy was destroyed so that Americans could continue to get cheap bananas. And the country never really recovered.

Worse, they mocked it and still do with terms such as "banana republic". They haven't even learned any better.
> 2 weeks seems like an impressive turnaround for such a large service

I assume they were lucky in that whatever system counts billable requests also has access to the response code, and therefore it's pretty easy to just say "if response == 403: return 0".

The fact that is the case suggests they may do the work to fulfill the request before knowing the response code and doing billing, so there might be some loophole to get them to do lots of useful work for free...
Not necessarily, assume that cellular radio emissions effects on cells is like really a mild form of radiotherapy. It would mostly impact some cells undergoing mitosis while having almost no impact on mature slowly dividing cells.

I am not saying that cellular radio are harmful but it's cumulative impact on dividing cells should be tested to exclude that possibility.
Yeah, I remember all that dot com hysteria like it was yesterday.

Page after page of Wired breathlessly predicting the future. We'd shop online, date online, the world's information at our fingertips. It was going to change everything!

Silly now, of course, but people truly believed it.
> request it be deleted

You hear that, HN? Not providing an option to delete our comments is against the law (in California and probably in EU as well). No, anonymizing the comment doesn't count.
This is basically just the ship computer from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

"Guys, I am just pleased as punch to inform you that there are two thermo-nuclear missiles headed this way... if you don't mind, I'm gonna go ahead and take evasive action."
Apple doesn't want stalkers and they definitely don't want any part of leading people into confrontations with thieves.

AirTag isn't the right product for you. Buy a tracker from somebody else.
count of incidents once the layoffs happened went up :)))
And I bet if we asked you how the Internet was for you right after you ordered groceries, you'd be quite in favor of it.

But if we asked you right after you got in a doom scrolling sadness argument, you'd probably hate it.

Too many of these studies are based on self-reporting; I feel that we need something more to really get correct answers.
There are tradeoffs of course, its not all a direct upgrade. The deli section has certainly gotten a lot worse than 100 years ago. No capicola anywhere that I've seen. Cheese offerings leave a lot to be desired now that they've been reduced to the same half dozen usual suspects. All the food in that deli might be entirely monopolized by boars head or dietz and watson. Pickles, same thing with the vlassic/mt olive race to the bottom. I'm not even sure we can really honestly say the bread situation has improved other than the fact a machine now slices it.
Thinking system-wide changes through is what public policy is all about, and the same should probably be true of shipping devices in the tens of millions.

(That doesn’t mean it’s easy. Doing pilot studies is a good idea.)
Bakelite also wasn't very good though. Stiff, heavy, brittle.

Modern sheet plastic packaging gives the impression of a soap bubble that we've somehow frozen in time and made solid.
That would be a good argument if it wasn't for the thousands of videos of men, women and children getting raped and killed and russians gloating in the comment sections. Something which telegram is notorious for.
Which is why you need high-quality and large-scale data on the relationship between income and internet usage and the relationship between income and happiness so you can chain those together and subtract the whole thing out. Yes, error bars stack up rapidly. That's why you need 2 million data points to get a reasonable conclusion, when you only need ~1000 to get high-quality information on things like consumer preferences or political affiliations. Good thing that we have plenty of people that are very interested in things like "how much happier does money make you" and full-scale datasets like that are produced on a regular basis!

Really, the math isn't any harder than what's necessary to land a rocket screaming along at mach 8 or reverse a couple terabytes of voltage readings into a nice clean volumetric medical image.
The intent was not to hijack the discussion but to provide choices to the people. After all, we are talking about Loom alternatives here.
Her wasn’t a dystopia as far as I could tell. Not even a cautionary tale. The scifi ending seems unlikely but everything else is remarkably prescient. I think the picnic scene is very likely to come true in the near future. Things might even improve substantially if we all interact with personalities that are consistently positive and biased towards conflict resolution and non judgemental interactions.
I love this. Such a cool implementation. Fellow Val Towner here.
The problem is not RH paying its counterparties, the problem is me, a retail customer paying RH. It takes time for my money to settle with them, and they can't pay their counterparties until it does.

They keep a pool of cash on hand to deal with this, but that pool was not big enough to absorb the GME mania. Robinhood eventually borrowed enough money to solve their liquidity problem, but by the time they did, the bubble popped, and the bagholders started screaming about fraud and collusion.
Right, because having a female voice means that it is soft porn.

This is like horseshoe theory on steroids.
That's my point. Food insecurity isn't a solved problem because it also encompasses solving conflicts between groups of people as a sub-problem.

It's a bit like saying, I found my keys so I solved my problem of getting to work whilst the battery is also still dead.
Yeah people around me here in Central Europe are very sick of that already. Everybody is complaining about it and the first thing they say to the bot is to cut it out, stop apologizing, stop explaining and get to the point as concisely as possible. Me too.
Degrading public institutions is not the conclusion of the article, it's an objective fact. The conclusion of the article is that public don't want to do anything about it because people don't like bad news and prefer to shoot all the messengers.

So, that commenter was just wrong, and his wrong assumptions are perfectly explained by the article.
I've never heard of this and I'm not aware of any requirement to use a real name. I tried googling and I'm not seeing people having that issue.
Libraries are a good starting point for your idea, but they are already being defunded.
It doesn't make any sense to look at it that way. Apparently the GPT base model finised training in like late summer 2022, which is before the release of GPT-3.5. I am pretty sure that GPT-3.5 should be thought of as GPT-4-lite, in the sense that it uses techniques and compute of the GPT-4 era rather than the GPT-3 era.
The advancement from GPT-3 to GPT-4 is what counts and it took 3 years.
New GPT-4o is not yet available when I tried to access ChatGPT from Finland. Are they rolling it out to Europe later?
What are your specific methodological concerns? The model the authors build is a multi-level regression model. They attempt to establish independence between the covariates but do note specifically that:

"In turn, this suggests that the contributions of internet access and use on well-being were independent of the covariates we selected for, and thus might indicate causal relations. (Although we highlight the evidence here for causal claims is less than thin.)"

I think it would be more useful, especially on a forum known to have a strong opinion on a topic, to establish alternate theories that match these observations and independence relations.
Until Discord makes it impossible to run an IRC server or client I dont see IRC going anywhere.
I was in the same program as the SquareSpace founder (we went to the same college but about a decade or so apart) and that program's professor talked to the founder quite a bit about their strategy for marketing, and he was lamenting that they spent so much money on Super Bowl ads, lol.
Doesn’t seem to work on Mobile Safari? I can tap to select a piece but tapping a target square to move doesn’t do anything.

EDIT: seems like you need to tap the top edge of empty spaces?
Try chaperoning a bunch of kids on a field trip. Half of them have trackers attached to their backpacks, so you get a bunch of those notifications.
A moment's thought will hopefully provide you with the answer to both those questions
Will be fun in a train full of passengers and tracked luggages moving all together.
Isn’t the internet probably better in the global south or with non English languages just because spam is generally more difficult and less valuable to produce?

This seems like a confounding variable just because platform popularity all by itself tends to be the end of a decent platform, social network or otherwise.
Unjammable navigation tech gets first airborne test
The data I'm able to find indicates these factors don't necessarily cause colorectal cancer, but contribute to its ability to migrate.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c04844

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4637576/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...
Google and Apple have fairly different platform software update strategies so I was curious how the support windows line up. Android 6 was the last supported release on devices like the Nexus 5 and Xperia Z3 from 2013 and 2014. iOS 9 was the last version supported for devices like the iPhone 4s and 3rd gen iPad that shipped in 2011 or 2012. Going forward to 2013 iPhones you have the 5s which was last supported in iOS 12. It sounds like Google is able to ship this directly rather than as an OS update that would need to go through manufacturers, while Apple typically deploys these type of fixes by pushing an OS update. I'm curious how far back they'll go, they rarely ship security fixes more than two major versions behind the current release (so maybe down to iOS 15, supporting devices released in 2015).
They have not. You probably read "MoE" and some pop article about what that means without having any clue.
I recently subscribed to Perplexity Pro and prior to this release, was already strongly considering discontinuing ChatGPT Premium.

When I first subscribed to ChatGPT Premium late last year, the natural language understanding superiority was amazing. Now the benchmark advances, low latency voice chat, Sora, etc. are all really cool too.

But my work and day-to-day usage really rely on accurately sourced/cited information. I need a way to comb through an ungodly amount of medical/scientific literature to form/refine hypotheses. I want to figure out how to hard reset my car's navigation system without clicking through several SEO-optimized pages littered with ads. I need to quickly confirm scientific facts, some obscure, with citations and without hallucinations. From speaking with my friends in other industries (e.g. finance, law, construction engineering), this is their major use case too.

I really tried to use ChatGPT Premium's Bing powered search. I also tried several of the top rated GPTs - Scholar AI, Consensus, etc.. It was barely workable. It seems like with this update, the focus was elsewhere. Unless I specify explicitly in the prompt, it doesn't search the web and provide citations. Yeah, the benchmark performance and parameter counts keep impressively increasing, but how do I trust that those improvements are preventing hallucinations when nothing is cited?

I wonder if the business relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is limiting their ability to really compete in AI driven search. Guessing Microsoft doesn't want to disrupt their multi-billion dollar search business. Maybe the same reason search within Gemini feels very lacking (I tried Gemini Advanced/Ultra too).

I have zero brand loyalty. If anybody has a better suggestion, I will switch immediately after testing.
Oil companies knew for a fact, from their own research in the 70's, that they were putting the planet on a course to irreversible massive damage.

Their response was to hush that up and initiate a massive Big Tobacco style disinformation campaign.

They are the cause, root and stem.

So whether you're aware of it or not, you're blaming the victim, and covering for an unfathomably evil global-scale crime.
yeah, I squashed a few bugs here but there is more
weirdness. will check it out

edit: ah! regular ol' relative/absolute position (been a bit since I wrote css), this should now be fixed!
Simple. Just encode all of your app's data and logic as a massive lookup table, each bit of which is represented by an object that either doesn't exist (a zero) or is unauthorized to access (a one).

When you read a sequential series of keys (404 403 403 404 = 0110) it will either tell you the data you were looking for or the next key name to begin reading from.
You only really see kids eating m&ms. There's good American chocolate too, american chefs can read and follow a recipe just fine.
People said pretty much exactly the same thing about 3d printing.

"Rather than ship a product, companies can ship blueprints and everyone can just print stuff at their own home! Everything will be 3d printed! It's so magical!"

Just because a tech is magical today, doesn't mean that it will be meaningful tomorrow. Sure, 3d printing has its place (mostly in making plastic parts for things) but it's hardly the revolutionary change in consumer products that it was touted to be. Instead, it's just a hobbiest toy.

GPT-4o being able to describe actual events in real time is interesting, it's yet to be seen if that's useful.

That's mostly the thinking here. A lot of the "killer" AI tech has really boiled down to "Look, this can replace your customer support chat bot!". Everyone is rushing to try and figure out what we can use LLMs (Just like they did when ML was supposed to take over the world) and so far it's been niche locations to make shareholders happy.
Please reach out to us to talk through it, I'm sure there's a way to work it out.
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

No, the ascending and descending parts are exactly where my hoodie pockets are.
Explicit ≠ literal.

The things they mention/demo -- response times, multiple domains, inflection and tone, etc. -- are those that make it feel "magical."
I think you're right. I get the push toward that consensus. There are plenty of makers (cough cough Purdue Pharmaceuticals) who make awful, abusable things and then say, hey, it's not our fault people are misusing them! It still sucks getting caught in the middle.
I wish they would match the TTS/real-time chat capabilities of the mobile client to the web client.

it's stupid having to pull a phone out in order to use the voice/chat-partner modes.

(yes I know there are browser plugins and equivalent to facilitate things like this but they suck, 1) the workflows are non-standard, 2) they don't really recreate the chat interface well)
It should be really something like Beneficial Audio Realtime Recognition Electronic Transformer.
Those are the ones that scared you?!?

Walgreens/CSV literal buckets of medicine like Advil and whatnot were some of the scariest things I've seen, and worst of all, people DEFENDING them.
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The hash internally is a 128bit hash & can output 32 or 64 bit as well. Can you speak more to how fixed point attacks are relevant? The only reference I found online was in a cryptographic context which wouldn't be relevant here. Are other hashes like SipHash-1-3 (Rust stdlib hashmap) or XXH3 susceptible to it?