skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Or by coming up with an adjacent industry that does make profit.

Or being owned by the company making the profit , after said company realised how much they were spending on 3PL when they already had HR/depots/etc that could be used for trucking companies.
Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to apply for the ChatGPT prompt engineer position at your company. I am highly qualified for this role, with extensive experience using ChatGPT.

I have been using ChatGPT for over two years in my current role as a natural language processing engineer. In this position, I have been responsible for developing and maintaining a variety of ChatGPT-based systems, including chatbots, language translation models, and generative text systems. I have also worked closely with the ChatGPT team to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and I have a deep understanding of its capabilities and limitations.

In addition to my experience with ChatGPT, I am well-versed in other natural language processing technologies, including GPT-2, BERT, and XLNET. I have a strong background in computer science, with a Bachelor's degree in the field and several years of experience working in a related field. I am also highly detail-oriented and have excellent problem-solving skills.

I am confident that my skills and experience make me the perfect candidate for the ChatGPT prompt engineer position. I am excited about the opportunity to join your team and contribute to the development of innovative natural language processing solutions. Thank you for considering my application.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]

> Write a cover letter for applying to a "ChatGPT prompt engineer" position outlining my extensive experience with ChatGPT
I have a server at home and a backup… beat that crypto !
I was just thinking, the best Pi you can buy is the one you can get… This quote was stolen from another fruit computer company (Apple) sales manager who used it in the late 2000s, when Apple had its inventory issues.

Apple Australia director Tony King would say: “Sell what’s on the truck!“, to which he would reply: “Tony, we’ve sold the [bleeping] truck…”
While I see this is a good, I wish it wasn't just about how/where the data is stored. I would love to see a bigger push against teaching children on proprietary software in general over free software+generic skills.
There are cases where ChatGPT gives solid answers that could be rated pretty highly in Stack Overflow answers. This is not always the case though.
Hetzner is owned by a holding company owned by Ensoxx and Ensoxx is Martin Hetzner's company as far as I can tell.
This talk feels like it came from about a decade ago. That's when techno-idealism seems to have reach it's peak.

It's out of touch to not talk about what has transpired since then in this space.

It turns out media/social/economic technology can shape our world a lot faster than can the technologies grounded real things. Arguably it has been for the negative recently.

The question is whether we can somehow get a handle on these abstract organizational technologies to better organize our world and provide a better quantity and quality of life to the humans that inhabit it.

It's not the real-world star-trek tech that will make or break humans. We don't need them to be happy though we'll get them anyway if the precondition to better organization is met.

Counter-intuitively, the focus on 'real things' tech might be a way to provide optimism in a way that can help build the blocks of grappling the more impactful abstract organizational technologies that threaten us. Here could be the seedlings of ideological meaning and purpose, largely missing now, that could help guide us to more healthy applications of our abstract organizational technologies.
I want also support this request.
>Manager propaganda?

Do you think that Apple, Google, Microsoft recalling their workers back to the office because they were influenced by manager propaganda? Or do you think that they have data showing better efficiency with in office work?

I consider those 3 companies, which are #1, #2, #3 in market cap, to be highly competent and the management team is probably very data driven. If they truly saw that remote work was more efficient, do you think they would still try so hard to recall workers back into the office?
I mentioned it yesterday, but I will mention it again... take a look at Storj. [0].

Storj pricing is basically unbeatable. $4/TB/month, $7/TB/month for egress bandwidth which (I heard, yet to try) can be saved further if you put something like cloudflare in front of your bucket.

Speaking as someone who set up their own minio cluster (on Hetzner) as a way to have object storage at the lowest cost possible, if Storj was an option 3 years ago, I would have saved me quite a bit of money and time.

[0]: https://storj.io
Yep - they're not quite keeping up though.
Original 2019: "the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended <i>last week</i>"

Then at some point it was <i>last year</i> - and they've just left it like that for new next couple of years.

Only other real change is that the author used to work for "Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets" - and now doesn't.
As someone who survived a nearly lethal bike accident because I tore my helmet off right before impact, I can really sympathize with you about that
You can live on Bitcoin as long as you don't need to go to the grocery store...
From here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/general-terms-and-condition...

Conclusion:

In summary, you as a customer do have influence - to a certain extent - on shaping who has access to the data on your servers. EU and US authorities do have to follow the laws and legal procedures in requesting data. However, this may give you a false sense of security since some authorities have been known to stretch or violate agreements. If you require a web hosting company that has absolutely no connections to the USA, then unfortunately, we may no longer be the best choice for you. Since Hetzner US LLC is part of the Hetzner Group, there certainly is a connection. We hope that we have explained things clearly from our point of view using the two above case studies.
No supply of them in the UK either.

Are other ARM single-board computers easier for you to buy in India? I have several from Pine64, CubieBoard and Hardkernel that work well.
>> In this case it is important to note that this mutation presumably existed before poachers so they cannot be the cause of the actual genetics of tuskless elephants

This sounds like an argument made by creationists to deny evolution. The genes were always there and we are just seeing a change in expression.

When people of science have silly public debates like this, science loses. Stop being pedantic!
Given that they mention abuse elsewhere in this thread, I assume the problem is related to stolen cards and thus can't really be fixed by accepting money upfront.
> evolution occurs every time a new elephant is conceived

Mutation occurs. Evolution is when the population changes, not individuals.

In this time frame it is unlikely elephants would have evolved without tusks in a world without poachers, because in that scenario tusks are an advantage.
They're spreading FOMO because they're short. They keep losing.
We're a long time Hetzner dedicated server customer currently transitioning from their dedicated servers in Germany to their US Cloud product (for reduced latency) which we can highly recommend as it was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artificially inflated egress costs [1].

The UX behind managing instances is delightfully pleasant where new instances are available faster than any other cloud provider we've used, within seconds of creating an instance you can immediately login with your configured SSH keys. Another nice feature is being able to "rescale" your instance to higher specs after a restart [2], so you can confidentially start with a small instance that just meets your current workload knowing that you can easily scale up your instances as your workload increases.

AWS RDS was the only critical service keeping us on AWS, a service we no longer need in our new Apps which we're building with SQLite thanks to the effortless replication in Litestream [3] that we're using to replicate to Cloudflare R2 - another great value S3 alternative with $0 egress fees [4] where you can get even greater value & performance when hosting behind their free CDN.

[1] https://servicestack.net/blog/finding-best-us-value-cloud-pr...

[2] https://bizanosa.com/how-to-upgrade-resize-hetzner-cloud-ser...

[3] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/litestream

[4] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/
Does WiFi work yet?
Yes, this is how all ML works. It's just a search engine with some extra steps.

The weights of the GPT network are just a compressed representation of most of the searchable internet. All its responses are just synthesised from text you can find on google.

The amount of gushing over this, atm, is absurd. It reminds me of a person I knew who had a psychotic break and thought google was talking to them, because when they put a question in, even something personal, it gave them an answer they could interpret as meaningful.

That psychotic response has always colored my understanding of this hysteria, and many of the replies here in this thread have a schizotypal feel: GPT is just a mirror, it is only saying back to you what has already been said by others. It isnt a person in the world, has no notion of a world, has no intentions and says nothing. It isnt speaking to you, it isnt capable of having an intent to communicate.

It's google with a cartoon face.

If any wonder how we could be so foolish to worship the sun, or believe god looks like an ape -- here it is. The default, midly psychotic, disposition of animals: to regard everything they meet as one of their own.
Whither DSGE Estimation?
At first glance this seems very minimalist in a mathematical/academic sense. For them minimalism is Peano numbers, for a computer guy it's cons and recursion.

But it's worth spending more time with it, so thanks.
YouTube seems to have cleaned the comments up a huge amount over the years. Whenever I check them it’s always full of people thanking the creator, talking about the stuff they want to see more of, and continuing on the talking points of the video.

Sure it probably depends what kind of content you watch but I seem to remember old YouTube had a dumpster fire in every comment section.
You not shipping is a real problem. If its a great idea, other people will also come up with it soon enough without the need to steal.
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That's exactly the scenario that Shakedry was designed for.

You get the warmth from something else underneath use the very thin Shakedry shell to keep the rain and wind out. Except that with a breathable fabric you won't get (as) sweaty[1].

If you pair it with arm and leg warmers you can cover a really big temperature range, like you might encounter on a multi-day cycling tour without taking up much space or weight.

Despite the marketing you can still get a bit sweaty with Shakedry if it's hot weather.
It sounds like FreeBSD also works on the Pi 3 and Pi 4:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
> I contacted support again and received an arrogant email that the issue is related to my software and that they couldnt help me further.

Doesn't surprise me, German companies always know better and will try to prove you wrong, whether you're their customer or supplier. Such is the business culture, I think.
I wouldn't try to build a product on anything that depends on an SD card for storage.
The training data is almost the entire searchable internet, it certainly includes AP exam answers. Indeed, if it didnt, it wouldnt output any.
Of course. Why can't you answer as many times as you want in an SAT? Because it would defeat the whole purpose. More than that: you need to give points for right answers, and negative points for wrong ones, so the expected value of guessing is 0.

Even in the context of the already fucked up copyright laws, this mechanism is especially broken.
Yes compared to actual failed states Iran is pretty stable (though may be changing). Compared to some of the wealthiest places on earth (all wealth built under the US security umbrella), the U.S. has some problems.

This isn’t news!
...and many other convincements could be done in many other fields. I'm not a drama queen type of person but I'm honestly scared with this
Right now ChatGPT responses tend to be very confidently asserted, are overly verbose, and contain factual errors. So right now you could build model(s) that measure the assertiveness and wordiness of text. But then people could just instruct ChatGPT to give brief answers, or to make itself sound uncertain. And soon there will be many similar models, and many will be more terse and less assertive by default. Regarding factual mistakes, that's not something you can check with a model that isn't itself more advanced than the LLM it is assessing.
Ok, but: "US authorities do not have direct access to your server or its content in the EU. US authorities have to comply with the regulations of the EU legislation.".

So, because Hetzner is not owned by a US company, stuff like the CLOUD act doesn't apply to them. So, if you have a contract with the German entity of Hetzner and use a German server, you should be fine in terms of GDPR.
I was wondering if it could just recognize abstract logic so I asked "If every bilpo is a mulligrop and I am a bilpo, then am I a mulligrop?"

No dice

Also it thinks the eggplant and are peach emoji are only used to represent fruit and "¿Hablas español?" works fine. You can switch back to English and it will stay in Spanish until it resets context which is a pretty brilliant way to expose some internal mechanics
this is definitely more advanced than GPT3, and was trained differently in a few meaningful ways
Yeah Facebook posts and even tiktok videos are short lived things. No one will care about them in a year, but YouTube regularly shows me old stuff that’s great.

YouTube premium is the only streaming service I use on my TV because it’s got a never ending list of good content.
In a right wing domestic terrorism investigation in America in 2022, I would absolutely not trust any local small-town police department to investigate those ties effectively, no.

That is not an outlandish perspective, over and over, there are instances of the police not lifting a finger to protect trans or drag events while groups like Patriot Front or Proud Boys harass and intimidate them with shows of force/violence.
> I always assumed the future of electric trucking would involve little battery trailers that could be quickly swapped out on a rolling basis by fleets of trucks.

Maybe the future, but right now, I suspect the battery energy density is not forgiving enough for the battery to just be a carry load. Increasingly, the battery module is part of the structure of the vehicle and further works as weight to increase traction close to the drivetrain. There is also a lot of nitty-gritty details to do with safety, efficiency and cooling that makes moving the battery away from the Semi itself not a viable option ATM.

Also keep in mind that at least for consumer cars, Tesla did try battery swap stations but nobody seemed to show any interest so they canned it.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en

> Creative Commons licenses can only be used on 100% original content. If there's a Content ID claim on your video, you cannot mark your video with the Creative Commons license.

Do they add some sort of their own license terms on top of creative commons with this?
It really can't and it doesn't really work the way you think it does which is ironic that you'd think people on this site would be informed but I guess ycombinator has a financial conflict of interest in doing so. I wouldn't be surprised if they make posts on this topic with a very heavy bias like they do for a lot of their own investments.

I remember being shown this software almost a decade ago in dealing with chat in online video gaming and it ended becoming a serious conversation at the ACM SIG CHI about it's use and abuse for spreading certain things. At the end of the day, we realized it was an arms race and the only way to win, was to simply not play. But of course these ideas were rejected for it went against the financial interests of the parties involved.
There was a kid with a broken finger recently...

I mean, you aren't wrong. But we can almost certainly do better than where we currently are.
Oh, but there is a world of difference between answering questions based on neural memory and being able to bind these answers to actual references and sources. That being said, something like what you described will likely happen.
Waiting for GPU dedicated hosting for inference at Hetzner prices with max 2x-3x markup ...
If data centers have to temporarily shut down due electricity shortage, people won't have a choice but endure the latency.
It does seem to be the future, but, at the moment, it's very unreliable. The worst thing is that it's all said with confidence and it would be very hard to know when things are wrong unless you already know.

For example: Q. How many people spoke French in pre-revolutionary France?

A. It is difficult to determine the exact number of people who spoke French in pre-revolutionary France. The population of France at the time was approximately 26 million, and the vast majority of people spoke French as their first language. <snip>

Wikipedia: It is estimated that at the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only half of the population of France could speak French, and as late as 1871 only a quarter spoke French as their native language.

Also, the population of France on the eve of the Revolution was about 28 million.
There is a similar push in Germany, not limited to schools, but the workplace in general [1], initiated by the "Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter".

[1] german only: https://www.golem.de/news/bedenken-zu-microsoft-365-datensch...
Seeing HN become "customer service" for many companies (including faang) is sad.
The content of that link sounds fine in terms of GDPR if one only uses the EU servers. Am I missing something?
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lol.. are software engineers going to do home cleaning now?
> An impeccably timed advantageous mutation

No. An existing but uncommon mutation. Previously disadvantageous.

> At what point to people throw in the towel and say, yup, God’s real?

Well . . . Occam's razor says "not now, bub."
I assume you don't mind pulling three times the nuclear powerplant's worth of dinosaur juice from earth?
~100 ms isn't that bad. Doubt it matters at all for most web apps. I've even played FPS games on US East servers a lot to escape eurotoxicity.
Considering the issue didn't start happening immediately the previous times I don't see why we can presume it won't start happening again this time.
I own the 16", i9 (>$5000) version of this,
and I must say:
a) It's one of the best PC notebooks I ever owned.
b) It's a piece of crap.

The keyboard is very (VERY!) wonky, got two replacements, it's systemic.
The touchpad dies every 2-3 weeks, Lenovo service has been great, getting me a new one within 2-3 days every time, I gave up on replacing it after two months, and just use ... sorry ... a magic trackpad.
The middle of it started bubbling up about 3 months in - leaving about a 3-5mm gap when closing the lid. Not that the lid ever closed tightly anyway.
Don't even get my started on battery life. It doesn't exist.

Switched from using Fedora to PopOS. Which - for me - is an even better experience.

And just to be clear: It's the hardware that's crap, not the software.
And: I have been a ThinkPad user for the last 30 years. Still have my 700C, and all the models inbetween.
Why ed-tech startups don't scale
The point is not what we (techies) think about the usefulness of ChatGPT. The point is that managers will definitely think ChatGPT is worth doing... Just like they think Jira/Scrum/Agile/etc. is worth our time. I definitely see management paying for ChatGPT.
It's all about economics. Whatever's cheaper wins. To that end, Tesla has mentioned in their presentations that a Tesla Semi convoy of only 3 trucks can be cheaper than a train for the same load.
Off grid simply means no grid connection. These days that indeed can mean very few compromises with respect to modern comforts like working internet, hot showers, heating, electricity, etc.
Why have startup scripts when you can run your very own images? `Installimage` (https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/operating-sy...) allows you to install and run your own custom images, so run any bootstrapping once, create image from the results and then install that on the machines.

If you really really need startup scripts, it'll be trivial to add it to your own image. Packer (and similar tooling) makes it trivial to create your own images as well.
When I was moving my server to a new hoster Hetzner was on the top of the list, but they refused me as a customer.

As it was going to host (among other things) my mail server, I could not use my primary (self-hosted) email address - because that's asking for trouble if I ever run into issues. It seems using Protonmail triggered something on their side.

They asked me for a copy of my ID card, which I happily provided. But they still refused my account, without explanation. Oh well, their loss. I've been at OVH now for a few years without any issues. OVH's product is definitely worse, but at least they'll actually let you use them.
I like cast iron too but eggs are still less likely to stick on a non-stick pan and you don't even need oil/butter
- Hell let Loose
Worldwide billions are spent by public education systems of different countries on microsoft office entrenching their future workforce into using microsoft products. Google was actually able to break microsoft cycle over the last decade but it is one proprietary system over another.
Startup = Growth
It’s actually kind of crazy that limits don’t exist as it has been demonstrated that lack of sleep is essentially equivalent to driving inebriated at a certain point. I suspect it’s only the logistics of enforcement that prevent it from happening.
Oh, that pattern of hype’s already been doing the rounds since GPT-3 first came out — people imagining GPT-4 and GPT-5 for short sci-fi stories about the late 2020s and early 2030s, asking a question that dates at least as far back as a few centuries BC with Jewish folklore about humans creating golems: can the work of our human hands and minds ever itself be a person?

I’ve been playing with it. It’s very impressive, it’s not merely regurgitating quotations like Google, it get things horribly wrong just enough to be noticeable (but on most topics you actually need to be a domain expert to even know that; so the software developers are generally the only ones who see the buggy code, the lawyers are generally the only ones who see the bad law, the mathematicians are generally the only ones who see what’s wrong with the proofs, and so on).

Definitely doesn’t feel like either a human nor the computer in Star Trek. Can’t quite manage long-range coherency. But very, very impressive despite that.
"in Minecraft"
The regional council of Reunion (French Overseas Region) has set up a few years ago a plan so that each high school student get a laptop running Ubuntu. It made me discover Linux, and it's partly thanks to that that I work in IT today.