skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people saying things like this online, and I have to wonder what their standards for "good" or "competent" or whatever are. I'm not going to ask you to post those reports so I can "judge" them. You shouldn't and none of us cares that deeply anyway, but I'm still waiting for a good example of actual useful work done by these things. I'm replying to you randomly, there are other posts like this in this thread.

On the art front, every single piece of art that I see is bad. Not bad like a human not being able to draw, but bad in a different but still obvious (to me, at least) way.

On a personal front, I had a lot of fun generating funny pictures based on inside jokes with my friends a few weeks ago, but lately it barely makes us smile. I think the novelty is wearing off, so even that is gone.

Ultimately, it's not going to matter what I think, enough people think this is good content that it will be flooding the internet soon. It's all so tiresome.
New scam incoming...

> Scammers get hold of someone's voice which is synthesised in ~real-time whilst they're on the phone with that person's mother, asking them to transfer them some emergency funds to a new bank account.

We won't be able to trust digital sound, digital image, digital text, and soon digital video. We need proof of authenticity / proof of authorship / proof of humanity!
Yeah, I recall 3DS being more PC-prosumer based. And SGI | Alias was super high end. $150k Irix machines with VR gloves & glasses. You'd only find them in the engineering & architecture departments. The others were distributed at siggraph on free cd-roms, with permissive student licenses you could use for months of self-training and hobbyist modeling ;)

No one could top Maya back then in terms of flame, water & particle effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFLapfliN8
i quite like that and always try with new projects to make it as easy as possible to start collaborating for new mates and addings lots of safety nets so everyone feels comfortable to add changes to the system(s)
The key in surf is to never fight against the rip. While it can feel scary to get pulled out, remember that 99% of the time, it will end after you are pulled past the break, at which point you can swim laterally a bit and then go back in with help from the waves. Breaking waves naturally create alternating channels in the sand that either push you towards the shore or pull you back out to the break.

The other 1% of the time is when you are close to the mouth of a bay or some other feature that creates a current independent of the dynamics in the surf zone. You'll know that's the case if the current stays strong after you're past the break. If it's too strong for you to swim against it, then you're in trouble and should start waving for help.
Unless you are using a laptop (as these processors aren't mean for) or are running a datacenter (which these processors aren't meant for) does anyone really care about 65 vs 150w differences?
I like that a lot. I'll probably add that to the piece, thank you!
Completely agree with this. There's a short sentence in the abstract:

> hyperparameter optimization and prompt engineering

Prompt engineering seems a lot like "tweaking the question format until the AI gets the answer" which is the first lesson in ANNs; don't train on your test set. If you can't put the actual question with the only context being "this question concerns US law" then there's an awful lot of reasoning and thinking that the human is doing which the AI cannot.

Let's not have another Moore's law fallacy, it's not reasonable to extrapolate progress based on existing results. It's like building a car which can go at 200mph then saying 300mph is just around the corner.
I do wish we didn’t have to keep retreading the same arguments answered in the piece in this discussion.
Python Tutorial – Book Recommendations with GPT3
Imagine training it on Vatican library.
Butlerian jihad here we go.
Bluntly put; the vast majority of blog posts, no matter what the subject is about, are low quality platitudes. This has been the norm ever since Blogger/Wordpress emerged.

Books on the other hand, especially literature, are usually the exact opposite. Money-grubbing self-help/how-to-become-world's-greatest-entrepreneur/Paulo Coelho tier prints are excluded.
Fake it until you automate it
I love this article. It really comes down to eliminating mental barriers that keep your thinking and your goals capped within a limited range.
Apple's Numbers has a relatively clever way to pull this off. If a cell (e.g., B:$2) is in a table with a column (or row) header, all formulas will use the header field value in the variable. e.g.,

= floor( [Strength:$Value] / 2 - 5, 1)

These labels are purely descriptive. The underlying reference is still B:$2, but it makes formulas infinitely more readable without needing to manually define named ranges for everything.

(Among many other nice features Numbers has... one of the few things I miss since my switch to Linux)
I don’t find the vision very inspiring.
Slack. I realize that I'm quite lucky in this regard. Slack isn't great, but it's far from the Enterprise (TM) dumpster fire that other examples here are.
Feels like a serious reach, and trying to shoehorn unrelated issues into a discussion they don't belong. The author goes over her repeated brushes with death - and the warnings she received prior - and they don't seem to deter her from putting herself in more situations. Making everyone else unsafe isn't the solution. (If a "solution" is even needed. I think she's just describing her own instance of human behavior.)
CDC Releases Vaers Safety Monitoring Analyses for Covid Vaccines
Yeah, or maybe it's "both." :-)

Which, if your goal is profitability, might be a great thing.
Steam hits 10M concurrent in-game players in record-breaking weekend
> proof of humanity

This resonated with me when I read it. Seems clear where AI is going, so it seems clear that we need some sort of "authentication" that can reliably differentiate a real human from an AI one.
What do you define as takeoff? The transaction numbers are minuscule.

I personally think crypto transactions are a dead use case. El Salvador recently released numbers that said crypto remittances were in the 1% range in 2022, despite all the hype. Coinbase actually shutdown there remittances product after a couple of years and a couple of thousands of transactions.

The people don’t want it.
Have you considered that GPT may not be at 50% but maybe still needs an exponential improvement to achieve human-like understanding?
Tesla is doing it because it looks cool, now kind of admitting it:

https://insideevs.com/news/629859/tesla-models-x-and-plaid-r...
"Research" means something different than "being reasonably knowledgeable" in this context. You might be familiar with a certain river, but "Is the dam going to release water today" and "how much runoff from the mountains is there today" are question that you should still research before going out.
Intermittent fasting is so over-hyped. What it means is usually skipping breakfast. Big deal.

I've been intermittent fasting, eating only around 2pm for lunch, and 7pm for dinner, for more than 10 years and I've managed to get quite overweight. Not IF's fault, just pointing out that it's neither worse nor better for your diet.

Eating one fewer meal doesn't stop one from making bad food choices, or doesn't change how much energy you burn through and hunger you feel. Only OMAD might be a little worthy of that hype because it is often physically impossible to overeat your daily caloric expenditure in one sitting, but as a recovering binge eater, I've seen first hand how ultra-processed hyper-palatable food makes it very easy to eat >3000 kcal in one meal.

That said, I agree that breakfast is a silly idea for us office workers. I personally do my best work in the (16) fasted hours between waking up and lunch, so much that I tend to have lunch as late as possible these days. You certainly don't need to eat 3 times a day for sitting on a chair 12 hours. Let alone that most idiotic, first-world idea of needing to eat "at least 5 small meals" around the clock never to feel hungry. Well, stop eating low-fat carby food and you won't feel hungry 5 times a day.
Cloud Native Diary #4 – Java, OpenTelemetry, Carvel
Cloud Native Spring in Action, OpenTelemetry, Buildpacks, Carvel package management, and cloud native platforms.
Yes, to avoid getting a space heater when you turn on your computer during the summer. In winter it's not really that bad, as you get both compute and heating from the same device.

Lower power bills help too. And let's not forget the ridiculous power numbers that new GPUs are consuming.
> Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.

And your students will use it to solve the problems! In the end no one will learn anything and nothing of value was created. Rinse and repeat.

I guess this is my concern - if everyone starts using LLMs for stuff like this, then what's the point of anything?
By that argument the electric company isn’t a monopoly it’s in competition to people buying generators. In the end monopolies aren’t defined so abstractly because no business has absolutely exclusive control.

Instead monopolies are defined by having monopoly power in the marketplace.
So you are implying that the robots know all about the people? Seems unreasonable.
This:

> I was banned from the Go issue tracker without explanation, and was unable to continue discussing the problem with Google.

is completely asinine. But it's also par for the course when it comes to interacting with Google. When is anyone going to hold them to account for their terrible customer service and community interaction?
I'm out of the loop, mind sharing a link to what you're talking about?
How about Blade Runner 2049?
Every single report like this serves to make me feel sick and angry. These organizations are responsible for so much data that can literally ruin lives and they can't be bothered to think through their solutions. It's not but should be criminal.
Not arguing that ZFS is not more feature-complete than btrfs, I agree in general ZFS is a better file-system than btrfs, but for general users BTRFS is much more accessible than ZFS on linux, since you can just install a distro with it as default, without having to be an expert in partitioning and managing a linux system. ZFSBootMenu is very much a power-user tool, not for regular users.
It's also very niche, <500 stars ? Wouldn't call that 'Quite a lot of users'.
"Does it tell us anything about the universality of computation as a property of the universe?"

It tells us that computation is counter-intuitively easy to access. Our intuition says that computers are hard; look how hard they are for us to build, after all! But instead the reality is that if you try to exclude computation from a non-trivial system, it's actually fairly hard.

(I think part of this intuition may also be based on our intuitive experience mostly being with von Neumann machines. Contra some other contrarians, I think we work with them for a good reason; as wild as they can be, they are much tamer than many other systems capable of universal computation. Compare with trying to work in Rule 110 directly as our primary computation method, or cellular automata in general. Many of these accidental TC systems are very strange and would be hard to work with. Getting a universal computation system nice and friendly to humans accidentally is pretty hard. Getting a universal computation system without that qualification is like falling off a bike.)

https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete is a good overview both of this concept, and includes many interesting consequences. I also particularly recommend the section title "Security Implications".
So true. Good trailers should reveal very little about the movie, but give you enough to get you interested.
The new Top Gun movie?
It's true, I've only seen that one BBC documentary. Is there something I'm missing?

> I know people that went and lived there back in the day.

Why? (Why did they go and live there, not why do you know them.)

Could they leave again if they wanted to? I expect that makes a big difference to what it's like to live there, whether or not you can get out.
Yeah, her deal strongly sounds like "coincidental invention" type stuff. Especially for me with The Matrix. As a Matrix fanatic I could point you to dozens of works for which you could make this sort of argument.
This is a really good one. Could also apply the concept to the whole business in keeping with the pattern, i.e. "What if we _had_ to 10x revenue in the next 12 months, no matter the cost or impact on existing customers?"

This might be related to "what if we had to 10x prices," but of course revenue = price X N, so it brings up the N question, which is fantastic to do.

I'll consider how I might be able to add this to the article without too much overlap with "10x prices".
I find it annoying that blocking the Go module proxy (on the server side) doesn't cause a graceful fallback. Am I unreasonable in thinking that it should? Doesn't the sum file prevent you from getting a maliciously modified copy?
>“Don’t you know that in Florida they can’t take away your primary residence, even if you go to jail for fraud? Start digging through the company’s financial filings immediately.”

He omitted this big one from his list of lessons learned.
"Raw nature" is around you all the time.

Safety is an illusion, you never know when there's a meteor with your name on it.
Pretty neat, don't show my boss ;)
Show HN: An read-only AWS console in ~550 lines of code
Last year, I started a new job as a cloud architect and it took my weeks to get access to the company's AWS infra for a myriad reasons.

The experience made me want to build a read-only interface to interact with AWS which we could share with new hires, consultants, and contractors.

Moreover, the kind of information I need for my job is hidden behind a maze of clicks and menus and tabs.

So, I made the Cloud Browser to simplify my AWS workflows.

https://saiorama.github.io/cloud-browser/

It is a read-only interface to your AWS account which runs in purely in your browser as a single page VueJS app.

The entire interface is one big index.html file with less than 550 lines of code, all told.

It also hooks into OpenAI/GPT-3 for nifty little enhancements like using GPT-3 to summarize what a Lambda does or to convert a natural language request into SQL to be run against Athena.

Here are a few things that makes this interface interesting

1. Runs in the browser/is serverless/is a single-page-app

2. Integrates with Open AI (optional)

3. Can be extended to any AWS product which follows the _List_, _Drill_, _Show_ paradigm. E.g. List Lambdas > Drill into one Lambda > See specifics of one Lambda

4. Writes no data to AWS nor to any other server
"Well... we're waiting!" What's the very good reason? Because it's certainly not apparent to me.
Even if power consumption is not a concern, there's a need to account for power dissipation. Using 65W allows for a low-noise air cooler or a nearly-silent AIO, and it also allows for smaller form factors with compromised cooling solutions.
I find that some days, when I'm tired at the end of the day or drained by work, I crave some simple entertainment and come to HN or my RSS reader looking for articles or blog-posts to read, but I'm definitely finding that the RSS-feed has thinned-out, and on HN there's more often repetition of posts I've seen before or lynchmob ranting about Apple which I find unnerving.

So I'm also reading more books - both digitally and on paper. I find the 'non-fiction could be a blog-post' attitude just baffling for the sort of books I've been reading lately - including a biography of Napolean, another book about his Russian campaign, and a really fascinating biography of Casanova that was linked from HN (the type of post that brings me back here, in spite of the tribal nonsense).

There's so much more a sense of 'mental nourishment' and intentionality from reading a book, than if I'm mindlessly clicking through a sequence of links.

btw the RSS reader really gives a sense of the 'abandonment' of blogs: hundreds of blogs on my list haven't published anything for years.
> Ethereum-equivalent

What non-scam/non-marketing-bullshit-and-no-product-in-sight came out of Ethereum? I know a few people that work in related field and it's shady money managed by people with exorbitant personality issues doing endless POC that will be sold... one day... to someone... totally, dude, like, radically expensive...
In addition to Marvel, the last decade of Star Wars movies applies too. The trailers feel like they're spoiling things, but then you watch the movie and realize they're only showing things from the first ~1/3 of the movie, or entirely removed from context. I try to avoid trailers these days, but I've never regretted watching too many Marvel or Star Wars trailers.
Specifically, personal penalties for the exec teams. Do this once, and they'll take 10x the level of care going forward.
Look to your local Community College or State University extension office. Many of them offer outdoors classes.

The problem with private wilderness survival classes you may find in the community, even the light versions, is that they tend to come with a very particular political slant. And that slant tends toward the paranoid.
Sometimes those anecdotes make those points engaging and I sometimes find myself re-telling them when having conversations about these topics with others. If information density is all you are after then I would agree, but argue that reading can be much more than that.
And when it comes to non-fiction books on stem topics I found the vast majority I have read are usually really dense.
Show HN: I simplify AI for makers in my newsletter
https://archive.ph/XrtF7
In B2C, yes; in Enterprise B2B, it's the opposite -- you get dedicated account managers, quarterly business reviews, sometimes even weekly product reviews (we have those with our largest vendor).
The good news is if you don't struggle against the current you should be able to stay afloat for a couple hours, long enough for help to arrive
Using LLMs for complex programming [video]
That's almost the point: China is a larger version of Kowloon. The Earth is a larger version of Kowloon. The Solar System is a larger version of Kowloon. The Milky Way Galaxy is a larger version of Kowloon...

We are not mice. We have to decide what population density (and economic order) we will live with.
Companies: [exploit working people for everything they can get]

Also Companies: [surprised when power balance shifts and working people start taking their own back]
As Doctorow says, the permanence of these institutions is taken for granted until it starts to unwind - and very quickly downfall becomes obvious and inevitable. It's not obvious to everyone yet, but he's saying it soon will be.

"Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies."
https://www.orphandriftarchive.com/articles/hyperstition-an-...
Anyone looking into this, I'd recommend python-playwright. Good browser engines and the ability to hot patch every request means you don't need to write a separate proxy to intercept requests.

Writing something like this would be a pretty big project, at least a few solid weeks of work for someone who knew what they were doing, and there's a lot of edge cases.
Most big AI is trained on Nvidia GPUs but usually not the standard consumer ones found in the GeForce line-up. Instead it's usually their data centre GPUs like the current A100 or soon to be H100 that's just hitting the market.

Google does have their TPUs(Tensor Processing Units), however it is not cost efficient budget wise, so unless you have some kind of deal with Google or compute credits it doesn't make sense. They have pods upon pods of TPU clusters though so the main selling point of TPU training is that you can get your training done really fast with just the ease of scaling your workload to more TPUs.

So if you needed a big model like GPT-3 trained in a single day, you could spend an ungodly amounts of money and get it done with Google TPUs. Otherwise if you can wait weeks or months you can go with the standard Nvidia data centre solution and it'd be cheaper at the end by a significant margin.
Little part of twitter was very excited. I guess we are supposed to be very impressed.
Practical Engineering discussed low head dams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDpqphHhAE
I think we are mostly on the same page. Pain and suffering are different things, and often fully embracing pain and letting go of aversion decreases the amount of suffering in that moment. So yes, it's very important that practice is motivated by wise consideration of the true nature of suffering, and perhaps I should have qualified that.

However, given that qualification, I still believe that practice should be a smooth descent of the gradient of suffering. You may increase your conscious awareness of pain or unwholesome states, but you should always feel less suffering after you do that. This is because letting go to the reality of the present moment is the opposite of clinging. So you should always feel better* when you practice than when you don't.

I will admit, though, that perhaps my perspective is colored by my experience and this is not true for all people.

*by feeling better we mean less suffering (dukkha), not more pleasure and less pain
By the time I was old enough to use computers, these were almost extinct. I don't have any particular nostalgia for them, but nonetheless, I've set all my terminal windows to amber-on-black with the VGA DOS font.

RGB #FFB000 (255, 176, 0)

Nouveau IBM https://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/Nouveau+IBM/
One other difference: sounds & soundtracks. I don't mean the foley work per se, but songs you would want to listen to very often written for the movie.

With the explosion of synthesis software and digital audio workstations its easy for a small team to score a sound track on the cheap.

As with everything tough, there's always a few outliers, like (both) of the Tron: Legacy soundtracks.
Exciting to see ML develop in ways that will enhance accessibility for people. I imagine being able to train a screen reader with your own voice (or voice of your choosing) would be a huge plus for vision impaired folks.
This isn't the first time that a major Credit Bureau has had a data leak, is it? Wasn't there a huge one a few years back?
Actually 1491 was more a condensing of research. IIRC it was actually Alfred W. Crosby who proposed this in his book The Columbian Exchange
I'd rather be lost in a good book instead of lost in Netflix trying to make a choice out of the endless mediocre options.

I'm sick of social media, Youtubers, influencers, and everyone else proclaiming to be experts with their clickbait titles. I just read books now. It's mentality more simulating and healthier.
This always makes me recall the trailer for the movie Twister in which a large tractor tire smashes through one of the truck's windshields - the scene wasn't actually in the movie, but I was on the edge of my seat any time they were in a truck with high winds around.
There are a ton of small/midsize startups that also split the tracks these days, at least in the USA
Yes, that's what the link that you're commenting on says. You didn't need to do any more research, especially not into arbitration documents.
Read the whole thread. Francis is the creator of Keras and an AI engineer at Google. He knows his stuff.

He calls out ads/marketing/copywriting as one area where ChatGPT is effective. His point is that the scope of things beyond that use case is probably a lot more limited than people are assuming.