skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people don't understand that ChatGPT has no idea what they're talking about.

I wonder why people keep saying this. Is it some type of psychological defense to future AI displacement?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/opinion/inflation-poor-in...

"The labor economist Arindrajit Dube has estimated hourly wage changes — by decile rather than quartile — over a longer period, since the beginning of the pandemic recession. He finds that real wages for the bottom 40 percent of workers have actually increased".
> Priyankaja

> for your juggard tech support

maybe they have had really bad experience working with Indians?
What do you mean by "winning formula" in this sentence?
Look it's totally OK to recognize that a human action was the trigger for an incident - i.e. the causal chain for this specific incident started there. That's not the same thing as saying the human action was the root cause, and I hope by-and-large any kind of baseline competent engineering organization has gotten to that level of thinking by now.
> There is a survivorship bias point of view

I'm uncertain if the data has a survivorship bias or not (did not review the actual academic papers). Your and I's conjecture needn't assume it.

None the less we're not talking about seed/Series A companies here. We're talking about late stage and large publics w/ 100s Millions to Billions of cash.
What kind of therapy?

Dance classes could be still a downlifting experience but yes, could still be beneficial, even though not by much. Some numbing could be achieved, when after downfall one reaches a plato where for some range of input conditions the output doesn't worsen.
market for ersatz "handwritten notes"

Yes, this is already A Thing in marketing, though as you say it currently uses fonts & printing. I hate it and am biased negatively against any company that does this, because their marketing materials lied o me by pretending to be a personal communication, to get my attention for their mass-produced marketing message.

And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.

No way! It should be reverse-engineered and reproduced so that nobody can make money by gatekeeping it. If we can automate the production of handwriting, we must be able to automate the production of automated handwriting generators.
Why can't Google compete in AI? They have major AI researchers with legendary experience under their belts, what is stopping Google from building something like ChatGPT to augment their search? I guess I don't understand where the threat is. They have a lot more resources than OpenAI.
Very similar to my approch.

One difference: I am in the process of stripping out jQuery from old projects. So I would not use it in new projects anymore. Plain JS is just awesome these days. And it is easier to reason about event listeners you have set yourself than wondering "Where does this mouseover event come from? Maybe its from jQueries hover function? Wouldn't that rather use mouseenter?".
BostonDynamics: Atlas Outtakes
I'm a cohost of The Technium podcast. Please check us out!

It's a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, my cohost Wil (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamwil) and I introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.

Wil and I started this show because we found that most tech podcasts were focused on career development or Big Tech drama. We wanted a show where we could be optimistic and excited about the future of software, especially things which were not mainstream.

Some of my favorite episodes:

- Smalltalk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNqOFAhM8o

- Zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wie5YuzoUQI

- Generative AI models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOy-v2ah0Ms

We're in all the usual places:

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@techniumpod

- WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/

- SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
Usenet is fundamentally text-only. In fact messages need to be 7-bit safe. It's still been a place to distribute binary content for decades.

If I can store multiple messages on a relay I can distribute arbitrary files. So being text-only doesn't really limit anything.
> As another gay man, I used to be radically skeptical of monogamy. Like in my 20s I was spouting the line that it's a heterosexual construct falsely imposed on us for moralistic reasons. But both personal experience, and a widened social group, has led me to believe that, for a significant number of gay men a monogamous relationship is ideal. They're happiest in them, and seem to be able to make them work. Perhaps with some compromises and perhaps not entirely happy, but for what it's worth, I'm not sure I've met any couple that was perfectly happy.

Funnily enough I am precisely the opposite. I spent my 20s trying to hunt for "the one" and had a series of short, failed relationships. Now I'm in my 30s I am in a 9 year long successful (I think?) open/polyamorous relationship.

Really I think gay men (and men in general) struggle with communication skills and emotional maturity. Gaining those skills are key to maintaining long, healthy relationships. Non-monogamy is an avenue towards working towards achieving those skills because maintaining a healthy, open relationship means a lot of communication is required. In my opinion, it is a high risk, high reward strategy to a maintaining a relationship.

> but for what it's worth, I'm not sure I've met any couple that was perfectly happy.

I think we have to distinguish minor annoyances from major communication issues due to sex. Like it or not, sex is a big part of being human and sex drive is something can be wildly different between people. Non-monogamy can be an outlet for this.
Mostly access to the live signals of the model unlocked by that premium tier, with varying levels of notifications to real time signal changes (email, text, API and full automation option)
There is nothing nationalistic in my comment above.
Sometimes the innovation lies within the simple fact of how well known things are combined in order to create (good) products.

"Not particularly innovative" is not really of concern. Besides OpenAI most likely received the media attention they wanted.

Looking forward to the products Meta is going to release soon.
Developer PoV vs User/Distro PoV here :P you're not wrong, though...
How so? I just tested a build, and it used the cache for every layer including the builder layers.
See https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-...
Marriage first, at least ostensibly, but yes. Many churches have special small groups/social events for people in prime dating age ranges and those groups are often meat market-y.
In it's current iteration ChatGPT is more overhyped than crypto , and that says a lot
OK, I'll defend the research, too.

OpenAI's really interesting approach to GPT was to scale the size of the underlying neural network. They noticed that the performance of an LLM kept improving as the size of the network grew so they said, "Screw it, how about if we make it have 100+ billion parameters?"

Turns out they were right.

From a research perspective, I'd say this was a big risk and it turned out they were right -- bigger network = better performance.

Sure, it's not as beautiful as inventing a fundamentally new algorithm or approach to deep learning but it worked. Credit where it's due -- scaling training infrastructure + building a model that big was hard...

It's like saying SLS or Falcon Heavy are "just" bigger rockets. Sure, but that's still super hard, risky, and fundamentally new.
There is a feedback loop that characterizes the stress/anxiety response, where people breathe faster, which in turn increases the stress response, causing even faster breathing. People with chronic anxiety also develop decreased CO2 tolerance over time[1] from this rapid breathing, perpetuating the chronic rapid breath.

Breath exercises that increase CO2 tolerance like Buteyko breathing allow one to interrupt this process. It's not clear to me exactly what the increased CO2 is doing, if anything, but it's clear that this works to escape this chronic stress state, which is really unhealthy.

I think the Radiolab breath episode discusses this well: https://radiolab.org/episodes/breath

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11015814/
maybe, but it's also just the fact of the matter.
Are many buildings ever really finished? I don't think people go to the Sagrada Familia because it is under construction. In fact I think more visitors would prefer more access with less equipment around. 150 years isn't really that long for a cathedral, this good article starts with the fact that the Bristol Cathedral took nearly 700 years to finish!

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/2019/4/28/building-a-c...
you present this as some sort of negative?
What is wrong with people being attracted to certain races?
People cannot control who they find attractive and there is no racist component to it. People should be allowed to engage in relationships with whoever they want using whatever criteria they want.
Fellow EE here and love what you do! Loved your post on scraping.Btw, I thought you used Flask. Looks like I was wrong.
Does it matter? Any shoddy goods on Amazon are immediately pulled from the store, re-stickered, and then reintroduced under a new brand name, possibly recycling the listing of a popular and successful product using the shit-of-Theseus trick.
> Flirting is a game, but some never learned how to play

That would mean it's not very natural, which could be doubtful. However the quality of play could vary, with corresponding outcomes.
Ever had a pregnant wife and then one in labor? Ever had a real panic attack and potentially feeling more come on? Ever had a child who is inhaling so rapidly that they cannot calm themselves down?

Slow deep intentional breaths work in the above. If you haven't experienced these first hand, then maybe you think it's a bunch of crap. But it is in no way a placebo.

Even if you are a "healthy adult", I think the point is that you should practice these types of breathing exercises so you know how to handle situations where you need it. Additionally, I would say even if you don't have extreme stuff like above, teaching yourself how to breathe properly even for exercising is very important. It may sound stupid but a lot of people just don't breath properly when exercising, it's not natural.

Just sit there yourself and do some intentional deep breathing for a few moments.. it will feel very different and probably 'good'.
> ChatGPT has no idea what they're talking about. It lacks it's own thought and heuristic patterns, and only gives you the most-likely response to your prompt

Funny thing is, same could be said about lots of people. Try listening to any political debate.

Which leads me to believe that the thing that's missing from AI is the same thing that we miss in those political debates: ability to explain and justify your own thought process.

As long as AI is a blackbox, we won't consider it to be a real intelligence.
It isn’t. It is significantly worse.

IBM is a dinosaur company that exists because of embedded connections in government, banking, and defense. They charge 100x the going rate for ancient tech that’s insecure and an absolute nightmare to develop for.

The sooner everyone drops anything associated with IBM or Oracle, the better for everyone. Absolute cancers.
What Happened to the Washington Post?
> In terms of raw language capabilities it's not much more effective as GPT-3, which passed the HN Turing test almost a year before.

No, its ability to follow instructions is much better than GPT-3.
I actually don't care that much about these numbers, as they are not my problem. 5 year warranty by law (no matter what the maker gives you), makes it their risk if they make brittle products. Compared to in a market with little consumer protection laws (US), where what you buy is a uninformed gamble as to how it will last.
https://youtu.be/IAiB_T2kqbc

"What kind of fire would burn us theeere?"
As humiliating this is for the ai. Nobody would have the balls to pull this off in a real battlefield outside of training. Because you never know if you found the perfect camouflage or if you are a sitting duck walking straight into a trap.
Sounds like they deliberately want to help him win again in 2024.
The HackerNews crowd really needs to figure out how to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "the business can do no wrong while chasing the profits" and "but ma' freedoms".
I practically refuse to buy clothes online, because I agree even within a single manufacturer there's too much variation in fit. Levi's are a prime example I can think of. An inch at their Vietnam factory isn't the same as an inch at their Bangladesh factory. The only way to truly know that it fits is to actually put it on before you buy it.

Sure, my choices for clothing is more limited. But at least I've got the peace of mind I personally didn't send hundreds of articles of clothing to the landfill without ever actually wearing it. Its insane to me people seem perfectly fine with the idea of buying and throwing away so many clothes doing "returns".

The number of times I've bought clothes for my children and have it not fit after paying for it so far has been 0. I've messed up a few times on my own pants thinking the same size in the same pile would be roughly the same and been burned by it, but that's just led to me to force myself to always try before I buy that specific article of clothing.

But hey, feel free to keep throwing away 72% of what you buy thinking there's nothing that could be done. 72% failure rates are just what to expect in your life, true innovation being done by the sellers at Amazon.

Every time you click "return", think "send to landfill and get a refund". Think about how much junk you've just thrown away. Does this seem sustainable? Does it seem like a good thing to you?
Oh. I assumed all clients would do that since Nostr.com did it when I registered there.
AFAIK you can complain about delivery stuff under seller feedback, just not under product reviews.
And AFAIK buildkit is still a real pain to troubleshoot, as you can't use intermediate stages :/

You can put stuff in a script file and just run that script too.
The US really doesn’t have the concept of ‘scope of practice’?

That’s what’s being argued here and other systems have it. It seems an obvious thing.
Oh, thanks - will fix that
> I'm willing to bet that I could reliably predict 80%+ of whatever profile attributes you fill out online, with a 2 minute conversation and good look at you.

Hahaha—I have a pretty good track record at the game, "spot the software industry dude" on hiking trails. We have a certain look and demeanor. Our preference for conspicuously-expensive outdoor gear from the right brands (not "hick" or "red" brands) does make it relatively easy as such games go, though.
Slightly OT, but MAC only? Really?! I think a big chunk of your target audience can't afford an iPhone.
He thinks the eng work behind that makes the model training and inference possible is not so impressive as well...
A web3 stack, everything client-side and peer-to-peer. HTML/CSS/JS for front-end. JS/blockchain for backend. JS client-side storage/compute, JS libp2p library for peer-to-peer discovery, networking, syncing, updates, user-generated content, etc. Blockchain for things that need to be tamper-proof or involve payment.
nice way of internally motivating connector stability and adoption! It literally costs you money to keep connectors in an immature state for too long.
Yeah I feel like you're right on the money on re: the ethics of using someone who is in legal trouble who will have to live with the results. It's not as sexy but they should just build a fake case (or just use an already settled one if possible) and play out the scenario. No reason it wouldn't be just as effective as a "real" case.
That seems to be a lot of news articles these days.

I'm not particularly excited by ChatGPT, but the mercenary in me is impressed at the investment from MS it generated. From a business perspective, it accomplished "and profit!". Whether it pays dividends or reaches a richer/more-sophisticated milestone is to be seen.

Personally, I think it'll muddy and flood the "bullshit" & truthiness layer pervading news, social media, auto-generated Youtube content and blogs, our digitally mediated life, etc. It's essentially the next level "bot", and those aren't held in high regard, as effective as they are. Ultimately, they're noise.

I'll go a step further: ChatGPT feels more like VR & crypto than it does.. say, cloud.
It would work fine. Japanese people can read Kana-only text - foreigners often can't because they aren't as used to it, but Japanese children read books mostly in Hiragana and they know what things sound like because they speak the language long before they know how to read it.
This is obviously very dependent on life situation but consider taking a year off and traveling somewhere where you'll have better luck dating and just focusing on yourself.

Thailand and Colombia are the two obvious choices to me. Quit work, and just get a $500 a month apartment and focus on working out every day and enjoying life. You WILL find people interested in dating you if you have reasonable expectations.
The big innovation over IRC was persistent chat across devices. That was huge and is pretty much a must have now.
Do you have some suggestions for how to get into the basics of algorithmic trading from first principles without spending months or years?
Sorry, you're right. I made up those numbers based on data suggesting a pareto distribution of matches. I also didn't intend to imply that I'm somehow in the top 10% of objective attractiveness - I meant attractiveness within the context of the app based on my match performance.

https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/exploitive-....

> Users are assigned an attractiveness score based on how many people like them. The dating apps tends towards a pareto distribution where 20% of the users get 80% of the matches as seen in Figure 5. However, users are sorted based on their attractiveness score, and thus you’re shown users who are roughly in the same league as you. Furthermore, the average male user gets one match in 115 profiles [9]. With only 100 free swipes a day, 80% males who haven’t paid for premium service will average less than a single match a day.

Considering those figures, maybe I'm in the top 20% of the country where I do well (seems unlikely if the 80th percentile is getting less than a single match a day while I'm getting dozens) and I could be anywhere in the bottom 1%-80% in the country where I'm not doing well.
Paul Debevec, VES
Would that not be the person running the AI? The one giving prompts and verifying that prompts are fulfilled adequately?
> Interestingly enough, the culture of returns in Switzerland is very different compared to the US.

The culture of returns in all of the EU, too, is very different than the US.
IMO people have historically been not talking nearly enough about mental health. I think everyone should be seeing a therapist regularly, mentally ill or not. The demands of society are stressful and people are expected to just put up with it and not ever have room to be anxious or sad. Most psychologists I've spoken with also have poor views of the psychiatric approach to a lot of mental health issues. Psychologists favor actually working with you and developing internal strategies to protect yourself long term such as cognitive behavioral therapy, whereas psychiatrists have a tendency to talk little and send you home with a prescription versus leaving that as an option of last resort.
And on the vendor side? Are you suggesting that either all sellers know a) the credit worthiness of their customers or b) don’t extend any credit?

Either one seems like a major downside for the seller.
ChatGPT Is Not Much of a Pitch Robot
https://text-generator.io an API compatible alternative to OpenAI GPT, it's more affordable and also researches linked web pages and analyses image content, also reads images with text in them so it can do extra things like explain about receipts or how people respond to emojis or images etc.

It also does speech to text over 8x cheaper than Google Cloud, there's a nice free teir, I'm surprised more people aren't taking advantage of it

OpenAI is doing well recently so the next step is to do more things they don't do and let people self Host etc.
Self hoisting here, I put this together to make it easier to generate single (extra) layer docker images without needing a docker daemon, capabilities, chroot, etc: https://github.com/andrewbaxter/dinker

Caveat: it doesn't work on Fly.io. They seem to be having some issue with OCI manifests: https://github.com/containers/skopeo/issues/1881 . They're also having issues with new docker versions pushing from CI: https://community.fly.io/t/deploying-to-fly-via-github-actio... ... the timing of this post seems weird.

FWIW the article says

> create a Docker image, also known as an OCI image

I don't think this is quite right. From my investigation, Docker and OCI images are basically content addressed trees, starting with a root manifest that points to other files and their hashes (root -> images -> layers -> layer configs + files). The OCI manifests and configs are separate to Docker manifests and configs and basically Docker will support both side by side.
IBM has been mismanaged for the past 20 years yet live off legacy products and licensing to keep $$ rolling in. I spent 6 years working for them on the consulting side and it was by far the worst job I'd ever had because management is just terrible. Crippled at every level from incompetence to poor deals being accepted, it's a losing battle career wise. They will target everybody with high pay and any performance issue ever in their past to get rid of people when it's that time. I'd have all kind of conversations with distinguished engineers who gave you some hope that some smart people existed in the company, but it's nothing more than survivor island. They love to buy companies or take over a large companies organization, document it all and outsource all of it. The sales people are really good at finding ways to get new business by overpromising the world to keep them relevant while in the end losing $$.
You did this on the same machine, right? In a CI setting with no shared cache you need to rely on an OCI cache. The last build image is cached with the inline cache, but prior images are not
- for edge functions cloudflare workers are currently the best mix of being modern and professional/feature rich

- nothing beats the simplicity and power of svelte for UI

- netflix falcor for state and request management, because it has the 90% of features of graphQL i need but is much simpler to reason about and i can auto generate nearly all my requests from svelte without writing queries (because falcors model matches 1:1 to POJOs and has optional schemas so prototype at lighting speed and then add schemas later as needed for reliability)

- pouchdb/couchdb because nothing beats this combination for sync and offline and low latency features