skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What this article is not showing (but either irresponsibly or naively suggests) is that the LLM knows what a bag is, what a person is, what popcorn and chocolate are, and can then put itself in the shoes of someone experiencing this situation...

Does a human truly know? Feels like a slippery slope to the qualia question where we can't agree on what it means for the human to feel a human experience.
That's still a pretty generous cap. When I was living with 5 other heavy internet users, our monthly usage didn't exceed 600GB.
OP here. There's a little more than that to it.
LLMs cant think and submarines cant swim
/me raises hand.

I remember a chart that was floating around that usenet group that showed you the ideal rope length for hanging yourself without either choking or popping off your head from too short/long. I think they sourced their info from this chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops

Good times.
What's New in Lighthouse 10
It's crazy that it's slower than an Electron app! Like most HNers, I fully believe that any JavaScript is slower than native, so how can this be false for this app???
envy is a big deal. some people manage it better than others, but it exists in and affects all relationships. sometimes its best avoided.
Kraken have two options for staking on some cryptos assets like ATOM or DOT:

- "flexible" who is more easy to unstack and rewards around once a week

- "bonded" with the staking locked until the end of a period (up to 28 days)

If i have understood correctly, in the first case, it's a sort of fake staking done by Kraken as an intermediary. And in the second case it use the real staking mechanism of the asset.

So did kraken stop both way of staking in the US, or only the "flexible" one whe he is an intermediary ?
That may indeed be "easier", but self-custody requires a high level of confidence in your own ability to set things up properly and securely. And equally high confidence that your machine and wallet won't be compromised. I'd also say that getting to that point is difficult, unless someone is willing to play around with a test-net and not learning with their real balance.

There's definitely an appeal when it comes to having an exchange manage this all for you, even when they take a fee for doing so.
Going back to the "sock of independence" example (/u/airstrike's comment for more context), ChatGPT's answer's accuracy is poor - but it's a funny question, and it gave a funny answer. So was it really a poor answer? My interpretation of their use of 'blur' as an analogy is that: it did not simply answer ACCURATELY in the STYLE of the DoC, it merged or "blurred/smudged together" the CONTENT and STYLE of the story and the DoC. It's not good at understanding the question or the context... and therefore, a lot of its answers feel "blurry".

"Wonder why"? Because, human thoughts, opinions and language are inherently blurry, right? That's my view. Plus, humans have a whole nervous system which has a lot of self-correcting systems (e.g. hormones) that ML AI doesn't yet account for if its goal is human-level intelligence.
MacOS 9 had a personal web sharing feature. The Apache server with Rendezvous/Bonjour was basically the MacOS X implementation of the same. For OSX it was literally a free mechanism to add web sharing.

As for the use case, in the classic MacOS days and even early days of OSX the system didn't ship with support for Windows file sharing. It wasn't until IIRC Jaguar (10.2) that Samba shipped default with the system. Web sharing made for a workable lowest common denominator for getting content off a Mac to Windows. With Bonjour (in Safari) you'll see all the shares on the local network segment.

Additionally since web sharing was just Apache it shipped with a bunch of the extension modules. I believe PHP was enabled by default so you could just drop a PHP script in your Sites folder for a dynamic page. CGI was also simple to enable because thanks to all the shipped modules.

Bonjour is decidedly a local peer-to-peer discovery mechanism. Even the packets have a short TTL so they don't route beyond local segments. It's far too chatty to be a WAN discovery system.

We ended up with cloud mediated connections because of NAT and UPnP hole poking sucks. Residential routers are really shitty in general. They also don't make port forwarding easy (or possible). So a host behind a NAT router doesn't usually have good options for receiving incoming connections. That's why we've got a bunch of NAT traversal protocols and need public hosts to mediate those connections.
why does taking a six month vacation that you can afford need an "excuse"?
I live in a cold climate so maybe less examples on how to keep your house cool and more about how to keep it warm.

I think I have seen a primitive but very effective heat exchanger in an old house. Normally, when you have a stove and chimney and hot gasses escape the house you also have a lot of cold air rushing in. In this house the hot air was directed around the whole length of the chimney and then through the mass of bricks that formed the stove so that the air coming in was already warm.

This allowed to very efficiently keep the entire house very warm while also nicely ventilated even in very, very cold weather with very little wood needed.
State machines cannot change the semantics of themselves. We can. We are like state machines most of the time but we can switch into "developer mode" and deploy updates whenever we choose to :)
ken-burns 1.0

modern ken-burns not only slides the image, but does the 2.5D effects as well. much more interesting than just zoom/pan
> We've had GPT3 for ages, it's not like most of us only tried it since Chat GPT3 came out, right?

For myself, I tried GPT models and read the Attention Is All You Need paper before ChatGPT. I also read analysis, for example, from Gwern, about capability overhangs and underestimation of present capabilities in these models. In many cases, I found myself agreeing with the logic. I found that it was very possible to coax greater capabilities out of the model than many presumed them to have. I still find this to be the case and have, in recent memory demonstrated this is true in present models: for example, I posted a method of coaxing the solving of some puzzles by prompting to include the representation of intermediate states in order to successfully solve problems related to reasoning puzzles of a 'can contain' nature, which was a capability that someone claimed these language models lack, despite them gaining that capability when appropriately prompted, which suggests that they always had that capability in their weights, but that it wasn't exercised successfully - the capability was there, but not used, rather than absent, as claimed by the people who claimed it was absent.

That said, I don't think it matters much what most people did or didn't do with regard to this experimentation and, as you imply, ages really did past - I would feel trepidation, not hope, about the quality of my ideas compared to the people who came later. Historically, the passing of ages tends to improve, not diminish. So if I was experimenting with, for example, flying machines in the 1700s, but then ages past and someone who did not do that experimenting was talking to me about flying machines in the early 2000s, I would suspect them to be more informed, not less informed, than I was. They, as a matter of course in casual classroom settings, have probably done better than my best experiments including high effort costly experiments. Their toys fly. A generation ago, we would talk about planes, but now we can also talk about their toys. It is that normal to them. They have so much better priors.
DO NOT GIVE THE WEATHERSPOONS GUY IDEAS.
I'm still using Eudora because I can't bear to part with it! Yes, its poor HTML renderer and lack of UTF-8 support, amongst other things, have no place in 2023, but other modern mail clients still seem to fall short on the features Eudora just gets right.

There's hope that the HERMES Mail project, which was formed after the Eudora source code was release, will one day be a viable replacement:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hermesmail/
Why do you think strangers would be dangerous? I thought about sharing this info, too.
1M people have joined the Bing search preview in 48 hrs
The National Electric Code in the US has similar provisions:

> 300.3

> (C) Conductors of Different Systems.

> (1) 600 Volts, Nominal, or Less. Conductors of ac and dc

> circuits, rated 600 volts, nominal, or less, shall be
permitted

> to occupy the same equipment wiring enclosure, cable, or

> raceway. All conductors shall have an insulation rating

> equal to at least the maximum circuit voltage applied to
any

> conductor within the enclosure, cable, or raceway.

Basically idea is to prevent a low/less voltage cable from potentially being energized by a higher voltage cable. It would suck to strip the ends off your CAT6 and discover it's been energized to 240v.
All good to know.

> Not relevant. You can issue stock that pays dividends in piñatas. If it's sold to Americans, the SEC has jurisdiction.

Isn't this because the stock itself is already a security, not because of whether or how it pays dividends?
Imagine that tax returns for millions of people were all processed by hand not but a few decades ago.
Vehicle Dependability Improves Despite Continued Problems with Technology
Laptops are not advancing that much yoy and a 3 year cycle is already aggressive.

4 years was the standard for a long time, these days many companies are moving to 5 or even 6 years for laptops.

Hell right now I have employees at 4 years that refuse to change out their laptops because they have no problems with them and want to keep them longer
I hear the low roar of apartment prices tumbling down in SF.
Were you mostly going off the ptrace man page? I tried reading it to figure out ptrace and it made me feel not smart enough too.
The SMTP client is now written in javascript and most of the IMAP client as well.

The whole calendaring system is written in javascript.

The chat clients (irc, matrix, etc) are also written in javascript.
A great primer to SVD from AMS:

https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-svd
Why you can’t get in to see your primary care doctor
I don’t understand this take. What are the characteristics that you believe we’ll learn are not unique to us?

Let’s say that the paper turns out to be true and ToM emerges from language (I’m deeply skeptical, but I’ll set that aside for a moment).

How would that change humanity’s place? And wouldn’t such a discovery would be meaningless without humans to understand it?
Not if you’re making more than others in your role.
They spec clearly states that the keyboard is not part of the viewport. So, yeah, good work, Safari.
Bikers frequently get killed by other forms of traffic (at least as a major contributing factor), pilots typically kill themselves (usually unintentionally, of course), with rare exceptions.
I wonder how much of the lower pay is tax based. Like you make less, but the company pays more in taxes for the healthcare and such that the UK provides.

Not saying this is good or bad. Just curious about the reason for the pay discrepancy.
> seems definitely like "inflation", caused by an increase in the money supply by a shared governance structure

It's a money-supply increase. Depending on whether one Bitcoin buys more or fewer goods, it's inflating or deflating. (Currently, deflating, since Bitcoin is going up relative to the dollar and goods are priced in dollars.)
I'm using Colima ( https://github.com/abiosoft/colima ) and am very happy with it so far.

Here's an article about it: How Colima is a good alternative to Docker Desktop ( https://kumojin.com/en/colima-alternative-docker-desktop/ )

I'm using Colima together with DDEV ( https://ddev.com ) to create and run PHP projects (webserver + db) in containers. Clean, very easy to use, and fast.
>you'd never accuse a JPEG engine or an MP3 decoder of anything remotely like it.

for psychological reasons. Natural language processing makes people prone to anthropomorphize. It's why people treat Alexa in human like ways, or even ELIZA back in the day. You're making the same mistake in your description. You're not teaching ChatGPT anything, you're ever only querying a trained static model. It remains in the same state. It's not "scatterbrained", that's a human quality, it's incorrect. Ted Chiang points to this mistake in the article, mistaking lossiness in an AI model for the kind of error that a human would make.

A photocopier making bad copies is just a flawed machine, but because you don't treat chatgpt like a machine, you think it performing worse is actually a sign of it being smarter. Ironically if it 100% reproduced your language, you'd likely be more sceptical, even if that was due to real underlying intelligence.
OP here. Sorry to disappoint you with the lack of animation. I have definitely entertained the idea of creating a video variant of this app. I fear it will remain a pipe dream due to the demands of my day job and family life.
If you earn really a lot, ppl who may want to hurt you or ypur family might pop up.

Ransome, asking for money etc.

Nobody care if you make 50k but if you make 500k suddenly things change.
Same, I have a pretty decent gaming PC. Only about 1GB of mail in my archive from what I can see though.

Uses %1.5 of my 32G of RAM and 0.2% CPU. I'm running on Linux, but I do not see the performance issues others are having.
Unfortunately no; it's on the high side for the sector. In my circle only I only see 6 figures for people working in the finance sector.
https://archive.ph/rX3fd
Why should a company be forced to continue to pay for employees they aren't in need of?
I don't think they have sufficient evidence one way or the other to draw that conclusion. The driver's cause of death was BFT with thermal damage and smoke inhalation; I don't know they have reason to believe he was conscious and trying to escape the vehicle.
> correlation != causation

Thanks to that, I doubt everything else you wrote and will have to corroborate it with sources I trust more.
> Exposure included limited contact information for (currently hundreds of) company contacts and employees (current and former), as well as limited advertiser information. Based on several days of initial investigation by security, engineering, and data science (and friends!), we have no evidence to suggest that any of your non-public data has been accessed, or that Reddit’s information has been published or distributed online.

Reassuring if true.
Staking "can't fail" in the same way that a sovereign bond can't fail, since the issuer can always make the promised payments by issuing more worthless tokens. In other words, staking can absolutely fail.
I can second that. Parsec is the best remote-access software I've used, bar none. The lack of Linux hosting is an unfortunate downside.
Dropping XUL really broke so many extensions. I think everyone dumped FF then and started over with chrome.
Very neat! Is it possible to browse by topic instead of by podcast? You mentioned 25k podcast episodes but right now I can only browse ~100 of them or so unless I come up with some keywords.
Log in the sense of the append-only data structure :)
> Transit: The New York City Subway is the 3rd largest metro rail system on earth after London and Guangzhou

It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded.

People in the rest of the country aren’t exactly unaware of New York. But its transit, housing, and public school systems are a poster child for how government-run services are terrible, even when well funded. There’s a reason why New York has suffered net domestic outmigration for many years.

Look, if Stockholm was in America the American public would have a very different idea of what government-run services could be like. But we don’t have Swedes running our government services, we have Americans. It is what it is.
Large financial institutions have failed in the past, and history has shown us that the people at the top usually land on their feet, with piles of money and assets.

Whereas everyone then finds out their employer lost their retirement fund, and has to sell their homes, etc.

So I think people are reasonably concerned about how a bunch of execs screwing up if going impact that non-millionaires.
The caveat is that he was located in Nottingham for most of the history covered in the post, so this isn't necessarily comparable to SF -- more like, say, Colorado. That said, the most recent London (edit: sorry, Remote) salary is what I'd ballpark as average in London at the moment for that sort of position. There's been significant inflation in developer salary in London over the last few years, £100k is a reasonable total compensation for someone senior today. The salaries here are absolutely lower than in the US in raw numbers but in terms of overall position relative to other earners and quality of life, it's not much different.

The biggest gulf between the UK and US is at the top end, i.e: people earning TC of 500k+ is not uncommon in SF whereas that would be quite rare here outside of the upper echelons of the big tech companies. Part of this is because stock grants are much lower here in general, but salaries are lower too.

If you were an experienced software engineer in London today looking to maximise your salary, you'd have an easy time reaching £100k and you could probably touch £150k but it would take some effort.
this is mind blowing to me. can anyone with more knowledge on the topic explain how ChatGPT is demonstrating this level of what seems like genuine understanding and reasoning?

Like others I assumed that ChatGPT is gluing words together that commonly occur together.

This is way more than that.
OK, you "win" (I think), though at that point I feel like the term isn't going to mean anything useful anymore as applied to a commodity... like, on a moment to moment basis we don't describe the US dollar as inflating and deflating despite it constantly having small adjustments with respect to its value: we track the large-scale movements specifically caused by economic policy that changes the circulating money supply (whether by the Fed or by individual banks or even by things like relative wages).
This is more of a specialty item where you don't want to trench a power line through an archeological site. You can get enough power for basic lighting with a small solar installation.
Non paywall:
https://archive.is/uzOL6
> the term isn't going to mean anything useful anymore as applied to a commodity

Which term? Inflation?

It's meaningless for a commodity but meaningful for a currency.
https://ultrasound.money tracks this. You can play with the sliders projecting things out depending on how much ether is staked vs what the sustained transaction fees are.
This person lost a lot of credibility over decades of promoting corsair engines which failed.

Many people are complaining about the ancient technology, but newer ones offer very few advantages.

An piston GA airplane runs basically at two speeds: flat-out for take-off and cruise. For both the fuel/air mixture is easily optimized to optimal, and the slow engines reduce waste. Benefits from EFI are decent but below 10%. Supercharging helps a lot at higher altitudes, but most planes aren't pressurized or carry oxygen, so even that has limited benefit.

The main benefit of the current engines are robustness: I know people who have even flown without oil or with a blown valve. Many experimental builders combine mechanical magnetos with electronic ignitions, partly for fuel efficiency but mainly to lower idle speed on the runway when landing.

The real difficulty is not technology but service. There are very few engine rebuilders, and they are happy with the current limited supply of engines keeping prices up.

And unless you built your own experimental plane, or you get an experimental where the FAA permits owner inspections, the main cost of flying is service on the plane.

Aside 1: many engines have STC's to run car avgas. All require there to be NO ethanol for its impact on the fuel system. The studies I've seen of those engines report bottom rebuild times more like 800-1000 hours rather than 2,000 hours, and of course a higher incidence of valve-related problems.

Aside 2: experimental planes are not a subculture. They form the largest number of new planes. The $200K+ alternates only go to the wealthy. And after 50 years of competing companies, only one has been the overwhelming success, in both popularity and numbers: Van's aircraft. They use old-style, simple designs and construction, and (mostly) old-style engines, preferring the Rotax for their RV-12.
Will, I think is the operative term you are looking for.
Motivation is for dogs or chattel. Will is for Man (whoever she is.)

You are also limited by Objective Reality, or “ultimate Truth” though you can get by pretty well with an average error rate as long as you have civilization smoothing out the survival interface.

Are you looking for meaning? Don’t be a waste.

Prosperity? Good living is a form of prosperity. Live well.

Looking for higher purpose? Something more than your idle monotonous potential of being? Awaken.

A challenge? There are many.

The difficulty is not in finding truths, the difficulty lies in undeceiving the self.

Look for worthy purpose, undeceive yourself, live well, don’t be a waste.
For your future self: At some point they may ask you for some tech support to get their secure connection to mail servers working again. Start with the HermSSL package available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hermesmail/files/
I can't imagine them being bailed out because they really aren't too big to fail.

A bank like Citi in 2008 really was too big to fail without imploding the entire system given the circumstance.
SpaceX completes a hot fire test of its Super Heavy rocket
Yes this is normal for UK. It's high compared to other parts of EU where senior dev jobs earn like 50K EUR per year. I don't know why people even bother to become developers over there... And yes, there are really talented developers there; often more talented than in the US or other places based on my experience. You can probably earn more money and have better career prospects by being a janitor in the EU.

Surprise! There is no free market. We live in a global crony-communist system which decides how much money people get paid from the top down starting with US shareholders and executives at the top of the social pyramid. All based on military coercion, wars and foreign debt traps. You can thank your military-industrial complex.
Show HN: Noya (YC W21) – A wireframing tool that generates designs and code
Hi HN! We’ve been building a new browser-based design tool that’s ready for you to play with!

My cofounder David and I were previously on the Design Tools team at Airbnb, where we built lots of innovative tools to improve the design process internally. Now we’re trying to bring this caliber of tools to everyone.

The first problem we’re trying to solve is the age-old problem of working in low fidelity vs. high fidelity when designing UI. Low fidelity wireframes are great for quick iteration while hashing out the main idea, while high fidelity mockups and prototypes are often better for conveying the idea to teammates or pitching the idea to customers.

With Noya, you get to work in low fidelity, while still getting a high fidelity output you can share. Noya does this by converting your low fidelity blocks into high fidelity design system & React components.

I think of the current version as an MVP still, since there’s a lot more that I want to add, but I’ve personally been finding it useful even with its limited feature set. I’d be very interested in any early feedback if you have a chance to play with it!

PS: We’ve open sourced most of Noya at https://github.com/noya-app/noya. Let us know if you’re interested in collaborating.