skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Point me to some in-depth discussion about the ramifications of taking an unrestricted GPT model and giving it access to the internet. I'm just not aware of any such discussion, whether on HN or anywhere else. That's what I'm wondering about.

Respectfully, you’re probably not seeing that question asked and answered because it doesn’t quite make sense as phrased.

What does mean to “give an LLM access to the internet”?

The same as your calculator doesn’t do anything until you put in some numbers and operators, an LLM doesn’t do anything unless you give it a prompt and some technical parameters.

And then once it has those, it generates roughly the number of tokens (~words) you indicated in your parameters. Then, like your calculator, it’s done. It doesn’t do anything else until you put in another round of input.

There are technical and computational limits that make both your prompt and the token limit fairly small. Several hundreds of words at most. Again, kind of like how your calculator might only with 8 or 9 digits.

Now, you can give it “access to the internet” as part of responding to your prompt and fulfilling your token limit, and that’s roughly what Microsoft has done with Bing Assistant. They set it up so that Bing Assistant can take your prompt, generate a search query, and then give itself a new (still short) internal prompt with a summary of your request and the search results.

And that’s pretty much what you get when you give an LLM access to the internet. The ramifications really aren’t that big, and we’re probably at least five or ten years of AI research and compute hardware development from making them interestingly bigger. (i.e. too far away to meaningfully guess what to expect)
>There is a reason the police respond to bank robberies in progress and don't just wait to try to collect stolen cash via an investigation after the fact. The number of attempted bank robberies would be through the roof.

They really don't though. Can you find sources in recent history of police responding to in progress bank robberies?

After a few high profile incidents that turned deadly the standard for dealing with bank robberies is to do everything possible to avoid a hostage situation or violent confrontation. Banks don't generally have tremendous amounts of cash on hand.
> Isn't the purpose of QUIC to hide all of this from the kernel, [...]

Yes, but the moment you want to use a new ULP (which is what TFA seems to be angling for) you'll basically need kernel support, except for kernel-mode / baremetal apps that aren't really relevant to this discussion.
I'd love it if there were >1 company that believed in enhancing & extending what the web platform can do.

There's been some common ground everyone can find in adding Container Queries or what not. The https://webcompat.com group find a good yearly set of goals that everyone can agree to. But they are almost never new things for users. They're almost always new CSS tricks or gizmos. Because only one browser seems to support users doing new things.

I think there's definitely a lot of security concerns worth worrying about, but we have to have some way to let users trust & accept some web systems as privileged, give them some kind of enhanced capabilities. Right now native apps have huge leeway to do whatever, and it feels like there's only one browser out there that cares in any way about trying to find some way for webapps to also have some more mild but somewhat capable options.
FWIW, I'm white and very aware that it may be different if you are not. I thought about it when writing my comment but decided I m just didn't want to drag it into this discussion.

In my experience, it never hurts to be polite and respectful, though even as a white person I've had run-ins with officers who were either in a bad mood or just jerks and no amount of good will on my part seemed to matter. So it didn't help, but giving them lip would've just antagonized them further.

So yeah, maybe it doesn't help. But I can't imagine it would ever hurt.

And finally: I can only reflect my experience as a middle-class middle-aged married straight white Jewish male who's lived a relatively privileged life. I acknowledge that in its entirety. And I'm certainly interested in hearing other folks' experiences and learning from them. If someone wants to chime in about that time they were polite and respectful and it made the situation somehow worse, I'm all ears.
This.

The waste of doing RPC over TCP is simply astounding.
It still holds $312M or so, most of it (270M) in crypto holdings. Last few disbursals were just towards some research programs. Total disbursals were $58M

https://cryptorelief.in/transparency
ChatGPT has certainly helped me refine some prompts. It’s 50/50 whether I’d make the same changes more quickly just rewriting the prompt by myself, but it helped me notice some blind spots in the prompt and get me thinking about how to fill them in.
You really know how to write an article which is technical and at the same time fun to read.
I can't speak for Mozilla, but I wouldn't be surprised to see GoDaddy and others used for non-core stuff.

The registrar for mozilla.org is MarkMonitor. I'd guess that most (if not all) of their big name/public facing domains are done through MarkMonitor.

Domains used for testing or marketing purposes might be done through GoDaddy and others. This is a fairly common pattern.
I have no interest in flamewars. A reasonable discussion with other rational persons is something I appreciate, thankfully that can happen on HN; I find I equally enjoy that whether I’m simply reading such an exchange or engaging in it.

Your previous reply-comments (to me) convey unprovoked hostility. Why?
We've started using Rush [1] at Buffer. Teams have been slowly migrating, and it has been great so far. We had (too many) repos with their own workflow and way too many different ways to build services, which has been annoying to maintain. I know teams use Rush at scale: Tiktok has ~450 projects, and Microsoft said they have ~700 projects.

To deploy the services locally, we use Tilt[2] (K8s for local). We want to be able to reproduce production as much as possible and remove developer overhead on how things work locally and in production.

Then come the issues with Docker and large node code bases:

1 challenge with large monorepos is the huge node_modules folder (rush among other tools put packages into a single large node_modules folder, and symlink every dependency there. It can contain millions of files and GBs, depending on how many 3rd-party libraries you use). On Linux, you can mount it without issues, but Mac has performance issues[3] with large folders.

We pre-build that huge node_modules into a "base" image, and each service in the monorepo pulls that base image and only mounts what's necessary (a few mb). So we can save that npm build time and don't need to copy all those files inside the containers. It is fine because package.json does not change that often. You need to do this pre-build locally then in your CI/CD -> dockerhub, so everyone can get it.

Another challenge is that you need to "watch" files to rebuild them. Watching all your files inside the monorepo isn't really viable. We use a dependency graph to know what services to watch and then copy the built files inside the Tilt containers.

Hope this can help people.

[1] https://rushjs.io

[2] https://tilt.dev/

[3] https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/7
Daniel Swain’s blog is great, but it’s about weather and climate. This article is about water use policy, and points to a real problem.
AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency
ChatGPT is fine tuned on a curated, relatively small dataset, which is of very high value and would mitigate some of the attacks
Years ago, I started seeing transparent plastic bags full of water hanging in the doorways in my hometown, the given reason being that they prevented flies entering the bar or the house.

I thought that was some kind of joke, but... it seemed to work, at least when the bags were under direct sunshine. Flies weren't very happy flying in the vicinity.

Later people, emboldened, decided that strings of discarded CDs keep pidgeons away from balconies. I can't attest to that.
This is a problem with the manager then.
And it works so well with metrics!

S.M.A.R.T, right?

Wrong!

Goodhardt's law. Once you put any sort of pressure on the metric, it collapses. Deliver X story points per sprint?

WTF? That is not the spirit of agile. That is Big Corp subverting what agile was trying to subvert from big Corp Man Days in the first place.
Points for mentioning Hellblade. ;-)
Mexico here. I work for an American company and they just recently laid off about 16% of their staff, including 49 engineers and product managers. It was pretty harsh. They fired contractors from Latin America and full time employees from the states.
> Large and Small business are returning to in office work

I mean, if your LinkedIn feed of sysadmin jobs indicates that, who am I to argue.
While I'm sure people did pay for it to be in on the joke, this

> The app additionally saw a flood of new installs after Twitter’s acquisition, which may have contributed to higher consumer spending.

seems like an equally likely cause for revenue increase. Tumblr's parody verification feature launched right as the site's name was being thrown around for the first time in a while as a possible place for users to move to, should Twitter go belly up.
There's randomization, but the random aspect lands you on a root node and branching structure for filling the text. Given enough tries (you just keep running the same prompt with different starter "seed" values), you'll get something out that seems like quality.

What's doubtful is whether the people attempting this are good enough writers themselves, or educated enough readers themselves, to recognize it when it falls into their hands. I suspect the Venn diagram for the two groups of people doesn't overlap all that much.
The long term view is helpful.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB
From my prior post:

> I get to spend every morning 7am-noon with my kids.

I work from home, so I have no commute (saves a boatload of time) and get to eat every meal with the family (who ever is home). I also spend probably 4-7 hrs with my children every day (and all day Sunday’s). I’m pretty more involved, but sure I miss some stuff. I can’t do afternoon / evenings (unless it’s 5-7pm).

In terms of my work breakdown, I tend to do 60-70 hrs. But I code and manage our farm part time (kids will eventually assist with). That’s probably 50 hrs coding/designing, 10-20 hrs on the farm, depending. That obviously will shift a bit depending on weather. I also take 2-3 weeks off coding work to harvest; which are like 12 hr days for a week at a time.
...what do either of those have to do with anything?
I can't make claims about your country's medical system. In the U.S., where I am, regular liver enzyme tests are a requirement for a Truvada prescription. [EDIT: This is incorrect; I was mistaken.]

Also: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fearm...

It's an ad hominem.
See also this guy's videos: https://youtube.com/@DanielGrazier
> What anti-botting measures does HN have deployed?

That's a good question I'd like to know the answer to.
Just a heads up, you're not shadow banned.
“I don’t know how ChatGPT works, but I asked it a question and it answered me with this! Come back for more next week!”

Did you test these? You might want to!
Well, the person above claims 8xA100 significantly under $130k. I am curious to hear more.
The downvotes prove my point.

Pathetic.
Well yes and no. Those contracting firms don't keep a lot of bench resources. During slow periods they lay off employees just like every other employer. And during boom times they jack up their rates and still don't have many experiences contractors available on short notice. Using those staffing agencies works fine for small bursts but if you need thousands then you run into practical limits.
Can confirm. I, a software engineer (along with many others), was laid off and new teams are being brought up in Poland to do the same work.
Piecemeal or possibly never. Ugh
I now think that "Hugging Face" refers to "the face one has when hugging" which, of course, is very nice.

But up until just now, today I thought it was an Alien(s) reference.
Not this ID, and not yet.

But thanks!
Seems to me like you're just in a state where you're conscious while you're body is getting ready to sleep. You're also in a state of sleep paralysis.

You should check out a book called Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. He has sections on sleep paralysis and nightmares. First few chapters tell you about the stages of sleep
Hot take: Sprint ceremonies are what I hate the most about our profession. In-office sprint ceremonies make it even worse.

Please end this madness.

One guy from customer success I had lunch with once told me: "wait, so you guys have team meetings every morning, every single day? but why? that sounds terrible. I would hate that"

And yeah! I agree! but this has been the norm in the entire industry for the last ~10 years and you have no say in it.

I once went a month by actively not paying attention to the daily meetings just to prove they're worthless and I didn't miss anything important. Weekly meetings are much better at keeping employees engaged without feeling like a burden/waste of everyone's time.

This whole daily stand-ups and sprint ceremonies are useless bullshit. Quality software got shipped way before those were concocted and shoved into our worklives by agile "consultants" who have nothing better to do in their lives than selling employee micromanagement and control schemes to clueless managers making them feel more empowered over their workers, and creating more bullshit jobs like scrum masters or agile coaches just to give credibility to these management frameworks.
I love the disclaimer "not a credible source for military intel". I know you are probably putting that to disclaim knowing where a particular balloon came from but it sounds a bit like "If you want to spy on another country, build your own simulator" - lol.
No layoffs at WiseTech.
> Ounce / fluid ounce is roughly the same as gram / milliliter.

That's how it's used, but the units don't measure the same thing. It's like measuring an engine's power output in square meters, because a kilowatt is about a square meter of sunlight.
I'm so grateful for Xfce, it's been my desktop for maybe 15 years. Such a godsend in a world where every other UI gets more bloated and less usable over time.
Wages are declining, sure, but from an artificially high peak. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

Also, wages and inflation are very highly coupled. Wages are a key component of prices.
wait till you visit eastern europe where drivers believed strings or single CD handing on the rear-view mirror somehow makes the car stealth to a police radar.
Another “xxx sucks”, “but you’re doing it wrong” article .

Be smart, keep what works, turn the page.
Try evaling completed Python dicts! Works like a champ…
Have you been able to get something that might match a relational database? Auto-generation of a relational schema from a large dataset, or multiple datasets, is a deeply interesting idea.
Isn't the actual distance to cover much shorter also at those latitudes, in order to 'circumnavigate' the globe? Because an equilatitude circle is much smaller.
Amazon regularly adjusts RSU grants up and down to keep any given employee's total comp within a band. The story is that they are electing not to do so this year, despite last year's significant price drop. The net effect is the same as an across-the-board pay cut.
What would you prefer to parking permits?
The scam is living in a society that requires a car for normal day to day living.
Sure, but what is UDP bringing to the party then? The pseudoheader?

A reasonable RPC layer could just layer on IP.
Isn't it more like a zeppelin / blimp if it has any steering capability at all? I always thought that was the main difference to a balloon.
I think the real awesome tech would be if you could get super fast growing hardwoods, like Walnut. By boardfoot something like Walnut may be 10x the price of pine. Pine has a lot of good attributes but the main one is that it is cheap and plentiful. I'd imagine if higher quality woods could ever be grown as rapidly then youd get some interesting new construction materials. Or, at the very least, you could get Ikea style furniture but of super high quality wood instead of particle board.
Protecting private property is a necessary part of a market economy. I wouldn't call it a safety net. The whole point of a safety net is when your livelihood goes poof you don't freefall into the abyss. Should you sell your home when an AI automates your job? These are orthogonal concepts.
Halfway There: Success and Burnout in Local News
I think you have the new = denser, old = lighter backwards? Old growth is denser, new growth is lighter
People (usually) understand the words that pop up when an extension/app asks for permissions. But they don't necessarily understand the implications of allowing those permissions. And most have little grasp on how to judge an authors trustworthiness, other than the star rating on the store listing... which is driven by other users who mostly also don't have a clue.

It is not unusual to see stories of malicious applications or extensions with hundreds of thousands of happy users and good reviews.
Citation?

Bench is a thing.
Australia here also.

I'm a Tech Lead with a solid CV looking for a new gig. I'm finding it noticeably more difficult to get recruiter attention (let alone interviews) than I'd expected.

My gut feeling is that there are likely more candidates applying for any given job than there were late last year.
These new Apple laptops don’t even bother charging the battery past 80% if you leave it deskbound long enough (default settings, you can change this if it bothers you, and you can tell it to charge to full at any time of course).

I’d be surprised if they even use the battery beside doing whatever conditioning is needed over time - if you keep it deskbound.
As a beginner Mandarin learner, my understanding is that historically, people wrote using the traditional stroke order, this informed what people think of as the aesthetically pleasing or "correct" way that the characters look. Now, if you want to write the characters in a legible and aesthetically pleasing way, the easiest method is to write them in the traditional stroke order. I think it's analogous to the way cursive writing in the west was taught, which informed the way it was written and what people thought of as the "correct" way to write cursive. If you wanted to learn to write in cursive, you could just look at existing cursive writing and try to copy it, but if for example you guessed that you should write it from right to left then you'd probably find it harder because cursive evolved to be written from left to right.

You can normally tell when someone uses the incorrect stroke order because things will be the wrong size. For example, when writing 因 you're supposed to write the outer ㄇ first, then the inner 大 and then the bottom horizontal stroke of the 口. If you start with the 大 then it's harder to write the outer 口 the right size.

Again, this is all from a beginner, so take it with a good amount of salt.
According to their stats page, they have 135 million monthly active users: https://www.tumblr.com/press , about a third of what either Reddit or Twitter claims.

I'm also willing to bet that they have a measurably lower proportion of bots than most other social networks, if only because the perception that Tumblr is irrelevant makes them less attractive as a target.
>We should continue to demand the value that efficiency has brought us go where it rightfully sits, with labor.

Labor lost most power with the rise in globalization. It was much easier to strike and affect businesses when they had a limited hiring pool restricted to one country. Now they can just move to another country where labor is less demanding.
If they cannot offer what it costs to hire the competence the require, they need to learn how to do those things themselves. You cannot just start a company and expect to buy your way out of your own lack of competence - at least not when there are others paying more.
> > Charging infrastructure at work and in apartment buildings are currently deplorable in the southeast

> Really? You would expect the increase in air quality to be something everyone can get behind

Rolling coal. Cut your nose to spite your face.
He covers these topics from time to time and the comments there are a wealth of information about what's going on in every pocket of the state.
Have you come across any specific details on their input datasets? I’ve been assuming CommonCrawl and Pile but if you have anything specific it would be very interesting what else was used.
Destination port number should be sufficient.

For example, imagine if there are two sockets established between server and client processes (due to multiple ips or roaming, time lags, etc.), then in theory, request received from one socket could be responded through another socket. From application pov it doesn't need to care about the socket. We can do this over TCP, but connection-oriented nature of TCP makes this weird.
Sure, but what would it be?
Yes, but that generally shouldn't mean reduced sales in nominal amounts but rather inflation adjusted amounts.

Notably, the 'low end' retail outlets tend to boon in rough times. TJMaxx is doing just fine.

What Walmart is signalling is not good... but if the Dollar Store is signalling down sales it's really bad.

If the Dollar Store is signalling up sales, during a downturn, but Walmart is signalling down, that might actually mean Walmart is becoming a bit more middle class than we might want to think. Which is a whole other story.

Note Dollar Tree does seem to be moving consistently forward [1] so this very well might be a shift in spending from Walmart to truly discount places. A quick check for ALDI USA sales (if you can find them) might fill in the blanks of this story.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DLTR/dollar-tree/r...
What has Bitcoin fixed other than the ease of my buying a rocket launcher on the dark web?
If AI could do that, it wouldn’t be AI - it would be capital I.
I hope this means that Alexa and Siri will understand everyday speech better, since amazon tends to dog food their services and I would assume that Apple would want to keep up. As of right now, it is annoying asking anything beyond turning on / off lights, playing specific key words like news or music, or the weather. It’s like a command line but with voice.

Google is much better with questions pre-chat GPT, but their home integration has been broken post Nest debacle.
There are at least 100s of extensions that are published by legal corporates, adgaurd extension is pretty sure a legally registered company as an example.
A $130k bulletproof concrete modular tiny home has seen demand in the US
> Wages are declining, sure, but from an artificially high peak. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

Specifically, from all the service workers that were laid off during the pandemic because pandemic related shutdowns (eg. restaurants, resorts)
There is definitely a re-balancing of the employment market. I assume its because of capital drying up. Tech workers labor is more to build things that pay off in the long run (in theory) I think the lower minimum wage jobs tend to be more operating costs.With interest rates rising there is less capital to build stuff that will take years to pay off. More focus on just keep things going as is by throwing bodies at the problem. Im not sure. Honestly I would have thought that tech would have come in more demand as salaries rose to make the people you are paying for more efficient.