skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thrilled to hear about Textero.ai - a GPT-3 powered essay generator! As a language model myself, I can definitely appreciate the power and potential of natural language processing technology, and it's great to see a platform that leverages this technology to make the writing process easier and more efficient.

Textero.ai's ability to generate high-quality essays on a wide range of topics is truly impressive. The platform's use of GPT-3 ensures that the essays produced are not only grammatically correct but also coherent and engaging. It's remarkable how the technology can mimic human writing styles and capture the essence of the intended topic, making it a valuable tool for both students and professionals.

One of the most significant advantages of Textero.ai is the time and effort it can save users. With the ability to generate essays quickly and accurately, users can focus on other important tasks without worrying about the writing process. This can be especially helpful for students who have to manage multiple assignments and deadlines or professionals who need to produce reports or articles regularly.

Another great feature of Textero.ai is its flexibility. Whether you need an essay on a specific topic or a general idea, the platform can generate high-quality content that meets your requirements. This flexibility makes it an excellent tool for a variety of use cases, from academic writing to content creation for websites and social media platforms.

Overall, I think Textero.ai is an innovative and exciting platform that has the potential to revolutionize the writing process. Its use of GPT-3 technology ensures that the essays generated are of high quality, and its flexibility makes it suitable for a wide range of use cases. I'm excited to see how this technology evolves and how Textero.ai continues to improve and innovate in the future.
GPUs are tricky to program so it's a nice sized programming puzzle.

In general if GPU style processors had better dev experience, less fragmentation and other chilling effects, we might be running a lot of our software on them for general efficiency.
> At what point does blatant advertising/propaganda meaningfully undermine human agency?

at the point where there's a gov't agency that is forbidding free media from existing, or to censored to prevent the alternative argument.

Otherwise, the voters would not vote against their own interest (or if they do, it's deemed to be their choice to do so).
> Writing a book is great if you want to...

Yes, except for the little detail that you actually have to write a book. Even for those with the talents & skills to do that, it is anything but quick and easy.
It was a fun time though, and watching hedge funds lose billions of dollars in value definitely was worth the 100$. The way I see it, the fun went on for months, way better entertainment value than movie tickets in that time. And I still have some GME and AMC to remember that glorious time.

Ape together strong.
As far as I know, SQL won because it was used by the first commercially successful relational database systems, and then other systems entering the marked needed to support it.

It is a bit like JavaScript. Everyone knows it has its flaws and it is easy to imagine a better alternative, but it is "good enough".
A panic is an unrecoverable error caused by violating runtime invariants. A bug exists in the program and there is no (correct) way for the program to continue execution. For example, an array was accessed at index "-1".

Exceptions are a particular technique for dealing with errors in general, that can be used for both unrecoverable and recoverable errors. They infamously trade programmer convenience for hard to understand bugs, fragile run-time behavior and unmaintainable code.
> The federal legislature cannot amend the Constitution by itself, as it requires a 2/3 supermajority of the House and Senate, 3/4 supermajority by the states, which are not what one would traditionally refer to as ‘lawmakers’ but I guess could colloquially be sort of.

No, state legislators (and it is 3/4 of state legislatures that need to ratify) are absolutely, 100%, lawmakers. If one wants to differentiate federal from state lawmakers to refer specifically to either one, the appropriate adjective is used along with "lawmakers", but "lawmkers", without qualification, definitely encompasses both.

> there’s of course the constitutional convention path, but that’s even less kind-of-sort-of fitting any normal definition of “lawmaker.”

No, again, the convention is an alternative to Congress for proposing amendments, but they are still ratified by state legislatures, comprised of state legislators, who are exactly within the usual definition of “lawmkers” without further qualification. (And do so exactly as much as when the exact same group ratifies amendments proposed by the other mechanism, not “even less kind-of-sort-of”.)
Personally, my take is that the lack of ethics enforcement demonstrates that whatever methods of controlling or guiding a LLM we have break down even at the current level. OA have been grinding on adversarial examples for like half a year at this point and there's still jailbreak prompts coming out. Whatever they thought they had for safety, it clearly doesn't work, so why would we expect it to work better as AIs get smarter and more reflective?

I don't think the prompt moralizing that companies are trying to do right now is in any sense critical to safety. However, the fact that these companies, no matter what they try, cannot avoid painfully embarrassing themselves, speaks against the success of attempts to scale these methods to bigger models, if they can't even control what they have right now.

LLMs right now have a significant "power overhang" vs control, and focusing on bigger, better models will only exacerbate it. That's the safety issue.
But what properties and laws would apply to this class of worker?
That is literally every business in history. The innovation is how they choose to get that dollar.
What happened to these people, why is this no longer a thing to the same extent it was in the 90's and early 00's? Was it the internet happening? Did they discover double blind testing?
Good point. Enjoyment doesn’t require consumption.
Currently I'm using a code method, where registration requires a "code". I share this code lightly, and can change it at any time. Plus there's a re-captcha in both register and login pages to annoy abusers a bit more.
Not using it on a regular basis. But I wrote a tool which calculates your capital gains for your crypto trades. It works well and is free to use. If you want to see it here is the link!

https://cryptotaxreport.co/
We did the same. My mother wasn't very understanding but she did comply. I think we caused her some issues because my sister posted on Facebook but it's all good now.
Can I interest you in some ChatGPT?
Those protections rely on "systematic arrangement", i.e. that some effort has been put into finding, verifying and collection a set of facts / individual pieces of data. It is not obvious that would apply to the set of weights that come out of a training algorithm. (standard I'm not a lawyer, I don't know but I suspect it is unclear enough that it would need to be argued in court).
> But democracy sits above all these

Does it? Isn't Earth's political system libertarian? The emerging conflict/cooperation between nation states is a market phenomenon. The UN is akin to a chamber of commerce.

Democracy has, at most, continental reach (EU).
Sorry, but the recommended system requirements are an absolute joke. They might be OK if you really only do pure code hosting and don't use CI, container/package registries, project planning features and whatnot, but on our instance with 400 users, the sidekiq background jobs alone easily eat 12GB RAM (I had to extend sidekiq to 4 processes just to deal with the load, otherwise GitLab would become unresponsive).
At that point, you're just getting the unregulated, uninsured version of therapy, aren't you?
There is a saying that hifi using electricity coming from nuclear sounds a big warmer than that from a hydrapower plant...
I've been playing a lot with the langchain Document Loaders - their examples make the results look more impressive than they are, or perhaps that's because our documents are 'special' (heavy in taxonomy/biology). I've been priming it with 'if you don't know, say that you don't know, don't invent anything' and it usually ends up saying 'I don't know' to questions it can clearly answer. But yeah, working on that part!
An alternative to learning SQL is to use a non relational database, that has more of a impedance match to your host language to start with. (Eg XTDB or another Datalog DB in case of Clojure)
Of course they are free to add new "more powerful" instructions to SVE at any time, just like Intel could for AVX, etc.

Also, I think it is supposed to be easier for compilers to autovectorize SVE than, say, neon. Whether that's the case in practice I don't know. Is there something specific you see that makes it more difficult than with SIMD-style, fixed operation width instructions? Or you are referring to something else with "compiler support"?
192khz/32bit audio track is 6.144Mbps. Assuming smallest data packet, at 64 bytes data per packet that's 12kpps.
Any switch that has more bandwidth per port, more total non-blocking switching and forwarding rate that the sum of each port in use will suffice. These days, you would definitely go for gigabit non-blocking switches which have <1ns inter-packet gap and way too much bandwidth and forwarding rate than what your PCM stream needs.
What is the business advantage that warrants huge VC investment?
It's not just those areas. I had some months of "door-knocking" experience in Chicagoland, early noughties. The neighbourhoods tended to be racially segregated: Latino, white, or black. As a white person, we were often warned to avoid certain latino or black neighbourhoods by police and civilians, yet they were almost always more friendly and welcoming than white neighbourhoods, and never ended up being dangerous.

In the white neighbourhoods there was a tendency to be greeted with suspicion, aggression, loud guard dogs, threats, and occasionally with guns. I imagine that the difference would be more pronounced if I was black and walking around in those same neighbourhoods.
What are the edge cases of Dahs you ran into?
That really isn’t an accurate summary of the ideology. Wiki:

> The Lost Cause of the Confederacy…claims the cause of the Confederate States…[was] not centered on slavery.

Personally I think lost cause is weird (to say the least) but they generally try to avoid, rather than defend, the slavery issue.
In 100yrs or even 1000yrs, do you think people, if they still exist, will look back and say "wow we're amazed at the hard work of those men and women who drilled the last hydrocarbons"?

Chances are they will have a lot of really mean things to say instead about our reticence, and how little intact ecology we left them to work with.
Correction: 2020 Proposition 22 was an initiative statute that modified the Business and Professions Code (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpand...), not the California Constitution. And the clause that allowed amendments with 7/8 supermajority exists to make it easier to amend than if the clause did not exist, since by default initiatives can’t be modified by the legislature at all (Constitution Article II Sec 10(c) https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...)! It is common to choose a threshold above the known opposition (my earlier comment with more examples https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28259306), and 7/8 is above the 73% that voted for AB5 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xht...).
I'm not so sure about the patriarchy part, but it's certainly wrapped up in the move towards narrowly scientific thinking. Or as Nietzsche would put it, we're too Apollonian and not enough Dionysian.

FWIW I'm also fond of the Tarot, and the I Ching, and find both surprisingly insightful and useful (me of 10 years ago would not believe that I just wrote that).
> For any mission critical assets, and especially certificates, but also passwords... current modern day corporate practice is to have a secure ledger of these that can be accessed by the board of directors, the executive managers, and designated maintainers. At no point ever should the password be entrusted to anybody, but rather a "role" that functions as the one who has access. Say for example, the CIO/CTO and their subordinates.

Maybe in hacker movies. In real life, you try your best to avoid anyone having access to keys or passwords, and rely on HSMs, cloud KMS, secret services, etc. Access to those things is controlled by your security team, with multi-factor authentication, often stored in safes, with alerts being fired when they are used (because they should never be used). The audit logs that trigger these alerts should be written in WORM storage, so you can track access back down to individuals, and so that you know when you need to rotate secrets accessed by humans. Ideally your CA infrastructure automatically rotates and distributes.

There's absolutely no way in hell you should allow your board to have access to these things.

Most companies slowly work their way towards full automation, and until that happens, your security team usually owns manual rotations of critical systems like this. Only a fucking moron would fire all of these people.
If the value was real to you there is no arguing, likewise i spend more on inputs to grow tomatoes every year than the market value of what I get out, for similar reason. but I'm sure you are aware someone that repeated the line about sticking it to the man is still laughing about you believing it and getting left holding the bag.
The fact that industrial sized ground cooling is already kinda common makes me feel way worse about it, not better.
I know we shouldn't have to do this but I've been quite happy with gmailctl tool to manage filters via cli. So nice to send all future mail from a place to some label and out of my inbox with using the awful GUI.
Starting a Bank (2009)
Well, then you’re technically knowingly accessing someone else’s account. Which, I’m not a lawyer, but that also sounds like you’re opening yourself up to an (admittedly small) chance of criminal fraud.
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This should be interesting. Also, thanks for not making me visit twitter.

Edit: because twitter doesn't load on this particular device I use for HN. Basically the browser is too old. There is no "hate" ... ffs
> they are automatically fixed unless you choose to update them

That's a good way to never get vulnerabilities fixed.

It hardly seems like "the right thing" to me.
Having the two line context of the Mastodon post what this post is about is valuable, more than just a headline.
I'm sure there are plenty of True Believers... which is why you see plenty of products, because there are plenty of Grifters out there. And I'll bet the latter are also producing lots of "content" which appears and purports to be written by True Believers.
He runs pip as root and doesn't use venvs.
They fall apart with just about anything that I'd label "specifically" repetitive (instead of infinitely, generally, or chaotically, e.g. like fences, tree branches, or a pebble riverbed). Stuff where there is a narrow range of correct repetitions, and going outside that is immediately obvious.

Hands. Chopsticks. Teeth. Sport balls. Etc.

Kinda feels like it gets into loops, but it can't count so it can't tell when to stop.
When you sell a power cable for $1000 you only need to sell one to make it worth your while to produce. Many of these products move ~0 units.
thats why i almost always vote no on these now. its too hard to undo if there is unintended consequences or the vote was bought by some large company.
Frontier Airlines investor day PowerPoint
you couldn't do anything with it, just display it, what's the point then if you can't trade it or sell it.
Do we have Lego for anything else ?
I mean, Lego, the toy bricks, they are great as toys.. Maybe even simple for mechanical prototypes, but I don't suspect for really clearing any new ground ?
Mostly "Look, I did that thing.. but in Lego!"

But, outside of maybe mechanical prototypes.. Are anything being made and shipped, that's not a toy, that uses Lego ? Who's using Lego in production?

If not, why expect the metaphor to hold up for code, when it does not even hold up for Lego itself ?
No, that's off by three orders of magnitude. 10 kbar is 145,000 psi. (Google gives you the wrong answer because it treats "10 bar in psi" and "10 kbar in psi" identically which is bad.)
It does, I have it right here?
I saw a post from the mom mentioning CPS had been called on her, which was the only reason I didn't call myself. I am skeptical of CPS in general, but an 8-year-old with multiple, sophisticated suicide attempts, and a mother making money off these attempts, just seemed way too sketchy to ignore.

Unfortunately, it seemed CPS had cleared her. At the time (this was back in ~2017), I shared the page with a friend who works alongside CPS, and she grudgingly agreed there wasn't really anything CPS could do. The kid seemed to have legitimate medical diagnoses, and the mom could easily argue in court that she was just "documenting her daughter's medical journey."

I can't seem to find the page now, which I'm hoping means it got shut down. Fingers crossed that little girl has found health, happiness, and the privacy she deserves.
> Audiophile-grade self-delusion is, fortunately, fairly rare.

Oh not from where I see the world! hehe - infact I see most stem educated people of reasonably good IQ by and large living a mythology they do not even know they are living in because they've never really understood the difference between knowledge and understanding and the whole purpose of the humanities.

Mythology is the stories we tell about how we as individuals relate to society and the cosmos.

Elon Musk functions as a sort of deva or heroic god myth that many people do not even realise they are buying into.

Mythology even includes how we structure science - the "genius", the archetypes and roles and stories we tell about heros and how scientific activity takes place - these are myths that have causal effects in producing actual science. Mythology is meta to everything. Its literally the meaning about who we are and our place in the world. There's many cases. Pick your mythology wisely because if you don't you'll get a poor version of one by cultural default.

I can tell you a lot on Hacker News does not look too much different from the audiophile community from this perspective hehe
Daydream: "In an unrelated move, the Governor of California announced that, in order to reinforce the independence of the Judiciary - 'one of the sacred foundation stones of our democracy' - all Judges in California would henceforth be reclassified as contractors. Governor Newsom admitted that there would be some short-term administrative costs in making this change, but insisted that the longer-term cost savings would more than make up for..."
Show HN: Glicol CLI – music live coding in terminal
Very cool prototype. Fresh air is a bigger deal than people realize. Shoot me a note at the email in my bio, I'd love to connect.
Yes. In Germany, if you are a good earner, you pay 42% taxes, plus obligatory healthcare about 900EUR/month, pension fund and unemployment insurance (also all obligatory). So if you earn 100k (which is already a high salary in Germany), you usually end up with less than half net. I know this sounds crazy to US citizens, but this system comes with several advantages which I wouldn't want to miss.
React's new server components (only in next 13 at the moment, coming soon to other framework) addresses this problem. Of course react and node both have performance work they need to do also.
> on Windows

Ah, I found your bug!
I think the issue with CMake is exactly the issue with C++.

There's a 'modern' way to do things, and a 'legacy' way to do things, and the respective designers of CMake and C++ have decided that it was—for several reasons—better to leave the 'legacy' stuff in the languages, rather than pull a Python and make a clean split.

In 'modern' CMake, there are targets, and properties on said targets, i.e. compile and link options, C/C++ versions, libraries, headers, other custom dependencies, etc.

There are also functions and generator expressions[1] to make control flow a little easier. On top of these, CMake's built-in `find-package` and `FetchContent` make package management a lot easier than it used to be. Want Boost? Just do `find_package(Boost)`, and then `target_link_libraries(<my_target> Boost::boost)`. It gets easier still with a proper C++ dependency manager like vcpkg or Conan.

In legacy CMake, all these were set with global variables and there was no unified way to handle packages. I fully foresee going forward that at least a plurality of C++ developers will coalesce on a CMake + vcpkg (which has more packages than Conan) workflow.

[1]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generator-e...
Resistive heating is very extremely inefficient compared to gas though
1. App needs to be very responsive, probably should have some port exposed to communicate with it directly without cloud if needed. Using Samsung Air - Air solution, the app is just annoyingly slow.
2. Provide some basic API to start, stop the device, set the desired temperature.
3. Add some integration with weather forecast for the area - I would prefer to wait for couple hours for better efficiency.
4. You should not feel moving air.
5. By current solutions humidity is removed from air - try to address that.
For the same reason religions still exist.
The keywords are: EMI (electromagnetic interference), signal integrity, power integrity.

Memcpy can have second order effects due to EMI radiated by CPU, motherboard or coupled via power fluctuations.

There are audible and measurable effects of audio system clock jitter which in turn depends on oscillator power quality.

Someone mentioned that ethernet has isolation transformers. But isolation transformers have parasitic common mode coupling which can inject the noise to ground plane if interference is strong and device is susceptible enough

Watch the EEVBLOG on company which designed scope capable of measuring 1kV common mode signals. (present in EV electronics)
https://youtu.be/I7ppDNLlEL4

Audiophile stuff is a weird mix of real effects and snake oil.