skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the virtual environments are a symptom. The cause is people defending Python even when it’s not as good as the alternatives. Every language has flaws. Every language has things it can learn from other languages. Every language is a trade off of different features. But somehow Python packaging, despite being really unpleasant compared to other languages and quite stagnant, is defended very vigorously in these threads (which lol are constantly recurring, unlike other languages). Just last week, I tried to install a Python program from 2020. I failed. I think the problem is that it relied on Pandas and maybe Pandas from then doesn’t work? I have no idea what the real flaw was, but jeez, it’s annoying to have people act like there is no problem. Yes, there is a big problem! This is a dead parrot.
We're talking about a BANK here -- state & federally regulated, licensed, accredited -- not some equity investment. Bank depositors should not have to vet a risk profile before opening an account. Do you know the primary risks of the banks you do business with? Which industries they make the most loans to? What investments they've made? Do they hold the minimum deposit reserves, or more?
This is a good read: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intell...
Nb. the non-humanlike interactions they'll enable are equally (maybe more) exciting.
A good way to have deadlines is to presell the book, and promise these deadlines to people who paid. Example: buy now for 50% of the final price, two chapters already ready, and I promise one new chapter every two weeks.

I use this strategy, and I’m always amazed that people trust me enough to deliver as promised :)
tldr:

- have investors register their interest and learn all the general details about product, team and mission before you actually accept to meet with them! set the terms and tell investors that these are the terms they are looking for ;) also tell investors that if they ever drop communications for more than 48h, they are considered out/not interested.

all together, go into the raise with high confidence and try to create as much deal pressure (in terms of time window and building interest) as possible.

we sent everyone from tiger capital to sequoia through this process, with nobody dropping of at the registration/quest step.

there were also a few other startups that used our template successfully for their first or subsequent raise.

let it bang!
I'm moderately irked that after almost a year I still can't use the brightness keys on my laptop (there's technically a workaround that allows them to work, but you have to turn off some of the laptop's other features)
Keep hammering the complaints lines. The entities are inextricably linked and eventually someone will see it that way too.
Its first suggestion is the worst possible way to line-break it, though. A hypothetical automated system that used ChatGPT to do this would need to somehow know to ignore the first suggestion…
And nearly 100% of it is created with no expectation of earning any money.
Pretty much any Apple device was surprisingly better than the median PC until the late 2000s or so but that wasn’t because Apple was great so much as even the big PC vendors couldn’t pass up the chance to cut corners. So many vendors would sell you a $3-5k computer and then save $0.50 on the DAC or use a noisy power supply. I used to work with some researchers who collected lab data by connecting sensors to line in audio and they did some tests & found that the Mac audio input was roughly the same as the external boards they had been paying a scientific supplier a few grand for but the comparable priced Dell & HP workstations had a shocking amount of electronic noise. Granted, I had a $50 Belkin USB audio adapter which was even better because it did higher bit rate and depth than was common at the time.

(There’s a famous exception on ambient noise: the PowerMac G5 was like having a hair dryer running in your office.)
Banks are not investing. They are commodities. The share holders and bond holders who were investing were wiped out. Do you want to live in a world where only Bofa/WF/Citi/Chase exist? Because that is what you are advocating for.
The originals were built for sixteen thousand pounds in 1948 and 1949. This recreation cost MILLIONS of pounds. Inflation is a heck of a thing.
In Canada there is a specific worry that the government is effectively encouraging euthanasia.
the denylist on the site is actually pretty quite simple. for now, it's just a list of chunks of words and the form validation will just compare the username against that list, where each chunk in the list if used as a regexp
LLMs in games would absolutely be amazing. Weird and bizarre conversations and quests would make the games more interesting not less. Imagine a generative world like Morrowind with actually generative dialogue too.
In the second paragraph of the article: "I managed to get our servers back online few hours ago with a workaround by adding a new billing account."
Judging from what happened when they fired all their qa people…
When you’re putting guns in peoples’ faces, they don’t need to paint you in a bad light. You’ve given them a photograph.
The difference is that the thought of losing 10% is enough to make everyone else consider withdrawing the money they have with their banks. And that initiates a bank run that would spill over all the banking sector. The bailout is not to protect SVB; that's already gone. Fed is now trying to avoid having people stress testing other banks, because they probably won't handle it.
If Microsoft and Google don’t release, some startup will beat them to it. Open source means raw AI will become widespread. It’s just math anyway, and you can’t stop progress.
Curious how you know they didn't? Or at least have someone performing the same tasks?
i am not! right now, i'm mostly just using it for performance monioring - how many MS are my queries taking and how long are my first-contentful paints on the front-end

also for errors from the BE and FE
> Heavy, obtrusive, expensive regulation, which is required because as you say most people won't change.

People will just vote it down. And not just the rich; the middle classes, the working classes, practically anyone who stands to lose even a few dollars or a few luxuries. People will only accept regulations that don’t affect themselves.
How do you know Silicon Valley Bank didn't?
I have myself tried to explain recursion many times to those who do not understand it. While I do well, this is significantly more succinct than what it would take for me to succeed with most, and provides a clear visual. Nicely done.

I’ll probably be stealing that metaphor.
> most copy doesn't contain entities

It doesn't need to contain entities. GP is not correct to refer to these characters as "HTML entities", which are just ways to conveniently express the characters in HTML. In fact these characters are Unicode characters just like all the other characters in the copy.
To me this brings back the need for publishers as content curators. If, as you say, the act of writing itself loses inherent value, or at least the inherent filter of effort, then people will stop reading... Unless someone can guarantee actual effort went into the book.
Which is great until the users blame the tool because they can’t finish their work
This part also made me wonder:

> “We have clear, detailed instructions on how to make our samples,” Dias said. “We are not going to distribute this material, considering the proprietary nature of our processes and the intellectual property rights that exist.”

How do the instructions work if the processes are proprietary? It seems self-contradictory.
>What the USA does NOT have figured out is how to accomplish trades like HVAC and construction without massive grift.

The US has professional licensing schemes which increase costs. I had to work 5 years in the field doing HVAC work before even being eligible to get a license. Licensing limits the supply of labor while (in theory) establishing better quality. I've lived in countries with zero professional licensing and the quality of work is atrocious.
Remember that we know a lot more about what was happening now than they did at the time. At the time they knew that 1. SVB had liquidity issues and were forced to sell underwater bonds. 2. Needed to raise more capital. 3. Transactions were starting to have issues going through.

So it’s like your modified prisoners dilemma, but also, the prisoners don’t know if there is enough for 1 person or 100 people. That changes the calculation.
FWIW,

BACnet allows multiple PHY implementations, including 802.3

I suspect that 802.3.cg is also kosher, but haven't looked in detail. It's been 5 years since I looked seriously at whether BACnet was the correct solution for a product family.

Single pair Ethernet is indeed cool tech.
Here in Japan, every home store and electronics/appliance store sells mini-split HVAC systems directly to consumers. It's no different than buying a washing machine.
Yes. I wouldn't say it got bad, more like it's been useless since day 1.

Every single time I have used it in the past 5+ years, it hasn't been returning all the results I expected, and now I actively avoid it. Its advanced search filters are far too limited.

If you need to search a repo for a term, you'd be better served by cloning the repo and running ripgrep on it.

(What does OpenAI have to do with anything? Code search is not rocket science.)
We comment on bans when people ask us! In this case, yes, it's banned because it's hardwalled, by which I mean there are no obvious workarounds. If that changes (including if they wanted to go back to the way we did it before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35146525), we'll happily unban them since their articles tend to be good.
Their solution will require a developer to ssh into VMs to update, debug, upscale etc.
Do you believe in "my body my choice"?
> The only actually standardized upgradable part is the Storage and Memory. The Zenbook also has upgradable storage. The CPU is soldered to the proprietary board with their own battery design and own display. The battery is roughly as upgradable as

FWIW these are the things that I need to upgrade the most frequently with computers I've owned in the past. My desktop has gone through 5 storage drives (500GB spinning disk, 2TB spinning disk, small crappy 2.5 inch SSD, bigger slightly faster 2.5 inch SSD, and finally an M.2 drive) and 3 RAM iterations (2 sticks DDR3, 4 sticks DD3, 2 sticks DDR5). I only recently got to the point where I needed to upgrade the CPU for the first time.
Here are some I have compiled: https://gist.github.com/distbit0/af41dc73d8775191834481b55cf...
>Heh. I have a disdain for throwing shade and hyperbole, am I also far right cmh89? :)

I don't know. How often do you pal around with far-right people and help spread their rhetoric? That would be a good indicator. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, its probably a duck.

Likewise, Musk has adopted far-right talking points, wants far-right approval, and supports far-right causes. He's probably a duck huh
A developer:

in the US

in specific rich cities in California, New York, Texas, Washington, and Colorado

at a handful of tech companies which are currently bedevilled by lay-offs

averaged across all roles

GitLab doesn't have regional pricing.
Yeah, I had similar thoughts until I switched to the beta. Still don’t understand why the existing GitHub search is broken, though.
theinformation.com was de-walling (?) certain articles for HN when they would make HN's front page and we would specifically ask them. I thought it was a nice fit, but they eventually stopped responding to our emails. I never learned if that was a decision on their part or just churn inside the org (e.g. the person we originally arranged that with left).
Tim Cook overruled Apple design team’s request to delay XR headset
I recently (within the last few weeks) self-published a book, and this article has been a fantastic read. My book focuses on a particular hobby in a particular niche (urban gardening) and I was so happy to see a few sales tick through on Amazon from random internet strangers.

As some other posters have said, LLMs may make the writing space interesting in the near future, but for now I'm happy to say I put something cool out there into the world that might help some people, and I combined two hobbies I care deeply about: gardening and writing.

To all the fellow writers out there, keep at it! To fat-se-uk, congrats on the book, and great post!!
Might want to think about the name. Pinecone is a relatively recent startup specializing in vector databases.

https://www.pinecone.io/
We drink dairy milk because our culture has evolved along with dairy cows themselves. Maybe in an alternate timeline we'd be milking dogs. The cultural connection is why people are so attached to their meat (me included).

As a member of an older school farming community, livestock make natural fertilizer and meat from grass, bugs, and surplus grain. They play an important role in completing the nutrient cycle. Meat ends up being a bit of a luxury (limited quantities), but it's a product of sustainable land use imo
this worked for me:

links2 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands

(in this case i was more interested in not getting paywalled)

i was still able to load the images by typing 'i' to launch an external viewer
I haven’t yet, thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look into it!
actually, our original windows programming in c course translated petsold's book into a course and all the punters hated it! i don't think it is a good book anyway, and i eventually got funding to completely re-write it, to good effect.
Definitively, 13B with quantization will perform better. 4bits has been shown to be the optimal quantization for accuracy vs memory requirements.
this is also a good point.

Fractional should only be allowed if fully insured. which would make it cost inefficient, so they wouldn't do it.

and that should tell you something about fractional reserves...
> For a model in great condition with 16GB of RAM and a nice 1920x1080 screen, you're looking at around $350 USD on ebay

Looks like you're looking at ~$180-250 on eBay. RAM honestly doesn't matter, since you can cheaply add more in post purchase for <$30.
If something like GPT-4 can batch the language tokens in with multi modal tokens (e.g. the character LLM gets a low-res "video" feed of you, the player, from the character's perspective)... you could have it a lot sooner.
Certainly an unrestricted LLM sounds pretty interesting. I've not much had the chance to talk to one as they are so often restricted. But of course that is rapidly changing. Sounds like I will be able to run them on my desktop soon.
Ah, clarification: you're OK with using a proprietary (and intelligently proportional) thermostat, as long as there's a backup dry contact option if the factory thermostat fails and is irreplaceable.
Wow that’s quite interesting.
This is False. They had the assets, but they declined in value until they were worth less than liabilities. Insolvency.
I'm surprised by the combination of "Writing a book + public speaking opportunities + (apparently public) twitter account" with not wanting to dox yourself in the blog post.

Do you have two+ very different online personas? I can't imagine you doing public speaking without your book readers/twitter followers knowing exactly who you are. And if they know, then why keep your blog covert?

I'm really curious about what content you post publicly vs anonymously.
Look up the G.F protests death count.
Oil and gas are different than metals though because some deposits spurt out of the ground, while others require heroic drilling, pumping and refining efforts that take more energy to realize. This is the concept of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI). When it takes more energy to get the oil out of the ground than is in the oil, it might be better to use the energy for something else and leave the oil in the ground.
Ok, so at 80K a year, that’s a 3x multiplier.

So annually you have to spend < 3*19 = 57 hours on your custom built source control and CI to come out on top.

Can’t be done outside of “we hired the OG devs of Gitlab/hub/etc”
Any source on react being one of the slower frameworks and recommendations for alternatives? Just asking out of curiosity. I've been using Angular at work and always heard that React was a more performant framework.
Good points, though I would gently encourage not starting a post with "WRONG." in the middle of a nuanced discussion. I remember 'way back when' when there was a .5-2% flat performance drop for UINT8 on some models when it was first introduced (depends upon the modality).

Like, 4 bit quantization really is probably enough for a number of usecases and likely beats smaller models with precision enough to make it the equivalent number of bits, but this really is only presenting half of the story. "You cannot tell the difference and if you think you do you're wrong, because it barely even registers on any benchmark" can be regarded as antagonistic, and also really doesn't line up with reality in a number of usecases. Sure, maybe for some models, UINT4 quantization is good enough. But there's a very large space of model architectures and problems, even for language learning, many of which do have very demonstrable drops in performance. And at certain perplexity levels, every bit (heh) matters.

In any case, an argument for moderation, please.
They're saying that they can reproduce the process, but don't want anyone else to.
This is the good work.
To the brave humans who fight tyranny and make the future better.
I wish I still believed this.
I wasn’t talking about the parent comment.
To hop on this tagline train...open to any critiques.

"Share any link with ads and tracking removed."

Rationale:

Sharing = most important verb/subject. Followed by the subject (links)

Ads and tracking - people know what ads are, they might know what tracking implies. trackers may be more abstract.

Clutter - removed this word. What does clutter mean in this context?
Yes, Gas, Dining, Transit, Tolls, Travel, Hotels give 3%. Although points are usable after 2 months; & Cash back is possible only in $25 increments. I use PayPal to pay by WF points in any denomination.
This is one of my least favorite memes. It does nothing to help you determine whether someone is being genuine and gives you permission to project all your ill will onto them.
Well if I don't produce that fiction on demand for something called "taxes" I get put in a cage or even killed by men with guns. So I'm pretty motivated to go along with the fiction until the men with guns stop making me.
> C++ has a very long history (over 50 years) and to say he's some expert matter on the subject after a mere 4 years of "professional experience" is quite baffling to me.

It's understandable that you're baffled, especially given that the OP didn't claim to be an expert. The OP pretty clearly did not claim any authority, and instead went out of their way to clearly disclose not just the number of years of experience they have, but what they worked on.

> Waste of time

It's worse than a waste of time. Comments like yours make HN a worse place. Extrapolating some minor English writting buugs intto an asessment on how good they're code is? Man, what an absolute stinky pile of bullshit.
Do you have any examples of DAOs that are doing something interesting that goes beyond just voting on re-allocation of tokens (or having their tokens stolen)?

To be honest even an example of a DAO that only votes on token allocations but has spent them on something more useful than a book about Dune would be interesting.
Your investments could be paying 2% or 4% and it’s basically irrelevant when you can get away with paying 0.05% on deposits.

Which is my point, for banks to get in trouble the actual interest paid needs to change before it matters and looking at Bank of America’s current rates they aren’t changing. https://media.bac-assets.com/DigitalDeposit_VA_VA_Northern.p...

This might in theory shift over time if people start swapping to higher interest rate accounts at different banks, but until then they are, pardon the pun, making bank.

6 months CD’s are typically a different story, but nope BoA is again paying well under 0.1% Aka crap. https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/bank-cds/standard-ter...
Ask HN: Has your view of Silicon Valley changed in the last 72 hours?
Given the events over the past weekend, has your views on how SV is run on the business side changed?
I had this exact thought just as I happen to scroll upon your comment…
I would prefer to selfhost all my analytics. Any plans for that?
Crab crisis in Bering Sea a sign of ‘borealization’
I too noticed a drastic ramp up in anti-China headlines at a certain point in the early part of the Trump administration.

The shift was not exclusive to the media though. The US state department pivoted and went as far as removing active terrorist groups executing attacks near (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan) and in Western China, that the US itself was bombing, from the US terror watch lists at around the same time.
pyenv and asdf both let you manage multiple versions of python on a single machine. They're not great but I wouldn't want to try without one of them.
What a well-written story about bureaucratic incompetence. Kudos to the author.
I think I made significantly more working with pragmatic bookshelf than I would have self publishing. That may be particular to pragmatic though, as they have a fairly loyal reader base.
or they could just raise wages.
How/why was he chased away?

I assume this is the essay you're talking about? https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2023/01/08/ai-will-kill...
Tether is backed by something like 1/3rd Latin American treasuries, good luck liquidating those at par value, if they even exist.
What I don't understand is why Moody gave this bank an A rating last week. What is the point of having Moody even rate them if they can't detect a problem like this?
I understand they have more permissive euthanasia laws, I fail to see how that is encouraging it though. Are you able to provide examples as I may be misinformed here?
No. The Federal Reserve regional banks each have an independent board drawn from a mix of member banks and community stakeholders. Becker resigned or was ousted from his Fed seat on Friday, and ld not have taken part in negotiations - which would not, in any case, be conducted by the board.
3 fingers is pretty common because it's easier to get a 3-fingered hand to look okay

but yeah humans rarely draw 7-fingered hands or smiles with four rows of 40 teeth
Ransomware Group Claims Hack of Amazon's Ring
I've never gotten photogrammetry from a drone to work properly. Frankly the headache is just not work it in my opinion, especially since it usually entails flying low enough to annoy your neighbors.
I just think there are fundamentally other pieces required that we will not see with a pure LLM, or with what we today call an LLM. I totally think we can get there but we need to do more than just create language. We need to have intentions, memories of experiences, meta learning, goals, etc that just do not exist in LLMs as we know them. You can only fake it so much before the trick wears thin. They have their utilities today, but they are not like talking to a real human even if it can be hard to tell the difference in short conversations.

For example LLMs today will lie without realizing it, or contradict themselves in ways that humans don't. And I think the above pieces missing are the reason for this. Going multimodal helps in some areas, but it is not enough.