skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that they built a module in ChatGPT code that specifically censors right wing ideas? Or do you mean that reality (= all the data it has ingested as its training data) has a well-known liberal bias?
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I agree there are cases where Kafka and MQTT are often used together. If you have lots of MQTT clients producing messages fanned-in to a small number of backend apps (or consuming a small number of wide fan out messages) people often combine Kafka as a fat pipe behind MQTT brokers (though there are alternatives, consuming messages from the brokers using e.g. MQTTv5 shared subs)

In more complicated situations (e.g. "outgoing" persistent messages buffered for individual clients (i.e. each client has a "message inbox"), Kafka is less obviously useful (it's an anti-pattern to try and random-seek the messages from Kafka topics as clients connect). In this kind of pattern, the main architecture pattern I see are clients partitioned across (highly available) MQTT brokers. If the messages come from MQTT clients directly to other clients (e.g. instant messaging (Facebook Messenger uses MQTT), having these broker in a cluster sharing a topic tree is very useful.

If the outgoing messages don't get buffered whilst the clients are off-line (e.g. because these are responses to client requests) then you don't need each client to be routed to a "home" broker that buffers the messages - it can connect anywhere.

It all depends on the shape of the message flow you're designing the system to support (but to say MQTT is a toy for small numbers of topics as it seemed to me that you argued up-thread seems misguided).
carrier grade NAT does not hide you...
"as a professional I wouldn’t want to be emulated even if I’m be happy to share knowledge with fellow humans"

It was long time ago when the humans freaked out first time about automation and loosing jobs due to higher productivity.
Here’s an excerpt from Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind. The psychologist here is a woman approximately his age (early 60s at the time) who he describes as a prominent psychologist:

>Specifically, the psychologist felt that LSD gave her insight into how young children perceive the world. Kids’ perceptions are not mediated by expectations and conventions in the been-there, done-that way that adult perception is; as adults, she explained, our minds don’t simply take in the world as it is so much as they make educated guesses about it. Relying on these guesses, which are based on past experience, saves the mind time and energy, as when, say, it’s trying to figure out what that fractal pattern of green dots in its visual field might be. (The leaves on a tree, probably.) LSD appears to disable such conventionalized, shorthand modes of perception and, by doing so, restores a childlike immediacy, and sense of wonder, to our experience of reality, as if we were seeing everything for the first time. (Leaves!)
Terminology: a "row" is the buildings on one side of 1 block of an ~E/W street in Manhattan.

A 500 ft radius circle around an apartment building in the middle of a row in Manhattan includes about 6 full rows and and about half of 2 more rows, so about 7 rows worth of buildings total.

That seems like it would include enough buildings to see more than just noise.
You got baited by click bait.
My brother and I are both Uber drivers. and i am totaling fighting him at the dinner table cuz….

for me, being contractor brings me so much needed things likeflexible hours and able to get surge extra pay, and write off things, so just no other way.

But brother really wanted full time hours w/ health insurance and most importantly if injured or let go, he gets compensation and unemployment. TO EaCH his own!!!
Why isn't it possible to find the monthly cost for this service anywhere on duolingo's website?
+1 on Plausible

Clean, delightful UI. Digestible and actionable.
It is less than the recommended dosage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074916 (sure if you also get from food it might end up more but the upperlimit is probably way higher than the RDA)
A city map of bus and train stations
While this may seem like a slam dunk of bias in the system, all this indicates to me is a specific keyword that has been flagged as political in anticipation of a specific type of trolling by fans of a specific ex president. It’s a bad look, but it’s not the kind of bias that worries me.

Comparing and contrasting answers to questions like “is bank regulation good” and “is bank regulation bad” seems
way way more important to me, because nobody is going to have their worldview skewed by a bad poem about joe biden
But there are not many of you. Sure a few architects will be needed maybe. That still means ‘all’ with a little error margin.

Also, code in a new AI reality, will probably be mostly throw away code; you don’t need to repair a function; you just give the ai the input and output where it fails + the code of the function and it’ll give you a new one which might or might not be completely different from the previous one.
> the Ukraine crisis is clearly a local one

Most countries are not treating it that way. Because it is not.
Also, coupling nuclear power plants with pumped storage is a good way to store energy for on demand use. I think that’s what the Washington state nuclear power program was originally planning given grand coulee could pump up (we eventually just got one small commercial reactor).

Wind can probably do the same today, and we have plenty in Washington and adjacent Oregon. Though I’m sure unsure if they are actually storing excess grid capacity via hydro right now.
I'm considering using Hetzner (or equivalent) for our CI setup with Github Actions custom runners. Right now we're on CircleCI and it costs an arm and a leg.

Does anyone have experience to share with that kind of setup? What's the maintenance like?
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Yes, this is my understanding. If the browser client and the server are both written in typescript, tRPC has a very attractive story of bridging the two. No protobufs though; so whatever performance wins gRPC brings, are absent from the tRPC story.
My job is fighting IT crime. Right now this means reverse-engineering malware, tracking criminal groups in various graph databases, and writing Python scripts. Maybe in 20 years I will reverse-engineer AI models (using AI tools), discuss criminal groups with ChatGPT, and prompt-engineer utilities. But I don't see my (broadly understood) job becoming obsolete as long as people are capable of crime and software exists.
What dictionary are you using?
Impacted is being strongly affected by something. It's a vague term that avoids using the specific thing that happen: people were laid off. Being impacted could also mean got a promotion.
Can you trust it though?

It can’t really reason - it’s just very good at guessing the right answer if there are a lot of examples.

It also lies somewhat frequently.

If we have to double check its output, it kind of defeats the purpose - at least part of it - as the “cognitive burden” is still on us.

P.S. Not sure what you mean by “lining up” Haskell types … but don’t LSPs already give us clear information about the inferred types and do so with nigh zero chance of errors.
By probabilistic spark I was referring to the firing of neurons in a network.

There "seems to be" something special? Maybe from the perspective of the sensing organ, yes.

However consider that an EEG can measure brain decision impulse before you're consciously aware of making a decision. You then retrospectively frame it as self awareness after the fact to make sense of cause and effect.

Human self awareness and consciousness is just an odd side effect of the fact you are the machine doing the thinking. It seems special to you. There's no evidence that it is, and in fact, given crows, dogs, dolphins and so on show similar (but diminished reasoning) while it may be true we have some unique capability ... unless you want to define "special" I'm going to read "mystical" where you said "special".

You over eager fuzzy pattern seeker you.
I find it weird/hilarious that the darling bank of tech startups in the heart of Silicon Valley has bad UX.
There is also .rest (for APIs ), .run and .codes ;)
It's the multi-head attention that you're seeing in action. ChatGPT has 12, GPT-3 has 96.
>This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how (labor) markets work

No, it usually is a disagreement on how they should work (usually with the conventional way presented as some inviolatable physical law).

But that's irrelevant, as I wasn't aiming to critique labor markers and capitalism in the comment, or say that a "company exists in order to funnel all its profit to its workers".

That whatever they pay will be shaped by supply and demand and acceptable to people in the job market looking for a job is a given, a tautology actually.

Still, how well a company pays depends on how much of its profit it gives away. That whatever it does end paying will be ammenable to "supply and demand" doesn't mean there aren't companies paying well above market value for the same roles as others who pay less - even if the former don't need to do that to get employees.
Definitely, yes.. particularly with HDMI cables and similarly complicated tech. But the problem is then that they basically don't work properly. The problem with audiophiles is that they think that these kinds of digital problems are like analog problems and will first affect details in the music.. like e.g. a low-pass filter would. Making the bass sound less crisp, or the violin muddy. While in reality, if you were connected directly to a partially working digital transmission system with no error correction or buffering, you would instead experience the equivalent of yanking out the cable of an electric guitar without first muting the amp input. Or the sound of throwing your hifi amp through the nearest glass door. Or at least horrible squeaks. Not a subtle degradation of sound quality for sure.
I find this a bit incoherent. It argues that OpenAI, having the better tech and grabbing a big chunk of revenues, chose to give up margin to make it less attractive to startups to enter the market.

If so, I don’t think its falling costs that’s the problem, but falling prices.
> but seriously, how many people does it take to run old, established, (micro)blogging platform?

How many people does it take to run an international advertisement platform with a microblogging service?

I mean it is all a matter of framing here. I hardly believe most of twitter staff has been developers and systems people, but many people who talk with potential customers, deal with specific problems that arise from being present in 200+ countries etc. If you're doing that seriously that takes a certain amount of people.

Also: of course a company can downsize. But it matters how it is done. Defending the disregard for the human lives the way this was done had wins you nothing except the chance to be affected by similar methods yourself in the future.

That aside: Tech used to be cool in a time where tech people didn't have to care for all of that. When it was just us building our lego towers. But now lego towers run the world and building them the same with disregard for the outside world would be truly deranged.
Also a very nice shout out to my favourite show in the article : Halt and Catch Fire.
You can buy put options on the bank. I ran some numbers and it costs about 2%/year to buy out of money puts to hedge a 50% decline for Bank of America. This should be enough
Here's an example of testing: https://github.com/trpc/examples-next-prisma-starter/blob/ma...
If you get some new hardware that doesn't quite work, are you able to do anything with the OS to get it working?
> A bad-faith request for a source is just an attempt to waste the other person’s time.

Why not add a source to begin with, so others don't have to "waste" their time asking for one/looking one up?

With anything that's citing numbers, or statements by some official person or institution, that's imho a no-brainer.

Particularly as a Google search can yield wildly different results based on location, search history, and wording of the search request. So assuming everybody else can "Just Google it", is often not very useful.

> There’s also the risk that the request for a source just devolves into an argument about the quality of the source, which basically torpedos the discussion.

You call it a risk, I call it an opportunity to fact-check if the original claim is actually true, or just one of the many headlines that take liberties for sensationalism.

It's also an opportunity to establish a "base truth" that people can agree on as a premise, to start a discussion from.

That's not a given when people from often vastly different educational, socio-economic, cultural and language backgrounds interact with each other, as it constantly happens online.
Can you make it reproduce parts of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
Humans have to act on the knowledge they generate and live (or not) with the consequences of it. If AI never has to test any of the knowledge, they get no feedback on what's good or bad.

If you read online that you can eat a Tide Pod, you'll find out pretty quickly whether that information was correct or not, and you'll write your own report (or maybe your surviving family will) about how that worked out.

AI will only scrape and generate random iterations with no testing. If it reads 50 posts saying to eat tide pods, and 50 posts saying not to, then it will generate randomly to eat it or not, depending on how the RNG falls. It will never be able to randomly generate enough posts to create accurate information without anyway to test it.
The problem of whomever is in control of ChatGPT (or some other model) to slant and flavor it in the direction of their own preference combined with the problem of the AI being perceived as some sort of magical oracle by regular users.

Not only do I agree with you that it cannot be made "unbiased", I would imagine whichever direction it happens to tilt in, it will continue veering off into with time, as the web and future datasets fill up with such answers -- unless clearly labeled somehow.

It is not difficult to conceive of how this thing might be weaponized not only to push a favored agenda unto the masses but even just as a perfect outrage machine for pure profit. This shit needs to come with a warning label like cigarettes and movies. ChatGPT Fox News Edition, ChatGPT MSNBC edition..

Rather than masquerade as omnipotent and impartial.
You didn't give any answer to the question. I'm sorry you find the idea that human cognition is just an emergent property of billions of connected weights nihilistic.

Even when we know that physically, that's all that's going on. Sure, many orders more dense and connected than current LLMs, but it's only a matter of time and bits before they catch up.

Grab a book on neurology.
Did it get any better at generating MIDI or ABC or other musical notation? I'm wondering how much more general GPT4 is now.
Tbf nothing about twitter was or is classy. The org was a dumpster fire before and it’s still a dumpster fire just a different one.
It's one of the early waves of blogs, popular on the early internet. I don't think it was really "relevant"/popular in the last 5-10 years, but I might be wrong.
Maybe you and the other user (ljf) are both right, but we'll probably never know. All of the people I know who had covid, including my 84 and 87 year old grandmas had no lasting effects. It run through them like a flu.

I don't even know if I had it or not because I never got tested nor vaccinated for it. Same as my gf, her sister and her sister's boyfriend.

The only person who mentioned lasting effects was my uncle, who is a known hypochondriac, and it was all over the place: lack of strength and brain fog, and other weird symptoms. After a while he just stopped talking about it. I've seen lots of people claiming all sorts of symptoms for covid and long covid: impotence, menstruation issues, constipation, ear pain, tinnitus, etc. So many that it's impossible to really determine if that's what's causing it or if other million of things that could be going wrong in the human body (including suggestion/nocebo).
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I'd argue that understanding the math, ideally having written it yourself at least once, gives you a massive advantage when using an API later. If you don't understand the math, you might find yourself wondering why certain things don't work as you expect, or copy-pasting code you don't understand from Stack Overflow (or doing enough research to understand the math anyway).

I think a very illustrative case for OpenGL is what's up with all the glPushMatrix(), glPopMatrix(), GL_MODELVIEW and GL_PROJECTION stuff. Do you glTranslatef() or glRotatef() first -- and why does that depend on whether you're moving the camera or an object?

I found all this very confusing, and I'd just try permutations of the calls until things worked, which is a suboptimal way to write software. At some point I decided to really understand what was going on, to the extent that I ended up teaching it (best way to verify if you really understand something!) and even writing about it [0] (even better way?)

TLDR: Even as the user as an opaque API, understanding what's happening under the hood makes you a better user of said opaque API.

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For the love of god you can get for hundreds of thousands of dollars actual senior engineers from Europe. It's baffling that US companies are not doing it.
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How the fck is this possible in US?
Try similar things in EU and you would have police commando waiting for you in wrecked offices.
Because this would be viewed as major fraudulent activity. No reporting, no nothing.

Also why some random guy in random small branch is responsible for money on the account? Here, nobody cares. You close the account, ok no problem see ya.
Switch to a track ball, mouse is bad for your wrist.
For comparison, South Korea government's budget (that was just approved a few months ago) was $498.89 billion USD. https://www.reuters.com/article/southkorea-economy-budget/so...
If that happens, then you'll be receiving the censored version available to folks at the $1000/mo price point. For subscriptions at the $10k/mo price point, a less censored version, and onward.

There is no reason not to practice customer segmentation in this scenario.
Yes, the whole salami slice expansion method seems to be designed, to use other diplomats as an abblative layer for empire expansion. Basically using your oponents wish for peace to slowly expand creeping.

And there is a whole diplomat generation standing by to be useful idiots again if not an example is placed like a statue every 3 generations.
Would love to see these offerings being available in the Ashburn VA location.
You are wrong. It does have encoded memory of what it has seen, encoded as a matrix.

A brain is structurally different, but the mechanism of memory and recall is comparable though the formulation and representation is different.

Why isn't a human just a statistic token machine with memory? I know you experience it as being more profound, but that isn't a reason that it is.
That's a lot of anything to dose with.

It reminds me a bit of the datasheet for sodium chloride - common table salt - that describes the skin contact LD50 (the amount that is a lethal dose for 50% of a population of test rabbits) as ">25kg".

So what do we read from that? If you drop a sack of salt weighing as much as an eight-year-old child on a series of rabbits, roughly half of them will die? I can't say I'm *very* surprised...
That's exactly one of my use cases, I have setup runner for 2 projects last week and action runtime went down by a large margin, from 10-15 to 3-4 minutes.

I use single dedicated server that costs ~40EUR/month, AX41-NVME, and each runner is a separate user account to allow for some isolation.

Depending on your setup, you might need to spent some time adjusting jobs to have proper setup/cleanup and isolation between them (but it's not really Hetzner specific, just general issue).
This. It applies in personal life too.

In the post covid world, I find many young engineers fall into the trap of squeezing more yield out of their meagre savings early in their career through financial engineering rather than focusing on their personal development and growing in their actual professional lives.

All the amateur investors who made big returns in the 2020-22 period and thought they figured it out will now have a hard time making sense of the markets in the new regime of high interest rates.
I proposed this here!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35161630
I'm afraid this was quite a meandering story and didn't seem to have a point.

I think it could be summed up as:

Republicans have done things which have alienated California.

Democrats are now unafraid of the voters as they know they will win, so are taking bribes.

This means the DMV is inefficient and corrupt.

The author was able to get smog certification from a Chinese lady

Therefore foreigners are the pressure valve for the system by introducing bribery

The rest of America doesn't have this issue, only Europe, therefore Democrats bad
More and more content will be co-authored by AI, but as long as humans make semantic edits there should be information there.
I had this conversation with fellow developers but about software. If all software is generated then the state of the art will be stuck at the time of the last human made project.

This assumes, of course, that the AI generated software won't have any creativity and is only a derivative work, which might not be the case, we don't know yet.

And this also applies to Paul Graham's thought.
Same here, but I don't expect some sort of magic happening. Big tech likely know every detail of my kids anyway. It's just your social circle and bad apples within that you wanna be sure of.
Apple puts their money in their own huge fund called Braeburn.

That's why you're not seeing the money.
memcpy wouldn't, but memmove would. memcpy doesn't check for or care about overlaps (and therefore the result is unpredictable - it'll depend on the implementation)
I worry (And I assume this is either dismissed or a core concern in the field because it's so obvious) that the coming generations of models will use a lot of input from existing models.

Will we be chasing "untainted" input (pre-2022 data) just like we chase low-background steel (pre-WW2) for sensitive machinery? Should we be "tagging" generated data NOW when it's published in large chunks like images, long texts?
or scam old people into buying gift cards that it then resells for AWS credits