skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they don't seem to have any serious Emacs person in their team. So, like so many people who try and build editors in the last few decades, they seem to miss some fundamental things (while focusing on other worthy things like the core rope+crdt enabling fast local & collaborative editing).

They talk about things like having a plug-in type system in the future based on e.g. WASM but, as you're pointing out, their fundamental perspective is built around the simplistic notion of a control panel with fixed functionality that's primarily accessed via a bizarre set of keymaps. On this front, might as well stick with JetBrains.
A company exists, and it has a loan on a building that it uses.

It does nothing else, the building is worth $100m and the loan amount is $95m.

So the company is worth $5m (the difference) and you could buy it for about that much (ignore whatever the company might DO with the building).

But now the real estate market crashed, the building could only be sold for $80m, but the loan is still $95m. Now the company is worth -$15m. So you could buy it for a dollar, but you still have a building worth less than the loan on it.
- "Commercial greens are often made with pigment green 7, which contains chlorine and can’t be recycled or composted safely."

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Indeed, I had started to write something similar. And pretty clearly animals like Dolphins or Chimps when they exercise their general intelligence don't do it by manipulation of language tokens.

BTW I tried to get Chat-GPT to solve a problem chimpanzees have been observed being able to solve (using an inverted bowl to stand on in order to reach some bananas):

"I'm sorry, but it is not biologically plausible for a chimpanzee to use a bowl of water to access bananas on a tree"
I will, assuming I buy him enough drinks, I am sure I will wriggle it out of him. That little F---er.
That is quite a claim.
Would be cool if true. Do you have any references to back this up?
Why would scaling up turn a model that strings tokens together into something that can reason by itself, unprompted, with intent?
Is there somewhere I can see your Stable Diffusion + torch.compile code? I am interesting in how you integrated.
there are plenty of pointless poorly thought out protocols that have nothing to do with speculation of customer deposits

but do increase operating costs unnecessarily
I really miss Atom...
I think that what this guy is doing has promise. I think the basic idea has a lot of potential in other areas.

I spend a bunch of time each year researching where I give my charitable contributions. I want the money to stay local and actually help people, not spent on lobbying or high salaries. It means talking with people and actually seeing with my own two eyes how the money gets spent.

I've had people I know ask me for my list. At first I thought this is personal and my priorities may not be yours. But they explained that they want to help the community but have neither the interest or the time to do the amount of legwork that I do.

So I could see a non-profit making this all available on a website similar to what this guy is doing.
What’s the lesson here? That software is insecure? Or that you shouldn’t trust your friends? Sad.
Dems had the Senate and House. Stop with the gaslighting. If you want to let them pull the wool over your eyes over and over and blame the guy that's been out of office for 3 years for their failures, I guess you kinda deserve what you get.
> What is this talk about "rescuing" Python performance?

Which part don't you like:

That python is relatively slow?
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Or that people are trying to fix its slowness?
See the thread you're currently in.
What are you doing to your database? Lol

Most databases I’ve dealt with will happily outstrip Python for a good chunk of the common queries.
These language models are more than just autocomplete. Palm-E uses them for robotic planning and control, toolformer uses them to make arbitrary API calls, and gpt4 can build websites from napkin drawings. You really can’t imagine how an LLM of that nature could be used to automate food production and distribution?

This technology is going to permeate all levels of the supply chain and drive down costs. Don’t bury your head in the sand too long or you might be part of those “costs” that are eliminated.
So is the value-add that the customers of Company-A (who is your customer) entrust you with credentials to their databases versus entrusting Company-A with them directly?
We have such a vengeance and retribution obsession in the US. Priaon should be about rehabilitation. Nothing else seems to be bringing down the recidivism rate, maybe it's worth a try.
No, never. HN is pretty much the only social media I use, the rest of it is not really my thing.
"Please let me die and don't use my intellectual corpse, that I have left here in writing, as a handpuppet for all eternity"
A lot of it depends on how often the prosecutor and the judge go to social events and golfing. Most defense attorneys can not beat the corrupt system and aren't willing to risk their career for one client.
IME, Zed's real & perceived performance is way better than Sublime.
Ask HN: Which SaaS boilerplate features should I seek in my project?
We are building an app from scratch and about to choose a framework agnostic SaaS boilerplate. My question is, what should I look for in terms of features? Is there a feature you wouldn't wan to miss if you were to build a SaaS app? Pricing is not a factor here.
The best quip I saw was some saying they'd changed their name from Credit Suisse to Debit Suisse.
Unreal is used in TV quite often, yes. But no major studios use it for theatric releases, and I'm not aware of any who plan to. (Partner is in the industry)
I run an ecommerce business, and pretty much always always block customers who file a chargeback or dispute.

They're completely draining to deal with, usually fraudulent, and the only way to win one is to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the buyer is lying.
> surely having exclusive access to a parallel renderer of this quality is a competitive advantage to other studios?

The renderer is an important of the VFX toolkit, but there are more than a few production-quality renderers out there, some of them are even FOSS. A studio or film's competitive advantage is more around storytelling and art design.
It really cool to hear from you. Was excited when I saw your post. Such amazing times!
Absolutely. Check out this document for example:

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...

> All Transactions are final.

Purchased something by mistake? Tough.

> If technical problems prevent or unreasonably delay delivery of Content, your exclusive and sole remedy is either replacement of the Content or refund of the price paid, as determined by Apple.

Unhappy? Your only recourse is to beg Apple for your money back. They may say no.

> From time to time, Apple may suspend or cancel payment or refuse a refund request if we find evidence of fraud, abuse, or unlawful or other manipulative behavior that entitles Apple to a corresponding counterclaim.

These corporations think charge backs are evidence of abuse and fraud, so yeah.

> c. Termination. This Standard EULA is effective until terminated by you or Licensor. Your rights under this Standard EULA will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any of its terms.

Your fraudulent chargebacks are reason enough for them to kill your account, invalidating every dime you ever spent on it.

There's no point in even reading these silly documents. They're all the same, everywhere. Always assume they do this.
I believe the entire executive is without a job. Likewise with board. Shareholders will be able to get what they can that is left over after depositors are made whole, but that seems like it will be effectively zero.

As for consequences beyond that? Unsure.

Hopefully the CEO (now on his second failed bank) doesn't "fail upwards". I mean it's one thing to have a poorly performing bank on your resume... it's another to have two banks forcibly closed by the FDIC.
This particular type of response blows my mind... "They were hiding their behavior... Therefore we don't need regulation."

When regulation fails, we update it to cover what we learned. When someone hides from regulation, we update the criminal codes. Regulation's goal is to steer behavior, not be a Minority Report for balance sheets.
That is when you have to go to the Deep Archives™ (completely distinct from the Depp Archives®).
It always feels achievable in five years. People were saying exactly this 30 years ago.

Sooner or later it may (or may not) be a true statement, but it's awfully hard for me to say that it's any different right now than it has been before.
Bunch of mentions of cold start problem here already.

I at first assumed this book was just its title, and was some combination of 'launch to a lot of people in a narrow space' plus 'personal value precedes network value'.

There's actually a lot more in it, especially about the granularity of scaling at uber.

For me the book landed after I'd already tried and failed to start a network by onboarding individuals. The 'atomic networks' stuff in there is gold. (Though for someone like me who learns through failure, I needed to try everything else before the message landed).
> It is clear based on the following study that even exclusive pipe smoking causes a variety of cancers:

That's awesome. Please cite which paragraph mentions "natural tobacco," because here "pipe smokers" is ambiguous, and even pipe tobacco can be treated to not only increase its nicotine content, but also be infused with carcinogenic additives to make the final product more addictive, and thereby also making it more deadly (not due to it's addictiveness directly, but by the chemicals that cause it to be more addictive, such as adding ammonia), In fact, it is standard practice for major brands of pipe tobacco to treat the tobacco to turn it into something that should be distinguished as "not tobacco," so unless the study distinguishes between natural and treated tobacco smokers, it is a flawed study.

Is it really so impossible to believe that you were lied to and believe total crap? Tobacco, natural tobacco without any carcinogenic chemicals added, does not cause cancer.
Same with congress. Proportional to population representation in congress, even at Wyoming population level would see around 3000 representatives.

There’s a 700k to one mismatch and too much power in the hands of too few people.

There would be a lot more room for more political parties too, breaking up the duopoly can only be good regardless of your leanings.

The tents are too broad.

Interesting to think about.
> Ask it to solve novel mathematical and logic problems

How exactly do you define novel tasks and problems?

My brother has had it do his programming homework (he's a teenager), written in Greek mind you and therefore novel task to the first-degree, and it succeeded. Thus it solved a logic task [1].

I have had ChatGPT parse math I had written in LaTeX and reach a correct result, do modifications and so on.

> Further, an AGI should logically attempt to "improve" its understanding of the world during a conversation, yet chat GPT never initiates a topic or asks you anything at all (even to clarify what you mean). It also repeatedly reminds you that it is only a language model.

Anecdata: I asked Bing (GPT4) to answer a few stuff and it asked for clarification twice in a row. The fact that it repeatedly clarifies its prompt is not a limitation of the underlying model as much as it is a limitation of the interface that injects a prompt. Dan and all the other jailbreaks out there bypass that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
And then we do what to uphold the rule of law?
What you describe are hardware failures, and as I said they detect hardware failures. When the server goes down, they are on it by themselves.

But somes issues are not failures and you have to work on them on your side.

Most of the time the raid is software nowadays for example.

IPv6 works fine for my many servers at OVH.
How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects
This whole thing is so weird. Why do so many organizations depend on the internet to function?

It wasn't too long ago that it was standard practice to vendor your dependencies; that is, dump your dependencies into a vendor/ directory and keep that directory updated and backed up.

But now, you all think it's 100% acceptable to just throw your hands up if github is down, or a maven repository is down, or docker hub makes a policy change?

Every year that goes by it becomes clear that we are actually regressing as a profession.
Other examples would be the goods or services paid for never being actually delivered or being significantly differently that what was promised.
This key point is this:

> In a tough funding environment, it provides the San Francisco- and Dublin-based group with enough new capital to meet billions of dollars of tax liabilities associated with employees’ stock units, but also leaves it with a new valuation of $50bn — far below its peak of $95bn in 2021.

They have had to take a massive haircut in valuation in order to raise capital to pay employees tax liabilities, due to failing to have a liquidity event in the last 10 years.

They must be kicking themselves they didn't IPO in 2019.
Oh how terrible. Must be awful losing your job while raking in millions off the stock you sold beforehand and then getting re-hired at the next massive bank that does the same thing.

These people rarely go to jail, and if they do it's a minimum sentence in low security white-collar "jail". The politicians will do everything they can to keep their donors donating.

The fact they ARE and continue engaging in this behavior right now proves you're just wrong about any possible "risk" they perceive.
> carving breasts into rocks and crafting cloth into petals.

The anti-parallelism of this phrase is epic.
If anything it’s the opposite issue that could be the nail in the coffin - wealthy Chinese are pulling their money out after Switzerland decided to adopt sanctions against Russians.
Revolving treasury bills
Scene: Big Meeting Of Venture Capital Conspiracy Club
Honcho 1: Guys, here's the game plan: We tell all our startups to pull their money out of SVB, triggering a run on the bank, triggering other runs all the way out to Credit Suisse!
Honcho 2: Just how much crack have you smoked today?
Honcho 1: No, see, this will convince the fed to stop raising interest rates!
Honcho 2: Oooooh. And then we can borrow more Easy Money!
Honcho 3: From who?
Honcho 1: Hmmm
Honcho 2: Fuck
Do no know this particular tool but some automated language to language transpilers I saw produce the code one would not be able to comprehend never mind edit if the need comes.
> King County Jail in Seattle

What's notably bad about this one?
Based on George Hotz's testing it is very broken. It's possible it has improved since then, I guess but he streamed this a few weeks ago.
The company structure is quite unclear to me, but I remember the early days of 'Mint Sim', founded or cofounded by Rizwan Kassim.

That guy was on the subreddit basically acting as one man tech support, billing, and customer service. Always respected the heck out of that. Hope he made out like a bandit, his work ethic was off the charts.
<< Governments, even the US government, can't actually enforce the laws as written because if they did then the entire financial industry would collapse overnight from mass staff exodus.

This.

Treasury recently had to send a note via remarks to indicate to banks that 'derisking' resulting defensive SAR filing may be overdoing it. Naturally, some regulators will question every instance SAR was not filed so the banks are in weird "punching bag" position.
Enzyme enhances, erases long-term memories in rats
President's Manchin and Sinema would like a word.
DB is next. The math is just so bad there, and has been for a decade now, that it's inevitable.
Can someone a lot smarter than me give a basic explanation as to why something like this can run at a respectable speed on the CPU whereas Stable Diffusion is next to useless on them? (That is to say, 10-100x slower, whereas I have not seen GPU based LLaMA go 10-100x faster than the demo here.) I had assumed there were similar algorithms at play.
Well, Adam Smith argued that companies following selfish priorities and benefits is in the direction of societal benefit. (As long as all externalities like environmental pollution are priced in, but that isn't really relevant for OpenAI.)

It's really the bedrock of modern economics. Invisible hand of the market and all that.
Developers do. It comes out of their margins.

If game developers and publishers could get the same audience without steam and the 30% tax, they would in a heartbeat.

They'd probably cut the price a little to expand sales and enjoy the wider margin. Margin that could be spent on salaries and growth.

Thankfully Valve is investing its proceeds in developing competitive products that enrich the industry and not just skimming.
Previous discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897707
"this really isn't the AGI I thought we were going to get"

This is the only possible outcome. Or at least from my interpretation is that science fiction has jaded us with the thinking that AI will be anything like a person at all. The human mind is a particular set of filters controlled by our wetware input devices and a somewhat narrow survivability window. The software we're building has a completely different set of 'mind' conditions so it's a mathematical certainty we're going to build mind that works very different from ours.

As you say we need better sets of definitions on what general intelligence even means. For example, what are the limits of human intelligence to ensure we're not missing broad categories of potential intelligence when testing AIs.
The solar system is a chaotic, dynamical, and n-body system though, so the 1 or 2-body problems involved in delta-v calculations are much more simple. In addition, Mercury's mass is low, relatively speaking.
Ctrl-F "Graphene". Nobody has mentioned GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS and a Pixel phone are about as private and secure as you can get whilst maintaining good usability of a smartphone in 2023.

Highly recommended, no affiliation.
They are neither buyers nor sellers, they have a marketplace business model.
https://www.bluecart.com/blog/marketplace-business-model#:~:....
Though its mentioned in the paper that it didn't succeed, so we are safe, for now.
> It's kind of easy to be neutral when you're landlocked inside NATO

I guess you think that NATO is why the Swiss people added a neutrality clause to the constitution of the Swiss Confederation during the Restoration in 1815?
Posed Riddles: Seeing Through Empathy with Diane Arbus
Do organizations really schedule interviews a month in advance? I've never experienced that.
Heroku Open Source Software Credit Program – For Projects Hosted on Heroku
Do different banks pay different amounts into FDIC insurance based on how risky the FDIC considers them? If so then it’s really the FDIC adjusting their risk model to treat most mid-size banks as likely to cause systemic failures if they fail, and requiring the riskiest banks to cover the cost for that updated model based on how likely the FDIC believes they are to fail.

I don’t know that pricing insurance based on the actual cost of the potential external harm can really be considered a tax increase.
No. In the USA they are innocent until proven guilty.

It’s not a gray area.

The status is changed upon conviction and only upon conviction.

De jure at least.

Not defacto as you went on to discuss.
Basically all you did was take a few existing games (all of which aren't even yours), and added google ads...
CEO of Company Nobody's Heard Of Feigns Outrage at Large, Successful Company in Sad Attempt to Generate Publicity
It’s a tab on the left side - no extensions required.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/sourcecontrol/overview
Surprised nobody has mentioned this, but it looks like it implements the render kernels in ISPC^, which is a tool that exposes a CUDA-like SPMD model that runs over the vector lanes in the CPU.

ISPC is also used by Disney's Hyperion renderer, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326662420_The_Desig...

Neat!

^ https://ispc.github.io/
> This is already done by MacOS with its incessant "app X wants to access files in Y".

Of course this happens a lot after installing a new machine. Once I have my machine running however, I don't encounter this anymore. I think it has to do with the fact that I very infrequently install new applications.
Except no one uses unreal for movies..
If you don't have 60 seats in the Senate, you don't control it under current rules. 41 Senators is all it takes to declare a bill filibustered and dead.

These rules are a severe perversion of the intention of a filibuster. They absolutely should be undone, but both parties are too afraid of giving up power when they have less than the majority. It's obscene and a perfect illustration of American politics.
Sounds like you could save yourself some time and budget by offering to pay for those images your are using?
I get your point about financial tricks. I've read the tax harvesting many owners use/do as well. Advertising and Real estate are also bonafide revenue streams, but arguably not good enough of a return by in itself. Also real estate, etc are huge projects, and not just bought for land to appreciate. A lot of it requires careful and strategic planning. It will not always work out.

But, it's missing my point that many owners are getting a 10x return on their investment when they flip the sports team mostly due to the brand going up in value, being a luxury item for the wealthy, or a status symbol, and hence growing 10x in Therefore, many new owners, and prospective ones at that as your example, the ones buying football or soccer teams...like the tech CEOs, hedge funds or Oil money, etc do so to either flip the trade to make 10x, or buy a brand to associate with for status.
Notes from a Bank Run
If you already have and Amazon account you can get a free compute instance. There's no gui but it comes with python3 and lua already installed. About the only thing useful is it gives you a chance to learn some of the (very complex) AWS ecosystem.

https://aws.amazon.com/console/

edit:

With the shell that's created for AWS CloudShell sessions, you can switch seamlessly between your preferred command-line shells. More specifically, you can switch between Bash, PowerShell, and Z shell. You also have access to pre-installed tools and utilities. These include git, make, pip, sudo, tar, tmux, vim, wget, and zip.

The shell environment is pre-configured with support for leading software languages. For example, you can run Node.js and Python projects without needing to first perform runtime installations. PowerShell users can use the .NET Core runtime.
> They asserted that by upscaling it, pixels had been added to the image which may not reflect what the camera actually captured.

I think it's undeniable that pixels were added; that video looks like it's lower resolution than an iPad's display. There have to be pixels added to make it even full-screen, much less zoom in.

I think the underlying question was whether pinch to zoom does nearest-neighbor upscaling (i.e. each pixel becomes a 2x2 block of the same color), or whether it does something more clever to "guess" at what those pixels would have looked like (something like averaging the pixels nearest to it).

The former seems fine to me. It preserves the original image, and zooming in really only gives you a blockier representation of the original. The latter is inventing things the camera didn't capture, and the method of interpolation could substantially alter the resulting image. Wikipedia has a pretty good example of both next to each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scaling