skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought 2G was still being supported for emergency services in the USA?
I'm not saying there's no FBI involvement; I'm saying they don't delivery security and for some reason nobody expects them to do so.

If there is a rash of bank robberies or terrorist activity we expect performance from the FBI. If there is rash of criminal activity on the Internet, we expect the FBI to help out but don't expect actual security.

The FBI or DOJ need an electronic infrastructure enforcement division (I despise the sci-fi term 'cyber').
They didn’t ask for a perfectly reasonable explanation.
> If they want equity, they should sell long-term secured loans with LVRs under 100% or lock in my cash with term deposits or any number of other less liquid asset classes.

Exactly. Banks get special sweet deal privileges for their “superior” ability to manage risk and they still haven’t come up with a way to protect against a few days of rumors? I don’t buy it. Either it’s extreme incompetence, world record complacency or there’s some meta play where someone makes money off it.

And yeah, I’d be super happy to lock in deposits in exchange for a higher interest rate, it’s a dead simple financial product that nobody offers. Failing at running a bank seems to me like losing in tic tac toe as a first mover. This is why people turned to crypto. Not saying it’s good yet, but doing better than the current financial system is a low bar.
It has a self destruct feature that wipes all of it's internal software. I don't believe they have any sort of explosive self destruct.
I replicated the GPT-4 “napkin” demo using ASCII wireframe
Fair point. They don't really believe in anything but their own egos. Everything else espoused is in temporary service of their true dogma.
> We already have all the required cryptographic primitives (which you've already alluded to in d ) to completely address a), b) and d) if desired.

Do we? My mother can barely keep the Russian DNS servers out of her home router. You want to entrust the public with individual cryptographic keys?
It is a bit unstable... we have all these things because we keep people working and it makes the rich insanely rich. If too many people get unemployed then that threatens the rich with violence.

But when we get to the point that bots both fight for the rich and make the rich peoples stuff then there is no real reason for the current system to remain.
It works for data and calls, not fast but since not much falls to it anymore it seems to rarely be congested. My coverage with it was always better than with their 3G network and I used it years past its prime for conserving battery (until they deployed low-band LTE). You need at least a 3G device to use new sim cards to get on 2G but if you've been a customer a long time and you haven't changed cards, there are still activated ones in the wild that work with old devices (I was able to get calls and SMS to work on a t68i, but needed to use a w810i to get working data when I tried a few months back).
tl;dr altitude is lower than it should be

https://archive.is/gzNG0
What's fun is that the recent references to LoRA stands for Low-Rank Adaptation [1], not Low-Resource Adapters[2] (??? don't know if this even exists), but because Low-Rank Adaptation came out in 2021, chatgpt only explains what Low-Resource Adapters is, not Low-Rank Adaptation, which is what is being used in recent break throughs.

My own questioning of chatgpt on LoRA returns "Logistic Regression Algorithm" instead. Looks like it's too new to ChatGPT.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
[2] https://rentry.co/vafkn
> If I’ve spent 8 hours getting the perfect prompt, fine tuning a few LORAs, mixing them, choosing between 8 different checkpointed stable diffusion models, and have done a bunch of in painting, does this constitute a copyrightable work?

The 8 hours doesn’t matter. By the USCO’s ruling, iterative prompt refinement probably wouldn’t, but that’s not super clear (partially, because the USCO’s description of what the model is doing justifying its determination is a fundamentally strained metaphor, so while its clear how it applies to the exact case it describes, its not clear how it generalizes.)

If you are fine-tuning a model (LORA, Checkpoint, whatever), then your input isn’t just a prompt to the model (once or in an iterative process with review of the output), so, your pretty far outside of where the ruling provides clear guidance.

> and have done a bunch of in painting,

inpainting is probably the thing most (even though it again involves prompting, it involves specific selection of where within the image to apply that based on aesthetic concerns) similar to the traditional creative parts of visual art, and the strongest argument given the shape of the USCO description of its rule.

But, I have a feeling that that a rule that appeals to tradition and vague analogy to lower tech visual techniques probably won’t be anywhere close to the final word on copyrightability in this space.
Thanks, I see a few things in a search.
I just think that if the AI is smarter than GPT-4, it will understand the human's lack of words Prompt.
I certainly can in my 2019 86.
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> These two "principles" are in tension with each other, so it will be interesting to see how selfless (...) or how selfish this group will be.

These aren't really in tension with each other at all.

> (do what's best for Bandcamp, even it means I need to lose my job or get paid less or get less time off etc. etc.)

Unions aren't particularly afraid of layoffs. They'll fight reductions in force (RIF) and unnecessary layoffs but the main focus is guaranteeing that those individuals who are let go get compensated adequately and are provided a sufficient cushion to bounce back and find their next job.

When it comes to priorities, number 1 and 2 are equally that the company survives and benefits are not cut. If you have to let people go to meet those priorities that is fine but as soon as you start carving away at peoples' hard earned benefits, then all of a sudden any perceived bump in the road can be used to undermine the union and your benefits.
I know (and I support many streamers actually, 4 on a permanent basis) but in some cases it is useful.
Ask HN: Cloudflare DNS Broke for a Bit?
I use Cloudflare DNS to run my homelab and it points to the (internal) IP of my LDAP server. Cloudflare DNS was returning no A record for my LDAP domain, causing login to break on every one of my homelab services.

Was there a problem with Cloudflare DNS?
Sounds like OCaml.
Seems kind of presumptively critical and assuming malice. Some people are just verbose.
You probably work at FAANG because you thought you should: Why I never will agin
It's not clear to me that this position is wrong, but it seems wildly inconsistent with our policy that every photograph I take is protected by copyright, no matter how inane and low effort. I have images I generated with Craiyon (then Dall-E Mini) into which I put way more creative effort than any of the photos on my phone.
There are 4 million books published each year. 4 million!
There will be times when those principles are in tension, yes, but they’re not contradictory. Bandcamp is created by workers. In most instances, what’s best for the workers as a collective is also what’s best for Bandcamp as a company.
You could onboard a bot a lot quicker than a new human employee. Maybe we'll see agencies that contract out bots to businesses.
Hey don't knock my Netcraft Toolbar for IE 6!
I'm with you re. short functions. Setting boundaries around code, i.e. scope, and giving that behaviour a well-defined signature (i.e. a descriptive name, what it needs, and what it gives back) makes it easier to reason about the overall functionality. Giant functions reduce my confidence that any given change isn't going to introduce a problem.

I like to imagine each execution path through a function as a piece of string. The fewer strings, the fewer kinks, and the less string overall, the easier it is for my monkey brain to handle most of the time. Yes this is 'cyclomatic complexity', but strings are nicer visually :)
yeah, it has that GPT style, sounds like a rushed story
Conservancy says the GPLv3 doesn't prevent a vendor from breaking their proprietary software when GPLv3 software is updated (which is what TiVo did, for GPLv2 software):

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
Unpopular opinion : the government shouldn’t protect your art from getting used as training data. The government shouldn’t protect your generated art from being copied. Intellectual property is not real property. Nothing is being taken from you. Force is only justified in response to force, and you don’t get the right to throw someone in jail for “stealing” something you still have.
My favorite is Javanese where the alphabet order forms a poem about two emissaries killing each other: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script
System design...that's the hard stuff. Nothing better than having GPT solve easy problems for me. I still have to do the hard work.
same with art and code
This is laughable. I won't start on how it's my money and all that jazz, so just one thing: keeping your money and your clients' money in a bank that is on the verge of a bank run is not a sign of valor, it's either a sign of being stupid and irresponsible, or a sign that you know something that others don't.
I’ve been joking-not-joking that the Butlerian Jihad might end up coming for all us programmers in the not-too-distant future, for exactly this reason. Could you really blame them?
No of course I don’t know everything and there’s lots I used to know but have forgotten.

But I do feel fortunate that I got to see a lot of the modern abstraction come into being so I have a vague idea of what they’re abstracting and why. That helps a lot.
> Isn't a big blocker in this space the fact that when you can hide behind a digital license to use a copy of the game the potential that you may, at some point in the future, be unable to deliver a copy of that game to the consumer isn't a big issue?

It is for online only things, but if you buy a game and download it that shouldn't come with some assumption or requirement that I can forever re-download a copy. If I buy a download, it's fair to expect me to backup the thing I purchased. That works for music, movies, and ebooks - any DRM that requires a connection to some server, or an account should allow for transfers and companies who use that kind of DRM should be required to notify owners and patch the DRM out of products if the company no longer wants to maintain the servers and accounts provide that protection.

MMOs are still a problem since you aren't selling the game, just access to the systems that run it, but I think most people understand that.
Well, this is definitely the first time I’ve ever heard Lesswrongers described as conservative.
Autotuning of voices uses AI- Songs using autotune are partially AI generated.
it’s way more fulfilling doing impactful work for one than for a billion

I would love to create something a billion folks found useful.
Do unions exist in Turkey or are these trade associations essentially non-legally protected unions?
I recently unsubscribed from YouTube TV because it had an insane number of ads for watching one episode of a favorite show. I think I counted a total of 8 breaks in the show and each break has 1-5 ads. What a joke.
The interesting part to me is, these "non-technical" coworkers aren't proposing simpler solutions. When reading "Why couldn't you just do this in something simple like Word?", Word isn't what I'd call a simple program from any angle.

It's not preinstalled on most computers and costs money, it won't run everywhere (running Word on a school provided Chromebook is a world of fun), for decades it had version compatibility issues, and the current version has an UI that would make an airliner pilot feel right at home.

To me most people in the corporate environment are highly technical and have arcane knowledge of crazy complicated tools and workflows. Just not _our_ tools and workflows.

And yes, I also don't want to go buy an Office license, install Word, learn how to deal with the commenting options, what format I should save the file back, when some random person sends me a Word file. So we're all pretty alike I think.
This is the only comment that has made me less worried about AI.

If AI gets to the point where an end user can easily describe the app or website they want, however, then it won't just be the programmers who are in trouble.
Nonsense.

Things one can sell at fair value in a few mins are liquid, and things one has to sell slowly or take 80 cents on the dollar to get rid of it fast (like a house in your example) are illiquid. It's a function of buyers and process, not my accounting treatment or tax treatment or whatever other treatment might make me not like the idea of selling right now.

What's next? The FX markets aren't liquid because I don't feel like realizing a gain from a tax perspective?

>> That is not the financial world’s definition of “liquid”

Yeah, it is, to us in the financial world.
>Safe deposit boxes are very hard to come by these days.

Safe deposit boxes are also not insured.

If you put $250k of cash in a box and the bank catches on fire or gets robbed, you will most like get $0 back, while people with accounts will atleast get the FDIC insured portion of funds back.
> You mean the same neurons that don’t really exist,

“Neurons” are an abstraction that exists logically “between” the weights, but the weights themselves don’t have the features of neurons. (In that each weight is the weight of a connection between a neurons (or between a neuron and an input/output.) Weights are more synapses than neurons.
I've yet to find a better definition of art than that of Andy Warhol, who said "art is what you can get away with." Considering that both Duchamp and Cage got away with convincing the world that their work is art, it is.
> Temperature and humidity has strong impacts on the accuracy of PM measurements

How do you guys accurately measure humidity electronically?
Classes with state are a nightmare. You can never tell what has changed or where. Having the state in the hook system where it's visible to your tools and you can actually see what's changed between one render and the next is a huge win.
I've read about a lot of people having their Oracle free tier abruptly terminated with no reason stated and not allowed to download their data either. I wouldn't trust them after reading that.
> once it's roughly on par with us it'll be just as capable of innovating and trying new things

This is complete nonsense. An LLM has no ability to innovate or 'try new things'.
Sorry, you are not getting what OP was confused about.

The OP thought 10dollar of loans existed for every 1dollar of deposits. That is what I address. Instead for every say 9 dollars of loans there exists 10dollars of deposits.

You are agreeing with me. The outstanding loans are/should never be greater in value than the outstanding deposits. Aka: they should be a sub 1.0 fraction. Of course the fraction reserve aspect is the inverse ratio, itself also below 1.0.
Ask HN: Are there any good resources to learn requirements analysis?
According to my limited knowledge,most project fail due to frequently changing requirements or poorly collected requirements

Are there any interesting resources ?

As a senior developer, how do you accomplish requirements analysis?
Add one manual detail here and there on the image, they will have copyright protection.
Basebands have not had DMA for a long time. There can still be vulnerabilities, which it sounds like is what happened here, but there’s no DMA anymore on new phones.
ChatGPT Impact Differences.

db112nl@gmail.com
Why wasn't Blockchain a watershed moment but chatGPT is.

There are several factors that contribute to why blockchain and chatGPT have had different impacts on their respective fields.

Firstly, blockchain technology has had a significant impact in certain areas, particularly in the financial industry, where it has been used to create new forms of digital currency and facilitate secure and efficient transactions. However, it has not yet achieved the widespread adoption and transformative impact that some had predicted. One reason for this may be that the technology is still relatively new and complex, and many organizations are still trying to figure out how best to implement it.

In contrast, chatGPT is a language model that has been designed to understand and generate natural language text. This technology has been more widely adopted because it has a broad range of potential applications, from customer service chatbots to language translation services. Additionally, language is a fundamental aspect of human communication, which makes the potential impact of language models like chatGPT more readily apparent to people.

Another factor that may have contributed to the different impacts of blockchain and chatGPT is the level of public attention and interest. While blockchain has received significant media coverage, it has not captured the popular imagination in the same way that chatGPT has. ChatGPT has been widely publicized and has even been featured in news articles and talk shows, which has helped to raise awareness and generate interest in the technology.

In conclusion, the differences in impact between blockchain and chatGPT can be attributed to a range of factors, including the complexity and novelty of the technology, the level of public awareness, and the broad range of potential applications.
> To put a very fine point on it, the reason they had to fight (like everyone else there) is because if they didn't come up with something to do that was quantifiable and impactful in line with org goals, they'd be terminated within the year. It was their job to find a way to be useful. The system culls those who do not.

You're saying the approach "one of the most efficient companies in the history of the world" takes to producing value is: let's just hire people and let them figure out the value they can provide, otherwise we'll fire them.

Am I getting that right?

Before I've even hired someone I've already scoped and quantified the impact I need them to have. I then go find someone that is qualified to do that, and then I motivate them to do more. It is _extremely_ inefficient from an _everything_ perspective to do so in reverse. Not harsh. Not impersonal. Not even ruthless. It's objectively n. e. fish. ent.
What a great example! Would you by chance have the link to the original Tweet? It will save me some time because Twitter search is terrible!
It’s a decent start, but everything is just cheap. Lots of low-hanging fruits, ignoring anything higher up. In a way, it’s like as if I, someone who doesn’t enjoy writing, and is bad at it, wrote the story.
Take a photo of your screen! BAM. solved
Visual Basic 4 is when I fell in love with programming. I remember staying up late (school nights no less) just playing around and designing GUIs.

I had done some programming before with Pascal, C and even QBasic, but nothing was quite as fascinating as dragging and dropping fully functional controls and having them light up with functionality in minutes.

Up until a few years ago, I was still reaching out to WinForms / C# to build quick prototypes - maybe it was part nostalgia, but I didn't find anything comparable when it comes to quickly standing up a GUI prototype (for a LOB type of application, or a small utility / tool kind of thing).
Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
Because you are a cog in a machine.
These news platforms all seem to be Japanese, are there any overseas news platforms?
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I find a version of this even with fresh out of college programmers.

They just know how to type Java on an IDE, maybe some SQL (using some graphical front end), some HTML/CSS. They can't operate in a Linux dev environment at all, can't use the command line or exit vi or perform any kind of simple shell based automation or use git without a plugin for their IDE.

And they also are reluctant to learn because they are self defined into some narrow field that doesn't include all this ops trickery in our workflow that they don't consider real programming.
I’m thinking if GPT can write entire programs professionally and iterate, it would be OpenAI that benefit the most and would be a guarded asset I.e not open to public till it’s safe for release. Most of us probably don’t need to worry about work after that as that could well be AGI
Ryan and David and team, I am so happy to see this posted!

I'm quoted a few places in it. Yes, the story about the origin of the phrase "fire an event" is true and correct. I could even tell you exactly where I was sitting and which way I was facing when that event fired.

Some things stick in your mind, doobies or not.

Also mentioned is the VBX. In some ways, this may have been the worst API I ever designed. It was so bad that Microsoft eventually replaced it with COM! But it was the most successful.

If anyone has any questions, fire a comment!
How are these people "bored"?
You have access to free unlimited libraries, a wealth of knowledge and time to indulge -- and you want to build stupid widgets for an app that's already been done 50000 times before?
There's a generation of programmers that fell into software development through Visual Basic. Maybe you could say the same about the Apple II/Commodore/ Sinclair/ BBC Micro generation of computers that booted up to a BASIC prompt.
If you saw the HN thread on Thursday, there were founders posting that they were told it will be fine. How do you think they were feeling on Friday?

I mean, it was fine for them by Monday.
Same...and same stories about the founder. Not good.
In their mission statement they make themselves sound quite heroic I have to say. And, unsurprisingly, there's the obligatory nod to intersectionality. I'd be interested to know how actually popular it is. The headline makes it sound like everybody has joined but perhaps not (yet).
The only way I could parse it was the following logical chain: Lesswrongers definitely bend more libertarian than the rest of the population, and the common aphorism that "libertarians are just conservatives who like to smoke weed".

Although, with a few conversations that I have had with the "alignment" enthusiasts gave me the impression that in their opinion, many of the hot button issues like climate change/social inequality/global poverty etc. are irrelevant and not worth spending time over, because AI alignment is a much more serious threat. In that view, 90% or more of their political position overlaps with the conservative crowd ("issue X/Y/Z is not worth our time, and we should just let it happen as it does now"). So I am not surprised an outsider may label them as conservative.