skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run a ChatGPT-like model now using LLaMA + Alpaca on a regular CPU device in around 4GB of RAM. So if you want a low carbon ChatGPT-style model there are great options now.
The FCC wants to get satellite-to-smartphone service rolling
(I don't work at OpenAI so take it with a grain of salt) Yes and No they are similar. It is basically just a fancy autocomplete like llama, but I believe it's specifically been trained on chat content, or at least finetuned on such, and it probably uses a more chat focused labeling scheme on the training data as well to help it perform well on that specific task and be conversational.
Based on their disclosures today, it's clear that they're insolvent without cash infusions. Uninsured capital has left the building, they've suspended their dividend and its only a matter of time before they're bought and equity either zeroed out or purchased for pennies.

I'm sure some of these may be clawed back at some point, but its not clear that anyone will do that without the bank being taken over first by the FDIC.
"Just Chatting" is basically the fallback-category for everything non-gaming. This inflates the size massively. And yet if you take the next 2-3 biggest categories, they will combined already beat it.
Appreciate it. I'd advise to try hard to not be dismissive of even the more snide and flamey comments in this thread - their interpretations are valid from what I see posted so far.
For all heroku's done wrong it has been rock solid for us for nearly 10 years. The only outage I can remember in all that time is when they were having issues with their upstream dns a little while ago. Even this incident isn't causing any down time for us - we just can't deploy updates until it is fixed. I guess if we had a critical fix on deck it could be considered an "outage" though.

copilot cli looks cool though.
https://archive.today/w9XBM
Whatever they produce, even if it is technically brilliant, will just be lost in the ai generated noise.
Say you use photoshop to make a picture, who's the artist? It's fair to say you're the artist. Or you are saying photoshop is the artist.
So it's a matter of personal preference rather than an inherent value in video games. Plenty of sports fans have emotional responses to their team's successes and failures. It's not my scene, but the popularity of the various -Cons suggests there is a huge crowd who feels similarly about certain TV shows and movies.
US mortgage market is within the political sphere, decoupled from financial reality. Other countries don't do this.
What’s the delta though? Nobody seems to be able to quantify how much this is, but still are able to muster outrage over some unknown amount of harm done to them as bank users.
I feel like having a description of the content is enough for adults. An adult can read it prior to clicking on the link. Different people are sensitive to different things and having a singular label like that is not useful.
I mean that if someone has paid you $3250, but the cost to you of supplying them with a service that they haven't used is $0, refunding them won't cost you anything.

The chargeback has happened because the customer isn't satisfied with the refund policy.

If the company had pre-emptively issued a refund (perhaps minus a small admin fee to cover the transaction costs), then the chargeback may have been avoided entirely. The customer may have been happy to receive $3000 back.

I would have a lot more sympathy for the company if they could quantify specific costs they have incurred in providing the service.
Get a sweep account at Mercury or another bank. Those will be held in multiple different banks each being below the FDIC insurance threshold.
The Mac app that's referenced is our downloadable Electron application for Mac's. The alternative is to use Outerbase via our website.

In terms of serving Outerbase on-prem, it's an enterprise offering we do support.
> They're just unavoidable parts of the service's price that the cable/satellite vendors split off to misrepresent the costs.

I worked for a Telco (that also did Cable TV).

The marketing team would literally sit around a conference table and discuss how they were going to raise quarterly revenue by $amount so they would get their bonuses. Someone would suggest a connection fee. Or a disconnection fee. Or a change service fee, increase existing fee, call out fee, paper bill fee, credit card change fee, new equipment fee,.....

They really would sit around and invent this stuff purely to increase revenue, because that was the goal.
I think there is a risk to the trades as well. Tradesman service prices are skyrocketing, too. With fewer people able to hire them because they cannot afford it, won't trade jobs fall as well?
The FBI is frequently involved in responding to ransomware and espionage attacks.

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...

For example, they counter-hacked the Hive ransomware group earlier this year. And gave the decryption keys to the victims.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-disrupt...
I always thought it was simply this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ

The thing that you get when you click on Music in the left sidebar of YouTube.
The apt comparison there would be books to soaps, I would think. I have a hard time seeing how anyone could defend soaps for their narrative depth.
I'm usually the guy who is several versions behind on every library and I stick with what I know instead of exploring new features. I will say that React has been pretty pleasant to work with in regards to not forcing me to rewrite my code much. They're pretty good about keeping the old methods around our several major versions so you have plenty of time to make changes to your app or just keep doing things the old way.
> The state of AI progress makes it impossible for humans in many fields to keep up

The way it works, someone would have to produce more original training data in the first place. In long term, it is AI that has to keep up, not the other way around.

> wealth inequality

Microsoft, OpenAI run closed for-profit LLMs that are inherently only possible thanks to creative work of all the people that might stand to lose jobs now. Not only it should be clear where the driving force for rising wealth inequality is going to be going forward—these companies’ effectively scraping original works of living humans and repackaging them for profit should be in violation of intellectual property law, if it isn’t already. Perhaps more people should start adding two and two together.
> There's no reason for anyone to hold a significant amount of vested company stock.

Not holding vested stocks of the company you are CEO of shows you have very low confidence in the future of the company.
By serious I just meant any real world codebase at all. A full game, even if an old, smaller one is way more than I expected anyone to have done!

Definitely will thumb through the git history to get an idea of the refactoring efforts.

Thanks a bunch!
> Why is it so hard for banks to do a stress test?

They're super involved, requiring a full-time department to prepare for and run. That's a multi-million dollar recurring expense a bank with tens of millions of dollars of profit may not be able to afford.
Isn't this the plot to Back to the Future?
Many artists pay for various educational services. The most valuable IP is not always free, and it's reasonable to revisit the pricing model for IP if there are new ways of consuming it (training models).
Ruby Facets.

A number of its methods have become standard Ruby in one form or another, so it’s not as helpful as it once was. But there’s still some utility in there.

I haven’t had the time to work on it these last few years, but I do plan to revisit it, hopefully soon. Maybe I’ll remerge a couple of spin-off projects (e.g. English, ANSI and Hashery) to give a new lease on life.
This is stated in the Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/status/1636027002887995393
Great list!

Related to your point on supporting 0-transpilation workflows as a first class citizen, is the fact that Flow was explicitly just type annotations & checking, and aimed to introduce 0 runtime constructs.

This is something Flow did from the beginning and TypeScript eventually established as a non-goal after already implementing several runtime constructs that they can no longer afford to remove for backwards compat [1].

Though interestingly enough, Flow themselves recently announced they're going to start introducing runtime constructs, which is an interesting plot twist [2].

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...

[2] https://medium.com/flow-type/clarity-on-flows-direction-and-...
GitHub link: https://github.com/kuleshov/minillm
Looking around here in Amsterdam, there is a lot of work to be done. And all the places that aren’t as nice, there is a LOT of work to be done.

Computational irreducibility combined with human insatiability combined with ethics entails: a lot of work to be done. Everyone needs to get to work, we aren’t done yet. If robots could do all the work… well, god bless. There is SO much work to do. That makes me think the issue is not “robots taking jobs” but the focus and intention of the collective.

Any new hire is WAY more valuable now that they can use chatGPT. So why aren’t we hiring more people?

Well, one small issue: notice how you get taxed for hiring people a lot more than buying tech? That’s probably something to be fixed.
I'm not a 'tech bro'.

My job is to optimize workflows which reduce cost, CO2 and make the world better and easier.

It's not my fault that society is unable to optimize everything for less work for everyone while everyone can have a good live.
> Imagine working on your PhD on chat bots

To be honest, that's a sh*tty PhD to begin with, it doesn't bring anything good and really worthwhile to the world, quite the contrary.
Right, and has the velocity of money decreased?
They handled SVB itself, fine. It's a bank that didn't manage interest rate risk sufficiently so its equity holders got zero'd out but depositors are made whole. That's fine. Wish they would handle the next SVB the same way, and the one after that, since there are many other banks that mismanaged risk.

But they're not.

The next banks all get to keep their equity because the fed is putting out a lifeline (the new BTFP facility) so that they won't be zero'd out the way SVB was.
> Or perhaps hardware will catch up before.

I feel like that's been the pretty consistent lesson in computing over the past decades. New technologies start out as expensive, exotic, and specialized and become cheap and commonplace over time. The more business value the technology provides, the faster it will happen as well I think.

The models will certainly get better (faster to train, less data needed, smaller param counts, etc.) too, though, just like compilers and software have evolved hugely alongside hardware.
It’s not censorship if you’re doing it to yourself or with permission. That’s just editing.
>For nearly 150 years the Earth belonged to them [dinosaurs]

Times a million... But okay, sloppy editing, dropped a word.

>Dinosaurs lived exclusively on the ground

Could be a bad translation? Russian (and many other Slavic languages, I think) don't have articles, so maybe that was supposed to mean “these dinosaurs lived exclusively on the ground”.

>The common misconception that dinosaurs didn't live in Russia (wat)

Must be a misconception common only in Russia.
>To me, it is baffling how all Americans have put up with this annoyance for decades!

All is explained with a cursory glance at our political system
Likewise, I don't have any illusions about medium fully defining the quality of content: eg reading 50 Shades of Grey isn't more rewarding or meaningful than watching The Wire.

But apples-to-apples, watching video is the only common activity that feels maximally passive.

I guess with the exception of listening to music? Not sure how this fits in
Assuming these scams come from foreign countries as commenters claim: the US government should threaten to cut off Nigeria, India, and wherever else they come from from all incoming calls/texts entirely to force the local governments to crack down on these scammers. I suspect they turn a blind eye because they’re not harming the local population and bringing in billions of USD to their countries.
Notification about security incident on mastodon.social
Which is exactly what this new breed of AI does - create a facsimile that is good enough to devalue the human equivalent.
You communicate using assertions and vocabulary that positively connotates acquiescence to employer demands and very-nearly implies that such acquiescence is the only reasonable course of action. This is an approach that is typically used to persuade rather than to inform - it feels out of place here, and the I predict that concealed nature of the persuasion renders this comment stronly harmful on net.
The person who wrote this article is rather despicable as a human being.

techbros?
Rich tech?
Bailing out their own sector?

Mainstream media is just disgusting how badly they do their job.

Who do they think those VCs fund? Rich tech barons? No, not even close, but we all know that and it’s just disgusting to see this article here with its totally dishonest take on the SVB situation.
Something I’ve been using it for is describing a problem I’m having a hard time taking from concept to actual code (in this case, also a system I’m building for a game), either because I’m feeling overwhelmed by the amount of code required to get anything working, or because I get stuck in some corner of the codebase working on some trivial detail.

Instead of worrying about the exact code, I just let GPT provide an approximate solution, from which I can iterate and improve on. It’s still thinking about programming, but it allows me to separate the process of coding algorithms from the modelling in my mind.

It’s like peer programming with someone who never disagrees with you and will do whatever you say. I guess it’s like peer programming with yourself. I’ve found it to be very productive!

I wish I could publicly share the conversations to demonstrate.
> The "No shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater" laws still apply

I wouldn’t be so sure about that…
They are a small org with limited resources, so that isn't surprising. They do sue companies though, their most recent lawsuit (against Vizio), if they win, will also allow any recipient of GPLed code to sue for compliance.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
You tease. Dunno why you’d go out of your way to not name names, but it’s working: Who?
Brilliant. These kinds of hacks are just fascinating.
> why that didn't happen in this case

Buyers of banks in the last round got screwed. Dimon has been vocal about this. They inherit a string of liabilities that take a decade (or more) to resolve. Add to that, the number of private equity buyers for a $200bn bank is limited.
Very anecdotal, but I don't know anyone making minium wage for my area. I do know tons of people making within 1-2 dollars of minimum wage though. If we divvy up the data into groups like that, I wonder how much that 1% jumps.
No. Things like Greek fire or Roman cement aren't possible - because we don't know the precise mixture or formulation involved. Many old descriptions mean we don't know how to do it, because they are very vague.

But we can technically do much better waterproof concrete or whatever - however our incentives are also not aligned in the same ways.

Here's a tangential link to monks building a Gothic cathedral with modern machines: https://carmelitegothic.com/
> There is no way only 5% of people understand this joke.

I don't really understand. If the bartender's question were "would you each like a drink," the explanation makes sense, but the original language muddies things too much.

The "can I" can be understood as "am I able" or as "may I?"

The "a drink" for "you all" is a different sense of things also: are the logicians meant to share? If they're meant to have a shared drink, then an "I don't know" signals that the respondent does not want to drink. That's the opposite sense in which the joke was apparently intended.

Why are the first two responses questions? That makes no sense to me at all.

Expecting other people to understand the joke seems illogical to me.

Is it best understood as a joke on anyone attempting to follow the logic of the joke?
Why? Do you ever worry about exercising because the air is a finite resource?

In a perfect world electricity would be free. It would be so abundant you wouldn’t have to worry about using it.

Of course, this implies that the energy is 100% green as well. By saying you’re glad energy is more expensive, you’re elucidating the main issue: wasting electricity is bad for the planet in many cases.
This is so cool. I can imagine a very fun future of semi-reliable digital assistants attached to every service or tool.
I think tools like Typescript/Mypy/Sorbet exhibit is that there's a lovely "gradually typed" spectrum between "no type information/purely dynamic typed language" and static typing. "Gradual typing" has a lot of best of both worlds to it: write the raw and fast "no types" notebook code to proof of concept, then gradually add types as you test and productionize the same code. Production code can have lots of additional type checking and type testing that adds to robustness, while development and early code still have the benefits of a type system that can move fast and easily break things. It's nice to be able to move across that spectrum as a project matures. It's no longer a "hard binary" between dynamic typed languages and static typed languages, and you can choose much more interesting positions between 0% static types and 100% static types depending on your risk profile and interest.
> wouldn't have been solved by any thing in Dodd-Frank

Duration risk is specifically tested for in larger banks. The stress tests SVB successfully lobbied out of would have saved them.
Yep, already wrote an internal guide for my whole team to move away from docker into podman+quay.io by the end of next week.

Works like a charm on our macbooks, very neat.

Even if we need to pay, I’m looking for alternatives not Docker Inc. - There is only so much you can take.

I don’t want to rely on them anymore.
Qaddafi was not a serious pan-Africanist, and the rest of Africa knew that. He was sometimes an Arab nationalist, sometimes an Islamic nationalist, sometimes an African nationalist, sometimes a socialist, and his only consistent ideological position was military dictatorship. He provided a venue for the founding of the AU, but both it and its predecessor organization are/were based in Ethiopia. The US intervention in Libya didn’t go very well, but it’s silly to pretend that Qaddafi was a hero by any measure.
This rhetoric is based on the GOP platform which he supports. It is acceptable to judge people based on what they support is it not?
If the prices are cost, and the cost is electricity not hardware, and the electricity is $0.05/kWh, every 1000 tokens (750 words) of ChatGPT is $0.002 = 1/25 kWh = 40 Wh.

Average human reading speed varies by language but one average over many languages is 184±29 wpm, so those 750 words will take you about 4 minutes (4.07) to read.

If you're an American, your average electric consumption in that time is 1,387 W * 4.07 minutes ≈ 94 Wh.
Got a link to that video?
> who's the artist? It's fair to say it's midjourney right?

By convention, we're using the term artist only for people. Midjourney is not a person, it's a tool. Just like a Gravatar image is not made by the artist Gravatar, it's made by a generator, using rules and some input. Midjourney's rules come from all the stuff it saw when it was trained, and its input comes from humans entering text prompts. You could argue the same applies to human artists, but that doesn't make them equivalent just because they have some things in common.

So, Midjourney is not an artist. But is a person entering a prompt an artist or not? I would argue that there are people skilled and creative at engineering prompts, or further refining the generated outputs. It's not NOT art. Then again, that has always been a matter of interpretation.

> But a machine can only copy. Or you're saying a machine can be an artist.

That's a very Hollywood interpretation. Obviously a machine can be an artist, because humans are also machines (unless you're arguing for the supernatural).

As I said above, the common convention is that an artist should be a person. We have long ago decided that a person can use tools, including generative algorithms, to make what is considered art. However, nobody is obligated to appreciate any given artwork, so I don't see what's being lost if we just let this development play out.

> So - with as few words as possible, who is the artist of that picture?

(HN won't let me reply to your question below directly, so I'll add it here). In your opinion, does every picture HAVE to be made by an artist? If your answer is "yes", then the artist is the human entering the prompt, although the artistic work may have been quite minimal. If your answer is "no", or "it depends on the result", there may be no artist.

Let's say a camera takes a picture of a public place every few minutes and puts it online. Who's the artist?
I submitted a ticket: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1235
I think you're probably trying to use this as a reframing of my logic to show that I am being absurd

Jokes on you, I agree with everything you just said, fully unironically

The web is way worse where people have to put zero effort into uploading their content

The best places on the web are the places where people have crafted the page they want.
good to know, it’s been a while since I’ve used it (moved on to htmx for my uses mostly) and a quick look on the homepage still espouses use of setState and class components.
Why do colleagues talk behind each other's backs?
I've been working with a colleague trying to understand his code. He wrote the code. It's very complicated and not well documented. Whenever I go to him to ask him questions about his code, he goes to my manager and tells him that I'm annoying him. Why do colleagues do that? Do they get brownie points by reporting to the manager?
To put it in context, ChatGPT would have to be forthcoming about their footprint. Which they are not.
Because they were hostile.

You know it really amuses me both with saddam and gaddafi how people wonder why they were invaded. Excuse the language but they fucked around and found out.

If someone threatens to kill you, do you say to yourself "nah, he won't actually do it?" Or remove them from a position of threar against you like having them jailed?

Well between nations, it isn't exactly unprecedented to invade a country and remove from power leaders that publicly and vocally threaten to cause you harm. Bush lied about wmds because of oil but the reality is, if saddam was friendly to the US or even indifferent he would have been left alone.

Now vietnam and korea, I can see how you can argue the US had no business being involved but the moment saddam, thr taliban and gaddafi threatened the US, the US was involved. Pre-emptivr strike is term they used to justify these invasions. You don't have to agree with the concept to appreciate the fact that the US is one of many countries in a long line of countries that invade in response to a threat made by other countries.
Isn't that what resellers are for?
> Does it have automation or is it more of a model viewer?

It has automation as far as it can in terms of being agnostic to other systems outside of D&D5E. It's pretty useful but if you want full automation Foundry VTT might be better suited.

> Looks like the devs clocked out after hitting EA.

Could not be further from the truth. They have been churning out features and content consistently since EA. Their dev blog is filled to the brim with updates.
As a card-carrying long time supporter of the ACLU:

Poppycock.