skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm from the Netherlands and I've seen several "tornadoes". However they're not the ones you see in the movies. They're real whirlwinds and I've seen them kill tents at campsites but buildings are generally fine. They come and go quickly.

They're high in number but I've never heard of one having a real mass-destructive effect like you see in the tornado areas in the US. I don't think we ever get that kind of thing.

I guess what makes us seem to have so many is not the actual occurrence of these but the high population density so there's always someone around to notice it. As opposed to some whirlwinds just spinning around in the desert.
Agreed, not only would I be far more interested if we didn't know specifics about what he's setting up, he also won't be able to tell what revenue was generated because of GPT's ideas vs his viral posts.
Msys2 is distributing binary openssl (and many other packages):

https://packages.msys2.org/search?q=openssl
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Think of them as increasingly elongated elipses and you can imagine the instability building...
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The thing is that what they say on the homepage has to be trusted and cannot be verified. At best they put contractual commitments but no one will know what happens behind the scenes.

With attestation of secure enclaves (https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/confidential-computing-expla..., sorry it's a bit old and not tech enough we will update it), you can have technical proof that people will respect what they say contractually. I don't think OpenAI is using any real Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and even if they did you have no actual proof they are doing anything (unless they use secure enclaves).

I agree, ideally you would like a purely mathematical solution like homomorphic encryption but truth is we might not see that before years or more (public key cryptography is not known to be fast).

Not everyone has access to high-end consumer hardware, and just maintaining the software/hardware stack on premise is complicated, so imagine having to manage thousands of device. It is not impossible unless you are Apple/Google, and even if you are it's not perfect.
By sending model on the device it is quite easy to reverse engineer it, so not only your IP gets stolen easily but people can start making adversarial attacks.

Yes enclaves are a generic solution. In the end it's a bunch of level hardware primitives. But to have something that is truly fast, secure and easy to use, you need to focus on a use case to serve your users. We have chosen to focus on AI because we love AI and think it's a first niche market that is relevant, especially today.

I am not sure about going more on device / on premise. You can benefit from huge scaling effects by relying on managed services that are easier to maintain, patch, and deploy.
The actual research (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107848118) seems to indirectly comment on the fact that some terms could have been present due to their recency and relevance (e.g. 'Facebook') in their bias section, but I'm still unimpressed. I believe that kind of effect should have been measured and quantified for this study to be useful.
Nothing publicly known. Officially, they wanted to remain private.
The money bit, I think:

> “Inferring the drivers of long-term patterns seen from 1850 until 1980 necessarily remains speculative.” Says lead author Marten Scheffer of WUR. “One possibility when it comes to the trends from 1850 to 1980 is that the rapid developments in science and technology and their socio-economic benefits drove a rise in status of the scientific approach, which gradually permeated culture, society, and its institutions ranging from the education to politics. As argued early on by Max Weber, this may have led to a process of ‘disenchantment’ as the role of spiritualism dwindled in modernized, bureaucratic, and secularized societies.”

> What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint. However, according to the authors there could be a connection to tensions arising from changes in economic policies since the early 1980s, which may have been defended on rational arguments but the benefits of which were not equally distributed.
What happens legally if I buy a CD/DVD in a store, without signing a contract, with software, but the software doesn't work because servers don't?
While flying, no but it might break up a bit more than a rock.

When on the ground it can be big enough for parts to be identified yeah.
> ~10% point improvement left

Do you have any source for that number. What even quantifies a percentage in a generative model. Closeness to human ability?
The legal loophole is that it's essentially a levy on the (other) banks, not the taxpayer. The comedy, of course, is that "bank customer" and "taxpayer" are more or less the same set of people.
“ as Fed interest rates rose, the interest rates on deposits (i.e. individual savings accounts) did not increase at all”

Very true

“due to bank executives wanting to harvest more of that pie for themselves.”

Eh, needlessly inflammatory and does not get at the real issue, although it is undoubtedly true that banks profited by not raising deposit interest rates. Banks could not safely raise deposit interest rates because large parts of those deposits were locked into investments in fixed-rate financial instruments.
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FDIC has broad authority to issue advance dividends on uninsured deposits, based on their estimate of what they will be able to recover from asset sales.

FDIC determined that a 100% advance dividend was appropriate, but merchandised it in a way that allows the receivership bank to continue operating as normal.
Failing to mention his involvement with the US security services seems like an oversight. We don't know exactly what technology he add access to at the time.
And that is bad for employees, how?
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Big Tobacco will take over once it's legal at federal level anyway. I guess I'd like it to be more like specialised tea shops or cafés, but it's mainly wishful thinking on my part.

The only positive side to this is being able to grow your own stuff without being annoyed by the police. They've got better things to do anyway, like fighting organized crime.
Or legal order. If you're on-site or on-cloud and in the US then it might not matter since they can get your data anyway, but if you're in another country uploading data across borders can be a problem.
I agree. But there are hardware based solutions called secure enclaves that enables software companies hosted on AWS (like us) to serve a SaaS to users without technically seeing the data. This can be verified remotely even before sending data to us with attestation.

This is called AWS Nitro Enclave and this is one of the hardware we will cover. You can find more about it here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/
aria-label is for interactive elements only. It won’t do anything on non-interactive elements.
People knit sweaters, garden, run, etc. The lack of value doesn't make it unenjoyable. The difference is people could choose what to do with their time. Imagine life if there was never a need to work!
Which contagion though? The average person has between $5-6k in their bank accounts. There was certainly lots of talk on Twitter about this thing spreading -- and it's very possible that it might have -- but it was not a given. The loudest arguments for contagion came from the same people who had the biggest incentives to see SVB "bailed out". Hardly a coincidence. Just look at how vocal otherwise libertarian David Sachs was.

I don't think there is an official definition of bagholder as far as I'm aware.
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Totally agree. Either that or they should be forced to change the wording from "buy" to "conditionally gain access subject to revocation at any time for any reason without recourse".
I mean, it's also an illusion that you have a name. Just something everyone has kind of agreed to. Doesn't mean it's not steadfast and "real."
I have yet to find a good series that address this well. One episode of the Autonocast does come to mind, though: http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2020/3/27/181-stefan-seltz-ax...
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Riding horses is not tedious and boring. Carving is not tedious and boring. Sailing is not tedious and boring. Cooking is not tedious and boring. Performing music is not tedious and boring.

Yet machines have long ago replaced all of these things. It turns out that when you have a machine replace a tedious and boring thing, people still find ways to do it anyway. Less of them, perhaps, but the ones that do still do it seem to be quite innovative with their style and technique. And everybody else found other ways to use their time (or perhaps: be used for their time).

You can worry yourself into believing that AI invites a whole new category of transcendence if you want, but that’s your imagination telling you that. There’s no science or history behind your worry. Just some gloomy inductive hypotheses that got seeded by mid-century scifi authors in a world that might be annihilated by a nuclear conflict any moment.

Take a step back and see what comes rather than assuming you know. Trust that you’ll know if or when there’s something you need to do.

You’ve only got a few decades to witness; it’s better when you stay in the present of them rather than in worked up anxieties.

And geez, if you really want to dread something anyway, at least point yourself at one of that big scary things that are already looming like climate catastrophe, resurgent global conflict, the sunset of democracies, or capital centralization. If we make it to your AI fears coming true, you could say that’s a win!
While they've got a lot of mindshare, I have to wonder if they have a particularly deep moat.

I know the appeal of Stripe was that it was easy and attractive; using their embedded widgets allowed you to keep a low PCI compliance profile. But similar products are rapidly becoming table stakes in the industry.

When that's no longer your secret sauce, how do they fend off when merchants scale to a point where their finance guy says "We can save money by swapping Stripe for Brand X Gateway"
This makes no sense.

I do all my hobbies because I enjoy doing them.

I don’t care how much better a machine is or other people are.

Look at all the people who still play chess for example even though counters are much better than us.

I would still want to go see humans perform live music even if computers can “generate” music.

I can think of endless examples.
Also it has unprivileged builds, installations, packages rooted anywhere in filesystem, completely self-contained dependencies.
Indeed. According to [1], it would appear 58% of the US officially believes in angels by creed (Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox, Jewish, or Muslim). Only 11% are atheist or agnostic, and there's a 30% group that's religious but "unaffiliated" or "other". I totally buy that two thirds of "religious but unaffiliated or other" would believe in angels.

The difference here is that to the religious mind, angels are credible in a way that UFOs, ghosts, and magic are not. (The irreligious mind probably finds them all equally credible, hence the disconnect.)

Put another way, it would not surprise me that someone who was "religious but not affiliated" might have a high regard for the Bible. Angels figure prominently in the Bible, and hence fall in that bucket.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_State...
https://archive.is/KLTwe
This is a privileged perspective. You have all your material needs satisfied, so when you see GPT, all you can see is threat to your own personal spiritual/creative fulfilment. Maybe you will end up being a 25 year old retiree and have an existential crisis over the boredom and lack of purpose, and I agree that sucks and I feel for you. But this should be low down on our list of societal concerns.

What we should care about above all, is economic productivity per capita, because this means less people struggling to make ends meet. We should be cheering on technological breakthroughs that power the trend we've seen in the last 100 years of poverty alleviation. Maybe we'll need to couple AGI with a UBI to ensure the gains are spread out. But either way, the huge potential for poverty alleviation and economic prosperity should be the primary prism through which we view AGI, second only to safety concerns. Existential angst of those that are already wealthy is far down on the list of concerns.
Hard part is to configure, maintain and monitor replication and failover.
> only way to solve this

I dunno, I've had a solution on hand that has consistently provided high-quality, seaworthy FLAC, MP3, MKV, MP4, etc... of all of my favorite media content. Since around maybe 2003, 2004.
What if there's enough commodity hardware out there to do this and it's just a matter of algorithm optimization?
I just compared the price of 2TB on backblaze B2 and Google Drive, they were roughly the same price. Google doesn't charge for bandwidth, but it's also against the ToS to do anything that would result in lots of downloads anyway.

Google also charges a flat rate for 2TB with the next lowest plan being 200GB. So the majority of users are paying for 2TB but not using anything close to that much. I suspect consumer storage is also much easier to offload to hard drives and tape backups while files on S3/B2 would mostly require SSDs with some probably being stored in ram.
Exactly, I think the same, I was just commenting this too. I think it's more a statistical anomaly.
> What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint.

Alan Bloom knew[1].

Paraphrasing Churchill, "If you're going through a Dark Age, floor it."

One hopes that the passing of the current crop of U.S. "leadership" supports actual reform.

Tech understands the need to decentralize; politics rather more resembles a singularity, and we only seem to grasp the danger in the party we abhor.

May we pass through this dip swiftly.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impov...
Pharo can be daunting for a complete novice. Look into Cuis Smalltalk https://cuis.st/ and The Cuis Book https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkX9gj_GGwc

QuestGPT?
It seems that the author never used a typewriter! The typewriter has tabs, so that you can center the equal sign, for example, after 3 tabs, and the alignment will be perfect each time. Most probably Dennies Richie sent his manuscript to a professional typist who provided services to the university, unless he was adept at spend several hours typing until he got professional results.
lol fair enough.
Ops from scratch are annoying compared to the theoretical niceness of just pushing up a docker image.

Though I think a lot of this is incidental to just not really knowing the deal, and ops from scratch mean you have to make a lot of tiny decisions like "OK how do I get this package over here, how do I set it up, do I wipe the VM on OS-level udpates, do I need scripts for resetting the machine..." Having pre-made decisions for a bunch of questions means you aren't spending a bunch of time on tedious stuff when starting up a project.
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I think you missed my intended point. Of course there are no perfect startups. However, at any given time there are multiple startups doing largely the same thing, but most of them will fail. I want stories about why Startup A succeeded, and why Startup B doing the same thing in the same space at the same time failed. We typically only get the former stories, which aren't very helpful in a vacuum. It's far more educational to look at both sides and draw conclusions.
To me OpenChatKit is just a first step towards better and better open-source models. Other actors like AWS and Hugging Face are also working on that and Hugging Face has already proved its ability to train and make available LLMs on a huge scale like Bloom.

I think it's just the beginning and the open-source community will provide very competitive LLMs.
I've been using it daily since Docker Desktop license change and won't say I haven't run into issues from time to time (waking from sleep on Windows for example). But overall, it's been solid and worked well for me. I use it with IntelliJ IDEA, can't speak for VSCode.
Just based on the charts, I love the trend.

We are learning that we are often wrong and that we should be open to new ideas. Our perception of the world is individual and subjective.

We are admitting that we are not rational thinking machines.

We are accepting that feelings are ok and we are figuring out how to express them.
FWIW, I didn't downvote you.

But "I'm sorry that you can't emotionally handle my question" is more evidence of bad faith.
In other tangentially related long term British loan debt news:

It was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery. Abolition meant their profiteering from human misery would (gradually) come to an end. Not a penny was paid to those who were enslaved and brutalised.

The British government borrowed £20 million to compensate slave owners, which amounted to a massive 40 percent of the Treasury’s annual income or about 5 percent of British GDP. The loan was one of the largest in history.

[0] https://taxjustice.net/2020/06/09/slavery-compensation-uk-qu...

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-colle...

Eight year old 'news' now, but still relatively recent given it was a near 200 year note.
> I understand this perspective, but my opinion is that the company running things is responsible for the people working under their banner.

Companies like Uber claim that the people are self employed when it suits them, and that they are not when it doesn't.
No offense but it's kind of wild to me that y'all had 3 infra operations people out of 60 hires.

As someone who had to do SRE-style work in a smaller company for a long time despite obsetnsibly being a backend dev, the institutional knowledge you get from "real" SRE people is so valuable, and makes me a bit hopeful for the future.
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Your reasoning is faulty. If the average wage for a writer is "well below minimum wage" that doesn't necessarily imply people don't value creative endeavors. It could alternatively imply, for example, that the average creator doesn't produce creative content that others find valuable. With that thesis, if burger flippers do get paid more it could be a result of there being less variance in the value of the work performed.
> There are many private, proprietary systems that exceed those scales

Yeah, and then you have to run (and pay for), some private, proprietary system. K8s might be a bit worse for this, but it’s at least “commodity tooling” and lots of common tooling supports it out of the box.
Oh man, management failure in Korea? It would be a management failure to NOT be working workers to the legal limit and then some.
Each environment can have its own version of python which downloads with everything else (venv would require separate system installs for this).
> The mission of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system.

I see nothing there about "we will guarantee deposits of any amount over $250k."

The decision to guarantee SVB may wreak havoc on the financial system as banks feel comfortable continuing to make risky bets and thus attracting more customers, knowing that the fed will rescue the customer deposits that backed those bets.

Greg Becker isn't going to jail, and he isn't going to be financially ruined. There are thousands of people willing to fill the role of extracting money from the government. The trick is to not give into their attempts to bend the rules.
Thanks! I'm one of the engineers at Zipline.
The ChatGPT-generated section sounds exactly like the substance-free content farm articles you would find if you searched for "how to choose a laser printer".
My understanding is that FedNow is the protocol layer. Interested financial institutions will use FedNow to build their own customer-facing applications, and they will be interoperable with each other.

This means you don't need Zelle, Venmo, Cash app, etc. You can simply use your bank's implementation of FedNow, to easily send money to any other user in the system.

That is a fantastic step forward. Several other countries have implemented country-wide instant payment platforms (e.g. Pix in Brazil [1]), but the US was still lagging behind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
I agree with that. But until that happens (if ever) I'd rather companies spread the $ around to their employees rather than keep it all for the shareholders.
> if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images,

How do you know the nearest peer has all the images at hand?
> The actual size of the stack depends on the operating system and the specific implementation, but typical default values range from a few dozen kilobytes to a few hundred kilobytes, not megabytes.

also lazily allocated in many implemenations

address space gets used, not memory
I’m rooting for Fly. I use them myself for a project, and love the service.

However, their transparency into outages and service rough edges is a double-edged sword: they’re building a reputation for unreliable software. It’s a shame to see this major outage happen right after last week’s post, it almost confirms the stereotype.

However, even with these flaws, I still think they’re building the best hosting out there. They’re taking bold risks and doing what others aren’t. I wish them the best.
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Sure, I could have been clearer but in my example "you" meant the entity acquiring ownership of the business. Not the reader or a specific person.
Well, it might be coming soon, check out the video here: https://say-can.github.io/
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I bought a colour one last year, after the previous monochrome one started producing lines on the sides of the paper. Probably due to the humidity in my home office. I love the fact that it's not an ink jet whose ink evaporates and degrades over the weeks or months between uses. Just like the article, I haven't replaced the toner on one, it's just there for occasional print jobs.
Fantastic post, great level of detail.

Thank you for writing it and sharing it; I hope you write more technical stuff like this in the future.
Good interfaces should primarily have reasonable and well documented pre and post conditions. This is very apparently not so in the oil change example in the article.

It's completely stunning to me how frequently this is forgotten in spite of having been a key component of object oriented programming when it was invented (ie smalltalk days, before I was born).
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sliding scale? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-t...

Almost any penalty one can come up with will be harder for the already-disadvantaged, and still shrugged off by someone with sufficient resources.
All distributed decentralized systems are brittle. The only people who don't think this are people who haven't run them at scale.

Also, "self-healing" isn't really one thing. There are hundreds of different problems that can take out such a cluster, and every single one of them needs its own "self-healing" mechanism. These systems are literally the most complicated kinds of systems.
Not right now, no. We've been running this product for about 2.5 years.