skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also why benefit large corporations by walking around long aisles comparing and choosing items, carying them around and walk back to the entrance?

get those good old shopkeepers to do it while you stand with your list out front.
Ah sweet. Another "I will die on the productivity hill" post.
noob question: is there not a way for the client to verify that it is actually talking to google.com in a situation like this? I would think there would be some way to verify based on certs or something like that.
No that is why they are nitpicking about recently open sourced code that is "undocumented"
I bring up Hubbard because Hubbard documented his organization so well that he's a good target. There is a long list of other organizations that I could also find analogies with.

It’s true Hubbard divided the world into ‘public’ who would have their bank accounts empty and ‘staff’ who, penniless, would be turned into worker drones.

EY is not building that sort of machine. But Hubbard was operating at peak egalitarianism in the US and EY is operating at a time (and places) that have peak inequality. A Scientology whale gives a few million to the organization, the ideal EY whale is Sam Bankman Fried. Since it is money that is fungible and ‘makes the world go round’ he doesn’t need an army of worked drones when just one rich kid at Stanford or Cambridge can be quietly bled.

Other groups to look at with apocalyptic ideology are the Symbionese Liberation Army (Why make worker drones when you can brainwash Patty Hearst?), People's Temple (...go to San Francisco), Heaven’s Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, etc. It amazes me that one of them hasn’t tried to assassinate an A.I. researcher yet.
Bedrock edition through WINE would be a very shitty experience, particularly since Java edition runs so well on Linux, and because WINE (afaik) wouldn't help MacOS users. But the Geyser compatibility shim really does work properly. Between these two options, Geyser is the clear winner.

> "But what's interesting in this question isn't what's technically possible through enough ingenuity from the community, but what's officially supported."

I confess I'm not sure what "interesting" means in this context. What is officially supported matters much less to me than what is possible and practical. I think generally, experienced gamers are comfortable installing mods and are better served by whichever engine has better modding support (be it official or unofficial.)
Auditing might not even cover the entire codebase.

For example, this is the writeup of the DeFi Euler hack yesterday by one of the sites listed auditors, who didn't actually audit the code that caused the bug...

https://medium.com/@omniscia.io/euler-finance-incident-post-...
IDK what banks you've used, but all the banks I've used the fee proportionality is regressive.

I also don't agree that the most prudent and responsible banks bailing out disproportionately depositors at failed banks is beneficial for them or their depositors. It also creates a moral hazard for customers to chase banks with the highest yield risk profile knowing they'll be bailed out by the other actors.
Ah yes, clearly the very local and independent (from each other) taxi companies were the big evil corporations instead of (checks notes) the giant multinational funded by literal blood money from oil barons that openly flouted laws and had an internal team dedicated to writing systems to mislead law enforcement.
The biggest crypto firm in the world; yet banned from a long list of countries. Who are their customers?
I have a wifi webcam with no Internet access at my front door. It doesn't need Internet access (in fact, it's blocked from going outside the router). It's happily streaming video onto my home network. I just open the stream in VLC on any device to see the live video feed instantly. Easy to make a shortcut that opens the address in VLC.

Video is also being archived locally elsewhere on my home network, but no outside hosting is needed for either instant live access or home archiving. Just a minimum of research.

When shopping for a camera, only buy one that has ONVIF compatability. Then you can use it with third party apps.
You're right, but I don't see Facebook (or other Meta properties) approaching that level. Arguably, Whatsapp is the most successful in that area, but largely because they haven't done anything to further ruin their reputation. If/when Meta decides that Whatsapp is going to be their new focus and potential cash cow, they'll try and shove more monetization into that platform and the cycle of user migration will repeat.
I have had incredibly atrocious work done by licensed individuals of all stripes. In one case they took out a mechanics lien on the house when I refused to pay for unfinished and shoddy work and then one of their workers assaulted my wife.

- Horizontal exhaust run from a furnace that was 25x longer than specified by the manufacturer

- Putting registers in very wrong places (like 2 in one room and 0 in another instead of one in each)

- (For Electrical) Rather than using junction boxes, just wire-nut together some Romex in random places in the attic.
I'm using VPN to pay for the movies that are blocked for me otherwise (as a Ukrainian viewer).
I set up my own VPN with https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Hosted on DigitalOcean and the setup was completely automatic, it deletes its own access after its done.

Note you're still beholden to ToS of your host, but tbh they don't seem to care no matter what I do with it.

I know it from here.
> Will my self-driving car also take unneeded detours through pretty places, making it take longer to get where I'm going?

I hope so, when you want it to. "Unneeded detours through pretty places" is a kind of being present in the world.
Nothing shady about fleecing your customers ;)

The fact they're in Panama suggests some kind of money laundering scheme to me at the very least.
all I see are more arguments for my opinion that digital assets + capitalist marketplace = human stupidity.

> you're giving away your business crown jewels to competitors that can then nearly-clone your model without all the hard work you did to build up your own fine-tuning dataset.

you're loosing the capacity to continue to earn money for work that is already done. This just means they're not gonna be able to charge rent on the done work for too long.

the work is the training of the model. I chose to reject this to way to frame the issue; i.e. I reject that it is problem that they're giving away that hard work. It's only a problem due to social (market) ideologies of ownership which are necessary only by the logic of trade (or commerce).

As I see it, Eliezer is pointing out hat people who use the "product API"/ "chaptGPT service" can use this in such a way that they can clone it so to stop being a customer.

I see some kind of divine comedy in this (due to my own ideological beliefs).

> OR can successfully sue any competitor that engages in shoggoth mask cloning.

this is just the legal, modern day equivalent of old school "break their knees unless they pay you"
This is the 4th layoff announcement on which I've tried our Buzzword Bingo app:

https://1fish2.github.io/buzzword-bingo/corp-bingo.html

and still nothing! I think we need a new set of buzzwords.
> In other words, there may be some period during which pushing the door close button causes the door to close, but it will be after the end of the ADA-required minimum door time.

The button mashers were right all along! I'd always thought it was futile to keep pressing the close-door button, but it sounds like if you "mash" it you're more likely to hit that sweet spot where the button is active.
Uh... "fees on other banks" seems like a pretty good proxy for "anyone holding dollars worldwide", though. I don't think you disagree.

The idea that there won't be losses here is a little laughable. If their assets were so solid then some other bank would happily have written a loan with them as collateral. SVB transparently couldn't get financing, so they had to sell a bunch of stuff last week and booked a $1.8B loss (which is the proximate cause of the bank run).

No, this will end up being a bailout. It'll be obscured enough that people will be able to claim it wasn't. But it is.
ChatGPT can generate proofreading mistakes
It doesn't make sense to treat Copilot as a competitive benchmark where Copilot isn't even an option for policy reasons, which is what this product is targeting.

Does it provide net positive support to developers? Is that support worth the licensing and maintenance costs? Those would indeed benefit from a demo, but it's also hard to demo something whose value hinges on fine-tuning.

More likely, they'll need to sell low-risk, supported integrations that help an org stand up the project on their own system and evaluate its quality in situ. It's a whole different model than retail SaaS services like Copilot.

This is an exciting announcement for a product meant to fill a gaping hole. The orgs that need it will just have to see how well it works for them.
I've worked with people (remotely) in the past that I'll still hop on Discord and play video games with.

Working remote lets me make connections and friendships where I live, and have more time to do so than when I was spending hours each day commuting.
Maybe defining the interesting axes (for each, one for whether it is considered a goal, the other for whether it has in fact prioritized that goal in practice; not saying whether it succeeded in others' eyes), and for each axis give a number 0-10 (or whatever) rating it, in the author's view. Then maybe users of the library can give similar ratings as they compare it with others.

Or not.
> it’s been known remote workers don’t perform as well for as long as I’ve been in the industry.

It most certainly is not "known". I've managed remote teams, I've managed in-office teams and I've managed the same people in both scenarios. At no time was the office advantageous to innovation. Quite the opposite, it's a soul suck and once you free people to work how they are comfortable, their creativity will skyrocket.
They, and ALL VPN PROVIDERS, sell your DNS data, as well. That's the real business model.
But Twitter is still shit.
AKA blacklists are useful.
And who ultimately pays for raised costs at banks? I’m guessing it’s less like the C-class, and more like the individual depositor/personal-loan-class.

HN readers should be acutely aware of this as being entrepreneur-savvy. If your costs go up (unexpected FDIC assessment) you either are immediately less profitable, or you raise prices and past the cost to your customer. Banks are the Chris Paul of passing costs on to their customers.

tl:dr new fees for banks is increased fees for customers.
The second layer is hard. I tried something in this space in mid-2018. Full text extraction and sentence segmentation tech was adequate, but extracting the discourse tree and building the graph was a bit of a struggle (trying to repurpose a collection of academic/open tools to get something useful). Never published or released the code.

If interested, a few rabbit holes to explore (no affiliations):

https://scite.ai -> best option for citation mapping, but same issues you described above

https://www.semanticscholar.org and AI2 -> the best group working on tooling in this space

https://www.weave.bio -> early startup trying to build this out

The hardest challenge in my view is solving the intermediate representation issue. You have to establish a DSL/nomenclature that provides the range required to represent a complete scholastic discourse while also being computable.
For anyone reading this and intrigued by elevator inspections, I highly recommend The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. It's a fun, fiction read!
What about the investors, who are also owners, and probably pressured the company to take on debt from SVB?
Pshht, don't feed them with more such ideas.
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational F***ery
I replied just below, to another comment, with an idea. Not fleshed out well, but oh well.
Yes! We definitely have that on our product roadmap, though we think of it more in terms of improving model performance vs. deterring clients from switching to a different tool. Since we're working with large enterprise codebases and deploying models to behind their firewalls, there's (hopefully) a nontrivial switching cost. Thanks for pointing it out!
Ah, it seems you're one of many who confuses "crypto" with cryptography and cryptocurrency. Cryptography is used for encrypting your files, not cryptocurrency. But it's a easy mistake to make so don't feel bad over it.
Not exactly about that? It's literally the example from the motivation. The first thing I do in the plan section is to say "Let's focus on a single stage of the pipeline to make things easier for ourselves." and in the contributing section "We've only looked at one stage in a pipeline, what happens if we have multiple stages? is it enough to control each individual stage separately or do we need more global control?".
> I personally think AGI is impossible

That’s a very weird statement to make. Do you think you have a soul or something? Otherwise how is your own Intelligence something a computer can’t replicate?
Show HN: Create. Use. Share. ChatGPT Prompts
The idea is to build a “GitHub” for ChatGPT prompts.
> Zenith was quite successful, and was making TV sets in the US until the early 90's - but eventually the lower cost of overseas manufacturing caught up with them.

Zenith's TV engineering business was bought out by South Korea's LG, and Zenith's role as main guiding force behind North America's ATSC digital TV broadcast system was grandfathered to LG with many of the same people.
Glad I immediately saw the gif-memes and could close the article within seconds.
Firefox 111.0
Meta's take on it is literally stale. It's VR Chat with more funding. The service itself is nothing more than a poor tech demo.
There are a number of tools including AA Mirror that cast the phone screen to the center console (via connected USB cable).
Yes! Thanks for elaborating for us! :)
How can we be sure that what's in those wallets is 10% of what it should be rather than 1%? AFAIK, none of the documents from Binance are public, especially regarding their finances.
Being similar to strcpy() seems to have been intentional by its creator.

Alas, a feature has turned into a bug :(
45k US Dollars? What kind of advanced mathematical theory you are using? What is your domain?
I really don't think personal attacks are called for.

Only Iridium was my company, which built a pretty unique app that was featured in the App Store in its very first year (of the App Store).

You conveniently left out Omnivore.io, the only other company I built. Ask anyone in the restaurant industry in the US what it is.

All the rest were just employers.

edit: Since I can't reply below:

Omnivore was the first company that offered API access to over 80% of the installed point of sale systems in the US, including direct injection of web orders into the POS instead of needing a tablet next to the POS with manual order entry. We allowed over 1,000 partner companies to bring unique and innovative solutions to the restaurant space. Thanks for not reading my LinkedIN profile, just what sector my company was in.
Inflation fell for the eighth-straight month in February
>sexist alt-right meme

Don't make me laugh. "Alt-right" is a stupid, nonsensical term made up by news corporations to serve as a convenient boogeyman, and the meme itself isn't sexist in the slightest. Elevated estrogen levels in men ARE detrimental for numerous reasons. This has nothing to do with women, period.

Soy is associated with elevated estrogen levels because of phytoestrogens. Whether or not they actually affect the human endocrine system isn't clear, but you can't deny the customers of Soylent products all share... similar traits.
Maybe the idealised standard but certainly not what is going on at most companies
Well sure, of course. I don't understand why you are "struggling" to take me in good faith because I left out the part about struggling people. I don't remember it off the top of my head because my financial situation at the time was such that I was so low I didn't have to worry about losing a home or other assets (all I had was a really cheap car, a low end computer, my bed and couch were inflatable).

> Your comparison falls flat because there are no working people involved in the SVB situation.

Sure there are plenty of people dependent on SVB deposits for their paychecks. And it sucks to be an SVB employee. But the shareholders are effectively wiped out, unless and until SVB's assets are eventually sold for more than its liabilities.
The comment said 'mostly broke', many people are familiar enough with their phones and the various screens prompts to do this without looking at all, or with a little guess work with help from various only resources, images & videos.
People have ended up in jail with a death sentence based on DNA from a dog.

DNA in theory is very simple. It is much harder when you got a mix of multiple unknown donors, contaminated or decayed samples. Problems quickly occur when they then apply some "computer algorithms" to puzzle together things to create a probabilistic match. It is those proprietary black box computer algorithms that are being heavily discussed in courts, not the theory of DNA.

If we removed all cases that involved multiple unknown donors, contaminated or decayed samples, then DNA evidence would be much safer and open and we wouldn't need those proprietary computer algorithms. It would also significant reduce the number of cases where DNA evidence is used.
Bring Back the Knowledge Map
TikTok got banned in India. I don't see why it can't get banned in US given CCP's complete control over Chinese companies
you're right. Open dev tools and add it yourself. :)
sir, you've dropped your top hat
gp is not confusing crypto/cryptography/cryptocurrency

They're making a jab at a large usage of cryptocurrency: payment for ransomware exploits
I assume the officers are liable as shareholders? And by the time this liability was pursued in court the SVB replacement should be working well enough to pay everyone. Unless the regulatory agency can demand immediate payment from the accounts of the officers and directors.
Have you though?
Blame for what? The bank failing?

SVB was financially mismanaged by its leadership. They then handled the communications around their poor financial position very poorly. This lead to the immediate cause of the banks collapse, a textbook bank run.

So, technically yes? The depositors who pulled their money were the immediate cause of the failure if we’re being simplistic. They pulled out a quarter of the deposits in a couple of days, no bank is going to be able to withstand that.
Yeah cool, I need to write Serial letters using my own fonts. Can't do that with Google Workspace. As an enterprise customer, that is. I have no idea who leads product at Google but they need to get their shit together. I don't need some ChatGPT BS to write my mails for me.
It doesn't make sense because the biggest advantage to WFH is that people can live in a lower cost of living city (and companies can hire the best talent globally). Forcing people into the office even once a month means you're tied to the real estate market next to the office.
All of this generative corporate text seems like lossy anti-compression.
If this is a concern, one can self-host a fully recursive DNS server and connect over DoT.
you need better weed then
To be generous, I did not know this was a thing, and if you'd told me it was a thing, I would have said "gosh, you don't say" and not realized the implications. Not everybody is embedded in this world, so we need explainers.
It was November 2020, and at the time, OCSP responses were only cached for 5 minutes, so most people weren't actually able to launch apps. After the incident, Apple increased the cache period to half a day.
Well, putting a huge fraction of your money, individually and collectively as an industry, into the same banking institution is by itself a risk.

SVB's problem wasn't just buying government bonds.

The other problem SVB had was a homogenous customer base that had highly correlated behaviours. In particular, during the COVID boom, their customers collectively raised a ton of money and created a huge pool of deposits for SVB. And then when that money dried up, that turned into net outflows.

And these behaviours were correlated, both as a group, but also critically with... you guessed it... interest rates. Which means as bond values were dropping, they were simultaneously seeing a major change in their cashflow profile, and the combination of the two is what led to a liquidity crunch.

That just isn't happening at other, more diversified banking institutions.
Bitfinex runs tether.
Ah, sorry...

> Omnivore - PoS + hospitality services

Definitely haven't been done before, you got me there :)

> I really don't think personal attacks are called for.

I don't think it's a personal attack, you brought up "My other companies are all innovative technology companies" so I was curious to see what you consider "innovative", thought others might be curious too, so listed what I found here.
What details would you like to hear?

The only one I've been adding is that our terms were 90-95 cents on the dollar.
People outside the UK: Binance broke UK law by selling OTC crypto derivatives after they were made illegal.

This is why British people see all those “did you use Binance product X after Y date?” ads online. There's a bunch of people taking legal action against Binance UK.
> It solves it by sidestepping the issue

Lol. It doesn't. How are you going to create Docker images? Run more Dockers inside Docker? And then Dockers all the way down? You still need to install the packages... just while creating an image. Makes absolutely no difference whether you do it inside or outside, you still need something that can install and coordinate packages. Docker is simply irrelevant to this problem.
Not the person you're replying to, but you can calculate the "implied volatility" using the current option pricing vs the current stock price. As the consensus of price movement (up or down) increases, the option prices go up.

https://www.optionsplaybook.com/options-introduction/what-is...
Posted because this is currently in front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35135900

What it was like:

https://khanacademy.fandom.com/wiki/Knowledge_Map
> with something super addictive people lose interest sooner

Well, "addictive" literally means "cannot easily stop doing it"
The point is that you can split the work in two: the one you mentioned, creating and training the model, and a separate step of shaping it with reinforcement learning. Which is quite expensive, because it uses human operators in one of its steps. But apparently you can duplicate easily enough this with an API of an already educated engine, which makes the second step not be a moat anymore.
Another thing is that since Microsoft/Github are working with OpenAI's closed source Codex model, we think it's unlikely they'll offer something on-prem anytime soon since they would have to reveal the model weights, and thus risk a leak (ex. Meta's LLaMA model weights got leaked within a week)
Not the end of the world when good enough rains supreme

I wouldn't put it that way. I'm perfectly willing to fork out for high quality audio or video, integration, and so forth - but the most important feature for any conferencing hardware is that it be seamless. I love that my headset has excellent audio quality, but I love just as much that I don't have to faff around with it; the user experience is nearly comparable to picking up the telephone.
but how would that work in practice?

Also, think this stuff is becoming a commodity real quick.
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