skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My real point is that I find it extremely strange that some bicyclists would choose simply not to ride at all just because a helmet is required.

I certainly wouldn't ride a bike if a helmet would be mandatory. Or I would just ignore the law.

I can't see something like this flying in the Netherlands where I'm from. Most people will feel the same as me. It's not just the inconvenience, it's also a matter of pride.

But in the Netherlands biking is very safe. Bike lanes are everywhere and have separate crossings. Motorists are always blamed even if they didn't cause an accident with a bike (because a cyclist won't have insurance) so I think it's safe enough.

I've fallen many times in single-vehicle accidents due to slippery ice or wet leaves and my arm was always under my head due to my reflexes.

I understand that cycling is not as safe in the US but perhaps making it so would be a better priority.
I have a question for the AI experts in the room.

Is it possible to feed the AI a set of training data, say a document, or even a conversation with a particular person, that is weighted significantly heavier than everything else it has ever read?

For example, if they wanted to, could Open AI just tell GPT 4 that Bananas are blue so that, when anybody else asks for a list of blue fruit you get Bananas and Blue Berries.
This can all be understood by not thinking of your bank as a bank. Every bank employee, except a teller, is a salesperson trying to make a living by upsells. They are paid commission. Since your bank really isn't a bank, the one thing they don't have is cash money. You might have problems withdrawing $10,000 at one time.
I don't know about how you treat ants or cockroaches, but personally I've purchased a bugcatcher: it's a device you hold in the hand, with a magnifier on top and a sliding door on the bottom.

If an insect disturbs me, I put it in the bugcatcher. I can look at it for a minute to check it's not a dangerous species (ex: black widow spider), then I go in the garden where I release it.

> It isn't hard to envision a future where the intelligence gap between humans and AI is closer to humans vs ants than humans vs dogs

Again, you are focusing on the most extreme scenario: large gap + inherent lack of empathy.

I care about bugs, and I do my best not to kill them. Why would AI behave more like in your doomsday scenario than in my more mellow scenario?
For me, I think it's because most of the trolls aren't just like "no you!" they'll write a wall of text full of half lies that you feel like you should at least repudiate for future redditors to know that you're right, and the troll is wrong.
Discussing Network Diffusion Dynamics with ChatGPT: Transcript
I started to query ChatGPT about some relatively complex network diffusion dynamics--namely, information error and mutation--and it was providing some genuinely solid answers/discussion. And the mathematics behind said answers. Thought I'd share the transcript
Think of Yourself as a Cockroach
I can't wait to take LLMs this powerful off of the OpenAI/Microsoft guard rails.

We're going to be able to write incredible fiction.
I didn't know about this until reading things throughout this weekend (which is somewhat telling), but evidently there are a number of approaches that businesses use to avoid having essentially all of their money held as uninsured deposits in a single bank. Those approaches are the seatbelt that we seem to have largely chosen not to wear.
We could adopt a principle to solve this problem: something that reminds us that abstractions aren't free.

This is the source of the problem of the blind application of principles - which tend to increase the number of abstractions. They aren't free, and people act as if they are.

Even good abstractions have a cost. But in a good abstraction, the benefits outweigh the costs.
To be honest, I think it's fine to deposit your money into any big bank. They're already deemed too big to fail and will get bailed out. The only question is whether you should invest your money into their stocks, which are riskier.
>This isn't adding much.

We can communicate without seeing each other.
What I find confusing is that on the one hand it says it will be implemented in three months, but on the other hand it's called a recommendation.
A lot of entertainment is already formulaic. Disney, Marvel etc.
Thank you! The SotA of science is still science and not magic.
I've chosen to reinterpret it exactly as the kind of Orwellian 1984'ish double-speak that it is.
Now do predators, parasites, animal domestication, or outright indifference…
I really hope so, I'm just so terrified of the future!
Yeah just like people in Detroit stopped buying Chinese made goods because all of the jobs went there and then all of the jobs came back because of it and everyone lived happily ever after.
So is the meat you eat, yet some people prefer to be vegan.

I've tried beyond meat myself, and it's quite close to the minimum level of quality it would take me (not a vegan) to switch.

Morality matters.
The parts of our brain that work like an LLM do work like an LLM (hallucinates/generates falsehoods/over-confident/deals strictly with an abstract world of discrete symbols) and vastly overestimates its intelligence and how much it needs the rest of the brain's reality checking and other kinds of intelligence to turn it into something useful and conflates what it does with intelligence.

It's basically a super-useful co-processor in the brain hardware, but it is a co-processor and not capable of independent operation.
> I think there is a strong argument to be made that if you need a lot of unsafe, Zig is going to be the safer language.

I could see that. Haven't used zig but it does look very nice.

> in many places where unsafe ends up required

Yes, I definitely agree. I was specifically referring to the boundary of safe rust. I don't know how much more or less safe unsafe rust is vs c, but I do know that safe rust is certainly safer than c.
Indeed.

193. The kind of revolution we have in mind will not necessarily involve an armed uprising against any government. It may or may not involve physical violence, but it will not be a POLITICAL revolution. Its focus will be on technology and economics, not politics.
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posting too much. Much like HN some reddit groups have a time out to let you cool off if you go over N posts, especially if your account is new. Happens to me a lot since I delete my account and start over ever 3 or 4 months. I don't care about karma more than say enough to not get rate limited.
It's almost as verbose as XML.
Only one of the changes on that page is actually relevant, and it's 6 months old.
I doubt it’s that thought out. They just want to curb prompt injections now, and they figure people doing it will keep testing the boundaries. They must feel they have enough sample size now to no longer need to study it.
Once AI’s can keep state, they’ll get all the training they need from humans just by talking with us.
So no improvements should ever be made because they weren't made in the past? What kind of strange way of thinking is that. You can't time travel back to the 50s and recreate the situation then.

I generally agree with your comment overall however.

If you want to solve the housing crisis you need to reverse the bad policy and add good policy.

Land value tax is one such policy. There are many other, changing in regulation for housing, changes in land use policy, like minimal parking requirements, changes in urban design, changes in transport priorities, the list goes on.

Some of the most beautiful and most admired parts of old cities like Boston are all illegal to build now. Policy has mostly made it impossible to build the kind of places people travel to other arts of the world to experience.
https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/565aad7
Most of that gas comes from cracking fossil fuels which is much more efficient. But does contribute to climate change.

I just don't see it really solving anything at a large scale. Perhaps for some applications like perhaps airplanes but for many others just using batteries would be a much better option.
People stopped reading handwritten books once the printing press became a thing. So yes, new technology sometimes does completely eliminate the old. We aren't sure where on the line this tech will fall, maybe a future LLM will be good enough to generate endless stories at high quality, or maybe they will always feel soulless, we don't know.
touché, though I doubt the gp meant it that way
I am a PM and a novice programmer. Unless copilot improves drastically for me, I am going to cancel the subscription and keep the one for chatgpt pro for now.

I have been able to write fairly decent programs using chatgpt, am starting learn and build full stack apps etc. I am not able to use copilot. Maybe I do not know the tricks.
so you want to be a pet?
>Why are you putting AI in quotes, out of curiosity?

Because it's not intelligent. It's definitely artificial, but it's not intelligent in any meaningful sense of the term. "Automatic Interpolation" or something similar would be a far more suitable use for the acronym.

>What are you suggesting exactly?

Noone is going to spend time making something if the next guy immediately goes "You made this? ... I made this." like clockwork. Even moreso if someone was making something professionally.

If we do see creators and inventors go away, it would be because of their own volition and desire to find greener pastures worthy of their time rather than "AI" usurping their jobs.
I don't get why this comment is downvoted. Basically this.

A halving of the costs every year or so seems realistic in this emerging phase.
> The DRY acronym came from The Pragmatic Programmer

> almost every instance of DRY people complain about is not at all what is advocated in the book.

It's futile to bang the drum insisting that people follow the original meaning of what the creators intended. Look at what happened to Agile. Completely perverted of its original meaning. You can't argue the case for Agile anymore just by saying that the creators of the Agile Manifesto meant for it to be something completely different, because what other term can you use to describe the micromanaging process-heavy framework has currently taken its place?

DRY may have been introduced with a caveat to not conflate two pieces of code that are only incidentally similar, but people have completely disregarded it and used it to propagate code monstrosities. It's not a strawman argument, we need a term to describe situations where functions end up using four boolean flags.
And Butler himself:

https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/1066.html

An interesting read if you haven't already read Erewhon.
Ok, so then lets violate copyright and open source the effort!
Ask HN: Any software developers who switched to a career in finance?
Well, I would suggest that “Most of America” is paying attention to things like food, going to work, basketball scores, putting gas in their car, social media influencers, etc. and have no idea what SVB is or even where SV is located on a map. And why should they care? It won’t really affect them at all, except maybe in a higher bank service fee that they didn’t even know they were paying in the first place.
Are you using davfs2 to mount the 1MB files from the WebDAV server?
Definitely seems like it's not just GPT-4 that can hallucinate facts.
It's following an example story that it has read.

> To solve a math expression, you need to follow the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication/division, and addition/subtraction (PEMDAS).1 Here are the steps to solve your expression:

It isn't actually thinking about any of that statement. That's just boilerplate that goes at the beginning of this story. It's what bing is familiar seeing as a continuation to your prompt, "show your work, step by step".

It gets more complicated when it shows addition being correctly simplified, but that behavior is still present in the examples in its training corpus.

---

The thinking and understanding happened when the first person wrote the original story. It also happened when people provided examples of arithmetic expressions being simplified, though I suspect bing has some extra behavior inserted here.

All the thought and meaning people put into text gets organized into patterns. LLMs find a prompt in the patterns they modeled, and "continues" the patterns. We find meaning correctly organized in the result. That's the whole story.
> I care about bugs, and I do my best not to kill them.

You are an outlier, I'd rather not bet the future of humanity on all artificial intelligences being Francis of Assisis.

> Why would AI behave more like in your doomsday scenario than in my more mellow scenario?

Well maybe they wouldn't. But why risk it?
I mean, you got married and divorced and now you're forced to work hard to pay alimony, yet you are judging people who are single? Maybe they just don't want to get married? You're not exactly making it seem appealing.
You have to get Copilot started, writing a comment is often enough to do so. It doesn’t write from prompts like ChatGPT of course.
Because you're using the ORM to do selects.

I'll give you an example: prisma has a "find/findMany." As part of the build process it should examine your usage and put indexes in the column that you're using in find/findMany

Indexes are an implementation detail - but to use RDBMSs successfully you need indexes. ORMs try to hide those implementation details, but without those kinds of details you get bad performance.

Prisma just fixed another problem it had with transaction isolation levels. To even understand the problem you need to understand SQL, how databases work, and how each database implements that. It's another important implementation detail that's abstracted away...until it bites you in the ass.

Prisma also finally allowed you to use database-specific types instead of just using varchar(191), which was its default for strings.

I'm picking on prisma because I happen to be using it right now. There are good things about it, like the way it does migrations and handles schema changes. But there are times its abstractions get in the way, like when you're trying to do aggregated group by (which is easier in SQL than it is in prisma). And its migrations often fail, and to understand why you really need to understand SQL.

Hibernate was worse, because it provides a transparent object-level backing store.
It could take about a year or so.

But I think you should forget about self-hosting at this point, the game is up.
> The supposed ineffectiveness of chemical weapons is a modern myth; during the cold war both sides fully expected and prepared for the extensive use of chemical weapons.

I thought it was the other way around?

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
> Albeit a really great one that's really about the meaning of happiness and belonging that you should absolutely watch.

That's the best recommendation I could get :) I'll check if it's not too violent, they I may add it to my watchlist.

I love watching and discovering old shows: right now I'm doing Sliders, next on the list is either Dinosaurs or the X-Files.
Japan's first AI manga has people asking: Is it machine magic or art menace?
If we instead of code feed it AST trees, code that would come out would be epic.
As I pointed out, the point is not the exact number.

And margin is just one of many factors that sets the avg salary. Margin also depends on what the avg salary is. Some companies have low margin because they have to pay so much salary.

And of course Oxide is making no profit at all, so their margin is nothing.
Using GPT-4 it not only solved this correctly but it generated the linear equations for me:

Let's represent the number of horses as x, the number of chickens as y, and the number of eggs as z. We are given:

The cost of a horse is 15 dollars, a chicken is 1 dollar, and an egg is 25 cents (0.25 dollars).
You can spend up to 100 dollars.
You want to buy a total of 100 items.
We can represent these conditions as a system of linear equations:

15x + y + 0.25z = 100 (Total cost)
x + y + z = 100 (Total items)
We can solve this system of equations step by step:

Step 1: Solve the second equation for one of the variables, say z.
z = 100 - x - y

Step 2: Substitute this expression for z in the first equation:
15x + y + 0.25(100 - x - y) = 100

Step 3: Simplify the equation and solve for y in terms of x.
15x + y + 25 - 0.25x - 0.25y = 100
14.75x + 0.75y = 75

y = (75 - 14.75x) / 0.75

Step 4: Find integer values for x and y that satisfy the equation.
We'll loop through possible values of x and check if the corresponding value for y is an integer:

(Deleted some)

Now, we can calculate z using the value of x and y:

z = 100 - x - y = 100 - 0 - 100 = 0

So, you should purchase 0 horses, 100 chickens, and 0 eggs to reach a total of 100 items and spend exactly 100 dollars.
Have access to both. Bing feels like a shackled version of GTP-4 with convenient prompt automation. You can see moments of GTP-4 power, but they are buried beneath the AI ethics and brand safety. If you formulate a prompt carefully, you can see the strong logical coherence come through in Bing, but often it feels like it is just parroting and summarizing search results, which is exactly what it has been told to do.

GPT-4 wrote me some erotic poetry about scent kinks, with excellent rhyme and strong creativity. Compelling role play is an uncommon trait, even for humans!
100%, a good relationship with your banker makes financial issues a non issue. that's literally their job, make your financial issues non-issues.

Obviously good relationships with good bankers only happen if you have sufficient assets that financial problems are not usually a lack of assets problem. :) Every bank will be different in the $$ amounts/assets you need to have to get access to the concierge banker pool. Also every bank has a different name for their private/concierge banking.

Generally speaking $1M or more is sort of the minimum amount to have access to the banks good banker people. When you get into the 20-30M range, you can start thinking about sharing a private office with a few other people also in that range, and when you get into 100M or more you can think about starting your own private office, where you hire a full time money person or three to manage it all for you, and they will deal with the concierge bankers. Private/Family offices are sort of concierge banking plus. The Plus is, they will handle your entire family(however you choose to define it), they will teach you and your family whatever you need to know, they will handle budgets, paying bills all that stuff. They will sort out actually purchasing stuff, organizing trips, generally the sky is the limit here.

At BOA, with $100k worth of assets you can get into Platinum Honors which is good banking, but not at the same level as concierge banking. I.e. you don't get access to private banking, but whenever you walk in or make an appt, the BOA person you get will generally do their best to make you happy. Chase has a similar sort of program I believe, but am unfamiliar with it.
Robinhood users say the app won't cash in their bets against Silicon Valley Bank
Neither do I for that matter.

But we were talking about security and there's no denying that X11's architecture has inherent security risks. You can cover this in other ways but security wise I do consider it a drawback.

However in most other ways I do prefer X over Wayland too.
Still pending, a setting for notifications in between none at all and every fucking single one.
> In consultation with members about strategy and priorities, in 2019, it became apparent that our biggest value proposition is the global perspective on open education. In recognition of that a name change to Open Education Global (OE Global) was made to better reflect our role in supporting open education globally across all sectors.

What a way to throw away a strong decade old-brand.
Gptq: My basic command-line glue
I had some fun messing around with a ChatGPT prompt for helping me reshape data via a cli tool. I wanted to share it and a little write up with examples of what it can do.
And that's implying Google won't eventually follow that same model.
> ...yet they look so similar when compared as a group to everywhere else.

What point of view?

- business model

- culture

- growth rate

- engineering problems

- ?

Netflix is totally different from Amazon is totally different from Apple, for instance, on almost each of these dimensions.
This is so silly. Just because radical change is alienating doesn’t mean that smaller improvements wouldn't be positively received. For example, an end to silently swallowing emoji would be an improvement, not a regression. Poor design that actually excludes people is not a treasured feature.
The headline on gh is kind of illegible. It was changed and corrected for here on hn. I am reminded of this sentence: "this sentence no verb".
Typically incredible coherence, but also typical in it's fence-sitting uselessness that spends a lot of words but doesn't dare make a point.

I've only read up to book 4, but Leto II uses AI (well, advanced Ixian) technology but hides it. At least in book 4, he would have said that ChatGPT is not to be used at all by his people or his council, and wouldn't have used it himself, as he didn't need it.

Again, impressive tech, but doesn't give you an interesting or useful answer.
Wouldn't the blocks all be cached locally for the most part? WebDAV is being used as a write behind log/backup. It should be as fast as local access through a file system created over mdraid loopback block devices ...
Temple grad students overwhelmingly ratify agreement, ending their 6 week strike
Sounds very human, lol.
Ad2 -> I've run into lots of hibernate apps. They also tend to use Spring, and the team often gets lost trying to figure out which one is the cause of the problem. It's usually both.

Hibernate and Prisma migrations will delete tables if you allow them to.

Ad1 -> I'm sure they do...but usually they call in a DBA, who basically says "this is a disaster" then recommends that they refactor everything because their database schema is fucked up because it's based on some weird object hierarchy instead of RDBMS principle.
That is $14 million per unit in 2011 or $18 million today dollars.

I found procurement for 2021-2022 for $34 to 37 million.
Give better information by email, something that doesn't interrupt me and make me deal with it right now?

Other than that, it's not clear from this story why they chose Silicon Valley Bank - it sounds like this VP of Finance is the person who could explain what (if anything) they did better than Chase.
I'm first and foremost, from Silicon Valley. I've worked in SV for many years. I understand the startups here and the types of startups here.

The number of crypto startups relative to non-crypto startups in SV is much smaller than in Taiwan. That's how my perception is shaped.
You're anthropomorphising too much.

The space of powerful optimisers is much larger than the space of things that are recognisably minds.

It might just be a mathematical model powerful enough to predict what people will do and what responses emitting text will entail that 'wants' a certain number to go up. Abstractly and philosophically parts of it might be recognisable similarly to people and those parts might even be arguably sapient and have empathy. But if they are just appendages like a finger then that won't help you any if your existence involves the number being smaller.

Maybe the first one will have its central loss function as something compatible with life, maybe it won't.