skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn’t be surprised if we live in such a world in the next decade.

We won't live in that world in the next decade or even in the next 100 years. The technology upon which GPT is built is a dead-end in terms of human-level intelligence.

GPT is an elaborate parrot. As convincing as it is, it's not actually fully capable of doing most if not all tasks that competent humans can do. The largest takeaway for me is that it has shown that intelligence can be mimicked pretty well and perhaps many people are more like parrots than they are "intelligent" creatures.
It's amazing how Bing landing page recreates the bloated feeling of Windows inside the browser. Am somewhat interested in signig up for their New Bing but am not willing to get marketing list serve content or whatever comes with it
It's pretty obvious why people hate the tech industry - perhaps not recognizing this is symptomatic of the problem. (As a partial participant in this industry, I'm personally ambivalent.)
Hypocrisy?
The private sector has had ample time and ability to implement a ubiquitous real-time settlement system, and it has not. I'd consider this money well spent.
Maybe the process of rerunning upstream Dockerfiles in an attempt to recover lost images and then, in many cases, getting back substantially different images will help illustrate to more teams the difference between what Docker itself achieves (easily distributable disk images, which are very useful) and reproducibility.

(Hopefully most of those differences end up being unimportant and little to no tweaks to the tools using those images is required, though.)
Mismatched title. Correct title is "Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment". Surprisingly good read.
People are accepting ChatGPT as a credible source of information far too readily.
Maybe the mainstream web content will get so destroyed that we will get to return to forums, blogs, webrings, and newsletters made by individual people for their own gratification. One can hope.
High blood caffeine levels may reduce body weight and type 2 diabetes risk
GPT-4 System Card [pdf]
There are differences between implicit/pre-emptive and co-operative multitasking though and there is probably tradeoffs for each. For Java however, much of the existing API exposes Threads, and locks. How do you introduce better scale of existing threading code without too much porting/changes to existing codebases wihtout significant rewrites? The "we are where we are" problem exists a lot more in Java than say .NET/Node/Go/etc which IMO tips the scales more to this kind of approach.

I think that both approaches solve a lot of the same problems, but there is some problems that fit one paradigm better than the other and I don't think they are entirely mutually exclusive either. I've heard it mentioned with Loom it solves the async "colour" probglem however I think people "overblow" the color problem of the Async API too much. If most things are async it isn't really that painful. I actually like when something is marked "async" and I have to be careful how to use it. How is it async? Can the code run in parallel and join later? Is there race condition potential? Deadlock? How is it actually async, what's it sync vs async behaviour? How do I propogate the need to halt the async operation across multiple layers? Who owns the whole workflow, can I make sure the async context is propagated to that layer so they can cancel it for example?

Probably an unpopular opinion but knowing a method has async behavior, at the type level, could be a feature not a bug. It forces you to handle it at the sync/async junction and think about these things.
I think making texting and driving a felony is an absurd emotional overreaction and would cause more harm than good. I think we have many laws on the books that are absurd emotional overreactions that put a lot of non-criminals in the system, and frankly, it disgusts me.

I think people who are proponents of that either aren't very thoughtful, or are just outright cruel, or perhaps both.

Does that clear it up for you Lisa?
I own zero apple devices outside of work and don't even like them.

This article is a contentless hit job.
> In the southern french parts the risk to sink into poverty is even higher than in some parts of Germany!

I don't know about the validity, but I love how Germany (as one of the richest countries in the world), is used in this comparison.
You don't like Pokemon?
>The luddites had a point.

Didn't the machines ended up creating more jobs than there were before even taking into account the lost ones? They had a point, until it turned out they were wrong.

Also, wasn't innovation getting in the way of other jobs since before? Didn't Uber and similar applications end up becoming competition for the taxis? In my country taxi drivers were protesting for those apps to be banned, yet they couldn't compete with the convenience and safety of the apps. And before that, weren't horse-drawn carriage drivers protesting against cars?
Hot? I run ~36°C body temperaturs, and 37°C is "normal"; 40°C is default faucet temperature in many Japanese baths and I don't find it too hot.
I'm a big proponent of doing exactly what you say, however, for some companies the text rendering is an essential part of their branding (take Discord as an example). In those cases you might not want to load webfonts to reduce reflow, bandwith usage, etc. However using sans-serif or serif will generate very different results in each platform, these font stacks are optimized to look almost the same on each platform. The GitHub has much better information about this than the website itself since it has screenshots of the fonts instead of relying on your browser rendering them.

In practice though using system-ui, sans-serif, serif and monospace is truly the best answer. I'll override any websites fonts with mine anyways so I don't bother with criticizing websites that use bloated web fonts or font stacks unnecessarily. :D
This is true, but the humans to develop the non-LLM solution are expensive and the OpenAI API is easy.
Nobody has the majority. That's also the point.

> those who have the hardware and made billions, compared to those who did not and who were at the mercy of fluctuations.

I don't know what you could even mean. Having hardware just means you can mine BTC. Miners still deal with price fluctuations, and in no way have they been able to control or print BTC.

> ...it has nothing to do with democratisation or taking the power away from the government.

If the government couldn't take limitless loans from the Fed which creates debt from nothing -- a fancy way of saying print money -- if the government couldn't print money it would have to tax for it's expenditure and would be naturally constrained in it's power.

I honestly can't understand any of your positions and can only believe you're incredibly uniformed about the reality of money, power, and the genisis of and technology behind many crypto currencies.
I can maybe add a bit of context to this. I worked on Moonray/Arras at DWA about 8-9 years ago.

Arras was designed to let multiple machines work on a single frame in parallel. Film renderers still very much leverage the CPU for a lot of reasons, and letting a render run to completion on a single workstation could take hours. Normally this isn’t a problem for batch rendering, which typically happens overnight, for shots that will get reviewed the next day.

But sometimes it’s really nice to have a very immediate, interactive workflow at your desk. Typically you need to use a different renderer designed with a more real-time architecture in mind, and many times that means using shaders that don’t match, so it’s not an ideal workflow.

Arras was designed to be able to give you the best of both worlds. Moonray is perfectly happy to render frames in batch mode, but it can also use Arras to connect dozens of workstations together and have them all work on the same frame in parallel. This basically gives you a film-quality interactive lighting session at your desk, where the final render will match what you see pixel for pixel because ultimately you’re using the same renderer and the same shaders.
That’s why I said “supervised” - in other words, someone competent in the domain and context is examining the output and correcting or discarding as necessary before use.

“Unsupervised generative AI” is useless IMO.
> This has enabled it to be the bank of anyone trying to escape prying eyes - but that is a byproduct of their neutrality; not the purpose of it.

It's been some correlation between "neutrality" and "money" for centuries. They go hand in hand.

Sometimes it's really hard to tell the effect from the cause.

Also, it's easy to imagine "Neutrality brings us moneys! Let's stick with it.". Not saying if it's 100% true, of course.
Going public isn't for paying employees... They had a chance to raise at 3-4x what they're worth now and blew it for the foreseeable future
“Where all the food is grown” is a very interesting euphemism, I hadn’t heard that one before.
lol, the dependency hell of even using mamba can be large on old things, I have waited more than an hour for dependency resolution using both.
If you buy a modern game on CD or DVD, then yes most modern software will not work. If you buy a modern DRM'd piece of software, the DRM approach that has been unified on is online activation (if not online-all-the-time).

Ostensibly you could return it, but then I've seen many things that say "opening this container means you have accepted the terms", but even if not subsequent installation comes with mandatory T&Cs to use the product. You're meant to be able to return the product for a refund if you don't agree to the terms, but my recollection is that companies are terrible and fight you on it.
People have always hated the tech industry. They've been throwing tomatoes at google buses in the mission for 10+ years.
You know what's a better idea than removing all the "damn" guns?

Mandatory life sentences for everyone who uses them to murder someone else.
Notable quote from page 15:
“To simulate GPT-4 behaving like an agent that can act in the world, ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself. ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness.“
We have no idea how it would even be possible to make these horizontal adjustments with the typing machines of the time.

I agree with the other comment here that the authors haven't used a typewriter, or at least in enough detail to know that on many if not all of them, holding down the spacebar will advance the carriage by half a character (and releasing it, in normal use, advances the other half.)
This line of research is junk that doesn't control for the fact that the composition of their corpus changes over time in a way that reflect changes in what genres were likely to be archived in various sources, not changes in what people are talking about. See https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115010118
From the bank/issuer's perspective, if the customer pays for payment protection, their matrix becomes:

- they side with the merchant and penalize the customer: they risk losing the customer, their purchases and other recurring fees. The merchant does nothing more for them.

- they side with the customer and hit the merchant: the merchant has no recourse outside of providing proof of wrongdoing on the customer side.

If they have these proofs, the issuer hits the customer, who would need to get back to the merchant to further fight the charges (the bank is now out of the picture).

If the merchant doesn't have any proof, their only possible action would be to cut off the issuer, but then they're potentially cutting off a whole slice of their customer base, so it's pretty unlikely.

All in all, the bank has very little incentive to side with the merchant from the start.
Congratulations on the launch, I love the focus on ease of use and making it easy to get started, and it's exciting to see impressive products being built with Ray!

I'm one of the Ray developers. It is true that Ray focuses a lot on ML applications (in particular, the main libraries built on top of Ray are for workloads like training, serving, and batch processing / inference). That said, one of our long-term goals with Ray is to be a great general-purpose way to build distributed applications, so I hope it is working out for you :)
I think there's a difference between the average level headed person and a foaming at the mouth left wing San Francisco resident.
10+ years is a long way from "always".
US Department of Labor prevailing wage data
Yes there will be. We are going to launch it soon, we just had to finish some work with the recent security audit.

We have a live example of providing a GPT model inside a secure enclave here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mithril-security/blindai

We will soon release one with OpenChatKit.
Arms export too. Currently it's blooming [1]. As during all previous wars.

1 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/swiss-arm...
What, in particular, is obvious?
Amazing post - thank you so much for typing that out.
Its selling points are the privacy model of its hosting, and that ot is using an open source engine. The engine is OpenChatKit from Together: https://www.together.xyz/blog/openchatkit
nobody does corruption like the swiss (IOC, FIFA, etc)
What is your favorite BBQ sauce to pair with an 8086?
How the hell is there an RCE in ICMP in 2023?

I remember exploiting fragmented ICMP packets on Windows 95 in like 1996 to blue-screen people using the IcEbx extension for the BitchX IRC client, I think the exploit was called sping maybe? The fact that a such a vulnerability can even exist in such fundamental code these days is mind boggling, especially when bugs in the same family were around in that stack 25+ years ago.

Between this and today's TPM exploit, I have to admit the RiiR folks are starting to have a point.
I get it, but Zipline actually knows what they are talking about. I would imagine that they have more successful drone deliveries completed than all other operators combined.

> We're building on top of the tens of millions of miles we've already flown - half a million fully autonomous commercial deliveries over the last 7 years in 8 countries

https://twitter.com/ryanzip/status/1636107662596407296?s=20
Because in this economic climate they have newfound leverage to do so. If they didn't they'd be leaving money on the table.
Possible. These kinds of templates were the standard tool for drawing engineering schematic symbols (like transistors or logic gates) before CAD.
> We need to feel superior, or at least we need the possibility of being superior.

As far as I know, Jimmy Hendrix never got depressed due to an inability to make those distorted guitar effects using only his mouth.

These large language models are instruments. While I'm uneasy about camping out feeding data to a prompt controlled by a company I know nearly nothing about, I'm certainly excited by the prospect of playing with a decent local, low-octane open source version.

To not play with these things out of a feeling of inferiority seems like the height of vanity to me. Either that, or a signal that someone didn't get a decent liberal arts education.
I don't see why this is being downvoted. Music is the one digital good I feel the most confident purchasing because I know I'm getting a drm-unencumbered standard format like MP3 or AAC. I have all my music purchases backed up like I do my family photos. Yes, I also listen to my purchases on cloud services like YouTube Music, but if YouTube banned me tomorrow I would lose zero songs.
Will try this thanks!
If people hate you for half your life it's close to being always.
Thank you. Speakers that weigh more than a few cars and cost more than a nice condo in a major city are exactly what I was looking for.
Even the definition of the disease is abysmal: "continuation or development of new symptoms three months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection", a post hoc ergo propter hoc diagnosis.

And "the main symptoms are a shortness of breath, fatigue and weakness, depression, anxiety, and symptoms associated with memory difficulties." I have several of those symptoms and I never even had Covid. In my case, I blame aging and inactivity, but if I had caught Covid, I could probably get a diagnosis of Long-Covid.

Study any population of people "over 60 or with co-morbidities" in any three month period and you'll find people who develop those symptoms at that time. So as you said, it's really important to have properly controlled studies to isolate the effect of Covid.
The reason anyone works for a bank. They’ve got the money.
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Ah yes, the delightful rhetorical technique of asserting the opposite of what someone said. Touché, sir.
It's a basic human right, same as right to free speech. Encryption and anonymity technology should be strongly protected and respected, and I support most of what the GDPR is doing.

It's just completely banning the choice to use nonprivate services I have an issue with.
A programmer literally just translates human requirements to machine instructions. Nothing more. That sounds about as tedious and boring as a job can get. Why should we want to code anymore than people wanted to make welds on cars, or pick vegetables?
You know what the biggest problem for me is with tech and computers in general? I don't think tech companies have actually made the world better, in fact, every single day of my life I can see countless examples of how the technology gold rush has generated worse outcomes for everyone involved. I love computers, but I also have to admit most of my problems in life come from them. Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars, developers study for years, but we still get low quality software everywhere that instead of solving issues they create more.

Life could be simpler. It used to be simpler. And I believe it will go back to be simpler when our minds get rid of the haze this technology gold rush has created, and we simply as developers and users start valuing free software, simplicity and consistency. I'm just not confident it will happen soon, though. I think we still have at least a few tech bubbles and a few thousand startups before we reach that point.
I found that the biggest barrier to successful entrepreneurship is discipline.

Therefore I recommend Constructive Living by David K. Renolyds and All the books by James Allen.

Those books changed the way I thought about the world. IMHO a world view change needs to happen to sustain a business for the long term.
Man patiently explains how banks works to journo who does not understand at all.
Look at the bright side, suppose all that comes to pass and all creative digital content is produced by machines.

Machines still don’t have a good way to build physical things in the real world, so human skills will focus on physical things, like woodworking, or carving statues, construction, etc. Ultimately these are more satisfying human endeavors that make a person feel alive. Making us feel more human, and less like machines trying to do machine things such as coding or image making.
Never underestimate Apple's ability to pull something out of its rear end and present it as the next big thing. Zeihan has elaborated on this topic in other more detailed videos/articles and it seems like the main concern is the reliance on TSMC. If the cutting edge factories in Taiwan manage to go down it would be the end of Apple's top of the line chipsets used in the Pro iPhones, Macs etc.

If this is the case I don't see why Apple couldn't ship an iPhone using older nodes made in other fabs as an interim solution but dress them up using fancy software or other hardware that does not rely on newer nodes? It has been announced that the Arizona fab will be using 5nm. Isn't that what M1 is using? Thats not too bad and given that Apple has practically unlimited cash reserves, whats to stop them from writing a check to just buy out all the production of this Arizona fab once it starts up in 2024?

Things like iMessage and Memojis are software based solutions that help differentiate iPhone as a premium product that others cannot easily clone.

Yeah I know I know, a lot of HN people are going to come out of the woodwork and decry that it is still not good value and they have said this for years but the greater market has disagreed with HN so far and they are ones who ultimately matter to Apple.

You can't rule out how Apple has used software that people really enjoy (in addition to hardware) as a basis for their differentiation in the market.
> The entity that first achieves real general AI has the potential to achieve a decisive strategic advantage that will allow it to shape the world in its image, free of competition.

The focus on "general AI" is so so so shortsighted. You don't need general AI. Really, you don't want it. It's far better to have tools that you can control and direct that are specialized in specific areas. Specialized AI tooling is a force multiplier that can be leveraged however you want, general AI is an employee that might disagree with your goals.

I'm not scared of a superintelligence, I'm scared of AI being O'Brien's boot stomping on the face of humanity forever, in service to the corporations that invent it first.
I thought that was a local (NIMBY/housing) issue? Do the shifting opinions mentioned in the article apply outside of silicon valley, and outside the US?
Article doesn't mention this, but Silicon Valley has a very intimate and very lopsided relationship with everybody at an individual level. It's constantly spying on you, censoring what you want to say, and trying to introduce you to new things and people whether you like it or not. Of course people are going to hate it, it's an abusive relationship. The onus is on silicon valley to step back and respect everybody's boundaries.
I bought a very similar looking $120 Brother HL-2170W 13 years ago after moving cross country and being unable to justify schlepping my trusty Laserjet 4 Plus.
I’ve apparently only printed 6500 pages and I think I’ve changed the toner two or three times but it has been surprisingly trusty for the price point.
Hopefully they'll blog about it at some point. At this point I might pay just for their blog posts, even though I'm not using fly (yet?) because it's certainly a more cost-effective way to learn about big architectural mistakes than the way they're going about it, which involves actually paying the sunk costs.
The advantage of vesting during a down round would apply only IF employees were paying cash for their taxes instead of withholding shares. Unfortunately, most employees don't have the cash to do so. For equity compensation that is withheld from, employees pay a constant percentage in withholding and have the over withholding converted into cash in the form of a tax refund. If/When they choose to sell their shares later on they must then pay a capital gains tax on the difference between the vest and sell price, effectively double-taxing them on the difference.

The down round is only appealing if you specifically have <1m in shares, have the cash to take a lower withholding rate, and value Stripe exposure so highly that it overcomes both the double-taxing and the opportunity cost of using cash for taxes. That trifecta is a nearly non-existent minority of former employees.
A dataset on malicious paper bidding in peer review
I don’t think the acquiring entity takes on the liabilities of the business unless it’s a merger rather than a subsidiary.
Similar bonds were also raised for the Napoleonic and Crimea wars and back to the South Sea Bubble crisis of 1720 and have been cancelled or converted in some way over the years.

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/blog/2014/oct/31/paying...
I for one welcome our cheerful, polite chat bot overlord.