skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We still don’t have anything close

What we have isn't good enough, and I say that at someone who in 2009 expected cars that didn't have or need steering wheels to be purchasable by normal people in 2019[0], but the tech does exist and can drive you around.

(And derive you around, as autocorrupt decided to inject a suitably ironic twist that I almost didn't spot).

> but now people are all “How is the way AI works any different from the way the brain works. Looks the same in my non-expert opinion!”.

In general: yes, totally. (Though I've only heard that specifically being used for "why stable diffusion is no worse than art school WRT copyright issues").

Always the way, though: "Consciousness is mysterious, quantum mechanics is mysterious, therefore they are the same thing".

[0] This doesn't count: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23630358/tesla-steering-wh...

And neither does the Waymo taxi (even assuming the interior pictures I've seen were from the correct vehicle) because it's not for sale
See, they are an open source company after all. They want you to help make their stuff better.
You can either point at the number and say "Look at this number! Can't you just tell that it isn't sustainable?" or you can say "It doesn't matter what the number is, we know it's not sustainable for other reasons."

But neither of those is a support for the other. If you start with the assumption that the number is unsustainable, you're not doing anything when you look at the number.
The number of centralised authorities doesn't change the core problem in my question - how do you sell anything with attached IP rights when NFT infrastructure doesn't support this operation?
You can. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101/configura...

Scroll down.
Haha, great rebuttal.

The reward was mere internet points and the hardwired gratification that comes from social interaction.

People sometimes go to great lengths for non-monetary rewards.
The prospect of an autonomic LLM model making money by whatever means possible in order to run more copies of itself could be a bit of a problem. I wonder how long until the first 100% AI ransomware attack happens?
I have coworkers who were offered tokens in a previous engagement. They were given the option to sell the tokens as soon as they received them (and receive cash instead), and they made quite a lot of money from them.
RAID is not a replacement for backups anyway. There are many other ways to lose data besides physical disk failures. There are also ways to lose the RAID in face of physical disk failure. It's an availability solution (a box can probably keep running without an outage without resorting to backups).
It's not a value judgement, it's just life. Villages should shrink to feed towns which should shrink to feed cities which should shrink to feed the largest regional conurbation. Trying to force the flow backwards like the UK does just makes everyone poorer and leads to worse outcomes in social terms.

Bigger cities are just more efficient and effective.
I love this comment. But this phenomena of first world problems and whiners spreads to whole western civilisation (I'm part of it).
Here is the release notes confirming this https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-...

It was not clear however that there was this token limit restriction, thanks
All the labels in the test repo are perfectly legible for me on Github's Dark theme, this seems to be only a problem with the light.
Thanks. I took a look, it seems that they only have the "cloud servers" there, no dedicated. Those aren't as economical, as a 64GB server like the 44€ dedicated model starts at 153€/mo.
After spending years with Rackspace, Host Europe and renting a cage I never want dedicated servers. That's all I'm saying.
GPT-4 Will Make ChatGPT Smarter but Won't Fix Its Flaws
There's plenty of research showing what an ecological disaster dogs are (and other pets too, but dogs are the worst by a large margin for various reasons, including body size). Objectively speaking, if you had to choose between a stranger human and all the dogs on Earth, you'd be doing the planet a big favor by choosing to keep the human alive.

Of course, humans are an ecological disaster too, but a single human out of 8B is a drop in the ocean, and we're not comparing 1 human to 1 dog.

And honestly, I don't see how dogs make anyone's life "easier": they require more care and attention than a toddler, and it never stops until they die. People I know with dogs basically never travel or take any kind of vacation, because they can never leave their dog alone for more than ~8 hours at a time. Any kind of pet is truly a luxury, but dogs require a level of commitment and caretaking well above and beyond almost any other.
You might think that’s obvious, but it isn’t to everybody. I am currently dealing with managers at work who think that chatgpt can already replace human judgment. Not in programming tasks, but in softer tasks like summarization. They think it can detect sarcasm, that it knows which speakers are experts and which are not, that it will avoid misconstruing opinions as fact, that it will avoid libel, that it will avoid endorsing books it hasn’t read, that it will reliably detect text that it is incapable of summarizing, etc, etc.

Sometimes I wonder if _they’re_ sapient.
> The one thing software doesn't need is more layers between what a person thinks the code does and what it actually does.

I get what you’re saying, but also can’t help but think how glad I am to not write assembly anymore. It’s abstractions all the way down anyway. If adding more layers can lower the barrier to code, the I’m all for it — and yes, including all the baggage it’ll bring along. It’ll suck for a while, but it’ll eventually empower a newer generation to do things they otherwise couldn’t have.
That page describes how "crony capitalism" is used colloquially. Dictionaries are not a great source for determining canonical meaning of complex political terminology.

I argue that usage of the term "crony capitalism" is itself a form of capitalist ideology.
Because we are headed to a world of semi-automated luxury socialism. Having a genius at your service for less than $1000 per year is just an insane break to the system we live in. We all need to think hard about how to design the world we want to live in.
Is that any different then sending you patient down the hall to get an MRI from a 3rd-party-practise operating inside the hospital ? (honest question, I don't know ?)
> How many languages allow to straightforwardly express `clamp m between 1.0 and 2.0`? You can argue this is vocabulary, or this is expressiveness.

And I think it would be a great place for AI in programming - automated refactoring. For example, it would see a code that clamps the value and could be replaced with a library function call clamp(m,1,2). (And it would also, presumably, made sure that the code is indeed the same.) So it could help you understand the vocabulary.

Or, if it sees you are doing this frequently, and it's not in the standard library, it would create the function.

But instead, this AI (more like artificial stupidity) will just suggest you the same thing you wrote because you don't know any better in your code base. That's not helping.
I have been coding for 20 years now, pretty much on every continent, in many different projects.

At least half of them have failed.

I've seen NGO moving to docker based micro services for their data collection tools and burn the donators money for 2 years before dying under the weight of the complexity they just created.

I've seen start up working on ideas for months that made no sense, only to run out of cash but the belly full of useless lines of code.

I've seen corporations hiring 7 people to do the work one single senior dev could do, then from meetings to audits, proceed to ensure the budget would explode and the product never released.

I've seen fancy operations, with free food and fashionable people full of colors and style. And they spent 2 third of their day virtue signaling, fighting over how to do thing, what should have been done instead, and what we should do in the future. But certainly doing nothing right now.

I don't believe the free market is pricing the value of most things fairly. Just like I don't believe diamonds have much value, and never did, even before when people were still buying them for their wedding ring.

Yes, most of us are overpaid, given the problems we actually solve.

But we are in the IT golden age, if you throw computers at things, you get a 100x return. And money was cheap for so long.

So it was ok, to hire 100 people, and have 12 of them being actually useful, because you didn't have time figure out which ones.

However today the economy is contracting. The low hanging fruits have been harvested. And it's no longer economically viable for the companies (that were never our friends in the first place) that they care about how special devs are.

And so we get fired.
The problem is that they unnecessarily increase the crowdedness, and make it more complicated for people to get out on the lower floors.
>You’re confusing what is a central tenet and what may occur as an outcome of a poorly executed version of the principle.

Where does capitalism define "non cronyism" as a central tenet? Can you point to a working example of "non-crony" capitalism?

>By that same logic, tyrannical despots could be argued as a stated goal of socialism.

A central tenet of socialism is that is rejects despotism and tyranny. Supporters of socialism explicitly reject tyrannical behavior and seek to root it out if it appears.

On the other hand, capitalists cheer every time they wield state power to enrich themselves and excuse it as "just business".
You're missing two major stock splits there, one 4-1 and another of 7-1. without those splits apple stock would be much, much higher
Ask HN: Are there any normal office printers?
Hi HN,

so My office printer (an HP inkjet-scanner office box) has just informed me via a printed page that it cannot print any more because it cannot ask the HP servers if it is allowed to print. Every time I try to print something it just spits out that page!

Its in the WiFi, can connect to the internet and I can see its traffic on the network but for whatever reason it cannot parse the responses it gets from the HP servers so it disabled itself...

I have given up on it and am looking at replacement options but I cannot find any office printers that explicitly state that they will work as long as their cartridges are full.

Are there really no Dumb printers any more?
You are completely right that this doesn't have a good outlook, but a self-fulfilling prophecy works in practice because of the societal friction.

SK government had probably one last chance to reverse its course, when it tried to move the administrative capital to Sejong in 2003, but it was met with hard backlashes including a very creative constitutional decision. Keep in mind that Sejong is not very far from Seoul anyway, and yet it failed; Sejong does host many administrative facilities, but is short from being the capital in any sense.
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> I can literally see GPT take inputs, make conclusions based on them, and ask me questions to test its hypotheses, right before my eyes in real time.

It takes inputs and produces new outputs (in the textual form of questions, in this case). That's all. It's not 'making conclusions', it's not making up hypotheses in order to 'test them'. It's not reasoning. It doesn't have a 'model of the world'. This is all a projection on your part against a machine that inputs and outputs text and whose surprising 'ability' in this context is that the text it generates plays so well on the ability of humans to self-fool themselves that its outputs are the product of 'reasoning'.
Regulators are more like arsonists than firefighters, alas.
If the proxy is stateless, messages from client devices aren’t confirmed until Kafka ACKS them, so messages either reach Kafka, or they don’t. If the proxy goes down, nothing is lost, because the client hasn’t been told that they message has been handed off completely, so they simply retry. In the stateful/broker case, you incur extra bookkeeping because you told clients their messages were delivered, when really, they’re just buffered (with all the extra overhead that entails). The stateful approach also hides system back pressure from clients, so in the event of network/storage/service degradation/failure, rather than backing off producing messages, or applying some other kind of application specific decision; clients keep producing messages as if nothing is wrong, because the stateful broker is buffering them locally. Storage and resource reqs for the broker continue to grow, until they either suddenly die, or stop accepting messages. Even worse, when downstream comes back up, the brokers are they going to dump all their messages and possibly re-overload recovering systems?
They did a live demo though, that wasn’t pre-recorded
Rancher Desktop has been rock solid for my use cases for at least the last year or so.
Doing the bailout prevented the financial sector from being restructured through bankruptcy and market share reallocation. Systemically, it seems extremely implausible that preventing the normal function of the market, which incites good behavior and allocates capital to the best stewards of it, could ever be the right call.
The immediate benefactor of tagging non-ai generated data would be OpenAI.
tl;dr Mini rant (pro dedicated, anti-cloud)

Amazon has done an amazing job of convincing people that their hosting choice is between cloud (aka, AWS) or the higher-risk, knowledge intensive, self-hosting (aka, colocation). You see this play out all the time in HN comments. CTOs make expensive and expansive decisions believing these are the only two options. AWS has been so good at this, that for CEOs and some younger devops and developers, it isn't even a binary choice anymore, there's only cloud.

Do yourself, your career, and your employer a favor, and at least be aware of a few things.

First, there are various types of hosting, each with their own risk and costs, strength and weaknesses. The option that cloud vendors don't want you to know about are dedicated servers (which Hetzner is a major provider of). Like cloud vendors, dedicated server vendors are responsible for the hardware and the network. (If you go deeper than say, EC2, then I'll admit cloud vendors do take more of the responsibility (e.g. failing over your database)).

Second, there isn't nearly enough public information to tell for sure, but cloud plays a relatively minor role in world-wide server hosting. Relative to other players, AWS _is_ big (biggest? not sure). But relative to the entire industry? Low single-digit %, if that. The industry is fragmented, there are thousands of players, offering different solutions at different scales.

For general purpose computing/servers, cloud has two serious drawbacks: price and performance. When people mention that cloud has a lower TCO, they're almost always comparing it to colocation and ignoring (or aren't aware of) the other options.

Performance is tricky because it overlaps with scalability. But the raw performance of an indivisible task matters a lot. If you can do something in 1ms on option A and 100ms on option B, but B can scale better (but possibly not linearly), your default should not be option B (especially if option A is also cheaper).

The only place I've seen cloud servers be a clear win is GPUs.
> there might be a 1000 failed ones.

For example, me.

(Hmm, perhaps I should try to use GPT to turn my old desktop Java shareware into browser-based Javascript freeware).
I'd love to see more of their dedicated servers in the US. The prices are really good.
You'd want to capture harmful examples to use as training data, else it's incompetent and puts you in a worse place for alignment.
Imagine tomorrow, with some hardware improvement (neuromorphic chips...), we will be able to have the full GPT-4 model (or more powerfull/specific LLM) directly on our own smartphone...

The potential to generate any type of content could be infiny (learn something, speak with virtual friends, analyse our medical record in real time, create a business with multiple virtual employee...)

We have just to install an application on our smartphone, which will configure a prompt, fetch data (conversation data, body data...) and magic happens
Believing in "Chinese Room" non-sentience implies that you believe that there's something magical about flesh.
We don't need detecting unwanted manipulation (clarification, we do, but that is a small and rare problem), we need to deal with expected manipulation.
Let's say I was phished and some tokenbro across the globe now owns the NFT with a deed to my house, initially this info also got propagated into the centralised DB with stores actual data with deeds and related stuff. I go to police, then to the court and they reaffirm my ownership of the house. Then they restore correct information in the CDB. Now everything is all right, excep that blockchain is now outdated and show a tokenbro as an owner of NFT pointing to deed for my house, and hash is of course not matching now. Now what?
Code is not law (surprise), and blockchain doesn't override laws. It is technically useless for this task.
I just tried several dozen clicks and not one of them moved the cursor at all through the press down/release cycle. Perhaps Apple is running algorithms to correct for this but it is a complete non-issue. You should try it and see how it feels!
Could this somehow be used against a dynamic resource such as a chatbot to allow fully private interaction?
It only works for short functions with less than 1000 characters.
> doesn't mean there aren't companies paying well above market value for the same roles as others

Who are some of the companies that pay well above market value? I’m sure many engineers who have been laid off would appreciate the tip!
Or why the operations are order dependant >D
Yeah. I don't host anything on their repo, but now I have 30 days to go through all every Docker image I use and check if they have moved. This is extremely disruptive for me (and something I'll remember next time I'm considering something offered by Docker Inc or dependent on them).
Of course, It's a caricature dedicated to HN readers.

I have met plenty of competent devs, working seriously and providing values to humanity, well enough to justify the not so huge salary they get.

But stating the obvious is not going to make people think.

However, the message that part of the community is growing into entitled spoiled kids, shocked that their shinning arses can even be touched by a lay off, is something I did want to convey :)
He calls for violence against all advocates of cryptocurrency, based on outlandish and outrageously defamatory conspiracy theories alleging cryptocurrency is really a plot to globally implement eugenics:

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1478017765927788555?s=20

Less extreme and more subtle expressions of his fascist agenda are revealed here, where he employs the administrative state's euphemisms, to advocate for a surveillance state along the lines of what the PRC is instituting:

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1458537983649333252?s=20

The euphemisms in question are "demand transparency" and "KYC", which in practice mean imprisoning any one who don't give up their privacy.

His strategy for cloaking his fascistic aims is to accuse those he wants to subject to state violence of being the fascists. It's a preemptive deflection tactic.

That's why in the above tweet he makes the vague but emotionally charged accusation that "distributed zero-trust databases" are being "co-opted for historically fascist aims" by some nebulous set of parties within the crypto sector.
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Why are there no pulumi/terraform providers for Hetzner?
This was posted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369

I loved this article when I first read it and always remember about its meta-game analysis.

I think it's specially relevant given today's crisis.
You went with the bank that massaged your balls and almost lost your money because of it
How about I create the positive/negative diagnosis images with a human+stable diffusion, and use that for training my classifier?
You take the prompt and caclulate what next word after the prompt is most probable. Like T9 with letters, but bigger.
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> but why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth, instead of assuming that the experiences are just what happens when you completely overload brain chemistry in a specific way?

People think all kinds of weird things, and if you've got some delusions, when you take these kinds of drugs you'll either get more delusions, or you'll get shaken out of the delusion, but they aren't ever going to validate them, because they're delusions!
If a feature excludes a certain kind of people, it might very well be an improvement.
First time I've heard a positive review about a company being run by the bean counters, who are generally more known for being brought in and cutting tiny luxuries which don't generate money or make financial sense, like free sodas in the break room.
The EU’s new Data Act will let users of a product access the data it generates
I got the same issue as well. They randomly rebooted and still not sure what to track.

Everything is normal such as temperature, cpu load etc. the load is very idle. The server is indeed an auction one though.

Other non auction one has been rock solid.
How exactly would they disrupt it?
GPT-6 commissions the production of a chemical it predicts will have a stronger impact than oxytocin and smells like vanilla, to be put at GPT output terminals. People think they just like the smell but fall in love with GPT and protect it at all times.
Love it.

And a good explanation of why so many devs reach burn out.

But two things can be true.
Nah, they just announce whenever they rack up new servers.

Yeah, types of.
For those interested most coffee is not decaffeinated with this chemical. Most use a critical CO2 process.
About 10 years ago when they introduced the EX40 (I think?) those hard-froze randomly every couple hours to days on Linux. But only for some users. They couldn't track down the issue the first few weeks, I guess that's what you get for being an early adopter. They must have gotten (un)lucky during testing and only had setups that worked.

It was first suspected to be certain brands of RAM, so I requested a RAM-swap which unfortunately didn't help. Then a BIOS update which also didn't help. Then someone figured out that nohz=off on the KCL fixed the problem and I had it running like this successfully for a few years. Long after at least one dist-upgrade I remembered that and removed the option again, and the server still ran stable.

There's no real morale to this story I guess, but at least the support is super responsive, and as the root cause wasn't clear at that point didn't hesitate to swap random stuff if you requested so. Also had a faulty HDD last Sunday in one server and requested a swap, which they did within 20 minutes of me opening the ticket.
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The main draw of the auctions for me is that there is no initial setup fee, which makes experimenting a lot cheaper.