skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive seen so many twitter threads where SEOs are excited about the content generation opportunity.

BigCos will follow suit and it'll be very hard to differentiate human generated corporate drivel from GPT powered drivel.

The web will be dramatically worse in a year as this all goes more 'mainstream'
apologies im sure you aren't all pro incest but i couldnt think of how else to call it
Ask HN: Gpt4 Terrible at Tabular Data?
I pasted an 11x35 csv table of an employee roster showing daily allocations to different areas.

I then ask some basic queries “where is person y on each day this week”

It gets about 80% of the answers right, but complete randomly gets the remainder utterly wrong. I then tell it what is wrong, and what the right answer should be, and it apologises and updates the answer, and then performs equally poorly for the next employee name.

I have spent all day prompt-tuning, and trying to explain exactly what the table means and what im after, and it reassures me that it knows exactly what it is doing, and then fails again completely.

Seems strange that this thing can allegedly score 90th centile in lsat but completely botch very basic table reading?
But wow, an intra-day move of 2%!?!
I guess it's been banging around a lot lately.
I thought they had their own Siri version of ChatGPT to be released soon but looks like he didn't plan for this to happen this fast and under increasing interest rates.
I think no. OpenAI will not have GPT family models as exclusive technology. GPT technology is not accessible only to OpenAI. Other companies can make and I think will soon make alternative solutions to GPT family.
I don't understand the frame of reference where it makes more sense to fight to outlaw automation than it does to improve safety nets. If I had the political capital to do the latter, I can't imagine wasting it on the former.
It doesn't even have to be a new crater. The moon wobbles throughout the month so that the part that faces the earth is slightly different through time. Combine with how close the moon is to the earth (which varies) and the amount that is lit up, each day's picture of the moon is fairly unique (at least unique enough over a largish data set).

I would hope that their enhancement software pulls the current timestamp and synthesizes a picture that would be the same as what would be taken from a real high resolution / telescopic image at that time and place.
I love it but also waiting for the hype to settle down.
This is actually a niche industry, that provides "deposit solutions". A family member used to work at this one for example, who just put a PR release based on the recent news cycle: https://www.reichandtang.com/2023/03/12/statement-on-protect...

They provide up to $50 million worth of combined coverage, by splitting across dozens of partner banks into $250k chunks. Yes there are fees associated with purchasing such a service, but I'm not really sure why it's not more popular or more commonly adopted as SOP for small to medium enterprises to do this.

Maybe there is a convenience or liquidity factor that I'm missing, or maybe people really didn't think the cost was worth it (but I'd guess many are probably reevaluating now, just how safe or unlikely they think a bank failure really is)?
Many organisations struggle with how to maintain a single repository and master branch to continuously deliver their software to their customers who require different features.

Some customers use online SaaS services, but some customers need to deploy in a private and self-hosted environment. You're struggling with how to keep the same released version.

If a new feature is only built for one particular customer at the beginning, you're struggling with how to canary ship a new feature to that particular customer and keep the same code for all the other customers.

You also struggle with how to respond quickly to customer requirements without involving too many engineers. If a customer success team can do that without engineers, that's perfect.

How to mitigate the situation?

Feature Flags Management Service is the must-have technology to solve these scenarios. Feature Flags is a modern engineering technology that decouples code deployments from feature releases, giving you control over who sees each feature and when they see it.

Feature Flags can be categorized into four pillars (Release Flag, Experimentation Flag, Operational Flag, and Permission Flag) in its lifecycle through development to customer success.

Operational flags and permission flags can be used to manage entitlements in software, which refers to controlling what features or functionality a user has access to based on their subscription or payment plan.

Release flags and experiment flags can help you to deliver a feature to a specific customer with minimal risk. It allows teams to test new features in production and progressively (percentage rollout) release the new feature to targeted customers to reduce the "blast radius".

I wrote an article of how to use feature flags to manage and release features to different customers in both SaaS and self-hosted environments. I hope this can help and get feedbacks.

https://www.featbit.co/blogs/Manage-Features-For-Different-C...
So who's product have I been using?
That's the theory, but does anyone still believe it? In USA now, and for at least the last 15 years, those wealthy enough to hire lobbyists always get bailed out. This week was an opportunity to improve that situation, merely by allowing FDIC to operate in its normal lawful fashion. Small deposits protected entirely, large deposits receive their share of liquidated assets, shareholder equity disappears. Easy and lawful. Saule Omarova, had she been confirmed, would have pushed for this. (If better OCC regulation under her leadership hadn't avoided this situation entirely.) Suddenly it's obvious why she was not confirmed...
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You noted that you ran over a thousand simulations for this. Can you explain a bit more into what you used to create the variations and any challenges that you encountered while running the simulations?
> but it's not M:N scheduling

Why do you think it is not M:N scheduling? You have M tasks and N OS threads in the pool?
Do you believe the amount of time developers have spent building hello worlds is a waste because those are useless applications?

Should go without saying, but the interesting thing about this thread is not that you can now play a flawed text version of an old game. It's that this example toy use case manages to explore the new capabilities and limitations of this new promising tool. This improves our understanding of this technology, and helps us make better use of it in the future, for more productive and innovative applications that we may not be able to predict yet at this point.
It probably wasn't a replay attack. You can steal a Hyundai with a screwdriver and a USB cable. https://www.hotcars.com/kia-boyz-easily-steal-base-kia-hyund...
And, to make more explicit what is implicit in your post, this practice of data analysis without much theoretical underpinning might lead you to say "I believe" instead of "I conclude."
That's not how a large company like Stripe works, even if you have majority shares. You still need coalitions.
It’s a quote from the comment I linked, from the Fly.io employee, describing their opinion of Hashicorp products based on their usage of those products at Fly.io.

It seems pretty clear you have beef with Hashicorp and with their products. It’s entirely possible you’re right. But your original claim, that I was replying to, attempted to answer a question about why Fly.io was experiencing issues with Hashicorp products. And your answer doesn’t line up with clear public statements from Fly.io staff.
Yeah, Germany... For the current project I have so much overtime, needed to stop writting down my working hours officially and only record them off-the-record. This is with a mutual silent agreement with my employer to afterwards simply not show up for some time as soon as the project is done. Because... Laws. We are afraid to even talk about it.

But to be fair, my employer wouldn't mind to let the project fail (It may very well fail anyway, btw). I am doing it voluntarily. He's not at fault at all, except for maybe allowing me to do it. I just love working on the project and try to get it done somehow, against all odds. Nevertheless, German laws now make something shady out of it.

On the other hand, this is not the first time I am doing so utterly stupid and partly self-distructive shit at work. But for sure it is the last time. I am never ever doing this amount of overtime again in my life. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind occasional overtime. But that's simply to much for too long now. I will barely go to work for several months in a row just to get rid of all that overtime, to give you an impression. (I know there is professions where people literally die, if people stop working similar hours. I am not really forced to do that so I am not complaining.)

I am glad my significant other is fine with it, since I barely caried any other responsibilities I should have... for a long time now.

Edit: I am not sure if there is actually special laws in Germany to avoid mutually agreed overtime. But there is for sure some rules where I work. Our company has a kind of special situation and strange laws surprisingly apply to us. Also it important to mention that if low performance and mistakes because of overworked employees happen nothing terrible will happen. You wouldn't want to have your medical devise be programmed by some sleep deprived idiot, but that is not the situation our company is in. If projects fail, nothing of importance is at risk. Many projects are of high risk and failing simply belongs to the business.
> What happens in an economy when machines can do most tasks?

We invent new things for people to do. As we have time immemorial. What happens to clergymen when nobody has faith in a religion? They find other things to do than preach.

> What happens to power structures when people become a cost rather than a benefit?

If you want to look at this pessimistically - a good portion of the world's population can already be considered a cost and are a net economic negative on the privileged people's ability to hoard even more insane amounts of wealth. We've, thankfully, decided that mass genocide of impoverished people is inhumane and humanitarian efforts are instead created to try and improve their lives. Even a pessimistic take that the humanitarian efforts only being done to create more workers doesn't hold up given a cost/benefit analysis. More money is invested than could ever be extracted again - and yet we continue investing.

Maybe instead of filling our lives being paid to dig holes so that others can be paid to fill them we could turn more attention and efforts to improving people's lives without having to worry about sustaining society through work?
I'm not blaming Mozilla here (at least I don't think I should..? Not sure that the «enabler of bad behaviour» argument can really apply here ??)
I haven't been responsible for babysitting consul, but I have been responsible for etcd for years and if consul's problem is anything like etcd's it's because members have identity and if one of them goes toes up then etcd will wait forever for the snowflake to come back to life, and if that's not how the underlying infra is configured, that's very very bad. Mix it mTLS into this story and it gets worse

I stayed away from the so-called "stacked" control plane of etcd inside kubernetes because it can make a tiny fire into a sharkfirenado but recently I've heard discussions of k3s (which uses dqlite) managing the etcd members and then "formal" kubernetes managing the workloads pointed at that k3s-stacked-etcd but I haven't tried it yet in order to know how theory and practice differ
Thanks for the reply, I was in the ground based geophysics game for a decade or two and I'm fine with the envelope guess work and principle focus on gravity + GR dynamics .. but I am now piqued by this, I'm grabbing Park (thanks for the link) and will poke about further.
Meanwhile KYC and AML makes lives of the average Joe much tougher - banks increasingly ask more documents every time, and more often. It will not stop real criminals anyway, as history shows.
Almost anything technical or even moderately mathematical is an exercise in linear algebra (effectively by design).
Ya know it sounds funny but it seems to me that it is a fundamental principle they the larger a body of humans under consideration is, the slower everything will move. For example a small startup with 15 developers often is able to add features and move faster to capture a market than a massive lumbering blue behemoth.

Thus if we were to reframe our understanding of timelines considering organization size.

Less than a few hundred people could be measured in time scales of a few weeks.

Large organizations with thousands of people change and move on time scales of years or decades.

Then understandably nations would often move on the time scales of centuries to do things, simply because of inertial forces.

I wonder how much of the discontent and mudslinging that now happens is a result of everything in our personal lives suddenly becoming faster without the rest of the human organizations surrounding it being able to speed up as well.
The right to privacy is alienable, like the right to party; it must be fought for.
I fear government intervention would not stop the progress of AI, it would only replace some negatives with others. The cat's out of the bag, people will experiment and soon we may have AIs like this running on home computers -- I know that's what I will be experimenting with, unless we get some really draconian laws about what I can and cannot do with my own computer. And if the US government outlaws AIs or something, are we just going to watch as other nations capitalize on the advantages while we stagnate?
I'm skeptical. It seems like this could just be the result of increasing epistemic humility, rather than a shift away from rationality per se.
You are super defending it. Maximum hours allowed is what protects, not minimum hours. It’s already a hierarchical nightmare in South Korea. Underlings often keep their head bowed and do not make eye contact with their bosses. Speaking from first hand experience - for months.
> we are making absolutely zero progress on improving safety nets.

Citation needed.

Progress is being made. Andrew Yang ran for President on UBI and was taken seriously. Universal Healthcare has more support now than ever (and growing). It takes time for people to change their minds.
are there existing books of the sort on a simpler cpu, e.g. 6502?

one i could take with me on a holiday and return having every transistor accounted for (and probably foolishly assuming i finally understand how the wretched thing works!)
That's still there although they emphasise it less and less (they want you on the monthly "unlimited" subscription instead). But only for music; their video offering is locked streams only, for example.
They're orbits, but not stable ones. Not even really ellipses. By the time it's made one orbit-ish motion around the planet, the moon has moved relative to it. The second go around it gets affected by the new position of the moon. Eventually the combined effects of the moon and the sun's changing relative positions will nudge it out of orbit.
Feels like a thinly-veiled symbol of class status. Or maybe a proxy for salary.

The IT guy at an auto garage - not a tech worker

A janitor at a software company - not a tech worker

A data analyst at software company - now THAT is a tech worker
It's indie because she built the product independently.
What were the assets that SVB invested in that went down causing them to lose so much money they couldn’t cover deposits?
Kind of, but I don’t pay any fees for my bank account(s) and I don’t expect to in the future, even with the small insurance rate increase levied by the FDIC to cover making SVB depositors whole. Making loans with my money is profitable enough for my bank that they don’t need to charge fees.
<< In a world where human intellect becomes meaningless, nobody can predict what will happen next, and a lot of the possibilities are not good.

I will pose a counter and let me know how it fits your prediction.

I posit that in a world where GPT is present in everything ( you don't write and email; you tell your AI: "tell them fuck off in a polite way" ), ability to think will be even more scarce ( so a person that can think will have an edge ). Some jobs will be automated ( a lot of white collar jobs at that ), but, based on the output I have seen so far ( some simple ad text, some SQL code, some python code ) it was closer to copying from stackoverflow than having Jarvis working for you ( and you still needed to watch it to make sure it makes sense so maybe actual job loss will be stemmed somewhat ).

Thus far ( that can naturally change ), it seems actual creative work is probably ok.

In my world, we seem to be moving towards a weird version of idiocracy ( can't count, can't write IF/THEN, can't think abstractly, can't even write a prompt ).

And in that glorious future, there will be people queuing for 'good prompt services'.
That's true. As @genocidicbunny points out, there's still plenty of reason that this represents progress. Governments can create and make use of their own dark patterns against the citizenry they're suppose to serve and the interplay of federal and state agencies playing off each other to reduce the rights of victims here is particularly pernicious.

It's also worth noting that while federal law does have some measure of precedence over state/local law... it's not as completely clear cut as you might think. First the U.S. Constitution itself has the 10th amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". (https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/) Also consider that most drugs, such as cannabis, continue to be illegal according to federal law but that a fair number of states choose to simply ignore that in their own law enforcement/legal systems. So a federal law that addresses the federal parts of this problem is at the very least a serious step forward, if not a final step.

There's some good discussion of this bill and why it's a good step forward here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL7T6mBEiY
Yeah this article seems sensational to the point of being deliberately misleading.
An exploding mortgage wrapped in mortgage insurance has exactly the same shape as a conventional mortgage from a fractional reserve bank. The insurer would be doing something like “fractional reserve insurance”, i.e. only holding some fraction of the total insurance payout it’s liable for, and you’d have the same problems. If you legislate that insurers can’t do fractional reserve insuring, the cost of insurance would go up so high that the only people who could afford insurance are people who could plausibly afford to buy the house outright.

The reason “fractional reserves” keep creeping back in whenever you try to offer mortgages to more than just rich people is because fractional reserves are a way to invent money out of thin air, and you have to invent money out of thin air because the not-rich people buying the houses do not have the money to afford the house (but they can make that money if they focus on it for 10 or 20 or 30 years).

You often see people demand to know why banks are allowed to do fractional reserve banking. And this is the reason: it lets banks offer mortgages and credit cards to most of the public. Most people don’t have much money, but do have a lot of future earnings. Giving people access today to large chunks of their future earnings is a big social good but it fundamentally requires money to be invented from thin air, and that invented money is then gradually filled in with real money over time as the earnings come in.

So somebody somewhere has to be inventing trillions of dollars. This is risky. The capitalist way is to have private entities who profit when they manage their risk well, since that provides the strongest incentives for competency. And the democratic-capitalist way is to heavily regulate those private entities, eating some portion of their profit to provide some extra value to the public.
The point of this website is to cater to people who don't want to deploy web fonts. That's the only reason it exists. It serves no other purpose.
> It should be straight up "I have these deposit liabilities, I have this book of assets, oops, my assets are down a bit, lets do something about it". Instead of "I'm gonna run the gauntlet and hope the business survives until these bonds come in".

Have a read of Matt Levine:

https://archive.is/l4nLU

The “let’s do something about it” could actually be business as usual. Look at the “deposit beta” in that article: when interest rates increase, mean rates banks pay on deposits increase less. So you can have a bank with a low mark-to-market value (assume all deposits liquidate at par and securities are sold at mid-market), but that ignores the value of the enterprise itself. Or you can project forward (to a specific time or times, not necessarily to the arbitrary maturity of each security), and you may well find that you end up with enough money at every point in the future to be quite comfortable, assuming your deposits stick around and continue to earn less than market interest.

Imagine you worked at a magic trading desk where you could issue a very special bond: you borrow money right now, and you pay a floating interest rate that is set at 1/2 the federal funds rate. This is a great deal, but it comes with a catch: the bond holder can call the debt at any time, which they will do on occasion at random but will do en masse if they don’t like you. Also, people can lend you money on these terms and you have to accept the deal. How would you make money on these? How would you account for them?

I agree that HTM accounting, done carelessly, can lead to wrong conclusions.
An unprecedented era of prosperity and luxury?
Here’s something - for every “best” person in a given field, there is almost certainly several other people alive who could perform similarly but didn’t have the same opportunities.

In your given scenario, there are _already_ so-called “losers” who lose “fairly”, but also lots of “losers” who really shouldn’t have lost.

Did you ever consider any of those people before this? Don’t you think they’ve been similarly depressed by the unfair advantages it seems others have in life? How is that _at all_ different from being inferior to an automatic process, in terms of the impact, and why are you only worrying about this issue now that it’s more likely to effect your chances specifically?

Is it possible that viewing the world through a competitive lens is toxic? That humans should seek out happiness rather than awards? Peace rather than conflict?

I’m not saying it isn’t going to be hard for people to readjust. But certainly, the notion that “I’m gonna be the best” is something that results in a more toxic world, AI or no.
The max of -4 is only what is displayed. It's likely that they keep track of the actual number of downvotes. When you're at -2 it actually takes a bit to get down to -4, almost like there's linear scaling above 0 and logarithmic scaling below zero. I would not be at all surprised if karma played a factor in this as well.