skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't know how they are using GPT-4 it's not fair to say it will hallucinate.

As far as I understand the preferred way to use LLMs nowadays for domain specific information retrieval is through embeddings that insert the related context in the prompt. GPT-4 is specially good for this since they increased the prompt size almost by an order of magnitude.

This means that the model can be given a very specific task: to extract information from the context or avoid providing an answer at all.

The answer doesn't rely on the neural memory of the model, since it doesn't need to store information, just understand the task, and they are really good at that.
In my grandmother's case, it's a run of the mill Bank of America rewards credit card (I had to burn goodwill just to get this far, so we agreed to stay with her preferred bank). Before my mother's death, when I was supporting her financially and her having had a long history of and struggle with addiction, I used TrueLink (which I cannot recommend enough, and had found them here on HN) as it allows you control which category of merchants the payment method can be used with and has strong reporting capabilities on spend.

https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/true-link (YC S13)

If you come across this comment and need advice in logistics for caring for loved ones, contact info in my profile.
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Im not talking about startups, read the post I replied to again. And even in the case of a startup, their runway is probably longer than next payroll.
> They spend on a credit card

That's a great idea. And it's easier than ever, now -- at least in my experience. For a while I still had to use bill pay or debit for some of my utilities, but now even those all take credit card. I do it for convenience and the rewards (and because the last time my wife used her debit card it got skimmed), but the result is the same -- 100% of my own spending is on my credit card now. This would work great for my own mother if she gets to a point where I doubt her ability to resist con artists.
The FT is also a left leaning newspaper as it has had to increasingly post 'commentary' articles to stay relevant in the 2020s. Long gone are the days of its dull hard factual reporting that was of actual utility to London traders since the rise of the internet.

I had no 'point' other than to state that the article headline was misleading, the content was weak at best with sound bite quotes and zero context.

I referenced the wikipedia article so that non-UK readers have some context regarding the publication.
I don't think "production during the war" is the point. I believe the point GP is making is that production can continue after hostilities cease if and only if the plant is intact.

Being beyond the range of 155mm artillery makes that much more likely.
Purely for the anecdata, I'm also in this group. Had Tracfone's $40/mo plan for a few years and then a cc change caused a missed payment. Within 8 hours my service was discontinued, which was a huge headache trying to 2-factor my way into my tracfone account to update cc details. In the end I decided to move to a verizon plan for twice as much but now I have unlimited data and a company that _sounds_ like it won't throw you around at the smallest paperwork hiccup.
Welcome to a non-zero interest rate environment. "$100m equivalent today" is not $100m -- the term to search for is "net present value". These considerations are precisely what marking to market captures
My parents are the same age and have already been scammed a few times. I set up similar rules but I am afraid they might get sucked in again. I don’t understand why law enforcement isn’t doing anything about this. Surely the surveillance dragnet they’ve set up over the last few decades can tell them who is making 750,000 calls a day to elderly people in the US?
Apple Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter plugged into Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter cable is more or less the only way to do it. You have to have Thunderbolt PCIe on the USB-C port to support the hardware requirements of firewire.

Such a solution has nothing at all to do with virtual monitors or display protocols though. Firewire has a standard for transporting digital video, but it's not useful for much of anything except speaking with niche and legacy AV equipment.
I have no doubt. I was just bringing up your choice of language.

You would have been a hero. It's disappointing when an amazing idea, thrillingly fast and good execution, and the dream of being like a more ethical JP Morgan to the startup world falls through. I can imagine what it might have been like, the ideas and feelings you had must have been even stronger.
The USA is weirdly fond of using words (or cryptic abbreviations of words) where other countries use icons. The Slate article "The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man" has more on this. (I'd link it, but Slate is down right now.)

See also in transport timetables, where every other country in the world would use a 24-hour clock, the USA not only uses the 12-hour clock, but furthermore does an extra layer of abbreviation used only in the USA and nowhere else. I was in a New York airport staring at signs saying 9:06p and similar for several minutes before I even worked out they were supposed to be times. The US makes no accommodations for tourists even in major international transport hubs. Strange country.
Interesting, that means both have the same efficiency, 125 Wh per ton mile.
Good news for North Wales
Great question! We actually looked at using the workflow abstraction for batch processing in our runner, but ultimately didn't because it was still in alpha (we use the dataset API for batch flows).

I think one area where we differ is our focus on streaming processing which I don't think is well supported with the workflow abstraction, and also having more resource management / use case driven IO.
This story blows my mind. I can't imagine how this problem wasn't found during testing.
Entrepreneurship Negotiation by Dinnar and Susskind covers some of the most fundamental topics anyone wanting to become an entrepreneur must know.

I also find Richard Thaler work (Nudge, Misbehaving) very helpful particularly if you are in the B2C domain.

The Black Swan by Taleb is another book I find myself going back to often; it's been of great help for decision making under lots of uncertainty.
> Come on, 30 days notice is a walk in the park

Sure, maybe in a small business or startup, and even then I'd content not quite as easy as all that.

When you're dealing with anything larger, say involving multiple teams, organisations, and priorities, 30 days is an insanely short shrift to look at figuring out what your actual route forwards is (and if you're provisioning something new, making sure you're allowed to and have any relevant sign-offs etc.)

This particular situation with Docker doesn't affect us, but if it did this would have some serious knock on implications. The teams in my org are already busy with things that need to GA by certain dates or there will be financial implications. It's not "tire fire" but in most cases it's solid "don't waste time" territory. There's always flex in the schedule, but the closer to a GA date you get the more rigid the schedule has to be.
You should be able to adapt the writeup to a macOS host, but I have no idea how you configure a virtual display on it
Fair - I personally don't think either view withstands scrutiny in the HUGE difference in salary between US workers and the rest of the world.
I've gotten a few voicemails that are a recorded message telling me that I am going to be arrested the next day unless I call back. I know it's a scam but it's still physically alarming. I picture being arrested, I picture being thrown in jail at the mercy of the justice system. I imagine what will happen with my job and my family. Its so frightening that I completely understand why people will pay hundreds of dollars to make that feeling go away.

The sickening thing is that I'm sophisticated enough to not fall for it. I'm white, I'm college educated, I'm a comfortably employed engineer, I know that I'm at a relatively low risk of being arrested without cause. A lot of other people probably get these calls, probably suspect it's a scam, but don't have the same level of confidence and just hand the money over. These scams prey on the people who can least afford it.

I was also getting voicemails from a lovely recorded female voice saying "someone who loves you very much has asked us to reach out to you, please call us back". Again, rationally I know it's a scam, but still emotionally I feel how nice it would be to think that someone out there cares about me. It much be nearly irresistible to lonely people.
The Political Biases of GPT-4
Last year, I found true my Tesla VIN was used to register a car in a different state. I never received the CA renewal notice, then eventually got a “driving with no registration” citation, and had to pay something like a $1k penalty to get it resolved. I never figured out how the same VIN was used?

Point being - perhaps ids can accidentally be reused or mis-entered into some system?
1. I just started teaching myself Docker for my home server. How will this affect me?

2. What is a good alternative to Docker?

Thanks!
I just had some fraudulent withdrawals on my bank account pretending to be paypal. They did the two sub-$1 authorization transactions, then took out $400 then "reversed" it by putting it back into my account... maybe to attract less suspicion and execute a larger fraud later?? Anyway, my bank reversed the withdrawals and I just got to keep the $400 the scammers deposited in.
> Again: it's because no one ever asks the right questions or actually watches people work.

This thread is getting nowhere but I'll leave it with this: the attitude you've outlined here is really patronizing. That these users can't possibly have valid opinions about the tools they use, if they dare to be happy with them they are wrong because you know better than they do. How dare they not care about 20% CPU usage! How dare they!

> it's funny how in the name of privacy

at no point have I made an argument that has anything to do with privacy

> the desktop apps that you complain are security nightmares

nor have I ever claimed desktop apps are security nightmares.

Like I said, I think I'm comfortable wrapping up my contributions here. I don't think conversation beyond this point is productive.
The USPS sells change of address information. The only way to avoid it is to file the address change as temporary instead of permanent, or not file at all and forgo USPS mail forwarding from the old address.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...
> Nonsense. Rich people assets (i.e. stocks) aren't taxed. That's why Amazon doesn't pay any taxes.

Amazon is a corporation, not an individual billionaire tech bro. Not sure what relevance Amazon's tax situation has to this discussion.
Exactly the path I took -- Mint was nice enough early, deprioritization became too frustrating, Visible deprioritized wasn't better, Visible w/ priority has been acceptable.
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It’s not like using cloud services without suitable contractual agreements isn’t a known risk?
Well, yes. But its a duodecimal system that incorporates uncial dots. E.g. 9/12 is written as S···

That ellipsis looking thing will be fun for screen readers.
What? It is a word. Words have meanings.

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states,[1] and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement.
>Many people change their phone every year.

Very few people upgrade every year. The average lifespan of a mobile phone is 2.5 years.

In the late 2000s that length of time was lower because phones were improving by leaps and bounds every year but now phones are waterproof, have more resilient screens, cost more, and performance increases between models have slowed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/smartphone-users-are-waiting...

The lifespan increase pattern is mirroring the personal computer upgrade cycle, but more rapidly.
Congrats! I had something quite similar in mind (also working a lot in python based streaming ETL).
I am unfamiliar with Ray. A few questions:
1. Ray seems to be focussed on ML usecases, are you as well or are you a more generic streaming ETL framework. Can you explain the reasoning behind choosing Ray.
2. I see you deeply integrate Infrastructure (like BQ and Pub/Sub) what is your story on evolution of this infra? What happens if i have deployed infra through your code and I want to edit it? How do you deal with Dev/Prod/Qa stage divide.
3. What is your story on deployment of the "glue" code that runs your pipeline? Do you also handle multi stage pipelines?
I get what you're saying, but I think there are two complications here:

One: A pencil (as a writing tool) has no biases. You mostly get out of it exactly what you put in, with little semantic transformation. But AI does create semantic transformation, and it is necessarily biased in how it does that! The training data isn't a natural property of the universe, it's something that we choose and create - and will have any biases in the training data built into it. That can mean biases in how the data is selected, or biases in the societies and people who created the data in the first place.

Now, that wouldn't be a problem if AI was just an academic exercise with no broader cultural interest but...

Two: We, as a society, tend to treat "AI" with way more authority that it deserves. People (not necessarily HN, but less-technical audiences) act like an AI is actually "smart" or that the predictions and opinions that it can create have more intent and intelligence than simply being the output of a huge pile of linear algebra. This is probably because of the name - we have decades of science fiction with super-human intelligent AIs, and so people tend to treat the thing called "AI" as a more-than-human intelligence. Add on to that that many of the practical AI applications are effectively human-replacements (i.e., customer service, personal assistants) and we're ultimately in a place where AI gets treated as human in at least some ways.

As such, we have a thing that will (unless reined in) at least sometimes rattle off diatribes that reflect the worst of us as a society, and that many people treat as human or more-than-human. I can see why researchers might be concerned.
Average income in India (in USD): $422/mo.

Average income in US: $4585/mo.

Considering most streaming/online services are out of reach for Indians, due to cost, and not for Americans, there is significantly lower impact on cell service. 4GB/$15 is isn't unreasonable for most people and can provide plenty of data for Spotify/Waze/browsing. Of course, that varies a lot when you start streaming movies over your dataplan. You'll hit 4GB in no time.
Don't blame yourself, I can see making the same mistake myself. Moving is stressful and you were just trying to take care of your family and yourself. Blame the scammers, they are the trash that are taking advantage of the emotional state of movers.
API schemas and test suites are usually stored as code in some sort of SCM. I googled "postman maven" and "postman gradle" and found nothing official so I guess they have nothing except stand-alone workspaces.

API registry is a useful tool with modern love for nanoservices when a team of five somehow manages ten of those but I don't see anything similar done by Postman. Two of the service registries I know of were implemented in-house for obvious reasons.
Glider for Android

https://f-droid.org/packages/nl.viter.glider/
Grand Theft Auto V PS5/XSX Review – Aging Like Fine Wine
Maybe the difference here is "faster than anticipated" growth that T-Mo didn't plan for, forcing them to deprioritize MVNO traffic.
I was under the FDIC insurance limit so I was not at risk of losing my money.
Yeah I noticed that. The "Lol" was not even in any of the original comments. Very odd indeed
You can get all the meaning you need from The Black Swan by just reading the first few chapters. Taleb has a nasty habit of saying the same thing over and over again and stretching it out to an entire book.
No, really, this argument is even worse ignorance than the gold standard stuff, because it isn't true even as an oversimplification or historical detail.

The difference between Venezuela and any relatively stable country (the US is one of many, some of which have tiny armies and pacifist foreign policies) isn't military spending or reserve currency status, it's that the money in the country with the stable currency is created as a debt which the borrower and bank has to be repay in future (with the central bank also intervening if it thinks too many borrowers and banks are taking on debts) whereas the money in places like Venezuela is being created to pay off debts.
I switched to all credit union now. Works great for me.
A weak economy is less able to fund a strong military. If the country signals a desire to use their military for conquest, it seems relatively sound to sanction the country as a means to constrain it first and foremost. I don't think the primary goal need be anything more than "make military conquest more expensive" and e.g., less likely to succeed. It's not hard to imagine what Russia would be doing right now if its economy were 10x as strong as it is.
Isn't Credit Suisse the bank that laundered and legitimized all the money from the drug cartels? They kept getting slaps on the wrist for a bunch of atrocities and bad choices and now finally they are seeing some repercussions of those choices?
> It’s clear they do seem to construct models from which to derive responses. The problem is once you stray away from purely textual content, those models often get completely batshit

I think you mean that it can only intelligently converse in domains for which it's seen training data. Obviously the corpus of natural language it was trained on does not give it enough information to infer the spatial relationships of latitude and longitude.

I think this is important to clarify, because people might confuse your statement to mean that LLMs cannot process non-textual content, which is incorrect. In fact, adding multimodal training improves LLMs by orders of magnitude because the richer structure enables them to infer better relationships even in textual data:

Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00923
I think it is more like chance of rain ie: 100% chance of 40% of CS failing
Not so much. If we believe there is a 20% chance that Taiwan gets annexed, but the result of that would be catastrophic in terms of access to the chips that are the life blood of the modern world, it would make sense to prepare for that eventuality even if it weren't the most probable outcome, assuming the cost of that preparation is affordable.
As I commented in yesterday's thread, this is not the first time Docker is pulling the plug on people with very short advance notice: See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16665130 from 2018

Someone back then even wondered what would happen if such a change happened to Docker Hub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16665340 and here we are today.
Can we capture it?
I'm pretty sure this is related to https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ancient-builders-of-the-...
Sure. It’s a risk. But that doesn’t somehow make this work expected and planned, not invalidate the original comment.

It could have happened at any time. But it’s also been running for a decade now so there’s an expectation that things will continue rather than have the rug pulled with 30 days notice.
In a capitalist economy with several major AI competitors, two of which already offers search for free.
The company has never been good though. The technology was great, but they never found a way to monetise it properly, and their whole approach to outreach, community, and developer experience was terrible. Their support, non-existent.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say that, given the ubiquity of their product, I can't think of a worse way a company could have performed. It's been about 10 years now since it really took off, and in that time, the technology has been great, but dealing with the company, always been difficult.
France's pension does not have a balanced budget. It will soon run out of money without the proposed changes.
Cult of the Gods in Pre-Egyptian Society
Nice! Yes, coreference resolution is surprisingly absent even in enterprise NLP.

Depends on what you mean by "better". With more accuracy?
What is the alternaive?
Do you also mean things like Uber? with double digit $B lost with no road to be profitable? I agree.
I have. And it was also my job to say to management "hey, there's a very preoccupying fire right there, and it will delay this less important thing. If you're unhappy about it, send me an email explicitly telling me drop the very preoccupying fire."

"Everybody has a plan until you get punched in the mouth" also applies to tech.
I upgraded my mom from an iPad to a Chromebook (her first computer) recently. I installed uBlock Origin and set a secure password for the Google account which I store in my password manager, and then instructed her to use the Chrome password manager when she needs it.

While I'm confident in the security of Chromebook in general, I'm worried by how readily she pulls out her credit card and types the number into obscure sites for purchasing wedding gifts, etsy items, etc. A few years ago she would click on Facebook ads and buy shit quality products for little reason, but I think she eventually learned not to do that.

At least it's a credit card and not a debit card. My dad manages the banking, and is a bit more sophisticated, but even he does things like install programs meant to protect him that actually expose him to more vulnerabilities. For example, there is some Symantec monstrosity installed on his computer that injects a green checkmark into Google search results next to each site it thinks is "trustworthy."

It's definitely frightening and mostly a numbers game whether they'll be the next victims of a scam.
What? I’m ready to believe a lot of things about the USA, but that seems a bit far-fetched?
>both China (during Mao's years) and Russia (during the shock therapy of the 1990s) have had to endure severe economic hardship

Actually I would argue the exact opposite is true. Russia and China have never had it so good, why should they throw away
all the hard earned advantages they've gained just because some 3rd term teddy bear president tells them to?
If you work for a decent sized-company, using their machine, you often have zero choice in what VPN is installed.
what's old is new again. the teenagers nowadays call themselves "coders" because "programmer" is for old people.
Smartphones are computing appliances. You can sometimes put a new OS on them to make them into feasible GP computers, but that's not what they're designed to be.

That there's a GP computer inside isn't that meaningful. There's one inside "smart" TVs, too, but those TVs are still just appliances.
New object, current 1-in-625 chance of impact, impact could cause local death and damage, more observational data will refine the trajectory estimations.

I can't really tell how news-like this is. Mostly, my question would be: this object is called 2023 DW, does it mean we went 2023 AA, AB, ..., DA, DB, ... DW? If so it's interesting that only ~100 new asteroids are observed and labeled so far this year. Maybe the categorization is somehow different than I understand.