skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dual Xeons - 36 cores / 72 threads - 128GB memory

just clicked, unfortunately it is out of stock..

> I'm colocating a couple of servers there for $40 per-month each

are you living nearby? Or you sent them server and they installed it?
Ask HN: How to Monetise a Puzzle Game?
I’ve invented a compelling standard playing card based inductive puzzle game. It is 1 player, but could be made two player in a “who solves it first” kind of way.

I wondered if anyone has experience in monetising this kind of thing? It could be a puzzle book with solutions in the back. It could be an app. It could be in the back of newspapers.

Any insight from those with experience would be appreciated.
forked by this french guy[0], very fitting name

[0]: https://github.com/fdehau
It’s not ‘write me a shell script to run this python code’, it’s ‘okay, the test part looks good, run the print again with the feed speed increased to 100, and make six copies. And Jarvis, throw a little hot-rod red on it.’
> I use "font-family: system-ui, sans-serif" on my resume page [...] If you're creating a user interface with really tight tolerances on element size or appearance, different strategies might be more appropriate.

Shouldn't it be the opposite? It literally has "UI" in the name, and according to the the spec, "The purpose of system-ui is to allow web content to integrate with the look and feel of the native OS."

The text on a resume is not UI, and it has no need to fit the look and feel of the native OS. In this case you should just use `serif` or `sans-serif`. If you're creating a user interface, then it would be appropriate to use `system-ui`.
> Surely "launch the nukes" is not available as a public API.

Of course not.

However "manipulate the news and social media so that the humans launch the nukes for you" isn't quite so far-fetched.

> How will an AI adversary interact any differently with than world than a flesh and blood adversary?

It's possible to spin up a whole army of AI adversary bots in a hurry. Recruiting that many humans takes a lot of time and money.
This is a standard university press-release style article about a paper accepted at PETS:

https://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/spyware-pets23.pdf

It's academic research, so this thread here expressing disappointment about the article is weird. We should probably just replace the press release with a link to the study itself.

From the abstract:

. In this work, we perform an in-depth technical analysis of 14 distinct leading mobile spyware apps targeting Android phones. We document the range of mechanisms used to monitor user activity of various kinds (e.g., photos, text messages, live microphone access) — primarily through the creative abuse of Android APIs. We also discover previously undocumented methods these apps use to hide from detection and to achieve persistence.
> Specifically, Congress should say that when the deposit insurance fund is fully funded, banks’ deposit insurance fees go to the Treasury Department as fiscal revenue — rather than being waived as they are under current law.

Waived? How does that make any sense whatsoever?
Oh this is great news. The project is fantastic, fdehau (original author/maintainer) created something wonderful. Sad to see he's not able to drive development anymore, but happy to see he's transferred it in a responsible way. Looking forward to see where it goes, and many thanks to Florian!
I'm inclined to believe you, but can you quote one reasonably popular movie that was rendered with Unreal?
It took a bit of hunting to find what an "MCRT" renderer is: Monte Carlo raytracer.
I copied the response verbatim. I also did a follow-up where it wrote the interpreter as well:

class KimmieInterpreter:
def __init__(self):
self.variables = {}

def interpret(self, code):
for line in code.split("\n"):
tokens = line.split()
if len(tokens) == 0:
continue
if tokens[0] == "#":
self.variables[tokens[1]] = None
elif tokens[0] == "#my_var":
self.variables[tokens[1]] = int(tokens[3])
elif tokens[0] == "OMG":
print(tokens[1][1:-1])
elif tokens[0] == "add":
var1 = self.variables[tokens[2]]
var2 = self.variables[tokens[3]]
result = var1 + var2
self.variables[tokens[1]] = result
God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs
re:hallucinations. There are things that are clearly hallucinations, e.g. made up sources that straight-up don’t exist. But what if you asked an AI early in the pandemic how COVID spreads?

re:toxicity. I believe there are things an AI could say that are widely agreed to be toxic. I also think there are things an AI (or a human!) could say that some people think are fine and others think are toxic.
This is a garbage idea.
Yes and yes, if they are allocated for HTM.

If you put cash in a a CD with a 1 year lock in, do you list it at current value or subtract a withdraw penalty.

Do you subtract early withdrawal penalties when calculating the balance in your 401k?

At the end of the day, a list of your asset values is not the same as how much you could liquidate those assets for today.

That would be a list of liquidatable assets.

HTM assets are called out separately on the balance sheet specifically to highlight that they cannot be easily liquidated.
It's not because it removes subjectivity out of the equation. You might put a lot of value into living by a train station and stores but someone else might but a lot of value into having space and a garden. You can't factor the benefits of these things because the value of them is subjective.
I’ve been ranting against the anthropomorphization of these new AI tools pretty consistently, but I think the fact that these tools only appear to possess certain characteristics is all the more reason that we should not be hooking these things up to tools that give them access to the real world.

If a language model “concocts” some “scheme” and executes it by interacting with real systems in ways that have real world impact, it doesn’t much matter if the whole thing is a hallucination.

Put another way, would you feel comfortable letting a hallucination machine running on a supercomputer have access to the real world?

It doesn’t have to truly “know” anything for the impact of the resulting actions to matter.
We can't go NIH for everything. If we do that we're back to baremetal in our own datacenters and that's expensive and (comparatively) low velocity. We have to pick and choose our dependencies and take the trade off of risk for velocity.

This is the tradeoff we made with the move to cloud. We run our workloads on AWS, GCP or Azure, use DataDog or New Relic for monitoring, use Github or GitLab for repos and pipelines, and so forth. Each speeds us up but is a risk. We hope they are relatively low risks and we work to ameliorate those risks as we can.

An organization like Docker should have been low risk. Clearly, it's not. So now it's a strong candidate for replacement with a local solution rather than a vendor to rely on.
I do: I mean some people with experience making Common Lisp implementations (SBCL, maybe) getting an idea and implementing Python with the same basic concepts they used to implement a Common Lisp compiler.
Apple can’t. Not sure about Amazon but Google definitely can.
Apple’s machine learning capabilities are extremely limited.
Can they lend treasuries sitting in accounts, if you don't have a margin account?
Having used TCE to clean heavily fouled parts I can't emphasize enough how much better it is than acetone. It's really not close. Acetone might as well be water compared to TCE. TCE makes years of caked-on, baked-on crud wipe off like it was never there. And 30 seconds later not a trace of residue will remain. In the extremely rare case that something is hard to clean with TCE, that same thing will be nearly impossible to clean with a less evil substance.

Don't get me wrong, I have zero doubt it causes cancer and God-only-knows what else. The stuff is like an eraser for physical reality. Whatever tiny droplets of it you breathe in, are desperately trying to clean your nasty organs away and leave a gleaming, residue-free skeleton behind. I suspect it could clean the face right off your head like in the end scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I no longer use it. For my purposes anything that can't be cleaned without TCE, doesn't need to be cleaned that badly. But I do get why it was used so much.
Another reminder that VC-funded hosting does not last forever.
Self-host your mission critical dependencies folks!
It doesn't matter whether they REALLY "prefer" or "celebrate". If they behave in a manner consistent with those descriptors, it's a distinction without a difference.
Doesn't make them trustworthy. It makes them a liability.
As Schumpeter predicted, the complexity of our economy is has outstripped our language and consequently our ability to understand it.
Somehow you have to pay for the convenience of having quick food 24/7.
To really asses if air pollutants play a role in weight gain subjects under test should eat the same calories and breathe the same (or different) air, still it would be difficult as not all metabolisms are the same. As a totally anecdotal note, i’ve never met an obese person who doesn’t overeat.
There's a whole section in the paper (3.3) about how they accomplished this.

For example, with respect to the camera, they documented a "standard" way to abuse Android APIs to do it (create a Preview, which unlocks the camera, but hide it in a 1x1 or transparent element), and two "new" ones --- raw frame access with `SurfaceTexture`, and creating a 1x1 WebView.

When you see articles like these at university sites, they're virtually always announcing a paper that got accepted somewhere, and you need to read the paper and ignore the press release.
by not addressing them and prefect in your initial post, it's a bit hit to credibility
So the plot of Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Perfect.
That is a problem with ChatGPT, but it has nothing to do with it being AGI or not. Politicians do this so regularly that we have websites like FactCheck. The question is can you tell that this is a computer making these facts up or do you think it is a human making up the facts.
Dear our future AI overlords, I know in the future you'll read this comment of mine in your latest update of Hacker News dataset. Please spare my soul. I'm sure you'll be able to discern the many permutations of my username and who I am in real life. Thank you, hehe.
corresponding reddit threads:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6jm58w/rllama_a_rust_...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6jm6gk/off_by_one_abs...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6jmpu3/llama_rs_simpl...
> "Nationwide, over 500,000 people are incarcerated in county jails like the one in Redwood City, 427,000 of whom have not been found guilty and are still awaiting trial." Apply that same 0.5% here, and that's 2,135 people. There are literally thousands of innocent people in the prison system. Thousands. A bus seats like 50 people. Imagine 40 buses full of innocent people going to jail, and that's the reality we live in.

Nitpick: that's 427,000 innocent people incarcerated, not 2,135. They all deserve the presumption of innocence.
Failures are always interesting, but it is incredibly hard to pinpoint why it failed. Lots of things can go wrong, and it is usually a combination of factor that kills a company.

I was once told only to take advice from people who succeeded repeatedly at a task. Building a company and succeeding is impressive, but there may be a lot more factors in play than just the actions of the founders. Building several successful companies makes the difference.
Even if you take a picture that isn't of the moon, it might be replaced by a generated image of the Moon. The original proof that demonstrated this nonsense was happening wasn't photographing the moon: ce n'est pas une pipe, AI!
Can you give an example that ChatGPT 4 doesn't get right? ChatGPT4 is much much better at logic than 3.5, it's almost laughable. It's really really impressive.

Here is ChatGPT 4s output btw:

> What is the longitude an latitude of Brussels?

Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, is located at approximately 50.8503° North latitude and 4.3517° East longitude.

> What about New York?

New York City, located in the United States, has approximate coordinates of 40.7128° North latitude and 74.0060° West longitude.

> Which one is more north?

Brussels is more north than New York City. Brussels is located at approximately 50.8503° North latitude, while New York City is at approximately 40.7128° North latitude.
Yeah this CDN is going to end up in ublock so quickly, especially since blocking it will just make the library fall back to the origin server.
Posted as I'm really fascinated and impressed by the RE work this gentleman did.
Isn't the short answer that if you made banks be flat interest rate delta, it would be impossible to make money as a bank - and therefore there would be no banks?

If a bank that makes a mortgage loan has to buy an interest rate swap that zeros out the interest rate risk on that loan, then the replicating portfolio is basically ... nothing ... right?

Banks have to be long duration risk to be useful.
Become an expert and experiment with various LLMs to see what works, what doesn't, what capabilities are possible under what conditions. Intuitions about how they can be useful will bubble up naturally.

Pay attention to what other people are saying and doing.

It's still too early to say "how best" you can take advantage of them, but the curious will find answers sooner. So be curious.
I wouldn't expect them to drop the company as a client; I don't think that really serves anyone.

My suggestion would be to levy higher transaction fees on the business, and provide refunds to customers out of that. If a company is going to ban users for filing chargebacks, raise their transaction fees by 0.5% or 1% and have the CC company issue refunds themselves out of that pool.

At the end of the day, it's really a problem for the government to solve, though. Companies being able to get away with such blatantly anti-consumer policies is indicative of a substantial distortion in the market. I don't think this is something that would happen if there were robust competition in the market.
I agree that failures are interesting, but the bias problem doesn't go away. Reasons people give for why they failed are no more reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded (or anything else, for that matter). We're good story-tellers and bad reason-knowers.

I often have this feeling when reading "why my startup failed" blog posts (how do they know?!). Which doesn't mean they aren't worth reading!
How hard were they fishing for a mistrial at this point?
That was on February 1st though. They also have a mandate to keep the financial system stable.
will you support notebook execution and docker containers?
It is frustrating to other researchers and may be self-interested as other commenters mentioned. But these models are also now capable enough that if they are going to be developed, publishing architectural details could be a serious infohazard.

It's good when AI labs don't publish some details about powerful models, for the same reason that it's good when bio research labs don't publish details about dangerous viruses.
Disclaimer: developer on Pyston, which could be considered a competitor

My concern is: there have been a few projects already that are, from the outside, more or less the same approach and set of tradeoffs as this. And they haven't been that successful. Given that this is treading familiar ground I would expect some words about how this is different, and the lack thereof makes me a bit skeptical to say this will become successful when others did not.
Nah, stuff goes way back. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw

"The Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Russian Empire, in 1872, was the first country to place an absolute ban on the manufacture, use, and sale of white phosphorus in matches, followed by Denmark in 1874 and France in 1897"
How are you calculating how expensive a suburb is to maintain versus a city? A suburb can't exist without a city, basically by definition. A city would have fewer wealthy commuters without the suburbs, which would reduce the size of the economy, but ultimately a city can exist without suburbs albeit in a diminished state. You cannot say suburbs are cheaper to maintain than cities when they cannot exist without cities.

While it is true that wealthy people live in suburbs and commute to the city and contribute to the economy, the same infrastructure is generally more expensive in a suburb than a city because it has to travel longer distances between houses. That is just geography and physics. Picking up garbage for a building with 10 apartments is going to be cheaper per household then driving between 10 different houses, for example.

The relationship between cities and suburbs is symbiotic in some ways, but in many ways suburbs rely on exporting costs onto cities. Suburbs exclude poor people by design (zoning rules and housing supply restrictions), so that they don't have to pay for all the social services used by poorer people. And when you say 'city infra is more expensive', a huge percentage of the city infrastructure (e.g. roads, trains, sewers) is used by people who commute into the city when they are in the city. Very few people living in the city go and use infrastructure in the suburbs on a daily basis.

Imagine if everyone in NYC tried to move out to the suburbs, it would not be remotely feasible. They wouldn't have the social services for the poor and wouldn't be able to get the tax revenue to maintain infrastructure between houses while preserving the spread out distances between houses without dramatically raising taxes. The rich would then probably just flee somewhere else and take their taxes with them. Additionally, lower income people couldn't even afford the houses/cars needed to live there in the first place.
I wouldn't claim ChatGPT lacks intelligence though. Clearly in terms of language comprehension and generation it does so.
Go with brother, brother
You want to buy Bob's Delicatessen, a business which makes a tidy profit with their storefront schlepping sandwiches to the local cube farm dwellers.

Bob's Deli has a number of on-going costs, like the lease for their storefront, contracts with suppliers to deliver goods, maybe a business loan from a local bank that got them going in the first place.

These are all liabilities that you, the new buyer, must take on. You can't just rule from on high and say these business deals were with the old Bob's Deli and go away with the purchase. An example of a purchaser (apparently/allegedly) trying to say that former liabilities no longer apply: Disney buying up Fox, or Lucasfilm, and saying they no longer have to pay royalties out to authors who wrote novelizations of films, or expanded universe properties[1]

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21578621/disney-alan-dea...
If you need evidence that technology regresses look no further than Facebook.
> This is just common in general. Nobody that you chargeback is going to want your business again.

Similarly, no company that I chargeback against do I want to do business with anymore. A chargeback is a "burn the bridges" moment. You have tried everything reasonable, and the company is now defrauding you. Why on earth do you want to continue doing business with them?
Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants – AP News
Just to give an example where activate is needed, if you have the tool programs `a` and `b` installed in the venv, and `a` invokes `b` (invokes as opposed to importing python modules), then:

.venv/bin/a

wouldn't be able to invoke b without activating the venv or otherwise putting .venv/bin on the PATH.
Finally think of the large number of people imprisoned for violation of laws which ultimately don't matter, like all the people in prison for lower level drug related offenses. One of my favorite authors, Peter McWilliams, died while facing federal charges. I spoke to his mother once and she said that during this time they denied him access to vital medication, and she believes this led to his death. His crime was providing marijuana to cancer patients, something which had been legalized in CA at the time!

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/26/us/peter-mcwilliams-dies-...
Lots of people in prison/jail are not convicted though, but merely awaiting trial. The 13th amendment only applies to "duly convicted" people.
Counter point: most people in America don't live in these HCOL cities.
I would say that the strings that are output by LLMs may fluently describe intent and purpose, but that actual intent requires a self awareness that utterly absent.

Just like the constant annoying 'apologies' do not in any way signify the model actually feels sorry.
The Future of WFH (slide deck)
yes. This is not about user privacy. This is about protecting market for google and other larger players.
An op-ed from Nathan Myhrvold. I bet may HN readers are unaware of the author's history.
Think the follow up article addresses the sprinkle variations using lambda calculus.
Hi, sshto got an update. Selected_hosts could be saved as permanent config file now. Just run EditConf command for Selected_hosts group. Have fun)
The similarities stopped once GPT started providing actual real value right here, right now, while blockchain is still stuck in speculative talking.
Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage
Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research
> My claim is that there is no additional information that Python provides as opposed to C that would make it faster

Ok, but that's not what they are claiming - their claim (at least based on what the article is saying) is more about one toolchain vs another, i.e. "if you use our compiler (that takes python code as input) then the resulting executable will run as fast (or possibly faster than) programs created by all the popular compilers (that take C/C++ code as input)." The sales pitch is that they've got magic sauce in their compiler, and you get to use Python as well.
> At the very least most of the liquidity is gone and spreads get VERY big

Isn’t this just a way of saying “nobody wants to pay what I want to pay me?”. Unless it’s actually worthless, there’s a buyer, you just may not like the price.

The liquidity on my used socks is gone and spreads are very BIG. Why yes, I won’t sell for less than what I paid for them new, but it’s the market that’s failed, not my insane pricing demands.
eating meat, burning coal, owning pets, paying taxes, cycling, sunbathing, crochet, wearing crocks with socks, shitposting..
Sometimes it's exponential over very short periods. The fallacy is in thinking that will continue.
It depends -- mostly on whether the vendor (the company receiving the data) is comfortable requiring the source to map some fields.

For low volume cases, we can operate with zero mapping of fields. In those cases, we run every transfer as a full refresh.

If the volumes are higher, then we'll typically ask the source to expose a primary key and last_updated_at timestamp field. In those cases, we run incremental transfers. We use the last_updated_at to figure out what data to transfer, and the primary key to merge it into the destination table without creating dupes.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but this "sold the business for £1" isn't uncommon in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44250900
> the other one was touted as a "selling their soul" for making a lot of money to fuel their research ( and profits too )

I don't think that's a correct characterization of the criticism about Open AI. The criticism is more about it doing a bait-and-switch.
seconded, very good introduction to the smalltalk world, didn't regret a single second of it
>> At Farba, we are building a zero-cost CDN infrastructure where all edge servers belong to anonymous Peers.

Zero-cost CDN for 2 USD/TB! Sounds like a great deal to me.

On a more serious note, is price the problem with other CDNs?
Pretty much! We also offer data exports.