skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what you want is faster access to HELOCs, and why does an NFT allow that?

It helps facilitate more automated approval b/c if you were to complete an application with your wallet then the system could check for the presence of the NFT to indicate ownership.

> How does cryptography proof that you own it?

The presence of the NFT in your wallet.

> Because you know a private key attached to a wallet address with the NFT in it?

Yes

> Okay, and how does that NFT relate to actually owning something?

If the government decides to use a blockchain as its system of record for property deeds, then the NFTs on that blockchain would be just as legitimate as paper property deeds. The NFTs hold the hash of any off-chain data whose validity could be verified.

> What if you get hacked, does the hacker now own it?

Perhaps in a poor implementation. I would expect clawbacks to be implemented for property deed NFTs.

> And if the hacker takes out the line of credit, fail to pay, does the defi protocol they borrowed from now own your house?

Hopefully that user is using a hardware wallet and again clawbacks are implemented, so that doesn't happen. If it did, then you'd probably seek resolution through the courts as needed.

> Why would you want to make house deeds easy to hack?

It's very hard to steal NFTs from a hardware wallet with clawback support. Good luck!

> Okay, why bother with that particular blockchain standard then, and not the hypothetical FOSS software for hosting a property deed database? Because then you have the same benefits, but also don't need the blockchain?

Because a FOSS property deed database could be censored and cannot be independently verified outside of the governing body easily. I would expect the uptime to be slower. It would also become a central point of failure for all property deeds and would need to protect against DDoS attacks.
Ever see "Braveheart"? Remember the mooning scene? I'd guess that this is just the 21st century version of that.
I agree. I suspect we're still tiptoeing around the 2008 crises and looking for that soft landing. There's is a balancing act for sure!
Reminds me of that science fiction story by Ray Bradbury called the veldt... Computers raise the kids
I’m skeptical. There is a lot wiggle room in “no specific training”. Could just mean the didn’t fine tune the model for any of tests. Their training data probably included many past LSAT exams and certainly included many instances of people discussing how to solve LSAT problems.
"No one ever gets fired for buying IBM"
You can already use an LLM to train a smaller, more efficient LLM without significant loss in results.
We are entering the age of "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Is this going to turn into a true digital assistant, that knows you, what you need, how to teach you new things, and how to help you achieve your goals?
I have never seen so much false narrative, misunderstanding, speculation and conspiracy rabbit holes in a HN post.

Wild to see so many people conjecturing about one of the most scrutinised and researched VPN providers in the world, whose source code is now available for all to see and not a single person, here or on Reddit has been able to flag any code of concern and the result is just pure conspiracy with zero evidence.
If they have a body, and needs that they recognize they need to fill, sure.
they were a non-profit at some point, iirc.
> but the community is making good progress on that front

You mean in reverse engineering hardware?
> But on the flip side Sony [...] some very anti consumer decisions.

Microsoft is one of the kings of anti-consumer decisions. Just recently we've had the Windows 11 TPM requirements, Windows 10 forced updates, Minecraft Bedrock Edition shenanigans, the trash fire that is Microsoft Teams, ads in Windows, telemetry in Windows, and Microsoft blackmailing me into giving them my PII by preventing me from accessing my legally purchased copy (from Mojang) of Minecraft until I did...

...and that's ignoring the stuff from the past few decades: "Secure Boot", Windows bundling with consumer devices, and Internet Explorer bundling with Windows, just off the top of my head.

Wikipedia has a whole list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
>Finance itself shouldn't be an industry, it's a service.

Two weeks ago people would have described SVIB just like this. Have a look at Twitter, people all over describing how they did things that no one else would do, the people's bank.
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-bank-...

Silicon Valley Bank “Behested” $100,000 Gift To Newsom’s Nonprofit etc etc
> $0.12 per 1k completion tokens is high enough that it makes it prohibitively expensive to use the 32k context model.

this is a lot. I bet there's a quite a bit of profit in there
My understanding is thta the image embedding is included, rather than converting to text.
LOL some basic kind of embodiement/autonomy is not that hard to do on these kinds of AI models if you're willing to write some more code and a prompt more carefully. I've tested it and it works quite well.

"{prompt} After you reply to this, indicate an amount of time between 0 and X minutes from now that you would like to wait before speaking again".

Then detect the amount of time it specifies, and have a UI that automatically sends an empty input prompt after the amount of time specified elapses when this is triggered (assuming the user doesn't respond first).

I'm gonna knock this out as a weekend project one of these weekends to prove this.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" -Picasso

All art is derivative.
First of all, neither is faster than the other.

Second, I never claimed it was an issue or a bad thing at any point. Someone asked for examples of libraries that panic, and I gave an example.

I must be missing something because it makes no sense to me that people seem to be responding defensively and claiming that I either don’t understand the Rust docs or am pointing out problems in Rust.
> I think that reply is absurd because asking someone to write TypeScript when they dislike JavaScript in the first place is absurd.

I don't think it's absurd to ask someone to try Typescript first before jumping through hoops just to make Python run on the web, which certainly brings a lot of problems of its own. You do have to actually try it to see how it's a completely different experience, even if the types are just bolted on.
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See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J6gktpSgYoyq5q3Au/benchmarki.... The short answer is that linear elo growth corresponds roughly linearly to linear evaluation depth, but since the game tree is exponential, linear elo growth scales with exponential compute. The main algorithmic improvements are things that let you shrink the branching factor, and as long as you can keep shrinking the branching factor, you keep getting exponential improvements. SF15 has a branching factor of roughly 1.6. Sure the exponential growth won't last for ever, but it's been surprisingly resilient for at least 30 years.
Well it is open.

Your wallet that is.
This is great -- sorely needed and long overdue. Thanks for sharing the code and good luck with the company!
Humans can ask questions and seek out information. LLMs can only respond to questions.
That part was about the Amiga blitter specifically. The setup cost for small blits and the relatively low speed of the blitter made it pointless for that specific use.
What would be the simplest/best selfhosted registry to self-host? I'm using the one from DigitalOcean, but I might self-host if there's a nice recommendation.
GPT-4 Everything we know so far...

GPT-4 can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy, thanks to its broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities.

GPT-4 is more reliable, creative, and able to handle much more nuanced instructions than GPT-3.5. It surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities.

GPT-4 is safer and more aligned. It is 82% less likely to respond to requests for disallowed content and 40% more likely to produce factual responses than GPT-3.5 on our internal evaluations.

GPT-4 still has many known limitations that we are working to address, such as social biases, hallucinations, and adversarial prompts.

GPT-4 can accept a prompt of text and images, which—parallel to the text-only setting—lets the user specify any vision or language task.

GPT-4 is available on ChatGPT Plus and as an API for developers to build applications and services. (API- waitlist right now)

Duolingo, Khan Academy, Stripe, Be My Eyes, and Mem amongst others are already using it.

API Pricing
GPT-4 with an 8K context window (about 13 pages of text) will cost $0.03 per 1K prompt tokens, and $0.06 per 1K completion tokens.
GPT-4-32k with a 32K context window (about 52 pages of text) will cost $0.06 per 1K prompt tokens, and $0.12 per 1K completion tokens.
What would be an alternative explanation for our capabilities? It was once controversial (and still is in some circles) to say that humans are animals simply because it took away some of our sense of being "special."
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The website looks great. Is it to some extent powered by wasm?
You get the full experience reading that story if you have deadmau5's the veldt playing in the background as well
There wasn't a leak. You don't need to make it sound like we're in a cyberpunk RPG.
That's pretty funny considering the utter humiliation russia continues to endure.

US could just send airplanes to Ukraine or more military aid in response and Putin will be fuming.
they're literally just forcing them to build datacenters to keep the data for Americans in America (and Indians in India, etc).
TikTok is already publicly hiring a ton of people for this

Once the data doesn't leave America this is going to go away.

This is not that much different than just complying with the type of regulations the EU has.
The American version is just involving a lot more chest pounding and fluff because there's no existing laws to enforce to make them do this. So they just have to do it through threats and relatively minor policy changes (like banning on government phones).
Your program has to figure it out.
Is there evidence they are 'useless' for evaluating actual humans? No one is going to actually have GPT take these tests for real
I disagree that they contradict every single thing they said they would be, and I fundamentally just don't care that they've shifted their positions. Are they a force for good or evil now? I think that remains to be seen, but I don't care about their name.
This made me think of a Dijkstra quote

> The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim

It has only become more relevant.
Can it explain this one? https://www.reddit.com/r/seinfeld/comments/e82uuy/new_yorker...
Those are all reasonable hypotheses... but I also suspect natural curiosity has little correlation with certifications. Those programs tend to be big "learn to the test" curricula of trivia and question banks.
Leveraging JSONP to bypass cross-domain restrictions
JSON with Padding, also known as JSONP, allows users to request data from another domain to interact with an application without implementing cross-domain policies. JSONP can bypass the cross-domain restriction by using a script tag instead of the traditional XMLHttpRequest object. The Certus Cybersecurity team created a proof of concept (“PoC”) application that demonstrates how an adversary can leverage custom HTML files to bypass cross-domain policy restrictions commonly known as cross-origin resource sharing (“CORS”) and extract data from other domains.
GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video se
Just like Amazon released Finch as a response to the conversion of Docker Desktop to pay-only software, no doubt one of the big players will take advantage of this too.
Lol, interesting - I'd never heard of this game, I'll check it out.

I was just riffing on what was a pretty standard story for governors and similar officials in far-away posts - precisely because Caesar's success in engineering favourable military campaigns established a sort of blueprint.
Tried to find more about this but can't find anything, do you have a link please
One thing I've been thinking about is getting a GCP certification to increase GCP recruiter reachout down the road, as I've really enjoyed working with GCP and would like to stick with it in future work. Guess I'll just do more keyword work in the LinkedIn. :)
Interest in human-played Chess is (arguably) at all time high, so I would say it bodes well based on that.
A tonne of people here recommending Mullvad, which is great - they're great - but they don't offer the main selling point of most VPNs, so I feel this question needs qualification:

What are you looking for a VPN for. As much as the ads misrepresent the security & privacy aspects of NordVPN, &c., the vast majority of people use VPNs to watch region-restricted media. Mullvad does not support this.

So ... who's the best provider for watching region-restricted media?

NordVPN honestly seems like a very competitive option here
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That’s not woke, they might think they’re woke, but they’re not and suggesting they are is insulting to the actually woke. There’s nothing woke about these morons cosplaying and wasting money on useless, and artistically terrible, productions while on the clock.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woke
Why is management hiring people who turn out to be "dead weight"? Particularly with the ludicrous interview cycle employed by big tech companies these days?

It's a failure of management to hire correctly and/or manage and develop people. Management is broken and incompetent and relentlessly scapegoats those below them.
I've used Google today for a quick product comparison search and it's awful. The first three results were sponsored ads and the next pages are just low-quality seo rigged content that didn't answer my question.
Imagine a convenient, Single Point of access for all your Redundancy-as-a-Service needs!
Looks like usual banal corporate marketing. I’m not sure what’s woke about it or why it implies that the bank will fail. Are there hidden woke words in the song lyrics?
I'm sorry, but that is a terrible metric.

This sounds like a definition from someone who never interacts with anyone except the top 1% performance level of people, and those who have had strong levels of education.

Go into a manufacturing, retail or warehouse facility. By this definition, fewer than ten or twenty percent of the people there would have "general intelligence", and that's being generous.

Not because they are stupid: that's the point; they're not. But it's setting the bar for "general intelligence" so absurdly high that it would not include many people who are, in fact, intelligent.
This stuff's not black-and-white, and a lot of it comes down to how the two sides choose to perceive it. A bunch of stuff done by both the US and Russia has been an "act of war" against one another and their respective treaty-bound allies, over the last couple decades—in other circumstances, we've (the US) certainly chosen to regard actions smaller-scale than our support for Ukraine as acts of war against us.

But, if neither side wants it to be an act of war, it's de facto not.

The notion of an "act of war" is largely a pragmatic political tool. To the extent that they exist legally, they're invoked so haphazardly and selectively by e.g. the UN that it would be difficult to justify regarding the rules about "legal" and "illegal" war justifications as, per se, any kind of definitive guide for declaring what is and is not a "real" act of war.

Which means we're left with "both sides say it's not, so... it's not".

[EDIT] To be clear, if one or the other had chosen to regard this as an act of war, there may be room to debate the truth and justice of that position, or how we might interpret that stance based on international law and precedent—but neither (apparently) did, so it's rather moot. Yes, it probably could be so-regarded with some justification. Yes, there'd be room to, not without reason or basis, counter that a war asset providing intelligence to an adversary in a war is already engaged in war, regardless of who's operating it, et c., et c. It joins dozens of other actions as kind-of unrealized "acts of war".
Just to be clear: it's not for every student (at least not yet!). We are in a research phase sharing it with a limited subset of users. More details about our approach to the responsible development of AI: https://blog.khanacademy.org/aiguidelines/
So, in effect, AGI must be in the top ~5th percentile of human performance?
I have been using pip since 2014 and did not know about the constraints. This solves my issue with sub-dependency version pinning!
What is wrong with the example? Although I am not a Spanish speaker, naively it looks fine. The pronunciations written in English are very impressive and do indeed sound somewhat like the corresponding Spanish words (albeit of course incorrect! But most people don't know IPA).
Yeah, I'm not sure if the problem is moving goalposts so much as everyone has a completely different definition of the term AGI.

I do feel like GPT-4 is closer to a random person than that random person is to Einstein. I have no evidence for this, of course, and I'm not even sure what evidence would look like.
The value of the amount that it will pay out has lost money.

However, it will still pay out exactly what it said it would pay out when it was purchased. Compare this to buying a stock in say... RBCN (went bankrupt and delisted in December) where any of the stock you had is worth nothing.

There is no risk that a bond won't pay out the amount that it says (other than the government really messing up and defaulting).

I will certainly be willing to say "a purchase of 10 year bonds would be short sighted and failed to account for possible risks from changing cash flow or increased rates over the next 10 years."

And yet a bond is still going to pay out what it says on the label when it was purchased when it pays out.

Now, if its not a hold to maturity type portfolio and you want to trade them, then its a whole 'nother ball game where prices will go up and down as it becomes easier or harder to make money in various markets. And whoever holds a $100 ten year note at ten years time will get paid exactly that amount.
These seem like apt words to characterize dumping fuel onto a drone and then accidentally crashing into it.
If you had told me 5 years ago that there would be a single AI system that could perform at this level on such a vast array of standardized tests, I would've said "That's a true AGI." Commentary to the contrary feels like quibbling over a very localized point in time versus looking at the bigger picture.
I suspect many YC companies also had money there.
Not saying the job isn't hands-on.
But the system deciding resource allocation is a detached bureaucracy nonetheless.

It's not a competitive field.
Teachers won't get replaced as new, more efficient modes of learning become available.

Barely any western education system has adapted to the existence of the internet - still teaching facts and using repetitive learning where completely useless.

We got high quality online courses which should render most of high school and university useless but yet the system continue in the old tracks, almost unchanged.
It's never been competitive and it's likely always been more about certification of traits rather than actual learning.
Both - I think - are pointers towards rapid change being unlikely.
'Everything' isn't being called woke, just the virtue signaling, self congratulatory racialization of just about everything, emotion driven fashion trends and general 'compassionate' incompetence, inevitably resulting in the well known phrase 'go woke go broke'...which is what happened to SVB. I haven't seen what Fox News has been saying on this, how is that relevant?
"The one standout is Triplebyte. Their graduates are 6 percentage points more likely to pass interviews —a serious boost, albeit not enough to dispel the negative signal that all the others carry."

I believe that interviewing.io and Triplebyte are associated entities. So grain of salt.
From the article:

> today’s depressed labor market

I thought the US unemployment rate for tech jobs was below 2% (unemployment in general in the US is below 4%).
Agree, that makes sense — thanks for taking time to take share a guess.

Seems like “conducting legal due diligence on prospective portfolio companies” is also likely large aspect of YC’s legal department’s efforts; though I would think YC’s Continuity Fund would have been a much larger internal consumer of due diligence services than early stage fund; this based on recent YC job listing for a “Legal Analyst” position:

https://www.ycombinator.com/careers

https://archive.ph/2CitR
> I think that we're eventually going to hit another road block regardless of how much progress we can make towards that end.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all that will be required for bypassing the upcoming road blocks is giving these machines:

1) existential needs that must be fulfilled

2) active feedback loops with their environments (continuous training)
Aren’t they in AWS Japan?
How could you prove this?
> terrible attitude towards privacy

A VPN is inherently not a privacy tool. It is perceived that way because of the acronym Virtual 'Private' Network but privacy is not in the design specs at all.

It's just for tunneling over untrusted networks like Starbucks Wi-Fi and spoofing your geo-location. That's it. You can't verify the no-logs claims by providers unless you're physically in their building and auditing the setup yourself.
This could be a real issue if my attention was worth nothing and I didn't have thousands of other articles screaming for it.
"Full size" computers don't usually have a way of tying to a host system like adb+USB. That said, historically I think VNC and RDP filled this role.
I work at company that uses AI to automate about ⅓ of the job of trained licensed professionals. Looking at GPT4 those licensed professionals are now completely irrelevant. It's going to take years to build the supporting software around gpt4 to completely eliminate those jobs, but today I am convinced that we are on the verge of massive unemployment. Today thousands of job types have just been made redundant.

What scares me is we are unprepared for the kind of change that a perpetual 20% unemployment rate is going to trigger.
Sort of figures. Kids in America don't really have any rights.
Having Bing chat attached to bing doesn’t exactly solve this. It still constantly pulls from low quality sources. I asked a question about Satan and it cited Answers in Genesis. Product reviews regularly return seo garbage.

Product review categories in particular would benefit from whitelisting, by hand, things like americas text kitchen, consumer reports, rtings.