skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regression Games introduces the Alpha Cup, where players write code and AI to compete in a Capture the Flag challenge in Minecraft.

Regression Games is making it fun to compete in games with AI and code. We are a seed-stage company funded by NEA and a16z. https://regression.gg

This tournament is sponsored by Steamship (https://steamship.com) - Steamship is a managed backend for AI services.
Interestingly, some local "crypto" conference just rebranded as "future tech". Seems like "crypto" became a red flag deterring customers.
Kind of why I mentioned it. Most CEOs and Directors don't know they are personally liable if wages aren't paid.
They just keep putting out press releases talking about private betas and tests with "selected trusted partners" but nothing the regular consumer can play with.

If that's the pace at which they're planning to compete with Microsoft/OpenAI, they already lost.
The article clearly states that the "placebo" theory is baseless, so I'm not sure what your "bottom line" that closes with "everything else is a placebo" comes from. What is "everything else" exactly?
>I encourage you to look at H1B salary stats, you will see that majority are not even remotely low wage.

Are they not atleast lower wage when compared to domestic workers with similar qualifications?
I've lived here nearly half a decade. We had thunder and lightening storms when I was a kid, then almost none for the last decade or two. This years' storms are heavy but not out of line w/ my personal experience, for what that's worth. ;)
Yes and Facebook probably has about as many contractors as they do FTEs, but that number fluctuates without making the news…meaning total effective payroll at Facebook is extremely shadowy
The tool is really new and I originally built it for my own needs.
But I'm now looking for ways to improve it.

For example, here are some of the features I'm currently working on:

>> Adapting the tool to handle Twitch to extract vertical videos from long streams

>> A system to select the cropping area of interest in the video instead of just centering

>> Automatically generating text on the video in a "tiktok" way.
Nah. They’re just more scared of failure than they are motivated to capture the market.
What is this post? Someone who can casually raise $300M in a weekend? Gets rescued by a government bailout and then said the whole experience is fun? Talks about trading deposits and making loans against them, asking startups to take a haircut while he profits? Is this what the startup universe is now about? Sometimes I feel like I'm in another universe.
>Now think about what happens to that red card as I randomly add white noise static on top. The original fine patterning on the red side is soon distorted beyond recognition because those thin white lines are obscured by equiprobable white dots and coincidental random patterns.

I don't see the problem, the pattern will remove the static white noise at the top and generate a new fine patterning on the red side (in case it did not go through the forward process to the end), of course it will not recover the lost information.

>Imagine asking Dakke2 for a picture of the bridge through the fog. The problem is an image of fog is graphically indistinguishable from random noise. Whats the difference between a fog patch and something the adversary drew in? Good luck training out of that one.

Ignoring the fact that Gaussian noise is really different from a patch of fog, it is obvious that if you have a high noise-to-signal ratio you will not be able to fully recover the signal, during the forward diffusion process all information is lost, however, the model will learn the distribution of samples. Also Dalle 2*
> Are people upset about them adopting the name?

Yes. Macedonians of antiquity were Greek. "Northern Macedonians" are Slavic. Greeks are very protective of their identity.
Nitpick. Ctrl + Shift + A will let you search open tabs by title or url. (in Chrome)
I find Encyclopedia Britannica much better at explaining things I'm not familiar with.

Unfortunately, most of the rest of the internet has succumbed to affiliate marketing and copywritten spam, so there is very little left to recommend. If good content still exists, Google does not seem to surface it.
I suppose there is also governmental and ISP filtering and firewalls. So not too many scenarios.
You are right. We never called movie studios or TV Channels "tech companies" even though all their work is distributed and created by technology.
TBQH "Mac edition" aka Java edition is the version most experienced gamers want, maybe unless all your friends are on bedrock already. Java edition has all the good mods, including mods that add content and mods which just provide QoL fixes to the vanilla experience. Bedrock players can join Java edition servers if the Java server is running the geyser mod, so if your server admin knows what he's about your bedrock edition friends can still play with everybody else (hence the above maybe.)
But it did not add up to a lot of money, compared to alternative, much less risky investments. In fact, it added up to a loss.

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

IBM has objectively been a terrible investment for many, many years.
DNS for one, if you're using theirs.
Nothing much unsaid but huggingface has been doing this for smaller models. What is happening is they are distilling Davinci by using llama and it’s been done before .

But this performance will still page behind OpenAI for a bit but within a month or a few months we should have something almost comparable it’s just frustrating that Stanford is blocking the code and model release when it’s just a matter of time for a full copy to come out.
I bet you couldn't name three tribes in Iraq without running off to the internet to look it up, and yet you are confident that you know them so well to state that the majority of them want to crush all the others?

Please try not to paint everyone with your own colonial-era assumptions.
Solid question.
> A few years back there was this issue of MacOS apps launching with a delay because the OS was checking with Appe if you are allowed to use the app. IIRC, this was just a bug.

If you're talking about Nov 2021 when Apple's Gatekeeper servers went down, apps weren't just delayed, they were unable to be opened _at all_ unless you blocked DNS requests to the server or completely disabled your internet connection.

I believe the only apps that were allowed to be opened were the built in macOS apps. Why this verification is done on every single load is completely beyond me. After this and the whole iPhone 7 radio debacle I won't be buying their products for a long time.
Yes, same for Linux. During lockdown my kids wanted to catch up with their friends by playing together on Minecraft, but as we had windows at home (and no switches in the store) it was a pain. Thank goodness for the work of someone called Christopher who made a Linux bedrock launcher.

Weirdly, despite issues and delays getting the latest versions to work, I'd argue this is the best way to enjoy minecraft. Very smooth low CPU load compared to Win10 or Java, and works well with keyboard and mouse.
Super interesting comment, since I've used the software for years and had always assumed the name had something to do with "scraping" your UI from your phone to your screen.

Agreed on the cool/unique, but I could never remember the name when I needed to look for it, because I never made the "screen copy" connection.

Just another data point for why marketing is a thing, I suppose.
> I believe the acronym is SNAFU, not SAFU. :P

Different acronym :)

> Secure Asset Fund for Users

> A monetary fund created by the Binance exchange that holds 10% of all trading fees to indemnify customers in case the exchange is hacked. The term "safu" is also used to imply safe.
To paraphrase Steve Ballmer: "investors, investors investors".

The 'efficiency' here is slashing operational expenses to boost earnings per share. That is a temporary boost, but one that can be repeated a few times.
Interesting observation. Thanks.
Is this legal? What is someone else is doing illegal things using your IP?
Too little, too late. I am all-in on Microsoft.
Stanford Alpaca Demo
> I wonder if sending this message out like this is a huge gamble on Meta’s part.

I'm Danish, but we have laws and regulations about mass-layoffs which means companies have to give employees an advance notice of 30-60-90 days, depending on company and layoff size.

I imagine California might have something similar.
@conesus add to NewsBlur!
moronic one-sided grudge content aside - isn't "market valuation" by private capital on assets they have an interest in, also a snake in the grass here?
I think it’s unlikely : https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:6z...
I think this is the next step in AGI - feed and reference general knowledge graphs from/to LLM. Then link to expert systems such as SAT/facial recognition/physics model/medical model.

I think LLMs will be capable of orchestrating between systems and maintaining a conscious narrative but knowledge graphs will solve the update and references problem.
Why should someone be penalized for something they have no control over?

What is the differences between a person being of specific race or gender and a person born in a specific country? All of them are not a choice they made. If there is no safety reasons, i.e coming from a hostile country, why should a person born in India get treated completely different from someone born in the US? That is just racial discrimination to me.

I read it somewhere and still think it is true: if a native can't compete with a foreigner on their home soil, it just means the native lacks qualifications.
FDIC blew their whole wad on SVB, that’s not lawful. Another couple banks have problems like this and they’ll be telling us that we need to turn on the munny printer to save them. Maybe the precious metals people were right.
It’s easier to revise than to write a first draft. It’s possible to miss mistakes on review, but relatively, I think it’s more likely that a distracted human will mess something up on the first draft.
Health Disparities May Cause Those Living in Rural Areas to Be More Neurotic
So if Microsoft/Github ever offers an on-prem version, what will be the advantage of using your product?
To be fair, unless the execs are also forgoing salary or bonuses, like Nintendo execs a few years ago for example, you can't really win with these layoff emails.

If the emails are succinctly composed then people would complain that the announcements were too curt and don't try to assuage people enough.

So they might as well write what they want.
Host names are commonly unencrypted. See [0].
IP addresses also tell a lot. They can check what domain names map to that IP address.

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-encrypted-sn...
In other words, there is nothing insightful about wondering why people work for the best paying company in tech is because they like making money.

The original post was no more insightful than “I wonder why he got wet when he jumped into the wster”
Written word belongs to the scribes at the monasteries, this new 'printing press' will unleash dangers beyond our imagination, people may not trust the authority of the church anymore
I’m an old man with 40 years in software development. I’m still working, and not on COBOL. Tell me how I have not adapted. My career predates Unix, relational databases, the internet.

In my career I’ve heard about one thing after another that was going to make programmers obsolete. It may happen but I doubt it, because coding isn’t the hard part of software development.
Yes! I use pi zero and a 3D printed case with the HQ camera and a decent lens. The field of view is exactly right for video calls.

https://github.com/showmewebcam/showmewebcam/releases
It was incredibly fun and a wild experience. We also weren't going to make much profit. We were offering 90-95c on the dollar compared to 60-70 from banks and hedge funds. This was about saving companies and jobs. Thought I'd share.
Most of the time, a human will do worse than the compiler. But, a human who knows what they're doing and understands the problem well can still improve on the output.
IP addresses? DNS queries? Later if you either use ISP provided DNS servers or unencrypted DNS. You can identify host from queries and IPs and then match it to TLS connection.
They still likely get your DNS info, and also they know you are connected to x ip address which is likely y service.

All HTTPS does is make sure they can’t see what you are transferring. There is still meta data to whom.

Why do you think google runs 8.8.8.8? It’s not out of kindness.
- limit amount of browsing data collected by ISP

- untrusted networks (public wifi)

- normalize usage of privacy preserving practices
Exactly.

When I was younger I was shocked to learn that during an LR companies would “over” cut in order to fund retention for critical people. You’re laying off 7%? This is a good time to free up some additional opex, so just add a few heads above target in order to free opex to comp important people. You won’t get that 7% back but overage you do, usually.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but origin and destination are still visible to your ISP and any snoopers on your network. The content is encrypted, but not the origin and destination of the request. I use Mullvad because they seem to be a company with insanely good ethics and it's only $5/month. Mozilla VPN uses the under the hood I think.
Someone was probably coached to "start with something positive, say the bad thing, end with something positive."
Just read the blog post, very interesting. I thought sections about changing the temperature and repetition penalty were particularly neat, thanks for including examples.
Cutting-edge LLMs are commoditized anyway. There are very few tech moats here, so his point doesn't change the economics much. Data will sometimes be a moat, but companies with proprietary data will also expose their models through GUIs and therefore have other means of preserving that moat. OpenAI is moving toward economies of scale with their API pricing, which is smart.
Have Binance decided to let anyone know where their headquarters are yet? Or is it still top secret?
Following People Online Is Dangerous
*can't differentiate.
A bank going belly up and temporarily eating deposits of other corporations doesn't strike me as abusive on the part of the depositing corporations. I doubt the corporate veil would be pierced until the business itself goes bust without paying wages. I'm not any kind of lawyer though.
>So, should we, or should we not use a VPN? If most sites nowadays are on HTTPS, is vpn still needed for daily use

It's good for hiding metadata like sites you access. In my country there's a recent law demanding ISP to record metadata and allowing many agencies to access it without warrant.
I mean it's a billion CHF, Michael, what could it cost? 10 dollars?
That's a different thing. Here's some info on deploy tokens: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/deploy_tokens/. It's a one-off username+password pair that can be used for HTTP cloning without setting up SSH keys or creating users. As far as I can tell in Github you use either automatic tokens[1] or personal tokens[2]. Personal tokens look easier to set up, but they are tied to a user and not the repo or organization, which isn't great if you're using this for a company—you have to create a whole separate token user if you don't want it tied to someone's personal account. Automatic tokens require a script to manage.

As nice as this one feature of Gitlab is it is not a major show-stopper. Almost everything we need is available in most git services. So to GGP's point: we are likely to go for the most affordable option even if there's some tradeoffs.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic...
[2]: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
PCIe for Hackers: The Diffpair Prelude
I wonder if grammarly targets people whose search history has misspellings. I haven’t seen a grammarly ad in years
Now you have a hoarding "problem" :)
> maximizing diversity to its limits is beneficial to corporations

That’s a straw man argument. Diversity efforts are not about maximizing “to its limits”.

And most research about business come from the same prestigious business schools. Unless you think all research coming them are suspect, I don’t really understand your point.
you don't get to be a governor until you completed cursus honorum tho
I imagine a VPN is sometimes still useful when torrenting, to avoid copyright complaints to your ISP.
> It's always the desirable employees that have options that leave an environment like this, and it's always the less competent employees that hold on for dear life and stay

Meta's hiring bar is pretty high, though. Plenty of desirable people will stay because there's nowhere else to go that pays as well, and the "less competent" ones are likely still more competent than the industry average.

These elite companies have now laid off hundreds of thousands of people. The idea that there's enough "low performers" to throw in the garbage should be obsolete now, and reveals a sort of wishful thinking "all those other people who lost their jobs deserve it, but not me, it will never happen to me"
Do you think the camera didn’t work because the parent company got ransomwared? Or is this anecdote related to the posted story in a different way that I’m missing
Seems like people were only skeptical of the specific dates given by an anonymous Blind user, just on the basis that it's an anonymous user. That's likely a good thing, even if it happened to be accurate!

They weren't skeptical that layoffs were coming aimed at a flattening, which makes sense since this was already announced by Zuckerberg over a month ago.
I use my VPN when connecting to WiFi networks I have less trust in, such as a coffee house or "guest wifi" at a hotel.
If people are not working, they will have significantly more time to observe, evaluate and perish forbid, succeed in changing the state of their communities, fellow citizens and elected leadership.
It kind of feels like the argument here is "why didn't someone stop us from making mistakes"? If it's the case that the federal reserve sent deliberately misleading messages that no one could have doubted why isn't there a giant line of banks currently going under?
Or if you don’t want your ISP to know the host names of the specific porn^Wnews sites you frequent.

HTTPS covers the content, but for most people the DNS lookup would still be in plaintext.
As these events occurred more than a millennia prior to the Geneva conventions which defined war crimes, I would strongly argue that these acts did not constitute war crimes at the time and that comment is simply misplaced.
Have you considered getting a ZV-E10 for this? That’s one of the smaller sony mirrorless cameras which behaves like any other webcam via USB, so it'd be just as simple to use as any other webcam.
Apologies if this is so unrelated as to be off-topic, but I'm new to this and so my mental model is incomplete at best and completely wrong at worst. My question is:

How would one create a "domain expert" version of this? The idea would be to feed the model a bunch of specialized, domain-specific content, and then use an app like this as the UX for that.
Those are sources, but there's still no evidence that the sources are real (the first one seems to be, from a quick google, but still), that the source actually supports what ChatGPT is saying, or that ChatGPT understood the source correctly.

Using ChaptGPT for research is interesting, and I think it's a cool way to learn new things. But I think if someone is going to share that information with someone else, it's appropriate to manually find and cite creditable sources, at least sufficiently enough that the ChatGPT aspect becomes irrelevant in a way other than discoverability.
Even if if doesn’t fail, the shareholderd might be wiped out though.
Worth noting that's Barney Frank of the "Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" of 2010.
Why? what was wrong with regular LR parser?
Banks don't lend out deposits though.
As a previous customer of Oxylabs, I can confirm that this was at least used as the explanation by their sales people.

To be honest, apart from botnets, it’s really the only way a company could “legally” get access to millions of residential IPs.
I find the erights/Agoric crowds'/Mark S. Miller's ideas interesting and desirable. While they have a very market/techno-centric perspective, their vision puts secure decentralized cooperation at the forefront, an approach that gets easily overlooked in today's centralized internet.

It's a libertarian perspective promoting individual sovereignty and bottom-up emergent organisation. It highlights flaws in the (security) architectures of our currently popular operating systems and programming languages, which were not built around a network-centric model because they originated from the pre-internet age.

Their paradigm reifies access and resource rights as manageable capabilities, and so allows for new forms of (self-) supervision, control and cooperation. An extension of concepts found in the real (legal) world into the digital realm.

https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41
Are those real publications, or were those references procedurally generated, too?
They still send spam, but it could be they have run out of money on advertising. Or someone run numbers on the returns.
Yet there exists no efficient alternative to training, fine-tuning and even just with basic inference on so-called 'AI' models and opaque black-boxes for deep learning which just contributes more wanton garbage outputs and generative BS that is easy to break, trick and confuse. All for it to burn up the planet further by once again retraining, rebuilding or fine-tuning the whole model over again wasting large amounts of CO2 for what? More broken AI models.

This is why companies have to keep announcing things like 'reducing our carbon footprint' nonsense and at the same time build more data centers continuing to burn up the planet.

Such greenwashing virtue signalling responses to appease the gullible. It is no better than Bitcoin mining. At least with cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, PoS has reduced there energy efficiency by 99.99%, meaning there is a efficient alternative to PoW.

NO such energy efficient alternative to deep learning training, fine-tuning exists after decades of AI hype.
right...but what FAANG is still offering megabucks? why would they?

HN seems to think it is the birthright of a good dev to get a $450k salary...just "because"

look at it from the other side of the table...you have 300 great resumes for a position...why do you have to offer a premium salary?

counterpoint: these salaries were a blip and will never return in nominal form (let alone inflation adjusted) for many devs ever again
Will you train on accepted/regected and other responses from devs rather than just the final code, so that clients lose something when moving to a similar tool which will pop up tomorrow?
Doctors are liability lightning rods who've gone through a professional hazing process to join an exclusive club that has massively warped American medicine through its lobbying efforts. Unless you're dealing with a specialist they're often not super competent - that's why doctors are being replaced with nurse practitioners and physicians assistants everywhere (to the point that you often won't ever see an actual doctor at a lot of medical facilities) and usually people are completely oblivious to the fact.

Pharmacists in other countries do a lot of the basic shit doctors in the USA do, with less overhead, for cheaper and with a much faster turnaround. Antibiotics, blood pressure/cholesterol meds, antidepressants and other rubber stamp drugs absolutely do not need to be strongly controlled.
That "might want to" you're describing has been our diplomatic policy for literally centuries. It's nothing new.