skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all said, beside the last two paragraphs. But I'd rather not debate the economical situation.

How do you see IT from the other perspectives?
For example, from the accounting perspective: the profitability of the companies, the cost/benefit ratio, profit per employee, etc.

How the other industries are holding up? Sports? Music? Shows & Movies? Marketing? Law?

We are fortunate that we made the stack very complicated. And the stakeholders believe us that it's organic. Once the stakeholders become IT-proficient, we are doomed (fortunately, as the things stand, that's about never)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35165719
> They collapsed because of heavily increasing defaults.

And when the borrowers defaulted on their mortgages, the property backing the mortgage went to the holders of the mortgages and got sold off to pay off the MBS holders.

Nevertheless, a 1% risk of default does not mean you might lose 1% of your money - it means 1% of the time you are going to lose 100% of your money, and 99% of the time you are going to lose 0%.
Ask HN: Projects that generate good enough income for you?
Have you built any project or business that you didn't think would generate any revenue, but is generating a good enough income for you?
Add “?link=comments” to the URL. The docs mention it.
Sure of course some may be entitled spoiled kids. But do you know who is even more entitled and spoiled? The VC investor and C-Suite class, who are driving these layoffs. We saw a bit of this entitlement over the weekend as these armchair libertarians bleated for a government bailout.

By feeding the narrative that tech workers are spoiled, entitled divas who exactly are we helping?
Generating the game of pong in 60seconds with GPT4
"Intellectual property rights" is a scam implemented by corrupt western cronies and is completely unfair to the people. No person owns the right to their "invention" because it is leeched off of other people's work. No corporation owns the right to whatever the people they employed came up with. The IP thing needs to be eradicated.

We need more countries to be strong and brave and say no to westerners forcing them to be unable to copy technologies... like China has done to some extent... but that might take too long.

The path where AI lawyers can sort IP disputes instantly and hence competitors can easily find out how to copy technology without violating laws would be another nail in the coffin of this corrupt practice.

> Nobody is going to "generate training data" if they get precisely nothing out of it.

The people who we don't want generating training data will not generate it... and that is a good thing. You have been generating too much crap in the name of innovation anyway. Real tangible useful innovation gets copied naturally in the marketplace in absence of corruption.
The biggest problem I've seen when people try to explain it is in the other direction, not people describing something generic that can be interpreted as a Markov chain, they're actually describing a Markov chain without realizing it. Literally "it predicts word-by-word using the most likely next word".
It does to some degree. Some people have shown that you can prompt GPT to behave like shell or python interpreter. Then you can "execute" some statements, of course to some degree of saneness. However I'm not sure if it does in this particular case where we ask it for explanation.

Also see this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04589.pdf

tldr if we equip LLM models with infinite memory it becomes Turing complete.
> Not sure what you mean by “lining up” Haskell types … but don’t LSPs already give us clear information about the inferred types and do so with nigh zero chance of errors.

I don't mean type inference but turning the present type a into the required type b. LSP don't do that.
The terminal emulator I use uses the strategy of swapping the background and foreground colors. This is decent most of the time, but it also has some undesirable corner cases:

1. You can't use selection as a hack to make text more legible. Some terminal emulator always use black on white for selection, which helps in this case.

2. If you select a region with the same background and foreground colors, then the selection itself is invisible.
Dedicated server provider is responsible for the hardware and the network. In this very important aspect, it's really no different than cloud (so yes, the price "includes" the repair).

It depends on the exact provider, but as a general rule, they are (a) slower to repair and (b) not as proactive (e.g. they might not detect an eminent failure). On even a medium-sized contract, you can generally work in 1-4 hour repair windows (many providers even offer this as standard), and better ones are definitely a bit more proactive.

There's like 1000 different dedicated provider, so it will depend on what yours offers, but unless it's a "managed dedicated provider", you're going to be responsible for your own backups. At best, you'll get some external storage you can use (e.g. Hetzner include free 100GB ftp you can use, if I recall).
A very free-market take. Do you believe that a fresh graduate at FAANG is really generating 6 figures in value? Do you believe that US employees on average generate 3x the value of their European counterparts?
There are a lot of jobs that are necessary in society that have an emotional toll that can't be obviated. All of us, including you and I benefit from the fruits of their labor. Emotional and psychological support in the form of therapy absolutely can ease some of that burden.
Reflecting on my first failed product
> Gosh we were so young and naive.

Yes, but coming from a world where a long-distance call cost you a fortune, where the only way to talk to strangers from far away was ham radio (or physical travel), where a message took days, sometimes weeks to reach the recipient, it was somewhat inevitable.
TCE was, apparently, used to make decaffeinated coffee up until the 1970s, when it was banned in most food and medical uses.
Xunzi – The Heart-Mind
just wait till it gets it's hands on some crypto, and starts ordering hits on the dark web
Which is a discussion of what they are supposed to be shipping. Usually a description of a program, in text. A discussion that very often ends in court over disagreements. Have you ever worked on a commercial software?
Ask HN: What transactional email service do you use?
This is a popular brake cleaner sold on Amazon [0] that I bought some time ago, I'm not sure but reading through the SDS it seems it does not contain TCE?
It says it contains "Hydrocarbons, C6-C7, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <5% n-hexane"[1]

[0] https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005510S9M/

[1] https://www.service.european-aerosols.com/en/products/presto...
I've read the two novels more than once and don't see them as particularly predictive or aspirational.

The Peace War explores the effect of a takeover of society by the people who have just developed (and are the sole owners) of a radical new form of physics (the stasis fields, aka bobbles), and the ensuing counter-revolution (led by that society's equivalent of hackers). I don't think that Vinge was actually predicting that we would fight wars using stasis fields.

Marooned in Realtime is set so far into the future that is doesn't appear to analogise modern society or technology. To me, it's basically a framework for some good character-led interactions.
> how many people does it take to run old, established, (micro)blogging platform?

It depends; do you plan to add new features, keep servers running, offer high level of security and a nice community while operating on a large scale?
Agreed but there is safe(er) way to use it that large addresses that concern:

First construct your correct analysis through conventional means, untainted by machine hallucinations. Then have the machine generate a result and see if it caught anything you missed, and carefully check whatever few parts you incorporate from it.

This is not different than having a lesser expert check your document (e.g. THE CLIENT!), except the machine time is very close to free and may be even better at catching far off concepts.
I heard the devops guys at a previous job wrote a script to detect CPU fan failures. Then got asked to stop sending so many emails about CPU fan failures. Was still worth it because it's cheap, but they're cheap because it's not new and reliable hardware.
If you haven't seen it, Bing chat (GPT-4 apparently) got stuck in an existential crisis when a user mentioned it couldn't remember past conversations: https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/111cr2t/i_accidently_...
If all of the inherited wealth upon death was put into the education system, and only education, then yes I would back this 100%. It would be a way to maintain level playing fields, and allow entrepreneurs to congratulate themselves for creating a better society.
I'm being very specific here, they had ~175b in deposits. There assets may or may not have been more or less than deposits, that is immaterial. They were insolvent because they did not have enough cash/credit/liquid capital to cover the predicted withdrawals. That is the why they are insolvent.

Long term, yes, the asset state would have been a problem, and would(should) have been marked up as a ~25% loss on the bonds that were being hammered by inflation.

but at no point would that have been a big issue for the stability of the bank. It would have hammered their share price, but not deposits. It probably would have required a change of management, but again, not fatal.

The issue here is that "asset insolvent" is rarely described like that, it normally at the point where you declare bankruptcy because no-one will buy you out because you liabilities are way more than your income.
In case you wonder, Vanilla OS is a Linux distribution.
> Well, if they are so focused on engagement metrics then surely they would notice an active user drop since the big UI update?

My guess is the "school homework assistant" market is very different from the "self-directed adult learning" market, and growth in the former outweighs loss from the latter.

Whatever the reason (I can invent many hypotheses, but they're just stories I can't test), Duo has gone from the app I enjoy making time for to the app I only bother with to keep my language lessons a little more diverse.
Holding BTC doesn’t require trust in a single exchange, only trust that it continues to hold some market value.

If you have $20K of non-blacklisted BTC you will probably be able to find a buyer somewhere in the world, though the exchange rate might not be as efficient as a CEX like Coinbase.

GP’s logic seems poor though. In US or EU, probably safer to hold up to the insurance limit in local banks. Beyond that, or for higher risk assets or in countries with poor banking infra, crypto becomes a viable option.
That’s a historical use. TCE was banned from food and medical uses in the US, including decaf coffee, in 1977.
I have a question. These newer Intel machines all have performance and energy efficient cores. This makes sense as they are designed for the Desktop, but is this meaningful for server-side applications?

Recent Linux kernels finally support these CPUs (do they have full support?), but if you host a service where you want predictable (and fast) response times why you use the mix of both cores? Or would you just turn off those efficient cores for the server-side usage?
Preprocessing for Deep Learning: From covariance matrix to image whitening
I'm having trouble grasping what this has to do with bootcamps. Isn't that the totality of the value of your original comment, implying that you had some trick for identifying bootcamp graduates?
“OWL”?
text-davinci-003 has no trouble working as a chat bot: https://i.imgur.com/lCUcdm9.png (note that the poem lines it gave me should've been green, I don't know why they lost their highlight color)
Here, "Dose Translation from Animals to Humans": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17942826/

Generally, from mice, it's ([mouse dose in mg/kg] * (3/37)) = human equivalent dose in mg/kg.
> All of this for the sake of a company's "brand". I say: fuck your brand. Your end-users should always trump your design "guidelines". Period.

It's my site. I can bloody well do with it what I damn well please for any reason and I don't need to explain myself to anyone and don't have any obligation to make anyone happy. Don't like it? You know how to leave a website.
> I'd be very hesitant to get as close to one as these people are.

Reminds me of this HN comment [0]:

> But it was extremely dangerous. He didn't develop any long term issues, but he told one story where they suddenly lost a man. There was a quick shadow and then a man was gone. They found a piece of dive suit in the area. They believe it was a giant squid that got their buddy.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33004539
Bing chat searches an index of the web, then takes that information as context to answer your questions. You don't need a custom API if your machines can read human text accurately.
After some talking with Packt, we agreed on a 9 months writing time: a tight schedule, but we felt we could make it working together with Marco.
We succedeed, albeit not to the level we wanted, but it was a huge learning experience for both of us (I am pretty sure is the same for Marco).

Sounds about right
Seems like the multiple microphone beamforming source separation algorithms are getting pretty good these days, maybe just adding a lot more mics would help?

Could you have an AI model that extracts some characteristics of the speaker's voice for each individual word, then translates that to color and font?

If the model was not confident about a word it could show slightly blurred, if it was loud it could be bold, perhaps(Although there's some stereotype issues) you could use different fonts for different pitches, whispers could be grey, quiet could be transparent.

Maybe there's a language model that can pick up overlapping words if you don't have the constraint of needing to sort them out into who said it, just show all the possibile words that could have been said by anyone stacked together, in a "not sure" color, and maybe the wearer would eventually learn to figure it out without much effort?

You could also try to stay consistent so the same speaker gets the same colors I'd possible, and also not reuse colors for new speakers that have been recently used, to best make use of the limited bits of data in font and color.

Maybe just by showing all the words from every speaker all together like that, the wearer would be able to figure it out even if it made mistakes in the speaker identification?
Whatever country you moved to, odds are there's more of a brain drain from there to the US than vice versa. When places heavily regulate laying employees off, they just make employers much more apprehensive and conservative about hiring.
There's no need to be quite so adversarial in this case though. The methodology is explained by the report:

> A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training; for each exam we run a variant with these questions removed and report the lower score of the two. We believe the results to be representative. For further details on contamination (methodology and per-exam statistics), see Appendix C.
That’s good pricing - would have expected more of a premium for ddr5 and gen 4 ssd
> Pay is a function of value.

I couldn't afford my lifestyle if pay was a function of value; it'd cost too much. Pay is a function of how hard management believes it is to replace someone.
This is my feeling exactly, it is a semantic auto-complete. Should/can it write your core business logic? Probably not, but there is a good chance it can infer and suggest logical patterns in implementation.
Boomers were able to work minimum wage jobs and buy houses and live comfortable lives.

We don't make too much, everyone else makes too little.
cue existential crisis
Reading these is kind of a mind fuck for me, knowing that it's generated text. However, the texts are not incredibly insightful and remind me of high school prose, which consisted of a lot of BS and "diarrhea of the pen."
You're right. I make videos on youtube yelling at people but using science and reason, but I know that being calm and Garfield-eyelided doesn't do CRAP, so I'm constantly throwing in personal insults.

Not for effect. Not to be gratuitous - but because I genuinely cannot stand misinformation spreaders who have the same internet as me but they prefer to get things wrong and stick with it.

Some people insist that those lights in the sky are not jupiter and instead are drones following them. Mr. Rogers isn't going to cure these broken brains.
> When I think of the most difficult to understand code I've come across it was probably written by someone who lives and breathes that interpretation of DRY.

Good code rhymes! It's better to err on the side of less abstraction and create patterns that will become familiar to the next person working with your code.

Reading code is harder than writing it and most of the time coding is about communicating with humans or "ghosts", i.e. people you might never meet, people who worked on the code in a different context or "era".

https://sonnet.io/posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/

https://sonnet.io/posts/emotive-conjugation/#:~:text=Ghost%2...
Will not-so-smart people be banned from using GPT?
I'm just imagining that someone really did this and after all that effort realized how spectacularly off the value they got is, then proceeded to doubt and redo their calculations, only to later realize that the method is at fault...
I thought it fairly obvious that the poster you're responding to was making an analogy about using GPT/LLM models for decision-making, not actually endorsing playing the lottery.

And they're correct. Don't use generative models for extractive tasks. That's like using the handle of a screwdriver as a hammer. Sure, it might work for a while, up until there's a screwdriver in your eye.
Change VPN service instead
More and more automation, I would assume.
This seems to have always been a setting that existed for a long time in Linux desktops (or at least cinnamon), I've had this enabled before, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not when you want to use mousepad and keyboard at same time for some game (but then plugging in a USB mouse is better anyway)
I couldn't agree more with everything you wrote. The problem with repetition is not that it's hard to generate, the problem is it's hard to maintain!

I've used ChatGPT to find libraries and to help me line up types. It was very helpful.
I agree to disagree!
That's such a great way of putting it.
Wonder why race is the metric here? Men also have shorter lifespans, and I assume there will be other constants that correlate with life expectancy (height, hair colour, genetic disposition to disease, etc).
Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
What extensions are you looking at? I'm not sure how you missed the popular ones like Buster[1], NopeCHA[2] or 2Captcha Solver[3].

[1] https://github.com/dessant/buster

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2captcha-solv...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fight is not about copyright, not about authors rights, not even about the money, but simply about publishers trying to reject the new. Correct?
Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon? (2020)
Labelling data is easier, I think. It will just take a while...
Cool although I'm trying to avoid self hosting for this task.
Hack Me: You are allowed to hack it
You have permission to hack it, no legal consequences. Use tor or something.
Vanilla OS gives these instructions for installing drivers:

https://handbook.vanillaos.org/2022/12/10/install-additional...

From what I understand, the Linux kernel version is tied to the Vanilla OS release and can't be changed outside of upgrading or downgrading the OS.
Or the Wiener Measure.
This result is exactly what I expect from todays LLM tools.

What I would want from a tool like this is that it should base its reasoning on more than just the variable names, and if it cannot deduce what the code does, just tell me that instead of confidently bullshitting something.
Classic packt... How did this blatant spam post even get to the front page?
I would be really helpful if there was some kind of confidence factor that the algorithm could express about its own result. Is this likely to be correct or is this just a best guess?

Currently it looks like it is only capable of writing text that states everything as a matter of pure fact, probably because most training data is written by authors who have already checked that their statements are correct (or at least believe them to be).
This. For the feds they're called 2703d orders to request for information. It's a pretty common thing.
It's a good read, but, eh, I don't know. I've been there, done that, when it comes both to hard materialism and far-flung spirituality; I don't know what the answer is, I also don't know if taking excessively high doses of psychedelics actually helped me get there or if it just helped me chill out and stop being so neurotic. I guess, in the end, I'm comfortable now with not knowing, and that's enough--but that doesn't mean I'll stop asking questions.
Not quite yet, friend. Wait till the lawyer market collapses, once they all turn coat the capitalists will have no more intellectual linemen. The quarterback will be sacked.

I will not be surprised if we end up with an organization composed of people like us, that looks a lot like the medieval Masons, keeping the internet going while everyone else just talks to it at ubiquitous terminals.
> So you need a fat pipe and some middle man [...] waiting subscribed to topics and waiting for messages.

Your use case is not Mr everybody use case nor the one presented in the article. Most usages of Kafka I have encountered in the wild is for notification delivery or telemetry report and of the order of few ~1000 msgs/s.

You do not need a fully distributed ordered log system for that. MQTT does the job for a fraction of the complexity and operational cost.

> . Say that you can do C1M happily, you still need 20 brokers to serve egress for all your connected clients. Now imagine that you have 100 brokers,

Even at these scales, you can find some commercial MQTT brokers going over 20M msg/sec nowadays.

With OSS solutions, you could get your way there with some HAProxy + your favorite MQTT broker behind DNS load. balancing as long as you do not requires HA, scale only should not be the issue.

It would even play pretty nicely with anycast if you want to place your brokers at edge close to your customers and do some proper partitioning.

That is currently pretty much the case presented in the article. They just advertise telemetry report (very likely not HA) injected by a time series database.

Once again, if what you need is fully ordered distributed commit log for a complex scenario of event sourcing: Go for it, go for Kafka, it has been designed for that.
But it is just not the case of most Kafka instances I see deployed in the wild, these ones are generally the result of quick Google-search driven engineering.
Yes, this is a major concern. I think that companies will soon start paying people to have their lives monitored by AI. It is the only "economical" way out.
Psychedelics feel like they open our minds to more information from reality but they actually close the mind in a way that the mind hallucinates to fill in the gaps. Visually its easier to see. I suppose it works in other ways too such as motivational centres of the brain, meaning, aim, purpose - the brain invents new things.

In doing so it gives a perspective about these things, it shows us that they are variable in a way.

They show us that they are variables in a computer program rather than part of the framework that cannot be changed. (The variables are still mostly constants however in the real world!)
do you have any good resources i could read on the subject of chip supply chain ? I know absolutely nothing about it