skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.

You sure about that, legally?

>…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit

You're right about this, though. But this strikes me as a discursive issue that has more to do with the generalized butthurt over schooling that you see here in HN and tech circles - I think it's funny that it's Local Boob Paul Graham talking about writing (which to be fair he cannot shutup about) that set this whole thing off.
> their static IP's aren't always "clean": I had a couple of instances where the IP I was allocated was blacklisted and it took some back and forth with their customer service to fix the problem (got a new IP).

Isn't that a problem you're always going to get with $any provider? You never know who previously owned that IP and what they did with it.
Long times ago, I tried to unsubscribe from their annoying emails and after a lot of back and forth with their CS, they asked me for my bank statement and last 3 years address. So, I just marked their emails as spam
Humans evolved to spread their genes, but as a side effect they became good and producing music.
The Evolution of Cognition
We maintain a contract with RedPill/Linpro for managing a DB cluster on Hetzner. When we ordered it it was cheaper to use Linpro + Hetzner than hosting the DB on Digital Ocean...
A social security system that supports all artists was put into operation since 1984 in my country of Finland, it's still functioning fine, the only struggle for artists here is substance abuse.
> America's new slogan should be "Reagan made everything worse"

IIRC, the Democrats controlled Congress throughout the 1980s, so it's not like he could have done it without 'collaborators'.
True. Expected to remain solvent would be more clear.
> Today, user generated content is a the golden goose that also shits everywhere and honks at everyone that comes through the door unless you police it tirelessly

Meh, some sort of good spam filter + good moderation (not of dissident opinion but of pure trash, oneliners and other boring stuff) and you'll resolve most issues, at least when it comes to blog comments.
65% of people who were asked with what question and what panel and what information provided?

This whole idea is stupid. Another C program with and ability to run arbitrary code off the network written by idiots and nasty folk being given arbitrary filesystem access. Have we learned nothing? We need more controls (MAC / process sandboxing) not less.

Just because someone wants to do something to make their lives easier and asks a set of people what they want who says yes doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I say this as someone who has written desktop/web integration stuff over the years without this.
If US/EU get just a significant fraction of those developers needed, software dev salaries will go to the level of other engineering, say mechanical, construction or material one. Employers would be very happy with that. And lets be honest here, its not that different job despite what some bigger egos think about their work and echo chambers that keep them in that dream.

I don't agree those other engineers are treated as cattle, merely as normal employees. IT, mostly in SV and other places cargo-culting ie Google is often really treated like divas. Bear in mind that this was never true in corporations where IT was treated as a cost center, ie banking. But from various HN posts it seems that typical young SV dev has no experience with that and many feel they are changing the world for the better, when reality its at best a zero sum game, and often not even that (ie optimizing ad revenue stream for your corporation is definitely loss for mankind as a whole, or anything that makes societal parasites who breed depression like facebook/insta/tiktok more effective at their goals).

But folks for some obscure reason need to feel that their work has a good purpose and high moral ground, hence sometimes quite advanced mental gymnastics seen also here.
do people actually talk about the kardashians still? I thought that was like 3 years ago
> AI is more like an automated fortune teller.

I think you just haven't seen the potentially revolutionary applications.

My side project is developing a tool to help me learn Chinese. Last night I asked gpt-3.5-turbo to:

1. Take the existing text which had Arabic numerals in it (e.g., "2006年" for "the year 2006" and "30万" for "300,000") and replace them with Chinese characters as they would be read (i.e., "二零零六年" for the year, "三十万" for the number)

2. Segment the text with some specific parameters (i.e., segment "二零零六" as four separate words, rather than one big word)

3. Convert the whole thing to pinyin, with specific parameters (don't group multi-character words and don't capitalize proper nouns).

I got the output I wanted with 5-10 minutes of playing around with it; I could theoretically use those prompts to process my entire library of study content. Do you have any idea how long it would take me to code something like that up?
Not out yet. Apparently only https://www.bemyeyes.com/ uses it so far.
>It is a luxury career supported exclusively by surplus.

What is your career, precisely?
Maybe, but the people of influence who profess to be libertarians are not exactly committed adherents of a carefully thought-out libertarian philosophy (except maybe Thiel, although his libertarianism has a religious caste). In general, the SV libertarian is an egotist who talks up a poorly understood distortion of libertarian thought because it's a fig leaf for their rapacious amorality, and they cast off its tenets whenever it suits them.
There's clearly a lot of pent up anger directed at VCs and big tech. The collapse of SVB may not actually be their fault, but it still seems to have brought all of this frustration out into the open. I'm not really sure why there is so much anger - yes they were hypocritical here but I'm not sure people would be so keen to point that out if they didn't already have an axe to grind!
I would go a different path. Companies with 10mil of seed capital in their bank account are not a “small business”. The guy who owns 14 car dealerships in 3 states has less money in their bank account.

A “small business” has -100k/+100k in their bank account.
> Ah yes, the age of blogs.

> could subscribe to all of them using RSS

Maybe bit nitpicky but kottke.org predates blogs, and predates RSS. It's "pre age of blogs".
Open source project: Generate bed time stories using ChatGPT and DALL-E
To get a smog certificate in California, you take the notice that they send you to any of a number of clearly marked smog test centers. They run the test for a small fee. The results are transmitted to the dmv who send you the sticker.

There is no mysterious Chinese bribery involved and the process is easy.

Source: lived in Los Angeles for two decades in predominantly immigrant cities.
Please rattle down this list to a hotel employee. Gardener. Flight attendant. Bike mechanic. Store clerk. Teacher. Builder. Some poor fuck slaving away in a dead-end back office job.

I guarantee you that in the absence of witnesses half the people will give you a good walloping.
This is scary haha!
A bit of nitpicking but I would prefer to replace the word 'reasoning capability' with 'sequencing of token construction coherence' as the two things are semantically different and profound in their implication
Lots of GPU Clouds around. To play with toys I use runpod's community cloud. Very affordable.
I use https://hn.buzzing.cc/ to browser Hacker News in both Chinese and English.
A Rorschach Test on Fire
I wouldn't be surprised, but parallel construction is also likely in these cases. E.g. they have some god-mode global network analytics to link most VPNs to real IPs, and simply make up some alternative plausible but bs story about how they tracked them.
"They failed specifically because of business they were servicing."

I don't think so. All banks are facing major markdown issues right now due to the Fed raising rates. SVB and the crypto banks were just canaries in the coal mine.

First Republic also needed a bailout even though they're a lot more diversified in their client base.

Edit: before you downvote, please read this analysis by our friend patio11 - https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncer...

TLDR: The U.S. banking system (as a whole) has $620 billion in unrealized losses due to the Fed raising rates. This is way bigger than SVB and crypto.
I'm going to be honest with you, working in tech myself, these points feel incredibly out of touch.

> The working conditions are horrible. You sit at a desk, usually in a crowded lowd office, which is highly detrimental to your health.

In many professions you're expressly forbidden from sitting, even when carrying out tiring physical work. Most tech employers are willing to purchase an adjustable standing desk should you request it.

Outside of tech, people are frequently prevented from hydrating, nourishing, or relieving themselves unless given permission to do so by their employer.

> Often you need to commute long hours meaning you are detached from social and family life. Many struggle with starting a family.

This is in no way exclusive to tech workers. If someone earning a tech salary cannot afford to live reasonably close to their place of employment, how long do you think the commute is of the person serving them coffee or cleaning their office? We also benefit from having the option to work remotely.

> Moreover, you have to constantly chase small tasks, constantly shifting focus and have to deal with obnoxious managers.

Again, not unique to tech workers and certainly less impactful. Tech managers have relatively little power in comparison to other sectors. In the service industry your manager can effectively fire you with no oversight by simply not scheduling you. A server will be expected to manage 4 or more tables at a time, remembering who ordered what, even when interrupted by requests from other customers.

> All things considered, tech is not a well paid job. Not by a long shot. While we "enjoy" sitting in offices and an apparent high income - at an enormous cost for us - the guy next door owning a corner shop enjoys a family life, likely owns a property and doesn't need to worry about keeping pace with daily changes.

Most people working in tech enjoy those things as well. If you can't, you might consider re-evaluating your situation.
> For anyone not in Brooklyn this morning, it is snowing here right now.

Weather ≠ climate.

Just ask California over the last little while.

In fact it may snow more often as the climate warms a bit in some regions: as warmer air holds more moisture. Then when it slams into a cold front it sheds that moisture, and with climate change destabilizing the jet stream ("polar vortex") the cold Arctic air may jut farther down hitting the warm-moist air that comes up from the south.
One way to sort of do it would be to poke at how much 3dep has cost so far and extrapolate from there. Hard to figure that though, with it being an aggregation of a bunch of other programs.
Any worker that supports the usage of technology for other workers.
This is same as BitTorrent did to software/music industries. “Piracy is not steal”, “music labels are too rich”. Spin it all you want. The original business model are built on certain level of difficulty to duplicate the product.

Once it’s gone, building them is fool’s errant. Now you have only SaaS that guts you for little feature and adware that made you the product. All of which are only possible by corps with billions of funding.

Bad incentive, bad outcome. It’s just this time we are the receiving end of the “progress”
Woke did it, in collision with Biden! Who could have ever seen that coming from Sacks.
> perhaps even from civilizations far larger, have simply disappeared, like the Egyptian materials for over a thousand years.

What you're missing is a history of conquest. Greece and Rome had a very intertwined cultural exchange. It wasn't just alexander that conquered land all over (all the way to india) and I am sure you know of how rome invaded it's way to the point they needed two emperors.

Civilizationd in america invaded each other but not the rest if the world. Same with Africa (outside of Egypt and few minor regionally invading countries). Even in asia, chinese never invaded india. Now Genghis obviously did more invading than alexander so I'd be interested in how much culture and history he spread but I think Rome is what made a difference in the western part of the old world. They built roads and encouraged people from different parts of the empire to travel and trade. Genghis had a habit of killing everyone that resisted but the romans kept them alive as slaves.

American culture and literature for example, I am sure will last many centtiries in other cultures.
People who are driven to create will not cease being driven to create because AI is about. Unless AI somehow causes teenagers to cease trying to impress others the act of human creation is not going to cease. We will almost certainly have to suffer through yet another update of Cyrano de Bergerac* and certainly some will deal with ill gotten gains through AI but the human act of creation is still safe, worst case is that the act of creation will become more important than the creation, live and improvised art will take the lead.

*I was going to ask ChatGPT to write me a modern metafictional update of Cyrano de Bergerac with AI as Cyrano but apparently ChatGPT is getting overrun right now and there was no room for me and my request. I did get a good laugh about it asking me to confirm that I am human, will that simple question be enough to stop AI from taking over the internet?
The vast amount of human literature is not worth a read. As long as you pick reputable sources, read great books and so on, they will be up to those standards.

Of course, it's not a trivial task to find the reputable sources and the great books about a subject you don't know about. But there are many ways to find that out, for example by checking out the curriculum of respected universities to see which textbooks they use.
Show HN: A Simple AlphaZero Implementation
Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans to Rely Less on China for Revenue
For anything bandwidth-sensitive that can’t be spread out across multiple nodes I’d shell out for the 10Gbit option which is still reasonably priced and still includes 20TB of free bandwidth.
> The primary deciding factor is always security

so, anywhere where your workloads or data are physically co-located on the same hardware as someone else's should be automatically disqualified, right?
Communism, probably.
These guys only started all caps tweeting after the bank was closed on Friday. The bank run started on Thursday when $42B (20-30% of all deposits) were withdrawn.
"Insulting you helps us recover from your toxicity."

...It's like... What? Are you joking?

This is precisely what I mean. A lack of consistency-- it really betrays the concomitant lack of rational thought.

"I side with Chairman Mao and Wallstreet ESG-metric-driven Bankers! Now Get to work driving our economy, so we can simultaneously complain about you while also taxing you to redistribute your income!"

It would be all so tiresome if it wasn't so tragically entertaining.
Even though InstructGPT still makes simple mistakes, our results show that fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.

That will be fun when that thing is hooked up to Clippy
Cybersecurity is also much more accurate description of the skills/work required to stay safe online.

Most computers are not compromised because of flaws in cryptography or the application thereof, they are compromised because of operational security (opening suspicious email attachments, reusing passwords, running systems with default admin passwords, etc). These things have little to do with cryptography and are much better understood as "cybersecurity".
> nor write a commit hook so that nothing can be pushed before the diversity committee validated the change set.

Oh give me a break
That sites been eternal Septembered multiple times, to the point it's almost entirely unrecognisable. Reddiquitte isn't even a thing anymore, they now have "policies" and "codes of conduct".

I wouldn't be shocked if the meta has changed to call anyone with powers "admins" now.
Interesting! How did you get GPU servers? They used to be available but can you still get them? And can you share more details about the automated hardware failure monitoring?
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine — a gun — which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.”

— Doctor Richard Jordan Gatling
I wonder if this behavior will lead banks to be even less likely to take on startups as clients in the future.

edit: in an attempt to be more clear, I thought the reason SVB was used by startups was because "regular" banks were not open to startup finances. Is this not the case?
Please do. I do miss the times when the internet was mainly "weird", obscure and different things (compared to what was mainstream at the time), and disagreeing with others was a fun pastime, not something people became angry about.
Shaming men when they complain is toxic masculinity. Men have feelings too and that is ok.
You can imagine you’ve worked your whole life chasing the brass ring. And then the government goes, “lol, just kidding!”, and moves the goal posts 50 meters. And this affects millions of people who are very pissed off and vocal about it.
I imagine the people laid off are highly skilled investment bankers. I think YC laid them off because early stage seed funds do not require the same level of sophistication as late-stage investment.

I believe the employees laid off would be perfectly capable to assist in early-stage seed rounds as well. That way YC could have vetted more projects and invested more.

Imagine that the people laid off were tasked to find and seed environment friendly startups etc. Deep work requires a stable paycheck and job safety. If YC really wanted to make things better, they'd know better.

With these lay-offs, I won't be surprised if all the remaining employees would be yes-sayers lacking any individual incentive.
Or just ask GPT-4 to write one.
The US has 3dep, which is a USGS program to aggregate and publish various federal and state data.

Not really the same thing you are talking about, and not global, but it can be fascinating to look at. You can see old logging railroads and things like that in Michigan, and trace them to where they collected and dumped into rivers.
It's only impossible until someone finds a way...
Meta to lay off another 10k as Zuckerberg celebrates “year of efficiency”
I treasure not having to look at emojis on HN. Not sure who this "excludes" but I'm fine that that
I'm sorry, but I do not get why you're making it personal and attacking my worth as a developer because I am doubtful about what Copilot can do for me.

It is possible to disagree without being rude and insulting.
Restricting access to high-end semiconductors will only delay their progress a bit.

If strong AI is going to be the next nuclear weapon then no sanctions will stop other countries from developing it.

The USA could not even prevent North Korea from getting nukes. And the North Korean economy is ridiculously small.

If China, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, Iran or India decide that development of strong AI is the key to achieve their strategic goals - what are the West going to do about it?
Technical books aren't just about the code itself. Programmers don't necessarily make for good technical writers, and non-native speakers of any language are worse writers on average in that language. Put those two things together, and a non-native programmer writing their first book needs all the help they can get with editing and reviewing the text.
Try gpt4
All the alternatives the siblings to you have posted are also somewhat echo-chambers, but this is probably the worse of the worst when it comes to echo-chambers.
Selfless plug. I created https://Heylaing.com that is basically the “role play” version of this Duolingo Max but free.

It’s been my side project to learn coding. I’m about to release android and iOS apps…hopefully later this week or early next.
Cool! I would use a template parameter so that a user can choose between float and double [1]. I would add support for vector arrays (AOS and SOA) [2]. I'm not sure if your angle calculation algorithm is computationally cheap [3].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4584637/double-or-float-...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40163722/is-my-understan...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427422/cheap-algorithm-...
Apart from navigation-to-root issue, and non-functioning search, this documentation site looks pretty nice. Seems like they're using Jekyll to build it, and the source on Github[1].

[1]. https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/handbook
In other thread someone wrote that VC made a contractual requirement that "their" startups use a particular bank. Perhaps due to lower fees for companies with same owners.
I don't think the rules for "machines" apply to AI any more than they apply to the biological machine that is the human brain.
Came across this service last Friday:

https://nocaptchaai.com/
That's just as crap as the websites that either disable the back button, or fill it full of redirect pages, so you can't go back without opening a new tab. Bring back the days where we could just disable JavaScript.
It doesn’t, libertarians will still tell you the same thing. Don’t take from me iff you don’t give to me. On the contrary, it seems like the authors of this article would like people forced to pay for insurance to not be compensated by them.
By its own adherents? Probably not.
Oh please. You know exactly what the article is saying. You chose to attack the publication instead of their arguments which boils down to Thiel and friends are very much anti-regulation and if it wasn't their money they would resist government interference. Perhaps you could talk about the quoted comments from those billionaires and correct the article?
Well, I think many developers can forget patterns, over abstractions, SOLID, clean coding, overengineering, scrum and write lots of quick and dirty code at a startup.

It's just that trying to do that at their current workplace will result in a backlash.

I don't overengineer the code I write at home in weekends.
Landmark quantum breakthrough paves way for world-first experimental wormhole
I’ve never met a plumber who couldn’t fix a toilet in the quoted time and budget.
I agree, and I see three fallouts from this event:

- Yellen folded fast, so the market will test her again (moral hazard)

- Powell will hesitate to raise rates further, concerned about hidden stresses building up in the system. This was basic duration risk, and the fact that they missed it entirely will raise the worry of what else they are missing.

- FDIC will probably have to be reformed. You cannot guarantee everything, all the time. Maybe an opt in system where large depositors can buy individual coverage.
PSA for bird owners: that off gassing is highly lethal to birds. You shouldn't cook with teflon and have birds. They can die in minutes even when on the other side of the house.
I’m not sure that your analogy makes any sense in this context, particularly given that the result of what you described has been ever increasing record industry profits.
Wait, when did "tech bro" went from an oxymoron joke about smart morons, and turned into a turn of phrase people accept without blinking ? (When scammers overran cryptocurrencies I guess ??)