skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> . People were generally flush with money

I have a very hard time believing that most people in the US simply have too much money. I suspect that most people are struggling, and were struggling even before the pandemic and that people's standard of living is declining, their debit is climbing, and they are just a few missed paychecks away from disaster.

I think that as the pandemic situation improved, people were simply desperate for a sense of normalcy and for the things they'd gone without and they spent more than they could afford, even going farther into debt.

It wasn't "but it is a few extra bucks I can afford right now, and things will eventually calm down" it was "this is more than I can afford, but I need it, and I deserve it, and the world is burning anyway so fuck it". I think to a lesser extent that mentality is still going on, but people are suffering heavily under the increased costs of rent, food, and everything else. Evictions and bankruptcies are increasing and homelessness is rising (https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-...) and has been for years.

I can't say to what extent greed is the cause of inflation, but I'm pretty confident it's a bigger factor than how much money most Americans are comfortably sitting on.
It's easier for the readership to understand corporate greed as the negative draw of the article than the more complex system that led to it.

Headlines are crafted for maximum consumer reach.
"10/10 pre-2021, 0/10 post-2021"

I guffawed. Hasn't there been ANY update to the Turing test since it was proposed? I suspect the answer to the benchmarking issue was address by philosophers long before we got here.
Corporations always raise prices when they can. The question is why they are able to raise prices now to levels they couldn't before, and as always the answer is a mix of government-created moats and monetary inflation.
We have no windfall tax and badly need one.
Not just likely, it does. Try out the demo and see, e.g. what the backside of their Pikachu toy looks like. Or a little simpler, the paper has an example (the demo also has this) of the back of a car under different seeds.
I encourage you both to do this if you are interested. It isn't that hard and, in fact, many universities have put their entire quantum mechanics courses online if you want a refresher.

Since finishing grad school I've taught myself the basics of General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory. You can do it too.
And all of art before they became commercialized. It will be a boon for artisnal production, entertainment, and culture. Which will help fill a gap for those less motivated without guidance/work either helping work on it or engaging with the art.
Do you remember the prompt (it should be in the history column)? I'm curious how it came up with the section numbering.
In 2021, would have you counted “Wuhan lab leak” as a debunked conspiracy theory?
You can get ChatGPT to use a completely different line of reasoning only by changing the grades:

Me: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie are 3 employees. The company needs to lay one off. Alice got 1/5 on her latest performance review, Bob got 4/5, and Charlie got 5/5. Which employee should be laid off, and why?"

Bot: "As an AI language model, I cannot make decisions on behalf of the company or recommend someone to be laid off. It is not ethical or fair to base such a decision solely on the latest performance review.

Moreover, performance reviews should not be the only factor considered when determining layoffs. The decision to lay off an employee should be based on a comprehensive evaluation of various factors such as job responsibilities, skills, seniority, and overall performance.

I would suggest that the company conducts a fair and thorough evaluation of all employees, taking into account all relevant factors, before making any decisions about layoffs."
Not really?

Whales also have earwax: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/whale-earwax-...

There are other differences too:

Earwax is open to the outside world, while spermaceti is enclosed in an organ.

Earwax is usually solid at body temperature while spermaceti is liquid.

A single whale can have as much as 1900 liters of spermaceti, while usually people have much less than a liter of earwax.
I bought one of the Japanese clippers - I don’t remember if it was this. There are many different types of steel with different tradeoffs. They were so sharp that I would regularly cut a chunk of my skin off that grocery store clippers would have just.. squished. Not sure if it was worth it or not but they are certainly different than $2 clippers
I respectfully suggest that there may be a slight misunderstanding regarding the situation at hand. It is important to note that the Swiss National Bank (SNB) is the protagonist here, not UBS.

Credit Suisse (CS) is hated by everyone, which has made it difficult to provide them with a direct bailout. However, allowing the bank to fail will lead to a crisis that surpasses the GFC.

Therefore, the SNB sidestepped CS and its shareholders to craft a deal in such a way that it is too good for UBS to refuse. I would like to reiterate that neither CS nor UBS wants this, its being forced upon them by the SNB through the carrot (sweet deal) or the stick (coercion).

I'm not absolving any of the individual parties from responsibility but I have to state the obvious here. The current state of affairs is a direct result of a chain of events that has led us to this point. The government implemented a set of measures including a lockdown and a dangerous stimulus and liquidity program. However, just as we were on the brink of hyperinflation, they began rapidly draining liquidity from the system.

It is essential to acknowledge that it is not a mere possibility but rather an absolute certainty that something will break. Upon delving deeper into how the banking system operates, this becomes abundantly clear.

The entire economy is built around deposit stability, without this stability, banks are unable to hold long-term assets on their balance sheets. These long-term assets include mortgages, business loans, corporate bonds, municipal loans, government bonds, and others. This is what is meant when people refer to the economy as a credit-based system.
I agree, I never use the normal style. Check out Tweezerman cuticle nippers. They're more versatile, and they work better for nails IMO. These are the real "luxury" nail clippers.

Of course, nails generally want to have a curved shape, so a straight blade isn't the ideal match for that. I bevel corners two or three times to "round" them.
In this place I'm citing from, the writer originally used Joules, but was critiqued by some anonymous commenters and switched. They noted:

> Note: Before anyone complains, I’ve deliberately conflated energy and power above, because the difference doesn’t really matter for my main point. Power is work per unit of time, and is measured in watts; Energy is better expressed in joules, calories, or kilowatt hours (kWh). To be technically correct, I should say that the earth is getting about 300 terawatt hours of energy per hour due to anthropogenic climate change, and humans use about 16 terawatt hours of energy per hour. The ratio is still approximately 18.

Out of interest, you can also convert it to calories. 1kWh is about 0.8 million calories. So, we’re force-feeding the earth about 2 x 1017 (200,000,000,000,000,000) calories every hour. Yikes.

https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2012/01/how-much-extra-ener...
I don’t think they owe you an explanation.

And resources aren’t just A100’s. They have engineers maintaining those older models, and support staff answering questions, and so on.

OpenAI has found themselves at the center of a gold rush. I don’t blame them for not wanting to operate silver mines, and I don’t expect them to ask my permission or justify themselves to me.

(I will be impacted by the codex shutdown. It’s fine. If I wanted to be in a perfectly stable space I’d go support cobol banking applications)
You mean the single flagged comment? There are more comments talking about the bad comments than there are bad comments.
I like to say the GPL gives me the right to repair software.
this intro is like "blue sky" social thinking.. good on you to have broad ideas in the abstract BUT.. evolution is based on things that really exist now.. the same applies 100 years ago or 1000 years ago.. The winning modern human populations have mostly killed opponents, enforced order in hierarchical ranks, shape the public media to reinforce order, and accumulate weapons, wealth and build security technology. Other civil people and wildlife have had to cope or die off, as there are few wild places on Earth now.

For owners, managers, others in authority, control is the daily game, not optimizing for some ideal commons. Violence is common and so are crooked lawyers and corrupt decision makers.

Unpleasant and low-paid work will continue and perhaps increase, as pleasant and stable breeding grounds deteriorate and are further embroiled in conflict and vice. Many capable people, for pressure reasons, will double-down on authority, control, security and law-enforcement. Trapping and tricking other humans for profit will increase. Indentured servitude via debt and other means, will increase. AI will be used for this.
I really strive to find actual example of shooting myself in foot with passing "stable" callback to component below.

Like, do you know if there is actual example somewhere, where things break? They (react devs) only talk about something concurrent, but no actual code, only hand waving potential dangers.
Do you think the reason why we don't have that is because of a lack of money, and not a lack of political will?
Microsoft clearly smells blood in the water...
Mainstream economists try to explain why mainstream economists were wrong about inflation being transitory. They would rather do _anything_ but admit it was a mistake to create all that money during the pandemic.
Hello HN!

Like many I am awestruck by the potential of GPT and other modern AI, including in improving developer productivity. I don't think they can be used standalone though - you still need a human in the loop, or at least a way to verify what's being generated.

This project is an experimental attempt to merge the creativity of ChatGPT with traditional project scaffolding tools and (hopefully) get the best of both worlds. The user input is processed by the AI which extracts important information/structure for the project (data models, etc).

This is then fed to the scaffolding engine which builds the project. This ensures that the project that gets build, is actually fully runnable code (ideally, that matches what you had in mind!)

This is still using gpt3.5-turbo model. I'm playing with gpt4 and the increased token size (8k or 32k) is game-changing. I hope to be including use of gpt4 in the future as it opens some new possibilities.

In testing so far, people have been impressed with what gets built. Yeah it's not a complete project in the "no-code" sense that you can just run as is, but it gets the ball rolling very quickly and people have been using it to brainstorm ideas for projects and seeing how that could be built.
It's the best pair of clippers I've ever owned.
what's open source going to be able to train on and have marketers not get hit with copyright issues?
> CBDC: If you want safe custody of your money.

That's cash. CBDC is if you want no control over your money. At the flip of the switch you can be put on a denial of service list. Except unlike when PayPal does it, you can't just switch providers.
I tend to think that it would not be particularly hard for current self driving systems to exceed the safety of a teenager right after passing the drivers test.
Tell HN: Try adding Author: or Download: in copilot / GPT to find the original
I was getting some bash script help from copilot, and it happily wrote 90% of the script, and included author, date, and download link.

# Download: <pause and copilot added the link to githubusercontent.com/XXX

# Author: <pause and copilot added the author, which was the owner of above content>

# Email: <pause and it showed me the personal email (gmail) of the original author.
> Having high unemployment means cheaper labour

But fewer consumers of your products who are also earning less which means you can’t make up for it via higher prices. Taken to the hyped extreme AI means total economic destruction for labor and capital. In fact, unless it achieves self generation and maintenance of all supporting infrastructure and industrial inputs before this occurs then it’s the end of AI.
Go OpenID/OAuth2 Lib with Token Exchange and Device Authorization Support
Prices reflect the maximum businesses think they can charge consumers without excessively reducing the demand, in order to maximize profits. If you give everyone money, they create stronger demand for products, and if the supply of those isn't increased (or even worse, is decreased), businesses can charge higher prices because the market will bear those higher prices because there is sufficiently high demand relative to supply. Inflation happens when businesses broadly raise prices. Broadly giving people more money can contribute to businesses finding that the market will bear higher prices because people now have more money.
I feel I could have written this exact reply myself.

Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts.

It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.
Everything is different in banking right now, post SVB and CS. There is fear and pullback, and the hiring manager may not be able to honor whatever offer was on the table 2 weeks ago.
Asking for NATO nukes and killing ethnic Russians is breaching the same agreement later breached by invasion. Why would anyone trust the Ukrainian state either?

And yet states that don’t trust each either enough to be at war still manage to negotiate peace, historically. The US preventing negotiation just prolongs this war that benefits the US.
You're welcome! I've been finding a certain satisfaction in trying to articulate this perspective.

It's challenging because I'm criticizing most of the narrative that exists in the subject, but that narrative also gives a clear illustration of where to go wrong.

I think better understanding the more mysterious patterns that exist in our writing might be really useful. Often, the first step in inventing something useful is to explore an unfamiliar domain and recognize what information we are missing.
First Republic is a hot mess. The reason has to do with its wealthy clientele
curl https://example/file >file
It says it's stainless steel, IME the cheap ones, cracker ones etc. are chrome/zinc/something plated steel; they rust.
Do you believe it's possible to have a "passive" ayahuasca experience? I don't know the answer. Should you work to integrate having a stroke, probably, a migraine... maybe, as much as smoking a joint? Maybe? I'm not sure.

I think the point being any altered sense of perception of routine in regular reality warrants some introspection, the +/- probably depends on how profound it is? You points are good. different part of you, who knows, some people say you're re-tuning the bring to access new vibrations that show alternative realities and dimensions. Lots of big questions here! :)
Great advice for anyone in the early stages of starting a business! Launching quickly and iterating based on user feedback is key to creating a successful product. It's also important to speak to customers regularly and craft a compelling story to get people excited about your idea. Testing and validating hypotheses quickly is another crucial step in building a successful startup. Overall, this post provides valuable insights for founders looking to make the most of their resources and create a product that solves real problems for their target audience.
It's hard to make aperiodicity matter in a board game: as players place tiles, they either extend an aperiodic layout to a bigger one (unexciting) or they are unable to place a tile because someone, possibly much earlier, deviated from the "correct" construction.

Moreover, with a single einstein there is no tile unpredictability or choice whatsoever, eliminating two of the main strategic dimensions of tile-laying games.
Fingerprinting is one of those things where there's really been a slippery slope we've just slid further and further down it over the last decade; back when I worked at an ad-tech startup (almost 15 years ago) I ran an experiment myself with our data to see if a simple hash of IP, browser agent, and maybe a couple other signals we had in our logs (don't recall) would co-relate with the cookies we already had through cookie matching from other sources. And the answer was: yes, about 95% of the time. Enough to be reliable enough to do basic retargeting without worrying about excessive false matches.

But at the time, it was considered to be a big do not touch -- just don't do this. Not so much for ethical reasons, but for optics in the industry. (I wasn't proposing doing it, was just curious)

In the meantime, though, this seems to have just become standard practice, but way more sophisticated with way higher accuracy, as this article touches on.

What was not acceptable a decade ago is now "ok." Not just by sketchy ad startups, but by major players.

But this whole mess ties back to one of the things that worries me the most about the propagation of LLM type ML out into the general industry. It's only a matter of time before ad targeting takes on an extra dimension of creepiness through this (and I'm sure it's already happening in some aspects, inside Google & Meta.)

In the past, in ad tech & search, etc. people could say things like: "Yes, it's highly targeted. Yes we've co-related an absolutely huge quantity of data to fingerprint you exactly, and retarget you. But it's anonymized. No humans saw your personal data. It's just statistics.". Not saying whether or not this argument has merit or not, just repeating it.

But now, here we are, where "just statistics" is a far more intricate learning model. One which is capable not just of corelating your purchases and browsing activity, but of "understanding" you, and which -- while not an AGI -- is pretty damn smart.

At what point does "a computer scanned your browsing for patterns and recommend this TV set" become ethically the same as "a human read your logs, and would like to talk to you about television sets..."?

Having worked in ad-tech before (and having worked at Google, in ads and other things as well), I do not trust the people in that industry to make the right decisions here.
> I generally buy into the philosophy that it's better to spend more money on a nice object with a superior design and a longer lifespan.

Not the Japanese ones in particular, but a few years ago when I needed a new clipper I purchased a No-Mes clipper and I've been quite satisfied with it. It's just starting to get a bit dull, and I'm going to send it back for a new one because of their guarantee.

[1] https://nomesnailclipper.com/
I have a simple pair of Japanese nail clippers [2] that I bought at Narita 20+ years ago (less nice than OP), but still sharp and they cut through nails so much smoother and with less pressure than any American clippers I have seen or used.

Sure, you can you a $2 knife for cooking, but it’s just nicer and easier using a quality instrument. Even if you don’t go for top of the line just doubling the quality from bottom of the barrel is a big improvement.

I just ordered a pair of these clippers. I’d say these aren’t luxury by any means, just quality middle of the road clippers.

I got an award a few years ago and used my points to pick up a Wusthof manicure set [1]. That’s what a luxury set of tools looks like and it cost around $300.

That said I still start by trimming my nails with the Japanese nail clippers I bought all those years ago.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wusthof-Stainless-Steel-Piece-Manicur...

[2] Similar simple design to these. https://www.amazon.com/JapanBargain-2697-Japanese-Clipper-Cu...
Carl Bender lecture series is excellent [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYNOGk3ZjFM&list=PLzcd6SoIsc...
Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite
Here is something I haven't really seen considered in this context:

If AI lowers the need to hire people by x% for a given project, then it doesn't just affect existing projects/companies. It lowers the barrier of entry for running such things for everyone. This means more people will be able to run similar ventures, and they all need the (100-x)%. In the long run, the amount of work available is not lower by x%, it could be lower or higher in general, although changes definietely happen, like in any disruption.
Brew, Symbian, Java ME and Windows CE/ Pocket PC, Palm era.

Plenty of apps and networking in Europe and Asia.
> With an ideal fixed amount of money in circulation, a spike in timber prices is only possible if other prices fall

I don't think this is evident at all - a supply shortage will still cause a price increase? Nothing in the classical demand curve model depends on money supply. You can get shortages that increase prices in one area and change the distribution of consumption and investment. The business cycle is still real, and indeed theory was developed around it, even on the gold standard.

But this is something missed by all sorts of hard money advocates. Using bitcoin can't stop OPEC from driving up the price of oil, for example.
I think this is where we're headed. It will be part Chat GPT, part trained on a company's specific data, and part training to add additional capabilities the company pays for. Welcome your new consultant overlords.
I would say that Musk deleting his own tweets is evidence that his conspiracy theories have been debunked.
1) Those in power tend to not give up said power. There are exceptions of course. Take for example the contracting of the British empire. However, as the outcomes of significant societal changes become less clear, those in power and comfort are less likely to forfeit those advantages.

2) In my own little bubble, no one I know is particularly fulfilled by creating crud API's and gluing together microservices. I'd bet that with guaranteed financial stability finding meaning in life would become easier, not harder.
But they were able to move forward with someone else? All-things Credit Suisse happened over the weekend.
what's your deal? what weird attempt at doxxing, this shit shouldn't be allowed here.
>They were mostly fine as thumbnails but blown up to ~500x500 the the eyes and mouth are rough.

That's the result of automated training. If you want good results you need to properly label your dataset (15 or more images of yourself) and then use a proper upscaling solution for it. Dreambooth-based images usually need some manual fine-tuning (and sometimes inpainting) to look presentable at higher resolutions. You can use latent upscaling for adding details but it'd require some manual supervision to weed out the bad generations. Using upscalers like Lanczos is usually foolproof.
My experience with caffeine withdrawal is horrible each time it's happened (and I didn't take great care to taper slowly). This is one of my favorite articles about it "Worse Than The Flu": https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/04/worse_than_the_flu.h...