skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> removing the personal information of those not involved, to just bulk dumps.

This is often repeated anti-WL propaganda that isn't true. There is a vast amount of effort that goes into censoring leaks and it's by far the most time consuming part of the process. They spend literally months on it. Just because they chose not to censor something that you would have preferred for them to censor doesn't mean a tremendous amount of time and thought didn't go into that decision.

> The fact that the RNC had been hacked but emails not released helped in this perception...

This is also not true. Why would WL refuse to publish something if the source could go to literally thousands of other journalists? It wouldn't serve them at all to refuse.
I won’t see this animation myself, not unless I defy the idea it conveys
Everyone here posting about how it sucks that it turns out he lied about all the cool stuff he did, when the significance and impact of those lies pale in comparison to the societal impact a Steven Spielberg directed film based on those lies had.

It just makes it all the more impressive!
Curious about how the blogs and aggregators of the yesteryear referred to these proponents of this new technology, was it A/C-bros or D/C-bros?
Geez, that is just chilling, horrifying.
barely third :P
This deal makes no sense. They also wrote down some creditors to zero while equity holders got at least a few cents.

Edit: and now CBs come out with additional coordinated measure.
How do they apply to software engineers exactly? The founder “job” is literally “do anything that needs doing in the business”. Now the job of a CEO or CTO is much more narrowly defined and I can see that seeing automation sooner, but the founder role is kinda unique in that it’s just “do everything and if you’re successful you should be constantly replacing your job with an employee”.

Founders are the jobs trying their hardest to replace themselves (with hires and go can do the work better) and yet still always find more to do. That’s very unique
Although a step in the right direction, without restrictions on commercial fishing it feels like lip service.
I think depositors who are happy with low interest should be able to use accounts directly from the treasury to work with US bonds.. I don't want to bail out companies that try to eek out small profits in the middle and help them drive the average consumers interest to well bellow the bond rates.
Everyone check your pockets.
On the contrary, I think you are overestimating it; and I don't blame you for doing so.

The overwhelming majority of narratives surrounding LLMs have shared the same character flaw: personification.

Almost no one writes explicitly about what an LLM itself does. An LLM models patterns from text. That's it. Not a single thing more.

Personification is a great tool for explaining what you already know. The mistake is to draw conclusions about what you don't know from the personified character instead of the thing itself. Yet, that is exactly what is being done for LLMs.

The first mistake is in the name: "Language Learning Model". That's the intended purpose, yes, but it's a misleading description for what the tool actually does. I propose we instead call them, "Text Learning Models".

An LLM models all of the patterns in can find in the text it is given. It doesn't categorize those patterns, or have any notion of their importance to humans.

An LLM doesn't do a single explicit thing. Everything an LLM does is implicit. An LLM models the patterns in the text, and exhibits them. The patterns in the text do all the exciting stuff.

Everything interesting about LLMs is human generated. Without human authored text, the model is worthless. Without human authored prompts, the model is a black box. Every interesting thing an LLM does, one or more humans told it to do.
Labor isn't really going to become scarce this century. Nigeria, etc.
Expats expect to come home at some point in their lives. Emigrants (the word I think you were looking for) leave for good.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97835/difference...
Supervisor allows you to have event listeners (e.g. for processes quitting/crashing), so you can use those to achieve that and kill supervisor itself. Here's an example of people doing just that: https://gist.github.com/tomazzaman/63265dfab3a9a61781993212f...
Also take a look at the referencing the Sinai peninsula project: https://www.greenthesinai.com/home

That draws on the China example and there's some really inspiring content on the site.
This view seems inconsistent. Artificial manipulation is not sustainable in the long term. The ability to continually create conditions that lead to cheap labor is limited and will eventually fail.
I don't think that is a fair take.

When you lend you expect to be paid back unless there is bankruptcy, and then you expect get a place in line for the assets.

The situation where someone else gets to buy the assets out, leaving behind the debt seems unorthodox.
Google Reader was an RSS reader. There are many other RSS readers. I don't get the big fuss about it. I never used it.
He wrote an apology of sorts in 2002 admitting that the book and movie are not accurate: https://www.abagnale.com/Frank-W-Abagnale-Jr-Film-And-Book-C... This hasn't stopped him from cashing in on his reputation, however.
It's so interesting to read this perspective since it drives home "the grass is always greener.." for me.
I've lived a pretty charmed life in the US for the past few years (like the majority of HN, I imagine) but I find myself longing to move to a country with dense cities, affordable housing in the city center, great public infrastructure and a modicum of agreement among the citizens and China fits the bill pretty great for me. I understand that it might come at the cost of some personal freedom but I'm willing to pay that price for a great society in return. But reading this makes me think this is part of "the human condition" - the more time we spend in a bubble in a place, the more we either become blind to it's shortcomings or become overly rosy about a foreign place that would solve all our problems.

As a sidenote, the author says he does not like his kids playing "war" in Chinese playgrounds - I wonder how he will feel about the active shooter drills that are now part of every kids life in the US.

Note: I'm not Chinese.
Now let’s ask both of those kids to multiply 226*148, and see who comes out on top.
Book Fairs and Festivals for Authors
It’s quite a claim to make that software engineering isn’t lucrative. Sure, if you play in local markets it’s not. But then again, no local market job really is. So as far as day-to-day work goes, software engineering at the local level is fine. At the global level, if you think you can compete in the top tech companies, you’re going to probably find a very well-rewarded career. It’s generally very hard to find something that’s paying you the salary of a US doctor or lawyer with just an undergraduate degree. Fears about AI feel overblown.
> it's pretty much an inescapable conclusion that at least some of the evil we see is their work.

It's not inescapable, but it's certainly the first conclusion to jump to. :)

But even then, it's been in a kind of god-of-the-gaps scramble for some time. Even for the families who go around talking about how "blessed" everyone is, there's usually a mom or somebody in there who read and understood one of a thousand child-rearing psychology books. "We're so blessed to have had great pre-K instructors in this community which we researched while looking for communities with decent schools" is a far cry from attributing most of the human condition to spiritual hijinks.
So don't help them?
> They've never really claimed to be neutral but especially around 2016 they were either getting played by or explicitly choosing to aid the trump campaign via the Russian state (at best as a messenger).

Assange has a 100% truthful track record in matters of Wikileaks and was extremely explicit that the source of the Hillary leaks was not Russian in origin. This is more propaganda that people keep spreading and is exhausting. It's also exhausting that the narrative continues to be about Assange instead of Hillary for actually doing illegal and fucked up things.
Thompson's talk is very interesting, but it's also interesting that Thompson has decided to use a UNIX clone for his daily compute over macOS. The original submission included the timestamp to concisely link to the comment. It might be that autocanonicalizing YouTube submissions to remove the timestamp is the actual issue, perhaps that could be reconsidered.
I mean this is just a classic WaPo hit piece. The main thing that debunks it though, IMO, is the fact that there haven't really been any other successful self driving programs elsewhere. It isn't really that salient to attack Musk for his company's failings at FSD when literally no other company on Earth has succeeded at delivering FSD.
Buying CS last week was quite literally buying a lottery ticket… UBS though, yeah.
At least permabans are going to be more fun
Here's the truly weird part. I've been using Edge on MacOS for over a year. With each major update it shows me the same basic onboarding like I'm a new user who has just installed it.
Yeah, it's still popular, especially for smaller projects.

Why are you asking though?

It's just Tailwind is very popular these days. I don't like it personally and it's not directly comparable to bootstrap, but depending on your needs you might want to give that a go if you're looking to learn something new. If not, stick with bootstrap. Nothing wrong with it at all.
Parallel is a fun tool. I use it as a sort of simple slurm to distribute work over many VMs to process tens to hundreds of TBs of data. Sometimes across 2400+ cores.
The most efficient device to connect your brain to a computer is surprisingly affordable and pretty commonplace: the keyboard.
The Nobel prize was about experiments showing that QM entanglement is different from 'normal' entanglement, so I 'm not surprised.
At least we could have our effective policy match the stated policy? That would reduce volatility and uncertainty. If the SVB depositors knew what was going to happen ahead of time would there even have been a run at all?
I’d want to see research. Hollowing out cultures is rarely the solution to a complex problem.

Trivially, such a rule would be worked around by trading staff back and forth between adjacent firms. Then you’d have minimum-stay and arms-length regulations, at which point we might just see the contracting trend hit Wall Street.
Pretty sure the US populations is pushing Meta aside for < anything else >.
Open rate and read through was probably close to 100% on this one.
> They released in batches, for maximum effect, right up until the election. They knew exactly what they were doing.

There is absolutely no way to know the intent here, and there are plenty of rational reasons to release things in batches.
I downvoted your comments because your comments trigger emotions, whereas good comments trigger curiosity. It sounds like you call everyone that liked that movie an idiot with no taste (I haven't seen the movie by the way). Now you even edited your second comment to say "Cowardly downvoters", which is a reason to flag it.
I don't know about other borrowers but my 2.5% 2020 mortgage was sold to (government owned) Fannie Mae (or Freddie Mac, I forget which) more or less immediately.
Apparently a big part of the solution is introducing a bit of organic matter into the desert soil which is one of the factors to kick start the process. I don't know much about it, but that's my understanding.
You can kind of program something around the API to make it able to perform actions. That's the way I'm guessing Microsoft did it with Bing. Here is an example:

System prompt:

- You are a text-based AI delegates to other AIs.
- You only respond in JSON with two keys `delegate_to` and `parameters`.
- `delegate_to` defines what other AI you should delegate to.
- `parameters` are parameters to send to that AI.
- Here is the list of possible delegates
- delegate_to: email_ai, parameters: $to $subject $body, used for sending emails
- delegate_to: calendar_ai, parameters: $time, $date, $title, used for creating events in a calendar
- delegate_to: search_ai, parameters: $search-term
- Be creative and helpful.
- Your goal is to take user input and successfully delegate the task you receive from the user to the correct AI.
- Your initial message to the user should welcome them and ask them what you can do for them.

Example conversation:

> {"message": "Welcome! I'm your AI assistant. What can I do for you today?"}

> User: Send email to john@example.com asking if he wants to have dinner tonight

{
"delegate_to": "email_ai",
"parameters": {
"to": "john@example.com",
"subject": "Dinner Invitation",
"body": "Hi John, would you like to have dinner together tonight? Let me know your thoughts. Best regards."
}
}

Then you'd make your program read the JSON messages it generates and perform the correct action.
No I hadn't considered that. I wouldn't be against my "zf algorithm" being ported to other tools though. But when I first had the idea for zf I had just learned Zig and it seemed like the perfect way to practice with my new language.
I think I've seen that too; why are they made this way? Durability? Supporting more people's weight at once?
This is one of my favorite distance metrics* to show people!

For example, perhaps one person likes Reddit and HN, while someone else likes HN and SO.

Then their Jaccard Index would be 1/3, since they have one thing in common out of three.

* Technically it computes "similarity" (larger number == more similar), but `1 - Jaccard Index` is a distance (smaller number == more similar).
> There was plenty of evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign, Wikileaks and the Russians.

There is zero reputable evidence of this
I’m not sure it’s globalization. There will always be rich countries and poorer countries. Like there will always be poor people and rich people. The gap may and should shrink between the two but not vanish.
That's a horrific thought, wow.
You are referring to "lead him down a blind alley and knife him".

ChatGPT has answered some specific code questions with code that is not only wrong, but horribly wrong. Things like presenting anti-patterns as the answer, halucinating APIs that don't exist and suggesting code using them, or code that is subtly wrong. These sorts of things go well beyond leading you down a dark alley, hence my addition.
I think something that a lot of people might be overlooking is just how much this might devalue software as individual products. How many technologies do we have now that might become irrelevant once LLMs become more mainstream? How can any company keep a moat around their product if anyone can simply generate that same function (or similar) with a few prompts? The only reason any software is particularly valuable is because of the difficulty that comes with making it.

An example that come to mind is Jira, why have verbose task management software when bespoke task management systems become even more viable for individual companies? Or better yet, given the need for individual cogs decreasing, why have that at all?

This also extends to the creation of any sort of new business, perhaps there are patents on specific products and brands (which might be the saving grace of many large orgs) but outside of niche applications and hardware access I can't see how someone can reasonably gain a leg up in such an environment.

edit: This is more speculative, but what if software actually becomes more of a process of molding a large language model to consistently behave in a certain way? Why have some code that manages your back-end functionality when for a large some of applications all that is really occurring is text manipulation with some standardized rules. If those rules can be quantified, and consistency can be expected, the only "coding" that needs to be done is prompting the model.
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>I tend to check the age difference between the earliest and latest commits because that lets me be sure it's not a project that someone spent a couple weeks coding up

I doubt anyone would do this, but commit date can be arbitrarily changed.
It's questionable how much splitting money across banks decorrelates risk. SVB's mistake was buying slightly too many treasuries at slightly too long a duration. Pretty much every bank is in this same boat if interest rates continue going up.

All the banks own debt (treasuries, mortgages, bonds, etc) at pitifully low interest rates.
I hate the game, and there are plenty of players who are successful without insulting the intelligence of viewers by thinking that adding some forced prompt into the video and nonchalantly remarking 'let me know in the comments' is going to fly past us as we all pause the video to give our opinion on whether you should use a drill to expand a pilot hole or not.
> Russian-state-hacked DNC emails, right?

They weren't Russian state hacked, this is propaganda.
A machine can already run better, fly better, play chess better than me... how does that affect me? Zero.
Show HN: GPT-4 Powered Airbnb Analyzer
I got tired of spending hours reading through every review across several different Airbnbs when deciding where to stay with friends, especially now with hidden chores & other "gotchas" you can only find by seeing what people wrote about the place in text.

I built this tool powered by GPT4 to grab reviews from each property listing you put in, then use GPT4 API to find the "pros" and "Cons" of each place.

You can also ask any question you want to about the places you've analyzed, including "Is street parking easily available?" and "do you have to do any chores before checking out?"

Hope it's helpful & let me know how to make it more useful!
yes, indirectly.. likely named after Yakshas themselves - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha
Honestly people just have different values. And that’s totally okay. There’s lot of places to work and live and we don’t all have to homogeneous aspire to a single model or culture or behavior.

I like this kind of direct messaging and dislike the weak corporate messaging of today’s landscape. “Moving on to a bright future..” and then 2 paragraphs of meaningless fluff before finally finding out that there’s a product line being shut down or there was a security breach.
Perhaps disavowing all his previous lies is his last big con?

Kidding aside, I think investigative journalists have been the ones to sound the alarm on the con.
He’s listed as inventor on hundreds of patents. I think that qualifies.
The post I was responding to said "Memorization is the same as knowing". I specifically chose a counterexample to suggest that knowledge is deeper than memorizing some facts about the world.

In fact, I would argue that most of the forms of knowledge that are truly valuable are exactly the kinds that aren't amenable to memorization. Think about any skill that's in high demand and takes decades to master. You're not going to get there by studying Anki cards.
It’s well known that Zuck is a first class douche.
I don't like how the writer absolves the individual of any responsibility in perpetuating 'Moloch'. It's not the case that we live in

> a dictatorless dystopia, one that every single citizen including the leadership hates but which nevertheless endures unconquered

- there are people who want the status quo to continue and unilaterally benefit from it.

IMO a better discussion of this sort of thing lies in the Anti-Oedipus. Its answer to "What does it?" is fascism. And not in a strict political sense, but in a more abstract psychological sort of sense.

Take for example an elderly person going to their grocery store, who sees one of the workers with their shirt unbuttoned. The elderly person promptly goes to the manager, who apologizes profusely and fires the worker on the spot. This is a sort of fascism that we are all capable of doing, and some make a living out of doing it. It's morality on a post-industrial scale. It's our tendency to think about "the way things are supposed to be", enforced by iron-clad rules.

Everyone should have a family.
Everyone should have a job.
Everyone should wear a uniform.

The penalties for not doing these things result in much of the strife Scott references (no uniform => no job, no job => homeless).
And it's not because we live in a system TM, but because some people actively perpetuate their own beliefs about how the world should work and dole out punishment accordingly. We all have a little fascist in us that tells us what should happen. Some people end up nurturing it more than others, and no one in a position of great power isn't listening to it. Moloch will be defeated when that stops being the case IMO

EDIT

This is from Foucault's intro to the Anti-Oedipus:

"Last but not least, the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism (whereas Anti-Oedipus' opposition to the others is more of a tactical engagement). And not only historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini—which was able to mobilize and use the desire of the masses so effectively—but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
China's Belt and Road Initiative suggests that they view the under-developed Middle East and African nations to be the next in line, the same as the US viewed China as a source of cheap labour.

The party has been making deep investments into the regions and is developing significant political and social capital at the same time that the West is retreating from them, cutting foreign aid, etc.
Perhaps this is true in the US, but I don't think it is true in the Lloyds market. Which is ultimately where large chunks of the US risk ends up. The US state level control of insurance does create substantial opportunities for regulatory capture by licensure.
> Why would the Russian state want to help Trump?

Especially because Trump was objectively pretty anti-Russia, and did a lot of things that pissed off Russia. But there is too much hysteria around "OMG RUSSIA AND TRUMP" and general FUD propaganda for anyone to see the forest for the trees of "orange man bad"
>"Is Aurora better?"

This was back on Aurora 1 (based on MySQL 5.6), and setting it up as "slave" was identical to how one would go about it for regular MariaDB/MySQL.
> Something random that its training set made it think

That's the mistake right there. It didn't think. The text did.

Specifically, humans encoded thought into language, and encoded language into text. GPT modeled the patterns from that text, and used those patterns to restructure it.

Because language is the most dominant pattern, blindly following an inference model is very likely to result in correct language transformations. Because people don't write nonsense, the result of a correct language transformation is very likely to make sense.
It is unclear which country you're talking about. Saudi Arabia?
No, you get paid interest because money now has less value than money in the future. Hence why you pay interest to a bank on a loan or mortgage, but if you fail to repay they don't just write it off saying "oh at least we got some interest!"
A good title might be "Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox"
Change this https://github.com/enricoros/nextjs-chatgpt-app/blob/466a366... to say "gpt-3.5-tubo" and it should work for you
This was not my intention or what I hoped to convey.

I don't hold a bias (I couldn't if I wanted to - I have a son with Down Syndrome) I just wanted to point out a reason for the change - which you more eloquently wrote - since I miss the more technical discourse.
Just wait until the RE bubble collapse and we’ll see. There’s a ton of mortgage fraud not to mention the risk of defaults. Everyone is so strained.