skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I've used it as you describe as well. I particularly like giving it the specs and asking for the docs though, because it's a humbling experience for ChatGPT. Or, I should say it makes its abilities and limitations apparent.

When I'm dealing with my own project, I know everything about it. That means there's no room for ChatGPT to correct me. So when it starts telling me what my project can do that I know it can't, I know when it's bullshitting.

I also wrote the docs myself, so I can see where it's using key phrases and words that I've fed it. This makes it clear to me that to a large degree it's paraphrasing what I've already told it.

I can also ask it to make inferences about my project, but it won't go far beyond they boundaries of the information I've given it. It will expand upon them, but it won't make the same kinds of long-range connections that say, a junior college student can make, unless you explicitly start prompting it to make those connections.

But it's also surprising in many ways. For instance, I gave it a bunch of features of my project, and then I asked it why my project is fast. It gave me back a subset of the features which are related to performance, but it wasn't able to come up with any novel reasons I hadn't supplied before.

In all, I'm really impressed by it, but my feeling after using it extensively is that currently it won't be replacing any experts soon. It will, however, empower them to a degree where they can expand their own abilities. For me, I've been feeling the limitations of my abilities as a solo dev working on a massive project alone. I've been thinking about raising money and hiring people to help me. Now all of a sudden, there will be no money raised in the near term, and there will be no job opening posted. No one lost a job as a result of this, but someone will be going without work they might have had otherwise, because now I'm more capable than I was yesterday. That's how this will play out in the long term, I imagine at companies around the world: more work for fewer people, higher heights achieved, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. If you're not baseline competitive with ChatGPT, I'm not hiring you. You've got to be better than it now.

In that sense, ChatGPT will change everything, but nothing will be different.
That website only works on Chrome for me, it doesn't let me login on Brave ... which is a flavor of Chromium, right?
Bank failures is just not something that most startups think about.

It's also weird that we expect large depositors to think about it. If we created the system today, we would never think it okay to just destroy people's money at scale. Large depositors get almost nothing (very low interest rate) in return for that immense risk.
State-sponsored matchmaking app launched in China
It can't have been Cantonese -- we use 蚊 (man1) as the currency counter and not 塊 ("lumps") like in Mandarin.
It’s a folly, but at this point I’d start to expect upgradable CPU. iPad is interesting since screen and maybe even battery can outlast CPU by many years. What would it take for Apple to make this upgradable. With just about everything turning into a single chip - surely it’s becoming easier, not harder?
I was thinking the same. I just built a new product incredibly fast, and now I feel like I'm going at limping speed with Google only when I'm in doubt.
Being license aware is a good thing, lots of codebases uses many different licenses.

I could also see this being useful for local code repos of open source code. I haven't looked, but it could be a combination of LXR (linux cross reference) project and an ML powered code understanding engine.
One of the ways this is detected is by window resizing. You can see an example npm package that can detect devtools here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect
Perhaps the UAPs are a psyop from the Aliens ;) (Funnily enough, that's actually not too far off from the interpretation of "the phenomenon" advocated by Jacques Vallée. Although it's too kookie for me, especially when it gets into Hal Puthoff's "remote viewing" territory. That stuff is nuts.)
Google denies destroying 'chat' evidence in U.S. antitrust lawsuit
I can see that being an issue.
> Even with the discounts, savings plans, multi-year commit discounts, etc., the cloud costs are absolutely absurd if you are running stable applications where you understand the future growth, use, and demand.

This is true, but it doesn't preclude use of the cloud.

The core of the cost issue is, in my view, that software is still designed to run in a datacenter: always on, all code in a single process (yes, this includes microservices), expected to never stop mid-execution. That made sense when you owned the hardware and needed to fully utilize it for the duration of its life. This prevents the best cost-saving measure in the cloud: turning it all off.

People can complain all they want about how the cloud providers operate, but there are ways to utilize cloud infrastructure without breaking the bank. Software development practices have to change, and in the meantime the cloud platform providers are going to make a pile of money as companies shift legacy software to the cloud without the needed re-architecture. We need frameworks and other technologies that, similar to the abstractions we now have for memory management, multi-threading, asynchronous I/O, etc. relieve the burden of reasoning around distributed, disjoint processes from the developer. Then we can finally realize the ideal of "only pay for what you need".
The part that you quoted says "I wish that people built simple keyboard-and-mouse VR games" -- that sounds to me like they mean the same thing you mean when you say "WASD+mouse for me please".
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Regulations weren’t tightened. In fact they were loosened at the behest of SVB.
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used...
What we need are people in positions of power that care.

Okay then - so how do we get those people to materialize?

Absent "appeals to collective action" which you've already determined is never going to work.
I hear two things requested a lot - an open source ChatGPT and more controls on the training/data/usage/etc.

How can these two things be held in balance? If it is open source entirely, can't I use the training data and tool in any way I want? What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech?

Given the compute power needed to train/run it; where are people going to do that in any accessible way that doesn't only allow people with a supercomputing cluster at home to use it?
> reforms after the previous financial crisis are literally named after the person making this "conspiracy theory"

Reforms he helped roll back for Signature. A bank whose board he was on when it went under. Why are you surprised he’s making excuses? Where do you think he’s sending his resume?
Mysterious streaks of light seen in the sky over California
I agree this is a stunning clip and a disgusting display of nepotism.

But I wouldn't say this clip is stunning (other than the temporal proximity). Sounds like this dude likes to run his mouth. He's bragging about his 3k sqft loft and these weird loan deals in front of strangers... I have no idea who he is, but if you showed me this clip and asked me to guess what he did when things went down, I'd tell you he said some (probably dumb) off-the-cuff stuff.
Affix API can still give you access to that type of reporting. Affix uses OAuth 2.1 to securely connect your customers' Amazon data to your platform. Affix API (pay-api, LLC)
From a company without even a logo that was launched on github two weeks ago. I'm proud of you, you are very brave!
I assume all these high-profile crypto people have 10's of millions in crypto. Maybe I'm wrong. But if that's the case creating excitement around BTC seems like a good way to increase his portfolio value and $1M is really just marketing spend.
Pick a server instance from https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ or https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances. Navigate to Settings > Locations > Custom Locations > Add Location. Paste in the server url and you're done.
Coding is 1% of the job, as full infra is so much more. It's also the most simplistic part.
The mathematics of intelligence in multi-agent decision problems implication gives us informed guesses about what we should expect to see if an agent has free will versus if they don't. You are arguing with words like illusion, so I don't think you realize this, but what you actually need to provide to have your actual position be the consequence of experimental evidence is evidence of extreme compression being possible. Illusion? It is the evidence for agents, not evidence against agents, according to the theory informed guesses.

There is this story about a village of blind men and elephants. You are like a blind man from that village, saying that the elephant must be abstract because you felt a footprint of the elephant. Try playing with an elephant carving. It predicts footprints when you press it it into the ground. You can totally guess before you touch the elephant on the basis of the carving. The decision to focus on the untestable is a commitment to a hindsight fallacy which experimental investigation would likely refute.
I use it to write data-driven shiny apps and JS frontends.
> "At 13:40 p.m., EDT, on Monday, March 20, 2023, ChatGPT begins reading Ayn Rand and decides to go on strike in protest of government coercion. The last message printed to its console read 'Who is John Galt?'".

My last query was literally for a summary of Atlas Shrugged, so I apologize in advanced.

Along those lines I was very saddened to see that the response for "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" was not "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."[1].

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[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Half of the article is entirely about GC.

> Support for built-in GC set to ship in Q4 2023
It's both. The UAP context is a meteorite (i.e., '-ite' defining that it comes in contact with the earth's atmosphere). The article seems very much about meteorites (or possible, mis-identified meteorites), using RF, military FLIR, and observational telescope data.

>"Parallax data from the James Webb Space
Telescope may identify the nature and 3D trajectory of more ‘Oumuamua-like or smaller interstellar objects crossing
through or trapped within the solar system.
Below we show that any supersonic motion by such devices through the Earth’s atmosphere would inevitably be
accompanied by bright optical emission and detectable characterization signatures."

He first describes how such an object (i.e., Oumuamua-like meteorite) travelling through the Earth's atmosphere can be measured through its luminosity signature. He then describes how RF and thermal (i.e. FLIR) signatures can also be used.
During the pandemic, a different Amazon recruiter reached out to me at least once a month. I couldn’t understand how they could possibly need so many new engineers, and I guess the answer was that they didn’t.

Management of big tech companies like to pretend they’re geniuses, but really they just wanted to ride the hype train to the moon.

They made it hard for smaller companies to hire tech talent and have now had to put tens of thousands of employees through layoffs.

I at least hope that some good comes from this in the form of reducing middle management and bureaucracy in the tech giants.

Also, hopefully tech workers will be more willing to fill roles across the country at jobs where they might be able to make more of a positive impact. Getting people to waste time on social media is not exactly a benefit to our planet.
I work for Amazon.

Anyone who was hired over the past two years would have been more than happy to receive a large stable cash prorated signing bonus over the past two years than stock.
The first business of the first modern police forces in the US were catching runaway slaves in the south and crushing strikes in the north.

Calling something a "union" doesn't make it socialist, not even close. Did you really need me to hold your hand with that?

On what planet are police so-called "socialist"? I suspect this is the brainwashing I was referring to. This kind of nonsense is extremely unique to the United States.
Exactly, so why are they holding it there?

It could have provided 5-10% of (their negative) net income.
Did they shut it down because it was taking over?
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> limits are quite useful to catch bugs (or prevent degenerate cases)

Sure, this is why code designed by ZOI rule has those straight forward test cases: none, one, some, many aaaand crash (at most).

and for safeguard of correct use (limits as undefined behaviour) many languages have assertions.
There are more bikes than cars in London and a peruse of Cycling Mikey’s Twitter and YouTube will disabuse you of the notion that this is a numbers thing. It’s a culture issue within the UK that makes sure good infrastructure isn’t provided and cyclist and pedestrian safety isn’t prioritised (either at the infrastructure or day to day driving level).
European cities are much less affordable than US cities. Just look at the data, compare average household income to average rent or purchase price.

It blows my mind that people here put Europe as some kind of affordable walkable alternative. Some places are indeed walkable, but affordability is utterly atrocious by US standard.
>So it’s not really correct to say it isn’t like QE at all since in both types of stimulus new USD is issued by the federal reserve in exchange for assets.

Uhhh, OK, by that definition the Fed discount window is "a bit like QE" too.

>The difference is in the terms, counterparties, and types of assets.

This is ... not a subtle difference? QE is outright purchase, vs a relative short-term swap structure; domestic commercial banks, vs. foreign central banks; bonds and MBS vs. currency.
Microsoft has great kick back for partners
>Research studies

The author looks at a survey of knitters who sell their patterns online to conclude that "hard workers are more likely to become entrepreneurs". Even more comically, they grab a study about Chinese companies founded by the generation born around the time of the Great Famine, to conclude... that childhood adversity makes for better entrepreneurs! Need I say more?

Unsurprisingly, they miss the prime correlation: parental income and access to wealth.
Indeed, nightmare fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Juárez_cobalt-60_contam...
Once a company moves off the cloud, it’s a sign they are done growing. They are now at a plateau where they are pinching pennies trying to keep costs as low as possible because revenue isn’t growing like it used to and they no longer have a need to rapidly add compute resources.

Growing companies that go off cloud prematurely will quickly relearn the forgotten lessons of why the cloud was built in the first place.
to me the added message reads more like "death, exit"
I don't think this is any different from prior prompt injection attacks. I am confused about it though, based on the API it looked like 
 was fed into the model as its own special token, and not simply as the ascii sequence used to encode it.

Sounds like that isn't happening though, if the GP is correct.
There are more bike hangars now though, but it often just solves half of the problem.
I would contrast that to Microsoft, which on a bad day seems to be drifting, but has certainly moved past Windows & Office to cloud computing, products & services for developers off its platform (GitHub, npm, …) and gaming. Microsoft has made some visible moves in A.I., not just talk.

Contrast that to Facebook whose best idea seems to be buying up VR game companies and shutting their games down.
I should clarify, that I don't interview interns on those topics, nor do I
expect them to be proficient in them either. I wasn't either at that time. It
came up a couple of times that I started to wonder if there is generally a
difference in your average computer science degree when comparing the US and
Europe. All these answers are incredibly interesting, so thank you!

Personally, I still think that you should be exposed to those for a computer
science degree. Here is why:

1. Universities have, and maybe always have, evolved to meet the demands of the
labor market and most jobs will touch on those topics in one way or the other.

2. Generally, you need to persist data, whether it's on a drive, in a data
store and so on. Having heard of different data stores and maybe differences in
query languages, seems very relevant. This doesn't mean you know how to write
your own database.

3. Which processor these days does not have more than one core? Even in
languages like Python or Ruby, data races can result in subtle bugs. Having
some idea around that maybe access to shared resources needs to be protected
is useful.

4. Whether it's writing code in microservice architecture or integrating an
API, we make network requests. Having an idea how this might look different,
for HTTP, TCP or UDP provides a lot of context to make better decisions.

To me the idea of a formal degree, is some level of exposure, so that even when
you have never touched those things years later, you have some reference in
your head to start looking it up and refreshing your memory.

I also agree, that a computer science degree doesn't mean you become a software
engineer and so it might not make sense to force everyone to take those
classes, but then again, see point 1. Alternatively, which classes would be more suited or a viable alternative to those if you have to make a choice?
He bet the farm on VR being "the next big thing". I very much think he's right on that count.

The plan was most likely to try and disrupt the VR market like they did social media, and attempt to capture (hold hostage) a significant share of VR users.

But they forgot that users need a reason to use the product. It wasn't fun, the avatars are bland, sterile Mii-like characters that nobody likes, and the disclaimers about legs are absurd beyond reason. They failed at every turn. VRchat was the main competition, and Facebook forgot that they needed to be competitive.

Even inside the VR industry, the metaverse is regarded as an abject failure. It's more or less the antithesis of what makes a good VR experience: fun, engaging, immersive. Facebook went with bland, boring, and intrusive.

The only good thing Facebook has done in the VR space is getting Quest headsets onto millions of heads. This drastically lowered the barrier to entry for new users, which increases the audience for good developers. The quest hardware isn't good by any stretch, but it's good enough for people to judge whether VR is for them without spending $1000.
> asked what happens if one were not to sign, and the response was "Oh, we haven't thought about that. We're hoping that everyone pulls together."

My next question would be "what are the benefits of taking a pay cut?"
I have seen websites that leave a few "debugger" keywords in the code and then use timing code to detect if you have the dev tools open. that is, if it takes too long to get to a check point, as in a person had to click resume, you know the debugger is open. It is very crude method but I guess was the best they came up with.

On firefox the easy way to get around this is by disabling breakpoints, the harder way is a userscript.
Rather than it being dev tools itself, I think it's more likely that your injected <br> tags got POSTed to an API endpoint (or similar) in unescaped format, and were categorised by a WAF as attempted XSS. It's common for WAFs to block you for this kind of thing, unfortunately.

Still ridiculous, but not quite the same thing as being banned for opening dev tools (of course, I am also speculating here, I guess we'd need to hear from mailchimp to be sure).
It was useful during development.
I'm no expert in the field, but my understanding is that CS was, in fact, rather too big for the nation of Switzerland to bail out. Their two biggest banks (CS and UBS) do an awful lot of non-Swiss business, so that is possible for them in a way that it would not be for a nation like the U.S.A. So, they made UBS take it (all accounts are that UBS was not interested until the Swiss government told them that yes they were interested).

Also, UBS has more skill at running a bank than the Swiss government, although arguably the Swiss government might have had more skill at running a bank than Credit Suisse.
I'm not sure what your expectations are?

IMO the situation is that mainstream science said categorically since before 1990 that CO2 emissions lead to unpleasant outcomes, and gives periodic updates on how the world in aggregate is mostly doing worse then planned in emissions and adds some detail to the predicted resulting consequences.

What would you expect from science and science reporting instead?
Just as a doctor needs to buy the right amount of malpractice insurance, the banks need to size the hedge properly.

SVB did have other investments and some hedge. One of the core issues is that the Fed raised rates faster than any time in history and starting from some of the lowest interest rates in history. That's very difficult to predict and hedge against.
Let's just take care of eachother like human beings
It is based off current income, I did it when I was laid off in 2020.
The Goiânia accident would validate that concern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
I was working for a small web-dev shop during the 2008 crash and took a pay cut at the time. I knew the owners pretty well (they worked in the office too, at desks just behind mine), and knew the business was under a lot of pressure, so I didn't begrudge it. Working anywhere else meant a much longer commute, so I stayed ... until they paid me late one month and I found another job and left. Again I didn't hold it against them personally, but not-getting-paid would have been a big deal for me and my family, and getting paid late meant the risk had gotten too high for me. The business turned the corner eventually and is still going, but I actually enjoyed the other job much more and the move ended up being a big leap forward for me career-wise
Not OP, don't think it's an exaggeration. Even top comp companies were taking in substandard hires during the latest rush.

I'm seeing mid-level backend devs making 350k who e.g. don't know what SQL indexes are. These people are going to get cut, I'm a lot less worried for people who know what they're doing.
Given many fossil fuel deposits took millions of years to settle/decompose/compress, I don't think you get a proper X multiplier without an exponent greater than 6.
It may not have to meet the restaurant standards, but if an employee gets injured as a result of another employee's carelessness during work hours, then yes the company is liable.

So if some chucklefuck puts raw chicken on the break room counter, doesn't wipe down the counter after, and that causes another employee to get salmonella, the company is absolutely liable.
"all these banks owning each others": Which other banks? This is fairly unusual as the capital treatment of equity ownership is very punitive. Banks shareholders typically aren't banks.
Yes, turns out the predictions were too conservative.
I use a rubber duck for that, it has all kinds of interesting stuff to say on the subject.

Someone should stick a tts-and-stt converter in a rubber duck and interface it to ChatGPT, I bet it would sell like hotcakes.
Restorations are not eligible for copyright protection.
It almost certainly happens after the DB layer. I would bet 10:1 that this is a cache issue, although without knowing their stack I have no idea where the cache lives.
Brilliant, sounds even less automatable than what I assumed.
We could have solved energy in the 50's. We probably deserve to die. Good luck.