skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how much of a point there is in treating this inflation as region-specific when the economy is clearly globalized to the point where anything affects everything and most countries are also seeing it.

The UK made its own relief checks, as did all EU countries afaik, but to a much smaller degree than the US. Some only to students or as free meal/vacation vouchers.
I think they are analogous. One advantage in the programming language model though is you can pick your level of abstraction, from wysiwyg wizard time UI dialogs, to declarative languages, to languages like python, to C, to assembly, to FPGA/ASIC work. The microcode on mainstream chips is closed to us, so not much we can do at that level of abstraction. Similarly the APIs these tools use go from web services to libraries to local system services to libraries to direct syscalls to directly interacting with hardware.

The number of people working with each layer directly probably drops monotonically as we get closer and closer to the hardware.

ChatGPT type interfaces just seem like one big opaque blob. How do we peel the onion? Does anyone even know what those layers are or understand them?
> The only reason approval exists at all is so users aren't tricked into running low quality or spammy plugins.

Really? Allowing the suppliers of plugins to verify that ChatGPT understands the descriptions and uses them as expected (especially for ones which perform actions beyond data retrieval) before releasing them into the wild as intermediaries between users and the systems exposed by them isn’t part of that?
Show HN: A daemon for writing Telegram bots in shell CGI style
I found there were a number of things that I wanted a personal telegram bot to do which would have been relatively difficult or annoying to implement in a full-blown programming language, but pretty easy to string together a shell script for. So I wrote this program that acts sort of like a classic CGI gateway for Telegram conversations, forwarding messages over stdin/stdout.
My problem with Bazel - at least based on my understanding when I evaluated it - is that you can't use the language-specific package managers for each module in your monorepo, so it's all or nothing. I'd prefer a tool that makes it much easier to defer build tasks to my package manager of choice in each project (eg Yarn for TS, Poetry for Python, etc.) and that lets me define rules at one level of abstraction above this.

In our monorepo, we ended up just using a Makefile, since it basically does that. Of course the Makefile is now a few hundred lines and we have about 60 *.compose.yml files, but that's another story.

Our current solution still uses the Makefile, but we basically split the monorepo into a Python part and a TypeScript part, and each of those has its own monorepo build system (Yarn workspaces for TS, and Poetry with Pants for Python).
I feel like I’m missing out on something but other than to summarize text or fill pointless and lazy homework assignments I don’t have much of a use of gpt search. I think I have a trust issue with it and I rather get the raw result and process it myself than to believe that what this model “understood” is right. Anyone else feels this way?
Staffing an actual 24x7 rotation of SREs costs about a million dollars a year in base salary as a floor and there are few SREs for hire. A metrics-based monitor probably would have triggered on the increased error rate but it wouldn’t have been immediately obvious that there was also a leaking cache. The most plausible way to detect the problem from the user perspective would be a synthetic test running some affected workflow, built to check that the data coming back matches specific, expected strings (not just well-formed). All possible but none of this sounds easy to me. Absolutely none of this is plausible when your startup business is at the top of the news cycle every single day for the past several months.
Hey, incidentally that very chemical is a major part of the recipe! My bad, English isn't my native language. I guess I meant additives?
China: The rise of TikTok sister app Douyin as a powerful consumer tool
The US has had extremely low interest rates for a very long time, and yet effective competition is further than ever in many industries. Something I'd observe is how unreasonably difficult it can be to legally sell things in the US. For instance hitting on this topic (of food prices), why can't I simply start baking bread and selling it? You can make an amazing loaf of bread for a tiny fraction of what people pay in a grocery store, but somehow actually being able to legal sell it is painful, at best.

By contrast I now live abroad in a developing country and it's quite amazing how ripe small business is. Want to sell bread? Okay, bake it and sell it. You can even get it stocked at "convenience marts" easily enough since a that's often just some guy's lower floor transformed in a shop. Talk to the owner, who's probably the guy at the counter, and make a deal. If people like your bread, you're now officially a baker - congrats.

Make it easier for people to sell stuff, and there will be more stuff. And the prices of stuff will trend downwards. While money is a way around these issues, a regular joe who happens to make a great loaf of bread probably isn't especially keen on taking on 5-6 figures of debt just to see if selling his bread actually works, let alone being something he really wants to dedicate himself to.
In video games, 2.5D has a different meaning already, it's referring to those not-really-3d ray casters from the 90s like doom and Duke nukem 3D.
You're quoting the outputs of a propaganda industry, not the outputs of credible independent research.

These are the orgs who persistently try to sell trickle-down economics, minimal taxation, low regulation, and other discredited, disastrous, and irrational neoliberal policy arguments.

Many are also enthusiastic climate change denialists.
Ask HN: Have you found any LLM powered accounts on social media yet?
Asking because I'm starting to feel like the predictions of LLM generated content flooding social media are about to come true.

I've spotted two obvious spam accounts on Reddit within the past day. Both had comments in many many different subreddits, within minutes or each other, all in a very GPT style of speech. I tried submitting a link to one as a post here but it got flagged, so I'm not sure if linking to it is against the rules.

What's also interesting is that the accounts were able to respond to images, so I'm guessing it's GPT-4 powered.
Damn. I wonder how many games I fully played through back in the day against a known "bad" dump.

EDIT: Now I'm even more confused as to why some of those "good sets" would even contain known bad dumps.
Many of the workers in these factory jobs decided it was a good point to retire, decided it was more worth it to stay home with their kids, found a calling in a different career, went back to school, etc. This all had had ripple effects throughout the supply chain, making for less goods available. Combine that with low unemployment, hence many folks competing for those goods, and it's easy to see why we are where we are.
"Real" wages are wages after being adjusted for inflation
Wasn’t there that theory about Vermeer (Dutch 17th century), that he was able to “crack the code” by using special lenses that allowed him to see how an image should look on paper?

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7872661
Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
Why do we need mobile app stores in the first place?

My laptop has never needed an app store. Microsoft and Apple are pushing to introduce them in Windows and MacOS, but adoption is slow because it's a worse experience than installing applications directly from the manufacturers.

The whole concept of an "app store" seems like an anti-feature.
ChatGPT doesn't have the browsing plugin enabled yet.
Bing can both search/browse the web and generate images interactively by using DALL-E API.

There are several drawbacks like a more strict system pre-prompt, 15 messages limit for conversations, and some kind of 24 hours ratelimiting if you use it too often.
https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly it’s now available on GitHub
Maybe because Google is actual trash and it went from being the best search engine to being an SEO-infested desert of a search, where your query is interpreted however they want not how you want.

Latest example from today - search for "micropython html parser" - 100% of results are about normal python not micropython, with the first 4 results being for generic paid programming courses. It's completely useless as a search engine now.
Couple of questions here on the virus side:

Is there a link to the sample on VirusTotal?

Looking at how I can prevent this from happening to myself, am I missing something?

Why didn't their email-service's anti-virus pick up on virus?
In the case that it was in a zip, why didn't said anti-virus extract the zip & scan?
In the case of a password-protected zip, why didn't the computer scan the file upon extraction?
In the case of a scan upon extraction, why was it missed? Outdated definitions or zero day?

Linus also spoke about invalidating sessions. This is something that requires careful planning. We can't do it due to our teams switching VPNs so often.

We do enable Impossible Travel in Okta by default for our clients.
>In practice this means you can fine tune a 30B parameter model on a consumer GPU in a couple of hours.

Consumer GPU, yes, but in practice LoRA doesn't actually reduce training time. What it mainly reduces is memory requirements. In fact LoRA training can often require more training steps than full fine-tuning and therefore be slower (you can imagine why this is the case: the optimization is trying to modify the mode's behavior a smaller number of parameters, and so has a harder job)
Where is Arm's moat? Is it on the software or the hardware ecosystem side?
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2106.09685/assets/x1.png

> incurs a non-trivial computation cost

The hit seems to be in energy/cpu not time since the W0 computation is in parallel with the BAx. (My assumption based on the latency claims in paper.) So an issue in edge deployments (battery life, etc.).

> you are stuck with that one model on that device

Upfront I have 0 clue on the actual numbers, but from a purely software architecture pov [in unmerged setup], having that W0 forward process once with n distinct BAx paths (for distinct fine tunings!) would address that, no?

[p.s. say an application that takes as input A/V+Txt, runs that through an Ensemble LoRA (ELoRA™ /g) which each participant contributing its own BAx finetuing processing, sharing the single pre-trained W0.]
It’s insane how this government is hell bent on pushing solutions that were all but outlawed. The mandate covers to the end of 2025, much further than the intended purpose.
I'm more than happy to go through that list, but I suspect I will be downvoted anyway for merely explaining my own beliefs (which is what you are asking for)

- Ukraine - a contrived proxy war and we are very generously and bravely assisting in the avoidable deaths of as many Ukrainians as possible. I'll go even further - neoliberal support in the US is comes from this notion that Trump and Putin are penpals, so if we punch Putin, its like punching Trump

- Middle East Wars - worst geopolitical decision since ww2, probably ruined the US forever

- Vietnam - a massive mistake...and I mean MISTAKE. this was not evil on the US part, but a legit misunderstanding. We mistook a civil war for a Red Wave

- Korea - neutral...but it was the last time we faced off against China militarily and although we massively outgunned them, they probably delivered the single worst military defeat in US history (Chosin Resevoir). By any rational assessment we should have demolished the Chinese, instead they demolished us.
TikTok/ByteDance is not publicly traded. Why is that?
OpenAI needs some experienced web devs badly. Between this and the user session screw up it boggles the mind how they are bumbling the simple things
I think that this is one of those things that sounds like you'd never do it, but...

I've put zigbee switches into every wall switch in my house and now when I stay in hotels, I forget to turn off the lights before getting into bed.

>something that nobody ever wants to do

I think that this gesture, if it works well, is something that will be a killer app for smarthomes. The other point of friction, which is interop, has been more or less solved by thread/matter. Homepods are $100, btw. Not to mention what happens if apple integrates u1 into a smart switch/bulb, which is something that the thread protocol allows for.
> So all these „profits“ are eaten up by the price increases those corporations see, too. I don’t think you have a valid understanding of what a „profit“ really is…

Uh, you should google what the word "profit" means. You're thinking of "revenue".
Those can be distributed as patches. This is typically how people distribute fan translations, for example.
If you use duckduckgo, you already use Bing results.

I rarely use google, and when I do it's from duckduckgo !g

I would immediately switch to bing by default if such bangs were supported as I sometimes need them for wikipedia !w or amazon !a

If there was a way they could be supported Edge address through a plugin or something, I would immediately switch to bing as that's what I already use 90% of the time (between duckduckgo frontend and requesting bing directly with !b )
> everything we've tasked it to do has resulted in rather terrible answers

Maybe this is the chatGPT equivalent of "learning to google search properly". You got bad answers, but maybe someone more competent at chatGPT prompts and workflow would have gotten to a better solution more quickly, and we need to figure out what that means
‘Zoom Towns’ Exploded in Work-from-Home Era. Now New Residents Facing Layoffs
Yes, I completely agree.

I put "cannot afford to try" and "too risky to try" in basically the same bucket, but it's important to note that there is an actual material difference.

The bootstrap mentality is where that difference lies, honestly.

People who can afford to take the risk can sometimes win big and get held up as prime examples of the American Dream survivorship bias in action.

We tend to overlook the ones that fail and are ruined forever. Or the fact that many only did it because risk wasn't very big due to their personal safety nets.

And we absolutely overlook the ones who can't even dream of attempting in the first place because they are too busy just trying to survive.
America's capitalist class has been doing that since the first newspaper was published.
Yup, and maybe we're just getting old. There are still people on HN complaining about Google removing the OR and AND modifiers, meanwhile the younger generations write queries like "where should I eat breakfast today"
https://archive.ph/KnXlM
Not since Google results became such garbage. Plus, the chats provide references. So easy to verify.
It also kills the value of used machines --- I've always regretted not getting a Wii U, and actually have two games for it which have not yet been ported to the Switch: (Twilight Princess HD and Xenoblade Chronicles X).

XCX has a datapack on the Wii U shop which when downloaded allows the game to play much faster, with much less time spent on loading screens --- there's no way I'm buying a Wii U now without the ability to download that.
>Montana state Constitution ... guarantees residents “the right to a clean and healthful environment,” and stipulates that the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment “for present and future generations.”

That seems like a very solid foundation for the case.
I'm running Edge on Arch, it works beautifully with wayland
It's not an educated hot take, but it's definitely out there.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/chatgpt-will-replace-progra...
Meanwhile the headline article is saying the exact opposite.

We're not talking about luxuries, we're talking about essentials. A nice iPhone is useless if you can't afford to feed your family or pay your energy bills - which is quite literally the situation many families in the UK are now finding themselves.
Fair point. Edited. I do think the examples are still relevant because I don't think many people are aware of how this relates to antisemitism and the Soviet purges. I could bring up for a modern example, like Trump somewhat dismantling of the EPA, but that's requires more nuance to demonstrate my point.
Deep respect to the CloudABI folks, a project which inspired the WASI ideas:

> CloudABI is no longer being maintained. It was an awesome experiment, but it never got enough traction to be sustainable. If you like the idea behind CloudABI, please consider looking into the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). WASI's design has been inspired by CloudABI.

https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc

edit: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/... is a good reference and also mentions the Capsicum framework (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/). Which is present in FreeBSD for several versions btw.
AI and high-performance semiconductors are the only technological fields where the US and allies haven't been surpassed by Russia and China.

There is probably a lot of political pressure on OpenAI to be as closed as possible. Remember the US government has banned Nvidia from exporting A100/H100 to China/Russia. Those are the same chips OpenAI uses for both training and inference.
> Arm wants to stop charging chip vendors to make Arm chips, and instead wants to charge device makers—especially smartphone manufacturers—a fee based on the overall price of the final product.

Device maker: I'd like to buy some ARMs please.

Arm: for what final product?

Device maker: none of your business.

Arm: we're making it our business. Tell or get lost.

Device maker: if you must know, we put them in our Mars rocket...
According to the report, Arm wants to stop charging chip vendors to make Arm chips, and instead wants to charge device makers—especially smartphone manufacturers—a fee based on the overall price of the final product.

Hmm, I wonder if this could put the brakes on the vomitously expensive phones that dominate the market these days.
We look at some of the amazing applications being built with LLMs (an app store, executive assistant, and a programming partner), and check out some papers on technological unemployment and AGI.
For those old enough to remember, it's exactly the reason why Google took Yahoo's place back when.
They simply should have charged for it.
Well, well, well. How the turntables...
I agree - my comment originally had a parenthetical about this fact, but I thought it was probably confusing to people who just wanted to understand what this was about. Perhaps I shouldn't have edited it out.

It also bothers me that a lot of LoRA claims read like "You won't believe how little it costs to train these models!", when of course 99%+ of the complexity and cost is in the LLaMA (or whatever) model that underpins it. Folks are talking about it in a loose way that implies some kind of miraculous overall training cost breakthrough.
Exactly this. And it’s not anecdotal either. In the UK, 75% of that new money goes to asset purchases[1], that’s likely a similar number in the US. Chronically low interest rates is a wealth redistribution program to the ones who get the biggest loans (guess who). The legend of the honest guy who needs a tractor or a fishing boat may as well be a mythical creature.

At least giving money directly to poor people is spent on things that can grow local economies. It is not perfect, but a lot more “stimulating” than giving money to institutions, corporations and rich people.

[1]: https://fortune.com/2023/03/20/is-federal-reserve-too-powerf...
Marshall McLuhan predicts ChatGPT in 1966
Have an upvote. Great book.
I'm fine with writing queries like "Where should I eat breakfast"

But I hate seeing the top half of the screen are ads for huge chains, and then the top results are blog posts about "Where are the top 10 places to eat in your city" and not a list of restaurant web pages.
Some supermarkets also have predatory practices to coerce people into using their data harvesting programs.

Like you pay £1.5 for essential product if you scan a card otherwise it is £3.

These should be made illegal.
Elon Musk is going to colonize his own planet, but that may turn out not to be enough.
I love that Bing Chat actually links to references. It felt like something was missing from ChatGPT without it.
> I (we?) were discussing food inflation, but generalised inflation is higher in the UK - 10.4% Vs EU of 9.9%.Not a massive difference

The difference apparently is in how much the inflation affects different basket items. Like food.

> Deprioritised

Yeah, that means 'unable' when there is a shortage like how there is just now.

> A lot of people take the Daily Mail seriously (including other news outlets too) when they say stuff like we can't get tomatoes

CNBC is not daily mail.
Could this be a parallelized two step process?

One a Google web search then filling out placeholders in the actual model's response?

I did notice sometimes with Bard the numbers are incorrect when asking for multiple things at a time, say a list of events in a particular city next month.

Bard will add the wrong date to say a hockey game in the returned list but if you ask for the event alone then it will give you the right answer
AFAIK, Steam delisted and removed the option to download purchased games in the past. Devotion springs to mind.
Ask HN: Do you believe 1 loud person is louder than 10 quiet people?
Reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro
Playwright 1.32 release with time travel debugger
> by definition you already automated the renewal process on a schedule too

No, certbot does not run on a schedule by default. You have to set that up separately, and that can be non-trivial because you have to be able handle failures.
Is It Possible to Learn This Power?

Because google is 99% spam for me
I recommend looking up the Battle of the Chosin Resevoir....worst military defeat ever suffered by the US (worse than Bastogne imho), the Chinese didn't even have one gun per soldier...some didn't have boots...they DEMOLISHED the best equipped army in the world (and this was during Korea when the US military was the unquestioned top dog)

and btw if you are going to go look at casualty counts, don't bother, its well understood that the Chinese lost ten men for every US soldier killed...they still won
Microsoft needs to integrate GPT into Windows, and make it available in every app and input box - in the mail app, in Discord, in browsers.

You would open Chrome, go to Hacker News, login, and say in the comment box - "GPT, please read this page and make a funny but insightful post about how GPT is a danger to all of us".

In the mail app: "make an excuse to the manager for why I will be late at work today".
I love how Google mostly assumes now that I'm not looking for what I type into the search box.

If I search for something like "micropython html parser" I expect the top results to say "Missing: micropython ‎| Must include: micropython".

Yes Google, it was the first term I entered for a reason don't cha think?
Sad but true. Google is the new altavista or yahoo.
in SF the unlicensed hotdog vendors are selling hotdogs for $8. They used to be $2-3.
You may not like it, but this is how democracy works.