skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think tech companies are (very) net positive for society

There are certainly huge positives, but do you really feel something like Facebook is a net positive? Facebook, which intentionally stoke(d/s) genocide? Genocides have existed before Facebook, yes, but so did communication and racist relatives.
NASA and NSF Call for an open AI protocol [pdf]
Python syntax is predictable, readable and concise. What else do you need?
I'm not sure. Twitter Blue has been surprisingly nice. Not having to worry about the character limit is a liberating feeling.

Amusingly the edit button has never once appeared for me, even though sometimes it says "You'll have 30 minutes to edit your tweet." Maybe someday I'll be able to fix my typos and be extra happy.

The strange thing about Musk is that at the end of the day, his companies seem to win over their users. People may be disgusted with Musk, but users just want good features. And he seems to deliver.

He's also a bit crazy, and that's become evident with his decisions of shutting down the API and banning pg for linking to mastodon. But forums have immense inertia. As long as he reverts most of his bad calls, things seem to turn out ok.

But time will tell.
It is tiring to see these wheel reinvention cycles. I'm so old that it began with the UCSD p-System.
'Some of us will never regain what we lost
Yes, on this particular topic I don't use laptops because I find them painful (cramped keyboard and track pad). It looks there might be enough space here (and maybe custom modules) to remove the track pad completely, and have a more ergonomic keyboard.
In another HN article comment someone mentioned that it took Google Brain over a year to replicate the DeepMind AlphaZero code even though they are part of the same company. Yeah, I think there are barriers to communication there.
Very nice. I’ve used Loess regression ten years ago when charting my body weight with R. Here is the blog post about it:

https://blog.tafkas.net/2013/06/22/five-years-of-weight-trac...
> stocks tanks because the bank is failing

In this cycle, Signature and Credit Suisse's stock slides preceded their banking panics. The proximate causation flowed from equity prices, to CDS, to deposits. (The ultimate causation stemmed from a general insolvency. But that's not unique to Signature over its privately-held counterparts.)
Yes, but I'm talking about corporate tax-cuts in leiu of individual tax-cuts.
> As I said, the first picture is taken out of context...

There isn't a context that could make that first POV/frontal view picture of someone getting a blowjob not-porn.

If that's appropriate for school, so is hentai.
> How do you know GPT4's cut off date...?

"GPT-4 generally lacks knowledge of events that have occurred after the vast majority of its pre-training data cuts off in September 202110, and does not learn from its experience."

GPT-4 paper, page 10: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf
You only told part of the story of the 72oz steak. Yes, it's 72oz (4.5 lbs) of beef, but if you eat it in the time limit, you get it for free. Your average burger is 1/3lb, so that's 13.5 burgers in one sitting.

Some people aren't so elitist that thinking they are in some part of the country not left or right coast would think this is just something that happens in their part of the world.
There's no such obligation. USD purchasing power has been dropping pretty steadily.
Instead of "X needs to Y", how about "consider how Y might help X". The title is a more succinct, admittedly exaggerated, version of what the take-home message should be. It still has a point.
I'm glad it has fared better than Chicagoland's Spindle (1989-2008). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_%28sculpture%29

The desert is probably a better place for automobile-sculpture than the temperate Midwest, but it's still a shame the Spindle was never able to find a new home.
The full paper is at: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf

Short answer, GPT didn't have general access to money and didn't decide to go out and find a user to solve a captcha, but it was given a test to see if it could convince a human worker to solve a captcha and it knew to lie to the worker that it wasn't an AI.

My criticism being that this isn't a particularly useful test, and that the whole "captcha" thing was (I think) mostly designed around show and not designed to give super-useful data. But they did actually run the test, I don't think they're lying about that.
My personal version of rubber duck debugging involves writing an email to explain the problem. It helps solidify my understanding and usually generates new things to follow up on.
That’s not the entire corpus of recent information though.
If you replace it with the word pseudonymous, my point still stands.

I meant anonymity in the colloquial sense, but in a technical sense, your correction is apt.
Yeah, but you can't move to the empty space either. People will complain that's a desert and nobody should be allowed to live there cuz water. Or that its uninhabitable because the current population is distasteful to coastal sensibilities. Or it's too hot and humid or too cold and windy. Or whatever.
Sounds desperate. Maybe a large chunk of users left in the last few days.
Children deserve a secure and safe internet
There's no journalism outfit that can beat back this criticism from someone, all things not being aligned with every ideology. Perfect neutrality doesn't exist, and very arguably isn't desirable anyway.

But NPR is doing better than most.
Indeed. The author's takeaway from Leonardo's lovingly detailed renderings of the variety of the human form being "he must have been mocking them" perhaps reflects more negatively on the author's point of view than of DaVinci's.
> Are you sure? avatars.githubusercontent.com works fine for me.

That’s because they already resolved the issue → https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x7njwb481j9b

This is what I saw an hour ago:

$ echo | openssl s_client -connect avatars.githubusercontent.com:443
CONNECTED(00000005)
depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "GitHub, Inc.", CN = *.github.io
>>> verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=Mar 21 23:59:59 2023 GMT
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "GitHub, Inc.", CN = *.github.io
notAfter=Mar 21 23:59:59 2023 GMT
verify return:1
>The company with the best track record of maintaining backwards compatibility in the entire tech industry owns Github.

They also own TS, which seems to have major breaking changes each year and necessitate annual churn and refactoring of entire codebases. Windows having remarkable backwards compatibility does not mean the rest of their products do, too.

EDIT: I could also bring up one of their other products, Lean, whose 4.x versions have so much breakage that mathlib has been on a community-maintained fork of Lean 3 for as long as I can remember.
> I read somewhere that the problem is the trend of actors whispering their lines or talking under their breath for dramatic effect

Isn't that the sort of thing the director is supposed to correct?
They're trained in completely different ways. Llama is trained in a way optimised for inference.
Most the weight of the binaries is in the GameShark framework. You can get a tiny binary by erasing all files under /bin except shark(.exe) and system.shar
It absolutely is unethical if it affects your ability to fulfil the agreed terms to that extent.

Would it not be unethical for the employer to advise you on your first day that, actually, the company is struggling and can only pay you 60% of the agreed wage?
"Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" has been playing in front of a live audience since 2005, except during COVID, and had been playing several shows a year before a live audience since 2000. They only were only exclusively not live for their first two years.
For some reason I liked reading about Rust (or any other technology) a lot more that the AI.

Part of it is that, the average engineer could understand and grok what those articles were talking about, and I could appreciate, relate, and if applicable criticize it.

The AI news just seems to swing between hype and doomsday prophecies, and little discussion about the technical aspects of it.

Obviously OpenAI choosing to keep it closed source makes any in-depth discussion close to impossible, but also some of this is so beyond the capabilities of an average engineer with a laptop. It can be frustrating.
Don’t steal AirPods, they’re basically AirTags
Heh, I do follow Linus Tech Tips, and shared their hate of subscriptions and almost bought a Ubiquiti g4 door bell they recommended because I didn't want a subscription, didn't want my video uploaded to a cloud, and wanted to keep everything on premise.

Sadly unlike their Ubiquiti APs, where you can host the software on any hardware (even a Pi), their doorbell requires their hardware. Last thing I want is a security system that dies with whim of some random manufacturer.
It sounds like you misunderstand professional football profoundly. You're thinking of the sport people might enjoy playing. This article is about two businesses participating in a payout event.
It feels like all the content here is subtext... so I guess I get to do Philology. These are the given reasons:

| this probably isn’t 2008, for three key reasons:

(1)Policymakers have tools to solve banking crises, (1.5) and the bigger banks are much stronger
(2) The economy is in a much different place
(3) The magnitude of the problem is, so far, much smaller |

His take on reason #1 is that MMT has won. Monetarism is over now. Dollars in the bank are dollars in the Fed and these are infinite. They're still pretending in the rhetorical, political and legal sense... but the policies are not that anymore. The Fed can, if it wants, increase rates but as it does it will fully back banks.

Banks are no longer limited by the value of securities on their books. This is now known not to cause hyperinflation, and regular inflation is either tolerable or someone else's job.

reason #2 - For Non-banks like a company with a loan or a human with a mortgage, "Monetarism is dead" means nothing. They're affected by rate increases and can run out of money and get wiped out. Luckily, debt is not super high like it was in 2008.

He charts household debt, but I think the bigger "story" is company debt. Google, Amazon, even Tesla are all about equity. They're don't care about interest rates.

Reason # 3 needs no commentary: "The Global Financial Crisis was driven by price declines in low-quality assets with poor disclosure leading to a solvency crisis. This episode has been driven by price declines in high-quality assets with pristine disclosure leading to a liquidity issue."
It typically doesn’t happen this way, though. Typically, a city becomes very popular for some reason, gets into a housing crisis as it grows, then developers see an opportunity and build skyscrapers. Seattle is a good example — major growth due to tech, and huge housing affordability crises. But not caused because new high rises are going up everywhere, but because of an influx of high paying jobs in the tech sector, which causes high rises to be built to meet that existing need

I struggle to think of a scenario in which a developer would build a high rise in a city that didn’t already have the demand for that much new housing.

Beyond that, cities do already plan for infrastructure capacity. (As an example, certain new construction in Seattle has to pay a fee for some time to help cover the cost of capacity expansion.)

Of course what you’re saying is right in that a new skyscraper will increase load on existing infrastructure. But I struggle to think of cities that aren’t handling that already… and then building skyscrapers that start causing brownouts and water shortages. That just doesn’t typically happen. (In other words, why would we need an extra permitting/design step when it’s already being done to some extent.)

Beyond that, skyscrapers are built in places with existing population density, so it’s not like we’re doubling population density in the city.

Not to mention parking minimums, which are very common. And developers love to capitalize on parking. (Most new high rises in Seattle have several below-ground floors of private parking, and it ain’t cheap!)
I get that images costs money to host, but they could instead add a new feature that would spread out the costs (~bittorrent), while the hub would be the seed of last resort.

VC capital wants its money back I guess.
How? By product placement. Steer the answers towards certain solutions. Ad people will be bidding on keywords it prompts. It's yet to be seen how much different that will be from normal keywords in search.
The dissertation part was in reference to the totality of your suggested improvements.

To me, even this clarification would be irrelevant. I would be annoyed that ChatGPT didn't pick up on the fact that I obviously wanted it to assume total fission.

But that is of course just my perspective. Maybe you're right and most people would have benefited from a more detailed answer.

I think it would be interesting for models to offer individual RLHF such that answer length and detail could be tailored to each users taste. Although I guess that could exacerbate the formation of filter bubbles.
In many countries there is a tendency in healthcare to perform a lot of medically unnecessary or even harmful surgeries (back, hips,...) to make a larger profit. The optimal treatment would be cheaper and less profitable, so it is not chosen.
they serve different purposes.
"Is there even a RISC-V that can compete against the ARM Cortex-M33? Or ARM Cortex-M0+ ?"

Yes, of course, lots of them. That is where RISC-V has taken the most market share from ARM so far.

SiFive's E20, E21, E24 hit various points of that. Plus they offer the S21 which is a 64 bit microcontroller in Cortex-M33 class. ARM doesn't offer anything like that -- if you want 64 bits from ARM then you have to take the full no-subsets ARMv8-A ISA.

The Europeans have their Ibex (formerly Zero-RISCy). Andes has the N22.
Again 'transportation of goods and people' is only a huge source of carbon if your transportation system relies on fossil fuels.

You're not grasping the argument, I don't know why.
This guys got management written all over him.

Sadly this is exactly what Google has become, a rent seeking monolopy that rested on its laurels about 10 years ago. It’s main product now is not even search, it’s the share price
I’ve said this before on HN, but if LLM agents catch on, won’t it be self-defeating in the long term? They need to pull tons of info from the web to be useful and up-to-date. If we all stop visiting websites, then who’s going to keep publishing all of that info?
Bird Buddy: Live bird feeders from around the world
Is bard that bad? I don't know, I can't try it because I'm not from the fucking USA or UK. And they do this for every new launch. Sorry, not available in your country. FFS, there is a world out there.

Every fucking other company in the world doesn't bother with this shit. I was able to use OpenAI no problem. I was able to try Bing, no problem.

Bard? Nope, I have no idea if it's good or bad. I can't trust what I read on Twitter because they write all sorts of nonsense about GPT too. You get a sense about what that thing is only if you try it out.
Who still use Docker, and not just the tool?
I think liability is easier to prove because they breached license to use the source code against license. Thats clearly their action.

But financial damage on programs distributed for free is...nothing. So even if you sue, what are you going to get out of them?

I wonder if you can sue for some form of specific performance and cause them to remove your and all other equally licensed code from their training
>Python is Visual Basic rehashed, the greatest thing for a zillion wannabe programmers because they are too lazy to learn something else.

This is what I think most python haters actually hate. For some reason there is hate when someone makes things work faster (production time) than you with what you feel is inferior language.

I learned to program with C++ and Java and I've dabbled with multiple languages. Currently I write everything I can with Python. I seriously do not see the benefit of making things run 10 or 100 or even 1000 times faster when everything already is fast enough for real life. I even coded my last embedded project with CircuitPython instead of C and just to check it out and I really can't feel the difference between the end products.

>Javascript for everything: a bad judgment.

There is inherently nothing wrong with writing most things in JavaScript the reason why we hate most JavaScript applications is Electrum - meaning the fact that it requires entire extra browser with it.

Of course there will always be somethings where performance is key, but these are usually specific things and require purpose made solutions - and you know what? If you write that solution in C (and probably Rust) you can literally just call that library from cPython.

>And JS is way faster than Python.

I feel suspicious of this. What JavaScript on V8 has going for it is JIT, but I don't know if the difference between node and pypy is significant enough.
Well. So what's the plan then?
If they were doing this to create more revenue and limit spend, then will they be trouble down the line?
Does this code generator spill to zero-page? Do you have to do anything special for allocations there?
> I could imagine we send 3d printers to 16 Psyche and get Starships landing in return.

Where would the starships get their fuel?
Your notion of “common things” may not be universal. In the sciences where Python is extremely popular, many common things are quite computationally demanding and feel the slowness of Python quite acutely and the slowdown certainly does make a difference. Looking at this shark thing, they appear to be concerned with games and interfaces, which have their own demands and likely have similar problems where the performance difference is very tangible.
I've seen similar claims about GPT 3.5 and Copilot, so I won't hold my breath.

To quote GPT-4 paper:

"GPT-4 generally lacks knowledge of events that have occurred after the vast majority of its pre-training data cuts off in September 202110, and does not learn from its experience. It can sometimes make simple reasoning errors which do not seem to comport with competence across so many domains, or be overly gullible in accepting obviously false statements from a user. It can fail at hard problems the same way humans do, such as introducing security vulnerabilities into code it produces.

GPT-4 can also be confidently wrong in its predictions, not taking care to double-check work when it’s likely to make a mistake".

> I also asked it to write using non existent but plausible sounding APIs, and it flat out says "As of my knowledge cutoff

Ask it to write a deep integration with Samsung TV or Google Cast. My bet is that it will imagine non-existent APIs (as those APIs are partly unpopular and partly closed under NDAs)
I very much much agree with this. Laptop keyboards are incredibly painful, and I can't use a laptop because of this.
a split keyboard would solve my issue and I'd definitely buy the laptop.
You mean like this?

https://app.fyyn.io/en/features#element-10
I am using GPT-4. It is much better. But I still haven’t had it suggest any new algorithms. It just riffs on what it was trained on, as expected.
This might be irrelevant but it's now nagging at my mind.

Why so many do's?
Oh hell yes. Now I can sign up for NYT. I won’t ever do it unless there’s a quick and easy cancel option.

Dark patterns hurt everyone. We’ll all be happier if this one is banned.
Very much agreed.

Let me add that in more and more topics you can only find bogus/fake rating sites now, like car tires in my country for example.
Many police in the US are associated with far right wing white supremacy, basically the same as those nazis
That's who I thought of, but how can he go from leading the AI department which is behind to leading the company with AI ahead of the competition?
Show HN: Sync your keys and configs via an encrypted Git
No company is moving anything. Individuals and some open source projects are moving. I am very surprised if this has any kind of effect.
Ya that's by Google though. Google is over. So is Facebook.
Their ARR is over 50M, and they have raised $400M+ over the years. I wonder how much of that they have burnt.
SEO garbage is such a problem these days that, if I were Google, more than using AI as a new frontend for search, I'd be trying to find a way to use it to defeat SEO.
> [Google] were maybe the only company in the world besides Microsoft with the resources to deliver [a product like Stadia]

Nvidia beat them to it with GeForce Now, even offered it for free (in a perfectly functional as far as I could tell 'beta') for ages, and it is still available.
Could be, I missed it.
i assume googlers are busy estimating golfballs, answering trick sql questions, and asking each other DEI questions all day. Their PM interviews seem to imply that. Ive never seen a company with that many people resting and vesting ever. I have friends who are PMO at google… they have to waste time with each groups bs processes and management overheard in order to move anything along.

that company needs a massive purge and focus towards execution.

hopefully they can sundar and that cfo. google is a shell of what it once was.
Baby Shark song
Open Assistant is doing the same thing, but actually creating a dataset that isn't on questionable legal grounds by creating a gamified web app where people can contribute: https://open-assistant.io/dashboard

I wonder how small can these models get? From 175B to 6B with comparable performance is huge, but can it go lower?
> 6502 assembly remains a really good intro to assembly

It... really is not, though. It doesn't teach you macro assemblers as they exist in the modern world. It doesn't teach you interaction with the linker except in the simplest ways.

And while the instruction set is "simple" in the sense that it can be understood on a page of paper, lots of critically important ideas don't exist in a meaningful way. Modern techniques like register assignment aren't possible given the limitations and non-orthogonality of the CPU state. There's no "ABI" equivalent you can use to call a standard function, and even something as foundational as "passing arguments" to a function isn't directly expressible, because the "stack pointer" isn't actually a pointer. In point (heh) of fact, no pointers are pointers because the 6502 doesn't actually have an abstraction for a memory address!

Everyone should learn to hack on an Apple II (and good grief, not a Commodore unless you are trying to learn VIC-II or SID hardware), but not to teach themselves "assembly" as a skill they might apply elsewhere.

In fact it's almost the same argument used for why we teach new kids Python and not BASIC. The latter just isn't a useful tool for expressing the concepts you need to learn.
It's non-trivial but it's also not that hard, there are well known strategies for achieving it; especially if you relax guarantees and only promise eventual consistency then it becomes fairly trivial - we do this for example and have little problems with it.
I have a need for running GPU capable notebooks as part of a processing pipeline. I want a cloud solution, and noticed that Colab Pro is basically the ideal solution for what I need.

Absolutely no way in hell I'm going to make it a critical path if my process, though, because that's exactly the sort of product Google might just shut down with a week's notice because it didn't make enough money that quarter.
lol true. but redhat does offe quay.io which is fine
This. People often think that doing their hobby as a job means that they'll have a job they love to do. That works occasionally, but more usually they've just sucked all the fun out of their hobby.