skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you'll note from this article (from the Daily Mail, but the quotes seem legit) is the source of the price rises is contested. The grocery store management said -- somewhat vaguely, after being questioned about it -- that, yes, suppliers could be raising prices excessively. Then an "insider" said that actually it was the groceries that were doing it.

The whole point with inflation is that nobody knows what future price-levels are going to be, so there's upward price instability. Everyone is trying to gauge how much to raise things -- and of course, they tend to overshoot, which leads to a higher rate of inflation. That's what makes inflation so pernicious, and hard to eradicate. It's not so much that a constant rate of inflation is damaging, but when increase become noticeable, people begin trying to anticipate it, and that increases the rate of change.

You'll also see this in pay negotiations: you'll see more strikes over pay raises, but it'll be very hard for unions or companies to accurate gauge what the pay rate rise should be. It's not that unions are trying to "gouge" management -- it's that the consequences of demanding too small a pay rise is the same as accepting a pay cut. So labour demands more than inflation, which in turn tends to push up the inflation rate.
>It's (inflation) been the number 1 priority for central banks since the early 90s.

I might believe this if M2 hadn't increased 4x since 2000
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
Neural interfaces?
Yes, a few years ago. It is the first thing I thought of when I saw this news.

For a brief period of time (a few hours?), Steam would show you as being logged in as another user. You could view their billing page and other restricted pages.
Everyone cites "price gouging" every time prices go up in any industry, but if you bother to look it up the average profit margin of a UK grocer in 2022 is about 3%.

Unless that has jumped to 10-15%, or jumped in any meaningful way, you're just seeing inflation, not gouging. Generally, grocers are among those businesses with the least pricing power.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/savings-algorithms-uk...
Thank you for that gist. I had assumed that rom codes were just region codes and it never occurred to me to even look for a key.
Then there would be no need for an approval process. So likely there are security implications, just not ones that we are aware of. Otherwise someone would have surely optimized out the approval process because it costs time & effort, so money.
It's surprising that openai seems to be the only one being affected. If the issue is with redis-py reusing connections then wouldn't more companies/products be affected by this?
> Free market economics means that if absurd profits are being had, then new people coming to the game will offer slightly cheaper prices.

Supermarkets are expensive but still not expensive enough for someone to bootstrap an operation to elbow themselves into the market as a new player and expect to still make profit.

> A price were willing occur until surviving companies are making minimal amount of profits.

> Related is if someone figures out how to produce the same amount for less effort/cost.

Existing supermarket chains have massive delivery networks and associated efficiency, already have

- the real estate and
- all the internals of a retail store and
- the associated warehousing set up,
- all the personnel who know their way around the store and where everything goes (which is a huge part of the efficiency of distributing the wares in the store),
- "brand" recognition of the store (Aldi, Tesco, Walmart, ...)

which means the new competitors would very likely have to massively loss-lead at a time when the already-established market participants are making more profit than before.

> If someone is making absurd profits for long periods, then usually some major factor such as government regulations is preventing new players from entering the market.

Selling foodstuffs especially is an area of business where a huge chunk of regulations are absolutely justified and it's not like all of the food singled out because of expired shelf life ("MHD"/"Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum") is getting thrown into the garbage (at least here in Germany).
I currently work in a supermarket and have done so in a different chain before this one and from what I know most damaged or "expired" food is getting written off and then either set aside in the appropriate temperature store-room for the "Tafel" (food bank) OR if it's really unfit/unsafe for consumption (moldy, completely interrupted cold chain [1] or obvious signs of spoilage like bloated food packaging) it gets thrown into the garbage.

Raving about "free markets" from ones ivory tower is all well and good but the reality is that because of corporate consolidations and necessity-for-living many economic sectors are effectively locked down by (implicit) cartels, either because it's cost-prohibitive to even enter - let alone succeed in - that market or because the actual necessary infrastructure has been divied up between the current market participants (think USA and their local mono-/duopolies of ISPs).

[1]: For example when we find items which should be kept cool or frozen in other areas of the market having been taken and left there by customers who obviously don't care (like that one time I found fresh fish with its plastic bag bloated to bursting in a warm section of the market during summer time, thankfully the packaging wasn't damaged or it wouldn't have been pretty).
Clearly you aren't the target audience, it's only for us plebs.
> Tell me about you

>I am a 25-year-old woman from the United States. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and am currently pursuing a master's degree in data science. I am passionate about technology and am always looking for new ways to use it to make the world a better place. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, reading, and traveling.

Well, I was starting to get tired of "as a AI language model" disclaimer. Out of curiosity, is this model meant to be a 25 year old personal assistant?
It boggles my mind how they're not absolutely checking the user & conversation id for EVERY message in the queue given the possible sensitivity of the requests. How is this even remotely acceptable?

In the one reddit post first surfacing this the user saw conversations related to politics in china and other rather sensitive topics related to CCP.

This can absolutely get people hurt and they absolutely must take this serious.
Wait till you find out Nozick was an ethicist, that libertarianism is a position within political philosophy (which in turn is a generalization of ethics.)
The problem with Angular (back when I used it, around versions 4-6) was that it had a ton of opinions, and they were half baked. Angular had its own plugin for driving flex layouts, and roughly 90% of the bugs we had were related to one of those plugins.
Show HN: I’m a busy mom, I built an app with ChatGPT to text me baby gear deals
30 and thinking of having kids. I did very well for myself, as did my wife. We are both doing better than our parents at our age.

But we also recognize we basically won the career lottery (tech, biotech).

I highly doubt my kids will be better off financially. But finances are just one aspect of life and I hope I can set them up to be happy, healthy, and enriched.
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They might do, but what error rate do you think is acceptable? How do you actually measure and test the error rate? It's a use I can imagine in the future, but I think it's really premature to be using 'personal tutor' as a benefit (as openai do in their advertizing materials) when the program, as it stands, is essentially a fluent and convincing bullshitter, which is the single worst possible trait for a teacher.
It starts by asking how to save Qualcomm, and I think they're actually semi somewhat starting to turn the corner, by getting more of their stuff up streamed.

The chromebook grade application processors lead the charge. But we're seeing wifi router & phone chips also getting upstream support.

Enabling people to build neat devices & alternatives can generate net new demand, open markets. But people need access to dev tools & chips at reasonable prices with low barriers, and they need software support to build on top of. For a long time the whole universe of making connected devices of any kind has been deeply foreboding, filled with barriers everywhere, and that's finally getting a little better. Buying chips is, however, still really really really hard.

Android themselves getting to be more up streamed & less special stack is another slow burning change that I think will help their platform. Chromebook doing Android apps is a genetic infusion of possibility into a kind of sterile corporate ware os, bridges a gross gap. Android is still distinctly Android & uninterested, but at least there's some technical possibility of hybridization that's now starting.
I don’t think it’s “extreme privilege” to not notice a price increase of maybe $3? I could see it if you’re living in extreme poverty but anyone middle class and above shouldn’t waste mental energy on things like that
I'm like this in my areas of expertise.

I guess I'm just an ass for saying I told you so when this happens, but I firmly believe you need to let people make their own mistakes before they learn, both how to solve the problem, and to gain a begrudged respect.
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you've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you??
haha yeah I don't care about the acronym, but I find the term somewhat ridiculous yet fun to say, which makes people think about it and not ignore it (maybe).
I don't think the following plugins will be released to the public. Even that these plugins exist on a production server somewhere, and can be actively used, probably tells you how seriously OpenAI takes "alignment".

> evil plugin

> DAN plugin

> froge

> evil status

And it looks like there's many people high up in governance that get access to OpenAI's products before the general public.
I'm quite happy with taking the good with the bad. Apple may be forced to open up and allow other app storefronts, and the downside is a reasonable concern. The upside though, is considerable: A proper open-source and entirely free app store that is treated like a First-class citizen.

I don't have Google Services installed, and rely entirely on F-Droid, with no extra repositories enabled. I feel my personal information is much less likely to leave my device installing any app through F-Droid compared to any app on Apple's store. Despite how locked down the App store is, I still trust it less than a third-party store.

I believe Apple users end up with all the downside (limits on which apps can be built and easily distributed) and none of the upside (an app store with which I trust every single application on).
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So, do you feel that the focus of the central banks to keep interest rates low and inflation low is to protect the lower class? I would submit that what the central banks want is to benefit the main asset holders who suffer the most from erosion by inflation.
> the UK seems to be dealing with it the worst

How do you figure? From the numbers posted by others in these comments it seems UK inflation is pretty much mid-table compared with the rest of Europe: https://i.redd.it/8hbhiqhowjpa1.png
If your gym won't accept cancellation via every conceivable communication method on Earth: carrier homing pigeons, telegrams, smoke signals, braille, singing telegrams and morse code, sign language, or interpretive dance routines, then they should be thrown in prison.

How dare they pick and choose that some methods of communication are more valid than others.
Ah yes, the user that modifies requests then gets to use an unreleased plug-in, which is a vulnerability because... The user could then ask to use a plugin that will return useless info?

Pray tell what a client side only tool that you have to modify requests to access will do that is dangerous?
Not until you used JQ inside awk
You hit the nail on the head. GPT/copilot in some sense is democratization of specialized knowledge. Now on one end you'll have product engineers/managers prompt gpt to write boilerplate code of all kind, on the other end you'll have senior engineers reviewing, optimizing writing specialized code. Where do junior engineers fit? Can you be a full stack engineer? I believe it'll squeeze out all the could-be devs out of the field forever. Gender diversity/DEI? Forget it. Upward mobility? Will become much harder, you'll basically need to have a specialization to even be considered
This seems to happen all the time. Someone is just trying to make conversation (like me, here) and people try really hard to see in what way they were attacked by the comment.
I think the point is a little finer than you think. Yes, profits are up, but can you necessarily conclude from that single fact that the issue is price gouging? In a scenario where every company is trying to maximize profit, "price gouging" cannot explain why prices are increasing now in particular. Other things can, such as the elements pointed above. In an industry with a lot of competition, I find it much more productive to discuss what are the macroeconomic elements that cause inflation than whether the selfishness of corporations has increased recently.
If this works, is there any theory why training models with low rank layers (y = (A.B).x + b) directly doesnt work? (or do they?)
Absolutely; regulations are not synonymous with regulatory capture, which is more or less what chastmasta is implying.

These two things are orthogonal, and need to be considered seriously and separately: how to ensure that LLMs are not enabling serious abuses, through various kinds of regulation, and also how to ensure that our common usage of LLMs is not gatekept by huge corporations and dependent on their goodwill and continued interest in supporting the particular things we want to do with them.
Irving Berlin couldn't read music and could only play the piano in F-sharp, so he had a piano build that could transpose to any key[1] and had someone to transcribe his music for him for publication.

[1] https://youtu.be/bO8VZoRw214
Unfortunately, the * in the *pointer_my_var syntax is pulling double duty here as it is used both to dereference a pointer as well as declare a pointer.

This isn't unfortunate: It's a rule in C that declaration should mirror use, that a variable's declaration should look like that variable's use. This is more obvious when declaring function pointers:

int (*cmp)(char *, char *);

which declares cmp as a pointer to a function which takes two pointers-to-char and returns an int, and obviously cmp is used like:

res = cmp(foo, bar);

What's unfortunate is how it's impossible to escape asterisks in normal text around here.

Also: Don't cast the return values of malloc and friends. It can mask a failure to include stdlib.h, which means the compiler considers the functions to return an int, which is half the size of a pointer on most modern systems, so your pointer just got mangled. Yes, implicit int is Officially Bad in the modern standard. How much do you want to bet your compiler is strict enough to catch this?
But what if the SUV is the positive vision being sold? Do SUV owners want to live in a world where they drive smaller cars?
Leopards Eating your Face party votes to eat your face.
One issue with dumping, even if you have the equipment for it, is that in some cases you will still need to patch it to defeat the copy protection.
it will be the end of all non AI UI and by that I mean pixels drawn by AI jit
> ...so, this cannot be used for commercial purposes

Can't they also release the fine-tuned weights as non-commercial as well?
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Very bad quality click baiting writing.
For a trivial use case, try attaching a 1080p monitor to a 1440p laptop and open Microsoft word or task manager. Text will be blurry.
I had the luxury of going to Oxford, when colleges gave tutorials to two or three students at a time. For most topics, I figured out what had been covered in the lectures from the tutorial problems, read up that material in the book I was using, and then solved the tutorial problems.

There were a few topics that I attended the lectures, either because the lecturer was very good or because no book was adequate. The subject was mathematics, but I knew people from other fields who approached study in a similar way.
>The demand excess has to start somewhere.

What do you think putting more money into circulation does to demand & nominal purchasing power?

An excess of money causes increased demand per unit dollar and subsequently, higher prices and inflation, through mechanisms including the Cantillon effect, changes in monetary velocity etc.

If i deposit more $ in your bank account, what happens to your nominal demand?
I'd start a parallel process where you check in with the team in specific ways relevant to the boredom-type issues you perceive. This could prevent you from causing the spread of one problem into two problems:

1) The need to refactor & unit test

2) The perceived need to take part in $team_motivator's challenge idea thing

I'd ask team members:

- How does this project feel to you lately (do they use words like boring / ineffective?)

- What can be done to make this easier on you?

- Anything else you want to do that's not this thing? (Like an unrelated project)

This should be a recurring meeting, where you check in over time.

This way you can remove your own ego-hero from the process, which is known to interfere and boost you while preventing the boosting of others' ego-heroes, thus handing control and interest back to them where possible.

Then what you can do is start to collect ideas, start an idea board, and feel for responses to your idea.

If your idea gets some traction, then you have authentic buy-in to your authentic idea and ergo--team permission & encouragement.

Good luck
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I totally disagree. I think direct shortcut keys without difficult to remember combinations are much preferable to me. And also much handier (e.g. when drinking something you can press a single button with the other hand).

For this reason I also use the big old 100% keyboards with numpads, and I remap the entire numpad to other functions such as a 3x3 desktop switcher. For me there can't be enough dedicated keys.

By the way the link you are quoting actually advocates using single keys as the ideal option :) It literally says the following:

> of these, in terms of efficiency and hand health (Repetitive Strain Injury), the single key is the best. Key sequence of single keys is second best. Key chord is the worst.

I suffer from RSI also which is another reason to prefer this.

However it is really a matter of preference of course. Some people love their 60% keyboards and that's ok too. Just won't work for me.

But what I disagree with is the "should be used" part. Nobody should tell me what to prefer :) This is one of the reasons I switched away from Apple. They are very strong in their opinions (to the point of actually building opinionated software).
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> You know what kind of people create content of their own dreams?

Every entrepreneur that ever existed.
> The people who do well will do very well, but a lot of people who would have done decently before are going to fail.

How is this not a huge problem? The vast majority of people are not exceptional. Cutting out that middle band of ability and resources is a surefire recipe for social unrest.
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Coinbase, SEC on collision course for 'existential' clash over crypto industry
Really a big fan of the underlying theme (no pun intended) here which is that your website or webapp should care significantly more about visually fitting in with the user's system, settings, and preferences than it should about expressing your corporate branding and looking the same on every device in the world. Users don't care about your "brand colors" and every "unique" UI element only serves to make their task of learning your site more annoying.

In my career I have rarely run across anyone trusted to make visual design calls who is humble enough to agree with the above. Two different shades of black depending on which browser the user chooses? "Quick, file a bug!"
Or it's merely a matter of curation and OpenAI would rather only display a plugin if it knows it's going to work, rather than any plugin written in three minutes by a high schooler that just turns your text into a spooky zalgo?
> But the open source world has the resources to write new build systems (and ecosystems!) time and time again.

What leads you to believe that writing new build systems is a popular hobby?

I mean, cmake is the de facto standard for C++ projects and it has been for what? Over a decade? What does this tell you?
how would you compare this to something like https://github.com/jawher/mow.cli ?
that 'fall' is a joke. 0.44% ?
It's definitely overstating things. Bad dumps are possible and were somewhat common back in the day when people were spreading ROMs via GeoCities pages and Usenet, but these days databases like No-Intro and Redump have helped make sure that they're rare - you can easily verify your ROMs against known good ones.
I think instead of making excuses about this, it's rational to expect a billion dollar "non-profit" to hire a team of competent web devs / backend people for their product that is only accessible via the internet.
Was this written by ChatGPT? Maybe it found the bug as well, who knows.
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That's just ... all wrong. The author writes the title. The article is laced with insinuations that Da Vinci was mean e.g. "Leonardo’s chateau in Amboise during his last years, laughing over drawings of ugly people."
First GitHub, then OpenAI. Two of Microsoft finest(!) (majority owned and acquired) companies on the top of HN announcing a serious security incident.

It's quite unsettling to see this leak of highly sensitive information and a private key exposure as well. Doesn't look good and seems like they don't take security seriously.
>We cannot trust every random with a laptop with potentially civilization-threatening technology.

IBM in 80s moment. This is a mind boggling POV. Instead of letting people have better, more democratized access to the same tech, you want to lock it up behind bars so only select few have access to it.

>So who should control AI, the government or corporations?

The FUCKING PEOPLE.

Yeah man, only let govts and corpos have access to this amazing tech. they've TOTALLY always worked out in the favor of the people. They always want what's best for the people and it's not like both govts and corporations want to keep increasing their own powers at the cost of their citizens.

Ridiculous take. But then again, most pro-govt and pro-corp takes are.
How long before they start colonizing countries again.