skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not true we know nothing. We know a little bit by using the two models from their API. Given the time per inference and the limit on messages per day for GPT4, I'm willing to bet it's doing around 10x more compute than GPT3.5. If that's because it has 10x more weights, I don't know. But it wouldn't be a terrible guess.
I understand the publisher writing about it. I meant being singled out on HN, many US readers here seem to think this a uniquely UK issue.
Do you need a lot of legal hoops when your employee has just been straight up lying to you about their disability?
Housing works the same way, and we've seen the result of that. If food distributors are able to coordinate price increases without direct collusion, expect it to go the way rent has.
No, but they can really mess up property prices in the area. Lotta people care about that.

Also people are really bad with the relative scale of different big things, so "mess up city" and "mess up planet" come across similarly in people's heads. (This is also why people might try to argue against immigration by saying "America is full" — their city is a bigger part of their world view than is, say, rural Montana).

(I am not a huge fan of nuclear power, but I'm also not any kind of opponent; for AI, I can see many ways it might go wrong, but I don't know how to guess at the probability-vs-damage distributions of any of them).
Not really, people could eat cheaper food. Not to mention that most people eat too many calories.
Well, he later claimed he'd said something incredibly stupid on purpose to troll reporters. Didn't come off that way in the briefing, but... I mean, seems fair to judge the statements as incredibly stupid when our options are to judge them at face value or to believe him when he tells us they were dumb (on purpose). I don't see a lot of room for giving him the benefit of the doubt that he had something smart in mind and just didn't communicate clearly, under those circumstances.

We're left with three options, basically, and the one that allows his statements to be not-dumb requires that we believe he told a childish "nuh uh, I meant to say a dumb thing!" lie (in this version, the lie is that it was dumb on purpose, because we're asserting it was not dumb at all) later. The other options are that he said something dumb then lied that he did it on purpose (from his pattern of behavior, I judge this far and away the most likely), or that he said something dumb but told the truth that he did it on purpose (which is, like... still not what the kids would call a great look, right?)
I'm sure a 3% COLA will fix that right up!
That name is so unfortunate. Nobody searched “Lora” before picking it. Bit of a blunder if you ask me.
What if Meta launches a mobile app store?
> But the price of food overall is inflating.

I'm a senior programmer with outrageous salary, and I still paused yesterday looking at the price of beef. Went for chicken instead.

I wish inflation numbers would also include things like "percentage of income spent on just living: food and shelter"
As a person living in the UK, I have definitely noticed a considerable rise in unit prices. One of many examples is that a loaf of my favourite bread increased from £3 to £4 recently, which was a shocker. Toilet roll prices, as ever what the news loves to talk about, has exploded, increasing by around 70% since 2020 by my anecdotal observation.

A sad thought I have about inflation is the fact that it is, wittingly or not, a weapon wielded by the rich against the middle and lower classes. In an inflationary economy, the winners are rich who have valuable assets whose value skyrocket - think real estate, businesses, etc.

The lower classes rely on A) proportionately much more on fiat, i.e. monthly paycheck going into current and savings account, and B) a blue-collar job, the wage of which always lags further behind inflation than white-collar jobs.

Those two factors combined means that the lower classes get absolutely battered, while the rich just sit gleefully as their asset values balloon and pass down wholesale price increases, etc.

It's the dark, sinister side of inflation, and I think we are all beginning to see the societal tensions that it is breeding, e.g. endless blue-collar UK worker union strikes, riots, protests, etc.

Not saying that it is only one class that is affected, but let's face reality here - the lower class suffers by far the most in this situation.
>You definitely need to be mindful of what you say/volunteer...

Alec Baldwin, the actor, may have voluntarily talked his way into prison by saying too much after the recent accidental shooting on a film set.[0].

[0]https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/26/alec-baldwins-sad-str...
Better, yes, and for that we have evidence. But is the improvement stemming simply from even more data? That's what I'm questioning.
Is it a weird that a person in my past came to mind immediately. Improbable but I still wonder if it's the same person.
That is not an actual problem. And in the real world, institutional investors with capital reserves sufficient to really move markets don't generally use such simplistic "stop loss" orders. They have more sophisticated trading and hedging strategies.

There is no need to keep a tight leash on short sellers.
Everything becomes less safe when inflation is on the rise. Every country has a different inflation formula (alongside the effects of "shadow inflation"), thus you can't compare 10% in country X with 18% in country Y. We're all in the same shit.
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The UK has some of the cheapest food in the developed world, I'm surprised to hear anyone say they're high.
Time to start importing USA chicken and other foods.
Or they’re part of some enterprise licensing agreement and aren’t supposed to be public.

Nobody knows?
SSH CAs would make the challenge a lot easier. It sounds like they are using RSA keys here for the widest possible compatibility, and while OpenSSH's certificate support is not at all new, it still may be too new for this application.
I'm fine with having options, I just find it odd that Vite isn't recommended in the official doc. I mean, they talk about it but it's hidden at the end of a collapsed 500-word "deep dive" section following a list of recommended frameworks. I would personally recommend Vite to anyone learning React, it doesn't add features to React so you can actually just focus on learning React instead of learning at the same time some framework's APIs. I understand the benefits of going with Next.js, but I feel like I would be overwhelmed if I was learning React and had all those extra layers of features and concepts (SSR, SSG, CSR, ISR...) that come with Next.js thrown into my face.

It's like telling someone who wanna learn Python to start with Django.
Surprisingly there's no category for cloud provider infrastructure.
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>Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years

Almost exclusively illegally, hence the "fraught with legal issues." Downloading a ROM for a game you own on a cartridge violates US law. You need to create your own copy, where you very likely will face the issues they raise.

Or you technically violate the law, which NPR likely doesn't want to condone for a puff piece.
So, the usual suspects, then. The more I learn about OpenAI, the more it looks like just another SV venture, not some special "for the good of humanity" thing.
Yes, but they will have to un-pin the (now compromised) key if they want to continue using Github.

Any compromise would have to isolate them from the "real" Github hosts from today onwards, i.e. plausibly MITM them continuously, or they would just switch to the rotated key to be able to continue working. At least in OpenSSH, this means replacing the compromised trusted key, as there can only be one per host (or even IP in the default configuration).

This is still very bad, but much less catastrophic than e.g. a world in which `.ssh/known_hosts` allows multiple entries, in which case you'd really have a sustained compromise of most clients.
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The Church of Emacs?
I saw $6.99 for a pack of 12 flour tortillas yesterday. Could not believe it. At that price I'll try making my own.
A built Framework 13" with a 13th gen intel CPU starts at $1050. Or you can grab the same mainboard for $450. For me, that's really compelling. And if you're upgrading (rather than replacing a failed component) you can still sell the old mainboard or use it as a server, etc. Not to mention the reduced ewaste compared to buying a whole new system.
What a bleak outlook you have. Here are some good things it can do:

1. Answer student questions and effectively act as a tutor. Duolingo is already using it like this, and ChatGPT can of course do it directly as well.

2. Make natural language interfaces to APIs easily. Look at the ChatGPT plugins announced yesterday for examples.

3. Provide basic customer support. Ideally, it could answer most common and basic questions and possibly even fix common problems via a plugin. Then the actual human customer support could step in for more complex problems.

There are endless positive examples like these.
Related. Syntax.fm podcast interviewed the creator of Wordle[0]. In it he talked about seeing a talk[1] about adding "juice" and how it influenced some of the UX decisions for the game. I personally think that Wordle had the perfect amount a juice for what it was, a web game that involved text/reading.

I think it's nice to add some juice to website/apps but they are not games and I think should be kept at a minimum. Know your audience. I don't want any of my finance related apps full of unnecessary juice, but that doesn't mean I don't want feedback for any processes I'm waiting for. Sometimes apps try to be cool/edgy with fancy transitions and those things look cool the first few times I see it but get annoying after that because I'm having to wait for it every time. Anyways I am rambling but you get the gist, don't overuse juice and the level of juice depends on your audience and the nature of your product.

0. https://syntax.fm/show/430/creator-of-wordle-josh-wardle

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
I simply don't understand why people are upset the ladder is being pulled up after me!?
Religions are claims so I don't see a difference if the person truly believes it. I don't know if your definition of religion is important to what people consider their religion.
The fact that people of similar belief spam facts about global poverty reduction on stories of pessimistic Americans seems to indicate that they do not, in fact, understand this.
I can understand the religion. seems pretty common with the classics. I think they are all pretty similar and none of them condone Microsoft or Apple. :)
The backend doesn't have to do things like respond to user events, persist state, do validation while typing, handle modal dialogs, etc.
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With these sorts of actions by Nintendo, the idea of keeping ROMs as backup for your purchases gains legitimacy.

First party legit online stores for emulated classic titles could be a real disincentive to people playing on third party emulators, if they wanted it to be. But the fact that they'll shut off the stores means people will not consider those purchases to be stable. They'll turn to third party emulators and ROM dumps.
The linked study didn't really make that claim. All it really showed was that only a small portion of inflation was returned in the form of wages. It didn't really attempt to figure out the reasons for the profits.

I don't know why people get so hung up on this though: If you have less stuff to sell, and fewer employees to sell it, your profit margins are going to be higher! That doesn't mean though that you are maximizing your revenue potential. Which is probably why despite all of these reports of "record profits" you are not seeing exploding stock evaluations.

Also, it doesn't hurt that inflation is always going to be favorable to retailers. You buy inventory at the pre-inflation price and sell it at the post-inflation price. Even if you just price to keep up with inflation, you are going to report "record profits" every quarter just by nature of inflation.
Show HN: Mortgage Chat – A bot that answers your awkward home buying questions
Mortgage Chat is a GPT-3.5-powered chatbot that answers your mortgage lending and home buying questions you were too afraid to ask.

Working with mortgage loan officers can be challenging, off-putting, and frustrating.

My goals for this project were:

- Familiarizing myself with in-context learning using GPT3

- Exploring AI's potential in complex domains (non-technology) domains like mortgage lending

- Creating a user-friendly, non-judgmental, and non-commercially motivated tool for 24x7 guidance on anything mortgage-related

How I built it:

- I built the bot using Langchain and used their sample chatbot as a base, although did significant prompt and other tweakings, including building the "next questions to ask" functionality.

- I crawled the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's website for mortgage content. Relevant content is fed to the bot from a FAISS index (Langchain makes this super easy). I used the CFPB as it struck me as the most neutral and factual of various online content sources.

- I also provide the bot with up-to-date mortgage rate data from the Federal Reserve's FRED service.

The bot could definitely be improved:

- I tried letting GPT3 ask the user questions about their mortgage situation in order to be more helpful but found it overly aggressive and off-putting. I think this is definitely feasible, but requires more thought.

- Websockets can be a pain, and I'd probably want to use server-side events in production to stream results to the bot client.

h/t to:

- Langchain and community.

- The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
And to put cherry on top, you will become leaner and healthier. Now THAT will really make them think twice!
I asked in the past for something other than windows, because windows required jumping through hoops to do my job.
How do you say Khan?
>> The masses don't tend to act to project their interests until it's too late.

> The masses are already showing signs of restlessness

IMHO, "restlessness" doesn't mean anything. It would be expected in a AI-driven usurpation of labor. People have already been restless for decades due to de-industrialization, and that mainly got us Trump and an opioids, but the factories are still gone.

The key to fucking over the masses is making sure the "restlessness" doesn't get too strong, and doesn't have a clear (and correct!) villain identified, and maintaining a sense of inevitability.

> I don't think the masses will wait all that long.

IMHO, they probably will. Any individual or small group who takes action will be pilloried as wackos and thrown in jail. A larger movement will be (rightly) characterized as an insurrection and dealt with harshly.

People are complacent, and often don't realize they're really losing something until it's already slipped from their fingers.

I also think the Western world lacks the ideological tools to stop technologies like this. They'd basically have to start looking at technology like Amish do: rejecting technology that would undermine their social structure, rather than expecting the social structure to adapt to the technology.
Axios HQ (software spun off from Axios) raises $20M to build tools with OpenAI
Turbo GPT – A Python based wrapper for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. Reversed engineered
Hello everyone. I have been working hard on reverse engineering openAI's chatGPT to build turboGPT a much faster chat GPT api. With turbo GPT you can intergrate GPT4 in an API like fashion into you're own projects. Please refer to the github for more details

https://github.com/daan-dj/TurboGpt
Electronic circuit design using ChatGPT/GPT4
Blog post about my Twitter discussion with @alexandrosM where we had ChatGPT/GPT4 create electronic designs using SKiDL.
> what does the outlook look like policy wise for the UK

Sunak will gracefully lose the next election, by a lot, but a lot less than Truss or BJ would have lost it by, and having helped to slow the freefall in reputation by the Tories and steadied the economy a bit. Keir Starmer will be a decent and competent but dull leader for two terms, and the who the heck knows. But the next ten years or so should be pretty dull, in a good, centrist sort of way, ideally culminating in rejoining the EU.
I recently showed the (old) React Hooks documentation to my 70-year-old mentor, a comp sci PhD who started on punch cards and never stopped. I wish I had taken a reaction video of the flabbergasted look on his face when he was reading the React docs section titled "Classes Confuse People and Machines" (https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#classes-con...).

Now, I like React, more or less. But some of the discussion around React reminds me of Wimp Lo from Kung Pow ("...we trained him wrong as a joke..."). For instance, the whole immutability for performance thing (I get it, but lol). Or statements like this: "[w]ith Hooks, you can extract stateful logic from a component so it can be tested independently and reused" (thank God someone finally figured out how to reuse stateful logic in software /s).
15898 Neuzelle is an asteroid, right? Can we AI-generate a photo of it crashing into newatlas.com headquarters?
Thanks I missed that email while skimming
The same is true with 3d printing, most is just 2.5d.
Information has different levels of value depending on what the user needs to do with it. It's kind of like how two individual pieces of "unclassified" info are...well, Unclassified but putting the two together as a cohesive whole that provides further context turns it into "classified" info. All it takes is a little bit of time for actors working with the funding and compute capacity of a major nation to scrape the entirety of Github, dump it in a data processing tool none of us know about, and make the correlations you and I cannot.

This leak opened a time window big enough for that to happen. We may or may not know if it did. I doubt this info would be offered to the public because it would sink the business.
>I don't think there was a magical point in consolidation that let them increase the price of eggs ad hoc. Or a magic 'greed' button that they refused to hit before now. Why not just make it $30 an egg?

I'm not sure this can be approached from a rational examination of economic premises alone. You raise good questions. However political economy also should be considered.

Let us imagine for a moment that this narrative is being advanced to deflect from government largess in the economy. Under this scenario court economists have an interest in protecting the regime, while the regime and academic institutions generally have a symbiotic relationship. If these incentives make sense, the narrative can be better understood in this political context.

Unfortunately this hypothesis suggests that there is very little we can say here without this discussion devolving into the regular flames we see on this topic.
I don't see this happening any time soon, but it would be really nice to see an 11.6 inch Framework intended for the education market. The new N series "Intel Processor" (aka Celeron/Pentium) CPUs are actually quite powerful considering they have a 6 watt TDP. The only problem would be the price.
I'm having trouble understanding how much of food shrinkflation is down to actual costs going up versus exploiting the current market dynamics to squeeze more profit.

I understand it's probably a mix of both, but it's hard to tell the relative proportion as a consumer.
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IMO, that growth makes sense given:

1. Lower friction because more stores offer free/cheap delivery with decent CX (maybe also wider SNAP acceptance?)

2. Higher opportunity cost for low-income shoppers because of labor market gains (maybe also higher gas prices?)

3. Lingering wariness of high-touch public spaces (not sure about this one, but I still see masks here in Seattle)

The pandemic created a big pull-forward in this demand, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the trend continue.
As someone new to React, but who has used Webpack, I'm glad that CRA is gone.

It felt like "ravioli code" to me, and it seemed wrong that everyone was reluctant to use "eject", but then you couldn't configure any of the underlying tools, like Webpack, easily either.

Tools should be easily composable, they shouldn't be clumped together with an inflexible "ravioli" abstraction.
Converted my homelab media server from CentOS 8 to Stream 8 early last year, haven't noticed an appreciable difference in stability or use-case. Stream 8 is EOL next year though, so I'm considering options of what to move it to.

At work an intentional decision was made to avoid migrating any prod/dev systems (previously on CentOS 7/8) to CentOS Stream.
Then they're able to use an unreleased plugin. A user being able to do something that the company intends to prevent is a vulnerability.
It's not a library. I think this would be a valid argument if it was an actual library.

jquery was a library. React is a framework because you're passing in code to React, which it then uses to do things like render components and respond to state changes.

React misleadingly called itself a library to distinguish itself from more batteries-included frameworks like Angular.
As a rule of thumb, its never about altruism.
Conservative Govt has proven to be a disaster and people will vote in Labour out of frustration despite knowing they will almost certainly do worse.

Not optimistic for the next ten years or so.
Considering the looooong tail of these repos are forks with no changes, sample code, toy projects abandoned after a single commit, etc. etc., I'd say it's pretty far fetched.

For proof, try searching for a mundane string in GH Code search. The vast majority of repos you see will be basically garbage.
Pretty sure they all were :-)
> The novelty of a "religious idea" shouldn't be a factor as to whether it should be regarded as valid.

This would lead to effective anarchy and defiance of local and national law. It must be regarded as a 'strongly held' belief.
Nooooot a great time for innovation (read: productivity)