skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cheshire Cat is an open source, customizable AI architecture:
- language model agnostic (works with OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace models, custom)- long term memory
- can use external tools (APIs, other models)- can ingest documents (.pdf, .txt)
- 100% dockerized- extendible via plugins

Waiting for you to try it out and contribute with tutorials, code, and whatever makes you happy

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/pieroit/cheshire-cat
In a timely fashion, their most recent tweet [1] asks:

"We need YOU...

... to reply with a clip of your worst tech fail!

Our favorite submissions might make it into an upcoming Techquickie video."

Think this might get included? :)

[1] - https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1638680638185435136
Might be, sure. But we have social security, lower costs of living and stuff like that. We need to compare real compensation plus other soft factors like happiness, feeling of security etc. Also talking about the top 1% is not that interesting, because most companies behaving like they are FAANG just aren't FAANG ;)

/edit: but I agree that wages need to increase in Europe overall for developers!
Alex talked about this 6 years ago. It's not the AI, it's the people controlling the AI developing a God complex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZPCp8SPfOM&t=6610s
PayPal has not dropped it is still at 72.7 relative to yesterday close at 74.34
It's pretty easy to find articles about it on Bing Chat.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indi...

Also this appears to be the Indictment document: https://www.scribd.com/document/580028043/Bola-Ahmed-Tinubu-...

Considering the needlessly passive aggressive tone, I would assume you are a supporter. Maybe it can be more useful conversation if you write your perspective on the matter instead of demanding easy to find articles about the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Heroin Trafficking Indictment?
Yes, there are two key things here I think.

1 - we don't hold everything in working memory. We don't even hold everything in our heads, we store things elsewhere. We then learn/have ways of bringing relevant information to the fore.

2 - we have roles that we take on.

The hierarchy/collaboration of differently prompted roles gives rise to a lot more depth. I already had this with a two LLM conversation about planning (one planner and one plan critic), drove out much more detailed actionable plans.

With the information hierarchy, for code you'd probably want something like:

High level goal summary/product description. Lower level summary about the area you're looking at. API docs of linked components. Full code of the class you're altering.

That's roughly what I have in mind I guess when working on a problem.
Hindenberg has a very good track record of accurate reports
Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply! Actually I was thinking of JetBrains IDEs, but I totally get why you're creating features for your own IDE line. If JetBrains want a similar feature, perhaps they'll have to build it themselves. Hopefully that actually is possible and OpenAI's stuff isn't now locked behind an exclusivity deal.
My reasons for picking who I bank with are based on risk & needs. I personally don't have more than $250k in cash, but I bank with who I do because they are convenient (ATMs everywhere across the US, for one) and they are one of the largest financial institutions on the planet.
Worse than government organizations. Government organizations have to follow all sorts of pesky rules about what they can do e.g. the first amendment. Corps can do whatever, so the government loves to use them as puppets to do what they want when the rules don't allow them to it themselves e.g. banning porn and banning people talking about the COVID lab leak.
So can a PC, a car or a cat. You're not making any point here.
Remember that AI work with electrons, and we are of atoms.
We should focus on where electrons control atoms, and reduce those points.
Of particular concern is that AI may be a very strong investor with the right prompts.
AI could also figure out how to use any other software.
Which can be used to gain access to any marketplace, including the dark ones.
Which means AI can use money (electrons) to pay others to modify the world (atoms).

Of course, there is already a problem, as you point out.
Humans shouldn't have access to these markets either!

But yeah to specifically prevent electron-on-atom violence we need to limit AI physical degrees-of-freedom. by limiting marketplaces. National/global security, not personal morality, should guide these new regulations.

We need to end all drive-by-wire automobiles, and electronic locks. Too many services are habituated to act on electronic signals without human confirmation - particularly the police. There needs to be an unbroken verbal chain between the person who saw an event and the person doing the law enforcement. Breaks in the human chain should be treated very seriously -they should be treated as firing offenses, at least. There are many other similar changes we're going to need to make.

Some folks aren't gonna like this. Regulations are inherently evil, they say. Maybe the mental model should be more like we're the big bad gorilla in the cage. But now there's a tiger in the cage. Regulation restrains the tiger. Also, some folks aren't gonna like it no matter what change you need. The fact of not liking it doesn't mean we don't need it, and it doesn't mean it won't get done. We have to trust that our leaders don't want to die.

And besides, the world will adapt. It always does. AI isn't optional, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle - and personally I don't want to. But I also don't want to be stupid about the stakes. Getting our whole species killed for lack of foresight would be deeply, deeply embarrassing.
First of all, hacking the electronic system is much much harder than hacking the paper process. In the case at hand the paper tallying process was the one hacked.

And second, electronic systems can create a paper trail, just make the electronic machine spit out a paper receipt. Then you have the best of both worlds, you can have instant electronic totals, and then do some random sampling recounts of the receipts to validate the result.
> Just about all of silicon valley seems to have run the longest and broadest grift we've seen.

What do you mean by this
How would that work look from a use perspective? Would Google not list them? Would app stores drop them? Would the app work for existing installs?
Not me, no, but I know some of the dramatis personae from way back then.
I guess... It's just the format that doesn't work for me. I'm not really into short video. I'm more of a long read person. Even the long videos that YouTube does don't interest me. I might watch only one YouTube a month, usually because what I need is not available elsewhere.

I find written content much more to the point and much more accessible. But short nonsense snippets like Twitter don't interest me either.

So with TikTok basically being the Twitter of video it's not useful to me.
Ford recalled 18 vehicles. It knew exactly which ones had the problem. Pretty interesting.
> Here's one example: GPT-4 was actually done back in August of last year. If their goal was to maximize profit, the obvious thing to do would be to release API access to it as soon as possible.

They did that, that's how Reid Hoffman got early access to write his book, that's how Microsoft got access to start working on Bing/ChatGPT4 for a cool $10 billion and that's how countless of other got early access. Got the money, got the marketing and got the synchronized deployment of multiple use cases by a selected crew of companies and they get to say the corpspeak of 'we care, we didn't release on August!'. This is taken from the Apple iOS SDK book, you make the API changes and release privately to have the announcement and a parade of implementations by third party to prove that it is viable.
Protecting the business interests of prostitutes is a lower priority than minimizing abusive sex trafficking.
That's not true: from my understanding equity compensation plans fit in here, and that's the vast majority of companies (or really nearly all of them, at least for executive staff).
I am curios how this will play out because I believe this has nothing to do with privacy or Chinese spying. Instead congress is being lobbied by Facebook[1] and co to remove a competitor from the playing field that is currently eating their lunch.

One scenario I can see is that the US will ban TikTok while the EU will implement much stricter privacy rules which would need to be adhered by TikTok and all the other (Instagram, Facebook etc). Effectively making the whole reason the US is going to ban TikTok moot.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

EDIT: Spelling
If I understand correctly, the linked article is grossly misleading.

Yes, it could well be that publishers would like to kill libraries and controlled digital lending—but AFAICT this suit[1] is about UNCONTROLLED digital lending: during the pandemic, archive.org began lending out more copies of eBooks than they actually owned, on the (IMHO morally justified but legally tenuous) basis that, because libraries were closed, it was reasonable to allow people to access electronically books that they were unable to access physically.

I think it would be great if the law allowed that, but I'm fairly sure it doesn't, so while I think the publishers are being jerks here, they seem to be legally in the right, and while I'm concerned that the Internet Archive's liability will be devastating to that organisation's future (losing web.archive.org would be an abhorrent consequence), claiming that this suit is about CDL or trying to shut down libraries seems to be rather disingenuous.

[1] https://publishers.org/news/publishers-file-suit-against-int...
This observation made me re-interpret the motivation behind Zuckerberg's attempt to start the "metaverse."

If Meta's core business of advertising on social media becomes irrelevant, his company is in trouble. But if the company is already the leader of the technology that replaces social media—e.g. connections over VR—the company can remain a leader and keep growing.

Zuckerberg might be wrong that the "metaverse" is the next step (it absolutely feels more manufactured than a natural next step like with ChatGPT), but I see why he might want to get ahead of his core business losing its value to a new innovation—such as by releasing VR headsets and encouraging people like journalists to consider VR meetings.

In contrast, the Bard release is more reactive, rather than a release that takes the initiative to introduce a new technology.
If this was not a PR move, but a desire to get a sense for work conditions, real problems, etc, it would not be publicized.
Because he seemed to me like a nice guy genuinely excited about crypto and blockchain in general. He does touch on the topic of regulations but nothing in his lectures would make you think just a few years later he will be leading the SEC, cracking on crypto exchange companies and pushing on regulations with an iron fist.
I can try and find a couple of the movies. Like I said, I don't watch them, so I've basically only seen the sizzle reels.

I'll bet there's some folks here, that actually watch the movies, and could point to better stuff.
Basically useless? I use it to write articles for me[0], hardly could a human turn text around as fast, and I both do not pay it nor owe it anything. It could be slower still, and if you went back just 5 years to 2018 it would seem a miracle to our past selves, just for the quality output.

[0]: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/the-generative-revie...
I wonder if any of this is as a result of any of their big tech clients scaling back their TVC usage. Google, for example, has about 180,000 FTEs and another 180,000 TVCs. One might reasonably assume that, if an enterprise were to go on an efficiency drive, lots of process rationalization & simplification would occur, obviating he need for so many vendor supplied staff.

That said, Accenture is like most of the big consulting & outsourcing firms in having a stack ranking review process that encourages low performers to leave.
A tractor is not better than humans at plowing, it is a plowing machine, so can do it at scale without suffering the same fatigue men experience, but it's not better at it, it simply does it mechanically in a way only a machine could do it.

Running and plowing are not simply about doing it as fast as possible or as extensively as possible.

So maybe what you are looking for is a definition of "better", it depends on what you mean.

In my book a tailor made suit is always better than a machine made suit, because people are better tailors than machines for some definition of better.
Tldr: AI will become so good that we're going to forget how to "live, laugh, love" and instead we slowly insane ourselves out of existence. Yes, I used insane as in a verb. That's how he intends this threat will unfold.
You're thinking management consulting, like Bain or McKinsey. Accenture is a body shop. They put butts in seats for IT service contracts, typically for the lowest price point for clients.
The front cross-beam? The single most structurally-important part in the couch? That is telling.
Just don't use hooks. Why people think they are obliged to do the switch eludes me, feels like some kind of cargo cult.
I feel this is a bit different. At least O_TRUNC is an option that is shown in documentation right next to the open() function so the programmer has the opportunity to spot it. With the FileSavePicker, there is no such option available and they have to add a line to manually truncate the stream. Also, open() is a low-level call, whereas FileSavePicker is the supposedly easy-to-use high level feature. I would say it is closer to fopen(), which does truncate by default.
Since these GPT chatbots (Bing or Google) are likely to take a large dent out of search, I wonder how Google will monetize it. Google gets most(?) of its revenue from AdWords and similar paid rankings, but it seems having Bard give answers that promote companies that paid for placement would be problematic (unless somehow transparent to the user). Maybe they'll end up having a box next to Bard's reply with a list of paid links that are relevant to the question asked. If Google doesn't figure it out, they're going to be in a world of trouble. Microsoft is in a better position since Bing isn't such a large part of its revenue stream.

This also makes me wonder whether Apple will come out with its own LLM chatbot which could be its opportunity to wean itself off Google.

And if Meta manages to successfully integrate its LLM into its products FB, IG, etc., then it keeps users there for web searches.

Either way, Google's future looks precarious right now.
Well, you technically can, but few individuals will be issuing mortgages to the average joe.
Did anyone read the report? The summary is quite short. Seems like a nothing-burger.
Interesting. Apparently server-sent events show up in devtools under the network tab as multiple responses sent for the same request.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/46075339/6417784
Interesting. Does this violate Midjourney's TOS at all?
Ja, genau. Actually, his parents were Polish but moved to Austria.

Fascinating guy.
I just created a userscript to hide "GPT" from HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050
The parent comment mentions the battle of Isandlwana. This kind of "winning beats honour" thinking is what King Shaka used to bring the Zulu army to regional dominance circa 1820s onwards, displacing other tribes. This brought the Zulu army to Isandlwana in 1879 to defeat the British.

The British of course did not admit defeat, they just came back with more men and bigger guns, to displace the Zulus.
We did! And it did work. And there are def some great things that I (we) love about k8s. Personally, the declarative aspect of it was chef's kiss. "I want 2 of these and 3 of these, please", and it just happens.

Which is the primary reason why we did investigate k8s on-prem. We had already done the work to k8s-ify the apps, let's not throw that away. But running k8s on-prem is different than running your own k8s in the cloud is different than running on managed k8s in the cloud.

Providing all of the bits k8s needs to really work was going to really stretch our team, but we figured with the right support from a vendor, we could make it work. We worked up a spike of harvester + rancher + longhorn and had something that we could use as if it were a cloud. It was pretty slick.

Then we got the pricing on support for all of that, and decided to spend that half million elsewhere.

We own our hardware, we rent cabs and pay for power & network. We've got a pretty simple pxeboot setup to provision hardware with a bare OS that we can use with chef to provide the common bits needed.

It's not 'ultimately flexible in every way', but it's 'flexible enough to meet the needs of our workloads'.
Money is inherently interconnected with government. It is the government that issues money. It is government that demand that taxes is paid using their money. It is government that issue regulations for finance, and it is government that enforce laws that protect money and the processes around money. It is governments that generally insures banks.

I am perfectly fine with banks being exempted from first amendment rules if the bank has no relation with governments and when the government do not depend on banks to operate the financial system within the nation. Otherwise the bank is just an extension of the government, indistinguishable from a government department.
Being a solo indie dev isn't that fun either. You're looking for an investment of 1-4 years, without pay and without a guarantee that you're going to get it shipped and that it's going to pay you back.

Game development can be risky, especially if you've got bigger ambitions for your game. It all sounds great in your head, but progress is much slower. I spent 8 months on Unreal Engine, 8 months that I'm never going to get back, and I was never able to ship anything. Game development takes time and if you're someone who doesn't already have an expertise in asset creation, it's going to be even harder.

Speaking from a 3D game developer perspective, It also requires investment, not just hundreds of dollars but sometimes thousands because you can't do everything on your own. It's more than just 3d models, it involves animations, sound design, texture work, putting it all together and presentation and story and voice acting. So much stuff for a single person to handle.

It's great when you do not mind failure and putting 2–3 years into void, terrible when you expect something better than mediocrity.

Regular software development (web apps and apps) imho is much more rewarding. It takes less time to build an MVP, you can do it almost everything for $0 these days.
Just like we’ve seen in some human populations.
Who is going to issue mortgages, if not banks?
I was using the =GOOGLEFINANCE function, which outputs a table, and was having trouble querying Google on how to get Google Sheets to give me just one cell in that table because, like you said, online tutorials aren't the best. Given a descriptive query, ChatGPT was able to tell me to use the INDEX function pretty much immediately.
> If you ask me, the publishers want to move to a "rent model" like many software companies and even some Auto makers are moving towards. That means every time you read you electronic book, you pay them a small amount. With Libraries gone, that could be the next step.

They already enforce this on libraries. Unlike physical books which can be kept until they physically wear out or are destroyed (and even then they can be rebound and most libraries have some kind of book binding tools or access), the ebooks that libraries 'buy' are often artificially limited in terms of number of times they can be used. So libraries 'buy' an ebook that can be lent X amount of times with 1-2 'concurrent' lends. It's all so stupid.
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
Is Working from Home Really Working?
At this point i'm more surprised how steadfast the believe in Googles success from their investors seems to be. Stock is stable as ever. The HN crowd - a good indicator for future tech trends - doesn't seem impressed anymore.
My question is if I could do this would you be willing to put your money in a account at my bank?

This investment banker stuff seems like a huge waste of time and effort.

In fact, so does working for money when anyone can just make the stuff out of electrons. This is the promise of cryptocurrency. I hear it is on a huge bounce back and will continue to rise --- expect BTC is currently down about 4.5% from yesterday.
That's covered in the article.
Chat GPT is a consumer product and hardly the pinnacle of AI research. We have no clue what is getting developed for million dollar private contracts
Your entire argument here is a shining example of how the growing complexity of react has raised the bar of skill for competence rather than being a victim of lowering the bar.

Think back to the webdev world before react. Was it really that the average dev was more competent, or that the tools of the day were in fact more simple to use? Sure there are more and less efficient ways to use jquery, but unlike react you didn't have to keep so much in your head at once while building a simple feature.

React was designed to be a UI component library. We keeping asking more of it and stuffing more and more complexity into react so that monolithic frameworks can be built with it. It was never designed with that goal in mind and is taking more and more complex features to try to keep that ship afloat.
In the second image, the tiles look like West Virginia.
Acceleration of 1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice
I have heard that. I didn't spend much time in homes. I was in offices and factories, and they were robust as hell. My company's original factory was built after WWI, and may have just been knocked down, a few years ago (it may still be standing -they sold it).
For artists Midjourney/StableDiffusion/etc. are already a very real and surprisingly effective threat.
I did an internship there years ago and was profoundly useless.
I'm pretty sure that GPT powered bots are here to stay -- this is not like Google+
https://archive.is/6nAqW
Lanier has been around during the last AI hype cycle in the 80's, he's seen it all rise and collapse already (same with VR btw).

In general he should know what he's talking about when it comes to tech hype cycles ;)
There are a handful of people - Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet... That over the years have proven that thesis false. The vast majority do not beat the market, but the vast majority are investing on emotion and fads.

I would have completely missed amazon and google, but there were other companies that would for a while grow at better than market rates that I would have found (or so I think!), and would have been able to get out of in time (this isn't hard because I don't need to call the top, I can be off by many months and still have a nice return). These companies carry much less downside risk vs dot coms - most of which failed, and part of doing well long term is ensuring that your losses are not good because you will have them from time to time.

Note that you don't have to beat the market by much to pull this off so long as you live cheap those first years.
That's the foil company, not the tobacco company.

This is probably the link you meant to post:

"Reynolds American parent BAT named third-highest rated ESG performer in global ranking"

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reynolds-american-p...
I've written code in Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu & PopOS) for years, and man, Windows and Mac are so far behind GNOME in every aspect.

Today I think I even prefer Windows + WSL rather than Mac.