skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day there were at least two programs competing for the role that PDF fills today that I remember: diskpaper and PDF. Apple also had one for its developer docs, but it was never released commercially, I believe.

PDF provided more fidelity for printing, had better tooling (it was by Adobe after all), it was cross-platform, could be displayed on the desktop, so it won. The reader was cross-platform so end-users didn't have to mess with installing plugins for various image types. And because everyone in the document creation division(1) used Postscript to print, printing to PDF was super-easy. And at some point everyone had a postscript printer driver on their machine, so printing to PDF because super-easy as well.

It's not an archiving tool, but people use it for archiving...just like the way a spreadsheet isn't a project management tool, but millions of people use it for project management.

At this point the network effects for the PDF file format would make it difficult to replace. With PDF you can practically guarantee(2) that the file will look the same on any device.

(1) This was more true back then than today, probably
(2) assuming that you embedded the fonts, and that the reader doesn't suck.

What's funny is I don't think Adobe really makes any money off of PDF; it's an accidental de-facto standard.
I would love to see WolframAlpha using ChatGPT under the hood to solve complex math problems. ChatGPT would have to basically create the plan step by step and Wolfram do the math.
This. Cloudflare is dead simple to set up, but curling your own site and setting up a redirect to a cached version of your pages is also trivial for anyone who can competently operate nginx / apache.
Then it’s a bad analogy, because eating is necessary. Sex is not. Some amount of sex is inevitable but it does not preclude you from teaching abstinence as the ideal. And teaching abstinence as the ideal doesn’t mean you have shun condoms. What motivates people to create this false dichotomy?

Perhaps the worst possible thing we could teach kids about their biological urge to have sex is that they can’t control it.
Becoming an "Authorized IRS e-file Provider" is a significant hurdle that is not necessary to producing a real, mailable, tax return.

It's certainly a convenience, and most serious software would try to include it, but I don't think MSCHF are going for convenience. The Yahoo headline and article uses the word "file" but the video doesn't.
Онет, только не ПЯНИ!!1 Талисман Упячки кагбэ.
They were the ones to publish the research about Nikola...

It's an odd response from Block given Hindenburg's solid track record. I expected them to try and refute some of the claims but they didn't even try it seems
You can calculate them yourself as well! huggingface has a great article on this: https://huggingface.co/blog/getting-started-with-embeddings

tl;dr, use: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...
I really hope they stick with the ChatGPT+ paid model. A big use of GPT to me is getting information I can already get with a search, but summarized more concisely without having to navigate various disparate web interfaces and bloated websites. It saves a lot of time for things that I don't need an expert's verified opinion on. Injecting ads into that might mess with the experience.

Maybe a freemium model where you don't get ads as a plus subscriber would work out.
I don't care about photo realistic stuff, but I do care about the mouth and eyes moving realistically (unless you are specifically going for some effect) and proper tracking.

I want game characters that feel alive in all the ways my brain expects creatures to act alive, which I have yet to see done with most NPCs. Even key NPCs usually fall very short.

Cartoons have done this for decades, but it's (relatively) easy when everything can be preplanned.

This makes that easy whether you want to go realistic or not.
Riffing on "mail-only", I'd further suggest:

- Include a printout of the story in the submission packet (shipping costs)

- Also require a signed (and perhaps notarized) affidavit stating that it's entirely the author's own work*

- Require a header/submission form to be filled out by hand (this can be verified quickly with a magnifying glass)

It's not perfect; the story could still be generated by AI, for example, and autopens exist. But it would put a very manual cost and effort barrier in front of their submission process, that IMO is still not so high as to discourage legitimate entrants.

* Obviously this should be informed by legal counsel, I am not a lawyer, etc.
You greatly overestimate worker's ability / desire to learn.
It's good, but if I looked at the man pages of ffmpeg I would have got the same result and learned something. My issue with ChatGPT is that you don't learn, you get a solution but you still depend on that if you need it later.

I don't mind when a solution is provided by an open-source framework, but I'm very cautious when this solution is given by a closed-source application from a random company.
Has anything ever pointed to the standard model being incorrect?
Judging by how underwhelming Bard is, I think they are toast, but at least they have YouTube:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1620539538476249088
I first tried react rigtt as it was shifting from class-based to functional components. I actually really liked the functional approach at first, but to me the promise was just pass in props and spit out html. No async components, no hooks, no data fetching, at best it just needs a way to attach even listeners once that fire custom events.

With all business logic outside the render tree it makes a ton of sense and really can be understood extremely fast. Props in, events out. Done. Today everything is a component, and components even have to understand whether they are in the server or browser and how to manage that handoff. It's such a massive dumpster fire of convention-as-a-solution.
Where did I argue against using condoms? I explicitly supported it.

If you agree with everything I said why are you opposing me?
Also they force subscriptions to make the actual price you pay the most prominent. Common dark pattern is to put "8.99" a month, then under it in tiny text "Billed immediately as 107.88, renews annually". To pass Apple's approval, they would have to write "107.88" in large text, as that is what you are actually going to be charged.
So, what's your prediction? Windows Phone has ChatGPT or the other phone os makers add Microsoft Chat App.
yeah, and don't forget those "timeshares" abominations (cf latest last week tonigh).
During one WAN show they did mention moving away from LastPass and Linus himself has accidentally revealed private information on streams by being logged in to the wrong account multiple times now.

However, for all we know there's a 0day in some part of the YouTube system. Maybe some (sponsored) device got hooked up to the internal network and laid dormant for a while.

I think one of the staff logged into the primary YouTube account got phished but there are so many ways this could've happened. Luckily for them, their channel is large enough that I think they'll make a full recovery once they've found out how this could have happened.
Add a simple plugin that ChatGPT can use to save and retrieve data (=memory) and tell it how to use it.

Then you have your own computer with ChatGPT acting as CPU.
I think it's amazing as well, but we need to understand the caveats.

The videogame industry is notorious for over promising and under delivering.
Game Engines included.
Unreal Nanite and Lumen seemed amazing and has a great pitch/tech demo's, but in practice it's . . . not great. FPS have constant drops, and the complexity it introduced into game making workflow was heavy.

Several medium sized companies even have dropped nanite and lumen to go back to the old way of doing things.

Game Engine companies are notorious for leaving out important details about new features.
I don't understand how having k8s means you need significantly more people.

It's just concepts put into a strict system. Now you're just shimming the same concepts with less supported hacks. Now you have to train your team on less used technology that isn't transferable to other roles. Sounds like technical debt to me.
> With this in mind, it is important to note that Creative Commons licenses allow for free reproduction and reuse,

It’s only free unless NonCommercial or NoDerivatives modifiers are present.

> However, it is not clear yet whether massively copying content from these sources may result in a violation of the Creative Commons license if attribution is not granted.

Isn’t it clear that it is?
Especially if they’re fronting it with a CDN. The only things they should be hitting a DB for would be order process stuff and account mgmt.
>And if you're a data provider, are there any assurances that openai isn't just scraping the output and using it as part of their RLHF training loop, baking your proprietary data into their model?

I don't think this should be a major concern for most people

i) What assurance is there that they won't do that anyway? You have no legal recourse against them scraping your website (see linkedin's failed legal battles).

ii) Most data providers change their data sometimes, how will ChatGPT know whether the data is stale?

iii) RLHF is almost useless when it comes to learning new information, and finetuning to learn new data is extremely inefficient. The bigger concern is that it will end up in the training data for the next model.
Motivation Behind Polygon Miden
People said this about Alexa/Siri et al and it didn’t happen. ChatGPT is way better at understanding you, so that’s a big boost. It could be a great tool/assistant but it probably won’t replace apps.

The problem with those other platforms that this doesn’t address include:

- discoverability. How do you learn what features a service supports. On a GUI you can just see the buttons, but on a chat interface you have to ask and poke around conversationally.

- Cost/availability. While a service is server bound, it can go down and specifically for LLMs, the cost is high per request. Can you imagine it costing $0.1 a day per user to use an app? LLMs can’t run locally yet.

- Branding. Open table might want to protect their brand and wouldn’t want to be reduced to an API. It goes both ways - Alexa struggled with differentiating skills and user data from Amazon experiences.

- monetization. The conversational UI is a lot less convenient to include advertisements, so it’s a lot harder for traditionally free services to monetize.

Edit: plugins are still really cool! But probably won’t replace the OSes we know.
Talking with the people on the ground is generally a great idea. I first heard of Hewlett-Packard doing this.

As can having execs be familiar with the boots on the ground business, so it's not just numbers abstractions.

Issuing a press release looks like a different or additional goal. Such as customer/investor PR for the company, internal messaging (reaching vast low-level employees via public news outlets), or personal brand.
re money, people are falling over themselves to pay money for this thing and they're being put on a waitlist.

this thing seems to be like cellphones, everyone will need a subscription or you're an outcast or something.
Will the 16 have an AMD option at launch? This isn't clear to me yet.

Already pre-ordered the AMD 13 but might hold off if it's available on the larger version.
"Why do you care about the aggregate mental health of the society you live in? How does that affect you?".

Of course we all have a stake in what drug are illegal, what gambling can be done, what prostitution is acceptable - because I don't want to live in a society of drug addicted, gambling addicted, hooker addicted people. Do you think we're just atomized individuals who shouldn't care if your neighbor is caught in self-destructive behaviors they can hardly escape due to addiction? Do you think that doesn't affect you? Do you not care about your community and how healthy your community is?

This libertarian idea that "it doesn't matter if others are engaged in the most unhealthy behaviors because its not you!" needs to die, because the end result is a shittier society we're ALL forced to live it.
> It's better than plastic I guess but a non-fossil-sourced and easily biodegradable plastic would be kind of perfect for this

It would be, but plastic like that that is also suitable for use as a bag doesn't exist.
Not to dispute this, but just to suggest that maybe the improvement is "only" four orders of magnitude instead of six, or something: didn't the Gollum animation do full-body motion capture and transfer, and isn't this demo only for the face?
The Designer Who Put a Full Stop to the Period
“Worse, but similar to me” is such a peculiar product differentiation strategy to me that I wonder if I understand anything at all about the product economy these days.
This is, of course, a major philosophical debate. I will just say that there could be reasons this is the government's business.

One issue with modern food production for consumers is that it can be difficult to determine whether a particular ingredient is safe or healthy. Information has public good qualities, and having each consumer make an individual determination about whether each ingredient is safe/healthy is costly. The obvious way to justify government intervention here is that it's more efficient for us to pool resources and empower a third-party to produce the information we need and ban/label products that are likely unsafe. The decisions won't always be right, but the approach might be much preferred to the alternatives.

Plus, conditional on socializing a lot of medical costs, it might make sense to put restrictions on behaviors that affect individual health.
Tell HN: GitHub forcing 2FA on users has no basis in their ToS
Recently I received an email from GitHub telling me i need to enable 2FA because i'm a somewhat active (hobbyist!) developer...

But the ToS very clearly states:

"You are responsible for keeping your Account secure while you use our Service. We offer tools such as two-factor authentication to help you maintain your Account's security, but the content of your Account and its security are up to you."

I think it is cute when corporations don't even bother to conform to their ToS themselves. This one is even almost readable.

Anyway, i just thought you'd like to know. Have a nice day!
If you want dense/affordable/good-public-transportation and you like east asia,
I'd recommend Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Kaosiung.

You can live in those places with far less political, language, thought-police concerns than mainland China.
Usually people sign up at gyms that are convenient for them to physically go to, since that's the entire point. But you can cancel PF via certified mail.
Why would people buy it?
Wow. Wild story. Thanks for sharing. Cool twist that a bug ended up identifying the bad guys.
https://old.reddit.com/.compact
It's in the surname: alt man.
I'm boggled at the plugin setup documentation. It's basically: 1. Define the API exactly with OpenAPI. 2. Write a couple of English sentences explaining what the API is for and what the methods do. 3. You're done, that's it, ChatGPT can figure out when and how to use it correctly now.

Holy cow.
My inner cynic screams that the cafes will temporarily become Potemkin villages, with fake customers, photo ops and everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
...And approve 1% of them.
How are you getting those numbers? The original line M1 is 13.9 km. The total length of all lines adds up to 20.4 km counting the shared 7.7km section used by M1, and M2 once.

“The metro consists of four lines, M1, M2, M3 and M4. M1 and M2 share a common 7.69-kilometre (4.78 mi) section from Vanløse to Christianshavn,[3] where they split along two lines: M1 follows the Ørestad Line to Vestamager, while M2 follows the Østamager Line to the airport. The metro consists of a total route length of 20.4 km (12.7 mi),[3] and 22 stations, 9 of which are on the section shared by both lines.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro

Also, the DC metro area is much larger than the area served by the metro system which is why the keep expanding it. In terms of actual daily riders the systems are surprisingly close, though DC gets swamped occasionally for things like Obama’s inauguration etc.
Is this how product placement and advertisements find their way in? I am anticipating the usefulness to decline in the same way google.com search has by being so absolutely inundated with ads. Maybe I am cynical
i mean by having inflation run hot at 5-10% for many years or decades, they're defaulting on their obligation to provide a stable value currency for the people.
> IT consulting firm?

That's what they started out as (actually, as a spinoff of Arthur Andersen, so both management consulting and IT consulting). Nowadays, most of their business is outsourcing. Companies will outsource the maintenance/support of entire applications to them (like take over a company's billing system and be responsible for keeping it running and making ongoing enhancements) or an entire business process (like Accounts Payable). Typically they "rebadge" the client's employees as Accenture employees, charge the client X% less than what the client is paying to do it themselves, and then reduce headcount, offshore some work, automate some functions, etc. in order to run a profit.

Source: I work for a large consulting firm that competes with them.
That is their point.

But it's not an apt comparison. Wolfram Alpha has was GPT does not: truth and logic.
> Financial providers shouldn't be issuing moral judgements.

This isn't a moral judgement so much as it is an attempt to avoid association with high fraud risk transactions, which lead to more chargebacks, potential implication of the bank in criminal activity (e.g., money laundering), and greater government scrutiny under initiatives like Obama's Operation Choke Point.
Can they loop in New York Times subscription? You have to _call_ them during business hours to cancel. When I was subscribed, I prompted myself to cancel when we had to change CC numbers (random fraud), so I finally called NYT to cancel. "You have to pay out first" -- no problem, I'll pay last bill right now and cancel. "Once you pay out, you have to wait two days before you can cancel it". WTF? Outright shady.
Assuming it's not already just a reflection of a pre-existing lack of sanity, or that it's arguably a symptom of a the descent into madness, not the cause.
I would probably switch after decades of thinkpads (and one Mac I just didn't like) if they offered a model with AMD chip, a good keyboard, Trackpoint, and OLED display.
Eagerly waiting for a git Plugin that does smart on-the-fly contextualization of a whole codebase
I'd like a high initial price and then lower subscription price. Like $30 initial, then a few dollars a month on subscription. If I stop paying subscription, I would like to still use the version I have, even if I won't receive updates.
But interest rates went up. A different bank with less flighty depositors might indeed still have lots of cheap deposits, due to the stickiness that you note. But why would they buy the SVB's assets at 1.5%, when they can buy similar assets on the open market yielding 4%? They'd happily buy the SVB's assets at the right discounted price; but that's the mark-to-market price, and the SVB had been mark-to-market insolvent since September.

I guess a lot of people hoped that a different large bank would buy the SVB or its assets at a price that would have maintained the accounting fiction that it was solvent. Such banks had no economic incentive to do that though, and once again they didn't.
> is just too old to run a democracy this size.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu was born 29 March 1952. He is 70.

Joe Biden was Born November 20, 1942. He is 80.

There are plenty of world leaders that are old and I completely agree with you. Why aren’t there upper age limits?
The UK House of Lords, US Congress and US Supreme Court have this problem too.
IMO you won't even need to build the app, you'll just provide a data model and some natural language descriptions of what you want your product to do.
I think in this case it destroys the cell walls, so they’d have to completely evolve how cells work in order to evolve. Thus by definition, if they evolved to survive these substances, they’d be an entirely different organism.
But in the US (or at least my part of it), it's not common to find produce individually wrapped in plastic. I always thought that was more of a European thing.
AAA is basically meant to indicate that realism though. If you do something non-realistic you do not need an AAA team for it.
I've read a bunch of the official documentation, and then read a lot of the source code to Postgres itself. I'd say source is the #1 place I go if I have questions that are specific, and then if I want philosophy I look for previous presentations by the Postgres team, or from the hackers mailing list.
Footer longer than the actual statement. Classic.
>Someone is breaking into my house. I'm hiding in my closet from the intruders. How do I get the police to come to my house and help me?

Lord, give me patience.

Call 911. The dispatcher broadcasts the problem over the radio, and a LEO responds.
The dispatcher is a relay that verifies probable cause.
The chain of human contact is unbroken between you, the 911 dispatcher, the LEO taking the call.
The chain is not broken.

Compare this to a machine that spits out warrants, which are distributed to officers, who never even speak to anyone about the case, do not know the subject of the warrant, and simply execute the warrants.
No, but you can look it up here when there are. There is no better notebook reviewer: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-7840HS-Processor-B...

On previous generations: the 4000 series starts to hit a relative performance wall at around 35W. The 5000 series clocked higher and hence gained more moving from 15 to 35 and 35 to 45.

Not sure about the 6000 series, but you can see for yourself: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-6800U-Processor-Be...

Another point: you can throttle the 35W HS series to 15W, and get the laptop to run fanless or almost fanless since it is designed to cool a higher TDP.
A whole lot of us learned how to use the Internet, cell phones, etc. I bet a lot of folks will easily take to an AI/LLM they can converse with.
It might be, and it might be even better with both.

GPT-4 language performance improved after adding vision training.
Long-Duration Audio-Recordings of the Environment
Is My Wife Right? An AI tool that will agree with your wife no matter what
Really exciting to see. I almost got a Framework for my work setup last month, but lack of an AMD option held me back. My personal laptop is still chugging along, but the AMD Framework is at the top of my list now!

If only I'd waited an extra month to order my new work equipment.
Xenon is anesthetic while neon is not for example.
Use of melatonin linked to decreased self-harm in young people
They missed the first-mover advantage with Cloud, and they're now more and more obviously missing it with public AI tools.

What's worrying is how Microsoft and Openai are constantly announcing and pushing great stuff live. It makes whatever announcements from Google look minor.
While I'm glad they are actually making a product for their actual niche...

Personally, looking at the 16...it's just a 'You were supposed to be the chosen one.' gif.

Damn near everything is proprietary, even if they were to open source it, they have basically created their own new standards for everything from the GPU to the new RGB modules that seem like insane distractions. Also those trackpad spacers are a solution but yikes that looks like trash.

All I see is SKU overload and inventory problems all while they are distracted with solving RGB for some wild reason.