skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you run a summer camp for kids.

Goal: you want all the kids to stay hydrated.

Your options are 1) to have set times when everyone has to lineup to get a water bottle, or 2) have a bunch of water bottles available at all times for anyone to come take when they want.

Option 2 works pretty well since kids know when they are thirsty. (Obviously. Otherwise the kids would all die of thirst under option 1 as well)

A strange phenomenon emerges however when you start with option 1 and then halfway through the summer another counselor attempts to implement option 2. The kids have been preconditioned to expect that they NEED to get a bottle when the bottles are available or they won't have access to water later. It takes some time for the kids to figure out that the waterbottles are now available at all times and they don't need to carry one around all the time "just in case". Till then you have a small riot around the cases of water bottles for a few mornings.

Option 2 distributes the water in a more efficient manner. The kids who spend time playing soccer will take more water than the kids who stay inside playing chess.

This is my own experience as that other counselor. You can work out the analogy, I'm sure.
And I would argue that just language is enough
SEC Charges Justin Sun, TRON and BitTorrent Companies with Fraud
Value proposition, we sends ridiculous low price products to you from merchants. We facilitate the transactions. In return, your personal data’s value will be extracted by us. A high level bargain of privacy disguised in tech.
Or some arbitrary AI accelerator!

Jim Keller should make a Tenstorrent board. They already want to make desktop cards, and that would be a great way to market them.
https://archive.ph/A33Qv
It also impossible to enforce.

And is basically equivalent to “why don’t we just print more money and give it everyone?”.

And anyway a terrible idea.. why do you want to penalize people who have low interest rate mortgages for instance? Anything they’d gain would be offset by inflation…
I ate only McDonald's burgers for two months
A plug-in can detect when text comes up that is in a specific domain and whether or not ChatGPT believes it is hallucinating, the plugin can be invoked to provide additional context to ChatGPT. That is, in order to fix the problem, ChatGPT doesn't even need to know that it has a problem.
> But are there Apps out there where you can pick between say "Beginner and Expert" modes

Yes, plenty. They've never been particularly popular, because they tend to impose an "all or nothing" switch to the user: by going Expert, you're suddenly overwhelmed by loads of options you don't know and don't understand. People mostly prefer a gentler path, where you become familiar with one feature at a time when you need it particularly badly.

This, in theory, would suggest that the best approach is to morph the interface over time, making those advanced-but-useful features easier to access once discovered. But most people also hate interfaces that change, so in practice that approach doesn't work well. Maybe it will all be solved by a ML engine that looks at what you do every day and automatically serves you the features it thinks you'll want; but Microsoft kinda tried that in a bunch of places and I don't think it was particularly successful.
GitHub Copilot and Static Typing = <3
The way the numpad is fully optional on the 16" is great. I get that numpads are non-optional for some but for my usage it's mostly a nuisance, which makes the non-optional numpads on a lot of laptops a near-dealbreaker.
Ahrendts (of Burberry) was such a weird choice, unless Apple's goal at the time was to maximize in-person watch band sales.

Seems Tim eventually realized selling luxury trench coats isn't very similar to premium computer hardware/software. Meanwhile investors had to pay nearly $200 Million in comp for the privilege of her leading this "town square" fantasy (not sure I'd ever consider a store in the mall a community fixture) while ignoring the internet exists.

Would have rather put ChatGPT in charge of the stores and spent that $200M on improving the software that a Billion Apple users spend time with every day.
Well, that and you trust Zapier with a lot of stuff.
"Barney Frank Was Right About Signature Bank. The FDIC all but confirms it closed the bank over crypto."

https://archive.is/MEADq#selection-133.5-137.57

"Everything But the Crypto: Flagstar Scoops Up Failed Signature Bank. While the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) denied reports that any buyer of Signature Bank would need to divest its crypto business, the buyer, New York Community Bancorp-owned Flagstar Bank, did anyway."

https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2023/everything-but-th...
Already a thing?

And is hardware the limiting thing here?

Not the terrible arm OSes?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/lenovo-announces-the...
This sounds like a game-changer for any kind of API interaction with ChatGPT.

At present, we are naively pushing all information a session might need into the session before it might be needed in case it might be needed (meaning a lot of info that generally wont end up being used, like realtime updates to associated data records, needs to be pushed into the session as they happen, just in case).

It looks like plugins will allow us to flip that around and have the session pull information it might need as it needs it, which would be a huge improvement.
This will be wild in a few months when it has a shit ton of extensions built in
I would be interested to play with a long term memory plugin. It could be a note-taking system that would summarize prior conversations and pull their context into the current conversation through topic searches. This would enable the model to have a blurry long term memory outside of the current context.

I played with some prompts and GTP-4 seems to have no problem reading and writing to a simulated long term memory if given a basic pre-prompt.
Knowing that this is one of the biggest sites in the world scares me enough. Now they'll do anything to stay #1. Scary stuff!
After you're an adult, it's pretty tricky to clone you.
I don't disagree but the audio actually gave me a headache. I don't need them to go full WWDC but lets get that audio fixed at least.
The company just demoed ChatGPT integration in their product today in a webinar.

It was interesting, but security concerns have prevented the company from doing more. The only thing demoed was a pretty simple data pipeline creation process with GPT prompts. Essentially just push data from source A to sink B.

They clearly could have done much more than that, but anything beyond that would require pushing potentially sensitive data to OpenAI's APIs. That's been a big red flag at my employer.

It'll be interesting to know how those security concerns can be resolved.
>obviously staff would recognize him

I think it's probable that they wouldn't.
_silence is violence_
What else would a plugin do?
I was just imagining the same UX for Wikipedia like 1h ago.

Search wikipedia about facts being asked. Answer with wikipedia articles context and cite sources.
On top of this, with java, the jvm is itself dynamically linked to libc most of the time.
Orange Pi 5 is a Great and Fast Alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4
It should be rather simple to deal with: if the cancel method is more difficult than the method to subscribe, then the customer does not have to pay any service due if they do not want to. Or with the addendum: its up to the company who deliver the service to prove that the customer has used their service; otherwise, the other party would need to prove.
Worth a lot more than the worthless coins he was hawking then.
It might be countertuive but I've developped a sort of claustrophobia watching heavy cgi/vfx movies, I can't stand layers and layers of fake peoples, cities, ships, cars... It might not be aligned with my political views and might be sad to disclose but I kind of find relaxing watching the true cows, horses and landscapes of Montana in Yellowstone.
Agree entirely. I think system design interviews are partly to blame because they select for people who think that the only way to design a system is the cargo cult method that interview prep books and courses preach, which is:

- break everything into microservices

- have a separate horizontally scalable layer for load balancing, caching, stateless application server, database servers, monitoring/metrics, for each microservice.

- use at least two different types of databases because it's haram to store key-value data in a RDBMS

- sprinkle in message-passing queues and dead-letter queues between every layer because every time you break one system into two, there can be a scenario where one part is down but the other is up

- replicate that in 10 different datacenters because I'll be damned if a user in New York needs to talk to a server in Dallas

And all this for a service that will see at most 10k transactions per second. In other words, something that a single high-end laptop can handle.

99.9% of the time your architecture does NOT need to look like Facebook's or Google's. 99% of tech startups (including some unicorns) can run their entire product out of a couple of good baremetals. Stop selecting for people who have no grounding of what is normal complexity for some given scale.
"Are antique stores, booksellers, taxi drivers, librarians, travel agents, and journalists the enemy of society? They are being destroyed by our friend, the Internet."

Have you cried for horseback couriers? Hell, there are hundreds if not thousands of industries that died with the rise of automobiles. I suppose it's alright to mourn for things that we lose to history, but I don't think it's right to denounce technological progress, especially when it has given us so much.

For all the problems in the world, technology is just there to assist in our own self-destruction. The unfortunate reality is that it is us, human beings, who are our own undoing or remaking in every way; our efforts to do so are just magnified by technology.
I read this as providing ChatGPT with enormous egomania augmented by a huge database of names to drop.
I wish Framework had more color options in their Marketplace (e.g gold, torquise, pink), especially considering how they advertise themselves as being modular / customizable.
Well, this shores up one of ChatGPT's biggest weaknesses, especially GPT4's.

I wonder when we'll see the pace of refinement for this drop off.
salvaging old laptop battery as a power bank made me actually lol in real life.
> impossible to confiscate

If the purpose of the confiscation is simply to freeze the funds, it seems many agencies can do so. If they're patient enough, they'll eventually catch the owner when the funds move.
> and think that this doc is due to the bar for competent developers going down in recent years

"The tool isn't poorly designed, everybody is just too stupid to understand it."
It doesn’t look good at all.

- China and Russia carved off at least 30%+ of global AI, MCU, automobile, IoT, cell phone, robots
- CHIPS act
- RISCV
- Global downturn
- End of Moore’s Law
- Seemingly very low overall datacenter traction after many years
- Apple forked the IP
- Qualcomm has been handed global 5G, SoC market since China modems and silicon banned, gives them tremendous leverage imo

The trade isolationism looks like it will only increase.

It feels like the wheels have fallen off and the train is on fire
I wonder if this sort of thing will become trivial w/ generative models like gans/llms and such. To paraphrase Arnold...If you can parameterize (facial expressions - already not too hard w/ motion capture software), you can generate it?
Reminds me of seeing the chairman of a major fashion label do the same thing - dude was so slick, saw him sell the hell out of the place to 3 women before I left.
Timepix is not public but licensed to commercial vendors as far as I know.

But anyway I appreciate they make such (a readout chip for) detectors available so we could benefit in one of our previous projects (not about particle physics).
Interestingly also a lot of their previously unlisted videos popped up on a channel called LTTtemp following the hack.
Oh but there is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex

Not sure if I linked to the right article, but it was basically compiled scripts/code that was embedded into PDF's that could run arbitrary code.

""Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich web applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.""
Does this functionality provide more than one can build with the GPT-4 API?

Could I get the same by just making my prompt "You are a computer and can run the following tools to help you answer the users question: run_python('program'), google_search('query')".

Other people have done this already, for example [1]

[1]: https://vgel.me/posts/tools-not-needed/
No, that's Do Kwon. Justin Sun is possibly wanted in China, though? I'm not sure.
The fact that the model does not have to rely on its internal knowledge anymore but can communicate literally with any external system makes me feel it may significantly reduce the hallucination.
This is mind blowing. No mention of "cost" or "price" though, I wonder what we'll be looking for (subscription, or per-use).
I feel like people with smart AI's would have an advantage in making smart decisions. Probably at this point they discuss business strategy with some version of it.
Glad to hear that, thanks for sharing :)

Still working out the details (personal vs. business use, subscription vs. perpetual license, pricing, OSS and student discounts, etc.), but here are some preliminary thoughts (TLDR: difficult choice because people don't like subscriptions):

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OrbStack is a product that requires continuous maintenance to components in order to improve over time and prevent security issues. Subscriptions are the only way to align our incentives with yours: we’re incentivized to keep improving the product and moving forward; you want improvements, and you can always cancel if you don’t feel like you’re getting that.

Lifetime: Unsustainable. OrbStack's components need continuous updates: compatibility with new macOS versions, Linux kernel, Docker, other assorted pieces, and new features to stay competitive. This would make it more likely to be discontinued.

Major version upgrades: This incentives us to withhold features for months when they would otherwise be released much faster; we'd rather deliver gradual improvements so you get constant value. Also, major upgrades have a high risk of introducing breaking changes, bugs, and other issues due to a lack of gradual testing. You don’t want massive changes in your dev tools every year, do you?

1-year updates + fallback perpetual: Isn't this more or less a yearly subscription in disguise? Just cancel if you don’t want to keep paying. I know JetBrains does a hybrid of this + subscription — not entirely opposed to it, but it shares a lot of these issues (e.g. incentivizes slower feature development). Realistically, would anyone revert to a year-old version and stay on it forever?

(Also, from our perspective: Sure, less people will pay if it’s subscription-only, but I'd expect long-term recurring revenue to be higher. I’d love to be able to keep expanding the project.)

All that being said, I'm still not sure. Compared to Docker, not being subscription-only could be an advantage, and I want to keep pricing simple. It's a hard problem.

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There's more in the docs at https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free, but this is most of it. I'll have to figure out what the best choice is for OrbStack.
What you're describing is a dopamine rush. I get the same thing when I watch videos of games I was addicted to once. It's not the device itself that causes it.

As a counter-experience: I'm over thirty and only got a modern smartphone a few years ago. The thing is awful. The touch interface is finicky, even after long use. Holding the thing for an extended amount of time is uncomfortable, even after long use. UI design seems universally terrible. All the apps I tried were disorganized and didn't quite serve the purpose I had expected, but they did always give me way too many unlabeled buttons and random pop-ups to tap, and asked for my money/attention every few minutes. The Android OS is obscurantic and loves to give you completely meaningless things to tap: "Tap here to optimize your device", like fucking what? I downloaded a game that appealed to me with loot boxes and sexy characters, but after an initial "wow, phone hardware has come a long way," the novelty wore off very quickly. Frankly, I now loathe the thing. The amount of frustration I've had with it, and the idea that it will just become ever more mandatory as every asshole company and government office loves the idea of shoving you through exactly, for their purposes, calibrated UI that you can't control or argue with -- it outweighs any positive experience I've had from it by a large factor. I don't feel any magic feel-good screen powers, only irritation.
Now there's no excuse to not make an L.A. Noire sequel.
This. Of all of the scary states, Idaho is perhaps the scariest.
It seems insane to include anything with bromine in a food product.
For me they were completely useless too but I've remapped mine to a 3x3 desktop switcher and some other hotkeys on KDE. Now I can't do without it, it's like having 9 computers in one <3
I think another general problem is that metaphors are quietly forgotten. The notion that computers "think" is something of a metaphor, but it is a superficial one that cannot be taken seriously as a literal claim.

For example, when we say computers can "do math" more quickly than human beings can, this is fine as a matter of loose or figurative common speech. But strictly speaking, do computers actually do math? Do they actually compute? No, they don't. The computation we say a computer is doing is in the eye of the beholder. A better way to characterize what's happening is that human beings are _using_ computers _computationally_. That is, the physical artifacts we call computers participate in human acts as instruments, but _strictly speaking_, it makes about as much sense to say computers compute as it is to say that pencils write, hammers nail, vacuums cleaners clean, or cars drive. These things participate in the human act, but only as instrument. Whereas when human beings compute they are objectively computing, computation is not what computers are objectively doing (both Kripke and Searle make good arguments here). These artifacts only make sense in light of human intentions, as instruments of human intention and act.

Human writing can be viewed similarly. Objectively, we only have some pigment arranged on some material. No analysis of a piece of written text will ever divulge its signification. Indeed, no analysis of a piece of text will demonstrate that what is being analyzed is a piece of text! Text, and even that something is a piece of text, needs to be interpreted as text to function as text in the eye of the reader. But the semantic content of the text is objectively real. It just exists in the mind of the reader.

So we need to be careful because we can easily commit category mistakes by way of projection and confusion.
In the bay area, where "oh god, corporate is in the building" is a way of life and common thing you bet they would.

Outside the bay area, eh, 50/50, you're right.
Business idea for anyone who is keen:

Stack overflow but a LLM responds to every question. Same upvote mechanic, same "accepted answer" mechanic. Perhaps you have known experts validate the response.

Basically any Q&A forum but with the LLM as the first respondent. You would probably customize or fine-tune this for particular domains (e.g. software engineering, medical training, industrial/commercial training, legal compliance).
Well that’s a win-win situation
Primary sources of AI training data
What are some of the primary sources of public data that are utilized in the training of large AI models?
No.

I think expecting high schoolers to abstain from sex is about as realistic as asking them to abstain from eating.

I'm saying nothing about whether either of those biological impulses is necessary or not, only that they're both very influential motivators for humans.
I know. I had this awesome dad joke queued up about making "an obscene clone fall"... I'll throw it back into the queue.
Is Bloomberg's website breaking the law?
https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html

I got captchad on Bloomberg and Chrome started using 100% of my cpu. Just wanted to know if this is illegal because I have a 13900ks and I haven't optimized my mb settings so it overheated my computer. What a shitty tactic. Might just report it to ic3.gov

I'm half joking, but really, does anyone know about the legality of this, and does it behave the same way for you?
I've been a professional software engineer since the 1990s. The pointy-haired boss has been trying to replace high-priced code artisans with cheap commodity labor since well before I came onto the scene. I remember when they hoped they could get away with hiring or off-shoring people who had just enough ability to glue together Microsoft COM objects or Java Beans, or graphical UML models or NPM packages.

Using LLMs to produce software solutions definitely feels like a seismic shift in the game. Time will tell.
>Automated AI detection simply doesn't work.

When did this change? As of 2 or 3 months ago, OpenAI's tool seemed pretty reliable at separating 100% ChatGPT content from 0%. Of course, past some level of a human using a generative AI and editing it and augmenting it, it's harder. And outside of certain artificial constraints in places like schools, it's not clear that using a generative AI assistant is even "wrong." Though to the degree that floods the web, publications, conference proposals, etc. with content that is just "OK" it makes the job of people filtering it who are already flooded with mediocre but not necessarily bad content that much harder.
There are already organisms that feed on plastic, albeit slowly. See this fascinating 2013 article for an introduction:

"Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine
Debris"

https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/branco2014/files/2014/...

Plastics also break down to simpler hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide with prolonged exposure to sunlight. Unfortunately, these gaseous small molecules are greenhouse gases, but they don't persist for millions of years.

"Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
If it's anything like the small, dinky restaurant i washed plates for, the reality is that the restaurant doesn't have enough plates and pans to satisfy every order on a busy night without washing something. Pans in particular are reused multiple times during a shift, and they better be well-scrubbed, because you don't want your fancy ingredients tasting of something else.