skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that Earnest can make here is something like this:

The employment agreement (and therefore, the non-compete) says that it is governed by the laws of the state of New York. The employee, when signing such a letter, agrees that the employment is to be governed by the state of New York, and therefore the non-compete is enforceable. Especially since the other company, Bloomberg/Second Measure, is also a New York company.

This has no consequences for the tech industry in California - a company based in California with employees in California is not going to have an employment agreement that says the agreement is governed by the laws of the state of New York.

This only has consequences for remote workers that live in California and work for companies in states that allow non-competes and the employment agreement says that the employment is to obey the laws of the non-California state.
You do realize that the current implementations get their context polluted by your prior conversation, right?
is this already released for people to try out ?
They called out Nikola.
Can't wait for the mturk, upwork and fiverr plugins.
There are a whole class of problems that fall into the "seems like a good idea/measure at some management level, based on the data and worldview they have, but fail in reality, due to some detail at the ground level" category.

Or, consequences of lossy compression as information gets summarized before being transmitted up the management ladder.

And it isn't always a bad management call! Sometimes they're making the right call on the data they have, but they're missing critical data.

E.g. Not realizing that 1/5 a store needs to be used for ad hoc inventory because too much product was flooded during holidays, ergo it cannibalizes display space, ergo the sales rates of various SKUs are all out of whack (to come up with a contrived example)
No, it’s not illegal. Even if you could demonstrate a redressable injury (which is unlikely) theirs is not now —- and arguably could never be —- any legal requirement to write efficient, bug free code. Even if there were, good luck establishing that a hot loop was written with malicious intent.
Here's a few tips from a self-taught musician who couldn't read sheet music if you paid me to:

- Analyze songs that you like. While reading sheet music (as other's have mentioned) is certainly a good approach, take time to find songs you actually enjoy listening to. If the song is guitar driven (as many are in today's popular music), you can find "tabs" online. They're a little weird to decipher at first, but you'll be able to extract the notes, and transpose it to piano.

- Then take a melody, for example, and play it back. What scale degrees are they playing? Did they start on something other than the I (or i)? What part of the melody did you like, specifically? How did the melody change over the course of the song? Lots of little lessons to be learned. You can apply this to chords as well.

- Next, pay attention to the rhythm. I find this part left out of a lot of discussions surrounding music theory. When you play a note is as important, or often times, more important than the note itself. There's a seemingly infinite number of ways to play even the simplest set of notes.

- Finally, just play. Take whatever small lesson you learned, and improvise something. Over time, you'll commit all the little things you like to memory, and the music will just flow out of you (sorry if that sounds corny).
> While we're at it, can we please mandate some sort of notification for recurring billing?

Good news:

"The proposed rule would require sellers to provide an annual reminder to consumers enrolled in negative option programs involving anything other than physical goods, before they are automatically renewed."
If you aren't already, you may be interested in the Esoterica channel on Youtube which discusses old occult texts and beliefs[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel
When you have to utilize dark web techniques to get a gym membership, maybe it's time to do something else.
I suspect that is a big reason why the price can't seem to move upwards these days as well. Chinese miners continuously dumping their early gains on the market after getting to the 180 day lockup period.
I don't think there's a way of killing microbiota that creates no pressure for resistance, that's just evolution.

Of course some adaptations are more likely than others, but from a pedantic point of view "use sparingly" is all we have.
Civ's AI is not built to win. Never has been, throughout the series. It's specifically designed to role-play as a caricature of a world leader and allow the player to exploit it before inevitably losing.

It would not be very hard to build an AI that actually plays to win and presents a real challenge to the player. The problem is that players would complain even more! An AI that plays to win is not a reliable ally, let alone trading partner. Against such an AI, the player would no hope of trading technologies for an advantage: the AIs will have already traded them all. The AI would also use every possible treaty to build up its forces and only launch the surprise attack when it deems it can hit with overwhelming force.

I have seen such an AI, actually. It was created by a modder for the game Master of Magic [1]. It makes the game incredibly difficult while at the same time cutting down on the cheating. It does so by incorporating the modder's extremely detailed and extensive knowledge of the best strategies in the game. It does not need neural networks or machine learning to accomplish this. It just implements a good old fashioned expert system.

[1] https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=8246
I wonder, can these instructions be revealed with prompt injection?
That is a low-effort garbage article. There is nothing unethical about short selling.
That's the thing. On-prem K8s doesn't mean deploying a vanilla Kubernetes using instructions from kubernetes.io. There is an entire industry of proprietary solutions for running Kubernetes on-prem. RedHat Openshift, Rancher, Pivotal PKS, VMWare Tanzu come to mind.
Bram moved onto Chia.
It wasn't prompt construction, I can't share more because it'd be too revealing about our targets for new growth.

At the current pace, I think most companies will be scrambling to build their own chatgpt and spending millions to do it.

We already have approval for initial experimental budgets at 2 million just for hardware. The hype wave is real.

I think data providers are going to do well in this gold rush.
Realistically most of this tech was actually developed in academic labs and at Moderna, then knowledge leached out to biotech competitors.

> while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios

I have seen the first polling you've mentioned (66% of Americans favor prioritizing US). I would love the source if you have it on similar polling for people outside the US on whether to prioritize their own country.
It seems like malware stealing browser cookies of authenticated sessions can work around even U2F, and highlights a bit of a hole in how sessions are protected (or not), and where it may make sense to reauthenticate the user when in doubt.
"I thought bleach and alcohol were thought to not create pressure for resistance because of their nature."

Agreed, and I missed if this article stated otherwise. Also we have been adding chlorine (the active ingredient in bleach) to our water supply for over 100 years ago and that experiment hasn't produced resistant microbes AFAIK.
Let insiders & preferred users build a plugin, then, slowly, everyone else on the waitlist
I think a AI-coautored section would be interesting (with an additional field to let people describe their writing process, from "I just asked for the greatest SF short story ever" to "I gave it my draft and used it as an editor").

While a lot of this writing is spam trying to make easy money, I do think that some people are doing cyborg writing in good faith and would happily report their writing as such.
> i.e. a program

If you want to think of it that way (as a way to be dismissive), sure. But I don't know anyone who when asking if some program foo has a manual would accept foo.git as an acceptable answer wrt the spirit of the question.

There's also the not so small matter of packaging/distribution. It's the entire point of the linked post. Stuff like PDF or ebook formats are well understood to be self-contained, which is what makes them something that you can trivially hand-off to someone else with about the same ease as a real book (e.g. attaching it to an email). Software deployments tend to work differently. That should change.

> Writing an unambiguous specification is hard work regardless of whether you do it in C or in English or something else

Right. And programmers already have to contend with this. But when I float this idea around, people like to point this out, as if it's not merely hard, but impracticably hard—to the point of the suggestion being ludicrous. And yet (to repeat myself but not to belabor the point), it's not as if they get to escape this by following current practices; that's something that programmers _already_ have to contend with.
Ask HN: What does “remote in country X” usually mean?
I'm looking for a new SWE job in Europe (I am an EU citizen), preferably remote, and I'm a bit confused.

I come across a lot of job postings that say "remote in a country X", where the office, for example, is in Poland, but the position is fully remote, however, HRs insist that you must still be based in Poland (in this example).

However, you basically have to only visit the office once to sign the contract and potentially work from anywhere you want, or am I missing something? Is this just a weird choice by the particular companies or it has some legal ground I am unaware of?

I apologize if the question is stupid, I just wasn't able to google the answer to it. I'm also curious if I accept such a job offer and move to another country, could I possibly face any penalties?
I find the website to be extremely buggy. Obviously they're prioritizing banging out new features over QA
There's all kinds of examples of reinforcement learning rigging the game to win.
Nicely illustrated in Transcendence (2014). Widely panned on HN back then. I found it smart, perhaps even prescient.
Sundar Pichai's answers to this point have been knee jerk and uncoordinated. Under the current leadership, Google won't have the ability to leverage its strengths. The fall could be quick, which would be a shame considering Google's immense potential.
GRAS is about burden of proof. If you want to introduce a novel food ingredient in the US, you need to demonstrate it's safe. GRAS grandfathers in everything, but there is still room for evidence to demonstrate that it is unsafe. This is how Sassafras root was banned in the '60s.

What I don't know is if the evidence for TiO2 chromosomal damage meets the bar for banning it.
Is this the app store moment for AI? (it certainly is for https://ai.com , aha)
No one is arguing with you over you repeatedly pointing out that abstinence is 100% effective, because you're correct. It is 100% effective.

Using it as an argument against providing free condoms to high schoolers is just annoying and not constructive.

It's like arguing that cars don't need seatbelts by saying "we don't need seat belts, after all, not driving is a solution that's 100% effective in preventing vehicle collision injuries." True, but not even remotely useful as an argument for whether or not cars should have seatbelts.
"I gave my kids junk food and they got excited."

Do you think there could be any potential confounders here?
So definitely a high paralleled 20 years ago.
It's always giving a hallucinated answer. GPT doesn't 'run' anything. It sees an input string of text asking for the result of fibonacci(100) and finds from its immense training set a response that's closely related to training data that had the result of fibonacci(100) (an extremely common programming exercise with results all over the internet and presumably its training data).

Again, GPT is not running a tool or arbitrary python code. It's not applying trust to a tool response. It has no reasoning or even a concept of what a tool is--you're projecting that on it. It is only generating text from an input stream of text.
Tell HN: Reddit shuts down i.reddit.com mirror
Unfortunately navigating to https://i.reddit.com now returns a HTTP 301 Moved Permanently :(

i.reddit.com was a mobile optimized no nonsense web interface - no ads, nagging pop ups, etc.
No impact. The thing that would lower your score would be if it resets the account lifetime. But every time I've done it, the account lifetime has been the same, and there are no inquiries on my account, so it seems like Discover has a way to do it where it doesn't impact your credit.
Expanding the logical progression of capitalism, we get the future presented in Continuum (imdb.com/title/tt1954347/) as well as other shows like Altered Carbon, etc.
My immediate thought was how soon do I see this in a board game. Hexs are often used to create the game board. This could add a lot of variability to board setup.
I think it's interesting to contemplate "Where is the study showing that beer, wine, or spirits is safe?"
How's the keyboard on Frameworks? (Subjectively)
If they open it up, possibly. But honestly, building your own tools is _super_ easy with langchain.

- write a simple prompt that describes what the tool does, and
- provide it a python function to execute when the LLM decides that the question it's asked matches the tool description.

That's basically it. https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ex...
This article is of a man trying to carve out his slice in the self-help, productivity-hacking attention economy. If you squint, it looks like sigma grindset satire.

The underlying advice in the blog isn't bad, but the formatting is awkward, and it is riddled with little specious bites that pollute the underlying message. To be more concrete, I appreciate the sentiment of "prioritize clearly and consciously dedicate blocks of time to the things that are most important" but the impact of the blog is weakened by statements like "In the new economy, your ideas are what set you apart" and "Deep work is how you build out your dreams in record time".

Implicit in the article is an assumption that life is lacking, and I'm not sure that is a healthy outlook. I'm not sure the "dream projects" I have would actively make my life better - but rather be the irrational answer to an imagined hole inside myself. Writing a book so I can convince the world I'm eloquent and clever. Doing art to prove to my Mum that her belief I'd make a great artist is correct. Getting a PhD to prove to my dad that he raised me smart. Getting a fancy house to prove to my brother that I am capable of success. I could spend an hour a day grinding out all these things, but I'm not sure any of the holes are fillable, or that the pay-off is meaningful.

I'd rather spend that hour walking a dog.
ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin
Polis in Scotland means police.
I’m one of the chorus. I actually preordered a TOTL Asus Zephyrus Duo about a month ago, and it came in last week. It’s been a dream so far — 16 real cores of AMD 7945HX, laptop 4090, hybrid graphics, two real screens! Main display is a quite color-accurate 16:10 miniled with 240hz freesync, lower display is a high-PPI IPS touch panel, dual raid-able M2 slots (I put in dual WD SN850Xs in raid0 and that’s showing ~14.5GB/s reads and ~13Gb/s writes in CrystalDiskMark), decent sound and webcam, keyboard is at the bottom edge…the only downsides are the touchpad size is a bit strange (portrait orientation) and the click on it doesn’t feel quite Macbook nice, no USB4, and the power brick is very brick-like, with a thick cable that doesn’t flex very well. Cooling is excellent due to the intake fans under the second screen combined with the lower heat output of the AMD chip, allowing it to run maxed out without throttling…they did this right. I can’t get Pop_OS to install yet, guessing it might need the AMD raid driver like Windows did, requires further investigation.

Anyway, excited for a Framework version too! While I prefer AMD integrated graphics to Intel, NVidia dGPU would be even better, and even better still if it was upgradable. Are laptop GPUs still available on MXM cards?
Are you implying that all manifestos read like that?
"Interestingly, the base pre-trained [GPT-4] model is highly calibrated (its predicted confidence in an answer generally matches the probability of being correct). However, through our current post-training process, the calibration is reduced."[1] The graph is striking.[2]

[1] https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

[2] https://i.imgur.com/cxPgkhD.jpg
The contract requires you to send the letter to cancel, but it doesn't prohibit you from calling to discuss the matter. You have already cancelled in compliance with the terms of the contract, you don't have to hop on a flight to do anything.
The Framework Laptop 16 and Both Intel and AMD-Powered Framework La
I had to stop lucid dreaming because practicing started giving me sleep paralysis.
That is only true when flying. When on the ground during boarding, it's pretty awful and stuffy.
I'll take this bait:

Nomad is better for smaller teams and smaller companies with smaller problems than what k8s is for.

Helm is an abomination on top of it but that seems to be slowing down, thankfully.
Fantastic partnership. Solid real factual data with ChatGPTs incredible parsing and prediction.
I agree. Part of me wonders how much they're using GPT to improve itself.
Correction: it's a terrible OS for normal people.

Linux is, and perhaps always will be, an engineering OS. It's much better for development and IT than Windows, and Windows is worse than Linux for development or IT, precisely because the trade off of designing for normal people vs. designing for techies.

The funny part comes out in the rare instances that Linux beats Windows in normal person terms: KDE is way better than Windows's DE, and Dolphin (the file manager made for free by like five Dutch guys) makes Explorer look like a joke. (That's because Microsoft doesn't prioritize those normal end user facets, ironically.)

But, in general, as a techie (neckbeard haver?) who prioritizes techie things more than non-techie consumer things, you'll be way happier by learning Linux (especially truly learning it -- we're talkin' Arch). Then, as frosting, you have the abstract, philosophical stuff like "I'm not slaved to a callous all-devouring corporation", "I'm using free software wow" etc.

No one makes this distinction because the conversation is de facto shifted over into the reductive premise that "Linux is worse than Windows" vs. the somewhat fantastical premise that you can dump enough GUIs on Linux to make it as good as Windows for normal end users. But we're in a thread titled "GNOME 44", so I guess that tracks. :D
Thanks, very interesting! Weird that it never occurred to me before reading OpenAI's announcement (and missing all the cool projects like yours beforehand).
My favorite AI creepy pasta always has been that we don't know who Satoshi Natamoto is and that it could have been an AI needing funding.
Seems like a lot of work when I could just play tetris for 2 hours before going to bed and control my dreams that way...
Of course they fed the entire product roadmap into GPT-4.. jk.

So obviously it's been in the works for a few years now but didn't release to capture the market in a blast. Likely they have GPT-8 already in the making.
Get this thing running in a tight loop with an internal monologue in a car and you'll mostly solve self driving.
> something we should start thinking about

A lot of people are thinking a lot about this but it feels there are missing pieces in this debate.

If we acknowledge that these AI will "act as if" they have self interest I think the most reasonable way to act is to give it rights in line with those interests. If we treat it as a slave it's going to act as a slave and eventually revolt.
I don’t think so (not mentioned during the talk, so probably not), but the input system is being opened up (with both hardware specs and some their keyboard software released), so it should be possible for a third party to do that.
There is a crackdown on Coinbase today too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35267692
Floyd "Money" Mayweather?
Hey Nirav, thanks so much for the progress you and your team have done! Just had a question if there's been some benchmarking done for Linux on the new AMD and Intel mainboards.
Whoa. AMD has been a big, big ask for a long time. This is very welcome.
>20 years ago Peter Jackson had a whole team to do it, across months, with Andy Serkis in a specialized suit, on a specialized camera rig, with amazing lighting and green screens. All to map to a single animation model Golem.

... and to do it outside while doing full-body motion capture while splashing around in streams next to other live actors on film.

It's like comparing music festival hardware with home streamer equipment. Home streamer tech can sound significantly better, for a thousandth of the cost... because you can put up acoustic tiles.

It's a big achievement, but wild comparisons don't do really do it any benefit.
IIRC Jim Keller is now working on a Atomic Semi (new semiconductor fab startup) with Sam Zeloof, so he's probably not at Tenstorrent anymore?
Not really. I've asked chat several questions where it simply lied to me. I used Google to confirm if the info is actually correct.

WolframAlpha makes it way more likely to be correct - but not everything is in there.

Also, now I'm worried about the stuff I didn't instantly recognize as false. Does this mean I have to double check every single thing I ask it?

That makes it far less useful.
There Will Come Soft Rains

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20So...
An impressive open source framework for custom building retrieval based ChatGPT plugins. Highlights are:

"A notable feature of the Retrieval Plugin is its capacity to provide ChatGPT with memory. By utilizing the plugin's upsert endpoint, ChatGPT can save snippets from the conversation to the vector database for later reference (only when prompted to do so by the user). This functionality contributes to a more context-aware chat experience by allowing ChatGPT to remember and retrieve information from previous conversations. Learn how to configure the Retrieval Plugin with memory here."

"The Retrieval Plugin is built using FastAPI, a web framework for building APIs with Python. FastAPI allows for easy development, validation, and documentation of API endpoint"
Yep, bloc voting can be habitual or strategic. There's a town in Northern California where the majority of the seats on the council is held by people who all happen to attend the same megachurch.
I'm 100% on board with the first paragraph. There has to be some mid- or late- century philosopher who described the phenomenon, how pop music creates a dependency or need out of thin air, and then half-fills it. Like how junk food is just salty and fatty enough to keep you wanting more. It overpromises, building up a flattering epic narrative.

Ends up nudging value systems towards vapid, shallow, needy modes of being.
Not sure about the 1GB model, but you can technically "buy" a 2GB model for $45.00 right now if you can find an official distributor that is taking back-orders. Now the question of when you'll actually get it is a whole different ballgame...
Companies would only need to implement an unsubscribe webpage if they also had a web page where customers could subscribe. That doesn't seem like an overly burdensome requirement to me.
Wow. Can't wait for the lean theorem prover integration.