skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure because I've never read anything about cartoon characters in this context but it probably has to do with whether the person recognizes that the cartoon character is an animated drawing or a person.
fly.io's been a little under my radar but are they the new DigitalOcean or something?
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Every explicit or implicit redirection in that shell line is basically a call to dup2. At its core, the shell command line processor is effectively[1] a trivial interpreter loop that maps each successive token or group of tokens to fork, exec, open, or dup2. This is what makes fork/exec elegant as compared to CreateProcess; it's just not apparent unless you appreciate how the parts are intended to work together and what they can accomplish.

[1] It's literally a small, trivial loop in the original Bourne shell source code. In modern shells job control and other niceties require additional bookkeeping, but those aren't necessarily implicated in your example. I don't have a URL at hand for that source file, but I did find it last year or the year before, so it shouldn't be too hard to find if you're curious.
It's astounding that the Federal Government alone, has over 2 million employees. That is the definition of a bloated bureaucracy.
> OpenAI will make programmers more productive by reducing time spent on trivial/mundane tasks.

It doesn't have to be perfect to replace developers. If every developer in a company becomes 5x more productive but you can only sell 3x harder, something might still have to give.

Even if GPT-4 doesn't quite cut it, what about GPT-5? What about the crazy, off-the-wall concept that comes out of some university and completely revolutionizes the whole thing again by 2024? Stanford is already demonstrating an inclination for disruption. There is an incredible amount of energy, attention and capital being poured into this space right now. If all acceleration forces were removed, I think we are still going to wind up somewhere crazy.

We certainly aren't ever going to go backwards in capabilities. It will only improve - even if just marginally. I've got GPT3.5 suggesting very high quality methods for my codebases. You could take 20% of the capability away right now and I'd still consider it a revolution in productivity.

> It makes me believe most of the people haven’t taken the time to evaluate the output of these LLMs.

How much experience have you had with GPT3.5/4?
I don’t think the “crypto isn’t a security” argument is going very far. The SEC has a very loose definition of a security - vaguely, something you buy with the expectation to make money from it appreciating - that is meant to capture unforeseen cases exactly like crypto.

A single quote from someone isn’t changing years and millions of pieces of evidence of people using and promoting crypto almost entirely as a security by this definition.
In terms of what? traffic? air quality? schools? crime rates? housing? Exactly how is it a good place to live?

Probably when Frank Sinatra was alive but certainly not now.

What can you get in New York that you cannot get somewhere else?
I quite like viop.ms
When I had to set up ECS with Fargate using CloudFormation the documentation was certainly lacking (in late 2019 I think it was).
Now that it's working it's been pretty low maintenance.
How is any of this connected to publishing salary ranges for a job?
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Why is HN search at the bottom of the page?
Scrolling to the bottom of the page to search for something is counter-intuitive. I'm guessing search was added a while after the header was built — but it's not like there's no room for another menu item?
It all depends on the goalposts.

Seems like a weird set of metrics whose relevance isn’t clear. Of course approved construction projects are going to take longer - demolishing a 19th century 6 story building is trivial compared to a mid century high rise. Construction is a cutthroat business, so I’m sure that if velocity was the gating factor, the companies would find a way.

I’ve been involved in construction projects as a stakeholder, and NYC isn’t slower to navigate if you have a team that knows how to navigate NYC. I can think of a couple of projects in random suburbia, CA that took longer to permit than the total duration of a NYC project.

Government contracting is totally different, as New York law is knowingly designed to maximize employment. Most government projects do not allow a single general contractor and require separate bids for different components of the building, for example. You also cannot design and build a project in most cases.
vfork/exec. posix_spawn(). Yes, CreateProcess(), but with the specific things about it that suck fixed.
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If you have 40 series card frame generation is really nice. I still have DLSS quality enabled but with DLSS 3, everyting max at 4K I am able to get above 90 fps on a 4090
SEC already has rules, hire lawyers to interpret them and decide what risk is worth taking and what's not. This is just another case of libertarian crocodile tears because government won't guarantee them against any and all sorts of business risks while letting them keep the fat profits.

Like, if you are Coinbase, your primary product is a sort of regulatory arbitrage -- there is legal risk associated with it, and so one of your primary expenses would be an army of lawyers to decide where on the risk-reward curve you would want to be. The army of lawyers is too expensive? Buddy, no one is forcing you to be in this business. Just because you made profits in the earlier years with little to no regulation doesn't mean that government is bound to let you keep making that profit forever. Deal with it like a grown businessperson rather than whining.
How is this any different than Go's existing enumerations, aside from the enumeration also creating an implicit list structure which, while kind of neat, isn't really a property of enumerations.

The parent is likely lamenting that Go doesn't enforce compile-time value constraints on enumerated sets like some languages do, but many other languages don't ether. Not even Typescript does. If Typescript doesn't find it important to have such value constraints, Go most certainly never will.
> then you should have no opinion about the probability of it being true or not

Rather, I said when we read papers we should realize that results are tentative. It's fine to have some personal assessment of the probability, but it's not actionable by anyone, and communicating it doesn't assist in improving our collective assessment of what is going on in the world. I'd also suggest that we probably don't, in fact, "often need and should be able to make a summary assessment..."
Is my house a security?
> The first known use of allopathy was in 1832

In 1832 most medical doctors were probably kooks by today's standards. They certainly knew very little.
Why is this a Google Doc and not an actual html page?
I'm quite sure even OpenAI themselves aren't sure if they can reproduce the current models from the scratch. Unless the computing becomes much more powerful and much cheaper, LLM is more or less a rocket science (i.e. hella expensive trial and error). It's not easy to burn lots of dollars just to get what's already there.
> I think that would be a fair statement to make in the global context, but Americans' distrust and paranoia around anything the Government does really is exceptional.

I'm not sure how accurate that generalisation is. The US has a lot of government – in some ways, a lot more than many other countries do, because local government in the US has a lot of responsibilities which in other countries are centralised at the state/province or even national levels - such as law enforcement, courts and prosecutors, public education, correctional facilities. Much of the US has two layers of local government (county and municipal), some parts even have three layers (e.g. the state of New York has village governments underneath town governments underneath county governments), when many other countries only have a single layer. The US has lots of special-purpose local governments (school districts, drainage districts, emergency services districts, etc), where in many other countries those kind of functions would be performed by state/provincial/national agencies instead.

Most of the anti-government rhetoric in the US is primarily directed at the federal government, not state or local governments. Even when state or local governments are targeted, it tends to be only directed at some of them. Some American conservatives will be very critical of the state governments of California or New York, but I doubt they'd be anywhere near as negative about the state governments of Florida or Texas or Utah or South Dakota. Or very critical of the county/city governments of big liberal-leaning urban areas like Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, but far less likely to criticise the local government of some rural "Red State" county or town.

Despite its reputation for hyper-capitalism, the US is arguably "behind" much of the rest of the English-speaking world when it comes to asset privatisation, public-private partnerships, public funding of private schools (US % of K-12 students in private schools is significantly below the OECD average, and severely limited public funding for private schools is likely a big factor in that), etc – and those issues are far from being the top priority for contemporary American conservatism. Which suggest that the US is actually far less "anti-government" than its popular image suggests.
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Or you forming an opinion 30 years ago and never changing it.

Textbook definition of "closed minded".
There are other options between k8s and “build your own”.
> They share the same environmental challenges whereas in the US the challenges are vastly different depending on which coast you are near

Ah yes, Norway and Greece are known for having the same climate.

The temperature range is literally 100 degrees Centigrade - record in Greece ks 48 Degrees C

Record in Norway is -51 degrees
But was it parsed and reformatted specifically in the "chat format" (i.e. the same as inputs later fed to the model when used as a chatbot)? It can make a surprisingly big difference.
Strategies for EV charging to reduce peak demand and store solar energy
Even if [0] cloud does have structural advantage, it’s clear that cloud vendor isn’t willing or wanting to pass them off to customers, and tends to nickel and dime on other necessity like the infamous bandwidth cost.

[0] I’m really curious how big, if any, structural advantage large cloud vendor has over small-time colo user, because surely cloud comes with all kinds of overhead? All the fancy feature AWS provides cannot be free. If customer does not care for those, would colo, or a small “vps” vendor, actually have structural advantage over AWS?
Sure, but wages + census makes a difference. The NY Times did a comparison of the construction of the 2nd avenue subway project after the governor took the 5th or 6th victory lap.

As I recall, the TBM used in NYC was “mannned” by 5x more workers than an identical machine in Paris. We’re talking like 50 people. France isn’t known for labor efficiency, but between the various labor agreements, minority/women owned employee and subcontractor requirements, etc that many extra hands were being paid. Whether they did anything is another story.
IMO established companies (Meta, Google, etc) had their researchers publish papers as a competitive benefit or way to attract talent from academia (a researcher wouldn't want to stop publishing).
Companies didn't see an issue with doing that because those papers were not "giving away" the core of the company, for example, Facebook's DeepFace paper from 2014 couldn't hurt its ad business.
OpenAI on the other hand will probably be as closed as they can be with their LLMs.
I was not eligible for any COVID relief. I was above income limits. Wasn't it two $600 checks though?
No the equivalent scenario would be a grocery store (or online store, hotel, airline etc.) not publicly advertising any prices at all. If you want something you have to take it to the cashier, and they will give you a personalized price based on whatever factors they choose.

Should that be legal? Maybe, maybe not. But there are plenty of laws out there that mandate that companies make pricing more transparent, because that is good for the end consumer.
If there's discussion it isn't a sacred cow
Some here have said it’s the SEC who should have a more collaborative spirit. But all of their incentives, job descriptions, and reason to exist are to _enforce laws_ not be chummy with startup executives.

The “mean” approach to securities enforcement is what we as a society need…there are far too many scams and people who run them, and those scams seem especially concentrated within the crypto world.

After the blitz of NFT’s last year, I hope the SEC is grumpy as hell.

It’s not that crypto doesn’t fit within an established legal framework…it _does_. People have been trying to find their way around securities laws forever, but most of those laws because someone got ripped off.
I went down that road a few years ago. Dockerized my app because I figured that was the first step. Then naturally docker-compose to bring the pieces together, right? No. Was upset that was not the next step to Kubernetifying an app. Use Kustomize instead. It's not that bad. Did take days or a few weekends but it requires very little maintenance now and its easy to spin up new apps.
Gnome has almost completely transitioned apps to GTK4.

This was a huge undertaking and is extremely exciting because I suspect we will now see a period of significant stability improvements and bug fixes, which will simultaneously come with a higher rate of feature delivery.
Without reading the article, I can give you the answer immediately. SVB failed because they were bankrupt. This is what it is called when your liabilities are in excess of your assets.
TIL that I can live in a Bitcoin
This is a great point, and something that I think of often as someone who has been building rails apps for almost 20 years.

Once MSRK has gotten "good enough" for whatever Basecamp needs and DHH has moved on, how many other folks with the dedication and skills will help take over when maintenance and weird edge cases surface?

So far the rails community has been strong enough where this _usually_ isn't an issue, but it definitely is a real concern. You can see the impact of this in some of the recent asset bundling solutions DHH spiked out and then mostly left to the community, where things like js-bundling and css-bundling are close but not completely solid for a bunch of use cases.
> Given the breadth and depth of
GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version
of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.

I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
> Sprawl leads to cheaper housing at the cost of more expensive infrastructure costs

Nope. Sprawl's infrastructure cost is about the same as urban cost over time. This is because maintenance of city infrastructure is way more expensive.

"Expensive roads" are also a myth. As I said, one mile of NYC subway can cost as much as 1000 miles of 6-lane freeway.

Or another point, Seattle is building subway expansion at the cost of $60B. It's projected to increase rideship by about ~100k daily passengers. For that $60B we could have instead built a city, gave 100k people houses for free, and still have enough money left to allow them to live on investment income from that.

Sure, we'll need to do some small adjustments: switch from giant SUVs to medium-sized and small-sized EVs. Improve pedestrian and bicycle accessibility within suburban villages, etc. But these are all relatively minor changes that can be done gradually.

> It also leads to places that are not very nice to live at.

Most people surveyed (80+%) would prefer to live in suburbs if they could. Yep, very unpleasant places.
You really think this causes lumber prices to fly through the roof though? It may have been a factor but it seems a stretch that NYC restaurants would increase demand that much.
Is the SEC going to start regulating gold now?
Codeberg time?
> Would you consider the entire European Union a minority of the legislators?

No, I was referring only to my own legislators (in the US, and not specifically California). Many other places in the world are doing better.
Great. HN has turned into Reddit.
Just go managed. Let someone maintain the control plane for you. The important bits are in the YAML, pretty sure I'm still portable.

I can still run it locally for dev via Docker and I use Devspace to make it easy to bring up a dev env.
Yes, this is among the best letters of this kind that I have read.
It sounds like Unschooling is what used to be called Deschooling 50 years ago[1], and is very different from homeschooling in that homeschooling uses a government prescribed curriculum that is administered by parents/guardians but is still pretty much the Prussian model of education, at home. The Prussian model is essentially geared towards creating good little workers/consumers with little critical thinking skills, whereas this mode of education is more fluid, to say the least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society
> It’s astounding that the Federal Government alone, has over 2 million employees.

It’s actually over 4 million. (It's funny how the same people who like to call the US federal government bloated despite how small it is for the size of the country, are the ones who don't count the nearly half of the federal government that is uniformed military in that.)

> That is the definition of a bloated bureaucracy.

No, its not. Even when you count the much larger non-federal public workforce, the US has a quite small public workforce compared to other countries (globally, OECD, or pretty much any other meaningful group that it is part of.)
> Okay, so Antarctica, Chicago, and Cleveland.

And the entire state of Colorado. It is not that uncommon for our daily high to be at 12am, or for the temperature to drop 30F between a midday high and dusk as a front moves in.

These aren't conditions you can describe with just two temperature points, no matter where they are anchored.

For overnight temperatures, many people just want badging to know if there is a frost/freeze condition - e.g., is there a weather condition they need to deal with while they would otherwise be sleeping.
They aren’t even saying crypto is a security, just staking crypto.
You in the matrix broooooo
If you are Coinbase, your primary product is a sort of regulatory arbitrage -- there is legal risk associated with it, and so one of your primary expenses would be an army of lawyers to decide where on the risk-reward curve you would want to be. The army of lawyers is too expensive? Buddy, no one is forcing you to be in this business. Just because you made profits in the earlier years with little to no regulation doesn't mean that government is bound to let you keep making that profit forever. Deal with it like a grown businessperson rather than whining.
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> our results show for the first time that a substantial proportion (approximately 40 to 50%) of variation in human intelligence is associated with common SNPs

Seems to suggest that intelligence has a lot to do with genes. Why do you think that part supports your view that intelligence doesn't? Do you have any evidence that kids doesn't inherit any intelligence?
And again we have someone asserting this is about vanilla crypto and not staking.
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Well, obviously the CEO thought so too.
I believe the Howey Test is the more general definition that is used : https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/howey-test - so yes, maybe Bitcoin passes the Howey Test when traded on an exchange, but not so much 12 years ago
We need more AI skeptics like this to dismantle and cut through the hype and to unveil the limits of AI that the hype squad continues to push this narrative to pump their AI grift projects.

OpenAI is the ring-leader of this bait and switch using faux 'AI safety' excuses to close their research and models and even their papers for researchers. It is essentially a majority owned Microsoft® AI division.
I'm confused why people expect this stuff to be free? I'm surprised OpenAI was so open about their research so far. I don't blame them at all for not publishing the information. This stuff costs real money.
Ironically Gary Gensler chair of SEC has one of the best lectures on the fundamentals of money and crypto. Free on YouTube under the MIT's OpenCourseWare channel.
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I think influencers, sorry, “the enthusiastic” tend to vastly overestimate the value of word of mouth recommendations vs recurring revenue.
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Yep, going to hell in a handbasket. Just terrible. Most certainly going to be a desolate wasteland before long. I'll do you a favor and buy your house.
That's a bit of an exaggeration but SF has both weather and easy access to a lot of natural beauty, hiking trails, and so forth.

Detroit has a nice Riverwalk and I'm sure any locals can point to other local things of interest.

I will say that I was at a tech event in Detroit in the fall. Things I would do (knowing what I do about the city even today) in SF at night without a second thought felt risky and many other attendees felt the same--and there were some safety incidents. It wasn't even so much the things that might make you feel unsafe in the Tenderloin. It's that if you were walking 1/2 mile to someplace it was just deserted.
> That will need to be determined in the courts or congress, not by a regulatory bully.

The SEC was set up by congress, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and several others [1]. The Howey test was made by the courts and at least finalized by the supreme court [2].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/about/about-securities-laws

[2] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/328/293.html
Who does work on your gold to make it worth more?
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No, because there’s no agreement, no other party, no expectation of bearing interest…
It sounds like Coinbase did hire lawyers, and it sounds like SEC is getting heavily questioned in court--by the judge!--about hiw the SEC can enforce without disclosing why or what.

https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/status/1636069735006699523
What is the incentive to build and maintain a product that matches the researchers specs?
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