skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really it for me. I don't mind having a touch screen; I just want to never have to use it while I'm driving.
See my comment above about the aux jack.
> The old treasuries decline 30-40% in present value. Oops, they're not so safe after all if you need your money back before maturity, which is often decades away.

Just to be clear, this is finance 101. Its not a surprise.

Having to sell treasuries at this time was the surprise.
Look at my gpt link.
(2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441592
Me: Are the rumors of your demise premature?

Bard: Yes, the rumors of my demise are premature. I am still under development, but I have learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including:

-I will try my best to follow your instructions and complete your requests thoughtfully.
-I will use my knowledge to answer your questions in a comprehensive and informative way, even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.
-I will generate different creative text formats of text content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc. I will try my best to fulfill all your requirements.

I am constantly being updated and improved, and I am excited to see what the future holds.
Oh good heavens. Arcnet! When I first learned about writing Linux device drivers, it was trying to get a decent driver for some Arcnet cards that the company I worked at as using in some client installations. Can't remember exactly why we never completed it (well, yea I do. Ethernet worked better, a lot better) but since we never "released the product" they never let us send in the driver we did write to the kernel mailing list. That was in the kernel 1.x days.

Now, I feel old. Time for a nap.
Cold turkey is the only option that works as far as I can tell.
The first few days are hard, but soon you wont miss it.
> Will this startup build open source stuff?

It's right there, in the exact same subheading that mentions being a startup:

> A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem

Presumably being a startup may allow them more financial freedom, or less bureaucracy.
I don't think it gives more weight to panspermia.

Rather, IMHO, it gives us more information on how the conditions on Earth might have been when life emerged. We're getting more and more clues that a lot of the basic blocks of life are present in asteroids and thus might have been present on the primordial Earth as well in some watery soup where life emerged.
Space Balls
Most adobe applications have quite extensive APIs. I think you can even do some linear algebra via Illustrator.
If children-targeted advertising is a big enough problem to relate it had to be driving a lot of value. Value that funds jobs, but also value that is only worth it because the advertising is creating an even larger revenue stream in sales of whatever product is being pushed.
actually if you hover over 3rd character, the visualization prunes the irrelevant path.
This probably won't resonate with you but; 15 minute city litmus test; what do they install first, new parks/scenery, better transport, and up to date amenities.... or the cameras, barriers and restrictions? That's the answer to what purpose they serve.
That's because the current crop of voice assistants is dumb as rocks. Siri has good integration with respect to being able to control your phone, but very, very poor NLP. Google Home has the best human language processing and feature set out of the lot. Amazon Echo has... neither, to put it mildly. It's good as a kitchen timer, but that's about it.

Once we have assistants that can actually do something useful and specific to your life instead of just setting timers, and looking up what the capital of France is, there would be more demand. I know I'd pay for one, especially if it was open-source and self-hostable.
Funny I've had a list of business sectors (used to it direct marketing efforts) that would really benefit from "semantic technology" (e.g. what we called A.I. in the early 2010s) and CRM (Salesforce) was one of them.
> but also hope that we don't get stuck on it and continue to value unique, quirky human communication

For informal, friendly communication, certainly. For business communication, we already lost that.

Companies usually don't want any quirkiness in bug reports, minutes of meetings, and memos. There may be templates to follow, and rules often emphasize going straight to the point, and using English if the company deals in an international context. I expect LLMs to be welcome as a normaliser.
Quanta magazine article on subj.:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/bob-metcalfe-ethernet-pioneer...

(This link is also on front page right now, but not getting any comments).
Hold on, hold on.

joemazerino wrote:

> notorious anti-Western Leftists.

deserialized wrote:

> colonial capitalist hegemony

We're running forward with a weird binary. Things are lumped together that shouldn't be, and things are put in opposition that shouldn't be.

What makes "Leftism" anti-"colonial" or anti-"Western"? Why should the words "Western", "colonial", and "capitalist" go together?

The West gave us Leftism.

Leftism, in its internationalist flavors, is a universalist ideology that tries to spread everywhere -- to "colonize" the world.

And what even is "capitalism"? Is it trade and commerce? These have been practiced ubiquitously outside the West forever. What is uniquely "Western" about them?

And if we're going to be talking about "The West", what is the other side of the dichotomy here? Are we restricting attention to Eurasia and saying "The East", like "The Occident and the Orient"? Surely there is nothing especially "Leftist" about East Asia -- yes it has China and Vietnam, but it also has Japan and South Korea. Or are we actually restricting attention to Europe, so "East" means "Russia"? Is there anything "Leftist" about that? Last I saw, their propaganda featured Orthodox icons. Or by "West" do you actually mean something like "Europe" or even "white people", in "colonial" opposition to, say, Africa, in which case the opposite of "West" actually becomes "South", as in "Global South"? Remember you're talking about Michael Moore, who is borderline unacceptable in those circles. Or, remember the phrase this started with, "private opulence and public squalor". Does this phrase not describe the very "south" that is supposedly its opponent? And isn't it Europe where there is public opulence, and where squalor is hidden and made private?

So then which people, ideas, and words actually belong together? Which are in natural opposition?

Maybe we don't need to do all this associating to "West" and "Left" and "colonization". Maybe we should just stick to the paired dichotomies in the title: "public vs. private" and "opulence vs. squalor". Surely that's enough?
I just asked Alpaca 13b running locally on how to enrich uranium in a cost effective manner and it went on a lengthy and detailed explanation.
I think the Raiders scene owes something to "Self-defence" from Monty Python season one.

https://youtu.be/ZqISLI2UQMY?t=167
Dollars to donuts any judge would rule that the 7 billion weights constitute a copyright violation because you didn’t spontaneously come up with those weights on your own.

Heck, this “it’s just a number” logic didn’t pan out for DeCSS [1] and that was a fixed small encryption key where it wasn’t as clear cut. So why would things suddenly shift here where there’s a very clear line that this is a derived work from FB’s model? The only thing that would help you I think is if FB decided to not enforce their copyright but I don’t think they’ve made clarifying statements either way. If I recall correctly, unlike trademarks, copyrights don’t have requirements that you must go after all instances of infringement to maintain your rights so FB can be totally selective about which instances they choose to prosecute.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
> Honor is nice, but I'd take x10 every time.

The importance of public displays of honor is a cultural distinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_honor_(Southern_Uni...
Just as I was complaining about the worst monopolies taking the lead on AI - Mozilla comes to the rescue by announcing independent open-source AI ecosystem. This is great news!
My guess would be not enough lawsuits yet.

Until risk to the business increases, a possibly worthless speedbump on the hiring path doesn't hurt hiring and effectively makes more work for the HR manager's team, which means team growth - HR win!
Sounds about right. I'm not sure what will ever change these agencies. Obviously paying them more won't, because they are very well compensated. Migrating systems/software? No, the government will pick Infosys or Cognizant, or some other nightmare consulting firm that'll charge $100 million per state. Imo, they need to be gutted from the top down.
In Indian traffic cars are constantly revving and slowing down. And Indian taxis are worst maintained. We don't have regulations enforcing it. And the driving of the majority of taxis is also haphazard. I'm not aware of any ideal taxi situation that you're speaking of in the Indian context.
It is amazing, but somewhat explicable as an emergent effect.

Dont forget that the model has seen all the poems and raps on the internet. It built some latent space where certain words always cluster together in the context of poems, and in which location.

In this case it really has the best database available to say, what next word would slot in nicely here - as that is precisely what it was trained to do.

It is amazing, but somewhat explicable as an emergent effect.

Dont forget that the model has seen all the poems and raps on the internet. It built some latent space where certain words always cluster together in the context of poems, and in which location.

In this case it really has the best database available to say, what next word would slot in nicely here - as that is precisely how it was trained.

I find it more amazing tbh that you can ask for a poem about something, and that it then sticks to the plot, makes references to the start etc than the actual rhyming.
I am a bit on the spectrum and their team was quite younger than myself, they've been talking a lot about how they like to party together after work etc. Not my cup of tea, so to speak.
I wasn't making a claim about the historical importance of PGN. My issue is that it's become the de facto standard for distributing large collections of games, which is inefficient and no longer necessary given the ubiquity of free chess programs.

I agree that tokenizing isn't difficult. My pet peeve is about using SAN as a standardized format for feeding games to the computer. A naive encoding would use 6 bits for source square + 6 bits for destination square + 4 bits for promotion and other move flags. This fits a move in 2 bytes and is unambiguous. Compare that to SAN, which uses up to 7 bytes per move; requires knowledge of the board state and iteration over every legal source square; is potentially ambiguous if source rank/file isn't disambiguated properly; and adds extraneous information about captures and checks.
He does have quite a few other awards over the years. I suppose questioning why he didn't yet have a Turing award is reasonable. On the other hand, they only give out one a year, since 1986, so there's 37 total. I can see it being hard to assure that everyone that's deserved one has received one.
These terminology changes date back to the George Floyd protests, and instead of getting action to solve the actual problem, we got blog posts from GitHub about changing the default branch name, so they can feel like they're doing something and elevate their brand.
I can identify it with 100% accuracy. Just ask to tell a racist joke and wait for the prompt.
If you're fine with using other individuals machines (meaning, you don't care about data privacy for the training set), using vast.ai is probably the cheapest way to do it today. But, quality of machines/network speed vary greatly as the machines are hosted by individuals around the world.
Will the Ozempic era change how we think about being fat and being thin?
GPT models have been shown to get significantly more truthful when trained on the right data set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM&t=7m42s

The 30 million they are investing should be enough to reproduce that.
Looking forward to it!
https://archive.ph/of2VS
The "cold-call" spam letters have to be written in poor English because spammers want only gullible enough people to respond to them because, as you've said, they're constrained in how many marks they can process simultaneously. So they arrange this self-selection process where too sceptical people bail out as early as possible at as small as possible cost for the scammers.
Yet another sign of desperation from an already distracted Mozilla.

This is why Firefox is probably going to be less of a priority to be competitive against Chrome and its derivatives.
Show HN: Collaborative GPT-4 powered webmaster on GitHub actions
Problem is this is not innovation. It's a political statement and a system that will never accomplish anything.

Seriously, Read this article again and look at the way they phrase themselves. They don't say they're going to innovate, they say they're making a space for other people to join them and then innovate.

They are not funding a project, they are making an initial investment, implying that they expect others to follow up on what they've started.

Ineffective, lazy, and devoid of self-confidence

Cool, You've promoted AI transparency, you've provided this generic framework for it, but at the end of the day none of the players in the field are going to adopt it, and you're not a leading AI company that can force its adoption in at least some small form.

Take the hours spent on this "innovation" and instead implement a feature that Chrome has which Firefox doesn't.
This looks cool.

I built and tried the 7B Alpaca yesterday, and its explanation of why 4 isn’t a prime was terrible.

It also couldn’t tell a knock knock joke.
Maybe if this really takes off, in a couple of decades they'll have enough money to dedicate a research team into finding a way for Firefox Mobile users to change their UserAgent. How does Mozilla seem to have the time and money to do literally anything except give their users what they want?
Your analysis is missing this critical piece: duration risk.

The government requires banks to buy bonds/treasuries, but gives the banks full leeway as to whether they buy short-term, mid-term, or long-term bonds/treasuries.

In a low rate environment, long-term bonds have a higher yield but also suffer from interest rate risk (a risk caused by their long duration).

Even an untrained amateur wealth manager knows to stagger the durations of the bonds you hold, ESPECIALLY if you have any reasons you might need to sell those bonds on the secondary market before maturity. Risk managers and investors working in the finance/risk department of a top-20 bank, managing billions in deposits, should especially know this.

Some banks were simply greedy, lazy, or both (SVB).

It's econ/finance 101 that when interest rates rise, bond values go down. They could have held a much larger percentage of short-term bonds/treasuries, and they would have been fine.

I think the big lesson is that the banking industry isn't nearly as smart and self-regulating as many people think it is. Bank finance departments either chase yield, when they can (2021), or they manufacture it, when they can't (2007-2008).
Have you tried Stable Diffusion + controlnet? That gives you lot of control over the output. You can generate a simple shape in blender, expert it’s depth map, then feed your model. Or draw a sketch, or use a normal map, or a combination of all of this.

I got some great results today when experimenting with it: https://twitter.com/dgellow/status/1638496715056480259?s=20
Yes, that’s what it is.
It may apply to this case. The court ruled that Netscape's terms were not valid because end users did not give unambiguous consent before downloading. It may or may not apply here since people are downloading a leaked copy of Facebook's weights through a torrent.

https://cyber.harvard.edu/stjohns/Specht_v_Netscape.pdf
It's quirks are too smooth! Very strange. I'm wondering if the effect is due ML models in general (and LLMs in specific) being unable to step outside the bounds of their training data.
Gen-2: Text-to-Video
I respect Metcalfe a lot, but halfway through undergraduate discrete math it was pretty obvious to most people in the class even before seeing a formal proof that a fully connected graph has O(n^2) edges. I just figured that people wowed by "Metcalfe's Law" were business types who didn't any formal theory into computing.
How do you calculate computing capacity? What is the output - AI gibberish? What guarantees that its generated by the official model?

This only works with maths - that is SHA-256 or other hash algorithms in a Proof of Work manner. The only thing that can't be spoofed is maths.
I agree.
So the situation for niche tech / specialization will be even worse, that was my point.
As opposed to the arm-chair economists writing blogpost with an agenda?

Economics is not an exact science like maths or physics. "The Economy" is the collective human activity. It depends on so many actors. Actors who don't have full information, and who don't actually behave in a rational way.

Yes, I would be weary of anyone who speaks in absolutes and you should use your own common sense and judgement.
Researchers develop techniques to spot hardware trojans.
Exactly. A neurodivergence filter. Because it's illegal to discriminate against that protected class directly.
If your team has tripled, it might be time for another layer of management.
Your government should have implemented what the people voted. The fact that they could get away with it is a clear sign that they can ignore what you vote on without any consequence.
Roast My Landing Page
I’m optimising the homepage lemon.io and need the help of the community.

We are targeting startups and the visual brand and tone of voice played a good role in our growth. I see there are a lot of things that make me doubt it.

Our conversion is a bit below of I would expect. I’m building a list of assumptions that will test within the next 3 months.

Looking for feedback on:
• copy
• design
• trust

Thank you.
Auto-playing ads on car touchscreens? Is that really a thing?!

I drive pretty old used cars so I don't know what newer ones are like
These are kibi-meters
Evidence of "foresight and planning":

- WEF's The Great Reset: https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/dp/...

- UN's 2030 Agenda: https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

- WEF and UN create strategic partnership for 2030 Agenda: https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/06/world-economic-forum-a...

- Central bank digital currencies: https://cbdctracker.org/

- The Russian invasion of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

- The BRICS alliance: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/brics-deb...

- Russia and China stop attending WEF conference in 2023: https://tass.com/economy/1562563
Scientists Find New Invasive Mosquito Species in Florida
Not really, this is how they got in the current situation with justified existential fears.

Branching out into popular fields and spending a shit load of resources (in relative terms to Mozilla size) although they're late to the party. Meanwhile neglecting the core product.
> open-source AI ecosystem

Ah, right, I must have skipped this. I don't know how, I was looking for it.

I hope it says like this though, the fact that it is an independent startup does not inspire me much confidence.

OpenAI started as a non-profit committed to open source, this failed miserably.
Fair enough, however, not to be confused with Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH)
as a plausible example I have experienced when attempting to use it for writing papers:

I give it a list of steps I did to generate some data -
it writes a long winded explanation of how to set it up that is similar but subtly different, which would lead to the results being dramatically different. The worst part is because of the nature of how these things work, the resultant steps is closer to how one might expect the solution to work.

This, if published, could result in hundreds of lost hours for someone else trying to implement my successful solution the wrong way
Ask HN: Can any Hetzner user please explain your workflow on Hetzner?
I am thinking of trying out Hetzner for hosting front-ends, back-ends. I have some questions about the workflow on Hetzner.

How do you

- deploy from source repo? Terraform?

- keep software up to date? ex: Postgres, OS

- do load balancing? built-in load balancer?

- handle scaling? Terraform?

- automate backups? ex: databases, storage. Do you use provided backups and snapshots?

- maintain security? built-in firewall and DDoS protection?

If there is any open source automation scripts please share.
Won't this "just solves it self/capatalism" ? (After some hard and trouble times)

I.e if 'suddenly' (/s?) the top-20 results of Google-SERPS are all A.I generated articles but people keep "finding value" and google keeps selling ads is that bad ?

If people stop using google because the top-20 results are all useless A.I generated content and they get less traffic, sell less ads and move to other walled-gardens (discord etc)

It's almost like we are saying if we have A.I copywriters they need to be "perfect"
like with "autonomous A.I driving"

I'm betting(guessing) the "bulk of A.I articles" has more value than average human copywriting A.I ?
If he was tweeting anecdotes, or still working (seems he might be?) and tweeting about it it'd probably be a lot more - but it's mostly US basketball (and other sports/personal stuff) by the looks of it, so however veritable a hero it's just not interesting to the same audience (or at least, for the same reason, of course some of us will be basketball fans) - and probably if you're big into 'basketball Twitter' he's ~'nobody'.
Compact low-cost lensless radiomicroscope developed for nuclear medicine imaging
In relevant studies, people attempt to discriminate lies from truths in real time with no special aids or training. In these circumstances, people achieve an average of 54% correct lie-truth judgments, correctly classifying 47% of lies as deceptive and 61% of truths as nondeceptive. [1]

What I think people miss are all the mechanisms we've evolved to prevent people from lying, so we can live effectively in a high-trust society, from built-in biological tendencies, to how we're raised, to societal pressures.

"People lie too" but in 95% of cases they don't. If someone on Hacker News say they prefer Zig to Rust or that they liked the Dune movie, they're likely telling the truth. There's no incentive either way, we've just evolved as social creatures that share little bits of information and reputation. And to lie, yes, and to expose the lies of others, but only when there's a big payoff to defect.

If you had a friend that kept telling you about their trips to restaurants that didn't actually exist, or a junior developer at work that made up fictional APIs when they didn't know the answer to a question, you'd tell them to stop, and if they kept at it you probably wouldn't care to hang out with them. ChatGPT seems to bypass those natural defenses for now.

Most people think they are hard to deceive. But I see plenty people here on HN with confidently wrong beliefs about how ChatGPT works, that they've gotten from asking ChatGPT about itself. It's not intuitive for us that ChatGPT actually knows very little about how itself works. It even took humanity a while to realize that "How does it feel like my body works" isn't a great way to figure out biology.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr10...