skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey friends, Digger.dev founder here. I BEG YOU - let this dream go if you want your co to still be still around in a few years. We've spent 2 years chasing it. So did 20+ other passionate teams. Look at this list: https://diggerdev.notion.site/DX-platforms-for-your-cloud-ac...

It took us 2 years to realise one simple thing: it's not wrong, it's just not the right starting point.

Indeed this kind of platform that'd make cloud ops much easier, decouple dev from ops, self-service and everything, on top of Terraform, is inevitable. It makes perfect sense!

But people don't need platforms. People need great solutions to at-hand problems. And for such a platform to take off, it needs to be best in class at _every single thing_ it does - everything from infrastructure provisioning to ci / cd to observability. No team in the world has capacity to execute at such scale from scratch, not even Microsoft (owning both Github and Azure).

Worse still, all these problems occur at different times in customer's company lifecycle, and often to different people in their org structure. This makes it next to impossible to narrow down to a use case or specific customer persona. This feels like a force that constantly tries to tear your startup apart. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

I think that the only way to make a horizontal platform is incremental expansion of independently successful vertical parts. Just having "integrations" with various third parties is not enough - for every problem your platform solving itself, there's likely a specialised tool that does it better. So there's got to be _one thing_ that you do better than everyone else. Just one. Unless you have it, people won't want your platform. And when you have it, you might just as well not have anything else because none of the other stuff would matter.

Find the one thing that people struggle with, build a simple solution, and make sure you are the best in the world in this one little thing. That's not hard to do, but extremely hard to truly believe in deep down. But that's the only way.

We have recently found our _one thing_: CI for Terraform. Digger makes it easy to run terraform in Github Actions. That's it, that's all we do.

Good news: this does not invalidate the big platform vision in the future - you can still build up towards it incrementally from your small thing! If anything having tried that is a competitive advantage against clueless incumbents.

I also may be wrong. Prior to Digger I was working on Palantir Foundry which faced a similar "backwards GTM" challenge - so I have 2 biased data points. But the folks at Qovery seem to be doubling down on the platform route. I'm rooting for them as well as for everyone else on the list. With enough perseverance and capital it might well be possible to pull it off, especially via top-down sales-led enterprise route. Someone will eventually make such a platform because it's inevitable.
Klarna's FOMO immediately shows the priorities of the clowns at the helm I see...
That’s still the mini product, just the paid version of it I believe
Nvidia's Denver ARM CPUs do the same thing
I love reasoning, but reason has led me to see its own limitations - eg: we evolved smart-enough to eat cows rather than be eaten by wolves, there's no reason to expect that what we call reason is sufficiently "expressive" to let us understand the deepest truths.

Since reason isn't powerful enough (likely) to let you see the deepest truth, the intellectually honest thing is to seek systems of thought that can pick up where certainty/reason/science reach their asymptotic limits.

In my study of religion (to which I did come through reason, having been born a Soviet atheist) I recognized that one of the fundamental things about religion is the recognition of your own limits and then going "now what?"

I found it to be an intellectually humbling and honest place to arrive at.
Not really. If someone lays low and uses new IDs they can hide for a very long time, decades sometimes. A good rule of thumb is to avoid areas where there are police/checkpoints, like airports.
He makes nine predictions at the end which he calls 'specific'. Four of them are most directly about GPT, and of these four, three are of the type "GPT is powerful and potentially dangerous or bad and might make bad or unexpected or scary things happen."

(This follows the pattern I've noticed where the term "AGI skeptic" will soon, if not already, mean "I don't trust AGIs in positions of authority or power" rather than "I don't think the technology is capable of matching our level of cognition.").

So let's grant him 8/9 of his predictions, and turn our attention to the one that seems to be his 'real' prediction. This specific and direct prediction about GPT is that "There will be no viable robotics applications that harness the serious power of GPTs in any meaningful way." which I mean, maybe he's trying to use the words "viable" or "serious" or "meaningful" to weaken his claim so that it's never wrong. If we assume he's not just making a vacuously weakened prediction, then I wonder if he has seen https://palm-e.github.io/ for example. You could say the prediction is wrong already, or that it will obviously be wrong before 2030, or that his phrasing makes it impossible for the prediction to ever be wrong.

Speaking of when or if his predictions can be shown to be wrong, I thought it was weird that he only says "These predictions cover the time between now and 2030." whereas for his earlier predictions he seems to have made a more formalized way of incorporating his dates into his predictions which he's not using for his GPT predictions for some reason:

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I specify dates in three different ways:

NIML meaning “Not In My Lifetime, i.e., not until after January 1st, 2050

NET some date, meaning “No Earlier Than” that date.

BY some date, meaning “By” that date.

Sometimes I will give both a NET and a BY for a single prediction, establishing a window in which I believe it will happen.
The barrel shifter was one of the things I loved about writing assembly code for the ARM. Shift anything, any amount for free!

There is a nice writeup about what it could do for you here:

https://www.davespace.co.uk/arm/introduction-to-arm/barrel-s...

Back in the ARM2 days (I never coded for ARM1 - they made very few of them) you knew exactly how long each instruction would take to execute (1 cycle for arithmetic, 4 cycles for load/save single value and 4 cycles + 1 for each location for load/save multiple if I remember correctly).

You could use the barrel shifter to shift/rotate arguments as part of those 1 cycle instructions, using up a whole zero extra cycles!

Nowadays with superscalar ARMs with branch prediction and onboard caches things aren't nearly so straight forward.
European LNG Tracker
Allegedly Costco has a policy of making their white collar folks work on the floor of their stores and rotate positions before getting to the office, same with McDonalds. I would love to hear from someone with first hand experience to confirm or correct my impression. I did confirm that Costco gives good benefits and decent pay for all their automotive section employees, and since then I only buy tires there (since 2000) for that very reason. Every time I visit I reconfirm that is the case. It is not much in the great scheme of things, but it is an honest effort to buy from good employers.
haha I called it "flog" because I always read "ref log" as "re flog" and it's kind of a replacement for that. And no problem!! So happy if it helps.
Let's hope the plugin integrations don't also suffer from the cross-account leaking issue that they had recently with chat histories[1], since the stakes are now significantly higher.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65047304
A contract without teeth is worthless.

Who in the world is going to sue someone for submitting an AI-generated story to a sci-fi magazine? Who has the time, resources, and motive? You may as well just ask everyone to pinky promise that they didn’t use AI.
Generative AI Changes Everything
Note: Title changed from the vague and clickbaity "This changes everything" to the more specific opener "Generative AI".

This piece, as well as numerous other writings and podcast episodes by Klein on AI and attention strike me as some of the more sober, sane, and insightful commentary I've heard on the topic, and warrant strong consideration and reflection.
As a gym, Planet Fitness is nonsense. As a moneymaking scheme it's top-notch.
extremely useful. Wow!
Yep, something like that. I would have had to know if and when Im moving a year in advance, which is ridiculous. I mean it's not like I read the fine print on that, so all the better that they had no problem cancelling the fee.
Hopefully a matte screen option??? That's the one thing holding me back from getting one. Those stickers they offer don't cut it. Amd vs Intel doesn't really bother me either way but a matte screen is an absolute must.

Don't have time to check now with the site being so slow but will do later. Good to see the amount of attention this receives though.
Except legal entities are literally manifest in order to absorb the fallout from situations like these. So don't be shy about using existing processes and tools to issue corrective action.
OpenAI is crushing it in terms of product strategy
Something I've found myself observing in disparate domains:

the only defense we have against applications of AI we don't like, is the application of more AI.

This is a natural implication of AI being augmented-intelligence force-multipliers at the moment. When your opponent takes performance enhancing drugs, or wears a mecha suit, the only way to compete with them or defend against them is adoption of similar technology.

The Prime Directive in Star Trek was prescient. AI arriving unevenly—and first under the direction and control of hands which have thus far proven disinterested in the common welfare where it interferes with personal benefit—looks like it will be a civilizational exercise indistinguishable from the delivery of disruptive technology from another species.

Of particular personal concern is that the synergies where it meets other technological social problems against which we have few or no defenses, specifically, surveillance and its active counterpart, sentiment control.

I am less concerned about needing AI tools to validate AI-generated code; and more concerned about the 2024 election cycle being opportunity for an arms race in application of AI to game politics.
The real question is how did society get to a state where “you will be happy” is an evil goal that people copypaste everywhere nodding conspiratorially to each other?

“You‘ll never guess what Mrs Jones told me about Agnes’ husband“

“Go on?”

“Well, she was sitting at the table next to him in the cafe and overheard him saying he wanted to make Agnes happy!”

“No!”

“Yes! Can you believe it?”

“The bastard!”
They don't have a "deliver at all costs" philosophy and they are creating a new and different CPU architecture from scratch, a task where even teams oriented at delivering at all costs tend to almost always fail.

The architecture itself looks very good. If it was built in a way similar to RISC-V, it would probably become very influential. (But then, I'm not sure you can create something that innovative by the same procedures RISC-V was created.)
And people actually reply to that?

What do you do if they tell you no one got this email?
If this lets me get a split keyboard I will be all over this 16 inch model.
About a year ago (maybe more?) I read an article from someone who'd found a medieval pizza recipe and wanted to try it out. Turns out that in the middle ages, pizza was just round bread. Not remotely resembling anything we today would consider pizza.

Pizza with toppings was apparently invented after the unification of Italy in the 19th century, when someone created three flat pizzas with different sets of toppings. The most popular one was named after the new queen of Italy.

And it was mostly Italian immigrants to the US who remembered this and started experimenting with more pizza styles. When they returned to Italy in WW2, they were surprised not to find any pizzas there, and local Italians quickly started making and inventing pizzas for these Americans.
Well, it's true that I probably would not be able to do that to a high level of accuracy. But that's my reason for picking a bank.

I suppose that picking SVB or CS or whatever was still a good choice, because you wouldn't have lost your money!
'Extend' (and lock in) with Plugins to suffocate competitors.

Another sign of Microsoft actually running the show with their newly acquired AI division.
Neuralink Surgical Robot Simulator
Technically, yes.

Lawyers and librarians fighting is always fun because each group is very detail-oriented, very pedantic, and amazing at malicious compliance.
I've been wishing for something similar, I think it's a great opportunity for desktop-style arm computing to shine.
The issue in my opinion is their day or two on the job really doesn't give them a good picture of what's going on. Sure they might see a few things but they could just as easily be an anomaly as they could be systemic. I wish upper management that are brought in from the outside would be required to work a month or two in the field and live on those wages. For example at Starbucks in the 2 days he works he might see that the espresso machine is getting loaded wrong 40% of the time slowing up the line. Seeing this he might go back to the mothership and decide everyone using the espresso machine needs more training to reduce the failures. What he is missing is that there are supposed to be three people working not two and the person making espresso is working his fifth double shift this week because the wages are so low they can't pay their rent and is making errors because he's tired. He would have also missed that the manager had sent a worker home that day and the day before because it wasn't busy and the manager wanted to improve his margins. He also missed the next day when it was really busy that same manager was demanding that an employee on their day off come in and work because they were busy and if they didn't come in they would be fired (leaving them even more short of people and creating more delays). It's like a person who fasts for 24h saying they know what it's like to be starving. If you really want to see what's going on a day or two simply won't cut it you need some time for things to sink in and if you don't know what's really going on how can you run a business properly?
https://archive.is/rs32R
Alan Kay, Ed Catmull and others livestreaming from symposium today and tomorrow
No matter how you define it, or whether people even agree companies should be obligated to provide certain public services, we are just nowhere near that line yet in this case, net even remotely close. It’s hand-wavy to say it’s important, but this is all brand new, there are only a handful of researchers involved, the critical mass to justify what you’re suggesting does not yet exist, it won’t for some time, and there’s no guarantee it ever will. I’m not sure what you mean by publicly funded trust, but that’s typically quite different from privately funded public services. Assuming that cost is even the reason here, then if someone wants to establish a trust and engage OpenAI, they can.

That said, what if OpenAI shut down codex because it has dangerous possibilities and amoral “researchers” started figuring out how to exploit them? What if it was fundamentally buggy or encouraging misleading research? What if codex was accidentally leaking or distributing export-controlled or other illegal (copyright, etc.) information? I’m explicitly speculating on possibilities, while you’re making unstated assumptions, so entertain the question of whether OpenAI is already doing a public service by shutting it down.
The math isn't straightforward. With a high enough rate of churn, there can be more onboarding work hours than post-onboarding work hours, especially if the onboarding ramp up time takes a while (as it presumably would if you only optimized for experienced use). And high rates of churn are not exactly uncommon.

Also, everybody goes through onboarding, and initial impressions have a lot of power. It's pretty easy to create a system that everyone hates just because it's a little difficult during onboarding. Social reinforcement can be stronger than reality.

(Personally, I still lean towards optimizing for experienced use, if you can do it without sacrificing the onboarding experience too much. Hotkeys that the new employee never needs to see or know about are a typical example, though I prefer a smoother ramp by mentioning the key on applicable menu items. The newbie can ignore it, the intermediate user can learn from it, the experienced user can ignore the menu.)
I agree completely. And that's what I liked about this article: it taught me what effects aren't for. I had been using most of the anti patterns in the article (especially using effects to sync props and state with each other), and it showed me a better way to do all these things.
Yep, they have that now.
I like the idea of setting aside time for yourself.

I don't like the idea of _everything_ being centered around career and money. I wonder if we'll see a shift away from this idea that everything needs to be hustle-optimized. That content probably doesn't do as well, though.

Side note, I find this LinkedIn style of one-or-two-sentences-per-paragraph grating.

I think the author could effectively use some of their two hour writing time to remove a few line breaks.
That ten percent is not loss it is parameter count.
California bill would ban sales of [current recipe for] Skittles, force them to remove chemicals to match the recipes they already use in the EU.

Good.
No there was no useful tips or anything new to his demonstration, only speed. If the completion of these tasks was meaningful to the performance of the store, it was only in his opinion. The store was already in the best shape it had ever been because of our hard work between the announcement and the day of his visit.
Sorry for the confusion.

I guess one explanation is that Windows users are immensely many more, so the small portion of users who are generous enough to contribute in those kinds of forums will also be formed of more varied attitudes and skills.
> South Korean justice system is notoriously lenient on white-collar crime

Is this because of the courts or prosecutors? I don't see the latter being lenient with a fugitive.
If I ask it like this, if gets it right:

I have a chair in front of the TV and one in front of the computer. I placed a watch on the floor beneath the chair in front of the TV. Then, I swapped the positions of the chairs. Where is the watch now?

After swapping the positions of the chairs, the watch is now on the floor beneath the chair that was initially in front of the computer, since that chair is now in front of the TV.
It would be wonderful to allow overacting, to give the actor high dynamic control over nuance “production”, … and then be able to dial back the overacting automatically & manually for generation.
Now any limits on how much of the book you can copy are irrelevant, since you can LLM yourself a brand new book by paying MS a few bucks and somehow there is no copyright violation in that process...
It's been on archive.is for 2 days.

https://archive.is/GtkP8
So why didn’t he hand himself in? He’s been on the run since last year, he has had numerous opportunities to hand himself in before being arrested in Montenegro.
Once again we have ample evidence that many companies are lying to us when they say they are "Selling us" things.

They are merely collecting the first payment of some recurring revenue stream they imagine us to be.
No, I more or less expect what is happening: until and unless clearer laws come from Congress, regulatory agencies use their best judgement on how to apply existing regulations on things that are pretty close to what cryptocurrencies are, to prevent mass scams and fraud.
They will probably have the full suite of Langchain features
It is useful to try to quantify processes, even when quantification is challenging. Or even when it is impossible with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
We know that longevity, assuming a "regular" life (no 2 packs of cigarettes a day, no handle of vodka a week, moderate exposure to the sun, some exercise, etc.), is strongly influenced by our genes, over which we have very little control, so far.

Assuming, for a 60-year-old woman, a gene-determined baseline probability of reaching age 90 in good health of 70% -- which, to simplify things, we take as observed frequencies, i.e., out of 1,000 women with the same set of genes, 700 reach age 90 -- how much behavior or activity x, y, z would move the needle in one direction or the other?

Since each man or woman is an island, we cannot know. But you can start thinking and pulling out reasonable numbers, based on observational studies, some intuitions, some quasi-experiments.
And I would say that continuing to work until 90 can move the needle in one direction or the other by a maximum of 5% (so, taken the 70% as baseline, we get 65-75%, because for some, like me, working is not exactly hell but at least purgatory, for others it might be the "purpose" that keeps them "alive").

Let's assume that for the woman taken on as a study subject in this comment, continuing to work for, say, 15 hours a week until the end of her life would increase her life span by two years (from 88 to 90 or from 90 to 92). But this entails other costs, less time spent with her husband or friend or children or grandchildren or dogs, which may be costs or benefits to her, since she does not like young children very much after all.

Thinking in terms of probabilities, costs and benefits is always helpful.
This works extremely well, is there a source for this to run locally?
This is huge, essentially adding what people have been building with LangChain Tools into the core product.

The browser and file-upload/interpretation plugins are great, but I think the real game changer is retrieval over arbitrary documents/filesystem: https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin
Unfortunately, "ACH authorization" is a collective delusion, as there is no technical mechanism in the protocol to prevent ACH pulls.

Better to use something like a Privacy card in the first place so you can revoke it on your own terms.
1. Wow a thing, people seem to be excited about it.

2. Are people excited about my thing? Am I excited about it?

3. Have I made the wrong life choices?

4. This makes me feel uncomfortable.

5. If I can defend my life choices I can feel good again.

6. I will downplay this thing, that will resolve my uncomfortable feelings.
> Real leaders of real companies don't have to be predatory

I dont think it works as your described. Amazon is plenty predatory.

What happens is a company tries to see what it can get away with. If they don't get in legal trouble, and customers don't abandon them in droves, then other companies start doing the same. It becomes industry standard.
You can fill both converters and cartridges. And it's in fact easier to fill a converter with a syringe than using the converter itself.
I agree, but I'm suggesting more than a contract; I'm also suggesting identity validation. Just the act of requiring legal proof of identity might weed out most of these attempts.
The blog pages are functional for me right now:

New 16" Model:

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-16

New 13" Models with Intel 13th Gen and AMD 7000 series

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-13-with-13th-gen-in...