skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Johnson", and similar names in other languages, can also indicate connection with the early Christian church, not a literal connection with a person named John. "Johnson" in this sense means someone who is a 'son' of John the Baptist (aka, a Christian). Or so I've read.
Which country? I'm in Japan, and the cult of noisy cars/motorbikes here is both disgusting and hopeless (given the planned disappearance of ICE vehicles), but very ingrained (among both middle-aged and young men). Moreover it's actually illegal (law limits engine noises to 80dB), but police seems to have given up.

Ideally I'd move to a country with more regard towards silence, calm and cardiovascular health of citizens.
Unfortunately, Visa, PayPal, banks, and more are not required to accept all payments for all legal activities. Instead, they are permitted to block users engaged in legal-but-risky behavior. Typically when they do so, there is no serious right of appeal (to an external body). Thus, there are plenty of valid use cases for crypto payments for services that are legal but too risky for banks.

For a list of examples, see the categories used in Operation Choke Point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
I don’t know how one cannot see the difference between the letter

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I dont read news sites (apart from HN of course), but from the link title I get the gist.

Sure it's possible to build massive renewable systems across Europe, but these large projects require governmental commitments that exceed elected time frames.

For example one of the first things we need if we are to phase out CO2 driving is a decent inter-European rail system. Even going capital to capital can be hard. And since we are running full speed into AI unemployment, let's make that rail system for free, and save some universal benefit payments. I think the free train trials in various countries this year already proved very popular.
> But it has occupied the Syrian oil fields

As a consequence of the US war with the Islamic State across Iraq and Syria; IS had previously occupied Eastern Syria where the oil fields now controlled by the US are located.

> Crickets in the media - because it wouldn’t look good.

Crickets in the news media largely because the news media covers news and static situations aren’t news (same reason whey the occupation of Crimea got intense coverage for a short time in 2014 and then critics until 2022, which wasn’t because Russian aggression and occupation looks bad for the US.)

The news media covers events related the US presence in Syria, but the ongoing fact just isn’t news.
You nailed it. I work for Starbucks ;)
I suspect it's a measurement and not a photo. Something they could put on a chart but that's about it.

There's interesting ideas for imaging exo-planets that involve a fleet of satellites past pluto that use the gravity lens of the sun as their lens. A system like that could get an image of an exo-planet.
One of the better known buffer overruns (Heartbleed) was build on top of what boiled down to buffer reuse, which is common even in memory safe languages.
> The Union sets the employees and the business up as adversaries and guarantees that there will be a contract negotiation.

> I don’t understand why people expect labor to be able to play hardball while also trying to benefit from a cooperative relationship with the adversarial partner.

I don't understand why people think it's not an adversarial relationship without a union. The workers are trying to get the most value for their labor, the company wants to get the most labor for its money. The difference is without a union the company has more power than you do.

Outside of the smallest businesses, most individual workers are disposable as far as the company is concerned. Their duties will be picked up by other employees and there's no rush to replace them. The company won't be substantially harmed by losing one worker, for the most part. There are of course exceptions, generally in small organizations or specialized skillsets, where individuals can be extremely hard to replace, but those cases are not the norm.

On the flip side most workers who lose their job have an immediate problem. Almost 2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. If they lose their job they have at most a few weeks before they're missing payments. No longer having a job with no immediate prospect to replace it poses an imminent threat to the stability of their life.

This gives employers a massive amount of leverage to push for the absolute minimum they can get away with before employees start saying "I'd rather starve", while employees have little to push back with.

A union attempts to balance the scales by turning the workforce in to a combined threat. No longer is the company negotiating against an individual, it's one or more entire classes of workers that they stand to lose and have to replace if they don't come to an agreement.
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility
A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
> I got it from my notes for an unrelated project. You can't find it because I wrote the notes. But this shouldn't matter. As long as the points are correct, you getting schooled by an AI is irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

The points don't specifically pertain to the US and have enough garbage weasel words that they don't even rise to the level of "correct". I'll make another comment that goes through them though.

> General truths exist. You must dismiss exceptions to get at the general truth. Otherwise we'll be mired in details constantly.

You can't just handwave away complexity. It's entirely possible for the US to have too little regulation in some fields and too much regulation in other fields.

Your claim is that it's impossible for the US to erect regulatory barriers for AI. Whether or not the US, in general, has more or less regulations than other countries isn't sufficient to make that case.

> The heritage foundation is a conservative think tank with a biased agenda.

I never claimed otherwise. But why would a conservative think tank, which favors less business regulations, not even put the US on the top ten list of most "economically free" countries if the US is so underregulated? Why would they prefer the regulatory environment in Denmark and Sweden over the regulatory environment in the United States?

> Check out which countries rank the highest for food regulations

So when I bring up examples they're "exceptions", but while you bring up examples, they're examples of the rule. When I cite sources that do an overall survey of a country's regulatory environment, that's "biased", but when you cite a source that makes their money by helping companies comply with food regulations, that's just fine.

> Not to mention labor regulations, mandatory five week vacations? Paternity leave? Unheard of in the US.

Yeah, there are some places where the US has more regulations and some places where the US has less regulations.

If we're talking about regulating AI, I think nuclear energy regulations are a much more analogous case than vacation and paternity leave.

> It's an exception. I mean I literally gave you tons of examples how the US fails to regulate things. The ratio of failures to successes is what matters here. And the failures outnumber the successes by a huge amount. I only copied a fraction of my notes. Would you like more?

I can run ChatGPT myself, thanks. Why don't you try thinking for yourself and considering the possibility that your presuppositions are wrong?
Tailwind CSS 3.3 is released
There are several nationalities belonging to the third world for whom this is a godsend (not this one particularly, but others in the region). As an Indian national, I have to undergo a painful process to procure a tourist visa, which is often valid only for a few days. Something like this which let's me work remotely for clients based over Europe and North America, and let's me travel through Schengen without any stress is really a game changer.
Sending you good vibes in your search! Good luck to you.
> ELIZA's the name of a crude parody of a chatbot, produced in the 1960s.

I think this is unfair to the technical challenges inherent in implementing something like ELIZA (in the 60’s!).

Crude parody would be fair if it was released today. A phrase that might better account for the state of computing in the 60s would be “distant precursor to modern chatbots”.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, ELIZA was written for the IBM 7094 which boasted performance of something like 200 kflops (yes, kiloflops).
Procter and Gamble confirms data theft via GoAnywhere zero-day
> China's Navy is already more numerous than the USA's Navy

By number of ships, most of which are close-to-shore patrol boats. By volume of ships, the US Navy is more than twice as large.
If you don't like how the chinese government operate, you probably should not want your government to imitate everything they do.
The term "chinchilla" predates llama/alpaca. It doesn't directly map to a specific model, rather a family of compute-optimal models.
I believed these articles at the beginning. I spend a bit of time on Twitter now and it appears to me to be as vibrant as ever. Everybody is still there (including all the insane people) there's tons of engagement. It really feels to me like most of the criticism is being manufactured.
Is is possible to create 12 AI startup in 12 Months?
I'm thinking about taking on the 12 startups in 12 months challenge the same way that levels.io did in this post https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

I'm think of making really small MVP that do simple things some will be custom models but other ideas will leverage existing APIs

What does everyone think?
12-card star puzzle/sculpture
TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
Hey HN! My brother Arctic_fly and I spent the last two weeks since the GPT-4 launch building Taxy, an open source Chrome extension that lets you automate arbitrary tasks in your browser using GPT-4. You can see a few demos in the Github README, but basically it works like this:

1. You open the extension and write the task you'd like done (eg. "schedule a meeting with David tomorrow at 2").

2. Taxy pulls the DOM of the current page, puts it through a pipeline to remove all non-semantic information, hidden elements, etc and sends it to GPT-4 along with your text instructions.

3. GPT-4 tries to figure out what action to take. In our prompt we give it the option to either click an element or set an input's value. We use the ReAct paradigm (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629) so it explains what it's trying to do before taking an action, which both makes it more accurate and helps with debugging.

4. Taxy parses GPT-4's response and performs the action requested on the page. It then goes back to step (2) and asks GPT-4 for the next action to take with the updated page DOM. It also sends the list of actions already taken as part of the current task so GPT-4 can detect if it's getting stuck in a loop and abort. :)

5. Once GPT-4 has decided the task is done or it can't make any more progress, it responds with a special action indicating it's done.

Right now there are a lot of limitations, and this is more a "research preview" than a finished product. That said, I've found it surprisingly capable for a number of tasks, and I think it's in a stable enough place we can share. Happy to answer any questions!
There was a screen inside the Meccano contraption. I think that when you moved the Meccano frame, it would rotate the axis and the picture inside the screen would move at the same time, thus displaying different angles of the picture. Not 3d but fake perspective.

A bit like the illusion with the Wii remote and the targets moving in sync from Jonnhy Lee.
Or Brits, presumably just the 75% that did not vote to reduce their right to live and work in dozens of countries
via what then?
Considering content on the internet in aggregate, and these things have been trained there, is it really all that surprising?

It's so easy for the conversation to turn ugly, even mainstream comedians like Oliver/Last Week Tonight had chatbot excerpts of the sort in his AI episode.

They weren't training strictly on children books... it's more like a compressed and conversationally indexed form of all the things AIUI, including the likes of reddit; "kys".
To spare someone a click, yes there is still a postgres server.

Can't stop being mad at the misuse of "serverless". Even worse than using crypto for cryptocurrencies. Words have meaning...
M50 Ontos
If it's from TechCrunch, than it must be true ;)

But seriously, there is no good alternative on this market at this moment yet.
> needing to check that the deploy succeeded, and not move on to the next VM if not

It's literally just waiting for a port to open and maybe check for an HTTP response, or run an arbitrary command until non-zero status; all the orch tools can do that in some way.
ciechanow.ski pages are usually super performant for me, but this one is super laggy, especially widgets with the bicycle man/mesh. Anyone else experiencing this?
Due to latency, Neon is only for AWS/GCP/Azure datacenters or can we use it from smaller providers, such as DO/Linode/etc?
Can you give it the URL, or do you need to provide the full body text for it to summarize?
There's not a single reality where ebay has faster shipping and easier returns than Amazon.
>> Side-notes: - I looked for the 0.17% number in the paper, and what the paper actually says is that the Pearson correlation coefficient between inter-coder agreement and classification accuracy is 0.17 (=positive but weak). This isn't a number comparing the correlation between different coders. (Frankly, I think comparing ChatGPT's self-consistency to consistency between different people is unenlightening) - Section 4 sub-section "Crowd-Workers Annotation" says that each tweet was classified by two different workers, and no single worker classified more than 20% of the dataset.

You're right, I got confused. Quoting from the paper:

>> The relationship between intercoder agreement and accuracy is positive, but weak (Pearson’s correlation coefficient: 0.17).

I thought they used agreement between Mechanical Turks to evaluate their annotations. Thanks for the kind correction.

Regarding grad students, well, most grad students at my (UK) university (Imperial College) are mainly not native English speakers. But that's besides the point I think. My problem is that they took two grad students and compared them to a number of Mechanical Turks. That's just asking for a difference in disagreement between the two groups of annotators, especially if the grad students could communicate with each other and the Mechanical Turks not (which I suspect was the case).

Anyway that's a different criticism than the one in my post above, but I think also useful to keep in mind.
I want that for pop music, too! I don't understand why Apple (and other companies) don't get that there are users who want to slice and dice music in this way for every genre. When I go looking for "No-one is to blame" by Howard Jones, I want the version from "Dream Into Action" not the crappy radio remake he did with Phil Collins on the drums. When I listen to "Leave it" by Yes, I may want to make the connection that it was produced by Trevor Horn who was also 1/2 of The Art of Noise. In fact, my friends and I used to play a game we called "6 Degrees of Bruford/Wakeman". You could find connections between just about any band and either Yes or Genesis in 6 or fewer steps.
Fedora 38 Beta Performance Mostly Flat, Few Regressions
That is true and I’m not here to disagree, but what the parent pointed out raised a question for me: weren’t these salary increases in part due to the fact that since the 2008 Financial crisis, money has been cheap, and now with the Feds raising rates, money is now more expensive? And if so, and those salaries were not sustainable because the profits that allowed for them hypothetically cannot be sustained because people are out of work and tightening their belts or taking salary cuts to land their next job and taking out a loan to cover payroll for businesses is a more costly proposition, then isn’t this actually a volatile situation for the Bay Area housing market and the mortgages backing it?
On the other hand, if they did it would be very embarrassing for PayPal.
Hollywood Pretends There Is No Pandemic
They don't do anything about it because it's a feature not a bug. They know full well about all the fake reviews, fake products, product switches, counterfeit products, dangerous products, etc., and choose not to do anything about any of it because it's making them money. Amazon is basically an online real estate company that owns a giant online mall full of scammers, snake-oil salesmen and fraudsters, but they get to keep cashing the "Rent" cheques from these vendors in their "Mall," and so they don't give a single solitary f*ck about whether or not actual end customers suffer as it's not them doing it, just the people who rent space in their mall.
My little glimpse into them revealed notably-bad management of internal projects and management culture of caring very much about appearing busy while not really doing much (IDK about "engagements", I assume they basically do what they need to for those, which is why they keep getting paid). Which is pretty funny considering what they sell. But what I saw may not have been a representative look at them.
I would never consider working, or a house for that manor... not even if bribed with one of your fancy steel shoes.
I was wondering why PinDuoDuo were hiring for "Android Reverse Engineer". Screenshot of translated job page: https://github.com/jonatron/randomstuff/blob/main/Screenshot...

Edit: Replaced imgur link
I never use TikTok, but banning it seems fair game. China banned a lot of apps made in the US.
The 2nd paragraph of the wikipedia entry on NAIRU mentions it being set at 5-6%.
This article shows graphics with similar numbers: https://www.ft.com/content/facf6989-7cd2-3724-a6d4-dfe7c7551...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_funds_rate_v... <-- that's a graph like what I'm talking about. Notice how the blue tends to go up sharply before the grey recession bars. And this tends to happen right as the red line starts to approach 5%. There's an exception recently because trump was in office demanding that they keep the fed rate low, and I guess they decided to listen to him because he was cutting their taxes. But you can tell they didn't love the guy by the way the media covered him. I'm no fan either, but for different reasons.
> I assumed the high prices were the normal market response to high demand from many people with deep pockets.

The response is normal, but the deep pockets were an aberration. No one was making $$ in cash; tech stocks floated to ~80 P/E for mature companies and higher for billion dollar _growth_ companies (aka a bubble).
Chroma is awesome <3 - We have some overlap with them as we store the embeddings. But, we provide additional operations on top of the data, such as clustering/fine-tuning. We're also looking into open-sourcing some tools in the near future!
Forcing people towards their mobile app
yeah but it amounts to straight up censorship. Someone in the government decides what is safe for the citizens to see. How do you even ban it, does the US have mechanisms in place to enforce a government ban on a web site/app?
It's very straightforward: they don't want poor or middle-class foreigners in their country. They want rich people. So that the rich people can live in expensive housing, eat at expensive restaurants, and pump their riches into Iceland's economy.

This is why the minimum barrier to entry into this program is having an income of ISK 1,000,000 per month, which means that you need a salary of over €80 000.

Additionally, they also don't want foreigners to actually settle in their country, which is why there is a 180-day ceiling. The purpose of this program is to have rich foreigners come for a spell, spend lots of money, then go away. They're being very transparent about this.
This is a really impressive article -- he went quite far into the physics of bikes and wheels and didn't say anything that I could point to as being wrong.
> People have trusted the developers with 0.40T dollars worth of value

And that's the thing that causes the most cognitive dissonance. If you're going to trust someone, why not trust entities that have had hundreds of years to work out the kinks?
> but you have to be ready for many days of computation...

I was thinking since we have API prices in tokens and now it looks like self hosted inference on high end GPUs for similar models. Then based on electricity prices there will be a self-hosted prices in tokens. Then how close are these already? What is the markup today from roughly the raw electricity cost that OpenAI has.
How some fire in USA is relevant to our (European) infrastructure?
> One data point I can provide is: $900,000,000.00 — which is the cost for a bank for NOT doing this.

(It's not at all clear that this fine is due to a lack of regexes.)

If the argument is "banks have to do this because of non-sensical and unjust regulations" - fine, that's one for the lawyers and maybe risk managers.

I understood your position as defending the regulations itself.
Fantastic for teaching high school physics
I really miss Rdio, it really was the best music streaming service.
> Iran, Russia and others.

The proposed law specifies it's targeting China, Iran and Russia, as well as North Korea, Cuba and (the Moros regime of) Venezuela. It also has rules for adding or removing countries from that list going forward.
I heard Jeff tell this story and it was about a dining table that often arrived with a gouge in the top surface. It was costing Amazon a lot to ship, and a lot to get it returned, and the table was essentially worthless when returned. Even if only 5% of the tables are returned, this makes selling this table a loss maker. Quickest way to increase profits -- stop doing things that make you a loss!
Chinchilla actually came before alpaca and llama.

Every new variation of model gets some new name, just like every library gets a new name. There were all kinds of BERTs before -
DistilBert, Roberta, SciBERT, Schmobert, Schmuber, etc. Many hundreds of them, I think.
We love langchain! That’s a great idea – we want to provide examples using langchain and look into ways to better integrate into libraries like this.
We are working with the Cloudflare team and see if they can build it. This is a great idea.
Apple Card has had BNPL for Apple Store purchases for a while, and it's not subject to the $1,000 limit that this new service is.
Except it’s not. Well regulated militias are about the states ability to muster a militia. Militias have scopes and scales associated with them, such as ages and dispositions. For instance in Washington state, “Idiots, lunatics, paupers and vagabonds, habitual drunkards and persons convicted of infamous crimes” and people younger than 18 and older than 45 years old, as well as government officials and judiciary and legislature, are not eligible for the militia, organized or unorganized. So, why are they eligible for consideration under the second amendment?
Well, I think that criticism is valid. The thing is that there is no good alternative. Elon can break a lot of things and people still will be there.
Chinchilla actually came first!
A PDB is a good example of Kubernetes's complexity escalation. It's a problem that arises when you have dynamic, controller-driven scheduling. If you don't need that you don't need PDBs. Most situations don't need that. And most interesting cases where you want it, default PDBs don't cover it.
I don't know. Though FYI your title should say 12 AI startups, not startup. You may edit it now.
So instead of taking 5/4 cores for a simple video call on my surface it would only take 2.5? Good stuff!
Still prevents the middlemen that would sell to governments from existing in the first place.