skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that works because there isn't One True Blockchain and it doesn't seem like there ever will be. How do you get Google, Huawei, some random photo editing app, Dropbox, Meta, etc. to all agree on the same chain?

This is a general problem that I have with a lot of blockchain ideas. For example, there are a few startups that claim to verify carbon offsets by registering them on the blockchain. There are many problems with this that we don't need to get into, but the relevant one here is: what is stopping me from registering the same offset on three different chains?
My main issue is that YAML is used as a [bad] programming language. To make matters worse, in the domains where it's typically used (DevOps) the "developer inner loop" is usually minutes long (e.g. GitHub actions).

Having to actually do the dangerous things that you typically do with YAML in order to test the YAML is insane!
It's quite easy to be busy doing nothing that turns out to be worthwhile. Both down to an individual level (I'm very guilty over the years) or up to a division/project in a large corporation. In this frame it's not that the employees did nothing it's what the employees were hired to do gave no profit. Sometimes that's okay, it's close and it'll be worthwhile. Other times it's a moonshot bet in which case it lasts as long as the company can afford to make moonshots. In some cases it's not okay, the company expected the division to be profitable and it's costing the business. In none of these cases is it about some employees doing nothing or others taking more load. Those are both certainly options but to list them as the only options is to work backwards from your conclusion about layoffs not forwards from reasons they occur.
> these models are probabilistic, therefore they will always have errors

There's nothing perfect. Even computers and computer networks need to have error-correcting code because information gets randomly corrupted.

Our whole reality is probabilistic.

And us humans are way worse than AI at consistency. We even overwrite our own memories all the time, so we can't even be sure what we remember is actually what happened! (btw, this is currently being used in therapy to re-write traumatic memories and help people overcome PTSD).

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/02/04/2715279...
So since russia is an adversary, and scihub is ran by either russian national or resident, any academic who interacted with it might fall under sec 11 (penalties).
I think we are seeing Knowledge Distillation at a large scale. OpenAI trains this megamodel which has an impressive amount of real-world knowledge packed into it, and annotation tasks such as these are effectively extracting a small portion of the knowledge to pass onto other specialized models.
> yet, deficit is still growing

The deficit always grows in nominal terms because of inflation. Scaled properly [1], the deficit isn't great, but it's improving and far from unprecedented.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
I enjoyed it much more after reading a bit about the cultural background, but was genuinely confused about its intention before. Probably the case for many folks who grew up similarly (unstructured, low expectations), which is perhaps more common in the US (but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Our policy for now is the exact same.

The problem is the verification of this of course.
One can dream :')
The truth matters: scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out
> I don't think it's so much a conscious decision against compliance

You haven't even bothered glancing at any of the linked material, have you?
https://alternativeto.net/
Eh, even if the probability distribution is unknown, a random guess should still have 33% chance to be correct.
In America, the best investments in the past 100 years have been structures like car dealerships built on cheap land around the exurbs of major cities. You get commercial use of the structure, wait 20 years for it to be surrounded by residential development, then sell the land. This, working hand in glove with the driving and commuting culture, had been the middle class gear in the system attached to the resource extraction itself.

I'm not here to pass moral judgments on this method of creating wealth, although to me unnecessary mineral extraction for energy is largely fraught with moral hazard. But to say that real estate isn't an investment is to consider the past two centuries of American economic growth to be a temporary aberration, and I don't think you can do that in light of the degree of economic reliance that has grown up around it.
Sourcegraph releases the code for its AI coding assistant
This and the parent comment come off as patronizing and missing the point.

Grandparent was giving an anecdote about how video games work for them, not asking for alternative advice.
Yes generally i reject any request if its customization just for one customer. I try to generalize the change by e.g adding an API call. Also i get requests to keep xp/win7 support which i reject often.

The biggest thing I learned is to basically do nothing on the product, unless its needed. I used to be tempted to change things/add features for fun and for a challenge but its a mistake. The reason is it might introduce bugs. Too many customers and big companies rely on virtualhere now day-to-day and the software is complex enough that its hard to tell if the bug was always there or just from the new addition. Im very relucatnt to even upgrade the compiler unless i have to for a new OS etc.
Right, but the US is supposedly much more of a country of liberty.
Kevin Drum has a chart or two for that:

https://jabberwocking.com/yes-of-course-big-deficits-are-due...
In short, no. https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/cooperation
If you use GitHub for sensitive internal stuff you will have a contract with them. This is different from users dumping your data into a service of a vendor you have no business relationship with.

And Windows and VS Code don't upload your data to Microsoft unless you choose to do so.
Ask HN: What's Shipping?
How clear are exec teams and product leads at your company about what is shipping and when?

If they know, how do they know? Project management tools don't give you a clear sense of what's shipping and when.

How often do you have to answer questions of the nature "hey, when is that thing shipping?", "what's shipping in this next release?" etc.
Seems quite similar to https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa with a few more document types added
This is a great idea! Do you plan to productize a self-hosted binary, possibly allowing other, locally-hosted LLMs to be used in place of OpenAI APIs?

There's definitely an enterprise use-case for this.
He didn't say it was merely "readable"; he said (as I quoted in GP) "the basic quality of the translation is as good as a human might do."
It might be due to licensing, even Linux went with btrfs (not sure if they mainlined zfs yet).
Oh, that's interesting. I hadn't noticed it forgetting context, but I just asked "Do you remember the original prompt I gave you when starting this conversation?" and it said "Yes, the original prompt you gave me was: 'Hello, can you help me convert 0.05 BTC to USD?'". So, yeah, it's definitely forgetting some things.
https://learnbchs.org/index.html
Why do you think this is good?
> that the Aryans were a nomadic, tribal cow-herding people who didn't tend to live in fixed structures

What are you talking about? Almost the entirety of the Mahābhārata deals with politics, intrigue, war- and state-craft, amongst others. The Rāmāyaṇa discusses an equally complex civilisation. By around ~500 BCE, Northern India had coalesced into large, hierarchical, and complex civilisations and city-states, which conducted war, trade, and diplomacy both within and outside the Indian subcontinent. The Kalinga war was conducted in ~260 BCE, and Alexander the Great halted his advance in India about half a century prior.

There's something about Indian history that is deeply, deeply divisive like almost no other civilisation's history is. On one side, there's the full-on jingoistic and ultranationalistic stuff like the out-of-India theory, that ancient Indian mathematicians and scientists built a civilisation rivalling the 21st century, that Sanskrit is the 'mother of all languages', and that it is a 'programming language' (yes, it has a highly regular, formal, and almost context-free grammar that allows it to be easily parsed like few other natural languages can, but that's it).

On the other hand, there's dismissive, 'Orientalist', and sometimes outright racist views. Yours is a good example of the dismissiveness and Christo-centric/Western-exceptionalism thought process that was the zeitgeist amongst many Western scholars until well into the 20th century. I daresay it is precisely in reaction to this sort of paternalistic dismissiveness that the above-mentioned jingoism sprouted in the first place.
>> China has significantly expanded its bailout lending as its Belt and Road Initiative blows up following a series of debt write-offs, scandal-ridden projects and allegations of corruption.
A study published on Tuesday shows China granted $104bn worth of rescue loans to developing countries between 2019 and the end of 2021. The figure for these years is almost as large as the country’s bailout lending over the previous two decades.
I started explaining why you were wrong and got about 5 words in before I realized you're correct.
Good question. Possibly because that approach wouldn't work on readonly files. (But in the case of readonly directories .DS_Store wouldn't work either).

Possibly because not all copy programs copy metadata.

Possibly it's just technical debt: .DS_Store was added to MacOS before xattr and rewriting the Finder to use xattr is not high priority.
This doesn't seem to generate great regex, but it does seem to generally work(ish?) so I guess nobody would care. That said, how's this work? Are you just sending this off to one of the AI api's - what's going on with the data pasted in the box after we hit run?

Struck me as funny when we have another thread going about people pasting company data into ChatGPT and here we have a regex AI with an example that looks like it's encouraging you to trust it with helping you regex through your PII, just paste it in the box and highlight what you need lol (not saying that's the intent, just that's what less savvy users may do)

Company site does not inspire much confidence: https://libertylabs.ai/

Light on details, heavy on philosophers, trend setters, idea banks, and radicals that make me worried I'm dealing with opportunists taking swings at monetizing a bunch of .ai domains. Especially the weird cinematic banner.
> I don't think people realize how good Bilingual LLMs are at translations

This.

GPT/ChatGPT is able to even translate between different "accents" or dialects of the same language. For example it can give you the same sentence in Mexican, Argentinean or Peruvian Spanish.

Example:

Me: Give me a sentence in spanish that is different in Mexican, Argentinean and Peruvian Spanish. Write the sentence in each dialect.

ChatGPT:
Mexican Spanish: "¿Qué onda, güey? ¿Cómo estás?"
Argentinean Spanish: "¿Qué onda, boludo? ¿Cómo estás?"
Peruvian Spanish: "¿Qué tal, causa? ¿Cómo estás?"

These sentences mean "What's up, dude? How are you?" in English. The primary difference is the slang term used for "dude" or "friend" in each dialect: "güey" in Mexican Spanish, "boludo" in Argentinean Spanish, and "causa" in Peruvian Spanish.
How does that change fundamentals? The banks get free money from the Fed which gives them more money which they can use to pass on the interest payments to their own rich depositors. It also allows wealthy people to borrow more money against their substantial collateral to further prop up the value of their assets. Then when the bank goes bankrupt and a bunch of shell startups which it loaned money to go bankrupt, their failure and fat severance packages have been paid for by the people through cost of living increases.

Let's not forget that some of these bankrupt startups were basically tossing suitcases of advertising money at big tech prior to their bankruptcies. This is the people's money they were tossing at Big Tech. Then if they avoid jail (common), the founders of these failed startups will go on to get more funding 'a second chance', then a 'third chance', etc.. from the big VCs as a thank you for propping up their corporate stocks with 'borrowed' money which was never repaid.
Unless you think China is a role model it probably isn't. As Milton Friedman said, don't do to yourself what you do to an enemy in times of war. A ban on TikTok is doing to your own people what trade sanctions are to a foreign country.
Never underestimate the benefit of a fresh pair of eyes!
I really enjoy time tracking threads on HN, the domain is straightforward enough for every time there to be an absolutely different set off tools and approaches, without major incumbents dominating the field. The discussions always inspire me to think about my time tracking tool - https://github.com/Klaster1/timer-5 - in a different light and seek inspiration from others.
Great, otherwise there would be limited upside to the integration. Thanks for the details.
The crash was unrelated to tech and a provider billing issue. Fixed.
We do traverse the full document, all 2,000+ pages that we support. Give it a go!
I won't disagree that my response reads with a bias. I'm an employee, not an employer, I can't deny that.

But you say "sometimes... It's close". I think you have to allow for the scenario where it's not close, and management mad a bad call, and need to suffer the consequences. But THEY don't suffer the consequences... And their subordinates do.
How is this AI rather than just string logic? What model was trained? Trained on what? Maybe producthunt would be a better place to post promos?
How does that work? Doesn’t it need reinforcement with signals for what aliens look like? Isn’t it just anomaly detection without that?
Isn't this the exact thing that got MS in trouble with anti-trust for Explorer? How is apple getting away with it?
Great. I uploaded a paper I was reading. You can easily summerise, and ask other questions.
Activist investors smoke out South Korea’s undervalued companies
> does that change fundamentals

Because with IOER, the Fed creates the market. No Fed, no IOER. In reverse repos, the Fed participates in an existing market. There are plenty of people willing to make overnight loans against Treasuries. That's what a repo is.

The Fed is currently participating in that market to raise the cost of borrowing. If it's helping the rich one way, it's hurting them the other.

(I'm not arguing the Fed is an egalitarian institution. But it's inaccurate to describe its operations, particularly reverse repos, as "printing citizens' money and giving it to rich people just for being rich.")

> when the bank goes bankrupt and a bunch of shell startups which it loaned money to go bankrupt

This is a non sequitur. (Also, if you borrow money from a bank, they don't go away if the bank goes under.)
Really amazing!

First question: are there other tools that do this with ChatGPT? carrolldunham says that Bing can do it. But still?

Second question: what are your plans for the future? Could we integrate your tool into a website, with a pre-made list of documents and web pages, and our members, or customers, can use the tool to get answers? And if I look further, could we imagine a similar tool to answer questions received by email?

Third question: the tool works with French documents, do you intend to translate the interface?

Thank you!
You can load any file from server into string. Use for example fetch call to do it. You can then assign innerHTML property of any DOM element of your choosing to that string [0]. The string can contain any valid HTML and JavaScript. This makes your front end modular and scalable. It is dead simple and does not require anything but plain JavaScript.

It is amazing how modern web developers flock to that mess of frameworks and tooling to achieve what basic JS and no tooling do way more efficiently and with less time spent.

[0] - https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_html_innerhtml.asp
This statement nicely describes my experience with LLMs. They may have a hard time staying on topic (especially with larger untuned models like LLaMA 13B+), but if you help them stay on track, they become very useful.
This doesn't seem to be true anymore, with products like Wipr Extras going beyond the content blocker API:

https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr-faq.html#what-is-wipr-ext...

Naturally, Safari Extensions seem to more frequently cost money since Apple's developers have to pay for Mac hardware and developer accounts. But to say that Safari doesn't have good enough extension capability from a technological level doesn't seem to be true anymore.

On my Mac Safari is my default browser due to the battery efficiency and OS integration (e.g., SMS code integration), but I do sometimes use Firefox/Chrome for specific websites where needed, something like 5% of the time.
> do not do X for no reason.

You are not contributing much here. Could you elaborate what problems they were trying to solve and what other problems were met?
>nobody on HN is getting evicted because your raise is 4% instead of 6%

That's an unfounded assertion. I know plenty of software devs & other tech industry folks who cannot afford a house and are being squeezed by relentless rent increases (myself included). Many on the lower end of the pay range are a layoff away from homelessness.
No Angular needed. Simple Fetch does all that.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't put all your passwords into one single software provider.
While not specifically the IETF isn't this spec enhancement done by folks in e.g. the obs, ffmpeg, xsplit, and vlc projects? I.e. is this an ideological concern of which standards body owns it or a practical one of people not being able to improve the standard.
Can it parse emails? Obviously that's hard.
Sam Altman has been talking a lot about exponentials. This might be it.
"I only see social media as a bad thing for humanity."

Only? That is some black and white thinking.
> LLMs can't to my knowledge process a request into a lookup on say an actual database of facts at the moment or parse a request into API actions.

They can: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

> In this paper, we show that LMs can teach themselves to use external tools
I feel like it brute forced an answer? I actually think that this could've been achieved with Stack Overflow Search API?
Have you evaluated the quality of the responses? In my experience retrieval augmentation is hit and miss, it might collate unrelated information from different passages.
In practice I am not sure it is so easy to say "no thanks" to your adult baptism and abandon everyone and everything you've known up to that point.
I've been using next-episode since I saw you mention it here a few months ago... it's great!

But (as a non-premium user) I noticed I can't see my entire movie watch list. Was that a recent change?

I would have liked better transparency about not being able to see all the movies I added before I added them, but I realize as a non-paid user I pretty much just get what I get.
"I can’t help but notice your attempt to imply that Florida educators were somehow trying to suppress “Venezuelan, Cuban, and Puerto Rican” authors with your example"

I don't know how you are noticing anything when I seriously just picked a random book and said nothing about their ethnicity. No where in my argument did I use that as an argument.

"None of the books are "being banned." States are deciding what taxpayer-funded school libraries are making available to children."

That's still a form of a ban. You highlighted that it's taxpayer funded, which to me means it's a violation of the first amendment. If it was a private library then that would be fine.

"Of course valid books are going to be pulled in the meantime while the government does its review. It's like a product recall--you pull the batch while you figure out how bad stuff made it through the filter."

Was there some imminent danger that they need to be pulled before reviewed? How long is a review going to take and who gets to make the decision about what is appropriate? However you're right that my example was under review. I didn't notice that the list was of books was of those both under review or banned. So let's check out another book that was banned.

"And Tango Makes Three"[1] is banned in the Lake Country School District for K-3 [2]

The stated reason is: "Administrative removal as per HB 1557 due to sexual orientation/gender identification". The book is a children's book about gay penguins. There's no sex in it and therefore it's not pornographic. Why is this justified?

The parent comment also stated "it is baffling to me how the media depicts this as "anti trans" or "anti lgbt" book banning while managing to never mention the specifics of the books."

Well there's a specific book and it's Anti-LGBT. How does this protect kids.

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Finally what about the bible? It contains descriptions of sex acts, incest, prostitution. It also is a religious book that pushes its own moral values and agenda. Why is that allowed but not books about gays?

I believe the true purpose of this law is to enforce moral values on the community and attack gays/etc by hiding their existence. The goal being to appease conservative Republicans and/or evangelicals who consistently vote Republican.

Why doesn't the 1st amendment apply here? The safety of children? How is hearing that gay people exist unsafe for kids? If you are willing to make exceptions to the 1st amendment for the safety of children that is questionable then are willing to make exceptions for one amendment why not the 2nd amendment? Guns are the leading cause of death for children between 1 and 19 in the US [3]?

[2] https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/02/07/heres-a-l...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

[3]https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...
The FED does not loan money. It gives it away. That's what QE is: The Fed buys bonds for more than they're worth on the open market. This disparity creates excess money in the system that wasn't there before.
AGI is Artificial General Intelligence. We have absolutely passed the bar of artificial and generally intelligent. It's not my fault goal post shifting is rampant in this field.

And you want to know the crazier thing? Evidently a lot of researchers feel similarly too.

General Purpose Technologies ( from the Jobs Paper), General Artificial Intelligence (from the creativity paper). Want to know the original title of the recent Microsoft paper ? "First contact with an AGI system".

The skirting around the word that is now happening is insanely funny. Look at the last one. Fuck, they just switched the word order. Nobody wants to call a spade a spade yet but it's obvious people are figuring it out.

I can you show you output that clearly demonstrates understanding and reasoning. That's not the problem. The problem is that when I do, the argument Quickly shifts to "it's not true understanding!"
What a bizzare argument.

This is the fallacy of the philosophical zombie. Somehow there is this extra special distinction between two things and yet you can't actually show it. You can't test for so called huge distinction. A distinction that can't be tested for is not a distinction.

The intelligence arguments are also stupid because they miss the point entirely.

What matters is that the plane still flies, the car still drives and the boat still sails.
For the people who are now salivating at their potential, or dreading the possibility of being made redundant by them, these large language models are already intelligent enough to matter.