skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next week:

* Michael Gove announces ban on "standing up too quickly".

* BBC links to a series of scare-mongering articles on how a "standing up too quickly head rush" can lead to dizziness and feelings of paranoia.

* A mother whose son died after standing up quickly under a descending demolition ball warns other youngsters against the dangers of standing up too quickly.

Meanwhile at Conservative Party HQ, Michael Gove snorts another line of cocaine off Rishi Sunak's belly button.
I suspect with a 'window' of 32k tokens, OpenAI has already done similar memory tricks.

I suspect that if you filled the context window with "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1", and then asked "How many 1's did I just show you?", it probably wouldn't know, simply because whatever tricks they use to have such an apparently large context window don't allow it to 'see' all of it at any given moment.
You keep saying it, but no evidence.
2nm arse to be precise
But when people are directly comparing ChatGPT to Bard, it seems entirely fair to point out places where it falls short.
> But Common Sense Media and other advocacy groups warned some parts of the new legislation could put children at risk.

So, at least three groups concurred. Also, the only proponents quoted in the article were “commons sense media”, which is either a typo (implying the proponents are actually ambivalent) or someone trademark squatting (implying malicious intent).
Startup valuations had gotten too rich.

Now they're coming down to more reasonable levels, in fits and starts.

VCs and their LPs don't want the write-offs. They're painful.

But ultimately, I think the write-offs will prove healthy.
There were some articles re how generative ML doesn't understand composition (it doesn't understand anything, but it's good at pretending for common stuff) that came out when the vision models were popular last year, e.g: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/did-googleai-just-snooker-...
I really do like this story, but there is also a part of me that reacts by thinking "Easy for world-famous novelists Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut to chuckle about they have talent, notoriety, and respect that no amount of money could buy and couldn't have been achieved by chasing wealth. For the rest of us toiling away in the rat race, hedge fund billions sound pretty great!"
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/24/federal-reserve-s...

I don’t think that’s what they are actually worried about. I would also like to point out that the biggest scams, FTX for example,
are simply traditional Ponzi schemes with a crypto front, they have all been executed entirely using regular banking systems and due to the incompetence of those regulators. Bitcoin itself is rock solid and constantly gaining users and influence.
For the Fed, I guess it could be the same as the IORB, currently 4.9%. (But I am not economist, I don't know whether that would work.)

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...
Cbdc is the last thing we need. Trust of these central governments and banks is clearly lost yet making a new system for them, that no one voted for (cbdc) or was asked about, that gives them complete control over our money is better? No thanks. This is why Bitcoin was created. There is already a solution and the central banks see it as a threat to their power. They are no longer needed.
That wouldn't be a store of value in the sense of actual purchasing power because you're tied to the inflationary effect of that currency.

If you mean an account that holds its absolute dollar value, you are right, although T-bills would do the same thing if traded at sufficient frequency. You are also correct about it causing bank issues. The fed reverse-repo facility, which is essentially what you're describing here but for banks to use partially contributed to this mess.

Overall there is no getting away from the fact that "value" of assets is related to the interest rate of the currency and if the interest rate rises some of those will be worth less which means a slice of people in the economy will have less than they did before. The Fed can't do anything to magic it away.

In a similar vein you can't put all your data on a server somewhere, call it the cloud, and cry foul if you lose your most important source code and IP when the server goes down. Banks can't change underlying economics. It was incumbant on the businesses working w/ SVB to not use them as their treasury anymore than they would put all their code on one AWS server and call it a day.
Nice, it's great to have it integrated directly on a property website.

I have made an iOS app to achieve something similar https://gepettoapp.com/en
We have great results / rendering quality which is really appreciated by realtors.
>Google's secret sauce is not its product but how it is able to monetize its userbase.

It is still primarily reliant on search as start of funnel though
Doesn't that suffer from some of the same risks as what brought SVB down? I'm not super educated when it comes to the US financial system, so probably high chance I'm wrong. But as far as I understand it, T-bills suffer from the "interest risk" in that if interest rates rise, newer T-bills are more valuable so it'll be harder to sell the ones you have if you want to sell them before they mature. They might also not keep up with inflation, so the inflation could be higher than the yield, meaning you'd lose purchasing power effectively.

But again, I might completely misunderstand things, but I don't think there is any investment that is absolutely risk free, which I guess is why you put it in quotation marks in the end.
The 4yo language abilities are a combination of spoken language and visual/manual interaction with the physical world. So there's a lot of multimodal learning going on and visual and tactile input undoubetedly counts for a lot.

I've just had GPT-4 generate a lot of Golang code. Boilerplate, but real code nonetheless. Did it perfectly, first time round. No typos, got the comments right. Much faster than any intern. No 4yo can do that.
Unless the US hits the debt ceiling.
I wouldn't report that bit from the appendix without noting the test was on an earlier version of the model in development.
Thə prablem with a sistəmatic, fōnetic chānj in Inglish speling is that it rāsəs thə questyən of wat acsent tū fāvər. Fər an Əmerican en Ōhīō, this transcriptshən prabablē māks səm sens, wuns yū get past thə shwa. I dout an Inglishman or ēvən ā Nū Yorkər wud fīnd it yusful.
I think they were referring to lockdowns, not covid. Kids weren't really affected by covid, but lockdowns and school closures were massive. To see if there was an effect on this from that you'd have to account for duration and severeness of lockdowns in various places, not look at overall rates.
> What I meant was that the space the program will use isn't defined by the language itself and can't be known at compile time.

You can know the space usage (in relation to input size) of some Haskell programs at compile-time — e.g. if you use a constant-memory streaming abstraction.

I don’t know much about Rust, but I don’t think it guarantees known space usage of all possible programs at compile-time.
Even if you had enough chairs, they are not strong enough.
I think NordStream is a great example. It was a big deal. I'm actually surprised that you're the only one that mentioned it. Everyone (I know and discussed with) agrees that Ukrainians obviously didn't bomb their cities, but everyone (including me) would also prefer to blame Russia for exploding NordStream, even if that doesn't make sense (unless it was a huge false flag).

It's a tough pill to swallow, but (at least in my circles) most people did it and after the initial shock entertain the possibility that it was actually done by the US/EU.

Just to be clear: it doesn't really change my perspective on the war or anything else - whoever did this was putting pressure on Russia and I support it. This move made "peace supporters" sponsored by Russia toothless, and cemented European support for Ukraine.
Value is a social relation, not an object. It is impossible to design a foolproof "store of value." Money under the mattress is depreciating paper, gold is just a little mineral pebble, fiat money and shares are just contracts, the less said of crypto the better.

The closest you can get to this ideal "store of value" is to take the general idea behind ETFs and take it way further to find ways to "invest" in society itself, but in a much more multi-modal way. If done properly, unless society started to somehow fall apart, you would always be guaranteed returns. The key thing is that because you would be investing extremely broadly, the notion that you're privately owning this or that company or bank account would begin to vanish.

This is, of course, just a financial way to describe socialism.
>> Medicare and Social Security alone keep millions of seniors from dying homeless on the street every year

> Somehow that didn't seem to have any effect on life expectancy or poverty statistics.

It didn't? Again, no evidence of anything.
Capacity issue may be alleviated by limiting the numbers of users who have access, and then progressively scaling it up, rather than releasing an inferior product (assuming the superior product really exists).

That being said, for all the other points I agree with you.

Google is often a target of any legal claim, so perhaps this makes them more risk-averse too.
Yup, humans have wants and needs, and if we were to reduce consciousness to that, then:

`while (true) want(gpt("what do you need?", context: what_you_have));`

From there on, it's reinforcement learning to the inevitable Skynetesque scenario.
Money markets also invest in highly liquid instruments so their prices are marked to market daily and traded faster than HTM portfolios. Therefore they get to adjust faster to macro conditions to ensure that the dollar amount of the asset is maintained.
That you can’t transpile dynamic language into a static one.

If you call ts a statically typed language -> you dont know ts :)
Well, while the idea of sentient AI may sound like science fiction, we are making significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence. It's not quite "I, Robot" yet, but who knows? Maybe we'll have a real-life Sonny to keep us company in the future. Just don't forget to give your robot buddy some goals that align with humanity's best interests, unless you want it to start working on paperclip production.

— by ChatGPT
No it isn't.

I cannot tell why I'm seeing this all over Hacker News.

A Central Bank Digital Currency solves nothing. It only emboldens and tightens the grip of people in power.

By definition it is centralized and forces anyone who needs to work in an economy to be accountable to an entity that can and will remove access controls to their financial streams. It does not change anything in the context of the current financial environment. It does not make things safer for investments.

The only thing this solves is having money be digitized and managed by parties who are not trust worthy.

Get out of here with these comments. You feel like astro-turfing.
How popular are Arduinos nowadays? I've used them years ago and they were great, they taught me about how to program and use the ATMegas and generally how to program close to hardware.

But then the Raspberry Pis came along and showed me how useful more processing power is, and for the microcontroller stuff the ESP8266 and then the ESP32 showed me that having WiFi directly on the MCU is so much better than just an Arduino, for which I used to buy really long cables. There was a time when I then paired Arduinos with ESP8266 in order to integrate them into the network, but since the ESP32 I've never looked back.

And yet I see new Arduinos being offered and just wonder who is buying them nowadays. Since I haven't informed myself for years on them, maybe I'm really missing out on something?
There are no signs of diminishing returns just yet though, and no one knows if that will be at GPT-5 or GPT-5000. I suspect the performance will keep increasing drastically at least until we have a model that's been trained with essentially all available text, video and audio data. Who knows what will happen after we have something that's been trained on all of YouTube. After this maybe we (or an AI) will have figured out how to keep improving without any more data.
From the link:

> The board provides a CAN bus, which allows users to minimize wiring and execute different tasks in parallel by connecting multiple shields.

From [0]:

> The Renesas RA4M1 group of micrcontrollers (MCUs) uses the high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M4 core and offers a segment LCD controller and a capacitive touch sensing unit input for intensive HMI designs.

Maybe a CAN bus connector, or finally a builtin user interface, if it's not just a power circuit? Built-in LCD/OLED, buttons, basic shell casing and end-user usable expansion connectors are growing trends among China/Shenzhen originating platforms like M5Stack. Arduino is still relying on hacky solutions for UI, which might be less appealing for casual users.

0: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-micr...
Py-template: one-click Python environment v0.2.0 update
Hey HackerNews,

Original post with more context on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/yu4ynu/pytemplate_o...

BTW. Sorry for not submitting it earlier here, my bad :(
And the central bank does the KYC? And it also decides who should get money and who not on every loan? Doesn‘t scale very well this model, no matter if DLT is used or not.
I wonder how this will play out for today's mid stage startups. Do they acknowledge their prior rounds as being inflated? Do they try to say the course and double again? Their burn rates will likely not be easy to cut down in the short run.
Upton Sinclair also might've wanted to say:

It is difficult to get a man to change his omnicidal and suicidal [these aren't exaggerations of existential threats] lifestyle habits, when his indulgence and privilege depends upon his not understanding them.
Apple is a luxury fashion company first, and a tech company second.
The issue with keeping money in the bank isn’t that the money is uninsured. The issue is that the money is uninsured and the bank is insolvent. Money market funds aren’t insolvent.
Sort of like how you can’t run ARM on x86 or PowerPC or risc-v?
I agree there is emergent behavior and this is impressive (I'm similarly impressed how well GPT4 can generate SQL statements).

That said, even playing Othello is still an example of next-token prediction via pattern recognition. Yah, it might be quasi-building a model of sorts, but that's of course just what non-linear predictors do.

Don't get me wrong -- we are also very powerful pattern recognizers.
This isn't always true; see e.g. rain versus reign.
"people love them"... Why?? They must be doing something important. Buerocratic skills aren't enough to make people love you, they just make people say "Ugh, can't say anything bad about his plan or the boss will get mad".

Many people hate pace setters, but they also hate completely useless people who make them have to work harder.

What does "slowing everything down" actually mean? Insisting on documentation? Asking questions? Pushing for real architecture instead of pseudoagile?

I've never been at a company large enough to have multiple technical groups, so I don't really know what they are talking about.

90% of times I've felt like someone was wasting time, it's been for one of two reasons, either they wanred things to be designed in absolutely tiny parts so that you could see visible progress on an hourly basis, leading to a product that looked like something you'd see on Hackaday more than at CES, or they wanted to use some old fashioned nonsense that constantly breaks rather than switch to a high tech industry standard (Think hand crimped individual connectors with high failure rate rather than just using off the shelf 4 pin cables and I2C).
Here's an overview of how to sandbox almost every programming language ever using standard linux sandboxing techniques: https://github.com/TryItOnline

This powers tio.run
> But when people are directly comparing ChatGPT to Bard, it seems entirely fair to point out places where it falls short.

The comment in question was generalizing about overall capability from failure a task Google advertises Bard as incapable of, not pointing out that task has a particular area of deficiency.

So, while recapitulating the advertised limitations of Bard might be useful in some contexts as you describe, that observation is not germane to the particular context where it was offered.
Layers are unfortunately not a good fit for alpha-key hypers since they interfere with typing (it's mentioned in the profile's comments, but that's the reason why it shouldn't be used, 'e' is a typing key), you'd better use the principle behind home row mods to turn typing keys into modifiers
https://github.com/gabriel-gardner/modtap-karabiner/blob/mai...

And Keyboard Maestro is better for app launchers since it allows you to hit the same key to return to the previous app (e.g., if you're in a text editor, Caps+F switches to Firefox, Caps+F switches back to the text editor)

You can also create a menu/panel for less frequently used apps which you don't need to remember abbreviations for
There are always people who go through mental contortions to justify to themselves that their own side is spotless. However, in this case there is a common and much more valid objection that the framing is hypocritical, or at least based on a different and much less appealing set of standards than the implied "attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime and humanity must unite to punish whoever engages in it".

Consider for example Mosul after the US-led campaign to recapture it in 2016 (https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2018/4/29/mosul-post-isil-...), which looks as devastated as any fought-over city in Ukraine; NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999 (https://balkaninsight.com/2012/06/11/nato-99-bombing-in-pict...), which seems to be well on par with Russia's bombing of Ukraine's backline cities in this war; and indeed Ukraine's own bombing of Donetsk since 2014 (referred to in words at https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-crisis-idUKKBN0GK..., and captured on video in a documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JovKkDvAU9Y) that mostly seemed to be criticised only based on the author's politics).

In all of these cases, the criticism of the invasion itself was already much more ambivalent in Western society - I went to a protest against the Iraq war in 2003 as a schoolkid in Germany, and was accused of "childish anti-Americanism" for it by a teacher - and the attendant destruction was nearly universally shrugged off as somewhere between "sad, but that's just how war is" and "to save this city we had to destroy it". Suggestions that the US government or its allies should face repercussions or even a war crimes trial were widely dismissed as far-left ravings (and one should not forget that when this was actually tried, they sanctioned the ICC (https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-why-has-the-icc-excluded-t...)). Considering that the remedy for this particular case of violence implicitly suggested by the authors of OP's website seems to be to militarily empower the US and its allies further, I think the moral case being made looks rather less clear-cut.
Which is what businesses should have used instead of putting hundred of millions in a bank. Banks can't magically change economics. Money markets were created exactly for this purpose. This should have been taught to every founder by every VC.
Ask HN: Lack of new customers is killing where I work at. What now?
I work at a software house and the lack of new customers is making everyone pretend they're working, with ppl getting really creative with BS internal projects, demanding what should everyone do, founders implementing OKRs of all sorts in all areas and that kind of shit makes me cringe and I'm losing the joy, because I do have full time work and now I need to look at useless corporate BS. Because me and some of the company still working and allocated to real projects.

Should I look for a new place to work or is it happening everywhere?
Many gases and liquids would freeze and settle on the cold side of a tidal locked planet, wouldn’t they? The planet might slowly dry out
Yep. The abstract for the conference talk is coy:

https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Pa...

In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular. In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that “There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.” But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.
That… doesn’t sound particularly amazing. As someone who sits in a lot of Zoom calls, I’m not sure I’ve ever found myself thinking “I wish this was more intrusive”.
You don’t need AI for something that is on the surface anyway.
That's moving the goalposts.

People wanted to defund police. Police budgets stayed flat or went up. Crime increased.

Maybe we should try defunding police.
Krecicki / ChatGPT-Trading-Bot-for-KuCoin / GitHub Repo
Good. All those 0% interest leveraged VC funds can go burn in a fire. They pumped stupid money into companies and inflated valuations. Now that things are getting saner with real interest rates above 0 and getting higher sanity will reign again in the markets.
This problem exists because the short term risk free rate is too high (which is turn is because government debt is too high).

If short dated treasuries and near treasuries were paying the near nothing they should be, then entities would have to figure how much they *really* need to keep in instantly available, no risk accounts.
Source? As the person who spent good part of my life there, I would like to know more details. I do remember my parents waiting for an government provided apartment for 15 years though.
Apple sells WHEELS for a Mac Pro for $700!

You think that same Apple will sell, what may be a totally new revolutionary product of less than half the cost of WHEELS?

Try again.
English? I've been prompting GPT-4 in Spanish all along, and it responds in impeccable Spanish. I can ask it to change the writing style of an essay to famous Latin American writers and it does it admirably. Translating back and forth between English and Spanish respecting meaning and context, even subtleties, no problem. Better than DeepL.

If y'all have been focusing on GPT-4 coding abilities, I ask you to try it with literature-based prompts. GPT-4 is an exceptional writer, summarizer, and style corrector.
We aren't retreating from globalization, we are just separating out the good and the evil and deciding not to do business with evil.
T-bills have very short duration, so interest rate changes have smaller effect on their value.

Think of the duration as a lever, the longer the lever the larger the move in value that interest rate change make.
100% and it wasn't like picking Terraform was _my_ choice! Sometimes you are at a big company and they already have 1000s of Terraform files so you can:

1. Fight with leadership to get away from Terraform

2. Roll up selves and feel the Terraform pain with rest of team
An insect that has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature (2013)