skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public libraries pay a different, greater license fee for ebooks they can lend vs physical books . The licenses also come with restrictions about number of lends, time limits, etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenduffer/2019/01/30/librarie...
The privilege is maintained by having the biggest military force in the world - which is why the UK used to be in that position, and the US is in that position now.

It's not inconceivable China could take over. Russia won't (lol...) and the EU doesn't have much interest in becoming militarised.
I like listening to news. NPR too
Pagers solve the issue for such professions, firefighters have them, those things are loud... For parents? Perhaps, but if you're paying for daycare you might as well trust them to get things right.
I suspect that's already been done a few times - but the CCP did not want a public spectacle, and the US Congress did.
They should build robot with AI to do it instead. There must be some sensible and implementable method there.
From my dabblings in interacting with ChatGPT and Bard, I think it marks a very important leap forward in technology. But not in any kind of "intelligence" as we'd generally understand it.

After using any of these chatbots for a while you realise that there is no real "intelligence" there. What there is, is a very impressive text-parsing engine combined with a very efficient search facility. But there's no nuance to the replies you get, no "personal" [or machine] opinion. It's just rapidly collated [and often tortuously balanced] data, quickly presented and nicely formatted.

The thing that suprised me most about ChatGPT et al is just how quickly everyone seemed to have one on offer. It seemed like one week we were all shaking our heads at the moronic stupidity of Alexa / Siri / etc.... and the next we had all these superficially much more intelligent and responsive AI chatbots to talk to.

Most of the "AI Powered" sites and applications that are springing up everywhere are based on ChatGPT [and I presume will be based on Bard too in future]. So are all essentially sharing the same dataset and programming biases.

One concern I have about this whole development is that it even further reduces the access to alternate views and non-mainstream controversial opinions. Microsoft has already integrated ChatGPT into Bing and I've been using standalone ChatGPT as a sort of pseudo search engine for a while now, as it's really handy for the kind of questions that you just want a quick answer to, without having to pick through a list of search results.

I do worry that, in future, pretty much all search on the web will take this form and these AIs will become the gatekeepers to knowledge in an even more prescriptive way than the current search giants are. I'm very uneasy about a future where our access the sum total of human knowledge and opinion is pre-filtered through the political and social biases of a clutch of pro-Western, pro-Capitalist west coast USA billionaires.
In that case you can't enter the site which needs your phone turned off.

It is a cost of being on call like not being able to drink alcohol. But you are being recompensed for being on call.
The age of the titans is leaving fast. Another titan's candle is out, I am sad.
To keep the "memory", do you pass the embeddings along with the new text prompt in an API call? How do you combine embeddings and text prompts? I don't know much about this, sorry if the question sounds silly.
Is this why the US financial system blows up so regularly?
If you're not shy of a few swear words, Nat's What I Reckon has some great recipes that are straightforward. Here's link to his bolognese - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_Ze9zIafM
I find this a weird take. In my country we're always amazed that there are places in most largish US cities where it simply isn't safe to be if you aren't a native, and lethal violence is a daily occurence.
You can download the SQL tables including the hashes over at LibGen

hxxps://libgen.is/dbdumps/
I did this already with Codex in the playground, definitely works for ChatGPT as well. Just paste code and tell it to make a loop run in parallel with X threads. I've had it produce code using either multiprocessing or asyncio.
Ask HN: How can a Backend Engineer capitalize on the AI trend?
Assuming AI is going to trend like crypto or cloud in the coming years, how can I, as a backend engineer, make the most of it?
What skills, frameworks, technologies, or concepts will be in the most demand?

Is it worth trying to pivot to an MLE/MLOPS role? Is it even possible for this matter?
s '/ban iPhone/ban Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/' seems more reasonable.
Scale Space
LeetCode problems are much simpler than the general coding contest, and they are only used as a basic competency tests.

It's like asking for the difference between an Olympic race and a blue-collar job requiring you to be fit enough to run a mile.
I think Thomas Gold's point is that most oil is misclassified as biological in origin simply because it contains "biomarkers".

Thomas Gold's theory is that oil is created in the core and seeps up through the rocks, and it collects biomarkers along the way because stuff lives down there.

The mainstream theory is that oil contains biomarkers because it is made out of dead stuff, and Thomas Gold's theory that stuff lives down there can't be true because nothing lives down there (yes, circularly).

(Disclaimer: I have not read Thomas Gold's book, but I have a very enthusiastic friend who has. I might be wrong about what he says).
Used to? In Spain it is also common to eat rabbits (yes we also have them as pets). Is this not the norm in other countries??

Now that I think about it eating a species we also have as pets is strange...
Just like sport coding competitions are fun :-)
More background on the case: https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
Notes on LLMs
What I wonder is why a bunch of programmers seem to think they know economics and finance better than the fed
Oracle would've charged per core and per GB of ram and number of containers to license your docker install.
Free would allow 3 containers, on single core and 512MB ram.
Sales people would be calling everyday to upgrade to docker pro, which is $120 per month/per user that will allow you to self host your registry, on premises or Managed Oracle cloud (vms and bandwidth extra).
Ran docker run without a valid license? Prepare to be sued.
Only? The author really don't understands the scope of commercial fishing.

Better alternative title: A Spanish firm will pioneer an alternative and more human way to kill their captures. This is a good thing in my book
For now. China has been actively working on making the yuan a world reserve currency [1], including relaxing the controls if it is adventageous.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-strengthening-yuan-role...
Yes, the rx in rxjs means Reactive Extensions. I think it's perfect for UI dev, but the steep learning curve excludes a lot of developers.

Signals look identical to React hooks.
I find this whole thing thoroughly unconvincing. Page builders provide enormous value for a modest price. If you run into an insurmountable problem with one, you could rebuild your whole site on a different platform (including manually copying over all the content), and then do that again a few more times, and still spend far less than you would having an agency develop a bespoke site with the latest trendy tech that will be obsolete next month anyway.

The fraction of businesses that need something really custom/special is vanishingly small. And the fraction of businesses that need a pixel-perfect design and consistency across all their pages is tiny, too. Your customers don't care about that crap nearly as much as you do. Just keep it simple and make the information they're looking for easy to find.

I'm a software engineer. I love building stuff. I can make kick-ass web stuff if called upon to do so. But please, don't waste your money paying me to build something you don't need.
For free or for a fee?
If anybody comes across this. I started seeing "not supported in your country" after two days of use.
It's a pity that nobody was able to reproduce the challenge phases of TopCoder SRMs.

Coding problems while taking of edge-cases for later was really fun.
I might be in the minority here, but I'm not using any AI tools so far, probably to my detriment.

I don't trust it with my data, and won't rely on such tools until I can self-host them, and they can be entirely offline. There is some progress in this space, but they're not great yet, and I don't have the resources to run them. I'm hoping that the requirements will go down, or I might just host it on a cloud provider.

The amount of people who don't think twice about sending these services all kinds of private data, even in the tech space, is concerning. Keyloggers like Grammarly are particularly insidious.
But isn't this just hindsight tautology? How would you know ahead of time how much greed is too much?

For example, I've been predicting the financial demise of Facebook for over a decade now (amongst other things for being too greedy), but Zuck's still doing well enough. Even if Meta is declining now, it still might have been rational for him to be so greedy over the past decade.
I find it both shocking and terrifying that people lack the most fundamental understanding of how a properly separated government system would work, let alone why it should function that way.

It should concern everyone that these types of top down authoritarian mentalities are more prevalent as people without a tradition or culture based in western philosophy that has led to what used to be a clear separation of powers, become more prominent even all over the western/European based world.

It will not end well for most of humanity, even in this community, regardless if how much we believe ourselves to be doing good here, or at least not even considering the destabilizing consequences of what we do here.
Just give your LLM access to all your slack chats and screenshots of all items found in the bins and it would tell you what Bob had for breakfast too
I didnt say children were perfect or formed model societies, i said IP was nothing like human rights or democracy.

When you experienced bullies etc. did you not have someone you could talk to that would agree the person was being shitty?

the idea that you can own an idea is not something that has an obvious link to basic issues that arise from existance of people, humam rights and democracy are.

Just because some people are shitty doesnt mean we should lower the bar.

There are some reasons for IP but they should not derive from owning an idea.
I'm a fan of Lua's implementation. I looked through this source and it seems well written. Nice job :)
China has been a clear threat since the 1990s. The US utterly failed to recognise it as a strategic danger.

Russia could have been Westernised with a little more effort, and turned into an ally and partner. (Which is not to say it would have been easy, but it would have been possible.)

Instead Russia was neoliberalised, turned into a mafia economy with huge concentrations of wealth on top of raging poverty, and its imperial pretensions were tolerated for two decades.

Ukraine and Russia are both direct US foreign policy failures.
For anyone wondering about the underlying reason for these events suddenly being cancelled: it is connected to Google laying off the team that organized these four events, as part of their January job cuts. I covered more details I could find a few weeks ago [1]

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-coding-competition...
This idea and the write-up is brilliant!
> That's what being left wing means. Identity politics are liberal, which is a right wing movement.

I get your point, especially as someone on the left myself. That said, it’s more useful in conversations about American politics to understand the political dichotomy is centered on the American political Overton window, not on the center of all extant political philosophies.

There has effectively been no real left wing party with national political presence in the US in the lifetimes of the majority of Americans alive today. Both major parties and nearly all smaller parties in US politics are right of extant center, but many are left of American center.

“Liberals” aren’t even liberals in the US, anyway. “Liberals” in the US are populist globalists. Identity politics is arguably not affiliated with any particular political philosophy or party, but rather is a cynical methodology employed by many parties to create a social device to shift the political median in their direction. For whatever philosophical rigor you’d assign to identity politics, it’s at best an ideology, but lacks the necessary substance to be a complete philosophy.

The left of the American center is mainly held by populist globalists, with orbiting positions which at its most collectivist aligns to environmentalism. The right of the American center is mainly held by populist nationalists, with orbiting positions which at it’s most collectivist aligns to religious fascism. American society is very deeply individualistic, and this is a major factor why populism holds so much sway and why collectivist philosophies exist in the fringes at best.

Hopefully I’ve managed to short-circuit repeating the same comment subthread about semantics of the term “left wing” that happens in every HN thread about American politics.
For each cheesy training video, playwright opens the page, runs a timer, clicks an element to load the quiz page, copies the question and possible answers, and sends them to the GPT-4 API for the best possible solution, clicks on the element that was answered as the most likely solution, and repeats. Since these video/quizzes are recurring and terrible, it was worth automating
I don't know the exact number but almost all of China's oil is imported, and almost all of that comes through Sea. That is not something Russia can fix on a short timeline. It's one reason why Pacific naval power remains an important advantage of the US and why they're so aggresive in the South Chinese Sea territorial "disputes".
Because if the fed wrote software it wouldn't stay in business for long.
Who is feeding some of the most popular and advanced AI-applications?
When the pandemic hit, as a true leader, you would grab a history book and try to see what a pandemic means. How did people recover from it? How long did it last? Maybe even hire a historian, a virologist and maybe even a psychologist to help you understand what people really want (they don't want to commute and also don't want to do everything online). This is all stuff that somebody with money can afford.
For those wondering like I did, CPI is Consumer Price Index.

My understanding is that it’s a standardized basket of goods that supposedly represent the average household, and it calculates inflation on this basket on a regular basis.

This doesn’t reflect anyone’s reality however and I think a quick and dirty way to calculate your own CPI would be to check the difference year on year for all your rent and living expenses (including fuel if relevant etc) + your groceries (food toiletries etc), and figure out how has this changed year on year.
The obvious one is enforcement would be a political football; see for example the Trump presidency "emoluments" scandal vs. the whinging about Pelosi's investment performance. It'd never end and the quality of the candidates or decisions they make would stay the same.

Another is that it'd be unfair to politicians who think that market indexes are a bad idea.
I suppose it was part of the "joke", but YOUR answer is the one written in ChatGPT style, not OP.

I was thinking that maybe in the near future it will be "better" to write with a couple of mistakes here and there just to prove your humanity. Like the common "loose" instead of "lose" mistake, it will be like a stamp proving that you are a human writing.
- It helps me find better ways to write code.

- Helps me write LinkedIn recommendations for friends (after I give it context)

- Helped me write other official communication

- I’m learning Java, it helped me solve a one-to-many relationship problem. I would have struggled to articulate the problem in a Google search.

- I hardly use stack overflow these days, unless when chat-gpt is down. (I’ve been try to pay for the subscription for a few days, I don’t know if it has to do with my location)

- I wanted to design simple schemas for a microservice, for learning purpose. And it created all the tables for me. In tabular format!
What is more spooky is that with the 32k context generating code changes to fix bugs in small codebases based on the bug report is pretty possible.

I guess we'll see that when it's generally available.
The creative effort comprising time and attention that goes into bringing a work into existence is rivalrous. That's what IP law aims to protect/reward. People can insist on pretending not to understand this every time the argument comes up, but it's at their own peril; the world is not going to undergo IP reform as a result of anyone misconstruing or misrepresenting the issue as if it's really about whether or not person A is deprived of their copy of work Z when person B makes a copy of Z for themselves. It's not and never has been. It's about encouraging creators by offering protections in the hopes that doing so will lead to more people opting to create.
I recently summarized some interesting use cases for my role as a cybersecurity detection engineer. A few examples:

- Generating boilerplate ADS docs for detection content

- Converting rules between various query formats (e.g. Sigma to Splunk SPL)

- Identifying and normalizing security data

- Brainstorming how to approach novel detection uses cases

In summary, I highly recommend the tool for folks in my field but caution them to approach results with skepticism.

If you’re interested in more details, the full Medium article is here: https://infosecb.medium.com/gpt-4-assisted-detection-enginee...
I keep seeing this "free money" sentiment but I think that's actually evidence of what the other commenters are saying. People don't actually understand the financing and are literally just copying what they read about people having "free money" to hire
I'd recommend checking if her employment contract matches what was said in the offer letter. Many employment contracts will have a clause saying that it is the only agreement between you and the company, which in effect nullifies any promises made during recruiting or in the offer letter.

But either way, I'd ask a lawyer.
Why not both? Hosting content on a paid IPFS gateway is cheaper than any VPS ever will because of the enthusiasts, and if you still don't trust it enough you can have your own raspberry pi hosting/pinning your own files.
What, no Parker Vector?
It's like asking why nurses think they know more about hospital processes when management is making bad decisions that doesn't solve real problems. I wish you are right though.
I am legitimately curious in any alternative that is not business as usual. Doesn't have to be crypto! Just name it.
Yes i can build that for you.
Check my fiverr profile
https://www.fiverr.com/softsolution1/do-your-nlp-projects?
If that's what you're good at there's nothing stopping you from being a backend engineer at a company working on AI.
Im saying there is nothing new about it.
If it was successful, it would be so normal that there would be no argument about it. It would be taken for granted as the platform which other improvements are built on. It would be like water to fish.
That is not what I see.
The price of steel feeds into the price of lots of other things. Cars, buildings, bridges, etc.

If steel is more expensive, then the quality of life of most people will go down, even if people don't walk into walmart and think "today I'll buy some steel".
how's the scrolling so fast on this website
The one thing missing for me on IPFS is the ability to have ACL rules for access based on gateway id. When I was working next to the people from protocol labs, they mentioned the idea of having lists of friend peers, but that wasn't enough.
We don't make the rules. They do.

If sensible people made the rules the financial industry would be stable and boring, inequality would be far lower than it is, prosperity would be far wider, and life would generally be more pleasant and financially successful - not just for a small cadre of middle class programmers, but for everyone.
It is hinting GPT to skip generating unimportant texts such as filler words, while still maintaining coherence in the output.

For example, if I asked GPT "How to make bibimbap?" with the prompt "skip prose", it will give concise list of ingredients and instructions in about ~250 tokens [1]. Without the prompt, it would first explain what bibimbap is and then give a slightly longer instructions, totaling around ~360 tokens.

[1] A token is like a building block of a sentence - it can be a word, a punctuation mark, a number, or even a combination of words. In case you didn't know, Chat API users are charged based on the number of tokens used. So we try to keep it to a minimum.
I've found that it's much worse for languages like rust than it is for things like typescript and python. The thing AI seems to be really great at is writing boilerplate code like argument parsing for CLI tools.
We really need proper e-waste and obsolescence laws.

I.e. once official support ends the company must release datasheets, schematics, PCB designs, a FOSS bootloader and firmware, etc. - so that old devices can be repaired and re-purposed.

It'd increase the threat of cheap clones - but that's not necessarily a bad thing either.
I explain it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHkdK_9ZnFw&list=PLhZ4HC__ic...
(its a bit old, I've made quite a few changes, but the essence is the same)
No books help. Only time and deliberate practice help.

I've been writing my hobby novel for 10 years. That's how I got good. Everything I written in the first 8 years is unreadable now, that's the pace of improvement. I should note the book is not even in English. Good and clear writing is transferable across languages (As GPT-4 has shown...)

Fiction writing has been a unimaginable boon to my life, both career and happiness wise. Writing about a hacker made me try learning coding, and the clarity of communication helped me ace interviews. That being said, I didn't seek out to a 'writer', I merely wanted to bring my story to life, whatever it took.

Now that AI will actually bring the story to life, I spent the last 6 months learning every bit about AI, faster than any learning I've done before, because its pure joy.
Or being hit to death against a hard surface. But this part, required to tender the meat, can be done also after the octopus is killed.
Do you think it would have made a difference if they bought three copies of the book and then shredded two of them? That way they would have the original they scanned, their digital version they copy to lend, and the loaned digital copy.