skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go to church.

Be polite. Be respectful. Don't wear your lack of belief on your sleeve.

No big, really.
Ask HN: Insane Azure Charges?
Microsoft intends to charge me for an Azure VM instance as if it ran for more than a week even though I shut it down in the OS and also stopped it on the management dashboard within the first three hours, racking up a heart-stopping £5000+ charge by the next time I checked. (Only deleting it stopped the charges accumulating. FWIW Google charges only for storage on stopped instances.) Does this happen to everyone? Microsoft has offered to reduce the amount by about eighty percent but I still feel like I've been tricked into spending much more than I intended on a personal hobby project. Am I being ungrateful when I have only myself to blame or is it time to lawyer up?
Communication is based on shared understanding of what things mean. It's not me who has defined intelligence. Go look it up. None of the common definitions is matched by GPTs observable behavior, if you take confirmation bias and athropomorphizing out of the equation.
I wish the mini DIY heat pump was more widely adopted by manufacturers! Mitsubishi and Mrcool make split systems that do not require installers. Having to hire trades to gas them etc is such a pain - small rooms, once you add up the unit and install cost, you may as well just buy a $60 heater off Amazon and swallow the poor efficiency.
I guess companies like OpenAI and Google have no incentives to make models use less resources. The compute required, and of course also their training data, is their moat.

If you accept that your model knows less about the world - it doesn't have to know about every restaurant in mexico city or the biography of every soccer player around the world - then you can get away with much fewer parameters and much less training data. Then you can't query it like an oracle about random things anymore, but you shouldn't do that anyway. But it should still be able to do tasks like reformulating texts, judging simularity (by embedding distance), and so on.

And TFA mentions it also, you could hook up your simple language model with something like ReAct to get really good results. I don't see it running in the browser, but if you had a license-wise clean model that you can run on premises on one or two GPUs, that would be huge for a lot of people!
This sounds a bit like Lockhart's Lament about how we teach math is why everyone hates math.

The analogy was imagine if we taught music that way, where you spent years learning fundamentals and theory before ever being allowed to touch an instrument.
..why do we suppose an iris scan can't be faked by an AI?
After reading the original 264 page user's guide, I came to a better appreciation of how much the original spreadsheet software, VisiCalc, actually did in 1979. And I see touches of it's design in all of spreadsheet software today.

Hopefully I recreated it with loving faithfulness to the original.
I really dislike KDE and Gnome, they seem to be chasing Windows and MacOS, but those are horrible, so they became horrible.
If you do, you should get some professional help
It's hilarious that you think people are thrilled to work for your company. You could have this attitude if you were running a non-profit or were a pioneer in something. Running a fancy CRUD app ain't that, chief.

And to answer your question in a way that 99% of your applicants would like to, but your high-horse approach is stopping them:

1. To make money so I can pay for rent

2. Because I have previous experience with the tools and technologies you're using
The heartless person here is the one who decided to take her daughter's pet goat to a livestock auction (where it was explicitly clear that the goat would be turned into food).
One law at a time? The guy can tell more than one lie at a time
Enabled compiler optimization for g++ and then the execution time went down to 0.00025, which made it slightly faster than Rust :)
As a counterpoint, every single job I've ever had I've got by submitting a resume. I have worked for six companies at this point.
Nice! Sounds useful for scatter and gather algorithms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather/scatter_(vector_address...
The entire movie making business has become a race to the bottom, but in a bad way. I always assumed that with the advancements in CGI, we'd get better and better looking movies, released more often. Boy, was I wrong.

Instead, CGI became a lazy way out for quick and sloppy production quality, even in established franchises from studios with deep pockets. In the first IronMan and SpiderMan movies, the heroes actually wore physical suits painstakingly made by artisans in the business. In the last Marvel movies the costumes are just lazy CGI that look like textures over a spandex suit instead of acting like physical items over a human body. Terminator 1 & 2 had practical models and they still look great.

"Oh, we don't need to finalize the real costumes and models now, just dress the actors in gray spandex with tringles, put them behind a green screen and we'll CGI everything later on before release". "It's OK, we don't need to bother having correct lighting and shadows in the studio, the CGI monkeys will just fix it in post with their computer thingies."

CGI now somehow looks worse than VFX 10-30 years ago despite the insanely better tech, everything just feels rushed with no creative direction behind it.
Majority? Probably. Vast majority? No way. If that were true we'd not keep switching parties between presidents. And Florida, a mostly independent voter state, wouldn't have had DeSantis win in a landslide when he just barely tied last time around.
With American electric prices maybe but here in NZ the installation pays for itself quickly.
I did it, and now c++ is slightly faster than Rust :)
A classic case of “facial recognition technology inherits the morality of its users”. I expect if you investigate the police department that issued the arrest warrant you’d find an awful litany of arrests based on flimsy evidence. Face rec tech allows that shoddy policing to scale dramatically, transcend state borders, etc. Other commenters have mentioned the “five minute online judge” eWarrant tech and it certainly deserves credit for a supporting role.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...

WHEN THE WHITE House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.

That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases
You never got a call from a mobile network provider? Incredible.
Thanks for all the nice projects you are releasing for free, btw.
And it's all pretty anecdotal with one digit sample sizes.

I don't think this can really be answered unless we get something like the reliability report from blackblaze. Still, i hope I'll read about the final result of the article in a few years.
The food we produce: exported.
The food we eat: imported.
Blows my mind people still trust them TBH. How many years of poor behaviors and bad decisions does it take for people in the know to move on. Understand there are a lot of non tech savvy users who wouldn't know, but I would expect hackernews users to be better informed on average and would have moved on
Show HN: AI Shakespeare
These days thinking of ways to uniquely show off a text to speech model is tough, as there are a lot of them out there. We thought it would be fun for April 1 to show something a bit on the silly end of things -- we trained our TTS model on "Shakespearean" theatrical voices, and used GPT to generate short plays which are then "acted" out.

This lets us show the versatility of our model, that we use in more "serious" settings for generating branded voices for particular languages or accents.

It should be noted, the dataset is of our own curation; all voice actors were compensated with full knowledge of being used for TTS and were thrilled to be part of a creative project like this. We resample the speaker embedding space to find voices that are different from any one particular actor.
Othello-GPT Has a Linear Emergent World Representation
What would prevent a malicious party from 'reaping' identies by force?
Because the hardware is available now.

When somebody builds a RISC-V laptop people will start working on software for it. In any case, the GPU getting built into RISC-V SoCs is a PowerVR one, there is supposed to be an open-source driver being written for it but right now the situation is no better than for the Apple M1.
Underfloor heating is awesome but it’s also very expensive, particularly if you’re also in a climate that also needs cooling.
I find this so bizarre. Every time someone demonstrates a new way in which models are capable of a wider array of tasks than expected someone goes "it's just predicting tokens".

It's such a big "just". You are just firing neurons. The stock market is just supply and demand. The internet is just a bunch of computers talking through 50 year old protocols that don't work very well.

Everything is just something else! I wonder if the first tribe to be annihilated by bronze weapons were like "that stuff is just like stone but more malleable, don't see what the big deal is".
I think it is more question that if a startup ask for passion and believe in their marketing. And one really had that, would it not be better to drive it yourself?

For those with not that strong convictions. Picking up reasonably interesting roles and fields where they have some skill coverage is entirely reasonable way to do things. Go for roles and companies you can be content with.
Weird, stopped instances on Azure should only charge you for storage and IP address. Not for the compute itself.

But "Microsoft has offered to reduce the amount by about eighty percent", frankly this sounds generous.
I like this writing about the necessary evil of resumes and processes around employment, when have to resort to people not known (cannot find one through network). One amendment:

> This leaves five candidates - a hand-picked elite, a top 12.5% of qualified candidates.

This is still an idealistic case. The 12.5% is the top sounding applications, not the top applicants. No one knows about who is the best at this stage based on the self praising and only the good included documents that candidates submit. It happened to my wife with a job she desired that she was the 12th pre-selected candidate (10 main applicants, 2 reserves) of a 70 or so applicants based on the submissions documents. Then after the interviews and tests with the 10 'top' applicants she jumped to place no.2, no.1 got a better position meanwhile so she got the job eventually.

What kind of bullshit could have been in those 10 submissions that those got prioritized but none of them found suitable enough after the first round of interviews? I do not dare to imagine. And what was the HR thinking while eliminating the 58 other candidates coming up with 10 unsuitable on top? What are their criteria, nice words and pretty bulletpoints? I honestly been worried what kind of organisation will this be to work for based on their high level of selection mistakes, if it is wise accepting a position there. But it turned out most people there live up to the needs of the organization and it is a pretty ok place (no perfect place exists). Even if no real top gets in - get eliminated among the 58 misfortuned not having pretty enogh submission paperwork for the HR's taste - those do could learn to do the job decent enough in the end, apparently. The recruitment could not ruin things too much. : )
you are taking an academic security perspective but think about it from a liability / legal perspective.

suppose your supplier gets breached through a well known vulnerability that should have been patched by any competent vendor, e.g. log4j. you are negatively impacted and it has materially affected your business. the software component that was compromised was not in the SBOM. Now I can pursue legal action because they didn't give me accurate reporting.
Getting large numbers of applicants can definitely be time consuming and costly for companies. Trying to find ways to cut the crap out is tough. I recall reading about a manager who would just randomly toss half the resumes, saying he only hired lucky people. I've been around the block before and I'd take the lucky route anytime compared to some continuous interview cycles that never go anywhere.
Thank you for your positive feedback on our product and our marketing page! We believe that technology doesn't have to be dry or boring, and we try to infuse some personality into our brand whenever possible.

Regarding Axolo, we're aware of their product and there may be some overlap in functionality. However, we believe that our product offers a unique set of features and benefits that sets us apart, such as code comments with context, AI generated code reviews (and summaries) and lower pricing.

Thank you for mentioning your company, CodeApprove! I looks very nice too, I hate not being able to comment code that is not in the diff.

I'll definitely reach out!
Yeesh. Not a single good explanation here.

The only reason the "point" version of electrons is a valid "step" on the ladder to the "cloud" version of electrons, is it's plausible. You are capable of fully believing it before recognizing it as bullshit once you use it as a foundation to learn the next step.

Such intermediary steps aren't easy to create. The best ones come from history, from time periods where we had an outdated but plausible theory (point to cloud electrons, flat earth to round earth, etc.)

The "step" is a flat surface you can stand on. Ever try to learn some math concept from wikipedia? It's impossible, right? To understand X you must understand Y, and to understand Y you must understand X. You break this cycle by telling the learner "Don't look into Y, it's already a solved problem, just trust me". Then they can focus on X and fully learn it without being distracted.
A situation the plants evolve specifically to avoid and signal to every other organism in ear shot that the culling is coming

Isn’t that enough?

My body bloats in a passive process after it stops functioning, I avoid that
And while it may be true that it is far from AGI, I don’t think calling it a parlor trick does it justice. I used it this morning to set up a new workout routine for myself after having it write a little boilerplate typescript code to bootstrap 70% of a micro service I want to set up. My girlfriend who is studying react got a lot of value out of it by having compile errors explained to her. My mum uses it to practice English. I am going to integrate GPT-4 into a new product where it provides tangible value for non technical users.
To be useful it does not need to be sentient or able to iterate on its own architecture.
Makes sense, it's hard to see see an evolutionary purpose to this.
This will definitely become illegal by governments who don't want to lose their monopoly on private data. It is also already possible in many countries to digitally sign documents with government ID.

> (2) preventing the dissemination of AI-generated content

This is not preventing it, since humans can also disemminate such content. Real humans are behind the "bot networks" that some authoritarian countries use on facebook.
> creating 1,000 bot accounts would require finding 1,000 human users willing to consistently verify their authenticity.

New mechanical turk-alike in 3, 2, 1. Really though. This would barely dent the budgets of disinformation campaigns.
"I've always had a passion for frozen yogurt."

- Dave Chappelle
To workaround the various tricks a drive can play, one may wish to use a capacity tester in addition to hardware stats.

Fight Flash Fraud (f3)

https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

One could setup a destructive wear-test, but results may not be generalized between lots with identical model number. This is because some manufactures sell performant products for early reviews/shills, and eventually start cost-optimizing the identical product sku with degraded performance.

As annoying as the bait-and-switch trend became, for off-brand consumer hardware YMMV.

Good luck =)
I'm guessing, but github desktop by default uses the documents folder. By default Google drive backs up the documents folder.
Google has Android (and produces Pixel phones), Chrome OS, it actually sells technology products
Once you get used to it, it's just faster and stop noticing the 'oh line noise' thing. But like learning a natural language, you need to get to the point where you stop translating in your head and you think in the operators. Once you reach that, it is very hard to go back.
this is a hilarious example for a serious problem. well done!
Yep. Stick to emailing people you already know, human moderators etc. Ban anyone confirmed to be using AI.
Build your own x
GPT-4 poses too many risks and releases should be halted, AI group tells FTC
> But the underlying policies and models are almost entirely missing... Without those, we can't evaluate the behavior and possible effects of "the algorithm

And neither can spammers find and test the cracks and edge cases that would allow them to break the system, that does sound reasonable to me. If they were public there would be an arms race between spammers/those wishing to game the system and Twitter engineers.
I wish there could be a real discussion about this, not just the usual baseball stat geek comparers deflecting. Because in the end, this shows a failure of democracy. If everyone is worser off, is that society still a democracy, even if it has all the rituals and proudly proclaims itself so. And the answer is no. The dead do not care about virtual curves flying high about there miserable corpses.
And those still living, have every right to rage against such a system and destroy it.
Weird coincidence, I tweeted roghly the same idea two weeks ago:

https://twitter.com/marcfawzi/status/1636115903959158785

Obviously, it's a no-brainer idea at a high level. The devil is in the details.
This is hilarious, you're actually speculating about "the real reason" after getting linked to the literal statement of why it was done with example comments given, most of which are doing exactly what you're doing here: irrelevant speculation and going of on tangents

If there is a basic archetype of a HN comment, yours is a perfect example of it
No, it just invented some expertise I don't have and things I never did, like books I didn't publish.
i highly recommend rclone
Should you be worried that an AI picture of the pope went viral?
Well for starters, web deployment isn't "everything". Python is the de-facto go-to language for research or general prototyping, where not everyone is a programming wiz keeping track of the latest trendy new compiled language. Not everyone can compile stuff even.. :)

Having said that, I've deployed two large Django projects on the web with tons of customers and it runs and scales just fine, and it's a DREAM to maintain and develop for than for example Java.. I would go so far as to say the opposite, if you haven't used Python for web deployment you've been missing out! (you lose some efficiency I'm sure but you gain other things)
Will This Book Extend Your Life?
The problem as per the article is that the early renters are cornering a significant fraction of the increased SF real estate profits. It is implied that justice would demand that all the profits be allocated to the owner, not the renter even if he has been renting for 45 years.

It is a well established principle of capitalism that owners are entitled to all of the profits from the real estate equity, even if the owners did not contribute to the silicon valley boom over the past 40 years, which was primarily boosted by the renters/engineers who moved into the city.

The injustice here is that the old time renters are partaking in the profits which they are not entitled to.
Yes, I've opted out to receiving calls from my provider and they are not allowed to call me.
Your 5yo does not understand 1+1. You yourself do not understand it. Entire careers were spent trying to pin it down. It is basically its own branch of mathematics.

I understand your point, but I am struggling to see why it matters. This seems more and more an argument like “cars are not horses”. I know they are not but does it matter? Cars are superior for our use cases.
That is true. You're technically correct.

In 2004 1GB of email was effectively unlimited though. Keep in mind hotmail offered 2MB and only increased that 125x when Gmail launched.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/hotmail-to-o...
The Google Search and StackOverflow filesystems.
By the same logic movies shouldn't have a score because there is no orchestra in the scene
Life-hack for applicants: stand out with a cover letter.

Life-hack #2: Use ChatGPT to write it in 2 minutes

Alternatively (shameless promotion):
Use a special-purpose tool I wrote for it, which uses the GPT API https://aicoverletter.me
Is this some kind of copypasta? Too many tropes all at once. "GTP" on top of all this is too on the nose.
So then why make any changes?
The apparent answer is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35398012

> mmap-ed memory pages backed by a file that aren't dirty aren't counted in an process's RSS usage, only kernel page cache. The mmap-ed regions of virtual memory does get counted in VSZ (virtual memory) but that is just virtual and can be larger than RAM+swap.
Show HN: Coursemate – connect with other self learners
Hey Hacker News!

My name is Collin, 18 years old and doing a gap year after finishing high school last year.

This was my first real project after starting to learn web development around 5 months ago.

I came up with this idea as it was a real pain for me to find other people from my country and especially my age, learning and taking online courses about the same stuff online. Lots of these online courses include their own discord communities and forums, but I still found it very hard to connect with other people in there.

Thats why I built Coursemate.

I would love to get your feedback on it! :)
The company I work at is not a startup but we're small, and yeah hiring is hard. Being small, each person makes a huge impact. Someone who under-performs can be a significant net drag, not just in actual output but also in terms of opportunity cost. Fitting in with the team is paramount too as we can't shuffle people around, we're just a handful of folks.

So I can completely relate to wanting to be picky.

I'm not familiar with how things are normally done "over there", but here in Norway all the "how to write a job application" tips that the media writes about here every now an then includes some expert saying to go to the website, read what the company is about, read the job opening description carefully and write something relevant to that. Not unlike what you mention.
Add a expert human in the loop, e.g. Terence Tao and this might be feasible.
How do you define the principal-agent problem when appied to govt, though? Govt and its departments are not 'owned', and cabinet secretaries and even Presidents are not principals. Who is the 'principal': that particular govt's most powerful donors and lobbyists? Also, govt has both career and political appointees, the latter can change every 4/8 years. So seems to me there are multiple groups of agents/parties.

So when you say 'does not benefit any defensible purpose of government', is that a statement about political science, rather than two-party govt system with lots of lobbying? I mean it seems like any policy you could concoct would benefit some (posibly small) interest-group of people somewhere, unless it was 100% wasteful.

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