skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this part of a trend? Companies are realizing it's cheaper and more effective to just announce things online. WWDC 2023 is once again streaming only. I imagine that is much easier for them to put on as you can just record and edit the talks in advance. Still, it's a shame if we have fewer of these big events. For those who've attended anything like them, it's quite fun to see things in person and socialize.
In good old ChatGPT fashion, it is utterly wrong, of course. If you are passing some unknown struct to a function, you should make sure you at least get the size right.
And again, you are confused about timeframes. Geologic time vs human time.

Sure, over a period of millions of years, everything evolves and adapts. But in shorter periods of time, before adaptation, there is enormous disruption and entire ecosystems go extinct. Taking countless species down with it.

Human civilization has been around for only a few thousand years. You do the math. As you say, nothing to argue about here.
Combine this with MidJourney and you have endless adventure with the visuals to match.
I have never used poetry... Mostly I just use conda or plain python envs. Never had those problems like you mention. When using anaconda in the stable channel you'll get a straight-forward "conservative" distribution of all the data science/numerical packages (and more). That's why people often say "just use anaconda", it really is quite simple as long as you don't mess up your stable environments with exotic packages you just want to try out. And it works well on Windows. No idea about Mac and don't care.

Python doesn't need "something like deno". All programming languages need package management.
Reminds me of the old “evil bit” RFC[1]

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
First draw two ovals.

Then draw the rest of the owl.
> every worthwhile niche seems to have 10-15 companies in it in no time

B2B in established industries can be much more open, though often requires a level of domain knowledge to enter.
"Joanne is a professional and competent manager and contact. She is always informed of conditions which effect her group," a recommendation on Segovia's LinkedIn profile reads.

The grammar police haven't been doing their jobs lately either...
The Framework Laptop 16 is trying to bring back snap-on removable batteries
How many of these are actually true? #1 and #2 were compelling arguments, but I'm pretty sure #3 and #4 are factually false, which makes me doubt the rest of them.
Agree with many points, but Canonical very much does care about the desktop, and Linux traditionally always had a home/enthusiast user base; you could say the core Linux devs sold out to where the money is (and finally land in the arms of IBM) but that was 25 years ago. The point is, if nobody cares about the desktop, why didn't they just leave it alone (modulo driver updates) in the state it was in 2016 to make it objectively worse, without a single new app or other capability gained in return?
I already met many investors and millionaire founders. I even met 2 founders who are now billionaires and many others who went on to become multimillionaires. Nowadays most of them won't even answer my emails. One of the founders I met before they were successful (and who sold their startup for millions) won't even give me a $2000 per year support contract though they continue to use my open source project and ask me questions. I'm thinking I've been blacklisted. It doesn't make sense right?

Does it make sense that someone I met 10 years ago, was using my open source project as part of their startup and was having conversations with me every couple of months throughout the whole 10 years (they even let me log into their production system with 30K concurrent users to help fix a bug) and then went on to make millions won't even support my project with a $2000 a year contract?

Probably something weird going on. This is not just about one example, it's every now-successful founder I've ever met. Nobody talks to me and I did nothing wrong except build some products that work really well.
Measure flicker and input-to-output latency with your iPhone (2017)
I didn't mean to say it was a grassroots effort, just that it brought people together without too much of an artificial facade. Sure, at the bottom it was an advertisement event, but it's still fun when everything is in the same place. Now it feels like the big companies are at each other's throat and there's somewhat less of an ability to just have fun. Then again, maybe I just contracted a case of rose-tinted glasses.
What is your alternative explanation for how it turned out? "Didn't understand what he signed up for" is the only explanation that makes sense to me, given my second choice is "he's a fucking idiot that fell into money". Though I don't think Musk is nearly as smart as he (or a lot of his fans) thinks he is, he's no idiot, so...

And you don't have to understand contract law to start a company (or in the majority of Musk's cases, invest in an existing company), that's what lawyers are for.
I don't see how this is specific to YC and not to other VCs too, unless you do mean to include other VCs too in your viewpoint.
While I appreciate you find my argument persuasive - imo this style of comment will do more to alienate those replying to me that disagree than to persuade them.
If you extend the JPEG analogy all the way and consider the 4:2:0 subsampling mode, then you could reduce your input parameter counts by exactly 50% by consuming a pre-converted image.
At some point the absurd restrictions need to loosen up. Everything has to be G-rated.
I used it to play Civilization 6 - I had it describe a strategy to win a science victory, with turn by turn benchmarks, on deity mode. Its strategy won.
Is FTX EU LTD Withdrawal Registration Information Legit?
Just received an Email from FTX EU "We are starting the registration of claims as a necessary step towards enabling withdrawals of balances as of 12 November 2022". It sounds too good to be true, on the page my FTX.com password did not work (which they claimed it would), and on the page they request an enormous amount of documents. Is this legit or scam?
I’ve not been hugely impressed by ChatGPT as a DM itself, compared to the humans I’ve played with. But as a tool to generate quests, encounters, puzzles, dialogue, it’s been incredible for me. It takes all the stress out of planning a campaign and it’s actually surprisingly creative.
My first exposure to GPT was through AI Dungeon[0] (back then running in a Colab sheet) and I was utterly amazed. It was horrible at remembering the state of the world and thus felt very dreamlike (or very drunk-like) - items in my inventory kept changing, the characters around me and the scene kept changing and so on.

It was actually like a lucid dream, because you could do anything. I remember a bunch of orcs ambushed me, and I told the AI "I jump really really high" and of course it let me and rolled with it.

Anyway, even through a text interface, this is the true virtual reality.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022 (2019)
What stage of denial is this?
It's even more funny than that. There is often no such thing as reliable market research, and VCs gambling their money want local monopolies or a fat check on sale.
The churn to them means you're not a monopoly. Average number of paying customers making a profitable business? Does not matter, not funding. Unless it's a likely acquihire.
https://old.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/11z6p84...

I shared some experiments on r/interactivefiction I made this past week with regards to writing interactive fictions using chatGPT.
Interactive fictions are text based role-playing games you play on your computer. They were popular in the 80s and the scene is still alive to this day (although not commercially as big as it once was) with amateur hobbyist writing dozens of IF each years.

The most popular way to write these games is to use Inform7. It's a lovely language that reads like English and encourages an aspect-oriented style of programming through the use of rules instead of functions or methods like in more conventional language (anybody interested in predicate dispatch should take a look at Inform7. Some really interesting ideas in there).

Well it turns out ChatGPT4 seems even more suited to writing Interactive Fictions in natural language than Inform7 itself. Yesterday I taught him some mechanism to support multiple layers of enunciation so that we can have interactive fictions told in the first person, past tense. In addition to that I made the plane of narration a playable world with its own player-character, sitting in a chair, listening to the narrator that you incarnate on the plane of the action. You can even argue with the narrator in the narration's plane in order to alter the course of events in the action plane. Oh and last hour I implemented support to save and restore games.

I'm in awe as this is something that I worked on a good 10 years ago for many months, and ChatGPT brought it alive last night. It just took me a few hours to write the prompts I showcase on this reddit post.

I think I need to experiment with it more and find ways to write more statically defined stories, but in terms of open world with content generation, this is top notch and billions of light years ahead in terms of what you can do with Inform7 in this domain.
Wiring up a house with 48V for lights and 120V for plugs would be such a pain. Pulling 2 different wires to every room. Weird circuit breakers. Yuck.
In my personal experience, I'll take Python's packaging hell over nuget or npm any day.

And it's often less about the package manager and more about the ecosystem: Can you find what you need? Is what you need stable enough? Does it break every few months with new versions of the runtime, either because of actual incompatibility (npm/node) or versioning shenanigans (nuget)?
Never really read anything about it online. However we are using it at our company and are quite happy with it. The thing is running 24/7 and the printing results are really good after a first calibration. Just sharing my experience...
I can't believe I didn't think it through like this. I reverse my judgement here.

There are two ways this can play out for the accused: (1) The misdirection works and she's off scot-free, or (2) it fails, and she's in roughly the same amount of trouble as she would have been had she not continued making the purchases.

Thanks.
Performance in terms of model quality would be the same.

The fast-se library uses C++ code and word embeddings being averaged to generate sentence embeddings, so would be similarly fast, or faster on apple silicon than x86.

For the SentenceTransformer library models I'm not sure, but I think it would run off the CPU for a M1/M2 computer
I think you need the full context. That's from the interview from the Decoder podcast
It’s important to parse the language and understand the domain.

Major party affiliation of red + blue usually only adds up to about 60-80% in most regions. Not everyone is eligible to vote, registered to vote, or votes regularly. If people look at the percentage of the vote that Biden/Trump got in the most recent election, they are looking at the narrow end of the funnel. The “55% blue” is likely a cross-section closer to the beginning of the funnel.

Also worth pointing out that Chicago has a 100+ year old “political machine”. I don’t remember the specifics, but each neighborhood has extremely powerful local politicians that hold a party office, but not a government office. It is not typical for American cities.
So besides one of the core ux functions of a package manager being functionally broken it is working fine, yes.
As you should know, they did pass legislation in that time, only to have it blocked once they lost power and further neutered with the recent admin.

Further, there's only so much an admin can focus on and they had a variety of other issues. My point stands which is that one party is very focused on this issue and worked towards concrete measures against it, while the other worked against them.
Compared to the dumpster fire aka Python packaging, Go versioning is easy and predictable indeed.
Roc Compiles Closures
Depends on what kind of user it is. My BIOS can select the disk that will be first tried for boot, and within that which partition has priority. I can select this during boot without setting it in the bios too. Another option is to use one of the boot disk on usb drive solutions. There are even alternative boot loaders (not windows or grub) that can search the disk for ALL bootable partitions.
bounded iirc, the activation functions need to be differentiable, but in practice they dont need to be strictly
OP here. Sure, they finally anounced the new pricing, months late, but all of the evidence in the post that it's effectively unmaintained still stands. The hostile new pricing just adds to the lack of support in convincing me not to waste any more of my time developing for it.
Every single person in politics is a lizard on camera. And they are required to be by their voters. Better to focus on what outcomes they deliver than whether or not they are a lizard (they always are)
That's besides the point. The argument still holds. We don't want to find ourselves with our foot on an exploding mine before we stop walking across the minefield. At that point it is too late.
[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years]

The "what do we do after Scratch" question is tricky! There's no super clear answer (and a big market opportunity!)

It is important for people getting deeper into programming to learn a text-based language. But I do want to say that you don't need to stop using Scratch -- lots of adults use it, and it's really great for many things... e.g., this memory portrait of my mother sewing when I was young https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/646805603

Several comments here have hit on the visual UI as an element of Scratch that other languages don't have as readily.

Another element is the sharable context: you can make a Scratch project with others' enjoyment in mind; your project doesn't have to have another purpose besides being fun to play with.

So for moving on to other programming languages, I think the key is to identify compelling projects and to find (or build) small communities which will use those projects.

E.g.:

* sites like replit and Glitch and Github Pages and val.town where the whole idea is to make a small program (or piece of a program), publish it instantly, share it with others and remix others' programs

* making a choose your own adventure-style or Zork-style text game

* Advent of Code https://adventofcode.com provides a massive multiplayer experience where you know you're solving the same project as thousands of other people
SMTP will be fine if you just use a protocol and set up all new parallel infra. Overhead will be quite a bit higher but that's not a problem in modern world.

But sharing the existing email infra is pretty dangerous. You never know when spam filters decide to filter your messages and turn your "reliable" message delivery into black hole.
@dang, should boring, ChatGPT-generated comments likes these be banned?
I read a lot of legal filings in criminal cases, and while you make a valid point my experience is the feds usually include whatever excuse/explanation people offer when they're caught. Culturally federally investigators more about 'here are the facts and how we collected them to establish probable cause' and leave the moralizing to prosecutors.

Please don't read this as a blanket endorsement or suggestion that federal investigators are always ethical, I don't believe that to be so.
> that is NOT what takes up most of the workday, implementation does - and if a tool saves some meaningful time on the implementation part

Sorry no, completely untrue here, its about debugging and inter system complexity and getting stuff like debug artifacts together, using various tools, debugger, sniffers here, trace analyzers there, having clue and figuring out the bug, and then fixing it, but please not the surface quick fix, but understanding the root cause (though ChatGPT couldn't even do the first thing well even if guided to most of these I guess, unless trained on multiple 100k to million loc code bases, which would not happen for other reasons)...

Pure implementation is the easy part (even if actually hard) and not taking up the workday, I'd wished it would more often..

It can help on those fun tasks like doing a visualization of some data for these things sometimes.. but there it is 50% great, other 50% I would have better used google skills and directly headed to docs or Stackoverflow where I can judge answers better, or transfer them to my problem more easy.

I personally doubt even ChatGPT10 will be able to do all these various tasks and reason between them...and even if, how much computing power should be there for how many tech people world-wide? I wonder I never read about scaling and limits..
This is nothing like a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb doesn't choose to explode itself, nor can it replicate itself.
A "covered transaction" is defined as any transaction where a "covered entity", which is to say a "foreign adversary", has any interest.

A "covered holding" likewise concerns any holdings held by a "foreign adversary", and also holdings "the structure of which is designed or intended to evade or circumvent the application of this Act".

A fuller citation of section 3 is as follows:

>to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that the Secretary determines—

>(1) poses an undue or unacceptable risk of—

>(2) otherwise poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States persons.

That narrows the scope of this bill and the Secretary's powers to holdings and transactions concerning foreign adversaries, initiated by any person or with respect to property, which have more than 1 million active users or units sold in a given 365 day period, of which might pose unacceptable risks to the United States and Americans.

From the perspective of the government's duty to "insure domestic Tranquility" and "promote the general Welfare", this all sounds very reasonable to me. The key thing you seem to be missing is this is talking about foreign adversaries, not foreign entities.

IANAL, but as legalese goes this bill is actually pretty easy to read if one has a solid understanding of English.
The incessant guardrails get really annoying. Anything romantic gets shut right down. You try to roleplay with it and tell it to “say X when I say Y” and it outright refuses.

Use it for translating and sometimes it’ll refuse and say your prompt violated guidelines. I was really hoping to use it as an alternative to DeepL for translating Japanese manga but the guardrails are too narrow.
The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry
I was excited until I saw how you interface with your "corner".

It's so slow. It's a shame, I wonder if there could be some other way?
I've been using Retool Database inside a Retool Workflow and I find my update queries don't seem to resolve in the workflow, although I can see the updates in the table. I've just chalked it up to beta status, but since y'all are here I thought I might ask if this is a known issue or if I should reach out to support.

Edit to add: really killer addition to the product, keep up the great work
This is from 2010 before fentanyl was really a thing. Like the article stated, people are dying off of cheap pressed pills made from combos of Chinese imported RCs mixed with fentanyl.

These pills are MUCH cheaper/widely available than the non-"counterfeit" opioids. And much more likely to spontaneously kill you vs how people more traditionally overdosed. Addicts aren't the only ones ODing.

The "war on drugs" is probably a good thing as far as this goes because making opioids more widely available is not really what we should want in society. I think greater availability of other "party" drugs like ketamine in Europe could maybe help some, but I'm not sure how much.

A culture of widely available test strips + narcan + fentanyl education should be the minimum we should be doing. We definitely shouldn't be trying delusional attempts at limiting narcan availability. Ex:

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/03/28/idaho-lawmakers-vote-...
> In our first release, we will share the training, serving, and evaluation code. We plan to release the model weights by providing a version of delta weights that build on the original LLaMA weights, but we are still figuring out a proper way to do so. Join our Discord server and follow our Twitter to get the latest updates.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like this is not actually an open-source model? As in, I can't download and run this on my own laptop?

> The cost of training Vicuna-13B is around $300. The training and serving code, along with an online demo, are publicly available for non-commercial use.

However, if this is true, it seems pretty cool if I can train a GPT4-like model for only $300. Is this as easy as cloning a repo and running it on an AWS GPU instance?
Was this a preplanned strategy before the game or did you consult GPT during the game as well? If yes, what information about the game state did you tell it and how often?
I doubt that would work. It isn't just the packaging that's broken. The entire import system is broken. I doubt there are more than a handful of developers in the entire world that really understand how Python's `import` works.

So to fix it you would need to change that, but then you would break a load of Python libraries which are most of the reason people use Python in the first place.

Deno doesn't really have that issue so badly because JS imports are ... not completely sane but they're quite a lot saner.

Anyway I think if you were going to break compatibility with Python by fixing the packaging and import system, it's not a much bigger step to fix the rest of Python too and then you have Nim or Lobster.
Same. I don’t mind paying the $20 a month solely for game prep for my weekly games. I haven’t used it for puzzles yet, so thanks for the idea.