skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats, this is really cool. Have you thought about making the assistants Slack bots?
Just look at all the ridiculous ways people spent their Covid aid money. That pretty much tells us all we need to know.
>I think you are severely downplaying the risk here. Using vague language like that opens the door for them to crack down even harder.

>The government wants to monitor everything people do online and VPNs give people a way to opt out of that surveillance. It is a typical legislative move to add extra provisions all in the name of “banning the evil, Chinese spy app”. There is no reason to believe this will stop at TikTok. What if people use VPNs to get around other censorship? What if people use VPNs to access copyrighted content using BitTorrent? Who is to say that they won’t crack down on that that stuff next?

I'm not downplaying the risk of the bill, only pointing out the rhetoric is false and misleading. Based on the tweets and the article there aren't any anti-VPN or anti-anti-censorship tool provisions in the bill. Now, you can still argue that passing this bill sets us on a slippery slope to get encrypted chats banned or whatever, but it's dishonest to say that people are facing "20 year jail sentences" for using VPNs when they're not. Pointing that out isn't "severely downplaying the risk ".
Why wouldn't the massive loss of jobs be an issue because of a technicality in IP law interpretation?
Ask HN: Ways to get insights from your ideal customers?
I'm developing a solution for marketing analytics challenges and want to better understand customer pain points to refine my messaging.

I'm considering inviting VP/Director of Marketing or CMOs for a casual hour-long meeting with a complimentary lunch.
My worry is that would they wouldn't entertain the idea at all.

Is this an effective approach?
Are there alternative ways to connect with these individuals?

Cold calling hasn't worked for me, as all calls have gone to voicemail.

Any suggestions are appreciated!
Whenever I see a headline like this, I ask: Is that a lot?

> Overall, Binance holds $63.2 billion in the exchange’s publicly disclosed wallets, Nansen data shows.

So, yes I think $2B is significant.
I don't think Disney had any metaverse building ambitions. This "metaverse" team was probably working on designing NFTs and digital "assets" for any metaverse that emerges.

This is an uninformed take based on recollections of what they've released and my understanding of Disney's competencies.

Somebody watching closely will hopefully have more insight.
Balancing Privacy and Accountability: solving rape cases on campus
Prompt engineers: huh?
"Why do cars have seat belts? People should be able to drive without crashing!"

Is what you just asked. Safety features are just that: they enhance passenger and pedestrian safety because humans make mistakes.
"Foreign" here isn't necessarily tied to citizenship. They can reclassify US citizens as "foreign threats" as they see fit.
this is basically the same logic behind nuclear weapons, and AI could potentially be even more dangerous if it kept advancing at the rate we've seen in the last few years. In theory the massive amount of compute needed to train and run these at scale could be tracked/regulated similarly to how nuclear refinement facilities are

your suggestion is that stopping nuclear proliferation shouldn't have even been attempted, despite the fact it actually worked pretty well
Terrific piece and in many ways I'm nodding along. As a 50yo with 2 teenage kids there's lots here that resonates.

On the other: "Television, The Drug of the Nation" was released in 1991 - there's always been much angst about the impact of media to dehumanise. Not to say we're not in unprecedented times, but still - humans do largely find a way to be human.

One of the intense ironies that strikes me often is that if you look up from the web and spend time "out here" in the world, you realise that people genuinely aren't what they are online. Or - at least - this is my experience, albeit from a backwater Cornish town. People love each other, get hurt, aren't (generally) dicks, spend time being nice, read (some) books. The problems exist, sure - but they're vastly amplified if all you do is spend time with your face in a screen.

I'm often worried about my teens and I nag them accordingly - they do spend too long online and they have sucked on the crack pipes of many of these platforms. But they also - and I give them vast credit for this - have beautiful and meaningful relationships in the real world. They talk and walk and exercise and cry and drink and make mistakes and do great things and make me proud.

The difficulty of life is to be embraced, not rejected. But: I suspect it's not quite as dark as the writer suggests. Humans endure. He is right though - we've all got to keep fighting for it, fighting for the reality of life and the hard knocks that it sometimes brings.
Especially for laptop CPUs. They’re usually tuned (underclocked) to use a tiny amount of power. Because power consumption and performance are non-linear, even old laptop CPUs are usually much more energy efficient than modern desktops.

You can underclock a lot of modern desktop CPUs to be more energy efficient too (eg Eco Mode). But almost nobody bothers to actually do that.
IT and biotech industries are typically exempted from many employment laws. VC-subsidised, chronically unprofitable companies have laid off tens of thousands of people in the past few months.
The simpler reason is that OpenAI has $10B+ in funding and the clock has started ticking to get real returns. And they aren't getting those returns by giving their tech away.

They are operating just like every other VC-backed startup in history.
Are there any not made by the people currently marketing this?
Not exactly the same, but Google’s Pathways architecture is sorta along the same lines

https://blog.google/technology/ai/introducing-pathways-next-...
As my friend who is a professor likes to say, it's great they've given AI safety controls while making it dead simple for a student to write a good thesis.

I think they need to review their ethics, personally.
There were many more people that thought copyright was good and right the entire time. They just silently torrent movies and video games instead.
Yes. Not a banking crisis, but a crypto crackdown. And the timeline of enforcement actions could have easily been planned since 2019 too.
>>India and China are enemies, they keep having border skirmishes.

As an Indian speaking very frankly India and China are frenemies. There is going to be no major war between these two. Contrary to whatever it looks from a distance, it won't.

India and China are very likely to indulge in intense co-operative competition with Russia as an another mediating partner. In many ways this is already the case.

I also believe over time a similar equation will emerge between India and Pakistan and China playing the same role as Russia in this case.
Clean energy. We've got avocados year round but the world is choking to provide it. I think you're ignoring a lie of externalisef costs.
What do you see as limitations to running k3s for prod? What makes it not shine there?

How big is your enterprise? You talk about zero-down-time upgrades of nodes. What prompts that to be a demand? What kind of band of maturity do you think this need buckets you into?
Why not? It seems like getting a full refund is a pretty big mitigation.
>It’s quite clear that OpenAI has a significant lead over everyone else

if their lead was significant they wouldn't have admitted to not releasing more info about GPT-4 in their paper due to commercial reasons. What ever secret sauce they have apparently isn't that significant or they wouldn't be afraid to talk about it
It all seems a lot like Second Life or Active Worlds and feels like this has all been tried before. Look at where all those types of games are now.
Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad at full automation
> I really doubt you understand LLMs at all if you think all they are good for is summarization.

A 'counter claim' without giving examples of refuting mine can be dismissed without any further explanation, since my point still remains un-refuted.

Summarization of existing text is the only safe killer use-case for LLMs than the rest of the so-called 'applications' and the hype of applying it to everything, where it makes little sense other than attempting to jump on another hype train.

I predict that the majority of these ChatGPT-enabled startups will be closing down in the long run, due to no product market fit, easily running out of money or another bigger company over-taking them.
Also mirrors right? If you “can’t” drive without assistive mirrors, you shouldn’t have a driver’s license, period. In fact, anything mandated after the first Model T rolled off the line is dumb.
We already live in post scarcity, in some locations. The world has an over abundance of goods.

The industrialised world already produces more than enough for the whole world, yet not all of the world is industrialised.

Even in Brazil, a low to middle income country, obesity and diabetes is a bigger problem than hunger. And the laptops they buy are made in China same as everywhere else. Notice how Brazil has no local laptop production - that’s because Chinese production is more than enough.

That already tells you what you need to know about “scarcity”. Certainly there is no scarcity of calorie production. And there is no scarcity of laptop production. Just the concentrated production in Shenzen, done by maybe 0.1% of the population, serves large parts of the world. Brazil could have a domestic industry, but there’s no need for one.

Deconstruct the concept of unemployment. Unemployment is simply put, an over abundance of people for the number of available tasks.

An over abundance of people for the number of available tasks is an unnatural situation. Hunter gatherers couldn’t have more people than the tasks available. If you were alive you hunted.

But Industrialised society has meant that a very small proportion of the population produces all the physical goods necessary to the entire population. Hence there is unemployment and underemployment. AI will super charge this.

You could of course say “we will find something for them to do”. Well, yes, sure but you’re increasingly going into what David Graeber called Bullshit Jobs - jobs where if you ask people if they think they are making a difference in the world, they say no. The UK already something like 50% of jobs are like this. My impression is this is correct - a lot of the jobs in the Uk are indeed meaningless. My hunch is that is because they are a post scarcity society in denial.
That also stuck out as a strange part of the article. I mean, 284 tons is ... not very much. The training was only done once and then the model is used many times (how much power does that consume?) And if they used solar power, would that change anything about the ethics of AI? Not very much.
Don't forget the power consumption on them.

Cerebras Second-Gen Wafer Scale Chip: 2.6 Trillion 7nm Transistors, 850,000 Cores, 15kW of Power - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerebras-wafer-scale-engin...

Trying to cool 15kW to 20kW of power is also rather impressive. https://www.cerebras.net/cs2virtualtour - the engine block and cooling manifold

> The challenge of extracting more than 20 kW of heat from the wafer was solved by having the wafer "float" on a cold plate. The wafer is allowed to expand and contract while remaining in contact with the polished front side of the cold plate, despite the different coefficients of thermal expansion of copper and silicon.
The cold plate is much more than a a slab of metal: advanced computational fluid dynamics modelling was used to design a labyrinth of coolant channels capable of maintaining a precise, stable, thermal environment even as 850,000 Al-optimized cores swing into action.

> The power density of the CS-2 is too high for direct air cooling, so liquid cooling is used instead. The internal manifold transfers heat between the CS-2 system's internal coolant and facilties water. Separating these two fluids ensure that the CS-2 system is not affected by changes in the quality of facilities water and that the very highest-quality coolant circulates through the cold plate.

> The two pump modules plug into the upper four dry-break connectors. The lower two are for the air-cooling or water-cooling heat exchanger.
> But there's also passing inspection.

Why do you think that would fail inspection? A typical 200A panel has perhaps 400 amps of circuits on it. That's very normal. What primarily matters from a compliance/safety point of view is that the mains breaker is sized to protect the service wiring from overheating.
can you be more specific what those deficiencies are?
A Bolt is more likely a second car for a family that does pay taxes than a primary purchase for one that doesn’t.
Yeah but then have the issue known as "driving a Prius". Might not be a problem if you're in California. Hell that'll get you positive "saving the Earth" smug points. Elsewhere that might be an issue to be avoided at all costs though.
That's within a context of living in a society that tells you you're worthless without work, though.

That's something we can change.
> No Linux/GNU distro, not even Ubuntu, has reached a point to where functionality AND UX were both good enough for average non-engineer grandma.

Disagree. I have my (extremely) non-technical wife and 8 year old son on Linux laptops and it's totally fine. Is it perfect? No. But it's good enough. I'm the one who updates them, though.
What's an LLM and GPT?
What if someone gives you a binary that they claim is built from a particular source code? If you don't decompile it, how do you know if that's true or not? Or what if you can't trust your compiler (a la https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html)?
> You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working from home driven by Adderall you got via Zoom from a pill-mill doctor, you order dinner through an app (so that you don’t have to talk to an actual person on the phone), masturbate to online porn, watch several dozen videos on YouTube, none of which you’ll remember even three days later, then take two Xanax to put yourself to sleep. That’s progress now, the steady accumulation of various tools to avoid other human beings, leaving people free to consume #content that is by design totally, existentially disposable, throw-away culture that asks nothing of us and which we don’t remember because neither creator nor audience wants to invest enough for remembering to make sense.

Maybe if you want to be engaged with other people you should understand a little bit of why they take certain medications, or consume certain media, which you don’t particularly find helpful or appealing for yourself.

Personally my meditation helps me to have and maintain capacity for better relationships with the people I want in my life. But the fact that I take medications has served as an unexpected but valuable honeypot for identifying less healthy human relationships too. It’s not that I don’t want to have real, meaningful relationships with people. It’s that explaining for the umpteenth time that my meditation helps me and isn’t whatever boogeyman you’ve imagined makes my relationship with you less healthy and meaningful. The more that reinforces the stereotype in your internal feedback loop, the more that makes me want to spend my time with people who are actually interested in my real experience.

By all means, enjoy presence in whatever aspect of reality you find enriching. Ima be over here doing the same, but away from people judging me for the things that help me function in and enjoy my own life.
No one’s defending communism. UBI is not communism. It’s socialism at the bottom, capitalism on top.
I don't know about GitHub in particular but levels.fyi in general is not accurate for positions in India.
Less than SVB's $42B vs $175B in deposits though.

Was it caused by the Signature FDIC announcement? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35350032
While there are arguments for and against a variety of systems, this one is weak and specious.

Oh, sure, in a crisis you need care immediately. What about all the other circumstances? What about the possibility of making pre-arrangements in event of crisis, some sort of “insurance” even? Not to be confused with the comprehensive health care delivery product called “insurance” in the US (which, hey, also exists as a model and could persist in a market.) Maybe some markets are still monopsonies, but surely not all. I can surely find a variety of GPs, allergists, physical therapists, …

A sound argument for or against a market health system recognizes that emergency care is only one circumstance of many, a minority of health care costs, and it’s possible we might be better off if it does not drive the overall design of healthcare.
I don't want to live in a cashless society, and I will resist CBDCs because of all the civil rights violations they enable and make easier. I have absolutely zero desire to transact with other individuals through some dystopian, government-facilitated digital payments system.
> The lack of implicit magic in the language. Destructors (specifically the fact that they are called automatically) is implicit. That's it.

Well, destructors and unwinding. Many, many bugs in unsafe code have been found through unwinding code paths being not fully accounted for. At least in safe code that doesn't use catch_unwind, the worst that can happen is an unexpected state of an object shared across threads.

What's even more fun is the combination of the two. For instance, the catch_unwind function has a big flaw, where it returns an arbitrary Box<dyn Any> to represent the panic payload, and if you aren't very careful about dropping that object, its destructor can panic and start unwinding again. (There are plans to fix this by putting the payload in a shim type that makes the destructor abort on unwind, without actually changing its type_id. I find it quite an ugly hack, but there's not really any other way around it.)

(There are also other ideas to remove language support for unwinding destructors entirely. I'm against that for a few different reasons, but I'm not the one running the show.)
> Extra-strength Tylenol is a 500mg pill; dosage guidelines are no more than 6 pills in 24 hours, which is 3,000 mg.

Its a 500mg pill, but 2 pills (1000mg) is the recommend dose. So, only 3 doses per 24 hours.
Correct he gave a talk at an academic conference on digital currency and Blockchain in which he described how a Bitcoin transaction works.

Here's the article "He gave a Cryptocurrency talk in North Korea, the US arrested him"

The slides are (or were?) available. None of the content of his talk was secret or beyond what is published on the Bitcoin Wikipedia page.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/nyregion/north-korea-virg...

Edit: it's worth noting that no transaction took place.. he was arrested because the FBI told him not to go and he did anyway.
Integrate GPT Chatbot to MS Word
I'm not the parent, but feel the same way. My requirements are basically a minivan (lots of space for family + cargo and definitely appreciate the sliding doors), all-wheel drive, and costs under $50K. I'm not in any rush to buy a new car though, so hopefully by the time I am looking for my next car there will be some EV options available. The VW ID Buzz looks interesting, but not available in our market and I'm skeptical that the three-row, AWD version will priced under $50k if/when it is released here.

On the other end of the spectrum we have an ultra-compact "kei" car that cost under $20,000, also AWD. Nissan has released the Sakura EV which gets close on price (after incentives), but still no AWD option. We will probably be replacing this car soon, and sadly it doesn't look we will be replacing it with an EV. But at 47 mpg for a standard ICE engine, and we also don't put that many miles on it, I also don't feel too guilty about it.
Create an intelligent chatbot in Microsoft Word powered by ChatGPT. The chatbot remembers your conversation until you hit the reset button.
By async I was referring to node's asynchronous event-driven runtime abstraction which the GP refers to as an ugly hack. I'm not sure if this abstraction is better than all of the available alternatives if you compare it to high-level features multi-threaded runtimes offer like thread-safe collections, atomic updates, concurrent hash maps, immutability, structured concurrency, etc... as in Java/Clojure. Most Java programmers don't work with the low-level thread primitives.

The author of esbuild gave up trying to code esbuild with nodejs/worker threads and switched to Go for a less limited/restricted concurrency environment.
Right, safety is a moat. If you don't meet the standards of the closed model you won't be allowed to exist.
Tried F#, beautiful language. Read some tutorials and was amazed. Hated getting setup and VS Code felt clunky in comparison.

Tried TypeScript but that felt.. like a dirty afterthought. Maybe just because I generally dislike JavaScript? I am still using both for this project (since WASM+React) but can't say I love it

Rust was just like seeing God.

The Rust book is awesome. Well written, fun, comprehensive. Reminded me of my experience with the Django Book way back when...

Namespaced module imports? Yes, please.

Then cargo "Just Works"! Especially compared to what I had in Python (particularly if you compare to my first days using the language!) or the messiness of Javascript...

When I learned I could use cargo to open docs for a crate or build my own documentation in section I nearly fell off my chair laughing with joy
Are we railing against all unshielded boards, or just this one in particular?

There's vastly more Raspberry Pi's in the world, almost all of which live in clear plastic cases if they have any case at all. All of the home built computers, pretty much the same...

There's more bare-board crypto mining rigs than laptops Framework has ever sold.

This "shieldless" case harms no one.

The alternative for the owner is discarding the hardware. If Framework sells enough laptops maybe they'll make a more "properly engineered" secondary-use case down the road. For right now, it effectively recycles old hardware, and that's a pretty good win.
Or jobs will shift from virtual world to real world and we will fix up shitty infra and housing situation. In the process of this revolution a lot of high cost things will be removed from our lives too. You will not need to own a car once there is sufficient robo-taxi fleet. A lot of medical costs can be optimised from drug research to diagnostics etc.
What is the best language model that can fit in 1MB or so? I would like to serve it with javascript in a browser...
Have you seen the license on StyleGAN3?
Most all hybrids that operate in series mode, or primarily in series mode.

The Chevy Volt and all current Honda hybrids work this way. The main motor spins the wheels directly at a fixed ratio. The engine primarily operates as a generator. Then they do have a lock up clutch to connect the engine to the wheels when their speeds align at cruise and there is an efficiency gain to be had from eliminating conversion losses. https://youtu.be/QLUIExAnNcE

Also, technically most Toyota hybrids are also fixed ratio, most of them use planetary gears with two electric motors to simulate gear ratios with respect to the engine. It is somewhat confusingly called an eCVT, although the variable part isn’t the gearing, it’s the speed of the motors connected to the gearing. What changes is the relative speeds of MG1/MG2. It’s like a differential in a car, but backwards.

Parallel hybrids are the ones that drive like regular cars. Like Honda IMA, Hyundai’s hybrids, anything labelled “mild” hybrid —- those all have old school transmissions.