skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also not terribly psychoactive, doesn't make you drive unsafely, and can't permanently ruin your brain or change your personality, unlike that other addictive and legal, but often harmful substance that causes plenty of societal issues: alcohol.

And I say this as someone who really likes wine and would drink it pretty much every day, if it weren't for that whole "can permanently ruin your brain" business.
Yup

The idea of doing this is embarrassing enough for Google.

Google index the whole web, some of the documents are due to be generated by ChatGPT, there is no way around it.
Bingo.

That's also why I think lots of these folks have no qualms doing this research so long as they are paid handsomely...

And why other rich folks are happy to pay it.
Bug: if the WebGL is too slow (e.g. Haswell IGPU at 4K resolution), the song stalls completely. It should still play with reduced fps for rendering. Resizing the window down lets it proceed. Maximizing it again stalls again.
I have a shortname.cc domain which I use for testing. This allows me to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for *.shortname.cc, which includes local.shortname.cc.

The internal DNS server masks the public one, so that I can assign local IPs at will, use HTTP or HTTPS at will, and when I'm outside of the network, the devices will contact the public DNS server and use the actual public IP of the network to access a limited set of servers (like ejabberd). These servers then stay accessible on the inside but through the local IPs, so that they don't have to leave the local network touching the edge router (which also solves some NAT issues on WebSocket connections).
Aerospace computers don't get any respect. The SR-71's DAFICS (Digital Automatic Flight and Inlet Control System) is a digital computer system with triple-redundancy. I bet your computer doesn't have that :-)

https://doi.org/10.4271/851977
next post will be: how i got into YC, shut down my company, and then added x subscribers to my substack by simply trash talking YC
> 35,000 life hours

How trustworthy is that state though? I have always assumed 0% trustworthy. Is that incorrect?
Sid is pretty good. Five years ago I made the switch from Debian/testing (with unstable pinned on at low priority) to Sid.

I'd probably recommend the first config though, testing with unstable pinned on. It's definitely nowhere near as fresh as unstablr, but still often much better. And you can install fresh versions of things you care about, via apt-pinning.

Unstae has never caused a real problem. Sometimes a dependency might not be resolvable, and you have to either wait a bit while a dependency makes its way to availability (days or sometimes rarely weeks), or you can go dig up slightly-older unstable versions of packages on the website, or you just apt-pin testing on (at low priority) and install the significantly older version.

All in all Sid (unstable) has been quite lovely and I'd never switch back. But being unable to install something has been an issue I see a couple times a year. Testing, with Unstable pinned on gives you a nice position of getting what you want fresh & everything else being pretty dammed reliable. I also wouldn't discourage anyone from running Sid either, but it has some pretty small caveats.
I am surprised they got with that idea into the Batch.
Search on rumble for the video "The late John McAfee explains the real reason for the crackdown on TikTok" and you get your answer.
Lowering speed limits makes Seattle streets safer
Saying it's supply and demand or market economy is burying the lede a bit though.

A lot of underpaid jobs have leverage due to how the USA infrastructure / economy is structured, which is that it's difficult to move / change.

Even if you want to leave a job, you can't given you have no leeway in budget to search for a job, let alone pay the expenses to likely move (since our urban areas are so spread out). Factor in family that is relying on you, company provided insurance, etc. and your ability to consider leaving a job is heavily restricted. You can't even afford to go on strike, at least not to a duration that the company will care about. That and unions are absolutely gutted here.

So you end up with a group of folks that have no leverage.

It's by design unfortunately.
I wish it had a Swedish translation. I do NOT forgive him.
Well, ChatGPT itself was trained on something else, so how is Bard any worse. AIs copying each other is only natural to expect.
Vulkan Files (2023)
Nobody was arguing that they weren't different, we were just waiting for you to explain the distinction you introduced, after not explaining the thing others introduced and were asking about

Since the goal was to save deposits 100% and there was enough money for that goal, and every account got 1/1 treatment, and nobody got 1/10th treatment, nobody got 1.5/1 treatment, and this applied to everyone over and under $250k not just those 10 accounts in the article, I’m still not seeing how those 10 accounts accounts “were more equal than others” which was the supposition introduced in the “joke” earlier

I don’t think semantics really helps point out that OP just had a poor joke that wasnt funny or accurate, I’m open to counterpoints though.
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Universal Paperclips (2017)
So does this ultimately allow me do this workflow?

1. Say I have a blog post
2. I run the blog post through OpenAI embeddings API
3. I save the embeddings to BasePlate w/o knowing much backend stuff
4. I query BasePlate with a user search phrase
5. Ask OpenAI to give me a coherent completion

p.s. congrats on the launch!
Snap! has already been mentioned, but another scratch mod that has more extensions available (and is faster and has more options) is Turbowarp (https://turbowarp.org/)
But this isn't fundamentally different than people writing scripts that attack such endpoints (or that attempt to use them benignly, but fail).

This is still a "human malice and error" problem, not a "dangerous AI" problem.
No wants to be fired. No one wants to lose a game either. But it happens. People get fired. People quit.

Seeing yourself in him is investing him with your ego. This is not an insult, it's the core of the behavior. It is why we do these things. They are ego-preserving actions we take. Because I'm literally talking about your sense of self and not using it in a colloquial sense.

And seeing yourself in him is what you are doing when you say you didn't want to fire him because you wouldn't want to be fired. You are saying he should feel a certain way because you would feel a certain way. You are the Platonic person other people are templated off of.

And you can deny it, but all the reasons you give circle it. We often care too much about how we are perceived by others and often try to influence that even though we have very little control over it.

One should not love firing people either. That's a whole other thing.
GPT-4 speaks every human language, knows every programming language, and can answer introductory and sometimes even advanced questions in history, law, biology, and mathematics. In what way is it not more knowledgable than us?

Yes, everything there is already known by someone. But look at medicine. Specialists who are able to recognize conditions and recommend treatments better than others make fortunes, sometimes just for briefly looking at patients and answering other doctors' questions. Look at cybersecurity. A lot of exploits come from knowing something the victim didn't about a lot of different pieces of software or processes, chained together. Being able to think through the whole of human knowledge, or even the whole of a single field like biology, is something no human can do.

Also, GPT-4 is an existing system, one inconceivable a couple of years ago.
DMCA claims can go up the chain. For example, they could get the email address from GitHub, then subpoena the email provider for info to unmask the person (for example, any phone number used when signing up or logging in to the email account). Then, they could subpoena the phone company to identify the perpetrator.
> Although serving HTTP content is not ideal, we probably shouldn't really stay in the way of our users if that's what they want to do.

I don't agree with this position. I'd summarize my position as "if you want to do something stupid and dangerous, I don't want to be involved in it."
> Diamonds are expensive not because they're hard to get, but because their sales and distribution channels are controlled by a cartel.

That’s _why_ they’re hard to get.

I also don’t think SWE salaries are similar. A union would be analogous to the cartel, which are pretty much non existent in tech. Not necessarily in terms of good/bad but in terms of controlling the supply of labor.

What do you see as the analog to cartels?
Sequoia has the best articles, super high production value. The FTX one was a classic but they took it down...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571734
Right. So is your position that people should be able to have a monopoly on ideas themselves rather than on a particular expression of those ideas?

I don't think I can be on board with that. It seems to me that would be the death of art and culture.
I hear nothing but good things about Andrej Karpathy's videos and courses. I plan on working my way through this playlist when I've got some spare time:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...
Fedora is probably not your thing then. You'd just be a tester for Red Hat
If I look at “history”, I see misery and piles of corpses. Sometimes those piles get quite high, and bigger than average amount of people ponder whether there was an error that caused such a catastrophe, and propose changes which slowly get spread through generations. (It's no wonder general public still believes in the 19th century phantom of “progress”.)
I'm sure I am, but my experience as an end user is that a device I expect to function within a pretty limited domain struggles to perform within that limited domain, which is frustrating for me.

If it is so complex, then that makes me more disappointed to see the development resources (and device horsepower) allocated to inserting promotional content into the homepage. I wonder how much more consistently TvOS could perform if a team of engineers was not focused on making sure I am forced to preview a Bruce Springsteen video when I turn the tube on after work.

OS adware is definitely below my expectations from Apple. I expect that stuff from a Google device, but it's a real letdown that can't be disabled on a $150 Apple box. I only ever click on it by accident.
There could be quite-a-few companies whose mission statement involved summoning the Anti-Christ and it would still just be religion.
"Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an (computer assisted?) engineer to build a bridge that barely stands"
I still enjoy Ubuntu, no reason to change, especially not about stuff like removing flatpack which I don't care at all.

Ubuntu is still the best overall desktop distro imo, and it's still linux so you can customize it the way you want.

Fedora has a release every 6 month which laughable honestly, Ubuntu has 5 years of LTS support.
From its earliest releases through IIRC '08 or so, one of the nicest things about it was that its default installation and config choices were obviously better for most users than what other distros picked. "No, goddamnit, I don't want Epiphany or whatever, I want Firefox". Sure enough, Ubuntu installs Firefox by default. "If you've got wifi and you want to manage it from the GUI you'll want to install and configure X, Y, and Z, and you'll need to uninstall the default that Y replaces because it's bad" Or, you know, why doesn't the damn distro do that for me? And Ubuntu (mostly) did.

Any other distro at the time, I'd have to install & uninstall a bunch of crap on first boot, or spend time selecting packages in the installer. Ubuntu was the only one I could just hit "install" on and end up pretty close to a reasonable initial set-up.

[EDIT] Of course, that went to hell pretty much immediately when they started trying to "lead" on Linux desktop with their own projects, rather than curating & tweaking existing community software. I despise most of what Red Hat's created and done along the way, but they've played the same game and clearly come out on top—Ubuntu both made their distro worse and burned resources getting their ass whupped by Red Hat at the influence-and-control-the-Linux-desktop game, over and over. Ubuntu's init system competitor? Dead, Red Hat's systemd won. Their GTK alternative DE to Red Hat dominated Gnome? Dead, Gnome won. Mir? Dead, Red Hat backed Wayland won. Snap? I dunno but it sucks and everyone hates it so I assume it's heading the same way, and Flatpack or AppImage will win instead (probably Flatpack, though I prefer AppImage).
Optimizing Large Language Models for Cost Efficiency
Yes, I mentioned that in my OP. It's standard, but not open. You can neither send nor receive SMS over the internet without paying a third party.
how does this compare to cloudflare tunnels?
What's the reason to install Linux for non-tech people?
A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the ’80s and ’90s (2011)
Your comment put me in mind of something I saw in 1999 or so; where a local newscast in Austin profiled a local start-up and included:

"We can't discuss what we do because someone else could take the idea and beat us to it."

That was the beginning of the dot-com bust.
Can't drive a car... or can't drive a car safely?

A bit tongue in cheek, but the point I'm making is that AI doesn't need to necessarily do things _well_ to cause a lot of damage.
It's quite stable actually, on par with Ubuntu. The stuff with rough edges is kept in the unstable repos.
LocalStack 2.0 General Availability
the code: https://github.com/localstack/localstack/releases/tag/v2.0.0
There's one really tricky clause in there that I also missed on my first pass: "The term “covered transaction” includes ANY OTHER TRANSACTION, the STRUCTURE of which is designed or intended to evade or circumvent the application of this Act, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary."

That clause adds a vast amount under the blanket of "covered transactions." At the minimum this would include the usage or offering of VPNs, TOR, or any sort of technology or connection that might be able to circumvent the methods the government will try to use. The "or" in the bill's clause also seems quite meaningful, as it clarifies that offering a service which CAN circumvent the restrictions is just as illegal as offering a service INTENDED to do so.

Beyond that, this thing's a monster of obfuscation. To even begin reading it you need to remove 'weak' OR statements. For one simple example, from Section 3 all the Secretary needs to do to justify 'imposing mitigation measures' against something is to show that it poses an "undue" risk to the "safety of United States persons." The language about national security or critical infrastructure, which you mentioned from the same section, are irrelevant as they're both subsets of 'undue risk to the safety of United States persons.'
> Just don't go running it expecting to set up what you would on a Java server - it's two different environments.

That said multiplayer sleep, custom recipes, bedrock-viz, and others exist. Customized protection I've found to be lacking though.

But honestly if you're looking at that many 3rd party things you might find it easier to use a 3rd party bridging solution with it instead like GeyserMC+Floodgate. It still has limitations compared to a native java (client, server, mod) tuple but it's probably easier to adapt to if you're used to java server.
https://lobste.rs/ has an interesting mechanism to curb bots on the platform.

To join to website, you have to get a referral from another current user. And this referral is public information. So if someone you referred starts acting like an ass, then you can expect some concern being directed your way. People are rightly a bit cautious with giving out referrals as a consequence.

The topics on lobste.rs are more focused on programming and computers (stuff you'd likely also see on HN), and there's not really any political discussion. Traffic is light, expect maybe a dozen new links per day.

This comment, by the way, does not constitute an invitation to ask me for a referral. I don't really know too well anyone on HN, other than the most famous users (none of who know who I am), so if you ask me for a referral, the answer is very likely "no".
Maybe California could prosecute them under the new rules about contractor misclassification!
Ubuntu offer an LTS distro though. In theory this should be more stable than Fedora. Perhaps it matters less for the desktop.
Even if relevant anything recommended by Elon is an instant pass
That doesn’t fit his analogy though. It also doesn’t make sense that the cartel would also be the primary source of income (the company, compared to diamond mine + cartel).
ChatGPT discovers hundreds of vulnerable and malicious packages
In SaaS this is considered normal. At least 15% of systems cost is the complexity of having different tiers of service, and selectively turning them on and off, and making sure the system is still coherent when intentionally crippled. These are real engineering expenses to make the product deliberately less functional.

What fraction of Microsoft Windows engineering goes into the complexity of picking and combining the feature sets of Windows Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate? It isn't 0.

Engineering that is negative for user-value is routine in big business. It's a big part of what MBAs are for. It is such a counter-intuitive thing to do that it requires special training.
Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31921996 - June 2022 (38 comments)
Why it's time to embrace Rust for writing native Python package extensions
Meanwhile MacOS has Ads on absolute every corner:

- Ads in preinstalled Music Player to buy their apple subscription for music

- Ads in App Store when you search for something

- Ads in System Settings advertising their iCloud

- Ads in Subscription Manager advertising their cloud services

....

So basically MacOS has nothing to offer, except watching endless advertising from apple.
In my experience at least with somewhat newer low end smart tvs, Roku is far and away a better experience than Android or Fire TV. Even higher end TVs with Android TV are a laggy mess. If you're looking for a cheap bedroom TV I would only choose Roku.
Agree. I have yet to see YC publish figures on founder returns - they mostly talk about the successes. https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-life-and-death-of-y-co...

Amazing video on bootstrapping: https://youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw

There are funds trying to succeed at the many-small-successes model of investing - personally I am skeptical (from my own experience) because the natural failure rate is so high (before stressors due to investors). Edit: and there is a strong negative selection bias - small software businesses asking for money is a loud signal that they are much less likely to be successful at all IMHO. Relevant article about Mittelstands ”We need a middle class for startups”: https://neilthanedar.com/we-need-a-middle-class-for-startups... and my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31350478
Hacking a Russian war criminal, commander of 960th Assault Aviation Regiment
It's explained in the associated article: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/lyft-in-trouble/
Does she like her job? I only ask because you specified comp in a way that suggested that is what is most important to you(and her).
An also should add that color temperature on incandescent lamps play a role on its lifespan, want long lasting lamps? Lower the current (or increase the resistance).
Real dilemma for non professional small businesses ATM with inflation
> The issue is that LED bulbs aren’t simple devices like incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs have an electronic power supply inside which drives the LEDs at a constant current.

Not all of them! I was very surprised to open up my generic outdoor patio LED bulbs and find two strips of LED filament wired directly to power.

AFAICT it’s just enough LEDs in serial for 120VAC at 60 Hz to be “good enough” that they survive for “long enough”.
My local library installed Linux on all of their desktops when a refresh cycle was needed. Basically prevented them from buying all new computers at 10s of thousands of $$$.
This feels like a low effort comment that you could likely post on most engineering blog posts on the home page.
It's a narrower argument that I'm making - it's not about LLMs or implementation (can put those details aside), it's about possibility that a superintelligent AGI could be created, there's nothing magical about biological intelligence that would prevent it.

How or how difficult, or when are all questions that follow from that first premise (that it is possible). I don't really make strong claims about any of the implementation details beyond it being possible. Though again, what we're seeing doesn't look like failure to me.

If you think it is possible though, then there's a strong argument that trying to work on alignment now is probably a good idea because people are notoriously bad at predicting when advances will happen (and the downside risk of unaligned superintelligent AGI is likely very bad).

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

> "Two: History shows that for the general public, and even for scientists not in a key inner circle, and even for scientists in that key circle, it is very often the case that key technological developments still seem decades away, five years before they show up.

"In 1901, two years before helping build the first heavier-than-air flyer, Wilbur Wright told his brother that powered flight was fifty years away.

"In 1939, three years before he personally oversaw the first critical chain reaction in a pile of uranium bricks, Enrico Fermi voiced 90% confidence that it was impossible to use uranium to sustain a fission chain reaction. I believe Fermi also said a year after that, aka two years before the denouement, that if net power from fission was even possible (as he then granted some greater plausibility) then it would be fifty years off; but for this I neglected to keep the citation.

"And of course if you’re not the Wright Brothers or Enrico Fermi, you will be even more surprised. Most of the world learned that atomic weapons were now a thing when they woke up to the headlines about Hiroshima. There were esteemed intellectuals saying four years after the Wright Flyer that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, because knowledge propagated more slowly back then."
Pretty sure they are commenting on the fact that employees won't continue to accept funny money. In which case they may have to pay a larger % of comp in cash to stay competitive and hence it will affect cashflow.
Remember that using the API comes with privacy guarantees that using the chatGPT site does not. tldr; anything sent through the API won't be used to train the model and will be deleted after a month.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...
Thank you. I shouldn’t have made that comment.
Transformer Taxonomy (the last lit review)
I have to be honest, even if it is only 50 ft, i don't want to sprint through pouring rain to get to my house after a long day at the office.