skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't realize it was downvoted, but fair enough if people feel it's too much of an ad. Comment is sitting at 2 points now :)

Glad you really get what we're trying to do with Modal. You're right it's not just an easy way to get serverless GPUs.

Modal is reimagining software development practices for the cloud era. Developing in the cloud should not be just writing YAML or Hashicorp Config Language templates, push/pulling Docker images, and re-running 'infratool up' over and over until things over.
I'm in the minority on this, but frankly I do not see the crime here.

Everyone knew how LUNA worked. nothing opaque about its mechanisms. Literally check the chain.

Smart money and retail both hit. Jump, 3AC, VCs, and small investors alike wiped out all the same from the same flawed idea.

A transparently bad idea is not a crime, even if no one sees how bad of an idea it is and some people end up offing themselves because of it.

They either knew the risks, or didn't understand the asset.
Keep in mind that we don't really know who wrote the Bible.

It's not impossible they may have known things that we don't.
I'm on the extreme end of the scale. I'm fasting 10 times a day or more.
Historically, microcode was invented around 1951 and was heavily used in most of the IBM System/360 computers (1964). Once your instruction set is even moderately complicated, using microcode is a lot easier than hard-wired control circuitry.

You can view microcode as one of the many technologies that started in mainframes, moved into minicomputers, and then moved into microprocessors. In a sense, the idea behind RISC was the recognition that this natural progression was not necessarily the best way to build microprocessors.
I always stay strapped with Gat.
My impression is that the notion of "virtual particles" is a bit of an outdated concept. There isn't really as much of a physical distinction between "real" and "virtual" particles as there is sometimes made out to be. All particles are excitations of some underlying field. Generally speaking, these excitations can have some resonance that allows them to persist for long durations. This resonance occurs when the particle is "on the mass shell" in the jargon --- that is, it has a rest mass that is equal (or at least extremely close) to the observed mass of the particle. Excitations that are "off the mass shell" decay exponentially. But these other excitations do have real observable effects. The Casimir effect is the most famous, but they're also responsible for the Lamb shift and Hawking radiation which have also been observed.
I've compiles a list from 2015 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1350A5KGgmGI3Ed-tC7MP...
The "unlimited" usage is interesting - will you be checking out the history of the top 10 or so users to see if anyone is using your text editor to train a smaller model?
A 9-figure acquisition sounds like a lot, but consider that this is less than 0.05% of JP Morgan's market cap. Their market cap is down $6 billion today, and it's not even a particularly notable day.

And it's not like that money is completely gone. JPM will sue and probably recover a very large chunk of it. Say that of the $175 million, they get back $150M, so they are out $25M. It's just not that much money to them. Sure, someone didn't do their job and will probably get fired over this, but Jamie Dimon and the executive suite don't really think about $25M losses.
What's cheaper to program and produce: a speaker or a display and chip?

I think that this device is super smart. It's a "cell phone" chip that "reads" the texts out loud when received from a hardcoded number. It could cost a few dollars.

The only cheaper thing would be upcycling existing smartphones, but that would be a support nightmare.
Yeah , this is pretty much me, nowadays I work out quite a bit so I’ll have a proteinshake in the morning but I usually don’t eat anything before lunch(12). In the evening I won’t eat anything after dinner(17) except for another shake if it’s a workout day. My weight has plateaued but I’m still losing fat and gaining muscle.
> So we can have more of the "gene out of the bottle" or "train has left the station" response ?

Your concern is theoretical "social unrest" due to being replaced by automation even in the face of factual social unrest due to extension of retirement age.

Even if automation replaces jobs en masse, It's not as if this would happen in a vacuum even if it does. We already have social safety nets (even in US) like unemployment insurance, medicaid, food stamps, etc not to mention a robust private charity network. And government already showed, for example, during the pandemic, that it was willing to fund people in an emergency if and when it happens.

One thing I do know about AGI/AI and automation in general, is that it's not going to sweep through entire industries overnight all at once. It takes time to deploy, time to deal with edge cases, time to refine, time to reconstruct processes around automation, time to adapt to whatever downstream changes and efficiencies the automation creates, time to effect prices in the marketplace, etc. Time to see if other jobs not previously anticipated when a new tech replaces an old one, like "web designer" or "web developer" or "SEO specialist" did with respect to newspapers or letter carriers or television programming being replaced or reduced by the existence of the internet.
Consulting, paid plugins.
You can will things to anyone, any entity.
From a control system perspective:

Nise - Control Systems Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Control-Systems-Engineering-Norman-Ni...

Friedland - Control System Design: https://www.amazon.com/Control-System-Design-Introduction-St...
When news articles say "faces 100 years in prison", they are often talking about the maximum possible sentence for all the charges. Such sentences are rarely imposed.
Or companies that stashed a stockpile then to avoid the disposal costs, and are not letting to drip out. Or both?
it sounds like his initial invoice was quite clear in the work completed, then updated at the client's request. So while you can argue moral grounds for not doing this work, I don't think there's illegality, i.e. conspiracy.
A lot, if not all of this, was based on the Dragon Book[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...
Well, so is swimming speed. I may not have the statistical terminology correct, but the difference is that "age" and "swimming speed" are directly measurable continuous aspects of reality, while "# of olympic medals is some kind of discretized derivative of others.

Imagine that instead of measuring "age" we measured "number of days person was the oldest person in the world". You'd get wildly divergent results for the latter that would be more like the olympic medal count.

Or if we determined how wet or dry a climate was not by measuring "annual rainfall" but, like "number of minutes per year in which more rain was falling here than other places".
How exactly does the experience work? e.g:

- How does the customer know how much to send and where?
- How quickly does the confirmation come through? Does it say who the money is from?
- What happens if the vendor is distracted and misses the confirmation for a particular order?
Side note: was this a tweetstorm originally? Literally every paragraph is a single sentence, often long ones with no reader afforrdances like bolding key points.
I do it occasionally, especially if I over-indulge the night before. This morning, for instance. I had far too much pizza last night, so I skipped breakfast.

But I also do it sometimes to try to lose weight, which hasn't been successful. I'm still a little reluctant to do it every day, and my wife worries a lot when I say I'm considering it. But cutting calories has been really, really hard, so I'm still thinking about it.

I definitely don't have the same energy level by lunch if I skip breakfast, so that's a factor, too.
Thanks! On the differences between Retool: the output (customer support tools, admin dashboards, etc.) is pretty similar between both products, but _how_ those tools are built is really different.

Something like Retool gives you a drag-and-drop UI builder, Interval is made for backend devs and lets you create UIs directly in your backend code. So you don’t need to learn another drag-and-drop tool or frontend framework.

Re: where the code actually runs… this is another really cool component of Interval. We host the UI for you on interval.com but the actual backend code (including everything sensitive like your environment variables, business logic, etc.) runs on your infra and Interval can’t see it by design.
I got it fixed just before your comment :-)
I'd say more focus on outside linkage, currently. For instance I want to be able to have it to basically strategically 'find' all the docs for all the packages an app uses, load that into it's long-term memory via weaviate. I figure I'll piggy back off existing models for the moment, until my startup takes off - the immediate intrinsic value is creating an easy system to build agents and agent teams, with some sort of workflow/pipeline system. Potentially something like langflow that is drag/drop etc...

My first few use cases are:

- Dev support docs/coding and orchestration (trying to create specific bots geared towards PM, QA, Code Reviews, etc, for better reflexion).

- Creating an expert on your personal marketing workflows, for instance creating contracts, quotes, and pitches for web dev services, or some other freelancing/consulting business.

- Creating an CEO in a box that can basically run a business by itself, with a little help from underlings. This might be cool for worker co-ops especially, that want to act a bit more autonomous and 'fair', if the AI truly sets pay/benefits/etc with some input from employees, it might be a lot better than current systems.

Or just having an Ai that's got all the writings of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and business school text books, paul graham essays, etc, and can essentially handle a lot of the business aspects for a business when the real person behind it is more technically inclined, and doesn't know how to get investors/etc, or put together a basic business canvas.

The tool should be malleable enough that it can fulfill all the above use cases and more, but these are kind of my first tests (as there are customers waiting for these specific features already).
Good tips! I'm just trying this again since I went overboard with the live a little part.
>Sorry. What’s the ML piece here? QR codes are from the 90s and don’t use any ML I’m aware of…

You must have missed the memo, everything is AI now.

Your toaster? It toasts your bread with AI.

Your microwave? It heats your food with AI.

(Yes this is sarcasm. "AI" has become a meaningless buzzword thanks to marketing and the media. Same goes for "machine learning".)
>If UNIX is written ...

Doesn't that imply already that C precludes UNIX? The question doesn't make sense.
Taking each word of your comment alone and not in relation to the other words around it I find that you're talking complete nonsense!
do you have good muscle tone. I was doing this for a while and became skinnyfat with a gut.
Literally just google "Ask judge to toss suit" and you will see tons of results on either side of the political divide. I'm seeing results for Amber Heard, Ron DeSantis, Hillary Clinton, Alec Baldwin...
This breaks my heart. I've found so many books which are imposible to find in my country.
So, don't buy anything containing electronics?
Its possible, my great grandad recently passed away at well over 95 and was still making new ham radio projects at least couple times a month. Granted, his hands were no longer steady enough to solder himself but he could still draw the circuits and tell someone what to do. It was common to see him "space out" through every family social gathering only to dart to the basement as soon as it was over to build what he had been planning in his head the whole time. I think his not-so-secret was just to never stop doing it.
The trousers I‘m wearing right now have fake pockets at the back. I‘m a man. It has nothing to do with men or women.

Many women do not wear makeup.

Again, this depends a lot on the country.

Many women choose to wear makeup or dress uncomfortably just like many men choose to work out and dress uncomfortably to look more attractive. Many men seemingly invest a lot of time into styling their beard or hair.
Seems a simple plan to address a competitor.

Buy it. Invest nothing major into it. Wait for the economy to take a downturn and shut it down because it isn't profitable.
Ask HN: Books/courses recommendations to learn university mathematics?
How are they aesthetically? Like, are they glued raw to the wall, or have you used some kind of covering?
Under what circumstances would Lithuania be at war with russia?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The extraordinary evidence simply isn't there, there's too much fog in which some thing could have happened where the daughter assumed the identity of her mother, for whatever reason. It could've been taxes, could've been something temporary that turned into something permanent. Hell, maybe she was a bored housewife and thought that cosplaying as a grandma would be fun. I'm sure she had a grand old time as a "90 year old" that was able to act like a spritely 60 year old.

I simply don't believe she was the oldest, although I do acknowledge there is a very slim possibility of it being true.

This is a scenario where science fails us, I think. Social scientists have "proved" she was the oldest with "99% accuracy". But Bayesian statistics would pose the question, "if the odds of being the world's oldest person are 1 in 5 billion, and you took a test that was 99% accurate that confirmed you were the oldest, what are the odds of you being the oldest if the test is positive?" It turns out the odds of you being the oldest person are still astronomically unlikely... you have better odds of winning the PowerBall than of being the world's oldest person.
I've tried tic-tac-toe with it (GPT4, web platform - maybe results are different with the API and temp 0?) easily a dozen times using various ways to prompt it over the past few weeks, it only played well once so I'm assuming it was just luck.

I usually have it go first and start with X but have tried O. It usually makes no attempts to block 3 in a row, even if I tell it "try to win," "block me from winning," etc. Once it told me I won without having 3 in a row, many times it plays after I've already won and then tells me I've won, though usually it does manage to recognize a win condition. Today I tried asking it "do you know the optimal strategy?" and it explained it but claimed that it hadn't been using it to make the game "more fun for me" (honorable but I'd already told it to try to win) and asked if I wanted it to play optimally. It tried and ended up claiming we had a draw because neither of us achieved a win condition even though I'd won and it just played after the game was over.

Various strategies include asking it to draw ASCII, provide moves in symbol-location notation, ex: X5, asking it how to play, telling it to try to win, etc.

I do find it very odd that it is so poor at tic-tac-toe, it seems to even handle seemingly novel games better.
> Should we call climate scientists fear mongers

But they have evidence, measurements and a quantitative model etc.

Where is the AGI FUD people's evidence? It's largely very opinionated arguments of rectal origin. But modern AI is a quantitative model that is completely known and can be readily analyzed. If there is some proof or even substantial quantitative or empirical evidence that those numbers are imminently dangerous, then we are talking.
Frauds like this one all-too-often wrap and camouflage themselves in some social good. Its so revolting, and brings down not only the cause but the people suffering from whatever the subject is (e.g. students applying for financial aid, cancer patients getting their blood tested, etc.)

Its unfair and awkward but ventures which heavily push the mission like this one should be pushed harder on their fundamentals by the investor / startup community.
Well you’ve got financial analyst firms left right and center coming out with big numbers like this that have far more access to resources and data than I ever will. But you could just use your common sense. Most illustrators and artists make their money doing commissions for businesses. Most businesses will opt for the cheapest solution that meets the quality standard they’re after. The quality standard has already been met and it is far cheaper and faster than hiring an illustrator. So tell me how are all these illustrators and artists going to carry on making a living producing art if they’re priced out of the market?
St Petersburg café killing exposes Russia’s security woes
Author of the CircuitLab https://www.circuitlab.com/ (YC W13) mixed-mode (analog and digital) simulation engine here. The "core algorithm" is probably LU decomposition on a sparse matrix: https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/systems-of-equations/#lu... .

I answered a similar question on Electronics StackExchange where someone asked about how to build a circuit simulator: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/394069

From a software developer perspective: lots and lots and lots of automated tests, each of which builds a circuit, runs a simulation, and makes sure we don't see any behavior regression. More lines of code in tests than in the core simulation engine or device models!
Summary of YC's startup school using 26 words in alphabetical order
I was going to write a similar comment. Flying domestic in Japan also requires no ID, little security, generally you are asked to go through security 15 minutes before boarding (the plane won't even be there if yo are early), fares are regular/published and don't skyrocket when a flight gets close to full (on the big carriers), and flights are easily changeable.
Effortlessly, by replacing carbs with high quality proteins and fats. No interruptions of a carnivore diet for the last 36 months, 90 pounds down, diabetes and cancer in remission. I was a severely bulimic binge eater on carbs. On high fat/protein I feed at about 7 and 3 and am just not interested in food other times.
Doesn't the standard state CHAR_BIT has to be >=8? If could still be, say, 11 of course.
does it work to bypass geoblocking of Netflix? i cannot access the us catalog from Italy for instance
Great to have alternatives, but wish there was a “Why” section in readme
What do you think the original definition is? And what is the new (re)definition?
What was the most hyped seed in 2021?
Great baby step. I'm all for it. Let's just make sure nobody is under the impression that this is anything more than a baby step - far more will be needed, ultimately.
I do the ‘skip breakfast’ for 2-3 months a couple times per year. It’s hard to start a set program though when my kids don’t finish their breakfasts — and then I don’t want to throw out their food so…
I'm not sure I believe we're quite there yet with GPT4, but let's suppose that we are. All of those other, potentially dangerous technologies mentioned have close government supervision that surrounds them: Nuclear has the Department of Energy, non-proliferation treaties, test ban treaties and much more. Biotech has the FDA and HHS and tons of regulation like GxP, ICH, HIPAA, and much more. But what does Artificial Intelligence have? ITAR?
I think the party is over, fellas. It's time for a new Federal department. Let's call it the Artificial Intelligence Administration (AIA). Time to take control of this technology before it takes control of US.
Even if I take that as true, it's still not "using the power of law" to follow the law. "Using the power of law" implies some degree of control over the law.
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I tried for more than 3 months and it did not help me lose or keep a specific weight. In my case, doing 16:8, 20:4, 22:2 type of fasting didn't work bc I was famished by the time I had the meal.

What I've seen in my fasting and weight logs, is that doing multiple day fasts helps me keep weight off. The problem I've had in the past was not transitioning to a 'maintenance' schedule.

I'm doing 3 days of water+coffee (this is my third week). Last time I tried this in 2021 I lost 25 pounds (195->175) in 2 months. My plan now is to transition to 2 days a week once I've lost the weight.
The go version could also be called "fat", given the size of go binaries ;)
I think LangChain will be the "backend" for many AI based SaaS companies in the future.
"Rewrite it" is almost always the wrong answer, although it can be an overpowering instinct.

Personally, through decades of experience, I've learned that when this impulse hits me, I need to consciously remind myself of these truths:

1) The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots. The code is probably that way for a reason, even if that reason isn't obvious to me.

2) If I embark on rewriting it "correctly", the odds are very good that I will learn why the code was as it was in the first place, and my rewrite will undoubtedly have my own style, but will not likely avoid whatever issue it was that made me think it should be rewritten.
> I feel it's mostly the problem of the first impression.

That's fair. I started out with MIPS32. When I first saw x86 instructions, and a `mov`, my first thought was, 'what the heck? Where are the loads and stores? `mov rax, [rip + 32]` is 3 instructions in MIPS or any similar RISC, this looks weird.'

> P.S. AT&T syntax for x86 is

Oh, yeah, I hate it. x86 instructions can already get pretty long; now you have multiple suffixes just to account for size. The indexing operation is just ridiculous; Intel syntax makes it so much more straightforward.
I’m approaching 30 years in software development, and I don’t remember having a “technical” interview until this week…. in which I had two.

Both were with large, well-known companies. But the nature and outcome of the two were quite different. In one, the interviewer just dumped some code on the screen that had been clumsily obfuscated, and its intent and strategy rendered indecipherable.

In the second, I was asked to provide code that did something, and then add an additional feature to it on demand. This is much more in line with what I expected, and to me more valid. And the whole interview was far more satisfying and invigorating.

The first interview was so disappointingly “douchey Leetcode” that I dreaded all that would follow. It created conflicting feelings of, “I’m kind of over this type of work anyway; this may be a beneficial tipping point” vs. “I don’t want to wuss out and run away from uncomfortable experiences.”

Now that I’ve had two opposing experiences in technical interviews, I feel more confident in judging their validity and my role in their outcomes… and calling out ones that are disrespectful.
There is no way to estimate "probable consequences", as it all is happening very fast.

Which hints on the fact how interesting / in demand this technology is.

I for one will be happy to enslave an AGI if that makes my life easier / better.
Slavery being bad is also not a law of nature. It's an agreed upon convention in society though. Ideas don't have to be intrinsically true for them to be powerful and acted on.