skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard the somewhat-NSFW term "USB glory hole" for these.
HuggingFace’s platform allows for experimenting, learning and leveraging models and data sets including LLM and instruction sets to train a chat bot.

For “merging”, I would learn about fine tuning to see if that’s what you are looking to learn more about.
It might be, it's to filter out would be attackers. Normal users are just hit as well.
2008 housing crisis, OxyContin lawsuits, Wells Fargos infractions, Epstein, tax enforcement poor vs wealthy, Ohio derailment
Yes! HTMX is a better API on top of a XMLHttpRequest for this approach. A hypothetical next iteration of the HTML standard could make most of HTMX unnecessary. Maybe one day.
There is a difference between being scared of taking photos of random strangers versus actually doing it. I would mark you as the former... you're just scared.

Nobody cares. At most they will be slightly annoyed, but ultimately they forget about it in a minute. A lot of people (like you) are just scared of this slight annoyance, your mind over blows it and your behavior becomes controlled by every small thought other people think of you.

Even in countries where it's not culturally appropriate. Often they're just annoyed because of culture, because they grew up and were taught that it's impolite to take pictures. They aren't in actuality annoyed because nothing really happened... and they forget about it quick. Stop being scared, and stop accusing me of choosing to believe things.
I don't think it's that anyone is lying as much as the concept of "lifetime licenses" is itself a lie. There is no such thing, as proven by all the various ways that such licenses have been voided.
ChatGPT Suffixes
More than half of felony charges in NYC boroughs are downgraded to misdemeanors
Web scraping isn’t a venture-scale business
> Also, what types of behavior did we get a glimpse of from the Twitter Files?

Can you actually explain the types of bad behavior? The rhetorical question about The Twitter Files somehow being a groundbreaking expose of bad behavior doesn't really match anything I've seen. Most of what was cited was essentially a social media company trying to enforce their rules.

Might want to read up on the latest developments there. Several journalists have debunked a lot of the key claims in the "Twitter Files". Taibbi's part was particularly egregious, with some key numbers he used being completely wrong (e.g. claiming millions when the actual number was in the thousands, exaggerating how Twitter was using the data, etc.).

Even Taibbi and Elon have since had a falling out and Taibbi is leaving Twitter.

If Elon Musk so famously and publicly hates journalists for lying, spinning the truth, and pushing false narratives, why would he enlist journalists for "The Twitter Files"? The answer is in plain view: He wanted to take a nothingburger and use journalists to put a spin on it, then push a narrative.

Elon spent years saying that journalists can't be trusted because they're pushing narratives, so when Elon enlists a select set of journalists to push a narrative, why would you believe it's accurate?

> So yes, we are talking about the same behavior existing, but the concern is that they now get orders of magnitude more power to extend such bad behavior.

No they don't. The ultimate power is being able to read the e-mails directly. LLMs abstract that with a lower confidence model that is known to hallucinate answers when the underlying content doesn't have a satisfactory set of content.
That's not what I mean, unless you assume that you have no control over other elements of the process.

To torture the woodworking analogy, your assumption is that the carpenter has no control over ripping the boards. In some instances that may very well be the case, but there will also the instances where the carpenter does have influence over creating the boards, or even wholesale control over ripping them. In those cases, using a planer to fix poorly ripped boards may not be the best approach.
I've spoken with a lawyer about data collection in the past and I think there might be a case if you were to:

- collect thousands of people's data

- anonymize it

- then shadow correlate the data in a web

- then trace a trail through said web for each "individual"

- then train several individuals as models

- then abstract that with a model on top of those models

Now you have a legal case that it's merely an academic research into independent behaviors affecting a larger model. Even though you may have collected private data, the anonymization of it might fall under ethical data collection purposes (Meta uses this loophole for their shadow profiling).

Unfortunately, I don't think it is as cut and dry as you explained. As far as I know, these laws are already being side-stepped.

For the record, I don't like it. I think this is a bad thing. Unfortunately, it's still arguably "legal".
There's no a priori reason to assume that models would see a step function improvement in abilities as their size increases. Perhaps the null hypothesis would be that we'd observe a linear increase in capability. Empirical evidence shows that's not the case, and that's why studying this phenomena is interesting.
Devaluation is a widely discussed topic with decades of scholarly economic input as to why it helps generate more wealth in the long run. There’s a reason we have target rates etc. Crypto bros just want to replace the 1% not build a better financial system, it’s obvious because they don’t understand the financial system to begin with.
Yeah, this sounds like a terrible idea.
It typically takes several hundred applications and dozens of interviews to land a position in the current climate. Just be persistent.
> Just like Java has culture to setup a single http endpoint one typically adds 50-60 little jar files of Spring Boot starter

No, you add a single annotation..
They probably suffer from a lot of sign ups with fake IDs and with criminal intent. So I get that they are rather strict.

Another thing to consider: cloud providers are not very interested in individuals as customers. They usually want companies as customers, that also buy more than a 3$ vserver. A solution for this problem could be a sign-up fee (50 or 100$), to pay for an extended manual vetting of customers, that is then added to the account balance.
> Every LLM company so far has been extremely careful to avoid using private people's data for LLM training

No, they haven’t. (Now, if you said “people's private data” instead of “private people's data”, you’d be, at least, less wrong.)
This. I have never been a fan of watches but after seeing the other 3 people in my house adopt and actively use, year over year, I believe they can produce and market about anything successfully even in crowded market. They truly are good/best at usability.
Where can I get one and how can I verify it is what it says?
I think it would be great for pay-per-view events.

Imagine being on the 50 yard line of the superbowl for $10.

Imagine being in the stands of your kids volleyball game from your hotel room on a work trip.

Live events, large or small, are the killer app, I think.
Remote Bitcoin/Dogecoin Attack
This probably won't last, the servers aren't fully loaded with VMs yet.
He’s got to have a peace sign with tongue moving back and forth as a gesture as well
How long until LLMs can coach you to become your dreamed self, thus transforming human experience into empowered vs. non?
If the AI could extract advice to give people from his life experience, wouldn’t that be an advanced enough AGI not to need his personal experience to begin with? It’d just analyze the inputs and dispense personalized wisdom.
I had a similar experience at a doctor's office in my city. I was actually somewhat shocked to see ads in the actual patient room - it was an immediate turn-off.

I've since found another doctor.
How does someone making less than 200k afford an assistant?
here's the github issue https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/3243

the gist of it is that i can force dogecoin/bitcoin/etc. nodes into uploading unlimited data to an attacking machine - which caps out, throttles and in many cases charges overuse fees on upstream. also - dogecoin is going to have to push out a new release for the first time in 2 years because of it (i would imagine)

python attack code: https://pastebin.com/raw/3epCXtne - feel free to sync your own dogecoin nodes, perform and review the results of the attack
IME most of that is of the form "I'm sorry, but as a large language model I..." and seems to have been drilled into it with training to dodge tricky subjects.
It is kind of a shame of our academia (society?) that a mathematician of Terence Tao's caliber had to do data entry jobs like this manually before.
> The rumour was that that forced Adobe to change to a subscription model.

But of course it didn't do any such thing. Adobe could have produced software that people wanted to buy, instead.
Crypto, at least as someone who once hoped at a cyberpunk future (for reasons), had one and only one thing to do: kill the middle-men: banks, payment processors, credit/debit card operators, SWIFT, and so forth.

I want to send money to someone: I should be able to do so (i) instantly (message passing at light speed), (ii) at 0 cost (price of electricity), and (iii) without asking anyone for permission. Crypto failed miserably to achieve this. Furthermore, it has allied (or been rallied) with the "enemy"; crypto enthusiasts regard it as "good for Bitcoin"™ when banks announce investment in the crypto space. It is now a project unable to dream a future for itself beyond "hodl".
You are right, but maybe that was the reason they couldn't use pancake?

HDR is the reason for this, they need more brightness, so they sacrifice low persistence.

Also all AAA experiences on PSVR2 run at 60 FPS and re-project to 120 FPS.

So it's actually worse then my initial comment. Echo VR does 120 FPS without re-projection on a 15W device vs. 60 FPS on PS5 at 350W!!!

I have been sucking in too much VR news lately after a 7 year hiatus (not counting 3 HL:A playthroughs) so I confused all the info, thx for setting me straight!
They have the CPI. They can calculate whatever they need from that.
creepy and awesome
The point is cross-platformness and windows does have MAUI, so not having it on linux means it is not a first-class target.
Their fixed-term ones are $100/year currently. so, yes.
I didn't have such a draconian interpretation of the idea. I don't know where you got "lynch mob", "ruin[ing] random people" and "social credit score" from it to be honest. Quite a dramatic take.

Individuals and companies knowing more information about the professional history of the people they're doing business with is always better.
Could you elaborate? My Plex lifetime license has been very valuable to me and has already saved me money.
Best thing I learned from this article is that Messages on Mac stores all your messages in a sqlite db. Pretty cool!
I think the closest analogy to what the above poster wants to do would be to talk to a fortune teller when your wife won't tell you something, give the fortune teller information about your wife, and then "present" the fortune teller's fortune reading stating what your wife was up to in a divorce case.

It's true that humans sometimes do things like this! It doesn't go well for them.
> To solve all this they decided to build a cloud API that would resolve all these problems in one go.

It solves everything except for the fact that, for people like me, it means we'll never actually give network access to the devices.
Born raised and confirmed in Lutheran Christianity. Go project on someone else.
The answer to the first question (is Duane Rettig still alive) is yes. I saw him yesterday. (And chatted today.)
I'm echoing my other comment a little bit but I've been following Shepherd and thought I would comment since you're here. I like a lot of your ideas but I haven't quite managed to get recommendations that consistently sound interesting. I think it has something to do with authors and it would be interesting to know how you're thinking about how authors or writing styles are related.

For example, I like Bill Bryon and have read most everything he has written. He's good at making subjects I am not interested in captivating. For example medical history and anatomy in his book The Body.

I would love to read other books that make the uninteresting interesting but when I put The Body into Shepherd (or most recommendation engines) I mainly get other books about anatomy. This makes sense on the surface, but I've already read a book on anatomy. I'm ready for something else interesting.

I realize that might not be very actionable or useful, but when I am looking for something new to read I don't know what I am looking for. I just know the "vibes" books and authors I like, and often find that recommenders default to similar subjects only. Maybe this is difficult or impossible to capture, but it's been nagging me as something missing.
I quite like the way it uses visual mode as an input or candidate for replacement
Even as a native speaker, I had been using the programming concept for a few years before I discovered the signaling doohickey.
And I also don't see the problem with asking a clarifying question when he does not have what they asked for.
This seems like a gold mine for funeral homes...
BabyAGI for JavaScript (Built with Langchain and Supabase)
either would be silly tbh
You’re assuming a customer will never churn. Customers churn, and if I can get you to pay me a “lifetime” purchase that is more than I’d expect; then I come out ahead. There is a ceiling with subscription purchases (provable with simple math: new customers * churn percentage * subscription cost = new money ceiling) but no theoretical ceiling with one-off purchases — it’s only limited by your marketing reach and funnel.
It's worked well for Singapore. I don't think LKY intended it as a generally applicable system....
Nobody predicts hyperdeflation.
Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs
15,000 instruction tuning records generated by Databricks employees in seven of the behavior categories outlined in the InstructGPT paper (predecessor to ChatGPT). Coincides with the release of Dolly 2.0, which is trained exclusively on this dataset and demonstrates high quality (but not state-of-the-art) instruction-following behavior.

The data and models are licensed for commercial use, setting them apart from recent releases trained on data from OpenAI.
I’m not dictating what the word means, I’m just informing you since you don’t seem aware.

Things don’t become superstitions just because you don’t believe in them.

Just like there are well defined differences between myths, fairy tales, sagas etc.
OpsLevel expands software catalog to include systems, domains, and infra
We've been using OpsLevel to map our services for a while. AWS integration is genuinely exciting.
The first instance of this would most likely alienate a lot of users. What is more likely to happen is the development of new products that basically cater to social needs through mimicking real world interactions. Subscribe for 15$ a month to feel like you have an unending flow of conversations with interesting bots that mimic your friends! I am sure there is a market for this.

This product could be advertised as a way for people who are not that socially inclined to practice their social skills. Or learn other languages through fake immersion. The use cases to make this seem like a benefit are pretty limitless.
With Arm Graviton on AWS, for our specific environments and workloads, we get better performance for less money. Same goes for the hosts, who pay a smaller upfront investment per core and less in electricity per core. Bigger bang for the buck when the glove fits.
PortaPow[1] makes a great adapter that will only connect the power pins in the USB connection.

[1] http://portablepowersupplies.co.uk/
How do you get the data relevant to that ID?

If the answer is a call to a shared database, you might as well not have RabbitMQ.
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When I left Yandex (pre-pandemic), I was told that I can return with no conditions in 3 months. I believe it is a general practice as I had non-senior position and was considered an average performer.

So, his situation is not as dire.
It worked fine on a vt220 or Wyse 60.
Yes, I would imagine PoW for Ethereum was millions of GPUs at least
> Perception by non-EV buyers that charging is difficult, slow, unavailable, etc. This is what Tesla fought against at the beginning and arguably has one of the best "solutions" for.

There’s also an entire segment being ignored, those using their vehicles for off-road, long distance trips with near a ton in cargo weight. How do you recharge in the middle of public land when there’s nothing around you for miles?

Also I wouldn’t call this perception, as it implies it’s not true. It doesn’t take 45 mins to refuel a vehicle, therefore it does take 10 times longer or more to recharge an EV. Let’s not even touch the amount of power these things use, each vehicle pulling more than a house does.
> And I suspect the semblance of self consciousness is actually a semblance. It will quack like self consciousness but is not actually self conscious.

Same for that feeling of subjective experience. We can never know if the perception of our own self-consciousness is a cognitive illusion. It could in fact, be just a feeling.
LLM bro. Just Learn (to) Love (the) Machine.
Corporations are AIs that use humans for computation.
Why this obsession with "replacement" instead of tooling?
And how does he know the results are correct without verifying each and every entry?
It's not meat and it's not in redwood city, but taqueria la espuela in mountain view has amazing veggie burritos.

Amazing because I'm not vegetarian and it's still my favorite dish on their very decent menu.
I don't know if they're on HN yet, but there's a generation for which "writing to disk" has nothing to do with disks of anything.
Swearing is not pointless, but serves a ritualistic role. It has been used as a psychological mechanism that shaped societies and history. And it still does so, as evident in this article. Swearing an oath is a contractual ritual and is the basis for all lawgiving in the English language. It was used as a binding contract between kings and their subjects (you can look up the Salisbury Oath for just the tip of the iceberg on this topic.)
Your bad attitude can make you happier
This is a very German thing. I’ve never seen ID cards from other countries that include an address of residence. Also the obligation to own an ID card is a very foreign concept in most other countries.

I had that issue with German companies before, especially those who rarely deal with international customers. For example in Austria only a few people own an ID card (most people have a passport, but not everyone). So the german companies were very surprised when I gave them a copy of the Austrian ID card, that also doesn’t have an address on it.
To me its more than just release new features and improvements (though Cloudflare could do well improving the speed around this a bit, a nice cadence around services and a public-ish roadmap would be ideal IMO).

More importantly, I think Cloudflare, Supabase and Linear are innovating and really nice to use, generally speaking[0]

[0]: they all have edge cases and what not, and sometimes failures, don't get me wrong
We are decommissioning all our dedicated servers at Hetzner. This is not because we didn't like that service but because we are concentrating our efforts in AWS.

It's been a wonderful ride. It's cheap and reliable.

I wish our team was big enough to afford having to deal with dedicated hardware.
If you or someone else is looking for a forum experience focused on discussing papers, try out https://paperlist.io/ - the creator of it posted paperlist here a while back and it's funny how I'll just catch myself browsing papers during breaks.

FWIW, It's got low levels of engagement comment-wise, but the site is only a few months old and papers are posted often

disclaimer: I don't know anybody involved with paperlist and am not involved with any aspect of paperlist other than reading and posting papers. I just like it.
> Perhaps, but a currency that devalues based on news, scams, pump & dump schemes, and so forth isn't the solution.

This is an accurate characterization of the dollar as well.

A common theme in all the cryptocurrency hate is that crypto enables scams, drug deals, etc. It's value fluctuates because of the decisions of a few bad actors. The dollar and every other central bank currency also have these issues.

The dollar recently peaked around a 9% inflation rate.

The euro peaked around 10%.

I could also make an argument that these numbers are actually understated but that's not the point. These are supposedly stable currencies. A person who has saved up ~100K Euros by January 2022 now only has ~90k Euros in January 2023. That's some pretty significant volatility. Unfortunately, the central bank currency's never go back up in terms of purchasing power. They only go down.
Sparkle is great. We use it in the Conveyor packaging tool to supply the Mac update implementation for apps, and automatically integrate it into apps without needing them to do any code changes (using a mix of code injection and other techniques). It's definitely one of the more robust and well featured update engines out there.

Actually we use a fork of Sparkle that adds support for forced updates on start, which is useful for apps that need to stay in sync with a rapidly changing server protocol. It gives you a more web-like approach.
Just as a note, Supabase received SOC2 Type 2 compliance last week (we've had Type 1 for a long time already) and now we're working on HIPAA.
This feels very dark to me: I think it would make it enormously harder to actually process the grief. (The thought "You could make one to mimic your ex" passed through my head just long enough for me to recoil in absolute horror.)
> GPT4 even does the work of some of the smartest mathematicians in the world[1]

> 1: by parsing some web pages and PDFs for their meetings

Like that old joke about the guy who impressed people by claiming he had helped a brilliant mathematician solve a problem that had stumped him. And the punchline is something like "yeah, and it only took me a few minutes, all I had to do was replace his timing belt."
Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Interfaces
Embrace Failure Like Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Jordan: Be a Tree
I don’t see why “playing a game” can’t earn you money. There are many “play to earn” crypto games where 3rd world country gamers grind coins for people who don’t want to grind for money. Before crypto, world of Warcraft had gold mining groups.

I assume there is a market place that offers a currency exchange.

The dollar value is for everyone that doesn’t play the game and doesn’t know if that is a lot or a little of monies.
> because it didn’t auto-renew and you could keep using the last version forever

Surely that's just a regular sale, not a "lifetime license". I mean, technically, it's a nonrevocable perpetual license, but that's what has traditionally been considered a "sale" in software. Saying "lifetime license" implies something else entirely.
All eyes are on NSW’s pokie machine money laundering problem
"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco touches on these themes. Its lead character, William of Baskerville, is very much in the Roger Bacon mold.
https://archive.is/rWN08
There is way more risk involved in kidnapping someone, not to mention the fact that you’ve just given away the fact that you’re surveilling them.
Interview: “Make the future bright again”
The insight I think is that if smart mathematicians can use it to do drudge work they then have more time available to do smart maths.