skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Brad on YouTube had a discussion with another VR tech nerd, and their conclusion was that 60ppd was retina clarity and 40ppd was the minimal to get work done. Ymmv.

I think the corporate varjo is the only one that fits the bill right now, but it's so big, I'm hoping 2025-2027 we'll have the mini OLED to have the quality and form factor needed to replace monitors
Cash is even harder to track down.
REPL JS: Evaluates as you type
> I'm not 'poly' or 'asexual' or any of that crap

Not to detract from the rest of your post, which I agree with, but why call these orientations "crap"? That is somewhat hurtful.
Sure! I'll try to briefly summarize though almost certainly will oversimplify. There are a couple of open source language models trained by Eleuther AI - the first one was called GPT-J, and it used some newer model architecture concepts. Subsequently, they released a model architected in the likeness of GPT-3, called GPT-NeoX-20B. Functionally, it was quite similar architecturally to GPT-J, but just with more parameters. Pythia is a model with the same architecture and the same dataset but with different parameter sizes to test scaling laws.

DollyV2 is a Pythia model fine tuned on the Databricks 15K dataset
Ask HN: 100% pagespeed and good Design possible?
Hey fellow HNs,

My small site https://link2tv.com/ has a pagespeed score of 100 by Intention. I tried to build a minimal page without any external dependencies.

BUT it looks like it looks... What would you recommend to make it look nicer and keep the score of 100 at the same time?

Thanks
Marcel
Agreed, but two RTX 3090/4090 should be as capable in this regard (having 2x 24GB).
The default is gpt-3.5. Gpt-4 is still paid.

You ought to try it out - GPT-4 is miles ahead of the default option.
Mine wasn’t in terms of knowledge because it was all just a big joke: most teachers didn’t really read our essays and graded them using the “throw them on the stairs” technique. The knowledge imparted could be gotten in 1/2 or 1/3 of the time if a student was really interested in it and cared to look it up for themselves.

My year abroad was great on a personal level, but an even bigger joke on academic level: courses were ridiculously easy to pass and I got credits for courses like “American movies retrospective” where we basically watched classic American movies in class, or for taking a few French classes when my home university’s teaching language was French.

I was studying for a bachelor in business administration.

On a bureaucratic level however, it’s been very useful: I was able to get naturalized on the basis of having studied for a degree in that country, and in the country I live in now life is much easier administratively if you have a university degree.

But for the above, any bachelor would do. Of my whole bachelor program, I can maybe think of 4–5 actually useful pieces of information I learnt and remember. The rest was a waste of time, trying to figure out how to get a pass grade despite the terrible instructor.

The money I earned and career I built had nothing to do with my degree from day 1 after graduation. Luckily public university was cheap and I didn’t incur any debt, only opportunity cost.
Linux from Scratch Version 11.3
>The difference in intelligence between the police and a singular criminal, especially the police as an organism, is vastly in favor of the police.

I don't agree, as that's highly dependent on that singular criminal and the resources police are willing to expend on catching them. The police definitely have an advantage, as I pointed (most recently) here[0]:

Law enforcement aren't superhuman. They're just as dumb (or smart, but the
really smart ones end up in corner offices rather than police stations like
police and more common criminals) as the next guy. Their big advantage,
especially in a circumstance like this, is that they only have to get it
right (i.e., find some evidence) once. The alleged perpetrator of a crime
needs to get it right (in covering their tracks, destroying evidence, etc.)
every single time to make sure they aren't identified and caught.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35550259

Edit: Corrected link. Clarified prose.
> This article offers zero details on what exactly these assets are and where they are at.

Yes. There's a bit more detail in a court filing here.[1] It's a shiny PowerPoint type presentation with little supporting data.

In their latest court filing, FTX only claimed to have $6.2 billion in assets recovered. They had $5.4 billion back in January. The additional money is $0.6 billion from settlements with some parties involved with FTX, and $0.3 billion in cash from somewhere. The remaining $0.9 billion is the crypto assets going up.

There was a court hearing today, which is probably where the news story originated.
No transcript yet.

There still is an "FTX", and the new management is proceeding as if they expect to come out of this with a viable company. This is a chapter 11 reorganization, not a straight liquidation. At least for now.

Meanwhile, Bankman-Fried is trying to get the court to release funds to cover the premiums on the officers and directors insurance policy which might pay his legal bills.[2]

[1] https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=...

[2] https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=...
I wish I could wake up one day and, too, simply discover a couple of $B in assets.

As if I forgot where I put them and then my memory miraculously came back.

<sips coffee>
I used up my 25 submissions trying increasing levels of warning and giving it step by step instructions on how to do the reasoning and it almost always will just happily leave that wolf and cabbage together and say that it doesn't violate the constraint even though I told it multiple times and it repeated it back to me multiple times that they can't be left together. On two of my submissions it did the right thing, but these seem to be flukes. Adding a few filler words and resubmitting it reverts to taking the goat first.
I've said repeatedly I think eBPF is neutral, not inherently one way or another.

But it certainly creates a lot of new possibilities for microkernel-like things (and other things) to be built.
I want to use full-screen on apps in Mac OS, but the insanely long and slow transitions when switching between them makes it unusable. A few years ago you could remove those transitions with a few commands, but no more.

And it makes no sense, since the application is taking inputs while the transition is running. You're just stuck looking at the old app fading away while the new one fades in, also flashing you with a bright white screen in the process. Ughh!
Doesn't work for me (in Firefox)
> regulation and enforcement definitely would have helped

As it did in Japan, where the customers already got their money back.
Awesome point.

Write pi in ancient Roman numerals, Greek, Japanese, Han Mandarin.

Business and science didn't adopt Indo/Arabic numerals just for fun. They just work.
> The article mentions that the candidate who did best on this question was “the type who did high-school competitions.” I wonder if anyone stopped at any point to question whether that’s the ideal type of hire.

I think this is the most telling bit. Time after time, I've seen excellent competitive programmers end up being mediocre engineers. Almost none of them are bad and it's also a very objective (at least on paper) process which is probably why Google is happy to stick with the process but most of them also aren't amazing innovators.

I'm sure that university student who aced the interview turned out to be very smart - they went to a great university and can solve challenging puzzles. But I don't think they'll end up being the engineer that builds Google's competition to ChatGPT. I wonder whether a course correction where Google starts looking for people who create really cool projects even at the risk of not being able to solve any coding challenges would actually help.
Earlier thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523948
This is only true if you accept what schools say they are and ignore how education functions in modern society. Yes, some jobs require a degree. Which ones? All of the most high paying jobs.

If that weren’t the case, if degrees actually weren’t about financial return, schools would find it impossible to command the huge tuitions that they do.

If the present-day purpose of bachelor’s degrees had anything to do with teaching you wouldn’t see 40% of millennials getting college degrees. Perhaps in some semantic sense college is not “for” getting a job but only in the same sense that it’s not “for” building a social network for example. And that doesn’t change the fact that for the vast majority of people a positive financial return is exactly their calculation.
That’s not correct. If you say find a cache of classified documents on the street or on some open FTP site and you sell it to China or leak it to the public you’ll be charged under the espionage act.

In general distribution of classified materials even those which have already been leaked is technically an offense.

The question is how likely you are to be prosecuted and in general found guilty.

So sharing a photo of a leaked document that was already been made public especially in the press on Twitter is probably ok form a legal perspective (unless you hold or plan to hold security clearance or a federal government job) but being in on it from the get go would likely land you a charge as a co conspirator under the espionage act.
> “the students found, with their numerals, they could solve problems a better way, a faster way”

> Base 20 is not a popular notation for numbers […] We shouldn't make it harder for these kids

So much of what you object to is that something they’ve found more intuitive and engaging isn’t what unintuitive disengaging stuff they’ll encounter. But developing intuition for math is far more valuable than developing conformance to how it’s supposed to be done. Who cares if that intuition is developed with some idiosyncrasy from what you consider normal? The math is math, the principles are consistent, the knowledge is transferable. Insisting they learn the same things a different way is totally arbitrary and counterproductive.
Show HN: ResuLLMe – Enhance Your CV with LLMs
No - absolutely not. Slowing down innovation in the face with vague “existential risk” fearmongering is absurd.

We should be pursuing the opposite, and accelerating efforts to build what will be some of the most transformative technology humanity has ever developed (and some could argue, NOT building has its own existential risks).
Show HN: BTCGPT predicts bitcoin price. (Your Fun Bitcoin Crystal Ball)
Hey there!
I made a service called BTCGPT that predicts the future price of Bitcoin. It's just for fun, so don't take it too seriously or rely on it for investing decisions. Check it out if you're curious!

Thanks!

+
Yeah, I know. I also put 'GPT' in the name BTCGPT.
These days, it seems like everything has GPT in its name, you know? It was difficult for me to resist the temptation to use 'GPT'.

Thanks Again!
Substack debuts feature that spooked Musk into suppressing Substack tweets
In this case, it’s not 50/50.

It’s 83/17 where 83% is the “feds win.”

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...
Can you formulate a few for us and we can try them out?
Intro to AI Safety by Robert Miles
I’m ok with that as long as it doesn’t start spewing 9 digit numbers…
The top comment says:

> compare the new tonka dump to the caterpillar 797F mine truck.

It looks exactly the same. Pretty interesting how quickly it's dismissed as unreasonable.
For my 20 months old daughter i’m only getting mechanical toys possibly made of wood, or simple dolls with no electronics. Trying to keep her away from modern cheap animations and songs, especially from the Baby Shark saga which washes your brain and leaves it empty.
I’m confused, this is actually a list of language repos that have the most stars, pull requests, and issues. Doesn’t seem like popular is the right word and especially for those metrics.
Like I said, it's something that requires an argument or evidence. It's not something that comes by definition.

People seem to think arguing that something is true by definition is some airtight case. If your definition of superintelligence includes a part about not being controllable by humans, then you have a weird definition and calling that thing "superintelligence" is an attempt to be confusing on purpose, or to smuggle your argument into the definition. Either way, it's not something that someone who is thinking carefully does.

Note: I am not taking a stance here on whether humans can or can't control a superintelligence. I am saying it is not true or false by definition, and in fact I think nobody knows for sure. It's probably true for some superintelligences, and false for others.
‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT to Take on Even More Full-Time Jobs
How is that immutable if all the nodes connected to the blockchain are governed by the same entity? If you mean transparent, then ok, I can see it. However, my question then is, do we have an actual problem with transparency in car registry?
I like it. Remove the last column and you have a far better hexadecimal notation than using 0123456789ABCDEF
I'm skeptical about some vector databases these days, but your article misses a few import points when it comes to LLMs.

1. To use LLMs effectively, you often need to generate and store more than 1 vector per document. 10 million vectors may only be 100,000 documents. This may still be enough for alot of small problems.
2. Pgvector currently has great limitations on recall/latency because underlying its ANN its using IVF (I'm currently working on adding HNSW-IVF and HNSW support to PGVector). In some cases, even elasticsearch can have issues with scale (the problem comes from the constraint of one ANN index per index segment, and immutability).
3. Pre-calculate seems like the wrong word to describe HNSW graph construction.

I think a point you miss that is important to consider for LLM + vector DBs is the fact that so much of the complexity of these uses cases cannot be captured by the vector DB (e.g. pinecone, chroma, qdrant, etc). I think there are some more end to end systems, at least in search, attempting to solve this (e.g Marqo, maybe Weaviate). Overall, I like the article. It makes a worthwhile claim and counterpoint to all the vector DB hype.
To take control of your $HOME, first take control of XDG-generated directories:

cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/tmp"

Note that DESKTOP has to be different from DOWNLOAD because Chromium ~sucks~ is the new IE https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/5e4e38173b33159b0e...
Most people do things with their existing social circles. In fact most activities are pretexts (or more charitably, venues) for hanging out with people you already know and like. If you are open to new people, and you're a sociable, attractive young woman, you can probably find a more desirable and less creepy mix of suitors in the guests at parties you're invited to, or setups from your friends, than in Meetup.com attendees or bar patrons. So it would not surprise me if there were fewer women, or at least less openness to romantic encounters, in these open-access spaces.
OpenAI pays $20k for vounerabilities of ChatGPT
ChatGPT's creator is offering a reward if you find bugs in its AI chatbot - as part of its Bug Bounty program
hmm, maybe you got lucky?

My answer is on ChatGPT4:

A possible animal ordering, from front to back, would be:

Elk, Dog, Moose, Cat, Rat

(Which violates the moose being behind the cat)

Another answer I get in a new session is:

A possible animal ordering based on the given information is:

Rat, Cat, Moose, Dog, Elk

(which is the same as above just revered)
I know I probably have a minority point of view, but I don't see Bitcoin as primarily competing with payment systems (e.g. credit cards). I see it as primarily competing with currency. One could envision a credit card denominated in BTC that offers transaction reversibility and dispute resolution features. Additionally, for those who may be uncertain about their ability to securely manage their own private keys, a BTC-denominated "bank account" could be a viable solution.
I don't think anybody is investing in Tesla stock about the cars.

That's huge right now, but the future for Tesla as company is in power generation and batteries. The cars are just getting them there. (though I thought that about the iPhone, so perhaps for once in a lifetime I might be incorrect :)
That is crazy. What a fall from grace for Forbes. It is possible to write regulations to prevent blackhat SEO? I keep thinking about it. Why don't all websites eventually rent their reputation to the highest bidder, but in a sneaky blackhat SEO way? I think many do. <sad face> The modern web feels like 50% great and 50% terrible. It is a hostile landscape to navigate!

Twenty years ago, Forbes was considered an excellent business magazine in the United States. For a while (last few years), I was "fooled" when I saw yet-another click-baity / poorly-researched Forbes piece. Then someone (here?) pointed out that Forbes has the "contributors" section with far lower editoral standards (err... asymptotically approaching zero!?). The contributor stuff is just rubbish. I think blocking it on HN is too much, but, please, stop upvoting this crap from Forbes contributors.
> Drones move in 3d space. Maybe a lot more investment would have yielded some cool ways to navigate in 3d space around cities.

Well it turns out that human tend to enjoy the ability to open a windows and look at the sky while enjoying birds. This is hardly compatible with a cool way for delivery service to navigate in 3D space 24/7.

I once hiked on a remote part of a beautiful island where helicopters is the only viable delivery system because there is literally no road. Even with very limited and restricted helicopters delivery rotations for the small hamlets there the nuisance was noticeable.

Drone delivery only to sustain a megalopolis would likely fill the air with background sound not unlike an army of barking dogs.
Yes but back then - people actually came to read what you shared. You put that knowledge out there and for a brief moment while they were reading the thing you enjoyed creating you both shared a plane of existence.
There are just a ton of "letters to the editor", now.
Yes. I recall that someone in the FastAI course mentioned an amazing speed up but then I heard nothing further. I suppose maybe it wasn’t quite ready for prime time yet.
I am not making a comment about the usefulness of LLMs to manipulate text. If anything, my view is that to the extent that LLMs are seen as intelligent it's precisely because they manipulate text in ways humans find useful, not because it follows from some philosophy about intelligence or rationality.

Maybe I'm being too opinionated but I think we should stop dressing up explanations of large language models in misleading terminology. I'd prefer instead to talk about the actual technology and reason from there.
>Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to.

>In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description.

While a bit different from the scenario presented (by TFA and Lem), such a "superintelligence" might get caught up in a singular (or set) of question(s) that dominate its consciousness until the heat-death of the universe.

Asimov's The Last Question comes to mind, although the intelligence there is prompted by humans rather than posing such a question itself.

That said, it's at least as plausible as TFA and Lem, IMHO.

[0] http://www.thelastquestion.net/
Your prompt definitely takes GPT-4 on the right path. Unfortunately, CLJS is still too niche (and/or the answer is buried too deeply in search results) that its suggested macro does not work.

Here is the suggested code.

(defmacro create-js-object
[k1 v1 k2 v2]
`#js {~k1 ~v1 ~k2 ~v2})

It wants to unquote, presumably because macros are processed by the compiler, which exists in Clojure world, not JavaScript world, so the #js literal does not exist there, but unquoting will let us emit code that CLJS is happy with. Unfortunately, the tag doesn't actually do anything!

Here is how I'd revise the example code.

(defmacro mac [k1 v1 k2 v2]
(cljs.tagged-literals/->JSValue {k1 v1 k2 v2}))

Now let's compare results in a REPL...

cljs.user> (type (create-js-object "foo" 1 "bar" 2))
cljs.core/PersistentArrayMap
cljs.user> (type (mac "foo" 1 "bar" 2))
#object[Object]

We get double confirmation by comparing the compiled output of functions making use of the macro.

(str (fn [] (create-js-object "foo" 1 "bar" 2)))
;; => "function (){\nreturn new cljs.core.PersistentArrayMap(null, 2, [\"foo\",(1),\"bar\",(2)], null);\n}"

(str (fn [] (mac "foo" 1 "bar" 2)))
;; => "function (){\nreturn ({\"foo\": (1), \"bar\": (2)});\n}"

With all of that said, this is a VERY niche question, but it does not involve any macro magic whatsoever, and I'm sure most Clojure novices don't even know doing this is possible. It essentially requires two bits of knowledge: (1) macros run at compile-time, and (2) JSValue is an object container for native JS arrays and maps.

It's still impressive that GPT-4 was able to make a guess that looks right until you decide to experiment at the REPL.
How does this compare to perplexity.ai which is generally very helpful?
When you say you wish they had a "better story for local development," what do you mean? What do you wish for?
That includes the pleas though. It’s 83% for the cases that make it to trial. Still not great odds.
SponsorBlock segments are crowd-submitted, so it needs to check the server for the latest segments. That said, the entire ~4.2GiB database can downloaded, and you can even set the extension to use a custom API server instance if you'd like.
Sorry, but I don't understand the basis for the opinion presented by a couple of people that the Kaktovik numeral system is similar to the Roman one. Is that because both of them use short lines as the sole element to build digits/numbers?!

But Kaktovik is a positional system while Roman is not!
Scanning the internet for examples of China being a rule-by-law country consistently presents opinion pieces, or opinion pieces by other names that seem little more than propaganda. China has many, many problems; but "rule by law" doesn't look very different from numerous places that would absolutely claim to be "rule of law"; and so, to me, it remains a propagandized term with a meaning that's used primarily against sets of rules and rulers we don't like.
PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - a hard fork of Firefox, includes a setting called canvas.poisondata which really messes up browser fingerprinting without distorting any canvas use on a site. It is also a zero telemetry browser and doesn't make any automated connections on startup if the appropriate settings are enabled / disabled (unlike Firefox).
Linspire was a delightful OS to run! Truly, I feel like the major Linux distros never got to the same level as Linspire on friendliness and ease of use, the competition to Click-N-Run on modern Gnome Software Center just doesn't feel quite as easy at times.

There were so many edge cases on Windows and Linux at the time that Linspire sailed right past with nary an issue.
Basically fexprs
Yeah, I was afraid about that. I'd guess you might have some trouble with a narrow terminal, but it's still worth trying. I remember word perfect not having much in the way of menus (thus the keyboard templates for the commands), so it might be no big deal.