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Show HN: Magic Happens – let ChatGPT manage your Kubernetes cluster
I built this kubernetes operator as a proof of concept this weekend.. It only has a single required item in the spec, a freeform description field. The operator will use chatgpt to generate a spec, then immediately apply it to the cluster. It makes some attempt to correct errors if there's a problem with the syntax. It will leave additional comments, questions or instructions in the status field of the object. I built this in a weekend and it's still quite unrefined. It's in no way production ready, please don't use it for anything real, but it works better than you would think, considering how simple it is. If you're going to use it, run it on a local cluster like 'kind'.

Some descriptions to try:

* install a redis namespace with a redis cluster and a service in it
* create an argocd application in the argocd namespace to install velero.
* write a python script that lists all ec2 instances in us-east-1, and run it as a k8s job with the aws credentials already saved in the default namespace..

a somewhat longer description that also worked:
given the following spec:
---
kind: MagicHappens
apiVersion: gptmagic.io/v1
metadata:
name: foo
spec:
description: this is a freeform description field that will be sent to chatgpt to generate kubernetes resources
dryRun: false
---
Can you create more magic happens resources, each of which describes an argocd application that needs to be created to install a helm chart for one of the standard cluster addons that need to be installed on a cluster for it to be production ready. The description should be be freeform text like the following: "Create an argocd application in the argocd namespace to install istio from the helm chart with all the defaults" or "Create an argocd application in the argocd namespace to install prometheus and grafana, with an ingress enabled for grafana". Be very thorough and included as many apps that might be needed for a prod ready cluster using industry standard CNCF projects if possible.

(this produces a list of additional resources for the operator, which the operator then goes on to create argocd applications for -- it also left comments with instructions on one of the resources for how configure it to work with your cloud provider

something to note is that since you can run arbitrary containers with arbitrary commands, and chatgpt can write arbitrary code, you don't have to limit yourself to k8s stuff.. if you've got saas credentials on the cluster, you can just tell it to run a python script as a job to do whatever you want.

Since most people are cowards, there's a dryRun field that defaults to true, so it only attaches the spec to the object.

It is scary how well this works.
My grandfather was embarrassed because his family had a Model T in the 1940s. 20 years after the end of their production they were seen as junk that only poor people drove. It was better than the buggy his family used but everyone else had nice cars.

Model T's USED to be destined for junkyards.

The few that escaped that fate are now collectibles.

The Yugo used to be what your parents bought for you (paying just a little bit more than the 286 laptop they also got for you) so that you could have something to drive when you went off to college.

The vast majority ended up in junkyards.

Now they are becoming collectible: https://carsandbids.com/auctions/Km2odWYp/1988-yugo-gv

My first car was a Karman Ghia that I paid $500 for in the 90s. It was seen as junk. The floor pans were rusting out and it would have cost way more than it was worth for the owner to fix it up so rain didn't spray into the cabin from underneath while driving. Looking at the prices they go for now I highly regret driving it until it thew a rod and then junking it.

Ford Escorts will be the same one day.
I just went to the Ishares web site and 3.55% is the reported yield to maturity for SGOV.
> Imagine when a dozen models are wired together...

Wouldn't these models hallucinate more than normal, then?
I can’t see anything obviously terrible. Its not small segregated mobile areas like cars, and its something people drive on like roads.

Canals are naturally fairly linear and remote, which seems to imply maintenance is likely to be less efficient than if you had a single compact site with similar area, but it also isn't competing with other land uses, whereas a compact installation would be.

One concern is CA has lots of solar and supply problems are most acute outside of peak solar production times as a result, so without robust storage, massive additional solar capacity may not be as useful as the peak capacity makes it seem. (Though, that also means more off-peak capacity, too, which is useful.)
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It's a pretty sus argument for sure when they're scared to release even parameter size.

although the title is a bit misleading on what he was actually saying. still, there's a lot left to go in terms of scale. Even if it isn't parameter size(and there's still lots of room here too, it just won't be economical), contrary to popular belief, there's lots of data left to mine
I think Sam is referring to transition from "Deep" to "Long" learning [1]. What new emergent properties, if any, will 1 billion tokens unlock?

[1] https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learn...
I'm more-or-less familiar with what a tax credit is, but what is a commercial lease?

"Treasury in December said EVs ineligible for the $7,500 consumer tax credit could qualify for a commercial leasing $7,500 credit."

What does that mean for a consumer wanting to buy an EV?
You can try to work the parents out of the equation as much as you want, but it won’t work. This isn’t a new problem, and we don’t and won’t live in small communal villages.
Yep, that's the origin of the name. Cost is not usually the constraint being optimized, it's design time. This approach is simple to implement, relatively cost-effective, and works. That's useful!

The wide parts are great. But they're also overkill. You can clean your kitchen sink with a pressure washer, but why would you? You don't need to. And so you don't need 0306s for normal designs.
Sure, maybe? I don't have a clear idea of where consciousness begins. If I were trying to make a conscious LLM, I would use a sort of feedback loop of automated prompts talking about its input in realtime. Like, if you showed it a picture of a tree, it might auto-prompt itself with, "What do I think of that tree?" and after it answers itself, "Why do I think that?", etc, and use the responses to update its own weights. I can imagine something akin to a personality developing out of that, and those automatic prompts sure sound similar to the "inner voice" in my head.

But what I meant was, even though I don't know exactly what's necessary for consciousness to exist, in humans or computers or dolphins, I feel like LLMs are just obviously too simple to be it. I've had a casual interest in NLP since the 90s and have followed AI and NLP progress to some extent, and up to a few years ago, I had this vague notion that language processing might be so complex that you need a human-like consciousness to wield it. I think chatgpt is the ultimate refutation of that. It's proof that, whatever part of our brains processes natural language and converts our stored knowledge of the world into words, it can run standalone - it doesn't need eyes or ears or thoughts or a childhood or some digital version of hormones or a thalamus or anything like that. Just input data and an algorithm to store relationships between tokens is enough.

That's a really interesting result, philosophically. Think for a moment about how we retain the information we take in. Consider, e.g. a college student who reads a dozen books about WW1, and then writes an essay about it a month later. It's not realistic that they can remember every sentence and every statistic; to retain that information, they have to condense it, summarize it, notice trends, and presumably forget large parts of what they read and don't retain. That is more or less what we call learning, right? Well, what chatgpt tells us that either that that learning process is entirely unnecessary to answer questions about WW1 based on books about WW1, or that the way a gpt turns training data into weights is roughly analogous to it. Either way, that's a surprising result. And (to bring this back full circle) I think it's surprising for the same reason many people thought Searl's Chinese Room thought experiment was unrealistic: the assumption that, since the process by which we turn input into stored knowledge and thence into a series of parseable tokens in English is hideously complex and mysterious, that a computer program that can do the same will need to be complex and mysterious as well, so complex that we can't rule out the possibility of consciousness. Whereas in reality, you can look at chatgpt and say, "No I pretty much understand exactly how this works, and you can tell it's not conscious because it's not using any cpu."

I may be talking to myself in a dead thread, and am certainly rambling, but it helps me sort things out and develop my understanding - very much like that loop of self-prompting I mentioned earlier :)
> I also build for macOS, which has always allowed sideloading

Isn't it funny that something that has been completely normal for decades - the freedom to (develop and) install the software we want - now has new term because corporates have forced themselves as a middle-man to dictate what we can or cannot install? (And worse, now even have automated ways to kill or uninstall a software without our permission. Remember when the Amazon Kindle app deleted the 1984 ebook from everyone's devices (Amazon Secretly Removes "1984" From the Kindle - https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki... )? That's the bleak future we are heading to ...)
How do you know who the troublemakers are? What happens when there's blowback or your socialist bureaucracies aren't playing nice? The CCP has to then start enforcing their will across a giant area...You can't expect a central clearing house to handle that. What it looks like they did is create two classes of people. One that published out nonsensical dogma and one that was expected to worship it. They then (Mao and his hynchmen) found the dumbest, most impressionable members of this consumer class (typically the only ones that would buy the bullshit wholesale) and set them loose at the ground level to wage guerilla warfare on (perceived) non-believers. After the smoke cleared and the bodies were piled up Mao had a strangle hold on the bulk of the population and most of the country without having to do that much. That's how I view Maoism. Bullshit dogma and giving the dumbest elements of society power versus just a place to vent in hate-sessions.
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Thanks for the explanation!

I guess to answer your question of why not get bonds - they just aren't comparable. One's effectively an investment that requires multiple steps to be used to purchase that expensive computer monitor on amazon, and the other you just select your payment to be a debit card and click purchase.

T-Bills sound relatively liquid, but a savings account still beats it at the cost of 1% interest (assuming 5% for the bonds).
I find the term sideloading problematic. It carries the bias that the "correct" way is to install apps from the centralized app store. The term conveys that this is an alternative and undesirable thing to do.

The concern of malware is legitimate, but having a centralized approved store is a weak barrier anyway. The iOS has a solid system of permissions and sandboxing that should take care of that. A more drastic change is that tgere are no technical means to impose UI that conforms to the Apple standards or enforce that the app payments go through the Apple payment system.
A note on this: We used this book to teach our two oldest kids to read before they entered kindergarten. Kid #1 was asking to learn to read at age 3.5, and that's when we got the book. She could really read before her 4th birthday. It was indeed amazing. We then started trying to push it on kid #2 at age 4.5, since our expectations were set by kid #1, and we now regard this as a mistake. Nobody was having fun, so we ended up setting it aside for half a year. We picked it up again in the summer before kid #2 started kindergarten, and she finished learning to read with ease at that time. I think we're lucky that the initial attempt didn't ruin reading for her. We're being much more gentle about introducing it to kid #3.

Kid #1 was and still is an oddball in a number of ways. Learning to read so early seems to have given her some advantages, like being able to consume volumes of information at a young age, but she'll have a harder time in other ways.
Thanks! These are all strangers to me I think, except the cross compiling part. But it's good to know some pointers and go from there.
I'm aware that a 6800 is not RDNA3. You stated broadly:

> Current AMD consumer cards have terrible software support and IMO isn't really an option. On Windows you might be able to use SHARK or DirectML ports, but nothing will run out of the box.

I was merely sharing that I did not have that same experience that current consumer cards have terrible support.
Right. They've already sucked in most of the good general sources of information. Adding vast amounts of low-quality content probably won't help much and might degrade the quality of the trained model.
I remember that listening to all the harmonics was very interesting. I thought I could hear the vertical and horizontal refresh frequencies. Maybe I was imagining that though.
Every time it shoots something, it produces a little bit of research.
Video content (I don't know why someone flagged Jason for saying such, he is totally right)
> Or he could simply be getting things mixed up. Either way, it's concerning to see so many comments implying (or explying) malice on his part when the more likely explanations are both more mundane and more charitable.

He has a very clear story. He says the machine that coats the cheetos in cheese powder broke, so he took some home, developed a spicy powder, and coated them. Then he called up the CEO, Roger Enrico, and had a meeting with him and 100 other people where he pitched his invention.

There's no way he was somehow involved in the marketing of hot cheetos, got confused and accidentally came up with a story like that.

I'm sure the charitable version is that he slowly embellished over the years until one day he invented hot cheetos instead of being involved in popularizing them.
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The pit of terror is full.

Fine, to the outhouse of madness then.

Before I get nuked from orbit for daring to entertain humor, if someone is running ahead of me in a marathon, and running so far ahead, yet still broadcasting things to the back for the slow people (like myself), then eventually we catch up to them, and they suddenly say, you know what guys, we should stop running in this direction, there's nothing to see here right before anyone else is able to verify the veracity of their statement, perhaps it would still be in the public interest for at least one person to verify what they are saying. Given how skeptical the internet at large has been of Musk's acquisition of a company, it's interesting that the skepticism is suddenly put on hold when looking at this part of his work...
Self-Modifying Prompts
This is probably the coolest project I've ran on my PicoSystem thus far. Felt nice to dust it off.
Did "20th century British art" and got "Which group of artists in Germany strove for emotional Expressionism?". Something wrong there.
Geogebra and friends are more powerful and open-ended, education focused systems. I played around with it a bit in freshman year Geometry.
Bad Zoning Policies.

That's the reason for the housing shortage in the first place.
You seem to have very nuanced concepts of "good and bad", which I don't fully grasp. I was starting from a rather simpler world view. Yes, I want society to function. Societal collapse is imho extremely bad.

Even regardless of collapse, I still much prefer living (and having gone to school) in a country that has schools. At no point did it seem to me what the point of school is to make people dumb. That wasn't the US and wherever yours was, your experience may be different, but I really don't understand the level of cynicism triggered here by every discussion involving schools. Access to education has brought lots of people out of poverty and I'm rather sure the vast majority of children much prefer school to hard work in the fields. I also think it's pretty clear thay on the scale of centuries schools around the world have improved tremendously. On the scale of decades and centuries, physical violence and bullying has decreased a lot, both by teachers and children, while creativity and understanding play a more important role in lessons today than was ever the case in compulsory education systems.
I understand - I deliberately used the vague term "non-standard behavior", since the solution somehow works. There is a GCC flag "-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks" [0] which seems like it might enable this behavior, but I'm not sure.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.3.0/gcc/Optimize-Option....

P.S. Seems like your account is shadowbanned. Might want to contact dang: hn@ycombinator.com if you plan on posting more.
See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog_protein

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin
I remember saying years ago that the difference between Apple and Google is that Apple will do fewer things but will be more committed to them. As soon as Apple Pay came out and people kind of laughed it off, I thought (and said) that Apple will slowly plug away at it, adding new countries and banks incrementally and at some point you'll look up and realize Apple owns a massive electronic payment ecosystem.

I've had an Apple card for awhile and have found myself using it more and more just because it's convenient. Not having to enter CC details into every app and instead just double clicking the side button to pay for something is incredibly convenient.

Personally I have way more confidence in Apple's ability to manage a pool of depositor funds than I do for pretty much any bank.
I didn’t claim it was a financial problem, an existential risk, or something they’re joyous about?

It just doesn’t matter.

Google’s reputation does matter. Because you’re giving them data and relying on their services. If they cancel that service or do something bad with your data you are gonna have a bad time.

If Nintendo shuts down a streamer… whatever. Doesn’t affect 99.99999% of customers. Or employees.
> ...Google Office for Desktop

They did one better and made Chrome so good that its the OS for most, for all intents and purposes, now.
Perhaps you're right. Perhaps I am being to literal in my comparison, but I see tension when I compare craftspeople of the past / other industries with our own. Instead of honing our skills under an expert for many years, we swap jobs and even sub-disciplines frequently. Can we cultivate "craftsmanship" in that manner?
No tinfoil hat needed to see that certain users attract a larger share of upvotes for a given statement while other users attract a larger share of downvotes for other given statements. The same is true for certain subjects but that is just a reflection of the ideological makeup of the site's population.

It is also noticeable that downvotes often come in clusters where a given post suddenly gets downvoted several times within a short time frame where there otherwise has not been any activity around that post. Whether this is caused by a bunch of ideologically-aligned users having some downtime - Compiling - or something more nefarious like sock-puppet accounts being used as ideology amplifiers is not clear and can only be investigated by Dang et al.

The up/downvoting system is one of the less successful aspects of HN, especially where it concerns downvotes. A meta-moderation system like the one used by Slashdot of old could be of help here but I suspect the site owners prefer the simplicity of the current system over one which, while more 'fair' does have the tendency to keep growing with the meta-moderators being moderated by meta-meta-moderators until it is moderators all the way down.
Alphafold is open and seems fundamentally transformative in the science space. GPT is nice but it’s a smart meme-generator at the moment. I don’t disagree with the impact on G’s bottom line, though.
I don't get why we need to work with the USA anyway.

There is already business to do with the middle east and south east Asia.

USA doesn't want European companies anyway. They have the FCPA that only applies to European companies, unique bumper regulations for cars (but no amber turn indicator and unlimited consumption), the buy American act.

We should stop wasting time selling stuff to them, as they don't want. And we should stop relying on American companies like Microsoft or Apple, ad they don't like business.

Oh, and cut them off from international banking.
They want to clamp down on tax haven. And well, states like Delaware are the world's best tax haven.
If the laws were consistent, we should cut them off.
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If the problem was kids showing up, trying hard, and not getting it then sure. But the problem is kids not showing up and putting no effort in when they do, and that’s on parents.
Also, 2 questions that come to mind:

1. Is it based on ChatGPT? How does it ensure there are no hallucinations or that what it produces is correct?
2. Is this open source
We use the same book with our kids, and had a similar experience with educators. When she moved a to new school in first grade, they were extremely skeptical that she has able to read chapter books.

But I don't think it was specific to reading — they pulled the same crap when it came to other subjects. My sense is they don't want to admit when a student comes in with lots of skills because then they can't take credit for how well the student is doing at the end of the year. This is shown on report cards, where they never put down at/above grade level in the fall/winter quarters, even when the child is clearly multiple grade levels ahead. If they admitted that up front, they wouldn't be able to show "growth".
TLDR: Adults don't like the sound of children sounding out words slowly and would prefer not to have to listen to it.

The old way of getting around this was having kids memorize whole words.

That never really worked, so the new technique is to teach them several different strategies to guess what it is they are reading.

It turns out (no duh) that doesn't work either, but it does mask the signs of illiteracy, so that intervention ends up coming later.
That's already the case with copyright, which is distinct from patent.
We're actually in process of building this for individual components (bolts, motors, gears, etc.) at: https://beta.govolition.com where you can search for components, filter by spec, download CAD/specs, and purchase the parts.

But also check out:

- https://grabcad.com/library/tag/library <-- Lots of multi-part projects in addition to components.

- http://traceparts.com/ <-- Individual component CAD

- https://www.3dcontentcentral.com/ <-- Individual component CAD

Generally, you'll want to download .STEP files so they import into FreeCAD, as opposed to native Solidworks Part files, etc.
But I think not, since monkeys probably don't "improve" noticeably with time or input.

Maybe once tons of bananas are introduced...