skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Apple Pay, Google Pay and Stripe Link will remember your CC details - so no need to fill them in again and again. This is as smooth as can be.

Yes, yet another middle man, doing exactly the same as PayPal - and at least Google is known for banning people for having too many refunds or tripping some anti-fraud ML model. Not something I'd trust either as an user or as an author.

> Creators need to come together under common umbrellas to get paid. That's what traditional publications were in the end. If people could put their egos aside a little, they could start making some good bundles.

Again, middle men. Middle men that are going to censor you for whatever reason - no matter your political direction, by the way.

> You are dead wrong on accounting. Nobody has to make formal invoices for all their subscribers.

I'm German and I'd prefer to not have my donations re-classified as taxable commercial income. Our government's interpretation on what defines "gewerblich" can be pretty insane - you have to provide a full imprint with name and address on your stupid cat photo blog if you're reaching more people than your family. There have been a number of people in my Twitter feed who got into serious trouble for anything from running donation pools for their pets, beer money-style donations, and most recently Onlyfxns.

Our government is braindead when it comes to realities of digital life, and so are many others. Too many people just rely on never appearing on the government's radar.

> It's easy to accept SEPA payments and many other payment forms without credit cards through Stripe. Those germans who don't have credit cards have debit cards and they work the same.

As said in the first point, you're again at the mercy of a middle man that's hard to hold accountable. My local bank I can at least file a complaint at the banking regulator, good luck with any of the US institutions.
Liquidity?
> The problem is that companies get really good at solving yesterday's problems. In Intel's case, that was making great CPUs for desktop PCs and servers. I have no doubt that the absolute pinnacle of desktop PC CPU engineering, was done at Intel in the last ~10 years

Had Intel maintained its competency in designing and manufacturing CPUs, their situation would have been much better.

They surrendered the process technology lead to TSMC, and let Apple make far superior laptop CPUs without a good response for years.

They failed in what was supposed to be their core competency.

And, of course, in anything outside CPUs and Chipset, Intel is comically bad.
It's understandable that people are eager for the potential of side loading on iOS, as it could provide more direct access to apps without the need for intermediaries / App Store policy misunderstandings. However, it's worth considering the potential downsides of this approach, particularly the risk of app and service balkanization. This is already happening in the gaming industry, where major studios force you to use their own launchers to capture valuable (sellable) data about their customers.

But to play the optimist, perhaps inspiration can be taken from how macOS handles app installation from non-App Store sources:

- You go to the developers website

- You are presented with two links if the app is also available on the App Store with the alternative being direct download

- After downloading the .dmg you are presented with a modified version of the Installer.app UI that runs you through what services the app uses, data that it collects, where it will install, additional options, etc.

- One final confirmation of "Is this from a trusted developer"

- Installer.app runs a virus / malware check against what is going to be installed

- App is ready to go on the phone
Once we start talking about "a lot less" the options to not work become scarce.

For instance, my estimate is that with the minimum number of millions ($2M) one can support a family while unemployed in the USA and pretty much the rest of the world. With 4% SWR such family will have $80K per year, which is more than the median household income. They will pay little taxes and will qualify for a subsidized ACA health plan.

If you are talking about less than a million, you won't be able to support a family in US. It is possible in a 3rd world countries, but it is not always an option for a lot of people.
Orwell fought on the Communist side in the Spanish Civil War. His "Ministry of Truth" comes out of that experience far more than it does his working for the UK government.
That is super rad! Are you able to share anything?
Excuse me? Because I like eating delicious beef. How is that "irrational" ? I'll repeat: I like eating steak, and I am willing to pay for it. What's destroying the biosphere is too many humans.
Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
I built https://chitty-app.com/, which is a free client for MacOS (available via the App Store). It supports GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in a simple iMessage-like UI.

Chitty also allows you to create custom assistants. It comes pre-loaded with Abraham Lincoln, Alan Turing, Jane Austen, etc., but you it's easy to add your own. I added myself as a custom assistant, which allows for ultimate rubber ducking :D

The app supports streaming responses and markdown (incl. multi-line code blocks).
We need more data efficient neural network architectures. Transformers work exceptionally well because they allow us to just dump more data into it, but ultimately we want to learn advanced behavior without having to feed it Shakespeare
Just to clarify, I do know that Word fills some niches better (through both feature set and inertia). I know there are universities that still send their post doc writing standards out as word templates and they don't always translate well to Google Docs either.

That said, I think Excel is the exponentially higher case and hardest to replace. The niches filled by Word that Google Docs can't fill readily are pretty small comparatively. Excel has grown to mean so much more than just spreadsheets. Its pretty much a first line database to a huge amount of the business community, and still relied on across entire industries to do work, from wealth management to accounting to payroll to inventory etc.

I have, upon thinking about it as well, to hear any raised point about PowerPoint vs Google Slides where PowerPoint does something so niche that Slides doesn't and its a deal breaker, actually.
Maybe this is the intended use case of timeout(1).
Historicity gives things meaning where they have none. It's the certificate that matters.
> YouTube Premium is dependent on ads because YouTube as a product is dependent on ads. Without ads, YouTube Premium wouldn't exist. I think the vast majority of that 10.3% is YouTube Premium, YouTube TV, Play Store and their hardware. But I still think most of those are in service to their ad engine.
"The rules are aimed at weaning the United States off dependence on China for EV battery supply chains and are part of President Joe Biden's effort to make 50% of U.S. new vehicle sales by 2030 EVs or PHEVs."

Japanese and European car manufacturers can just source batteries from somewhere else other than China, then problem solved. Car/electronics manufacturers are already moving out of China at a rapid pace this year anyways. According to the office for national statistics in China, for jan/feb of 2023 http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/202303/27/t20230327_38464161..., electronics manufacturing profits is down 71% and car manufacturing profits is down 41.7%, due to slacking demand. Smart to move sourcing early anyways, it looks like China is starting to be confirmed to help Russia militarily https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-is-find...

Actually, it would appear that Chinese EV manufacturers have not much place to go. EV market in China peaked at 2021. With regards to Europe, BYD only sold tens(!!) of cars in Germany in 2023, compared to thousands of Tesla cars sold.
That elegance!

I wonder what the risk of damage is if they get hit by the bow. Perhaps it's simply not physically possible, within certain parameters.
I'm not from the US, so please don't mind if the question is stupid: are these options all FDIC insured?
What does the Japanese internment program (which has been roundly criticized as a massive mistake) have to do with ESG or DEI? This is what I mean; it seems like you are throwing concepts into the same bag with only irrelevant connection to each other.

I suspect there's an underlying philosophical position that is connecting these in a relevant way for you that I don't necessarily share.
There will be many ux frictions and restrictions that unless companies with stake in it complain, it won't make a meaningful dent.
"campus" can mean lots of things... your handle is "vineyardmike" - what about irrigation / water / temperature / other sensors spread over a vineyard?
There are satellite comm frequencies above 1ghz that you could easily jam from a more powerful terrestrial transmitter, like gps.
I was going to say price, but apparently that is no longer the case after some serious price cuts to the Bolt!

Long live the Bolt.
Use Snowflake to Bypass Censorship
I'm perfectly fine with an objective take on identity and subculture formation, but it seems like pretty advanced material inappropriate to elementary school students. Deconstructing societal norms is just too advanced for young children. It also directly undermines parents who are trying to instill these very norms.

The lessons that are too politically charged are unsurprisingly those that have the least evidential support - namely those rooted in social constructionism. Even the concept of "gender" isn't well-defined enough to teach a child, given that even experts can't ELI5 "what is a woman?". Gender itself is not a plain fact about objective reality (like sex is).

> ...judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom

> ...is caustic to the national constitution

These two things are actually not contradictory. Being racist doesn't stop you from judging what will secure or endanger your freedom, you may just reach different conclusions than other people. This should be OK in a free and pluralistic society.
The price of EVs is the only thing keeping me from replacing my 13 year old car. Everything I would consider buying is just slightly too high for my budget and needs.
small AI model != cheap AI model.

It costs the same to train as these giant models. You merely spend they money on training it for longer instead of larger.
Yeah, and this is a case where a well cultivated sense of "good enough" is actually quite important because optimizing decoupling capacitors for high capacity, small size, and low price is a recipe for picking an exotic ceramic with a wacky tempco and then having a device fail intermittently when hot or cold:

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/x7r-x5r-...
You could be right but that doesn't explain why the yield to maturity is reported so low.

The yield to maturity should be the earning you get if you hold the fund until maturity and interest rates stay as they are today. It's possible Ishares is not reporting this number accurately.
Me: What exactly was your methodology for producing the estimate "50,000"?

You: Yadda yadda yadda... [no answer]

I'm actually fine with taking 1.2 million as the assumption for the monthly active user count, but it's still absurd and inexplicable to go from that to a 50K daily active user estimate.
DJI does not provide its app via play store and requires side loading :(
At venture-funded startups, a generous portion of compensation will be equity. And four years typically allows said equity to vest fully.
While there is merit to this post my main criticism running 13000 containers with zero load - essentially all the nginx processes are doing nothing - zero I/O, etc. after launch. Its a bit more interesting to see N# of containers running something synthetic that mimics a workload.

That said, containers are very lean (or can be with the right setup) given there is no kernel, drivers, etc to load.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Payment Plan Puts NYC Subway Alerts at Risk
not great. turning 30, never had a girlfriend, zero social circle.
Right. The LA River is an emergency drainage system that isn't needed much.
Last month, it was needed.[1] The California Aqueduct is usually kept full.

Falling into the California Aqueduct is usually lethal.[2] 30 feet deep, steep banks, and a high rate of flow. It's fenced, but just with ranch fencing.

[1] https://archive.is/2dbEI

[2] https://archive.is/H52Jk
I agree but for many people optimizing credit card spend is not worth their time, especially if you’re just spending a few thousand per year on a side hustle.

There are plenty of reasons one might want a csv, though.
On the final episode, something that kind of bothers me here is the generally antagonistic attitude towards the "get kids excited about reading" approach. The whole series focuses on the struggling students who were wronged by misguided one-size-fits-all teaching, and then the narrator goes on to assert that students don't need to be sold the joys of reading because, "look at these sound bites of kids learning to read - they sure seem excited to me!" Kind of annoying to see someone so dismissive of the notion after spending four hours talking about how not all kids pick things up through osmosis.
We use OpenAI/GPT for NLP only - parsing intent - oversimplifying but normalizing things like "I want a serverless function that connects to RDS" is translated to a JSON schema that says serverless <-> RDS. That's then passed to the InfraCopilot engine which then unpacks what that means into a larger architectural representation (we have an Architecture-as-Code blog post coming soon).

This is open source to a large degree, it's powered by the Klotho engine ( https://github.com/KlothoPlatform/klotho )
I 100% agree with this, and I try to stick by it for just about every article I write now. Does someone I'm interviewing talk about a game or movie they enjoyed as a kid? It'll get linked to the Wikipedia page for said work, or if possible a place the user can (legally) buy or experience it for themselves. Reference something I made in the past? That'll get linked where relevant, and the same goes for anything mentioned by a source too. And I'll always link to the original source if possible too, not the random reprint/paraphrased version from whatever popular news site or service covered it this time.

Love the idea of using a script to help with this too, though it's usually the harder to find stuff that's more valuable to link to, not things you ca immediately find with a quick Google search (like the Google home page).
So an income tax? That we have no say in?
Blog post curation services like Thinking About Things are great for finding the best of the internet without the hassle of wading through the cruft. Anyone know of any others?
I'll worry about that when I see it write correct code to render a circle in OpenGL.
The original iPhone did very clearly and famously have a product manager. It was the same person that was also responsible to paper of CEO.
> my belief is that the cloud _is_ cheaper than on prem but it is difficult to configure it to be so.

It takes discrete effort in the core planning of your architecture. You cannot look at AWS resources (or any other cloud provider) as an all-you-can-eat buffet. You have to look at your requirements, look at the viable options that may support your requirements and take into consideration cost associated.

Without looking at cost during design your company/service/team will have a bad time at some point. There are also some really specific things you can do to lower costs but require knowledge and understanding of a myriad of technologies.
any mechanism will be used by someone to protect and entrench themselves. Small or large.

The more difficult and expensive it is to use, the more it will be the domain of those with more resources, and the more the small will be defenseless.

The answer is not to eliminate copyright or patents, but rather to make them simple and easy to apply for, defend, and find. The current bar is so high it favors the big guys only, and gives them leverage against smaller folks who can’t afford to even show up to defend themselves usually.

Or eliminate it entirely, but you’ll not be able to do that because Disney, Microsoft, Oracle, and the like would murder/compromise/destroy anyone who might be able to do that.
gm bolt?
Why this startup is adding real meat to its plant-based product
2022 Tongan volcanic explosion was largest natural explosion in over a century
> Why is gold a poor vehicle?

Physical gold is too usually too illiquid. Digital gold solves that, but in general the short term volatility makes it imprudent for emergency funds.

> Lending/borrowing isn't a gamble beyond the underling risks involved.

This is called burying the lede, I believe. The underlying risks include significant structural risk on the institutions and vehicles themselves, not comparable at all to conventional banking.

NB: I was never suggesting stock market for emergency funds either. Investing is investing, and involves risks. If you want a useful distinction between investing and gambling, you would have both represented in stock market. I would suggest a more nuanced view would at least try to separate the two as useful concepts.
I think they mean in terms of enforcement when there's a violation
That to me is the big difference between Google and Microsoft. Microsoft is willing to slowly build on something for years before it goes anywhere. They maintain their products for incredible amounts of time, such as how IE11 was only killed off like a decade after its release.

Google on the other hand is always chasing the next big thing. It just doesn’t have the institutional attention span to do anything really big. If a project isn’t an explosive hit right away, Google moves on to the next big idea.
Have you ever told someone to "just Google it?" Well, repeatable results are the underlying expectation broken by over-personalization.
Yeah I noticed that the home timeline improved drastically literally the very first day that the layoffs started. My tweets also started getting more attention. They also used to push Euphoria (and other celeb gossip) content a lot, no matter how many related words I muted it still found a way back into my TL.
All of this stopped immediately after the takeover.

I think it's pretty obvious now that the employees were spending a lot of time directly "curating" recommendations (if not just boosting their own tweets or friends tweets).
OK - thanks!

So we're back to guessing ...

A couple of years ago Altman claimed that GPT-4 wouldn't be much bigger than GPT-3 although it would use a lot more compute.

https://news.knowledia.com/US/en/articles/sam-altman-q-and-a...

OTOH, given the massive performance gains scaling from GPT-2 to GPT-3, it's hard to imagine them not wanting to increase the parameter count at least by a factor of 2, even if they were expecting most of the performance gain to come from elsewhere (context size, number of training tokens, data quality).

So in 0.5-1T range, perhaps ?
If your articles title can be answered with "no", you probably don't need to write that article.
If you read Orwell's Such Such Were The Joys it seems 1984 may channel UK public schools (in particular, being a scholarship student and not a full-fare client) more than any of his adult experiences.
We gave China free access to our markets for decades. China, in turn, has never given any foreign entity free access to their market, not without paying bribes at least. You always have to have majority Chinese ownership in your joint company.

It's not surprising that the US and EU are slowly waking up to just how bad of a clusterfuck they maneuvered themselves into and starting to cut out toxic dependencies.
I recently made a VS Code extension for this, basically you use VS Code's Notebooks as the chat substrate. The benefit with this is you can edit both sides (actually all three sides, including "system") of the conversation to better tune the agent's responses.

The notebook format on disk is simple JSON that can easily be consumed by other code, supports version control, parameters like temp/etc.

It even has experimental (initial) support for LLaMa/other local models. And it can run the remote models (GPT-*) on web (https://vscode.dev / https://github.dev)!

Search "LLM Book" in vscode extension page or just follow the link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaaxxx.l...

(Technically not "ChatGPT" as it's the paid API powered model, but this way is far more powerful in my experience and you pay pennies. That said the endpoint can be configured to talk to any OpenAI-like endpoint.)

Happy to talk issues/feature requests at https://github.com/JacksonKearl/ai-book
I think history is potentially even easier. Everyone asks "why?" about things being the way they are, or can be interested in it if you remind them that things could be otherwise. History is the answer to "why?" for a huge number of things with both small and huge life and death consequences. Put another way, "why" is a good framing for a lot of big picture history stuff.
My Parents are Flat Earthers (2019)
> Restricting the reach of Tweets, also known as visibility filtering

Or "shadow banning". It's come to this: Elon's Twitter is no better than Dorsey's.
I've been using Quora's Poe. There's a universal iOS and Mac OS app as well as a web interface all synced, also has other AIs other than ChatGPT to quickly switch and compare outputs. I actually find that ChatGPT isn't the most useful for giving me a lot of my answers.

Poe also has a community feature so you can share and see each others queries and AI responses and share links to non Poe users.

Haven't found any other app that isn't just a simple chat window with zero other features other than Poe, would love to try others that add value over OpenAI's web interface.
Any technology can be abused and misused. If the bar for introducing any new technology was that it couldn't do harm to anyone, then nothing would ever change.

The current marketplace for apps gives us very limited choice in many ways, it's more of an illusion of choice in many cases. If 3rd-party marketplaces allow us to build more and less-private apps at the same time, I see that as a net positive.
I remeber how quickly prolific users of lesser know social networks, like lemur ...things like under 1k users(!), would jump when these videos were posted to claim they were fake news and reply to every comment daily.

still wonder if they actions generate such good organic results or they just have way too many resources.
Yeah I am noticing this as well. GPT enables you to do difficult things really easily, but then it is so expensive you would need to replace it with custom code for any long term solution.

For example: you could use GPT to parse a resume file, pull out work experience and return it as JSON. That would take minutes to setup using the GPT API and it would take weeks to build your own system, but GPT is so expensive that building your own system is totally worth it.

Unless they can seriously reduce how expensive it is I don't see it replacing many existing solutions. Using GPT to parse text for a repetitive task is like using a backhoe to plant flowers.
>> "AI" into the FUCKING KEYBOARD

I Have No Keyboard and I Must Scream ?
> you can only pull it down one statement at a time

Message support. They’ll send a bulk-download link.