skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every history of Rome I've seen details the story, though they usually do call it a "legend." And presumably in centuries closer to the founding, it wasn't called a legend but passed off as the actual founding of Rome.

My point is that over the centuries every founding story becomes a "legend" that basically can't be considered true, like the founding of Rome. Eventually people should look back on it and say "that's highly mythologized nonsense."
No he didn't. It was a publicity stunt with shades of market manipulation. He holds a large position in BTC and made a public bet to pump the value of that BTC.

If he believed that BTC would go to $1m or whatever, he could have made tremendously more money by buying $1m worth of BTC. If he wanted to sell at that point to donate to charity or run ads for his podcast, he could.

I don't know what makes Balaji so compelling that people keep falling for this charlatan.
As the joke goes, senior devs copy code from answers on Stack overflow. Junior devs from questions.

It is always better to educate people. ChatGPT needs to be treated as Wikipedia.
Yes but this isn't a rule or a law. We just actively and loudly choose for this to be the case.
One data point i can contribute is calligraphic inks. Using normal fountain pen ink with a square nib dip pen will produce writing that will spread even when dry. The binding agent in the ink is designed for much smaller strokes.

Calligraphic ink (i use Windsor Newton) is quite different and forms something like a scale on the paper when dry holding everything in place. You can feel the texture of the writing when it's drym
You run the IBM power stuff mostly because it is the most cost effective way to run Oracle and other CPU licensed workloads. You can’t use VMWare partitioning to avoid paying. But the IBM hardware based stuff allows you to segment the workloads.

The other thing is that like mainframe, you can lease CPU on demand. So if your business is cyclical, it may be better to increase CPU November-January by 20%.
Simple, infinity is even, but infinity + 1 is odd.
> Sentience is that internal loop you point out. LLMs (today) don't have that.

Yes, but that is arguably a trivial limitation. Nothing stops you from running an LLM in a loop and feed it its own output. Plenty such experiments are probably going on already - it's a trivial loop (and a trivial way to burn through your wallet). The problem is, of course, context window being rather small. So it's possible - by no means certain, but I'm no longer dismissing this idea - that the capability for sentience is already there in GPT-4 structurally, and we just lack the ability to sustain it in a loop long enough to bring it into the open.

> If you somehow turned off a person after each sentence, upon waking up to the next prompt their first thought would be "that was weird, I must have passed out", and we could use fMRI to track brain activity indicating that thought.

That's not what I meant by LLM iteration. When I said that time stops, I mean that for LLM, it literally just stops. If you were to step-execute a human like that, they would never notice; it's not like the brain has a separate RTC module constantly feeding it with sub-second resolution timestamps (and if it did, we'd turn that off too). Over a hour or more, the human may realize their inner perception of time is increasingly lagging the wall clock, but to keep it comparable to LLM, we'd be iterating sub-second process.

In this hypothetical, there would be no extra activity in brains that isn't there in LLMs. Step-executing a human mind doesn't freeze some abstract subprocess, it freezes photons and electrons and chemical gradients.
Cardinal numbers (size) and ordinal numbers (ordering) are both numbers. The numbers we're familiar with represent both concepts, sometimes simultaneously.

I really don't think that block quoting ChatGPT is a good contribution.
While I love many Noodler's inks and have many bottles from him too, while this used to be the case, this hasn't been my experience recently. In my experience the inconsistency has if anything gotten worse recently. Worse, the bottle will sometimes contain ink that is different from the label.

I recently bought a bottle of Noodler's Navy to replace a bottle I actually emptied that was bought maybe 5-6 years ago. The ink inside the bottle was almost certainly Noodler's Aircorp Blue Black, which I also have.

In my experience, and based on anecdata from friends who also use fountain pens, Noodler's inconsistency and quality control issues have gotten MUCH worse in the past 2-3 years.
>Stretched too thin

Meanwhile they have had consistently growing revenues and consistently declining number of developers.
It's an interesting article but their conclusion appears to be:

> Haila argues that “Singapore has solved the housing problem” but this certainly isn’t true for those shut out from the HDB system.

So it works for the people included, and not for the people excluded. Which is another way of saying it works?
Agreed. Most of those listings aren't even close to being classics.

For example, The Monoc Nib is very new. It didn't exist a few scant months ago. While I hope Ian Schon succeeds and it does become considered a classic, a single-piece titanium nib unit that encloses an Ultem feed is not a typical fountain pen design. (Very cool, just not classic yet... give it 20 years).

The Montblanc, and maybe the Conway Stewart may be the only classic brands there.
> What good is a R&D performed that can't be commercialized?

Then I guess we can throw out Xerox Parc's NLS because they never commercialized "windows, hypertext, graphics, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor." They were commercialized by others later on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

We can also throw out most psych, social science, archeology, and history R&D, too.
The technique used by the Oregon public school system in the 80s went something like "Hand the child a 10x10 grid of numbers, then tell them, absent of any other context, that they must be memorized." I like your way better.
httpforever.com is my go to.
I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Yann. He is amazingly humble for someone who has made something so impactful. One thing also that sometimes gets lost is wins as substantial as Zstandard not only save the big tech companies money but also reduce energy costs overall as well as local costs such as bandwidth on mobile devices (which affects individuals as much as it does companies).
Matlab existed for a reason, and has since become irrelevant, in particular in the face of python being used as a more flexible open source scientific computing scripting language.

If this is closed source, it's already as irrelevant as matlab so no reason to fight it. If there are useful bits there will be python versions of them.
The narrative that decentration of a bank ledger is good? Yes, if only these banks had decentralized their ledgers, that would have somehow made the commerical real estate loans they made for buildings that are not about to default
Have you spent much time in Utah? Off the top of my head I can’t think of an organization that could be considered an even distant second to the LDS church in terms of influence over policies brought to and enacted by the elected officials in that state.
Zooming is not really a way to get what I'm after, because I was trying to hear particular bands one after the other. E.g., trying to listen to one octave after the next. And since the octave relationship isn't linear, I'm thinking a non-linear scale would better match what I was trying to do.
> it supports SSL for some unfathomable reason.

"neverssl.com now supports ssl, as some browsers and sites automatically use https even when you don't type that in. You get a browser-cacheable page that still helps you get online by forcing a request that ... never uses ssl." --
https://twitter.com/NeverSSL/status/1456310362551164928

They're trying to solve the "how do log into this captive portal" problem, and they needed to make this change to handle that typing "neverssl.com" now often evaluates to "https://neverssl.com".
As vision foundation models continue to make waves, Meta AI's marvel - SAM - finds itself facing a new competitor: SEEM (Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once). Self-supervised learning and Visual Prompting are gaining traction as the hottest trends in computer vision. Meanwhile, AI luminary Dr. Hinton has just announced his departure from Google and joins the ranks of AI critics. The plot thickens!
I've seen plenty of outside attention for his bet but everyone missed the point (hyperinflation) so it was wasted attention.
Number blocks is a great show, my 5yo watches and, being entertained by it, absorbs more than I could easily get him to sit still for. Then he asks me questions about what he watched and is more engaged with my answers as a result.

Making a subject "fun" is alright, but making it entertaining (IME) makes for more productive engagement.
I'm always vary of these arguments. Doesn't mean you are wrong, but remember there is a country call Democratic People's Republic of Korea and it has elections every 4-5 years. Last one was in 2019.
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> perception & reality are interesting can be thought of as overlapping imperfectly, with each having some influence on the other.

That’s a good way to put it. Belief systems are fascinating in a way that resists being easily categorized. At least by me. Or such is my belief…
From my perspective Mozilla is doing a better job with their browser than Google and Apple are, that's why I use it (despite the market share, I prefer their implementation of most things compared to alternatives). Everything else is gravy.

I'm not sure that the money Mozilla spends on other things would be better spent on the browser... would it realistically close any existing gaps between their competition? Arguably they might even be better off spending it on marketing the browser than any technical metric. I'd rather this kind of thing than marketing.
I always see "this is nothing new" used as a sort of psychological defense against dismay.

Concerned about the latest reports on ocean warming? Well, climate change has been happening for a while!

Concerned about the AI-fuelled destruction of art and writing as middle-class careers? Don't worry, artists have been poor for quite a while!

It's possible (and, indeed, likely) that:

- Things have gotten progressively worse

- There is a tipping point, after which the system will undergo a phase change; i.e. the difference between making rent and not making rent

- We are now much closer to that point than we were

Expected response is, "oh fsck, that makes the current situation even worse, I should definitely care about it!" Response I see instead is, "well that's old news."

(So, call this the Old News Defense.)

What is fascinating to me is the frequency with which this defense is thrown up. I'm pretty sure that if we got hit by an asteroid, someone would be commenting, "don't worry, we've been getting hit with asteroids since Chicxulub, stop being alarmist"
How does that theory outweigh the theory that government is under the pressure to bow to the will of the people?

Particularly when even with healthy competition, the only thing that incentivizes a given bank to do is be slightly better than their nearest competitor in some way—whereas while your specific vote may be one among many to the government, it must follow the will of the people when enough of them agree that something needs to change.

I can switch banks until my face turns blue, but if they've all decided that the thing I want isn't worth their money, and are happy to ignore the option to compete by offering it because they've achieved a local maximum of profit-to-effort, it's not going to do me any good.
This is how every bank works though.

The trick is in modelling and mitigating risk, of which there are many:

1. Duration risk. With demand deposits, banks borrow short and lend long. Demand deposits come and go daily, but the banks use them to make mortgages and other loans. Some stay on the books, others sell and either make more loans or hold other assets. The risk is that depositors may all ask for their money back, but you cant recall the loans you made.

2. Interest rate risk. Interlinked with duration, rate risk is the risk that the rates you loan at now are less favorable than rates later. A loan earning 1 percent is less valuable than one earning 2 percent. The strength of this relationship is tied to duration; losing out on 1 percent for 1 year is less bad than losing out for the next 30 years. The rule of thumb is that for every 1 percent rate hike your asset loses 1 percent of its value times the years until it matures -- so that 1 percent underperformer with a 30 year duration loses 30 percent of its value!

3. Default risk. Loans may go into default, and then instead of getting your money back in 10 years you get less, maybe even nothing. You try to price that into your underwriting, but the error term here might be called "underwriting risk" -- the risk that your risk estimate is wrong.

Theres more ive likely forgotten as a layman, but I'm sure you get the idea.
How about going one step further and constrain transformer output with a context-free grammar? That way you can generate more conformant code such as Python or C.
>Python has amazing strengths as a glue layer, and low-level bindings to C and C++ allow building libraries in C, C++ and many other languages with better performance characteristics. This is what has enabled things like numpy, TensorFlow and PyTorch and a vast number of other libraries in the ecosystem. Unfortunately, while this approach is an effective way to building high performance Python libraries, its approach comes with a cost: building these hybrid libraries is very complicated, requiring low-level understanding of the internals of cpython, requires knowledge of C/C++/… programming...

But the cost has already been paid. We have NumPy, we have PyTorch and TensorFlow. So I don't see the value-add here. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
One of my colleague was pasting parts of /var/log/messages into chatGPT trying to debug some sshd related issue. Is this safe? He said he was masking hostnames before pasting, would that help here?
> Bulletproof JSON generation: Jsonformer ensures that the generated JSON is always syntactically correct and conforms to the specified schema.

This is an important definition to take note of: "bulletproof" doesn't mean that you'll get good or correct data. It only means that it'll be valid JSON and in a particular schema that you specify (because the LLM isn't building the JSON in the first place, the library is).

It's an interesting idea. But it's not clear if they've validated the heuristics they use, to see how well it performs in terms of accuracy against, say, some kind of BeautifulSoup-like attempt to make sense of the JSON-ish that the LLM produces and correct that to be valid JSON, or any other approach to the problem.
Unfortunately air tags only work in the Apple ecosystem.
I'm judging the presence of air pollutants. If I can smell it (ie above the lower detection limit), then I know I'm being exposed.

The converse is not necessarily true of course, but I can do this without hundreds of dollars in sensors. "Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got."

To account for sub-detectable pollution levels, I generally give myself a little extra buffer room. If I observe that detectable pollution odors begin at a certain point, I'll engage recirculate a half-mile before.

Generally nowadays I successfully avoid any detectable pollution/proxy odors, using the sort of preemptive planning I've described. You should try it!

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TL;DR this whole thread: recirculate gives better air quality, just flush CO2 periodically, ideally when in relatively cleaner air

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-xpm-2013-sep-1...

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/01/13/clearing-air-inside...
Slashdot's system works better than Reddit's or HNs, but unfortunately Slashdot fell for other reasons (gross mismanagement, nonexistent editing, etc) Slashdot's moderation was great though.

Specifically, I really like the way Slashdot provides more categories for rating comments. '+5 Funny' vs '+5 Insightful' is a very useful distinction. '-1 Off Topic' vs '-1 Flamebait/Troll' is a useful distinction. I don't want to read off topic spam, but I often do want to read unpopular dissenting opinions. Slashdot let me read the "trolls" (dissenters) without having to wade through the literal spam. Great system, HN and reddit would be better if they had something similar.
Are you still doing any work with Swift and ML, or not anymore?
Sorry I was lazy
> If it’s not a big deal then verifying your age shouldn’t phase you anymore than verifying your age to buy alcohol. If it is then you know exactly why kids should be kept away from it.

This is very different. When I buy alcohol, the guy at the checkout looks at my ID picture, checks the DOB, then we move on with the transaction. Digitizing the process changes so much.

Will porn websites be required to provide an audit trail to regulators to verify compliance? Will providers need to send your ID to a third party provider to verify authenticity? What security and privacy guarantees are in place? What is to stop another Ashley Madison style leak from outing gay Mormons in Utah?

"We do it in analog, so it will be fine at scale in digital" is not an argument I would expect on HN.
It's not that there aren't alternatives. There are plenty. (And how'd you miss gerrit!)

It's that github has become a platform. More users = more success and github is commercially motivated, so it is motivated to create a proprietary platform which is incompatible with other proprietary platforms. There are many built-in features that are hard to fund if you're not successful (have enough revenue), and there are many 3p integrations that 3p won't bother to implement for non-github targets. Thus cementing a github monopoly.
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Pump up and hype BTC by making the bet.

Pump up and hype it by spinning it when your claim doesn't come true. I was wondering what the spin would be, but here it is.

If you're trying to run a game against true believers instead of just make an argument against non-believers, this is a MUCH more effective strategy. ("If trading, too early is being wrong. But if preparing, hell is truth seen too late. So I don't care that much about timing. Being early on something like this is being right." - this isn't an attempt to convince the people who believe he's "wrong", not "early", it's preaching to the choir.)
From their FAQ https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html

"Will Mojo be open-sourced?

Yes, we expect that Mojo will be open-sourced. However, Mojo is still young, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until more of its internal architecture is fleshed out. We don’t have an established plan yet.

Why not develop Mojo in the open from the beginning?

Mojo is a big project and has several architectural differences from previous languages. We believe a tight-knit group of engineers with a common vision can move faster than a community effort. This development approach is also well-established from other projects that are now open source (such as LLVM, Clang, Swift, MLIR, etc.)."
The example I had in mind was for an S-Bahn in Karlsruhe (operated by AVG, using the S-Bahn trademark under license, but otherwise unaffiliated with Deutsche Bahn) which was considered a tram, not a regular regional train while it traveled within city limits. This meant that DB tickets weren't necessarily valid, and AVG claimed as much. I expect AVG recognizes the bw tarif under which DB sells train tickets, so this probably is no longer an issue.
People are better off having positive relationships without alcohol. Going to happy hour, I have seen work colleagues become more chill after a few beers. And then I wonder why they are not like this all the time. Next day, they become stuck up again. And I am proudly happy to be my chill version all the time.

This is not a conversation about whether something should be legal. Rather, whether it should be celebrated and exploited for monetary benefits. I think no.
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As has been posted in a few submissions today (including one of my own) - Chegg stock lost half its value today after announcing how ChatGPT is affecting its business. Pearson stock tanked today too. Meanwhile Nvidia stock hit its 365 day high yesterday.
And its sequel, Echopraxia, which drives relevant points home with a sledgehammer, in case Blindsight was a bit too subtle for the reader.
> When it is going down, it is too volatile.

> When it is going up, it is too volatile.

Fixed that for ya. No one wants their bank deposits to rise and dip three times a week.
> Speak for yourself. I do want to make the world a better place and I'm fortunate enough to have a job where I do that. It's rewarding; my life has purpose during working hours.

That's your problem, not mine. God forbid I'm ever in such a situation.
If there is one thing I can say about reddit, it's that they get particularly sensitive when talking about calorie consumption and weight. And there is definitely nothing they can do to stop eating so many calories.
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Good riddance for Utah. Evil company that ruined lives of many people both users and the "actors" Also super pathetic to be a user of this - watching pixels to fool your brain to release dopamine to get even more pleasure than what the pleaure driven economy of the first world offers 24/7 already.
Theocracies can be elected. I fail to see how your definition of a theocracy automatically disqualifies Utah from being an "effective theocracy".
This kinda of thing is very interesting to me, i've used ChatGPT etc, but I haven't quite got the results I wanted, I think the key is certainly going to be to be able to program it and feed it the data that is relevant to you so it acts the way you want it too, else it's too generic, even with the right prompts, it quickly tends to go of track.
Should pornography be allowed to be displayed on billboards or in storefront windows? Is it the job of parents to cover their children's eyes as they stroll through town? As a society we have (mostly) set limits on where pornography can be accessed. Adult shops have a proprietor who can shoo kids out. Is the www different from public streets?