skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard a rumor once, and it may be more fictional speculation than reality, that OPEC shows most of the signs of a "going out of business" sale. That they know the market window is shrinking and are doing their best to make the most of it in an "everything must go" fashion.

(The rumor suggested that's why there was a weird sudden drop in oil and gas prices several years back and then prices nearly "flatlined" for a few years there rather than sticking to a slow inflation-locked climb as it had been. The rumor was that OPEC had started to liquidate its reserves as fast as possible without crashing the market.)

If that was the case, one would hope that OPEC members were also smart enough to plan for after the "going out of business sale" and smartly socking away the money into long term investments. (Further speculation: given the real estate booms in UAE and Qatar, especially, and attempts to spin some of those cities as world tourism destinations there may even be evidence that that is what they have been trying to do.)

> Of course there are different levels of obsolence, all the petrol cars won't disappear, unless someone invents a magic liquid to replace petrol/diesel with something that works identically but without the pollution.

I don't think it will need "magic", I think the feedback loops between supply-side and demand-side economics can handle it all on their own, and possibly (probably, IMO) surprisingly quickly once things start to snowball: gas pumps are already low margin "loss leaders" for convenience stores and supermarkets. As prices get higher the usefulness as "loss leaders" shrinks. As EVs spread, demand drops which could drop prices (temporarily) but that also lowers the usefulness as a "loss leader". Any such price drops are almost guaranteed to be temporary because as demand drops, production should drop. Production is capital heavy and much of production once it shuts down, in theory shuts down for good (especially if demand isn't expected to go back up) because the costs for restarts become increasingly too expensive. As the usefulness for gas as a "loss leader" drops below certain thresholds, consumer gas pumps start to disappear. As gas pumps start to disappear, demand for EVs increases, furthering the drop in demand for gas, exacerbating the disappearance of gas pumps. Eventually, as that cycle snowballs, ICE range anxiety returns with a vengeance and petrol cars become museum pieces too expensive to drive.

Because it is a feedback snowball, it could happen seemingly abruptly, almost like magic.
> Poor people have cars that old, usually, there's a reason they're called "beaters".

And GM (and ...) probably see that as a "revenue opportunity".
I've had my domains for decades now, and once or twice I've accidentally failed to renew in time. My registrar has a grace period during which they won't release the domain for others to register it, just to let people who accidentally let it lapse have a chance to renew it first.

In my case, I failed to notice the renewal notice and only realized that I missed it once the domains stopped resolving. The grace period let me avoid losing them.
Not really. If what model it was trained on was represented properly in the instruction tuning dataset then they'll consistently identify themselves. But it's not a given that that was the case for bard.
Depending on who you talk to, hacking doesn't even mean technology. It's more of an artful blend of craftsmanship and trickery in whatever problem domain you face.

But I think the confusing aspect of HN and the VC influence is the number of folks here who happily conflate technology, business, entrepreneurship, and capitalism. If you see these as separable topics, you find that a lot of the confused threads here are different cohorts in the audience who focus on one of these topics and treat the others as ancillary.
We don’t have a tv in the house. And we don’t use our phones/iPad in front of our son. So the only time he sees a screen is when we are changing his diaper. The only exception has been when we are all sick we watch a family movie on the iPad with him. And if I’m being honest a few Saturday mornings I’ll watch a show with him while we are waking up.

I use control center to lower the brightness.
Kate is an amazing writer.

I loved how seamlessly she floated between academic architectural review to "McMansion bad" comedy, with almost no effort.

That said, I 100% agree. Mansions are beautiful and powerful in presence. McMansions are a blight and, in my opinion, incredibly cheap-looking cancerous blobs.

I live in Houston, which has an example of both.

River Oaks is our friendly "rich person" neighborhood. There, you'll see some _really_ nice looking custom big houses. Proper mansions, as it were.

We recently moved from Richmond, an exurb about 45 minutes south towards the abyss between Houston and Mexico. Like Kate illustrated here, a McMansion neighborhood was right off of our exit. The houses are gigantic, but look incredibly, incredibly cheap.

Funny enough, a large apartment complex is being built right by one of them. I wonder what that will do to their value.
Don't need to ask Bard, it was mentioned at I/O and in this tweet: https://twitter.com/Google/status/1656348200263876608?ref_sr...
The software engineers who I knew were taking “Prescription Stimulants” were moody and hacked lots of code that caused more bugs than it fixed. Some people want to use it to make them better engineers but it can be a trap. The people who seem to be okay taking it everyday are those with such debilitating ADHD that they cannot get anything done in the course of a day without it. If you are a good programmer ceteris peribus then adding substituted amphetamine to the mix might backfire.

Now these people I knew were also lauded for the frequency of their PRs and promoted. I suppose the crux is that if you’re going to start such a regimen make sure your company uses perverse incentives as rewards.
Check the ICANN WHOIS, find the expiration date, set a calendar event for it. If they renew it, change the calendar event for the following year, rinse and repeat.
It is interesting enough for the authors.
> There is a ton of work still to do.

What's the estimated ROI?
If you are interested in military spending per capita:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/military-spending-per-cap...
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Even though I never had any intention of taking illegal drugs while employed, I've always turned down job offers that come with a condition of drug screening. It always seemed invasive and controlling, which is an awful way to start a relationship with an employer.

This is counter to interviewed individuals who, despite drug use, largely ignored company drug policies.
What worked for some older think machines (haven't tried it on my thinkpad though) is to update the bios (can be to the same version) and change the serial nr.to all zeroes (the update script asks if you want that). That got rid of the wifi whitelist i encountered.
It's happening at other Big Tech firms as well tbh.

Also, plenty of Indian Nationals working at these firms who are stuck in the immigration purgatory have started returning to India to work at the same employer's office there (albeit with a TC adjustment that is still competitive). Heck, even Big Tech and target startup salaries in India have begun reaching the $30-50k range (take a look at YC startups hiring in India for example).

At this point, a lot of fresh Indian H1-B talent coming to the US are those who were stuck working at shitty outsourcing companies (talent which Indian companies won't touch), saved up money to do a random STEM masters to get the F-1, get a couple years of American work experience plus save dollars, and then return to India.

Same thing happened with the Electronics industry in the 1990s-early 2000s with Taiwanese nationals leaving Silicon Valley to return to Taiwan or moving to HK/mainland China (live in HK, commute to Shenzhen/Dongguan/Guangzhou), Korean nationals returning to work for Korean companies in the 2000s-early 2010s, and Chinese nationals in the 2010s-Present returning to Mainland China.
If you could explain what a better tool is and why, I'd be extremely interested, TIA
Great recommendation!

I gave tsx a test and found it has a 3x slower boot than my favorite one, tsm[0] (and this is using the native binary at "./node_modules/bin/tsx").

Unfortunately, tsm has much lower download numbers compared to tsx, so I can already see me jumping ship to it due to traction.

I usually install tsm locally with "--save-dev" and use "node -r tsm --enable-source-maps <file>.ts" to run what I want. Here on a M1 Pro 32GB the difference between both is 0.17s for tsx and 0.06s for tsm.

I urge anyone that haven't tried yet to give tsm a chance. It works great with PM2 if you create a file like "server.pm2.js" and just add at the top of it "require('tsm')" followed by "require('server.ts')".

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsm
thx for clarification and added links, will read up.
GPT-4 is way slower than GPT-3. Unless they are artificially spiking the latency to hide parameter count, it’s likely around 1trn params
Fast. May be better. Not constantly prompting "As an AI Model " thing.
So far so good.
When you get excited, click a link, and get a “we’ve blocked your region and don’t care to explain why” message, it’s tough to have any response but a negative one.
I asked some non-techcnical questions (about books, musicians, etc) and it seems to be wrong most of the time. It hallucinates a lot, and the quality of the text seems way below GPT3.5
We used Ritch at acquirable
I've been using GPT-4 a lot, and I'd never used Bard before today, so I wanted to compare them. I gave Bard some prompts to generate various functions and some documents, and then I gave GPT-4 the same prompts.

In every case, GPT-4 vastly outperformed Bard.
Impressive that Bard was able to summarize the key announcements from Google IO today. Does OpenAI still have a data cutoff on GTP3/4?
> The software engineers who I knew were taking “Prescription Stimulants”

Most people don't advertise or even share their list of medications/prescriptions with their colleagues, so I would be careful about drawing conclusions based on your sample. There are most surely people you worked with that were taking stuff that you had no idea about.
I encountered this a lot in my previous work and found workarounds that I write about here: https://rachitsingh.com/collaborating-jupyter/. At a high level I think being scared of rerunning your kernel is indicative of a code smell, and there's relatively easy ways to combat that.
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I feel your struggle. I can relate to it. I think I've gotten by in a way bc of the support systems around me, but I don't think any of them know just how much my relationship to work has changed since around 2020 or so.

If you're able to think and type this profoundly, you, personally, are not too old to contribute to something that motivates you. I haven't found that yet, but I haven't given up hope yet either.
Most of the GPT-4 benchmarks from their report were things like AP tests or leer code scores. Which aren’t benchmarks that can be compared by a different set of researchers as you don’t know the constituent parts of the test to run
Study: AI fails to reproduce human judgements about rule violations
Official post: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-lan...
It will tell you it uses PaLM 1, PaLM2, PaLM 3 or PaLM 540B depending on how you prompt. It will stop acknowledging incremental PaLM models at 5 it seems.
Yeah 1 to 2 trillion is the estimates I've heard.

Given the 25 messages / 3 hour limit in chatGPT, I don't think they've found a way to make it cheap to run.
Originally Symfony did use comments (docblock style ones like: /* @Route ... */) for this kind of thing, but since PHP 8 they've moved towards using attributes [1]. The syntax of the attributes #[Route(...)] might look like a comment, but they are actually just valid bits of code you can pragmatically inspect through reflection [2] and then choose to run if you want.

Docblock comments can also be inspected with reflection [3] but have a much looser syntax, so it was up to you to parse them. Where as you can create a new instance of an attribute directly from the reflection object [4]

In your example Symfony uses it to build up the list of HTTP routes by looking through all your controllers for #[Route] attributes. Generally that's done once and then cached, at least in production.

Personally I try to avoid using them, but they're definitely not comments. More like metadata you can attach to classes/methods/properties/parameters then use however you want.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.attributes.syntax.php

[2]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getattributes....

[3]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getdoccomment....

[4]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionattribute.newinstanc...
This is significantly worse than ChatGPT with GPT-4 for coding. I had an example from last week where I wanted to write a script to delete excess AWS AMIs based on some tags of ours. Then modified it to bucket them by a tag value and keep the last ten of each bucket. Then parallelize it so it is fast (we had 50k of them, oops).

ChatGPT was able to completely write this perfectly. Absolutely mind blowing. Saved me probably 1-2 hours of looking things up and fiddling with it.

Bard failed multiple times in multiple places. It only found AMIs that exactly, down to the second, were two weeks old. The filter json looks wrong ('Key' isn't valid AFAIK). It didn't bucket them and just kept the newest 10.

In either case both of these are mind blowing. If ChatGPT didn't exist, Bard would still be very helpful at getting me started. ChatGPT did it all without me making any changes though.

ChatGPT log: https://gist.github.com/mdeeks/de297f1bc8cbd00fe2db01e6232aa...

Bard log: https://gist.github.com/mdeeks/1404e09da8879b94469166927ddff...
ChatGPT was the same last year, but since ClosedAI added some kind of magic (fine-tuning or just embeddings auto-injection) so that models can somewhat describe themselves.
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> Early AM4 boards might not have a cpu x4 NVMe slot, and those 4 cpu lanes might not be exposed, and the a300/x300 chipsetless boards don't tend to expose everything

I'm sorry, I oversimplified, and said "most of them" while I should have said "not all of them" as 20/24 is more correct for B550 chipsets (the most common for AM4) instead of trying to generalize.

Your explanation is more correct that mine.

For anyone who might want extra details about the number of lanes per CPU, https://pcguide101.com/motherboard/how-many-pcie-lanes-does-... is a good read that shows the difference for APUs.
Absolutely gold suggestion. This might just be the future for most internet-connected device use, and particularly for children/supervised use like you're describing.
So far it's pretty bad for coding. I tried 10 questions I gave to GPT-4, which got all of them correct. Bard gets 0 out of 10 correct. Significantly worse than GPT-3.5 even.
It's really VERY easy to use something like esbuild or SWC though and just use TS for doing checks on the side. SWC would have ripped the TS annotations out of the top 100 TS projects on GitHub before I even finished typing this sentence.
Thats a really interesting anecdote.. Most squatters sit on domains for 10+ years though. Both the 'good' .com domains I've bought were held unused by squatters for almost 20 years. Maybe thats what you need to do when you have a domain like that?
Related:

Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273250 - March 2023 (76 comments)

Google Bard waitlist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260 - March 2023 (388 comments)

Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253 - March 2023 (626 comments)
What your build/deployment steps without the Typescript syntax? Do you bundle or minify at all, or do you release your source files directly? Or is this mostly for NodeJS/server side stuff?

I ask because for most of my projects there's at least some bundling going on, and in that case the added complexity of Typescript compilation is pretty minimal - with tools like Vite there is no added complexity, because JS and TS files are going down exactly the same pipeline, parsed by the same parser, etc. And I could get rid of the bundler, which would make some things simpler, but makes imports and deployment more complicated. For the scale of projects that I'm working on, bundling feels like necessary complexity.

I guess I'm trying to figure out if this is a useful form of minimalism for the sorts of projects I work on, or if this is the sort of thing that works for some projects but not others.
Calckey is working on account migration and backup that does transfer posts to the new server.
I remember VB was also a bit of a casualty of the move to the .NET framework. Yeah they had later versions of VB with .NET support but it still never really embraced or thrived in the new ecosystem. In general RAD tooling kind of fell out of favor in the 2000s and never really recovered.
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I remember not using/trying Svelte because there was no TS support and it took quite some time before TS support emerged. With that in mind it doesn't surprise me they are not doubling down on TypeScript.
Was responsible for trying to improve the management and operation of a large fleet of BMCs for a while. Plenty of bugs and pace of releases is slow. :(

Definitely an area where a more open ecosystem would improve the pace of innovation.
Google Project Tailwind is an AI notebook for study
They had to release this as a web app because it's against app store rules to release something that emulates springboard or otherwise duplicate existing functionality. I understand app store protections help people a lot but silly rules like that prevent some interesting things like this demo experience.
Yeah, I don't think we've had a bad hire yet from ARG. Most of our devs are absolutely world-class, but at a fraction of the cost of comparable US employees. And we pay them very well for the region; several have built homes not just for themselves but for family members since they started working with us.
This kind of reminds me of the joke about building micro services and moving to a more reliable API for some data you are dependent on, only to realize it is sourcing data from you.
Yep. I’m guessing PaLM 2 is about 200bln params as it seems clearly stronger than chinchilla
Several people have been arrested based on 4chan posts recently, after 'threatening' a law enforcement official in florida.

So...yes. Yes I do.
>>Pepto bismal is cheap, but we don't try treating a lung cancer with it just because of that.

What? I'm sorry that is not a reasonable statement. I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

>>Again the drug they wanted her taking had NEVER been so much as studied for treating MS

Again, without specifics I find that extremely difficult to believe.

>> because I'm of the radical mind that even the poor and unemployed deserve health care

I believe you are confusing administrators and payors. Even wealthy families get subsidized health insurance on the Marketplace. Medicaid is nearly free and medicare is for over 65 individuals. Do you know who administers Medicaid and Medicare?

>>This should not be legal.

It isn't which is why I'm having a difficult time believing your story.

>>Blue Cross

Which Blue Cross? What is the plan design? Was it employer based? What is the PBM?

>>appears to be a site for finding the best specialists around the world.

And yet that has nothing to do with the fact that healthcare is not free in Germany, and not single payer either, contrary to what 'radicals' like to claim.

>>I have a lot more say there than a private insurance company.

Specifically, how so?
Well...
, yeah, but, these models already produce errors for other unrelated reasons, and like...

Well, what exactly would we be showing that these models can’t do? Quines exist, so there’s no general principle preventing reflection in general. We can certainly write poems (etc.) which describe their own composition. A computer can store specifications (and circuit diagrams, chip designs, etc.) for all its parts, and interactively describe how they all work.

If we are just saying “ML models can’t solve the halting problem”, then ok, duh. If we want to say “they don’t prove their own consistency” then also duh, they aren’t formal systems in a sense where “are they consistent (as a formal system)?” even makes sense as a question.

I don’t see a reason why either Gödel or Turing’s results would be any obstacle for some mechanism modeling/describing how it works. They do pose limits on how well they can describe “what they will do” in a sense of like, “what will it ‘eventually’ do, on any arbitrary topic”.
But as for something describing how it itself works, there appears to be no issue.

If the task to give it was something like “is there any input which you could be given which would result in an output such that P(input,output)” for arbitrary P, then yeah I would expect such diagonalization problems to pop-up.

But a system having a kind of introspection about how it works, rather than answering arbitrary questions about its final outputs (such as, program output, or whether a statement has a proof), seems totally fine.

Side note: One funny thing: (aiui) it is theoretically possible for a oracle that can have random behavior, to act (in a certain sense) as a halting-oracle for Turing machines with access to the same oracle.

That’s not to say that we can irl construct such a thing, as we can’t even make a halting oracle for normal Turing machines. But, if you add in some random behavior for the oracles, you can kinda evade the problems that come from the diagonalization.
They’re special firmware blobs because generally the OEMs aren’t building their BMCs from scratch as they might with their main boards and other components. They’re generally getting the bmc SoC from the likes of Aspeed and others who are the ones keeping them closed up. I’ve tried to get the magic binaries and source for various projects but have given up because there are so many layers of NDAs and sales gatekeepers. I’m not entirely sure who makes the dell bmcs but I know supermicro bundles Aspeed (at least they did with older generations of their main boards.)

I agree with you that you should be able to run whatever since in the end it’s just another computer, but the manufacturers believe otherwise since there’s “valuable IP” or whatever nonsense (insert rollseyes emoji here).

There are open specs like redfish but still doesn’t get to the heart of the matter.
I'm no expert, but piecing together what I've read, content moderation will not really be a thing. Instead there will be content labeling services which can be provided by third parties. You would subscribe to a labeling feed then use those labels to filter content you didn't want to be visible.
Yes that's true, there are efficient heuristic graph algorithms for many problems, for example the travelling salesman problem has several good heuristic algorithms that gives you a short path, but perhaps not the exact shortest.

But for problems like connected components, there is only one right answer, a component is connected or it is not, there is no useful heuristic solution. Same goes for all shortest paths, yes A* is heuristic for finding an optimally short path from a specific source to a specific destination, but to get all destination shortest paths you have to visit all the nodes anyway, so there is only one useful solution.
There's also Gambas for the almost VB needs.
Probably not available anywhere but the US. Maybe UK.