skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, how easy is it to fire people in France? If it’s difficult then startups will be much more reluctant to hire in the first place, and founders to embark on the whole startup adventure which necessarily implies a lot of hiring/firing.
Show HN: Starlo – Microblogging for the Modern Era
Hey HN, today we’re announcing Starlo. It’s essentially a shopify for social profiles. It’s a tool that’s built to solve for the lack of independent publishing options for content creators (of all types). It’s a self-labeled social profile, one in which the creator is the hero, not the platform. We’re taking a social-first approaching at independent publishing, with current support for short/long-form text posts, images, vertical/horizontal videos, short/long audio.

I’ve been creating content online for over a decade and I’m tired of pivoting to new platforms just to communicate my ideas. Writers and podcasters have many options for independent publishing, but creators of short-form content have no real alternatives outside of developing their own platforms, or by using existing high-maintenance social networks.

We’re launching in early access today, and will be rolling out features such as monetization options, custom domain names, content presentation options, a mobile app, and more over the next year.

I’d love to get your take on what we’re building, and I’m convinced Starlo will solve for many issues related to micro-blogging, independent publishing, and dependence on large social networks.
If you want to see what it’s like so far, here’s my profile: starlo.me/jarrenrocks

Also we’re currently bootstrapped. Investors feel free to say hi jarren@starlo.me
What's the catch? Using GPT-4 relative to its own marketing copy was a letdown.
Also if you allow users to receive vector representations of context and provide such representations as side information when querying LLMs.
A bottom 20% can become a top 1% with more life experience. Humans are versatile.
If that's your thing, I'm totally cool with it - if you need to watch TV or play video games to decompress, that's fine. I personally get really anxious when I'm "wasting" time and would rather learn something (math, computers, music, something) or do something (housework, yardwork, something) with my "spare" time and I can't help but notice that me not spending time doing what other people consider "leisure" activities really irks a lot of people. Like, to each their own, you know?
If I invest pocket money (the same amount as you, or even more) into founding a startup with you and it fails, I lose pocket money. The engineer we hired together to help build the company loses his job and may find himself with serious problems because of that. Risk is in the eye of the beholder...
Whenever I feel like I don't have enough time to do things, I think about the comment from the developer of curl:

"On average, I spend about an hour a day on curl. It adds up over time."
Cynical. Some love is unconditional.
I think engineers (esp in areas like SF) are especially vulnerable due to their relatively sedentary lifestyle, dietary proclivities (e.g. consuming stuff like soylent, vegetarian/vegan diets deficient in cholesterol and other androgen precursors, lots of bottled water, novel dietary fat profiles), etc.

But yeah, I have to imagine these effects are society-wide with varying strength for different sub-populations. This is consistent with various macro-scale observations like decreasing population-wide male fertility.
I would guess a GC MS[1]

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mas...
> both up and down voting

Yes, I have had comments which over time have swung between positive and negative and back again.

It would be helpful to see up and down as separate figures as it is possible to imagine no one has voted, but in fact they have just balanced out.
One question is how much other factors really matter compared to the raw "intelligence" of the model--how good its completions are. You're not going to care very much about context window, prompting, or integrations if the output isn't good. It would be sort of like a car that has the best steering and brakes on the market, but can't go above 5 mph.
I met a traveller from way the hell off

who said: two gigantic, fucked-up rock legs

be out there in the middle of goddamn nowhere

right next to them covered in shit some kinda big face

looked pretty pissed & upset & whatnot

all damn covered in words

“yo ozymandias here, this my shit”

“better than your shit, get fucked buddy”

not much else tho, just sand

shitloads of sand all over the place
So what is IQ good for exactly
Even if you decided to pull the trigger at 33 (closer to median age), your 17yo + younger siblings are still taking 80% of your non-work free time (assuming you haven't outsourced that).

IMHO Kids aren't really "adults" till about 27-30 given the complexity of society. If you happen to have special needs kids, they will take even longer.
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I'm incredibly lucky in that I live 5 minutes away from the office. I work 7.5 hours a day, Monday to Friday. Every day I got a ton of time to dedicate to things I like... and yet, many times I feel drained from crunching code every day... It's been like 8 months since I worked on a personal project... lately all I do is play Breath of the Wild... But I feel pretty good about it, I think I relate to this fuck-being-productive culture more and more every day... or maybe I'm just depressed... don't know.
> There's no contradiction between not being required to take any particular job, and "if you refuse to take 40 jobs in a row, go away".

Ok, so you take _some_ of the jobs, just enough to appear to be working reasonably. And then someone needs to figure out what "some" is. Plus half the point of a gig job is you decide when/what you are willing to work.

As noted, I don't believe there is NO solution... I just don't think it's as simple as "well, just require each person gets paid minimum wage". Because there's a lot of things to consider.
When I was at school Philips was infamous for just not getting it. Looks like decades later nothing's changed.

I think there's an american word for this, or close: jagoff.
Plaid Signs Agreements to Migrate Traffic to Financial Institutions’ APIs
I used to avoid JS then tried it for backend stuff, finding it actually the easiest way to do web backends. Most off-putting thing was the "callback/promise hell" erroneously recommended in tutorials until I realized you're actually supposed to use async-await. Then React Native instantly converted me from the horrible native iPhone dev, then got me into React (web). So I'll do new app projects fully in JS.

I also gave TS a serious try and found it pointless. Complicated the toolchain, made default stuff like the Node profiler not work anymore, and wasted tons of time on defining types that didn't actually catch any mistakes. Went back to JS. Turns out part of its strength comes from not caring.

Before that had used Java, Scala, C, C++, Erlang, Python, Swift, ObjC, Rust, PHP, and a little Golang.
Good point. I listen to my favourite albums basically on repeat. I sometimes feel like I've grown closed-minded—but I like your perspective better. Gonna go with that.
ShowTime: Amplifying Arbitrary CPU Timing Side Channels
So this is an example of Uber employing some people who are otherwise unemployable or do not wish to be employed in that sector of the workforce.

Is it reasonable to say that anyone who is currently a gig worker with Uber and wanted to could get a job as a HCV driver could do so by getting the license or taking an apprenticeship program? ( https://www.gov.uk/training-hgv/apprenticeships )

On the other hand, if people would rather work for Uber than a trucking company, is it fair to blame Uber for the labor shortage for truck drivers? Additionally, if people would rather work for Uber than a trucking company, is it unfair for Uber to pay less than the trucking company?

(Note: I categorically against the 'disrupt the industry by ignoring regulations and miscategorize workers' that many gig based companies seek to exploit and while this does cause problems it isn't necessarily the root cause of the problems that exist from inefficiencies in current regulations and employment options)

As an aside on the licensing in this situation https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-a-driver-cpc-national-vocati... : Drive an HGV or bus professionally while you're training - Apply to drive an HGV, bus or coach professionally for up to 12 months before taking all the qualifying tests if you’re doing certain training courses.
you only point out positives, but the negatives are usually felt a lot more intensively
Just use mithril
Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the facts and relevant information. By utilizing OpenAI's language models, Boring Report processes sensationalist news articles, transforms them into the content you see, and helps readers focus on the essential details. We recently updated our iOS app experience, so any and all feedback would be appreciated.

App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boring-report-news-by-ai/id644...
Please go ahead Mozilla (Firefox) and switch from one behemoth to another, since they are still unable to make money themselves [0] and end up chasing the next fad of AI as a search engine hallucinating nonsense with sophistry.

Even if they do move, where exactly is Bing when compared to Google in search traffic? [1]. No where near a 'threat 'to Google.

Had high hopes for Mozilla, but it seems they have ran out of ideas and are hardly privacy focused. Brave will essentially make them even more irrelevant.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...

[1] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-gro...
I’ve been using it for most of those years, and still use it every day. We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open them, while I happily regexed my way around extracting various data.

However, I reluctantly have to say that when working with TypeScript codebases specifically, I do feel the lack of IDE features for recognizing imports and cross-referencing symbols across files. Any other BBEdit diehards in this position? What have you ended up doing?
Falsely how?
The notion that LGBT ideology[0] is mainstreamed, backed, and promoted by the American regime/media-corporate-government-education complex and readily absorbed by a growing portion of certain segments of the populace is not controversial. Indeed, it is rather obvious. It is even explicitly stated by those entities. Even assuming that 40% of Americans are "actively opposed" (though I'm not sure how you define "active" as the political activity of the vast majority of citizens is confined, at best, to voting and tweeting statements of defiance), that leaves 60% who are ambivalent or onboard; the ambivalent will predictably go with the flow of what's popular. So, yes, there does exist opposition to the normalization of the LGBT stance, but it has generally been quite weak and disorganized given the ease with which things like "gay marriage" have become normalized. The victim mentality that often characterizes grievance and resentment movements can produce a distorted picture of what's actually the case.

It remains to be seen whether those opposed can mount a successful defense.

[0] Before someone comments with something like "LGBT isn't an ideology; they're PEOPLE!", I will restate that, yes, LGBT is an ideology (or family of ideologies). It is an anthropological position taken on what it means to be human, what human sexuality is about and therefore on sexual morality, the social relations that can licitly follow, etc. People can accept or reject the position. People can experience same-sex attractions or whatever. What LGBT offers is a particular interpretation of those experiences, and a political program that appeals to and makes use them, that, to put it mildly, are controversial. They are contested and challenged and quite rigorously by, e.g., natural law ethicists (who draw on a long intellectual and ethical tradition that has already dealt with such questions throughout history). LGBT ideology cannot be understood outside of the liberal tradition; with liberalism comes the notion that freedom is the unfettered indulgence of any desire ("do what thou wilt"), save for those that contradict the ideology, of course. But the classical tradition has responded to such and similar views throughout history; to act against reason and to be a slave to one's passions and to any disordered desires is not freedom. Freedom is the ability to do what one ought, to do what is objectively good, to act according to human nature, and it is the nature of human beings to be rational. By that rationality, they can discern what is objectively good. (There are also interesting connections between LGBT and transhumanism and gnosticism, ones which reveal how unwittingly appropriate the choice of the "pride" slogan is, but those I leave to the side for now.)
Google is really trying to catch up to OpenAI & MS. The truth is they have never been in the race to begin with. All they had and still have is PR stunts. Let's see if their copying of MS model will produce anything useful.
I was thinking about the article author's case where they were looking at options for implementing unique user tracking for themselves, on their own server.
Downvoters should realize their org isn’t special in any way.
I wouldn't call the simple fans useless - just the fact that the fumes are being blown away from your face is a huge improvement over not even having that.

Of course there needs to be somewhere for them to go, but if you can have an open window close to your bench, that solves that problem quite nicely.
What's your explanation for all the other countries that also had lockdowns despite Trump not being president there?

This thing was impossible to contain, regardless of which talking head was in charge.
It means nothing as long as they don't actually let us test the API.

Good luck waiting for it.
It's not guaranteed, but caring and working hard can pay off over time and can give longevity to what you do. If you are working with the right people, they tend to notice and reward this.

The result of not caring shows over time and companies that operate like this tend to fall behind and become obsolete.
https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-05-10-leaderboard/

https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena

Claude by Anthropic has more favourable responses then ChatGPT
Any reason to believe one claim over the other?
Yes, but also tech in general provides new and innovative ways of implementing vendor lock-in at unprecedented scales. Left unchecked, Apple could easily take much more existing commerce, finance and numerous other business, leveraging their existing platforms.
Claude’s very quietly better on everything but pricing, for a while, it just got buried because they announced on “AI Tuesday” (iirc gpt4 and Bing announcement day)

The ChatGPT equivalent is 3x speed and was somewhere between ChatGPT and GPT4 on my TriviaQA benchmark replication I did

Couple tweets with data and examples. Note they’re from 8 weeks ago, I know Claude got a version bump, GPT3.5/4 accessible via API seem the same.

[1] brief and graphical summary of speed and TriviaQA https://twitter.com/jpohhhh/status/1638362982131351552?s=46&...

[2] ad hoc side by sides https://twitter.com/jpohhhh/status/1637316127314305024?s=46&...
Yes, and it’s why GDPR is a very bad law. If you follow to the letter, Internet is disallowed in the EU.
There is no basis in logic for what you are saying. The disaster doesn’t happen because even Treasuries beyond their payment date are discountable. Even more so at the lender of last resort.

You are talking about the Fed refusing to do its job. How long do you think the people in charge of the Fed will stay in charge in that situation?

The Fed is not God. It is the agent of the Treasury and it does what Treasury tells it to do - just as Bernanke said when he testified to Congress.
Yeah, there's definitely diminishing returns. I just wanted to talk to ChatGPT about a game I'm developing. I have pages upon pages of product design notes and I'm not able to just copy/paste the whole thing in and start talking to it at 8k context length. There's not really duplicate information as far as I can tell since each section covers new topics. I'm sure there's a way to express the same ideas more succinctly, but I kind of want ChatGPT to do that for me rather than me figuring out how to do that just to interface the ideas into it.
Do you have sources for any of these claims?
I'd like to get back to part time work.
Strongly agree. They are ordered by how much I think they generally will lead to users choosing one model over the other.

Intelligence is the most important dimension by far, perhaps an order of magnitude or more above the second item on the list.
It's hosted by Engine, a lobbying organization for startups, so it seems likely that they think it will show people that companies hosting user-generated content face a hard situation (and double-binds where whatever they do will anger people).

I was personally more convinced of the double-bind issue after playing: different groups of people (at every level) have different norms, the Internet helps bring them all in contact with each other, and I can see how that's a recipe for making them angry with each other and also with the intermediary.
It seems Kemal Kilicdaroglu (the main opposition candidate) is accusing Russians for the deepfake video.

He tweeted in Turkish and Russian https://twitter.com/kilicdarogluk/status/1656705798557384727
Sorry but I consider social distancing measures and forced mask wearing to be "lockdowns", colloquially, as do many other people.

The life-altering consequences of COVID policy lasted much, much longer than three months.
I wonder why this is? Naively there's no difference between the two from a transformer standpoint.

Perhaps it's because under the hood there's additional safety analysis/candidate generate that is resource intensive?
What is a heat reservoir for the shower, and what does it have to do with the sun? I'm Googling the term and all I'm finding is standard hot water storage tanks [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_water_storage_tank
This gave me PTSD from working in T&S. Impressive level of detail, nice work creating it!
No one is claiming what you're arguing against.

We're simply saying that AI can give you more cultural understanding through deep diving into language. Not that opening chatgpt makes you understand everything about a culture or a group of people.

No one here was saying LLM's are a panacea for cultural misunderstanding and it's bizarre you think anyone on HN would believe that. You've created an imaginary argument for the sake of positing your opinion. You did however bring up willingness, which is an important consideration.
I have a different understanding of being productive - and it's not about working harder.

It's more about being smart at work and life (find the best tools for you, discover how your own brain works and find lifehacks - including food - to exploit the best from it).
Many businesses won't pay anything other than the 23+ rate.

The age based rates should be removed altogether, they're mainly there so that the owners of small businesses can creep on young girls.
I disagree, the avg age of someone starting a company is 42[1] :)

I honestly think its truly just about filtering BS. I get hungry about the right things. Just like I get passionate about the right relationships. But not goin to drop everything for someone that shows the tiniest bit of interest me like maybe when I was young and had no idea what kind of relationship I wanted.

1 - https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/this-is-the-avera....
Yea, I think what makes me enjoy Ruby a lot is the ability to meta-program a lot. I can mold the language to what I want to express.

Of course, this can be a double edged sword if you aren't comfortable in the language yet.
That’s the point though, right? Encouraging illegal activity may not itself be illegal but moderators aren’t arbiters of the law, they’re protecting the integrity of the website for the intended user base. If you want to allow people to encourage cocaine usage on your website, you have to be prepared to deal with law enforcement — because when someone follows the advice and dies with the website open on their computer, the website operators will get a call… — and not many people want to risk their entire company because “it’s legal to encourage people to take cocaine!”

Moderation is hard and that example is… the perfect example. User reports are rarely accurate but still valuable.
No one is questioning the love, the sina qua non for disappointment.
When you import people from the jungle, you eventually become the jungle.
I'm thinking about buying a personal voice recorder and keeping it on me 24/7. I could run the audio through Whisper every day and then slowly build up a database of facts that I could query. Like every day if I learn someone's birthday or meet a new person, I could quickly say "I met XYZ at the meeting and we talked about AI bots. Their birthday is May 11th", or "remember to pay the phone bill on the 21st of every month". And then every day the assistant could query that database and tell me who's birthday it is, or which task I need to take care of. If it was realtime then we get closer to a "Her" style AI assistant.

The biggest issue I have is with the models being cloud hosted. I want to own and control all of my data especially personal things like voice recordings... any company will promise the moon when talking about their data security, but we should be 100x more worried about the risks in the long term.
Hm, the technical university I studied at (in a STEM program) has dozens of Erasmus partner universities, including programs in Sevilla, Milan, Istanbul and of course Barcelona. Erasmus is definitely open to all fields - maybe your university just had a bad international office?
IMO, the worst thing to come out of OSI was the use of numbers for referring to layers. It seems obfuscationist to say "layer 2" or "layer 3" but those seem to have lodged themselves into the industry. For those who only occasionally deal with network stacks "link layer" "internet layer" and "transport layer" are far more mnemonic.
Those are the same SKUs I linked.

The new model are a different model identified that's not listed in the pricing doc, although it sounds like the intent may be to replace the base from looking at the API docs: https://console.anthropic.com/docs/api/reference#-v1-complet...
Quite hard, but other countries with similar labor laws (like the Netherlands) manage to have decent startup ecosystems.
So open source is better is because someone doesn't know how to turn off Windows Defender?
BBEdit was one of the best apps on my very first Mac in 1995, and I've been using it ever since. No other software I use has more years of service under its belt. 68k, PowerPC, Intel, ... — that alone is such a rare achievement. I don't know any other commercial software with such a track record.

They will pry it from my cold, dead hands once I'm gone.
Schemish
Glad to see people starting to demand their time to be properly compensated for.
As a person who's been tinkering with hardware the past couple of years, I had been trying to search for exactly this kind of guide for MONTHS.

This is so well documented and made. I love it!