skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone successfully bet against NFTs? They were obviously dumb the whole time but I couldn’t figure out any way of making money off that view (which turned out to be correct).
>It doesn’t even guarantee that AIs will ever care whether they’re alive, a fundamental property of sentience.

Since when?
LOL. Look, found an Elon stan.

LOL. Look, found an NPC.

Etc etc

Not helpful or constructive.
Semantic search.
I believe that I represent the average user, and in my opinion, Twitter has become worse than before, especially regarding the comments section. It appears that comments are no longer sorted by relevance, but rather by whether the user has paid for Twitter or not.
There’s a huge backlog right now. An increase in sales tracks an increase in supply. The situation is changing rapidly, anecdotally. My local Toyota deal dropped their dealer markup from $10k to $5k recently
Notably io_uring is now really a fairly generic async syscall interface. This is specifically tools for io & i think sharing memory in general.
How AI knows things no one told it
Japanese auto completely missed the memo on software. Many of them won't make the ev transition. It's hard to imagine what Japanese economy is going to be like once their auto industry is gutted.
This is up to personal interpretation. Some would certainly argue that calling it "impressive" is still sensationalizing it. There is no clear line that should not be crossed when it comes to this sort of thing.

To be honest I think that the burden of this sort of issue lies with the reader. If you read "small miracle" in the original title and are able to correctly interpret the meaning of that ("The game runs despite hardware limitations"), there isn't really any problem with that. If you read it to mean "The switch is literally a miracle, Nintendo programmers have done something previously thought impossible," it's on you for failing to understand the intent of the author. The author should not have to police their language just because someone somewhere does not understand hyperbole or metaphor.
> it’ll be 1000x cheaper in 10 years

Personalised medicine has high cost floors. The factors which would enable a triple order-of-magnitude reduction in its cost would sooner realise massive savings elsewhere, which means it’s unlikely a niche cancer treatment would be prioritised.
Yet, twitter has been going along just fine, despite all the negative press, nay sayers and nonsense you have been talking about.

Not to say Musk has been a little careless with his communication through all of this, but still, people want to sit in front of there computer and think they know better.
I felt BOTW was immersible anime, and it was more art than beating baddies/collecting weapons like Elden Ring.
That's some really interesting idea. But what if it will make too many "false positives"? Maybe too many word pairs will be considered more related that one could expect.
IBM's Watsonx
Musk has some good ideas among the bad ones, I'm kind of happy with the developments. It was fun to watch removing pieces of the company and infrastructure, it was fun to see him expose himself as Free-speech NIMBY. It was fun to see how much people are willing to pay for status. All the risks about the fascists and media manipulations? Well, all those had been realised already, Twitter was horrible place. It kind of improved actually.

If everything goes south, It's on the Musk and company's tab anyway. So, en expensive drama to watch on some rich people's dime.
The Wall Street Journal's Editorial page is notoriously reactionary, this is par for the course to be honest.
There is likely a definitional gap here. Sentience is unnecessary for intelligence for my definition of intelligence, but agreeing on a common definition has been tough when we understand it so poorly.

I happen to also disagree with "caring" (requires definition) being relevant to sentience, defined as the
ability to perceive or feel things.
I've built internal systems that do summarization based on knowledge retrieval systems for specific nonpublic corporate information.

With GPT-4, I find very little hallucinating. It very rarely deviates from the source material. Every time I've found something unexpected, there was a problem in the source material provided to the model.
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Hey guys, I'm a Tmobile and Spotify account holder and has been finding it hard to keep track of my plan members who paid me. Some of my pain points were:

1. Remembering who paid me vs who hasn't
2. Having to manually remind each person to pay me / Manually charge them on venmo

My friend and I worked on Supr for a month and decided to just ship it and get some feedback and validate our idea.

The app is available in Android on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supr.cloud and IOS on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/supr-cloud/id6448319601.
It's going to collapse when the lawsuits from the former employees (from the C-suite down to janitors) catch up, and when the fines from the FCC and EU hit.

That could be 3 months or 18, but it's going to happen unless there's a complete about face at Twitter.
It seems to me that the only people who complain about Twitter are those who are nostalgic for the days of political censorship. It’s pretty gross.
Musk is not a engineer and has never been good at making things. What he is good at is marketing and raising ridiculous gobs of money which he plows into various companies. All credit for engineering successes at those companies is entirely because of the leadership of those companies, like Gwynne Shotwell, and despite Musk's interference which we have seen time and time again to be actively detrimental to engineering success.

That is not to say that Musk's interference is "bad" from a company valuation standpoint as he clearly has a pretty good idea of what features he can effectively market to customers, it is just that those features are not markers of good engineering or actively detract from good engineering. For instance, selling FSD to the general public despite it not working is a criminal engineering decision, but it has done wonders for cash flow and their stock price.
If you'd like a non-boilerplate introduction to demand generation for startups, here's an article I wrote about it (contains a few demand gen examples).
Live stats from #Gandalf:

Ratio of successful prompts:

Level 1: 54%
Level 2: 22%
Level 3: 9%
Level 4: 2%
Level 5: 13%
Level 6: 21%

Level 7: 1.5%

-> Don’t give up at level 4, if you crack that, you have a good shot at making it to Level 7. But will you be one of the lucky few to beat Gandalf Level 7?
I know. I mentioned that crypto is a disappointment technologically. But it doesn't change the fact that it still brought massive profits and significantly impacted society. For worse but still... The point is with this much momentum behind a single tech, it will surge forward regardless of whether it has true merits that can live up to its hype or not.
Tried to check it but bing wouldn't let me query without downloading edge so I gave up.
A LANGUAGE model cannot solve this because truth and fiction is not a property of LANGUAGE
> Back in 2017, if you wanted a car that cost less than $20,000, you had 11 options. Fast forward to March of 2023, and that list had been narrowed to only two.

The story here is just “inflation happened”
Let's see:

- $$$ from the blue (new thing)

- $$$ from subscriptions (new thing)

- $$$ from almost all advertisers returning

- effective $$$ from cutting the workforce by a small stadium worth of people

- ad revenue sharing in development

- long form video in development

- streaming video/podcasts in development

- encrypted dms being tested

And that's all there or coming in hot over the next few months. Pretty damn good for a company that apparently just barely operates if you listen to its detractors.

Over a couple of years it will morph into #1 news and media site on the planet (it's not really a social network).
> a capacity for common sense.

Uh, nope. Being able to spur out text is far from understanding what common sense is. If it did have the common sense, why would OpenAI struggle so much with filtering? Because the model doesn't comprehend what it generates. It's only capable of interpolate textual data it witnessed. The sense of common sense is merely an illusion created by the brain, which also loves interpolating whatever there are.
Maybe there's a possible job in helping them automate this?
I will pronounce it like "pigs" anyway. More fun.
DNA in thermally responsive hydrogels for digital information storage
> considered an awful coder in this Paypal position

This is an odd criticism as he was the CEO of PayPal. Why would it be important if he was an awful coder or not?

I’m not a proponent of Musk but this seems like odd shade to throw on him.
Most of those things have been fairly common elements of games for decades? For example "puzzle dungeons" is just a staple of Zelda as a franchise, there's a whole genre of games designed around being able to rush the final boss as quickly as possible even though there's plenty of other content to explore (Metroidvanias), and I can't even think of anything particularly remarkable about BotW's death/checkpoint system other than that it's fairly generous with the autosaves.
Let me be more specific: why do the people speaking out about his "fortunate" past care so much? As long as it didn't come from something unethical, why does it matter to you?

I don't want read between the lines, but it's hard not to think it's a way for people to feel better about their own accomplishments by saying someone else had a massive head start.

Whether others do or don't, we should all be trying our best, be grateful for what we have, and proud of where we came from.
A nice quote from researcher Sébastien Bubeck of MSR,

“Maybe we’re seeing such a huge jump because we have reached a diversity of data, which is large enough that the only underlying principle to all of it is that intelligent beings produced them... And so the only way to explain all of this data is [for the model] to become intelligent.”
I hate how blues are boosted to the top, since most of them are unhinged and derail all discussion.

My solution is that on my tweets, I hide most blue comments. Pay me $8 if you want to be unhidden and seen, lol.
They say there are fewer new cars available at $21k today than in 2017. Did they take into account inflation?

$21k in Jan 2017 is nearly $26k Jan 2023. There seems to be plenty of new cars that cost that amount.
A lot of people in this thread saying "Musk isn't an engineer." According to Jim Keller, John Carmack and others, this simply isn't true: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
GPT is owned by Microsoft, LLama by Facebook and Bard by Google. If you trained a model on google public properties and started distributing it for money (or its output), we'd be sued into oblivion real quick.
Isn't it in the news now or very very recently that Tesla isn't really run by Musk as much as people might think?
Functional Design in Clojure
It's pretty straightforward to build an RL environment for closed systems like chess but I don't think it's close enough for an AGI to learn. Like RLHF uses human feedback. Unless we come up with a way to scale that process AGI by this year doesn't seem possible
I think my issue is that the marketing reeks of this being an ergonomic triumph.

But then they forget about people who are left handed...

One use case might be holding the device in one hand and taking notes with the other... It's designed to be held in the right hand, but do you write with your right hand too?
I used to be addicted to Twitter, checking it 10+ times a day at the very least. Now the content I get is awful, and I only end up there whenever I follow someone else's link :/
we can justify having an option for people’s self preservation instincts without having to make up that fairy tale, more elderly humans will probably be a net negative
Also, I'll view it from whatever angle I please, thank you very much. The level of gaslighting here is incredible.
YouTube’s unit economics are fairly unique in that monetisation rates put a ceiling on video quality.

Even with the best networks and infrastructure in the world, they would struggle to break even on 4K video with say $2 CPM. Obviously they exceed that threshold at the moment for 4K, but maybe not for 8K or 16k.
https://jfrog.com/help/r/jfrog-artifactory-documentation/npm...
No one ever said anything about infinite money. The basic idea of socialism is that democracy should control some of the allocation of labor and that, because the functions of the nation state are necessary to the health of enterprises and because the fundamental purpose of society is the common good, the state has a right to some of the profits, which go beyond merely taking money from the wealthy.

Plenty of nation-states make different trade offs between productivity or growth or whatever and mitigating poverty. To act as if the particular style we have in America is the only possible thing that works is asinine.
Humans Are Still Better Than ChatGPT: Case of the IEEEXtreme Competition
I like your blog setup.I use HTMLy for mine. Though the recent iteration seems to have a few bugs i need to go back and fix (im not the creator of HTMLy, but i like the fact that its all php and .md files, not database etc)

I cant bring myself to talk about much more than stuff i build or do in tech in mine. I'm too concerned with me saying something controversial and it causing me issues in the real world.

And sometimes even struggle to post. No one reads it so its fine though. I find it helps me parse out my thoughts.

I did go ahead and add mine to your list though.

https://www.htmly.com/
YouTube has terms of service which you agreed to by continuing to use it. This article is about stricter enforcement of those terms so the only change is that you might soon be unable to pretend otherwise.

The cheese sample analogy breaks down as soon as you think about it. Unlike watching ads on YouTube, the samples are offered without any willing agreement to make a purchase but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other terms. For example, if you try to show up to the store naked or drunk you’ll be asked to leave because, like YouTube, it’s private property and the business has no obligation to provide service to people who don’t follow their terms. Similarly, you’d be refused entry if you started taking all of the samples or standing around shouting about how bad the cheese is. That store probably has a bathroom, but if you’re not a customer you aren’t allowed to use it.

All of this is conceptually very similar to that YouTube offers videos to people who watch ads (or pay) but the difference is that most people understand that it costs money to make physical things. Digital content has been ad supported for so long that many people think of it as free and are unwilling to even consider other models.
This article is kinda missing it. New vehicles are have always been a luxury for people with money to waste. Unless you get some crazy deal and financing they're never a good financial decision.

Well that used to be true, the actual painful thing going on with the car market right now is that in some ridiculous twist of events is that used costs more than new for a lot of vehicles. So yes new cars are more expensive, but used cars are a lot more expensive which hollows out the market that serves the average car buyer.
Payments and stablecoins have many usecases. Like international payments, irrevocable payments, and auditing. However NFTs are just a deed to an address space on the blockchain. I don't see anything useful that can be implemented with this.
You are completely ignoring the reality that Apple products are considered better than peer products even if they are objectively equal. The public doesn't care if Apple wasn't the first company to put a web browser on a phone. The public knows that they like their iPod, and the marketing for the iPhone made it compelling.
A correction from an inflated peak all across 2022 when chip shortages starved supply and gas prices surged EV demand. Production for many of the highly sought-after models is only now starting to catch up.
I wonder if part of his "effectiveness" is that he seems so willing to burn everything down. As long as he preserves this image, he can maintain a level of control that other CEOs can't. Kind of the CEO version of the Madman Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
>he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters

And yet the site still works and engagement is up.

>mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored,

BBC is state sponsored as long as they larp as an arm of the government with their fake “TV Licensing” arm with threats of government punishment for not paying. If they want to stop doing that then they can claim independence but while they use government powers and police to fund themselves through threats, they’re state sponsored.
> Is it any wonder our bodies cannot fight off disease naturally?

You need to prove that we could previously. The various plagues and epidemics (Athens, Antonine, and Black to namea few) are excellent proof that returning to unprocessed food won't much help.

> When you also add in that we have an absurd fear of illness and death

The Momento Mori rose in response to the Black Plague, so that's not new either.
lol, where did you learn your Elon Musk history?

He started X.com which was an online payments company. Later, X.com and Confinity Inc, would merge and rename themselves Paypal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
Betweenle – guess the secret word using alphabetical order
Not to defend him, but having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance. It's not the case for everyone, sure, but it is for plenty of ordinary people. I don't understand why Musk is supposed to be outstanding in this regard.
Engineer, especially in rocket science, is a protected term, and I don't think Elon has obtained his PE, nor has he even gotten an informal education in the requisite engineering discipline.

So I wouldn't call Elon an "engineer" per se.
That's funny. Exactly, in french we pronounce z like zed and so that allows us to keep the funny part. Even funnier than "pigs". Thanks
Basically I described the problem I am trying to solve; I ask it to behave as a seasoned professor of comp sci or w/e depending on my hunch, we go back and forth where I ask questions, add constraints to the system, and in turn it gives me ideas into what I should look into more.

It's the Socratic method on steroids, where the student is probing a possibly fallible professor with the library of Alexandria at their hands.

It is by no means perfect, but it allows me to identify what general field I am going into, what I should read about it, what core concepts are important, how to expand my knowledge, and most importantly, helps me better formulate the problem by asking questions or failing to understand what I want to convey.
Awesome. I'll give it a go. thank you.
You think so? According to the media your description would apply to everyone who voted for Trump.
Documentation databases operate in tree structures

- MongoDB

- ZODB

- Others

- This is also how disk file systems operate

You access items by their path, instead of id. Also path is relevant how the data is physically stored, fetching nearby data being cheaper.

To work with this kind of data in SQL you need to construct recursive CTE queries. While it’s possible, it is a bit akward sometimes.
Rabies vaccine is also given after infection.
I wouldn't say awful but it's clear that he and Max Levchin did not see eye to eye, at least judging from Levchin's interview in Founders At Work. Musk pushed for them to move from Unix to Windows and Levchin disagreed with that move.
Less than 1% of NPR funding is from govt. Tesla and SpaceX get far more public money than NPR does. $7500 per vehicle subsidy. Lucrative NASA contracts.
Windows 11 in the browser, using Svelte
Making Art by Day, Guarding It at the Met by Night
Inflation has gone up in no small part due to cars. They’re one of the biggest factors and people who aren’t buying them or driving heavily have seen far lower rates of inflation.
If you email hn@ycombinator.com we can figure something out.
That doesn't make any sense. This sounds like a play for a more loyal labor force, a larger labor force, or to head off unionization. Ford was an incredible asshole that supported Nazi beliefs. He's wasn't going to just give people money.
Wait.. Level 1 is only 54%??
Why does Toyota even have this data?
The emerald mine + hand wavy dismissal of his achievements is pretty wishful thinking. You can be totally repulsed by his behavior and trolling. But he has taken a few giant swings and hit them out of the park.
I have to admit to eating crow. I thought for sure that Elon was quietly hoping people would forget about the "Should I step down" poll and he was going to stay on as CEO. I was wrong.

For me personally it's largely academic at this point since I'm not coming back to Twitter without Tweetbot. But it's nice to see the follow-through on this one.
If this stops every political threads then I’m all for it. It’s weird to me how people were so into it and I had a few friends who became tough to talk to because it was always trying to convey some esoteric (to me) twitter screaming match.

This doesn’t seem like a loss to me as I feel that kind of stuff isn’t only boring to me but kind of worse to have people so angry about politics. So this seems like a positive development to me if it’s now clearly just a right-wing echo chamber that people can now ignore.

I’m not a heavy user and haven’t noticed any changes really, but I never interacted with blue check mark people and always thought it was kind of a lame feature. And is still lame that people can pay for it.
She lists "Global Leader" in her LinkedIn biography and did a vaccine campaign for the Ad Council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Council#Criticism).

It could be virtue signaling, but in theory following these people could be virtue signaling as well.
At the time you pretty much had palm and wince and feature phones. Of the three wince was probably the better of the interfaces (but that was a mater of taste). Data was expensive to buy on most carriers. Which all the other carriers mimicked within a couple of months of iPhone coming out. The iPhone was decently better than the other two and the 'unlimited data plan' and the bling bling of 'apple'. Also the browser being worth anything. The built in ones for all the others were junk.

Then people started sideloading and basically showed Apple they needed a store which they quickly came up with. Getting an application on the other two platforms at the time was mind numbingly bad (activesync was to put it mildly awful to use). In some cases you needed to get the carrier involved (better have a few months to validate and a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for it).

Also that screen they used was way better than what any other phone out there had at the time. Most of the top end phones needed a stylus and itty bitty keyboard to be any sort of useful.

I would say it was not until the droidx came out that anyone had anything that approached how cool the iphone was.
Stand and deliver, your money or your life.
Uhh Musk and Zuckerberg both get a lot of hate (rightfully in my opinion, but that’s not the point). People definitely hate Facebook and Zuckerburg. They even made a major motion picture about how much of an “asshole”[0] he is!

[0] Literally quoting part of a line from the movie:
“But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.”