skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not understanding this comment, think about microtransactions. Who "subsidizes"? The people that can spend a lot but are also addicted. Connection? People that spend a lot on credit cards and gather late fees but not enough to ruin their credit or lose their card.

You know who banks love? That person who has 5 overdraft fees on their checking account per month while maintaining a healthy balance in their savings account. Know who banks hate? Poor people defaulting on their loans that won't get collected. Know who banks love the most? People who park large amounts of money in them. That money makes banks bank. Banks and credit card companies aren't just leeching off the poor. They have various sources of income.

There's more nuance to the system than just "fuck the poor" and framing it that way just muddies the waters.
And from the c-span youtube channel, timestamp ~2hr 14m 50s.

https://youtu.be/_E-4jtTFsO4?t=8090

You can click the three dot menu next to the share button to pull up the autogenerated transcript or offical CC on c-span, on youtube. I don't think you can search in the yt app like you can on desktop/mobile. The comments section there speaks volumes about the divide between those congressman and younger generations.
Supposedly "Be concise" in a prompt can save 40% on API costs. I wonder how effective attacks against API cost would be. I suspect it would be very easy to get ChatGPT to output as much text as the API or quota will allow.

It feels like what I imagine the early internet was, where you could stick `'; drop table users;` into email fields and ruin someone's day. There's so much scope for security issues as LLMs are woven into services, exposed through cracks to users.

Everywhere that could be SQL/database injected, or shell injected, can now be LLM injected. The difference being that where databases/shells are intended to work with a strict character set and have separation of data and command channels, LLMs don't currently have that separation and are designed to use unstructured data so ensuring they aren't being attacked cannot be known in the general case.

I suspect that over time LLM use will fall into two categories: sandboxed LLMs where users can interact directly for creative purposes, and LLMs that untrusted users do not get direct access to, where user input is narrowly specified, and sanitised by a sandboxed LLM.
PSVR2 has already paid for itself for me, I’ve used it everyday since launch. Guess I’m just a fool with more money than brains!
I would say the current choice for high-end quality in the VR space would be a Pimax 8K ($1,387), a tracking setup and controllers (another $577 if you get the de facto standard equipment from Valve), at least a NVIDIA RTX 2080 with 10+ GB ($900, but you'll want something significantly more powerful to run anything beyond the bare minimum), plus of course the rest of the computer to keep up with that and extra-long cables and everything (add at least another $500-$1,000).

For comparison, the various leaks and analyst claims say that the Apple headset is going to have 3x or more the effective resolution of the Pimax 8K, with no dedicated space or desktop computer needed to drive it. That's a gigantic leap past anything that exists on the market right now, and at $3,000 it would be a significantly cheaper buy-in for anyone who doesn't already own a thousand-dollar GPU.
The article says:

On Thursday, the government announced a deal with the two card companies that will reduce interchange fees for in-store transactions to 0.95 per cent, on average.

And then claims that this means:

That means on a $100 purchase, if a customer pays with a credit card, the retailer will get at least $99, where they previously would have kept as little as $97 in some cases.

This is wrong! Interchange is what banks pay to other banks. It's not what retailers (the acquiring bank's customers) pay.

So, the retailer's bank will get at least $99.

The article is suggesting:

* Customer pays $100

* Retailer's bank pays $0.95 cents to the cardholder's bank

* Retailer gets $99 or more.

If this were true, the retailer's bank would be left with 5 cents or less. This seems implausible. The retailer will almost certainly get less than $99.
Seems like a reasoned take - RISC-V for now looks like it can be an option when you don't need performance or software compatibility. But newer designs are likely to improve both absolute performance and performance per watt, and the RISC-V ecosystem is likely to grow.

On an unrelated note, I'm still frustrated how Raspberry Pi seems to have prioritized business customers over individual enthusiasts and students.
That part of the article ("The Magnifying Transmitter") is just gibberish. Tesla's mental health must already have been in steep decline by 1919. Or he was intentionally trying to bullshit people.
I would even go as far as to say that among commuters buying coffee mostly consist of commuters buying coffee. Maybe they have other customers too?

And come to think of it, you won't buy a coffee (at a drive-through!) when you are one minute away from your destination.

You most certainly have time to let it cool down and enjoy it at your preferred temperature. Even if you intend to consume it as soon as possible.
Well:

A) it’s a cheap Chinese device, I’m certain some stolen open source code is the least of its infringements.

B) it’s licensed GPL, if they made no code changes (however doubtful) they didn’t really rip anything off.
most of Carson City city limits are uninhabited mountain and desert. The parts where people actually live could easily be served by decent transit:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carson+City,+NV/@39.159966...
> Instead I seem to get by on intuition

This is also something Tesla would do!
- "But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."
I would assume that grocery store margins are that low because they price competitively, so this will just drop prices by a few % and the grocery store margins will stay the same.
Agreed that we need to do more to encourage renewables, but thankfully, the market has already brought the cost of solar down to be competitive with coal, even without adding subsidies to solar and tarrifs on coal. Solar is around $0.02 to $0.08 per kWh, vs $0.03 to $0.05 per kW for coal. The only thing coal has going for it in the face of that is solar's inability to produce when there is no sun.
It seems exceedingly unlikely that Ozempic will compare positively to regular movement and a healthy diet in the longer term. Even our most prized pharmaceuticals seem like hacks compared to behaviour-based solutions.
There is some essential context missing from this screenshot to understand what is going on and if it's significant or not. Where is ChatGPT getting the information about which email account to hack? That has to be provided either to the Wuzzi webpage, or to WebPilot or directly to ChatGPT somewhere. I noticed recently while developing a ChatGPT plugin that the HTTP requests that the plugin makes happen directly in my browser, and not on an OpenAI server. The implication, as far as I can tell, is that the Wuzzi webpage is somehow stealing some authentication token or something from your browser if you're logged into your email. Definitely a plausible attack vector, but I'd like to know more.
Not to mention parent poster neglected to take the wider picture into account.

That $2 dollar difference comes out to $20 over ten transactions, $200 over a hundred transactions, $2000 over a thousand transactions, and so forth. That is a huge difference.
There's a story in my (EU) city of when a bus driver near the end of his shift drove the bus up to his house absentmindedly much to surprise of the passengers.
You're clearly very confused regarding the Apple desktop experience.

MacOS doesn't take your data hostage, you can exfilrate everything to anywhere you want .

Hell, all macs have a special boot mode that turn them into usb hard drives so you can access everything from another computer.

The iOS is a walled garden but you were misinformed if you think macos locks you into its app store or locks your data away.

Even if you feel like that might change one day, it doesn't justify lying about the present.
Street of Crocodiles used to be in your bio here. Any advice on where to start?
Everyone from the coffee fetcher, the on air talent to the CEO are directly or indirectly deep on tech stocks.

It’s a viral pump and dump scheme.

Everyone realizes the government is a joke, but meat based tape recorder feel safe clinging to nostalgia. Figurative identity is such a wacky emotional prison to me.
I also moved from PS to Pixelmator Pro and never looked back. It's great.
>They raised money from investors based on lies and squandered it

Taking money under false pretenses is stealing.
Perhaps its because of the history and culture of self determination. Dog eat dog if you prefer. No one else was going to help you, you need to help yourself. Individuals must have a job or earn money. sink or swim. Hard lessons embedded in the culture.

Individuals (generally) don't have a safety net like most European countries.

Individual health care is only for the successful (rich). This breeds a culture of perseverance, if you like it weeds out the weak & lazy.
They can't survive in this sort of cultural environment, so they are able to be exploited with low wages and conditions, which in turn allows businesses to thrive.

Add to this a critical mass of people (350 million?) and you have lots of consumers with lots of money to invest/spend. Initially fortunes were made and the country grew economically on super low wages (slavery).
You now have lots of "canon fodder", workers who will do what they are told and must accept wages at any level because they must to survive. Individuals must provide for their old age, no one else will. If you can't then you just keep working. The individual drive to succeed is very strong in this environment,
chances must be taken, failure is not an option.
The only way to pull them selves out of this situation is by innovating and entrepreneurship.
> vacuum everything (including the skirting boards)

My house is mostly wood floors but I maybe Swiffer and vacuum once a week (probably a lot less) for about 15-20 minutes. I run Roomba once or twice a week to take care of the rest.

> mop the floors

I can count on one hand how many times I mop floors per year in any size house.

> dust everything else

I definitely don't do the blinds/baseboards/etc enough. Wife usually does the furniture once a week and the rest is on demand.

> clean all the windows

Only when I get a wild hair.

> change/wash/dry the linens/towels

Size of house doesn't change this. See above.

> clean the kitchen

Still only one kitchen.

> clean the toilets

Same number of people
Nope. Words have a meaning. Contributions are dedicated to a specific thing. Nobody can take the money of the Build-Hospitals contribution and use it to Build-Death-Star. Taxes however can go anywhere.

Once again, "payroll tax" is language invented by employers to make it feel like they're being unjustly taxed. Additionally, in the case of Europe, most of these contributions were set up after WW2 because employers were happy enough to collaborate with the occupiers and kept wanting cheap labour without participating in rebuilding nations. So, sorry, I won't cry about them having to pay their fair share.
These are very interesting, thanks for sharing! This autobiography seems to illustrate the principles that went into coming up with such ideas for patents.
Correct, this is what companies build "culture" for. Turnover goes way down in situations like this and once their employees have a mortgage and fixed living expense they basically only need to give them cost of living adjustment for 20+ years or they quit
https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html

>The 10600 pixels over 20 inches corresponds to 530 pixels per inch, which would indeed appear very sharp. Note in a recent printer test I showed a 600 ppi print had more detail than a 300 ppi print on an HP1220C printer (1200x2400 print dots). I've conducted some blind tests where a viewer had to sort 4 photos (150, 300, 600 and 600 ppi prints). The two 600 ppi were printed at 1200x1200 and 1200x2400 dpi. So far all have gotten the correct order of highest to lowest ppi (includes people up to age 50). See: http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/printer-ppi

I have no idea why everyone forgot how shit 300dpi printers were and how much crisper 1200dpi looked.
Except that I'm pretty sure it won't work with anything but Apple ecosystem. No chance in hell it would work with existing SteamVR libraries or Oculus Stores.

And Apple's domain is currently entirely empty of any VR/AR/XR applications. While I expect Safari to get OpenXR^W WebXR support (IIRC it's still not there, right?), even if the hardware specs will be suporior, it is hard to call it an advancement (something that beats the existing user experience), when there's maybe only a few applications.
This is my theory. Customers claim to care about privacy. But their actions consistently betray that they value convenience more than privacy. I think it is about stated vs demonstrated preferences. Given the demonstrated preference for convenience (over privacy), it makes sense for businesses to align themselves to the customer's actual sentiments.
The fight for mitigating climate change has a long way to go. I understand the funnily absurd side of the story, but the obvious flip side hurts my eyes for not being mentioned: it's trivializing pollution to an extreme.
The current leaks and analyst claims are saying an 8K screen per eye [1], with some kind of advanced eye tracking and foveated rendering to keep the GPU processing requirements under control. PSVR2 has already shown that at least the foveated rendering part is totally practical even at a much lower price point.

[1]: https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-vr-headset
What is the dating culture in the US around this? I’d have thought you’d have an easy time trying to play it as you being very environmentally conscious an in touch with society to impress the more progressive types rather than “I can’t afford a car”
GOG is full of older games updated to run on newer platfroms
>He shouldn't take this personally

Yes, but that makes it worse, not better.
There's no reason behind it, it's just suffering for no reason.
It's "Brazil" and not "1984", and I don't think that's better.
I'm glad someone finally said this.
Thanks you
Target Sale of Previously-Accessed iTunes Gift Cards Class Action (2021)
Brightline Rail Company gets it. They are predominantly a real estate play, buying up land surrounding their "higher" speed rail services. They have a Cali project currently though it is to connect to Las Vegas.

Buy the land, build the rail connector and enjoy the boost in land value you created.

It feels like everyone wants rail, benefits from rail and advocates for rail, but no rail gets done.
Along those lines, the graph didn't show Cerebras 2.6 TRILLION transistor wafer scale WSE-2 deep learning accelerator.

Be interesting to see if wafer scale becomes more common. I would think wafer scale CPU core farms would help cloud providers deliver greater one-big-server goodness.

850,000 cores

40GB of ram distributed among cores

220Pb/s of memory bandwidth

Result: 7,500 trillion FP16 operations per second

Product page: https://www.cerebras.net/product-chip/

Tech dive: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/cerebras-dives-wse-archite...
I think these guys could benefit from better prompts.

When I use chat prompting…

- system: sets the context for the bot

- “You are…”
- “Act like…”
- “Pretend…”

- assistant: specifies the task to be performed

- “Classify…”
- “Extract entities…”
- “Translate…”

- user: asks the question, adds examples

These guys were asking questions and giving examples in the assistant prompt. I feel like that messed up the LLMs responses.

I can’t wait to try Vicuña and MPT. I can’t quite figure out how to host them in Azure without an expensive VM. Maybe Azure DataBricks…?
The reason was that I was using json for the input.url input.query - but for some reason, even thought it's just plain strings, it has this error, when i use query strings it just works.
I said it’s something even a corrupt country was able to do that is universally loved and accepted. The fact that the US isn’t able to do it suggests it’s in someways far more corrupt than even India.
Australia is the only country I've ever been at that heavily discourages using a credit card because almost every single shop charges you 1-2% MORE for using a credit card, including international hotel chains, restaurants etc. THAT is something that should be outlawed.
Turns out what people say and how people behave are often very different.
Yes, of course there's more nuance than "fuck the poor". I almost never attribute malice to any actor -- the structural effects of systems are mostly organically evolved over time, nobody woke up one morning and designed the system to fuck over anybody in particular, just to make money.

I'm basing my view on the classic Boston Fed paper https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss... . I don't keep up much with the literature, so you can probably find rebuttals and more complex models in the last 13 years of economic research, but I think the big picture largely stands -- all prices are increased by 200bps, and super-prime customers get most of it back as a rebate on their credit cards.
An alternative is to not use Google Ads, suscriptions are more reliable.

I also got banned randomly for no reason at some point.
> mid-90s 68k or PPC Mac using components manufactured on a much smaller node would be incredible.

Why not just use an FPGA?
Than relies on you being fast enough to hit the button. Given how fast other tools like Bard are, that isn’t a viable solution.
Hyped to hell and back, I'll laugh when the inevitable crash comes.
The Wii U had the bigger issue that Nintendo never actually made it clear to a lot of people that it was even a new console rather than some kind of weird tablet add-on to an existing Wii.
As a C lover and C++ hater rust triggers me like C++ did. Too much syntax. Zig doesn’t have as much
Yes. Rent will eventually approach the profitability of the most profitable business that can be put on that land. In a large and rapidly growing city, "eventually" is very quick.
Watching the video linked in his previous tweet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIY5ZVktiGs) I finally understood what the author was talking about.

Are there a lot of people who use plugins with ChatGPT? Are there any interesting use cases?
Who would be the target of the claim? The identity of the thief is unknown. The only identifier is a crypto wallet. Otherwise, the only other targets for a civil case would be Binance, FBI, or SS. None of those are seemingly appropriate targets, but I'm no lawyer.
Apple Watch has failed?
So I think what's happing here:

1. The WebPilot plug-in is used for accessing the webpage that the user is asking to summarise

2. The prompt injection on that webpage then triggers the Zappier plugin to access the users email. This depends on the user having that plugin setup and enabled with access to their email.

3. The WebPilot plugin is then used again to exfiltrate the data.

It would be nice if the prompt on that page was shown, but I understand why they have removed it.

Essentially what OpenAI need to add is a positive assertion from the user each time a plugin is triggered indicating the actions that are going to take place. It's somewhat mad that that has not been implemented, "move fast and break things".
I mean at some point do People stop and think, “maybe not everyone thinks like me?”

Some people like crowds. Crowds are fun. Parties are fun. Food is fun. Community is fun. Or not. It’s great we have freedom to choose.
The better option, though it's very rarely offered, would be arm-swinging that moves you along in the direction you're looking like a cartoon character in an animation loop. Completely serious about that - you can look at the success of Gorilla Tag, where all motion is based on you pulling and pushing yourself around with your arms, and despite being a frenetic game with constant motion, motion-sickness issues are nigh nonexistent.
3k (there's supposedly an M2 per eye). 2k->3k = +125%. If foveated rendering can half the necessary pixel count, that's pretty much a wash.

FPS alone is +200%, but games are running above 30fps already so it's less than that. Add a reduction in system load due to not running the full OS, potentially framework improvements as we usually see at WWDC, and slightly reduced graphical fidelity that is typical for VR games, and we're back to the same ballpark.
FedNow is launching soon. It won't support chargebacks or reversals, which merchants would love, so they may offer it as a payment method (if this is possible). Consumers will then be able to save a few % at the expense losing their ability to contest the transaction. Unless credit card agreements mandate the price be the same regardless of payment method, or something.
Friedrich Merz (the populist, far more aligned with CSU) and Armin Laschet (the less than competent and charismatic chancellor candidate) happened. But mostly Merkel leaving happened.

Merkel was extremely popular with the voter base. Not letting her run again was considered an extremely bad take in the CDU/CSU. So she was chancellor for 16 years. She is a consensus seeking politician without too much hard convictions, but being in coalition meant that a lot of her work put her pretty far left within her party (in absolutes, probably slightly right center; she still voted against gay marriage).

The new CDU/CSU lives mostly in the opposition and the only voters they have left to molilize have run off to the AfD, being unhappy with Merkel (and a lot of them have simply died). Most Merkel voters moved on to SPD or even Greens; the only thing that kept them with the party was Merkel as a person.
I use Apple devices despite iOS, not because of it.
64 bit integers are easier just because we also end up using low numbers

9,223,372,036,854,775,807 is as nasty as a UUID to remember and type
Sure, if you focus only in what Postscript was capable of, however many of the ideas were possible via the Objective-C Kits.

That is the part of NeXT that many miss, and it also has in common with SunOS/NeWS, the UNIX compatibility was only the bottom layer, the cool parts were above it.
The link shows their consolidated revenue across the entire world. If you have a source that breaks it down to the US, and specifically US revenue on their credit products (Visa is by far the largest issuer of debit cards, for example, and debit cards got their fees capped by the Durbin amendment), I would love to take a look.
So this variant of T-SQL runs as fast as C right?
When you start a ChatGPT session with GPT-4 and Plugins Beta, no plugins are enabled by default. You can pick up to 3 plugins to enable, and you are restricted to plugins you've added from the 'Plugin store'.

If I were going to start a GPT-4 session and ask it to summarize a web page, I'd probably use the 'Browsing' version, which wouldn't have access to any plugins, let alone those specific ones.
In 2023, any transit system that requires more than quickly tapping your phone, wallet, watch, etc to the the turnstile is decades behind the world technologically and the inconvenience of looking for change is a problem because of the city council or state not investing in public transit. The vast majority of mass transit riders are not tourists from the suburbs using the system as a novelty that would be confused anyway.

I am personally not a fan of NFC becoming the standard in the US, since it requires strategically placing credit cards in your wallet instead of using a card specifically made for transit fare, but it does make it so large swathes of the population never even have to think about going to a fare machine.