skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in langchain competitor territory but also much lower level and less opinionated.
I.e. Guidance has no vector store support but it does manage caching Key/Value on the GPU which can be a big latency win
Personally I think a simple registration requirement would be a good idea, if it were truly simple and accessible to independent researchers.
They just released native support for those:

Controller script added for Novation Launchpad Pro MK3
Controller script added for Novation Launchpad X (via reassigning the Rec Button)
Controller script added for Novation Launchpad Mini MK3 (via the special 4th row buttons)
Controller script added for Akai APC Mini MK2
Controller script added for Akai APC Key25 MK2
Controller script updated for Novation Launchpad Pro (MK1)
Tax AI and use it to fund UBI
Regulators may not have realized. Maybe send an anonymous tip.
Your may have misunderstood the point of this post
> Russia has a similar gripe with a warm-water port in Crimea …

Russia has multiple ports on its own black sea coast and before 2014 was building them out, especially Novorossiysk, to host the Black Sea Fleet, for when the lease of Sevastopol runs out.
Here people discuss that for a chaotic system automatic differentiation will diverge. https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-forwarddiff-ing-throu...

I'm trying to come up with a simple example. I think that for bunch of flying hard spheres in a box, any measurement that requires sufficiently time spaced samples of their positions will have trouble being differentiated.
For anyone lurking in the comments here like I was, this is a really interesting interview and so worth watching.
Wrong terminology…. “Short stay home rentals”
As far as the OP is concerned, a wallet generated via a dice roll and pen would have worked to circumvent the vulnerability.

And we probably have different definitions of “trustless.” See here for a common understanding within crypto:

https://www.preethikasireddy.com/post/what-do-we-mean-by-blo...

It doesn’t mean “you can perform some action without trusting anybody or anything at all.” Protocols, software, hardware, and even your environment will all require various degrees of trust.
The dollar isn't popular because people like america or have confidence american economy is superior to china or europe. They want the dollar because they can use it to exchange currency and goods with any country. By want, I mean overall demand of the dollar not T bonds or whatever.

If Yuan/RMB was most in demand, that would mean it is easier to accept Yuan in exchange for an export of some sort to $randomcountry and then use Yuan to buy stuff from india, vietnam,UK,Canada,etc... who would want to accept Yuan for the stuff I want to buy from them.

The perceived acceptability of the currency is very important, at least as much as how strong the economy behind it is.
You have to be really careful with every single level of the stack.

- metrics code

- batching code

- data parsing/formatting/quality

- data sanitation(avoiding leakage)

- devising a proper dummy baseline early in the design process

- sufficient patience/grit, at a personal level

- data sufficiency

- checking proper gradient flows

- knowledge of the hardware

- knowledge of each framework’s quirks

- knowledge of the probability theory

- knowledge of numerical stability

- ability to setup a complicated stack

- ability to debug both math problems and extremely complicated program stacks

- data normalization

- knowledge of nn architectures

- knowledge of a constantly accelerating milieu of the state of the art

- knowledge of which versions of which libraries/dependencies are buggy

- ability to compare research papers and research code very carefully and critically

- ability to make results reproducible

- ability to share and communicate results

- ability to prioritize beforehand which few of the many possible options you could try, are actually worth your limited time at the moment

- ability to find prior art that has been overlooked by the current popular methods

- ability to optimize code to run fast

- ability to scale up the process to a larger distributed system when required

- ability to unit test stochastic code

- ability to modularize extremely bespoke spaghetti research code once its gotten ugly
Google Books excerpts are enough if you just need to mine citations. Write from Wikipedia or other informal sources—or from just a single book—then find your citations on Google Books by searching for specific info in your paper (you don't want to just cite Wikipedia's citations—some teachers and professors are wise to that). Cut my paper-writing time to less than half, if you factor in the time to go find books in the library. I love libgen, but search on Google Books can take you straight to the page you need. Give it a skim to make sure it's relevant, auto-generate the professor's preferred citation formatting somewhere, done. Works like a charm for light-duty make-work undergrad papers where reading multiple sources is kinda redundant because they're all gonna say basically the same stuff anyway.
What if every employee was talking totally random nonsense during the day, like singing songs and such, and playing some noises into the microphone?
And will Sam Altman's OpenAI be the standards body? ;)
Any decent virtual pinball machines out there? I was looking at a Legend one once but it seemed really shoddy.
Pinball is the best game. I used to play the Lord of the Rings machine when I was a kid. You had to collect the Fellowship to get multiball, although there were also a couple other ways you could trigger multiball (with a smaller number of balls though). I always considered controlling multiball as long as possible to be the "goal" of pinball, and of course getting as many free games from two quarters as possible.

Recently I learned (through hn I think) that there's an arcade in Chicago that offers a relatively cheap play-all-day pinball arcade room, I'm thinking of trying to go down there some day.

Unfortunately I also remember that I got a lot of wrist pain from playing, and I'm a bit concerned about re-triggering that; it would be catastrophic if my typing were impacted, so unless I had some prolonged time off work I don't think I'd ever play for more than maybe an hour at a time, spread out over several months.
Aquifers are intriguing. They are so large a person has a hard time realizing over a period of time how the land is affected when they are tapped. Subsidence is hard to wrap your head around.

San Joaquin Valley is a good example.

https://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/local-news/san-joaquin-...

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/location-maximum-land-subs...
Hey HN! This is a side project that I started working on roughly 1 year ago.

Manim is the math animation library created by the awesome math YouTuber 3blue1brown. This is about Manim Voiceover, a plugin for Manim that provides an API for adding voiceovers to videos. My goal is to create efficient text2video pipelines and make it possible to automatically generate beautiful explainer videos from any educational text on the web.

This is kind of an announcement post. You can check out the documentation itself here: https://voiceover.manim.community/en/stable/

Curious to hear what you think!
Some of the members of congress are totally falling for Altman's gambit. Sen. Graham kept asking about how a licensing regime would be a solution, which of course Altman loves, and kept interrupting Ms. Montgomery who tried to explain why that was not the best approach. Altman wants to secure his monopoly here and now. You can't have a licensing regime for AI - it doesn't make sense and he knows it. It would destroy the Open Source AI movement.

You need to control what data is allowed to be fed into paid AI model like OpenAI - can't eat a bunch of copyrighted material without express consent, for example. Or personally private information purchased from a data broker. Those kind of foundational rules would serve us all much better
> I need big blocks

I did some searching and at least in my neck of the woods it seems that such blocks can be ordered and delivered. Maybe you don't need to DIY and you can just buy what you need?
That's a complete narcissistic take. Other people are crowding your view? Would it be possible for you to understand that you take up as much space as any other person? That you are crowding their view? "At the expense of fewer people" - do you want to start killing your fellow man?
Why do you think it can't do that?
> or prosecutors not wanting to fill up jails and prisons too much

this is laughably not the case, and as of March they were looking at continuing to put more people in jail to the extent of shipping them out to other jails in the region to make room:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/king-county-looks-...

The only real reason prosecutors would choose to not prosecute is because they know they don't have the resources to get convictions (or because of outside political pressure)
I use this product too, love it!
There is no way to stop self hosted models. The best would be to send gov to data centers, but what if those centers are outside US jurisdiction? Too funny to watch the gov play these losing games.
Pretty sure referring to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275
When someone is arguing from a position of strength, they don't need to resort to petty jibes.

You are already arguing from a position of strength.

When you add petty jibes, it weakens your perceived position, because it suggests that you think you need them, rather than relying solely on your argument.

(As a corollary, you should never use petty jibes. When you feel like you need to, shore up your argument instead.)
>Spray brake cleaner on hot brakes and you're pretty much instantly dead.

brake cleaner is bad -- i'm not here to dispute that -- but i've witnessed quick-lube/inspection mechanics spraying brake cleaner onto hot brakes for 20+ years, both in shops i've worked in personally and in shops i've witnessed as a customer.

Oil-lube guys routinely work on very hot just-off-the-highway cars. Brake inspections are often a required element of such jobs, and there are few better ways to spray the brake dust off of calipers/drums/disc-hats/suspension components in a hurry than sprayable brake cleaners, as horrible as they are. Not only is the solvent and kinetic action of the spray itself useful, but the wetting action towards the brake dust prevents aerosolizing the brake dust for everyone in the shop.

I have never witnessed a death on-site.

I have no doubts that what you say about instant death is true in some laboratory environment or closed conditions, but it doesn't really correspond to practical reality.

The reality is that these folks go home, create a family, live their life , and then die at an early age from a chronic illness that is brought about by the conditions.

That's why these practices continue unabated; people aren't dying instantaneously from exposure, they're dying from the pernicious long term exposure effects.
If it's the case where you're going to other sources, why use ChatGPT at all? It doesn't source its information so you can't actually confirm without reading other sources which do source their information. Why would I care to learn German from ChatGPT when I could use a textbook that has had editors and subject matter experts vet that it won't lie to me? What is unique and useful about ChatGPT that's not also a weakness?

> At university if you discover teacher is lying, you may get prosecuted, expelled, and loose $100k on student loans.

Sorry, you're saying that the student will lose that?

This is my response to your edit:

> As I said, ChatGPT is good at answering and explaining questions. It can replace teacher as "explainer", not as some sort of dogmatic source of truth. Text book does not answer questions, ChatGPT does! If some section of textbook is too vague to understand, you may ask questions to get better understanding!

But if the explanation is lies and you need to go to a source to verify that ChatGPT just didn't lie to you, how is it of value?
Fair, but the reasoned pages of Foreign Affairs magazine aren't really better. Spoken as a subscriber.
Microsoft GitHub Co-pilot could be viewed entirely as just a more sophisticated indexer and search interface, a indexer of freely available source code on the public internet.

The concerns over copyrighted material ingested and exposed through AI system are the same for copyrighted material ingested by and displayed by our web 2.0 search engines.

So, Microsoft GitHub Co-pilot also indexes publicly accessible content but emits that content differently, however it does not exercise exclusive rights over what it indexes or control access to that content.

The Google Books and Author Guilds axis would have given exclusive monopoly access, distribution, and pricing of the largest collection of digital books in the world – so I don’t believe the comparison between the Google Books project and CoPilot is valid, because we have already accepted the concept of indexing and clipping content on the public internet.
Question, I played a pinball video game a while back (Demon Tilt). It was largely just a pinball machine. But it also let you nudge the ball and this was pretty critical to doing well. Are physical machines supposed to have this tilting mechanic? Because I’m vaguely aware that TILT is a thing you can be punished for. And I’m wondering how it is possible to avoid unlucky deaths otherwise.
It's definitely never been a cheap hobby. A common folly that I heard from multiple people involved in the scene was that they would buy an old and broken game with the idea that they would repair it themselves, only to find that the cost for parts would greatly outweigh any resale value the machine would have. Fortunately some push through regardless simply because they enjoy the game itself.
Pink slime from AI content farms is a poor substitute for real journalism
About a year and a half ago I bought 3 pinball machines along with a bunch of arcade boxes (and a shuffle bowler) as a lot. Price-wise it was a pretty good deal on the pinballs with everything else thrown in free.

The pros:

* Pinball is very good at keeping the baby awake until bedtime, lol. I would sit him on the glass and he would be enamored by the sights and sounds. Screens don't catch his eyes, so the physicality was great.
* Having pinball in the house is fun, and it makes parties better.

The cons:

* Turns out I'm not good at pinball!
* My machines are older (mid 90's) and they are a TON of work. The arcades too.
* One worked the morning I bought it and never again. Still working on it here and there.
* The others have all sorts of gremlins big and small.
* I have yet to find someone local who can repair them.

But, I've learned a ton about them and electronics in the meanwhile, so I no longer entirely regret jumping into this.

BTW, they sell new-in-box pinballs for almost as much as I paid for my whole 9 machine arcade, and you have to wait many months sometimes to get them. There's limited editions that are 2x-3x that, even.
We should get the European Union to force Apple to offer an Icloud Local server thingy
He's a self-appointed expert who is neither an AI researcher, computer scientist, or any other accredited title you'd expect someone loudly yelling, “WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE” on a technical topic like the fundamentals of AI and its dangers to hold.

You and others continue to foist human qualities on LLMs because it looks like magic. To know is to know oneself. LLMs do not know themselves. In fact, there is no “self” to know.
The Python Family of Languages
I built a similar thing to Grant's work a couple months ago and prototyped what this would look like against OpenAI's APIs [1]. TL;DR is that depending on how confusing your schema is, you might expect up to 5-10x the token usage for a particular prompt but better prompting can definitely reduce this significantly.

[1] https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish#so-how-do-i-use-this-...
I have often felt the ogallala aquifer could be recharged by diverting some of the great lakes spring runoff into the Atlantic via canals as well as via one of the many gravel buried moraines that connect with and now recharge the ogallala.
Not sure how this would affect the Atlantic, but 5-10% of it would go a long way to help the lowering of the Ogallala over the pat 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
> They're not actually giving away service that others charge thousands of dollars a month for, for free

Sure, I'm fine with that. The problem is that I don't know how much it'll cost if I fall out of their free tier.

If I go with Bunny.net, I can get bandwidth for $0.005/GB (on their volume tier with 10 PoPs) or $0.01/GB (on their standard tier with 114 PoPs). $1,000 will buy me 200TB of bandwidth on their volume tier. If I'm using 200TB on Cloudflare, what is that going to cost me? $500? $10,000? Fastly's list price is $0.12/GB for the first 10TB + $0.08/GB after that so their price would be $16,400. And I'm sure that at 200TB/mo, I wouldn't be paying Fastly's list price, but at least I have an upper bound on the pricing. With Cloudflare, I really don't know.

> "use it and hope for the best, 'till you get a notification from CloudFlare"

I'd be fine with this if there were a 30-day migration window that I'd get (or something like that). The problem is that there have been a few stories of Cloudflare moving very quickly against a customer's usage.
> Again, fsync()'s job is only to ensure the data is moved to durable storage.

The problem is that every layer in the stack lies. They say "yes it is definitely written to durable storage" when it is just in some cache layer and about to be written.
This opinion piece is a little light on details - I thought this was a more useful article:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10076136-athletics-reach...

Basically the plan for the stadium is $1.5B, with $400M of that public financing, but there isn't even a specific bill in the legislature, so the debate is kind of just beginning.

It's interesting to compare that the valuation of the A's is "only" around $1.2B to begin with:

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

I don't know much about Nevada politics so I don't know if this is likely to pass or not. The A's don't seem to have a great alternative lined up for staying in Oakland, so my personal guess is that they do end up going to Vegas, perhaps with the public funding negotiated down from the current request.
But the "reach" is _not_ just a function of how many users the company has, it's also what they do with it. If you have only one user who generates convincing misinformation that they share on social media, the reach may be large even if your user-base is tiny. Or your new voice-cloning model is used by a single user to make a large volume of fake hostage proof-of-life recordings. The problem, and the reason for guardrails (whether regulatory or otherwise), is that you don't know what your users will do with your new tech, even if there's only a small number of them.
Or maybe paid shills are insinuating that an international worker's rights movement is some kind of foreign attack on one specific country, in an attempt to discredit it so they can keep exploiting people.

Reminds me of what lengths Amazon went to, spending millions on union busting instead of paying people a living wage. I wouldn't put it below them to do a little astroturfing, it probably pays for itself.
I did a lot of Java in the past, and ended up in PHP lately. Funny how PHP feels like 'I wanna be Java when I grow up', while Java (quarkus) says 'I dont wanna be Java anymore'.

Then again,Java itself has Spring, starting out as '4 classes for an EJB is insane architecture overload' and ended up in dynamic injection architecture astronaut land.
> text rendering is definitely one of the things that come up the most

Ok this doesn’t dispute what I’m saying at all and I would think you would know better. Do you have profiles from 15 or so years ago that show text rendering was a substantially smaller percentage of time.

And if you do - ensure it is comparing apples to apples with subpixel (or at least greyscale) hinting and full featured shaping.
Neither of these are related to blitting/blending performance but they are relatively expensive.

Modern text rendering is super expensive (but by modern we’re talking on the order of 15 to 20 years, not yesterday). People are making claims that CPU 2D rendering has gotten more sluggish in that time frame - though nothing fundamental has changed other than the prevalence of “Retina” in some circles - but that isn’t something that has scaled past CPU performance.
This all works because historically these systems have been painstaking about only drawing when needed what’s needed.

If anything has changed it’s that - software in general for a number of reasons has gotten much sloppier about this.

And in the case of Mac OS specifically - they continue to throw all kinds of shit in the CPU rendering pipeline. If you just do things yourself and blit to a Metal texture, nothing is fundamentally slower.

I contend that most of what people are claiming are some fundamental hardware changes (that haven’t happened - things are faster across the board but otherwise it’s the same basic stuff) is due to less effective application software methods.
For 2D desktop apps the GPU is not the factor some people seem to think it is.
What’s it like to code with GPT-4 and aider?
Lately I've been doing a lot of coding with GPT-4. It's been fascinating to discover how many different kinds of coding tasks it can help with.

I collected a bunch of chat transcripts that show what it's been like creating and editing code with GPT-4. The chats cover a variety of tasks like generating new code, exploring and editing existing code, debugging complex multi-file code changes, updating documentation, etc.

I'm curious if others are getting similar benefits from using GPT-4 for coding, and what workflows folks are finding effective?

I've been spending time with tools like copilot, aichat, gish, promptr. I've built my preferred workflow into the aider command line tool, which I used to capture these chat transcripts. But I'd love pointers to other successful tools and workflows for more inspiration.
> But it won't tell you it doesn't know, it will hallucinate a citation that doesn't exist.

Maybe but I've had ChatGPT tell me it doesn't know many things.
Does everyone who grew up that way have longform arguments with themselves in the comment sections of hyper-online internet forums?
I just tried this prompt verbatim 8 times and it didn’t work once. did you do this with a new chat or did you do it after a chain of earlier prompts?

I was eventually able to get it to do it after a long chain of prompts, but completely unable to in one shot, which is especially important for this kind of use case