skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t hate alphabet - neither do I love them. I look at them through the lens of history. You on the other hand seem to be emotionally wounded by my assessment of them.

None of the companies you list are likely to collapse soon, as they remain focussed on their various missions, and have a unity of purpose. Out of all of them, I think Microsoft is the most likely to fail, as they are likely to be blindsided when the user-focussed desktop OS era ends. Their diversification efforts have been a mixed bag, and without windows, they are far, far less significant.

What I do look at is sentiment analysis - what other people feel and think about businesses, as that drives the market.

No, I don’t short, as just buying equities which are beginning significant growth is just as effective and doesn’t drive demise - I held goog for nearly 20 years, and sold off late ‘21, as I think they’ve peaked, and anything from here on is speculative froth.

You’ll note I keep saying “I think”, rather than making statements of fact - because this is purely what I think - I am not a Sybil.

You seem to have missed this:

>> They are brittle, overburdened by unity of disparity, culturally adrift, and they aren’t taking risks any more.
It is not worse for me. I do notice the novelty has worn off. Asking chatGPT4 about why people would think this on here I think it nails it with the novelty effect lol:

"Indeed, the performance of an AI model like ChatGPT doesn't deteriorate over time. However, human perception of its performance can change due to a variety of psychological factors:

Expectation Bias: As users become more familiar with AI capabilities, their expectations may increase over time. When AI doesn't meet these heightened expectations, users might perceive this as a decline in performance.

Novelty Effect: At the beginning, the novelty of interacting with an AI could lead to positive experiences. However, as the novelty wears off, users may start to focus more on the limitations, creating a perception of decreased performance."

Without this thread I would have said it got stronger with the May 12th update. I don't think that is really true though. There is this random aspect of streaks in asking questions it is good at answering vs streaks of asking questions it is less good at answering.
Does this work with React-Native? Hard to tell from a quick scan
Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months
> Unless there is a deployment, the schedule is one weekend a month right?

Yes and no. I do a lot of work at home. I mostly work on our home-grown software that manages the organization (recruiting and personnel management).

> How often were you called into service?

In 6 years I've been called out by the governor twice on big missions (1 hurricane and 1 freeze). But I've also had a handful of other deployments that were more like "we need a volunteer to come to HQ for a week". I once got "deployed" for 2 days to drive some computers from Austin down to the border. I try to take those tasks occasionally if my job can spare me.

The drill weekends are unpaid, but you get paid for any deployment. All deployments are voluntary, but you are expected to be available if a big disaster strikes.

> I just moved to Austin

Headquarters is at Camp Mabry in Austin. Building 32.
> I'm not sure what's the problem with the exponential notation?

Same. It's just more efficient and readable that counting the 0 while considering the culture bound digit group separator norms like thousands/millions 3,3 vs laks/crore 2,2,3 cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system?useski...

Personally, I think it'd have been better to say the the .00 adding nothing: 1E2 1E3 etc would be far better.
Beating the heat: These plant-based iridescent films stay cool in the sun
And importantly: after cheating the US governments' most trusted individuals-turned-investors plus a couple other billionaires out of several hundred million dollars.

I mean she just totally misunderstood the game: you cheat the poor in the US. Not the rich. Strange that such an intelligent woman missed that.
It's time for Flutter to adjust its market strategy
Flutter is no longer the only game in town (using the same approach), new solutions have come that are direct competitors.
Probably too expensive but how about throw it out into space, towards the sun (making sure it won't land in orbit)?
Ask HN: How to let GPT4 have access to latest laws?
I would like to use GPT4 with laws which came out since 2021… Thanks.
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Protecting against these vulnerabilities involves a lot more than just the OS. On this topic, see this incredible multi-step exploit from Google's Project Zero team, which goes from exploiting the Wi-Fi firmware to eventually gaining read-write access to the entire memory: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/over-air-vol-...

> During our research, we explored several components, including Broadcom’s Wi-Fi firmware, the DART IOMMU, and Apple’s Wi-Fi drivers […] We’ve also seen how the iPhone utilises hardware security mechanisms, such as DART, in order to provide isolation between the host and potentially malicious components.

Companies like NSO Group are certainly capable of developing exploits of this complexity, as Google's team has shown. Their analysis of NSO's FORCEDENTRY exploit showed NSO building a mini-VM from scratch within a little-known image codec used by the iMessage PDF engine: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

It is extremely difficult to defend against teams that have this amount of skill and dedication.
Honesty with a bonus of better performance, as well!

For people in this thread, please search for Llama-descended finetuned models in Huggingface. The newer ones with 65B and 13B parameters are quite good, maybe not exactly substitutions to GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 as of yet but is going there.

I like Manticore-13B myself, it can write Clojure and Lisp codes! Unfortunately it doesn't understand macros and libraries though.
> and you're sending potentially highly encumbered/lock and key assets to a remote server and third party?

As the joke says:
Patient: Doctor! Doctor! When I push here it hurts.
Doctor: Well, then don't do it!

If you are working with potentially highly encumbered / lock and key assets then keep them on your computer. If you are worried that your employees might leak them, then block the connection with a firewall.
Arm announces the Cortex X4 for 2024, plus a 14-core M2-fighter
They choose transactions to include before they attempt mine a block. Then after they successfully mine a block (which is rare) those transactions become a part of the ledger. Usually they take the transcations from public mempool that contains transactions waiting to be confirmed. But in theory miners could include the transactions that were never put in the mempool. Although they would need to have a significant portion of global hashrate to mine such blocks at any sensible rate, not just very occasionally.
It’s basically this meme in real life. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-skin-color-chart
> Traditional software = non AI-based software. For example, traditional web apps, mobile apps, servers, desktop applications.

I think you're conflating two things

1. working on AI systems and products

2. working with AI assistance

The recent developments in the field haven't changed the numbers for 1 (which is what your question is asking), they're affecting the numbers for 2.
How could GANs possibly be relevant to “integrating LLMs”?
You can still import a car with wrong tail lights, half a car, just the tail lights or a car without the tail lights.

You just can't register such a car in europe to be used as a "local car" (have plates of the current country) and driven on public streets.

You can also drive into europe with such a car (as long as it's legal in it's main country, and there is a treaty made by EU-that_country). While US cars are a rare thing to see here, there are a bunch of british right-hand drive cars all around europe driven by british drivers, that have bliding headlights for everyone else (becase the shape of the beam is different), and EU has no issues with that. You can even buy one in EU... but to register it under eg. german plates, you'll have to modify (well, replace) the headlights (not sure about the wheel).
IANAL but no. I sometimes add it to remind people that if they want real legal advise they should contact a lawyer and to avoid sounding too authoritative.
Absolutely! Dogs use yawning a lot in their communication if you look close enough. They also have other messages like smelling around, looking away, etc. I think they all might mean something along the lines of "I don't see you as a threat to me so we are good"
LLM progress is likely going to have a deteriorating curve like nearly all ML / AI tech.

It's possible things aren't going to get substantially better from GPT-4 for a while.

The idea that new players will surely zoom past seems bold, especially when established incumbents with massive budgets and proven track records in the space are struggling to keep up...
The reason these two ideas get commingled is because in practice they're indivisible. A high redistribution society requires high degrees of coercion and fascism.

To get around this the usual Star Trek analysis (by fans, the series itself doesn't talk about it much) is that after replicators were invented, there didn't need to be capitalism anymore and so there's no money in the future and everyone just works on perfecting themselves. It's a wafer thin social idea that was never fleshed out because the writers themselves didn't believe in it. Roddenberry insisted but the writers often couldn't make it work which is why there are so many weird hacks, like saying the replicators can't replicate things as big as star ships and they mostly just ignore the whole topic. Also the replicators kill a lot of drama because they mean there can't be any valuable objects.

There are obvious and basic objections to this idea that replicators = communism (in either direction). One is that you can't replicate services, and much economic activity today is the service economy. We see that the Enterprise has staff who do things like wait tables, cut hair and sign up for red uniform missions in which they will surely die, but why they do this in the absence of money is never explained. There's just this ambient assumption that everyone works because work is awesome.

Getting back to the thread, the lack of philosophical rigor here is all on McFarland unfortunately. He doesn't actually have a critique of capitalism. He doesn't even seem sure what capitalism is, appearing to use the term to just mean contemporary society and anyone he doesn't like. Even his arguments against his strawman enemies are garbled and useless! He shits on Musk, saying that if Elon invented a replicator he'd patent it and hoard the tech to himself, ignoring that Tesla gave away its entire patent pool so anyone else could build electric cars using their tech. Musk - arch capitalist - did the OPPOSITE of what McFarland claims capitalists do, and he didn't even notice! All the rest of his argument is also like that. He makes absurd claims about governments, Republicans killing animals in TV ads, some non-sequitur about meatless sausages ... it's just this total grab bag of incoherent thoughts that make no sense and don't seem connected to each other, wrapped as "capitalism sucks, communism rules".

If this were an essay I'd grade it an F. But in the end it's just a set of tweets. Those looking for philosophical rigor on the idea of an abundance machine need to look elsewhere.
> You can really accomplish about 98% of everything you will ever need with just functions, events, and data structures

You can also probably express 98% of what you need to with a few hundred words of English, but most people see a benefit in having a rich vocabulary. Having new ways to say something allows you to express it better and more concisely. It's the same for code.
> Working on a 128 GPU A100 cluster on AWS, 1 would fail every few days

Define "fail".

> I didn't have any insight on whether it was a hardware or software failure.

Have scripts check nvidia-smi for ECC errors and dmesg for devices dropping of the PCI bus.

For the former, replace the card. For the later, just perform a device reset (a power toggle of the device and a rescan of the bus is often enough to be back online within 5 seconds)
Dang it, I thought this was just down to the smuggling. That’s a bummer; I remember them being much creamier.
From the sounds of it, three wrong password attempts (from a phone or similar) could accomplish this? That should stop the toothbrush from being able to add extra time to the head
> How viable is it to create an operating system that is sufficiently bug-free and hardened enough to withstand even the most daunting of government adversaries?

There already exists some very secure operating systems, however that only solves the software part of the equation. Systems need hardware to run, and they come with firmware. Often the firmware itself is compromised, such as the firmware coming with most CPU’s, for example Intel Management Engine[^1], and the AMD Platform Security Processor[^2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
So roughly 8 years after widespread introduction of these codes of conduct in open source and here we are seeing projects start to disintegrate.
The author of the article (which is from 2012) has been a developer at a well-known rideshare company since 2015; So I guess he ships very frequently now. Nice example of living one's message.
I am CEO of Mattereum.

1) it takes four months on average to transfer real estate in the UK. It’s about the same in most other counties.

2) with our system that is reduced to one KYCAMLCTF/source of funds check, and an atomic swap on Ethereum.

Two days and most, and instant if you pre-clear the money.

3) getter a property legally ready for that transaction takes some time of course, but that work is mostly reused in subsequent transactions.

4) this is of most utility to large property companies not invisible house buyers. Developers and REITs for example.

5) no, you cannot do this with a database, a database can’t clear a $1.2m payment in real-time or create legally binding digital signatures on electronic versions of paper contracts, at least not without a vast amount of middleware. It’s a real blockchain use case.

Right now there is no meaningful electronic trading venue for real estate. The closest you get is listed REIT stock on stock exchanges.

Roughly three trillion of transactions a year for real estate. It’s a worthy market.

Not, I think you’ll find, a solution looking for a problem. A very large market indeed which has so far not found an electronic trading system that suits its operational and commercial needs.

As MICA in the EU and other similar legislation around the world clear out the pirate finance people the blockchain will simply normalise as a standard technology for doing transactions. If we also see central bank digital currency — it seems certain in at least some jurisdictions - that removes another set of uncertainties.

The UK Law Commission recently published a 550 page consultation document on digital assets in the UK. As that rolls into legislation the grey area will evaporate and we would expect mass adoption for B2B use cases to begin.

That’s certainly the government’s intention.

Yes there are a lot of naive grifters in the blockchain space. There are also a lot of world class technologists and lawyers. There are people breaking the law, or breaking laws which should exist! And there are people creating the enabling legislation.

Because you’ve been listening to propaganda not thinking for yourself, you have pre-judged the situation without understanding what the legislative agenda from the larger governments will enable. And I don’t mean USA here, that’s just a mess, but the world is bigger than just America.
Wasn't a browser like this integrated in Windows at some point? Just download a bunch of CHM files and you're good to go to the wilderness.
Show HN: A minimal website to show football fixtures/odds
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The website is ads-free and needs no registration. Hope it could be of some use for football fans and punters.
I watched one dumb cat video and one Friends clip before realising I'd been redirected to a generic home feed after dismissing the log-in wall, and they weren't supposed to be 'generatively filled' clips... /facepalm
Hmm, I can't find it in the post, but does anyone know if this only applies to US citizens, or foreign nationals as well?

(I assume warrantless searches of cell phones of foreign nationals not at border control are illegal as well?)
Even worse is all of the "GPT Influencers" and their "Here's what ChatGPT predicts will be the price of Bitcoin/some stock/houses will be this time next year" clickbait. It's a language model, people.
It will even write your peppy upbeat promotional posts for you!!!
> Entering a country as a foreigner is a privilege and not a right

We have the Visa application and interview process for that.

> There is absolutely a distinction to be made between a foreigner and a citizen and their respective personal properties.

Could you pinpoint this distincrion?

What would I be allowed to carry through US border as a citizen but not as a foreigner? Guns? Cocaine? Illegal french cheese?

I think you are resting in fallse comfort that your possesions are more protected than those of unwashed foreign masses.
Or use devdocs.io on the web. It works well offline.
If someone (like me) is looking for a summary of the "story so far", this post from JT is probably the best one to start with: https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/
> At this point most of the value I provide is not in the volume of code I deliver,

My personal record is two characters of code per two weeks of work.

Embedded device kept crashing when initializing GUI rendering library (a precompiled one, STemWin IIRC). Two weeks of disassembly, instruction-level tracing of the MCU core narrowed it down to the contents of external RAM not being correct (that is- what was being read did not match what was being written).

Some more poking with oscilloscope, reading the datasheets and low level memory initialization revealed an incorrectly set RAM configuration register that was related to burst writes. RAM test during bringup used word-by-word writes, but when DMA was used only the first word in transaction was written correctly.
I dont think there is much harm in removing most of the “safety” guards.
No I'm not arguing that. My point is that if an AI is trying to take over the world we can just turn it off, regardless of power budgets.

If it runs on millions of hacked devices, how do you turn it off? The same way any botnet gets turned off: virus scanners clean it up, the C&C servers get taken down, etc. This is not a new problem.

The usual response to this is to claim that superintelligence will develop so fast that we'll go from crappy chatbot to Skynet in 5 seconds flat, and nobody will have a chance to turn it off. That whole scenario is unmoored from reality: it assumes multiple massive leaps in tech that aren't anywhere on the horizon and where it's unclear why anyone would pay for such massive CPU overkill in the first place.
Absolutely, let me explain in full detail.

During the account verification process, users must take a picture of a valid identification card and a picture of themselves holding that ID card.

In order for this system to work, we must collect information on the identification card that can identify a specific person (such as their name, country, etc.). We also store the two pictures taken.

No personal data is ever shared or sold. The only purpose for collecting this information is to have a functioning verification system.

So let's say a user tries to verify their account with a government issued ID card and the next month they try to acquire a 2nd verified account but this time by using their driver's license.. They wont be able to acquire a 2nd verified account because our system will pick it up. (same name, same country, etc.)

Of course its possible to have two identical names living in the same state/country and this is why we also need to store the pictures to make sure that they're not the same person.

We also collect the device id and if a user tries to verify multiple accounts on the same device, our system will pick it up and we'll need to dig deeper to see if it's really the same person trying to acquire two accounts or not.

It goes much deeper than this but I hope this briefly explained the process.

Of course, there's never going to be a perfect verification system but at the very least what we're doing adds an extra layer to avoid voting manipulation on our platform.

Twitter for example.. they charge $8/month and all you have to provide is a phone number..
I think it helps to come to peace with the fact that the web is extremely diverse, then pick a tool and learn it. In reality, table stakes is HTML, CSS, and at least a general understanding of JavaScript (not a deep dive). Then I'd pick a framework that makes these things a little more intuitive. In my opinion, that's NextJS, React, and Tailwind -- almost solely because there is a pretty large mindshare around them so there are a lot of tools and libraries that support you. Once you get the hang of these things, frontend development becomes pretty easy.
It's quite simple: save the sexual jokes for the pub with your friends, not the workplace.

The massive gender imbalance in IT leads to skewed perceptions of what is acceptable in a professional environment. This in turn helps perpetuate gender imbalance. Simply, women do not want to work and get harassed.

I'd rather have more women in programming, than men who think sexual harassment is okay in a professional enviroment.
looks amazing - does this include JVM bindings or is it just something that would be the basis for that?
I noticed that it tries to forward the User to external Sources more (Answering Query, and then "For further Info, just ask an Expert"), or tries to get the User to do the Work (Here is a nice Overview of the Program, now you do the rest of the coding).

If i don't want the RLHF to get in my Way, i switch over to the API (sadly not the 4.0 one).

I also noticed a decline in following Instructions, i have a Primer i am preseeding my Chats with.

The Primer ends with "Do you understand? [Y|N]", and ChatGPT 3.5 usually answered with a Summary, ChatGPT 4.0 in the beginning just wrote "Y".

Now it behaves like 3.5, answering with a Summary instead of a "Y". Adjusted the Prompt to -> "Confirm instructions with a short and precise "Ok"." which seems to work.

Used Primer: https://github.com/Kalabint/ChatGPT-Primer
The Fourth Amendment, however, is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures, but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law.

As at least one other has pointed out the issue here is not really the tool(s) used to break | search | intercept | etc but the strength of oversight of the use of those tools.

It follows the general problem of police acting in a manner as though outside the law via friendly judges, rubberstamped warrents, and general immunity to prosecution for BadThings.
RIST and SRT overview: what to choose and why
Sure, but my question was to what end, what damage is actually occurring
The "It is for your own safety" argument was already bogus years ago. Bringing it back up in the context of AI and claiming this is something we shouldn't even discuss is a half-assed attempt to shut up critics. Just because something is about "children" or "safety" doesnt automatically end the argument there. Actually, these are mostly strawman arguments.
Its to make it less offensive. Not prevent it from taking over the world.