skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be. There are some use cases that fit very well.

For example, we plan to use GPT-4 for generating text that ends up being seen and read by our customers. (Can't disclose the details, as it's near to core of our business model.) We need a _lot_ of text, and its in style that is time-consuming to think and write by hand. However, all the generated data is checked for correctness by humans. I think that these tips are excellent for designing the generating process so that the end result is of as high quality as it could reasonably be expected to be.

Edit: Oh, you mean coding work as for generating code for developers? Not in the sense of using it as a component of a data-generating/transforming system? In that case, I pretty much agree.

Edit2: Oof, I just realized that I mistook this whole thread for another thread that was posted earlier on Hacker News. So I thought we were talking about engineering systems that has GPT-4 as a subsystem: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt-best-practices
Yes. If it's any longer then it's a tooling problem rather than an innate limit.
> to VHS vs Betamax, probably further

definitely to Polaroid: taking sexy pictures and not having to show them to the film development shop was big, I am told.
It’s more like asking a cop if you can sit somewhere and they give you a look and won’t tell you, but 3 years after you sit down they book you for trespassing.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/sorry-crypto-world-sec-isnt-ba...
Most senior devs I know use it as a rubber duck.

It's good at generating simple things that are 60% to 100% correct.

It's good at summarizing high level concepts or summarizing how multiple high level concepts relate with 60% to 100% accuracy

It's ok at helping you think about things to troubleshoot when you have an error you're not sure to do with.

To be honest I would say it's actually not going to be good for junior devs because they don't have the skills to properly fact check, quickly. But for more senior folks it's very easy to immediately see what's wrong, ignore those parts or ask it for clarification, and use what's right.

If you mostly know what you're doing, it can be very helpful to get immediate feedback, niche examples targeted exactly to what you're working on, or summaries of whatever high level concept you need a little more clarification on.

Much much faster than spelunking through Google.

As a concrete example I just this morning had it summarize Python's asyncio Queues versus Tasks, what they are, a few examples of using them, and when you would want to use one versus the other. All in just a few minutes.
I wouldn't have thought that either the Tractatus or westerns have much to do with ethics but philosophy can make some strange connections and that book does sound interesting.
The linked https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-turning-it-up-to-11/ page shows pricing for databases over 5GB
Throw in a USB C power bank in your backpack? Also, most seats (even economy) tends to have a usb outlet these days.
It’s definitely a theme of our times that we have all come to believe that any opinions contrary to our own must be for corrupt motives. I’m ready for that part to be over.
As a shareholder I don't want "instead of ads we have", I want "On top of ads we have"
It's a semi-regular question. The last popular thread was 9 months ago with 500 comments "Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32632720
"you can use any letters from the word function"

the examples miss the perfectly cromulent 'unction'
Nope. Seems like even the M2 chip and the RAM it has (on iPad Pro) isn't enough for Apple to consider adding multiuser support and quick multiuser switching. I keep waiting for this every iPadOS release, and it's disappointing not to see it.
In one shot? That feels wrong. And is a poverty trap. :(
If you think that way, you are not objectively weighing the benefits of server side rendering. It _is_ useful and shouldn't be tossed away for the benefits of a 6MB javascript blob.
I don’t believe that’s true of FDA and it actually should be true of NIH. NIH isn’t a regulatory body, it’s a research institution.

NIH researchers (and their funders, US taxpayers) should be getting paid more in royalties from commercialized research.
the docs say the Alpha is limited to 100Mb, and, given the size of SQLite DBs i have seen, 100Mb is quite large, is it not?
Macintosh was somewhat cheap at release time - $2495 for graphical computer, albeit very limited in many ways. In fact, probably it's major "groundbreaking" aspect was that it was cheap - compared to nearly 10x more expensive graphical workstations used in professional settings.

A standalone Sun-2/120, with cpu, 1M of memory, 42MB hard drive, tape interface, ethernet interface and software, cost $16300 in 1984 dollars, over 45k today.

So yeah, Macintosh was cheap
Since yesterday I have no meaningful recommendation. Before I would I have said Dell XPS. Today I would look into Asahi Linux.
I use copilot daily. I consider it a big help when it fills in unit tests for me. It removes work that adds no value. In other words, copilot adds value. It has also been a big help when I do something that is fairly common but is my first time. I have predicted hours to work up a new feature before and was surprised to have it done in minutes after typing...a character.

I stopped using ChatGPT after it was adapted to bing. Very little, if not zero, help now. Copilot seems to assess and track context and knows what you want to do as you move across files and domains. Solid tool.
Anthropomorphize is a good way to get ChatGPT to code some obvious but tedious code and to remind you how to cherry pick in git or other myriad of task that most of know how to do and before we will revisit in some site. I give ChatGPT good context and then do code review of the code it presents in the same way I do code reviews with the code I see elsewhere. One warning here though. Don't ask ChatGPT to code something that you don't know how to interpret and/or not willing to test for correctness.
If you have evidence that Tesla doesn't make batteries, perhaps you should alert their shareholders that the company is lying on this page:

https://www.tesla.com/giga-nevada
afaik, that's how it is envisioned to be used. Many databases rather one big monolith. The era of microdbs is here. Who's not going to bite?

See also: https://archive.is/e7u9x / https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/2020-04-06-physalia
Heh, I wasn’t aware of that theory about nukes disrupting alternate dimensions.

There’s a simpler explanation though - nukes emit a powerful electromagnetic pulse at the speed of light that might be strong enough to be detectable by anyone listening.

Also the 1936 Berlin Olympics TV broadcast was the first human-created electromagnetic signal strong enough to reach other planets and possibly be detectable.

Those were the first energy emissions by humanity that aliens might have detected. If aliens do exist, it’s little surprise they came here to investigate around the time of those events.
Ive been moving a large HTML / nunjuck CMS to nextjs. It's pretty decent and TSX. And when I said, this is the template, rewrite it based upon this example it does a decent job and definitely saves me time. For rewriting things like these it's been a time saver. There were also tasks where it mostly wasted my time.
Discord could replace reddit for interactive feeds/discussion. But I don't think it could replace it as a repository of past discussions. It's quite common for me to add site:reddit.com on google searches.

Also reddits use of threads/upvotes can trend discussion towards a general consensus. If I want a recommendation for something that consensus is useful (eg r/televisions weekly recommendations). Discord is kind of a crapshoot of whoever is active at the time.

Am I missing something with discord? I'm a user but I generally don't engage in large communities. And there is so much "filler" discussion, that is hard to lurk.
Totally agree. People didn't start using web2 because people called it web2, they used it because it was better and provided a better end user experience.

I wonder how much pushing web3 just confuses the average user versus just better communicating the actual benefits for these features being added to the web by web3.

Only developers care about version numbers
If you include the development of iOS and the A/M series chips then sure I guess it gets close, but it seems obvious to me they would have been doing those things anyway.

I guess it depends whether you want an all-in cost to compare to Magic Leap, in which case you could argue that most of the history of Apple has set them up for this – if you want to make a great VR headset, just make the best phone ever first – if you want to make the best phone ever, just make a great personal computer first, just acquire NEXT first, etc. I don't know where you draw the line.

More useful I think is to say what did it cost the companies above what they were already doing. For Magic Leap it's the whole business, for Apple it's not much, for Microsoft it's somewhere in the middle, for Meta it's maybe closer to Magic Leap.
The cards can also be used for playing and the comics for reading. They escape the Howey Test because they can and are used for non-securities things.
So you're covered for "forgotten" - but "lost" is still an issue. What happens when a user loses their passkey? (stolen phone, no backups, house fire, etc).
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Where can I find updates on this?
The maximum size will increase to at least 1GB in the near future, enabled by our recent rewrite of the underlying storage layer. Perhaps we can push it further, even, we'll see.

But yes, I think the next step is then some sort of sharding. Sharding by user would be an obvious approach for many apps. I think we should build a framework to help manage this, so apps would only need to provide some callbacks e.g. to compute shard key for a particular query.

Alternatively, apps that want full control will be able to use Durable Objects directly. We'll soon (in a few months, probably?) enable the new storage engine for all Durable Objects which means every object will have a private SQLite database.

(I'm the tech lead for Workers in general, and currently focused on this project in particular.)
The prosecutor who claws back millions from crypto scams
I find $2495 of original Macintosh to be pretty cheap compared to $16k or more of other graphical workstations at the time.
Regardless of the claims made, its a really neat idea. Confirms that tracers are a genuine artifact in your vision at least.
1 day ago, SEC sued Binance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197353 (575 points, 423 comments)

The Binance complaint: https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr...

Which contained the legendary line:

> 111. As Binance’s CCO bluntly admitted to another Binance compliance officer in December 2018, “we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.”

From a cursory review, the Coinbase complaint doesn't include the Coinbase "Compliance Officer" declaring that they are running a "fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro", so they are already off on stronger footing than Binance.
It's nice to get a template out to build from.

But yes, I have seen it make up its own Powershell cmdlets (my main usage)

So cannot be used unless you already know.
I guess I used brigaded loosely.

To me, it looks like a somewhat coordinated effort to give positive vibes to a relatively pointless (in its current state) product that likely nobody in this thread has had a chance to use.

Maybe it's not even coordinated - just a lot of like minded simps.
Having a 3k+ credit limit isn't that common, is it? And I don't know any consideration of the topic that doesn't treat credit cards as a problem/bad idea. Especially at that level.
FinLLama: Llama Specialized on Finance
Open-Source LLM fine-tuned on financial data, based on 33B-LLamA
Another data point for you, the Quest Pro was $1500 on launch and is now $1000.
What you're describing is actually very much like Lemmy. Communities are on a specific server, you just use federation to post from your account (instead of creating a local account every time) and as not much more than a frontend. Your local instance just provides your customized browsing interface and identity and talks to the server hosting the community over the API.
You appear to have watched a different product launch to the one I watched. The lack of obvious digital avatars was one of the key points.
I'm not and it still blocks.

I found an article about the kit elsewhere:
https://www.plus1homekits.com/home-kits/1-2-bedroom/getaway-...

There a re other kits as well: https://www.plus1homekits.com/3-bedrooms/
Why let COIN IPO in the first place? Nothing has changed really with cryptocurrency, rubes were more interested when COIN IPO'd than they are now. Did everyone cash out and now it's time to protect people?
What's so sanctimonious about writing code? If I vaguely know what I want to do in bash, but I don't know everything off the top of my head, I could search stackoverflow, or I could just type it into ChatGPT, apply some judgement, and run it. We're not slaughtering a holy cow, it's just another tool in the tool box in addition to the manual and google.
If they start today they could complete the migration by the mid-2040s!
On top of ads, you can have a dead website :^)
When you're truly in the zone, even walking for food or booze is too much effort.
"Almost identical demoes" I doubt it.
For our product, (SQL your cloud & saas resources as a service) we want to consider D1, but for security we would want database per tenant. Would that model work for Cloudflare? 1000 databases for 1000 tenants. Or should we use something else with shared tenancy?
Strong "Just read the manual" vibes.
Except for the Apple Watch I had all these products. They were some of the best of their time and even hold up today in terms of design and usability.

Your definition of success seems extraordinarily high, if these products were failures. Maybe measured by items sold. But then each of them stands in nearly every single design museum like MoMA, history books, and were clear stepping stones to the Mac mini (cube, sunflower without display), and ipod/phone (newton). So bottom line they were a clear success to Apple’s enormous brand value.
I often start writing (short) programs based on something else I wrote - I take what I did before and hack it to start doing what I need now. Even when you end up changing everything there's some advantage for me in not having to start entirely from scratch. I can see it being useful for that.

I feel exactly as you do and I've reviewed code, found all sorts of weirdness and then realised that the developer used ChatGPT to do it and probably to do its unit tests. It all worked within itself but clearly didn't work in the real world at all! :-)

Ultimately, I cannot really be bothered to use ChatGPT. It might be my backwardness but I can be bothered to use an IDE when it helps (instead of VIM) so I don't think I'm a hopeless fundamentalist. Why has my brain written it off? I don't know but I know I am lazy and I do things that make life easier.
Bingo. Bitcoin is much closer to gold than Apple stock.
Yikes that DM in the first comment from a Reddit admin basically asking the community member to perform free labour.
Ehh most relative valuation metrics only really stand up when you are talking about good comparables (Like to like)

But, It’s just a fixed variable cost issue with tiny homes for the most part. E.g. the $10k for appliances/mechanical would be pretty similar for 250sqft home and a 1000sqft, but all of a sudden they cost either ~$40sqft or ~$10sqft
Just curious because this question is always posed when HN disagrees with something. Are the recent climate events actually statistically significant?
No I mean they ask "what should we do and what IS THE LAW?" and SEC say "we don't know"
I don't use Discord but does it even offer similar features?

Last time I used it it just seemed like a nicer Skype, does it now offer posts in the same way reddit does or is it something tacked on?
Please take a moment to look at anything that Coinbase legal has put out in the past few years. They have desperately been trying to figure out how to register, to the point of suing the SEC to get information, and the SEC has time and time again refused to provide any information about how to do that.

Coinbase was founded, from day one, to be the most compliant cryptocurrency exchange in the US. They have hired massive teams of former lawmakers and regulators to try to navigate the path to get cleared by the SEC. If Coinbase hasn't been able to do it, how could any other company reasonably expect to do it?

I expect that when Coinbase eventually responds to this, likely in the next few minutes, the response will contain the full timeline of everything they've done to try and register. I've been listening to their lawyers get interviewed on podcasts and seen the countless blog posts they've posted about trying to get anything from the SEC, which has been entirely ignored. It's pretty infuriating. The SEC needs to label Coinbase as some lawless entity that refuses to follow the rules, when nothing could be farther from the truth.
Agreed I would want to do something like drawing with the eye tracking. I would expect the hand tracking would be used for that.
There’s lots of rumors that an upcoming iPhone model will include 3D recording.
The people who are paying for those seats will still pay for those seats. The people paying for the headset experience would’ve never paid for the seats. Different audience.
Right. I think they're a good metaphor too. See how warped and weird the visuals are? Imagine that kind of process being applied to everything. Sound, touch, even thought itself, or the experience of the passage of time. Its all warped.
You're not going to use consumer VR/AR for that, but carefully paired setup to ensure predictable latencies etc.
Original Maps in iPhone was actually Google Maps.

This make astonishing growth in Google Maps.
I've worked on problems much harder than Reddit. Reddit is a trivial problem.
I don’t think it’s more insane than copying and pasting code from anywhere on the internet. You have to understand what you use and you must not trust it blindly, whatever the source.
> it starts to become readable at 2.5x and is essentially a clear static image at 4x

> having a 2.5x to 4x slower processing speed

I'm confused. Wouldn't this imply a 2.5x to 4x faster processing speed?
It may look and sound the same, but no one is accidentally spilling beer in merriment or telling their friends they were there.

It builds the brand. Watching the game on tv is already a far superior way to actually see what’s happening. No different from any other live event, it’s a social experience.
But how can they enforce what they don't know? Coinbase and others asked several times, what should they do. Then get no answer. Then get attacked?
To clarify, Sandstorm does not sell any service today. It is an open source project that makes it much easier to self-host apps on your own server -- maybe in a datacenter, maybe on a device in your home.

Once upon a time, years ago, Sandstorm was a startup, and that startup did offer a paid hosting service as an option. However, that startup shut down a while ago and the paid hosting service went away. But the open source project lives on.

(I was the co-founder of said startup.)
In your defense, the site layout is partly to blame. I almost didn't notice the citation at the bottom - the sponsor blurb made it seem the content ends there, and that citation, for a split second, looked to me like some templating/database bug. Also the major point - that this insight is not random, but an update by the original researchers - is buried in the last paragraph.
The accessible implications this could have for the blind could be profound. Persons with some usable vision could have data only projected in their usable field. Just as with prism glasses, the brain will eventually click and suddenly the partially sighted legally blind can see everything.
Apple makes a lot of money from games on iOS, but nobody would say the iPhone is a gaming device.

I expect the headset to be the same: it will have the GPU power to support games third party devs will make games, Apple will make money from distributing games, and it will still not be considered a gaming platform.
Totally agree, I was expecting AWS to have done something shocking in response to their finding. No need to undermine their own work with a clickbait title.
This probably means that the cost of space is way lower where you are. That drives all sorts of decisions, such as probably being able to pay people reasonable prices to do the building if you cate about living in something more solid than a mobile home.

I would also not buy this, but on the other hand, it's something that could fit on my property as a place for aging parents without showing callous disregard for my neighbors. The same is not true of the mobile home, as far as I've seen. And that's without talking about tornadoes...
Unfortunately, an extension in use is expected to behave very differently from one that was merely installed. That’s the crux with observing software in sandboxes in order to determine its behavior.
>The protests are extremely time boxed too, so if I were Reddit, it seems like a fair trade. Very short term harm followed by getting exactly what they want

The community leaders aren't just upset about the policy change, but also trying to avoid contending with managing their communities 100% with reddit's inferior first-party moderation tools. It would make sense for the time-gated protests to be followed by a longer tail of deterioriating quality as mods simply quit.

It looks like that's what the /r/music team is planning to do already. They'll be closing the sub indefinitely on June 12, and one of the mods has remarked in a sticky comment on the announcement thread that they've been paying "$5/month to run our own servers to do stuff that reddit can't for the past 7-8 years."

It's remarkable to imagine creating a platform where community members will be so passionate as to work for free and even spend hundreds of dollars of their own money to enable working for you for free. All the more remarkable to see Reddit treating said community this way.

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/141tzgd/update_rmusi...
Apple’s Vision Pro headset: too pricey for the crowd(reaction)
Gaze+attention analytics are going to be the data broker treasure chest.
MKBHD mentioned the same use case in his video and how he would pay good money to NBA for it. And he used the headset for a good 30 minutes. Maybe it's a valid use case? Have you personally tried the headset to flat out dismiss it?
I’m not an expert in every area I need to touch. I don’t work at a place like google where there are teams dedicated to solving the same problems across the org which I can rely on.

Getting a simple example roughly tailored to my needs, which I can use as a launching point, is often extremely useful.
For example, I encounter scientific libraries with poor documentation and I could spend half my day reading through it or searching stack overflow for a good explanation…or, I can ask ChatGPT4 for a specific implementation using a specific library, then ask it to explain anything I don’t understand.

These tools aren’t solving any real problems for me - they are replacing slower and less responsive systems I already relied on for research and development.