skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely rooting for AMD to develop a competitive alternative to NVIDIA. Currently, NVIDIA dominates the machine learning landscape, and there doesn't seem to be a justifiable reason for the price discrepancy between the RTX 4090 and the A100.
Despite the directions the interviewer tried steering this conversation into, this is a really interesting interview.

But when it comes to the private equity roll-ups, I think everyone is missing the forest for the trees. If you are a doctor looking to retire and sell your business there is no one else right now who would buy it. The same goes for every category of "mom and pop" business in the US. Even if you could find someone experienced enough and interested in running it - that person could not afford the business.

So there is kind of a double problem happening right now. One is simply demographic - experienced business owners are retiring at a much faster rate than they are being replaced. Secondly, there is the capitalization problem. A doctor knows what his practice is worth and wants every cent he can get out of it - but the next generation of doctor is not going to be able to compete with debt financing what a PE cash-buyer can get.

In addition, there is a problem specific to medical practices - you can't just hand them over to your kid! (unless they also happened to pursue the exact same medical training you did). And in addition to this medical schools (as I have been told) are really underprepared new doctors for running a business.

Keep in mind owner-operators already get a huge income and tax incentive over PE firms. It's kind of a perfect storm that makes medical clinics such a special target vs plumbers or landscapers or whatever.

If you want clinics to stay independent and keep retiring doctors happy, we are going to have to carve out special programs or tax breaks for young doctors to buy up these businesses with debt. And keep in mind, these would be essentially subsidies for millionaires.
Perhaps look at how (Open,Libre)Office does it to support ODT format (e.g. OASIS Open Document Format)?
Interesting to see this plugin-adjacent functionality landing in the chat API.

It seems like there is no way to provide in context examples of calling functions, since they are now no longer just "assistant"-authored chat turns with text, but rather a distinct kind of output.

This can make it hard to demonstrate how to use functions effectively. I haven't played with this feature yet; maybe the model will somehow be able to leverage in context chat turn examples and use those to inform its function call outputs?
Several of our production redshift clusters are giving 504s in the console and InternalServerError exceptions related to xen_aws_credentials_mgr.cpp
Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board
I tried and I consider the feedback enough explicit. But maybe he has disabled JS and just do not see that change in browser's DOM.
You've got a huge chicken and egg problem here that you haven't resolved.
This is the cost of operating business in a grey area. Nobody put a gun to Coinbase's head and forced them to open up shop and get stupidly rich.

If you are running a sketchy business, you better have a team of lawyers going through case law and sketching up a theory of law that is defensible in court. Instead, it looks like Coinbase disliked the answer lawyers gave them, and went for the PR strategy instead. If Coinbase honestly thought they were on the right side of the law, they wouldn't be begging the public to vote for different people.
Clusivity
How prevalent is this though? I come from a small rural part of the country that voted about 98% for Trump in 2016 and 2020. I remember going to the community pool and no one doing or saying anything negative to the non-white swimmers. I won’t pretend that there is no racism, but this notion that large swaths of the country are just itching to break out the noose is rude and just plain false.
Except my preference for SSR as the default dates as far back as 2014 and is rooted in the laws of physics[1] Downloading an empty shell, downloading code to render a bunch of spinners, to then incur in a bunch of waterfalls of data and more code to the server is not gonna make it.

[1] https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application...
Imho it's exactly the other way around: Imperative programming is an implementation detail and nothing you should care at first.

If you want to learn proper abstractions you should start with something FP-ish.

This also avoids to get your head messed up with the imperative kind of "reasoning".

Besides this: FP is much simpler to learn, so much better suited for newcomers. One just needs to follow up on what every child learns since first grade in school, namely the substitution model found in math. On the other hand imperative thinking makes absolutely no sense when looked at it intuitively. It looks more like complete nonsense: `x = x + 1` isn't true for any `x`… So imperative programming is at it's core contrary to logical reasoning. I would try to avoid it as long as possible.
Degraded performance for lambda

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
> I went to Reddit, the page was black, so I just went somewhere else

It's that part.
Vulture capitalists are bad, but at least sometimes they can fund something decent. PE is full of scammers and criminals that honestly should be behind bars because their entire existence involves destruction. It should be blatantly illegal to buy a company and saddle it with the debt you used to buy it.
This belongs in a museum dedicated to crazy people
They've just acknowledged degradation with lambda
It's not mandatory since 1985, and apparently the number of schools offering it has declined quite a bit to about a third in 2016[1], and I wouldn't be surprised if it was even lower today but I can't find more recent figures.

It's a shame, because it's both useful – potentially life-saving useful – and fun. When I lived in Asia I tried teaching some adults to swim, and even just floating on water is hard for most.

[1]: https://www.sportenstrategie.nl/sportonderzoek/van-a-diploma...
>If GPT-4 has 100 trillion parameters

It doesn't.

>Synapses are a lot simpler than parameters

Not true but someone else has explained why.

>a 100 trillion parameter model is unambiguously larger than the language processing portions of the human brain.

GPT-4 is not that big. The technology to run such a model at scale is simply not feasible yet.

>The human genome is 24 gigabits long. It's negligibly small compared to a language model.

I'm sorry bit this makes no sense. How many gigabits long the genome is has no bearing on how impactful it is in steering the development of the human brain in comparison to a ML model.
> Also, the LLMs are cheating! They learned from us.

Ding ding ding, right answer!

Now I leave you with a thought: given that the AI is learning from us, is it possible to have an AI that's much more intelligent than their "source of truth"?
We're seeing elevated error rates and latency and dramatically reduced throughput on our apps. This is not just Console.
> They'd probably do major layoffs like so much of the tech industry has this deal and lighten that load.

Yes, that is addressed at the end. 'Next will be a massive layoff to follow the small layoff earlier this week to address the haemorrhaging on the expense side. The "everything will be okay in a few days" notice sent to employees today indicates that something "not okay" is coming.'

You don't want to start there if you don't have to. If they can turn things around there is still the possibility of IPO. Current investors have made it clear that they want off the sinking ship. Only staving off bankruptcy by trimming the workforce to the bare minimum is not a good look for the sake of IPO, however. That is saved for the last ditch effort.
> To speak frankly, what are women doing with all this supposed surplus of education?

What's funny is that I talked about Bourdieu a whole afternoon during last week's strike, and today, two conversations where my 10 year old knowledge could be used.

Women historically had low economic, symbolic and social capital, but could have high cultural one. They used this cultural capital to gain the others.

But Bourdieu explain that capital structure is a chiasma, and that people with high economic capital will push to get their offspring to get cultural capital (or at least symbols, aka diploma), and people with high cultural capital will try to prevent it by creating other symbols (that was in the 70s, he basically predicted diploma inflation 40 years before it happened). In the meantime, people with high cultural capital will try to get high economic capital, and people with high economic capital will try to prevent that (basically having too much culture/knowledge is an hindrance to truly get on the highest march)

And I realized I don't understand him well enough to correctly explain his theories, so I scraped my explanations and left the basic, you should read him, but basically, it's inconsious phenomenon that isn't really caused by inconsious sexism (it might but I don't think so) but by capital structure.
I'm happy to say that the reports of my death here are greatly exaggerated :)

I'm the owner of both #4 and #140 on the Top-scoring Show HN Stories that Didn’t Survive... but both are very much alive!

#4 StackSort was a Github.com page, but on 2021 they made it so only Github.io wroks. If dang sees this, I'd really appreciate if you could change the URL for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395463 to use github.io!

#140 ReadMe has the same io/com issue, in the opposite direction! we redirect readme.io to readme.com now, which seems to be why it's flagged.
>wouldn't it be too cold to swim for most of the year?

On the contrary. The ocean in Iceland have a surprisingly even temperature. And even if it is a cold period its a big thing to be swimming during winter in nordic countries. In addition to that, its not like you can control when you might fall in water.

>a place to be outside during winter without freezing to death.

Thats extremely hyperbolic, the avg temperature in december in Reykavik is -1.2 celsius.
> I agree that women tend to not be going for the riskiest jobs or those that require significant tradeoffs in work-life balance; for those, you need a supportive spouse, and there are both demand- and supply-side issues in pairings where males play the supportive role to a female primary earner.

Choosing more risky jobs may be male biology and the gender equality paradox.

No increase in supply of supportive husbands would significantly increase the amount of women choosing riskier careers.

> Iceland consistently ranks as the most gender-equal nation. It is also the nation where men and women are most likely to pursue sex-typical jobs.[1]

Also does a person truly need a supportive spouse to undertake a risky career? My assumption is that people decide their career paths well before marriage, and some men choose their career to be a more attractive dating prospect.

[1] https://bigthink.com/the-present/gender-equality-paradox/
The business isn’t “buying itself” any more than a house does when you purchase it. The debt is just placed against the assets (real assets and cash flow). The business has owners. It doesn’t “own itself”.

I don’t think it is predatory at all. A leveraged buyout is a pretty fundamental and common strategy across all business types and sizes.

Don’t hate the strategy of buying a business with debt, hate the players that execute it like assholes.
These are two different modes being conflated. A person committing plagiarism is akin to a how a GPT creates a document. "Okay, this word... and then this word... and then this word..."

This is opposed to modeling a concept in your mind, and then applying language through denotation. This isn't unlike composing a request to be sent over a specific protocol. The data exists independently of the protocol and could even be fit to more protocols, with the right understanding of how to implement them. Sure, you have to read some docs, and maybe use a library somebody else wrote, but nobody in their right mind would call that plagiarism. This is more akin to how language works in the human brain, where each new language is like a different protocol.
Missing the forest for the trees.

Fat people truly adhering to proper eating don't stay fat. Cost of living and budgets are two separate but related topics.
It's entirely possible that making AlphaGo teach itself with no training examples is much, much easier than doing so for an LLM. Not all problems in AI have the same hardness!
The issue is of course that most of the IPOs are pumps and dumps. If they register as securities, then they are liable for said scheme.
Automating a Business' Order Desk with LLMs
How is "Microsoft" as a company now different from the US as a "government"?

This is what "technocracy" is, right? And "corporatism"?
Never has there been a more vast and diverse set of weirdos in America and they have never been easier to find. Talk to me about "cautious" and "accountable" after you've been to a Furry convention, a gathering of the Juggalos, a Burner event, a Phish show and a couple sex parties.
Indeed. That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.
> I wind up revisiting it every year when the derby comes around

As do I. It's tradition at this point.
I second this. You've done a great service to collect this data. I'm guessing the file must be much smaller than 20GB when compressed.
There is a selection effect.

Of all possible neural network architectures, so far one of them, Transformers, delivered good results.

It's possible this architecture is more similar to the brain language architecture.
This is peak bullshit level.
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Advanced Component Library that doesn't get in you way and help you build intuitive SaaS products with speed.
That seems like a reasonable approach to me, and may come with a natural experiment built in.

However, it's hard for me to suggest that an algorithm like PageRank, for example, is less inventive or risky to develop than a typical drug, which would suggest that some software ought to be available to patent.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling

they also have a notebook with more examples:

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
The article wastes so much time on cutesy fluff. It's almost always a tell that the story is a non-story.
When it comes to topics that are relatively easy to research, I've learned that "give me one example" people are most often unserious and not interested in having the actual debate, but with playing gotcha. No thanks, Google exists.
And that's how it should be, imo.
I think the point is that if a business wants its employees to make a living wage, they should pay them that wage, and make whatever adjustments are required on the business end to make that possible, instead of continuing to pay wait staff less than minimum wage and guilt tripping customers into providing the rest. Yes, ultimately the money that will be used to pay the staff will come from the customer, but the way restaurants do it is dumb. Just pay them more and raise your prices.
It’s odd to see people doomwaving two general reasoning engines.

It’s especially hard to parse a dark sweeping condemnation based on…people are investing in it? It doesn’t have the right to assign names to things? Idk what the argument is.

My most charitable interpretation is “it cant reason abour anything unless we already said it” which is obviously false.
White House pushes for renewal of electronic surveillance law provision
The tech press refuses to cover the “Reddit Migration”
I have been looking for a basic Mailgun type transactional email service for my React based project, and I believe this is exactly what I need.

I asked Adam to think about designing some reusable transactional email templates for Tailwind UI a few months ago. It looks like Resend would pair right up with Tailwind perfectly :)

I added Resend to my R&D to do list, and I hope to partner up soon: https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli

Congratulations on the launch, and keep up the great work!

I saw that Guillermo also to note of your work, so props on that too!
I know you mention there are lots of reasons for false positives and negatives, but does your methodology account for length of time at all? Meaning, if a project was posted to HN in 2009, it could have been successful for 14 years and then closed down, or just changed URLs somewhere along the way, and in that case it would be counted as a failure even though it wasn't. Likewise, if it was posted in May, 2023 and is still around, that doesn't mean much because it's still flying the Grand Opening banner, practically.
I wonder if this is a coincidence or if us-east-1 is simply down enough that I'm just experiencing selection bias; but I posted a poll on twitter earlier today: https://twitter.com/dijit/status/1668678588713824257

Contents:

> Has anyone ever actually had customers accept an outage because AWS was down; or is this just cloud evangelicalism copium?

> [ ] Yeah, outages free pass

> [ ] No, they say to use AZ's
Consumption is just engaging with something meaningless to get your dopamine instead of something meaningful. There's no reason you can't consume educational material that intrigues you.
> Ammonia does not have any of these problems

Ammonia is a greenhouse gas itself, and it tends to react with air creating various nitrous oxides, that are much more potent greenhouse gases than methane, very toxic, and create acid rain (after what it becomes fertilizer).

The best shipping option is probably just to face all the issues and ship the hydrogen. But storage is a different matter.
For people who don't understand this, the reason humans refer to "Alex" much later in a story is not because they are statistically recalling that they said "Alex" dozens or hundreds of words earlier (as the LLM is described doing in the paper), but because they have a world-model they are actively describing, where "Alex" refers to an entity in that world-model. We know that the LLM is only saying "Alex" because it appeared earlier, but we also know humans don't work like that, so how can the LLM's generation of language say anything about how humans acquire and use it?
You can't even access the tools (web or CLI) in order to put your own system into maintenance mode...
For obvious ethical reasons, we have never perfectly conducted this experiment, but Nicaraguan Sign Language comes close. The government created a school for deaf children who did not have a common language. Many of the children did not know any language prior to attending. Although, they did have "home sign" systems, which are basic signing systems spontaneously developed between deaf children and their speaking care takers.

We can also look at creole languages. When distinct linguistic groups come into contact without a common language they will, in some cases, develop "pidgin" languages to communicate. These languages are created by the adults who are already fluent speakers of their native language. What is interesting is what happens with children born into such communities. They grow up hearing the pidgin language, but they do not learn the pidgin. Instead, the language they learn is a creole. It is based on the pidgin, but more complete and consistent with the way human language works in general. In effect, like all children, they are relying on their innate knowledge of language. The pidgin fills in the language specific parameters, but when the pidgin contradicts an aspect of innate language the children (for the most part), just don't aquire that portion of the language.
ABPR is a good product but a ton of inputs, and not geared towards EV newbies who are not familiar with terms like SoC, reference consumption, charging overhead, etc..This is designed to give simple answers to simple questions such as cost to charge at home vs public station, how much charge time needed to make my trip, etc.
This sentence made me despise my own literacy.
Why are you talking about suburban malls in LA? That's not what this discussion is about.
> First, the fact that language models can be trained on large amounts of text data
and can generate human-like language without any explicit instruction on grammar or syntax suggests that language may not be as biologically determined as
Chomsky has claimed

"The fact that this advanced drone released in the year 2080 that can drive with the same agility as an eagle proves that the eagle's flying ability is not as biologically determined as some people claim.

In fact, any organism can fly if it sees enough data about flying!"
I'd love to get some correlation with rank, or even filtering of lower scoring posts.

From what I know, HN posts are often used as a signal for viability of a project. In that case, you can't make a conclusion on the effectiveness of Show HN posts, because some of them will die off by design.
I just asked an LLM to create a language and provide a demonstration and this is what it said. Call it a stochastic parrot if you want, but I’m pretty sure a linguist can prompt it to properly invent a language.

Sure, I can invent a new language for you! Let's call it "Vorin" for the purposes of this demonstration.

Vorin is a tonal language with a complex system of noun classes and a relatively simple verb conjugation system. It is spoken by the Vorin people, who live in a mountainous region of an imaginary world. Here is a sample conversation in Vorin:

Person 1: Ní lé màrì?

Person 2: Lé vàlà, nì síkòní.

Person 1: Vàlà síkòní?

Person 2: Àmà, síkòní là nì tékàlá.

Translation:

Person 1: How are you?

Person 2: I'm fine, thank you.

Person 1: Are you working?

Person 2: Yes, I'm working right now.

In Vorin, the tone of each word is very important, and can change the meaning of the word entirely. For example, "lé" with a high tone means "you", while "lé" with a low tone means "fine". In addition to tone, Vorin has a system of noun classes, which are indicated by prefixes on the nouns themselves. For example, "màrì" means "you" if it is in the second person singular class, but it can also mean "house" if it is in the third person singular class.

Vorin's verb conjugation system is relatively simple, with only a few tenses and moods. Verbs are also marked for subject agreement, which means that the verb ending changes depending on the subject of the sentence. For example, "nì síkòní" means "I'm fine", while "là síkòní" means "he/she/it is fine".

Overall, Vorin is a complex and interesting language with a rich grammatical structure and unique tonal system.
Private equity leveraged buyouts are an option for companies to change their fate. Typically, they're on a long path towards an slow death. With the buyout, current shareholders get a return, and the company is on a 3-7 year path towards a crisis bankruptcy.

It's good for the current shareholders, and it's good for the private equity company. It's not good for the business, but if the old owners and the new owners like the deal, who's really got standing to object? How do you force a business to continue to operate in spite of the business being unsustainable and ownership wanting out?

Employees don't like it, but the business is already on a path to death, so whatcha gonna do there? It's probably better for employees if Toys R Us closes stores every year for many years, instead of all of them at once, but those jobs are on borrowed time either way. I'd imagine vendors don't like it, because they're going to lose in bankruptcy, but after PE takes over your client, that's a good time to reevaluate their credit and put them on a shorter leash.
Things are bad enough already, even with pre-LLM technology. "I'm sorry sir, your 8-year old son can't board this plane because the system says he's a terrorist" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html