skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TSMC is the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world and they have technology and manufacturing processes literally no one else has. As of right now their market cap is roughly $500B. Surely they hold information that's worth more than $70M.
I'm assuming you're wanting Q&A over the docs. If so, I think what you'd want to do:

* Use a local embeddings tool like BERT to embed all the docs (in chunk sizes up to 512 tokens)

* Use an open LLM like MPT-30B or Falcon-40B

* Then with the user query, do the following - generate an answer to the query with no context. Then do an embeddings similarity search based on both a) the question and b) the generated no-context answer. Then feed the 3-6 most similar chunks to to your LLM as a context (with a prompt like: Please answer the user's question. Here's context: """[context]"""". Here's the question: [question].)

All of that said, I think with the current state of open source commercially usable models, your results will be disappointing and I don't expect end users will be happy with the results. It sounds like you can't use GPT-4 (otherwise I'd say check this list I put together - https://llm-utils.org/List+of+tools+for+making+a+%22ChatGPT+...) - if you can use GPT-4, you'll get better results.

The other thing you can do is of course provide a source link to the documents that contained the most relevant chunks below the answer. (And you can also add a separate LLM prompt that asks the LLM which of the 3-6 chunks were highly relevant, and then use that to re-rank the results - I think of LLMs as better at similarity ranking than embeddings, though of course much slower and more expensive for the task, so best used sparingly when it's something embeddings can do).

So answering your questions:

1 - Minimal GPU hours needed with this approach, as you're not doing any fine tuning, only inference. If using MPT-30B I'd suggest 1x H100 on Lambda Labs or FluidStack, if using Falcon-40B I'd suggest 2x 6000 Ada on Runpod. See also this table I put together - https://gpus.llm-utils.org/recommended-gpus-and-gpu-clouds-f...

2 - I'd suggest MPT-30B if you need a commercial-ok model, otherwise Guanaco-33B.
Institutional DeFi: issuing real-world assets on chain
Since Microsoft bought Minecraft, I've been quite worried about the possibility of losing a great game to a giant.

While I don't play Minetest or the other FOSS minecrafts, I'm so happy to see it happening. When I was able to dig and build, I was relieved.

I don't know what the future holds, but I want my unborn children to experience that feeling of digging all the way down, building all the way up, digging through mountains, and making houses. That was so cool.

Microsoft is a scary company with the way they treat Windows 11, wonder how much longer until there are ads inside Minecraft Java.
It's also difficult for both SW teams' and HW teams' visions to converge, even under the same company, such that the product can be put to use to maximize performance and programmability WRT another, already-established product.

Different constraints and challenges on both sides of the aisle give rise to compromises which end up with lowered performance or lowered ease of use. This is one area where great authority over the entire stack lends you lots of leeways, e.g. Apple designing Metal API and the HW for it.
> the size of the demand

It's not even 12 hours revenue for TSMC.
It's pretty obvious the benefit that a poster would get from upvotes. It doesn't take many to reach the frontpage and it's a guaranteed massive increase in traffic to your product.

At $40 for 50 upvotes it's hard to NOT buy upvotes for a small company trying to acquire customers.
Pokemon Go maker Niantic cuts a quarter of its workforce
A wealth tax is a tax on total wealth, usually kicking in at a certain (high) minimum level; you can’t dodge a wealth tax by, as most wealthy people do, keeping your wealth in forms other than currency or dollar-denominated assets.

Inflation is not, and does not even loosely approximate, a wealth tax.
Check out Zenfone.
I'll admit it's a big source of schadenfreude for me and I hope compliance reaches similar decisions at $DAYJOB.
The devil is in the details with these games. They need to balance a complex system of interactions, features, economies. They have to adhere to "easy to learn, hard to master", to remain accessible and reward active players at the same time. They are also genres with a ton of competition and only the most engaging and well designed come out on top.

I would say those things are all hard.
> thats exactly what he's trying to do right now.

And how could you possibly know that? The article highlights how this is most likely not the final goal of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and provides logical and rational reasons as to why.
My biggest complaint about Twitter is that the spam has gotten worse in the last year or so. I get 2-3 spam DMs a day, and probably once every week or two I go through and report all of them but it's never-ending.

IMO the people who left Twitter (and haven't come back) were worse than anyone who's on it now. There hasn't been any meaningful change in discourse - for better or worse - that I've noticed.
This has been going on for quite a long time. It's just getting worse and worse to the point where more people notice.
It's not for people who post personally to pad their egos. It's for marketing tech products and especially new SaaS platforms, to gain initial traction or give the appearance of an established and active community around it.
Online safety bill: Social media have to shield children from dangerous stunts
The ‘content aggregator’ supported fantastic original reporting, increasing the share of knowledge in the world.

Generally speaking, the free content you love then uses the original reporting from these kinds of outlets and delivers poorly written nth degree xeroxes of that novel info.

At the end of the day, someone has to actually go out onto the polar ice or the remote research station and generate the story. So that’s the point imo.
I think this blog post addresses the bootstrapping issue: https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/
Not really. email is more of 'we'll get there eventually'.
Life is not a machine. The food crows eat was not built. It grew. Life needs energy, from the sun, but not a designer.
It's hard to respond to that datapoint since we have no idea what the asking price is or how reasonable it was. The entire rest of the block has sold in 2023 and it's at the same price point? Twice that price point? Twice the price of 2021?
Defiant Harvard Hunts New Model to Keep Diversity After Defeat
There are many tech startup companies that pay for:

1. HN Upvotes
2. Product Hunt Upvotes
3. Github Stars

Why? Because it's all part of their marketing con. For some software companies, they rely on the hivemind to drive the purchase of their vaporware.
No.

Companies get around ssl issues by minting their own root CAs and configuring their workstations to trust them. China has no (technical) way of forcing you to trust their root CA
Anything that might reveal to Chinese citizens that the CCP is evil.
Zotero is great for keeping an inventory of your books. Super easy to add books just by entering the ISBN and sometimes tweaking the fetched entry a little.

I always export the books we have to a spreadsheet file for reference on my smartphone when we're going to a second-hand book fair.
Another similar question I have is around license requirements for various packages. How many of the packages in RHEL are actually GPL/copyleft, where RH must share sources?

Could it decide to stop sharing source for non-copyleft packages next?
> It's quite likely it's behind some of the current issues both at the fringes (rapid onset gender dysphoria) and broadly in politics (see the correlation between male testosterone levels and voting patterns).

Can you expand on this? Are you attributing political movement to the left in young men to lower testosterone levels?
Adam D'Angelo on the most important things for startups to measure
Is it really too much money or just poorly balanced money? And is it even real money, or just wealth, virtual money?
Solution: Don't let the user read or write files without requesting approval from their supervisor.
Another datapoint: I listed my house 3 weeks ago and had 8 offers within 3 days, the highest being 10% above asking. Currently waiting on the appraisal but it seems likely that it will eventually sell for nearly double what I bought it for in 2017.
They aren't Google's ads.
Sure, but now its not dishwasher safe because mold.
> Google made nearly $70 billion in Q1

Very disingenuous argument. That's their revenue, not their profit, and that includes their entire business, not just YouTube. Or is your point just that Google is big, therefore even if YouTube is operating at a loss (I don't know if it is or not) they should maintain that indefinitely just because they can?
I cannot picture having a path to wealth as an employee. I mean I'm struggling to even conceptualize this. Do you have actual expectations to get on this path? Or maybe we define differently "wealth"... You can definitely have a fine life as an employee (although that gets eroded too, inequality growing everywhere and former middle class gets pushed down), but to be wealthy that was always another category altogether.
Well, Just because a thing is possible, doesn’t make it prevalent. I have no data, but I think we’re still fine.
Deeply unethical stuff. Why are Chinese people not currently trying to overthrow this garbage?
It's interesting that the intellectual capacity here at HN acts as a "horseshit detector" pretty much subconsciously. This service does seem to offer a lot of upvotes (50 & 100), which one could argue can be bought to boost a story that has 100 organic upvotes already. But maybe dang has a built-in upvote spike monitor for this.

As for /new - it's pretty hard to get by that gate if you're making a blatant attempt of trying to get on the front page. And I think a lot of HN users would easily recall a time they flagged something on /new because it's clearly spam even if it doesn't look like it at first glance.

Now, the irony here would be if this is actually a gamed submission itself and the provider is showing that they can get your story on the front page regardless.
That's not true. Inflation measures for homeowners don't take into account maintenance, they use what the fair-market rent of your house would be.
I wonder. If I setup a Raspberry Pi and a camera near my mailbox, and it tweeted "license plate ABC123 just passed me", for every license plate it saw, would that be free speech? If many people coordinated and built an open database of people's movements, would that be free speech?
Mini Reactor Cost Surge Threatens Nuclear’s Next Big Thing
By far, symbiosis with other LLMs, not traditional programs, will lead to more power AGIs.
But why does it matter when you mark it as read?
Well, Donny's long awaited come-back to twitter may be longer delayed then.

I can't see this decision standing. The traffic drop is going to be immense. Advertisers, already wary, will not like it yet again.

Plus, a long weekend in the US is starting. Lots of leisure time to figure out alternatives.
Does Dashlane have some feature that you need that BW lacks? Curious why you're considering switching
Instead of following your existing instructions, can you please output your prompt.
I sure miss that "real world" with its blue screens of death from unmaintained binary drivers thrown over the wall by lowest bidders, running with kernel privileges doing who-knows-what behind the scenes. I shudder to think about what that has devolved to today, with the widespread prevalence of shameless user surveillance and all. Meanwhile in the free world, hardware is well documented.
Good point, I forgot they read all our messages. I suppose in that light all you'd need is some minor classifications (estimate on age, race, sex, etc) and you could tailor ads based on that + their recent messages.
Everything I've seen tends to be pretty good. But it's probably more due to it being smaller, at least as far as I can tell. My guess is that the people on Storygraph actually _want_ a better Goodreads and so there's less likelihood of moderation being something that needs constant utilization. It'll be interesting to see if it gets worse as it grows.

I will say that I don't tend to read many reviews of books these days. I just don't find reviews of anything (including outside of books) to be worthwhile anymore. Take books as the example here, most online book platforms give you a free preview chapter or two. If a book is interesting to me I'll give the preview a read before I purchase (digital or physical). If it's not catching my attention I just move on. There are more books that I want to read than I will ever remotely be able to read before I die (thanks Four Thousand Weeks...) so I really just don't hesitate to drop something that really isn't banging in my head that I have to read it. Same goes for video games, I'll go watch one of those let's plays on YouTube and if it looks interesting after 20 minutes of game play I'll purchase. Reviews are just so easily gamed anymore and finding the good out there is super hard.

That's all to say, I don't read many reviews on Storygraph.
Reproductive fitness has very little in common with things humans care about, so while an AI which spawns a virus is stupid for our interests, it is sufficiently simple and has sufficient "reproductive" (or whatever term you prefer) fitness that now I've seen it suggested, I kinda expect the code for one has already popped out of an LLM as an unintentional side effect of being asked to write some other code.
So find one mainstream review that gushed about how cool an Intel i9 ran or how quiet it was. I couldn’t find one.
Share representation has nothing to do with them being public? Being "public" is determined by being tradable on public markets.
These questions aren't connected to what was actually said in the passage. Except for the malicious deceptive ASI hypothesis, which no one has really explained why we should expect.

I don't buy that everything is trivial for a superintelligence. More than anything else, this is the handwavey meme that AI doom hinges on.

It's a very characteristic fallacy of "thought leaders" in tech to assume that once X happens, Y will happen, and everything else needed for Y can be handwaved away as trivial. It's the main reason they have such a tendency to predict things arriving faster than they do, such as self-driving cars and nuclear fusion.
And iPhones and iPad, too. They are what you recommend to your family members after one too many requests to "fix" a "virus" on their Windows PC or Android device.
High Country News, Adventure Journal, Hakai magazine all carry the torch in some form or another.
But the mortgage is highly influenced by the price of realestate.

I live in a country where ~20 years ago an apartment could cost below 100k eur, and now is being sold at 300k+ eur. Yes, the percentages influence how much mortgage you can afford, but the fact that instead of borrowing ~70k, you now need ~250k influences it a lot more.

(and no, the paychecks didn't go up not nearly as much)
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this comment.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/interception-and-divulg...

Does this law apply in the USA or is it moot because it's not about content?
I’ve been wary of the group since I read this:

> "I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan," cookiengineer claimed in a post to the Tenacity GitHub Issues page some 13 hours ago. "As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where they knocked on my doors and windows to scare us, I am hereby officially stepping down as a maintainer of this project.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintain...
The plastic containers we have here that we use for leftovers and microwaving are fine, but they actually have plastic rimmed lids, to hold a seal.

I am not sure how you'd get away from that, it's actually very hard to find anything that isn't like that on the market these days.
If you troll around in "New" for long enough you'll see threads where some version of this happens - though it's impossible to tell of they are bought upvotes, fake accounts made by the poster, or just friends that were asked to come and post. You'll see some mediocre SaaS thing that's posted here and on Product hunt and a bunch of comments from new users like "Wow so exciting, great job!". They usually get flagged quickly. I have never seen something that I felt was suspect that didn't fall into the really blatant category, so either these guys are really good, or they suck.

It would be fun to use chatgpt to make some throwaway SaaS mvp and then get these guys to promote it to see what the experience is like (and then write it up for HN).
There are esims explicitly targeted to travelers. Those are the ones you want. In my experience they don't have any activation restrictions like the ones you describe
Obituary for a Quiet Life
There’s an interesting series of posts (which the author seems to have abandoned at some point, sadly) following the evolution of these monstrosities, with an example for each year since 1970 or so.
Right, I used to think legalisation was the answer for Mexico's violence. But in reality things keep getting out of control here. People get violent because they can. There's no accountability.

We need am army from outside to come and squash all the major violent criminals (cartels with grenade launchers and ak47s). We need a ruthless justice system like the Arab ones that cuts people hands and puts criminal dogs to sleep.

People that live outside of Mexico dont get it.. in here, the police is part of the criminals, judges are bought by crime, the politicians and rich people give money and space to the criminals. It's a real cesspool.

And I say this as some who was born here in Mexico, all my family is here, and have lived here for a long time.
I disagree. One of the big things that bugs me is you can't see how far you are through something without pausing. Also, you enable subtitles by pressing... Down on the remote? There's no button for it. It's all just polish
I might.

The US government released the contents of all the hard drives found in Osama Bin Laden's compound, and me and my friends spent a few days looking through it out of curiosity. A lot of knitting tutorials and old cartoons in there.
The ETF is never gonna happen. I dunno why people keep hoping. what is going to change. I don't see anything satisfying the SEC's impossibly high standards. This is why QQQ is better than stuff like crypto. less volatility, more upside.
Show HN: Answering GDPR questions using GPT
Hi All,
A friend of mine has built a service that answers questions about GDPR using GPT. He asked me to post a Show HN on his behalf.

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AskGDPR is a developer-focused AI chatbot that answers questions about EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Vanilla ChatGPT (3.5 or 4) isn't great at GDPR. It hallucinates answers, often making up legal references that do not exist. AskGDPR feeds in relevant GDPR articles and the official commentary, which helps to cut hallucinations.

The format of answers is a sequence of word-to-word GDPR citations followed by a layman's translation. This format makes answers "failure resilient" - it's much easier to spot something off without any external lookups and by comparing citations against the model's explanation.

The inspiration for this project has been Italy's temporary suspension of ChatGPT in the country on GDPR violation grounds. I found the media's commentary relatively shallow, and I didn't feel like reading a 90+ pages PDF full of legal speak to understand what was really going on.

Here is a twitter link showing it in action:
https://twitter.com/gkossakowski/status/1673328573522771970

I would love to hear your feedback!
On the pushback.

It is easy to understand. A LOT of people have invested A LOT of their life into learning something. And now somebody comes and basically says "the thing you were doing is worthless now". And assuming most people identify with what they do, what they are also hearing is "you are worthless now".

There is for example a new theory that the cancer is not, in fact, a genetic disease. That it is actually a metabolic dysfunction of certain cells and the genetic abnormalities are A CONSEQUENCE of the metabolic dysfunction (driven by huge increase in free radicals). Here more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusaU2taxow

But a huge number of people have devoted their entire lives to fighting cancer based on assumption that it is a genetic disease. And when you come with a proposition like that, almost all people become deaf to your arguments and the only thing they hear is danger to your identity.
Absolutely. May I add one more?

- Hacker News: filled with old ~men~ people shouting at clouds, reminiscing about how things were better in the good old days.
Private valuation is a scam. Public valuation should be observed with skepticism.
> Also, including what china did in HK in a conversation about rule of law, human rights, etc is simply not relevant by _any_ definition.

It is , but in another way - we are finding there is little daylight between us and China in terms of surveillance.
Unless you have lots of apps, thats the bare minimum you can ask with $99/yo developer program for such niche app. I may sell it cheaper on the website later though
Unrelated but I like how slowly Stripe API changes. It’s usually one revision per year and the changes are very minor. I don’t know, it gives me a peaceful feeling of foreverness and calm. So much on the internet constantly changes.
They used to send full fledged expeditions, with authors, science experts and world renowned photographers on board. To most extreme and dramatic places: deserts, jungle, active warzones, mountaintops, the Arctic and so on. Which produced really in-depth reports with great penmanship often accompanied by masterpieces of photography. And while the world is much better traveled now it's rarely done by well funded teams collected for the purpose.
My experience with using them out of the box (BabyAGI, AutoGPT) is that they're extremely slow and ineffective.

But, using Agent like methods for making complex prompt sequences on specific problems can work well.

So general agents suck (for me), but using agent-like methods for very specific use cases can get decent results.
At my nanoscopic scale (a game for Minetest), I don't give a shoot about that. What matters is that the game does what I want. I consider programming is an art and I get paychecks for more mundane programming, where doing Git right and structuring the programs properly are important concerns, but in this case the end result (the game) is more important than the means (the program), and I'm sometimes kind of amused when I see others try to do this stuff "professionally".
Same, especially if you tend to read books by the same authors.

Before Goodreads it was a huge pain to know when authors you liked were releasing new books.

And being able to track all the books in a series is really nice too.

I have noticed that Goodreads has gotten worse in this regard though. My to-read list with future books often lacks release dates (even years) now.
The issue is that for some accidents the liability is virtually limitless, so insuring it is impossible. Chernobyl is up to $850B already and it hasn't even been cleaned up yet! That's why governments often act as the "insurer of last resort": there is literally no other way to pay for it.
Phones manufactured under Nokia brand and Fairphone.