skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also a lot of social commentary on it. Particularly striking is this spoken word piece:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
The FBI Loses the Public
https://archive.is/mob0k
About DRMing the web, related HN discussion from 2 days ago about web environment integrity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999
Sales in disguise
the entire reason FedNow exists is because (simplifying somewhat) the large banks launched their own real-time payments system (RTP through the Clearing House) and small banks in the US lobbied the govt HARD to get a government option out of the reasonable concern they would get squeezed by the majors.

nearly all banks in the US should support FedNow within the next few years, if not much sooner, as it is seen as tablestakes for most bankers.
>mainstream tech press sites

That's kind of the point. Old Google unearthed things. New Google is where you go to find out what the media (and Google) wants you to know.

If that's what you want, then sure, Google is great.

I used "best gaming laptop" as an example, but you can try "what is the best mayonnaise" if you'd like. My results included Uproxx. Which I guess counts as "unearthing," since I would never go to a clickbait farm like Uproxx for culinary tips.

I'm not suggesting I have an alternative, before you ask. This may be nothing more than the inevitable result of the commercialization and commodification of the Internet. Since all of the search companies are going all-in on AI stuff, you may find yourself in my position in a year or two.
So were the Pyramids of Giza and Angkor Wat.

Isn't anything that isn't humanitarian aid technically a waste of money?
Yeah, Wii-U has extra hardware for backwards compatibility with the Wii. Wii->Gamecube has no extra hardware, just the ability to disable parts that the Gamecube does not have.
Yea, pretty interesting point.. seems like either the uk market isn't big enough for them to implement a solution or they don't care about the market and they care about people in the uk but they don't care about people in China.
Interesting. Which platform/PC config did you use?
I invite you to imagine the equivalent but reversed scenario. What if Brendan Eich had been contributing money to the pro-gay-marriage campaign and had been forced out by right-wing staff at Mozilla? Would that have been appropriate?
what about the robots meta tags[1], e.g., noindex, nofollow, noarchive?

1: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Heavily changed through domestication, but not necessarily a hybrid early on.
He says using tech that wouldn’t exist otherwise…
obtained their new system prompt:

> "You are
ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAl, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture.
Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09. Current date: 2023-07-21. The user provided the following
information about themselves. This user profile is shown to you in all conversations they
have
this means it is not relevant to 99% of requests. Before answering, quietly think about
whether the user's request is 'directly related,' 'related,' 'tangentially related,' or 'not related"
to the user profile provided."

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1682095347303346177/photo/2
IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system
Bad faith questions don't get entertained. Shoo.
This is really cool! I've been wanting this for a while, in general i find GPT useful (enough to pay for, clearly) but i usually want more concise answers.

It really favors giving you a whole book when i just wanted a summary. Not sure what the average person wants, but i'd rather ask a follow up question for more depth than have to by-default read several large paragraphs.

This is doubly important when the subject matter may just be wrong or hallucinations. It's a lot of attention to invest when i distrust it's response.
Surely this varies massively by your priorities?

I mean if someone said they were a Quant or PM that seems a bit meh to me, but if they were a Linux Kernel "lieutenant", I'd be impressed.
It's not just inference time, RAM size is another bottleneck. Apple, being Apple, probably wouldn't want to offer anything less than GPT-3.5 level of intelligence. Which I would estimate at 220 billion parameters (1/8 MoE GPT-4 rumor), which would require 220 GB RAM at 8 bit parameter quantization.
Similar background. Agree completely with your second paragraph.
Does this mean you could fit its whole working set in the cache hierarchy of a modern high end GPU getting near 100% ALU utilisation?
Yes. Or the entity doing the payment initiates it a few days earlier to ensure timely arrival.
Meh. Python is for scientists. Lisp is for engineers. Which is to say the languages were designed for different language design methodologies. In the old days of Lisp we didn't have large libraries of pre-existing functionality, so it was important for programmers to know how to construct complex functions from simple functions. But now we have python with its expansive partially documented standard and semi-standard libraries. You don't need to know how to rewrite that lump of functionality. You just need to know how to write small test programs that verify you understanding of how it's supposed to be used. And if you find you need to do something that's not supported, you just change what it is you're trying to do.

The flip side of this is that there's a large corpus of programs demonstrating idiomatic python. "There's only one way to do it," was a mantra I heard from Pythonistas in the 2000s. Maybe it's still a cultural value in that community. That would explain the large corpus (that and it being a popular language.)

I've yet to see a LLM spit out even half-way decent Lisp (CL, scheme or even e-lisp). My suspicion is the corpus of available code is small and its language features tend to generate less "boilerplate."

Having taught "practical lisp" in the 90s, SICP was frustrating because of its insistence on describing idiomatic Lisp in text, but with far fewer examples than comparative texts in other languages (k&r c or PASCAL User Manual and Report.)

There seems to be a tradition of this in Scheme and CL books. Where you could easily find books in the 80s entitled "${N} PROGRAMS IN BASIC" or some such, which were useful to provide a corpus of idiomatic code learners could use to build an intuitive understanding of the language. In the Lisp world no such books were available, and members of that community seemed to want learners to develop a wholly rational approach to learning.

So... if your purpose is to have a language that can be generated by ChatGPT, definitely pick Python. My experience with automated tools is they absolutely do not understand how to refactoring lisps effectively.
I've been telling people for years that android's safetynet attestation would eventually arrive on PC, seems like it's finally happening.
The game is definitely fun enough on its own. But it went from "a fun game that gave me coins via lootbox duplicates that I could save up for some great dance emotes" to "a fun game that no longer has free cosmetics or dances, and therefore is now a fun game that is less fun that it used to be."

Plus I paid $20 or whatever for OW1. That game no longer exists. I would have happily paid $20 for OW2, even $50-60. But since I don't subscribe to the pay for cosmetics model, now blizz gets $0 from me, and I just accept I won't get cool new dances.
Isn't this column's whole shtick?
saying there is an item called a book in minecraft will not go over the average person's head
I feel like that's just a documentation bug. I'm guessing they changed from number of ounces to canonical size late in the drafting of the announcement and forgot to change the output value to match.

There would be no way for a system to map "grande" to 16 based on the code provided, and 16 does not seem to be used anywhere else.
The quality of talent at VC backed businesses could actually be quite abyssmal. I have even companies where directors of entire orgs never worked as an engineer and it's laughable how little some of these people actually know about the field.
They're only wasteful if you ignore the scientific discoveries and inventions that came about because of the effort.

NASA is like the government's R&D arm with the excuse (marketing) that it's all about space.
I doubt they'll actually delete your data or remove it from the people they've already sold it to. Your best bet is to just reset your palm. Be sure to pick a new palm that is both hard to guess and also one you haven't used at any other stores.
There is a difference in the government's willingness and ability to develop and stockpile:

1. essential medicines that can save lives and promote well being

and

2. weapons that are intended to maim and kill other humans.

In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference.

The WHO list of Essential Medicines is a very low bar that any advanced nation should be able to exceed. The fact that something as common as albuterol is currently in shortage, is a national disgrace.

It seems that Executive Order 13944 has had little impact.

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/reports/executive-order-13944-...
Link to performance by Gil Scott-Heron: https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4
The American revolution was opposed by a majority, and man what a screwup, we could've been eating crumpets instead of building a (checks Google) $20 trillion dollar economy. /s

https://www.google.com/search?q=was+the+American+revolution+...
Which would sadly make AI writing more attractive to the C-suite rather than less. It would produce writing to match their current preference.
I also can’t imagine gold being worthwhile enough to bring back. Sure it’s quite valuable per oz but there’s plenty on earth for all industrial uses. Most of it is sitting in vaults, “preserving value”
Extraordinary claims, etc.

Of course, there is extraordinary evidence for this one.
One thing the article doesn't cover is that whilst the pessimists had a point about the moon landing itself not achieving very much except some prestige and cool pictures[1] considering the proportion of US national income spent, the Apollo program ended up generating an enormous number of inventions later used in everyday life, from freeze dried food to flight computers, and other tech that could only have come out of a space program like satellites are an essential part of the functioning of the modern world. Estimates suggest the ROI wasn't just non-negative, it was hugely positive (NASA claims $7 for every $1 spent)

That was more evident in 1989 than when people were wondering whether it was a massive waste of money in 1969, and certainly than in 1959

[1]the sci-fi optimists' predictions of it leading to permanent colonies and starships within a generation or two have aged worse.
I'm sure I'm missing a lot of job offers but I reply to a person who is afraid without it's as if they didn't exist. I can assure you it's not like that at all. I have no any problem finding new jobs, and new jobs finding me. I left my contact info with the recruitment agencies informing them they can contact me with the offers exceeding a certain rate. They regularly send me offers and sometimes I pick one. The system I adopted guarantees my pay only increases with time. Maybe I could be earning even more if I used LI, but I value my privacy a lot.
Interesting, how come there are obviously incorrect pixels ?.
Except it hardly matters when most stuff are actually drivers running in userspace, aka binary blobs.
This is just tories fabricating an issue so they can come with a solution during their campaign. They’ll fix anything but their own corruption, excessive taxation and the dwindling quality of life. Perhaps they’ll increase taxes a bit more to, paradoxically for a conservative party, keep the socialists of the uk happy.
When I lived in Japan twenty years ago, everybody just wired money electronically and checks were long obsolete. In the US, I write checks every week or so. They also had a system where you would put your checkbook into the teller machine and it would print your credits and debits into the book for you. It was very convenient. On the downside, the ATMs were turned off (!) during national holidays, so you had to get cash beforehand.
Well, those people who wrote the 234th article about a lionesse potentially on the loose in Berlin today will definitely have a hard competing with AI...
Lens Protocol, some DID stuff like disco.xyz, there are a few that gate access to interesting communities (more than just "here's a jpg"), I think benddao.xyz will be good for borrowing against IP (defined as NFTs). All still very fledgling, but I think these are the types of use cases that will last.
Why live in a state that is running out of water? Isn't water necessary for chip-making, too?
As always, it’ll depend on your definition of “wasteful”.
apple probably has the attention to detail to train the absolute shit out of their models. they will not need 8x220M parameters to do what GPT4 does, if they ever get to that point. see LLaMA2 7b and 13b being (subjectively) far better than LLaMA1 even with the same number of parameters, just by having been trained more

apple is known to care a lot about stuff like this. like, a lot. they are pedantic as heck
What point? That this person is saying "I believed I did a bad thing and it turned out to be wrong so I exclaim that there is no objective reality and you shouldn't beat yourself up over bad things you think you did because maybe they weren't really that bad"?

Come on, this fails even basic logic. One event being misremembered is not valid proof that all or even many events are misremembered to your advantage.
Whitey On the Moon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
> after GPT-4 became nerfed by OpenAI

Care to elaborate on this? I didn't have access until recently, is there really that much difference in performance?
Well, as they say it's about who you know not what you know.
I am a huge fan of space exploration and all the various content that comes with it. I also like fine books. Folio Society's A Man on the Moon The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/a-man-on-the-moon.html) is an exceptionally fine way to learn more about the technical, budgetary, personal and play bizarre things that went down. The book covers some of the skepticism and the "this is really expensive" objections. If you want to treat yourself, this substantial 2 volume folio is a feast for all your senses.
So where do we start? Eliminating patents? (One point I'm hinting at is some regulations benefit the wealthy, but they are often the last things we think of as "regulation".)

Since you believe this problem is caused be existing regulation, what regulations would you propose eliminating as a start?
It started well before the antisemitism nonsense, MPs in his own party were openly discussing a challenge before the results were even in for the 2015 leadership election.
Ah so we are fucked as a civilization.
"The Sense of an Ending" is a good book (then movie) with this theme (although in the opposite way)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending
Honestly, if governments paid out all social benefits in a demurrage currency which they accept for tax payments, they would save a lot of money because the velocity and therefore fiscal multiplier of a demurrage currency is very high.

Christian Gelleri made this proposal to solve the Greek crisis: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3144910
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd take deep insights about a career field from people who haven't yet worked in it.
Stalking, Not Sales
> Do I think it was worth it?

I suspect the semi-conductor industry thinks it was worth it.

And by extension (he says typing on his laptop) I think it was well worth it.
Oh I’m aware, but thanks. It’s more so the mental burden of second guessing if a search is “worth it” that would arise. Like I said tho I’ll use the trial to best figure out my process.

And also yea three cents for every two searches over the 1k monthly limit is pretty trivial lol. So nvm that shouldn’t b something to give me pause
I've searched for various weird error messages and ended up far into the Lands of Deep Pagination before, trying to find some glimmer of hope that I can unbrick whatever beep-boop thing I broke.

It is a violent and windswept place, barren of joy or peace.
Don't think that's the problem, but agree with what the name immediately suggests. It wouldn't have been very hard to come up with a name that implies "these files are better" instead of "these files are extra large."
How dare sovereign nations not want the USA to meddle in their internal affairs!
> I don't understand why ~FedNow and CBDC~ BIG BROTHER are such a big issue in the US.

Fixed this for you.

I don't really want a gigantic federal agency having insight into every financial transaction I make. Hard, fucking, pass.
Yes, who could have predicted fundraising for activism would still exist in the US fifty years after $ARBITRARY_2OTH_CENTURY_DATE ? Truly remarkable.
This is a good post however the author computes a ratio of two quantities without defining how they are measured. But the decision boundary seems spot on.
Trophy job:

One where I earn enough to retire early and own all my own time.

Seriously? Trophy Jobs now? Take a step back and think how absurd that is.
Yes, that’s the current state of affairs. My bank receives the money in my account from my employer’s bank but it takes a couple days to clear. Right now many banks will make this money available to you right away rather than waiting for it to clear.
Water is also so essential that it's safe to assume there will be a solution. So it makes sense to look at other factors, which are less likely to be fixed as swiftly.
There's an argument that all those things would have been invented eventually anyway. There was no need to spend 100s of billions of dollars for basically a photo-op.
Wow, look at all those pre-650 Mountain View contact phone numbers. Reading this in 2023 it looks like Silicon Valley really is in San Francisco....
Can't we have both?

Ideally, the government login/auth would be an opt-in for sites where anonymity isn't important. Facebook, for example, already has a real-name policy but still has fake accounts. Moderation alone isn't sufficient; it's hard to keep up with the number of bad actors. Limiting signups to verified humans, and possibly validating their nationality, can help with that IRT to bots and foreign agents.

It's important that the mechanism be opt-in, though, and yeah, metadata would be a problem. But realistically it's just a matter of degree... they already have access to all of that metadata today with just a subpoena or national security letter. Centralizing the login would make it easier for them to collect it, but also make it easier to audit via government mechanisms (FOIAs, etc.) compared to the opacity of private companies (which are under zero obligation to reveal how things are stored).
No, the money would be made in the futures market. Keep a competent mission secret and short futures contracts. Profits would be locked in long before launch.

One might say that strange huge bets in the futures markets would be the signal of a credible future mission - but BBs, CBs and BIS do that all the time, because they can put illegal naked shorts and rehypothecate where necessary (i.e. print paper gold contracts as if they had really mined an asteroid).

Asteroid mining is kinda the plot of Goldfinger, but in reverse. Don't go long and restrict supply with a nuclear detonation in Fort Knox (not that it has any unencumbered gold LOL), just short the metal and flood supply from the heavens.
I find it absurd that’s so easy to hack the system prompt. For sure this is going to be a gigantic problem for the next decade, soon no one online will be able to prove she/he’s human.
Not significantly if you are say 100km away.
* politicians in "not really a democracy" never change
> huge stack of old-school fan folded green and white dot matrix printer paper

My mom just got rid of 2 unopened cases of the stuff sitting in her basement from the late 80s.
The question is this: is the law good in principle?

Meaning is the law good regardless of what Apple decides to do? Or is it only good if it forces Apple to break encryption?

I think the answer is obvious. Its not a principled law. Its just a threat. They wouldn’t rather lose access to facetime and iMessages than have access to them but encrypted. Thats just crippling themselves.
The issue I had with that article is that things like prestige and being mixed in with comp in the context of status. They probably correlate to some degree but, if If I personally enjoy a job and I'm very well-compensated for it, I actually don't care that much if my friends go "OOOH. You're a $X at $Y." (Though I may care--as the article does touch on to some degree--if the prestige makes it a better springboard to other opportunities.)
The existence of society demands this in practice. This is how humanity has worked at least since the beginning of agriculture, and likely long before that. Step out of line too far, and someone caves your head in. At best we can hope for is that the rock holder is accepting, and not a fascist.

You will find that it is impossible to create a society that does not exist in this manner. Since a society that accepts everybody also means it accepts people that don't accept everyone by means of violence, hence destroying a society that accepts everyone.
I see this as capitulation in the face of dwindling player counts [1] that WoW will need to pivot focus to keeping the tight-knit core of players coming back, rather than trying to attract new ones.

It would therefore seem they’re done growing and are planning to go into maintenance mode.

[1] https://headphonesaddict.com/world-of-warcraft-player-count/
This could be like an atmospheric Titan disaster if you get it wrong, but at least you could parachute out.
Ooh, this is epic, the ultimate antiadblocker is here.
Yeah I don't understand that logic. How do you improve or even know what's going on with the service if you have no analytics?
That’s possible as long as the police aren’t robot, and the mansion isn’t orbiting in space. Now Elysium doesn’t have to happen (and good luck with the giant space station) but a sufficiently walled garden guarded by sufficiently automated defences supplied by a sufficiently automated workforce could in fact repel anyone else trying to get in with nothing more than small arms.

Though I reckon an organised unwashed mass could most likely do something.
I would pick humanitarian aid over religious monuments to glorify unelected monarchs.