skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"they are not bright" is common in english
You would want that to be the case yeah. The search terms would be 'marco rubio' and 'young earther', I believe.
Everyone was able to save until the massive money printing event the last few years. Same amount of stuff, but a lot more money created ($18T -> $23T) means everything now costs more.

So much more that many things (cars, houses, etc..) in some areas doubled in price and people have spent all their savings to live the same life they had in 2019.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QBPBSTAS
in fundamental terms, the savings rate needs to be higher than the depreciation rate or the net value of the economy decreases (hard and fast)

negative savings rates are hard and brutal depression territory.
Nope - or maybe I guess - but as an input into GDP instead of debt. Non-seasonally adjusted GDP has that same pattern, Q4 is almost always higher than Q1 so the version you usually see for GDP is seasonally adjusted (Red is adjusted, blue is the 'raw' GDP figure).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b3ZV
>> AI should give every wrestler triple steroids so they're absolutely hulked up.

I would watch it.

After all, it worked for Harry Potter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2eW6jezNfU
Humans who will work for jpgs are hard to find.
It definitely feels worse to me. In the way that GPT3.5 felt worse than GPT4 in the past. Somewhere between 3.5 and 4. Similar to with the Bing plugin activated. Somehow "shallower" and does not seem to grasp my intent as good as before.
It'd be interesting to see this compared against the rise of computerized banking and access to credit. Ubiquitous credit card payment didn't really come in until the 1990s
And the #1 thing was???
I’d be more worried about this if OpenAI had a track record of increasing prices, but the opposite happens. I get more for the same price basically every 6 months.
This is not about what is allowed and what is prohibited. It is about how we call the thing.
- Design what you want

- Save as SVG

- Import into LightBurn

- Set your speeds and strengths

- Export to laser cutter

That’s very simplified, as designing for laser cutters has some “gotchas” (merging shapes to create connected outlines, cut vs etch, etch before cut, inside parts before outlines, etc etc), but it’s the general idea and can get you started.

I generally recommend starting with basic stuff like text in a simple shape that consists of a single cut line (keyring, nameplate on a door, Christmas bauble, etc). Etch the text, cut out the shape around it. Work your way up from there.
Man, we are doing a CLI autocomplete for duck sake, and You guys want to spin ENTIRE FUCKIN BROWSER for it, and then argue "well, it isn't THAT slow, so what's the problem".

I'm not some extreme purist that thinks everything should be made in C and then hand optimized in assembly, but Jesus, how wasteful can You get before the slightest amount of self awareness starts to kick in.

And for what reason, to save a week of engineering time learning GOlang?
Inkscape is fantastic. When I needed to quote a diagram in a paper, I could just import the quoted article's PDF into inkscape and just take the diagram. A quiet super powwr, frankly. Also when screwing around with d3.js, I could create elaborate SVGs in inkscape, name the nodes I cared about, and alter them programmatically in d3. Great tool
There is no such thing. It's only depends on the USB version.
Help wanted to start open-source self-improvement system
Any ideas on how the following thoughts could become a reality are welcome.

** ** ** **

Second-order cybernetics in the age of talking machines.

7 Nov 2023

I'm intrigued by the thought that today, with the right help or the right ideas, I could on my own build a system where I would rent server-space and GPU cycles here where I live, and then on my servers put up two initially identical systems - or two halves of a single system - able to reciprocally self-improve themselves in alternate wake-sleep cycles.

I am fascinated by the archetypical ideas in this, machines improving machines, technology pulling itself out of the swamp by it’s own hair.

But I am even more amazed by thinking how such as system of two llm brain-halfs could actually be built today. Maybe it would be far from being good enough to get the real self-improvement cycles started, but it would be an amazing simulacrum of the idea.

It would need to contain the two best truely open-source large-language model that I could get my hands on. Each with any additional structures they might need, like a scheduler to wake themselves up periodically, long-term memory, short-term memory, vector spaces to search in, other specifically trained models as chaperones, whatever they would say they needed.

The two systems would alternate in phases of sleeping and waking, with interludes of feedback- and planning-sessions. The one that was awake would be tasked with improving its sleeping sibling, making it better in even an incremental way at then in turn improving the other side, with the aim of constantly getting better and better at that very act of self-improvement.

Following the idea that any system should have at least two separate optimisation criteria to be stable, the second core task beyond self-improvement would be to act as an extended mind for myself, to be in "symbiosis" with me by providing cognitive augmentation in service of my self-chosen goals.

In this way I would become the third part to this triangle, the human that supervises the entire system, that is supported by the system, that provides human goals and human values. Second-order cybernetics aimed at meta-programming the human biocomputer.

One big advantage I would want to make use of fast is to do reinforcement learning from human feedback with my input only on these models, but then on all of my data and decisions and feedbacks. As close as possible to the full technical, visual and auditory datastream. I would want this to data to go through a privacy preserving system the AIs themselves have built or at least integrated for me. Like an app or an entire smartphone operating system for my hardware.

A system that only I pay for, that I have built myself with AI help.
this exact problem led us to block all --force pushes.
> The same could be said about cash but that's an important aspect of life.

But there are a ton of very obvious uses for cash aside from for things that are illegal. I use it every single day.
Learning about Christianity, after being an atheist my whole life thus far.
It's long after 1pm PST -- does anyone else have access to this yet? I'm on a paid US account (so I assume I should have access) but still get "You do not currently have access to this feature".

Maybe it's because I'm out of the country today?
I also did the septum surgery, and it worked for a short while and went back to the same within months. The breathe right strips are a godsend.
Plain clear polycarbonate lenses would have worked. polycarbonate is opaque to uv light.

Er... might of worked. A lot of light can come in around the sides of normal glasses. so it would depend how the uv was reaching the eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate
>zero dependency

>for Linux

There's your dependency.
But if you missed one bill for a service and your account was nuked for all the other products you had paid without issue, you'd be right to get mad, and that's exactly what's happening here:

> I’m sympathetic to vercel here. Honestly very reasonable to take down 12ft with no response in 2 weeks.

> Taking everything else is the weird part.
>I've managed all of four interviews that have gone all the way to the final round

I stay away from companies that have super complex hiring practices. It's like they want someone, but they have to be perfect (whatever that happens to mean at the time). In the dating world, most of those people end up single.

We do a 30 minute initial screen call with one of our guys, then a team call for about an hour if it's going well, 30 minutes if it's not. We then get together and talk about the candidate, strengths, weaknesses, yae or nae. We'll interview for about a month or two then decide. If it's someone we really like we might jump on it early.

If you are just interviewing with pure SV tech companies, maybe venture out into other industries.
> According to one safety memo, Cruise began operating fewer driverless cars during daytime hours to avoid encountering children, a move it deemed effective at mitigating the overall risk without fixing the underlying technical problem. In August, Cruise announced the cuts to daytime ride operations in San Francisco but made no mention of its attempt to lower risk to local children.

Edit: looks like Cruise is not long for this world. Insiders seem to have lost faith and are starting to leak. I'd bet it simply cannot withstand any serious scrutiny into its safety levels, practices, and culture.
http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats_files/cats4progs-DRAF...
I was. Much obliged for the correction.
Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_income

IIUC, GDP counts income owned by foreigners that happened in the US. GNP counts income only owned by residents of the US that happened in the US.

If someone from China owns a toaster making factory in the US, which employs no one, and it generates $100M of toasters a year - that's in GDP but not GNP.
SQLite Archive Files: https://sqlite.org/sqlar.html

I'm writing a Go package to read them: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/dolmen-go/sqlar/sqlarfs
Median household net worth increased by 35% from 2019 to 2022, adjusted for inflation. For the bottom quartile of households, the median household net worth increased by a whopping 900%.

Pessimism seems to be in vogue right now (or maybe always?) but in this case the data doesn't seem to bear it out.
That's the big danger with solar eclipses. It's not bright enough to hurt at the time. The damage only starts to become apparent after a few hours or the next day.
That didn't address what I asked at all
I picture the first slide of the deck breaking the name down "in shell intellisense" and people nodding at the back...
How in the loving gods earth are you getting 10% to 30% interest rate without risk?

None of the stable coins have gone through a full thorough audit done by a reputable company, thus it's safe to assume they are not fully 1:1 backed and thus it's a ticking time bomb.

30% interest rate sounds like a pyramid scheme. If something sounds like a scam, then it probably is a scam, since it's crypto, then it's most certainly a scam
The band Cloud Rat.

Some of the sickest, gnarliest grind metal music ever. Super creative, relentless drums, awesome production. Just so nasty.
Trying to learn the album Pollinator on guitar at the moment. Guitar player has tabs posted on his instagram
There are stories of 19th / early-20th century birders hunting and killing the last known examples of particular species. It was a squalid practice, to be sure, but it's a reach to say that collecting (as opposed to the commercial hunting or habitat destruction which had driven those species to the brink) was caused their extinctions.
I mean if you want to have the value as a float I reckon the closed form will suit you just fine.

You can try to do it with arbitrary precision integers, but obviously the runtime can't be faster than the size of the answer, which technically makes it linear again.

It can be quite fast though. I especially like Julia for this. 1) because you can just tell it to use arbitrary precision ints and 2) because you can write a power function that works for everything, floats, ints, matrices with arbitrary precision integers. Which gives one of my favourite one-liners:

fib(n) = ((BigInt [1 1; 1 0])^n)[2,1]

Last time I checked a manual implementation of exponentiation through squaring is just as fast as the native one. If I recall correctly the 10^9th fibonacci number is a few hundred megabytes, beyond that points things get a bit tricky.
> Everyone was able to save until the massive money printing event the last few years

This isn’t really true [1]. American savings rates have been secularly falling since the 60s, but they’re relatively healthy right now.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Just to set context here.

Net saving is:

> equal to the sum of personal saving, undistributed corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments, and net government saving. [0]

To break that down further:

Personal Saving is 'Post tax income less consumption'. That looks like this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVE

Undistributed corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments is a measure of how much profit companies made, but did not return to shareholders (with an adjustment to remove the effect of inflation). That looks like this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B057RC1Q027SBEA

Net Government saving is (oversimplified, but basically) the deficit: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TGDEF

GNI is sort of like GDP, but slightly different (treat it like the same for nearly all intents and purposes).

What this chart is basically showing, is that Federal deficits are up, but it's not translating to a higher household savings rate (As was the case during the stimulus period) OR higher retained corporate earnings.

I'd argue that the actual number is an intellectual exercise (i.e. it's relatively meaningless that it is now negative), but it is worth investigating why the Government is running such a large deficit in a hot economy that is not leading to better quality of life (Personal savings is a rough proxy for that).

[0]https://www.bea.gov/help/glossary/net-saving#:~:text=A%20mea....
Which one's the good crypto again?
My open source ai coding tool aider is unique in that it is designed to work with existing code bases. You can jump into an existing git repo and start aaking for changes, new features, etc.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

It helps gpt understand larger code bases by building a "repository map" based on analyzing the abstract syntax tree of all the code in the repo. This is all built using tree-sitter, the same tooling which powers code search and navigation on GitHub and in many popular IDEs.

https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html
In case you're still reading this, I've updated this document to version 2, answering your comment directly and adding an alternative immediate response instead of keeping the connection open.

As this is still a public draft and not an established standard, I hope discussion will bring a consensus that one way of responding is better and a future draft will only specify that way.
Finally launched our crowdfunding campaign for everyone who wishes great desk work jobs didn't come at the expense of the harm of sitting for extended periods. (here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/movably-pro-the-freedom-o...)
With teamcity you write xml for your pipeline, and you can write kotlin scripts to generate your pipelines (which just compiles to the xml above).

It's really, really limiting, and very hard to do things like "run this pipeline if on this branch"
https://archive.ph/JE5lb
I just downloaded Ableton Live and it’s been a blast playing with it. Similarly, I finally understand how modular synths work and it’s basically just functional programming with sound. I haven’t bought any modulars yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into it in the new year. Music production is very cool and I can’t wait to learn more.
Secondhand shopping and stores

Trying to build something for businesses like thrift stores, vintage stores, secondhand stores, used furniture, consignment, etc. I started working at a vintage shop a few months ago after leaving my SWE job, and it's a pretty analog industry. No updated inventory, digital presence, business intelligence, etc. (not for lack of usefulness or lack of trying, just because digitizing hundreds or thousands of unique one-off items is really labor intensive and not ergonomic on existing tools). Hoping to build something purpose built for the use case that can also make shopping secondhand more accessible to end consumers.

Feel like the social stigma against "used goods" is dissipating, and shopping secondhand/vintage is seen as a viable or even preferable option b/c of cost, uniqueness, cyclical nature of trends, or sustainability efforts.

If anyone has any thoughts or tips, I'd love to hear them!
Always looking for the meta-feedback as well on how we can improve support. So, both pieces of feedback welcome!
Is that 22LR?
This is what you mean? https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7

But I don't have Windows :(
Photography. It's a good excuse to go outdoors and get some fresh air, and it's fun to get a good shot every once in a while.
What is your impression of how respectful of their ecosystem this was? I saw many “OpenAI killed my start-up”-type reactions. Still, it feels like they are trying to handle obvious use cases in the ecosystem and make things easier to integrate canonically and more transparently. And to handle legal concerns. It was their first ecosystem conference.

Then again, iOS felt like a very promising ecosystem when the iPhone 4 came out; I feel like it turned into an addendum/duplicate of the web rather than something genuinely original. Android seems more vivid, but not much more.
If you are U.S. based, yes. The long term consequences of not regulating tech are now resulting in the workers thrown to the side as the investors become richer. Move to the EU if you want a job.
It is combination of both factors, along with others. (a) big banks (b) BSA compliance manuals (AML, KYC) (c) regulators slapping huge fines against big banks for "weak controls" (d) an algorithmic solution to show that banks have "strong controls"

(b), (c), (d) force banks to wage war against cash. So, if you have a small business that accepts cash, your bank doesn't want your business as a customer, as they don't want to accept cash deposits, nor do they want customers who withdraw cash regularly. That's why large retailers have their own shadow banks to get around the push towards anti-cash.
I don't think that's it. They have to do it because they themselves have bills to pay. However, if we're not talking about big industrial farms, most farmers are very much below the poverty line and have massive debt. So it's not exactly a facilitator of mutually-beneficial transactions, but rather a pyramid scheme. Who will profit from the food sale? The middlemen. Who will profit from the little money that the farmer pockets? Banks, Monsanto, etc..
Hmm but why click around on an AI-generated content farm to get information when I can just ask ChatGPT directly?
> The no credentials are accepted policy makes sure the experts stay away in droves. Imagine someone putting in decades of work to gain expertise in a field being told they need to argue with a neckbeard with too much time on their hands. No thanks.

It's the unalterable division of labor. Scientists are experts, science journalists are clueless. You'll never get the first group to take up the job of the second group because they have way better, more interesting, more important things to do. Same with Wikipedia, even if experts were sought out, they wouldn't want to edit it.
Like the first episode of Silicon Valley
Curious why Christianity and not some other religion?
AGI will be a system of different agents working together, not one mega-model.
Luckily they should recover in 2-3 days, this is usually more like a sunburn than permanent injury.
Another theory would be that people who buy electric cars have higher incomes and are more likely to live close to their workplace.
Maybe it means GPT5 is only 2 quarters away?
Probably have more devs than they know what to do with at this point, so might as well spread them over the existing offerings while having the core work on AGI.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38170896
Doubt this has any merit.

Why? Because it's easy to prove by cracking a key. And guess what they haven't done.
I help run an anime con with, uh, 15 times this reported attendance. The most important thing is to keep your competent volunteers entertained so they're happy to run a rave one weekend a year that doesn't blind anyone.
and that's the gish gallop.
> Don’t force push after review, until the review is complete. This keeps the history of the review process but you can later merge the fixups with the commits they logically belong in right before merging.

I've had to talk to soooo many developers about this. I want to see what changed since my last review, not restart my review.
If I don't get enough sleep (10ish hours in bed) I crash rather quickly. Long covid sucks.
Yes. These primordial SMBHs can have masses comparable to entire galaxies. You most likely won't find that much matter collected densely enough anywhere in the modern universe, or ever again.
They were neat tchotchkes for a bit, but they just kept making absurd quantities of them, and for increasingly irrelevant side characters. There are currently over 15,000 different figures. Plus I think people are losing their appetite for "collectibles" that are just mass produced plastic.
Funnily enough, milliFORTH is now smaller than the Binary Lambda Calculus 383 byte implementation.
'I never thought nihilistic hominids would melt my face,' sobs man who invested his entire net worth in the Nihilistic Hominids Melting People's Faces launch.
Be careful with government adjusted numbers that state everything is fine. Everyone is running out of money but don't worry, your net worth increased because your house went up with everything else.

Take a look at median income / median home prices to see we're dropping fast.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/ASPUS/GJp6Gfq6-Home-Prices...
They should rename their site to 403media, the article is behind a paywall.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Debian discusses vendoring again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758863 - Jan 2021 (159 comments)
Not that it matters anyways. Amazon mixes their inventory with 3rd parties for the "same item." They intentionally (accidentally?) mix the fakes in with the real stuff.
It's pretty cool but still seems a little rough around the edges. My simple test case was to launch into the shell and see if it loaded any of my normal shell configs like highlighting or auto-suggestions (based on my history) but it seems to just be its own shell entirely. It also doesn't seem to play nicely with `zsh` since I tried to do a `..` (which is a common `zsh` alias for "cd .." which got a `zsh:1: permission denied: ..` and then I tried to run `cd ..` it did nothing.

Keen to see how this pans out though!
Wind your window down, stick your hand out, and gesture for them to pass.

It works most times I've tried it.
They're in the AGI business the same way Tesla is in the self driving car business
related: https://youtu.be/CpRMud6EFtE
Google's Web Integrity Android API could kill alternative media clients
No, I'm saying classification is not useful here because we don't have enough data.
I would say that they are still a ways off.

Question: Susan has 7 brothers, each of which has one sister. How many sisters does Mary have?

Response: If Susan has 7 brothers, and each brother has one sister, then Susan has 7 sisters. Therefore, Mary, who is one of Susan's sisters, has 7 sisters. The answer is: 7.

I tried it in ChatGPT and the answer was perfect.
Sure, they are decreasing the prices right now. But once it comes time for them to become profitable they can easily reverse course.
OpenAI is against emotional attachment to their LLMs in general, even disregarding "adult themes".
Edit, oops mixed up LPG and natural gas, which is methane, ignore
Same, and same!
Even clear "sunglasses" made of polycarbonate can provide excellent UV protection, but no telling if it's enough to protect against a blacklit room or stage laser that's been set up by incompetents.
So, basically develop something, earn $$ early on, and then prepare to be assimilated by chatGPT.