skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get a "consultant" whose every word has to be verified against an independent second source, and an """artist""" containing a digest of essentially everything actual human artists have ever uploaded to the web, who's somehow still only able to generate derivative slop utterly undifferentiated from what it's spitting out for everybody else.

LLMs are useful tools, but if they don't lead to something you can actually somewhat rely on to generate correct/consistent/factual results (see e.g. the recent Air Canada chatbot lawsuit) then the hype is a bust. TBD.
Seems like it's around 10k/month https://twitter.com/yasser_elsaid_/status/175671030669533226...
And they still use ~~php~~ hack.
My guiding principle for good note-taking is whether they can be understood by someone who has no background on what I'm writing about because that person will be me 3-5 years from now.
Yes, but the point is that they didn't ship it with anything for the wearer to hear audio without disturbing those around. That aspect of the product makes no sense.
I have some V3s outside, somewhat covered by a rain gutter. They definitely get wet when the rain comes down sideways. Never had a problem.
I feel like Nullsoft Beep fits this category.
I don’t see the harm. The secured card did its job
Is it worth going into patent law as an engineer? I've always been interested in this stuff and I feel like I could make a difference for the better.
1.1k open issues. OOF
W.CD had everything. Literally (almost) everything. But the replacements are not even close to it. So unless you’re from a certain geography and looking for a certain language you’re just out of luck.

And community is downright, well, let’s not get into that.
I picked up standard[1] a while back for this reason, I don't want to have to think about it. It works fine, I have no complaints (took me a while to get used to not using semi-colons but now I prefer it) Same reason I use `cargo fmt` as well.

[1] https://standardjs.com/
The suggestion is maybe part of the sky is easier to survey, so it was completed cheaply, even though that part wasn't the most likely part. I don't know which way it is, but it's an interesting question, and that's what OP is getting at for understanding the relevant probabilities instead of the relevant area.
See, you're implicitly asking me here to defend Netanyahu. I believe Netanyahu to be among the very worst leaders of the last 75 years, a world-historically bad prime minister who has done more than almost anybody to heighten the intractability and human tragedy of the Israel/Palestine conflict. If you think the "Amalek" speech is irrelevant to that analysis, I agree.

What I object to is the deployment of religious tropes that essentialize Netanyahu-ism or Kahanism into Israel, or, worse still, Judaism as a whole. If you're going to get into this "Amalek" stuff, get it right.

If not, it's not like you needed it to take shots at Netanyahu. There is a decent chance that when he is ultimately ousted, he's going to be imprisoned by the Israelis.
how does this work/what can i use it for? is it kind of like a self hosted torrent search engine? i had a little glance over the code but im a bit lost
I think Hindenburg should focus their ability to companies like Animoca and Yat like founders.
I don't think many-shot prompting or chain-of-thought were predictable from model size. They just showed up at a particular model+data size.
This is completely different. If T-Mobile hadn’t bought Sprint, Sprint would have gone out of business. It had bedn losing money for years.

Then the spectrum they had licenses to - the main reason T-Mobile wanted sprint, would have been auctioned off and probably still would have had t-mobile buy it since they needed it the most.

Besides At&T was already dealing with a ton of debt and if Verizon had bought it, the landscape would have been less competitive
+1 on buying from commercial suppliers for even home kitchen stuff. I’m a fan of webstaurantstore.com . Prices are good, and you can buy stuff that will last you forever in a home kitchen which usually isn’t available in normal stores (eg Cambro containers).
They’re all outdoors, although at least partially covered by something (roof overhang, gutter, etc). The cameras themselves aren’t truly waterproof and do have a “grill” cut into the back panel for the internal speaker, but since I don’t use them for 2-way audio, you can seal that off with rubber cement, flexseal, rubber tape, etc. Mine have been fine in all four seasons.

That said, all the modifications and tinkering is definitely less turn-key than some people prefer, but I’m a glutton for punishment haha
From the GPT-2 paper: ``Also thanks to all the Googlers who helped us with training infrastructure.''
If you don't need collaborative notes, Memos is a great markdown supported option.
I think it's a common misconception that ownership is there to make you suffer compiler shenanigans. When in my experience it changes the way you model programs. Turns out, that structuring your program in a way were it's clear who owns what makes for easier to understand and debug programs. It's a bit analogous to static typing, saying I'll use a language like Python without type hints, because its gonna make me avoid compiler errors, is a bit short sighted when I plan on developing the piece of code for a longer time.

Here is a blog post that explains this in more detail https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/.
There were bots. So so so many bots. Countermeasures were basically non-existent. This is before even stuff like early versions VAC.
Although this is generally true of Legal's recommendation to all engineering development, it is often not possible. In particular, once you start writing your own patents (or having counsel write and you approve) then you'll have to answer questions about prior art, if anything is even close. At that point you have to at least read and respond to counsel's questions about particular patents and that means reading the spec, and usually the claims to understand them. At least those conversations are privileged, but that doesn't mean you don't have to answer in court.

The only reason this is really recommended is to avoid triple damages as opposed to simple damages. Depending on what you're working on, it's value and your investment, it may well make sense to look at patents... but for a large company it's usually patent lawyers working for you. In general, it's not a great idea to just go reading lots of only vaguely related patents and documenting it without purpose, because you would increase liability with minimal gain.

Furthermore, if you've read a patent and then come up with a great patentable idea, they can further claim more easily that your invention wasn't novel and was obvious from combining some other art with that patent, thus invalidating it. Having a good story about how you came up with the idea is important on the stand. Patents are boring and there's risk so mostly avoid it.
Exactly. Google.
There is no additional risk if the customer offers a higher security deposit to raise their "credit" limit on a secured card.

They get the interest on the deposit and lower costs (fewer transfers per month paying off the balance of the card.) They didn't care.
I think holding stock at the place you work signals z few things, but loyalty isn't one of them.

Most companies aren't tradeable, and most employees don't have equity, so its not like owning-where-you-work is a default position.

Most investment advisors caution against having a significant part of your assets in your employer, because you expose yourself to excessive risk. (If the company tanks you lose you job, and savings, at the same time.)

The question to ask is this; imagine you won a million $, would your first instinct be to invest it with your employer? Probably not. You would get an advisor, make a plan, build a balanced portfolio, diversify risk.

So to me, a signal from employees not selling some of their stake (assuming its significant) is that they're poor at financial planning. Maybe that matters, maybe it doesn't.
If you ever get the time & mental bandwidth do a second pass on your blog post, it could benefit from a worked example or two where you lay out sample code for the domain model & application logic & sample code for a test suite, along with their description length (measured in some MDL-appropriate sense), then illustrate how various changes to the design that plausibly make it better or worse at accommodating future change influence the description length.

One way to define a test suite that would be very easy for readers to understand could be to rig a test suite of "table-driven tests" for some toy problem.

I'm not sure what a good toy problem would be that would be small enough so it's relatively easy for readers to understand, but large enough to show off MDL being applicable to a more general kind of programming problem and not merely MDL being applied to a statistical modelling exercise (one person's decision tree fit via supervised learning is another person's handwritten function containing a morass of hand written if-else chains -- but we already expect MDL to give reasonable results when applied to decision trees, it's less obvious it gives good results when applied to more general programming problems)

c.f. https://dave.cheney.net/2019/05/07/prefer-table-driven-tests
After the last update to my expensive DSLR broke third-party batteries for no reason beyond pettiness and greed, at this point I trust random hackers more than I trust Sony.

*the battery ruining was not mentioned in the changelog for the update.
I guess it is lobbying but there is some level of unions or protections that doctors or lawyers have that maintain gatekeeping and next to impossible to be out sourced.

Tech is the only sector that generated immense wealth and has zero protection.
Thanks. If you like, share how you know grammar and syntax so well (I was joking about the GPT and of course nobody is required to disclose anything). I know a good bit; I am unused to being outgunned; and I'd like to learn more.
> Optional memory safety isn't.

Optional memory safety is, when you can opt an entire project into a "strict" mode, and this becomes trivially verifiable by others. I imagine that's the goal here.

Optional security is a problem only when you need to remember a million different rules and gotchas, because you will inevitably miss a spot. But if it's a global toggle, it's pretty good. "Use '-fmemsafe' for C/C++" is as tractable as "don't use 'unsafe' in Rust".

Yeah, as you note, library compatibility is an issue. But it's an even bigger issue when bootstrapping a new, safe language: you gotta implement the libraries from scratch, and you never really get to full parity with C/C++. Getting it done for the top 10 most-used libraries would make a spectacular difference in itself.

I should note that I'm not a huge believer in "saving" C/C++ as the memory-safe language of the future - I think there are lingering cultural problems around the standards that we had no luck overcoming for decades - but I also don't think the duo is going away any time soon, so might as well expend some effort on making it a safer tool.
I think I probably suffer from the same thing. On top of that, I added a VS macro that adds missing imports, cleans up unused ones, and re-orders them in a single keystroke. I've never been lazier.
Yeah it’s true. Its not simply that you don’t have to manually format things a certain way. You simply don’t format things at all. You can avoid writing lots of spaces, newlines, semi colons, etc. it’s absolute garbage, then you save it, then it’s fine.
Why would I mooch off friends for car access when I can just rent one?
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I like Slack-to-self for the reasons you list and also because I think of things to do whilst out walking the dog, sitting on the bog, or should be sleeping like a log (like now).
On old PCs drive activity indicator LEDs (good) or drive mechanism sounds (better) were always a great way to build an intuitive feeling for what your computer was doing. People who got into PCs in the post-SSD world have no idea how the sounds act as a window into the computer's operation.

This kind of intuition goes back a long time, too. Levy's "Hackers" describes the MIT TX-0 having a CPU register connected a speaker and the hackers who programmed the machine being able to suss out how their program was doing by the sounds the machine was making. Indeed, that's closer to the "metal" of the machine than disk activity sounds.

The closest thing we have today are the fans throttling-up like jet engines, but by the time that happens things have usually gone well and truly off the rails and it's just an indication of "all hell is breaking loose w/ your CPU".
Too late to edit: The GPT comment was a joke; sorry that wasn't clear.
To engage with what you said: I don't think you grasp the extent to which "extremist" thinking on the question of what to do with the Palestinians (backed by violent action) has now become quite normalized in Israel.

For example, it is odd that you attempted to claim, way up top, that it's just the "Kahanist extremists" who take the broader view of the Amalek reference, as this signifies some distance with what Netanyahu thinks. When what defines the current Netanyahu era is its willful alliance with Kahanist parties -- crowned by the appointment of two of its premier representatives to Minister positions.

Along with all the obscene horror of what's been happening on the ground.
As far as prose goes, that's not that bad - I was expecting a 5-10x slowdown.

How much do you use the mouse when navigating? Do you have something akin to vim combos or do you use mostly mouse? What kind of macros do you have?
This is really awesome. Thanks for the links. I'm done with everything iot cloud, even though it takes a bit more work on the home server upkeep side.
The best patent lawyers/examiners are engineers. You really do have to understand the patents and the technology to write/read patents well. However, it is really boring.

To be paid well, you'll need to pass the patent bar exam. Being a paralegal doesn't make great money compared to an engineer. There are two paths though, one is to get a law degree, the other is to be an examiner for a few years. The lost income of being an examiner (and they're mostly remote now) is much less than the cost of a law degree. You probably won't be making the huge bucks ($1k/hr) litigating without a law degree, but you can make decent money at a lot of large tech companies. You also get to stay at the front of technology... even if the patents are REALLY BORING.
I see. Yeah, it made me think you're making an interesting service just to let someone to compromise it if they collect enough tokens. I guess more specific phrasing wouldn't hurt for skeptics like me
I love using my calendar as a data store. The "notes" section of the calendar is often full of info. E.g. for travel it includes my itinerary, confirmation codes, links to my boarding pass, etc. One stop shopping for an event.

However it's limiting for detailed lists of things to do (e.g. great for travel, lousy for packing list), and it's terrible for time-independent data: notes from talking to my heating contractor, screenshots of setting for my media player, etc.
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we wanted something super simple to help ourselves and other founders... super simple
Back in the 2000s homebrew served a practical purpose, today it's just a novelty. I can run Sega games on a WiiU, sure, or virtually anything else.
same, I use TextEdit specifically because its seemingly the only gui text editor left on MacOS that isnt online

sometimes I use notes, for the syncing, but then I regret it
You seem to be quoting ChatGPT, and you're not even specifying that it's ChatGPT-4, so I automatically assume ChatGPT-3.5, which hallucinates at an astonishing rate. Regardless, all current LLMs can hallucinate. As ChatGPT's disclaimer says, "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information."

A non-GPT source: https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/articles/na-vs-eu-i...

Quoting the relevant statement: "American merchants pay, on average, 1.76% in interchange fees – compared to a 0.96% average in most European nations."

Most of the other sources I'm seeing are quoting even lower numbers. Transactions do seem to have less overhead in Europe than North America.
> Even adults need protection, depending on circumstances

I think the argument is that it's not protection. If someone won't lend to you at 25% (but they would at 27%), then you can't borrow. Is it protection to just prevent those people from borrowing at all?
That depends on your definition of a commodity, dome definitions effectively limit it to raw materials while others define it as any economic good [1].

If Nvidia can truly print money as long as TSMC can make chips, as claimed above, I'd argue that's at least in a gray area for commodities. The chip is effectively a raw material as far as Nvidia is concerned, and it acts much like gold or oil in that scenario as the argument is that there is an unlimited market willing to buy any GPU that Nvidia can create.

Having a monopoly doesn't mean the product itself isn't a commodity. De Beers has a monopoly on diamonds, but I'd expect diamonds to fit into most people's definition of a commodity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
No one actually knows "what matters" yet, and also no one knows whether or not you actually need "new models."

Everything you're saying right now is extremely hypothetical.

The tech is very shiny, no doubt about that. But it's wildly conclusory to think "Yes, there will definitely be a demand for new use cases AND ALSO you definitely will be unable to create those new models without big money investment."

Again, it sounds to me exactly like someone clamoring for "big investment in a new, revolutionary, operating system." Nothing at all inevitable about that for MANY reasons, most having to do with "incremental building on the past thing that already works is probably the most feasible."
Yes, China has become a major problem.
Why not just record a microscopic look at some specific quadrant of the items? It seems like there'd be at least as much entropy to exploit that way as with these metal fragments. I don't mean just a photo, but some way of describing a fairly stable quality of the material at a level of detail minute enough to ensure sufficient entropy.
We're at the point where mobile has been the dominant computing platform longer than desktop.
Ahh, yeah, definitely nothing like that. I'll make a note to clarify the language there in the next website update.
Prettier is a god send for keeping JSX/TSX consistent and readable. Never really 'needed' a formatter until then.
As a kid growing up in London, we were told they thought they were buying Tower Bridge!
Aldi is a European chain of course, and I suspect they carried that tradition over to their US stores.

I dislike this system. I don't go to Aldi very often, and I never have change on my person or in the car. So I grab a cardboard box (which Aldi makes available to customers) and fill that up as I walk around the store.

So I buy less than I would if I had a cart.
What I object to is the deployment of religious tropes that essentialize Netanyahu-ism or Kahanism into Israel, or, worse still, Judaism as a whole.

Which absolutely no one is doing here.

With the statement above the discussion has been formally pushed into the deep end, so I agree we can wrap up.
Yes. Usury law serves this purpose, to draw a line.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/usury

At least in the case of auto loans, usury limits do not limit subprime credit access. If you want to refer specifically to deep subprime unsecured model profitability, if it’s profitable, clearly there is room for margin compression through interest rate limits.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/consumer/2015/presentation...
> I've always heard Discover was a good company to work for and they had the best customer support. Capital One is the opposite of both of those things so I hope the government steps in here.

You want the government to step in because you don’t like what you’ve heard about capital one’s customer service and work culture?
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco during an AI boom
that said, iiuc, SSIMULACRA 2.1 is generally considered a strictly better quality measurement.
It’s possible to be angry at both!
I'm not so worried about humanity's loss of peak works like these since I don't think any young band has it in them at the start anyways. What young artists need is an on-ramp and a way to stay in the business long enough to hone their craft and build a following while turning out a couple Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. Works like Dark Side and OKC are developed, not born, and we need that pipeline.
Funny, I was just wondering if such an entity would not actually quite like the xbox and Playstation as targets. I mean, they are powerful machines, well connected to the internet and the ownership class by and large dont blink when they power them on and are told they need to download a system update or game patch. Feels like a fertile place to build a bot net?

I wonder if you really even need to hack the console. It might be easier to, say, subvert Rockstar's supply chain to put some code in the next GTA that spent a few cycles doing whatever botnets need to be doing.
So a quick trick.

To get you hooked, they MUST let you win. This will usually happen in the first rounds of the gamble. At that point, you MUST leave the game.
The same exact thing happened to me and I came to the same exact realization. I moved all my dot files to an archive and started using built-in software. It's been great.
The recent Pixels specifically don't rock, since the visor goes all the way across.
That’s simply a wrong set of assumptions that have no historical substantiation. Tolerance for casualties was at a different level during both WWs. It is only after the horrors of WW2 that the western world became fearful of casualties. And the Russians as well, who suffered the largest amount of casualties. That’s why the Cuban missile crisis did not turn into a nuclear war. This is why nuclear mutual deterrence worked.
I think OpenAI is pretty close to being able to say they're capable of pivoting their product and its APIs to do whatever the market demands.
Jarring that the author doesn’t use 24:00 time notation.

3:45pm meet with Oprah
4pm Rihanna talk

15:45 meet with Oprah
16:00 Rihanna talk

Monospace typeface keeps it tidy and the timestamps pop in a visual scan. Zero AM/PM ambiguity.
> If OpenAI features were to freeze at what we have today I would be surprised if the company stayed around without a major pivot.

This isn't really true. GPT4 is incredibly useful right now and being used by lots of business processes without any improvements being needed.

Every incremental improvement (eg Gemini 1.5 huge context window) opens up even more possibilities.

AGI isn't required at all.