jameslevy

The only longterm solution that makes sense is to allow students to use AI tools and to require a log provided by the AI tool to be provided. Adjust the assignment accordingly and use custom system prompts for the AI tools so that the students are both learning about the underlying subject and also learning how to effectively use AI tools.

Does it require Azure to work? Or could the Azure steps be relatively easily be swapped out for AWS/GCP/etc?

Squiggle is an extension of the OpenAI Realtime API that generates insights (summarization, highlights, structured data, and content flags) in realtime as the conversation occurs. You can use Squiggle with a one line code change, no account setup needed.

The website has a link to a simple demo and an embedded video of the demo in action.

I originally built this for something I'm working on, but figured I should make it available as an independent service that anyone can use.

The insight-generation features do incur additional costs utilizing the OpenAI API, with the same OpenAI API key you are using for the Realtime API, and you can configure how often the insights are generated and thus how many extra API calls are being made.

Any feedback is very appreciated!

First money in at a 40M valuation? Assuming this is pre-seed, that seems like the investor is taking on a lot of risk based on the distribution of outcomes.

"Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome". I do not know anything of the culture of Tesla and am not commenting on it specifically, and that quote could apply just as much to a company like Boeing. But at companies working on safety-critical products, the problems usually arise from employees acting in their own self interest to do what will get them rewarded for shipping on time, or to avoid punishment for causing delays.

Goodhart's law applies to how inflation measures have ceased to be an accurate measure: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

It's surprising how many parents I know who are in denial about this. It must be because they themselves are constantly using social media and don't want to accept what it is doing to their own mental health.

These types of tools should exclude all files and directories in the .gitignore as standard operating procedure, unless those files are specifically included. Not just because of secrets, but also because these files are not considered to be part of the repository source code and it would be unusual to need to access them for most tasks.

It's amazing to me how often Goodhart's Law can be observed in the wild, and I've come to believe it is an important enough concept that it should probably be something (along with logical fallacies and other concepts related to critical thinking) that should be prioritized above a lot of other things taught in high schools.

What about the MMT concept of just taxing the rich and "burning" their funds as a targeted method of reducing the money supply?

Perhaps prompting the model to first describe its approach to answering the question. This type of chain-of-thought technique can yield better results.

Hopefully they will publicly commit to only using this trademark defensively if granted. In other words, to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt here, they may just want to prevent someone else from trademarking "GPT" and taking legal action against them.

At least he's talking about the infotainment system, and not an internal system or something where there's no conceivable use for HTML/JS.

And cash that disappears from your bank account? Great for going long in the stock market.

The thing that really gets me is that even once you hear these conversations, the price might 2x or 3x from there. I felt this way about Bitcoin by the summer of 2017 but obviously it still had some room to run.

These streaming services need some way to identify the number of viewers. I'm sure there'll always be some ways around this (there already is via piracy), but they'd want something better than just asking you how many people are watching and charging $10 per person.

I can't think of any ways that aren't big problems from a basic privacy perspective such as a camera in your TV watching you.

As us engineers like to say, the goal is to automate ourselves out of a job.

"Master" is similar to the master copy of a work. It is used as a reference to base branches from.

"Slave" is not a term used by Git or Github, and its use of "master" is not related to the vocabulary of "master/slave". Not the first to say this, but the media seems to be getting this all wrong.

"We’re also working more closely with partners like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce..."

Is Facebook Shops not a direct competitor to Shopify? Or is this just "embrace, extend, and extinguish"?

Has there been any research into the extent that masks do or don't result in modified behavior, not directly related to the mask? For example, if you go out and most people are wearing masks, it may serve to remind you to wash your hands when you reach your destination, to not linger unnecessarily, etc.

Mountain House near Tracy? I don't think I've ever heard of Mountain House before.

Would an article about immigrant workers at meat processing plants get to the HN frontpage?

The Bay Area can mean Pacific Heights, or Concord. Probably half or 2/3 the cost of living in the latter.

A rock seems unlikely to be conscious in any real way. Something as complex as a star, however...maybe all of the humans worshipping the sun throughout many thousands of years were onto something after all.

Would you say the same thing about gold? Genuinely curious, since obviously Bitcoin is frequently compared to gold as a store of value instead of a unit of exchange.

The most persuasive defense of Bitcoin as a store of value is that the world needs precisely one digital store of value, and game theory may dictate that it will end up being Bitcoin.

But yes, Bitcoin is obviously ridiculously volatile. I tell friends that there is money to be made, but you need to have a very strong stomach for it.

Sure, but presumably the miners leaving will still want to do something profitable with their mining equipment. I'd expect to see the hashrate increase for other PoW coins. Unless there's some reason for that not to happen.

Everyone thinking this seems to have resulted in it happening a couple days early. It's not yet clear whether today or tomorrow is a good time to short BTC.

Is there speculation regarding what miners will do instead of mining Bitcoin? For example, mining another cryptocurrency instead of Bitcoin? This would seem to have implications for the mining power for these altcoins, and perhaps implications for their prices as a result. I haven't seen any discussion about this.

> the pseudo-quantum stuff of adiabatically cooled circuits

Where is the innovation/research in this area happening? This is one of those topics that I find very interesting but any attempt to serious inquiry into it tends to result in ridicule from people I know with some expertise in physics and thermodynamics, as though it was just obviously nonsense.