skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this is a great testing and experimenting server with a fresh environment every time I use it.

I often want test or observe something i'm doing from outside my environment...

lynx https://news.ycombinator.com
curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
Ah, yeah I don't really do any of that. If you want a word of advice, I'd say combining the conservative politics of greed with the message of radical social justice preached in the New Testament really confuses non-christians. I think the religion might look a bit more sincere if they'd remove themselves from politics and focus on less worldly concerns. But either way I'm not really buying what you're selling.
FUSE is a better developer experience since the end user doesn't have to worry about loading the extension every time they use a SQLite driver or the sqlite3 CLI. LiteFS runs an HTTP API server to communicate between nodes as well and if you run multiple processes with a VFS then you have to determine which one should start up that server. Those are the main advantages. Otherwise they're similar file system level interfaces.
> It seems as if their day-to-day life was to eat at fancy places, have a couple calls and enjoy a general upper class lifestyle without doing much that looks like "work".

Yes.
> Your server will self-destruct on log out (and all data & traces will get wiped).

This does not seem to be entirely accurate (and it would also be very obnoxious, especially for use over Tor, if a dropped connection meant starting from scratch). The servers do allow reconnects, and data is preserved (presumably in encrypted form).
Especially considering the whole 30 series had inflated MSRPs due the ridiculous demand gpu mining created which lead to GPU shortages for regular consumers.
It doesn't work because the cost of my sacrifice is paid by myself, but the benefits of my sacrifice are diffused to the entire society. On the margin it makes no economic sense for me to sacrifice to benefit everyone else (and microscopically myself.)
I think that isn't really built for large datasets. I had a buddy who used it a lot on smaller web sites though. I'm way out of date and this stuff might be horribly old fashioned. Vector search is the new hotness but on the other hand, search systems everywhere are getting worse, so who knows.
I dispute that "experience" is something that requires a special explanation. The feeling of what you call "experience" is just something that you sense inside your brain. It is just content, data, like thoughts and other perceptions are as well. You are thinking about it. You are thinking about how you feel about it. You have perceptions about your thinking of how you feel about it. Is your cognition able to process anything that isn't (mere) information/data? I don't believe mine is. What would that even mean?

Yes, a photosensor doesn't have that kind of sensation, and that's because there is nothing going on inside of it that would correspond to that sensation (no neural correlate, so to speak). In the humain brain there is enough that is going on (the complexity and quantity is staggering) that our range of inner experience is easily representable by it. And "experiencing" merely means that we are processing those representations in a way that enters our cognition, like "mere" perceptions do as well.

It seems that you are thinking that perceptions lead to experience, and then nothing else. My view is that perceptions lead to internal processing that in turn is itself perceived by our cognition, in addition to the original perceptions. And it's the texture of this perceived processing that we call "experiencing". That is, it doesn't stop at the "experience" step, because then we wouldn't know anything about it. Instead, the information about the experience then enters our cognitive processing as a subsequent step. And that's how we don't perceive just "red" full stop, but also an associated "experience" of the red. But again, we wouldn't know about that experience if that wasn't information that enters our mind. And I see no puzzle about such information entering our mind.
Yeah, and I really don't see how that substrate should be much different from that in other animals such as, say, chimpanzees. It seems silly to criticize this research just based on the fact that the neurons were cultured from humans in my opinion.
Nerve pain is a fictional illness and SSRI/morphine/fentanyl is not medicine.

Depression is a fictional illness and antidepressants are not medicine.

Cancer is a fictional illness and chemo is not medicine.

You catch my drift? I am obviously not being serious. You are not the one who decides what is and isn't an illness. It is researchers, scientists and physicians. You have no idea what you are talking about.
I think this would throw cold water on some feminist claims of only women get prosecuted for fraud like Elizabeth Holmes and men aren't.
Hey look it's the exact scenario privacy proponents have been warning us about! Who would've thought?
I thought it was generally accepted that nuclear was expensive because every installation is bespoke?
Of course, with no further information you should not use it for real data production work but I'm fine with that limitation.
He doesn't shower as far as I can tell. He mentions once (paraphrasing) "I'm lucky I don't sweat much and smell". He practices basic hygiene and appearance (shaving, etc) and washes his clothes in public laundromats, as shown in a couple of his videos. I guess a quick washcloth in a public bathroom can get to where it matters most, and having clean clothes helps a lot. But he also doesn't ever eat out in restaurants, visit crowded indoor spaces, mingle indoors, etc - places where it would matter most and people would notice or comment.
Extension server has a oss now?
And perhaps a density map too.
Sure, but I need some help testing out the site - ask me some questions at doge.hair and I'll answer there - let me know if you need some dogecoin to get started.
And the vim modal editing pattern is nice for a basic text editor but has pretty poor extensibility…

Nothing could be further from the truth. There are tons of plugins, scripts, tutorials for literally every scenario you can imagine since Vim has (never mind its predecessor Vi) has been around since 1991.

at some point you just can't do everything with single letters, you need actual, complex commands

Vim’s power is its composability. Once you understand text objects (word, sentences, paragraphs) and motions, you can do anything you want.

If you need to repeat a string of commands together, you can record macros on the fly, create an autocommand or a plugin if that’s what needed.

Neovim in particular has LSP support built-in, which gives the editor semantic knowledge of your code, just like an IDE. So renaming, refactoring, formatting, syntax highlighting work better.

There’s even a LSP server for Free Pascal:https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser....
Atrocities perpetrated against civilians wasn't a concern. It got retconned into our national consciousness, and sending refugees back demonstrates that thoroughly. The rest of what you say is right though.
Now that a Nordic country is doing it, maybe liberals in the US will think it’s a good idea.
You might ask, what problems is globalism going to solve that treaties and national cooperation can't today? More importantly, what will those mechanisms be and will they be just as vulnerable to the problems of corruption and interconnection that plague the meaningful enforcement of treaties and agreements today?

The difference is, much as the same with a democratic nation.

In a democratic nation, citizens collectively elect representatives, and then laws are passed. Once in place, citizens are bound by those laws, and will be encouraged by various means ; fines, jail, etc, to obey that collective decision.

Now imagine if our democracy was "treaties are made with all citizens of the nation, but you don't have to agree or sign the treaty."

Succinctly put, treaties aren't something you can make another nation sign, and if signed due to force, really force them to comply with in their local area.

A global government however, could punish citizens of any country, should they fail to follow global laws passed.

That said, I am highly uncomfortable with the idea of a global government, because there is such a wide range of belief systems out there, some of them totalitarian, many of them non-democratic, many of them tied deeply to religion, and I don't think the outcome could last, or be pretty.
There is an excellent book on birds called The Birds of Pandemonium, by Michele Raffin. I read it some years ago, and recall it being fascinating and beautifully written. Really gave me a great sense of appreciation and wonderment for birds. Corvids are clever and very intelligent, it's such a treat to see it on video- thanks for sharing this.
Sure, there’s not much incentive for manufacturers to develop reliable appliances, because people just shop based on price and features. Once of the only constraints is government regulations which ban the old, less efficient designs. Take away those regs, and manufacturers who don’t want to pay for R&D can churn out those simple designs again.
You should always assume that for a service such as this and proceed accordingly.
If there are extraterrestrials, "Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong" is probably the sort of thing they say while watching us from their UFOs.
It's really sad and also makes me really happy with what Andreas Kling achieved with SerenityOS. That project became popular even though they wrote everything in house. But Onivim failed with ReasonML.
This is not 2000 or 2010 any more. On a train virtually everyone has a smartphone, tablet or laptop, very few are “stuck” there for hours having nothing entertaining to do other than striking up a conversation with a stranger. At least in wealthier countries and on more comfortable trains.

And then there are people like me who always disliked chatty strangers, even back in 2000.
It's interesting Europe is willing to spend billions of tax dollars on human rights like food, housing, medical care, and all sorts of social programs.

But not electricity. Any power plant not profitable will be shut down. No level of public investment will be tolerated.
I scraped a ton of Nintendo 3DS street pass relays from all over the world and used some homebrew code[1] on a pi to rotate to a new item in the list once every few minutes, which provided me an endless amount of street pass game data. Nintendo shut the relay servers down in early 2018 though, effectively killing the homepass community, so that's all in the past now. Too bad because my kids are sitting right here playing 3DS and they can only streetpass with each other.

[1] https://github.com/danielhoherd/homepass
They're biological. A lot can happen :) Remember this includes weirdness like viruses, tumors, aging... as well as specifically neural stuff like habituation (diminished sensitivity to repeated stimulation), sensitisation (increased sensitivity to repeated stimulation), spontaneous misfiring, reorganisation (basically creating/destroying or upweighting/downweighting synapses) etc etc etc.

Of course, then you'll need to debug problems by dripping antidepressants (or psychedelics, or stimulants, or depressants, or various hormones, or....) into the Petri dish.

Biology is wonderfully crazy.
Yup, and that was the point I think. Set it at a high for the 80s / 50s / etc point and never scale with inflation.
I tried to reply to someone but he got censored for pointing out that if you care about two neurons you should care about the animals that go through hell in the meat/dairy industry. Here's my reply:

One can't hope to truly know if another individual (be it a human or any other animal) is conscious (the hard problem of consciousness). But if it has eyes like us, mouth like us, plays like us, cries/screams when hurt like us, and even seem to dream like us (asleep dogs sometimes move like they are running in their dreams, and when they wake up they look confused and still perturbed from what they were seeing in their minds), it makes perfect sense to assume that they are conscious like us, and it's the ethical thing to do.
This is so awesome!!! Your team rocks. Too bad it wasn't named after your cat: FelinePilot or CatPilot.
> four years in prison for talking back to a police officer,

If you read the details of the case - she was chanting that the police were going to die, which goes beyond mere “talking back”; and she would not have received such a lengthy sentence if it was not for multiple prior convictions. Now, all that said, I still think her sentence is excessive-and indeed, her legal team says they will appeal it-but it seems far less outrageous than it does when presented without those details. It doesn’t have much bearing on the issue of free speech, given that making death threats is a crime in most jurisdictions, and few consider free speech to include the right to make death threats.

> Indeed, it's been over 30 years now since the end of White Terror (~20 thousands killed, ~140 thousands imprisoned).

Bad, but not as bad as Mao - and at least the current Taiwanese government openly admits that was wrong; the Chinese government censors public discussion of Mao’s crimes, and instead plasters his picture everywhere

> The prime minister responsible for it spent the rest of his life in house arrest.

Because of the massacre, or because he’d embarrassed the Party by not crushing the protests a lot sooner?
> They might smile and take your money as you photograph them, but your motivations are not mutual.

In my experience. Dealing with tourists like this generates mostly bemusement. They come into your life, spice it up for a little while, and then they disappear again. You don’t expect anything different.

I don’t think most people consider that they’ll be written about on some random travel blog later, nor that it will be in any way relevant to them.

> too poor to buy cans of Coke or Pokemon cards

It’s so weird to read this and then consider that some people do/did see this as the standard of being ‘not poor’. I’d have never considered myself poor, but every time I read stuff like this I wonder if others would have considered my family so.
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Virtue ethics is very fuzzy, yes.

If I can ground why I find it useful at all, it would be in the intuition (and N=1 anecdata) that a heuristic of 'following the rules most of the time will, in fact, produce decent consequences overall.'

Caveats to that:

- I reject deontological absolutism as ridiculous and counterproductive.

- I can't really give you a solid idea of what my version of 'the rules' are and I certainly can't justify them beyond 'they feel right to me.'

With respect to the last part, I try to live by one of the tenets of Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism - "make the best choice you can with the information you have available, and if you did that, your conscience should be clear even if something bad results" with the caveat of "but you should probably still be -annoyed- that you got it wrong, and your conscience should only remain clear if you make an effort to understand how that happened and not repeat the error."

I very much have consequentialist -instincts-, but on a personal level I've effectively derived a form of virtue ethics from those instincts because I find it a more effective way to get an overall net good set of consequences than brute force calculation.

Fundamentally my choice to use of a form of virtue ethics for decision making is instrumental, not epistemic.

An example: as a general rule, lying is bad ... but keeping your mouth shut and/or omitting details is often useful, and I will happily lie to keep somebody's secret (e.g. avoiding outing somebody) both because of the desire to be trustworthy -and- because 'avoiding harm coming to your friends' is a virtue in and of itself.

I'm not sure I've made myself any clearer here.
I suppose I should have clarified that I meant "lake Mead if at capacity" which it isn't.

Stored energy (in a fixed gravitational field) is the product of height and mass. Hoover dam has a "hydraulic height" of 576 feet according to a government website, though the average height of any given drop of water is less than that because the lake is deep (or it was, anyways).

The thing about lake Mead is that the volume of water is absolutely huge. I don't think there are any mountaintop reservoirs anywhere close to it because though the altitude difference could be a lot more, it's hard to store large amounts of water on a mountaintop.

If we estimate that the average height of water in Lake Mead is 400 feet and it holds 26 million acre feet, then a pumped hydro storage system with 4,000 feet of altitude difference would need to hold 2.6 million acre feet to be equivalent. I'm pretty sure there's nothing like that in the U.S. The Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia has an upper reservoir of about 35.6 thousand acre feet and a vertical distance of 380 meters (1,246 feet).
Stop using them so much?
> Where are you going to get the metals?

Which metals are you talking about? There are energy storage systems that use no rare (or even uncommon) materials.
> A planned feature is to implement INT8 and INT4 support for the CodeGen models, which would let the models run with much less VRAM (~2x smaller for INT8 and ~4x for INT4) :)

That would certainly put the larger models within reach of most users. Part of my reluctance to deploy this myself was I'd have to either redline the VRAM on a 8GB card or choose the smallest model.

Would this require a retrain of the models?
What makes you think that experiments on living rodents aren’t hell already? What is the crucial ethical difference between these species, apart from two facts, first that a full human has a legal status, second that most people will relate to an empty human brain more than to a non-empty non-human one (regardless of packaging).

I understand legal/relatable parts, but is there more to it?
From https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot

> if you have two NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPUs, you should be able to run the 6B model by putting half on each GPU.

Thats quite excessive, but nice that it can be ran locally.

> Note that the VRAM requirements listed by setup.sh are total -- if you have multiple GPUs, you can split the model across them.

This might not work with the upcoming RTX 40x0 GPUs unless they have enough memory, as they abolished NVLink in that series.

Edit: I'm now seeing there are smaller models too. Going to give it a try tomorrow.
You get added to a suspects list, subject to more audits and investigated, which even if your legit is an unpleasant cost itself, and with the amount of things illegal in reality, could still bust you for something nobody cares about, like having some hunting animal bust from great grandpa or whatever.
And it's still the correct argument. One person abusing something isn't a reason to harm another. I really do feel for people that are dealing with opioid addiction issues. It's been something that's hit close to me as well. But the ridiculous levels of interference in proper medical treatment is a strong driver of the very addition problems its attempting to solve.

Getting proper pain management requires going to "pain specialists" which may or may not be pill mills since their entire business is now built on pain management rather than general medical care. Getting your medications is heavily restricted and complicated. You can't fill a script for more than a month. You can't fill more than 2-3 days before the date on the script. You can't stock up for a trip, and you can't even start the process of trying to get it early in a shortage situation. The fear of DEA / government means your normal providers won't touch it, and it means if you're dealing with a bad provider (say you wound up at a pill mill and you're trying to get out) other providers won't want to take you on. It means if you've been mis-managed, rather than trying to help you wean down, you're more likely to have a new provider cut you off cold turkey and then treat you as an addict when your withdrawl symptoms kick in. An uncomfortable number of addicts have the same basic history, of being put on pain meds for some reason or another and being cut off cold turkey by some other provider without consideration for their current dependency levels or their actual pain needs. And that doesn't even begin to get into how impossible it becomes to get proper help if you are an addict.

Addiction is an awful thing, and it's an issue that needs to be dealt with. Dealing with it by making it harder for non-addicts and addicts alike to get the help they need is not the answer.
I'm curious if those are actually owned by billionaires...there aren't THAT many billionaires. To be honest, I'm more expecting that they're run as REITs that are on public markets, in large part held by the asset managers of the world in various funds strewn across 401k plans.

But you're right, they are standing to see a lot of money coming in presently and over the next 10-20 years...guess I have my next bit of research for investing (this is a comment section on a site run by a venture capital firm, right?).
And I still think it’s a good one. Someone who wants to get a Rx of painkillers specifically to abuse it themselves or sell it to other abusers isn’t what we should really care about too much about outside of getting them into rehab. Someone might be a drug seeker is not a good reason to let someone who isn’t suffer.

Accidentally getting someone who had no intention of abusing it addicted without recognizing it was/is the much bigger issue and availability doesn’t really help that.
Is Iron Dome around a territory as large as Ukraine even remotely feasible? Seems like that would be like many trillions of $numeraire for a landsize that large.

Maybe it becomes more realistic if you just wanna do parts of the eastern front facing the invading country's borders with Ukraine... but hey they don't pay me the big bucks for my opinions of military geostrategery
This seems to just be an ad. This being HN I was expecting them to at least calculate the difficulty of recreating the original document.
This was such a great site.

It’s probably better in metro areas but these days it’s woefully out of date in smaller cities (eg the nearby town of ~300k is super hit and miss for my red team ops.)

Fortunately, Apple’s geolocation API is highly useful and super up-to-date, albeit a mess of undocumented APIs. I have a hacked up Python script that I am utterly unable to get running on anything other than the original Linux VM it was developed on. I only wish it dumped elevation so I could narrow down apartment locations better.
This is a question about lifestyle, really. Most "ways of living" that deal with modern office environments can't do it. And a lot of bureaucratic functions need a graphical browser.

But if your day to day is physical labor, crafts, writing, theoretical research etc. - you don't need the computer much to begin with.

If you allow your phone to act as your sole graphical environment, I think it can work out.
False. It's unfalsifiable. There is no experiment possible that you can set up to answer these questions, any more than you can construct an experiment to prove whether there is a God.