skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d argue that the creator went from being an author to being an editor, and that is fine.

Personally, I am enjoying chatgpt and copilot. They both have saved me a lot of time when dealing with new tech and accumulating new information.

I don’t trust them for certain highly sensitive or technical issues, but other than that if I can minimise the time I spend working without a reduction in productivity, well, I am all for it.
Hmm, please don't turn this into a thread commenting on specific bad movies. It's the similarity that's interesting.
What kind of tests did you feed it specifically? I’m curious to experiment with this too.
Heard the french citizen medical database runs on azure... I hope I am wrong, very wrong.
I think there are two roughly important rates to consider here:

1) Peter Thiel’s 10x improvement concept from Zero-to-One.

2) The exponentially increasing rate of AI research and improvement.

additionally, a third point is relevant:

3) Max Tegmark’s idea that the best AI agents will have been generated by AI.

I think we’re seeing an ‘intelligence’ explosion begin to rustle from its sleep. It’s difficult to predict when it’s coming, but I don’t think SE’s are the ones with the safest jobs. The inflection point will be a ChatGPT that costs $10k/yr to run, as that’s basically a 10x improvement in the cost of devs.
Yes, AI will no doubt relieve Software Developers from the tedious task of glueing together existing libraries to solve clearly definable problems.
I stop Hanlon's Razor at the individual level. As soon as you have a meme-entity subject to evolutionary pressure (corporation, government, nation, religion, charity, ...), assume maximum malice only loosely limited by its effect on fitness.
rpilocator.com tracks them. Jeff Greeling has a couple of good YouTube videos on the problem. Sometimes, if you're willing to wait, you can put in an order on a site like digikey and you'll eventually get some at list price. But yeah, no one can get them at list price. And for what scalpers are charging, or the BS 'starter kit' that you might be forced to buy, get a used thin client PC. The other options, like Nvidia's CM4 style board, are just as hard to find or just as scalped.
I think in regimes where that's a large risk, the regime doesn't need this to spy on you. if you e.g. are forced to run a government issued smartphone app and there are cameras at every street corner, the system is already pretty dystopian.

It's where there isn't already a surveillance state that we may want to look out and not create one.
> otoh I'm guessing the poor guy probably didn't have time to piss while delivering > 1.5x the maximum possible number of deliverable packages in a normal working day.

He should take that up with his employer or switch jobs. Not gaslight customers. The amount of fedex deliveries where they claimed I wasn't home has been absurd lately. I have a doorbell camera, and checked. No fedex truck ever appeared all day.
Friction in a process can be an amazing deterrent and prevents you from abusing power en masse. Whenever there is a cost to doing something, it demands prudence.
Well, it's still far from EU, but it's something. Although rest times are VERY short.

US:

- max 11h driving after 10h of rest (that sums 21h, so I guess you can drive 14h a day)
- rest 30min every 8h of uninterrupted driving
- max 60h driving a week

EU:

- max 9h driving a day (10h driving allowed twice a week)
- rest 45min every 4.5h of uninterrupted driving
- max 56h driving a week. max 90 every two weeks.
And for a more practical comparison: https://valgrind.org/gallery/survey_03/q4.html

The takeout is: valgrind is free and doesn't require recompilation, purify has a more complete UI, they both have similar performance impact and bug-finding abilities.
No, that isn't correct. The query planner optimises query execution in a layer of abstraction below the representation of the tables, the relational integrity and structure of the user-accessible objects.

Tables, their attributes, relationships etc. are easily able to be represented visually. Entity-Relationship Diagrams have standard notation (Chen, Crows-foot, UML). We can represent models conceptually, logically or physically, we can even indicate the existence of views and indexes. In terms of queries, DML is essentially multi-filtered, multi-dimensional slicing of tables and can be represented as output sets which are as modellable as the source tables.

On the wider point, DBT looks promising. It seems to be a good middle ground between the purists (like me) who wish back-end devs would just learn how to model data, and the adventurists who prefer to lock everything behind OOP principles.
I agree that YouTube - like most large social networks - cares only about the large traffic generators, but I'm not sure about your characterization of the content.

I can find high quality creators for almost anything on earth that interests me - programming, ML, music creation, woodworking, and so on.

I suspect this is all about the deprioritization of the little guy.

Google also shuts the door quickly and hard. My personal adsense account was permabannned years ago and 1) I don't know why 2) there appears no avenue to address it
I'd go further; with such bullshit claims akin to this the entity making the false claim should be perma-banned from YouTube.
I can see how the shitshow commenced though. Instead of contacting Amazon via chat and providing a few photos to document the process the family did a regular return which off was in turn picked up as fraudulent.. No one's fault in particular but annoying situation for sure!!

Reality for me has always been that Amazon is rather flawless on return policy (in the UK anyway!)
The string of developments that started with the phonograph have ended the generational handing-down of musical and vocal cultural artifacts, and have degraded music to the endless repetition of the same fixed recordings.
I would be very interested in your meat jam custard recipe. Asking for a friendly AI.
They shipped me an LED bulb... in a padded envelope

It was absolutely destroyed in shipment. They accepted the return, but what a waste of my time, and now I can't trust anything remotely fragile to be shipped successfully from them.
Sounds like you’ve never lived in a block of flats before. There’s nothing dystopian about apartment blocks.

For us theirs is no constant noise. The flats have excellent sounds insulation between them so you can’t hear neighbours, and height means there’s zero road noise, or noise from people outside. Our flat is substantially quieter than any detached house I’ve ever stayed in, except perhaps houses deep in the English countryside where there isn’t another human for miles.

There’s also very little pollution. High density house means high density tax revenue, so the local authority is substantially better funded than any rural authority, meaning our roads are clean and free of litter and rubbish, and in excellent mechanical condition because the local authority operates an aggressive maintenance schedule.

For space, we have miles of car free paths and parks, which can all be reach without crossing a main road. It’s substantially easier to walk our dog off lead here than it is in suburbia, where you’re stuck to tiny pavements and the constant fear of a speeding driver.

Every time I stay in the country side I feel trapped, unable to go anywhere without getting in car. I can’t just put a coat on, go outside, and just walk somewhere pleasant, get a coffee, sit in a park, walk along the river, do some quick shopping, or grab transit to visit a friend. Instead the countryside forces me get in a car to go anywhere, something I would rather not do, and certainly not something I consider freedom.
are you a young un? dont you guys remember real audio? i remember streaming the NBA playoffs over dialup all the way in Australia. Video streaming was already a thing, it just didn't have a killer library.
> Is there such a thing as a Unix “design and architecture” though?

I think so, absolutely yes.

Internals of kernel are largely irrelevant, I would submit. That's not visible to the user. Minix 3, Darwin atop XNU, HURD, doesn't matter: boot it in single-user mode and they all look much alike. Cryptic little terse commands, all in lower-case, with single-letter switches after `-` and these days often full-word ones after `--`. Lots of cryptic little plain-text config files, both in a global directory (usually in `/etc`) and in the user's home directory (usually under `/home`). No drive letters or indicators, one global filesystem, directories separated by `/`.

Then look at the things that are only pretending to be a Unix, from NT to OpenVMS to z/OS, and there's a totally different shell or set of shells, there are drive indentifiers and maybe directories, maybe not, with who-knows-what as the delimiter. NT has "real" internal identifiers mapped to Windows-like ones and to Unix like ones, these days via at least 3 entirely separate subsystems: the original POSIX subsystem, much enhanced; and WSL 1, with code from the Windows Android runtime emulating a Linux kernel; and WSL 2, using Hyper-V to run a real kernel in a special porous VM. (Talk about baroque!)

I think it's very clear which of these are UNIX-like designs, with a Unix-like filesystem and a Unix-like shell and so on, and other ones, where but it's a (maybe option) extra, it's not the real underlying OS and you can quite possibly ignore it and never see it, or even remove it, and you can't use the Unix-like personality to run and administer your machine.

Yes, I think it's a real and important distinction.

QNX, say, is Unix-like. VMS, say, is not. Even if one has better compatibility with the notional "real thing" than the other.
"$8" is the answer I'd expect
OMG! So sorry to hear that. That's awful! :( but thanks for sticking with it.
It's the death of the boilerplate code. Ai is just statistics, remixing code that was written before. It will not be able to produce new ideas.
Sounds like an issue with the company and not AWS.
Some also call them SFF (Small Form Factor) PCs but that term for me typically means the slightly larger desktop size PCs you could set a monitor on top of. The 1L PCs are more like the thin clients hospitals have bolted on their monitors.

ServeTheHome has a great ongoing series on "TinyMiniMicro" computers that make great little home servers.
I do very simple mental calculation.

Preface .There was a test about memory endurance of the SSD, where they were actually written to death and precise number of data was measured (not estimated). That was in the age of Sata SSDs, so not super recent, but memory cells were actually more durable in those times, due to bigger tech process and lower number of bits per cell. In the end 256 Gb drives failed after writing 1-3 petabytes of data.

So when I'm buying 1 Tb modern mid range drive, I expect about 4 Pb of writes on it, but I halve that number because of the worse tech process and more levels per cell, and additionally halve again due to by personal build (SFF PC) operating at higher temperatures, not good for the lifespan.

None of my drives have reached even 10% of 1 Pb yet, so I don't care too much about memory lifespan.
Just in case it isn’t obvious, egui is WebGL based (like Figma)
Thinking of my confusion as a British person, the first time I heard about Americans having “biscuits and gravy”. Or the time an American recipe guide got confused in the other direction about the British traditional Christmas “mince pie” and put minced meat in instead of mincemeat (which, despite the name, is vegetarian).
I strongly suspect prioritized handling or some other points-based system that classifies customers and the quality of care they 'deserve'.

I've had 1 or 2 issues before (things late, wrong things etc) and all of them were handled nearly instantly and pleasantly, where I got the benefit of the doubt and left deeply satisfied.

Fast-forward to a week or so ago. I had a shipment coming in, paid extra for 2-day delivery. It was late, but I really needed it by a certain date because I was traveling after. First rep I got said they'd pull some strings to get it routed earlier, offered some refunded shipping etc. Awesome service like I was used to.

I looked later and the updated shipping wasn't shown, so I wasn't sure it went through. So I contacted again the next day and got... slightly less good service. They actually said the rerouting might happen, and maybe I could get a pickup, but to check again the next day if it moved. I contacted them a third time the next day and this was the worst service I had ever gotten. The rep said there was nothing to be done... no discount for inconvenience, no expedited shipping, no early pickup options, literally nothing. They actually even kept the chat open after we were done talking so I couldn't leave negative feedback. I was floored. After years of amazing service I couldn't believe it... it didn't even feel like the same company.

In the end, it did come early (looks like the first rep did what they promised, just took a while to show up) but in the meantime, contacting them several times about the same issue downgraded me to "not worth helping" customer status.

I've noticed (like others mentioned) that the quality of goods available on Amazon has downgraded significantly recently, so I suspect that means more people contact more frequently with issues.

Rather than interpreting it as a quality-of-goods problem, I suspect they've interpreted it as a quality-of-customer problem; that is, they've decided more and more customers have downgraded themselves from "generally good customer we should keep happy" to "customer who will complain about anything -- not worth keeping happy".

Let's hope they fix their algorithm.
If it's -10C, then open the windows for 5 minute intervals, not 15-30, that's what I do.
Historically Gore has made their membranes from ePTFE. Other companies have made their membranes from electrospun PU due to Gore's patents. My understanding is that PU is widely viewed as inferior to ePTFE for performance and durability. So if Gore plans to switch from ePTFE to PU, it's a step backwards in terms of performance. This at the same time that the industry has switched DWR coatings from C8 to C6 and soon C4, which while more environmentally friendly are significantly less effective and durable.

At some point we're going to just move away from WPB rain gear and go back to waterproof but nonbreathable gear (e.g., silnylon and silpoly) and rely on mechanical ventilation (pit zips, 2 way front zips, wrist and waist cinches) for breathability.
“Some cruft” is quite an understatement. Years ago a large client was moving HQ locations and expected to lose about 20% of its staff in the process. My team was tasked with documenting business processes for different departments. Basically what people did on a regular basis, the tools they used, inputs and outputs with other departments, etc. Easily 15% of the roles (not processes, the full job) could have been replaced with some basic scripts and off the shelf tools. Entire sub-departments were basically cruising doing as little as possible to collect a paycheck, mostly copy-pasting stuff between spreadsheets, Word docs, and PowerPoint presentations.
With SSD failures its commonly that the drive no longer works at all and the data loss is between your last backup and now.
No, I'm not projecting, I'm taking what he said at face value...

He didn't just say "brave" and "creative". He said more than that, including some semi-negative comments about Elon's general behavior, but the thrust of his comments is very positive.

It's absolutely hilarious to see people who hate Elon react this way. You can't compute someone you respect disageeeing with you.
This assumes grant-granting makes sense.
hahaha i dont really know if its true, but yeah. I was listening to the "newest" in eletronic music recently and was noticing how 80% of it was remixes from the 90 :D
On Linux you can use part of your RAM as a compressed swap. There is zram and another program i don't remember.
Hetzner only offers cloud servers in North America; bare metal is only available in Europe.
I'm using a relatively cheap (68EUR) TFA Dostmann AirControl Mini CO2 Meter (also available from different brands as well) based on ZyAura platform. I soldered a connector to connect it to an ESP8266 board flashed with ESPHome software [1] and then send measurements to the Home Assistant instance.

This system works well, the sensor is on my desk, the CO2 drops quickly below 600 ppm when the window is open, but then immediately returns to above 800 ppm shortly after the window is closed. For example, I currently have 982 ppm.

At night, with 2 people sleeping in the room, the level often rises to 2500 ppm. So even though I ventilate the house much more often than I did before I bought the sensor, it's still not enough to maintain healthy CO2 levels, and with the current energy prices and cold weather, I don't know what else I can do, I have no space to install heat recovery ventilation.

1: https://esphome.io/components/sensor/zyaura.html
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I know we don't do this here, but what a great point.

Additionally, it is hard to put my finger on a good explanation, but FSD is a very specific problem that we're trying to handcraft an AI solution for.

You have to appreciate how broad this model is and how decent the results it produces are without being told specifically how to do it.
This was just lovely :-)
You can give ChatGPT tests and ask for code that passes them. Same with specific data queries and specific interactions with APIs.
Oxford Word of the Year 2022: 'goblin mode'
>I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detect e.g. suspicious traffic.

FWIW, I've been running a seedbox in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter for yrears without issue. I only use private trackers + 1 public tracker focused on asian content, but they're definitely capable of figuring out that the my traffic is mostly torrent-related and have never taken action. The only time they've ever null-routed me was when I accidentally left a DNS resolver open to the world.
It's not a weird question. He wants to know one that is reputable (so do I), not just another random one that might have the same problem.
Some interesting material regarding degradation of LED lights here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330676601_Degradati...

They note that "Chromaticity shift in the output light is one of the most
common failures in LEDs [...] [Chromaticity shift] is considered as
one of the most important measures of quality and is often studied and reported" (page 6) so it sounds like this could hardly be new info to the manufacturer.
Congrats. Guess who does want it? Almost every large organization on the planet.
The way I like to think about AI is to think about it in 3 dimensions.

There are 3 dimensions to any machine: input, implementation, and output. So something like DALLE has very impressive implementation-level intelligence. But as everyone knows by now, it still takes a crafty human to create the necessary input.

In my opinion, “turning complex requirements into functionally correct code” is an input problem, and I think AI has a loooong way to go on that front.
GPT is not at the level of an 8 year old human being and isn't even doing remotely the same thing as an 8 year old human being.

GPT is mindblowing. It's a mindblowingly good predictive language model. It's an insanely, holy-fuck-I-never-thought-that-would-be-possible, amazingly good predictive language model. I'm thoroughly impressed. I just think it's not AGI, it's not close to AGI, it's not any kind of threat to jobs in programming (though maybe it could be in some fields) and it isn't likely to be any of these things any time soon.

The claims that it is all these things (which you can see all over these threads) are what people are arguing against.
> Also, a lot of AI-generated content doesn't look like trash to me, I've seen a lot of good images

Translation: There is a lot of human generated original art that you're not aware of, and when you see it in the "AI"'s output you think it's original.
The brother of an old friend got curious, went downstairs really early in the morning, found his dad's tools, and tried to unscrew his bottom. He poked around in his belly-button with a screw-driver until it started bleeding. This guy became one of the best car-mechanics later on in life.
There's a crucial distinction between being impressive and being useful. Is it impressive that we've gotten to this point? Certainly! Is this a tool that people can safely rely on? Probably not.
Did you change the value of max width? Eg https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.webp?maxwidth=6400
DigiKey seems to be the best bet, at least for some models. It may take 1-3 months but they do seem to fill back orders consistently.

Rpilocator tracks stock and has found some sites stick things regularly once a week but if you don't buy within 10-20 minutes of the in stock alert, you'll miss it.

Even Upton said he thinks the supply will be getting better to the point it'll be fully stocked again within one year.
They've mistaken net sales for profit. If Amazon had a profit of $386bn last year, I'd expected their market cap to be more then $960bn.
I'm surprised that poachers use firearms rather than poisons or sedatives, risking announcing their position. A very powerful (and loud) cartridge is necessary to kill an elephant.

Also, I thought most African elephants in managed wildlife areas have their tusks cut by wildlife officials to deter poaching and save animal lives. If this were the case, perhaps attraction in mating also no longer includes tusks as a desirable characteristic since few/no individuals possess it any longer.
The huge advantage of the RPi is that I can get it up and running doing things that are useful for me just by following online guides. Whereas I ran into lots of problems when trying to do useful things with other SBCs (I'm not a "computer professional" the way most people on this site are). I don't doubt that others are more capable, but the RPi lets me just get on with my projects with minimal fuss.
That is how I read the bit about exploitation as well.

> That sounds like a problem, and it is if you are narrow-mindedly thinking about how to monetize the open source software directly.

That may be true, but there is another thing to consider: earning a living by running a business is challenging. Many people do not earn enough money for it to be worth while. Most will have to put up with other businesses trying to freeload, or at the very least cut an unreasonable deal. It is easy to claim the difficulties with open source exist because the software is free (as in beer). Indeed, it is probably more difficult to make money because of that. On the other hand, it is also a difficulty faced by all businesses.
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