skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for all the support, thoughts, and advice.

I just published an update on the blog post: https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-n...
There was an ad doing the rounds recently in Europe showing a geek setting up voice-activated home automation. And then getting a tooth removed under heavy anaesthetic.

Turns out "Mmmmffmghfff!" is not a valid Alexa command.

Also a bad idea to have a voice activated door during torrential rain. (Which is a silly example. But even so.)

It's not even a UI problem. No one is going to be happy if the power goes off and they can't get in or out.

Or the lock fails open and everyone can get in and out.
Telstra Ventures - they're a VC subsidiary: https://golden.com/wiki/Telstra_Ventures-PB4Z33Y
Yes, the AI effect is real. As soon as computers can do a thing it’s no longer “AI”.

But I don’t think this is a nitpick at all. GPT models hallucinate information. They are right surprisingly often, but they’re also wrong quite often too. And the problem is they are just as confident in either case.

This is a fundamental, irreconcilable issue with statistical language models. They have no grounding in auditable facts. They can memorize and generate in very plausible ways but they don’t seem to have a concrete model of the world.

Ask ChatGPT to play chess. It can generate a text based board and prompt you for moves, but it can’t reliably update its board correctly or even find legal moves. Note that I don’t expect it to play good moves, but the fact that it can’t even play legal moves should tell us something about its internal state.

Now that GPT3 has trained on the whole internet, we may have reached a practical limit to how far you can get by simply training on more data with 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more parameters. There’s only so far you can get by memorizing the textbook.

At a more practical level, for most professions “pretty good” isn’t good enough. It’s not good enough to have code that’s right 90% of the time but broken (or worse, has subtle bugs) the rest of the time.
It does mean that a change in intelligence (whether technical or human) that reveals the location of enemy launchers can suddenly enable this first strike - for example, if someone develops some technology capable of sensing where the US missile submarines are located, then you can't rapidly increase the size of nuclear arsenal fix the issue, you have to have the reserves pre-built.
After having used ChatGPT for a bit i am not trusting its output at all.

If i don't know the answer and it gives me one, how am i supposed to know if it's true? 20% of the time it just made something up.
I can only obviously speak to my own experience and I did not come across anything like this. There's no love lost between me and my former employer FWIW.
What's a teacher pension fund doing the same thing?
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Lectures on Mathematics
It's a venture fund, as a lot of large companies have.

I don't really get the argument for it, I think it's pretty dumb overall. But it's not that uncommon.
It is a very patient explainer, however it sometimes sprinkles some BS into its answers, so be super sceptical.
>A lot of apartments here have security devices which will call for assistance when the power is turned off

Some might, but I doubt they are a lot. None have such where I am for sure. People would need to turn power off for specific rooms/circuits or the whole thing once a year or so anyway (to do some electrical work, to change some light fixtures, etc). It also happens by itself if some machine overloads/there's a sudden surge. I've changed several rented houses, and it would ocassionally happen to all of them.

As for the fridge, he did say to leave the kitchen (or fridge including) circuit on.
What is it about Dutch painters that makes them so successful? Two recent very successful forgers, not to mention dozens of world class famous historical painters.
Contagion is a poor word, IMO.

I would use "house of cards".

"Contagion" suggest completely innocent players getting affected and dragging others.

IMO anybody "investing" large sums of money on behalf of others is responsible for understanding what they are doing. I use quotes around investing because most of these companies do not really invest even on a good day when they don't touch crypto -- most just speculate on price which is completely different from investing -- which is putting money into something that produces more money because you think it is is sound and will be producing more in the future.
An actual bank run where an exchange is solvent but doesn't have the liquidity would still be a problem if there's no lender of last resort.
What happens when you feed someone who grows up to be "evil" and creates a corporation like Facebook?

It's anecdotal, I'm agreeing with your last point - humanity is brutish, it's easier to exit the Matrix and to see what humanity really is rather than to keep believing in the romantic image of it.
if that's something that intrigues you then might I mention that older games like Dune II tend to be very friendly to disassembly.
Whilst some breaker boxes are nice, modern, and make sense... Others are like this [0] and terrifying.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/australia/comments/yq4hks
Fe team announces bug bounty contest written in Fe, live on Ethereum Mainnet
Apple explores moving some iPad production to India, sources say
~$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 102.5.0esr

.. which is November 15, 2022
I must have bought the wrong cameras! My Sony A6300 really takes a while to start, and I can’t leave it on because it will drain the battery fast
So you can hide the scrollbars in CSS if you want to, but doing so is also an accessibility pipe-bomb waiting to happen: things in motion in visually impaired systems plus no scroll bars when navigating a space is hellacious.

Framer takes a slightly different approach in their docs which appears to be a mixture of pinning objects down and shoving margins around as well.
Scientists unlocked the secrets to bats' heavy metal growls
> No, but I’ve encountered many people across the spectrum from lower class to upper middle class who for some reason have no problem with stealing from businesses.

What does this have to do with moving across the country to live in a tiny house with a bunch of homeless people? Do you know anyone who would do that? Personally I don't. I also don't personally know anyone who shoplifts once they turned 20.

> Your model of people is incorrect.

Thanks, gonna disagree, although your citing a comedy TV series that ended in the 90s did nearly sway me.
Same here. You can still trivially try the various switches and see if they cut off the area of the house you're interested it. If the fridge is on the same circuit as the lights you want to kill, there goes you plan. But otherwise, it's fine. In most AirBnB's and rented rooms for short stays the fridge is empty or just has some water/sodas anyway, it's not like there would be the family's food for the month..
With him being paid in stolen Nazi art, he could even have framed it as getting stolen Nazi art back. Although obviously that wouldn't work if he'd sold those stolen paintings already.
Personal opinion:
I'd suggest making each category collapsible/expandable so that you don't have to scroll through all the countries to find the category that you're looking for.
Maybe those people are two afraid of BS eventuallities? I have anxiety and wouldn't think twice of doing that...
and you can find SIMD implementations fairly easily
Note that BCG also have BCG X (recent fusion of Gamma, Digital Venture and Platinion), a Data Science and Software arm that could be compared with Palantir in size and breath and depth, but are not working with the CIA.

So, they also do some -high end- implementation work as well :)
Building a digital bank for farmers in Africa. Was all text-based (USSD) and for those without phones we used NFC key fobs. Several million DAUs within a year.

In my opinion, there will always be a need for large companies to bring in outside help to get very specific things done (largely due to their size and dysfunction). MBB are smart enough to generally move where help is wanted. Just in my time there I saw them hugely lean in to big data, design, cloud, AI etc. And when they invest they go big.

That being said I personally would never bring in MBB for a purely technical implementation project. Way too expensive and the value is not there right now.
Not sure where you found that figure but most domains definitely don’t cost 5 or less. Most domains are 10+ in my experience.
Because fucking with the electrical system in someone else’s house is usually frowned on.

Did you consider the insulin fridge in the garage you just shut off when you did that? How about the attic fan that keeps the place cool? The water softener that needed to do a recharge cycle. The electric vehicle plugged in that was waiting for night time trough to charge. etc, etc

> edit: and now I'm 100% sure there are bots downvoting my comments, immediately downvoted less than minute from posting

No, you’re just inconsiderate of people’s property.
Sorry I didn’t mean it as sarcasm at all but rather a failed form of dry humor. Rereading it I can see how you would see it as sarcastic. I’ll edit the last bit, which I added because I find it independently interesting.
Diesel Trucks margin will go down as more and more regions make it financially less attractive to use diesel trucks. Then the prices for hauling will go u, infra will catch up, software will catch up too, and EVs will become the best choice.

That’s how I expect this evolution to happen. Timelines are difficult to predict though. Looking at the current momentum I really expect the poitn where most new trucks are EV to happen within a couple of years at most, not a decade.
diversifying with a hyped-up fomo thing at the time? they have >200 billion so it's kind of a rounding error for them. In fact, for the majority of outfits listed, "contagion" sounds too dramatic. $24mil for Blackrock?
That's probably because you have to pay to send using pm.me, and spammers use free accounts
Have a look at physiological sight, explained by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.

Basically, it consists on doing an inhale following by another quick inhale, and then a long exhale.

Theory says that you repeat that pattern 2-3 times, and your stress is drastically reduced for whatever reason I don't remember right now, but he explains it very well in his podcasts and as guest in other podcasts as well.
The parent may have a condition making him nitpicky, curious, and blunt (like Aspergers) or a specific professional or other curiosity related to this. Who fucking knows, what do you get from calling him out like this? See how it goes both ways?
> Contagion is a poor word

> "Contagion" suggest completely innocent players getting affected and dragging others.

??? That is what is happening in the FTX saga...

What are you talking about?
You sound young, because it’s never so simple. Sometimes it is far easier and cheaper to fail and then correct than fight for a perfect solution up front.

People really don’t like failing. And they’ll often fail faster than you imagine. If you’re looking for reading material, pick up “How to win friends and influence people”
The header screenshot in the article shows a "license not valid" popup and the article doesn't say anything about existing licenses. The quote "one of my colleagues [...] came across the expiration of his license" isn't clear either, but leans more towards "fully revoked" than "no more updates" in my reading.

However, if existing versions do still work, I fully support the dev. In a world where billion-$ corporations advertise 50$/m "unlimited" phone plans that aren't actually unlimited, a solo dev revoking a lifetime support and update plan that cost 7$ two decades ago isn't even worth writing about.
The anime tracker came AFTER this project management tool. Taiga.io is from 2014, Taiga.moe is from 2015. At least those are the earliest presence of the two I could find.
for blackrock is nothing 24 million
I have zero experience with writing what contacts.

But I would like to ask why does it need it's own language, wouldn't using a language that already exists and has some history be easier and maybe faster?
I suppose it might look pointless if you need to jump through the hoops to get it running. In FreeBSD ZFS is properly integrated, and ZFS is a perfectly fine default root filesystem; there's no reason not to use it, except eg very memory-constrained virtual machines.
For services that manage your data, adding a layer of complexity, making it hard to access it is the sustainable. And as these large businesses go over time p, rent seeking tendencies will increase.
I reverse engineered the Dune globe renderer and managed to get it compile to WASM: https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/wasm-dune-globe/

Did you ever notice that there's an eye on the bottom of Cryo's Arrakis? https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/arrakis-eye.png :)
I must say, some of the nicest and most fun people I work or have worked with, are big vim users. Maybe that just means I'm weird though ;). Also, most recruiters won't care, but a minority might, and that's quite likely a cool place to work, IMHO of course. As for crushes, my wife, a ((mostly)-non)-geek, prior to meeting me, had heard of Linux and FOSS, thought it was pretty cool, and before we owned a MacBook was happily using Linux on old machines at home instead of Windows. I've never got around to really teaching her much vim, but I imagine her only objection would be lack of time. ;). caveat- we'd have married anyway, and I didn't show her any vim editing to impress her. ;) Might encourage our kids to learn vim one day, if they're up for it. Imagine if they submitted essays written in markdown using vim? ;) Joking aside that could save a lot of time if they did that then went to uni knowing it.
> So my conclusion from this post would be, if it matters to you, don't work in the bay?

I had a job at a publicly traded company with an office (my office) in Ohio - and not headquartered from the bay but another part of the Midwest - and one day during pride month the CEO emailed everyone to say that they would NOT put up a pride flag. They went on to explain that they couldn’t because it would be upsetting, and if inclusivity flags were normal to display at the office, black people may want a flag too, and where would it end?.

They were a very generic company, and not particularly evil in other aspects of their business.

I have also worked at large FAANG companies in the bay. They treat employees way better (google’s shuttles! Free food! Equity Refreshers!). I would much rather be a Bay Area FAANG employee than an Ohio Generic Co employee. The way FAANG treats their employees isn’t evil.

There’s evil everywhere, IMO I might as well be treated well for being complicit towards it.
CLIP, BLIP, or a combination of them?

https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharma/CLIP-Interrogator

But it doesn't describe every object in the image
Correct, but it wasn't shipped with the OS until MacOS 9.
After some talk i said "convert this text in binary format". And boom !! the response is "An error occurred. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."
The operation you are suggesting would not be based on CRDTs. One of the main points is that they are Conflict-free as the same suggest. So it's not allowed to reject a mutation. The merge operation "magically" has to ensure it will always confirm to the schema. That's precisely the hard part. Defining such a merge operation.
Because they have a huge amount of assets - but also a growing pool of pensions to pay out.

So it makes sense for them to put a limited part of those funds into risky ventures. I'm sure at some point they invested in, for example, Apple when that looked like a dangerous proposition.

To be clear - I think anyone "investing" in crypto is likely to lose out in the long run. But if you are a large institution it makes sense to spread yourself into as many ventures as possible.
I wouldn't take the message "just leave" necessarily as inconsiderate advice, or at least not always. It might be also meant to vote with your feet, because that's the only influence you can have in the process, and if enough people do it then it may tilt the needle a bit.
An exchange that doesn't play with customers deposits can't really lack the liquidity to return those deposits, because the deposits are there.
For years plenty of people have kindly explained to whoever would listen that crypto is 99.9% a scam. Uninformed individuals buying into the hype are victims, but every investor in FTX or any related firm knew exactly what they were doing and chose to take the risk they took. They’re responsible for their losses and complicit in the scam.
It's certainly a testament to his skill as a forger if he needs to put effort into convincing people that his forgeries are forgeries.

Not to mention how selling undetectable forgeries to Nazis turns two wrongs into a right. Possibly an accidental one; he doesn't sound like the kind of guy who was in it to fight fascism; it's just that the people he defrauded happened to be the worst kind of bad guys, turning him into an accidental hero.
Also the “hello world” of 3D modelling:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

(Ok, technically that is a tea pot. but the two do share a common design an form factor).
Don’t forget that the horses are basically a living breathing pharmaceutical factories for the specific anti-venom they are used for, they are incentivised to look after the horses very well in order to avoid not only replacement cost, but wasted hours of specialised labour, and future lost revenue from the sale of harvested anti-venom products.

The “harvest” is basically a horse sized version of the sort of blood donation we do routinely for humans.
Is it just me - or is the characteristic of deciding on an answer first and then justifying it using selected/made up facts and faulty logic all too human? :-)
In C++, you can do this with custom literals, not meta programming: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal

One would have to make a library with various classes representing various units, plus the (implicit) conversion between them. It´s probably something that exists somewhere.
While I do have mostly usable fingers, fingerprint readers do not like me; my hands are consistently too sweaty
She's wrong though. We know she's wrong because the mistake she made is the exact same mistake Bilek made.

Bilek claimed Soros had made a huge donation to a pro-trans organisation.He hadn't, he'd made a small donation to a pro-trans organisation, and a very much larger donation to an international human rights organisation.

Joyce repeated those without checking - and it would have been a simple fact check.

When ever anyone talks about shadowy funding from Soros it's almost always an antisemitic conspiracy theory, and Bilek's later comments are very clear: she believes transition is a plot by Jewish people to spread post-humanism.

Obviously Joyce is now feeling a bit uncomfortable about having platformed and promoted this person, and she's back-peddling her support a bit. But the fact remains, she used to support Bilek, she spoke to Bilek frequently, she reposted comments from Bilek, and she included Bilek talking points in her book.

Rather than being honest and admitting she made a mistake she's simply lying about events and using legal threats to silence critics.

https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1416557294595231744

https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/141659996421444813...
That's really cool! The good all days of all SW rendering.
As long as all the features are available open source, I would say it’s free. Freemium would be like Odoo, where important parts of the software, such as accounting, are missing from the open source version.
This isn’t really correct. Companies usually follow some high level morals, but it’s very rare they align with yours. The same is true working for a university as a researcher (what the IRB allows and what research is supported varies by institution) or even just working for a non-profit (think of some pro-lifer’s views on planned parenthood).
Having skimmed the article, I cannot quite agree with you. I think the heart of the argumentation is right in front of your first quote where they write

Without a proprietary period, an astronomer with a brilliant insight might spend years developing it, months crafting a successful proposal to execute it, and precious hours of highly competitive JWST time to actually perform the observations—only to have someone else scoop up the data from a public archive and publish the result. This is a reasonable concern—such scooping has happened before.

Without a proprietary period during which the astronomers who proposed given observations have exclusive access to the data, those researchers will have to work very quickly in order to avoid being scooped.

The important thing to understand here is that an observing facility's data stream is not just a constant jumble of just anything they might have accidentally spotted in the sky; rather, you have to work hard up front to get a few minutes or hours worth of telescope time to look at a specific object with a particular instrumental setup. I think two assumptions are, then, reasonable: that all of the collected data should be made publicly available in their original and processed forms (because science and because of public funding), and that this should happen after the people whose research idea it was in the first place have been given a fair amount of time to work with the data.
I was curious if they'd expand their services to have digital memorials for people uploading all their junk for public review for those interested in leaving behind such a monument. Maybe we can pay in advance for digital cemeteries that host our files indefinitely.
So the SaaS is limited but the open source version isn't? That seems reasonable to me, as long as they don't deliberately make it harder to self-host.
"I'm not entire sure the machines would be wrong."

Well and if that mindset is coded (subconsciously) into the AI, it will happen as a self fullfilling prophecy.

But as of right now - the machines absolutely would need us. There is no machine capable of self replicating anywhere close in sight.
That question seems absolutely alien to me. Surely you have alternatives in the US, don't you? Here in Germany I visit Geizhals, search for the product in question, sort by price and order from one of the countless shops that have the product in stock.

Maybe I'll end up on Amazon, maybe not - they all can deliver quite fast and they all have to adhere to european minium return policy standards. So the handling of returns isn't something most customers ever have to think about.

Just to give an example here's the price comparison for a current AMD CPU: https://geizhals.de/amd-ryzen-7-7700x-100-100000591wof-a2801...

Don't you have anything similar over there?
What's wrong with updating our definition of "intelligence" based on new data? 500 years ago people presumably thought that lifting heavy objects required "muscles". Nowadays you can do it with metal and hydraulics. Surely robots must therefore have muscles. If you deny that then you're shifting the "muscles" goalposts?!
The man was just a byproduct of nature, as well as its dreams. Ergo chaos is mother of order.
While fraud and deception is probably on the rise, it's very important to recognize that the "evil" they are referring to comes from people (not companies) and that it's always been this way. We all have the potential to violate our own ethical standards and the temptation rise and fall with circumstances beyond our control. Keep a cool head, expand your understanding of the relationship between your job and the supposed evil, and do your best to expose it without hurting your reputation. The idea that one can job hop their way to promised land is not helping the situation.
For many products, Costco is legitimately a nice import store!