skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud the effort. I just checked the forecast data for Berlin, Germany and it is quite inaccurate compared to the quality models offered for my region.

It seems that they only use NOAA data even though there are vastly superior models for the EU, e.g. ICON-EU and ECMWF.
Reminder that these vaccines were large majority tax-payer funded, and both Moderna and Pfizer have legal immunity to any ill effects caused by the vaccine [1]

They are legally immune to being sued due to damages caused by the vaccine. In developing the vaccine, they also somehow got vaccinated against our legal system.

This should have come with strict pricing rules and other strings in order to receive its benefits. Instead, if you are working on problems relating to certain contagions, you too can be liability immune — but just until 2024 after Moderna and Pfizer have both made absurd amounts of money and paid back the politicians who made it happen. It is laughable policy only a very short sighted population and leadership would think is smart.

That price will keep hiking and now we have super-powered organizations highly incentivized for plagues only they can cure. I’m sure they will leave billions / trillions on the table and be benevolent about this.

[1] https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PREPact/Pages/default.aspx
The purpose is to limit the damage in case the database is leaked.
> But the real question they were asking was: "How can I add value? How can I show that I still belong here? How can I make myself a critical part of the team at Zapier during this time when I can't do the things I was initially hired to do?"

What? Maybe what they were asking was just "do I need to start looking for an another source of income". Why dress it up in weird corpo-speak?
Parler’s parent company has laid off a majority of its staff
This looks really good. The further reading sections in themselves contain some gold.
I've spent the last 10 years working for a succession of companies that used PHP yet have never worked on WordPress and I doubt I ever will.

If you're in the tech startup bubble it's easy to come to the conclusion that Python, Ruby and an assortment of minority interest languages with rabidly toxic fanbases rule the roost, but outside of that bubble PHP, C# and Java are quietly running the world.
Isn’t that kind of the point? That there are too many people who all think they should be in a meeting.

Small teams and small companies are able to move more quickly.

You don’t have to fire people to literally be small, but it’s also hard to design true autonomy within large orgs.

John Carmack’s recent resignation letter [0] hints at this and I think most complaints are common to large organizations and any company with lots of smart people metaperforming (ie, working to advance on compensation and power rather than value and meaning) will suffer these problems.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028079
If I'm understanding the situation correctly: the system stopped processing updates yesterday afternoon and it wasn't a big deal, then they tried restarting it this morning to fix it and it didn't come back up, so now older NOTAMs from before the issue started are not available. Is that right?

Do airlines/planes keep a cached copy of these? How large is the NOTAM database?
Sure, but if you intentionally set that so that specific categories of products can't meet it, then it's a defacto ban. It's a pretty common practice with government - if they don't have the power to outright ban something, they add restrictions or roundabout bans until nobody wants to deal with the headache.

I'll probably buy spare halogens for my basement before the ban takes effect. Dimmable PAR style LED are expensive and can interfere with my HAM radio reception without a lot of trial and error on brand.
Alternatively, are there ways to train on consumer graphics cards, similar to SETI@Home or Folding@Home? I would personally be happy to donate gpu time, as I imagine many others would as well.
+1 nothing against some anti bot feature, just hopefully not Google.
I have had some luck using NetworkX to render GraphML generated from Jira issue history in a Jupyter notebook, similar to this: https://towardsdatascience.com/from-dataframe-to-network-gra...

If there is another method I'd like to hear about it.
Not familiar with Discord, do you have a link to that group?
Wikimedia and other organizations that deal with moderation might want to keep this technology out of the hands of the general public for as long as possible.
Do any of you share the impression that the threshold for what is passing for articles and opinion pieces barely warrants being written down?
The proliferation of blogging, posting and social media seems to have left me with a feeling with slight resentment towards most written content (as it's just noise).

That's okay as I can filter that out, but I found that if I have a message to put out to the world I'm faced with an internal critic suggesting that I'm only adding to the noise, and there's not enough substance in what I'm saying. It's all just opinions, churned out way too fast.

Makes it difficult to do b2b marketing and sales.

Can anyone relate?
>> GPT-3 took 355 years to train

> Could this be distributed? Put all those mining GPUs to work.

Nope. It's a strictly O(n) process. If it weren't for the foresight of George Patrick Turnbull in 1668, we would not be anywhere close to these amazing results today.
This was based on a P.A. announcement from a gate agent, so not authoritative. I've updated the title to reflect what is in the link.
Flights Grounded Across U.S. After FAA Failure
The fat slow company is like that because thousands of C-teamers are weighing down the 100 A-teamers. Whether it becomes lean and fast after terminations depends on how accurately you're able to isolate the C-teamers and remove them.
I think there is right? At least assuming it's the same as Macs where the minimum billing period is 1 day, because you're technically renting a physical Mac (and 1d is the minimum that qualifies as adhering to that).
I really miss these kind of stuff. Nowadays we don't really have much to collect like we used to decades ago... well, I guess NFTs, achievements and... pokemons :D

I remember my grandfather giving me his huge collection of train cards (he worked in the railways), and I got a big notebook to glue them all and make my own train book.
These are the sorts of issues where, for better or worse, it would be good to have some actual data and studies to work with. These are not obscure topics, surely it is easier to go out and run some experiments than to take sweeping country-wide pot shots with the legal system to try and figure out what works.

Also, speaking from blissful ignorance but a high level of cynicism, the US losing the War on Drugs has been a meme for something like 50 years at this point. If people can already get their hands on the stuff they can. The law is an inefficient (indeed ineffective) method of passing good advice to people. May as well stop throwing good money after bad and admit that people control their own bodies - maybe even try some alternative policies to banning stuff like figuring out what the root cause of the problem is.
Balena – The complete IoT fleet management platform
Yes. To my point and yours, SB's hero or product card can have exactly the same underlying markup as McDee's. Where those brands, and brands, are able to part is the CSS.

The irony is, marketing agencies that do web design work for multiple clients should be looking to leverage web component bricks. The majority I've seen, are not; at least not yet.
I never heard of "the viral AI avatar app Lensa" until I saw this article being promoted. I honestly wonder if this isn't a sick marketing attempt.

And I don't mean one the author is necessarily in on - manufacturing threats or abusive material of someone anonymously, then contacting the victim pretending to be concerned about it, is a tactic I've seen trolls employ.
> Then I wanted to push these colors, almost to the point of ridiculousness, brightening blues and reds and giving them paler and more neon hues.

I wonder if it was intentional to get that strong saturated blue in the fringes of her hair. It looks like a mistake and draws a lot of attention to the fact that the colors were heavily edited. On the other hand, I think bringing attention to the photo as a medium isn’t necessarily wrong for a picture that might evoke memories of vacations.
https://discord.com/invite/8MVFRMa
One issue with Argon2 (not a security issue, but a practicality one) is that it assumes you have a certain amount of RAM, eg. 1-4GB. That is surely true on, say, a modern desktop PC, but it's not true in some places.

We are deploying a lot of small VMs with container-like workloads. This enhances security for those workloads by using CPU virt capabilities to isolate them. (It's also required for Confidential Containers because of how the hardware works.) But at the same time because these are container-like, we only give them a few dozen or hundred MB of RAM. No one wants to be giving containers gigabytes of RAM each. This prevents accessing LUKSv2 filesystems using Argon2 from these containers.

So several useful security mitigations conflict in unfortunate ways.
Is there any trained model for text generation that you can run locally yet?
Evie - Ebook text to speech reader - there are many but this one is good.
fuhgeddaboudit
Show HN: A Git(hub) based alternative to Glassdoor
> It's sad how many russian people fall for the western narative of "a better life", not realizing how many benefits they have in their home country.

The great a many benefits like being forcefully conscripted into a war dying in a trench in Ukraine after 2 weeks of training?.

Sure Russia could be great during peace time, but at the moment its probably not a good idea to be there if you're a military age male.
Internet bashing someones dad…

This is really low quality thread material and brings nothing to the conversation.
Cant you bring this kind of pointless addedums to that other site that must not be named?
How would you solve sourcing and distribution using just iOS though? Sure, it's built into iPhones, but if you want to create a comprehensive globally accessible meme search I don't think you can do that by saving memes to your iPhone.
Its weird but without that sacrifice there would be no "christ" as it is a core event of the entire faith. So while weird it's logical it's so universally symbolic.
List of all Popular AI models and apps in 2023
Tracking all popular AI models and apps released, in beta, or under development.
The relevant Github repo
https://github.com/jenny-codes/elixirlab
For individuals, that's true: free always wins. It's different for corporations, they'll often pay for more commercial licensing or support. Unlike individuals, they're also often happy to pay because they'll spend money either way: buying vs paying someone to build/figure out.

And I don't see that as an oxymoron. If you believe that something is worthy of sinking your time into it, and you believe that it should be open source, and you're not filthy rich and can afford to do it as a charity, you'll need to get paid somehow. And for that, you need marketing.

And more generally, I'd love it if more open source developers adopted a business-approach to onboarding. "Here's what our product does, here are some use-cases it solves, here's how to get started quickly, and there is the documentation with plenty of working real-world examples" is just so much better than "here's some code that might or might not be what you're looking for, works for me, whatever".
A small amount, last month?

Yes, probably unrelated.
First of all, Rust can be used to develop multiplatform UI.

The difference between Dart and Rust is that Dart is developed solely (or mostly) by Google and therefore Flutter is the one true way to do UI.

With Rust, you have many options none of which are the obvious choice.
The guide talks a lot about "be clear with your monetization strategy", which is great, because it is important not to bait & switch people, as well as to be clear to the Freetards exactly how much of a free lunch they can expect.

However, IMHO of equal - if not GREATER - importance and entirely missed from the blog post is "be clear about what you are doing with people's data".

You might well have just written the next unicorn dog's bollocks of software, but I (and I suspect many others) couldn't give a rats arse about your "journey" or any other marketing fluff if the practical reality is that you are secretly collecting telemetry all over the place, storing my data to train your AI algorithms and generally engaging in all sorts of other privacy infringing practices.
The FLSA needs a total rewrite. The fact that you can be forced to work uncompensated overtime just because you’re working with computers or your salary is above a laughably low cutoff is obscene.
Food allergy in Asia: how does it compare?
Are 2020s the years where the cold war is back as a lukewarm war, and also all of NA aviation needs to reconvene with its decrepit software? Next plot-twist, it was all ready to blow, but ultimately triggered by Russian/Chinese/North Korean hackers.

Ok, taking off my tinfoil hat. Still, maybe I'm suffering of nostalgia bias but the last few years really make for a lot of prime source material for docudramas.
Twitter's Algorithmic 'For You' Feed Becomes Default Timeline on iOS
Pharmaceutical or nuclear research doesn't really classify as "small scale" as this thread started. I know there are massive amounts of money handed our by governments to fund research, but for a 3 guy startup in a garage that's probably hopeless. Public money is cursed anyways, it's better not to touch it.

I've also read it at many places, that academic research funding is way too misaligned. It's a shame, really.
https://twitter.com/AUStinAirport/status/1613134228321087488

> An FAA system outage is causing ground stops at AUS and other airports across the country. Arriving & departing passengers can expect delays this morning & through the day.

If you’re flying today, it’s gonna be a rough one.

edit: BBC now confirming a full ground stop. https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1613151796955856896

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=28&adv_dat...
Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages
Aa I understand it, 1Password uses your master password alongside a "secret key":

https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/

> Your 1Password account password protects your data on your devices. Someone who has access to your devices or backups won’t be able to unlock 1Password without your account password, which only you know.

> Your Secret Key protects your data off your devices. Someone who attempts a brute-force attack on our servers won’t be able to decrypt your data without your Secret Key, which we never have.

If I understand this article correctly (and there is a reasonable chance I don't) the PBKDF2 iterations they do on top are little more than security theater.
On the other hand if you had "8" how would you know if it's good or bad? It is not intuitive, especially if you keep adding more.

And the scale needs to be changed regularly anyways because the criteria are not the same, so a 8 now would not even be guaranteed to be a 8 tomorrow.

The European system already resets the scales after a while (for instance the new ones don't have a + yet) and it is not just about changing min and max but many things are reevaluated based on new knowledge, so an item that was B can no be D while another one that was C stays C. Be it number or letters it is a breaking change so you might as well go with the intuitive system that matches most people's intuition
Air Traffic Control System Command Center Advisory 23 by the Traffic Management Command Center (DCC) at date [..] - all united airlines ... ground stop.

Here is about ground stops: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/foa_html...
Plenty. Huggingface alone has a ton
Mosfet.net – A simple technology news source
Simple news site created and run by youtuber N-O-D-E.
Anouncement blog post: https://n-o-d-e.net/mosfet.html
In case you haven't seen it (although I'm sure you have), Now The Chips Are Down had a rare look inside an Intel fab in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down There are copies of the film on the internet.
There’s LAION working on open source[1] version of chatGPT

[1] https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
tailwind is a library I don't like in many ways, but the criticisms in this post are pretty ridiculous. tailwind is not a library offered with the motto of component driven as the author mentioned. and instead of bloated packages like radix ui I think it's a more sensible solution. at least it gives a chance to follow a more optimal path. I think it is impossible to find an optimal way with the libraries it recommends. you should use everything just as the library intended.
Godaddysucks.com redirects to Godaddy.com
Not really. I mean it in both interpretations. Amazon basically invested years and years of profits into AWS, Rackspace did nothing like that. (Nor did they really attempted to do it. And if OpenStack somehow "won" just like k8s won, Amazon would just sell that too.)
I'm on the opposite spectrum: I think the intent to collect data is at least above 50%, meaning that gathering information on individuals visiting third-party platforms has taken precedence over training their model.

Also, I think we shouldn't underestimate the monetization value of being able to target "HN users" for advertising. From the moment we are flagged, Google can exploit this data pointer for targeted advertisment on any other website/app.

This information should be given at the highest cost possible:)
Hello, author! That was interesting!
I’d argue it would actually cut costs
Creating Permanence for What Matters Most
What you will accomplish with trying that is that producers will bid what they expect the price to be, instead of their production cost. Thus we still get the marginal cost like all other raw resource markets, but with extra complications.

That is a much less efficient system with larger risks.
A kid doesn’t care about that. They just save the memes they like, including the custom ones that their friend made which doesn’t make any sense to anyone else. You don’t need a comprehensive global search engine, if you have a tool that will tell you exact personalized answers to images you’ve saved before. And kids these days save everything; it’s like how people use Gmail, no point in deleting if you just archive.

If you’re talking about kids without iPhones, then I don’t know, I’m assuming there’s probably some competitor apps on android now.

But I think you’re thinking too narrow. Don’t worry about a meme database. What about a searchable visual database of everything you’ve ever seen?
Just yesterday I read in the local paper about a man a few towns away who owns about 400.000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards. That seems a tad excessive.
We are talking about how long back in time we can go and still find a Youtube video of a car driving itself as well as they do now.

The video you posted is two weeks old.
Is there a good reason VARCHAR(255) used so often?
> improved factuality

I assume those release notes apply to when I tried ChatGPT for the first time yesterday. One of my prompts was asking, both in English and in Japanese, who the Japanese Prime Minister was. I made it regenerate an answer 3 times for each.

In English, it consistently gave acurate information for the time it said it had data for (2021), albeit formulated slightly differently each time, but every time including the name of the Prime Minister (Suga), the date he started (Sep 16, 2020), his political affiliation (LDP), and that he was Chief Cabinet Secretary under Abe before that.

In Japanese, however, it went all over the place. First time, it gave the right name, saying it was current as of August 2021, and that he started on Dec 28, 2021 (not only is the date wrong, it's past the "as of", and funnily enough, Suga was out of office already by then (I had picked that specifically because Japanese Prime Ministers are volatile)). It then went on with a mix of good and wrong information. The second time, it was saying the PM was Mori Yoshiro (who was PM... 22 years ago, but it was still saying "as of 2021"). Third time, it switched to Abe Shinzo, and the fourth time, to Hatoyama Yukio. All former PMs, but it was clearly saying they were current as of 2021. In the last case it was also saying that he had been PM already in 2009-2010 (which is true), implying it was his second time as PM (which is false).

What this suggests to me is that it doesn't have any global knowledge, that it can regurgitate in different languages, but that it has some contextualized knowledge where the language is part of the context, but the amount of data it was fed in various languages differ, and the amount of e.g. Japanese context it has might not be enough.

Interestingly, though, the way it writes Japanese, where e.g. it adds a subject to sentences where natives wouldn't, does feel like it could be translating from another language.

At some point, I informed it that Abe was killed this year, to which it replied that it's not true but that it could be missing information, inviting me to provide more, which I did, after which it assertively told me Abe was very well alive, while still adding that it might have some information missing...
Already works well for cargo and sometimes okay for passengers
No need for a tinfoil hat. Such systems are prime targets for states hostile to the U.S. If this one wasn't before, it will be now.
Not really. And for most commercial pilots this may come down to whether or not ForeFlight caches theirs or not. I'd actually be really curious to see unofficial commentary from ForeFlight developers about this because it's a pretty unique scenario in the age of electronic flight bags.
New AI Watermark Generator Protects Art from Being Trained On
Lambda, cloudflare workers (probably cheaper) or GitHub actions + a repo
Or GPT-365
Per the guidelines[1]: “please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize”.

The submitted title is click bait, the original is more honest and descriptive:

(Title) Controversy erupts over non-consensual AI mental health experiment

(Subtitle) Koko let 4,000 people get therapeutic help from GPT-3 without telling them first.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Current capitalist society is not structured around reducing work for everyone. Productivity can increase with new tools and technology but we don’t really seem set up to actually make that better for anyone.
Why flying stopped being glamorous [video]
> Will ML models replace or just augment traditional simulations?

Its bizarre to even pose this. Where will the data on which the ML will be trained come from? First principles simulations might be "inefficient" but this is the price to pay for generating insights ex-nihilo.

The interesting question is indeed "augmentation": can we use ML models to improve the efficiency of first principles simulations via some sort of feedback process.
I agree with you on this point. It’s also arguable that less people with a better education system could yield the same result with less environmental impact.

But my point, poorly explained, is that whatever ChatGPT is, it isn’t original or creative thought as a human would do it.

Chomsky’s example (which is based off Turing): Do submarines swim? Yes, they swim — if that’s what you mean by swimming.