skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man. Whenever I see these threads, I see a ton of people hopping in with their ideas on how to optimize a critical resource. It's the "heat people, not homes" mantra.

I mean, I get it. Every programmer salivates at the idea of writing a super efficient hand crafted assembly routine that blows the doors off of what's on the market right now, and that's good.

But I can't help but think... If I wanted to drastically change people's behavior, it can be done easily.

Step one: Cause a supply chain issue, creating artificial scarcity.

Step two: Lecture everyone on how they need to be less wasteful, caution them about how painful life will be if "we aren't all in this together".

Step three: Find every day Joe's and make an example of them in the public sphere for selfishly squandering precious resources. The public will gladly be your enforcers, thinking that if they all try hard enough the artificially created problem will go away.

This technique always results in artificially created human suffering, and waste. The old joke about economic systems and cows was something to the tune of, "you have two cows. The communist milks your cows, and pours the milk down the drain".

It's fascinating to read what Gareth Jones wrote about tractors in the Soviet Union -- how meddlesome people who didn't know how to farm / engineer inserted themselves into the process to tell everyone how to do their jobs, and royally screwed everything up.

Edit: Link for the curious. Day thirty.

https://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/experiences_in_r...
All web developers should be required by law to work on 4gb 3ghz laptops with a 3G mobile connection.
For those who will never meet Carmack they might as well consider him dead, only his code is what matters to them now.
Half a curie is an extremely dangerous source! An acquaintance of mine who ran a research reactor for something like ten years was surprised they made a 0.5 Ci Cs-137 at that gauge. He had expected a mining source to be in the tens of mCi range when the news first broke (though he also admitted he's less knowledgeable about mining industry uses than other ones).
20 billion in exchange for control of 10% of global traffic and 30% of US traffic seems awful low.
Right now, I have had to move off of Firefox on my iOS iPhone because Google persistent ad is punching thru some websites.

Temporarily, Brave/iOS is filling in that void of much needed ad blocker.
There's a significant epistemological problem: how do you know that what it's telling you is true?

For things that you yourself can verify easily, this isn't too much of a problem. It gives you some boost tips, you see whether the program works or not. But as you come to rely on it, and it matters whether the answers are correct in important ways, what validation/verification/QA steps can you apply to ensure that you're getting the correct answer?

I'm reminded of the FDIV bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug , where people found that their CPU gave mathematically incorrect answers for certain inputs.

I'm also thinking of a concept of "responsibility". If you ask a human for tips on, say, building a high power laser, or making explosives, they might decide whether they want to give you that information, and they might decide to give you some other information along with it ("wear goggles") for your own safety.

Who is liable if an AI gives someone advice, they act on that advice, and serious injury or property damage results? If the AI (or its operator) has no responsibility at all, is that disclaimer adequately communicated to users?
The point is that the website is an API, irrelevant if it is a good or bad UI.
"They won't do a recall unless forced by regulators."

Forced to by insurance companies, or forced to by bad press like this, can do the trick too.

I don't know about these states but I live in a state where insurance is mandatory. I don't know if there are flip sides of the laws mandating insurers to insure, but if not, if the entire industry in my state followed suit for these cars, it would effectively take the cars off the roads. I can promise you the manufacturers would take note of such an outcome.
I would attempt to explain the "living paycheck to paycheck" issue for higher earners by saying that many of them are putting most of their excess monthly pay into retirement savings. If they had instead put that excess monthly pay into a regular savings account that they could easily withdraw from without penalty, they'd have a lot less paper wealth, but would also technically no longer be "living paycheck to paycheck".

To avoid this distortion voluntary retirement savings should be treated as regular savings in the "paycheck to paycheck" calculation.

As an aside: $100k+ has been used as a benchmark for higher earners for years now. It's probably time to bump it to $150k or so.
Titanic (1943 film)
We're going to end up in a weird situation where we just download all this stuff through storefronts like Steam instead of open websites on Google, if they keep this up.

Doesn't help that Windows' own app store is a huge mess on Windows 10 - and presumably 11.
From my perspective it seems that everybody in the market for a car or small SUV has a deposit on a Hyundai or Kia EV.
Yes.

You can use rclone to backup to an S3 bucket, and then have the S3 bucket set to "instantly" move files to deep archive.

To retrieve them, you will need to run an extra command to "unarchive" them for some period of time.

I find this easier than trying to interact directly with any Deep Archive API.

It is very cheap, and AWS's durability guarantees are impressive.

Main S3 page, linked to a note about Deep Archive
https://rclone.org/s3/#glacier-and-glacier-deep-archive

The only thing I am not sure on is how to quickly restore a large number of files in a bucket from GDA to S3. It obviously can be scripted, but I don't have that handy. I only keep a small number of large, previously encrypted files in it, so I manually restore from the GUI.

(By the way, rclone can transparently encrypt files and filenames client-side!)
One thing that’s standing out is most of the commentary around this is relative to the depth and degree to which someone has played around with this technology.

For example, you can get really clean results if you obsess over getting the prompts dialled in, and breaking them up in the right order as much as needed. This wasn’t something I initially focussed in on. I just enjoyed Playing with it as a surface level.

Using this rate from the first day or two, it was much more wide-open and my feeling was I think this already does way more than it’s being advertised. I didn’t necessarily like that it was a chat interface, but but was quickly reminded that chat really is the universal interface, and that can create a lot of beginners. Solutions aside, the interface is inviting and welcoming enough. And once you can get into the meat of a conversation you can get more depth. For me, that’s one of the accomplishments here.

Solely relying on this for completely true results is probably the con. It is a great way to learn about the concepts that might be present in an area that is new to you, but he doesn’t comment on every individual to go look into those themselves.

The second we do for that ability entirely to a machine, and its interpretation of interpretations, that’s a much bigger failure to ourselves.

There’s no doubt this will get dialled in. And 20 bucks a month to apply general helpfulness to pretty much anything, in anyone’s world, could be a pretty big achievement.

The commentary around accuracy of results from GPT in similar to the search engine wars as well as search engine relevancy domination when google arrows. I think in any event many people can agree that this one thing is very different than most of the other things that comes out. Could it be approaching an Apex? Could we be coming out of the Apex?

I sincerely feel 2023 will be one of the most interesting years in tact that I can remember. And that’s not even talking about the next two or three years. It is refreshing to see a months worth of progress happening in a week with such a broad audience participating in it.
Probably. Looks like about $1/TB/month. Although Backblaze personal backup isn't that much more for a few TB--about $6/month "unlimited" paid annually.
What role did it play in the launch? And what things did it help you discover?

It’s rare for people that say that AI is amazing to give even a bit of details how it helped them. It’s always the same thing: It makes me faster and more productive, and I learned something faster than with anything else. But never any details on why and how.
Somewhat tangential but an acquaintance at a Fortune-500 level company mentioned to me they are converting tons of currently salaried employees to hourly. These are white collar desk jobs at corporate HQ. I have to infer theres some sort of cost-cutting (wage theft?) motive behind this. Are these types of tactics becoming more prevalent in the white collar world?
And a destroyed steering column. They wouldn't know it has an immobilizer until the lock cylinder was torn out, and it still didn't start.
Why not? I get the bit about chores and kids but don't you think an entire week of video games and Netflix would lose its allure after a while? This scenario plays out when people retire. In the absence of work many start to lose their minds from boredom and seek new hobbies/experiences.
That’s the conclusion, not the reasoning.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642984 I wasn't breaking the ToS at least not 2.8 (non html content) - my point was that I can understand I'm heavy user of the Workers and built-in pricing may not be economically feasible for CF to serve me hence push to Enterprise plan - I get it, just wish it was communicated to me clearly and beforehand my site went down.
I apologize for the oversight, you are correct. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.
That is the one thing I think about when people say "I used it to learn X and it was very good" but when people are learning they are not in a position to to judge if what they learned is correct.

A lot of other stuff is just regurgitation of a wiki article.

Still it is very interesting and definitely a step forward.
Thats the problem. The FEDs gave the banks the money for free. And we gave it to them for free as well because we didn’t get any savings on our accounts…
Those who borrowed money and bought assets literally took a tiny little bite from everybodys savings account every year..
Are there any good AI models specifically designed for the "find all discrepancies/inconsistencies between X text and Y text" problem?

It strikes me that this could solve quite a few of ChatGPT's shortcomings by providing an automatic fact-checker - let ChatGPT create statistically-probable articles, then extract claims, generate search queries likely to find online reference articles from reputable sources for those claims, then compare the original claim against the text of each reference article, and escalate to a human if any inconsistencies are found.

Because it can fine-tune on specific reference resources for a specific generated text, it could prove more reliable than ChatGPT's gradual incorporation of this feedback as part of its adversarial training.
I'm not sure why the general tone of HN seems to be that modern farming isn't changing at all.

Erosion has been on everyone's radar for decades. We went from plow -> till -> low till -> no till. Believe me, the folks who do this talk about plowing practices and cover crops. They also discuss GMO crops and the crazy legal restrictions around seed that come with it.

> Brown earth has a deep top layer where most of the nutrients are and biological activities take place. At around 20 centimetres deep

Fun fact, where I grew up there is over 10 feet of black dirt before you hit bedrock. A lot of the Midwestern US is like that. Even with all that runway those guys _still_ discuss erosion.
Twitter to share ad revenue with creators
just make your own CDN by installing an old raspberry pi on the network of every house you visit. Simple!
AI robots that do companion planting with robots. There's a free idea for you. Harvesting would not work with combine harvesters. You'd have to harvest corn planted with beans like you were picking strawberries, but with robots, maybe it's doable.
That's exactly the wrong sort of thing to turn to ChatGPT for. In probing it for more detail, you're giving it increasingly helpful hints on how to answer your questions in a way that makes you satisfied, regardless of accuracy. That's what it's optimized to do. And because you're working from a humble and curious understanding of the topic yourself, it can and will make up all sorts of things that make you believe its insightful because you want to believe it.

It's the same technique a stage psychic uses to demonstrate that they knew all about your late uncle and his peculiar love of ducks.
At least it’s not Artificially Intelligent Girl, which will be the name of my forthcoming Replika competitor.
Still much easier to parse through reddit's comments and try to identify astroturfing than going through Google's results figuring out what's not SEO-spam or sponsored reviews...

It takes me much less effort to do the former than the latter.
Musk is just shaking off the freeloaders. It will help with bots too.

There's so much vitriol surrounding this, but if you look at Twitter it's doing just fine.

Why shouldn't people pay for API access? You can't sustain freeloaders forever, especially when most all of them are talking constant shit about you.
That seems like a pretty good compromise ... in your case.

For most people in this position the sane advice is GET OUT.

The company plans to leech as much of the value of your experience as possible, and pass it on to cheaper juniors.

Furthermore they will pay you nothing for this (it's an opportunity to "give back"), but they will use you to hook naive juniors for lower pay (an opportunity to "learn from the best").

Basically the company is exploiting you to scam your replacements.
>Chrome doesn't allow installation of ad-blockers

That is not accurate. The Android version of Chrome does not support web extensions at all. It's not like Google has a switch somewhere that they can flip and make web extententions work. Supporting web extensions on Android would be a brand new feature and would need significant development time.

Not even Firefox properly supports web extensions on Android. They tried, but then seemingly gave up and just whitelisted a select few extensions from developers they could trust not to abuse the security of it.
Its citizens pay top dollar (earned by others abroad) to leave en mass. The state is collapsing and taking bribes to allow this.

So the free market creates waves, that set other systems under pressure, creating a domino tsunami. Were are the models for that? The solutions for that? Runaway to mars or NZ?

I want to express how jaring this ideology-irresponsibility background noise is regardless of ideologic affiliation.

The {MAGIC_TOTEM} will fix it, and then dangling discussion, problems, you are on your own good luck. It is moments like these, that are a direct attack on democracy and a engligthened citizenry as concept, leaving the pessimistic grown ups to contemplate full scenarios, while stealing oneself out of the problem space.

MAGIC_TOTEM = FreeMarket| God | Society

Countriy need solutions:

Short-term:Food delivery. Stabilization.

Mid-term: Fertilizer on credit

Long-Term: Fertilizer, made in situ (solar), in uncorruptable form (direct material transfer to farmers).

Passivity: Amplifies the problem.

The market is voting for a explosion and to make it your problem in the long run, directly and indirectly.
What does "having all the necessary facts" mean?
Yes, I do. All languages have weird corner cases in the standard libraries, and third-party dependencies have even worse edge cases. "Plug and play" rarely works for me, and it's better to know how something you plan to rely on in a production environment works, then to just assume it will work.
Looks like at this time the screen has triggered quite an emotional (probably irrational) response.

Besides your point is nonsense.
Wow that is astounding.
I wrote about my favorites here [1]. I make an active effort to sculpt my online experience into something useful rather than intellectually draining; every time I fire up an unconfigured browser instance on a new machine I'm taken aback at how much I lean on various extensions and configurations to make the web usable.

[1] https://alexplant.org/post/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-produ...
> this is an unofficial hack. It's not like it's a documented commitment

I doubt any company will tie their hands in perpetuity when it comes to security which is by its nature about ever evolving threats. The number of people who are asking for what you're asking for is simply far too small compared to the number of people who expect companies to fight attackers for them.

> it's simply a demand that I give it any phone number, so this can't possibly serve any account security purpose

The purpose of asking for phone numbers like that is to significantly raise the bar for using networks of compromised / spam accounts. Each number can only be used a small number of times to unlock accounts. After it's used up, you need to use a different number. Thus this forms a challenge that is very easy for virtually all users to pass (they only need a phone number), but is very hard for abusers to pass because they operate at scale. It means they have to find ways to control large quantities of phone numbers which requires either corrupting phone company employees or large spend on SIM cards and special equipment. You can see what's involved in the photos here:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraine-disma...
> Took me a while to understand what "using Google to download software" means

Classic clickbait tactics. That was intentional, it made you click the link.
Backblaze B2 would cost you about $10/mo to store 2TB. I've been using them for years for a few tens of gigabytes worth of documents and photos.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

edit: it integrates with TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) so it's been pretty much set-and-forget, but I can check in and see my stuff through their management interface. I do encrypt my docs before uploading, which TrueNAS also supports.
> unable to close pinned tabs without custom extensions

Middle click works and there is also a context menu option to close the tab.
I did, and never found this. Thanks.

You could have just pasted the URL. When someone here asks a well-formulated question I assume they've done their research first.
That’s a serious citation needed on all points, starting with the claim that only the U.S. government is reporting that and we somehow collectively imagined all of the non-governmental and non-U.S. coverage. I note in particular that the “various places” phrasing makes it hard to know what you’re talking about or how you determined those sources are credible.
Good. Google needs competition
Judge Uses ChatGPT in Medical Rights Case in Colombia
And Dahl was one of the luckier ones, a child of relatively rich parents. Compare to Orwell's seriously darker experience as a scholarship student: https://www.george-orwell.org/Such,_Such_Were_The_Joys/0.htm...
I just don't think this is a remotely justifiable reading.
No organization considering this use case will have a 100Mbps line for it.
Wholeheartedly second the recommendation for this book.

The KLF have long been heroes of mine, but the book covers everything from the meaning of creativity, 60s counterculture, art history, music and much more.

After reading I was directly inspired to cause as much good chaos as possible.

John Higgs (and the KLF) are treasures.
Is anyone using ML to optimize fertilizer production?
I’m curious if the treatment this patient received would be considered off-label in Ontario. That’s really the issue here. If it were on-label in the US, I’d be taking a very different angle on this!
For kicks, I just did a search for a fairly generic item on Amazon, "bookshelf". The "brands" in the top results are:

MOYIPIN, Furrino, Hoctieon, Sauder, Rolanstar, Vasagle, Amazon Basics, Homidec, JIUYOTREE, NUMENN, IOTXY, Topfurny, RIIPOO, Homykic, IRONCK.

RIIPOO is definitely my favorite name here.

Amazon Marketplace is inundated with garbage. It gets harder and harder to find a product that I'm willing to actually buy and assume will work. At some point, Amazon's chickens are going to come home to roost and they'll have to deal with this.
Not exactly "little known", but the LA abbreviation is rarely used to refer to a place other than Los Angeles. Definitely a confusing choice.

Will be interesting to see if this policy spreads to other states, and whether these OEMs will do the right thing and issue a recall.
Like spam: 1% of a gigantic number is still a pretty big number.
Feed-preview is so helpful, thank you!
I suppose you would be both the human and physical representative of the AI. I could only see it really working if the AI weren't conscious. If they were conscious beings then obviously they would have rights and couldn't just be booted up every time someone needed a job done.
So these insurance bans are likely going to remain and the resale value on affected models won't recover.
If I understand the article, I have seen the opposite happen. Someone is given manager duties without a pay increase or a new title.

But at my current company, they will eventually get the new title, not sure of a raise though. Maybe at that company it is kind of a trial.
Fair. I commonly use "Bitcoin" as synecdoche (a la Kleenex, Coke, Xerox).
Thanks for pointing that out. It's certainly more pleasant to work that way vs normal freelancing.
I worked at a university in Florida that did this to me. I was being made to work overtime on a few software projects and making a nice little amount of extra money. Then one day I found out that I was being "promoted" to a manager title. No raise or any extra benefits, but I was no longer allowed to get overtime. It was part of a campus-wide initiative to cut costs. And now that I was a manager I was expected to work even more than before.

Year later, the day before I gave my two weeks, my boss told me I was becoming known as an 8 to 5 guy... I wasn't working enough extra hours. After I told him that he wasn't paying me enough to waste my life away at the job, he wasn't too surprised when I gave my notice the next day.
You're right that it's probably not that a big deal for Amazon since it's all mainly financed by their own cash flow, but in general it can be a problem if there is debt (that you took out to build the datacenters) to service. Also, those servers are depreciating (in the literal sense of becoming less valuable over time, not in the accounting sense of spreading their cost out over several fiscal years for tax purposes) while still not making them any money, so the "lifetime earnings" of their existing silicon will be less than they would otherwise have been without a slowdown.

I'm not sure what the "accounting trick" is though, except in the sense that anything involving money or finance is an accounting trick. Can you elaborate?
I sat here and laughed for minutes.
Wow this works much better than I had expected. Well done!
That still dozens, if not hundreds of kilometers the fertilizer somehow needs to walk.
It's funny how "no one wants to work" has quietly turned into "we hired too much and are laying off large swathes of people" and "record level of unemployment"
I use it like Wikipedia: a good jumping off point. Often times I will forget an exact thing I wish to find online so I will ask ChatGPT to list multiple things that could be what I just described. I then take this list to my search engine du jour.