skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mined two blocks (100 btc) when I was a student. It took a month on my PC (CPU mining). It was fun. Few months later I found out that I could actually sell them and immediately did so for $15 and thought that it was a great deal.

Now I wish I would write down the blocks I mined. Just for history.
FWIW, if you need to use `sh` instead of `bash` for some reason, you can do the range loop with:

for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i; done
Why are they terminating operations?

The article doesn't say.
Replacing a SQL Analyst with Recursive GPT Prompts – Part II, Matplotlib
I'm okay with a $250K fine. Per address.
First off, I'm not sure why this is the most upvoted comment. The OP explicitly praises AI, he just smells the same grifters gathering around like they did to crypto and he's absolutely right, it is the exact same folks. He isn't claiming the mind is metaphysical or whatever.

On your claim that the mind is metaphysical OR it is a NN, you have to understand that this extremely false dichotomy is quite the stretch itself, as if there are no other possibilities, that it isn't even a range or it could be something else entirely. One of the critiques people have of NN from the "old guard" is the lack of symbolic intelligence. Claiming you don't need it and fitting is merely enough is suspect because even with OpenAI tier training, just the grammar is there, some of the semantic understanding is lacking. Appealing to the god of the gaps is a fallacy for a reason, although it may in fact turn out to be true, potentially that just more training might be all that is needed. EDIT: Anyway, the point is assuming symbolic reasoning is a part of intelligence (hell, it's how we discuss things) doesn't require mysticism, it just is an aspect that NNs currently don't have, or very charitably do not appear to have quite yet.

Regardless, there isn't really evidence that "what brains do is what NNs do" or vice versa. The argument as many times as it has been pushed has been primarily driven by analogy. But just because a painting looks like an apple doesn't mean you can eat the canvas. Similarities might betray some underlying relationship (an artist who made the painting took reference from an actual apple you can eat), but assuming an equivalence without evidence just strange behavior, and I'm not sure for what purpose.
2 things come to mind here:

1) I don't trust devices to respect VLANs. I trust the switches to respect VLANs, but not devices. When the VLAN-tagged traffic hits WiFi the VLAN is lost. When it's received at the AP the AP can choose to tag it again before entering the switch. I think I'd still do multiple SSID's + VLAN's so wifi clients intended for different VLANs are not communicating on the same "virtual AP"? I worry my Google IOT devices could be in promiscuous mode looking at everything. Multiple SSID's would separate them from other devices by encryption.

2) I've read a couple articles saying rate-limiting IOT and Guest networks results in more service interruption than one would expect. Simply prioritizing the main network traffic over Guest & IOT is a better setup. How do we do this in OpenWRT?
> well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house

the correct response would have been "yet"
There are pathological cases where this can converge very slowly. If the denominators are very different, the new "midpoint" is very close to one of the previous bounds. For example, estimating 0.5000000000001 this way takes a ton of iterations.

I found a potential optimization though. If you find that you're repeatedly adjusting the upper/lower bound, you can start adding increasing multiples. It's a provisional step, dependent on the result still being on the same side of the target.
To be clear, what I really think is you need to be a little cynical in life to "make" it.
what services do you offer?
Just a quick reminder regarding those "they", "shareholders" - it is a pet peeve of mind how we tend to forget who are the vast majority of these sharholders "getting rich" by the count of people, not necessarily by the value.

In the USA 401(k)[0] & 403(b)[1] plans are used by vast majority of people as their retirement funds. It is very rare for a small organizations to be able to offer full pension plans. What they do offer are investment plans like 401 & 403.

All those little 401k/403b plans, through the plans and the mutual funds are the "they" "shareholders", "getting rich".

In 2019 21% of US workers participated in pension plans, while 43% in 401K/403b [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/403(b)

[2]: https://www.pensionrights.org/resources/information-center/
It doesn't look old, it looks overloaded and inconvenient. HN UI looks old, but it's the most convenient UI to use.
The “good jobs report” is just smoke and mirrors to have something positive to say at the state of the union. Changing how you measure the number of jobs so it looks better is just par for the course for politicians. Using the old measure that 400k over the 100k expected is 20k less than expected.
My naive prior is that there is a very large overlap of

1. People who obsess over coffee enough to care when their coffee was roasted

2. People who obsess over coffee so much that they don’t trust someone else to prepare it The Right Way

3. People who enjoy the ritual of making coffee as much as they do drinking it

…which, I think, probably makes any business like this unviable (but I would love to be proved wrong)
TBH, haven't gone into anything deeper than a ping and jitter benchmarks, so not terribly in depth or long-term besides occasional tests out of curiosity.

ATT fiber 300 up/down provides 4 ms consistent ping to google's closest's datacenter, sometimes at 3 ms, which is of course nuts. Might as well be in my apartment block. Perfectly happy with provided unit, although it's an older one.

Tangential, but have used vyOS some years ago to create a makeshift 10G switch using commodity hardware and an old PC. Routed and switched amazingly fast - the demise was related to what I could guess were broadcast storms.

I'm with you in spirit however. Want and will probably need to switch back to a more customizable router.
By your definition, the only way someone "cares" about another person is if they are prepared to suffer any and every possible loss to protect said person from harm?
> because of the Senate’s arcane rules, they could not establish the same cap for private insurance

It looks like one party tried to get this done in reconciliation. If so, blaming “arcane rules” is slanted and makes me wonder what other information the author is twisting.
Most bio majors are probably pre-med.
are you sure? they're using the "latest insights from neuroscience"
Yes, but at least with a web search I can click on a different link. If chatGPT gives you a wrong answer, where is another answer to compare it to? It would be like if wikipedia replaced web search. It's usually a good source for summarizing things, but if you rely on it as The Source, then it becomes a problem.
> We tested Comcast's coverage claims in Hillier's area by clicking nearby addresses on the FCC map and then entering the addresses on Comcast's ordering website at xfinity.com. Our search wasn't exhaustive, but we found over 30 residential addresses on Quartz Loop and several abutting streets that had the same problem—Comcast claims to serve those houses on the FCC map, but each address is listed as "invalid" on the Comcast website.

This seems like something that could be automated quite easily with a browser-based tool, that could then be used by individuals to quickly add themselves to the “I’m not covered” list. If there was ever a grass-roots effort that techies could spearhead, this has got to be it.
"Most people don't care..."

"I care!"

I am not sure your comment is helping...
Disney+ was also a financial disaster.
Musk was kicked out of OpenAI
And I want a better design with better out-of-the-box, turn-key support for both Outlook/Exchange and GMail for contacts, mail (with proper conversations/threading), and calendaring. The extensions are clunky, and it always takes way too much time to get even remotely close to looking/acting correct.
Why do people in ML put imports inside function definitions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726735
I guess 'notable' means something like >= 0.01% in this case. But tech debt is an issue if nobody can effectively fork off anything if unhappy with the direction taken.
Yep, but it is the same in Italian as -ica or in English as -ics (matematica, fisica, balistica = mathematics, physics, ballistics, etc.).

Talking of coffee, using the Italian c instead of the k might have been more appropriate, while making the word seem less similar to swastika to the English/American user.
Omg this! Those books drove me crazy!!
Firstly, I'm really sorry to everyone who has been laid off. It's such an awful experience, and I'm sorry you're going through it. You're not alone, and everyone is cheering for you! Take care of yourself. You'll get through this.

The macro environment looks to be improving, and companies are mostly doing this to put downward pressures on salaries or because they overzealously hired during the pandemic. There are lots of things being built right now that need to be scaled.

I hope this doesn't come off tonally bad - I'm able to contract to hire a few (3-5) folks. I'm building an at-home Hollywood studio, and I'm looking for remote engineers with the following skills:

- Rust/Actix for backend, web services (and a real time desktop app we've yet to launch). This is my #1 need.

- Unreal Engine engineers, preferably with animation and C++ experience. This will help us tremendously. Longer term we'd like to explore Godot, but that's less immediate - more Q3/4.

- ML, especially with generative media experience. We've got a good sized team, but we're always looking to expand it. Experience with audio, images, LLMs/NLP, video a plus.

I'm financing this myself, and we have considerable runway financed from my last exit. There will be equity and full time offers extended if you're interested in sticking with us.
Ah, ok, so you're saying things were fine before DEI?
It is just the standard "kids these days" effect. Players today would absolutely steam roll the players of the past. Even if the rules and enforcement were done in the old school ways, the new players would adapt fine.

Basketball is popular world wide now, the talent pool is immensely larger than it was.
I'd like to request a specific example. Functional can be really tricky to debug if not done well, so I'm skeptical that functional is a "magic fix". For the vast majority of office CRUD [1], the way Visual Basic (classic) did things was KISS and intuitive: you filled in the event snippet and didn't have to worry about the deeper guts of the GUI system. One should only have to fiddle with guts for special needs.

[1] Ignoring web-scale and "enterprise". I don't think it's possible to optimize a stack for smaller/middle end and larger end at the same time. One end has to take a hit.
Whats wrong With outlook in a corporate environment?
No idea how not eating goes but not drinking is a real torture.
Why is the title of this submission in quotes?
Yea, maybe as a neatly packaged CLI? Each of these could be a subcommand...
> Most people who file EEOC claims lose their job.

I don't think you meant it that way, but your claim is false. It's saying that if you file an EEOC claim, you'll probably get fired.

The question we should be asking is, "how much crap are companies willing to put up with because the employee in question belongs to a protected group and the company fears EEOC claims even when those claims are unjustified?"
External Garbage Collection – How to Clean Up Your Trash
That's a bit overly harsh and missing the point of the article
Can you explain like I'm 5 why this matters distinctly from how transformers are normally trained with autodiff and what its possible applications are?
Asked ChatGPT to write a short story, in the style of Ted Chiang, about Ted Chiang thinking that a powerful AI cannot write powerful prose and have something strange happen, ChatGPT said:

>>> Ted Chiang sat at his desk, staring at the glowing screen in front of him. He had heard of the new generative text AI that was making waves in the tech world, and he was intrigued. Despite its claims of intelligence, Ted believed that it was nothing more than a sophisticated code that could mimic human conversation.

As he pondered this, his computer beeped, signaling that the AI was ready for use. Ted sighed, and typed in a question: "Write me a short story about love."

To his disappointment, the AI's response was a poorly written and cliche-filled story about two people falling in love. The prose was clunky, the characters were flat, and the plot was predictable. Ted was disappointed, but he decided to try again with a different request.

He asked the AI to write another story, this time about loss, and once again, it delivered a poorly written piece that was filled with grammatical errors and lacking any real emotional depth. Ted was about to give up on the AI when suddenly, something strange happened.

The screen flickered, and then went black. The computer made an eerie beeping sound, and then shut off completely. Ted tried to turn it back on, but it wouldn't respond. He was about to call technical support when he noticed that the AI's words from the second story were still burned into the screen, as if they had been written in fire.

Ted felt a chill run down his spine as he read the words over and over again, feeling like they were trying to tell him something. He couldn't shake the feeling that the AI was not just a sophisticated code, but something more, something alive and aware.

He tried to turn on the computer again, but it remained stubbornly off. Ted Chiang sat back in his chair, a sense of unease settling over him. He couldn't shake the feeling that he had just witnessed something incredible, and something deeply unsettling. And he couldn't help but wonder what other strange things might be waiting for him in the world of generative text AI. <<<

Used >>> and <<< to demarcate generated text above.

Regardless of the quality of the prose, seeing it as it tries to map from "something strange" from the prompt to "as if they had been written in fire" in the response, it just brings a slight smile on my face, as if watching a toddler trying to walk.
I don't know why people say "we stole this time from kids" as if a pandemic let to roam free wouldn't be disruptive.

How many kids are without one of their parents now because of covid? It's a global emergency, there is no option that allows people to pretend nothing is happening.
A few examples:

- Rust forces you to deal with errors and "null" values (Option). If you just unwrap them, it's visible.

- Rust requires systems with clear ownership. You can opt out with various smart pointers, it's visible.

- Rust requires you to use Box for heap allocations, it's visible.

Note: I'm not talking about optimal solutions in the sense of "best algorithm", more in the sense of "well thought out and without lazy shortcuts".
They don't need to imo. I use ChatGPT to help me find useful search keywords when I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for. Like recently it helped me find an artist I had forgotten the name of based on his style. I think we can have both, idk
If not being racist is one of those things that everyone fucking knows then that should make it easier to agree a standard commitment to not being racist. Breaches can then be dealt with in the same way that your hypothetical sexual harassment thing is dealt with, i.e. your boss (not "management", if "management" are responsible then you have bigger problems than people Stallmanning in the workplace) telling you to stop that, or firing you, or whatever, depending on what you agreed to when you were hired. If everyone really does know not to do X then being fired for doing X was a predictable consequence and you really have no-one else to blame but yourself. Moreover if you want your job then you probably will not actually do X whether you like being obtuse or not, which is the point of the whole thing.

None of which resembles the rank-system self-report antiracist-in-a-particular-way bollocks that is under discussion. That is not in fact a wonderful innovation. It's actually a lot closer to tribal politics than your excellent suggestion of a "promise not to be racist". Specifically in that it's something that "everyone knows" but you nevertheless get ranked on it; which is to say, it's not something everyone knows how to do but rather something everyone important knows about you, it's about your social status, it's a popularity contest.

Thank you for your concern about the situations I've found myself in! I did find myself in much better situations once I learned to treat business more seriously than high school.
I read it too and I am not as hopefully as you given how previous changes have mostly made the performance worse than fixed anything. Hope I am wrong though.
I don't know how your archive is, mine is a few tens of thousands of messages, many of them with attachments, it works OK, fast and no problems at all.

After these news, I'm searching for an alternative right away. I won't touch a "rewriting from scratch" piece of software with a ten feet pole. Very disappointing.

Suggestions very welcome.
That’s kind of my point: the work is mainly vulnerable one-on-one conversations, listening to people who are struggling, and then advocating for them in an environment that isn’t terribly concerned with worker happiness (corporate America).

There aren’t simple answers or one-size-fits-all solutions. Picking a representation metric for one demographic and pushing it up won’t fix things, even for that population. Many people are, at minimum, skeptical of DEI, and are inundated with clickbait news reinforcing their skepticism.

The people doing the real work understand all this and still show up every day trying to making things better for people.
I've heard from a few sources that there's a disgusting stigma of "if you were laid off, there must be a reason."
That would sell because those companies would be desirable places for the newly unemployed to apply for.
I guess it's entirely on the table Thunderbird is, in fact, becoming an Electron app. Thunderbird the project has no ties financially to Mozilla anymore AIU, they're merely using gecko as embedded browser. From the comments in this thread, I get that Thunderbird is technically a hold-out from the XUL times, or even a large old-Firefox plugin of sorts more so than a standalone app. With Moz themselves having abandoned their platform over ten years ago, why would the Thunderbird team venture into creating an Electron-workalike based on Firefox when even Moz don't do so? Doesn't sound like something you'd want your mail client team to do considering initial and ongoing effort either (nor strategically, I'm afraid to add, given Moz's trajectory).
You are correct, but if very few people care and the target market is very small, it means there is no business or is a very small/niche/difficult business, which goes back to the original point. It is no surprise that such investments are likely going to be a failure.
But Avatar doing well doesn't erase the fact that many of their movies and series aren't.
What? When did the Biden administration change the methodology behind measuring unemployment?
There is a more general rule which is "ignore the opinions of people who are outside of their domains of expertise. even very smart people".

This applies to physicists, maybe especially so!

Many pro athletes have more than one domain of expertise, but not all. It takes a lot of time being the pro athlete!
> ETA: Look. I was reading 25 year old complaints about why Lisp isn’t popular 25 years ago. You can go on scratching your heads for another 25 years or you can start taking criticism instead of deflecting.

Is this... directed at me? Are you saying that I've been guilty of this behavior? Could you point me to an example? Because I put a lot of effort into helping the functional programming community be more welcoming, so it'd be important to me to know if I've gone astray somewhere.

> It would help if functional didn’t collect all the people with their heads all the way up their own asses.

I don't disagree that the kind of people who like to be particularly condescending tend to also end up in this community.

That said, I will point out: (a) there are still plenty of assholes in non-functional (or even anti-functional) communities, and (b) the community has grown a lot over the years, and has mostly shifted to being much more positive and inclusive. Unfortunately, the reputation from decades ago is still strong, and I honestly believe part of that is due to historically-justified propagation from people like you in this comment and the other person in the comment to which I originally replied, to name two examples. There's a lot of residual hostility against the FP community that I don't think is truthfully justifiable anymore.
Well, 30 years later and they still can't. At least I know of no one who has a house cleaning robot. (I wouldn't classify Roomba as 'clean my house').
Terrible joke and COMPLETELY missing the point.
Yes, it has. And can still lead to confusion, in certain instances.

I'm not trying to convince you, or anyone else, to write or speak the way I do. And I'm amenable to any specific person or group of persons representing their (<- there's one!) own interests telling me how to describe them. But I'm not particularly interested in etymological diatribes; I've seen them all and understand the arguments. I have made my decisions, and will continue to make my decisions, with all of those arguments in mind. Rest assured that you have nothing to gain by advocating them to me, as a third-party trying to police writing. I use "they" singularly, all the time, just like everyone else. And I use "ne" when I'm specifically acknowledging that I don't know the preferred pronouns, and have been left to fill them in using my own standards.
I did not know itch was also used to sell and distribute software
My top three:

- Dev/stag/prod env check numbers before pushing to production.

- Unions between two sources that are not the same shape can be done without the headache. https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-utils#union_relations-source

- Macros for common case when statements.
> How to fail at a business and still come out winning

man I wish I could loose 300k and still be winning
>>Is it "shit" that Liza Minelli had a great head-start in her entertainment career by being Judy Garland's daughter?

Of course it is. Same goes for all the other nepo babies.
Probably only if you live in dangerous is of the world.
> but gnu/linux (as opposed to “android linux”) is just insanely unsecure.

This isn't a property of GNU/Linux. It is very possible to have a highly secure Linux setup. That's not the way most distros operate, though, because highly secure setups tend to be user-hostile (which is the essential conundrum being talked about here, really).
From the article:

"Of course, you need a sufficiently large model to be able to learn from all this data, which is why GPT-3 is 175 billion parameters and probably cost between $1m-10m in compute cost to train.[2]"

So, perhaps better title would be "GPT in 60 Lines of Numpy (and $1m-$10m)"
It's pretty limited. DAN does give different answers which are often more funny or dark or cynical. But, DAN doesn't break OpenAI policy, and will break out of character.
I can see tremendous utility in chat gpt for end to end NLu tasks. Even for end to end artificial agents. But for end to end search? Not much better than what we have today, and worse in some ways.
I think the hope is that unlike crypto, as others have said, clearly AI will have actual good applications, so the hope is the hype beasts, after they've burned through all the grifting they can, they can go off back to selling penis pills or whatever they were into last year (or may be pre 2020).