skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a quick late note of appreciation. My friends and I have been trying to have some community way of each of us sharing progress on hobbies and side projects. After looking at this it was a smack-forehead moment. Setting up a private discourse to keep track of things as we go along :)
On the front page of the site, something that could add to the compelling side-by-side comparison between Filmbox and real film is to show a 3rd image/synced clip, the digital image starting point, without any manipulation. (and hence the value add of Filmbox -- because as it is now of course it looks like the footage is identical, which is your point. But showing 2 basically identical clips doesn't add much).

Maybe show the buildup of layers? That would be really interesting.
100% chance that stackoverflow will be sending nasty notes to the author (who appears to live in the US). 100% chance he'll have to take it down or change the name.

You really can't use the exact name of the people you are cloning. Even something like "stackrobot" would risky. Safest thing is to not use any words from the original product.
Not who you asked, but Healthy Gamer GG has a lot of short meditations that only take a few minutes. There's a course on his site but a lot of the same information is scattered throughout his YouTube.

https://youtu.be/86sYinrLuPA
Well I have to appreciate the design choice since where I am internet is slow and unreliable. I couldn't imagine having to fetch each photo over the internet just to browse from my own home network.

But there should be a feature to at least sync to a cloud service for backup purposes.
CONVERSATION:

MSFT Embedding ChatGPT into products is going to be a game changer
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1. Teams - ask it anything your conversations
2. sharepoint - ask it anything about you sharepoint docs

3. email write this email/reply for me

4. excel write this formula for me

5. mssql write this query for me

6. windows write bash script for me, does me system have this kind of drive, answer me this question about me the contents of one of my files

7. browser answer me this from my search history

what are yout thoughts?

What happens when it’s inevitably wrong and you make a critical decision based off of its incorrect statement?
You might say this is true of Bing as well, which it is, but at least you have some source to be disputed upon.

reply

Exactly, it's a game changer in the sense that
1. People will be made more aware of the limitations and the hype will hopefully die down

2. People will learn the hard way and Microsoft will get some serious blow back, like Google did today

> excel write this formula for me

two days later...

> Microsoft, your AI was wrong and cost me millions of dollars

END CONVERSATION

given the conversation above, what does this statement mean?

excel write this formula for me

The statement "excel write this formula for me" means that the person wants Microsoft's AI (ChatGPT) to write a formula for them in Microsoft Excel.
I’m blaming the parents. I’m a single gen-xer so I admit to not having skin in the game but it seems like my generation has managed to raise incredibly neurotic kids. I don’t think it is the fault of the kids. The parents have not allowed their children to develop any resiliency.

It doesn’t seem to me that whatever stresses that the current generation of American kids are facing are any worse than what previous generations have had to deal with. As a Cold War kid I was terrified of nuclear apocalypse. It was a big deal. Remember the “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” speech? It began with, “The Soviet Union has nuclear missiles pointed at the capitals of Europe…” Was that a greater or lessor stressor than climate change? Every generation faces stress, it’s how they deal with it that is important. The question is why is the current generation having so much trouble coping?
That law is an OTC anti-fraud measure. The Constitution has something to say about the ability of Congress to nationalize and impose its own speech controls on private websites that happen to become popular. Congress also doesn't get a say in who performs the Super Bowl Halftime Show, despite its immense audience.
The most straightforward reasons would be:

1. Russia would get income from the pipeline, empowering their economy.
2. This sort of infrastructure would represent increased German dependence on Russia for their energy needs.
3. This would also tend to increase economic and diplomatic ties between Germany and Russia.

Destroying the pipeline (even if it's not being used) could theoretically send the message that these infrastructure projects are not safe and that relying on Russia for energy is strategically unwise.
>When it’s someone like Hersh, such a revelation brings reputational harm, and raises more questions about how he became so convinced of this information to begin with.

Hersh is 85 and in the past decade he has already done quite a bit of damage to his prior reputation
Why not SolidGoldMagikarp?[1]

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...
They need to refer to the assistant in the prompt, so they have to call it something. Sydney is shorter than "the assistant"
I agree about the importance of alignment. The recent evolution in my thinking is to take into account the power differentials between the folks who need to be aligned. As The Boss it's easy to say, "Everyone should be aligned," without seeing the incentives you are creating for folks not to align. And then fuss about their lack of alignment.
What are you talking about with "rent seeking"? We made software. We offer that software for sale. Why is selling software rent seeking?

I love open source too, I just don't think proprietary software is problematic.
i don't see any pricing for storage on their site

n/m signed up and you use sliders to get what you need.. looks like its about $15 a month for 1Tb of storage which isn't enough for me.. too bad.
Kafka's not a message queue, it's a distributed log.

The main advantage of Kafka is that you can:

1. Write a shitload of data to it fast

2. Experience a cluster failure or degradation with low risk of data loss

3. Retain absolute ordering, with caveats, if you're careful.

4. Run large numbers of concurrent consumers without imposing significant overhead on the cluster

That's pretty much it. I've made a good career the last few years out of Kafka, but there are _so_ many companies using it that don't need it, and what strikes me as passing odd is when I've been consulting on their Kafka adoption and tell them that, they don't want to hear it.

Which is really weird IMO because I stand to make far more money by encouraging them to use it unnecessarily because...

...Kafka is a complex solution to a complicated problem, and often people using it don't have the sheer scale of data that would necessitate taking on that complexity.

> In 2009, I was processing a TB per month of 837 claims on even worse hardware.

Kafka starts to shine when you're creating X TiB of data a day, and would like not to lose it.

It's best mentally modelled as a series of rather resilient tubes, that way people can stop thinking it's just a super duper scalable message queue, and they can just drop it in as a black box and get all the semantics they're used to from ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ etc.

Even Pulsar, which tries to emulate MQ semantics, isn't a drop-in replacement, at all. And it has even more moving parts than Kafka.
I feel like if George Howell hates it, I might like it. I’ve never been big on fruity coffees, i a, more into dark roasts and other more earthy flavors.
This is the fundamental problem and shortsightedness of the ChatGPT ban on Stack Overflow - it doesn't go far enough.

There is some imagined distinction between a hallucinated answer from a LLM and one from a person posting "try {random code}" that are both equally wrong - but only the LLM is deleted (because deleting the wrong answers are an attempt by a human to answer(?) or would hurt feelings / engagement (?)).
It was a "mistake". That doesn't mean it was an accident.
I made a joke posting to the comp.lang.c Usenet newsgroup on this topic. Looks like it was in 2014.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/s7yeYGuMs8s/m/juwf...

Google Groups no longer allows "View Original". Let's reformat the code. Actually, nope; I found the file from 2014 easily.

Seventh degree polynomial for Fibonacci, with Easter egg:

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int fib(int n)
{
double out = 0.002579370;
out *= n; out -= 0.065277776;
out *= n; out += 0.659722220;
out *= n; out -= 3.381944442;
out *= n; out += 9.230555548;
out *= n; out -= 12.552777774;
out *= n; out += 7.107142857;
out *= n;
return floor(out + 0.5);
}

int main(void)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
printf("fib(%d) = %d\n", i, fib(i));
switch (i) {
case 7:
puts("^ So, is this calculation fib or not?");
break;
case 8:
puts("^ Answer to life, universe & everything responds negatively!");
}
}
return 0;
}

Execution:

$ ./fib2
fib(0) = 0
fib(1) = 1
fib(2) = 1
fib(3) = 2
fib(4) = 3
fib(5) = 5
fib(6) = 8
fib(7) = 13
^ So, is this calculation fib or not?
fib(8) = 42
^ Answer to life, universe & everything responds negatively
GPS can be in not so malicious environment, I'm talking about separate GPS device instead of addictionful phone with no buttons, so-called smart but maybe not for end user's brain and free time.
given your comment it couldn't get that we were talking to excel, but when I gave it the whole conversation it was able to make the connection easily.
I was thinking of the same channel, but the video "why you don't want to do anything after binging 4 hours of YouTube videos".

https://youtu.be/zBgCRJluWTc
are you implying that all other web browsers implement and comply with all web standards? are you implying that no website is leveraging experimental features and hence not standard yet?
You too are one of those hard working volunteers. Thank you for your contributions to the dataset and platform.
We're well into a relaxed-determinism future.
I can only offer sentiment, but I really like Spring Boot. It's not perfect but it does what I want it to.
what makes Russian propaganda different from US propaganda?
I assuming some kind of source data is crawled and summarized for the chat bot to converse about.

some kind of vector/embedding database with source path/url plus chat interface.
Oh hey I work in mortgage! We use plain old doubles for everything and there's some rounds in there and occasionally an exotic round to the nearest 1/8th. Everything ends up matching fine where it needs to.
...period. Just because you are overly stressed out about your BMW/Tesla repair saga doesn't mean it is equivalent to someone who NEVER has enough money for basic nessesities.

Your luxury car repair drama is fleeting. Being wracked with stress about your entire life 24/7 only lets up when your mind finds a way to squirm out of it for a minute by watching a show or powering through a package of cookies on your couch.

Stress is not equivalent across all.

Mr BMW has no idea how much his energy bill was last month, smiles every time he pays his mortgage. Single mom carries a past due balance of $800 and barely makes rent each month. Two different, not equivalent, worlds.
> Queues like Kafka can be great for a certain class of solution, but I see them over used.

> The justification is usually a sort of handwave about scaling, but I tend to be skeptical of that argument.

actually this sort of solution is a great fit to GPGPU, where each thread has some kind of a "window" and will perform N aligned accesses in a stepwise fashion to compute its particular data. Aligned/coalesced accesses and "re-computation" are very cheap in GPGPU and that often means you lean on re-computation rather than notarization or other "stateful" approaches.

I think something like this would be a great fit to AVX-512 probably.
>. Can you please explain how my argument is deceptive or a lie?

You condensed an entire book/section of a book that Hersh wrote into one sentence and then attacked it as if it were the argument he presented. It's not. It's something he said offhand in an interview about the book, and which he immediately clarified was not meant in the way people were taking it.

You're taking the worst possible interpretation of what he said and arguing he clearly meant that. Hence, not arguing in good faith.
Climate NGOs Welcome EU Green Deal Industrial Plan
> If there's not a sale it's not advertising.

I just can't anymore with HN. Who are these people who are redefining common terms to suit their own views?
Both are driven by a profit motive, but Google takes some forms of privacy more seriously.

Lets not use emotionally driven, ambiguous terms like 'evil' to describe these kinds of things. Google is not, for instance, conspiring to commit genocides, nor is Microsoft planning a coup in an Eastern European nation with the goal of colonizing them to use as indentured technical support.
Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
Rust does not prevent you from changing the model through iteration - it simply makes you explicitly think about it each time you are making changes. That is not against lean/agile way of working.

I have worked on one of the largest Ruby monoliths around and I love Ruby, but I also appreciate that Rust can cut through some class of problems that you can't with Ruby (similarly it is much easier to bend Ruby to your will than Rust).
As somebody who built a chatbot on top of the ChatGPT language model (unofficial model in the OpenAI API) I can assure you that you can just use whatever you want to refer to it in that part of the prompt without first telling it any secret name...

Also "Sydney: " is 5 tokens which is likely how they are delimiting the prompts not "1. Sydney" which doesnt even make sense for delimiting the prompts
ChatGPT had obviously some misunderstanding of the landscape ;-)
Just in time for the ten year anniversary of the Cybertruck announcement.
> More details in my blog post here: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...

Tl;Dr implementations of the adapter api can provide hashmap lookups and the query engine will use this when possible before doing a full scan - this is transparent to the query author.

A 3000 word essay takes approximately 10 minutes to read. (Assuming subject familiarity) It is frustrating when the main point is at the end and very little is discussed about the shape of the new api besides the fact that it is experimental.

I spent quite awhile on the site trying to understand the features and benefits of the query language. I left unsatisfied by the long commentless query examples and repeated claims of being able to query anything. It'd be nice to have a discussion of the what the language is, how an adapter should be implemented and how the engine will use my adapter. Maybe that is covered in linked video talks but there are no slides to skim to see if thats worth my time.

OP I appreciate your passion and enthusiasm but as a potential user I can't figure out where to start with the project.
Daemonless operation sounds very compelling. It is often slow or complicated to deploy a docker installation just to be able to run a container when all I really want is a process. Conceptually (and I really mean conceptually, not technically) I don’t need a Python daemon to run a Python tool so why do I need a Docker daemon to run a containerized Python tool?

LXC did this nicely, imho, by storing the state and configuration of each container as files in a directory. It doesn’t seem like LXC/LXD has really taken off (see also: bzr) — bad luck Canonical, but thank you for trying.

Relating to both LXC vs Docker, and Docker vs Podman: oftentimes, the presence of competition is what drives the winner to victory. It might seem like wasted effort to have two competing solutions for a while but the final outcome of a winner that’s better than it would
have been is of benefit to everyone. If I had a dollar for every project I started at work just to stone-soup one of my peers into action I would have more than… $20? $50?

Postscript, written after reading the comments below (thanks!): when you need to get a project going in a creative field like software engineering, a useful technique is to start with something — anything at all — announce it, and invite meaningful contributions to take that thing from trivial starting point to a rich and useful product. The analogy is “stone soup”: a villager wants to put together a feast but doesn’t have the means to do it themselves. What they can do is get a fire going, get a pot of water simmering over the fire, and put a single rock in it. They then suggest to another villager “hey I’ve got this soup going but it would be even better with one of your onions: how about we work together?”. To another they say the same thing but for potatoes, to another a ham hock, ad finitum until the pot contains a rich and tasty broth. By kicking off the project, albeit with something that was just a framework, they were able to engage others interest and take the project to completion as a team.

The more scurrilous version of this is shit soup. One villager sets up the pot / asks a question on stackoverflow. Predictably, no one engages. Another villager — secretly conspiring with the first — shows up and announces the correct ingredient to be added next is goat turd / replies to the stackoverflow question with a deliberately incorrect answer. Lo and behold all the other villagers now show up to explain why that answer is dumb, and in fact we should be adding onions, potatoes, and ham / insert correct technical answer to SO question here.

Many of us will have come across this in The Pragmatic Programmer under “Stone Soup and Boiled Frogs”.
The funniest thing to me is how the Billionaire railed about a lack of free speech, but then tried to turn free speech into a commodity that could be purchased for his own opportunistic profit.

Every day is a day closer to when Twitter will vanish, curing public addiction to and dependency upon it. Something else will come later, and slowly be corrupted again as well.

It would have been easier and much less costly to just have made an app from scratch and to have left Twitter to it's prior dysfunctional obscurity.
I found a couple of the actual phrases to be equal parts intriguing and disturbing.

e.g.) "While Sydney is helpful, its action is limited to the chatbox"
The only thing which _may_ change (need more sources to confirm, since only 1 new site did pop up very recently with that new info) is about alphabet(google) because the other sites were missing the alphabet(google) super voting shares, but I knew it was the case about metafacebook though.

As I said in my previous post, that would make the context of the news even more awkward and weird.

And you are wrong, it does not change anything for all the other companies without "super voting shares" from big tech, actually, it expanded (unless the super voting shares information is missing too for amd, intel, nvidia, etc) and it does not change the fact, again, that you are pushing something that nobody sane would believe: major owners of a company would have no say in the company steering and management?? I am not the stubborn guy here mate, actually, I start to feel sorry for you.
How about this:

My childhood was for my parents.

My children's childhoods were for me and my wife.

I don't have much of a personal recollection of my own childhood outside of photos and home videos. I know I had a happy, healthy childhood, but I don't recall specific moments of joy, at least not in the way I can recall and literally re-feel moments of joy captured in photos or videos of my children living through their childhoods.

I lived through their childhood as an adult, so I'll remember it, and be able to recall the joys and disappointments and fun. The same must be true for how my parents experienced and can recall my childhood.

Your childhood is for your parents.
I wonder were you find these beneficial probiotics/strains naturally.
For want of an API the tweets were lost.

For want of tweets the subscribers were lost.

For want of subscribers the channel was lost.

For want of a channel the platform-users were lost.

For want of platform-users the platform was lost.

And, all for the want of an API.
Damn you just came in here and lost people to your product. Perhaps a good time to get off HN?
Yeah, the idea that he was involved in the American war in Vietnam seems far-fetched. Perhaps this is a confusion with some other, older Stoltenberg?
Not even in the most feverish reactionary vision of America does anybody seriously think that 50% of Americans believe the drivel that comes out of Twitter's racist peanut gallery.

Put another way: you may or may not believe it, but the overwhelming majority of people do not. Plenty may find it entertaining or even cathartic (given preconceptions about their own political tribe), but that's a far cry from agreeing with it.
Unbound works fine in Windows.
For those (like me) who are wondering:

> In artificial intelligence, a hallucination or artificial hallucination is a confident response by an artificial intelligence that does not seem to be justified by its training data when the model has a tendency of "hallucinating" deceptive data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_inte...
Also:
- Kubernetes has been incredibly transformative and adopted by all other cloud providers
- Golang - the language of choice for a lot of cloud native tools
- Flutter - it may not be the incumbent choice but it makes cross platform development a breeze
- Google Photos - no other photo platform comes close to it
Jesus christ, man. We just spent a lot of time, money, and labor to make a software product and I posted it to Hacker News on a lark. It really sucks to have a bunch of people complain that we are asking people to pay for our work. We even have a free (as in beer) version you can use to make non-commercial projects!

We are hardly the first company to sell software, nor post about it on this website. Proprietary software is ethical.

Responding to your post is not "an attempt to silence discussion of perceived problems with our society". Such nonsense!
> I don't think you can fairly compare XP and Windows 11 given how much more Windows 11 does than XP

Considering how much work it took to get wrangle 10 LTSE into a usable Win environment I'd much prefer the simple OS that stayed out of my hair than one that "does so much more" I didn't ask for.

I hope someday software is regulated as tightly as other consumer goods. Abusing one's position as the issuer of security updates to force choices, undesired changes, and bloat down user's throats shouldn't be possible; users should have the option to separate the two.

I'm aware that that seems like a tall ask given the state of "modern" software development, but that's its own can of worms.
> and has the buttons in such an awkward position that I get cramps in my hand after half an hour of playing.

Seconding the ergonomics point - between the weight of the thing and the awkwardness of the buttons/trackpads, it’s easily the most uncomfortable system I’ve ever used. I get hand cramps every time I use mine for any significant amount of time - when I’m playing it in bed, I’ve even got to the point of using an external controller with it to reduce the level of discomfort involved.

I hope that the next major version of the hardware will aim for a lighter/sleeker design. The current model feels like gripping a brick for hours at a time.
Feel free to play with our free Filmbox Lite version!
So, mergify built in?
Excel uses floats in its own ways that even experts on floating-point arithmetic find inscrutable[1].

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf, §2
This is a mistaken title attribution, but even with a correction do you think it changes much? Stoltenberg is the civilian leader of NATO and having his support is crucial. Hersh may have been mistaken in the title, but not the person nor their importance.