skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Heata will credit the host for the electricity used at 10% above the market rate

I wonder if this "market rate" is the same rate that UK residents pay for electricity.

If so, there's gotta be some shenanigans going on over there for this strategy to make sense. In the US electricity is a lot cheaper in data centers located right next to power plants compared to residential rates.
If $JOB will let you throw it on GitHub, I'll try it!
Yes, a bunch of Android phones are USB 3.0 or greater.
If you don't know what you have, you won't know what you've lost. That's what's happening with "sex workers". Maybe some know, but it's too late. Others are just oblivious and that's too bad. To describe what these "performers" do on camera for a lewd, leering audience as empowering is absurd on it's face. Maybe they mean that in the sense of having a kind of power over their enslaved audience. The whole thing is evil.
Maybe he's hiring and just looking to see who disagrees and articulates why. Ok no but it was fun to imagine.
That study is from 2003. Fentanyl is a much more recent phenomenon.
Is that what class actions are about? Wouldn't you get contacted somehow?
It says "hard to manually test" which obviously includes easy test cases that you don't want to spend time on automating.
SQLite is great if you just have one process accessing the db, other wise it is a dumb choice.
You were possibly poisoned, probably intentionally, by an entity that intended to and did profit by it. You may get a small amount of money if you have the luck and the resources to capitalize on it.

There's nothing unique or novel about this situation. Is it surprisingly that it happened or just surprising that it happened to you? This is what we do son, this is what american is for. This is the system working as intended.
Training these models is costly. It only makes sense to train them if you get a significant commercial benefit. A significant commercial benefit almost by definition will have trouble hiding from regulators.

Another point is that even if regulation is imperfect, it creates regulatory uncertainty which is likely to discourage investment and delay progress.
The "heroism bad" sentiment OP's article is describing within Google's culture is specifically the "one person keeping things up" variety, and the characterization in the article is inaccurate.

https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/ is a good public example of this sentiment.
US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
If you install your own copy, you are on call for it, and the colo is unlikely to offer much help. You also have to set up monitoring or you won’t even know when it fails. Then there’s replication. Backups. All this stuff is work that PaaS vendors are ready to automate away, if my time is expensive for the org.

For fun, sure, dink around and learn as long as there are no customers to affect.
"Those filthy American pigs will sell us the rope that we will hang them with." - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
I don't think Bing Chat is directly accessing other domains. They're accessing a large index with information from many domains in it.
I am totally fine with USB-C charging only. I don't remember the last time I plugged my phone for anything else.
Online pharmacies that specialize in generic drugs are at risk of having their supplies switched or contaminated because they order from manufacturers with reputations a notch below the big pharma brands whose packaging and product are sourced through a chain of custody that makes switching them out for something else a lot harder.

This means that they have to do some inbound quality control to ensure that what they believe they are selling really is what they are selling.
Repairable by you or me? No.
What does "survival" mean? AIs stored on computers don't die if you turn them off, unlike humans. They can be turned back on eventually.
Not yet available in India. Hope they launch soon!
In this case it’s encryption but interesting point.

GDPR fines come from not following basic data protection practices, not for the breach itself. Also, a lot of reputational damage of the leak comes from bad infosec (case study: LastPass). If the customer data is reasonably protected, there isn’t much motivation to pay ransoms.

Companies have data breaches all the time. Even a start-up I worked in in GDPR times had a data breach, and an extortion attempt. But all customer PI data was encrypted and only ever in plaintext on our end in an ephemeral way. The data was worthless, we never paid ransoms. We bought some darknet monitoring service for some fake canary user data, but nothing ever came up in 4 years after the breach. No ransom was ever paid and honestly, the data breach was on our minds for 10 days max.

This is not hard to do, it was done by two business guys who listened to infosec podcasts and read infosec articles online. Specialists in the area that I’m sure all of these ransomed big businesses can afford can definitely do much better data protection.

I don’t think companies are sued/prosecuted for GDPR non-compliance or any damage done to their customers if hashed blobs get leaked. Assuming the hackers even bother to leak them, because what are they going to say in the forums they sell the data on? “I have unknown encrypted data about some hashed usernames from company X”? Maybe one day in the far future that data will hold some value, but not today. I would more easily see investors suing the management for paying ransoms instead of doing even rudimentary data protection.
Perhaps they're not cheaper.
Yes. SQLite supports transactional DDL.
mastery of a specific technology adds very
little value

I disagree in the strongest possible terms but it's certainly possible that we're working with different definitions of "mastery" so I'll give you mine. My version is perhaps actually closer to "competency" rather than "deep under-the-hood knowledge." I'm talking about somebody who knows how to use a screwdriver without stabbing their own eyeballs out, and when to use a screwdriver, but isn't necessarily like... inventing new types of screwdrivers or innovating in the field.

Somebody with Postgres "mastery" should have a strong command of basic normalized table structures, they should know how to construct useful indexes, they should know the downsides of over-indexing, they should know how to find and optimize slow queries, and they should at least know of somewhat advanced topics such as partitioning, materialized views, foreign data wrappers, and so on. It is okay not to have a clue how to set up e.g. partitioning but you should know what it is so that you can learn about it and employ it when needed.

Somebody with "mastery" of an application framework such as Rails should be competent at basic OO design, they should be familiar with Ruby structures and idioms, they should understand what goes where in Rails' MVC paradigm, they should be able to write comprehensive and performant tests, and they should know how Rails' asset pipeline builds and emits front end code. I would not expect them to have mastery of Ruby's metaprogramming, but I would expect them to know what it is and have some idea of how Rails uses it to extend Ruby. (I realize Rails is controversial, but I'm not talking about anything Rails-specific. Feel free to substitute your language+framework of choice)

In short, the sort of working knowledge you might commonly gain with 1-3 years of real-world production experience with a given piece of the stack. Or perhaps less if you were really focused on it and just learning it full time.

Without guidance, folks with less knowledge than this tend to produce absolutely unscalable, unmaintainable spaghetti code for anything larger than a toy project. To return to the screwdriver analogy, they can kind of use a screwdriver but they're constantly stripping screwdriver heads at which point either the project is ruined or they need some help from more practiced craftsperson.

always in danger of becoming more legacy than relevant

I would certainly agree that you can go too deep to be useful as a "full-stack" developer. For example, if you really understand Postgres internals and can write your own extensions and have a bunch of commits in Postgres itself, cool, but what happens when our next client wants us to work on their MySQL-based app? And while Postgres is unlikely to die anytime soon, what happens if you've achieved that level of expertise in a tool that does fall by the wayside? I've certainly "mastered" a few tools that are distant memories.
Yep, that's probably true.
What a poor comparison.

I don't understand why this guy is the CEO of OpenAI.
A Promising Mess
ChatGPT passes Theory of Mind test with performance of a 9-year-old
Yes, I firmly agree with your first paragraph and roughly agree with your second paragraph.
Tone deaf error messages that act like I'm supposed to chill and laugh at my shit breaking are not easter eggs.
giving bing ai this link results in this response: "I’m sorry, I cannot access the link you provided. Can you please tell me what it is about?"
I think Jef Raskin wrote in The Humane Interface that the first commandment of a computer system should be not to lose a human’s data. Another example of this I ran into recently was finding out that Reddit only keeps a certain number of saved items and silently discards the oldest ones. I was saving a lot of stuff for 10 years and was sad that about half of that is gone now. Now I don’t save stuff because I’m not sure what the oldest links are that it will throw away to make room.
> USB-C is annoying and I don't like having to worry about about my cable frying my device.

Yikes. I've never worried about that until reading this comment.
This reminds me a lot of AT&T and Xerox in their prime: they both had a firehose of seemingly-infinite revenue (phone calls and photocopies), and used some of that money to hire a bunch of really smart people and have them work on research projects, which the company then completely mismanaged and wasted.
> Popular votes can be held up to four times a year.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/switzerland-direct-de...

At some point you need technology, otherwise it would just get too expensive.
Are those two effects big enough to make a false signal as big as the purported signal? They seem like relatively minor annoyances.
My take on what data scientists or software engineers eager to use GPT-3 should know to succeed.
No whiteboard, music video, or a published novel yet.

But, come now, his point was he’d never worked with a full stack developer and that they don’t exist.
I can’t help shake the feeling that something closer to code (or specific training?) and further from natural language should be being used to configure these models at this stage of development. I was _astounded_ by the ‘Sydney document’ being MS’s way of ‘configuring’ New Bing.

Admittedly I have closer to a layperson’s understanding than an expert’s, but with some knowledge of how neural networks work, and having played moderately with ChatGPT, prompt engineering just seems _so unlikely_ to me to ever be able to create systems that behave as we desire them to behave anywhere close to 100% of the time, at least until the systems are orders of magnitude better at understanding (if that’s even possible).
I don’t think that’s most poor people at Walmart.

I do think that most poor people at Walmart are so worn down and tired that cooking a healthy meal can be difficult. Especially when there’s a box that only needs water and a few zaps from the microwave.
On Massachusetts highways it is common to see "funny" electronic messages like "Wicked Stahm Coming" about an impending blizzard etc., and even though I get the "joke" it is enough to confuse me for a moment and I find it a nuisance. I have never seen this phenomenon outside of the USA and I hope this trend stops.
I bought my son his first computer, with Windows 11. I created a child account with myself as the adult to authorise it.

But when I tried to log in to authorise his account with my Microsoft account, I got an error

"It's not you, it's us"

Turns out I had to switch my country to the same as my child's, the error message being completely useless
Most notably

> “ChatGPT cannot give you real time data or fact verification,” Ramaswamy wrote at the time. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.”
Ask HN: Is HN Crashing Periodically?
I'm getting this message from time to time when clicking an HN link. Then a few minutes later it works normally again.

"We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!"
https://paste.pics/6b18bddc072402d8e675cfd88cb16e14

Server-side or client-side? Anyone else seeing this? I did the screenshot, but didn't think to copy the code. Thanks.

Edit: Replaced short link with full link.
> I don't think it's true that most applications just run a single db-and-application node. I've never worked on such an application.

Rather than applications you've worked on (many of us spend years on end working on a narrow range of applications), consider software you use (most of us flip between multiple applications every day spanning the gamut of uses). Ignore, for a moment, whatever you know about their implementation, and focus on the user-facing functionality.

Do even half of them logically communication between application nodes?

(Consider that there is still a rich class of software that is fully capable of running locally on the "client"'s computer!)
I really like SQLite and I use it a lot. There are only two things that are missing to make it near-perfect:

- A type for Instants / time handling

- being strict with types. No inserts of ints into a string column
"Hebrew Bible" is often used in secular academia in preference to "Old Testament." "Christian Bible" is the "New Testament" counterpart to that.
For a large amount of rural America, it’s the only option.

That or a Dollar General with its bountiful selection of bananas and limes.
Ask HN: Is anyone else struggling with Docker buildx?
I just used docker's buildx for the first time (after being forced to since it's the default) and am already dreading being forced to use it because of the additional complexity and poor documentation.

So I had a really simple workflow of using intermediate containers to build something from source, then a prod container that pulls build artifacts from the build container.

Yesterday I tried building an image and saw that buildx was the preferred engine since the legacy build is now deprecated, so after reading the docs I got the impression that I could mostly use the same workflow as before. After a few tries of this the buildx plugin would not build anything since would not fully read my dockerfile, or it would not even start the build since it was trying to remove a zfs snapshot from my graph directory that didn't actually exist.

Today I took another stab at it, and find that there's a separate daemon called buildkitd that doesn't seem to be available via the apt packages, so I grab the tarball from GitHub. Then I have to hunt in the repo to find systemd service files.

https://github.com/moby/buildkit

So I extract the tarball and then find that buildkitd won't start because it seems to be hardcoded to look in /usr/local/bin instead of PATH. I move them there, then my image will actually start building. The build stopped partway through because of an update to Maven, which is not a big deal, but then I find that I can't step into an intermediate container to inspect a broken build, since this isn't exposed anymore.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/70715535

I fix the build issue and the build finally succeeds, then I find that the image isn't loaded into my docker daemon, so now I also have to figure that out.

It's on me for not keeping up with the transition to buildx, but did anyone else go through this much pain? I'd like to think that there's a path of least resistance or documentation I missed somewhere, but I'm surprised that attempting to do something this simple took this much effort, when the docs for buildx make it seem like it's a drop in replacement. Had I not just invested time in locking down my docker containers with privileges and userns I probably would be looking at using podman instead.
I feel for your mother but the conversation was about food, not medicine. Food in America is the most affordable in the world relative to income. Medicine is, unfortunately, among the most unaffordable.
Your problem is you want your tool to behave like you, you think it has access to the same information as you and perceives everything similarly.

If you had no recollection of the past, and were presented with the same information search collected from the query/training data, do you know for a fact that you would also not have the same answer as it did?
I haven't played too much with doing this programmatically, but OpenAI's Tokenizer tool is a fun way to get an intuition around tokens and text length

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
Sure, that comment came a bit rough. But I'm not even sure it was triggered by the Docker comment, rather than the developer/release engineer opposition. At least that's how I see it. And maybe I just don't see the added value of PaaS because I've been spinning up public web servers for too long now ;-)
I used to think this.

But as a member of a small-ish company, I remember there was this time the sales VP insisted that we MUST have this product out by a certain tradeshow. Engineering worked hard and delivered, and although the thing had warts, it gave our company an advantage: the current market leader showed up at the next tradeshow a couple months later (e.g. "20%") with a similar product and price point, but our lead in time meant that we were able to exist as a strong competitor. This single product launch and subsequent sequels lifted our company for quite a long time.

So now when the sales guys insist we might need something by a certain date, I carefully evaluate rather than dismiss out of hand - I've learned to trust their role as well.
Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts
I haven't tried Bing but ask ChatGPT "what is 12348120348102341 + 10823401828482?"

Bonus points: If you ask Google Search this, it knows the right answer.
Oh man this is soo cool

https://peel.fm/c33c29a
I mean zero to one is still "more" right?

Anyway thanks idk shit about type theory and I didn't go to college I just write code for money.
Facebook, Twitter, etc remove coordinated influence campaigns like these all of the time. There is a headline in major publications almost every time and an article on their corporate blogs. What these political consulting companies do is not exactly illegal in countries with free speech which is why there isn’t as much governmental effort. The American governments argument for “conspiracy to defraud the United States” in the IRA case is tenuous and untested to say the least which is why they mostly focused on the fact that they used fullz to register PayPal accounts in the indictment.
Not that I’m disagreeing with you but your bio is quite funny combined with this comment.
>Pandora's box is open, the genie's bottle is uncorked

As someone who's followed AI safety for over a decade now, it's been frustrating to see reactions flip from "it's too early to do any useful work!" to "it's too late to do any useful work!", with barely any time intervening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AW4nSq0hAc

Perhaps it is worth actually reading a book like this one (posted to HN yesterday) before concluding that it's too late to do anything? https://betterwithout.ai/only-you-can-stop-an-AI-apocalypse
Does this mean that Alzheimer's is something that floats around your body? Or signs of it floating around? I always assumed it was something that could develop in anyone, like heart disease or some liver problem (except on the brain).
Because it’s an uninteresting opinion that’s simply a reflection of the author’s unthinking and un-self-aware conservatism. It doesn’t add any value to anyone and there’s no point in posting it on a site like this.
No, the previous comment brought up Trump, which is clearly alluding to "Russian collusion".

I'm fine with distaste for Trump and the realities of disinformation campaigns, but the focus of the Twitter files in this regard is clearly specific to the false Russia Trump connection propagated by Dem polticians and leftists.
Good catch. Still nuts, especially if you layer it with antidepressants.

Some states were 107< per 100 for the opioids. How does that impact the movement of the Overton window over the last decade+ I wonder?
Half the time I can't even get the bastard thing written without tests
Tangent: I've yet to find what I'd deem a "definitive" answer on why the 'e' was dropped. Sure, Ken said it was his biggest mistake, but every answer on why it's missing just point to the quote from him. I've seen suggestions related to a possible six-character limit (from Radix50 - "50" being octal for 64), but "creat" is only five. And being a mistake, why was it never fixed early on?
I hope that's right. I guess you (I mean someone with Bing Chat access, which I don't have) could test this by asking Sydney/Bing to respond to (summarize, whatever) a url that you're sure Bing (or more?) has not indexed. If Sydney/Bing reads that url successfully then there's a direct causal chain that involves Sydney and ends in a GET whose url first enters Sidney/Bing's memory via chat buffer. Maybe some MSFT intermediary transformation tries to strip suspicious url substrings but that won't be possible w/o massively curtailing outside access.

But I don't know if Bing (or whatever index Sydney/Bing can access) respects noindex and don't know how else to try to guarantee the index Sydney/Bing can access will not have crawled any url.
It's why I think the insurance analogy works. I don't get a refund on my insurance for not using it either.
Good for you guys, but there is always someone doing more, always someone better, why start a pissing contest? You turned someone’s comment on why deploying SQLite is not trivial into an opportunity to tap yourself in the back so we can all say “wow look at berdon”, but in the end, it doesn’t really matter.
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US.

An unbelievably naive statement.
That's a lengthy article about 3d6 and r6 in general for tabletop RPGs without once mentioning GURPS aka 3d6.

I kept thinking it was building towards that and then it just went in a different direction and ended.
But lentils!
I'm pretty sure I can get the updates to work (right now it's based on synchronous UI) just because Sheets has auto recalc and event trigger features. However I'd say it is different than your product since my strategy is very low level.

I'm using a JavaScript interface to JDBC. It's left to the developer to find this scripting system (GAS), stitch the pieces together, figure out where the Google vs JDBC docs connect, etc. Getting auto-complete and syncing in my IDE was a lot of work and research. Google has their own sync tool which is basically a git work-a-like that you have to use in tandem with git.

It's powerful but there's nothing friendly about it.

What is does have is -- all the users already know Google Sheets. So they have this big system they already know that they can use with the data my code populates. That includes all the export features Google Sheets has. Buy in from management is easy, since it's a platform everyone knows and we're already paying for it.

You have to weigh your tradeoffs.