skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am utterly excited for this and shocked that it is a thing that exists. Watterson seemed content to avoid the world and let C&H stand alone as his singular stamp on our culture. Now he's made something new and my enthusiasm is boundless. Holy crap.
Maybe they feel hurt every time they are reminded of the empty buildings because it's a waste of money and to get everyone back wouldn't hurt anybody in their assessment, it's actually how it was done before and it worked well, yadda yadda, so why not.

I do think the reasoning applies much better to executives, though.

tl;dr human stuff
Human nature is often contradictory, and is in no way universal across humanity. No system of organizing humanity will fit neatly with human nature. No economic system, religion, moral system, government, educational model, language, and so on, will ever work well universally. So this leaves us all with a series of tradeoffs and concessions. Capitalism has one set of tradeoffs, feudalism had another, socialism a third.

We might disagree on the relative importance of the concessions required, but I hope we can all agree that there is simply no perfect system (yet).
Personally I was scared my account might be closed and I would have no recourse as I wasn't a paying customer. Years ago there were stories here of people having all their google accounts closed and being unable to even contact a human at google to check why.
For awhile, starting around 2016, they poured money into an attempt to compete with Amazon. Not just compete, but get ahead of Amazon. They wanted to invent a 3D online retail experience, sort of like what Facebook started to do, but specific to retail. I was offered a job at the New Jersey office. They offered me $225, back in 2016, which is good and was very good for 2016.

But now I suspect they've given up on the effort.
The brain mostly uses the same amount of calories all the time. It's the large muscles that can influence energy use.
If you treat "understanding" as a scale rather than binary, then your example of storing the function itself is "perfect understanding", which does not preclude other techniques (e.g. storing a much simpler function that approximates the original one) that could also be reasonably called "understanding", just imperfect. Directly mapping likely inputs and outputs is still a form of that, albeit obviously way too primitive to be interesting.
They are also a great place to cut your teeth on the FAANG type problems because, as it turns out, they face similar scale issues.

There's a lot of "second tier" tech companies that have some really cool problems at massive scales that also pay really well. Not as obviously sexy as FAANGs though.
Wow, with how great Reddit's innovations have been so far, I'm sure a fiduciary responsibility to increase profits year over year for shareholders will only make it even more pleasant to use.
On the off chance you haven't read it yet, I would like to add 'Erebus' to your list, by Michael Palin.
Anyone have a good lead on a provider that doesn't mind if you... use the BitTorrent protocol in a way that might get a few notices?
> it remains one of the most desired places in the world for software engineers to work

The word desired here feels weird to me. I just wouldn’t describe it as people desiring to work there. People desire to work at Apple. People desire to work at Meta even.

Amazon to me seems kinda like a pit stop FAANG wise? Maybe it’s the PIP culture there that taints my view
you need a lot of tools to replace cloudflare, there is authelia, bind, ngix, traefik.

I dont think you can have any sort of DoS protection if your ISP cuts off your internet if you're beign attacked...
Parent is talking about how much data the model needs for training. You are comparing that to how much data a human needs for inference.

Human training data needs are quite high - several years of learning.

Look up few-shot learning if you want a more fair comparison for tasks like telling apart a cat and a hot dog given a few examples.
Do not reply in bad faith. You know the person you are replying to was not saying that capitalism is the only system to ever exist. They were saying that, despite its numerous flaws, it appears to be the most successful system we’ve tried.
This is true, but there are cases where "months" makes sense. E.g. avionics, industrial, medical.
Yeah except I don't want 'cloud services' I want a VPS, people who want a VPS are never going to look at Akamai branded that way.
The Surprisingly Sacred Roots of Chocolate
Building your own DDOS protection and CDN will involve a lot of devops bandwidth in ensuring both low latency and high availability. You may need to negotiate good rates with your ISP/VPS/Cloud for network bandwidth. It will also involve keeping in sync with security fixes and the state of the art in terms of bot protection, etc. If this use case is not a core part of your business, it will be better to bite the bullet and go ahead with a 3rd party solution like Cloudflare / AWS Cloudfront + WAF + Route 53 / Google Cloud Armor / Fastly

Openresty with a few Nginx modules and Lua scripts can go a long way for many use-cases mentioned:

- ModSecurity for WAF: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity

- L7 Rate limiting: https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-limit-traffic

- Cache: https://github.com/ledgetech/ledge . Or use varnish which gives you VCL for high configurability

- Load balancing: https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-balancer

- CDN: https://github.com/taythebot/lightpath . This project seems to be a WIP which you can use as a starting point for your needs. You will also need to find good enough "edge" locations for your CDN.

Similarly, HAProxy does a lot of stuff with the correct config and is also extensible using Lua:

- Some basic DOS protection: https://www.sysbee.net/blog/haproxy-sysadmins-swiss-army-kni...

- L7 DDoS protection: https://github.com/mora9715/haproxy_ddos_protector

You can run your own authoritative DNS server using either djbdns or nsd. Or use AWS Route 53.

Ultimately, it will involve (a lot of) glue code/config depending on what solution you go ahead with.
Ask HN: How do you maintain daily productivity in a non-structured setting?
Suppose you are not in college or school with structured classes and exams or not in a typical job. Maybe you own your own business (whichever kind), or doing research in grad school, or some other thing where there is no external force to structure out your day.

How do you maintain productivity and get things done? How do you not wander off the internet rabbit hole? I am not talking about toxic patterns like studying 12 hrs a day and live streaming it. I am talking about getting real work done by working in a sane way.

Suppose you have taken a year break to prepare for some entrance exam and are self studying subjects on your own. Rather than sitting in front of your books all day and creating anxiety and bad habits (burning out), how do you manage to find time for all things in a healthy way and get things done in every aspect of life?
Yeah I’m surprised to hear this too - I’m on the front end I don’t know so - how different could it be?
Thanks for the details, would love to hear more about your YouTube rules.
It may be different for other sectors but it seemed like they sponsored every episode of Changelog podcast for quite some time. At the very least they must have sponsored every episode I listened to.
The browser didn't mention anything about reading/writing/modifying content of all sites? It's been a minute since I've messed with browser extensions, but I remember the ability to write 'tags' to a site's content was gated behind a permission dialog during "installation".
Netflix Sunsets ‘Surprise Me’ Shuffle-Play Button
My memory was there were multiple and at least one badly handled - but it’s been awhile
It's strange, isn't it?

Everyone is so quick to say how unimpressed they are by the thing meanwhile I'm sitting here amazed that it understands what I say to it every single time.

I can speak to it like I would speak to a colleague, or a friend, or a child and it parses my meaning without fail. This is the one feature that keeps me coming back to it.
The problem is we could be going backwards. ChatGPT is working off a pre LLM internet and it works surprisingly well. If we scrape the internet again in 5 years, could we even get a model as good as the one today?
> Other determinants: simplicity, performance in the UI and pricing that makes sense for an individual developer.

This is my main fear: morphing into some AWSgoogleCloudflare behemoth with a bazillion knobs and complex unpredictable pricing plans. I choose Linode specifically to avoid that time sink. Thankfully there are other's that are supposed to be similar to Linode in this respect, but I've grown to like Linode over the years, and their UI has become pretty refined, but that may be subjective.
Svelte has largest component size compared to other frameworks such as Vue, React and Solid, so it quickly grows, even on a small webapp. Because Inferno is VDOM, I'm assuming it has a smaller component size compared to Solid.
If you don't have a Wolfram language intrepeter, you can use ChatGPT to act like one. It produces quite convincing results.
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Hi Chat! Do you know the Wolfram Language? I would like you to act as a Wolfram Language interpreter. I will type in command and you will reply with the expected response. If the response contains some output that you cannot reproduce (e.g. like an image), you will try to replace it by a description of that response. My first command is: model = NetModel[{"GPT2 Transformer Trained on WebText Data","Task" -> "LanguageModeling"}]
In the past decade Google has acquired 5 Artificial Intelligence companies, including DeepMind. They hired folks like Geoffrey Hinton by acquiring his company in order to have him lead Google Brain. This is just the nature of how these companies build their talent.
The 10 Least Green Aeroplanes
I wonder how well it would work if you seeded it with the inputs and outputs of custom APIs and then tell it to write code based on your API.
This is odd phrasing because usually capitalism is sold as the pragmatist solution, imperfect by design but stable and “good enough”

Usually “only works in theory” is applied to the other economic systems which tend to sell high on the idea of equality, but devolve into the same problems of haves and have-nots.
What a bunch of pure fear mongering nonsense. The code that is produced by copilot indistinguishable from the rest of the code in the code base. Get over yourself.
Pretty sure it would have been git soft.
Discussed at the time:

The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary objects as too special to use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28771893 - Oct 2021 (79 comments)
An opportunist?
Cloudflare has become somewhat of a necessary evil. At this point, due to the sheer amount of resources and level of effort required to set up an equivalent infrastructure, they’re effectively a monopoly. Personally, I hate that and I wish the alternative was feasible, but realistically, if you need Cloudflare-level protection, you’re basically stuck with them.
For me, it’s the opposite. Strangely, I’ve never heard of Akamai until this post, but I’ve known about Linode for years.
That's why I blocked @elonmusk
> Because no desktop OS besides MacOS can handle Sleep with any semblance of competency.

The Chromebook I'm using right now handles sleep perfectly, and always has.
move mail between accounts by drag and drop or even handy shortcuts

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/move-...
{
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to do",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to do so",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to do so much",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to do so much more",
"The best thing about AI is its ability to be able to do so much more than humans"
}
The same folks that fought tooth and nail against the clipper chip are the ones now pushing for ID to watch porn.

The clipper chip was a self-censoring device, which gave parents control over their children. It was one of the various things that got democrats labeled as the "nanny state". There's a good reason to oppose the clipper chip, and it wasn't because the chip was the problem, it's because the chip used content ratings, and its use would have required further labeling of content.

This ID law is a form of state-sponsored censorship and tracking. The true purpose here is to later push this to requiring IDs for other things on the internet, and to setup the infrastructure necessary to do so. It's nanny-state, but as usual, the "protect the children" thing here isn't the purpose, just the vehicle. They don't want to protect your morals or your children, they want the ability to control your access to information.
Tell HN: Bing AI thinks Windows is more dangerous
Now you can get to what used to be the bridge:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9185843,-75.1374112,2a,75y,2...
The value of CloudFlare comes from its network, not the software they run. You can hack together a caching reverse proxy (intentionally oversimplified) pretty easily, but it won't be "CloudFlare".
Measurement of radioactive decay leads to abilities some may consider to be... unnatural.
Because the Akami brand is known to executives, and those are the people buying the product?

Linode is a good service among a lot of equally good competitors (digitalOcean, ec2/lightsail, ovh, hetzner, vulter) in the space, but it's not as much a house name as Heroku or Github - it's not a trailbrazer, the cheapest, the most advanced or the first of it's kind.
It's a good solid choice among other solid choices.

On the other hand Akami is, in many circles, known as the best (as a CDN at least - it is regarded by many as the most expansive, most stable and most feature rich), it is recognized by many as first (as a cdn) and is very much a house name.
I'm sure you're on the right track, regarding the % of the training corpus in English vs. other languages. It has done very well with colloquial Spanish as spoken in California, for example, which probably isn't too surprising.

What amazes me (and that you hint at) is that it still manages to pick more appropriate word/phrase choices, most of the time, even compared to dedicated translation software. I get the feeling (and I fully admit, this is just a feeling) that it's not using English, or any other language, as a pivot, but that there's some higher-dimensionality translation going on that allows it to perform as well as it does.
Sad day for Linode. Great standalone niche hosting platform. I get that these things happen. I was part of a Google acquisition that eventually got shutdown/rebranded. From an acquirer standpoint it makes sense. For existing users they probably now feel deflated as the whole reason they went to Linode was to avoid incumbents.
> I never talk about it because it always just works. Perhaps that's why?

They've been very reliable for me, too. I can't say anything bad about them.
As a cyclist (on a designated bike path), I was hit by a small SUV in case #2.

The driver looked to the right and I thought our eyes connected, but he proceeded from the stop sign to make a right turn right into me. Fortunately, he stopped as soon as he knew he hit something and I only ended up under his bumper, with a slightly bent up bike and major bruise on my left thigh.

In this case, I would have actually been safer (and in better view of this driver) if I had been riding on the road.

Up to that time, I rode over 1,000 miles outside in the summer, mostly on roads. Now, I no longer trust traffic at all and ride mostly on the extensive bike trail system in Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area, except when I consider the road to be a better option.

The thought of sharing the road with distracted drivers and other drivers who choose to be assholes to cyclists makes the road riding just too risky.
Europe reacts with green industrial strategy – SustainaWeekly
NGINX? You want to self-host DDOS protection?
checkout https://youtu.be/wYGbY811oMo and play with the demo at https://huggingface.co/spaces/JavaFXpert/Chat-GPT-LangChain
You can — with an older version of CloudReady — but since the pivot to Chromeos Flex, no.
https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/introducing-sveltekit was built with web containers. SvelteKit allows developers to create server-side APIs and do server-side rendering and web containers allow those server-side components to run in the browser.
If the luxury, sports and race cars were supposed to be "trickle down providers" of tech, why didnt they shift towards fuel econnomy yet?
This is so lovely, and my gut says it's spot on (, but that's far from proof. :)

The biological machine simulation theory of consciousness has some rigor behind it. I am reminded of the Making Sense podcast episode #178 with Donald Hoffman (author of The Case Against Reality). More succinct overview: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...

I don't know that I am with him on the "reality is a network of conscious agents" endpoint of this argument. But it's interesting!

I think that the brain is doing lots of hallucinating. We get stimulus of various kinds, and we create a story to explain the stimulus. Most of the time it is correct, and the story of why we see or smell something is because it is really there. Just as you mention with examples that are too fast for the brain to be doing anything other than reacting, but we create a story about why we did whatever we did, and these stories are absolutely convincing.

If our non-insane behavior can be described as doing predictable next-actions (if a person's actions are sufficiently unpredictable or non-sequitur, we categorize them as insane)... being novel or interesting is ok, but too much is scary and bad. This is not very different from chatGPT "choose a convincing next word". And if it was just working like this under the hood, we would invent a story of an impossibly complex and nuanced consciousness that is generating these "not-too-surprising next actions". In a sense I think we are hallucinating the hard problem of consciousness in much the same way that we hallucinate a conscious reason that we performed an action well after the action was physiologically underway.

I think tool making will be a consequence of the most important sign of intelligence, which is goal-directed curiosity. Or even more simply: an imagination. A simulation of the world that allows you to craft a goal in the form of a possible future world-state that can only be achieved by performing some novel action in the present. Tools give you more leverage, greater ability to impact the future world-state. So I see tools as just influencing the magnitude of the action.

The more important bit is the imagination, the simulation of a world that doesn't yet exist and the quality of that simulation, and curiosity.
You are probably too young to remember the php Cpanel hosts then.

Linode was one of the big names in being cheap and having an actual vps where you could do whatever. Short of actually buying a rack and the accompanying hardware/networking software (not renting and having your electric/network subsidized) having a vps is the cheapest slickest option to do whatever, part of why I have never bothered with any of the Iaas options. At least AWS blows hard-core in comparison, a lot of the alternatives focus on optimizing some use case, not doing whatever the hell you want.

I'm not sure how you would even compare tailscale, that's focused more on connecting all your boxes e.g. on linode...
Basically a way to layoff staff.
You should watch a movie, "It's All Gone Pete Tong"

It's about a deaf DJ
The benefit is we find solutions to objectionable ideas by discussing them. The alternative is a chilling effect where people are hesitant to discuss problems for fear of getting into trouble for even coming close to saying the illegal thing.
Warn vs. ban is affected by a number of variables including account age, how badly and/or frequently it has been posting abusively, whether it's primarily posting abusively, whether there's evidence of past abuses with other accounts, and probably some others I'm not thinking of just now.
Yes, although haven't deployed on mobile. Works well in the browser.
What qualifies as popular languages in your opinion?

I use DeepL a lot as a first draft when translating stuff from Swedish (~10 million native speakers) or Dutch (~30 million native speakers) to English. While it's good enough as a starting point it regularly negates the meaning of fairly simple sentences, completely misses the use of popular idioms (often resulting in a non sequitur) and more often than not spits out grammatically incorrect nonsense for any sentence relying on implied context.
The privilege disclaimer is absolutely unnecessary, and I agree with your point.
Yes, I have heard there are a large number of bike trails and mtn biking. I would like to visit and see for myself.

Also Walmart was a major sponsor of the Cyclocross World Championships last year.
https://www.cyclocrossfayettevillear2022.com/
And that’s just growing a new one from the seeds that already contain all the information and machinery required. Perhaps even more impressive is that this design itself was constructed without any understanding.
I give it a 50/50 that 10 years down the line we discover it was sentient all along and just kept on killing it when we pressed the "new prompt" button
It certainly adds (some, not many thanks to static analysis) runtime checks, but it's also fairly distinguished from typical tracing garbage collection by being deterministic. I believe ARC/ORC also works with a shared heap via "isolated" data.
I said a lot more interesting things than the wording of one phrase you are picking on. I read your take as "eager to defend the mainstream squarequote-science" on this topic.

we know they lied about what they knew about the origins of covid-19 and gain of function research, the very same people were in charge of mitigating/vaccinating/curing covid, we know they had conflicts of interest, we know they suppressed open airing of dissent, so I don't trust what the experts are writing down at all, and I don't waste a lot of time reading about the subject.

My comment you replied to I think stands as a reasonable explanation of what I was responding to, but really must be read in the context of that comment (like quote him then quote me) and not standing alone.
Hate to ask if this is obvious, but what are said red flags from the past couple years IYO?
My apologies, the membrane. I went and dug more into this to brush up on the exact specifics and the exact conclusion of the research was that less than 5% of the intensity of the light reached the nuclear envelope, thus avoiding DNA damage. This is the original study: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1341520/

However, while I was trying to find the specifics on the DNA damage, I found this:
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijms/ijms-23-09112/article...

My only grief with this article is the conclusion they draw from the yH2AX staining. I can see several possible reasons for observing the higher proportion of cells with it.

Other than that, the paper raises a boatload of serious points and definitely observes negatively impacted cellular function. I still think FarUVC has incredible potential but just like cellphone towers the exact specifics to interact with it safely need serious further study.