skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long time ago a friend copied some albums onto minidisk for me.

When I played them I saw that he had named each album and track fully. This would have been done by manually choosing each letter using the arrow keys on the remote. It would have taken many hours to do this very tedious task.

When I expressed my amazement and thanks, he shrugged and said something that stuck with me ever since:

"If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well."
Stop worrying over nothing young man
There is Leela Zero (https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero) for Go and lc0/Leela Chess (https://github.com/orgs/LeelaChessZero/repositories) for Chess, where both provide trained weights. The Leela Chess project specifically have been working for a long time on training and refining the weights for Chess, as well as providing the code -- they allow you to see the history and performance over time for the various trained models.
> Along the way you make sure you have good separation of concerns in your overall architecture, so that _if_ it turns out there are many actual humans who want to pay for this idea, you can swap out what you wrote and replace it with something better.

This is the key right here. Very little else matters. Where a lot of companies get this wrong is they either go the route of picking a minimal framework and writing everything in-house only to have created a very unique monster that took a lot of time at the end or they go all in on frameworks without identifying the bottlenecks as they go along and they wait until its too late to make an easy transition.
> it's specifically designed so that merchants do not have anonymity, so tax can still be assessed

This is one of the biggest selling points of GNU Taler - it's not designed to circumvent the government, it's designed to cooperate with it. It is perhaps one of the few privacy-focused systems that have a chance of getting widely adopted in a legal way.
There’s an enormous opportunity and need for adverse products to quickly detect LLM-produced content.

We also need labeling, like the nutritional information on food packages.
You are right, as far as we know brains didn’t evolve for writing and language (though there is plenty of evidence that learning to read/write changes the brain). But writing and languages did evolve and adapt FOR humans. They are built to be easy for us; we didn’t care about their mathematical properties.

AI is playing catch up.
> half of Ohio have their pets die

This story has enough hysteria already.
Contradictory coal data clouds China’s CO2 emissions ‘rebound’ in 2022
Cash is definitely king here, I was absolutely astounded at the large denominations in circulation when I moved here. Back in the UK, people double check a 20 pound note, a Swiss cashier won't even blink after being handed a 1000CHF note
as an introverted misanthrope, working from home is the greatest thing to happen to me in my working life.

i feel that the quiet quitting stuff was preparing the groundwork for all the layoffs and then enforcing RTO.

we had 3 days, but i got it to 2. still not happy but what can i do, job market is worst i can ever remember it being in my 15 years.
This appears to be an unduly inflammatory headline.
1. Not rouble. You could still withdraw RUB.
2. Invading other countries may have not-so-unforeseen-consequences.
3. War renders all kinds of money "just a number" I think.
Sadly even in Switzerland convenience has a very strong position in this. We have the same issue with the SBB getting rid of ticket machines in favor of apps and digital train tickets.
Sounds like it is attempting to cut Visa/Mastercard out of paying for things online (i.e. Amazon) rather then being a traditional crypto.
> if someone asks you to do something, especially in a social situation, tell them you will think about it

There's not a single socially capable person that will not straight away understand that "I will think about it" means "no".

May as well say no.
While many students aim for college, high-paying trade jobs sit empty
"Listen to no one" - Eric Andre
HMRC would love it I'm sure.

I'm not sure there's any benefit to 'users', nor why (non-central) banks would care either really, beyond having a new thing to race to be an early provider of and grow marketshare (some would like that, especially more modern/fintechy ones, and others hate it I suppose).
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

>ChatGPT is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers...

>GPT-3.5 series is a series of models that was trained on a blend of text and code from before Q4 2021. The following models are in the GPT-3.5 series:

code-davinci-002 is a base model, so good for pure code-completion tasks
text-davinci-002 is an InstructGPT model based on code-davinci-002
text-davinci-003 is an improvement on text-davinci-002

the davinci models are the biggest models by OpenAI, they have 175b parameters.
Well..implementing them in "safe" Rust is not just tricky - it requires a super-brain.
Julog.jl – A Julia package for Prolog-style logic programming
That's hardly the same, it's a very specific use case, and not all photo editors include the feature.
Then why do you want state-sanctioned cash? Use, i dont know, crypto or some other kind of non-state-sanctioned barter
[0] being you saying 'That should scare us all' backing it up with a link that just says the same concept as OP for the digital euro. Have you got any more substance to this argument?
This is a mix of Buddhist, Hindu, and Stoic philosophy: Ask yourself this, why do you do anything? For the sake of Profit? Recognition? Love? Or return of any kind?

Any deed done with reward in mind creates an expectation which, if not met, causes suffering. Similarly, you will end up focusing more on the reward than the task itself and will unable to be loyal to the task. The only reason you must do a task is because you must do the task i.e. it's your duty to do so (either self-imposed or originating from a construct you follow).

This is such a conflicting piece of advice that goes against the fundamental reward-driven human biochemistry. But I've found that in following it, you really begin to tune out suffering and start to discover something that's a bit above being human.
If it weren't for your intervention would Stripe have made this correction through its regular processes?
The idea of a "game" that gets confused with an actual nuclear attack is also influenced by the real case in 1979 where a testing tape for the US Early Warning System showing a nuclear attack was accidentally loaded into the production system causing authorities to briefly think the US was under attack.
Actually it can be five years if you already have a degree - which used to be the "traditional" approach but seems to have been replaced by people doing a first degree in law.

NB Given the multiple legal systems in the UK there will be a lot of variations - e.g. to become an advocate here in Scotland (our equivalent of barristers) I think you could do that in 4 years: 2 year LLB, 1 year training in a law firm and then one year devilling (where you are an Advocate's Devil!).

Edit: Might be out of date - its a while since my wife did her 2 year LLB and then qualified and became an advocate.
>then the Trump administration removed it.

And the Biden administration, with control of both houses, couldn't put it back in place?

Republicans suck, yes. But Dems aren't any better and partisan bickering results in no one held accountable
It does. It wouldn't happen on day one. But, slowly, it would start creeping in. As someone else commented: what if, you buy some mega turbo sex toy 3000 and a couple of years later super religious orthodox government wins elections. What if the government decides that you can buy one thing but not another. What if you want to organise a little poker night with your old buddies and so on. Look what happened with the internet. Endless scare stories about terrorism, pedophiles and eventually mass surveillance is in legislation..
Haven't tried it in neighbouring countries yet, but as I understand - it's a virtual Visa/Mastercard card, yeah. So it should be accepted in the same places where my physical card is accepted.
Last Flight Out
It seems more strange to conclude that the person with the new idea to tear down the fence is so frequently a better thinker than not only the original builders of the fence but also the other people who came along and didn’t tear down that useless fence.

Yes, that is sometimes the case, but not often enough in my estimation to skip the step of trying to understand why that fence is there.
I think often about this one I read a while ago (paraphrased):
“one of the quickest path to unhappiness is to not follow your true self”.

I believe we often face situations where we would rather be someone else or present traits that are not natural to us (eg to appear more likable). However, any behavior that is not led by who we really are, will inevitably make us like ourselves less. Stay true to yourself, your believes, and what brings you joy.
> they intentionally didn't go for total realism as that was imitating God's work

This is not true. Renaissance painters generally did strive for realism in perspective, anatomy etc. Sometimes they failed because it is really difficult. (After the invention of photography artists just use photo references which makes it a lot easier.) Sometimes they let artistic considerations take priority. In historical and mythological paintings they didn’t stive for realism in subject matter and overall impression, but they did strive to get the physical details correct or better than reality.
Note that JAX was created after the success of Alpha(Go|Zero), so the claim that this powered those papers is not accurate. It is a DM MCTS library though.
I thought this was an enjoyable and informative article but [0]

> As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output ... has been... [78 million words] And, yes, I’ll train a bot from all of that.

for non-Wolfram fans - take cover there is a potentially infinite future supply!

[0]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-... (paragraph 2)
Die neuesten deutschen Nachrichten sind gefährliche Nachrichten
It seems to be a solution in search of a problem, and probably also relates to the then Chancellor now PM announcing last year that he wanted to make the UK "a global hub for cryptoasset technology and investment"[1]. Since crypto is now generally regarded as a scam by the wider public, that has been quietly forgotten, but apparently the BoE didn't get the memo yet.

The latest thing is they want to use the digital currency to "bank the unbanked", ignoring that basic bank accounts already exist, and banks are required to provide them[2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plan-...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/basic-bank-account...
From what I can gather since your money is stored at the BOE rather than your high street bank it should help avoid another "too big to fail" type situation that happened in 2008.
Tax evasion is still an estimated loss of tens of billions of euros of equivalent per country every year.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
https://www.dianeosis.org/en/2016/06/tax-evasion-in-greece/
Depends on where you get the swag. I associate my Hacktoberfest T-shirts with good memories, despite the branding on the sleeves.

> law students can now sip out of their Wilke water bottles months later in memory of the big law networking event that stood as the celebration of our first year of learning how to conduct legal research.
This is a nice idea, I was jsut wondering how to do that.

Another approach (if it is supported by the adaptor) is to configure WoL so that it does not need a magic packet. Some adaptors can be configured to wake on any "directed packet".

I have a linux server sitting downstairs that I might play around with. It would be nice if the sleep support featured a timer and integration with the system cron daemon. Then it could wake on a directed packet or when there is a scheduled task.
Show HN: M93. The easiest way to build habits that stick
OP here, thanks for your feedback. In your case it seems to be too aggressive. When it's aggressive, it tries to come to conclusion what courses/blogs/tutes you should learn/follow.

I set temperature like a bell curve with peak temperature (randomness) at question 10th. Maybe I'll tune it down a bit, get it in the mood first.
With regards to Scottish politics and its politicians, I suspect you are allowing yourself to bathe in the rays of your own ignorance.
The engineer was ordered by dispatch to ignore safety regulations when the warning tripped and did not have the labor protection to tell them no it is unsafe we are stopping and doing a safety inspection.
Functional programming matters. You look at everything as input => output, as cause => effect,... You don't need to dive into the internal complexity of anything, because it doesn't make sense. Complexity eventually failed, so you should never take care of them.

Simplicity matters.
HS = Head'n'Shoulders, Holy Spirit, Higher Self, Hacker newS?
Yes, I get location from the IP. Normally students would want offline up-skill courses around their areas.
When people say “we can’t do that here, we don’t have the supply chain,” remember: that IS a problem that can and is _easily_ solved with enough money.

This is also why Apple is moving into India so aggressively, despite similar claims. And why Offshore Wind is booming in NYS
> "I do think it's interesting that given the choice between admitting its own wrongdoing and claiming the article is fake, it chooses the latter.

That sounds very familiar
According to my industrial plumber friend (over 40 years), the distance is set by law, and it is specifically for Legionnaire's Disease. Whole bunch of other stuff, too.

He worked on skyscrapers all over NYC.
This idea reminds me of DRM. It’ll always be a game of cat and mouse. And when AI content is too difficult to distinguish from human content you’ll be rife with false positives.

It sounds pretty fucking dystopian to me that I would get, for example, banned from commenting somewhere because I didn’t structure my thoughts exotically enough to not be possibly machine-generated.

Mark my words: well intentioned as they might be, businesses being created today to detect ChatGPT stuff will in a few years be scummy as hell; you just have to look at the student anti cheat industry.

In fact all of these types of businesses end up slimy. DRM, antivirus, anticheat, AML… and now, anti-LLM.
Clinton lifted Glass-Steagal, a deregulation move that can be directly linked to creating the conditions that led to the 2008 crash, the consolidation craze that's ruining every industry (including rail), the erosion of worker rights and the growing wealth gap that is really at the root of populism including Trump
Nice idea, but I felt like it was asking me for help, not helping me.
> It seems to be a solution in search of a problem

Maybe the next step will be to create one? :-)
OP here, that's hilarious! Thanks for the try.
Would that mean that the flour that sticks to the packaging walls does not count as unusable?
The master failed more often that the student ever tried.
How is it rearranging? MMR had a vaccine mandate for years, I've experienced quarantine for pertussis as a child, etc.

This isn't new or rearranging whatsoever. The only new thing is people suddenly refusing to adhere to reasonable measures to protect each other.

I'm not allowed to go through downtown spreading teargas or anthrax, why should you be allowed to do the same with a different dangerous aerosol?
Photographer Says Artist Copied Her Iconic Photo – PetaPixel
How about removing ability of private banks and payment systems to unilaterally decide without a court order who you can or cannot transfer money to?

How about giving that power to a random government official instead? And paving a way to non-fungible earmarked money while we’re at it.
4 days ago, 32 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34739191
Some photos are available at DT twitter account https://twitter.com/deutschetelekom/status/16255872207855984...
> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker.

A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it.

I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
I agree that this far right group bringing up this issue is a problem as I don't agree with any of their policies.

However on this issue:

There is a lot of push from Visa and Mastercard to get people to go cashless. Push of ads, claims that cash is dirty etc. PostFinance for example no longer is issuing their own debit cards instead are now also part of Mastercard. We have lost all control of our purchasing data.

Additionally there are now several businesses not accepting cash at all when this is forbidden by law.
Frankfurt Airport Closed to Arrivals Amid Lufthansa IT Chaos
You can’t control the actions of others, only your own.

Another person is like a mountain: you can’t change anything about the mountain. You can only decide whether you’ll go around it, over it, or turn back.

I learned long ago to stop wasting my energy worrying about what other people did, and to focus on what I could do. Sometimes your actions can influence others, but you can’t make then do anything, they make their own choices and choose their own actions.
Survivors of Utah's eugenic sterilization program still alive in 2023
Did you even bother checking?

https://www.epa.gov/flint

> Since January 2016, EPA has been monitoring compliance with its emergency administrative order (as amended) to ensure that Flint’s drinking water system continues to improve. Flint’s system currently meets regulatory criteria for lead and copper. EPA will continue to oversee the City’s efforts to transition to a long-term drinking water source and also monitor its replacement of lead (and galvanized) service lines throughout Flint
FYI: The signup is dead simple and requires no email confirmation. But if you're still resistant to signing up to try it out, feel free to use the creds: test@email.com/password and don't forget to go through the Walkthrough Tour from the main menu.
This is neat and all, but procedural 2D level generation can be done really well just with simple heuristics, see Spelunky from 2008. And that can be built into the game and computed efficiently on the fly, not requiring an internet connection.
> I saw a billboard for a lottery, it said "estimated lotto jackpot 55 million." See, I did not know that shit was estimated.

It’s estimated because they don’t know exactly how many tickets will be sold leading up to the next drawing. I’ve not tracked it, but the times I’ve seen, were under 1-2 percentage points. If it bothers you that they said “estimated $55M” and instead you win $54,333,187.42, is it really that bad?
That 20k limit is an inital limit. It's to stop everyone moving all their money into the digital pound which would cause all the high street banks to fail.
> If you have a financial/wealth argument to make, by all means make it

They did.

> I absolutely DID read it that way.

What do you think is the cause of this fragility?
Jenner AI – GTP3 powered doctor
I spent like 30 hours improving these prompts and now GPT3 is really good at being a doctor as tested by a MD.
It should be explained in this Bank of England working paper (part B and box C), but honestly even after reading through it I don’t quite get it.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/paper/2023...

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Update 2: see nr’s comment below.

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Update 1: my guess would be that private money (think Venmo) and crypto have a chance to win over commercial bank money (think bank accounts and transfers) for the general public, and the government thinks it’s a potential threat (probably wisely IMO).

God knows why the bank industry doesn’t have its shit together, but even in the EU I’ve come to feel suspicious towards bank transfers. Maybe a transfer will take five seconds, maybe one day, maybe a week with no explanation why. Bank apps, even modern ones (N26 etc) are still somewhat meh.

The part of my brain that thinks “ought” a lot is screaming “no, everyone ought to use bank transfers and they ought to be good”… but objectively they are a hit and miss.

A CBDC is at least going to be stored in a single database, so maybe it’ll be working a bit better.
Don't be a cynic.

Society is messed up. Tech is messed up. But it doesn't matter. You just have to make a positive contribution somehow, anyway.
little bit of a sprucing /s
Beware of Vultr. The product works fine but the customer service is horrible. I had three days of downtime and they got sick of me asking for updates, ignored me, and didn't tell me when the service came back up. I switched back to DO and I'm fine with that again.
Situation is really messed up.

I understand that 16GiB (16*2e30 bytes) chip is present (delivered to user), but some of it is broken and not available (industry standard). Therefore capacity is less than 16GiB. Also I believe that there is a threshold, that manufacturer is using to throw away chip that are too broken to be sold. Ok so far.

So proper declared capacity should be threshold value (minimum) or threshold to maximum value declared range. I understand that this proper capacity is not very nice round number.

Problem has past: Around 2000, manufacturers started using GB (10e9) instead of GiB (2e30) that gives them some margin (7%) for chip defects. Later margin was not enough, so they started using more misleading specs like this. It seems that margin is at least 10% nowadays instead of <7% in the past.

Personally, I would be satisfied with stated margin size (like 7%, 10%, 12% etc) to maximum capacity, f.e. "USB flash drive 16GB max capacity, at least 90% usable."
In essence, bank accounts are somewhat pointless in the modern age. Banks are all required to provide the same service (more or less) and waste a shitton of money to make it happen and be regulated for it.

Obviously getting rid of consumer bank accounts overnight would be a fiscal catastrophe, so they’re going to phase them out to ease the blow.

That’s my 2c anyway
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what I found nice about it is the use of `y` instead of `j` so that it could be pronounced correctly by international speakers who more often associate the letter `j` with the english (or to a lesser extent french) pronunciation of the letter.

EDIT: while at the same time making the word more web-searchable