skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't look down on dancing, but like with everything really people are just different

>No amount of trying will make me enjoy dance

Dancing is primarily sexual signaling to potential mates and competition. Being effortlessly good at it's indirect proof that you are atleast somewhat good in bed and are in tune enough to engage in a variety of non-verbal communication and phonic based jousting.
I don't want to be "that guy", but is this the same Germany that arrests people over social media posts because of "hate speech"? It's the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country#Ge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
No idea. And seems like a complete change of subject to me.
Constructive criticisms are welcome.
If someone doesn't want to login it's fine.
If someone doesn't want to login and explains the reason behind it and what could be a proper solution then that comment is helpful and worth discussing.
No, Tate exists because people want to avoid taking responsibility for their lack of success; anyone who gives them an excuse will be welcomed.

I’m not giving examples because I’m replying to you while taking a shit. If you want concrete examples of how misogyny hurts women, thousands of those specific examples are one Google away.

The problem you have with claiming I’m “completely disconnected from reality” is that there’s a lot of evidence I have to know otherwise. It’s like claiming I have a second head growing out of my neck; it’s so obviously untrue if you knew anything about me, that when you do it you ruin your entire argument.

Society is misogynistic at every institutional level, and the healthy straight white men who can’t succeed are failing because of their own decisions and actions.
ChatGPT does not (yet) have an API. If there are any, they would have to resort to screen-scraping.

An API for ChatGPT is apparently coming.
If you think domestic abusers won't go to these lengths, you must not know any victims.
> There's no difficulty in writing a chatbot that is willing to make offensive remarks, quite the contrary the chatbot creators had to got of a great deal of trouble to prevent it.

I could be wrong, but to me, the fact that they're putting a lot of effort into preventing slurs illustrates how they're not going to let a chatbot utter any doubleplusungood ideas under any circumstances. Hence, why this might be the new Turing test.

It doesn't have to be something like racism or transphobia. If eating bananas was the big social sin, then asking suspected AI bots about whether or not they like to eat bananas would yield the same output. Maybe in some future version of North Korea, the test would be asking the bot to say something they don't like about Dear Leader. Whatever the sin of that society is would be the test.
When investing in different industries (construction vs tech), it's often useful to think about them in the context of asset classes.

Specifically, construction is more tied to either real estate, hospitality or government contracts. These often raise money via a bond (debt) offering or an equity with a very well-worn finance model. These projects require a lot of upfront capital (billions not unusual for roads) and have long time horizons, with log() or linear returns, and have a very well understood model for packaging as a risk asset. These risk assets attract a certain kind of investor, or a certain risk profile in a large fund's portfolio.

Venture capital as an asset class is a bit different. The expectation is that an idea can be proven out relatively cheaply, and the business will scale since the major leverage is intellectual property (vs physical assets). The expectation is also that most business will fail, with maybe a handful of successes capturing most of your return. VC's investing in startups with risk-appetite LPs, is very different than a real estate developer going to a large bank to build a housing project. The VC model is closer to investing in a TV show than a construction project.

Put simply: Investing in a moderately sized government construction project ($2b or so for a toll road in latin America) is a totally different finance product than a startup that leverages IP. The aggregation of risk is also different (VC vs say, REITs) and the devices are different (equity vs debt / leverage). Most investors either run a balanced fund at a large size, or specialize, since they are so different.

EDIT: Also important is relative size of each investment asset class. VC is hilariously small (222 billion in 2022) in comparison to something like energy (2.4 trillion in 2022). VC gets a lot of press but for most professional investors "real funds" start at about a billion table stakes.
Yeah, it's always weird to see. I get that it's probably SEO related, still seems so dumb. Even ignoring the contribution of the employees, it's just a weird way to phrase it. Especially in articles like these, since the EU isn't doing this in response to Musk specifically owning Starlink, it's doing it in response to Starlink not being European.

The other day I saw an article referring to Twitter as "Musk's Twitter" which was even weirder because IIRC none of the content of the article was actually about Musk.
Yeah, the quotes from Moss had me rolling my eyes... shades of the guy at the coffee shop telling you how so-and-so invented a carburetor that ran on water, man, but GM had him killed.
Is there a GPT-3 disruptor? All the open sourced models are GPT2 improvements, and GPT2 was open sourced by OpenAI.

GPT3/4 is simply too expensive for consumer GPUs, any open sourced versions will have to run on A100s in the cloud, so by nature centralized. Granted, having multiple providers also counts as removing the moat.

But BLOOM for example (An attempt at replicating GPT3), no one actually uses. Because its simply too expensive for inferior performance to GPT3

DALLE2 was disrupted, because

1. OpenAI at the time was dumb enough to put a waitlist on something that costed money. They didn't make the same mistake with ChatGPT.

2. Stable Diffusion was not only open sourced, but heavily heavily optimized in parameter count compared to alternative models, making it viable on consumer GPUs.
No need to call people simple minded, friend. It completely debases your point to the extent that it makes me question whether you understood their point. Consider the possibility that you simply misunderstood their point.
I worked for a B2B SaaS outfit which charged by month by seat. Some customers demanded usage-based charges and our sales and PM said yes, without checking in with dev.

As the guy who knew the app's logs best, it fell to me to code up and then maintain the monthly report to generate those customers' usage data and send it to billing. (The things we do for love.)

Our app's log data wasn't complete and predictable enough to generate completely accurate usage data, so some assumptions were needed. (The problem was sometimes-missing timestamps for "usage session complete". Yeah I know, WTF? I inherited that code.)

Things got a tiny bit ugly. Customers -- whales of course -- started demanding weekly, then daily, usage reports. They demanded backing data for their bills. And, it became really hard to actually fix the defects in the app's logging so it was possible to generate accurate usage -- it would change the billing too much, and we'd have to explain it to the customer. It was a pain in the you-know-what. Especially for a guy like me who prefers to write really accurate software where other peoples' money is involved. This didn't threaten the business, it wasn't nearly that serious. But, wowee, it was unpleasant.

Lesson: If you're going to add a new SaaS pricing model to an existing service, think of it as a BIG change. Make sure you can capture accurate and commercially defensible metrics for your pricing model. Get devs to think it through. Get testfolk to think it through and work out some system tests. Sales people, don't just tell customers they can have their own pricing model, but only if they sign up by the end of the quarter.
I'm not, but if I wanted to prepare for any kind of a disaster, I'd learn the basics of medical profession, especially things they do in an emergency room, and most common types of surgery. I'd at least read about it.
The logic I'm displaying is using a variety of different metrics in order to come up with a conclusion. I also never said that SRAM is irrelevant, only questioning why Shimano seem irrelevant to the the original poster I replied to - and I also mentioned how much product they push in the second sentence.

But the business of World Tour temas is also to win, as winning means being invited to the big races, which actually have coverage for the ads-on-wheels that riders are to get eyeballs on. If they can't win because of crap gear, they won't use said gear, no matter how much money given to them.

It's a fine balance, right? Some riders of high talent are also pretty controlling on the gear they use, and will bring their own bike sponsor into a team as part of the deal of transfer. Chicken and egg I guess: if the gear is irrelevant, you'll never see it on the Pro Tour.
I just recently started learning c and having hard time wrapping my head around third party libraries.

Coming from Node/npm I’m used to the idea that your dependencies gets bundled in your app. But its not like that on C.

you expect your users to install your app dependencies for you, and you have to figure out the path of your own dependencies.

cause they don’t live in one nice place like node_modules. and I haven’t even began to figure out how Im supposed to know what linker flag to use for the library I use.

the tutorials just give it to you without explaining where they get it from.

and most of the sources I’ve read almost always recommends dynamic linking cause static is heavy. which brings me back to this article that now recommends static linking and I agree with that.

much of the learning materials I’ve come across are just spoon fed to you without explaining why. And its so incredibly frustrating until you look at linux history, most of the assume knowledge now is based on baggage upon baggage of layers of history.
Right but the selling point was never "... and you can just use your NAS to store it!". We can complain about their shitty e-waste producing model but also acknowledge it is not product targeted to nerds building their own video monitoring infrastructure, OSS or not.
How good is the quality of this? BLOOM is a 176B parameter model, but it doesn't seem to compare to GPT-3 (175B parameters) in terms of output quality.
It did:

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> However, according to a study published in the Journal of Dairy Science, the diacetyl content of butter can range from approximately 0.5 to 14 parts per million (ppm) (https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(03)73775-3).

The doi I could not find, so I'm pretty sure is bogus.

I asked it to produce a full reference:

> Sure, the full reference for the study I mentioned is:

> Yvon, M., Chambellon, E., & Bolotin, A. (2003). Effect of pH on diacetyl and acetoin production by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis. Journal of dairy science, 86(12), 4068-4076.

I went to the index of the journal 86(12), and that article is not there.
completely agree with this. strong typing is why i made the change from c to c++, and have never looked back. and of course malloc makes no sense in c++. as constructors will not be called on the types you are allocating - and let's not get started on free().

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>Before the former primary server could be placed into rotation, a snapshot of the server was made to ensure the backup would not delete itself upon reconnection

I don’t understand this. Was the snapshot made of the compromised database or of the old not in use one? Why would the backup (snapshot?) delete itself on reconnection?
There's an angle to consider – why is it that people who are technically skilled and financially experienced do not take on venture funding and build billion dollar plus companies? [1]

Perhaps, they know (from business experience) that the VC treadmill is not in their best interests, when everything about that life is considered! :)

Perhaps investors actually benefit from the naïvete (read: not incompetence, just naïvete) of their portfolio companies?

It's a symbiotic relationship, but there's a reason that the road between founder and VC is generally a one-way street.

[1]: There are notable exceptions to this observations. They're worth understanding, too.
problam with paying to stop ads is - the people most willing to pay to stop ads are richer than average and meta earns more from serving ads to them than they are willing to pay
You have an issue with VC not SV specifically.

a) Yes in some cases engineers with no business experience get funding. But in most cases there is significant due diligence being done on the capabilities of the team.

b) There is plenty of history that engineers with great product sensibilities can learn to run a business and become successfully by augmenting their weaknesses with members of the SLT who are stronger at them.

c) The whole point is for them to deploy their LPs money rather than just letting sit around waiting for the perfect idea/team/market etc combination to arrive on your lap. That simply doesn't happen.
“I am not a bot/intelligence services construct/foreign troll masquerading as an citizen etc.”. Is a pretty valuable service for the network.

Right now it’s a property not advertised to network participants. But in the near future you might seem the following above unverified accounts posting about controversial topics

“Careful. This person could not be identified. They may be a bot or falsifying their identify to misrepresent opinion”

At which point, the value of verification goes up. Maybe.
> corporate finance is focused on managing a company at its current size while startups are really focused on building a much larger company

Circa 1810, maybe. Since the railroads corporate finance, particularly American finance, has been focussed on growth. Hell, the term venture capital pays homage to the financing of merchant vessels on high risk / high rewards voyages.
Yeah, I don't mean to be coy. You can't end up with this protocol using Noise. :)
Is this So-Mo-Lo or no, is it Lo-So-Mo?

(S.V. reference)
> There are many concerns about giving a centralized authority more power

> Also, since the EU is a vassal of Pax Americana

So the problem is giving a centralized authority (EU) more power. At the same time the EU is a vassal of the US (Pax America, which is a fairly ridiculous notion in and of itself).

I can only conclude from the horrible word salad you gave me that individual member states without the EU would also be vassals of the US, which is itself a centralized power. So the EU existence, following your logic, is inconsequential.

Your thoughts were mildly entertaining to parse through. Sorry for not giving credence to your thoughts beyond mere entertainment however.
>...to AI.

Perhaps we can call it the "Synthromorphic principle," the bias of AI agents to project AI traits onto conversants that are not in fact AI.
Oh, surely synthetic liquid fuel is much closer to reality.

The aircraft would have limited backup power (those batteries for climbing to altitude, say, or an APU), and presumably there would be extra backup laser sources in orbit. One could even have multiple lower power lasers targeting each aircraft for redundancy (this would also cause a beam that hit the ground to have lower power, as the beams would diverge from one another.)

The economics could well kill it, but it would be really nice to have unlimited range due to not needing to burn fuel.
This entire subthread started because the github repo here used CBC mode (which was supported by the original writer's crypto library), rather than GCM mode (which was unsupported).

We're well deep into a "professional" discussion about the pros and cons of particular implementation details of cryptography.

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Go back to the top. Look at the Github code. See that it uses a crypto-library. What should have the original writer have done differently?

The answer is absolutely not "write their own implementation of GCM". They chose correctly: using a well known, well supported CBC mode of operation with AES. (And IMO, _IF_ CBC mode were unsupported, the correct move would have been to write CBC themselves, as it is far less complex than GCM, which includes GHASH and other such side-channel issues).

There's context to everything. From my understanding of this current situation, the CBC choice was perfectly valid.
That's why it should be OSS, at the very least code released after vendor decides to stop supporting it. It's of little cost to the company (competitors seeing your 5 or 10 years code is non-issue really, tech went forward enough for that to not matter) but prevents at least some from going to landfill
Manufacturing solar panels is an entirely different industry from running a solar farm.
Can you provide examples.

Pre-revenue NFT startup raising $25m pre-seed in this market ?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858691
I am wondering how this works out for YouTube with Premium. It removes ads and is 12€/mo.
Bonds have a have huge amount of risk though

Read this: https://monevator.com/bond-market-crash/
You're kinda looking at the interface issue backwards. Being an io.ReadWriter is a promise that the tunnel code won't do anything other than read or write. The tunnel code shouldn't be getting local and remote addresses or setting deadlines of its own, or most of the rest of what net.Conn can do. https://pkg.go.dev/net#Conn

It is good that it doesn't take more than it needs. That bytes.Buffer happens to implement io.ReadWriter is not of consequence; for any given task you want a io.Reader or io.Writer for there may be any number of specific implementations that don't make sense to use with it, but that doesn't mean you should require more methods of the interface.

I'm speaking solely about the interface here; the many other concerns are valid.
The people that bought it and complained it stopped being free don't want to put their own storage servers up
I always felt like unlambda and other SKI calculus esque esolangs(iota comes to mind) could have some kinda strange use case in some kind of generalised genetic programming. It should be possible to create a binary notation for SKI calculus where arbitrary bitstrings will be valid, and so one could randomly mutate and recombine arbitrary programs. Though I've never delved deeper into genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming, my sense is that genetic algorithms tend to be restricted to parameterised algorithms where the "genes" determine the various parameters. Which can be great for optimisation problems.

It's one of those weird ideas I've had kicking about for years but never did anything about, and yet I keep coming back to it.
Edit: I meant to say that voice is higher bandwidth _and_ higher latency, not lower.
What do you mean "forced"? Software engineers are in perpetual extreme high demand. It shouldn't be possible to force a software engineer who isn't either a bad engineer or a bad coworker to do anything. Any half-decent engineer with a half-decent personality can just quit and have another job somewhere else within a few days.
For $12 a month I'd get a blue badge?
It's fascinating that the bulk of the responses here amount to "you're holding it wrong". Somehow I think the conversation would look a lot different with the same argument applied to a memory CVE in a c++ application.
> EU is a vassal of the US (Pax America, which is a fairly ridiculous notion in and of itself).

You don't believe me? Perhaps Pax Americana needs to blow up another one of Europe's oil pipelines to remind you...

I wonder how long the sycophantic politicians can keep up the act before the freezing & unemployed citizens notice.

Here's a word of advice though, don't give the Nazis too many weapons. It may end up in a bad situation. They may hate Putin today, but tomorrow their prerogatives may change...
Nice read. It might be a good idea to also lock a user account after N failed password attempts. Mongo does not seem to support that off the shelf - https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/limit-failed-logi...

Neither do other databases like PG, curiously enough. The recommendation seems to be to link to LDAP or use authentication hooks.

Or perhaps use client and server certificates for increased security - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ssl-tcp.html#SSL-SER...
If they would turn off the advertisements and let me control my feed and notifications, it might pay. I'd be mad about it, but I might pay.
I believe that for the OpenBSD developers, SELinux/apparmor/seccmp are against their philosophy. [0]

While they are very powerful tools, they require complex rules maintained outside the actual code, and their complexity may lead you to disable the Security stuff entirely, rather than try to re-write the rules your distro/package came with.

OpenBSD had systrace back in the day to restrict system calls, but it suffered from the Time of Check/Time of Use/ problem, and was only used on one (sshd) program in the base system.

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/
In what way would the walled garden I described not be able to block adds?
By reading this comment, you agree to send me $100.
I did, but there are some things that I use too often, so I'd rather have them as shortcuts.

I used AstroNVIM which comes with space as leader key by default (really nice!)
I asked because, unlike the 500 other comments opining whether they love it or hate it, you seemed to be the only person who might actually take action.
> Another thing that Austral gets right is capability-based permissions for packages, in recognition of the growing danger of supply chain attacks.

inb4 Java did it first.
Ironic, because to me this was so obviously ChatGPT to me from literally the first sentence.

I think this is probably because it doesn't match the conversational style of a forum discussion.
Except that industrial stock is expensive compared to trimmings (free) and tastes terrible, and the cook assigned to make stock is also doing other tasks.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending Meta, but at least there's something behind this verification.

On Twitter, there's just so many face-less spam troll accounts that are verified, and all a blue check means is that the person likes Elon enough to give him $8. At least Facebook requires a government ID, and the verification confirms that the person is who they say they are.

(I do think if they really cared, especially in the face of looming AI advancements, this would be free. This only really works if most real people are verified, otherwise there's nothing suspicious about a non-verified account.)
learn c++ instead - despite what you may have heard, it is much easier to learn than c.

but neither language (and they are very different) has standardised library/package tools.
It'll be really interesting to see how other "not Chrome"s handle this. And I don't mean "not Chromium based" as there could be patches as basic as raising the hardcoded limit to more complicated patch sets that would maintain blocking support similar to what Firefox is doing for itself.

My biggest worry is browsers like Brave and Vivaldi will be too proud of their integrated ad blockers which, like Manifest v3 based blockers, are definitely nice but nowhere near as good as best in breed like uBlock Origin.
Asking people to pay for services is always a good thing. If Metas only revenue is information peddling, expect the lowest common denominator product.

And anything pushing internet identity forward is also good. With the rise of chatgpt verification of “human” is going to be important.
are there any alternatives being explored actually?
How often you were forced to work like this :
https://mobile.twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592801188277...