skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my thoughts are this -

If you want to write a book that doesn't call folks ugly, go knock yourself out. I'm all here for that and I support you. You may or may not find success, and that's life.

If you want to edit the words of a story because you find them unpleasant... if you want to censor an author after his death because you might sell more books... Then I find you ugly. You are willing to throw away content you disagree with, instead of tackling it head on, so both ugly and cowardly.

Where does it stop? What content is "you approved" in a way that we can all live with?

If we happen to live in a spot where those words are also owned, and we've decided that I don't have the rights to copy and distribute the original words because of the greed of Disney... then I find you both ugly and authoritarian in ways that are uncomfortable. I strongly dislike you.
Ravens live 10-15 years in the wild (much longer in captivity).

I don't believe we know of any very intelligent animals that are not mammals or (maybe?) some long-lived birds or octopuses.
Would that be a covenant on revenue vs a covenant on rental price? Wouldn’t that amount to the same thing. I’m not in that industry nor have I paid particular attention to it, just going by a rumor I head from a friend.

Perhaps instead of a covenant it could be more implicitly enforced by suggesting if there is a revenue drop they’ll revalue the property and force the landlord to make up the difference which could be financially ruinous for some.
This is what everyone needs to watch. It was Stability.ai that spooked OpenAI for disrupting DALLE-2 with a open-source AI model; Stable Diffusion. I am betting they are going to do it again for ChatGPT.

The endgame for this AI race is obvious and when it comes to AI models, open-source ones always disrupt fully closed source AI companies.

But first, we'll see which 'AI companies' will survive the lawsuits, regulations and fierce competition for funding.
Who says they didn't believe it was possible? They just didn't think it was possible for you, i.e. that you did it honestly.

We all know cheating is a problem in online games, so it wasn't an unreasonable belief. It's certainly possible to play chess at Magnus Carlsen's level, but if I play against someone random online and they play at that level, then of course my default assumption is going to be that they're cheating, not that they're Magnus Carlsen.
Also, as prices falls, presumably these figures will need to be downgraded? I don't think they are cashing out this crypto, but probably most of it stays dormant in wallets. Crypto falls so fast, likely this figure will be downgraded by a magnitude of 5 or more by next year . Putting an exact figure is hard.
Is there any way to easily interoperate with C++ libraries? That would basically solve the problem.
I hope Altera makes it to production. Solar aside, it's probably the most efficient EV based on weight and drag coefficient. You can plug it into 110V and get plenty of range for commuting, much less strain on the power grid, less battery materials needed.
At least if you are the kind of person who is a target of Hentai ads
I’ve been saying for a long time that the U.S. likes to treat all problems as if they just need money, when in reality a huge portion of our societal ills are cultural and thus “free.” Worse, most often money won’t actually solve them at all and just wastes everyone’s treasure and time. No one wants an honest debate or meaningful change, nor does it seem possible when everyone just wants to pick a team and parrot the teams opinions.

Japan has many good and bad things about it. There is no utopia, and I’d rather live in the U.S., but I wish we had a bigger mix of harmony as a cultural North Star. Covid demonstrated to me over the past 3 years significant weaknesses of a individualist culture.
I'm not convinced it did. In some ways it's worse -- Perl allows distributions to install modules inside another distribution's namespace.
Not students, charges of vandalism and stealing $18k in electricity.

. . . former town employee of Cohasset, Massachusetts, was accused of stealing thousands of dollars in electricity from a local middle/high school to operate a secret cryptocurrency mine in a seemingly overlooked crawlspace . . .
Now, how about limiting the fermentation after bottling? I have a couple bottles still in the fridge, that I now call "kombucha grenades." I thought I could open the last one I tried safely, in the sink, and it basically hosed the kitchen and myself. The last few will be outside-only endeavours, wearing a garbage bag like a Gallagher audience member. (Tastes good, at least the half a bottle that is still in the bottle.)
"Towards" in a title usually means the authors didn't do what follows in the title. I have no opinion on the article (and no expertise in the field), but whenever I see "towards", my aim in reading the article often shifts to understand where the authors got stuck.
It's not that they don't exist, but the easiest way to gain access to a computer system is always going to be to ask for the password.

https://xkcd.com/538/
We speculate that when Microsoft bought that part of Nokia, somewhere in the process the Sync.com domain name went up for auction (which appeared to be owned by Nokia just prior to the spin off).

As a startup trying to get going with Sync.Us, rebranding to https://www.sync.com really helped us take off.

Thanks to whomever auctioned that off :-)
Saying "the corn will be grown anyway" is not done in good faith. The corn is grown because it is profitable to do so. Remove subsidies and the corn will not be grown - something else that is profitable will be grown.
Eth did.

Bitcoin is slowly losing dominance - its legacy technology, and bitcoin maxis/satoshi purists refuse to recognise that tech must evolve over time.

Its fucking insane to me how "The White paper" has become a holy text among Bitcoiners. Its made it almost fucking impossible to make any improvements to the protocol - hence forks, altcoins, etc.
yeah I was a windows phone head. The Nokia Lumia 920 to this day is my favorite phone I've ever owned. But they just could not get any traction.
The UID capability is a newer, hail-mary attempt to fix the issue, and thus it's optional, not all IMAP servers support it
Every medical therapy was "untested" at one point.
I hope severance is uh… not literal
This is an extremely patriotic view. Why should people do something they don’t want to do just to ensure the survival of their society/country? The future of society is irrelevant to people who have already decided to be childfree and live the life they want today.

“Oooh you’re so selfish” hell yeah I am. I get one life why would I waste it doing something I don’t want to do for a future I won’t even see?

Edit: thanks for the downvotes without explanation. If you have a blanket expectation for other people to live their lives according to your ideologies (even if it makes them unhappy), perhaps take a second to consider what you’re asking of them.
> The ethanol extraction process leaves a mash which is then fed to cows.

Do analyses typically factor this sort of thing in, or do they assume corn is grown solely for the purpose of ethanol extraction?
Facebook maybe can't make money from it, but they arguably could save money from it, for instance in automating some fact checking and moderation activities that they currently spend quite a bit of money on.
Would love to see "new study" that actually finds something new.
My understanding was they sold the branding to HMD Global who are still making Nokia branded smartphones, but also sold the actual feature phone business to Foxconn
I know plenty of software engineers that are also landlords. It seems like a clever sort of hack to earn a paycheck from a company that is increasing the value of your investments.
For anyone intrigued by this, and also into listening podcasts, and I can totally recommend “The Lazarus Heist”.
Pay attention to this, fellow Rust enthusiasts. Seeing this makes me ashamed to have chosen this language (edit: and community) for my current open-source project.
That logic is also flawed. If you see a big slowdown coming, why would you continue making large acquisitions? Why sweep thousands of various ranks rather than tighten your ship carefully where it matters?
This breaks down in the terminal where you need to know which codepoints are double width for managing layout. Some are ambiguous width because they've been present since before the inclusion of emoji and had optional emoji presentation added to them. The final determination is font dependent so you can never be sure without full insight into the rendering chain.
A 'luxury good' in the technical sense is one where when your income goes up your spending on that good goes up disproportionately. So:

* Rice, Buses: 'inferior goods', because as people get richer they shift their spending to other goods.

* Bread, Cars: 'normal goods', because as people get richer they spend more on them.

* Caviar, Sports Cars: 'luxury goods', a category of normal goods where as as people get richer they spend a much larger percentage of their income on them.

See's Candy is a high-end candy brand, and I would expect it to function as a luxury good here.
You're allowed to think of me as ugly, not like me, call me names, all of that's totally fine! What I'm confused about is, when the original work remains completely available such as what the article we're talking about says, why you would care about me also wanting to have access to a less offensive version of the work?

You retain access to the original work, and I get a watered down version that's easier for me to read to my kids at bedtime. Feels like a win/win?

Why don't I have the same freedom of expression in your mind that you seem so intent on protecting on behalf of a dead guy?
Plowing the soil is a terrible thing to do. Which is why no farmer has done it since around 1980. Modern tilling is much better for the soil, and doesn't release as much carbon form the soil (it needs more power from the tractor, and thus more CO2 from fuel, but still a lot less carbon total because the soil is saved.

The above is also why GMO crops are so great for the environment: by using a little roundup (just a little - not only is it a mist sprayed, but that mist is mostly water) much less fuel is used vs cultivating (think mechanical hoe).
https://archive.is/nJNZW

The organization referenced:

Unlikely Collaborators: The Only Way Forward is Inward

https://www.unlikelycollaborators.com/
Under perfect competition, no one will invest in anything. So it does not seem very desirable.
How are you ensuring that the beats generated are copyright free
You would be right if housing location (mostly) didn't matter. But people generally want housing close to where they work and "location" is not a fungible input.

To use an extreme example, if every landlord in Manhattan was using Real Page where would you build your competing housing? Manhattan is already pretty densely developed and housing in the other boroughs involves a much longer commute for someone working in Manhattan.

Edit: Another point is that, unlike something like a web service, you can't collect all the customers. You could only steal as many customers as your buildings can hold. Meanwhile the landlords using Real Page are collecting higher rents and can squeeze you out of building additional property by bidding up the cost of the land you would have to build on.
Also the overbearing burden to support the elderly with a smaller younger population will apply to every generation (barring temporary baby booms) since each generation will be smaller than the previous one.
asked:

what's the most important thing for a founder to focus on?

answer:

The most important thing for a founder to focus on is building a strong alumni network. This means surrounding themselves with people who have the skills and experience to help them succeed, and who can provide valuable advice and connections. Additionally, it's important to focus on maintaining a fixed lifestyle, as this will help to prevent the founder from becoming too attached to money and material possessions. Finally, it's important to prioritize freedom above all else, as money can both buy freedom and limit it.

notes:

I don't think this is how Naval would respond. The last two are pretty much the same. The first thing might be in the top 20, but not the top three things.
(creator of gpt index / llamaindex here https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index)

Funny that we had just rebranded our tool from GPT Index to LlamaIndex about a week ago to avoid potential trademark issues with OpenAI, and turns out Meta has similar ideas around LLM+llama puns :). Must mean the name is good though!

Also very excited to try plugging in the LLaMa model into LlamaIndex, will report the results.
The Growing Cash Pile in Moscow That Investors Can’t Touch
> That was not a quote. No citation is possible

(The expression is not to be read literally. 'Citation needed', widespread after Wikipedia, rhetorically points to that idea in a generalized intention including "foundation needed". I.e.: "You need grounds to write that".)
A lot of jurisdictions give property tax rebates on vacant property. Mine has finally removed that and now penalizes it.

Smart move: vacant properties are devoid of voters.
Teaching it as a product of its time works in the right context, and is a great idea.

But also — I mean, I guess nowadays there’s YouTube and TikTok, but some kids still read for fun, right? They are fun stories, so it is nice to produce a version that can be read lightly without having to address weighty historical issues.
States jump start the journey to zero trust with new strategies and funding
Hey now, they're just trying to make enough money to pay their ever-increasing rent! /s
I think they did that to delegitimize ad blockers.
Well it's nice to see someone has turned that disgusting mildewy crap into something useful.
Gotta love how capital gets all high and mighty about unions, while getting repeatedly caught with various forms of collusion, such as the Big Tech salary collusion a decade ago or cartoon-villain-bad levels of price fixing as we see here. Basically, it boils down to, "do as I say, not as I do."

Is it possible for the suit to result in charges brought against all users of RealPage? They are active participants, after all.
You don't need to pay $32. Just click on the article link from the summary page. It loads just fine.

The part to click is this link at the top of the summary page:

This is a summary of: Google Quantum AI. Suppressing quantum errors by
scaling a surface code logical qubit. Nature 614, 676–681 (2023).

That points to: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1
> To take that hit and then beat on revenue

Revenues don’t mean anything though.

I could generate huge revenues by selling $100 gift cards for 80 bucks. But I’ll have no profit to show for it.

If their profitability was cut in 1/2 in just 1-years time, it's actually irresponsible for management to not take actions to get costs/margins under control.
Those honestly sound like they're just using NPM as a platform to host their spam. All the spammers care about is that they get to host their content on a trusted domain with a keyword-dense URL; there's no expectation that anyone actually install the package.

The same problem exists on Docker Hub, e.g.

https://hub.docker.com/r/neyprivedpu1972/windows-7-7264-down...
I have funds in my wallet. I choose to send them to you. That is human consensus on top of a blockchain, which is the settlement layer.

In the case of escrow contracts. The funds are in a contract. Those funds will be released to a specific wallet only when two humans agree to their human consensus. The blockchain again, is the settlement layer.

When I bought my house, it went through an escrow process. I had to pay some human paper pusher thousands of dollars to do something that really could have just been done by computers for fractions of a cent and in a matter of minutes.

Escrow is one area that you're going to have a hard time arguing with me that isn't a perfect use case for blockchain. I don't care if it is 'overly complicated'... nothing is more overly complicated than the current process today.
IIRC the 9 nodes where effectively controlled by 3 sets of keys so they only had to compromise 2 to take control. And they took weeks to discover it happened. The incompetence and brazenness astonishes. Team as well as investors.
Store brands are weak, pasteurized, and filtered, such that any unique flavor has been removed to appeal to the average shopper. Drink someone's home-brewed kombucha and you will be blessed with flavors that cannot be found anywhere else.

This goes for all fermented products, such as sauerkraut, yogurt, kefir, and tempeh. Homemade is where all the flavors are preserved.
Those are not the same gasoline. Ethanol is high octane and so you mix it with a much worse grade of gasoline and get the same octane. E0 advocates attribute to lack of ethanol what is really just the better grade of gas.
I am sure Nigerian email scammers had a similar problem. At some point, there is maximum saturation of the market and no more victims left. Companies, individuals beefing up security, refusing to pay ransoms either by having it decoding by security researchers or having data backed up.
We do have a way to verify understanding: causality. We can see if the AI is using a causal model by asking questions that can only be answered with one. Take the theory of mind questions that reveal the LLMs do have a basic theory of mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083.
A non-technical cofounder with deep industry ties is a strong positive signal.
It already exists for those willing to broaden their horizons to Python, Basic, Pascal, Java, TinyGo, Oberon-07 and .NET.

Naturally having Rust as well is a positive, the more the merrier.
Then especially, thank you! (If you haven't, check out the links to related artworks in this discussion – many of them I hadn't come across yet, but they have a similar vibe!)
At this point I fully expect that someone will release a usable RLHF-fine-tuned language model that can run on consumer hardware, based on the methodology used for LLaMA (and other similar papers e.g. https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen ), at some point in the next 6-24 months.
Of course it is profitable to do so. There is a large market for it, from animal feed, to sugar, to tortillas, to many things in between.

The trouble is that it's unpredictable how big the crop will be before planting. As mentioned before, yields can vary quite significantly from year to year. As such, you will have periods of excess where we don't have enough storage for it all. Ethanol was promoted as a way to clean up those excesses before they turn to waste, recapturing some of fuel that was put into its growth initially.
Wow, that’s much faster than I expected.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34853596
"And he's have them develop some internal chat or get a self-hosted option."

If this was the case, the employees would know about it, rather than be shocked and unable to work.

I think your problem is that you think what Elon is doing makes sense. I did this countless times since November. I kept thinking "this guy surely knows what he's doing" and building plausible excuses about what I'm reading.

But nope. It's just panicky arrogant nonsense. Always has been. And it never ends.
Are you sure that's all that it's about? I'd say it's about a lot of things since Democrats have been unhappy about starting in Iowa for a long time.
How Ireland Is Becoming the Richest Country in the World [video]
#vanlife !!
In case anyone's wondering, Benthos is an Open Source streaming processor (see https://www.benthos.dev) and Bloblang is an embedded data mapping language (see https://www.benthos.dev/docs/guides/bloblang/about)
Putting people in jail is exactly what nearly every Western country in the world currently does to prevent the birth of genetically-defective children:

> Susan and Patrick were a young German couple in love. But, the German state never allowed Susan and Patrick to get married. Shockingly, Patrick was imprisoned for years because of his sexual relationship with Susan. Despite these obstacles, over the course of their relationship, Susan and Patrick had four children. Three of their children—Eric, Sarah, and Nancy—had severe problems: epilepsy, cognitive disabilities, and a congenital heart defect that required a transplant. The German state took away these children and placed them with foster families. Why did Germany do all these terrible things to Susan and Patrick?

> Eugenics. No, this story didn’t happen in Nazi Germany, it happened over the course of the last 20 years. But why haven’t you heard this story before? Because Patrick and Susan are siblings.

https://dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicist
No, it does not. This myth will not die hard.

It's not a total myth per se, because it once was and sometimes still can be true for engine components that are simply not designed to handle ethanol.

Such is not the case for pretty much every car built after the year 2000, roughly speaking. Every soft component in modern cars is designed to handle at least 10% ethanol, and effectively handle 100% ethanol.

Corrosion is not really an issue either. The E85 you get from a pump is anhydrous, and the only way you'll get things like phase separation is if water is added deliberately. Ethanol doesn't pull water into gasoline. That's a myth. It's not a dessicant. This topic has been studied and it's simply not worth worrying about.

Most cars on the road today, including those that aren't Flex Fuel, can run somewhere between E30 and E50 with no problems whatsoever. They can even run on E85 or E100 with either a software update or a piggyback device between the ECU and the fuel injectors, everything else remaining OEM.

A car running on ethanol won't rust, fall apart, or blow up. If anything, ethanol can be better for engines given that it burns cooler and leaves way less carbon deposits.

If a small engine today has seal failures or other issues, it's more likely to be the BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene) in gasoline and not the ethanol component.

By the way, I'm speaking from direct experience. Not only have I converted small engines to run on ethanol, but I converted my 2013 Hyundai to be a flex fuel vehicle.
Of course, but even still the level of scale, clean data, and human supervision needed may be significant. It's reported OpenAI used an army of humans to generate question answer prompts and rate the model output.

They kept the details closely guarded and only hinted at how they did RLHF and transitioned the architecture to self supervised learning.
Apologies if I wasted time? I wasn't trying to push a useful argument for crypto in any way here. Just wanted to understand the argument of Stephenson.

If there is something there I should treat more seriously, I'm game.
That’s… not that much?

I mean it’s about what Meta spends in one and a half months on metaverse
Google had $60B in net income last year.
Meta had $23B in net income last year.
Amazon had -$2.7B in net income last year. The year before they had $33.3B.
Tesla had $12.5B in net income last year.
Ericsson had $1.8B in net income last year.
Apple (who didn't do layoffs) had $95.2B in net income last year.

Sure, they can't achieve those record profits for four years in a row, but none are losing money soon.
They didn't want a lot of people to work remote permanently. They explicitly discouraged it with a quota.
They asked for a citation, not evidence. A citation that cannot be provided as there was no quote in which to cite.

Furthermore, good faith participation seeks to provide equal value to the participants. "Citation needed" offers nothing to other parties.

Apparently, according to another comment, "Citation needed" is some kind of Wikipedia slang, but a website that attempts to document knowledge is very different to a casual conversation and to try and conflate them, again, can only be done so in bad faith.
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