skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We considered trying to use a self-hosted LLM as an alternative, but the costs would also have been extremely high for the amount of traffic we were processing.

Is it realistic to self-host an LLM that outperforms OpenAIs offerings cost wise? When I looked at the alternatives (self-hosted, alternate hosted LLM providers, or cloud compute options) you generally ended up with a subjectively worse model AND a lower inference speed - which resulted in me canning my idea as it was simply too expensive.
Fair enough, maybe compression is a too specific term to apply here but I does not matter if it's compression or not to violate copyright. Compression was a good example to mention because it is already familiar to laypeople and established law. The main point is that it stores some sample of the original data - and if it's more it is derived from the original data (your strokes example) and applying some algorithm to reconstruct it to some approximation that we humans might find indistinguishable
Knowing that essay is 20 years old makes me feel old.
In 1982 my mom wrote an article for “Redbook” magazine about how my Dad’s snoring kept her awake. It was a funny 1000 words and they paid her $400 for it. They even sent a professional photographer to our house and had my Dad lay down with a cartoon zzzzz to show the snoring and my mom made a home alone shocked face for the photo. My kids asked about that photo recently and I explain “well back in 1982 you could earn money for writing words. But today her story about snoring would just be a free blog article.” The days of making money writing might be over.
What the hell is happening here with all the bot accounts?
I didn't feel like relearning Emacs when I started diving back into CL so I've been using VSCode with the Alive extension and once I got it fully up and running with Quicklisp etc my SBCL has run great.
I agree with the article that regulation will work in the near term while it is still expensive to train and operate such systems but for the long run we will need the AI equivalent of ad blockers that can be deployed by individuals to defend themselves against this type of exploitation. Arming everyone with their own personal advocate and security auditor AI is the only way to defend against such exploits. Unfortunately this opens another can of worms similar to how some ad blockers allow certain "good" ads through.
I hire in a field where a degree in that discipline is a filtering criteria.

However, we make exceptions for self learned people who have great sample of high class work.

So my recommendation is build your portfolio of open source contributions or work that you may even have done pro bono. Impress the hell out the hiring managers by sheer quality of your work. Help them to decide that they will not be taking any risk by hiring you.
The limb analogy is apt, but in my experience I’d change the analogy slightly and make the animal losing a limb a dog. There is a saying that “a dog is really a 3-legged animal born with a spare leg”. A three legged dog in a short time adapts and knowing a few tripod pooches in my life, my experience is they get along just fine, and to them, are not impaired compared to their 4 legged counterparts. I think companies are like that too. Layoffs can create definite temporary operational challenges. However, in organizations I have been in that have experienced layoffs, you just adapt and in time and eventually don’t notice the impairment the layoff caused. It’s just the new normal.
It’s wishful thinking that humans could somehow shift their essential being to some digital frontier independent of crufty “old world” governments. That’s not how power works. We are still earthly beings bound to place, and thus subject to governmental power backed by physical force. Call me when we can digitize consciousness, until then this is just a daydream.
Basecamp Next's caching hardware (2012)
Wow. I've gone what I thought was hardcore on carnivore. Beef is king, and I would ask for scrap fat every time I'm at the butcher or grocer. Would render down fat, and save the "cracklin" for burger toppings.

One of my favorites, even if it sounds gross, is to sous vide ground beef at around 138f for several hours. This saves all juices. I then put the entire brick with juices in the Vitamix, plus salt and some bbq sauce. Not to blend it, but to break it out of its block form. Turn it into a bowl of whole use beef.

Another favorite of mine to get fat in, is homeground burgers. Get a (fatty) roast on sale, and then lots of scrap Fat. Boil all for one minute to kill surface bacteria. Then make medium rare burgers. By cooking to 135 rather than 165, can retain lots more fat and juices.

Doesn't get anywhere near 88% fat.... But I'm sure I hit 40% with some of these techniques.
It is sad how normalized your cynicism has become in the U.S. Too many people in the U.S. (I’m not claiming you are from the U.S.) share your view. Many Americans have forgotten what the purpose and role of society ought to be. Instead of accepting an adversarial relationship between government and the “good of the people” we ought to fight, not for less government, but rather for better government.
I understand that. But what CAUSES the geometric curvature in the first place. Not mass? If the blackhole is then a vacuum, surely it has no mass and thus there is nothing to curve space time around it.

Replace my question with space-time curvature:

"If the interior of a black hole becomes a vacuum, what continues to assert the intense space-time curvature that the new destroyed matter once created?"
I’ve noticed many lisps and schemes are not set up to simply accept a single file name as the sole command line argument, which is something common to nearly every other platform. Seems like an easy target for reducing friction for newcomers.
If you're not from any country that the train travels through and you're taking a few trains, then maybe getting an Interrail pass[1] would be an option. You need to pay a bit extra for seat reservations and sleeper trains, but it could work out better in some cases[2].

[1]https://www.interrail.eu/en
[2]https://www.seat61.com/how-to-use-an-interrail-pass.htm#over...
It's extremely frustrating when people CHOOSE to not understand something.

On the other hand, it's bad to assume that because "everyone uses it", it's OK.

Having dealt with people who send code as HTML email with quotes replaced with "smart quotes", having been sent links to files / tarballs that don't actually link to those file / tarballs but to a web page instead, having been sent to sites that require knowing how the site works and/or browsing around and being unable to use a link to download directly via curl / nbftp / wget, I can understand that a group that doesn't want to deal with superfluous distractions would have rules about what can and can't be used.

GitHub is NOT trivial, and it is extremely browser centric. Trying to just download a file is an exercise in frustration if you're not familiar with GitHub. Copying a link to your clipboard that can actually be used to download a file is next to impossible, unless you already know how to use GitHub.

I can fully understand why the competition organizers specifically forbid the use of GitHub in their rules.
How’s that? Got any additional info?
> My guess is that MS Windows or MacOS users will feel more at home with using their Android device because they are more used to the system telling them what they may or may not do. But, to Linux user this feels very user-ugly.

Don't lose patience though, it's coming on Linux too with Flatpaks :-)

For instance the second screenshot of the latest post of "Adventures in Linux and KDE" [1] shows how it looks in Discover.

[1] https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/17/this-week-in-kde-a-smo...
Many cultures had nuclear families by default including much of western and northern Europe. Especially after the plagues.
"Diabetes patients think people with obesity are stealing their drug, as it’s currently only approved for the treatment of T2D (though FDA approval for the treatment of obesity may come as soon as this summer.) People with obesity are angry that obesity isn’t recognized as a disease. And users who can’t afford it say they’ve been abandoned by Big Pharma."

Always amazing when an article is verified in real time
I'm pretty confident that the school was not going for this angle
Personally I'd like to thanks latin american cartels for making heroin feel so good, I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault that some people find it very difficult to control the urge to consume heroin, and I definitely don’t think I should be punished for that by making heroin more expensive/harder to find.

Once your body is ravaged by years of junk food you're an addict in the medical sense of the term. When you give a soda that contains 2x the daily recommended amount of sugar to a kid because "it tastes good" you're sabotaging their future health.

They don't make the food taste good to make you enjoy good food, they make food addictive to make you keep consuming.
thanks for your comment. If believe if Data Privacy is almost the only topic discussed here, that's good. Means, people like the idea but at the same time people are concerned about personal / sensitive data.
And to be honest- I hope that would be our biggest challenge, as I believe it's a bit easier to get a good, solid Data Privacy policy compliant with all legal and moral requirements than to build a product. At least that's what I hope))
China provinces and Florida rank among the world’s most climate-vulnerable areas
It looks like someone is spamming (with ChatGPT?), but they are all flagged.
Oh that's way cooler!
Sigma File Manager
Critical thinking requires time and effort. Offloading critical thinking is something every single person does in order to make sense of the world and make decisions, it's basically what trust is and it's necessary for the world to function.

The idea that we can just ignore this risk and allow critical thinking within individuals to handle it is not even wishful thinking, just shirking responsibility imo.
Today, people fear Twitter. In the 1850s, they feared telegrams
Anytime your solution to a problem is "Just exert more effort and skill and do it correctly", there is a 100% chance the general public will not adopt your solution.
> However, the main benefit of bash is the portability

This was the reason why I learned PowerShell. It is the only shell that works on Windows/Linux/OS X (to those who don't know, it's open source now: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell ).

Every team I join is a mix of Windows and Mac users with the occaisional Linux user. This is the only shell that you can use to across all three without compromise. Otherwise I find that whatever platform is dominant writes the helper scripts and the others get shrugs and "figure it out". Now, you could try to write them in Python, which isn't the worst idea, but it's not a shell.
I read article a few years ago that described why this happens.

It boils down to this, people with zero experiences are in it for the $, and they will not stay around. It takes 1 to 2 years to take a jr to mid level. During that time, you are stealing time from Sr devs that could be producing something else.

The conclusion of the article, is that it is a huge risk taking bootcamp graduates because if they end up working out, they will take the first job offer that the time spent is wasted.

Partly reason why on the last teams I been on, we refuse, because we get burned every time. We wait till management has enough budget to hire a senior to avoid these issues.

My advice, accept those low paying offers, get the 1-2 to years experience. After you prove yourself, people will come and go while at the job. You can join one of those companies after you prove yourself.
>Highly recommend having one or two in your inventory

I love how this comment implies that the average household will have more than 2 pans/skillets in their inventory let alone one or two of a specific type.
Is Earth Running Out of Freshwater?
I want a multilayered pan: magnetic stainless steel on the bottom, then aluminum, then carbon steel. Basically a modern high quality stainless steel pan but with the top layer being carbon steel instead.

This ought to combine the lower weight and superior heat distribution of a multilayered pan with a seasonable cooking surface.
Lunar cycles guide the spawning of corals, worms and more
It's largely a matter of record keeping. We know all about the Greeks and Romans because they left libraries full of stories and documents. The vikings are almost entirely only known from other people writing about them.
>I'd say it's at least as guaranted [sic] as calling you p0pCult

You don't know me by any other name; you have no other option.

>What's your point?

That he did nothing special. He was a benefactor of circumstance. Further, that we should treat him as such--no one special, just a guy swept up in social media when the social media craze was sweeping people up. One might even say that his methods: bilking Saverin and the Winkelvosses, making what was essentially a hot-or-not clone, point out that he is little more than a slimy con artist. That certainly tracks with his approach to people's privacy.
VueTube – Open-source video streaming
"Choose" is the wrong word but you can certainly decide to change your weight, just as you can decide to give up smoking.

It's hard to give up an addiction, and yes the companies peddling the addiction as an avenue to profit need to face a reckoning. But at the individual level, we can all choose what weight we want to be. Fatalism doesn't help anyone.
You are correct, I'm not presenting the two as diametrical opposites though. What are diametric opposites, though, are the cultural attitudes behind the respective ideas. "We implicitly trust the police, and if they break the law they probably had a good reason" vs. "We hold the police to a higher standard of behavior, because in allowing them to use violence in their work, we have granted them much power."
Carbon steel will rust quicker, it's still susceptible to seasoning breakdown from acidic foods, and it's more expensive, but it's lighter so it's easier to sautee with.
The US Copyright Office says you can't copyright Midjourney AI-generated images
Isn't the point to demonstrate that this process is possible with inexpensive, commodity, off-the-shelf parts. And if so then there is viability with solution.

I doubt he's talking about building a company that sources their machinery/parts/gadgets directly from places like Alibaba, Taobao, etc...
When I was on carnivore, it was really difficult to get high fat even from beef. As you say ground beef becomes pretty tricky if there's enough fat, it either cooks out and now you're stewing lean beef in a soup of fat, or you need to use some other trick to form an emulsion.

Dairy fat is much easier for me and also tastes better. I found ground beef sans vegetables or sauce super bland and unpalatable, even ribeye steaks would get very boring after a week. This gives me some variety in textures and flavors, and the whipped cream is very easy to eat.
I can't say I disagree, though I wish I could.
And this is why so many new tools are written in Go.
> perfectly good text editor

This is a very restricted description of Emacs though.

Emacs happens to provide a text editor ;-)
For several of the companies I do hiring for, we focus on how well a person fits for the job. We're not concerned about the location of the person, as long as no time zone issues or legal issues with payment come up.

That being said, that's not always the case. Lot's of companies can still only pay staff in their own country, or just a few countries. Some companies also want local work authorizations, even if the person is working remote. (An unfortunate situation, yet common).

So your search will be very different depending on if you have a US work authorization, and depending on how the company is able to pay you.

Another option is to setup a small company in the US to sell your consulting services and do your billing on a B2B basis.

I would suggest starting now, to network with people on LinkedIn, who are in your target locations and industries. With a 1-2 year lead time you can definitely figure everything out and have some good options organized.
When we are using the entire world's population as a guinea pig, and the stakes can be as high as "we accidentally sterilized/killed/crippled a large part of the world's/our nation's population", I don't know that having a less sticky cooking pan now instead of 20 years from now is worth it. I agree that a ban on new untested inventions seems impractical at the same time. I don't know what the "right answer" is in this case, but maybe there should be more regulation on testing potentially dangerous chemicals a start.
It’s disappointing how many comments here focus on the trees and not the forest. Regardless of the intent of the GitHub rule, this is supposed to drive interest in web development among young people, and instead it’s an exercise in bureaucracy and semantics.
There are no reasonable people in law enforcement, they’re there to enforce the rules. Sometimes, you have to deal with unreasonable people and unreasonable rules, even if they’re wrong.
I am not sure which connection you found - the 21:59 Nightjet NJ 402 from Zurich goes directly to Amsterdam (9:58). NJ 402 has some additional cars attached which run as an InterCity, so it might be possible that no bed is available until Frankfurt, and you have to sit in an IC car until Frankfurt and change into the sleeper there, or vice versa.
> Interacting with objects instead of text is definitely a huge plus.

It's a huge minus. The fact that all shell tools produce text is a basic tenet of shell programming which underlies the composability and interoperability of them all.

> the main benefit of bash is the portability

No, see above. Also, you probably mean ubiquity rather than portability.

> If you spend most of your time in the Windows ecosystem, then there's no reason not to learn it.

The reason is that it will make you only work with other tools by Microsoft, or at best some Microsoft-centric companies which write such tools. Those tools might gain some benefit from working with non-textual objects, but the detriment in variety and composability (even ignoring multi-platform work) is massive.

Another detriment would be how it's non-shell-like work. Part of the idea of shell scripting is that it's work that you might have done "yourself", manually, manipulating the text. With something like PowerShell - you need a debugger, data viewers etc. In fact, one could argue that PowerShell is barely a shell.
Flan-T5 is much smaller than GPT-3, but was trained on significantly more data resulting in competitive accuracy. It is also Apache licensed. I wonder if that model is fast enough for enough use cases to make it cost effective?
Any difference quickly disappears once you take into account various accents and dialects. It's a lot like pin and pen. They're technically not by the strictest sense of the word homophones because there should be a slight difference in how you pronounce them, but in practice, there is no difference.
Childcare is never as good as time with a parent.

We sacrifice our time with our children for future career earnings to maximize lifetime income. People in this discussion throw around terms like GDP growth due to increased labour market participation from working moms...

It's ok just to accept what's happening. its not like you don't know what you're doing. Life is full of unpleasant tradeoffs.
It may be a cynical take but I highly doubt most people searching for this drug are going to do what you have done. Props to you for sure but I fear this will just create another cycle of dependence that only benefits the company manufacturing the drug.
I think the point is that you provide your own logo and this gives unique variations of it. It doesn't create a logo for you
Phantom space strike? It's ECM decoys for ICBMs. If I had to guess, I'm betting they are using multiple ECM drones to create a virtual antenna similar to a radar telescope array. A single drone wouldn't be able to jam anything other than a distance/velocity measurement and even then that's pretty hard in space.

This isn't exactly new technology, but it's still another challenge for mid-course ICBM missile defense. Unless of course NATO has a bird in their pants. Although with how sophisticated radar detection has gotten, they may just use these ECM drones to help target the real warheads.

ECM is kind of a double edged sword sometimes. When it works it's great and wreaks havoc on the enemy because all they see is garbage. When it fails it just gives the enemy a really good idea of where you are.
I might have to try a high heavy cream couple of weeks. One thing that's weird about carnivore is that I noticed that the Weight and Size aren't the same with standard CICO. In my twenties I lost a bunch of weight with CICO and was a 38 waist down from a 44 and I was 180lbs. Gained it back of course and now in my thirties on carnivore I'm the same size 38 but around ~250. Muscle density? Who knows.
That is exactly the problem, there have been many commits to HEAD but no release for 12 years??? It isn’t dead, it is undead. Strange.
sure, BERT is to come very soon and I think it will bring even wider adoption of AI. And yes, Data Privacy will become even more buzzed topic. Next few years will be of security engineers and of data privacy lawyers, don't you think?
No. But I know people who spent time in Cook county jail. I know that in any jail in the U.S. a prisoner’s well being is at the whim of those in charge. There are lots of examples of dead, beaten, and otherwise traumatized prisoners. There are also examples of people who did just fine in jail.
Are they the solution to obesity? I'm curious as to whether the weight stays off long term. 10 or more years at least or else it's just another bandaid. What we need is better access to nutritious food that doesn't take up so much of folk's scant downtime and tight income. I understand there's lots of reasons people are obese that aren't just laziness, but the drug doesn't solve those either. They're still not getting the nutrition they need. It's an improvement having poor nutrition with a lower BMI rather than poor nutrition and their current BMI, but not any kind of solution in my opinion.
The git history is publicly available in the repo and you can see all the changes are directly to the source. They obviously were not using a generator.
The article posted here is kind of a crash course in mathematical probability, so don't feel bad for being intimidated or overwhelmed.

The Wikipedia page gives a succinct explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(probability_theo....

> ... the conditional expected value of the next observation, given all the past observations, is equal to the most recent observation.

The book Introduction to Probability Models by Sheldon Ross is a solid undergraduate-level introduction to this material. Martingales are covered in chapter 10.

It does use plenty of math notation, but none of the abstract stuff here about triples, filtrations, etc. It might be a bit slow at first as you "reactivate" the mathy parts of your brain, but as long as you read with a pencil and notepad handy you should be able to work through it.

There's actually a full upload of the 11th edition (current is the 12th I believe) on some university course webpage: http://mitran-lab.amath.unc.edu/courses/MATH768/biblio/intro...
Did the inquisition and the vikings even exist at the same time?

According to wikipedia, no. Vikings were gone a good century before the inquisition existed at all.

> Is that true?

Probably not. The dates don't seem to even match for it to have happened.
If you see this and think "being able to easily manipulate CSVs and other files in the shell would be really nice" you should definitely check out nushell.