skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I'd argue Dropbox becoming popular is ancillary to the comment being an amusing example of a negative HN comment for a few reasons:

1. The comment categorically dismisses the entire product idea

2. As evidence for (1), the comment cites a rather complicated method that would arguably be out of reach for most users

3. The comment describes the method from (2) as "trivial"

So even if Dropbox had failed, the comment would still be entertaining, IMO.
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> emotionally charged subject, which is unfortunate [...] The simplified and (generally) commonly accepted narrative [...] that potentially complicates a lot of the cultural positioning. [...] it's a shame

Uh... what's a shame? None of that stuff happened. You've picked a fight with a strawman here. No one is engaging like that with the linked article, or here in the HN thread, except you.
Pass a law and fix it. Australia is a sovereign state. I know it sounds simple and it is, but the politicians might not actually represent their voters.

Set a maximum power rate, service level agreement, and mandatory renewable generation. Drive them into bankruptcy and have the court offer it to a new operator when they can't comply. Eminent domain to prevent power outages, before they can even shut things down.

If Sri Lanka (or Africa) didn't need more money from China (eg US, India, etc.) they could take back their port tomorrow by passing a law.
Uber and Airbnb have made money?
The TPP specifically didn’t include China.
> That is quite precisely idempotency.

Well, it's one way of implementing a kind of idempotency. But idempotency in general is more complicated than just deduping messages. For example, "Toggle the power state" is not idempotent because the result state depends on the initial state. You might think that "turn the power on" is idempotent, and by itself it is, but in conjunction with "turn the power off" it is not because the order in which they are processed matters. A truly idempotent message would be something like, "Insure that the number of on-off cycles at time T1 is N, at time T2 is N+1" etc.

Idempotency is in general more powerful and more complicated than deduping.
I know. If I was Prez, copyright would be eliminated entirely, or at least limited to 10 years.
That is... definitely unsettling.
Just take it back, pay compensation. People r so scared to set a bad precedent for future business deals and yet businesses repeatedly don’t care about leveraging every advantage they have for profit over people.
I sometimes want to see the content of dead posts or comments. Either the post link has been removed entirely or the comment was dimmed to oblivion and I have to resort to dark magic to read them.
Right I think privatizing parking revenue makes a ton of sense because of this political problem of people disliking the optimal parking price.

That being said this deal was absolutely horrible for Chicago. My least favorite part is that now the city has to pay millions every time they get rid of a paid parking spot, so they couldn’t close streets during the pandemic.
Meta is an instructive example of how this might apply to large companies: those which show little income after frivolous expenses may see their valuation tank, impacting total employee compensation which depends on high prices. These companies may want to free up cash flow to spend on buybacks instead of moonshots, causing them to cut down projects.

However, they don't have a $0 in the bank account clock running like many startups may.
Thank you for posting a link to an image instead of polluting the future training data of GPT-4 with the output of GPT-3 :)

I wish more people would do this. I'm getting pretty sick of the walls of text.
We all collectively made developers better. Anyway, memory corruption is mostly stopped by the kernels and memory corruption mitigation strategies. Mostly implemented security focused devs and guided by information security research. It’s a yin and yang thing. We find stuff, the community and big organizations research and figure out nee mitigation strategies etc. It is an ecosystem with many loops that have security researchers and bug hunters almost everywhere.
> imagine it would be pretty easy to fine tune a davinci model on these and then test, no? Has anyone done it?

That was the a competition. Nobody scored well.
I'm surprised how many software engineers have never heard of Douglas Engelbart and The Mother of All Demos:

The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor. Engelbart's presentation was the first to publicly demonstrate all of these elements in a single system. The demonstration was highly influential and spawned similar projects at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. The underlying concepts and technologies influenced both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows graphical user interface operating systems in the 1980s and 1990s.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
And 20% inflation since then. If self driving really takes off the later years of it might be worthless. Still a terrible deal for the city.
It's Chicago, of course there was.
How long before we create a meta language that can then be auto-translated to any number of languages — Rust included - before final compilation?

(Or has this been tried 33 times and always failed?)
The tactile quality of the keys is extremely low, the screen is too small, we left the social era years ago and entered the notification era so its too spammy. Latency is usually extremely high compared to dedicated hardware.

I've tried the various bluetooth terminals for android over the years and have been quite disappointed, but who knows maybe it'll work someday.
This is where my mind immediately went too. It’d be an interesting case.
> Apple's legal argument was always that Qualcomm's per-device (ie, final product) royalty basis licensing offer was not FRAND. Apple believes that the royalty should be based on the cost of Qualcomm's chips instead. But, of course, there is no legal basis or industry practice to support Apple's unfounded claim and, consequently, LOST EVERY lawsuit based on this claim for past 10+ years.

Qualcomm demanded a percentage of the retail selling price of phones using it's modems.

Similarly, Google bought Motorola for it's patent portfolio and famously lost a lawsuit against Microsoft after demanding a 2.5% cut of the retail cost of Microsoft hardware (estimated to be about 4 Billion dollars a year) using it's standards essential patents.

> Motorola sent a letter to Microsoft asking it to pay as much as $4 billion per year to license patents relating to the 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi and the H.264 video encoding standard.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2955773/microsoft-best...

Google lost the case and the appeal, and the courts imposed a flat 3 million dollar per year licensing fee instead of the ~4 Billion a year that Google demanded.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/11615248/google-loses-bid-to-o...

So, this is hardly an unfounded claim.
FYI: you can't sign up without an email address (which you have to verify) and then a phone number (which can't be a google voice / voip number).

So count me out.
This one seems to be much more interesting: https://solareclipse.vercel.app/
> it’s not obvious how to implement teachers proctoring other classrooms’ exams in order to prevent the home room teacher from giving out answers for financial benefit

A few seconds of thought: "don't give the teachers the test questions beforehand"

> It’s not pragmatic when principals, guidance counselors, other-subject teachers and permanent subs are shoring up massive shortages across the country.

It'll give the teachers a way to make more money, making teaching more attractive
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> FLP and the Two Generals Problem are not design complexities, they are impossibility results.

These are impossibility results given various assumptions and requirements that may not hold in practice, or may be too restrictive. For one thing, i suppose we're pretty happy with a probabilistic solution as long as we can get the probability below an acceptable threshold.
> You're the one in a dream world, mate.

The Grievance Industry and Woke Studies courses really try hard to make it seem that men are these evil brutes, but the vast, vast majority are conscientious people.
You can't rely on rules that prevent the service provider from cutting you off.

The government just changes the rules so that the Service providers CAN cut you off without recourse.

Old saying "You can't fight City Hall." They have ways of making you submit.
HIGHLY highly recommend checking out Stephen Marz's OS blog, where he walks through building a basic RISC-V OS in Rust step by step: https://osblog.stephenmarz.com/
Hopefully they’re doing plenty of batching - you don’t even need to roll your own as you’re describing. Inference servers like Triton will dynamically batch requests with SLA params for max response time (for example).

That said I don’t think anyone anyone outside of OpenAI knows what’s going on operationally. Same goes for VRAM usage, potential batch sizes, etc. This is all wild speculation. Same goes for whatever terms OpenAI is getting out of MS/Azure.

What isn’t wild speculation is that even with three year reserve pricing last gen A100x8 (H100 is shipping) will set you back $100k/yr - plus all of the usual cloud bandwidth, etc fees that would likely increase that by at least 10-20%.

We’re talking about their pricing and costs here. This gives a general idea what anyone trying to self host this would be up against - even if they could get the model.
This is incorrect. Rotating wrists or doing other rolling movements should be avoided because it can trigger RSI.

Also it's not beneficial to trade away regular shorter rest periods for a longer rest period. This is true for many activities that can cause RSI. A gentle alternation of activity and rest is recommended instead of long strikes.
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here, because "provenance" literally means "where it came from", so by definition it changes according to who is giving the advice.

I assume that you mean something more like "how good the advice is". And you're right. But that's not the point.

The point is that most women are constantly being told how they should or should not be by men, usually in a way that is treating them as if they were children. So when they are unnecessarily instructed by men about how to be safer in world where it's mostly men that makes it dangerous for them, I totally understand why that might be irritating.

No matter what the message is, who gives it is often the primary thing that determines how it will be received.
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I agree with Bender, but I also feel like I need a gentle correction in how I think.

Every time I hear an expert describe why LLMs aren't human, or sentient, the reasons given usually describe what LLMs cannot do, yet.

Take for example the Octopus in this article. It doesn't know about bears or sticks, and therefore can't reliably tell someone how to fend off a bear attack.

That may be true, but it cannot be true forever.

> The octopus has no referents, no idea what bears or sticks are. No way to give relevant instructions, like to go grab some coconuts and rope and build a catapult. A is in trouble and feels duped. The octopus is exposed as a fraud.

That is only true if the octopus only has access to the conversations between the two islanders.

If the octopus can observe and learn the way it does on one telegraph cable, who's to say it can't do it with another telegraph cable?

Given enough telegraph cables to observe, the octopus is going to know about bears and sticks, and when it does, is it still a fraud? What if it's allowed to observe all the telegraph cables?

The argument of "ChatGPT can't do this, yet" comes up all the time to explain why it's not sentient, but the "yet" says a lot.

Am I missing something? Is there some sort of actually impossible hurdle that'd stop a system from being able to satisfy all the "yets"?
What if we can move to a decentralized hosting model rather than the hub and spoke of cloud + CDN?
Did you have to look up the name of the author of Sapiens or you have it committed to memory?
The bait and switch was not nice but there's more...
Nah, the new ones can just be called Xllms.

Then we can just keep adding Xs every generation.
The parking enforcers are employed by the company but the city gets the ticket revenue. They enforce the city’s laws though so my idea has been to make the ticket some negligible amount like $1 so that everyone stops paying the meter in order to force the company to renegotiate. Lawyers probably thought of that though and made the contract iron tight. Here’s the contract https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/fin/supp_info...
When just one FTX is not enough
i'm pretty excited to have access to the system prompt, that's going to be huge i think.
Inspired by comments in the AI jailbreak thread.
He's talking about the fact that Aboriginals, not unlike Native Americans, reject any attempt to explain their origin via science as they stick to the story of their origin that comes from their religion, and see the science based origin as disrespectful.
Interesting. Most of the content creators I tend to watch (not that many really) organise their own sponsorships. eg "This video brought to you by XYZ"

For those, using an ad blocker won't make much difference. But I guess if the content creators important to you are relying on youtube's monetisation, they would indeed be affected.

Not sure how else to send a signal to Youtube though, as they only seem to care about revenue. Seems like there's only that one lever that can be pulled. eg "ad blocker or not?"
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Judging by this[0] the new structured format is immune to "injections":

[0] https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md
>You could easily write the same thing more clearly in no more space.

I certainly couldn't, and I have spent a reasonable amount of time studying Nomadology (the text from which this passage is taken). Why don't you give it a shot? Put your money where your mouth is, let's say just the second paragraph, as that's the more serious offender in terms of jargon. I sincerely don't think you can rewrite it to be ~12 lines, forgoing all the technical jargon used, and retain all of the semantic content.

Frankly, barring a demonstration of this task you could supposedly "easily" accomplish, it reads like you're just denigrating the writing because you can't understand it.
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It hasn't been known for a long time. Did you read the article?

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It will be interesting to see whether Apple can continue with M3s, etc. I think they are facing pretty hard process limitations and I'm not sure that adding parallelism will get them huge gains on normal workloads, so they may be stuck at a plateau for a while, but we'll see.
1. use multiple choice tests which have no ambiguity in grading

2. put a unique number on each test. Pass them out randomly to teachers in the district to grade. They won't know who the student is nor who his teacher is, nor will the teacher know who graded it. I.e. a double-blind system.

3. have administrators grade them, or an outside consultant, etc.
Why doesn't anyone discuss the giant Elephant in the room - the need to have a product/service people actually want to buy?

No doubt SPACs and other financial tricks don't help matters, but if people are really wanting to buy your widget then surely that's going to go long way to stopping you from going broke?

I mean, am I insane? Is that not the fundamental root problem here?
>And it sounds like men in São Paulo need to start doing what women have been doing since the beginning of dating: always letting somebody know where they are, always meeting first in a public place

Doesn't help when nobody knows or will find the attackers...
Sure, but you said that assigning unique ID's to messages and not executing the same ID twice was a "third option", besides establishing idempotency. I'm saying it's not a "third option", but instead it literally is "establishing idempotency".
Haha I thought the same so your post actually inspired me to start one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34989904

Ran out of ChatGPT requests so I’ll have to continue with more posts later if people enjoy the satire.
Is there a similar service out there for Azure? (Who just put their uk prices up by 9 percent)
Hard to see how businesses would become dependent on it, if it takes off then someone will run similarly capable models at a reasonable profit margin.
Airbnb had an adjusted EBITDA of ~$230m in Q1, so Airbnb has turned a profit once. Not sure about Uber
I first came across this in the absolutely fascinating documentary The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xTG6VXlIQ

It is a "must watch" for everybody who really wants to understand Genetics/Migration.

Also see : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journey_of_Man
Ask HN: Do you keep wrong code in a comment as a reminder of what doesn't work?
For example, if an assertion is no longer true, do you keep it in a comment as a reminder of what isn't true?

Or if an algorithm is wrong, do you keep it in a comment as a reminder and perhaps explain why it doesn't work?
Helps you make spaghetti systems
The only interesting thing I know about Aborigines is they're the only known people who didn't invent the bow and arrow. As a hobbyist archer this is fascinating to me.

They apparently didn't need it, as they're still around.
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They did for the early investors >:^P
Trade agreements (eg: ChAFTA in this case) typically contain clauses which restrict the ability to pass laws that directly harm the interests of one countries investments in the other.

But in any case, transmission grid operators are natural monopolies that are usually heavily regulated and can’t simply charge whatever they want. I’m sure South Australia’s grid is no different.
The competition was three years ago though.
Lots of people have given benefits here so i'll give some of my unique use cases that haven't been mentioned. I use it for reasons mentioned, but also;

- I work at a big org and run 10+ dev services for a mobile app team. My team uses macOS because that is what we are familiar with. We are large enough to not be able to use Docker desktop. The alternatives (Rancher Desktop, Podman) consume between 2 + 8GB before you run your app and they have TERRIBLE file system I/O. Nix gives us isolated, reproducible environments + native i/o.

- Inside our iOS project we are using Nix Shell in the build phases for things like linting, code gen etc. Ensures everyone is on the same version across developers and CI machines. Updating versions is so simple. We can also share a network attached Nix store with all the binaries to save space on CI machines.

- Once you get everyone to install it, you can add new tooling + languages for free by adding nix-env instead of bash as the she bang in your shell scripts. Need to run some ruby thing? Well you know everyone has nix installed, just do nix-shell and add the ruby version you need - its guaranteed to work everywhere. More info here: https://gist.github.com/travisbhartwell/f972aab227306edfcfea
Thinking about it, we’re probably violently agreeing with just some differences in terminology.

I’m arguing that exactly-once delivery is possible if the message receipt happens in a single place, but maybe others don’t see that as a distributed system at all.

Potentially messy. Now you have two distributed system messages - the initial notification and the ack.

Not a problem, both are idempotent! :)
Welcome to authoritarianism in the name of freedom.
People are often trying to implement and shorten term limits. But it amplifies this problem, and it gives lawmakers an incentive to line up their next job in the private sector while in office.
I don't have the raw sequence. The project handled DNA data in total privacy.

I did send my DNA swab a second time about 5-6 years later, this time to look at my maternal line (mitochondrial dna). The report had changed quite a bit possibly because the project had gathered more data in the intervening years. .

I've stopped looking into this further - I really don't care about my ancestors or genetics. More interested in humans as a whole - and for that we need more data.
Over 40% of homes have rooftop solar PV as do many businesses. It is harder for renters and low income earners. Going off grid completely is difficult and generally impractical for most people as the return on investment with storage is still questionable and the costs are high. While they can offset some costs with their own generation they, their children and grandchildren are still going to be taxed for their grid connection. Overbuilding the electricity grid would be a ridiculously inefficient and expensive task and is unlikely to save anyone money. It is a natural monopoly.

The grid was originally bought by the state from private operators to support the state's industrialization and economic growth as foreign investors didn't want to help grow our economy. That was decades ago under an old-school conservative leadership that was pro-business and the interests of all and not just looking after their mates and themselves. I think we need to rethink our conception of political parties and who they represent because I question how many truly represent me.