skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self hosting is fine... but only for an internal instance. The release cycle is pretty extreme, with a critical security update seemingly popping up every two weeks. I mean that's better than not patching the issues, but it still means you have to stay on top of it. Having an internal/private network instance doesn't actually help you all that much, but it still gives you a little more breathing room.

(and I know it might contradict my earlier comment saying that Github's release velocity is a plus, but it doesn't. Most gitlab releases don't introduce useful features, they mostly patch security issues and regressions. For example, the Runners are in a dire need of tons of features and an outright rework of some parts, but barely get any. Which is sad since they were so far ahead of the competition not so long ago.)
A movie was filmed to answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

A comedy, but based in fact - e.g. educational attainment is inversely correlated with fertility. For a less individual view, you can visit Wikipedia's list of countries by fertility rate, and sort them by said rate.
> I'd be curious how you justify this when the U.S. (largely agreed-upon to be the most corporate-friendly first-world country over the past 50 years or so) has the largest police-state, prison population, military, etc etc etc

The U.S. has been the leader in all those lovely statistics long before tech became the biggest thing in the economy.

I think you missed my point. I simply don't believe in fetishizing "true" (and therefore "untrue") innovation. We live in a messy world. Innovation is just a culturally-loaded way to describe people optimizing things. I miss the 90s and 00s too, man.

Also I agree with you.
I'm with you. I look at these pictures, and it's kind of intriguing to find the hints of the degree of poverty in there. The people in them dominate the pictures, and they seem well dressed, comfortable, healthy.

The faces are fascinating, there are entire stories in the faces.
If you have any fault it's very tiny. Those type of "important" emails are too common. And no warning is ridiculous too.
Is the solution to ban catching wild fish, and instead only allow farming?
That's what we do on land, for the most part, to get meat, isn't it?
Absolutely not the same thing.
Aren’t you revising history a bit here? I recall early facial recognition model having pretty hard time with dark skinned faces, I remember early models reflecting gender stereotypes, etc. In fact I remember the ChatGPT team putting tons of engineering into supervised learning to not let it fall victim to regurgitating these biases.

The history that I remember very much did experience AI biases and racism. And tons of ethical questions were indeed raised as a result. These concerns did come to pass, at an alarming level, and it took a tremendous amount of engineering to modellers to minimize those. Let’s not rewrite history here.
Depth controlnets have been the most helpful sofar, they give space directions the best and untangles the good from the bad imo,
Perhaps I've been lucky, but in over 15 years with T-Mobile I haven't had any real problems to speak of.
That's the human and courtesy way of doing it. Not sure why it's so hard.
A) No doubt; I'm just a pundit. All we can do is guess based on past rulings, like the one where they upheld prevention of material support for terrorists, expert advice, or assistance (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22scotus.html...). Of course, they also overturned an instance where police tracking-bugged a suspect's vehicle without their consent. I assume "filing paperwork disclosing who you're doing business with" leans closer to preventing the former than doing the latter, but reasonable folks can disagree.

B) You can't fight Google with that attitude, no. ;)

... but to be less flip: You're not fighting Google. Google isn't using its PAC to advocate for KYC law. So I'm not sure what you're arguing for here. If you think Google should change their behavior, the way to act on that opinion would be to... Organize Google users to put pressure on the company. So, power's back in our court again.

> I wonder if wone day we'll look back at "cloud" and think, "what the actual fudge? How?"

Oh, that I can help with. Maintaining one's own prem for anything that gets to be maintain-one's-own-prem-size is much worse. I've carried a pager for a cloud service, but I've never piled into the car at 2AM to drive half a state over to unlock my rented cage in a shared space with a physical link to a heavy-traffic backbone so I could power-cycle a machine. Nor have I put out a physical fire in a machine room, had a power supply blow up in my face, or driven up and down and up and down dirt roads to find the place where my fiber link is down because someone thought it'd be funny to take a shotgun to a junction box.

A lot of folks who ask "why Cloud" have nearly zero experience with what came before.

(TBF, for small businesses you can maybe handle your load with a few servers under a desk. Many people in this topic have explained how that goes though, and customers expect five-nines uptime these days.)
I lived in Georgia for seven years as a brown guy, mostly in Atlanta but also visited a fair amount around the coast and in Douglas, where my buddy used to live. I just got back from a trip to Tybee Island with my white wife and mixed kids. Never encountered any racism from a white person in Georgia.

YMMV. But in my experience, it was much nicer and less alienating to be down there than it is in a major liberal metro area amongst the "good white people."
I tried this on my MacBook Pro that only has 8G RAM and it runs the smaller model. Really nice packaging!
Contrary to the common opinion here, I've really enjoyed using GitLab and don't see many problems with it.

Lot of the comments here complaining about pricing. Please remember that GitLab's core is open source. If you think the managed offering is too expensive, just host an instance yourself. This is what I have been doing at home for years, and my company at work for even longer.
They key thing the OP said was "in ways that humans don't".

If you ask a human for a URL to support an argument, they will either send you a URL, which may or may not support the argument, or they won't send a URL.

ChatGPT, before they added a guard to prevent it giving references, would simply make up a plausible looking URL that 404'd. It is a lie in a way humans do not.
> Why can't China leave Taiwan alone?

They should.

Now respond to my post in good faith as the rules of HN dictate.
I mean, suppose we implemented single-payer healthcare on the federal level, and then an anti-abortion government got elected? We know empirically that the latter is a realistic possibility.
Oh my god their kubernetes runners are a nightmare sometimes. Even the configuration is arcane and the parameters can overlap, or not. It's crazy.
The idea that you can just throw away an employee is bizzarre to most of the developed world. You have a responsibility to them (usually a legal one); the employee-employer relationship is an unbalanced one in many ways, and relies on that for fairness. If you want people you can get rid of at the drop of a hat you should be hiring contractors and paying the associated premium.
That assume that gitlab is friction free and takes zero time to use?

Maybe something like gitea+teamcity solution is better and cheaper and has less opportunity cost?

I like gitlab, but it feels they have been walking in the wrong direction for many many years and the consequences are starting to pile up.
> I think thus it's very easy to guess that Elon would not be a hundred billionaire, or billionaire at all, if he was the exact same brain born to some working class family in south africa.

There are many brilliant people in South Africa who are born into wealth and none of them have reached the same heights as Elon Musk.

Even if it were the case, wouldn't your argument then predict that there would be many people MUCH wealthier than him because they were born into the vast riches and privilege that is America and Europe?
Have you considered going to meetups, attending networking events or applying to internships?

I feel like right now it’s more of a who you know situation and less of a what you know. You’re in Oakland, CA, which is the land of networking. Good ops to squeeze into some role. Don’t be too picky and you can morph into whatever you find passion for.

Btw, neat projects!
What do you use for auto pasting images?
Presumably you could optimize that by analyzing a running site and stripping out the unnecessary libraries. I'm sure that will come with time.
Can you discuss a bit more about what you do and what you dislike about it? Are you looking to dig deeper into the field but with a spark of passion or delve into other things?
You can call it whatever you want. They lobbied to not be subject to liquidity stress tests, and then didn’t have liquid assets when customers came looking for their money. That was risky. They could have invested in shorter term contracts but they didn’t.
Not sure about National Labs, but I know DARPA and IARPA money lets you keep IP.
Our Data Project Protocol
but knowledge about db with schema is embedded in ... well schema. no?
It's pretty weird to call your product "a fully decentralized platform" as you announce that you have unilaterally shut it down.
13B uses about 9GB on my MacBook Air. If you have another machine (x86) with enough RAM to convert the original LLaMA representation to GGML, you can give it a try. But quantization step must be done on MacBook.

Maybe it is more feasible for you to use 7B with larger context. For some "autocompletion" experiments with Python code I had to extend context to 2048 tokens (+1-1.5GB).
It turns out there is an active sixel branch of tmux. Scrolling is a bit broken (as in parts of images blank out when scrolling) but otherwise it works fine in mlterm (variable-width fonts ftw). So far they have merged past progress to a sixel branch on the upstream repo so it seems to be a matter of progress until it's merged.

https://github.com/topcat001/tmux/tree/sixel
My small company pays for GitLab and I don't see the bill directly, but I definitely have enjoyed working with GitLab. GitHub actions may be catching up but GitLab ci/cd tools have worked great for a while now for us.
I gather I'm the weirdo here, but I really _don't_ want a ducted heat pump, even though my conventionally-built 1950s home is currently full of ductwork for the two forced-air furnaces. I daydream frequently about tearing out all that sheet metal. Is a split system not wildly better somehow?
Palantir is one of their big successes because the government has chosen to pay them for big contracts; a government who thought differently might have not only declined to do that but shut down their whole operation as fundamentally harmful to regular citizens. Likewise Uber and AirBnB built their whole business pretty knowingly on open violations of the law; a government faithfully representing its citizens' interests might easily have decided to shut that down (as e.g. the government of Japan did; both companies barely operate here). Those are just the biggest names that come to mind; I'm sure there are similar things at every level in their portfolio (e.g. not so long ago there have been stories about YC funding a malware distribution company and a company that makes illegally usurious[1] loans; at the time dang claimed pretty vigorously that YC didn't and wouldn't fund companies that do that, but the evidence that they did fund the company and the company was doing that seemed pretty irrefutable).

[1] when lending to veterans, which the company in question did
I suffered from the opposite problem: I never wanted to be old, it always looked like a bad deal to me. I still don't want to be - I shirk my responsibilities whenever I can. With 3 kids its not often I get to though.
> How can audiophiles continue to exist with knowledge being so easily available?

Because not all audiophiles are gullible
Maybe there was some special badge or indicator that showed up before but has now disappeared since Instagram got rid of the feature.

I don't use Instagram either but a Google image search shows a "digital collectible" checkmark in the bottom left corner. I hope this wasn't the whole thing as I don't see what would stop you from putting this checkmark into the image.
The first few minutes is documentary.
There are no grounds to argue that there are distinct subpopulations of people with different potentials for intelligence. Genes flow fluidly — if you sneer at the underclass and think your line is superior, I suspect you won't have to go back very many generations to find your stock comes out of that same seething mob. Do you have any Irish, or Jewish, or Italian, or Native American, or Asian, or whatever (literally—it's hard to find any ethnic origin that wasn't despised at some time) in your ancestry? Go back a hundred years or so, and your great- or great-great-grandparents were regarded as apes or subhumans or mentally deficient lackeys suitable only for menial labor.

Are you staring aghast at the latest cluster of immigrants in this country, are you fretting that they're breeding like rabbits? That generation of children will be the people your kids grow up with, go to school with, date, and marry. It may take a while, but eventually, your line will merge with theirs. Presuming you propagate at all, your genes are destined to disperse into that great living pool of humanity. Get used to it.

Furthermore, intelligence is an incredibly plastic property of the brain. You can nurture it or you can squelch it — the marching morons will birth children with as much potential as a pair of science-fiction geeks, and all that will matter is how well that mind is encouraged to grow. Even a few centuries is not enough to breed stupidity into a natural population of humans — that brain power may lay fallow and undernourished, but there isn't enough time nor enough pressure to make substantial changes in the overall genetics of the brain.

-- https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/08/there-are-no-...
So I read yesterday the Biden administration has signed a lease to open up more of Alaska for oil drilling and exploration. It’s hard to believe.
Is there anything we can do as consumers to promote ethical fishing practices?

For example, there are certifications and accreditations fisheries can obtain to prove that eco-friendly methods are used.
I am! Laid off about five months ago now, finally find myself being courted by three employers: a local manufacturer, and two financial institutions. It's such a relief to have real offers on the table, and to have an interesting choice to make, instead of desperately scrabbling for anyone or anything. Five months is a long time without an income, and I've sent out ~100 applications in that time.

It could be a coincidence, but I've been writing more and more 'personal' cover letters, with more of a 'voice' and less formal stilted prose. Maybe people like it? Maybe people are just hiring again? Who knows.
Whats the monthly subscription on this?
Yeah amazingly fast.

I haven't looked at the quality but some comments in the discord seemed to indicate it was decent quality but had a lot of coding-type prompts.
West is out of touch with rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits
The concept of augmenting the intellect - rather than replacing/displacing human labor —has been popping up a bit lately when people discuss/ponder the latest wave of “AI”.
Lifting this from a sibling.

I’m not sure I 100% trust my government to decide what services I’m eligible for. I’d worry it would merge with the surveillance and police states.

Imagine your cellphone pinging a tower during a protest and losing your ability to open a line of credit.
In simple terms, what does Hotwire mean / provide?
SVB lobbied congress to not be subject to liquidity stress tests and got caught with their pants down. They didn’t have to buy 10 year bonds. They also didn’t have to buy volatile mortgage securities, which they did. They were obviously playing fast and loose with the rules (or making their own rules as they went).
You shouldn't do X if you don't have the balls to admit that X is what you're doing. Either fire someone or don't, but don't fire someone and try to pretend it's not a firing.
Lol at the green usernames rooting for that dude on unrelated posts
Hard to tell. Wish the article was more clear on that.

I then spent 10 minutes on YouTube watching gameplay of modern pachinkos, trying to understand the skill and game play. I failed. I had one of these in the 70s. There was no skill involved back then (well, maybe a little bit). I was hoping the modern generation was skill-based… then I’d buy one as a pinball fan.

Here is where she bought hers: https://a-pachinko.store $400 shipping to the US
Yeah, but it'll probably be more useful running Windows. At least it can play games. :)
Oh no. Users will have to interact with content other than largely low-quality, reposted, copied news articles. This will surely be the downfall of general public discourse online, as social media sites simply don't have a purpose beyond resharing news.

Good riddance. News sites lose, facebook loses, this feels like a net gain for sanity online.
https://archive.ph/hFQyV
> It used to be that if someone linked something the BULK of the people who saw that link and were interested would click it and if they wanted to engage...

I find myself reading comments more than news articles these days because almost every site is littered with modal popups, floating autoplay videos, dickbars covering most of the screen, consent banners, notification consent, location consent, not to mentioned ads, after every paragraph and sometimes almost impossible to scroll past without clicking. The internet has become extremely user hostile, and the true irony here (I can't believe I'm saying this) is that social media sites are focused on engagement so they're actually motivated to not make their UX a painful experience.
Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80% - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

> Are you staring aghast at the latest cluster of immigrants in this country, are you fretting that they're breeding like rabbits? That generation of children will be the people your kids grow up with, go to school with, date, and marry. It may take a while, but eventually, your line will merge with theirs.

Please don't spread the great replacement conspiracy theory.

> There are no grounds to argue that there are distinct subpopulations of people with different potentials for intelligence. Genes flow fluidly

I don't see why we need to talk about "distinct subpopulations" at all, when individuals suffice. Besides, if you think "gene flow" means intelligence is immune to evolution, doesn't that apply to every other trait as well? What you're arguing is that evolution doesn't happen.
Abandoned Detroit School with Laptops Left Inside
My point was the casual way of demeaning the world by saying most won’t trade with China. People aren’t dollars.

> authoritarian government produces this dominance thinking, combined with misconception about how the US rules

Westerners have a misconception of what is authoritarian or democratic, and what isn’t.

China is authoritarian but so is manufacturing consent under liberal regimes. There’s a startling amt of propaganda the west takes in to believe in their own superiority. I listed many examples of western imperialism and mucking about. That’s a fraction of the total amount. Which is many, many times more than China.

China is bad. So is the west. Everything you fear about Chinese thinking is a mirror of western thinking except add smugness and elitism to the mix.

How does the US rule?

> Another consequence is that invasion will destroy the fabs in Taiwan and nobody will get chips for a while.

Less weapons to kill innocent Palestinians with? Sounds okay to me.
The federal reserve does not print money, the Treasury does.

Supposedly the debt ceiling prevents runaway spending. That already doesn't work because money is loaned into existence in ever-increasing amounts.
YES! We are getting awfully tempted to move at least my AI team to Github. We don't want to dedicate someone to figure out CI/CD/MLops pipelines, which would mostly amount to translating existing, published, official github action pipelines to something that can work on Gitlab. Our devops teams can help, but when in our case we need a pretty domain specific pipeline setup. Most of the pipeline related docs for Azure ML, for example, is based around very extensive github actions templates. It would take minutes to just deploy it there.

I mean in this particular case, it's unfair since microsoft would obviously favor github. But it's not like there's a marketplace where a community made version could be used as a replacement...
Is swift outside of Apple as fully fledged and performant when it comes to concurrency? Last I checked, a lot of the heavy lifting came from GCD (ie the Apple runtime-scheduler)
To make it really clear, Its not the raw amount of noise or even the noise/signal ratio that I'm pointing to but rather the spectral properties of randomness. It matters if you use white noise, pink noise, brown noise, gaussian, uniform etc. These variations in the coarseness of noise pattern will each obscure patterns of the same coarseness. Put another way, if your noise pattern is trees, you won't be able to discern if a forest was there prior to the noise. You'll miss the forest for the trees. You can sort of get out of it by switching away from single pixel uncorrelated noise, but that's hard to think about and hard to code and it all looks random when you test it anyway.

I don't know how well if at all the adversary side of the process adjusts the probabilities.
Sometimes you capitalize words because they’re the first word in a sentence. What point are you making here?

The OP was

> While libertarian tendencies may be more prevalent in the VC community, they seem to still be a small minority

No caps. Please take your bad faith arguments elsewhere
Yes there are not cheap to process. And those who pay for Experian data will push eventual rise on their customers, sadly.
Software Engineers work for $40k net in Europe? Genuinely asking.
It was bad enough that the developers laid off all the discord moderators and made a public apology, but they didn't say how many people chose not to renew their monthly passes.
Water Thread Experiment
And his opposition party would do that, plus vastly expand offshore drilling, plus scrap every cent of federal spending intended to reduce carbon emissions. The political situation in the US is not and has never been compatible with combating climate change.
What does the FDIC do when your bank fails? (2009) – 60 Minutes Archive
RIP Recode
I want to point out that since hitting bankruptcy Detroit is on its way back. The city isn't without problems but is making steady progress.

The Detroit Public Schools are another matter altogether. It's one disaster after another. Some might point out that these dozens of laptops left behind are probably older machines. But you can load Linux on them and give them to kids without home computers and I can assure you there would be many worthy takers.
> YC is known primarily as a place where very early founders create something from nothing by simply applying online and joining the world’s best founder community.

Uhh... no. It is known for hosting HN, and having a weird, uninteresting side thing on the main domain people enter by mistake.
Kinda useful but there are some things missing/broken, is this open source? are you accepting PRs?