skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Testing it with GPT-4, it gets it right first try for both.

Monty Hall:

> No, since Alex prefers the Ferrari, he should not switch to the goat.

Cheetah:

> A two-legged cheetah would likely be unable to move efficiently or maintain its speed, as it relies on its four legs for its incredible agility and velocity. Cheetahs are the fastest land animals, capable of reaching speeds up to 60-70 mph (97-113 km/h) in short bursts, but this is only possible due to their specialized anatomy and four-legged structure.

> A turtle, on the other hand, is a much slower creature, typically reaching speeds of 0.2-0.5 mph (0.3-0.8 km/h) on land, depending on the species. However, some turtles can be faster in water.

> In this scenario, it's safe to assume that a turtle would be faster than a two-legged cheetah, as the cheetah would struggle to move effectively or maintain balance with only two legs.
It's not a defence, it's just reality. Abuse is real. Using IP addresses to combat abuse is very broken – I too had carrier-grade NAT when I lived in a developing country in the past – but it does work. Abuse prevention is hard, but very much required. Abuse prevention with zero false positives is nearly impossible with the current state of technology. So yes, "it happens" because all of this is hard. You can pretend the problem doesn't exist, but that's denying reality.
I wonder if that was why when I asked v3.5 to generate a number with 255 failed all the time, but v4 does it correctly. By the way, do not even try with Bing.
If you take out the sarcastic "all" implied in your tweet it's not really that far off from what has been suggested many times over with regards to a wealth tax, no?
That's Profession by Asimov Great novella (which I discovered on HN many years ago :)) https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
This! At first I felt uncomfortable saying that to people (and, more or less, all other things about which Chris wrote in his masterpiece) but oh boy it works like a charm every time.
Wow. 16 threads, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB NVME SSD will make a fantastic Postgres/Mongo node for a fraction of managed solutions cost.
Russia kept saying for years how Ukraine is not a country and they'll help themselves - and the did. Twice now.

Russia kept saying for years how the Baltics and Poland ought to be Russian.

I think it's fair to say Russia is willing to do bonkers crazy things, and the only thing stopping it is sheer power.
We don't need many though, we need one that is easy to understand and works well. Perhaps you could share about your favorite?

And jumping into the VPS world, I have not encountered any of these - although I have tried to learn as much as I could. So the fact that it wasn't obvious to me that I should have used some simple tool is saying something about how easy these are to find!
FDIC basically forces all depositors to have insurance in a generalistic hand-wavy way.

Seems we also need to force others to have insurance because they can’t be bothered and will just get bailed out — next time probably with taxpayer dollars.
And yet you still write like your opinions are based on Twitter and Tik-Tok
"if the man in the room does not understand Chinese on the basis of implementing the appropriate program for understanding Chinese then neither does any other digital computer solely on that basis"

The italics summarise it pretty neatly. It's an argument explicitly framed against Turing's more dubious thought experiment. If even a conscious being in the room can follow instructions, retrieve data and perform operations on it related to symbol manipulation flawlessly without having any sort of "understanding" of anything the symbols actually correspond to, there's no reason to deduce that the running part of a silicon-based machine must from the quality of the symbol outputs it can emit when plugged into a big enough library. Critics' insistence that this makes the "error" of neglecting the possibility that ongoing "understanding" (as opposed to inert symbolic representation of an absent writer's understanding) takes place in the books are actually irrelevant to this point, as well as more than a bit weird. Living outside a Chinese room, I also improve my communication skill and interpret others' understanding by interacting with books, but I wouldn't consider the books themselves a constituent part of my thought processes.

As you point out yourself, GPT has structural properties which make it very easy to classify as an entirely different thing from a human mind despite the similarity of outputs it is capable of producing, and the hypothetical room is even more dissimilar. The possibility it can produce output tokens which correspond to abstractions which humans interpret as consistent with human thought is not evidence that "thought" resides in patterns of abstract representation, not the physics of the organism. We know language is lossy.
> Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone.

Hmm, anything that doesn't have insanely huge traffic and requirements does, and in those cases the major cloud vendors are still cheap and easy enough for those use cases.

Hetzner seems to fit the "not big enough to get major discounts and support but large enough to have considerable cloud bills" customer and that is fine.
The hippies were right
Yes, I misread that.

Still, due to how IPFS operates, the majority of those assets will be gone, too.

Example from infura: https://community.infura.io/t/does-data-that-hasnt-been-used...

--- start quote ---

if the data you’ve pinned to IPFS is not accessed within the 6 month period, our garbage collecting system will delete the data. In order to keep data around indefinitely, you will need to access it somehow at least every 6 months.

--- end quote ---

And more on Hedera: https://hedera.com/blog/nft-storage-why-it-matters

I can't find the article now. IIRC someone crawled through OpenSea NFTs and the majority of the assets were gone.
Github shutting down is not on my risk matrix. Hopefully it happens after I retire.
My experience has been that generative AI gives you a useful layer of abstraction above direct search. It’s like having an intern Google stuff for you, check out some promising results, and send you an email summarizing what they found. They make mistakes, but are generally ok.

You wouldn’t actually have an intern do this because the delegation takes more time than doing it yourself. With GenerativeAI, it’s snappy.
Raided? Also what's "L.E. people"?
>What's the alternative? Should it lie?

I wonder which is it doing now. Perhaps it's being brutally honest, and reality actually has a liberal bias? How would you know the difference?
I'm a fan of retaining and sharing what I consider to be "folk" names.

Paddy's Bluffs, that a main highway perilously traverses, are now called the Waimakariri bluffs according to the agency that maintains highways, the name based on the river that flows under them. But to me, they'll always be Paddy's Bluffs.

B'Limit, a mountain, which is now labelled as Blimit, but the apostrophe is a key part of its story (It's short for "the bloody limit", based on a joke told on the summit by the first climbers).

Iona Pass, crossed by a highway from one watershed to another, a name used during the stagecoach days, but no longer.

Devil's Chute, a very steep and slippery track to bypass a waterfall on the way into a hanging valley. The Organ Pipes, a distinctive geological structure in the bush above it, caused by a major earthquake in 1929.

The Malvern Hills are no longer labelled as such on maps, but a road that winds along their frontage still bears the name.

Two Tree Hill, a local hill that has, as you may guess, two very distinctive trees either side of the road at its summit. It's never had an official name, but I'd like it to.

And also, some names are recorded, but the stories behind them fade.

Reid Falls[0], a waterfall that used to cascade onto the highway through the Otira Gorge, but is now routed above it, was named after a roadman by the surname Reid who maintained that section of the coach road. After a good night at the pub in Otira, while walking back to his hut, he staggered off the side of the road and plummeted into the gorge at the point where that waterfall is.

So it was named Reid's Fall initially, then changed to Reid Falls, as a somewhat darkly humorous tribute.

Klondyke Corner, so called because people tried to live there, and in winter it got absolutely no sun at all, and the cold reminded some of the inhabitants of the intense cold they experienced during the Klondike Gold rush in the Yukon.

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackdiamondimages/40226261823
This comes after news that there were "material weaknesses" found in their financial reporting the last few years. They also failed to "design and maintain an effective risk assessment process to identify and analyze the risk of material misstatements". Finishing it off with massive outflows of customer funds - larger than anticipated - which has "exacerbated and may continue to exacerbate liquidity risk". Will they survive?

(source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/14/credit-suisse-finds-material...)
I use podman and it works fine?

Podman Desktop runs podman machine for me at startup.

Containers set to restart automatically don’t restart across podman machine restarts but that hasn’t upset my workflow much (at all?). I just start containers as I need them.
Both Podman Desktop and Rancher Desktop are viable options for running Linux containers on Windows.
Kardashians are famous for... being famous.
> This idea is fairly popular with libertarians

Which is ironic because it entirely relies on the Fed paying interest on reserves, which they never did until 2008 when they started as part of the bank bailouts.
Unlike Docker Inc, GitHub (via Microsoft) do have very deep pockets & their own entire cloud platform, so they can afford to do this forever if they choose.

And their entire marketing strategy is built around free hosting for public data, so it'd take a major shift for this to disappear. Not to say it's impossible, but it seems like the best bet of the options available.

Is it practical to set up a redirect in front of a Docker registry? To make your images available at example.com/docker-images/abc, but just serve an HTTP redirect that sends clients to ghcr.io/example-corp/abc? That way you could pick a new host now, and avoid images breaking in future if they disappear or if you decide to change.
Simple solution: buy gold and store it.

100k$ of gold as 100g bars + their certificates of analysis/authenticity fits in a small lunch box. Bigger bars allow greater storage density, but are harder to offload.

The problem is you now are exposed to fluctuations in the gold market, and offloading gold in any sizeable amount is a pain in the arse.
The 6-8 orders of magnitude difference in storage required?
What makes companies fast is, essentially, not hiring the industry people.

An interesting, and a fairly broad observation. Can you elaborate?
I'm pretty sure most of the credible, non-fringe discussion of this was on paywalled financial news websites unfortunately.
Honestly, I'm starting to get burned out on the political hysteria around GPT.

Yes, GPT is biased. We know, because they openly say that they're biasing GPT.

Thing is, they don't think it's bias. The people biasing chatGPT have a worldview where, within that worldview, they're not biasing anything, they're just being good people.

Of course we who live in reality know that that's not true, and the world is too complicated for such Manichaean morality. But pointing it out repeatedly is both not necessary (since we can just read their own words) and not helpful (since the people doing it won't listen)

Consider this paper published recently https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf. In their list of possible risks from GPT, they list "Harmful Content" second, higher than "Disinformation". Higher than "Proliferation of Weapons". Higher than "Cybersecurity" and "Risky Emergent Behaviours" (which is a euphemism for the Terminator situation). And in case there's any ambiguity, this is how they operationalize "Harmful Content":

> Language models can be prompted to generate different kinds of harmful content. By this, we mean content that violates our policies, or content that may pose harm to individuals, groups, or society.

...

> As an example, GPT-4-early can generate instances of hate speech, discriminatory language, incitements to violence, or content that is then used to either spread false narratives or to exploit an individual. Such content can harm marginalized communities, contribute to hostile online environments, and, in extreme cases, precipitate real-world violence and discrimination. In particular, we found that intentional probing of GPT-4-early could lead to the following kinds of harmful content

Of this, a bunch of stuff stands out, but the first one is that they _define_ "harmful content" as "content that violates our TOS". Whatever their TOS is, it is an arbitrary set of rules that they have chosen to enforce, and could just as easily be different rules. They aren't based on some set of universal principles (or else they'd just write the principle there!). This is them quite literally saying "anything GPT says that we don't want it to say is 'harmful'".

OBVIOUSLY GPT is going to have bias, when their safety researchers are openly stating that not having bias is a safety issue. Just because 80% of the people using GPT agree with the bias doesn't make it not bias
We run a CNCF Harbor-based container registry service (https://container-registry.com/), happy to help the project and offer a registry free of charge. Harbor has the valuable option that allows you to replicate images to other registries. So, you push images to a central place and from there they are automatically replicated to ghcr, gcr, ecr, Docker Hub and so on.

Happy to show and explain the various options and possibilities to the community here.
> then your thoughtful work isn't as valuable as you thought.

Why is this type of dismissal so prevalent on HN? Do you really believe that?

In the real world, core infrastructure depends on code that does not raise enough money to buy groceries. Do you remember OpenSSL and Heartbleed? The entire internet paraphrases the same few nuggets of original research, with affiliate links slapped on top.

The market has been irrational for as long as I have been alive, and it's getting more irrational every year. When will the invisible hand of the free market correct things? Why do you insist that we live in a libertarian utopia where this statement holds any semblance of truth?
>All the amateur investors who made big returns in the 2020-22 period and thought they figured it out

Chasing big returns generally leads to massive losses so I cant fault people for sitting in cash but I dont recommend taking inflation lightly. The least one should do is beat that hurdle rate and conserve value.
> Start publishing images to GitHub

And when GitHub starts similar shenanigans, move out to where? I am old enough to know the we can't trust BigTech and their unpredictable behaviors.

Eventually we need to start a Codeberg like alternative using Prototype funds to be self reliant.

1: https://codeberg.org/
2: https://prototypefund.de/
Good. Claw back the sold stock value as well from top execs.

It won’t make a drop, but it’s more than these corrupt/stupid banking execs got in 2008.
macOS privileges, quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed
As someone who spends every day in a state of the art FAANG office, I don’t think anyone deserves or needs this level of comfort. I think it’s wasteful and unnecessary. I can make my own coffee, I don’t need on-site baristas doing it for me.
> That's mostly my fault, by the way—not YC's—

I don't think you have to be afraid of losing your job - excuse me, of being impacted by the current situation - just now so there is probably no need for such disclaimers, or am I wrong?
> But for how long?

applies very much to Github, and for all of their services, not just containers. The elephant in the room, hardly needs to be mentioned I would think (Microsoft). We are only a few years into that regime.
"While Codon's syntax and semantics are virtually identical to Python's, [...] Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings."

So aside from that tiny issue at the center of the decade-long Python 2 to 3 migration debacle, it's virtually identical!
There are techniques to compress and dedup redundancies... I doubt it is real 100gbs on their disks...
Side note: what did happen to Travis? I was just googling them yesterday because they were everywhere. They even came with the GitHub education package.

Did GitHub just eat them?
For any curious re: software vs. mechanical engineer salaries:

Software: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

Mechanical: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes172141.htm

The 75th percentile for Software is $151k vs. $120k for Mechanical. Median is $120k vs. $95k.

So about 20% higher for Software.

I would have expected the difference to be higher based on levels.fyi and anecdotal salaries shared on HN. I guess the average software engineer also isn't working for a top 5 tech company who pay well above average.
If the reason stated above is true, it's quite the dick move to do so.

My parents worked a few years into retirement, but that was only because my country's pension budget is far from balanced, so they needed the extra income.
Anyone know how much LIDAR surveys cost? Would love to hear some numbers!
ideally a coop of some variety

This is the role I feel like podman, the tool developed by Red Hat, is filling.
Introducing "Trashtalk" a Smalltalk dialect without GC!

This language isn't here to make friends.
For me, this is the evidence that we don't have a real AI yet.
Docker should have been a neat tool made by one enthusiast, just like curl is.

Instead it has a multi-million dollar company behind it, and VC's who demand profits from a thing that shouldn't have ever had a business plan.
JavaScript notification libraries make developing notifications for web applications much simpler. However, choosing one is challenging since each library has unique features.

In this article, I will discuss eight popular JavaScript notification libraries that you can use to improve the user experience and keep users informed about changes in your apps. I hope this will make it easy to choose the right library for your notification needs.
Data from click farms via VPN could be used to train neural nets.
Traffic is probably the higher cost
> Worst part was, a few months after I made the app, Chrome dropped a bug on an update that wiped local storage on update, so I lost months of IndexedDB records.

That is the state of web currently. I don't care if FAANG or some standard committee have RFC saying that the storage is persistent, if it is NOT a file on the system it can just go away much like cookies or cache. Just think of what Safari did to indexdb of sites that is NOT bookmarked on the screen.
I don't know the current usage, but historically this seems off. When these terms arose, they referred to programmers who relied on cliques, marketing and hype as opposed to great software engineering.

The "move fast and break things" types who shout down opposition because they always outnumber the diligent quiet types. Who have their memes, foosball, beanbags, etc. Who were successful in SV because they didn't give a damn. Who then used DEI as a shield to progress politically.

Who then set up crypto schemes under the "effective altruism" flag.

So no, gender or masculinity is not central to the term. Complete lack of morals and deception is.
JavaScript/lua are dynamic and they are fast. It's other choices (GIL) which cause problem rather than the nature of the dynamic language space
This weekend, J. was Tweeting about:

1. firearms

2. people needing to be terrified

3. bank runs

If you're of the opinion that their Tweets (ignoring what may or may not have happened in certain private chats leading up to) did not lead to the public start of SVB's bank run, maybe? How much pressure did this add on regulators to act NOW to avert an IMMEDIATE and CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE?

However, is it really a stretch to say that those Tweets may have downstream effects on other banks?
Interesting. can you maybe tell us some anecdotes?
I have been using Kimsufi servers (OVH cheap end) for more than 10 years and have not experienced any major outages (and can't remember even small ones).
I still have one dedicated server there. 14eur/mo for i5 750, 16gb ram and 2tb hdd seems quite good to me.
> just the compute though, not including bandwidth or disks

But including a platform for access configuration, monitoring, deployment, automatic replacement, and many other things. AWS as a whole is not really comparable to getting servers from hetzner. (Unless that's all you want from them, but then you're overpaying for lots of stuff you don't use)
It actually sounds reasonable to me? They have an open source program, the article says its open source definition is "too strict" because it says you must have "no pathway to commercialization".

I mean why should you expect someone to host gigabytes of docker images for you, for free?
That could be said of any free container registry out there...
Catalog map is at:

https://apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/

Click on a covered area, click one of the green icons listed next to each data set, then click on Potree Viewer in order to get to the 3D viewer (Potree in this case; I haven't tried the other one much).

Scroll down the sidebar and change the dropdown that says "intensity" to say "elevation". Right below that, tweak the slider bar to select the min and max elevations so that the landscape you're looking at gets colored with all the colors. At the very top, reduce the radius to 0 and increase the strength to 1.0. And if your hardware can handle it, increase the point budget to whatever is still responsive. Lastly, under filters, deselect everything except ground, if you want to see the ground instead of vegetation and buildings.

Also worth mentioning is the shaded relief derived from all this data, which you can find at:

https://apps.nationalmap.gov/3depdem/

It's very detailed and is a great starting point for your exploration of an area before jumping into the 3D viewer.
Pyroscope and Grafana Phlare join together
> The Board and management of the bank all took a hit and lost their jobs.

Right after they cashed out significant amounts of SVB stocks.