skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would anyone walk them?

Probably because the grants require it, the bioethics committee will watch for it, and the laws regulate it [1]. So if there is a minimum possibility of walking the dogs or enrich their lives, will be used extensively.

[1] (See for example: Council of Europe – European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes (ETS No. 123). Strasbourg 1986).

Lets don't be so dumb as to ignore that this is a tightly, strictly, closely regulated field

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And also because the investment in money and time is too expensive that nobody wants the risk to neglect the animals and lose it. Not when your entire career, income and wellbeing of your partner and children depends on this animals. And because they are humans of course and like to interact with their lab animals.

Animals that will be used later in extremely critical experiments that could cure horrible diseases forever in both humans --and pets--. Don't forget that. If a medicine for humans is tested in dogs, will be developed for humans but also for dogs at the same time, so, yes there is a sacrifice, but also a big reward for every dog in the planet.

But this will not be discussed because this kind of articles hallucinating hells of crying mice and psycho/broken-hearted lab people, have been written with two obvious purposes: 1) luring naive donors and part them from their money and 2) discourage young adults to work in a field that is critical if we really want --to reduce-- animal and human suffering.

And this is a criminal move, and should be ashamed and mocked every single time.
Ask HN: Suggestions to Monetise This Dataset?
Since 2011 I have been collecting basic statistics about Telegram channels. The main benefit of this dataset is that for 4070 Telegram channels I have over 17,000,000 snapshots of the number of members and how many were online at the time of the snapshot, with an intra-daily frequency.

Some statistics:

- Created: 26 May 2021

- Last modified: 15 Mar 2023

- Number of rows: 17,114,794

- Total logical bytes: 3.68 GB

- Active logical bytes: 3.68 GB

Here is an example of an observation:

- content: 87133members,35361online

- date: 2022-03-27

- datestamp: 2022-03-27T00:10:05

- channel_id: SUKUecosystem

- contract_address: 0x0763fdccf1ae541a5961815c0872a8c5bc6de4d7

- channel_url: https://t.me/SUKUecosystem

- members: 87133.0

- online: 35361.0

Any thoughts on how to Monetise this dataset?
You didn't deny the scam or ethics issues. Was that intentional?
Let us bid adieu to that chunk of rain forest. First them archeologists will go scrounging, followed closely by the tourists.

Do these 'historic' finds serve any purpose for our future generations?
Or would those trees have served our children better?
> Given a choice between the chlorinated stuff, and something one can drink half a shot glass of and not suffer any toxic effects, I'll take the acetone any day.

Fun fact: if you drink isopropyl alcohol, your body metabolises it (partly) to acetone, which you can smell and taste. But, well, don't drink either anyway. :-)
> In the past we had barely no movement in comparison with today

People used to be highly mobile (and continue to be). The Americas were settled by millions of Europeans and Africans before the United States even became a country. South Asians were moved to Africa during the colonial era en masse. Vikings settled all over Europe and even Istanbul. The Huns, Goths, Romans, were all on the move.
Thanks for your reply, cool that there are others who have the same interpretation of the ongoing development. I said "it probably won't happen", I mostly meant that in a resigned way, where I think that humanity won't muster up any resistance and leave things to Sam Altman and OpenAI to decide. Sad as that is.

I also find it funny how the paperclip maximizer scenarios are at the forefront of the alignment people's thoughts, when even an aligned AI would reduce humanity to a useless pet of the AGI. I guess some can find such an existence pleasant, but it would be the end of humanity as a species with self-determination nonetheless.
> We should be writing better compilers and libraries

this is a bizarre claim to make and just completely ignores reality.

people ARE trying to make better compilers and libraries, and have been for decades. we are we are now after person-millennia of effort, and that still means the optima we're at requires writing some repetitive web template rendering code in JSX or whatever, which Copilot can automate. why didn't some homomorphic-monoid-transformer-auto-renderer win instead?
"your ownership of anything is merely a record written on some piece of paper"

This is a very young/naive way of seeing it, as the Spanish saying dutifully notes, "physically having something is 9 parts out of 10 of the law for ownership" ("La posesión es nueve décimas partes de la ley"). Meaning ownership is not as much what is on paper but it is having something, claiming it's yours, and no one else claiming it's theirs basically (not always, but that's why the saying says 9 out of 10).

https://primaveraeuropea.eu/la-posesion-es-nueve-decimas-par...
We still need to determine the fees, but we expect around $0.5 per tx.

Which fee do you think would be the ideal in your case?
I don't know about Hetzner but my experience with OVH on dedicated servers and failures is like this: they detect when the server is down, mainly when it's off or doesn't ping, and then they try to boot on their debug distribution and perform some checks on the machine. They don't monitor other health issues however (how would they since you are running your own system?) and therefore don't do anything before they detect a "down" status.

Some failures I experienced and had to monitor/detect myself were: overheating (they replaced thermal paste when I told them I saw strange readings from the CPU stats), raid disk failure or ssd high burn (ie. partial failure, server still running, they replaced the failed disks after I told them).

Most of the time the issues have been resolved within 1-4 hours on low-cost Kimsufi and SoYouStart offers, even on weekends and nights. Often when the server is running they can require a shutdown.

I'm quite happy with this as I am highly technical in those subjects and like to look under the hood, but with dedicated servers you really have to do some more maintenance/monitoring/planning yourself.
Rubbish. My webOS TV has proper filtering at the router level and has exactly 0 ads on it. Having full root access is great too.
True, didn't want to go into detail (multiple extensions) so just quoted the original.
Absolutely, some redundancy is necessary if uptime is critical (as well as backups).
> We can't all be writing lisp

Why not? Isn't it easier to learn new syntax than to figure out a correct prompting for AI? (Although actually, Haskell syntax would be something I would prefer to write in.)
I trust a scribe because they are a person with years of specialised training and experience who can be held accountable.

> in any case, HIPAA will protect you

It protects you insofar as it disincentives honest actors from doing sketchy things with your data. It's punishment for orgs, not protection for patients, like how laws against murder punishes the murderer rather than protecting the victim.

The best thing a patient can do to protect their privacy is to be actively avoid of medical practitioners that, for example, use tools like this which send your private medical consultation transcripts to God-knows-where.
Any recommendations for the lens?

Sounds like I have to build one now, got a Pi Zero laying around somewhere... :-D
I have been working in the industry since 20 years and i have not a single bad word to loose about Hetzner.

Their Service has always been impeccable and their servers just run.

I have been running k8s clusters on hetzner for quite some time now and the flexibility for the price is exactly what i expect from a hoster!

Now with this addition Hetzner closes another gap that made projects spends thousands more on enterprise clouds. So im not only happy but also proud that they just keep innovating!
Well, yes, having a single server is risky in any production context if it's storing any sort of state that can't be easily brought back up on another server
At the same time they removed quite some server options, which fitted in between the current specs. This is not so nice, my upgrade path is interrupted now and I need to order a much bigger and more expensive machine.
> You shouldn't buy lottery tickets anyway (and ChatGPT will tell you so, if you ask it).

I was curious so asked..

ChatGPT:

As an AI language model, I cannot endorse or encourage gambling activities, including playing the lottery. However, I can provide some information about the lottery and the best strategies that people use to increase their chances of winning:

- Play regularly: The more you play, the better your chances of winning. But remember, playing the lottery can be addictive, so it is important to set a budget and stick to it.

- Play less popular games: Less popular lottery games tend to have smaller jackpots but better odds of winning.

- Join a lottery pool: Joining a group of people who pool their money together to buy lottery tickets can increase your chances of winning.

- Choose your numbers carefully: Some people believe in choosing numbers that are meaningful to them, such as birthdays or anniversaries. Others prefer to choose random numbers. It's important to note that the odds of winning are the same no matter what numbers you choose.

- Consider the odds: It's important to understand the odds of winning the lottery. The odds vary depending on the game, but in general, the odds of winning the jackpot are very low.

It's important to remember that playing the lottery is a form of gambling, and there are no guarantees of winning. It's important to play responsibly and never spend more than you can afford to lose.
> You are wrong. It does have encoded memory of what it has seen, encoded as a matrix.

Not after it's done generating. For a chatbot, that's at least every time the user sends a reply back; it rereads the conversation so far and doesn't keep any internal state around.

You could build a model that has internal state on the side, and some people have done that to generate longer texts, but GPT doesn't.
American banking stories always read as an '90 comedy to me, as a European.

Furthermore, once I visited Philadelphia, and I saw several people standing in queue. I asked what restaurant or place that was. My driver said it's where people wait in line to pay their rent. He did not laugh. That was not a joke. People do that for real in the USA.
Can somebody explain what's happening? If I just scroll a bit, then try to go back I get another graph. Then if I try again to go back it works. It's probably accidental, but I'm curious what is causing this behavior.
I'm not sure what "deactivating RAID" means.

They will all be hot-swap disks. You remove the old disk and slide in the new one (or in this case, tell them to do it). The RAID system rebuilds the array in the background over the next few hours.

During that time you will lose data if it's RAID 5 and another disk fails.
Oh wow, this could come in handy
Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4
A doctor doesn't do this because of ethics and HIPAA. I'm sure lawyers aren't so keen on sharing privileged information that would compromise their case either.
> for me

I question the objectivity of these percentages
Yeah when I land on your web site and I get:

Request on Hold - Suspicous Activity Detected.

I'm turned off instantly. I'm on a static IP on a respectable ISP in the UK and I'm not waiting in a queue for 57 seconds and counting to look at the sales pitch.

Edit: so I use that time wisely to shitpost about it on HN, then check TrustPilot and I see:

"Unfortunately, based on your description (I need a ticket number or other customer information to find you in our system), you accidentally resembled an abuser."

Not a good outward appearance. I'll stick with AWS and paying through the nose.
There is more than one city in South Korea.

Over half of South Koreans live in the Seoul Capital Area. That’s a much higher proportion than countries other people often accuse of being overcentralized and neglecting the regions, like the UK with London or France with Paris.

And to some degree what you describe is a self fulfilling prophecy; big cities hollowing out the smaller ones, shrinking their economies and leaving their governments in deficit and the services worse, rinse and repeat.
>>> People were appalled by the Twitter firings, but seriously, how many people does it take to run old, established, (micro)blogging platform?

You underestimate the amount of people it takes. There are so many things to do, dev, SRE, ops, support etc.
Rebuilding raid doesn't take the server down but disk performance i.e. IPOS will be reduced while it takes place
Running service on 1 server always carries some risk whatever form that server takes

For example I have loads of stuff on Linode but always make sure I keep backups off-linode, incase I get a random TOS account shutdown and they stop speaking to me etc
how far is this from the following prompt:

you are god human that has read and understood all scientific papers from all disciplines in the last 500 years, you know the limitations of mankind's current technologies, tell me what we can do to cure MS right now, how to do the tests and how to distribute the cure
nice analogy ^_^
It's not actually self-evident: even if you take for granted that less-qualified people get hired, that could mean that companies invest more in training, or that the marginal bit of software is equally good but slower to produce than if more-qualified engineers had written it (because it took more code reviews and produced more technical debt along the way), etc.

Besides, that's barely pertinent to my point, which is that if you see bugs, you can probably blame them on engineers, but if you see design and product choices you don't like, attributing it to "noob" programming is bizarre.
Oh wow, I'd completely forgotten this site existed.

I remember first stumbling across it way back in 2002, when I'd received a rather unusual spam email and was trying to find out more about its origins - turned out Kottke had blogged about it: https://kottke.org/02/07/an-email-from-ryan-and-jacob

Quite surprised and fascinated to see it still up and running. Time to have a browse and see what I've missed!
IT workers are as divas as Basketball players (to some extent): why on earth Lebron James earns millions? Answer: because the team that owns him makes much more than that by selling his image. Easy. Same of IT workers: IT companies make millions per employee, so they pay us hundred of thousands in exchange. Easy.
Hetzner opened at least one US location with more in the way, I think.

Edit1: missed word;

Edit2: people pointed below that the us locations don't have dedicated servers, cloud servers only;
there's active work on watermarking LM outputs. here's one example:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tomg-group-umd/lm-watermarking
* Vim and probably Emacs (I don't use Emacs but I understand it has some good points). You can write in latex, html, markdown, asciidoc, docbook ... pick your markup language.

* FocusWriter is a nice, configurable distraction-free editor/light word-processor.

* I hear good things about Scrivener, which seems to be like a really good code editor for prose.

Personally, I write in Vim + HTML (which is a pretty full-featured and reasonably light markup language if all you're doing is writing).
> I don't know anyone who uses it for this

that would be surprising - it does a fantastic job of producing e.g. dumb unit tests. for instance, Copilot + a Go table testing template means you can churn out the simple "make a request to this url with this data, ensure I get a 200 and the response contains 'id' and not 'error'" extremely quickly. the code is trivial but tedious, so you can quickly inspect for sanity and run to ensure they pass, then commit and have them checking future changes.

> it's really really daft to generate tests that might hallucinate some random crap (and copilot really does sometimes).

variations on this comment are all over these threads, which is bizarre. hallucinating means you waste a few seconds reading the code it produced, not that you commit incorrect code.

this isn't like ChatGPT advising people to drink bleach, Copilot is a dumb tool offering an expert (you) suggested solutions for your expert consideration
10 Years of Electron
I'll bite: How does swallowing emoji exclude people?
Have you even considered that you are a robot?
Hu, weird. We run 15 AX101 instances, 13 for Elasticsearch and 3 for ScyllaDB, and I haven't had one reboot yet. Though even if they did it would not impact the stability of our databases.
I like ReliableSite (reliablesite.net) - not as cheap as Hetzner but they they have a few US locations to pick from.
Great, now Bank of America can take unlimited risks!
I can suggest “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez if you’re looking for a novel with such a plot.
I just did this recently with a dedicated server in RAID 6 where a disk failed. They have a page on their wiki to walk you through it, but basically you boot up into the rescue system (network boot, activated on user panel).
Then you figure out the failed disk based on existing or missing serial number, input that into the support form, request replacement. This was done in about 20m, then I rebuilt the RAID, rebooted it was fine
> as the Spanish saying dutifully notes, "physically having something is 9 parts out of 10 of the law for ownership" ("La posesión es nueve décimas partes de la ley"

This is already an English saying. "Possession is nine tenths of the law."
Better readability -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1635754587775967233.html
A lot of exaggeration going on here.

Most developers don't live in the Valley, most of us didn't earn astronomical salaries during the past decade, most of us didn't have to run code reviews past a "diversity committee". We mostly just got on with our job like everyone else.

Of course we debated languages and frameworks but so what? Every profession has its arguments over tools and processes. Everyone complains about their manager and endless meetings.
All true, but I suspect the end goal Rust's type system wasn't to eliminate GC. It was "fearless concurrency". You can see this in languages that encourage multithreadeding and have a GC. In Go memory allocation is easy because of GC, but even so naively put working single threaded Go code in a multithreaded environment and it will likely segfault. GC doesn't solve the currency problem.

I suspect it was just happy circumstance that a type system so strong it makes memory access compile time checkable is also strong enough to eliminate the overheads of GC. So they did that too.

But the claim that all this tediousness is there to eliminate GC sort of misses the point - that's not the reason they introduced it. Rust's complex type system is a type of formal proof system that eliminates a lot of bugs at compile time. The "sum types" discussion above talks about another class of bugs it eliminates. Eliminating bugs at compile time is the point - not making memory allocation easier.
I like the lack of self-awareness.

It mentions Republicans did something to lose the confidence of the Californian voter.

Followed by a long rant about how immigrants are destroying civilization by doing non-european things, like speaking Spanish, forming unions, making people queue for things, and loosening beaurocratic rules during infectious pandemics.
US locations are cloud-only.
You don't have to accept, but they should at least actively try to bring you in if your account is a bug or important one.

There are plenty of ways to get you in the conversational door like offering a better rate or to help protect the account.

Eventually someone from hashicorp "...notices we have ~$35M sitting in cash in a Chase bank account. This is obviously not a smart thing to do, so he suggests some financial plans for how to better safeguard and utilize this mountain of cash". The bank could have been the party to preemptively explain this to the author, and if they did they might have been able to be a part of the solution (or at least try to negotiate for it) instead of losing the entire account.

It sounds like the bank manager was being too delicate, asking the author if they had any banking needs when he didn't really think he had any. They should have been more blunt and said look dude you have a ton of money in here, you're probably not used to managing this amount of money, we need to take just a bit of time to discuss it and we'll make it easy and worth your while.
I've never spoken directly with Searle, but I have with several of his students and all have been emphatic that the Chinese Room Argument is demonstrates that a computer program can't have intelligence.

Quoting Searle himself,

"The point of the argument is this: 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 because no computer, qua computer, has anything the man does not have."

I think the most succinct description of his error is substituting the (lack of) understanding of a part of the system (the man) for the understanding of the entire system (the rules and file cabinets, etc.). But I'm interested in learning that I'm mistaken.

You could turn his position around and say it's not the computer itself that's intelligent when a Chinese room system exhibits intelligence but the program -- and I suppose I'd agree with that, but it's also just semantics, uninteresting, and I don't believe he's ever taken that position.

I do agree that "merely replicating a behavior" doesn't prove much, but I don't think the Chinese room speaks to that substantially. It might if it demanded that the room implement only a very simple input to output map, but it doesn't: it allows the room to implement anything a computer program can implement. (A fact I use in my post to point out that the room could (in our land of hypotheticals) implement the molecular dynamics of an entire human being)

GPT has structural properties that make it very easy to classify it as an entirely different thing than a human mind. GPT is frozen in time, it cannot have an internal existence due to how its structured. It doesn't even have memory. It cannot learn (unless you include the whole company training it as part of 'it') except in the sense that it can immediately adapt to the output right in front of it, but can't preserve the knowledge. Theoretically if you made it arbitrarily large you could say it was close enough to having memory by always evaluating its complete history, but because its size grows quadratically with its window that isn't practicaly (and might not be possible to train-- it's totally credible that beyond some size these models will lose performance we just haven't gotten there yet). Figuring out how to train these models make good use of 'memory' is an ongoing challenge, since efficient memory isn't differentiable just ordinarily training with memory as part of the process doesn't work. Except by 'thinking out loud' in its output GPT also has a fixed upper bound on the time it can spend thinking any thought which is seemingly unlike a human mind.
News of which funds sent emails asking their portcos to withdraw funds from the bank that has supported this industry for 40 years is a reputation hit in my view. Although it may certainly not be a popular opinion.
Most people (especially here) would find those emails to be spam and never read them. Is that seriously your suggestion?
We don't trust you with it. You don't get a choice whether to trust us with it.