skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out this isn't wrong...

"After sequences of experiments, researchers concluded the best candidate was Nickelback. The peptide is made of 13 amino acids and binds two nickel ions.

Nickel, they reasoned, was an abundant metal in early oceans. When bound to the peptide, the nickel atoms become potent catalysts, attracting additional protons and electrons and producing hydrogen gas. Hydrogen, the researchers reasoned, was also more abundant on early Earth and would have been a critical source of energy to power metabolism."
LoL - profits are because they're geniuses - losses are because other people are dumb.

That's speculation 101.
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>why should a person born in India get treated completely different from someone born in the US? That is just racial discrimination to me

That would be nationalism or xenophobia, not racism.

Generally speaking it's an organizational issue, determining who can do what on a mass scale.
It might be against your provider's terms of service, but it's hardly illegal.

If someone else is doing illegal things on your IP address then you could blame the (users of the) service to avoid liability. Still you could find yourself targeted by a lawsuit. I wonder if Oxylabs' terms protect you in this case.
I don't see it as a nitpick. The review can be valuable to people working on the code and users wondering how competent the Nord team is.
As far as I understand, Apple's own software can bypass Little Snitch.

https://blog.obdev.at/a-hole-in-the-wall/index.html
They're referencing the fact that crypto is famously used as a payment mechanism by entities that hold people/companies to ransom by encrypting their data against their will.
Simon Willison wrote about this on Monday, so “I don’t think people realize what a big deal it is…” seems false.
But I can't quicksave there.
this is cope
At least the AI one isn't foiled by basic tenants of software devised in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_oracle
Okay my thread ripper can handle it because it has a 128GB of Ram.
Sounds like they should light up the close door button after the ADA required time to indicate when the button is active (rather than the status quo in which the functionality is illegible).
You're joking but we all know here too well that exactly this will happen.
Yes, Esrange is best suited to launches into Sun Synchronous Orbit, which is high-inclination (nearly a polar orbit). It's very popular for things like Earth observation satellites.
None of them. No really
read that again: None. Of. Them.
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

Especially not after Kape Technology bought up review sites and VPNs and updated reviews to shill the ones they own.

Kape Technologies was formerly known as Crossrider before it was acquired by Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire that has spent time in jail for insider trading. Crossrider itself never had that great a reputation itself, what with their primary product being a development platform through which they were frequently used by third parties to invade ad platforms to serve up malware. They are now the owners of ExpressVPN, PIA, CyberGhost, and Zenmate.

https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...

And then j2 global owns a bunch of others.

https://www.techradar.com/news/pc-mag-owner-j2-global-buys-s...

I'm 99% sure every VPN on the market is a honeypot or data broker at this point.
People are allowed to be paid for their work and no one is forcing you to read the article.
The market compared their potential during the 2010s, because everyone was growing by leaps and bounds and the sky was the limit. There is clearly no reason to do that now.
Wouldn't the actual solution be removing country caps (before bringing up diversity remember that country caps are on your country of birth, not naturalization so tell me how country of birth is not a skin color filter?) Or making this a point based scheme or making this region+comp based instead of a universal category all over? Also can the govt do anything to catch and filter the sub contractor companies or is it allowing it as it is a great revenue source?
Do you know for sure that Mullvad sells DNS data? They claim to not log anything, including DNS.
Boy that BTC rug pull really hurt.

I'm still totally reeling from the XMR rug pull. Oh, wait...

Just because many are scams, doesn't mean there are no principled crypto currencies.

God forbid one should have to perform due diligence and actually think a bit about their currency.
Thats not selling out. If he keeps the old video up and doesn't make the claim that NordVPN does things it doesn't actually do, then he's just advertising.

There are legitimate uses for VPNs, they're just not the reasons these VPNs advertise (the the parent comment says).
Netflix Eats Up 15% of Global Downstream, Almost as YouTube and TikTok Combined
No? I've used Netflix with NordVPN like 2 years ago and since then switched to ProtonVPN, which works as well...

Using VPNs for Streaming is selling point #1 for tons of people.
I was very confused by the article and started to doubt myself before I realized the author forgot about the world outside the US.

It's pretty easy to find photos of these elevators.

https://duckduckgo.com/?va=t&t=ha&q=elevator+with+no+close+b...
Not a lawyer but this always struck me as exaggerated.

One, the FDIC was always going to provide a meaningful fraction in days which would have covered payroll. Employees and vendors are going to understand a few days delay because of a bank failure. It's embarrassing and bad but not existential.

Two, I expect the law is written such that a payment failure for liquidity induced bankruptcy isn't going to reach directors/officers. It's California so who knows but a law that did would be very badly written.
Binance is not a cryptocurrency.

Binance is a centralized service which allows people to buy cryptocurrencies, but which is not strictly necessary to use in order to use cryptocurrencies.

People can use decentralized exchanges like Bisq if they want to avoid these issues.

EDIT: Remember how Hackernews was supposed to be a community which has a focus on software development, and thus finding technical solutions to problems of users?

Now it seems we're more about bashing people for using the wrong technology? Advocating for a technical solution to their problems is disapproved of?
COVID did not shut down Apple's revenue generation. Revenue growth was staggering during COVID. Remember everybody buying electronics because of lockdowns? They may have felt less inclined to pay people while they weren't standing around in genius bars, but they didn't need cash reserves to keep them going.
> An “ultra-compact” model, which Amazon says is its smallest and most affordable, is a 7-inch square design that weighs about 1 pound and will offer speeds up to 100 Mbps.

> The “standard” design measures under 11 inches square and 1 inch thick, and weighs under 5 pounds. Amazon says the device will deliver speeds to customers of “up to 400 megabits per second (Mbps).” The tech giant said the “standard” version of the satellite antenna, also known as a customer terminal, is expected to cost Amazon less than $400 each to produce.

> Its largest “pro” model, at 19 inches by 30 inches, represents a high-bandwidth version for non-residential customers. Amazon says this antenna will be able to “deliver speeds up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps)” via space.
An ad hominem appeal to propriety:

"The moment I heard my opponent in the debate speaking in the vulgar dialect, I knew at once I could dismiss their arguments as those made by The Wrong Sort Of People. If they were serious about politics, they would have gone to a proper Public School."
Fine, but what could Hacker News have done to piss them off? HN doesn't typically assign gender identities to the authors of articles it links, does it?
I was recently in El Salvador and the hotel (Hyatt Centric San Salvador) had ThyssenKrupp elevators with door close buttons that actually worked! Presumably no ADA minimum times enforced there.

And it was amazing! Well, as amazing as such a thing can be - to push a button and have immediate feedback/response (it also felt like the doors even closed faster than they do here).

Pushing a button and having it do nothing is one of those frustrating little indignities, it’s bad with software and it’s even worse in the real world.
Currently 94% of those on the left, 83% of those on the center, and 45% on the right would be willing to make "some" or "a lot" of changes to work against climate change [1]. Politicians aren't choosing not to act for the sake of votes, they're choosing not to act precisely because they no longer have to worry about votes. Just demonize the other side endlessly and people will clearly turn out en masse. The politicians get their votes and corporate dollars, corporations get their perpetuated status quo, and society gets ever more polarized.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/09/14/in-response-to...
Frigate, optionally with Home Assistant. Exceptionally reliable for the two years I've used it.
Thank you. Let us assume that you were the owner of a hypothetical business named scrcpy.com

You would love for browsers to implement CSS colored urls or capital lettering to resolve both the issues you raised.
UTM Link Builder and QR Code Generator
>all of the applications coming from people thinking it's an easy meal ticket

Because it is an easy meal ticket. Why are we pretending it's not?

This is the only profession in the world where you can make decent money from the comfort of your home, via self study and without any high level education. Look at the other well paying professions, bankers, management consulting, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. how long they need to spend in university and how much money their studies cost, before they can get their first wage.

Meanwhile someone who's been coding for fun since childhood can get a decent wage starting 18th birthday, without a degree and without going into debt.

In my developing country that just moved to developed status, SW jobs were a big contributor in lifting young generations of ambitious youngsters out of poverty saving them from having to emigrate or do backbreaking work for peanuts.

The career has some downsides but it has the lowest bar for a skilled profession ever.
Whats the landing page design style called? Vercel? Are they the ones that did it first? I see it everywhere. Because I noticed vercel doing it first I think every website that does it is a vercel company.
Here's a really interesting video on some problems the Romans had in this exact spot a few decades earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURI6EHXybc

If memory serves it explains that Octavian was pretty ineffective here, but gets all this glory and name recognition while Agrippa did all the dirty work.
For anyone who, like me, was completely in the dark on parsing algorithms, this[1] course was extremely helpful and easy to understand.

1. https://www.udemy.com/course/essentials-of-parsing/
not to mention I think you want your knowledge in some kind of database and just let the AI just do the conversational part of it.

which would be a much easier and more reliable(explainable) way to do it. just find and parrot the facts.
See, that's what I started thinking as well. Except banks aren't startups. Banks actually make more money during high interest environment, and they don't need to have increasing deposits to stay alive (that's wrong projection from crypto grifters).

If they had cash injection, they could still plan for reduced client deposits. They don't need their deposit base to grow to stay alive. That's startups projections.
I think datomic is the only DB I'm aware of that can actually make the promises in the title.
Fair enough. Still not terribly relevant in the context of the Roman Empire.
I'd hope that mullvad at least wouldn't do that given how strongly they seem to value privacy. Of course, you can never be entirely sure...
Either you can try it out with a longer system prompt, or wait until OpenAI releases a fine-tune API for the gpt-3.5-turbo model. The system prompts aren't designed to be very long, so the fine-tune is definitely what you'd be looking for. But it's only provided for the older models, so it's outdated at this point.

I guess you could also try to tack on an extra layer before the actual API call, and make your own system that includes key bits of info to the prompt from a more specific data set. But I'd guess at this rate of new releases from OpenAI, it might be a safe bet to wait the couple of weeks until they update the fine-tune API.
Attackers who encrypt files and demand payment famously demanded cryptocurrency, in part because of the "transactions cannot be reversed" property and the (pseudo-)anonymity.

As banking transactions can be reversed and are as opposite of anonymous as is practically possible, it would be (darkly) amusing if a traditional bank did that, precisely because the damage would be undone and the guilty parties trivially identified.
> Fled away at record speed.

All while screaming "bank run", which was a clear signal from them to the Fed that they should step in.
That issue was fixed relatively shortly thereafter.
One way is getting a 8 or 9 figure government contract from said government connection.
That's a horrible trade-off for most users, who have decent internet almost always except that one time they don't.
> Plus many would have been back stopped by VC.

I think that's very suspect given the behavior of the VC set. Altman said he was going to write a few loans ("six figure" ones, even! That's, like, more than a car loan!), but the "whiny Calacanis types" were absolutely the rule, not the exception.

What has people so upset is exactly what the article is pointing out. The very set that claimed so loudly to be Brave Superheroes taking the risks that no one else could tolerate turned out to be outrageously risk-averse when faced with actually losing their own money.

And I think that calls into question the whole venture capital business model. It's not what we thought it was. At the top, it was a cartel-run gravy train, squeezing investment dollars from downstream investors and turning that into income for the partners at the big players.
Noob answer - yeah, that's what I'm talking about, there's certain levels of faking those responses that you can't really do.
The fact that Sony, who Microsoft insists is absolutely obliterating them in the gaming space, doesn't have the money to enact these sorts of massive mega-mergers seems telling that this kind of a deal is not just a natural part of the market. Rather, Microsoft is just leverating their wealth from their other businesses to armstrong the market.
Thank you!! You've hit the nail on the head and our thoughts exactly. One anecdote is we offer video demos and one potential customer just said, "I don't need to see it. I know what Copilot does." We do offer pilots for customers after fine-tuning on their codebase!
DOJ, SEC reportedly probing Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
I had an exec at my last job that came in like that. He was so transparent and likable that I immediately became suspicious. He had tons of stories so I assumed he was a bullshitter, but nope, it seems he had just been there and done that. I basically owe my career to that dude, he took a chance on me (I was about as low on the org chart as it gets) and it was the break I needed to show what I could do.

Sometimes there are actually great leaders in the sea of self-serving assholes that populate the business world.
The trial period (rumspringa) is not final. This is a standard convention. If you then choose to leave, yes you will be shunned.
I understand your point, more or less, I just find it funny that people calling themselves "rationalists"/"objectivists"/whatever other funny name just keeps stacking up a bunch of "what if"s and freaking out about it.

As somewhat of a cynical person, I also find it funny that

> While I agree that the guy is somewhat shrill and his ideas are pretty out there, he really doesn't seem like a con artist from my standpoint.

I've heard this exact same sentiment about another popular Effective Altruist in the past year. I will let the reader guess which one.
Just want to say that as a startup founder, running tech companies for the past many decades, this post makes me sad, not grateful or joyous. It makes me feel like there's plenty of money on the sidelines to fund $300M+ at-a-whim larks to bail out Startup founders who are mostly going to go bust anyways (those are just the facts of startup life), but meanwhile startup founders outside of that bubble can't raise a penny and go bust / layoff anyways. Layoffs.fyi tracker hasn't been slowing down.

So it's just a feeling, but it's not of happiness - it's of profound sadness and disappointment.
People who can use VPN
You don't need to store it in weights. It would be too expensive to constantly update model with new data. It wouldn't be able to contain everything anyways. LLaMa 30B with access to 100TB of storage(you can store whole libgen plus arxiv and much much more in there) and trained to use it should be ahead of LLaMa 65B with no such access in terms of world knowledge. And it would cost less.
> We then transcribe the consultation using a fine-tuned version of Whisper. We've trained Whisper with tens of thousands of hours of medical consultation and medical terms recordings, and we have now reached an error rate which is 3× lower than Google's Speech-To-Text.

I think the general idea is interesting but this is the wrong benchmark to convince people imo. What is the actual error rate of Google's Speech-to-Text on this your data? How convinced are you that it's properly labeled? That it's 3x lower isn't necessarily impressive. Then a follow up question... What I as a patient would want to know is something else, how does it compare against medical secretaries that usually transcribe documents like these?
Shouldn't that just be ALL PROVIDERS in general? There's probably a few choice ISPs that maintain their dignity, but I wouldn't put it past Comcast, Verizon, and all the mobile providers out there.
> Permissively Licensed: Trained only on permissively-licensed repos to avoid legal risks

You’re fine-tuning the model. What model are you fine-tuning? I can’t imagine you trained your own LLM from scratch, so how can you possibly guarantee the core model wasn’t trained on non-permissively licensed code?
That is a... very big assumption that I wouldn't put money on.

It's become pretty clear that models aren't a moat. If everyone has Codex-class capability (which is already happening), there's no real risk to them deploying on-prem, because the model itself is a commodity.
Did movie studios and tv channels employ large departments of researchers and engineers that developed and deployed the technology?
For me personally, it does not make much of a difference. Europe is fine, and so is another region.
I’m sure someone somewhere compiled the stats per region or per company.

Average h1b SWE salary is $109K, average SWE salary in the US is $108K

Of course average does not particularly prove one thing or the other. You can however look up your employer and compare the compensation to your own
https://h1bdata.info/topjobs.php
Cheerp 3.0: C++ compiler for the Web, now permissively licensed
He sat on the board of the bank; his opinion on this matter is worth less than nothing. I hear Sam Bankman-Fried also thinks FTX did nothing wrong and was also shut down by the government meanies.
Regardless, you shouldn't treat trust like that, don't use nordvpn. If I had to trust a mainstream vpn it would be mullvad.
I'm not sure where I learned it, but I've found that in many older elevators in the US, pressing door close simultaneously with the floor number will also get the doors to close immediately.
Your neighbor sets off fireworks in his living room and burns his house down. Everybody in your neighborhood with the same insurance policy immediately gets hit by a new fee that was not previously contracted, the neighbor walks away without a house, but also with his mortgage payed off.

In what world do we live in that a government agency can demand a new mandatory fee over the course of a weekend. This whole thing is bonkers.

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
If you liked the original post, you will probably LOVE this DEFCON talk about elevator hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I

It also gives a lot of fascinating information about elevators in general and specific operation modes.

e.g. there is a "riot mode" where the elevator goes to every floor except the first (or ground in EU) floor aka to the lobby. The idea was that, during a riot, a luxury building in NYC would lock the stairwell access from the lobby but people could still take the elevator to the other floors to visit their neighbors etc
Recursive-descent would usually (there are several options) write `parse_addexpr` somewhat like this:

Expr parse_addexpr() {
Expr result = parse_mulexpr();

while (peek_token() == TokenType.PLUS) {
expect_token(TokenType.PLUS);
Expr rhs = parse_mulexpr();
result = new AddExpr(result, rhs);
}

return result;
}

which corresponds to "addexpr: <mulexpr> (+ <mulexpr>)*" but with left-associative tree-composing.