skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only person I can think of that described the psychedelic experience as much as possible was Terrence McKenna. What you have to realize is that such an experience is ineffable and can't be reduced to mere words. McKenna kind of described it, but not really. Each person's experience is different and subjective, yet at the same time having a common thread of being astonishing, earth shattering and cosmic (well, at least, for the positive experiences).

Personally, being on mushrooms for me was a simple reminder that we are the Universe experiencing itself, and that it's a very vast place, and a reminder that we live in Infinity itself. On psilocybin, time has no meaning, it's just a construct of society.

One idea I've always had that if we are going to be a space-faring species exploring the Universe, then psilocybin would be a useful tool for doing that, similar to the Spice Melange in Dune. Psilocybin opens up the senses and personally (for me) doesn't impair my motor skills. I've always had the fantasy of exploring the galaxy whilst tripping.
Does OpenAI respect Robots.txt? Do we know?
Ahh OK, I think I see -- since the block files are synced in full, you are always swapping blocks and doing ~1MB of writing no matter what.

> I use a WebDAV server for storing backups (Fastmail Files). The server allows 10GB usage, but max file size is 250MB, *and in any case WebDAV does not support partial writes*. So writing a file requires reuploading it, which is the same situation as S3.

This is the part I absolutely missed. I was wondering how you were ensuring 1MB writes -- whether it was at the XFS level or mdraid level...

I think another thing that is missing which I'm inferring (hopefully correctly) is that you've mounted your webdav server to disk. So your stack is:

- LUKS

- mdraid

- losetup

- webdav fs mount

Is that correct?
Derivative training data is already part of the training regime. Earliest example produced rotated images for more robust image recognition.

IP laws are legal constructs and subject to changes like everything else depending on our needs. When and if enough of us see benefits from AI hugely outweighing benefits from maintaining IP framework, I'm pretty sure laws will be passed to make needed adjustments.
'Hidari' Is Stop Motion of a Different Kind
Why charge the storage with expensive nuclear when you could charge it with cheap renewables?
> That's surprising. I see $120 steaks on the menu in Las Vegas restaurants. Why not at the ski resort?

Dunno, but if you've figured out why, you should get in touch with the guys in this article.

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-...
>They do the same thing you and I do; read the literature and come to a conclusion.

No.
Most MQTT brokers are not great at storing data. The pattern that works the best for me in solving the "edge delivery" use case is a lightweight clustered MQTT broker (e.g. VerneMQ) with a little Lua script inside to push everything into Redis Streams (of course, clustered as well) immediately. Kafka is another alternative, but it's not that lightweight, operationally, and often Redis Streams are "good enough". With an LB in front of both Verne and Redis, this setup is pretty decent for IoT data ingress.
And America does a lot of things that Russia and China don't do apparently:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/03/11/silicon-v...
Guys… I got a Kadabra on my Pokémon blue that needs traded to evolve, anyone have a Haunter?
The Denial Of Death is a good book to read. Really explains how we hide from death at every turn and every action we take.
Maybe if we did strip away those defenses, we'd go mad? Like, maybe we can't handle the void?
It is wrong; see NHS Confederation[1] saying:

"In January, the average response time for a category 1 incident (where an immediate response is required to a life-threatening condition such as a cardiac arrest) was 8 minutes and 31 seconds. Although this is an improvement from the four preceding months, which were all over 9 minutes, the average across 2019 for comparison was 7 minutes and 12 seconds, and the ‘standard’ is 7 minutes.

This is even more pertinent for category 2 incidents, which include strokes and require rapid assessment and/or urgent transport and the standard is 18 minutes. In January this was over 38 minutes, and it passed 50 minutes in October and December. Although the standard was not regularly met pre-pandemic, the average across 2019 was still 23 minutes."

There's a muddled statistic from BBC News here[2]:

"Average waits of more than 90 minutes to reach emergency calls such as heart attacks - five times longer than the target time - with waits of over 150 minutes in some regions. Response times for the highest priority calls, such as cardiac arrests, taking close to 11 minutes - four minutes longer than they should"

(I don't know a difference between "heart attack" and "cardiac arrest".)

"The Royal College of Emergency Medicine believes up to 500 people a week could be dying because of the problems accessing emergency care."

But there are news articles of individual much longer waits:

"When Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at home in East Sussex in November, his wife immediately called an ambulance. But none came. She phoned another three times before her and her son decided to drive Martin to hospital themselves 45 minutes later." - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64243044

"More than half of Staffordshire's ambulances queue outside Stoke hospital on New Year's Eve [...] Some Category One calls - like heart attacks or anaphylactic shocks - have taken him 25 minutes to respond to, compared to a target time of around seven minutes due to a lack of available vehicles because of the queues." - https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-half-of-countys-ambulan... -

"A Grimsby woman thought to be having a stroke had to wait eight hours for an ambulance - and spent a further eight hours in the back of it outside hospital waiting to be seen." - https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/distrau...

"A Southend pensioner was left waiting eight hours outside a hospital after a 48 hour delay for an ambulance [for a fall and cut head]." - https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/20205197.southend-pensioner...

[1] https://www.nhsconfed.org/articles/what-latest-data-tell-us-...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64254249
It no longer makes economic sense to build coal power plants as 99% of US coal plants are more expensive than renewables.[1] This is pretty bad news for nuclear, as nuclear is 5x–6x more expensive to build than a coal plant.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2023/01/30/99-...
To answer my own question, yes, not only would PIR on Tor Onion Service enable anonymous access of data via an anonymous connection, but there other possible uses of PIR for Tor. Notable example being "PIR Tor" — which is a Tor architecture that would change Tor from being P2P to client-server:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/pir-tor...
There was no argument but a baseless statement and I replied likewise. It's on the original person to make a coherent argument with facts and not for everyone else to do their legwork.
Not with Google Glass but with some new vaporware glasses. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/13/23068759/google-io-2022-a...
I’ve worked at lots of small companies, some super large companies, and FAANG, and by far the most overworked people were often at the small companies.

FAANG folks I work with mostly worked hard but at a reasonable pace, not running themselves ragged like the startup folks I know.
The Android voice recording app can already write a transcript in real time that indicates different speakers.
That is possible. Here’s an example: https://twitter.com/RagingVentures/status/161582608803847373...

But I think it’s beyond the ability of many.
TBH, I don't really think that the author of this post screwed up. There's a lot of self-flagellation, but, ultimately, Chase offered accounts. The company used the services written on the tin. It's far from obvious that one needs to show up in person to close bank accounts. (I've certainly closed bank accounts without showing up in person, or, hah, at least I think I have.) It's far from obvious that a bank wouldn't be able to handle large amounts of money without confusedly celebrating and then condemning the poor fool who types the information into the computer. And ultimately, it all got fixed, and the only serious hitch to fixing it was the fact that for some weird-ass reason the bank had some rule that it couldn't issue a cashiers check unless there was a wad of cash that size in a particular branch, which is completely nutso given that 99.999999% of bank money is just bits anyway.
I just started using Copilot and so far, it really does seem to save me time with rote stuff like imports, function definitions, and where I would otherwise be copying / pasting code I just wrote (say, while writing a bunch of tests). Even when it gets those slightly wrong, it still saves me time or at least makes it feel that way.

So overall I'm honestly pleasantly surprised with it. It feels similar to when I got a car with adaptive cruise control - suddenly I'm not thinking about maintaining the correct speed and following distance on the highway, which makes driving for a while require far less mental effort.

I know I probably could have accomplished something similar by setting up snippets or whatever, but I installed it and it immediately started doing what I wanted without having to ask.

Nifty.
> It is disingenuous to say something required a SRE, will be guaranteed 100% by the government (ie. tax payers) - and then also claim it is not a bailout.

The whole FDIC system (with or without the systemic risk exception) is a system of bailouts of depositors paid for by assessments on banks (which, sure, are a kind of targeted tax, and thus constitute funding “by the taxpayers”.)

Other than the fact that your earlier points are indefensible, I’m not sure what the point of responding in thread with such a sudden radical shift of topic is, though.

> It is also disingenuous to claim a techy bank that catered to the tech sector posed an imminent risk to the entire banking system, ie the systemic part of the SRE.

I dunno, more than $100 billion in uninsured deposits, largely he operational accounts of a large number of businesses (not isolated to the tech sector, but mostly either geographically in the region of the bank or in the tech sector or both), which given the nature of the asset situation of the bank could be expected to either be resolved quickly at a very low percentage of face value or extremely slowly at a better percentage, would have massive knock-on effects on the businesses involved, there employees and investors, their creditor (ultimately, in large share, other banks), etc. Is it a different character of systemic risk, in some regards, than other previous invocations? Sure. But while there are clusters of similar case, systemic risks tend to be different from each other in details.

> A bunch of tech elites and big tech companies would have been burned - and some failover would have happened certainly, but this was not a system issue, it was bad choices made explicitly by banking executives at some specific banks.

The “systemic” in “systemic risk” refers to the scope and nature of the effects of the risk materializing, not the nature of the cause of the risk. The systemic risk exception is not about blame, its about the effects of inaction.

> It is also disingenuous to claim no tax payer money is involved when it is in fact tax payers that are providing all the guarantees here, bear future risks, and ultimately will pay for it with bank fees and more.

Maybe. Again, this is just a radical shift of topic.

> The entire thing is a political exercise.

Yes, acts of government are by definition political exercises. This is not, even slightly, in dispute. Are you just looking for random things unrelated to the earlier discussion to try to get into an argument about now?
> near misses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Besse_Nuclear_Po...

And that was just the 5th worst nuclear incident in the US since 1979!
I have a set that’s harder to corrupt, but still not bulletproof:

Source of truth, system of record.

Business decisions should have a source of truth. But the domain of things we want to duplicate or not duplicate is bigger than just the business rules.

If you are asking two questions, it’s okay to have two implementations. If you ask the same question twice, you should get the same answer, not just the same output.

But miscreants can twist the meaning of five different parts of what I just said. Like what even is a business rule? It’s whatever the last thing they said before you got them to stop talking. But if they come back later and want something that disagrees with what they already asked, they’ll wriggle like a fish on a river bank trying to gyrate a way to interpret what they asked for to say you’re wrong (and therefore you should work nights and weekends and we don’t owe you a raise).
It's not, it uses locality-sensitive hashing to reduce attention complexity from O(n^2) to O(nlogn) while maintaining the same performance in 16GB as a best model that could fit into 100GB but nobody scaled it up to 1000 GPUs as its purpose was the opposite.
Of course uranium decay products "locked" in granite are liberated .. that's what's measured 80m above the ground by geophysical survey aircraft - the radiation from liberated decay products of uranium, potassium, and thorium - I'm sure you must have heard of radon gas (if not, go look it up) - it's a by-product of uranium decay products and seeps up out of the ground on a daily basis and "fills" up valleys in granite regions in a measurable way, gets blown away when the wind picks up and then fills them again.

You were comparing nuclear and coal - which is like comparing a pea against a couple of super cargo ships packed with vegetables .. and really should provide a source for your claims.
Ha - in my view I always thought nationalized was "take over without recompense". So maybe they are the same picture that way.
> As a professional...why not do this?

Unless GPT-4 is running locally on our own computers, there's absolutely no way dumping a patient's entire medical history into this thing could possibly be considered ethical or legal.
> He also makes a point about how the management was "idiotic" because if they had just gone to JP Morgan, or Wells Fargo, or another big bank

I’ve read a similar sentiment elsewhere about their inability to raise the necessary amount without hitting full panic button.

Whether idiotic or not, the CEO sold before this. Maybe there’s a bigger play
I think the cat is out of the bag. Once people.know that these things can be made, they will seek to do it themselves

How do you think that 'they' will stop that?

At best they can do a holding pattern that keeps people a couple years away, but I mean like, what are they going to do, ban semi conductor fabrication?
There were definitely variations in sound quality from different MP3 encoders, so you probably weren't imagining things. IIRC libmpg123 was for decoding/ playback rather than encoding, but there were a number of suboptimal encoders before the scene settled on LAME as the best option for MP3's. These days you can get better lossy encodes at smaller files with AAC (the industry standard for end-user lossy audio) or Opus — a great free & open source alternative.

All you could want to know about audio encoding, including listening tests (with original posts from the heyday) is still online at the Hydrogen Audio forum.

There are some great threads there, and they've been debunking audiophile snake-oil for decades. Enjoy the rabbit hole ;)

https://hydrogenaud.io
What unarticulated assumption needs to be made for switching to be incorrect?
For me it's not an argument for or against sentience but a lot more about the difficulty of defining it and potentially measuring it in non-human systems along with the fuzziness of the concept of knowledge. My use of it was about my belief I guess that it's just pushing symbols around algorithmically without anything we'd call understanding.
Isn’t their point that humans also do that? Without it necessarily being called copyright infringement?

Lots of subtleties: fair use, what’s not fair use, etc?

It does seem like we’re in new territory, I can see merits on both sides and I guess we’ll figure it out via the courts / new laws over the next couple of years.
I think all the replies here about people describing all their personal interactions with their banker is hiliarious. I'm in my 40s, started "banking" well before internet banking was a thing, and I still had no idea why the author was cringing at his naivety. Until the people here with actual money spelled it out for me. My banker never knew me from Adam, and my typical withdrawal was to buy ramen... Oh how the rest of you live!
Some people feel productive when they can type a bunch of code quickly. And the only way to do that is to get muscle memory for writing the same code over and over and over.
Or worse: AI generated data will (or maybe already is) flood the internet, AI will start ingesting its own output unknowingly, resulting in junk AI.

In fact, 2023 might be seen as the end of a pristine epoch of untainted training data, before it was polluted by AI.
This is about the yearly performance bonus, not the promotion package.
> What % of people can hold 25,000 words worth of information in their heads, while effectively reasoning with and manipulating it?

In the general case, for arbitrary input, I think the answer to this is clearly 0. At best we can compress the text into a limited embedding with a few salient points stored in long term memory.
Why do any of the machines that we make do anything?

Because we designed them that way.
This will mean no links to Canadian media so all Canadians will see is links to non-Canadian media. It won't get foreign influence out of Canada.
I was about to write an old-fashioned Wu anti-aliased circle-drawing routine for a simple C-like language (it has no structs nor unions yet, for instance), is that something that might be an interesting test case? Worth opening an issue?

Great work BTW. :)
Very compelling argument you've made.
All of you should stop posting your knowledge of programming online (Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Reddit, blogs, etc) unless you want an AI to absorb it and take your job from you.
It was actually Supreme Court that directed SEBI to probe Adani issue. [1]

While Adani's son’s father in law is still on SEBI committee for corporate governance & insider trading!

Cyril Shroff, who runs a corporate law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, is the father-in-law of Gautam Adani's son Karan. Apart from offering legal advise to the Adani Group, Cyril Shroff also a member of the Indian stock market's regulator's (SEBI) committee, which looks at offences such as insider trading. [2]

And SEBI will probe Adani for any conflicts of interest? I guess irony died.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/supreme-...

[2] https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/adanis-relative-on-...
One I can tell you from personal experience is I couldn't set up a Workspace account on my Pixel to use Google Pay with NFC about a year ago. I don't know if it's possible today. I don't remember which step in the process didn't work. There are a couple other things I've run into trying to use a Workspace account as my personal account. But that's the main one that sticks in my mind.
I work in legaltech, and we use cloud services like aws for lawsuit data, and lawyers trust it. Any 3rd party must of course be vetted and go through NDA, and follow regional laws and guidelines ect, but using the cloud is definitely used for legaltech documents including sensitive data.
How are you going to stop me?
I don't understand this page
https://www.nreal.ai/compatibility-list/ What do the glasses need to be compatible with? I don't recognize or own any of these products listed.

I have an iPhone. How does it work with a device as part of the deal?
I have done a lot of work with IoT-ish data, e.g. sending location and telemetry data from vehicles and remote sensors over unreliable cellular networks.

I need the ability to queue data on the device to deal with patchy connectivity and some policy for deleting messages in the queue. For example, I might throw away unsent location updates that are "stale" to save space. I might need to prioritize some messages, e.g. "lithium-ion battery pack overheating".

I may be running on embedded hardware that is too small to run Linux. The connection to the modem might be serial.

Data size and bandwidth usage can make a difference. I might get 2MB/month for $3. Bytes count if I want to send frequent updates to get more precision on the location.

I generally know exactly what messages I am sending, so using a compiled format like gRPC or COAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_Application_Protoc...) can be better than JSON.

I may need to get through multiple layers of network address translation, making it different to send messages back. So keeping a persistent TCP connection can help. But using TCP for one-off connections wastes bytes, so UDP can be useful if I don't care about losing packets.

I may want to encrypt or digitally sign your messages.

So, I end up doing a lot of work to handle queueing locally, but using a pretty simple message-oriented binary protocol to send to the server. The server can do whatever it wants, e.g. write it to a Kafka queue.

Amazon's IoT framework nails a lot of these points. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-an-aws-iot-cor...
Biggest roadblock right here. Need a private version for sure.
What crappy state or country you live that forces you to support lazy ex-wife?
It's good.

I fed it the urlparse function from here:

https://github.com/chbarts/web/blob/master/web.c

And it came up with this:

https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/e2a519c

This is a C function that takes a URL as input and parses it to extract the host, path and port.

The function starts by initializing variables i and j. Then it checks if the length of the URL is less than 7 characters. If so, it sets i to 0. Otherwise, it checks if the URL starts with "http://" using the strncmp function. If it does start with "http://", then i is set to 7. Otherwise, i is set to 0.

The next block of code checks if i is 0 and if the URL contains "://". If this condition is true, then the function returns -1 indicating an error.

The next line sets the host variable to point to the string starting at position i in the URL.

The following loop iterates over the characters in the URL from position i until it reaches either a forward slash (/), a colon (:), or the end of the string. The switch statement then handles each case separately.

If the loop finds a forward slash, it replaces it with a null character (\0) and sets port to null, indicating that no port was specified in the URL. It then sets the path variable to point to the string immediately following the null character.

If the loop finds a colon, it replaces it with a null character and increments i. It then sets port to point to the string starting at position i in the URL. The loop then continues to iterate over the remaining characters in the URL until it reaches a forward slash or the end of the string. If it finds a forward slash, it replaces it with a null character and sets the path variable to point to the string immediately following the null character. Otherwise, it sets path to point to the end of the URL.

If the loop finds the end of the string, it sets *port to null and sets path to point to the end of the URL.

Finally, the function returns 0 to indicate success. The host, path, and port variables are passed as pointers, so they will be modified by the function and their values can be accessed outside of the function.
A phone with a transit app and NFC payments actually is one of the most useful things you can have for public transport.
And what if I say yeah, thanks, whatever, and try to end the call as quickly as possible?