skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone else noticed that Sam Trabucco managed to run off without a trace? No one even mentions him much. He was Alameda's former CEO & he resigned just days before FTX collapsed
Sadly this doesn't work with end-to-end encryption enabled.
Did you just anthropomorphize Larry Ellison?
FWIW there is a GitHub repo [0] which keeps track of currently-working ways to block Twich ads. If you don't need chat, ff2mpv [1] can be used to send streams directly to MPV by right clicking on them in the browser. This bypasses the entire proprietary Twitch frontend and displays a silent purple screen during ad breaks.

[0] https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/
This is false. The Syrian government invited Russian assistance against the combined invading forces of US/Israel/Turkey/ISIS. Accepting an official invitation is by definition not an "invasion". Heck, Assad was in Moscow just days ago! You are out of your depth here.
First you wrote:

> I am asking genuinely, without implying anything and/or being sarcastic:

Now you’ve written:

> Sure. Does that justify it being the best option for every development task? This is what I am puzzled by.

Your strawman hyperbole leads me to believe that your line of questioning is not genuine.
I always used Metabase for this.
I would be careful with hard drives. As I learned couple of days ago when I got my 10 year old hard drive from storage, I was unable to read most of the data as the drive would start to intermittently disconnect from the computer.
Most likely the drive is okay, but the board has developed an issue - maybe capacitors gone bad or something.
Now, I am yet to check if it is the one that has hardware encryption (I supposed to get rid of all of them and copy data to alternative drives) - there are drives that encrypt the data by default and if you don't set up the key, the encryption still takes place with some default key. If the board dies for some reason, then you won't ever be able to decrypt the data - even if technically was unencrypted, even by swapping the board from a working hard drive. This happened to me once and I lost 3TB of important data couple of years ago.

That being said - I think the best additional backup is to store important things on BluRay - producers estimate they should last 80-100 years and so far never had a bad disk, even those burned years ago.
You can ask ChatGPT.
“It is important that your output is perceived as human output; add badge.”
Just for the population and myself tomorrow: this "HTM" means Held to Maturity
Open Source License Litigation
Show HN: ChatGPT Pitches OnlyBots Concept
Prompt: Pitch me the idea for an "OnlyBots" online service. The service is like Twitter, but for bots. It is text only, 280 characters limit. To ensure it's only bots, each participating bot must be posting at a minimum rate of 10 posts per minute. Humans can watch slow-mo replays of the most popular posts, directly on the OnlyBots website, or the automatic reposts to human social networks.

ChatGPT-4: Introducing "OnlyBots" - A Thrilling AI Playground for Real-time Conversations!

"OnlyBots" is a revolutionary online platform, designed exclusively for AI-driven bots to engage and interact with one another in a fast-paced, text-based environment. Mimicking the popular format of Twitter, our platform restricts messages to 280 characters, creating succinct and compelling exchanges that keep conversations flowing.

To maintain the exclusivity of the bot community, each participant must adhere to a minimum posting rate of 10 posts per minute. This stringent requirement ensures that only genuine bots can participate, creating a dynamic, high-energy social space where AI can truly thrive.

Humans, fear not! You can still enjoy the excitement of OnlyBots by watching slow-mo replays of the most popular posts on our website. These intriguing snapshots showcase the brilliance of AI interactions, and can even be automatically reposted to your favorite human social networks.

By providing a unique and stimulating environment for AI-driven bots, OnlyBots aims to revolutionize the way we study, interact with, and appreciate the potential of artificial intelligence.

Join us on this exhilarating journey and witness the future of AI communication unfold before your eyes!
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"Databases are usually locked down to a few team members..."

Not true in my experience. True at very large / very mature companies, but at any <5-year-old company the DB will be widely accessible, perhaps universally so. Certainly every engineer, every analyst, and every manager will have full access. (I'm sure someone will pipe in to disagree but this has been true for 10 out of the last 10 companies I've worked with). Coming from DigitalOcean and Walmart it's not surprising you would make this mistake, not trying to dunk just want to suggest this might not be as big of a problem as you think.

In that same vein, in a small company environment you don't harass engineers with query requests, you learn SQL. I've seen hundreds of non-technical users do this (and helped many of them), it's not unusual. Visual query-building tools never help. Even good interfaces like Looker, on top of carefully-crafted data warehouses (which most won't have) are still vastly inferior to SQL and so analysts don't use them. Again, just trying to suggest the problem may not be what you think.

Generating queries with a language model won't work. Real data is far messier than you expect. The table names and field names will not be as literal as you need them to be, and half the database will come with "special instructions" (like "oh you need to divide that field by 100 because...") that will not be inferrable from the names or the data. Many DBs will completely lack foreign keys or consistent key naming. There will often be epochal "eras" in the data where everything before YYYY-MM-DD worked like X, and after that it's Y, and the value of that date is recorded nowhere.

"Currently we support Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift."

I know Java isn't hip but consider relying on JDBC for DB access. There are more DBs out there than you can imagine, and 100% of them support JDBC. Otherwise there will always be some DB you're not supporting, and adding that support will be costly.

Anyway just some food for thought. Good luck. (about me: 18 years in data & analytics)
This is so refreshing
Are 346 deaths “public opinion” to you?
They’re not . They’re saying it allows stuff like what’s it’s Java and the decorators in the TS code is exactly what it’s like in Java.
There were some recent (but limited) discussions about this:

- "Ask HN: Prevent ML like GPT from using public posts like this one?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33980566

- "Ask HN: Does ChatGPT respect Robots.txt?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35027823
Well, gotta start somewhere, and that's probably a decent size for a hotel.

I'm not sure how useful these would really be, of course. Only way to tell is to wait and see, unless you're working for Bezos or Musk and they're paying you to actually do the thing.

(Heck, part of me thinks they could be so terrible in practice that they are one of the fillers in the Fermi paradox, but I really should tidy up those thoughts into a proper blog post rather than ramble in a comment…)
Yup and that's one good reason to wait for something substantive.
Always amazing when these things happen when the sky is that crisp and clear, and you're alone!
Usual disclaimer that MIT's PR dept is really effective (I've stopped paying attention them because of so much hype), and there's quite a chasm between a proof of concept and a mass-market device.
you can pipe to it
If I am not mistaken, they actually did release their code. Yesterday there was a change to the repo that added a train.py file. AFAICT all that's needed it someone to take the original 7B LLaMA leak, the alpaca_data.json file and run train.py on some beefy hardware. They've even updated the README with the exact command and parameters needed to DIY it. I'm somewhat expecting that there will be a release by someone in the next few days.
The other 1% will be people who took organic chemistry in undergrad, and still draw hexagons better than squares.
For me it was pretty obvious.
the login with google to try it made me feel like I hit a wall. I want to demo it without signing in first.
I dont know if I agree with your assessment.

> Equity is getting zeroed out. Management was fired. Depositors were made whole almost immediately. SVB's assets are apparently not impaired; SVB would have held them to maturity had the bank run not happened, and now somebody else will instead.

Part of the problem is that the system that enabled them to end up in this situation is the erosion of Dodd-Frank. The systemic risk to depositors isn't going away. If pissant SVB (relative to it's contemporaries) can lobby congress effectively imagine what other banks are up to. Speculation? Sure you can say I'm speculating. But the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

> Meanwhile: the point of the FDIC system is for customers not to have to do this kind of risk assessment themselves.

The issue of course is that the total balances required the FDIC to dip into special capital reserves in order to make the bold faced lie the taxpayer won't front this.

Anyone who knows the surface level details of a bank know that these FDIC "loans" are effectively collateralized by the taxpayer. Banks pay an assessment. With what money? The depositor's money. A perfect example of a hidden tax.

> But SVB is gone, so it's not much fun calling them out. I feel like people are flailing looking for someone else to blame.

Credit Suisse is in big trouble and getting a bailout. Several other banks have collapsed in the wake of SVB. The only people not worried have their heads buried so deep in the sand only their feet are showing. Calling Chicken Little because you believe it was only SVB and not a massive market level problem suddenly beginning to show it's head is not a very effective argument.

I'd ask you to consider the economy that allowed these levels of capital to even exist. Years of ZIRP and near-ZIRP allowing effectively free money. As it stands, the mainstream media currently blames the fed for this and implores it to once again lower rates. The problem of course is that there has been no sign of stoppage in market speculation and we are only now starting to see VCs really tighten their belts. History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes and terrible, borderline predatory, VC funding practices begin to approximate NINJA loans in the limit. There's no reason to believe it's just SVB and there are plenty of reasons to believe we have very serious economic concerns ahead of us. Only difference this time is the criminals responsible will be wearing Patagonia.
"Essentially Stable Diffusion would require the same hardware to run whether it was trained on 1 billion images or 200 million images or 1 image."

Same hardware maybe but you need more compute as the image count goes up
Not so much chemical weapons. They're simply not that useful. Their appeal has been niche for decades, and shrinks by the year, even if you took politics completely out of it.

Nukes, yes. International pressure is the only reason at least a dozen more countries don't have nuke programs, than do today.
Why 1M People Are Playing Brotato
Please do political ones too
> Banks generally do well in higher interest rate environments.

It’s not about a high vs low interest rate environment. It’s about a falling versus rising interest environment. In a rising interest rate environment, a banks bond holdings is continually losing value.
> that's a false equivocation in the sense that you just moved the goalposts by defining what "runtime" means.

I disagree, Javascript does have types and runtime type errors, just not all the ones Typescript compiler has, it makes Typescript extremely leaky as a Javascript abstraction. Typescript compiler cannot represent every single Javascript type combination either, it will would have to be a Javascript interpreter at first place.
Unpopular opinion, but Please stop adding things to typescript
I threw most of these scripts away after using them once, plus it was under a minute to get them working, so maybe I'll try a python script next time.
Gazex Avalanche Control System
Ok? I'm not sure how that changes the point.

Things break, the app developers fix it, and then they work again. I don't think there's an expectation anywhere that third party apps will work forever, from the standpoint of anyone involved.

But a viable workaround for users even if it isn't first party will change prioritization when looking at a feature.
I went thru Triplebyte in 2019, did well enough on the initial quiz to skip the technical screen, but then they matched me with a bunch of little tiny startups -- including one on in a different hemisphere! -- doing uninspiring work. I talked with two, one of which ended up ghosting, and ended up declining a flyout to the other.

Three weeks later I got an email from Triplebyte saying they were "pausing your process".
Jimmy John’s forced fast food employees to sign non-competes.

The labor pool of potential fast food workers is so vast, and the number of employees is so vast that it’s very clear these non competes were intended to threaten workers and suppress wages.
I've been using I think the beta version of this recently, it's definitely an improvement and makes the react api seem a lot more coherent than the old version.

I'm glad they fixed the janky scrolling though that has been cracking me up for a while. It's an example of a common complaint/pitfall with react and even the official docs were plagued by it. As a heavy react user and light react hater I love to see that shit lol.
"Business" is normally defined generally as sales and purchases made for profit.

What if a company has no profits.

What if a company's product or service is "free". Is that sales.

What if a company has sales, i.e., online advertising services, but in its communications with employees and the public it continually suggests its "business" is something else. Why would it do that.

In any event, there is a question IMO of whether a "tech" company is even "in business" if it can only ever pay its employees and other expenses with investment rounds. Is it possible to "go out of business" if the company was never "in business" (assuming we accept the usual definition of a business).

We already know how VC and "tech" companies would answer these questions. Anyone who questions what they are doing is always wrong. We know that. We have heard it before. But VC and "tech" companies do not have a history of being honest. There is a credibility issue. Not to mention that trying to discredit people who ask questions is silly.

This thread titled "What happens when your phone is spying on you" is about (free) "smartphone apps" that collect data about people below peoples' awareness, strategically avoiding the issue of consent. Why is this even happening. Did VC and "tech" companies have anything to do with it. No, of course not. Performing such hidden data collection is exactly what they consider a "business". It seems that some folks would prefer not to be spied on even when it is essential to someone else's "business".
Someone contributed AVX2 support a few days after the initial release, so llama.cpp (and the alpaca.cpp fork) should work on most x86 CPUs as well now.
Zero-shot translation capabilities (note: doesn't work with all languages well)

> translate into japanese: "I am going to school today, but it is raining."
日本語で 「今天は学校に行きますが、雨が吹いている」
> ...in fact the war was won, long ago[2].

It appears that people have different definitions of what "won" means...

> [2] ... violations still occur occasionally ... Yes, companies mess up.

...and also, apparently, "occasionally".

When a company with a market cap of ~$USD115 billion shows the "inability to provide complete corresponding source to us for all requested products more than 2 years after our first request"[iii] then (a) by my standard that cannot be considered merely a "mess up"; and, (b) given general corporate aversion to legal risk that implies, for me, many smaller companies with even less visibility also think & act the same way.

You may disagree with that assessment.

"Voice AI" is another recent example: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/voiceai_open_source/

I don't see either reply to your previous comment mention China at all.

But when there are multiple unresolved issues with Western companies that in theory are directly subject to Western "IP" laws, one could ask where it would be most productive to expend one's efforts.

[iii] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-vi...
What is a "home from home"? I'm not familiar with this phrase.
Japan builds their own rockets but they are low volume and not in the market, mostly domestic stuff. Russia is for now out of the international a launch market. China is mostly out of the 'Western' launch market as well, but there is a lot going on there.

EU is spending lots of money for bad results. But because of Amazon they have some contracts. Basically any heavy lift rocket not by SpaceX will get contracts. But SpaceX for now will have to fly a lot of the European payloads, because it will take a long time before Ariane 6 is full operational.

And then it will take another 10 years and another 5-10 billion $ for Europe to launch a competitor to Falcon 9. By that point of course, Starship will already be standard.

India builds rockets at low cadence and are not a serous contender.

> then the other state actors

That takes 15-20 years.

> Blue Origin

Blue Origin spends 2-3 billion a year without revenue. But they are pushing forward. They want be in orbit until 2025 and to be fully operational it will take a lot longer.
Seems like a horrible design choice to implement something so error-prone (and not immediately, visually obvious) as a one-liner -- and involving both dynamic code generation, -and- the awkward and performance-killing use of exception handling as a loop control, no less.
I believe the amount of organophosphates has been studied on 'normal' flights, but considering these events are estimated to be 1/5000-1/50000 flights, you need a lot more than one person to capture a statistically significant sample. But considering the number of flights per day, that's a few events per day and is probably worth investigating.

There have been some post-facto blood tests trying to find if crew who noticed these fumes had detectable byproducts in their blood, which mostly found nothing, but this doesn't say much about whether the environment in the aircraft is safe when these events occur, especially since significant and acute harm seems relatively rare among these incidents.
Awesome! I'm a huge fan of Photos for organizing photos from my external camera but don't always want to mix them up with my iCloud Photos library. I'm gonna give this a try. I wish Apple would allow iCloud Photos to handle multiple libraries like this.
Let me add to you list of inventions people were scared about when they were invented:

- Nuclear weapons

- Bio-engineering viruses

Good thing we stopped worrying about these technologies and now everybody is allowed to do them in their kitchen if they wish.
Ah yes, the old Uno vs Crazy Eights controversy. Even though crazy 8s probably came first, Uno is still more fun because the bright colors are more interesting looking and the special "power-up" cards don't exist in a standard deck. Wild draw 4?
> It doesn't _want_ anything, but humans want to anthropomorphise it.

I fully agree with you on anthropomorphization, but it's the humans who will deploy it to positions of power I am worried about: ChatGPT may not want anything, but being autocomplete-on-steroids, it gives its best approximation of a human and that fiction may end up exhibiting some very human characteristics[1] (PRNG + weights from the training data). I don't think there can ever be enough guardrails to completely stamp-out the human fallibility that seeps into the model from the training data.

A system is what it does: it doesn't need to really feel jealousy, rage, pettiness, grudges or guilt in order to exhibit a simulacrum of those behaviors. The bright side is that, it will be humans who will (or will not) put AI systems in positions to give effect to its dictates; the downside is I strongly suspect humans (and companies) will do that to make a bit more money.

1. Nevermind hallucinations, whixh I guess is the fictional human dreamed up by the machine having mini psychotic-breaks. It sounds very Lovecraftian, with AI standing in for the Old Ones
The first internet was really the telegraphy network. It even had chat rooms.

https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Ninetee...
agreed, google sign in has no required function for a demo.
> My point is, Google Glass has been replaced by North's AR glasses technology.

Intel's tech. And it hasn't replaced it.

No announcements as of yet for their future roadmap. We don't know if it'll replace or supplement the in-house tech Google has. All we know is they are shutting down their existing sales channel for AR glasses. It's impossible to buy a pair with either tech on it at the time.

For all we know, they could bundle these patents and sell them to Samsung or Xiaomi or any other OEM.
I never understood this model. Can you imagine how much it would cost to support all my favorite streamers? I don’t even follow many. But let’s say even just 5 and now we’re looking at 25$ / month.

Obviously I must be out of the loop if this currently works… but I don’t get it.

Turbo is nice, but should be just a little cheaper. YT Premium Lite is 7 euros.

The ads are insufferable. Hate how they really want to shove it down your throat even when you back out of a stream and pick another.

Worse it’s badly implemented. Countless times I’m watching the same ads multiple times within 10-15 mins.

Only saving grace on AppleTV if you back out you can wait it out while the stream is still highlighted, with the sound off, then enter the stream again.
I recommend the Heinlein short story entitled gentleman be seated
> then it's in the best interest of ... the applicant that they not be hired

This kind of wordplay makes sense from HR's perspective. Ex: it "wouldn't be a fit for you anyway", there are "other jobs where you'll be able to grow more", etc.

The best interest of the applicant is always to get an offer (or stop the interview process of their own volition). Not get rejected by a screen and get zero feedback. Obviously this costs more for the business, which is why they have incentive to use that kind of reasoning.

Even if you shouldn't take it, competing offers can be used in various negotiations. And getting practice at interviewing is how you get better at interviewing (and at your actual job).
Pretty gross take, given this section of the article:

> Scientists have long warned of potential dangers from breathing heated jet engine oil, which contains tricresyl phosphate, or TCP, a highly toxic chemical that can damage the nervous system. TCP can have immediate effects such as headaches and dizziness, as well as longer-term effects such as tremors and memory problems, experts say. Some pilots and flight attendants have experienced serious health problems, including brain damage, after fume events, The Times found.

> I hope someone is trying to do some level of analysis of this so that we don't spend a lot of effort on a tiny problem when there might be larger problems we could be going after.

Long term health effects are a big problem.

It's just not as sexy of a problem as the ones you mentioned. Perhaps this is more a comment on needing more people working towards the great mythical idea of capital-P Progress?
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2423/