skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive to find this: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/wa...

Here https://europa.eu which is part of EU Commission's platform for evidence-based policymaking for scientific evidence: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/home_en
Automatic chlorine dispensers are fairly inexpensive (and certainly cheaper than a chlorine generator). There's very little reason to manually add chlorine yourself unless you're SLAMing the pool (shock level and maintain, if you're unfamiliar with TFP).
> Isn't that a strong signal that the culture is bad?

It can be - but it is also isolated to pockets/individuals within a company which doesn't necessarily define the culture.

> Maybe not of the entire company

Absolutely agree, and that's not well captured in my comment on second read. It can be at the company level, at the team level, and all the way down to the individual level - obviously in any configuration/mix. Sometimes it's not on the company that they had a hypothetical bad hire as long as they take corrective action, just to give an example.
If things like the issues we have seen in the last days require a security review in order to be caught, then I am not very optimistic about the rest of their stack.
This is not an issue though, they would just be the weights used by DataBricks, there is no reason you can't add your own right ?

Like giving away a website template without the demo content, it's perfectly normal.
Focussing on the climbing is the core problem I think. Why even do this? We collectlively should own the machines and guarantee just wealth distribution, so that its impossible for a few to have much more than than others. Then every increase in machine work is a great thing for everyone, instead of increasing competition between fewer and fewer people.

Europe in itself is (together) the single biggest market/economy in the world by the way, and the US is actually falling behind into developing-country territory when you look at the population and their access to basic services. And just because right now it is convenient to rely on the US companies, and we're deep allies btw, doesn't mean europeans couldn't spin up the same tech if really needed.
Just wait until companies partner with chatgpt to license their product as the default choice for a given query. If chatgpt is actually for profit now, they basically have to do this or they are doing a disservice to their msft shareholders by leaving money on the table not acting as evilly profitable as possible.
Possibly some explanation of how you go from text completion to any reasonable definition of AGI.
You’re welcome to limit your definition of hacking, I prefer to keep an open mind.

Since you used an elevator as a metaphor, to me, it’s like opening an unlocked elevator control panel to reroute the signals to achieve a goal that’s not possible via a locked panel; for example, access a floor that normally would require a high security key. Easy, yes, an intended use of the system, no. Would doing so potently be trespassing? Depends on the context, but possibly, if not likely, yes.
I would like Tcl if it didn't had upvar.
> Most people also don't have $1000 for an emergency

This has been debunked many times. The source is misleading to the point of being deceptive, it is pushing a narrative. Per the US government, the median household has $1000 per month leftover after all ordinary expenses. A very detailed breakdown of this for each income decile is available from the BLS.

You can’t square “most Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense” with “median Americans can afford to light $1000 on fire each month without impacting their standard of living”.
My direct experience is that they send high quality technical architects to get the deal done and the moment that happens those architects vanish and they back up the school bus and send in an army of zero competence low experience drones who are barely functional.

This is also my experience. Accenture was given several high value projects, and their technical architects made it seem like they had the knowledge and skills to deliver. When I spoke to one of the in-house engineers a few months later, he said the consultants had yet to deliver anything of value, and the on-going planning made it seem like the team from Accenture actually doing the work didn't even fully understand the project.

On my own project, the Accenture team took nearly an entire program increment to deliver a clearly dysfunctional plan for implementing a progressive web app based on one of our products. They submitted an MR for the plan, and after the number of review comments reached 50, they just moved on to other things.

I am sure there are some good consultants at Accenture. I just haven't worked with them.
They have no terms of service or privacy policy. As I said, their telemetry collection remains entirely undisclosed and on top of that collects much more data than you might expect it to, as the Sentry SDK they use is wrongly configured to be in debug mode. It's a complete shitshow.
Smell is an underrated aspect of foraging. Many people start out focusing just on appearance, but smell is a big deal even with mushrooms.
Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate [TED talk]
Oh wow.

>> Just to be clear, last year you sent a notice to parents warning them that students were going to see Michelangelo’s David?

>> Yes. This year, we made an egregious mistake. We didn’t send that notice. Look, we’re not a public school. We’re a public charter.

Why in the F do schools feel they need to send a notice that kids might see the statue of David? That the board honestly feels that this was a mistake this year is just mind blowing to me.
Lately it’s been game-development questions related to physics. Mostly using JavaScript and GLSL, but sometimes Houdini’s VEX, which it probably has the worst success rate with.

I have a feeling if my domain was more mainstream I’d be getting much better results. Or maybe I just need to write longer, more detailed props or something?
Limits of predictability in the top-N recommendation problem
Especially when OpenAI explicitly doesn't have a claim to copyright on the model output.
I thought that the whole point of LLMs was that you could just talk conversationally, though.

If you have to carefully craft what you say in order to get the response you want, what's the point of using natural language to do it? Wouldn't it be better to use a more formalistic method that isn't as imprecise as natural language?
>Musk reneged on a publicly announced funding arrangement, providing only $100 million of his planned $1 billion in support, according to the report.

So does Musk still have equity with his $100 million investment or did he also pull out of that?
It’s not the AIs who are in charge, it’s rich humans.
> What are the barriers to a junior dev creating their own product?

Are you seriously asking that question? What are the barriers to a junior dev writing the Linux kernel from scratch by themselves? What are the barriers from climbing from the bottom to the top of a ladder where the rungs are 20 feet apart?

Sure, start at the top, then it's great. Very few start at the top.
Here is the list of torrents at the bottom
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYyucgBQVfs9JXZ2MtmkGPAhgUjNgyGE6rcJT1...

That page itself is for storing the magnet URLs in a bitcoin transaction to make them live forever.
Have they been approved and released or not? If no, then they’re not meant to be accessible, meaning it’s a security flaw to be able to access them.
The point is about how much people care, not about whether verification works or not when the key is leaked.
I suppose an alternative take is that the moral is, even if you don't have $1m+ in the bank, it's not actually the end of the world--especially if you own a house.
The "Old Reddit Redirect" extension has been stellar for me to keep it consistently on `old.reddit.com` without performance/reloading issues.
Tribalism, peer pressure, and the fact that most allegations against police are falsified.

In this case, it's f'd up, and the police in question, from what I recall were dismissed. The lawsuit itself is anything but okay imo, and they shouldn't have any expectation of privacy while on duty, period. And was my very first response in this post, if you care to look/check.

I'm a minimal govt libertarian, and that includes police. I'm just pointing out facts. How many times have you ratted someone out in an environment with oversized peer pressure? MOST people historically won't and don't.
> I'm originally from a country that has proportional representation. Let me tell you - it's a total disaster.

Your former country may be seem a disaster to you, but it has been studied fairly extensively, and, among modern democracies, proportionality is very much associated with both positiive measures of function and with positive perceptions of function from those who are subject to them.

> Two-party states are better in that the population can punish party A by voting for party B and vice versa

In a mulitparty system you can pubnish any party by voting for any other party, whereas in a two party system you can only punish part A bv voting for party B, which means a strategy that makes both parties look worse but the other one by slightly more is a winning PR strategy. The results are predictable.

> The other serious issue is that each party has a completely unaccountable and opaque system for deciding on a list of representatives.

That's not a product of proportional representation, its a product of one particular system of achieving it, “party list proportional”.

Most PR advocates in the US (or Canada) are advocating systems with by-district elections, which mean you still have locally-elected by-name specific representatives, either Single Transferrable Vote (almost always this in the US) or Mixed Member Proportional.
If you like compact reddit, try out https://rdddeck.com, its like Tweetdeck but for Reddit.
Perl itself replaces awk, sed and bash for scripts. Think about it :D.
There are several (most?) credit cards you can settle it nightly if you like.
So... same business model as credit cards?
Does he then immediately do an iris scan and sell it some coins?
Agreed, the Macbook Pro 16" has a 100wh battery and i'm looking for something that has at least 3/4 of its autonomy, otherwise no point in investing into a >1500$ laptop.
Your points all resonate with me. But the end result is same, the opportunities available for social mobility to an average person would reduce. I am not even sure of the 2nd and 3rd order effects. How would an industry like hospitality survive if most of the knowledge work based jobs are gone.
Handy also to think off WALL-E. At least that where my assumption came from.
It’s a downside to credit cards, as opposed to “no downsides” to credit cards.
So expect massive inflation in the future?
Winston Smith was a famous prompt engineer who worked for the Ministry of Truth.
> a collective really decide to spare power

It's either my imagination that has gone for a vacation, or yours is running wild, but that is the one thing I really can't see at all. Reducing power consumption? I don't think that's happening any time soon, or ever really.
On the flip-side, OpenAI is primed to destroy their competitors. Partnership with Microsoft means they can buy Azure compute at-cost if need be. Their current portfolio of models is diverse on the expensive and cheap ends of the spectrum, with thousands of people on Twitter and HN still giving them lip-service. With dozens of clones hitting the market, OpenAI is the only one staying consistently relevant.

The widespread adoption of local AI won't obsolete a well-priced AI API. I feel like we learned that lesson pretty thoroughly in the SaaS era.
I think that the ordering of your substitutions is potentially incorrect.

The code as written will convert

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to

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When it should (presumably) be

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PXE Boot over the network seems like a better way, no ?
Isn’t it Microsoft cash that openai is dumping into azure?
Businesses take time to react and this is recent. I'm close to Hollywood and these technologies are seeing their first value-generating uses on every project I'm privy to. What you see in public is just that-public.
Hmmm. My experience with XPS 15s is you can turn it off with software in Linux, but it was pretty technical (not something average users would be keen on). I wasn't sure if that was the case for most laptops. It definitely wasn't drawing 0W when I was just coding/browsing/etc though, it doubled the battery life in Linux when I turned it off.
Tbf those first impressions matter
> irritation & smell

This is not a chlorine problem, this is improperly balanced pool water. Either way too much CYA, requiring a high concentration of chlorine to compensate, or high pH. The latter is the most common reason for irritating water.

You want to fix that in any case. Using a chlorine generator is no panacea, if you have high CYA you'll need high chlorine or it won't disinfect. And if you have high pH, you're not doing good things to your pool equipment.

Definitely worth buying a decent test kit and staying on top of things. It's totally possible to have crystal clear silky smooth odorless pool water, whether you use a chlorine generator or bleach. TFP is a really good resource to learn more, I strongly recommend any homeowner with a pool go there and do some learning.
Murdoc – A Ruby Documentation and Class Browser
I'm excited to share my first programming project with the HackerNews community!

Murdoc, a Ruby documentation and class browser.
As a newcomer to the programming world at 39 years old, I wanted to challenge myself to learn something new and apply my previous design experience to create a useful tool for fellow Rubyists.

Murdoc was built during a programming bootcamp, and I'm proud to say that despite being a beginner, my team and I were able to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing tool. As someone who recently shifted careers from furniture design and manufacturing to software development, I understand the importance of good design and usability.

I know how overwhelming it can be to navigate through endless documentation and figure out class hierarchies, especially as a newcomer to the Ruby community. That's why I built Murdoc to make your life easier and your coding experience smoother.

I'm well aware that Murdoc is a work in progress and that there's always room for improvement. So, if you're interested in checking it out and providing feedback, please head over to our repository (https://www.github.com/0tt049/murdoc). As a beginner, I could use some encouragement and guidance, and I'm eager to hear from more experienced developers in the community.

Thank you for taking the time to read about Murdoc, and I'm looking forward to your feedback!
UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
yeah it really does seem like the AI folks are EEEing EE
There was a time when even union members and liberals agreed that a public sector union was a nonsense concept. I think it was JFK that first permitted them, and since then they've grown to such enormous political power that questioning their existence has become wrongthink.

In theory public sector unions cannot legally strike or engage in work actions but this constraint is ignored whenever they find it inconvenient.

They create a feedback loop between public expenditure and political power which is very bad for liberal democracy.
You made me think: it feels like ChatGPT is just a less accurate StackOverflow answer generator. The culture of needing to use StackOverflow is not a good one, so I'm not sure why people are considering ChatGPT to be.
Amazon Luna is making the same fatal mistakes as Google Stadia
I would consider pots/pans to be part of groceries. How is anyone expected to cook if they can't spend the money on a 20-30$ frying pan?
this is my thinking too. Who's going to learn coding if all basic needs are served buy the chatbot? What would be the incentive to put in the work?
When I rewrite the features response and it then queries the plug-in list, the server responds with a 401. So maybe not purely client side (I have a plus account but no plug-in access yet).
Ask HN: Resource to learn how to build cloud computing
If I want to build my own cloud computing like ec2 or lambda, where can I start?
How crumb tight are the lines on the deck with the different panels on the 16? Are they held only by magnets, such that lateral pressure could cause them to move?
If you have the $10 for lunch, you can either pay in cash, or put it into your buy now pay later slush fund and pay on time. There's no fiscal risk, only behavioral risk.

Ally Bank currently offers 4% apy interest on a Money Market Savings, maybe you can find similar from a better bank. 4% apy over the term isn't much, but it's certainly fiscally better than paying cash today.
This was not a match fix, and it is not considered cheat, although you could say it is unsportsmanlike.
I'm sorry to hear that. What went wrong?
Try to see the regular payment, as a sort of inverted slice of ransom. Which the public can withdraw en mass, the moment they feel betrayed. Creating a kind of attachement of the employee to the employer (You).
I'm not taking anyone's word for anything. I'm just speculating at what triggered him and why. He obviously believed that he was wronged when the report he filed was dismissed, and he was subsequently fired. If he filed a false report, then he deserved to get fired. If he filed an accurate report, and the (documented) culture of corruption among LAPD conspired to discredit him (and destroy his life), he may have felt that his actions were justified.

Again, you need to stop confusing my analysis for support and sympathy for Dorner. He obviously exhibited some mental problems and very poor judgement, but stressful conditions can do that to otherwise good people:

https://futuresrecoveryhealthcare.com/blog/psychotic-break-v...
I'm guessing quite a few people panicked and pulled out their money after it dropped 40% or whatever--especially if they were close to retirement.
AI progress is real, but remember, Sydney and others lack intentions/beliefs. 'Dangerous' text = model limitations, not malice. Talking about 'ideas' here is abusing the notion. Let's focus on aligning AI with human values & addressing risks in a balanced way, without doomsday hype.
How many people die every year from medical deprivation? While that is a legitimate problem that we need to fix, I'm skeptical whether that could exceed the 100M who have been killed by Communism.

https://victimsofcommunism.org/
Ironically administration overhead in many industries, particularly healthcare and education, has been growing over the past several decades despite increasing technology adoption.

This is exactly the opposite of what you would expect given the increased efficiencies that come from adopting computer systems and automation.

I see AI as a continuation of this trend and I don’t expect it to put people out of work, bureaucracy will always find new ways to justify itself.
It couldn’t be a worldwide ban, so that would just be shooting yourself in the foot over even a short to medium term.
I can't remember the last time I paid for groceries with anything other than a credit card. Or even saw someone else pay for groceries with plastic, which is hopefully CC or EBT since using debit cards at POS is kind of risky.
Water treatment zaps ‘forever chemicals’ for good
Well, yes. The details of biochemical interactions involved in olfaction involve a lot of quantum mechanics, which also affects the way molecules vibrate.

But this is not some sort of "quantum woo" or mysterious thing... it's just quantum mechanics being quantum mechanics, which is, after all, the dominant and most correct theory of how small things perform in the real world, not some utterly mysterious incomprehensible magic.

So... of course it's a quantum thing. Everything's a quantum thing, seeing as how relativity, the other dominant and most correct theory of how things perform, is not generally relevant to energy regimes you live in. Things are not specially distinguished by being "quantum things". The surprise would be to find something that isn't. (Which could conceivably include gravity at this point in time, though I think that even if we can't prove it's quantized at this juncture in time physicists would be stunned to discover it wasn't.)

It should also be observed that "quantum" does not mean any sort of meaningful "entanglement" mystery is going on.

Frankly we'd all have a more accurate view of the world if the word "quantum" was associated with "boring" and "engineering" rather than "mysterious". It isn't that there isn't a bit of mystery there, it's just it's mostly boring and engineering with a tinge of mystery, rather than a whole big box of mystery. It can't be that mysterious if you can pop numbers in one side, run a mathematical crank, and get very accurate predictions out the other.
Why downvote this person! The parent post left plenty of ambiguity in their comment. Are they saying that an actual MITM attack is happening? That the fingerprints shared are actually the wrong ones?

Generally speaking, one would not consider an internet comment directing folks to GitHub's actual SSH fingerprints a "man in the middle" as the phrase in this context usually has a negative implication, where in this case defanor is in fact simply mirroring the actual information that GitHub has officially posted in a way that is much more helpful than yetanotherjosh's "double check it is the expected value". For most of us idiots, we don't know what the expected value is!

So thank you defanor for sharing, and thank you darthrupert for asking for clarification. Y'all contributed to educating myself and others and now we know more because of it.
HN is ridiculous at times.

“Meh, most amazing technology since the internet? Lame. Tools that came out 8 hours ago still can’t do everything I imagine .”
I wonder to what degree this is causing price inflation and skewing price signaling
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> Number of people just not blindly using TOFU with github over ssh must be quite low.

Oh, I missed the "not" the first time I read it, which changed your overall meaning entirely. My bad.
> While that's technically a valid potential future, it's unrealistic just because society would tear itself apart long before it reached that limit state.

I don't think it's that unrealistic. The trick will be, not going too fast, managing a few separate transitions, and making sure capital maintains control of the institutions with the monopoly on the use of force. The masses don't tend to act to project their interests until it's too late.
Credit cards also make substantial money on transaction fees, but yes you are correct.
And if they lose, they are facing an order of magnitude longer sentence on a single charge. That's by design. Prosecutors offer you a lesser list of charges for you to go to jail, or they stack charges so that getting a conviction on a single one sends you a way for a decade or more should you try a jury trial.
I didn't mean that old react pages are slow. I meant sites that started on old react and kept trying to keep up with all of the newest best practices throughout the years are slow. Typically because they do too much on the webapp and don't treat it as a gui only. The last web app I looked at in the old job was literally as much code as the entire backing service for it. I don't know how to justify that.

And yeah, for public sites, tracking almost certainly dominates how slow things are. I was thinking of internal tooling sites. I remember how fast many of the tools were when I started at the last job. I also remember how slow all of them were getting as I was leaving said job. It is more than a touch insane.