skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McK is truly an evil company.

I have a friend suffering from depression and burnout and they asked him to wait till Friday to have his sick leave. Horrendous work culture and abuse.
We are looking at private link for this. Will this work for you?
Well, thank you for sending me down a rabbit-hole. To save other people the effort, yep, t-mobile does block SMS messages based on keywords[0][1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/h8cotr/tmobile_sil...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/i1fk1z/tmobile_are...
I wonder if a key element is direct connections with fans. My 13-yo daughter is obsessed with classical music and her favourite performers seem to have strong YouTube presences.

Outside the classical world, if you look at a site like Bandcamp, that idea seems core. The business model also seems exactly like what you are talking about, both for performers and for the site. I see a lot of very obscure, niche electronic stuff that is supported by hundreds of people. That may only be thousands of dollars, not tens of thousands. However, it’s an economy. And compare earning $10 for the sale of a single album to the number of streams you need to earn that much revenue. We are talking orders of magnitude difference.
I've never used a BNPL service, partly because I didn't know if it would complicate the process of returns. Does anyone know if there are complications, for example, if you buy two items and return one of them? Does the merchant give you cash that you then end up using to pay off the full BNPL amount? Or does the refund get routed the other way, to the BNPL service, and then eventually to you?

For users of a reward card, this alternative probably isn't that useful. I'd miss out on 2% cash back, and the zero-interest period is only 6 weeks, which is just a couple weeks longer than the zero-interest period on a credit card (which bills you once a month, effectively giving you 0-4 weeks of zero-interest). I can see how it could be good for younger folks who need to build up credit and can use this to do so responsibly.
No one is seriously proposing that migrants be allowed to drown. The real question is whether they should be brought ashore in Italy, or in some other country.
Git makes it easy to make copies, but its nature of having one designated "origin" remote per repository that serves as upstream source of truth (on platforms like github also across forks) makes it not really federated/decentralized the way Mastodon et al. are.

And I don't reaaally see how this tool solves that problem. Or any of the other problems you mentioned.

But that said, Mastodon/ActivityPub don't really feel like mature solutions yet. It's incredibly opaque how instances interact, and self-hosting is an exercise in frustration as you try to figure out why A sees your reactions but B does not and you can get notifications for C's reactions but not A's, but B's replies and not… I gave up after a while. It's more opaque than even email self-hosting, at least exim and postfix have fairly verbose error logging.
I built a tool to make fuzzing in rust as pain-free as possible: https://github.com/srlabs/ziggy

It’s basically a wrapper around afl.rs and the honggfuzz rust library, and runs both fuzzers in parallel.
So far as I understand, Git is both federated and decentralized - but I could easily be misunderstanding the definition of "federated" in this context.
We store the vectors, but we also provide additional operations that would require additional code/infra if you just use a vectorDB. We also have the infrastructure in place to ingest all the data, generate the embeddings (we also take raw embeddings), and provide APIs for fine-tuning and clustering. Another big difference coming soon is index versioning, allowing developers to test multiple models/embeddings.
> Someone at Tiktok decided that I had to receive this kind of content, no matter what, because of my age and location and sex probably. They were pushing an agenda.

love your conspiracy theory
> Then again, a century is a long time, and there are different levels of poverty.

Yes, once the continent is out of abject poverty then industrialization can occur - it will go very quickly... ~50 years probably for it to happen. Recall that China took ~35 years to go from an impoverished farming industry to the globe's largest industrial company, eclipsing that even of the US.

Once industrialization begins, the population will boom. With India and China looking to outsource their industries, Africa is the likeliest place for great investments.

Edit: yes I'm aware that Africa is composed of multiple countries with different interests and end-goals. But it will be a domino effect once it begins.
> ## Confirm some info about yourself

> You’ll need to answer some questions to verify your identity. These questions come from a public database dating back as far as 20 years. They may be about property, places, or people you know. We don’t save or store the questions or answers in our system.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/why-do-i-have-to-co...

Interesting. This would mean that they actually have the data to confirm whether it is correct.
> You think Apple is lying about this?

No of course not. I'm not saying Apple is lying.

> Or you think that they are hoping that you miss payments and then they (a three trillion dollar company) are going to make a material amount of money on an interest penalty?

Maybe? I don't know how much banks make from this kind of thing. That "(a three trillion dollar company)" comment is so irrelevant that it's almost laughable tho. Banks are huge companies too, and they still make money from interest.
This is essentially just a way for people from the Americas to legally work from Iceland for a few months.
SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
Yet another reminder not to take on debt. It's better to put the extra work in to pay for stuff upfront then move the burden to after college unless you have the network and guarantees to know you have a job lined up.
"CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions."

Not sure about this -- one would have to study FB's terms of use in detail. In any case, implicit consent was given: if you don't want your picture to be used, don't ever upload it anywhere.

I haven't even uploaded it to LinkedIn, which might help to understand my surprise about a chat I had with the security officer of a resort in Cancun. He seemed quite pleased that he could positively identify me as software engineer working out of SV (all I had given was my California driver license). To this day, I don't know how I earned that conversation though (he was friendly enough, still ...), but I "won" the TSA lottery many times as well, so I somehow must trigger a red flag (perhaps not uploading one's picture is one).
> You must have confused the part of it only being available to the browser, I don't see how that's even technically possible.

It's uses a virtual filesystem, not available _as-is_ in the filesystem to any application other than the browser or applications which implement identical access APIs. Obviously, the virtual filesystem lives in the containing filesystem.
I think people should seriously consider using something like passphrase2pgp [0] in addition to a hardware key like this. That way you can have a brain key (hopefully generated with diceware or equivalent) to tie together day-to-day keys like this to a more permanent identity. I'm honestly surprised that strategy is not more widespread.

[0] https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp
In some situations, though in this one I think they're actually totally independent

But ofc in a real scenario where this matters you'd only want to optimize based on what a profiler says
I suppose it also allows one to stay for >90 days (but <=180 days) if one so inclines.

Personally, having yet to visit Iceland, and hearing from friends who have that it's not the cheapest place, plus its northernly latitude, 90 days for me to first scout it out is more than enough for me.
They already have an income requirement. How does this contribute to better enjoying a good quality of life?
Pretty poor source of information. I just spent a couple seconds going over the authors twitter feed confirms what I would have suspected.
Thanks for the offer, but it feels to me like you are missing the point I would like to be making. Maybe we are all just stochastic parrots in a sense? (FWIW, I do basically understand the notation).

I think the universe might be computable like Stephen Wolfram says - if this is the case - in theory someone could eventually walk you through the math and series of computations to make and then say, "see - humans are not intelligent, they are just biological machines without free will. With unlimited time and computation resources, we can run a human on a Turing machine in a virtual universe."

Even if the universe is not fully computable to the point we can perfectly simulate it on a Turing machine, we already do a pretty good job simulating lots of things, and it's not clear the loss of fidelity would make much difference. As I said, "intelligence" could be an emergent property of certain highly complex networks. I don't think the substrate of the network matters (digital vs biological) - it's just certain states may come with a feeling for the network.

Being able explain the output of the system by math is very powerful - but it fails to capture emergent properties of the universe we would generally prefer to believe in like consciousness.

Anyway - we see slime molds act as path optimizers; lots of algorithms we find useful have physical analogies. I don't know how the brain learns, but biologically, there must be some kind of gradient to follow and reinforce some neural connections while reducing others. Math is the language of the universe, but we believe in free will. Explaining the math of LLMs will not bring us into an agreement - this is unfortunately philosophical I think.
Please if someone from Apple is listening: Please pay some attention to Indian music as well. I mostly only listen to Tamil songs and when Apple came out with iTunes Match or something where they analyze your library and match it to what they have in cloud, they just incorrectly matched songs with the Telugu version and ones from other languages and totally messed up my collection. And, this day and age, why should all Indian music be clubbed under "Foreign" genre by default?
Dang, you beat me to it, I was busy inflating my tires to 120 psi.
Like I noted elsewhere, at least in the US, the government is not allowed to stop a copyright holder from releasing a new edition of a book under the same name.
Catholics actual policy was to move sexual abusers to different parishes and not tell anyone. That is the actual norm. And that was not just a new thing. Catholics as organizations run pretty atrocious institutions (orphanages, schools) where kids were routinely abused.

Yes, catholic church is waaay worst then school system in this regard. And largely for systematic reasons - the expectation of obeisance and expectation that one should protect the institution make them more suspectible to abuse.

The catholic cover ups were not just outliers. They were result of lack of transparency and of impossibility to challenge superiors.

Moreover mandatory reporting within school syatem is an actual law. This alone makes the two system different.
My wife likes seaweed. I texted her the same text you used. She got the message no issues on her phone. SMS is not a guaranteed delivery service. Perhaps the message simply didn't go through? I see later in the comments you paraphrase something you said you were told by a T-Mobile representative. Perhaps the representative didn't even know if something was blocked but felt they were on the defensive?
Ten years ago:

Amazon: Sell your textbooks!
Me: Ok

Now:

Amazon: Sell your stuff!
Amazon: You are banned from selling due to inactivity.
Amazon: Sell your stuff!
This is truly the way. There is no one-size-fits-all that works best for all workers, all companies, all regions/towns.
A more practical version of this rule is "don't use long term debt to pay for short-term expenses"

When buying a car, or house, or maybe something like a phone that you will use continuously for a number of years, you can make an argument that it's OK to pay for that item over the same time period.

Where people get into more trouble is buying consumable stuff like clothes, food, etc. on to a credit card that they don't pay off every month, and then they end up paying for a box of macaroni or package of underwear over many years (at typically double-digit interest rates).
Not for writing and reading actual files, no. But the 8GB of ram means it can swap to disk quite easily, and the faster speeds really make a difference with that. My M1 mac mini I got to play around with the new arch feels much much faster when memory constrained because of this.
Yes, that sentence was completely unacceptable in a Hacker News comment, but since the parent edited it out, we'll let it go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan
Totally agree that it's best for responsible people. But what is Apple's goal here — to increase the number of people/merchants using Apple Pay or hitting people with unexpected interest payments, which would sour them on the Apple brand? I would think that they're trying to grow their ecosystem, rather than make money while alienating customers. I could be wrong though — when times are tough, even good companies do lousy things.
I'm so happy for this lamp's story arc.
It’s very unlikely to be 99%.

I would say 99% of them want to be paid.

And that 99%ish of them realize that they need to at least look like they have integrity to be paid.

And if asked, I’m sure 99% of them would admit that the best way to keep getting paid and look like they have integrity is to actually have integrity.

usually where the problems happen is when they can’t see the disconnect between their day to day actions and the long term goal, or when they hit a challenge where they can’t do what they need to do - and then can’t take ownership of what they did and instead hide/project/deny, etc.

I’m guessing less than 90% would really have actual integrity, and the rest should hopefully be kept in check by fear of discovery or whatever. But things slip through regardless.
It does compare with them, but we want to lower the barrier of entry for any developer to build features that use embeddings. So we want to give regular software engineers superpowers in providing this technology within their stack and out of the box offering the infrastructure and high-level APIs to run operations on top of the vector db.
I think the .DS_Store file is in the classic macOS resource file format: https://dev.os9.ca/techpubs/mac/MoreToolbox/MoreToolbox-99.h...
https://archive.is/B15vF

Paywall removed: https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-eliminates-its-metaverse...
> The problem that S3 doesn't love small files.

I hadn't heard it before and am not finding references googling.

I'm curious what problems you have with small files on S3; or if someone wants to feel free to point me to a link to discussion of this apparently known fact!
In supermarkets across Europe, inflation is leading to a surge in food theft
Probably not at every store but I guarantee you that at the union stores it was because not reporting the tips would be an immediately fire-able offense and corporate would have been looking for any excuse to fire people at those stores.
I'm from Honduras and don't need a Schengen visa. Many other poor countries can also get in without one
> Anyway, now I wonder if this could be done in this style. Bullet position = its origin, vector and then you can determine its location at any point in time, instead of updating its position at every tick.

It certainly can! Not an expert, but what you are describing can probably be done as a bullet shader.

> Doing that one will likely cause issues across a network or if framerate (or game tick rate) is unstable / unpredictable.

I kind of want to know if a seamless experience is possible without a server... but for now I assume there is one. At that point client frame rate / tick rate does not really matter. Each client sends current character position and origin + vector of all the bullets to the server. Note that current location of the bullets is not important to update the world state - only the origination point and direction. Based on that it can independently do all the hit calculations. Of course this makes cheating possible and any kind of latency extremely annoying, but margins of this post and my available coffee break time are too thin to offer my amateurish take on those problems.
Well, when you are a content company like a newspaper, you need to generate content daily. No matter how crappy it is.
I mean, there’s also no need to freak the fuck out over a minor issue in German text on a predominantly English page. Ok, so “Mondschein Sonata” isn’t exactly the same as “mondscheinsonate”, but it’s damn close and it gets the point across: Some works have different names in different languages.

Guess what happens when I search Apple Classical for “mondscheinsonate”. In fact, don’t guess. Try it.
> it just feels like

> who is being dishonest?

Neither. Your hypothetical is wrong.
Management would point you to the gargantuan employee handbook that all employees sign as a condition of employment. Somewhere in there it states that shift coverage is the employee's job and that company profits/image are of utmost importance.
Management knows the hourly workers are easily replaceable warm bodies.
Ah yeah, I forget this as a Brit (:
Yes exactly! It baffles me so much because I could at least understand if they did it only in cases where bigger is better -- deceitful, but there's a logic to it.

But nobody wants a shot glass the size of a whiskey tumbler. That's not going to drive sales of shot glasses.
You just had to switch companies last year when there was massive demand. I know of people who make that much purely by jumping at the right time.
Yuck my two cents. Apples jump into financial services and pay as you go services model has really rubbed me the wrong way. If i get another settings alert that I need to setup apple wallet, sign into icloud or now perhaps a notice that I can “pay later” …… geez I already purchased you laptop … leave me alone and just work.
You will love the interesting video, "Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work" by Veritasium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
Another instant classic from Bartosz Ciechanowski!
The proposed ban on TikTok is not about you. No one cares to babysit you. They want to punish china for the perceived injustice (and security risk).

China has an asymmetric market, and it’s bad for US businesses but good for Chinese businesses. The US wants to send a message to china that it can also punish businesses that it doesn’t like.
Nice strawman. You're not an asshole if you eat a steak every now and then. You're an asshole if you don't look at alternatives even though they're available to you and you can afford them just because you love your steaks too much - regardless of what "those who pollute the most" do.

We would already be much further ahead if everyone could and would eat meat only "every now and then".

The fact that I can see greater assholes than I could ever manage to be whenever I turn on the TV does not mean I get a ticket to be a tiny asshole. It doesn't matter what others do when we're evaluating your behaviour.

I can't influence "those who pollute the most" alone, and a society full of people who don't care themselves won't have a tiniest chance of influencing them either.
This is such a well made explanation! Tons to learn from this. Good job!
Fine tuning a model like llama is super easy. You can fine tune models up to 33B parameters on a single consumer GPU at around 3 epochs per minute (less than 6 hours for 1000 epochs).

You can even fine tune on a free Google Colab GPU.

Start here: https://github.com/lxe/simple-llama-finetuner
Postgres has an extension as well (pgvector). I've been using it, great performance, great scaling options (though I'm not even close to testing the limits) and gives you the full flexibility of Postgres.

It's easy enough to define a docker compose file, and deploy it to my environments.
These days, everything eventually gets sacrificed at the altar of "developer comfort". Backward compatibility gets thrown under the bus so code can be "cleaned up" and to reduce the testing scope. Software performance gets thrown under the bust so we can all program in Javascript. Platform-specific features get thrown under the bus in favor of a cross-platform framework so we only have to target one API. Download sizes get thrown under the bus so we can ship containers because it's hard to get programs to work on other people's computers. Less-frequently used features get thrown under the bus because it's hard to maintain all that old code.
It only means that either category is okay, not that it should be allowed to be changed.

But I don't think this restriction would fix all the issues where listing in the same category is swapped.
Yes! Also, it significantly reduces the need for user defined destructors and move constructors/assignment operators.
This is the greatest explanation of two-wheeled vehicle dynamics I've ever seen. Anyone who rides a bicycle or motorcycle should read this whole thing!
Oh man, you're a lifesaver. Thanks!
I agree in spirit but buying things in installments is just a reality here in Brazil and in a lot of other countries.

It's a loan like any other. When used correctly it can be a democratizing function for people who are poor but need important things like phones, fridges, and stoves.
Sounds like a mid-size american city.
It only applies up to $1,000, and if you used an Apple Card you'd get 3% back on your purchase. If your purchase happened at the beginning of your credit card month, you'd also get 4 weeks of free float, versus the 6 weeks you get here. Doesn't seem like an amazing deal, if a reward credit card is an option, and assuming they'd give you the same thousand dollars of credit.
> Am I the only one who has basically disabled all notifications at this point

Nope. I disable all notifications as well. The small handful of somewhat useful ones aren't worth the annoying and distracting cascade of completely worthless ones.
This is true; but this is a cost optimization argument; not a feasibility one, which is all the OP was proposing.
Yes, the problem is it's hard to tell what the underlying drive is. I read reviews of one SATA drive, but it seems they swapped out the actual chips but kept the same model number, as all the reviews said it could saturate it, but mine can't, despite having the same model number.
Absal is just an early implementation and experiment. It is written in JS and not meant to be a production-ready runtime and general purpose compilation target. HVM has that goal. That said, Absal is a great repo to study and learn the theory.
I know this isn't as cool as chatgpt and stable diffusion but I feel like there's a lot of room for smaller projects in this space and I wanted find away to encourage alternatives.

If you do have an AI project that you want to promote feel free to add your project.
Net neutrality is not meant to overrule other regulations such as antitrust or foreign ownership limits.
I've used play.ht for a few weeks now, they offer a solid product IMO. Wouldn't be surprised others are using them too
for some composers, they are: Gershwin, Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter. Artists do entire albums featuring them alone.

And there are some who you'd really like to see in their own sequence: Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael come to mind.

But generally, you're right.
Guess I'm the exception to this rule, then. Although I don't live in my home country anymore, my third world country passport is allowed.
They do logically reason, that's the whole point.