skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about isolation from the global oceans?

If something goes wrong with mass scale seaweed farming how bad things can become?I don't know, producing toxins, being invasive and spreading spores to all the oceans, being affected by virus and spreading those virus, depleting oxygen/sunlight in some big areas or dying by some disease and becoming source of methane, to name a few from my point of not knowing about the topic.

The impact of something going wrong on land usually doesn't spread very far, but what about all interconnected seawater?

Ice-9 made me afraid of that kind of things.
> Second because SQL is actually a mediocre abstraction layer over your data storage

Actually, SQL is not an abstraction layer for data storage. It is a query language based on set theory. Even DDL doesn't impose on you any limitations or makes any assumptions regarding storage - just data representation. You're conflating SQL RDBMS with SQL language, just like many ORM's do. Quick example, you can use SQL with Apache DRILL to query log files in CSV - SQL Language, none of the RDBMS stuff.

> You can't really compose SQL queries;

in an ORM taking a base Query object and adding a bunch of various `filter()` statements automatically does the right thing. Basic queries are much shorter visually

Of course you can. But even without needing to explain to you how one of the most famous anti-patterns work (EAV - entity-attribute-value), the most easy way of doing it is by using a query builder in your own development language - you just filter based on the specific code contitions.

Oh, and "compose" is a terrible term, specially when SQL actually allows you to use SELECT * FROM (SELECT QUERY), LATERAL and UNION - all of these allow you to perform proper composition, years ahead of what most ORMs give you.
The absolute funniest is the instruction in writing telling staff to inform US customers that the only way that they show up as from the US is Geo-IP, and that if they bypass that...

I guess this is what happens in remote working. You can't tell people how to break the law over lunch any more.
This is a diagram of how a reverse proxy works. I didn't say, or mean to suggest, that NSA were competent systems architects.
>The Fed is currently paying banks 4.9% on their reserves (this rate was always 0% before 2008). and they pay you close to 0% on your checking account.

Get a better bank then. There's half a dozen that's paying 4.5% or more: https://www.investopedia.com/best-high-yield-savings-account...

> When some people tried to open a competing bank that would pass through this interest rate to depositors the were denied a license by the Fed (https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/safest-bank-fed-wont-san...). The banking system is pretty much a value destroying subsidy sink at this point.

Yet the banks listed above don't seem to have much trouble existing.
There a lots of good languages to choose from with GC.

Zig would not have much unique to offer if it was a GC language, imo.
> Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions.

Or, just write regular expressions?

> ... Regex.ai's intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently.

See: https://www.ibm.com/topics/overfitting

Inputting the sample text:

foo bar baz
baz bar foo

And highlighting the first "baz" produced patterns which all had "[A-Z][a-z]*@libertylabs\\.ai" included, assumedly due to the default inclusions.

Removing those and highlighting the second "baz" resulted "<Agent B>" as the results in one case.

There is no explanation of any patterns generated. If a person is to use one of the generated patterns and Regex.ai is supposed to "save you time and streamline your workflow", no matter "[w]hether you're a novice or an expert", then some form of verification and/or explanation must exist.

Otherwise, a person must know how to formulate regular expressions in order to determine which, if any, of the presented options are applicable. And if a person knows how to formulate regular expressions, then why would they use Regex.ai?
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage"

Or in todays language:

"You aren't free if you are bound by your desires".

This is a quote by Emmanuel Kant and I think it applies well to the Amish.
Plenty of services managed to build large user bases before being on Android.

Instagram comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Instagram
Once I was looking at the same word side by side in Arabic and Hebrew and I could imagine Hebrew letters being written in a flowing cursive and coming out as Arabic letters. The languages turned out to be surprisingly similar!
parent here... I own two cars. One I bought outright for $2700 and put about $15k into restoring over the last 5 years. The other is the only substantial debt I have, but I bought it for $30k at 2.99% ...and considered that a good place to put my money. I understood interest rates were about to rise and used car prices wouldn't fall anytime soon. Nothing I did in that regard was something they don't teach you in 9th Grade Macroeconomics. I take small loans if the rate is right because I'm pretty sure I can use that $30k to generate more than 3% a year, so, it's free money. Other than that, I'd never take a loan for anything, ever. That seems to be the fundamental piece of logic most people haven't been acculturated to.

Yet... I know a lot of people who are otherwise uneducated (high school, if that) who understand this implicitly. I don't think it's exceptionally American or even related to education level. It's learned by going through actual deprivation and remembering how hard it is to earn every dollar you make.

[edit] what I'm referring to here as 'it' is: Never take a loan unless you are sure the value of the money over time in interest or investment favors you. A loan is just a bet that you can do better with that money than the interest rate you have to pay for it. Why don't they explain this to children anymore? [/edit]

I'm a 3rd generation American. I've had a view, for my whole life, that America is a machine that turns ambitious producers into lazy consumers over the course of a couple generations. Being ambitious, and producing, is at least as much about making wise decisions with your savings as it is about earning.

Personal observation: The immigrant tendency to save their money used to be racially judged and regarded as a type of "cheap" "hoarding" - always, of course, by the 3+ gen stock of old money. But the phrase "a fool and his money are soon separated" is as true today as it ever was: the tendency of the children of the rich to be idiots and blow it all is the greatest bulwark against generational wealth we possess in a free market democracy. Far more effective than any tax.

Deprivation is key not just to the hunger to create, but the hunger to conserve. It has to be experienced or taught.
Thanks, that means a lot :)
I don't really like Discord's threads. They're basically a channel nested inside of a channel, but they don't really interact with or get exposed in the outer channel. And by default, they disappear after a while. And the threads are kind of hard to find if you haven't joined them yet.

Something that has a UX more like traditional forums as a chat app sounds neat to me.
FWIW, that's more a matter of customizations for those servers than Discord in general. Vanilla discord is... still kind of annoying, but not terribly confusing. Mostly just Slack with voice/video chat and bad threading.
Yeah so i suppose it is the [checks notes] Democrats who are throwing molotovs at church signs over Drag Story Hour.

TIL

https://fox8.com/news/church-to-host-drag-story-hour-vandali...
We have artificial intelligence that is general and above average human intelligence for the majority of tasks it can perform. Near expert level for some. NLP is a solved problem. Bespoke models are out the door. Large enough LLMs crush anything else for any NLP task.

Honestly, this whole "they are not intelligent" argument is becoming ridiculous.

might as well argue that a plane isn’t a real bird or a car isn’t a real horse.
Idiomatic translation of text matching a human professional (e.g. free of errors for legal terms, interesting and natural for fiction) is unlikely to be achieved until we have AGI. So no.
2012, but still interesting. Thanks for posting.
> Secondly, they can literally print money.

This keeps getting repeated all over the internet... but the FED doesn't just "print" money. It creates money, loan it to some counter-party, and that counter-party has to return it. If the counter-party doesn't return the money, the FED losses money. They can print money to themselves, but that doesn't offset the losses.
You can ignore it in your global git config, too. Once per host.
Back up. Try again. Sorry!
lol what are you talking about? The weights are being linked to on Meta's repo right now: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files

The idea that Meta is frantically running around trying to "wipe" these weights is ridiculous. They're either doing this to disclaim liability in case a new law imposes it retroactively, or they are trying to create uncertainty around its use to dissuade serious US competitors from using it for their own products.

> but I also suspect (and cannot prove) that various organs of the US state (CIA, NSA, FBI) are also trying.

I would be very surprised if they were given that it would only handicap the US while leaving other countries to advance unabated. Again, the only real thing facebook did here is show that we can have smaller models that are competitive to larger ones. The information to build and train these models is public. The code to do this is public. The capability to this so is public.

The cat is out of the bag and humanity is better off for it. What humanity needs to do now is figure out how best to adapt.
Interesting..
Have you discovered any limitations to Notes e.g. how many total or largest size?
honestly i wonder if @dang will approve an auto summarizer bot on HN since it helps improves the quality of discussions. finetune on HN comments, anticipate the top few questions, and then answer from the source doc
MS already announced that. They call it Business Chat. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-micr...

If it works well it will be a big deal.
Animated AVIF is nice.
My solution was much dumber, my grandma had an iPad she had no idea how to use, I put a shortcut on there that grabbed the RSS feed for YouTube for her church and put it into a menu she could tap and open the video for. Still works though :)
I'm fairly sure they could have made this call 3 years ago, but I guess there wasn't a hot new alterntive use for GPUs to keep prices high then.
CVE-2023-0590 is already patched in C9, meaning the fix will likely will be shipped in RHEL 9.2. The other CVEs will probably get fixed as well (in CentOS first!), but when the RHEL maintainers are ready to, not based on some arbitrary deadline from a third party. Lower severity CVE fixes are routinely delayed until future minor versions, so this is nothing new, just an example of a security researcher not understanding how RHEL works.
Can't you take a moment and appreciate the great technical achievement before you ?
"Why is Rust’s 'Bump' not' Sync'?" was exactly the issue I was thinking of. Thanks for writing this. Seriously, a must read!
as a senior academic in the area, might you have a list of the most influential papers in your field in the past year that you would recommend?
All while being looked down on by your politicians who also shout at you about how it's the greatest thing ever and you should be thankful for it.
May be generally down — be patient, possibly first time they're doing any kind of load-testing.
As far as 2) scribes were expensive then, and paper/skins even more so. The stories weren’t written down until it was clear they were ‘hot’ and worth it.

Same with Buddhism, near as anyone can tell. None of the scripture is contemporary with Buddha.
I have yet to see a convincing argument for banning Tik Tok. It's no worse then any US social media company.
I have 0 results for PDB SRE on multiple search engines. What does it mean?
I suppose it's useful to define "the past" in the original question :)

In one sense, sure, 90's is the present (consumer tech has been around for let's say 50 years), but in the context of computers the 90;s is the distant past.

Personal computers (as in one's regular people could buy) become available (more or less) during the 70's. By the 80's things like Apple 2, Commodore, Spectrum etc are "main stream" - in the sense that "some people had them". But "some people" was a tiny minority. When I was at school most people didn't have them. Businesses were just getting going with them.

The 90's (windows 3.1) makes them a bit more accessible, but still "rare". Windows 95 brings PC's (and the internet) "to the masses", but most homes still don't have them. Adoption has picked up though - lots of internet hype, FOMO and so on.

More or less at this point the hype machines build up. There's always been over-hype, but up to this point it's limited to those geeks who read Byte or PC Magazine. Now it's gone "full consumer". Dot Com (bubble) ensues. There are fortunes to be made by those in the right place, at the right time, with the right product. But there's also a lot of weird. (pets.com et al).

The hype-machine has never stopped. New languages (Java), Touch-phones, tablets, facebook, farmville (remember farmville?). We still recognized the survivors, but the failures quickly fade. Alta Vista? Dare I say, Yahoo? AOL? Compuserve? Geocities? 3DTV?

So, to answer the question, sure, "scammy" hype has been with us, certainly since tech went mainstream. Everyone has the next great idea. Some stick around more than others.

AI is having a moment in the sun. It's a new shiny toy at Christmas. Whether it has staying power - I don't know. But sooner or later it'll fade, and the next big thing will come along.
Yep, left my job a couple weeks ago primarily for that non sense, mandating going back 5 days a week 9-5 AND in an “open office” where I can’t focus 5 minutes straight..
Also "the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less than $0.003 -- about twenty times cheaper than MTurk."

It's interesting that the best available MTurk Master crowd-workers located in the US are paid about six cents per task.
I can confirm that almost 200 people were laid off today. All across the board: product, engineering, education, etc and in all demographics (mostly India but also in the US).

The first wave came in Feb, but we were told a 10% reduction anytime between now and the end of the fiscal year which is June 30
I buy the tech theory, because all the west coast cities with major drops are tech cities. I don’t think they’ll collapse because they’re otherwise desirable, but a correction was overdue.

A lot of the East coast cities with big rises especially in Florida are starting from a lower price point so they have more room to go up.
I wrote accepted corrections to state regulations law on a particular topic, and I can tell you that super-dense legalese for big-time industrial topics, had loopy and inconsistent language.
Biden invokes Defense Production Act for printed circuit board production
NLP is just a matter doing tasks at the accuracy level of an MTurk, you say?
I won't comment on the first bit as i've not personally tested in that are but GPT-4 can absolutely make short work on the second. I don't think people realize how good Bilingual LLMs are at translations. Yes you have idioms transfer between languages. Feel free to test it yourself.
Yeah, HN is ironically the most tech-skeptical crowd I've frequented. Maybe it's a part of the libertarianism inherent in hacker culture, which is less diluted in HN compared to other platforms due to a lesser influx of new non-techy users.
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/child-sexual-abuse-amish

> Child Sexual Abuse in the Amish Community: A Hidden Epidemic

Turns out, a closed-off, hierarchical community isn't something to emulate.

Doesn't help that a lot of them only get an eighth grade education:

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2012/03/professor-william-fi...

> The Amish community’s adherence to a lifestyle more typical of the 19th century, which includes driving horse-drawn buggies and living in homes with no electricity, is driven by religious beliefs. But the Amish’s adherence to educating their children in one-room schoolhouses, and then only through the eighth grade, is largely the result of a 1972 Supreme Court decision, Yoder v. Wisconsin. This 40-year-old ruling has “frozen them in place” and threatens the younger generation’s ability to earn a living in an increasingly complex society, argues Professor of Economics William A. Fischel in a recent paper.

https://www.amishheritage.org/services/education/

> In 1972, the United States Supreme Court decided in Wisconsin v. Yoder that Amish children do not have the right to any future other than one inside the Amish Church.

https://lancasteronline.com/features/former-amish-want-to-ov...

So it seems their "thorough consideration of technology" is in the context of a culture that's not going to change because it would threaten the established hierarchy. That's the threat, here: Something like this might start out well-intentioned, but once the institution is in place, well, any excuse will serve a tyrant, eh? Any excuse will serve the organization.
So is this 'AI trains AI better than people can'?

And presumably the better-trained AI will also be better again at training.

I think I've seen this movie.
Why do you think there would be a convincing argument?

It’s all politics, grandstanding, and power. If you want to ban something and have the ability to make it happen, why let the lack of a convincing argument stand in your way?
Labels and custom icons on files are stored in extended attributes (implemented as named forks on HFS+; not sure about APFS but the OS presents them all as xattrs regardless of FS) on the files themselves in APFS and HFS+.

Custom icons for folders are stored in a special "Icon?" hidden file, but not actually in the file's normal data-- they're in an extended attribute too.

(The xattr in question is called "com.apple.ResourceFork" and I'm presuming is structurally similar to a resource fork in classic Mac OS.)
I always liked fastapi and didn't have any problems, so your comment on issues made me check. Currently there are 16 open issues.

However, I believe (based on vague memories) that there used to be a ton of issues on the fastapi repo that were basically support requests. Going throw some closed issues, it seems that these were closed and/or converted to discussions.
> "Model weights aren't part of the release for now, to respect OpenAI TOS and LLaMA license."

Makes sense if they originally licensed the model weights from Meta. Fortunately you can get the weights via torrent without agreeing to the license by visiting facebook's repository and getting the magnet link yourself: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files
>This keeps getting repeated all over the internet... but the FED doesn't just "print" money. It creates money, loan it to some counter-party, and that counter-party has to return it.

That sounds like a pointless nitpick to me "ackshually the fed doesn't print money because everything is done digitally and no printing is actually done". What you described can be pretty much summed as "the fed prints money which it then uses to buy assets".
'10 MacBooks' Twitter hack update: Not even Smash Mouth is safe
The premise is China is spying on US citizens. I suppose we don't want competition when it comes to invasion of privacy.

Therefore, we ban it so only US companies can spy on US citizens.
If there's a correlation between the religiousness of a commune and the longevity of it, I'd guess that it's due to the fact that it's harder to maintain cohesion with openly expressed dissent and doubt, and religious-based groups have an additional tool to combat that compared to secular ones (i.e. invoking divine fiat).
so I have to use slack at work, and my social interactions with friends, family and acquaintances are split across fb messenger, telegram, slack, discord, skype, WhatsApp, google chat, SMS, twitter dms and probably a few more I'm forgetting. on some of those platforms, I talk to as little as 1 single person.

I don't understand what could possibly drive anyone to making a new messaging app at this point. Even if your app has impenetrable privacy, impeccable ui, and amazingly useful features - it's not going to improve the horrible experience of wrangling a zillion of other messaging apps - and if your users have friends, they'll have to do that anyway. At this point, making another one of these feels like some kind of sadistic joke.

I wish to incinerate all messaging apps.

P.S.: to clarify - it's not like I even _want_ to use more than half of the messengers I listed. I am _forced to_, because some people I want to talk to are only available on certain platforms.
Déjà vu 2011. Sigh. This has happened before.

The failures need:

- Update the URL rather than depend on ephemeral DOM state like some damn Flash app

- Don't load the entire site all at once as one giant file

- Use server- and client-rendering wherever it makes the most sense

- Accessibility or be in a heap of legal trouble globally

- Get fancy by swapping js and html, but be prepared to deal with all edge-cases of things that don't know what magic is happening
Parents already use technology (TV, tablet computer) to alleviate some of the burden of caring for their children. Why not use a far more engaging product?
Absolutely agree, but one small point of clarification. One of the referenced CVEs (CVE-2023-1249) is rated low. The other two (CVE-2023-0590 and CVE-2023-1252) are rated moderate.
I have tested it :) I've asked it to translate English fictional text into Japanese, it falls over often. It's unnatural and often makes no sense at all. It doesn't compare to a typical professional translation (which are often not that idiomatic either), let alone a really good one.

I'm sure it'll be doing that in five years, but not now.

One interesting thing is that's it's nondeterministic, so sometimes 'For chrissakes' turns to ちくしょう (Damn!) but sometimes to クリスのために (for Chris' sake). Sometimes 'the goddamn door' turns into クソドア ('shit door'), sometimes the goddamn changes the phrasing of the whole sentence instead. If you run it five times and take the best sentences out of all five runs it's probably quite good. Maybe prompting would help too, I said "idiomatic Japanese" but it still usually translated it in a very "foreigner Japanese" way typical of US drama/movie translations.
Don't get me started on things React sucks at.
no, a short answer to this is .. these models are probabilistic, therefore they will always have errors along with whatever else. Secondly "intelligence" is not one thing; no one has all of it or none of it, including computers.
I've lived next to Amish briefly and have friends that still live among them as non Amish.

Im not going to argue with you because its just going to be anecdotal, but I can tell you that the kids are not brainwashed if thats what you're referring to. The "shunning" is also exaggerated. It looks like you just watched "Amish mafia" on TV. Most stay Amish because it really isn't a bad system at all.

They use plenty of technology, its just approved by the community after careful consideration.

They have their problems but their focus on the family is vastly superior to most of the modern day degeneracy devoted to chasing whatever fleeting pleasure is popular at the moment. They will be around for a very very long time.
I don’t share passwords with family, they all know good password hygiene though and use generated passwords for all their services. For end-of-life scenario apple does have digital legacy https://digital-legacy.apple.com/
plenty of downs, but enjoying every little ups.

pretty much like this scene in antman: https://youtu.be/AFqaGb7Qxm4
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