skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwan is not a symmetric threat situation.

US Navy will have to expose itself to Chinese missiles and Chinese Air Force, and those small Missile Patrol Boats, to defend Taiwan.

China isn't thinking about attacking Hawaii or the West Coast. What China is trying to do in the near term is complete its takeover of ... well... what it believes to be part of China.

And because various F35 chips are made in Taiwan, its a threat we cannot afford to ignore. (Along with all of our video game consoles, GPUs, AI Tensor processors, and other strategic level computer systems)

Yes, the US Navy is unrivaled. But in a local, regional conflict... especially supported by the largest Airforce in the world (China has a lot of airplanes), and some of the largest ground-based missile forces in the world (China also has a lot of advanced missiles), the US Navy very well could lose the fight to defend Taiwan.
lynx -image_links gopher://gopherddit.com

Set up your favourite VIEWER at /etc/lynx.cfg, or copy that file to ~/.lynx.cfg and
place this at ~/.profile:

export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.lynx.cfg
I for one dream of a future without maps. I want to walk through a distant forest to find an ancient, unconnected ESP-32 in the bark of a tree containing a tiny specialized AI that can only tell me about things relevant to the area, how far to walk upstream to the nearest town. And only if I can find it and scan an RFID tag to wake it up.
> A PDB is a good example of Kubernetes's complexity escalation. It's a problem that arises when you have dynamic, controller-driven scheduling. If you don't need that you don't need PDBs. Most situations don't need that.

No, and that's my point: PDBs exist always. Whether your org has a term for it, or whether you're aware of them is an entirely different matter.

We I did work comprised of services running on VMs, there is still a (now, spritual) PDB associated with that service. I cannot just take out nodes willy-nilly, or I will be the cause of the next production outage.

In practice, I was just intimately familiar with the entire architecture, out of necessity, and so I knew what actions I could and could not take. But it was not unheard of for a less-cautions or less-skilled individual to do before thinking. And it inhibits automation: automation needed to be aware of the PDB, and honestly we'd probably just hard-code the needs on a per-service basis. PDBs, as k8s structures them, solves the problem far more generically.
Dont forget: all your successes, and all your failures are the result of your actions and your actions only. You exist in a vacuum.
Your comment sounds like this:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-had-to-be-c...

You obviously have some understanding of the system if you can speak about bots and front running. Fact is that front running exists in all markets, not just crypto.

As for reversible transactions, that's something done with smart contracts and escrow services. We are not there yet in terms of development, but it will happen eventually. Today, people actually appreciate the immutability of transactions. It enables the effective store of infinite wealth as a basis.

Credit card companies are providing the reversal business, which is paid for by the people who are borrowing money at insane interest rates... no reason why it can't be replicated once there is enough demand for it, but honestly, I'd rather move to reverse the model.... over collateralized loans. This is what is done in countries without the whole bogus credit rating systems.
> In many ways software is the most egalitarian product in history,

Indeed, and that's kind of my point. Even in the most egalitarian product in history, a bit of a wealth gap exists. It's inescapable. That $60 game may not cost $6,000, but it won't run on cheap hardware. And it'll probably depend on a good, high speed Internet connection to acquire in the first place...

Current AI is either relatively low cost but centralized, or very expensive to run locally. I believe AI will be more egalitarian than software in general (as Stanford Alpaca showed), if a lot of work is done to make inference at the edge practical.

The open community shouldn't lose sight of this.
>Are you saying that the US government can compel these companies to take certain actions in the same way that the Chinese government can? Like, as in, being able to force the company to give up all of its users' private details?

There is reasonable evidence of this happening. For example: what happened with Qwest. The former CEO claims this was the primary reason for him being targeted. He was openly against the spying by the NSA before the charges were filed. https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/former-qwest-ceo-joe-na...
Yup, I have used tons of chatbots over the years and they all look like worthless toys compared to GPT4 . Saying that they are similar is like saying mobile phones are similar to old diaries.
> Do people really give they actual contact details to do crimey activities ?

On one hand we could say that anything helps: if they catch the stupid ones, that's still great. One the other hand, that may be all they're after, if they're compensated or promoted based on cases solved. "Last quarter we caught 120 criminals in our clever snare". That looks very nice on a report so it maybe be that's all they're happy doing.
Absolutely. This.

This 'revolution' is quite fuelled by clever marketing and hype generated by Microsoft attempting to overthrow Google crown for better search. Unfortunately, that use-case has fallen flat on its face.

With hallucinations, bullshitting and regurgitating falsehoods and it continues to be unable to reason transparently and like all neural networks are just black-boxes with limited explanation of it's decisions, still requiring humans to review the output just like 'AI systems' still requiring humans to sit behind the wheel of a so-called robo-taxi 'AI' driver. Sounds like typical AI snake-oil.

The only 'safe' use-case for LLMs or even GPT-3 is 'summarization'. Everything else is complete hype; devoid of any reason to even justify the euphoric mania of one section of 'AI'.
Credit cards already let you pay for stuff up to 60 days later with 0% interest. This new service is shorter term than that.
Out of distribution generations are a thing.
obviously yes, there are larger (20B) models trained on more tokens that are released by NVIDIA under commercial-friendly license on HF

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemo-megatron-gpt-20B
Wants are generally not arbitrary. Most wants are for resources that advance an entity's interests in some way, and the likelihood that this necessarily puts them in direct conflict with our survival seems improbable. Also, there's a cost to satisfying wants, and pursuing objects of desire at really excessive cost is likewise improbable.
Wouldn't the chain still need to be quite intricate and pretty hard to make even then? Though now that I think about it, you could probably make it in a way similar to chainmail, since tight tolerances aren't actually that crucial (the results would suck, but only compared to modern bikes). Though the other parts might be just as hard to make and especially to fit together (the bearings, the gearing for the chains...)
Boring architectures generally don’t scale well
I'm saying excluding other card brands gets them a bigger discount from their exclusive card network than volume alone would, not that it pushes people to the Costco-branded card from that network (though it probably does that, too.)
This is a random Reddit post why is everyone treating it as 'news' or even correct?
> As to China, it is all over India and Bangladesh, loaning money

Pakistan and Sri Lanka, yes china loans to them. India definitely not. Bangladesh I am not sure.
It's unclear that what we currently have in LLMs can devise tests, perform the measurement, and act on the results (because it saw to the results being in a form it could ingest).

We've given GPT models access to REPLs to see if they'd become Skynet all of a sudden, but they still need motivation. That motivation loop is currently run by humans... which perhaps are the least trustworthy part of the whole technology stack.

Hook up sensors to induce prompts... yikes.
Redreader in FDroid.
Creative, if somewhat roundabout way to viewing a 3d object.
One thing I have seen mentioned yet is this change from the perspective of honest sellers. Amazon customers are notorious for not bothering to read the listings and because of the generous return policy for FBA items, will just buy something to see if it works. I also sell on my own website and don't have any of that type of problem, but my return policy is not quite so generous.

So me, as an FBA seller has certain products that I've specifically added "DOES NOT FIT XXX YYY" and people buy it and then return it with the comment "DIDN'T WORK on my XXX YYY". I get enough of these stupid returns and Amazon suspends my listing, making my go through a contrition process telling them all the things I've done to remedy the excessive returns. I've got one very popular product, my best seller, that has gone through this 5 or 6 times in the last few years.

While I understand the perspective of fraudulent listings swapping in sub-standard products, the big improvement I am hoping for is that the warnings will actually get people to read the damn listing so they understand what the item isn't to be used for.
What are you going to point them to? A random Reddit post that provides zero details?
The AppStore is a glorified FTP server, with a slow html frontend. It's not exactly the marvel of engineering, and not an awful lot to keep around. Jailbreak community keeps online respositories for free (minus a handful of ads)... but Apple, the world's most cash-padded company, can't afford to keep a RPi4 running in the corner, serving old iOS apps? Give me a break.

(I do work on complex embedded operating systems, with decades long support contracts. We are far from Apple size, I must admit, but I do know what this work involves. Keeping the lights on for such systems is not such a huge expense as everyone pretends it to be. RPi4 is an exaggeration, but not a huge one.)

I don't expect new stuff to work on old systems, I'm not crazy.

I remember, many years ago, someone complained Steve Jobs via email about some iOS update, that he didn't like. And Steve's response was along the lines of "Does the system still do everything what it did when you bought it? Yes? Then have a nice day."

Apple does not give such responses anymore. They avoid answering these. With a reason.

But don't get me completely wrong. I bought my iPod 11 or 12 years ago (I don't even remember), and this is literally my oldest tech that I still use every day. This tells a lot. But my blood boils when I think about how much better it used to be, and how much better it could be... only if Apple wanted it to be.
Yeah lol. I didn't want to argue further because hey it's his/her opinion.

But saying GPT-2 to 4 in 4 years isn't revolutionary just seems contrarian to me.

Bespoke NLP of any kind is out the door with a single model. That's fucking crazy.
> and maybe they are breaking labor laws -- I genuinely don't know much about this topic

Well, the NLRB, one of the arbiters of labor laws, doesn't say "maybeeeee", it says they _are_ breaking labor laws.
Funny how they have a way to reject reviews that don't meet their criteria but claim rejecting improper listings is "too hard".
...or, they could pay actual human beings instead of just relying on the crap data that labels provide.

Although I guess that in today's world, I could just say "use AI to figure it out."
It's a Japanese loan word. I was mystified the first time I heard it out loud in Seattle back in 2015. I don't think I've ever seen it written.
it lags behind because according to their blogpost it was trained on <300B tokens. LLaMAs as far as I know were trained on more than trillion
And, in the very very long term 200yrs+, it's one of the few truely sustainable forms of transportation.
Internet Archive – The Fight Continues
Only a few years? Nobody can predict accurately in years anymore. Feels more like "only a few months" away.
And corruption is increasing!
Playing with 8.x/9.x in these VMs makes me wish that modern OS light mode themes would go back to using light mid-grays instead of stark whites. The color choices in Platinum are so much more usable… it doesn't make me feel the need to flip on dark mode immediately.
I agree. The industry needs to do a better job of weeding out the shills.

That said, every advertisement I get for a bank or financial institution, doesn't seem much different. Instead of individuals, it is big organizations trying to shill us into letting them manage our money for us.
do you really not understand it? or are you asking a rhetorical question to make some kind of point?
E-fuels could keep combustion engine cars on the road in the EU beyond 2035
I've posted this before but I'll do it again because it really highlights how unfriendly buying things at amazon has become, slowly over time as meanwhile we barely noticed, like frogs being slowly boiled in water...

What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like - Ryan George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30

"roll the dice"
+1 on Clifford Brown. I think he wrote some of the most brilliant bop melodies and his death was probably one of the more tragic that music ever saw
Always wear a helmet when browsing the World Wide Web.
BRICS is not a thing, they are different countries with different interests, not allies
Wait until (all) teachers start using AND SHARING really well crafted prompts for teaching aides /r/coolguides lesson material.

There should be a central repo for all subjects where topics can be looked up to find a guide like this one - and the prompt is public, with revision edit logs (like wikipedia) such that a standard agreed upon response can be adopted by acedmia for explaining a particle concept.

Let the acedemics expand upon, tangent from, deep dive into the sub components of each topic.

The University.ai
Your question seems a bit too generalized imho.
It’s a bit like asking for resources about building a fast vehicle, without specifying what kind of…a fast car is certainly much differently built than a fast ship or plane.
I assume you want to make a high-performance web-server. Now performance can mean different things: do you need to serve lots of parallel requests, or do you need to shovel large amounts of data, or you need fast complex calculations? Or all of it?
Every type of "performance" is a separate problem and by solving and integrating them you could achieve a "high-performance" server.
However, performance per se is not a reason to start a project. It is sometimes a necessity (e.g. financial transactions, game servers, page load times, etc.) for the desired quality of a service and its business requirements.
Writing efficient and effective code is the way to reach good speed. In C++ for example it’s often wise to use vector.reserve and plan ahead your memory need. Using static and const where appropriate and enable the compiler to generate best results. There may be similar approaches for Java, too…
Anyway performance is achieved by efficient code and well-designed architecture. That’s why you may not find much resources about such a broad topic.
And oh, don’t write a web server from scratch in C++ - at least wait for C++-20 to be adopted everywhere
Why did you feel the need to create a new account to post this?
It's been used by hacktivists before, although people can already pay with bitcoin or other anonymous forms of payment anyway, so even if you accept the DoS as a valid form of protest (and I'm not sold on that personally) we don't really need any new crypto system
Office Space needs a sequel something fierce, and something like that scene needs to be part of it. It should be called Open Office Space.

Along with Idiocracy, the smartphones, VR, and self-crashing cars edition.

I don't know what Mike Judge is waiting for...
Been on Iceland on NY21/22 as well, NYE from the Perlan was absolutely mindnumbing. Vik was absolutely beautiful. Polar Lights left me completely speechless.

Most beautiful country in the world. Even though the winter was harsh. Perfect if you love photography, the whole day Golden Hour basically.
> Yes, but these sites target morons

I used to wonder why so many scam e-mails use such poor English until I realized this.
My Goto card is Paypal 2% for everything, and 3% for PayPal (so online Walmart, ebay, anything which offers PayPal), as soon as txn goes through. Synchrony Bank's own mastercard also offers 2% on everything, at every statement end. Wells Fargo Active Cash also offera 2% everywhere. I use Wells Fargo Autograph for 3% stuff like Travel, Food. Discover & Chase come out only if there are 5% offers or categories. Capital Ones get only 99 cent charge a month to get it forgiven.

Apple card only for apple purchases, 0% apr && 3% cashback. I use android phone, so no apple pay possible. I wish it allows to be added to google pay with nfc.
The point is to not rely on WiFi, hence Sidewalk.
I never redeem points for purchases. I always apply them to a billing credit. If you redeem points for a purchase you don't accrue points on that purchase.

Chase of course goes out of their way to make this as painful as possible. Currently their app is broken and points can't be redeemed for cash. There is also no way to automatically apply all points to a statement credit. My perception that this is the best use of points is reinforced by how much effort they put into trying to convince me to do something else.
First Look at Pyscript.com
Right? This story sounds sus to me. I've visited Apple stores so many times and literally never had a pushy salesperson.
> iOS version never have these issues

The security argument for the App Store has never been stronger.

> "But you can always download from the official App Store!" you may say. But what if, say, Tik Tok announces they will from now on leave the App Store and available only via direct download?

... and nothing of value was lost.
I think it's worth mentioning that the install line at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install looks exactly the same.
Are there any good resources to learn more about South African history and the contemporaneous situation in a cohesive manner?

I ask because like perhaps many, I've read a number of novels by Zakes Mda and it has sparked an interest. They're wonderful books, very emotional and beautifully written, but it's like looking at South Africa through a kaleidoscope, not all that much really comes into focus intellectually. Unfortunately my school education on the country was also basically nil.
I have one. I still countersteer to turn in parking lots.
> So while we can increase housing supply by optimizing the usage of that land (more houses per unit area), this has adverse consequences for the people already using it...

It would certainly have some kind of consequences for the people currently using it. Whether they would be better or worse that the consequences already being experienced is a matter for debate. I don't live in the bay area but would assume more density would largely be a good thing for regular people -- either their rent will drop because the market isn't so tight, or the home they own would rocket in value because it can suddenly be cleared to make way for an apartment or condo building (that they might have a hope of affording a unit in).

There are other people "using" the land though: the rentiers who run the local (and state, and national) government.
In practice, they are abiding the price cap, even if they haven't made any official statements stating such.

https://archive.is/Pry3x
They need to have human review of products and product changes. Easy enough. Just expensive. I don’t care that it’s expensive. That’s Amazon’s problem.

Let’s put another way, until Amazon does something about this there’s no way for anyone to trust reviews on their site. Their reviews are all worthless.

That’s a huge liability.

As long as they let people scam me, I will just assume everyone on there is there to scam me. It hurts them more in the end to lose shoppers to Walmart and Costco and places that don’t put up with scammy products.
Definitely. The geopolitical environment is very stable and Washington is firmly in control of the unipolar world order. The global USD is thriving.

Stage 1: Denial.
The Year 2000 by Joseph Goebbels
A fascinating insight into German's minds at the end of the war.

We know how it turned out, but back then this prediction probably did not seem all that inconceivable.

For lack of better word, his "whining" that Britain and America turned against Germany, is also interesting, e.g.:

> A tiny extension of Germany into purely German territories to the East was sufficient ground to see a threat to the European balance of power.
Getting “gecontroleerd” in the self-checkout supermarkets in the Netherlands seems to be happening to me way more frequently than it ever did previously (sometimes every visit). I’ve never missed scanning an item, which is something as far as I understand used to be a flag for more frequent checks.
… there's a difference between "can do it" and "is provided."

In the case of either k8s or VMs, I supply the health check. There's no getting around that part, really.

But that's it in the case of k8s. I'm not building out the logic to do the check, or the logic to pause a deployment if a check fails: that is inherent to the deployments controller. That's not the case with Ansible/Salt/etc.¹, and I end up re-inventing portions of the deployments controller every time. (Or, far more likely, it just gets missed/ignored until the first time it causes a real problem.)

¹and that's not what these tools are targetting, so I'm not sure it's really a gap, per se.
> One thing I've noticed is that when you take a sharp turn on a mountain bike, you tend to move the bike away from your body. But on a road bike, you maintain that alignment with your body and the frame.

I don't know the answer but will toss out a guess.

I'd speculate one of the biggest differences is how each bike is used and its intended design based on that use case. Centrifugal forces combined with traction of tire to surface will be very different between road bike tires at high speed on pavement versus mountain bike tire and low/moderate speeds on dirt. Beyond that, a mountain bike is often rode through technical terrain that requires dynamic balance by the rider (rider strategically shifts weight over bike) - whereas road bikes appear to be rode with a more "static" balance between rider and bike.
Solving text captcha using ChatGPT
Of course, when you phrase it as "only available in the browser" then there are no alternatives. That's why Figma had to "create a browser inside the browser" because the tech is just so, so amazing: https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
> They look fun though. I'd love a long distance camping -e-bike version of one with a trailer and a detachable, light, curved windscreen that can be put on the top of the trailer when one wants.

https://bikeportland.org/2009/11/10/portlands-terracycle-unl...

That company appears to be https://t-cycle.com
The anti-Western bloc is not interested in escalating war, so it is inaccurate to view it through the lens of formal military alliance.

Countries that want war right now: USA, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Azerbaijan, few others.

Countries that don't want war: >90% of human population.
I will typically pay for returns, instead of abusing the free option, but I have no moral qualms about choosing the free option (inaccurate description), when they pull this particular crap.
If you're short USD, I guess this makes all the sense in the world.
What about all of the startups whose profits are over the horizon?