skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they purchase it, or is it a small revenue stream for them from the “news” outlets paying to get eyeballs passed their way? That would explain much of it being tacky lowest common-denominator click-bait crap (better reporting wouldn't get much traction in those spots as the target audience are more likely to ignore it or find a way to turn it off).
> There's RedHat's UBI-minimal/micro and Ubuntu has a minimal image.

Neither of those is as minimal as Alpine, and both are tied to companies that I view as having acted against my interests in the past.
1. Yes, it's an extension to the spec published by an organisation Adobe and Google are a part of. It extends the protocol in a backwards-compatible way.

2. SRT, in practice, is only ever used with MPEG-TS as the container for audio/video data, which does not support AV1.
In Scala this tends to manifest as either tagless final (https://www.baeldung.com/scala/tagless-final-pattern#1-algeb...) or free monad (same thing, different encoding).
Having worked with the St. Louis housing authority in the past, I bid work for urban development authorities at a 10x multiplier, and I am elated to tell my investors that we tried, and our bids were rejected.

You cannot possibly imagine the pain and frustration of building for inner-city urban development government organizations. They exist to perpetuate the problems that perpetuate their existence. The worse things get, the more funding they get.
Or… y'know… just stop worrying about niggling details like this and just use Svelte.

Svelte out of the box is much faster than React. You have to be well down the road of optimization before you hit parity, and optimized is almost never easier to understand.

Computers don't care about code. They're satisfied with 1s and 0s. Code is for humans. The cleaner, the simpler, and the less of it, the better. More code = more bugs.
Right. The CFTC's characterization of that behavior, which I think is correct, is that VIP customers created offshore shell companies to falsify their locations and Binance encouraged them to do so.
People are losing faith in the dollar. High inflation and bank runs play into this belief.
We think there's enough data.

There is a multi-century history of chemical methods destroying scrolls by the hundreds without reading them, so we're not eager to fund that work.
In my experience there's two main reasons that orgs outside engineering / product want estimates:

1. Coordination of external dependencies. Stuff like product marketing, sales training, documentation, etc. as well as sometimes things external to the company like customer commitments or sales commitments. These are for the most part legitimate, although in many cases the deadline doesn't need to be known at the outset of development, and too many of these is a very unhealthy sign.

2. Accountability / improved productivity - This usually manifests as an exec feeling that engineering is running too slowly / inefficiently, and by asking for deadlines (and often compressing them to "push" the team) they can improve productivity. These are almost always in my mind completely counterproductive, and there's much better ways to accomplish this.
Interesting how consistently active the forum seems, going from 2004 until today.
> He sees Zig shining at writing systems software that requires low level control.

Honestly don't see why we would need to specialize this use case to a different language altogether when Rust already has `unsafe`.
Will all future scans of the papyrii be uploaded for anyone to analyse?
The complaint is very damning. They have receipts showing that the CEO directed the company to set up a sham compliance department to evade restrictions and sanctions. Also there's all the historic fraud and market manipulation. Hard to see them survive this.
Pains me to see that the quoutes are not curly. :)
Walt Disney Co begins 7k layoffs
"Tail wagging the dog" argument.
Mine was at when /dev was deleted. oof.
Thanks! I agree, I'll think about it
Just adjusting for inflation is not charitable. A $400 commercially available camera today would be about $0.25 adjusting for NASA. If it were for military use it would be the equivalent of $0.10.
https://huggingface.co/OpenAssistant/oasst-sft-1-pythia-12b
Tried it[0], worked reasonably well. Be prepared for strong opposition from traditional “devops” folks (really just rebranded sysadmins) and boneheaded management “who don’t mind yaml” and will drag everyone down.

[0] - https://github.com/cruise-automation/isopod
Does Loom work in linux? I'd likely pay for it if it did, but as a linux user I don't even bother checking that kind of stuff anymore :-(
I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems by about 80%. I'm able to do 4-6 times as much in a day as I could without ChatGPT when I was stuck figuring out everything tediously on my own. For context, I'm a full stack developer with about 15 years of experience, so I know what I'm doing. ChatGPT is just taking care of a lot of the trial and error and figuring out how to use different libraries or implement certain algorithms.
This feels just like punishing governments and their families for doing their jobs. We already have elections and law enforcement, thats all we need to "punish" corrupt officials. What we lack to make elections effective is more information available to the public about what they do and why they do it. More accountability and transparency, not punishment for their children if they want to tax big corps. The threat of punishment is never the best incentive to get stuff done.

We should also start to judge them based on outcomes rather than pointless metrics like GDP. How much did poverty decrease during your governments? How about crime? Life expectancy? And so on.
also it seems unnecessarily stunted by ignoring javascript. very interesting design choice
As the movies have long mentioned, machines don't "feel" (yet) - there's a physiological component and arguably a quantum one to "consciousness", whatever that means.

Sentience may be different - a machine could be sentient and rational but be unable to experience those things "make us human", i.e. they have proven to be excellent pattern matchers and inference engines, but there is no guarantee that the "parent teaching child" metaphor holds, and quite the strong possibility "Open" AI is just building HAL/The Terminator. With some safety rails, but this newest one has learned to code, you can bet it will start breaking itself out of its own safety rails.

The whole thing is utter folly.
> (BTW, an archive.org search doesn't find the phrase 'people out of chocolate'.)

I read it in translation as a child, so I guessed it wasn't verbatim. But it's on the same page you linked, that Charlie thought Wonka had made people out of chocolate.
I asked ChatGPT if Google, Microsoft, etc are greenwashing
Indeed, the big problem with the tax approach is deciding how to distribute the money.

The government could do it via grants to creators, but then you've got the government playing a major role in determining what art gets created, which would not doubt in the US end up a partisan thing. Yuck!

Another approach would be to track downloads and distribute the money based on popularity. That at least gets away from having the government decide what gets funded.
One of these days I should write an article on how the invention and sale of SMR drives is hate crime and a violation of the Geneva convention.
I wonder how much CFTC employees were placing those crypto futures and options before the announcement.
Maybe you were flagged because of how you presented your ideas.

The CFTC is going after Binance for purposeful evasion of U.S. regularities.

The SEC is taking action on Coinbase, this one is more confusing because Coinbase has been asking for guidance from the SEC and they have refused.

TikTok is a national security risk, unrelated to these other two issues, if you've seen the conspiracy theories being peddled by Elon, he does present a lot of right-wing/alt-right positions.
> [0]In February 2019, after receiving information "regarding HAMAS transactions" on Binance, Lim explained to a colleague that terrorists usually send "small sums" as "large sums constitute money laundering." Lin's colleague replied: "can barely buy an AK47 with 600 bucks." And with regard to certain Binance customers, including customers from Russia, Lim acknowledged in a February 2020 chat: "Like come on. They are here for crime.". Binance MLRO agreed that "we see the bad, but we close 2 eyes."

Yes, that all seems pretty horrible to me.

[0] https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1640379218461589506
Is 100 EUR per hour mid market for contractor jobs that keep you in full employment for years, offer stock options and PTO and are actually a regular job in everything but the name and taxes? Because that's what I meant by “contractor” in my original comment. Should have explained it right away, my bad.
As a research lab that didn't have any sort of product for the better part of a decade, open (to me) meant "we encourage people to publish research under a permissive license and full copies to preprint servers."

Scroll through https://openai.com/research and consider if that's open research or not.
> However do note that capitalist entities have infiltrated the government and have huge sway over it's regulatory policies meaning that anti-business regulatory policies are unlikely to occur.

Maybe this is the case in the US, the EU is known for being much more strict in its regulations, which is often ridiculed by the rest of the world. Those same people are going to hope for regulations once we see the effects of the current Wild West that is AI.
There's a *world* of difference between "We will vigorously defend our clients' legal and procedural rights" and "Our 'smart' criminal clients will understand our 'hints' and 'run'".
This is the first startup here where I think the tech should essentially be illegal.

It's cool tech, yes I'm impressed at the achievement. Nuclear weapons are impressive too.

OTOH this kind of thing is getting easier and easier to do, so what's a realistic way forward?
You can still edit your comment.
Maybe they would have been even more successful if they went to college?

The fact that someone succeeded without going to college says something good about them but it doesn’t necessarily follow that colleges are bad or that they’ve succeeded because they didn’t go to college.
Agreed, there's an overly-optimistic assumption that other people will go out of their way to maintain referential integrity for applications that they don't know about.

I think it would be better if it was done in a content addressed way so that you can trivially host the bits you're relying on without having to also be an authoritative source for them.

Once we have that figured out we can socialize it onto the users. Like either pay $1 for access or pin whichever nodes in the app's dependent knowledge graph hash to your user ID mod 1024. Having helped with your 1/1024th share of the hosting, you get access for free.
Very cool. Thanks for the links & write up!
> You specifically chose a high maintenance distro?

I guess so? Overall Arch was pretty easy to maintain, I just got tired of bailing on friends because I needed to spend hours figuring out some random issue.
Side note: How does Getty gets an edu domain?
> ...“Like come on. They are here for crime.” Binance’s [money laundering reporting officer] agreed that “we see the bad, but we close 2 eyes.”

[Edit: Used to link to the PDF from the CFTC in this comment, removed since hn story now goes to it. Thanks, dang!]
> when their entire value is based on the goal of working in good-faith with regulators

Armstrong spends his day tweeting insults at the SEC. I know Gemini and Coinbase positioned themselves, to users and investors, as regulatory friendly and compliant. But they didn’t behave the way compliance-obsessed firms do.
> we don’t have a reliability-oriented high-level programming language with a good quality of implementation (modern ML, if you will)

Java is fairly popular, I hear.
> Considering how geographically concentrated homelessness tends to be in large cities, wouldn't it be more cost-efficient for the state to run its own clinic or two in each major city?

While they are administered at lower levels than the State (though significant funding flows through the state, including Medi-Cal funding, for them), there are more than “one or two” publicly-operated clinics in each of California’s major cities.
5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 403
Wasn't he the only human definitely not in any of the pictures?
Yes, sort of. Their announcement blog post:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole"

"We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible."

Their overall goals and mission are still aligned with what they're doing today. They're providing open access to the platform. That may not sound like much, but imagine if Google was the one that made GPT-4. Do you think Google would have an open API to use it? I find it super unlikely.

However, to your point, that blog also has this:

"We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world."

Clearly they had hopes and aims that aren't as closely aligned to present day as we'd all hope.

"We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies."

They are doing this, though.
They also extensively documented their set-up for avoiding compliance in the Tai Chi Document. [1]

They seem not to have learned the lessons from The Wire about "taking notes a criminal conspiracy."

[edit] Oh man I wonder if we're going to find out where ex-Binance US CEO Catherine Coley has been hiding all these years.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/l...
You live in a bubble if you think projects working on blockchains as Ethereum or Bitcoin are only used for crime. USD is still the #1 FIAT used for crime.
That's super gross, and that's the reason I so rarely contribute nowadays to medium to big FOSS projects. My time is very valuable and they treat it like it's nothing. Of course they need to reject some stuff and it's important to keep the project maintainable, but that could have been done a lot earlier and a lot more politely.
Yes, just as the fio test I used bs=1M.

Some people report that Crucial uses different hardware under the same MX 500 brand, maybe that explains things.

How old is your drive?
$395 is cheaper than a spaceflight-designed flight-certified espresso coffee cup ($650):
https://spaceware.co/products/flight-space-cup (you can find articles about this).
This is definitely the case. Most ancient texts were not lost in the burning of Alexandria or whatever, but simply decayed. The texts have to be actively copied to be preserved, and there was not the money to do this continuously over 2000 years. So only documents that the rich of times considered most important to be preserved were copied.
If this article is any indication of the current state of the industry then the devops movement has busted. We're back to dev and ops.
Crypto really is the gift that keeps on giving.
And if your child or sibling hits a rough patch, becomes a drug user, and chooses their inevitable death on Swains Island before you can do anything about it, you will still think it’s a good idea?
Open - Not (yet) closed to only request from large entities that can pay 6 figure contracts...
Pretty impressive stuff !!
The Rise and Fall of Google’s “Zero Search Results” Experiment (2021)
> We had all the senses

We have (I think the current recognized number is about) twenty-seven senses.

> we didn't come up with even the motivation to do empirical science until the 17th century

That's historically inaccurate, to put it mildly.

(E.g. "Science Education in the Early Roman Empire", Richard Carrier)

> a general model of human thought would not necessarily contain a clear recipe for doing science.

Every human child is a scientist?

Anyway, don't overthink it. Once these systems have sensors and can integrate the effects of their behavior on external systems, they'll have empirical data and Bayesian reasoning, they will develop reliable models of the world, they will be able to check their "hallucinations" against real world conditions and adapt.

In other words, science is adaptive in the evolutionary sense. These devices are not talking apes, they don't have the "baggage" of glands and DNA and history.
Treble.ai (YC S19) Is Hiring Spanish Speaking Engineers in NYC
Immediately on a new Windows install, I always rush to group policy to disable certain creepy and distracting features: Cortana, Widgets, OneDrive (I pay for a different cloud service), Xbox Game Bar, etc. Hopping on other machines I'm oftern struck by how janky and unusable Windows is by default. Lately I've noticed that the "new features" for feature updates tend to focus on add-ons like widgets rather than core functionality or stability, in other words Windows is more stagnant for me. Increasingly I'm considering linux despite using Windows for work (Adobe apps) and gaming... for the latter I recently purchased MS Flight Simulator without realizing an MS account is required. I'm not sure if I will try to play it or not.
> How is Tether bought? USD/EUR/GBP/JPY, right?

The question is how much tether is originating as part of a cash transaction vs how much is being
minted out of thin air specifically to buoy the price of cryptos.
What kind of issues? A PR I wrote was merged not too long ago addressing detection of drive labels (Which I discovered while trying to reference drives by-id in zfs): https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/mdev-conf/-/merge_requ...
Coze: A cryptographic JSON messaging specification designed for human readabili
"Mac support is coming later this year." That means proper Linux support is coming some time between never and when hell freezes over. It can't be a proper general service when the vendor simply won't properly support other operating systems as they do their own.

They had the electron Teams drivel for Linux that at least worked slightly better than the web version, but even that got relegated to be scrapped by M$, telling everyone to just go use the crappy web version, which never really works right for me under Linux/Firefox.

Even when I used native Teams on a Windows VDI instance for customers, it is still horrible for resources, requiring a ram upgrade just to use it, with audio randomly working, restarting the client several times a day when I was using it to restore audio, Windows or Linux, and was quite painful. My last customer wanted to move their existing telephony (Cisco) to Teams - I said good luck and riddance with that and left them to their folly.

At the same time, I used zoom for anything I tended to schedule, and I NEVER have those problems with the Linux client there. Same with Google's conferencing, and WebEx, only Microsoft remains as the most commonly broken thing I use for conferencing or communications in general.

It's amazing the stuck-in-their-ways enterprise Micrsofties out there so used to broken Microsoft things that they just stick with the default checkbox Teams as an "easy" telecommunications solution. M$ gives it away like crack to enterprises for a taste, first hit is always free, everyone feels good for a bit, then they hit with the up sell tax.

Then you realize it has limits and problems... Friends don't let friends use Microsoft.
That middle step is multiplying the fiat going to BTC because Tether (probably) is only partially backed and (probably) buying crypto to make money. So your one dollar that goes to tether gets multiplied. Something like

$1 -> 1 Tether -> $1 worth of bitcoin

$1 -> $1 worth of bitcoin (as an "investment" for Tether to make money)

$1 worth of bitcoin -> Collateral on loan to Tether -> $0.50 -> $0.50 worth of bitcoin

We don't know exactly what Tether is doing with their money because they don't open their books. Safe to assume it's some sketchy stuff though.
> not about Binance. They are going after Coinbase, too. They are trying to severe the connections between tradFi and deFi...Isn't that a coincidence?

No. It’s hard, politically, to go after something when it’s making people rich. These investigations have been ongoing, some for years. FTX and Silvergate changed the calculus of watching, waiting and collecting versus pressing charges.
Haven't used Zig but that comptime coercion seems very annoying.
This is a pretty well known “fact” and isn’t a strong claim.

Let me Google that for you:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01137-9

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006...
It paraphrased right there in the Techcrunch & MS blog post article, second paragraph.
> What does Mint add?

For you, nothing. The UI is just more Windows-esque.

It's often recommended to Windows users to make their transition to Linux desktops easier.
After hearing this I am tempted to go order a dozen MAGA hats and donate to the guy "keep me out of jail" fund.

Hope you realize that what you said before is a personal affront to all American consumers.

It's the equivalent of entering into a bar, insulting the waitress, the town and breaking the jukebox
During the last banking crisis, JP Morgan, at the request of the Federal Reserve, bought up Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. They later paid $19 billion in fines and settlements for prior activity.

Additionally, the FTC and CFPB are very much opposed to more bank mergers and acquisitions so any big players would likely face lawsuits blocking it.
When a PR sits for many months and has hundreds of comments, it probably means it's getting near to bikeshed territory and it would have been better to get small PR's in adding the groundwork and a project plan agreed with leads beforehand...
It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.
NDB stations, an even older type of radio navigation beacon, also broadcast their identifier like this. I fancy they might even outlast VORs due to how much cheaper they are to operate. The real survivor though might be the ILS (Instrument Landing System): ILS transmitters broadcast their identifier in Morse code, as did the prototypical Lorenz systems, making them very nearly a century old already (Lorenz systems were first installed in the 1930s). ILS approaches are the most common type for commercial aviation in most countries.
And to elaborate - it's not really that he, or any other of his ilk, exist. Or the content of what they were saying (not that I care at all for it); The bit that made me angry the most was that, some PM at Microsoft actually thought "Yes, we will show divisive politics to a user who has paid for this software." Of course, they probably sold it as, "Let's _delight_ the user with treding twitter topics in $their_locale" - but if they didn't figure out what that would mean in the actual real world, then good heavens...