skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is it really being used for the final model ? i know they have research papers out on it...but wasnt sure if the production models used it.
Regarding T-mobile, they claim that content of the text msg must be legal across all 50 states. Not 100% sure which state and with law causes this but that is the reason they gave me.
Having visited Iceland previously, I'd love to work there over the summer.

> you can show a foreign income of ISK 1,000,000 per month or ISK 1,300,000 if you also apply for a spouse or cohabiting partner.

> you do not need a visa to enter the Schengen area

Unfortunately this ^ disqualifies me, despite meeting the income requirements, since I need a visa to enter the Schengen region. This seems to be an odd requirement, they are already issuing a visa, why require people to have powerful passports as well ?
> impossible to determine

Not really. For homicide cases the weapons are often recovered.
My comments seem not welcome to you. Speak to your friends, as I won't engage further in an antagonizing discussion that seems to be turning personal with you.
So, did you tell them it's none of their fucking business?
Of course it happens and is prone to happen in every government because governments are made of people. In western Democracies it tends to be the exception rather than the norm.
I think I misunderstood your first message. Yes, you are right.

For simple listening there is no benefit. As you pointed out it ca be beneficial if the audio is processed (for instance, slowed down).
Apparently this is the latest iteration: https://rentry.org/voldy
While a nicely comprehensive guide for other topics, and similar to my use of a Yubikey, it looks like it's actually almost entirely separate from what this post is about: storing a PGP master key on a hardware key, separate from the subkeys (which are likely on a different hardware key), so that it can be more easily used to sign the PGP keys of other people, for web-of-trust purposes. Those topics don't seem to be considered at all in that guide, and are rather less common.
>if a teacher was accused of sexual abuse, it was not an actual norm to move him to another position with access to children.

You don't say...

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/03/22...

https://www.sfreporter.com/news/coverstories/2018/01/03/pass...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-19-me-6252-s...

See there's a certain group that just loves to harp on about the catholics (and yes they certainly should be ashamed and given every legal penalty for what they did) but want to give other groups a pass. They like to pretend that this sort of coverup isn't a systematic issue whenever you get a large group. And they like to ignore all the cases where female teachers have "relationships" with their students....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-teacher-accused-sexual-re...

https://nypost.com/2023/03/25/nyc-teacher-accused-of-sex-wit...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10984483/Female-tea...

Shall I go on? There are easily hundreds of unique cases that I could link. Somehow though I suspect that you will fall into the usual pattern of dismising these all as being from "bad" sources or say that it's just not the same...somehow.
If you're referring to a carrier's zero interest payments on the full price of the phone, that's just smart. No penalty for borrowing. If there was interest involved, it gets fuzzier.

I'll amend this by saying that there's also another huge requirement for it to make sense: The new iphone must be necessary for any of this deal to make sense. If it was impulse bought because of this financing offer, then the financing has cost you >$1k
Feels to me that something like this cheapens Apple's brand.

I don't mean to imply that they had an expensive brand and this changes the demographic (I hate businesses like that), I mean their brand, as far as I can tell, is "high quality, thought through, and works well".* This feels like they are exploiting their existing customer base.

* Pls don't argue if you disagree on the actual quality or whatever. This is about how it looks to me that they position themselves. Feel free to argue about how they might be positioning themselves :-)
Jailbroken ChatGPT Plugin Prompts
how can I train a model on a bunch of pdf's and run it locally?
They have an Android app.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ldSRN
Sure, I get good energy production most days, but those cloudy days feel like 50x less? I added battery capacity for a day or two of cloudy weather, but I think the only way to add an EV would be to use the grid as the battery system, similar to what you do. For hot water I use a solar heated system, which removed a chunk of resistive load from the PV system.
Ask your customers and learn
I mostly agree with you there. If you look at pop music as a whole, it's impossible to attack them directly.

But I don't think that the moat could never be broken. You have many people that consume music as background noises. But you also have many people that are passionate about the music they listen to and would like to have another way to support their artist of choices other than going to concerts (see vinyl revival etc).

My recipe to break the moat:

- choose a genre some people care strongly about (for me, that was classical)

- make a platform that offer a better UX for that genre, and have them pay for their music (those consumer are happy because better UX and they feel they actually support the artist they like)

- progressively signup labels by showing there is more money on your platform than on streaming services, they will progressively remove more and more of their catalog from streaming services if they were on them.

- once the model is proven on that genre, move to another (jazz, serious pop etc)

- as time goes by, the value of your service increase and while the value of the streaming services is lowered due to their catalog shrinking.

While this might be a fantasy, the truth is that today system continue to reward popular artists only, niche genre artists can't make a living from streaming. If a solution arises for them, they will come progressively, and over time it will weaken the streaming service moat.
Show HN: Retorch: Connect any data, run any Python analysis in natural language
Hi everyone,
I am the founder of Retorch. Retorch allow you to connect your data from any source including CSVs, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets etc... (and are looking at Stripe/Market Data… integrations) and run queries on the data in natural language. We first retrieve the relevant data and convert your query into Python. We inject all of this into a Virtual Machine, and gather the output and show it to you. We have extended visualisation tools from dataframes, print logs and matplotlib into interactive visualisation tools that allow you to do more and (hopefully!) look and feel better and easier.

Above everything I’m genuinely just looking for feedback on my project - I am an parttime indie hacker (student) and I’ve built this over the last few weeks. Currently, I’ve tried tools that allow SQL queries but anything beyond that is impossible which seriously limits how much I could do with data, other than export it to colab and run analysis in python. Ive extended all of this so data retrieval and analysis are tied into one natural language interface.

I’ve add certain features beside prompt engineering that I hope make the product more useful like a debug loop (i.e. feed errors back to the LLM to generate new code), persistent VM connections with high RAM (let’s say I create a linear regression model in one prompt, I can call it in the next prompt, and a micro Python IDE so you can change the generated code itself and run a new version of it.

Any and all feedback + criticism welcome.
It's a term borrowed from assembly lines(0), where if the andon cord is pulled, the entire line stops until some manager or the likes inspects and restarts it. For amazon, the equivalent would be pulling the listing immediately from the website, blocking orders and flagging the item for immediate review.

(0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)
Hi. I'm one of the people on this project with dsubburam (who started this thread). Thx for the question. Can you email one of us about this (emails in bios)? We're building the feature you are asking for here.
> The article ends with the statement that you are pretty much done here for now. Would optimizing your TLS termination not maybe offer some more ways to speed this up? Or is that also already fully optimized?

No, we don't do early termination yet, but it makes sense to try it out too. Here we mostly concentrated on how far we can get in terms of reducing number of round-trips.

> I did not realize before that your approach with Websockets actually meant that there was no application/client side pooling of connections. What made you choose this approach over an HTTP API (as for example PlanetScale did) anyway?

To keep compatibility with current code using postgres.js.
Such an important problem!

I get the benefit over Pinecone (which wasn't built with LLMs, etc in mind)

How does this compare to Chroma? Feels like it has most of what you're talking about, and already has an open source product live.

https://www.trychroma.com/
Yes, all industries attract bad actors. But the cryptocurrency space seems to be largely run by bad actors. Not everyone, of course, but a disturbingly large percentage.

> Simultaneously ignoring the benefits of cryptocurrencies

I don't actually see a lot of that happening here, though.
> I understand this is instead of the 2% cash back that Apple Card pays on full payments.

That would reduce the appeal a little. And that's different than their own-store policy on their card -- if you buy from Apple with an Apple Card on the installment plan, you get the 0% for 12 months or whatever, and you get the 3% cash back too.

Thanks for the 2% comment, by the way. Made me go look, since I only recall it being 1% (for most things). Turns out it's 2% whenever I use my Apple Watch to do the transaction. Works for me!
good platform with good idea!
Once you know regex well enough to replace regex you realize that regex is pretty well developed.

There are certainly cases where different parsing methods/grammars are a better fit, but regex shines in many places.
I've never heard the term "resource budget" used to describe this concept before. Got a link?

That'd be an odd set of words to describe it. To be clear, I'm not talking about budgeting RAM or CPU, or trying to determine do I have enough of those things. A PodDisruptionBudget describes the manner in which one is permitted to disrupt a workload: i.e., how can I take things offline?

Your bog simple HTTP REST API service, for example, might have 3 replicas, behind like a load balancer. As long as any one of those replicas is up, it will continue to serve. That's a "PodDisruptionBudget", here, "at least 1 must be available". (minAvailable: 1, in k8s's terms.)

A database that, e.g., might be using Raft, would require a majority to be alive in order to serve. That would be a minAvailable of "51%", roughly.

So, some things I can do with the webservice, I cannot do with the DB. PDBs encode that information, and since it is in actual data form, that then lets other things programmatically obey that. (E.g., I can reboot nodes while ensuring I'm not taking anything offline.)

( https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/configure-p... )
It's a maximum of 4 videos at once, isn't it? Sadly at least a couple of our monthly teams calls are bigger than that. Thank you though. It's nice to know I'm not the only one that feels the pain!
Keep the window open for real-time updates streaming in (during wet season)
In that case, this is essentially just a credit card (without the benefits/protections).

The use case here seems to be people who would not actually be able to pay this off in a month.
As an American, I don't feel any belonging to any collective that includes me when it says "we" and expresses itself this way
Most Europeans can already live in Iceland without needing a visa.
Took a vacation to Iceland for this past new year's, and am thrilled to hear any news that might allow me to stay there for longer. When I left Iceland, it felt very much like I was leaving a fairy tale.

I was delighted by the whales off the coast, and the northern lights felt like a spiritual event, but (at least according to lore) the Vikings invented the modern new year celebration by considering it a good enough time for everyone to dispose of their old flares and replace them with new, and so new year's in Iceland was better than the greatest fireworks show I'd ever witnessed, despite exactly 0% of the fireworks having been municipally provided. It felt like every member of every home had spent their life savings on fireworks and were setting them all off for hours. Impossible to describe, but here's some drone footage (not mine) that captures about 10 minutes of what went on for hours, and the experience from the city center on the ground was even more encompassing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAnQ7ECC2LA&t=245s
Seems plausible that interacting with clients could be done by GPT too, with no reduction in value delivered.
Yup, it's great but that previous thread spent 20 hours on HN's front page just a couple months ago, which makes this one a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

Actually we put the current post in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) — we try not to do that for dupes but sometimes we do anyhow. Sorry—it was just a good HN post!
This only works if:
1) your state is a linear function of time
2) you know the initial conditions
3) the time integral calculation of the state evolution over time is trivial to do (e.g. constant velocity means distance travelled is simply time * velocity)

It's not that you "don't need state", it's that your state calculation is entirely dependent on time T and initial conditions I, and it's calculable in ~roughly~ the same amount of time as an actual state update would take.
Does this actually work in your experience? IME whenever I tried this, I spent more kn the extra day’s accommodation that I saved on the plane ticket…
Probably this whole thing could run on a single $10/mo DigitalOcean instance in a single monolith, with an appropriate caching CDN in front of it.
Neon looks like everything I've ever wanted out of a serverless database. I send a vendor pg compatible queries, vendor takes care of everything, charges me for usage - and connections work with 3rd party serverless runtimes.

I have a number of workloads I'd migrate to you over the next few weeks if you're ready for it. What is the state of Neon?

Is it ready for small-volume but business critical loads?

I'm struggling to find support guarantees and SLAs on your website, do you have them yet?

What is your off-site backup story? Can I export my backups to something like R2, S3, or B2?

Many of my customers are running in Cloudflare Workers. Their volume is low, but it's business critical (DB downtime means business downtime - business will fail if we lose all the data).
Responsible people have already a lot of easy choices for short term free money. Banks almost literally throw credit cards at people, with 45-60 days without any charge (and even with cashback) - assuming that you can afford it.

BNPL usually don't target these people.
“ You only need the public facing folks who interact with clients, the other stuff could be done/accelerated by LLMs mostly.”

Maybe the unemployed people they always find on the street to do the actual project work are cheaper than LLM?
This is great - it being a separate app solves some core problems!

It's a hard firewall between my "normal" music library and classical, which means risk free shuffle play. I never want Bach and Slayer in sequence.

They can optimize the UI, recommendations, etc. based on music that is all about reproduction, rather than being performed by the original artists.

Going against the grain and honing in on a total niche is so awesome and hopefully a sign of things to come.

I enjoy this split with movies too, the Criterion Apple TV app is such a nice break from the noisy HBO Max, etc. stuff.

And yes, I agree, Jazz would be an obvious next niche to target with a dedicated app!
A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. Pair that with American Optimism and trusting the Fed, debt just makes sense. It's basically temporal arbitrage.
Neither Greece nor Rome is a valid example. There were not the restrictions we're used to. But taboos abounded, particularly e.g. the stigma against cunnilingus. The Romans in particular gave us the phrase Quis custodiet ipsos custodes which was motivated by some noblemen's jealous guardianship of their wives.
I agree completely. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really cannot imagine Apple doing this under Steve Jobs' management. He would have rejected it simply for seeming tacky and reminiscent of products in low quality industries.
Maybe it's just rose colored glasses but I want to say Rdio had support for things like this back in the early 2010s. I know it was the best music streaming service I've ever used for music discovery. I definitely recall it supporting things like music labels (i.e. Deutsche Grammophon) and want to say it got so granular that it provided the information (performers, conductors, etc) you are looking for. Alas, Rdio is no more :(
Scientists find water inside glass beads on the Moon
> A "back of the envelope" calculation suggested that there could be around a third of a trillion tonnes of water inside all the Moon's glass beads.

Interestingly, this may be terrible news for the future of lunar structural materials. It was assumed that glass processed from lunar raw materials would be totally anhydrous, due to the absence of water on the moon's surface. Anhydrous glass is orders of magnitude stronger than regular glass, and could make for extremely strong fiberglass parts and other structural components. This was examined in a 1985 NASA paper titled "Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Structural Components" at: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1985lbsa.conf..487B

It'll certainly be interesting to see what the future brings.
You are misinterpreting my comment. It does not matter that she is a woman. Examine what offends you. You can learn a lot about yourself and maybe grow. Being offended by what some random man on the internet writes must be tiresome for you. Try assuming good intent.
Prefer it over credit card, I mean. And most customers won't treat occasional emails as a dealbreaker.
The hollow point is going to be far more devastating.

Back in the 90s around the times of the assault weapon ban, some gun group baited some people in the media by getting the media people to hype up how much more dangerous guns like the AK/AR were than 'safe' hunting rifles. They then got the media to go out to a range where they shot watermelons with assault rifles first, and the media bought in and was like "wow, look at that massive damage"

Then they shot a watermelon with a 300 winchester magnum hunting rifle... Pink mist.
I doubt they will have the competency to do on-prem competitive LLM anytime soon. They can use the Azure OpenAI service which I think offers better enterprise peace of mind.
That sounds exactly right. You can have a fluid or rigid relationship between employees and the company, but it then goes one way.

If employees get "hardcore" about creating limits on how the company can hire/pay/whatever, it obviously changes how the company engages with those employees as well.

To wit, if you force me to sign in blood for everything I have to give you, I am not going to give you anything else.
My understanding of this implementation is you can use arbitrary git urls to follow. That could point to any process serving data. P2P is 100% possible.

It would be smart to use a personal domain for the git url you give your followers, so you can update the hosting location without causing any disruption.
I think "urine" was the noun you were looking for.
What moment?

Betteridge's Law of Headlines not only says no, but that there was no 'moment' to 'seize' to begin with. Even if there was one, it was 7 years too late. Twitter, with its 220M+ daily actives users continue to use the platform, even when the blue checkmarks will be paid for.

In fact, the Verge is seizing on the opportunity for clickbait and affiliate link grifting.
I don't think a credit pull is the biggest concern here.

Couldn't using this reduce the average age of your accounts, which is a big factor in credit score calculation?
Same thing that happens when you refuse to pay your credit card bill, I assume. Annoying bill collectors, maybe a court judgement, and for sure a dramatic cut in your credit score.
There’s some overlap with information retrieval for chat GPT applications. As a managed service, we handle all of the infrastructure and maintenance. Also, we support additional use cases for web applications/backends, such as clustering and fine-tuning. We’re also working on an open-source alternative to the retrieval plugin.
The interest rate on this is zero:

> Apple Pay users can split purchases into four payments with zero interest and no fees
I got one of these, i bought a kids alarm clock for my daughter, it works really well, good quality. I did cash in the gift card. Why not? now if it was some crap product, i would report the bribe.
I regularly keep in touch with some clients, but they are unlikely to tell you how to get people to buy a subscription :)
This is a traditional path for many large companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Credit_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover_Card
It says “Apple Pay users can split purchases into four payments with zero interest and no fees.”

Seems like a good deal – Apple is giving away money for free, especially given current interest rates.
If you try to log in before clicking the link in the conformation email you'll get a "invalid credentials" message. So your account might not be locked, just not activated.
The LLM is quite far away from even being able to shake client's hands though. I doubt any consultancy work involving large money can be 100% virtual.
That’s likely due to the high cost of living in Iceland. You can live cheap-ish anywhere, but it takes a bit of local knowledge to do that, and I suspect the cheaper housing options in Iceland are not what most digital nomads seek. One data point, in spring of 2021, I saw 1kg of cherries (imported from the Netherlands) in the store for the equivalent of 25 USD.
We’ve looked into FAISS and Milvus. Milvus is possibly an excellent option for us in the future. What’s your experience with these so far?