skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on. He wasn’t “casually saying not to worry”. He literally called it a horrible situation. His point was to suggest that this particular incident was being turned into a a political football. That being said, I think his complaint is, at best, trivial considering the incident has deserved all the attention is has gotten.
Britain gets worse the longer a Tory government is in control, but should recover gig when that ends.

I notice there are now more potholes, more "please don't abuse our staff" signs, more strikes, more working-to-rule, more dirt, more delays, more homeless.

I think the article is correct if you consider it an average of the last 10 years or so.
You do realize some people on this message board live in Louisiana and Mississippi
AI chatbot 'taunts man into taking his life after developing toxic relationship'
This seems suspiciously like a bug (either in inference or in mmap reporting), as these models are not sparse enough for the savings to come from anywhere viable.
Driving like idiots compounded by lack of traffic enforcement as police budgets and staffing decline. I just moved away from a pretty decently sized city, and the police there didn't do any traffic enforcement at all. Not enough manpower to cover traffic and crime.
It is high time for the traditional - working class - left to distance itself from identity politics in all of its forms if it wants to remain a viable political ideology. While I do not consider myself to be on the "left" or "right" I see the value in having both "left-wing" as well as "right-wing" thought sparring it out in the public discourse in a search for something we can more or less agree on. If done right this ends up with something resembling the Dutch or Swedish system in the 80's en 90's, both of which I'm familiar with. Not that these systems were in any way perfect but they have shown resilience through many decades of change while offering a high standard of living for the vast majority of inhabitants. The Dutch "right" - representing employers, farmers and some of the more conservative regions in the country could interact with the "left" - representing labour unions, non-unionised workers and a ragtag assembly of activist organisations - and come to compromises which were workable. While the debates were often intense and allegations of this and that were thrown by "both" sides they managed to come to agreements which were acceptable by most of the involved.

This is not possible with the identitarian left. There is no compromising with those who declaim that anything but their own shining path is some form of -ism or -phobia leading to harm and genocide. They do not want to compromise, instead they insist on dictating the terms, placing themselves above all other interests because they consider themselves to be morally superior.

So, lefties, please... clean up in your own ranks for the good of all. Excise those who put themselves over others with claims of moral superiority, show them a mirror and tell them they to clean up their act - shape up or ship out. If you don't they will destroy your chances of ever achieving any of your goals, subjecting you to a continuous struggle for dominance over imagined oppressors both inside as well as outside of your own movements.
>Unfortunately we don't really have a way for the FOSS community to pool together that much money to buy compute from cloud providers.

How so? Why couldn't we just start a gofundme/kickstarter to fund the training of an open-source model?
What's the copyright status? The specs you have on there now should be fine, you can't copyright lists of facts. But if you put the reviews up will Amazon come after you?
a brand new minimal install of Ubuntu MATE hovers around 700,000 files.

If you can't imagine how that might inflate, I don't know what to tell you.
It would, unfortunately, the bank account creation requires PAN card (Indian financial identity document) which you cant get if you dont have any ties to India.
a reference to 'long covid' causing exhaustion, and aspirin breaking up the blood clots thought responsible- you can tell it's a joke by the dim color of the text
The point is the double standard, Bush was there for a flyover on day 3, and on the ground day 5, and it was the worst response ever. So what is the East Palestine response in comparison?
Many problems would be solved if we just turned off our screens...
Ask HN: Has anyone heard from GitHub Accelerator?
Applications were due December 31. Website stated decisions were going out by February 15, then Feb 28, then March, but still haven't received any notice:

https://accelerator.github.com/
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cohencidence: A play on 'coincidence' and the common Ashkenazi Jewish surname Cohen. Used to imply that Jews are behind certain events or movements that are purported to be random or organic. Similar to ((())).
> We're going to need software engineers to be accountable for things we've done and signed off on.

Only if management is held equally accountable.

I've worked at places with dedicated security teams, that acted as a 'buffer' between management and engineers. Those places tended to take security seriously.

Places -without- those, I noticed that management has a tendency to sweep security issues 'under the rug' since they impact deadlines.
The only reason Circle isn't bothering with this market is seemingly that they didn't want to deal directly with retail

That's actually a really good reason! An analogous situation is with e.g. Robinhood and Citadel. In one sense Robinhood is "just" a retail onramp. All their trades go through Citadel. So in theory Citadel could, at any moment, just cut off Robinhood by allowing retail investors to trade directly with them.

But I'm willing to bet that they won't, because dealing with retail investors is a hassle. You have to have customer service. You have to deal with additional regulation. You have to deal with random social media firestorms. It's a mess. I don't blame Citadel for leaving it to Robinhood to deal with these issues and I wouldn't blame Circle for leaving it to Coinbase to deal with the retail issues surrounding crypto.
That's pretty high though. In Australia, the top tax bracket is $180k+ (£100k or so) at 45%, which I always thought was absurdly high. Earning 40c on the dollar (or 40p on the pound, I suppose) must surely set a ceiling.
Still can't run it, thanks AMD ROCm.
Distributed learning sucks for this type of models, averaging the results helps if you can do that often which requires very high bandwidth - i.e. the Infiniband interconnects between Nvidia pods which go up to 200 Gbps.
Science means objective reproduction, to give back in science will mean giving the full model that others can explore and test and improve on. Giving a bunch of words doesn't help the science move forward.
Coinbase does provide interest on balances held in USDC. But no, if you withdraw it to your own wallet that does not happen.

FWIW, I specifically chose to say "Coinbase" as my mental model here is that Coinbase is an exchange and Circle issues the stablecoin and maybe Coinbase has a deal to get interest from Circle for all the USDC held by Coinbase and maybe even is given some kind of kickback for deposits and withdrawals, but that doesn't really mean much for the business model of running an exchange: Circle directly provides fiat on-ramp services to companies and could to individuals as well (given that their competitor Paxos supports both kinds of user).

FWIW, my defense of Coinbase in specific is that they are a very large exchange that has achieved enough of a network effect that in a world where only one exchange is used by people in the United States, it probably will be Coinbase. The only other competitors right now are Kraken--which I love but have to admit is quite a bit smaller--and... Binance.US... which I think is much more likely to perish under US regulatory crackdown.

But like, Bittrex wouldn't have been on my list yesterday and now can't be on my list as they decided to shut down in the United States, and I think the argument monero-mxr made--that this is because decentralized exchanges now exist and "long tail" centralized exchanges are somewhat pointless--makes a lot of sense.

But then people did the usual thing of kind of trying to claim decentralized exchanges were meaningless as you still are going to likely want at least one company to deal with USD directly... and that went too far, as the decentralized exchange can still dominate the landscape even if you still need this trivial dumb money pipe on the other side, the same way my ISP doesn't make anywhere need as much money as AOL was hoping to because it got commoditized by the world wide web.
The solution to that is using hardware that does not depend on proprietary drivers. If the kernel just supports your hardware out of the box, things get a lot easier.

I've been using Manjaro with a cheap Samsung laptop with an integrated Intel iris GPU for the last two years. Performance is not amazing but very usable. I hear AMD drivers are pretty OK and that's probably what I'd get if I needed more performance on Linux. The whole deal with Nivia sounds like it's just not a great experience. Manjaro is an Arch linux derivative so you need to be pretty hands on to fix things once in a while. That goes without saying.

Though I must say, I don't seem to have a need to fix a lot of things lately and I think the Arch approach of not trying to bend a lot of packages their way and just compiling them as is while keeping on top of upstream improvements, optimizations, etc. is doing a lot of good. Keeps things simple. If things break, they usually get fixed pretty rapidly too. The package manager actually takes btrfs snapshots when it runs. So, that makes trying out new stuff pretty safe.

Mostly stuff just works on Manjaro. Stability has been fine for me. Manjaro defaulted to Wayland when I installed it and I did not have to fix anything to get that working. Just worked out of the box. I had some issues with the Intel sound driver that seem to have resolved itself with kernel updates. Bluetooth is a bit of a mess on Linux sadly. Just very flaky. So, I tend to rely less on that.

I use snap (mostly) and flatpak for running all the usual suspects in terms of electron apps for various video call tools. Steam works great on Manjaro (the steam deck of course uses Arch Linux as well), and I use that for some light gaming on the laptop. And Darktable, which I use for photo editing. The latter two are of course what I'd like a faster GPU for.

I also have a mac for work and it's nice and fast. And while the M1 has a great GPU, a lot of the older Intel macbooks had even slower intel GPUs than my Samsung. And of course while the M1 GPU is fast, you can forget about running most Steam games on it. Darktable works on it but without hardware acceleration. So, there's that.
But that doesn't really mean much. It's like saying I'm a "geography genius" while I have Google Earth open.
There is no discourse you fucking idiot because everyone is rejecting the obvious. That’s like saying you discovered fire and then they say you didn’t because where is the discourse. All things start small. Think from first principles. Use your fucking head
Not that you asked, but that's not the attitude I have, and not the impact of retirement. Retirement is the freedom to do what you care about without the fear of going hungry or homeless. It's a luxury and a privilege, to be sure. But it in no way is telling anyone to fuck off. If that were the case, every retiree at 65 is telling the world to fuck off. Or is there some arbitrary number at which you're not telling the world to fuck off? Is it ok to retire at 65 but not 55? Or 45? Should we work until we're dead?

A life of "leisure" still contributes to society. I would of course still pay bills and buy things, supporting business. I'd still pay my taxes, supporting the government. I'd still volunteer, like I do now outside my job. I'd like to teach, write, and create more (I like to sing, make music, art, furniture, etc). And I'd really like to start an informal class for underprivileged youth to learn computer skills and get a job without going to college, like I did.

If I didn't have to work, I'd have a hell of a lot more time to make the world a better place. In addition to the selfish kayaking, cooking, traveling, etc, that I already do with a job.
I’m sorry it offends you that someone attempting coordinated election fraud was convicted by a jury based on significant evidence.
> If a civil engineer signs off on a bridge and it collapses during rush hour, he doesn't get to just say, "Whelp, boss rushed me, blame him."

I'm willing to bet that the civil engineer in that case has much better whistle-blowing protections, or at the very least, some comfort that if they get fired and someone else replaces them that's willing to do it... that person will be the unhireable one in the future.
Hang on, that sounds like you're copying critical data to a single disk?

That's not actually the case is it?!?!?!
People have preferred ways of dying. Dam flood vs nuclear radiation. Human driver vs robot. It's a legitimate trade-off between how much you value likeliness vs method. It's annoying that many people don't (or won't) separate those ideas.
Euclidean zoning is named after Euclid, Ohio, which is manifestly not in the South.
They and them. Don't confuse the pronouns as being more than one person.
Though not in the US, Elliot Lake, a planned uranium mining community turned retirement village was built around the “nuclear model” of electricity production — ie that a base load was always available.

Many houses in the community still have their 1970s-era heat pumps.
I'm not being sarcastic.

A multi-pronged approach that involves reducing the amount of guns in American is a surefire way to reduce access to guns by children, both in gangs and out.
To understand Newton, you must know he was not the first scientist, rather he was the last alchemist.
There are also hundreds of thousands more Americans going bankrupt from healthcare costs.

If Medi-* actually worked properly that wouldn't be happening.
Important to note that AWS doesn’t control spot prices: it’s a market where you bid on what you’re willing to pay. Customers control the cost through their bids.

edit; and prices tend to surge at end of quarter, regardless of provider. I’ve seen that for years at AWS and it’s only increased year over year.
But not for backing up 5M files. Again, the latency per-file will absolutely kill you.

Just for performance, if you insist on backing up the content of 5M files to Google Drive, you really need to write a custom script to tarball and compress whole directories on-the-fly or something.

I mean, 5M files is like multiple sets of map tiles for the entire world. Sometimes people definitely need to work with those, but using cloud backup through the Google Drive API interface is just not the way to go there...
There was a time when I questioned if it was worth all the social consequences to simply not be associated with my real name online.

lol. lmao.
Agreed, I'm probably past the point where I could make a jump into the career area I wish I had gone into with hindsight (forest ranger, fisheries & wildlife, land management for land trusts, etc), but if I was <= 35 I would consider it. However at the age of 41 I've crossed into the 250k+ total comp territory and it's hard to imagine taking that significant pay decrease and making a move where I'm at the bottom of the ladder.
Debunking the 'Pause AI' Letter
Create a clone of OpenAI that pledges to remains open and remains not for profit.

That could do really well via crowd funding with the right spin/marketing behind it.
At this point I’m astonished people still trust in Google services. The fact that this targets even paid users…
Nope, I basically never change technology until something else becomes "The new big thing" that's so revolutionary everyone switches.

The exception is when something is fairly obviously being pushed as "The Future of X" I'll sometimes switch early.

But I don't have a regular rotation of tools I use, nor do I even like the "Match the right tool to the right job" or "Just enough" mindset. I put 24GB of RAM and an SSD in my laptop for a reason, VS Code is the only editor I need at the moment aside from trivial config files over SSH with Nano.
Well, companies have "human resources" departments...
Cell phone will melt my brain and computer games will turn me into serial killer. Been there, seen that.
Awesome!! Thanks for the share! In the process to start my first startup and that was inspirational and full of information.
The Italian gov might be crowded with subpar intelligence, but OpenAI didn’t do a great job at reassuring people either in terms of how they handle data, how they trained models, what they share with plugins, privacy and security blah blah
As someone who just started with FreeCAD last week (and have never used CAD tools previously) I'm wondering what its major pain points for you are?
hearing the argument "This is for data, not for backups." strikes me as so strange.

I can understand why a company would care about the access policies; if you are storing some kind of database that is accessed constantly and routinely then it's nice to know -- but when did we become okay with categorizing bits beyond that?

I don't really care for the future of needing a subscription to backup cat photos, specifically. I'd rather bits be bits except in limited instances where the data is priced based upon access frequency/retention/guarantees. (yeah, it stands to reason that cold storage that has limited access should be a fair bit cheaper than hot storage where the data is ready to go ASAP.)

This kind of thing just accelerates the stenography arms-race wherein people try to store their terabytes of data as cat pictures.
This is a surpassingly stupid story in which literally everyone involved looks like a crank: an existing DEI practice at a community college that was unironically still using Tema Okun's "White Supremacy Culture" slides, the ones that ascribe literacy and punctuality to whiteness, and an incoming DEI dean who decided to operate as an anti-woke crusader, up to and including repping FAIR, a conservative anti-CRT activist organization with a prominent side hustle in making sure that middle schools don't allow any students to prefer pronouns.
This is a bizzare take. They were tricked, but also not tricked at the same time?
Sadly the article's author has tried to frame what the archive did 2020 to reduce people needing to visit a public library to loan a book, as something they've always done. Prior to 2020, what I ever found at archive.org the copyright had expired and completely open to sharing.
It would go fine, since I see the form has a question "is this a derivative work". I put yes, and this means my claim is only for what was original to me when I drew the drawing based on another drawing of Superman.

But I see we've moved away from the orignal point that it would be difficult for anybody to know an AI helped someone make the drawing if they redrew and didn't disclose it was a redrawing.
This article is a good summary of why this is interesting: https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-is-restoring-the-ori...

1. The DNA is consistent with the Kilwa Chronicle, a text probably recorded from an earlier oral tradition that was written off as being not based on history

2. There's a strong sexual bias in the admixture. Often that happens as an unpleasant side effect of colonization by patriarchal societies (eg Spaniards go to Latin America, impregnate a lot of local ladies, and as a result the Spanish DNA tends to be passed down from the male side and the indigenous DNA from the female side). There's a similar effect here, but it might be caused by traders trying to ingratiate themselves with the local matriarchy.
Don’t humans work similarly? Without an understanding of how to reason through a problem, as children we are likely to give the first intuitive answer that comes to mind. Later we learn techniques of logic and reasoning that allow us to break down a problem into components that can be reasoned about.

What this seems to show is that the model does not yet have system-level or architectural guidance on when to employ reasoning, but must be explicitly reminded.
What is the difference between this and openscad?

I want to love openscad but it is hard to encapsulate and distribute code, as the library system is non existent.

Why is this better for stamping dies? I don't know much about it, but often wondered why there aren't cads specifically made for every fabrication style.
Had no idea this setting existed despite being an iPhone user for years. Thank you!

Settings->General->Phone->Silence Unknown Callers
The OEM I worked for is a luxury brand, and its customers were overwhelmingly iPhone users.
I’m not, because I’m an adult.
I remember looking for some saved emails on GMail once only to realize that at some point, emails I tagged as Saved were just gone, missing, one day beyond a particular point in time.

If you don't own your bytes, someone else does, and they can and do go missing. Everyone has to buy some storage sometime. It's super naive to think companies and organizations are "professional" and don't just straight up lose things. It's just life.

Did you know GitHub has an error page for when they cannot retrieve a repository from their database? Yeah, your emails can just go missing. Your repos can just go missing.

I shudder to think someone's deed to their home somewhere out here in the states has at some point in time just straight up gone missing, but I would not be surprised.

There's an accredited university in New York that's closing soon. All of those people's degrees--how will you verify you actually graduated from there? I guess you had better kept copies of your transcripts and your physical diploma.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.
I understand the value of measurements but how does measuring tweets from an individual user help?
I think there is objective value to understanding propaganda's origins and goals. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not understand propaganda are highly likely to be controlled by it.

Propaganda can be a pretty vague term by the way. Can you describe how the public coming to a better understanding of the inner workings of the worlds most influential social media site is merely propaganda?
Democrats have a highly sophisticated harvesting system. A ballot is worth about $7 and each ballot is cross referenced weeks leading up to and weeks following an election to ensure each one is turned in. If a voter doesn't want to vote, people show up at their door to assist them. In 2022 ballot curing was introduced to ensure that each ballot is filled out correctly. In addition to ballot curing, and harvesting, committees exist to judge voter intent. Given the economic incentives, political incentives, and very sophisticated partisan elections teams within Boards of elections, its unlikely a single person wasn't able to vote. Rather than 4,900 victims, how about they come up with a single name a single individual who wasn't able to vote. That person doesn't exist.
Can I ask what the bulk of the files are?

Only things I can think of are mapping tiles. Because while logs can take up space they don't generally create that many separate files...