skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you (yes, the specific you) are just hijacking the conversation and taking attention from what is unique and interesting about this case into your fantasy grievances about the bounty being too small

Well, good morning to you as well.

Anyway, the conversation had turned to the topic of remuneration. You didn't reply with THIS comment originally, you joined right in and defended Microsoft's payment terms. If you thought this thread of conversation was "taking attention away" why did you wallow into the mud with the rest of us?
COULD?
WOULD. WILL.
Countries across Asia have the death penalty for drug trafficking, and it’s working. Vietnam, Bangladesh, Singapore, etc., all aggressively execute drug dealers.
It's installing batteries that's the main problem. Where are they going to go?
I don't get what people were expecting. It's fairly obvious that a "TikTok ban" is a restriction on your rights as citizens to run whatever software you god damn please. Why would the law look like anything other than this? The US government has no power to restrict China from doing anything. All they can do is stop US citizens from doing certain things - and preventing US citizens from using TikTok requires some pretty broad powers over your digital life.
Ramp reports 4x revenue growth, says it still has most of equity funding
up and running is different from "unmaintained"
The person selling drugs at a festival is extremely far removed from the illicit manufacturer. They almost certainly have no idea the quality of drugs they sell or what’s really in them.
I know. That's the entire point. It is just HN complaining on their behalf, unsolicited.
The word "trying" is doing a lot of work in your reply
Nobody is talking about use. In Singapore users are sent to mandatory medical treatment.
> just log in

If only. How about: just download the backup of the server log from https://example.com/logfile.txt? Oh, and it contains everything. Including internal application logs.
Try Azure or Deepgram
To be fair, most coding problems are not novel problems.

I’ll be more impressed if chatGPT can take a large, poorly maintained, poorly documented codebase and make meaningful changes to it.

Far easier to write something from scratch than to modify something that was first written in Fortran in 1991.
A bit more background - my idea is to make it easy to create any kind of shareable list or collection, wish lists being just one specific kind. Other examples might be:

* 'Top-ten" type lists of movies, music, etc.

* List of items to compare by criteria/specifications, e.g. motherboards.

* Visual lists/galleries of things e.g. server cases. Like Pinterest/tinypin (https://github.com/slynn1324/tinypin).

* Polls/surveys - where you can put votes/comments/answers against items on a list.

* To-do lists, like trello - move items through a workflow - backlog/doing/done.

You could invite collaborators to view/edit, add images/video, make lists public/private, make fields mandatory/optional, import/export to common formats etc.

Kind of like koillection(https://github.com/koillection/koillection/) mixed with an Amazon wish list if that makes sense?

I think it's possible to achieve something similar with other more general tools like Airtable, Nocodb, GSuite etc but they're less focussed on lists and you have to do a bit of work to get them looking presentable.

Just wondering if anyone else would find this useful and what they might want from it.
The Prusa mini has an ethernet port, so people assumed that you could hook it up to your LAN and print over the network.

As far as I can tell, that doesn't work yet, and the Prusa website [1] says:

> Full control of your printer will be added in future releases

Edit: It looks like remote printing was released in a Firmware update in Nov 2022 [2] and the documentation website wasn't updated yet.

[1]: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/prusa-connect-local-mini_13...

[2]: https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/releases
He’s trying to ascertain what’s best for himself and his family by asking a community he trusts.
I considered one of those rollerboards from Wilson and Garden, Ltd, in Glasgow, UK, for my home office. Somehow working with ipad+pencil is just not the same.
> Faema E61 Legend

Pffft... Jackpot! Great machine, especially by the looks!

All the best for your espresso adventure!
Italian cultural resources >> natural resources

Seems fair as a country to say "How can we maximally utilize our cultural resources?"

If the UN provides a vehicle with which to do that, they use the vehicle. Gripe about the game, not the good player.
While this is true, it doesn't really seem to damage Twitter as a platform for now. - And it is not as if Musk turned a great profitable business into trash, Twitter never had a sustainable business model.
I do, but this thing is going from 0 to world-scale use in a matter of months. It's not being used like you imagine if you think people are choosing their completions.
I love how the coffee enthusiasts scene is more and more looking like the audiophile scene.
…there are pretty limited options here. Nobody is blindly copying what others are doing.

For most technology companies, salaries and compensation are one of if not the top line item in the budget. And during a time of cheap money (which is objectively true - this is not someone regurgitating other comments), companies invest in new initiatives.

So when headcount is the top line item, and new initiatives are less desirable as capital becomes more expensive…it’s pretty clear that there’s a small set of viable options to make the math work again.
Did they? It seems the problems started when they started cracking down and people had to resort to street heroin, and later fentanyl to get pain relief. If there were an easy, legal way to get oxycontin, I bet the majority of the problems of people dying from fake oxycontin laced with fentanyl would go away overnight.
Ford reduced it's offerings so much that is probably not gonna make it. It is hard to understand what were they thinking.
The legal ones are produced in the USA. The illegal ones are mainly produced in China.
Hi, thanks! I've been interested in the low level tech behind engines for a while and liked experimenting with things I watched or read about. For some reason a couple years ago my focus kind of narrowed in on realtime 3D graphics as an area I really liked but didn't know much about. It was amazing to see what people were accomplishing in games year after year (still amazing to me). Eventually this interest became strong enough that I decided to try and see if I could learn how to emulate some of the modern techniques that the games were using. This morphed into the StratusGFX project over time.

It's been fun but slow and also very difficult. Global illumination was especially hard and had a few false starts.
That's not the problem. They do check identity. The problem i the application that accepts Azure's verification as authentication and authorization.
An OEM kit to replace the engine in existing cars with an electric one and batteries would be good. There are plenty of TV programmes showing custom conversions of classic cars but we need something larger scale.
The sort of people that deliberately use the Problem Details format rather than rolling their own are the sort of people who will agonise over the URIs they choose, making sure they’re meaningful in some way.

(I’m simplifying, of course, but I think it’ll be a decent generalisation.)
I don't think Twitter is alone in that respect.

Twitter is unique in that it was acquired for US$ 44B when it was a business that lost huge amounts of money consistently for years, and the owner intended it to have it run old school style, as in making a profit, but also doing so in such short notice that he dismantled entire branches of the company wholesale.

Obviously for people relying on pre-existing services and rates from Twitter, it sucks.

But the root problem is that Twitter had not been a sustainable business for a long, long time. One has to wonder how did they even subsist for so long and how much institutional money, not just VC/investor money, and who knows what sort of government/agencies pay-to-play deals made it even possible because the sort of money they cashed in during the only few years they've even been profitable seems absurdly high and they have never replicated that under normal circumstances.

With the ad model struggling and institutional ads sort of in retreat, the entire sector is struggling.
High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%
The danger is that multitasking like that can make you FEEL like you're getting a ton of things done while you're really just spinning wheels in place. I'm not saying that's what is happening to you. You may have data to back up what you're saying. But there could be a parallel in some cases to moneyball, which exposed how intuition and bias had led to suboptimal decisions through false perceptions.
> When the job is new, the team is new it’s all very interesting but as routine and boredom set in the get unable to stay on the task. They hate themselves for not doing what they should do and want to do the right thing but are unable. It’s very stressful and often lead to burnout.

I think you basically summarised my own issues with work in the past, and why I seem to burn out so quickly. Wouldn't be surprised if I had ADHD tendencies as well as being on the autistic spectrum, and that explained why I get so sidetracked with different hobbies and jobs and activites rather than being able to stick with one or the other.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.

It was the new hot universal structured way to transfer data over this newfangled internet and interop between applications and even operating systems. It even uses Unicode(!) which was a very big deal at the time.
I would guess GP was talking about safety, not trying to promote oversized cars.

Edit: There's a specific bottom end part of the market with small Chinese cars that have horrible safety problems.
I'm 99% with the author. I'm watching my nephew actively playing with ChatGPT and saying "why would I want to write my program? I'll ask AI to do it". It's depressing. It's contrary to the concept of knowing how things are working. It's like people are voluntarily depriving themselves of knowledge. It happened before (yes, web-devs, I'm looking at you!), AI made a huge leap in this direction. But the thing is: AI is based on human knowledge, it is finite. Human progress is based on knowledge, re-thinking, observing, inventing stuff. If there's no prior knowledge, inventions and overall progress is impossible. When people throw away know-hows, they stop developing.

tl;dr It's like "Why whould I cook? My mom cooks for me".

PS: I hope AI doesn't read my posts.
That documenting is self-fulfilling. It creates a bias. That is, the manager is biased towards fleshing that out, not signs of hope and change. The manager is also biased to covering their own arse, not giving the employee a fair shake.

Yes, there are cases where the employee needs to go. But there are others where that's not exactly true.

All that said, it's a relationship. Life is too short for unhealthy and unproductive relationships. When I find nyself in such situations I update my CV and start looking to move on. Somethings are what they are and not worth the fight.
Where does open source start and end?

You can buy almost all parts for the small Gaggia machines online. A complete group costs around 50 Euro, I think, and you can do with that whatever you want.

Would you prefer CNC milling it by yourself, based on some plans?
We have more healthcare than we did 20 years ago, far more spending on education and homelessness, and the drug problem has gotten far worse. The drug laws absolutely have become more liberalized. Marijuana is fully legal in freaking Ohio. Everyone can get weed by telling a doctor they have anxiety across the Deep South. Meanwhile Bangladesh doesn’t have any of those things and has its drug problem under control.
How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs
1bn / $8/m (excluding costs, etc) / 12 months = ~ 10m
AGI will likely incorporate LLMs as a significant element. The issue is that we are far from having any good understanding of how and why LLMs achieve what they achieve, and unless that changes, the same will be true for anything built on them or of their future evolution. If we continue to pursue progress by only caring about results and disregarding that we don't really understand the mechanisms, then we may very well run into the fatal scenario described by Yudkowsky.
It just comes off as whiny. People were paying 50-60 dollars for videogames for decades, with no complaint.

Now when inflation finally comes for video games, and you pay the same real price you were paying a few years ago, they're way too expensive.
Sure. That would be a win for both men and woman by eliminating discrimination on the basis of potential for taking parental leave in the future. But even that is less than a year.

By contrast WFH changes the rest of a child's experience for their whole life.
Vancouver is right next door, they have similar problems. Maybe they deal with it slightly better, but the scale is the same.
To be fair, corporate acquisitions do often fall into disrepair and failure. It’s just that usually the company making the acquisition… still has their existing business. When it’s an individual making a botched acquisition, you get to watch the company disintegrate instead.
That's a good idea. Later today I'll draft up a new readme with this information. I think it would also be good to reiterate it in the posts I have about the engine so I'll add it there too.
Because complaining about how badly Twitter is run about as popular as claiming depositors are investors in SVB.
> ChatGPT is just a hyperfancy text generator with a massive corpus of text used to train it.

> it just compares weights internally and spits out the most probable result depending

While an autoregressive language model can use probabilities from prompts provided by humans, it is not necessary for the model to do so. The model can also generate text based on its own internal state and previous generated tokens.

The latter is what you are presenting, but you and the other stochastic parrot people are missing the fact the model spends time doing the former much more frequently, especially now we have these models "hooked up" to the Internet. At Mitta.us, I've had GPT-3 discussing web pages and PDFs for over a year now, with memories of previous discussions about similar things.

LLMs have their internal (frozen) model, the corpus they are being shown (likely shredded into fragments and embedded with ada-002) and previous interactions with users and themselves. At any point someone implements memories and good search (which they have) then you have a thing that is not so much a parrot as it is an "attention entity" capable of focusing on a thing and discussing it at length.

This doesn't mean during inference that the model is "aware" of anything other than producing probabilities, but given the input is unique (user prompt + neural search for fragments + memories) then the output will also be unique. That unique output may be probabilistic, but that is no different than the way we work when we begin speaking.
TikTok is just being used as an excuse to grab power, because this bill will do immeasurably more than allow the government to ban TikTok. It's quite similar to how terrorism was used as an excuse to pass the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act did little to nothing to ensure society's security, but gave the government an immense range of powers that, now more than decades later, have still not been entirely rescinded. And this bill, unlike the Patriot Act, lacks even the pretext of being temporary.

This will also set the stage for even more draconian actions. Obama passing a law allowing for indefinite detention, including of US citizens, without trial or even legal representation [1] would never, in a million years, have been accepted in more sane times. But people lose their mind when the government rallies up enough fear, which is then actively exploited to seize even more powers.

This bill will directly lead to the development of the "Great Firewall of America" as it's the only practical way to engage censorship on the scale that the bill envisages, and it also grants the Secretary endless powers to carry out such. This is a bill is one of the purest embodiments of the absolute decline of America, and everything it, and we, once stood for.

Becoming China is not how you compete against China.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention#United_St...
I fully agree that context the semantic content itself primes the listenerrs expectations of the next rabbit. But that sort of language model need not be GPT-level good. It just needs to identify which words/letters are unlikely to be next to each other and which ones they might be mistaken for. An unsophisticated Markov chain could do that. Is this really a 2B parameter problem, or do we do things this way because parameters are currently cheaper than expertise?
Should we at some point pause AI development?
To me this is quite an interesting idea, I am not sure if now is the correct time to pause it. Or how to spot when it is correct time. What are your thoughts?
>> "It seems to me that Musk is moving away from advertisements, to trying to build the first social network that doesn't rely on the user being the product, but rather paying for the product."

First? No. There have been many attempts at this. The ActivityPub fediverse is the first with any prospect of competing with the VC-funded model. Thousands of servers, all but a few funded entirely by the millions of people who use them.

It's already self-sustaining. Twitter's new era is starting out billions in debt with its advertising base gone and flailing attempts to find some way to even cover the debt service.
These actions are harmful regardless of whether you're being a hypocrite about them or not.

In fact, from an utilitarian point of view, being a hypocrite may actually be less harmful, since you may still influence others to do better. I'm not exactly an utilitarian myself, but that's one possible way to judge.
Useless commenters rob lesser useless commenters of their time.
I've been there, and it's hell. You waste your day staring at a screen, trying to get yourself to do something, but you can't, so in the end you both get absolutely nothing done and you waste all your time on it.

It would almost have been better if I just said "fuck it" and didn't work at all. I'd have exactly the same output, but at least I'd have my free time back.

If you're in this position, I recommend you work with your manager to find work you enjoy, or work with your peers to work on stuff together. It's always been helpful when I was talking to a colleague about doing small chunks of work at a time.

It wasn't even that they were checking up on me, we'd just say "ok I'm going to work on adding this task to CI" "I'll work on this API", and then we synced back an hour later, and that seemed to help me focus.
I always wondered how one can start learning APL or similar array oriented language. Any suggestions? I'd like to give it a try!
Man people are getting really sci fi about this stuff.

Take a chill pill dude, in five years time we won’t think of it much differently to how we thought of Google last year…. a tool for getting something done.

These sci fi fantasies are really a total overreaction.

If you like the story in this Time magazine article go watch The Terminator, same thing.

Obligatory perfect Simpsons clip: https://youtu.be/RzybAS7zltE
S3 bucket misconfigurations alone probably account for a sizeable fraction of all dataleaks over time, with AD misconfigurations a close second.

Things I still regularly come across:

- developers with copies of the production database on their laptop

- said laptop doesn't have an encrypted hard drive

- every developer having access to production databases, including people hired yesterday

- default userids / passwords hardcoded in firmware

- the marketing department having access to the production database in bulk

- datalakes with zero access controls that perfectly mirror the production db

- sharepoints without proper authentication storing mountains of customer data

Anyway, I could go on like this for a while. And usually the company employees are aware of these, they just haven't gotten around to plugging the holes or they were never going to unless someone told them to because it is convenient. Occasionally there is serious pushback, for instance against developers having a recent copy of the production database on their laptop is in some places considered perfectly normal.
When the project includes some 3D renderer the readme needs also to include some screenshots.
Crazy to watch Twitter being built and scaled back in the Ruby days and now effectively destroyed.
I dislike Verse, but also have experience with Lua, and Lua is horrible. There are very few built-in things, lots of strange decisions like indexing from 1...
Thank you, for a nuanced answer on this topic. Very rare these days.

You are also 100% correct. As revenues fell at snap just like twitter, and easy money has dried up at all VCs creating a completely different market environment. Just look at stocks of small cap tech companies too, which Twitter was.

The only extra nuance to add is that without fines Twitter was actually profitable before musk bought it, but in the current market environment it certainly wouldn’t be even without musks leadership.

But of course blaming musk is what gets upvotes.
BIG!
That's interesting. What kind of problems?
He only owns the company for 5 months so far. He seems set on transforming Twitter, and any company looks bad while in the middle of a transformation.

I'm not saying Elon is doing a good job, all signs point to the opposite. He probably though so too when he announced to step down from CEO (though that has yet to happen). But if he was doing a good job, it would also be really hard to tell in this phase. I don't think we are far enough into this to draw any good conclusions.
I love coding comedy genre
If only it had the rock solid reliability of something like GitHub or Reddit
> 50% of new NPM packages are spam

So all an attacker has to do is to publish an npm package. Wait, this alteady happened.
ChatGPT Passes Turing Test: A Turning Point for Language Models
NPM for companies costs enough that it surely covers all the reviews already.
Can we at some point pause AI development?

The cat is out of the bag isn't it?

Or should that be the horse has already bolted.
I'm aware of all these things but there still is a 1:1 correspondence between camera sensor pixels and JPEG [luminance] pixels. Yes, color information isn't complete, but it's the right balance. Enlarge it and you aren't adding any new information. Shrink it and you're losing information.
This gave me a good chuckle. Thought I would share. (From ChatRWKV)

Prompt:

A website can be built in 10 simple steps

Output:

1. Research

2. Research

3. Research

4. Research

5. Research

6. Research

7. Design

8. Design

9. Design

10. Design
YC Safe Financing Documents
Have these folks looked into Dynamics 365? Lots of legacy code there from ~2008, I'm sure there are plenty of discoveries to be made.
SEC. 11 a (1) "It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate ... any of the unlawful acts described in paragraph"

SEC 11 b (1) "In general.--A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit ... an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not
more than 20 years, or both."

So using a VPN to ATTEMPT to bypass these restrictions can incur up to a $1M fine and 20 years in jail.
They had just recently become profitable before the Elon takeover.