skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half-OT:

How do all these models compare to each other?

Are there any metrics that can tell me how much better or worse LLaMA is compared to GPT3?

What does it even mean to be better?
This blog post is referring to the same accidental complexity that Fred Brooks
did in his classic 'No Silver Bullet' essay. Overly complex tooling remains a problem today.
Elon Musk’s warnings about AI followed months-long battle against ‘woke’ AI
Apple being more open would improve performance in certain applications, though.
Mortality and Morbidity Statistics.

Those directly killed and injured and those indirectly killed and injured.

Water and food supplies were disrupted and polluted, infections followed, etc.

As someone else linked and as I stated the scale of each event was very similar.

See also Kurt Vonnegut's accounts of the Dresden firebombing he lived through as a US PoW in Europe some months earlier.
In my last submission I asked, Ask HN: Are leaders genuinely afraid of AI or do they have an agenda?

Here's my answer
They seem similiar to meat pies, empanadas and other savoury pastries, except too small to be convenient.
Notably, they both coexisted back in the day, too.

If they seek to be an honest source of information they ought to stand out in modern net sources. We all know the hell of searching for info on google nowadays.
I'd rather like it if I was able to submit evidence in court without giving a scan of my iris to an agent working for an overseas registered cryptocurrency startup, and don't really see how Worldcoin helps either way with authenticating my video...
> what's your take on the dynamic range in over-exposing film vs under-exposing digital?

Depends what you're after and what digital camera you are using (and even which ISO you are using on that specific camera). But more broadly IMO digital has reached dynamic ranges that are "good enough" so you don't have to worry about it in most situations. And if shot correctly digital can look exactly like film.

The major difference for me is the way you work with the material. Actors and everybody else tends to be a tad bit more concentrated when the know how many €/s is running through that camera unless you have an infinite amount of film stock and the funds to develope and digitize them.

But whether that is truly worth the stress of changing a roll of exposed film in the wild during bad weather and praying the material survives is another question.
The plugin model is part of core.
It's nice that you personally think those things, but none of those things you personally think override or disprove Popper's paradox of tolerance, and thus none of those things you personally think will convince people to tolerate the intolerance that is, just as a single example, right-wing anti-trans intolerance

indeed, responding to, say, right-wing intolerance of trans people, by not tolerating it, is totally okay, despite your FUD, for reasons described by Popper

don't like your own intolerance of e.g. trans people, and actual attacks on them, to be responded to? maybe keep your intolerance and actual attacks to yourself, problem solved
> I've read through your website and documentation and are truly inspired by your vision

It's probably more practices like this, where the prospective employee has to enthusiastically profess subservient, slavish devotion to a company in order to be considered a viable candidate. You're writing GraphQL API glue. Everyone knows you're doing it to pay the mortgage. It's not a transcendental experience.

By contrary, the direction we were headed until recently made more sense. A company wanted some service provided. They'd look around and reach out to someone that likely was the best fit and contact them.

For example, if I was hiring a plumber, and some guy told me he was "inspired by my vision" and sought me out by reading everything on my website about my family, I would assume he had mental health issues and certainly not hire him.
Mumbling actors is more about the sound setup.

Cinemas have enough speakers and processing to create dozens of virtual speakers.

The result is that the speech is given it's own location and segment of frequencies.

The brain can easily pick it out in this setting. Think hearing your partner speak at a dinner party.

Then people watch movie on a two backwards facing speaker thin TV and think why can't I hear anything!?

It's like watching a 3D movie with no glasses and wondering why it's blurry.
I hear it isn’t what it used to be as well. They used to do in-person interviews, then they moved to un-proctored quizzes to prove skill, which I find to be a unique and mostly-accurate gauge of skill in a particular area. That said, I don’t know how common cheating would be. If it’s high, that certainly explains why companies don’t seem to put much merit on them.

Also, there’s the irony that TripleByte went from a language-agnostic in-person (virtual) interview to very specific quizzes. So instead of saying “this dev knows how to dev”, they now say “this dev knows C#, Python, SQL, and JavaScript”
Chessaball
> Worldcoin is a known scam.

In what way is it a scam? For example, is it a pyramid-scheme, pump-and-dump, pretext to trick people into downloading malware, etc.?

[That story (2022-04-06)](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi... ) did offer one major concern:

> Others took issue with the company’s purported focus on fairness given that 20% of the coins had already been allocated: 10% to Worldcoin’s full-time employees, and another 10% to investors, like Andreessen Horowitz.

20% of coins being in the hands of a few does sound potentially pretty corrupting -- at least, if it's a system like Bitcoin, where there's a cap on the total such that, if mass-adopted, that small group of people would end up controlling 20% of the total wealth. But does it work like that?

Beyond that, it sounds like the article's suggesting that it's a scam to get iris-scans:

> Meanwhile, those who fear that the whole thing may have been a scam want to know what they’ve lost. “50 KS is not enough to give an eyeball away,” says Okach, the university student in Nairobi that spent a weekend recruiting others to Worldcoin. “That’s manipulation, taking advantage of students without clear clarification about what it is they are doing or what they want.”

But the idea of a scam to get folks' iris-scans, especially iris-scans of people in less-developed areas, sounds a bit strange.

I mean, if someone has a database of folks' pictures, DNA, or fingerprints, then that database might help track folks without their knowledge or consent -- plus DNA might also reveal things about a person that they'd rather have kept private.

But what might scammers do with iris-scans that might potentially justify the trouble of collecting them like that?
>leaving the kids to be raised by strangers in day care

I am firmly of the opinion that a couple should not have children if they cannot take care of them themselves.

Daycare is a band-aid to a social problem and should never be accepted as the norm or ideal.
Wow. They sent legal porn but claimed it was an underage persona, which made it legally the same as real child abuse and molestation. That's a very strange law.
I suspect it's not an especially difficult thing to achieve if you have a big database of iris scans....
Old comment, it was from when we all expected they would have just blocked it at ISP dns level at some point, since openai itself is blocking access from the country, yes, you need a "vpn" now. You IQ is ok.
It's garbage. It claims to make your windows better... but then it breaks updates, and installs random software. Like VLC, OnlyOffice, Firefox, random wallpapers... What if you don't want those? Or what if it installs other malicious things?
I work part time at a pizzeria. If you do this try to remember when you order food for delivery. It has become a problem with our drivers. The customer doesn’t answer the phone and our drivers spend 10 minutes trying to contact the customer (delaying the next customers order). Eventually, our drivers give up and the customer (now angry) calls back an hour later demanding their food.
One of the design patterns of microservices is not to share databases, so distributed transactions shouldn't be required. Of course, this presents it's own problems (see Microservices Patterns by Chris Richardson for solutions to this).
Varjo XR-3 – the best commercially available AR/VR headset ($6,495)
I think dynamic range is so foreign to people nowadays since music hasn’t had any in over 20 years. People aren’t used to it anymore.

And you’re right, many people don’t have the things you need to make it sound good. It’s almost like they should have a mastering for bad TVs with crap audio.
The problem is that some people actually were well above the 5m files limit, and this sudden update ends up functionally locking them out of their account. They'd have to delete millions of files in some cases if they just want to add more files.

That can be extremely disruptive especially for small businesses, who would be the most likely to depend on a Drive-based workflow.
sambapa must be a piano player
Arthur Whitney (creator of many APL dialects) created A, then Morgan Stanley extended it into A+.

So maybe simply „a“ was the name.
As an employee, I want my employer to see me as an employee. Because I damn sure view them as an employer.

This is a good baseline for a working relationship. They can be a good employer, with good salary and decent benefits. They can treat their employees fairly, offer some okay work-life balance, etc

And as an employee, I can be a good one. Always being professional and polite, striving to keep a healthy environment among the workforce, and using my skills effectively to help the business while doing my job.

Seeing each other as a commodity is fine. My worst job experience was in a startup that really didn't see things this way.
Wow I’m just coming to the same realization. I used to love it anout a decade ago and suddenly realized I hated going there more and more til I stopped.
whataboutism doesn't really address any of the points in the post you're responding to, and certainly didn't answer the questions in that post which were posed to you
To steal from another thread, Python is the McDonald's of languages - it's ubiquitous, it doesn't take much effort, and it's really not very good.

The trope about it being the 2nd best language for everything isn't correct. It's taught in universities because it has a very short time to gratification, and the basic syntax is quite intuitive. Academics latched onto it for ML because of some excellent libraries, and it became established as a vital part of the ecosystem from there.

But it's a nightmare to support a moderate to large codebase in production, packaging continues to be a mess, and it's full of weird quirks. Great for weekend projects, but for pete's sake take a minute and port them into something more reliable before going to production with them.
Buddy the chef boyardee pizzas are a sham today. I _loved_ them.

Today they do not even include cheese in the box.

I wish they would sell the sauce with the mini pepperonis in a jar by itself.
That reminds me of the first time I tried jikes over javac. Javac took about 45 seconds to compile a hello-world. Jikes ran in well under a second. I thought I had done something wrong it was so much faster
Good old Duck Jersey
Perhaps it's intentionally ironic, like Bugzilla's "zarro boogs" message? Equally ill-advised, though, IMO.
Why do streaming services like Netflix compress the fuck out of dark colours. I actually don’t have a bad TV so can watch these dark movies and TV shows, but the blacks are blocky compressed messes. I have a good internet connection and all the rest of the video feed looks fine, but any dark areas just look awful.
Has the equivalency of this spill to past spills been established?

I haven’t found anything confirming that this spill is believed to match the characteristics of other spills in such a way that would alleviate concerns.
Why are you storing a video as 400,000 individual frames?
Wow you really drank the kool-aid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure film has a higher dynamic range than digital SDR video? From a quick google search, 13 stops for film vs 6 stops for SDR. Obviously the stock that was used for final delivery to theaters was much worse than the stock that movies were shot on, but still.
CW: Michael Parenti inside
It Takes a Small Miracle to Learn Basic Facts About Government Algorithms
I guess I need to get better at lying.
hibaku: The term is from Japanese: 被爆, lit. 'bombed, A-bombed, nuked'
Python, the language with global interpret lock, Is not the 2nd best language for everything, especially in the age od multicore processors.
Happy to hear it’s a stylistic choice and not a result of the change in recording, lighting, and projection equipment. I can’t stand it. At first I thought my theatre needed new projectors. But as I started to see this at home as well I thought maybe it was me. I verified with others that everything seemed dim and washed out. I started to wonder if it was the lighting - the big, heavy and hot lights have been replaced by LEDs. Could it be that? Are we doomed forever?

I think this style looks great in photography but it’s distracting when trying to watch a movie. I hope they find a new aesthetic.
I live in Vancouver and spam calls significantly dropped for me too. It's only a few calls a week now.
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You're spreading misinformation, that's why. One easy google search away:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-stormy-daniels-2018-st...

> AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. The signed statement with the denial was publicly released on Jan. 30, 2018. Not long after, Daniels recanted the statement and said that an affair had occurred. She said her denials were due to a non-disclosure agreement and that she signed the statement because parties involved “made it sound like I had no choice.”

And yes, misinformation includes statements that are technically true by themselves, but intentionally leave out crucial details to create a narrative.
Very cool, looks very polished. 2 points of feedback:

1. Why only frontend and backend topics? I would love see some mathematical or CS topics.

2. The back button doesn't work on the site which I always find very annoying.
Shame. We need more of those...
And 1 billion people live in Africa, the only continent which is now actually growing
Alexa, what is my wifi password?
If you slide a front tire 12” to 18” on a car, nothing much happens. If you do that on a bike, something very much happens.

The standards of snow removal needed to permit 2 wheel vehicles to operate safely are quite a bit stricter than those for 4 wheelers.
i write some Python scripts that are just a single file and import only from the standard library. If you’re competing with bash this is fine. For instance I have a python script that burns compact discs like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.1_Music_Disc

unpacks an archive, validates the content with sox, rewrites the .cue file, uses wodim to do the writing, etc. i have other scripts that do “iot” sorts of things and those really need to import from libraries to access a message queue or other APIs.

With python it is often common to require a special python too, for instance i had a script that ran too slow with cpython but was fine with python but i can’t use pypy for everything as pytorch doesn’t work.

Another option is https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html which is maturing in various forms and a lot like packaging a java application in a jar.
They're more convenient to share with a group, and eat with one hand.

And easier for little kids to eat.
ChatGPT wrappers??? lol
A curated list of open source sysadmin resources
They were talking about display tech
Dev wise, looks like Next, Tailwind on Vercel + Supabase
I agree that public education US history is rather thinly veiled propaganda, but who would you say won the War of 1812? A tie seems like the best way to succinctly describe the war.
So lets be honest about what really occurred - you spammed. You got banned from a subreddit. Your tried to get around the ban. You got banned for real.

This is not "Reddit doesn't allow startups." -- This is "Reddit doesn't allow spam."

If you want to advertise to a community, first you need to actually participate in that community. If it makes you feel any better about it, you probably aren't missing out on much. My experience is that reddit gives you traffic, but not customers.
What we are actually limited by is the political system of many countries. But going back to the original discussion, its not copper, water, fertilizer or lithium, or oil.
Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022)
So , all we need to do is to open source humans?
What a scam. That cheese was critical. Agreed on the sauce and the mini pepperonis.
Agree with you on desks!

We build our desks standard with OWC TB4 dock (same OEM part as Brydge or Kensington's TB4s) and a 3 way watch+phone+airpods charger with pivot head for the phone. Indeed the dock has four TB4/USB-C, and 4 USB-A ports as well.

What amazes me (not really, it's par for course) is even the most modern furniture makers are still building 12 watt (2.4amp) USB-A ports into their desks and conference tables instead of 100w - 240w chargers.

Desks should have a fireproof box underneath that can hold GaN chargers such as this one like a cartridge:

https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Station-WOTOBEUS-5-Ports-Char...

With ultra short and heavy duty connector cables to a replaceable plug strip.

As a super easy retrofit though, just plug this underneath a desk or standing desk, and set the flat part on top next to the monitor(s) stand(s):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09SG31NPT/
You’re supposed to gobble down a large bowl of them, like jellybeans.
That's funny, I had a dream about running a program in WINE last night
Who are you to tell what kind of activities are wasteful and which aren't? Though you are free to pay talented people to spend their time in ways you find more productive or "meaningful".
Seems like there was a small mistake in the photo credit:

> Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n

Fixing the Unicode characters gives Miguel Á. Padriuñán.
I wish this was a "simply" answer! Been getting more into nix lately and really enjoying it, but converting python to nix has been a challenge.
It seems like the existing and recommended suggestions are either deprecated / unmaintained or still alpha at best (pip2nix, mach-nix, dream2nix).
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/basic-flake-run-existing-pytho...
> a folder that auto syncs with Google Drive...Same way that Dropbox works

I’m on a Mac and find that google drive’s Mac client is so unreliable as to be useless. It frequently crashes mysteriously, and even when running it doesn’t sync reliably. It feels like nobody is working on the software, and after all the layoffs that could well be true.

Say what you want about Dropbox, but I’ve never had a problem with it.
Pro-Russia cyber gang Winter Vivern puts US, Euro lawmakers in line of fire
It has indeed felt a bit like r/LateStageCapitalism or r/antiwork in here, with so many low quality comments that all read exactly the same. I figured it was just because of the tech layoffs that that sort of sentiment has been gaining traction though.
Followed users will still show

But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts.

This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it
AlienFox source code toolset harvests credentials from 18 cloud services
Friends tell me I'm losing out, but I never even apply to positions that do not include a salary (range).

The idea of putting in hours, or days, of effort only to learn the salary is minimal just seems like waste of time for everyone.

Weeks? That's just stringing you along, and by the point I'd wonder if they're even intending to hire anyone.
Clojure

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F#
OP here. I am not affiliated with this project. Some people have questioned whether the new domain belongs to the original project or not, so here is how I confirmed that they at least cooperate or belong to the same project team.

The older .info domain also referenced by the LTT video links to a Telegram group, whose owners now link to the new .io domain of this post.

As to why the old website does not reference the new domain directly, I have no idea.

As always with scripts that modify your system in fundamental ways, please take great care and do your own research.
Hm it Is sticky for me. On Twitter.com
I read this as humane-ness. Found the opposite...
And now triplebyte is no more which is unfortunate.
That's a heck load of polish from an 18 year old - kudos
Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters
Crazies vs the rest
Now we have to live like The Giving Tree was a documentary?

Is this going to drive my food prices even higher?
Not sure why removing OneDrive is an improvement given that it’s pretty much essential for sharing files.
New nanoparticles can perform gene editing in the lungs
Dresdens destruction was so severe that now, 78 years later, reconstruction efforts are still ongoing - despite huge efforts and spending of enormous financial resources over the past decades.
It's the browser that sends the Referer (sic) header.
My guess: it's the "movie darkness war".

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Has anyone asked ChatGPT already? Using ChatGPT to find the correct search terms for vaguely described concepts seems very powerful. Knowing the correct terms makes or breaks web searches in my experience.
I pasted your question verbatim into ChatGPT-4.

"
The concept you may be thinking of is the "chilling effect." It refers to the phenomenon where individuals are less likely to engage in certain behaviors, such as expressing themselves or accessing certain information, due to the fear of surveillance or other forms of monitoring. The term "chilling effect" is often used in the context of government surveillance or censorship, but it can also apply to other types of monitoring and control, such as corporate surveillance or online harassment. The reference to the iceberg in the infographic may have been used to illustrate the idea that only a small portion of the chilling effect is visible on the surface, while the majority of its impact remains hidden beneath the surface.
"
Goes to show that nailing down the 'HN crowd' opinion is more difficult than it seems!
If it was not for American intervention in Kosovo in 1999 my entire extended family would probably be refugees or dead. Fuck these leftist “anti-imperialists” that hate the west so much they resort to genocide apologia and love affairs with Milosevic and his type.
And here is the report of their harmonious marriage:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444818801317
For anything that doesn’t run in “humanly instant” timeframe the startup speed won’t matter - and build tools are definitely in this category.

The fear for Oracle is also completely irrational, Java is probably the safest bet ever — it is not tied to processor architecture, has a specification both on the language and the JVM level (both are uncommon in other platforms), has multiple completely independent implementation and the majority of fortune 500 companies definitely have business critical infrastructure running on top of it, so even if Oracle would do something those can single handedly support the platform indefinitely.

Especially that Oracle has been a surprisingly good steward of the language, and they were the ones that finished open sourcing everything.
It would randomly revert back. I like the new layout because sometimes i like a quick peek at the recommendations
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent spends an unreasonable amount of time trying to get an AI to understand what tea is and how to make it, and once he finally gets it to understand, it hangs the system up completely.