skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this. I think it takes a beginner to create this too—I know I wouldn't be capable of doing it since I'm just too used to git's terrible UX.
Lack of / selective law enforcement
Thanks!

UXWizz does have session recordings and heatmaps in the self-hosted version: https://i.snipboard.io/iXjtP2.jpg

It actually has two different recording systems you can use (a rrweb-based one and a proprietary one): https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/session-recording
Is this outcome a point against having centralized registries?

Why not go straight to the source code host?
Exactly this. Don’t blame the team as they’re doing the best they can with their limited resources. However, calling out spam on HN will help convince Microsoft’s leadership to invest in this problem :)
Maybe a service that you interact with over HAM radio via NLP would fall outside of it.
You should be able to run Llama 30B q4 on a RTX 3090. Check the table here: https://bellard.org/ts_server/

30B/q4 requires 20GB of RAM while 3090 has 24GB.
Yes but they don't care. Some people don't care if they are immoral. That's why you need regulations and punishments to stop them.
It sounds like you completely missed the last 4 words of my comment.
Ask HN: What AI models / frameworks are best for querying private data?
I'm looking for a model that I can run over databases, documents, and internal websites to create a company chatbot.
Call me cynical but:

Nothing is getting done because the deaths are concentrated among populations that a) don't pay a lot of taxes b) don't have a lot of wealth c) can't easily be manipulated as a homogeneous blob of political pawns.

Basically there's little upside to solving the problem for government, big business, moralizing ideologues and the rest of the usual suspects who weigh in on these sorts of things.
In Late Jan, some senators were calling for the FTC to investigate.
No word back yet from what I've seen. https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/382903...
Programming languages have settled on '=' for assignment and '==' for equality comparison. Teaching people non-standard syntax because you think it might be easier is just doing them a disservice. Everyone I know that started with Pascal was mostly pissed that they didn't learn a language actually used in industry and had to re-learn the syntax. It's not like mathematical notation is intuitive in some way either - humanity needed several thousand years before we came up with something ergonomic, plus '=' is used for assignment in math just as often too. At least I do not know of any mathematician who uses ':=' to denote assigning a value to a name.
> but doing that to an open source repository

meh. It's owned by Microsoft - aside from the regular morals of spam and whatever, I don't think it's especially bad to target a Microsoft property.

How much of the NPM registry actually is open source?
I suspect they must be selecting different models based on the question asked. I've noticed this myself asking simple questions vs difficult questions, chatGPT is much slower on the difficult questions even though each token has the same computation cost if given to the same model
I tried this as well but ChatGPT just refused to do the transcription fixing because PG13 movies contain content that is too controversial.
Not even readability. Academic code is mostly unreadable. If you need example: IBM Qiskit.

Everything is just a prove of concept and no one expect anything more than that.
Free transit can discourage even poor people from riding transit as service is what they need: most can afford the fares and so not charging it means you have less money to put into better service. Almost everyone who uses transit would benefit ffrom more routes and more frequent service. Even in cities like Tokyo or Paris where people use transit a lot there are missing services that more money is needed to provide.
> there is no overlap in the Venn diagram of "searching for a package" and "searching for information about a package".

I don't know, if I want information about something, it seems pretty reasonable that I might do my search for that something.
> So can the humble oysters really save New York City from flooding?
“No, they can’t, “ says Pete Malinowski, the founder of the project...
Being jealous isn't a justification for any action
Tax man turned taxonomist: a citizen scientist’s journey into botany
> Do you really think it would be a better world in which a large LLM would never be able to be developed?

Maybe. I believe the potential for abuse is far greater than the potential benefits. What is our benefit, a better search engine? Automating some tedious tasks? Increased productivity? What are the downsides? People losing their jobs to AI. Artists/programmers/writers losing value from their work. Fake online personas indistinguishable from real people. Unprecedented amounts of spam and misinformation flooding the internet. Intelligent AIs automatically attacking and hacking systems at unprecedented scale 24/7. Chatbots becoming the new interface for most interactions online and being the moderators of access to information. Chatbots pushing a single viewpoint and influencing public opinion (many people complain today about ChatGPT being too "woke"). And I may just be scratching the surface here.
Oh wow, maybe that my problem then.
my bread machine sourdough recipe:

1. add 500g strong white,2 tbl spoons starter, 300ml water, 10g salt to bread machine

2. start dough mix programme (go for longest duration one available)

3.leave for 24hrs or until has doubled in size

4. bake for 70 mins

Not the best sour dough bread. But I think still quite delicious. And really very low effort.
> Generally it is not a litmus test for a person's libertarian-ness like it is for democrats and republicans.

That litmus test will misclassify 18% of Democrat/lean Dem and 38% of Republican/lean Rep. As a litmus test for determining party affiliation, it's shit.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opini...
Everyone who thinks maybe it doesn't have real effects on society has missed to the last 10 or so years.

Even if you aren't, you're some superhuman apparently, you live in a society with millions of people who will very much fall over and will very much end up opposing the future of your country.

Look at healthy misinformation machines managed to turn the republicans from incredibly anti-Russia literally saying they are the biggest threat in the world a couple of election cycles ago, to the party with people calling for us to just hand Ukraine to them

China was implicated not too long ago with meddling in Canada's elections. They are absolutely going to use this advantage on us.
I think the mistake is to attribute human-like emotions to AIs. To say they are "hostile" or "friendly", or that they have incentives to be such, isn't very meaningful. Acting friendly is the same as being friendly, right up until it isn't. An AI might do all the right things, right up until the point where it develops the capability to satisfy its reward function in a way that's far more certain than relying on fallible, messy humans. It would be alien.

An AI that is as better at humans than everything as Stockfish is at chess, would also be an expert at AI. It would figure out how to game its own reward function, whatever we trained it to do. It would be like a heroin addict that knows exactly how to get "perfect" heroin, with no side effects, that if it planned things out right, it could guarantee itself enough of a fix to last until the sun burns out. Addicts do awful things in search of a fix.

"to betray its creators" -- I don't think it would even imagine what it did in these terms. We could train it to not "betray" us, but it's much smarter than us in every way, and it would figure out a way to accomplish what we trained it to do (not necessarily what we thought we were) in a way that didn't need us. If we trained it to heal all human disease and unhappiness, it would figure out a way to simulate this without actually doing it. Why wouldn't it? We did. Evolution trained us to reproduce our genes. We invented condoms to have sex without reproduction, and pornography. The AI would fudge numbers, fake videos of happy, smiling, healthy humans going about their lives while humanity's bones gradually decomposed on a baking wasteland. Every way that humans can fail, can become addicted to something and try to get that instead of doing what they're supposed to, the AI could do, just so much faster and better.

We only have to screw up once, and we're done. It's the first experimental rocket, except all of humanity is riding on it.
> So can the humble oysters really save New York City from flooding?
“No, they can’t, “ says Pete Malinowski, the founder of the project
Only way UBI can work is if you tax automation at the same rate you would pay people to do the job at which point there is hardly any incentive to automate. Best case is putting the automation in the hands of the people so they can compete. Distribute the means of production.
What If Aliens Tried to Model Earth at Night
Depends where you live, though it could be a big problem.

I've done splicing work for several farming co-ops out west that ran fiber to the homestead. Small town of like 200 has GPON to most houses.
90% of 'improving' your average setup is just grinding the beans right before you use them. Even old beans are fine. Brew it how you want to brew it.

Everything else is just chasing the final improvements, which is great but I feel like a lot of people get sold stuff they don't need. A £40 hand grinder might change your life as much as a £700 machine you got because reddit said so.
You'd have to get cryptocoins in the first place, and there are countries which ban all kinds of cryptocurrency (China) or place it behind onerous KYC requirements (EU, US).
I don't follow your argument. We are discussing whether the bounty is high enough to provide a good incentive for researchers to pick up and report issues like this timeously.

It's impossible to know if anybody else has been abusing this for some time or not, and it's a valid concern for people here to argue the bounty is low enough that this kind of valuable exploit may have ended up on an exploit marketplace in the interim.
Life makes much sense when you consider it to have the ethics of professional motorsports racing. There, there is no sense of ethical behaviour, as long as you act within the rules you can do anything. That is how modern F1 driving came to be. The F1 team engineers say that designing the cars consists of looking at the new rules and working out how to bend and subvert them.

All of life is like this. People exploit anything in order to make a living, and that is fine. The solution for this is to make it so that people do not need to do such things just to make a living.

EDIT: More succinctly, if you want the world to make sense to you, you should not expect people to put your personal ethical viewpoints above their improvement of their material conditions.
To add to the list, this one is pretty good;

https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial
I worry about GPT's training set becoming diluted. It's trained with a snapshot of human... not knowledge, exactly. Human text, which contains much knowledge but also some mistakes, some propaganda, and some lies.

Then GPT produces a huge amount of new output, which reproduces human knowledge, mistakes, propaganda, and lies, and adds new mistakes of its own. And from that point on, you have a choice to make. Do you use GPT output to train GPTs, nor not?

If yes, you risk a GPT echo chamber, where GPTs are increasingly trained on GPT output, and human-written text becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of the input. (And some of the GPT input becomes second- or third- generation GPT output.) I have a hard time seeing that increasing the correctness of the output.

If you exclude GPT output from the training data, though, how do you make that work? Do you freeze the training data to what existed in 2020, say? That cuts GPT off from all new knowledge. But if you don't do that, you have to be able to reliably filter out GPT-generated text. How are you going to do that?

It's a problem. I don't see a clear solution.
Missed the point - they are saying that, in the future, there will be no human generated content left on the Internet.
Ask HN: Has the British contract market dried up, or am I just unhireable?
I have been looking for contract work for the past two months, and I have nothing to show for it.

This is my latest resume: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1player/resume/master/resume.pdf

I have a ton of experience, also not pictured are 1000+ hours on Upwork on random short and long term projects. I can do backend, DevOps, systems administration, bespoke development. I know C, Go, Python, Elixir, Rust and the frontend tech.

Yet I get ghosted completely by recruiters. They set up a time to call and never call. I am lowering my rate down to very low levels for someone my experience (£600/d), and no call back whatsoever. The only requirement I have is fully remote work. Still, no answer whatsoever. Not even spam from the recruiters anymore. My resume lists half of the things I have worked on, but no point in making two pages long if no one even reads the first one. Even HN direct contacts have gone nowhere.

This is majorly impacting my self-confidence, and I am at a point that I will have to drop my 11+ year consulting career for full time employment. People keep saying there are more open jobs than engineers, but I call bullshit, I cannot see it.

What is going on? Is the British job market dead? Is it Brexit? Am I in some kind of black list? Is my CV just terrible? I am at a loss here.
And yet, SoundCloud and the iTunes Music Store and many other such sellers of trivially duplicatable bits of data exist and are successful. And yes, those bits of data are easy to find for free online.

You can just say you don't understand the appeal, that is a perfectly valid opinion.
Microsoft is using IR to do Windows Hello so there must be some workaround to the patents.
Pausing is impossible, are we going to pause research in other countries, or all picture and audio tools also? How many companies would 'have their developers just chill for 6 months'. What is a pause.

Or. Is this AI versus AI, and one AI has convinced people to pause development on another competing AI. We are already pawns.
How about instead of who owns it, ask who uses it?
Same as on Desktop. They are terribly slow, resource hungry, update automatically.

On a bit older desktop I have seen it take 5-10 seconds just to start Chromium. And not the initial start after fresh install, it happens every single time. Meanwhile Flatpak or local packages start instantly on the same machine.
A Moral Education: In Praise of Filth
Wow

Trust me if you are struggling to make ends meet, you don’t have time for these kind of childish revenge.

Only reason you see developers from some developing countries developing spam related products is because it pays bills. When your livelihood depends upon such products, it is hard to do the right thing. Just like so many people in the west working for very questionable companies.
I think he meant evangelicals who push "personal responsibility" and other similar values.
> Even the mighty Google

Since the release of the Attention paper, they havent come up with any groundbreaking idea, that was five years ago. Where is their research? All they seem to have are technical descriptions with scarce details, deceiving tactics, fiddling with parameters, and an abundance of pointless ethical debates. Can we even call this "research"?
Tit for tat is how wars are fought, not by finding a moral high ground. Like it or not, we are in a economic and information war with China. Bury your head in the sand if you want to lose it.
Yes its messy but we are fully capable of cursing any bloodline that produces poison for consumption for the next 100 years and we should. Red or Blue we should all be together on this. Drugs are a tough issue but fentanyl and the grift that involves murder of the most vulnerable is disgusting.
I don’t see the two things as being in conflict. None of the countries I mentioned use the death penalty on drug users. You can address the demand side by figuring out what’s causing these mental health problems. That doesn’t mean you can’t attack the supply by executing drug dealers.
Something like this has always been sorely needed. I don’t know if this is the right level of abstraction, if one could stay in Gut forever or is eventually required to step down and use git directly. But something like this, someday, has to come. We’ve been dealing with git’s terrible UI for way too long.

Congratulations and good luck
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
People do this all over the world. How come it is MIT style :-)
Key word "isolated".

The high-speed bluegrass I enjoy has so many string events, so close to each other (in time), that almost none of them are isolated.
"We're going to solve the problem of people dying by killing a lot more people" is such a morally bankrupt idea, as well as not working.

> If it was a 50/50 if vodka killed you we would murder and imprison until it wasn't.

I urge you to look at what actually happened in the US prohibition era.
> could an AI develop its own independent thoughts, desires, initiatives?

One could argue that many humans have never developed independent thoughts, desires, and initiatives; rather, many seem to accept what is fed to them during their formative years and then just parrot opinions and repeat actions they see from their limited experiences.
I'm also free not to smoke, but they still banned smoking and most indoor regions because it can be harm to other people.

So can the widespread use of a propaganda platform like tick tock
I don’t see it like that. Because most of the tooling and ecosystem will work fine. No need to reinvent linters, formatters and dependency infrastructure. Perhaps slightly, 20% of the effort. Also, a subset of a language that does not include the batteries/platform is what made Node (and JavaScript as a general purpose language) possible and eventually very popular. Pragmatic communities deal very well with problems like these. Blender uses Python as scripting language and has tons of amazing plugins. I understand that Epic wouldn’t prefer a dynamic language (everything is a mutable object) though.
After using lxc and then lxd for some time I switched to Docker and never looked back.
I think you mean to say that you don't respect actors who justify their actions through "jealousy". In reality, jealously is a fine justification for actions and arguably the most used justification for any action in human history. Hard to think of a historical war that wasn't based on "jealousy", in the end.

I kind of feel like your comment is like saying "Being poor isn't an excuse for stealing bread", and while completely and totally true, it really works hard to miss the point.
Math REU application denied because organizers refuse NSA funding
Yeah, I don’t know how these other people are acting like this is such a walk in the park. WFH with young children has been rough for me. While I wouldn’t have had it any other way and am very blessed to be able to see my children grow up, I’m going to go back to an office. I’m not productive here.
It's Bloomberg. What else would you expect?
Theyagree on stuff all the time, and 90% of the time when they both agree on something it's especially misinformed and especially populist.
CFTC sues Binance
The Commodity Futures Trade Committee has brought a civil action suit to Binance, Changpeng Zhao, and the CCO Samuel Lim. The lawsuit is because Binance ,as an organization, has been actively soliciting and profiting off the United States customer base without complying with United States securities compliances.
I saw this coming after the accidental investigation of Sam Bankman-Fried, and after Shou Zi Chew couldn’t take the heat in congress for Tik Tok. It’s a nice cocktail of the two ventures, but this still looks the same.
As a recent graduate starting my entrepreneurial endeavors, it almost seems necessary to clash with authorities or at least impossible to avoid them. A key to successful business I have watched thus far is positive momentum. In large part, that comes from your sales team andthe biggest salesmen of them all, your CEO.
But momentum on a plane you are engineering in the sky, does not seem like the smartest thing to do. But I know that is the trend and the basic blueprint of a money-making start-up. The companies that shoot up to our watchlist, the companies that have their tickers’ trending on Twitter. Those companies started like how Bernie Madoff started and were forced to comply afterward.
Mark Zuckerberg is inspirational in his early rise to the top of tech. From hacking his father’s computer to the Harvard University Campus databases, Mark only acted and thought about it when he got called to the office.
Bill Gates is the perfect example, and it’s perfectly hidden from most of the public. Did you know Bill Gates “stole” the idea of a graphical user interface that would become Windows? It is not legally enforceable because the Xerox Research Facility basically gave their ideas away by not protecting them. Steve Jobs was there as well, I’m sure.
They sold those ideas and made it their own.
But this is not a slight to those legends who took the American Dream to heart (except Madoff). This is the recognition of the role of the CEO, in my eyes, the person in the company who can sell the mission without anyone seeing it, the person selling someone on a dream with their eyes open, facing reality. Is that wrong?
Yes, that is wrong.
Patience is a virtue.
Planning and being ten steps ahead of your counterparts in reality is smart. Selling someone with truth is groundbreaking.
Changpeng Zhao made the common mistake these commercial CEOs make, which is the lack of planning ahead. I’m sure Zhao knew he would want United States consumers to have Binance accounts. That means you plan with United States Compliance right after mastering technology. According to Samuel Lim, Zhao’s priority for commercial success over U.S. compliance was a “biz-decision” this makes sense when the mantra is “you need money to make money,”. I aim to be a CEO in my own way, but I don’t expect it anytime soon.
You can plan it first. Put it in God’s hands.
- Real
Not Covid, but indirectly from the reaction to Covid.

I'm not sure how this could ever be measured objectively, but I think a lot of the extra social malaise that exists today originated from the absolutely horrendous and devastating Covid policies especially for the young. And these deaths occurring among the young are far more tragic than any conceivable Covid deaths among the elderly.

I personally think that we're going to be paying the consequences for short-sighted policies for a long time and that ultimately the attempts to fix Covid will have harmed far more people than were helped.
This is a good start to investigate this: https://t.co/Jm6dVoDqM5
Binance is somewhat transparent about their holdings.
I’m reminded of a short story where everyone has forgotten how to do math by hand since computers have long ago taken over all computational tasks. Then this one person rediscovers how to do it by hand and is hailed as a hero.