skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of vertical scalability, I have found that many runtimes require something else to scale. Ruby requires passenger/unicorn/puma/etc. It requires pgbouncer if you're using postgres. It requires redis for background work. Similar situation with Python, or node. You need a process manager to handle forking for concurrency, you need external connection pools etc.

I can see and appreciate the unix philosophy at work, but it's also adding complexity. More things to tune, more things that can go wrong or become a bottleneck.

As we've moved our services to Rust, we've found that all those special tools disappear. Sure, we need to make similar decisions around how our system runs, but (as an example) configuring an in-process db pool is much much simpler than pgbouncer.

And that's a big part of a runtime being scalable. We won't be forced to reach for another tool as our requirements expand. We still might, but we don't have to.

(Certainly golang and the JVM fall into this category as well)
> You can watch the entirety of Babylon 5 (remastered) on HBO Max.

I just searched my HBO Max and it isn't available for me (US based). ?
People working in factories could be described as “not having a meaningful life”.

Living a meaningful life is a choice left up to the individual. What are most people going to do when we automate everything ?
>bone chilling AI generated Metal Gear Solid 2 meme

Wait, wasn't this just the thesis statement of Metal Gear Solid 2?
I tried this the other day for generating basic Chinese conversations - the quality is surprisingly good. While it's still behind the latest GPT, but the gap isn't as large as I thought it would be.
My 6yo loved Gorilla Tag, hasn't played it in over a month now though. Whatever hype was there, it's long gone.
> a crypto crackdown

And in your mind it’s reasonable that someone tanked Silvergate and Signature to send this message? And their investors and lenders are just cool with that?
Someone made a version with a buffer which only has a fixed size context history so it stays in constant speed mode. It will only focus on the latest questions.
I highly recommend this tool to any mac users out there. I use it daily- it makes sampling any inbound audio stream simple and would be much less productive without it. My only complaint is the ACE driver is frequently updated which sometimes causes ableton live to puke if it’s open when the update happens.
The Ban TikTok Bill Is Terrifying and Must Be Stopped
Not that long ago there used to be people who would add up columns of numbers to calculate the books at companies, and every time they wanted to run a different scenario a whole room full of them would have to get back to their pencils and redo the calculation for a day, and they no longer exist because of spreadsheets.

We used to have admins whose entire job it was to find out when people could meet, and they no longer exist (or only in much smaller numbers) because you use your online calendar tool.

We used to have people who would physically fly bank checks from one city to another each night, and in a single day they ceased to exist when you were instead able to transmit just the numbers back and forth.

People who used to sell encyclopedias are out of work. People who used to develop rolls of film are no longer around. We're missing a whole generation of telephone operators.

But people will deal. Because these developments come from every single one of us using tools and adopting things that we choose to, not because it's some decision handed down and enforced by some government against our will. You and I, using Excel, scheduling our own meetings, using direct deposit or even our phones.

I don't even believe yet that these latest models are going to be that transformational, but even if so, people will deal. And new things will take the place of old.
The difference is that ads in Windows don’t go away even if you already subscribe to all possible Microsoft services. I own a license for Windows 11 Pro, pay for Microsoft 365, and use Edge as my default browser. But I’m still shown ads inside Windows. What more do I need to do to stop them??

In contrast, Apple’s ads are slight nudges at best. You can even uninstall the Apple Music app on your iOS device if you want. I’ve done this, and Siri correctly uses the Spotify app to play music every time I ask it to. Can you imagine Microsoft doing the same?
Note the date of the article: April 25, 2021
Instead of thinking of it as something less capable than a desktop, why not consider it a larger and vastly more capable Raspberry Pi or similar SBC?
EVs -> no emissions in transport, 27% of US emissions. EVs drive lower battery cost and capacity needed for renewable energy adoption - 17% of total installed and 60%+ of new power generation capacity. Your skepticism is impeding the single most impactful factor in mitigating climate change.
Is there a short option?
I wouldn't take their use of "division" too seriously.
Anyone who did their research knew Binance was shady…

They didn’t have an HQ, come on, criminal organisations don’t have an HQ. Companies have them.

Shady connections to China, BSC was a mega scam, just ridiculous.
> Do American power points not charge an EV? It’s come up repeatedly on this thread that you need a home charger.

Standard outlets (like what you plug your phone/computer charger into) in the US are 120V and 5-20A.

US homes sometimes also have outlets that are 240V/20-40A traditionally used for electric clothes dryers, and those are what home Level 2 EVSEs (not technically chargers) are usually plugged into, or sometimes a dedicated 240V/40A RV plug is installed for EV charging.

That said, if you don't need to charge fast, or don't drive more than 30 miles a day, a 120V outlet can more than suffice for daily charging needs.
I could never trust a bin I didn't build myself (with my own C compiler ofc).
Occams Razor, for me anyway, is this announcement: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cftc-sues-binance-holdings-in-c...

Binance Sued by CFTC Over Evading U.S. Rules
Ran into a fellow touring once with a recumbent and a trailer for his dog! All told, a 250lbs rig, few would be able to celebrate as much getting to the top of santiam pass in oregon (approx 4000 ft climb)!
> Private communication is private and absolutely nobody else's business. It's a crime to open somebody's mail.

I thought we were talking in the context of the EU? It's not a crime for them if the government is doing it (or asking for it). They don't have rights like that.
There are perpetual BNB/USDT futures on poloniex, for whatever thats worth.
Speak for yourself, I've been in line for an Aptera ever since the solar reboot.

I don't drive a ton of miles, but it's over roads where a bike would be literal suicide. A performant runabout with a bit of cargo space is exactly what I want, and if it only needs to be plugged in a few times a year, so much the better.

I'm keeping the A-Team van for when I need to move minicomputers and their peripherals, but an Aptera could do like 95% of my driving.
>Former Representative Barney Frank, a principal author of the Dodd-Frank legislation enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and a member of Signature’s Board of Directors...
I wonder if there are any reliable techniques for generating good random/pseudorandom numbers mentally. I guess you could just run the same algorithm computers do but it would probably be kinda taxing.

I wonder if a system that uses some arbitrary features of what you can currently see in front of you would be unpredictable enough?
Such examples show hilariously the true essence of AR-LLM
I had fun using it with a 3090 GPU, it generates responses fairly quickly and can be quite nuanced. I plan to use it a lot more in the coming days, but so far I'm really impressed with how it worked--In my opinion its comparable if not better than Google Bard, but ChatGPT still rules supreme.
Prius is the most popular car for Uber, I don't think its virtue signaling (quite the opposite, if you happen to drive a Prius, people will just assume you are doing Uber on the side), just these people are trying to make money and a Prius is a good way to make Ubering cost effective.
“You also definitely need to think again if you think those jobs are low paying. Plenty of people make quite a healthy living doing them.”

True today. What happens when the other industries collapse and there’s a flood of labor into these industries? Sure - initially the experienced and skilled labor will continue to command a higher price - but over time supply of talent will drive that down too.
Your prompts are terrible, i can see why
What does the tanking of Signature have to do with the headline of the article, which is the FDIC arbitrarily telling "crypto clients" to close their accounts? This is the FDIC selectively targeting a specific group of depositors for no clear reason, other than - perhaps - that they pose a threat to the future hegemony of a government-backed digital currency, which just so happens to be launching (in its early form of a central government payments facility) four months from now.
That’s hyperbolic. Toyota is still selling the same quality cars (if not better) than their 2004 - 2009 Prius I’ve seen go 550k and similar miles repeatedly.
>>also: how are they going to determine that you did?

>Same as any crime. They have to prove that you did it (both that you did the act, and that you intended to do the act) to a judge or a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

...after taking your hardware and placing you under house arrest for a time, then putting you under a gag order (national security) while simultaneously setting up preventative monitoring of future VPN use, until the case resolves.
Love that. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Yet $42B in deposits withdrawn a single day out of $175BN isn't significant for SVB? What I am seeing here is $2B in outflows is like a leaking firehose for Binance, when SVB experienced a tsunami of outflows. It would have to take more than that to make Binance go under. Fast.

Surely you remember what happened weeks ago when tech bros here were screaming when their favourite VC bank and their pyramid scheme just collapsed?

Either way we all know that a crypto exchange will collapse this year. Who knows. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34201475
> You mean they have a confession? That is not the same thing as being religious. I for example have been born into a confession and till I went through the not uncomplicated act of leaving church I would have been counted as religious. I have been an atheist since I was 12 or so.

I think there are four different groups of people:

(1) people who say they believe in some organised religion and it is a big part of their lives

(2) people who say they believe in some organised religion but it isn't a big part of their lives

(3) people who say they don't believe in any organised religion, but nonetheless report having some "supernatural" beliefs (ghosts, reincarnation, etc)

(4) people who say they don't believe in any organised religion, and furthermore report having no "supernatural" beliefs (naturalism, physicalism, materialism, atheism, anti-supernaturalism, etc)

The problem with labels like "religious" or "non-religious", is it is unclear which of the four each label encompasses. Some people define "religious" narrowly to only include group (1), others also include group (2), some will even include group (3).

Not all "atheists" belong to group (4). I know a person who calls themselves an "atheist", and they literally meet the definition; but they also believe in ghosts and an afterlife – which puts them in group (3) rather than group (4). They actually told me once that when theists die, they will be shocked to find out that there is no God, and they "wasted their lives" worshipping an imaginary being. Those kind of beliefs are probably much more common among the general population than among the kind of people who frequent this site.
What's up with this when running `python generate.py --config configs/generate/generate.yaml --prompt "Write a script to reverse a string in Python"` ?

huggingface_hub.utils._errors.RepositoryNotFoundError: 401 Client Error. (Request ID: Root=1-6423aed4-0f0192250fe8821a181f9b4f)

Repository Not Found for url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/vicuna-lora-1024/resolve/main/adapter_config.json.
I'm not completely sure, but they may have been working on Disney Movies VR - https://www.disneymoviesvr.com/
> People are buying cars because they're better than horses

This is only true for people with a certain amount of spare money to pay the extra, since cars are more expensive to purchase.

"According to Kelley Blue Book, gas cars averaged $48,681 that month" whereas horses typically cost between $1500-$10,000
https://www.joyfulequestrian.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-bu...

AAA reports that average annual operating costs for a car are ~$8500/year
https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/what-does-it-cost-to...

Whereas the average annual cost of a horse is under $4000/year
https://cowgirlmagazine.com/cost-owning-horse/
I would say there is one more problem it can solve, though less related to sustainability: Building up a modular system may make it easier to more offer customers a device close to their ideal configuration with a limited number of SKUs.
I still haven't quite figured out how all the people that street park because they don't have driveways or garages or even a place directly out front of their house are supposed to use EVs. Cities are not building the infrastructure to support that at all.
Not at all. The US creates its built environment for cars and only cars. The MUTCD which standardizes a lot of traffic engineering in the US actually requires a traffic study to slow traffic down in any way, so adding any signs, lights, or speed bumps must need a traffic study. There are no guidelines in the MUTCD to design sidewalks or bike paths, which is why parts of the US have no sidewalks. Roads measure capacity in volumes of motor vehicles and not pedestrians, cyclists, or any other mode. Recently a set of standards in the US named NACTO are trying to change this and imagine a street as a modeshared ROW, but only a handful of Americans cities are using NACTO.

This is a stark contrast from how street design works in lots of Europe and some of Asia. Very little about our built environment is decided by individual choice. Almost all road and lot widths are set by regulations which mandate car-scaled widths.
But that’s the point isn’t it.

If ChatGPT designed robots tomorrow that we could build for 99$ that could automate most farming and most construction, we could have food and shelter built at something like a few percent of our economies.

On clean energy, same thing. Ask AI to work up a plan in 10 years. Ask AI to improve solar panel construction.

In 10-20-40 years what is there a scarcity of, exactly ?

I’m not promising avocados, but there’s certainly no shortage of food when obesity is this prevalent.
It's a stupid argument as dumb as worrying about China IP theft. After the ship has sailed.

As to job losses, most ppl especially the prediction making buffoon class, have not worked with these systems long enough to understand a simple fact of life - the more complex system gets, the more bugs the system has. Not less. And then you need ppl to manually handle all those issues.

These systems are overflowing with unhandled issues, just like prev hyped up tech like social media, crypto, the meta verse, self driving cars etc etc
Why Does Infants' Tylenol Cost 3 Times More Than Children's Tylenol?
Not really. These algorithms are generally quite simple and you are not coming up with them from scratch.

It might take a PhD to build the JVM, but you don't need one to understand what it does (at least most parts of it).
VR, meta verse always seemed overhyped to me. Combine real time 3D model generated from MetaHuman + AR + ChatGPT + voice and you have a business that will dwarf Apple. I bet people would easily pay 100/month for AR companion based on their celeb crush or whatever other AR companion they crave.
It's actually very easy. As soon as electric cars are better for the customer, people will automatically start buying them. As soon as that happens, manufacturers will ramp up production to meet demand. Transition over.
As long as maintenance isn't yet eating you alive, there's no new car at any price that is going to have a better TCO. But if you were getting a new car to last a long time, it's tough to beat a compliance EV. Chevy Bolt, 260 miles of range, small but not tiny, great utility, and 26K before rebates. $11K after rebates if you're an Oregonian. Fuel is much cheaper, TCO is basically impossible to beat.
It’s not a licensing issue because OpenAI does not own the copyright to the output of GPT-4. The people who might have a copyright claim are: the authors of the training data, if there is a clear resemblance between the training data input and the output, and rarely the author of the prompt.

OpenAI could argue that because some of the training data was written by them, they have a copyright claim to the output. However, this is a very slippery slope for them as the entire existence of OpenAI is predicated their use of training data being fair use.

OpenAI can only control the output of GPT-4 via their terms of service. When you sign up to use ChatGPT or other services you agree to certain conditions.
Wow, sorry to hear that. I'm also in Vegas and have very similar loads (2x 5-ton, 1x 2.5ton, pool/spa, car charger, etc) -- but I luckily already had 300A service.

I agree with the some of the other comments; you absolutely can "get by" with 200A. FWIW, I rarely use 50% and my car charger can pull >=72A by itself ("dual onboard chargers").

I checked into smart panels just because I was interested, and that may be the way to go for you (Span wasn't serving this area at the time FWIW), but you may have other options that are still up to code. My garage had an extra unused "dryer" outlet even, prior to installing the dedicated charger, and I have another outlet in an exterior garage too (probably was originally installed for welding, I've never used it).

It's certainly doable as far as the physics go; how much hoop-jumping you'll need to do to pass an inspection though, is another question, but it might be less than you think.

I'm not sure what the inspection requirements are for the "isolated solar" idea, but I'd _guess_ that it's similarly cost prohibitive (not sure if the "NVE off-grid fees" would apply at existing residence or not), and you lose some of the benefits of solar -- net metering & pseudo-arbitrage of TOU rates + "balancing" panel/system load (mostly applicable if you do ESS), etc.

Feel free to reach out (email in profile); I'd enjoy hearing more about the situation & perhaps could provide some guidance or ideas. :)
> If a vehicle is designed in such a way to literally not even allow proper visibility, that should exclude its acceptance onto the market.

I mean, 100% agree on that.

As for the usefulness of backup cameras... I don't have one myself but I've rented a few cars with them and they do give you significantly more visibility when backing up than the rear window can provide, even in a reasonably sized sedan. But sure, rain might interfere. I don't think the fact that it's not perfect means it's not useful.
I think axum is pretty decent tbh, considering it's part of Tokio and will get better support than most servers out there
Ah, missed that one, makes sense. Thanks!
Emailing and talking to a restaurant worker on the phone is human connection? I can’t wait until the fake bullshit of arguing with my internet provider or the expensing department or what-have-you over email can go back to not being an “essential” part of the human experience so that I can have more time with my family. If you want to use that extra time for distraction or porn or whatever, that’s on you, but don’t take away tools that remove completely inane parts of life that didn’t used to exist 50 years ago.
This is demonstrably false — I have two 2018 Thinkpad T480 laptops, one running Windows and the other Linux. The windows one gets around 11 hours of moderate use per charge, and the Linux one about 10. And I bought these used with batteries that had quite a few cycles on them already. Laptops with long battery life are out there; Apple machines are not the only option!
Idiocracy didn't spare Silicon Valley I guess.
That not how the word "division" works when talking about business, Instagram was made of 10 people when it already had billions of users and if Disney or anyone else had bought them it would certainly be a "division" given that their tasks are a separate entity from their rest of the org.
Somehow this thing downloaded itself and that's enough
> criminal organisations don’t have an HQ

Yes, they do
From “could affect” (in OpenAI own assessment) to “replace” is a stark difference, BBC!
I do like how DS9 sort of fleshed out the 'minor' characters.

I recall that Morn's costume/mask was made so that he could talk.

It's also interesting considering his key role in the war. - "I've know the courier for five years."
Going to North Korea and assisting them to launder money and bypass sanctions is illegal (aside from being utterly stupid and immoral), which is why he plead guilty and is now in prison.
That's like copy & paste from a Stackoverflow answer without understanding what the code does. Except that it could happen more often, but devs need to be trained not to do this without understanding.
Somehow this thing downloaded itself so there's that
And the guy who replied to you is saying the same thing as in Iceland and Australia restrictive gun laws to outlawing them and school shootings aren't happening in either place. That says something ..America isn't doing the right thing cause those with the most money and their conflicting views rule over stopping the insanity that almost everyone in Iceland I spoke to said America is scary place cause of our guns/school shootings. I now agree yet before putting mysejf in another culture didn't care too much that's just how it was here to me previously.

This video from American idol where a contestant went thru a school shooting further hits home for me ..school shootings are a pathetic part of American life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhz5ZM2x94&t=310s
ChatGPT Is Capable of Writing Witty Song Parodies
> Write a parody of the song “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra. The theme of the song should be that New York City is a shitty, stinky, rat-infested hellhole that no one should live in.

Verse 1:
Start spreadin' the news, I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it, anywhere but this decay
These vagabond shoes, they're longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it, New York, New York

Verse 2:
I wanna wake up in a city that's clean
And find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap
These little town blues, they are melting away
But in New York City, they're here to stay

Chorus:
New York, New York, a rat-infested place
Where the stench in the air will put a frown on your face
I'll make a brand new start of it, in old San Fran
If I can make it there, I won't ever come back again

Verse 3:
If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere
That's what they say, but I don't wanna bear
The crowded streets, the honking cars, the hustle and bustle
I'd rather be in a place where I can breathe without a muzzle

Chorus:
New York, New York, a shitty place to live
Where the rent is too damn high and you have nothing to give
I'll make a brand new start of it, in sunny L.A
If I can make it there, I'll never go back to the fray

Outro:
New York, New York, I'm leaving today
I'm done with this place, it's time to run away
I'll find my destiny, in a city that's clean
And I'll be living my dream, away from this New York scene.
Ah yes, similar to the rat utopia experiment. Give them all the food and shelter and basic things they need while eliminating all stress (like predators), and everything will be amazing, right?

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or...
Haha you get to trade one scam against another.